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NEw DElHI, FEBRUARY 9 (IANS): A Special Investigating Team (SIT) led by Deputy Commissioner of Police B.S. Jaiswal has been formed to probe the rape of a teenaged Manipuri girl here, police sources said. The girl Sunday recorded her statement before a magistrate’s court. The 14-year-old girl was forcibly grabbed by her landlord’s son, taken to a vacant room and brutally raped in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar area Friday night. Following protest, police registered a case and arrested the accused. Police sources said the SIT will conduct further investigation into the case. Officers who probed the Dec 16 gang rape will also be in the team. They will collect evidence and prepare the charge sheet as soon as possible, sources added. An SIT led by Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police P.S. Kushwaha investigated the Dec 16 gang rape of the physiotherapy student by six attackers inside a moving bus. She died in a Singapore hospital after 13 days. The SIT had filed the charge sheet within 17 days following the arrest of all six accused. Meanwhile, police said the Manipuri girl’s statement was recorded Sunday. “She was taken before a magistrate’s court by her father. Her statement was recorded under section 164 CrPC (recording of statement),” a police officer told IANS. The girl, on Friday night, went out to buy some householditemswhenthe accused forcibly grabbed her in front of a pharmacy, dragged her to a vacant room and raped her. The girl suffered injuries to her face in the attack. She underwent medical tests at Safdarjung Hospital.
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day said. UFBU is the umbrella organisation of five employee unions and four officer unions of state-run banks. All nine unions under its aegis have given the strike call. UFBU had earlier called a strike on January 20-21, which was
deferred after the Indian Banks Association (IBA) increased its initial offer to 9.5 percent, from 5 percent, with a promise to improve it further. UFBA said it had called the strike as the discussions on wage revision have been tardy since the last one year.
CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 9 (IANS): The private sector should be given a free hand in the education sector, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said Sunday. He also said that the government should set up the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Management and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in all states. Speaking at the 9th convocation of the SRM University near here, Modi said: “The private sector is more than eager to enter this field. I am personally quite convinced that we should give them a free hand.” However he said institution building should begin with the government and it is “our commitment to set up IIT, IIM and AIIMS in every state”. He said good educational institutions could be set in every part of the country if given the right environment. “This is an era of knowl-
to involve members of the civil society, tribal hohos, youth organisations, students, women organisations and the general public is indeed a step in the right direction,” stated the ACAUT, further calling out for the above mentioned meeting at Chumukedima. The ACAUT has additionally stated that “The NSCN should not allow petty issues like forceful sale of calendar sully its name,” also pointing out that the NSCN (IM) “does not intent to abide” by the ‘Rules & Guidelines for Protection of the General Public Against Illegal Tax, 2013’ approved by its Collective Leadership with regards to the sale of calendars.
ZUNHEBOTO, FEBRUARY 9 (MExN): In response to the Naga Hoho’s recent call for reconciliatory measures between the Sumi people and the NSCN (IM), Sumi frontal organizations have resolved to stick to their January 7 resolution, which stated that “the relationship between Sumis and the NSCN (IM) is hereby delinked and abrogated and all ties with that organization is severed . . .” The Sumi Hoho reiterated that as per the January 7 resolution, “. . .all kinds of taxations from the Sumis to the NSCN (IM) shall cease to exist.” A press note from the Sumi Hoho President, Hovishe Arkha and Secretary,
Vihuto Assumi informed that the said decision was taken at the general meeting of all Sumi Frontal Organizations on February 7 at Sumi Hoho Ki, Zunheboto. The meeting further declared February 12, 2014 as a “Sumi Prayer and Fasting Day” and urged all Sumis to observe the day with prayers and fasting, in order to “seek God’s divine protection from natural calamities. . .” The meeting also acknowledged the “word of warning from believers that the Holy Spirit has forewarned the Sumi people of great tribulation” in the days to come.” It then agreed to further strengthen the zeal
Gay rights activists from India’s northeastern states participate in a protest against a recent Indian Supreme court decision upholding a law that criminalizes gay sex in Guwahati on February 9. The Supreme Court recently reversed a landmark 2009 verdict of a lower court that had decriminalized gay sex. The country’s highest court had said it’s up to lawmakers, not judges, to change the law. (AP Photo)
All-india banks on 2-day strike from today
NEw DElHI, FEBRUARY 9 (IANS): Banking services in the country would be hit from Monday, with staff of both public and private sector banks planning a two-day strike against the proposed banking sector reforms and for immediate revision in
wages. Over a million bank employees and officers working in 27 public sector banks, including the State Bank of India, and 12 private and eight foreign banks, will go on a twoday nationwide strike Feb 10-11, the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) Sun-
edge. This is the only potent route to fight poverty. We have to review our commitment to education,” said Modi, who is also the Gujarat chief minister. He said education was the route to eradicate poverty and every child in India must be educated. Reminding the students that very few people were able to access good educational institutions in India, Modi urged them help the underprivileged. Modi said 65 percent of India’s population was under 35 years, and youths needed to embrace skill and speed. Skill development, he said, was the need of the hour and should get priority. “Japan is a small country but is running bullet trains.” He said India was a diverse country with diverse natural resources which have to be harnessed efficiently. Naural resources should be mined in a sustainable manner while the rivers must be linked.
Stressing the importance of developing scientific temper, Modi said research and development as well as innovations have to be encouraged. Modi advised the students to create in India companies like Google and Microsoft. Avinash Chander, scientific advisor to the defence minister and director general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, called for setting up of more R and D institutions in India. He said sustained efforts were needed so that the armed forces have cutting edge technologies. Earlier, SRM University founder chancellor T.R. Pachamuthu said that 70 percent of its students hailed from outside Tamil Nadu. Its student population was drawn from 47 countries, he said. SRM University was also one of the few universities in the world to put a satellite in space, Pachamuthu said.
towards uplift and functioning of the Sumi Literature Board. The meeting also resolved that the Sumi Hoho shall extend its full co-operation towards the Zunheboto-Chakhabama road, currently in progress, under the SARDP program. It cautioned that the Sumi Hoho would initiate for cessation of all government funded schemes to any village, within the jurisdiction of the work, which objects to the construction of this road, especially on land compensation issues. It added that this would be done through intimation to the district administration. It was informed that a committee called the Sumi
Migration Research Committee would be formed, consisting of Dr. Hokishe Yeptho as Convenor, Dr. Hotokhu Chishi, H S Rotokha, president Sumi Hoho and President Sumi Kukami Hoho as members. The meeting then decided that a Sumi Customary Law Research Committee be constituted with former Sumi Hoho President, Huskha Yepthomi as Convener; Sumi Hoho Secretary, Vihuto Assumi as Secretary; HK Sumi, Former Chief Justice and HS Rotokha, Former Sumi Hoho President as members. The next Sumi Hoho Annual Session is scheduled to be held on March 14.
ACAUT asks people to attend sumi orgs stick to January 7 resolution February 13 Chumu meeting
DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 9 (MExN): The Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) has called upon “every concerned individuals and organizations” to attend the public meeting to be held on February 13, 9:00am at the Saturday Weekly Market, Chumukedima. This was stated in a press release from the ACAUT’s media cell. Reiterating its need to be “duty bound” by the October 31 Public Resolution on the issue of taxation, the ACAUT noted that its movement is “gathering momentum in the light of very important decision taken by various organisations, namely, DUCCCF
(Dimapur Urban Colony Council Chairmen Federation) & GBs Union Dimapur, covering 87 colonies or roughly 2 lakh population or 10% of Nagaland population, CCCTA (Chumukedima Chamber of Commerce and Trade Association) and Chamber of Commerce, Mon not to pay tax to any NPGs as per the 31st October Public Resolution.” The ACAUT has also pointed out that Purana Bazar Village Council, Padumpukhuri VC, Darogapathar VC and Naharbari VC had taken the same decision on November 23, 2013, “much to the gratitude of concerned citizens all over the state.” “The stand of CCCTA
NERPF deplores ‘systematic neglect’ of NE
Demands justice for assaulted NE persons
KOHIMA, FEBRUARY 9 (MExN): The North East Regional Parties Front (NERPF) has expressed serious concern over the treatment of people from the North East in other parts of the country. A press note from the Secretary of the NERPF, Abu Metha, stated that the Nagaland Chief Minister, along with all affiliates of the NERPF, condemns the “continuous discrimination towards the people of the region.” The NERPF termed it unfortunate that the Government of India “is waking up from its slumber of systematic neglect of the region only now,” only after people of the region have protested and all regional parties of the region have taken the matter to the President of India and the Union Government. It condemned the rape
NEFIS condemns February 7 rape DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 9 (MExN): The North East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) has condemned the rape of a 14 year old girl in Munirka on February 7. A press note from the NEFIS informed that the victim has suffered fatal injuries and is now admitted in Safdarjung hospital. It alleged that the police had initially refused to file an FIR, but eventually relented, after pressure from the NEFIS and various women and student organizations. It lamented that incidents of violence towards people from the north east have increased rapidly over the past few years and asserted that it is time for police and the administration to take cognizance of this growing menace. It called upon the authorities to be proactive in the protection of vulnerable sections of society. “Otherwise these issues will snowball into nationwide protests and agitation,” it added. NEFIS further called for protests in all north east cities against the repeated violence towards people from the region.
of a fourteen year old girl in New Delhi on February 7, the assault on two women from Manipur and the assault on Nido Tania, from Arunachal Pradesh, who eventually passed away on February 30. The NERPF said that these incidents are “just the tip of the enormous amount of discrimination that the people of the north east have to face, and are facing all over the country, especially in the
national capital.” While welcoming steps taken by the central government in setting up a panel and assurances given by the Delhi Chief Minister, the NERPF felt that these steps are “too late and too little.” It asserted that the Government of India must come up with concrete steps to ensure that discrimination of people of the north east is addressed as a national issue,
“instead of making piecemeal announcements from time to time.” The party extended its support and solidarity to the victims, their families and the people who have been “peacefully protesting in the most civilized and democratic manner.” It demanded that the Government of India take immediate steps to set up state-of-the-art modern educational institutions, in all spheres, within the north eastern region. It further called for creation of infrastructure and economic policies backed by concrete action, which will create education and job opportunities for the youth within the region. The NERPF urged that immediate justice be delivered and that severest form of punishment be handed to the culprits involved in these “inhuman crimes.” The NERPF stated that these cases have “hurt the sentiments of the millions of people in the north eastern region and shamed the reputation of the world’s largest democracy.”
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