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India now 2nd worst-hit Covid nation NEW DELHI, APR 12 (PTI): India has surpassed Brazil to record the secondhighest number of COVID19 cases at 1,35,27,717, as a record 1,68,912 new infections were reported in a day. The active cases have surpassed the 12-lakh mark, while the death toll increased to 1,70,179 with 904 new fatalities in a day, the highest since October 18, 2020, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated at 8 AM on Monday. The national COVID19 recovery rate has fallen below 90 percent.

According to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) data, India has overtaken Brazil, which is now at the third spot in the COVID tally with 1,34,82,023 cases.

The US has the highest number of cases at 3,11,98,055 while globally 13,61,36,954 cases have been reported. Registering a steady increase for the 33rd day in a row, the active cases have increased to 12,01,009 in India comprising 8.88

percent of the total infecBefore the latest surge, tions, while the recovery rate the active caseload was at has further dropped to 89.86 its highest at 10,17,754 on percent.

September 18, 2020 and had

Centre extends CF with 3 NPGs Spl. Correspondent

NEW DELHI, APR 12 (NPN): Centre on Monday extended the ceasefire agreements with three Naga political groups (NPGs) for one more year till April 2022.

As reported in Nagaland Post on April 11, that leaders of the NPGs were already in Delhi in connection with the extension of the ceasefire agreements, Home ministry officials said that the agreements were renewed/signed with three groups-- GPRN/NSCN, NSCN (R) and NSCN/ GPRN(K) led by Khango Konyak in New Delhi.

“It was decided to extend the Ceasefire Agreements for a further period of one year with effect from April 28, 2021 to April 27, 2022 with NSCN/NK and NSCN/R and April 18, 2021 to April 17, 2022 with

Dhansiri bridge for one-way traffic: DTP DIMAPUR, APR 12 (NPN): As the much awaited RCC T–beam bridge over Dhansiri river is set to be inaugurated on April 13, Dimapur Traffic Police (DTP), however, informed that the bridge will be opened only for one way traffic from Purana Bazaar to town area. DTP said that this arrangement was done for smooth flow of traffic and for public convenience.

It therefore requested all to abide by the new traffic regulation.

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“Why’s he calling Didi, Didi always? Does he want to be called Dada.?

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NSCN/K-Khango. These Agreements were signed on April 12, 2021,” the Home ministry said in a statement.

Meanwhile, in a statement, GPRN/NSCN said that the group had signed the ceasefire extension with the Government of India, “in the spirit of seriousness to maintain chain of peace in the state and modalities of resolving issues with the involvement of Naga people.”

GPRN/NSCN represented by supervisor CFSB, Nitovi Aye and Government of India represented by Addl.

Secretary (MHA), Piyush Goyal mutually decided to extend the ceasefire agreement further for a period of one year (till April 27, 2022) with subjection to adherence to CFGR. It further said that the CFGR will be subjected to mutual review and amendment with the involvement

of both the parties.

In another statement, NSCN (R) said that “considering the peaceful and cordial atmosphere maintained between NSCN (R) and GoI and to honour the Naga People’s yearning for peaceful co-existence, another extension for ceasefire was signed which is a prerequisite need of the hour at this contemporary stage of the ongoing Naga political dialogue.”

Both parties agreed to adhere to the laid down Ceasefire Ground Rules in all seriousness and fairness, it said. NSCN (R) team was led by CFSB supervisor-incharge, Amento V. Chophi wherein the document was signed by the supervisor and CFSB secretary, Toshi Longkumer representing NSCN (R) while Additional Secretary (MHA), Piyush Goyal signed on behalf of the Government of India.

decreased to 1, 35,926 on February 12. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,21,56,529, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 1.26 percent, the data stated.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 60-lakh mark on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.

According to the ICMR, 25,78,06,986 samples have been tested up to April 11 with 11,80,136 samples being tested on Sunday. The health ministry stressed that more than 70 percent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

“Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website, adding that statewise distribution of figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation.

India set to get third vaccine

NEW DELHI, APR 12 (IANS): A government expert panel has given its nod to emergency use authorisation of Russian-made Covid vaccine, Sputnik-V, in India, Union Health Ministry sources said.

After the Drug Controller General of India gives assent to the Subject Expert Committee’s approval, the sources told IANS, India will have a third Covid vaccine after AstraZeneca-Oxford University developed-Serum Institute of India-manufactured Covishield and Bharat Biotechdeveloped and manufactured Covaxin.

Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) Dr N.K. Arora, talking to IANS, said: “Though, I am yet to receive any official information about its approval, but it would be good news for India if it is approved.”

DIMAPUR, APR 12 (NPN): Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) has asked the State government to implement the SARFAESI Act, 2002 in the interest of educated Naga unemployed youth.

In a statement, CNTC pointed out that many young talented Naga youth were forced to go outside Nagaland for jobs to earn their livelihood. CNTC said most of them want to start their projects and work in their home state. However, CNTC said owing to lack of financial resources, the youth had no option but go out of the state for survival.

CNTC pointed out that implementation of the Act would help thousands of Naga youth to earn their livelihood at home instead of having to go out and face untold miseries and hard-

ships in the past, in many cities of the mainland.

Many youth wanted to start small businesses here in their home State but, without the banks assisting them financially, it became impossible for them to start all by themselves, the council contended. Hence, CNTC urged the State government to work out some modalities along with all stakeholders like local entrepreneurs, contractors, banks and financial institutions to implement the Act in tandem with other special laws granted to Nagaland like Article 371(A), Land and Revenue Regulations Amendment Act, 2002 so that, in case of local entrepreneurs defaulting bank loans, the mortgaged lands could be auctioned to local Nagas only so that special provisions are not infringed. (Cont’d on p-8)

versity found that in the most at-risk patients, inhaled budesonide clears up the infection far more quickly and may even prevent hospitalisation and long Covid.

The results are now with the Department of Health, who are soon expected to issue guidance recommending that the drug be used for patients in the community. Scientists chose

to trial the corticosteroid budesonide after noticing that people with asthma were under-represented in hospitalised Covid patients, which is not the case in other respiratory illnesses, such as seasonal flu. Researchers suspected it could be the asthma treatments which were preventing the virus from progressing.

(Cont’d on p-8)

CTYO, CTSU back move to shift DC office DIMAPUR, APR 12 (NPN): Chümoukedima Town Youth Organisation (CTYO) and Chümoukedima Town Students’ Union (CTSU) have declared support to the move to shift Dimapur deputy commissioner’s (DC) from the current location to Chümoukedima.

In a joint statement, CTYO president Hovise Naleo and general secretary Avi Makritsu and CTSU president Kezhawelie Richa and general secretary Kenivi Yhoshü said they were disheartened to see few civil society organisations (CSOs), claiming to repre-

sent the will and disposition of all people of Dimapur district, coming up strongly to oppose shifting of the DC office.

They pointed out that these CSOs remained silent when the State government had initiated construction of the new DC complex, but were now threatening to disturb peace when construction of the complex was complete and the office was ready for shifting.

CTYO and CTSU reminded the CSOs that Chümoukedima was established as the district headquarter of the newly-created Dimapur district by the SC

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Vaccinated people can still transmit disease: Experts NEW DELHI, APR 12 (PTI): COVID-19 vaccines protect against serious illness but transmissibility can still continue and inoculated people can pass on the infection to others, say scientists, warning against complacency in those who stop maintaining protocol after they get their jabs.

Transmissibility from vaccinated persons can be a risk factor until global coverage is achieved, top experts said as India’s Covid numbers escalated sharply, reaching 1,35,27,717 (1.35 crore/13,5 million) with 1,68,912 new cases on Monday to make it the country with the second highest number of cases after the US. “Vaccination is simply one of the many different strategies we have to deal with in the pandemic.

However, it is not a magical one-stop solution,” immu-

nologist Satyajit Rath, from distance regardless of the the New Delhi’s National vaccination status.

Institute of Immunology, This has to continue told PTI. until the majority of people are vaccinated.

The scientists also batted for universal vaccination, saying it would provide strong community resistance to severe local outbreaks.

Cautioning against “None of the vaccines lowering of the guard even currently available provide after vaccination, they said protection against trans- some people who get inocmission of the virus. Statis- ulated early may lose their tically speaking, infection immunological memory post-vaccination is likely over a period of time and to be milder than one with- become vulnerable again.

“Vaccination remains out,” added Vineeta Bal, an immunologist from Pune’s an individual protection, Indian Institute of Science, not a community protection, until we achieve alEducation and Research.

As researchers around most global vaccination the world try and figure out coverage. It is possible that how well COVID-19 vac- vaccine-resistant virus varicines prevent vaccinated ants will emerge, necessipeople from transmitting tating steady watchfulness the virus to others, the ex- and the rapid developmentperts stressed on the need deployment of next-generafor masks and physical tion vaccines,” Rath said.

Transmissibility can still continue and inoculated people can pass on the infection to others

CNTC asks state govt to State reports 11 TRNYF urges Gov to expedite implement SARFAESI Act new Covid cases foothill road construction DIMAPUR, APR 12

Cheap asthma drug ‘cuts Covid recovery time at home’ LO N D O N, A P R 1 2 (AGENCIES): The first treatment for coronavirus in the community could soon be available from GPs, after researchers at Oxford University found that a cheap asthma drug can cut illness time by three days.

There is currently no specific treatment for coro- paracetamol to reduce their navirus, with patients usu- fever, or cough medicine. ally being advised to take However, Oxford Uni-

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Jamir government in 1997, claiming that the place was chosen without any political influence or public demand.

Mentioning that it was one of the fastest growing urban landscapes now, both the organisations asserted that it made good sense to have the DC office there.

They said Dimapur district was inhabited by all sections and communities of Nagaland and encompassed many towns and villages.

Chümoukedima has vast potential for further development whereas, Dimapur town was congested and had stagnated in its

scope for further infrastructural development and growth, combined with its ever growing traffic woes, they added.

C T YO a n d C T S U further asserted that Chümoukedima was not a “rural village” but under the administration of Chümoukedima Town Council and had even served as the first headquarter of the then Naga Hills district during British rule. They claimed that the town was inhabited by not one but all communities where everyone was equal and shared equal responsibility.

(Cont’d on p-8)

(NPN): Nagaland on Monday reported 11 new Covid19 positive cases-- 8 in Dimapur, 2 in Mokokchung and 1 in Kohima, taking the total caseload to 12416.

Following the detection of 11 fresh Covid cases, the State’s active case tally also rose to 167.

Over 1.2 lakh inoculated: Meanwhile, a total of 1,22,410 beneficiaries have been vaccinated till date. This include 92626 first dose vaccine and 29784 second dose, State Immunization Officer (IUP), Dr. Ritu Thurr stated.

DIMAPUR, APR 12 (NPN): Tzurangkong Range Naga Youth Front (TRNYF) has urged governor RN Ravi to expedite construction of the Trans-Nagaland Expressway/Nagaland Foothill Road so that the people could avail better livelihood opportunities and also for development of foothill areas in general.

Acknowledging the initial funding by the State government for starting construction of the road, TRNYF president Bendangwati and general secretary Shiluyongdang in a repre-

DDGBA ‘selected office-bearers’ clarify DIMAPUR, APR 12 (NPN): Selected office-bearers of Dimapur District GB Association (DDGBA) have claimed that the ‘selections/ search committee’, through a majority decision, selected GB Longri Jamir as president DDGBA in accordance with Art. 8 of the Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) constitution and Art. 14 of the DDGBA constitution.

DDGBA gen. secretary Nieba Kesiezie and information secretary Luikang Namgi in a rejoinder said the issue of the search committee not being qualified because they had not paid membership fee in time, did not hold any water. As responsible GBs, they said all of them had been clearing the membership fees regularly and could be verified from the office. They said the issue raised was a trivial matter and an excuse to oppose the legitimatelyselected office-bearers that was unreasonable.

They said the selections/search committee comprised of-- GB Union Dimapur Sadar president MY Ngullie as convener ; GB Union Dhansiripar president P Dohoi Swu; GB Union Chümoukedima president Tokishe Achumi; GB Union Niuland president Vikheyi Zhimomi and GB Union Medziphema president Rokovitso Kuotso as members.

The signatories said even at

the general conference held at Diphupar B on November 24, 2018, the majority decision of Search/ Selection Committee was accepted and supported by majority of the GBs present. They accused the opposing party of riding roughshod over the majority decision and agreement by deciding to hold an election themselves. They said this was totally against the constitutions of NGBF and DDGBA which have provision of democratically giving a chance to every tribe to serve in the association on a selections and rotation basis.

Fur ther, they said that the process of having an election where only 25 members voted for the president was duly opposed by most tribal GB associations/unions of Dimapur, who had condemned and opposed this through press releases in the media.

They alleged that the dubious part played by NGBF officials in attending the election process was totally against Art. 8 of the NGBF constitution, whose very presence seemed to encourage the “illegal election process” by giving tacit support for going against the constitution. Therefore, they said the votes of 25 GBs of Dimapur could not be interpreted as majority of the whole DDGBA.

sentation to the governor however observed that at the current pace, the completion of the road would be a distant dream, especially without the lack of any Central funding.

They said either the Centre was purposely ignoring the project or some vested interests were obstructing completion of the road. They emphasised that an expressway like the proposed Nagaland Foothill Road connecting the area to Wokha and Dimapur districts to the south and Tuli area (Cont’d on p-8)

AR rebuts NSCN (I-M) allegation DIMAPUR, APR 12 (NPN): Assam Rif les, through its PRO has described as “malicious allegations” made against it by the NSCN(I-M) in the local media, over the AR post at Doyapur. PRO accused the NSCN(I-M) of making the allegation “against a legitimate Assam Rifles post at Doyapur” carrying out its bona fide task from the location in existence for over two years. PRO said the allegation “raises the question of the ulterior motives of the complainants”.

AR clarified that its post at Doyapur plays a key role in providing a secure environment as per the wishes of the local populace and the government while maintaining that Doyapur is situated around 6 kms from Hebron camp and “far beyond what is stipulated in the Cease Fire Ground Rules.”

AR claimed that various initiatives by the post, also in conjunction with the civil administration, had added value to the lives of the residents of Doyapur and neighbouring villages.

Further, it advised the NSCN (I-M) “ to refrain from their constant attempts directed at discrediting security forces” for having a free hand in running “its unlawful activities in the area.

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KMH executive meeting-cumNDO office launched in Mkg CTC bids farewell to principal mushroom training held in Noklak

DCMokokchung, Limawapang Jamir, during the launching program of NDO office in Mokokchung.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Development Outreach ( N D O ) , d e ve l o p m e n t wing of NBCC launched its office in Mokokchung for implementing JICA assisted Nagaland forest management project under Mokokchung district on April 8, at multi-purpose conference hall, Kumlong Baptist Church.

A press release from NDO director, Rev. C. Amop Noklang stated that Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mokokchung, Limawapang Jamir dwelt

on the mission of forest conservation. With the participation of FNGO in the NFMP, he was hopeful that there will be a significant contribution to sustainable forest and livelihood improvement.

DFO Mokokchung, Dr. Sentitula, in her key note address shared about the works of the projects that it’s a centrally aided project assisted by JICA. She also talked about the role of the NGO in facilitating the communities in strengthening conservation

regime through community participation and livelihood generation through IGA. A BA M , exe c u t ive secretary, Rev. Dr. Mar Pongener, stressed on the wonderful creation of God and it maintained that it was our duty as His church and congregation to preserve God’s creation and environment.

He also assured his full support and cooperation for the project. Kumlong ward chairman, Lanu Imchen, also encouraged the villagers to have a competitive spirit while implementing the project and to have an impactful result for the communities.

The programme was chaired by NDO director Rev. C. Amop Noklang, invocation prayer was pronounced by Kumlong Baptist Church pastor, Kikum. Participants included JFMC committee members, council and church leaders. The programme ended with mass spoken prayer.

DIMAPUR: Clark Theological College (CTC) Mokokchung on April 9 organised a farewell programme for its outgoing principal, professor Rev. Dr. Mar Pongener, who will be serving as executive secretary of the Ao Baptist Church Association (ABAM).

A press release by CTC stated that Rev. Dr. Mar served the college for the last thirty years in different capacities as the dean of post graduate studies, academic dean and the principal with dedication.

At the programme, chairman of the board of governors CTC, Dr. Sunep Imchen, acknowledged Dr. Mar’s outstanding teaching performance and exceptional commitment to leadership and presented a certificate of commendation as a token of appreciation. CTC new principal, Rev. Dr. A. Temjen Jamir described Rev. Dr. Mar as a man of integrity who lifted the college up to newer heights in terms of infra-structure development, faculty development and strengthening relationship of the college with local churches, national and international organizations and individuals. The outgoing principal, Rev. Dr. Mar expressed his gratitude to God, his family, faculty and staff members, churches and individuals for their prayers and supports for the ministry of the college. He said that all the success during his tenure was due to the team work of the faculty and staff, and he wished that the same spirit may continue even in the future.

STF for COVID-19 vaccine meeting DIMAPUR: State Task Force (STF) for COVID-19 vaccine has convened a meeting under the chairmanship of the Principal Secretary H&FW, Amardeep S Bhatia on April 13, 1 p.m. at the conference hall, H&FW to review the COVID-19 vaccination coverage. All STF members have been requested to attend the meeting.

NSCN (R) UT-I passes 7-point resolution DIMAPUR: In support of the recent “Declaration” made by Dimapur-based NSCN (R), the UT-1 (Union Territory-1) of the group at a meeting held on April 10, 2021 unanimously passed a seven-point resolution reaffirming “unconditional and unwavering” support to the leadership its president Y. Wangtin Naga, vicepresident Akato Chophi and ato kilonser P. Tikhak besides extending “Solidarity to the undisputed Naga Leader, N. Kitovi Zhimomi (Convener WC-NNPGs)”.

UT-1 NSCN (R) through MIP said that the meeting was attended by all UT Staff, including “top Naga Army Officials.

The meeting reaffirmed that the UT-1 stood by the ‘Extraordinary Emergency Joint Council Meeting: held on August 28, 2019, wherein it was “resolved to expel Khekato for his involvement in the cold blooded murder of late Major Toishe of NSCN (IM), and if at all, any further decision has to taken, will have to be moved through the ‘Joint Council’ only, on the advise of the Collective Leadership.”

Further, the meeting decided “to consider that unless Khekato’s Murder issue booked under GR 674/19 is resolved and cleared by the Law enforcing agencies, including ‘Clean-Chit’ be issued by the Victim’s Family, Victim’s Village Forums, and the NSCN (IM), the UT-1 shall neither recognise nor entertain and support

Kapoki MI project inaugurated at Zunheboto village DIMAPUR: Department of Water Resources launched the Kapoki MI project at Zunheboto village on April 10, under the scheme PMKSY-Har Khel Ko Pani 270 batch. The project is implemented under the Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoWR, RD&GR) with an estimated cost of Rs. 94,06,880. The work commenced in 2018-19 and was completed in 2019-20.

According to DIPR report, with the construction of this project and the improved irrigation facilities, farmers can now undertake multiple cropping.

The project was implemented with an active participation of the farmers so as to promote participatory irrigation management (PIM) in the irrigation system.

As has been the practice of the department, the project being completed will now be handed over to the beneficiaries for their use and future maintenance.

The programme was chaired by executive engineer WRD, Er. Huskha Yepto and DC Zunheboto, Peter Lichamo, was the special guest.

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the murder accused, at any point of time.”

The house resolved to “abide by the Criteria and Protocol followed by all NPGs Governments, to only acknowledge any ‘Order/ Decree/Diktat’ or Notification issued by the official media handle the MIP (Ministry of Information & Publicity) and as such, any press statements issued by any individuals, whatsoever, other than the Official MIP Office will not be accepted.”

It was also decided to “stick by the NSCN Party’s Ahza, that if at all, any head of Ministry or Department is be appointed will be processed only after the budget session as clearly mentioned in article 21(A) and article 23(A) of the Party’s Yehzabo.”

The meeting cautioned all UT-1 staff that strict and punitive action would be initiated under ‘Anti-Party and Anti-National Acts, upon any individuals “found dealing with any fugitive or self-styled un-recognized individuals”.

The meeting also requested all business firms/personalities, contractors, patrons, well-wishers and individuals to “abstain from dealing with the Murder accused, but rather report to the competent authorities, if ever they are harassed by the Con-man and his few band of thugs.”

“Further, it is hereby notified that even after this notification, if anyone is found dealing with the

self-claimed so called ChapleeKilonser shall be doing so in their own individual’s risk,” the meeting resolved.

Meanwhile, the UT-1 said it was “honoured” with presence of group’s vice-president Akato Chophi at the meeting, wherein he reportedly said: “The foundation of the NSCN (R) is based upon the Legacy of our Naga Predecessors and Pioneers, wherein any Animosities, Hatred, Killings and Murders was an alien culture to us, because these abominable acts ultimately shakes the very foundation that which this Nation is built upon, by our founding fathers.”

It was affirmed that “no individual of any rank or file or from a private to the highest and topmost hierarchical position is ever above the NSCN, or the Nation.” UT-I stated that each individual would be judged by his own action “which is the ultimate decision of the Nation and the NSCN’s Ahza”.

In this regard, UT-1 said the “custodian of the NSCN’s Principles is the Joint Council, in consultation and advise of the Collective Leadership, which is the highest decision making body”.

Therefore, it stated that “no single individual can bypass or supersede the judgement or decision Pronounced by the collective decision of the Joint Council, with approval and endorsement of the Collective Leadership.”

Public speaking contest held at Kiphire DIMAPUR: The district administration and District Level Centre for Women-Mahila Shakti Kendra, Kiphire jointly organised public speaking contest at DC’s conference hall on April 10.

According to DIPR report, the themes for the contest were, “Challenges faced by women of Kiphire district”, “The rise of women is not about the fall of men” and “Gender balance is not solely a women’s issue, but also an economic issue”.

In the class IX to XII category, Thingrila A Sangtam emerged as the winner while second and third prices were bagged

by Chumtila and Thsipongla L Sangtam respectively. All the three winners are from Saramati View Modern School, Kiphire.

In the other category, the first position was bagged by Thrilela I Sangtam while Angali T Sumi and Sekhumla K Sangtam won the 2nd and 3rd positions respectively.

All the winners are from Zisaji Presidency College, Kiphire. Altogether, 40 students participated in the competition.

The event moderator was district coordinator, Mahila Shakti Kendra, Kiphire, Visuthong T. The judges of the competition were BDO Longmatra block, Dr. Ezao L Ezung, assistant professor ZPC, Nekhotsolu Chozho and graduate teacher GHSS, Kiphire Imlikokla.

DIMAPUR: The 13th Khiamniungan Menyiu Hoikam (KMH) executive meetingcum-mushroom training was held on April 7 at the residence of KMH treasurer, Noklak.

According to DIPR report, DC Noklak, Reny Wilfred, encouraged the gathering to take up various livelihood projects to help themselves and the society to grow. He shared on the plans and programmes initiated by the district for promotion of women.

SDO (C) Noklak, C. Phuniang stated that KMH should continue to come forward and actively participate in peace making and decision making of the tribe in particular and the society at large. He reminded the members to remain extra vigilant and foresee the fast social and other development that is going to come particularly in the wake of Noklak upgradation to a full-fledged district so as

Women participants during the training on mushroom farming in Noklak.

to maintain the dignity of the society. Phuniang also encouraged the attendees not to take any hasty decision in whatever form but to have a rational approach.

He further appealed to all to grab the best benefits by extending co-operation to the government.

The meeting was followed by training on mushroom farming under the initiative of district administration of Noklak and KMH. More than 100 women at-

tended the mushroom training from village level units under Noklak district.

President KMH, Newkhai acknowledged the vehicle purchasing committee members comprising of CDPO Noksen, Anti; JAA Tuensang, Penie; JSO, Civil Secretariat, Ngamlih; BDO Noksen, Shongmao; AE CAWD Tuensang, Er. Elo and NPSC member, S. Chonta for arrangement of fund to purchase the much-needed vehicle of the organisation.

In Memory of our beloved Lt. Moasenla Yimchunger Gone Home on the 13th of April 2018 Dearest Moasen, Much has changed since you left us, but one thing remains-your memories and how much we miss you.

Your life was marked with boldness and compassion; waiting for approval from no one to do the right thing. We remember the goodness of your heart that held no grudges but instead chose to forgive and bless.

We c e l e b r a t e y o u r s p i r i t o f adventure, your love for animals and nature and your unbiased outlook towards everyone. You had to go because you finished your race and we are all running for the finish line so that one day, we will all meet again.

“And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.”

Romans 8:11

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Loving Parents, Siblings and Family Members

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

If we live, it is for the Lord that we live, and if we die, it is for the Lord that we die.

So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

Roman 14:8

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

With immense gratitude, we the bereaved family and relatives of LATE GHEKHUNGA KENT would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude and sincere appreciation to all individuals, friends, neighbours, churches, well-wishers near and far who stood by us morally, financially, physically and in prayers during his illness till his last journey. We are unable to personally thank everyone but we pray that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

We also like to acknowledge our special thanks to: 1. Nsunyu Baptist Church 2. Prayer Cell NBC 3. Nsunyu Village Council 4. Chunlikha Village Council 5. Kethagha G.B Union 6. Kethagha Service & Pensioners Association 7. Kethagha Welfare Society, Chumukedima 8. Kethagha Public Organization 9. Ebenezer Prayer & Healing Center 10. The Living Rock 11. Rengma G.B. Association 12. Pensioners Association Tseminyu Unit 13. U.N.B.C. Women Department, Tseminyu 14. High School Youth Caring Group, Kohima 15. G.M.S. Tenyiphe II 16. Gukhanyu Baptist Church 17. Kandinu Village Council 18. EhunnuPrayer Center 19. Tsonsa Baptist Church K-758

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Born on 28.12.1984 – Died on 08.04.2021

Late NUNGSASHIBA AO (12th NAP (IR) Bn, Hq-Chingtok, Longleng) We, the bereaved family members would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, organizations, churches, well-wishers and friends who stood by us with prayers, physically, financially and morally during the tragic accident near Chunlikha Village and sudden demise of our beloved on 08.04.2021.

Of the many, our special thanks to: 1.

2.

Born – 20th March 1938 Died – 06th April 2021

Loving Wife, Children, In-laws, Grand Children, and Relatives

Shri. Amenba Yaden, MLA. Commandant and all rank and files of 12th NAP (IR) Battalion, Hq-Chingtok, Longleng.

3. Shri. Anchees Odyuo, Deputy Commandant, 12th NAP (IR) Battalion, Hq-Chingtok, Longleng.

4. Doctors and staff of P.H.C, Chunlikha, Tseminyu.

5. Chunlikha Village Council, Tseminyu.

6. A/W Rengma, Chunlikha Village.

7. Shri. R. Imlisunep Ao, Ungma.

8. S.P and staff of DEF Wokha, Kohima and Tseminyu.

9. Shri. Viwheto Thorie, Deputy District Agriculture Officer, DAO, Wokha.

10. Shri. Bensenlo, Sishunu Village (12th NAP (IR)

11. Ao Baptist Church, Tseminyu and Ao Union, Tseminyu.

12. Police Baptist Church, Chingtok, Longleng.

13. 1st NAP Battalion, Chümoukedima.

14. Ward No-06 Council, Chümoukedima Town.

15. Shri. N. Akang Aier, G.B, Ward No-10, Chümoukedima Town.

16. Chümoukedima Thepfü Thepfüko 17. Chümoukedima Ao Baptist Arogo.

18. Longjang Union, Kohima.

19. Longjang Union, Chümoukedima 20. Longjang Fellowship, Chümoukedima.

21. Sangtam Baptist Church, Chümoukedima 22. Heroes of Police Complex, Chümoukedima.

23. Kilenmen Senso, Dimapur.

24. Friends and well-wishers.

We regret our inability to thank every individual personally but it is our earnest prayer that the Almighty God bless each and everyone abundantly.

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Loving wife, children, parents, brothers, sisters, in-laws and relatives.

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Q: Despite record COVID

cases, will the Centre be compelled to call for shutdown?  Yes.  No.  Can’t Say.

WEATHER FORECAST Apr 13

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Hazy sun and hot

39 24

Very warm with hazy sun

Guwahati Hazy sunshine and hot Imphal

Very warm with hazy sun

32 17 37 19 33 15

Itanagar A stray morning thunderstorm 30 18 Shillong

Hazy sun

26 16

Kohima

A thunderstorm in the area

28 15

Dimapur Warm in the morning; sunshine 35 20

Mostly sunny and pleasant

29 16

Tuensang Mostly sunny and pleasant

22 12

Mostly sunny and pleasant

27 19

Zunheboto Mostly sunny and pleasant

26 14

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Reports on COVID-19 activities from across state

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021

State BJP ST morcha felicitates Naiba Konyak DIMAPUR: Nagaland state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Schedule Tribe (ST) morcha conducted a felicitation programme at head office Kohima for Naiba Konyak, national executive member for ST Morcha representing the state on April 10.

A press release by the state general secretary ST morcha BJP Nagaland, Kruto Tetseo stated that in his speech, Naiba Konyak thanked and acknowledged the state BJP president and minister, Temjen Imna Along for trusting and elevating him to the national level with the new assignment.

Further, he also expressed gratitude to the prime minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president JP Nadda “for their concern for the state of Nagaland” and bringing development in the state.

Earlier the programme was chaired by Wanphong (Awan) Konyak, welcome address was delivered by state general and in-charge of ST Morcha Nagaland while vote of thanks was delivered by ST Morcha secretary Limatushi.

DC and chairman DTF Kumar Ramnikant speaking at the Tuensang Rush hour during the first hour of vaccination at Longleng People stand in queue to avail COVID-19 vaccination DTF meeting. (DIPR) Town Baptist Church premises on Sunday. during the vaccination festival in Mon.

DIMAPUR: In the light of emergence of new COVID19 cases across the country including Nagaland, the state Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) department along with various other government agencies are gearing up to contain and mitigate COVID-19.

Tuensang: District Task Force (DTF) for COVID-19 Tuensang held a meeting at DC’s conference hall, Tuensangon April 12.

According to DIPR report, The meeting was chaired by DC and chairman DTF Tuensang, Kumar Ramnikant.

The members discussed on reviving the

check gate at 3rd NAP check post to collect the travel history and bio data in case for contact tracing purposes. The members also agreed to go for a massive awareness drive for COVID behaviors to contain the pandemic; tribal leaders, ward leaders and COC-I have been given responsibility for the same.

The house also discussed on COVID vaccination drive, where all the PHCs and CHCs are to be activated for the same purpose and also decided to host a vaccination mela at Tuensang Town Hall on April 13 and 14.

Longleng: Along with the rest of the country,

DIMAPUR: To effectively control the spread of COVID-19 and facilitate those eligible for COVID19 vaccine, the Health & Family Welfare Department in coordination with the Home Department is temporarily setting up Covid Vaccine Centre (CVC) at the Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima with effect from April 12.

According to DIPR report, the CVC will function at the VIP waiting room at the central block of the

Secretariat and will be open daily from 9:30 am to 4 pm.

All the officers and staff who are above 45 years of age, working in the Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima, and not yet taken the COVID-19 vaccine, have been requested to avail themselves of the opportunity to get vaccinated at the CVC, Nagaland Civil Secretariat.

The officers and staff may need to provide their contact number and produce any of the following docu-

19 vaccination coverage, a vaccination mela was held in all the blocks of Mon district on April 11 for persons of age 45 years and above, health care workers and frontline workers.

A press release by National Health Mission (NHM) Mon stated that the mela was held on Sunday with an aim to sensitise the congregation during the church services. It said for easy access, vaccination sites were created near the church premises.

In maximizing the effort, a sensitisation drive was held in all the churches of Mon Town by the administrative officers, doctors and staffs of health and

family welfare department led by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mon, Thavaseelan K and others.

Wokha: District Task Force (DTF) Wokha held a meeting on COVID-19 on April 9 at the Conference Hall of Deputy Commissioner (DC) Wokha office.

According to DIPR report, chairperson of the meeting, DC Wokha and chairman DTF, Orenthung Lotha said the district need to reenforce screening and registration of people coming to the district from outside the state.

Chief Medical Off i c e r ( C M O ) Wo k h a , D r. C . W. T u n g o e s a i d

COVID-19 testing was being done for students studying outside the state.

He appealed the district administration and village council leaders for coordination during surveillance of suspected COVID positive cases. The DTF members decided that screening and registration for person entering the district would be done at Tiyi Hall, Rest House which would be turned into an institutional quarantine.

The members also agreed to strictly enforce the latest SOP such as wearing of face mask, social distancing in public places/gathering and hand washing.

ments in original at the CVC to register for the vaccination:Government identity card, driving license, pass port, pan card, voter identity card and Aadhaar card.

All the officers and staff of the Nagaland Civil Secretariat have been advised to continue following COVID-19 appropriate behaviour, even after vaccination, like, wearing of mask, maintaining social distancing, regular washing of hands, etc.

Gov visits mulberry silk plantations at New Chungtia Governor, the Ravi appreciated the entrepreneurial drive of the people behind it which has also created employment opportunities for several hundred women of the area.

Speaking on the occasion, the Governor expressed concern at the inadequate health and education infrastructures in that area and added that the children, who are their most precious future assets, should not be made into a liability due to absence of adequate growth opportunities through access to education, health care and proper communication.

Governor R N Ravi Governor RN Ravi visiting the mulberry silk plantation at New Chungtia village. also inaugurated the buildDIMAPUR: Governor of and manufacturing unit at inspected the main planta- ing of the Government Nagaland, RN Ravi visited New Chungtia implement- tion and rearing houses for Primary School, Akuhaiqa, reconstructed by the the centrally sponsored ed by Samvrudi, weaving the worms and cocoons. mulberry silk plantations units on April 12 and later According to PRO to Samvrudi.

Participants during the training on production technology on jute at Niuland.

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try. She encouraged everyone to avail the opportunity and get vaccinated.

Dr. Obangjungla also encouraged the congregation to wear masks, to use hand sanitizers and to always maintain social distance cautioning that the fight against the virus was far from over.

Prior to the start of vaccination, miking on the vaccine festival was done by district media officer and district community mobiliser in all the wards at Longleng town. The team was led by CMO Dr Obangjungla and others.

Mon: Following the directive of government of India to improve COVID-

Covid vax centre set up at Nagaland Civil Secretariat 4 puppy jackals rescued from Doyang

Trg on jute production tech at Niuland

DIMAPUR: One day training on production technology on jute (marapat) cultivation for farmers and educated unemployed youths under NFSM-commercial crop (jute) was conducted by the department of agriculture, Nuiland on April 10 at Sub-divisional Agriculture Officer (SDAO) office Niuland.

A press release by the department stated that during the training, SDAO Nuiland, L. Kivika Chophi highlighted the importance

the district health society Longleng launched “vaccine festival/mela” Sunday at Longleng Town Baptist Church premises.

In a press release, the department stated that the aim of the mela was to give maximum effort to improve the vaccination coverage amongst the eligible population i.e. persons of age 45 or more, healthcare workers and frontline workers. The vaccine festival will continue till April 14.

During the church service, chief medical officer Dr. Obangjunglaspoke on the importance of vaccine festival and why it is being organised all over the coun-

and scope of jute cultivation. He said jute has a “bright prospect” in the market as it was not only cheapest and strongest of all-natural fibre but also biodegradable and “environment friendly”.

Pointing out that Niuland sub-division has the right climatic condition and soil requirement for jute cultivation, he urged upon the farmers to increase the area under jute cultivation during this current kharif season.

Chophi also encouraged the unemployed youth to take up jute cultivation as the minimum support price of jute being Rs 4,225 per quintal (during202021) was likely to be hiked during 2021-22. He added that the produce was marketable.

During the technical session, Imkongyanger explained in detail the improved packages and practices on jute cultivation starting from land preparation till harvesting.

UCTM entrance gate inaugurated DIMAPUR: The newly constructed entrance gate of United College of Theology and Missions (UCTM) was inaugurated by chief guest of the programme, NPWD class-I contractor, Isaac Zhimomi on April 10, 2021.

In a press release, UCTM stated that in his speech, the chief guest quoted the biblical verse Proverbs 1:7 and encouraged the community to continue the good work and extend its blessings upon the community with a generous donation.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by UCTM assistant professor Hannah Chuzho, invocation by UCTM president Dr. Phuveyi Dozo, gratitude note by UCTM principal Rev. Dr. Ashong Serto and benediction by Rev. Dr. N Toshi Ao. It may be mentioned that the entrance gate was constructed with the contribution from friends, families and well wishers.

Rescued Jackals seen handed over to Forest department officials at Sungro Government High School by the rescuers on April 12.

DIMAPUR: Four puppy Jackalswere rescued at Doyang damn area (Tzuza River) and have been handed over to forest department officials on April 12 by the rescuers.

The rescuers were all from Pangti village namely former VDB Secretary, Zanbemo Kithan, former Village Council Chairman, Jenithung Shitiri, CEM Kyong Graduate Teacher GHS Sungro and graduate teacher GHS Sungro, Tumbemo W Kikon.

In the last week of

March, the rescuers found the puppy jackals abandoned by the mother in an old burrow of a porcupine.

The rescuers informed that it was the right intervention as the mother has abandoned the puppies which could be due to some animal attack that the mother Jackal didn’t show up.

For more than two weeks the rescuers had taken proper care of the puppies as they were too young.

Puppy jackals were handed over to forest de-

partment officials in a short interaction with Sungro GHS class 8 and 9 students where they were sensitized about the importance of saving wildlife and forest for ecological coexistence

by CEM Kyong graduate teacher GHS Sungro where Wildlife officialswere present.

The forest department informed that the rescued jackals were three female and one male and it will be taken care of at Nagaland Zoological Park, Dimapur.

RBSK conducts medical drive in Dimapur schools Children in various schools screened for diseases

DIMAPUR: With the reopening of schools, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) team under Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dimapur resumed its activities from March 22.

A press release by district media officer Kimnei stated that RBSK team Dimapur comprised of medical officersDr. Nukshitola Kichu and Dr. Kadila A, GNM Kethokholu Swuro, ANM Seyietuono, ophthalmic assistant Tsolo-u Koza, RBSK coordinator Imtisungkum Ao and driver Tezinchu Teb. RBSK is an initiative under National Health Mission (NHM) which aims at early identification and early intervention for children from birth to 18 years to cover four Ds’ such as defects at birth, deficiencies, diseases, and development delays including disability.

One of the doctors conducting a medical check-up to the students.

Besides government aided schools, the team has visited anganwadi centres, covering a minimum of 20 schools and 20 anganwadi centres in a month.

After screening for

diseases, the team also referred the children to nearest government health facility for further investigations if required.

It may be mentioned that these medical activities are ongoing and are

conducted according to the situation.

The Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram team conducts these activities mainly at schools and at anganwadi centres during the winters.

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northeast

Many Myanmar nationals taking refuge in Mizoram

AIZAWL, APR 12 (PTI): At least 14 lawmakers are among over 2,200 people from Myanmar who have taken refuge in Mizoram after fleeing their country to avoid detention following the military takeover in February, a police official said Monday.

The police official said that the 14 members of Myanmar Parliament are from Chin state and Sagaing region and they belonged to the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, that had won the November 2020 election.

He told PTI that at least 2,223 Myanmarese have sneaked into Mizoram and are currently taking shelter in different parts of the state.

Of the 2,223 people, 80 per cent are police personnel, while the rest 20 per cent are other government servants like teachers, firemen and bureaucrats, he said.

He said that majority of the refugees are being provided food by the local NGOs, while some are sheltered by villagers. He

Myanmar nationals flash the three-finger salute at an undisclosed location in Mizoram March 15, 2021.

said that Champhai district housed the highest number of Myanmar nationals at 558, followed by Siaha district which housed 414 of them.

According to the official, the Myanmar nationals are currently taking refuge in 9 districts, including the state capital Aizawl.

There are 310 Myanmar natives in the state capital Aizawl, he said.

Six Mizoram districtsChamphai, Siaha, Lawngtlai, Serchhip, Hnahthial and Saitual- share a 510 km long international border with Myanmar.

Meanwhile, Nor th East Students Organisation (NESO), an umbrella body of various student organisations in the Northeast has urged the NDA government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop bloodshed and loss of lives in the trouble-torn Myanmar, a statement by the student body said.

The meeting of the organisation held via video conference on Monday urged the centre to prevail in its capacity to the Myanmar military junta in order to stop bloodshed and loss of lives in the neighbouring

BSI Dimapur aux holds 18th thanksgiving service in Imphal

COVID-19: NFR to fine passengers violating SOPs

Rev Dr TK Muana

DIMAPUR: The 18th thanksgiving service of Bible Society of India (BSI), Dimapur auxiliary was held on April 11, 2021 at Manipur Baptist Convention Centre Church (MBCCCI), Imphal, wherein more than 1500 people representing 36 communities attended the programme.

In a press release, BSI Dimapur auxiliary secretary Rev.Dr.Yiepetso Wezah stated that six branches from Manipur state participated both in the thanksgiving service and branches seminar. MBCCCI Pastor Rev.Zuakamang Daimai led the service while BSI Imphal

branch president Rev. L. Timothy Phaomei delivered welcome address.

BSI Churachandpur branch secretary Rev. Dr. T. K. Muana, who shared the Word of God, stated that BSI was one the most important mission societies, which supplies the Word of God to people. “The Word of God is transforming the life of people. Miracles are happening in the ministry of the BSI,” he said.

BSI Dimapur auxiliary acknowledged the highest contributions of the branches and individuals for the FY 1st April 202031st March 2021.

The Auxiliary secretary and treasurer reports were presented and received. Joyson Thangal, assistant marketing officer, BSI proposed vote of thanks.

An insightful seminar was conducted for the office bearers of the Branches after Thanksgiving Service.

BSI Dimapur Auxiliary expressed appreciation to BSI Imphal Branch for hosting the Annual Thanksgiving Service at MBCCC, Imphal.

GUWAHATI, APR 12 (PTI): The Northeast Frontier (NF) Railway will fine passengers who violate any of the COVID-19 related safety guidelines as incidences of the disease have spiked across the country, sources in it said on Monday.

NF Railway has advised all passengers to download and use the Aarogya Setu application before undertaking a journey. On reaching their destination, the passengers will have to adhere to the prevailing health protocol of the place, they said. A release by N F Railway said it has taken measures to create awareness among passengers to restrict the spread of the virus and remain safe. It is conducting awareness campaigns regularly through platforms like print, social and electronic media to alert all passengers about the safety protocol to be observed to prevent the spread of the disease. An audio-visual campaign has also been launched and announcements are being made at all railway station premises on 24x7 basis, it said.

country, the statement said.

It also urged the Centre to seek immediate restoration of democracy in the coup hit country.

The NESO urged Modi government to properly address the plights of the Myanmar nationals, who have taken refuge in Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh to escape possible persecutions, with the consent of respective state governments.

It said that the ethnic groups from Sagaing region and Chin state of Myanmar share the same culture, ethnicity and history with the indigenous communities of the four Northeastern states, which share international boundaries with the neighbouring country.

The student organisation further urged the centre to provide necessary temporary support to the Myanmar nationals till they are sent back to their country as the situation improved.

In a statement issued in Meghalaya, expressing shock at the heavy loss of life after the bloodshed that

Fleeing Myanmar nationals stuck at border

IMPHAL, APR 12: Authorities in Manipur on Monday intensified vigilance on the already tightened security measures along the Indo-Myanmar border as persecuted Myanmar nationals were reportedly trying to sneak on Indian side. Reports said that around 50 persecuted Myanmar nationals mostly women and children arrived at international border pillar no. 79 near Moreh, Manipur’s border town at the Indo-Myanmar border to take refuge. They were reportedly stranded on the borderline as police and Assam Rifles guarding the international border have taken up stringent security measures to stop sneaking of foreign nationals to Indian side. The report of fleeing Myanmar nationals attempting to sneak to Indian territory comes amidst media reports that hundreds of persecuted foreign nationals taking refuge at Indian villages near the border. A local evening daily published in Imphal recently reported that around 300 foreign nationals were taking shelter at some villages of Manipur near the border. The report added that many of them were taking shelter at Gouvajang and Hollenphai villages and facing hardships in getting food and other daily needs. The villagers on Manipur side providing shelter to them were also facing hardships to extend their help to the persecuted foreign nationals as they were also suffering after their earning ways were cut owing to prolonged suspension of the cross-border trade following shielding of international border in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. (Correspondent)

Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman at the rally. (Twitter)

AGARTALA, APR 12 (PTI): Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA), which swept the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections winning 18 of the 28, has staked its claim to form the new council, sources in TIPRA said on Monday.

A delegation of TIPRA, led by its chairman Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman met Governor Ramesh Kumar Bais on Sunday evening and staked the claim to form the new council.

In the 30-member tribal council, elections were held in 28 seats on Tuesday and the results were declared on Saturday. Representatives in the remaining two seats

BPF candidates shifted to foil ‘horse trading’

will be held on April 17, a Saturday, and counting of votes will take place on May 2 which is a Sunday.

Saturday is a sanctified day for certain Christian denominations in Mizoram especially the Seventh Day Adventist church which follows the Sabbath, a day of religious observance and abstinence from work. Sunday is also a holy day for Christians. The ECI letters said that it has considered the matter.

“However, since these dates (polling and counting) were fixed after taking into account several factors, I am directed to inform that the requests to change the dates could not be accommodated,” read the letters signed by ECI secretary Madhusudan Gupta, a copy of which was accessed by PTI. “The poll shall take place on 17 April, 2021 and counting on 2 May, 2021,” it added. The chief minister had informed the ECI that there are a significant number of people belonging to the Seventh Day Adventist church in Mizoram, including the Serchhip assembly constituency, and holding the bypoll on a Saturday would mean that its mem-

GUWAHATI, APR 12 (IANS): After the AIUDF shifted its candidates to Rajasthan, another ally of Congress-led Mahajot (grand alliance) in Assam, Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), has temporarily took its candidates to a foreign country, party sources said here on Monday.

Veteran BPF leader and former Social Welfare Minister Pramila Rani Brahma, who is in Assam, said: “All the 12 BPF candidates have been shifted to a neighbouring country.

BPF President Hagrama Mohilary accompanied the candidates. However, I do not know which country they have gone to.”

Different media reports in Guwahati said that the BPF candidates along with 16 elected members of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) went to Bhutan or Singapore.

Last week, around 19 candidates of All India United Democratic Front were shifted to Congressruled Rajasthan. The AIUDF and the BPF leaders said that to thwart “possible horse-trading by the BJP”, they have shifted their candidates to safer locations.

bers will not be able to cast their votes.

The poll panel has recently communicated to the states chief electoral officer seeking information on the number of voters belonging to that denomination in the Serchhip constituency and the entire state, and the data sought has been sent, an official said. The number of voters belonging to the particular church in Serchhip assembly constituency is estimated to be about 248, which is 1.26 per cent of the total voters in that seat. Their number in the entire state is 16,845, which is around 1.50 per cent of the voters of Mizoram, he said. Executive Secretary of the Mizo Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist church, Lalnilawma Colney, told PTI that its members will be able to cast their votes only after sunset.

“We are not going to oppose the Election Commission’s final decision,” Colney said.

Polling will be held on April 17 between 7 am to 6 pm, and any voter, who will turn up at the polling booth within that period will be allowed to cast vote, an official said.

oram, Manipur, Nagaland & Arunachal Pradesh to properly address the plight of the Myanmarese nationals who are seeking shelter in these four states”.

TIPRA stakes claim to form the new council of TTADC in Tripura

Mizoram bypoll: ECI decides not to change dates of polling, counting AIZAWL, APR 12 (PTI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday said that voting will be held for Serchhip assembly bypoll in Mizoram according to plans on April 17, as it could not entertain the request of rescheduling the dates of polling and counting on account of religious obligation.

The ECI infor med those who wanted a change in dates that votes will be counted on May 2, following the schedule announced on March 16.

In letters to Chief Minister Zoramthanga, opposition party Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) and the Seventh-Day Adventist church, the poll panel said that the petitions seeking deferment of dates of polling and counting for the bypoll could not be entertained as they were fixed after taking into account several factors. Zoramthanga, the church and the ZPM had last month separately urged the ECI to reschedule the dates of both the events as they fell on days important for Christians. The poll panel had announced that the by-election to the Serchhip constituency in the Christian-majority state

is continuing, NESO chairman Samuel B Jyrwa said, “The NESO decided to urge the Central Government of India with the consent of state governments of Miz-

will be nominated by the governor on the advice of the state government.

TTAADC area comprises two-third of the states territory and is the home to the tribals, who constitute one- third of Tripuras population. TTAADC comes under the governor and we have placed the demand for forming the council. The government will notify the dates for the oath taking ceremony, Deb Barman told reporters after coming out of the Raj Bhavan on Sunday. We want a clean and transparent government and we are committed to undertake developments in the tribal council area, he said.

Deb Barman, the scion Regd. No. 542 Tsg

of the Tripura royal family, said he will take oath as the chief executive member (CEM), the principal executive functionary of the tribal council. He urged TIPRA supporters to maintain peace as celebrations broke out with the newlyformed party getting an absolute majority in the elections.

We have to maintain unity. I appeal to the people to refrain from attacking the party office and houses off IPFT, BJP, CPI(M) and Congress supporters. They too are our people and we do not want to fight among ourselves. They too will join our party after the elections, he said. If we want unity then we have to maintain peace, he said even as there were reports of sporadic violence from different parts of the tribal council area.

Spokesperson of the ruling BJP, Nabendu Bhattacharya claimed that supporters and activists of the party were attacked, their houses and business establishments and many party offices ransacked and damaged.

AFFIDAVIT

Date : 5/4/2021

I, Shri. O. Changlem Chang, S/o Ongmang resident of Chaolu Sector Polounyu Ward Tuensang Town permanent address Maksha Village, District Tuensang state Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an aoth as under:1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and a resident of the above mention address.

2. That my official name is O. Changlem Chang.

3. That, in some of my document my name been wrongly entered as Changlem Chang in my Appointment Order.

4. That I O. Changlem Chang and Changlem Chang are same a one person.

5. That I made this affidavit to rectify my name O. Changlem Chang in all my documents, and other official purposes.

That the above statements made in Para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and information and nothing materials is concealed therein.

DEPONENT O. CHANGLEM CHANG Solemnly affirmed and declared by the deponent before me of this day the 05/04/2021.

K-763D MAGISTRATE

Regd. No. 680/Tsg

AFFIDAVIT

Date : 21/06/2019

I, Shri. C. Imtichuba Chang, S/o Chongshen Chang is hereby solemnly declared as under: 1. That, my name Imtichuba Chang as in my Appointment Order No. FY/ ADM-4/96-97/9955-6/Dated Kohima the 31st March 2003, which is a clerical mistake in place of C. Imtichuba Chang.

2. Henceforth, my name C. Imtichuba Chang shall be used in my official documents and all other necessary purpose.

That, the above statements made in Para 1-2 are true to the best of my knowledge and ability. And I have nothing concealed pertaining to the above declaration. Identified by: DEPONENT C. IMTICHUBA CHANG Solemnly swear and affirm by the above declaration is in sound mind before my open Court today the 21/06/2019.

MAGISTRATE K-763B

IN THE COURT OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR, NAGAAND

NOTICE No.M-181/21/13647-48 Dated Dimapur, the 26th/03/2021 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti. M. Imsu Jamir -Vrs- L. Kotiba Sangtam, R/o Imkonglenden Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of the Assam Land Revenue Regulation Act 1886 have applied for Mutation of Land described in the schedule below:The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invite Claim/ Objection concerning to the said land if any & should there be any, should submit to this court on or before 1(one) month from the date of publication in local newspaper.

SCHEDULE OF LAND AND BOUNDARY Name of Patta Holder : M. Imsu Jamir Village/Block No : Naharbari, Plot No : ____________ Patta No : 326, Dag No : 660, Area : 00B-01K-09Ls North : Road, South : Imnawati, East : Naro West : Approach Road SD/-RAJESH SOUNDARARAJAN, IAS Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Nagaland DP-1918

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021

Arrested separatist leader sent to judicial custody

Correspondent

IMPHAL, APR 12: Special NIA court in Imphal on Monday sent arrested separatist leader Narengbam Samarjit to judicial custody for 15 days.

The self-styled external-defence minister of the Manipur government exile in Landon was produced in the court of the special NIA court amid tight security measures today. Special NIA judge W Tonen sent him to judicial custody for 15 days (till April 26) while fixing the hearing for bail the separatist leader pleaded to the court on April 17.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) was investigating a case registered against declaration of Manipur’s independence from Indian Union and formation of Manipur State Council (MSC) based in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019.

Interestingly, the arrest of separatist leader came up barely two days after the NIA submitted a chargesheet against him (Samarjit) and four others including self-styled chief minister

of the de jure government Yambem Biren in the special NIA court in Imphal. The NIA charged them under Sections 120B and 420 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 13 and 17 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Samarjit was arrested from Indira Gandhi International Airport New Delhi on March 25 last while the charge-sheet was submitted on March 23.

The separatist leader was in London along with his associate self-proclaimed chief minister of the dejure government Yambem Biren since they declared Manipur’s independence from Indian Union.

In the charge-sheet, NIA alleged that Samarjit was the chairman and managing director of Salai Group of Companies and SMART Society and he and his associates, Elangbam Brojendro Singh and Akoijam Deepa Anand, were allegedly collecting huge amounts of money and cheating the public by taking deposits from by offering 36 per cent annual returns without any legal authority.

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From, Ano, Abi, Akre and Azo AFFIDAVIT Regd. No. 540 Tsg Date: 5/4/21 I, Shri. Phemiang, S/o Chetie, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows; 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my name Pheniang Khiamniungan is wrongly entered in my Appointment Order, and it is incorrect.

3. That, I made this affidavit to declare that my name Phemiang and Pheniang Khiamniungan are same and one person and that is me.

4. Now I hereby declare that my name Phemiang be use in all my official documents.

That the above statements made in Para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and declare these statements with sound mind and health.

DEPONENT PHEMIANG Solemnly affirmed and declared by the deponent before me of this day the 05/04/2021.

K-763E MAGISTRATE AFFIDAVIT Regd. No. 541 Tsg Date : 5/4/21 I, Shri. S. Hopong Yimchunger, S/o Sanshimong Yimchunger, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows; 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my name Hopong Yimchunger is wrongly entered in my G.P.F Statement and Appointment Order and it is incorrect.

3. That, I made this affidavit to declare that my name S. Hopong Yimchunger and Hopong Yimchunger are is same and one person and that is me.

4. Now I hereby declare that my name S. Hopong Yimchunger be use in all my official documents.

That the above statements made in Para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and declare these statements with sound mind and health.

DEPONENT HOPONG YIMCHUNGER Solemnly affirmed and declared by the deponent before me of this day the 05/04/2021.

K-763C MAGISTRATE AFFIDAVIT Regd. No. 8461 Date : 6/4/2021 I, Shri. Nokchingngako Chang, S/o Lt. Buben Chang, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows:1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my name B. Nokchingngabu Chang is wrongly entered in my Appointment Order, and it is incorrect.

3. That, I made this affidavit to declare that my name are Nokchingngako Chang and B. Nokchingngabu Chang is same and one person and that is me.

4. Now I hereby declare that my name Nokchingngako Chang be use in all my official documents.

That the above statements made in Para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and declare these statements with sound mind and health.

DEPONENT NOKCHINGNGAKO CHANG Solemnly affirmed and declared by the deponent before me of this day the 06/04/2021.

MAGISTRATE K-763A Regd. No. 364/2015

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Dated : 20/08/2015

I, Smti. T. Imlikokla Ao, D/o R. Tali Ao of Ungma Village under Mokokchung District, Nagaland do hereby affirm and declare as under :1. That I am a bonafide and law abiding citizen of India, resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That in my educational documents and in my appointment order, my name has been entered/recorded as Imlikokla Ao, where as in my Regularization Order, my name has been entered/recorded as Imlikokla and in my Service Book, my name has been entered/recorded as T. Imlikokla Ao. 3. That the names Imlikokla Ao, Imlikokla and T. Imlikokla Ao are one and the same person.

That the statements made in para 1 to 3 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge, belief and nothing is concealed therein.

Declared on this day the 20 August 2015.

(T. Imlikokla Ao) 1st Class Magistrate

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Court to pass order CBI summons ex-Maha HM Deshmukh onSupreme new SPPs for coal scam cases

Waze, an assistant police inspector, is under investigation in the case of an explosive-laden SUV found outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence in south Mumbai.

The notice calling Deshmukh to join the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe was issued on Monday morning, a day af-

Lockdown leads to loss of jobs: Devendra Fadnavis

Raut blames Centre for rising cases in Maha, C’garh, Punjab MUMBAI, APR 12 (PTI): Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday blamed the Centre for the rise in coronavirus positive cases in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Punjab.

Speaking to reporters, Raut said Maharashtra had followed every instruction issued by the Centre, and the latter must act sensitively and cautiously and stop blaming states.

Ten states- Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan- have shown a steep rise in daily COVID-19 cases, accounting for83.02 per centof the new infections, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.

“If Maharashtra and the other two states (Punjab and Chhattisgarh) has failed, the first failure is that of the Centre since the country is fighting the war against the virus under prime minister Narendra Modi’s leadership,” he said, questioning why only non-BJP ruled states were being singled out as failures. “Has the coronavirus disappeared in states which have a BJP chief minister?” Raut questioned.

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is to collect money from wherever it is possible,” he alleged.

Fadnavis was referring to the allegations of corruption raised by former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh against then home minister Anil Deshmukh, an NCP stalwart.

The former chief minister also said the highest number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities are being reported from Maharashtra.

“In the last ten days, 50 to 55 per cent of the total deaths in the country were reported from Maharashtra. Similarly, 60 per cent of the total cases in the country were also reported from Maharashtra,” he said.

Fadnavis said, “I can understand locking and unlocking (to contain the spread of coronavirus) is important but when a lockdown is imposed, people lose their jobs. Unfortunately, the state government is not at all conscious about providing financial help to the (vulnerable) people”.

NEW DELHI, APR 12 (PTI): The Centre on Monday objected to the names suggested by the Supreme Court appointed special public prosecutor for selecting new SPPs in the coal scam cases filed by the Enforcement Directorate after which the top court said it would pass orders based on the names given to it by the lawyers concerned.

Senior advocate R S Cheema, appointed SPP in 2014 by the top court, has sought to be relieved from the responsibility citing his age and shortage of law officers assisting him.

Cheema has agreed however to act as the SPP in cases lodged by CBI in coal scam. A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said, “We will pass order in the matter”. During the hear-

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Rainfall likely to occur in several parts of India

Gang of idol lifters busted in Odisha

Sonia writes to PM for nod to more vaccines; BJP hits back NEW DELHI, APR 12 (AGENCIES): COVID vaccine politics continued on Monday with Congress president Sonia Gandhi writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging emergency use authorisation for all vaccines that have the required clearances even as the BJP accused the opposition party of “lobbying” for certain pharma firms.

In her letter to the PM after an internal meeting with Congress chief ministers, Sonia Gandhi said, “Vaccines are our foremost hope. Sadly, most states are left with a stock of just three to five days. While it will be necessary on one hand to

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substantially ramp up our domestic production capacity, it will also be prudent to allow emergency use authorization of all the vaccine candidates that have the required clearances, without any further delay.”

Unstated approval reference in Sonia’s letter including the Pfizer vaccine which has not been granted emergency use authorisation by the Indian drug regulator as the firm has not submitted

be chaired by governors, the prime minister had said, saying similar events can also be held with celebrities, writers, artists, players and other members of the civil society.

“I am of the view that such a movement should be run through the governor to bring together people from different walks of life, and they should be urged to follow the protocols,” he had said, expressing concern about increasing casualness among the masses in following the corona guidelines.

The meeting comes amid a surge in COVID-10 cases across the country.

India specific safety data.

BJP’s national general secretary BL Santosh countered the calls for approval to all vaccines and said, “Sputnik V had been approved for emergency use in India after bridge study by Dr Reddy’s.

All who are advocating approval to Pfizer without bridge studies in India as part of a lobby should understand that Indian lives also matter and you cannot bully the Narendra Modi

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Sonia in her letter to PM also sought expansion of vaccination based on need and exposure rather than age and GST exemption for life saving drugs and equipment.

“The numbers allocated to a state has to be based on the prevalence and projection of infection in that particular state. All instruments, medicines and infrastructure required to

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deal with COVID 19 should be made completely exempt from GST. Even ventilators, oximeters and oxygen cylinders presently attract GST as do key life-saving drugs like Remdesivir and Dexamethazone,” she said.

Gandhi also batted for minimum income guarantee scheme saying as states imposed curfews, economic activity would be hit hard impacting the poor and daily wagers the most.

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was a very good criminal lawyer and the combination seems to be fine.

Advocate M L Sharma, the main petitioner in the coal scam case, said that there are so many accused in the coal scam cases and most of the senior advocates of the high court and the top court have appeared for them. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for an NGO, said the court should go by original names given by Cheema and not be swayed away by government’s objection

ernors in handling the pandemic and also of personalities from different fields to push compliance with COVID-appropriate behaviour and pandemic management guidelines, including for providing vaccination to eligible people.

In the interaction on March 8, the prime minister had asked chief ministers to make the “maximum use” of the offices of governors, saying this will send a positive message and help bring people from different walks of life together. “Under the leadership of the governor and under the guidance of the chief minister, all

KENDRAPARA (ODISHA), APR 12 (PTI): Police have busted a gang of idol lifters by arresting four persons and recovering four stolen brass idols in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, an officer said on Monday.

The arrested persons had stolen brass idols from a temple in Pattamundai police station jurisdiction.

A police team nabbed them during night patrolling by intercepting their car near Ekanakhandi in town police station area.

Besides the idols, six sharp weapons were seized from their possession.

states should at least hold all-party meetings and firm up actionable points. This is my request that the governor and the chief ministers should together hold virtual webinars with all the elected representatives.

“It should start with urban bodies and then rural bodies. The webinars should be with all the elected people. It will send a positive message that it should not be politicised and all of us have to do it together,” PM Modi had said. Since chief ministers are preoccupied with many things, a summit or a webinar with religious leaders and others can also

ing, the top court asked for the opinion of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, on the two names with it -- advocates Satish Tamta and D P Singh. Mehta replied that these names were suggested on the last occasion. The bench said Singh is appearing for ED in the Agustawestland case and another matter. Mehta said he has suggested the names of senior advocate Maninder Singh and advocate Rajesh Batra.

Cheema said that Batra

NEW DELHI, APR 12 (AGENCIES): Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Governors of various states on April 14 on the COVID19 situation, sources said on Monday. It would be the first meeting of this kind during the pandemic and has been convened amid the Centre looking to push for stronger adherence to the pandemic protocols among citizens across the country.

The development comes days after PM Modi in a virtual meeting with chief ministers had called for the involvement of gov-

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NIA’s custody till April 16.

The NIA suspects that Kazi assisted Waze, who headed the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) until his arrest on March 13, in obtaining fake number plates used for the explosives-laden SUV. Kazi was previously questioned multiple times by the NIA in connection with the recovery of the SUV on February 25 and the subsequent death of Hiran, the purported owner of that vehicle. Hiran was found dead in a creek in Thane on March 5. Kazi was shunted out of the Mumbai Crime Branch last month, an official had said.

Earlier, in a CCTV footage, Kazi was seen entering a number plates shop in suburban Vikhroli and having a conversation with the outlet’s owner. He was also seen taking away a digital video recorder and a computer from the shop.

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PUNE, APR 12 (PTI): Stating that people lose their jobs when a lockdown is imposed, senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday alleged the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government is not serious about providing any financial aid to the vulnerable sections.

Taking a dig at the state government amid talks that an extended lockdown is imminent in Maharashtra in view of a steep rise in COVID-19 cases, Fadnavis said there is a “lockshahi” in the state now instead of ‘lokshahi’ (democracy).

The Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly was addressing a rally for the upcoming bypoll to Pandharpur-Mangalvedha Assembly constituency in Solapur district.

The BJP has fielded Samadhan Autade against Bhagirath Bhalke, son of late MLA Bharat Bhalke, of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for the April 17 contest.

“When this government came into power, it was called as Maha Vikas Aghadi but now it has become a ‘Maha Vasooli (extortion) Aghadi’. The way they have started the vasooli from police, farmers and the common man, it shows that all the three ruling parties (Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) have only one agenda and that

Assistant Police Inspector Riyaz Kazi, a colleague of police officer Sachin Waze, was suspended from service on Monday, a day after he was arrested by the NIA probing the recovery of an explosives-laden SUV found outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence here and the subsequent murder of Mansukh Hiran, an official said. Additional Commissioner of Police (Arms unit) Virendra Mishra has issued the order suspending Kazi which stated that he cannot do any private work and action will be taken against him if this order is violated.

Kazi has been ordered to appear before the Local Arms Unit every Friday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Kazi on Sunday after a fresh round of questioning.

A holiday court here had remanded Kazi in the

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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, APR 12 (PTI): The CBI has called former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh for questioning on Wednesday in connection with allegations of corruption levelled against him by former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh and suspended officer Sachin Waze, officials said.

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Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh arrives at a meeting venue in Mumbai on March 15, 2021. (FILE)

ter his two aides Sanjeev Palande and Kundan recorded their statements before the agency, the officials said.

The CBI is carrying out a preliminary inquiry into allegations against Deshmukh levelled by Singh after he was removed from the coveted post of Mumbai Police commissioner.

The allegations were reportedly corroborated

by Waze in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the SUV case, they said.

The Bombay High Court had last week directed the CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the allegations levelled by Singh against Deshmukh.

In a letter, Singh had said that Deshmukh had asked Waze to allegedly extort over Rs 100 crore a month from bars and restaurants in Mumbai, the officials said.

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Infected economy

rices of various commodities which spiked up with the COVID-19 lockdown, have reduced to some extent after supplies were resumed when the lockdown began gradually unlocked. It may be noted that globally there are 13,67,80,837 COVID-19 cases, 29,51,943 deaths and 10,99,95,305 recoveries. In the second week of April, 2021 India surpassed Brazil as the country with the second highest coronavirus cases. India has a total of 1,35,27,717 cases and Brazil thirdplaced with 1,34,82,543cases while the USA with 3,19,22,008 COVID-19 cases tops the COVID-19 chart. With the entire world struggling to cope with Covid-19 and India being no exception, rising vegetable prices has impacted consumers’ kitchen budget during the ongoing lockdown period.

However, prices of almost all items have not come down. Retailers, however, blame the sharp rise in vegetable prices on a steep increase in transportation costs. After the steep rise during COVID pandemic lockdown, vegetables in retail markets of major cities have become costlier by 30-40 per cent during the past few weeks due to a sharp increase in transportation cost. The transportation charges went up four times higher than the usual rate. Due to this vegetables and other commodities have also become costlier. It may also be noted that during the lockdown, lakhs of migrant labourers engaged in farm and small scale units have been displaced and most returned or walked back to their home states.

The availability of labour for agricultural activities is a major hurdle specifically for the production of high labour-intensive products such as vegetables, fruits, meat, and dairy products. Overall, prices of food items across India have remained high despite marginal decrease after lockdown. The increase of prices has been to the extent of 30 to 40 percent.

Even in Dimapur, prices of various items which had shot up by nearly 50% have barely come down but not to pre-pandemic levels. The global oil prices have been declining and significantly affected by the pandemic outbreak which led to an unprecedented fall in its demand and steepest reduction in its price recorded in the month of March 2020. Notwithstanding the consistent fall of crude oil prices, both petrol and diesel have only become dearer for consumers in India, with the government trying to cash in on lower prices by hiking the excise duty of the fuels.

Against this backdrop, while people, especially the low income and daily wage earners struggle to make ends meet, the International Monetary Fund(IMF) has projected an impressive 12.5% growth rate for India in 2021, which is higher than that of China. The pandemic has virtually caused havoc on the global economy and the impact of COVID-19 may persist for an extended period of time. However, in short term, the deep economic contraction lessens the demand for industrial commodities, causing additional reduction in prices. In addition to the health and human toll and the global economic downturn, they face substantially lower export and fiscal revenue. The contrast between the weakening demands and decreasing incomes against the IMF growth projection, reflects the divide that is becoming a reality in India.

DailyDevotion Complete and Effective Dominion Death no longer has dominion over Him.…the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God… —Romans 6:9-11 Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life is the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human level. And it is this same life, not simply a copy of it, which is made evident in our mortal flesh when we are born again. Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin.

“You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…” (Acts 1:8)— not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him. If it is difficult to get right with God, it is because we refuse to make this moral decision about sin. But once we do decide, the full life of God comes in immediately. Jesus came to give us an endless supply of life— “…that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). Eternal life has nothing to do with time. It is the life which Jesus lived when He was down here, and the only Source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to “let go.” But any effort to “hang on” to the least bit of our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.

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“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~ Walt Disney

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holesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is found in all the cells in your body. Your body needs cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods. Cholesterol comes from two sources: Your liver which makes all the cholesterol you need. The cholesterol in your body that you do not need comes from animal bodies.

If you have more cholesterol in your body than you need, then you are heading for heart disease and heart attacks. A build-up of cholesterol narrows arteries, causing a restriction of blood flow to the heart. Very often a person with high cholesterol levels has no symptoms until he has his first heart attack.

This is even more problematic if you are overweight – which you will be, because the food that causes an increase in cholesterol also increases your weight. Though some cholesterol components are stored in the liver and gallbladder, the main storage area is in fat cells called adipocytes. When you have too much cholesterol, these cells swell up and you gain weight.

Too much cholesterol can be caused by eating too much fat or carbohydrates.

There are two types of cholesterol: HDL and LDL. High density lipoprotein (HDL) is good choles-

terol which protects you from hearts attacks, and strokes, by mopping up excess bad cholesterol. It takes the cholesterol that you don’t need back to the liver. The liver breaks it down so it can be passed out of your body.

LDL is bad cholesterol.

This blocks the blood supply and causes strokes and heart attacks. Non-HDL takes cholesterol from the liver to the cells around your body.

Too much bad cholesterol (non-HDL) can be harmful because it sticks to the inside walls of your arteries. This can lead to fatty material (atheroma) building up - this process is known as atherosclerosis.

Cholesterol is found in animal foods, meat, milk, butter and cheese. There are only two things that raise cholesterol in the blood: saturated and trans fats.

Saturated fats are found in meats, dairy products, chocolate, baked goods like biscuits and popcorn, margarine, deep-fried, and processed foods. Basically, junk food.

Trans fats occur in some fried and processed foods.

Also in junk food.

In adults, total cholesterol levels less than 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg/ dL) are considered healthy.

200 - 239 mg/dL is borderline high. 240 mg/dL and above is high. LDL cholesterol levels should be less than

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021

Cholesterol myths & facts 100 mg/dL. How do you know that your cholesterol levels are high?

You usually don’t. There are no typical signs if you have high cholesterol, which is why it’s so important to get it checked. It’s a hidden risk factor, which means it happens without us knowing until it’s too late. Some people get soft, yellowish, growths or lesions on the skin, especially round the eyes, called xanthomas. If you are lucky you develop left-sided chest pain, pressure, or fullness; dizziness; unsteady gait; slurred speech; or pain in the lower legs. Any of these conditions may be associated with high cholesterol.

How do you flush cholesterol out of your body?

Stop eating meat or drinking milk. Avoid ghee, butter and paneer, and seafood like crabs, shrimps and lobsters. Don’t smoke. Exercise. Eat fewer refined grains such as maida. Foods to avoid if you have high cholesterol levels include white

bread, white potatoes, and white rice, highly processed sugars . Fried foods should be avoided, as well as foods high in saturated fats.

Eat fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains, every day.

A report from Harvard Health has identified foods that actively decrease cholesterol levels: Oats, barley and whole grains, beans, eggplant and okra, nuts, vegetable oil (canola, sunflower), fruits (mainly apples, grapes, strawberries, and citrus), soy and soy-based foods. Eating just one and one-half cups of cooked oatmeal a day can lower your cholesterol by 5 to 8%. Oatmeal contains soluble and insoluble fibre – two types that your body needs.

In June 2020 a report, led by Imperial College London Majid Ezzati, et al. and involving dozens of universities, “Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol” was published in Nature. It said that while cholesterol

levels have declined in high income countries, particularly Europe, since 1980, they have increased vastly in lower and middle income countries, with Asia, especially Southeast Asia, now being the centre.

The reason for this is the consumption of animal based foods, refined carbohydrates (maida) and palm oil. In short, the heart attack and stroke risks have been globally repositioned with the shifting of a high cholesterol diet.

A group of nearly 1,000 researchers, from around the world, analysed data from 1,127 studies comprising 102.6 million adults, to assess global trends in cholesterol levels from 1980 to 2018.

This is the largest ever study of global cholesterol levels.

Previously cholesterol was considered a problem in high income Western countries.

The report said that Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland (the centre of the milk/meat diet) and Iceland (meat) had shown the steepest declines in cholesterol, going from the highest to the lowest. There has been a sharp drop in LDL cholesterol in the UK, according to the British Heart Foundation.

China, which had the lowest levels of cholesterol in 1980, was among the highest in 2018. India, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand have not covered themselves

in glory either.

In 1980 Australian women ranked 32nd highest in the world in cholesterol levels. Today they are 146th . Australian men have fallen from 31st highest to 116th.

Dr AvulaLaxmaiah, National Institute of Nutrition, one of the authors of the research paper, said LDL cholesterol among Indian men ranked 128th in 1980 and remained the same in 2018. Women are 139th in the global lineup.

Other conditions that can lead to high cholesterol levels include diabetes drugs that increase LDL cholesterol and decrease HDL cholesterol, such as progestins, anabolic steroids, and corticosteroids. India is one of the highest users of steroids – not directly, but through these being fed to chicken.

The authors have suggested that each country in Asia set into place prices, and regulatory policies, that shift diets to non saturated fats. But, at the end of the day it is not prices that will decide – meat/chicken and milk are already expensive but it doesn’t stop you from eating them. You will have to take a personal decision, depending on how much you value your life or the lives of your family.

To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in, www.peopleforanimalsindia.org

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With law for healthcare workers, reforms continue unabated

he National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2020 (NCAHP Act) has been passed by Parliament after a long and anxious wait, particularly by the health professionals.

The Act provides for regulation and maintenance of standards of education and services by allied and healthcare professionals, assessment of institutions, maintenance of a Central Register and State Register and creation of a system to improve access, research and development.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan explained the reasons and objects of the Bill: “I would say that most of you must have paid a visit to a hospital at some point of time in your life and I wish not, but you might have had to. Please recall those days and remember the people who took care of you and who brought you out of your illness.

You may remember the name of the doctor. You may remember the name of the hospital. But do you also remember the name of

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hat is good business? The answer to that question will drive the fundamentals of business in the future.

This discussion has been underway. In 2019, for instance, the European Union passed legislation to ensure full Environment, Social and Gover nance (ESG) disclosure by listed companies and investment funds. Goldman Sachs even declared that it would cease supporting the IPOs of companies that have an all-male board of directors. In August 2019, one of the United States (US)’s largest business groups, the Business Roundtable, replaced its longstanding “shareholder primacy” mantra to urge companies to consider the well being of environment and workers, alongside their pursuit of profits.

The pandemic has intensified this discussion on the nature, role and purpose of business. The crisis provided an unflinching perspective on how businesses really conduct themselves — the level of scrutiny applied to businesses (and even, business leaders) has been unprecedented. And quite rightly so. Business is a useful metaphor for capitalism itself; the basis of our society, where and how we create value, and how we define success.

As part of our 75th celebrations, the Mahindra Group launched a public conversation on what constitutes good business. The results clearly reflect the shifting sentiments regarding business’s role, and what re-

the persons who took your blood samples, gave you physiotherapy, took your X-ray, advised you on what you should eat, checked your eyesight, assisted your doctor or surgeon, looked into microscopes and bid you a farewell with a smile.

Who are these people?”

They are varied health professionals — the lab technicians, physiotherapists, radiographers, dieticians, record keepers, optometrists, X-ray technicians, and many more, who are a critical part of the healthcare system and the foundation of the pyramid of the entire healthcare system.

According to studies, the role of doctors, undoubtedly critical, varies between 25 to 50 per cent in the entire healthcare chain. A wag said “doctor is next to God, nurse is next to the doctor and the pharmacist is closest to the patient”, but there are many others who are as vital and integral to this chain.

In fact, these professionals are the bedrock of the complex healthcare system.

After enacting the National

Medical Commission Bill, 2019 — which was fiercely contested by a large body of medical practitioners, another transformative piece of legislation, the NCAHP Act, has been enacted which covers a wide range of healthcare professions which were unrecognised or unregulated to date. The Act is a paradigm shift in healthcare delivery as it recognises the specialised skills and contributions of more than 56 types of the allied and healthcare professionals. The nation, nay the world, has witnessed the invaluable contribution of these professionals during COVID-19 as the frontline health workers who risked their lives every day fighting the pandemic.

The Act would regulate and leverage the qualified allied and healthcare workforce and ensure high-quality multidisciplinary care in line with the vision of the universal health coverage moving towards a more care -accessible and teambased model. The Act would reform and regulate this entire sector in order to give these professionals

their due, increase their employment opportunities and, more importantly, enhance their dignity by recognising their true worth, within the country and globally.

The Act envisages the establishment of a Central statutory body as the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions.

The commission will frame policies and standards, regulate professional conduct and prescribe qualifications for all these professions.

A National Allied and Healthcare Advisory Council to advise the national commission with representation from all the States is provided under the Act to enable adequate representation from all the States and Union Territories.

Further, each State will have a separate State Council with four autonomous Boards pertaining to undergraduate education, postgraduate education, assessment, rating, ethics and registration.

While doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists in India are regulated through their respective regulatory

The emergence of good businesses

ally constitutes a good deal, or job, or investment. According to Mahindra’s Good Business Study, covering over 2,000 Indian citizens, 62.42% of respondents cited society and community as critical to their idea of good business.

From an employee perspective, nearly half (49.35%) the respondents believe that equality of opportunity, diversity, flexible working and an innovative environment are the top qualities of a good employer. Such new definitions of what constitutes good business are even reflected in investment choices. 70.27% of respondents claim that they would never invest in a business they did not consider to be genuinely good.

Two factors have influenced these changing perceptions of good business over the last ten years.

First, the emergence and activism of the millennial generation (typically, aged between 25 and 35).

According to Deloitte’s most recent Millennial Survey, more than a quarter of millennials would choose not to purchase from an organisation because of its stance on a political issue, and 29% would do the same, based on the comments or behaviour of a company leader.

70% of millennials expect their employers to focus on societal or mission-driven issues. No other generation has exerted such an impact on the way we do business, on employee experience, and on consumer expectations.

They represent one of the last decade’s biggest drivers of good business.

This is also reflected in our own Good Business study. 45.27% of millennial respondents relate good business to non-financial metrics such as workplace diversity and environment. By contrast, just 39.22% of those over the age of 46 applied the same metrics.

Second, the overwhelming priority for many traditional and existing businesses, including ours, has been to ensure that they are genuinely good. For example, minimising the environmental impact of the production and use of products, ensuring transparent and fulfilling careers for employees, and communicating the same to investors and the wider community are factors that contribute to companies making it to the Great Places to Work lists.

Some of our own businesses are a case in point: Susten, for instance, delivers clean energy to some of India’s remotest regions; Mahindra Waste To Energy Solutions Ltd converts organic waste into Bio-CNG and fertilizer; while Mahindra Electric Mobility Ltd has been a pioneer in electric transport. Collectively, these businesses epitomise this transformation towards good business, and are already generating over half a billion dollars every year. Such businesses epitomise the purpose of our Group – enabling people to rise and achieve the best of themselves. In effect, this encapsulates what good business means to us.

What do these trends suggest about the coming decade?

One, in demographic terms, it will be fascinating to see whether and how today’s millennials retain their influence, as tomorrow’s managers, entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Two, I am particularly interested in their successors, Generation Z, who are under 25. This generation of consumers will increase their per capita spending by more than 70% in the next five years. How will they impose their perceptions of “good” business on the way they consume, work, and invest?

One recent study describes them as even more committed to our planet and other ethical considerations.

A staggering 92% surveyed said they care about social and environmental issues, and 89% are worried about the health of our planet.

Significantly, 94% believe that companies should help address such urgent issues; this is an even higher percentage than their millennial predecessors. Such statistics provides a clue — and an optimistic one — to the nature of good business in the coming decade.

Finally, the approach of adapting existing businesses towards this new set of considerations that characterised the last decade will be gradually replaced by businesses that are created to be fundamentally good – good by design. Businesses will define their existence — their products, means of production, relationships with employees and community — in terms of their wider role in society.

Here, technology will play a

bodies, the allied and healthcare professions are still unstructured, and unregulated.

Globally, most of the countries have a regulatory framework for standardised education and training. But in India, there was an absence of a regulatory framework and lack of standardised education curriculum as well as training for these allied and healthcare professionals, a void now removed.

Also, the Act makes a significant shift from the doctor-led model to a more care-accessible and team- based model. The NCAHP Act, 2020, is a landmark legislation which will go down in the history of healthcare revolution in India.

It will transform the healthcare scenario and make a paradigm shift in the ministration of the entire healthcare system and make it efficacious. Apparently, India is on the course of wholesale health sector reforms.

Devender Singh Aswal, Former Additional Secretary, Lok Sabha.

(The views expressed are personal).

crucial role — not merely in the conception of products and services, but in how they are produced and delivered to consumers.

The transformation of the education sector provides a case in point. India’s EdTech market is expected to grow from less than US$1 billion to eight or ten times that size over the coming five years. The sector is the epitome of good “by design”, employing technology to deliver relevant skills to Indians who, in many cases, would otherwise not have access to it.

These clues from the last decade provide a glimpse into the future of good business. Will this still be the most important discussion of

the next decade in 2030?

Ideally, I would hope not. The best outcome would be that the good prefix is discarded as irrelevant, And that the nature of business will be inherently good by design. Good and business would become synonymous.

Such businesses are already making an impact, even in terms of financial returns.

For society, the return would go well beyond financial metrics and be far more significant.

By 2030, what would be the point of contemplating any other type of business?

Anand Mahindra, Chairman of the Mahindra Group (The views expressed are personal)

Reader’s Post

Provide financial support and job opportunities

Sir,

The recent pandemic took a heavy toll on many Naga’s living outside the State. Many had to resign due to lack of financial support from the Government and many have been rendered jobless. Considering the condition in Nagaland, the number of job opportunities is very thin and the amount of unemployed youths has been increasing day by day.

Most of the people working out of the state toil hard yet their incomes are very minimal. Therefore, I would like to appeal the concerned authorities to atleast provide some financial support or subsidies for the working youths.

In addition, I would also like to request the government to create more job opportunities for our youths and provide youth empowering programme such as skill enhancement programmes to ensure that our youths have a stable ground to build their career on.

Phoying Konyak, Guwahati

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BARDHAMAN/KALYANI, APR 12 (PTI): Drawing a cricket analogy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the people of Bengal have hit so many fours and sixes in the first four phases of the assembly polls that the BJP has already completed its century and the TMC is on course to being wiped out.

Modi, who is on a whirlwind election tour of the state addressed rallies in Bardhaman and Kalyani, where he came down hard on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of instigating people against central forces on election duty in the state.

The prime Minister also launched a blistering attack on Banerjee, saying she did not care to express regret after a “leader very close to her” called Scheduled Castes “beggars”. “People of Bengal hit so many fours and sixes that BJP has al-

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ready completed a century (of seats) in the first 4 phases of assembly polls. They have wiped out the TMC in half the match (aadha mein poora saaf).” “People of Bengal have clean bowled Didi in Nandigram and have asked her entire team to leave the field,” he told an election rally in Bardhaman.

Mocking TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s “Ma, Mati, Manush” slogan, the prime minister said, “Tormenting ‘Ma’, looting ‘Mati’ (motherland) and bloodshed of ‘Manush’

(people) is its reality.”

Alleging that Banerjee incited people against central forces, he referred to the killing of four in the firing

by CISF personnel in Cooch Behar on April 10.

“In the last 10 years Mamata Banerjee conspired to deny the scheduled castes, the poor and the deprived sections their rights through ‘chappa vote’ (rigging).

“What happened in Cooch Behar was the consequence of this conspiracy.

Victory and defeat are part of democracy but you will not be allowed to snatch away people’s right to vote,” he told another rally in Kalyani in Nadia district. He said Banerjee’s policies have snuffed out the lives of children of countless mothers.

In both the rallies, Modi castigated Banerjee over a TMC leader and candidate’s comments against the Scheduled Castes equating them with beggars.

in Sunanda case Mamata to stage dharna in NEW DELHI, APR 12 Kolkata to protest EC’s decision (AGENCIES): A Delhi

KO L K ATA , A P R 1 2 (PTI): Lashing out at the Election Commission over its decision to bar her from campaigning for 24 hours, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she would stage a dharna in the city on Tuesday to protest against the poll panel’s “unconstitutional decision”.

Taking to Twitter, she wrote, “To protest against the undemocratic and unconstitutional decision of the Election Commission of India, I will sit on dharna tomorrow at Gandhi Murti, Kolkata from 12 noon.”

The poll panel’s order came after Banerjee’s remarks against central forces and a statement which had alleged religious overtones.

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“Commission hereby condemns such statements potent with serious law and order problems across the state (s) and sternly warns Mamata Banerjee and advises her to desist from using such statements while making public utterances during the period when Model Code of Conduct is in force,” the commission said in its order.

court has reserved its order on the issue of framing of charges against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death at a hotel in Delhi.

Special Judge Geetanjli Goel, who is likely to pronounce the order on April 29, heard arguments from the counsel appearing for Delhi Police as well as Tharoor.

During the arguments, while the police sought framing of various charges, including 306 (abetment of suicide), Senior Advocate Vikas Pahwa, appearing for Mr Tharoor, told the court that the investigation conducted by the SIT completely exonerated the politician of all the charges levelled against him.

Conduct RS polls Bus services continue to be hit in K’taka Bodies pile up in Govt hospital before assembly in Chattisgarh’s Covid horror RTC workers strike poll results: HC completes 6th day RAIPUR, APR 12 (AGEN- plead helplessness and say KOCHI, APR 12 (AGENCIES): The Kerala high court on Monday ordered the Election Commission of India to conduct polls to Rajya Sabha seats during the term of the current Legislative Assembly.

Justice PV Asha considered two petitions (WP-C No.s 8089 and 8092 of 2021) filed by the secretary of Kerala Legislative Assembly and S Sharma MLA. After announcing that the polls would be completed

by April 16th, the Election Commission had postponed them citing a reference from the central government. In court, the Election Commission had contended that it is the next Legislative Assembly that has to elect the Rajya Sabha members.

BENGALURU, APR 12 (PTI): Bus services were largely hampered for the sixth consecutive day in Karnataka, as the indefinite strike by employees of the road transport corporations on wage related issues continued on Monday, even as some workers reported for duty.

With the stalemate between the government and employees of the four transport corporations over their demand for wages as per the 6th Pay Commission continuing, a majority of workers did not turn up for work, resulting in buses remaining off roads, affecting commuters.

Amid threats of tough action, “no work no pay”,

BMTC bus stand wears a deserted look during a strike by KSRTC and BMTC employees, in Bengaluru, Friday. (PTI )

a few RTC employees have returned to work and are operating buses on some routes in the city and different parts of the state.

Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, who also holds the transport portfolio, said in a statement that more than 3,200 buses belonging to RTCs were operating by this af-

ternoon, and thanked employees who returned to work, responding to the government’s call.

Noting that attempts are being made to stop the employees from returning to work, he said legal action is being taken against those indulging in such acts and FIRs have been booked against them.

CIES): Piled on gurneys, lying on the floor and even outside in the sun by the dumpsters - skin-crawling scenes of bodies at Raipur’s biggest government hospital highlight the huge human cost of the second wave of COVID-19 in India and shows what happens when the country’s creaky healthcare system is pushed to its brink.

Overwhelmed by the unprecedented number of deaths, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital in Raipur has run out of space to store bodies. Far from freezers as is the procedure, they are now being kept pretty much anywhere with available space, a video clip recorded over the weekend shows.

Hospital authorities

the bodies of patients who are dying of COVID-19 are piling up at the mortuary faster than they can be cremated.

The hospital’s intensive care units and oxygenequipped beds have been at almost 100 per cent occupancy for the past week.

“No one could have guessed that there would be so many deaths all at once.

We have enough freezers for the usual number of deaths.

But we just can’t understand how places with one to two deaths are reporting 10-20.

If we prepare for 10-20, 50-60 people are dying.

How can we arrange freezers for so many people at once? Even crematoriums are overwhelmed,” Raipur’s Chief Medical and Health Officer Meera Baghel said.

NEW DELHI, APR 12 (AGENCIES): A new PIL (public interest litigation) over alleged corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal will be heard by the Supreme Court after two weeks, the Chief Justice of India told the petitioner.

ML Sharma, an advocate, had requested the Supreme Court for an independent probe, following fresh allegations that the 2016 deal between India and France also involved the payment of 1.1 million Euros by aviation major Dassault to an Indian middleman.

French publication Mediapart, citing an investigation by the country’s anticorruption agency, reported that Dassault Aviation had paid about one million Euros to an Indian company called Defsys Solutions for 50 models of the aircraft which were to be given as “gifts”.

Sushen Gupta, who runs Defsys Solutions, is being investigated in the Agusta-Westland helicopter scam. He was earlier arrested and granted bail in the case. Defsys, one of the subcontractors of Dassault in India, denied the allegations, say they were totally

unfounded.

“The company (Dassault) said the money was used to pay for the manufacture of 50 large replica models of Rafale jets, even though the inspectors were given no proof that these models were made,” Mediapart reported.

One of these models can be seen outside the residence of the Air Chief.

Sources say other models are installed at the Western Air Command, the IAF base in Gwalior; some are headed to the new Rafale squadron being set up in Hasimara and others lie in a warehouse waiting to be installed. Following the fresh allegations, the Congress had demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement on the new reveal.

India bought 36 fighter jets from France in a Rs.59,000-crore inter-governmental deal in 2016. The fourth batch of the Rafale jets arrived in India earlier this month. The three jets were refueled mid-air over UAE. The country received the first batch of five planes in July last year, a second batch of three Rafale jets in November and a third batch this January.

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NSUI defeats ABVP in Varanasi university student union polls parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Krishna Mohan Shukla of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) was elected as the president of the students’ union, Ajit

Kumar Choubey as the vice president, Shivam Choubey as the general secretary and Ashutosh Kumar Mishra as the library minister.

NSUI candidates defeated the ABVP candidates

in the elections, results of which were announced on Sunday evening. District Youth Congress president Vishwanath Kunwar said the youth has given a befitting reply to the BJP and made it

clear that they want a regime change. State Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu said that this marked the beginning of the change that Uttar Pradesh had been yearning for.

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on various dates in March next year. The term of the Uttar Pradesh assembly ends on May 14 next year.

New assemblies have to be constituted before their five year term ends.

Chandra was the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes before he joined the EC. Following the retirement of Arora, the threemember poll body as of now has a vacancy. While Chandra will be the new CEC from Tuesday, Rajiv Kumar is the other election commissioner.

Chandra, an IIT graduate, is a 1980-batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre).

Since Chandra has expertise in taxation and investigation, he has helped the poll panel in election expenditure by political parties and candidates, a senior EC official said.

Before Chandra, T S Krishnamurthy was the other IRS officer to be appointed as election commissioner. He went on to become the chief election commissioner in 2004.

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NEW DELHI, APR 12 (PTI): Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra was on Monday appointed as the next Chief Election Commissioner, the Law Ministry said.

According to a notification issued by the Legislative Department of the ministry, Chandra will assume charge on April 13. Incumbent Sunil Arora demitted office on Monday.

“In pursuance of clause (2) of Article 324 of the Constitution, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Sushil Chandra as the Chief Election Commissioner with effect from the 13th April, 2021,” the notification read.

Chandra was appointed as an election commissioner on February 14, 2019, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

He would demit office on May 14, 2022.

Under him, the Election Commission (EC) would hold assembly polls in Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

The term of the assemblies of Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Punjab ends

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VA R A NA S I , A P R 1 2 (IANS): The students’ wing of the Congress, the NSUI, has won all the posts in the student union elections of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi, the

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NEW DELHI, APR 12 (IANS): Fuel prices in the country remained unchanged on Monday with oil marketing companies continuing the pause mode and keeping petrol and diesel prices static for the 13th consecutive day. Accordingly, pump price of petrol and diesel remained at previous days level of Rs 90.56 and Rs 80.87 a litre respectively in the national capital.

Petrol and diesel fell by 22 paise and 23 paise per litre respectively on March 30 in wake global softening of oil prices. OMC have decided to pause price revision since the as they want to watch the crude price movement that has now fallen to around $62.5 a barrel from remaining above this level in much of the previous weeks.

Across the country as well, the petrol and diesel price remained static on Monday but its retail levels varied depending on the level of local levies on respective states. In Mumbai petrol continues to be priced at Rs 96.98 a litre and diesel at Rs 87.96 a litre.

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“Rupee traded lower below 75 yet again as Maharashtra lockdown after Gudi Padwa festival sent weak signals across the risky assets, making rupee go weaker. Levels at which the rupee will trade looks 74.7575.50 with a weak tone for rupee,” said Jateen Trivedi, Senior Research Analyst at LKP Securities.

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This was the sixth straight session of loss for the domestic unit, during which it has seen depreciation of 193 paise.

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MUMBAI, APR 12 (PTI): The Indian rupee fell for the sixth straight session to mark its lowest level in nearly nine months at 75.05 against the American currency on Monday as investors fretted over the prospects of lockdown in some parts of the country amid continuous rise in COVID-19 cases.

At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee settled 32 paise lower against the greenback as weak domestic equities, rising crude oil prices and foreign fund outflows also weighed on sentiment.

The local unit opened at 74.97 against the greenback and traded in the range of 74.78 to 75.14 during the day. The 75.05 closing is the weakest since July 16 last year, when the rupee had closed at 75.18 to the

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The trial showed that on average the 971 patients who had been assigned inhaled budesonide recovered three days more quickly than nearly 2,000 people who received standard care. Nearly a third got better within two weeks compared to just 22 per cent of the control group. Associate Professor Gail Hayward, co-lead investigator of the Principle trial and a practicing GP, said: “For the first time in the pandemic I now have evidence for a treatment to offer my patients, the ones who are at home, not hospital, who develop Covid.

“We found that for patients at higher risk of severe Covid-19, we can shorten the duration of their illness, improve their wellbeing and they do better when they’ve recovered. We can certainly see a better future for patients with a high risk of severe Covid.”The researchers said budesonide could be rolled out quickly because it is cheap, widely available and has very few side effects. One inhaler costs just £14.

All patients enrolled in the Principal trial were aged over 50 with an underlying health condition that put them at a higher risk of serious Covid, or aged over 65.

Patients were asked to inhale 800 micrograms twice a day for 14 days and were followed-up for 28 days.

The study also showed that just 8.5 per cent of the budesonide group were hospitalised within 28 days, compared with 10.3 per cent of the control group - a 17 per cent decrease - although the researchers said it was difficult to tell if the effect was real because cases were dropping in Britain during the trial.

Joint chief investigator Professor Richard Hobbs, Head of Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, said the results were a “significant milestone” in the pandemic.

“Unlike other proven treatments, budesonide is effective as a treatment at home and during the early stages of the illness. This is a significant milestone for this pandemic and a major achievement for community-based research.”

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(From p-1) AR said it is mandated “to carry out operations, to ensure peace and order” and prevent any violations of CFGR by any faction and would continue to do so which were always conducted with COVID protocols in place. AR also said it has been carrying out numerous programmes towards helping the populace in combating the pandemic and therefore, accusing it of “wilfully jeopardising the people is preposterous and misleading.” AR said it remained committed “to being sentinels of peace and tranquillity in the region” and would continue to operate against any faction which vitiated the security and environment.

(From p-1) Expressing pain at so many local youth, either leaving their homes in search of greener pastures and others falling into anti-social acts for lack of other financial resources, CNTC said implementation of the SARFAESI Act would empower thousands of “our” youth and generate employment, thus bringing prosperity to the State.

Further, it maintained that the COVID-19 pandemic had “taught us many valuable lessons” from which to learn and change “our way of thinking and living”. CNTC said “ we need to tap our human resources at the maximum potential to strengthen our economy and make our land prosperous.”

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the area had increased manifold in the last few years, it contended. However, mentioning that the current industrialisation mostly benefited big players and companies, the youth body said lack of proper connectivity within the State discouraged small entrepreneurs, besides causing immense hardships for rural farmers and cultivators for selling their products, which was quite evident when a tour of the area was made. This loss was a gain for traders from the neighbouring State, it added.

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the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

The national COVID19 recovery rate has fallen below 90 per cent.

“Further implementation of lockdowns and all-time high COVID cases have dragged the market to a monthly low. This is expected to impact the economic growth of Q1 FY23 more than thought earlier.

“Implications to the banking and discretionary sector are presumed to be the highest, drifting market to defensives like IT, Pharma and FMCG. This trend may happen for a couple of trading weeks, down a few

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all Sensex stocks closed in the red. IndusInd Bank was the top loser, tanking 8.60 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, SBI, ONGC, Titan, M&M, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and Bajaj Finserv.

Investors lost Rs 8.77 lakh crore in the session, with the market capitalisation of BSE-listed stocks declining to Rs 200.85 lakh crore.

India recorded yet another peak in daily COVID19 cases with 1,68,912 new cases, the highest single-day rise since the pandemic began, taking the total tally to 1,35,27,717, according to

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(From p-1) and Mon district to the north would give impetus to sustainable development in the area. Warmly welcoming Ravi on his maiden visit to the area at New Chungtia Mulberry Silk Plantations and Manufacturing Unit, TRNYF said Tzurangkong area currently comprised 13 recognised villages and one hamlet.

According to the front, the area continues to develop with favourable conditions for agro-based industries and mining activities.

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MUMBAI, APR 12 (PTI): The Sensex plummeted 1,708 points while the Nifty crashed below the 14,350level on Monday as investors pressed the panic button amid the massive second wave of COVID-19 infections across the country.

The second wave is turning out to be much worse than expected, and participants are now reassessing their recovery forecasts amid increasing localised lockdowns, traders said.

An unabated fall in the rupee sapped confidence further, they added.

Posting its biggest fall since February 26, the 30-share BSE Sensex sank 1,707.94 points or 3.44 per cent to end at 47,883.38.

Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty plunged 524.05 points or 3.53 per cent to finish at 14,310.80.

Barring Dr Reddy’s, which climbed 4.83 per cent,

weeks COVID cases are likely to reduce, bringing growth back,” said Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services.

All sectoral indices ended with heavy losses, with BSE realty tanking 7.70 per cent, followed by industrials, metal, auto, power, finance and bankex.

Broader BSE midcap and smallcap indices nosedived up to 5.32 per cent.

Global markets retreated from record highs as investors awaited corporate results and macroeconomic data. Elsewhere in Asia, bourses in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo were in the red, while Seoul ended with mild gains.

Stock exchanges in Europe were largely trading on a positive note in midsession deals.

Meanwhile, international oil benchmark Brent crude was trading 0.57 per cent higher at USD 63.31 per barrel. The rupee fell for the sixth straight session and settled 32 paise down at 75.05 against the US dollar.

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CTYO, CTSU back move to shift DC office

(From p-1) Terming the demand by some section of people for bifurcation of rural and urban administration as absurd and injudicious, the two Chümoukedima bodies said it was very unbecoming of the Dimapur town-based CSOs trying to represent the whole of Dimapur district. They said as these CSOs did not represent the whole district, they should not oppose progress for their selfish goals. Reacting to claims that students would face problems in commuting and other hardships if the DC office was shifted to Chümoukedima, CTYO and CTSU pointed out that there were many schools and colleges located further away from Dimapur town.

Mentioning how students from other localities, colonies and villages under Dimapur district were facing the hardships now, both the organisations asked whether their burden would not lessen if the DC office got a little closer to them. CTYO and CTSU claimed that the move to shift the DC office would be beneficial for all the inhabitants of the district and that those from beyond Dimapur town would not have to endure any hardship. For the welfare and best interest of everyone from the district, both the organisations called for coming out from “our comfort zone” and accept the beneficial changes that lay ahead with welcoming arms. They also appealed strongly to the authorities concerned to make necessary arrangements to shift the DC office without any further delay.

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UK lobbying scandal snares ex-PM Cameron Renowned India-born Pak human Lahore, Apr 12 (PTI): Eminent Pakistani human rights activist and Magsaysay award winner I A Rehman, a strong voice for the country’s minorities including Christians and Hindus and an advocate of peace between India and Pakistan, died here on Monday at the age of 90, according to his family.

Rehman, who was born in 1930 in Haryana in the pre-partitioned India, worked as an Editor for various newspapers in his journalistic career spanning more than 65 years and was a founding member of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, the Dawn newspaper reported.

According to his family, he was diabetic and suffered from high blood pressure and his condition deteriorated a couple of days ago.

He is survived by three sons and two daughters.

Pakistan Peoples Party’s Senator and his friend Sherry Rehman said that the activist died due to COVID19. “Shocked and immeasurably saddened to hear of I.A Rehman’s passing from COVID. He was an

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icon of integrity, standing steadfast for every single fundamental right, every single democratic value in the worst of times. Pakistan will not be the same without him,” she said.

“He will be deeply missed. He was a rare kind of individual, not just because of his professional capabilities but as a human being,” the report quoted as saying human rights activist and former chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Zohra Yusuf.

Rehman worked as director of HRCP for two decades and was also the group’s secretary-general till December 2016, Geo news reported. He was a strong supporter of the country’s minorities, including Christians and Hindus, and cam-

paigned for amendments to Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws. The author of three books also opposed military dictators and fought for the rule of law and democracy.

A protege of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Rehman became Chief Editor of the Pakistan Times newspaper in 1989. Before his death, he was writing columns for Dawn newspaper.

He has numerous awards to his credit, including Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding and Nuremberg International Human Rights Award. Tributes poured in from all quarters as news of Rehman’s death spread.

P a k i s t a n Fo r e i g n Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, currently in Germany on an official visit, said the country has lost a “true icon”.

“Pakistan has lost a true icon today with the passing of I A Rehman. A staunch advocate and activist for Human Rights and an intellectual, I A Rehman sahib leaves behind a rich legacy that speaks of tolerance, inclusion, equality and dignity,” he said in a tweet.

Myanmar’s ruling junta issues Investigation finds Syria likely behind 2018 chlorine attack fresh charges against Suu Kyi Yangon (Myanmar), Apr 12 (AP): Myanmar’s ruling military squared off against its opponents in the courts, the streets and the countryside Monday, showing no sign of relenting in its crackdown against those opposed to February’s coup.

Aung San Suu Kyi, who led the elected government toppled in the military takeover, was accused of a fresh criminal charge when she appeared by video link before a judge in the capital Naypyitaw on Monday, according to her lawyers.

Suu Kyi was accused of breaching a law intended to control the spread of the coronavirus, the second such charge against her under the same law. She is already facing charges of illegally importing walkietalkies, unlicensed use of them, inciting public unrest and breaking the official secrets act.

The junta also has accused Suu Kyi of corruption and presented on state television what it said was evidence that she took bribes.

Suu Kyi’s supporters say the prosecutions are politically motivated tactics to try to legitimise the Feb. 1 coup and discredit her.

The generals overthrew Suu Kyi’s government less than three months after she won a landslide victory in a general election and any conviction could see her banned from a future election. The coup put a halt to the progress Myanmar had

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made toward greater democratization after five decades of military rule.

The takeover and the bloody crackdown on opposition that has followed has led to calls for an arms embargo on the country and other international sanctions that could pressure the military into a return to more democratic rule.

As of Sunday, 706 protesters and bystanders have been verified as killed in the post-coup crackdown, said the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which tracks casualties and arrests.

Despite the lethal threat protesters returned to the streets and rural byways of southern Myanmar on Monday, determined to keep public demonstrations going. In Launglone Township near the city of Dawei, a large group mounted motorbikes and rode through the villages of Pandale and Nyin Maw, red banners snapping in the breeze as they sang and chanted slogans of resistance.

B’desh PM bats for equipping UN peacekeepers better

Dhaka, Apr 12 (PTI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday voiced concern over the alarming rise in the deaths of UN peacekeepers in operations across the world and called for appropriate training and equipment to deal with new challenges.

Addressing the closing ceremony of a multilateral UN-mandated counterterrorism exercise “Shantir Ogroshena” or “Front Runner of Peace”, Hasina, said the time has come to make crisis-specific decisions on the field in UN peacekeeping operations.

“The time has come to equip peacekeepers with appropriate training and equipment to deal with the new upcoming crises and make crisis-specific decisions on the field in UN peacekeep-

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ing operations,” she said.

Hasina said the number of deaths of peacekeepers in “alarming rate” in different UN peacekeeping missions particularly requires them to be equipped with apt training and equipment.

“I hope required measures will be taken to this end,” she said during her virtual speech from her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka. According to the

UN Peacekeeping website, a total of 130 peacekeepers were killed in various operations in 2020 while in 2019 the figure stood at 103.

The closing ceremony was held at Bangabandhu Cantonment in central Tangail district. Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane along with his Bangladesh counterpart General Aziz Ahmed and military commanders of several other countries and UN missions joined the function.

Bangladesh Army organised the 10-day exercise to mark the country’s founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary and golden jubilee of its 1971 independence from Pakistan through a nine-month Liberation War, backed by India.

In Dawei itself, students, teachers and engineers carried their message of defiance through the city on foot. Marches took place in other cities and towns as well, and a few carried on a trend of assigning a quirky theme to their protests.

Demonstrators in Mandalay, the country’s secondbiggest city, held a “Watermelon Strike,” marching with big slices and making anti-coup displays featuring slogans painted on the melons or attached to them.

In Yangon, five public city buses caught fire before dawn, with no indications of who might have set them alight. Such mysterious attacks have mounted in recent weeks, with the junta blaming protesters and protesters blaming the junta.

More intense violence took place in the northern state of Kachin, where two Myanmar military fighter jets attacked a base belonging to the Kachin Independence Organization, which is the main political group representing the Kachin ethnic group in the area.

The organisation, which seeks autonomy for the Kachin, maintains its own military force, and said its base has also been under artillery attack, reported the Kachin News Group, Their report also said Kachin forces on Monday staged a successful attack to drive away a Myanmar military force guarding a bridge on a major road.

The Hague, Apr 12 (AP): An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Monday.

It is the second time that the OPCW’s Investigation and Identification Team has concluded that Syrian government armed forces likely were responsible for a gas attack. Last year, the team also found reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Force was responsible for attacks using chlorine and the nerve agent sarin in March 2017 in the town of Latamneh.

Syria has repeatedly been accused of using chemical weapons during the country’s grinding civil war.

The government of President Bashar Assad denies

People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. (AP)

the claims.

In the latest report, the OPCW investigation team said it found evidence that a military helicopter belonging to the Tiger Forces of the Syrian air force dropped at least one chlorine cylinder on the rebel-held northern Syrian town of Saraqeb on February 4, 2018.

Iran blames Israel for attack on nuke facility

T e h r a n, A p r il 1 2 (IANS): Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday described the cyberattack on the Natanz nuclear facility as an act of terrorism and blamed Israel for it.

The plant in central Iran produces, among other things, new centrifuges for uranium enrichment, dpa news agency reported.

“The Zionists want

to sabotage Iran’s nuclear achievements and the nuclear negotiations (in Vienna) with these terrorist operations,” Zarif told Parliament on Monday.

Neither, however, will happen, he said.

“Our revenge is that we will continue successfully in both areas,” Zarif added.

Israel has so far not commented on the allegations.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Through this column, I would like to extend my profound gratitude to the PDA Government under the dynamic leadership of Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri. Neiphui Rio and President NDPP Shri Chingwang Konyak Convenor PDA and Hon'ble Minister Shri Temjen Imna Along Co-Convenor PDA (President BJP) for giving me the opportunity to contest the 51 Noksen A/C Byeelection as the consensus PDA candidate. Also I would like to share my deep gratitude to all rank and file of both parties for their tireless effort during the election process. I also extend my sincere appreciation to all the other intending candidates for their understanding and co-operation in the process. The public leaders and the public of 51 Noksen Area led by the GB's of all villages for their wise understanding and decision to work with the PDA government for the overall development of the Area resulting in my victory at the Bye-election unopposed.

Last but not the least I thank God Almighty for this blessing to shoulder this responsibility. I am sincerely looking forward to do my best during this limited tenure for the public aspirations and Area development of 51 Noksen.

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“The cylinder ruptured and released chlorine over a large area, affecting 12 named individuals,” the watchdog said in a statement. Those affected all survived, the report said.

As part of the investigation, experts interviewed witnesses, analysed samples and remnants collected from

the town as well reviewing symptoms reported by casualties and studying satellite imagery and modelling gas dispersion patterns. The OPCW cannot hold individuals criminally responsible for attacks. The report will be shared with the organisation’s member states and the United Nations.

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D h a k a , A p r il 1 2 (IANS): Amid a surge in new Covid-19 cases, the Bangladeshi government on Monday issued a fresh set of directives for a nationwide “full lockdown” from wednesday onwards.The Cabinet Division on Monday issued a circular with the directives to be effective from 6 a.m. on Wednesday to the midnight of April 21.

In line with the directives, all government, semi-government, autonomous and private offices will be closed.

But the ban will not be applicable to airports, land ports and maritime ports and their offices.

The new lockdown imposed with stricter rules demands the closure of markets and shopping malls, but allows restaurants and hotels to remain open from morning to evening but only for takeaway or online services. According to the directives, all public transport services will be suspended, but goods-laden vehicles, production system and emergency services will not come under the purview of the lockdown. Also offices, employees and transports involved in law and order enforcement and emergency services, relief distribution, health service, electricity, water, gas/fuel, fire service, activities at ports, telephone and Internet, telecommunication and other services will remain out of the purview of the restriction.

British media began digging into Cameron’s work for Greensill after the company’s collapse forced the owner of Liberty Steel, which employs about 5,000 people, to seek a government bailout.

Greensill was one of the company’s key financial backers.

The developments came after Cameron made his first comments on the Greensill late Sunday, when he released an 1,800word written statement.

A series of news reports have revealed that Cameron sent text messag-

Capital, began working as a government adviser in 2011.

Cameron said he started working for Greensill in August 2018, and that he received shares in the company as part of his compensation. He rejected press reports that he expected the shares to be worth USD 60 million when Greensill went public.

“Their value was nowhere near the amount speculated in the press,” he said.

Brown said the government must act quickly in response to the Greensill affair because it has the potential to bring public service into “disrepute,” just like the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2008.

At that time, several members of Parliament were found to have improperly inflated their expenses, leading to new rules governing their conduct.

“For me, there are principles about public service,” Brown told the BBC. “It cannot ever become a platform for private gain.

Ministers must never be lobbying — former ministers, prime ministers — must never be lobbying for commercial purposes.”

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FELICITATION With immense pride and honour, the Merangkong Senso Telongjem, Kohima extend our heartiest congratulations to: 1. Wb. Temjen Longkumer, S/o Lt. Wb. Purtoshi & Lt. Wt. Imtinukla on being promoted to the post of Registrar (HOD), Department of Cooperation.

2. Dr. Imlirenla Jamir, D/o Wb. T. Bendangtoshi Jamir & Wt. Ladongmongla on being appointed to the post of Scientist at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad.

We further wish and pray that Almighty God continue to grant them long life, good health and wisdom as they continue to give their service to the people.

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maker who led an inquiry into links between government and business, said the only way to combat this long-running problem is to require serving ministers and civil servants to report inappropriate conduct by lobbyists.

Jenkin alleged that a culture had been “building up for a long time” in which government officials cultivate people in business and then benefit from those contacts after they leave government.

“I think most of the public find that very questionable,” Jenkin said.

es to Sunak in an effort to secure government-backed loans for Greensill under a program designed to help companies hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also lobbied Hancock on behalf of a Greensill product that would have allowed National Health Service workers to receive advance payments on their salaries.

Cameron, who was employed as a part-time adviser to Greensill, said his work on behalf of the company didn’t break any rules or codes of conduct on the activities of former ministers.

“However, I have reflected on this at length,” Cameron said. “There are important lessons to be learnt. As a former Prime Minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.”

Cameron was prime minister from May 2010 to July 2016, resigning after he led the failed campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union. Lex Greensill, a banker who later founded Greensill

OFFICE OF THE THÜVOPISÜMI STUDENTS’ UNION P.O/P.S. CHOZUBA, DIST. PHEK, NAGALAND Regd. No. R.S. 1151/88 Motto : “Unite for Greater Height”.

FELICITATION The Thüvopisümi Students’ Union along with Thüvopisümi Village Council would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Vesato Dozo on his promotion to Director, SIRD, Nagaland.

The Union and Village Council take immense pride on his successful achievements and wish him the best in all his future endeavours.

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London, Apr 12 (AP): Britain’s government on Monday launched an investigation into a lobbying scandal involving former Prime Minister David Cameron amid calls for new rules on contact between business leaders and government officials.

The government said it has commissioned an independent review into Greensill Capital, a financial services firm Cameron worked for after he left office. The review will be led by attorney Nigel Boardman and will look at the way contracts were secured and “how business representatives engaged with government,” said Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain.

Cameron lobbied government officials, including Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, on behalf of Greensill, which collapsed last month, threatening thousands of jobs at a British steelmaker it had financed.

Gordon Brown, prime minister from 2007 to 2010, on Monday called for a five-year ban on lobbying by former ministers. But Bernard Jenkin, a law-

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BAFTA 2021 pays tribute to Irrfan Khan, Ant resembles human in social isolation: Study Rishi Kapoor during In Memoriam segment S ocial isolation results in changes of behavior and activity of immune and stress genes. Ants react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans and other social mammals. A study by an Israeli-German research team has revealed alterations to the social and hygienic behavior of ants that had been isolated from their group. The research team was particularly surprised by the fact that immune and stress genes were downregulated in the brains of the isolated ants.

“This makes the immune system less efficient, a phenomenon that is also apparent in socially isolating humans – notably at present during the COVID-19 crisis,” said Professor Susanne Foitzik, who headed up the study at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).

The study on a species of ant native to Germany has recently been published in Molecular Ecology.

Effects of isolation in social insects little studied so far Humans and other social mammals experience isolation from their group as stressful, having

An ant of the species Temnothorax nylanderi. Credit: Susanne Foitzik, JGU.

a negative impact on their general well-being and physical health. “Isolated people become lonely, depressed, and anxious, develop addictions more easily, and suffer from a weakened immune system and impaired overall health,” added Professor Inon Scharf, lead author of the article and cooperation partner of the Mainz research group at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

While the effects of isolation have been extensively studied in social mammals such as humans and mice, less is known about how social insects respond in comparable situations – even

though they live in highly evolved social systems. Ants, for instance, live their entire lives as members of the same colony and are dependent on their colony mates. The worker ants relinquish their own reproductive potential and devote themselves to feeding the larvae, cleaning and defending the nest, and searching for food, while the queen does little more than just lay eggs. The research team looked at the consequences of social isolation in the case of ants of the species Temnothorax nylanderi. These ants inhabit cavities in acorns and sticks on the ground in European

forests, forming colonies of a few dozen workers. Young workers engaged in brood care were taken singly from 14 colonies and kept in isolation for varying lengths of time, from one hour to a maximum of 28 days.

The study was conducted between January and March 2019 and highlighted three particular aspects in which changes were observed. After the end of their isolation, the workers were less interested in their adult colony mates, but the length of time they spent in brood contact increased; they also spent less time grooming themselves. “This reduction in hygienic behavior may make the ants more susceptible to parasites, but it is also a feature typical of social deprivation in other social organisms,” explained Professor Susanne Foitzik.

Stress due to isolation adversely affects the immune system While the study revealed significant changes in the behaviors of the isolated insects, its findings with regard to gene activity were even more striking: Many genes related to immune system function and

stress response were downregulated. In other words, these genes were less active.

“This finding is consistent with studies on other social animals that demonstrated a weakening of the immune system after isolation,” said Professor Inon Scharf.

The discovery by the team of biologists led by Professor Susanne Foitzik is the first of its kind, combining behavioral and genetic analyses on the effects of isolation in social insects.

“Our study shows that ants are as affected by isolation as social mammals are and suggests a general link between social well-being, stress tolerance, and immunocompetence in social animals,” concluded Foitzik, summarizing the results of the Israeli-German study.

Foitzik is also collaborating with her Israeli partner Professor Inon Scharf and with co-author and group leader Dr. Romain Libbrecht of JGU on a new joint project on the fitness benefits and the molecular basis of spatial learning in ants, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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ndian stars Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor, who died in April 2020, were among the individuals who were honoured at BAFTA’s ‘In Memoriam segment, which also paid tribute to Prince Philip, Chadwick Boseman and Christopher Plummer.

‘In Memoriam’ segment honours personalities lost in the past year.

Irrfan, one of the

first stars from India to have made major strides internationally, lost his two year battle with neuroendocrine cancer on April 29, 2020 at the age of 54.

Kapoor, a romantic hero of many Bollywood hits and in later years, a respected character actor, died just a day later, on 30 April, also from cancer.

He was 67.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, 2021, at Windsor Castle, composer Ennio Morricone, Sean Connery, George Segal, director Bertrand Tavernier, Barbara Jefford, Ben Cross, Ian Holm, Barbara Windsor and Kirk Douglas were among the many celebrities who were remembered in the segment this year.

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South superstars go retro with action films Can natural antioxidants help fight Marathi film ‘Puglya’ wins best foreign new GI symptoms in Covid patients?

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ction has been a perennial favourite genre among lovers of mainstream cinema, especially in the Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam film industries. Larger-thanlife heroism of southern superstars is now in for period twist. Many top actors are exploring the idea of reorganising the action genre through retro themes pertaining to historicals, mythologicals, or crime drama set in the seventies, eighties or nineties.

While the action brings in its quota of masala, the grandeur of period cinematography adds to the impact, giving fans something more to observe and engage in.

Here is a list of highly-anticipated upcoming films from the South, which promise

action in a different era: Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea: This Mohanlal starrer is set for theatrical release on May 13. The National-Award winning film is set in the 16th century and tells the story of a naval commander. The film was scheduled to release worldwide across 5,000 theatres in 2020 but was postponed due to the pandemic.

RRR: “Bahubali” maker SS Rajamouli’s upcoming ambitious film stars NTR Jr and Ram Charan with Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn. The film is set in 1920s, and is a fictional account of two freedom fighters who fight against the British and Nizam of Hyderabad. The film, said to be one of the costliest ever made in India, is scheduled to release on

October 13.

Narappa: The film is a Telugu remake of the National Award winning Tamil film “Asuran”, which is based on the 1968 Kilvenmani massacre in Tamil Nadu. “Narappa” features superstar Venkatesh and is under production. The film is directed by Addala.

K.G.F: Chapter 2: Kannada superstar Yash returns with the sequel to his 2018 blockbuster, “K.G.F: Chapter 1”. This Kannada film is a period crime drama set against the backdrop of the Kolar gold fields and Yash returns as Rocky Bhai, the flamboyant retro don who makes style statements in bell bottoms, sun glasses and polka dot shirts. The story is set between 1950s to 1980s.

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s m a n y C ov i d 19 patients in the country are experiencing gastrointestinal (GI)-related symptoms in the second wave, which is now more lethal, health experts on Sunday emphasised that consumption of natural antioxidants might help fight the new GI symptoms. The experts say that natural antioxidant like gamma oryzanol, which is derived from rice bran, has multiple health and GI benefits. According to Anil Arora, Chairman, Institute of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Pancreatobiliary Sciences, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, supplementing a nutritious diet with gamma oryzanol may improve gastritis symptoms.

“Doing modification in diet and taking natural antioxidants act as scavenging agents and control the cell damage can improve GI health and might help fight new GI-related

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ig-economy Western Nomadland won four prizes including best picture on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, which were handed out during a pandemic-curbed ceremony that recognized a diverse array of screen talent.

Nomadland filmmaker Chloe Zhao became only the second woman, and the first woman of colour, to win the BAFTA for best director, and star Frances McDormand was named best actress.

Nomadland also took the cinematography prize.

Emerald Fennell’s revenge comedy Promising Young Woman was named best British film, while the best actor trophy went to 83-year-old Anthony Hopkins for playing a man grappling with dementia in The Father.

Presenters including

Hugh Grant, Tom Hiddleston, Gugu MbathaRaw and Priyanka Chopra Jonas announced the winners from the stage of London’s Royal Albert Hall, but recipients accepted their honours remotely, and there was no black-tie audience to cheer them on.

Winners of 2021 British Academy Film Awards Sound — Sound of Metal were: Casting — Rocks Film — Nomadland Visual Effects — Tenet British Film — Promising Young Woman Makeup and Hair — Ma Rainey’s Black BotDirector — Chloe Zhao, Nomadland tom Actor — Anthony Hopkins, The Father Animated Film — Soul Actress — Frances McDormand, Nomadland British Short Film — The Present Supporting Actor — Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and British Short Animation — The Owl and the the Black Messiah Pussycat Supporting Actress — Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari Documentary — My Octopus Teacher Rising Star — Bukky Bakray Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema — British Debut — Director Remi Weekes, His Noel Clarke House Academy Fellowship — Ang Lee Original Screenplay — Promising Young Woman Adapted Screenplay — The Father Film Not in the English Language — Another Round Musical Score — Soul Cinematography — Nomadland Editing — Sound of Metal Production Design — Mank Costume Design — Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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Covid-19 symptoms,” Arora told IANS. The results of several clinical trials suggest that gamma oryzanol supplementation can help people manage and control many gastrointestinal complaints. According to the experts, the outbreaks of viruses with widespread and mortality in the world population have motivated the research for new approaches. Arora mentioned that even patients who are recovering from Covid-19 are experiencing massive gastrointestinal bleeding, which is due to clotting in the vessels that might lead to ulceration and necrosis and GI bleeding. It is seen that Covid-19 patients in the second wave are experiencing new symptoms, such as joint pain, body ache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, ulceration in the stomach, etc, The health experts also found the absence of cough and fever and yet people being tested Covid positive.

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Megadeth close to completing new album

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egadeth are just hours away from finishing their new album. The thrash metal titan’s bassist David Ellefson has revealed the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Dystopia’ is in “the final hours getting everything done”.

He told Rock Music Star: “I was actually just down there [at the recording studio] last week. I went to Nashville to just put a couple of little, tiny finishing touches on some stuff.

We’re literally in the final hours of getting everything done. Obviously, COVID slowed things down.”

He also added, “Kiko [Loureiro, guitar] lives over in Finland now, and there were some delays last year, just with travel and with everything shutting down. But me and Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] got down there pretty quickly — by May and June [of last year], we were in there cutting tracks. It’s been good, though.”

Frontman Dave Mustaine battled throat cancer in 2019 but was given the all-clear the following year, and despite them having to reschedule some shows as a result, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers told fans they were ploughing ahead with work on their 16th LP. (Contactmusic)

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he Marathi film “Puglya” has won the Best Foreign Language Feature award at Moscow International Film Festival, 2021. “I feel immense joy when I see that the story is receiving such great response. Winning at Moscow International Film Festival is a geat deal of pride for me and the team,” director Vinod Sam Peter tells IANS. The filmmaker, who also wrote the screenplay, says the film is about a child’s innocence.

“Puglya is a story that

revolves around a pug and two boys, Rushab and Datta, who are around 10 years old.

A pug dog comes into the life of two boys -- one from the city and the other from the village -- and its impact on their lives is shown in ‘Pugalya’. The film shows the innocence and simplicity of the kids,” he says.

“I am ambivalent towards dogs but I realised that it has an international appeal. Globally people are drawn to dogs and children. The film embodies and revolves completely

around their world that is marked by affection and values.” he added. The film has so far won honours at the Los World Premiere Film Awards in California.

“Puglya” has also competed in various international film competitions in London, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Philippines, Turkey, Iran, Argentina, Lebanon, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Spain, Philippines, Israel, USA and Canada. Owing to lockdown, the film still awaits release in India.

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Exploring Mana Foresta: India’s First Vertical Forest Tower

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he modern fast-growing urban lifestyle is full of pace and thrill.

The trend towards migrating to a city has been in practice since quite a few centuries.

However, that deep and silent aspiration to live in a natural surrounding has never died. That same aspiration is now booming with people again as they are being drawn towards bringing nature to the heart of cities.

Recently, the trend of living a symbiosis life with nature at one side and modern facilities of a city on the other side is increasingly becoming popular. The fantasy of living in the forest, enjoying birds chirping in the morning, and the fresh breath of purest oxygen is nothing less than a panacea.

For a city dweller, this

kind of lifestyle is restricted to the imagination or restricted to once-in-a-while vacation only. What if this fantasy turns out to be a reality and one does not have to even travel to some interior forest to experience such a life? Lately, real estate developers have started

capit a l izing o n this fantasythemed living experience. Going forward with this trend, Mana Projects, with their latest project

– Mana Foresta has turned this imagination into a reality.

Mana Foresta, situated on Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, is a tower complex of premium apartments in Bangalore that proudly displays how forest life can be brought to the city. Originally inspired by the Bosco Verticale, a building with a similar concept that was completed in 2014 in Milan, Italy, Mana Foresta on Sarjapur road aims to bring the same futuristic concept to India. Bangalore, being a truly cosmopolitan city and the tech hub of the country was perfect to initiate a project of this scale.

For many years, the business has grown slowly, since the Green Building model was first launched many years back. They h ave

begun with eco-friendly features, landscape balconies and since then the role of nature in their ventures has increased slowly over time and this finally led to Mana Foresta becoming its magnificent opus.

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Atletico’s lead cut after 1-1 draw with Betis M A D R I D, A P R 1 2 (IANS): Atletico Madrid’s lead at the top of La Liga was reduced to just one point after a dramatic 30th round of matches.

Atletico were held to a 1-1 draw away to Betis in a game where Yannick Carrasco put them ahead after just five minutes only for Cristian Tello to equalise in the 20th minute of the game on Sunday, Xinhua news reported.

Atletico lost Joao Felix and Kieran Trippier through injury in the game, while Thomas Lemar also picked up an injury before kick-off.

Angel Correa missed a chance in the last minute of the game, leaving Atletico just one point ahead of Real Madrid, who beat FC Barcelona on Saturday.

First-half goals from Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos were enough for Real Madrid to win a hugely entertaining Clasico at home to Barcelona in a game that saw Oscar Mingueza pull a second-half goal back for Barca and youngster Ilaix Moriba rattle the Madrid crossbar with virtually the last kick of the match.

Atletico Madrid’s Argentine coach Diego Simeone (C) congratulates his players at the end of the Spanish League football match. (AFP)

Benzema opened the scoring in the 13th minute with a backheel after Lucas Vazquez’s cross and Kroos doubled Madrid’s lead with a deflected free kick in the 27th minute as Madrid made Barca suffer on the break. With the second half was played in pouring rain Mingueza scored for Barca from eight yards out and the game was in

Boxers gear up for Worlds in lockdown-hit Polish city NEW DELHI, APR 12 (IANS): The Polish city of Kielce is facing lockdown because of a new wave of Covid-19 in Europe but it is also gearing up to host the AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships starting on Tuesday. Boxers from more than 50 countries are participating in the 10-day long tournament. The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) is fielding a 20-member squad, including 10 in girls’ category, in the season’s first global competition.

According to an official with the Indian boxing squad, the local organising committee has advised all the participating teams to strictly follow Covid-19 protocols of social distancing and wearing of masks.

“There are four hotels for the participating teams and officials. But team hotels are out of bounds for

local visitors or tourists. The hotels have been opened for sports competition. The training venue is different from the main competition arena which will open when the event starts,” an official with the Indian team told IANS. According to the official, there are lots of restrictions for the boxers as they are only allowed to venture out of the team hotel for training.

“Since there is a boxing tournament in the city, a few medical shops and restaurants are open,” said the Indian team official.

The fixtures for the competition will be announced on Monday evening. “As of now, we don’t have much idea about the strength of the participating teams as several countries are not fielding boxers in all the 10 weight categories,” said a coach of the Indian team.

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the balance until the final whistle as Real Madrid sat deep to defend in the closing minutes.

Villarreal’s hopes of qualifying for next season’s Europa League suffered a setback as second-half goals from Jon Moncayola and Ante Budimir gave Osasuna a surprise 2-1 win in the Estadio de la Ceramica.

Real Sociedad were unable

to capitalize on Villarreal’s defeat as they saw Valencia fight back from 2-0 down to claim a 2-2 draw in the Mestalla Stadium.

Ander Guevara after 33 minutes and Alexander Isak on the stroke of halftime, put ‘la Real’ 2-0 ahead, but Valencia (who had seen Carlos Soler miss a penalty at 0-0) got back into the game thanks to a

goal from Daniel Wass, with Gabriel Paulista’s powerful 74th-minute header assuring the points were shared.

Valencia striker Maxi Gomez was sent off with 10 minutes left to play after apparently saying something out of turn to the referee. Valladolid are still in trouble as Granada scored two late goals through Jorge Molina and Quini to cancel out Fabian Orellana’s first-half penalty.

A dreadful own goal from Getafe midfielder gave Cadiz a 1-0 win away to Getafe on Saturday lunchtime and left his side with work to avoid relegation.Alaves goalkeeper Fernando Pacheco made three vital saves to deny Sancet, Unai Nunez and Alex Berenguer to earn his side a 0-0 draw away to Athletic Club Bilbao in Javier Calleja’s debut as coach.

That point sees Alaves climb above Eibar, who drop to the bottom of the table after Jorge de Frutos’s goal in the second minute of first-half injury time extended their winless run to 13 games.

Dominant India crush Argentina 3-0 to jump to 4th spot in FIH Pro League BUENOS AIRES, APR 12 (PTI): The Indian men’s hockey team registered a comprehensive 3-0 win over reigning Olympic champions Argentina in the second match of the FIH Pro League here to jump to the fourth spot in the points table.

Goals from Harmanpreet Singh (11th minute), Lalit Upadhyay (25th) and Mandeep Singh (58th) on Sunday gave the visitors a deserved triumph over Los Leones, adding three more points to the two they had claimed against the hosts in Saturday’s shoot-out, which earned them a bonus point.

By virtue of this win, India, with 15 points from eight games, climbed up to fourth place in the FIH Hockey Pro League standings, moving one point ahead of Australia having played the same number of games.

India, Argentina and Australia will play against each other at the forthcoming Olympic Games, where they have been drawn in Pool A alongside Spain,

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New Zealand and home favourites Japan.

Argentina sit sixth in the FIH Hockey Pro League standings, with 11 points from 12 games.

Argentina star ted brightly and would have been ahead had it not been for some excellent saves from India goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak, who twice denied Martin Ferreiro.

Harmanpreet then converted India’s first penalty corner of the game in the 11th minute.

Lalit doubled India’s lead when he showed light-

ning quick reactions in the second quarter, pouncing on a save from Argentina custodian Juan Vivaldi to slot home. The strike gave the visitors a deserved reward after a lengthy period of probing possession.

The result was confirmed two minutes from the final hooter when Mandeep fired home from close range, losing his footing but keeping his composure to guide an backhand effort into the net.

“I think we defended well,” said India goalkeeper Pathak, who was named Player of the Match.

Ankita top-ranked Indian, Sania 2nd in doubles ZDFA organises penalty NEW DELHI, APR 12 (IANS): India’s top women’s tennis player Ankita Raina continues to lead her compatriots in both the WTA singles and doubles rankings released on Monday.

Raina is 174th in singles and 96th in doubles, up two places, as per the latest rankings released on Monday ahead of the Billie Jean King Cup World Group Play-offs in Latvia on April 16-17.

The All India Tennis Association (AITA) tweeted: “Ankita Raina continues to be the top-ranked Indian player in both singles and doubles -- with a string of good performances on the ITF World Tennis Tour.

Karman Kaur Thandi improves her ranking to 621, up 16 spots.”

At 352 in singles ranking, Riya Bhatia is the nextbest placed Indian women’s player, followed by Rutuja

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Bhosale (419), Zeel Desai (568) and SowjanyaBavisetti (611). Karman Kaur Thandi is placed 621 but she has seen the biggest jump of 16 places in singles rankings among all the Indians.

Sania Mirza, placed 154th in the doubles rankings, is second behind Raina. But the winner of six Grand Slam titles will be

Sania Mirza

competing at the Tokyo Olympics in July this year due to her having a ‘protected ranking’ of world No. 9. Sania had applied to the WTA for her ranking to be secured when she took a pregnancy break after the China Open in October 2017.

Almost all the top Indian women’s players, barring Sowjanya Bavisetti, are in the Latvian capital of Riga for the Billie Jean King Cup. On Monday, AITA tweeted, “Team India in full strength and wearing the blue with immense pride in their hearts!”

DIMAPUR (NPN): Zünheboto District Football Association (ZDFA) organised a penalty shootout tournament on April 10 at the Zunheboto local ground.

In the penalty shootout, Miss Penalty Club emerged victorious while second position was bagged by 32 Assam Rifles.

In a short programme, president ZDFA, Kiyeka Sumi said that the tourna-

ment is being organised to show its support and solidarity to the district team who will be participating in Dr T. Ao tournament in Kohima from April 12.

He also thanked the commanding officer, rank and files of the 32 Assam rifles for accommodating the players in their camp for the week-long district team training as well as for sponsoring the prize money for the tournament.

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of our beloved LATE P. LUNGPHI PHOM

1 st DEATH ANNIVERSARY Born on : 25.10.1965 – Died on : 13.04.2020 One year has passed since you left us time flies fast, but you will never be forgotten, that simply cannot be your light will always shine.

“Death may have taken you away from us, but our life’s Hero you’ll forever be” Miss you PAPA Loving Wife, Children, Grandchildren and relatives DP-1907

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It’s been a year since you have left us for your eternal heavenly abode but your love and care for us remains the same.

Though you are no longer with us, the Resurrection of Christ comforts us and give us hope that there is a Heaven and that we will meet you there someday.

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Loving Wife, Children and Loved Ones

Born : 28.02.1973 – Died : 03.04.2021 Heartfelt gratitude to all individual who stood by us at the sudden demise of our beloved Late Yashimongla – a daughter, a mother, a sister and a friend to all. There is nothing much to say but thank all those individual who supported us spiritually, financially and physically.

We would like to convey our special thanks to: 1. Mr. & Mrs. Tekatemsü Ao, Dy. Manager, Nagaland Emporium, New Delhi 2. Er. & Mrs Taliwati Longchari, Jt. Director, Ministry of MSME, New Delhi 3. Mr. & Mrs. Deobrata Kumar Paul, New Delhi 4. Mr. & Mrs. Sakuyur, New Delhi 5. DABC, New Delhi 6. Arogotsür, DABC, New Delhi 7. DAST, New Delhi 8. Narola (Süngratsü) & all friends of Late Yashimongla, New Delhi 9. Mr. & Mrs. Nüngsang, New Delhi 10. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Amri, New Delhi 11. Aoyimsen Baptist Arogo, Karbi Anglong 12. Arogotsür, Aoyimsen Baptist Arogo 13. Youth Ministry, Aoyimsen Baptist Arogo 14. Choto Lengri Village Development Council 15. Changki Union, Dimapur 16. Changki Fellowship, Dimapur May the Gracious God bless you abundantly.

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DIMAPUR: The Aoleang Trofeo, Changlangshu for volleyball men and women organized by Modern Warriors Club, Oyoang was held from April 5 to 7 at Bangthet ground, Changlangshu with vice president VDB Association Mon district, M. Pheakmai Konyak as the special guest.

In the volleyball men, 28 AR Changlangshu post emerged as the champions and EMC Kheye as runners-up. While in volleyball women, KGBV Hostel, Bumei emerged as the champions and Zenith Rangers, Shahyu as runnersup. The trophies and cash to winners were presented by captain Manoj 28 Assam Riffle, Changlangshu post.

In his speech, the special guest encouraged all participating teams to play in fair games through sportsmanship in significance of Konyak Aoleang Festival.

The programme started with invoking of God’s blessings by pastor CBC, A. Khoazang, welcome address was delivered by president Modern Warriors Club, Oyoang, C.B. Moba, W. Sangti Changjoang VC chairman, B.N Wanmai Head GB and B. Wanmai VC secretary delivered short speeches. Vote of thanks was delivered by advisor MWC, K. Ngaba and the tournament concluided with a prayer by deacon CBC, P.C. Talen.

Indian men’s hockey team members celebrate after defeating Argentina during the FIH Pro League match.

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Kings XI beat Rajasthan Royals by 4 runs C H E N NA I , A P R 1 2 (IANS): Sanju Samson (119 off 63 balls) scored a hundred on his Indian Premier League (IPL) captaincy debut but couldn’t take Rajasthan Royals (RR) past the finish line, getting dismissed off the last of the match as his team lost to Punjab Kings (PK) by four runs at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday night.

RR looked very much in the game throughout as Samson brought the equation down to 5 runs off two balls. However, he refused to take a run on the second last ball after he had hit it to deep extra cover which could have fetched them a run, even a double. Instead, he eyed a glory shot for six on the last ball, but holed out to deep extra cover as his side fell short by four runs.

RR had got off to a worse possible start, losing their power-hitting allrounder Ben Stokes to Mohammed Shami in the first over of the innings. Soon Manan Vohra, the other opener was sent back, leaving the Jaipur franchise at 25

Shahrukh Khan of Punjab Kings drops a catch during the IPL 2021 match between Rajasthan Royals and the Punjab Kings in Mumbai, Monday. (PTI)

for two in the fourth over.

What followed though was an imperious show of batting from Samson as he clobbered seven sixes and 12 fours to take the game to the wire. He built a couple of half-century partnerships with Shivam Dube and Riyan Parag and one of 45 with Jos Buttler to keep his team in the match.

Earlier, a 105-run partnership for the third wicket in just 46 balls between skipper K.L. Rahul (91 off

50 balls) and Deepak Hooda (64 off 28 balls) helped Punjab Kings post 221/6 in their 20 overs.

Punjab Kings, who lost opener Mayank Agarwal early, saw Rahul and Chris Gayle add 67 for the second wicket with the West Indian batsman being the dominant partner as he gave his side the initiative.

Gayle’s 28-ball 40 comprised two sixes and four fours as he became the first batsman to hit 350 sixes in

the history of Indian Premier League. Gayle’s dismissal off Riyan Parag would have given hope to the Rajasthan franchise but then Hooda and Rahul pounded sixes.

O ve r s 1 3 a n d 1 4 bowled by Shivam Dube and Shreyas Gopal went for 20 each and saw six sixes, five of those coming of Hooda’s bat.

From 110/2 in 12 overs, Punjab Kings moved to 150/2 in 14 overs.

The hammering didn’t

end there. After a couple of overs that went for 11 each, Punjab Kings took 15 off Chetan Sakariya, who had got the early wicket of Mayank Agarwal.

Even in the 18th over, when Rajasthan Royals got rid of Hooda and Nicholas Pooran, the Punjab franchise managed to get 14 runs. Then came 15 off Mustafizur Rahman’s fourth over, the innings’ 19th.

Young Saurashtra leftarm pacer Sakariya got two wickets in his last over and conceded just five runs to finish as the most successful Rajasthan Royals bowler with three wickets for 31 runs in his four overs.

Brief scores: Punjab Kings 221/6 in 20 overs (K.L. Rahul 91, C Gayle 40, D Hooda 64, C Sakariya 3/31, C Morris 2/40) vs Rajasthan Royals 217/7 in 20 overs (S Samson 119, R Parag 25, J Buttler 25, S Dube 23, Arshdeep 3/35) Tuesday’s match Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Mumbai Indians Time: 7:30 p.m.

Matsuyama wins Masters, 1st Japanese to claim major win AUGUSTA (THE US), APR 12 (IANS): Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese man to claim a major title on Monday when he held off the field to win the 2021 Augusta Masters golf tournament by one stroke.

Matsuyama, 29, shot a one-over 73 to win on 10 under par despite some nervy moments on Sunday.

T h e U S ’s X a n d e r Schauffele, who was playing with Matsuyama, birdied the 15th to close to

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within two shots. However, Schaufelle hit his tee shot in the water on the 16th and his challenge finished with a triple-bogey six.

He ended on seven under in a share of third with fellow American and 2015 champion Jordan Spieth.

Matsuyama’s closest challenger on nine under was American debutant Will Zalatoris. England’s Justin Rose led for two rounds before falling off in the final 18 holes with a two-over 74 to end five under.

Japanese fans and officials were elated at the news that golfer Hideki Matsuyama has won the 85th Masters at Augusta National in the US. Many Japanese got up early Monday morning to watch the historic moment live on TV, DPA reported.

A television newscaster for Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) choked up with tears when Matsuyama clinched the tournament win.

“Japan is in a jubilant mood,” he said.

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Dr. T Ao trophy underway in Kohima; 12 teams vie for title

(L-R) The two women’s team before the exhibition match at IG Stadium, Kohima on Monday. Er Zale Neikha. (NP) Correspondent

KO H I M A , A P R 1 2 (NPN): The XXIst Inter District Football Championship 2021 also called Dr T Ao Trophy got underway at Indira Gandhi Stadium, here, Monday with 12 teams from all over the state.

The championship is being organised by Nagaland Football Association (NFA) in collaboration with department of Youth Resources & Sports, Nagaland.

In league system, there will be four matches daily from April 13 till 15.

Groups wise defending champion Phek, Peren and Tuensang are in Group A. Group B consists of Zunheboto, Noklak and Kiphire.

While Dimapur, Mon and Wokha are in Group-C and Kohima, Mokokchung and Longleng together make Group-D. Quarter finals will take place on April 16 and semi-finals have been scheduled for April 17. The grand finale will take place on April 19.

The champions will get a cash prize of Rs. 3 lakh, runners-up will receive a cash reward of Rs. 2 lakh while the two semifinalists will get Rs. 50,000 each.

During the inaugural programme, advisor for Youth Resources and Sports, Er. Zale Neikha, in his speech as the special guest disclosed that PDA government under the leadership of chief minister, Neiphiu Rio, had decided to create a Sports Battalion under Nagaland Police.

This, he added, would be a great opportunity for all sports lovers especially for the upcoming young talented youths.

Zale further informed three more astro turfs were in the pipeline which, he said, would be completed this year, one each in Dimapur, Tuensang, under State Plan and one in Mon under Khelo India Scheme.

While paying tribute to legendary Dr. T Ao, the advisor also urged sportspersons to keep alive the memory of “our” legendary sportsperson to

serve as an inspiration for the future generation.

Commissioner and Secretary of Youth Resources and Sports (YRS) Alun Hangsing during the keynote address said that the championship had started many years back in 1976 until it was rechristened in 2004 by befittingly calling it as Inter- District Football Championship, Dr. T. Ao Trophy, an initiative taken up by chief minister, Neiphiu Rio. He said the trophy was to give honor and importance to our legendary footballer Dr. T. Ao and to inspire and motivate the youth of our State in general and the young footballers in particular to achieve the goal set by “our” legend.

Marking the occasion, a women exhibition match was played between IGS XI and Kohima XI where the former won the match by a solitary goal.

Tuesday’s matches Phek Vs Peren (9 am) Zunheboto Vs Noklak Dimapur Vs Mon Kohima Vs Mokokchung

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