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Two schoolgirls die after sharing friends tiffin (19 March 03:17) |
| Two Class-IV girls died at a south Kolkata hospital on Thursday, apparently after having food one of their classmates had brought from home to their Bansdroni school.
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Elusive gangster in police net (19 March 03:16) |
| After remaining absconding for over 45 days, central Kolkata gangster Mohammad Arshad Ali has been rounded up by the officers of Kolkata Police's detective department on Thursday.
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Schoolboys death sparks mob fury vehicles set ablaze (19 March 03:14) |
| A CESC dumper truck and a police jeep were set ablaze by a mob at Khardah, along Kalyani Expressway, after a boy cycling to school was run over under the truck's wheels on Thursday morning. ... |
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Sabotage whiff in market fire (19 March 03:11) |
| Around 15 shops were gutted in Kudghat's Purba Putiari Bazaar in the early hours of Thursday. The fire broke out in a godown, burning seven quintals of potato and 250 kg of onion stored insi... |
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Rs 1 lakh a night on Maharajas Express (19 March 03:03) |
| Get ready to tour India like a Maharaja provided you can pay Rs 1 lakh per night. On Saturday evening, railway minister Mamata Banerjee will flag off the Maharajas' Express from Kolkata stat... |
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1 more held in fake IPL ticket (18 March 02:55) |
| The city police on Wednesday arrested a man called Manjar Imam for being allegedly involved in the fake IPL ticket racket. He was produced in court during the day and remanded in police cust... |
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Crowd slams man into Metro (18 March 02:54) |
| A surging crowd slammed a Metro commuter on to a train at Park Street station on Wednesday night, leaving him unconscious with critical head injuries. |
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Ex-employee nabbed for traders murder (18 March 02:53) |
| Police cracked the murder of Howrah businessman Rajkumar Khaitan (55) near New Market when they arrested Rafiq Sardar (26), a resident of Baruipur's Madarhat area in South 24-Parganas, on We... |
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Chandni market burns govt silent (18 March 02:46) |
| The only ones perhaps not surprised by the midnight blaze that razed a hundred shops in Chandni Market on Tuesday/Wednesday were the victims themselves and Kolkata Municipal Corporation. |
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Defying Left poll trend SFI breaks JU jinx (18 March 02:44) |
| CPM may be battered in Bengal, but its students’ wing is on a roll. Less than a month after sweeping the Presidency College student’s union, SFI won the Jadavpur University arts union el... |
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Sonia to send rare Indira photos for V-B book
(17 March 05:14) |
| None other than Congress president Sonia Gandhi is taking an interest in a book that is about to be published by Visva Bharati on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversar... |
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Mosquitoes swarm city in summer heat
(17 March 05:13) |
| As the mercury rises, Kolkata is witnessing an alarming increase in mosquitoes and with it the fear of malaria and dengue.
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Pvt colleges varsities upbeat over foreign education bill
(17 March 05:11) |
| The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, cleared by the Union cabinet, is much-awaited news for several private colleges and universities. |
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Haldia college guards beat up student
(17 March 05:09) |
| First-year students residing at Balaji Hostel of the Haldia Institute of Technology vacated their hostel on Tuesday morning after the security staff allegedly beat up a student after forcing... |
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Adopt slain officers kids DGP
(17 March 05:07) |
| Director general of state police Bhupinder Singh is making an appeal to all senior police officers in the state to consider adopting children of police personnel killed in Maoist ambush. And... |
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Bangkok date for Xaverians (16 March 07:12) |
| For Xaverians across the globe, it will be a grand reunion with a difference. More than 500 of them all former students of St Xavier's College, Kolkata will meet up, miles away from their al... |
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No mobiles bags in Writers
(16 March 07:10) |
| Visitors will no longer be allowed to take their bags or mobiles into Writers' Buildings, thanks to the terror threat. They will have very limited access inside the protected area. |
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Salboni blast suspect arrested
Sukumar (16 March 07:09) |
| Following a night-long raid that ended on Monday morning, the joint forces arrested a People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) member, believed to have been involved in the Salboni blast of... |
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Eden VVIP box row reignites on match-eve (16 March 07:08) |
| The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. That seems to be the case with the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government. On Monday, a day before KKR’s clash with Chennai Super King... |
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Mid-air tiff with airhostess 6 held (16 March 07:06) |
| Six Bangalore-bound passengers from Patna were offloaded from an IndiGo flight on Monday and arrested for ‘misbehaving’ with an airhostess. |
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Special trains for IPL matches at Eden Gardens (15 March 06:11) |
| To clear rush of IPL cricket lovers, Eastern Railway will run two EMU special trains--one between BBD Bagh and Baruipur and other between Prinsep Ghat and Naihati--for all the five next matc... |
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Howrah hurrah for local hero city cheers Knights (15 March 07:55) |
| As the Knight Riders demolished the Bangalore challenge with ease at a packed Eden Gardens on Sunday, Howrah erupted in ecstasy. Local boy Manoj Tiwary had smashed a match-winning half-centu... |
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2 kids run over in Thakurpukur (15 March 07:54) |
| Two children one of them a four-year-old-girl and the other a boy a year older were run over by a speeding lorry on Thakurpukur Bibir Hat Road in the city's southern fringes on Sunday mornin... |
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King Khan gets PWD nod saves Eden block (15 March 07:52) |
| The block, squeezed in between the under-construction Block B and the club house, is essentially made of wood. |
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Fossil treasure turns into dust (15 March 07:51) |
| Just about every rock you pick up in the 2,600-sq km Rajmahal hills is a treasure - preserved by the earth for millions of years but now turning into dust. In a couple of years, this awe-in... |
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Sacked man wife poison four children arrested (15 March 07:49) |
| Poverty drove a couple in Rishra to allegedly poison their four children, the youngest of them 11 years old, on Sunday morning. Kushal and Preeti Choudhury made a last phone call to a relati... |
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Disaster management 2 HAM radio units in state
(14 March 06:01) |
| If conventional communication networks fail when nature unleashes her fury in the form of Aila-like cyclones, extensive floods and earthquakes, governments can execute rescue and relief oper... |
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Green benches back at Xaviers after 3 yrs (14 March 06:00) |
| Kolkata: It's said that Xaverians learn more about life on the green benches than inside the classrooms. |
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Sociologist moves SC over IPL coverage (14 March 05:58) |
| Sociologist Samit Kar from Presidency College has moved Supreme Court, urging an order to restrain a section of the media that has been going gaga over the T20 IPL cricket matches held in th... |
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National Library goes the e-way
(14 March 05:57) |
| Care to access the catalogue at National Library from home? And how about requisitioning books online? Or for that matter, downloading rare, priceless books displayed on the website? From th... |
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Mizo church talks tough on gays (14 March 05:51) |
| While the Indian state has remarkably softened its stand on gays, the church in Mizoram has kicked off a controversy by threatening to act against homosexuality. |
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Illegal van overturns girl killed
(13 March 08:16) |
| A seven-year-old girl was killed and 14 people were injured when an overloaded motorised van overturned at Kalidanga village in Chanchal. |
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Foresters looking for alternative route for jumbos
(13 March 08:15) |
| The entire herd came out of the jungle and started attacking potato and pumpkin fields at Morar, Kulupukur and Basudebpur. Fields of at least 100 farmers were completely ransacked and huts d... |
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Fliers to soon be rid of transaction fee burden (13 March 08:13) |
| Finally, some cheer for fliers. The transaction fee they had to pay travel agents, mostly for tickets on foreign carriers, will soon be done away with. |
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Grey areas in Jairams N-plant green claim (13 March 06:28) |
| Jairam Ramesh had announced in Kolkata that the "clearance has been sanctioned", but a letter from his ministry in reply to an RTI application states that it has not even received any propos... |
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Support withdrawn zoo in a spot (12 March 05:44) |
| The well-being of animals at Alipore zoo is at stake with the Centre virtually withdrawing budgetary support to the zoo. |
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Groom locked up over dowry (12 March 05:40) |
| Dowry demand led to a bridegroom and his family members being locked up by the bride's family for hours till police rescued them. Both families finally decided to sort out the tiff at the pa... |
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Tatas silent on Singur land (12 March 05:35) |
| Does Singur have any hope? Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata responded with a studied smile on Thursday, keeping the media guessing over his move as the date for paying the annual lease rental ... |
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Tigress breaks open radio collar (12 March 05:33) |
| The radio collar fitted on a Sunderbans tigress on February 28 has come off. The devise was located at the Pirkhali forest on Thursday morning by a group of forest guards who were asked to t... |
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Scribe thrashed for tease protest at Dakshineswar (12 March 05:31) |
| A Delhi-based journalist paid a heavy price for standing up to eve-teasers who passed lewd remarks at his family members on Thursday morning. |
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Politics over Basu condolence (11 March 04:13) |
| In life, politics had been Jyoti Basu's constant companion, and even after death, it would not leave him. |
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Man killed while making bomb (11 March 04:10) |
| Sujit Saha (32), an auto driver and resident of Chainabhi near Salt Lake, was killed after a bomb he was making went off. |
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Law minister wants more woman judges in HC (11 March 04:07) |
| Having successfully piloted the women's bill in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Union law minister Veerappa Moili now wants more woman judges. |
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Mamata may seek jobs for minorities (11 March 04:05) |
| Trinamool Congress insiders suggest that Mamata Banerjee is biding her time and will break her silence only after getting feedback from Muslim organisations and districts where the party run... |
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Twin suicide drama over Gorkhaland (11 March 04:01) |
| It was a day of high drama over Gorkhaland. Bimal Gurung, angered by media reports on his deadline to 'commit suicide on March 10' if he cannot get Gorkhaland, tried to shoot himself in Kali... |
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Widow strangled at home (10 March 03:40) |
| A 56-year-old woman's body was found at her residence in Baguiati's Pratibeshipara area late on Monday. The body was lying on the floor of her bedroom. |
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Maoists may strike Kolkata before polls (10 March 03:37) |
| Maoists might strike in Kolkata some time on the eve of the 2011 assembly elections and have already started scouting targets, arrested Maoist military commander 'Telugu' Deepak has told pol... |
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Suman to use public plank on tribal rights (10 March 03:35) |
| Mass movement had brought Kabir Suman to the Trinamool platform. Now, he wants to use the same to garner sympathy for the tribals' cause within his party. |
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Medical merit list in a mess (10 March 03:30) |
| The West Bengal University of Health Sciences has landed in a muddle over the merit list for MS and MD seats. |
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IIM-C grad bags Rs 16cr offer (10 March 02:39) |
| Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has turned out to be the first choice of recruiters with the best pay packets in this year's campus placements. |
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