Statesman (India) articles from March 2006

Statesman (India) archives from March 2006

HC stays arrest warrants.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent KOLKATA, March 30. Mr Justice SP Talukdar of Calcutta High Court today stayed the warrants of arrest issued against Mr Pankaj Banerjee and three other Trinamul Congress MLAs and two...

Buddhas idlers mar careers.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, March 30. Five years ago, the chief minister gave the do it now call. But at the end of his term, it is apparent that nothing, not even the West Bengal Human Rights...

Govt denied excess power.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Soma Mookherjee in Kolkata March 30. The state government which initially relied on the Tala Hydel Project of Bhutan for excess power, especially during the crisis in summer, may have to go without it. The...

ESI super resigns.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, March 30. In a dramatic bid, the superintendent of the state ESI Hospital in Durgapur resigned from his post this evening. He faxed his resignation to the director, ESI and...

CEO cant guarantee free polls.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Kolkata, March 30. If the days utterances of Mr Debasis Sen, chief electoral officer, are anything to go by, the Opposition may lose hope of a fair election. The CEO reserved his...

Murder accused surrenders.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BOLPUR, March 30. - Dudh Kumar Thandar (27) of Daskal village in the Nanoor police station area of Birbhum, who was allegedly accused of a murder that took place on 24 March, surrendered today in the Bolpur...

Dowry killing charge in couple's suicide.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SURI, March 30. - After the trauma of their only daughter Sukriti and and son-in-law Subrata Mondal, dying, Mr Swapan Mondal had lodged a complaint with Suri police station this morning...

Nominations filed, media cell useless in Nadia.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, March 30. - Amid gross lack of administrative infrastructure, Left Front candidates have filed their nominations before the respective returning officers at all 15 Assembly...

Trinamul workers ransack party office.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, March 30. - Angry Trinamul Congress workers ransacked the party's Diamond Harbour block office last night in protest against the party leadership's decision to field a...

Maoists call bandh in three districts.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, March 30. - Maoists have given a bandh call in three districts of south Bengal on 8 April to protest against what they called the holding of polls with police and security...

UK account of stock scamster frozen.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, March 30. The UK bank account, containing GBP6 million, of 2001 stock market scam accused, Mr Dharmesh Doshi, a close associate of Mr Ketan Parekh, has been frozen. This is a...

ECL to net Rs 360 cr in 2005-06.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, March 30. Eastern Coalfields Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, is poised to make a profit of Rs 360 crore for the first time in its history during 2005-06 as against a net loss of Rs 679.20 crore...

PIB nod not needed for PSU investment.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Mukesh Ranjan in New Delhi March 30. To make state-owned companies more efficient to compete in the global market, the government has decided to unshackle them from the clutches of Public Investment Board...

MMTC allowed to export iron ore.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, March 30. The Cabinet today approved renewal of long-term agreements (LTA) for export of iron ore to Japanese, Korean and Chinese steel mills by the public sector Minerals...

SC displeased over HC calling its decision unconstitutional.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, March 30. The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over a Calcutta High Court judgment declaring its judgment in the ONGC case as wholly unconstitutional and of...

Mittal buys stake in IndiaBulls.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, March 30. NRI steel tycoon, Mr LN Mittal has bought eight per cent stake in IndiaBulls Credit for about Rs 90 crore. Mittal-promoted LNM India Internet Ventures Ltd will acquire 8.2 per cent...

Sensex, Nifty upswing continues.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MUMBAI, March 30. For a change, the S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange out-performed the Sensitive Index of the Stock Exchange, Mumbai on Thursday, which was the settlement...

Megabucks for health.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Amartya Sen was in Delhi on Tuesday primarily to launch his latest book, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. It was perhaps mere coincidence that he was roped in to add value to the function where...

Semi-Detached World Of Tony Blair.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Adrian Hamilton in London March 30. Historians will find it difficult to grasp the sheer surrealism of Mr Blairs performance. They will find it hard to recreate the extraordinary sense of semi-detachment of...

The son rises.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The West Bengal agriculture minister, Kamal Guha, has seldom fired in the right direction. His latest complaint is against bureaucrats who, he says, have the audacity to enforce the ban on wall writing in West...

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) By Saibal Gupta In the euphoria over Indias economic recovery, one could be dubbed a cynic for asking whether affluence guarantees political stability in the historical context. The question is pertinent....

Police university.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) The proposal to establish a National Police University is more than welcome. Few other branches of the government have such direct bearing on day-to-day living in our scheme of things, few others have been so...

Envy, the enemy within.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) By NITI PAUL MEHTA When you envy someone for his achievements and feel inspired by his example and adopt him as a role model and try to emulate him so that you can also be successful in life like him, it is...

100 years ago today.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Railway Collision. After a prolonged trial, Mr M.M. Chuckerbutty, Deputy Magistrate of Howrah, disposed of the case in which Mr Mackertich, employed on the East Indian Railway as yard foreman at the Lillooah...

Amends to custody victims likely.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, March 30. While asking the police to refrain from unnecessary arrests and un-required oral evidence, the home minister, Mr Shivraj Patil, today said that the Union...

Plea for separate ministry to develop Naxalism-hit areas.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, March 30. The Asian Centre for Human Rights today urged the Centre to set up a separate ministry for development of Naxalite-affected areas. Ahead of tomorrows meeting of...

PC, Pranab get bigger purses.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, March 30. The government today doubled the financial powers of the finance and defence ministers to facilitate faster clearance of projects, particularly those related to defence acquisitions....

Meher killer does a U-turn, retracts confession.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India LUCKNOW, March 30. High drama was witnessed in the sensational Mehar Bhargava murder case with one of the main accused telling the media today that he had fired the fatal shot which he...

BDR objection stalls anti-erosion work.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Manas R Banerjee in Malda March 30. Following objections raised by BDR authorities, the anti-erosion work along the riverbank in Rwishipur in Malda has been stalled as per instructions received from the...

Sonia markets Rajivs dream.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Bijay Sankar Bora in Tinsukia March 30. The Congress has promised a new and advanced Assam in tune with its commitment to fulfill late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhis dream of a developed India. Addressing a...

Probe into kids sale.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) JAMMU, March 30. Assuring the migrants of Doda and Udhampur districts who have been living in the colonies of Talwara, that they do not have to sell their children for survival, Jammu and Kashmir chief...

Central funds to fight J&K terrorists.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAMMU, March 30. Since the beginning of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989, the Central government has reimbursed Rs 3,300 crore as security-related expenditure (SRE) to the state...

Chinese PM supports Nuke plan.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, March 30. Chinese premier Mr Wen Jiabaos support for Indias nuclear power generation indicates that China is positioning itself globally on the issue, so as not to be isolated in the nuclear club....

Saran dangles dual bait.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India WASHINGTON, March 30. India today said there was a strong security rationale behind its civil nuclear deal with the USA and held out the bait of spin-offs of the country's expertise in...

Sanjay Joshi gets clean chit.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India BHOPAL, March 30. Madhya Pradesh police today gave a clean chit to senior BJP leader Mr Sanjay Joshi in the the CD controversy, saying the video were manipulated and his photographs and...

India Briefs.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Litterateur dies NEW DELHI, March 30. Writer Manohar Shyam Joshi, who revolutionised television viewing in India with his serials Buniyaad and Hum Log, died here today following a cardiac arrest. The...

Cable landing unit soon.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, March 30. The request of the state government for setting up a cable landing station in Kolkata has been granted by the Centre. This will reduce the cost of telecom services...

Missing answer script still untraced.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, March 30. Police are yet to trace the Physics paper II answer script of Higher Secondary examination that went missing from Hare School yesterday. Officers did not find the...

Transport agent shot at.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA March 30. A middle-aged transport agent, Mr Gyanchand Keshari, was injured when he was shot at by three miscreants at Sithi last night. According to police, a brawl started when...

Family feud in Trinamul.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, March 30. Trinamul Congress supporters ransacked the partys Diamond Harbour block office last night in protest against the leaderships decision to field an outside Mr...

Mosquitoes have the last laugh.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Pranesh Sarkar in Kolkata March 30. The School of Tropical Medicine has abandoned its research into mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, malaria and Japanese encephalitis because of a chronic shortage of...

Man attempts to sodomise 5-yr-old.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, March 30. Less than 10 days after an 11-year-old girl was raped inside a public urinal in Sinthi, an unidentified middle-aged man attempted to sodomise a five-year-old girl in Muchipara yesterday...

Cops at speeding end.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, March 30. An errant Matador driver injured four people in two successive accidents in central Kolkata this morning and then landed in hospital on being beaten up by a crowd...

RAF deployed in Narkeldanga after two groups clash.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, March 30. At least 20 people, including two policemen, were injured when two groups of youths clashed in Narkeldanga this afternoon. Police fired tear gas shells and...

Kolkata Briefs.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Womans hair shorn Ms Beauty Baidya (30), an employee of a shop on Canal West Road, was beaten up and her hair was cut by her employer on Thursday. Police later arrested the employer, Mr Shiv Shankar Roy. Ms...

Cong annoyed over Ratua candidate.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, March 29. The Congress leaders are apprehending bitter results after the declaration of the name of its candidate for Ratua constituency in Malda. They also feared another...

Election official handed over to police for political bias.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Mar 30. Alleging political bias against an election official Sajal Ghosh, locals of Ward No. 24 led by the DYFI today confined him and later handed him over to the police....

Police raid robbers hideout in Kishanganj.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, March 30. In a joint operation with their Bihar counterpart, a police team from the North Dinajpur district headed by the Islampur SDPO, Mr Ujjal Bhowmick, today raided the...

Six SUCI activists injured in clash with CPM workers.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) RAIGANJ, March 30. Six SUCI activists were injured in a clash with the CPI-M members at Sripally village in North Dinajpurs Karandighi police station area today. Three of the six SUCI members, identified as...

Demand for status of political prisoners.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, March 30. Members of the Bandi Mukti Committee and Association for Protection of Democratic Rights have alleged that the jail authorities are violating the rights of political...

Aiyer lauds panchayati raj system in Sikkim.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) GANGTOK, March 30. The Union panchayati raj minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyer, has lavished praise on the panchayati raj system of Sikkim and pointed out that Sikkim could be a role model for other states of...

No respite from wildfires in Sikkim.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, March 30. South Sikkim is going up in flames, literally as six forest areas in various parts of the district are reeling under simultaneous cases of wildfire during the past...

Crisis time for tea industrry.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Mar 29. The tea industry, it is feared, may suffer a severe setback this year. Absence of rain, coupled with unusually warm climatic conditions has already taken toll of the...

Rural employment programme a success in Sikkim.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service GANGTOK, March 30. A total of 114 people in Sikkim has benefited in the fiscal year 2005-06 from the rural employment generation programme implemented by Sikkim Khadi and Village...

Lawyers turn law-breakers.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, March 30. It was a total chaos for more than two hours here today as the Siliguri lawyers first ransacked the Centurion Bank, Siliguri branch, and then staged a roadblock at...

Consumers Day focuses on rights.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, March 30. The World Consumer Day was celebrated in Paralakhemundi yesterday by the Consumer Grievances Redressal Forum. Eminent consumer activist and advocate...

Anganwadi workers dharna in front of Assembly.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, March 30. Anganwadi workers, affiliated to the CITU-backed union, today staged a demonstration in front of the Assembly demanding that they be treated as regular...

Hostages send letter.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR/PARALAKHEMUNDI, March 30. While the government is still clueless about the whereabouts of two officers abducted by Maoists from R Udayagiri on 24 March, a letter purportedly...

Bid to woo tribals spurs factional feud.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR/JAJPUR, March 30. Efforts to woo a section of the Kalinga Nagar tribals and their meeting with the chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik yesterday had serious repercussions...

House adjourned after MLA falls ill.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, March 30. The nine-day ruckus in the state Assembly took an awkward turn today with the Congress MLA, Mr Tara Prasad Bainipati, falling ill at the Well of the House while...

Govt assures appointment of new CMD for steel company.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ANGUL, March 30. The Centre will fill the vacant post of chairman-cum-managing director of National Aluminum Company soon. The post has been vacant since June, 2004 after the...

Freak quarrel lands teachers in jail.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Berhampur, March 30. A quarrel over the defecation of a child on the road landed two teachers of the city in jail. Both teachers live in Ambika Nagar Street of the city. One of them is...

Nalco signs MoU with mines ministry.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, March 30. The National Aluminium Company Ltd has fixed its 2006-07 gross sales target approximately at Rs 5,000 crore and gross margin at over Rs 2,200 crore. The targets...

NGO aims at bringing dropouts back to schools.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KORAPUT, March 30. More than 54 lakh children below the age of 14 years will be brought to schools with another 10 lakh children who dropped out of school and are presently engaged in...

Call to plug loopholes in Right to Information Act.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ASKA, March 30. If the loopholes in the Right to Information Act, 2005 are not plugged, the Act will be nothing but an eye wash for the public, said speakers at a seminar conducted by...

Mumbai girl traced to Berhampur.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, March 30. A 14-year-old girl, who was allegedly abducted from Mumbai, was rescued from the Ramchandrapur village on the suburbs of the city by the Mumbai police with the...

Councillors held hostage.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, March 30. The Berhampur Municipality compound is tense as agitating temporary employees of the local body were holding councillors and the executive officer of the...

Taxing times for cablemen.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, March 30. The select committee which examined the proposed Orissa Entertainment Tax Bill has recommended that the proprietor of cable television network providing cable service be liable to pay...

BJD denies Naveen link to hooch traders.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, March 30. The Biju Janata Dal today denied allegations that persons close to the chief minister were involved in the Ganjam hooch tragedy. In a statement issued here...

Adivasis resort to hunger-strike.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KEONJHAR March 30. Sulochana Naik and Suryamnai Naik have finally resorted to hunger-strike when they felt that the month-long demonstration by the Bolani slum dwellers against Sail...

Illicit liquor seized.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) JAGATSINGHPUR, March 30. Paradip police have seized huge quantity of illegal liquor and arrested five persons, including the owners of PCO, betel shop and hotel, in Paradip and Kujang today. According to the...

SBI employees threaten stir.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ASKA, March 30. The SBI employees union has threatened to go on an indefinite strike from 3 April on the issue of pension provisions and family pension, a release issued by Ajit...

Govt cool to Angul pollution.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ANGUL, March 30. On the issue of environmental pollution, the outrage among the people against three sponge iron units in the district is mounting owing to the lackadaisical attitude...

BRIEFS.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Cong groupism ASKA, March 30. The factionalism within the Congress unit here was evident today when two groups organised separate receptions for Union labour minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who was on his way...

Tusker receives treatment.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) ANGUL, March 30. The tusker which was found injured in Bulajhar forest area of Angul forest division was today examined by a panel of doctors from Bhubaneswar. Angul circle conservator PC Mahapatra said the...

Police officer held for bribery.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BALASORE, March 30. The sleuths of Vigilance of Balasore division have trapped the officer-in-charge of Naikanidihi police station, Surendra Baliarsingh, while taking a bribe of Rs...

Carpentry items distributed to Soura community.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, March 30. Carpentry materials were distributed to the members of the Soura community by the voluntary organisation, World Vision, on their office premises in...

Kalam refers Chawla petition to PM.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, March 30. The issue of the Opposition demand for removal of election commissioner Mr Navin Chawla has hotted up with the President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, referring the NDA...

Briefs.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Ketan aides UK account frozen NEW DELHI, March 30. In a major breakthrough, the CBI has managed to freeze the London-based Credit Suisse Bank account, containing nearly Rs 50 crore, of stock broker Dharmesh...

Pratt Memorial had question papers well ahead of exams.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Anindita Chowdhury in Kolkata March 30. Indian School Certificate (Class XII) question papers for six practical and three theoretical examinations were taken out of bank vaults much ahead of schedule by...

Chastened Centre calls House meet.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service New Delhi, March 30. Barely a week after it botched up plans to bring in an ordinance over the office-of-profit issue, criticised by the Opposition as a move to bail out Mrs Sonia...

People&Places.
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Tapovan tops at Sothebys NEW YORK Well known Indian painter SH Razas Tapovan fetched an astounding $1.472 million at Sothebys spring sale here, while compatriot Tyeb Mehtas Falling Figure with Bird fetched a...

To render unto Taylor what is his...
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) JONATHAN POWER Charles Taylor came to Nigeria on his own free will, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria explained to me on the phone a few days ago. He was not arrested and he has not been detained. Thus...

No globalisation, please ~ we are French!
March 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Populist posturing comes to a head with Chiracs stealth globalisation, writes Patrick Sabatier Students occupying the Sorbonne, riot police battling demonstrators, cars burning on the chic tree-lined...