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Vol XXXI No. 321

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Congress protests bad roads in Dimapur THREATENS TO PARALYZE STATE GOVT IF ROADS NOT REPAIRED BY DECEMBER 31

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): Dimapur District Congress Committee (DDCC), along with Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) minority cell, organised a protest rally against bad roads in Marwaripatti area and Dhobinala junction here on Monday.

The event was supported by Youth Congress, Mahila Congress, National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), Kisan Cell, Seva Dal and Youth Brigade.

Addressing the gathering at Marwaripatti, NPCC president K Therie, warned that if the State government failed to construct roads

by December 31, 2021, Congress would “paralyse” the functioning of the government and would not allow the government to collect tax and also gherao

ENSF reaffirms Sept 16 order DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has reaffirmed its September 16, 2020 order to eastern individual intending to apply against the readvertisement (no. AR-8/NSSB5/2020 dated Kohima 4th Oct’ 2021) and advertisement (no. AR-8/NSSB1/2021 dated Kohima 4th Oct’ 2021) regarding Nagaland Staff Selection Board (NSSB) to refrain from applying unless the state government addressed its genuine and legitimate demands (charter of demand no. 3 & 4).

ENSF president Chingmak Chang and general secretary Khomo P. warned that the individual concerned would be solely held responsible in the event of failure to comply with its directive.

NSCN (I-M) clarifies

DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): NSCN (I-M) has clarified that the October 23 press statement issued by its MIP, relating to the ongoing Indo-Naga political talks, was “misquoted and disinformed” by some media houses, thereby creating confusion in the minds of the people. In a press note issued through the NSCN (I-M) talk secretary W Zimik, the organisation said that despite differences on certain issues, it wished to put on record that NSCN was serious and committed to concretise the Indo-Naga political talks and arrive at a tangible solution based on the principle of Framework Agreement.

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K Therie speaks at the protest site on Monday. (NP)

the PWD offices. “This is our commitment to the people of Dimapur,” Therie said and appealed to all business establishments not to pay tax to the State government, if it failed to construct roads.

Dimapur being the commercial hub of Nagaland, with the state’s wholesale community catering to the entire State and even neighbouring states, Therie lamented that for the last

18 years, governments rule by regional parties have been showing step motherly treatment to Dimapur and completely ignoring interests of the people here.

He said apart from the national highway at Dimapur, the State government on its part, had not spent a penny for the development of Dimapur nor filled even a single pot hole.

Reminding that Dimapur is the highest revenue

generator for the state in terms of sales tax, income tax, GST, etc., Therie, however, alleged that the revenue collected through taxes had been looted and was not spent for public welfare.

He said the State government has only been successful in collecting money and pocketing it but not utilising for people.

He also took legislators of Dimapur to task for making tall promises, but not even managing to fill up the potholes.

Therie said Dimapur’s traffic congestion is very worsening but the legislators have no idea nor interest for providing parking lots, yet promising to make flyovers in the city.

Seeing so much neglect of the town, he remarked that he often got confused whether it was due to public not voicing their concern or the gov-

ernment not considering Dimapur a part of the State.

He said Congress brings changes and cited Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and particularly Guwahati. He said Congress chief minister Tarun Gogoi transformed Guwahati city with super expressways. However, the BJP government in Assam has only set up toll booths along the highways connecting Nagaland and which costs a motorist Rs.1000 to ply over the highways.

On the other hand, he said goods vehicles entering Dimapur have to pay tax to at least nine outfits.

Therie alleged that there was no law and order in the State. “Under the present State government, Dimapur has become a place where anyone had the freedom to collect tax and do anything they want,” he added.

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17 samples of Covid variant AY.4.2 found in India in Andhra Pradesh, four in Kerala, two each in Karnataka and Telangana, and one each in Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra, according to data uploaded on GISAID, an open-access genomic database of influenza viruses and the coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic.

AY.4.2 raised concerns after it was found in increased frequency in the UK. From across the world, as many as 18,207 sequences of AY.4.2 have been uploaded on the GISAID database. Of these, 16,891 were detected in the UK alone.

But AY.4.2 has not yet been categorised as a ‘variant of concern’ — a term used to describe mutations that make the variant more infectious or deadly — by the World Health Organization (WHO).

NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (AGENCIES: At least 17 samples of a variant of the SARS-CoV-2 called ‘AY.4.2’ have been identified from India, with the earliest sample having been collected in May this year.

Though not so lethal in India, yet, the Delta Plus or AY.4.2 mutant has fuelled a renewed Covid surge in the United Kingdom.

New variant AY.4.2 had led to pressing of the alarm button in Europe as health experts say that this variant is more transmissible that the Delta variant.

AY.4.2 is a sub-lineage of the Delta variant of the Covid-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus. Delta continues to be the most dominant variant circulating in India. Seven samples of AY.4.2 were found

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Not just AY. 4.2, AY. 33 & AY 4.1 Covid variants also circulating in India: NCDC

As places like the UK see a spurt in Covid-19 cases, due to a new subvariant of Delta, known as AY.4.2 or Delta Plus, India is not completely in the safe zone either.

According to a senior official in National Centre for Disease Control, preliminary investigation shows that the AY 4.2 hasn’t increased the case ratio in India, but it is present here. In fact, apart from AY. 4.2, AY.33 and AY. 4.1 is also present in India and currently circulating.

The official pointed out that the clusters haven’t increased in India due to

this subvariant AY.4.2. yet a close watch is being maintained on this variant for the past four months.

AY. 4.2 variant is from the Delta Plus (B.1.617.2) family. Scientists say the AY.4.2-related findings still carry a high level of uncertainty, and it is still early to say that this lineage carries a higher risk of severe illness or death.

On October 21, the US Centers for Diseases Control said it has less than 10 reported cases of AY.4.2 in its database so far, but the UK health authorities have found 15,120 cases of AY.4.2 since it was first detected in July.

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Modi launches largest pan-India healthcare infrastructure scheme VA R A NA S I , O C T 2 5 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a Rs 64,000 crore Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, one of the largest pan-India schemes to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure, from his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.

He also inaugurated various development projects worth around Rs 5,200 crore for his constituency.

The mission will strengthen the health infrastructure of Uttar Pradesh as well as of the country, help in preparations to face future pandemics and bring confidence and self-reliance in the health sector, Modi said.

Modi said ‘arogya’ (overall wellbeing) is considered the base of all ‘karma’ and investments made to keep the body healthy has always been considered the best investment.

However, not enough was done in this front for a long time after Independence, he claimed. “Those

PM Modi at the launch of 'PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission' in Varanasi, Monday. (PTI )

who had been in the government for a long time kept healthcare deprived of all-around development.

Either there were not enough hospitals in villages or doctors were not there. Testing facilities were not available in block level.”

This newly launched mission will address these shortcomings, Modi said.

The target is to strengthen the healthcare network from village to block and national levels in the next four years.

Special focus would be on the northeastern and the hilly states, Modi said.

Elaborating on three major aspects of the mission, he said, “The first is the creation of elaborate facilities

for detection and treatment of disease. Under this, health and wellness centres are being opened in villages and cities with facilities for early detection of diseases.”

“The second aspect is linked to the testing network to diagnose diseases. The third is improving the existing laboratories in the country. Biosafety level-three lab is needed for testing during epidemics. Fifteen such new labs will be made functional.” Through the Mission, a complete ecosystem is being developed -- from treatment to critical research -- in every corner of India, the prime minister said., adding that “All these should have been done decades ago...”

Pangnyu joins virtual launching of PMASBY DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): State health minister S Pangnyu Phom and principal secretary H&FW Amardeep Singh Bhatia, joined the virtual launch of PMASBY by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The objective of PMASBY is to fill critical gaps in public health infrastructure, especially in critical care facilities and primary care in both urban and rural areas.

It would provide support for 17,788 rural health and wellness centres in 10 high focus states. Further, 11,024 urban health and wellness centres will be established in all the states.

Critical care services would be available in all the districts of the nation with a population of more than five lakh, through exclusive critical care hospital blocks, while the remaining districts would be covered through referral services.

People would have access to a full range of diagnostic services in the public healthcare system through a network of laboratories across the nation. Integrated public health labs would be set up in all the districts.

The aim of the PMASBY is to build an IT-enabled disease surveillance system by developing a network of surveillance laboratories at

block, district, regional and national levels, in metropolitan areas. Integrated Health Information Portal would be expanded to all states and Union territories to connect all public health labs.

PMASBY also aims at the operationalisation of 17 new public health units and the strengthening of 33 existing public health units at points of entry, for effectively detecting, investigating, preventing, and combating public health emergencies and disease outbreaks. It would also work towards building up a trained frontline health workforce to respond to any public health emergency.

State govt asks HoDs to SC dismisses plea to stop mass Covid vax programme AAGBA rejects NGBF Oct 7 DELHI, OCT 25 cination process. It is a key vaccination without complemaintain office buildings NEW (PTI): Supreme Court Mon- to protecting the population. tion of the clinical trial is in executive meeting decision

DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): State government has asked all the heads of departments (HoDs) to actively engage in the upkeep and cleanliness of their offices including common area premises, toilets, stairs, parking lots, pathways and the areas surrounding the office complexes especially on the roadside.

In a circular, sate chief secretary, J. Alam noted that some of the directorate buildings and premises in the Kohima capital complex area were not being maintained and several such buildings present a shabby

look because of overgrowth of foliage, dumping of rubble and so on along the office fencing.

He said it was important that government offices and properties were seen as well maintained and cleaned at all times as it creates a healthy workspace and encourages other citizens to adopt similar good practices of cleanliness and hygiene.

Therefore, HoDs have been asked to undertake intensive cleanliness drive in their respective offices in the next ten days and furnish action taken by October 31, to the chief secretary’s office.

day dismissed a plea seeking direction to stop mass Covid-19 vaccination of Covishield and Covaxin till all stages of clinical trials are completed saying it is key to protecting the population and no doubt should be cast on it.

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and BV Nagarathna refused to entertain the plea challenging the May 26 order of Karnataka High Court dismissing the plea of an ex-serviceman Mathew Thomas. The bench said, “The High Court is right in dismissing the plea. Let us not cast doubt on the vac-

We don’t want the petition to be argued at all. Even issuing notice on this appeal will be subject to great mischief ”.

The bench further said that the country has gone through a very critical stage during the pandemic and India is not the only country where vaccination is underway. “We are not inclined to entertain the Special Leave Petition under Article 136 of the Constitution of India.

The Special Leave Petition is accordingly dismissed,” the bench ordered. At the outset, advocate Nitin AM, appearing for the petitioner, stated that allowing mass

violation of rules and administration of Covishield and Covaxin vaccines is harmful and illegal.

On May 26, the High Court had dismissed the PIL filed by Thomas and two others and had imposed a cost of Rs 50 thousand on the co-petitioners to be paid within a month.

The petitioners had contended before the High Court that it was not clear under which law the union government allowed vaccination of population through Covid-19 vaccines-Covishield and Covaxin without completion of clinical trials.

DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): All Angami Gaon Burah Association (AAGBA) Monday said it “stoutly” rejected the decision of the Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) annual executive meeting, which was held in Dimapur on October 7.

In a press release, AAGBA president Thepfukedo Kuotsu and secretary Zelvi Sale stated the NGBF meeting decided to extend the tenure of NGBF office bearers for the next tenure until 2025. However, signatories said as per the constitution of NGBF Article No.10 A, it

Review meeting of Jal Shakti Abhiyan scheme in Nagaland

Over 1300 water bodies identified for rejuvenation

DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): Ministry of Jal Shakti’s additional secretary G Asok Kumar, who is also the National Water Mission (NWM) mission director, Monday reviewed the Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA) Nagaland in the conference hall of chief secretary, Kohima.

According to a DIPR report, NWM mission direc-

JSA scheme review meeting in Kohima on Monday. (DIPR)

tor called for mass awareness campaign across the State to disseminate the importance of rain water harvesting and conserving water bodies.

Kumar stated that the Prime Minister launched “Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain” campaign on March 22, 2021, the World Water Day, to

nudge stakeholders to create appropriate rainwater harvesting system, suitable to climate and soil conditions with people’s active participation.

He said “Catch the Rain” campaign covers all rural blocks and urban areas of all districts across the country.

Asok requested all concerned departments and local administration to ensure roof top rain water harvesting structures in all government buildings, take up construction of appropriate water harvesting structures, rejuvenation of rivers and streams, small

rivulets, revival of wet lands and take steps for removal of encroachments in flood plain areas, water bodies and their channels.

Giving a presentation, the state water resources department stated that under NABARD, the department has taken initiatives for implementing water conservation projects through creation of water bodies and water harvesting structures. The department stated that a total number of 1368 water bodies has been identified across Nagaland for rejuvenation.

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was “clearly mentioned that a candidate once held the post of the president shall not be nominated a second time.” “Therefore, AAGBA, per the NGBF constitution, stoutly reject the above decision,” the signatories said.

They said that AAGBA took this decision at the meeting of executives held in Kohima on October 21.

Meanwhile, AAGBA has wished that “the two groups of Dimapur District Gaon Burah Association must come together find a reasonable and prudent solution.”

Nagaland records 14 fresh Covid cases, 2 more deaths DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): Nagaland’s Covid-19 case count increased to 31726 on Monday as 14 more people tested positive, while the death toll climbed to 681 with two new fatalities.

The fresh cases included six from Dimapur, two each in Kohima, Mokokchung and Wokha and one each in Mon and Tuensang.

The latest deaths were reported from Dimapur and Tuensang, the health department said. Further, a total of 11,81,192 persons have been inoculated against Covid-19. They include 707264 first dose and 473928 second dose.

PTI: India logged 14,306 new Covid cases, taking the tally to 3,41,89,774, while the death toll climbed to 4,54,712 with 443 fresh fatalities.

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SBPU holds 31st session in Dmu

Sümi Baptist pastors at the 31st session.

DIMAPUR: Sümi Baptist Pastors’ Union (SBPU) held its 31st session at Purana Bazar Sümi Baptist Church, East Dimapur, on the theme “Bible lo ide iloni” from October 22- 24.

Speaking at the session, minister for Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Jacob Zhimomi said that church leaders should not differentiate between the poor and the rich but instead focus on winning souls for the God. Speaking on the theme, WSBAK executive secretary Rev. Dr. Phughoto Sema said that the theme “returning to the Bible” was relevant in the present context.

He encouraged church leaders to stand firm in righteousness and guide their

congregation towards God’s truth.

On the second day, the speakers which included Rev. Ahoto Awomi (Atoizu), Rev. Dr Kavito Zhimomi, TTC principal and Dr Hesheto Chishi, director, indigenous cultural society Dimapur dwelt on different aspects of leadership in the churches.

Addressing the gathering, executive engineer for PHED (Zunheboto), Kitoshe Aye encouraged them to take care of their congregation in the same way a doctor took care of patients. A special prayer session for the Sümi community was also led by DSBC pastor Juliet Shikhu.

M e a n w h i l e, R e v.

Akhato, senior Pastor Laza

Baptist Church called on the church leaders to come together in one faith and unity to take the community forward. UBC Satakha pastor, Rev. Honito Chophy also spoke on how one could mature in faith by distancing oneself from sin and living according to the principles of Christianity.

The three-day event witnessed a number of special songs from the Nagageneous group, church choir, Purana Bazar Sümi Baptist Church East Dimapur, SABCK (SABAK), Timeless Band Chekiye Village, and Sümi Baptist Akukuhou Naharbari.

Altogether, 294 pastors from WSBAK, SBAK & SABAK attended the session.

CRIME BEAT

Security forces nab arms dealer

the police apprehended an arms dealer at general area Selouphe village, Dimapur on October 22.

According to PRO IGAR (N), the joint team recovered three point 32 pistols with magazines and one bike.

The apprehended SF personnel along with the individual was handed apprehended individual. over to Diphupar police DIMAPUR: Security forc- station for further inveses in a joint operation with tigations.

SF apprehend two with arms, contraband

partment activities in the district were presented by DSCO Mon, Chumei Yanlem for soil & water conservation; ARO Mon, W. Kaiwang Konyak for art & culture and ASO Mon, Keneizetuo Khro for sericulture department.

Pughoboto SDPDB: The monthly meeting of Pughoboto Sub-division Planning & Development Board (SDPDB) was held under the chairmanship of SDPDB vice chairman Y. Vikheho Swu, MLA in the DB court hall, Pughoboto on October 25.

The vice chairman urged EE PWD, Pughoboto to execute the jungle clearance by November

and maintain the roads in their areas before the NBCC annual meeting where many delegates from all over Nagaland were expected at Ghatashi town by the beginning of next year.

He lauded the agriculture department for the activities undertaken under Pughoboto sub division and asked the department to come forward and take measures not only to increase the production but also focus on marketing.

He also suggested to sort out some subsidy for marketing shed and facilities.

SDAO Myanthung Patton highlighted department activities on inte-

Security forces in a joint operation with the police apprehended two arms dealers with contraband on October 22 at general area Nagarjan, Dimapur.

Based on specific input, SF recovered four

grated farming system, water harvesting structures, irrigation channels and construction of TRC under PMKSY 2020- 21.

WHS, IFS, fisherybased farming and farm approach roads under RAD, power tiller path, integrated farming system & manuring under RKVY, cultivation of groundnut and soyabean under SMSP and demo on coarse cereals, pulses, oil seeds under NFSM were also highlighted.

The MLA informed the departments to make a proposal for all development works and send to government for the fiveyear plan which was now

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

26/10/2020 It’s been a year since you left us, yet your memories still lives on. You are fondly remembered and deeply missed.

Loving wife and children k-2073/21

24/12/1950 – 11/10/2021 We, the family of Lt. R. PHYOPHIO EZUNG, express our profound gratitude to all individuals, friends & sympathizers who stood by us and supported us through your prayers, physical presence, financially and material help extended to our beloved father at his demise on 11 Oct. 2021.

We convey our special gratitude to the following: 1. The doctors and nurses of Kohimas Hospital, Kohima 2. Kohima Mekokla Khumshum 3. Kohima Lotha Baptist Church 4. Wokha Mekokla Khumshum 5. Mekokla Baptist Church, Wokha We regret our inability to mention every individual yet it is our sincere prayer that our God Almighty Bless You All. Loving wife, children & relatives k-2071/21

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Born on : 04.04.1947 – Died on : 12.10.2021 “Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.”

We, the family members of Late Temjenwati (Dibuia), would like to express our sincere and profound gratitude to all our friends, relatives, neighbours, various churches and organisations who stood by us and supported us physically, financially, morally and spiritually at the sudden demise of our loving father and grandfather on 12th October 2021.

Though we are unable to thank each and everyone individually, it is our sincere prayer that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly. dp-5153/21

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Loving Children, In-laws & Grandchildren

KOHIMA: Office of the state silviculturist, department of Environment Forest and Climate Change (EF&CC) organised an awareness programme on National Clean Air Program (NCAP) 2020-21 on October 22 through a poster campaign.

The programme was flagged off at the office premise by the state silviculturist Lhinghoikim Touthang.

A press release from the office informed that range officer silviculture division, Grace Kikon along other field staff of the office visited various schools and colleges to spread awareness on clean air by dis-

Officials of the state silviculturist along with school kids during the poster campaign.

tribution of posters on clean air theme and potted plants.

It may be mentioned that the NCAP was launched by the ministry

of environment forest and climate change (MoEFCC) with an objective to reduce particulate matter pollution by 20-30% as compared to 2017.

Apprehended individuals along with SF personnel.

1st DEAtH ANNIVERsARY of our beloved father LAtE G. YEGHoto CHIsHI

State silviculturist office organises NCAP

Surprise checking conducted at Mangkolemba

point 32 pistols with magazines and Spasmo Proxyvon tablets worth around Rs. 1.5 lakh.

The apprehended individuals were handed over to east police station for further investigation.

DPDB, SDPDB meetings held in Mon, Pughoboto DIMAPUR: Mon District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) held its meeting on October 22 in the conference hall of the office of deputy commissioner (DC) Mon. The meeting was chaired by DC Mon, Thavaseelan K. According to a DIPR report, the board passed a proposal for the establishment of Government Primary School at Sheanghah Lokyo village.

The house also deliberated on organising an inter-departmental sports tournament and inauguration of the officers’ lounge at the officers’ club, Mon. PowerPoint presentations highlighting de-

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taken up under 15 finance commission.

The house approved to resend the letter to the government for land compensation for the Pughoboto mini secretariat where some offices were constructed including a huge solar plant installed.

Members of MTC and Dobashis along with the confiscated items. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Mangkolemba Town Council (MTC) with the assistance from Dobashis of Mangkolemba conducted a surprise checking on the “total ban on all single use plastic in Mangkolemba” on Monday.

According to a DIPR report, MTC confiscated around 13 cartoons of

300 ml water bottle, five kg of polythene bags and a total fine amount of Rs. 10000 was imposed on the defaulters.

Mangkolemba Town Council has appealed to the shopkeepers and public to avoid using single use plastic bags with or without handles irrespective of thickness and size, plastic

cutlery including plates, plastic cups, straws, stirrers and other decorative made of Styrofoam (thermocol), mineral water bottle of size less than 1Litre, polythene, nylon, poly-vinyl- chloride (PVC), poly propylene and poly styrene in order to maintain the cleanliness and avoid damage to environment in the town.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Lt. NK. Sullem Khiamniungan 05/03/1984 – 20/10/2021 We, the bereaved family members of Lt. NK. Sullem Khiamniungan, would like to express our profound gratitude to all the well-wishers, organizations, churches, friends and relatives, and everyone who supported us physically, financially, morally and in prayers during the brief illness and at the demise of our beloved Lt. NK. Sullem Khiamniungan.

We regret our inability to mention each and every individual who stood by us in our time of grief and sorrow, but we hope and pray that the Almighty God bless each and every one of you abundantly.

We would like to make a special mention of few organizations and individuals: 1) Doctors, nurses & staff of Oking 7) Khiamniungan Baptist Church, Hospital, Kohima Kohima 2) Colonel of the Assam Regiment 8) Thang Baptist Church 3) Col. Ms. Kooner, DIG, 5 Sect. AR 9) Baptist Revival Church 4) Commanding Officer & all (Nagamese), Lerie, Kohima ranks, 7th Assam Regiment 10) Lerie Panchayat, Kohima 5) Commanding Officer & all 11) Thang Hoikam, Kohima ranks, 15th Assam Regiment 12) KUK, Kohima 6) Commanding Officer & all 13) KSU ranks, 1 Assam Rifles 14) TSU, Noklak Loving wife, daughters and family members k-2075/21 K Y M C

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WEATHER FORECAST OCTOBER 26

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Max Min

Agartala Sunshine and nice

31 22

A couple of morning showers

Guwahati Sunshine and pleasant

26 17 30 20

Mostly sunny and pleasant

26 16

Itanagar Sunshine and not as warm

26 14

Shillong Mostly sunny with a shower

22 10

Imphal

A couple of showers

24 13

Dimapur Sunny and not as hot

29 19

Kohima Mkg

A t-storm around in the a.m.

Tuensang Cooler; a morning shower Wokha

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NSCW organises legal awareness prog NPROA holds 6th annual general meet

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NSCW chairperson, Khrienuo Tachu speaking at the legal awareness programme. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) supported by the National Commission for Women (NCW) organised a legal awareness programme at Jalukie town under Peren district on October 22 in collaboration with Jalukie Town Women Welfare Organisation (JTWWO).

According to a DIPR report, NSCW chairperson, Khrienuo Tachu in her keynote address stated that Nagaland was a patriarchal society where men as protectors could play an important role against various discrimination faced by Naga women and girl child in the society.

Khrienuo pointed out that good patriarchy ensured a safe society resulting in less discrimination, thereby safeguarding Naga women and girl child.

She encouraged par-

ticipants to develop entrepreneurial skills, to protect themselves from cybercrime and most importantly be educated to become selfproductive and self-reliant.

She appealed to the participants to create a safe haven for women and an appeal was also made to the gathering to render equal treatment to both the boy and girl child, which she said, should start from every home.

Peren District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) panel lawyer, Italang Ramlia facilitated the session on “legal rights” where he highlighted various legal rights for women guaranteed by the Indian Constitution such as the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (prevention, prohibition and redressal) Act 2013, Law of Maintenance of Women in India, and rights available,

SJC RRC, NSACS organise awareness drive on HIV & AIDS

Members of RRC, St. John College and others at the awareness drive.

DIMAPUR: An awareness drive on HIV & AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and blood donation was organised by Red Ribbon Club (RRC) St. John College (SJC) Dimapur in collaboration with Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) on October 21 at the College Campus.

In a press release,

SJC informed that during the awareness drive, basics of HIV & AIDS was presented by district programme officer, Meceivinuo Zhotso, an awareness on tuberculosis was presented by senior TB lab supervisor, Kekusenuo Peseyie while presentation on importance of blood donation was given by

district ICTC supervisor, Orenthung Ngullie.

The programme was followed by a poster making competition in which 12 students participated.

Three students were selected, who would be further competing in the intercollege poster making competition to be organised by NSACS.

etc.

Sakhi-One Stop Centre (OSC) Peren, centre administrator Asuni facilitated the session on “forms of genderbased violence; & services of One Stop Centre” where she gave a brief introduction on the functioning of OSC, various services available and how to avail them.

She also highlighted on Women Helpline 181, their importance and assistance provided to aggrieved women.

Voice of women should be heard in Naga pol issues Chairmen union Jalukie president, Hauneu Haika spoke on the session “the way forward” where he encouraged participants that women should be given equal platform in every sphere.

Hauneu stated that many Naga men-folk were divided over tribal lines, po-

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He encouraged all the officials and stakeholders to support CHILDLINE Mokokchung and its activities.

Meanwhile, project officer department of labour, Yanger also shared his concerned and experience with regard to child labour and encouraged other line department to support CHILDLINE and coordinate with the team.

During the meeting, DC assured to provide assistance, cooperation and

NPROA members at the annual general meeting on Monday. (Photo Courtesy: Kezevito Viswentso)

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Police Retired Officer’s Association (NPROA) held its 6th annual general meeting on Monday in the rhododendron hall of police complex, Chumukedima.

In a press release, NPROA informed that an exhortation was delivered

by V. Solo, Retd. NPS and secretary report was given

by T. Chaya, Retd. NPS. M K Baruah, Retd.

NPS, S M Singh, Retd.

NPS and others also delivered speeches at the programme.

The members also

DIMAPUR: A “samajik adhikarita shivir” for distribution of aid and appliances to “divyanjans” and senior citizens under ADIP & RVY scheme was held on October 22 at Town Hall, Tuensang with Deputy Commissioner (DC) Tuensang, Kumar Ramnikant as special guest.

support to CHILDLINE Mokokchung. Other agenda discussed in the meeting included conducting a training and orientation programme with the police, CWC, JJB and other stakeholders on POCSO Act & Juvenile Justice Act and to allocate a space for wall painting as part of CHILDLINE visibility programme in all the public places and offices.

The meeting was also attended by other heads of department.

According to DIPR report, the programme was sponsored by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Person with Disabilities (divyangjans) and organised

by Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India in collaboration with

discussed various agendas for the upliftment of the association.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme was led by Imsu Sungit Ao, Retd. NPS, Nrilo Himb, Retd. NPS said the invocation, welcome speech was given

by I. Bendang Ao, Retd.

NPS, president NPROA, NS Rengma, Retd. NPS gave the treasurer report while vote of thanks was proposed by Agwanye Seb, Retd. NPS. Altogether, 45 members attended the meeting with representatives from Assam, Manipur, West

CKU condemns October 13 assault incident

DIMAPUR: Chiecha Kuda Union (CKU) has vehemently condemned the “heinous crime” committed by a member of its union, Keneiletuo Zumvü by physically assaulting Aremchang Imchen on October 13 at Khopanala area and “inflicting grievous injury to the victim.”

CKU president Dr. Tolto Metha and its advisor Menguzelie Rio in a condemnation letter stated that criminal action of Keneiletuo Zumvü and his accomplice Kevechülo Koza was one that deserved condemnation from every section of the society, especially in a time such as now when the whole Naga family

‘Samajik adhikarita shivir’ held in Tsg

DC Mokokchung Limawapang Jamir and nodal director Subonenba longkumer along with CAB members.

the meeting.

The board meeting had an open discussion pertaining to the functioning of CHILDLINE in the district.

A short power presentation was delivered by nodal director Subonenba Longkumer where he briefed on CHILDLINE 1098 Nagaland, its action, intervention model, child protection activities and notable achievements and exercise of CHILDLINE Nagaland till date.

litical lines and for vested interests and in such a crucial stage where Naga political issues are being tabled and discussed, the voice of the women should also be heard.

He also urged the NSCW to create a platform for women leaders and women in general to be active participants in the ongoing Naga political issue.

Hauneu was of the view that every woman had the capability and potential to perform in bigger platforms.

The programme was chaired by NSCW secretary and joint secretary of the social welfare department, Bodeno S Colo while vote of thanks was proposed by JTWWO former president, Adai Iheilung.

The team visited Community Health Centre Jalukie and interacted with doctors and nurses. The NSCW also paid a visit to the women police station at Jalukie and interacted with the officials.

Later, the commission inspected the ongoing construction of Sakhi-One Stop Centre (OSC) located in the new DC complex, Peren along with the centre administrator of OSC and the district administration, where the various challenges of the OSC were discussed.

FONSESA informs: Federation of Nagaland State Engineering Service Association (FONSESA) has informed that its biennial general conference 2021 would be held on October 27, 11 a.m., at Hotel Japfu, Kohima.

DC Peren convenes DTF meeting: Deputy commissioner and chairman DTF Peren, Sentiwapang Aier has informed DTF meeting on COVID-19, district COVID vaccination committee and all committees concerning medical department under the chairmanship of the deputy commissioner would be held on October 27, 12 noon in the conference hall of the DC. All concerned members have been requested to attend the meeting.

Noklak receives medical equipment: DC Noklak, Hiazu Meru on behalf of DTF on COVID-19 Noklak received 50 thermometers, 40 pulse oximeter, 300 PPE kits, 100 N95 mask, 20 oxygen cylinder regulators, 20 oxygen masks, 20 infrared temp guns, 2000 3 ply masks, 500 sterile and non-sterile gloves and 10 pediatric oximeters from Help Nagaland Breath Campaign, Nagaland, India for donating on October 25.

CAB meeting held in Mokokchung

DIMAPUR: Mokokchung district CHILDLINE Advisory Board (CAB) meeting was held on Monday in the ADC planning conference hall, Mokokchung under the chairmanship of deputy commissioner (DC) Limawabang Jamir, who is also the chairman of Mokokchung district CAB. In a press release, CHILDLINE nodal Dimapur informed that DC in his opening remarks highlighted the purpose of

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district administration, Tuensang.

The programme was also attended by Chang Khulei Setshang president Nungsang Lemba, Yimkhiung Tribal Council, United Sangtam Likhum Pumji, Khiamniungan Union Tuensang Town and presidents of all ward unions.

Career guidance seminar at Zunheboto Town DIMAPUR: An employment link career guidance seminar for the unemployed youth was organised by Zuheboto district administration and conducted

by Emporium Training & Consultancy Pvt. Ltd on October 22 at Town Hall, Zunheboto.

According to DIPR report, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Zunheboto Peter Lichamo said to be a successful person one should be focused and have a clear vision. He said the primary objective of the seminar was to provide proper guidance to unemployed youth and to ensure that they are informed about different opportunities.

Lichamo said that Emporium Skills Training Institute has built a reputation of successfully employing “respectable counts of unemployed youths of the state” and lauded the efforts of the institute.

T h e p r o g r a m m e wa s chaired by Extra Assistant Commissioner (EAC) Zunheboto, Mopling M. Phom; the resource persons for the seminar were operating manager India and International, Emporium Skills Training Institute, Dimapur, Anirban Mukherjee and placement executive/aviation trainer ETCPL, Allin Awomi.

was striving for peace and unity.

It said that Chiecha Kuda Union did not condone their criminal acts under any circumstances and would extend its full support to the law enforcement authorities in delivering justice to the victim and his family as per the law of the land.

It also said that the union would work diligently in fostering peace and unity with fellow Naga communities.

CKU extended its sincere prayers and wishes to its brother Aremchang Imchen for his speedy recovery, “both physically and emotionally from the traumatising incident.”

Bengal and 88-year-old Rüvilhou Angami, Retd.

NPS who was the senior most attendee.

NPROA acknowledged DGP, officers and individuals involved in making the 6th annual general meeting a success.

It also appealed to all the retired officers to participate in such meetings in the days to come and to register with the association.

One could contact at +919612177166 or +919862775617 to register and for information regarding the association.

NZP open for visitors from today DIMAPUR: Nagaland Zoological Park (NZP), Rangapahar would be opened for public entry from October 26, 2021 onwards by following the COVID protocols laid down by the Centre and state government.

In a press release, NZP director Dr. C. Zupeni Tsanglai, informed that social distancing and wearing of masks were mandator y while entering the park.

Visitors have been requested to cooperate with the zoo staff during entry as protocols are required to be followed. Visitors have been allowed to bring their own drinking water and the bottle, if disposable, be disposed into the waste bins provided at locations inside the park.

ATMA Tuensang conducts Skill Training of Rural Youth

DIMAPUR: A five-day Skill Training of Rural Youth (STRY) was conducted by Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Tuensang on October 11-16 at DUDA Guest Hall Longkhim town, Tuensang.

Training on “cultiva-

tion practices of important winter crops” was conducted in association with State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) and National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE).

DoSE declares essay competition results

Shanavas C presenting the award to the winner of the essay competition.

DIMAPUR: Pangkhao Konyak a teacher from GHS Zuheshe, Niuland who submitted the winning entry on the topic “Educational Vision: Best Practices in School Governance and Management” was declared winner of the essay writing competition for government teachers organised by the Department of School Education (DoSE) on Monday in the conference hall of project management office, DoSE Kohima.

In a press release, project director of Nagaland Education Project –The Lighthouse (NECTAR), Shanavas C stated the purpose of the essay competition was a way of meaningfully engaging with teachers as stakeholders towards the project aim of improving overall quality of education and transforming the education system in

Nagaland.

A total of 134 government teachers from 83 government schools across all twelve districts of the state participated in the competition.

The prize for winning entry was an android tablet worth Rs. 20000 for the participant teacher and an all-in-one printer worth Rs. 20000 for the school.

Prizes for the district level winning entries included android tablet worth Rs. 19000 for the participant teacher and an all-in-one printer worth Rs. 8000 for the school.

Winners of the essay writing competition in the district level category have been requested to collect the prizes from October 25-October 29 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) from PMU office, top floor, DoSE, Upper Bayavü, Kohima.

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StartUp Manipur benefited 5477 youths: Biren

Correspondent

IMPHAL, OCT 25: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Monday claimed that StartUp Manipur has helped in restoring peace and normalcy in the state.

StartUp Manipur scheme was introduced by the BJP-led coalition government in March 2018.

Since the launching of the scheme, the state government has sanctioned Rs. 114.56 crore for the scheme and monetary benefits have been provided to 5477 youths who came up with promising innovative ideas.

The beneficiaries were among 5995 applicants shortlisted under the scheme so far.

Addressing the StartUp Conclave, 2021 held in Imphal’s City Convention Centre Monday, the chief minister said that although StartUp was launched in

Manipur CM N Biren Singh speaking at the Conclave 2021 in Imphal on Monday. (NP) the country by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015, it was introduced only after the BJP-led coalition government was formed.

He said that it was a matter of great satisfaction that many products manufactured by different firms established by the beneficiaries of the scheme were being sold in the lo-

Protest in Diphu against communal violence in B’desh Correspondent DIPHU, OCT 25: Hundreds of people protested in Bakaliaghat, Diphu on October 23 against the violence on Hindus in Bangladesh.

The protest rally was organised by Netaji Youth Revolutionary Club of Bakulia where hundreds of people protested by raising slogans against Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina. The protestors demand safety and security of the Hindu community living in Bangladesh.

They also demanded that the Bangladeshi government to arrest and punish all

the rioters and organizations responsible for committing violence against the Hindus.

Viswa Hindu Parishad of Howraghat also staged a similar protest march on October 22 in Howraghat town.

“People of Hindu community are being killed; their temples and homes have been attacked in Bangladesh; this should be stopped immediately. This inhuman and regrettable incident should not repeat at all” said General Secretary of VHP, Howraghat, Pandit Dutta. Vice president of VHP, Howraghat unit Brogen Chand and many others joined the protest rally.

‘No lockdown in Assam’, clarifies CM Himanta GUWAHATI, OCT 25 (AGENCIES): Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has clarified that there will be no lockdown in Assam. “No lockdown in Assam,” Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, NE Now reported.

The Assam chief minister was reacting several rumours that are doing the rounds in the social media that fresh lockdown may get imposed in the state.

Rubbishing the rumours, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said: “It has come to my notice that some unscrupulous elements are spreading rumours about re-imposition of lockdown. Such rumours are totally baseless.” He added: “I urge everyone NOT to pay heed to such misinformation. Let’s join Govt efforts on mass & 100% vaccination.” Earlier, Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta had said that the state government is mulling to implement fresh curbs after the state recorded marginal rise in COVID-19 cases post Durga Puja celebrations. Mahanta informed that the state government will consider implementing fresh restrictions if the rise in COVID-19 cases doesn’t decline in the coming days.

But never was it mentioned that the Assam government is mulling to re-impose lockdown in the state, as some of the unscrupulous elements are spreading rumours.

cal markets. The products were even exported outside the state now, he added.

The chief minister explained that StartUp Manipur had three categories - Revenue, Idea and Entrepreneurs Support Scheme (ESS) earlier.

In 2019-20 more categories were added to promote the first time venture of SC/ST/OBC/ women/

Minority/ differentlyabled entrepreneurs.

This year, Singh added, another sub-category under Idea stage had been included to address the impact of COVID pandemic on existing small business/ trade owners.

The chief minister expressed his gratitude to banks for extending cooperation in the successful implementation of the scheme.

He, however, urged them to speed up the loan process so that applicants do not face any unnecessary inconvenience.

He also urged the people of the state, especially talented and hardworking entrepreneurs to take the opportunity of availing benefits under the scheme for economic prosperity of the state.

The chief minister also announced that ‘Go to Village 2.0’ would com-

he said. Nestled in a tribal hamlet at Champak Nagar in Barmura ranges of West Tripura district, about 40 to 50 families of the Karbong sub-tribe are now finding it hard to make ends meet with lack of facilities such as educational institutes, healthcare and drinking water, while another 10-15 live in neighbouring Dhalai district, officials said.

“Hardly 250 people belonging to 60 to 70 families remain in Karbong tribe.

Our population is getting reduced fast due to intertribal marriage, poverty and lack of proper education,” said Rabimohan Karbong, an elder from the community.

Numbers have been coming down over the years, according to tribal elders.

Since Karbong is considered a sub-tribe despite having a language distinctly different from all other tribes, India’s Census does not count them separately. According to a 1940 gazette notification, there are 19 tribal groups in Tripura with the Karbong community being included in the Halam group. Recently, they were granted Scheduled Tribe status by

Correspondent

IMPHAL, OCT 25: Three Kuki National Front (Nehlun) rebels allegedly involved in the killing of three civilians including a minor were arrested by combined forces of Manipur police and Assam Rifles, police claimed on Monday.

On October 12, four villages, including an 8-year old, were killed and two injured after suspected militants opened fire on a group of people attending a condolence service at the B Gamnom village in the Kangpokpi district.

Police claimed that the arrested cadres confessed their involvement in the murder of the civilians and they committed the offence under the command of selfstyled chairman of the KNF, James Kipgen and vicechairman Mangsat Haokip.

The arrested rebels with the arms seized. (NP)

Imphal West SP Dr S Ibomcha told reporters that two of the cadres were picked up from their respective homes early Monday morning, in a follow up action to the arrest of one of their colleagues earlier.

The operation was launched based on reliable information on the presence of some armed militants involved in kidnapping, extortion of money and looting of vehicles plying along

NH-2. The arrested cadre were identified as Seigoulun Singsit, 20, Henminlun Misao alias Kevin, 29 and Hentinseh Singsit, 30.

The police recovered one 9mm Pistol loaded with a magazine with 5 (9mm) ammunition and another one .32 pistol, and a loaded magazine. Operations were underway to nab the other militants involved in the heinous crime, the SP informed.

13,000 from coup-hit Myanmar sheltering in Mizoram Centre has asked for vaccinating AIZAWL, OCT 25 (IANS): With a fresh influx of refugees from coup-hit Myanmar in over a week, the total of number of people taking shelter in Mizoram has mounted to 13,000, officials said on Monday.

According to district administration and police officials, men, women and children from Myanmar, especially from Chin state, are crossing over to Mizoram’s southern and eastern border districts.

Officials and elected representatives, who are closely monitoring developments in Myanmar, said that continued clashes between the Army and the civilian groups there forced the people to cross over and seek refuge in the Indian state.

An MP from Mizoram said that there are a large number of people waiting across the border to take shelter in Mizoram, while more are likely to come after their harvest season.

Data maintained by the CID shows that the Myanmar nationals mostly take shelter in six Mizoram districts -- Champhai, Lawngtlai, Siaha, Serchhip, Hnahthial and Saitual -- with Champhai housing the highest number of around 6,000. As many as 1,630 people are in Aizawl.

Security and district officials, legislators and others told IANS over the phone that the distressed refugees from Myanmar have crossed the Tiau river in small country boats to take shelter in the border villages.

“The river Tiau (which flows along the Champhai district in eastern Mizoram and divides India and Myanmar) was crossed by the refugees in small boats with the help of local Mizos,” a Mizoram NGO leader said.

“The hapless people with no option to survive the Army onslaught took shelter in our side and the Mizo villagers on humanitarian ground provided them food and shelter,” he added.

Mizoram shares 510 km international border with Myanmar and 318 km with Bangladesh. Besides Mizoram’s most influential NGO Young Mizo Association, various churches including Presbyterian, Baptist and Roman Catholic are, on humanitarian grounds, providing food, essentials,

clothing and shelter to the refugees since March.

On a number of occasions, Chief Minister Zoramthanga has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide humanitarian assistance to Myanmar nationals as his state is witnessing a continuing influx of refugees from the neighbouring country.

Mizoram Planning Board Vice Chairman H. Rammawi, who is closely dealing with the Myanmar refugee affairs, said that the Chief Minister, besides writing letters, has also talked to Prime Minister and Home Minister Amit Shah over phone on a number of occasions, requested them to extend humanitarian assistance to the Myanmar refugees.

IIT Guwahati developing solar-powered generators

GUWAHATI, OCT 25 (PTI): Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati researchers are developing cost-efficient materials to generate energy-rich hydrogen from water using sunlight leading to cost-effective solar-powered hydrogen generators.

Pursuant of worldwide efforts in developing clean and renewable energy, the IIT-G researchers are developing novel materials that can use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, said a release from the Institute on Monday.

“These materials are much cheaper than the ‘noble metals’ currently used and could lead to cost-effective solar-powered hydrogen generators”, stated the release.

On the area of research for the team from the Department of Chemistry at IIT Guwahati led by Dr

Mohammad Qureshi, it said besides the commonly known ‘solar cells’ converting light directly into electrical energy, there is another type of sunlight-powered energy conversion system called ‘Photo Electro Chemical’ (PEC) that directly produce fuels in combination of electrical energy.

PEC cells use solar energy to split simple and safe compounds such as water into hydrogen and oxygen, hydrogen being a high-energy fuel that can be stored and used as needed, the release said.

“These cells are therefore considered the ‘Holy Grail’ to a carbon-free hydrogen economy”, it added.

The IIT-G research team has reported their recent findings in the prestigious peer-reviewed Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters of the American Chemical Society.

Tripura’s tiny Karbong tribe facing extinction: Experts

AGARTALA, OCT 25 (PTI): The Karbong, a subtribe of Halam community in Tripura, whose leaders were once among guests invited by the rulers of this erstwhile kingdom to their royal palace, are now on the verge of extinction, experts said on Monday. A mere 250-odd people belonging to the tribe now live in West Tripura and Dhalai districts, they said.

“I can vividly remember visiting the royal Ujjayanta palace at Agartala thrice during Durga Puja festivities when Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur was the ruler,” said Bishurai Karbong, an octogenarian from the tribal community.

Manikya rulers had tried to educate the Karbongs and arranged for teachers, but it did not work out well, said Harihar Debnath, an expert on the sub-tribe. Autonomous District Council had, in 1989, set up a primary school in the Karbongpara village but it started functioning only in 1993. Three teachers were appointed and 15 students admitted to the school but most of them dropped out midway,

mence from November, and it would be implemented alongside the recently launched ‘Chief Minister’s Health for All’.

State deputy chief minister Y Joykumar said that under StartUp Manipur, beneficiaries should develop their business bit by bit to progress to a larger scale.

He hoped that such entrepreneurs would definitely contribute to bringing economic prosperity to the state.

State works minister Th Biswajit said that the StartUp would enable Prime Minister’s slogan, ‘Vocal for Local’ and make Manipur realize ‘Atmanirbhar’ (self-reliant).

With the introduction of StartUp Manipur, the minister said that there has been constant growth in the number of industries and entrepreneurs in the state.

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the Centre. Endangered ‘Karbongs’ differentiate themselves from other indigenous tribal groups through their language, which is different from Kokborok, the lingua franca of most tribal groups in Tripura. According to UNESCO classification of languages, any language spoken by less than 10,000 people is considered ‘potentially endangered’.

Tripura Autonomous District Council former executive member Radhacharan Debbarma expressed concern over the present condition of the Karbong sub-tribe, which is “one of the micro tribal groups in the world and likely to be extinct soon unless proper measures are taken to protect their identity”. “They should be settled in one place, their culture and language should be preserved and jobs should be created for their livelihood”, Debbarma told PTI. The community came into the limelight recently when the High Court of Tripura on October 18 asked the Centre and the state government to form a team of experts to assess the present condition of the Karbong

ethnic community and submit an affidavit on or before November 9.

Taking cognizance of a report published in a local newspaper about the tribal group, Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty formed a division bench to look into it. The division bench comprises Justice Mahanty and Justice Subhasish Talapatra. The high court told the advocate general of the state as well as assistant solicitor general on behalf of the central government to form a team of appropriate officials, “who shall visit the area, make an assessment of the area and needs of the area, Karbong community in particular, and submit its report by way of an affidavit on or before November 9”.

“We fur ther direct that if any emergent step needs to be taken in that area, the state as well as the Union of India, are free to undertake all such steps that may become essentially necessary without awaiting further directions from this court”, advocate Harekrishna Bhaumick, who was appointed as amicus curie, said.

The paper has been co-authored

by Prof Mohammad Qureshi and Suhaib Alam.

Elaborating the importance of this research, Dr Qureshi, Professor in Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati, said, “despite the promise, PEC cells are not yet a practical solution to the energy crisis because of the scientific bottlenecks such as the sluggishness of the water-oxidation process. Catalysts are used to activate the water-splitting process but these catalysts are expensive metals such as platinum, iridium and ruthenium, among others, which render the cells impractical.”

The team at IIT Guwahati has developed non-noble metal catalysts that are as good as the expensive metals in splitting water in PEC cells, said Dr Qureshi.

IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT JUDGE DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

LOA 42/2021 NOTICE (SEC. 278 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925) Whereas application under Section 278 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 has been filed by Shri Imlikokba Aier, S/o Late Jongpongchiba Aier @ W. Jongpong Aier @ Jongpongchiba, R/o H.No. 48, Eralibil Village, Dimapur, Nagaland for grant of Letter of Administration in respect of landed property of his father Late W. Jongpong Aier, covered by: Patta No. 479, Dag No. 119/632, Block No./Village Ekranipathar, Mouza No. 3, measuring an area of 01B-00K-00Ls, Dimapur, Nagaland before this court.

Whereas 22nd November 2021 has been fixed for the hearing on the matter. Notice is hereby given inviting objection is any from the person having interest in the above named property to be furnished on or before the fixed date/ or appear in person.

Given under my hand and seal of the Court on this 20th October, 2021.

District Judge Dimapur, Nagaland DP-5151/21

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND S/C NO. 209/2021 NOTICE NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-I OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Imlilemba Aier has been applied by Smti.

Chubayangla, W/o. Lt. Imlilemba Aier, R/o Yisemyong Town, Mokokchung, Nagaland for possession of: 1. Gratuity 2. GIS 3. Leave Encashment 4. NPS etc 5. Closing of A/C Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may if she/ he so desire appear in this Court on or before the said day of 22.11.2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this day the 22.10.2021.

Principal District & Session Judge Mokokchung : Nagaland MkC-390/21

those over 17-year-old: Himanta

MARIANI (ASSAM), OCT 25 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday said the Centre has asked for vaccination of those over 17 years against COVID-19 in the state and sought the people’s cooperation for it.

He also stressed on the need to ensure that people take both doses of COVID-19 vaccine and be on the alert so that the incidence of the disease does not increase again.

Addressing a by-poll campaign rally here, Sarma said “A new directive has come from New Delhi that all those who are above 17 years of age can now take the COVID-19 vaccine. I urge you to ensure that all our boys and girls between 17 to 18 years take the vaccine now,” he said at a by-poll campaign rally here.

Currently three vaccines — Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V — which are being administered in the country are for those above 18 years of age. All of them are two-dose vaccines.

Zydus Cadila’s indigenously developed needlefree COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D has received emergency use approval (EUA) for those in the age group of 12-18 years in the country.

Sarma said incidence of the disease had declined from November Regd. No. 2224/2021

Himanta Biswa Sarma

2020 to February 2021 but increased again from April 2021. “To ensure that such a situation does not repeat itself we have to take both the vaccine doses,” Sarma added.

Stressing on his point, the chief minister said “Elections will come and go, but people have to survive, do business, carry on with their education. We have to be alert so that the COVID situation does not deteriorate again,” he said.

Dismissing speculations of possible lockdown again in the state, Sarma said, “We (Assam government) don’t want a lockdown and we won’t impose it. But we have to ensure that the people are fully vaccinated.”

Sarma, who was campaigning for BJP candidate from Mariani, Rupjyoti Kurmi, har ped on the developmental activities initiated by the state government since he assumed office in May this year.

AFFIDAVIT

Date : 25/10/2021

I, No. G/163162P, Rank-WO/GD, Name Roman Rana, son of H.L. Rana, presently serving as WO/GD under 16 Assam Rifles, C/o 99 APO do hereby solemnly declare and affirm as under.

1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and as such competent to swear this affidavit.

2. That my father's name has been recorded as H.L. RANA in all his documents including my Aadhaar Card bearing Aadhaar No. 7534 5585 8777. That while initiation of the initial documents/publication of Part-II Order the name of my father has been entered as WELHITSO in my service records/document.

3. That this affidavit is sworn for the purpose of declaring that H.L. RANA and WELHITSO connotes to the name of the one and the same person i.e. the name of my father and further to enable me to correct and rectify my father's name in my service records/documents to as H.L. RANA in lieu of WELHITO before the concerned authority.

VERIFICATION

I, No. G/163162P, Rank-WO/GD, Name Roman Rana do hereby solemnly affirm and aver that the statements made in the foregoing Paras 1-3 are true to the best of my knowledge and belief that I have not concealed or misrepresented any facts.

DEPONENT Solemnly affirmed and sworn before me.

NOTARY PUBLIC DP-5135/21 BEFORE THE NOTARY PUBLIC

Regd. No. 711/2020 DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

Date : 12/11/2020

I, Mrs. M. KINJUNGLA, W/o Late Medemkaba, permanent resident of Dibuia Village, B.P.O-Alongkima, in the district of Mokokchung, Nagaland, and presently residing in the district Dimapur, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and state on oath as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and a resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That my official and correct name is Mrs. M. Kinjungla and my correct date of birth is on 01-04-1947. As such in my Aadhaar card and in my other official documents my official name and date of birth is recorded as Mrs. M. Kinjungla and D.O.B as on 01-04-1947. Whereas, in my husband's pension book bearing PPO No. PEN/COM-11924/NL/V/13665 my name and D.O.B is inadvertently recorded as KUMJUNGLA and D.O.B as on 06-04-1948.

3. That my name Mrs. M. Kinjungla and Mrs. Kumjungla is of same and one person having single identity.

4. That I hereby declare that, henceforth my official name shall be used as Mrs. M. Kinjungla and date of birth as 01-04-1947 shall be used in my family pension papers, succession certificates and in all other official records and correspondences.

5. That the statements made above are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing material has been concealed therein. And I signed this affidavit on this the 12th day of November, 2020.

DEPONENT Solemnly sworn and signed before me by the deponent.

(Mrs. M. KINJUNGLA) th On this 12 day of November, 2020 at Dimapur.

NOTARY PUBLIC DP-5136/21

PM inaugurates nine medical colleges in UP

Says Purvanchal will emerge as medical hub

SIDDHARTH NAGAR (UP), OCT 25 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lashed out at the previous government in Uttar Pradesh for ignoring basic medical needs of the people of Purvanchal region while “filling coffers” of their families, and asserted that the region will now emerge as a medical hub under BJP rule.

Inaugurating nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh virtually from here, the prime minister said the BJP’s priority is to provide basic facilities to the poor.

In an apparent attack at the Samajwadi Party government which ruled the state before the BJP came to power in 2017, Modi said, “Their cycle of corruption ran 24 hours. They had the priority of earning for themselves and filling the coffers of their families while for us the priority is to extend basic facilities to the poor.”

E a r l i e r t h e r e wa s corruption in medicines, ambulance, appointments,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a public meeting in Mehndi Ganj, Varanasi, Monday. (PTI)

transfer and posting and in this entire game some ‘parivarwadis’ (dynasts) in Uttar Pradesh flourished, he said.

“The cycle of corruption ran 24 hours but the common families of Purvanchal and Uttar Pradesh got crushed,” he said.

Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh refers to the eastern part of the state.

The prime minister said before Independence and also later no importance was given to basic health facilities and people from towns and villages had

Centre’s BSF move meant to hurt federal structure: Mamata

Mamata Banerjee

SILIGURI (WB), OCT 25 (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday criticised the Centre’s move to extend the jurisdiction of the Border Security Force, alleging that it is an attempt to interfere with the federal structure of the country.

The BJP-led central government had amended the BSF Act to authorise the force to undertake search, seizure and arrest within a larger 50 km stretch, instead of 15 km, from the international border in Punjab, West Bengal and Assam.

Banerjee, however, said the state has no problems in the border areas.

“A b o u t t h e B S F matter, we have sent a letter protesting the move. Earlier, they had jurisdiction of 15 km, there were incidents of firing in Balurghat or

Cooch Behar. Now, they extended it to 50 km. This is an attempt to interfere with the federal structure of the country,” Banerjee said at an administrative review meeting here. “ We d o n o t h ave problems in the border areas and share very cordial relations (with neighbouring countries). There is no need to create this confusion. Law and order is a state subject.

BSF must look after what they are responsible for and we will have total support for that,” she said.

West Bengal shares an international border with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

Banerjee had on Sunday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately withdraw the Union Home Ministry’s notification that extended the jurisdiction of BSF.

to rush to cities to avail medical facilities and noted that dimagi bukhar” (Acute Encephalitis Syndrome) use to grip the region every year but there was lack of adequate medical facilities in the area.

Seven years ago, the government in Delhi and the one four years ago in Uttar Pradesh did not pay attention to the poor and announced small dispensaries which could never see the light of the day but now efforts are now being made to improve the health sector due to strong political will power and

priority accorded by his government, Modi said.

Earlier, there was no strategy at the national level to deal with the problem of shortage of doctors and rules and institutions formed to look after medical education and medical colleges were running as per the old system and also proving to be a hinderance in setting up new medical colleges, he said.

H o w e v e r, i n t h e past seven years such old arrangements are being changed which were proving to be a hindrance in medical education, he said, adding

this can be seen in the increase in the number of medical seats.

W h i l e t h e r e we r e around 90,000 medical seats in different colleges across the country before 2014, 60,000 new ones have been added to it in the past seven years, Modi added.

Built at a cost of Rs 2,329 crore, the medical colleges inaugurated on Monday are located in Siddhar thnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur districts.

While eight m edic a l c olleges have been sanctioned under a Centrally sponsored scheme for establishment of new medical colleges attached with district or referral hospitals, the one at Jaunpur has been made functional by the state government through its own resources.

The new medical colleges have been named after noted personalities of the region and in some cases prominent politicians.

The Siddar thnagar medical college has been named after Madhav Prasad Tripathi, a Jansangh leader who served as the first BJP president of the state after its formation in 1980.

Would rather talk to J&K’s youth for development, says Amit Shah

SRINAGAR, OCT 25 (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday hit out at National Conference president Farooq Abdullah for seeking talks with Pakistan, saying the government would rather talk to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir for making it the most developed in the country.

The home minister, who is on a visit to Jammu and Kashmir -- his first since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019 -- remotely inaugurated several development projects and laid the foundation stone of some.

“I read in newspapers t h a t Fa r o o q A b d u l l a h has suggested that the government should talk to Pakistan. He has a right to his opinion but we would rather talk to the Kashmiri youth,” Shah said while addressing a function at the SKICC here.

“The re pealing of Article 370 had only one intention -- to put Kashmir, Jammu and newly created Ladakh (Union Territory) on the path of development.

You will see the fruits of our efforts by 2024,” he said.

The ar ticle, which granted special status to the

Amit Shah being greeted by supporters on his arrival for a public meeting, in Srinagar, Monday. (PTI)

erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was abrogated in August 2019 and the state was bifurcated into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Shah inaugurated a 500-bed hospital at Bemina, completed at a cost of Rs 115 crore, laid the foundation stone for the Handwara Medical College, a Rs 46-crore steel girder bridge over the Ferozepur Nallah in Baramulla district and road projects worth Rs 4,000 crore, among others.

The home minister, who is on his Jammu and Kashmir visit’s third day, said that those who advocate talks with Islamabad and separatists should be asked what has Pakistan done in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

“Compare the

development between this side and PoK. Do they have electricity, roads, healthcare and toilets. There is nothing (on the other side). You (Kashmiris) have the same rights as any other Indian,” he said.

Without naming the Congress, the National Conference and the Peoples’ Democratic Party, he said while only three medical colleges were set up by the “three families which have ruled Jammu and Kashmir”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured seven new medical colleges and these are coming up. “Earlier, 500 youths could become doctors ... now 2,000 youths can become doctors from these new medical colleges.

Nobody will need to go to Pakistan to study medicine,” he said.

Delhi CM given bail in cases of electoral offences

SULTANPUR (UP), OCT 25 (PTI): Booked in two cases for allegedly disturbing communal harmony and committing other electoral offences during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Delhi Chief Minister Ar vind Kejriwal was on Monday granted bail by a special court for lawmakers here.

Arvind Kejriwal Special Judge P K Jayant granted bail to lodged included section 125 Kejriwal after he appeared of the Representation of before the court and sought People’s Act for promoting relief in both the cases involving the violation of the Model Code of Conduct.

After granting bail, the court fixed November 3 as the next date of hearing in the two cases.

Kejriwal, who had been given exemption from the appearance before the court after moving the Supreme Court earlier against the FIRs lodged against him, appeared before the court on his own, the Delhi chief minister’s counsel Madan Singh said.

“A s a r e s p o n s i b l e citizen to get the matter proceeded at the earliest, he appeared before the court willingly. He applied for bail, which was granted to him. The court fixed November 3 as the next date of hearing,” he said.

According to Singh, Kejriwal had been booked in two cases lodged against him and other AAP leaders at Gauriganj and Musafir Khana police stations of Amethi during the 2014 general elections.

Various sections under which the FIRs had been

c o m m u n a l h a r m o n y, assembling unlawfully (s 143 of IPC), obstructing public servants from discharging their duty (s 186 IPC), wrongfully restraining them (s 341), and assaulting them to deter them from doing their duty (353) besides others.

The FIRs had been lodged against him after he had allegedly given provocative speech and violated the model code of

conduct while campaigning for party candidate Kumar Vishwas.

B e s i d e s Ke j r i wa l , Kumar Vishwas, Harikrishna, Rakesh Tiwari, Ajay Singh and Bablu Tiwari too were booked in those cases In the Gauriganj case, police filed the charge sheet recently.

Ke j r i w a l r e a c h e d Lucknow earlier and travelled to Sultanpur from there by road.

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Issue SOPs to contain spread of new Delta Plus AY.4.2: Gehlot to Centre

Nagaland Board of School Education Kohima

NOTIFICATION NO.92/2021 Dated Kohima, the 21st October, 2021

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JAIPUR, OCT 25 (PTI): Expressing concern over cases of a sublineage of SARS CoV2’s delta variant, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot asked the central government Ashok Gehlot on Monday to prepare and issue standard operating procedures (SOPs) for its prevention.

In a tweet, he said many cases of Delta Plus AY.4.2, a new mutated form of coronavirus that has killed thousands of people in several countries like Russia and the UK, have been found in India.

“The central government should prepare and issue SOPs for its prevention on the basis of the experience of other countries,” Gehlot tweeted in Hindi. “Initially, there were only a few cases of the delta variant but it did not take time to spread across the country,” he said.

The chief minister added that the government should learn from previous experiences and make full preparations to deal with the new variant.

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NO.NBE-14/Ex-Misc(12)/2021-22 :: The following is hereby notified for information of the Heads of Institutions that A. For the ensuing HSLC & HSSLC Examinations 2022, all the students will fill up the Application Forms online through NBSE portal – nbsenl.edu.in B. Repeaters in HSLC & HSSLC Examinations who are intending to appear the ensuing HSLC & HSSLC Examinations 2022 are informed to contact their institutions/centres within 30th October 2021 for filling up the Application Forms and payment of examination fees according to their category: Category A. HSLC Institution/Centre to contact 1. Needs Improvement candidates - School last attended 2. Improvement of performance - School last attended 3. Centre Repeaters - HSLC Main Examination Centre last appeared 4. Change of Centre - HSLC Main Examination Centre last appeared B. HSLC Compartmental candidates shall fill up their forms separately tentatively from 15th to 20th November 2021. Further details shall be given later.

C. HSSLC 1. Regular Repeaters - School/College last attended 2. Improvement of performance - School/College last attended 3. Centre Repeaters - HSSLC Examination Centre last appeared 4. Change of Centre - HSSLC Examination Centre last appeared The details for fill-up of the Application Form is made available in Board’s portal nbsenl.edu.in under the heading “Instructions for Filling up of forms for HSLC & HSSLC Examination 2022”. Intending candidates of HSLC & HSSLC are advised to visit the portal for necessary action.

Note: Repeaters documents i.e. Admit Card & Marksheet need not be submitted to the Board.

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Post-mortem

Glasgow Climate Change Summit

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When justice takes a backseat

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ame has a name and a price tag, especially when one is considered to not be part of the ruling establishment as many have experienced during the decade. This is what Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan is experiencing after being arrested on October 3 in connection with the Mumbai cruise drugs case. Aryan Khan has been in jail since the Narcotics Control Bureau found drugs on a cruise ship in Mumbai on October 2. Under the charge of a zonal director Sameer Wankhede, the NCB’s Mumbai unit raided a cruise ship off the city coast whose passengers included Aryan Khan and other well known names of Bollywood. On board the ship, NCB officials began a search and the same night and reportedly seized various illegal drugs such as cocaine, charas, and MDMA from the ship and detained seven to eight people, including Aryan Khan along with several others. They were accused of consumption and ‘conspiracy’, among other charges. However, all the accused were given a clean chit as per the report of the Forensic Laboratory, since no evidence was found that they had consumed drugs. Since October 3, Aryan Khan has been doing the rounds of courts in Mumbai seeking bail. Aryan Khan remains imprisoned at Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail after a special drugs court rejected his bail application. The reason why the NCB opposed the bail plea was reportedly because Aryan’s WhatsApp contained evidence of his involvement with consumption of drugs. The Aryan Khan case highlights the controversial and sometimes dubious means utilised by central probe agencies to “fix someone.” If the Forensic Laboratory concluded that there was no evidence of drug use by the accused, then why did the NCB not take cognisance of it?

Being a central probe agency, the NCB is expected to go by the book especially on forensic evidence.

Strangely the NCB instead relied only on the WhatsApp chats in Aryan’s mobile as “evidence” that he had consumed drugs. So much so that the bureau has assumed what Aryan’s lawyer said were chats about football, was in reality his admittance to smuggling drugs in ‘bulk quantities’. By desperately clinging on to the WhatsApp chats as evidence and ignoring the clean chit given by the Forensic Laboratory, the NCB under Wankhede, appears to be rewriting crime investigation. According to the arrest memo, Aryan Khan was placed under arrest for “involvement in consumption, sale and purchase” of contraband. By then, the NCB had claimed to have seized 13 grams of cocaine, 5 grams of MD, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of MDMA (ecstasy) and Rs 1.33 lakh in cash during the raid on Cordelia Cruises’ ship. According to NCB officials, Aryan’s case is a serious offence and so insist they are serious about tackling the drug menace on a war footing. If that is true then people in India want to know what happened to the recent monumental drug haul at the Mundra port in Gujarat? On September 13, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and the Customs Department had seized around 3000 kgs of heroin worth an estimated Rs 21,000 crore from two containers at Gujarat’s Mundra Port. The NCB has taken over the case. People want to know what was done with the confiscated drugs?; was the entire consignment burnt?; or just a small part of it? Most importantly, what about those big fishes who are involved , are they being held like Aryan Khan?

DailyDevotion Submitting to God’s Purpose

I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. —1 Corinthians 9:22 A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s man or woman of great worth and excellence in the midst of a multitude of meager and worthless things.

Never protest by saying, “If only I were somewhere else!” All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. Unless we have the right purpose intellectually in our minds and lovingly in our hearts, we will very quickly be diverted from being useful to God. We are not workers for God by choice. Many people deliberately choose to be workers, but they have no purpose of God’s almighty grace or His mighty Word in them. Paul’s whole heart, mind, and soul were consumed with the great purpose of what Jesus Christ came to do, and he never lost sight of that one thing. We must continually confront ourselves with one central fact— “…Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).

“I chose you…” (John 15:16). Keep these words as a wonderful reminder in your theology. It is not that you have gotten God, but that He has gotten you. God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He doing it?

He is doing it for only one purpose— that He may be able to say, “This is My man, and this is My woman.”

We have to be in God’s hand so that He can place others on the Rock, Jesus Christ, just as He has placed us.

Never choose to be a worker, but once God has placed His call upon you, woe be to you if you “turn aside…to the right or the left…” (Deuteronomy 28:14). He will do with you what He never did before His call came to you, and He will do with you what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His way.

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We loved with a love that was more than love. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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he Glasgow Summit will prove whether the global leaders are ready to put the entire mankind to peril or whether sagaciously they’ll work out a roadmap to counter climate change effectively and wisely.

A UN-sponsored marathon conference to tackle the global climate crisis is due to being the British city of Glasgow, the coming Sunday (31 October) and will continue till 12 November.

The world leaders will meet in the so-called lastditch effort to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century, besides considering plans to how to stop burning fossil fuels, stabilise global temperatures and share money to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.

The global leaders signed up the Paris Agreement in 2015 — with a supposedly non-binding target to keep warming well below 2 C above preindustrial temperatures, and ideally 1.5 C — yet most of the participating countries continue to burn fossil fuels and chop down trees at rates incompatible with that goal.

With the effects of climate change visible in both rich and poor countries alike, the leaders are meeting for what analysts expect to be the most meaningful conference since that pledge. Climate change has shot up the political agenda amid deadly weather extremes

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and mass public protest, and leaders of several polluting countries have pledged to decarbonise their economies by the middle of the century.

Summit’s agenda The world leaders got to choose how fast their country will cut emissions Under the Paris Agreement, besides agreeing to update their action plans for doing so every five years. But in reality just weeks before the summit, big emitters like China, India and Saudi Arabia are yet to submit new plans.

Re por tedly UK, which is co-hosting the summit with Italy, has pressured countries to submit new plans and is pushing for concrete deals that would help reach those targets. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on world leaders to deliver bold commitments on “coal, cars, cash and trees.”

The UK is pushing for a treaty that would “consign coal to history” and has proposed a deadline of 2040 to stop selling combustion engine cars.

It also wants to put more money into stopping deforestation.

According to the United Nations Climate Change Framework Convention (UNFCCC) COP26 will work towards four goals: Secure global net-zero by mid-century and kee p 1.5 deg rees within reach, adapt to protect communities and natural habitats, mobilise

assured finance to help developing and underdeveloped countries to attain emission cuts, and work together to deliver to frame a list of detailed rules that will help fulfil the Paris Agreement.

On the really big question of keeping the 1.5C temperature threshold within reach, the likelihood is that a significant gap will remain even after Glasgow. Under the terms of the Paris Agreement, those countries that have used fossil fuels the most over the past two centuries - the US and from Europe - accept they will make the bigger cuts in the short term.

The larger developing nations that are now the biggest source of CO2 chiefly China - accept they will make the bigger cuts in the longer term.

The environmentalist and experts say that we can very easily understand the colossal and disastrous results of the climate change, if we can observe the following four weather changes, which have been caused by the increasing global temperature due to the emission of CO2 and other poisonous gases like methane into the atmosphere: Hotter and longer heat waves, more persistent droughts, more fuel for wildfires, and more extreme rainfall events are the resultant climate change vagaries.

Meanwhile, an interesting report by the US intelligence agency’s assessment of climate

Disrupting biodiversity and emergence of diseases

hen we do things in an ecosystem that erode biodiversity — we chop forests into bits or replace habitat with agricultural fields — we tend to get rid of species that serve a protective role, the “reservoirs”. The Nipah virus in South Asia and the closely related Hendra virus in Australia, both in the genus of henipah viruses are the urgent examples of how disrupting an ecosystem can cause diseases. The viruses originated with flying foxes, Pteropus vampyrus, also known as fruit bats. They are messy eaters often hang upside down and eat fruit by masticating the pulp and then spitting out the juices and seeds. The bats have evolved with henipah over millions of years, and because of this co-evolution, they experience little more from it than the fruit bat equivalent of a cold. But once the virus breaks out of the bats and into species that haven’t evolved with it, a horror show can occur, as one did in 1999 in rural Malaysia. It is likely that a bat dropped a piece of chewed fruit into a piggery in a forest. The pigs became infected with the virus, and amplified it, and it jumped to humans. It was startling in its lethality. Out of 276 people infected in Malaysia, 106 died, and many others suffered permanent and crippling neurological disorders. Since then there have been 12 smaller outbreaks in South Asia. In Australia, where four people and dozens of horses have died of Hendra, the scenario was different: suburbanization lured infected bats that were once forest-dwellers into backyards and pastures. In the Amazon, one study showed an increase in deforestation by some 4 percent increased the incidence of malaria by nearly 50 percent, because mosquitoes, which transmit the disease, thrive in the right mix of sunlight and water in recently deforested areas.

Developing the forest in

the wrong way can be like opening Pandora’s Box. Diseases have always come out of the woods and wildlife and found their way into human populations — the plague and malaria are two other examples. But emerging diseases have quadrupled in the last half-century. Emerging infectious diseases are either new types of pathogens or old ones that have mutated to become novel, as the flu does every year. AIDS, for example, crossed into humans from chimpanzees in the 1920s when bush-meat hunters in Africa killed and butchered them. Hunting, farming and the global move of people to cities has led to massive declines in biodiversity and increased the risk of dangerous viruses spilling over from animals to humans.

Human encroachment into biodiverse areas increases the risk of spillover of novel infectious diseases by enabling new contacts between humans and wildlife. Sixty percent of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans are zoonotic — they originate in animals. And more than two-thirds of those originate in wildlife.

A study by the International Livestock Research Institute found that more than two million people a year are killed by diseases that spread to humans from wild and domestic animals.

Experts in the developed world however, are trying to figure out, based on how people alter the landscape, for example with a new farm or road— where the next diseases are likely to spill over into humans and how to spot them when they do emerge, before they can spread. They are gathering blood, saliva and other samples from highrisk wildlife species to create a library of viruses so that if one does infect humans, it can be more quickly identified.

And they are studying ways of managing forests, wildlife and livestock to prevent diseases

change has come out and as per the report, India and Pakistan are among the 11 highly vulnerable countries in terms of their ability to prepare for as well as respond to the environmental and social impact of climate change. The first-ever US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the issue of climate change has been published, and it adds that India along with China will be crucial in determining the trajectory at which there is a rise in global temperatures. On the other hand, the report has downplayed the role that the Western world has played in the problem of climate change. Further the report has warned that the possibility of geopolitical tensions and the risk to US national security are present due to global warming in the run up to 2040.

Expectations from the summit In another development before the summit, India has said that it will raise the topic of compensation to developing nations for the losses caused by climate disasters.

The Indian environment ministry said that India stands with other low-income and developing nations on the matter and the compensation clause will be negotiated at the upcoming climate summit.

India has reiterated that the countries responsible for climate change should finance what they

from leaving the woods and becoming the next pandemic.

The forests of northeast India are rich in biodiversity.

The eight states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura constitute one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world.

Occupying 7.7 per cent of India’s geographical area the northeast contains more than one third of the country’s total biodiversity. Over exploitation, habitat loss and fragmentation has threatened the biodiversity in the northeast region of India as well.

Serious efforts have to be made to protect and conserve the vestiges of virgin forests that still remain in the most forested zone of the country.

Reasons for the region’s shrinking greenery and degrading ecosystems are: • Conversion of forests into agricultural land with growing demand for food, • Reducing cycle of shifting cultivation or jhum cycles in most parts of the region compounding the loss of forest cover, • Grazing beyond the carrying capacity of moderate forest cover by large herds of domestic animals, • Recurrent forest fires, manmade and natural, besides destroying vegetation, harden the surface decreasing soil porosity resulting in low rain water infiltration, • Lumbering for domestic and commercial purposes with increasing industrial expansion, urban growth and rapidly growing human population that damage the natural forests, and • Multipurpose river projects that require large reservoir area submerging pristine forested tracts.

Dr Raghubir Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, (Central Agricultural University), Jalukie, Nagaland

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have committed to and make technology available at an affordable cost.

It is also confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will put forward the Indian stand at the summit Meanwhile, reports say that Jennifer Morgan, the executive director of Greenpeace International has warned against efforts by countries and corporations at the forthcoming talks in Glasgow to “green wash” their on-going pollution of the planet.

By doing so, governments would “give that kind of hope and confidence to their people that they got this and that they’re willing to do things that their corporate interests don’t want them to do,” she added.

Morgan pointed to leaked documents showing how countries such as Australia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia are apparently trying to water down an upcoming UN science panel report on global warming as evidence of the way in which some governments’ public support for climate action is undermined by their efforts behind closed doors.

Documents obtained

by Greenpeace indicate how those countries wanted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to remove references to the need to shut down coal-fired power stations, reduce meat consumption and focus on actual emissions cuts rather than ways to capture carbon

already released into the atmosphere.

Various outcomes of the Glasgow Summit in view of the non-adherence to the goals of the Paris Agreement are being predicted. Yet, barring a complete collapse in the talks, there are likely to be a range of tangible outcomes. It’s expected that more countries will announce they are moving away from using coal for energy, and more nations may probably sign up to curb methane emissions.

There is only a moral pressure to improve your offer, and a degree of embarrassment if a country doesn’t step up to the mark. Glasgow will reveal whether this approach actually works.

A s B a n g l a d e s h ’s Prime Minister Sheikh Haseena has put it succinctly and wisely in a recent speech, tackling climate requires a great deal of fortitude, imagination, hope and leadership.

If western leaders listen, engage and act decisively on what science demands of them, there is still time to make COP26 the success it desperately needs to be.

Asad Mirza is a political commentator based in New Delhi. He was also associated with BBC Urdu Service and Khaleej Times of Dubai. He writes on Muslims, educational, international affairs, interfaith and current affairs. www.asad-mirza.blogspot.com

Facing Alien Isolation

s I reported to one undisclosed location at the Indo-Pak border, the Medical Assistant prescribed me to swallow one tablet instantly on the very first day at Field Supper Bar. While I filled with curiosity, my colleague narrated through a thought-provoking consequence of influenza epidemic of the early 20th century.

As millions of soldiers return home from the First World War, a new disease begins to sweep through Britain. It was the deadly ‘Spanish Flu’ that infected a third of the global population, causing deaths of millions of people. In view of the widespread prevalence of that disease, the then Local Government had to issue Health Advisory public notice to suck Formamint tablet and a small dose of Quinine to protect from the danger of infection.

For me, it was just two Paracetamol commonly known as PCM and a complete night rest to feel recharge as I travelled a long distance over harsh climate. Such wilderness are not intended for human habitation as our forward locations are based in a remote corner that miles away from any nearest settlement,. We need to protect ourselves by taking all possible precautions from any infectious disease.

As even symptoms like aching of limbs and headache are too not readily recognizable for unavailability of competent medicos, which may lead to serious complications.

There is no reason why soldiers shouldn’t adopt the preventive measures thereby Medical Officers of Armed Force Doctors enforce on a routine affair. I was literally blown away by the dos and don’ts that convinced me fully.

The story goes on and wine flies for the soldier-duo with few small drinks until dinner was ready at sharp nine on that arriving-day evening.

Those days of combat readiness are still fresh in my memory despite the fact soldiers faced a daunting task while facing enemy over infective virus in the battlefield. However, another pandemic of COVID-19 has devastated India in the second wave.

Three and half crore people had the victim of that severe acute respiratory syndrome. The real-

ity of that situation has not been realized until recently when this writer got infected that reminded him after a series of health hazards with his entire family. A physical war would have been better as one can see enemy in front but he faced such helplessness while fighting with an invisible enemy.

Hospital experiences of COVID wards are not as positive as people mostly remain at home quarantine to nurse themselves for health attention and even people hide from COVID test but go for self-medication.

The symptoms are endless from high fever to cough, tiredness, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, headaches, aches and pain, diarrhea vomiting, irritated eyes, rash on skin and what more…the series of illness attack together to body.

Neighbors felt scary the way frightened of getting infected from sufferer. Soon the message spread, the door was shut and felt alienated from own surrounding.

Victims experienced alien isolation, as if felt like a survivor while outsiders faced away from ailing people.

Interestingly the healing experience was a few PCM, Antibiotic and Vitamins besides there are Syrups, drugs of various symptoms of difficulties and large quantities of warm water with Oral Rehydration Salts.

He feared hostile from neighbors of being coronavirus carriers. Even the reports of SARSCOV-2 RNA are negative, they are marked asymptomatic. The rise of fear and misinformation about COVID fuels xenophobia between haves and haves not. Can victims continue pull on self-isolation for a long period?

As the festival is on, devotees visit mandaps to seek the blessings of idols. Priests and choir chanted the stor y of the resurrection through the waves of loudspeakers. Victims felt blessings from the rhythm of the dhak of Arti at distance. Words couldn’t express his gratitude towards compassionate attention, plenty of advice and professional care from doctors, friends and well-wishers.

Though medication treats fever and pain in a couple of weeks but only the time can heal the pain of their grief.

Kamal Baruah

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.

Rajnath Singh pitches for DefExpo 2022

Claims exports up by 334 percent in the last 5 years

NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (IANS): India’s defence exports have grown by 334 per cent in the last five years and the country is exporting to more than 75 countries, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday.

During his address to the Ambassadors’ Round Table Conference over DefExpo 2022, Singh said that India’s export performance is a strong indicator of the quality and competitiveness of defence products.

DefExpo 2022 is planned at Gandhinagar in Gujarat from March 10 to March 13.

He said that the Indian Government is committed to support the growth of defence modernisation and capabilities and have increased the defence capital outlay in the annual budget of 2021-22 by 18.75 per cent

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Rajnath Singh, CDS General Bipin Rawat and others pose for a group photograph after the Ambassadors’ Roundtable on DEFEXPO-22, in New Delhi, Monday. (PTI)

harashtra Sadan for the previous edition of DefExpo-2020 -- which was held at Lucknow from February 5 to February 9, 2020.

“DefExpo-2022 aims to further the benchmark of its previous edition with greater presence of exhibitors, foreign and Indian OEMs, other countries and we are committed to supporting the partnerships that have been forged thus far as also form newer bonds for mutual growth,” the minister said.

He said that the exhibition will bring all the latest technologies under one roof and provide a myriad of opportunities to the stakeholders in the Aerospace and Defence industry.

The minister said that Defence Expo-2022 is going to provide an overview of what India has been able to achieve in terms of defence R&D and production, “application of modern technologies, liberalised collaborative policies that we have introduced in a short period of five to seven years”.

New security system to prevent attacks in Kashmir Valley soon

NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (IANS): In wake of the targeted killings, a new integrated security system will be in place in Kashmir Valley soon in coordination with the Indian Army and the central security agencies, the sources said here on Monday.

The sources also said that Jammu and Kashmir Police will be in the lead role in preventing attacks in coordination with other security stakeholders and they have been asked to strengthen the human intelligence gathering on the ground. The J&K Police made a presentation during a high level security meeting chaired by Union Home Minister on October 23.

Round the clock electronic surveillance in vulnerable areas, better intelligence networks and strong patrolling on roads and highways around the cities to prevent entry and exit of the terrorists with more barricading and placing of the security bunkers will be

the key features of the new security systems, a government source said.

Under the electronic surveillance, drone grids are being set up in those areas where the non-Kashmiri and the migrant labours have been living and in some places more CCTV cameras are getting installed.

Under the drone grid system, a round the clock control room has been set up to closely monitor the movement of suspicious elements and on identifications of any such movement in the areas, the security personnel on the ground will be alerted soon on a real-time

basis. This will be manned by the J&K police and other security forces personnel.

The sleuths from intelligence agencies and National Intelligence Agency have been working to pinpoint the real conspirators who activated the hybrid terrorist network to execute the recent killings in Kashmir.

The security agencies have also been keeping eye on over 80 families whose youngsters have left home and are absconding since long as they believe that these youths might be used by the terrorist organisations to execute these killings.

from the preceding year.

“This is the highest ever increase in the last 15 years,” said Singh.

Speaking to the Ambassadors, he said that today’s world is fast moving towards becoming one composite and integrated whole, where mutual goals and interests are converging increasingly.

The growth of a global economy with backward and forward linkages among the countries is not only irreversible, it is also a dominant force leading us to an ever interconnected world, the

minister pointed out.

It is in this context mutual give and take of ideas on such fora leads to strengthening of bonds and better understanding of each other’s interests, as also identify potential collaborations and joint efforts.

“Our government has taken several initiatives to modernise our armed forces and produce high quality and cost effective weapon systems and platforms,” Singh said.

Rajnath Singh then talked about how the world churning in the year 2020

and 2021 has seen the discovery of new horizons in the Aerospace and Defence manufacturing sectors, including space, cyberspace, futuristic capabilities and disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Block-chain, Augmented and others.

The minister stressed upon that the Indian Aerospace and Defence manufacturing sector today is ready to soar to newer heights.

He then recalled about the Ambassadors’ RoundTable held two years ago on October 7, 2019 at Ma-

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NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (IANS): Congress has demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the continued ‘favouritism’ shown by Facebook towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and has alleged that the social media platform has become ‘fakebook’.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, party spokesperson Pawan Khera said, “It has become ‘fakebook’ and a JPC probe should be done.”

He said, “Despite knowing all, why hasn’t Facebook designated the RSS and Bajrang Dal as dangerous organisations, based on its own internal reports? The Government of India had been extremely pro-active against Twitter citing Social Media safety compliance, why are they not uttering a word now?

“The internal reports and recommendations of Facebook’s security team went against the recommendations of Facebook’s safety team; insofar as they prioritised commercial interests over safety of Indian Citizens, and yet no action has been taken by the Government, doesn’t this clearly

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implicate the presence of a quid pro quo? We, therefore, demand that a JPC probe be ordered immediately.”

The Congress said, “It proves that ‘Fakebook’ is nothing but a subjugated vicious diabolical tool used by the ruling regime and its proxies to propagate bigotry, hate and fear in the minds of the oppressed and marginalised in India,” he said.

He alleged that the absolutely callous attitude of the company towards the people of India is reflective in the fact that they spend 87 per cent of their misinformation budget policing English-speaking audiences, whereas those audiences make up only 9 per cent of their base.

The Congress spokesperson said, “This was not

the first time that the social media platform is exposed, but their tryst with bias favouring their all-weather ally: the BJP is nothing new.”

The Congress spokesperson was speaking on the recent expose where it was alleged that Facebook knew it very well that they weren’t equipped to filter hate speech especially in Hindi and Bengali as per the leaked research documents by a whistle-blower Frances Haugen, a 37-yearold engineer who worked at Facebook, and yet they took no decisive action the perpetrators of such hate.

With about 370 million users of the social media platform in India, in terms of user base, India is Facebook’s largest market. To sustain its business in India, the leaks have suggested that an internal assessment

by Facebook suggested that only 0.2 per cent of reported hate speech was being taken down, which shows that Facebook was and continues to be having ‘damningly’ acute awareness about the content against a particular section of Indian society and has consciously chosen not to act against it.

cine.

Meanwhile, DFC’s Chief Operating Officer David Marchick and Mahima Datla today unveiled the expansion of Biological E.’s vaccine manufacturing facility here and finalised a U.S. government financing arrangement formalising USD 50 million to expand the company’s capacity to produce COVID-19 vaccines.

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ties, she said currently BE has the capacity to make one billion doses of Corbevax per annum, and 600 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s jab.

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of the purported certificate, saying “Sameer Dawood Wankhede ka yahan se shuru hua furjiwada. (Sameer Dawood Wankhede’s document forging started from here).” Wankhede, an IRS officer of the 2008 batch, slammed the minister, saying his action was defamatory in nature and an invasion of his family’s privacy.

“I had a brief discussion about this issue (alleged forging of documents by Wankhede) with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. I was here to attend a meeting related to another topic,” Walse Patil said while responding to a question about the meeting.

“Central agencies have been so active for the first time in history. I have never seen such activism earlier in my career by one government against another,” said the home minister in response to another query.

the study in children is not a comparative study, she further said.

“We are submitting doses to Kasauli for release.

So it is my hope that at the day of launch… it is always been our vision to have close to ten crore doses on the day.

By end of November this may happen as soon as we get the license,” she said.

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NOIDA, OCT 25 (PTI): Farmers protesting against the central farm laws will hold a countrywide protest on Tuesday to demand the sacking of Union Minister Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’, whose son is an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri episode in which eight people, including farmers, were killed.

The call for the protest has been made by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a farmer unions’ collective leading the antifarm laws stir since November 2020 at Delhi’s borders, the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), which is part of the movement, said.

“Demonstrations would be held at administrative headquarters in every district of the country. A memorandum will be submitted to the government with a demand that the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra be removed from his post,” BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik told PTI. “The pan-India protest will be supported by all farmer groups associated with the movement against the contentious farm laws.

Through the memorandum, we will also appeal once again that these laws be rolled back,” Malik said.

regulatory testing.

“Cobevax is in phase 3 trials. We are likely to complete all the studies by end of November which is when we are expecting licence (from the drug regulator).

The licence for children should follow one month later. The study in children is underway as well,” she said.

Biological E’s anticoronavirus shot, Corbevax, is a RBD protein sub-unit vaccine and is currently undergoing phase 2/3 clinical trials on adults.

The Phase 3 trials are going to be a study in comparison with the already licensed vaccines, though

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MUMBAI, OCT 25 (PTI): Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Monday said police protection has been given to Prabhakar Sail, an independent witness in the drugs-oncruise case who has claimed Rs 25 crore was demanded by an NCB official and other persons to let off Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in the case.

Sail visited the Mumbai police commissioner’s office in the morning and met Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Milind Bharambhe, an official said.

He later approached the Sahar police in suburban Mumbai, seeking security whenever he comes to meet his wife, children and mother-in-law, who live in the Sahar village here, officials said.

Walse Patil, speaking to reporters in Mumbai, said, “Prabhakar Sail has been given police protection. However, as I have not met (minister and party colleague) Nawab Malik yet, I can not comment on what he had indicated earlier.”

Malik claimed earlier in the day that Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede used forged documents, including his birth certificate.

Malik tweeted a photo

HYDERABAD, OCT 26 (PTI): Biological E. Limited (BE) is expecting its COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax to be rolled out by the end of November even as the citybased firm is getting ready with 100 million doses for the launch, Mahima Datla, Managing Director, BE said on Monday.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of signing a financing agreement with US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), she said currently the manufactured doses are being sent to Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL), Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh for

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While this will be the first privatisation since 200304, Air India will be the third airline brand in the Tatas’ stable -- it holds a majority interest in AirAsia India and Vistara, a joint venture with Singapore Airlines Ltd. Air India will give it access to a fleet of 117 widebody and narrow-body aircraft and Air India Express Ltd another 24 narrow-body aircraft, besides control of 4,400 domestic and 1,800 international landing and parking slots at domestic airports, as well as 900 slots at airports overseas such as London’s Heathrow.

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The government will, however, transfer about Rs 16,000 crore of unpaid current liabilities, in excess of current and non-current assets, such as fuel bills and other pending dues that Air India owes to suppliers, to Air India Assets Holding Ltd (AIAHL).

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thanked NWM mission director for his interest in the implementation of Jal Shakti Abhiyan in the State.

He expressed hope that NWM would come up with schemes and programmes more suitable for a hilly region like Nagaland.

The chief secretary also assured that the state departments would address various issues at the earliest and work towards achieving the mission objectives.

Air India had a total debt of Rs 61,562 crore. As part of the deal, 75 per cent of this debt or Rs 46,262 crore will be transferred to a special purpose vehicle AIAHL before handing over the loss-making airline to the Tata Group.

Tatas would not get to retain non-core assets such as the Vasant Vihar housing colony of Air India, Air India Building at Nariman Point, Mumbai, and Air India Building in New Delhi.

Of the 141 Air India aircraft that Tatas would get, 42 are leased planes while the remaining 99 are owned.

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(From p-1) A virtual Jal Shakti Kendra has been set up at Wokha district to act as knowledge centre to disseminate various information pertaining to water resources, its judicious use and conservation. The department also informed that the virtual Jal Shakti Kendra in other districts of the state would be set up soon.

In his closing remarks, the chief secretary J Alam, who chaired the meeting,

tweeted. Air India Director - Finance Vinod Hejmadi, Civil Aviation Ministry Joint Secretary Satyendra Mishra and Supraprakash Mukhopadhyay from the Tata Group signed the share purchase agreement (SPA).

Now, various regulatory clearances, including from the Competition Commission of India (CCI), would have to be taken by Tata Sons before the actual handover of the airline takes place by December-end.

The government is divesting its 100 per cent ownership of Air India and Air India Express along with its 50 per cent stake in groundhandling company AISATS. Ta t a s b e a t t h e R s 15,100-crore offer by a consortium led by SpiceJet promoter Ajay Singh and the reserve price of Rs 12,906 crore set by the government for the sale of the loss-making carrier. As on August 31,

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NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (PTI): The government on Monday signed the share purchase agreement with Tata Sons for the sale of national carrier Air India for Rs 18,000 crore.

Earlier this month, the government had accepted an offer by Talace Pvt Ltd, a unit of the holding company of the salt-to-software conglomerate, to pay Rs 2,700 crore cash and take over Rs 15,300 crore of the airline’s debt.

Following that, on October 11 a Letter of Intenet (LoI) was issued to the Tata Group confirming the government’s willingness to sell its 100 per cent stake in the airline. “Share Purchase Agreement signed today by Government with Tata Sons for strategic disinvestment of Air India,” Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey

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voting for a government that would serve the people, Therie said the choice is made by the people and one should not blame any anybody. Short speeches were also delivered by NPCC vice president W Akum Yimchunger, ACCC Ghaspani-II president Lashito Shohe, state NSUI president X. Chopika, DDCC working president Kutoho Chishi and other members of Congress.

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and unions in Dimapur collecting illegal taxes. He slammed the state government of not being able to control such menace.

Therie urged upon people to ponder over whether they want change and betterment with a Congress government. He assured the gathering that the Congress would continue to fight for the welfare of the citizens.

Urging the citizens to realize the importance of

and a sudden surge in demand across industries in the post pandemic period.

At this juncture an acute shortage of coal on the back of supply constraints is hitting aluminium manufacturing hard and the industry is struggling to sustain operations with alarmingly depleted coal stocks of only 1.5-3 days as compared to the prescribed level of 15 days.

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(From p-1) He went on to state that the public in Dimapur including the business community were confused who was running the government, adding that in Dimapur alone there were at least nine cease fire monitoring cells guarded by 50 to 60 AK47s and pistols involved in collecting taxes from all and sundry and transporters. In addition, there were fifty to sixty associations

NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (IANS): The Indian Industrial Value Chain Council (IIVCC), an organisation representing the interests of enterprises involved in the industrial production and consumption supply chain activities across the country, on Monday flagged that more than 5,000 SMEs who are part of the aluminium value chain are at the risk of suffering huge losses if the present coal crisis confronting the primary aluminium industry is not urgently addressed.

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of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for improving the audit of banks and financial institutions.

Listing out some of the recent measures, he said, risk-based internal audit system for commercial banks was strengthened in January this year and also updated the guidelines for appointment of statutory auditors in banks and NBFCs in April.

On the importance of corporate governance, Das said, the RBI has been repeatedly emphasising the importance of strong governance framework in banks and NBFCs. Such a framework has to be built on principles of transparency, prudent business strategy, effective risk management and a strong compliance culture, he said.

Financial sector entities, the audit community and the financial sector regulators and supervisors have to work together and take proactive steps to ensure good governance and ethical practices to build a strong and resilient financial sector, he added.

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from the public about efficient resource allocation, the role of audit has become even more important.

“As India aspires to grow faster, the expertise and independence of auditors will have to be leveraged to provide more assurance on financial performance to all stakeholders. We need robust audit for a dynamic and resilient economy,” he said.

Noting that economic decisions are increasingly made based on available evidence and information, he said, inaccurate data may lead to sub optimal decisions or excesses in resource allocation, which will be neither in public interest where public authorities are involved, nor in the interest

Audit being the first external line of defence, he said, its failure in supervised entities will adversely impact timely identification of major issues and risks in the financial sector.

“With globalisation and increasing complexities of the financial system, audit as a public good has become vital for a sound, stable and vibrant financial system,” he said.

He urged the auditor community to update and upgrade skills on a constant basis, and perform their task in the most effective manner.

“The profile of tomorrow’s auditor will be that of a critical yet constructive challenger, with a clear focus on public interest and quality audits. In essence, there is need to be even more professional, qualified, impartial, value driven, ethical and also display awareness and foresight,” he said.

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of individual stakeholders.

Citing an example of the banking sector, the governor said if a bank sanctions loan on the basis of inaccurate and misleading financial statements, the borrower company is ultimately unable to repay it.

Apart from the loss incurred, he said, this could make the bank risk averse and deprive other eligible companies from bank funding. Alternatively, he said, the bank may try to recover this loss by charging an interest rate to other borrowers, thus resulting in sowing seeds of non viability in such borrowers. This would create a situation of higher interest cost to the overall economy and the society.

“Informative, accurate, reliable and analytical audit reports are sine qua non (an essential condition) for both financial stability and growth... Thus, the independence of the auditor and the role of ethics in the profession of auditing are two of the most important aspects which should draw our attention,” he said.

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NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (PTI): Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said that accurate and analytical audit reports are essential for financial stability and growth as they instil confidence among members of the public.

In case of the public sector, auditing is a cornerstone of good governance, he said while addressing officers at the National Academy of Audit and Accounts (NAAA).

“By providing unbiased and objective assessments of whether public resources are managed responsibly and effectively to achieve the intended results, a fair and impartial audit instils confidence among citizens and stakeholders,” he stated.

Observing that fair and impartial audit in a globally integrated economy is not just a domestic concern, he said, it also an instrument to enhance the country’s reputation and credibility on a global stage.

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among political factions prompted the military to intervene. Tensions have been rising for weeks over the course and the pace of the transition to democracy in Sudan, a nation in Africa linked by language and culture to the Arab world.

The general declared a state of emergency and said the military will appoint a technocratic government to lead the country to elections, set for July 2023. But he made clear the military will remain in charge.

“The Armed Forces will continue completing the democratic transition until the handover of the country’s leadership to a civilian, elected government,” he said. He added that the country’s constitution would be rewritten and a legislative body would be formed with the par-

Global rules cannot be written by individual countries: Chinese Prez Xi takes swipe at US BEIJING, OCT 25 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that the international law with the UN at the core should be observed by all countries without exception and the global rules cannot be written by individual countries, in a veiled attack on the US. “We should resolutely uphold the authority and standing of the United Nations, and work together to practice true multilateralism,” Xi said here while speaking at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the “lawful seat” of China in the UN and its inclusion as a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Secu-

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rity Council.

“Countries should uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order underpinned by international law and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,” Xi said.

15 killed as rival tribes clash in northwest Pak PESHAWAR, OCT 25 (PTI): Authorities stepped up security in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan on Monday as local factions clashed over possession of disputed forest land, in an incident that killed at least 15 people and injured dozens others in the last three days, officials said.

The Kurram district administration in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has jammed cellular services to stop rumour mongering.

The officials along with local elders, the Army and police chiefs have arranged for a ceasefire between the warring groups.

The clashes began on Saturday afternoon when the Gaidu tribe belonging to Teri Megel village in Kurram district, 251 km from provincial capital Peshawar, opened fire on Pewar tribe members who were picking firewood in the disputed area.

There has been tension between both tribes over the ownership of forest land in the Upper Subdivision of Kurram district in recent months, officials said.

According to the truce, members of both tribes are now barred from collecting firewood from the disputed area.

Persons breaking the agreement are liable to legal action, officials said.

“Four people were reported dead on Saturday and another 11 died on Sunday and today (Mon-

day). The gunmen operated from trenches. Heavy weapons and even rocket launchers were used,” a police official said.

Over 100 tribesmen from both sides were making raids into the villages using guns, said the District Police Officer (DPO) of Kurram.

On Monday morning, heavy security deployment was made, which helped clear trenches and other hideouts of the raiders, making it possible for truce talks in the afternoon.

In a veiled attack on the US and its allies, Xi said, “international rules can only be made by the 193 UN Member States together, and not decided by individual countries or blocs of countries.”

“International rules should be observed by the 193 UN Member States, and there is and should be no exception. Countries should respect the United Nations, take good care of the UN family, refrain from exploiting the Organisation, still less abandoning it at one’s will, and make sure that the United Nations plays an even more positive role in advancing humanity’s noble cause of peace and development,” he said.

Military identifies remains of 4 Korean War soldiers

Russia marks another record number of daily Covid cases

SEOUL, OCT 25 (IANS): The military has identified the remains of four South Korean troops killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, about a decade after their excavation from former battle sites, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.

The identification and recovery of the remains came as the military has been carrying out a government project since 2000 to return remains of fallen troops to their families and remember their sacrifices, reports Yonhap News Agency.

The remains of the four soldiers were excavated in Gangwon and North Gyeongsang Province between 2009 and 2011.

MOSCOW, OCT 25 (AP): Russia reported another daily record of confirmed coronavirus cases Monday as a surge in infections has prompted the Kremlin to tell most people to stay away from work starting later this week.

The Russian government’s coronavirus task force tallied 37,930 new confirmed cases in 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. The task force also reported 1,069 more COVID-19 deaths in the same period, slightly fewer than a record of 1,075 reached over the weekend.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russians not to go to work between Oct. 30 and Nov. 7, when the country will observe an extended holi-

DHAKA, OCT 25 (PTI): A key suspect and his accomplice accused of fanning communal hatred on social media and instigating the recent violence against the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh have confessed to their crime in a pre-trial hearing, a court official has said.

Shaikat Mandal confessed before a magistrate on Sunday that it was his Facebook post that led to the violence in Rangpur, Pirganj sub-district on October 17 during Durga Puja festivities in the country.

Mandal’s accomplice Rabiul Islam is a 36-yearold cleric, who has been accused of arson and looting.

“Shaikat Mandal and his accomplice Rabiul Isam have admitted their role before a senior judicial magistrate Delwar Hossain in (north-western) Rangpur,” the court official told newsmen.

They were arrested from Gazipur on Friday in a police raid and booked under the Digital Security Act. Mandal is a philosophy department student of Rangpur’s Carmichael College, and was expelled from the ruling Awami League’s student wing

A medical worker wearing a special suit treats a patient at an ICU in Infectious Hospital No. 23 in Nizhny Novgorod. (AP)

day. In some of Russia’s 85 regions where the situation is particularly grave, Putin said the nonworking period could begin earlier and be extended beyond Nov. 7.

During that time, most state organizations and private businesses, except for those operating key infrastructure and a few others, are to halt work.

Pak releases 350 activists of banned Islamist group

ISLAMABAD, OCT 25 (PTI): Pakistan government has released 350 activists of the banned outfit Tehreeke-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid has announced, averting another showdown with the radical Islamist party that was threatening to hold a “long march” to Islamabad.

The TLP workers have been holding violent protests across the nation, especially in Lahore, against the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan for not releasing their party chief Saad Hussain Rizvi.

Imran Khan

After reviewing TLP’s demands, the issue will be resolved peacefully by Tuesday, Rashid said, Geo News reported on Sunday.

The Opposition parties and the proscribed outfit had staged separate protests in

multiple cities of the country, resulting in Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi being partially shut down.

Three policemen and seven TLP workers have died in the clashes so far that erupted on Wednesday.

“We have released 350 TLP workers up to now and we are still waiting to open both sides of the road of Muridke as per the decision with the TLP,” The interior minister tweeted after leading a government team in negotiations with representatives of the TLP, including

Rizvi, its detained chief, in Islamabad. Rasheed on Sunday said that talks between the government and the TLP after they threatened to march towards Islamabad have been successful.

The TLP protesters will not move forward (to Islamabad) and will stay in Muridke till Tuesday, he added. On Friday, Rizvi’s party leader Ajmal Qadri said his supporters launched the “long march” after talks with the government failed to secure the release of their leader.

IN THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (THE HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)

OFFICE OF THE

JAPUKONG YOUTH ORGANISATION

KOHIMA BENCH MAC APPEAL NO. 01 OF 2020

HQ. LONGCHEM, DIST. MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND Regd. No. Home - SRC/7391/2019

The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. -VersusShri Omenchiba & 3 others To 1. Shri I. Lanuchiba Aier, R/o H/No. 66A Alempang Ward, Mokokchung Nagaland (Driver of vehicle No. NL-02/C 1558)

Appellant Respondents

NOTICE

A Dedicatory Programme for the Volleyball Coaching Camp organised by the Japukong Youth Organisation (J.Y.O) was held on 24th October, 2021 at 2 p.m. in the campus of High Mountain School, Signal Angami, Dimapur. Mr. Limaakum Longchar, Associate Pastor, DABA pronounced the dedicatory prayer.

The J.Y.O office further acknowledges honourable Minister Shri Temjen Imna Along for sponsoring the Volleyball Coaching Camp, the Camp is scheduled to be conducted from 25.10.2021 to 25.11.2021.

Limayanger Imchen Imtiliba Imchen President, J.Y.O General Secretary, J.Y.O

Chhatra League after his arrest.

He had uploaded objectionable content on Facebook to boost his follower count, a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) official was quoted as saying in a bdnews24.com report.

Islam helped Mandal instigate Muslims in the village through announcements on the loudspeaker on Friday, the official added.

Police officials claimed that the violence was instigated after a rumour began doing the rounds in Pirganj that a Hindu man had posted religiously offensive content on Facebook, the report said.

According to the police, around 70 Hindu homes were torched during the mayhem that ensued on October 17.

At least seven people have confessed to their crime under the pre-trial legal proceedings so far, with 683 arrests and more than 70 cases being filed accusing 24,000 suspects, most of whom were anonymous, media reports said.

Attacks on Hindus have been reported in Bangladesh during the Durga Puja festivities after an al-

Please, take notice that the above appeal has been filed by the appellant (Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd), wherein you have been impleaded as respondent No. 4.

You are therefore directed to appear before this Court on 8th Nov. 21 when the matter is listed in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the case. The matter will be heard soon thereafter as business of the Court may permit but no notice of such further date shall be given.

Take notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned above the case will be heard and determined in your absence.

Signed and sealed by Order of the Court on this, the 19th day of October 2021.

Deputy Registrar, Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench Kohima, Nagaland dc-1038/21

Officials in Moscow plan to order the off-work period to start Thursday.

Gyms, most entertainment venues and most stores are to be closed for 11 days along with kindergartens and schools. Restaurants and cafes will only be open for takeout or delivery orders during that period.

Food stores and pharma-

leged blasphemous post on social media went viral on October 13.

Apart from Mandal and Islam, police also have under custody, Iqbal Hossain, who had allegedly placed the Quran at a Durga Puja venue in Cumilla, and Fayez Ahmed, who had posted a video of the Quran at the Puja venue, RAB officials said.

On Saturday, members of minority religious communities staged a mass hunger and sit-in demonstration at central Dhaka’s Shabagh area and other parts of the country under the banner of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council.

The attacks on the Hindus in Bangladesh have been widely condemned by the United Nations.

Last week, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instr ucted her Home Minister to initiate immediate action against those who incited violence using religion as she asked people not to trust anything on social media without fact-checking.

Hindus constitute around 10 per cent of the Muslim-majority Bangladesh’s 169 million population.

cies can stay open.

Access to museums, theaters, concert halls and other venues will be limited to those holding digital codes on their smartphones to prove vaccination or past illness, a practice that will remain in place after Nov. 7.

Russian authorities hope the idle time will help limit the spread of the virus by keeping people out of offices and off public transportation, where mask mandates have been loosely enforced.

Overall, Russia has registered over 8.2 million confirmed virus cases and 231,669 deaths, by far the highest death toll in Europe and the fifth-highest in the world after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.

OFFICE OF THE

LAKHUNI VILLAGE COUNCIL P.O - Mangkolemba, B.P.O - Alongtaki Dist - Mokokchung, Nagaland

FELICITATION The Lakhuni Village Council with immense pride and honour would like to acknowledge and congratulate :1. Shri. Temjen Imna Along, Hon'ble Minister Higher & Technical and Tribal Affairs, Govt. of Nagaland for donation of 100 M.W Power Transformer to Lakhuni Village.

2. Chungtiayimsen Village Council for transporting of 100 M.W Power Transformer from Dimapur to Lakhuni on free of cost.

The Council wishes them good health and a visionary mind and prays that they will continue to serve the Naga people at their best.

Mr. Moatemjen Secretary Lakhuni Village Council

Mr. Tekatemsü Chairman Lakhuni Village Council

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the Nile to the center of the capital, while the U.S. embassy warned troops were blocking off parts of the city.

Pro-democracy activist Dura Gambo said paramilitary forces chased protesters through some neighborhoods of Khartoum. She said the sporadic sound of gunshots could be heard in many parts of the capital.

Records from a hospital in Khartoum obtained

by The Associated Press showed some people admitted with gunshot wounds.

In the afternoon, the head of the military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, announced on national TV that he was dissolving the government and the Sovereign Council, a joint military and civilian body created soon after al-Bashir’s ouster to run the country.

Burhan said quarrels

has struggled with the shock of a number economic reforms called for by international lending institutions.

U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and a close ally of President Joe Biden, warned in a tweet that the U.S. could cut aid to Sudan “if the authority of PM Hamdok & the full transitional government is not restored.”

In recent weeks, there have been concerns that the military might be planning a take over, and in fact there was a failed coup attempt in September. Tensions only rose from there, as the country fractured along old lines, with more conservative Islamists who want a military government pitted against those who toppled al-Bashir in protests. In recent days, both camps have taken to the street in demonstrations.

Amid the standoff, the generals have called repeatedly for dissolving Hamdok’s transitional government — and Burhan, who leads the ruling Sovereign Council, said frequently that the military would only hand over power to an elected government, an indication that the generals might not stick to the plan to hand leadership of the body to a civilian sometime in November.

FELICITATION The Ao Temolungtsür Telongjem Dimapur (ATTD) extend our heartiest congratulations to Rev. I ASENLA JAMIR, W/o Mr. Imtionen, on being ordained as Reverend by the Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang (ABAM) on 17th October 2021.

The Union (ATTD) further wishes you the best in life and we pray that God continue to uplift your spirit and nourish you to carry on His work.

“The Lord your God will bless you in all your work, and in everything you put your hand to”.

Deuteronomy 15:10 Sd/(Mrs. Asangla Lemtur) President ATTD

Sd/(Mrs. Nükshisüngla) General Secretary ATTD

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Thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials in Khartoum. (AP)

Prime suspect, accomplice confess to instigating violence in Bangladesh

ticipation of “young men and women who made this revolution.” The Information Ministry, still loyal to the dissolved government, called his speech an “announcement of a seizure of power by military coup.”

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said the the United States was “deeply alarmed at reports of a military takeover” and called for the immediate release of the prime minister and other officials.

“The actions today are in stark opposition to the will of the Sudanese people and their aspirations for peace, liberty and justice,” Jean-Pierre said. The U.N. political mission to Sudan described the detentions of government officials as “unacceptable,” and the African Union called for them to be freed. EU foreign affairs chief Joseph Borrell tweeted that he was following the events with the “utmost concern.” Since al-Bashir, who remains in prison, was forced from power, Sudan has worked to slowly rid itself the international pariah status it held under the autocrat. The country was removed from the United States’ state supporter of terror list in 2020, opening the door for badly needed foreign loans and investment.

But Sudan’s economy

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CAIRO, OCT 25 (AP): Sudan’s military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister. Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup that threatens the country’s shaky progress toward democracy. Security forces opened fire on some of the crowds, and three protesters were killed, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Committee, which said 80 people were wounded.

The takeover comes more than two years after protesters forced the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir and just weeks before the military was supposed to hand the leadership of the council that runs the country over to civilians.

After the early morning arrests of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other senior officials, thousands poured into the streets of the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman.

They blocked streets and set fire to tires as security forces used tear gas to disperse them. As plumes of smoke filled the air, protesters could be heard chanting, “The people are stronger, stronger” and “Retreat is not an option!” Videos on social media showed large crowds crossing bridges over

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Abu Metha led delegation visits Mizoram

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four-member delegation from Nagaland led by advisor to chief minister of Nagaland and vice president of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), Abu Metha visited Mizoram on the invitation of the Mizoram government’s Mizoram Youth Commission (MYC). The other members of the official delegation included advisor, Task Force for Music & Arts (TaFMA), government of Nagaland, Theja Meru; president of the Rattle & Hum Foundation (RHF), Neingulie Nakhro and Musician and Creative Producer TaFMA, Imcha Imchen. The delegation arrived in Mizoram on October 23 and departed on October 25.

The visit began with the delegation visiting the Laldenga Memorial where they paid homage and laid floral tributes at the memorial of Mizoram’s first chief minister and the leader of the Mizo movement.

The team called on the chief minister of Mizoram, Zoramthanga at his residence, where Metha highlighted some of the programmes and initiatives of the Nagaland government, especially in the areas of youth affairs. He invited Mizoram participants to the forthcoming international events which are going to be hosted in Nagaland like the Asia Music

A State level delegation led by Advisor to chief minister, Nagaland, Abu Metha called on the chief minister of Mizoram, Zoramthanga at his residence in Aizawl. (DIPR)

Summit, the South Asian Cross Country Championships and the Grand Finale of the Indian National Rally Championships. He also appreciated the role and contributions of Zoramthanga in the Naga peace process and the chief minister observed that all sections are hoping for a peaceful and successful resolution of the peace talks. The chief minister wished and prayed for the achievement of peace in Nagaland. Zoramthanga also highlighted the need to work together under a spirit of collaboration between the north eastern states especially Mizoram and Nagaland with special focus in the agriculture and allied sector.

Metha attended Mizoram’s biggest music event as a special guest and addressed the grand finale of the Perhkhuang 2021 which had begun with more than 2,000 participants. In his address, Metha assured strengthening of partnerships and collaborations between Mizoram and Nagaland.

He announced that the top five winners of the competition would be given the opportunity to perform at India’s most well-known music event, the Hornbill International Music Festival. He assured that all efforts would be made to train the talents of young Mizos and Nagas in joint initiatives in order to propel them towards the highest

international levels in order to bring pride and glory to the great nation.

The Nagaland delegation also participated at a round table meet with the Mizoram Youth Commission wherein deliberations on the subjects of collaborations and knowledge sharing were undertaken.

The collaborations would be firmed up along with a visit to Nagaland by the MIzoram Youth Commission. Artists and musicians of Mizoram will undertake capacity building exercises and undergo professional training through the Task Force for Music & Arts, Govt. of Nagaland, through TaFMA’s knowledge partners and the team of national and

international resource persons affiliated to TaFMA. Advisor TaFMA, Theja Meru assured support and solidarity to the MYC through partnerships and collaborations between the two governments. He gave a detailed explanation of TaFMA’s vision and how it is positively impacting not just the musicians and artists but having long term economic and employment generating results.

President of the RHF, Neingulie Nakhro, highlighted a unique intellectual property of Nagaland called the Handshake Concert, which has several editions like the International, Nation and Raj Bhavan editions. He informed that this event has taken hundreds of musicians and artists to several international platforms and a dozen countries in the past decade. He assured the government of Mizoram that artistes and musicians from Mizoram will be given opportunities to perform at the RHF’s upcoming events, which are all organised in partnership with the Indian Embassies in different countries.

The visit ended with an interactive session with musicians, event managers, music industry representatives from the mainland and representatives of the Indian Centre for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and young entrepreneurs of Mizoram.

(DIPR)

AOK’s Magnum Opus VII Finale held

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ct of Kindness’s ( AO K ) M a g nu m Opus VII finale 2021 was held on October 25, here at DBIDL, Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School campus, Dimapur.

During the programme, official launch of the book, “The Sky Bride and Other Tales Retold”, written by Tialila Kikon, was also launched.

Launching the book, additional director DUDA, Dr. Anungla Imdong Phom said that in an age when children were drowning in age of technology and mobile games, she stated that her kids were filled with awe and wonder, and started asking more questions of

Nagaland. She revealed that through the collection of stories in the books, she learned that Nagas should not be bound by kins, tribes, clans and families, asserting through the book she learned that Nagas should be one. “We are a homogeneous Nagaland”, she stated.

Phom acknowledged the author for teaching Nagas the story of Human love.

She further acknowledged the humanitarian acts carried out by Act of Kindness, asserting that the humanitarian works carried out by ACK would elevate so much fragrance in and around Dimapur. “The scent of a rose remains in the hands of

The author Tialila Kikon with Dr. Anungla Imdong Phom during the launching of the book. (NP)

the giver”, she maintained.

D r. A nu n g l a a l s o opined that the pandemic was an act of blessings for Nagas, rather than a curse, pointing out that it was the pandemic that had helped Nagas in the field of entrepreneurship, and also helped

in brushing our talents in music, painting, etc.

She later encouraged ACK to keep doing the good deeds.

Asenla Yanher, a doctoral scholar, academic and book reviewer, delivered the book review while publish-

ers’ remark was delivered by Dimapur Publishing Company, Dr. Hitoka H Sumi.

Meanwhile, Tialila Kikon stated that the main purpose of the book was to provide glimpse of Naga folktales to the younger generation with the hopes that the rich oral tradition would continue to pass on, and secondly, the proceeds from selling the book to be used for the various charitable works, undertaken by AOK in and around Dimapur.

She further prayed that the book would be able to achieve its little purpose and scope.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by Kilentola Jamir.

(Staff Reporter)

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2021

Rajinikanth receives Dada Saheb Phalke award

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu presents Dadasaheb Phalke Award to film actor Rajinikanth, at the 67th National Film Awards presentation ceremony in New Delhi. (PTI)

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uperstar Rajinikanth on Monday received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the National Film Awards ceremony here and dedicated it to his mentor, the late K Balachander, his technicians, fans and also to “friend, driver and transport colleague” Raj Bahadur who encouraged him to join cinema.

Rajinikanth, whose glittering career from bus conductor to arguably the biggest star pan-India is the stuff of film fable, was presented the award by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu at the Vigyan Bhavan here.

Receiving the award, the government’s highest honour for Indian cinema, for the year 2019, Rajinikanth, popularly called ‘Thalaivar’ (leader in Tamil), thanked a host of people, including the Tamil people and the media.

“I’m extremely happy

to receive this award… and my thanks to the government for this most prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award. I dedicate this award to my guru, my mentor K Balachander sir, I thank my brother Sathyanarayana Rao, he is a father figure in my life, for giving me great values...

“My friend, driver and transport colleague Raj Bahadur. He spotted the acting talent in me and encouraged me to join cinema. All my producers and directors who have produced my films, technicians, artists, distributors, media, press and all my fans, and Tamil people...” the 70-year-old said in his acceptance speech.

Lauding Rajinikanth, a matinee idol for the ages, the vice president said Rajinikanth was “one of the great sons of this great country”. In his address, the vice president said the veteran actor has given

memorable performances in films including “Bhairavi” and “Sivaji”.

“The iconic thespian’s unmatchable acting skills have given a new dimension to the Indian film industry... He has shown how to maintain a perfect balance between artistic expression and mass appeal,” Naidu added.

From his 1975 debut with Balachander in “Apoorva Raagangal”, “Moondr u Mudichu”, “Billa”, Hindi titles “Hum”, “ChaalBaaz”, “Bhagwaan Dada” to “Enthiran”, “Kaala” and now the upcoming “Annatthe”, Rajinikanth continues to entertain the audience with his swag, style and inimitable on-screen presence.

Last December, Rajinikanth had shelved plans to make a foray into electoral politics. The superstar had announced he will not enter politics in view of his frail health.

(PTI)

Healthy Living: How night time habits affect daytime health Packing lunch - at night

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n general, hitting the gym helps you sleep better and get to sleep quicker. But when you work out, your body makes more cortisol.

That’s a hormone that helps make hen you can just grab it from you more alert. That’s good when the fridge on your way out you’re trying to wake up for work. the door tomorrow. It saves But it’s not so good when you’re trying to get to sleep. If you must time and stress in the morning, and exercise in the evening, try to finish it guarantees decent nutrition to at least 3 hours before bed. get you through the day.

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Staying up late

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ot only does it sap your energy, but it can trigger your body to make more cortisol.

It can also make you crave more high-fat, high-sugar foods the next day. That’s why you tend to have more body fat if you sleep less than 6 hours a night. That extra body fat makes you more likely to get things like diabetes and heart disease. So if you have to be up for work, it helps to go to bed early enough to get at least 8 hours of sleep.

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t first, it might make you sleepy. But after a few hours, it has the opposite effect. And the quality of sleep you do get may not be as good.

Plus, it makes you pee more, which means more up and down to the bathroom. All this might leave you dragging the next day. Consider keeping it to 1 to 2 drinks per day, and try not to drink in the 3 hours before bedtime.

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hat cheesesteak in the wee hours isn’t a recipe for a restful night’s sleep.

You’re more likely to wake rested and ready for the day with a lighter dinner -- less fat, salt, and calories -- several hours before bed. If you’re hungry later, snack lightly on easy-to-digest foods like toast or yogurt.

A late jolt of caffeine

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t’s in tea, coffee, chocolate, and many energy drinks.

Even in normal amounts, it can make it harder to fall asleep or make the sleep you get less effective, especially as you get older. Even if you have caffeine 6 to 8 hours before bedtime, it could give you that unrested feeling the next day.

Ignoring your teeth

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f you don’t brush and floss in the evening, you might notice a thicker coating (bacteria) on your teeth in the morning.

Swishing with mouthwash also might help prevent this buildup of bacteria. In just a day or two, it starts to harden into a cement-like “tarter” that can lead to cavities and gum disease. Only your dentist can remove tartar.

Washing your face

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ou don’t want to overwash your face or scrub it too hard, especially if you have dry skin. But you should wash off the dirt, grime, sweat, and makeup at the end of the day. By keeping germs off your face, you’ll keep pimples away and you might even prevent eye infections. Plus your moisturizer, if you use one, will work better. (Smitha Bhandari, MD)

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Inter departmental badminton tourney

Winners and others at the inter departmental badminton tourney.

DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): The 1st InterDepartmental Badminton To u r n a m e n t Ko h i m a edition organized by Inter Department Badminton Club concluded on October 23 at Nagaland Legislative Assembly Multi-purpose Hall Kohima.

Minister for Planning & Coordination, Land Resource and Parliamentar y Affairs Neiba Kronu graced the inaugural programme as

special guest.

Altogether a total of 99 participants representing 22 different departments from Kohima (85 men and 14 women) competed in three categories - men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

In the men’s double, Arep Ao and Impoti from Accountant General Nagaland emerged as the winner while Rhovisie and Wapang from PHQ Nagaland secured the

second place.

Uma Tamang and Shoniu from PHQ Nagaland won the women’s doubles while K Christina Rutsa and Bendangsangla from Health and Family Welfare finished in second position.

In mixed doubles, Uma Tamang and Wapang of PHQ Nagaland won the title while Ajungla Jamir and Shanavas C from Education Department secured the second place.

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Holder Long, Xu Xin to miss World TT Championships BEIJING, OCT 25 (IANS): World champion Ma Long, Xu Xin, and Liu Shiwen have withdrawn from the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, according to the roster announced by China’s national table tennis team on Monday.

“Ma and Xu have decided not to participate in the Championships for physical adjustment,” said Qin Zhijian, secretar ygeneral of the Chinese Table Tennis Association (CTTA).

“The two paddlers are leading figures in the team with strong competition ability. The men’s team will face a great challenge in the Championships with the absence of Grand Slam winner Ma Long,” added Qin. “Looking ahead to the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, it is necessary to train young paddlers’ ability to withstand pressure and bear responsibility in international events.”

Wo r l d N o. 1 Fa n Zhendong will lead the men’s singles squad for the Championships, reports

Xinhua. “None of the five paddlers who have signed up for the men’s singles have ever won the title in the World Table Tennis Championships,” noted Qin. Qin said that starting from the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, the team will consider their performance for the squad at Paris 2024.

I n t h e w o m e n’s d r aw, To k yo O ly m p i c champion Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu will spearhead the Chinese challenge in the championships alongside three paddlers who have no experience at Olympic Games, with Olympic champion Liu Shiwen skipping from the Championships.

“The Paris Olympics is less than three years away.

Although the women’s team has seen good transition from experienced paddlers to younger players, we still hope to form a competitive team for the Paris 2024,” said Li Sun, head coach of the Chinese women’s team.

Juventus salvage draw against Inter

Juventus’ Paulo Dybala celebrates scoring a goal. (Reuters)

ROME, OCT 25 (IANS): Paulo Dybala’s late penalty cancelled out Edin Dzeko’s opener as Juventus rescued a 1-1 draw in the highlyanticipated Derby d’Italia against Inter Milan at the San Siro here.

Juve hitman Alvaro Morata returned to action, with Dybala dropping to the bench. Inter midfielder Arturo Vidal was absent, so Hakan Calhanoglu stepped in on Sunday evening.

The home side broke the deadlock in the 17th minute when Calhanoglu’s first-time strike outside the

box hit the woodwork, but Dzeko was alert to tap in the rebound.

Both sides created a couple of chances and the Bianconeri won a spotkick in the 88th minute, as Denzel Dumfries kicked Alex Sandro on the edge of the box. The referee awarded Juve a penalty after a VAR review, and substitute Dybala kept his cool to convert it. Inter coach Simone Inzaghi saw red for his reaction to the decision.

Inter now sit third with 18 points, seven points

behind joint leaders Napoli and AC Milan, while Juve are sixth with 15 points, Xinhua reports. In another eye-catching fixture, Napoli saw their season-long 100 per cent winning streak come to an end after a goalless draw with Roma, whose coach Jose Mourinho was also sent off for protesting.

Also in Serie A on Sunday, Giovanni Simeone scored four goals to help Hellas Verona humiliate Lazio 4-1, Fiorentina dominated Cagliari 3-0, and Atalanta drew 1-1 with Udinese.

AFC U-23 Asian Cup Qualifiers: India beat Oman 2-1

DUBAI, OCT 25 (IANS): The India Under-23 football team defeated Oman 2-1 in their opening fixture of the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2022 Qualifiers at the Fujairah Stadium in Dubai, with Rahim Ali (6th minute) converting a penalty, before Vikram Partap Singh (37th minute) doubling the lead to earn a crucial victory.

Waleed Salim scored a consolation goal in added time for the Oman on Sunday night but the three points came into India’s kitty. Igor Stimac, after the recent success in the SAFF Championship where the senior team defeated Nepal for the title, got into the act quickly in pursuit of qualification to the AFC U-23 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2022.

Before the opponents could settle down, India started attacking from the flanks and in the fifth minute, Vikram earned a penalty that Rahim Ali converted.

Omani goalkeeper Ibrahim Yousuf had guessed the right way, but Rahim’s spotkick was placed perfectly, as the ball went past the upright and into the side netting.

S i x m i nu t e s l a t e r, Akash floated in a superb cross from the left but the goalkeeper leapt above Aniket to grab it. Vikram and Rahul kept the Omani m i d f i e l d o n i t s t o e s, something that helped them slam the second goal in the 37th minute.

Akash split the midfield and passed it onto an onrushing Rahim Ali, who rounded off his marker

and pushed the ball onto an unmarked Vikram towards his right. The youngster made no mistake to slot it home past an onrushing keeper. That goal gave India the upper hand before half time. On resumption, India could have made it three through Aniket Jadhav, but he was ruled offside.

Stimac made a few changes towards the end and the boys responded well to hold their fortress against Oman. Bryce Miranda, who was thrown into the fray in the 71st minutes, almost scored his first goal in the 80th. Having played a brilliant one-two with Rahim Ali, he slipped into the Oman penalty box from the left corner but eventually miscued his effort.

In the final minute of

the regulation time, Omani substitute Waleed Salim tucked in a cross from Abdullah Mohammed Al

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10th Kohima District TT C’ship DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): Kohima District Table Tennis Association (KDTTA) will be organising the 10th Kohima District Table Tennis Championship and “Catch Them Young Tournament” supported by District Youth Resources and Sports at Indoor TT Stadium, Kohima from October 29-30. In this regard, interested players have been asked to avail the entry forms from KDTTA office between 3 to 6 pm (Monday to Saturday) and submit it before October 28, 5 pm.

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DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): Kohima District Chess Association has rescheduled its 2nd Kohima District Chess Championship 2021 from October 28 to 30 at CANSSEA building Bayavii opposite to Kiwi Mart.

The tournament will be organized by Kohima District Chess Association under the aegis of Nagaland Chess Association and players should be from Kohima district only.

The tournament will be conducted on Swiss League System of seven round under FIDE rules and regulations. Those players willing to participate can collect the registration form from Sports World, CK Arcade Building opposite to Baroda Bank, Kohima. The last date submission of registration form is October 27 (12 noon).

Fur ther information can be contacted at: 8131931547, 7085651991 and 940218551.

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Stokes back in Eng’s fold for the Ashes LONDON, OCT 25 (IANS): England all-rounder Ben Stokes has been added to the side’s Test squad for the Ashes tour of Australia, beginning at The Gabba in Brisbane on December 8.

Stokes, who has been given the all-clear by his consultant and the England and Wales Cricket Board medical team to resume training following his second operation on a fractured left index finger, will depart with the Test specialists and the Lions on November 4.

Stokes had taken an indefinite break to tend to his mental wellbeing and also his injured finger earlier this year, but he recently returned to the nets, fanning speculation that he was ready to return to the England side.

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DIPHU, OCT25: The 21st All KarbiAnglong district inter- sub Association Women’s Football Championship kicked off on Sunday at Sarihajan playground, Bokajan subdivision. Nine teams from various women football associations are taking part in the tournament, which is dedicated in the memory of late Bhubon Ch.Terang.

In the inaugural league match, Hanjanglangso Sports Association beat Balipathar Sports Association 3-1. The tournament was declared open by executive member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council, Kache Rongpipi, wife of late Bhubon Chandra Terang.

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T20 WC: Afghanistan beat Scotland by 130 runs NSF Trophy: Fifa FC, ANTA win SHARJAH, OCT 25 (PTI): Afghanistan produced a dominating display of power-hitting before Mujeeb Ur Rahman ripped apart the rival batting line-up with his five-wicket haul as the strifetorn Asian nation routed Scotland by 130 runs in a Super 12 match of the T20 World Cup, here on Monday.

Afghanistan first posted a challenging 190 for four after opting to bat and then bundled out Scotland for just 60 run in 10.2 overs to pull off a huge win in Group 2. Scotland piled up 27 runs in the first three overs before Mujeeb scalped Scotland s k i p p e r Ky l e C o e t z e r and Calum MacLoed off successive balls. Mujeeb didn’t get his hat-trick but two balls later he trapped Richie Berrington to reduce Scotland to 28 for three after four overs.

Wickets continued to tumble for Scotland as Matthew Cross and George Munsey (25) departed in the next two overs.

The trend continued as Michael Leask, Chris

Mujeeb Ur Rahman, third right, celebrates the wicket of Scotland’s captain Kyle Coetzer. (AP/PTI)

Greaves and Mark Watt too failed to counter the guile of Rashid Khan (4/9) and Mujeeb. After Mujeeb, it was Rashid’s turn to cause destruction as he polished off Scotland the tail to hand Afghanistan a big win.

Scotland’s str uggle against spin can be gauged from the fact that five of their batters failed to open their accounts.

Earlier, Nazibullah Zadran struck a blistering 59 off 34 balls, hitting five fours and three sixes, while Hazratullah Zazai (44) and

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (46) also produced solid knocks to help Afghanistan score their best-ever total in T20 World Cup. Zazai and Mohammad Shahzad (22) got Afghanistan off to a flier, stitching 54 runs off just 35 balls before the latter holed out at deep midwicket boundary. Zazai played aggressively from the onset, hitting the bad balls to the fence and over it with consummate ease but his 30-ball knock was cut short

by Mark Watt as he inside

NCA announces players list for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021

NCA officials and selected players on Monday.

DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): Nagaland Cricket Association (NCA) has declared the senior men’s cricket team list for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021-22.

The team will be led

by Jonathan Rongsen as captain, Hoaito Zhimomi as vice-captain, Imliwati L e m t u r, S e d e z h a l i e Rupreo, Nagaho Chishi,

Jo s h u a B e n O z u k u m , Hem Bahadur Chetri, Nzanthung, Merenkaba Jamir, Khrievitso Kense, Tahmeed Rahman, Mungkham Phom, Jalaludin Laskar, Neehal Rai, I Temjen Toshi Jamir, H e n r y Ke n t , S a n t o s h Kumar, Mahato, Shrikant Mundhe (guest player), Chetan Bist (guest player) and Abu Nechim Ahmed

(guest player).

Support staff: Nehal Ahmad (Team Manager & asst. Coach), Kawaljeet S i n g h ( Te a m C o a c h ) , Arzoo Raj (team fielding and S & C Coach) and Krishna Prabhu (Team Physio). Nagaland will open the campaign against Manipur on November 4.

All the matches will be played at Vijayawada.

edged a delivery on to his stumps in the 10th over with Afghanistan reaching 82 for two.

Thereafter, Gurbaz and Zadran maintained the scoring rate as Afghanistan kept up the pressure on Scotland bowlers.

While Gurbaz played steadily from one end, Zadran was attacking from the onset as Afghanistan reached 127 for two after 15 overs. In between, Gurbaz also showed his attacking prowess as he clobbered Josh Davey over the mid-

Advani finishes on a high, claims top position NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (PTI): Ace cuiest Pankaj Advani stamped his supremacy with an all-win record and finished on a high in the GSC World Snooker Qualifiers, clinching the top position in the tournament.

The 36-year-old Pankaj, who had won the World and Asian snooker crown multiple times, maintained his excellent form and succeeded in winning all 12 matches (6 each in the Y-Camp a n d Z - C a m p ) . Pa n k a j accumulated 10,760 points (3,560 National points, 3,600 points each from Y and Z Camps) to take pole position, a media release issued here said on Monday.

National champion Aditya Mehta, who finished with 4 wins and 2 defeats, was placed second with 10,156 points (4000 Nationals, 2916 Y-Camp and 3240 Z-Camp) while in third place was Laxman Rawat (PSPB) with 9,396 points.

13-U Kukami Trophy underway at Khehokhu

Chief guest Tokato Awomi, officials and GBs on Monday. (NP) Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, OCT 25 (NPN): The 13-U Kukami Trophy (Men’s Football), 3rd I. Vizheto Chophi Memorial Trophy (Men’s Vo l l e y b a l l ) a n d 1 3 - U Lhousheli Neho Memorial T r o p h y ( Wo m e n’ s Volleyball) & Badminton (Men and Women) got under way at Khehokhu Village here on Monday.

The week-long tournament is organised by Kuhuboto Area Sports Association (KGSA).

The men’s football kicked off with the declaration of the

tournament open by chief guest, GB Lotovi village, Tokato Awomi.

In his inaugural speech, the chief guest r e m i n d e d t h e p l aye r s and gathering on the importance of sports and encouraged the participants to set focus on representing at the national and international levels.

Highlighting the achievements made by the sportspersons from Kuhubotot area, he said, sports has become a lucrative avenue where one could achieve fame and earn a decent living.

However, to excel in this

field, he said sacrifice, hard work and dedication was needed.

Tokato further called upon the area people to come together not only in sports but also in all development fronts so as to bring in more development in the area.

Earlier, the chief guest hoisted the tournament flag followed by invocation

by Rev. Viheshe Zhimo.

Welcome address was delivered by head GB Khehokhu village, Hokiye Yeptho. Highlights of the opening ceremony included folk song by women folk of Khehokhu

village and special number by president, Ahozhe Students’ Union, Gideon Sumi. The oath to the players was administered

by KGSA games and sports secretary, Hosheto Aye. Altogether 16 teams are vying the title in men’s football, 11 team in men’s volleyball; 12 teams in women’s volleyball; nine teams in men’s badminton and four teams in women’s badminton.

The closing ceremony on October 30 will be graced by BJP mandal president 5th Ghaspani-II, Honito Rochill as guest of honour.

wicket boundary with a helicopeter shot to hit a maximum. Gurbaz, from there on, took his game to the next level and clobbered Brad Wheal for two sixes over long on to accumulate 16 runs from the 17th over.

Zadran was not to be left behind as he hit Watt straight down the ground for a boundary and then followed it up with a six over long-off in the next over.

But Gurbaz fell four runs short of his fifty when he handed an easy catch to Kyle Coetzer off Davey.

With wickets in hand, Afghanistan gathered 63 runs in the last five overs.

Brief scores: Afghanistan 190/4 in 20 overs (Najibullah Zadran 59, Rahmanullah Gurbaz 46, Safyaan Sharif 2/33, Mark Watt 1/23) against Scotland 60 in 10.2 overs (George Munsey 25, Chris Greaves 12, Mujeeb Ur Rahman 5/20, Rashid Khan 4/ 9) TUESDAY’S MATCHES South Africa Vs West Indies: 3:30 pm Pakistan Vs New Zealand: 7:30 pm

Fifa FC in black jersey and TKS in yellow during the first match on Monday.

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KO H I M A , O C T 2 5 (NPN): Fifa FC and ANTA entered the next round by registering victorious in the 21st NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy in Kohima on Monday.

In the first match between, Fifa FC beat Tangkhul KS 4-3.

Playing for Fifa FC, Laishram scored the first goal for his team in the 19th minute and later his

teammate Moirangthem Jayananda doubled the lead in the 22nd minute. Later Ngulgoulal scored two goals in the 34th minute and in the additional time.

Representing Tangkhul KS, Thotngayung scored in the 17th minute.

His teammate Yami scored two goals in the 17th and 63rd minutes of the game.

In the second match of the day, All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) beat Rikhu Warriors 2-1.

Opening the account for ANTA Rovizhalie scored the first goal in the 26th minute while Jenpu scored a goal through a penalty in the 29th minute of the game. The lone goal for Rikhi Warriors was netted by Serakho Lohe in the 45th minute of the game.

TUESDAY’S MATCHES AYhome FC Vs Tsiesema Basa FC (12:30pm) United Brothers FC Vs Hurricane Boys (2pm)

Cricketers back Shami after pacer faces online abuse concer ned, this match itself should not have been played with Pakistan. ..

Mohammed Shami is being targeted for the defeat of the Indian team yesterday.

This indicates that the radicalisation and hatred is growing against Muslims,” Owaisi, who is head of the AIMIM party, said.

“A cricket team will have 11 members. There is one Muslim in the team and he is being targeted,” the Hyderabad MP said.

Abdullah, who is the vice president of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference par ty, said the Indian team’s gesture of showing suppor t to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement doesn’t count for much given how Shami was targetted. “#MohammedShami was one of 11 players who lost last night, he wasn’t the only player on the field.

Team India your BLM knee taking counts for nothing if you can’t stand up for your team mate who is being horribly abused & trolled on social media,” he tweeted.

DUBAI, OCT 25 (PTI): Former and current India players, including Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh, on Monday extended their suppor t to pacer Mohammad Shami, who was subjected to a fierce online attack following the national team’s first ever loss to Pakistan in World Cup history.

Politicians also rallied behind the cricketer with former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi condemning the targetting of Shami’s religious identity by social media trolls.

“The online attack on Mohammad Shami is shocking and we stand by him. He is a champion and anyone who wears the India cap has India in their hearts far more than any online mob. With you Shami. Agle match mein dikado jalwa,” tweeted former India opener Sehwag. Former India pacer Irfan Pathan said the attack on Shami is unprecedented.

“Even I was part of #IndvsPak battles on the

field where we have lost but never been told to go to Pakistan! I’m talking about Flag of India of few years back. THIS CRAP NEEDS TO STOP. #Shami,” he posted. Shami has been one of India’s best fast bowlers in recent times and has performed well over the last five years.

The trolls on social media linked his ordinary performance on Sunday night to his religion which did not go down well with fellow netizens with several of them offering support to the 31-year-old.

The other Indian players were also trolled online after the crushing loss on Sunday.

Women’s Boxing: Manju, Zareen storm into semis

IPL 2022 Team Auction: RPSG Group, Irelia bag Lucknow, Ahmedabad teams

HISAR, OCT 25 (PTI): World championships silvermedallist Manju Rani (48kg) and Asian bronze-winner Nikhat Zareen (52kg) continued their fine form to storm into the semifinals of the National Women’s Boxing Championships here on Monday.

Rani, competing for the Railway Sports Promotion Board, out-punched Punjab’s Minakshi 5-0.

The 21-year-old, who won the silver medal on debut at the 2019 World Championships, completely dominated her bout. In another the 48kg category showdown, Tamil Nadu’s S Kalaivani beat Himachal Pradesh’s Jyotika Bisht by a similar margin in the quarter-finals. Another star of the day was Assam’s Jamuna Boro, who entered the last-four stage in the 54kg category with a dominating 5 - 0 w i n ove r G aya t r i Kasnyal of Uttarakhand.

T h e 2 0 1 9 Wo r l d Championships bronzemedallist Jamuna was too quick for Gayatri. In the 52kg category, 2019 Asian Championships bronzemedallist Nikhat Zareen, representing Telangana, put up an impressive show against Assam’s Manju Basumatary and made her way into the semi-finals with a comfortable 5-0 victory.

Mohammad Shami

Former India spinner Harbhajan and current legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who was controversially not included in the World Cup squad, also came to Shami’s support. “We love you @MdShami11,” wrote Harbhajan on Twitter.

Chahal added: “We are so proud of you @ MdShami11 bhaiya.”

Former India pacer R P Singh tweeted: “@ MdShami1 is an Indian cricketer and we are proud of him. To target him after the loss against Pak is pathetic.” The player also got backing from political bigwigs like Owaisi and Abdullah.

“A s f a r a s I a m

Indian Premier League (IPL) bid verification process underway in Dubai. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, OCT 25 (AGENCIES): The RPSanjiv Goenka Group and international investment firm Irelia Company Pte Ltd won the ownership rights of the two new Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises on Monday. While the former bagged the Lucknow team for Rs 7090 crores, Irelia opted for the Ahmedabad team for Rs 5166 crores, Indian Express reported.

The bidding process for the two new IPL franchises began earlier on Monday in Dubai with ten parties submitting their bids to own a team at one of the six cities — Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Cuttack, Dharamsala, Guwahati and Indore.

Among the highprofile bidders to put their

name in the hat, directly or through consortiums, were the owners of Premier League club Manchester United, the Adani Group, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Hindustan Media Ventures Pvt Ltd, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, Capri Global and one Singapore based Irelia Company Pte Limited.

The agency that once represented the former India captain MS Dhoni, Rhiti Sports Management, had also bid for one of the two teams.

According to Cricbuzz, all the parties were asked to submit two envelopes — one for personal and financial credentials and the second for the bid. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had its legal and

audit officials first check the credentials and only after they were found to be in order, the second envelopes were opened.

The BCCI twice had extended its ‘Invitation to Tender’ and had extended the deadline till October 20th, so that Manchester United can take part in the bidding process.

The 2022 edition will not be the first time the IPL will comprise 10 teams as the 2011 edition also had the same number of teams.

As per ESPNCricinfo, the tournament format will follow the 2011 model, which scrapped the simple home-and-away format and included a total of 74 matches (instead of the current number of 60).

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