6 Arrested For Trafficking Minor Girl From Mizoram

New Delhi, Sep 16 : In yet another instance of how men in uniform at times target women from the border states and even indulge in trafficking, a joint team comprising of the NGOs Shakti Vahini and CHAN and the Mizoram police - with help from Delhi and Haryana police - rescued a minor girl who had been sold twice to agents in NCR. The girl, a native of Durtlang North near Aizawl in Mizoram, was rescued from the clutches of traffickers from Rewari district in Haryana on Wednesday. The accused include a BSF jawan, Satyawan, posted at Aizawl. The other accused have been identified as Dinesh Kumar Yadav (31), Ram Yadav (60), Dharanveer Yadav (30), Jile Singh (36) and Mahender Singh (65), a former commander with the Indian army.

"The victim is being counseled by the professional counsellor of Shakti Vahini. During counseling, it was revealed that on June 6 this year accused Satyawan had dispatched Sonia to his home village Rotwal in the Alwar district of Rajasthan via Guwahati. He allegedly handed her Rs 3,000 for her journey expenses. The girl arrived at the New Delhi Railway Station and was received by Raju Yadav who is a brother of Satyawan Yadav. Raju, in connivance with other accomplices sold the victim for sexual exploitation at Rs. 90,000 to the other accused. Satyawan then availed leave and also reached his home village Rotwal. He was paid Rs 50,000 for the deal,'' said Rishikant of Shakti Vahini.

It was also revealed that the victim had been physically exploited by the BSF personnal posted at BSF at the Durtlang BSF sector headquarters as the girl resided nearby. Police traced the victim through mobile phone contacts made by unidentified callers to the family members from Haryana and Rajasthan. A case has been registered in this regard at the Bawngkawn Police Station, Aizawl, Mizoram under 5(1)(a),(b),(c) and (d) Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, sections 342/366-A/372/376(a) of IPC and Secs 73/76 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of children) Act,2000.

"On learning that a criminal case had been registered in Aizawl in connection with the missing girl, her captors decided to kill her. "A man named Dharamvir however developed sympathy for the victim and decided not to murder her. Instead he sold her to Ram Yadav and his son Dinesh Kumar Yadav for Rs 50,000," said a police officer.

The victim was produced before the chairperson, Child Welfare Committee. The CWC ordered that the girl be produced before the Aizwal CWC. The accused persons were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Class I and the Mizoram Police were given 10 days transit remand for the accused. A team of the Mizoram Police is camping at villages in Haryana and Rajasthan for futher investigations after it emerged that a few BSF personnel had detained women at border areas and illegally sold them off to agents based in north India. The Mizoram Police team and the arrested persons have left for Mizoram on Thursday by two different flights.

Sold twice, 15-year-old Mizo girl rescued from Haryana
Aizawl : A 15-year-old girl, who was rescued by the Mizoram police on Monday from Haryana after being sold two times, was brought here today along with six suspected traffickers, the police said.

The girl, a resident of Durtlang village near Aizawl, was abducted and sold to a man in Haryana in June. The man sold him again to another man later.

After the parents submitted a complaint to the police, a team led by LT Puii Pulamte, Sub Division Police Officer, Aizawl North, went to Haryana and rescued her.

Northeast Buyers Welcome Bangladeshi Products

By Zahid Al Amin

Millions of fashion-conscious residents of North-Eastern states in India are excited to learn about recent duty-free access facilities accorded to Bangladeshi products, including textile items, which will not be flooding in the North-Eastern markets, as Bangladeshi products are cheaper in price and much superior in quality, comparing to those manufactured in India. Bangladeshi textile products already remain much ahead of the products manufactured in India, because of superior craftsmanship in Bangladeshi factories. Moreover, Bangladesh updates the latest trend and design almost on a daily basis, keeping eyes on the international market. That has possibly placed Bangladesh in the leading position as textile product exporters in the world.

The traders in North-Easter states in India believe that once Bangladeshi goods enter the Indian market, the retail prices of garments there will fall by 20-30 per cent because of the cheap labour and low production cost of goods in Bangladesh. Moreover, transportation cost of Indian textile products to the North-East is much higher than the transportation cost of Bangladeshi products to those markets. In addition to denim items and fashion textiles, Bangladesh will also have a huge market of cotton lungi and Bangladeshi Jamdani saree to this market. Leaders of Bangladeshi textile products are seeing a new scope of exporting textile products worth US$ 2-3 billion in the North-Eastern part of India as well as Nepal and other neighboring countries, under the current trade benefit accorded by the Indian government. Importers and traders in the North-Eastern states in India will also find interest in buying various types of stock lots of textile items from Bangladesh.

In addition to the textile items, Bangladesh will also be able to export its world-class ceramic items to the North-Eastern states in India. Bangladeshi ceramic items are currently exported in a number of Western countries as well as America and the Middle East.

Monno Ceramic Industries began producing porcelain tableware for the Bangladesh home market in 1985, and secured its first export order the following year. Monno soon earned an enviable reputation for both quality and value. The subsequent introduction of bone china to its range of quality dinnerware has only served to strengthen that reputation. As the original exporter of porcelain dinnerware 'Made in Bangladesh' Monno is proud to contribute to the growth of the Bangladesh economy. In a developing country the kudos accorded to exports and the valuable foreign exchange derived is significant. Today in Bangladesh Monno is a household name and regarded as one of the country's premier companies.

Monno offers products in Porcelain, New Bone China, Ivory China, and real Bone China. In fact they source the materials in their bone china body and glaze from Stoke on Trent, to which is added pure water filtered from their own wells. So Monno likes to think of it as 'English' Bone China. Customers include many well known prestigious department stores, speciality and chain stores around the world for whom they manufacture own label products. Some customers have been with Monno for as long as 20 consecutive years and Monno is proud to enjoy a close relationship with them. They work with customers to develop their own shapes or decorations, or can offer designs from their extensive stable. Their talented teams of artists and designers work closely with the experienced technicians of an own in-house decal print unit. That combination of man and machine helps achieve striking results.

Monno's Porcelain & Bone China factories are perhaps unique in being able to offer under one roof the flexibility and versatility of many manufacturing methods as best suit the size or nature of the product. Monno has invested in modern machinery and can boast high pressure casting, ISO Static Pressing, auto cup lines, auto dip glazing, spray drying, and an open firing system. That technology helps them in their never ending pursuit of excellence. Manufacturing capacity is in the order of 2 Million pieces per month.

Monno Products are safe! Tests carried out by CERAM show their products fall well below the thresholds for lead and cadmium release in tableware or cookware coming into contact with foodstuffs as specified under current European regulations. They also meet Australasian and US Federal requirements as well as those specified by California's very tough 'Proposition 65'.

RAK Ceramics is one of the leading ceramic factories in Bangladesh. RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Limited, a UAE-Bangladesh joint venture company, was incorporated in Bangladesh on 26 November, 1998 as a private company limited by shares under the Companies Act 1994. The name of the Company was thereafter changed to its name from RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Private Limited to RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Limited as a public limited company. The company is engaged in manufacturing and marketing of ceramics tiles, bathroom sets and all types of sanitary ware. It started commercial production in November, 2000. The commercial production of new sanitary ware plant started in January, 2004.

The company has over 1,000 different models and shapes of its products and regularly adds newer designs to the product portfolio. RAK's production capacity is 22,000 square meter floor/wall tiles and 3,400 pieces of sanitary ware per day. Products of the company are regularly exported to the Middle Eastern markets. RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Limited is an ISO 9001:2008 certified organization.

Shinepukur Ceramics Limited is a member of the Largest Private Sector Conglomerate, BEXIMCO, in Bangladesh with about 30,000 people in the permanent payroll, handling a diversified range of merchandise to and from Bangladesh. The Group's in-house manufacturing interests encompass Seafood, Jute Yarn, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles, Knit, Denim, Garments, Real Estate and Engineering. BEXIMCO is also involved in Media, Computers and the IT Arena's. As part of a meticulously planned expansion program of the Group, BEXIMCO has setup this state-of-the-art Ceramic Tableware Plant, SHINEPUKUR CERAMICS LTD. (SCL) on the outskirts of Dhaka in 1999. SCL is a 100% export oriented unit, equipped with the latest and modern Machinery's and Kiln's from TAKASAGO MINO, and SKK Japan and comprises of two independent units producing high quality Porcelain and Bone China Tableware. The Porcelain unit has a capacity of 60,000 pieces, whilst the capacity of the Bone China unit being 10,000 pieces a day. The Bone China unit has in fact been setup on the basis of the latest technology from NIKKO Japan, coupled with extensive training facilities to our Production team, both locally and internationally.

In addition, SCL is equipped with the top-of-the-testing and Quality Control Laboratory facilities, Decal Plant, Carton-Packaging Plant, Modeling Unit, and has at its disposal its captive gas-based Power Generation capability, and the best effluent discharge mechanisms in place. The Company is also an ISO 9001/2000 certified Company.

Since commencement of the commercial production at the end of 1999, Shinepukur has successfully developed a substantial export market for the top-of-the-line Bone China and Porcelain Tableware and the customer portfolio now includes world-renowned Tableware companies in the UK, USA, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Russia, UAE, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico, Turkey, and India.

Decal Plant and Design Studio: Decal production started in August 2001. Total Printing Capacity is about 120,000 Sheets per Month, starting from single color upto 8 Colors with Gold/Platinum, both Onglaze [840 degrees Celsius] and Inglaze [1220 degrees Celsius], and completely Lead and Cadmium Free. The Company has set up Designing Studio in the Plant in 2005 and in Italy with Rody Time s.r.l. in 2006.

Packaging Plant: Production in the Packaging Plant started in June 2003. Assorted about 300,000 Pieces White and/or Brown Cartons per month are presently being produced in this facility. In addition, the Company also supplies 4-6 Color Printed Cartons.

Exports from Shinepukur Ceramics comprise about 60% of the National Tableware Export turnover of Bangladesh. As recognition of this contribution, SCL has been awarded National Export Trophy [Gold] in December 2003 for the Financial Year 2000-2001and 2002-2003.

Fu Wang Ceramic Industry Limited is a Taiwan-Bangladesh joint venture company established in 1995 which manufactures various types of floor and wall tiles. In 1998, the company went into Stock market as a Public Limited company. Fu Wang products are already exported to India, Taiwan and Bhutan.

FARR Ceramics Limited manufactures world class ultra white hard Porcelain Tableware with its state-of-the- art production facilities. The entire plant was set up with machinery from Germany, Italy and Japan. The main production process entails transformation of plastic clay into finished product within twelve hours production cycle.

Since FARR Ceramics desires to become the leader in the market of quality tableware producers, the company utilizes only the best quality raw materials, e.g., New Zealand Kaolin [CCP] from New Zealand, Ball Clay from Japan, China Clay from China, Alumina from Japan, Feldspar and Quartz [the top graded only] from India, Zero Leaded Gold and Colors from Germany.

China-Bangla Ceramic Industries Limited [CBC] production lines are equipped with world's most modern machineries from Italy. Under the dynamic leadership of its Chinese promoters and experts CBC is producing a wide range of Wall and Floor, Homogeneous, Decor and Border tiles with innovative designs in different sizes to cater the market demand with affordable and competitive price.

Buyers in the North-Eastern states, especially the traders prefer buying Bangladeshi products because of quicker shipment facilities. It takes only 24 hours for Bangladeshi goods to reach any of the destinations in the North-Eastern states, while transportation cost is also comparatively lower than those imported from other parts of India.

Other Bangladeshi items, which would have demand in the North-Eastern states are: cement, cosmetics, medicines, electrical items, electronic items, paints, biscuits, footware, toiletries, edible oil, vegetable ghee, fruit juice, potato chips, pickles, ketchup, laundry soap, detergent powder, mosquito repellant etc.

India's Other Hunger Strike: 11 Years and Counting

By Nilanjana Bhowmick

Irom Sharmila, who has been on an 11-year hunger strike protesting an Indian anti-terror law, leaves a court hearing in Imphal, India, on August 30, 2011

New Delhi, Sep 16 : When Indian activist Anna Hazare went on a 12-day hunger strike last month to protest government corruption, he became an instant celebrity across the country. India's television networks devoted countless hours of coverage to the fast and hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in support of Hazare, who was trying to push Parliament to adopt legislation creating an independent anti-corruption agency. In the end, lawmakers capitulated and agreed to adopt a number of his provisions — and Hazare ended his public campaign.

In a remote region across the country, another activist has been quietly waging her own hunger strike — without fanfare or media attention — for the last 11 years. Irom Sharmila has been fasting in Manipur, a small state of 2.5 million people in the far northeastern arm of India, to try to force the government to repeal a controversial law called the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives the Indian army and paramilitary forces sweeping powers to arrest people without warrants and use deadly force against suspects without fear of prosecution. So why has Sharmila's fast — undoubtedly the longest-running in the world — gone virtually unnoticed, while Hazare's much-shorter protest captivated the nation?

Analysts say the main reason is that Sharmila's cause remains a largely regional issue owing to the specialized nature of the 53-year-old law. Babloo Loitongbam, a Manipur-based human rights activist and close associate of Sharmila's, says the act only really affects people in the insurgency-wracked northeast, which has historically been opposed to the central government and long advocated for secession. "Whatever comes out of these areas comes filtered through the lens of national security," he says. "There seems to be a feeling among the middle class and the patriotic Indian that doing away with the act would be giving [in] to the secessionist calls from these areas."

Northeastern India, made up of seven states virtually surrounded by Bhutan, Bangladesh, China and Myanmar, is one of the most neglected and underdeveloped regions in the country. There are a massive number of security forces in the region engaged in counter-insurgency operations — at least 12 in Manipur state alone. Sharmila, a 39-year-old poet, began her hunger strike in November 2000 after security forces allegedly shot and killed 10 people, including teenagers, following an explosion on a road outside a village in Manipur. The soldiers later claimed they acted in self-defense, but a judicial inquiry found no evidence to support this.

Because the media hasn't devoted much attention to Sharmila, who is being force-fed through a plastic tube in her nose in a Manipur hospital, images of her thin frame and gaunt face don't regularly reach the public. This has allowed the central government to continue to look the other way, too, Loitongbam says. "Manipur is disconnected from mainland India. No one really bothers about what happens there," says Sreeradha Datta, director of the Kolkata-based Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and an expert in northeastern Indian affairs. "Sharmila's fast has never been a priority for them [the government]."

That might be about to change. Seeking to capitalize on Hazare's publicity, Sharmila made an emotional appeal to her fellow hunger striker last month to take up her cause, as well. Although Hazare's aide has declined on his behalf, citing fears it would dilute Hazare's anti-corruption agenda, Sharmila's request brought new media attention to her strike and raised questions about the government's continued apathy towards her case. In an interview with the Indian television channel CNN-IBN this month, she was asked what she would like to say to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, if given the chance. She replied: "First, I would like to request him to just look at me like Anna Hazare."

Faced with the prospect of a popular backlash over Sharmila's protest for the first time, some top officials appear interested in finding a solution that would allow her to break her fast. At the beginning of September, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said his ministry was "trying its best to revisit AFSPA. But one needs to build consensus." Federal Law Minister Salman Khurshid also met with Sharmila's supporters last week to discuss a possible end to the stalemate. (The Defense Ministry and the armed forces, meanwhile, have resolutely opposed any amendment to the act).

While Hazare's movement has breathed new life into Sharmila's struggle, it remains to be seen whether she'll attract the same groundswell of support among everyday Indians. Her backers are now planning a massive rally in Delhi on Oct. 2, Mahatma Gandhi's birth date. If support for Sharmila does indeed reach a fever pitch in the country, the government will no doubt have to revisit the recommendations of a review committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, which issued a report in 2005 calling on the government to repeal AFSPA and incorporate key provisions of the act into a law that applies to the whole country, not just the northeastern states. "The complaint of discrimination would then no longer be valid," the report said.

The reason the Indian government hasn't taken this step is because Sharmila hasn't been considered a real political threat. At least not yet.

ATSUM Calls Off Manipur Bandh

Imphal, Sept 16 : All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur (ATSUM) proposed 36-hour bandh in Manipur has been called off with immediate effect following an understanding with the State government.

Appealing to tribal candidates not to appear for the examination in Imphal centres, ATSUM earlier had announced a 36-hour bandh in Manipur’s hill areas with effect from 5am of September 15 till 5pm of the following day, demanding Teachers Eligibility Test(TET) examination centres in hill districts.

“The total hill district bandh regarding TET exam has been called off with immediate effect,” said ATSUM’s speaker Emboi Serto in a press release which was made available to the local press.

After a marathon meeting with the government, ATSUM accepted the government’s version of its difficulty in arranging the exam centre as it is the first time that TET exam is being conducted.

The government assured that the next TET exam will be conducted in the hill districts also. That the next teacher’s recruitment will also be done on the district cadre norms – a teacher once recruited for a district cannot be transferred out of the district, the release added.

With these assurances, ATSUM, therefore, called off the total bandh with immediate effect, it added.

State government in a move to streamline the teachers’ recruitment process, is all set to hold TET at 110 examination centres in and around Imphal on September 16.

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Explosive Scarlett Johansson Nude Pics! (NSFW)

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Below is the DMCA Scarlett filed with FBI

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Manipur Orders Guns Seizure To Curb NH Agitation

Imphal, Sep 15 : Cracking the whip against the intensified stir for creation of Sadar Hills district, the state cabinet has decided to confiscate all licensed guns issued to people of the area. A meeting was held at chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh's office chamber on Tuesday night where it was decided that FIRs would be registered against the leaders of the striking Sadar Hills Districthood Demand Committee (SHDDC).

The SHDDC has been imposing economic blockades on national highways 39 and 53 that connects the state capital with Silchar.

The decision came a few days after the SHDDC urged its supporters to arm themselves in pursuit of its demand to upgrade the Kuki-dominated Sadar Hills in Senapati into a full-fledged district.

Reacting against the cabinet decision, SHDDC general secretary Tonghen Kipgen said the move will not help in bringing about a solution. "It is the moral spirit and strong determination and not arms that infuse our justified and long-standing demand to create Sadar Hills. The government's decision will only intensify our agitation as we have already vowed to agitate till our demand is fulfilled," he added.

Government spokesman and irrigation and flood control minister N Biren Singh said the decision was taken only to curtail undemocratic activities and not to sideline the demand for creation of Sadar Hills district. The government has no intention to launch a crackdown against any non-violent forms of agitation of the SHDDC.

The meeting appealed to persons concerned to deposit their licensed arms at the nearest police station to prevent any unwanted incident in the Sadar Hills. Additional district magistrate (Kangpokpi) has been asked to notify people to submit their licensed guns at Kangpokpi police station. The DGP has also been instructed to get in touch with SP (Senapati) and additional SP of Kangpoki to lodge FIRs against leaders of SHDDC and take necessary action.

Commenting on the ultimatum given by the people of Jiribam to impose economic blockade on NH-53 in pursuit of their demand to upgrade the area to a full-fledged district, Biren said the government is keeping its option open to chalk out an agreement. The cabinet meeting also discussed about uninterrupted supply of essential commodities to the state.

MNF Champions Assam Rifles Removal

Aizawl, Sep 14 : As the Assam Rifles is nearing its relocation from its century-old battalion headquarters in the heart of the city, the Mizo Nationa Front (MNF) has claimed itself as the champion of the cause of shifting of the paramilitary force to a hill called Zokhawsang, about 15 kilometres east of Aizawl.

Addressing a press conference here today, Mizo National Front (MNF) legislature party leader Dr R Lalthangliana accused the Congress Government of trying to derail the process of the Assam Rifles relocation during its ten-year rule from 1989 to 1998.

When the MNF government led by Pu Laldenga was formed in 1987, after the state's first assembly elections, it had considered the issue as one of its top priorities.

An agreement to this effect was signed between then the Mizoram chief secretary Dengchhuana and Col Gursharan Singh of the Assam Rifles, on May 31, 1988, the former minister told at the press conference.

An amount of Rs 92,59,156 was also paid to private landowners in Zokhawsang as compensation. The entire exercise was expected to be completed within three years, Lalthangliana said. However, the MNF government was toppled on September 7, 1988, pushing Mizoram into President's Rule.

Then, the process of Assam Rifles relocation was totally abandoned by the Congress Government led by Lal Thanhawla, formed in January 1989 continued to remain in power till December 1998.

Lalthangliana recalled that the Congress Government on May 28, 1992, issued a press release stating that the Assam Rifles would be shifted from its present location to Khatla.

Announcing a Cabinet decision, then chief minister Lal Thanhawla also held a press conference on this day where he made it clear that the Assam Rifles would be shifted to Khatla and civil secretariat would be constructed on the vacated place.

The Congress Government's plan was to shift the Assam Rifles from one place to another in the same city, he said. Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla had also gone on record saying, during a press conference in 1995 that nowhere in India had security forces been removed from a town or a city.

According to the MNF leader, it was not until MNF party came back in power in 1998 that the process of Assam Rifles shifting was resumed with renewed efforts.
Thanks to the constant pressure of the MNF Government, Chief Minister Zoramthanga in particular, a clearance on the much-awaited relocation of Assam Rifles was received, Lalthangliana said.

To make sure that the vacated land of the Assam Rifles was used for public purpose only, the MNF Government passed the Mizoram (Restriction on use of Transferred Land) Act, 2002, in the state assembly.

Finally, a 99-year-land lease certificate for 524 hectares of land in Zokhawsanga was handed over to the director general of the Assam Rifles, Shillong, in 2006, Lalthangliana recollected. On March 12, 2008, the ministry of home affairs sanctioned Rs 145,17,30,000 for construction of barracks and offices at Zokhawsang, he stated.