In Afghanistan, a foreign correspondent writing for the UK’s Guardian newspaper and two Afghan journalists held hostage for six days have been released. These journalists were captured last week by an armed gang in Kunar province, a mountainous region bordering Pakistan. The Guardian website said all three were exhausted but in good spirits. The journalists had been planning to interview militia in what is one of the country’s most dangerous regions.
Terrorists often funded by parent outfits based abroad
December 15, 2009 — IMCAs per available information, Militants/terrorists active in India are often funded by their parent outfits based abroad, particularly in Pakistan. These funds are often routed through third countries. Such funding poses a threat to the security of the country.
The Central intelligence/security agencies work in close cooperation with their counterparts in the States, which has, inter-alia, resulted in the arrest of a number of terrorists involved in facilitating funds/financing of terrorism.
The issue of terror funding has also been taken up with Pakistan at bilateral fora.
This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs , Shri Ajay Maken in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
Fate’s cruel joke
December 12, 2009 — IMCRajesh Kumar Behera in Kendrapara, India
Being driven by fate’s cruel joke ,a 16-year old ill fated boy, Bhakti Ranjan Pradhan, alias Bula seems much younger than his actually age .Circumstances forced the 16 year old boy to look like a breast feeding child and also to depend totally upon his parent for completing his daily routine life . Meet the ill-fated 16 years old boy , Bula, the son of Rajkishore Pradhan of Maligaon under Nemala Gram Panchayat in Nischantakoili block was born in 1993. He was absolute normal at the time of birth alike other kids. But at the age of 3, the ill fated child lost the ability to crawl and stammer slowly.Later, he became abnormal. Though , the poor parents of Bulu treated him at Cuttack-based Sisu Bhawan for a year .But in vein to cure him. After spending around more than Rs.1 lakh, the poor parents could not afford any more. They were compelled to discharge their son from Sisu Bhaban and take him back home. The doctors at Sisu Bhban conducted several tests and diagnosed that Bula was suffering from a rare kind of both mental and physical retardation disease . In order to cure Bula , the parents has to provide a long term proper treatment ,informed Rajkishore Pradhan, the father of ill fated Bula “ I treated my son to several doctors and spent a huge amount beyond our capacity and finally I stopped the treatment of Bula on the midway due to penury ,” added Rajkishore “As the five members of the family have to depend upon with limited earnings from my spouse’s earning, so it is a daunting task for my spouse to spend amount on my son’s treatment . My husband had earlier urged the local sarapanch, local legislature, member parliament and block as well as district administration for assistant to treat my son but all of them turned their deaf ear to provide financial assistance for my son’s treatment”, informed Annapurna Pradhan, the mother of Bula, with tear rolling on her eyes. The poor parents of Bula have been running from pillar to post to arrange money for their son’s treatment. But all their efforts went in vein. For which Bula has totally depend upon his parents for morning ablution, for feeding .Although he can sit and responds to sound and touch he could not able to stand till date. Hearing a speech form Bula has become a long cherished dream for the parent .The most important thing is that the mother of Bula has to bring up his child just like a breast feeding kid till date. The parents of Bula , how ever urged the government, non-government organization to lend their helping hand for her son’s treatment by providing him financial assistance.
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.
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