Five kidnapped Indian children rescued from B’desh
Udaipur (Tripura): Five children, including two girls who were kidnapped from Tripura and taken to Bangladesh on October 24 have been rescued from Noakhali district of that country and the kidnapper has been arrested, police said on Tuesday. Gomati district Superintendent of Police Prabir Majumder said Bangladesh police arrested the children from the house of a 68-year-old woman kidnapper and produced them before a local court there. The court sent the children to a juvenile home there and sent the woman to police remand, he said. The BSF, the SP said, has also taken up the incident with Bangladesh Border Guards for returning the children to their parents. The children would, however, return only after completing the formalities, he added. The five children, including a 10-month-old girl and another 11-year-old girl were kidnapped by the woman from Rangamati village of Gomati district. The woman is a Bangladeshi citizen who was staying illegally in the country with her son, an Indian citizen. She had kidnapped the children following a family dispute, the SP added. (PTI)
Arunachal CM meets Rajnath Singh
New Delhi: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Tuesday met Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed with him the prevailing situation in the Northeastern state. During the 15-minute meeting, Tuki briefed the Home Minister on the security situation in the border state which has seen insurgency of NSCN(IM), NDFB and ULFA militants, official sources said. The Chief Minister also apprised Singh on the status of the Chakma-Hajong refugees and the implication of the Supreme Court order granting Indian citizenship to the community, which had migrated to India from Bangladesh about four decades ago. The Arunachal Pradesh government has already filed a review petition in the Supreme Court urging it to reconsider the decision as many people in the state are opposed to granting citizenship to Chakma-Hajong refugees living in the state. (PTI)
Gogoi condemns police entry into Kerala House over beef issue
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday condemned the entry of the police into the Kerala House in New Delhi following a complaint about beef allegedly being served there, saying it “is an attack on cooperative federalism.” “A complaint about beef being served in Kerala House and the manner in which the Delhi Police entered the state-owned Kerala House is an attack on cooperative federalism in our country,” Gogoi said in a statement here. The tenets of democracy allow everyone to profess his own religious beliefs and practices and any external control on it is tantamount to violations of the rights of the citizens, he said. (PTI)
Influential AGP legislator quits party
Guwahati: In a jolt to Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), its influential legislator Padma Hazarika on Tuesday quit the regional party and prepared to join the saffron brigade. MLA from Sootea constituency in northern Assam, Hazarika had long indicated that he would be leaving the AGP fold. He submitted his resignation from the party at the AGP headquarters. Talking to reporters later, he said the decision was taken in consultation with his constituency workers and he would continue to be in active politics. Hazarika is reported to be in talks with BJP and he could join the party by end of this week. Having won from Dispur for two terms earlier, the AGP has been facing electoral defeats since 2001 and had been reduced to single digit representation in the 126 state Assembly in 2011 polls. (UNI)
