Statesman (India) articles from February 2007

Statesman (India) archives from February 2007

SAIL factory gutted.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, Feb. 27: A sudden fire wreaked havoc in the Continuous Casting Shop of the SAILs Alloy Steels Plant here leading to absolute halt in production at a time when the plant has...

Indian pact with Bangla airlines.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb 27 : Indian has entered into a code sharing agreement with the Bangladesh based airline, GMG Airlines and will now send its passengers between Kolkata and Dhaka on the flights of this airline from...

Cong plans stir over Samanta.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The Congress is planning a statewide movement after Madhyamik examination demanding that police should not be trigger-happy and subservient to policies of the ruling...

Scores not easy to prop sans the additional.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The introduction of a seven-point grade system in Madhyamik examination, 2009, will also diminish the importance of the additional subject since the marks secured in that paper will no longer...

PHE caught on the wrong foot.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, Feb 27: The public health engineering department here has allegedly been caught on the wrong foot in a matter related to the buying of mild steel pipes worth about Rs 30 lakh....

SFI defeated at Presidency election.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The pro-industrialisation campaign run by Students Federation of India (SFI ) during the run-up to the Presidency College election at the undergraduate and...

Dalhousie square to don new look soon.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The erstwhile commercial capital of the British empire, Dalhousie Square presently renamed BBD Bag is about to undergo a regeneration drive. This long awaited...

Month-long march against child trafficking.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Feb. 27: To make people aware of the plight of the children being trafficked in and how the problem is gnawing at the society, hundreds of children who had been rescued from...

Lapierre gives back to his muse.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: French litterateur and social activist Dominique Lapierre today said that NGOs funded by him will undertake construction of 15 schools for children coming from poor...

Studied silence rules Nandigram.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Haldia, Feb. 27: The tension at Nandigram over the land acquisition issue for the proposed SEZs seems to slowly fade away, due to the promise of the Opposition and ruling party to...

Kolaghat farmers cheated of compensation.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, Feb. 27: Kolaghat block development office in Midnapore East is perhaps the only of its ilk in the state ~ if not in the country - where a government file takes two and a...

Briefs.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Thieves Two persons were arrested by the city polices detective department from Dalhousie on Tuesday afternoon on charges of stealing telephone cables from various places in central Kolkata in the past two...

India Inc greets Survey.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: Indian industry today welcomed the Economic Surveys focus on inflation. As the by-poll results in two states today reflected the trouble brought about by a spiralling...

Power sector should emulate railways.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: The pre-Budget Economic Survey 2006-2007 tabled in the Lok Sabha today advised the struggling power sector in the country to learn lessons from the successful financial turnaround of...

Telecom sector shines.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: While hailing the impressive growth in the telecom sector, the Economy Survey today warned government against an expensive compromise of fiscal rectitude in trying to make auto and cooking...

Job scenario grim.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: The Economic Survey for 2006-2007 says unemployment is growing in the country, despite a faster growth rate of employment. In the organised sector, there are fewer jobs available as the...

Poor funds hit farm sector.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: The annual economic survey has pinpointed inadequate investments, incentives and post-harvest value addition as being the contributing factors for the lacklusture farm sector growth and...

Right policies needed for SEZs.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: Many of the apprehensions surrounding Special Economic Zones (SEZs) could be addressed through appropriate policies and safeguards, the Economic Survey 2006-07 has suggested. Appropriate...

ICRIER to study retail sector.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: Under pressure from the Prime Ministers Office, the commerce ministry today said it had commissioned a study on the impact of foreign direct investment and big corporates in retail sector....

Bright on top:.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Fulbright alumni have been conquering the world with their brilliance for the last six decades. At a symposium held in American Center, Fulbrighters shared their experiences and threw light on securing a...

Paapri Chat: Valentine express.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Abhiroop Lahiri I spent Valentines Day this year in a gloomy Sleeper-Class coach of the Howrah-Mumbai mail sleeping, reading for a hopeless Corporate Law viva in college, and hoping desperately that the train...

Varsity with vision:.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Global standards in education and excellent infrastructure is making students from not only across India but all over the world scramble for seats at VIT University Its the aim of any university to provide...

Edits.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Not so funny Lalu must take the Cabinet on a train Every day in India, scores of millions of ordinary people use trains. They have no systematic method of conveying their grievances and negative experiences...

Special Article.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Incredible India ~ no governance! Can Congress And BJP Reinvent Themselves? Rajinder Puri Last fortnight this column commented on the future of the BJP. The comment brought many letters in my personal mail....

Poles Come Under Scientists' Gaze.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Steve Connor LONDON, Feb. 27: Thousands of scientists from 63 countries are joining forces to make a detailed study of the Earth's polar regions, where climate change is having a dramatic impact on ice...

BJP wrests Punjab, Badal to be CM.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CHANDIGARH, Feb. 28: Akali Dal chief Mr Parkash Singh Badal looks set to become the chief minister for the fourth time. He termed his partys win as a victory of democracy. The SAD-BJP...

Kerala minister apologises before HC.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Feb. 27: Local self-government minister Mr Paloli Muhammadkutty who previously said that he did not make any defamatory statements against the judiciary and that his...

Higher study statistics spread cheer.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: The country is doing quite well in higher education, says the Economic Survey tabled in Parliament today. The annual student enrolment in higher education has risen...

Fake rebels worry J&K police.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Kavita Suri JAMMU, Feb 27: For long did the unemployed Kashmiri trio of Ashiq Hussain Chopan, Mohammed Iqbal Ganie and Muzaffer Ahmed Sheikh, residents of Dangerpora, Sopore, take money - and much else - off...

Quattrocchi: Is CBI taking it easy?
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: Notwithstanding Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singhs assurance that the rule of law will prevail in the Quattrocchi case, the four-page statement tabled by the...

Briefs.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Budget regret HYDERABAD,Feb. 27: Andhra Pradeshs deep disappointment with the railway Budget found a strong mention in the Assembly today with the House passing a unanimous resolution expressing its concern...

Quotas to invade lives of priests apprentices.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CHENNAI, Feb. 27: The reservation policy which is raising a lot of heat elsewhere is all set to make inroads into admission to priesthood training in Tamil Nadu. The government today...

Manipur, the saving grace.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) IMPHAL, 27 Feb: After seeming to concede to two waves, one in the hills that of the UNC-sponsored candidates and another in the valley that of the new resurgent MPP, Congress (I) today made a dramatic...

Cong cedes Uttarakhand.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DEHRA DUN, Feb. 27: The issues of unemployment and price hike made the people of Uttarakhand issue a clear mandate against the Congress government today even as BJP emerges as the...

Killing of TN fishermen: PM asked to intervene.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Radhika Giri CHENNAI, Feb. 27: With the coastal region in Tamil Nadu turning tense following a spurt in the deaths of fishermen from Tamil Nadu shot at sea by the Sri Lankan Navy, chief minister Mr M...

SFI defeated in college poll.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The pro-industrialisation campaign run by Students Federation of India (SFI ) during the run-up to the Presidency College election at the undergraduate and...

BBD Bag to don a new look.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: BBD Bag, previously called Dalhousie Square, is about to get a face-lift. The long-awaited project is likely to be financed by US-based World Monument Fund and some...

Scores not easy to prop sans additional.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The introduction of a seven-point grade system in Madhyamik examination, 2009, will diminish the importance of the additional subject since the marks secured in that...

Heart attack claims examinee.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 27: A Madhyamik examinee, Jyoti Shaw (16), today died of a heart attack while she was on her way to appear for the home science exam at Liluah Sweta Girls High School. A resident of Sankrail...

Car park will have green cover.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The public works department has assured that a green cover would be created atop the proposed underground car park at BBD Bag opposite Writers Buildings to ensure that it integrates with the...

Lapierre gives back to his muse.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: French litterateur and social activist Dominique Lapierre today said that NGOs funded by him will undertake construction of fifteen schools for children coming from...

No loos for city centre.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 27: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is not in a position to construct more pay-and-use toilets in busy areas of the city including BBD Bag owing to want of roadside space. According to KMC...

Hardware scam in PHE.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, Feb 27: Mild steel pipes, required for rectifying a water supply network controlled by Durgapurs civic body, were supplied by an agency before the order to do so was issued....

Month-long march against child trafficking.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Feb. 27: To make people aware of the plight of the children being trafficked in and how the problem is gnawing at the society, hundreds of children who had been rescued from...

Spurious liquor kills six in Balurghat.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, Feb. 27: Six persons have died and at least nine fallen ill after consuming spurious foreign liquor at a registered bar in Balurghat. According to police, after consuming...

Three hurt in building collapse.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Feb. 27: Three labourers were injured when the slab of an under-construction parking lot-cum-marketing complex collapsed on Bidhan Road here around 12:30 pm today. The...

Corruption slur on SMC official.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) SILIGURI, Feb. 27: The Trinamul Congress-led Opposition of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation has alleged misappropriation of labour wages by an official of the borough number V of the civic body. The leader...

Jute park likely soon.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 27: State cottage and small-scale industry minister Mr Manabendra Mukherjee who met several entrepreneurs, members of business community and government officials here...

Employees.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) DHENKANAL, Feb. 27: Four employees of Orissa Forest Development Corporation went missing near Kanakadahada block today triggering speculations that they had been abducted by Maoists. There were reports that...

Thrust on jobs in industrial policy.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 27: Bolstered by its success in attracting investments in the mineral and IT sectors, the Orissa government, in its new industrial policy 2007, focused on employment...

Five nabbed in bank.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHADRAK, Feb. 27: The police claimed to have made a breakthrough in the daring looting case of 23 February by arresting five persons from Balasore today. Six miscreants looted Rs 23...

Survey work for Posco plant starts.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, Feb. 27: For the first time in over one-and-a-half years, a determined effort to take up topography survey work for the proposed Posco India steel plant project has begun...

One shot.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) PURI, Feb. 27: Jaladhar Prusty, reported to be a Congress supporter, was shot dead, while Manas Patra was injured when miscreants opened fire on them today. The incident, which took place near Delang area, is...

Barbil bandh.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KEONJHAR, Feb. 27: Barbil and its neighbouring areas witnessed a total bandh without any untoward today in protest against the attack on Champua Congress MLA Mr Dhanurjay Sidhu yesterday. Chief minister...

Gajapati on latex route.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Paralakhemundi, Feb. 27: The Rubber Board of Paralakhemundi (under the ministry of commerce) has planned to take up rubber plantation in a big way in Gajapati. On the instructions of the...

No voter turns up at repoll booth.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service TALCHER, Feb. 27: Not a single voter from Jhariamba village turned up to vote during re-poll today despite the presence of at least 300 armed policemen and senior district officers. In...

Jajpur schools seek headmasters.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAJPUR, Feb. 27: The All Orissa Government School Teachers Associations Jajpur district unit has demanded the immediate appointment of trained teachers to the posts of headmasters on...

Predicting the Budget speech.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Subroto Roy KOLKATA, Feb. 27: Budget Speeches by finance ministers have in recent years taken on a certain predictable pattern. The first two-third or more of the speech goes on feel-good rhetoric, often...

Cong pays the price.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: The Congress today virtually conceded that price rise had been one of the reasons behind the partys debacle in the Assembly polls in Punjab and Uttarakhand but felt...

Column One.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Bhusan for another plant KOLKATA, Feb. 27: Bhusan Steel today offered to set up a second steel plant in West Bengal exclusively for supplying material to the Tata small car factory, industry minister Mr...

LS winners.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Amristsar/Dehradun, Feb. 27: Cricketer-turned-politician Mr Navjot Singh Sidhu today won by-elections to the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, from which he resigned after his conviction in a road rage case, even as...

NSCI: National Shame Club of India?
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Nandu R Kulkarni MUMBAI, Feb. 27: The sprawling lawns of the National Sports Club of India could be the envy of any sporting body in the world for just its location, adjacent to Mahalaxmi Racecourse and...

Stir topper.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: West Bengal topped chart of states with the number of strikes and lockouts till September 2006, according to the Economic Survey. It was followed by Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. n SNS

Healthy growth, but price spiral is a concern: Economic Survey.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: Taking a cue from the spiralling inflation rates in the face of a healthy economic growth rate of 9.2 per cent in the current fiscal, the Economic Survey 2006-07...

Beyond the obvious.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 22: Notwithstanding Dr Singhs assurance that the rule of law will prevail, a four-page statement tabled in Parliament today, listing in detail how diligently the CBI had been acting since...

Nothing hush-hush about Q: PM.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today rejected charges that his government had tried to shield Bofors scam accused Ottavio Quattrocchi. He said his government was...

NBW issued.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Feb. 27: A city court today issued an open non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi in response to a CBI application seeking initiation of legal proceedings to extradite...

100 YEARS AGO TODAY.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) (News Item) THE MUHARRAM IN CALCUTTA Weird Scene In The Streets Frenzied Processionists The Muharram, the great Mahomedan religious festival was celebrated last week. The Muharram in Calcutta was formerly as...

Diplomacy in a fractured world.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Even if it were possible to eliminate Islamic jihadism, some new dangerous ideology would arise to threaten peace and our most cherished ideals of freedom and equality. There would never be a time when we...

In the name of a CBI probe.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Like the Bofors sleaze and many other politically explosive crimes, the CBI investigation in the Purulia armsdrop case has undermined the credibility of the countrys premier investigative agency, raising more...

Time to deliver, says Greg.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) PTI & IANS MUMBAI, Feb. 27: Coach Mr Greg Chappell today said India have the experience and flexibility to win the World Cup and it is time now for the team to deliver and fulfil the expectations of the...

Tiviakov shares lead.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 27: Top seed Grandmaster Serjei Tiviakov of the Netherlands defeated International Master GN Gopal from India to share the top position after the end of the third round of the Kolkata Open Grand...

SCOREBOARD.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Central Zone F Fazal b Singh 10 M Mishra lbw Nehra 5 M Kaif c Dharmani b Sharma 19 S Khanolkar run out 57 S Abbas Ali b Sharma 6 P Chawla lbw Sharma 1 JP Yadav c Dhawan b Sharma 0 R Jhalani st Dharmani b...

Razzaq out of World Cup.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Feb. 27: Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq has fractured his knee and will miss the World Cup, deepening the teams injury problems ahead of the tournament. Razzaq suffered injury on...

Corporate world back with Dada.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 27: Only months back, almost nobody expected Sourav Ganguly to make the fairy-tale comeback to big-time cricket as he did, least of all the corporates. But now, corporate India is in a rat race...

Dey makes EBs day.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Feb. 27: East Bengal snatched a victory from archrivals Mohun Bagan 1-0 in a match which was perhaps the most eagerly-awaited one in the 11th National Football league at the...

Bengal dominate.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Feb. 27: Bengal have built up a handsome lead over neighbours Bangladesh at the end of the penultimate day of the first ever Indo-Bangladesh Bangla Games here today. Bengal have bagged 38 gold...

Hiddink convicted of tax evasion.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press DEN BOSCH (The Netherlands), Feb. 27: Former the Netherlands coach Mr Guus Hiddink was convicted of tax evasion Tuesday, fined $60,000 and given a six-month suspended prison sentence but he...

Easy win for North Zone.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India AHMEDABAD, Feb. 27: Riding on an unbeaten 95 by Gautam Gambhir, North Zone today coasted home to a seven-wicket win over Central Zone in the third match of the Deodhar trophy at Sardar...

Path breakers.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Youngsters can tread a different path. The first Entrepreneurship Week, initiated by the National Entrepreneurship Network, a non-profit initiative working to inspire, educate and support new and future...

Hamas vowed to end attacks on Israel: Russia.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press MOSCOW, Feb. 27: The supreme leader of Hamas has promised that the militant group will end missile attacks and other violence against Israel, Russian foreign minister Mr Sergey Lavrov said...

Fashion hits and misses at the Oscars.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Susannah Frankel LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27: Penelope Cruz. The ultimate princess dress for the ultimate princess. There is something strangely satisfying about the darkly romantic Cruz appearing in a gown which is...

Koreas take up talks after Norths plan to disarm.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press SEOUL, Feb. 27: North and South Korea resumed high-level meetings today for the first time since the North tested a nuclear bomb in October, paving the way for a resumption of aid to...

Car bomb kills 18 kids.
February 28, 2007... (From The Statesman (India)) US spy chief admits civil war in Iraq BAGHDAD, Feb. 27: Bombers slaughtered 18 Iraqi children playing football today as a relentless bombing spree snuffed out dozens more lives and a US spy chief acknowledged...