Rahul to meet PCC chiefs, CLP leaders from Northeast today

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will hold talks with PCC chiefs and CLP leaders from the Northeastern states here on Monday in a bid to strengthen the party in states ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.

This is the second part of such consultations with state leaders, the earlier being held ten days back. State leaders from the Northeast had not attended those deliberations due to the Assembly polls in Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya.

This is the second such consultation by Gandhi after he was appointed the vice president of the party at Congress 'Chintan Shivir' in Jaipur in January.

Rahul Gandhi had earlier held freewheeling discussions with the AICC office-bearers about the challenges confronting the party and the way ahead.

The deliberations with state leaders assume significance as Assembly elections in nine states, including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi, are scheduled this year while the Lok Sabha polls are nearly 15 months away.

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Alert sounded in Tripura

Agartala: An alert was sounded in Tripura following twin blasts in Hyderabad in which 16 people lost their lives, official sources said on Sunday."Following instructions from the central government, we have alerted our security forces so that no sabotage could take place in the state," state Chief Secretary Sanjoy Kumar Panda told reporters here.

On February 22, BSF Director-General Subhash Joshi here had said high alert had been sounded along India's borders with other countries.

Tripura has 856-km-long border with Bangladesh.

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India's northeast alerted after Hyderabad blasts

Agartala: A high alert has been sounded in India's northeast following the Hyderabad terror attack that killed 16 people, an official said on Sunday.

"The union home ministry has asked all northeastern states to intensify their vigil," a paramilitary official told a news agency.
He said bomb experts and dog squads had been told to scan crowded places.

Four northeastern states - Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam - share a 1,880-km border with Bangladesh. Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share a 1,640-km border with Myanmar. Most of the international border is unfenced and runs through dense forests and mountainous, making it porous, vulnerable and advantageous for terrorists and others.

On Feb 21, two powerful bombs, suspected to be planted by terror groups, killed 16 people and injured 117 in Hyderabad.

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We will have to change our mentality towards women: Shashi Tharoor

Bhopal, Feb. 24 (ANI): Minister of State (MoS) for Human Resource Development (HRD), Shashi Tharoor on Sunday raised concern over women education, safety and empowerment and emphasised on the need to change the mentality of people in order to bring a positive change in the country.

Tharoor was speaking here in a conference on ''women empowerment'', organised by a private educational institution.

"We will have to change our mentality towards women, as without changing the mentality the country can''t progress. Women comprise 50 percent of the total population, but we don''t give them equal rights and security to live freely. This should happen and for that mentality should have to be changed," said Tharoor.

Talking about the necessity of girls'' education in the country, Tharoor said there is a need to halt the schools dropout rate.

"We should try to do something by which the female children complete their school education, because a lot of times girls drop their schools in-between. Our government is initiating a lot of projects to halt the drop out rates of girl after eight standard," he added.

Issues of safety and security for women in the country have become a big issue after the infamous Delhi gang rape incident showed nationwide resentment against the cases of crimes against women. (ANI)

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