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GANGTOK, SUNDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2015
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India, Bangladesh to hold talks on
curbing crime
Journalists protest police 'assault' of
woman reporter in Assam
Guwahati, 31 Jan:
Journalists on Saturday
protested against the
alleged 'assault and
attempt to murder and
outraging modesty' of a
woman reporter of a
Guwahati-based television news channel in
Latasil Police station in
Assam, where she had
gone to collect news.
According to the FIR
filed by the concerned
woman journalist in the
police station, she and
the camera person for
DY365 TV news channel had gone to the
police station at about
Attempt to
abduct PSU
GM foiled,
NDFB(S)
militants held
Itanagar, 31 Jan:
Police have foiled an
attempt to abduct the
General Manager of a
PSU here by arresting
two NDFB(S) militants
and three of the outfit's
linkmen.
"On specific intelligence inputs about their
plan to kidnap the official, a police team kept
track of their movement
for the past couple of
days and arrested three
local linkmen from
Ganga Market here
early this week," IGP
(Law and Order) I D
Shukla told reporters
here today.
On interrogation, the
arrested
linkmen
spilled the beans which
led to the arrest of the
NDFB (S) militants
from Chaoldhowa in
Assam's
Lakhimpur
district on Thursday
last, he said.
"The arrested rebels,
wanted
in
several
extortion cases in the
state and neighbouring
Assam, were planning
to abduct a general
manager of a public
sector
undertaking
(PSU)," he said.
Three pistols and live
ammunitions
were
recovered from them.
He said after the massacre of Adivasis by
NDFB(S) militants on
December 23 last, the
state police in close
coordination with Army
and Assam police was
on strict vigil to thwart
any attempt of rebels
trying to sneak into the
state's territory.
12.15 pm to cover a
story. With permission
from a policeman at the
gate they entered the
police station compound
and took "photographs
of the dilapidated condition of the premises and
quarter rented out by
policemen to others", the
FIR stated.
"When we were about
to leave the P S campus
Sub
Inspector
Samsuddin Ahmed, and
O/C of the concerned P S
along with other policemen and tenants assaulted us and used criminal
force against me intend-
ing to disrobe me", she
alleged in the FIR.
"Thereafter they dragged
me and my camera person inside the police station and have mercilessly beaten us and pointed
official arms at us, thereby attempting to murder
us and threaten us not to
publish the story and
have in the process broken our equipment and
(we) sustained injuries,"
she stated.
After the incident,
journalists, particularly
from the local TV news
channels, demonstrated
shouting slogan at the
police station protesting
against
the
alleged
assault and demanding
the arrest of the concerned policemen who
allegedly resorted to
attack.
DY365
Executive
Editor Pranay Bordoloi
told reporters at the
police station that the
management of the TV
channel would take up
the matter with the state
government. Adding that
the media is not attacked
in a democracy. DCPCrime Swapnanil Deka
told reporters that the
incident is being inquired
and action would be
taken against the culprits
if found guilty.
Agartala,
Jan
31
(IANS): District heads
and border guards of
India and Bangladesh
will meet here Tuesday to
curb border crimes and to
increase trade between
the northeastern states
and Bangladesh, an official said here Saturday.
District
magistrates
and other officials of
Tripura's six districts will
meet the deputy commissioners
of
four
Bangladesh
districts
Tuesday and Wednesday
to discuss and finalise
strategies to deal with
border crime, fencing and
better
coordination
between the district
administrations on both
sides.
"Besides border crimes
and bordering problems,
the two-day meeting
would also discuss the
problems relating to trading between the northeastern
states
and
Bangladesh,"
said
Abhishek Singh, district
magistrate and collector
of West Tripura district.
He said: "Such district
magistrate level meetings
would help both India
and
Bangladesh
to
resolve pending problems and petty issues
quickly."
District magistrates of
Tripura's West Tripura,
Unokoti, North Tripura,
Khowai, Dhalai and
Sepahijala, while deputy
commissioners
of
B a n g l a d e s h ' s
Brahmanbaria, Moulavi
Bazar, Rangamati and
Habiganj would take part
Mystery over cop’s death
deepens
Shillong, 31 Jan :
Alleging foul play in the
death of Pearlystone
Joshua Marbaniang, relatives of the deceased officer
in
charge
of
Patharkhmah
Outpost
have demanded inquiry
by an independent agency
to unravel the truth behind
the incident.
The demand was made
in an FIR filed by the
family at Nongpoh Police
Station on Friday.
“We want an independent inquiry to be conducted either by the
Criminal Investigation
Department or the Central
Bureau of Investigation,”
Marbaniang’s
widow,
Chaleth Pyngrope, stated
in the FIR.
Later, she stated that her
family placed the demand
for
an
independent
inquiry since they were
not convinced with police
claims that her husband
had taken his own life.
“We suspect foul play
in the death,” Pyngrope
stated, while informing
that she would submit a
copy of the FIR to the
Superintendent of Police
of Ri-Bhoi.
Marbaniang was found
with gunshot wound on
his forehead on the night
of Jan 24 hours after he
had detained 32 trucks
which were carrying coal
illegally to Assam via the
Mairang-Azara road.
Meanwhile,
adding
more covers to the mystery, the timing of the
death in the two death certificates handed over to
the family members from
the
Nongpoh
Civil
Hospital
and
the
Guwahati Neurological
Research Centre are a
mismatch.
While the certificate
provided by Nongpoh
Civil Hospital states that
Marbaniang had expired
on January 24 at 8:50 pm
the certificate provided by
GNRC
states
that
Marbaniang died on
January 25 at 3:12 am.
Assam seeks special force to protect
rhinos in Kaziranga
Guwahati,31 Jan: With
rhino poachers creating
havoc in the abode of the
animal at Kaziranga
National Park, Assam
government has sent a
proposal to the Union
government for raising a
Rhino Protection Force
with
more than 1200 personnel
while NIA’s help would
be sought to bust the
interna-tional
rhinopoaching racket.
Poachers have killed at
least five rhinos in the
KNP so far this year while
over 40 rhinos were killed
last year.Attending a
review meeting on the
anti-poaching measures
and other related issues at
Kohora
Range
of
Kaziranga National Park
(KNP), Chief minister
Tarun Gogoi said that his
government has already
sent a proposal to the
Union
Minister
of
Environment, Forests and
Climate Change and
hoped that the new force
would be raised very
soon.
Gogoi said such a specialised force would facilitate use of modern technology for curbing the
menace of poaching. For
up scaling anti-poaching
infrastructure, high end
equipment such as night
vision devices, thermal
scanners,
surveillance
cameras, GPS etc. would
be deployed at the earliest.
Gogoi asked Kaziranga
park authorities to take
the help of the National
Investi-gating Agency
(NIA) to deal with the
rhino poachers and bust
clandestine rhino-horn
trade routes across inter-
state and international
borders.
Chief Minister’s Gallantry Award would be institu-ted for the forest
guards showing exemplary services
in curbing poaching of
rhinos.
Also Chief Minis-ter’s
Awards for Wildlife
Conservation would be
instituted from this year
for exemplary services
rende-red in the field of
wildlife conservation and
ant- poaching activities.
He announced that he
would soon constitute a
Development Authority
for
the
Kaziranga
Landscape under his
Chairmanship to address
the issues of conservation
and develop-ment. He
said that the local people
should be provided green
development oppor-tunities
and
livelihood
options in tune with
wildlife conservation.
He announced that a state
of the art Interpre-tation
Centre and Wildlife
Museum with modern 3D
shows, tea tourism and
tea museum to be taken
up in Kaziranga Park.He
asked the Park authorities
to explore possibilities of
pro-moting off season
tou-rism through ecotourism and traditional
activities such as weaving
Tarun Gogoi to contest 2016 assembly polls
from Titabar in Assam
Guwahati, 31 Jan : Octogenarian Assam
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi rules out retirement from active politics and said he will
contest in the 2016 Assembly elections from
the Titabar constituency in Jorhat district.
It was earlier speculated that this may
Gogoi's last term in office, even Gogoi has
earlier hinted that he may hang boots in 2016
assembly polls. However Gogoi surprising
said in Jorhat on Friday,"I will contest in the
2016 elections. From today I will lead the
electoral battle with renewed vigour".
Assam government has announced a
Rhino Protection Force with more than 1200
strong personnel to be raised for the protec-
tion of the rhinos soon. Gogoi said that his
government has already sent a proposal to
the Union Minister of Environment, Forests
and Climate Change and the force will take
the shape very soon.
The BJP had made poaching of the onehorned rhino an electoral issue during the
Lok Sabha polls last year. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said during electioneering
that rhinos were killed to help settle illegal
immigrants from Bangladesh.
Gogoi has asked the park authorities to
take the help of the National Investigating
Agency to deal with the rhino poachers and
bust its trade routes across inter-state and
international borders.
Chief Minister Gogoi further said that he
is already in touch with several public sector
undertakings for getting corporate social
responsibilities funding for modernization of
anti-poaching infrastructure in the Park. He
directed the Director, Kaziranga National
Park to prepare suitable project proposals for
the same.
He announced that he would soon constitute a Development Authority for the
Kaziranga
Landscape
under
his
Chairmanship to address comprehensively
the issues of the conservation and development.
the meet.
India and Bangladesh
governments had decided
to hold district magistrate-level meetings to
resolve various issues.
District magistrates and
other officials of Tripura's
four districts - Sipahijala,
Gomti, South Tripura and
Dhalai - met in Agartala
Jan 9-10 with the deputy
commissioners
of
Bangladesh's five districts of Comilla, Feni,
Rangamati, Khagrachari
and Chittagong.
District magistrates and
other
officials
of
Mizoram's two districts Mamit and Lunglei - met
the deputy commissioners of Bangladesh's districts of Rangamati and
Bandarban
(under
Chittagong division), in
Mamit Jan 22.
These meetings discussed border crimes, setting up of more border
outposts, sharing waters
of common rivers, setting
up of more 'border haats'
(markets), border fencing
and better coordination
between the district
administrations of both
sides.
Similar conferences
would be held in the other
northeastern states of
Assam and Meghalaya to
sort out border issues.
Eleven killed in Assam
road mishap
Tezpur, 31 Jan : Eleven
persons were killed in two
separate road accidents in
Assam's Sonitpur district
on Saturday, the police
said.
Six persons of a marriage party, including the
newly married couple,
died when the bus in
which they were travelling collided head on with
an
oil
tanker
at
Jamugurihat on National
Highway 15 this morning.
Five persons, including
the couple, died on the
spot, while another person
succumbed to his injuries
at
Kanaklata
Civil
Hospital here.
The couple have been
identified as Dilip and
Asha Sahu, while the others are yet to be identified.
In another mishap, five
labourers were killed on
the spot when the brick
laden truck, in which they
were travelling, skidded
off the road and turned
turtle at Gohpur Hawajan
on NH 15 in the same district, police added.
CM brushes aside opp.
party’s blame for delaof
issuing UCs
Itanaga,
31
Jan:
Rejecting
opposition’s
allegation on non-submission of utili-sation certificates (UCs) to GoI for centrally sponsored schemes,
Arunachal Pra-desh Chief
Minister Nabam Tuki
today informed the House
that the submission of UCs
against central scheme for
the period of 2014-15 does
not arise as it is a lengthy
process needs 12-18
months time.
Replying on a special
mention moved by the
opposition leader Tamyio
Taga on the concluding
day of the three-day session of the third sitting of
the Sixth Legislative
Assembly here, the chief
minister mentioned the
UCs for the funds released
during 2013-14 by the GoI
is concerned, it has
released in the third and
fourth quarters of the
financial year due to imposition of Model Code of
Conduct for the General
Elections.
Actual utilisation of
fund against few schemes
got delayed and hence,
there has been some delay
in submission of UCs
which was unavoidable, he
mentioned. However, the
state government has been
submitting UCs from time
to time basis and is also
making all efforts for sub-
mission of the balance
UCs, the Chief Minister
who also holds the Finance
Department clarified.
Pointing scheme wise
status of funds received
under different heads –
SSA, PMGSY, RMSA,
NHM, SPA and NLCPR
and accordingly utilization
of submission of UCs, the
chief minister said, in
2013-14 the state government had received Rs 229
crore under SSA of which
Rs 290 crore has been utilized
and
remaining
amount remained as
unspent balance.
For the financial year
2014-15, the government
has received Rs 209
crores, including the
unspent balance of previous finan-cial period, he
informed.
As of now Rs 144 crores
has been released by the
GoAP and Rs 310 crore
has been approved for
release, the chief minsiter
said, adding, an amount of
Rs 344 crores is remained
in the state exchequer for
current financial year.
The last installment was
received in December
2014, he added. In addition
the GoAP has released a
total amount of Rs. 488
crore as state matching due
share of previous year aswell-as current financial
year, he further informed.
Meghalaya to get Central
assistance
New Delhi, 31Jan: The
Centre on Friday decided
to give central assistance
to natural calamity-hit
states,
including
Meghalaya, after examining various proposals of
relief based on the impact
of disasters.
The
High
Level
Committee (HLC), headed by Home Minister
Rajnath Singh, examined
the proposals, based on
the visits of the central
team to the states affected
by severe natural disasters in 2014.
The HLC decided the
assistance from National
Disaster Relief Fund in
respect of Meghalaya,
Jammu and Kashmir,
Kerala,
Nagaland,
Odisha, Andhra Pradesh
and Haryana, an official
release said. However,
the amount to be given to
each of the state is not
immediately known.