Quashing FIR PAGE Comedian Bharti Singh moves Punjab and Haryana HC to quash an FIR for allegedly Nation 8 hurting religious sentiments in a TV show DECCAN CHRONICLE MONDAY | 27 JANUARY 2020 | HYDERABAD SHORT TAKES PM: Violence no 1 killed as coaches India, NDFB to ink Bodo pact detach from train ABSU to give up separate statehood demand to end five-decade conflict solution in NE Fatehgarh Sahib: Several New Delhi, Jan. 26: MANN | KI BAAT coaches of the Ajmer-bound MANOJ ANAND | DC ■ NDFB CHIEF support and back this matary, Dhiren Boro and Violence never resolves Pooja Express train got GUWAHATI, JAN. 26 peace-accord.” B. Saoraigra. any issue and no problem who had strayed towards detached from its engine Ranjan Daimary who The NDFB chief Ranjan Some NDFB militants can be worked out by cre- the path of violence have few minutes after departure In what may be called a has been serving life Daimary who has been were part of the 644 mili- ating another, Prime expressed their faith in from Ludhiana, killing one major breakthrough on imprisonment in the serving the life imprison- tants who surrendered in Minister Narendra Modi peace and decided to passenger, officials said on insurgency front, the min- ment in serial bomb blast Guwahati on Thursday said on Sunday in his become a partner in the Sunday. The incident istry of home affairs is serial bomb blast case of Guwahati was before Assam chief minis- monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ country’s progress and occurred on Saturday night going to sign a peace case of Guwahati granted bail recently by a ter Sonowal. radio address — the first return to the main- near Brahman Majra village accord with all the fac- was granted bail bench of the Gauhati High Security sources said of the year. stream,” he said. in Sirhind city here. Satpal, a tions of National Demo- recently Court to facilitate Mr that status of the existing He appealed to those “Those who had picked resident of Pathankot in cratic Front Bodoland Sarbananda Sonowal Daimary’s presence as one Bodoland Territorial seeking to settle issues up weapons thinking that Punjab, sustained head (NDFB) and powerful All ■ THE LEADERS are of the signatories of the Council will remain the through violence to violence could solve prob- injuries after he fell off a Bodo Students Union camping in Delhi to of the society. We took lead accord. NDFB(S) leaders, same but the community return to the main- lems, now firmly believe bogie following detachment (Absu) on Monday in New to end the conflict situa- including its chairman, B. would be given more polit- stream, saying they that the only way to solve of the engine. He was taken Delhi. give final touches to tion which was causing Saoraigwra, general secre- ical rights and representa- should have faith in the any dispute is peace and to hospital where he suc- Informing that the the peace accord huge lose to the society.” tary B.R. Ferenga and sen- tion in the proposed upper capabilities of India to togetherness,” the PM cumbed to the injuries, an accord will be signed in Regretting that some ior members B. Batha and house of the state assem- resolve matters peaceful- said in his radio address. official of the Government presence of Union home demand of a separate state Bodo leaders have been G Bidai are camping in bly. ly. Noting that insurgency The biggest reason Railway Police said. minister Amit Shah, Ass- or union territory for the accusing us of giving up Delhi to give final touch to It will be the third Bodo in the northeast has behind the reduction in am chief minister Sarb- Bodos, security sources demand of separate state, the peace accord proposed accord to be signed in last reduced “considerably”, insurgency in the north- ananda Sonowal and chief said that top leadership of Mr Boro said, “We have to be signed on Monday. 27 years when the violent the prime minister said, east is that “every issue of TN villages oppose of Bodoland Territorial four different factions of lost many precious lives in However, officials made movement for a separate “Violence never the region is being hon- Council Hagrama Moh- NDFB would be the signa- the ongoing decades-old it clear that the territorial Bodoland state claimed resolves any issue.” estly and peacefully iliary security sources tory to the accord. armed conflict in the integrity of Assam will be hundreds of lives, destruc- He urged people to solved through dialogue”, hydrocarbon project said told this newspaper Admitting that they have Bodoland Territorial Cou- maintained and the key tion of public and private together “forge a new he said. Thanjavur(TN): All villages in that the new accord will given up the demand of ncil areas. Just to bring an demand of the NDFB, properties. India, where every issue Noting that the 21st cen- the Cauvery delta region in provide for some political separate state, the power- end to bloodshed, we chose which is either a separate The demand for a sepa- is resolved on a platform tury is the era of knowl- Tamil Nadu passed resolu- rights to the Bodo tribals ful All Bodo Students to give up many of our State or a UT, is not going rate state for the Bodos of peace.” edge, science and democ- tions opposing the hydro- living in Assam and some Union president Pramod demands. We are getting to be entertained. has been going on in The PMpointed out that racy, Modi wondered carbon exploration project at economic package for the Boro who is in New Delhi nothing in the peace- The four factions of the Assam for about five a few days ago, 644 mili- whether anyone has ever Grama Sabha meetings held community. told this newspaper, “We accord but to restore peace NDFB, which will sign the decades, leading to agita- tants from eight different heard of a place where on Sunday, revenue officials Asserting that home have given up our and tranquillity in Bodo accord, are led by Ranjan tions, protests, violence groups surrendered with life has turned better due said. The resolutions were ministry has rejected demands in larger interest areas, the Absu decided to Daimari, Govinda Basu- and many deaths. their weapons. “Those to violence. — PTI passed even as the Centre resolved recently to exempt oil and gas firms looking to carry out exploratory drilling RESEARCHERS from getting environmental Beating retreat clearance. According to offi- MISTAKEN FOR 2 held for Odisha cials, villages in the delta districts includingThanjavur, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam NRC SURVERYORS and Tiruvarur adopted reso- airport ‘collapse’ lutionsagainst the project. Darbhanga (Bihar), The Centre amended the Jan. 26: A team of rese- Environment Impact archers from Lucknow AKSHAYA KUMAR and send them to jail. Brinda Karat Assessment (EIA) mistaken as surveyors SAHOO | DC Sources said the con- Notification, 2006 for hydro- for NRC was caught by BHUBANESWAR, JAN. 26 struction company was LEADERS UNFAZED carbon projects, allowing it residents of a village banned by the Airport to bypass prior clearance here and handed over to Odisha police on Sunday Authority of India for and public consultation for the police, a senior offi- arrested Dillip Khatai, three years in connection BY THREAT LETTER such projects. cial said on Sunday. chief of construction with delay in a project. SP, Darbhanga, Babu company Dillip Constr- Now the question TO 14 CELEBRITIES Ram said the incident uctions Private Limited remains as to on what Complaint against took place on Friday after an under-construc- grounds the firm was New Delhi, Jan. 26: when the team, compris- tion link building roped in by the BPIA for CPM leader Brinda Kar- Visva Bharati V-C ing 12 people, including between Terminal 1 and the construction work. at, who has been named four women, visited a Terminal 2 of the Biju Notably, a person identi- in an unsigned letter Kolkata: The Visva Bharati village under Jamalpur Patnaik International fied as Antaryami Guru, a sent to noted actor Sudents’ Unity, comprising police station area. Airport (BPIA) here col- resident of Baramba in Prakash Raj and 13 oth- Left-wing students, has filed The team was from a lapsed on Friday night. Cuttack district, was ers threatening to “elim- a police complaint against Lucknow-based The police had on killed and few others suf- inate” them, called the Vice-Chancellor Bidyut research organisation, Friday detained Khatai fered injuries after roof group which had sent it Chakraborty, accusing him which was engaged by a and interrogated him in of an under-construction “cowards” and said this of asking some people to US-based PhD scholar. connection with the air- link building caved in at will not stop their work. teach a lesson to certain However, as they began port mishap. Apart from around 10 pm on Friday. Raj, who shared the let- Left- leaning students of the visiting households the Khatai, Airport The BJD demanded a ter on Twitter, said it central varsity. A video clip word spread that “NRC Authority of India AGM thorough probe into the was from a group of containing the purported surveyors” had arrived Asish Sarkar and two incident and strong “cowards” and quoted conversation was also sub- following which vil- engineers - Abhilash and action against those Faiz’s iconic poem Hum mitted to the police. While lagers grew furious and Goutam Ray - were arrest- responsible for the same. Dekhenge. Chakraborty could not be held them hostage ed by the police. Party spokesperson The letter is addressed contacted, a Visva Bharati Border Security Force personnel and Pakistani Rangers take part in the Beating before dragging them to Following their arrest, Sasmit Patra said, “We to Nijagunanada Swami, spokesman said that the Retreat ceremony on the occasion of 71st Republic Day celebration at the India- the police station.