Silchar Daily丨 News 丨13 JANUARY
1.Centre for sexually assaulted in Hailakandi
SILCHAR: Sakhi a one stop centre(OSC) for sexual and physical violence-affected women,
was opened at College Road in Hailakandi town on Saturday. The OSC is being set up by the Hailakandi district administration and Social Welfare Department in collaboration with Wodwichee. an NGO, to provide sexual and physical violence affected women with temporary shelter, guidance on procedure of registering complaints and medical, legal and psychological assistance. Presiding over the function. Additional Deputy Commissioner, Amalendu Roy said the one stop centre is supposed to be a place where integrated services - police assistance, legal aid, and medical and counselling services - would be made available to female victims of violence.
A toll free number 181 is being made available to the women in distress.
2. Drug peddler held with heroin
SILCHAR: Acting on a tip off, a team of Lakhipur and Sonai police conducted an operation and arrested a youth with drugs from his house at Kalapul under Lakhipur constituency in Cachar district on Saturday. According to police, around 30 grams of heroin was recovered from the youth identified as Binoy Das. The market value of the contraband is around Rs.
50.000. The youth was later produced before a court in Lakhipur and remanded to
police custody for three days. Police sources said he is being interrogated.
3. Cachar committee burn effigies
SILCHAR: Members of the All Assam Indigenous People Protection Committee on Saturday
burnt the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Silchar MP Sushmita Dev in protest against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016.The committee members burnt the effigies of Modi, Sonowal and Dev at Udharbond in Cachar district during the evening hours of Saturday. The committee’s secretary Seram Herajit Singh said.
“The BJP government is trying to make India a country of the Hindus, but the indigenous people of Assam will never accept that.”
Among other members of the committee. Tamij Uddin Laskar, Chittaranjan Singh. Laxmi
Kanta Singh and Mansarul Islam were present.
4. ULFA threatens to pull out of talks over Bill
GUWAHATI: The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation From of Asom (ULFA) threatened to pull out of the ongoing peace parleys with the Centre on Saturday if the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 was passed in Parliament Besides, a government lobby was backing certain people to fan communalism among the Assamese and Bengali-speaking people of Assam, it claimed."The ongoing peace talks are likely to be discontinued if the Centre goes ahead with the citizenship bill, against which protests have erupted in Assam with all sections of the society participating in the agitation.” prominent ULFA leader Mrinal Hazarika told reporters.
"The issue was raised on the organisation’s platform that the talks would be redundant if the bill was passed,” he said.
Protests have erupted in Assam and the other north easten states after the
bill was passed in the Iok Sabha on January 8. ULFA General Secretary Anup Chetia claimed that attempts to get the bill passed in Parliament had induced youngsters in the state to go to the jungles for taking up arms.Senior police officials of Assam, in November last year, had said a growing public sentiment against the Centre’s move to amend the Citizenship Act had given a ’fresh lease of life’ to the ULFA. Besides. Chetia alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders like Pradip Dutta Roy were backed by a government lobby to fuel the ‘feelings of communalism’ among the Assamese and Bengali-speaking people.
5. Rail cops rescued 669 minors from trains, stations in 2018
GUWAHATI: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) lias rescued 669 minor boys and girls
from railway stations and trains under the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) and arrested
nine traffickers during the year 2018. informed NFR through a press statement on Friday.
According to Pranav Jyoti Sharma, Chief Public Relations Officer, NFR. most of the children were rescued while they were being trafficked and the traffickers were arrested while they were trying to take the girls outside the state by trains.Five minor boys had run away from their homes in Nagaland’s Rangapahar area of Dimapur last month and
three of them were rescued from Brahmaputra Mail On the basis of information provided by them, the remaining two were rescued from Jan Shatabdi Express at Lumding. The rescued boys were handed over to their respective parents after proper identification.
“In another case, a minor boy reported missing was rescued from Chandigarh Express at
Katihar Railway Station and handed over to his parents idler proper identification," added
Sharma.
"The RPF has been successfully rescuing run away children as well as children from the
clutch of traffickers regularly along with arrest of traffickers," said the spokesman.
Rescued children are normally handed over to their parents or various NGOs like Child Line.Various squads of RPF are regularly conducting checks at railway premises to prevent
such cases.“The arrested traffickers are being handed over to GRP for appropriate action under law.”
6. ABVP SILCHAR UNIT OBSERVES 'NATIONAL YOUTH DAY'
Along with the rest of nation, 'National Youth Day' was observed by ABVP unit at Assam University, Silchar , Cachar College, Silchar & Monmohan Ghosh Anil Das Memorial College, Ramnagar Silchar. It is to be mentioned that to mark the birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, January 12 is declared as the National Youth Day by Government of India in 1984. 
