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KOTA SAMARAHAN: Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud yesterday said there is no need to set up a ministry or an agency to take charge of resettlement of people affected by major hydroelectric dam projects in the state. He added as construction of dams were periodic there would not be enough jobs for the ministry to handle after their construction. “It is not necessary to form it (the ministry). There will be no jobs for them to handle,” he told reporters. He said this after attending a joint convocation ceremony of Tun Abdul Razak (TAR) Teachers Institute Samarahan campus and Teachers Institute Miri campus held at the hall of the teachers institute here yesterday. Taib was responding to a call by Minister of Land Development Tan Sri Dr James Masing to set up a ministry to look after the esettlement of communities displaced by the construction of dams in the state. tiffany necklace silver
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New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to examine the source and antiquity of the treasure unearthed from the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram. An apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Patnaik asked the ASI to suggest the steps that can be taken to protect the treasure and also where it can be housed. The court also directed the ASI to make video recording of the treasure and photograph them. Treasure estimated at over Rs.1 lakh crore has been found in five of the six chambers of the 16th century temple that have been opened so far on the instructions of the Supreme Court after a local lawyer alleged poor security and mismanagement by the trust that runs the temple. The court restrained all the members of the committee appointed by it from speaking to media on the treasure found in the temple.
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Western Mountains rebels traveling in Toyota pick-up trucks arrived at first light to launch their attack on Al-Qawalish. Many had anti-aircraft guns welded onto the truck beds. Several tanks were also brought to the front on lorries. The rebels began firing rockets and mortars at dawn, cries of "Allahu Akbar!" or "God is greatest!" echoing through groves of olive, almond and fig trees with each outgoing blast. Gaddafi's forces responded with intermittent volleys of Grad tactical surface-to-surface rockets. Clouds of black smoke came from the hillsides where the incoming rounds exploded. tiffany pendants
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it would formally submit an application to the United Nations next year in the hope of redrawing the map of the Arctic, giving itself a bigger share of the resource-rich territory. The plan follows a pledge last week to send troops and weapons to its icy north to guarantee its Arctic interests. The formal application to the United Nations would change the region's borders and allow exploitation of the energy-rich Arctic territory. Russia, Norway, the United States, Canada and Denmark are at odds over how to divide up the Arctic seabed, thought to hold 90 billion barrels of oil and 30 percent of the world's untapped gas resources, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Wednesday it regretted the decision by Moody's ratings agency to downgrade Portugal's debt, saying the move underlined "questionable behavior" of ratings agencies.
"...The timing of Moody's decision is not only questionable, but also based on absolutely hypothetical scenarios which are not in line at all with implementation. This is an unfortunate episode and it raises once more the issue of the appropriateness of behavior of credit rating agencies," European Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafaj told a regular news briefing. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso also said the decision added to the speculation in euro-zone debt.
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New York prosecutors will meet with the lawyers of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday to discuss the increasingly difficult sexual assault case against the former IMF chief, CNN reported. The news network cited a source with knowledge of the case. Neither the lawyers nor prosecutors could immediately be reached for comment. The case against Strauss-Kahn suffered a major blow last week when prosecutors cast doubt on the credibility of the maid at the luxury Manhattan hotel who accused Strauss-Kahn of assaulting and attempting to rape her on May 14.
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