April 11, 2018

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Vol XXVIII No. 123

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018 Pages 12 ` 5.00

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Controversy over next DGP Nagaland

CM, DY.CM & CS on same page on the issue; NPF hits out at Patton Staff Reporter

Dimapur, Apr 10 (NPN): Amid controversy generated by Nagaland Dy.CM in-charge of home, Y. Patton’s letter dated March 28, 2018 to union Home minister Rajnath Singh for appointment of an IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre (Lungriading Zeliang) as DGP Nagaland over current officiating DGP Rupin Sharma IPS, it has come to light that the request was also made by Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio to Rajnath Singh (March 24, 2018) and also by chief secretary Temjen Toy (March 27) to the union home secretary. What has apparently led to resentment against the government was that the letters had described officiating DGP as lacking in experience and not fit to hold the post.

However, since the letter from Y. Patton had been “leaked” and widely published, the Dy.CM has come under scanner for a letter he wrote to union home

ANPWDFWA sets deadline to regularise W/C employees D IMAPUR , APR 1 0 (NPN): All Nagaland PWD Field Workers’ Association (ANPWDFWA) has set a 30-day deadline for PWD to regularise work charge (W/C) employees under the 68% reserved quota.

In a reminder letter to PWD engineer in-chief, ANPWDFWA president K Atovi Awomi and general secretary Zubemo Ngullie referred to the association’s letters of 04/10/2016 and 18/5/2017 on the issue and pointed out that the work charge employees were serving in PWD since many years. But they lamented that several genuine work charge employees were still awaiting regularisation under the 67% reserved quota.

Alleging that many fresh appointments were being made by higher-ups in the 67% reserved quota at the cost of regularisation of senior work charge employees, the association appealed to the engineer in-chief not to make any more new appointments and utilise all vacancies by regularising work charge employees as per their seniority division-wise and as per a State government decision (memorandum No.AR-3/ Gen-201/2009, Kohima, March 17, 2015).

ministry for appointment of Lungriading Zeliang as DGP Nagaland over current officiating DGP Rupin Sharma. In his rejoinder, Patton described the reports as being “completely twisted in the media” and sought to clarify the matter.

In a rejoinder issued through Dy. CM office media cell, Patton said Rupin Sharma DG (Prisons) 1992 IPS batch was allowed to take charge as DGP “purely as a stop-gap arrangement” after then DGP LL Doungel was reverted back to his parent cadre on completion of deputation period on November 24, 2017.

Patton said as per MHA guidelines an IPS officer should complete 30 years to become DGP but in special category states like Nagaland, the period can be 28 years. He said Rupin Sharma completed only 25 years in IPS in January 2017 and in the scale of ADGP but was allowed to hold charge of DGP Nagaland “as a temporary arrangement” in view of the 2018

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what has been portrayed in the media. He, therefore, said it was “very unfortunate that the confidential correspondence” of the highest level was “leaked in the social media in an unauthorised manner” and misinterpreted in some sections of the media.

CM: In his letter dated March 24, 2018 addressed to union home minister Rajnath Singh, Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio had also requested posting of an officer of “sufficient seniority” and recommended Lungriading Zeliang’s name for deputation. Rio had also pointed out that present officiating DGP Rupin Sharma who has 26

years in IPS was only a “stop gap arrangement”. He also stated that Rupin spent most of his tenure under RAW (MHA), then MEA and UN Mission in Kosovo and had limited experience of one year as SP of Peren district.

Rio impressed upon Rajnath that law and order situation and challenges to policing in Nagaland required an officer of sufficient seniority.

CS: In his letter, dated March 27, 2018 addressed to the union home secretary, Nagaland chief secretary Temjen Toy, also cited the same arguments in favour of an IPS officer of sufficient seniority and one who is aware of local issues be posted as DGP Nagaland.

DGP Rupin Sharma victimized by Patton: NPF Opposition NPF party has expressed alarm over the alleged move by deputy chief minister Y Patton, who is also in charge of home department, to replace Rupin Sharma ostensibly over the latter’s refusal to allegedly make backdoor appointments in the police department as desired by the former. Patton, however, dismissed the allegation. Clarifying that

the NPF was not against the officer proposed to replace the incumbent, it said that ill-designs of Patton were obvious and cautioned that the kind of changes Patton had in mind would surely not augur well for the department or the State.

NPF in a press statement alleged that Patton had a track record of flouting all norms and procedures to get

his candidates appointed or allot them contract and supply works. His wayward behaviour whilst running the administration was a major source of embarrassment for the last regime and he was dropped from the TR Zeliang ministry, albeit at the fag end of the tenure, and severely reprimanded, the party claimed.

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Road repair work begins; Ozukum seeks cooperation

Tongpang Ozukum Correspondent

KO H IMA , APR 1 0 (NPN): With PDA government announcing to improve road condition within 60 days, minister for PWD (R&B, Housing & Mech) Tongpang Ozukum has now appealed to citizens to co-operate with the department, which had already begun its work.

Stating that it was not easy carry out the work, he said there would be many inconveniences and urged the public has

to bear with them. Addressing media persons at his official residence here on Tuesday evening, the minister pointed out that of the 60 days, 32 days had already elapsed and that there were only 28 days left to fulfil the commitment that the citizens had been crying for long.

He exuded confidence that with the cooperation of all stakeholders, PWD would be able to achieve its target within the next 28 days.

Ozukum informed the media that as the target covered district headquarters, the work would touch colonies and wards, and he appealed to ward authorities and committees to extend all possible help to the department as it was not possible for the department alone to carry out the task. He said once the first phase was completed, the next phase

would depend on release of funds.

O n t h e d e l ay t o start the work, Ozukum clarified that as the new government had inherited huge deficit, it had to start everything from the scratch on resource and material mobilisation.

He said material mobilisation was a major task as in some district like Mokokchung stone chips had to be transported from other districts.

Chief Engineer (CE) R&B Limadongdang Jamir, who was also present at the press conference, said 217 km of road in 12 district headquarters would be repaired at a cost of Rs 102 crore. He said the State government had agreed to release Rs 50 crore and had already sanctioned Rs 25 crore for initiating the work.

Stating that PWD executive engineers of 12

districts had already listed out priority roads in district headquarters, Jamir added that repairs and filling of potholes would be taken up in the first phase. He claimed that materials and labourers were already in place and they would begin work as soon as bitumen reached the sites.

Jamir said machineries were expected to reach Dimapur on Wednesday and thereafter these would be sent across to all the district headquarters.

Admitting that finishing the assignment within the deadline would be a challenge for the PWD, the CE, however, asserted that it would try to live up to the promise of the government. He added that drainage system too would be improved as roads get badly affected without proper drains.

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Imkong L. Imchen

was strongly supported and a memorandum for the same was submitted to the Government of India (GoI), Imchen said.

However, GoI had a different opinion and came up with ‘Election for Solution’, on this, Imchen said he had asked GoI to set a timeline for solution which the latter failed to provide.

He said the notion that the demand for deferment of polls by the 12th NLA was solely for political mileage was wrong and that the stand taken

by the 12th NLA and also different NGOs and concerned individuals would be appreciated by future generations.

Imchen added that for him election to the NLA was always secondary compared with the Naga issue.

Recalling the harrowing times he came across and in the course of time after the Naga uprising in the last 70 years, Imchen said the brute force inflicted on the villagers were still fresh in his mind.

Sharing his view on the social scene of the country, Imchen said atrocities meted out against Christians were a grave concern. He said he had always viewed Hinduism as one of the most accommodative and tolerant religion which lately was taking a different turn.

Stating that he had always been actively involved in protecting other religious

AGARTALA, APR 10 (AGENCIES): NITI Forum for North East on Tuesday outlined five development missions for promoting sectors like horticulture, tourism and food processing in the region, NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar said here on Tuesday.

Other missions will cover bamboo-based handicrafts and medium scale industries with focus on ‘Make in North-East’, he said.

Kumar said it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to establish a regional NITI Aayog forum for the northeastern states. A regional forum for Himalayan and Coastal states will also be set up soon, he said.

Kumar was addressing the first meeting of the newly constituted forum here. There has been outflow of resources of North East to other parts of India, he said, adding that the NE states “must bring back not only its resources but also additional resources.

“To make NE more familiar in the rest of the country, one emporium would be set up in all the districts of the country, so that people

Modi to fast on April 12 against Parl disruption

NEW DELHI, APR 10 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fast on Thursday against the washout of the second edition of the budget session of Parliament that ended on April 6 due to protests by opposition parties.

“The Prime Minister will observe a fast even while engaged in his official duty and official engagements,” BJP spokesperson G.V.L. Narsimha Rao told IANS. This will be part of the BJP’s day-long hunger strike that day to protest against the disruption of Parliament by the opposition.

BJP President Amit Shah will observe a hunger strike at Hubli in Karnataka while party MPs will fast in their constituencies.

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Solution to the Naga issue need of the hour: Imchen

D IMAPUR , APR 1 0 (NPN): Finding an early solution to vexed Naga political issue would be in the best interest of everyone including the Nagas, Centre and state governments (Cont’d on p-7) said former minister and NPF legislator, Imkong L. Imchen.

Addressing a press conference at hotel Saramati, here Tuesday, Imchen said during his tenure in the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly, he was the first person to propose the need to differ the general elections to the 13th NLA in view of the ongoing political dialogue, which later, was echoed by civil societies, NGOs and individuals.

Subsequently, the 12th NLA had gone to the extent “Since Rahul has started of passing a strong resolua fast against us, I’m also tion unanimously to press going to counter-fast.” for a deferment polls, which

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general elections.

Patton also pointed out that Nagaland government had approached MHA even in the past for posting IPS officers as DGP as in the case with B. Kezo IPS (1978 Meghalaya cadre) and L.L. Doungel IPS (1987 W. Bengal cadre). He said both the posts of DGP and Chief Secretary were top posts in the government which are most crucial for overall development and law and order.

Patton further maintained that law and order is a responsibility of the popularly elected state government which is also responsible for selecting any suitable officer in the overall interest of the public and state and not as

NITI outlines five development missions for North East region

beliefs in the state, Imchen lamented that minorities in other parts of the country were neglected.

Citing that religious tolerance and secularism were inherent strength of the constitution, Imchen said it would be impossible to turn India into a theocratic state.

On the line of unemployment in the state, Imchen said nowhere in the constitution of India or state legislative proceedings there had been any mention that government would provide jobs to every unemployed youth.

He added that youths these days were mostly after easy money, to get rich overnight and neglect hard work and dignity of labour.

He urged the youth to venture into entrepreneurial works and be engaged in hard work in order to lead a dignified life.

DoNER minister Dr. Jitendra Singh, NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar with CMs of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya.

can know about the products of the region,” Kumar added. He also pointed out that in the 1950s, per capita income of North East was highest in India.

In his address, Union minister of state for DoNER Jitendra Singh said that the government has already initiated talks with a private airline for connecting Agartala with Dhaka and Chittagong. He also underlined the need for completion of the 15 km long AgartalaAkhaura rail link for improving connectivity of NE with Bangladesh. The meeting also discussed the need to complete of the bridge on the river Feni in Sabroomn

which connects Chittagong and Tripura, he added.

After completion of the bridge on the river Feni at Sabroom in South Tripura district, broad gauge railway track would be extended to Chittagong port, and Tripura would act as the gateway for the N, Singh said.

In his address, Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio pointed out that Kohima was the only state capital in the North East which does not have an airport. He emphasized the need of an airport in Kohima, for which Rio said that the state government had acquired land for at least one small airstrip.

Over 30 houses gutted in Dimapur

Remnants of the houses destroyed in the fire at Naharbari on Tuesday. (NP)

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, APR 10 (NPN): At least 31 houses and two timber godowns were completely razed down by fire at Naharbari here Tuesday.

According to sources, the fire that broke out at around 11.30 a.m. destroyed properties worth over Rs.50 lakh including household materials.

There were, however, no reports of casualties or injuries.

Occupants of the houses comprised mostly labourers, who

Tinpatti-NHAK road closed in Kohima D IMAPUR , APR 1 0 (NPN): Citing unsafe condition of the road, DC & RTA Kohima chairman, Rajesh Soundararajan, has ordered the closure of bypass road connecting Tinpatti-Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK) with immediate effect till further orders.

In an order, Soundararajan, stated that the district administration carried out spot verification based on the reports received from PWD regarding the potential caving-in of the stretch of road near Soul Harvest Church where construction of retaining wall was on.

In this regard, all the commuters have been requested to take note of the same and use other alternate roads and be mindful of the resultant traffic jam in other roads because of the same and plan their movement accordingly.

were out for work at the time of the incident. The cause of the fire was could not be ascertained till the filing of the report.

Timely intervention of fire personnel prevented the inferno from spreading to adjacent areas, but nothing could be saved from the destroyed houses, which were mostly kutcha houses.

District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Dimapur member also arrived at the site of the incident to take up immediate relief measures for the families who were rendered homeless.

Naga woman bags 2018 ‘CII Women Exemplar Award’ D IMAPUR , APR 1 0 (NPN): Vechulou Kanuo, executive director of Chakhesang Women Welfare Society (CWWS), was among the three grassroots women leader who bagged the “CII Woman Exemplar 2018” award.

The award was given away by Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu on April 8 at a function in New Delhi.

Among the 15 finalists from across the country, only three persons were selected for the award by an eminent panel from the Industry and social sector.

Kanuo received the award in field of micro-enterprise segment. Two other awardees included Munni Begam and Asha.

Kanuo, who took over as secretary of CWWS in 2000-- an NGO under Chakhesang Baptist Church

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Council (CBCC), led it to a vibrant social organisation that transformed the lives of innumerable rural women and communities under Phek district.

Kanuou was able to usher in modern agriculture and animal husbandry system to 10,586 women, farmers and youth, seeding thousands of small entrepreneurs in the deep rural interiors of Nagaland.

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ICFAI Univ holds ‘Symposium for Holistic Health’

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DIMAPUR, APR 10 (NPN): Health Talk - Health Camp, a Symposium for Holistic Health (SHH), was organised at ICFAI University, Nagaland campus here Tuesday, to mark the 263rd Birth Anniversary of Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, who developed creating a system of alternative medicine called homeopathy in 1796.

Delivering the keynote address as one of the speakers at the symposium, Dr. Seyiekhrietuo John, State Programme Officer [National AYUSH Mission (NAM)], Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima, said that the main aim of the NAM was to promote AYUSH medical systems and to strengthen educational systems and also facilitate enforcement of quality control of AYUSH. Dr. John stated that as per the government guidelines Nagaland government also formed the State AYUSH Mission Society.

To implement the mission in the state, a society with governing body headed by

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chief secretary and executive body with commissioner & secretary H&FW as its chairman was constituted, he said.

Highlighting the activities that have been carried out for the past three-four years, SPO said that the government has already established a fully functional 10-bedded integrated AYUSH hospital. He disclosed that another 50-bedded hospital would be inaugurated in Noklak under Tuensang district within three four months. Further, Dr. John said construction of another 50-bedded hospital has begun in Kohima district. 50-bedded hospital for Mokokchung district has been approved and the

work would also be starting very soon, he added.

Under the national AYUSH mission, SPO said every district would have one AYUSH hospital.

He disclosed that medicinal plant cultivation was also being implemented.

Further, the SPO informed that the state government has proposed to setting up medicinal plant aromatic research centre in Nagaland.

Dr. John also pointed out that there was one Ayurveda Research Unit in Lumami. To promote research in Ayurveda, an MoU was signed between CCRAS under Ministry of AYUSH and Nagaland University. However, he

said the unit was not functioning very well, adding that the state government was planning to shift it to Dimapur.

SPO disclosed that a Homeopathic research unit has been approved and very soon it would begin in Dimapur. Besides, he said even the units of Siddha and Unani would be set up in Nagaland.

Informing about that Extra Mural Research (EMR) scheme relating to AYUSH, Dr. John said if students in Nagaland wished to go for higher studies or do PhDs the society was ready to promote.

Stating that AYUSH in Nagaland is still at in its infancy, the SPO sought support from everyone for the promotion of the same.

Another speaker, Dr. Ruusietuonuo, Medical Officer -AYUSH, Community Health Centre, Peren while sharing about homeopathy asserted that like any other system, Homeopathy was also a system on medicine. She said that it was based on doctrine of ‘like cures like ‘(similia similibus curentur), the doctrine that any drug capable of

producing morbid symptoms in the healthy will remove similar symptoms occurring as an expression of disease.

She said that whatever pathy it might be the mission and goal was to help out the sick people and cure the disease.

Dr. Ruusietuonuo also briefly highlighted seven principles on which homeopath was based in treating the patients such as law of similia, law of simplex, law of minimum, doctrine of drug proving, theory of chronic diseases, theory of vital force and the doctrine of drug dynamization.

Earlier, ICFAI University vice-chancellor, Dr. CP Alexander delivered welcome address where he also highlighted about the life and works of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. The programme was chaired

by Symposium for Holistic Health (SHH) co-ordinator, Holi J Ayemi and Pavito Wotsa, assistant professor, department of commerce, ICFAI University Nagaland, proposed vote of thanks. After the symposium, a health was organised at the conference hall of the university.

DPDB monthly meetings held in various districts

Imnatiba speaking at the monthly Mokokchung DPDB meeting. (DIPR)

Chuba Wati, ADC Peren chairing the DPDB meeting at DC conference hall on April 10. (DIPR) DIMAPUR: The district planning and development board (DPDB) meetings were held in Mokokchung, Pughoboto, Mangkolemba, Peren and Jalukie in the month of April in their respective headquarters.

Mokokchung DPDB: Mokokchung District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) held its meeting for the month of April at the ADC (planning cell) conference hall on April 7.

According to DIPR report, the meeting was chaired by the new DPDB chairman, Imnatiba who is also advisor to the department of Industries & Commerce and NIDC, attended by minister for Public Works department, Tongpang Ozukum and the advisor to the departments of Law & Justice, Border Affairs and Treasuries & Accounts, Dr. Longrineken.

Speaking at the meeting, Imnatiba said although he was new to politics and the DPDB proceedings he was excited to do his best for the welfare of the people and development of the district. He sought the DPDB’s full cooperation and urged them to contribute innovative ideas. He K

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also appealed to the members to attend the meetings regularly and contribute their best.

Minister, Tongpang Ozukum and advisor, Dr. Longrineken also shared their visions and dreams on giving an impetus to the development trend for the district. They also said that all the elected members from Mokokchung district would soon hold a meeting to discuss they could collectively implement measures for the developmental front.

DC and vice-chairman, Sachin Jaiswal welcomed the new DPDB chairman, Imnatiba, Tongpang Ozukum and Dr Longrineken to the meeting.

Sachin Jaiswal also brought up a number measures that needed strengthening such as public services delivery system, implementation of citizens charter in all departments within the district, better coordination among departments on various welfare schemes.

He also spoke about developing and maintaining peace in the border areas, which, he said, was his priority.

The meeting once again discussed the urgent need for construction of

a ring road for “Mokokchung town, operation of all transport buses from the Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) at Khensa.”

Taking part in the discussions Tongpang Ozukumsaid that pot-holes in the entire district headquarter roads were being repaired on a war footing.”

The minister called upon the people for their cooperation so that the work could be completed within the proposed time frame.

A proposal to construct an approach road to the new MMC dumping zone was also approved and forwarded so that construction could begin at the earliest.

Ao Senden president, Imliyanger Jamir and vicepresident, Chubawati, who also attended the meeting, assured the officials of their full support for developmental activities.

Pughoboto SDPDB: The Sub Division Planning Development Board (SDPDB), Pughoboto meeting was held with MLA and chairman, Y. Vikheho Swu at the ADC office Pughoboto on April 9.

According to DIPR report, Avelu Ruho ADC reviewed the last meeting minutes, and house also

Y. Vikheho Swu, MLA and chairman speaking at the SDPDB meeting at ADC office Pughoboto on April 9. (DIPR) congratulated Y. Vikheho Swu, who has been appointed as the chairman of SDPDB. Y. Vikheho Swu who was re-elected from the 13 A/C Pughoboto sincerely acknowledged all the officers in the meeting for their rendered services with co-operation.

Swu said that he tried his best to initiate a new programme in the Pughoboto sub-division and launched a few programme under LADP and assured that he would continue to carry out the development works to uplift Pughoboto.

The MLA said that to encourage the farmers he is planning to bring officials from the Land Resources department for “coffee plantation” in his area next month. “Green Pughoboto” under “plantation week” would be held from May 14 to 19, and had tentatively been fixed on May 14 at Asukiqa area, May 16 at Ghathashi area and May 18 at KhuchoTsuyi (KT) area. The MLA said that an award of Rs.50,000/would be given to villages for arranging maximum plantation on their own and for nurturing the saplings.

The house deliberated on lifting of boulders from the Doyang River and agreed to send as a letter to remind the village council to prohibit the lifting of boulders. The house also approved to hold a seminar on “biodiversity conservation” on June 5 coinciding with the World Environment Day and the next SDPDB meeting has been scheduled on May 7.

The house also decided to write to the concern departments to give direct power supply to Pughoboto from Kohima.

Mangkolemba SDPDB: The Mangkolemba Sub-Divisional Planning and Development Board (SDPDB) meeting for the

month of April was held at ADC office Mangkolemba on April 6 under the chairmanship of ADC Mangkolemba, Razouvolie Dozo.

A DIPR report said that the chairman, while welcoming the members, lauded all heads of offices responsible for the successful conduct of the last Assembly Elections. During the meeting, the house decided to forward, to the concern authorities, the matter of the upgradation of GPS Akumen to a GMS and the matter of the application for a grant-in-aid, submitted by principle of Baptist Higher Secondary School, Mangkolemba.

The house also discussed the construction of a rostrum at public ground Nokyu ward, approach road to cemetery and installing a water source and electrification at the cemetery.

Peren DPDB: The monthly meeting of Peren District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) was held at the DC conference hall on April 10 under the chairmanship of ADC Chuba Wati. The meeting started with a review of the previous meeting and board recommended for setting up of gravity goods ropeway in Punglwa, Peren block under NERLP. Jalukie sub-division: The monthly coordination meeting was held at Jalukie sub-division on April 7 with Nagaland state disability, government official, GBs, youth and church leaders at Jalukie town hall. SDO (C), Jalukie, Lankonsen Tsanglao thanked all the members present.

NSDF president Kezha gave detailed information on the Rights of Person with Disability Act 2016. He also spoke on roles of the citizens to avoid discrimination of disabled persons.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018

NSCN/GPRN (K) Assam Rifles apprehend informs public NSCN (K) cadres in Lungwa

DIMAPUR: NSCN/ GPRN (K) has informed general public that several criminals are found to be impersonating NSCN/ GPRN’s authority and engaged in extortion, taxation, duping and threatening of departments, business communities and public in general in and around Kohima.

A press release by deputy kilonser, MIP, GPRN, ‘col’ (rtd) Isak Sumi has therefore informed that in order to avoid unnecessary harassment and inconveniences, all the concerned stake holders have been requested to refer any such activities to the official incharge of Kohima, ‘col’ (rtd) Isak Sumi or the authorized official as may be endorsed by Isak Sumi. For any query one may contact at 959428418880.

DIMAPUR: Mon battalion of Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR North) conducted an operation along with a police representative based on specific information in the general area of Ponyu Murrang, Lungwa village on April 9.

According to PRO HQ IGAR (North), during the operation, Assam Rifles troops apprehended two NSCN (K) cadres in possession of incriminating documents. The apprehended were identified as Aching Konyak (60) son of Apho Konyak, resident of Khanmoi, Myanmar and Akham Konyak (43) son of Alang Langchui Konyak, resident of Khanmoi, Myanmar.

The recoveries included one extortion slip signed

The accused with the seized items. by ‘maj gen’ Nyemlang Konyak GSO-1, NSCN (K) and notebooks containing details of tax collection and other incriminating documents.

In this connection, the apprehended along with the recovered items were handed over to Mon police station for further investigation.

news in Brief SDEO Dimapur informs: Sr. SubDivisional Education Officer (SDAO), T. Kiyelu Yepthomi, has informed all head masters/ head teachers (government and private schools) under SDEO Dimapur to collect forms for district, state and national ICT teachers award.

ANHTU Mkg unit general meeting: All Nagaland Hindi Teacher Union (ANHTU) Mokokchung unit has informed all its members that general meeting would be held on April 14, 10 a.m onwards at auditorium hall, Mayangnokcha GHSS Mokokchung. All the members have been requested to attend the meeting.

LSC executive meeting: Langpangkong Students Conference (LSC) has convened an executive meeting on April 14, 10 a.m at conference Hall, Chuchuyimlang.

All the advisors, executives, presidents and senior students of the federating units have been requested to attend the meeting.

ANATG 2015 batch executive meeting: An All Nagaland Ad-hoc Teachers Group (ANATG) 2015 Batch executive meeting has been convened on April 13, 12 p.m at on Friday ANSTA Rest House, Kohima. All the unit and sub unit executive members have been requested to attend the meeting.

ANSTA Peren unit general meetingcum-election: All Nagaland School Teacher’s Association (ANSTA) Peren unit has convened its general meetingcum-election of new office bearers on April 24, 11 a.m at Jalukie town hall. All the schools have been requested to send three delegates for the meeting.

ZSW Dimapur informs on WW II pensions: Zila Sainik Welfare (ZSW) Dimapur has informed all World War (WW) II veterans of Dimapur, Mon and Peren district that pension would be paid on April 17, 10 a.m at ZSW office, Sainik bhawan near circuit house Dimapur. All veterans have been informed to come personally along with pension book and identity card. It furthers informs that book, funeral, medical and daughter’s marriage grants will also be paid on the day for which identity cards should be produced.

Principal Govt Polytechnic Kma informs: In view of semester examinations scheduled to be conducted during May, Government Polytechnic Kohima principal, Er. Keyiekhru Rhutso has informed all the students that the time period for filling up and submission of examination forms has been fixed as follows, odd semester compartmental examination from April 11 - 17; and even semester regular examination from April 19 - 21. It informed that there would be no extension of date for submission of examination form. Students have been informed to produce photo copy of last examination mark sheet while filling up examination form.

EYD annual general meet: Ekhyo Yan Dimapur (EYD) has convened annual general meeting on April 14, 10 a.m. at community hall. All bonafide members have been requested to attend the meeting.

CMO Peren informs on district medical board: Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Peren, Dr. Denis Hangsing has informed all the departments that the district medical board would be held on April 24, 10 a.m. in the office chamber of CMO Peren. All the departments having candidates for confirmation, invalidation and commutation of pension etc for grade III and grade IV employees have been directed to submit the list by April 24 addressing to the CMO Peren.

CUD 22nd general session: Chen Union Dimapur (CUD) has convened its 22nd general session on April 21, 10 a.m at Union Mission, opposite to BSF camp,

Half-Nagarjan, Dimapur. All the members/representatives of Chen community in Dimapur have been requested to attend the session.

Wokha-Merapani road committee meeting: Wokha-Maraju (Merapani) road vigilance and monitoring committee through its committee convener S. Mhonlumo Lotha has informed all concerned that a committee meeting on the matter of the ongoing road construction, Wokha-Maraju (Merapani) would be held on April 12, 11 a.m at Lotha Tribal Council (LTC) hall Wokha. All committee members, Lotha organizations and concerned citizens have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

DDLSA national lok adalat: The Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) would be organising national lok adalat on April 14, 10 a.m at district court building for cases related to bank/ MACT/BSNL matters /criminal compoundable cases/etc. General public have been informed to avail these services and further details may be obtained from the front office of DDLSA at district court building, Dimapur.

Book launch: A hardcover cookbook “sweet station, anyone can bake” written by Jenny Kath Thong and published

by PenThrill publication house Kohima would be launched on April 14, 2 p.m at Crossword, Kohima.

KMC convenes Kohima ward panchayat meeting: Municipal Council (KMC)cum-CEO Kohima Smart City Dev. Ltd, Elizabeth Ngully has convened a joint meeting of all the 19 ward panchayat chairmen and sanitation committee on April 20, 2 p.m at the KMC office to discuss issues relating to sanitation and “Kohima Smart City.” All the concerned members have been requested to attend the meeting.

DDADU meeting: Dimapur District Autorickshaw Drivers’ Union (DDADU) has convened a general meeting on April 14 at its office premises in Super Market at 3 p.m. All parking i/cs, executives, and auto drivers have been asked to attend the meeting without fail. Drivers not in uniform and without union ID cards would not be entertained at the meeting.

DC Wokha informs: Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Wokha has informed that District Level Screening Committee (DLSC), Wokha district will conduct speed test for typist grade III and II to grade I on April 26, 11 a.m at the conference hall of DC office, Wokha.

All heads of departments/offices have been directed to notify all concerned employees under their administration, who has completed 5 continues years as of July 15, 2017, to be present for the proposed test on the mentioned date. Departments/offices yet to submit name/ list of employees have been directed to submit latest by April 17 for official convenience. All concerned have been requested to come along with their own type writers/ machine on the proposed day. On expiry of the stipulated date & time for submission of the list, no claims and objections would be entertained in any manner.

Lost and Found: The Union Territory-I has recovered a two wheeler (bike) Hero Honda/black in color, bearing chasis number MBLJA06ANGGD09812 and engine number JA06EJGGTI6263. A press release by NSCN/GPRN through its MIP informed that another Hero Maestro Edge, black strip in color, bearing engine number JF33ABHGHO5386 has also been recovered by the UTI authority. The rightful owners may come and claim the recovered bikes by producing proper documents at the UT-I office during the office hour within one week from the date of publication of the news.

One may contact the UT-I secretary at 8014620571.

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School students & Forest department staffs during Swachh Bharat at Kisama. (NP)

Correspondent KOHIMA, APR 10 (NPN): Awareness on clean environment-cum-cleanliness drive (Swachh Bharat) was organized with the initiative of Kohima Forest Division in collaboration with NAAME and schools from Phesama and Kigwema on April 10 at the Naga Heritage Village, Kisama.

During the inaugural programme, DFO Kohima, Rongsenlemla Imchen appreciated the school students for proactive participation and for validating their responsibilities as emissaries of change. She said that Kisama was selected

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for its inaugural cleanliness campaign as it connotes an important place to nurture environmental consciousness amongst the public. The department also thanked NAAME for their cooperation in this initiative and expressed that Forest department was keen to collaborate with any institution sharing the same vision and objectives with regard to forests and environment protection. The department also intends to continue the campaign in other areas in later months with Eco Clubs and other line departments.

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president NAAME while acknowledging the participants said that this initiative would desire a positive change in the mindset of the people for a clean and healthy surrounding and also gratify NAAME’s objective of “Inculcating in youth the beauty of nature (heritage) for healthy living”.

Altogether 110 students from GHS Kigwema, GMS Kigwema & Nagaland Police Central Project School Phesama participated in the Swachh Bharat. Likewise, Kohima Forest staff, DFO Kohima, NAAME members and teacher-in-charge of the three schools participated in the program.

DEO Kohima informs heads of institutions DIMAPUR: District Education Officer (DEO) Kohima, Piholi Swunetho, has informed all heads of both government and private educational institutions under DEO Kohima to forward cases of eligible and deserving teachers for Kohima District Teachers Award 2018.

In a press release, DEO Kohima has informed that recommendation shall be made from among the teachers who have: been contributing exceptional service to the school as well as to the society (beyond the school perimeter) and who has also pro-actively devise innovative approaches in teaching/learning process and promoting literary programs; teachers who have served not less than 10 years in the teaching profession; good moral character/integrity, he/she must have good reputation in the society and promoting the education of differently abled children and who may have done outstanding work for inclusive education.

The DEO Kohima has further informed that the format for recommendation could be obtained from the office of the undersigned with immediate effect during office hour and the same and duly filled can be submitted latest by May 22.

Book release held at NU, Meriema

Pro-vice chancellor, Nagaland University professor, R.C. Gupta with editors of the book professor Lungsang Zeliang, Narola Chuba and Dr. M. Rajendra Nath Babu at Nagaland University Campus Merima on April 10. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: A book-release programme was held at the office chamber of pro-vice chancellor Nagaland University (NU) Kohima campus, Meriema on April 10.

According to DIPR report, speaking at the book release pro-vice chancellor NU professor, RC Gupta said it was a very proud moment for the department of Education to be releasing the three books written by his colleagues.

He added that the book would be helpful for the teachers in dealing with the various problem, challenges, perimeter indicator, quality indicator, current issues etc. He challenged the educators to be more

engaged in the academic work adding that age has nothing to do with good work one can do. Knowledge is unending, he said and to organise more seminars and project works in future.

Highlighting the achievement of the NU, he said that in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) held in 2018, out of 750 universities across the country, NU secured 95 position in the ranking which was commendable as compared to 2016 ranking where NU was in 227 position. He stated that this achievement could not have happened if not for the support of both the teaching

and non-teaching staff of Nagaland University and added that in the coming years NU will strive forward and target the 50 ranking position.

HoD of Education, professor, Lungsang Zeliang said that the book will not only enable prospective teachers to gain knowledge of their subject matter but would gear them to communicate effectively and work with dedication.

The three volume book was edited by professor, Lungsang Zeliang, Narola Chuba and Dr. M Rajendra Nath Babu and published by APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi.

Sensitization programme on harmful effect of tobacco

Officials with participants during the sensitization programme at Lotha Tribal Council Hall, Wokha on April 10. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: To spread awareness and sensitize the shopkeepers/traders in and around the school premises,

a sensitization programme According to DIPR was organized on April10 report, dental surgeon, Sanis at Lotha Tribal Council hall CHC, Dr. MhonthungTun(LTC) Wokha. goe, while delivering the key

note address, said there were more than 7000 thousand poisonous chemicals found in tobacco products and every sixth second a person died globally as direct result for use of tobacco products. Everyone knows that tobacco use can have disastrous consequences on our health but many ignore the risk and use it, he said and urged all to discourage the use of tobacco products for healthy life. Psychologist at NTCP Wokha, Abeni, speaking on the harmful effects of tobacco on health and COPTA Act 2003, said the main aim in organizing the programme was to

sensitize the shopkeepers not to sell tobacco products within 100 yards from the school premises. She also emphasized on the section and rules of any violations of the provision under the Act and added that violation may lead to imprisonment of 2 to 5 years or more with penalty in the form of imposition of fines in accordance with the offense committed.

She also stated that very shortly checking would start in collaboration with the enforcement agencies.

The programme was chaired by social worker, Nagaland University under graduate examination got underway at Dimapur NTCP Wokha, Mharoni Government College (DGC) center on April 10. Altogether 1022 regular students for both Arts and Commerce sat for the exam.

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SCERT conducts introductory meeting with advisor DC Kohima informs DDMA members DIMAPUR: The director SCERT, T. Sekhose welcomed Toshi Wungtong, the new Advisor of SCERT, IPR& Village Guards during the introductory meeting at the directorate of SCERT on April 10.

According to DIPR report, Toshi in his speech said that education was the basic tool for social structure. Education manifested overall characters of a society and it must also be the same tool for the SCERT department and all

Advisor of SCERT, IPR & Village Guards, Toshi Wungtong addressing the departmental staff at the introductory meeting at the Directorate of SCERT on April 10. (DIPR)

the 11 districts, he added. be a progressive concept for Stating that education must the Naga people today, he

asked the department to take up the challenges that lay ahead for the development of society.

He further mentioned that greater wealth was mental wealth because it teaches people, qualifies them and makes people more optimistic in their outlook.

People should have a questioning and open mind, he said and also expressed his desire to work with the department to bring positive change in the society.

DIMAPUR: DC and chairman DDMA Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan has informed all the concerned members that the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Kohima quarterly meeting would be held on April 16 after the DPDB meeting at DC’s conference hall, Kohima.

According to DIPR report, the following members have been informed to attend the meeting in person: Administrator, KMC, Kohima cochairman, DDMA; Addl. deputy commissioner, Kohima CEO, DDMA; SDO

(C), Kohima member secretary; Superintendent of police, Kohima member; Medical superintendent, NHAK, Kohima member; Chief medical officer, Kohima member; Divisional forest officer, Kohima member; Addl. SP, Fire & ES, Kohima member; Deputy commandant, HG & CD, Kohima member; Executive engineer, Mechanical, Kohima member; SDO (Sadar), Kohima member; Revenue officer, Kohima member; District informatics officer, Kohima member; Project director,

DRDA, Kohima member; District agriculture officer, Kohima member; Executive engineer, PHED (Urban) Kohima member; Executive engineer Power, Kohima member; Executive engineer, PWD, R & B (s) Kohima member; Executive engineer, PWD, NH Kohima division member; Regional transport officer, Kohima member; Asst. director, Supply, Kohima member; DPRO, Kohima member; Nodal officer for Kohima, NSDMA member and EAC (Dev), Kohima member.

Agriculture, backbone to achieve livelihood security: Sangtam

DIMAPUR: Minister for Soil & Water Conservation & Geology & Mining, V. Kashiho Sangtam, has asserted that agriculture activities are the “backbone for achieving livelihood security” in Nagaland.

The minister was speaking as chief guest while inaugurating the new Sub-Divisional Agriculture Office (SDAO) Seyochung on April 7, informed a press release

by District Agriculture Officer (DAO) Kiphire, R. Santsu Kithan.

The release stated that Sangtam requested the people to extend support and cooperate with agriculture department so that different schemes and programmes could be implemented for State agriculture sector to be productive.

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The minister also urged agriculture department officials to impart knowledge about latest agricultural technologies to the farmers through farmers training so as to increase productivity.

Asserting that soil and climatic condition in Seyochung area was favourable to different kinds of crops, he asked the officials from the agriculture department to take up all available schemes/ programmes at Seyochung agri-division so that farming community could be benefitted.

In a brief report, Additional director agriculture department, N Henry Zeliang, said SDAO Seyochung was a long felt need of the people of the area.

Stating that State economy was dependent

on agriculture sectors, he warned that climate change has an enormous impact on agriculture production. He then urged the farming community to create awareness on conservation measures for maintaining soil fertility to increase the production and productivity to achieve the food security for the growing population.

He was asserted that the department has created seven new SDAO posts including SDAO Seyochung so that latest agriculture technologies could reach farmer’s doorsteps to address the grievances of the farming community.

The programme concluded with vote of thanks by district agriculture officer, Kiphire, R. Santsu Kithan.

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Supporters of MMCOC blocked a road in a Muslim dominated areas in Imphal on Tuesday. (NP) Correspondent

Imphal, Apr 10: Twin bandhs called against alleged discrimination towards the minority Muslim community and shifting of site for construction has severely hit normal life in Muslim dominated areas across Manipur and part of Imphal east district on Tuesday.

4 8 - h o u r s t a t ew i d e bandh was imposed by All Manipur Muslim Coordinating Committee (AMMCOC) to protest against alleged discrimination towards the minority Muslim community in the state.

While a dawn to dusk from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. imposed

by Joint Action Committee against shifting of site for construction of Imphal East district hospital.

AMMCOC hit out at the BJP-led coalition of driving out Muslim inhabitants in various areas in the name of protection of the paddy

field at Mantripukhri area and on the bank of Imphal river. Police also fired tear gas selling and used mock bombs to disperse the bandh supporters. However, there was no reports of casualty.

Meanwhile, talking to reporters on sideline of today’s “Hill Leaders Day”, chief minister N Biren Singh appealed to the organization behind the bandh to refrain from playing “communal politics”.

He said that the houses and other structures were illegally constructed and there was no question of targeting a particular community during the eviction drives.

“Everybody should abide the rule of law and no one including the government is above law,” Singh said. He maintained that under the rule of law, the government has the right to conduct eviction drives against those encroachers whether they belong to any communities who are living

illegally on state’s land.

Besides, any kind of construction in the agricultural land is illegal under the Manipur Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, he added.

The dawn to dusk bandh call given by JAC hit normal life severely across Khundrakpam Assembly constituency in the district.

Seven bandh supporters sustained minor injuries in police action. The BJP-led coalition government had recently laid the foundation stone for construction of the district hospital of Imphal East district at Kiyamgei under Keirao Assembly constituency of Imphal East.

Interestingly, the previous Congress government had also laid the foundation stone at Sagolmang under Khundrakpam A/C of the district and residences of the area were pressing the government to commence the construction at the earliest.

Agartala, Apr 10 (PTI): CPI(M) politburo member Prakash Karat today alleged that the newly elected BJP-IPFT government in Tripura was trying to suppress opposition parties through violence.

Karat today visited Jirania, Khayerpur, Ranirbazaar and Mandwai in West Tripura district where the ruling party workers allegedly attacked members and offices of opposition Left parties.

“This new government is trying to suppress the opposition parties through violence. There is not a single party office which is open and functioning in the areas that I have visited today,” he claimed.

Some of the party offices were torched, some were looted and ransacked and a in some cases attempts were made to capture them, the former CPI(M) general secretary said adding that the party would not tolerate attacks on democracy.

“The picture is same in other parts of the state,” Karat told reporters at the CPI(M) state headquarters here after visiting the violence affected areas.

Party workers, who are terrorised by attacks in different parts of Tripura, would be reunited and damaged offices would be restored and re-opened shortly, Karat said.

The BJP-Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) combine came to power last month in a landslide victory ending the 25 years of Left rule.

EU Ambassador urges NE students to avail scholarships GUWAHATI, Apr 10 (Agencies): The Ambassador of European Union to India, Tomasz Kozlowski has urged students, researchers and faculty members in the Northeast to avail scholarships and opportunities under EU-funded programmes for higher education and research.

“Under such a programme, Erasmus +, over 5,300 Indian students have received scholarships over the past several years, of which 87 from Northeast and 72 from Assam have so far benefitted. We would be delighted to see greater participation by students from the Northeast,” Kozlowski told media persons here on

Tuesday. The EU Ambassador is on a two-day visit to Assam, reported Shillong Times.

Kozlowski interacted with students of Don Bosco University on the occasion of EU Day on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, he visited IIT-Guwahati and encouraged students to avail of scholarships under EUfunded programmes. In the past three years alone, 1300 students from India have received full scholarships, 120 Indian universities have been involved in active exchange programmes while around 100 universities are engaged in joint master programmes or capacitybuilding projects.

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Biren assures job to visually impaired girl Correspondent

IMPHAL, Apr 10: Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh Tuesday assured government job to a visually handicapped girl, who met him during “Hill Leaders’ Day” held at the Durbar hall of chief minister’s secretariat on Tuesday.

Hill Leaders Day is a monthly programme held on 10th of every month in which Singh personally meets and hears the complaints and grievances of the hill people.

Today, the chief minister attended to around 300 complaints and met around 700 people.

The visually handicapped girl from a remote hill area was among around

them who directly requested the chief minister to provide a government job so that she can help her four members all visually handicapped family.

In a facebook post, the chief minister quoted the girl as saying “I don’t want chief minister’s health scheme money, I want a government job, I am 12th passed, all four family members are blind, and we are helpless!”

“The blind girl said to me on Hills Leaders’ Day today! Oh my God! What a sad day but thank God for giving me a chance to serve them. I will put up in the cabinet to provide a suitable government job to this poor and helpless differently abled family, the chief

minister wrote in his official facebook account.

Singh also said that the government needed the support of the people for the successful implementation of ‘Go to the Village’ mission, set to be launched on may 1, 2018.

He said that a Committee would be formed at the Panchayat and ADC level of the State, to identify the number of beneficiaries under various schemes.

He mentioned that the much awaited ‘mission’ would be launched simultaneously in different parts of the State. He said that the mission will help in building a strong relationship and bridge the gap between the people and the government in the region.

Youth joins Hizbul; ‘shoot him dead’, says mother NESO demands ILP in Northeast

DECLARATION OF ACTUAL NAME

Dated : 06.04.2018

I, Smti. L. Vihuli Sema, w/o Luheto Sema, resident of North Point Colony, Dist. Zunheboto, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as under : 1. That I am bonafide citizen of India and belong to Sema (Naga) community of the above mentioned address.

2. That my name is inadvertently recorded as :a) L. Vihuli in my document SBI Pass Book bearing A/C No. 31942576415 b) L. Vihuli Sema in my document Service Book But my actual name is L. Vihuli Sema.

3. The above mentioned name L. Vihuli Sema and L. Vihuli are of one same person which is referred to me.

4. That, from the date of this declaration, my name shall be used as L. Vihuli Sema for all official purposes and legal proceedings and at all times and occasions.

5. That the statements made in part 1-4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing materials are concealed therein.

Deponent Solemnly affirmed and declared before me by the deponent of this 6th day of April 2018 at Zunheboto, Nagaland.

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should be killed as he is a traitor. We won’t allow even his body to be brought inside our house,” Mufidul said.

He said Qamer had studied up to class 10 and is not an MA as claimed in the photo.

The family had also gone to Jammu and Kashmir last year to file a police report that he was missing, Mufidul said.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah took to twitter to take note of the incident.

“An MA in English & reportedly has come all the way from Assam to become a militant in Kashmir. A few days ago my security people had told me about his presence around Srinagar,” he said.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

LONGLENG : NAGALAND NO.LLG/JUD/SUC/2009-10/841 Dated, Longleng the 27th March ‘2018 Whereas, Shri/Smti/Kumari CHINGYAH PHOM of YONGNYAH village/Town has applied for issue of succession certificate to operate/ draw/transfer/withdraw the securities in respect of late Shri/Smti/kumari BOMTUNG who expired on 04-07-2017.

Now therefore, publics are hereby asked to file claims/objection if any, within one month from the date of issue of this notice.

Sd/- (JOHN TSULISE SANGTAM) Deputy Commissioner, Longleng, Nagaland K-978

OFFICE OF THE NIROYO VILLAGE COUNCIL

PIN - 905050 C/O 99 APO

NOTIFICATION

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

Officer Commanding, 50 Coy ASC (Sup) Type 'C' intends to bring it to the knowledge of all its Pre-2016 Ex-Defence civilian pensioners/ family pensioners, who superannuated/died while in serving/died after retirement from this unit, that they are required to report to ST-12 (Civ) section of this office alongwith their pension documents to facilitate the processing of revision of pension/ family pension as per the recommendation of 7th Central Pay Commission & order issued vide DoP&PW OM dated 04 Aug. 2016.

OFFICER COMMANDING 50 COY ASC (SUP) TYPE 'C' PIN-905050 C/O 99 APO Email:rabbit.2015@gov.in Mobile : 9436264219

GUWAHATI, Apr 10 (Agencies): With the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 scheduled to resume the hearings from April 12, the North East Students’ Organization (NESO), while opposing the Bill, demanded that inner line permit (ILP) system should be introduced in the entire region.

NESO believes that the Bill is an attempt to impose the burden of Hindu Bangladeshis who came to India after 1971 on the entire North East region.

According to Assam Talks, the NESO, in a memorandum to the JPC, asserted that the North East is not a dumping ground for illegal Bangladeshis and the Bill would defeat the very purpose of signing of the Assam Accord. While supporting the Assam Accord, which set March 25, 1971 as the cut off date for detection and deportation of Bangladeshis living illegally in Assam, the NESO said that the Bill should not be adopted by the Parliament at any cost. If the Parliament adopts the Bill, it would create unrest in the region and the Bill should not

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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

TUENSANG : NAGALAND (GAB/LR Branch) NO.GAB/RV-4/PF/2017-18/838 Dated Tuensang the 4th April 2018

NOTIFICATION

Whereas this office has received related documents forwarded by Sub-Divisional Officer Chessore for recognition of proposed Kenuwong Village under Chessore Sub-Division of Teunsang District.

And whereas the area of the proposed Kenuwong Village for recognition as per survey report is 1058 Acres with the following boundaries :1. North : Yengahsotongru Top Village (Huker Village) 2. South : Huke Nalla (Chessore Village) 3. East : Phenutsung Nalla (Chessore Village) 4. West : Thawongke Top Village (Huker Village) I, Shri. L. Jamithung Lotha, Deputy Commissioner, Tuensang do hereby issue this public notice that claim/objection if any, for recognition of the said village may be given in writing within 30 (Thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice by any claimant to the undersigned, otherwise, the said village will be taken up for recognition under the procedure as laid down by the Government.

The Public notice will come into force wef the date of issue of this notification.

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be passed to avoid such a possibility.

NESO demanded that ILP system should be adopted in the entire North East region. It also demanded that constitutional safeguards should be provided to the people of the states of the region with rights over land and natural resources. NESO alleged that the Government does not understand the problems and aspirations of the people of the North East. NESO further said that the entire North East is infested with foreigners from erstwhile East Pakistan and now Bangladesh.

The foreigners infiltrated into and polluted every aspect of the social life of the people of the North East. The foreign nationals have been getting the support of the political leaders, which threatened the identity of the indigenous people of the states of the region, the NESO alleged. It may be mentioned that the JPC is scheduled to resume hearings from April 12 but all the organizations opposing the Bill have not been invited to participate in the hearings to be held in New Delhi.

AFFIDAVIT (CHANGE OF NAME) I, Smti. Ambika Devi Kuwar Chhetri, W/o Shri. Indra Bahadur Kuwar Chhetri have changed my name and my daughters name as follows through an affidavit 81/2018 dated 06/04/2018.

OBJECTION NOTICE

WOKHA, NAGALAND NTSIJANTA YILAN Niroyo Village Council thungina ntsijanta yilan, ete yamo nzontsü thyutasanta (General Meeting) ji tsungon 28th April 2018 lo khiala, hoji tsukona yanchi kyon nzyu tarotiza (18 yrs) na mhawoe oyani evan elani hapoe evan topvuna randanta vantasi oro thetale to jonjiala.

Yuta : 10:00 AM Meta : Niroyo Community Hall Sd/- K. Thungbemo Ngullie Contact : 8787469250

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a traitor.

“Yes, he is my son Qamer. If he has joined the militant organisation, the government should shoot him dead as he is an enemy of the country. His body should be fed to animals. I don’t need such a son. Such a person should not be living,” she told reporters at her home. A mother of five, she claimed Qamer had left home saying he was going to Kashmir to start a business and has maintained no contact with the family for the past 10 months.

Qamer’s wife and three-year old son were with him till he returned to drop them 10 months ago at Jamunamukh where he was constructing a house, his brother Mufidul said.

“I now don’t consider him as my brother. He

Old Name Correct Name Smti. Ambika Devi Kuwar Chhetri (wife) Smti. Ambika Devi Miss Aita Kumari Chhetri Miss Aita Kuwar Chhetri (Daughter) Miss Indu Chhetri Miss Indu Kuwar Chhetri (Daughter) OFFICE OF THE

TEROGVUNYU VILLAGE COUNCIL

P.O Tseminyu-797109, Dist. Kohima: Nagaland The Terogvunyu Village Council is pleased to inform its bonified members that the 2017-2018 general meeting will be held on 14th April 2018 at its Council Hall. Therefore, all are requested to attend the said meeting positively. No other means of intimation notice shall be served other than this information.

Meanwhile, the village council is compelled to issue this notification based on its last general meeting resolution for the general public information and its bonafide citizens in particular on the usage of its village name spellings that, it is found that many of its citizens are not using the spelling V after G in their documents/ official correspondence. Hence forth, all its bonified citizens are requested to use the spelling V i.e TEROGVUNYU not as TEROGUNYU in all their documents or any official correspondence matter.

Daniel Tep, Chairman Terogvunyu Village Council K-977 GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

MON : NAGALAND NO.GA/JUD-08/2017-18/2262 Dated Mon, the 23rd Jan. 2018

NOTICE

Whereas, an application has been submitted by Smti. Nalei Konyak with a prayer for issue of Succession Certificate for drawal of entitled pension dues and any other outstanding dues from the Government of Nagaland on behalf of her husband deceased Late P. Minhai Konyak Ex Constable 6th NAP No. 63806, Tizit under the establishment of Commandant 6th NAP Battalion, Tizit, who expired on 26/12/2017.

Objections are hereby invited from persons with regards to claims for withdrawal of the dues by the applicant within 30 (Thirty) days with effect from the date of issue of this notification. No petition will be entertained after the expiry of the given period.

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S h illo n g, A p r 1 0 (PTI): Meghalaya Power Minister James K Sangma Tuesday said the state government is hopeful to bring about a resolution to lift the ban on coal mining in the state to ensure that the two thermal power projects, with an installed capacity of 740 MW, will not face difficulty.

The two thermal projects are at Nongalbibra in South Garo Hills and at Darugiri in East Garo Hills, he said, adding that the detailed project report (DPR) for the project at Nongalbibra has been completed and the application for environmental clearance was submitted to Ministry of Environment and Forest.

“We are hopeful of a resolution to lift the ban on coal mining soon so that these projects will not face any difficulty,” Sangma said, while replying to a supplementary question during question hour in the House.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had imposed a blanket ban on unscientific coal mining in the state since April, 2014 affecting its economy and livelihood of a large number of people.

He also informed the Assembly that the project site for the other thermal project has been identified at Darugiri, adding that the bids for coal linkage has been finalised, and lease of land for coal mining is under progress.

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Director General of Police Mukesh Sahay said Assam Police is in touch with its Jammu and Kashmir counterpart.

Special DGP Special Branch Pallav Bhattacharyya said it was difficult to confirm whether Qamer has joined the underground group and that the state police has taken up the matter with J and K Police for a detailed investigation.

Qamer’s mother recognised the youth in the photo as of her missing son and said the government should shoot him dead for being

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Guwahati, Apr 10 (PTI): A missing youth from Assam is suspected to have joined militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu and Kashmir after his photo in which he was seen holding an automatic rifle surfaced that prompted his mother to say government should shoot him dead.

After the photo went viral in the social media, the Assam Police Tuesday said it has started a probe into the matter and is trying to find out if the youth identified as Qamer Uzzaman has joined the terrorist organisation.

In the photo, Qamer, who hails from Jamunamukh in Nagaon district, is seen holding an automatic rifle. A caption of the photo appeared to suggest that he is a member of the

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Modi to lead BJP’s fast on April 12 against Parliament washout

New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): In an unusual action, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will observe a day-long fast on April 12 to protest against the washout of the second part of Parliament’s budget session due to continious disruptions, which the BJP blamed on the Congress.

While BJP President Amit Shah will observe a hunger strike in Hubli in Karnataka, party MPs will fast in their constituencies.

“The Prime Minister will observe a fast even while engaged in his official duty and official engagements,” BJP spokesperson G.V.L. Narsimha Rao told IANS. Modi’s decision, which may be the first time a Prime Minister is observing a fast, will be part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s day-long hunger strike that day to protest against the disruption of Parliament by the opposition.

The opposition Congress termed the fast by the Prime Minister as a “farce” and said he should apologise over the way his party had “denigrated and disrespected” parliament.

“They have disrespected and denigrated the highest temple of democracy.

So Prime Minister should publicly say that he is sorry that is why he is holding this fast on April 12 to tender this apology to various sections of India’s population,”

BJP supporters holding a demonstration in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Congress Communications incharge Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters.

The budget session of Parliament started on January 29 and went into a break on February 9. The two houses met for the second half of the session on March 5, which concluded on Friday.

While the first half of the session -- January 31 to February 9 -- recorded 134 per cent productivity in the Lok Sabha and 96 per cent in the Rajya Sabha, in the second-half, from March 5 to April 6, the lower house recorded just four per cent productivity and the upper house eight per cent.

Modi’s fast farce: Cong

The Congress on Monday termed the fast proposed to be undertaken

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday against Parliament’s disruption as a “farce” and said he should instead apologise over his party’s disrespect to the House.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said the “farce of a fast by the Modi government and BJP” on the April 12 should really be a fast to seek an apology over a range of issues including the banking frauds, leak of CBSE paper and dilution of SC/ST Act.

“They have disrespected and denigrated the highest temple of democracy. So, the Prime Minister should publicly say he is sorry and that’s why he is holding this fast to tender an apology to various sections of India’s population,” Surjewala said.

He said the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies were responsible for the disruption of Parliament during the second half of the Budget session.

The Congress said BJP leaders should hold fasts also to seek apology from youths “whose future was jeopardised by the CBSE paper leak as also the SSC scam”.

“The Modi government should hold fast to apologise to this country for the 13 banking scams wherein people like ‘Chhota Modi’, that is, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, ran away with over Rs 61,000 crore of public money looted from banks.”

Sur jewala said the government should hold a fast to apologise “for not disclosing the actual contours” of the Rafale fighter jet deal and claimed that national security had been compromised.

Both the opposition and the government have blamed one another for Parliament’s disruption.

Rajya Sabha has not completed its tasks yet: Naidu

M. Venkaiah Naidu New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament, has over the years “justified its existence” but the task is “far from complete”, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said at the Rajya Sabha Day celebrations here.

Naidu, who is the exofficio Chairman of Rajya Sabha, said that over the last six decades, men and women of “prodigious talent and calibre have adorned the benches” of the upper house and have contributed significantly towards “realising the vision of the founding fathers of the Constitution who after a lot of deliberations in the Constituent Assembly agreed to provide us a bicameral legislature”.

“The Rajya Sabha, over the years, has established a credible legacy of performance and justified its existence as a second chamber of our parliamentary democracy.

However, our work is far from complete,” Naidu said while speaking at the event organized in the G.M.C. Balayogi Auditorium inside Parliament Library Building.

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Supreme Court seeks detail reports of eco-protection funds New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to provide the details of various funds created for environment protection and how it intends to utilise the funds worth nearly Rs one lakh crore.

An advocate, who is assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the matter, said on a rough estimate, there was about Rs one lakh crore lying with the Central government and states in various funds created after the top court’s orders.

Taking into note the advocate’s submissions, a bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta asked the Ministry to make a compilation of total amount in various funds.

“Considering the huge amount, we expect the Ministry Secretary to take up the matter with due sincerity,” the bench added.

The court also asked the Delhi government to inform it of the plans it has for utilisation of Rs 1,301 crore it has received under Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) upto March 26.

The apex court had earlier imposed ECC on commercial vehicles entering Delhi in addition to the toll tax.

The bench also asked the Central Pollution Control Board to apprise it about Rs 70.5 crore collected and lying with it under the cess levied on vehicles having

Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta. engine capacity of more than 2,000 cc.

The bench slammed the Central government and states for not being able to utilise the funds and diverting it for other purpose.

It noted that around 10 to 12 funds were created after the apex court orders on environmental matters.

“It is very clear that the amount was used for other purposes...”

Additional Solicitor General A.N.S. Nadkarni, appearing for the Ministry, asked the bench to tell the Central government as to where and how these funds should be used and where it cannot be used.

The court replied: “This money can’t go for any other government project.”

“How far you want the court to go? We trusted the executive but they say they will do whatever they want.

First, we have to catch them that you have diverted the money and betrayed the trust. Are we policemen or investigating officers? We are not talking about a small amount... It is very, very

frustrating.”

The court pulled up the Odisha government after taking into note the affidavit filed by the Chief Secretary that the money was being used for construction of roads, renovation of bus stands and science laboratory in colleges.

“This money is to be utilised for the benefit of the people. It is not for repairing roads or bus stands and installing streetlights.

Construction of road is part of your job, governance. You can’t do it from people’s fund. This money is for benefit of people and not for benefit of the government,” the bench told the counsel appearing for Odisha.

The court sought presence of Odisha’s Chief Secretary before it on May 9, the next date of hearing, and asked the state to file affidavit with more details.

It also slammed Meghalaya for keeping the funds meant for welfare of the people only in the bank and asked the state’s Chief Secretary to remain present before it.

Maha farmer ends life; blames Modi BJP income rises by 81.18%; Congress’s dips 14% Medical College Hospital morgue for the last rites.

The family demanded that either Modi should visit them to understand their problems or the state government should hand over the full compensation before they would accept the body.

Stunned by the development, Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavalamban Mission (SNSSM) President Kishore Tiwari announced he will visit the bereaved family on Wednesday morning.

“We shall provide an immediate relief of Rs 100,000 to the family.

Chayre leaves behind his wife, their three daughters (including one married) and a son. We have decided to adopt them by providing them full education, or if they are already qualified, with gainful employment to help the family survive,”

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New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): The income of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) increased by 81.18 per cent to Rs 1,034.27 crore while that of the Congress decreased by 14 per cent to Rs 225.36 crore between 2015-16 and 2016-17, a report released on Tuesday said.

According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report, seven national parties -- the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Trinamool Congress -- have declared a total income of Rs 1,559.17 crore and expenditures of Rs 1,228.26 crore.

The report, based on the submissions made to

the Election Commission, compared the total income of the BJP and Congress, their expenditure and sources of income.

“Between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the income of BJP increased by 81.18 per cent (Rs 463.41 crore) from Rs 570.86 crore to Rs 1034.27 crore while the income of the Congress decreased by 14 per cent (Rs 36.20 crore) from Rs 261.56 crore to Rs 225.36 crore,” it said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party had declared expenditures of Rs 710.057 crore during 2016-17 while Congress incurred Rs 321.66 crore -- Rs 96.30 crore more than its total income.

The report said that both the parties have declared “donations/ contributions” as one of their three main sources of in-

come. “The grant/ donations/ contributions of Rs 997.12 crore declared by the BJP forms 96.41 per cent of the total income of the party during 2016-17.

Declaration of Rs 115.644 crore under revenue from issuance of coupons by the Congress forms top most income of the party, contributing 51.32 per cent of its total income during the fiscal,” it added.

The report said that the seven national parties collected a maximum of 74.98 per cent (Rs 1,169.07 crore) income from voluntary contributions for 2016-17.

Voluntary contributions accounted for 60 per cent (Rs 616.05 crore) of their income in the previous fiscal.

These parties received Rs 128.60 crore income in bank interest in the same

fiscal.

The release said that the due date for submission of annual audited accounts for the parties was October 30, 2017, but the Bharatiya Janata Party submitted its report on Februray 8 and Congress on March 19.

The Association for Democratic Reforms said the BJP, Congress, NCP and CPI have consistently delayed submitting their audit reports for the past five years.

It demanded the political parties to provide all information on their finances under the Right to Information Act as a step to strengthen elections and democracy.

“Full details of all

donors should be made available for public scrutiny under the RTI,” the report said, adding that countries such as Bhutan, Nepal, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Bulgaria, the US and Japan have done so.

It said the Election Commission should ensure that no part of the Form 24A submitted by political parties providing details of donations above Rs 20,000 should be left blank.

The Association for Democratic Reforms said that a political party which does not submit its Income Tax returns on or before the due date should be given tax exemption and should be de-recognised.

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New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): The Congress on Tuesday said Railway Minister Piyush Goyal must be sacked and a judicial probe ordered by a Supreme Court judge into charges that a company owned by his wife earned a profit of Rs 30 crore on a paid-up capital of Rs 1 lakh in 10 years.

The party alleged that Intercon Advisors Pvt Ltd, a company owned by Seema Goyal, with a paid-up capital of Rs 1 lakh, had ended up with earnings of Rs 30 crore -- earning Rs 30,000 per share of the total 10,000 allotted shares.

“This must make it the most valued company in recent corporate history,” the party said.

“Truth is that the position of Piyush Goyal stands compromised leaving it untenable for him to continue as a union cabinet minister and he should be sacked immediately,” said the party.

The Congress questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s silence on the issue.

Tiwari told IANS. According to information available, the distraught Chayre went to his farmland this morning and attempted to hang himself from a tree.

However, the rope snapped, so he consumed poison and fell unconscious, even as some workers rushed him to a local hospital in a serious condition.

The medicos there informed that the case was critical and advised them to seek help from Yavatmal town. He was taken to a hospital there but doctors declared him dead.

In a crumpled twopage handwritten suicide note recovered by police, Chayre narrated how he had sought help from various officials in the government, including MPs, MLAs, state ministers and others but was ignored.

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Yavatmal, April 10 (IANS): In a major embarrassment for the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Maharashtra farmer on Tuesday ended his life by consuming poison in his farmland, blaming the ruling NDA government for his step.

A suicide note was recovered from his person in which he has named several persons starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and held the government for taking the extreme step and sought help for his family.

The 50-year old farmer has been identified as Shankar Bhaurao Chayre, from Rajurwadi village in Yavatmal district, among the worst-hit in the country due to the agrarian distress.

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t is significant that the Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) has shown consistency with the issue of corruption in the government and though its disclosures are not gleaned out of investigative efforts, yet they are pertinent in many ways than one. The tool that the NPRAAF has put to good use has been the Right To Information(RTI) Act implemented in Nagaland since 2005. This Act has become the most potent weapon for the public in knowing about how politicians in power and the bureaucrats conduct the affairs of the state. This Act is also vital for good governance. One positive outcome of the Right To Information Act 2005 in Nagaland, is that it has caught on with citizens seeking information about various decisions of the government. The NPRAAF has been providing a series of information pertaining to alleged corruption and irregularities in various government departments. In the most recent case, a delegation of NPRAAF had visited Delhi where they met with central government officials to apprise them of the “dismal implementation of Centrally Sponsored Programmes” in the state. This may appear to be like exposing ourselves to the outside, but it was in response to the hue and cry against corruption. The NPRAAF had reportedly told the officials in Delhi that central government guidelines for implementation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) were not being followed. The absence of transparency and accountability was obviously to facilitate massive misuse of public funds. According to the media cell of the NPAAF, the delegation urged upon the central government officials to “continually monitor” how CSS were being implemented in the state. Taking a step further, NPRAAF disclosed that its delegation will revisit Delhi sometime in May to meet with officials in the home and health and family welfare ministries to provide a correct picture about how central schemes were being implemented in Nagaland. It was also disclosed that NPRAAF will remain in constant touch with the central ministries in order to provide feedback on implementation. To add meaningful fight against corruption, NPRAAF has also echoed the need for setting up a CBI office in Nagaland for which it would meet with the Joint Director CBI at Guwahati.

In this regard, it may also be pertinent to mention that Nagaland Governor P.B.Acharya has been calling on society and government to do something to root out corruption, that has totally damaged the foundation of the society. He has also strongly urged upon the state government to enact the Lok Ayukta at the earliest to check corruption. Today, institutionalized corruption has become so deep rooted in the government and people have become insensitive to it. Besides the CSS which amount to not less than Rs.3500 crore annually, there are also other projects funded through NEC and special packages, which together could be to the region of around Rs4000 to Rs.5000 crore annually. Corruption is also in backdoor appointments, siphoning of PDS items, contract and supplies etc. The people and the voters seem to have no inclination to make their elected representatives respond to mass hue and cry against so many monumental scams that have been exposed during the past few years. Hopefully the initiative undertaken by NPRAAF will not suffer distraction but remain focussed on corruption and would lead to litigation, as a natural corollary to justice.

DailyDevotion Complete and Effective Decision About Sin …our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. —Romans 6:6 Co-Crucifixion. Have you made the following decision about sin—that it must be completely killed in you? It takes a long time to come to the point of making this complete and effective decision about sin. It is, however, the greatest moment in your life once you decide that sin must die in you– not simply be restrained, suppressed, or counteracted, but crucified— just as Jesus Christ died for the sin of the world. No one can bring anyone else to this decision.

We may be mentally and spiritually convinced, but what we need to do is actually make the decision that Paul urged us to do in this passage.

Pull yourself up, take some time alone with God, and make this important decision, saying, “Lord, identify me with Your death until I know that sin is dead in me.” Make the moral decision that sin in you must be put to death.

This was not some divine future expectation on the part of Paul, but was a very radical and definite experience in his life. Are you prepared to let the Spirit of God search you until you know what the level and nature of sin is in your life— to see the very things that struggle against God’s Spirit in you? If so, will you then agree with God’s verdict on the nature of sin— that it should be identified with the death of Jesus? You cannot “reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin” (Romans 6:11) unless you have radically dealt with the issue of your will before God. Have you entered into the glorious privilege of being crucified with Christ, until all that remains in your flesh and blood is His life? “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me…” (Galatians 2:20).

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hief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has said that the Kashmiri pandits should visit their place of origin, meaning thereby the valley. Her remark is like splashing salt on the wind. The pandits were forcibly ousted from Kashmir in 1993. Their fault was that they were Hindus in the 90-percent Muslim valley.

Former state chief minister Farooq Abdullah has admitted in a public statement that no Muslim from the valley objected to their ouster. It is, indeed, true. He resigned from the position of chief minister which led to presidential rule in J&K. It was alleged that then governor Jagmohan was primarily responsible for facilitating the exodus of Kashmiri pandits. The day he was appointed as governor, a large number of Kashmiri pundits were forced to leave the valley because of his pro-Hindu stance.

It was being alleged that security forces searched each and every house in Srinagar when hundreds of militants were found to be in possession of weapons. Most of them were arrested but during the operation, which led to Gawkadal massacre, ques-

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tions came to be raised on the role of the governor.

Jagmohan, who was very close to Sanjay Gandhi, was also instrumental in forcefully destroying many slums in Delhi in the name of beautification.

The Kashmiri pandits began to leave the Valley in greater numbers in the 1990s during the eruption of militancy, following persecution and threats by radical Islamists and militants. In 2010, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir noted that 808 pandit families were still living in the Valley and that the financial and other incentives put in place to encourage others to return there had been unsuccessful.

According to a Jammu and Kashmir Government report, 219 members of the community had been killed in the region between 1989 and 2004 but none thereafter. However, in July 2017, the Supreme Court refused to reopen 215 cases in which over 700 members of the Kashmiri pandit community were killed in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989, citing the passage of time.

The appeal now by chief minister Mehbooba Mufti is a step in the

right direction. During her appeal, following an interaction with Kashmiri pandits in Delhi, she said that “Kashmiri Pandits should visit Kashmir (and) their younger generations should see where their roots really lie. We will make all arrangements.

Whatever has happened in the past is unfortunate but now we will have to move forward,” she said.

In fact, she also urged Prime Minister NarenKuldip dra Modi to take a leaf out of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s book and initiate a dialogue with Pakistan. “I urge Prime Minister Modi to talk to Pakistan just like Vajpayee ji did. Neither are we nor is Pakistan in a condition to fight a war, both countries know now that if there will be a war, nothing will be spared. Both the nations will just lose everything,” she added.

I do agree with her because this is not a Hindu-Muslim question and should not be made into one. All political parties need to initiate steps which will enable the pandits to return to the valley. Most of their property is intact.

The rest must be taken

back from the people who have occupied it forcibly or otherwise.

I recall the Hurriyat leader, Syed Shah Gillani, vehemently denying that it was Hindu-Muslim question. At that time, the bug of fundamentalism had not bitten Gillani.

He may not have changed his views. But he is conspicuous by his silence. He should have re-enunciated his earlier stance: the Kashmiri pandits are part of Nayar our culture and should not be mixed with the general HinduMuslims question. Gillani, in fact, told me that he had wrongly stated earlier that the Kashmiri Pandits’ question would be settled with the overall Kashmir dispute.

But Home Minister Rajnath Singh has unnecessarily given an opening to those who argue that Kashmir is an unfinished task of partition. They want the state to be divided on religious grounds. Somewhere they will also try in Pakistan to reemphasize their contention that the criterion of religion—on the basis of which India was divided—should be extended to Jammu and Kashmir.

Then chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayyed had mooted an idea of having a separate a separate area where the Kashmiri pundits can safely reside.

At present, 30,000 of them are reportedly in Kashmir while their total number is around four lakh.

As long as Sheikh Abdullah was dominant in the affairs of Kashmir, he did not allow religion to play any role in politics. He would say that he opposed to the state’s integration with Pakistan because Jammu and Kashmir was a secular state. He did not want to join an Islamic country because he preferred pluralism to communalism.

Even during the independence struggle, the Sheikh sided with the Congress instead of the Muslim League which demanded a separate homeland for the Muslims.

He paid the price for being critical of New Delhi’s policy of wanting a strong centre. After being detained for 12 years at Kodaikanal in the South, he stayed with the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to register that Nehru had realized his mistake of misjudging the Sheikh when he demanded

that the centre should only administer three subjects— Foreign Affairs, Defence and Communications—as was offered at the time of partition.

The Shiekh’s famous statement was that the Kashmiris would not eat the Indian wheat if it meant compromising their autonomous status. The Sheikh’s faith in secularism was deep although he wondered whether India would stay pluralist in the long run.

Whether the Kashmiris realize it or not, they have highly lost the services of trained people.

The Pandits have gone to other parts of India and have found jobs because of their high qualifications.

They are not likely to go back even if the state offers them equivalent jobs. In fact, Kashmir has lost the cream of youth which is technically well equipped to help the state develop economically.

Yet Srinagar should make efforts to get the pandits back because that will give them the secular image which they had enjoyed for decades. Lack of efforts on this front would only alienate the rest of the country where the Kashmiris are gainfully employed.

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Air pollution in your home; a hazard to your health

n the first half of the 20th century, most air pollution was caused by industry. But the decline in heavy industry in the UK from the late 20th century onwards, combined with environmental regulation, has significantly reduced this particular danger to our health. Now, however, we face dangers from air pollution of a different sort, and most of this comes from within our homes.

The reality is that even though industrial pollution is being successfully combated, cases of asthma and air pollution-related allergies continue to rise. The reasons for this are complex and not fully understood, but it seems that a major cause is not the air quality outside, but the quality of air indoors — in offices, schools, universities, and especially in our own homes.

Behind closed doors: We spend over 90% of our time indoors, where the air quality is often worse than it is outside. If fresh air is not able to properly circulate, existing pollutants will continue to build up, and the problem will get worse. Major air pollutants include dust mites, pollen, pet dander, mould spores, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in many everyday household products, and particulate matter in smoke, dust and dirt.

VOCs are commonly found in cleaning products, but you may also be exposed to them via deodorant sprays and even paint.

The tiny solids or even liquids described as particulate matter can come from primary or secondary sources — that is, some substances generate them directly, while others may give off a gas that can form or contain particulate matter. The smaller these particles are, the more dangerous they are likely to be, as they can enter the lungs or the bloodstream. As with many such health hazards, the very young or the very old are, particularly at risk.

The danger of new builds: Many people assume that older buildings are more likely to suffer from air pollution because of the natural deterioration of the property leading to issues such as damp and dry rot. In fact, the September 2015 report, The Future Of Indoor Air Quality In UK Homes And Its Impact On Health by Professor Hazim B. Awbi of the School of Built Environment at the University of Reading suggests that this is not necessarily the case.

The report states that modern building regulations have led to improved air tightness in newbuilt homes without taking into

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consideration the possible adverse he write up NIA’s Naga different kinds and advocated for as NBCC) with unfounded acside effects. With nowhere to go, Terror-Funding Probe good governance. And therefore, cusation is unwarranted. Be it the existing pollutants can build up Reveals Insidious Role to drag the church to that level church or the society we should inside the home with a detrimental impact on the health of the oc- Of Top Bureaucrats, Politicians of accusation in the “widespread not allow this to take place. Our cupants. Elevated humidity levels And Church Elders by Jaideep extortion racket” as claimed by spirit and determination to move may also occur during the drying Mazumdar, associate editor of him is nothing but to portray forward should not be dampened out process of new or refurbished Swarajya has stooped so low to the role of the church in bad by outside force who are now tryhomes, leading to problems with drag the sanctity of the church light with ill motive. If such ing to even pull down the sacred in Nagaland in general and, has ever happened it should be institution of the Christians. This damp.

The hidden cost: The argu- NBCC in particular. The lan- substantiated. The unnamed we must not allow! If the NIA ments in favour of airtight homes guage he used is degrading and army officer whom Mazumdar move is to portray the church are laudable: to meet internation- provocative which is very unbe- quoted, “The church also collects as collaborators of corruption ally-agreed targets for reducing coming of a senior journalist as money on behalf of the ‘terror and extortion, it is most unforcarbon emissions and to encourage a correspondent. He has taken outfits’ routes the amount col- tunate. The church will not allow us all to lead greener lifestyles. advantage of our silence in the lected to them, but also benefits herself to be a convenient toy Air tightness means less heat loss, past where he accused the church from the extortion since it gets of unsubstantiated accusation so less energy is used in heating of being responsible for the ULB to retain a part of the sum col- by those who do not have any our homes. Of course, this also imbroglio. This time around, he lected for its activities, including respect for the church as a faith saves householders money on has cited unnamed personality to evangelization”is baseless and base institution. energy bills. But as we can see, accuse the church of collecting an outright insult to the sanctity To accuse the church and these savings (for our pocket and taxes for Naga national political of the church. The church of NBCC of launching a campaign the environment) can also have a groups (NNPGs) and collaborat- Christ cannot just be insulted and for a certain political party ing with a certain group. Making dragged conveniently by people against others is a blatant lie and dangerous hidden cost.

The report explicitly states the church a soft target at every who do not know that the church concocted. This accusation is just that the expected increase in air turn of his write up is very un- is a sacred institution. an echo of those who sought to The church will in no way win political mileage through tightness will lead to generally fortunate and uncalled for. His poorer air quality within homes, re- credential states that he is an stand in the way of the people false propaganda. A journalist sulting in a corresponding increase expert in NEI politics. However, and agencies who are in the and an expert in NEI politics in the number of related illnesses his statements against the church business of cleaning the hated as claimed by the writer should and conditions. Key projections and his analysis of the present rampant corruption and extor- not base his reporting merely include a predicted 80% increase political scenario reveal his lack tion in the society. The church on a hear-say news but should in people living with asthma from of knowledge about the political will stand in support of such be prudent enough to interact current levels. Those most at risk and social fabrics of the Nagas. move but when self interest and verify. include individuals with exist- The language he used are not and unfounded accusations are The forgiving spirit of the ing health conditions or at-risk only degrading but demeaning made against the sanctity of the church should not be taken as lifestyles (i.e. smokers) and those and derogatory in nature. The church, the individual and the her weakness. The church in who spend a lot of time inside the tone of construction merely agency remain a suspect. Nagas Nagaland should not be made home: new mothers, children and shows that he stood on a certain have lived under the threat of a soft target of unfounded acreligio-politico platform to deni- guns and power to divide us for the elderly. a very long time but we have cusation to gain political mileage Protecting your home: While grate and malign the church. withstood the test. But the write or instill animosity among the accepting that increased air tightThe church has time and up seem to have taken another people. True journalism should ness in homes is a necessity, the come out of subjective presentareport recommends that effective again stood in the gap in conflict, path to pull us down and divide tion. It should enlighten and not be it social or political and has us further.

This time NIA implicontinuous mechanical ventilation malign individual or institution is fitted as standard, preferably played the mediating role in the cating the ‘church elders’ and a for personal gain. society.

It has raised her voice journalist coming out to attack with heat recovery (MVHR).

NBCC Press Communique While at present there are no signs against corruption, extortion of Nagaland Baptist ( understood of government or building contractors enforcing these recommendations, homeowners can take action to protect their health by having an MVHR system professionally installed themselves.

By using the services of a reputable professional ventilation company like EnviroVent, you can determine what the most ap- Sir, propriate ventilation product for We keep talking about clean towns in Nagaland and a better future for our children but we your home would be, and have it do not seem to make any contribution towards this end. The amount of litter and garbage strewn correctly installed with minimum around the town itself speaks about our attitude towards keeping the environment clean. Certain fuss by a qualified technician. demarcated areas for garbage are seen to be overcrowded and no action taken for removal of the The move towards a greener same. In some parts of Dimapur city, one can see an area within one’s own compound is kept clean planet and the control of destruc- whereas the surrounding is littered. Each resident needs to keep their own yard and surrounding tive industrial pollution should be areas clean. Instead of waiting only for the DMC to clean out our garbage, we also really need to applauded. But we need to remain learn on how to segregate our waste as has been repeatedly reminded. Keeping the garbage on a vigilant when it comes to the less raised platform without proper barricade can create more litter if they are not properly confined. obvious threats to air quality and Apart from that, it smells bad and also makes the surrounding very dirty especially if they are health in our homes. Rising allergy in plastic bags of various colours. Add to that, the neighbourhood cat or dog have a field day and asthma levels demonstrate that rummaging through those bags if they have not been secured tight. Whatever be the reason, it everyday air quality is of vital im- is truly unsightly to see food waste spilling over into the street. Some colonies have started their portance and should not be taken own unique ways to keeping the neighbourhood clean and such should be encouraged even by authority. When we think of civilization then we need to civilize ourselves first. for granted.

Temsunaro Walling, Green Park, Dimapur EnviroVent 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.

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SC says ‘Aadhaar Act’ validating collection of biometric badly drafted New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the provision of Aadhaar Act that seeks to validate the data collected from 2009 to 2016 when the statute was enacted was “badly drafted” and it could not be read to mean waiving of fundamental rights of the people.

The five judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra told Attorney General K.K. Venugopal that the supposed deemed consent for parting with biometric data can’t be stretched to mean waiving of fundamental rights to privacy of the people. Other judges on the constitution bench are Justice A.K. Sikri, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Ashok Bhushan.

The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, that was enacted in 2016 seeks to validate the collection of biometric and demographic Adata of the people from 2009 till law came into existence in 2016 on the strength of administrative instructions.

Section 59 says: “Anything done or any action

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taken by the Central Government under the Resolution of the Government of India, Planning Commission bearing notification number A-43011/02/2009Admin. I, dated the 28th January, 2009, or by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology under the Cabinet Secretariat Notification bearing notification number S.O. 2492(E), dated the 12th September, 2015, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have been validly done or taken under this Act.” Unimpressed by the argument advanced by the Attorney General, Chief Justice Misra said: “You have said that it was voluntary and with minimal

invasion. We can’t hold that the fundamental rights can be waived or compromised” by stretching the deemed consent to that extent.

The court’s observation as Venugopal sought to defend the data collected from 2009 to 2016 on the strength of administrative orders and without obtaining the consent of the people on the collection and storage of their biometric and demographic data.

The Attorney General said that people gave their biometric data voluntarily and at that point of time, it did not violate the privacy as right to privacy was not a fundamental right.

Defending the insertion of Section 139AA of

the Income Tax Act that mandates the linking of PAN number with Aadhaar, Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that the said provision advanced the “legitimate interest of the State, it did not suffer from any lack of proportionality and was not arbitrary”.

He said that the provision was introduced to eliminate the duplicate PANs from the system, which he said were being used for illegal transactions.

Mehta asserted that by linking Aadhaar with PAN helped in curbing the tax evasion, prevention, accumulation and circulation of black money and money laundering including preventing terror financing - which he described as legitimate state interest.

The top court’s nine judge constitution bench had on August 24, 2017 while holding that right to privacy was fundamental, which is a intrinsic and core feature of life and personal liberty, had said that yet state can for legitimate reasons such as protecting national security, preventing and investigating crime could collect and store data about people.

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Transgenders DGP Rupin Sharma victimized by Patton: NPF able and he had endeared years an officer had served, gender category in (From p-1) himself to the people, espe- he should consider the persaid that a char- cially the netizens through formance index of the offinew PAN form acterNPF like Patton was tasked his interactions with them cer, the party suggested.

New Delhi, Apr 10 (PTI): The government has amended Income Tax rules that will now allow transgenders to be recognised as an independent category of applicants for obtaining a Permanent Account Number (PAN) for their tax-related transactions. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), which frames policy for the department, issued a notification yesterday that provides a new tick box for the transgenders to apply for the PAN. The notification, issued under sections 139A and 295 of the Income Tax Act, specifies the new application process for obtaining a PAN number by an individual.

Till now, only male and female gender categories were available to be chosen on the PAN application form. A senior official said the notification amending the tax rules was brought out in view of some representations received by the CBDT in this context. “Individuals from the transgender community were facing hassles in obtaining a PAN card and this problem was further magnified as Aadhaar had the third gender category but not PAN. “Hence, the transgenders were not able to link their PAN with their Aadhaar due to this anomaly,” the official said.

with crucial and important department like home by the PDA government was worrisome. It pointed out that the only consolation, though, was that an “upright, innovative and capable officer” like Sharma was made the DGP and that Naga people, cutting across political party lines and without bias or favour, were confident that the officer would ensure rule of law and not succumb to pressures from corrupt powers-that-be.

The statement added that the innovative changes that the incumbent DGP had introduced in the police department were remark-

on social media.

NPF said Patton’s discomfiture with such an “incorruptible and impartial officer” was understandable considering that he was known for nepotism, favouritism and unscrupulous style of functioning.

The party demanded that, in the interest of not only the department but the whole State, the PDA government must rescind Patton’s bid to replace Sharma. It also termed the apparent excuses offered by Patton to the Union Home Minister as flimsy and that it clearly exposed his mala fide intentions. Rather than look into the number of

The statement also reminded the PDA government about the Supreme Court ruling of 2006 in the Prakash Singh Vs Union of India case where it noted that “The Director General of Police of the State… once he has been selected for the job, he should have a minimum tenure of at least two years irrespective of his date of superannuation.” Interestingly, NPF during its regime under chief ministers-- T.R. Zeliang and Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu had also written to the Centre to consider cadre transfer/deputation of Lungriading Zeliang to Nagaland as DGP.

15th FC’s terms of reference not loaded against any state: Jaitley New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): Describing as “needless” the ongoing controversy around the terms of reference of the 15th Finance Commission, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said these are not biased “against any particular region of the country.” Following a daylong meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday of ministers from Kerala, Karanataka, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry, it was decided to prepare a joint memorandum to be submitted to the President and others for reframing of the 15th Finance Commission’s terms of reference, Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac told reporters.

According to the southern states, un-

der the 15th Finance Commission’s terms of reference, they stand to receive relatively less share from the central taxes because their population has fallen, which is an achievenment that deserves to be praised and not penalised.

As per its terms of reference, the commission is required to use population data from the 2011 Census and not the 1971 Census that was used earlier.

“Needless controversy is being sought to be created that the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the 15th Finance Commission are loaded against any particular region of the country. Nothing could be further from truth,” Jaitley said in a Facebook post.

5,000 new EVMs in Bengaluru for K’taka polls Road repair work begins; Ozukum seeks cooperation (From p-1)

5,000 advanced EVMs and VVPATs will be used in Bengaluru for the May 12 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.

jarat and Uttar Pradesh, to make up for the shortfall of some outdated machines which were discarded, and few others stuck in court cases over alleged rigging of votes in the past.

The southern state has 4.96 crore electors, including 2.52 crore men

and 2.44 crore women and about 4,500 people who identify themselves as the third gender.

After a special drive was held on April 8 to register any voters left out in the state, 6.45 lakh applications were received, which will be scrutinised by the

Jamir said all district headquarters would be given the same priority, and added that highway improvements would not be taken up.

He said the department was also trying to solve the problem of water logging between NBCC Convention Hall and NPSC office for which the road was always in poor condition. He said negotiation was on with landowners to drain out water from the road.

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(From p-1) The letter said ANPWDFWA held a general meeting on at the Tourist Lodge, Dimapur on March 14, wherein it was unanimously resolved to appeal to the PWD to meet its demand within 30 days from the date of submission of a letter in this regard. The association also threatened to go on an indefinite stir if its demand was not met. The association urged the PWD engineer in-chief to take prompt initiative on the issue.

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New Delhi, April 10 (IANS): The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Wednesday the West Bengal BJP’s plea seeking extension of time to file nomination papers for the Panchayat election in the state as the party described “colourable” the decision of the State Election Commission (SEC) to withdraw its order to extend by one day the time for filing the nomination papers.

The fresh plea by the BJP is listed before the bench of Justice R.K.Agrawal and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre. BJP’s WB unit has said that in an “absolute colourable exercise” of power, the SEC recalled and rescinded its April 9 order extending the time for filing nomination papers from 11.00 a.m. to 3 p.m, on April 10, citing “legal issues”.

election officials and will be added to the electoral list if eligible to vote, Kumar said. Since the model code of conduct was put in place across the state by the Election Commission on March 27, Rs 4.69 crore cash has been seized in the state by the surveillance teams for violation of the poll code.

Freebies for voters worth over Rs 9.96 crore were also seized by the poll officials. About 10,500 litres of liquor valued at Rs 46 lakh was also seized by the state’s Excise Department.

A total of 15,42,000 youth in the 18-19 age group have enrolled to vote for the first time in the ensuing poll.

said the department received only Rs 40 crore currently.

He said earlier the total length of roads in the State was 14,377 km, but it came down to 12,080 km after some roads were handed over to National Highways Authority of India.

Ozukum is scheduled to visit all the districts, meet engineers there, inspect their works and encourage them to improve efficiency. He will also inspect ongoing bridge repairing work and weak bridges, especially in Dimapur.

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tions on a pilot basis.

“The new machines, which will be used for the first time in the state, will be deployed in the constituencies of Bengaluru,” Kumar said.

Training programmes for the election officials on using the new machines will be held, he said, adding that however, for the voters, there is no difference between the machines as all the elements remain the same.

Each EVM consists of a control unit and a balloting unit. As of date, there are 89,206 balloting units and 76,192 control units in the state.

“These units are enough for the 58,546 polling stations across 224 assembly segments in the state,” Kumar added.

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Bengaluru, April 10 (IANS): A total of 5,000 advanced EVMs and VVPATs which can automatically detect errors and any tampering with the vote will be used in Bengaluru for the May 12 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, the state’s Chief Electoral Official said on Tuesday.

“We are going to use 5,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines with advanced automation and can detect any errors and display on the screen if the vote cast was tampered with or dysfunctional,” CEO Sanjiv Kumar told reporters here.

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passes towards Nagaland civil Secretariat, Jamir said a 25-metre four-lane arc bridge would be constructed at a cost of Rs 20 crore.

The minister, however, interjected at this moment to inform the journalists that the bridge might be scaled down to two-lane instead, owing to necessity and urgency. It could then be completed within a year, he added.

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on an upward trajectory till January 2018, however, it witnessed a decline in February 2018, precipitated by the concerns regarding the banking system following the detection of a large-scale fraud in a leading publicsector bank, expectation of US Fed rate hike and rising crude prices. Markets continued to remain volatile in March 2018.

According to Icra, FY18 also witnessed a waning interest by the foreign portfolio investors (FPI) in the domestic capital markets, driven by various domestic and global cues.

“On the contrary, the DII segment remained a net buyer during each month of FY18, registering a net inflow of Rs 1.15 trillion during the year, with volumes nearly quadrupling over the previous fiscal,” it said.

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increasing financialisation of savings and strong DII segment.

“This is after factoring in an elongated period of volatility along with possible correction in valuations over the near term,” it said.

The agency expects the retail participation likely to remain stable, supported by the initial public offering (IPO) pipeline, albeit with some fluctuations, given the volatility.

“The higher yielding cash volumes are expected to get a boost as more brokerage houses scale up the margin trading offering to their clients,” it said.

Equity turnover at the exchanges increased to Rs 1,733 trillion in FY18 from Rs 1,004 trillion in FY17, registering a staggering growth of 73 per cent, according to the report.

The average daily turnover (ADTO) increased to Rs 7.04 trillion from Rs 4.05 trillion in the same period.

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It has received $5.8 billion in bailout funds from the government but needs even more working capital to turn it around, experts say.

The Indian government recently said it wanted to sell a 76 percent chunk of the struggling carrier.

It released bid documents on what would be one of the country’s highestprofile asset sales in decades showing it wants the prospective buyer to take on all of Air India’s operations.

IndiGo, India’s largest airline, withdrew on Friday, saying it was interested only in Air India’s international routes and not its domestic operations.

Mumbai, Apr 10 (PTI): After a strong performance in FY18, the domestic broking industry is likely to register a moderate 5 per cent income growth in FY19, with the projected aggregate income set to hit Rs 190-200 billion, a report said.

The domestic capital markets reported a robust performance in FY18, building on the healthy performance in financial year 2016-17, supported by the strong equity inflows by the domestic institutional investor (DII) segment, rating agency Icra said in its report today.

“The domestic broking industry is expected to register moderate income growth of 5 per cent, with the projected aggregate income of Rs 190 to 200 billion in FY19,” Icra said.

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“We welcome the government move to privatise Air India. It is a bold step,” Jet Airways’ deputy chief executive, Amit Agarwal said in a statement emailed to AFP. “However, considering the terms of offer in the information memorandum and based on our review, we are not participating in the process,” he added.

Once the country’s monopoly airline, Air India has slowly lost market share to

new low-cost private players in one of the world’s fastestgrowing airline markets.

Air India ran losses for nearly a decade after a botched merger in 2007 and has debts of around $7.67 billion according to government figures.

portal, it added. Since the rollout of inter-state e-way bill movement of goods from April 1, more than 63 lakh such bills have been generated till yesterday. Karnataka is the only state which had rolled out e-way bill system for intra-state movement of goods from April 1.

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The five states which would form part of the first phase are Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. “With the roll-out of e-way bill system in these states, it is expected that trade and industry will be further facilitated insofar as the transport of goods is concerned, thereby eventually paving the way for a nation-wide single e-way bill system,” the ministry said.

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Google, the core unit of U.S. firm Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. A CCI official said that its judgment was “robust” and that the competition watchdog plans to defend its verdict at the NCLAT. “Google was found to be indulging in practices of search bias and by doing so, it causes harm to its competitors as well as to users,” the CCI said in its 190-page judgment.

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Mumbai, Apr 10 (PTI): Gold prices rose further by Rs 140 per 10 grams to Rs 30,690 per 10 grams at the domestic bullion market here Tuesday following sustained demand from jewellers and traders.

Silver too surged by Rs 305 per kg owing to persistent offtake from industrial users.

Traders said increased buying by local jewellers at domestic spot market to meet retailers’ demand kept gold prices higher.

Standard gold (99.5 purity) climbed by Rs 140 to end at Rs 30,690 per 10 grams from Monday’s closing of Rs 30,550.

Pure gold (99.9 purity) also moved up by a similar margin to finish at Rs 30,840 per 10 grams as compared to Rs 30,700 previously.

Silver (.999 fineness) advanced by Rs 305 per kg to Rs 38,340 as against Rs 38,035 yesterday.

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NEW DELHI, Apr 10 (Agencies): Online search giant Google has filed an appeal at the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) against a judgment from India’s competition watchdog that found it guilty of “search bias”, two sources aware of the matter told Reuters.

The appeal was filed on Monday, one of the sources said.

In February, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed a Rs 136 crore fine on Google, saying it was abusing its dominance in online web

judgment is the latest antitrust setback for the world’s most popular search engine.

Last year, The European Commission imposed a record 2.4 billion euro ($3 billion) fine on the company for favoring its shopping service and demoting rival offerings. Google has appealed against the verdict.

In India, the Commission found that Google, through its search design, had placed its commercial flight search function at a prominent position on the search results page to the disadvantage of businesses trying to gain market access.

The CCI ruling brought to an end a probe first started by the watchdog in 2012 on complaints filed by matchmaking website Bharat Matrimony and a not-for-profit organization, Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS).

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Lo n d o n, A p r 1 0 (Agencies): US President Donald Trump has promised a “forceful” response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria, as Western leaders consider what action to take.

“We have a lot of options militarily,” he told reporters. He added that a response would be decided “shortly”. According to BBC, Mr Trump said the US was getting some “good clarity” on who was responsible for the incident in Douma on Saturday.

Medical sources say dozens were killed in the alleged attack but exact numbers are impossible to verify.

Mr Trump also discussed the incident with French President Emmanuel Macron late on Monday, and both leaders expressed a desire for a “firm response”, the Elysee Palace said.

The AFP news agency quoted French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux as saying on Tuesday that “if a red line had been crossed, there will be a response”, adding that intelligence shared by the two leaders “in theory confirms the use of chemical weapons”. In February Mr

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Macron threatened to strike Syria if proof emerged of the use of chemical weapons. UK Prime Minister Theresa May said she had spoken to Mr Macron on Tuesday morning and would be speaking to Mr Trump later in the day. Mrs May did not answer directly when asked if Britain would join the US if it decided to take a military response, saying instead: “We believe that those responsible should be held to account.”

The condemnation from Western leaders follows a tense meeting at the UN Security Council in which the US and Russia traded harsh words over the incident. US envoy Nikki Haley has called for a vote on Tuesday on a draft resolution to set up a new inquiry into the use of chemical

weapons in Syria.

But Russia says it cannot support the proposal because it contains “unacceptable elements”. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would submit its own draft resolution proposing that inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visit Douma.

Russia wanted independent experts to be convinced that nothing had happened and would do everything to allow such a visit to take place, he added. Russian officials said on Monday that Russian military specialists and staff from Syria’s Red Crescent had found no evidence of an attack.

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Less than a day after President Trump threatened an imminent military strike against Syria, war monitors there say government forces and their allies are on alert and taking precautionary measures at military bases across the country amid fears of an attack by the United States.

Saturday’s reported chemical weapons attack on civilians prompted in-

ternational outrage, and led Trump to warn that Russia or any other nation found to share responsibility will “pay a price.”

But the Russian military, which has a presence in Syria as a key Assad ally, said its officers had visited the weekend site in a suburb of Damascus, the Syrian capital, and found no evidence to back up reports of poison gas being used.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that as of Monday night, troops have been on a 72-hour alert and are fortifying their positions.

The Sound and Picture Organization, an activist collective in eastern Syria, said on Tuesday that Iranian fighters and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have evacuated their positions in the Boukamal area, near Iraq’s border.

As he began an evening meeting with military leaders at the White House, Trump promised to “make a decision tonight or very shortly thereafter.” He said: “We have a lot of options militarily, and we’ll be letting you know pretty soon.

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Xi says China has no geo-political calculations on BRI BEIJING, Apr 10 (Agencies): Chinese President Xi Jinping Tuesday defended his ambitious multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative or BRI, claiming China has no “geo-political calculations” and that the project will benefit the world.

Touted as Xi Jinping’s pet project, the Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the One Belt One Road (OBOR), has become a major stumbling block in IndiaChina relations as the controversial $50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a project under the BRI - has been listed as its “flagship project”.The China Pakistan Economic Corridor or CPEC is a network of infrastructure projects that are currently under construction in Pakistan, Balochistan and Pakistanoccupied Kashmir that will connect China’s Xinjiang province with Balochistan’s Gwadar port. India has objected to the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as it passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which India maintains is part of Jammu and Kashmir, its northernmost state, and therefore Indian territory.

Russian ex-spy’s daughter discharged from hospital Lo n d o n, A p r 1 0 (Agencies): Yulia Skripal, the poisoned daughter of Russian ex-spy Sergei, has been discharged from hospital.

The 33-year-old left Salisbury District Hospital on Monday and has been taken to a secure location.

The hospital said: “This is not the end of her treatment but marks a significant milestone.”

Her 66-year-old father remains in hospital and is “recovering more slowly than Yulia”. Doctors hope he will be discharged “in due course”. The pair were taken to hospital on 4 March after being exposed to the toxic nerve agent Novichok.

The father and daughter were found slumped on a park bench in the centre of Salisbury.

Wiltshire Police Det Sgt Nick Bailey, who attended the scene, was also treated in hospital after being exposed to the nerve agent, but has since been discharged.

A statement from Ms Skripal released through the Metropolitan Police last week said her “strength is growing daily”.

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Salisbury District Hospital but is no longer in a critical condition. Medical director Dr Christine Blanshard said he has made “good progress”, adding: “Although he’s recovering more slowly than Yulia we hope he too will be able to leave hospital in due course.”

The government says Russia was behind the poisoning, and Prime Minister Theresa May said Moscow was “culpable” for the attack.

But the Russian government denied any involvement and has accused the British of inventing a “fake story”.

Theresa May welcomed the news of Ms Skripal’s discharge from hospital and wished her the best for her recovery.

SLFP ministers boycott Cabinet meeting in SL C o lo m b o, A p r 1 0 (PTI): President Maithripala Sirisena’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) ministers today boycotted a Cabinet meeting, days after they voted in favour of a noconfidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Senior ministers Sajith Premadasa and Gamini Jayawickrama Perera said none of the SLFP ministers were present at the Cabinet meeting this morning.

The SLFP ministers’ move came after the party’s central committee meeting last night held under Sirisena’s chair.

It was decided that the six ministers who had voted in favour of the noconfidence motion against the prime minister should stay away from the Cabinet until a decision is made on the SLFP’s continuation as part of the unity government with Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP).

“We wanted to leave the government but we can’t decide until the party decides on it,” said Anura Yapa, the Disaster Management Minister.

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used for harm as well. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech,” Zuckerberg said.

Zuckerberg, 33, who is facing the worst crisis of business, will testify before senators later today and a House panel tomorrow amid a firestorm over the hijacking of data on millions of Facebook users by the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

In prepared remarks released by a congressional panel, Zuckerberg admitted he was too idealistic and failed to grasp how

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Koki Kurohata, Nonaka’s great-grandson said: “He has not been receiving nursing care at a facility and has a clear brain. He’s really amazing.”

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the dispute, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolutions and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people,” Abbasi said.

He called upon UN to play its part in stopping “Indian atrocities” on Kashmiris, the statement said.

Abbasi also told Guterres about the “deliberate and unprovoked ceasefire violations” by India along the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary, resulting in the death of civilians, the statement said.

“The situation can escalate dangerously if the Indian side does not put a stop to repeated violations,” he warned. Briefing UN Secretary General on Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts, he stated that his goverment follows a ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards terrorism and extremism and has achieved “significant success”.

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the platform, used by two billion people, could be abused and manipulated.

Yesterday, he met Senator Bill Nelson and other lawmakers.

“I just met one-on-one with Zuckerberg and in no uncertain terms reminded him that Facebook has a responsibility to its users to protect our personal data. Facebook failed us,” Nelson said.

“Not only did they fail to safeguard the personal information of millions of users, they concealed it from us – and this is not the first time the company mishandled user information.

Only now are they coming clean and informing those who have had their information compromised and telling us they are going to make things right,” he said.

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Washington, Apr 10 (PTI): Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to the US Congress and taken personal responsibility over the Cambridge Analytica scandal for “not doing enough” to protect Facebook’s 87 million users’ private data from being misused and manipulated.

In a testimony released yesterday on the eve of his first congressional appearance, Zuckerberg accepted responsibility for the social network’s failure to protect private data of its users and prevent manipulation of the platform.

“We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry,” Zuckerberg said in his written testimony released by a House of Representatives panel.

“I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.”

“It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being

Tokyo, Apr 10 (IANS): Masazo Nonaka, a 112year-old Japanese man residing in the country’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, was recognised as the world’s oldest living male, Guinness World Records said on Tuesday.

Born on July 25, 1905, Nonaka received a certificate from Guinness World Records, Xinhua news agency reported citing the local media.

He was also presented with an award and a cake from the Mayor of the Ashoro town where he was born and lives currently with his family.

Nonaka said he enjoys watching sumo wrestling on TV and listening to music. His home is also a hot spring inn dating back more than a century that Nonaka used to run with his wife.

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Meanwhile, a newlyunearthed Kurt Cobain interview showed the Nirvana frontman saying that every one of the band’s drummers before Dave Grohl “pretty much sucked”.

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Reed Hastings wrote on Facebook: “The establishment is closing ranks against us.”

Now, it seems that Netflix is considering the possibility of boycotting Cannes altogether.

According to Vanity Fair, five Netflix films scheduled for a Cannes premiere are in danger of being pulled including Norway, Paul Greengrass’ biopic about the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.

Other films set to be pulled include Hold the Dark, a thriller starring Alexander Skarsgård; Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Orson Welles documentary They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, and a newly restored version of Welles’s famously unfinished film

The Other Side of the Wind.

Although Fremaux has confirmed that both sides are “still talking”, Hold The Dark director Jeremy Saulnier has seemingly confirmed that the film won’t be shown at Cannes.

“It’s a shame, I think it could’ve caused a stir,” Saulnier told IndieWire.

“But it will ultimately be better for the film to be showcased at festivals later this year, closer to the release. Also, who the hell wants to be booed at the first presentational credit of your film, especially when it’s disparaging the entity that made the film possible in the first place?

That’s where I’m a fierce defender of Netflix.”

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he Supreme Court on Tuesday directed states to ensure that there was no opposition to the release of “Nanak Shah Fakir”, a film on the first Sikh guru which is set to release in India and abroad on April 13.

Directing state governments to ensure law and order, the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said the freedom of expression of an artiste can’t be curtailed by a group of private people.

Film producer Harinder Singh Sikka approached the top court against an Akal Takht order calling for a ban on the film.

Directing the states to maintain law and order, Chief Justice Misra said: “Once the CBFC grants the certificate, there can’t be

any kind of impediment for the exhibition of the film.

It is well settled that once CBFC grants a certificate, it is final.

“Once the certificate is granted (by CBFC), unless it is nullified by a superior authority, the producer has every right to exhibit the film in movie halls. Any obstruction has the potential to bring anarchy and cripple the right of freedom of expression”, said the court.

On Monday, with a section of the Sikhs opposing “Nanak Shah Fakir” for its portrayal of the Sikh Gurus as living human beings, the Akal Takht announced a ban on its release.

“We have imposed a ban on the controversial movie... The film cannot be released (on April 13),” Akal Takht Jathedar Gurbachan Singh told the media

in Amritsar. The Akal Takht is the highest temporal seat of Sikh religion.

He said the religious sentiments of the community had been hurt over the portrayal of the Sikh masters.

The movie was earlier to be released in 2015, but

it was shelved following the controversy.

With a number of Bollywood and Punjabi movies running into trouble visa-vis Sikh organisations over the portrayal of community members and the Sikh Gurus, the Akal Takht also decided to constitute a

Sikh Censor Board on the matter.

In future, the Jathedar said, filmmakers will be required to seek the approval of the said board before

starting a movie project in which Sikh religion or Sikhs were to be portrayed or highlighted in any manner.

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The Songwriters Font project includes typefaces developed from “original handwritten letters and notes” by Cobain, Bowie and Lennon, as well as Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg.

“Songwriting is about inspiration,” say creators Julien Sens and Nicolas Damiens. “Write songs as the ones who inspired you before. The Songwriters fonts have been created to give musicians inspiration.”

“Writing lyrics with the handwriting of influential songwriters helps imagination to develop. Being in the mood of Bowie, Cobain, Cohen, Gainsbourg, Lennon, might be purely imaginative… but that’s precisely the point.”

Tributes were paid to Cobain last week on the 24th anniversary of the iconic singer’s death. The Nirvana frontman took his own life at his own home in Seattle, Washington on April 5, 1994 at the age of 27.

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The streaming service has been banned from competing for Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or, after festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux confirmed that all films vying for the top spot will require a cinema release in France.

The new ruling is a direct response to the controversy that the festival faced last year, when two Netflix films were entered in competition for the Palme d’Or despite not being released in cinemas.

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As well as the success of the Spanish-language version, a remix featuring Justin Bieber’s vocals also went on to achieve huge success.

More than a dozen other artists, including Shakira, Selena Gomez, Drake and Taylor Swift are also affected. The original clips had been posted by Vevo.

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he script of “Batgirl” will now be written by Christina Hodson instead of Joss Whedon. This will mark Hodson’s return to the DC Extended Universe after writing for “Birds of Prey”, reports variety.com.

Hodson has projects like “Shut In” and “Unforgettable” to her credit. She has also been roped in to write the script for “Bumblebee”, the upcoming “Transformers” spinoff with Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena.

Whedon had exited “Batgirl” in February citing issues with the story.

He had said in a statement: “’Batgirl’ is such an exciting project, and Warners/ DC such collaborative and supportive partners, that it took me months to realise I really didn’t have a story.”

“Batgirl” will portray the life of Barbara Gordon, the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon, who doubles as one of Batman’s sidekicks named Batgirl.

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by the names Prosox and Kuroi’sh, also wrote ‘Free Palestine’ underneath the videos. Although some clips remain live, the hack has directly attacked videos posted by Vevo, affecting artists including Selena Gomez, Shakira, Taylor Swift and Drake.

‘Despacito’ was released in January 2017 and went on to garner huge success, with the Spanishlanguage hit breaking several records including the single with the most weeks at No.1 in the US, after sitting pretty on the top spot for 16 consecutive weeks. It

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uis Fonsi’s record breaking music video for ‘Despacito’ has been deleted from YouTube by a group of hackers.

Only days after making history by becoming the first video to reach 5 billion views, the video has disappeared from the site.

When a search for the video is undertaken, users are instead greeted by a video still that shows masked figures aiming their guns at the camera – indicating that YouTube may have been compromised by hackers.

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pointing guns.

The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi’sh, had written “Free Palestine” underneath the videos.

Several of the clips remain live at time of writing.

Of those, the actual video content itself appears to be unaltered. Many titles have been changed to include the names of the hackers, but only some feature the replaced cover image.

Both YouTube and the music video hosting service Vevo have been contacted for comment.

A Twitter account that apparently belongs to one of the hackers posted: “It’s just for fun, I just use [the] script ‘youtubechange-title-video’ and I write ‘hacked’.”

“Don’t judge me I love YouTube,” it added.

Cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward, from Surrey University, said it was unlikely that the hacker was able to gain access so easily.

“To upload and alter video content with code you should require an authorisation token,” he said.

(NME/BBC)

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Athletic beat Villarreal in La Liga

Villarreal, Apr 10 (IANS): Spanish football club Athletic Bilbao defeated Villarreal 3-1, picking up a rare away win while inflicting a second straight loss on the hosts.

The victory lifts Athletic into 12th place in La Liga. Villarreal remain in sixth, the final Europa League spot, but lead Sevilla by just one point with seven matches left to play, reports Efe. M o n d a y ’s m a t c h started badly for the home side. Just minutes after Athletic’s Iñigo Cordoba scored in the 4th minute to give the visitors a 1-0 lead, the players and spectators at La Ceramica fell into a stunned silence when they saw Villarreal midfielder Pablo Fornals fall to the ground far from the play.

Fornals did not lose consciousness and wanted to stay in the game, but the team doctor insisted that he go the hospital for tests, which determined that the player had experienced an episode of lightheadedness known as presyncope.

Villarreal struggled to get the past the pair of early setbacks and Athletic dominated for the rest of

Asia Cup shifted to UAE over IndiaPak cricket row

KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 10 (Agencies): Cricket’s Asia Cup has been moved from India to the United Arab Emirates over Pakistan’s refusal to cross the border, as relations simmer between the arch-rivals, the Asian Cricket Council said on Tuesday.

The biennial event was due to be held in India in September, sparking protests from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) who called for the event to be relocated.

“This year’s Asia Cup is moved out of India to UAE and will be held from September 13-28,” Sultan Rana, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) development and event manager, said.

India has suspended bilateral cricket ties with Pakistan since the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which New Delhi blamed on militants based across the border.

However India has continued to square off with Pakistan in international events.

Rana said six Asian teams will compete in the 50-over Asia Cup. “India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the five top teams while, there will be a qualifying round to select the sixth team,” said Rana, a former Pakistan first class player.

Athletic Bilbao players celebrate after scoring a goal against Villarreal.

the first half.

The Bilbao side retained the initiative after the break, thanks mainly to the pace of Iñaki Williams, who scored in the 51st minute to make it 2-0 for Athletic.

While the hosts continued to flounder on the attack, Carlos Bacca man-

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aged to cut the Athletic lead in half with a goal on the counter in the 67th minute.

Invigorated, the hosts pushed hard for the equaliser and Athletic found themselves off-balance until Villarreal were struck yet again by bad luck: an injury to Jaume Costa in the 80th

minute that reduced the squad to 10 men because they had already used all their substitutions.

Iker Muniain, returning after being sidelined for six months with an injury, scored in the 87th minute to assure Athletic of coming away with all three points.

Tottenham lodge Kane goal appeal L o nd o n, A p r 1 0 (Agencies): Tottenham have lodged an appeal to the Premier League in a bid to ensure Harry Kane is credited for their second goal against Stoke City.

The England striker was adamant he should have been awarded the winning goal in the 2-1 victory on Saturday after claiming Christian Eriksen’s freekick glanced his shoulder on its way into the net.

Eriksen was credited with the goal - his second Harry Kane of the afternoon - but Tottenham have now appealed Golden Boot.

England striker Harry to the Premier League as Hary Kane looks to boost Kane has scored 24 goals his chances of winning the in the league this season,

five behind Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.

After the game, Kane told Sky Sports, “It’s my goal for sure. It flicked off my shoulder and went in.

I swear that’s mine. It was just off my shoulder. I don’t care, it’s my goal.”

Eriksen said he was happy to give the goal to his team-mate.

He added, “I don’t know. He celebrated like it was his goal so I expect he touched it.”

“I’ll take the assist.

That’s fine. Of course [you have to take his word for it], but on the camera we will see if it’s true or not. I think it is,” added Eriksen.

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Dimapur, Apr 10 (NPN): The first phase of RMSA self defense martial arts training (2017-18) session in Taekwondo conducted by Nagaland Taekwondo Association (NTA) started Monday evening at IG Stadium, Kohima.

Speaking at the launching programme, RMSA mission director Limawabang hoped that the self defense martial arts training in taekwondo would help and benefit the teachers. While advising the teachers to be attentive, Limawabang urged the participants to learn together and work together. He also hinted that there might be advanced courses in taekwondo in the near future and urged upon the teachers to be prepared.

The mission director also thanked the NTA for training the teachers under RMSA. NTA president, Pele Khezhie appreciated RMSA for giving Nagaland Taekwondo Association the opportunity to train basic techniques of taekwondo to the schools teachers in the state. Altogether 82 teachers from Kohima, Dimapur, Mokokchung, Peren and Wokha are attending the training session. The 2nd phase for other districts is scheduled from April 17 to 22.

Dimapur, Apr 10 (NPN): After successfully conquering the pre-quarters of the Super Cup, Shillong Lajong FC is ready for another big battle against Mohun Bagan on Wednesday at the Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar.

The youngest team of the Hero Super Cup final round were absolutely sensational as they came from behind to grab a 3-2 crucial win against Pune City.

Abdoulaye Koffi, Rakesh Pradhan and Skipper Samuel Lalmuanpuia scored the three goals to seal the victory and booked a place in the quarterfinals.

In the pre-match press conference, Shillong Lajong Coach, Alison Kharsyntiew said, “We believe in ourselves and that’s why we have come here.

Yes, I remember that we were on the receiving end in I-League at our home.

But come this Wednesday, it is a different game and we believe in our teamwork to get the mission accomplished once again. We accept the challenge.”

“I believe in teamwork. The cohesive force and the positive energy amongst the boys play the vital role. The synergy among Samuel, Koffi,

Shillong Lajong coach and Mohun Bagan coach shake hands during the pre-match press conference.

Sheen and everyone else got the result for us against Pune”, added Alison.

Mohun Bagan is coming into the game after winning against Churchill Brothers 2-1.

In the pre-match press conference, Mohun Bagan coach, Sankarlal Chakrabor ty said, “ILeague is over. Although we have beaten them in Shillong, it’s history now.

They have shown their capability against FC Pune City and we have seen how deadly they are, even in the

90th minute. On Wednesday, it is a new game and we are taking it very seriously.”

It may be mentioned that Shillong Lajong will be without the services of South Korean defender, Juho Oh after he was recalled back to his country for his military services obligations. Youngster Kenstar Kharshong who was out of the last match due to injury is expected to be fit for the clash against the Mariners in place of Juho Oh.

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LATE THIVE RHAKHO

Born : 02.04.1971 – Died : 05.04.2018 S/o Late Nevehü Rhakho; Thipuzu Village

The bereaved family members and relatives convey our heartfelt gratitude to each and every person who stood by us at the demise of our beloved Late Thive Rhakho. We thank you all for your prayers, comfort, physical & financial support. We are unable to repay you back but it is our earnest prayer that God Almighty, Who is aware of every good deed bless you all abundantly.

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The family members of Late Mr. Neisalhoulie Kuotsu would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who stood and supported us through prayers, love and in various forms of kindness during the prolonged illness and demise of our beloved father on 25th March 2018.

We convey our special thanks to:1. Khedi Baptist Kehou, Kohima Village 2. Christian Revival Church, Kohima Village 3. Cross Way Church, Dimapur 4. Relatives, friends & neighbours Words are not enough to express our gratitude but it is our humble and earnest prayer that God would bless each of you in abundance.

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NUSU (L) varsity sports meet underway Dimapur, Apr 10 (NPN): The XXth annual varsity sports meet of Nagaland University Students’ Union NUSU (L), Lumami got underway on April 9 at Dr.T Ao Sports Complex, Nagaland University, Lumami.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, K.Chumseli Anar, president, NUSU (L) encouraged the participants to play in true sportsmanship with discipline, teamwork, sacrifice and winning and losing graciously. He also reminded that extracurricular activities are an essential ingredient of education process.

The programme was chaired by Lika, God’s blessing was invoked by Sumi fellowship convenor, Vitolu and oath of conduct to the students was administered by assistant sports secretary, Tiatemjen.

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CWG: Heena adds 3rd gold to India’s shooting kitty CSK beat KKR by 5 wkts Power para-lifter Sachin wins bronze

Taking India’s overall medal tally to 21, and delivering the first medal from the country’s para-athletic contingent at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, was para-powerlifter Sachin Chaudhary who claimed bronze in the men’s heavyweight final at the Carrara Sports Arena 1.

On a day where three other Indian para-powerlift-

ers reached finals, Chaudhary went the distance in his 10-man final and finished with a combined effort of 181 points. Winning gold was Nigeria’s Abdulazeez Ibrahim and silver went to Malaysia’s Yee Khie Jong.

Chaudhary, 35, last year won a silver medal at the Powerlifting World Cup in Dubai with a career-best lift of 200. He also repre-

sented India at the 2012 Summer Paralymics where he finished ninth in the men’s -82.50kg event.

Also on Tuesday, the para-powerlifting pair of Farman Bash and Ashok Kumar finished fifth and 11th respectively in the men’s lightweight final, while Saina Khatun came in fifth in the women’s lightweight final.

India assured of 5 boxing medals

Indian Gold medalist Heena Sidhu (C) Silver medalist Australian Elena Galiabovitch (L) and Bronze medalist Malaysian Alia Sazana Azahari with their medals. (PTI))

B r i s ba n e , A p r 1 0 (PTI): Heena Sidhu picked up India’s third gold medal in shooting at the ongoing Commonwealth Games, finishing on top in the women’s 25m pistol event and also breaking a Games record in the process, here Tuesday.

The 28-year-old Sidhu shot a final score of 38, two of the series being perfect fives, to claim the top honours ahead of Australian Elena Galiabovitch (35).

The bronze medal went to Malaysia’s Alia Azahari (26).

This was Sidhu’s second medal at the ongoing Games after having claimed a silver in the 10m air pistol event behind 16-year-old compatriot Manu Bhaker.

Incidentally, this is her first major medal in the 25m pistol event with most of her other podium finishes being in 10m air pistol.

“I am exhausted, those are my thoughts on today’s performance,” Sidhu quipped while speaking to

PTI after her gold.

Annuraj Singh finished sixth after being eliminated in the second stage of the same event. Her final score was a disappointing 15.

Sidhu, however, was in terrific form after qualifying third with a score of 579 despite admitting to struggling with her trigger finger owing to a nerve problem.

Earlier, Gagan Narang signed off a disappointing seventh while debutant Chain Singh finished fourth in the 50m rifle prone event.

Narang, who qualiCountry Australia England India New Zealand South Africa Canada Wales Scotland Nigeria Cyprus

fied third for the final with a score of 619.4, went out after the first stage of elimination. He was tied for the second spot at the end of the first series. However, a gentle breeze perhaps affected the shots he fired after that and things went haywire for him. He ended with a final score of 142.3.

On the other hand, Chain Singh shot well for most part but lost his footing in the second elimination stage to end fourth with a score of 204.8. Singh had qualified sixth for the event with a score of 614.2.

Medals tally G S 50 38 24 29 11 4 9 10 9 6 8 21 7 8 6 10 4 4 4 0

B 42 21 6 7 6 15 7 12 0 2

T 130 74 21 26 21 44 22 28 8 6

Boxers Amit Panghal, Naman Tanwar, Mohammed Hussamuddin, Manoj Kumar and Satish Kumar assured India at least a medal each as they reached the semi-finals of their respective weights categories on Tuesday.

The day started with Amit Panghal defeating Aqeel Ahmed of Scotland 4:1 in the quarter-finals of the men’s light flyweight (49 kilogram) category and Naman outplaying Samoa’s Frank Masoe by a unanimous 5:0 verdict in the heavyweight (91kg) division.

Later in the day, in men’s 56kg category, Hussamuddin overpowered Muilenga Everisto of Zambia in a unanimous 5:0 verdict while Manoj defeated Australia’s Terry Nickolas 4:1 in the 69kg category. Satish also won his bout with a split 4:1 decision in +91kg quarterfinals bout.

In the 49kg category bout, the opening round was evenly matched with both boxers maintaining a high tempo. Amit did better in the second round, changing his tactics by landing more body shots and attacking his opponent’s defence from

India’s Amit Panghal beat Aqeel Ahmed of Scotland in the quarter-finals of the men’s light flyweight category.

different angles. The Indian dominated the third round, putting Aqeel under pressure with his superior hand speed and feet movements.

In the other match, Naman had a much easier day in office against Masoe. The 19-year-old Indian used his superior height, power and hand speed to pepper his oppoinent with a constant barrage of punches.

In the 56kg category bout, Hussamuddin was dominant right from the start as there were couple of standing counts against the Zambian boxer. Towards the end of bout, Hussamud-

din became more aggressive and landed punched from left to right.

In 69kg quarterfinal bout, the first two rounds between the Manoj and Nickolas were a proper slugfest.

But at the end Manoj won his bout with a split decision in his favour.

In +91kg action, Satish defeated Nigel Paul of Trinidad & Tobago 4:1. The duo played aggressively and tried to corner each other.

At times, the Indian player received few heavy punches but after three rounds, ring judge declared the Indian boxer as the winner.

CSK player celebrate after taking the wicket of Kolkata Knight Riders’ Sunil Narine on Tuesday. (PTI)

C h e n na i , A p r 1 0 (Agencies): Sam Billings played a little gem as Chennai Super Kings once again pulled off a thrilling chase beating Kolkata Knight Riders by five wickets in an IPL encounter, here Tuesday night.

Chasing a stiff target of 203, CSK won the match with a ball to spare as Ravindra Jadeja deposited military medium stuff from R Vinay Kumar into stands.

The India discard bowled a forgettable final over where CSK needed 17 runs to win.

This was after Englishman Billings set it up nicely with a magnificent 56 off 23 balls.

The pressure put by Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s slow batting (25 off 28 balls) was neutralised by Billings.

Chasing a target of 203 needed a blazing start and veteran Shane Watson was up for a challenge, hitting 42 off 19 balls with three fours and equal number of sixes in a 75-run opening stand with Ambati Rayudu (39 off 26 balls).

Suresh Raina (14) sustained a calf muscle injury which hampered his running between the wickets with Sunil Narine sending

him back. Dhoni and Billings got the chase back on track with a 54-run stand.

Andre Russell hit an incredible 11 sixes in his 36ball-88 as Kolkata Knight Riders scored a competitive 202 for six.

Earlier, in one of the finest counter-attacking innings in recent editions of IPL, Russell came in at 89 for 5 and then took the bowling apart with as many as seven sixes being hit off West Indies teammate Dwayne Bravo. Russell was involved in a half-century partnership with skipper Dinesh Karthik (26) as KKR went onto post a good total.

Sunil Narine got off to a flying start as he did in the game against RCB and smote Deepak Chahar for two big sixers on the legside in the first over of the match. However, he fell off the first ball he faced from the experienced Harbhajan Singh (1/11 in 2 overs) in the second over.

Chris Lynn was out for 22 runs, Nitish Rana scored 16 in his brief knock while Robin Uthappa was run-out on 29 runs as Raina’s throw caught him short of his ground.

Neikha calls on Union sports minister Naga Feathers humiliate United Rising FC 12-1

Er. Zale Neikha with Union sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Tuesday.

Dimapur, Apr 10 (NPN): Advisor of youth resources and sports, Er. Zale Neikha Tuesday called on Union sports

minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore at his office in New Delhi.

During the meeting, Neikha appraised

the sports minister on the ongoing centrally sponsored scheme in the State and infrastructures needs of youth resources and sports department, stated a press release issued

by PRO(IPR) Nagaland House, Kuolie Mere.

He also submitted the State top priority needs of infrastructure development in various disciplines to be considered by the Central Ministry.

In reply, the Union minister has assured to take up those top priority projects for early sanction and also acknowledged the potential and talent of the Naga youth, stated Mere.

Neikha also called on both the secretaries of sports and youth affairs at their respective offices and highlighted the activities of the YRS department and requested them to support and extend help to the Naga youth.

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DI M AP U R , APR 1 0 (NPN): Naga Feathers humiliated United Rising FC (URFC) 12-1 in the 1st Open Football Tournament played at DDSC Stadium, here on Tuesday.

In a one-sided contest, the young inexperienced URFC were completely outplayed by their strong opponent in the regulated 70th minute encounter.

For, Naga Feathers, it was like a practice match as they scored the goals at regular intervals. Sulanthung led the goal galore scoring five goals, Neikethozo netted four, Victor two goals and Samuel added one.

The lone face saver for URFC was scored by Botovi in the dying minute

of the final whistle.

Neikethozo opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Right after two minutes, Sulanthung added the team’s second goal. He scored his second in the 11th minute and hat-trick in the 24th minute.

The first session ended 4-0 in favour of Naga Feathers. After the interval, Naga Feathers continued with the same momentum and scored eight more goals. Sulanthung scored his fourth and fifth goals in 56th and 64th minutes.

Neikethozo also scored three more goals in the 51st, 61st and 66th minutes.

Victor added two goals in the 41st and 62nd minutes.

Samuel also added his name in the scoresheet in the 47th minute.

The match between Naga Feathers and United Rising FC at DDSC Stadium, Dimapur on Tuesday. (NP)

With the match almost over, Bothovi scored the lone goal for URFC, a minute before the final whistle to bring cheers to his teammates.

Earlier, Bronco Club beat Ekhyo Yan 2-0. Ashamo Y Tsopoe scored the first goal in the 19th minute and Elithung Ezung added

the second in the 57th minute.

In the last match of the day, Chanan FC blanked MVYO 2-0. The tournament is organized

by Dimapur District Football Referee Association (DDFRA). 30 teams are vying for the championship trophy.

Today’s matches 1st match: 12 noon Brother United Vs Brother’s Club Dimapur 2nd match: 1:30 pm Naga Terriers Vs Phoenix 3rd match: 2:30 pm Lt. Chutsole Kickers FC Vs Tribals United

SSP junior volleyball c’ship concludes

Winners of inter-house junior volleyball championship with their medals and certificates.

Dimapur, Apr 10 (NPN): The inter-house junior volleyball championship 2018-19 of Sainik School Punglwa culminated on April 9. The matches were played on league cum knockout system. After well fought matches between six mother houses, Melak

House and Japfu House qualified for the final.

In a nail biting final match, Melak House defeated Japfu House by 2 sets to 1 set. Cdt Rishabh Raj, the skipper of Melak House with his consistent performance throughout the championship led his

team to victory over Japfu House. He was also adjudged the best player of the championship.

Lt Col Kiran Meitei, Officiating Principal, graced the occasion as the chief guest and gave away the certificates and medals to the winners.

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