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Meghalaya legislator against Hindi songs Shillong, october 7 (iAnS): A Meghalaya legislator Monday spoke out against the inclusion of Hindi songs in government-sponsored festivals which were meant to promote the culture of the indigenous people of the state. “Government-sponsored festivals should actually give a platform to items which are in sync with the culture and tradition of the people and Hindi songs do not epitomize the culture of the indigenous people,” Independent legislator John Leslee K. Sangma said during Question Hour in the assembly. He, however, did not advocate a ban on Hindi songs during such events. Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said such festivals are organised to provide visitors a glimpse of the culture, tradition, cuisine, handicrafts of the people and to foster unity and understanding of the cultural diversity of the state. However, Leslee Sangma said the chief minister’s reply was contrary to what is actually happening. “You have singers from Shillong and elsewhere who come (to a festival in Tura) and sing Hindi songs which do not actually reflect the culture of the people,” he said.
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lonDon, october 7 (Pti): Britain’s Prince Harry could wed his girlfriend Cressida Bonas next year, a media report today quoted his friends as saying. The 29-year-old prince has his eyes set on marrying Bonas and their friends said the wedding could happen soon, according to The Telegraph. The friends said Bonas, 24, initially thought she was too young to marry Prince Harry but had finally overcome her fears about marrying into the royal family. “Cressie is going to marry Harry,” one of Bonas’s friends told the newspaper. “Harry never stops talking about marriage and children, and she has now got used to the idea. The wedding is likely to take place next year,” the unnamed friend said.
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two Americans, German Abducted minor rescued win nobel medicine prize Police says, suspects evade arrest
StocKholM, october 7 (AP): Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and Germanborn researcher Thomas Sudhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells. This traffic control system keeps activities inside cells from descending into chaos and has helped researchers gain a better understanding of a range of diseases including diabetes and disorders affecting the immune system, the committee said. Working in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, the three researchers made groundbreaking discoveries about how tiny bubbles called vesicles (VEHS’-ih-kuhls) act as cargo carriers inside cells. Above all, their work helps explain “how this cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time” the committee said. “Imagine hundreds of thousands of people who are traveling around hundreds of miles of streets; how are they going to find the right way? Where will the bus stop and open its doors so that people can get out?” Nobel committee secretary Goran Hansson said. “There are similar problems in the cell.” The discoveries have helped doctors diagnose a severe form of epilepsy
Images of James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the US, and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, after they were announced as the winners of the 2013 nobel Prize in medicine. Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how proteins and other materials are transported within cells. (AP Photo)
and immune deficiency diseases in children, Hansson said. In the future, scientists hope the research could lead to medicines against more common types of epilepsy, diabetes and other metabolism deficiencies, he added. Rothman, 62, is a professor at Yale University, while Schekman, 64, is at the University of California, Berkeley. Sudhof, 57, joined Stanford University in 2008. Schekman said he was awakened at 1 a.m. at his home in California by the chairman of the prize committee and was still suffering from jetlag after returning from a trip to Germany
the night before. “I wasn’t thinking too straight. I didn’t have anything elegant to say,” he told The Associated Press. “All I could say was ‘Oh my God,’ and that was that.” He called the prize a wonderful acknowledgment of the work he and his students had done and said he knew it would change his life. “I called my lab manager and I told him to go buy a couple bottles of Champagne and expect to have a celebration with my lab,” he said. In the 1970s, Schekman discovered a set of genes that were required for vesicle transport, while Roth-
man revealed in the 1980s and 1990s how vesicles delivered their cargo to the right places. Also in the ‘90s, Sudhof identified the machinery that controls when vesicles release chemical messengers from one brain cell that let it communicate with another. “This is not an overnight thing. Most of it has been accomplished and developed over many years, if not decades,” Rothman told the AP. Rothman said he lost grant money for the work recognized by the Nobel committee, but he will now reapply, hoping the Nobel prize will make a difference in receiving funding.
DiMAPUr, october 7 (Mexn): The case of a missing 12 year-old boy, who was reported abducted on October 4, took a different turn on Monday. The woman, against whom the FIR was lodged by the boy’s father, evaded arrested reportedly going into hiding on October 7. Dimapur police disclosed that the woman, one Alila Jamir (75 years) in the FIR, was absent when a police team went to her residence at Taxes colony, Lengrijan to take her for questioning. Police were however able to rescue the boy, a domestic help, at around 8:30 pm from Nagarjan on October 7. The suspects escaped, police said. The condition of the boy can be determined only after medical check-up, it was added. The case can be traced back to September 30, when a police complaint was lodged against the boy on charges of theft at the residence of Jamir. The complaint was filed by her son. According to Jamir’s version, given to police before she went into hiding, she had gone on a medical trip to Delhi in July, leaving the boy as caretaker of the house. Another man, Ram Kumar, was entrusted to assist the boy.
Jamir’s son reportedly discovered on September 30 that the house was burgled and subsequently lodged a complaint at West Police Station. Based on the complaint, the boy along with Ram Kumar was detained by the police. The latter was released the same day after the boy reportedly admitted to the alleged theft. The boy was released on October 1, the day Jamir reached Dimapur from Delhi. The Additional Superintendent of Police, Dimapur stated that the boy was released after his father took an undertaking that his son will be produced before the police as and when required. It was alleged that the house was found ransacked and household items missing, including ornaments. But on October 1, the boy and the father were taken to Jamir’s house and allegedly beaten and released only in the evening on the condition they must report back the next day. From October 2-4 the father-son duo was allegedly forced to work in the house. The father alleged that on the evening of October 4, they were taken away by three persons, suspected to be underground elements, and confined in an undisclosed house on
the outskirts of Dimapur. During the confinement, the boy was beaten, the father said. The father was released the next day on October 5, after which he filed a complaint at West Police Station. The West PS referred the case to Women Cell, Dimapur on October 6, following which an inquiry began. Meanwhile, Nagaland Alliance for Child Rights, clarifying on the report that ‘Childline’ failed to bring the boy under its care when the matter was first reported to the police, stated that ‘Childline’ responds to children in need and care. The District Child Protection Officer is shouldered with the responsibility of dealing with children in conflict with the law, NACR said. ‘Childline’ received a call from West PS on the night of September 30 informing of a boy in its custody, NACR said. Since, the case was relating to law and order, it was referred to the DCPO. The phone number of the DCPO was also provided, it added. Even so, the boy spent the night in the police station. The ASP, Dimapur said that West PS could not get through to the number provided. As such, West PS had no choice but to keep the boy in its custody for the night but not in the lock-up, the ASP said.
Licenses for coal mining AMMuNITION SMuGGLING: to be reviewed by State CID probes role of Nagaland cop
KohiMA, october 7 (Mexn): In what looks like a tightening strap over coal mining in Nagaland, the Department of Geology and Mining of the Government of Nagaland has once again notified on minutiae of the Nagaland Coal Mining Rules of 2006. This time, the Secretary to the Government of Nagaland for the Department, Bendang Longchari, has informed in an office memorandum that “in the exercise of the power conferred under Rule 1, Chapter-II of the NCMR 2006 and under section-3 read with section 2 (n) and (o) of the NOTLAR Act, 1990, the State Govt. shall continue to issue Coal Prospecting License to those reputed mining companies to undertake coal prospecting operations in the state for the purpose of exploring, locating or proving the existence of coal deposit.” “Prospecting” is essential, as per the Department, as without it coal mines cannot be planned and designed, which could lead to environmental damages. Often, haphazard coal mining is adopted without scientific and systematic mining, which leads to the wanton destruction of coal reserves in the State. “Execution of Prospecting operations shall be mandatory for the grant of Coal Mining Lease (CML)/Small Pocket Deposit License (SPDL),” stated the office memo from Longchari. “In other words, no CML/SPDL shall be granted, unless the area is prospected and the Govt. is satisfied that there is evidence to show that the area for which the lease is applied for, has been prospected for coal and the existence of coal therein have been established and the Inspecting
Officer is satisfied whether to recommend for CML or SPDL.” Initially, the SPDL was introduced to prevent environmental damages and resource wastage caused due to large opencast mining. The SPDL was issued by the Department to only individual landowners to facilitate them to undertake “rat hole mining.” Now, many companies have started “opencast mining” on a large scale under SPDLs through landowners. Any unsystematic or damaging process of coal mining undertaken under this cannot be regulated, nor held accountable under law, as landowners provide a shield to such companies under the SPDL. To take care of this, the Department of Geology and Mining of Nagaland State has informed that “those individual SPDL holders who have completed one year of operations, are advised to immediately submit their prospecting/exploratory mining report.” Further it has been informed that “if they are satisfied with the existence of sufficient coal deposit or coal reserves therein, the same may apply for grant of CML within one month time w.e.f. the date of issue of this Office Memorandum or w.e.f. the date of completion of one year, whichever is earlier.” In case the SPDL holders fail to do this, their SPDL shall be treated as ‘Non-Functional’ and such SPDL will stand automatically cancelled on the expiry of the aforesaid stipulated time period, stated the office memo. Moreover, the Department stated that “Under no circumstances coal challan or transport challan shall be issued under CPL with immediate effect.”
KolKAtA, october 7 (hinDUStAn tiMeS): The sleuths of the state criminal investigation department (CID) have found evidence of the alleged involvement of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) posted in Nagaland in arms and ammunition smuggling. They stumbled upon this link while investigating Bihar resident Satyanarayan Singh’s role in ammunition smuggling. Malda railway police arrested Singh from Malda station on September 13 and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition
from his possession. The CID took charge of the investigation on September 18. “We have asked Nagaland Police for information about this DSP. We are investigating if he is in any way involved,” said a senior officer of CID. A resident of Bihar, Singh has been procuring arms and ammunition from Vikato Sema, an activist of Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), for at least five years and would smuggle these to criminals in Bihar. Investigation has revealed that Singh had two cohorts. One of them is Arvind and the other
is Manoj. While Arvind is a resident of Khagariah district of Bihar, Manoj is from Bhagalpur. The CID sleuths conducted raids at their residence in Bihar but they were absconding. “While probing the matter, we have come to know that a lot of money has been transferred from the DSP’s bank account to Arvind’s. When we interrogated Singh in this regard, he told us that they purchased an autorickshaw and the DSP was the guarantor. But we did not buy this statement,” said the CID officer. The CID suspects that the DSP is in-
volved in this racket. “We have information that when the autorickshaw was purchased, Singh was involved in the arms and ammunition smuggling racket. So his statement is not believable. On several occasions, money has been transferred into Arvind’s account. Our aim is to find out why the DSP transferred money into Arvind’s account. Was the DSP one of the beneficiaries of the money the members of the racket would earn by selling the arms and ammunition?” the officer said.
Police cracks counterfeit racket
The accused, Gopal Gonmei in the custody of Dimapur Police.
DiMAPUr, october 7 (Mexn): Dimapur police, while investigating reports of a clandestine racket that involved making and selling of counterfeit vehicle documents and driving licenses, arrested one person on October 5. A press note from the office of the Dimapur SP informed that the main accused in the racket was arrested from Burma Camp following a trap set by employing a decoy customer, pretending to be in search of fake vehicle registration. The accused identified as Gopal Gonmei (54), residing at Rongmei colony, Burma Camp was taken into custody. Upon his arrest, a raid was conducted at his house, from where incriminating documents were recovered and seized. The seizure included seventy-one driving licenses already made against persons;
one seal and round seal, each of DTO, Tuensang; one national permit for a truck; one temporary permit for a truck; one insurance certificate of Oriental Insurance Company Limited; registration certificates of a vehicle with fitness and pollution certificates; blank booklet of counterfeit license; blank booklet of Pollution Under Control Certificate; eight sheets of blank Form l A (Medical certificate); thirty blank and fifteen with affixed photographs of “No Objection Certificate” for driving license attested with seal and signature of DTO, Tuensang; sixty sheets of driving license attested with seal and signature of DTO, Tuensang; two registers containing records of driving license issued; three envelops of Oriental Insurance Company Limited; one Computer CPU and a HP Deskjet printer.
Dimapur police informed that the accused admitted to the crime and has been making and selling fake documents since 2011. The accused revealed that he would scan images of the original documents in order to make the fake documents. Whenever any demand for a document was made from his customers, who were mostly from Assam, he prepared the fake documents by forging the signatures of DTO, Tuensang and Phek. He charged Rs 20003000 for a vehicle registration certificate and Rs 500 for a driving license. Investigation into the involvement of other accused in the crime is being carried out. A case has been registered at East Police Station under relevant sections of the IPC and investigation is being taken up, informed the police.
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