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SC reprimands Nagaland on extension of service to DGP

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday reprimanded the Nagaland government for extending the tenure of the Director General of Police (DGP) after his superannua tion and asked the state to put its house in order by rec ommending a fresh panel of names of eligible IPS officers from the state cadre to the UPSC for the appointment of a new police chief.

The top court also took a grim view of the fact that the incumbent 1991 batch IPS officer T J Longkumer was part of the meeting of the state Police Establish ment Board headed by the chief secretary which had recommended his extension for a period of six months.

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli told the counsel ap pearing for the State, “This person (Longkumer) has retired. Let him retire in peace. If you want to put your house in order, we will give you one opportunity otherwise you are inviting

PH demands reinstating ADC at Meluri sub-div

DIMAPUR, OCT 17 (NPN): Pochury Hoho (PH) has reiterated its demand for reinstating ADC at Meluri sub-divisional headquarters.

In a press release, PH president Chonpa Jurry and information & publicity secretary Sathosie submitted said that a memorandum was submitted to the chief secretary on August 22, 2022 for a reliever of ADC, who was transferred on dep utation on August 4, 2022.

PH, however, ex pressed regret that even after nearly two and a half months, Meluri sub-division was functioning without a competent authority (ADC).

PH stated that Me luri sub-division apart from being one of the biggest administrative circles in area also shares interstate boundary with Manipur in the south and international boundary with Myanmar in the east.

Besides, PH also said that development works such as road construction of two-lane national highway 202 was underway.

Further, PH cited the plight faced by rural folks, who after travelling hun dreds of kms from their respective villages to Meluri Hq, have to undertake ad ditional 66 km journey to Phek HQ to avail seal and signature of a competent administrative authority.

trouble from the court. Tell your chief secretary that we have taken a very grim view of the fact that this person (DGP) was part of the meet ing of the SPEB in which a proposal for extension of tenure was passed”.

The bench in its order said, “We are of the con sidered view that Nagaland must immediately send a list of empanelled officers for the post of the DGP drawn as per law, to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), keeping in mind the deficiencies pointed by the UPSC by October 31, 2022. The UPSC will take a deci sion on the names suggested in the panel by November 30.

At the outset, advo cates Kaveetha Wadia and Astha Sharma, appearing for ‘Nagaland Law Stu dents Federation and others’ sought an order from the court to direct Nagaland to recall its order dated August 31, 2022 granting six-month extension to Longkumer after his superannuation.

“This gentleman con tinues to be in office and is granted extension after extension. This evokes noth ing but anger. It is nothing but a subversion of the top court’s judgment and order dated July 3, 2018 where the top court has said that there should not be any acting DGP and the DGP

shall have a fixed tenure of 2 years,” Wadia said.

She added the post of DGP cannot remain vacant, but his staying in office is subversion of rule of law.

The lawyer said the earlier DGP of the state was removed even before his tenure got over and the incumbent Longkumer, a Chhattisgarh cadre offi cer, was appointed on the ground that the state does not have IPS officers having 30 years of experience.

“At the time of ap pointment in June, 2018 Longkumer also did not have 30 years of experience. It shocks my conscience that the norms laid down by this court are violated blatantly,” she submitted.

The bench asked the counsel, appearing for the State, whether at the time of his appointment Longkumer had 30 years of experience as contemplated by the State as one of the eligibility criteria, he said, “Nagaland is a small state and has very few IPS officers.

Justice Chandrachud appointed next CJI

NEW DELHI, OCT 17

(IANS): President Drou padi Murmu has appointed Justice DY Chandrachud as the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Chandrachud will be sworn in as India’s 50th CJI on November 9.

Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, in a tweet, said: “In exercise of the power con ferred by the Constitution of India, President appoints Dr. Justice DY Chandra chud, Judge, Supreme Court as Chief Justice of India with effect from 9th Novem ber, 22”.

On October 11, Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit

named Justice Chandra chud, the seniormost judge in the Supreme Court, as his successor. CJI Lalit, who will retire on Novem ber 8, had, in presence of all Supreme Court judges, handed over the letter of

recommendation to Justice Chandrachud.

Justice Chandrachud, who will hold office till No vember 10, 2024, is the son of former Supreme Court judge Y.V. Chandrachud, who was the longest-serving CJI, being in office for about seven years and four months between 1978 to 1985. Dur ing his tenure, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud overturned two judgments of his father - which were related to adul tery and the right to privacy.

Justice Chandrachud, who is a PhD from Harvard Law School, is known as a non-conformist judge.

MHA approves release of `17.20 crore to Nagaland

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NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (NPN): Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has ap proved the advance release of Rs 17.20 crore to Naga land under State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for 2022-23.

According to MHA statement, the approved amount was the second instalment of the Central share of SDRF for under taking relief measures in the wake of floods and landslides during the Mon soon season of 2022.

“It is always the effort of the Government led by the Prime Minister Naren dra Modi to provide help to States and Union Territo ries affected by natural ca lamities in an expeditious manner,” MHA stated.

During the current Financial Year, the Central Government has already released an amount of Rs. 8,764.00 crore as the 1st instalment of the Central share of State Disaster Response Fund to 24 States including Nagaland.

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Highly infectious new Omicron sub variant BF.7 detected in India

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (IANS/AGENCIES):

With a declining trajectory of fresh Covid cases, a new Omicron sub variant-- BF.7 also known as the ‘Omicron spawn’, however, is posing a new threat in the country.

According to some re ports, the first case of BF.7 in India has been detected by the Gujarat Biotechnol ogy Research centre. This new Omicron variant is also considered to be highly infectious and has a greater transmissibility.

Omicron’s new subvariants BA.5.1.7 and BF.7, said to be highly infectious and having greater transmis sibility after emerging from a region of Mongolia in China are now making their way to other parts of the world and driving a fresh wave of Covid infections.

Reportedly, Omicron variants BF.7 and BA.5.1.7 are behind the recent surge in the Covid-19 cases in China. However, experts have advised precaution and Covid appropriate be haviour ahead of the up coming festive season.

Experts say that the symptoms of these variants would be more or less same but more will emerge with time. There is a possibility of a fresh wave driven by the new variants as a lot of people will gather in huge numbers during festive sea son like Diwali, Dhanteras, Govardhan Puja and Bhai Dooj.

Experts, however, warn that one must not let go of the masks yet and take responsibility for isolating oneself at the first sight of symptoms could protect the vulnerable group like children, elderly, cancer survivors, cancer patients,

transplant patients among others.

According to Rajeev Jayadevan, co-chairman of the National Indian Medi cal Association (IMA) Co vid-19 task force, “BF.7 is the name given to a greatgrandson of BA.5, which is a major sub-lineage or descendant of Omicron.”

“These are called immune escape variants, which means they can in fect people who had been vaccinated or past infect ed,” he told TNIE. The Omicron variant and its sub-variants are famous for their immunity-escaping properties.

Shifting of Kohima taxi stand to ISBT; fixation of taxi, bus fares

DIMAPUR, OCT 17 (NPN): Responding to com plaints about shifting of regional taxi stand beyond the limit of Kohima Mu nicipal Council (KMC), the Kohima District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) was informed on Monday that the decision to shift regional taxi stand to ISBT, located around 3km away from Kohima town, was taken after Regional Transport Authority (RTA) held meetings with all the stakeholders.

According to a DIPR report, the DPDB was in formed by SDO (C) Sadar

at the monthly Kohima DPDB meeting held under the chairmanship of Ke neizhakho Nakhro, MLA, at DPDB conference hall, Kohima Monday.

DPDB was also in formed that the primary objective of shifting regional taxis to ISBT was to ease the traffic congestion within the Kohima town.

The SDO(C) said that before shifting the taxi stand, RTA had taken several mea sures keeping in mind the welfare of the commuters.

The measures included reducing Kohima-Dimapur taxi fare from Rs.350 to

Rs.330 and pressing dedi cated buses (four NST buses and four Smart City buses) into service to ferry pas sengers back and forth from Kohima town to ISBT apart from Local taxis.

RTA also fixed rates of bus and taxi services plying between Kohima to ISBT and other destinations to deter any random excess charges.

In this regard, the rates of bus and taxi services have been reiterated for the con sumption of the members of the public.

Local Taxis: Phoolbari to ISBT, Kohima-full hire

Rs.160 and Rs. 40 per head; High School Junction to Phoolbari-full hire Rs.150 and Rs.40 per head; High School Junction to ISBTfull hire Rs.280 and Rs.70 per head; High school junc tion to KMC Tata Parkingfull hire Rs.80 and Rs.20 per head; Razhu point to Keyake Tri-Junction-Full hire Rs.160 and Rs.40 per head; BOC to ISBT-full hire Rs.160 and Rs.40 per head; PHQ junction to KMC Chaü Parking-full hire Rs. 80 and Rs.20 per head. City bus (per head): Phoolbari and NST station

TKM serves ultimatum on DoSE96 pc turnout in Congress presidential polls

before counting. “I have been waiting for a long time for this day,” Congress chief Sonia Gandhi told reporters after voting at the AICC headquarters here.

NEW DELHI, OCT 17

(PTI): More than 9,500 Congress delegates across the country on Monday voted to elect the party’s first non-Gandhi president in 24 years, choosing between senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Thar

oor as successor to Sonia Gandhi. Of the total 9,915 Pradesh Congress Com mittee (PCC) delegates that form the electoral college to pick the party chief in a secret ballot, over 9,500 cast their ballot at all PCC offices and the AICC headquarters

in Delhi, party’s central election authority chair man Madhusudan Mistry announced here.

The results of election will be declared on October 19, after ballots from all PCC offices reach Delhi and the votes polled are mixed

Voting in the much dis cussed elections, viewed by some as an exercise aimed at putting the party on the path to revival, began at 10 am at the AICC headquarters and at polling booths in PCC of fices across the country.

Mistry expressed satis faction over the poll process and claimed that the elec tion has been “free, fair, and transparent”.

43 PCC delegates vote in Nagaland

In Nagaland, a total of 43 delegates of the Na galand Pradesh Congress Committee led by party president K. Therie also cast their votes.

When contacted, NPCC vice president GK Zhimomi informed Naga land Post that the polling was held at Congress Bha van, Kohima.

The polling process concluded peacefully, he added.

MOKOKCHUNG, OCT 17 (NPN): Tzurangkong

Students’ Union (TKM) has served a 15-day ultima tum on the department of school education (DoSE) to deploy adequate teachers in government schools within Tzurangkong range under Mokokchung district.

The ultimatum, which was served on October 10, 2022, stated that on Sep tember 17, 2022, the TKM held a joint meeting with Tzurangkong Senso Mung dang, Tzurangkong Watsu Mungdang, SMCs and SMDCs, and parent bodies.

At the meeting, it was unani

mously agreed that they would resort to “appropri ate steps” until an adequate number of teachers were deployed in all schools that were experiencing teacher shortages.

TMK claimed that de spite various appeals and protests, the department had turned a deaf ear to their demand.

The student body has, therefore, demanded that adequate teachers be de ployed in schools within the Tzurangkong range by October 25, failing which ‘appropriate steps shall be initiated.’

State gears up for 23rd Hornbill Festival

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DIMAPUR, OCT 17 (NPN): More than 95 out of 403 fully grown tree spe cies, planted in 1992, from Nagarjan police traffic point towards Circuit House Di mapur, were felled Mon day, after two vendors were killed and six injured when two trees uprooted by gusty winds, fell on them on Octo ber 12 afternoon.

There had been oth er instances of uprooted trees nearly causing fatali ties while in some, broken branches damaging power lines. The tree felling op eration began October 17,

officers to supervise the op eration and a full report was awaited till the time of filing this report.

He also said that public were barred from going to the area and vehicular move ment restricted by traffic personnel along the entire stretch to ensure safety of the public. He informed that the forest department was supervising felling of trees on the stretch (Shopping Arcade) which is under the Development Authority of Nagaland. Jaiswal also said the administration was co ordinating with all the agen cies for executing the opera tion.

KOHIMA, OCT 17 (NPN):

Department of Tourism and Art & Culture is gearing up for the 23rd Hornbill Festi val scheduled from Decem ber 1 to 10 and convened a coordination meeting with tribal hohos at its directorate here on Monday.

Two representatives from each tribal hoho at tended the meeting, except tribal representatives from Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) area.

During the meeting, Tourism and Art & Culture adviser H. Khehovi Yep thomi said since the Covid pandemic had affected the

festival in 2020 and 2021, the government will do its best to celebrate this year’s Hornbill Festival in a grand manner.

He also highlighted the positive aspects of the festi val and how it had helped putting Nagaland in the world map of tourism.

While stating that the Hornbill Festival belong to all Nagas, Yepthomi there fore, sought support from the tribal hohos to ensure the festival was a success.

To meet ENPO lead ers: He regretted the deci sion of ENPO to abstain from the festival and said discussion would be held with the organisation to seek its participation at the event,

adding that the cultural tra ditions of Eastern Nagaland were the main attractions of the event.

He informed the gath ering that through the Union Ministry of External Af fairs, some international leaders were also expected to attend Hornbill Festival this year. The adviser further informed the meeting that about 1,25,000 domestic and 5,000-6,000 interna tional tourists attended the festival in 2019.

Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO) repre sentatives expressed concern over lack of toilets in mo rungs and urged the depart ment to

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as per an order issued by the Deputy Commissioner and chairman District Disas ter Management Authority (DDMA) Sachin Jaiswal on October 13.

On Monday, vehicular movement was restricted from Dhansiri Bridge to

Nagarjan Police Point from 5 a.m. till 5 p.m. while power was also shut down from Naga Shopping Arcade (Su permarket), Circuit House areas and Bank Colony from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jaiswal told Nagaland Post that the district administration has deputed

(From L) Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor cast their votes. (PTI)

Felled trees along Naga Shopping Arcade on Monday. (NP)

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DPDB takes up various agendas

DIMAPUR: The monthly meeting of Kohima District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) was held un der the chairmanship of Ke neizhakho Nakhro, MLA, in the conference hall of DPDB Kohima on Monday. The meeting was chaired by ad ditional deputy commissioner (ADC) Kohima, Rhosietho Nguori.

According to a DIPR report, the house deliberated on the agenda of setting up of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) booth at Sechü, Zubza headquarters and Mobile Net work Tower at Dzülekie.

After taking note of the requirement and necessity, the members decided to recom mend setting up of the ATM to the DLC under Lead Bank Forum and for to take up with BSNL for necessary actions on setting up of mobile tower.

On registration of so cieties, the house decided to recommend the Emerging So ciety, Below Oriental Collage, Kohima to the state govern

ment. The DPDB members also decided to recommend the Nagaland Development Board, Naga Bazaar, Kohima on the condition to comply with the board’s suggestions made during the meeting.

Further, the board rec ommended the Tsieramia Council, Kohima Village for registration while reviewing the last meeting minutes.

The agenda on the upgra dation of Government Middle School (GMS) to Government High School (GHS), Lower Chandmari, Kohima was deferred to the next DPDB

meeting. At the meeting, de partmental presentation on POSHAN MAAH 2022 was presented by Social Welfare department, district welfare officer Akali while the scenar io of HIV&AIDS by People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the district was presented by District Aids Prevention & Control Unit (DAPCU) Kohima, district programme officer Sentimongla Tzudir.

Later, community sup port for the patient with TB was presented by district TB officer Dr. Chibenthung Ki than.

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Mkg DPDB meeting on Oct 20: Deputy com missioner & vice chairman, District Planning and Development Board Mokokchung, Sashank Pratap Singh has informed that the monthly DPDB meeting will be held on October 20, 11 am, in the conference hall of the DC Mokokchung. In this regard, all the members have been requested to at tend the meeting.

PD School Education convenes meeting: Prin cipal director, School Education, Thavaseelan K, has convened a meeting of panel members & subcommittee members to review manuscript prepared by 14 Tribal Literature Boards for secondary sec tion, on October 18, 11 am, at SAMAGRA Hall, DoSE Kohima. In this regard, panel members, subcommittee members and two panel members from 14 Tribal Languages have been asked to attend the meeting to forward the findings to the government for necessary action.

NPAD office to remain closed from Oct 17: Fol lowing an order issued by deputy commissioner Dimapur, restricting vehicle movement in between Nagarajan Police Point and Walford due to felling of trees, Nagaland Pensioners Association Dimapur has informed all concerned pensioners that office of the NPAD will remain closed from October 17-24.

PDFU holds meeting: Concerned farmers of Phek district held a meeting on October 12, at Pfütsero to revitalise Phek District Farmers Union. At the meeting, Dr. Sao Tunyi was elected as president and Vesalu Puro as general secretary. They were entrusted to coordinate with farmers from blocks under the district to form a full-fledged PDFU execu tive committee and revitalise activities of the union.

DTO Wokha informs pensioners: District trea sury office, Wokha has informed pensioners that the physical verification would be held on October 25 and 26. In this regard, senior treasury officer Wokha, P. Renthungo Shidio has informed all pen sioners to bring photocopy of Aadhaar and pass port sized photo during the physical verification.

BJP Mkg meeting: Continuing with its Mandal tour, the BJP Mokokchung district held a meet ing with the 24 Angetyongpang mandal officials at Eco-Camp, Waterfall Longkong village. The meeting was addressed by various BJP district and mandal leaders. Officials and representatives from the mahila, minority, ST morcha and kisan morcha also spoke at the programme.

SDH office inaugurated at Mangkolemba

DIMAPUR: Commission er and secretary, Horticul ture and Women Resources Development, Anenla T Sato inaugurated the SubDivisional Horticulture (SDH) office at Mang kolemba on October 14.

According to a DIPR report, Anenla in her ad dress, stated that the SDH office was established for the welfare of the people.

In this regard, she encouraged the public to make the best use of it and sought their cooperation as well as the administra tion and farmers to come forward in uplifting the Horticulture sector in the sub-division.

The programme was chaired by SDHO Tuli Dr. Imchalemla and wel come address was delivered by DHO Mokokchung Imotemjen.

Short speeches were

also delivered by Horticul ture director, Dr. Elithung Lotha, ADC Mangkolem ba Langkosen Tsanglao and All Ward Chairmen Association Mangkolemba convenor, Lanuyanger.

SSU, SVC condemn 25 AR’s ‘improper conduct’

DIMAPUR: Samziuram Students’ Union (SSU) and Samziuram village council chairman have strongly de nounced the “improper con duct” of 25 Assam Rifles (AR) at Samziuram in Peren district on October 9 and 12.

DIMAPUR: District Tobacco Control Cell (DTCC) Tuensang on October 12 conducted raids at shops to check sale of tobacco prod ucts within 100 metres from educational in stitutions. In a press release, National Health Mission (NHM) Tuensang informed that the team was led by DTCC district consultant, Sentilong Longchar and accompanied by ASI, Moshamongba Chang and other police

personnel. The team penalised five persons and later destroyed the seized products at Tuensang police station.

Meanwhile, DTCC Tuensang has in formed that such raids would be conducted frequently. It also cautioned shopkeepers to refrain from selling tobacco products within a radius of 100 meters from educational institutions.

NPGN/NNC appoints: NPGN/NNC under the collective leadership of ato kilonser and co-conve ner working committee, Hozheto Z Chophi has appointed former finance kilonser, X. K. Chophi as finance kilonser and kilonser, Hokato Rotokha as advisor to collective leadership (ACL) till further notice. The group through its MIP have requested all business establishments to deal with the new assigned kilonser for any financial transactions.

With the implementa tion of Armed Forces Spe cial Powers Act (AFSPA) once again, they said the dreadful l aw had tremen dously created a cause of concern and fear in the community. SSU president Adibo in a press release quoted two youth, along with the son of late head GB of the village, in alleg ing that two AR jawans and one policeman went to their house in an inebriated condition around 1 a.m. on October 9 and were force fully made to incriminate themselves as witness on the pretext of apprehend ing an accused involved in illegal arm possession. He said the youth’s father was sick and bedridden when the incident happened, alleging that the jawans also knocked on the doors of three houses for similar purpose. Adibo

alleged that AR personnel came back and broke open the door and started harass ing the elder son around 12.15am on October 12. He said the mother had to intervene and stop them from further intimidating her sons. Following this, he mentioned that SSU ap proached the village council chairman and members, who disclosed that the entire incident happened without the knowledge of village authority and GBs.

He asked AR to re spect the statutes of society and village authority to be called as “Friends of the Hill People”.

He deplored violence or coercive measures result ing in harassment of inno cent civilians with unfound ed suspicions, while urging GBs and village council members to take neces sary action in finding the suspects or accused living within their jurisdictions.

Adibo mentioned that Nagas had had enough with the arbitrary powers exercised under AFSPA, which ought to be rejected by whole society as it was disturbing peace and har mony among communities.

The village council chairman also voiced his concern over these actions and declared that traumatis ing people and compelling them to sign under fear psychosis was wrong. He said his team was there and GBs to guide the forces if necessary. According to him, AFSPA had empow ered AR to search, arrest or detain any suspect. But, he asserted that the forceful act to be witness was unsettling and unacceptable.

He said he welcomed the move to eradicate illegal activities or secure internal security, but the pernicious nature of AFSPA was in conducive and needed to be abrogated.

Anenla T Sato along with director, Horticulture, Dr. Elithung Lotha and other officials. (DIPR)

Keneizhakho Nakhro, MLA addressing the members at the Kohima DPDB meeting on Monday. (DIPR)

Police personnel along with the seized products at police station.

KVKs organise webcasting of ‘PM-KISAN Samman Sammelan’

DIMAPUR: Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) in various dis tricts across Nagaland organ ised programmes to webcast

the inaugural programme of “PM- Kisan Sammam Sam melan 2022”. The two-day event was officially inaugu

DIMAPUR DISTRICT

rated by prime minister Na rendra Modi on Monday, at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. At the

days to come.

Head of Regional Centre (ICAR), Dr. D.J Ra jkhowa also urged upon the farmers to make the best use of available schemes and facilities of various departments.

KVK Dimapur, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Medziphe ma participated the live webcast of nationwide interaction at KVK con ference hall with special guest, BJP spokesperson, Nagaland Pintu M Ghosh.

In a press release, KVK Dimapur stated that

in his speech, Pintu M Ghosh exhorted the high lighted various schemes for farmers in the country.

In the welcome ad dress, Dr. Ebibeni Ngullie briefed on the objectives of the programme and encouraged the farmers to build a stronger relation with the department in

KOHIMA DISTRICT

The programme was followed by training on package and practices of rabi crops and distribution of winter vegetable seeds and mango saplings.

The programme was chaired by ACTO (Plant Breeding) Dr. Bendan gla Imsong and vote of thanks was proposed by programme assistant (Plant Protection), Dr. Moanaro.

Altogether, 67 par ticipants attended the pro gramme.

In a press release, KVK Kohima stated that the programme was graced by member of parliament (MP) Rajya Sabha, S. Phangnon Konyak with officials from the director ate of agriculture.

Altogether, 41 farmers from adopted Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) villages attended the pro gramme.

NEIWAC meets Tamil Nadu governor

initiate a centre for the study of North East India in Chennai and acknowl edged his positive response.

Governor Ravi cat egorically mentioned about the importance of promot ing North East culture and literature outside the region and expressed willingness to support such activities.

NEIWAC shared its activities and expressed gratitude to the Tamil Nadu government for the two North East nodal of ficers AIGP (Law & Order) and ACP (Intelligent Sec tion) since 2014.

DIMAPUR: A three-mem ber delegation of North East India Welfare Associ ation Chennai (NEIWAC) met with the governor of Tamil Nadu, R. N. Ravi on October 15 at Raj Bhavan, Chennai and requested him to initiate a Centre for the study of North East India in Chennai.

In a press release, NEIWAC stated that the three-member delegation included Naga Christian

Fellowship (NCF) Chen nai pastor and NEIWAC president Wapangtoshi, NEIWAC vice president professor Dr. Pradeep K Sarma and NEIWAC gen eral secretary Grace Lalrin diki Pachuau.

At the meeting, del egates updated the gov ernor about the demo graphic profile of North East people in Chennai and its suburbs. They also requested the governor to

Meanwhile, a copy of M.Phil. dissertation on the topic, “A Study on a Mi grant Christian Commu nity in a Multi-Religious Society of Chennai with Special Focus on the Naga Christian Fellowship Chen nai (NCFC)” research con ducted in 2019 by Wapang toshi under the supervision of Dr. James Ponniah at the University of Madras was also presented to the governor.

programme, PM released Rs. 16000 crore as 12th instalment under PM KISAN, inaugurated one “nation one fertilizer”,

600 PM KISAN Samruddhi Kendras and “Indian Edge”, an e-magazine on fertilizers. It may be mentioned that 11

farmers from Nagaland repre senting 11 Krishi Vigyan Ken dra districts are participating in the Sammelan.

MOKOKCHUNG DISTRICT PEREN DISTRICT

Mokokchung: Krishi Vigyan Kendra Mokokc hung organised the pro gramme at its conference hall.

In a press release, KVK Mokokchung stated that special guest of the programme, Kisan Mor cha BJP Mokokchung president, Tiayanger Jamir encouraged the farmers to avail and make the best use of development and livelihood programmes.

He emphasised on the benefits of PM KISAN scheme and requested all eligible farmers to ap proach concerned finan cial institutes and depart ments for registration.

Kisan Morcha BJP Mokokchung, general

secretary Tiamenla and Intellectual Cell, BJP Mo kokchung, convenor T. Bendangyanger Jamir also exhorted the gathering.

The programme was chaired by ACTO Martha Chakruno, welcome ad dress by senior scientist & head Dr. Keviletsu Khate and vote of thanks was proposed by technical of ficer, KVK Mokokchung Moainla Longkumer.

The programme end ed with a technical session where production and management of chicken in backyard and aware ness on “Swachhta and Jal Shakti Abhiyan” were imparted. Altogether 72 participants attended the programme.

Peren: ICAR-KVK Peren, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre, Jalukie, Peren district organised the webcasting programme at KVK Peren office.

In a press release, ICAR Research Complex for NEH region stated that special guest, BJP, Kisan Morcha Peren district, gen eral secretary Chahutkerin spoke on the importance of agriculture for improving livelihood.

He advised the farmers to execute their works sin cerely and also avail govern ment facilities to enhance production of major crops.

ACTO GPB, Dr. Patu Khate Zeliang spoke on rabi vegetables cultivation and

advised the farmers to cul tivate different vegetables in different plots.

CTO, Animal Sc. KVK Peren, Dr. L. Babita Devi also highlighted on FPO formation and its impor tance in marketing agricul ture products.

The programme was chaired by ACTO Soil Sci ence, KVK Peren, Z. James Kikon while PS & Head, KVK Peren Dr. K. L Meena delivered the welcome ad dress.

At the programme, various vegetable seeds from IIHR-ICAR, Benga luru were distributed to the farmers.

Altogether, 57 par ticipants attended the pro gramme.

Training on community-level participants under JJM

DIMAPUR: Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Wokha division, Water & Sanitation Sup port Organisation (WSSO) organised a four-day train ing on “community level participants under the JJM project” for village council chairman, VDB secretaries and WATSAN members, which got un derway on Monday, at WDVCCA multipurpose building hall.

According to a DIPR report, extra assistant com missioner (EAC) Wokha, Yentinngbou lauded the department for organising the programme for village functionaries to sensitise them about the importance of safe water and hygiene, and conservation of water.

He also stated that the programme would remind the village functionaries on their roles and respon sibilities such as maintain ing and operating after completion of the project.

Yentinngbou stated

that the government has targeted to provide safe and functional tap wa ter connections by 2024. In this regard, he urged upon the stakeholders and village functionaries to extend support to imple menting agencies for suc cessful completion of the project.

He also appealed to all to understand the value of the project and take ownership and custody to make the project a sustain able one.

In his address, SE PHED, Dimapur, Er. Gwatilo Tep stated that the project was started in the year 2019-2022 and the government has directed to finish the project by 2024.

As per October 15, 2022 status report, the state has achieved 52% of the project, he disclosed.

While congratulat ing Wokha district for commendable job and achieving 71% functional

Training Centre inaugurated at Diphupar village

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DIMAPUR, OCT 17

(NPN): Nagaland State Rural Livelihood Mis sion (NSRLM), SMMU Kohima, chief operating officer Rollan Lotha in augurated the Commu nity Management Train ing Centre (CMTC), in Diphupar village, here, on Monday.

Sharing the journey of NSRLM and vision 2030, Rollan informed that the ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) restructured SGSY and formally launched DAYNRLM on June 3, 2011, which was one of the flagship programmes of MoRD and one of the world’s largest initiative to improve livelihood of the poor.

He spoke on the ap proach encompassing four inter-related tasks mobilis ing poor households into functionally effective SelfHelp Groups (SHGs) and their federations, enhanc ing access to bank credit and financial, technical and marketing services, building capacities, etc. Rollan also highlighted aims of the mission which he said, was to foster so

cial and economic em powerment of the rural poor through sustainable women SHGs and their federations and empower local change-makers.

Speech of RD joint secretary and director SRLM, Imtimenla was read out where it was disclosed that around 1.13 lakhs rural households across the state have been brought together into 13,000 SHGs to work to

gether to address multidimensional issues of poverty.

In Chümoukedima alone, we have a rich net work of 587 women SHGs covering 5,614 households, wherein these SHGs have federated into 36 VL0 and 4 CLF, the report stated.

Among these 32 blocks, MCLFs of re source blocks have been selected to develop into resource institutions and

demonstration & immer sion sites for other CLFs in the districts to emulate.

In order to achieve this goal, the mission has also initiated establishing at least one CMTC per district to be managed by Model CLFs of resource blocks.

Among the four CLFS under Chümouke dima, UCLF has been selected to be the Model CLF immersion site along

with establishment of the CMTC.

CMTC will be a cen tre of learning owned, managed and run by the women of CLFs.

In his speech, guest of honour, project director, DRDA DMMU Dima pur, Kethosituo Sekhose encouraged SHGs to learn to adapt to changes and utilise the opportunities of the developing system for local business growth.

He also suggested them to identify products that could be cost effec tively produced and to identify the market sector by focusing on invocation, ideas and attraction.

At the programme, a brief history of UCLS was delivered by UCLF president Ikali Chishi, wherein, it was informed that UCLF under Chü moukedima was formed on October 2, 2017 com prising of 12 VLOs, cover ing a total of 16 villages.

There 241 serve group within the 16 villages with an active membership of 1817 members.

Later, brief history of NSRLM was delivered by IBCB, Yanrenthung Lotha.

In this regard, he urged upon the depart ment to continue working with the same commit ment and dedication and achieve the target within the stipulated time. Er. Gwatilo also en couraged the village func tionaries to know their

roles and responsibilities in maintaining the project.

At the programme, resource person from Salt Lake Institute of Engi neering & Management Ltd, Kolkata (SLIEM) Skills, Dr. Biplab Ghosh stated that the aim of the training was to sensi tise village functionaries about the concept of JJM and “Har Ghar Jal”, how to maintain traditional drinking water supply tap

water connection, vision, mission, objectives, goals and opportunities under JJM, etc.

Officials and staff of PHED Wokha division along with village functionaries and resource person on Monday. (DIPR) household tap water con nection within the district, he remarked that the dis trict was also ahead of the state percentage.

The inaugural pro gramme ended with vote of thanks from PHED Wokha division, executive engineer, Er. Imnazulu Ao.

It may be mentioned that the training pro gramme will culminate on October 20 and is being imparted by SLIEM.

NYKS Kiphire organises district youth convention

DIMAPUR: The depart ment of Nehru Yuva Ken dra Sangathan (NYKS) Kiphire under the ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in collaboration with dis trict administration Kiphire organised a day mega event (district youth convention) on the theme “sense of duty among the citizens”, at Hopongkyu Memorial Hall Kiphire on October 15.

According to a DIPR report, special guest of the programme, EAC Kiphire Ane Khieya stated that as responsible citizens of the country, one must be aware of the fundamental rights and duties.

Responsible citizens build their communities

into good habitats to live in by following good prin ciples and helping one an other, he stated.

Ane Khieya pointed out that with the way the world was fast-changing today, it required youth who were hard working and dedicated.

In this regard, he urged upon to inculcate “dignity of labour” and to abstain from all social evil practices.

In a welcome address, DYO, NYK Kiphire, P. Rebecca Rangnamei stated that the main objective of the programme was to develop personality and leadership qualities of the young and to engage them

in nation-building activi ties.

She stated that NYKS activities included educa tion, cleanliness, health sanitation, awareness of so cial issues and self-employ ment and entrepreneurship development, and also in preserving the rich culture.

Resource persons of the event was ZPGC assis tant professor, Gagan and Chamber of Commerce and Industries Kiphire, general secretary Tsali chum Sangtam and MGNF ministry of Skill Develop ment and Entrepreneurship Sukanya.

The programme was chaired by Nuzise followed up by a question hour.

Kohima: KVK Kohima organised the webcasting of PM-Kisan Samman Sammelan at KVK Kohima office Tesophenyu.

NEIWAC members along with governor of Tamil Nadu, R. N. Ravi at Chennai.

NSRLM SMMU Kohima, chief operating officer Rollan Lotha inaugurating the CMTC on Monday. (NP)

Officials of NYKS Kiphire along with participants and resource presons. (DIPR)

Golden era of India started: MoS Sarkar

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IMPHAL, OCT 17: “Gold en era of India started” said Union Minister of State for Education, Dr. Subhas Sarkar in his speech on the occasion of 9th Convoca tion of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Manipur on Monday.

The Union minister said that with the hard ef forts of the present govern ment at the Centre under leadership of Prime Min ister Narendra Modi the country is attaining selfreliance.

The golden era of the country has started under the dynamic leaders, he said and told the students attending the convocation that “You will not be a job seeker but a job provider.”

He explained that the new education policy –National Education Pol icy (NEP) 2020- aims to strengthen the new learning paradigm by adopting new education technologies or developing available inhouse skills.

He added that the stu dents’ acquired knowledge will help them to establish

values as well as contribute to the nation and the world’s development.

The Union minister asserted that the Narendra Modi led government at the Centre has been giving special attention to the Act East Policy.

The policy intended to strengthen Indo-Pacific strategic relations, region al political stability and economic exchanges with Myanmar and other mem bers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), he said.

The policy will provide

various opportunities to the students of the region, par ticularly Manipur as they would have the opportunity to invest their innovative ideas in exploring available resources of the region, he said.

“Dear students, you will have many prospects to contribute in various fields of research and develop ment so that you can get ready for making the nation great, ‘’ Sarkar said.

He urged the students who got the degree on com pletion of the course of study at the institute (NIT)

56 from Meghalaya vote for Cong polls

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HATI, OCT 17: Fifty-six of the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) delegates voted in the polls held on Mon day to elect the next All India Congress Committee (AICC) president, a senior leader of the party said.

MPCC president and Lok Sabha member from Shillong, Vincent H. Pala, who was the first to cast his vote at the Congress Bhavan here, said that four delegates from four assem bly blocks could not cast their votes as the blocks had delayed in submitting the names of their nominees.

Pala said that the party delegates are free to vote for either Shashi Tharoor or the other candidate Rajya Sabha MP, Mallikarjun Kharge.

The election to the party President’s post is being held after a gap of 22 years. During this period members from the Gandhi family held the post un contested.

“It’s a free and fair

election and based on the wisdom of the voters, who are the delegates, either of the two candidates stands a chance to win,” Pala said.

On the Gandhi fam ily’s influence on the elec tion, Pala said this is not the first time the AICC president will be a nonGandhi.

“I have worked with them in the past and both (Tharoor-Kharge) are com petent. Gandhi or non-Gan dhi families, it depends on how we work together and bring the team together,” he said.

The Congress, which had ruled Meghalaya for several years, currently has no member in the state as sembly with majority of its elected legislators having switched sides to the Trin amool Congress, making it the main opposition party in the state, while five other Congress MLAs, who had extended support to the National People’s Party (NPP)-led Meghalaya Dem ocratic Alliance (MDA), which also includes the BJP have lost their party memb ership after being

Indian Ambassadors to Myanmar, Slovakia meet Mizoram Governor

AIZAWL, OCT 17 (IANS):

Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Vinay Kumar on Monday met Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kamb hampati at the Raj Bhavan and discussed “certain im portant topics”.

A Raj Bhavan official said that the Indian envoy discussed “certain topics which are important for Mizoram”. The official re fused to share information whether they discussed the Myanmar refugee issue.

Around 30,500 Myan marese, including women and children and some lawmakers, have been shel tered in Mizoram since the military junta seized power in the country in February 2021. In a separate meet

ing, Indian Ambassador to Slovakia Vanlalhuma also met the Governor on the day and discussed issues relating to the state.

Last week, Australian Senator Dean Smith met the Mizoram Governor told Kambhampati that his government is observing the situation in Myanmar ever since the military coup.

The Governor and the Australian Senator talked about the Myanmar refugee issue and how Mizoram is handling the situation.

Kambhampati had briefed Smith about the number of Myanmar refu gees in the state and how the civil society groups are extending help to them on humanitarian grounds.

suspended and are likely to join the NPP ahead of the assembly elections due early next year, according to political speculations

Congresspresidential polls:277delegates castvotesinAssam

As many as 277 Assam Pradesh Congress Com mittee delegates out of to tal 291 cast their votes on Monday to el ect the next All India Congress Com mittee president. An Assam Pradesh Congress Com mittee (APCC) release said that voting was conducted smoothly at Rajiv Bhawan here.

Ballot boxes were sealed after polling and will be flown to New Delhi later in the day.

Congress veteran Mal likarjun Kharge and Thiru vananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor are in the fray for the top post in the party.

Both Kharge and Tha roor had recently visited Guwahati as part of their campaign trail.

Counting of votes for the polls will be undertaken on October 19.

to utilize their knowledge of science and technol ogy for the service of the country and the glory of the institute.

“You should be always endeavoring to be honest in the discharge of your duty as an engineer and a scientist,” he hoped.

At the convocation, a total of 261 degrees were awarded to 27 PH.D, 61 M. Tech, 28 M.SC and 172 B. Tech students from different courses. The union minister also presented the Chair man Gold Medal for B Tech for 2022 to Hidam Boris, a

Ganja worth Rs. 2 cr seized from AssamTripura border

GUWAHATI, OCT 17 (IANS): The Assam Police have seized a huge consign ment of ganja worth Rs 2.4 crore from the AssamTripura border, officials said.

The smuggled substanc es were recovered on Satur day evening from a truck at the Churaibari checkpost of Assam’s Karimganj district.

The consignment was com ing from Tripura. The police have arrested two persons -- Parvinder Singh, a resi dent of Faridkot district in Punjab, and Jewel Hussain, who resides at Sipahijla in Tripura. The Police said that the duo was carrying the consignment on behalf of a large smuggling gang. A se nior police officer informed that late Saturday evening, an 18-wheeler trailer truck loaded with rubber extract along with containers was travelling from Agartala to Delhi through Assam. When the truck reached the Churaibari gate, a total of two tonne and four quintal of ganja were recovered from 72 drums filled with rubber extract.

student of the department of electrical engineering of the institute who stood first by securing highest marks among all the students of his batch.

Apart from Sarkar, the 9th convocation of the NIT Manipur was also at tended by Dr. Pradeep Ku mar Shrivastav, executive director of TIFAC New Delhi and Prof. Parttha Protim Chattopadhaya, director of NIAM, Ranchi as dignitaries.

Earlier, director Prof Goutam Sutradhar of the institute presented a re port on the activities of the institute. He said that the institute is consistently improving its NIRF rank ing. The institute has been ranked 108th among the technical institutes in the country.

The director said that the institute, though in its initial stages of growth, has made rapid strides in the past ten years. The number of students has also in creased considerably.

“All efforts are also being made to provide the best research equipment and facilities,” he said.

Tripura assembly polls: BJP to go doorto-door with report card of first term

AGARTALA, OCT 17 (AGENCIES): With as sembly polls in Tripura slated for early next year, Ruling BJP plans to go door to door with a report card of the first BJP led government in the state.

The party will start a door to door campaign in the next three months, ET reported. Tripura chief minister Manik Saha told media persons “We will go door to door with reports of the BJP led government and its work in the last four and half years.”

He said, “The oppo sition parties are trying to portray that the BJP government is a non-per former. However, we have delivered on the pre poll promise. “ BJP has appointed Dr Mahendra Singh, an ex-minister from Uttar Pradesh, as the party’s election in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Samir Oraon as the deputy incharge in Tripura. Singh, who was national general secretary, was in charge in 2014 of Assam and continued for a couple of

years. Under him the first BJP led government was formed in Assam in 2016.

Opposition CPI-M has planned a mega rally in Agartala on October 21. The rally will be attended by CPI-M general secre tary Sitraman Yechuri.

The BJP along with ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura routed the Left Front in Tripura in 2018. In the 60-member Tripura assembly, BJP won 36 seats and IPFT eight while the CPIM, secured 16 seats.

BJP’s ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) is facing exodus of

MLAs. A MLA resigned from the IPFT on Friday and joined Tipraha Indige nous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) party.

IPFT MLA Dhanan joy Tripura accompanied by TIPRA supremo Prady ot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman, submitted his res ignation letter to Speaker Ratan Chakraborty, who immediately accepted it. Last month BJP MLA Burba Mohan Tripura re signed from the assembly and joined TIPRA.

Several MLA have resigned. Ashis Das, Sudip Roy Barman and Ashis Kumar Saha quit the party and the assembly member ship following open differ ences with former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb.

Das joined Trinamool Congress last year and quit the party in May this year while Roy Barman, also a former BJP Minister, and Saha joined the Congress in February this year. Roy Barman was re-elected to the state assembly for sixth times in the by-election in June on Congress ticket.

Assam: CID summons 100 recruits for fake certificate

GUWAHATI, OCT 17 (AGENCIES): The Crime Investigation Department (CID) has summoned around 100 candidates who appeared in the AB-UB exam of Assam Police for allegedly furnishing fake computer certificates.

As per reports, a num ber of candidates might face arrest for submitting fake certificates during the filing of their exam forms for Assam Police Recruitment.

The examination for AB-UB examination of As sam Police was held on Feb ruary 20, 27, and April 24, India Today NE reported.

As per preliminary reports, a total of 414 stu

dents have submitted fake certificates out of which 21 are likely to face arrest.

Notably, many candi dates who passed the exam and currently undergoing training are now at the Ulubari CID office, in Gu wahati.

The examination was conducted for 5,262 ad ditional posts. The writ ten exams were held in 15 districts of Assam where over 7,07,328 candidates appeared for the exam. Out of these, 4493 candidates who were selected were male and 707 candidates were female.

In this regard, the CID is conducting raids across the state and reports sug gest that these candidates submitted fake certificates without having any degree.

Notably, the raids are being conducted at Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, Nal bari, Nagaon, Jorhat, and Sivasagar.

Leopard which attacked villagers beaten to death in Assam

GUWAHATI, OCT 17 (IANS):

A leopard was beaten to death in Assam’s Golaghat district after it attacked three villagers, officials said. The incident happened on Saturday at Dusutimukh village in the Khum tai area of the district.

The villagers claimed that the leopard was causing terror for the last few days and on Saturday it attacked three locals while they were going to a paddy field to feed their cattle.

4 suspected terrorists arrested in Assam

GUWAHATI, OCT 17

(AGENCIES): The Assam police on Monday arrested four persons with alleged links to Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a Bangladeshbased terror outfit affiliated to Al Qaida in Indian Sub continent (AQIS).

Chief minister Hi manta Biswa Sarma took to Twitter to announce the arrests of Sadek Ali and Jakibul Ali in Tamulpur district and Habel Ali and Abu Raihan in Nalbari district, HT reported.

“We are determined to root out jihadi elements from Assam,” Sarma said mentioning that both Sadek and Jakibul had lured youngsters to join ABT.

“Arrest of Sadek Ali is a significant achievement since he has been radicalis

ing youth including Jakibul Ali for past 2 years. He was also associated with JMB (Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Ban gladesh) and neo-JMB,” Sarma tweeted.

Since April, the state police have arrested around 40 persons including a Ban gladeshi national for their alleged links to ABT on charges of indoctrinating youngsters about jihad and creating sleeper cells of the Bangladeshi outfit.

Last month, chief min ister Sarma informed the as sembly that 84 persons have been arrested in the state since May 2016 (when the first Bharatiya Janata Partyled government formed) for alleged jihadi activities.

Of those arrested, 35 were from Jamat Ul Muja hideen Bangladesh (JMB),

9 from Hijbul Mujahideen (HM) and 40 others from Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT)—all three terror groups based in Bangla desh.

The government in formed the assembly that of those arrested 10, in cluding a Bangladeshi na tional Saiful Islam alias Mohammed Suman, were connected to madrasas in some way or other.

“These people used to deliver speeches in ma drasas and mosques with jihadi links and in religious gatherings where they in cited people to take part in jihad and distribute jihadi literature. Till date no one has been injured or killed in Assam due to jihadi activi ties,” Sarma informed while replying to a question.

GooglecollaboratedwithAssamgovttopromotedigitalgrowth

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (AGENCIES): Google has signed an MoU with the As sam government in order to promote digital growth and development in the state.

As part of the initiative, Google will collaborate with the Assam government’s Skill, Employment & En trepreneurship Department (SEED) to strengthen their school digitization efforts with digital learning tools and solutions. Along with this, Google will also extend

scholarships for Google Ca reer Certificates to Assam’s youth in collaboration with the Assam Skill Develop ment Mission (ASDM), TOI reported.

“This MOU is another step in our long collabora

tion with the Assam govern ment to bring the benefits of digital tools and technol ogy to communities across the State, and to assist its mission for technologydriven holistic development. We are pleased to support

the Assam government in its most recent endeavor to thoughtfully integrate digital technologies into classrooms, modernizing education for the next gen eration, while also build ing awareness about online safety so children can reap the benefits of the internet,” said Google in a statement. With this initiative Google will support digital learning in schools across Assam by offering access to its digital learning plat

form, Google Workspace for Education - Fundamentals, for all teachers and students in the State. The tech giant has also collaborated with ASDM to provide schol arships and wrap-around training to enable youth to become job-ready for the demand for digital talent. These learners will also be able to connect with em ployers who have an ongo ing demand for these skills through a hiring pool that recognizes the certificates.

The injured persons have been identified as Bitopan Doley (15), Lalit Doley (45) and Malay Medak (20).

According to the forest depart ment, the officials went to the village to catch the leopard but before that, a few villagers launched an attack on the animal with machete, axe and sticks, which caused the death of the leopard.

Later, the forest officials recov

ered the carcass of the leopard.

The body of the dead leopard has been sent for post-mortem to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC). Notably, a few days ago, another leopard had caused rampage in the Mahbandha tea estate in Jorhat district. That time, following complaints by the locals, the forest department was able to capture the leopard and release it into the forest.

Foreign cigarettes worth Rs 2.72 cr seized in Mizoram

AIZAWL, OCT 17 (IANS):

SHILLONG, OCT 17: Meghalaya is a “huge ben eficiary” of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Ni dhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, state Bharatiya Janata Par ty (BJP) president, Ernest Mawrie said on Monday.

He said more than 2.05 lakh farmer families from the state received funds under this scheme, benefiting almost 8 lakh individuals.

Praising Prime Min ister Narendra Modi for the launch of the 12th installment of PM-KISAN scheme, Mawrie expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister for taking care of the farmers of Meghalaya.

“It is only the BJP government which is truly pro-poor, and takes care of the last man in the society, be it farmers, or anyone else,” he said.

Under the PM-KISAN scheme, eligible farmer families are provided a benefit of Rs. 6000 per year in three equal installments of Rs. 2000 each, every four months. The benefit is transferred directly to the bank accounts of eli gible beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer mode, using modern digital technology.

The Assam Rifles troopers have seized foreign ciga rettes worth Rs 2.72 crore in Mizoram 24 hours after the state police rescued 140 exotic animals and seized drugs worth Rs 34.18 crore and arrested four persons in this connection, officials said on Sunday.

Acting on secret infor mation, the Assam Rifles personnel launched an op eration at Zotlang areas in eastern Mizoram’s Cham phai district and seized the foreign cigarettes smuggled from Myanmar.

The cigarettes were contained in 209 cartons.

An Indian national was arrested in this con nection.

In another incident, Mizoram police arrested 27-year-old Myanmar na tional Thalianchi from Bawngkawn in Aizawl dis trict and seized 10 gram of heroin, valued at Rs 5 lakh from his possession.

On Saturday, the Mizoram police in a joint operation with the Excise and Narcotics Department personnel intercepted three vehicles and rescued 140 wild animals, including 30 tortoises, 22 pythons, 55 crocodiles (hatchlings) and birds, in eastern Mizoram’s Champhai district.

On Saturday, police also seized heroin weigh ing 6.836 kg valued at Rs 34.18 crore from a vehicle in Champhai district.

BEFORE NOTARY PUBLIC/OATH COMMISSIONER NAGALAND MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND AFFIDAVIT

I, Mr. LIMASASHI, by profession a retired Primary Teacher at GPS Medical, Mokokchung, under the establishment of SDEO, Mokokchung, resident of Kapayong Sector, Mokokchung Village, P.O & P.S- Mokokchung, DistrictMokokchung, State- Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under: 1. That, I am the deponent of this affidavit and a bonafide citizen of INDIA.

2. That, my official name is Mr. LIMASASHI. As such, in my HSLC Admit card, Aadhaar card and in my Saving bank account bearing No:- 30642564395 at S.B.I Mokokchung Main branch my name is recorded as Mr. LIMASASHI.

Whereas, in my Service Appointment Order my name has been recorded as Mr. L. LIMASASHI. And in my Service Book my name is recorded as Mr. LIMASASHI AO. Further, in my GPF Balance Sheet my name is recorded as Mr. Y. LIMASASHI AO.

3. That, my name Mr. LIMASASHI, Mr. LIMASASHI AO, Mr. L. LIMASASHI and Mr. Y. LIMASASH AO are of the same person. As such, the above noted name stands for the same.

4. That, I hereby declare that, my official name Mr. LIMASASHI shall be used in all my official documents and records, from the date of the declaration of this affidavit.

5. That the declaration made above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and nothing has been concealed therein. And I signed this affidavit on this the 15th day of June, 2022.

DEPONENT: (Mr. LIMASASHI)

Solemnly affirmed and declare before me by the deponent, on this the 15th day of June, 2022 at Mokokchung. Regd No: 1030/22 Dt: 15/06/2022

Dr. Subhas Sarkar felicitates one of the students at the convocation ceremony. (NP)

The State Level Police Recruitment Board Assam, Police Housing Corporation Limited Rehabari released the recruitment results for Assam Police Sub-Inspector (UB&AB) and Constable (UB&AB) posts on Sep tember 18.

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Meghalaya is a ‘huge beneficiary’ of PM-KISAN

Manik Saha

CID office, Assam

Difficult to differentiate security threats due to hybrid warfare: Rajnath

GANDHINAGAR, OCT 17 (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said it has become increas ingly difficult to differenti ate between external and internal security threats as hybrid warfare has almost eliminated this distinction.

The situation has be come even more compli cated as latest technological advancements have expand ed the nature of threats to national security, Singh said, while addressing the second convocation of the Rash triya Raksha University at Lavad in Gandhinagar dis trict. Singh also said social media, NGOs, the judiciary and the democracy of a country can be misused by forces working to destroy its security.

“New kinds of threats are coming to the fore which have blurred the line be tween internal and external security. Besides terrorism, cyber war and information war are the new forms of security threats.

“In addition, there are problems like human traf ficking and money launder ing which are different in appearance, but are related to one other. All the agencies must work in an integrated manner to deal with these

challenges,” Singh said.

The government has adopted a holistic approach to strengthen all aspects of national security, he said.

National security en compasses security of land and sea borders, air space, cyber, data, space, informa tion, energy, economy and environment and it is essen tial for a sovereign nation to safeguard these elements. India is well equipped to deal with all security chal lenges, he added.

Stating that India al ways withstood invasions and threats to national se curity, Singh said there is a need to outgrow the impact of “slave mentality” which has undermined the coun try’s rich tradition of selfdefence and security.

Lauding Prime Min

ister Narendra Modi for making India the fifth larg est economy of the world, Singh said the country has the potential to become the largest economy by 2047.

“An independent social media can be used to carry out systematic propaganda. Freedom of social media is not bad, media should be free, but if media is free it can be misused...Attempts are made to establish and propagate dangerous and controversial things in the name of freedom of expres sion,” he said.

“If NGOs have free dom, efforts are made to use NGOs in such a way that the entire system of the country is paralysed. If the judiciary has freedom, efforts are made to use it to stop or slow down the works of develop

LJP (Ram Vilas) to contest Gujarat, HP assembly polls: Chirag Paswan

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): The LJP (Ram Vilas) will contest the upcom ing Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls, party president Chirag Pas wan announced on Monday.

The party is, however, yet to take a decision on the number of seats it will con test in the two poll-bound states, he said. The decision to join the poll fray in the two BJP-ruled states was taken at a national executive meeting of the party after a resolution was unanimously passed in this regard, Pas wan added.

“The party has decided to contest the Gujarat and the Himachal Pradesh as sembly polls. We will soon take a decision on the num ber of seats that the party will contest in Gujarat and on the list of candidates,” he said at a press conference here. The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will ap point its Himachal Pradesh in-charge later in the day and subsequently, take a decision on the list of candi dates, Paswan said.

Polling for the Him achal Pradesh assembly will be held in a single phase on November 12 and the count ing of votes will be taken up on December 8. The Elec tion Commission is yet to announce the dates for the Gujarat polls.

Paswan, son of Dalit leader and LJP founder late Ram Vilas Paswan, said his party’s national executive members discussed at length its national expansion plan, among other issues, at the meeting.

“Last two years were very tough for me and my party both. Various forces, who tried to stop my leader (Ram Vilas Paswan) from growing when he was alive, tried to do the same with me as well after he left.

They broke my party,” Pas wan said, without naming anyone. After two years of struggle and hardwork, the LJP (Ram Vilas) has suc ceeded in setting up its units in most of states, and work to further strengthen and increase its support base is underway, he said.

“While we have de cided to join the poll fray in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh this year, we have plans to field our candidates in future assembly polls to be held in other states, wher ever our party is strong,” Paswan said.

Asked about his future plans, he said expansion of his party to various states and strengthening its sup port base is his prime focus.

“We will take a deci sion on whether our party should join any alliance or not when the time comes,” he said. Paswan said six res olutions were unanimously passed at the national execu tive meeting which includ ed demand for conferring Bharat Ratna on late Ram Vilas Paswan.

ment using the legal system. If a country has a dynamic democracy, then an effort is made to infiltrate political parties to attack its unity and security,” Singh said.

Singh cited media re ports which said that 50 per cent of tweets in connection with the case of violence at Koregaon-Bhima in Ma harashtra’s Pune district in 2018 originated from Pakistan. It becomes dif ficult to determine when the definitions of terrorism and insurgency/extremism overlap and their objectives become one, he said.

“Terrorism is coming up with massive challenges in every dimension of the system and not just at the level of bombs and guns,” he said.

“Information warfare” is about the possibility of fake news and hate con tent being spread in soci ety through Facebook and WhatsApp, Singh said.

“Outwardly it appears like some serious discus sions are being held in a seminar, but it is not the truth. Internally, there is a possibility of spreading deceptive and wrong facts that can fill any society with hate and violence,” the min ister said.

CBI questions Sisodia for over

“when I said that there was nothing in the case against me, I was told there was no case against even Satyendra Jain yet he was in jail”.

“They said why I was in the AAP and offered me the post of Delhi CM to quit the party. They said I could go to jail and the case against me will continue. I said I had joined politics not to become chief minister, I came to politics to work honestly. I clearly said that I

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am happy when a rickshaw puller’s son becomes an engineer and not thinking of becoming CM,” he said.

The CBI refuted the al legation levelled by Sisodia that during his questioning, he was threatened to quit the AAP.

Sisodia was examined strictly on the allegations in the FIR and the evidence collected so far during the course of investigation, it said.

NEW DELHI/ UNJHA, OCT 17 (PTI): The CBI on Monday questioned Del hi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connec tion with the Delhi excise scam case for over nine hours, officials said.

Sisodia had arrived at the agency’s headquarters around 11.15 am and was taken straight to the anticorruption branch office on the first floor, they said.

The deputy chief min ister was grilled for over nine hours on various aspects of the Delhi government’s excise policy, his relations with other accused, includ ing businessman and AAP volunteer Vijay Nair, and documents recovered dur ing searches in the case, the officials said.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader left the agen cy’s office in his white elec

Maha: Blow to BJP as Cong sweeps Panchayat Samiti polls in Nagpur

NAGPUR, OCT 17 (PTI):

In a setback to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Con gress dominated the results of elections to the posts of Panchayat Samiti chairper sons and deputy chairper sons in Nagpur district of Maharashtra.

As per the official in formation, the BJP could not win even a single post of chairperson and managed to secure only three seats of deputy chairperson in the elections, results of which were declared on Saturday - on the same day of voting.

Nagpur district is the home turf of the BJP’s cur rent chief of Maharashtra unit Chandrashekhar Bawa nkule, state Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and Union minister Nitin Gad kari. Nagpur also houses the headquarters of the RSS, the ideological fountainhead of the BJP that is currently in power in the state and at the Centre. The Congress won nine out of 13 posts of chairperson and eight out of 13 posts of deputy chair person in the district. The Nationalist Congress Party

(NCP) secured three posts of chairperson, while the Shiv Sena managed to win one such post, the district officials said.

The Congress won the chairperson’s post in Saon er, Kalmeshwar, Parseoni, Mouda, Kamptee, Umred, Bhivapur, Kuhi and Nagpur Rural. The NCP won the post in Katol, Narkhed and Hingna, and the Shiv Sena won the Ramtek chairper son’s post, they said.

The Ramtek seat was bagged the faction led by CM Eknath Shinde named ‘Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena’, sources said. Talking to PTI, former minister and Congress rural unit chief Rajendra Mulak said, “The Panchayat Samiti results have demoralised the BJP cadre, as the party faced a defeat on the home ground of the RSS and senior lead ers Nitin Gadkari, Devendra Fadnavis and Chandrashek ar Bawankule.” “Winning and losing keeps happening, but the way they have lost shows that the BJP cadre has no grip in the district,” the Congress leader said.

Delhi Riots: HC to pronounce verdict tomorrow on bail plea by Umar Khalid

PATNA, OCT 17 (IANS):

Bihar’s Deputy Chief Min ister Tejashwi Yadav on Monday left for New Delhi to appear before the special CBI court in connection with the IRCTC scam on Tuesday.

Interacting with media persons in Patna airport, he said: “Such court appear ances will take place until they (BJP) will stay in pow er.” “It was clear on the day of the swearing-in ceremony when we were taking oath and the CBI conducted raids on the leaders of the RJD. So this is not new for us. It will take place until they stay in power,” he said, without taking the name of the BJP.

“The court has served notice to me and I will physi cally appear before the CBI court of Delhi on Tuesday. We respect the judicial sys tem of the country and have faith in it to get justice,” he said. The CBI court had issued a notice to Tejashwi Yadav on September 17, asking him to appear be fore it. It also said that if Tejashwi Yadav violates the conditions on which he was given bail, the court would cancel it immediately.

The CBI had alleged to the court that Yadav and his family members were involved in threatening its officials of CBI openly in a bid to influence the investi gation. He also held a press conference and tried to stop the investigation, it claimed.

The agency also claimed that Tejashwi is facing economic offence charges and the way he and his family members tried to influence the investigation is a violation of the terms and conditions on which the court had granted bail to him. Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Misa Bharti, Hema Yadav, Rabri Devi and others were facing charges of corruption in the IRCTC scam. The CBI reg istered FIR against Tejashwi Yadav and others in 2017 and the court had given bail to him on October 6, 2018.

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): The Delhi High Court will on Tuesday pro nounce its verdict on a bail plea by former JNU student Umar Khalid, who was ar rested over two years, in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the February 2020 riots in the city.

A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Ra jnish Bhatnagar had on Sep tember 9 reserved its order on the plea.

Khalid has argued that neither did he have a “crimi nal role” in the violence in North-east Delhi nor any “conspiratorial connect” with the other accused in the case.

He has submitted that there is no material to sup port the case of the pros ecution against him and his Amravati speech in Feb ruary 2020 –which forms the basis of the allegations against him – not only had a categorical call for nonviolence but also did not lead to violence anywhere.

The Delhi Police op posed the bail plea by Kha lid, saying the speech de

livered by him was a “very calculated” and brought up issues like Babri Masjid, triple talaq, Kashmir, the alleged suppression of Mus lims and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The agency has argued that riots happened in two phases, first in 2019 and then in February 2020, and that misinformation was spread during the riots apart from blockade of roads, attack on police personnel and para military forces, violence in non-Muslim areas, etc.

It has contended that

the speeches delivered by various accused in the case have one common factor that “the essence was to create a sense of fear in the Muslim population”.

Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.

The violence had erupted during the protests against CAA and NRC.

The high court had issued notice to the Delhi Police on Khalid’s bail plea in April.

Khalid was arrested by Delhi Police in September 2020, Besides Khalid, activist Khalid Saifi, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devan gana Kalita, Jamia Coordi nation Committee members Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and several others have also been booked under the strin gent law in the case.

tric SUV without speaking to reporters waiting outside.

Sources said that no notice has been issued to him to appear on Tuesday.

The agency also ques tioned Raghava Reddy, the son of YSRCP Lok Sabha MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, in the case, they said.

Later, speaking to re porters, Sisodia claimed that he was pressured to leave the AAP and was offered the Delhi chief minister’s post.

“BJP says there is a Rs 10,000 crore excise scam. I found at CBI office that there is no scam and the case is fake. The fake case against me is a conspiracy to make BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’ a success in Delhi,” he said.

“Pressure was put on me to quit the AAP. I was offered the Delhi chief min ister’s post or face jail term,” Sisodia said, adding that

BJPwantstokeepSisodiainjailtill Gujaratpollresults,claimsKejriwal

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Ke jriwal on Monday claimed the BJP-led government at the Centre plans to keep his deputy Manish Sisodia in jail till the declaration of Gujarat Assembly poll results as it does not want him to campaign in the state.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday started questioning Delhi Deputy Chief Min ister Sisodia in connection with alleged irregularities in implementation of the 202122 Delhi excise policy.

Assembly polls in the western state, being ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the past 27 years, is likely to be held in the next two months. The AAP has been positioning itself as the

main political challenger of the BJP in the state.

Addressing a rally in Unjha in Mehsana district, Kejriwal said when his party comes to power on December 8, “jail ke taale tootenge, Manish Sisodia chhootenge” (the locks of the jail will break and Siso dia will be free).

December 8 is the vote counting date for Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls, though no schedule has been announced by the Election Commission for Gujarat elections.

Kejriwal said Sisodia, a senior AAP leader, has built many schools in Delhi and was supposed to visit Gujarat for poll campaign ing, but “today, the CBI has called him (for questioning) and will arrest him”.

Four die in a car accident trying to breach the 300 kmph speed barrier

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (AGENCIES): A combina tion of sheer arrogance and negligence has led to the death of four people on the Purvanchal Expressway in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Reportedly, the four friends were travelling in a BMW car at speeds as high as 230 km/hr to Delhi when they rammed into a container truck. One of the co-passengers in the car started a Facebook Live where he showed the car racing through the highway with others excitedly saying that the speedometer may next breach the 300 km/hr mark.

The friends constantly egged the driver to chase the 300 km/hr mark and told him to not brake and keep at it.

However, in what can be termed as a prophecy coming true, moments be fore the disaster, one of the friends can he heard saying “charo marenge (all four of us will die)”. Soon enough, tragedy strikes and the four

men die on the spot.

After the news of the accident was communi cated, the police and Uttar Pradesh Expressways Indus trial Development Authority (UPEIDA) officials reached the spot, only to find the pummelled car in a heap and the blood-smeared bod ies of the passengers and driver, squished beyond range for a naked-eye iden tification.

So far, the authorities have identified three of the four people. The car was reportedly being driven

by 35-year-old Dr. Anand Prakash who was a profes sor in a medical college in the Eastern Indian state of Bihar and resided in the city of Dehri. Akhilesh Singh (35), and Deepak Kumar (37) are the other two de ceased while the identity of the fourth is yet to be con firmed.

According to Nation al Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, deaths by road accidents in India have increased by almost 17 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020.

Rajnath Singh confers a degree to a student during the convocation of Rashtriya Raksha University, Monday. (PTI)

Chirag Paswan

Tejashwi Yadav

Cases will continue against me till BJP in power: Tejashwi

Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia flashes victory sign as he leaves for the CBI headquarters, in New Delhi, Monday. (PTI)

Truck which was hit by four occupants of BMW.

Umar Khalid

Hijab in Iran and India

InIran, the custodial death of Mahsa Amini has reignited calls to rein in morality police actions against women suspected of violating the dress code, in effect since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The protests that turned violent in some parts of the country started after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16 while under detention of the “morality police” of Iran for not complying with the strict Hijab rules. Protests started after her Septem ber 17 funeral, and have taken place in more than a dozen cities. The unrest spread across the country as women burned their headscarves to protest laws that force women to wear the hijab and also cut off their hair. Iranian women, who are the youngest generation and university-educated people living in cities were the groups most opposed to the manda tory hijab. Also, majority of men, people living in rural areas, people over the age of 50, and those without higher education opposed the mandatory hijab. These help explain why women are publicly burning the hijab and chanting against the very idea of an Islamic regime. For them, the mandatory hijab is the Islamic Republic’s Berlin Wall. This is backed up by a 2022 survey conducted by a media group on political systems, which showed that about 67% of the target population of literate adults are against a political system governed by religious law. Again, women, the youngest generation, and universityeducated people living in cities are the groups most opposed to the idea of an Islamic regime. The highest level of support for an Islamic regime, at 35%, was expressed by people living in rural areas. Given these numbers, it shouldn’t surprise com mentators that among the most heard chants all over the country are calls for the Islamic Republic to be brought down. The videos that ordinary Iranians are desperately trying to show to the world are thus reflective of the social reality in the country. The facts are that the majority opposes the compulsory hijab and that people of all social layers do not want an Islamic Republic. While Iran is in a state of commo tion, the protests have also attracted attention in the Arab world including Iraq and women are gathering online to offer solidarity to Iranian women struggling under the country’s harsh theocratic regime. While the protests in Iran have been against the headscarf, Muslim women in India are fighting for their right to wear the hijab after the government of Karnataka banned wearing clothes that disturb equality, in tegrity, and public order in schools and colleges in February this year. After hearing arguments on ban on wearing hijab in educational institutions in Kar nataka, upheld by the state high court, the Supreme Court of India on October 13 delivered a split verdict. A number of counsel appearing in court for Muslim women who have petitioned against the ban insisted have insisted that preventing them from wearing the hijab to the classroom will put their education in jeopardy as they might stop attending classes. The hijab scenario in Iran and India indicates that in the latter, it has become politicised. The issue needs to be revisited around the hijab and the conditions perpetuating the mandatory wearing of it. In doing so it is important to move away from the false dichoto mies of culture versus religion, or the local versus the western, which obscure rather than illuminate the root causes of forced hijab.

DailyDevotion

The Key of theGreater Work

…I say to you, he who believes in Me,…greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

—John 14:12

Prayer does not equip us for greater works— prayer is the greater work. Yet we think of prayer as some common sense exercise of our higher powers that simply prepares us for God’s work. In the teachings of Jesus Christ, prayer is the working of the miracle of redemption in me, which produces the miracle of redemption in others, through the power of God. The way fruit remains firm is through prayer, but remember that it is prayer based on the agony of Christ in redemption, not on my own agony. We must go to God as His child, because only a child gets his prayers answered; a “wise” man does not (see Matthew 11:25).

Prayer is the battle, and it makes no difference where you are. However God may engineer your circumstances, your duty is to pray. Never allow yourself this thought, “I am of no use where I am,” because you certainly cannot be used where you have not yet been placed. Wherever God has placed you and whatever your circumstances, you should pray, continually offering up prayers to Him. And He promises, “Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do…” (John 14:13). Yet we refuse to pray unless it thrills or excites us, which is the most intense form of spiritual selfishness. We must learn to work according to God’s di rection, and He says to pray. “Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Matthew 9:38).

There is nothing thrilling about a laboring person’s work, but it is the laboring person who makes the ideas of the genius possible. And it is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible. When you labor at prayer, from God’s perspective there are always results. What an astonishment it will be to see, once the veil is finally lifted, all the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you have been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.

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~ George Washington Carver

Post-mortem

Speeches, messages on Naga National Martyrs’ Day

In this occasion of observing the 70th anniversary of Marty’s day, our conscience beckons us to ponder over and deduce how we Nagas are surviving and existing as a people and a nation to this day.

We are thankful to God for His love and providence throughout all the years of brutality and terrorism of occupation forces, for His endless grace that had sustained our people to this day.

In 1952, on this very day the 18th oct. When the Nagas were stag ing a peaceful and democratic proces sion in Kohima town to voice our protest and reject the imposed general election of India on the Nagas, Eno Zasibito Nagi was murdered at point blank range by the Assam police. Thus late Zasibito Nagi became the first Naga martyr in the hands of now the claimed biggest democracy in the world, the mighty India who began the implementation of her un declared preplanned design to invade Nagaland starting with this murder.

The plebiscite of the 16th may 1951 endorsed the Naga indepen dence declaration of the 14 Aug 1947 to remain a people and a Sovereign nation. In such circumstances, impos ing Indian election for name sake and legal escapism on the Nagas was only a means to demean the will and the voice of our people which India dearly wish to silence it but could not succeed.

Even so, carrying out her game plan of annihilation and containment of the Nagas, the actions of India was unleashed on our people.

In 1954 the Indian security forces massacred 27 men and 26 women in Yampang village of Tuen sang district. That was followed by the, massacre at Chingmei Village of Chang tribe in the same year.

In 1956, horribly four girls were raped in the podium of the church and later killed in Yanli village of Lotha tribe.

On the 6th sept 1962, all the menfolk of Matikhu village in Po chury tribe were murdered. The reason for this horror was only be

cause a Dakota plane of the Indian Air Force was shot down by Naga army. All the 7 crew members of the Dakota were handed over to the In dian govt by the Naga army without the slightest scratch of harm to any one of them, but the holocaust was committed by Indian Army without any compunction.

Countless incidents of horror and nightmarish brutalities remain unnoticed and unrecorded which only could be attributed to social phobia of Naga simple life and lack of communication of expose them. Let us just imagine and envision how Nagas suffered and how our people braced those forces to this day. We can only be thankful to our Almighty God in whom we believe in for sustaining our people.

Sadly, all such incidents went unreported, unrecorded and un noticed by the outside world due to blockade of access to the media by the democratic India. Such was the fate of our people with no available means of recourse to address the plight of our people to counter the reign of terror in our land.

In 1956 &1957 almost all the villagers and granaries in Nagaland were burnt down forcing our people to starve. Thousands of thousands of Nagas were perished due to mal nutrition and epidemics at that time of our history.

Even them unable to contain the Naga movement the puppet Nagaland state was created as the 16th state of Indian union on the 1st Dec on 1963 through signing the 16 Points Agreement with the Naga People’s Convention(NPC) which India coined in 1960.Yet India was compelled to sign the 6th Sept 1964 Bilateral Ceasetire Agreement with the Federal govt of Nagaland.

However, the peace talks failed and was deadlocked in 1968 since India was not sincere and ready to come forward and address the IndoNaga case in the proper perspective.

Compounding the already ex isting reign of terror, India enacted the Armed Forces Special Powers

act of Assam (AFSPA)in 1958 and unleashed it in Nagaland which re mains unshakeable to this day. The latest incident was the 4th Dec 2021 massacre of 13 innocent villagers at Oting village in Mon district by the special Force of Assam Rifles. I am sure that this incident is still fresh in the minds of our people.

It is a universal truth that no one can change history but can create history. Also, that no one can cheat the dead but can fool the living. How true are this truth in the Naga context today?

The ongoing solution talks by the GOI, NSCN(IM)and NNPGS is only a device to fool not only the Nagas but the outside world too in which India planned to white wash her actions and ambition to occupy Nagaland by claiming legal justifi cation in the eye of International comity.

Under any circumstance, what ever solution agreement the negotiat ing parties may arrive at under the Constitution of India ,it will not be a final settlement of the protracted Indo-Naga issue .At this juncture ,the NGOs and the puppet Nagaland state govt shouting peace and solution under Indian Constitution is a sham and a blot of Naga identity. Those characters are only playing into the hands and the game plan of India to her advantage to occupy our land.

When do you think is the right time for we Nagas to wake up and rise up in unison in words and deeds to uphold Naga sovereignty and freedom?

God forbid our people to for got the supreme sacrifice our Naga martyrs made in the course of the past 75 years of Naga journey for freedom. The cost of the blood of Naga patriots shall be upon the head of whoever is anti Naga in words and deeds.

The nation salute you all, oh! worthy martyrs Kuknalim K. Vadeo, Chaplee Kilonser, NNC, FGN

Dear Naga people, I on behalf of the Naga National Council in humil ity pay homage to all those who laid down their lives for the freedom of Nagaland on this solemn occasion of our Naga National Martyrs Day.

I salute all those National workers who sacrificed their precious lives for the sover eignty of the Naga Homeland in solemn prayer to our living God Jesus Christ the saviour of the world.

The Naga people and the national workers in particular has suffered immensely from the time of British colonisa tion of India, and thereafter the invasion and occupation of the Naga homeland by the Government of India and Burma, this has led to a series of brutal suffering from generation to generation in the hands of the British, India and Burma (Myanmar) till date.

The invasion and occupation started by the three nations is in total violation of human rights and international laws laid by the United Nations. And these were and are the biggest political tragedy and plight of the Naga people as a whole.

The first Naga martyr NNC judge Zasibito Naga was shot dead by the Indian Armed forces in 1952 and this brutal cycle of killing continues till today, the most recent and prominent being the Oting massacre in Decem ber 2021, which is a clear act of political and human rights violation by the Government of India and its Armed Forces.

But the blood and tears of the Naga people will never go in vain because our people’s destiny is from our living God,

who has protected the Naga people for His Glory. May all the Nagas on this occasion of our National Martyrs’ Day rededicate ourselves to God and stand for the cause of the Naga Freedom of sovereignty.

The Naga people must uphold the destiny of our God given rights of freedom. The Nagas have stood and come this far and sacrificed immensely for the rightful freedom of our blessed Home land. Therefore, I humbly appeal to all the Nagas to once again stand firmly for the cause of our freedom of sovereignty in toto to be recognised as a nation.

This appeal is to all the Naga people who live in the ancestral land of the Eastern (Saigan region) side of Na galand, North (Arunachal) side of Nagaland, West (As sam) side of Nagaland, North (Arunachal) side of Nagaland and central Nagaland.

All the Naga people must raise our voice together as one voice and one Homeland to be recognised by other Na tions of the world who stand for the Naga people. The Naga people are one with one Homeland from time im memorial, and our historical and political rights are one and crystal clear.

On this solemn occasion of our National Martyrs’ Day the NNC must tell all the National workers in par ticular and the Naga people as a whole to unite in reality to achieve our freedom of recognition.

Once again, I salute all the Naga martyrs and long live the Naga people and Homeland.

Kuknalim

India’s position in Hunger index The hollowness of politics of representation

India’s position at 107 in Hunger Index has been opposed by the govern ment and the veracity of it has been questioned. But without going into the nitty gritty of what lies inside the survey, it should not be so difficult to under stand even at the surface of the problem. The farm income on an average is Rs 27 per day. The wealth is being drifted towards few corporate. They are employing workers whose income is handsome. Ma chines are replacing labour as the income goes up. Amul is producing milk at high processing rate whose cost would be much cheaper than any other small dairy.

The work at the lower end is vanished, where any raw person whose number is astonishingly very high can work. I have seen 20 rag pickers engaged in small pocket of Delhi and in case this figure is magnified then one can imagine how much is the drudgery in India.

The people who came up

in terms of income are exploiting the labour who is left unattended from the rural areas. The number of small and marginal farmers is very high and now come to landless people. There is no place to stay and no work to do and hence they shift to slums and urban areas sleeping on road.

Hunger does not mean they are sleeping alone and eating the waste thrown out by elite class. They must be treated as hungry. No survey is done to determine beggars and pavement dwellers. The labour is badly exploited and when they carry children to far off places they at one point time are counted as hungry. Ration is not enough to stay healthy and that too is being good to poor who have the place of living but there are million who cannot be given cere als as they do not have any ration card. Hunger can be eliminated only when the income gradation is proper.

Asenla Aier, Student, New Delhi

A f ter a prolonged struggle, women’s groups tasted a vic tory with a Women’s reser vation bill that was passed in the Upper House which aimed to reserve one-third of seats in the Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies for Women. The passage of the bill was certainly not without a tinge of fear and apprehensions steering a debate in the political fra ternity and reaching a point of impasse.

While undoubtedly the passage of the bill in the Upper House, was a land mark achievement in the checkered history of India, for it was a humble begin ning to move from politics of idealism and tokenism to politics of representation and inclusiveness.

However, if we are to look at the global statistics, as per the Global Gender Gap report 2022, India ranks 135 in terms of gender par ity out of 146 countries and 48 as far as political empowerment and repre

sentation are concerned.

India’s record has also been poor regarding women’s economic participation and opportunity. The abysmal record of Women legislators, in the Parliament is certainly not very encouraging and is seen in total negation with our democratic traditions.

Women’s participation has been consistently low. This is a grim reality of not only for the Union Legislature but also for the state assemblies where participation is not very encouraging.

It is equally important to look at alternative mea sures to empower women which align with democratic norms and are inclusive.

Political exigencies may have compelled us to carve out space for women in the parliament but is it not more viable for political parties in the first place to engender inner party democracy by reserving seats within the party for female candidates?

Recently, Rajya Sabha decided to discontinue the use of phrases like ‘No Sir’

Motherhood: The greatest heroism

A famous Jewish prov erb states that, “God couldn’t be all over the place everywhere thus he created moms”, these words are an extraordinary motivation to moms across the world. At the point when everything is great, a mother puts her children prior to whatever else, including their own solace and joy.

As it says, not all heroes wear capes the occupation of a mother is indeed the hardest task on the planet. A

Mother’s affection is some thing that nobody can make sense of, it is made of pro found commitment and of sacrifice and torment. It is indeed, endless and unselfish and persevering through no matter what in vain, can it destroy or remove that love and affection. A mother’s love is indeed priceless and will always exist. It is an

epitome of purity, love, sac rifice, and devotion. A soul who reflects inner peace.

The only person who works constantly day and night without excepting any salary. The only person who takes care of family health even when she is debilitated. Hence, they say she is the visible God. Love, care and support overwhelmingly brims out of her. She takes care of every single member of the family and serenely worry about all burdens set upon her shoulder. She resembles greatly like a tree who gives natural fruit to eat, branches to climb and shade to rest under it. Her maternal selflessness and caring have always endowed her with a unique character.

She has borne us for 9 months without knowing whether she can make it in the end but however risks

her life in extreme danger consistently every second, every minute just to invite you into this wonderful world. She has had multiple sleepless nights. She doesn’t possess any superpowers yet she is heroic in nature. She is the only being, idol, inspi ration, and the only person that deserves utmost respect next to god for all that she has done for.

Her Love is the fuel that enables a normal indi vidual to do the impossible. There is no substitute for a mother’s love and affection on this entire planet. There is no doubt that mother is the real warrior, she has no boundaries of her love.

Every Mother has the same story - “Wondering how to start, lost in the beauty of the Art. Oppressed by the fear of regrets! Her eyes hold the deepest se

crets! Flaws she carries in her smiles, yet with hope Walked the miles. How I wish I could read her energy, Soft and tenderly”.

There is no way to re pay what they have done for their child, all we can do is try giving what they need and it is just time, love and respect. We should learn to honor their existence and Thank thy almighty for such a priceless gift. Many are not that fortunate to bless with it but considering one being the luckiest let’s uphold by the Good principles and be a best portrayal of it to other individuals.

“Motherhood is in deed; The greatest Hero ism”!

T Amangmeren Jamir, BA 5th semester, Political Science Honours, Immanuel College

and instead to have genderneutral responses in the Parliament sessions. Though a small step but indeed a big leap to encourage women’s participation and representa tion in the Parliament.

Further, educating women en masse right from its rudimentary stage could also be a more realistic and pragmatic route to bring about emancipation and realizing the long-cherished goals of social justice and freedom.

It is equally imperative to understand that women do not constitute a homo geneous group and that women’s loyalty to their ex clusive caste or community identity is far greater than their gender-based identity.

Initiatives at the politi cal level certainly will have a tremendous impact on society’s power structure and relations. While the women’s reservation bill was passed in Rajya Sabha, it is unfortunate that the bill saw no progress in the Lok Sabha and lapsed. The debate and

discussions on the women’s reservation bill have only been symbolic and have not been accorded priority in the national political discourse.

Recently, the Supreme Court also accepted a Public Interest Litigation, thereaf ter sending a notice to the Centre seeking its response about the revival of the women’s reservation bill. The non-introduction of the bill the Bench held was rather arbitrary and illegal. While India is celebrat ing Azadi Ka Amrit Mahot sav, the time is ripe to bring about genuine reforms for women across all strata in the decision-making process.

It is imperative to deal with the issue of women’s participation in a concilia tory manner by synthesizing distinct ideologies fostering dialogue in reason and ne gotiating it with “insight and sensitivity”.

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Response to ANHTU Dimapur on salary delay

Sir, Apropos the news items in some local dailies on 14th of October 2022, related to delay of salary pay ment to Hindi Teachers for 4 months, the Department is constrained to reply to ANHTU Dimapur that though the Finance Department disbursed the allocation on 14th of September 2022, authentication is to be done from the Treasury Directorate.

The authentication was completed on 21st Sep tember 2022. The fund must then be allocated in the ePaybill and later disbursed DDO wise and the same must also be updated in the Treasury portal which is a time-consuming task. Now due to differences in clas sification code of the fund sources, lot of adjustment and tweaking was needed in the process of allocating fund in both the portals.

ANHTU members were informed that CSS salary payment will be delayed on account of this.

Thavaseelan K, Principal Director, Directorate of School Education

Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Message of Kedage, Federal Government of Nagaland, Vekronii Dozo Speech of Yilow Humtsoe, acting president, Naga National Council

Charu Kalra is a senior level Political Science school instructor and content developer with E-learning portal

Young leaders will get their chances: Gehlot

JAIPUR, OCT 17 (PTI):

Amid an ongoing tussle in the Congress, Rajast han Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday said there is no substitute for experience at any level and suggested that young lead ers should have patience as they would get their chances when the time comes.

He also said his equa tion with the Gandhi family will remain the same as it has been for the last 50 years.

Talking to reporters at the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) office here after casting his vote in the party’s presidential poll, Gehlot expressed confidence that Mallikarjun Kharge will win the election and infuse a new life in the organisation.

Without naming Sa chin Pilot, with whom he is involved in a tussle over the chief minister’s post and the party leadership in the state, Gehlot said young leaders who are still in the Congress should work hard and when the time comes, the central leadership will give them a chance just like he and other leaders got their chances.

“Work gets done by experience. Youngsters can put in hard work, but there

is no substitute for experi ence, whether it is at the vil lage, town, district, state or national level,” the veteran leader said. He called leaders such as Jyotiraditya Scindia, R P N Singh and Jitin Parsa da, who left the Congress to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), “opportunists” and pointed out that all of them became Union minis ters at a young age.

“Those who left the Congress are opportunistic people. They got a chance to become Union ministers at a young age. They got it with out any struggle. Whether it is Scindiaji, Jitin Prasadaji or R P N Singhji,” he said.

Asked about those cre ating an unrest within the Congress, Gehlot, without

naming anyone, said, “The message for them is that we worked for the party when it was faced with many challenges, when we lost elections. When good days come, opportunities will come their way. My best wishes are for those who are still in the Congress.”

“This is a time of crisis and such people should work hard, which will strengthen their credibility and prestige.

Fragrance spreads on its own. When the opportunity comes, the leadership will surely give them a chance just like we got our chances,” he added.

Responding to ques tions on the speculation around his equation with the Gandhi family ahead the

Centre suspends senior IAS officer Jitendra Narain after rape allegation

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): The government on Monday suspended with immediate effect senior IAS officer and former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain, accused of raping a woman in Port Blair.

The suspension came after Union Home Minister Amit Shah directed imme diate strict action against Narain, who is presently posted as the chairman and managing director of the Delhi Financial Corpora tion, according to a Union home ministry statement.

The ministry said the government is committed to ensuring zero-tolerance to wards the acts of indiscipline by its officials irrespective of their rank and status, es pecially regarding incidents involving women’s dignity.

The ministry received a report on Sunday from the Andaman and Nicobar Police regarding the alleged sexual assault of the 21-yearold woman by Narain, when he was serving as chief secre

PM-KISAN:12th installment of Rs 16k cr released

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): Ahead of Diwali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the 12th installment of fi nancial benefit worth Rs 16,000 crore to eligible farm ers under the flagship PMKISAN scheme.

With this, the to tal amount transferred to around 11 crore beneficia ries is expected to cross Rs 2.16 lakh crore.

Under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN), eligible farmers are provided with a financial benefit of Rs 6,000 per year in three equal installments of Rs 2,000 each every four months.

The income support is directly transferred to bank accounts of the beneficia ries.

The scheme was launched in February 2019 but is being implemented with effect from December 2018.

The prime minister released the 12th installment at two-day event ‘PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022’ being held at the Pusa cam pus in the national capital.

Addressing the event, Modi said benefits under PM-KISAN reach the ac counts of farmers directly without involving any mid dleman and commission agents.

tary of the archipelago, and others. As the report indi cated the possibility of grave misconduct and misuse of the official position on the part of Narain, an IAS of the AGMUT cadre of the 1990 batch, Shah directed im mediate action against him concerned as per the law.

Accordingly, Narain has been placed under sus pension with immediate effect and disciplinary pro ceedings have been ordered against him, the statement said. An FIR has been reg istered and action in the criminal case is being taken separately by the Special In vestigation Team of the An daman and Nicobar Police.

As per the allegation of the woman, she was gangraped by two officials, in cluding the former chief secretary, in Andaman and Nicobar Islands at his of ficial residence. Following the allegation, a Special Investigation Team has been constituted, headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police, for investigation and a case has been registered at the Aberdeen police station.

The woman alleged that the other officer who was involved in the rape was Labour commissioner R L Rishi and they indulged in the alleged crime on two occasions. When contacted, Narain told PTI last week that he cannot comment on the issue as “the matter is sub judice”. The woman lodged the complaint with the po lice on August 21 in which she gave a detailed account of the alleged sexual attack on her twice - in April and May - and requested for pre serving the CCTV footage of the then chief secretary’s residence for evidence.

Congress presidential poll, Gehlot, once a frontrunner for the post, said his ties with the family will be the “same for life”.

“Even after October 19, my relation with the Gandhi family will remain the same as it has been for the last 50 years. I can say this with certainty,” he said.

“Vinoba Bhave had once said his relationship with Gita Mata was beyond reason. I have a similar re lationship with the Gandhi family and it will remain like that for life,” Gehlot said.

Gehlot was a front runner for the Congress president’s post but there were subsequent political developments in Rajasthan with a Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting held at the chief minister’s residence here on September 25. It was seen as an exercise to replace Gehlot as the Rajasthan chief minister with Pilot, in line with the party’s “one man, one post” policy.

The meeting, however, could not take place as the MLAs loyal to Gehlot held a separate meet and submit ted their resignation letters to Assembly Speaker C P Joshi, in protest against any move

to appoint Pilot to the top post. Gehlot subsequently apologised to Sonia Gandhi in Delhi for not being able to get a resolution passed at the CLP meeting and said he would not be contesting the party’s presidential poll, fol lowing which Kharge filed his nomination.

Kharge is pitted against Shashi Tharoor in the Con gress presidential poll, the results of which will be de clared on October 19.

On the prevailing po litical situation in Rajsthan and the recent developments over the implementation of the Congress’s “one man, one post” policy, Gehlot said Kharge would win the party’s presidential poll and answer these questions.

Gehlot and Pilot were at loggerheads over the chief minister’s post when the Congress came to power in Rajasthan in December 2018. Gehlot was appointed to the top post, while Pilot was made his deputy.

In July 2020, Pilot, along with 18 other MLAs, rebelled against Gehlot’s leadership, which cost him the posts of deputy chief minister and state Congress chief.

Woman’s body found stuffed in suitcase in Gurgaon

GURGAON, OCT 17

(AGENCIES): The naked body of a woman was found stuffed in a suitcase near Iffco Chowk in Gur gaon on Monday evening, said police, adding that prima facie, probe found that she was murdered and her body was dumped in a suitcase near bushes on the roadside near Iffco Chowk on National Highway 48.

Police said the wom an, who appeared to be in her early twenties, was yet to be identified. According to police, around 4.30 pm, an autorickshaw driver no ticed a suitcase lying aban doned and went to check.

“When he opened it, he was shocked to see the body stuffed in the suitcase. She was naked and had in jury marks. It appears that an effort had been made by the accused to erase marks on her arm,” said a police officer.

Police said the driver reported this, following which several police teams reached the spot.

Deepak Saharan,

DCP West, said, “Dead body of a woman has been found in a suitcase. A pre liminary probe has found that the woman was mur dered elsewhere and her body was bundled into a suitcase and dumped here. Efforts are on to ascertain her identity. The body has been sent to the hospital and the DNA has been pre served. The autopsy would be conducted by a medical board. An FIR is being registered and the accused shall be arrested soon. The body does not appear to be too old suggesting that the death was recent. We will take the assistance of the crime branch and cyber cell teams to crack the case.”

SC grants 2 weeks to UP govt to file reply on Ashish’s plea

NEW D ELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday grant ed two weeks to the Ut tar Pradesh government to file its response on a plea filed by Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra, seeking bail in a case related to the Lakhim pur Kheri violence.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court

had on July 26 rejected the bail plea of Mishra.

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and B V Nagarathna said it will hear the matter on November 7.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Ash ish Mishra, told the court that notice was already is sued in the matter.

On October 3 last year, eight people were killed in

Lakhimpur Kheri during violence that erupted when farmers were protesting against Uttar Pradesh Dep uty Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s visit to the area.

Four farmers were mowed down by an SUV, in which Ashish Mishra was seated, according to the Ut tar Pradesh Police FIR.

Following the inci

dent, the driver and two BJP workers were allegedly lynched by angry farmers.

A journalist also died in the violence that triggered outrage among opposition parties and farmer groups agitating over the Centre’s now-repealed agricultural reform laws.

11-year-old from Manipur leading anti-coal mine protests in Chattisgarh

NEW DEL HI, OCT 17 (AGENCIES): Licypriya Kangujam, an 11-year-old climate activist, from Ma nipur is leading the protests against coal mining in the Hasdeo Aranya region of Chattisgarh, reports the Business Today

Located in the north ern district of Sarguja, Hasdeo is a biodiversityrich dense forest and is called “the lungs of Chat tisgarh”. The region also has one of the largest coal reserves in India. It is spread over 170,000 hectares and its forests are home to over 350 species of animals, according to The Diplomat.

There are 23 coal blocks in the region but the tribals have been protesting against them for over a de cade saying that any mining in the region will destroy the forest.

In March this year, the state government gave a goahead for coal mining in an area of 1,136 hectares for the second phase of Parsa East Kente Basan (PEKB), triggering a fresh bout of protests in Chattisgarh. The

protest intensified after the fel ling of trees started in September.

Now, a young activist from Manipur is leading the protests in the region. She has been carrying out marches, holding sit-in pro tests, delivering speeches, and putting out threads on Twitter arguing why coal mining should be stopped in Hasdeo.

In a series of tweets on Saturday, Kangujam said Hasdeo is a rich biodiver sity hotspot of the country covering 170,000 hectares of forest land with over 450 species of plants and ani mals. She said over 20,000 indigenous tribal people live in the region. “One

of the villagers said that whoever protests against the coal minings is arrested by filing false FIRs against them,” she said.

Kangujam in another tweet said the Parsa East Kente Basan (PEKB) coal mine, Parsa Coal mine and Kete Extension operated by Adani Group were a ‘no go’ zone for coal mining.

“But Adani got the forest clearance within 2 days for the last 2 mines after Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan CM) met Bhupesh Baghel (Chattisgarh CM) on April 26. Because the coal blocks were allotted to Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd and operated by Adani,” Kangujam said.

Andheri assembly bypoll: BJP withdrew as it sensed defeat of its nominee, says Raut

MUMBAI, OCT 17 (PTI):

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pulled out its nomi nee from the Andheri (East) Assembly bypoll fray realising that he would lose against the candidate of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, party MP San jay Raut said on Monday.

Raut, an accused in the Patra chawl redevelop ment case being probed by the Enforcement Director ate, spoke to some report ers and his supporters on the premises of the special court.

The Shiv Sena MP was produced before spe cial judge M G Deshpande on the expiry of his judicial custody which was extend ed till Tuesday.

After attending his bail hearing, Raut met with his supporters and fam ily members on the court premises.

Initially, he was re luctant to talk to reporters saying he was not allowed to speak as he is in judicial custody.

“The BJP had con ducted a survey which pre dicted that their candidate (Murji Patel) would lose the bypoll by at least 45,000 votes. This is the reason they decided to withdraw,” claimed Raut when asked about the BJP’s decision.

Queried on Maharash tra Navirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray writ ing a letter to Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Deven dra Fadnavis on Sunday asking him not to field the candidate, Raut replied “this is all scripted.”

Earlier in the day, Ma

harashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawa nkule said his party has decided not to contest the Andheri East bypoll.

“The BJP had previ ously also not contested some of the bypolls,” he said while asserting that Murji Patel would have won.

Patel, who withdrew his nomination papers on Monday, was pitted against Rutuja Latke, the wife of Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke whose death in May this year necessitated the bypoll, scheduled on No vember 3.

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Nokia, Ericsson ink deal to build 5G networks in India

NEW DELHI, OCT 17

(IANS): Handset makers Nokia and Ericsson on Monday announced that they have inked a deal with Reliance Jio to build one of the largest 5G networks in India. Nokia said that it has been selected as a major supplier by Reliance Jio to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment from its compre hensive AirScale portfolio countrywide in a multi-year deal. Meanwhile, Ericsson said it has entered into a long-term strategic 5G con tract with Jio to roll out 5G Standalone (SA) in India.

“We are pleased to be working with Nokia for our 5G SA deployment in India. Jio is committed to continuously investing in the latest network technologies to enhance the experience of all its customers. We are confident that our partner ship with Nokia will deliver one of the most advanced 5G networks globally,” Akash Ambani, Chairman, Chairman Reliance Jio, said

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in a statement. Under the contract, Nokia will supply equipment from its AirScale portfolio, including base stations, high-capacity 5G Massive MIMO antennas, and Remote Radio Heads (RRH) to support different spectrum bands and self-or ganising network software.

Reliance Jio plans to deploy a 5G standalone net work which will interwork with its 4G network. The network will enable Reli ance Jio to deliver advanced 5G services such as massive machine-to-machine com munications, network slic ing, and ultra-low latency.

“This is a significant win for Nokia in an im portant market and a new customer with one of the largest RAN footprints in the world.

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Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) Vivika Sema informed Naga land Post that there were more than 400 trees consisting of three species including eucalyptus, rain tress and Putranjiva which were planted around 1992.

He said the advisory given to the Forest department was to supervise the process of felling trees and sec tioning them.

According to Sema since the department alone cannot handle the entire felling operation which require around 20 to 30 workers, use of portable electric sawing machines and other technical expertise, it was decided to give the entire responsibil ity to professionals. He also admitted that there were minor glitches on the first day of the but expressed satisfac tion that on the first day alone, 95 trees out of 403 were felled.

Sema said that the it was esti mated that it would take five days for the completion of the work but in view of the fast-pace of work on the first day, it is presumed that the operation could be completed ahead of schedule.

The official informed that the entire process has been given to some environmental activists (NGO)-- for cutting, sectioning and clearing the entire area. It was also learnt that

the development of the area will be carried out by the NGO/environ mental activists. Since there was some miscommunication and lack of coordination between various depart ments, with no clear-cut directive, a senior district administration official informed that a meeting will be held on Tuesday to clear things out.

Meanwhile, some of the resi dents around Naga Shopping Arcade area expressed dismay that most of them could not move out of their homes due to the restriction imposed. A resident suggested that proper planning was required so that people were not affected to carry out their normal life.

Another resident said that the authorities should have cut down those trees that were posing threat to human lives rather than issuing a blanket order to bring down all trees.

“If one has to bring down a tree, another tree should be planted, as trees greatly contribute to the environ ment,” he said.

In order to be accountable and transparent, he said every tree should be numbered and taken note of the quantity of log/timber. Once this is done, he said the log/timber sawed has to be auctioned and not sold randomly. All these are important procedures that the government has to follow, he added.

State gears up for 23rd Hornbill Festival

consider constructing them attached to the morungs. They also expressed concern over the construction of morungs at Kisama as some tribes had constructed con crete ones and asked the department to frame a policy for maintaining Naga heritage village.

They further suggested the department to put in more efforts in improving food and lodging for cultural troupes considering the

distance they travelled from remot est part of the State to the festival venue. Expressing concern over the ENPO decision to abstain from participating in the festival, rep resentatives from Ao Senden said the essence of the festival would go away even if one tribe did not take part in the festival and wanted to know from the department whether the festival would still go ahead if ENPO did not participate.

Ao Senden also sought more

focus on domestic tourists and not solely on international tourists, besides keeping Kisama morungs functional throughout the year.

The representatives also em phasised showcasing more tradi tions and suggested construction of bio-toilets attached to the morungs.

Lotha Hoho representatives clarified that the Lothas had set up a concrete morung since maintain ing the same every year was costly. They however assured to give it a

SC reprimands Nagaland on extension of service to DGP

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At the time of appointment he was the senior most and the officer next to him (in seniority) is Sunil Acharya, who has been deputed to Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), was not being relieved. Since 2013 in Nagaland, we have had DGPs from outside the state.”

“Did Nagaland, at any point of time, inform the court that Longkumer did not have 30 years of experience. Isn’t it a breach of faith reposed in you. What is the need for giving a six months exten sion?” the court asked.

The counsel said a wrong impression is being created but the State does not favour any particular person for the top position in the police establishment. It is faced with a very peculiar situation as there are no senior officers avail able who could succeed Longkum

er, he said. The bench then noted in its order that on March 23, 2022 the Nagaland government had rec ommended a panel of five names, including that of Longkumer, and forwarded their career records to the UPSC for appointment to the post of the DGP which was to fall vacant on August 31, 2022 due to the superannuation of Longkumer.

The UPSC replied to the proposal with its letter dated April 1, 2022, in which it pointed out certain deficiencies, especially that since the vacancy would be arising due to the superannuation of Longkumer, who is from the Chhattisgarh cadre, his name is re quired to be deleted and only those of the Nagaland cadre be included.

The bench noted the Union Ministry of Home Affairs also considered and allowed the pro posal of the state government dated

August 31, 2022 seeking a six-month extension of ser vice for Longkumer which was granted. The court also noted the MHA was not given the details of the let ter sent by the UPSC dated April 1, 2022. Longkumer was appointed as the DGP on June 27, 2018. He was given one-year extension last year till August 31, 2022. This year he was again given and extension of six months.

In July, 2018, the top court had passed a slew of directions on police re forms in the country and restrained all States and UTs from appointing any po lice officer as acting DGPs to avoid favouritism and nepotism in such high-level appointments.

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traditional touch during the festival.

Representatives from Garo tribe insisted that Garo culture and tradition should be printed in the brochures printed by the depart ment since this was missing. Issues related to fire safety, car pass, etc, were also discussed at the meeting. Meanwhile, additional director Tourism, Veyielo Doulo informed that around five Southeast Asian countries were expected to take part in this year’s Hornbill Festival.

96 pc turnout in Congress presidential polls

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He, however, said that he cannot force anyone to attend someone’s meeting, reacting to Tharoor’s charge that there was no level playing field. Kharge is considered the favourite for his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and has the backing of senior leaders, even as Tha roor has pitched himself as the “candidate of change”. Mistry said the exercise started around two years ago and more than 9,900 delegates, one from ev

ery block in the country, were selected for this election. “The most satisfactory thing for us was that in all states where polling booths were set up, no adverse incident was reported. This is a big achievement... polls were held in an open pro cess and in a peaceful manner,” Mistry said. He further said a total of 50 delegates, including Rahul Gandhi, participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, cast their vote in the polling booth set up at camp site near Ballari

in Karnataka. The last elec tion for the post of Congress president was held in 2000 when Sonia Gandhi handed Jitendra Prasada a crushing defeat. The Nehru-Gandhi family has been at the helm of the party for about 40 years since Independence. The five family members to take on the mantle of party president included Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gan dhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

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Nokia, Ericsson ink deal to build 5G networks in India

NEW DELHI, OCT 17

(IANS): Handset makers Nokia and Ericsson on Monday announced that they have inked a deal with Reliance Jio to build one of the largest 5G networks in India. Nokia said that it has been selected as a major supplier by Reliance Jio to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment from its compre hensive AirScale portfolio countrywide in a multi-year deal. Meanwhile, Ericsson said it has entered into a long-term strategic 5G con tract with Jio to roll out 5G Standalone (SA) in India.

“We are pleased to be working with Nokia for our 5G SA deployment in India. Jio is committed to continuously investing in the latest network technologies to enhance the experience of all its customers. We are confident that our partner ship with Nokia will deliver one of the most advanced 5G networks globally,” Akash Ambani, Chairman, Chairman Reliance Jio, said

(From p-1)

in a statement. Under the contract, Nokia will supply equipment from its AirScale portfolio, including base stations, high-capacity 5G Massive MIMO antennas, and Remote Radio Heads (RRH) to support different spectrum bands and self-or ganising network software.

Reliance Jio plans to deploy a 5G standalone net work which will interwork with its 4G network. The network will enable Reli ance Jio to deliver advanced 5G services such as massive machine-to-machine com munications, network slic ing, and ultra-low latency.

“This is a significant win for Nokia in an im portant market and a new customer with one of the largest RAN footprints in the world.

(From p-1)

Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) Vivika Sema informed Naga land Post that there were more than 400 trees consisting of three species including eucalyptus, rain tress and Putranjiva which were planted around 1992.

He said the advisory given to the Forest department was to supervise the process of felling trees and sec tioning them.

According to Sema since the department alone cannot handle the entire felling operation which require around 20 to 30 workers, use of portable electric sawing machines and other technical expertise, it was decided to give the entire responsibil ity to professionals. He also admitted that there were minor glitches on the first day of the but expressed satisfac tion that on the first day alone, 95 trees out of 403 were felled.

Sema said that the it was esti mated that it would take five days for the completion of the work but in view of the fast-pace of work on the first day, it is presumed that the operation could be completed ahead of schedule.

The official informed that the entire process has been given to some environmental activists (NGO)-- for cutting, sectioning and clearing the entire area. It was also learnt that

the development of the area will be carried out by the NGO/environ mental activists. Since there was some miscommunication and lack of coordination between various depart ments, with no clear-cut directive, a senior district administration official informed that a meeting will be held on Tuesday to clear things out.

Meanwhile, some of the resi dents around Naga Shopping Arcade area expressed dismay that most of them could not move out of their homes due to the restriction imposed. A resident suggested that proper planning was required so that people were not affected to carry out their normal life.

Another resident said that the authorities should have cut down those trees that were posing threat to human lives rather than issuing a blanket order to bring down all trees.

“If one has to bring down a tree, another tree should be planted, as trees greatly contribute to the environ ment,” he said.

In order to be accountable and transparent, he said every tree should be numbered and taken note of the quantity of log/timber. Once this is done, he said the log/timber sawed has to be auctioned and not sold randomly. All these are important procedures that the government has to follow, he added.

State gears up for 23rd Hornbill Festival

consider constructing them attached to the morungs. They also expressed concern over the construction of morungs at Kisama as some tribes had constructed con crete ones and asked the department to frame a policy for maintaining Naga heritage village.

They further suggested the department to put in more efforts in improving food and lodging for cultural troupes considering the

distance they travelled from remot est part of the State to the festival venue. Expressing concern over the ENPO decision to abstain from participating in the festival, rep resentatives from Ao Senden said the essence of the festival would go away even if one tribe did not take part in the festival and wanted to know from the department whether the festival would still go ahead if ENPO did not participate.

Ao Senden also sought more

focus on domestic tourists and not solely on international tourists, besides keeping Kisama morungs functional throughout the year.

The representatives also em phasised showcasing more tradi tions and suggested construction of bio-toilets attached to the morungs.

Lotha Hoho representatives clarified that the Lothas had set up a concrete morung since maintain ing the same every year was costly. They however assured to give it a

SC reprimands Nagaland on extension of service to DGP

(From p-1)

At the time of appointment he was the senior most and the officer next to him (in seniority) is Sunil Acharya, who has been deputed to Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), was not being relieved. Since 2013 in Nagaland, we have had DGPs from outside the state.”

“Did Nagaland, at any point of time, inform the court that Longkumer did not have 30 years of experience. Isn’t it a breach of faith reposed in you. What is the need for giving a six months exten sion?” the court asked.

The counsel said a wrong impression is being created but the State does not favour any particular person for the top position in the police establishment. It is faced with a very peculiar situation as there are no senior officers avail able who could succeed Longkum

er, he said. The bench then noted in its order that on March 23, 2022 the Nagaland government had rec ommended a panel of five names, including that of Longkumer, and forwarded their career records to the UPSC for appointment to the post of the DGP which was to fall vacant on August 31, 2022 due to the superannuation of Longkumer.

The UPSC replied to the proposal with its letter dated April 1, 2022, in which it pointed out certain deficiencies, especially that since the vacancy would be arising due to the superannuation of Longkumer, who is from the Chhattisgarh cadre, his name is re quired to be deleted and only those of the Nagaland cadre be included.

The bench noted the Union Ministry of Home Affairs also considered and allowed the pro posal of the state government dated

August 31, 2022 seeking a six-month extension of ser vice for Longkumer which was granted. The court also noted the MHA was not given the details of the let ter sent by the UPSC dated April 1, 2022. Longkumer was appointed as the DGP on June 27, 2018. He was given one-year extension last year till August 31, 2022. This year he was again given and extension of six months.

In July, 2018, the top court had passed a slew of directions on police re forms in the country and restrained all States and UTs from appointing any po lice officer as acting DGPs to avoid favouritism and nepotism in such high-level appointments.

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Representatives from Garo tribe insisted that Garo culture and tradition should be printed in the brochures printed by the depart ment since this was missing. Issues related to fire safety, car pass, etc, were also discussed at the meeting. Meanwhile, additional director Tourism, Veyielo Doulo informed that around five Southeast Asian countries were expected to take part in this year’s Hornbill Festival.

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He, however, said that he cannot force anyone to attend someone’s meeting, reacting to Tharoor’s charge that there was no level playing field. Kharge is considered the favourite for his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and has the backing of senior leaders, even as Tha roor has pitched himself as the “candidate of change”. Mistry said the exercise started around two years ago and more than 9,900 delegates, one from ev

ery block in the country, were selected for this election. “The most satisfactory thing for us was that in all states where polling booths were set up, no adverse incident was reported. This is a big achievement... polls were held in an open pro cess and in a peaceful manner,” Mistry said. He further said a total of 50 delegates, including Rahul Gandhi, participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, cast their vote in the polling booth set up at camp site near Ballari

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Waves of suicide drones strike Ukraine’s capital

KYIV, OCT 17 (AP): Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital on Monday, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one of them while sending people scurrying for shelter or trying to shoot down the kamikazes.

The concentrated use of the drones was the second barrage in as many weeks — after months where air attacks had become a rarity in central Kyiv.

The assault sowed ter ror and frayed nerves as blasts echoed across the city. Energy facilities were struck, and one drone slammed into a residential building, killing four people, authorities said.

The drones appeared to include Iranian-made Shaheds. Intense, sustained bursts of gunfire rang out as they buzzed overhead, ap parently from soldiers trying to destroy them.

Others headed for shel ter, nervously scanning the skies. But Ukraine has be come grimly accustomed to attacks nearly eight months into the Russian invasion, and city life resumed as rescuers picked through the

NATO begins nuclear exercises amid war tensions

BRUSSELS, OCT 17 (AP):

NATO on Monday began its long-planned annual nuclear exercises in northwestern Europe as tensions simmer over the war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use any means to defend Russian territory.

Fourteen of NATO’s 30 member countries were due to take part in the exercises, which the military alliance said would involve around 60 aircraft including fighter jets and surveillance and refuelling planes. The bulk of the war games will be held at least 1,000 kilometres (625 miles) from Russia’s borders.

U.S. long-range B-52 bomb ers will also take part in the manoeuvres, dubbed Stead fast Noon, which will run until Oct. 30. NATO is not permitting any media access.

NATO said that training flights will take place over Belgium, which is hosting Steadfast Noon this year, as well as over the North Sea and the United Kingdom. The exercises involve fighter jets capable of carrying nu clear warheads, but do not involve any live bombs. The exercises were planned be fore Putin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine in Feb ruary. Russia usually holds its own annual manoeuvrers around the same time, and NATO is expecting Moscow to exercise its nuclear forces sometime this month.

debris. Previous Russian air strikes on Kyiv were mostly with missiles. Mayor Vi tali Klitschko said Monday’s barrage came in successive waves of 28 drones — in what many fear could be come a more common mode of attack as Russia seeks to avoid depleting its stockpiles of long-range precision mis siles. Five drones plunged into Kyiv itself, said Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. In the Kyiv region, at least 13 were shot down, all of them flying in from the south, said Yurii Ihnat, a spokesman for Ukraine’s air force.

One strike appeared

to target the city’s heating network, hitting an opera tions centre.

Another slammed into a four-story residential building, ripping a large hole in it and collapsing at least three apartments on top of each other. Four bodies were recovered, including those of a woman who was six months pregnant and her husband, Klitschko said. An older woman and another man also were killed there.

An Associated Press photographer caught one of the drones on camera, its triangle-shaped wing and pointed warhead clearly vis

ible against the blue sky.

“The whole night, and the whole morning, the enemy terrorises the civil ian population,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen skyy said in a social media post. “Kamikaze drones and missiles are attacking all of Ukraine.”

“The enemy can attack our cities, but it won’t be able to break us,” he wrote.

Andrii Yermak, head of the presidential office, posted on social media that Shahed drones were among those used.

Zelenskyy, citing Ukrainian intelligence ser vices, has previously alleged Russia has ordered 2,400 of the Shahed drones from Iran.

Russia has rebranded them as Geran-2 drones — meaning “geranium” in Russian. A photo of de bris from one of Monday’s strikes, posted by Klitschko, showed the word Geran-2 marked on a mangled tail fin. Iran has previously de nied providing Russia with weapons, although its Revo lutionary Guard chief has boasted about providing

UK’s new finance minister reverses all of Prime Minister Liz Truss’ tax cuts

LONDON, OCT 17 (PTI): Britain’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt on Monday reversed almost all of Prime Minis ter Liz Truss’s tax cuts an nounced in the mini-budget last month and scaled back the expensive energy bills support in an emergency fiscal statement to reassure the jittery financial markets.

Hunt’s emergency financial statement is an attempt to reassure the markets about the coun try’s “fiscal sustainability” and calm the shockwaves of his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget last month. Hunt said a 1 pence cut to income tax will be delayed “indefinitely” until the UK’s finances improve, instead of being introduced in April 2023 as announced by his predecessor.

The government’s en ergy price guarantee will only be universal until April next year and not for two years as originally planned.

“The government has today decided to make fur ther changes to the minibudget, and to reduce un helpful speculation about what they are, we’ve decided to announce these ahead of the medium-term fiscal plan, which happens in two weeks,” Hunt said in a statement. He announced a reversal of almost all of the tax measures set out

in Kwarteng’s so-called Growth Plan that had not been legislated for in Parlia ment yet. With the 1p cut cancelled, the basic rate of income tax will remain at 20 per cent indefinitely, worth around GBP 6 billion a year.

The 1.25 percentage points increase in dividend tax, which took effect in April this year, will now not be cut, valued at around GBP 1 billion a year.

Further reversals in clude cancelling a new VATfree shopping scheme for non-UK visitors to Great Britain and a freezing of al cohol duty rates from Febru ary 2023 for a year will also not go ahead.

On the energy price guarantee that helps house holds and businesses with soaring electricity bills, Hunt said the objective of limiting it to six months is to design a “new approach that will cost the taxpayer significantly less than planned, whilst ensuring enough support for

King Charles III won’t invite Harry to his coronation if Harry’s memoir slams Camilla

LONDON, OCT 17 (AGENCIES): If Prince Harry criticises Queen Con sort Camilla in his future memoir, King Charles III won’t invite the Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, to his coronation, a source has claimed. On May 6, 2023, a coronation ceremony for the King and the Queen Consort will take place at London’s Westmin ster Abbey. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won’t be permitted to attend the coronation, according to a friend of Camilla, if the highly-awaited book men tions Camilla. According to the insider, Charles’ intense ly-passionate relationship with Camilla and his feelings of protectiveness toward her are to blame for this, re ported the Daily Beast.

Prince Harry’s opin ion about his stepmother Camilla, along with his rift with brother Prince Wil liam, tumultuous relation ship with Prince Charles and the aftermath of his and Meghan’s departure from

the Royal Family in 2020, will likely all be covered in the memoir, which Penguin Random House is planning to publish.

Since Charles is so fiercely protective of Camil la, nearly everything he has done over the past 20 years has been aimed at helping the public accept Camilla, the source said. If Harry forces Charles to make a decision by bashing Camilla in his book, there is no doubt he would select Camilla, the source added. It is, however, fine for Harry to criticise Charles as “he can take it on the chin”, the friend said.

It has been previously reported that Prince Harry’s book, originally scheduled for publication in 2022, may be delayed even further because he is rewriting some of it in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II’s demise. The book is being edited because the Duke of Sussex does not mean to offend anyone, ac cording to a Royal expert.

The Royal Household declined to comment on the report. The guest list is still up for discussion, accord ing to sources at the palace, leaving Harry and Meghan’s inclusion or exclusion delib erately open.

those in need”.

“Any support for busi nesses will be targeted to those most affected and the new approach will better incentivise energy efficiency. The most important objec tive for our country right now is stability,” said Hunt.

After meetings with Prime Minister Liz Truss at her Chequers country retreat and the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, on Sunday, the new finance minister who took over at the UK Treasury on Friday decided to fast-track some of the measures before a detailed Medium-Term Fiscal Plan as scheduled for October 31.

It was widely expected that more of the so-called “Trussonomics” of unfund ed tax cuts would be ditched in Monday’s statement after the Bank of England’s emer gency long-term govern ment bond buying measures come to an end.

It will be followed up by a statement in the House of Commons on Monday evening. The UK Treasury had confirmed that the Gov ernor of the Bank of Eng land and the Head of the UK’s Debt Management Office have been briefed on these new plans, which seem to already have a positive impact on the markets as the Pound Sterling rebounded against the US Dollar.

arms to the world’s top pow ers, without elaborating.

The drones pack an explosive charge and can linger over targets before nosediving into them. Their blasts jolted people awake early on Monday.

They included Snizha na Kutrakova, 42, who lives close to where one of the drones came down.

“I’m full of rage,” she said. “Full of rage and hate.”

The Russian military said it used “long-range air- and sea-based highprecision weapons” to fire at Ukrainian military and energy facilities. The strikes hit “all assigned targets”, Defence Ministry spokes man Igor Konashenkov said.

Iranian-made drones have been used elsewhere in Ukraine in recent weeks against urban centres and infrastructure, including power stations.

They are comparative ly cheap, costing in the re gion of USD 20,000. Their use in swarms presents a challenge to Ukrainian air defences, said Ihnat, the air force spokesman.

EU slaps human rights sanctions on Iran, warns of more over Ukraine

BRUSSELS, OCT 17 (AGENCIES): The Euro pean Union prepared to slap sanctions on Iran on Mon day over a human rights crackdown and several min isters warned of separate, new sanctions if Tehran’s involvement in Russia’s war on Ukraine was proven.

The EU ministers are set to impose travel bans and freeze the assets of some 15 Iranians involved in the government crackdown that began last month against demonstrators outraged by the death in police cus tody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.

“We will launch … a sanctions package today that will hold accountable those who are responsible for the brutal crimes against women, youths and men,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters as she arrived at the meeting in Luxembourg.

“Amongst those listed is the so-called morality po lice – morality police being a misnomer, actually, if you see what crimes are commit ted there.”

Additional EU sanc tions on Iran will not be limited to blacklisting some individuals should Tehran’s involvement in Russia’s war on Ukraine be proven, Lux embourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said.

“Then it will be no lon ger about some individuals to be sanctioned,” he told reporters as he arrived for the EU meeting.

Ukraine has reported a spate of Russian attacks with Iranian-made Sha hed-136 drones in recent weeks. Iran denies supplying the drones to Russia, while the Kremlin has not com mented.

“What we can see now: Iranian drones are used apparently to attack in the

middle of Kyiv, this is an atrocity,” Denmark’s For eign Minister Jeppe Kofod said, saying the EU had to take “concrete steps” in response to that, as well as Tehran cracking down on protesters at home.

France and Germany, both parties to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, have made it clear they believed new sanctions in connec tion to the drones used by Russia were necessary given that such transfers violated a resolution by the U.N. Security Council.

The EU could decide to move towards imposing new sanctions against Iran over the matter, according to two diplomats involved in preparing talks among the ministers, though no detailed decisions were ex pected on Monday.

“We will look for con crete evidence about the participation (of Iran in the Ukraine war),” Josep Borrell told reporters as he arrived for the meeting, adding Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba would take part in the gathering.

Fiji to host World Hindi Conference for first time next year

SINGAPORE, OCT 17 (PTI): Fiji will host the prestigious World Hindi Conference for the firsttime next year to make the country a new launching pad to popularise Hindi as a global language, accord ing to Indian High Com missioner to the South Pa cific nation PS Kartigeyan.

The decision to host the World Hindi Confer ence in Fiji was jointly taken by the Indian and the Fijian government, The Fiji Times reported.

The three-day confer ence, which would be held in the Fijian city of Nadi and envisaged to promote Hindi globally, would see

the participation of over 1,000 experts of the Indian language, including schol ars, writers and laureates, the newspaper quoted Kar tigeyan as saying.

“Fiji will host the prestigious World Hindi Conference for the first time next year. I’m not at liberty to announce the

dates though it has been finalised by both the gov ernments. We hope that it will be formally announced very soon,” he said.

Kartigeyan, who took over as the High Commis sioner of the archipelago nation in January, 2021, said the event would be co-hosted by both the In dian and the Fijian gov ernments. “I can broadly indicate it’s going to hap pen sometime in the first quarter of next year and it’s being planned in Nadi and this event will be co-hosted by both the Government of India and Government of Fiji,” he said.

Talking about the

agenda of the event, he said that about 1,000 delegates from around the world will participate in the event. He said this included a good number of par ticipants from Fiji but also from major Hindi speaking countries around the globe.

“It’s going to be a ma jor event and this is the first time it’s happening in Fiji and the Southern Hemi sphere,” he said.

Hindi has a very spe cial place in Fiji. It is one of the three official languages and Fiji-Hindi itself has a very unique history thanks to the girmit brothers and sisters who came here 130 years back.

Imran Khan stuns PML-N-led ruling coalition in bypolls

ISLAMABAD, OCT 17 (PTI): The Pakistan Teh reek-e-Insaf party led by former prime minister Im ran Khan on Monday swept the crucial by-elections, winning six out of eight Na tional Assembly seats and two out of three provincial assembly seats in Punjab, in another jolt to the Shehbaz Sharif government.

The main contest was between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Khan’s Paki stan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Eight seats of the Na tional Assembly (NA) and

Office Of The chungTOr uniOn Dimapur, chumukeDima, niulanD

Felicitation

With immense pride and joy, we the Chungtor Union Dimapur, Chumukedima & Niuland would like to congratulate mr. Sethrichem Sangtam for becoming a Member of State Food Commission, Nagaland.

The union is also grateful to him for bringing laurels to the union in particular and Sangtam Tribe in general.

Further we wish him all the success in his future endeavours.

three of the Punjab provin cial assembly fell vacant after the PTI lawmakers resigned following the top pling of Khan’s govern ment in April. Khan, who

contested seven National Assembly seats in the crucial by-elections held on Sun day, emerged victorious in six constituencies, building forward momentum in his drive to push the six-monthold PML-N-led government into announcing an early general election.

The 70-year-old crick eter-turned-politician was defeated on a seat in Ka rachi by a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which managed to clinch two National Assem bly seats — NA-157 Multan

and NA-237 Karachi — which were bagged by the PTI in the 2018 general elections. In Multan, former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani’s son Ali Musa Gil lani defeated Meher Bano, daughter of former foreign minister and PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi. This was the only NA seat where Khan did not contest the by-poll. The Multan contest was keenly watched as it showcased the influ ential Gilani and Qureshi families of the city fighting for a key seat.

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OFFICE OF THE SEYOCHUNG AREA UNION KOHIMA “Forward in Unity”

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The Office of the Seyochung Area Union Kohima, with immense pride and honour extend our heartiest congratulations to Ms. Yanglikhumla Sangtam, D/o Shri. L K Anar of Seyochung Village for securing the post of Junior Engineer under Works & Housing Department and also Mr. Khumlise Anar, S/o Shri. Chopongse Anar of Yingphire Village for securing the post of Junior Engineer (IT/Communication) under Power Department in the recently declared NPSCCTSE Examination 2022.

The union further wishes them good health and success in their future endeavours. Sd/- Sd/(Mr. P Alise Sangtam) (Mr. L. Sethricho Sangtam) President, SAUK General Secretary, SAUK

Firefighters work after a drone fired on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday. (AP/PTI)

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Training on ‘Smartphone Filmmaking’ underway in Kohima

A5-day training on “Smartphone Film making” began at the conference hall of the Directorate of Informa tion & Public Relations (DIPR) Kohima on Octo ber Monday. The training programme is being organ ised by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in collaboration with the department of IPR as part of the “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” with participants from all over the state.

Briefing the inaugural event, additional director IPR, Dzüvinuo Theünuo, informed that four online courses have been conduct ed with the FTII so far and in continuation with “Azaad Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, the FTII is conducting the train ing based on the good re sponse received from the training conducted earlier by IPR department.

Theünuo opined that to keep up with the fast pace requirements of the 21st century, the roles of the department have become mufti faceted and proactive.

Citing a few examples, she said that the department had posts like darkroom as sistant and cinema operator back then which testifies to the prevailing technologies of those times. She added that most of them are now

re-designated to more ap propriate designations such as assistant photographer, photographer, and techni cal supervisor to suit the current requirements and assignments.

She recalled that 10 years back, no one could have imagined that the de partment would be conduct ing such training courses which give them an idea as to how fast technology is changing and how the department is also trying to keep up with the changing technology. “Technology doesn’t wait for anyone, but we must try to keep up with the pace, who better than the premier technology institu tion in India and globally acclaimed FTII resource person with vast experi ence to educate and train

the upcoming generation interested in filmmaking in our state,” she added.

Theünuo said that the department’s journey into the official way of film making started way back in 2009 when it introduced its commissioned programmes. She added that earlier Naga professionals who were in terested in filmmaking in the state were professionally and technologically trained in video production and mass communication by DDK personnel through the IPR department, and opportunities were very lim ited. “Eventually, IPR was made the nodal department in film through far-sighted retired senior officers’ ini tiatives, and IPR started engaging with the trained professionals” she stated.

Samantha’s ‘Yashoda’ to release on November 11

Actress Samantha Prabhu’s next ‘Yas hoda’, a new-age action thriller, is all set to release in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi on November 11.

Produced by Sivalenka Krishna Prasad prestigious Sridevi Movies Production no. 14, Hari and Harish are directing this film.

Aiming to announce

the release date uniquely, the movie team made fans reveal the release date, in an interesting pixel cam paign. Thousands of fans participated in this and revealed the poster in less than 30 mins.

Speaking on the occa sion, producer Sivalenka Krishna Prasad said: “’Yas hoda’ is a new-age action thriller. Our movie has bal

anced quotient of mystery and emotions with gripping elements for audiences.”

Alongside Samantha, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Unni Mukundan, Rao Ramesh, Murali Sharma, Sampath Raj, Shatru, Mad hurima, Kalpika Ganesh, Divya Sripada, Priyanka Sharma and others are playing major roles.

(IANS)

She mentioned that it was a path-breaking initiative to work with the youth of the state who were genuinely interested in making film making.

The additional direc tor also said for every craft and art, one has to start from basics and one needs to learn the technical as pects for which the FTII has come in. She also expressed gratitude to the FTII team for proving the technical expertise and training the young upcoming profes sional of the state adding that the collaboration of FTII and IPR Department could be done only after 75 years which she said is still not late for taking the state filmmaking to the next level.

Course director prof. Ajmal Jami, in his short

speech on smartphone film making training, said that the FTII was there to engage with the trainees as everyone carries a smartphone in their pockets. He expressed enthusiasm to engage with the trainees and walk the path of filmmaking together and encouraged the trainees to be engaging and not to hesitate to get the best out of the training.

Registrar FTII, Sayyid Rabeehashmi, said filmmak ing is about creativity adding and that in spite of the tools, one is using to make films where the most important thing is creativity. He stated that FTII is for those people who want

to tell their story and who want to make a movie but cannot, due to lack of skills. Also briefly highlighting the trainees on the history of FTII, he said that the FTII has so far educated 14 thou sand and produced super hit films like “3 Idiots” and alumni like Rajkumar Rao and Shabana Azmi were students of the institute.

He added that in var ious industries and film cultures where films are being made with FTII as a knowledge partner has been excelling. He encour aged the trainees to take up postgraduate courses as this training is just the beginning of the filmmaking process.

Development Commissioner holds meeting with FTII Pune

The registrar, FTII, Sayyid Rabeehashmi, joint secretary IDAN, Reny Wilfred, officials from the In formation & Public Relations and Technical Education departments called on the Development Commissioner, Nagaland, Amardeep S. Bhatia at development com missioner’s office, Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima on October 17.

The meeting was conducted to hold preliminary discussions about the prospect of FTII offering various courses in film making and related courses for film en thusiasts in the State by collaborating with educational institutes and concerned government departments. It deliberated at length regarding logistic arrangements, targeted group of students and trainees, course contents and feasibilities of offering short term as well as long term courses. The meeting decided to further hold discussions with concerned stakeholders and take the project further.

Urvashi Rautela ‘chops off hair’ in support of Iranian women

Actress-singer Selena Go mez and American mod el Hailey Bieber recently posed together for a picture that may have seemed like an impos sibility to some fans.

The ladies joined forces at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ 2nd annual gala in Los Angeles recently, weeks after Hailey appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast and denied rumours she “stole” husband Justin Bieber from his ex-girlfriend Gomez, reports People magazine. The pair ap peared to be on good terms at the Los Angeles event as they were all smiles while posing for an impromptu photo opp. In one photo, Selena can be seen with her hand on Hailey’s leg, and in another, she has a full smile on her face as they stand closely.

According to People, the public display of sisterhood comes after the former’s bomb shell conversation on Alex Coo per’s podcast in September, when she addressed rumours of a feud between herself and the ‘Only Murders in the Building’ star Selena Gomez. Both women have seemingly attempted to shut down rumours of ill will between the two of them a few times over the years, and this time around, Hailey directly said that it is “not (her) character to mess with someone’s relation ship,” and explained that it’s “all love” between both her and Justin’s former partner.

“I can say, period, point blank, I was never with him when he was in a relationship with anybody - that’s the end of it,” Hailey said, quoted by People, about the timeline of her romance with Justin, 28, to whom she has since been mar ried for more than four years.

Actress Urvashi Rau tela, who had com pared herself to late Mahsa Amini, has now shared pictures of herself ‘chopping off hair’ in sup port of Iranian women protesting against Mahsa’s death. Urvashi took to In stgram and posted a note on Amini’s death. She was seen sporting a blue kurta as she sat on the floor as a man cut off her hair with scissors. Her back was towards the camera.

Alongside the post, she wrote about the protests in Iran, feminism and the death of Ankita Bhandari, who was killed in Uttara khand last month.

“Chopped my hair off! Cutting my hair in sup port of Iranian women and girls, who have been killed in protests at the death of

Mahsa Amini after her ar rest by Iranian morality police and for all the girls. And for 19-year-old girl, my Ankita Bhandari from Ut tarakhand,” Urvashi wrote. She added: “Around the world women are uniting in protest against the Iranian government by cutting their hair. Respect women. A global symbol for women’s revolutio... hair is seen as a symbol of the beauty of women. By chopping off hair in public, women are showing that they don’t care about society’s beauty stan dards and won’t let anything or anyone decide how they dress up, behave or live.

“Once women come together and consider one woman’s issue an issue of the entire womankind, femi nism will see a new vigour.” (IANS)

Smti T Apokla , D/o Lt. Mr Tulumeren was awarded the State Level Teachers Award 2022 in Recognition of her Valuable Service to the community as a Teacher of Outstanding Merit.

The Longkumerkidong Dimapur is proud of her achievement and wishes her the best in her future endeavours.

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Course director prof. Ajmal Jami speaking at the inaugural programme on smartphone filmmaking training at DIPR, Kohima on October 17. (DIPR)

Gomez, Hailey pose together, discard possibility of a feud

Mamata backs Ganguly; urges PM to allow him to run for ICC

am shocked by his removal from the BCCI president’s post,” she said. The Su preme Court had given a three-year extension to both BCCI president Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah, son of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Trinamool Congress supremo said.

Swiatek wins 8th title of season

Indian Wells and Miami,

as well as her third career Grand Slam title at the US Open.

Meanwhile, Vekic’s resurgent run through the draw came to an end at the hands of the World No.1, in the former Top 20 player’s second match of the day.

Skyrim wins women’s basketball

KOLKATA, OCT 17

(PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she was shocked that former India captain Sourav Ganguly was “deprived” of a second term as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president.

Banerjee, while talking to reporters at the Kolkata airport before leaving for a trip to the northern part of the state, also said she would urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene so that Ganguly is allowed to contest the elections for

International Cricket Coun cil (ICC) chief. The issue of ICC chairmanship will be up for discussion when the BCCI holds its Annual Gen eral Meeting on Tuesday in Mumbai, where Roger Binny, a member of the 1983 World Cup winning team, will replace Ganguly as the new Board President.

“Sourav Ganguly is not only the pride of Bengal but also of the entire nation. He has led the cricket team and BCCI with the utmost dedi cation and responsibility. He has proved himself to be an able administrator and I

“But for reasons not yet known, Jay Shah is still continuing as the BCCI secretary while Sourav Gan guly has been removed from the position. Our grievance is why Sourav Ganguly was let go from BCCI. We want to know on whose order it was done. We believe that there was injustice done to Ganguly,” she said. Every country that plays cricket knows about him, and it is a “matter of shame” that he was ousted from BCCI “un ceremoniously”, Banerjee said. “This is my humble request to PM Narendra Modi to allow Sourav to run for the ICC post. He is a national treasure,” she said.

World C’ship: Sameer wins silver in Junior Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol event

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (IANS): Sameer won a sil ver in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Junior event, on competition day five of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Rifle/ Pistol in Cairo, Egypt.

He got 23 hits in the medal match, finishing be hind Wang Shiwen of Chi na, who won gold with 25. Liu Yangpan won bronze in a match which pitted three Chinese against one Indian.

Sameer had shot 573 in qualification to finish fourth and then had 10 hits to Yangpan’s 12 in the rank ing round to make it to the medal round. Meanwhile teammate Udhayveer Sidhu also made it to the ranking

matches but finished fourth in his one to be eliminated. He was seventh in qualifica tion with a score of 569.

Three other Indians in the fray, Jatin (10th with 567), Adarsh Singh (13th with 565) and Harshaward han Yadav (16th with 562) could not make it beyond qualification.

Also in the day, the women’s Air Pistol Team reached the gold medal match scheduled for Tues day. Esha Singh, Shikha Narwal and Varsha Singh topped their first qualifica tion stage with a score of 855 and then came second to China’s Wang Siyu, Zhao Nan and Shen Yiyao with a score of 576 in stage two, to make the title round.

There was disappoint ment in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event how ever after the pair of Mehuli Ghosh and Arjun Babuta shot 630.0, to miss out on the medal rounds by a mar gin of 0.3 and finish seventh.

Elavenil Valarivan and Ki ran Ankush Jadhav were 17th with 627.5.

SAN DIEGO, OCT 17

(IANS): World No.1 Iga Swiatek took home her eighth title of the year after defeating qualifier Donna Vekic 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 here on Sunday.

Top-seeded Swiatek needed 1 hour and 47 min utes to earn the San Diego Open title with her tourleading 64th match-win of the year. Poland’s Swiatek has the most match-wins in a single season (including WTA Tour events and Billie Jean King Cup play) since Serena Williams won 78 matches in 2013.

Swiatek has had a near ly perfect year at American events, with a 24-1 win-loss record on U.S. soil in 2022. She adds the San Diego tro phy to triumphs in the States at the Sunshine Double of

Vekic’s semifinal was interrupted by rain on Satur day night with the Croatian trailing Danielle Collins 4-2 in the third set, but she valiantly fought back for a win in a third-set tie-break when that match resumed on Sunday.

After winning her two qualifying matches, Vekic had defeated four straight Top 25 players in this week’s main draw. But despite pushing Swiatek into a third set for the first time in their three meetings, overcoming the top seed was a step too far for Vekic. Swiatek won 82 percent of her secondservice points in the final, while Vekic only had a 39 percent success rate behind her own second serves. That helped Swiatek con vert four of her six break points on the day.

Winners with the organisers and tournament officials. (NP)

Correspondent KOHIMA, OCT 17 (NPN): Team Skyrim emerged as the winner of the three-day Women’s Basketball Tournament

organised by Vision Trinity Club, at Thizama 4th NAP ground, Kohima. Team Orca finished as runners-up out of the eight teams in this 4th edition which began on October 13.

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) was awarded to Reena Rai while Zasil hounuo Kehie was the re cipient of Vikeduo-ü Pi enyü Memorial award for the Most Promising Player.

Chess championship at Tseminyu

DIMAPUR, OCT 17 (NPN): The first ever Chess coaching camp-cum-1st Tseminyu district Chess Championship 2022 was conducted from October 12- 15 at Baptist Higher Secondary School Tseminyu.

The meet was organized by Youth Resources and Sports in collaboration with Nagaland Chess Association.

All together 185 participants took part in the coaching. In open category, Mohoki

ya Apon emerged as the champion, Haichu kath as 1st runner-up and Benkiya Apon. In under -18 years category, Sozin Rasu beat Akenyekent to win the title.

All the participants of coaching and tournament were awarded certificates.

Nagaland Chess Association has also set up Tseminyu District Chess Association headed by Mohokiya Apon as president and Benkiya Apon as secretary.

Spain rejects visa of 21 Indian wrestlers for U-23 meet

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): In a bizarre deci sion, the embassy of Spain has denied visas to 21 In dian wrestlers, who were to compete at the U-23 World Championship in Ponteve dra, on suspicion that they will not leave the territory before the expiry of visas, the national federation said on Monday.

The Wrestling Fed eration of India (WFI) had picked a 30-member squad for the Championship, that began on Monday, but only nine were granted visas.

India’s first ever Under-20 woman world Champion Antim Panghal was among the wrestlers who missed out on partici pation.

“This is something we have never faced be fore. Despite presenting

Jyothi breaks national record in 100m hurdles

BENGALURU, OCT 17 (PTI): Jyothi Yarraji on Monday created history by becoming the first Indian woman to clock a legal sub13 second time in 100m hurdles while smashing her own record at the National Open Athletics Champion ships here on Monday.

The 23-year-old Yar raji, representing Railways, cruised to victory in 12.82 seconds and, with the wind gauge reading 0.9m/s, she could not be denied her national record timing a second time.

She had won the same event in the National Games in Gandhinagar in a time of 12.79 seconds but was supported by wind that exceeded the permissible limit. Her earlier national record was 13.04 set in May.

Yarraji was unstop pable on Monday. She had already owned the meet mark with 13.18 seconds in the heats, bettering the record of 13.38 seconds set by Anuradha Biswal in Chennai 20 years ago.

In the final, she hit the front by the time the seven

athletes got to the second hurdle and was a comfort able winner.

The Railways star, who hails from Andhra Pradesh and trains in Bhubaneswar, capped a fine season, with a fumble only at the National Inter-State Championships in Chennai in June.

Volleyball referee clinic underway

She thus became the second fastest Asian in the event this year and earned a place just outside the con tinent’s all-time top 10 list.

It was the third time this year that she rewrote the national record. She broke Anuradha Biswal’s national mark of 13.38 set in 2002 with 13.11 in Loughborough University on May 22.

Four days later, she raised the bar to 13.04 sec onds in Vught, Netherlands. Earlier, she had a 13.09-sec ond effort in the Federation Cup in Kozhikode but was denied by excessive wind speed. Late on Sunday eve ning, Parshant Singh Kan hiya (Railways) claimed the men’s pole vault meet record when he cleared 5.15m.

the Indian government’s clearance and an invitation from the world governing body UWW, our wrestlers have been denied visas on the most frivolous ground,” WFI Assistant Secretary Vinod Tomar told PTI.

“We have got the re jection letters this evening (Monday) after we made a request to release the pass

ports as soon as possible. This is really bizarre. I re ally don’t know how the of ficer came to the conclusion that wrestlers and coaches won’t come back to India.”

The WFI had also ap plied for visas for nine of its coaches but only six got the visas.

Out of 10 free style wrestlers, only Aman

(57kg) got the visa while applications of nine others were rejected. Interestingly, three free style coaches wre granted visas. Six Greco Roman wrestlers and from among women only An kush (50kg) and Mansi (59kg) could secure visas.

“Now how can we send three coaches for one wrestler, so we are send ing Mr Jagmander Singh with Aman. Six Greco Ro man wrestlers have already reached Spain and two women wrestlers left on Sunday,” said Tomar.

“Our wrestlers are strong medal contenders, they have denied them the opportunity to shine on the big stage,” he added.

Mahabir Prasad, the chief of coach of Greco Roman squad, demanded a ban on Spain.

Qatar World Cup ticket sales near 3 million: Infantino

DOHA, OCT 17 (AGENCIES):Ticket sales for the soccer World Cup are approaching the threemillion mark ahead of the tournament kicking off in Qatar o n Nov. 20, FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino and event organisers said on Monday. The top three purchasing countries of the 2.89 million tickets sold are Qatar, the United States and Saudi Arabia, World Cup Chief Operating Officer Co lin Smith told a news con ference in Doha. Infantino, addressing the conference in a recorded video, said 240,000 hospitality pack ages had been sold for the month-long tournament, the first to be held in a Middle Eastern country.

Indiatocompetefor2027AsianCuphostingrights

NEW DELHI, OCT 17 (PTI): India and Saudi Arabia will compete for the hosting rights of the 2027 Asian Cup as three other interested nations have withdrawn their bids, the AFC announced on Monday.

If India wins the bid, it will be the first time the country will host the con tinental showpiece event. Saudi Arabia have won the continental title three times but never hosted the tournament. Iran with drew their bid a few days back while Uzbekistan had pulled out of the race in December 2020.

Since Qatar, the third interested nation, were confirmed as the host asso ciation for next year’s AFC Asian Cup, they withdrew

the bid for the 2027 edition.

“The AFC Executive Committee deliberated upon the bidding propos als for the AFC Asian Cup 2027 and shortlisted the All India Football Federa tion (AIFF) and the Saudi Arabian Football Federa tion (SAFF) as the final two bidders,” an AFC state ment said. The decision on the next host will be taken by the AFC Congress at its next meeting in February.

India had joined the race for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup but had pulled out early in October 2018.

“The decision brings to a close the bid propos al of the QFA who were considered to have with drawn from the 2027 race following their successful 2023 bid in accordance

with the applicable bidding regulations,” the statement added.

“Again, we thank our three Member Associa tions – the All India Foot ball Federation, the Qatar Football Association and the Saudi Arabian Football Federation - for submitting strong bids to host the AFC Asian Cup 2027.

“In the All India Foot ball Federation and the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, we have two exemplary bids, and I am confident that the Qatar Football Association will strengthen the foundations for the eventual 2027 hosts to build upon,” AFC Presi dent Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

As we grieve the sad demise of our Mother Late Khetoni A. Chishi, words are inadequate to express our deepest heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to our Associations, Councils, Fellowships, Groups, Unions, Dr. Manpa Phom and Nurses of Faith Hospital for your unreserved contribution Physically, Clinically, Materially, Financially and unconditional moral support through words of comfort and encouragement during her illness and at the ultimate demise on 3rd October 2022.

We would like to express from the depth of our heart that your prayers, presence, gifts and assistance have been an immeasurable source of help, encouragement, strength, consolidation which will continue to enlighten and cherish our hearts forever.

We are unable to thank each and everyone personally but it is our ardent prayer to Almighty God that you be richly blessed.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

KOHIMA, OCT 17 (NPN):

A three day long volleyball referee clinic under the aegis of Kohima District Volley ball Association (KDVA) got underway at Indira Gandhi Stadium, here on Monday.

A total of 42 partici

pants including 29 from Kohima, two from Phek, 4 from Chümoukedima, two from Niuland, three from Zunheboto and one each from Tseminyü and Peren were attending the camp.

International volleyball referee and All Manipur Volleyball Association ref eree coach, Romeo Singh,

will be the resource person during the clinic. Earlier, the inaugural programme was chaired by Mhalelhou Mere, welcome address was de livered by KDVA president Visasielie Suohu and KDVA secretary Neivikhotuo Vielie invoked God’s blessings. The clinic will culminate on October 19.

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KDVA officials with participants and resource person of the clinic at Kohima on Monday. (NP)

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T20 WC: India beat Aus by six runs in warm-up

BRISBANE/ HOBART,

OCT 17 (IANS/PTI): Mo hammed Shami made a surprise entry and picked up three wickets in the final over as India beat defending champions Australia by six runs in their first warm-up match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at The Gabba on Monday.

After fifties from KL Rahul (57) and Suryakumar Yadav (50) helped India post a challenging 186/7 in their 20 overs, Australia needed 16 runs off the last two overs to successfully chase down the total.

But Harshal Patel con ceded only five runs in a su perb 19th over and picked up the wicket of captain Aaron Finch, who top-scored with a 54-ball 76, apart from a brilliant run-out of Tim David by Virat Kohli’s di rect hit.

Shami was then a sur prise pick to bowl the final over after having not bowled in the entire match and made his mark by having Pat Cummins caught at long-on, thanks to a phe nomenal one-handed catch by Kohli at long-on.

Shami then nailed his last two yorkers right and knocked over Josh Inglis and Kane Richardson to seal a narrow win for India in a final over where four wickets fell, including that of Ashton Agar.

The chase of 187 for Australia started well as Mitchell Marsh got some batting practice with an 18-ball 35, before falling in the final over of power-play, while Finch got going from the other end too. India started with five bowlers in five overs but were ham

Selection camp for judoka players

DIMAPUR, OCT 17

(NPN): Under the aegis of Nagaland Olympic Associa tion (NOA), the Nagaland Judo Association (NJA) has invited judoka players of Nagaland State to selection camp to be held at Kohima for the forthcoming Northeast Olympic Games 2022 at Meghalaya.

The selection camp will be held on October 21 at Indira Gandhi (IG) Stadium, Kohima from 9 am and weigh-in will take place at 7 am. The camp will be conducted in seven weight categories. For men: 40 Kg, 45 Kg, 50 Kg, 55 Kg, 60 Kg, 66 Kg and 73 Kg and women: 34 Kg, 40 Kg, 44 Kg, 48 Kg, 52 Kg, 57 Kg and 63 Kg. Further details can be contacted at the fol lowing numbers: +91-9612155-250/ +91-8259-023-640 or e-mail: temsu.imsong@ gmail.com The coaching camp for the selected judoka players will commence from October 24 at IG Stadium, Kohima.

mered for runs by Marsh and Finch.

After Marsh fell to Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Steve Smith was next to fall, cleaned up by leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Glenn Maxwell smacked Chahal for four fours in his 16-ball 23, but nicked behind off Bhuvneshwar just as it felt he would last long at the crease.

Though Marcus Stoi nis fell cheaply to Arshdeep Singh, Finch and David had kept Australia in the match

till they lost their last six wickets for nine runs in the last two overs, something which will boost India’s confidence in death over bowling ahead of the main tournament.

Brief scores: India 186/7 in 20 overs (KL Ra hul 57, Suryakumar Yadav 50; Kane Richardson 4/30) beat Australia 180 all out in 20 overs (Aaron Finch 76, Mitchell Marsh 35; Mo hammed Shami 3/4, Bhu vneshwar Kumar 2/20) by six runs.

Scotland shock West Indies

Scotland dished out a perfect all-round display to stun two-time champions West Indies by 42 runs in a rain-interrupted Group B fixture of the T20 World Cup here on Monday.

The Richie Berringtonled side, on the other hand, need a win against Euro pean rivals Ireland to qualify for the Super 12 stage. A 20-minute rain stoppage also

aided Scotland’s cause as the conditions become slower at the at Bellerive Oval.

Brief scores: Scotland 160/5 in 20 overs (George Munsey 66 not out, Calum MacLeod 23; Jason Holder 2/14, Alzarri Joseph 2/28) beat West Indies 118 all out in 18.3 overs (Jason Holder 38, Kyle Mayers 20; Mark Watt 3/12, Michael Leask 2/14) by 42 runs.

NSF Martyrs’ Trophy: Viswemi FC demolish Grim FC 8-1

Correspondent

KOHIMA, OCT 17 (NPN):

Viswemi FC entered the round of 16 by demolishing Grim FC 8-1 in the 22nd NSF Martyr’s Memorial Trophy played at IG Sta dium here on Monday.

Viswemi’s Puzoto Vit su initiated the barrage of goals in the 20th, 39th, 53rd and 57th minutes of the game and earned himself a hat-trick. Another hat-trick was earned by Kelengol Toso, who scored in the 36th, 58th and 90th minutes.

The remaining goal was scored by Kelethuto Kin in the 43rd minute.The face saver goal for Grim FC was netted by Athingdang in the 76th minute.Highest scorer of the match, Puzoto Vitsu bagged the man of the match award.

In the second match of the day, Unity FC Mer iema beat Peraciezie Youth Organisation via tie-breaker after the match ended 2-2 in

the regulated time.

Peraciezie’s Vilazolie scored in the 5th minute. Three minutes later, Unity’s Vikeduolie leveled the score line. After the break, Vilazo lie took his team ahead by adding one more goal in the 84th minute.

This time again, it also took less than three minutes for Vikeduolie to score the

equalizer as the match head ed for a penalty shootout to decide the winner. Luck favoured Unity as they took the match via the tie breaker and made it to group of 16.

Vilazolie was adjudged as man of the match.

ShillongLajongFC debutstoday

Meanwhile, the talk of

the town, famed, Shillong Lajong FC from Meghalaya will be making its debut in the second match against Dzülouzou FC from Ko hima on Tuesday.

The team had earlier participated in Royal Gold Cup played at Khuochiezie, however, this will be its first time playing at IG Stadium.

Expectations are high as Shillong Lajong has been pitched as one of the top football clubs in the North east Region ranking past

even the famous Aizawl FC from Mizoram.

The 14 member squad of the Lajong FC included: Everbright Son, Wadajied Kynsai, Sangti Janai, Sam chaphrang, Yohaan Benja min, Sambo Oneel, Iihbor Lang, Ioanis Suchen, Co linsalmon, Gladdy Nelcen, Damolang and Atlanson.

TUESDAY’S MATCHES

Pheonix C&C Vs Pochury Students’ Union - 11 a.m. Dzülouzou FC Vs Shillong Lajong FC.

Gukesh stuns Carlsen; breaks Prag’s record

CHENNAI, OCT 17 (PTI):

Less than 24 hours after Arjun Erigiasi showed the way, a fortuitous D. Gukesh brought down World cham pion Magnus Carlsen in the $150,000 Aimchess rapid online chess tournament on Monday.

In the ninth round of the 15-round league phase, Gukesh played white and appeared lost after his 25th move, Sportstar reported. Luckily for the youngster, Carlsen responded with a rook-move which proved a huge blunder.

Gukesh seized his chance while Carlsen, play ing from a log cabin in northern Sweden, realised his mistake and resigned on the 29th move for his first loss to the rising Indian star.

Gukesh, the youngest Indian Grandmaster and the second behind Viswanathan Anand in classical ratings, also became the youngest to beat Carlsen after he be came the World champion in 2013.

Interestingly, Gukesh

broke the record of fellow Chennai-teenager R Prag gnanandhaa. In Febru ary, Praggnanadhaa was 16 years, six months and 10 days old when he beat Carlsen in the Airthings Masters. Gukesh surpassed the mark on Monday at 16 years, four months and 20 days.

“Obviously, beating Magnus is always special but I was not really very proud of that game,” was Gukesh’s candid admission.

Carlsen said, “I was re ally disappointed because I’d seen an easy way to win, but I thought I’d seen something

even easier, but I hadn’t seen his threat of trapping the queen in the middle of the board.”

Asked about his recent losses to Indian youngsters, Carlsen said, “Pragg is the only one I’ve lost multiple times to. As for Arjun and Gukesh..., Arjun… I’ve generally beaten, Gukesh… very similar.”

About Gukesh, Carlsen said, “I think Gukesh has been extremely impressive in classical chess recently. Per haps this rapid win wasn’t his proudest effort, even though getting a win is al ways nice.”

Gukesh, placed third with Arjun and Carlsen, won three out of four rounds, including the one against-placed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, but lost to new leader Jan-Krzsztof Duda.

Arjun, who lost to Mamedyarov and ended the day with a loss to team mate Aditya Mittal, defeated Eric Hansen and Vincent Keymer.

India lose 0-5 to Brazil; end U-17 WC campaign with all-loss

BHUBANESWAR, OCT 17 (PTI): India ended their FIFA Women’s Under-17 World Cup campaign with an all-loss record and without scoring a goal as they suffered a 0-5 defeat to formidable Brazil in their last group match here on Monday.

Debutants India, who had qualified for the agegroup showpiece by virtue of being hosts, had lost to USA (0-8) and Morocco (03) in their earlier Group A matches. They finished last in the four-team group without any point while conceding 16 goals in the three matches.

Aline (40th and 51st minute), who was a constant threat to the Indian defence with her pace and guile, as well as substitute Lara (86th and 90+3) scored a brace each after Gebi Berchon had given the South American

champions a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute.

The Indians chased the ball a lot and tried to re main organised and in shape against their physically and technically far more supe rior opponents. The South American champions had 70 per cent possession in the first half. After her attempt went just a few inches wide off the

target in the ninth minute, Berchon made amends as she made a clinical finish, connecting a fine cross from the right by Ana Flavia who dodged past India captain and left wing back Astam Oraon.

India striker Neha had a chance in the 30th minute, but her shot was feeble and did not create much problem

to goalkeeper Leilane.

The relentless attack from the Brazilians bore fruit in the 40th minute when Aline beat a diving Melody for the second goal after Ana Flavia brilliantly sent a low cross from the right. Brazil scored two gem of goals from long range in the second half to settle the issue. First, Aline curled in a powerful right footer at the top left corner of the Melody’s goal in the 51st minute which gave no chance to the Indian goalkeeper.

Just four minutes before the end of regulation time, Lara fired in another shot from outside the box to beat Melody -- who otherwise had a decent outing with a few fine saves -- all ends up for the fourth goal of the match.

Lara then completed her brace in the third minute of the added time.

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Indian captain Rohit Sharma, left, gestures to teammate Mohammed Shami. (AP/PTI)

Players of Viswemi (blue) and Grim during the first match on Monday. (NP)

Minister of PHED, Jacob Zhimomi felicitated the champions of U-17 Subroto Cup at his official residence on Monday. Zhimomi also interacted with the players. The team was led by Mughato Aye as coach and Akihito Zhimomi as team manager.

Dommaraju Gukesh

Players of India and Brazil vie for the ball. (PTI)