Statesman (India) articles from December 2005, page 7

Statesman (India) archives from December 2005

Travel: Where Earth And SKY Meet.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Sunritabari Sen is enchanted by splendour of the Gumbadara hamlet for its scenic beauty is right out of a fairy tale We woke up from a deep trance as the car detoured the main road towards the rugged,...

Silhouette: Talking Turkey.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Maureen Freely came away from the trial of Orhan Pamuk, wondering if a network of security forces, intelligence operatives and fascist paramilitaries are driving Turkish politics IF I had to guess, Id say...

Spotlight: She Couldnt Imagine.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) John By Cynthia Lennon Hodder & Stoughton, GBP 12.99, Pp 404 This story is all Cynthia, very little John. However, the many splendid photographs will be treasured as valuable memorabilia by ardent Beatles...

Spotlight: A Personal Saga.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) The book is refreshing in its uncompromising honesty and its refusal to milk its dramatic moments for all they are worth A review by Mita Ghose This survivors story tells of a region where nothing has...

Spiceworld: Spiceworld Fusion.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Purabi Dasgupta IF youve been dancing through the night and dont want the party to end, take yourself down on this festive day to Kurry Klub Fusion Restaurant at the 89 Cinema Complex Mall in Salt Lake for...

Strange & Sublime: A lovely pair.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Amiya Banerjee I HAD picked up a pair of bangles from a train compartment. Made of glass, these were crimson in colour and as bright as new. From their size, one could make out that the pair belonged to a...

Space Management: THE SAINT Goes Marching On.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Thanks to a benevolent chief minister and a loyal alumni, St. Xaviers College is set to build a campus to even greater educational success, writes Mathures Paul ANY new plan born at St. Xaviers College,...

Simplespeak: Peace on earth.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Rani Sircars brainchild is sorry to find that the frills of the festive season far outweigh the reason why we celebrate Christmas Dear Cosbro, I hope you have a joyous and blessed Christmas, and that 2006...

Salon: Get It Right.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Threety Irani I HAVE so often seen women tense or depressed because their skin and/or hair do not look right. This often happens because hair/skin care methods are flawed. Most people feel that they ought to...

Technology: Life And LANGUAGE.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Recent work in the evolution of the Indo-European group of languages suggests that their beginnings may lie nearer modern Turkey, rather than a site more to the north, writes S Ananthanarayanan METHODS...

Technology: VANADIUM To The Fore.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) A Jadavpur University team finds that this heavy metal is capable of checking the onset of cancer in vital organs. Biplab Das reports CONSUMING a diet rich in milk, spinach, black pepper and parsley could...

Short Story: A sage, a girl, and a tree.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Inam Hussain Mullick Guarded by the walls of rock, hearing the faint crackle of the fire he made at evening and smelling the Siwaliks in fragments, the sage reclined in his mountain haven. The smell was...

Career: Bang On TARGET.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) A good PR professional could turn the tide in favour of an ailing business organisation through relentless positive projections in the media and even win over the powers that be, writes Ardhendu Chatterjee...

Pranab to meet Mamata.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. Notwithstanding the BJP irritant, the Congress leadership today made it clear that they have not closed all opportunities for an alliance with the Trinamul Congress in...

Green light for Dr Silver.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, Dec. 25. Dr Silver (in the photograph) is now ready to be launched. The Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, the countrys pioneering loco manufacturing unit, has succeeded in...

CPM roots for tribals.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Biswabrata Goswami in Krishnagar Dec. 25. With elections round the corner, the CPI-M ruled Marxist government has started to pull up their best efforts to gain the faith of tribals and to combat the extremist...

Nadia zilla parishad launches its.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Dec. 25. Keeping in mind the recent Right to Information Act, and the need to spread information the Nadia zilla-parishad for the first time in the history of the state has...

Reaching out to the needy.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Kunal Banerjee in Chinsurah Dec. 25. The programme for the integrated development of children covering their health, education and family environment all over the country, known as Integrated Child...

VAT compensation may stay below Rs 5,000 crore.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. The Value Added Tax (VAT) implementation this year could be well below the budgeted Rs 5,000 crore, as most of the states witnessed higher growth in revenues so far....

Handloom sector still languishing.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. Despite 11 development and welfare committees being set up for the handloom sector, it is still languishing. Parliaments Standing Committee on Labour has, in its...

Banks eye IMD redemption.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India MUMBAI, Dec. 25. Various banks are planning to tap the money that NRIs will get from the forthcoming redemption of $7.3 billion India Millennium Deposits through existing and upcoming...

Maxis may acquire 26% of Aircel.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. Malaysian telecom company, Maxis Communicat-ions, is on the look-out for entering Indian market, may clinch a deal with Aircel for picking 26 per cent equity soon but there was no...

Moore Theft Baffles Sleuths.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Jason Benneto in London Dec. 25. It has been eight days since a gang of thieves hoisted a GBP3m Henry Moore bronze sculpture onto a flatbed lorry and made off into night. Since then nothing has been seen of...

EDITORIALS.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Recurring nightmare Lalus evasive tactics more alarming The nightmare on the Pushpak Express on Wednesday night when a handful of dacoits went on a rampage, robbed passengers and raped a woman, was horrifying...

100 Years Ago Today: December 26, 1905 (News Items).
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Suspicious Death. A Hindu woman, far advanced in years, who lived in the Jorabagan section of the town, was found dead on Christmas day in her room, which was locked from inside. The body was removed for...

now & again: Tee time tale.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) By Gowri Mohanakrishnan In all my forty three years, Ive never won a prize at games. And on a beautiful November Sunday, I won at golf (category: Novices and Beginners). It amazed me and it has stunned my...

UNSEEN CORRUPTION.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Absence Of Contempt Or Anger Is More Disturbing By NB GRANT Whenever we talk of corruption, we only envisage big financial deals like those of Harshad Mehta, Rajan Pillay, the kickbacks involved in the...

2 Pak ultras among 4 killed in J&K.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Srinagar, Dec. 25. Four militants, including two top Pakistani commanders of Al-Badr and Lashkar-e-Taiyaba, were killed and four policemen injured in gunbattles in Jammu and Kashmir where an ultra was also...

Naxalites shoot four RPF men.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) HYDERABAD, Dec. 25. Four Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), who were escorting a cash box in a Raigarh (Orissa) bound passenger train, were killed and five...

First month, fair show by Nitish regime.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Patna, Dec. 25. The completion of one month in power of the NDA in Bihar has been described by chief minister Mr Nitish Kumar as a good beginning during which the government had reached a stage of take-off,...

Families wait for bodies in Malda.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA. Dec. 25. Serving as a pointer to the grim reality of the poor in the state and callous work conditions in big cities where they end up in search of employment, 10 construction...

The untold Kandahar story.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. The ill-fated Indian Airlines IC-814, which was hijacked exactly six years ago, was on the verge of crash-landing on three occasions during its forced flight path from Amritsar to Kandahar...

Winters tale of shame and shock.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Curtains came down last Friday on Parliaments winter session that witnessed scenes of shock, shame and terror in good measure and also saw the lawmakers leave for home red-faced over expulsion of eleven of...

Uma threatens alternative.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Chhatarpur (MP), Dec. 25. In the first clear indication of trying to get a new political address, expelled BJP leader Miss Uma Bharati today said a new political alternative would soon come into existence. A...

Its time to think.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. The BJP will mark the beginning of its silver jubilee celebration with a two-day national executive meeting in Mumbai tomorrow. It will be followed by a three-day...

Building on the ruins after tsunami.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) CUDDALORE, Dec. 25. If there is one person who has received all-round kudos for effectiveness in handling the disaster after Tsunami, it is the Cuddalore district Collector, Mr G Gagandeep Singh Bedi. An...

Danapur new home for Lalus pets.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Patna, Dec. 25. With power slipping from the hands of the Lalu-Rabri duo and a notice served to vacate the chief ministers official residence at 1, Anne Marg, hundreds of their pets who were housed in its...

India briefs.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Bhanumathi passes away Chennai, Dec. 25. Veteran South Indian actress Bhanumathi died here around midnight last night. She was 80. She acted in nearly 100 films. PTI (Photo from Internet) Sarat Chandra...

Probe into lathicharge ordered.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Patna, Dec. 25. Bihar chief minister Mr Nitish Kumar today ordered a probe into the lathicharge on agitating temporary teachers yesterday, in which 25 teachers were injured. I feel sorry for the incident. I...

Atal at 81 gets 81 kg laddoo!
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee turned 81 today. He was greeted by a number of party leaders and activists at his residence here, Mr LK Advani and Mr Rajnath Singh being among the early callers....

CTC curb on militant trade unionism.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. The Calcutta Tramways Company has banned slogan shouting and demonstrations inside its office premises in a bid to stop militant trade union activities. Chief...

Road accident.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KURSEONG, Dec. 25. Seven persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a Tata Spacio vehicle, carrying 11 passengers from Darjeeling to Siliguri, rammed into a culvert on NH-55 around 3.30 p.m. today. Mr...

India-Singapore joint air exercise from 3 January.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. After Cope 2005, it is the time for exercise sindex 06 at the Kalaikunda Airbase. This time a joint air exercise will take place between Indian Air Force and...

Pranab to meet Mamata.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. Notwithstanding the BJP irritant, the Congress leadership today made it clear that they have not closed all opportunities for an alliance with the Trinamul Congress in...

Howrah jail inmate dies.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. Bijoy Adhikari, an inmate of Howrah jail, died at the Howrah General Hospital on Sunday evening after a four-day illness. According to jail authorities, Bijoy, who was...

Triple fires.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Dec 25. Three different incidents of fires occurred in the city today. A series of make-shift huts behind a factory on 5 EM Bypass caught fire at 9.18 a.m. However, no one was injured. In another...

For lives devastated by nature.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. A year has passed since the tsunami devastated coastal Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. A lot has been done but a lot more remains to be done for the...

Xmas spirit prevails.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. Kolkatans definitely know how to live the varied hues of Christmas! And so while fruit and plum cakes were disappearing faster from the Nahoums counter at New Market...

Too high...too soon.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Arunima Bera in Kolkata Dec. 25. The human resource policy of providing quick promotions that portray the growth of the ITES industry will have a set back once this industry matures, feel insiders. Compared...

AIR transmission suspended due to fire at station.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) SILIGURI, Dec 25. Transmission of programmes from the All India Radio Siliguri was suspended today for nearly four hours due to a fire at its transmission centre located at Salugara on the outskirt of...

Getting into the act.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DARJEELING, Dec. 25. Tired of waiting for the Darjeeling Municipality to act, locals have got together to repair a pockmarked lane lying adjacent to Chowrasta, the heart of the tourist...

CPI-M flexes muscles to wrest bank board.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, Dec. 25. The CPI-M have captured 14 delegate seats of Ghatal Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank, Midnapore, by forcing the Congress candidates to withdraw...

Xmas boom in Darjeeling.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DARJEELING, Dec. 25. The seasons cheer in the hills has been bolstered by an unusual rush of domestic tourists into the town, most expecting a snowfall. The travellers have filled...

Road mishap injures 7.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KURSEONG, Dec. 25. Seven persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a Tata Spacio vehicle(in the photograph), carrying 11 passengers from Darjeeling to Siliguri, rammed into a culvert on NH-55 near...

Cong barb at CM.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Dec. 25. The Congress yesterday launched a diatribe against chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik describing him as a charlatan masquerading as Good Samaritan. The party charged...

Doctors and staff irked over notice.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, Dec. 25. The doctors and staff of the MKCG Medical College and Hospital of the city are now irked over a notice served to them for deduction of a days salary this month for...

Liquor boom in season of cane doom.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, Dec. 25. Liquor is the saviour for an ailing sugar factory, feel the sugarcane growers association of Ganjam district and the authorities of the Aska cooperative sugar mill,...

Govindacharya opposes Posco project.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Dec. 25. Swadeshi Jagaran Manch leader, Mr KN Govindacharya, called upon the people to oppose the proposed Posco steel plant project, irrespective of party affiliations,...

IFFCO staff in a spot of bother.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, Dec. 25. The livelihood of thousands of people directly and indirectly dependent upon the Indian Farmers Fertilizers Co-operative (IFFCO), Paradip Plant is at stake with...

BJD boost for party.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Dec. 25. Stung by the Puri land-scam and Sahid Nagar sex-racket scandal, the ruling BJD has drawn up plans to boost the morale of party workers by celebrating its 9th...

BJD heat over NIS.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BALASORE, Dec. 25. The MLA of Bhograi and district BJD president Mr Ananta Das, has threatened that his party would not hesitate to stall the Haldia-Paradip gas and crude pipeline...

MP wants pending projects completed.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ANGUL, Dec. 25. Rajya Sabha member Mr Rudra Narayan Pani demanded renovation of four national highways and immediate construction of pending railway projects in the state among other...

Police still clueless about bank dacoits.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, Dec. 25. Police is yet to trace out the dacoits, who looted the Dhunkapada branch of the Rushikulya Gramya Bank near Buguda in Ganjam district on 23 December night. Initial...

Tanishq scheme to counter under-carat gold.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Dec. 25. Tanishq, Indias leading name in branded jewellery, introduced a novel scheme to counter under-carat gold which is rampant in the gold jewellery market. Wedding...

Fishermen worried by low Hilsa catch.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Dec. 25. Hilsa is fast disappearing from the Paradip-Dhamra coast which is evident from the abysmally low catches of the much-sought-after fish, leaving the fishermen in...

Accident unit eludes Angul.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ANGUL, Dec. 25. An accident unit in the Angul Government Hospital remains a far cry despite several demands. The Angul Government Hospital, located in the middle of Sambalpur-Cuttack...

Briefs.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Panchayat office inaugurated PARALAKHEMUNDI, Dec. 25. The new Panchayat Samiti Office of Gosani was inaugurated by the Paralakhemundi MLA Mr Trinath Sahu. The Block chairman Mr Sudhakar Rao presided over...

Fog flights.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI/KOLKATA, Dec. 25. Thousands of travellers were today stranded as flights and train services were badly disrupted by a thick fog that engulfed the Capital reducing visibility to barely 50 metres at...

Sania at AISF meet?
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) TIRUCHIRAPALLI, Dec. 25. Will tennis sensation Sania Mirza participate in the 26th All India Student Federation meet here from January 3 to 6? Handbills and wall writings by the Thanjavur and Tiruchirapalli...

Still a long way to go...
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Radhika Giri in Chennai Dec. 25. On 26 December last year, when tsunami struck the Tamil Nadu coast, the state government was caught unawares. A year on, it is receiving kudos from many quarters. Though...

Maoist test for police.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PURULIA, Dec. 25. Senior police officers feel that Maoists carried out a mock drill yesterday by placing coiled wires along the route of the chief ministers convoy at Para in Purulia...

Joshi says its Rajnath.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. Even as the BJP maintained that no decision had yet been taken on a successor to party chief Mr LK Advani, its senior leader, Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, tonight said...

Comeback men celebrate Christmas in style.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News service MUMBAI, Dec. 25. Wasim Jaffer celebrated his selection for the Pakistan tour in style by cracking a masterly 162 to help Mumbai take the honours against Tamil Nadu on the opening day of...

Tiger roars again as Indians soar.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Pratik Bandyopadhyay in Kolkata Dec. 25. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Tiger Woods proved this once again in 2005. He did not have a stroke play win to his name last year, and could not...

Sania ready for new season.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. Having completed a fruitful training stint with renowned coach Mr Tony Roche, Sania Mirza is ready to return to the courts with renewed vigour. The 19-year-old Indian...

Vishal, Rushmi crowned.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, Dec. 25. Vishaal Uppal continued his love affair with the RK Khanna Stadium Centre Court to defeat top seed Rohan Bopanna in straight sets and win the mens singles title of...

ERSA win convincingly.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Dec. 25. Kanchan Maity took five for 54 as Milan Samity were bundled out for a paltry 152, in reply to Eastern Railway Sporting Associations 367 for seven thereby, losing by a...

Inzy values experience.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India ISLAMABAD, Dec. 25. Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq, beholding Sourav Ganguly as an experienced campaigner against his team, said he was expecting Indian selectors to bring his former...

Security team reaches Pakistan.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press LAHORE, Dec. 25. A five-member Indian security inspection team arrived in Lahore today to look at the venues for next months cricket series against Pakistan. We will talk with the officials...

Rai wins.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Dec. 25. Himmat S Rai won the Godricke East India Amateur golf tournament, which concluded at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club here today. Himmat beat Mehra four and three to crown a fine week of...

India back in lead.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India ISFAHAN (Iran), Dec. 25. India emerged as joint leader along with Vietnam after another 3.5-0.5 triumph over Afghanistan in the sixth round of Asian team chess championship here. Both...

Scoreboard.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Bengal (1st innings) A Das run out (Patel) 64 S Das c Thaker b Trivedi 27 A Jhunjhunwala c Christian b Trivedi 72 R Gavaskar batting 26 M Tiwary batting 2 Extras: (w-1, nb-3) 4 Total: (for 3 wkts in 90 overs)...

Warne frustrated, says Smith.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press MELBOURNE, Dec. 25. South African captain Graeme Smith says Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne tries to take over from his skipper Ricky Ponting when things get tough, and says Warne...

Sedate start by Bengal.
December 26, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India SURAT, Dec. 25. Bengal were 195 for the loss of three wickets against host Gujarat in their first innings when the stumps were drawn on the first day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group B...