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Flowers to be dearer during Kali puja.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Biswabrata Goswami in Krishnagar Oct. 30. Goddess Kali is likely to be worshiped with fewer flowers in different pandals in Nadia along with other parts of both north and south Bengal this year as the flowers...

Policemen attacked for raiding liquor shop.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) DURGAPUR, Oct. 30. Five policemen, including the OC of a local police station were attacked when they tried to raid an illegal liquor den here last night. Three policemen were injured. One of the officers is...

Security blanket thickens.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30 People should continue their festival shopping without any fear and shouldnt panic about any security threat here. Thats the message both state and city police are...

CPI-M rivals clash for one-upmanship.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Kunal Banerjee in Chinsurah Oct. 30. None of the top shots of the ruling CPI-M would confess publicly that there is a battle of one-upmanship between the partys two members in Parliament from the Hooghly...

New industrial policy irks small entrepreneurs. Dualism, Jharkhand style.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Dipankar Bose in Ranchi Oct. 30. The Jharkhand state government has adopted dual policies for a similar cause. And the move has irked the small entrepreneurs of the state as well as the representatives of...

India Incs confidence.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. India Inc. is beaming with confidence with the Business Confidence Index (BCI) gaining 1.3 per cent to touch a decade high of 146 points during the second quarter of...

IDBI anti-disaster tech on the anvil.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, Oct. 30. Disaster forced stoppage of banking transactions could become part of history for IDBI as its Rs 56 crore Business Continuity Project initiated with IBM nears completion. The project...

Blasts dont scare traders.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. Undeterred by the three bomb blasts that rocked the capital yesterday, commercial markets will remain open in Delhi as usual, a leading traders organisation said...

now and again: A smokers nightmare.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) By ARKAPRABHA DEB MGP of the Indian Civil Service once asked me in my salad days what I was fond of. My reply was, Mathematics, cigars and music in that order. The crushing response was, Your frivolity is not...

100 years ago TODAY: OCTOBER 31, 1905.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Fatal Fight In Belliaghatta. Yesterday morning Belliaghatta was the scene of a fight between too Mahomedan bricklayer masons, one of the man dying on the spot. It would appear that a quarrel over a petty...

Politics prevails.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Crucial times in J&K There can be only two cheers for the incoming chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. The third was forfeited by the Congress leadership delaying a decision it could not avoid, allowing...

A British Gandhi.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Non-violent defiance against Iraq war Young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi began corresponding with Lev Tolstoy only after beginning his campaign of passive resistance to unjust South African laws. (The Russian...

SIXTY YEARS OF UN.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) India Should Project Its Own Interests By SITARAM SHARMA India officially announced her candidature for permanent membership of the Security Council of United Nations during the 49th UN General Assembly in...

British Politicians Dodge Their Own Ban On Smoking.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Marie Woolf in London Oct. 30. Politicians were accused of hypocrisy last night after it emerged that the British governments new law banning smoking will not cover the House of Commons or the House of...

Cops on forensic trail.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Forensic and Intelligence evidence will underpin efforts to find those responsible for Delhis worst-ever terror attack. Police are also trying to gather information from eyewitnesses at the blast sites. The...

Terror grows in strength.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Amitabh Shankar in New Delhi Oct. 30. The message from Saturdays serial bomb blasts in the Capital is loud and clear. Senior Intelligence officers believe the blasts to be a show of strength by terrorist...

Delhi a Lashkar base?
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Delhi with its status as the seat of power has always been on the radar of terror and the triple serial blasts are a result of meticulous planning. With a terrorist organisation owing allegiance to...

Tougher laws need of the hour.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) New Delhi, Oct. 30. Saturdays serial blasts in Delhi have again brought to the fore the requirement for stringent anti-terror laws in the country. Security agencies have repeatedly called for tougher laws...

Civic mess creates soft target.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Manish Anand in New Delhi Oct. 30. Delhi has always been a soft target, thanks to the lackadaisical approach of civic agencies and traffic police in letting squatting, encroachment and unlawful parking...

India Briefs.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Rains kill 31 in Andhra Hyderabad, Oct. 30. Heavy rains that lashed several parts of Andhra Pradesh in the past three days have claimed 31 lives while five persons were still reported missing, officials said...

Sibu takes pot shots at Arjun.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Ranchi, Oct. 30. JMM supremo Mr Sibu Soren targeted Jharkhand chief minister Mr Arjun Munda and the NDA state government for not arranging proper facilities for villagers who might have to be relocated due...

Recounting horrors in water.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Hyderabad, Oct. 30. For many passengers who had a miraculous escape yesterday during the derailment of the Secunderabad-bound Delta Fast Passenger, it was like almost coming face to face with death....

Talks with Hurriyat to continue.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Srinagar, Oct. 30. Asserting that the dialogue for a solution to the Kashmir issue would continue, J&K chief minister-designate Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad today said he would seek the cooperation of the Hurriyat...

Army dogs heroes in rescue efforts.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Kavita Suri in Srinagar Oct. 30. Much has been written about the rescue and relief operations in the quake-hit region in Kashmir earlier this month. But hardly anyone knows about the selfless work done by...

Azad set to rule Kashmir.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India SRINAGAR, Oct. 30. Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad was today elected leader of the Congress legislature party in Jammu and Kashmir after which he staked claim to form the government, paving the way...

Cong, BJP cross swords over blasts.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) PRIME MINISTER CALLS ON VICTIMS AT HOSPITAL, ASSURES ALL FINANCIAL HELP IN TREATMENT Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. Condemning the serial blasts in Delhi as dastardly acts of terrorism aimed at...

Meghalaya minister shown black flag in home town.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Shillong, Oct. 30. Meghalaya mines, geology and transport minister Ms Deborah C Marak was shown black flags in her hometown and constituency Williamnagar as shops remained shut and vehicles stayed off the...

Twelve-fold devotion...
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Poulomi Banerjee in Kolkata Oct. 30. It started as just another club of young men, the kind of group who would sit for hours over adda and tea, at some para stall and organise events in the locality. What...

City on high alert...
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30. People should continue their preparation for the festivals ahead, and not worry about security threats here. That was the message put across by both the state and the...

... But where are the cops?
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30. Thousands of Dhanteras, Diwali and Id shoppers thronged markets today, shrugging away panic caused by serial blasts in Delhi last evening. However, contrary to claims...

Minority leaders condemn blasts, urge harmony.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30 While the state chief secretary, Mr Amitkiran Deb, said today that the West Bengal government had decided to continue the red alert in the state till the festivals of...

The Mars draw.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30. Hundreds gathered in the Birla Planetarium premises today to catch a glimpse of Mars, as the red planet came within visible distance of the earth today. Though the...

Fun and frolic rule Diwali fair.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KALIMPONG, Oct. 30. Right from food to fun, the Diwali fair organised by the 164 Mountain Brigade, 17 Jat, at the Durpin Dara here had it all. In the one-day fair a total of 25 stalls...

Fire crackers seized from tax godown.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) SILIGURI, Oct. 30. In a major drive against prohibited firecrackers, police today ceased firecrackers worth around Rs 2 lakh from the Commercial Sales Tax godown at Bagdogra. The seizure was made by the...

MP alleges Ulfa hand in GCPA stir.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Oct. 30. Cooch Behar MP (Rajya Sabha) and the Cooch Behar district Citu secretary, Mr Tarini Ray, has alleged that the Ulfa was rendering support to the proponents of the...

Chamling renews Gorkhaland.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DARJEELING, Oct. 30 The Sikkim chief minister, Mr Pawan Kumar Chamlings offer to adopt a resolution for creation of Gorkhaland in the Sikkim Assembly has left the political parties...

Policemen injured in encounter with dacoits.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, Oct. 30. Three policemen were injured in an encounter with a gang of dacoits, when they attempted to loot a goods-laden lorry on NH-34, at Itahar in North Dinajpur district,...

Arsenic-free water soon.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, Oct. 30. A distant dream for drinking water supply project for the added areas, on the western side of the railway tracks under the English Bazaar municipalities, may come true...

Gujarat police probe into ticket racket.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) MALDA, Oct. 30. A Gujarat police team, has initiated a probe to bust a racket issuing fake railway tickets in Malda district in connivance with the state police, officials informed today. Official sources...

CPM makes way for Sangha seat.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, Oct. 30. The CPI-M Sikkim state committee, today made a historic decision of not objecting to the reservation for the lone Sangha seat, which is the religious seat, reserved...

Stolen gun recovered.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA. Oct. 30. The Malda police recovered a gun early today, which was stolen in May this year from the house of Mr Ashok Sinha, in the Ratua police station area. Two persons were...

MLA opposes discontinuation of health workers.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) COOCH BEHAR, Oct. 30. The Alipurduar MLA and secretary of the Jalpaiguri district unit of the United Trade Union Congress (UTUC), Mr Nirmal Das, met the state health minister Dr Surya Kanta Misra, at Kolkata...

State under security blanket.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30 People should continue their festival shopping without any fear and shouldnt panic about any security threat here. Thats the message both state and city police are...

AJNDM plays religious card for Alipurduar.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) COOCH BEHAR, Oct. 30. The Alipurduar Jela Nirman Dabi Mancha (AJNDM), will use the festive period of Kali Puja and Diwali, to spread their long-standing demand for declaring Alipurduar sub-division of...

Mild earthquake in Sikkim.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) GANGTOK, Oct. 30. A mild earthquake of 4.1 richter scale rocked Sikkim around 2 p.m today. However, no reports of any casualty or loss of property has been reported yet. Panic gripped the residents of...

A life-time opportunity.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, Oct. 30 The latent football talents of Sikkim have finally got a double opportunity to showcase their skills at the national level. Two football teams (men and girls) from...

Panchayat pradhan accused of fund embezzlement.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) RAIGANJ, Oct. 30. Mr Kalikot Alam, a panchyat member of RSP of Durlavpur gram panchayat of Itahar, under the North Dinajpur district, had recently lodged a complaint against Mr Dhirendra Nath Sarkar, the...

The other side of mid-day meal scheme.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ROURKELA, Oct 30. The mid-day meal scheme, ever since it was implemented in the 90s, has been dogged by controversy in the Sundergarh district, as well as other parts of the country....

Municipal council meeting terminated.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, Oct. 30. Interference of the state energy minister, Mr Suryanarayan Patro, in the affairs of the Berhampur Municipality, led to problems at the council meeting held here...

Workshop for tribals held at Dambapur.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) PARALAKHEMUNDI, Oct. 30. SWWS (Society for Welfare of Weaker Societies), a leading NGO of Gajapati, organised a workshop-cum-awareness camp on Provisions of Extension of Panchayats in Scheduled Areas (PESA)...

Linguistic division creates ripples.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Oct. 30. Strained social relation between the natives and the Bengali migrants in the seaside villages of this coastal district has the potential to vitiate the peaceful...

NCC to help combat AIDS.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30. The National Cadet Corps (NCC), has come forward to carry out a nation-wide AIDS awareness programme with the assistance of UN and UNESCO, said its director...

Gridco registers high profits.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30. The state-owned Grid Corporation of Orissa, popularly known as Gridco, has earned a net profit of Rs 349 crore during 2004-05 and brought down its accumulated loss to Rs 1028 crore....

Uproarious scenes at OSIL hearing.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News service KEONJHAR, Oct. 30. The public hearing for the expansion of Orissa Sponge Iron Limited (OSIL) held at Raikala witnessed uproarious scenes with majority of the people of three affected...

People recount 1971 cyclone.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Oct. 30. It was a somber occasion to recount the horrific tragedy that literally wiped out the threads of human existence exactly 34 years back in these idyllic seaside...

Three held for womans murder.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BALASORE, Oct. 30. With the arrest of three persons by the Balasore police with the help of their counterparts in Remuna, the mystery over the unknown dead body which was found in a...

Leaders call for disaster preparedness.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30. The Governor, Mr Rameswar Thakur and the chief minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, have called upon the people to make themselves better prepared to face disasters and...

Youths oppose Posco deal.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30. The lull in opposition to the Posco project was broken by a group of highly motivated youths who undertook a padayatra from the villages which are to be affected...

Couple arrested on charge of sexual abuse.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BALASORE, Oct. 30. The assistant general manager of DIC (District Industries Centre), Balasore and his wife were arrested by the Bhadrak police for alleged sexual abuse of the maid...

Schism plagues Congress.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, Oct. 30. A physical tussle between the vice-president and the general secretary of the district Congress unit of Ganjam brought the intense rift in the party to the streets....

CM focuses on technical skill.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30. The state government will submit a proposal to the Centre for setting up an institute in the Kalinganagar industrial complex at Duburi, Jajpur, on the lines of...

Clueless cops probe vital clues.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. Even as Delhi tried to limp back to normality today, intelligence agencies and police launched a massive investigation to find those responsible for yesterdays...

Inquiry in right direction: Patil.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. The Prime Minister today called a meeting of the Union Cabinet to take stock of the situation arising out of the serial bomb blasts that rocked Delhi yesterday...

Search for train survivors ends, death count 111.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India VALIGONDA (Andhra Pradesh), Oct. 30. Army divers today called off the search for survivors and the dead after retrieving 111 bodies from the submerged bogies of Secunderabad-bound Delta...

India, Pakistan agree on LoC points.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. India and Pakistan have agreed to open the LoC at five points, to allow the movement of relief and people from 7 November. This was decided in marathon talks yesterday and today at...

Blast claims city couple.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct 30. Amid the festive clamour surrounding the Kalighat Temple, only an eerie silence hangs over the 18C Kali Lane home of the Mukhopadhyays today. A couple from this house...

PMs clean chit to Natwar.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. The Prime Minister today gave a clean chit to the foreign minister, Mr K Natwar Singh, who had been named in a UN-instituted inquiry as a non-contractual beneficiary of the Iraq...

A Grave Constitutional Dereliction!
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) D Bandyopadhyay THE Narayan Biswas affair is getting more bizarre and nasty each day. The reported gimmick of the state housing minister, casting aspersions on the judiciary on the matter by keeping Mr Biswas...

Mahindra ride Barreto brace.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India MARGAO, Oct. 30. Jose Ramirez Barrettos double strike guided Mumbai outfit Mahindra United to victory in the Federation Cup beating Sporting Clube de Goa 2-1 in the final of the 27th...

Baichung named captain.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Oct. 30. The Indian Football Association today announced the Bengal squad for the 60th Santosh Trophy in Kolkata. Baichung Bhutia was appointed captain as expected. Bengals last win in this...

Batting paradise on offer.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Swarup Kar Purkayastha in Jaipur Oct. 30. India, after two emphatic wins, are clearly the favourites for the third one-dayer against Sri Lanka, to be played here tomorrow at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium,...

South Africa clinch series.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) PORT ELIZABETH, Oct. 30. Herschelle Gibbs scored 81 and Justin Kemp hit 30 off 19 balls to give South Africa a four wicket win over New Zealand in the third of five One-Day Internationals today. Set 244 to...

Wiratchant has the last laugh.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. Lady luck seems to have showered all her favours on Thailands Thaworn Wiratchant. The front-runner in the Asian Order of Merit, who believes in destiny, won the...

Raina replaces Gambhir in final 13.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAIPUR, Oct. 30. India have announced the 13-member team for tomorrows match against Sri Lanka with Suresh Raina replacing Gautam Gambhir from the line-up. Announcing the squad, India...

Security in focus.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAIPUR, Oct. 30. In the wake of serial blasts that rocked Delhi yesterday, security has become a major talking point here at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium for the third One-Day...

Central Zone win by eight wickets.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India SURAT, Oct. 30. Central Zone defeated South Zone by eight wickets on the fourth and final day of the Duleep trophy league match here today. Chasing a target of 49 runs in their second...

An act of humanity.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Agence France Presse ISLAMABAD, Oct. 30. Pakistans cricket team visited earthquake victims in two hospitals today and said they would donate their match fee from one of the upcoming Tests against England to...

Sourav wronged, says Sardesai.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, Oct. 30. Former Test batsman Dilip Sardesai expressed anguish at the way former skipper Sourav Ganguly has been treated by the powers that be but at the same time gave Mr Greg Chappells unorthodox...

Act at actions mercy.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) THE ISSUE: States with the most to hide are dragging their feet on implementation of the Right to Information Act. The right to information is an inalienable right of citizens in a democracy and the Act...

Get cerebral, Mamata.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) THE ISSUE: The Trinamul Congress needs a leader with vision, not one given to street protests If an Opposition leader is frequently given to shouting and street protests, results may not be forthcoming....

Fair trial for Saddam.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) THE ISSUE: Saddam Hussein should be tried by the International Court of Justice When Saddam Husseins regime crumbled under the combined military operation of the USA and Britain, people around the world got...

Ike Turner Crooning his way to history.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Guy Adams in London Oct. 30. Say what you like about Ike Turner, the old boys got no shortage of skeletons in his closet. In 54 years rocking and rolling, hes pretty much done the lot: the drug abuse, the...

Koizumi pushes for charter change.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Yomiuri Shimbun/ANN TOKYO, Oct. 30. LDP draft set to spark debate on top law reform. In a landmark event in the history of postwar constitutional debate, the Liberal Dem-ocratic Party released on Friday its...

World blasts Delhi attack.
October 31, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. From Washington to Pakistan, global leaders expressed outrage over bomb blasts that killed 61 people in crowded markets in Indias capital. Condolences poured into...