Assam’s new Governor Mr. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was sworn in today in a simple function at the Durbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan in Guwahati. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and his cabinet colleagues were present. The oath of office and secrecy was adminstred by Gauhati High Court Chief Justice J Chelameswar. Patnaik had served as Congress Chief Minister of Orissa for three terms and was appointed Assam Governor after the term of the out going Governor Syed Sibtey Razi expired this month.
Obama invokes Mahatma Gandhi as receives Nobel Peace Prize
December 11, 2009 — IMCInvoking his ‘heroes’ Mahatma Gandhi and legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King, US President Barack Obama received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in the capital of Norway Oslo . In his acceptance speech Obama said there is nothing weak -nothing passive – nothing naïve – in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King. The 48-year-old President said he is committed to upholding the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and that he is working with Russian President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia’s nuclear stockpiles. Noting that terrorism has long been a tactic, Obama said modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale. He is the third sitting US president to win the award after Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Former US president Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002. Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry,received the prize at a gala ceremony at Stockholm along with other recipients. The other Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and medicine also received their prizes from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal event in Stockholm’s Concert Hall. A record five women have been awarded the Nobel this year.
Seven Naxalites killed in Indian state
December 11, 2009 — IMCIn Chhattisgarh, Seven Naxalites were killed in an encounter in the Dantewada district that was continuing since last evening. According to the police sources, the encounter took place in the jungle between Aranpur and Jagargunda of the Dantewada district.
Police have also recovered some weapons from the site of the encounter. On the other hand, the naxalites killed a person near Kukram village under the Jagargunda police station area of the Dantewada district last night suspecting him to be a police informer.
US rules out mediation on Kashmir
December 11, 2009 — IMCUS has ruled out a mediatory role in Kashmir. Speaking to reporters in Washington, the state department spokesman PJ Crowley has said that while US understood the importance of the Kashmir issue to both India and Pakistan, it was ultimately between the two nations to resolve the issue with the active involvement of the people of Kashmir.
Crowly was replying to a question on a suggestion made by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in a US daily. Zardari told the paper that US should demonstrate its neutrality and willingness to help India and Pakistan overcome their mutual distrust by stepping up its efforts to mediate the Kashmir dispute.
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