Statesman (India) articles from April 2008

Statesman (India) archives from April 2008

Consensus eludes LF.
April 19, 2008... KOLKATA,April. 18. Even four days before withdrawal of nomination for the first two phases of the May panchayatpoll, the CPI-Mis still grappling with the problem of finding Left Front consensus candidates for many seats where junior partners...

Briefs.
April 19, 2008... Three killed in BSF firing Cooch Behar , April 18: Three persons suspected to be smuggling cows were killed when BSF jawans fired at them near the Indo-Bangla border pillar post number 841 the in Cooch Behar district, the Mathabhanga SDPO...

CPM leader attacks state govt.
April 19, 2008... SabyasachiRoy BOLPUR,April 18: Before the panchayatelection, the CPI-Mled Left Front is busy trying to gain public sentiment to ensure their success at the panchayat polls. In every occasion, in the way of self criticism the CPI-Mleadership...

35% municipal water wasted daily: Experts.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 18: About 35 per cent of municipal water is wasted daily in the city because of leakage and misuse, scientists said today. Out of seven million children aged less than five years who die in the world due...

Number crunching, abacus style.
April 19, 2008... KOLKATA,April 18: The audience watched in awe as little Srimoyee Mukherjee,around 10 years old, solved complex sums within a span of 15 seconds even as calculators failed to match her speed. Marking four successive years of operation in the...

PSU pulled up for sound pollution off Writers.
April 19, 2008... KOLKATA, April 18: Interference in a state government undertaking by the state environment department is not a frequent occurrence. But Mackintosh Burn has been pulled up for creating severe sound pollution at the construction site of the...

Violence after 2 ECL miners hurt.
April 19, 2008... DURGAPUR,April 18: About 100 coalminersransacked the office of the general manager of Eastern Coalfields Limited (Kunustoriamining area) in Ranigunjthis afternoon. They started their protest after two of their colleagues were severely injured in...

Rly plans to reopen ghost station.
April 19, 2008... Nani Gopal Pal BEGUNKODAR, April 17: In a first for Indian Railways, a closed railway station is likely to be reintroduced almost 35 years after it first shut down. Indian Railways officials said as survey report about Begunkodar Railway...

Exams over, now for the results...
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service PURULIA, April 17: Altogether 11,216 students had appeared for this year's higher secondary examination, at 28 centres in Purulia district, under the West Bengal Higher Secondary Council, which ended just last week,...

Visva Bharati students on hunger strike.
April 19, 2008... SANTINIKETAN,April. 17: The master degree students of VisvaBharati Agriculture department at Sriniketanhave gone on a hunger strike today from 10 am and will continue till 20 April, unless the authority assure to meet their demands. The...

IT professionals prone to occupational health hazards.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 17: Bengal Engineering and Science University in collaboration with National Institute of Occupational Health under Indian Council of Medical Research will conduct a study on the occupational health...

Bangla link to Mutt heads murder.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 18: A power tussle among the senior monks of Swarupananda Gurudham Mutt might have led to the murder of its chief and one of her associates on Wednesday night, a section of devotees said today. They...

Rupee appreciation hits Wipro profit.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service BANGALORE,April 18: Wipro,one of the major software service exporters, saw its net profit for the year coming under pressure following the appreciation of rupee combined with the slowdown in the US market. The company...

Call for Arabian investments.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 18: Ahead of his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia tomorrow, the external affairs minister, Mr PranabMukherjee,today made a strong pitch for increased investments in India by Arab countries which he said...

Forbes names battling billionaires.
April 19, 2008... Press Trust of India NEW YORK, April 18: It is a new Forbes list and covers rich people and their fights. But, for a change, the Ambanibrothers are not its India connection, rather Mr VijayMallyaand Mr NareshGoyalhave made to the magazine's...

No interest rate change now.
April 19, 2008... Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 18: Borrowers from bank can enjoy a stable interest rate regime for the next few days as banks are not going to hike interest rates before the Reserve Bank's annual credit policy, scheduled for 29 April....

DVC arm to raise funds.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 18: DamodarValley Corporation is setting up a wholly owned subsidiary to raise resources through public offering. KPMGhas been hired to assess whether the company would function as an umbrella organisation...

Ramesh against imports from China.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 18: Import of Chinese equipment for additional power generation capacity during the 11thPlan would not be in the interest of the nation, Mr JairamRamesh,Union minister of state for power and commerce, said...

Nepal shares zoom after Maoist pledge.
April 19, 2008... Press Trust of India KATHMANDU,April 18: Nepal'sshare market, which registered a sharp decline earlier this week following a surprise Maoist victory in the polls, today rebounded by 25 points as the former rebels vowed to encourage private...

Marks & Spencer, Rel Retail form JV.
April 19, 2008... Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 18: Britain'sclothing and food retailer Marks & Spencer will set up a joint venture firm with Mr MukeshAmbani-ledReliance Retail at an investment of GBP29 million (around Rs230 crore) to mark its...

Board of directors expanded.
April 19, 2008... Press Trust of India BANGALORE,April 18: WiproLtd, the country's third largest software exporter, today announced the appointment of senior executives Mr Girish Paranjpeand Mr SureshVaswanias joint chief executive officers of its IT business....

Sensex rises 237 points.
April 19, 2008... The markets have closed the session on a strong note as decline in Inflation numbers boosted the markets sentiments and giving the positive signals to the government measures to control inflation. Positive global cues also fueled to the...

Biz Briefs.
April 19, 2008... Citigroup NEW YORK, April 18: Subprimecrisis-ridden Citigrouptoday reported over $5 billion of loss for the first quarter of 2008 and said India contributed considerably to its increased credit costs internationally. The loss of $5.1 billion...

Special Article.
April 19, 2008... Rights & Status The Ruling On OBCs, Reservation And Minority Institutions By Faizan Mustafa Protection of minorities is the hallmark of civilization. The recent decision of the Supreme Court's constitution bench, disposing of 13...

Edits.
April 19, 2008... Torch travails Sport loses, will Tibet gain? That relief, rather than a more satisfying or elevating emotion marked the supposedly-successful passage of the Olympic torch through the country is commentary enough. Yes, a formality was...

Victory there, killings here.
April 19, 2008... Not quite a celebration of sorts There is a distinct tendency to evade reality in the response of two state governments to last Mondays deadly strikes by the Maoists. It has been conveniently tempting for the establishments, more particularly...

Torch travails.
April 19, 2008... Sport loses, will Tibet gain? That relief, rather than a more satisfying or elevating emotion marked the supposedly-successful passage of the Olympic torch through the country is commentary enough. Yes, a formality was completed with...

Rights & Status.
April 19, 2008... Protection of minorities is the hallmark of civilization. The recent decision of the Supreme Court's constitution bench, disposing of 13 petitions against the government's decision to implement OBC reservation in central educational...

Veteran Spore Rebel Readies For Battle.
April 19, 2008... Associated Press SINGAPORE, April 18: A veteran Singapore Opposition figure said today his new political party will press for more help to the city-states poor and strive to empower citizens by raising awareness of their rights. Mr Joshua...

Currency notes.
April 19, 2008... Lets think the PDP proposal through At first sight, the suggestion made by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Peoples Democratic Partys (PDPs) eminence grise, and iterated by his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, might look like a piece of populist...

Unconfused visual vocabulary.
April 19, 2008... Shifting the Logic, an exhibition of Dilip Ranades drawings from 1977 to 2007 at Galerie 88 is unusual and quietly magnificent. It shows the artist as one who has spent his career assiduously converting the rules of minimalist drawing and...

Season of new ideas.
April 19, 2008... At no time of the year is the sense of hope more intense than during spring which in Bengal means the month of Baisakh. This is the time when the best events take place despite the heat and despite the fact that performers ranging from theatre...

Widespread culture of pastiche.
April 19, 2008... After a few promising works at a group show at the CIMA last year, Debraj Goswamis current exhibition of paper works, Multiple Choices, at Akar Prakar is largely superfluous and, therefore, superficial, pretentious, pointless and full of empty...

Exploding myths.
April 19, 2008... Shoaib Mansoor has the guts to explode myths about Islam spread, often with far-reaching consequences, by fundamentalist maulvis who preach false theories about music and art barred in Islam. In Khuda Ke Liye, he takes a story that uses music as...

Lacks subtlety and grace.
April 19, 2008... In Bhram, Shaan (Dino Morea), kid brother of multibillionaire financial giant Dev (Milind Soman), falls in love with Antara (Sheetal Menon), a top model who is also a drug addict and an alcoholic. Don't ask how she still manages to remain within...

Season Ticket.
April 19, 2008... Together again? Sean Penn fuelled reports he and his estranged wife are back together when he dedicated a song to her at a concert in San Francisco. The Oscar winner and Robin Wright Penn arrived at pal Eddie Vedder's concert where they...

briefs.
April 19, 2008... Maoists bomb petrol pump GAYA,April 18: Armed Maoists bombed a petrol pump at Kahudagon National Highway-II in BiharsGayadistrict today. Over 200 heavily armed activists of banned CPI (Maoist) raided the petrol pump belonging to former...

IIT student kills self.
April 19, 2008... Kanpur, April 18: A mentally disturbed first year B.Tech student of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur today allegedly committed suicide inside his hostel room here. Prashant Kumar, a city resident who had taken admission to the...

Sena wants Dhaka train scrapped.
April 19, 2008... SNS & PTI MUMBAI,April 18: Shiv Senatoday demanded scrapping of the new Kolkata-DhakaMaitriExpress on the ground that it would be misused by terrorists. In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, it alleged that Bangladesh was now...

Ladakh protests with hunger stir.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service JAMMU,April 18:While hundreds and thousands of Tibetans are protesting against Chinese oppression in Tibet all over the country, the exiled community has got support from the Buddhists living in a small land-locked town...

Naidu for Telanganaopinion.
April 19, 2008... HYDERABAD,18 April: TDPpresident Mr NChandrababuNaidu,for the first time, seemed open to the idea of a separatestatehood for Telangana. He said he would prefer to take a majority opinion about the issue before finalising the partys stand. ...

Six-fold hike in pocket money cant cheer up kids.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 18: Pocket money has risen by about six times for school children in the 10-17 age group in urban India from Rs300 per month in 1998 to Rs1800 and yet the kids are from being happy and crave for more,...

BJP brass to up price-stir tempo.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 18: In an attempt to build up a massive countrywide movement against the UPA government on the issue of price rise, the BJPnational office-bearers today decided to set up a six member committee to work...

Runaway Pak boys returned.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service JAIPUR,April 18: The two Pakistani boys who had illegally trespassed into Indian territory in Barmerlast week were handed over to Pakistan authorities on Thursday late evening. The duo was released after a team of...

NDA launches inflation offensive.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 18: In what is likely to help it gauge the NDAsstrength ahead of the next LokSabha elections, the BJPtoday decided to launch a joint offensive against the UPAgovernments failure on the price front along...

CID probe into Tripura ministers terror links.
April 19, 2008... Indo-Asian News Service AGARTALA,April 18: The Tripuragovernment today ordereda CIDinquiry into the alleged links between a Bangladeshi arms dealer and Mr Sahid Chowdhury,who resigned as the state food and minority affairs minister yesterday,...

India did not misread Nepal trend, says Pranab.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 18: The external affairs minister, Mr PranabMukherjee,today asserted that India did not misread the situation in Nepal, where the Maoists romped to a surprise victory in the recent elections to the...

Quota: Govtto abide by SC ruling.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 18: The ManmohanSingh government is all set to implement the Central law providing for 27 % reservation for OBCsin Central institutes of higher education, including IITs,IIMs and AIIMS,from the upcoming...

SDF lashes out at Medha Patkar.
April 19, 2008... Press Trust of India GANGTOK,April 18: The ruling SikkimDemocratic Front (SDF)today criticised social activist Ms MedhaPatkarfor lending support to the opponents of the hydroelectric power projects in the state, including one at Dzonguin...

Briefs.
April 19, 2008... Maoist bandh MIDNAPORE,April 17: The Maoists have called a two-hour bandhin West Bengal, Biharand Orissaon Saturday protesting against abnormal fall in prices of sal and kenduleaves and sabuigrass, raw material to make ropes. n SNS Child...

Hostile witnesses will be punished, says minister.
April 19, 2008... Indo-Asian News Service NEW DELHI, April 18: With more and more witnesses turning hostile especially in criminal cases, the home ministry proposes to enhance punishment for perjury. Proposals have been made to insert new sections in the...

briefs.
April 19, 2008... Water woes Supply of water to the toilets in domestic terminal of NSCBoseairport was affected for about three hours on Friday afternoon causing inconvenience to passengers. The supply was stopped for sometime to some of the toilets while it...

CU chooses new V-C.
April 19, 2008... KOLKATA, April 18: Prof Suranjan Das, pro-vice chancellor (academic) has been elected the new vice chancellor of Calcutta University today. Prof Das's name was proposed by Prof. Asis Ray, former vice chancellor of Kalyani University and...

Yamaha bike steals the show.
April 19, 2008... KOLKATA,April 17: Crowd swelled outside the distributors showroom in Central Kolkatato see the bikes. The Yamaha R1,priced at Rs10.5 lakh is any man's dream. Mr RaviRastogi,regional business head of Yamaha said that the R1and Yamaha Gladiator...

Briefs.
April 19, 2008... Date change KOLKATAApril 17: The Calcutta University B.A,B.Scand B.ComPart III honours and major (under 1+1+1 system) and Part II honours and major (under 2+1 system) has been re-scheduled on 22 April with the time and venue re-maining...

Best Bargains.
April 19, 2008... In the jeans RECAP Jeans has launched its Moroccan collection, which has designs that have a rugged look. The collection features shirts, T-shirts, pedal pushers, jeans and belts. Price: Upwards of Rs 449. Lap it up Toshiba India...

Crunching numbers with abacus.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 18: The audience watched in awe as little Srimoyee Mukherjee, around 10 years old, solved complex sums within a span of 15 seconds even as calculators failed to match her speed. Marking four successive...

PSU pulled up for sound pollution off Writers.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 18: Interference in a state government undertaking by the state environment department is not a frequent occurrence. But Mackintosh Burn has been pulled up for creating severe sound pollution at the...

Bangla link to Mutt heads killing.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 18: A power tussle among the senior monks of Swarupananda Gurudham Mutt might have led to the murder of its chief and one of her associates on Wednesday night, a section of devotees said today. They...

Elderly man dead after fight with wife.
April 19, 2008... KOLKATA, April 17: A 65-year-old man was found dead at his Raj Mohan Street residence near Jorsanko this morning. Police found the body of Gopal Sharma inside his room. They suspect that he slashed his wrist. Police said that Gopal was found...

Dhaka bus service suspended.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 18: The Kolkata-Dhakabus service has been suspended until further notice. Authorities in the West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation Limited (WBSTCL)said they have ordered suspension of the bus service,...

Raiganj bazaar bandh today.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, April 18: More than 24 hours have passed since a fruit seller was shot dead and a contractor was injured at Mohanbati Bazaar in Raiganj yet police have failed to arrest the criminals. In protest against...

State probe into 9 April lathicharge.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 18: The state government has set up a one-man inquiry commission into the 9 April incident in which, several ex-servicemen were injured in a police lathi-charge at Darjeeling More, Siliguri. Backed by...

Stir causes traffic snarl.
April 19, 2008... BALURGHAT, April 18: Residents of Mallikpur village in the Baul area under Balurghat police station blocked the Balurghat road to Malda state highway this morning demanding electricity in their village. The stir caused a major traffic snarl. ...

Dinhata firing probe begins.
April 19, 2008... COOCH BEHAR, April 18: The judicial inquiry commission constituted to inquire into the 5 February police firing in which, six persons including an NVF personnel died at Dinhata, began yesterday. The commission headed by an ex-judge of the...

briefs.
April 19, 2008... Patkar criticised Gangtok, April 18: The ruling Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) today criticised social activist Medha Patkar for lending support to the opponents of the hydroelectric power projects in the state, including one at Dzongu in...

Court extends judicial custody of two accused Americans.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 18: The judicial custody of the two American women arrested from the Bagdogra airport on 14 April for carrying live cartridges in their luggage has been extended. Rejecting the bail plea moved by the...

RSP, Trinamul boycott convention.
April 19, 2008... Romit Bagchi SILIGURI, April 18: Following the citizens convention organised on 10 April by the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, the Left Front constituent RSP and the Opposition Congress, Trinamul Congress and Naxalite factions have decided...

Villagers may boycott polls.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, April. 18: Residents of Kurmanpur under Harirampur police station of South Dinajpur district recently formed Kurmanpur Gana Sangram Committee and with a demand of inclusion of Kurmanpur in Itahar police station...

One student dead, 35 injured in accident.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service GANGTOK, April 18: One student died and 35 others were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in fell into a ditch near Jarung, in Sikkim today. The victim was identified as Narendra Khatiwara (17), a class XII...

Malda Cong leaves out ZP members for panchayat election.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service MALDA, April. 18: The Congress leadership in Malda has decided to leave out all elected Zilla Parishad members including the sabhadhipati and saha- sabhadhipati from the forthcoming panchayat polls. The fate of the...

Water woes to end soon.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 18: The mayor of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, said today the drinking water crisis in the 14 wards under the added area of SMC would be solved soon. The drinking water problem in the added area...

Missing girls body found.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 18: The body of Seema Das, a 13-year-old girl missing since 16 April was found dumped in a sack at Niranjannagar Colony near the Eastern Bypass in ward number 36, Siliguri today. The police suspect that...

Villagers agitate over Deepak land aquisition.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, April 18: Hundreds of villagers under the banner of Bhumihara Krushak Mancha demonstrated in front of the office of the additional district magistrate, Paradip demanding adequate compensation and...

State post incentive.
April 19, 2008... BHUBANESWAR, April 18: The state government pro-poses to formulate a special incentive package for those posted in naxal prone areas. It will also provide adequate security govern-ment officers working in such areas and also seek central...

Teenage Maoist surrenders.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service DHENKANAL, April. 18: Days after two teenage Maoists gave up arms here, another teen-age Maoist ~ Kandara Darai surrendered in Kamakshyanagar police station yesterday. Darai is said to be a close associate of Maoist...

East Coast rly runners-up in championship.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 18: Establishing its position in national-level railway hockey, for the first time, east coast railways stood second and lifted the runners-up trophy in the recently-concluded 67th all-India railway...

Mobile clinic staff demand pay increase.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April. 18: Doctors and staff of mobile health units functioning in the backward KBK districts ( erstwhile undivided Koraput-Bolangir-Kalahandi) threatened to go on leave en mass if their demands were not...

Crime rise prompts SP to shuffle district cops.
April 19, 2008... JAGATSINGHPUR April. 18: District SP Mr RK Sharma carried out a major shuffle of policemen in the district transferring seven sub-inspectors, 10 assistant sub inspectors, and deployed 64 constables. Of the eight police stations in the...

Govt clamps down after clash over afforestation.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, April. 18: Following clash between two groups in a village over an afforestation programme, the district administration clamped prohibitory orders under section 144 CrPC for a month from today. Sources...

briefs.
April 19, 2008... Rasta roko BHUBANESWAR, April 18: Irate mobs staged a rasta roko in Old Town area here today following a clash between two localities last night. Youths of the two localities had clashed yesterday over a minor dispute. Today angry locals...

Group threatens dharna over hospital conditions.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service BHADRAK, April. 18: Taking note of the deteriorating health care service in the district and especially, the deplorable condition of the district headquarters hospital here, the Bhadrak Vikash Mancha, a citizens body...

Vigilance dept raids engineers home.
April 19, 2008... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 18: State vigilance department conducted simultaneous raids on various establishments connected with Mr Basudev Mohapatra, executive engineer of irrigation department, on charges of accumulation and...

WIDE SCREEN.
April 19, 2008... Keeping India animated Imageworks India, celebrating its first anniversary as part of Sony Pictures Imageworks, has launched its new facility in Chennai. Imageworks announced an equity investment in renowned visual effects and animation...