Modi to address rally in Arunachal on Feb 22
Itanagar: BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address a ‘Vijay Sankalp Abhiyan’ rally in Arunachal Pradesh on February 22. Modi will arrive in the district headquarters at Pasighat in East Siang after attending a rally at Silchar in Assam, party sources said here on Wednesday. The district administration, along with the police, has made elaborate security arrangements for the rally. (PTI)
Mobile usage in Mizoram
Aizawl: Mobile owners spend at least Rs 16 crore in a month in Mizoram, officials of the mobile service providers on Wednesday said. The monthly average spending of a mobile user in the state was over Rs 100, they said. According to the Statistical Handbook 2012 published by the state Economics and Statistics department, there were 7,01,959 mobile subscribers in Mizoram as on March 31, 2012. This amounts to seventy per cent of the population in the state. There are six service providers in the state. (PTI)
Tripura lady gave birth to triplets normally
Agartala: A 20 years old tribal women of remote Tuichlong village in Teliamura of West Tripura has given triplet birth last evening in the hospital within a span of 20 minutes. However, the second of her three sons died immediately after birth and doctors had shifted her to Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) at night along with her two sons in critical condition. Dr Puspa Debbarma of Teliamura informed that the mother identified as Gairabi Molsom (20) had got admitted with labour pain at six months pregnancy Tuesday evening in the hospital. “She had delivered three sons normally in a span of 20 minutes, which might caused serious impact on her body and since she required better treatment and intervention we had shifted them to AGMC,” Dr Debbarma said. However, AGMC sources said today that all three of them are in critical stage. (UNI)
ITBP Officer from Nagaland dies in mishap
Kohima: A twenty nine year old Khoto Yhokha, an Assistant Commandant in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) died on Monday last, when a tree fell upon him, while he was inside his camp at Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh. According to family sources here on Wednesday, late Yhokha hais from Kigwema village under Kohima district. The incident occurred in the interiors of Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh, where Yhokha was on survey duty, amidst rough weather conditions along the Indo-China border. Sources informed that the deteriorating weather has made it unfeasible for the body to be airlifted from the spot of the incident. As a result, it was informed that the body is being brought to the headquarters on foot and is scheduled to reach Kohima on Wednesday, from he will be taken to his native village Kigwema, about 15 Kms from Kohima. Yhokha had joined ITBP in 2012 and was posted in Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh. (UNI)
NE requires policies in tune with topography -Rio
Kohima: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has said that the north eastern region requires policies in tune with its topography and social profile. “Landslides keep occurring in the region disrupting vital lifelines for months besides causing loss of life, destruction of infrastructure, damage to land and loss of natural resources,” Rio told a function in Dimapur on Tuesday. Another area of concern in Nagaland was the devastation caused by forest fire with recent being at the Mount Japfü near Kohima which destroyed an area of about 50 acres, he said. Reminding the gathering of the 1897 Shillong earthquake that clocked 8.7 on the Richter scale causing intensive damage to property and more than a thousand death, he said if an earthquake of similar intensity were to strike the region today, it would be disastrous. Policy makers should take into account all these features of the region, he said. (PTI)
Govt to give land ownership to over 62,000 people in Guwahati
Tezpur: Over 62,000 people will be given land ownership in Guwahati city before the Lok Sabha elections, Assam Revenue Minister Prithibi Majhi said on Tuesday. “Altogether, 62,000 landless people in Guwahati will be given land patta before the Parliament election, process of which will formally be started from February 24,” Majhi said while inaugurating a new office of Thelamara Revenue Circle. He acknowledged that different organisations, including RTI activist Akhil Gogoi-led Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, have been demanding that the government provide land ownerships to the landless people living in the hill areas within the state capital. “Understanding their woes, our government has initiated a bold step to provide land pattas to those landless people, fulfilling their long pending demand,” Majhi said. The Minister said Assam is soon going to have a new land policy “for the greater interest of the safety of the land of the local people”. Earlier this month, Majhi had said at the Assam Legislative Assembly session that the government has already formed a committee under Chairmanship of Congress MLA Bhumidhar Barman and it was working on the new policy. (PTI)