Statesman (India) articles from November 2005

Statesman (India) archives from November 2005

Life sentence for Nanoor accused.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) BOLPUR, Nov. 29. Mr Gour Shankar Bandopadhyay, additional sessions judge of Bolpur court, today pronounced the judgment in a murder case that took place on 18 June, 1999 at Nanoor. Naresh Mondal and his...

Adhir wife gets anticipatory bail.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Nov. 29 The Division Bench of Mr Justice DP Sengupta and Mr Justice SK Gupta of Calcutta High Court today granted anticipatory bail to Mrs Arpita Chowdhury, wife of Mr Adhir Chowdhury, Congress MP...

Mangrove seedlings on char land.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29 The Sunderban Development Board for the first time will plant mangrove seedlings on the char land covering an area of 8116 acres in South 24-Parganas to combat tsunami....

Squatters fall in line.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29 The Ballygunge-Tollygunge Rail Colony Joutha Sangram Committee leaders claimed that they have so far collected applications as prescribed by Calcutta High Court from...

IIT told to devise development plan.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29. The paschimanchal unnayan parishad has asked IIT Kharagpur to devise a prospective socio-economic plan for the five districts of the state: West Midnapore, Bankura,...

Bihar poll makes CPM sit up.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29 The CPI-M may not want the Election Commission to do a Bihar in Bengal, but Mr Nitish Kumars victory has forced the party to have a second look at Muslim voters in the...

Waterlogging adds to harvesting woes.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Shyam Sundar Roy in Midnapore Nov. 29. Harvesting of aman paddy on hundreds of acres at about 60 villages in Panskura I, II and Sahid Matangini blocks in the flood-ravaged Midnapore East district is affected...

Corporate hand for development.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Sukanta Goswamy in Haldia Nov. 29. As a part of its corporate social responsibility through community development programme, Haldia Refinery of IOCL has extended a supporting hand to the local institutions...

Without a guardian...
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Arunima Bera in Kolkata Nov. 29. As posts of librarians lie vacant libraries are becoming defunct in several government schools, including prominent ones, in the city and the districts. Hindu School of 1817,...

Maoists disown threat letter.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BEHRAMPORE, Nov. 29 The threat letter reportedly issued by the CPI(Maoist) to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Murshidabad, has triggered protests by Maoists based in Burdwan, Birbhum,...

Bail rejected in Angaria case.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, Nov. 29 Hearing of cases relating to the 2001 Chhoto Angaria mass killings accused, Tapan Ghosh, CPI-Ms Midnapore West district committee member, Sukur Ali, partys Garbeta...

New parking zones this Christmas.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29. By Christmas, Kolkatas parking spaces would be divided into three zones, each with a slab of parking fee, replacing the existing uniform fee for all 51 parking...

Growth poles to lift West Bengal.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Mukesh Ranjan in New Delhi Nov. 29. The National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) has firmed up a scheme called growth pole for catalysing production and employment opportunities...

Sensex reflects economic fundamentals: PC.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. With Sensex crossing a new landmark of 9,000 points, Union finance minister, Mr P Chidambaram today said the market movement was orderly and it reflected the strong...

Shetty chosen social entrepreneur.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has selected Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences for his...

PM envisages 10% growth.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. With an appropriate combination of policies, Indias current economic growth rate can go beyond eight per cent, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh said today in...

Scale up size to meet competition.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. The government today advised the Indian food processing industry to scale up the size of their operations and focus on food safety to face competition from global...

To diet for.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) While French fries and chocolate mousse have their obvious appeal, following a balanced diet makes sense, particularly if you do not want to get anaemia or gastritis by the time you are 25, says Sayanti...

Jabberwocky.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Samantak Das Songs of innocence As the electric train drew into the platform, I could see the passengers hanging from the sides, clutching single-mindedly to the pole that neatly bisects each pair of large...

Notice Board.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Master of argument HARSH Adithya Poddar, a third-year student of NUJS, has proved to be quite a trailblazer in the debating circuit. Harsh was ranked among the top ten ESL debaters of the world, as well as...

Kashmir Concerns.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Its not as if the college-going crowd in the rest of India are insensitive to whats happening in the Valley, but most of them do not how or where to begin, write Nisha Karunakaran and Shonel Sen A battle...

NATIONAL ALTERNATIVE -By Rajinder Puri.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) The Volcker Report demolished the governments credibility. The Bihar elections destroyed its authority. The Supreme Court judgment eroded its legality. This government is history. What lies ahead? The voters...

Mountain lines.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Package them for tourists The minister of state for railways was moving down a siding when suggesting that the Tamil Nadu government promote a Nilgiris Mountain Odyssey, at the core of which would be the...

Outward march.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Theres a hint, but is there a will? The hint of a US troop pullout from Iraq, or at least a dramatic reduction in strength, is the strongest indication yet of the White Houses intention of a reversal of...

Revolt in BNP.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Khaleda helpless to handle it The recent expulsion of ruling BNPs influential sitting MP Abu Hena from the party by its chairperson Begum Zia shows that cracks have appeared within the largest constituent of...

Sadhu Yadav on Vigilance radar.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Patna, Nov. 29. - Bihar's Vigilance Bureau today decided to issue a notice to Mr Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav, the brother-in-law of railway minister Mr Lalu Prasad, seeking an explanation on an alleged...

'Eastern front to be a problem soon'.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. - The 4,095-km-long India-Bangladesh border is going to create more problems for India than the India-Pakistan border on the western front, the director-general of...

CBI scotches Salem rumours.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. - The CBI director, Mr US Mishra, today put an end to all speculation about Abu Salem turning an approver. He categorically said that the agency would not consider...

CBI chief optimistic about probe into Dawood-drug mafia nexus.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) New Delhi, Nov. 29. - Assuring all help to catch Dawood Ibrahim, who is a specially designated 'global terrorist' in the United States, the CBI today termed the US move to probe Dawood's links with the drug...

Thackeray slams Raj in Saamna.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Mumbai, Nov. 29. - Instead of reprimanding his nephew openly, the Shiv Sena chief Mr Bal Thackeray wrote a curt editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna asking Mr Raj Thackeray why his...

BJP MLA, 6 others shot in Uttar Pradesh.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Ghazipur, Nov. 29. - BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai and six of his supporters were today gunned down in a suspected gang war near a village, around 100 km from Varanasi, while they were on their way to a marriage...

Shivraj sworn in.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Bhopal, Nov. 29. - Mr Shivraj Singh Chauhan (46) was today sworn in as the Madhya Pradesh chief minister. He said after being sworn in that his ministry would be formed before the winter session of the...

Domestic violence scars 1 in every 5 women.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. - One in every five women, or almost five crore married women in India, are victims of domestic violence from the age of 15. And, less than 0.1 per cent of such cases are reported and...

292 expecting mothers in Karbi camps.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) GUWAHATI, Nov. 29. - As many as 292 expecting mothers are still languishing at relief camps, along with over 22,000 other violence-hit tribal people, in Karbi Anglong. The Assam government is yet to take any...

Rajya Sabha rejects NDA motion on Volcker report.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) New Delhi, Nov. 29. - Rajya Sabha tonight rejected a BJP-sponsored motion on the Volcker issue with the government asserting that no one would be spared if the Justice Pathak Inquiry Authority found any...

Govt had no information on blasts.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. - Brushing aside the question of negligence on the part of security and Intelligence agencies, the Centre today admitted in Lok Sabha that it had no prior...

India Briefs.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) RS okays Disaster Management Bill NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. - Rajya Sabha today approved the Disaster Management Bill, 2005, that seeks to establish an institutional mechanism at national, state and district levels...

Nitish plays status card, says 'backward' Bihar needs special treatment.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India Patna, Nov. 29. - Asserting that Bihar deserves special treatment in view of its multi-faceted problems, the state's new chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, said today that apart from...

Intuc resents hotel transfer.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29. Mr Subrata Mukherjee, general secretary, Intuc, today protested against the transfer of 90 per cent stakes of Great Eastern Hotel to Bharat Hotels Ltd. He said that he...

Park at New Rates.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29. By Christmas, Kolkatas parking spaces would be divided into three zones, each with a slab of parking fee, replacing the existing uniform fee for all 51 parking...

Toddler awaits proof of his birth.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Pranesh Sarkar in Kolkata Nov. 29. A two-year-old toddler does not legally exist, according to the authorities in Kolkata, because the hospital where he was born is yet to record his birth. In yet another...

Woman dragged to death as bus races bus.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Nov. 29. A woman in her 40s became the latest victim of rash driving in the city when she was mowed down by a bus while she was trying to cross a road today. The unidentified woman, who was wearing a...

LPG distributors threaten closure.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29. Blaming shortage of supply for the current crisis of liquefied petroleum gas cylinders, the All India LPG Distributors Federation (east circle) threatened to launch...

Eden Gardens to reopen.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29. Eden Gardens park will reopen to the public from mid-December after a nine-month closure, possibly for free. The gardens fall within the citys blue zone, which is...

Missing duo traced to Ayodhya.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Nov. 29. Two boys who went missing from their house in the Narkeldanga police station area were found at Ayodhya railway station this morning. Police said Barun Kumar (9) and Arun Kumar Gupta (5)...

Sleuths to train in cyber policing.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Nov. 29. Cops of the Criminal Investigation Department would soon be trained on policing cyber crimes and other white-collar crimes involving the IT sector. Proposed by...

Mystery of manhole covers.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Amitava Das in Kolkata Nov. 29. Thieves are prowling the city streets, stealing manhole covers, leaving gaping holes across Kolkata. Officials suspect the 208 kg cast iron lids, worth Rs 3,800, are sold in...

Bail rejected in Chhoto Angaria case.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MIDNAPORE, Nov. 29. Hearing of cases relating to the 2001 Chhoto Angaria mass killings accused, Tapan Ghosh, CPI-Ms Midnapore West district committee member, Sukur Ali, partys Garbeta...

For want of a librarian.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Arunima Bera in Kolkata Nov. 29. Libraries are becoming defunct in several government schools, including prominent ones, in the city and the districts as the posts of librarians are lying vacant. Hindu...

Close shave for minister.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Nov. 29. Mr Amar Chaudhuri, state PWD minister, narrowly escaped an accident when a truck coming from the opposite direction hit the ministers pilot car near the Rasoolpur crossing, about 5 km from...

Trinamul divided over no-trust.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, Nov. 29 The councillors board meeting held today in Malda indicated that a section of Trinamul Congress leaders is not willing to support a no-confidence motion against the...

District Trinamul chief alleges discrepancies in voters list.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Nov. 29. The Cooch Behar district president of Trinamul Congress, Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh, has alleged that the photograph of a dead man has replaced his photo in the...

Now Hanuman in Kalimpong!
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KALIMPONG, Nov. 29. The Monkey God, in Kalimpong is all set to get a new lease of life. A samiti here will be installing a nine-ft tall statue of Lord Hanuman in the premises of...

Auto nuisance back in Siliguri.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Nov. 29. Auto-rickshaws in Siliguri, most of them crowded beyond capacity, are back to their old nuisance of rash driving and haphazard parking in the middle of the roads....

Teachers concern over growing private schools.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Nov. 29. The Jalpaiguri district conference of the Sara Bangla Prathamik Shikshak Samity (SBPSS) was held at Mahabir Hindi High School in Birpara on Sunday. Around 258...

Will Sania grace Siliguri?
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Nov. 29. Will she or wont she? The announcement made by former Davis Cup captain and technical director of Videocon Challenge Tennis Tournament, Mr Jaidip Mukherjea that...

Cops on a different high as they nab drug pedlars.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Nov. 29. Marijuana worth Rs 14-lakh was seized by Baxirhat police from a Kolkata bound lorry coming from Nagaland. The huge quantity of marijuana was concealed in a hidden...

Sikha wants equal opportunity for tennis players.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Nov. 29. Tennis star Sikha Uberoi feels that the media should not promote tennis as a whole and not just a player. Soon after her arrival here today, Sikha, who played her...

New president takes charge of DAV.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KORAPUT, Nov. 29. Leading advocate and one of the oldest students of DAV College of Koraput Mr TN Murty was selected unanimously as the new president of the Alumni and Parents...

HCC engineer killed in firing.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, Nov. 29. Mumtaj Ali, a diploma engineer of Hindusthan Construction Company, was killed and another person Nilamadhab Siya was injured when police fired at a mob which...

CM orders executive probe.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Nov. 29. Chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik today ordered an administrative probe by the revenue divisional commissioner, Central Division, into the circumstances under which police had to fire at...

Naxalite threats expose governments failure to take action.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) CPI (Maoist) accuses ruling and Opp parties of doing nothing for downtrodden & scheduled castes Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Nov. 29. The state governments repeated failure to check inroads made by...

House stalled over tender scam.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Nov. 29. Accusing the chief minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, for using the Crime Branch to shield himself and the ruling party leaders involved in the tender-fixing scam, the...

PDS for BPL families prove inactive.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News service NAWARANGPUR, Nov. 29. The PDS is becoming inaccessible for thousands of people in the tribal-dominated districts as the unscrupulous traders have struck a deal with Civil Supplies...

Workshop held for filarial awareness.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, Nov. 29. The collection of blood samples for detection of filarial patients is often done at the wrong time by the health workers resulting in the non-detection of the...

Irregular salary affects leprosy eradication programme.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PHULBANI, Nov. 29. Irregular payment of salary to the employees for months has affected the National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) in Kandhamal district, where the leprosy rate...

Oranges take life.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) BERHAMPUR, Nov. 29. A person had to pay with his life for stealing only two oranges. Sitaram Moharana (26) of Sunapalli village under Aska police station never knew that the two oranges he stole would lead to...

Congress demands CBI probe into tender-fixing scandal.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman news Service JAGATSINGHPUR, Nov. 29. Congress leaders demonstrated in front of the collectorate here and staged road-blockade demanding a CBI probe into the tender-fixing scandal while alleging...

Security beefed up for todays tribal Mahameli.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News service JAJPUR, Nov 29. Jajpur police have stepped up vigil at Kalinga Nagar, the industrial hub of the state, and its nearby villages in view of tomorrows Mahameli a call given by tribals...

Golden Peacock Award 2005 for Rourkela Steel Plant.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service ROURKELA, Nov. 29. The Institute of Directors (IOD), has awarded the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), with the prestigious Golden Peacock Award 2005. The IOD under the chairmanship of...

Ministers take too much.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Nov. 29. A sum of more than Rs 64 lakh has been spent from the state exchequer towards the travelling expenses of chief minister and other ministers during the last two...

Minister admits inter-state border disputes.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Nov. 29. Orissa has disputes over as many as 75 villages bordering the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal, revenue minister, Mr Manmohan...

Nalco and NMDC sign agreement on nickel plant.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Nov. 29. The National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) today signed an agreement with the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) for sharing the rights of the Nickel Technology Proving...

Dalmiya demolished in his den.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Elora Sen in Kolkata Nov. 29. Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya has been humbled on home turf. But he may not be the only one licking his wounds the out-of-form and under pressure Sourav Ganguly too has lost one of his...

Uma does it again.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & PTI BHOPAL/NEW DELHI, Nov. 29. Exactly a year after she was suspended from the BJP for daring party president Mr LK Advani to take action against her, Miss Uma Bharati received a show-cause notice from...

Big B better.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, Nov. 29. Amitabh Bachchan, who was admitted to Leelavati Hospital here following a complaint of abdominal pain, is better, hospital sources said. PTI

Terms of endearment.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was reported to have asked at a meeting of business leaders in October, Why do we need Wal-Mart to come? Thats a good question, which Wal-Mart has yet to...

Port of call-by Md Saeedur Rahman.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperations (Saarc) 13th summit concluded on 13 November. But before that it visibly awakened the South Asian region and even beyond to the necessity for a closer...

Indias turnaround in one-dayers stunning.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Gary Kirsten IN the end it was a fair, even result. South Africa went away feeling good that they adjusted quickly to Indian conditions and came within a whisker of winning their first-ever series in India....

Akram lashes out at ICC.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India MUMBAI, Nov. 29. Former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram today castigated the International Cricket Council for their lack of coherent policy on chucking and came down hard on them...

Pakistan restrict England.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Angus Fraser When Michael Vaughan informed his England team that he wanted them to build a platform from which they could control the third Test against Pakistan, he did not envisage five of his front-line...

Too little, too late.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) Sudipto Ganguly in Kolkata Nov. 29. It was a victory too little, too late. Mohun Bagan today edged past Mohammedan Sporting by a lone goal, but bowed out of the 111th IFA Shield tournament. Mohun Bagan...

Nel fined.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) MUMBAI, Nov. 29. South African bowler Andre Nel has been fined 20 per cent of his match fee for breaching the International Cricket Council Code of Conduct during the fifth and final one-dayer against India....

India rise to fourth spot.
November 30, 2005... (From The Statesman (India)) DUBAI, Nov. 29. India have risen to the fourth spot in the latest International Cricket Council one-day rankings after thrashing Sri Lanka 6-1 and drawing a series against South Africa, at home. The...