Statesman (India) articles from February 2006, page 7

Statesman (India) archives from February 2006

Charles legal bid to protect confidentiality backfires.
February 24, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Terry Kirby in London Feb. 23. An astonishing insight into the Prince of Waless view of the world, including both criticism and praise for Tony Blair, politically-charged complaints as well as his attachment...

52 die in Moscow roof collapse.
February 24, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Andrew Osborn in Moscow Feb. 23. President Vladimir Putin has called for a painstaking investigation after the concrete and metal roof of a busy Moscow market collapsed, killing at least 52 people and...

Shutterbugs fined Euro 1 for Diana snaps.
February 24, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) John Lichfield in Paris Feb. 23. A French court today ordered three photographers to pay one Euro damages for taking pictures of Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales, on the night of their fatal...

Ultras use sophisticated weapons.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Anjan Chakraborty in Kolkata Feb. 22. Extremist outfits are increasingly using more lethal improvised explosive devices to substantially increase its impact. This has now forced law enforcement agencies to...

Security boost for Madhyamik.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 22. Strict security arrangements have been made for this years Madhyamik examination that begins on 24 February and continues till 6 March. A team of the state board of secondary education...

Police stations spruce up records.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Amrita Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata Feb. 22. Nudged by the Election Commission, police stations across the state have begun updating records of criminals in their areas. At most police stations, registers in...

IIT status for Besu and JU likely.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 22. Bengal Engineering and Science University and Jadavpur University could soon be given IIT status. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has invited...

HC dismisses Kunal Saha petition.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent KOLKATA, Feb. 22 Mr Justice Jayanta Kumar Biswas of Calcutta High Court today dismissed the writ petition of Dr Kunal Saha challenging the decision of the West Bengal Medical Council...

Accused on govt payrolls.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Shyam Sundar Roy in Midnapore Feb. 22. Is Tapan Ghosh really missing? The same Ghosh is a firebrand member of the Midnapore West district CPI-M committee and one of the 12 accused in the 2001 Chhoto Angaria...

Voters list swells to 4.89 crore.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 22. In all, names of 4.89 crore people feature in the voters list in the state as on today, according to the electoral rolls published during the day. The number of...

Left Fronts doublespeak on women.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Biswajit Roy in Kolkata Feb. 22. The Left parties stance is for giving 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament and Assemblies. Ironically, when it comes to fielding women candidates for the Assembly...

Child dies, relatives go on the rampage.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SURI, Feb. 22. The death of a child spread tension in the Suri Sadar hospital this morning. Relatives of the child, gheraoed the hospital superintendent for sometime and later...

Power surplus in Bengal: Central Electricity Authority.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Soma Mookherjee in Kolkata Feb. 22. The Central Electricity Authority, a policy making body of the Power ministry today suggested that West Bengal go in for long-term power purchase agreements with power...

HCL gets Maran as saviour.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. The department of telecom has come as a saviour for Hindustan Cables Limited (HCL), a sick PSU under the department of heavy industries, by agreeing to lobby on its behalf with Bharat...

CBI raids 21 places.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS and PTI NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. In countrywide raids today, the Central Bureau of Investigation conducted searches at 27 places in Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad in connection with the IPO scam in...

FM torn between selloff & revival.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Mukesh Ranjan in New Delhi Feb. 22. With the minister of heavy industry and public enterprises, Mr Santosh Mohan Dev, demanding more than Rs 1,400 crore for the revival of sick PSUs under his ministry, it...

CCEA clears livestock insurance scheme.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the launch of a new centrally sponsored scheme for livestock insurance. Since only a small part of the...

Current account deficit at 2.9%: EAC.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. Indias current account deficit (CAD) for 2005-06 is projected to be at 2.9 per cent of the GDP, the Prime Ministers Economic Advisory Council (EAC) said in a...

Garment parks on the anvil.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 22. West Bengal Small Industries Development Corporation (WBSIDC) was contemplating to set up garment parks in the city here to tap the huge potential in the the clothing sector after...

GoAir acquires 20 Airbus 320.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, Feb. 22. Wadia family-promoted budget carrier, GoAir, today said it has placed an order worth $1.2 billion with Toulouse-based Airbus Industrie to buy 20 Airbus 320 aircraft as part of the airlines...

100 years ago TODAY: FEBRUARY 23, 1906 : News Items.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Arrest Of A Notorious Dacoit. The Bengal Police have arrested one Ragho Nath Purkait, the ringleader of a gang of dacoits of Diamond Harbour. The accused, who was undergoing trial before the subdivisional...

Fossil Find Could Change History Of Mammals.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BEIJING, Feb. 22. A new fossil find of a mammal that lived 120 million years ago with upright forelegs as that of a dog and stretched out hind legs like a lizards could upturn accepted history of mammalian...

Parting punch.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) A rejected ministers chutzpah Having missed the bus owing to his indifferent performance as minister, Mr Kanti Biswas has delivered a parting punch at the system of school education. Mondays amendment to the...

Criminal injustice.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The Capitals curse clout That it was far from unexpected in no way lessens the revulsion. Technically, justice may have been done to those accused of involvement in the killing of Jessica Lal, a young model...

WAR OR PEACE-I.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) An American Attack On Iran Will End The Post-1945 System Of Nation-States By SUBROTO ROY The relevance of the Iran-USA conflict to Indias energy, nuclear and strategic future is obvious, yet it appears ill...

Not unexpected.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sangma still king of his castle Former Lok Sabha Speaker and Nationalist Congress Party candidate PA Sangmas victory in the by-election from the Tura constituency was a foregone conclusion, the only major...

Bangladesh still an ultra hub.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 21. Notwithstanding the repeated demands from India for dismantling terror infrastructure in Bangladesh, it still remains a major hub for the ultras with as many as 172 insurgent camps...

Hussain on Hindu Boards hitlist.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) LUCKNOW/INDORE, Feb. 22. The Hindu Personal Law Board announced a Rs 51 crore reward for eliminating painter MF Hussain and others today and a leader of Madhya Pradesh Congress units minority cell offered Rs...

School eyes twin record.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CHENNAI, Feb. 22. If it takes two to tango, then the school at Sivakasi is having a ball. With 59 twins in its campus, the 110-year-old Sivakasi Hindu Nadar Victoria Higher Secondary...

India Briefs.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Pooja reprieve MUMBAI, Feb. 22. A sess-ions court today quashed on technical grounds a criminal complaint filed against actress Pooja Bhatt alleging obscenity depicted by her through posters of the film Rog....

India, China plan tie boosters.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BEIJING, Feb. 22. Both Indian and Chinese militaries have decided to take more confidence building measures, including more sporting events along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) so as to keep border areas...

BJP nepotism: Land sells for Re 1 in MP.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Santosh Singh in Bhopal Feb. 22. What can be bought for a single rupee? The best of lands! Well, that was the token amount the BJP and its sister organisations have paid to bag some of the best pieces of...

PoK refugees upset at being left out of talks.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAMMU, Feb. 22 Two days ahead of the Prime Ministers round table conference with the Kashmiri separatists in New Delhi, refugees from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir today lambasted the...

Opp trains guns on Sonia.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. The recent de-freezing of the UK bank accounts of the Bofors scam accused, Ottavio Quattrocchi, today rocked the Lok Sabha with the BJP-led Opposition putting the...

Tiger census a smokescreen?
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Yudhajit Shankar Das in New Delhi Feb. 22. Even as wildlife officials and Wildlife Institute of India battle over the much hyped tiger census according to the IUCN methodology, The Statesman has learnt that...

PM says no to Mulford recall.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. In a friendly, diplomatic gesture, seen as Indias determination not to vitiate the atmosphere ahead of the visit of the US Pres-ident George W Bush, the Prime...

Ayurvedic medicine put on leash.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. Ayurvedic drug manufacturers across the country would have to give a detailed account of the ingredients used in their respective product brands from 1 July 2006,...

Dust free.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Dust free Vacuum cleaners have become a necessity. Here are a few tips to keep in mind. 1) The bigger your home, the more you need to spend on a vacuum cleaner. In other words, buy a powerful model. ...

Accounts panel sniffs a CU plot.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 22. The Public Accounts Committee of the state Assembly is not happy with the way Calcutta University disregarded a condition laid down by a donor who gifted a plot of...

Kolkata Briefs.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Demonstration A demonstration led by Congress supporters in protest against the murder of a local Congress leader, Bhuto Sardar (28), at Canning railway station in Eastern Railways, Sealdah-South section,...

KMDA told to clear project backlog.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 22. The Union urban development ministry has asked the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to finish 12 important projects that it had taken up nearly a...

March date for RPG mall at Park Circus.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 22. RPG has decided to set up a shopping mall of international standards at Park Circus, in collaboration with Godrej Properties Ltd. This was announced by Mr Sanjiv Goenka, vice-chairman of...

So munch for mayor.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 22. The chief minister says it is not his favourite dish; the health minister and animal resources minister strongly recommend it, though. However divided they might be...

Less wait for US visas?
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 22. The US Consul-General in Kolkata, Mr V Henry Jardine, today said that there was a possibility that applicants may have to wait a little less for US visas what with 55...

Undertrial flees.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb 22. Shanto Sarkar (22), accused of raping a woman and lodged at Bongaon prison in North 24-Parganas, escaped from a local hospital this afternoon. He was admitted to the medical facility when he...

Clinics cant do without it.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 22. While the spectre of bird flu continues to hover over Kolkata, most city-based nursing homes are continuing to serve chicken. But if chicken is considered to be one of the major diets for...

Cong wants to avenge insult.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) DARJEELING, Feb. 22. Stung by the slight during the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the Balason Drinking Water Project here last Sunday, the Congress has announced a public meeting on 1 March avowedly...

Sikkim Budget tabled.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, Feb. 22. The Sikkim chief minister, Mr Pawan Kumar Chamling, who is also the finance minister, today placed in the Assembly a Rs 63.63 crore deficit budget of the state for...

Govt lends a ear to panchayat demand.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, Feb. 22. After a long wait, the state government has finally included four mouzas of South Dinajpurs Saiyedpur gram panchyat (GP) area Kurmanpur, Bhabanipur and Bejpukur,...

Five per cent name deletion in Darjeeling.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) DARJEELING, Feb. 22. The electoral rolls published today for the district shows the deletion of names at 5.28 per cent, even as the constituency of Kurseong showed a negative growth of 0.41 per cent. In...

KMDA rapped for inaction.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 22. The Union urban development ministry has asked Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to complete 12 important projects begun nearly a decade ago. This, at...

Women make presence felt.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman news Service COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 22. The annual (2004-2005) gram sabha meeting of Chakchaka Gram Panchayat of Cooch Behar Block II was held at the Chakchaka checkpost grounds yesterday. The presence...

Service charge protest.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 22. Cooch Behar District Merchants Chamber of Commerce (CDMCC) demanded revision of service charge imposed by the State Bank of India on transactions on or over Rs...

Poultry sale dips by 40% in N Bengal.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Feb. 22. The panic over bird flu has hit the North Bengal poultry industry hard with the sale dipping down by nearly 40 per cent in the last four days. What has hit the...

Govt colony hideout for miscreants.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NAWARANGPUR, Feb. 22. Indira Awas Colony, situated at Janaki Nagar one km away from the office of the district collector here was constructed during 1997-98 at the behest of the then...

Orissa a rice surplus state.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 22. For the first time, Orissa has become self-sufficient in the procurement of rice and plans to supply the surplus to other states, the money received from which...

Status quo.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAJPUR, Feb. 22. Efforts to resolve the nearly two-month-long crisis at Kalinga Nagar by way of negotiating with the agitating tribals to lift the road blockade once again failed today....

Talcher College put in B-Plus category.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) ANGUL, Feb. 22. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council has awarded B-Plus grade (institutional score between 75 and 80 per cent) to the Talcher College for a period of five years. The decision to...

Cong leader shot dead, tension in Keonjhar.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KEONJHAR, Feb. 22. Barbil and Joda areas of the district were tense following the murder of a Congress leader and former municipal councilor, Lambodara Nayak, near the OMC guest house...

Governor favours ayurvedic cure.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 22. Governor, Mr Rameswar Thakur today stressed the need for conducting research in ayurveda to cure contemporary diseases. Inaugurating a symposium on Ayurveda in the...

CPI stages demonstration against price hike.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 22. The CPI today staged a demonstration in front of the sub-collectors office here protesting against the rise in the prices of essential commodities and the move to reduce the quantity of...

Peon gets one-year jail term for forgery in Balasore.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BALASORE, Feb. 22. A peon of SM Girls High School at Kupari in Balasore, Radhagovinda Sahu, was sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 1,000 under Section...

Preparations on for Shivaratri at Mahendragiri.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) PARALAKHEMUNDI, Feb. 22. Elaborate arrangements have been made for Shivaratri on 26 February, a festival that attracts thousands of devotees to the famous Mahendragiri Hills. The district administration,...

Retrenched workers threaten fast.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ANGUL, Feb. 22. Twenty-two retrenched health workers have threatened go on a fast till death if the state government fails to reinstate them by 10 March. The ultimatum was announced by...

Orissa warned of impending power crisis.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 22. The OSEB Shramika Mahasangha today warned the state government that it was heading towards a serious power crisis and the rural electrification programme could not...

CBI raids houses of FCI officials.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 22. The officers of Central Bureau of Investigation today conducted raids on the residents of several officials of Food Corporation of India, according to reliable sources. Details are not...

Fresh survey in Kendrapara before eviction of encroachers.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Feb. 22. The revenue department has directed the Kendrapara district authorities to conduct a fresh survey and streamline the drive to clear all unauthorised occupation of...

Fishing for progress...
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 22. Members of women self-help groups will visit Bangladesh to acquire first hand knowledge and training on advanced aquaculture technologies. The chief minister Mr...

Oustees want employment in ordnance factory.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 22. The families displaced for the ordnance factory at Saintala in Bolangir district today demanded jobs in the ordnance factory. The demand was put forth before the chief minister, Naveen...

Central nod for Paharia battalion.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Dipankar Bose in Ranchi Feb. 22. Its history revisited. What could not turn into reality way back in 1779, is already in the process of taking a final shape, thanks to Jharkhands chief minister Mr Arjun Munda...

Humans affected? Could be, says govt.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. The Centre today said there was a distinct possibility of some humans having contracted avian influenza in affected areas at a time when authorities finished culling...

Column 1.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Ben Kingsley preaches peace on Aman Setu Islamabad, Feb. 22. Indian soldiers manning the newly repaired Aman Setu had a surprise in store when the familiar figure of Mahatma Gandhi walked towards them from...

US shocker for India.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 22. A week before he arrives in Delhi, the US President, Mr George W Bush said today in Washington that India had to take the tough decision of separating its civilian...

In quest of common sense.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) ASHOKE SEN explains why he cant figure out Aparna Sens new film 15, Park Avenue Being one who watches films primarily to be entertained, I went to see Aparna Sens much hyped 15, Park Avenue with some...

The pimp debate.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) One of the biggest names in retail fashion and founder of The Body Shop, Anita Roddick, has attacked the whore chic trend in music and fashion, criticising stars such as Britney Spears and Beyonce Knowles...

Fitness worries for England.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) VADODARA, Feb. 22. England were grappling with fitness problems ahead of their practice game against Board Presidents XI beginning here tomorrow, with the climate and conditions getting the better of as many...

A draw at last.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) LAHORE, Feb. 22. After three defeats on the trot, India managed to break the embarrassing sequence by holding Pakistan to a 1-1 draw in the first Test of the second leg of the hockey series at the National...

Judgment day for Sourav.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) PTI & SNS VADODARA, Feb. 22. Sourav Ganguly will go through an anxious night as the national selectors meet here tomorrow to pick the Indian squad for the first cricket Test against England, starting in...

Japan slam half a dozen.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India YOKOHAMA, Feb. 22. Defending champions Japan taught India a lesson, handing out a 6-0 drubbing to the visitors in the first qualifying match of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup here today. Leading...

Fifa VP faces sanction.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MUMBAI, Feb. 22. Fifa vice-president Mr Jack Austin Warner could face suspension or sanctions after the world football body found him in breach of its Code of Ethics, because of his...

Shia-Sunni clashes after shrine bombed.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press SAMARRA (Iraq), Feb. 22. Assailants dressed as police detonated a pair of bombs today inside one of Iraqs most famous Shiite shrines, severely damaging its golden dome, sending protesters...

Israelis sue Iran head for Holocaust denial.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) JERUSALEM, Feb. 22. Hitting back at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a group of Israelis have filed a criminal lawsuit in a German court charging him with denial of Holocaust, incitement to hatred and...

Shotgun wedding for British couple.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) LONDON, Feb. 22. Here comes the bride flanked by a mob of machine gun-toting cops after rumours that the teenagers father would shoot his daughter if she got hitched, British newspapers reported today....

Pak offers China use of port.
February 23, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India BEIJING, Feb. 22. Pakistan is keen to act as a transit point for China by giving access to the strategic Gwadar port on the Arabian sea to tap the Central Asian markets and vast energy...