Statesman (India) articles from October 2006

Statesman (India) archives from October 2006

And now, an energy audit.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PURULIA, Oct 30: The West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) will for the first time conduct an energy audit, in association with the public works department, at...

Basu urged to bridge LF gap on Singur.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: The CPI-M state leadership has now turned to its seniormost leader, Mr Jyoti Basu, to bridge differences among Left Front partners over acquisition of agricultural...

Businessman shot dead.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Oct. 30: A 45-year-old businessman, Mijanur Rahman Biswas, was shot dead by a group of criminals at Gangnapur railway station this morning. The incident triggered tension...

Cong calls for action.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: PCC general secretary Dr Manas Bhunia will meet the Union health minister, Mr A Ramadoss, in Delhi tomorrow seeking his intervention to take stern action against...

Reshammiya plans music school in metros.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Mathures Paul LONDON, Oct. 30: Singer Himesh Reshammiya will soon open a Himesh Reshammiya school of music in all four metros, the first school will be opened in Kolkata in two months time, the singer said....

IIT to spread in the east.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Chief Minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will lay the foundation stone of IIT-Kharagpurs second campus at Rajarhat on 7 November. IIT-Kharagpur plans to set up three...

Canning ride in jeopardy.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Travelling along the Canning ~ Golabari road in South 24-Parganas has become a nightmare for the commuters these days. The 17-km stretch of the road is in bad shape...

Potential tourist hubs remain in obscurity.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Several locations, which can easily be converted into a tourists paradise, are lying neglected in the North 24-Parganas, as the district administration has taken almost no...

Police not competent enough...
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) railway crime records rise Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Lack of proper coordination between the district and railway police has resulted in the increase of criminal activities within the railway...

Brief.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Accidents One person died and another was injured in separate accidents in the city today. An unidentified 60-year-old porter was killed after being hit by a speeding bike on Armenian Street-Brabourne Road...

Court raps errant civic bodies.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Mr Justice KJ Sengupta of Calcutta High Court today directed the commissioner of Howrah Municipal Corporation to show cause why action should not be taken against him...

Panel discussion on pain management.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Theatre personality Rudraprasad Sengupta, singer Sriradha Banerjee and the former chief justice of Calcutta High Court, Mr Chittotosh Mukherjee, got together last...

Doctor accused of molesting patient.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Oct. 30: A junior doctor, posted as a house staff in the Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital, has been asked to go on leave by the hospital authorities after a female...

Help sought for Murshidabad.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Left Front leaders from Murshidabad met chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Writers Buildings today to discuss the problems plaguing the district that has recently been ravaged by...

Urban growth centres proposed to save farm land.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: State land and land reforms department is all set to propose optimal use of land even in rural areas to alleviate the growing pressure of human habitation on...

Sensex crosses 13,000 mark.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MUMBAI, Oct. 30: The benchmark Sensitive Index of Bombay Stock Exchange is sizzling. On Monday the 30-stock index vaulted past the 13,000 barrier with ease amid brisk buying in frontline...

UCO Bank pact with Reliance.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Oct. 30: UCO Bank has tied up with Reliance General Insurance for providing accidental insurance to its deposit account holders. Announcing the banks financial results here today, Mr V Sridar,...

HCL launches facility in Uttaranchal.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Oct. 30: HCL Infosystems today launched its manufacturing facility in India at Rudrapur, Uttaranchal. Spread over 10 acres of land in the progressive SIDCUL Industrial Estate at Rudrapur, this...

Government hikes MSP for wheat.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: With an eye on the elections due in the next few months in the farm-lobby dominated Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and a few other states, the government today raised the...

Sails Q2 profit touches Rs 1,443 cr.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & PTI NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: Sail today said its net profit in the second quarter ending 30 September grew by 28 per cent year-on-year to touch Rs 1,443 crore. The performance of the second quarter helped...

Tata Steel net profit up 5.3 per cent.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & PTI KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Tata Steels net profit for the second quarter of the financial year 2006-07 recorded an increase of 5.3 per cent at Rs 1,101.49 crore as compared to Rs 1,045.42 crore for the...

Quest gets ordrers from Magellan Aerospace.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BANGALORE, Oct. 30: The $550 million revenue earning Canadian giant, Magellan Aerospace has placed major orders with the city based Quest for the supply of aerospace components including...

Sleaze on sale.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) But how can we be such hypocrites? We live in an oddly, but utterly hypocritical society. We lament the existence of sleaze rackets and the sex trade, occasionally raid brothels operating from residential...

Good riddance.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) DoNER ministry now in able hands No tears need be shed over Union tribal affairs minister PR Kyndiah being moved out of the ministry for Development of North East Region (DoNER). This being long overdue, the...

Delivery huts.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Mortality issues merit attention Some states, it seems, are finally adopting people-friendly measures to bring down maternal and child mortality rates. Haryana has taken the lead with a small project aimed at...

History of J&K~II.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Gulab Singh expanded from Rawalpindi to Minsar ~ all except Srinagar Valley Subroto Roy Gulab Singh, an in-trepid soldier, by 1820 had Jammu conferred upon him by Ranjit Singh with the title of Raja, while...

Kashmiris Turn To Internet To Find Partners.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India SRINAGAR, Oct. 29: Kashmiris have increasingly started turning to the world-wide web to find matches for their sons and daughters as traditional ways of arranging marriages have become a...

Protect scribes from libel action.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Sir, ~ Indian scribes, like their counterparts in Britain and the USA, deserve protection from libel proceedings in their investigative journalism, especially involving public figures. The report, Scribes...

Special Article.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Prized & forgotten The Legacy Of Sardar Patel By Jagmohan Today (October 31) is Sardar Patel's birth anniversary. Warm tributes will be paid to him for his manifold services to the nation. But few may...

Russia Declares.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Oct. 30: Anton Chekhov once described vodka as a colourless drink that 'paints your nose red and blackens your reputation'. What the Russian playwright did not say was that if you are...

Edits.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) FS looks east From Bhutan to a 'very important state' The foreign secretary's first offshore exercise in Bhutan last week ~ the onshore detour to Gopalan Bhavan was an aberration ~ was remarkable as he was...

SC upholds firing of Statesman staffer.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: The Supreme Court today dismissed a Special Leave Petition filed by a newspaper employee who had refused to attend an electrical fault with a printing press on the...

Briefs.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Four killed in Ogni cyclone HYDERABAD, Oct. 30: Four persons were killed as cyclonic storm Ogni hit around 1.30 pm near Bapatla in Prakasham District. The storm has weakened into a deep depression and heavy...

Traders protest, clash with cops.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: Most major markets in the Capital remained closed today as traders protesting against the 1 November resumption of sealing drive against their establishments began a...

Realignment on the cards.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CHENNAI, Oct. 30: There is trouble within the ruling DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance. PMK, one of the key allies of the DMK, today announced that it will take on the role of the...

The god that failed.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PATNA, Oct 30: Bihar's criminals may be losing their faith in God. The six-day Chhat festival, which previously implied a crime-free period, is now blemished by blood-stained incidents....

IIM-B quota stuck for funds.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BANGALORE, Oct. 30: The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, which celebrated its 33rd foundation day today, will not be in a position to increase substantially its intake of students from the backward...

SGPC plea to Denmark.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) CHANDIGARH, Oct. 30: The head of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Mr Avtar Singh, has called on Denmark to allow baptised Sikhs to carry a kirpan after Copenhagen's high court upheld the judgment...

J&K lockups safest in 17 years: Azad.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAMMU, Oct. 30: The number of custodial deaths and disappearances have been lowest of all in the past one year in the terrorism-hit state of Jammu and Kashmir since the inception of...

Cong does not discriminate between states: Sonia.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SHIMLA/NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: Addressing a mammoth public rally in Dharamshala this morning, Congress president Sonia Gandhi set the tone for the party's state Assembly election campaign...

Court rap for civic bodies.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Mr Justice KJ Sengupta of Calcutta High Court today directed the commissioner of Howrah Municipal Corporation to show cause why action should not be taken against him...

IIT comes to town.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Chief Minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will lay the foundation stone of IIT-Kharagpur's second campus at Rajarhat on 7 November. IIT-Kharagpur plans to set up three...

A good turn, courtesy KP.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Mr Abhijit Patra, a Howrah-based trader, never hoped to get back the bag he had left behind in a bus this morning. But he did, and within a few hours of losing it, thanks to two Kolkata...

Singer selects city for first music school venue.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Mathures Paul LONDON, Oct. 30: Singer Himesh Reshammiya will soon open a Himesh Reshammiya School of Music in all four metros, the first school will be opened in Kolkata in two months' time, the singer said....

State fails to convince Patkar.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Social activist, Ms Medha Patkar said, she was 'certainly not happy' with the state government's explanation on the land acquisition issue in Singur, following a...

Urban centres proposed.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KOLKATA, Oct. 30: State land and land reforms department is all set to propose optimal use of land even in rural areas to alleviate the growing pressure of human habitation on agricultural land. The proposal...

Doc asked to go on leave after complaint.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Oct. 30: A junior doctor, posted as a house staff in the Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital, has been asked to go on leave by the hospital authorities after a female...

A lot in a hood's alias.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Joydeep Thakur KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Some of Kolkata's 'most-wanted criminals' have aliases you won't find elsewhere. And the false names have their histories too. Even Kolkata Police officers chasing these hoods...

Opposition flak on dengue falls flat.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: An Opposition-moved adjournment motion on the dengue outbreak proved to be rather ineffective today with both the mayor and the mayor-in-council (health) being absent...

Clerk gets jail for graft.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30: Arabinda Thakur, a junior clerk at the Rajgangpur tehasil office, was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 1,000 by special judge Vigilance, Sambalpur....

Nalco registers huge profit in six-month period.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30: National Aluminum Company registered a 110.22 per cent increase in net profit to Rs 595 crore for the second quarter, ending on 30 September, 2006, against Rs...

ITC feast for children.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30: In line with its commitment to the society, ITC Foods is, for the third successive year, conducting a nationwide Sunfeast Hara Banao Campaign. The campaign aims at educating children...

Art has no takers, or so it seems...
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BERHAMPUR, Oct. 30: The oldest art and craft college in the state, The Government College of Art and Craft, Khallikote in Ganjam is planning to celebrate its golden jubilee. But the...

Cyclone Ogni crosses Andhra coast.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Bhubaneswar, Oct. 30: Cyclone Ogni crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast near Bapatla in Guntur around 1 pm today, the Cyclone Warning Centre here said. The system had weakened into a depression after crossing the...

Paradip port handled excess cargo this year.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PARADIP, Oct. 30: Paradip Port Trust chairman Mr K Raghuramaiah expressed satisfaction over the performance in cargo handling during the first six months of the the current financial...

OGP for CBI probe into DIG murder.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30: Chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik, who holds home portfolio, should order a CBI probe into the murder of DIG Jaswinder Singh, OGP president Mr Bijoy Mahapatra...

Dharna against Southco retrenchment.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) ASKA, Oct. 30: Mr Prafulla Kumar Rao, president of Southco Metre Readers Sangh (SMRS), in a Press release announced that the SMRS would stage a peaceful dharna for indefinite period from 8 November before the...

Malaria campaign held for tribals.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) MALKANGIRI, Oct. 30: A campaign on malaria awareness was held at Ponorguda, Koya tribal dominated village in Malkanagiri district, sponsored by The Malkanagiri Homeopathic Association for rural development....

Cong candidate faces charge of religion change.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Oct. 30: The Congress suffered an embarrassment as it prepares for the 16 November civic polls with one of its nominees facing charges of changing his religion. The Congress...

People stand (by) poll democracy.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) defying bandh call 60% cast votes Statesman News Service ROURKELA, Oct. 30: Amidst tight security measures, the by-election to the Talasara Assembly constituency came to an end peacefully today with over 60...

Hunger-strike for crop money called off.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, Oct 30: The ongoing relay hunger-strike, which started on 25 October in Kasinagar, was withdrawn today after the officers from the district administration met the...

Farmers block road for water.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) KENDRAPARA, Oct. 30: Over 1,000 farmers today brought the agriculture implements and bullocks to the streets and paralysed the vehicular traffic on the Cuttack-Chandballi state highway for more than seven...

Dalits threaten to leave Hinduism if temple entry denied.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Oct. 30: Nearly 1,200 Dalits of Rajnagar tehsil, in a show of anger against the restrictions imposed on their entry to a local temple, have threatened to change their...

Dara Singh acquitted in arson case.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India BARIPADA, Oct. 30: Dara Singh, serving a life sentence for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, and 12 others were today acquitted in a case relating to the...

OGP demands review of nine approved SEZs.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 30: The rumblings against grant of SEZ status, conversion of agriculture land and revenue loss gathered momentum today with Orissa Gana Parishad president Mr Bijoy...

BRIEFS.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Truck seized BALASORE, Oct. 30: The officers of Nilgiri forest division have seized a truck loaded with kendu leaves ~ worth nearly Rs 8 lakhs ~ and arrested three persons. The consignment ~ being smuggled...

Suspected Maoists gun down trader.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & PTI MALKANGIRI, Oct. 30: Suspected Naxalites shot dead a businessman Bandhu Behera at Korukunda village here today. Four armed Maoists stormed the house of the businessman early this morning and shot...

No new talent: Vengsarkar.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MOHALI, Oct. 30: 'There is really no exceptional new talent in the country. They may be good at the domestic level, but they are not good enough for the international scene.' Coming...

Hathkata Dilip convicted.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Dreaded criminal Dilip Banerjee, alias hathkata Dilip, was today convicted for killing two men during a soiree at Salt Lake on 28 June, 2004. East Bengal footballers...

Police panel wants 2-yr term for DGs.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: Drastic changes in the 150-year-old Police Act were proposed today by a government-appointed committee which sought a fixed two-year tenure for Directors General of Police and separate...

Mattoo killer gets death.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: A fortnight after he was convicted for the rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo, Delhi High Court today sentenced Santosh Kumar Singh to death, saying...

Briefs.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) 'Ultras' held KOLKATA Oct. 30: A six-member team of Punjab police raided a flat in Tiljala at 2.30 a.m. today and took two suspected terrorists aged between 18 and 30 into custody. Revolvers, grenades,...

Beijing rubs it in, kowtows to Tokyo.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) By siding with the USA in sanctioning North Korea, China seeks to consolidate its regional power by distancing itself from its Communist neighbour, writes Susan L Shirk In mid-October, the US secretary of...

Now and again.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Wynni's last day By Shaiqua Murshed (In the hospitals of USA, dogs are sometimes used in the therapy of terminally ill patients) Gone are the long days and the hazy summer nights when the wind, if it blows at...

100 years ago today.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Editorial Note The 'Hindu Patriot' announces that at the third annual conference of the commissioners and Heads of Departments in Bengal, which was recently held at Darjeeling, no less than 47 subjects were...

USA can't exit from Iraq.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) With the US President, Mr George W Bush's personal approval rating at a record low, and with US public opinion turning increasingly against the Iraq war, both supporters as well as critics of US policy in...

1,000 days and still counting.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press BASEL (Switzerland), Oct. 30: Roger Federer has been the worlds top-ranked player for 1,000 days. The way hes playing now, he could easily stay that way for another thousand. Im really happy...

Sport Briefs.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) ICC academy The ICC Global Cricket Academy, to be housed in the Dubai Sports City, will be functional in 2008, Mr U Balasubramaniam announced in Mohali on Monday. The academy will provide the best facilities...

Sania steady at 67.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: Sania Mirza, out of action for last couple of weeks, remained steady at 67th place on the latest Womens Tennis Association charts. The Indian tennis sensation last played a Tour event in...

West Zone lose.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) CUTTACK/JAMSHEDPUR, Oct. 30: Upul Chandanas five-wicket haul sealed a resounding 195-run win for Sri Lanka A today in their maiden Duleep Trophy match against West Zone here. Wasim Jaffers century set up an...

India look for a win.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 30: India will seek inspiration from their rearguard action against a strong Kyrgyzstan team for their match against Jordan tomorrow. India came from behind to share a...

Sevilla move up to 2nd spot.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Agence France Presse MADRID, Oct. 30: Sevilla came back from a goal down to win 2-1 at Celta Vigo and move up to second place in the Spanish first division. The victory yesterday by last seasons Uefa Cup...

Namdhari in semi-finals.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India JALANDHAR, Oct. 30: Namdhari XI beat Indian Airlines 1-0 to enter the semi-finals of the 62nd Senior National Hockey Championship at Surjit Hockey stadium here today. In other matches of...

Jeev breaks into top 100.
October 31, 2006... (From The Statesman (India)) Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, Oct. 30: Jeev Milkha Singh continued to reap the rewards of his historic win in the Volvo Masters of Europe by breaking into the top 100 of world golf rankings and entering the...