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In a rerun of the shocking Odisha incident in which a man was forced to carry the body of his wife on his shoulders for 10-km when the administration failed to provide him an ambulance, two youths from Madhya Pradesh were forced to carry their mother’s body on motorcycle for 12 km after failig to get an ambulance. According to reports, the incident took place in the Ulat village of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. The sons of 70-year-old Parvata Bai had called up the Ambulance services to take their mother to the nearby hospital after her condition worsened. Her sons made several calls but the ambulance did not turn up and, in between, the old lady's health deteriorated further. Left with no option, her sons decided to take their ailing mother on motorcycle to the nearest hospital for treatment. However, she couldn’t survive the journey and died. When her sons realised After her that she was no more, both drove her dead body back home covering a distance of nearly 12 km.

Namkha, a gift from a Mulhouse zoo in the Alsace region of France, would take part in a captive breeding programme at Darjeeling's Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park. The male snow leopard was on Monday driven from the Mulhouse zoo to Amsterdam, where he boarded an Emirates flight to Calcutta via Dubai the next day. Travelling in a 5ftX3ft crate, the snow leopard landed in Calcutta at 8am and spent around 25 minutes at the airport for a health check-up. Following a nod from the quarantine officer at the airport and a senior vet from the Darjeeling zoo, he was transported to an air-conditioned ambulance, which left for Darjeeling around 8.45am. An average flier from abroad has to spend about an hour for customs and immigration checks. "The temperature of the ambulance in which Namkha is travelling will not exceed 16°C," said Piar Chand, the director of Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, who had come to receive Namkha. "We plan to halt at a few places an

A huge Gulmohar tree uprooted at Jorethang Haat Ghar, no any untowards incidents reported. Incident occured around 3:30 AM is reported. Pic and News Jyoti Rai

Rally on Prevention of CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND HARASSMENT conducted by Mangan Progressive Youth Society , supported by Mangan Based NGOs, Social Workers, Child Protection Officials, Volunteers & various Schools started today from North District Zilla Panchayat Hall till Old Mangan Bazaar. Pic & News - Pritam singh

Thanks to an initiative of the Indo-Bhutan Friendship Association (IBFA), the Indian and Bhutanese governments may soon allow tourists to take a day-trip from Darjeeling to Bhutan without a permit. . There are six different paths to Bhutan from Darjeeling, all of which are currently closed. These paths go through Tode or Bindu in Kalimpong, Lalbasti, the Jiti Tea Estate in Nagrakata, Banarhat and Birpara. For the time being, tourists can only enter Bhutan through the Bhutanese border town of Phuentsholing, and travel to Thimpu - the nation's capital - and Paro. . However, the IBFA hopes to get permission from the Indian and Bhutanese governments for tourists to use all these paths without permits before Kali Puja in October. It has sent requests to both India's ambassador to Bhutan, and Bhutan's ambassador in India. File pic: Bhutan Border, DC

Hats off Daughters of Bihar, De Dana Daan Pic And News Gaurav Raj

Table tennis player Soumyajit Ghosh arrived at Siliguri from New Delhi on Tuesday, a day after he was conferred with the Arjuna Award by President Pranab Mukherjee. The paddler, who represented the country in the Rio Olympics, was welcomed by 300-odd youths at Bagdogra airport. The third Arjuna awardee from the town was then taken to the Siliguri Municipal Corporation building in an open jeep escorted by 100-odd motorcycles. At the SMC, the 23-year-old paddler was felicitated by mayor Asok Bhattacharya and others. He was presented with a cheque of Rs 25,000, a certificate and a memento. "I am overwhelmed to see the people who welcomed me. Such appreciation would encourage me to perform better. I am focusing on the Commonwealth Games that would be held in Australia in 2018 and the Tokyo Olympics of 2020," said the resident of Ghoshpara in ward 17. Pic: Tapan Das

According to reports from the latest survey of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Sikkim has topped as the safest place for women in India, for the 2015 survey released on August 30. Meanwhile, Nagaland has went down a notch, even though it topped the survey as the safest place for women in 2014 with only 67 cases of crime against women reported in the state, however in 2015 there were 90 cases, which included 35 rape cases while Sikkim with 53 reported cases was the lowest among the states while Lakshadweep with 9 reported cases was lowest among the Union Territories. Overall, there were 327394 reported cases of crime against women with Uttar Pradesh topping the list at 35527 cases. Among the North Eastern states, Assam was highest with 23258 reported cases.

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City cops arrests four robbers: Shahjahan Ali, Safikul Rahman, Moinul Haque, & Saddam Hussain. They lifted a Passbook update machine instead of an ATM machine in a hurry from the Binovanagar SBI building, Kalapahar, Assam. GPlus

Showing exemplary courage, a 10-year-old boy from Jehanabad, Bihar risked his life and saved four girls from drowning in a river. Some girls from Gopalpur village in Jehanabad, while crossing a river on their way back home from school, slipped and fell into the river. 10 year old Vipin, who saw the girls struggling in the strong current of the river, jumped into the river and one by one tried to save each of the girls. While in succeeded in saving four of them, two girls were washed away in the incident. Vipin, who without thinking twice risked his own life to save the girls was assured a felicitation by the district administration. Northeast Today salutes brave souls like Vipin.

Bangladesh suspects two top leaders of a reorganised Jamaat-ul Mujahideen (JMB) took secret refuge in neighbouring India to mobilise weaponry and financial support for the banned outfit to carry out the July 1 terrorist attack on a Dhaka cafe, according to reports today. One of the two JMB leaders, Shariful Islam Khaled, is also blamed for hacking to death his liberal university professor, who was on way to work, in April. Mamunur Rashid Ripon alias Jahangir and Khaled left for India in April, days after the murder of the Rajshahi University professor, the Daily Star reported. “(Mamunur Rashid) Ripon and Khaled went to the neighbouring country in April and they have been hiding there since then,” it quoted police’s counterterrorism and transnational crimes (CTTC) unit chief Monirul Islam as saying. He said Bangladesh has already informed India about the militants’ possible stay in Kolkata. Quoting an unnamed official, the newspaper said the two militants might have gone

In a fitting tribute to 'Mountain Man', Suresh Prabhu wants to take railways to Dashrath Manjhi's village. In what could be a fitting tribute to Dashrath Manjhi, who is popularly known as Bihar's 'Mountain Man', Union Rail Minister Suresh Prabhu is planning to take railways to his village Gehlore. According to reports, though Manjhi's village is now connected to its neighbouring towns and villages in Gaya, but the nearest railway station in Jethian is still 8 km away. Nearly fours decades ago, Manjhi is believed to have walked along the railway line from Gaya to New Delhi because he could not afford to buy a ticket to Delhi, where he would meet then prime minister Indira Gandhi and tell her of his dream to carve a road out of a hillock. Later, Manjhi succeeded in carving out alone a road with a chisel and a crowbar in an effort that took 22 years and which now connects his village to nearby towns in Gaya. According to Indian Express, the Rail

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has put up hoardings all over the city asking people to keep offices and shops open and assured every cooperation to them. The Left trade unions have called a country-wide bandh on September 2. The hoardings put up by KMC reads: Keep shops and markets and offices open. Let transport ply normally. The state government will stand by you and KMC will provide every cooperation. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said in the Assembly that the State Government would not support the bandh and steps would be taken to keep the offices open. “We have seen how CPI(M) had crippled the state’s economy by calling frequent bandhs in its 34 years of rule. We are against bandhs and the state government will oppose it,” she said. The state government has decided to deduct a day’s salary for those who will not turn up for work. The state government has decided to ply buses and requested private operators to ply them. The Chief Minister announce

It was easy to get caught up in the cult of Diana, which became as strong for the Princess of Wales as it was for her mythological Roman namesake. When she was married in 1981 The Economist itself gushed, “God save the next queen.” Now the cult is immeasurably greater than it was 16 years ago. Books await to be written, perhaps are already being written, about how a 19-year-old kindergarten helper became the most famous woman in the world, and was seen at her death to be an icon of her age. But whatever puzzles the writer may encounter, there will be no shortage of material to ponder over. One of the oddities of many of the articles written about Diana during the past week is that they dwell on her search for privacy. True, she had no privacy, but she appeared content to be constantly on public view. After Lenin died the Soviet government employed researchers to make a record of every day of his life. The reporters and photographers who made Diana their career did the sa

A 12 year old girl was sexually assaulted, murdered and thrown into a canal in the wee hours of Wednesday in Kolkata. It is being reported that the 12 year old was kidnapped and picked up in an OLA car from the Hare Street and gang raped in the Park Circus flyover the whole night allegedly by Shankar Show and Guddu Singh. She was then strangled and thrown into the Topsia canal. The girl used to live with her mother at Brabourne Road. The police have already arrested Shankar Show and Guddu Singh. One of them is reported to be the OLA cab driver. They have confessed to their crimes, as per the police. They have been booked under charges of murder, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy.

Kargil war hero’s daughter Lalitha Kanwar’s eyes would be eagerly searching for her grandmother during the September 10 Passing out Parade of the Officers Training Academy, as she will be fulfilling her mother’s dream of “returning her son back to her.” Dressed in olive green, Lalitha, the daughter of Naik Rajvir Dan of the 15 Grenadiers, who lost his life on June 21, 2000, during Operation Rakshak in Kargil, told Express that the death of her father came as a massive blow to the family belonging to the male-dominated traditional Charan community at Nagaur in Rajasthan, where women are confined to the kitchen. Lalitha was seven when the coffin of her father, draped in the Tricolour, was brought to her village in Nagaur. “My sister told me he won’t be coming back. But, I hardly knew what she meant. I was awestruck as visitors poured into our home. For me, it was less of sorrow and more of pride. I wanted to be like him,” she said. But then things did not go well after th

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict as a ‘landmark victory’ on Wednesday and said that, “Dreamt of this SC verdict for so long. Now I can die in peace.” Soon after the landmark judgement by the Supreme Court over the Singur issue , Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a press conference on Wednesday. Today, the Supreme Court has set aside the Calcutta High Court order upholding the land acquisition for Nano plant at Singur in West Bengal. Soon after the judgement, Mamata Banerjee addressed the media at a press conference. Mamata Banerjee said that, “I was on a 26 day hunger strike in 2006. We were assaulted in September 2006 at Singur BDO office. The issue of Singur started before 2006 Assembly elections. Inhuman atrocities were carried out against us.” She added that, “We coined the slogan Maa, Mati, Manush during Singur anshan.” Mamata Banerjee also mentioned about renowned writer Mahasweta Devi who passed away quite recentl

She lost her battle for life after meeting an accident a week ago, but 5-year-old girl Aishwarya from the district has gifted vision to two persons after her last wish to donate her eyes was fulfilled by her parents. Aishwarya was critically injured after a municipality hired garbage pick-up van hit her school van on August 23. She was rushed to hospital from where she was later referred to Delhi. The girl, however, died of her injuries during treatment at RML hospital in the national capital. “Before dying, my daughter had expressed her will to donate her eyes,” said Laxminarayan. Moved by her noble wish, Aishwarya’s father and her mother reached AIIMS and donated her eyes to two persons there. It took around six hours for the operation to transplant the cornea after which the two persons were able to see. “We had never imagined that we will ever be part of such a pious act because of our daughter,” the bereaved father said. (PTI)

The agreement that led to 1,000 acres of farm land in Bengal's Singur being allotted to Tata Motors for a Nano factory was cancelled today by the Supreme Court, which called it "bad in law". The land has to be returned to farmers within 12 weeks, the court ordered. Here are 10 developments in the story: The land was acquired in 2006 by the previous Left government. Two years later, the Tatas moved their Nano operations to Gujarat after massive farmer protests led by Mamata Banerjee, who was then the top opposition leader in the state. Even after exiting the land, the Tatas had told the court that the company would not give it up and would use it for other purposes. A spokesperson of the company said on the ruling that its own appeal in the case is yet to be heard by the Supreme Court. The court commented that the Left government had seemed determined that the project must come up in the state, and it was the company which seemed to have chosen the precise location for

2 Kolkata cab drivers arrested for allegedly gang-raping and killing a 12-yr-old girl, body recovered. Details awaited... ANI

2 Kolkata cab drivers arrested for allegedly gang-raping and killing a 12-yr-old girl, body recovered. Details awaited... ANI