Statesman (India) articles from January 2006

Statesman (India) archives from January 2006

Passenger quarantined at NSC Bose airport.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30. An Togo national and an air passenger, Mr Kougbenya Kossi Sena (34), was quarantined at NSC Bose airport by doctors of the airport health office last night because the...

ISI agent held from Howrah.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan 30. A Pakistani national, allegedly engaged in spying for the ISI, was arrested from Howrah today. Police claimed to have recovered documents on defence secrets and maps...

Biswas slams Mamata over Muslim quota.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30 The CPI-M today accused Miss Mamata Banerjee of playing the communal card in West Bengal and provoking Muslims against the ruling Left Front. What was she doing all...

High Court Bar Association takes on Chief Justice.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent KOLKATA, Jan. 30. The Calcutta High Court Bar Association decided at a meeting today that its members would abstain from attending the court of the Chief Justice, Mr VS Sirpurkar,...

Reservation not on NDA agenda.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan 30. Within hours of Trinamul Congress supremo Miss Mamata Banerjee claiming that her West Bengal Democratic Front would seriously consider providing reservation in jobs and...

Murder at dawn.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BURDWAN, Jan. 30. The murder of a Youth Congress block president sparked tension in Patuli area of Purbasthali police station today. The man was shot from point blank range and then...

A club to comfort the poor.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KULTOLI, (South 24-Parganas), Jan. 30. The friend in need is friend indeed. This is for the first time, a local club, Baikhuntapur Tarun Sangha, has come forward to help the poor and...

Fair against pollution in Sunderbans.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JOYNAGAR (South 24-Parganas), Jan. 30. It was a fair with difference. It was not meant for entertainment, but for spreading awareness among people to stop pollution in Sunderbans and...

Deforestation up along border.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BONGAON (North 24-Parganas), Jan. 30. Whereas the state government has been making laws to stop deforestation, wood smugglers have been cutting a large number of trees flanking Jessore...

New credit card from Peerless.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Kolkata, Jan. 30. Peerless General Finance and Investment Company Limited today announced two new tie-ups one with ICICI Bank and the other with National Insurance and launched...

Markets down amid volatility.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, Jan. 30. After initial promising start to this weeks trading the Sensitive Index of the Stock Exchange, Mumbai this afternoon came tantalizingly close to 10,000 mark as it surged past 9,900 mark...

Holcim buys 14.8% in Gujarat Ambuja.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & PTI NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. Swiss cement major Holcim today struck a Rs 2,100-crore deal with Gujarat Ambuja for acquiring 20 crore equity shares constituting 14.8 per cent of the total equity at a price...

Suspension of work at Keshoram Rayon.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CHINSURAH, Jan. 30. Even as discussion with the trade unions were in midway, the management of Keshoram Rayon Industries at Kuntighat in Hooghly slapped a notice of suspension of work...

PC sends clear message to world business leaders in WEF meet: India cant be ignored.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India DAVOS, Jan. 30. The curtains may have come down on the World Economic Forums annual meeting, but Indias message to high-profile business leaders at the meet is still reverberating loud...

Infrastructure growth falls.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. The index of six core infrastructure industries showed a lower growth chart in December as well as the first three quarters of the current fiscal. The growth rate...

100 years ago today.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The Saraswati Puja. The Hindu community in Calcutta celebrated the Saraswati Puja on Monday and Tuesday with the customary ceremonies. The days were observed as public holidays, and the Indian Museum and...

Global Warming Advancing At An Unsustainable Rate: Blair.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) LONDON, Jan. 30. The threat posed by climate change may be greater than previously thought, and global warming is advancing at an unsustainable rate, Prime Minister Mr Tony Blair said in a report published...

Spurious wrath.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) As state secretary, Anil Biswas must sustain the morale of his cadre against all kinds of opposition. The challenge now comes from an unexpected quarter the Election Commission which had despatched 19...

Braving the cold.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The initial reports tickled the imagination, the much awaited follow-up drew genuine guffaws. An Indian elephant that belonged to a circus troupe camped near Moscow went on the rampage no, it was not mast...

Towards a knowledge-based economy.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sir, The editorial, President speaks (January 21), has rightly endorsed the Presidents appeal for a knowledge-based economy that alone can reduce the gap between town and country by 2020 and also his...

DIPLOMATIC WISDOM.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Indian diplomacy has, almost accidentally, shown some wisdom. The King of Saudi Arabia should have been long ago invited to be Chief Guest on Republic Day. His Majesty immediately reciprocated with the most...

History texts worry experts.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SANTINIKETAN, Jan. 30. On the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian History Congress discussed steps taken by the Tamil Nadu government to remove a reference on his...

INDIA BRIEFS.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) IAF proposal NAGPUR, Jan. 30. The Indian Air Force requires 126 new aircraft and a request for a proposal would be sent to the defence ministry within a week, chief of air staff Mr SP Tyagi said today. Mr...

BJP projects Kalyan as CM.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) DADRI, Jan. 30. The BJP today declared partys old warhorse Mr Kalyan Singh as its chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh for the assembly elections due next year. Mr Kalyan Singh has been the best...

Chauhan means business.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Santosh Singh in Bhopal Jan. 30. The Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Mr Shivraj Singh Chauhan, largely seen as an inexperienced administrator, now seems set to disabuse people of that notion. The recent...

RSS veteran wants Cong-BJP alliance.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NAGPUR, Jan. 30. Veteran RSS ideologue Mr MG Vaidya has advocated a Congress-BJP alliance in the larger interests of the nation. In his weekly column Bhashya in Marathi daily Tarun...

No headway in Naga truce talks.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India BANGKOK, Jan. 30. Government and rebel Naga leaders today failed to reach an agreement on extension of the eight-year-old cease-fire in Nagaland but agreed to hold informal consultations...

India shares Unesco pat with China, Pak.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. India, Pakistan and China are among the 30 countries which have ratified Unesco Conven-tion for Safeguarding of Intan-gible Heritage. This would pave the way for...

Rly can do well without fare hike: Lalu.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30. Accusing the NDA government of neglecting the railways, Mr Lalu Prasad, railway minister, today claimed the situation had stabilised under UPA rule. He again...

SC asks home ministry to trace Assam MPs antecedents.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. The Supreme Court today asked the Union home ministry to ascertain facts about Congress MP from Tezpur in Assam Mr MK Subba, who has been accused of illegally acquiring Indian citizenship...

W Asia could hit us: Pranab.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. India today called for an early de-escalation of tension in the volatile West Asia region. New Delhi said it was deeply concerned about the vicious cycle of violence and counter-violence...

Pak-trained terrorist held.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, Jan. 30. Two persons, including a Pakistan-trained bomb-maker, were arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai Police today with a cache of arms and some high-grade explosives, police said....

More portfolios announced.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. Mr Jairam Ramesh, a key member of Congress economic think-tank who was inducted as a minister of state in the Union council of ministers yesterday, was tonight given...

From fawning over Uma to worshipping footwear, fan does it all.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHOPAL, Jan. 30. In the Ramayana, Bharat had gone to Panchwati to procure Lord Ramas charan paduka (footwear). Mr Sanjay Parashar of Sagar went to Ayodhya a fortnight ago to procure his...

PLT face Satya Bandopadhyay passes away.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30. Satya Bandopadhyay, an eminent theatre personality and a life-member of Peoples Little Theatre, passed away at his south Kolkata residence this morning. He was 72....

Poll pushes Taratolla open.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30. The state government seems to be in a hurry to complete and inaugurate many of its unfinished projects before the announcement of Assembly election dates. The...

What will the bridge bring, bottlenecks or sighs of relief?
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30. After being repeatedly featured as a road to avoid during traffic updates on radio, the Diamond Harbour stretch might regain some of its happy commuters with the...

Taxing times.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30. In a bid to recover property tax dues from both commercial and domestic establishments, Kolkata Municipal Corporation has begun sending notices of demands to the...

Missing three-yr-old found at Sonarpur.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Jan 30. A three-year-old girl, Mamata Sarkar alias Trisa, who had gone missing on 25 January, was found at Sonarpur railway station in South 24 Parganas around 8. 30 p.m. today, police said. Mamata,...

Metro card not so smart?
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Arshad Ali in Kolkata Jan. 27. The introduction of Smart Cards for Metro Rail travel has evoked mixed reactions across the city. While the demand for Smart Cards at some Metro stations is high, authorities at...

Teenager accuses beau of rape.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Jan. 30. A 17-year-old girl has lodged a complaint of rape against her lover, claiming he seduced her with the promise of marriage. The teenager also filed a charge of breach of trust against...

Erotica attracts more than its share.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Lilly Peel in Kolkata Jan. 30. A saucy stall which has been raising eyebrows and blood pressure over the last week,has proved to be one of Kolkata Book Fairs most popular attractions. It is not Spains...

Go to the Book Fair to see Red.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Kajari Bhattacharya in Kolkata Jan. 30. Say the word Maoist in the presence of a policeman and he will prick up his ears, especially as the Naxalite threat looms large in several districts of West Bengal. But...

Chitpur joins Howrah, Sealdah league.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan. 30. Chitpur railway terminal, inaugurated today by Union railway minister Mr Lalu Prasad, will be called Kolkata Passenger Terminal. It is the third in the city after the...

BSF nails politicians lies.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sudipta Chanda in Siliguri Jan. 30. Though this would sound very embarrassing to the ruling Left Front government, but top Border Security Force officers today admitted that political parties often help...

Writers march gets a boost.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Jan. 30. The Cooch Behar district committee of the West Bengal Social Welfare Officers Association (WBSWOA) extended its support to the Joint Councils proposed march to...

Broadband services launched in Darjeeling.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) DARJEELING, Jan. 30. Ending nearly a year-long wailt of Internet users in the hills, the BSNL today launched its broadband services in the town. A few connections were given out today. For the first phase,...

Parties agree to follow EC guidelines.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) RAIGANJ, Jan. 30. The North Dinajpur district administration today organised a meeting with representatives of all political parties who are contesting for the forthcoming Assembly election, at Karnajora in...

Women in Sikkim lack AIDS awareness.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, Jan. 30. The summary findings of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), for Sikkim have revealed the lack of awareness about AIDS among the Sikkimese women with only 54 per...

Womens wing of GRC launched.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) DARJEELING, Jan. 30. Expanding its base, the Gorkha Rashtriya Congres (GRC), which has been campaigning for Darjeeling-Sikkim merger issue, has launched its womens wing for Kurseong subdivision. Saying that...

CPI-ML bandh in N Bengal today.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Jan. 30. The CPI-ML has called a bandh in North Bengal tomorrow. The CPI-ML (Liberation) has supported the bandh, which has been convened to protest against the alleged apathy...

Girl dies after fall from highrise, cops clueless.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Jan. 30. A 18-year-old girl apparently committed suicide by jumping from a multi- storeyed commercial building on Hill Cart Road, in the heart of the city today around 7.30...

Itahar road blocked for power connectivity.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, Jan. 30. Members of Krishi O Krishi Sramik Sahayak Pally Samity, an organisation fighting for the peasants, organised a roadblock on NH-34 at Itahar in North Dinajpur district...

Indian exports hit hard at Mahadipur.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MAHADIPUR (BOP), Jan. 30. Indian export to Bangladesh from Mahadipur land customs station has been badly hampered owing to the ongoing agitation in Bangladesh on the issue of rural...

Photography controversy at border panel meeting.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MAHADIPUR (Malda), Jan. 30. A day-long sector commander level border coordination meet was held at Mahadipur border outpost in Malda on Monday. While Indian photographers were...

Minister opens cold storage owners meet.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) COOCH BEHAR, Jan. 30. State agriculture minister Mr Kamal Guha inaugurated the first annual general meeting of the North Bengal regional committee of the West Bengal Cold Storage Association at Rabindra...

Kolkata Notebook.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Never to lose an opportunity for introspection, the Bengali bhadralok found the 150th anniversary of Calcutta University an opportune occasion to indulge in this favourite pastime. Time was when it was a...

Postscript.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) On Southern Avenue the other day, a dog was left to fend for itself. the owner had surreptitiously left him for good. The trusting creature looked here and there. It stopped in the middle of the busy...

Family ties.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The Kolkata Book Fair every year brings forth a lot of firsts from young writers both in Bengali and English. This year Kolkatas own Rajorshi Chakrabortis first novel Or the Day Seizes You has arrived quietly...

Media meet.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) WOMEN journalists of all possible hue from different corners of India and other South-Asian countries, united in their commitment to bringing news and unprejudiced views to the people who read them, would be...

Krishna stories.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) One of the most popular figures in the epic means many things to many people. When Shuvaprasanna started depicting Krishna on his canvases a few years ago, many felt that this was just another of his...

Women winners.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) When the Dayawati Modi Stree Shakti Samman was instituted in 1998 in memory of the woman who dared to dream, Rekha Mody, who had taken it upon herself to look around for women achievers across the country, had...

Martyrs Day observed.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Jan. 30. People of the state today paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and other martyrs who have laid down their lives for the country by observing on the Martyrs Day. Chief...

EPF subscribers without pension.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ASKA, 30. Jan. Around 330 Employees Provident Fund (EPF) subscribers out of 1,200, have not received their pension since September 2005. After that period no pension has been paid to...

Workshop on utilisation of flyash held.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, Jan. 30. The 3rd Annual Workshop on Flyash and its utilisation as a part of the annual convention of the ISTE-Orissa section was inaugurated by the director of Regional...

SKCG College union function.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) PARALAKHEMUNDI, Jan. 30. The inaugural function of the SKCG College union was held today at the SKCG College auditorium. The chief guest of the function was Mr Arun Kumar Sahu, the Nayagarh MLA and the BJD...

Cases of rioting down in southern police range.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BERHAMPUR, Jan. 30. Police may not have succeeded in keeping down the rape and murder cases but it claims to have succeeded in reducing cases of rioting and political clashes. As per the crime statistics of...

Annex Cup 2006 inaugurated.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman NewsService JAGATSINGHPUR, Jan. 30. The cricket tournament for 4th Annex Cup-2006 was inaugurated by the superintendent of police, Mr YK Jethwa, on the SVM College play ground here today. About...

MCI recognition for paediatric institute.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) CUTTACK, Jan. 30. The more than a decade old uncertainty over the future of students of the Sardar Vallavbhai Patel Post Graduate Institute of Paediatrics has finally been cleared with the Medical Council of...

World Bank to lend $150m in 2nd phase of fiscal reforms.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Jan. 30. The World Bank is likely to provide loan to the tune of $ 150 million to the state government in the second phase to carry forward the ongoing fiscal and...

Rural forest workers threaten agitation if demands are not met.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Jan. 30. Rural Forest Workers have threatened to launch agitation if their demands are not fulfilled within a month. Talking to reporters, the president of Orissa State...

Orissa invites investment in food processing.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Jan. 30. The Orissa government today invited potential investors from both inside and outside the country to invest in food processing sector of the state in a big way....

Tribals to continue road blockade.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAJPUR, Jan. 30. Contrary to all expectations, tribals of Kalinga Nagar decided to continue with their 28-day-old road blockade instead of lifting it and also flagged off a rath...

Gajapati selected for job scheme.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, Jan. 30. Gajapati district is one of the few districts in the country to have been included in the National Rural Assured Employment Act-2005 which is a golden...

Jerom Turuk is Mr Koraput.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KORAPUT, Jan. 30. Jerom Turuk of Koraput was declared Mr Koraput for the year 2005-2006 by the Body Builders Association of Koraput. This was for the third time that the event was...

Life term for two.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman NewsService JAGATSINGHPUR, Jan. 30. The additional district and session judge of Jagatsinghpur, Mr Arun Kumar Mishra, sentenced two persons to life imprisonment on murder charges today. The...

NTPC aims to turn global.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Jan. 30. The public sector National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has a vision to become an Integrated Global Power Major and expand its capacity of power generation to...

Unit for first-aid formed.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) RAYAGADA, Jan. 30. For the first time in Rayagada, a unit called St. John Ambulance has been formed to give first-aid to the patients under the chairmanship of district magistrate Dr Promad Kumar Meherda and...

Tata Sponge bags excellence award.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KEONJHAR, Jan. 30. In a global economy, it becomes an implicit, yet eminent responsibility of any progressive organisation to facilitate, demonstrate and promote corporate social...

Airport bids to be opened today.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS and Agencies NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. The financial bids submitted by private consortia for modernising Delhi and Mumbai airports will be opened tomorrow, the deadline for awarding the contracts. In another...

Left seeks Mulford recall.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. The US Ambassador to India, Mr David Mulford, has landed himself in the centre of a raging political storm here even as the issue of New Delhis stand over Irans...

Holcim deal.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. Union health minister Dr A Ramadoss today claimed that leprosy has been eliminated from the country. SNS

ODI telecast.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Jan. 30. The five ODIs to be played between India and Pakistan will be shown on Doordarshan. PTI

Priyamvada idols coins for Diwali worship only.
January 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Jan. 30. The five gold coins and the two gold idols given by Priyamvada Birla to Mrs KK Birla for puja purposes would be wor- shipped where the latter had done so provided she was willing, Mr...