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News Headlines Archive

September 20, 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
  • Digital drive runs out of steam
  • Mamata Banerjee stands firm, bus strike deferred
  • Tears, Trauma In Tunnel Trap
  • Powerless Metro stuck in tunnel, trapped passengers fall ill
  • Metro work worsens Behala woes
  • 'Angry' Kolkatans vent it out with a honk too many
  • Government seeks report on SSC exam fiasco
  • Pillars to demarcate wetlands boundary
  • Bandh forces overnight stay at hospital
  • Police escort for airport buses
  • Left ignores CM plea to call off shutdown
  • Congress ministers skip CM's cabinet meet
  • Jellingham: A dream unfulfilled?
  • State wants say in VC selection
  • Wagon factory caught in Singur jinx
  • Promoter held for twin murders
  • Rhino dies in fight for mate
  • Traffic snarl delays airport passengers
  • Lightning damages Akbar-era tower
  • 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
    • The Telegraph
  • Panic attack on train in tunnel
  • CM doubles immersion window
  • Customisable English test
  • Memory lost, not dignity
  • Governor asks for SSC report
  • At work on champs for three decades
  • You share your birthday with...
  • An inspiring example
  • Bad to worse on triple-whammy day
  • Man held for cheating
  • Trinamul rues lost voice
  • Murder cuffs on father, says he acted in rage
  • Mother kicked out of own house
  • CM should support strike: Surjya
  • Cong six skip cabinet meet
  • Rape finger at Trinamul worker
  • Cops foil factory dharna
  • CPM leader held for fraud
  • Auto, trekker off roads
  • Treat for sky gazers
  • Rape slur on Trinamul youth
  • Murder cuffs on dad, says he acted in rage
  • Students shut down college
  • AIFF boost to stadium
  • 76-yr-old dies after feeling tremors
  • 15 villages marooned by raging Fulahar
    • Indian Express
  • Mamata refuses to budge, breathes fire at Congress
  • Bus, mini bus strike called off
  • CCTVs to be installed to check eve-teasing in Barasat
  • Uma dares govt to arrest her for Ganga Yatra
  • Mamata quits, says cant back anti-people UPA govt
  • Congress ministers skip Mamatas cabinet meeting
  • Govt wont allow bandh
  • Pranab son feels Didi tremor in Jangipur
  • New panel for speedy trials of inmates
  • Park Street rape: No CCTV footage of crucial 7 hours
  • 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
  • Bandh affects normal life in Bengal
  • Food poisoning in Tripura: 126 in hospital
  • Behrampore woman raped at gunpoint
  • A battle cry against bandh
  • Bus strike deferred, taxis refuse to relent
    • Sports
  • I-League versus AIFF battle intensifies
  • A day later, clubs refuse to toe AIFF’s line