Along with rest of the country, the northeastern states too stirred up into action to support Anna Hazare by organising mass protest in various forms all across the region on Wednesday.
Teachers and students of the North Eastern Hills University staged demonstration condemning arrest and denial of venue to stage protest in New Delhi.
The senior faculty member of S.B. Prasad university said that the act of the government was an infringement on citizens right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest. Southern Assam’s Barak Valley also witnessed turn out of a large number of people in support of India Against corruption.
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GoM meet over AI cancelled
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Aug. 17: A Group of Ministers (GoM) meeting to discuss the financial situation of Air India was cancelled on Wednesday evening and postponed to a later date as some of the ministers (who were part of the GoM) were busy with parliamentary and other official work relating to the aftermath of the Anna Hazare agitation.
Meanwhile, the Government informed Parliament that the DGCA has asked airlines to withdraw charges on (specific) “seat assignment” with immediate effect.
The government also stated that 21 cases of misuse of e-tickets to gain entry into airport terminals had been taken note of in the past one year.
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Age report on gangrape raised in RS by Paswan
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Aug. 17: The Union minister of state for home, Jitendra Singh, replying to an unstarred question by LJP chief and Rajya Sabha member Ram Vilas Paswan, informed the Upper House on Wednesday that four of the six people accused of gangraping a backward class girl in Bihar in July had been arrested.
Citing a news report published in this newspaper on July 27, Mr Paswan had sought to know the status of the investigation into the incident in which a 15-year-old girl of Kharwar caste was allegedly gangraped for two days by five upper-caste youths and then paraded naked in Chilhari village in Buxar district as punishment for the unproven crime of stealing money from her master’s house.