Over 1L covered by pension scheme in Manipur: Social welfare minister AK Mirabai on Tuesday informed the Manipur assembly that out of the 1,09,075 people of the state, who been covered under the various old age pension schemes, 81,499 had opened bank accounts for electronic transfer of their pension money. Responding to a call attention motion raised by legislator I Ibohalbi of the opposition Trinamool Congress, Mirabai said the government could not transfer money to all the beneficiaries as about 20 per cent of the total pension beneficiaries did not open bank accounts. But pension for 60,074 beneficiaries, had been transferred, she added.
Cement factory staff abducted: An electrician, Arup Karmakar, working with Valley Strong Cement Company Limited of Badarpurghat in Assam's Karimganj district was abducted by a group of armed miscreants when he was returning home from work on Monday. Police have launched an operation for the rescue of the abducted man after his father filed an FIR with Badarpur Police Station. A miscreant was arrested from Fakirabazar in Karimganj for his suspected involvement in the kidnapping.
Reply by June 15, Tada court to Daimary: The Tada court here has asked NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary, who is the prime accused in the October 30 serial blast case, to reply within June 15 on the conditions put forward by the Assam government for an interim bail. Earlier, on Monday, the state government, in an affidavit before the court, consented to an interim bail grant to Daimary for a period of six months on several conditions. Daimary, who has already been granted an interim bail in the serial blast case, is waiting for release in four Tada cases and a case of the Special Operations Unit (SOU) of Assam Police.