Sunday, August 10, 2008

Russia keen to invest in Northeast

Itanagar, Aug 9 : Russia today evinced interest in investing in hydropower, tourism, food processing, agriculture, horticulture and road and infrastructure building in Arunachal Pradesh.

Sources in the chief minister’s office said a five-member delegation, led by Russian ambassador Vyacheslav I. Trubnikov, met chief minister Dorjee Khandu in his office today and expressed the country’s keenness to invest in the state. They had arrived here last evening on a three-day tour.Russian companies have plans to embark on mutual investment in sectors like hydropower, tourism, roads and infrastructure building, one of the sources said, quoting Trubnikov.

The Russian ambassador expressed Russia’s eagerness to “carry forward” the decades-old strategic partnership with India through business tie-ups with the frontier state.

He said his country would provide technical knowhow, equipment and machinery to Arunachal Pradesh as soon as the state government gives its approval.

“We are quite familiar with the region as our engineers have been coming here for the last 50 years to explore oil in the areas of Assam bordering Arunachal Pradesh. Our scientists, who have wide knowledge about the landscape, climate and soil structure of Arunachal Pradesh, are in a good position to provide technical expertise to the state,” Trubnikov added.

Chief minister Dorjee Khandu assured the Russian delegation of all possible help once Delhi cleared the venture. He said his government was ready to enter into business tie-ups with Russia.

Farmers’ group hails UDA as messiah

Aizawl, Aug 9 : Zoram Kuthnathawktu Pawl (Mizoram Farmers’ Association) today hailed the United Democratic Alliance as the ‘new messiah to save the people from adversities and oppression’.

UDA is a pre-poll alliance, formed at the behest of the farmers’ group, by Zoram Nationalist Party and Mizoram People’s Conference to take on the two largest parties, ruling Mizo National Front and Congress in this year’s assembly polls.”The agreement of two parties to come under the umbrella of UDA is the most important milestone towards reformation of the existing political system in Mizoram,” a ZKP statement said.

The main objective of ZKP is to abolish autocracy in Mizoram, the statement said.

Being aware that no coalition government in Mizoram had been successful, it is ZKP’s commitment to chalk out a coalition framework/modality with a team of experts in the field, the statement said, and assured the people of Mizoram “not to worry”.

The MPC and the ZNP had formed an electoral alliance in the 2003 assembly polls. While the former got only three candidates elected, the ZNP captured only two seats.

Carlifting? She’s game


Guwahati, Aug 9 : Theft, among so many other professions, is no longer a man’s game.

As city police gave chase to a gang of car thieves at Pub Boragaon on the city’s outskirts this afternoon, shots rang out from the fleeing robbers, one of whom was a woman.

The police fired several rounds in retaliation and managed to apprehend three thieves, including the woman, after a chase that lasted nearly half-an-hour.
A police source said after receiving information about the presence of a gang of vehicle thieves at the rented house of one Haren Das on Kolia Gosain Path at Pub Boragaon, the special action group swung into action.

“As the police team approached their hideout, the thieves tried to flee, opening fire at the police,” the source said.

The source said the police personnel fired in the air in order to scare the thieves. “Three of them were overpowered after a brief chase, while one of them, who was carrying firearms, managed to escape,” the officer said.

The arrested persons were identified as Suman Jha from Bihar, Pranab Das from Rangiya and Jaya Bordoloi from Mukalmua in Nalbari district.

“All of them are veteran car lifters wanted for involvement in several cases of theft,” the source said.

He said Jaya’s husband Jibon Bordoloi, who is a seasoned car thief and kingpin of the inter-state racket, had managed to flee.

The police have launched a massive search to nab him.

A Maruti car, suspected to be a stolen one, and several incriminating documents were seized from the accused, who are being interrogated at Jalukbari police station.

The police constituted the special action group, led by inspector S. Islam, a couple of months ago after the alarming rise in theft of motor vehicles.

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