Statesman (India) articles from July 2009

Statesman (India) archives from July 2009

Trinamul protests double murder of partymen.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service NUTANGRAM, 30 JULY: The Trinamul Congress will put up a blockade at the police stations across the district and the office of the SP, to protest against the slaughter of its two partymen here, Mr Partha Chatterjee,...

Bypoll seat-sharing impasse continues.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA/SURI, 30 JULY: Even as Mrs Sonia Gandhi and the Trinamul Congress chief Miss Mamata Banerjee held talks last night to find a way out of the stalemate over sharing the Sealdah and Bowbazar Assembly seats where...

Bengal killing fields worry Centre.
July 31, 2009... NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: Taking cognizance of the recent spurt of political violence in West Bengal and complaints from the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress, the Union home minister, Mr P Chidambaram, today said many places in the state had...

One dies in firing, 12 hurt.
July 31, 2009... KOLKATA, 30 JULY: A Trinamul Congress supporter was killed and 12 others, including three policemen, were injured at Saksar village, Bhangar in South 24-Parganas, after police allegedly opened fire during a clash between the supporters of the...

Tribal uprising a result of state neglect.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY: A comprehensive development scheme for tribals taken up by the Centre in 2005-06 was not implemented due to sheer callousness and the ingrained lethargic work culture of the state government. Had...

Another CPM leader killed.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, 30 JULY: Another CPI-M leader was killed by Maoists in West Midnapore district last night. The incident occurred when a 15-member gang of armed men raided the house of CPI-Ms Amlasuli local committee member,...

Second isolation ward for Swine Flu.
July 31, 2009... ;Sulagna Sengupta KOLKATA, 30 JULY: With the increase in the number of patients suffering from Swine Flu, the state health department has decided to start an isolation ward at North Bengal Medical College. This will help to tackle the...

Rajarhat plunges into the dark.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY: Hidco is being unable to provide electricity to the Rajarhat-New Town project areas due to a drive against land acquisition taken up by Trinamul Congress supporters, said Mr Gautam Deb, state minister...

Teacher recruit to be hit.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY: The state school education minister, Mr Partha De, today said the recruitment procedure of teachers in schools might take a hit once the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2008 is...

Smart ID cards for coastal residents.
July 31, 2009... ;Biswabrata Goswami TAMLUK, 30 JULY: Residents of five gram panchayats in Ramnagar-I and Ramnagar-II blocks in Midnapore East district are going to be the first among the states coastal areas to have biometric identity cards. These unique...

Cops on Maoist mission.
July 31, 2009... ;Nani Gopal Pal BAGMUNDI, 30 JULY: To control the Maoist menace and flush them out from Bandwan, Bagmundi, Baharampur and Arsha, joint forces have started a fresh operation in Purulia district last week. They include the state armed police,...

Kharagpur to see more industrial growth.
July 31, 2009... ;Shyam Sundar Roy MIDNAPORE, 30 JULY: The industrial environment in Kharagpur will undergo a further change when the Rashmi Group of Industries ambitious 2-million-tonne integrated steel plant along with a ferro alloy plant go into full...

Briefs.
July 31, 2009... Dengue death BOLPUR,30 JULY: A 38-year-old woman SibaniGuindied of dengue two days ago. The authorities of Bolpurcivic body have sought the help of district health department to check the spread of the disease. According to reports,...

Land deal for rich & poor.
July 31, 2009... ;Anindita Chowdhury KOLKATA, 30 JULY: The state governments proposal to provide secure land tenure to the urban poor aims to kill two birds with one stone. Apart from winning over the urban poor before the civic polls in the city, it will...

KMC takes up car park issue.
July 31, 2009... KOLKATA,30 JULY: The KolkataMunicipal Corporation (KMC)has written to the registrar of co-operative societies asking him to furnish details of the various fee car parking societies that have duped KMCof over Rs1 crore. Mr FaiyazAhmedKhan,...

State readies for token phase out.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY: The state government is all geared up for at least a token crackdown on 15-year-old vehicles and polluting autorickshaws from 1 August, according to a Calcutta High Court directive. Three teams of...

ECB by India Inc rises four fold.
July 31, 2009... ; Press Trust of India MUMBAI, 30 JULY: Indicating some recovery in the global scenario, overseas borrowings by India Inc have increased phenomenally by nearly four fold to $1.9 billion in June. The total overseas loans raised by 48...

Rs 16,000 cr to be raised through IPO.
July 31, 2009... NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: Taking a cue from the upsurge in the stock market, companies in infrastructure, textiles and other sectors are planning to raise over Rs 16,000 crore through initial public offers in the remaining months of this financial...

Airlines lose Rs 2,44,484 lakh in 07-08.
July 31, 2009... NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: The government today said leading airlines in the country had suffered losses over Rs 2,44,483.7 lakh during the 2007-08 fiscal. The leading airlines registered losses of Rs 24,448.37 million last year, civil aviation...

IT outsourcing to speed up.
July 31, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: A majority of Indian companies expect an increase in their IT outsourcing investment over the next two years as they are looking at reducing operational costs and improving business performance, a...

SC refuses early hearing of Ambani dispute.
July 31, 2009... ; Our Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: The Supreme Court today refused a plea for an early hearing in the Ambani brothers gas dispute case that has been already scheduled for 1 September. A Bench headed by Chief Justice KG...

Security audit must for BSNL: Govt.
July 31, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: The government today said it had asked state-owned telecom firm BSNL to conduct security audit of its network amid security concerns raised over equipment supplied by Chinese vendor Huawei,...

Infosys campus jobs next year.
July 31, 2009... ; Press Trust of India HYDERABAD, 30 JULY: IT major Infosys Technologies Limited is planning to go for campus recruitment across the country from the next year. Infosys Technologies Limited CEO and managing director Mr S Gopalakrishnan...

Food prices continue to soar.
July 31, 2009... ; Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: The annual inflation rate slipped to minus 1.54 per cent for the week ending 18 July even as prices of essential food items such as cereals, pulses, fruit and vegetables continued to soar, burning...

Biz Briefs.
July 31, 2009... Fake CAs NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: As many as 94 cases of unqualified persons pretending as chartered accountants using fake registration numbers have come to the notice of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Parliament was informed...

SBI Q1 net profit up 42 per cent.
July 31, 2009... ; SNS & PTI MUMBAI/KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: Backed by a healthy growth in treasury, wholesale and retail banking operations, India's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI) clocked a 42 per cent jump in its net profit for the quarter...

NHPC draws up capex of.
July 31, 2009... ; Press Trust of India MUMBAI, 30 JULY: State-run power company, NHPC, has drawn up a capex of Rs 14,000 crore and plans to raise up to Rs 6,039 crore through an initial public offer (IPO), a top company official said.We are raising around Rs...

Anil questions RILs investments.
July 31, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: Questioning clearance by junior oil ministry officials to the near four-fold hike in costs to Rs 45,000 crore for gas fields by Mr Mukesh Ambani-led RIL, Mr Anil Ambani today demanded a probe into...

US Legislation Bans Texting, Emailing While Driving.
July 31, 2009... WASHINGTON, 30 JULY: A legislation that would ban texting and e-mailing while driving has been introduced in the US Senate, a move welcomed by the countrys leading cellular operator in view of the recent increase in accidents because of it....

edits.
July 31, 2009... No, Prime Minister You cant shake off Sharm-el-Sheikh SPECIFIC, limited, was the matter under focus. Not so the explanation. For all the orchestrated thumping of Treasury-bench desks the Prime Minister has failed to convince that the...

special article.
July 31, 2009... Politics and Morality Parliamentary Poll Cant End The Tenure Of A State Government ;Nirmalendu Bikash Rakshit CERTAIN sections have pitched for Presidents rule in West Bengal in the aftermath of the Left Fronts debacle in the Lok Sabha...

Poor show of NREGA projects irks Governor.
July 31, 2009... RANCHI, 30 JULY: Dismal performance in implementation of projects sanctioned under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in Jharkhand has prompted the new Governor K Sankaranarayanan to come down heavily on the states bureaucrats...

Slum politics rules over sub judice case.
July 31, 2009... ;Nandu R Kulkarni MUMBAI, 30 JULY: The unfulfilled poll promise of 2004 to Mumbais one million families living in unauthorized slums that their huts would be legalised ~ with an added assurance of all associated civic amenities ~ through an...

Sex slur: Omar slams Sayeed.
July 31, 2009... ;Press Trust of India Srinagar, 30 JULY: Hitting back at the PDP, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mr Omar Abdullah today accused its leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of shutting his eyes to the sex scandal when it first surfaced in 2006 as his...

Now, you too can predict weather.
July 31, 2009... ;Ranjeet S Jamwal NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: If you wish local weather was a bit predictable, heres your answer. Thanks to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), within six months you can subscribe to a service for getting weather alerts through...

Scam in rice export: Opp.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: The governments decision to allow a few select rice exporting companies to export non-Basmati rice to African countries in alleged violation of its guidelines that put a ban on such exports rocked...

SC go-ahead to Commonwealth Games village.
July 31, 2009... NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: The Supreme Court today gave the go-ahead to the construction of the 2010 Commonwealth Games village on the Yamuna river bank and also set aside the Delhi High Court judgment, which had directed an experts committee to look...

Navy chief upset over CAG report on Gorshkov.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 30 JULY: Apparently upset over the critical observations of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) over the exorbitant price paid for the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, the naval chief,...

Tusker kills 1, disrupts Raavan shooting.
July 31, 2009... ;Indo-asian news Service Thiruvananthapuram, 30 JULY: The shooting of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai starrer Raavan, disrupted when an elephant ran amok in the jungle where it is being shot, will resume tomorrow, cinematographer Santosh...

Socialist George does a U-turn.
July 31, 2009... ;Manoj Chaurasia Patna, 30 JULY: In a compete turnaround which has shocked many of his socialist friends, veteran JD-U member ~ Mr George Fernandes ~ who has not particularly been seeing eye-to-eye with the party leadership lately, today...

Film-TV rivalry reflected in LS.
July 31, 2009... New Delhi, 30 July: The traditional rivalry between films and television got reflected in the Lok Sabha today with a leading Bengali film star and the Trinamul Congress member demanding establishment of a Censor Board purely for TV channels. ...

Drops in an ocean of ideas.
July 31, 2009... ;Swapan Mullick Tagores music can be categorised in several ways and embellished with narrations, poems and dances. But all permutations and combinations boil down to the quality of the performances. Admittedly, there are many who are trying...

Briefs.
July 31, 2009... Theft KOLKATA, 30 JULY: A 38-year-old man, Moinur Gazi was arrested this evening for snatching a gold ornament from a pedestrian near Dorina crossing. Police said, Moinur snatched the ornament from Mrs Chobi Dhala, a resident of Jadavpur,...

KMC takes up car park issue.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA,30 JULY : The KolkataMunicipal Corporation (KMC)has written to the registrar of co-operative societies asking him to furnish details of various car parking societies that have duped the KMCof over Rs1 crore. ...

Govt readies for token phase out.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY: The state government is all geared up for at least a token crackdown on 15-year-old vehicles and polluting autorickshaws from 1 August, in accordance with a Calcutta High Court directive. Three...

Cops on anti-maoist mission in Purulia.
July 31, 2009... BAGMUNDI, 30 JULY: To control the Maoist menace and flush them out from Bandwan, Bagmundi, Baharampur and Arsha, joint forces started a fresh operation in Purulia district last week. The joint force, which included state armed police, central...

CAG slams anomalies in PDS.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY : The Comptroller and Audit General of India (CAG) has pulled up the state food and supplies department for reported anomalies in the Public Distribution System (PDS). The CAG pointed out that owing...

Burglars arrested in city.
July 31, 2009... KOLKATA, 30 JULY: Two persons were arrested from the city in connection with two separate burglaries. Babu Gayen (25) was arrested from Salt Lake today on charges of stealing laptops from residential apartments while one Bholanath Jana (42)...

Smart ID cards for coastal residents.
July 31, 2009... ;Biswabrata Goswami TAMLUK, 30 JULY: Residents of five gram panchayats in Ramnagar-I and Ramnagar-II blocks in Midnapore East district are going to be the first among those living in the coastal areas to have biometric identity cards. ...

State wary of Education Bill.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY: The state school education minister, Mr Partha De, today said the recruitment procedure of teachers in schools might take a hit once the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2008 is...

Second isolation ward for Swine Flu.
July 31, 2009... ;Sulagna Sengupta KOLKATA, 30 JULY: With the increase in the number of patients suffering from Swine Flu, the state health department has decided to start an isolation ward at North Bengal Medical College. This will help to tackle the...

Heartthrob with a heart.
July 31, 2009... He might be Tollywoods latest hit-machine but Dev considers North Bengal his second motherland and derives a lot of pleasure from guiding newcomers though the paces, writes Parag Biswas NOTHING succeeds like success. Or perhaps one could say,...

A rare experience.
July 31, 2009... Swaati Chaudhury recounts her memories of The Land of Salvation WITH the unforgiving summer sucking all of us dry this year, we were planning to head for some offbeat destination in the trans-Himalayan region of Nepal that would not only...

Of apathy & deception.
July 31, 2009... Will farmers in North Bengal ever again be enticed by such slogans as vote deben kishe, kaste dhaner sishe, asks Santanu Basu THE Communist parties the world over, and particularly in our state, had raised a slogan once demanding the...

COOCH BEHAR CALLING.
July 31, 2009... Green initiative Additional district magistrate (development) Pannalal Mahapatra addresses at a health awareness and health check-up camp in Cooch Behar while the chief medical officer of health Dr Radha Raman Banik tries to take pictures the...

Specimen 1997-1.
July 31, 2009... It provides the oldest skeletal evidence of leprosy, writes Rajil Menon A MUSEUM in Pune has a collection of thousands of bones and skeletons excavated in India. Among these is a 4,000-year-old skeleton of a man believed to have been 37 years...

Jaswants presence still iffy on 11 Aug.
July 31, 2009... SILIGURI, 30 JULY: The member of Parliament from Darjeeling, Mr Jaswant Singhs presence att the crucial tripartite talks slated for 11 August in New Delhi has not yet been confirmed. We have not yet contacted him over the matter. Maybe, we would...

Locals demand arrest of sub-inspector, block road.
July 31, 2009... Kurseong, 30 JULY: Demanding a change of the investigation agency as well as immediate arrest of the sub-inspector of Kurseong police station, hundreds of Naya Bajar- Kurseong locals staged a road blockade at Kurseong Motor Stand. The blockade...

ABAVP torches CPM leaders house.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 30 JULY: The Akhil Bhartiya Adivasi Vikash Parishad (ABAVP) and CPI-M activists of Jaigaon have allegedly ransacked and torched a CPI-M member's house last night at Jaigaon. A police car was also damaged....

In memory of the Rajmata.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 30 JULY: Academicians associated with the North Bengal University remembered Maharani Gaytri Devi's silent, yet crucial role in the process of the Cooch Behar state's accession into the Union of India at the...

NFS popularity increases amongst cultivators.
July 31, 2009... JALPAIGURI, 30 JULY: The National Food Security Mission scheme, a Central Government project, is gaining popularity among the paddy cultivators of district. Informing this, the agriculture development officer of Jalpaiguri Sadar, Mr Nabendu...

Mass RSP exodus to Trinamul.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 30 JULY: The RSP Opposition leaders of Kalchini Panchayat Samiti Mrs Maloti Buxla, along with three other Kalchini Panchayat Samiti members of the RSP, and 400 other RSP members today joined the Trinamul...

Newborns in peril.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service RAIGANJ , 30 JULY: The lack of a well-equipped labour room at Raiganj District Hospital means it is unable to care for the health of newborn babies satisfactorily. In a narrow space in the maternity ward, two labour...

NREGS implementation wins praises.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service GANGTOK, 30 JULY: An independent evaluation study conducted by the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong (IIM-S), has rated the implementation of the NREGS in Sikkim as impressive in comparison to other parts of...

Locals blame EBM for garbage problem.
July 31, 2009... MALDA, 30 JULY: The CPI-M led Opposition councillors of the English Bazaar Municipality (EBM) and the LF supporters today staged an agitation in front of the EBM, demanding the clearance of garbage dumped across Malda town that is now raising a...

Confusion mounts over real Intuc president.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 30 JULY: The general members of the Intuc are apparently unaware of who the district president of the Malda Intuc is. Trouble broke out on 27 July when the working president of the Malda Intuc, Mr Kazi Najrul...

NBGF refutes minister's allegation.
July 31, 2009... SILIGURI, 30 JULY: Refuting CPI-M leader and state urban development minister, Mr Ashok Bhattacharya's allegation that the North Bengal Guardian's Forum was becoming a political platform for the Opposition parties, the forum president, Mr...

FB demands corrected BPL list.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 30 JULY: Hundreds of members of Agragami Kishan Sabha, a peasants wing of the Forward Bloc, today staged a demonstration in front of the Malda district magistrate office demanding the immediate revision and...

Teachers on a service check.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, 30 JULY: The shikshamitras (teachers) of the path kendras (study centres) of the Rabindra Mukta Vidyalaya are going to launch a massive movement in Cooch Behar district from August. They fear that they may...

Cooch Behar in mourning.
July 31, 2009... COOCH BEHAR, 30 JULY: Cooch Behar town wore a deserted look today following the demise of the Rajkanya of Cooch Behar, Gayatri Devi, yesterday in Jaipur. The state government declared holiday in its offices in Cooch Behar today as a mark of...

Social stereotyping a peril for women.
July 31, 2009... ;Bappaditya Paul SILIGURI, 30 JULY: Sometime recently, the United States consulate in Kolkata was to hire an office staff. Of the numerous applicants who expressed interest, two candidates ~ a woman and a man, were short-listed for the job....

Second isolation ward for Swine Flu.
July 31, 2009... ;Sulagna Sengupta KOLKATA, 30 JULY: With the increase in the number of patients suffering from Swine Flu, the state health department has decided to start an isolation ward at North Bengal Medical College. This will help to tackle the...

Briefs.
July 31, 2009... Protesting Lalgarh SILIGURI, 30 JULY: The CPI-ML (Liberation) held a sit-in-demonstration near the Siliguri Head Post office today, demanding suspension of the joint police operation at Lalgarh and also opposing the exorbitant price hike of...

Maoist link cant be ruled out in cops murder case.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 30 JULY: Chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik said that no posters, flags or literature was found at the site where two policemen ~ Murali Bastia and Baribandhu Mohanta ~ were killed in Keonjhar district...

No starvation deaths since 2000, says govt.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 30 JULY: The state government has claimed that not a single starvation death has taken place in the state since 2000. However, 404 starvation death cases have been alleged during this period, said state...

Vedanta University Bill passed.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 30 JULY: The much delayed Vedanta University Bill was passed in the Assembly today despite several objections raised by the Opposition on a wide range of issues relating to ecology, drainage, mineral...

Thousands of liquor bottles looted.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JAJPUR, 30 JULY: On 29 July hundreds of wage earners had a free swig or two of vodka and whisky from brands which they could never normally afford. In the process, scores of wage earners, including women folk, got...

Governor for more first aid training.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 30 JULY: The governor, Mr MC Bhandare, has urged the authorities concerned to ensure first aid training to all those engaged at grass-root levels like Asha, anganwadi workers, gaon sathis, police personnel...

Mining scam wakes up dist officials.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service TALCHER, 30 JULY: The mining scam which rocked the state recently seems to have had a salutary effect on district-level officials, police, vigilance and transporters. Suddenly, seizures, raids and arrests have started...

Skeletons of mother, daughter found.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, 30 JULY: Police recovered the skeleton of two persons, presumably a mother-daughter duo, from the ground floor of a rented house at Naranpur village under Naugaon police station. The owner of the...

Concern over plight of children during disasters.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BALASORE, 30 JULY: In a bid to raise the awareness of various stake-holders to the plight of children during natural calamities, well-known NGO Peoples Cultural Centre (Pecuc) organised a district-level consultation...

CIFA trains youths from North East.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 30 JULY: Educated unemployed youths, including six women and 11 men from four northeastern states of Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland took part in a three-day aqua-culture training...

Mofpi starts food processing task forces.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 30 JULY: In order to give a boost to the food processing industry and agriculture in the country, the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries (Mofpi) has set up state-level task forces in 12 different...

Gangster Suleiman shot dead by aides.
July 31, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, 30 JULY: In a daring broad-day light shoot-out, notorious gangster Malik Suleiman was shot dead today allegedly by his key accomplices near Badapalagada junction on the Paradip-Daitary Expressway. The...