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News Headlines Archive
May 12, 2010
Miscellaneous
  • GJM talks inconclusive; Centre, Bengal reject demand for including more areas
  • Congress-Trinamool alliance split unfortunate
  • Fresh uncertainty likely in Darjeeling Hills as talks fail
  • Air India to add another Kolkata-Delhi flight from May 15
  • Congress has reason to grumble, but can it take on Mamata?
  • Tourist couple, daughter found dead in hotel room
  • Rabindranath Tagore's Jayanti celebration at Big FM, Kolkata
  • PSBJC calls yet another bandh
  • B'wood singers or olo artistes?
  • Mast of ship near church damaged in storm
  • Parikrama rocks Kolkata
  • The Telegraph
  • Explosion on forcesÕ route
  • Adversity robs mom of two sons
  • Exodus-wary colleges to wait out JEE
  • Poll wives vote for house hubbies
  • Change drives in: licence test goes from farce to foolproof in two weeks
  • City wilts under twin blows
  • Open door for burglar
  • Labourers trapped under mud
  • What's on in town
  • You share your birthday with...
  • 4 die in Arunachal gorge
  • Five held for theft
  • Dooars joins strike race
  • Court query about slow road widening in Sikkim
  • Bandh gets an apolitical highway ride
  • 4 children freed from clutches of ÔsadhuÕ
  • Private school in govt classroom
  • Deserted, but not a bandh
  • Late entry to stop JEE switch
  • 80 donate land in reformer memory
  • Maoists blow up culvert
  • Times of India
  • Writers' in 3 months, thunders Mamata
  • Water woes may tilt vote scales
  • Blow to Cong, Rahul aide joins Trinamool camp
  • Labourer buried alive at work site
  • Gang of thieves rounded up
  • Sunderbans loses Tanti, the 'keeper' of its tigers
  • It's party first for Pranab
  • Mamata broke Mahajot dharma: Congress
  • Slum votes hold key to close triangular fight
  • Illegal buildings mushroom in planned township
  • Indian Express
  • PCAPA activists blow up link between Lalgarh, Midnapore
  • CBI probe sought against WBSIDC for ÔbiasedÕ land allotment
  • GJM stuck on territory issue, no headway in talks: Home secy
  • ÔIs luxury only for TMC, Cong? Are we to go to Tapovan for sanyas?Õ
  • Mamata promises Assembly polls in 3 months if she wins
  • Funds for Maoist-hit areas remain unspent
  • On MamataÕs demand for early polls, CPM finds refuge in Constitution
  • Hindustan Times
  • Collapse of civic poll ties with Trinamool won't impact centre
  • Four Kolkata tourists killed in Arunachal accident
  • Pranab plays down rift with TC
  • Gorkhaland talks end in a stalemate
  • Sports
  • It will be hard to leave Kolkata, but the rules are changing - Sourav Ganguly
  • Jhulan & Co. reach last 4
  • Mohun Bagan thrash East Bengal