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Bihar leader surrenders after mercilessly beating youth.
July 27, 2010... Indo-Asian News Service PATNA, 27 JULY: After absconding for more than 24 hours, Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United leader Mr Shambhu Saran Rai surrendered to the police today, a day after he severely thrashed a youth for allegedly attempting to...

CBI files appeal in Dinakaran newspaper office attack case.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaMADURAI, 27 JULY: After a delay of 118 days, the CBI has filed an appeal before the Madras High Court Bench here against a lower court verdict acquitting 17 persons, including a DSP, in the 2007 Dinakaran newspaper office...

Central team says land acquisition for Posco illegal.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India PARADIP/BHUBANESWAR, 27 JULY: The Orissa government today began land acquisition for the proposed Rs 51,000 crore Posco steel project in Jagathsinghpur district, even as a Central team termed the process as illegal saying...

56 per cent polling recorded in Telangana till 3.00 p.m.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaHYDERABAD, 27 JULY: About 56 per cent polling was reported till 3.00 p.m. in the by-elections to 12 Assembly constituencies in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh. Highest polling of 64 per cent per cent was recorded in...

Jnaneshwari train accident suspect surrenders.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaJHARGRAM (West Bengal), 27 JULY: An alleged Maoist, Jiten Giri, suspected to be involved in the 28 May Jnaneshwari train disaster which left 148 passengers dead, has surrendered at the Jhargram court in West Midnapore...

Medical student held for mowing down four labourers.
July 27, 2010... Indo-Asian News ServiceNEW DELHI, 27 JULY: A 25-year-old medical student who allegedly mowed down four men in south Delhi early yesterday was arrested from Delhi airport while trying to leave the country, police said today.Shahid Khan, who is...

SY Quraishi is new Chief Election Commissioner.
July 27, 2010... Indo-Asian News ServiceNEW DELHI, 27 JULY: Mr Shahbuddin Yaqoob Quraishi was today appointed by President Pratibha Patil as the new Chief Election Commissioner, officials said.Mr Quraishi, who is currently working as one of the two election...

Swanky remodelled Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium inaugurated.
July 27, 2010... Indo-Asian News Service NEW DELHI, 27 JULY: The remodelled, 60,000 capacity Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium ~ showpiece venue for October's Commonwealth Games was finally inaugurated today after several missed deadlines. The swanky venue, originally...

BRIEFS.
July 27, 2010... Body foundKOLKATA, 26 JULY: The body of an unidentified youth aged around 30 was found beside the Kalyani Express Way at Dangadighila near Khardah in North 24 Parganas this morning. His throat was slit and several injury marks were also found on...

KMC launches universal health policy.
July 27, 2010... ;Statesman News ServiceKOLKATA, 26 JULY: Simplifying property tax and providing civic amenities without imposing any service charge on the citizens will be the topmost priority of the new civic board at Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the...

19-yr-old shot dead.
July 27, 2010... ;Statesman News ServiceKOLKATA, 26 JULY: A 19-year-old youth was shot dead inside a storehouse at Raja Bazaar this morning. Police said, the victim, Sadab Akhtar Hussain, a resident of Narkeldanga, used to stay in the storeroom that was recently...

Kumartuli rehabilitation woes continue.
July 27, 2010... KOLKATA, 26 JULY: The agitation by a section of residents of Kumartuli against the rehabilitation project has turned into a squabble between the hut owners and the tenants in the area. The rehabilitation project for the Kumartuli artisans hit a...

Teacher apologises for corporal punishment.
July 27, 2010... KOLKATA, 26 JULY: The teacher of Kamala Chatterjee School for Girls at Gariahat today apologised to the guardians of students of class I for the corporal punishment of one of their wards. The class teacher of class I, Ms Mamata Ghosh, was...

Kolkata Police clarifies group medical insurance scheme.
July 27, 2010... ;Bappaditya PaulKOLKATA, 26 JULY: Kolkata Police have issued a fresh gazette notification on the existing group medical insurance scheme meant for its personnel after the Trinamul chief, Miss Mamata Banerjee, alleged lack of transparency on the...

BDO saves under-age damsel in distress.
July 27, 2010... ; Statesman News ServiceBEHRAMPORE, 26 JULY: When the bride was waiting at the marriage pedestal to receive her groom, the local BDO rushed in with police personnel and told the bride, Do not marry now. You are too young to solemnize a marriage....

Clean air? Not in suburbs.
July 27, 2010... Soma BasuKOLKATA, 26 JULY: Air quality on the outskirts seems to be deteriorating rapidly.The air pollution level in the city and the outskirts was found to be equal in some parameters considered while monitoring the ambient air quality by the...

After leak, USA asks Pak to back words with deeds for India.
July 27, 2010... Indo-Asian News ServiceWASHINGTON, 27 JULY: As leaks by a whistleblower site laid bare past links between the Pakistani spy agency ISI and terror outfits, the USA asked Islamabad to punish those behind 26/11 Mumbai attacks to convince India that...

BRIEFS.
July 27, 2010... SohrabuddinNEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD, 26 JULY: PM Dr Manmohan Singh today rejected the BJP charge of government misusing the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. Mr NK Amin, a former police officer and an accused in the case, today...

Rly probe into corruption.
July 27, 2010... ;Shiv Karan SinghBHOPAL, 26 July: The Railways have launched an investigation into the corrupt nexus of suppliers, senior railway officers, and retired bureaucrat-lobbyists, which has robbed an estimated Rs. 50,000 crore from the exchequer in...

Somnath talking rubbish: Biman.
July 27, 2010... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 JULY : After a day's stony ~ and politically significant ~ silence, CPI-M state secretary Mr Biman Bose today rallied behind his general secretary Mr Prakash Karat to rubbish the charges against Mr Karat...

PCPA leader, CoBRA jawan among 7 killed in gun battle.
July 27, 2010... MIDNAPORE, 26 JULY: A CoBRA jawan and at least six Maoists including a woman and Sidhu Kanu mass millitia squad members were killed during a four-hour gun battle with joint forces in the Goaltore area early today.Some more might have been...

Dons do as they please in prison.
July 27, 2010... Statesman News ServiceMUMBAI, 26 JULY: Security staff at the Arthur Road Prison in central Mumbai had been at the beck and call of two rogue gangsters Abu Salem (see photo) and Mustafa Dossa, ever ready to furnish their demands, discovered...

Polish Intelligence had warned of India embassy attack.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaNew York, 26 July: A week before the July 2008 bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Polish Intelligence had tipped off about a possible Taliban strike on the Indian mission, according to leaked US military documents, which...

Subsidy for transporters.
July 27, 2010... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 JULY: The state government today announced a subsidy of Re one per litre on diesel used for public transportation. But there will not be any reduction in the retail price of diesel, which is Rs 39.94 per litre....

RBI hikes short term rates to tame inflation.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India MUMBAI, 27 JULY: The Reserve Bank today raised its short-term lending and borrowing rates by 0.25 per cent and 0.50 per cent respectively to bring inflation to six per cent by March 2011 from double digits now, but the move...

Highlights of RBI's review of monetary policy for Q1.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India MUMBAI, 27 JULY: The following are the highlights of the RBI's first quarter review of the monetary policy 2010-11, released today: #Repo rate raised by 25 basis points to 5.75 per cent #Reverse repo rate hiked by 50 basis...

Kingfisher employee arrested for hitting passengers.
July 27, 2010... Indo-Asian News ServiceRANCHI, 27 JULY: An employee of Kingfisher Airlines was arrested on charges of assulting passengers who were agitating over the delay of a Mumbai-bound flight following a bird hit here, police said today.Mr Krishna Yadav...

USA 'probing' possible ISI role in Mumbai attack.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India WASHINGTON, 27 JULY: In the wake of India's assertion that ISI was involved in the Mumbai attacks, the Obama dministration has said it was investigating the matter to find out whether Pakistan's spy agency played a role in...

BJP, Aiyar embarrass government on CWG.
July 27, 2010... Indo-Asian News Service NEW DELHI, 27 JULY: The Commonwealth Games had the government in an embarrassing corner today with not just the BJP asserting that it would raise project delays in parliament but also its own MP Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar...

8 accused Gujarat police officers oppose Amin turning approver.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaAHMEDABAD, 27 JULY: In a new twist in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, eight accused Gujarat police officers including former DIG Mr DG Vanzara have opposed another accused ACP Mr NK Amin turning approver in the...

100 YEARS AGO TODAY.
July 27, 2010... EditorialCO-OPERATIVE CREDIT A student of the Bengali Press and of the speeches of Bengali politicians might well become imbued with the belief that the Province abounded in public spirited men, whose sole aim in life was to expend their time...

Kosovo declaration not illegal: World Court.
July 27, 2010... The International Court of Justice has said that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 did not violate international law, according to a press release issued in New York. The world court had been asked by...

On the road to happiness.
July 27, 2010... ; KK Khullar The dhaba and tonga are Delhi specialities. In view of the Commonwealth Games both will be things of the past. Time was when a woman eating at a dhaba was news. In those days, a dhaba belonged to tired truck drivers lazing on...

Antiquated passage to India.
July 27, 2010... For a thoroughly modern politician, David Cameron appears to have some strangely antiquated ideas about how the modern global economy works. The Prime Minister will board a plane to India in the company of scores of senior British businessmen....

Briefs.
July 27, 2010... Boxing medalsInspired by Mike Tyson and Mohammed Ali, some junior Indian boxers made quite an impression in their first international assignment, clinching a couple of gold medals, a silver one and a bronze one at the Ahmed Comert Cup in...

Ministrys panel to conduct probe.
July 27, 2010... ;SNS & AgenciesNEW DELHI, 26 JULY: The Union sport ministry today decided to launch its own probe into allegations of sexual harassment against the former women's hockey team coach, Mr M K Kaushik, by handing the task to its internal...

Lalgarh duo on wings of hope.
July 27, 2010... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 26 JULY: While the joint forces achieved a major success against Maoists, the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, reached out to Junglemahal's people, telling young footballers the state government would...

Chhetri does his bit for KCW victory over ManU.
July 27, 2010... NEW DELHI, 26 JULY: India striker Sunil Chhetri made a low-key 21-minute appearance in the second half in Kansas City Wizards' surprise 2-1 win over English Premier League giants Manchester United in a friendly in Kansas City, USA. Chhetri, who...

Maradona hopes to continue.
July 27, 2010... BUENOS AIRES, 26 JULY: Argentina coach Diego Maradona has announced that he hopes to continue in his role but only if he does not have to change his backroom staff from the World Cup in South Africa. "I've got a meeting with (Argentina Football...

Pargat pulls no punches.
July 27, 2010... ;Statesman News ServiceNEW DELHI, 26 JULY: Two days ahead of the Hockey India elections, Mr Pargat Singh (in photo left) today fired another salvo at the Indian Olympic Association president, Mr Mr Suresh Kalmadi (in photo right), describing him...

England take four-man attack risk.
July 27, 2010... ;Stephen BrenkleyLONDON, 26 JULY: England made their bed yesterday. The worry is that they may be lying comatose in it by the end of the winter. Their 12-man squad for the first Test against Pakistan contains six specialist batsmen and five...

Ponting resents India tour.
July 27, 2010... MELBOURNE, 26 JULY: Skipper Ricky Ponting (in photo) says Australia's tour of India in October may hamper their preparations for the Ashes series starting on 25 November in Brisbane. Ponting said, ideally, Australia should not have played on dry...

An unlikely drop.
July 27, 2010... ;Indo-Asian News ServiceLONDON, 26 JULY: A 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite dropped from the sky during a county cricket match, landing inches off the boundary and hitting a man in the chest.It broke into two when it hit the ground in front of Mr...

Indians up against it.
July 27, 2010... COLOMBO, 26 JULY: Sri Lanka laid the foundations of a mammoth first-innings total thanks to centuries from Kumar Sangakkara and Tharanga Paranavitana on day one of the second Test against India here today.Captain Sangakkara reached the close...

Modi to skip disciplinary committee meeting again.
July 27, 2010... ;AgenciesNEW DELHI, 26 JULY: The Board of Control for Cricket in India's disciplinary committee meets here tomorrow to continue its probe into alleged financial irregularities indulged in by the suspended Indian Premier League chief, Mr Lalit...

Lanka in command at lunch, Sangakkara hits double century.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India COLOMBO, 27 JULY: Skipper Kumar Sangakkara struck his career's seventh double century as Sri Lanka continued to toy with a listless Indian bowling attack to amass 457 for two at lunch on the second day of the second cricket...

HC asks govt to stay away from Hockey India election tomorrow.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 27 JULY: Delhi High Court today said the government should stay away from the election in Hockey India (HI) due tomorrow as it was a private body and held that Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) was the only...

Sri Lanka reach 587/3 at tea.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaCOLOMBO, 27 JULY: Sri Lanka were 587 for three in their first innings at tea on the second day of the second cricket Test against India here today.Vice captain Mahela Jayawardene (143) and Thilan Samaraweera (19) were at the...

India 95/0 after day 2.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaCOLOMBO, 27 JULY: Replying to Sri Lanka's 642, India were 95 for no loss in their first innings at close on day two of the second cricket Test here today.Earlier, Sri Lanka declared their first innings after scoring a mammoth...

BRIEFS.
July 27, 2010... Bangla trialDHAKA, 26 JULY: Bangladeshs 1971 war crimes tribunal today issued its first arrest warrants against four top leaders of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) who were accused of heinous crimes like genocide, rape and murder in the...

Bomb kills 6 at Baghdad office of Arabic channel.
July 27, 2010... ;Associated PressBAGHDAD, 26 JULY: A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up in front of the Baghdad office of a popular Arabic news station early today, killing six people, and burying a lawmaker alive under the rubble of his collapsed...

Blast in Bangkok as ruling party wins.
July 27, 2010... ;The Straits Times/ANNBANGKOK, 26 JULY: Thailand's ruling Democrat Party won a parliamentary by-election today, in a victory that the government could see as vindication of its recent crackdown on the "Red Shirt" Opposition movement.At press...

Putin & spies go patriotic!
July 27, 2010... ;Shaun Walker MOSCOW, 26 JULY: Vladimir Putin has met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the USA, and sung patriotic songs with them. The Russian Prime Minister said that the spy ring had been betrayed by traitors, who would probably...

ISI continues to support Taliban in Afghanistan.
July 27, 2010... ;Press Trust of IndiaNEW YORK, 26 JULY: Pakistan's Intelligence agency ISI continuous to play a role in supporting Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, leaked Intelligence documents have indicated, even as the USA continues to route billions of...

Pentagon reviews leaked Intelligence documents.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India WASHINGTON, 27 JULY: The Pentagon is reviewing the classified documents to assess the damage caused by the leakage of voluminous Intelligence materials running into more than 92,000 documents by a whistleblower site. The...

Toll reaches 20 in Germany stampede; police probe causes.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of India BERLIN, 27 JULY: The toll in a tragic stampede at the world's largest techno music festival in Germany rose to 20, with a 21-year-old woman succumbing to her injuries last night, as police investigated the incident to pin...

BP's spill-stained CEO may leave.
July 27, 2010... Associated PressNEW ORLEANS, 27 JULY: Mr Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP's flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job with the company's joint venture in...

Petition for permanent banning of Facebook in Pak.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaLAHORE, 27 JULY: Even as the Jamaat-ud-Dawah mounts pressure on Pakistani authorities to slap a ban on Facebook, a petition filed in a court has sought a permanent bar on access to the social networking website due to the...

630 killed in China floods.
July 27, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaBEIJING, 27 JULY: Over 630 people have been feared killed or missing during the last two weeks in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in China, taking the death toll since early this year to over 1,000.Meanwhile...

Briefs.
July 26, 2010... LPG blast kills 1KOLKATA,25 JULY: A 23-year-old housewife was killed after a LPG cylinder exploded this morning when she was preparing meal at her parent's house at Belur in Howrah. SumanaMondal was declared brought dead when taken to the TL...

Digha-Sankarpur coast line to be beautified.
July 26, 2010... Biswabrata GoswamiDIGHA, 25 JULY: The Digha Sankarpur Development Authority (DSDA) is taking up a World Bank financed project to beautify the coast line to boost tourism. The DSDA has already submitted four proposals at an estimated cost of Rs...

Dadu was European gourmet, says Basus grand-daughter.
July 26, 2010... Indo-Asian News ServiceNew Delhi, 25 July: He was West Bengal's chief minister for 23 years but he was no Bengali at heart when it came to his favourite food. Jyoti Basu was a European gourmet who loved "light pastas, salads, soups...", said his...

MIG-27 black box found, crash toll rises to three.
July 26, 2010... Press Trust of IndiaJalpaiguri, 25 July: The black box of the MiG-27 aircraft, which crashed yesterday in Jalpaiguri district, was retrieved today as the toll rose to three with two more persons succumbing to their injuries.The black box or...

GRP cracks down on eve-teasers targeting ladies compartments.
July 26, 2010... KOLKATA, 25 JULY: With incidents of eve teasing on the rise in the Sealdah-Kalyani, Sealdah-Krishnanagar and Sealdah-Ranaghat section of Eastern Railway's Sealdah division, Government Railway Police (GRP) has launched a drive against offenders...

Mystery shrouds death of Trinamul activist.
July 26, 2010... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 25 JULY: Mystery shrouds the death of 30-year-old TMC supporter Gopal Das, whose body was found outside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last night. His family said that he went missing after attending the...

Medical scam: Jalpaiguri dist hospital under scanner.
July 26, 2010... Sulagna SenguptaKOLKATA, 25 JULY: After the recent medical scam unearthed at Hooghly, the Jalpaiguri district hospital has come under the scanner of the state health department for irregular purchase of medicines and medical equipment to the...

Man shot by goons at Sodepur.
July 26, 2010... Statesman News ServiceKOLKATA, 25 JULY: A 35-year-old man, Ujjal Majumdar (See photo), was shot dead by goons at his residence at Sodepur Lelingarh near Ghola in North 24 Parganas this afternoon. Local residents gheraoed the police to protest...

Youth throttled to death by step-mother, her son.
July 26, 2010... Statesman News ServiceBEHRAMPORE, 25 JULY: A 28 year-old youth, Anil Das, was allegedly throttled to death by his stepmother, Sabu Das and her son, Sunil Das last night in the Chaaltia area of Behrampore police station in Murshidabad.Police...

75-year-old killed by mason & helper.
July 26, 2010... Statesman News ServiceKOLKATA, 25 JULY: A 75-year-old man was killed at his residence at Boithakkhana Road in Amherst Street by a mason and his helper. The accused then decamped with cash and jewellery worth over a lakh from the victim's...

Biz Briefs.
July 26, 2010... Inflation NEW DELHI, 25 JULY: Union finance minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee today said that he did not have a magic lamp to bring down inflation automatically and exuded confidence that it would decline from the present level of over 10 per cent...

Sebi move to attract more investors.
July 26, 2010... Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 25 JULY: In what could be a major overhaul of the way public offers are conducted, market regulator Sebi is mulling over a possible demarcation of days to be given to retail and institutional investors for...

Govt sets EIL FPO price band.
July 26, 2010... NEW DELHI, 25 JULY: The government today set Rs 270-290 as the price band for the follow-on public offering of state-run Engineer India Ltd. A group of ministers headed by finance minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee set the price band at a discount to...

Mining Bill unproductive, says Ficci.
July 26, 2010... NEW DELHI, 25 JULY: Criticising the government's mining Bill, Ficci has said that the proposed legislation would adversely impact investments in the sector. It also termed the government's scheme to provide shareholdings to tribals in mining...

Bankers see RBI hiking key rates.
July 26, 2010... Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 25 JULY: Faced with the problem of double-digit headline inflation, the Reserve Bank is likely to increase key policy rates by at least 25 basis points in its first quarterly review of the monetary policy...

Editorials.(Editorial)
July 26, 2010... Reviving dialogueNo more tamasha, please CONTINUING law-and-order difficulties might suggest the ambience is far from conducive, yet the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Security to revive the dialogue with all those in Jammu and Kashmir...

Coercion or Development~II.
July 26, 2010... There are more basic questions relating to the three-pronged approach. It is not enough to talk glibly of development and good governance. The question is what constitutes development and good governance. What is often done in the name of...

Vuvuzela Now In English Lexicon!
July 26, 2010... Press Trust of India LOS ANGELES, 25 JULY: Its cacophony may have irritated many, but vuvuzela, the air horn trumpet that became the loudest and most distinctive symbol of the FIFA World Cup, has now been accepted in the English lexicon....

Breifs.
July 26, 2010... 2 shot deadMIDNAPORE, 25 JULY: A Trinamul activist, Hemanto Mahato (35), and a former Army personnel, Nayan Singh Sardar (65), were shot dead in two different incidents in Junglemahal last night. The two bullet-ridden bodies were found by the...

Cong resents attacks.
July 26, 2010... KHEJURI/KOLKATA, 25 JULY: Congress workers of Midnapore East today put up road blockades at several places including Kolaghat, Tamluk, Contai and Mecheda bypass for a few hours to protest against the Trinamul Congress atrocities on their...

Questions that baffle investigators.
July 26, 2010... Dipankar BoseKOLKATA, 25 JULY: A week after the deadly Sainthia railway accident, which left more than 60 persons dead and several others injured, several questions baffle the Commissioner, Railway Safety, Eastern Railway, the official...

Sibal raises UP election pitch.
July 26, 2010... LUCKNOW, 25 JULY: Exhorting Congressmen to enter the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll arena with the slogan Congress Ka Sandesh, Ab Bhejo Pradesh human resource development minister Mr Kapil Sibal today said the real wealth of the nation is its...

Details of schools mid-day meal scheme a click away.
July 26, 2010... NEW DELHI, 25 July: The details of mid-day meal (MDM)scheme being implemented in each government and government-aided school of the country ~ considered to be the largest such scheme in the world ~ will now be just a click away. The human...

House panel raps govt for SSA scheme failure.
July 26, 2010... Arunima GhoshKOLKATA, 25 JULY: Despite implementing the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme nine years back, more than 50 per cent of the students who get enrolled in class I in the state drop out before reaching even class IX. This has been...

Stormy House session likely.
July 26, 2010... RC RajamaniNEW DELHI, 25 JULY: With a host of deeply divisive issues having already set the government and the Opposition on a confrontation course, Parliament is poised to begin tomorrow a predictably angry and acrimonious session that will...