Statesman (India) articles from April 2009, page 8

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TechM open offer on 12 June.
April 23, 2009... Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 22: ITfirm Tech Mahindratoday said its Rs 1,154.66-crore open offer for an additional 20 per cent stake in Satyam Computer will begin on 12 June and close on 1 July 2009. In a public announcement made to...

Biz Briefs.
April 23, 2009... IMF forecast WASHINGTON/NEWDELHI, April 22: With the global economy reeling under recession, the International Monetary Fund today said world output was projected to decline by 1.3 per cent in 2009, indicating that the slump is the deepest...

IIFCL readies Rs 6,000 cr for infra.
April 23, 2009... Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 22: Doubling its loan disbursement target, Indian Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL)today said that it aimed to give out Rs6,000 crore for core sector projects during this financial year. Till March...

special article.
April 23, 2009... The politics of race The Matter Hangs Fire And No Solution Is In Sight Salman Haidar The long and acrimonious history of racism has had an important impact on present day international relations. The historical reality, what actually...

edits.
April 23, 2009... Karunanidhis dilemma Flip-flop on Lanka Tamil issue exposed Muthuvel Karunanidhi, Chanakya of Dravidian politics, calling the LTTE supremo, Velupillai Pirapaharan, his good friend who is not a terrorist one day and denying it the next day,...

Antioxidant In Berries Prevents Wrinkles.
April 23, 2009... NEW DELHI, April 22: Worried about harsh summer taking a toll on your skin? Apply berry juice. Researchers in Korea have found that an antioxidant present in berries helps contain skin damage due to ultraviolet (UV) rays. An antioxidant found...

Sorry sister, says Munnabhai.
April 23, 2009... LUCKNOW,April 22: In a soup over his alleged jadukijhappi(magical hug) and pappi(kiss) offers to UttarPradeshchief minister Miss Mayawati, SanjayDuttmade amends today, apologizing for his comments and saying Miss Mayawatiwas like a sister to...

Centres affidavit on black money to SC within two days.
April 23, 2009... Our Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, April 22: The Centre will file an affidavit regarding black money stashed in foreign banks in the Supreme Court within two days giving details of the action taken by the government for seeking details of...

Varun files nomination.
April 23, 2009... Kajari Bhattacharya LUCKNOW,April 22: Mr VarunGandhi, the BharatiyaJanataPartys newest Hindutvaposter-boy claimed at an election rally in Pilibhittoday that he had been mentally tortured in jail and that he had never killed a mosquito in my...

Yechury sure of Third Front government.
April 23, 2009... Bappaditya Paul Siliguri,April 22: Desperate to see a Third alternative government at the Centre, the CPI-Mis busy like never before in the permutation and combination of smaller parties. And with the CPI-M's"man for all seasons", Mr...

Lok Sabha polling in MP begins today.
April 23, 2009... Shiv Karan Singh Bhopal, April 22: Thirteen of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh will go to polls tomorrow. Voters of Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Sidhi, Shahdol (ST), Jabalpur, Mandla (ST), Balaghat, Chhindwara, Hoshangabad,...

Katrinas Barbie turn an Indian first.
April 23, 2009... Press Trust of India London, April 22: Bollywood'stop heroine Katrina Kaifwill be the sub-continent's first actress to be a model for an Indian Barbie doll, a British newspaper has claimed. The 24-year-old actor, with her combination of pale...

Briefs.
April 23, 2009... Notice New Delhi, April 22: Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights today issued a notice to Modern School, Vasant Vihar for allegedly failing to provide timely medical aid to a girl student who died in the school premises after...

Pranab blames it on bad Hindi.
April 23, 2009... Uday Basu KOLKATA, April 22 : Mr Pranab Mukherjee, external affairs minister, today clarified that his broken Hindi had led to some confusion about what he had stated yesterday about the RJD chief and railway minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, and his...

SHORT TAKES.
April 23, 2009... NOTICE Mr Oommen Chandy, leader of the Opposition in Kerala, has been served an EC notice under Section 126 of the Representation of the People Act. A complaint by the CPI-M stated that Mr Chandy had visited Kannur on polling day, violating...

No ones heard of elections here.
April 23, 2009... Dipankar Bose THALKOBAD/KARAMPADA, April 22: Vote? Why? Are there any elections round the corner? We do not know of any such thing. Who are the candidates? We were never told anything about this, a visibly surprised tribal looks for answers....

Pressure mounts on the other Gowda.
April 23, 2009... Tyagaraj Sharma Bangalore,April 22: The main attraction in the triangular contest for the BangaloreRural LokSabhaseat this time is provided by none other than, Ms TejeswiniGowda (photo right),of the Congress. Even though former chief...

Will Paswan, wont Paswan?
April 23, 2009... Manoj Chaurasia Patna,April 22: LJPchief Mr Ram VilasPaswanis a man who loves to flaunt his trump card. In all his election rallies, he has been telling people how they hold the key to next government at the Centre and without his support no...

Digvijay threat to use CBI against Maya.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service LUCKNOW, April 22: The Bahujan Samaj Party today demanded strict action against senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mr Digvijay Singh from the Election Commission for allegedly threatening...

UPA stalwarts in ballot battle today.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, April 22: The electoral fortunes of key UPAleaders, including LJPchief Mr Ram VilasPaswan,his brother Mr RamchandraPaswan, Congress leader Mr RahulGandhi, rebel JD(U)leader Mr George Fernandes and Union...

Spanish King for better Indian ties.
April 23, 2009... Madrid, April 22: Spain's popular King Juan Carlos has made a personal commitment to move forward decisively the Indo-Spanish relations, telling visiting President PratibaPatilyou can count on me. Welcoming Mrs Patil,the first head of the...

LF leaves it to Ghosh to clarify remark on firing.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 22: Two days after the Forward Bloc state secretary, Mr Ashoke Ghosh disclosed that the chief minister himself had admitted that he had ordered police firing on villagers in Nandigram, Left Front...

Behala murder: 6 accused arrested.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 22: Six people, including a woman, were arrested from Ustilast night for their alleged involvement in the murder of SuparnaMondal.Police also seized some jewellery from them. The accused ~ ShilpaManna...

Attendance: CU talks tough.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA,April 22: Calcutta University (CU) authorities have decided to will take action against colleges that allow students who do not possess requisite attendance to sit for the university examination. This was...

Supriti Ghosh passes away.
April 23, 2009... KOLKATA, April 22: Eminent singer SupritiGhosh passed away today in her residence in Kolkata.After starting her music career on radio in 1933 ~ singing Rabindrasangeet,she went on to record a number of songs, the first appearing in 1934....

Two fires break out, none hurt.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April. 22: A fire broke out at the Mercantile building near Lalbazar police headquarter this afternoon. Police said some employees of an office saw smoke billowing out from a room and raised the alarm. The fire...

Teachers to pay for losing HS papers.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 22: The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education has promised to take strict action against teachers who lost Higher Secondary answer papers this year. Although the council has clear guidelines...

briefs.
April 23, 2009... Fee hike Guardians of Sunrise School, a Council for Indian School Certificate Examination affiliated school, in Howrah, demonstrated against fee hike on Wednesday. Road block Traffic was disrupted for four hours after a group of people put up...

Erosion of votebank feared in Ranaghat.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR,April 22: For the Ranaghatconstituency in Nadia,erosion which has been affecting the district badly for the past two decades, is going to be a major issue in the forthcoming LokSabhapoll. For Mr...

Thats what friends are for.
April 23, 2009... Being mother and friend to children participating in music reality shows is a difficult task, says Alka Yagnik Everything has a season ~ fashion, wedding, fruits, reality shows... Reality shows? Yes, a number of new shows are going on air and...

In knots and crosses.
April 23, 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 shares his thoughts on the subject with Mathures Paul)...

The man who made stars out of actors.
April 23, 2009... (Tributes to Shakti Samanta continue to pour in. Continuing our series of articles on the iconic director, this week Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor and Rajesh Khanna share their memories of working with the legend) As told to Ranjan Das Gupta Dev...

Briefs.
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...

Truck full of electric poles for bribing voters seized.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, April 22: Members of the CPI-M this afternoon intercepted an electric pole-laden lorry on the road near the Congress office in Hemtabad of North Dinajpur district and claimed that Congress members were...

Briefs.
April 23, 2009... Campaign SILIGURI, April 22: CPI-ML state secretary Mr Subrata Basu today campaigned for the party's Darjeeling Lok Sabha candidate Mr Ramganesh Baraik at Dambar Chowk in Kalimpong and at Hashmi Chowk in Siliguri. n SNS Workers meet SILIGURI,...

Rohini living under the shadow of fear.
April 23, 2009... Romit Bagchi SILIGURI, April 22: Four months since it suffered a political carnage on the first day of this year, Rohini - a picturesque spot halfway between Siliguri and Kurseong ~ is still living in the shadow of fear. The whole of the...

TMC protests police inaction over girls murder.
April 23, 2009... JALPAIGURI, April 22: Alleging police inaction in a case related to the suspected murder of a minor girl last month, the Trinamul Congress launched a movement in Mainaguri in Jalpaiguri today. The victim Shyamali Mandal (15) of Debgara...

Crude bomb found near LF meet venue.
April 23, 2009... COOCH BEHAR, April 22: The recovery of a crude bomb from the venue of a Left Front meeting last night has created tension in Cooch Behar. It is learnt that the bomb was detected near the dias while the Left Front rally was in progress at...

Blood bank dries up.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, April 22: The blood bank in Raiganj District Hospital has almost dried up, forcing the hospital authorities to defer surgical cases. According to a staff member of the hospital's blood bank, Mr Brajen...

CPM wants forces to stay.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 22: Now that the Election Commission has finally deployed paramilitary personnel in the Darjeeling Hills, conceding to the CPI-M's persistent demands, the ruling Communists want these forces to stay on...

For the Leftists know a win will come easy.
April 23, 2009... Anjan Chakraborty BANKURA,April 22: Cracks may have developed in certain quarters of the Left bastion in the state, but for this stretch of rural Bengal, which has returned a CPI-MMember of Parliament for eight consecutive terms, change of...

SDF takes the music route to polls.
April 23, 2009... GANGTOK, April 22: The Sikkim Democratic Front released a set of music video CDs and DVDs for campaigning in all parts of Sikkim to woo voters in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls to be held simultaneously on 30 April. The music videos...

Pranab campaigns for Mausam.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service GAZOLE (Malda) April 22: The external affairs minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee today begged votes for the Congress candidate for North Malda parliamentary constituency Miss Mausam Noor, recalling the contribution of former...

Lorry looted, trade with Bangladesh disrupted.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service MALDA, April 22: Export of goods to Bangladesh was suspended for a few hours at Mahadipur land customs station in English Bazaar today, when a lorry loaded with onions was looted and set on fire, after the vehicle...

GJMM plays Sikkim card for polls.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service GANGTOK, April 22: The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha is trying to revive its Sikkim connection. Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the GJMM today called upon all Darjeeling-based voters in Sikkim to vote in favour of the...

Teacher held for abusing a minor.
April 23, 2009... JALPAIGURI, April 22: The Falakata police today arrested a schoolteacher and CPI-M supporter, Mr Mrinal Chakraborty of Uttar Dalgaon Primary School, on charge of physically abusing a minor girl. According to police, the victim, Chandni...

Reliance plans expansion.
April 23, 2009... BHUBANESWAR,April 21: Mobile service provider Reliance Communications, is planning an aggressive expansion of its retail presence across Orissa.As part of this retail thrust, the company is planning to set up 50 new Reliance Mobile stores...

Stalwarts to undergo acid test today.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BALASORE, April 22: The stage is all set for the second phase of elections scheduled for tomorrow in the district and fate of several veterans is going to be sealed in the electronic voting machines (EVMs). For Balasore...

Save rivers, appeal citizens.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service SAMBALPUR, April 22: In a meeting on "Orissa River Conference", the speakers made a humanitarian appeal: Let rivers flow, and the appeal came from the people as they felt that almost 80 per cent of the rivers in India...

Police kill villagers in Koraput.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KORAPUT, April 22: Shocking tales of the looting of livestock, missing youth, and mistaken killings by police and paramilitary forces, were narrated by villagers around the Nalco mines, the area that suffered a deadly...

Nine candidates to try their luck.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KHURDA, April 22: The Assembly constituency of Khurda is going to witness a five-corner contest this time. While as many as nine candidates are in the fray, the main contest will be among sitting MLA and Independent...

Briefs.
April 23, 2009... Train service JAJPUR,April 22: Local train service between JajpurKeonjharRoad and Cuttackrailway stations under East Coast Railway was disrupted, following derailment of engine of a container train near Haridaspurrailway station in...

Steel politics dies in Orissa.
April 23, 2009... Press Trust of India Bhubaneswar, April 22: Though promises for the second steel plant in Orissa dominated the state politics in all the elections held since 1962, no political party this time raised the issue in the wake of the Mr Naveen...

Power cuts, high temperature throw life out of gear.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BHAWANIPATNA, April 22: Scorching temperature, unprecedented heat wave and frequent power cuts, have disrupted normal life in Kalahandi district in the last few days. The power situation has been even grimmer after the...

172 candidates with criminal records.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 22: Of the 688 candidates contesting from 77 Assembly constituencies in the state, as many as 172 have criminal records. Shockingly, serious IPC sections are in the name of 113 such candidates. This...

Hoax bomb call troubles ECoR officials.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 22: A hoax bomb call put the East Coast Railway officials here on their toes this morning, while a train holding 75 passengers was being hijacked and released in Latehar district in neighbouring...

Four more depose in nun rape case.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service PHULBANI, April 22: Four more people deposed in court today in connection with the sensational nun rape case. Hearing on the case commenced on 20th April in the court here. On the first day two witnesses Prahalad...

A patient wait for doles.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR,/KENDRAPARA, April 22: Village after village, the scene remains the same. An air of expectancy and excitement has seemingly become infectious as a section of voters patiently wait for doles from cash-rich...

BJD activist killed.
April 23, 2009... KENDRAPARA, April 22: A BJD activist was murdered allegedly by Congress workers in Torando village under Kendrapara reserved Asse-mbly constituency limits. The body of the deceased, Purandar Jena (40) was sent for postmortem, police...

India needs stable govt at the Centre: Pitroda.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 22: The country needs a strong and stable government, said technocrat and chairman of the Knowledge Commission, Mr Sam Pitroda, adding that there was no reason why a resource rich state like Orissa...

OEW brings out richest candidates list.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, April 22: As many as 64 candidates contesting in 77 Assembly segments in the state - which will go for polling in the second phase tomorrow are crorepatis. So reported the Orissa Election Watch (OEW), a...

Not a summer retreat anymore.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service Paralakhemundi, April 22: Gumma block ~ a tribal-dominated block in Gajapati district, has long been a favoured summer destination for the rich and the elite. However, the boom in real estate and rapid urbanisation has...

2 LTTE leaders give up.
April 23, 2009... Press Trust of India COLOMBO, April 22: Two top Tamil Tiger leaders today surrendered before rapidly advancing Sri Lankan forces, signaling an imminent collapse of the LTTEas troops closed in on Vellamullivakkal,the possible hiding place of...

Maoists target Bengal, Bihar & Jharkhand.
April 23, 2009... SNS & Agencies RANCHI/PATNA/KOLKATA, April 22: A day ahead of the second phase of the LokSabha elections, Maoist extremists went on the rampage in the three states of Jharkhand,Biharand West Bengal, hijacking a train, blowing up buildings,...

Col 1.
April 23, 2009... Pak spies JAIPUR, April 22: Two Pakistan nationals arrested for their links with the ISIescaped from the custody of Gujarat police while being taken to UP through Rajasthan early this morning. The two, AbdulShakurand Adil Anjum managed to...

PM Karat? Why Not?
April 23, 2009... TIRUPATI/NEW DELHI, April 22: CPI-M general secretary Mr Prakash Karat today said that he could consider accepting the post of Prime Minister under inevitable circumstances, even as he categorically ruled out supporting the Congress in...

Mercury touches 49C as Bengal begs for power.
April 23, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, April 22: As electricity shortage persisted and the mercury climbed to 49C in Purulia, the state reeled under heavy power cuts throughout the day today. The shortfall touched a staggering 480 MW in the state....

Mental slaves.
April 23, 2009... Although Indian intellectuals take pride in fierce independence, some have from time to time allowed themselves to be mentally enslaved by foreign hegemons. Macaulayschildren, like JanakinathBoseand SatyendranathTagore,emerged from...

Robe of secularism falls off.
April 23, 2009... SankarRay The secular credentials of Indias largest leftist entity, the CPI-M,with over 1.2 million members, are in doubt. Two Politburo members from Kerala,PinarayiVijayanand SR RamakrishnaPillai,began openly coalescing with the Islamic...

Coming home.
April 23, 2009... Santanu Sinha Chaudhuri As our aircraft touched down, I felt an inexplicable sense of happiness and relief. At first, I didnt realise what it meant; but in a few moments, the truth dawned upon me. Perhaps birds too feel the same when they...

briefs.
April 23, 2009... Vijay wins Vijay Kumar won the silver medal in the 25m rapid fire pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Beijing on Wednesday. Vijay missed the gold narrowly. Paes out Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy made a second-round exit from the...

Pakistan beat Aussies by four wickets.
April 23, 2009... Agencies DUBAI, April 22: Pakistan beat Australia by four wickets in their first One-Day International at the Dubai Sports City stadium today. It was ShahidAfridi (in AFP photo)who exposed the opponent's frailitiesand scalped his career-best...

Take it from.
April 23, 2009... PORT ELIZABETH, April 22: Not pleased with Bangalore Royal Challengers captain Kevin Pietersen's dissent against an umpiring decision, the Indian Premier League chairman, Mr Lalit Modi, has asked players to behave like role models and uphold...

city bits.
April 23, 2009... Junior cricket Mainland SCA beat Netaji Nagar Milan Samity by 46 runs in the Under-17 N.C. Kolay(M) Junior Cricket Tournament today at Kalighat. Garia Srirampur KS beat Badal Bose CCC by 45 runs. Ashok Malhotra CA clinched a 59-run win over...

Its KKR v champions.
April 23, 2009... CAPE TOWN, April 22: Defending champions Rajasthan Royals will look for a quick turnaround in their fortunes, while a rejuvenated Kolkata Knight Riders would aim to carry on the winning momentum when the two sides clash in an Indian Premier...

Moral: The more the merrier.
April 23, 2009... Associated Press MELBOURNE, April 22: The wives and girlfriends of Australia's elite cricketers have been invited to a pre-Ashes training camp at a beach resort in a programme designed to reduce the stresses on long-distance relationships...

Wimbledons roof takes centre-stage.
April 23, 2009... Paul Newman LONDON, April 22: We might have known it would happen. On the day when the All-England Club showed off their new retractable roof over Wimbledon's Centre Court, the sun beat down from an almost cloudless sky. Given the perversity...

Liverpool survive Arshavin goal rush.
April 23, 2009... Agencies LIVERPOOL, April 22: Liverpool salvaged a 4-4 draw with Arsenal deep in injury time but Andrei Arshavin's (No 23 in an AFP photo) four goals dealt the Reds' English Premier League title challenge a huge setback. The draw, which...

Deccan Chargers thump BRC.
April 23, 2009... Press Trust of India CAPE TOWN, April 22: Adam Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma lit up Newlands Stadium with their batting pyrotechnics as Deccan Chargers thumped Bangalore Royal Challengers by 24 runs for their second straight win in the Indian...

His works.
April 23, 2009... Novels and Long Stories The Room on the Roof Vagrants in the Valley Delhi is not Far A Flight of Pigeons The Sensualist The India I Love Rain in the Mountains The Lamp is Lit Funny Side Up Strangers in the Night Rusty A season Of Ghosts Short...

World Earth Day.
April 23, 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...

Shoes unlimited.
April 23, 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...

Calling school students!
April 23, 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 23, 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...