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President Pratibha Patil’s maiden Northeast visit begins tomorrow
Security beefed up ahead of President’s visit
NE TV Correspondent, Guwahati
18 Oct
President Pratibha Patil will begin her five-day tour to Assam and Meghalaya from Sunday. In Guwahati, the President will present the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award to noted film personality Shabana Azmi and Journalist Shekhar Gupta on Sunday. On Monday, she is scheduled to give away the Nirmal Gram Awards. Gram panchayats comprising from 13 states of the Eastern and North Eastern part of the country will receive these awards formally. During her visit, President Patil will also address a meeting of the self-help groups. Besides, she will lay the foundation stone of the Tezpur Medical College in Sonitpur district. The President will also to attend the centenary celebration of the Laban Bengali Girls Higher Secondary School in Shillong and will inaugurate the Baljek Airport in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. Tight security arrangements have been made in view of her visit.
Centre offers help to Assam govt in probing Darrang, Udalguri clashes
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
Though the Centre has been reiterating its commitment to solve the illegal influx issue, plaguing the Northeast, in reality, it has no keenness to solve the problem. This became evident from the statement of a responsible union minister, who downplayed the threat posed by the illegal Bangladeshis to the demography of the northeast by saying that infiltration of foreign national is quite natural as the border is porous. Moreover, he even tried to justify the influx and said that the Bangladeshis come to India in search of job as there is no job opportunity in the neighbouring country. The minister's comment at a time when there has been widespread allegation that the recent ethnic clashes in Darrang and Udalguri were the handiwork of the HuJi and other jehadi groups that are using the illegal Bangladshis for materializing their sinister designs.
CPM backs police claim of ULFA, ISI hand in Agartala blasts
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
The ruling CPM has backed the Tripura police claim that the ULFA and the ISI were behind the recent serial blasts in Agartala. The CPM state secretary Bijan Dhar said that the ATTF, with the help of the ISI and the ULFA had triggered the blasts that led to the death of several people. It is to be mentioned that the Tripura police on Friday had ascertained the involvement of ULFA and ISI in training and motivating the proscribed militant outfit ATTF for engineering the October one serial blasts in Agartala..
Meghalaya mourns death of former Chief Minister E K Mawlong
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
Former Meghalaya Chief Minister and six time MLA E K Mawlong died on Saturday at civil hospital in Shillong. A science gradate and a contemporary of PA Sangma he rose from a simple clerk to become most popular leader of the state, Chief Minister of Meghalaya. The former winner of the best citizen of India Award in 1998 by the International Publishing House, New Delhi has contributed a lot to the development of communications, and transportation in Meghalaya. His death has brought a pale of gloom in the entire state. Long time friend and party member Chief minters Donkupar Roy termed his demise as a great loss for Meghalaya and said a vacuum has been created by his demise. UDP spokesperson Ampareen Lyndgoh expressed grief over his death and said that Meghalaya has lost a father figure. He had attended a number of conferences of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference at Nairobi, Egypt, New Zealand, Malaysia and Philippines.
EC still undecided over J&K poll dates
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
The Election Commission (EC) announced dates for Assembly elections in five states - Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Mizoram and Rajasthan - on Tuesday but said that no decision has been taken on holding polls in Jammu and Kashmir. It seems more than the political parties, it is the EC, which is a house divided on the issue of holding election in Jammu and Kashmir. However, this assessment is taking too long to happen and it may be due to the division of opinion within the three-member EC though the Commission itself denies any differences over the timing of the Jammu and Kashmir elections. While the two ECs seem to agree on holding elections as early as November, Gopalaswamy apparently thinks otherwise. The CEC thinks it’s not yet the right time. Even as security remains his big concern, reports that the state is yet to recover fully from the Amarnath land row has worked as a deterrent. The EC is also worried that weather will play a spoiler in the election process, with winter setting in fast. A low turn out in case of bad weather will therefore not amount to fair polling.
Gold prices plunge 3% on weak global trend
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
Gold fell for the second day in futures trading today by losing three per cent largely on weakening global trend amid sluggish demand from traders. The precious metal for April month contract plunged the most by falling 3 per cent to Rs 12,850 an ounce on the Multi Commodity Exchange, in trading of one lot. Gold for February contract also fell by 1.31 per cent to Rs 12,707 per ten gram with trading volume of 374 lots, while December delivery rose by 1.28 to Rs 12,621 in trading of 22,741 lots. Trading sentiment remained weak after reports that gold dipped below 800 dollar an ounce in global market.
Curfew lifted in Kandhamal after 54 days
NE TV Correspondent,
17 Oct
Curfew has been lifted in parts of Orissa's troubled Kandhamal district where anti-Christian violence has claimed at least 36 lives over the past seven weeks as normalcy is gradually returning to the region. Curfew was imposed in all areas under the district's nine police stations and prohibitory orders under Section 144, which bans the assembly of four or more people in one place, were clamped across Kandhamal after communal riots broke out following the August 23 killing of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader and four of his aides. Now prohibitory orders will remain in force only in areas under five police stations and there will be curfew at night in towns in the same areas. Christians and their places of worship in Kandhamal, some 200 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, have been facing mob attacks since Aug 23, when VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides were killed.
Zimbabwe power-sharing talks fail
NE TV Bureau,
18 Oct
Zimbabwe's opposition leader said on Friday that four days of "intense" negotiations have failed to break the deadlock in power-sharing talks and called for intervention by regional and African leaders. The Leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai addressed reporters after talks with President Robert Mugabe ended late on Friday evening without resolving the impasse that has left Zimbabwe rudderless. Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has been mediating talks since Tuesday. Mbeki brokered a September 15 deal between Mugabe and Tsvangirai to form a unity government. The MDC narrowly won the March parliamentary elections. But the formation of the new government has been delayed over disagreements on the allocation of Cabinet posts. Under the deal signed, Mugabe's party was to have 15 Cabinet posts, Tsvangirai's 13 and the minor opposition faction led by Arthur Mutumbara was to have three. Last weekend Mugabe unilaterally claimed the most powerful posts for his own party in a move widely condemned as power-grabbing.
Sachin scripts history in test cricket, surpasses Lara as highest run getter
NE TV Correspondent,
India’s master batsman Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar cruised past West Indies great Brian Charles Lara’s record of 11,953 runs to become the highest run-getter in Test cricket. The feat came on the first day of the second Test match against Australia. When the match began, Tendulkar needed 15 runs to surpass Lara's record and overtook the West Indian legend when he took three runs after gliding the first ball after the tea break towards third man off rookie pacer Peter Siddle. He walked in to bat after India lost the wicket of former skipper Rahul Dravid with the scorecard reading 146/2and reached the landmark in the company of another former India skipper Sourav Ganguly. Australian skipper Ricky Ponting was among the first players to shake hands with Tendulkar after he claimed the record.
The day the entire cricket world has been waiting for came… in the afternoon. Soon after tea in Mohali on the first day of the second Test between India and Australia, Sachin Tendulkar got the record that always seemed destined to be his. He made the 15 runs he still needed to overtake Brian Lara’s mark 11 953 – to reach the most number of runs scored by a batsman in Test cricket. Before the close of play, Tendulkar was out for 88, with his total now standing on 12 027. There has been a lot of talk of the older players in the Indian team retiring soon, but it would be hard for the cricket world to let Sachin go just yet… whatever the Indian selectors might think. He can also extend that record to make it harder for the next man to break. Lets have a quick look at the illustrious profile of this Little Master Blaster..
source: netvindia.com
President Pratibha Patil’s maiden Northeast visit begins tomorrow
Security beefed up ahead of President’s visit
NE TV Correspondent, Guwahati
18 Oct
President Pratibha Patil will begin her five-day tour to Assam and Meghalaya from Sunday. In Guwahati, the President will present the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award to noted film personality Shabana Azmi and Journalist Shekhar Gupta on Sunday. On Monday, she is scheduled to give away the Nirmal Gram Awards. Gram panchayats comprising from 13 states of the Eastern and North Eastern part of the country will receive these awards formally. During her visit, President Patil will also address a meeting of the self-help groups. Besides, she will lay the foundation stone of the Tezpur Medical College in Sonitpur district. The President will also to attend the centenary celebration of the Laban Bengali Girls Higher Secondary School in Shillong and will inaugurate the Baljek Airport in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. Tight security arrangements have been made in view of her visit.
Centre offers help to Assam govt in probing Darrang, Udalguri clashes
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
Though the Centre has been reiterating its commitment to solve the illegal influx issue, plaguing the Northeast, in reality, it has no keenness to solve the problem. This became evident from the statement of a responsible union minister, who downplayed the threat posed by the illegal Bangladeshis to the demography of the northeast by saying that infiltration of foreign national is quite natural as the border is porous. Moreover, he even tried to justify the influx and said that the Bangladeshis come to India in search of job as there is no job opportunity in the neighbouring country. The minister's comment at a time when there has been widespread allegation that the recent ethnic clashes in Darrang and Udalguri were the handiwork of the HuJi and other jehadi groups that are using the illegal Bangladshis for materializing their sinister designs.
CPM backs police claim of ULFA, ISI hand in Agartala blasts
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
The ruling CPM has backed the Tripura police claim that the ULFA and the ISI were behind the recent serial blasts in Agartala. The CPM state secretary Bijan Dhar said that the ATTF, with the help of the ISI and the ULFA had triggered the blasts that led to the death of several people. It is to be mentioned that the Tripura police on Friday had ascertained the involvement of ULFA and ISI in training and motivating the proscribed militant outfit ATTF for engineering the October one serial blasts in Agartala..
Meghalaya mourns death of former Chief Minister E K Mawlong
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
Former Meghalaya Chief Minister and six time MLA E K Mawlong died on Saturday at civil hospital in Shillong. A science gradate and a contemporary of PA Sangma he rose from a simple clerk to become most popular leader of the state, Chief Minister of Meghalaya. The former winner of the best citizen of India Award in 1998 by the International Publishing House, New Delhi has contributed a lot to the development of communications, and transportation in Meghalaya. His death has brought a pale of gloom in the entire state. Long time friend and party member Chief minters Donkupar Roy termed his demise as a great loss for Meghalaya and said a vacuum has been created by his demise. UDP spokesperson Ampareen Lyndgoh expressed grief over his death and said that Meghalaya has lost a father figure. He had attended a number of conferences of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference at Nairobi, Egypt, New Zealand, Malaysia and Philippines.
EC still undecided over J&K poll dates
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
The Election Commission (EC) announced dates for Assembly elections in five states - Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Mizoram and Rajasthan - on Tuesday but said that no decision has been taken on holding polls in Jammu and Kashmir. It seems more than the political parties, it is the EC, which is a house divided on the issue of holding election in Jammu and Kashmir. However, this assessment is taking too long to happen and it may be due to the division of opinion within the three-member EC though the Commission itself denies any differences over the timing of the Jammu and Kashmir elections. While the two ECs seem to agree on holding elections as early as November, Gopalaswamy apparently thinks otherwise. The CEC thinks it’s not yet the right time. Even as security remains his big concern, reports that the state is yet to recover fully from the Amarnath land row has worked as a deterrent. The EC is also worried that weather will play a spoiler in the election process, with winter setting in fast. A low turn out in case of bad weather will therefore not amount to fair polling.
Gold prices plunge 3% on weak global trend
NE TV Correspondent,
18 Oct
Gold fell for the second day in futures trading today by losing three per cent largely on weakening global trend amid sluggish demand from traders. The precious metal for April month contract plunged the most by falling 3 per cent to Rs 12,850 an ounce on the Multi Commodity Exchange, in trading of one lot. Gold for February contract also fell by 1.31 per cent to Rs 12,707 per ten gram with trading volume of 374 lots, while December delivery rose by 1.28 to Rs 12,621 in trading of 22,741 lots. Trading sentiment remained weak after reports that gold dipped below 800 dollar an ounce in global market.
Curfew lifted in Kandhamal after 54 days
NE TV Correspondent,
17 Oct
Curfew has been lifted in parts of Orissa's troubled Kandhamal district where anti-Christian violence has claimed at least 36 lives over the past seven weeks as normalcy is gradually returning to the region. Curfew was imposed in all areas under the district's nine police stations and prohibitory orders under Section 144, which bans the assembly of four or more people in one place, were clamped across Kandhamal after communal riots broke out following the August 23 killing of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader and four of his aides. Now prohibitory orders will remain in force only in areas under five police stations and there will be curfew at night in towns in the same areas. Christians and their places of worship in Kandhamal, some 200 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, have been facing mob attacks since Aug 23, when VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides were killed.
Zimbabwe power-sharing talks fail
NE TV Bureau,
18 Oct
Zimbabwe's opposition leader said on Friday that four days of "intense" negotiations have failed to break the deadlock in power-sharing talks and called for intervention by regional and African leaders. The Leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai addressed reporters after talks with President Robert Mugabe ended late on Friday evening without resolving the impasse that has left Zimbabwe rudderless. Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has been mediating talks since Tuesday. Mbeki brokered a September 15 deal between Mugabe and Tsvangirai to form a unity government. The MDC narrowly won the March parliamentary elections. But the formation of the new government has been delayed over disagreements on the allocation of Cabinet posts. Under the deal signed, Mugabe's party was to have 15 Cabinet posts, Tsvangirai's 13 and the minor opposition faction led by Arthur Mutumbara was to have three. Last weekend Mugabe unilaterally claimed the most powerful posts for his own party in a move widely condemned as power-grabbing.
Sachin scripts history in test cricket, surpasses Lara as highest run getter
NE TV Correspondent,
India’s master batsman Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar cruised past West Indies great Brian Charles Lara’s record of 11,953 runs to become the highest run-getter in Test cricket. The feat came on the first day of the second Test match against Australia. When the match began, Tendulkar needed 15 runs to surpass Lara's record and overtook the West Indian legend when he took three runs after gliding the first ball after the tea break towards third man off rookie pacer Peter Siddle. He walked in to bat after India lost the wicket of former skipper Rahul Dravid with the scorecard reading 146/2and reached the landmark in the company of another former India skipper Sourav Ganguly. Australian skipper Ricky Ponting was among the first players to shake hands with Tendulkar after he claimed the record.
The day the entire cricket world has been waiting for came… in the afternoon. Soon after tea in Mohali on the first day of the second Test between India and Australia, Sachin Tendulkar got the record that always seemed destined to be his. He made the 15 runs he still needed to overtake Brian Lara’s mark 11 953 – to reach the most number of runs scored by a batsman in Test cricket. Before the close of play, Tendulkar was out for 88, with his total now standing on 12 027. There has been a lot of talk of the older players in the Indian team retiring soon, but it would be hard for the cricket world to let Sachin go just yet… whatever the Indian selectors might think. He can also extend that record to make it harder for the next man to break. Lets have a quick look at the illustrious profile of this Little Master Blaster..
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