Statesman (India) articles from November 2009, page 7

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Land Reforms Bill to be withdrawn.
November 26, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA,25 NOV: The WestBengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill 2006 which was introduced and referred to the Select Committee on 27 November 2006 will be withdrawn in the Winter Session of the Assembly, beginning from 30...

Two IPS officers to join Railways.
November 25, 2009... ;SabyasachiRoy KOLKATA,24 NOV: Two senior IPSofficers from West Bengal are going to join the Indian Railways very soon. A Railway Board member said the two senior officers of inspector general rank are already set to leave the state for a...

Briefs.
November 25, 2009... CM slammed KOLKATA, 24 NOV : Miss MamataBanerjee, Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister, accused Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of fomenting trouble by making provocative speeches in Tamluk last Sunday and said that if the situation...

HC asks state to vacate schools in Junglemahal.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News service KOLKATA, 24 NOV: A Division Bench of acting Chief Justice Mr Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Mr Justice Prosenjit Mandal of Calcutta High Court today directed the state government to vacate within a week the two schools in...

Tribal forum to meet Governor.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 24 NOV: Adivasi Bonobasi Adhikar Mancha (ABAM), an umbrella organisation of 18 tribal organisations across the state, has decided to meet the Governor over the issue of under development in tribal area and...

Cong to boycott Buddha visit to Murshidabad.
November 25, 2009... KOLKATA,24 NOV: The state unit of the Congress has threatened to boycott the chief minister, Mr BuddhadebBhattacharjeeduring his visit to Murshidabadon 6 December for a function organised by the Panchayatand rural development department over the...

Officials to expedite welfare projects.
November 25, 2009... ;RajibChatterjee KOLKATA,24 NOV: The state government today instructed the district magistrates of three Maoists infested districts ~ MidnaporeWest, Bankura and Purulia~ to expedite projects for women and children undertaken by it. The...

Boost for the police force.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 24 Nov: In order to boost the morale of police, chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, today handed out bravery awards to 115 police officers along with compensation and insurance policies to family...

Colleges dont think too well of grade system.
November 25, 2009... ;Arunima Ghosh KOLKATA,24 Nov: At a time when the University Grants Commission (UGC) is making grading of colleges compulsory,most colleges in West Bengal dont seem to be very open to the proposition. There are a total of 227 colleges in...

A bandh that hardly was...
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA/TAMLUK,24 NOV : Barring a few incidents of trains being blocked, the SUCI-sponsoredBanglabandhpassed off peacefully today with normal life largely remaining unaffected. More than 250 people were arrested from...

Another V-B case of student neglect.
November 25, 2009... ; Snehamoy Chakraborty SANTINIKETAN, 24 NOV: Visva-Bharati seems to care little for the future of its students as recent developments suggest. The latest in a series of mismanagements is a whimsical decision of the authorities which appears...

Centre says no to funds for new fleet of buses.
November 25, 2009... ;Anindita Chowdhury KOLKATA, 24 NOV: The state governments plans to replace old buses with new ones under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme has hit a stumbling block after the Centre turned down the chief...

Guidelines laid down for pool cars.
November 25, 2009... KOLKATA, 24 NOV: The Public Vehicles Department (PVD) today issued a series of guidelines to the pool cars owners following a meeting between the PVD director and members of the Pool Cars Owners Welfare Association. The meeting was held at the...

Students, policemen injured.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service PANIHATI, 24 NOV: A clash broke out between two groups of students belonging to the SFIand the TrinamulCongress ChattraParishad (TMCP) at the Panihati College this morning. At least five students and four policemen...

Land for Haldia development.
November 25, 2009... ;Biswabrata Goswami HALDIA, 24 NOV: Trinamul Congress MP Mr Subhendu Adhikari, who had once protested against the land acquisition drive of Haldia Development Authority (HDA) in Nandigram and unleashed a relentless anti-land acquisition...

Labour unrest paralysing industry town.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service HALDIA, 24 NOV: Where state chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has made it clear that he would go ahead with the industrialisation drive in the state, wage-related labour unrest is continuing unabated at several...

Sex-determination gadgets filling markets.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service TAMLUK, 24 NOV: As the increased availability of China made portable ultrasound machines has given rise to genuine fears about their likely misuse for sex determination tests in Midnapore East district, the district...

No ambiguity in family pact over gas price.
November 25, 2009... ; Our Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, 24 NOV: Barring the single issue of absence of a bankable agreement, there was no ambiguity in the family reorganisation pact over price of gas, tenure and quantity of natural gas to be supplied by...

CBI files second chargesheet in Satyam scam.
November 25, 2009... Press Trust of India HYDERABAD, 24 NOV: The CBI today filed second chargesheet in the multi-crore rupee Satyam scam against the founder chairman of the company, B Ramalinga Raju, and others, including recently arrested internal auditor of the...

Dunlop to reopen on 2 Dec.
November 25, 2009... KOLKATA, 24 NOV: Dunlop India today said production at its Shahgunj plant in Hooghly district will resume on 2 December. The plant would reopen with an initial production of 40 ton per day of OTR tyres with 1,039 workers, company officials...

Panel to smoothen fund inflows.
November 25, 2009... NEW DELHI, 24 NOV: The finance ministry has constituted a working group to recommend changes in the existing policies on FIIs flows and participatory notes, with a view to attract more foreign portfolio investments. The move comes despite the...

Bank of India cuts deposit rates.
November 25, 2009... ; Press Trust of India MUMBAI, 24 NOV: Public sector lender, Bank of India today reduced deposit rates in select maturities by 0.25 per cent with effect from Friday. Deposits having a maturity of 180 days to 269 days will now offer 5.75 per...

PM invites US investments.
November 25, 2009... ; Press Trust of India WASHINGTON, 24 NOV: Promising to push economic reforms, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has invited US investors to tap enormous opportunities in sectors such as infrastructure, energy and agriculture, exuding...

RIL reopens 900 oil pumps.
November 25, 2009... ; Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 24 NOV: The Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries has reopened about two-thirds of its 1,432 petrol pumps in the country and is selling about 2,000 kl of auto fuel per day, RIL president (refinery business)...

Helping students help themselves.
November 25, 2009... The UK Education Exhibition 2009 organised by the British Council offered those keen on studying in Britain all the information they could possibly ask for. Sudipta Dey reports THE British Council recently organised a two-day exhibition...

Realise your potential.
November 25, 2009... The demand for animators is multiplying in an industry that can literally draw ones salary. And the Zee Institute of Creative Animation has the wherewithal to sharpen your skills, says Kamalika Bhattacharya WITH the avowed aim to help a...

Dream children.
November 25, 2009... Ex-Xavierians turned up on Childrens Day to pay tribute. Payal Shah reports ON Childrens Day a bunch of ex-Xavierians of the 1986 batch showed their gratitude to teachers by donating Rs 2 crore, which they managed to raise. Nearly 90 of the...

The way of all reforms.
November 25, 2009... The Central Board of Secondary Education is pioneering a system that will make it more difficult to fail than pass the board examinations, writes Ardhendu Chatterjee ITS music to the ears of students. The Central Board of Secondary Education...

Can Parents White Lies Harm Kids?
November 25, 2009... London, 24 Nov: Most parents lie to their children almost as a matter of routine, but it can weaken the trust between them and their kids, a US study has warned. The study led by Dr Gail Heymanof the University of California is based on...

Special Article.
November 25, 2009... Good earth up for grabs~II Food Security & Forest Cover Must Get Priority By Bibekananda Ray Globalisation has significantly influenced India's industrial policies and practices. Models of holistic development, envisaged and...

Good earth up for grabs~II.
November 25, 2009... ; Bibekananda Ray Globalisation has significantly influenced India's industrial policies and practices. Models of holistic development, envisaged and practisedby Mahatma Gandhi, RabindranathTagore,Jayaprakash Narayan,VinobaBhave.and...

Exchanging ideas.
November 25, 2009... THE Vice-President, also chairman of the Rajya Sabha, may be referring to an ideal situation where members of the House are allowed the freedom to take individual positions, regardless of party lines, in order to arrive at what may be considered...

Renegades return.
November 25, 2009... FAIR-WEATHER friends have reached a parting of the ways. Aside from the rout of the Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the third striking feature of the UP result is the end of Kalyan Singhs flirtation with the SP and his swingback...

Muted protest.
November 25, 2009... SENIOR CPI leaders like AB Bardhan see the writing on the wall after the by-elections and try to echo the negative vibes but are in no position to carry their protest to its logical conclusion. After targeting the CPI-M and suggesting drastic...

Edits.
November 25, 2009... Exchanging ideas Independent minds and party lines THE Vice-President, also chairman of the Rajya Sabha, may be referring to an ideal situation where members of the House are allowed the freedom to take individual positions, regardless of...

Met dept blamed for poor monsoon prediction.
November 25, 2009... NEW DELHI, 24 NOV: The Union agriculture ministry and the meteorological department have come in for severe criticism from the Lok Sabhasestimates committee for slack functioning, poor management of drought, tracking the monsoon situation and...

HC refuses to stay Amar arrest in contracts case.
November 25, 2009... ;Press Trust of India ALLAHABAD, 24 NOV: In a set back to Samajwadi Party general secretary Mr Amar Singh, Allahabad High Court today refused to grant stay on his arrest in connection with an FIR accusing him of amassing Rs 500 crore by...

New HRD secy takes charge.
November 25, 2009... NEW DELHI, 24 NOV: An IASofficer of the 1976 batch, Ms VibhaPuriDas,today took charge as secretary, higher education, in the human resource development ministry. Prior to this, Ms Daswas additional secretary in the department of personnel and...

People against resumption of talks with Pak: India.
November 25, 2009... ;Indo-Asian News Service WASHINGTON, 24 NOV: On the eve of the first 26/11 anniversary, India has made it clear that the present situation is not conducive for the resumption of dialogue with Pakistan in the absence of Islamabad's action...

Funds crunch not to hit Ukhand progress.
November 25, 2009... DEHRA DUN, 24 NOV: The chief minister of Uttarakhand, Dr Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank, made it clear today that funds crunch will not come in the way of development in Uttarakhand and charged the Union government for overlooking the interests of...

Nikam to rest case before 26 November.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service Mumbai, 24 NOV: Chief prosecutor in 26/11 trial Mr Ujwal Nikam today said he would like to wind up his argument against three Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba accused Ajmal Kasab, Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed by the first...

Briefs.
November 25, 2009... NPCIL goes critical Mumbai, 24 Nov: The fifth unit of Rajasthan Atomic Power Project at Rawatbhata went critical today, declared Nuclear Power Corporation of India this afternoon. The 220 MW pressurized heavy water reactor indigenously...

Brawl and bonhomie mark RS proceedings.
November 25, 2009... a;Statesman News Service & Agencies New Delhi, 24 NOV: There was much bonhomie in the RajyaSabhathis afternoon following an unseemly brawl over a religious slogan that had disrupted the House earlier in the day after home minister Mr P...

Kalyan Singh dubs Liberhan report a political conspiracy.
November 25, 2009... New Delhi/BHUBANESWAR, 24 Nov: Mr Kalyan Singh, who was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babari mosque was razed, said he suspected a "political conspiracy" behind the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry that has severely indicted leaders of...

India has not changed stand on climate.
November 25, 2009... New Delhi, 24 NOV: India has taken a credible and consistent position in international negotiations on climate change, minister of state for environment and forests Mr Jairam Ramesh said here today. In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Mr...

Eye on polls, Nitish doles out goodies.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service Patna, 24 NOV: In what could be termed as a pre-poll exercise aimed at consolidating his vote bank ahead of next years Assembly elections, the Bihar chief minister Mr Nitish Kumar today made a slew of announcements for...

Briefs.
November 25, 2009... President visit on 7 Dec KOLKATA, 24 Nov: President Mrs Pratibha Patil will visit the city on 7 December to attend a function of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics scheduled for 8 December. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA...

Colleges dont think too well of grade system.
November 25, 2009... ;Arunima Ghosh KOLKATA,24 Nov: At a time when the University Grants Commission (UGC) is making grading of colleges compulsory,most colleges in West Bengal dont seem to be very open to the proposition. There are a total of 227 colleges in...

Guidelines laid down for pool cars.
November 25, 2009... KOLKATA, 24 NOV: The Public Vehicles Department (PVD) today issued a series of guidelines to the pool car owners following a meeting between the PVD director and members of the Pool Car Owners Welfare Association. The meeting was held at the...

Centres no to funds for new buses.
November 25, 2009... ;Anindita Chowdhury KOLKATA, 24 NOV: The state governments plan to replace old buses with new ones under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme has hit a stumbling block after the Centre turned down the chief...

Students, cops hurt in college clash.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service PANIHATI, 24 NOV: A clash broke out between two groups of students belonging to the SFIand the TrinamulCongress ChhatraParishad (TMCP) at Panihati College this morning. At least five students and four policemen were...

A bandh that hardly was...
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA/TAMLUK,24 NOV : Barring a few incidents of trains being blocked, the SUCI-sponsoredBanglabandhpassed off peacefully today with normal life largely remaining unaffected. More than 250 people were arrested from...

The French connection...
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KOLKATA,24 NOV: The West Bengal government is open to the idea of working with its French counterpart in areas of food processing and renewable energy, said Mr Jerome Bonnafont,Ambassador of France to India, after...

SUCI bandh total in Siliguri.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 24 NOV: The SUCI sponsored 12-hour bandh had a major impact in Siliguri today. SUCI activists brought out a rally in support of the bandh in the town and tried to set up a roadblock at Hashmi Chowk but the...

Regularisation of DGHC workers illegal.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 24 NOV: Terming the state government-initiated job regularisation process for the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council casual workers as illegal, the anti-Gorkhaland pressure groups have demanded a thorough...

Interim council for tripartite talks on way: Madan.
November 25, 2009... KURSEONG, 24 NOV: The All India Gorkha League chief, Mr Madan Tamang said today that media statements issued by the GJMM spokesperson Mr Harka Bahadur Chettri indicates that a proposal for an interim council was being prepared for the tripartite...

Man behind manufacturing explosives in Malda nabbed.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 24 NOV: Police today arrested Jahangir Momin in connection with assembling and manufacturing remote controlled improvised explosive device, from a house in Pirpur village under the Ratua police station in Malda...

CP threatens agitation, demands questions in Hindi, Nepali.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 24 NOV: Demanding question papers at the North Bengal University in Hindi and Nepali languages, the Chhatra Parishad has decided to demonstrate at the NBU on 27 November. According to the Chattra...

Junior docs condemn Opp agitation at NBMCH.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SILIGURI, 24 NOV: The Junior Doctors Council and the SFI-led students union attached to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital staged a condemnation rally at the medical college premises today, protesting...

Authorities await funding approval for anti-erosion work.
November 25, 2009... MALDA, 24 NOV: The irrigation department is waiting for funds to begin anti-erosion work on the banks of Fulohar at Bhaluka in Harishchandrapur. The department will soon float a tender so that the project can be delegated to a competent...

Illegal seed cultivation may affect agriculture.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service RAIGANJ, 24 NOV: Bodo paddy and wheat production in North Dinajpur could suffer this year, as seed merchants are not selling government certified seed. The problem is particularly acute in Islampur sub-division of the...

Briefs.
November 25, 2009... Robbery MALDA, 24 NOV: Criminals looted cash worth Rs 15,000 from a vegetable seller Bikram Dass residence in English Bazaar town today. Police have started an investigation. None has been arrested so far. ;SNS Man killed RAIGANJ, 24...

Buxa to introduce captive tiger breeding.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 24 NOV: The chief conservator of forest wildlife north, Dr S Patel today said that forest department is contemplating captive breeding of tigers at the Buxa Tiger Reserve to maintain the population of the...

Dearth of LPG triggers tension in Balurghat.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BALURGHAT, 24 NOV: LPG crisis has broken out in Balurghat, South Dinajpur district, While the consumers allege the crisis is artificial and the handiwork of a section of LPG distributors, the dealers say their mother...

Cong takes up new strategy to revive support base.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 24 NOV: Jolted into a serious political crisis following electoral subs in the wake of the recently held by elections in the hitherto deemed comfort zone in north Bengal the Congress leadership has decided...

No compensation for chicken losers yet.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service MALDA, 24 NOV: The district animal resource.63 development (ARD) department had prepared a list of more than 6,000 families who would be compensated with Rs 500 each for rearing chicken after culling operation, when...

Security plans for rly stations await implementation.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service JALPAIGURI, 24 NOV: The director general of Railway Protection Force (RPF), Mr Ranjit Sinha admitted that they have not been able to complete the Integrated Security Project that they had initiated one year ago, to...

Luxemburg ambassador inaugurates school at Pedong.
November 25, 2009... SILIGURI, 24 NOV: The ambassador of Luxemburg to India, Mr Mark Court inaugurated a school at Pedong in Kalimpong sub-division yesterday. The school would cater to the education requirements for the students residing in the rural areas. This is...

Exhibition match to replace friendly match in Siliguri.
November 25, 2009... SILIGURI, 24 NOV: The Siliguri Mahakuma Krira Parishad today gave up its plan to organise a friendly match between a Mayor's XI and Veterans XI at the Kanchenjungha Stadium in Siliguri tomorrow to commemorate the first death anniversary of the...

SMC not to issue fresh bar licenses.
November 25, 2009... SILIGURI, 24 NOV: The Siliguri Municipal Corporation will not permit fresh liquor bars in the town, at least for now, mayor, Miss Gangotri Datta, said today alleging the existing bar-cum-restaurants in Siliguri were indulging in illegal...

Ziani village finds hope in Chatshali.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BARIPADA, 24 NOV: The school drop-out children and others, who have been deprived of school education till now in tribal-dominated Ziani village, about five km away from the district headquarters town, now have a ray...

Under-staffed PS a cause for concern.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service PURI, 24 NOV: Known to be a sensitive place, Kanas area in Puri district is witnessing further deterioration in the law and order situation, due to shortage of staff in the police station, as well as in Mandarbast...

Left parties protest against BJD & UPA.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 24 NOV: The Left parties flagged off their nation-wide campaign against price rice, drought and farmer suicides, by holding both the centre and the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government responsible for the...

BPUT foundation day observed at Rourkela.
November 25, 2009... ROURKELA, 24 NOV: Indians are capable of handling any emergency situation, including natural calamities. In fact we are better equipped than most people across the world, observed Dr T Ramasami, Padmasree and Secretary Science and Technology...

Giving prisoners a second chance.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service DHENKANAL, 24 NOV: The inmates of Dhenkanal district jail will be engaged in weaving sarees for the Accredited Social Health Activists (Asha), who are working under the NRHM. The prisoners would be imparted training...

Trackers deployed to trace elephants.
November 25, 2009... DHENKANAL, 24 NOV: Dhenkanal forest division has deployed two teams of trackers at different places to track the movement of marauding elephants. The teams were constituted in the wake of human causalities and destruction of property in the...

No students in govt-run primary schools.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, 24 NOV: To the utter misfortune of education system in India, several government-run primary schools in this part of the state, have had almost zero student enrolment for the past few years. This...

Socio-economic panel to look into development.
November 25, 2009... BHUBANESWAR, 24 NOV: The government plans to set up a panel of consultants who will prepare the socio-economic report in relation to industrial development in the state, informed revenue and disaster management minister, Mr Surjya Narayan Patro....

Power sector improvement on priority list.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 24 NOV: As part of the system improvement in power sector, as many as 8,445 transformers have either been installed or replaced with new ones, in the last five years. While Cesu has installed/replaced...

14 fishemen still missing post Phyan.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 24 NOV: Fourteen fishermen from Sundergarh have yet not been traced after they had gone missing with their trawlers trapped in Phyan, a cyclone that struck the Arabian Sea off the Goa coast on 11 November....

3264 villages drought-hit, govt seeks assistance.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 24 NOV: The state government, which has drawn flak from all quarters for dilly dallying over the drought assessment reports today declared that 3264 villages spread across 15 districts of the state and 41...

Vigilance raid unearths crores.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, 24 NOV: In a disproportionate asset case, said to be one of its kind, in the state, the state vigilance department detected that a junior MVI, posted at Girisola check gate, has invested more than Rs 2...

PUCL pleads police to end its reign of terror.
November 25, 2009... BHUBANESWAR, 24 NOV: The Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) expressed serious concern over the ongoing police repression and brutalities on the adivasis and members of Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS), in Narayanpatna block of Koraput...

Army event a huge draw in Sambalpur.
November 25, 2009... ;Statesman News Service SAMBALPUR, 24 NOV: It was a memorable day for Sambalpur today, as the Know your Army programme was staged there, at the VSS stadium, with more than 300 Army officers and staff. The intention behind holding such a...