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Life terms for lethal cobra plot (21 December 03:07) |
| A man who had killed his 20-year-old wife by slipping a cobra into her bed was sentenced to life today. |
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CPI sticks to Big Brother for polls (21 December 03:07) |
| The CPI today said it could not think of contesting the panchayat polls without the CPM, thus distancing itself from the Forward Bloc which has decided to go it alone. |
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Mamata front pushed back (21 December 03:07) |
| Mamata Banerjee today announced she would "formally" float the Progressive Secular Democratic Front on December 30, ten days later than originally scheduled. |
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CPM fumes at CBI 'leak' (21 December 03:07) |
| The CPM today vented its anger at the "selective leak" of the CBI report on Nandigram, saying its leaders could take the matter up with the Centre. |
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Officer drain hurts Writers' (20 December 02:34) |
| At least 20 IAS officers have left Bengal in four years because of bett-er prospects elsewhere, lack of opportunities to get noticed and alleged political interference. |
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After gaffe, 'special' sitting (20 December 02:34) |
| The Assembly would have sat today for the last time this winter had it not been for the government's bungle on the unorganised sector bill. |
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The train to Everest (20 December 02:34) |
| Guess what role the toy train played in the first-ever expedition to Mt Everest in 1921. |
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Rape-and-hostage case on Nandigram leaders (20 December 02:34) |
| The CBI has registered four new cases against CPM leaders who allegedly raped and held women hostage in Nandigram and a police officer who refused to act on a woman's complaint. |
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Contempt case (20 December 02:34) |
| The high court to- day asked small-scale industries minister Narayan Biswas why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for flouting the order to pay "substantial allowance... |
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Judicial activism tempers in Assembly (20 December 02:34) |
| A CPM member today sought to put on record his misgivings about judicial activism, days after the Supreme Court's remarks triggered a debate. |
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Mamata loses Singur steam (19 December 01:22) |
| Mamata Banerjee's Singur campaign virtually ran out of steam today, the leader turning up late on the death anniversary of Tapasi Malik and failing to live up to her crowd-pulling reputatio... |
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Hills on CM's Delhi list (19 December 01:22) |
| Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today promised to urge the Centre to confer Sixth Schedule status on the Darjeeling hills at the earliest, 24 hours after Subash Ghisingh warned the B... |
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'Fear' after stabbing in school (19 December 01:22) |
| When Baruipara High School sang Jana, gana, mana? this morning, it was not half as enthusiastic as on other days. |
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CBI holes in cops' Nandi story (18 December 03:18) |
| The CBI's "preliminary" report on the March 14 firing in Nandigram says the police did not have enough provocation to shoot. |
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Rs 4000-crore IT park plan by Mahindra (18 December 03:18) |
| Mahindra and Mahindra is set to invest Rs 4,000 crore in Bengal over the next few years to develop a 100-acre IT special economic zone. |
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Prison alert after jailbreak (18 December 03:18) |
| All 53 prisons in the state have been put on alert in the wake of yesterday's jailbreak in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. |
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Naxalite talks with CPM allies (18 December 03:18) |
| Naxalite groups are in talks with the CPM's Left Front partners for a possible "alternative Left" alliance. |
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Class VIII school for 'every locality' (18 December 03:18) |
| The government has decided to set up at least one junior high school ' that teaches up to Class VIII ' in every locality to reduce the number of dropouts after Class IV, school education mi... |
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Pranab brushes off poll buzz (17 December 12:21) |
| Foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee today ruled out mid-term parliamentary polls over the nuclear deal, apparently to clear the air on CPM general secretary Prakash Karat's "ultimatum" to the... |
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Biman unity plea to partners (17 December 12:21) |
| Left Front chairman Biman Bose today publicly admitted for the first time that people across the state were questioning the coalition's unity. |
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HC takes divorce case closer to wife's home (17 December 12:21) |
| Calcutta High Court has transferred the trial of a divorce case from a Barasat court to Salboni for the convenience of a homemaker. |
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Cheating rap on 103 (17 December 12:21) |
| The West Bengal University of Technology has barred 103 students of Kalyani's JIS College of Engineering from their exams for a year for copying during a semester test. |
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Threat charge on civic chief (17 December 12:21) |
| A Congress councillor of the Tamluk municipality today lodged a police complaint alleging that Left-backed chairman Pritwish Nandy had threatened to abduct her after she refused to vote for... |
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Madarsa blow to party (17 December 12:21) |
| The CPM today lost all its seats in the governing body of Daudpur High Madarsa in the first election in Nandigram since the ruling party's armed recapture of the land battle zone. |
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Rizwan case (17 December 12:21) |
| A three-member CBI team has questioned the guard and driver of the Sealdah-Burdwan local over the weekend in the Rizwanur Rahman case. |
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Trinamul hub stinks, Mamata heads home (16 December 01:37) |
| Taking on Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee or her own brothers is no problem. But an invisible "adversary" recently had Mamata Banerjee throwing up her hands in despair. |
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Peace on the way in Besu (16 December 01:37) |
| Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) is limping back to normality with Section 144 being lifted from the campus today. |
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Tug of war over CRPF in college (16 December 01:37) |
| The SFI wants the CRPF out of Sitananda College in Nandigram but girl students want the force to stay as the jawans make them feel safe. |
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Writers' scan (16 December 01:37) |
| Security has been beefed up at Writers' Buildings a day after Maoist posters made their way into the secretariat. |
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Tollygunge hit by 12-hr power cut (16 December 01:37) |
| Parts of Tollygunge went without power through the day following a major fault in a high-tension feeder line. |
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Stay, what stay, asks state (15 December 02:05) |
| A discrepancy has popped up between what the government wanted to submit in the Supreme Court and what it did while appealing against a high court order on the Nandigram police firing. |
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Dalmiya land query (15 December 02:05) |
| The gov- ernment today sought from Jagmohan Dalmiya details of land use in the 1,100-acre leather complex promoted by his company in Bantala. |
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Iskcon counter (15 December 02:05) |
| The International Society for Krishna Consciousness today contested the CPM's charge that the organisation was a "major threat" to communists. |
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Maoist posters at Writers', cops pay (15 December 02:05) |
| Maoist posters found on the red walls of Writers' Buildings this morning have put four police constables under suspension. |
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Pledge to probe CRPF 'abuse' (14 December 01:37) |
| The chief minister told the Assembly today that complaints of harassment by the CRPF in Nandigram were being looked into, before an uproar cut short his statement and prompted him to leave ... |
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More claimants to body from grave (14 December 01:37) |
| Two women today turned up to lay claim to the body that Shyamali Pramanik had yesterday identified as that of her husband Haren. |
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Bill to put minority tag on Jains (14 December 01:37) |
| The Assembly today passed a bill that will empower the government to declare the Jain community a religious minority. |
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Police face pilgrim security fire (14 December 01:37) |
| The high court today pulled up Hooghly police for not deploying enough forces at Nimaitirtha Ghat in Sheoraphuli where pilgrims take a dip before heading to Tarakeshwar. |
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Land price a hurdle, admits govt (14 December 01:37) |
| Information technology minister Debesh Das told the Assembly today that the cost of land was delaying the arrival of Infosys and Wipro in Bengal. |
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Body with bullet holes dug out (13 December 01:53) |
| A body with two bullet holes was to- day dug out of the suspected grave that had been found in Parulbari village. |
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Wipro waits for sweeter deal (13 December 01:53) |
| The government today offered Wipro land on the outskirts of Rajar- hat but the software giant is apparently keen on space within the new town or closer to Calcutta for its project. |
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'Drunk' dogs turn bite-happy (13 December 01:53) |
| Three stray dogs living off food thrown to them by BSF jawans at a border outpost have incurred the villagers' wrath for their alleged drunken behaviour. |
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Minority member in SSC (13 December 01:53) |
| A bill to make room for a member of the minority community in the five-member school service commission was passed in the Assembly today. |
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Murder charge against CPM duo (13 December 01:53) |
| Two CPM leaders were today charged with murder, conspiracy and destroying evidence in the alleged massacre at Chhoto Angaria in 2001. |
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'Poison' water claims three children (12 December 02:02) |
| Three children have died since last night and seven adults are battling for life allegedly after drinking water from a tube well in the workers' colony of a North 24-Parganas jute mill. |
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Used bullets found near 'graveyard' (12 December 02:02) |
| The CRPF today found spent .315-calibre cartridges and torn cardboard boxes marked "Pune" in Parulbari village a day after two suspected graves were spotted there. |
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Bloc squirms after bill blow (12 December 02:02) |
| Outsmarted by the CPM on farm retail, the Forward Bloc today initiated a damage-control drive. |
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Hijack on road and heist (12 December 02:02) |
| A bus heading to Calcutta was hijacked, its driver was thrown out and passengers robbed of around Rs 2 lakh early this morning. |
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Bill for helps (12 December 02:02) |
| The government today moved a bill to provide social security to workers in the unorganised sector. |
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14 bogies fall, one among 1000 dies crying for help (11 December 02:01) |
| Fourteen bogies of a 17-coach express jumped rails last night but most of the 1,000-odd people on it escaped unhurt. |
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