Statesman (India) articles from April 2009, page 7

Statesman (India) archives from April 2009

Showdown on small screen.
April 24, 2009... (Karan Wahi is television industrys next promising face) Luck has not betrayed Karan Wahi, television industrys new heartthrob, who started climbing the ladder to success after starring in Remix. It was cricket that made him visit Mumbai but...

An emotional journey.
April 24, 2009... Review By Shoma A Chatterji Film: Chowrasta: Crossroads of Love Some memories turn inward from the everyday world toward the emotional intimacy of nostalgia. Others turn outward from the everyday world toward distant times and places you have...

In knots and crosses.
April 24, 2009... Dundee is known for jam, journalism and jute. For a better understanding of the jute industry, which has almost disappeared from Dundee, Hopscotch Films crew was in India. John Archer speaks to Mathures Paul The old jute mills that once...

Dialogue with divinity.
April 24, 2009... Dance Routes choreographic works include pieces meant for performance as well as films By Mathures Paul Rekha Tandon, one of the foremost exponents of the Odissi, established Dance Routes in 1997 with help from Michael Weston, a musician and...

The downside of education.
April 24, 2009... Corporal punishment in schools is returning with a vengeance for all the wrong reasons, writes Parag Biswas. Children are being punished for trifling issues like wearing a red ribbon instead of the colour specified in the uniform code, for...

Team work.
April 24, 2009... Two new drugs hold promise for tuberculosis patients, writes Ali Zaidi Tuberculosis is a common and deadly disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It leads to 1.6 to two million deaths annually. Worse still, most of the...

Suave princess.
April 24, 2009... An ideal getaway, the serene Kalimpong beckons honeymooners and creative minds alike, says Subrata Chowdhury AWAY from the hustle and bustle of buzzing tourist spots like Darjeeling on one side and Gangtok on the other, is nestled the...

Dreaming big for the disabled.
April 24, 2009... An organisation is working wonders in a Jalpaiguri subdivision , says Swaati Chaudhury Heres some truly good news for all those mentally and physically challenged students. Hope is on the way for them and theres nothing to lose heart. A...

Cracking up for want of rain.
April 24, 2009... The inevitability of drought in North Bengal is a foregone conclusion and drying up waterbodies have pushed farmers into a quandary. Santanu Basu explains IF the rest of the world is facing an increasing scarcity of water, why should North...

Lalgarh: Maoists may have last laugh.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, April 23: The Lalgarh poll uncertainty seems to be far from over despite yesterday's tripartite meeting which decided that around 40,000 voters of 44 booths will be transported to four booths, barely 6 km...

Sudip, 13 others file nominations.
April 24, 2009... StatesmanNews Service KOLKATA, April 23: Fourteen candidates today, including the Trinamul Congress candidate for Kolkata North parliamentary constituency, Mr Sudip Bandopadhyay, today filed their nomination for the third phase of...

Teaching a lesson backfires.
April 24, 2009... KOLKATA,April 23: The Hooghlydistrict authorities have initiated a probe into the alleged violation of election Model Code of Conduct by TrinamulCongress supporters who distributed lanterns among employees of West Bengal State Electricity...

Independent seeks revenge on Deepa.
April 24, 2009... RAIGANJ, April 22: The breakaway Trinamul leader, now an Independent candidate from the Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency, Mr Abdul Karim Chaudhury, could throw a spanner in the Congress works. Mr Chaudhury is making no bones about his mission...

Education supersedes flood problem.
April 24, 2009... Biswabrata Goswami CONTAI,April 23: Long considered to be a flood-prone constituency, the Contaiparliamentary seat has added another distinction to its name. It is one of the constituencies in the state where over 50 per cent of the...

Sinful siesta!
April 24, 2009... SILIGURI, April 23: A thief who fell asleep in a shop after breaking into it woke up the next morning to find himself surrounded by a lot of irate people. The incident happened yesterday in Islampore, 65 kms from here, when a stationery...

Bloodshed will mark election in tribal heartland.
April 24, 2009... Anjan Chakraborty Midnapore,April 23: Elections in this tribal heartland of Bengal have never witnessed such bloodshed in the run-up to the polls. Elections here have never witnessed the CPI-Mgetting paid in its own coin, their cadres in at...

Hema Malini to canvas for BJP.
April 24, 2009... GANGTOK, April 23: The Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad Party (SHRPP) released its election manifesto today, while the BJP Sikkim state unit celebrated the news that Bollywood dream girl Hema Malini is planned to canvass for the party in the...

One constituency, one vote counting booth.
April 24, 2009... Press Trust of India MALDA, April 23: The Election Commission has recently directed that each Parliamentary constituencies will have only one counting premises, said Mr Sridhar Ghosh, the Malda district magistrate. Earlier it was decided that...

ACT support for parties against hydel projects.
April 24, 2009... Press Trust of India GANGTOK, April 23: Causing worry to the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), the apolitical Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT) today said its supporters will vote for only such parties which promise to scrap the hydel...

State dept, district office violate Code.
April 24, 2009... Abhishek Law KOLKATA,April 23: The state government has been accused of violating the Model Code of Conduct. It has allegedly held an examination and issued interview letters to candidates. According to state government officials two...

Staff crunch poses security problem.
April 24, 2009... MALDA, April 23: The Malda police administration is facing a shortage of manpower that may limit their ability to maintain access control and enforce anti-sabotage measures in this district during the visit of VVIPs beginning on 24 April. The...

Ghosh blames media for sparking off controversy.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 23 : Buckling under pressure mounted by the CPI-Mafter his stunning disclosure on the eve of the LokSabhapoll in the state thatchief minister Mr BuddhadebBhattacharjeehimself had admitted to have ordered...

Blast rocks Alipurduar.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, April 23: A woman was injured and the guard wall of a bridge was damaged in a bomb blast in the Durgabari area about 15 Kms from the Kumargram police station in Alipurduar sub-division of Jalpaiguri district...

Central forces not enough...
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service RAIGANJ , April 22 : The Central force which North Dinajpur district will receive from the state election department will reportedly not be large enough to monitor all critical booths. It was learnt that in North...

FB v Trinamul in Cooch Behar.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, April 23: Ten candidates are contesting in Cooch Behar (SC) Parliamentary constituency. The candidates of National and state political parties are: Mr Arghya Roy Pradhan (Trinamul Congress), Mr Nripendra...

Briefs.
April 24, 2009... Resigned KURSEONG, April 23: Former DGHC councillor and senior GNLF leader from Mirik, Mr BK Rai, today resigned from the GNLF party in favour of the ongoing Gorkhaland agitation. n SNS Anniversay SILIGURI, April.23: To commemorate the 200th...

Poll vigil blues as Bingo falls ill.
April 24, 2009... JALPAIGURI,April 23: The increasing temperature in the region has caused the lone police dog in Jalpaigurito fall ill. Bingois specially trained to detect explosives and its falling ill at this juncture is inconvenient, as Mr Rahul Gandhi is...

Disruptions upset largely peaceful elections.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service JAJPUR, April 23: Around 62 per cent of the 12,13,512 electorate exercised their franchise in the one Lok Sabha and seven Assembly constituencies in the second and last phase of polling in Jajpur district today,...

4,000 voters stay away from election.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR,April 23: Though PoscoPratirodhaSangramSamiti (PPSS)had decided to cast their vote at Trilochanpurand Nuagaonvillages following the intervention of state level CPI leaders, nearly 4,000 voters of...

Trouble at sensitive booths.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 23: Patkura, Mahakalpada, Aul, Pipili, and Brahmagiri Assembly seats were widely regarded as politically sensitive. The signs were loud and clear for the last couple of days that by hook or by crook...

65-yr-old voter dies of sunstroke.
April 24, 2009... KENDRAPARA, April 23: A 65 year-old man allegedly died of sunstroke after casting his vote in Krushnadaspur village, near Pattamundai police station, about 35 Km from here. The victim ~ Jagannath Das, while returning back from a polling...

Womens organisation slams scientists.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 23: Coming down heavily on certain companies and scientists, who claim that production and consumption of Bt Brinjal is no way harmful for the human beings and would no way affect the farmers...

Two polling officials die.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service BARIPADA/Keonjhar,April 23: Two polling officials died due to sun stroke while two others fell critically ill in Mayurbhanjand Keonjhardistricts, official sources said today. With the death of the two polling officials,...

Bharatiya Janata Party losing grip over Gajapati.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service PARALAKHAMUNDI, April 23: The Bharatiya Janata Party had been a force to reckon with in Gajapati, as it not only had the organisational set up but also the leaders to form its backbone. In these elections, the party...

Routs car ransacked at Balikani.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR,April 23: Some supporters of a rebel BJDcandidate allegedly attacked and ransacked the car of legislator Dr DamodarRout at Balikanivillage while his son was canvassing for his father Dr Rout who is...

Balasore stalwarts fate locked.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service BALASORE, April 23: The fate of three stalwarts in the race for the Balasore Lok Sabha seat was sealed in EVMs today. Mr Kharavela Swain of the BJP is seeking his fourth successive term from the seat whereas Mr Arun Dey...

Dist sweats under heat wave.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, April 23: An intense heat wave over the last two days has made life hell for the inhabitants of this district. The extreme heat started without a warning and has been going from bad to worse. The forlorn...

Lawyer moves NHRC over crowded sub-jail.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, April 23: Seeking intervention from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), a lawyer of the Supreme Court, Mr Radhakanta Tripathy, has claimed that inmates at the "over populated" Kendrapara sub-jail...

Police open fire on voters.
April 24, 2009... Balasore, April 23: As voters in large numbers arrived at a booth today at Nimazpur High School, Bhograi, violence reportedly broke out between the voters and security personnel. The high school is about 10 km from Bhograi police station....

Keeping Lalgarh promise tough for govt.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 23: The state government today said that in view of mounting Maoist activities in Lalgarhand its adjoining areas, it was getting increasingly tough for it to keep its promise to not deploy police in...

UPA allies court Left, Karat no to govt with Cong.
April 24, 2009... BARAMATI/PATNA/NEWDELHI, April 23: Three prominent non-Congress leaders in the UPA, including Mr Sharad Pawar and Mr Lalu Prasad, today sought to reach out to the Left parties, describing them as our friends whose blessings could be required...

Heat claims two in West Bengal.
April 24, 2009... KOLKATA/DELHI, April 23: Two persons died of heat stroke in Howrah today. A 55-year-old auto-rickshaw driver, Mohammad Muqhtar died at Liluah in Howrah this morning while AV Narshima (70), a resident of Vishakapatanam in Andhra Pradesh died...

Col 1.
April 24, 2009... Emissary to Lanka NEW DELHI, April 23: India today decided to send foreign secretary Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, and the national security adviser, Mr MK Narayanan to Sri Lanka in the light of the evolving situation in the island nation. The...

Phase II: 55% turnout, 11 dead.
April 24, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI/PATNA, April 23: Five policemen were killed in a Maoist attack in Bihars Muzaffarpur district this evening, as sporadic violence by the Naxalites in the state and in Jharkhand marred an otherwise peaceful...

Safe tourist destination...
April 24, 2009... My eighteen-year-old daughter asked me last Saturday where she can safely travel to when she finishes school in June and has three months holiday before going to university in September. The Muslim countries or Japan, I replied. She was quite...

Is North Korea the new nuclear state?
April 24, 2009... The recent statement by the International Atomic Energy Agency chief MohamedElBaradeithat North Korea had nuclear weapons has caused a stir in Seoul which, along with the United States, does not recognise North Koreas possession of nuclear...

Ill winds in Himachal.
April 24, 2009... Death of a student after ragging and other brutal incidents have shaken the hill state. Though common elsewhere, such happenings were unheard of in this land of gods and goddesses, says VEPA RAO The death of AmanKachroo,first year student of...

Benitez failed by the players he trusted most.
April 24, 2009... Sam Wallace LONDON, April 23: Different players, different moments of the game: that was how Rafael Benitez sought to rationalise his team conceding four goals on Tuesday night to Arsenal in a game they had to win. It was not much of an...

I wont tail off like Baptista: Arshavin.
April 24, 2009... LONDON, April 23: Historical precedent weighs heavy on Andrei Arshavin who said yesterday that he did not want his career to follow the same downward curve as Julio Baptista, the last Arsenal player to score four goals at Anfield. The Russian...

India likely to host.
April 24, 2009... Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI, April 23: India stand a "very good" chance of hosting the Asian Games in 2018, the Olympic Council of Asia president, Sheikh Ahmad Al Sabah said. Sheikh Ahmad, who was here on a day-long visit, told reporters...

United back on top.
April 24, 2009... London, April 23: Manchester United returned to the top of the English Premier League table thanks to a 2-0 win over Portsmouth. Goals from Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick secured the victory for the champions at Old Trafford on Wednesday,...

Tevez plans early exit.
April 24, 2009... Ian Herbert LONDON, April 23: Carlos Tevez has declared that an "exit" from Old Trafford would be the "best solution" for him at the end of the season and that he is now weighing up which club to move on to. The Argentine is resigned to...

Clarke reads Symonds the Riot Act.
April 24, 2009... Press Trust of India Melbourne, April 23: Australia's stand-in captain Michael Clarke thinks Andrew Symonds (in photo) owes a debt to national selectors for choosing him for the one-dayers against Pakistan despite a poor domestic form and...

Punjab require kingly ascent.
April 24, 2009... Press Trust of India DURBAN, April 23: After falling prey twice to the rain-god's ire, the struggling Kings XI Punjab will hope for better luck while the Royal Challengers, Bangalore, will strive to give of their best when the two teams meet...

IPL refuses.
April 24, 2009... DUBAI, April 23: The Indian Premier League does not like inquiries into betting and match-fixing. Or, so it seems. It has refused the International Cricket Council's help to deal with match-fixing and betting in the Twenty20 event currently...

De Villiers in capital show.
April 24, 2009... Press Trust of India DURBAN, April 23: AB De Villiers blasted a 54-ball 105 to record the first century in the second edition of the Indian Premier League as the Delhi Daredevils snatched a slender nine-run win over the Chennai Super Kings in...

Knights beaten by Royals.
April 24, 2009... CAPE TOWN, April 23: NewlandsStadium witnessed an intense drama as RajasthanRoyals pippedKolkataKnight Riders via 'SuperOver' in an edge-of-the-seat thriller in the Indian Premier League here today. Put into bat, RajasthanRoyals had earlier...

briefs.
April 24, 2009... Blatter happy FIFApresident Mr SeppBlattercongratulated Churchill Brothers for winning the ONGCI-League. Ina letter to Churchill Brothers President Mr Joaquim Alemao,Blattersaid, It's with great pleasure that I send my congratulations to you...

Shoes unlimited.
April 24, 2009... We are all familiar to 'shoes'.Even Nobel Laureate RabindranathTagorehad written a poem on shoes - JutaAbishkar(Invention of the shoe). In the last two lines, he wrote - 'Seidinhotechalilojutopora/ BanchiloGabu,rakshapelo dhara'(from that...

Game time.
April 24, 2009... Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Criterion Games Genre: Racing Release Date: Feb5, 2009 ESRB:Everyone 10+ System Requirements: Processor: 2.8 GHzor equivalent RAM: 1GB Graphic Card: 128 MB Hard Disk...

Serve your relationships.
April 24, 2009... Hello girls and boys, It is great to find you young people supporting each other in the exam race that starts round about now. You sit together, or by mobile you keep one another company. Good for you. Keep that in mind. The important thing...

Mathemagic.
April 24, 2009... Are you thrilled by numbers and calculations? Then this quiz is just for you. Check out your knowledge in the different segments of mathematics Questions 1. Steradianis the unit of measuring what? 2. What is other popular name of zero? 3. 1,...

Meet the champs.
April 24, 2009... The winners of the Plug2SurfSchool Contact Program - 'InternetBuddy' were felicitated by TataTeleservicesLtd. The program involved interactive sessions with the students of various schools across Kolkata,which was then followed by a poster...

His works:Novels and Long Stories.
April 24, 2009... The winners of the Plug2SurfSchool Contact Program - 'InternetBuddy' were felicitated by TataTeleservicesLtd. The program involved interactive sessions with the students of various schools across Kolkata,which was then followed by a poster...

Bond with the best.
April 24, 2009... RuskinBond is one of India's best known authors and has received many literary awards. TiasBasutells us more His first book was published when he was only 17 and that book instantly brought him fame. He has been awarded both the...

The Tales of Beedlethe Bard:JKRowling.
April 24, 2009... Good morning, bookworms. TheTales of Beedlethe Bard written by JK Rowlingwas released last December. It came as a pleasant surprise for all Harry Potter Sleuths, fans and admirers. ShantiKiranNayak,a Voices Coordinator from Class X, Calcutta...

World Earth Day.
April 24, 2009... People everywhere Breathe the same air Share the same seas Live together on the land People everywhere Who learn, play Work, care Can save the earth - Betty Miles It feels so nice whenever we realize that we all are human beings of the same...

Ah at last.
April 24, 2009... Now that all the infuriating exams are finally over, TorsaSaha, AnanditaDe and Indrajit Bose, sigh with relief and tell us how they feel Time to party Hey friends! What's up? Exams are over, so it's time to party, just chill out, relax and...

Calling school students!
April 24, 2009... Do you want to be a Coordinator of The Statesman Voices? You must be a student in Class VII or above to apply. You have to be fluent in English, both written and spoken, and interested in creative writing. You will have to send a 300-word...

In School.
April 24, 2009... Quiz time The junior section of BirlaHigh School (Girls) arranged an inter house quiz for classes III, IV and V on 6 April in the audio visual room. The quiz was conducted by Mrs. SujataGhoshand Mrs MunmunBiswas.It started with the written...

Twin Iraq attacks kill 73.
April 24, 2009... Associated Press BAGHDAD, April 23: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Iraqis collecting humanitarian aid today in a mainly Shi'ite area in Baghdad, killing at least 28 people, the Iraqi military said. The attack is the...

Pakistan a mortal threat: Hillary.
April 24, 2009... Press Trust of India WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, April 23: The Obama Administration has warned that Pakistan posed a mortal threat to the USA and the world in the wake of the rapid Taliban advances on a day Pakistan said it will review its policy...

Lanka seeks world help.
April 24, 2009... COLOMBO, April 23: Sri Lanka today appealed for international assistance to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to over 103,000 civilians who have fled the war-zone in the island's north since Monday, and said "we face an emergency...

SHORT TAKES.
April 23, 2009... Allowance & compensation KOLKATA, April 22: Police officers deployed on poll duty for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections will now be given an allowance and compensation in case of death on duty at par with other polling officials, state home...

Four candidates pull out of race.
April 23, 2009... KOLKATA, April 22: Four candidates, including the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) candidate from Jangipur Parliamentary constituency, today withdrew their nominations for the second phase of polls scheduled to be held in the state on 7 May....

Power cuts add to CPM woes in Bolpur.
April 23, 2009... Sabyasachi Roy BOLPUR, April 22: Intermittent power cuts for over six hours on a daily average in vast areas in Bolpur constituency ahead of Lok Sabha poll might cost the CPI-M dear. For the CPI-M, the situation has turned from bad to worse...

More stars lined up...
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service Behrampore, April 22: The chaos, lathicharges and casualties that marked yesterdays rally attended by film star Mithun Chakraborty in support of the Jangipur candidate Mr Pranab Mukherjee of the Congress, look likely to...

Bloodshed will mark election in tribal heartland.
April 23, 2009... Anjan Chakraborty Midnapore,April 22: Election in this tribal heartland of Bengal has never witnessed such bloody massacre in the run up to the polls. Elections here have never witnessed the CPI-Mgetting paid by its own coin, their cadres in...

Lalgarh booths to be shifted to safer areas.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE/KOLKATA, April 22: The month-long uncertainty over holding polls in Lalgarh ended today after concerned parties decided that all booths of the area would be shifted to safer areas near police camps. Villagers...

What your MP did not do...
April 23, 2009... Biswabrata Goswami TAMLUK,April 22: Giving up agricultural land for industry, has cost the CPI-MMPand the Haldiastrongman Mr LakshmanSeth dearly, not only in Nandigrambut in the entire Tamlukconstituency. A scrutiny of Mr Seth's role in...

No layoff in HCL,says CEO.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 22: Software exporter HCLTechnologies today said it was among the few companies which had not made any layoffs since we anticipated the meltdown in July and applied the brakes, CEO Mr Vineet Nayyarsaid....

Rs 8,000-cr GAIL pipeline planned.
April 23, 2009... NEW DELHI, April 22: State gas utility GAIL India plans to invest Rs8,000 crore in laying a pipeline from AndhraPradeshto central India for transporting natural gas from the discoveries made in Bay of Bengal by companies such as Reliance...

Yahoo to cut 5% workforce.
April 23, 2009... NEW YORK, April 22: Internet giant Yahoo will reduce global workforce by five per cent and has reported a 78 per cent decline in net income for the first quarter amid slacking advertising revenues. The company has posted a net income of $118...

Wipro Q4 net up 15%.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BANGALORE,April 22: WiproLimited today announced a profit after tax of Rs1,010 crore for the quarter ended 31 March 2009, up 15 per cent with revenue growing 13 per cent at Rs6,452 crore year-on-year, beating market...