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IMPHAL,
SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY, 2015
Islamic State
militants burn over
40 to death in Iraq
Ukraine prisoner swap announced under battered truce
Donetsk, Feb 21
Pro-Russian rebels said they
will swap prisoners with the
Ukrainian side on Saturday as
part of a battered truce that the
West hopes will cool a deadly
conflict that has poisoned
relations with Moscow.
"Today (Saturday) there
will be an exchange between
us and the Ukrainian side,"
said the rebels` official for
human
rights,
Daria
Morozova.
Around 40 prisoners on
each side -- some of them
wounded -- are to be handed
over, with the exchange to
take place deep in rebel territory, in the city of Lugansk,
Morozova said.
Journalists were put in a
convoy carrying the rebels`
prisoners from the separatist
stronghold of Donetsk to
Lugansk. The soldiers had
beards and looked tired. One
had his arm bandaged.
There was no immediate
confirmation of the swap
from the Ukrainian side,
though smaller exchanges
have taken place in recent
weeks with little fanfare.
If it goes ahead Saturday,
the prisoner exchange would
be a rare act of compliance
with a UN-backed truce that
has been repeatedly violated
since coming into effect February 15.
In the most egregious
breach, the pro-Russian separatists overran a strategic
transport hub, Debaltseve,
midway between Donetsk and
Ukraine closes 23 border
crossings with Russia
Kiev: Ukraine has temporarily closed 23 of its 52 bordercrossings with Russia, an official statement said.
The statement issued by Ukrainian government`s press
service on Friday announced the decision without giving a
reason for the move, Xinhua reported on Saturday.
The closure of the crossing points included 10 in eastern
Luhansk region and two in Donetsk, the statement said.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has informed foreign
diplomatic missions in Ukraine about the temporary closure.
Ukraine and Russia now share a land border of about
2,295 km.
Two pro-Russian seperatists stop a man in the Ukrainian city of Uglegorsk, 6 kms from Debaltseve
Lugansk.
That offensive forced
2,500 Ukrainian soldiers to
flee under fire, with at least
13 of them killed. The insurgents seized at least 110
troops as prisoners, adding to
the unknown number of detainees held by each side.
Germany and France,
which brokered the truce
agreed by Ukraine, the rebels
and Russia, are standing by it
despite the many violations.
"We don`t have any illusions" about the difficulty
involved, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said after
meeting French President
Francois Hollande in Paris on
Friday.
But she said she was "even
more convinced" a truce leading to a negotiated solution
was the only way to end the
conflict, which the United
Nations estimates has killed
5,700 people since it began in
April last year.Under the
truce, both sides were to withdraw their heavy weapons
from the frontline by March
3, carry out a prisoner exchange, conduct negotiations
on greater autonomy in rebelheld areas, and eventually
restore Ukraine`s control over
all of its border with Russia.
None of those steps has so
far been taken.
Kiev and the rebels continue to trade accusations of
shelling, mortar rounds and
rocket strikes targeting their
positions.
Ukrainian defence officials
allege that Russia has deployed 20 tanks towards the
port city of Mariupol and that
their forces have shot down
several enemy reconnaissance
drones.
The rebels have claimed to
have pulled back weapons in
some areas, but there was no
confirmation from the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, which
is monitoring the truce.
The rebels have so far
barred the OSCE observers
from entering Debaltseve to
assess the situation, but promised they would finally be
allowed
in
on
Sunday.Russia`s repeated denials of militarily backing the
separatists have been dismissed by the West, which
says it has satellite imagery
and other confirmation of
troop and materiel move-
ments.
"Russia`s continued support of ongoing separatist
attacks in violation of the
ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
is undermining international
diplomacy and multilateral
institutions -- the foundations
of our modern global order,"
US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in
Washington.
"By not abiding by the
agreement they signed, by
continuing to support and intervene illegally in Ukraine...
they`re violating international
norms and they`re violating
international law," she said,
voicing
some
of
Washington`s harshest criticism to date of Moscow.
Moscow is under several
rounds of US and EU sanctions over the crisis, but while
they have pushed Russia`s
towards recession they have
thus far failed to change
President Vladimir Putin`s
stance.
EU president Donald Tusk
said Friday that more "costs"
could be exacted over the
frayed truce.In one sign of
the effects on Russia`s
economy, rating agency
Moody`s cut its debt note by
one notch into "junk" territory, just a month after its last
downgrade.
It said the Ukraine crisis
and the fall in oil prices and
the ruble will further undermine Russia`s performance.
Russia "is expected to experience a deep recession in
2015 and a continued contraction in 2016," Moody`s
said in a statement.
Ukraine`s finances, too,
are in a parlous state, with its
currency, the hryvnia, falling
in value daily. Doubts persist
over whether a four-year, $40
billion aid package backed by
the International Monetary
Fund will be enough to bring
it back from the brink of collapse.
Agencies
Kim guides military drill near 25 people dead in al-Shabab attack
sea border with S Korea
Mogadishu, Feb 21
Twenty-five people were killed
and 40 wounded in suicide
attacks at a hotel in Somalia's
capital, the Somali government
said on Saturday.
One Islamic extremist
rammed an explosives-laden
vehicle into the gate of the
Central Hotel and another
went in and blew himself up
yesterday, a statement from
Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke's office
Seoul, Feb 21
North Korea's leader Kim
Jong-Un has guided a military
drill simulating an attack and
seizure of a frontline South
Korean island, Pyongyang's
state media said Saturday.
The drill came as tensions
grow ahead of an annual USSouth Korea joint Key
Resolve/Foal Eagle military
exercise that is reportedly to
start early next month.
Artillery units were among
the troops taking part in the
drill on the islets of Mu and
Jangjae "in the biggest
hotspot in the southernmost
part of southwestern front",
Pyongyang's Korean Central
News Agency (KCNA) said.
The defence detachment on
Mu Islet shelled South Korea's Yeonpyeong island in
2010 in an angry reaction to
a firing drill conducted by the
South near the disputed sea
border in the Yellow Sea,
killing four South Koreans.
Kim Jong-Un in 2012 visited Mu and Jangjae,
honouring the troops on Mu
Islet with the title of "Hero
Defence Detachment". He
made two more trips to the
frontline islands in 2013 and
threatened to "wipe out"
Yeonpyeong Island and other
South Korean islands near the
border.
"Whenever the artillerymen
hit targets, Kim Jong-Un expressed his great satisfaction,
saying that they were very
good at the concentration of
fire and such shell-fire would
remove the enemy island totally", KCNA said.
He called for the entire
North Korean army to step
up training to "bring the antiUS confrontation to the final
conclusion by crushing the
enemies promptly in case they
pounce upon the DPRK
(North Korea), it added.
Both sides complain of
frequent maritime incursions
by the other. The disputed sea
border in the Yellow Sea saw
deadly clashes in 1999, 2002
and 2009.
In October last year, naval
said. Government officials
were meeting at the Central
Hotel at the time, and the
statement said Mogadishu's
deputy mayor and two legislators were among the dead.
It was unclear whether the
Govt's report of 25 dead included the two bombers.
Al-Shabab, Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, claimed responsibility for the attack. Despite the loss of key
strongholds in Somalia, alShabab, which is linked to
al-Qaida, continues to stage
attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere.
Somalia's president Hassan
Sheikh Mohamud condemned
the attack and said it would
not derail efforts by his government to restore peace to
Somalia.
This is the second attack
on a hotel in Mogadishu in
less than a month. On Jan.
22, three Somali nationals
were killed when a suicide car
bomber blew himself up. PTI
patrol boats of the two rivals
briefly exchanged warning
fire near Yeonpyeong island.
The de-facto maritime
boundary between the two
Koreas -- the Northern Limit
Line -- is not recognised by
Pyongyang, which argues it
was unilaterally drawn by
US-led United Nations forces
after the 1950-53 Korean
War. The war ended in an
armistice instead of a peace
treaty, leaving the two Koreas
still technically at war.
North Korea launched
winter drills in November last
year and since then, Kim has
inspected 10 different military
units, according to South
Korea's defence ministry.
He has been urging the
military to complete war
preparations this year.
US aircraft, while fighting
continued in the town after
Iraqi troops regained control of large parts of it.
Meanwhile, the militants
laid siege to a neighbourhood in al-Baghdadi town
housing dozens of families
of security members and
Sahwa fighters, said the
source, who confirmed that
the residents were facing
acute shortage of food and
drinking water, as well as
weapons and ammunition.
Ain al-Asad military
base is used by Iraqi military forces, as well as
roughly 300 US Marines
deployed there as military
trainers and advisers.
The IS has seized
around 80 percent of Iraq`s
largest province of Anbar
and has tried to advance
towards Baghdad, but several counter-attacks by
security forces and Shia
militias pushed them back
from western areas of the
capital.
Since December last
year, there have been insurgent attacks in the Sunni
Arab heartland west of
Baghdad which stretches
through the Anbar province.
Agencies
Baghdad, Feb 21
Islamic State (IS) militants
burned up to 43 people alive
in Iraq`s western province of
Anbar, a provincial security
source said Saturday.
Earlier, IS fighters captured the 43 Iraqis from the
albu-Obeid Sunni tribe in
the battlefield town of alBaghdadi, some 200 km
northwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Xinhua news
agency reported citing the
source.
Those abducted were believed to be local police and
government-backed Sahwa
paramilitary group members, and were later
transferred to the nearby
militants-held town of Heet,
the source added, adding
that the terrorists put the
victims in iron cages and
set fire to them.
The executions came after the killing of some 70
others during the past 10
days when the IS militants
carried out major attacks
on al-Baghdadi and the
nearby air base of Ain alAsad
which
houses
hundreds of US Marines.
However, their attacks
on the air base were repelled by security forces and
79-floor Dubai
skyscraper gutted
Dubai, Feb 21
Hundreds
of
panicked
residents fled one of the tallest
towers in Dubai early today as a
huge fire engulfed the
skyscraper, causing extensive
damage to its luxury flats.
The inferno gutted the upper part of 79-storey Torch
tower, triggering an evacuation of nearby blocks in the
Dubai Marina neighbourhood, an AFP correspondent
reported.
Amateur footage posted
online showed fire engulfing
the upper floors of the tower,
home to hundreds of expatriates, with debris falling onto
the road as strong winds
fanned the flames.
Civil defence teams cleared
the building, which at 336.1
metres (1,105 feet) is one of
the world's tallest residential
towers. No casualties were reported but seven people were
treated at the scene for smoke
inhalation.
A civil defence department
statement said the fire swept
across the tower's facade affecting 20 storeys.
Firefighters battled the
blaze for more than two
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hours, before hundreds of
residents of nearby towers
were allowed to return to their
apartments.
Dubai Marina is a popular
expat neighbourhood that has
a high concentration of residential towers. It is also a
major tourist attraction.
Dubai, known for its skyline of hugely varied
skyscrapers, has seen fires at
towers in the past.
In 2012, a huge blaze gutted the 34-storey Tamweel
Tower in the nearby Jumeirah
Lake Towers district. It was
later revealed to have been
caused by a cigarette butt
thrown into a bin.
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No. of
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2
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.
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3
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4
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5
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20
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30
10
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XII
13,000+
25
X
8,000+
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Hospitality Staff, Hyatt Regency/ KFC etc.
6. Multiple Vacancy (Imphal Area)
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15
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Dated the 20th February, 2015.
The Chief Engineer, Manipur State Rural Roads Development Agency (MSRRDA),
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3. Date of opening of Technical bid is 16-03-2015.
4. Pre-bid meeting will be held on 23-02-2015 at Office of the MSRRDA, Secretariat
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