Statesman (India) articles from April 2006, page 6

Statesman (India) archives from April 2006

Devang retires.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, April 25: Veteran Bengal cricketer, Devang Gandhi, who also had a brief stint with the India team, announced his retirement from first class cricket, at Eden Gardens today. The 34-year-old player...

Small screen diva.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Reena Kapoor has made a name for herself on the small screen. She keeps housewives (and some househusbands), glued to the television. And she is good at her job. After all, Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki on Sahara...

Meeting of cultures.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Tanusree Shankar Dance Company needs no introduction. Shankars troupe is known to innovate and learn lessons from foreigners while not losing ones identity. Come May, her dance troupe will try to conquer...

Around town.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The big idea An idea can change your life. British Council has launched Creative Future Programme, a creative industries business talent hunt, which will select 20 finalists who will study a two-week...

Strings of the heart.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Peter Row is an American with an Indian heart. He returns to Kolkata after 26 years, writes Mathures Paul Dressed in a red kurta, wearing a pair of spectacles John Lennon would have loved to possess, he...

Better monitoring of indices required.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) THE ISSUE: Should the government monitor stock market fluctuations more aggressively? After the nefarious manipulation by the Mehtas and the gangs, it is imperative on the part of the Union finance ministry...

Unity should be priority.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) THE ISSUE: Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh should call a mid-term poll if the Marxists win in Kerala and West Bengal; the alternative is the UPA being held to ransom by the Left. The Election Commission...

Irreparable void.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) THE ISSUE: WIth the passing of Ghani Khan Choudhury, the Congress has no mass leader with stature left in West Bengal. An eventful era has come to a sad end for the Congress in West Bengal with the...

your views.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Issues for next week: 1. Dowry demands are growing apace with increasing prosperity in India 2. King Gyanendras repression is responsible for the Maoists taking control of the protests in Nepal 3. An American...

The real king of Nepal.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sudeshna Sarkar KATHMANDU, April 25: Synonymous with the democracy movement in Nepal, the Koirala family has led the fight against autocracy in the 50s against the Rana Prime Ministers, from the 60s to 90s...

Air strikes on Tigers dens.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press COLOMBO, April 25: Sri Lankas military launched air strikes today against Tamil Tiger-held areas near a strategic port after a female rebel suicide bomber targeted the countrys top military...

Breast of times.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) May Yip SINGAPORE, April 24: Cleavages are bustin out all over Singapore, it seems. Take the recent Miss Singapore Universe pageant. From tabloids to blogs, eye-catching bust-lines were what made headlines,...

People & places.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Past perfect NEW YORK: Kelsey Grammer, award-winning actor of Frasier, is thinking of running for office and says his notorious past will benefit him. According to pagesix.com, Grammer is sure that his...

A day after, 10 held in Egypt.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press DAHAB, April 25: Police arrested 10 people today and divers retrieved body parts from the sea after a triple bomb attack that ripped apart a Sinai beach resort at the height of Egypts tourist...

Holocaust refuses to fade in Israel.
April 26, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press JERUSALEM, April 25: When Gizela Burg arrived in Israel after surviving four Nazi concentration camps in World War II, she thought her problems of survival were behind her. But now, at the...

About Alzheimers...
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) ... A Mediterranean diet rich olive oil, red wine, fruit and vegetable helps keep the disease at bay, writes Jeremy Laurance ONE of the largest studies of the impact of food and drink on mental decline has...

Travel: Breathtaking MIXTURE.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) A trip to South America proved to be an enriching and exciting holiday for Anima Ganguly I had always wanted to visit South America and when Club 7 arranged a group tour there, my prayers were answered. We...

Travel: Emerald Isle.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Swathed in Nature, Devbagh is a mesmerising experience for all beach lovers, writes G Brindha It is full moon and the chandni shines likes silver in the pitch-dark night. The river is in full spirit as the...

Career: Connecting People.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Ranajoy Punja writes about a lucrative career opportunity in networking that will contribute to the growth in Indias economy The advent of globalisation, Indias prowess in Information Technology and a strong...

Career: Ten on ten.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Partha Pratim Majumder enumerates factors that add up to a successful interview and earns the candidate that coveted appointment letter THE interview is the greatest hurdle for an aspirant to a corporate...

Flying High: Centres Of excellence.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Roshmi Raychaudhuri The positive and negative aspects, the whys and wherefores of the so called affirmative action reservation for those belonging to scheduled caste, tribes and OBCs has become a popular...

Notice Board: Moving pictures.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Arena Animation Academy launched the Arena Animation Academy Specialist Programme 2006 (AAASP) 2006 on 13 April. The programme is a comprehensive 2.5-year animation-training course. AAASP-2006 follows a...

Chiaroscuro: The Model IN HIDING.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Ruma Dasgupta SHE works for artists whose works hang in fashionable galleries around the world. She lives in a 10x4 ft windowless room and can barely make two ends meet. She hates being photographed,...

Technology: PREDATOR Protection.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Carnivores play a key role in keeping the earth green, writes Ritu Gupta A RECENT study on the role of predators in keeping the earth green can well be likened to a fruit of development. Scientists have long...

Clean With Coir.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) HUMBLE coir may soon help treat domestic wastewater. Arakkal Praveen, a lecturer at the Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala, has developed a biofilter made of coir, that can be attached to a...

Technology: Brewer Turns Apothecary.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) A new role of wine yeast may help bring malaria under control, says S Ananthanaryanan THE use of Saccharomyses cerevisiae in the making of wine is probably the earliest bio-based industry known to humankind....

FORMALIN Or Fire?
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The late Anil Biswas true dream was to have his body benefit medical science. Sadly, the grief displayed at the funeral cannot make up for it remaining unfulfilled. Tapan Chatterjee explains FORMALIN, not...

A teacher put to test.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: Well might someone who relishes being among his books or working out sums on the classroom blackboard have been all at sea when pitted against a seasoned politician...

Tistas struggle.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Rupam Jain KOLKATA, April 24: Thirty-year-old Tista Das will vote for the first time on 27 April (third phase of Assembly election) from Ward No. 8, booth 47. A resident of Mahajati Nagar, Agarpara, Tista is a...

A cinch for the Trinamul Congress.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Tarun Goswami KOLKATA, April 24: Good public relations, complementing patient, impartial work done on behalf of the electorate through the past five years, should stand West Behalas Trinamul Congress member...

Alien votes.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sometimes in trickles but more often in hordes, people have been trekking into Bengal from across the border ever since Independence. But things have come to such a pass over the last three decades that the...

Party politics makes way for PARTY!
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Lilly Peel and Sangeetha Nair KOLKATA, April 24: Will you be voting in Thursdays election? Whats that? Youre having a party? No, VOTING. On THURSDAY. Do you believe its important to vote? Party on Thursday?...

Briefs.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Water protest NALHATI, APRIL 24: Some 200 housewives of the Eastern Railways employees living in the staff quarters at Nalhati today demonstrated at Nalhati station, demanding sufficient and pure drinking...

CU second with MPhil course.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Kolkata, April 24: After Jawaharlal Nehru University, Calcutta University is the second university of the country to start an MPhil course in an interdisciplinary stream called History...

Students call off hunger-strike.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, April 24: Engineering girl students in Durgapur called off their hunger-strike midnight last night after the college chairman, Mr SK Sharma, intervened from New Delhi over...

Woman on top.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Traditional moves Prakriti Bhaskar, a Mumbai-based dancer and choreographer, is also director of the cultural organisation, Shiladish Art and Research Institute. She has a Masters degree in Fine Arts and is a...

Electricity commission can fix tariffs.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent KOLKATA, April 24: The Division Bench of the Chief Justice, Mr VS Sirpurkar and Mr Justice Soumitra Sen of Calcutta High Court today vacated the stay order passed by Mr Justice Girish...

Kidnap attempt.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, April 24: A businessman escaped a kidnappers bid in Rupnarayanpur town on the West Bengal-Jharkhand border last night. The criminals hijacked his new four-wheeler MUV. Mr...

PCB ultimatum to land developer.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, April 24: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board has pulled up Bengal Shrachi Housing Development Limited, one of the states leading land developers, for allegedly violating...

Youth held for Maoist links.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DUBRAJPUR, April 24: Birbhum police arrested one youth, Sunil Bagdi alias China Bagdi, from Dubrajpur last night, suspecting that he was a Maiost. This morning, two others from the same...

Canal drainage crisis.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, April 24: Owing to the lack of de-siltation, most of the water outlets at Barasat in North 24-Parganas have dried up. And now a small water outlet connecting local canals that drain...

500-year-old trees chopped in Bongaon.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: The administration has turned a blind eye to the felling of trees on either side of Jessore Road by timber smugglers. These ancient trees stand near the border area...

Sitagachi weavers in doldrums.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: The lives of more than 100 weaver families at Sitagachi, Mathurapur in South 24-Parganas have become knotty. Not only has financial assistance from the government...

Inverter dealers make the best of power woes.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: With rampant power cuts before the board exams, anxious parents are rushing to get inverters that their childrens studies may not be hampered. And dealers are taking...

ADB to double assistance to India.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, April 24: India is committed to ramping up its borrowing from ADB over the next three years to possibly reach $2 billion per year, up from the current $1.2 billion, the finance minister, Mr P...

Apollo Tyres acquires Dunlop SA.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 24: Apollo Tyres Ltd today announced acquisition of Dunlop Tyres International Ltd (South Africa) in a Rs 290 crore all-cash deal. All regulatory approvals in India and...

Call for greater Indo-German ties.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 24: Indias presence as a partner country at the ongoing Hanover trade fair marks the renewal of its strong and robust relations with Germany, the commerce and industry...

Ficci launches CDM programme.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, April 24: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) today launched its national programme on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in partnership with the Norwegian Embassy,...

No Deutsch pie for Bengal.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: It has primarily been due to West Bengals image of an adverse investment destination which repelled German entrepreneurs away from opening facilities here. Major...

India seeks German investment.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India HANOVER, April 24: Inviting German investment into India, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh today said his government will create an enabling environment conducive to such a step....

Dealing with doctors.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) State must also honour its commitments By allowing private practice by doctors employed in teaching hospitals, the West Bengal government has accepted reality. Considering the resources that are available, it...

DIY fire service.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Not an ideal solution It was a case of necessity being the mother of invention. The countrys first non-industrial private fire service is being established by major property developer DLF for its residential...

American empire-II.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Personal Enrichment As A National Ideal Prasenjit Chowdhury Anatol Lieven in an article titled The Empire Strikes Back in The Nation offers a clue to the difference between the American imperialism of Clinton...

Orchids Bloom With Global Warming.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Michael McCarthy LONDON, April 24: It is not only in the icefields and glaciers of the Arctic, visited in a blaze of publicity last week by the Tory leader Mr David Cameron, that the signs of global warming...

Shame at sea.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The depths must be probed It would be silly to go ballistic over the sinking of the INS Prahar after a collision with the infinitely larger MV Rajiv Gandhi of the Shipping Corporation of India some 25-30...

Pakistan cool to reel diplomacy.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sanjay Singh NEW DELHI, April 24: As India takes the cinematic route to give a push to Indo-Pak ties, the Pakistan government appears cool to the peace effort. Hindi films are making a comeback in Pakistan...

Indias future N-growth will be civilian: USA.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 24: The United States embassy today issued a statement on India-US civil nuclear cooperation treaty, reiterating that it does not recognise India as a nuclear weapons...

Telengana back in discourse.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, April 24: The politics over the proposal for creation of a separate Telengana state has again started hotting up after a hiatus of several months. The ruling Congress is again forced to rehash its...

PMO team gauges progress.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service RANCHI, April 24: A 5-member team headed by Mr TKA Nair, principal secretary to the Prime Minister reached Jharkhand today to take stock of the development programmes taken up by the...

Natwar raps Nepal policy.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 24: The UPA government today got flak for its Nepal policy not only from expected areas, but also from some unexpected quarters. Leading the pack today was the former...

Celebrity siege fuels clinic chaos.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India MUMBAI, April 24: It has been a virtual procession of political leaders, Bollywood stars, top industrialists and all and sundry making a trip to the Hinduja Hospital where BJP leader Mr...

Fight for a piece of the power pie.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Guwahati, April 24: Polling may be over in Assam, but politicking has only just begun. Anticipating a hung Assembly, political parties of all hues in Assam are trying to cobble up...

Briefs.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Foreigners Order 06 NEW DELHI, April 24: The Centre today sought to defend the Foreigners (Tribunals for Assam) Order 2006 in the Supreme Court contending it was aimed at preventing harassment to the genuine...

Short takes.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Grenade Baramulla, April 24: Five persons, including three policemen, were injured when militants hurled a grenade at a polling booth in Palhalan in Pattan constituency of Jammu and Kashmir today, officials...

Muslims will vote against AIADMK, says IUML.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India Coimbatore, April 24: The Indian Union Muslim League today claimed that the entire Muslim community in Tamil Nadu will vote against the AIADMK, for having failed to give proper...

Buddha thanks people for fair polls.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: The chief minister today thanked the electorate, and not the Election Commission or Central paramilitary forces, for free and fair election being held in the state....

Its Vaiko Show in Tamil Nadu.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Radhika Giri CHENNAI, April 24: With just about three weeks to go for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, one man has assumed an extremely intriguing personality. He has the spot light, the life blood of any...

WBSEB gets Internet savvy.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: The State Electricity Boards consumers in Salt Lake and Rajarhat will be benefited with the planned modernisation of Online cash collection. The modernisation will...

Kolkata briefs.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Theft A person was detained on the charge of stealing Mr Tapas Chowdhurys nameplate, SDO, Bidhannagar, who also is the returning officer of Belgachhia (East) Assembly constituency on Monday morning. He hadnt...

Norwester comes, kills 8.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: At least nine persons were killed and a number injured across four districts of the state after a Norwester wreaked havoc this evening. It also disrupted rush-hour...

HC vacates stay order on power tariff change.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent KOLKATA, April 24: The Division Bench of Chief Justice Mr VS Sirpurkar and Mr Justice Soumitra Sen of Calcutta High Court today vacated the stay order passed by Mr Justice Girish...

Tongue-tied and IT shy.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Arunima Ghosh KOLKATA, April 24: The efforts of the state IT department to promote IT and ITES human resources beyond the is is coming cropper owing to the governments curiously pro-IT yet anti-English...

Blind on Bondel Gate.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: The state governments decision, taken in a haste, to inaugurate the Bondel Gate flyover ahead of the Assembly polls may prove costly after all, as there are no lights...

Families pulled out as Dhapa artery caves in.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, April 24: Thirty families living near the Dhapa garbage-dump had to be evacuated this afternoon after there was subsidence of the main road leading to the site, which caused cracks in nearby mud...

Friendly cops closer than thought.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: Does your local police station offer you a gymnasium where you can warm up for the day? Community policing by people-friendly officers, the new trend set by Kolkata...

Studying ancestry of sciences.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 24: Following in the footsteps of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Calcutta University is only the second university in the country which will start an MPhil course in...

EC blow to Malda sabhadhipati.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MALDA, April 24: Malda Zilla Parishad sabhadhipati Mr Goutam Chakraborty, whose name did not find a place in the final electoral rolls, would have to leave the district at least 48 hours before the 8 May...

PDF in fray with candle and drum.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DARJEELING, April 24: The Peoples Democratic Front has been allotted the symbol of candle in the Darjeeling and Kurseong Assembly constituencies and in the Kalimpong constituency it...

Students round on NBU V-C.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 24: Holding the North Bengal University vice-chancellor, Mr PK Saha, responsible for ruining their careers, agitated students of eight unrecognised North Bengal BEd...

Dry days threaten paddy.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, April 24: Farmers of the Barind belt, particularly Habibpur, are having a tough time trying to save the standing paddy in the fields owing to lack of rain. They are now...

Indelible print.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Making words hug one another is Jain Kamals hobby and profession. Considered one of Indias foremost layout artists, Jain has given a fresh lease of life to old publications time and again. Typography is the...

Support for Gorkhaland.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, April 24: The GNLF supremo, Mr Subash Ghisinghs dreams of creating a Gorkhaland has found a surprise ally in Sikkim. The Sikkim Gorkha Democratic Party (SGDP) today...

Briefs.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Suicide SILIGURI, April 24: Sadhak Saibo, a 22-year-old youth, committed suicide at his Uttarpalash residence by consuming poison early this morning, Pradhannagar police said. The youth, a daily-wage earner,...

Biswanath Guho plays triple role.
April 25, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, April 24: Congressman and Intuc district president, Mr Biswanath Guho, is playing a triple role in the four Assembly segments of Malda. There is no one to question him after the...