Statesman (India) articles from April 2006

Statesman (India) archives from April 2006

Buddha hits back at Sonia.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BEHRAMPORE, April 29: Reacting strongly to Mrs Sonia Gandhis comments about the CPI-Ms failure as a government in West Bengal, chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said he pitied...

Trinamul, Cong lean on each other.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, April 29: Its time for an unofficial mahajot in Burdwan for this years Assembly election. In a number of seats, unofficial adjustments between the Congress, the Trinamul...

CPM awaits 3 May with fingers crossed.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Tanmay Chatterjee/SNS KOLKATA, April 29: It is not surprising that even after ruling the state for 29 years, senior Communist Party of India-Marxist leaders like Mr Jyoti Basu and Mr Biman Bose are reluctant...

Briefs.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Gurudas removed from TU post Hooghly, April 29: Mr Gurudas Dasgupta, CPI MP, was today removed from the post of the president of the Sangrami Sramik Karmachari Union of Hindustan Motors by the majority of...

Bourses back on track.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MUMBAI, April 29: Shrugging off the fear psychosis created by the Sebi order against market players and depository participants, including banks, the stock market today rallied smartly...

SBI hikes home loan rates.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & PTI MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, April 29. Citing the reason of increasing cost of deposits, Indias premier bank, State Bank of India, today announced hike in the interest rates on home loans as well as deposits....

Dunlop to get tax relief for revival.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 29. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to waive half of the property tax and other tax dues of Dunlop India Limited as part of its gesture to help revive the...

Rabbits Thyroid Gland Tissue Transplanted To Woman.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MINSK, April 29: Belarus surgeons have performed a unique operation to transplant a rabbits thyroid gland tissue to a human patient. If successful, this may pave the way for a dramatically new way of medical...

VOICES OF SILENCE.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) World Monument Day on 18 April gave us an opportunity to grasp the significance of our architectural legacy By JAGMOHAN Fellow citizens, do not touch even one stone... the old buildings, articles, documents;...

Delayed response.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) At last a security blueprint for Visva-Bharati Amidst disturbing reports of unrest on the Visva-Bharati campus, it should come as great relief that the Union ministry of human resources development has...

Teeing off tourism.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Shoddy approach mars a lucrative project It would be a touch superficial to conclude that the Centres decision to slash the budgetary allocation is primarily responsible for tea tourism being reduced to a...

Sops for extremists.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Financial compensation not enough Extraordinary problems call for extraordinary solutions. That is why the largesse offered by the Jharkhand government to extremists who surrender may not appear all that...

Kerala records 68% voting in second phase.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India Thiruvananthapuram, April 29: An average 68 per cent of voters exercised their franchise today in the second phase of Assembly poll in Kerala covering 66 segments in six central and...

A BJP man NDA does not like.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Manoj Chaurasia/SNS PATNA, April 29: Just as Mohammed Taslimuddin was a headache to Mrs Rabri Devis regime, a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator, Mr Giriraj Singh, has become more of a liability than an asset...

Maoist fear grips Vaishali.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PATNA, April 29: Sudden terror has gripped Bihars Vaishali district in the aftermath of last nights Maoist raids at Jandaha town, barely 60 km from the state capital. The raids followed...

BJP minister in Orissa quits.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 29: The BJPs Orissa unit suffered a jolt today with the labour minister Pradipta Nayak being forced to resign from the ministry today after a case was lodged against...

Rahul not ready for bigger role.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & PTI NEW DELHI / RAE BAREILI, April 29: Mr Rahul Gandhi is not ready to assume a bigger role in the Congress scheme of things now. He has clearly not made up his mind yet about committing himself...

Centre blames Assam for malaria deaths.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sanjay Singh/SNS NEW DELHI, April 29: As Assam reels under a virtual malaria epidemic, with 77 deaths already reported, the Centre has accused the state government of a lackadaisical approach and failure to...

One-man booth.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Kozhikode, April 29: Recording cent per cent polling in a booth during an Assembly poll is not a small thing. But the lone voter made it happen when he came to cast his vote at a booth at Kakkayam under the...

Briefs.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Advani yatra CHENNAI, April 29: BJP leader Mr LK Advanis Bharat suraksha yatra through Karnataka, scheduled to begin on 3 May, has been called off as he would be involved in campaigning in poll-bound states,...

Al-Qaida attacks Indo-US nuke deal.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) PARIS, April 29. The Indo-US nuclear deal has yet another critic. Al-Qaida number two and Osama bin Laden protege, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has criticised American President George W. Bush for giving a strong...

Briefs.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) 13 abducted villagers killed RAIPUR, April 29. Naxalites today killed 13 of the 52 villagers they had abducted last Tuesday and released 37 others in Dantewada district. We have found 13 bodies near...

Railways on revenue train.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Dipankar Chakraborty / SNS NEW DELHI, April 29. After clearing the decks for private players in the container sector, in another move that is unlikely to make the Left parties any happier, the railway...

Taliban threatens to kill Indian.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & Agencies NEW DELHI/KABUL, April 29. As Taliban abductors of an Indian engineer in Afghanistan threatened to kill him if all Indians working there did not leave the country by 7 p.m. (IST) tomorrow,...

Guess whos bunking school!
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Rajib Chatterjee/SNS KOLKATA, April 29. A recent study conducted by the World Bank and Harvard University in 3,700 primary schools spread over 20 states in India revealed that 25 per cent of the teachers in...

100 years ago today.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) News Items The Calcutta Telephone System The Bengal Telephone Company Limited, commenced operation yesterday towards the execution of their new scheme, which, when completed, will be the most efficient and...

History revisited.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW VISTAS/ Jeremy Seabrook It should not be thought that the griefs and sorrows witnessed by the 19th century streets in the industrial towns of Britain disappeared when the people who lived in them departed...

Fundamental force.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Lilly Peel experiences the poll energy of Kolkata ~ and is a part wide-eyed, part enthused and a little wistful When my grandfather first ran as Conservative MP for Leicester South East in 1957, he hired an...

Bindra to attend meeting.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, April 29: Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Mr Inderjit Singh Bindra would represent India at tomorrows crucial Executive Board meeting of the International Cricket Council at...

India win a thriller.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India SENDAI (Japan), April 29: Rupesh Kumar and V Diju rose to the occasion to pull off the deciding doubles match and give India a thrilling 3-2 win over Germany in the Thomas Cup mens world...

Jeev stays tied at 4th spot.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NAGOYA (Japan), April 29: Jeev Milkha Singh kept himself in line for a top-five finish after recording a one-under 69 in the third round of the YEN120m International Crowns Golf...

Indian eves knocked out.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BREMEN, April 29: Indian women were knocked out of the championship division after they lost the play-off match against the USA in the World Table Tennis chamionship here today. The Indian eves squandered...

Shankar Laxman passes away.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India INDORE, April 29: Legendary Indian hockey goalkeeper of 1950s and 60s, Shankar Laxman died in Mhow today. Laxman, 72, is survived by his wife, son and three daughters. The former...

Chelsea wrap it up in style.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Steve Tongue LONDON, April 29. As the celebrations began in one part of west London this afternoon, a pall hung over Soho Square. A desperate weekend for the Football Association continued with serious...

Zimbabwe struggle.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Agencies ANTIGUA, April 29. Zimbabwes inexperienced batsmen struggled to assert themselves on a tricky pitch, limping to 151/9 despite a useful fifty from Justice Chibhabha in the first one-dayer at Antigua...

Montgomery arrested on fraud charge.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW YORK, April 29: Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery has been arrested on charges of being connected to a multi-million dollar bank fraud and money laundering scheme, prosecutors...

WI tour wont be a cakewalk: Dravid.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, April 29. Rahul Dravid today played down suggestions that India would go to the West Indies as favourites, saying such soothsaying had turned out to be wrong on previous visits. The West Indies...

SCOREBOARD.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) New Zealand (1st ings, overnight) 535/8 J Franklin not out 122 J Patel not out 27 Extras: (b-3, lb-15, w-1, nb-15) 34 Total: (for 8 wkts decl., in 165 overs) 593 Bowling: Ntini 43-5-162-4, Steyn 31-4-114-1,...

Amla, Kallis hold fort.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press CAPE TOWN, April 29. South Africa reached 155/2 at stumps today, in their attempt to avoid the follow on against New Zealand. New Zealand had earlier declared on 593/8 on day three of the...

Rai wins bronze.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 29. Sonia Rai struck her first major international medal by winning the bronze in womens 10m air pistol while Samresh Jung finished sixth among men on the second day of...

EB face acid test.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India PANAJI, April 29. Title contenders East Bengal will face an acid test tomorrow against Salgaocar in their quest for the 10th ONGC National Football League title. East Bengal, who are...

Pele - simply the best!
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Agence France Presse RIO DE JANERIO, April 29: Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento in October 1940, Pele went on to become the best-loved footballer of his or any other generation. A veteran of four World Cups,...

Dhoni loses top spot to Gilchrist.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India DUBAI, April 29: Mahendra Singh Dhoni lost his status as the top-rated one-day batsman in the world to Adam Gilchrist, but Irfan Pathan climbed one place to second position in the latest...

Resorts destined to change face of Singapore.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Marcel Lee Pereira SINGAPORE, April 29: The casino resort slated for Sentosa will be a lush tropical tourist spot with attractions and an ambience that can put Singapore on the map as a family destination. The...

Lankan govt ready to resume peace talks.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press COLOMBO, April 29: European peace monitors said today the Sri Lankan government had violated a ceasefire agreement when it launched deadly air-strikes on Tamil Tiger rebel territory, as the...

People & Places.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Afterlife LONDON: Jennifer Lopez claims her break-up with former fiance Ben Affleck forced her to seek more peace and goodness in her life. IANS Branded LONDON: Actress Sienna Miller is set to launch her own...

Cops discover drug in UK defence secys house.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press LONDON, April 29: British Defence Secretary John Reid said today that police have found a small amount of cannabis resin in his home, but that he had no idea where it came from. In a...

Bush refuses to tango with anthem.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 29: President George W Bush says the national anthem should be sung in English and not in Spanish ~ in a blunt rejection of a new Spanish-language version. He also expressed...

The spiritual backbone.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Angus McDowall QOM, April 29: Qom, the spiritual capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, feels like the centre of some vast international conglomerate, administered entirely by clerics in the corporate...

Iran to allow inspections with a rider.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press TEHERAN, April 29: In an apparent bid to keep its nuclear programme from coming to a sanctions vote in the UN Security Council, an Iranian nuclear official said today that Teheran was ready...

Police alert on labour protest.
April 30, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) JAKARTA, April 29: The National Police are deploying two-thirds of their personnel to maintain order during massive labour protests and industrial action planned for Monday in conjunction with International...

Indiabulls plans to challenge order.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India MUMBAI, April 28: Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd today said it will contest the Sebi order, which debarred Indiabulls Securities from dealing in the equity market. The company informed...

The sound of music.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CHANDIGARH, April 28: Suffering badly at the hands of music pirates, the Indian Music Industry and Phonographic Performance Limited is now considering to take action against pirated CD...

Market watchers endorse action.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 28: Market analysts have welcomed the Sebi crackdown on IPO scamsters, saying such a step was necessary to protect the integrity of the capital market, but felt the bulls...

Karvy to submit objection.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, April 28: The Karvy Group, whose stock broking arm is facing the heat from Sebi for its role in the multi-crore IPO scam, today termed the ban on its participation in the stock market as very harsh...

Sensex shrugs off Sebi ban.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MUMBAI, April 28: The market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of Indias late evening order of yesterday imposing sweeping curbs on market players, banks and depositories for...

Eleven Maoists killed.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service HYDERABAD, April 26: Eleven Maoists, including six women, were killed in a fierce encounter early today in the forest area of Kadapa, chief minister Dr YS Rajashekar Reddys home...

PM for poll fund reforms.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 28: The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, believes that corruption in Indian public life has greatly reduced after dismantling of licence permit raj and taxation...

RSS rattled by sleaze culture.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Dipankar Chakraborty NEW DELHI, April 28: In a step directed at preempting the CD culture in the Sangh parivar, the RSS is likely to conduct an internal probe to fix responsibility for the leak of a sleazy CD...

Advani wants CBI cases against Sonia, Cong.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India INDORE, April 28: Leader of Opposition Mr LK Advani today demanded filing of a CBI case against former external affairs minister Mr K Natwar Singh and the Congress party in the...

President on malaria treatment.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, April 28: While the Centres budget for malaria eradication runs into hundreds of crore rupees, doctors still treat malaria cases with conventional medicine. This has led to an increase in the...

Feroze adds odd spark to Taj brilliance.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India ISLAMABAD, April 28: Veteran Bollywood actor Feroze Khans comments highlighting the comfort levels of Muslims in India in comparison to that in Pakistan that set off a heated verbal...

Briefs.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Delhi fire NEW DELHI, April 28: Two children were charred to death and nearly 600 hutments were destroyed by separate fires in slum clusters in east and south west Delhi today. PTI Zaheera MUMBAI, April 28:...

Mahajans wife saw Pravin firing shot.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, April 28: BJP general secretary Mr Pramod Mahajans wife, Mrs Rekha Mahajan, has told the police that she saw the third shot being fired at her husband by his younger brother Pravin, currently in police...

PCB raps leading land developers.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, April 28: The state pollution control board has pulled up Bengal Shrachi Housing Development Limited, one of the states leading land developers, for allegedly violating pollution control laws by...

Do away with regional differences, says Somnath.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 28: Stressing on growth coupled with development, Lok Sabha Speaker Mr Somnath Chatterjee today lauded West Bengals progress and appreciated chief minister Mr Buddhadeb...

CMOs flawed operation leads to death, rampage.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ASANSOL, April 28: Coal miners and the relatives of a patient who is said to have died of wrong surgery by a team led by the CMO in the Central Hospital on the premises of the Eastern...

Media hype annoys Basu.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 28: The print media today incurred the wrath of veteran CPI-M leader Mr Jyoti Basu for hyping yesterdays free and fair election. I was surprised to see the newspapers......

KMC struggles with century-old filth.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Amitava Das KOLKATA, April 28: Lack of silt removal in underground sewerage lines for years have led to these vital pipelines below roads to become choked. The upper portion of the pipelines are being broken...

CU to centralise evaluation.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Arunima Ghosh KOLKATA, April 28: Despite the failure of its pilot project on a centralised evaluation system three years ago, Calcutta University is going ahead with the implementation of the same on a larger...

High and low of voter flow.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 28: High voters turnout in the city and in constituencies of several ministers, including that of chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, marked the third phase of the...

Living mythology.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Saurabh Sarmadhikari on the Charak festival of Gangarampur, an important socio-religious event of the area Charak, a very important festival in the socio-religious calender of Gangarampur and its adjoining...

Cooch Behar.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Ready for election Braving the boycott call of the Greater Cooch Behar Peoples Association, Cooch Behar is ready for the 14th Assembly elections. Fifty-five candidates will fight in the districts nine...

Planters corner.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Around 150 tea gardens in the Dooars are reeling under a draught-like situation in the absence of blessings of the rain god. Lack of seasonal showers has affected the budding of fresh leaves, thus hampering...

Pack some punch!
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Siliguri seems to be lacking in the sporting spirit Perhaps its time for cheer girls to step in, says Parag Biswas We have seen pit girls in motor racing, though much to the objection of many. These...

Screensaver.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) -Alok Ranjan Mishra Central Processing Unit The motherboards manual will tell you what different types of CPUs it will accommodate. If we dont have a manual, then visit the manufacturers website.. They usually...

Vote for betterment.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sanjiv Das takes stock of the pre-poll situation in North Bengal, also spelling out the Herculean task that lies before the elected government The countdown has begun. Come 8 May and North Bengal goes to...

Sikkim Snippets.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) -Bijoy Gurung TT championship The final matches of the Sikkim State Inter-Departmental and Open Veterans Table Tennis Championship 2006 were played on 23 April at Paljor Indoor Gymnasium Hall. The tourney...

Brinda goes great guns.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Apr 28: It could be a little late in the day, but CPI-M Politburo member Mrs Brinda Karat unleashed an inciting tirade against the Election Commissions double standards...

Pranab scoffs at CPM.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 28: The whole of North Bengal will witness heavy deployment of paramilitary personnel during the fifth and final phase of the state Assembly election here. Companies...

Rocket science for polio patients.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, April 28: They probably wont understand how useful information was derived from rocket science technology initiated by the President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, in the mid-1990s but...

Poll carrots galore for Kurseong.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KURSEONG, April 28: With the Assembly elections just round the corner, heres a quick glance at whats-on-offer from different candidates contesting from the Kurseong Assembly segment. Mr...

Sitai still waits for a bridge.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, April 28: A bridge needs to be erected urgently on the Singijani river to connect the Sitai block area with Dinhata. Though it is a block under Dinhata subdivision, Sitai...

Headmaster commits suicide.
April 29, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) JALPAIGURI, April 28: A headmaster of a local primary school committed suicide by consuming pesticide to avoid election duty. Subodh Singha Roy (59), headmaster of Lalbazar Para Primary School in...