Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang wins trial of strength

Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang today won the trial of strength with 59 MLAs in the 60-member House voting in his favour at the one-day special session of the Assembly.

The special session of the Assembly was summoned by Governor P B Acharya in order to settle the internal squabbling within the ruling Naga People's Front (NPF) as 22 out of 38 of its legislators openly rebelled against Zeliang's leadership on January 5.

Speaker Chotisuh Sazo put the motion to voice vote  ..

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Andhra Pradesh to set up e-vigilance system to curb red sanders smuggling

At a meeting here, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed that cameras be installed in the areas which have a presence of red sanders, the state government said in a release. A control room, too, will be set up to aid the monitoring, it added.

Naidu also suggested that a consultant be appointed to estimate the amount of red sanders available, calculate the value and suggest ways for using it for future needs.   

During the meeting, officials informed that smuggling in red sanders had come down by 70 percent after some stringent measures were put in place.

While there are 1.4 crore red sandalwood trees in AP, the size of the seized haul of the precious wood stands at 10,500 metric tonnes. The release said that 2,690 metric tonnes of red sandalwood has been auctioned off, bringing revenue of Rs 850 crore to the state.

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Harish Rawat conducts surprise inspection of police deployment in Dehradun

Rawat was on his way back from Haridwar at 1.30 AM last night when he had his convoy diverted from EC Road to Dalanwala and went up to Dilaram chowk after driving through MDDA, Bhagat Singh Colony, Raipur police station and Sahasradhara crossing to take stock of law and order arrangements in these areas, an official release said on Monday.
  
He also gave a dressing down to police officials on phone when he found inadequate deployment of personnel on some of the main squares and thoroughfares.
  
He rang up the SSP and asked him to ensure regular night patrol in the city and transportation of homeless people found on the roads to 'Rain Baseras' (night shelters) to save them from cold.
  
Rawat also asked policemen on duty to intensify checking of vehicles at night to stop drunken driving and other dubious activities.

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YSRC members face Andhra Pradesh Speaker's ire for ruckus

The YSRC legislators earned Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao's wrath when they menacingly rushed towards Youth Affairs Minister K Atchannaidu as he was making a point on the issue, in reaction to certain allegations made by Leader of Opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
   
The YSRC members did not allow the Minister to speak, following which legislators of the ruling Telugu Desam Party, too, came in support of him. There was chaos in the House for a while as the ruling and Opposition members came face to face with each other.

The Speaker found fault with the Opposition members and pulled them up, saying "don't ride on the House". "You provoked them and now you are not letting them to react," the Speaker said, referring to the Opposition leader's remarks.

"As members you should have restraint and patience. You can't ride on the House. Why did you rush towards the Treasury benches?" Sivaprasada Rao angrily asked the YSRC MLAs, who also surrounded the Speaker's podium.

Following this, Jagan asked his party colleagues to return to their seats. Government Chief Whip Kalva Srinivasulu condemned the "rowdy behaviour" of the Opposition members and said it would not be accepted in the House.

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Botched eye surgeries: Centre seeks report from Punjab government

"We have asked for a report from the Punjab government. But as we have been told that the operations were done by some NGO and it did not have the permission from the state government, we are finding out the details of it," Health Minister J P Nadda told reporters outside Parliament.
  
The Centre is ready to assist the state government if it seeks help, he said.
  
Reports from Amritsar had said yesterday that at least 60 people, all above 60 years and from poor economic background, lost their eyesight at the camp in Ghuman village of Gurdaspur district organised around 10 days ago. While 16 belonged to villages in Amritsar, the rest were from Gurdaspur district.
  
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today ordered a high-level probe into the botched surgeries.
  
Badal has asked Principal Secretary Health Vinnie Mahajan to personally conduct the inquiry into all the aspects of this unfortunate incident, an official spokesman said in Chandigarh.
    

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