Statesman (India) articles from September 2001

Statesman (India) archives from September 2001

Minorities wont be harmed if USA attacks, says Anil.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 28. No member of the foreign diplomatic corps nor any one from the minority community in the state will be harmed in the wake of the attack on the USA as long as Left Front supporters are alive, Mr Anil...

S ASIAN MAOISTS CONDEMN US WAR MOVES.
September 29, 2001... KOLKATA, Sept. 28. Nine South Asian Maoist organisations have condemned the USA for trying to drag the world towards a massive war. This was declared by a joint statement issued in the names of organisations including five of Indian-origin,...

SC issues notice to 3 city doctors.
September 29, 2001... OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. A Division Bench of the Supreme Court (coram, Thomas, Variava, JJ) today issued show cause notices to three Kolkata doctors, Dr Sukumar Mukherjee, Dr Baidya Nath Haldar and...

HC orders Philips to pay arrears.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 28. In an interim order, the Single Bench of Mr Justice Dilip Kumar Seth of Calcutta High Court directed Philips India today to pay Rs 60 lakh towards alleged arrears of license fees and go on paying a...

State plan to revamp technicians studio.
September 29, 2001... TARUN GOSWAMI STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 28. The government has taken up a scheme to modernise the technicians studio in Tollygunge. The information and cultural affairs department has provided Rs 2.09 crore to carry out the...

Haldia Petrochem chairman quits.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 28. The Haldia Petrochemicals chairman, Mr Tapan Mitra, resigned today amid a financial crisis and little consensus over the selection of its next chief. Mr Mitra announced his resignation soon after...

Trinamul denies resignation of CMC chairman.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 28. Senior Trinamul leaders denied any knowledge of the resignation of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation chairman. Mr Anil Mukherjee, they said, would be the chairman till his resignation was accepted by...

3 states account for 50% of NTPCs dues.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh account for half of the National Thermal Power Corporations total dues from state electricity boards, NTPCs CMD, Mr C,P Jain has said. NTPC has sent...

Lower exchange rate to kickstart economy.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 28. Expressing disappointment over the lack of political will in implementing the second generation reforms, economists and industrialists came out strongly in favour of lowering the exchange rate and...

Centre may provide sops for exports.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE & PTI MUMBAI, Sept. 28. The government will soon announce additional measures to boost exports, even as formulation of a medium-term export policy has been delayed owing to uncertainty in the aftermath of the terrorist...

FIs block special resolutions.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA Sept. 28. In a significant move, financial institutions LIC, GIC and UTI today allowed Shaw Wallace and Company Limited to adopt a special resolution at the companys 55th annual general meeting regarding...

Zee promoters cut 7% stake, seek partner.
September 29, 2001... PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Promoters of Zee Telefilms, Subhash Chandra and Associates, and its foreign promoters, have diluted their stake by almost seven per cent last fiscal in the company to touch 59.61 per cent as against...

GODAWFUL Communal tension in India.
September 29, 2001... BANNING the Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi) has been on the cards for a while, and it is a fair guess that the context provided by the 11 September outrage was used to turn the plan into a decision. Opportunism by itself does not...

VEHICULAR POLLUTION Use Of Eco-Friendly Fuel.
September 29, 2001... By YP GUPTA THE government recently proposed to set up another committee to formulate a national auto fuel policy for public transport vehicles. It is approaching the Supreme Court to seek a ban on the conversion of any more vehicles to CNG...

ON RECORD.
September 29, 2001... Indias policies are not Pakistan-centric even if all policies of Islamabad are totally India-centric. Mr Jaswant Singh. H I dont think nuclear weapons will be a necessary weapon against terrorist organisations. General Colin Powell. ...

COINCIDENCE OF REASONS A happy ending in Afghanistan?
September 29, 2001... There seems to be a softening of positions on both sides. The recommendation of the council of Islamic clerics that Osama bin Laden should voluntarily leave the country was not rejected by Mullah Omar, even though he had the authority to do...

ANTI-TALIBAN COALITION COURTS ALLIES.
September 29, 2001... By Arkady Dubnov The Afghan Northern Alliance will become the main participant in the ground operation that the USA is preparing in Afghanistan. And Moscow will be the Americans principal mediator in the implementation of these plans. ...

Outlaw Bajrang Dal too: Opp.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Opposition parties today demanded a ban on the Bajrang Dal and asked the Centre to make the evidence against Simi public to remove doubts about its decision to ban the organisation. The...

PM meets Muslim leaders, defends ban.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Mr Atal Behari Vajpayees bid to establish direct contact with the minority community after 11 September terrorist attacks on the USA seems to have gone quite well. A gathering of about 700 people,...

lack of Police-Intelligence coordination cost dear.
September 29, 2001... SANTOSH SINGH & BHAVATOSH SINGH STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Better coordination between Delhi Police and Intelligence agencies could have prevented the suspected destruction of evidence by activists of the Students Islamic...

Centre okays integrated command.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. With the Centre today clearing plans for the integration of the armed forces, the Army, Navy and Air Force will have to work more closely to meet the demands of modern warfare. Going by the...

Simis Osama tilt not the provocation: Centre.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. The Centre today said its decision to ban the Simi was not provoked by the organisations office-bearers defending Osama Bin Laden and pasting posters against the USA and India. The home secretary,...

Expert says Tehelka tapes not doctored.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. In spite of being called a liar in court by a hostile lawyer, Mr Uma Shankar, the Tehelka audio-expert, continued to maintain that all the five controversial or disputed sections in the Tehelka...

US planes refuel in Delhi.
September 29, 2001... YOGESH KUMAR STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Two US air force aircraft landed at Delhis Palam airport for refuelling this morning. They took off in the evening. The first Hercules transport plane landed in the Indian Air...

COLUMN ONE.
September 29, 2001... Imam changes stand on US war NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. The Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid today questioned the Prime Ministers secular credentials and rejected his claim that the US-led campaign was against terrorism, not Islam. Syed Ahmed Shah Bukhari...

India seeks proof against Bin Laden.
September 29, 2001... SANJAY SINGH STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Political compulsions seem to have forced India to ask for evidence against Osama bin Laden. Mr LK Advani made a request for proof against Bin Laden to the US ambassador in New...

BJP legislator shot driver.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. The BJP legislator from Karnalganj constituency in Uttar Pradeshs Gonda district, Mr Ajay Pratap Singh, alias Lalla Bhaiya, has been charged with the murder of his driver. The MLA was...

Simi chief held, curfew in Lucknow continues.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE & PTI NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW, Sept. 28. The Simis national president, Shahid Badr, and three other activists have been arrested in Delhi, while curfew remains in force in Lucknow though no untoward incident was reported from...

Pak mission fails, Laden again denies role.
September 29, 2001... AGENCIES ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. The Taliban has told a team of Pakistani clerics that it wouldnt hand over Osama bin Laden even as Mr George W Bush iterated that the US demand to turn over the Saudi fugitive was non-negotiable. ...

35 Simi activists held in state.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA/MALDA, Sept. 28. Thirty-five members of the Students Islamic Movement of India have been arrested across the state since yesterday. The chief minister today said the government was taking adequate measures to...

Afghan Armageddon?
September 29, 2001... By SAYEED HASAN KHAN and KURT JACOBSEN BRACE yourselves. Peaceful resolution is hardly in the cards. So can there be a happy ending to military intervention in Afghanistan? What would a desirable outcome look like after America and its allies...

Delhi High Court gives go-ahead.
September 29, 2001... NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Delhi High Court today declined to stay the conferment of Arjuna Awards to two sportspersons, but said their awards could still be annulled subject to the outcome of a petition challenging their credibility. A division...

Battle royal takes a dramatic turn.
September 29, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE and PTI KOLKATA/CHENNAI, Sept. 28. The fight for the BCCI presidents post in tomorrows elections in Chennai took a dramatic turn today, with about 20 affiliated units seeking Mr Jagmohan Dalmiyas suspension for...

Who else but Alamito?
September 29, 2001... GAUTAM BANERJEA STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 28. Lord Derby must be turning in his grave or else he might never have consented to the introduction of a Derby Stakes for horse racing. Because this centre's Monsoon variety of the Derby...

Delhi High Court gives go-ahead.
September 29, 2001... NEW DELHI, Sept. 28. Delhi High Court today declined to stay the conferment of Arjuna Awards to two sportspersons, but said their awards could still be annulled subject to the outcome of a petition challenging their credibility. A division...

Osama kin offers to help free Abu hostages.
September 29, 2001... AGENCIES MANILA, Sept. 28. A brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, has offered to help free 2 Americans and 16 Filipinos, held hostage by the Islamic Abu Sayyaf rebels, in southern Philippines, the Philippines President,...

Allies plan warning shot to sway Taliban.
September 29, 2001... MICHAEL EVANS THE TIMES, London WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. The Taliban is to be given a short period to recant over its refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden, but may be attacked by a limited airstrike to force the issue, officials said yesterday....

Hamburg pilots suicide cell linked to Osama.
September 29, 2001... ROGER BOYES THE TIMES, LONDON BERLIN, Sept. 28. A web of links between Osama bin Laden and a Hamburg-based cell of suicide pilots has been uncovered by German investigators. Mohammed Atta, believed to have piloted the first aircraft that...

Like fish out of water.
September 29, 2001... Well hunt them down, well smoke them out. Such is the vengeance sworn by US President George W Bush for the 11 September terrorist attacks on America that left thousands dead and missing. His words echo the concept of Shakespearean tragedy...

Nostalgiaand pain.
September 29, 2001... THERE was a time when we were a lot more humane and gave no thought to denominising the inhabitants of this city. A time when the arc of our acceptance encompassed a wider variety of people, irrespective of caste and creed, nationality and...

In the Aftermath.
September 29, 2001... Just a fortnight ago, Dominique Lapierre was in town to promote his new book, It Was Five Minutes Past Midnight In Bhopal. A press conference at the Oberoi Grand in the morning was followed by an interactive session and book signing at the...

The complete package.
September 29, 2001... Beauty is 99 per cent in the mind. It has to come from inside. All these cosmetics and things cannot, by themselves make a person beautiful. If one is not getting up in the morning feeling absolutely fine, there must be something wrong...

Trains can be fun.
September 29, 2001... HO hum, I've finally staggered back after a somewhat harrowing week away. I must be a glutton for punishment. I mean, I just related the travails of travelling by train in modern day India to you a couple of weeks ago and here I was again,...

Some rewarding Encounters.
September 29, 2001... Lalit Kala Akademi opened a regional centre in Kolkata in 1984 with a specific objective of providing working facilities to young artists. This is the only place in the city where artists are not under any obligation to complete a curriculum....

Nature strikes back.
September 29, 2001... Bohurupees latest stage production Dhritobanos addresses very contemporary concerns. The mindless destruction of the environment by humans leading to that inexorable destiny when nature strikes back in revenge is the main theme of the play...

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion.
September 29, 2001... THINK before you speak. Dont engage in loose gossip. These are trying times, cautioned last Mondays editorial in Azad Hind, the largest Urdu newspaper in the eastern region. It was, of course, referring to the aftermath of the attacks on the...

Cassettes.
September 29, 2001... In the devotional spirit The Saregama album of bengal devotional songs Bajao Mon Mandirey by Haimanti Shukla reveals extraordinary expertise. The singer negotiates any phrase in any register in a compilation which embraces kirtans,...

Food: Green Monsoon Magic.
September 29, 2001... In the play of seasons in India, the monsoon is surely the most dramatic. Welcomed and dreaded with equal fervour, it brings with it, its own special bounty of vegetables and edible greens. In West Bengal, on Bhadra Sankranti, at the Feast of...

Digest.
September 29, 2001... Sutanuti echoes Bangla Ganer Utso Theke Mohana at Sutanati Utsav at Shovabazar Rajbati was a constructive attempt to introduce young listeners to the changing styles of Bengali songs. The old- world ambience created by traditional sartorial...

For body & mind.
September 29, 2001... FOR someone who is so bright at his job, Saurabh Dattaray shows a shocking sense of recklessness as far as his food habits go. The 41-year-old chartered accountant and IIM graduate is the resident director of the British engineering company...

Bahu bazaa.
September 29, 2001... THE magic of an Indian marriage lies not only in its rituals, but also in the celebrations that it brings along with it. Which is why the occasion is associated with splendid dresses, eye-catching jewellery and flashy accessories. Every...

Why? Oh, why?!
September 29, 2001... DIESEL, you would think, is a curious brand name for a clothing company. Wait till you see Diesels ads. Curious isnt half of it. One set of Diesels campaign, created by the Stockholm-based Paradiset DDB, won the Press and Poster Grand Prix at...

Live easy.
September 29, 2001... Are you one of those people who have never picked up a hammer and is now confronted with the immense task of homebuilding? May be you have saved up some money but still need some more financial assistance? Want to be sure if the architect is...

Salaam Mira.
September 29, 2001... AFTER Salaam Bombay, I could have picked up any one of the several offers that came my way and lived happily ever after. But somehow, honest commitment would have been missing. I needed a subject I could relate to myself, said Mira Nair in a...

Railways neglect kills teenager.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NAIHATI, Sept. 26. Imagine taking a walk on a footbridge over a railway track and missing the gaping hole under your feet. This is what happened to 15 year-old Meghnad Mallick, who is now fighting for life at the BR...

Rail board pruning planned.
September 27, 2001... MOHAN SAHAY & SIMI KAMBOJ STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA, Sept. 26. The railway ministry would go ahead with the Rakesh Mohan committee report for downsizing the railway board and also for restructuring the board for better...

Civic chairman ready to return.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 26. Now that the Trinamul Congress has got the mayor on its side on the eviction issue, it has formally urged the CMC chairman to withdraw his resignation and rejoin office tomorrow. The dramatic...

Road revamp for Bachchan.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 26. Paying tax may not ensure better roads anymore. However, its different if Amitabh Bachchan is about to walk into your puja pandal. Few days ago, the mayor had called for repair of roads dug up...

Zee to cut subsidiaries to maximise synergies.
September 27, 2001... PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. Zee Telefilms today said it will reduce the number of its subsidiaries from about 20 at present to between 10-12 over the next couple of months, in line with overall corporate restructuring plans. ...

JPC reviews Parekh-GTB deals.
September 27, 2001... PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. Ketan Parekh companies had an annual turnover of Rs 1,15,000 crore in the recent years with large transactions entered into with Global Trust Bank Bank (GTB), chairman of the Joint Parliamentary...

District centres for power distribution.
September 27, 2001... PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. With a view to check high transmission and distribution losses, the Centre is planning to make district level power feeders independent profit centres by 100 per cent metering of electricity...

Govt keen to solve Enron crisis.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE & AGENCIES NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Sept. 26. An inter-ministerial committee of Union secretaries is monitoring the Enron crisis regularly, to facilitate some kind of early solution to the Enron imbroglio involving the Dabhol...

OF GOD AND WAR.
September 27, 2001... Terrorists are excluded THE Americans have abandoned Operation Infinite Justice and opted for Noble Eagle since only Allah is infinite. Few are currently talking about a crusade against terrorism since that is said to conjure up medieval...

ARTILLERY FIREPOWER Key To Victory In Future Battles.
September 27, 2001... By GURMEET KANWAL IN the first week of July 1999, the Indian Tricolour was hoisted on Tiger Hill and soon fluttered atop many other peaks in the high Himalayas of Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir. By mid-July 1999, Pakistans perfidious...

BANGLADESH POLL.
September 27, 2001... Doubts about it being free, fair and peaceful Sundays bomb blast at an Awami League rally in Khulna, which claimed eight lives, is the most serious incident in the run up to Bangladeshs eighth parliamentary election scheduled for 1 October....

ARE WE ALL HELPING RAISE TERRORISTS?
September 27, 2001... Sir, Your Caveat Finite Justice? (23-24 September) sums up the subjective and objective conditions in the post 11 September scenario in the World in general and Atlantic powers in particular. You hit the nail on the head when you wrote that...

FIFTY FOUR YEARS LATER.
September 27, 2001... By JAHANARA THOMAS It was a night to remember. At midnight we were all sitting up, ears glued to the radio. My elder sister who was a pharyngitis patient was not even allowed to cough. The drawing room was full. The radio was blaring....

China Shoots Islamic Separatists In Xinjiang.
September 27, 2001... OLIVER AUGUST THE TIMES, LONDON KASHGAR, Sept. 26. Islamic militants faced the execution squad yesterday, stupefied by drink and driven to their deaths on an open lorry past laughing crowds. In the afternoon sunlight bathing the Peoples...

BUDDHA GOES TO JAPAN.
September 27, 2001... And comes back If Buddhadev Bhattacharya knew that Japanese sanctions, forbidding fresh yen loans to India, were in place, why did he go to Japan and make a bid for Japanese investments at this point? Of course the trip was planned before 11...

TINA factor gives Keshubhai a reprieve.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. There Is No Alternative to Mr Keshubhai Patel. Despite pressure for a change, the BJP central leadership has decided to give another chance to the Gujarat chief minister, Mr Keshubhai Patel. The...

Farooq frowns at Advani stand.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE SRINAGAR, Sept. 26. The National Conference today said, the Union home minister, Mr L K Advani, has no right to condemn international terrorism as he himself is patronising a force which is indulging in the worst kind...

Kashmir hope in US stand.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. The USA has assured India that it would target terrorist groups in other parts of the world after the military campaign against Osama bin Laden. Indian diplomats here said senior US...

Statute panel seeks right to jobs, education.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. The National Commission to Review the working of the Constitution today released consultation papers, suggesting that education and employment for 80 days in a year at a prescribed wage be made...

More shocks feared in Chennai.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE CHENNAI, Sept. 26. The Indian Meteorological Department today predicted that aftershocks would follow last nights earthquake which shook parts of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka Andhra Pradesh and the Union Territory of...

COLUMN ONE.
September 27, 2001... 20 workers die in mine collapse PATNA, Sept. 26. At least 20 workers were crushed to death today when a coal mine caved in at Godda in Jharkhand. The director (technology), Eastern Coal Fields Ltd, said the dead included nine women. Fourteen...

Pak cries away from hostile action.
September 27, 2001... US embassy in Kabul torched; Dostum dead AGENCIES ISLAMABAD, Sept. 26. Pakistan today said that though it supported the global coalition against terrorism, it wouldnt take part in any hostile action against Afghanistan. Thousands of...

USA shifts focus to Central Asia.
September 27, 2001... SNS & Agencies NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. The US military efforts could now depend on naval operations from the Gulf and former Soviet states in Central Asia with Pakistan refusing to participate in joint action against Afghanistan. The USA is also...

RBI cuts states cash credit limit.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 26. The Reserve Bank of India has reduced the states cash credit limit from Rs 215 crore to Rs 108 crore in September. But the finance minister has requested RBI to reconsider its decision. In a...

4 protesting Bihar boys murder killed in firing.
September 27, 2001... STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE PATNA, Sept. 26. At least four persons were killed and more than 100 injured today when police fired on a rampaging mob, protesting against the kidnapping and murder of a five-year-old boy in Muzaffarpur, north Bihar....

PM meets Muslim leaders on Friday.
September 27, 2001... SUDESH K VERMA & SANJAY SINGH STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. The Centre has sounded an informal red alert across the country and the Prime Minister will meet Muslim leaders on Friday to clarify Indias stand on USAs war against...

Bangaru wasnt being mealy-mouthed.
September 27, 2001... Was he chewing paan on Tehelka camera? SRINJOY CHOWDHURY STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, Sept. 26. Video experts today debated about Mr Bangaru Laxmans diction not always perfect and almost incomprehensible when hes chewing paan before Mr...

Futures trading.
September 27, 2001... Vision 2025 is no substitute for Atrophy 2001 writes ARINDAM GHOSH-DASTIDAR, considering that tottering infrastructure is no match for hifalutin plans. With a quarter century to go for Bengals pilgrimage to paradise, the awesome present has...

Krishnas three-legged race.
September 27, 2001... From TYAGARAJ SHARMA in Bangalore FOR politicians in general, bureaucrats are the whipping boy, rightly or otherwise. If things are not going according to their plans, the process of economic reforms is not moving fast enough or, for that...

Harry The Horse wins Monsoon Cup.
September 27, 2001... GAUTAM BANERJEA STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, Sept. 26. Harry The Horse did a bit of the Pied Piper when winning the Monsoon Cup with a degree of ease at the races here today. The Sookias-owned winner, saddled by John Stephens, never...