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Nine of the arrested are from Tanzania and the other one is a Kenyan national. Seven of them are studying in the JSS Law College and the rest in the SBRR Mahajana’s College, the police said.
Residents of Kanakadasanagar had complained to the police that the students were causing nuisance in the locality allegedly in an inebriated condition.
Around 4 a.m., three police constables went to the building in which the students were residing for an inquiry. However, the students assaulted them and tore their uniform, Kuvempunagar inspector Dhananjay said.
On learning about the incident, a police team led by sub-inspector Prasanna Kumar rushed to the spot and took the students into custody. Seven cars, two motorcycles and liquor bottles were seized, the police said.
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Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.
Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage thief that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda-heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often rescued from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't? In his book Villains of All nations, the historian Marcus Rediker pores through the evidence to find out. If you became a merchant or navy sailor then - plucked from the docks of London's East End, young and hungry - you ended up in a floating wooden Hell. You worked all hours on a cramped, half-starved ship, and if you slacked off for a second, the all-powerful captain would whip you with the Cat O' Nine Tails. If you slacked consistently, you could be thrown overboard. And at the end of months or years of this, you were often cheated of your wages.
Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls "one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century." They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed "quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy." This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.
The words of one pirate from that lost age - a young British man called William Scott - should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirating to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.
Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."
At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish-stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea-life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia's unprotected seas. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."
This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a 'tax' on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and it's not hard to see why. In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters... We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas." William Scott would understand those words.
No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But the "pirates" have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somalian news-site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence of the country's territorial waters." During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America's founding fathers paid pirates to protect America's territorial waters, because they had no navy or coastguard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?
Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We didn't act on those crimes - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world's oil supply, we begin to shriek about "evil." If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our crimes - before we send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia's criminals.
The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know "what he meant by keeping possession of the sea." The pirate smiled, and responded: "What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor." Once again, our great imperial fleets sail in today - but who is the robber?
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SAKATA la ajali ya gari la Andrew Chenge ambalo limesababisha vifo vya wanawake wawili, limeingia katika sura mpya baada ya ndugu wa wasichana hao kudai kuwa Chenge alikuwa akimfahamu mmoja wa marehemu. Chenge ambaye alikuwa Waziri na Mwanasheria mkuu wa zamani wa serikali, aliingia matatani baada ya gari alilokuwa akiendesha kugonga "bajaji" usiku wa kuamkia juzi na kuua wanawake wawili ambao ni Beatrice Costantine ambaye ni mfanyabiashara wa Mwanza na mmiliki wa saluni ya kike na Vicky George Makanya.
Wakizungumza kwa nyakati tofauti jijini Mwanza baadhi ya ndugu waliohojiwa na Mwananchi Jumapili akiwamo mama mzazi wa Vicky, walisema wanafahamu Chenge kuwa alikuwa akimjua ndugu yao Vicky. Akizungumza na Mama wa marehemu Vicky, Nazifa Kambi nyumbani kwao Iloganzala ambako kuna matanga alisema amesikitishwa na taarifa za upotoshaji zilizoeleza kuwa mwanae na rafiki yake walikuwa wakienda Zanzibar kwa ajili ya kufunga ndoa jambo ambalo alilipinga na kueleza kuwa alikuwa akija Mwanza baada ya kutoka Zanzibar ambako walikwenda kununua vifaa vya saluni ya mwenzake. “Ajali hii inanipa mashaka makubwa kutokana na kupokea taarifa za kupotosha za kufunga ndoa," alisema. Alisema pia amepata taarifa kutoka kwa wafanyakazi wenzake kuwa Chenge walikuwa wakifahamiana na Vicky na kwamba kila mara alipokuwa akifika Mwanza Hotel alikuwa akimtaka kumhudumia vinywaji yeye. Nazifa alisema marehemu Vicky ambaye alikuwa mfanyakazi wa Mwanza Hotel katika kitengo cha King Casino ambayo kwa sasa inajulikana kama The Stone, hata yeye mwenyewe aliwahi kumsikia mwanaye kuhusu mbunge huyo kumtaka atoke nyumbani kwenda kumhudumia siku ambayo hakuwa kazini. Ameiomba serikali kufanya uchunguzi wa kina kuhusu ajali hiyo ili kupata nini kilichosababisha ajali hiyo. Kwa upande wa msemaji wa familia ya Beatrice, kaka wa marehemu, Andrew Costantine akiwa Kiseke kwenye matanga alisema wanachofahamu wao ni kuwa dada yake amepatwa ajali akiwa njiani kurejea hotelini walikofikia ya JVL Hotel iliyopo Mwananyamala wakati wakitoka Oysterbay kwa ajili ya kuchukua mizigo yao tayari kwa kuondoka Dar es Salaam kwenda Mwanza. Andrew alieleza kuwa tayari marehemu na rafiki yake walikuwa wamekwisha kutoka Zanzibar ambako walikwenda kununua bidhaa na vifaa vya saluni ya kike ambavyo vimekutwa hotelini walikokuwa wamefikia. Alisema marehemu hakuwa amekwenda kufunga ndoa Zanzibar kwa vile alikuwa na mume wake ambaye ni mzungu raia wa Marekani na kwamba mpaka anafikwa na mauti mme wake alikuwa nje ya nchi. Alisema habari zilizotolewa na baadhi ya vyombo vya habari kuwa walikuwa wakienda kufunga ndoa siyo za kweli. “Wakati wakiondoka alimuaga rafiki yake Khadija Hassani ambaye ndiye alimuachia nyumba yake na wakati akiwa Zanzibar alimtumia fedha kwa ajili ya kuwalipia ada ya shule watoto, sasa mambo mengine hakuna anayejua tunaomba uvumulivu msiba uishe,” alieleza. Alisema mpaka sasa Chenge ameahidi kusaidia familia kusafirisha miili ya marehemu hao, lakini bado hawajapokea lolote kutoka kwake na wanaendelea kumsubiria wakati polisi wakikamilisha taratibu za uchunguzi huku na wao wakijipanga kusafirisha miili ya ndugu zao. Msiba hii imeacha simanzi Jijini Mwanza na kuwa gumzo kubwa huku ukizua minog’ono ya hapa na pale na baadhi ya wakazi wa jiji la Mwanza wengine wakishangazwa na tukio hilo na jinsi jeshi la polisi lilivyounda tume kushughulikia ajali hiyo tofauti na ajali nyingine. Marehemu hao waliondoka Jijini Mwanza Machi 24, mwaka huu kwa safari ya kibiashara Dar es salaam na baadaye Zanzibar na walikuwa wakitarajiwa kureja Ijumaa Machi 27, Beatrice ameacha watoto wanne ambao wanasoma shule tofauti za bweni na mwenzake Vicky ameacha mtoto mmoja mwenye umri wa miaka mitano. Hata hivyo, juhudi za kumpata Chege kwa simu jana hazikuzaa matunda jana. |
While unveiling the sexy shape of its new Model S saloon, innovative US company, Tesla, announced that it would put the 'world's first mass-produced electric car' into production in 2011.
The Jaguar-esque shape and optimistic timeline are not the only reasons Tesla will be grabbing headlines around the world today (March 27), as claims to the Model S's abilities are quite staggering.
Utilising the company's advanced lithium-ion battery pack, the Model S sprints from 0-60mph in 'under six seconds' on the way to a top speed of 130mph. A Sport version will apparently cut the 0-60mph time by a further second.
Despite such performance, the Model S has been designed to carry up to seven occupants and masses of their luggage. That's thanks to a large space up front where the engine would normally reside, and a flat-floored interior with stowable seats.
The battery pack is located underneath the floor, which lowers the centre of gravity, as well as enhancing packaging. Tesla claims that it will be possible to swap the battery pack for a fully charged one in less time than it takes to fill a conventional car's fuel tank.
Even if battery-swapping facilities are not available, the Model S can be recharged from any 120-, 240- or 480V power supply, with an impressive 45-minute charge possible if the highest rating is available.
In ideal conditions, the Model S will have a range of 300-miles, though buyers will have to pay more for that capability, as the entry-level version does only 160-miles on a charge.
The 2011 launch is, however, dependant on Tesla receiving $350 million (about £242 million) in federal loans from the US government, which the company is confident it will receive.
Tesla will expand its dealer network outside the US with Munich and London earmarked for showrooms, possibly as early late 2009. Pricing is predicted to start at $49,900 in the US - about £34,500
source:http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/27032009/36/world-s-first-mass-produced-electric-car-0.html
