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News Headlines Archive

September 19, 2012
Miscellaneous
  • Bengal to vest 270 acres of JSW land at Salboni
  • Wipro keen to take part in Kolkata beautification drive
  • Crocodile kills tiger in Sunderbans' island
  • Bengal sheds its dilemma over ode to Tagore
  • Trinamool MLAs busy with social events, give political work a miss
    • Times of India
  • Crushing blow to battered finances
  • Congress ministers may not join office today
  • Patient raped in mental hospital
  • Rights body seeks dengue report
  • Woman molested at home
  • No end to commuters woes
  • Couple harassed for inter-religion marriage
  • Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority bid to check unplanned growth around key expressway
  • Jadavpur University asked to reappoint lecturer
  • Mamata asks young block development officers to be transparent
  • Howrah traffic speed doubles in a year
  • College girl attacked at market place
  • Walk on railway tracks, land in jail
  • Mother gets 14 days custody for killing teen
  • Buses off roads, govt has no answer
  • Bengals hidden gain from diesel adds to your pain
  • 'State to benefit from ties with Myanmar'
  • Mad start to rush week
  • Governor visits dengue patient at hospital
  • Power cables cut, airport plunges into darkness
  • Four airlines to touch down in city
  • Author talks of Mother's miracle
  • Odisha varsity to confer doctorate on Mamata
  • Rabindra Tirtha starts hosting events
  • Girl molested in crowded bazaar
  • Official puts mayor in a spot over lights
  • CA student molested in Howrah
  • Pickpockets to target middle-aged this Puja
  • Varsity halts distribution of forms
  • Tough test for Mamata Banerjee as 72-hour deadline ends
  • Dhaks echo with new hope in Singur
  • Kolkata's poor poorer than the rest
  • Govt speeds up rural projects
  • Hawker held for rape
  • Parents hack girl for loving boy from 'low' caste
  • West Bengal to get its first solar power plant under 'renewable energy certificate Mechanism'
  • Centre warns Bengal about terror outfit
  • Gutka business flourishes as govt dithers over ban
  • Smokeless tobacco spells doom in Bengal
  • Puchka seller and a Yuvi fan beats cancer
  • Solar heaters a must for Kolkata highrises
  • Prakash Karat slams Trinamool logic on UPA policies
  • A realty hot spot sans basic infrastructure
  • Cong silent on Mamata Banerjee ultimatum
  • Sub-inspector commits suicide, family cries foul
  • Woman jumps off terrace in Behala
  • Chain snatched in Salt Lake, one arrested
  • Abducted trader rescued, 2 held
  • South gets more rain, north remains parched
  • Girl reunited with parents after 22 years
    • The Telegraph
  • Schools reel under dengue attack
  • Woo the daughter, be floored by mom!
  • Mamata to meet Puja organisers
  • Northeast route to Myanmar trade
  • Sexual assault arrest at Lumbini
  • Stopper son lives striker dads dream
  • You share your birthday with...
  • Joey cover-up triggers protest
  • Study funds hope for Bengal
  • Ration and voter cards to get death certificates
  • Exam fraud slur on leader
  • Strike takes toll on schools
  • Cop praises CM, draws flak from CPM, Cong
  • Three killed as truck rams into tea stall
  • Tremor in Gangtok on first quake anniversary
  • Bad roads slow tea ride to auction
  • Hotelier killed, cook vanishes
    • Indian Express
  • Mamata quits, says cant back anti-people UPA govt
  • Govt, operators harden stance
  • E-W Metro project in troubled water
  • Political parties have become a cult: Trivedi
  • With a warning to Mamata, her estranged supporters march on
  • HC directs govt to pay salary to teacher ousted by GJM
  • New connection in making Mamatas rice, Jayas idli
  • PIL seeks cut in price hike
  • Trinamool will take historic decision today
  • Daughter of retd scientist molested
  • English tips from Oxford
  • Glimpse into the future
  • US tutors on Kolkata recce
    • Hindustan Times
  • One more rape, this time in a mental asylum
  • R100 crore cement plant inaugurated at Jhargram
  • Education council to pull up JU
  • Jail minister pitches for more security in state prisons
  • US parents want to take Norway kids route
  • Mamata Banerjee hardens stand, rules out compromise
  • Jail minister pitches for more security in state prisons
  • Education council to pull up JU
  • R100 crore cement plant inaugurated at Jhargram
  • One more rape, this time in a mental asylum
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line