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KALIMPONG: PADRI GANGA PRASAD PRADHAN JAYANTI I CELEBRATED- 2 JOURNALISTS FELICITATED

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KalimNews, Kalimpong 4th July: 158th Birth Anniversary of Late Padri Ganga Prasad Pradhan was celebrated by Kaleybung Sahitya Utthan Samity today in Disha Hall of Kalimpong. With Solon Karthak a writer and prominent writer of many travelogue of Kalimpong as Chief Guest of the programme it felicitated two prominent Journalists of Kalimpong Mr.A.K.Rasaily and Mr.A.K.Rai (Tathura) for their contribution towardsJournalism.

The programme had Sitaram Kafley of Kumudini Homes as Master of ceremony and Rev. Samuel Lepcha as President and Yogbir Sakya Member, Sahitya Academy and Secretary , Nepali Sahitya Adhyan Samity as Guest of Honour.

Highlighting the contribution of Padri Ganga Prasad as a Journaist Solon Karthak stated in his speech that Padri was an editor and publisher of Gorkhey Khabar Kagat the first Gorkha monthly Newspaper and a Journalist in the true sense. He stated that Gorkhay Khabar kagat had not less than 11 part time correspondents covering different areas and it was circulated not only in Nepal and India but to western countries too.

The issues in record indicates that it was published from 1901 to 1928 and had the same selling price of 1 anna without any enhancement of the price which is a significance of the paper claimed Karthak in his speech. He further stated “The rules of the subscription were very proper and the intact specimens stored in Madan Pustakalaya of Nepal signifies of its good paper quality”. “The paper included news of all places grouped in different local, regional and national and international level.” “Though the language of that period was a bit peculiar but they were more appropriate though some colloquial including words from Hindi language were used” he added.

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DARJEELING: Darjeeling highway blocked by landslides

FROM ANI

Darjeeling, July 4 (ANI): Landslides following heavy rains have snapped road links between the hills of West Bengal and Sikkim.

Twenty houses along National Highway-31 near Sevoke have also collapsed. Several vehicles are stranded in the area.

Landslides also occurred at Rambhi and Kalijhora.

The Border Roads Organization (BRO) and the local administration are removing the debris to enable vehicular movement at the earliest.

“Heavy rain in the night led to heavy landslides at seven places in Sevoke region causing great damage to roads. We have called in the local administration and the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to help support us to remove the debris at the earliest. We have got the earthmovers working but we are not sure of when we can finish,” said Krishna Kanta Das, a police officer.

The landslides have also disrupted road link between India and China via the Nathu La Pass, which forms a part of National Highway-31. (ANI)

MUMBAI: I’m innocent, says official

FROM INDIAN EXRPRESS

A day after he was accused of beating up a player and making him parade in his underwear, Vinayak Gaikwad, treasurer of Taekwondo Federation of India, claimed he is not guilty and that it was a conspiracy to malign him.

“I have already given my statement to the enquiry committee, and let the truth come out. I’m innocent,” he said.

Meanwhile, Pune player Balaji Pawar was sticking to his guns and said that he’d even contemplated committing suicide after the incident which happened during a national-level open tournament in Nanded in May.

Balaji said he had an argument with a senior coach from Sikkim upon which, the latter hit him and soon players from Sikkim as well as Maharashtra joined in.

The officials from the host association intervened and Pawar was summoned by Gaikwad in his cabin. There, Pawar alleges, he was beaten up by Gaekwad and others. 

NEPAL: PM, Prachanda to break ice Sunday

FROM SOUTH ASIAN NEWS NET

KATHMANDU: Chairman of the UCPN-Maoist Prachanda on Saturday said that his party would reach an agreement with the ruling parties including the CPN-UML on Sunday to resume the parliamentary proceedings. After a meeting with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, former PM Prachanda said that the meeting decided to hold a meeting of the top leaders of the major parties on Sunday to reach an agreement. “We are very close to consensus,” Prachanda said adding that the House would resume its regular business after the meeting of the top leaders. According to him, the UCPN-Maoist decided to let the House run its business for Peski Bidheyak. The meeting held at UML’s parliamentary party office in Singh Durbar was attended by PM Nepal, Prachanda, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Posta Bahadur Bogati, Bhim Rawal, Raghuji Pant and Bhim Acharya among others.

NEPAL: Gyanendra refutes fund transfer to UK

FROM SOUTH ASIAN NEWS NET

KATHMANDU: Former king Gyanendra Shah on Saturday denied that he transferred money belonging to the late King Birendra and his family to a foreign bank.

In a statement sent to myrepublica.com, then Royal Palace Principal Press Secretary Dr Phanindra Pathak said no amount has ever been transferred to any bank anywhere outside the country.

The statement said that the transfer of 108,854 Pounds Sterling to a British bank as claimed by the Nepal Trust Office (NTO) and reported by this newspaper was in fact a payment made to a British company against purchases made by the late royal couple — king Birendra and queen Aishwarya. “It was an obligation and duty of the palace to clear the bills for purchases,” said the statement.

Talking to myrepublica.com, Dr Pathak said the payment was made after the British company inquired about the dues following the deaths of the members of the royal family. “It was then that the former king told us to clear the dues from money belonging to the former royalty”.

Republica in its June 30 edition had reported, quoting NTO officials, that Gyanendra had transferred over Rs 10 million from Standard Chartered Bank in Kathmandu to the UK-based bank on March 12, 2003.

Former king Gyanendra, shortly after assuming the throne following the royal massacre in June 2001, had initially kept all the funds belonging to the late King Birendra and his family in a time-deposit account at Standard Chartered Bank in Kathmandu in the name of the then royal palace.

The money has now come under the scanner of the NTO, a government body responsible for identifying and looking after royal properties.

Gyanendra, addressing a press conference at the palace on June 11, 2008, had said that he had not transferred any amount to a foreign bank, nor did he have any property abroad.

“I have also heard false rumors about allegations that I have property abroad. All my property is in Nepal. I have no movable or immovable property in foreign lands,” he had said. 

SIKKIM: One dead, bridge washed away in landslide in Sikkim

FROM THE HINDU

Gangtok (PTI): A labourer was killed and a steel girder bridge over River Barkhola washed away following torrential rains and a massive landslide which disrupted vehicular traffic between east and north Sikkim.

A labourer, identified as Sanjay Tamang, was washed away in a sudden gush of water while he was working at a culvert near the bridge on Rangrang-Dikchu road, officials said adding the body was later recovered some distance away.

A Border Road Organization (BRO) official said the bridge with a length of 4.15 km was washed away following a landslide.

Some vehicles were stranded on either end of the bridge.

The Project Swastik engineers will take up restoration work of the vital bridge, they said adding it will take upto seven days to restore it.

TEA: FROM THE GRAPEVINE LIVING IT UP

If there’s more information, tea would get more sympathy

A plethora of attractive journals on India’s premier beverage — on the lines of wine and whisky magazines — would really help give tea its due

FROM ECONOMIC TIMES

BY RESHMI R DASGUPTA

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THANKS to Nayana Goradia, this week I got to see the 20th anniversary issue of a very interesting journal called Tea Time. It was full of articles on both current and historical issues, and provided plenty of information on the doyens of an industry that should be top of the mind in India, given our chai fixation. Suffice it to say that it isn’t. In fact, we are probably privy to far more information on other drinks, such as whisky and wines.

The latter, of course, also has a rather solitary outlet in India in the form of the bijou Sommelier magazine run by the indefatigable Reva Singh. The former has sought a toehold here (among the reading public, that is, considering the liquor already dominates the drinking public!) with the eponymous Whisky magazine, courtesy the equally energetic and knowlegeable Sandeep Arora. Both are gaining readers quite predictably, as we are a people who are perennially hungry for news.

But what about tea? Considering the beverage has been in India for much longer than either of the other two drinks, and enjoys a far broader consumer base, there has been no attempt to give it an image beyond its commodity value. We are regularly told about which is the most expensive tea and at what price the bulk crops were sold at every auction, but there is so much more to it.

There is no doubt that had it not been for the reams that are written about the romance and the heartbreak of producing great wines, they wouldn’t fetch such amounts at auctions and sales. We know who are the skilled tasters and blenders, who are the cellar masters with noses perfected over generations, and which are the most prized vineyards. So much so that the trade festival in Bordeaux — Vinexpo 2009 just concluded on June 25 — attracts several hundred more lay visitors than purely business negociants.

NORTH EAST: Manu Valley tea estate in Tripura now exports tea

FROM THE HINDU

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Kailasahar (PTI): The once sick Manu Valley tea estate here has turned the corner, exporting a huge quantity of its produce to England, Iran and Uzbekistan and enjoying the third position in the Kolkata tea auction.

What has brought about this success? The general manager of the estate, G C Das, thinks it were mosquito nets.

He said when they purchased the estate in 1981, it was plagued by large-scale absenteeism as majority of its workers were most of the time down with Malaria which claims hundreds of lives in Tripura every year.

“We just distributed mosquito nets to overcome the problem and over time the production capacity rose from just 80,000 kg to present 24.57 lakh kg annually.”

The area under cultivation had also increased from 150 hectares to 200 hectares now, Das said.

On the export front, he said last year one lakh kg of tea produced in the estate was exported to the UK while 30,000 kg of tea was exported to Iran.

He said the Manu Valley tea fetches the highest price in the state and is presently third in the Kolkata tea auction.

Mr. Das said this year the tea market was doing well following crop failure in Kenya and ethnic violence in Sri Lanka.

“The price of a kg of tea at the Kolkata and Guwahati auctions stands at Rs 120-125 whereas it was only Rs 85-90 last year,” the assistant manager, Prabir Dey, said.

Asked how it was doing good business at a time of global meltdown, Das said, “We are focussing on quality, cost effectiveness and adoption of modern technology.”

DARJEELING: Darjeeling highway blocked by landslides

FROM BLOG TARAGANA.COM

DARJEELING – Landslides following heavy rains have snapped road links between the hills of West Bengal and Sikkim.

Twenty houses along National Highway-31 near Sevoke have also collapsed. Several vehicles are stranded in the area.

Landslides also occurred at Rambhi and Kalijhora.

The Border Roads Organization (BRO) and the local administration are removing the debris to enable vehicular movement at the earliest.

“Heavy rain in the night led to heavy landslides at seven places in Sevoke region causing great damage to roads. We have called in the local administration and the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to help support us to remove the debris at the earliest. We have got the earthmovers working but we are not sure of when we can finish,” said Krishna Kanta Das, a police officer. 

JOB OPENINGS: Trainee Pilot and Field Officer

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Applications are invited from Indian Citizens to fill up the following posts in a department under Cabinet Secretariat on direct recruitment basis. Vacancies are subject to change. These posts carry all India transfer liability. The eligible conditions for the post are as under:

A. Trainee Pilot, a Group – ‘A’ Gazette post:

i) No. of Vancancies: (11) vacancies (05 UR, 03 OBC, 02 SC and 1 ST)

ii) Age: Below 27 years as on last date of receipt of applications (relaxable for Govt. Servants and SC/ST/OBC candidates as per rules)

iii) Educational Qualification: 10+2 (Science).

iv) Professional Qualification: (i) Holding CPL from DGCA of the Govt. of India

ii) Holding current RTR and FRTO License endorsement on CPL & iii) Medical Fitness for Flying Duties by AFCME.

v) Scale of Pay: Pay Band -3 Rs. 15,600 – 39, 100 and Grade Pay Rs. 5,400 with other allowances as admissible to Central Govt. employees from time to time. flying allowance, as due to be also inserted.

B. Field Officer (language), Group ‘B’ Non Gazetted/Non Ministerial cadre post:

i) No. of Vacancies: 05 (03 UR, 01 OBC, 01 SC)

ii) Age: Below 30 years as on last date of receipt of applications (relaxable for Govt. Servants and SC/ST/OBC candidates as per rules.)

iii) Educational and other qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Chinese Language from a recongised University / Institution OR A Bachelor’s Degree with a Diploma in Chinese Langauge from a recognised University / Institution.

iv) Scale of Pay: Pay Band 2: Rs. 9.300 – 34,000 /- and Grade Pay Rs. 4,800 with ohter allowances as admissible to central Govt. employees from time to time.

NATIONAL: Evangelical Fellowship of India is shocked and saddened by the judgment on Homosexuality

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE BY EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF INDIA

In an extraordinary verdict on 2nd July 2009 the Delhi High Court de-criminalised homosexuality by striking down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). It said that any sex between consenting adults should be legalised; holding that the 149-year-old law making it a criminal offence is violative of fundamental rights and not punishable.

The Evangelical Fellowship of India is shocked and saddened by the judgment.

In a secular state a distinction is made between God’s unchanging moral laws and man’s legislated social laws – civil and criminal. Decriminalization of homosexuality in no way changes the moral order. It is common sense to recognize that homosexual practice is a violation of the natural order. While all sin is sin, all homosexual activity is essentially sinful, whether it is done by singles or by gays or lesbians involved in committed relationships.

The real concern – shared across a broad spectrum of the Indian religious communities – is not with this one High Court judgment. It is with the potential Pandora’s box it opens as has been the experience in the West: No discrimination in housing and jobs (what happens if a religious community housing society or school wants to keep out homosexuals?), same-sex unions and then marriages (threat to the definition and sanctity of the God-ordained initiation of marriage between one man and one woman), teaching in schools of homosexual behaviour and relationships as “normal” or acceptable “alternative lifestyles” … and so it goes. 

OUT OF THE BOX: Out to protect girls on campus, cop finds herself at receiving end

FROM INDIAN EXPRESS

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New Delhi: She was posted at the Delhi University to protect girl students from eve-teasers. But on Wednesday, the plainclothes Delhi Police Constable not only found herself molested, but bundled up into a car and on the verge of being abducted.

The woman constable was patrolling the lane between Stephen’s College and Hindu College.

As per norm, she was in plainclothes to identify and catch assailants. But three youths, who drove up in a Santro, mistook her for a student and began passing lewd comments at her.

When she objected, they physically molested her.

When she objected even more, they dragged her into the vehicle and began driving off, with her screaming for help.

“A male constable, Sanjay, posted in Maurice Nagar, patrols the area along with her. He heard her screams and came to her aid,” said a senior police officer. But he got roundly beaten. “The assailants punched and kicked him,” the officer said.

Finally, to her abductors’ consternation, the woman announced that she was a cop. They stopped the car and two of them ran for their lives.

By then, a PCR van had reached the spot — Constable Sanjay had called for help.

“The police party intercepted the car. Two of the youths managed to flee, but the third was arrested,” said Sagar Preet Hooda, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North).

He turned out to be one Anil Kumar, a Post Graduate in Arts from the Delhi University who has also done his BEd and is preparing to sit for competitive exams.

NEPAL: No further flexibility – Maoists

FROM SOUTH ASIAN MEDIA NET

KATHMANDU: A secretariat meeting of Unified CPN (Maoist) held on Friday came up with a conclusion that there is no room for further flexibility on the party´s side on resolving the ongoing political deadlock.

“We have already shown maximum flexibility. There is no more room for further flexibility,” senior U-CPN (Maoist) leader Mohan Baidya told reporters while emerging from the meeting.

Baidya said Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal must mention the president´s move in his address to parliament.

After the party´s secretariat meeting, the Maoist leaders held talks with leaders of 12 small parties represented in the Constituent Assembly.

The Maoist leaders tried to convince the leaders from small parties on their stance that the president´s move to reinstate the army chief, who was sacked by the erstwhile Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, was an unconstitutional step.

PHOTO FEATURE: BATTLE FOR HEIGHTS AT 14,400 FT!

In an apparent response to the tastefully designed recreation centre of the Indian Army at the Nathu La border, the Chinese authorities on the other side have also embarked on a construction spree right at the border with a taller building. The under construction Chinese building and the Indian Army building jostles for space at the border separated only a barbed wire and the earlier panoramic view of the Tibetan side from the border has been blocked permanently. Photo from Sikkim Express

SIKKIM: TEN NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY PROJECTS INCLUDING SIKKIM DECLARED AS NATIONAL PROJECTS

FROM SIKKIM EXPRESS

GANGTOK, July 3: Ten rail projects in the North-East region have been declared as national projects.

These include Bogibeel rail cum road bridge and gauge conversion of Lumding-Silchar-Jiribam, Rangia-Murkongselek. To ensure strict adherence to time schedules for completion on these projects, senior officers are being entrusted with their close monitoring.

This was announced by the Minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee in Parliament today. Presenting the Railway Budget for 2009-10, she said, the North-East Region is very sensitive and its projects are in progress for providing connectivity to State capitals of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.

The Minister said, the construction of national project in Sikkim from Sevoke to Rangpo is proposed to be entrusted to IRCON for time bound completion. The surveys for new lines connecting Gangtok and Shillong have been completed and the proposals would be further processed for necessary clearances.

SIKKIM: Sikkim Lok Sabha MP pitches for Himalayan development whilst participating in Parliament debate

FROM SIKKIM EXPRESS

P. D. Rai

GANGTOK, July 3: The lone MP from Sikkim, PD Rai spoke in the Parliament today on the issue of formation of a Board for Himalayan Development.

The resolution was brought by a MP from Himachal Pradesh. Participating in the discussion, Mr. Rai spoke of the need for the Union Government to give credence and value to a different development model for the mountains. “It cannot be the same as what happens in the plains,” he said.

Mr. Rai said that a beginning had been made with the setting up of a working group whilst making the 11th Five Year plan. He endorsed the views of several members that the Himalayas were a unique feature in the world.

“The mountain paradigm needed to be first understood. The rest of the issues related to funds would follow suit. Therefore, the Board’s ambit has to be widened since it needs to take care of many things including the strategic nature of the Himalayas. It should also be based on security, border trade and on environment besides solely being exploited for its rich resources,” Mr. Rai told the Parliament.

SIKKIM: MONSOON MANIA – Sikkim cut off for 12 hours

FROM SIKKIM EXPRESS

RANGPO, July 3: Sikkim was today totally cut off from the rest of the country for 12 hours following a series of landslides along National Highway 31A triggered by heavy rainfall in the area last night.

Heavy landslides occurred at three places between Rangpo and Siliguri – Andheri, Loha Pool and near Hanuman Mandir area from 1 am this morning. The Border Roads Organisation did the restoration work after which normal traffic was restored at about 1 pm today.

The road closure and the ensuing heavy traffic jam caused after reopening of the road caused undue harassment to the passengers.

SIKKIM: CS expresses satisfaction over progress by BRO on Nathu La road double laning project Quality and milestones must be met: Chingapa

FROM SIKKIM EXPRESS

GANGTOK, July 03: While expressing his satisfaction over the road widening process along the Jawaharlal Nehru Marg connecting Gangtok with Nathu La border, State chief secretary ND Chingapa urged the Swastik Project of the Border Roads Organization (BRO) to ensure ‘quality and milestones’ are met.

The Sikkim Government is very serious about the quality and milestones so we can avoid cost escalation and inconvenience to the general public and tourists, said the chief secretary during a one day stock-taking tour of the road building processes along the Jawaharlal Nehru Marg.

Speaking to media at Nathu La border, Mr. Chingapa said that purpose of his visit was to know about the progress of the Nathu La road double laning project by BRO. In this inspection we want also to understand and overcome any bottlenecks affecting the project, he said.

The double laning project of 64 kms Nathu La road from Gangtok to the border is scheduled to be completed by March 2009 and has a budget provision of Rs. 780 crores. The project had started from 2008 and has been planned in four phases.

After concluding his visit, Mr. Chingapa expressed his satisfaction over the progress of the works. The work is going is a very healthy and happy mode and is progressing well, he said.

During the tour, the chief secretary was accompanied by the heads of the State forest, roads & bridges, land revenue, mines & geology, commerce & industries, information and public relations Departments and BRO officials in charge of the project.

During spot meetings at Mile 2 and Mile 8, the chief secretary was briefed about the progress of the project by the BRO officials led by 758 BRTF Commandant Ravi Chugh.

Here Mr. Chingapa expressed it to the BRO officials that the State government is ready to take up any bottlenecks affecting the project. If the BRO has any bottlenecks lying with the Union Ministries, the Sikkim Government is ready to take them up, he said.

“If any proposal is being held in the Ministries, please get in touch with us and the State government will take it up”, said Mr. Chingapa.

Extract of matter raised by Rajiv Pratap Rudy in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, July 3, 2009

THE HIMALAYAN BEACON [BEACON ONLINE] EXCLUSIVE

MATTERS RAISED WITH PERMISSION OF CHAIR

RE. CONCERN OVER SCARCITY OF DRINKING WATER IN DARJEELING.

SHRI RAJIV PRATAP RUDY (BIHAR): Mr. Deputy Chairman, Sir, thePlanning Commission, sometime back, had sanctioned a scheme for lifting water from the Balasan River to meet the long-time drinking water requirement of the hill district of Darjeeling. The project commenced in July 2007, but it has not seen the light of the day and is causing huge distress to the large hill population. Water scarcity is having adverse impact on the health and social well being of the people there. Water scarcity in the hill district of Darjeeling is very acute and deserves an early intervention by the Union Government. This speaks loud on the development which has taken place in North Bengal so much so that this has resulted in implications of raising a separate State for whichthe people of Gorkha Land have been struggling. They have beenagitating for more than three decades now. The aspirations of the people which basically stem from development issues for the plains; the neglect of the Queen of Hills with poor infrastructure, lack of education facilities and neglect of tea gardens coupled with growing discontent in the Duars region and the plains of the hill district is a matter of concern. (Contd. by 1O)

RG/DS/12.05/1O

SHRI RAJIV PRATAP RUDY (contd.): Recently, when there was Cyclone Aila, 32 people got killed in the landslides, and there was absolutely no infrastructural plan or disaster management plan. As a result, the state of affairs in the region is such that the large hill destination is growing into a slum area. There has been a consistentneglect of the entire region of North Bengal which has created this situation, and this is creating great unrest in that part of the country.

NEPAL: ‘Nepal Maoist’s fresh bid to woo Delhi’

FROM SOUTH ASIAN MEDIA NET

KATHMANDU: Comrade Prachanda is pretty busy these days. But is associated with annoyance as well which has made his restive. The unceremonious ouster from the prestigious and lucrative Chair, which visibly came to his pocket after a long but “safe hibernation” in New Delhi’s NOIDA, has apparently made him to think twice as to what went wrong that he have had to or was forced to vacate the Chair?

Needless to say, his excessive hobnob with the Chinese regime while in power made the movers and the shakers of Nepali politics, seated in Delhi albeit, bit annoyed with him and the party he still loosely represents.

In the process, he forgot that he was provided the needed shelter by one regime-the regional Goliath- that practically wants this nation to swallow eventually like Sikkim. Even if he had this knowledge in advance about various “models” of arm-twisting, yet why he hid himself in India and enjoyed the said country’s lollypop is a serious matter that demands investigation from interested quarters.

The allegation that Prachanda and his party colleagues were pro-Chinese is just a rubbish calculation. The name Mao doesn’t guarantee the love and honour for China as is becoming clearer.

None of the Maoists friends went to China while the so called people’s War was on.

All, sneaked into India and were greeted by the Indian authorities who had vowed to take revenge from the ruling sovereign-King Gyanendra then, through the subtle use and over use of the Maoists residing then in NOIDA, Delhi.

The 12 point agreement singed, November 22, 2009, by the Maoists under India’s structured formulae does tell that for the ex-rebels the Indian establishment was much closer than the Chinese regime.

Why not the said agreement in ROLPA jungles? Plain question but loaded with meaning and significance.

Yes! What is for sure is that when the Maoists entered the power corridors in Singh Durbar, August 18, 2008, some sort of nationalistic fervour gripped the entire Maoist paraphernalia, save a hard core pro-India senior leaders, who concluded that “not all of the Indian instructions from the Indian quarters” could be taken for granted.