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Adhir granted bail in two cases

Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was today granted bail in two cases.




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Tribal girl 'gangraped'' after parents refuse to pay extortion money

Birbhum Superintendent of Police C Sudhakar conceded that the rape incident took place three days ago.




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Teenage girl goes missing

Bidhannagar Police has launched an investigation into the missing of the class VI student of Haryana Vidyamandir School.




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Kin of AMRI fire victims get govt jobs

93 patients died after fire broke out at Amri hospital in Dhakuria on Dec 9, 2011.




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PM''s wife is first SPG protectee to have women commandos

The commandos were clad in navy blue safari suits and had wireless devices plugged in their ears.




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First time after Singur, a TMC minister visits Tata Group unit

Partha Chatterjee, the minister for commerce and industries, visited the Kharagpur plant of Tata group.




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UP to tweak minority girls aid scheme to add more beneficiaries

The girl''s family can choose to use the amount either for her further education or in her marriage.




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Mumbai firm had asked 'mystery' Kolkata bizman to get plot vacated

Murlidhar, however, didn''t name the businessman, who, he claimed, was the main accused.




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Adhir''s bail extended, to campaign for civic polls

The minister faces charges in connection with the murder of a Trinamool leader, Kamal Sheikh, in 2011.




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Kolkata gets its first Mahila bank

The country''s banking industry started a new chapter with the launch of first Bharatiya Mahila Bank in Mumbai today.




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78 yrs after birth, Mark Tully to get birth certificate from KMC today

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has located the birth certificate of celebrated author Mark Tully.




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Duty of the workplace to protect women: Meira

Lok sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Saturday said the onus of women''s safety at workplace was with the company management and they must follow the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court to tackle sexual harassment cases.




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Gold biscuits seized at Kolkata airport

Customs department Saturday seized a consignment of gold biscuits weighing 3 kg from the NSCBI airport.




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HC directs SFIO to further probe Tower Infotec chit fund scam

Tower Infotec had collected money from public without taking permission from concerned authorities.




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Biman Bose deposes before panel probing ''93 police firing

Biman Bose Tuesday deposed before a commission set up to probe into the police firing on a Youth Congress rally.




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Audio-video piracy now a non-bailable cognizable offence in Bengal

The West Bengal Assembly Thursday passed a Bill making audio and video piracy a non-bailable cognizable offence in the state.




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'Attempt to set Writers''on fire''

Stating an inquiry would be made and those involved would be traced, Banerjee said the sleuths of Kolkata Police were on the scene.




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Altamas Kabir 'shocked'' over charges at Ganguly

Former Chief Justice Altamas Kabir Saturday expressed shock at the sexual harassment charges filed by a law intern against former SC judge Asok Kumar.




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Four detained for conspiracy to torch Writers'

Four persons were detained for alleged conspiracy to burn down the heritage Writers'' Buildings.




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Top education officials left on their own, not removed: Bratya Basu

Stating that Bhattacharya had discussed with him his wish to leave Jadavpur University and return to his parent institute, Basu said that there was no question of removing him.




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Home Secy seeks report on 'conspiracy'' to set Writers'' on fire

Jyotirmoy Nandi has been carrying out a routine pest control exercise for which he has been contracted by the Home Department.




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SP MLA''s presence in Assembly draws Left Front ire

The Opposition leader also hurled accusations at the CM for running "a government riddled with corruption.




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In a first, govt prepares administrative calendar

The meeting presided over by the chief secretary was held at Nabanna on November 30 to review the preparation of the calendar.




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FIR against Taslima for 'hurting religious sentiments''

Taslima had criticised a meeting between AAP''s Arvind Kejriwal and UP cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan on Twitter.




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Minutes before Prez landed, Man killed in freak mishap at airport

Bapi Oraon was killed when a dumper accidentally started and ran over him.




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PIL seeks direction to state on WBHRC

The petition is likely to come up for hearing on Thursday.




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True test of AAP starts now, says Smriti Irani

Irani said Nitish Kumar should look into how his own party can be in a better place rather than making comments.




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Sir, please don''t mock your office, says Derek

Several rights activists and organisations also asked Ganguly to step down.




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Ghost firm claims Rs 5 cr in incentive for exports it never made to Bangladesh

Preliminary investigations have revealed prima facie involvement of four customs department men.




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MiG-21 FL jet, workhorse of the Indian Air Force, flies into history

Operational conversion unit bid farewell to its oldest workhorse after five decades of service.




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Kunal Ghosh gets bail in first case

The court has extended the date of his statement under Section 164 before the magistrate till December 27.




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Cabinet okays homes for sex workers, their daughters

While the first home will accommodate 100 elderly sex workers , the second one, for their daughters, will house 50 girls.




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Won''t contest elections: Kabir Suman

Suman has since skipped party programmes, even when Mamata Banerjee met party MPs to finalise a blueprint to accelerate development work before the Lok Sabha elections.




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First head rolls after CM review

The joint secretary of the department, A K Singh, has been kept in compulsory waiting, which, in official parlance, stands for punishment.




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Park Street re-run: Minor girl raped by two inside taxi

According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday.




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'Gangrape'' victim sets self on fire, critical

Family forced to relocate, five of the six accused arrested in the incident that took place in October




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Six of family found dead at Birbhum guesthouse; cops say suicide pact

Bodies of six persons of a family a couple and their four daughters aged 1, 5, 8 and 10 were recovered from a guesthouse room at Tarapith in Birbhum on Thursday.




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AMRI hospital''s Dhakuria unit reopens two years after fire

Two years after bellowing smoke from a devastating fire in its basement smothered to death more than 90 people, mostly patients, a part of the AMRI Hospital in Dhakuria reopened its doors Monday for treating the sick.




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Bengal teen gangraped twice, hounded, and finally set on fire

Police have revealed that she gave a dying declaration accusing two men of having set her on fire.




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Inquiry likely against cops

Move comes after victim''s father writes to Governor




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Mamata visits Amlashol, first by a CM in 10 years

The village for the first time celebrated Durga Puja here in the village last year.




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Indian firms raised Rs 2.81 lakh cr in Apr-Dec 2012: eco survey

Indian companies raised a total of Rs 2.81 lakh crore in fresh capital from equity and debt markets in the April-December period of 2012.




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Urgent attention required on infra, taxes to boost exports: survey

India needs "urgent attention" on issues related to infrastructure, trade facilitation, taxes and credit in order to boost the country's exports, said the Economic Survey 2012-13.




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Economic Survey reaffirms RBI view on GDP growth rate: BJP

Economic Survey growth figures as a "warning bell" as these came down from 9 to 5%, said Arun Jaitley




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Mining firms fare better than others

The consolidated turnover of public sector companies in the mining sector increased 17.7 per cent in 2011-12




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Baramati in High Spirits

With farmers turning entrepreneurs by forming companies through Special Economic Zones a wine company for the first time has invited farmers to become shareholders.




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Assam in grip of First Monsoon Fury

The first round of floods that hit Lakhimpur district in eastern Assam last week has already wreaked havoc on the farmers of that district...




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Grey days ahead for Kashmir''s saffron fields

Kashmir''s world-acclaimed saffron and its vast fields are fast dwindling, courtesy the poisonous dust emanating from nearby cement plants.




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Now, a device with sensors for desired yield

Precision farming is set to invade Indian farms. IIM Calcutta and the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidalaya...




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As cross-LoC trade route opens, Kashmir fruit growers eye markets in the Gulf

On Tuesday, as a convoy of 12 pick-up vans carrying different varieties of fruits from the Valley crossed the Kaman Bridge, fruit growers lined up on the LoC to see off the vehicles.