Statesman (India) articles from June 2009

Statesman (India) archives from June 2009

State guidelines to deal with tribals.
June 30, 2009... ;RajibChatterjee KOLKATA,29 JUNE: Tribal upsurge in Lalgarhthat paved the way for the Maoists to get a strong foothold in the tribal hamlets has compelled the state home department to prepare a set of guidelines for policemen to deal...

Industry on hold, state eyes rural votes.
June 30, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: With Left parties losing foothold in the rural areas of the state as seen in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, the CPI-M led government today decided to focus on rural areas and put on hold...

Minister helpless on PTTI student issue.
June 30, 2009... KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: The sorry condition of the primary education system in the state was once again laid bare after school education minister Mr Partha De admitted on the floor of the Assembly today that there are 58,786 vacancies for primary...

Biz Briefs.
June 30, 2009... Jayshree Tea KOLKATA,29 JUNE: BKBirlaGroup company JayshreeTea and Industries Ltd (JTIL)today said it was scouting for tea gardens in India and overseas and would reopen its fertiliser unit soon. We are keen about acquiring large tea...

WPI no indicator of inflation: PMEAC.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: Wholesale Price Index (WPI),currently used to measure inflation, is an unsatisfactory indicator of price movement and is eroding the credibility of government data in the minds of people, said the PM's Economic Advisory...

Auto design institute planned.
June 30, 2009... ; Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: The department of heavy industry (DHI)has proposed setting up of a National Automotive Design Institute (NADI)in response to the countrys growing automobile sector and to enhance the sector's...

AI staff not to go on strike following pact.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI/MUMBAI,29 JUNE: Air India employees today decided not go on strike as proposed earlier after the management decided to pay the June salary of employees in Grade I to Grade IX by July 3. There will be no strike tomorrow. The...

No RIL-RNRL meeting.
June 30, 2009... ; SNS & PTI MUMBAI,29 JUNE: Ameeting proposed by AnilAmbanigroup firm RNRL with Reliance Industries officials failed to materialise with the elder brother's group not turning up. The proposed meeting, a follow-up of the Bombay High...

Mahindra IPO priced at Rs 300.
June 30, 2009... ; Press Trust of India MUMBAI,29 JUNE: Leisure hospitality provider MahindraHolidays and Resorts India (MHRIL)has fixed the issue price for its initial public offering at Rs300 per share. The IPO,which broke the four-month lull in...

Gold import may fall 44%.
June 30, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: India's gold import may fall by about 44 per cent to 10 tons in June over the previous month due to high prices and low demand for the precious metal in the domestic markets, experts have said....

Crude oil production down 4.3% in May.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: India's crude oil production fell by 4.3 per cent in May due to a decline in output at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the nation's largest producer. Crude oil production at 2.78 million tons in May was 4.3 per cent...

MFs favour infra, realty firms: Study.
June 30, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: Telecommajor BhartiAirtel,wind power major SuzlonEnergy and real estate firms DLFand Unitech,have emerged as favourite stocks for domestic mutual funds in May, while SatyamComputer and ITCIndia...

Family agreements cannot override national priorities.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: In a new twist to the gas dispute between Ambani brothers, the fertiliser ministry today said private family agreements could not override national priorities. Urea plants had been given the first priority in sale of...

Crowning Glory For Westminster Abbey?
June 30, 2009... LONDON, 29 June: Ever since Benedictine monks first made their home at Westminster AD 960, Britains most famous abbey has been an architectural playground. More than a 1,000 years on, the Abbey authorities are to launch a public consultation...

edits.
June 30, 2009... One-party show Mr Bardhan makes a telling point WHAT was once the parent company has come up with a searing critique of the 1964 splinter group, now its dominant partner in the Left Front. Never since 1977 has the Communist Party of...

special article.
June 30, 2009... Families and Politics Inheritance Gets The Better Of Merit Subrata Mukherjee Both Plato in The Republic and Paine, writing in an era of revolutionary ferment in America and France, denounced hereditary systems, whether monarchy...

Cong, BJP mum on SC order.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: In the wake of the Supreme Courts show-cause notices to the BSP-ledUP government and the chief minister, Miss Mayawati, on a public interest litigation ~ which demanded a CBIprobe into the alleged misuse of the state...

Aussie delegation to visit India to allay fears of students.
June 30, 2009... ;SNS & PTI NEW DELHI/ Melbourne, 29 JUNE: With possibility of a drop in the number of Indian students to Australia in the wake of racial attacks, a delegation of top officials and academicians is coming here next month to promote...

Centre for phased withdrawal of AFSPA.
June 30, 2009... ;Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: The Centre is considering a proposal for phased withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir following a strong case made out by state chief minister Mr Omar...

Jiziya: India asks Pak to take steps.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: Amid reports that the Pakistani Talibanelements have allegedly demanded Rs 6 million as jiziya(tax levied on non-Muslims) from the minority Hindus of Battagram district in Pakistans North West...

Cong non-committal on scrapping Section 377.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: The ruling Congress party is non-committal over whether the 150-year-old controversial Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code ~ which criminaliseshomosexuality ~ should be repealed or not. The Congress does not have any...

Maya statue: SC seeks answers.
June 30, 2009... ;Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: Taking serious note of diversion of public funds for installing sandstone statues of chief minister Miss Mayawatiand other political leaders, the Supreme Court today asked the UttarPradesh...

Budget: Tough task awaits Pranab.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: Exactly a week from now, finance minister Mr PranabMukherjeewill be presenting the general budget for 2009-10 and all indications are that he faces a tightrope walk to keep every section happy. The Lok Sabha Speaker Mrs...

Pulling a Sarkozy in India?
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MUMBAI, 29 JUNE: Shiv Sena chief Mr Bal Thackeray today hailed French President Nicolas Sarkozy for issuing a diktat banning the burkha in France calling it a sign of subservience. A ruler should be like this and...

Rohini road: A deathtrap for passengers.
June 30, 2009... Kurseong, 29 June: Kurseong-bound passengers from Siliguri can save minutes off their journey time by taking the Rohini bypass road. However, the road currently poses a risk to life and limb. For the last few months, the Rohini road has been...

Teacher-in-charge assaulted, in hospital.
June 30, 2009... ;Romit Bagchi SILIGURI, 29 JUNE: The prolonged stalemate over the control of Shew Mangal Memorial Hindi High Secondary School in Siliguri took a grim turn today when the teacher-in-charge of the institution, Mr Amitabh Ojha, was...

Stage set for 1 July Siliguri poll counting.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 29 JUNE: Preparations are complete for the counting of votes of the three-tier panchayat polls held in Siliguri yesterday. The counting would take place on 1 July at four different counting centres at...

Rajdhani stranded for CPM stir.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, 29 JUNE: The passengers of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express had to face an ordeal due to a rail roko stir that was staged at New Cooch Behar railway station by two organisations of the CPI-M today....

Clear salaries, staff urge North Dinajpur DM.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, 29 JUNE : The members of Prabahaman Jansikkha Karmi Sangathan (PJKS) of the North Dinajpur district organised an agitation in front of the office of the North Dinajpur district magistrate at Karnajora...

Gangtok roads to get a facelift.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service GANGTOK, 29 JUNE: City roads in Gangtok are set to get a facelift with the state urban development and housing department (UDHD) ready to undertake the maintenance of roads in and around the capital on a priority...

Repoll in Darjeeling booths ordered.
June 30, 2009... KOLKATA,29 June : The state election commission has ordered a repoll in five booths of Asansol and Darjeeling after receiving adverse reports from the observers and returning officers. Repolls in these five booths will be held tomorrow. ...

Bus terminus still a far cry.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 29 JUNE: Though the district administration had intended to complete the Malda central bus terminus by December 2008, the PWD engineers do not know when the central bus terminus will be operational. This...

CPM, Cong activists join Trinamul in Raiganj.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, 29 JUNE: In different villages from the Maraikura Grampanchayat under the Raiganj police station of North Dinajpur district, more than 150 activists of the CPI-M and Congress joined the Trinamul. The...

Locals ransack residence of rape accused.
June 30, 2009... JALPAIGURI, 29 JUNE: The residents of Naya Line of Torsha Tea Plantation under Kalchini block ransacked the residence of a person who allegedly attempted to rape a minor girl of the area yesterday. According to the police officials, Mr...

Solar power for Garumara.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 29 JUNE: The forest officials of Wild life II division are all set to introduce a solar electrification system on a large scale in Garumara National Park area. Informing the matter, the DFO Wild...

Contribution of mothers crucial.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: The financial contribution of mothers and home-makers should be incorporated into national income calculations to obtain an accurate estimate of Indias Gross Domestic Product, said Mr Asim...

Briefs.
June 30, 2009... Rly passengers abused MALDA, 29 JUNE: Mr Abhigyan Sengupta, a teacher of Raghunathpur High School in Murshidabad, lodged a complaint at the English Bazaar police station against the assistant station manager of Malda town station, Mr...

Olive answer to heart attacks?
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service GANGTOK, 29 JUNE: Research being conducted by a student from Sikkim, to extract drugs from olive leaves that can prevent heart attacks, has attracted global attention. Research done by Mr Hemant Poudyal's in...

Referee issue leads to postponement of football leagues.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 29 JUNE: The ongoing tussle between Baghajatin Athletic Club (BAC) and Siliguri Mahakuma Referees and Umpires Association (SMRUA) over the decision of referee Dilip Kar to give marching orders to...

DYFI demand probe into bird culling expenditure.
June 30, 2009... ;Stastesman News Service RAIGANJ, 29 JUNE: Recently, during the culling in Hemtabad, North Dinajpur, the district government fund was allegedly misappropriated by a section of officials. In this connection, the members of the...

PHE proposes drinking water projects for villages.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 29 JUNE: The Public Health Engineering (PHE) has submitted several small-scale drinking water projects to its higher authorities for approval. The PHE in particular wishes to implement the schemes in...

Rath Yatra gambling racket shut down.
June 30, 2009... Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, 29 JUNE: Taking advantage of the mania amongst the public for gambling, some people started gambling dens during the Rath Yatra, the lid of which was blown off by the police on 28 June. In a...

Briefs.
June 30, 2009... BJD win ZP poll BHADRAK, 29 JUNE: The BJD managed to turn the tables on the Opposition Congress and the BJP today by winning the Bhadrak ZP presidential election. Mr Jagannath Swain, the candidate backed by the BJD, managed to win...

7 die in illegal hooch tragedy.
June 30, 2009... BHUBANESWAR, 29 JUNE: Pesticide mixed with country liquor in order to provide a greater kick is said to have been the cause of the death of seven people in the hooch tragedy in Bolangir district on 25 June. Preliminary inquiries conducted...

Fifteen hurt in Posco violence.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, 29 JUNE: Renewed violence between pro- and anti-Posco factions rocked Gobindpur village since late last night, leaving at least 15 people, including a woman, Ms Hemalata Sahu, injured. Police...

Maoists held in Rourkela.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service ROURKELA, 29 JUNE: The arrest of Balaram Jasobant, alias Subash Kujur, and Rajesh Oram, two prominent members of Jharkhand Badshah, billed as a splinter group of Maoists, was a major achievement for Rourkela...

Illegal financial market booms despite recession.
June 30, 2009... BALASORE, 29 JUNE: In this period of acute global recession, in which almost all sectors have witnessed a major slump in recent months, one market, the fake financial market, is alarmingly buoyant, and even more alarming is the failure of...

Closed power plant to be reopened.
June 30, 2009... ANGUL, 29 JUNE: One of the six 500MW units of NTPC-Kaniha, which was shut down yesterday, will be restored by Tuesday evening, according to a top NTPC official at the Kaniha plant. The unit developed a technical snag in its boiler....

Its been a personal & professional pilgrimage.
June 30, 2009... ;Sudipta Ghosh & Priyalina Basu The 1960s was a golden era in the history of music for Western musicians in Calcutta with the likes of Usha Uthup, Nondon Bagchi and Eve starting off their career. It was 1 July 1969. The venue: Trincas....

Train passengers for better services.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service DHENKANAL, 29 JUNE: The Railway Passengers forum and the Dhenkanal Swabhiman Manch have jointly urged railway authorities to redress their grievances, which include demands for station development works and extra...

Special trains for festivals.
June 30, 2009... BHUBANESWAR, 29 JUNE: In view of the changed schedule of Sandhya Darshan, and other important rituals of Lord Jagannath, the East Coast Railway authorities have arranged to run special trains to and from Puri for Sandhya Darshan, Bahuda Yatra...

Tides worsen Aila-wrought disaster.
June 30, 2009... ;Sanjib Chakraborty BASIRHAT, 29 June: More dykes collapsed during the full moon high tide at Sahebkhali near Hingalganj in Basirhat sub-division in North 24-Parganas district a few days ago. The dykes are not likely to be repaired in...

Staff accused of negligence.
June 30, 2009... BARIPADA, 29 JUNE: Tension gripped the district headquarters hospital in Baripada when a diarrhoea patient died, allegedly due to medical negligence. The victim, Kutti Singh, was a native of Dhanpur village in the Shymakhuinta area. ...

SSS threatens agitation.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BALASORE, 29 JUNE: The Subarnarekha Suraksha Sena (SSS), an outfit which has spearheaded the movement to mitigate the damages caused by the non-revival of the Subarnarekha river, and the non implementation of the...

Villagers forced to drink arsenic water.
June 30, 2009... ;Abhisek Roy Chowdhury KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: With Lalgarh and Aila taking up the headlines of late, there has been little reportage on a village in rural Bengal whose drinking water supply is contaminated with arsenic. Dingalpota village...

A fairer deal sought for farmers.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 29 JUNE: As the minimum support price (MSP) within a harvest season goes down once the target of procurement is attained by agencies in the districts, an updated display of the target of procurement,...

Furore in state as council slashes seats in medical colleges.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SAMBALPUR, 29 JUNE: There has been widespread furore and dissatisfaction all over western Orissa following the communique of the MCI (Medical Council of India) to the state government regarding slashing of seats...

Twist to Jacko tale.
June 30, 2009... LONDON, JUNE 29: The leaked autopsy details of Michael Jackson obtained by The Sun, London, show that the pop icon was a virtual skeleton as he was barely eating and only had pills in his stomach when he died; he was also bald, bruised and...

Trouble in KMC terrain... in thunder, lightning, or in rain.
June 30, 2009... ;Sulagna Sengupta KOLKATA 29 JUNE: A joint study, conducted by the state environment department and the civil engineering department of IIT Delhi, has painted a grim picture about some wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), which...

Column 1.
June 30, 2009... SC notice NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: The Supreme Court today issued a show-cause notice to the Uttar Pradesh government for using public money for installing statues of chief minister Miss Mayawati. ;SNS Details on page 2 Monsoon ...

CPM arms must be unearthed.
June 30, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: Railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee wants the Centre not to support the CPI-M" through the joint operation at Lalgarh, but use the Central forces to unearth huge cache of arms and ammunition...

Red bastion falls to forces.
June 30, 2009... ;Anjan Chakrabarty & SabyasachiRoy KANTAPAHARI/KOLKATA,29 JUNE: Security forces took control of the so-called Maoist bastion of Kantapahari less than four hours after their operations began this morning. In Kolkata, the chief...

Where fear is the key.
June 30, 2009... KANTAPAHARI,29 JUNE: The combined forces may be well on their way to flushing out the Maoists from the Lalgarh area, but the other half of the battle, that has to be fought by the district administration, seems a much tougher challenge if the...

Desperate measure.
June 30, 2009... Soon after BuddhadebBhattacharjeebecame chief minister in 2001, the then CPI-Mstate secretary Anil Biswasremarked: Mr Bhattacharjee,like all of us, would be proud to be a puppet in the hands of the party. What he obviously meant was that...

A bit of Kolkata in Brussels.
June 30, 2009... ; AninditaChowdhury The other day, Brussels looked like a city under siege when, guess what, hundreds of dairy farmers driving their tractors from all over Belgium as well as neighbouring countries like Poland, Germany, Luxembourg,...

First step towards stability.
June 30, 2009... United Nations GeneralAssembly president, Miguel DEscotosaid that the high-level summit on the global economic crisis has concluded with approval of an outcome document that represents the first step in a long process of putting the world on...

Oldest image of St Paul discovered.
June 30, 2009... Press Trust of India LONDON, 29 JUNE: Archaeologists have discovered a 1,600-year-old image of St Paul, considered to be one of the greatest influences in the Church, in a Roman catacomb, which they claim is the oldest one known of. ...

All skin & bones on his death bed...
June 30, 2009... Agencies LONDON, 29 JUNE:The leaked autopsy details of Michael Jackson show that the pop icon was a virtual skeleton as he was barely eating and only had pills in his stomach when he died; he was also bald, bruised and had broken ribs....

Iran frees UK Embassy staff.
June 30, 2009... Agence France Presse TEHERAN, 29 JUNE: Iran today said it has freed five of the local British Embassy staff it arrested on accusations of stoking post-election unrest, a move that further threatened tense ties with London. ...

Study recommends ban on Sharia.
June 30, 2009... LONDON, 29 JUNE: As many as 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating in the UK, 17 times higher than previously accepted, a study indicated today, with a recommendation that the Islamic courts should no longer be recognised under British law....

Stumps are drawn for a truly great captain.
June 30, 2009... ;Stephen Brenkley LONDON, 29 JUNE: Let there be no mistake. Michael Vaughan (in photo) was a great captain of England. The teams he led won 26 Test matches, six more than achieved under any other individual's stewardship. His best side...

Fabiano: The man who keeps his promises.
June 30, 2009... JOHANNESBURG, 29 JUNE: When the US were sensationally leading Sunday's Confederations Cup final in Johannesburg's Ellis Park stadium against Brazil 2-0 at half-time, it was clear that a lot would be asked from the Selecao to come back. ...

American coach rues lousy loss.
June 30, 2009... ;Indo-Asian News Service JOHANNESBURG, 29 JUNE: After his side had allowed a two-goal lead against Brazil in the Confederations Cup final to slip away, US coach Bob Bradley said that the loss had induced a "pretty lousy feeling." ...

Scolari points finger at trio.
June 30, 2009... ;Sam Wallace LONDON, 29 JUNE: Luiz Felipe Scolari (in photo) yesterday finally identified the Chelsea players he believes got him the sack in February and pointed the finger at Petr Cech, Michael Ballack and Didier Drogba. The same...

Briefs.
June 30, 2009... Bolt wins Usain Bolt, who had won the 100 metres crown the day before, easily captured the 200 metre national title on the final day of the Jamaican Championships. He posted a modest time of 20.25 seconds while running into a slight...

Indian infirmities aided Windies.
June 30, 2009... ;Agencies KINGSTON, 29 JUNE: West Indian pace bowler Ravi Rampaul, who wrecked India's batting with a career-best four-wicket haul to script his team's eight-wicket win in the second One-Day International on Sunday, said rash shots...

Bhupathi, Paes win one each.
June 30, 2009... LONDON, 29 JUNE: Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas moved into the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon men's doubles with a 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-0 victory over Prakash Amritraj and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi here today. Bhupathi and...

CA diktat cant stop Aussies.
June 30, 2009... LONDON, 29 JUNE: Cricket Australias anti-sledging diktat notwithstanding, senior England batsman Paul Collingwood (in photo) expects Ricky Ponting's men to be verbally aggressive in the Ashes series. To avoid controversies during the Ashes...

Brazilians win through.
June 30, 2009... ;Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, 29 JUNE: Brazil's beautiful game came alive in the second half with three comeback goals in a 3-2 win over the USA in the Confederations Cup final here. Luis Fabiano scored two of the goals and Lucio...

CIL divestment.
June 30, 2009... NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE: Union coal minister Mr SriprakashJaiswaltoday said that the government would initiate the process of offloading10 per cent equity in the state-owned Coal India Limited (CIL)in the next six months. We are considering...

LF neglected tribals in Lalgarh: Bardhan.
June 29, 2009... ;Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 28 JUNE: Exposing the rift among partners of the Left Front government in West Bengal, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has said the state is being run as a one-party government more or less and the...

State set to shelve policy on industrialisation until polls.
June 29, 2009... ;Pranesh Sakar KOLKATA, 28 JUNE: A change in the state government's policy ~ from industrialisation to pro-people programmes ~ is all set to get accepted tomorrow after it is vetted by the Cabinet core committee. A few ministers on...

Train passengers celebrate Didis return.
June 29, 2009... ;ShyamSundarRoy MIDNAPORE,28 JUNE: The people of the Midnapore,Bankuraand Purulia belt are overjoyed at Miss MamataBanerjeesreturn to the stewardship of the railway portfolio in Dr ManmohanSingh's Cabinet. They have high hopes that Miss...

Missionary schools decide on own recruitment rules.
June 29, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 28 JUNE: Following a rise in the number of vacancies in the missionary schools of the state, the founder bodies have decided to recruit teachers as per their own recruitment norms, bypassing the...