-The Indian Express Patna: In a first, Bihar’s State Information Commission has asked the Home department to produce before it a “defiant” Block Development Officer, who has failed to respond to as many as NINe summons sent over two years. The SIC has been hearing the case of a BDO, who, despite being the designated public information officer, has not replied to a query by an applicant on why and how many...
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Resisting Extrajudicial Execution In Manipur -Neena NINgombam
-Countercurrents.org I am Neena secretary of Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families Association Manipur (EEVFAM). On 4 November 2008 after enjoying a family lunch, my husband Nongmaithem Michael, went to a friend’s helping him to set up his father’s shradha ceremony. Around 3 p.m. he got a phone call and left the place. At 3.32 p.m. I received a call from him saying that he was apprehended and told me to inform his sister...
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-The United Nations Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was today presented with a top United Nations award for his efforts to increase food production, contributing significantly to reducing the number of people around the world suffering from extreme poverty. “Let me give you one number that illustrates the magnitude of this contribution,” the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, said in presenting the agency's highest award,...
More »El NINo may soon return: UN weather agency
-AFP GENEVA: The El NINo weather phenomenon could return within days but will be relatively weak compared with past episodes, the UN's weather agency said Tuesday. The surface of the Pacific warmed in July and August, providing part of the mix necessary for El NINo to develop, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. There is a "moderately high likelihood for El NINo conditions to develop during September or October," the WMO said. If it...
More »Flood Claims 9 Lives in Assam
-Outlook The flood situation in Assam today worsened with the Brahmaputra and its tributaries continuing to rise leaving NINe persons dead and rendering 10 lakh people homeless in 16 districts. Three children drowned in a boat mishap at Makum near Sadiya in Tinsukia district last night, while the NDRF rescued 42 others, official sources said. Two others died in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts and one each in Sibsagar and Nalbari yesterday, the sources...
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