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Monday October 27, 2014
5 more arrested in Parui OC attack CBI sleuths question BJD
MP again on chit fund scam
SURI (WB), OCT 26/—/
Five more villagers were arrested in connection with
the October 24 attack on the
Officer-in-Charge of Parui
police station in Birbhum
district, taking the number
of arrests to ten. The police
said that all five were arrested last night.
Today a local cour t,
where they were produced,
sent two of them to police
custody while three others
were remanded to judicial
custody.
The Inspector-General
(western range), Siddhinath
Gupta,during the day went
to meet the injured OC
Prosenjit Datta at Suri
Sadar Hospital.
Meanwhile, a team of local BJP leaders was today
stopped by the police from
entering Chowmandalpur
village where the attack
took place on the ground of
prohibitory orders under
section 144 CrPC being imposed there.
The team, led by district BJP chief Dudh Kumar
Mondal, went to meet residents of the village who allegedly staged the attack.
The police had gone there
on a tip-off that bombs were
being made there. “They
were barred from entering
into the village as the prohibitory orders under CrPC
144 were imposed in the village,” Additional Superintendent of Police Ananda
Roy said.
Mondal, BJP team
leader, alle ged that the administration hurriedly imposed the prohibitory orders to prevent them from
entering the village. He said
that BJP leaders would sit in
a dharna in front of the office of Superintendent of
Police at Suri soon. (PTI)
Shaw dies in hospital 6 injured in attack by wild boars
KOLKATA, OCT 26/—/A
middle-aged person, who
was found in an unconcious
state outside a club at
Chetla yesterday, died today in the city’s SSKM Hos-
pital, the police said. The
police is suspecting a foul
play in the death of Munshi
Shaw (55) and has launched
an investigation into the
case. (PTI/EOI PIKS)
KENDRAPARA (ODISHA),
OCT 26/—/In the latest incident of man-animal conflict near Bhitarkanika wildlife
sanctuary
in
Kendrapara district, at least
six persons including two
women and an infant were injured today following an attack by hordes of wild boar
at Jamboo village.
Three persons including
a 15-year-old girl and a 55year-old woman were injured when they were attacked by the wild boars
while three others sustained
injuries in the stampede that
ensued as the animals
chased
the
people,
Mahakalpada Forest Range
Officer Bijoy Kumar Parida
said. All of them were hospitalised and are out of danger,
he said. The animals had
strayed into crop fields and
on their way back to their
habitat they had attacked the
people, he said. As the news
of the attack spread, people
demonstrated in front of the
local forest office. They were
demanding foolproof measures to curb intrusion of animals like wild boars, crocodiles and spotted deer into
places of human habitation.
The injured are being cov-
ered under Rs 5,000 compensation award by the forest department. It is also bearing
the cost of treatment of the
injured persons, the officer
said. With trespass by wild
boars being frequent, people
are living sleepless nights in
Jamboo, Suniti, Bagagahana,
Badadandua and a cluster of
other forest-side villages.
They have resorted to burst
fire crackers and beat up
gongs to keep the rogue animals at bay, said a local,
Samarendra Mahali.
Divisional Forest Officer,
Rajnagar Mangrove (wildlife) Forest Division Kedar
Kumar Swain said the forest
department has intensified
watch and vigil in village
areas to drive away wild
boars. Forest personnel have
begun night watch and vigil
in villages marked by straying of animals. Villagers have
been advised to avoid movement during night hours
when animals mostly make
their way to crop fields in
village areas.
Besides steel-net-barricade is being installed
shortly in village borders to
ward off animals’ intrusion
into human settlements, he
said. (PTI)
State
Notes
Manjhi reviews
preparations for
Chhath festival
PATNA, OCT 26/—/Bihar
Chief Minister Jitan Ram
Manjhi today directed
cleanliness and electricity supply at river embankments and related
water bodies among various other measures for
the two-day ‘?hhath’ festival next week. He also
asked the officials to ensure smooth traffic and
security measures on the
festive occasion. The
chief minister made an
appeal to the people to ignore rumours and asked
the administration to
deal firmly with rumour
mongers to prevent any
untoward incident. Earlier in the day, Manjhi, accompanied by two ministers and senior officials,
took a steamer ride between
Nasrighat
to
Gaighat in the river
Ganga and expressed satisfaction with arrangements being made for the
festival. (PTI)
Arati Mukherjee. Dr Sharmistha Kar Purkayastha, S S Ahluwalia and Rahul Sinha
discuss issues after the meeting with newly joined BJP member at BJP party office
in Kolkata on Sunday—EOI PIKS
Graft, stability
stability,, regional issues to play big role
RANCHI, OCT 26/—/As Jharkhand gets a
third chance to elect a majority government after experiencing two fractured mandates, many political leaders believe local
issues would be the yardstick for voters’
choice while BJP claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision would also appeal electors. “Local issues do play a role in
JHARKHAND POLLS
assembly polls along with wider national issues. This time Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s personality and his vision on developmental issues will have greater impact,”
senior BJP leader and former MLA Saryu
Roy said. During his visit to Ranchi on August 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had
appealed to the people to give a majority
government to turn Jharkhand into a devel-
oped state. Roy also said the voters have realised how unstable governments and lack
of credible opposition during the past 14
years left Jharkhand to compete with newly
created state Telangana while Uttarakhand
and Chhattisg arh have moved ahead despite all the three being carved out around
the same time. “Chhattisgarh and
Uttarakhand are far ahead of us in developmental indicators now we have to compete
with the newly carved state of Telangana,”
Roy said.
Jharkhand, which has seen nine governments and three stints of President’s rule in
14 years, saw fractured mandates in both
2005 and 2009 assembly elections. The political parties are bracing up for the five-phase
elections beginning November 25 in the
backdrop of the state witnessing three governments and two stints of central rule
alone between previous polls and now. (PTI)
Odia-Kuvi books for
tribal children education
KORAPUT (ODISHA),
OCT 26/—/Three years
ago, Sunita Pangi decided
to quit studies as she
failed to understand
Odia, which was the
medium of instruction at
her school. The class-II
student of Telrai Primary
School in Potangi block
only knew ‘Kuvi’, a tribal
language.
A workbook in Kuvi,
with Odia translation and
pictorial presentation,
helped her pick the
language. Now in class-V,
she can read and write
Odia confidently. The
book was prepared by a
voluntary organisation,
Sova. “In pre-primary
stage, tribal children at
anganwadi centres feel
lost with the alien Odia,
which shares no similarities with their language.
They fail to follow
classroom teaching and
soon lose interest in
studies,” said secretary
of Sova, Sanjit
Patnaik.The Koraputbased organisation has
prepared study materials
in Desia, Kuvi, Gadva and
Paraja, said Patnaik.
Officials of district
primary education
programme admitted to
the need to educate tribal
students in their own
language. “A total of 374
multilingual education
teachers were appointed
this academic year for the
benefit of students,” said
district project coordinator (Koraput) Muralidhar
Swain.
Officials said 400
schools with 70 per cent to
90 per cent monolingual
students were identified
during a survey. “We have
prepared alphabet and
numerical charts in
Bhatra, Bhumiya,
Gadava, Paraja and Kuvi
languages and these have
been distributed in
primary schools. Study
materials in these five
tribal languages will be
printed soon,” Swain
added. (PTI)
lakh, they said. Hansda, who
had been interrogated by
CBI here on October 24, had
stated that he had resigned
from the company much before CBI raided his house.
The MP, however, said
that the money recovered
from his residence had nothing to do with a ponzi firm
accused of duping investors.
Besides Hansda, two
former MLAs Subarna Naik
and Hitesh Bagarti were
also questioned in connection with the chit-fund
scam.
Three others including
Nabadiganta Capital Service’s
CMD
Anjan
Baliarsingh and two directors also appeared before
CBI at its state headquarters
here in connection with the
chit fund scam, they said.
Claiming that he was
unaware of the activities of
the Service, Hansda said he
had purchased some insurance policy from the company. “As the company had
given me an impression that
it would work for the welfare of the youth by providing them with employment,
I had no reason to suspect its
intent at that point in time,”
Hansda had maintained immediately after a raid on his
house.
A case of cheating has
been registered by CBI
against the Bhubaneshwarbased firm, one the 44 companies mentioned in the Supreme Court order directing
the agency to probe the
scam, CBI sources said.
(PTI/FILE PIKS)
Nitish seeks apology
apology,, compensation from Rly ministry
PATNA, OCT 26/—/Terming the Centre and Railway ministry as “worthless”, former Bihar Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar today sought apolog y
and compensation for the people of the
state who are unable to celebrate
Chhath festival due to its “mismanagement”. “People are forced to travel as
cattle in trains. They have to travel in
toilets despite paying full fare. The
people of Bihar are unable to celebrate the great festival of Chhath
with honour due to mismanagement by
the useless Central government. It is
against Bihar. The Railway ministry is
worthless,” Kumar said in his post on a
social media site.
Kumar, who had twice been the
Railway Minister between 1999 and
2004, hit out at the Railway Ministry
saying it “should be ashamed that people lost their lives and limbs due to its
mismanag ement”. “We demand that
the Railway ministry to apologise to
the people of Bihar and take action.
The families of those who died should
be given compensation and jobs. The
Top IOC officer
goes missing
2 minor girls run
over by train
SAMBALPUR (ODISHA),
OCT 26/—/Two minor
girls were run over by the
Howrah-Titlagarh Ispat
Express at Pardhiapali
under the Ainthapali police station of Sambalpur
today, police said. The deceased have been identified as Chulbulia Suna
and Neha Tandi, residents of nearby slum.The
accident took place while
Suna and Tandi were on
their way to nearby grocery shop between two
railway
lines
near
Pardhiapali area. The
Ispat Express and the
Puri-Rourkela passenger
crossed each other at the
spot while the children
were trapped between the
two railway lines But the
duo tried to cross railway
track at that time. However, the Ispat Express
which was coming from
Jharsuguda side, ran
over the duo killing them
on the spot. While Neha
was
in
class
four,
Chulbuli was a class one
student, Inspector of
Government Railway Police, R.K Sethy said.
BHUBANESWAR, OCT
26/—/Two days after being
grilled by CBI, BJD MP from
Odisha Rama Chandra
Hansda was today again interrogated by the central investigating agency in connection with its probe into
multi-crore chit-fund scam.
Hansda, one of the
founding members of ponzi
company Nabadiganta Capital Services, was questioned
by CBI sleuths for around
two hours, CBI sources said.
The central investigating agency had raided the
house of Hansda, MP from
Mayurbhanj Lok Sabha constituency, at Baripada on
July 31 and seized Rs 28
GUWAHATI, OCT 26/—/
An Executive Director
designate of Indian Oil
Corporation Kaushik
Bora has gone missing
since this afternoon near
Digboi town in Upper Assam. Bora, who was
about to be promoted to
Executive Director rank
of the Digboi Refinery of
IOC, left his home in the
afternoon for work but
no news of him was received since then. According to Tinsukia Additional Superintendent of
Police Lamhao Dongol,
Bora’s car has been found
from Digboi-Pengeri road
near an oil well. “We received the information of
his having gone missing
in late afternoon. We are
working on it... His car
was found locked on the
road,” he added. Dongol
said no ransom demand
has been received by the
family yet. “It is too early
to say who is behind his
disappear. We are examining whether it is a case of
kidnapping of something
else,” he added. (PTI)
Dreaded
woman Maoist
surrenders
RAIPUR, OCT 26/—/A
dreaded woman Maoist,
carrying a reward of Rs 8
lakh on her head, surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s
Dantewada district today, police said. Sita alias
Jagarbati (23) turned
herself in before police
citing atrocities and exploitation of female cadres by senior ultras,
Dantewada Superintendent of Police Kamlochan
Kashyap said. Associated
with the outlawed CPI
(Maoist) since 2010, Sita
was actively working as
a member of 2nd battalion of Mad Uttar Bastar
Division in Naxal-den
Abhujmad, he said. She
had been involved in several incidents of crime in
the region, he said.
The
surrendered
rebel will be rehabilitated
as per the policy of the
state gover nment, he
added.
Nearly 300 rebels have
so far surrendered this
year in Chhattisgarh, as
per g overnment statistics. (PTI)
injured should be treated and compensated. Full fare should be returned to the passengers who did not
get facilities as per their tickets,”
Kumar added. The former Chief Minister also asserted that JD (U) will fight
for the prestige and faith of the people of Bihar till justice is done.
The senior JD (U) leader has also
attached various newspaper clippings with his post, depicting the misery of train passengers travelling
from New Delhi to their native places
in Bihar on the occasion of Chhath, a
festival dedicated to the Sun God,
which will be celebrated this year on
Oct 29 and 30. The newspaper reports,
which Kumar has tagged, speak about
death of a passenger to Bihar and injuries to others in the melee on New
Delhi railway station and overcrowded trains. In an earlier post on
the same site yesterday, Kumar had
raised the issue asking why the Central government cannot provide basic
rail facilities to the people of Bihar, on
way home to celebrate Chhath with
their family. “T he government which
is boasting of bullet trains and increasing rail fares as per its whims cannot
provide basic facilities on the occasion
of f estival? Helpless people have to
travel in inhuman conditions. Women
and children are being misbehaved
with,” Kumar had written.
The former Chief Minister who abdicated his post in May this year after
his party’s poor performance in the
Lok Sabha elections, said in his post
that everybody from Bihar should seek
answer from the Central government
about such a situation. “The Government of India and the Railway Ministry will have to answer why such misbehaviour is going on with the devotees travelling to Bihar for Chhath festival,” Kumar said.
He also wrote that the earlier railway ministers had no antipathy towards Bihar and they used to provide
ample special trains during the festival season. The present BJP government at the Centre is against Bihar and
its people.(PTI)
Nagaland CM concerned
about 1000-hr bandh call
KOHIMA, OCT 26/—/The
Chief Minister of Nagaland,
T R Zeliang, has expressed
concern about the 1000-hour
bandh called by the Joint
Action Committee for Autonomous State (JACAS) of
Karbi Anglong, Assam.
In a letter to Union Home
Minister Rajnath Singh the
chief minister yesterday expressed concern about the
proposed bandh by JACAS
stating that Nagaland and
KARBI ANGLONG
Manipur have been the
worst-affected by frequent
bandhs imposed by various
organisations of Karbi
Anglong district. The frequent shut-downs caused
severe inconveniences to
travellers and affects the
supply of essential commodities, causing artificial
shortages and unrealistic
price rise, the letter, copy of
which was released here,
said. He expressed apprehension that the proposed
1000-hour bandh, the reason for which is not even remotely
connected
to
Nagaland, would practically stop supplies of all essential commodities including petroleum products to
start from 5 am tomorrow
and last for around 40 days,
greatly affecting normal life
in Nagaland and Manipur,
apart from their own district
of Karbi Anglong in Assam.
(PTI/FILE PIKS)
Nagaland and Manipur. The
Chief Minister therefore
appealed to the Union Home
Minister for his personal intervention to ensure that the
proposed bandh would not
affect the interest and welfare of the people living in
the two states of Nagaland
and Manipur.
The present 1000-hour
bandh has been called by
the JACAS in protest
against the Central Government’s delay in announcing
the schedule of the next
round of talks since the last
one held on 6th November
2013. The JACAS is spearheading the demand for an
autonomous state within Assam and the proposed
bandh if taken place would
Odisha govt to develop infra
near Budhi Thakurani temple
BERHAMPUR, OCT 26/—/The Tourism Department has
sanctioned Rs one crore to develop infrastructure near Budhi
Thakurani Temple in this south Odisha city. This will include
public convinience centre, parking space and drinking water
facilities, said Tourist Officer (Ganjam) Sanatan Nayak, adding the department would consult the temple committee and
locals about it. The government has sought half an acre of land
near the temple for setting up of these facilities. The temple is
famous for the biennial month long ‘Thakurani Yatra’. Tourism
and Culture Minister Ashhok Panda had announced to accord
festival status to the ‘Thakurani Yatra’ during his visit to
Chhatrapur six months ago. “We’ll pursue the government for
an early notification on it,” said R C Chyaupatnaik (MLABerhampur). It would be the sixth festival in the state to get the
status, he said. Other government festivals are ‘Dhanu Yatra’
of Bargarh, ‘Parab’ of Koraput, ‘Konark Festival’, ‘Mukteswar’
and ‘Rajarani Utsav’ in Bhubaneswar. (PTI/FILE PIKS)
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