Samples of six suspected swine flu patients sent to Kolkata
Aizawl: Samples of six persons, suspected to have been infected with swine flu, have been sent to the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata from Mizoram since last month. Dr Pachuau Lalmalsawma, Nodal officer of the state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, said that while five samples were sent to the Kolkata institute last month, one sample of suspected swine flu case was sent on Friday. Two swine flu cases have been detected in Mizoram with one of them being treated at the Aizawl Civil Hospital and another one was reported to have been completely cured. The state health department was conducting screening of people at the lone Lengpui Airport near Aizawl and Mizoram-Assam border Vaitengte town since February 23. (PTI)
CRPF assures Nagaland govt all possible help
Kohima: CRPF Additional Director General of Police, North East Zone, Kishore Jha has assured the Nagaland government of extending all assistance and cooperation. Official sources said Jha visited Dimapur on Friday and held a meeting with senior CRPF officers to review operational and administrative issues pertaining to the Force. The ADG discussed additional deployment of CRPF Companies, following the March 5 lynching of a rape accused of Dimapur Jail and subsequent violence. He also met senior officers of the administration and discussed effective utilisation of the CRPF deployed in Dimapur following the March 5 incident. He assured the state government of all possible assistance and cooperation in the future. He also informed that the CRPF had currently deployed three companies to contain the situation and enforce restrictions imposed in the first week of March. Since the force has infrastructure available to provide training facilities to the Nagaland Police for crowd control and management of large scale disturbances, it has decided to work out a specific support system and provide to them. (UNI)
Nagaland to celebrate World Consumer’s Rights Day today
Kohima: The Nagaland Voluntary Consumer’s Organisation (NVCO) will celebrate the World Consumer Rights Day with the theme ‘Make helping consumers choose healthy diets’ on Sunday. In a release on Saturday, NVCO president Kezhokhoto Savi said the state is celebrating the day under the initiative of Kohima District Legal Services Authority, in collaboration with Nagaland Voluntary Consumer’s Organisation (NVCO), Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) and Kohima Law College. Justice L S Jamir, judge of Gauhati High Court, Y M Imchen, District and Sessions judge Savi will address the gathering. (UNI)
New chancellor appointed
Itanagar: Dileep K Nair has been appointed as the first chancellor of North East Frontier Technical University (NEFTU) at Aalo in West Siang district. State Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma has approved Nair’s appointment as the chancellor of the private varsity on March 6 last. NEFTU, the first technical university in the state, would start its academic session from May next. “The university under Article 2 (f) of the UGC Act, 1956, sponsored by Automobile Society of India, New Delhi will provide free education to 30 per cent girl students,” Nair said over phone on Saturday. The varsity would target students from the entire Siang belt initially as hostel facilities would be available only after two years, 37-year-old Nayar, a bachelor in Social Law said. “There is no technical institution in the state to offer higher studies after diploma. The North East Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), a deemed varsity in the state, offers 10 per cent reservation to Arunachalees, while the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in the state capital has no specific reservation,” he said. (PTI)
Tuki attends Indian Army centenary celebration in Delhi
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki attended an Exhibition organised by the Indian Army to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War in New Delhi. The exhibition was organised in memory of the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who fought in the war and over 74,000 who made the supreme sacrifice. While paying his tributes to the soldiers on Friday, the Chief Minister recalled the contribution of many family members of the soldiers who subsequently contributed in safeguarding the international borders of Arunachal Pradesh at various times, particularly during the Chinese aggression in 1962, an official statement informed here on Saturday. Tuki and Chief Secretary Ramesh Negi were felicitated by the Chief of Staff of the Maneckshaw Centre in the national capital. (UNI)