News from India: March 2005 Archives

PROUTIST UNIVERSAL, 30 March 2005: The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) has published a new report called Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO, which states clearly that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is promoting a trade agenda which supports globalization (global capitalism) and in the process will undermine the poor people as well as deny people their fundamental human rights. Seventy percent of the world’s poorest live in rural areas and sustain themselves on agriculture.

Pakistan came in for flak at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from Kashmiri groups in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), which alleged trampling of fundamental rights of people in Gilgit and Baltistan and PoK.

National News Service, Kolkata 22/03/2005: The spineless jelly who run the Indian Government have been exposed again in the incident of the visa refusal to Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, by the USA. Here is a Country run by Christian religious bigots, lecturing and dictating to India how it should run its affairs.

New Delhi: President A P J Abdul Kalam today (March 21, 2005) voiced serious concern over "dubious means" adopted to cobble up numbers to form Governments.

His remarks assume significance in the backdrop of recent political developments in Jharkhand.

Siddique Islam (National News Service) Dhaka, Monday, March 21: The leaders of country’s top ten trade promotion bodies have stressed the need for taking necessary measures for holding the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit immediately.

National News Service, Kolkata, 13/03/2005: The tragi-comedy of Jharkand Government formation continues unabated. Soren and Balmuchu have been succeded by Munda and Munda. All the five independent Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) have been sworn in as Ministers along with the Chief Minister.

Siddique Islam (National News Service), Dhaka, Friday, March 11: Hartal has cost Bangladesh 3–4 per cent of its GDP on an average every year between 1991 and 2000, said a United Nations Development Programme Report (UNDP), which was released in Dhaka Thursday last.

National News Service, Kolkata: On Saturday 05/03/2005 three LeT terrorists were shot by the Delhi Police during a raid. These terrorists were planning to attack the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, and some IT establishments in Bangalore.

It has been established beyond doubt that two of the killed were Pakistanis citizens. The Pakistani passport found at the scene carried the name of Sadiq.

National News Service, Kolkata 06/03/2005: In Jharkand despite the intervention of the President Kalam, the Governor Syed Sibi Razi, has bought forward the date of trial of strength by only six days to the 15th of March 2005.

Siddique Islam (National News Service), Dhaka, Thursday, March 03: Leader of the Opposition and the Awami League President Sheikh Hasina Wednesday asked people to form action committees with pro-liberation and progressive forces across the country and fight unitedly against the coalition government to end its 'misrule.'

National News Service, Kolkata, 4 March 2005: Angry NDA members stall both houses of Parliament. NDA members demanded the restoration of Parliamentary democracy in Jharkand.

National News Service Kolkata 3/3/05: Mr. George N. Sibley, the Consul; General of the USA in Kolkata, today inaugurated a nursing school in Kolkata, Islamia Hospital in a brief function at Mahajati Sadan Annex Hall in Kolkata this morning.

Dilip Chatterjee from Kolkata, (National News Service) 3/3/03: The Governor of Jharkand has defied all Parliamentary and Constitutional norms by inviting JMM supremo Sibu Soren to form the Government in Jharkand.

The tense standoff regarding the eviction of the squatters on both sides of the Rail line in the Dhakuria area of South Calcutta ended with the police retreating without evicting the squatters.

National News Service, Kolkata, 28/02/2005: In the recently held Assembly election in the three States of Bihar, Jharkand and Haryana, were concluded yesterday 27/02/2005 with the declaration of the results.