Statesman (India) articles from April 2009, page 19

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GNLF to boycott LS poll.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service SILIGURI,April 12: Ending long drawn suspense, the GNLFsupremo,Mr SubashGhisinghtoday announced his partys decision to boycott the forthcoming elections. We would keep boycotting elections in the Darjeeling district...

11 drugged, robbed on train.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service MALDA, April 12: Eleven persons were drugged with contaminated fruit juice and robbed on the UP-Guwahati Mail train last night. The victims, including one child and one woman, are now undergoing treatment in a district...

Mamata to complain to EC against Buddha.
April 13, 2009... KOLKATA,April 12: The TrinamulCongress chief, Miss MamataBanerjee today said that her party will complain lodge a complaint with the Election Commission against chief minister, Mr BuddhadebBhattacharjeefor making provocative statements. She...

Parties step up campaign in Malda, race on.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service MALDA, April 12: The Congress and CPI-M candidates have started campaigning in a big way in both North and South Malda parliamentary constituencies. With loudspeakers blaring in the background, the opponents criticised...

Vote for development, say NBMCH doctors.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 12: Alarmed over the portents of paralysed development in the state, the junior doctors affiliated with the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital Junior Doctors Council asked the voters in the region...

Raiganj pvt buses avoid Kishanganj, passengers hit.
April 13, 2009... RAIGANJ, April 12: From today, several Siliguri-bound private buses of Raiganj have stopped visiting Kishangunj town in Bihar, as the Kishangunj district administration has started seizing Bengal buses for election purposes. This morning,...

Handicapped passengers let down.
April 13, 2009... In accordance with the government rule, all buses must have a pair of seats reserved for physically challenged citizens. However, a couple of routes across the city lack this reservation. Moreover, it is a common practice for buses to ignore...

CPM fighting Somnaths shadow.
April 13, 2009... Pranesh Sarkar BOLPUR,April 12: LokSabhaSpeaker and MPfrom Bolpur,Mr Somnath Chatterjee,may not be contesting under the CPI-Mbanner this year, after his expulsion from the party, but the CPI-Mis still fighting his shadow. The CPI-Mis...

Brewing 50 yrs of unbridled fun.
April 13, 2009... KOLKATA, April 12: The Indian Coffee House, the hub for Kolkata's adda lovers, celebrated their golden jubilee today on its premises. The Coffee House had been a property of the Indian Coffee Board and in 1958 the board decided to close it...

We are ready to join govt at Centre: CM.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 12: The chief minister, Mr BuddhadebBhattacharjeetoday clarified that his party will definitely join the government at the Centre if the situation arises, during his meet with Left intellectuals and...

GJMM gets in way of Ghisingh meet.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 12: GNLF supporters in Darjeeling raised allegations today against the district admistration after GJMM supporters blocked roads at several intersections in the hills and plains to impede the movement of...

Corruption charges over EPIC delivery.
April 13, 2009... Abhishek Law KOLKATA, April 12: Officials in charge of door to door distribution of EPICs have been violating orders and handing over the EPICs to local political party activists rather than to the voters. The violation has been recorded from...

Absence of power could cost CPM dear.
April 13, 2009... Biswabrata Goswami SATGHATA(Nadia),April 12: The absence of electricity in many villages across the district could cost the CPI-Mdear in the rural fringes of Nadia. Residents of Satghata,one of the powerless villages in Chapra,have announced...

SHORT TAKES.
April 13, 2009... Rahul campaigns for Deepa RAIGANJ , April 12 : All India Congress Committee general secretary, Mr Rahul Gandhi will visit Islampur of North Dinajpur district on 25 April to campaign for Mrs Deepa Dasmunshi, Congress Candidate for the Raiganj...

briefs.
April 13, 2009... Womens volleyball team SILIGURI, April 12: After a gap of about six years, Siliguri is all set to have a women's volleyball team. Mrs Manjushree Ghosh, president, Darjeeling District Women's Sports Association (DDWSA), said that with a view...

Breaking Ulfas backbone calls for more than talking tough.
April 13, 2009... REACTING to the 6 April bomb blasts in Assam that left 10 dead, Union home minister P Chidambaram said (as reported in The Assam Tribune) that the Ulfas offer for negotiation is a myth. There will be no quarter taken and no quarter given,...

Message behind the Assam blasts.
April 13, 2009... Patricia Mukhim THE 7 April blasts in Assam,the second within a space of 10 days, are attention-seeking gimmicks. That such gimmicks result in loss of human lives does not seem to bother either the terrorists or the state. The irony is that...

Transportation plagued by bottlenecks.
April 13, 2009... MonalisaChangkija ALTHOUGH there has been a marked improvement in transportation, both railways and road, in the North-east over the past few years, bottlenecks persist. Till such time as these are removed, the region will continue to remain...

Daunting effects of HIV.
April 13, 2009... Satyabrata Chakraborti THERE are 35,000 HIV positive patients in seven North-east states and this accounts for less than three per cent of Indias more than one billion population of HIV positive carriers. Though there is a controversy over...

Voter identity cards made mandatory.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 12: Voter identity cards has been made mandatory for people in the state to exercise their franchise in the coming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Those who do not have the voters I-card can produce...

Bombs hurled in Patkura.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, April 12: After a brief spell of lull, anti-socials have struck again in politically-surcharged Patkura area by hurling crude bombs injuring one person today. The bomb throwing incident came at a time...

Gajapati voters enjoy the star studded poll camps.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, April 12: It is a colourful election extravaganza for the voters of the two Assembly segments of Gajapati district, who have been handed over doses of film star campaigning and herewith unknown factor in...

Cops ready to provide protection to candidates.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 12: The candidates who are apprehending threat to their lives can seek protection from the state police, said chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Mrs Alaka Panda. "The police are prepared to provide them...

Its a must win situation for BJP state president.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service SAMBALPUR, April 12: The Assembly constituency of Brajarajnagar in Jharsuguda district carries immense importance, as BJP state president Mr Suresh Pujari will try his luck from there. He will face two-time MLA Mr Anup...

Naxals take responsibility of murders.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service MALKANGIRI, April 12: The Left-wing rebels have claimed responsibility for the twin murders in the district. Nanda Kartami and Somnath Madkami were eliminated for various misdeeds, they have reportedly pointed out....

Election divides royal family of Patna.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service BALANGIR, April 12: Is it really the great Indian family drama? Irrespec-tive of results, people of Balangir are getting a glimpse of the entire royal family canvassing for votes, moving door to door to reach out to the...

Minorities hold key to Sundergarh seat.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service ROURKELA, April 12: The battle for the prestigious Sundergarh parliament seat is going to witness a fight of the titans, with sitting BJP MP, Mr Juel Oram trying to make it four terms-in-a-row despite tough challenge...

Cong exposes bogey of Central neglect.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR,April 12: The Congress took the BJDhead on stating that the hackneyed "bogey" of Central neglect does not hold good as the UPAhad provided much more in every sector to Orissathan the NDAhad done in its five...

Biswal counters BJP allegation.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service ROURKELA/KENDRAPARA, April 12: Countering the charge that he is an outsider, former chief minister and Congress candidate for the Sundergarh Lok Sabha seat, Mr Hemananda Biswal said that the BJP has no right to raise...

SC: PSUs have a right to force retire on erring staff.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 12: In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has held that a public sector undertaking or a government company has a right to compulsorily retire an employee whose retention is detrimental to the...

col 1.
April 13, 2009... Naxals overrun Nalco mine KORAPUT (Orissa), April 12: Armed Left wing extremists overran the bauxite mine site of Nalco at Panchpattamali hill top in a late night attack tonight, looting the CISF armoury there and holding hostages. Four CISF...

Mamata vocal in Bengal, silent in Parliament.
April 13, 2009... Tarun Goswami KOLKATA, April 12: If the performance of an MP in Parliament is the criterion for re-election, Trinamul Congress chief Miss Mamata Banerjee would seem to have shot herself in the foot. It may sound unbelievable, but Miss...

EC for CRPF posting in Lalgarh.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 12: Attempts to break the deadlock regarding the conduct of polls in Lalgarh remained inconclusive today with the Police Santras Birodhi Public Committee (PSBPC) sticking to its stand of not allowing the...

No longer never for Priyanka.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service LUCKNOW, April 12: Mrs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said today that she was not averse to joining politics, although she did not feel that right now was a good time to do so. The Congress was quick to welcome Mrs Vadra's...

SP tones down manifesto stand.
April 13, 2009... SNS & PTI LUCKNOW/PATNA, April 12: Facing criticism for opposing English and computers in its poll manifesto as living in the 19th century, the Samajwadi Party was at pains today to explain it was not against their use but only did not want...

Mittal tops Forbes list as richest soccer club owner.
April 13, 2009... Indo-Asian News Service Washington, April 12: Despite plunging steel prices, Indian-born steel czar Lakshmi Mittal (in AFP photo) with a net worth of $19.3 billion remains the world's richest soccer club owner in the Forbes list of soccer...

Lets put all our eggs in Guus Hiddinks basket.
April 13, 2009... Steve Tongue LONDON, April 12: For Claudio Ranieri and Avram Grant, we now know, not even winning the Champions' League would have been sufficient to merit continuing as Chelsea manager. With Guus Hiddink, there is a different problem: even...

Mohun Bagans title hopes alive.
April 13, 2009... Statesman News Service Mohun Bagan ~ 2 (Jose Barreto 28th minute, NS Manju 90+3 rd) Dempo SC ~ 1 (Ranty Martins 54th) KOLKATA, April 12: BARASAT, April 12: Mohun Bagan clinched a 2~1 victory against Dempo SC in a nail-biting I-League...

City Bits.
April 13, 2009... BTA League Calcutta Gymkhana defeated defending champions DKS 2-1 to lift the Bengal Tennis Association League trophy for the year 2009.

Clean sweep by junior shuttlers.
April 13, 2009... New Delhi, April 12: Indian junior shuttlers made a clean sweep at the Mauritius Open Invitation Badminton tournament, winning all the titles except women's doubles in Mauritius. Hirak Jyoti Neog and Gauri Ghate won the men's singles and...

Aston Villa, Everton split points.
April 13, 2009... Agencies LONDON/ MADRID, April 12: Gareth Barry salvaged a 3-3 draw for Aston Villa against Everton on Sunday, equalizing from the penalty spot to keep the team fifth in the Premier League. Referee Howard Webb awarded the 66th-minute penalty...

Sania-Chuang in final.
April 13, 2009... Agencies FLORIDA, April 12: Sania Mirza (in photo) and Chia-Jung Chuang extended their brilliant run by sailing into the final of the MPS Group of Championships after a convincing straight set victory over Liga Dekmeijere and Angela Haynes,...

India clinch Azlan Shah title after 13-year wait.
April 13, 2009... Press Trust of India Ipoh (Malaysia), April 12: India ended a 13-year wait to clinch their fourth Azlan Shah hockey title, comprehensively defeating hosts Malaysia 3-1 in the finals of the five-nation tournament here today. Skipper...

Buchanan hits back at Gavaskar.
April 13, 2009... Agencies BLOEMFONTEIN,April 12: Former Australian coach John Buchanan today hit back at SunilGavaskarfor taking a dig at his modest playing career and questioning his success as coach, saying his similarities with ex-captain Steve Waugh took...

A googly to Everest T20.
April 13, 2009... KATHMANDU, April 12: Cricket, described as the glorious game of uncertainty, lived up to its reputation in Nepal today as state officials barred entry to the two teams of western amateur cricketers headed to play Twenty20 at the foot of Mt...

Why England should take Vaughans help for Ashes.
April 13, 2009... MELBOURNE, April 12: Former Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie (in photo) feels that England should take the help of their Ashes winning captain Michael Vaughan to win back the urn this summer. Last week the 34-year-old Vaughan was...

Lankan cricketers may get a pay hike.
April 13, 2009... COLOMBO, April 12: Sri Lankan cricketers are all set to receive a substantial salary increment when their annual contracts are renewed later this month. According to a media report, the Cricket Player's Association and Sri Lanka Cricket...

Flintoffeager to play in IPL.
April 13, 2009... Agencies LONDON, April 12: After having missed a good amount of cricket last year owing to injuries, England all-rounder Andrew Flintoffsaid that he didn't want to miss the game any more and is eager to play in the Indian Premier League....

Briefs.
April 13, 2009... Archery Out of the Indian team for almost a year, Chekrovolu Swuro found a place in the womens recurve team for the World Cup Stage II and III on Sunday. Chekrovolu stood overall second in the selection trials conducted by the Archery...

Storm over PCB accounts likely.
April 13, 2009... Karachi, April 12: The financial affairs of the Pakistan cricket Board could become the subject of public debate soon if the objections raised in the audited accounts of the board are taken up by the national assembly public accounts...

your views:.
April 13, 2009... 1 In the face of protests by Sikhs, the Congress is forced to withdraw JagdishTytlerand SajjanKumar from the poll fray. 2 Mulayam,Laluand Paswansay they hold the key to the next government. Do they? 3 The situation at Lalgarhseems to getting...

THE ISSUE: Sharad Pawar did not attend the BJD-Left rally in Bhubaneswar and the Congress heaved a sigh of relief. What is the Marathastrongman up to?
April 13, 2009... Ambitions unbound, that's Mr Pawar! SharadPawar'sproximity to NavinPatnaikwas causing concern to the Congress;especially after the latter left NDA,giving the BJDan edge over other regional parties. The OrissaCM on the other hand is also...

THE ISSUE: G-20leaders pledge $1 trillion cash stimulus to revive the global economy.
April 13, 2009... Gains for India The G-20 Summit, set out to design a modified ~ if not new ~ global fiscal architecture, achieved a degree of success in arriving at an agreement for coordinated action on stimulus package to the tune of $1.1 trillion to...

100 YEARS AGO TODAY.
April 13, 2009... CRUELTY TO MONKEYS To The Editor SIR, ~ Having read in Sunday's issue of the Statesman, 'A.B.C.' letter referring to the above matter, I write to say I quite concur with him, as I myself noticed last month, the wantonly cruel manner in which...

Gains for India.
April 13, 2009... The G-20 Summit, which set out to design a modified ~ if not new ~ global fiscal architecture, achieved a degree of success in arriving at an agreement for coordinated action on stimulus package to the tune of $1.1 trillion to resolve the...

BJP will have to wait.
April 13, 2009... The election manifesto of the BJPmentions its avowed intention to build a Ram temple at Ayodhyaand makes no bones about it. It is true that its allies do not want it; this is because they do not understand what true secularism is and think...

THE ISSUE: In its poll manifesto, the BJPreiterates its commitment to building a Ram temple at Ayodhya,but its allies don't want it. So, what happens?
April 13, 2009... BJP will have to wait The election manifesto of the BJPmentions its avowed intention to build a Ram temple at Ayodhyaand makes no bones about it. It is true that its allies do not want it; this is because they do not understand what true...

Ambitions unbound, thats Mr Pawar!
April 13, 2009... SharadPawarsproximity to NavinPatnaikwas causing concern to the Congress;especially after the latter left NDA,giving the BJDan edge over other regional parties. The OrissaCM on the other hand is also garnering support from the Left and the...

Something new ditched for something nearly new.
April 13, 2009... Rachel Shields LONDON, April 12: Superstitious brides have followed the mantra "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" since the Victorian era, but this year, budget-conscious women seem to be turning their back on...

Lanka offers 2-day truce.
April 13, 2009... Associated Press COLOMBO, April 12: Sri Lankas President ordered a two-day suspension of offensives against Tamil Tiger rebels to enable tens of thousands of trapped civilians to leave the war zone, his office said today. Tiger chief V...

Militants torch trucks along US-NATO.
April 13, 2009... Associated Press PESHAWAR, April 12: About 150 militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons attacked a transport terminal in northwestern Pakistan that lies along a key supply route used by US and NATO troops, wounding three guards and...

Brown aide quits over smear scandal.
April 13, 2009... Associated Press London, April 12: A close and senior aide to British Prime Minister Mr Gordon Brown has resigned after being found to have sent out emails suggesting a smear campaign targetting front-ranking members of the Opposition...

Scenic Surroundings.
April 12, 2009... Sanjay Dutta spends a weekend with nature and history in the refreshing countryside of Chattisgarh Chattisgarh, the 26th State of the Indian Union became a new state after separating from Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 2000. Chattisgarh is rich...

Then god held back nickel.
April 12, 2009... Trace metals in the sea turned the course of the earth's history, says S Ananthanarayan THE happy confluence of the right conditions has helped the earth generate life as we know it. A change in just one of the ingredients and life itself may...

Fruits off Struggle.
April 12, 2009... AN official of Orissa's cashew development corporation got a rude shock when he visited Hantalpur village of Koraput district on 6 February. His mission was to persuade the people to bid for the cashew harvesting contract being auctioned by...

Rebalance Your Chakras.
April 12, 2009... Dom Joly on how you can surf your way to a Zen-like existence IT should be a sorry affair when we've got to the place where we have to sort our problems out on the net. Yet, it also makes perfect sense. There are infinite solutions to endless...

Surviving In A Battlefield.
April 12, 2009... Aphids, writes Sumana Narayan, know how to fool their enemies A battlefield strewn with corpses may be the safest place to avoid detection by the enemy. Neither would the enemy expect to find too many survivors amongst the dead ones nor would...

Canine Nosebleed.
April 12, 2009... While disorders such as these apparently seem trivial, they are very difficult to treat, says Dr Subir Bhattacharya 'HONU'S nose is bleeding since morning', said a concerned Dr Sudarshan Chakraborty. 'The temperature, perhaps. Will you please...

INTIMATE INTIMATIONS.
April 12, 2009... Strings Attached DOES the Shakespearean word 'soliloquy' have an equivalent in music? It has: but not in the case of all the composers. The question of solitariness, a dialogue with the self, is intimately associated with the forms of chamber...

OPTIONS THAT ERASE THE USUAL.
April 12, 2009... Memory components have long been an integral part of the total semiconductor market and are predicted to account for $44.4 billion or 18 per cent of the IC market in 2009, making them the second largest category overall just behind logic...

Grow Your Own.
April 12, 2009... Forget herbaceous borders and hydrangeas. Filling your flower beds with pepper and peas is more popular than ever ~ and it could save you a small fortune. Kate Watson-Smyth has tips House & Home THE sun is shining, but this year no one's...

THE PITFALLS OF SECULAR FUNDAMENTALISM.
April 12, 2009... Justice Markandeya Katju's recent pronouncements that sporting beards in schools will likely trigger 'Talibanisation' of the country unfortunately conveys a wrong message, writes Ashish Goel SECULARISM shouldn't be confined within our narrow...

As good as it gets.
April 12, 2009... Researchers find a virus-free way of turning adult cells into unspecialised stem cells. Rohini Rangarajan reports THE Barack Obama government recently lifted the eight-year ban imposed by the Bush Administration on human embryonic stem cell...

Notice Board.
April 12, 2009... Helping hand APTECH Computer Education, the flagship brand of Aptech Limited, recently announced the launch of Aptech for Engineers, a series of specialised IT courses for engineering students. Aptech for Engineers is an extension of Aptech's...

PLUGGING THE GAP.
April 12, 2009... While there are more than 40 dental colleges in Karnataka, 22 in Uttar Pradesh and 18 in Kerala, there are only four in our state. Promila Roychoudhury on the one at Panihati that offers a host of opportunities GURU Nanak Institute of Dental...

About Methanogens.
April 12, 2009... Methanogens are micro-organsms of the group archaea that produce methane as a byproduct in the absence of oxygen. They are common in wetlands where they are responsible for marsh gas, and in the guts of animals such as cows, buffaloes and...

Hi -Tech Incarnate.
April 12, 2009... Even though the city was razed to the ground by earthquakes, fires and wartime bombing raids, Tokyo has sprung back each time and grown at an unimaginable speed, says Bidisha Bagchi Tokyo very clearly casts two impressions on visitors; love...

Crying Wolf.
April 12, 2009... Open Space: Romit Chowdhury ONLY three more days were left after which I had to pack my bags and leave for Mumbai to resume my Master's programme. Before leaving I thought I would visit my grandmother another time to bid her farewell. So one...

Eternity and the abyss.
April 12, 2009... Volumes like this remind us that the relation between modernity and religion, between reason and faith, is much more problematic than that of a simple contradiction... A review by Milinda Banerjee It was once thought that religion was dead,...

Two Rivers: A Shared Heritage.
April 12, 2009... The book is certainly a conceptual and poetic achievement... A review by Anjana Basu From the Ganges to the Tay is a long poem that winds across the pages in a deliberate setting that mimics the flow of a river. In the pages of this neatly...

TO ERR IS HUMAN'.
April 12, 2009... Short Story:Anusree Ganguly Suresh jumped up from the sofa, hissing furiously that she was to remain in her room. Madhuri exploded in virulent temper. 'Why? Am I a child that I should be so punished for my misdeeds?' SURESH would never...

Sticky Shift:Tarun Goswami.
April 12, 2009... AT a time when Maruti Udyog has decided to phase out Maruti 800cc cars - the most popular and durable Maruti product - it wouldn't be out of context to dwell on the salient features of a car that changed the mindset of Indian buyers - the...

Animated artistry.
April 12, 2009... If you have the acumen, there's a university waiting to hone your skills, writes Kamalika Bhattacharya DESIGNED to provide 360 exposure to animation, Manipal University's programme focuses on developing the innate talent of students and...

The truth about Cats: Think Again.
April 12, 2009... If you find yourself with orphaned kittens, consider yourself lucky. But they will need care and Maneka Gandhi has tips on what should be done I SOMETIMES get calls from people saying that a cat has wandered into their home and given birth or...