Month: July 2013

Seemandhra seethes over state’s division

Cong  leaders from two regions meet CM to discuss future course of action agencies Hyderabad, 31 July Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions erupted in fury today, a day after the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coordination committee agreed to the division of Andhra Pradesh and the formation of a separate Telangana state. Politicians in the two...

July 31, 2013

Separate state decision singes TDP, YSR Congress

stanley theodore  [email protected] Hyderabad, 31 July The 30-year-old Telugu Desam Party and the two-year-old YSR Congress stand singed with the announcement that Telangana would be the 29th state of the Indian Union. If elections are held in Andhra Pradesh — notification of a new state would take six to seven months — Mr N Chandrababu...

July 31, 2013

Congress non-committal on spate of demands

New Delhi, 31 July : As the Congress top brass and UPA’s decision in favour of Telangana statehood sparked fresh demands for creation of other smaller states from across the country, the Congress today remained non-committal over such demands and on the question of setting up of a Second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC). The All...

July 31, 2013

GTA will not be dissolved, says Mamata

statesman news service Kolkata, 31 July Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today ruled out the dissolution of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJMM) called an indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling Hills to press for its demand for a separate state. The state government also accepted the resignation of GJMM chief Bimal Gurung...

July 31, 2013

Sports briefs

Devvarman wins: India’s Somdev Devvarman notched up a stunning 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) victory over defending champion Alexandr Dolgopolov to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the ATP 500 Citi Open in Washington. Steaua triumph: Romania’s Steaua Bucharest defeated hosts Dinamo Tbilisi with two unanswered goals  in their first leg of the third-round qualification of the 2013-2014...

July 31, 2013

once a vibrant water body

filled up to make way for road connecting buildings with throughfare Pradip Chatterjee [email protected] Kolkata, 31 July A huge water body off Eastern Metropolitan bypass has been filled up to facilitate construction of roads connecting various private housing complexes with the main thoroughfare. This is despite chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s repeated pleas for stringent measures against those filling...

July 31, 2013

Bus operators introduce plastic tokens flouting RBI norms

APARAJIT CHAKRABORTY [email protected] Kolkata, 31 July The state transport department, including the private bus operators have introduced plastic coins to give exchange for fares, but the whole arrangement is illegal and violates the Reserve Bank of India rules. Private bus operators and state transport operators throughout the state have been facing acute shortage of coins. As a...

July 31, 2013

Dengue claims its first victim in city

GURVINDER SINGH [email protected] Kolkata, 31 July Dengue claimed its first victim this monsoon when a minor girl from Dignal village in Durgapur, 165 km from Kolkata, succumbed to the deadly disease. The vector-borne disease had officially claimed 11 lives in the state last year, though unofficial estimates suggest the figure could be much higher. The...

July 31, 2013

Trinamul Congress activists in dilemma over Mamata’s stance

STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Siliguri, 31 July The Trinamul activists are in a dilemma in several gram panchayats in north Bengal districts where they do not have a majority number of elected members and they are in no position to seek help from others at a time when Miss Mamata Banerjee is keeping equidistance branding the rival parties as foes at...

July 31, 2013

BLPF appeals to people to pressurise MLAs

STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Gangtok, 31 July Newly formed Bhutia Lepcha Protection Force (BLPF) has appealed to the Bhutia-Lepcha people to pressurise their respective MLAs to speak out in defence of the interests of the community when their constitutional rights are being attacked at random in Sikkim, their homeland. “If they cannot speak out against the injustice, they have no right to be...

July 31, 2013

Meet to chalk out strategy on hung ZP

Neither Trinamul nor Left Front untouchable: Dalu STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Malda, 31 July “Neither the Trinamul Congress nor the Left Front is untouchable for us to form the board in Malda Zilla Parishad (MZP). Whoever we seek the support from, there is no doubt that we would come to power in the MZP for the...

July 31, 2013

TMC achieves satisfactory result in Itahar

Statesman News Service Raiganj, 31 July In Hemtabad and Goalpokhar-II samitis of North Dinajpur district, the TMC candidates failed to win any seat. In Raiganj panchayat samiti they won only one seat. The Trinamul Congress leaders blamed the “secret alliance” between the Congress and Left Front for the setback. However, the TMC achieved remarkable results...

July 31, 2013

Bandh call

Jammu, 31 July: Amid massive protests and blockade of Jammu-Poonch highway, bandh was today observed in several towns of Rajouri and Poonch against death of Amarnath pilgrim, who sustained fatal injuries in stone-pelting in Ramban district. Expressing sorrow over his death, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had yesterday announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh to his family. Over 1,500 protesters, raising anti-government slogans assembled...

July 31, 2013

UP violence

Lucknow, 31 July: Tension gripped areas of the old city when two groups of the same sect allegedly indulged in arson and resorted to brick-batting during a religious procession in Bazar Khala. “The incident took place this morning when the procession of 21st Ramzan with 25,000 people was being taken out in old city by the Shia community”, IG (Law and...

July 31, 2013

Maya renews call for state division

BSP supremo regrets centre keeping demand pending statesman news service Lucknow, 31 July With the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre giving its go-ahead to the creation of the new state of Telangana by bifurcating Andhra Pradesh, the demand for dividing Uttar Pradesh into four small states has picked up steam once again. Today Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati reiterated her demand for dividing UP...

July 31, 2013

‘Took a month to plan Pak jail attack, spent 1 crore’

Operation was named ‘Marg-e-Nijat’ and was launched to set free 6 militants Press Trust of India Peshawar, 31 July A day after the Taliban freed over 250 prisoners from a high-security Pakistani prison, a top commander of the terror outfit has said they took a month to plan the assault and spent Rs one crore...

July 31, 2013

Verdict on legality of Jamaat today

Ruling to determine if party will participate in Bangla polls press trust of india Dhaka, 31 July A Bangladesh court is set to give its verdict tomorrow on whether or not fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami is legal that will have a bearing on the participation of the country&’s biggest right-wing party in future elections. “The verdict is...

July 31, 2013