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Imphal Times Supplementary issue 2 Editorial National & International Imphal, Monday, October 19, 2015 Shutdown over Trucker’s Death, Security A wasted matter As we gear up to meet the challenges staring everyone in the Tightened in Kashmir face with the rapidly increasing pace of development and PTI Similar strict restrictions have been village, a spontaneous shutdown last evening from Delhi and it was industrialization, one glaring lapse that hits us in the face- in Srinagar, Oct. 19: Curfew-like imposed in six police station areas was observed yesterday and taken to his native village for last the nose to be more precise- is the sight, and worse- the restrictions were imposed in eight of Srinagar, where protests had clashes between protesters and rites. smell that assaults one’s senses as we walk through the crowded police station areas in Kashmir broken out yesterday over the police had broken out there and in Ruling PDP chief and MP from heart of the city. The plight in the suburbs and the villages and several separatist leaders put death. The affected areas are M R adjoining areas of Kulgam as also Anantnag Mehbooba Mufti, aren’t any better. All the upcoming infrastructures and under house in view of a strike Gunj, Nowhatta, Safa Kadal, in several areas of Srinagar. state’s Finance Minister Haseeb glittering paints cannot stop anyone from cringing their nose called today to protest the death Maisuma, Rainawari and Khanyar. A resident of Anantnag in South A Drabu and Law Minister at the all permeating stench that assails through the whole of of a truck conductor who was Hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Kashmir, Zahid was the conductor Basharat Bukhari were at the the city. The “Zero Garbage Campaign” which was launched injured in Udhampur petrol bomb Shah Geelani and JKDFP leader of the truck that was en route to airport here to receive the body. with much fanfare a few years ago had already receded from attack. Shabir Ahmad Shah were among Kashmir when a mob attacked it Both factions of separatist public memory. What was it all about anyway?- one can’t help Movement of people was several separatists placed under with petrol bombs on October 9. Hurriyat Conference and JKLF but wonder. What is so special about keeping one’s own city restricted in Anantnag and house arrest, the official said. The driver of the truck Showkat have called for a shutdown in the clean? Isn’t it a necessity?- a normal thing to be done anyway? Bijbehara police station areas in The restrictions have been Ahmed is also admitted in Valley. A Kashmiri pandit Cleanliness is a force of habit and not a one-off act. The South Kashmir, a police official imposed as a precautionary hospital. organisation, Kashmiri Pandit sheer inability to communicate between the various said, ahead of the funeral of measure following violent protests Nine people have been arrested for Sangharsh Samiti, Kashmir High Government Departments when it comes to taking up public conductor Zahid, who yesterday in many parts of the the attack and five of them slapped Court Bar Association, traders’ sanitation works sends one in a tizzy. Foreign funded schemes succumbed to his injuries at a Valley. with the tough Public Safety Act. bodies and transport union have (read Imphal sewage project) have made our roads a daily Delhi hospital yesterday after As soon as the news about Zahid’s An aircraft of the state extended support to the nightmare to be negotiated. The Imphal Municipality- battling for life for nine days. demise reached his Batengoo government flew Zahid’s body shutdown call. entrusted with the job of keeping the city neat and tidy has been rendered obsolete- the staffs employed embroiling themselves in agitations and protests for various issues to the point where their duties are relegated to the least Typhoon Koppu leaves two dead in Philippines important of priorities. These inefficiencies necessitated and AP Howling winds knocked down Koppu still packed a ferocity that northern Bataan province, and gave rise to various private and non-governmental agencies Manila, Oct. 19: Slow-moving trees and electric posts, leaving could set off landslides and flash three other missing people were rushing in to fill the void. Mechanized equipments and tools Typhoon Koppu weakened after nine entire provinces without floods, officials said. found in an evacuation camp in purchased at huge amounts for use in keeping the city clean- blowing ashore with fierce winds power, while floods and small “We’re asking our countrymen not Aurora’s Baler town, he said. which were paraded in front of the public to show the in the northeastern Philippines on landslides made 25 roads and to become complacent,” said President Benigno Aquino III and Government’s serious efforts and resolution on the matter Sunday, leaving at least two bridges impassable. Authorities Alexander Pama, who heads the disaster-response agencies had turned out to just what it was- a show. What the public needs, people dead, displacing 16,000 suspended dozens of flights and government’s disaster-response warned that Koppu’s rain and and are waiting for right now, is a total and effective cleansing villagers and knocking out power sea voyages due to the stormy agency, citing how rainwater could winds may potentially bring more of the lethargic Government department responsible for the in entire provinces, officials said. weather, and many cities cancelled cascade down mountainsides after damage with its slow speed. But cleanliness of the city and start afresh in a concerted manner. Army troops and police were classes on Monday. Koppu passed and flood villages. Saludes, the government The state of the waste management plant set up almost a deployed to rescue residents Late Sunday night, the typhoon That happened in low-lying forecaster, said that there was less decade ago is not known- whether it has started operation or trapped in flooded villages in the was blowing over the northern villages in six towns in Nueva Ecija, heavy rain than expected initially if there is any missing work to be done to make it operational. hard-hit provinces of Aurora, mountainous province of Ifugao near Aurora, where some residents in some areas, including in Manila, The sooner things get going, the better off our city will be, where the typhoon made landfall and was continuing to weaken. It were trapped on rooftops by but that fierce winds lashed many else for all the tall claims of achievements, our efforts will go early Sunday, and Nueva Ecija, a had sustained winds of 130 floodwaters, said Nigel Lontoc of regions. down the drain- amongst the ever increasing pile of waste. nearby rice-growing province kilometers (80 miles) per hour and the Office of Civil Defense. Koppu, Japanese for “cup,” is the For now it is zero for the state in garbage management. where floodwaters swamped rice gusts of up to 160 kph (100 mph) A teenager was pinned to death 12th storm to hit the Philippines farmlands at harvest time. and was blowing northward at just on Sunday by a fallen tree, which this year. An average of 20 storms After slamming into Aurora’s 5 kph (3 mph), according to the also injured four people and and typhoons each year batter the Nepal Dy PM likely to meet Casiguran town after midnight government’s weather agency. It’s damaged three houses in archipelago, one of the world’s Saturday, the typhoon weakened expected to weaken to a tropical suburban Quezon city in the most disaster-prone countries. and slowed down, hemmed in by storm by late Monday and exit the Manila metropolis. In Subic town, In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of PM Modi today the Sierra Madre mountain range main northern island of Luzon on northwest of Manila, a concrete the most ferocious storms on ANI the political deadlock in Nepal, and told and a high pressure area in the Wednesday. wall collapsed and killed a 62-year- record to hit land, barrelled New Delhi, Oct. 19: Nepal Deputy that the Nepalese Deputy Prime country’s north and another While weather conditions had old woman and injured her through the central Philippines, Prime Minister Kamal Thapa is Minister that peace and reconciliation typhoon far out in the Pacific in begun to improve in some towns, husband, Lontoc said. levelling entire towns and leaving expected to meet Prime Minister with all groups is the way out to resolve the east, government forecaster and villagers had started to clear Three fishermen who had gone more than 7,300 people dead or Narendra Modi today. political impasse. Gladys Saludes said. roads of fallen trees and debris, missing at sea were rescued off missing. Thapa, who is on his three day official Thapa assured that Nepal is committed visit to India, met the External Affairs to resolve the political crisis. Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday and The deputy prime minister asked for discussed range of issues of mutual India’s help in sending more than 300 Gangrapes in Delhi: I am not Sheila Dikshit, Arvind interest including the present border fuel laden trucks via alternative routes, blockade. and to ease down the supply of According to sources, Swaraj asked essential supplies goods, sources Kejriwal to Narendra Modi Thapa about the roadmap to resolve added. PTI not remain silent. options to ensure safety of women. our women are,” he said. New Delhi, Oct. 19: In the wake “We will not allow the Prime “A cabinet meeting, to discuss the Kejriwal also ridiculed ‘Himmat of gangrape of two minor girls in Minister to sleep peacefully if issue, has been convened App’ launched by Delhi Police and Jaitley against ministries Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind women in Delhi do not get proper tomorrow,” he said.

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