ntensive drive to ensure ILP compliance in Arunachal
Itanagar: Taking serious note of the influx of outsiders to Arunachal Pradesh without valid Inner Line Permit (ILP), the state government has ordered for intensive checking of ILP compliance of visitors to the state. In an order issued on Saturday, Chief Secretary H K Paliwal directed the deputy commissioners to carry out the intensive drive to ensure that no person without proper ILP issued by competent authority is found in the state. Those found without ILP should be deported immediately after taking due action with special emphasis laid on foreign nationals, the order said. Such drives are conducted by the state government at regular intervals but stress has been laid on intensifying the operation in order to ensure no unscrupulous people get into the state, official sources said. The CS has further directed for immediate compliance of the order and asked the DCs to submit a report on the action taken by July 15. (PTI)
Skeleton found in Manipur area
Imphal: A skeleton, suspected to be that of a Japanese soldier killed during the Second World War, was found in Manipur’s Bishenpur district which had witnessed a fierce battle between the Japanese and British forces. The skeleton was found while digging was on in Phubala village on Friday, officials said on Saturday. Places near the village had witnessed the fight between the two forces. The skeleton, believed to be of a Japanese soldier, would be sent for examination by the experts. The Japanese war monument at Maiba Lokpa Ching, about 10 km north of Phubala, in Bishenpur district was built some two decades ago in memory of those Japanese soldiers who had been killed during the war. (PTI)
Elephant rescued from flooded Brahmaputra dies
Jorhat: A two-year-old male elephant, rescued from the flooded Brahmaputra in a serious condition, has died at the CWRC in Panbari near Kaziranga National Park in upper Assam. The elephant was rescued by locals at Jakhalabandha Hatimura area on July 3 from the swollen river and handed over to the forest department, official sources said on Saturday. The pachyderm was admitted to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) for medical treatment but died Friday, the sources said. The CWRC is the first rescue and rehabilitation centre near a protected area in the country set up in August 2002 with the primary aim to stabilise displaced animals and release them back into the wild. Located in Borjuri village adjacent to the Panbari Reserve Forest near Kaziranga National Park, the Centre attends to a wide range of wildlife emergencies resulting from natural or anthropogenic causes, CWRC sources said. (PTI)
Myanmarese national arrested
with drug
Itanagar: A Myanmarese national was arrested and and opium weighing about 4.5 kg worth about Rs 2 lakh was seized from his possession at Changlang in Arunachal Pradesh. The drug haul was made during a routine check of vehicles at Namdang check gate in the district yesterday, police sources informed here on Friday. A case has been registered against the Myanmarese, identified as Mukwang Hasik, under section of NDPS Act. Besides recovery of the drugs, the police also seized an Assam-registered car in which the accused was travelling. The accused was produced before the court today to get him under police custody for further interrogation. (PTI)
36-hour general strike, economic blockade called in Manipur
Imphal: A hill-based Kuki committee has called a 36-hour general strike from July 8 and a 3-day economic blockade beginning the next day to press for its demand of ‘Kukiland’. Senior spokesman of the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) K Khongsai told mediapersons here on Friday that the strike has been called from 5am of July 8. The organisation has also called for an economic blockade on all highways and national highways passing through Kuki-settled areas from 5 pm of July 9 till 5 pm of July 11 as part of their prolonged agitation. He said movement of vehicles, particularly those carrying economic items, would be prevented during the economic blockade on all routes between capital city Imphal and all the district headquarters and between Imphal and neighbouring states. He said the Centre had on earlier occasions given the KSDC written assurance that the talks on their demands would be held soon but they (the Centre) had not taken any concrete steps to hold talks with the representatives of Kuki organisations. Official sources said here that KSDC wanted to break up Manipur (22,327 Sq Kms) to form a ‘Kukiland’ which was objected to by various civil organisations and the Manipur government. (PTI)
Infighting caused defeat in polls: NPCC
Kohima: The Congress had to face a debacle in February elections in Nagaland due to internal differences among senior party leaders in the state, an NPCC leader has said. Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee president S I Jamir and Congress Legislature Party leader Tokheho Yepthomi made the admissions during a meeting of NPCC with AICC leaders here Friday night. In his address, Jamir said the biggest drawback was the disunity and in-fighting among senior party leaders. In the past five years, the party had changed four presidents and three CLP leaders, he said, adding that no leader was given a chance to settle comfortably and run the affairs of the party or the CLP. Besides, the inability to find an acceptable end to the ongoing peace talks with Naga underground cadres had greatly hampered the prospects of the Congress in Nagaland, he said. CLP leader Tokheho echoed Jamir. (PTI)
Bhutan to seal border in Assam for 24 hrs for general election
Guwahati: In view of the general elections in Bhutan, the international border with Assam will be sealed for 24 hours from July 12 evening. According to an official release, the international border gates along Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Chirang districts will be sealed and “movement of people and vehicles through the gates restricted from 6 PM on July 12, 2013 to 6 PM on July 13, 2013”. This was informed in a letter to the Principal Secretary, Home and Political Department, Government of Assam from the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan, it added. (PTI)
