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Costa Rica’s Bryan Ruiz (10) watches as the ball goes past Italy’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to score his side’s first goal during the group D World Cup soccer match between Italy and Costa Rica at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil on June 20. (AP Photo)
rail passenger fares hiked 14.2 percent
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NEW DELHI, JUNE 20 (IANS): The government Friday raised the railway passenger fares by 14.2 percent in all classes and freight charge by 6.5 percent effective form June 25. The new passenger fares and freight rates aimed at mobilising resources for the cash-strapped Indian Railways come just days after Prime Minister Narendra
Modi warned countrymen to get ready for some “bitter medicine” needed to revive the economy and ahead of the full railway budget next month. The railway ministry said the revision of rates was done as part of interim budget presented by the previous UPA-II government, but was not implemented because of the 10-phase Lok
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NEW DELHI, JUNE 20 (PTI): Amidst reports of the NDA government nudging the Governors appointed by previous UPA regime to step down, Nagaland Governor Ashwini Kumar today said he did not get any communication from the Centre but was ready to put in his papers if asked to do so. “No one has asked me. But if any order comes, I will follow it,” he told reporters here after a meeting with Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Sources described the meeting as a courtesy call and said the issue of Kumar’s resignation did not figure in the discussion. Kumar was CBI Director when the agency had arrested BJP general secretary Amit Shah in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter killing case in Gujarat.
Sabha elections spread over April-May. It said the annual expenditure of the ministry could not be met unless the revised rates as finalized by previous government are implemented. According to a ministry release, there will be a flat 10 percent increase in all classes. In addition, there will be an increase of 4.2 percent in fares on account
45 ne militant camps exist in Bangladesh, Bsf informs
AGARTALA, JUNE 20 (PTI): Despite good relation between BSF and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), 45 camps of different militant outfits of India’s NorthEast exist in Bangladesh, top BSF officer said today. “Our relation with BGB is fabulous and they are highly cooperative. Despite this 45 militant camps of North-East militants exist in Bangla soil,” Special DG of BSF, B D Sharma told reporters after having a telephonic discussion with DG of BGB Major Gen Aziz Ahmed. He said, the insurgents could not be fully wiped out from Bangladesh soil because deployment of BGB was less compared to requirement. Sharma said, out of 45 militant camps, militants from Tripura have 21 camps, mostly belonged to two banned outfits - All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT). Special DG said, “Any border cannot be properly protected only by guns. Mas-
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After her water broke and complications arose, Manthai (name changed) was hurriedly transported on a bamboo stretcher by her villagers (Wontsoi) on foot to the nearest Primary Health Centre (PHC) located at Pangsha New, five kilometers away. Wontsoi, a Khiamniungan village under Pangsha range bordering Myanmar, is as remote as it gets. With no motorable road, the only option is to travel on foot. By the time the villagers reached the PHC, it was a too late. With no doctor posted at the basic centre and the nearest hospital located more than 30km away at Noklak, Manthai succumbed to complications of the placenta and her story of untold suffering and tragic death soon became a thing of the past. Healthcare still remains a neglected issue for villages in the Pangsha range bordering Myanmar. The only PHC located at Pangsha New still does not have a medical officer (doctor). A pharmacist or compounder along with a nurse and two GNM operate the basic health centre which caters to a number of villages both at the border and in Myanmar. Manthai’s is not an iso-
lated case. Another pregnant woman from the same village had to be carried all the way to Noklak on foot by the villagers. Fortunately, the woman could deliver normally, notwithstanding the tortuous experience faced by the woman and the villagers. In another incident, a young woman from Pangsha New was
Pangsha New, villagers from as far as Shiu, Henpu, Kingphu from Myanmar and Shinyu from Mon district area trudge on foot to Pangsha PHC to avail what little is there of medical facilities and treatment. Besides the remoteness of the villages and lack of general transportation facilities, the main cause of worry for the medical attendants at the PHC is cases of child delivery and maternity that comes in on a regular basis. “We have no ambulance during cases of emergency, no doctor to treat the patients needing serious instant attention; we worry every day,” added Meya. The lack of proper medical facilities is not their only cause for worry. The compounder (who dons the responsibility of a doctor) and nurses at the PHC spend most of their salary on conveyance. “To go to Noklak to collect medicine/vaccines and return back, we have to pay more than 500-600 rupees from our own pockets every time to hire a bike,” he pointed out. Or, for instance, to travel to ITC Dan from the health centre to treat a patient, which is 10km away. “It virtually becomes impossible to go back and forth to the different villages during emergency.”
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sive development projects are required for socio-economic development of people living in both side of the border. Considering these aspects, BSF proposed to Ministry of Home Affairs for setting up 60 border haats (markets) in the eastern border, so that people from both sides could sell their local products in those markets”. Of the 60 border haats, 22 were proposed in Meghalaya, 32 in West Bengal, four in Tripura and two in Assam. Sharma said, out of about 4000-km border with Bangladesh, barbed wire fencing would be erected in 3314 km, of which 2418 km long areas have already been fenced and works are in progress in 342 km. “So, about 70 per cent of the border is now fenced,” he said. Sharma said that 3061 km of Indo-Bangla border would be illuminated by flood lighting to check smuggling and border crimes, of which 1732 km have already been illuminated which is 57 per cent of the total works.
cntc urges nagaland state govt to uphold ‘assurances’
DIMAPUR, JUNE 20 (MExN): The Central Nagaland Tribal Council (CNTC) today called upon the Nagaland state government to act with “integrity” and uphold the assurances made by the latter regarding construction of the Nagaland Foothill Road. This demand was tabled at an executive meeting of the CNTC on June 20. A press note from the CNTC President, Ntsemo Ngullie and General Secretary, Imtinochet informed that the meeting resolved to voice out its concerns regarding what it termed as “confusion and distortion created in the smooth construction of the Foothill Road.” The CNTC questioned the “credibility of the department concerned and the government,” and
stated that the assurance and commitment made with the NFHRCC during last year’s meeting in the presence of the former Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio and other officials have not been honored. It stated that the construction of the first phase i.e. passage (Jeepable road) from Dimapur to Tizit was to be initiated by the NFHRCC, to which end, it said that the committee has undertaken “tireless efforts in negotiating with the general public in the affected areas and the National Workers for exemption of any land compensation and taxation.” It further apprised the public that the proposal for the Foothill Road construction project has come up under “extraordinary circumstances, where the
general public has enthusiastically participated to make this dream a reality.” It added that the government is also fully aware of the situation under which the Foothill Road construction has come up and as such called upon the former not to deviate from the assurance made. The CNTC further called upon the Nagaland government to honor the “genuine demand of the 10 tribes to revoke the work order issued through open tender and allot the work order to the NHFRCC recommended contractors to complete the first phase work.” This, the CNTC asserted, must be done “in order to avoid confrontation and hurdles in the progress of the ongoing construction.
of FAC (fuel adjustment component) which is due from April 2014. There will be no increase in fares up to minimum distance. There will be no change in charges for reservation fee, superfast surcharge etc. The revised fares will also apply to tickets issued in advance for journeys to commence on or after June 25, 2014. Related news on page 4
forced to give birth midway to Noklak town. It is not certain whether Nagaland State health authorities are aware of such fatal and life threatening incidents occurring frequently due to lack of proper medical facilities or a doctor. T Hosea Meya, Pharmacist of PHC Pangsha New, said he had, on occasions, requested his superiors the urgent need to appoint a doctor, only to be told that there was no post for MO at the centre. Although there is a six bedded PHC at Pangsha Old village which was supposed to be the main health centre, it is not operational for reasons unknown and the building stands empty and unused. Apart from Wontsoi, ITC Dan, Pangsha Old and
Global refugee numbers highest since WWii: Un GENEVA, JUNE 20 (NYT): The number of people displaced by violent conflict hit the highest level since World War II at the end of 2013, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, António Guterres, said in a report released on Friday, warning that “peace is dangerously in deficit.” Pushed up dramatically by the war in Syria, the total number of people displaced by violence reached more than 51 million at the end of 2013, according to the agency’s “Global Trends” report for the year. This included 33.3 million people who fled violence but remained in their own country and 16.7 million refugees who fled to neighboring countries, it said. “We are not facing an increasing trend, we are really facing a quantum leap,” Guterres told reporters in Geneva, noting that close to 11 million people were newly displaced in 2013. Half the world’s population of displaced people are children, he added, the highest level in a decade. “There is no humanitarian response able to solve the problems of so many people,” he warned. “It’s becoming more and more difficult to find the capacity and resources to deal with so many people in such tragic circumstances.” Moreover, the impact of conflicts raging this year in Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ukraine and now Iraq threatens to push levels of displacement even higher by the end of 2014,
Eritrean asylum seekers eat lunch together on the sidewalk in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, June 20. Since April 29, over 200 Eritrean asylum seekers including women and children living on the streets of Sanaa wait to be resettled to a third country. For the first time since the World War II era, the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million, the United nations refugee agency said Friday. (AP Photo)
he said. “What this demonstrates is that the international community today has very limited capacity to prevent conflicts and to find timely solutions,” Guterres said, spotlighting the failure of global powers to work effectively together. “We see the Security Council paralyzed in many crucial crises,” he added. To make matters worse, the consequences of past conflicts “never seem to die,” Guterres said. Iran and Pakistan still host more than two and a half million Afghan refugees, and over six million people have
been in exile for five years or more. The number of refugees returning to their countries in 2013 was one of the lowest levels of recent years at 414,000, the refugee agency reported, while the number of people taken in for resettlement by other countries totaled just 98,400. In addition to refugees, more than 1.1 million people had applied for asylum in 2013, the highest number in a decade, Guterres reported. A particularly worrying trend was the growing number of children traveling unaccompa-
nied. But amid mounting anxiety in Western countries over immigration and the flow of migrants to their shores, Guterres was quick to puncture any illusion that developed countries of the North were hosting most of the world’s refugees. “The truth is that 86 percent of the world’s refugees are living in developing countries,” he said, a much higher proportion than 10 years ago. “The trend is not only to have more and more refugees but more and more refugees in the developing world,” he said. Related news on page 9
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