Statesman (India) articles from November 2009, page 29

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Visa row hounds yet another Kashmiri.
November 3, 2009... ;Indo-Asian News Service Jammu, 2 Nov: An associate professor of the University of Kashmir was stopped from flying to China by immigration authorities in New Delhi after the Chinese visa was granted to him on a separate document and not on...

SP confident of winning Firozabad.
November 3, 2009... NEW DELHI, 2 NOV: The Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwai Party is aware that there is a good fight ahead in the by-election to the prestigious Firozabad seat in UP, where the SP chiefs daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav has been fielded, but the party...

PMO meet to monitor flagship schemes.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 2 NOV: As part of the exercise to tone up the functioning of ministries and gear up flagship programmes of the UPA government, the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) will undertake an evaluation of their...

Braveheart Rukhsana appointed SPO in J&K.
November 3, 2009... Jammu, 2 Nov: Rukhsana Kausar, who shot into limelight by killing a Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba terrorist, has been appointed as special police officer (SPO) along with her brother and uncle in Jammu and Kashmir Police, a police officer said today. ...

Briefs.
November 3, 2009... Eye on polls KOLKATA, 2 NOV : Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today sought to woo the minorities by explaining that the Trinamul had supported the Vajpayee-government because of political compulsions, but it...

BJPs ideology has become narrow.
November 3, 2009... PATNA, 2 NOV: Ruling out the possibility of returning to the BJP or joining any other party, expelled leader Mr Jaswant Singh today said the ideology of the saffron outfit has become narrow. There is no point in returning to the party which...

Koda quizzed, raids continue for third day.
November 3, 2009... ;Indo-Asian News Service Ranchi, 2 Nov: Former Jharkhand chief minister Mr Madhu Koda, who is faced with allegations of corruption, was interrogated on camera today while the Income Tax department (IT) and enforcement directorate officials...

Nine years gone by, it still goes on...
November 3, 2009... ;Yumnam Rupachandra Imphal, 2 Nov: Come 5 November 2009, Ms Irom Sharmila will have completed nine years of fasting, demanding repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958, which she blames for continued violation of rights by security...

Committee begins probe into IOC fire.
November 3, 2009... ;Press Trust of India Jaipur, 2 Nov: A committee set up by the Petroleum Ministry to probe into the causes of the devastating fire at the IOC depot near here began its inquiry today by visiting the site. The seven-member committee headed...

Drug traffickers held in Rajdhani.
November 3, 2009... PURULIA, 2 NOV: Three people were arrested from the Bhubaneswar-bound New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani express on charges of drug trafficking at Adra railway station in Purulia today. Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel seized 35 kg ganja...

Tenants evicted by Metro seek Mamatas help.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Tenants of two houses have sought the intervention of the railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee after the Metro Railway authorities stopped giving them monthly rent. The tenants who have been...

Get your KMC forms for free.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Forms relating to mutation of buildings, renewal of trade licences, application for birth and death certificates and other work related to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will now be available for...

Medical bills of govt staff under scanner.
November 3, 2009... ;Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Recent reports of state government employees applying for medical reimbursement even after being treated at hospitals and nursing homes not recognised under the West Bengal Health Scheme 2008 have worried the...

A new week, but V-B sees no change of scene.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SANTINIKETAN, 2 NOV: Nearly 100 students of Visva-Bharati agitated in front of its central office and met the V-C after the Karmi Sabha threatened to involve workers deployed in different girls and boys hostels in...

Indian truck drivers assaulted in Bdesh.
November 3, 2009... KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Nearly 500 truck drivers put up a blockade for about three hours on Jessore Road at Petrapole off Bongaon in North 24-Parganas this morning to protest against the attack on some of their colleagues allegedly by Bangladesh truck...

Disabled women continue to live in the dark about their rights.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Most disabled women in the country are unaware of their rights that provide them equal opportunities, Ms Kuhu Das, executive director, Association for Women With Disabilities, said today. According...

Injured rly passenger unattended in hospital.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 2 NOV: A 35-year-old passenger, who fell off a running train near Naihati railway station, was allegedly left unattended for over five hours at Naihati hospital yesterday. Locals have lodged a complaint...

Project stalled owing to faulty design.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has temporarily suspended the work of a Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) project along the Samsul Hooda Road after anomalies were found in the...

Briefs.
November 3, 2009... Emergency landing KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Alliance Air's flight from Kolkata to Aizawl made an emergency landing at NSC Bose airport shortly after take off today because of a hydraulic failure. The flight with 40 persons on board took off from here...

Briefs.
November 3, 2009... Border survey BALURGHAT, 2 NOV: A team from Bangladesh headed by its director general of land record survey Mr Dr M Aslam reached here today for an Indo-Bangla border survey joint meeting to be held from 3 November to 5 November. ;SNS ...

CPM is dictating terms, says FB leader.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 2 OCT: With less than a week to go for the crucial bypolls in the state, the differences in the Left Front has come to the fore again. The Forward Bloc state secretariat member Mr Udayan Guha today said...

Centre takes up initiative to popularise games in rural areas.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 2 NOV: The Centre is adopting steps to popularise kho-kho, kabaddi, swimming and gymnastics in the rural areas of north Bengal. Making an announcement at a Press meet here today, the deputy mayor of...

Womenfolk destroy local liquor shops in Raiganj.
November 3, 2009... RAIGANJ, 2 NOV: Several women of Swarnajayanti groups of Hatia village in Raiganj, armed with lethal weapons, destroyed some shops today, from where country liquor was being sold and gambling was carried on. The group of women started the...

Demand for increased capacity of hospital blood bank.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 2 OCT: The district Congress Seba Dal leadership today organised a sit-in demonstration at Jalpaiguri Sadar hospital campus and submitted a memorandum to the chief medical officer of health Jalpaiguri...

State asked to pay child death compensation.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI 2 NOV: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the West Bengal government to pay up an interim compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the parents of a Siliguri child, who allegedly died of medical...

Couple held for torturing minor help.
November 3, 2009... BALURGHAT, 2 NOV: Police today held a housewife and her husband in Balurghat town for allegedly torturing a nine year-old domestic help. Residents of Bindubasini Road, Collegepara in Balurghat town spotted the girl with burn marks on her...

Four injured in CPM, Congress clash.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, 2 NOV: Four persons were injured when local residents got divided into supporters of CPI-M and Congress over the issue of the right on the possession of ponds here and got involved in a clash at Nauripur...

Weather to affect silk culture.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 2 NOV: Local silk producers and sericulture officials fear that the prevailing cloudy weather in Malda could affect silk production this winter. According to the deputy director, sericulture department in...

Pradesh Cong leaders reject Jyotis appeal.
November 3, 2009... MALDA, 2 NOV: The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee working president, Mr Pradip Bhattacharya today refused to accept CPI-M leader and former chief minister Mr Jyoti Basu's unusual appeal to Congress supporters to vote for Left Front...

Lack of tourist inflow surprises Darjeeling no more.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 2 NOV: Darjeeling, almost devoid of tourists at the peak of the tourism season, no longer occasions an element of surprise. As if it has become a rule rather than an exception over the past few years as the...

Gurung meets Gen Madan.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 2 NOV: The GJMM president, Mr Bimal Gurung (in picture) called on the Centre appointed interlocutor Lt Gen (Retd) Mr Vijay Madan in Darjeeling today amidst questions by some anti-Gorkhaland pressure groups...

Koraput blocks cut off from rest.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KORAPUT, 2 NOV: Trouble-torn Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks in Koraput district have once again been severed from the rest of the state as criminals fell trees to block the road between the block headquarters and...

Hardcore Maoist held.
November 3, 2009... MALKANGIRI, 2 NOV: Malkangiri police claimed to have arrested, Balabhadra Madhi, an alleged hardcore Maoist, involved in many crimes including looting of electronic voting machines (EVMs) during last general elections. The Maoist, aged around...

Cops see murder of jail warder as a challenge.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 2 NOV: Shocked over the gunning down of a jail warder Manas Nayak right in front of the prison here yesterday, the top brass of jail administration said it was a direct challenge by gangsters who want to...

Simlipal reopened for tourists.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BARIPADA, 2 NOV: After closure of around four and half months, the Simlipal National Park has been opened for tourists from yesterday. However, apparently keeping the series of Maoist attacks in mind, as well as, in...

Swine Flu scare in Sundargarh.
November 3, 2009... ;Press Trust of India Rourkela, 2 Nov: With the detection of two Swine Flu cases from students of a tribal resisdential school at Jampallli in Rajgangpur block in Sundargarh district, panic gripped the entire tribal-dominated district. ...

NSEL to launch spot e-trading in state by 15 Nov.
November 3, 2009... ;Press Trust of India New Delhi, 2 Nov: The National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL), a subsidiary of Financial Technologies, plans to launch spot electronic trading in maize in Orissa this fortnight. We will launch the spot e-trading in maize...

Potential of Balasore discussed threadbare.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BALASORE, 2 NOV: The potential of Balasore district ~ tourism, port development, industrial parks ~ was discussed at a function organised by Sambad and Human Development Foundation here. MLA of Bhograi, Mr Ananta...

Lakhs take holy dip on Kartik Purnima.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR/PARADIP/BHADRAK, 2 NOV: Lakhs of devotees today took holy dip across Orissa on the occasion of Kartik Purnima while many floated miniature boats in rivers symbolising the state's ancient maritime glory. ...

Twin blasts kill 37 in Pak.
November 3, 2009... ISLAMABAD, 2 NOV: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy commercial area near the Army's general headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi today, killing at least 34 people, including military personnel. Hours later, two other...

Communal turn to Khanakul violence.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Political violence in Bengal flared up again today and threatened to acquire communal overtones as several people including a policeman sustained gunshot injuries after goons allegedly backed by the...

BRIEFS.
November 3, 2009... Karzai winner KABUL, 2 NOV: Election organisers today declared Hamid Karzai Afghanistans president for a second term, cancelling a one-man Presidential run-off following a diplomatic push led by UN chief Mr Ban Ki-Moon. ;AFP Finance cos ...

Yechury backs Basu appeal.
November 3, 2009... KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Mr Jyoti Basu's unprecedented appeal to Congress supporters yesterday to vote for Left Front candidates in the bypolls to 10 Assembly seats on 7 November evoked sharp reactions today from the Congress and the Trinamul Congress,...

Bonds Gandhigiri.
November 3, 2009... DEHRA DUN, 2 NOV: Writer Ruskin Bond resorted to Gandhigiri to deal with traffic congestion in the hill city of Mussoorie. The 75-year-old writer was spotted with a group of senior citizens offering flowers to motorists and urging them to...

CJI, 20 SC judges declare assets.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 2 NOV: Amid considerable criticism from the legal fraternity and bowing to general public demand, 21 Supreme Court judges, including the Chief Justice of India Mr KG Balakrishnan declared their assets here...

The eternal question.
November 3, 2009... ; Sunipa Basu As the saying goes, to know one's country one has to go abroad. So began our quest to see the New World and understand our own. In August-September, 2009 we were in the USA visiting places like New York City, Washington DC,...

Hypocritical posturing.
November 3, 2009... UDAY BASU The Maoists must be having the last laugh as the CPI-M and the Trinamul Congress spew venom at each other and accuse each other of being Maoist collaborators. The Congress has added one more dimension to the charade by joining...

Security for UN staff sought.
November 3, 2009... United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to all member-states to expedite measures to strengthen security to respond to the dramatically escalated threat against the world body, as witnessed by the deadly attack in Kabul that...

The importance of being Vettori.
November 3, 2009... Agencies ABU DHABI, 2 NOV: New Zealand and Pakistan will both be hoping they can overcome a series of setbacks when they clash in the first of three One-Day Internationals here tomorrow. Since finishing runners-up to Australia in the...

Indo-Pak series ruled out.
November 3, 2009... MOHALI, 2 NOV: The Board of Control for Cricket in India today ruled out an immediate resumption of cricketing contacts with Pakistan but promised to take up the issue next year if it got the go-ahead from the Centre. The Pakistan Cricket Board...

Elite umpires want higher pay.
November 3, 2009... KARACHI, 2 NOV: According to a leaked document of the International Cricket Council, the ICC made alternative arrangements for this year's Twenty20 World Cup in England after veiled threats from its elite panel umpires to skip the competition....

Proteas will be in full bloom.
November 3, 2009... Agence France-Presse JOHANNESBURG, 2 NOV: England's tour of South Africa is going to be huge, according to the South Africa coach, Mr Mickey Arthur (in photo), and he has vowed that his charges won't be caught cold as they were in the recent...

Mohun Bagan shocked.
November 3, 2009... SNS & Agencies BARASAT/CALICUT/MARGAO/SHILLONG, 2 NOV: Mohun Bagan found themselves bitten and East Bengal struggled their way up just a little in today's snakes-and-ladders I-League action across the country, with Chirag United picking...

Kotla scare.
November 3, 2009... NEW DELHI, 2 NOV: Seven live cartridges were found inside Feroze Shah Kotla two hours before the start of a one-day cricket match between India and Australia two days ago, police said today. Police are probing the matter but believe the...

Plucky Australians pull even.
November 3, 2009... Agencies MOHALI 2 NOV: In a match where Indias win would have made them number one in the rankings, Doug Bollinger and Shane Watson shared six wickets as Australia beat India by 24 runs in the fourth one-day international here on Monday to...

Folly fires up Real.
November 3, 2009... ;Pete Jenson THEY had been making fools of themselves all week, so it made a pleasant change for Real Madrid when someone else was left looking silly on Saturday night. Step forward referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz, who took charge of their 2-0...

Briefs.
November 3, 2009... Ranji Trophy The Ranji Trophy's elite division matches start on Tuesday at seven centres, with Bengal meeting Maharashtra at Pune. Mumbai take on Punjab in Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu are pitted against the Railways in New Delhi, Hyderabad host...

More compromises?
November 3, 2009... The West Bengal government says compromise was necessary to get the SankrailO-Creleased from Maoist captivity. Was it? Left leaders, who have always been very vocal about the failures or shortcomings of the opposition, stand exposed with the...

Projecting an orthodox image of India.
November 3, 2009... Is Indias concern over the Nehru-EdwinaHollywood film justified? Many books have been published on Edwina Mountbattensrelationship with JawaharlalNehru.One of them, Indian Summer had been selected by Hollywoods director Joe Wright to form the...

Topics for next week.
November 3, 2009... 1 The OIChas appointed a special envoy for Jammuand Kashmir inviting strong protest from India. Isnt this blatant interference in Indias internal matter? 2 Maoists hijack the RajdhaniExpress despite the presence of the joint forces. Is...

Out of tune.
November 3, 2009... The Congress maintained its winning streak in three states that went to the polls. But what about the BJP,is it a spent force? For a vibrant democracy, it is necessary for the government to be on its toes all the time with the opposition...

100 YEARS AGO TODAY.
November 3, 2009... THE BERIBERIEPIDEMIC To The Editor SIR, ~ When the theory of adulterated mustard oil as the cause of so-called epidemic dropsy or BeriBeri,is so much before the public, I might mention the following facts: In 1906-07 thee were a good many...

Karzai declared winner as run-off scrapped.
November 3, 2009... ;Agence France Presse KABUL, 2 NOV: Election organisers today declared Hamid Karzai Afghan president for a second term, cancelling a one-man Presidential run-off following a diplomatic push led by UN chief Mr Ban Ki-moon. We declare that...

First gay wedding in Parliament will mark equalities victory.
November 3, 2009... ;Michael Savage LONDON, 2 NOV: Mr Chris Bryant, the Europe minister, will become the first gay MP to have a civil partnership within the Parliamentary estate in what will be seen as a symbolic victory for gay rights. Despite his role in...

US: Alarming rise of home grown jihadis.
November 3, 2009... WASHINGTON, 2 NOV: The recent arrest of US citizen David Coleman Headley on charges of plotting a major terrorist attack in India and Denmark reflects an alarming rise in home grown jihadi activities in the country with number of them being...

Briefs.
November 3, 2009... Surgical feat London, 2 Nov: In what's claimed to be a surgical feat, British doctors have carried out the world's first heart operation using radiation technology. A team at Harley Street Clinic in London successfully conducted the...

It was a big mistake to cut down the Huarango.
November 3, 2009... ;Steve Connor LIMA, 2 NOV: At the height of their power, the Nasca had mastered the craft of weaving elaborate textiles and the art of painting fine, multicoloured pottery. They etched giant figures in the desert that only made sense if...

UN pulls out staff from NWFP, tribal areas in Pak.
November 3, 2009... ;Press Trust of India ISLAMABAD, 2 NOV: Citing intense security situation in the region, the United Nations today announced that it was pulling out all but essential international staff from Pakistans northwest and tribal areas. UN...

Maoists scare BSNL staff.
November 3, 2009... ;Pritesh Basu KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Frequent landmine blasts and the "reign of terror" unleashed by the Maoists have made a section of BSNL employees too afraid to carry out projects undertaken by the telecom service provider in various...

DSP gets new chief as TUs fight it out.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, 2 NOV: The ongoing feud between members of rival trade unions continues to affect the steel industry at Durgapur. Amid this trouble Mr PK Bajaj has joined as managing director of Durgapur Steel Plant. The...

Retd inspectors on contract.
November 3, 2009... ;Pranesh Sarkar KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Even as the number of educated unemployed youths has been on an exponential rise over the past two decades, the state government is not getting enough aspirants to fill up the vacant posts of inspectors in the...

Bomb detection training for state and GRP cops.
November 3, 2009... ;Anindita Chowdhury KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Following the siege on Rajdhani Express by the members of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), the state government has floated a proposal for providing bomb detection training to even...

Buddha to visit Midnapore.
November 3, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 2 NOV: The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, will visit Midnapore over the weekend to review law and order and development issues in the districts even as the Maoists increased their area of...

Medical expenses under scanner.
November 3, 2009... ;Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Recent reports of state government employees applying for medical reimbursement even after being treated at hospitals and nursing homes not recognised under the West Bengal Health Scheme 2008 have worried the...

Wealth of natural talent.
November 3, 2009... ;Swapan Mullick If the language of art has undergone a dramatic transformation, the results have not been very evident in Kolkata. This is because only sporadic attempts have been made to expose painters and sculptors to works from other...

Police stations suffer lack of infrastructure.
November 3, 2009... ;Abhisek Roychowdhury KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Although crimes like poaching, smuggling and trafficking of women are on the rise in the rural belts of South 24-Parganas, the lack of infrastructure of law enforcing agencies causes a major hurdle in...

Truck drivers fall prey to illegal subscription.
November 3, 2009... ;Sanjib Chakraborty BASIRHAT, 2 NOV: Forcible collection of puja subscription is continuing round the year near the India-Bangladesh border at Ghojadanga near Basirhat in North 24-Parganas. The truck drivers who come to offload goods from...

Injured rly passenger unattended in hospital.
November 3, 2009... KOLKATA, 2 NOV: A 35-year-old passenger, who fell off a running train near Naihati railway station, was allegedly left unattended for over five hours at Naihati hospital yesterday. Locals have lodged a complaint against the hospital...

Automobile sector rides on sales boom.
November 3, 2009... ; SNS & PTI KOLKATA, 2 NOV: Maruti Suzuki India, today reported a 32.45 per cent jump in total sales at 85,415 units in October compared to the same period last year. Sales in the domestic market grew 21.01 per cent to 71,551 units in...

SEs may extend timings next mth.
November 3, 2009... ; Press Trusts of India NEW DELHI, 2 NOV: The country's two prime bourses, the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, are likely to extend the trading time by two and half hours from next month and a formal notification to...

Banks, FIs under CCI scanner.
November 3, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 2 NOV: Several banks and housing finance companies have come under the scanner of the competition watchdog for imposing penalty on pre-payment of loans. The Competition Commission of India, according to a...

Bill likely to reform coal sector.
November 2, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 1 NOV: A Bill seeking to amend the Mines and Minerals Development Regulation Act, 1957, will be introduced in the winter session of Parliament, coal minister Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal said today. The Bill will help...

Mamata clarifies stand on joint forces.
November 2, 2009... Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 1 NOV: Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today said she was not opposed to the deployment of joint action force to tackle Maoists but what was being done by the Buddhadeb...

Congress-JVM alliance may be finalised soon.
November 2, 2009... Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, 1 NOV: With the countdown for the JharkhandAssembly elections having begun, talks are on between the Congress and the JharkhandVikasManch(JVM),headed by former chief minister Mr BabulalMarandi,and the tie-up...