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| Dimapur, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Rohingya Muslim refugees hold placards and raise slogans against human rights violations in Myanmar during a protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Vice President, M.Venkaiah Naidu presenting the National Award to Teachers – 2016, on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed on his arrival at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport, in Myanmar on Tuesday. PTI NEWS IN BRIEF Bomb scare on Gitanjali Express turns out hoax Kolkata, Sep. 5 (IANS): A search operation was conducted at the Mumbai-bound Gitanjali Express near Howrah on Tuesday after a bomb threat but nothing suspicious was found and the train left for its destination after about half an hour’s delay, a railway official said. The train that departed from Howrah railway station at 1.50 p.m. was stopped for 35 minutes at Santragachi station, nine km from Howrah, to conduct the combing operation by the Railway Protection Force and the West Bengal Police. “The Bombay Police control room received a hoax call on Monday night regarding a bomb being placed in the Gitanjani Express,” Pranav Jyoti Sharma, Chief Public Relation Officer of South Eastern Railway, told IANS. “The train was declared safe to travel to Mumbai after the check,” the official added. Army ALH with corps commander aboard crashes in Ladakh, all safe Leh, Sep. 5 (IANS): An Indian Army helicopter crashed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh on Tuesday but all its crew and passengers which included the Leh Corps commander and a division commander are safe, army officials said. The chopper, an Advanced Light Helicopter of the Indian Army, crashed at Tsogstalu Helipad in eastern Ladakh on Tuesday afternoon. It had on board 14 Corps commander Lt Gen S.K. Upadhyay and 3 Div commander Maj. Gen. Savneet Singh. “All crew members and passengers are safe,” an army official said. Goa govt mulling ban on serving drinks in glass bottles on beaches Panaji, Sep.5 (PTI): The Goa Tourism department is contemplating to prohibit supply of drinks in glass bottles on beaches in the state. However, it is not known whether drinks include soft as well hard drinks or either of them. The department had earlier banned consumption of liquor in public places including beaches. Tourism stake-holders, including beach shack owners, have demanded that the state government ban serving of drinks in glass bottles on beaches in order to avoid injuries caused due to broken glasses in the sand. The minister met the Shack Owners Welfare Society (SOWS) to deliberate on various issues ahead of the tourist season, beginning next month. The SOWS raised concerns over beach cleaning and urged the tourism minister to step up measures for effective cleanliness and monitoring. The association also raised issues pertaining to safety and security of tourists on beaches, illegal and unauthorised vending and touting etc. Two army soldiers die of electrocution in Udhampur Jammu, Sep. 5 (PTI): Two soldiers have died due to electrocution while working in an army workshop in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said today. The soldiers, P Jaypal Reddy of Andhra Pradesh and I Vasudevan of Tamil Nadu, got electrocuted while performing some work in the workshop of the army’s northern command area of the district last evening, police officials said. The bodies have been handed over to the army after post mortem, they added. 4 wildlife smuggler held, endangered red sand boa snake recovered
Bahraich, Sep. 5 (PTI): Four alleged wildlife smugglers were today arrested along with an endangered red sand boa snake, worth over Rs two crore in the international market, the police said. The smugglers were nabbed this morning and recovered a red sand boa snake, weighing 2.5 kg from them, Additional SP Kamlesh Dixit said. In the international, this endangered species of reptile worth Rs one crore per kg, he said, adding that a case has been registered and further probe was on. Woman alleges gang rape in Noida Noida, Sep. 5 (PTI): A woman has lodged an FIR at the sector 20 police station here alleging rape by three men, police said today. The resident of Sector 8 here said in her complaint that her neighbour Ramvilas, on the pretext of helping her in the treatment of her husband, started visiting them. Her husband has been ailing for the past few months. She alleged that Ramvilas and two other men came and gave her a sedative-laced drink four months ago and raped her when she fell unconscious. They also recorded the act, she alleged. She said she wanted to file a complaint earlier but they threatened her saying they would kill her children and husband if she went to the police and would also make the video public. Police have started the investigation. Nonagenarian dead in building collapse
Kolkata, Sep.5 (IANS): A nonagenarian resident died while two others of the same family got severely injured as part of an old three-storey residential building in Burrabazar area here collapsed on Tuesday. Police and fire department officials rushed to the accident spot and recovered those trapped under the debris. “Three people were recovered from the debris and sent to the Kolkata Medical College Hospital,” an official said. One of them, Taraprasanna Saha, 91, succumbed to his injuries. His wife and their daughter are in critical condition. Local MLA and Trinamool Congress leader Smita Bakshi visited the accident spot and said the residents refused to leave the house even after it was tagged “dangerous” by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Modi in Myanmar amid Rohingya crisis Mumbai Metro receives
Court commissioner to oversee sanitisation of Dera headquarters at Sirsa India has made clear it won’t get cowed down: Bhagwat on Dokalam NITI Aayog releases National Nutrition Strategy Vice president honours 219 teachers with national award Pro-Rohingya protest held at Jantar Mantar Nay Pyi Taw, Sep. 5 (IANS): Indian Prime Min- ister Narendra Modi arrived here on Tuesday on a three- day visit to Myanmar amid a raging crisis involving Ro- hingyas in the country’s Rakhine state. Soon after his arrival here, he called on Myanmar President U Htin Kyaw at whose invitation he has come. Prior to the meeting, the visiting dignitary was presented a guard of honour on the Presidential Palace grounds.
“PM @narendramodi welcomed by the President U Htin Kyaw; both leaders inspect the guard of hon- our,” External Affairs Min- istry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted. This is Modi’s first bilat- eral visit to India’s eastern neighbour. He had come here in 2014 to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)-In- dia Summit. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister will hold bilateral discussions with Myanmar’s State Coun- sellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is also the country’s Foreign Minister and Min- ister of President’s Office. Following the discussions, a number of agreements are expected to be signed. Suu Kyi is under mount- ing international pressure to stop the alleged human rights violations against the Rohingyas, who are denied citizenship in Myanmar. Thousands of Rohing- yas are crossing over into Bangladesh -- where they are sparingly given refugee status -- to escape from the violence in Rakhine state. Media reports quoted the UNHCR spokesperson in Bangladesh as saying that at least 123,000 Rohingyas have crossed over. The latest exodus began on August 25, after Ro- hingya insurgents attacked police posts in Rakhine lead- ing to a violent offensive by the Myanmar Army. Meanwhile, India has said that it would deport all Rohingyas living in the country illegally but the country’s Supreme Court has said that it will hear on September 11 a plea seek- ing a direction to the central government not to deport about 40,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar.
This apart, India’s ca- Mumbai, Sep. 5 (IANS): The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) on Tuesday received the first of the 17 Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) it has or- dered for construction of the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ cor- ridor, a top official said here. Costing Rs 80 crore and weighing around 700-800 tonnes, with a diameter of 6.4 metres, the 100-metre long machine will help in building a tunnel of 5.8 metres size, said MMRC Managing Director Ashwini Bhide. “Over the next two years, a total of 17 TBMs shall be deployed construct- ing the 33.50 km long twin tunnels on the corridor,” Bhide added. The Colaba-Bandra- SEEPZ line will be the first Metro stretch running fully underground and a 1.2 kms long stretch that would be constructed below the Mithi River-Mahim Creek. The project comprising 27 stations en route and estimated to cost around Rs 23,000 crore, is expected to be completed by 2020, to serve nearly two million pas- sengers daily, as per plans. Srinagar, Sep. 5 (IANS): The NIA on Tuesday said it has arrested two stone- pelters in Kashmir in con- nection with an ongoing probe into terror funding to stoke unrest in the Valley. A National Investiga- tion Agency (NIA) offi- cial identified the arrested accused as Javed Ahmad Bhat and Kamran Yusuf of Kulgam and Pulwama districts, respectively, of Jammu and Kashmir. On August 17, the counter-terror agency had arrested Zahoor Ahmed Watali, a prominent busi- nessman of Kashmir. On July 24, the agency had arrested seven separa- tist leaders in connection with its probe into terror funding from Pakistan and militant groups based there. The NIA had asked Kashmir Bar Association President Mian Qayoom on Monday to appear be- fore it on Tuesday as a witness, and not as an ac- cused, in the case. Valley-based lawyers on Tuesday boycotted courts in protest against the sum- moning of Qayoom by the agency. Chandigarh, Sep. 5 (PTI): The Punjab and Haryana High Court today appoint- ed a retired sessions judge as the Court Commissioner to oversee the “sanitisation” process of Dera Sacha Sau- da premises at Sira, housing the headquarters of the sect. The order came after Haryana government filed a plea on Friday seeking “permission to hold saniti- sation process of the Dera headquarter at Sirsa under “judicial supervision”, fol- lowing the incarceration of the sect chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, for rap- ing two disciples. “The high court bench appointed retired sessions judge AKS Pawar as Court Commissioner for the sani- tisation of the Dera head- quarters at Sirsa,” Hary- ana’s Advocate General Baldev Raj Mahajan said after the hearing in the mat- ter today. He said the process will be taken up immediately and will be videographed. The state had sought the sanitisation of the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters under judicial supervision, Mahajan said. Asked how soon the process would start, Mahajan said, “the state will request the Court Commissioner to take it up immediately.” He said the government will provide adequate secu- rity to ensure that the saniti- sation process is carried out smoothly. Mahajan said a report of the whole process will be submitted to the high court by the commissioner, with a copy to be given to the state government. In its plea, the Haryana government had sought ap- pointment of area magis- trate or some other senior judicial officer to oversee the sanitisation process “to en- sure greater transparency”. “In the sanitisation process, officials of revenue and taxation department would participate, besides police and other security forces,” Mahajan said. Khattar had earlier said the high court was monitor- ing the Dera issue and the sanitisation process of the sect’s headquarters at Sirsa will be conducted only after the court takes up its appli- cation and gives necessary direction in this regard. Khattar had maintained that the forces cannot enter on their own without the court directions. The sect had yesterday said that the state govern- ment could carry out a search of its premises any time and it will cooperate with the authorities. Allahabad, Sep. 5 (PTI): India has made clear that it will not be cowed down on security and defence matters, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said today as he credited the Modi government for enhancing the country’s global standing. Bhagwat’s comments come in the backdrop of India and China mutually resolving the recent Dokalam stand-off. “It has been demonstrated clearly that the nation is no longer ready to be cowed down in matters relating to defence and security,” the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief said. The RSS ‘Sarsanghchalak’ was ad- dressing an event organised in the memory of Lal Bahadur Shastri at a college named after the late Prime Minister in Manda, about 65 kms from here. Bhagwat also lauded the Modi gov- ernment’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ initiative and “India’s higher international standing”. The policies of our government have led to India’s higher international stand- ing, he said. People all over the world have started looking up to us, he added. Referring to the ‘Swachh Bharat Ab- hiyan’, Bhagwat compared Modi’s ability to mobilise public support with that of Shastri during the 1965 Indo-Pak war. “We have seen what an inspiring lead- ership can achieve. In the past, the entire nation had taken to observing a fast on Mondays. Today, once again, the entire nation is making ef- forts to make the country clean,” Bhagwat said.
Besides the RSS chief, others present on the occasion were Shastri’s mater- nal grandson and Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh, the late prime minister’s sons Anil Shastri and Sunil Shastri, who are respectively with the Congress and the BJP, and former city Congress chief and Mayor Chaudhary Jitendra Nath Singh. New Delhi, Sep. 5 (IANS): The NITI Aayog on Tuesday released the National Nutrition Strategy aimed at bringing nu- trition to the centrestage of the National Development Agenda. The strategy lays down a road-map for effective action, among both implementers and practitioners, in achieving our nutri- tion objectives, the planning body said in a statement. NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the strategy was of great signifi- cance “considering one in three children in India are stunted”. Eeleasing the strategy document, emi- nent agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminath- an, who was one of the architects of the Green Revolution, said it was important to have a nutrition strategy based on life-cycle approach that takes into account nutrition needs from birth to death. He added that all three types of nutri- tion deficiencies -- undernutrition, mal- nutrition and protein hunger -- needed to be looked at in totality. He also called for linking of agriculture and nutrition. “Agriculture provides answers to most of the nutrition problems... The challenge is how do you marry the two,” he said. The NITI Aayog said that the nutrition strategy envisages a framework wherein the four proximate determinants of nutrition - uptake of health services, food, drinking water and sanitation and income and liveli- hoods - work together to accelerate decline of under nutrition in India. It added that supply side challenges of- ten overshadow the need to address behav- ioural change efforts to generate demand for nutrition services. “This strategy, therefore, gives promi- nence to demand and community mobi- lisation as a key determinant to address India’s nutritional needs,” the NITI Aayog statement said. It added that the nutritional strategy aims to ensure that states create customized state and district action plans to address local needs and challenges. “The strategy enables states to make strategic choices, through decentralized planning and local innovation, with account- ability for nutrition outcomes,” it added. New Delhi, Sep. 5 (PTI): In a break from tradition, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, instead of the president, to- day gave away the national awards for teachers. President Ram Nath Kovind later interacted with the 219 awardees at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. Constituted in 1958, the National Award for Teachers is presented by the president to teachers, who have rendered exem- plary service to the nation by exhibiting meritorious performance. The awards cover teachers working in primary, middle and secondary schools in the country. Congratulating the teachers on the occasion, Naidu called them the “un- sung heroes”. “Teachers are ‘bharata bhagya vidhatas’ (shapers of India’s development), dedicating their time and energy to shape individu- als for creating New India. They have a formidable responsibility to achieve 100 per cent literacy in next five years,” he said at the award ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan here. “India was once known as ‘Vishwa Guru’ with peo- ple from across the globe flocking to our ancient seats of learning like Na- landa and Takshashila. New Delhi, Sep. 5 (IANS): Immigrant Rohingya Muslims on Tuesday staged protest at the Jantar Mantar here against persecution of the community in My- anmar and demanded that the Indian government must intervene to save them. The protest organized by a group named ‘Peace Loving Indians’ saw scores of protesters shouting slogans like “Stop genocide in Burma”, and displayed ban- ners that read “Break your silence for Rohingya” and “Aung San Suu Kyi, is it your real face?” “We gathered here to express serious concern on the continued military and police crackdown on the civilian popula- tion in Northern Arakan in Myanmar,” Mohammad Waqar, one of the organisers of the protest, told IANS. “Since August 25, under the pretext of looking for attackers, the Myanmar military and police forces have been indiscriminately killing the Rohingyas, torching and plundering their homes and villages. “Thousands of Rohingyas were killed and slaughtered including women and children. More than 6,000 Rohingya houses were set ablaze,” he said. The protesters urged the Indian gov- ernment to voice their concerns and ask Myanmar to stop the assault against Rohingyas and to provide the victims with necessary humanitarian assistance, including healthcare. They also urged the Indian state to give shelter to Rohingya victims. “International media and humanitar- ian aide workers should be allowed in the affected areas and the Myanmar govern- ment should provide full fledged citizen- ship of Rohingyas,” Waqar added. pacity building measures and infrastructure develop- ment projects are expected to come up for discussion during the Modi-Suu Kyi meeting. India has committed grant-in-aid assistance amounting to Rs 4,000 crore to Myanmar, out of a total commitment of around $1.7 billion. The projects include the Kaladan Multimodal Trans- port Project connecting Sit- twe port in Myanmar with the northeast Indian state of Mizoram, a trilateral highway connecting north- eastern India with Myan- mar and Thailand, and the Rhi-Tiddim road. In terms of capacity building, New Delhi is as- sisting the eastern neighbour in setting up institutions of higher learning like the My- anmar Institute of Informa- tion Technology, Advanced Centre for Agricultural Re- search and Education, My- anmar-India Entrepreneur- ship Development Centre, Myanmar-India Centre for English Language Training and India-Myanmar Indus- trial Training Centres. India has also provided humanitarian relief follow- ing natural calamities like Cyclone Mora this year, Komen in 2015 and Nargis in 2008 and an earthquake in Shan state in 2010. In a media briefing in New Delhi ahead of Modi’s visit to Myanmar, Sripriya Ranganathan, Joint Secre- tary (Bangladesh and Myan- mar) in the Indian External Affairs Ministry, said both sides would take stock of the ongoing infrastructure projects and also discuss the kind of projects which the new Myanmarese govern- ment has on its priority list and which they would like to partner India with in the process of execution. “We will be guided by the government of Myan- mar in terms of the choice of projects,” Ranganthan said.
“The stated priorities of this government are infra- structure, power and energy and we believe these could be the areas where there is a great deal that Indian agen- cies can bring to the table.” With both countries sharing a 1,600-km-long boundary, the issue of se- curity cooperation is also expected to come up for discussion. During his stay in My- anmar, Prime Minister Modi will also visit Bagan, a heritage city where the Archaeological Survey of India is involved in restora- tion work of a temple and some pagodas, and Yan- gon where he will interact with members of the Indian community. Modi arrived here from Xiamen, China, where he at- tended the 9th BRICS Sum- mit from September 3-5. Today all teachers must pledge to transform class- rooms into hubs of joyful learning and raise the edu- cation system to a much higher level,” he said. A total of 219 teachers, including 124 Informa- tion and Communication Technology (ICT) teachers, were awarded today. The recognition is extended to teachers of CBSE- affiliated schools, independent affiliated schools situated abroad, ICSCE, Sainik School, KVs, NVs, CTSA and schools run by the Atomic Energy Education Society. The award ceremony was also presided over by Union HRD Minister Pra- kash Javadekar and the new- ly inducted Minister of State for HRD Satyapal Singh. O n t h e o c c a s i o n , the vice president also launched DIKSHA, a na- tional digital infrastructure for teachers. “DIKSHA is a cus- tomisable national digital infrastructure that states, Teacher Education Insti- tutions (TEI) and private entities can use for their respective teacher-centric initiatives. “Teachers will be able to use DIKSHA to access and create high quality teaching, learning and as- sessment resources for all subjects and levels in al Indian languages. They will be able to use DIK- SHA to access and create high quality teaching,” Javadekar said. Military hysteria over N Korea could lead to catastrophe: Putin North Korea ‘begging for war’: Haley Download 0.88 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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