Statesman (India) articles from August 2009, page 6

Statesman (India) archives from August 2009

Archiving disappearing oral cultures.
August 28, 2009... LONDON, 27 AUG: Experts at the University of Cambridge have launched an ambitious project to create a digital archive of languages and cultures that are fast becoming extinct in this age of globalisation. Titled the 'World Oral Literature...

Swine Flu has three new.
August 27, 2009... KOLKATA,26 AUG:Mr Joynarayan Bhattacharya (36),Mr Premananda Ghosh (32)and 12-year-old SushmitaDas tested positive for Swine Flu from the city today, taking the total number of affected persons to 80. Health officials said Sushmita was a...

Rate charts mandatory for private hospitals.
August 27, 2009... Snehamoy Chakraborty SURI, 26 AUG: The district health department has issued an order to private nursing homes and hospitals, asking them to display a rate chart of various treatments provided by them. The decision followed the...

Ragging awareness.
August 27, 2009... KOLKATA, 26 AUG: As part of the anti-ragging campaign undertaken by Aman Movement, college students would soon start receiving SMS and emails generating awareness about the ills of ragging. Professor Raj Kachroo founded this movement, after his...

Coalmine fires a cause for concern.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service ASANSOL, 26 AUG: Coalmine fire is nothing new in Jharia coalfields in Jharkhand and Raniganj in West Bengal. These two mine areas are exclusive storehouses of prime coke coal in the country, consisting of 45 giant...

Bankura shut for days.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service KHATRA, 26 AUG: The government appears to have ceased to work in the underdeveloped sub-division of Bankura. Banks, post offices have downed shutters and public transport has come to a grinding halt. Patients have...

Briefs.
August 27, 2009... Aerotropolis ANDAL, 26 AUG: Around 650 bargadars today staged a demonstration in front of the office of the block land and land reforms officer (BLLRO) demanding payment of wages, pending for the past five years, and rectification of the list...

Customs officials assaulted in Malda.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service MALDA, 26 AUG: A group of criminals today dragged raiding customs department officials out of their vehicles and assaulted them at two separate locations in Malda. The criminals also abducted two of the officials,...

2 fatal mishaps in one day.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 AUG: Two persons, including a five-year-old girl were killed and another woman was critically injured in three separate accidents in the city today. Police said, five-year-old Ranuja Khatun, daughter of a...

Citys eastern lung upgrade planned.
August 27, 2009... KOLKATA,26 AUG: The Union urban development ministry is likely to take up a scheme for the development and maintainence of the SubhasSarobar, locatedin the eastern part of the city. The minister of state for urban development, Mr SaugataRoy,...

Biz Briefs.
August 27, 2009... Foreign trade policy today NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: India will tomorrow unveil its foreign trade policy that is expected to eliminate or refund taxes and offer cheaper bank credit to recession-hit exporters, besides encouraging them to look beyond...

Mobile banking picking up.
August 27, 2009... ; Press Trust of India MUMBAI, 26 AUG: Banks have seen an increase in the number of customers opting for mobile banking services in the last two months due to a steep rise in small-value transactions. Country's largest lender State Bank of...

Tata Motors to raise fund via fixed deposits.
August 27, 2009... NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: Within less than a year, auto maker Tata Motors has come to the public for the second time to raise about Rs 1,500 crore via fixed deposit schemes, offering up to 9.88 per cent annual interest for a three-year deposit. In a...

AI talks fail, strike continues.
August 27, 2009... ; Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 26 AUG:The Air India employees three-day hunger strike over delayed salaries and cuts in incentives entered the second day today even as the marathon talks between workers unions and the airline management...

Govt may file defamation suit against RNRL.
August 27, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: The petroleum ministry is mulling filing a defamation suit against an Anil Ambani Group firm for persisting with false claims pertaining to government revenues from Reliance Industries KG-D6 fields....

Task force to address small units problems.
August 27, 2009... NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: The government is setting up a high-level task force to address the problems of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) which have been demanding adequate financing and other incentives to tide over the economic slowdown....

Infra growth slips to 1.8%.
August 27, 2009... ; SNS & PTI NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: Hopes of industrial recovery bit dust as core industries growth slipped to the fiscal's lowest level of 1.8 per cent in July as petroleum refinery products skidded into negative terrain and steel lost its...

Unending angst.
August 27, 2009... Manipur deserves a break HOPEFULLY the Centres desperation to find a remedy to Manipurs growing ills will find success because the state really deserves a break from its daily dose of violence. With the heat over the controversial killing of...

Dinosaurs Hit Rivals LikeAthletes Hit Balls.
August 27, 2009... LONDON, 26 AUG:Believe it or not, dinosaurs used to hit rivals like athletes strike balls. An international team has carried out a research and concluded that glyptodontdinosaurs had a finely-adapted tail with a sweet spot which clubbed...

Vedic villains.
August 27, 2009... Criminalised urban development AT first sight, it did seem somewhat improbable that an event as trivial as a para football match could have sparked the kind of mayhem as Vedic Village, the upmarket resort on Kolkatasperiphery, witnessed on...

Whistle-blowers tale.
August 27, 2009... Amulya Ganguli IF JaswantSingh is to be believed, then AtalBehariVajpayee contemplated resignation after the Gujaratriots of 2002. The truth of this assertion cannot be verified since the former Prime Ministers current illness prevents him...

An icon departs.
August 27, 2009... The Kennedy era is over UNQUESTIONABLY the most influential American never to hold office in the White House was Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy who has died of brain cancer at the age of 77. That his death has been mourned, his qualities...

LeT man was headed towards Aurangabad.
August 27, 2009... NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) terrorist, arrested in the capital, was headed towards Aurangabad in Maharashtra to hand over explosives to two men believed to be part of a terror module, police claimed today. ...

PSBPC man pays for Left links.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, 26 AUG: A CPI-M-turned PSBPC activist was killed by suspected Maoists in the Junglemahal area of West Midnapore last night. The victim, identified as Ratan Mahato (50), a former CPI-M local committee...

Red rage on rly & cops.
August 27, 2009... Ranchi, 26 AUG: Maoists opened fire at a makeshift CRPF camp at Bundu in Jharkhand, leaving a villager dead and a jawan injured, police said today. Armed Maoists attacked the camp located in a school, about 50 km from here, around 11 pm last...

Trinamul cant fight CPM alone, feels Cong.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 AUG: The Congress party members today staged a demonstration at Rani Rashmoni Avenue, protesting against the Mongolkote incident which created a flutter in political circles in West Bengal. The event also...

Youths cry corruption, lock up party office.
August 27, 2009... DURGAPUR, 26 AUG: Young cadres put a CPI-M local committee office under lock & key in Laudoha near Durgapur, alleging gross corruption by a section of party leaders. They demanded immediate probe into the charges. Senior leaders from the...

Left fight for universal PDS.
August 27, 2009... NEW DELHI, 26 AUG:Left parties will hold rallies and conventions to force the government to announce a universal public distribution system (PDS),considered the only answer to rising prices of essential food items. This was announced after a...

Go after big fish, PM tells CBI.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 26 AUG:The Prime Minister, Dr ManmohanSingh, today asked the CBIto pursue high-level corruption cases, urging the agency to go for the big fish and not focus on petty cases. There is a pervasive feeling...

Pak rejects 6th dossier on Mumbai attack.
August 27, 2009... NEW DELHI, 26 AUG:Pakistan has again done the expected by rejecting Indias sixth dossier. This rejection comes despite the fact that Interpol yesterday issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN)for 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.India, predictably,...

Cong leader attacks Pawar.
August 27, 2009... NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: Congress leader Mr Satyavrat Chaturvedi today raised a controversy by attacking agriculture minister Mr Sharad Pawar accusing him of misrepresenting facts on availability of sugar, prompting the NCP to demand disciplinary...

Police to ask Army to produce 2 officers in fake currency case.
August 27, 2009... JAMMU, 26 AUG: The Jammu and Kashmir police will ask the Army to produce before it tomorrow two Majors and seven jawans allegedly involved in an attempt to murder a SHO, investigating the recovery of fake currency from jawans of the Territorial...

26/11 trial: Judge surprised at home ministers remark.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service MUMBAI, 26 AUG: Special court judge Mr ML Tahilyani took exception to state home minister Mr Jayant Patils statement that the verdict in the 26/11 trial would be out by 15 September. In the open court today, the judge...

J&K turned into virtual Guantanamo: Mehbooba.
August 27, 2009... Kavita Suri JAMMU, 26 AUG: Miss Mehbooba Mufti, leader of People's Democratic Party (PDP), today said the separatist sentiment in Jammu and Kashmir cannot be addressed by filling up jails or muzzling the voice of dissent but needs a bold...

Virbhadra Singh steps up heat on HP govt.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service SHIMLA, 26 AUG: Five-times chief minister and currently Union steel minister Mr Virbhadra Singh has accused the Himachal Pradesh government of turning the state into a police raj. Policemen are posted outside my...

Globalisation hits the marginalised.
August 27, 2009... NEW DELHI, 26 AUG:Marginalisedpeople are the worst victims of globalisation and their plight warrants an urgent strategy of resistance and reconstruction entailing development of home markets, political and financial empowerment of panchayatsand...

BRIEFS.
August 27, 2009... Speaker administers oath to new MLAs KOLKATA, 26 AUG: Mrs Shikha Mitra and Mr Swarnakamal Saha, two newly elected Trinamul Congress MLAs from Sealdah and Bowbazar, respectively, today took oath at the Assembly. Speaker Mr H A Halim...

Swine Flu has three new victims in city.
August 27, 2009... KOLKATA,26 AUG:Mr Joynarayan Bhattacharya (36),Mr Premananda Ghosh (32)and 12-year-old SushmitaDas tested positive for Swine Flu in the city today, taking the total number of affected persons here to 80. Health officials said Sushmita was...

Customs officials assaulted in Malda.
August 27, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 26 AUG: A group of criminals today dragged raiding customs department officials out of their vehicles and assaulted them at two separate locations in Malda. The criminals also abducted two of the officials,...

Rly office ransacked.
August 27, 2009... KOLKATA, 26 AUG: Members of CPI-M youth's wing today ransacked the office of the Serampore railway, assaulted the station master and his deputy and stopped train services for about two hours this afternoon, for being asked to stop pasting...

Citys eastern lung upgrade planned.
August 27, 2009... KOLKATA,26 AUG: The Union urban development ministry is likely to take up a scheme for the development and maintenance of the SubhasSarobar, locatedin the eastern part of the city. The minister of state for urban development, Mr SaugataRoy,...

Students wary of college ways.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 AUG: Students of the engineering faculty of Jadavpur University (JU) gheraoed the members of the Executive Council (EC) till late in the evening today demanding re-evaluation of answer scripts of students of...

Metro miseries continue.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 AUG: Metro passengers were inconvenienced today after a Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (Tollygunge)-bound train developed a technical snag at Mahatma Gandhi Road station. A Metro Railway spokesperson said that the...

BRIEFS.
August 27, 2009... Shipcrew dead HALDIA, 26 AUG : A 55-year-old Greek crew member of a China-bound cargo ship ~ MV Star Zeta that docked at Haldia port yesterday evening was found dead this morning. The deceased was identified as E Nikoloas, a Greek national...

Home secy speaks of Aila victims rehabilitation.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 26 AUG: The state home secretary, Mr Ardhendu Sen, today held extensive talks with the Darjeeling district administration and the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council officials over the rehabilitation and relief for...

MLAs unhappy over slow work of development funds.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 26 AUG: A seven-member MLA team of the Bidhayak Elaka Unnayan Prakalpa, which was in Jalpaiguri today, expressed dissatisfaction with the Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar district administrations role regarding...

Six-year-old dies of fall from school roof.
August 27, 2009... BALURGHAT, 26 AUG: Deep Barman (6), a class one student of the Badalpur Primary School, under Balurghat police station, died today after falling from the roof of the school building. The villagers alleged the school-teachers had not arrived in...

SMC campaigns to see star wars.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 26 AUG: The Congress and the Trinamul Congress are taking the Siliguri Municipal elections very seriously this time and would spare no pains to try and wrest the civic board from the clutches of the Left...

Govt files recovered, DM wants dept clarification.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service MALDA, 26 AUG: After the recovery of more than 100 important government files from a house in English Bazaar, the district magistrate, Mr Sridhar Ghosh, now wants clarification of the departmental heads about the...

Clash in hospital injures two.
August 27, 2009... RAIGANJ, 26 AUG: A clash broke out today among a section of the Raiganj hospital staff and some relatives of a patient allegedly at the insistence of a doctor in which, two persons sustained injury. The police intervened to control the situation...

Briefs.
August 27, 2009... Leopard attack injures one KURSEONG, 26 AUG: A resident of the Bimitar-Longview Tea Estate area under Kurseong sub-division, Minu Tamang (37), was severely injured when a leopard attacked her yesterday. Mrs Tamang was plucking tea leaves...

GJMM to back Trinamul in SMC polls.
August 27, 2009... Suman Sahoo SILIGURI, 26 AUG: The expulsion of its Darjeeling constituency Parliamentarian from the party is not the end of the BJPs nightmare in this district. Adding to its troubles, the local leadership of its Lok Sabha poll partner the...

Big Arnie invites Chamling.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service GANGTOK, 26 AUG: Big Arnie would be lauding the Sikkim chief minister Mr Pawan Chamling for his contribution towards environment. The man is no other than Mr Universe many times over, silver screen icon and now the...

Hundreds flee Fulohar flood, homeless in relief row.
August 27, 2009... MALDA, 26 AUG: Due to fresh inundation by floodwaters from Fulohar, more than 550 families have been rendered homeless. They have taken shelter in different areas since yesterday. According to a report of the Chanchal sub-division, at present...

BJP molest protest at police station.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 26 AUG: A group of BJP activists today held demonstration at the Bhaktinagar police station demanding the arrest of a man who had allegedly molested a minor girl at Ektiashal in Siliguri on 24 August. The...

New GM for East Coast Railway.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 26 AUG: Mr Arvind Kumar Vohra (See sns Photo) has joined as the new general manager of East Coast Railway. A 1973 batch officer of Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE), Mr Vohra, prior...

Over 14,000 cr power plants at Naveen door.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR,26 AUG:The state-level single window clearance committee today cleared project proposals entailing investment of over Rs 2,037 crore and forwarded two power plant proposals with capacity of 3300 MW and...

Food seminar to boost investment.
August 27, 2009... BHUBANESWAR, 26 AUG: As part of the states ongoing efforts towards investment generation, a seminar on Export Prospects of Agriculture and Processed Food Products of Orissa is going to be organised here on Friday. Organised by the Industrial...

Posco to begin work next year.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR,26 AUG:Ground leveling and civil construction work of the much delayed PoscoIndia mega-steelplant project entailing the biggest foreign direct investment of over Rs51,000 crore will hopefully take off early...

Six years on, victim compensated for scissors in stomach.
August 27, 2009... New Delhi, 26 Aug: A pair of scissors was left in a womans abdomen at an Orissa hospital during a surgery. Six years later after a lot of pain and expenses, she has finally got some relief from the state government on the orders of the human...

Nuakhai celebrated with grandeur.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service SAMBALPUR, 26 AUG: Just like in previous years, Nuakhai (Nabanna), the gana parba (mass festival) of western Orissa was joyously celebrated all over the region yesterday. The farming community particularly expressed...

IPR programme held.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service BALASORE, 26 AUG: A one-day awareness programme on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), government of India and the Balasore Chamber of...

Upgradation of community healthcare centres.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 26 AUG: The government is mulling over the proposal to upgrade primary health centres (PHCs) and community health centres (CHCs) as sub-divisional or district hospitals. Presided over by health and family...

JBC launches LIFTALL.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 26 AUG: JCB India, the multi-product leader in construction and equipment industry launched its heavy duty, robust machine, LIFTALL, today. The latest in the JCB range of world-class machines, LIFTALL has a...

Caterpillars destroy paddy in Sundargarh.
August 27, 2009... Press Trust of India Rourkela, 26 Aug: Paddy crops in at least 12 of the 17 blocks in Sundargarh district have been affected by caterpillars, official sources said. Five other blocks are also under threat with the swarming insects...

Briefs.
August 27, 2009... Illegal arms BERHAMPUR, 26 AUG: A trading point for illegal arms and ammunition was discovered at Tamana village yesterday. The raid was conducted by the Golanthara police. Thirteen live bullets, gun powder, suphur and other materials used...

90 fake ITI certificates detected.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 25 AUG: The Central Electrcity Supply Utility (Cesu) has detected 90 fake ITI certificates produced by junior artisan-B contractual post aspirants. The utility company had sent 1,219 certificates to the...

Spiderman takes on Col. Kasab!
August 27, 2009... KOLKATA, 26 AUG: Bollywood's movie moguls may be planning to put the events of the 26/11 terror strikes in Mumbai on celluloid, but an American comic book company has beaten them to it ~ sort of. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, who is currently...

Gaffar holds the key.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 AUG: It seems that Gaffar Mollah, the key accused, in the vandalism and arson at the Vedic Village on Sunday following the murder of a youth in a clash over a local football match, holds the key to all...

briefs.
August 27, 2009... HC order on puja pandal KOLKATA, 26 AUG: Mr Justice Sanjib Banerjee of Calcutta High Court today directed organisers of a community puja at RK Chatterjee Lane Adhibasibrinda club to dismantle the unauthorised portion of their pandal by...

Now, salman in talks to buy ipl team.
August 27, 2009... MUMBAI, 26 AUG: Cricket's celebrity connection is widening. Salman Khan today expressed his interest in bidding for an IPL franchise for the Twenty20 tournament's 2011 edition. He met the IPL's chairman and commissioner, Mr Lalit Modi,...

SC judges to declare assets.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 26 AUG:Putting at rest the controversy over the issue of declaration of assets by members of the higher judiciary, the 25-member collegium of Supreme Court judges today decided to make public their personal...

BJP rebels up ante, Jaswant likens party to Ku Klux Klan.
August 27, 2009... SNS & PTI NEW DELHI/DEHRA DUN/JAIPUR, 26 AUG: Mr Jaswant Singh today likened the BJP to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (see graphic top right), a white supremacist organisation notorious for gruesome attacks on blacks and other minorities in...

Kulkarni joins rail panel.
August 27, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 26 AUG: Mr Sudheendhra Kulkarni, former political aide to BJP leaders Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Mr LK Advani, has joined a key committee of the railway ministry. The induction of Mr Kulkarniinto a...

A monster takes on its creator.
August 27, 2009... In his article No soft options (11 August), NirupomSom has disagreed with the viewsexpressed by Bibekananda Ray in his write-up, Bent on hara-kiri(21 July). Mr Som finds unpalatable commentslike It is Marxist hypocrisy alone that now makes the...

100 YEARS AGO TODAY.
August 27, 2009... NEWS ITEM ALLEGED HOWRAHMURDER Arrest Of An Accused On Saturday morning Inspector NripendralalBanerjiof the BantraPolice raided the house of PrasannaKumar Mukerjiof Bantraand arrested his son AmulyaDhone Mukerji,in connection with the...

My first play and rotten tomatoes.
August 27, 2009... Sudeshna Kar Barua I was to play the young Ram in GopalMasterji's Ramayanain Kan-pur.Not that it was my first stage appearance but undoubtedly my first "real" role. Some five to six years back, as Princess Roopkumari in a Bengali play, I...

New hope for optical lithography in chipmaking.
August 27, 2009... Drawing inspiration from a recent advance in microscopy, three research teams show that techniques may yet be extended in fabrication plants. Saswato R Das reports THREE research teams have made laboratory advances that promise to extend...

Functions, networks & variables.
August 27, 2009... Tapan Kumar Maitra explains the auto-immune process and its tolerance NATURAL anti-tissue auto-antibodies capable of rendering harmless and binding the products of cell disintegration and metabolism play an important role in the vital...

Growing fast as it sinks.
August 27, 2009... The rice plant has adapted to keep its head above water, says S Ananthanarayanan THE rice plant differs from other cereal plants like wheat or barley in the way it saves its contact with air for efficient photosynthesis. The corrugated and...

England dwarfed Australia, says Langer.
August 27, 2009... ;Agencies LONDON, 26 AUG: Justin Langer has ascribed Australia's Ashes defeat to their pace bowlers' lack of height. In his column for BBC Sports, Langer says the taller English fast bowlers consistently outshone their Australian counterparts...

Liverpool need Aquilani to rescue poor season.
August 27, 2009... ;Sam Wallace It could only be the rollercoaster Liverpool regime of Mr Rafael Benitez (in AFP photo) where the season has not yet reached the end of August and already it feels like time is running out. The brutal truth is that only one team...

Proteas plan prolonged domination.
August 27, 2009... SYDNEY, 26 AUG: South Africa are taking their new tag of world No 1 in Test cricket very seriously. They have vowed to create "an Australian-style dynasty" and to prevent them from recapturing the mantle of the top Test -playing nation....

Ganguly says Saha has to wait because Dhoni fits the bill.
August 27, 2009... ;SNS & PTI KOLKATA, 26 AUG: "Wriddhiman's-been-let-down" may be Bengal cricket's current sob story but Sourav Ganguly says Saha, though "a very good prospect for Team India," has to wait as India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni already fits...