December 10, 2018

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PAC 12-hr Dimapur bandh today

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, DEC 9 (NPN): Denizens of Dimapur City are bracing for the 12-hour shut down from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday (December10) called by the Public Action Committee (PAC) of the Naga Council Dimapur as protest against failure to effect arrest of main culprits responsible for the November 20 firing incident in the showroom of Riven Honda, run by a Naga lady entrepreneur.

The PAC, through its Media Cell, on the eve of the 12-hour bandh on Sunday, reiterated that the shutdown was imposed under the aegis of Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) comprising of 19 tribe hohos and NGOs in protest against the latest November 20 incident and multiple taxation, syndicate system, extortion, abductions in Dimapur.

PAC has appealed to citizens of Dimapur to extend support to the 12-hour Dimapur bandh by maintaining peace and tranquillity during the period.

Exemption: It also informed that in the interest of general public, the following have been exempted from

India should brace itself for slowdown for some time: Ex-CEA NEW DELHI, DEC 9 (PTI): Former chief economic adviser Ar vind Subramanian on Sunday warned the Indian economy was in for a slowdown for some time as agriculture and financial system were under stress.

Speaking at the release of his book, Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy, he said both demonetisation and implementation of GST have resulted in moderation of the economy and the budget estimate of revenue collection from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) seems to be unreasonable.

“To judge the GST by what the budget demands of the GST, is unreasonable. I will say it frankly, the budget has made unreasonable demands on GST. It has asked for 16-17 per cent (increase),” he said.

He also said that GST design could have been much better and there should not be more than three rates going forward.

The current rates are 28 per cent, 18 per cent, 12 per cent and 5 per cent.

With regard to the economy, he said, “we have to brace ourself for a slowdown for some time. I say that for a combination of reasons.

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the purview of the bandh on Monday: paramilitary, police, district administration, students appearing exams, medical personnel on duty, wedding participants with cards and stickers,funerals, tourists/travellers travelling by train/air with valid tickets, power department personnel with ID Cards and press and media.

PAC has also directed all its volunteers to strictly comply with the instructions for supervising and monitoring the bandh in order to prevent any untoward incident.

Incident: The incident that has sparked outrage took place on November 20 at around 5 p.m. when three unidentified miscreants on a two-wheeler fired several rounds from a 9 mm pistol at the show room of Riven Honda, a dealer of two-wheelers at River Belt Colony, near Notun Bosti Junction.

None of the five employees, present at that time inside the showroom were hurt.

PAC had issued a 7-day deadline on the authorities to nab the culprits failing which it threatened to impose a 12-hour bandh on

November 30 under Dimapur district. It claimed that those responsible for the incident were believed to belong to some NPGs and demanded that the latter identify them and also terminate their services with immediate effect.

PAC in the statement, had also demanded that the state government enact similar laws as that of Maharashtra’s MCOCA to deal with extortions and terrorist activities etc, since normal laws are not adequate to tackle such crimes.

PAC had also de manded additional security personnel for Dimapur in order to confront the present rampant illegal collection by the NPGs and various other organisations.

PAC called off the proposed November 30 bandh on November 27 after police arrested some suspects from the NPGs involved in the incident.

However, on December 1, PAC issued another statement castigating authorities for not pursuing to arrest the main culprits after arresting suspects. It issued a fresh deadline giving five days to arrest the main culprits failing which it will go ahead

with its proposed 12-hour bandh on December 7.

Then on December 5, PAC in appreciation of the setting up of Special Investigation Team (SIT)

by Dimapur Police to pursue the case, extended the deadline from December 7 to December 10.

Travel Advisory: In order to ensure safety of travellers to and from Dimapur on December 10, the Nagaland Tourist Police will be organizing teams of police escorts at various locations.

Timings of police escorts provided to Dimapur airport (11 a.m. and 12 noon) from Chümoukedima police check gate, from New Field check gate and from Dillai gate.

From Dimapur airport (12.45 p.m. and 1.30 p.m.) to Chümoukedima police check gate (30 minutes after landing of the Indigo and Air India flights), to New Field check gate (30 minutes after landing of the Indigo and Air India flights), to Dillai gate (30 minutes after landing of the Indigo and Air India flights).

To Dimapur Railway station every two hours starting 5 a.m.-- from Chü-

moukedima police check gate, from New Field check gate and from Dillai gate.

From Dimapur Railway station every two hours starting 6.30 a.m.-- to Chümoukedima police check gate, to New Field check gate, to Dillai gate.

From Tragopan point, police escorts will also be provided at 5.30 a.m. to New Field check gate, to Dillai gate, to Chümoukedima Check gate.

All travellers have been requested to join the escorted convoy as per the timings indicated above.

Tourist Police personnel will be available at all the specified locations to facilitate smooth movement.

In case of any emergency, tourists/travelers can contact the following helpline-- New Field check gate- 7085055010, Chümoukedima check gate7085055041, Dillai check gate- 7085055042, Piphema control room- 7085055007, Airport help desk7085055011, Railway Station help desk- 708505502.

The state government has directed DC Dimapur and Police Commissioner to ensure strict compliance of the advisory.

Winter Parl session from Dec 11; allparty meet today NEW DELHI, DEC 9 (AGENCIES): The Winter session of Parliament, the last full-fledged session before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, will commence on Tuesday ( December 11).

The government has called an all-party meeting on Monday, 10 December, to build a consensus for smooth functioning of the two Houses.

At the customary session-eve meeting called by the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry, the Prime Minister usually lists the government’s agenda and seeks the Opposition’s support for smooth transaction of official business.

The government would push for the passage of the ‘triple talaq’ bill pending in the Rajya Sabha. It had promulgated an ordinance to make the practice of instant triple talaq a penal offence.

The government also wants the Indian Medical Council amendment ordinance and the companies amendment ordinance to be passed as bills in this session.

Oppn parties meet to discuss anti-BJP front CAGBU seeks public support NEW DELHI, DEC 9 (PTI): In a major step towards forming an anti-BJP front, top Opposition leaders will huddle on December 10 to discuss forging a grand alliance to take on the saffron party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The meeting, significantly, comes a day before the results of the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram Assembly polls are scheduled to be announced and the winter session of Parliament is slated to begin.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is coordinating the meeting. He has invited the leaders of all the non-BJP parties.

“The main agenda of the meeting is to chart the future course of action for forming a non-BJP front,” a source said.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi are likely to attend the meet, during which the Opposition is also expected to chalk out a joint strategy for the winter session of Parliament.

During the meeting at the Parliament House Annexe, the opposition parties were expected to discuss their responses to government bills and issues related to the Rafale deal and farmers, sources said.

Not only the heads of non-BJP parties, but also the chief ministers of opposition parties from Kerala, Punjab and Puducherry were invited to the meeting, they added.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, , National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party

of India general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy and Aam Aadmi Par ty convenor Arvind Kejriwal are expected to attend the meeting.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M K Stalin, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav and Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav are also among those likely to attend the meeting.

Bahujan Samaj Party and Trinamool Congress will be sending their representatives. Biju Janata Dal president and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik was unlikely to be part of the meeting, sources said, adding that he might join the anti-BJP alliance post the general election.

Sources said there could be pre-poll as well as post-poll alliances, taking into account the interest of each state.

DIMAPUR, DEC 9 (NPN): Chümoukedima Area GBs’ Union (CAGBU) has appreciated the pace at which work for improvement of the Dimapur city portion of NH-39 from Purana Bazaar to Chathe bridge was being carried out.

According to CAGBU, this portion of the Highway is vital and indispensable for development of the area and needs to be taken up on priority basis.

In a statement issued by its president Tokishe Achumi, vice-president LP Therie and general secretary Atso Gwizan, the union admitted that people, commuters in particular, were facing inconveniences due to dust and bumpy roads and that this was an inevitable part of the development process. It, however, urged the contractors to ensure that water was sprayed at regular intervals to minimise the dust, while requesting the public to patiently bear with it.

The union fur ther urged the contractors to strictly comply with the specifications of the width and thickness of the road, even as it requested the public to clear their properties that fall inside the proposed expansion of the road.

Mentioning that these inconveniences could be solved with early completion of the works and for which public support and cooperation were a must, the union assured its full support to the ongoing work. It also appealed to all citizens to cooperate with the government to ensure timely completion of the project.

Once again urging all village councils along NH39 to provide assistance in the project so that the work progressed unhindered, CAGBU also appealed to the government to execute the project earnestly and ensure that it was completed in time, besides ensuring quality workmanship.

Nagas most hospitable, honest people: GOC 3 Corps

(L) Lt. Gen. Gopal R with other dignitaries on Sunday. (NP)

Correspondent

KOHIMA, DEC 9 (NPN): General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 3 Corps Lt. Gen. Gopal R said Nagaland was not only about colourful costumes, dances and songs, but also about the great tradition of Nagas as being the most hospitable and honest people.

Attending Day-9 of the Hornbill Festival at Kisama Sunday morning as chief guest, the GOC expressed his joy to be part of the festival, even as he congratulated the people of Nagaland for celebrating 55 years of their State’s existence.

He also greeted the people at the seasonal event and hoped that it would usher in peace and prosperity in the coming years.

NGBF rally: NCD Fuel prices slashed further informs affiliates NEW DELHI, DEC 9 (AGENCIES): Petrol and diesel prices continued their fall on Sunday as well. Petrol saw a drop in price by 15-20 paise, and diesel prices were cut by up to 22 paise across major cities of the country.

This brought petrol prices in Delhi to Rs 70.55, down by 15 paise per litre compared to Saturday. Diesel was Rs 65.09 per litre.

In Mumbai, petrol was retailing at Rs 76.13 per litre on Sunday compared to Rs 76.28 on Saturday; while Diesel was at Rs 68.10 compared to Rs 68.32 per litre on Saturday. In Kolkata, petrol was retailing at Rs 72.60 per litre on Sunday and diesel prices fell to Rs 66.82 per litre. In Chennai, the prices were at Rs 73.18 for petrol and Rs 68.70 for Diesel.

With crude oil prices continuing to decline, the prices have been seeing continual cuts.

Mewetshoü Dianu is Miss Nagaland 2018 NHM employees’ ceaseCorrespondent

KOHIMA, DEC 9 (NPN): “Winning the title alone is not important but to be a role model for young people and step out from the cocoon are too”, was Mewetshoü Dinau’s answer in the final round of the Miss Nagaland 2018 contest.

20 year old Mewetshoü, who emerged as Miss Nagaland 2018 and also bagged the title of Miss Perfect 10, in the contest held at RCEMPA Jotsoma, powered by Nagaland Tourism, and an initiative of Beauty and Aesthetic Society of Nagaland, on Sunday night.

Dinau, who stands 5.5 feet tall, was also Miss Phek 2018 and her vital statistics are 33-26-36. She walked home richer by Rs. 1.70 lakh with gifts hampers. She will also be brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Mission and also its State Icon.

She also said it had been her

(L-R) Grace W Ezung, Mewetshoü Dinau and Bendangkokla. (NP)

dream since childhood to win the title.

The first runner-up title was bagged by Grace W. Ezung (23 years), former Miss Wokha, who received Rs 1 lakh and gift hampers.

The second runner-up was Bendangkokla (20 years), 1st runner-up of Miss Mokokchung 2018, and she also received Rs. 70,000 and

gift hampers. Both of them will be ambassadors for the Swatch Bharat mission.

The other individual subtitles winners were Miss Talent bagged by Neingainem Kuki (Dimapur), Miss Photogenic bagged by Aka Achumi (Zunheboto), Miss Queen of Hearts and Best Evening Gown bagged

by Vekhotolu Lohe (Ko-

hima), and Miss Empower

by Tsuniholi (Zunheboto).

All of them received Rs. 10,000 each and gift hampers from various companies and organizations. Miss Multimedia was bagged by Marola (Mokokchung) she was given a gift hamper from Avon.

Miss India world Asia 2014, Koyal Rana, who was a guest judge, in her brief address before the result declaration expressed excitement to be part of the event and said people in Nagaland were frank and wore a smile and with warm hospitality.

T h e o c c a s i o n wa s graced by Nagaland governor, P.B. Acharya as the guest of honour. The other judges included Kohima DC, Rajesh Soundararajan; advisor BASN, Asu Keyho; Kaheli Chophy, FBB colors Miss Femina Miss India Nagaland 2017; Koyal Rana and Theyiesinuo Keditsu, assistant professor.

work from December 15

DIMAPUR, DEC 9 (NPN): National Health Mission (NHM) employees of Nagaland under the banner of National Health Mission Employees’ Association, Nagaland (NEAN) will resort to total ceasework from December 15, if the State government failed to release fund on or before that date.

According to NEAN president Dr Shasinlo Magh and general secretary Kewetso Kenye, fund from the State treasury to State health societies (NHM) account is required to be transferred within 15 days on receipt of funds from Union health & family welfare ministry as per a directive (no. D.0. No. G. 27017/612015-NHM (Fin), dated 7th June 2016) issued by the ministry.

However, the duo regretted that though the State

Stressing on continuing with the traditional values of honesty, simplicity and hospitality so that the future generations could also imbibe these qualities, the Corps commander asked the people to take a pledge to ensure that peace, prosperity and progress returned to this pristine land.

Observing that the culture and traditions of each Naga tribe was different and that it was so well showcased at Hornbill Festival, he added that the place would leave all the visitors mesmerised as they return home. GOC also assured that Assam Rifles and Indian Army personnel deployed in the state would contribute in whatever manner they could to enable Nagaland become a jewel in the East.

had received the first instalment for the financial year 2018-19 from the Union health & family welfare ministry, it had not paid the salary of NHM employees since September this year.

The association lamented though had it submitted a representation on September 10 to the chief secretary and chairman of governing body, NHM for timely release of fund from State treasury to the mission within 15 days, the same trend of pending salaries had been followed till date, adversely impacting the performance of NHM and wellbeing of its employees.

The association appealed to the government to reserve the salary component for one financial year whenever it received the fund so that the employees got their salary in time.

DIMAPUR, DEC 9 (NPN): In view of the proposed NGBF rally on December 12, Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) has asked all 19 tribes affiliated to it including Dimapur Urban Colony Chairmen’s Federation, GB Union Sadar Dimapur and Naga Women Hoho Dimapur to assemble at DC’s office complex here on December 12 at 10 a.m. for submitting a memorandum to expedite the Naga peace process. It also asked everyone concerned to wear traditional attires to show their solidarity on the issue. In a statement, Naga Council Dimapur president T Bangerloba and vice-president K Ghokheto Chophy, further urged all to come together and stand united as one family on this important issue.

48-hr KA & Dima Hasao bandh

DIPHU, DEC 9 (NPN): A lesser known organization, ITPKA, has called a 48 hour Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao bandh, from December 12, 5 a.m. to December 14, 5 a.m. The bandh has been called to demand scrapping of clause 8 of the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) accord signed on February 10, 2003, and also creation of an autonomous state encompassing three autonomous hill districts of Assam. The ITPKA has not issued any official press release on this matter but has put up a few posters at isolated locations.

(Correspondent)

DDK to telecast Hornbill closing

DIMAPUR, DEC 9 (NPN): Doordarshan (DD) Kohima will telecast the closing function of the 19th edition Hornbill Festival, Kisama, from 3:30 pm on the channels DD North East, DD Bharati and DDK Kohima.

This was stated in a communiqué by DD, Head of Office, A.K Tiwari.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018

Highlights of Hornbill Festival 2018 Patton and Cultural Extravaganza on Day 9 Bongkhao host day-8 DIMAPUR: The 9th day of the Hornbill festival celebration at Kisama was hosted by minister, Agriculture & Cooperation, G. Kaito Aye and advisor, Social Welfare, HG & Civil Defence, Noke Konyak. The chief guest was SM, General Officer Commanding 3 Corps, Lt. General, Gopal. R. AVSM. The cultural extravaganza began with the Chang cultural troupe of Noksen village enacting “Koku Jambü” - declaration of winter season feast. This was followed by a children’s folk dance performed by the Rengma Cultural Troupe.

Chakhesang Cultural Troupe demonstrated “Chüse Ketsü” - mass cursing. Traditionally, all villagers from upper and lower khels would gather at the public meeting place and curse those indulging in illegal activities like witchcraft, robbery, land encroachment, rape, murder etc.

The Yimchungers performed a folk tune called “Sangkung Thokhi Khündangusing” with a bamboo mouth organ.

The Phom troupe demonstrated Vangnyukpu, a ritual which is carried out for relief of the land and its dwellers from drought.

Two members of the Garo cultural troupe push against a bamboo pole between them in their demonstration of Wapong Kala on December 9. (DIPR) The Kuki troupe from Phangjang village performed a dance called Sagol Kengkhai, patterned on the movement of a group of wild pigs.

This dance is performed with the blowing of Theipit (wind instruments), drums and gongs.

The Konyak cultural troupe demonstrated Phoa Angoi Bu Tsai,

top spinning game. This game is played when an old field is abandoned for a new one, singing songs to the old field. The Ao cultural troupe demonstrated a dance which is an imitation of the fight between two cockerels.

A folk song called Luyu Thsak Khi was performed by the Sangtam

cultural troupe. The Khiamnuingan cultural troupe performed Shangleh, a folk song sung during festive gatherings.

The Garo cultural troupe demonstrated an indigenous game called Wapong Kala which is played between two contending parties (two participants only) who sit facing each

other grasping a bamboo pole.

The Kachari cultural troupe performed a traditional dance called Bai Bin or Suphen, which is performed during the post harvest festival of Bishu.

The Pochury troupe performed Ha Hye, a dance displayed during the feast of merit which enhances the prestige and social status of the host.

The Lotha troupe demonstrated Omi Elha- traditional fire making. The Angami troupe performed a musical number on Tati/Lubo, a stringed instrument. The Zeliang cultural troupe performed Chingda Be Lim, a courtship dance which is usually performed by young unmarried boys and girls of the village seeking prospective life partners. The Sumi cultural troupe performed a folk song called Le Jo Le, which tells the story of their cultural heritage passed down through the generations.

The afternoon cultural extravaganza was hosted by minister, Soil & Water Conservation, Women and Child Development, Kashiho Sangtam and advisor, IP&R, SCERT, Village Guard, Toshi Wungtung. General manager, North East Frontier Railway Construction, N.K Prasad was also present during the festival.

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DIMAPUR: Deputy CM, Y. Patton and Bongkhao Konyak, advisor, DUDA, on December 8, attended the morning session of the eight day of Hornbill Festival in Kisama as the hosts.

A press release from the deputy CM’s press secretary stated that the hosts were accompanied by BJP legislators and official dignitaries including the Home commissioner and DGP Nagaland.

Altogether 9 cultural troupes participated in the morning session. The gathering was entertained by Sumi folk-songs, Garo folk-songs and dance, Zeliang cultural troupe demonstrated the protective nature of worker bees through their honey bee dance, Angami troupe presented folk-song ‘Tsali Ludo’, Pochury cultural troupes also fascinated the audience with their energetic merit dance “Eho! Ehho”. Sangtam cultural troupes participated with a beautiful women folk-song, Lotha tribe, represented by Longsa village cultural troupe, demonstrated the traditional process of spinning cotton. The Kachari cultural troupe presented (Reemin Nehlaiba) traditional game practices by Dimasa people. Khiamniungan troupe enthralled the gathering with folk-song (Eio-Ah Shang).

Y. Patton along with the official dignitaries also visited some of the morungs at Kisama Heritage Village.

H. Yimchunger becomes MC Nun news in Brief ANTA Wokha celebrates advent Christmas

Rev. Sr. Chris John MC (formerly Hantsula Yimchunger) from Shamator at her religious profession in Kolkata on December 7.

DIMAPUR: At a solemn religious ceremony held at Mother Teresa House, Kolkata on December 7, Hantsula Yimchunger from Shamator professed her commitment to be a fulltime missionary and to be at the service of the poorest of the poor following the footsteps

of Saint Mother Teresa in the congregation of Missionaries of Charity (MC).

A press release from Rev. Fr. Leo Chase, Shamator stated that the function was attended by many priests, sisters, laity and family representatives.

The program included

Eucharistic celebration concelebrated by six priests from Nagaland.

Hantula Yimchunger, having taken vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the poorest of the poor will now be known as Rev. Sr. M. Chris John MC.

Legal awareness program for women in Kohima : Utkarsh Society for Social Change & Economic Reform (USSCER) will conduct a legal awareness program for women on December 10, 9 am at DBHSS Colony Kohima.

KAPO general session: The Khongsa Area Public Organisation (KAPO) has convened its general session for December 17, at its Head quarter Khongsa Town. All the Hd.GBs/Village Council chairmen, VDB secretaries, council secretaries, Students union presidents, general secretaries and intellectuals of Khongsa Area Villages have been requested to attend the session. Any members willing to put up an agenda should submit it on or before December 16, to the executive chairman KAPO. Clarification : Apropos the news item “Black Pepper cultivation training” published December 8, NCHD-IT has clarified that Imsunaro’s designation should be read as DM and not as rendered, and the press release was issued by NCHD-IT. (Correspondent)

Lok Adalats settle cases involving 1.5 crore

DIMAPUR: Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) conducted National Lok Adalats (People’s Courts) on December 8 by constituting 11 Lok Adalat benches across the state.

A press release by NSLSA stated that the

benches were headed by district judges, chief judicial magistrates and civil judges, who acted as presiding officers and Panel Lawyers served as conciliators, along with Para legal Volunteers who acted as members.

The release stated that

the National Lok Adalat through conciliatory and pervasive efforts were able to take up a total of 448 cases for settlement and grappled with a total of 352 cases for disposal and settlement before the jurisdiction of the Lok Adalat.

NSLSA reported that

the total settlement amount involved in the disposed cases was Rs. 1, 53, 42, 145.

It said the cases referred before the Lok Adalat dealt mostly with Bank Recovery cases and Motor Accident Claim Tribunal (MACT) cases.

HG&CD Mokokchung advent Christmas

Watilemba with staff and personnel of Home Guards & Civil Defence (HG&CD), Mokokchung after their advent Christmas program on December 8. (NP) Correspondent

MOKOKCHUNG, DEC 9 (NPN): Staff and personnel of Home Guards & Civil Defence (HG&CD), Mokokchung held an ‘Advent Christmas Celebration’ on Saturday, at the SDRF Barracks, hosted by Home Guards & Civil Defence district commandant, Watilemba.

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Speaking on the occasion, Watilemba stated that Christmas should not be celebrated like any other festival but people should let “Jesus be born in our hearts”, for true peace and happiness in life. He said Christmas should be a time to rejoice with one’s dear and love ones.

At the same time, the district commandant con-

gratulated the athletes from the department for having successfully participated in the “Home Guards’ & Civil Defence Professional Sports Meet & Raising Day 2018”, and for bringing laurels to the District by winning in seven disciplines. He advised them to maintain a healthy and a disciplined life style in order to win more glories in the future. In the recently

concluded Home Guards’ & Civil Defence Professional Sports Meet & Raising Day 2018, held from November 29 to December 6, athletes from Home Guards & Civil Defence, Mokokchung were champions in Volley Ball, Caroom and Block & Tackle and won 3rd place in ‘Triangular Bandage’, Group presentation, song competition and CBR.

In Tuensang and Longleng districts, mobile Lok Adalats were also conducted where the district legal services institution, with the assistance of traffic police personnel, conducted traffic challan (Traffic Ticket) inspection under various traffic regulations.

Rev. S. Thungrio Khuvung, ANTA Wokha and ACVA officials, and invitees during the advent Christmas service on Sunday. (NP) Correspondent

WOKHA, DEC 9 (NPN): All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) Wokha Unit celebrated Advent Christmas on Sunday with pastor Wokha Town Baptist Church (WTBC), Rev. S Thungrio Khuvung as speaker here at ANTA Wokha Unit office.

Reverend Khuvung exhorted the gathering on the significance of Christmas, while cautioning against a misplaced sense of celebration during the festival. He called upon the members to abstain from immoral and unchristian activities which, he said were sadly becoming

DCC Dimapur preChristmas celebration DIMAPUR: DCC, Dimapur held pre-Christmas celebration program at Congress Bhavan, Dimapur on December 8, with DCC Dimapur vice president, Chuba Aier as speaker.

A press release from DCC Dimapur, general secretary Tekhepfulhi Mero stated that Chuba Aier spoke on the true spirit of Christmas which, he said, is to celebrate the birth of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, rather than meaningless enjoyment with feasting and good clothes. Aier urged the gathering to inculcate a God-fearing attitude in all party activities so that doors to the promised blessings may be opened. NPCC vice president Jonathan Ao also exhorted all Congress men and women to continue their selfless efforts and contributions to the party and its activities. The celebration was chaired by Kutoho Chishi, media cell secretary, DCC, Dimapur, while Savi, VP, DMCC, invoked God’s blessings. Akashe Yeptho, VP, DYC, read from the Bible, Kikhevi, vice president, DCC, proposed the vote of thanks and Khekiho Yeptho, working president, ACCC, 5-Ghaspani II said the benediction. The program also saw special performances by NK Naga and Ajit while the Christmas cake was cut by DCC Dimapur president, A. Bendangyanger Jamir.

part of the festivities.

“It is disheartening to see many organisations in Nagaland functioning without Christ,” the Reverend lamented, as he praised ANTA Wokha Unit for putting Christ at the forefront of all its activities. He also offered a prayer for the association and its members.

P r e s i d e n t A N TA Wokha Unit, Hayithung Odyuo conveyed Christmas greetings on the occasion.

He reminded the members that the event was organised to foster friendship and unity among the members of the association.

Also extending greet-

ings, advisor ANTA Wokha Unit, Khyodemo Ezung called upon the gathering to uphold the true meaning and significance of Christmas.

General secretary, ANTA Wokha Unit, Lipenthung Ovung presented gifts to the invitees.

Earlier, deacon WTBC Mhathung Rangthang invoked God’s blessings. The program was chaired by Mhao Ngullie, steward WTBC. The service was followed by cutting of a Christmas cake.

Officials from All Commercial Vehicles Association (ACVA) Wokha also took part in the celebration.

SBCA triennial conference concludes

Er. Picto Shohe (extreme left) and group presenting a special number during the SBAK 6th Triennial Conference’s concluding day on December 9.

DIMAPUR: The Sumi Baptist Churches Association’s (SBCA’s) 6th Triennial Conference concluded on Sunday with Er. Picto Shohe, MLA, gracing the worship service as special invitee.

A press release by SBCA media cell stated that in his message, Er. Picto encouraged the Church to play a vital role in transforming Naga society.

Er. Picto also recollected the scriptural text, Ephesians chapter 6:1, which was taught to him by his mother, a women’s pastor who served for 30 years under the SBAK Ministry. He, along with his group, also presented two songs. Speaker of the service,

Sumi Biblical Baptist Church, sr. pastor, Rev. Yehoshe Chishi, challenged the Church and believers to sensibly fight the spiritual battle.

He also spoke on issues confronting Christianity and urged Sumi Churches to earnestly pray and pursue God’s will.

SBAK Pastoral Care Secretary, Rev. Tokhezhe Kiba and SBAK mission secretary, Rev. Vitoshe Aye, were the moderators of the conference.

SBAK executive secretary, Rev. Mulato Chishi also prayed for some retiring members while SBAK council chairman, Dr. Pihoto Khala thanked the host Church and well wishers for making the conference a success.

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A portion of a plantain plantation destroyed by wild elephants in Wokha district.

DIMAPUR: Old Riphyim in the area for the past 14 to not acknowledged them Village Council (ORVC) 15 years, damaging paddy nor given them adequate has appealed to the govern- fields, plantations and farm alternative ways & means ment to seriously look into areas causing damages and to survive, the council lathe grievances of villages huge losses to their source mented. severely affected by rampant of livelihood and income.

Expressing gratitude movement of wild elephants, It added that the villagers to the Forest & Wildlife deand bring out partment and disa c o n c r e t e Village council appeals for trict administration and sustain- government intervention for compensating able policy them in cash from for all affected people. have been cooperating with time to time, the council O RVC c h a i r m a n , government agencies to stated that these “little Nyanbemo Patton and head conserve and protect these incentives” were too meaGB, Wokhango Patton, in wild elephants for many ger for their sustenance a press release claimed years sacrificing their lim- because they are unable to that more than 50 wild el- ited farm lands. But in spite harvest much of the crops ephants have been dwelling of this, the government has and paddy they cultivate.

Hebron colony Phek mass sanitation drive

Hebron-I colony chairman along with residents, on the day of the mass sanitation drive, December 8.

DIMAPUR: Hebron-I Colony of Phek town conducted a mass sanitation drive within its colony jurisdiction on December 8.

A press release from Phek Town Youth Society (PTYS) press secretary, Kedupa Venuh stated that the colony chairman shared

about when the colony was awarded for its cleanliness. He also highlighted the forth coming Mini Hornbill Festival which has been scheduled for January 2019. He extended appreciation for the good turnout of people during the sanitation drive.

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Colony youth president, Kewetso Khape highlighted the work routine where students from Class-1 and above also actively contributed by picking up plastics. Altogether 270 colony members turned up to be a part of the drive.

CWSU to monitor NH construction within Wakching DIMAPUR: Combined Wa k c h i n g S t u d e n t s ’ Union (CWSU), consisting of Wakching Students’ Union, Wakching Town Students’ Union and Wakching Chingla Village Students’ Union, has constituted a committee under the nomenclature, “Wakching Highway Quality Checking Committee.”

Informing of this in a press release, CWSU c h a i r m a n , Yo n g l o n g Chemshe, and secretary, Methwang Konyak, stated that the committee will look after construction quality of the portion of National Highway, Merangkong-Tamlu-Mon road under SARDP-NE, that falls within Wakching i.e. from Dikhu bridge to Wakching-Tanhai boundary.

All firms and contractors executing works for the above project within Wakching have been informed that the committee shall monitor the work to ensure that they are executed as per the standards of a National Highway.

It also stated that until 2017, certain portions of their cultivable areas were not occupied by the elephant herds but since this year, the whole geographical area of Old & New Riphyim and Old & New Changsu have been invaded by wild elephants leaving no space for cultivation.

The council lamented that the villagers had donated large portions of their fertile land for the Doyang Hydro Electric Project, and now the elephants had taken over the rest with the government insisting that the villagers protect them.

It also stated that in the past few weeks the elephants had been encountered by villagers in the vicinity of Old & New Riphyim and New Changsu villages and now they have to spend sleepless nights to scare the elephants away which have started to visit the villages’ kitchen gardens.

“We have sacrificed a large portion of our ancestors’ land for a common cause and now we are again compelled to sacrifice the remaining as a good host to our wild visitors” it asserted.

NYK organises youth empowerment program

M Lithei Nyam with Nehru Yuva Kendra Longleng functionaries and attendees of the Empowerment program held at Hamlikong Village on December 6.

DIMAPUR: Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK) Longleng organised an awareness program on “Youth empowerment program for New India with special focus on entrepreneurship” at Hamlikong Village under Longleng district on December 6.

A press release by NYK Longleng stated that the resource person, social worker (youth development specialist), M Lithei Nyam, deliberated

on empowering youth so that they could make positive contributions to society.

The resource person also encouraged youth to venture into small enterprises to be self sufficient for which she urged them to learn skills.

Longleng being the land of handicrafts, Nyam said its citizens should utilize locally available resources and covert them into fine products to earn

their livelihoods.

The program, which was attended by various clubs and SHGs from the village, was chaired by NYV, Wanlem T; women leader of Hamlikong Fellowship invoked God’s blessings; program coordinator delivered the keynote address; VDB secretary, Hamlikong Village, Nukshi, exhorted the gathering; and a vote of thanks was delivered by NYV, Sunglam.

ICAR Nagaland short course for farmers

DIMAPUR: A ten-day short course sponsored by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) on “Development of AgriEntrepreneurship in NEH Region: A way for doubling the farmers income” was organized by ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre, Medziphema from November 27 to December 6.

A press release from ICAR Nagaland Centre stated that Dr. Capt. G. D. Rao, dean College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, CAU, Jaukie and chief guest of the occasion, appreciated the course coordinators in particular and ICAR Nagaland Centre in general for organizing such a training program.

Dr. Rao gave importance to development of

Dr. Capt. G. D. Rao with organizers, speakers and participants of the ICAR ten-day short course held from November 27 to December 6.

agriculture in NEH by laying more emphasis on horticulture, spices and livestock which is a very important component in hill farming.

During the valedictory function on December 6, Dr. Rajesha G, course coordinator presented a

summary of the ten-day program and highlighted different activities organized.

Seventeen participants from Nagaland, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir participated in the training program.

Various external resource persons from the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, APEDA, Spice Board etc. delivered lectures on their respective fields of expertise.

Dr. Mahak Singh, course coordinator proposed the vote of thanks.

Rongmei Indigenous Forum of Nagaland declares

Dimapur: Rongmei Indigenous Forum of Nagaland (RIFN) conducted their general meeting on December 8 at Ragailong Colony Council Hall, Dimapur.

A press release from general secretary, RIFN,

R. Kamei, stated that the meeting adopted a resolution to declare to the public as well as the government that RIFN is the only forum to address issues in regard to the 1313 recognised and enumerated by the government of Nagaland.

It added that with regard to recognition of the Rongmei tribe as one of the indigenous inhabitant tribes of Nagaland, RIFN was formed to protect and preserve the identity of the 1313 enumerated by the government of Na-

galand. It also mentioned that Rongmei Indigenous Forum of Nagaland is a separate entity that was formed to work for the welfare of indigenous Rongmeis who had settled permanently in Nagaland prior to 1963.

CETC holds graduation ceremony Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari was selected as “Winner - Jury Recommended” for the category Excellence in Facial Aesthetics and “Winner-Superstar” for the category Excellence in Clinical Dentistry at the International Dental Excellence Awards 2018 in Mumbai, on December 8. Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari is a private practising dental surgeon from Dimapur. (Temsumenla Jamir, DT&FA Dimapur)

DIMAPUR: Children Education and Training Centre (CETC) held its first graduation service at World Impact Community Church in Padumpukhri, Dimapur.

A press release from director, Indigenous Cultural Society, Dr. Y. Hesheto Chishi stated that secretary,

DoCEM, Y. Vishiho Shohe, was the speaker for the program where he spoke on the topic “Nurturing a Generation.” He also encouraged the outgoing students to live a life nurturing children and others. The program was chaired by Honikali Ghunato, and a dedica-

tory prayer was offered by WICC, Alemsunep Jamir.

Vote of thanks was given

by Shikatoli Yesca. The release also mentioned that altogether seven students graduated from the centre and Dr. Y. Hesheto Chishi honoured the students by presenting the awards.

CMO Peren staff urged to be responsible

DIMAPUR: Chief Medical Office (CMO) Peren district staff and officials were urged to be more responsible and regular in the monthly review meetings.

Charing the monthly review meeting on December 5 at the Conference Hall, CMO, district headquarters, New Peren, deputy CMO Peren, Dr. Supongmenla, lamented the low attendance during the monthly meetings and warned of penalties being imposed on absentees.

A press release by CMO Peren office stated that the Dr. Supongmenla also highlighted issues like staff irregularity, maintenance, and facilities proK Y M C

The monthly review meeting of CMO Peren in progress on December 5.

vided in the health units.

She also reiterated the importance of the monthly meetings for disseminating information to update one another.

In the meeting, DAPCU Peren, program assistant, Pauhaugan, gave a power point presentation on the performance of district AID’s Prevention

Control Unit under Peren district.

The presentation indicated various aspects of activities as well as targets and achievements.

The meeting was attended by district program officers, nurses, pharmacist, DAPCU staff, district and block program management unit staff NHM. Later, a short program was held for Advent Christmas which was chaired by district community mobilizer, Peren, Sekholu Ringa. A Christmas message was delivered by DPO NVBDCP, Dr. Limatula and BPM Athibung, Temsumenla Kipgen; and a vote of thanks was proposed by the deputy CMO.

The Dimapur centre of Brahma Kumaris organised a workshop on the topic “Farewell to tension” led by BK Poonam, (CS) stress management expert from Indore, on Sunday, at St Mary’s Montessori & Higher Secondary School, Dimapur.

Highlights of the workshop include 20 minutes of meditation and also sharing on solutions to tension. The workshop will culminate on December 20. (NP) K Y M C

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Manipur fake encounters: CBI files 5 FIRs against SFs

Manipur policemen (PTI/File)

New Delhi, Dec 9 (Agencies): Five FIRs have been registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the CRPF, Imphal Police and Assam Rifles personnel in connection with multiple cases of alleged fake encounters in Manipur.

The SIT was formed under the directions of the Supreme court in July 2017, following a petition filed before it to probe 1,528 cases of alleged extra-judicial killings in the state.

According to NDTV, the apex court had “ordered FIRs in 81 cases, including 32 probed by a commission of inquiry, 32 investigated

by judicial authorities, 11 in which compensation was given and six probed by a commission headed by former Supreme Court Judge Santosh Hegde.”

According to Rediff. com, in July 2018, the Supreme Court had pulled up the CBI over its delay in filing FIRs against accused in multiple cases of fake encounters in the state.

At that hearing, CBI Director Alok Verma had told the court that the SIT had already filed two FIRs in the matter and would file five more by August 2018.

Verma had also told the Apex court that “14 persons had been chargesheeted in

two cases for murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence under the provisions of IPC.” Rediff. com reported.

According to PTI, the Supreme Court had, on 12 November 2018, dismissed a plea filed by some Manipur police personnel seeking recusal of the judges of the bench in Manipur fake encounter cases in which the CBI special investigation team (SIT) is carrying out a probe. At the hearing, a two-judge bench comprising justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit noted that the petitioners had no reason to doubt the SIT and the probe conducted by it in these cases.

The bench also emphasised on maintaining the the institutional integrity of the judiciary and the CBI. The apex court’s order came on a plea filed by some Manipur Police personnel who had sought recusal of judges of the bench, claiming they had earlier termed some accused, who were charge-sheeted by the SIT in the encounter cases, as “murderers”.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018

Water handloom huts in Loktak lake removed

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IMPHAL, Dec 9: Northeast’s first ‘floating water handloom huts’, which was recently set up in Loktak Lake, have been removed on Sunday.

The five water handloom huts, built on phumdis (floating biomass) at Loktak Lake in Bishnupur district, were removed following a directive of state forest and environment minister Th Shyamkumar, an official source said.

The source said that state forest and environment department had recently written to all concerns taking up various initiatives in the Loktak Lake to remove all the structures they had constructed as it was carried out without prior clearance from relevant authorities.

It may be noted that the five water handloom huts on the phumdis were inaugurated by Tripura’s forest and tribal welfare minister, Mevar Kumar Jamatia during the Manipur International Textile Expo2018 on November 11.

The huts were constructed at a cost of Rs 75,000 each with the financial assistance from

IMPHAL, Dec 9: On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights (UDHR), CorCom, the conglomerate of major rebel groups operating in Manipur has called upon the “oppressed people” of the region to stand united on a common platform to wage war against the “colonial regime”.

A statement issued by media coordinator of CorCom on Sunday said that all human beings were born equal and free so, all people irrespective of the differences of cast, creed, colour, difference of religion, should enjoy equal rights.

It was this concept that leaders came together for under the banner of the United Nations and announced the UDHR on December 10, 1948 to end the violation of Human Rights in the aftermath of the Second World War. However, the right to self determination guaranteed under UDHR and ICCPR has no meaning for the people of WASEA region as they faced atrocities and violation of Human Rights committed under the draconian AFSPA, the statement added.

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the state department of textiles, commerce and industries.

A few days after the inauguration of the huts, state forest and environment minister Th Shyamkumar had warned the public to stop illegal construction in and around Loktak Lake as it could adversely affect the largest freshwater lake in the Northeast region.

He said that the constructions of buildings, including hospitals and schools without prior clearance from the authorities concerned should be removed at the earliest.

The minister firmly stated that there can be no development at the cost of the environment.

However, he clarified that the conventional methods used by the residents in and around Loktak Lake for livelihood, including boating would be allowed.

Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, and is famous for the phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matter at various stages of decomposition) floating on it.

CorCom reiterates appeal on UDHR day Dear Deep (Sandeep Das) Wishing you love, success, fortune, friendship, happiness and everything that you want on your birthday. We love you a lot and always wish the best for you. Dream Big and achieve it.

Happy Birthday to you!

From Ma, Papa, Dada, Mum, Jethu, Jethimuni, Sejopa, Sejoma, Kaka, Chotoma, Poo, Bhumi Didibhai, Tiya Didibhai, Joy, Mou, Keya, Yash & Bids.

2 killed in road mishap Correspondent

Diphu, Dec 9: Two persons were killed after the motorcycle they were riding on collided with a truck coming from the opposition direction at Phuloni township, NH 36 on Saturday. One of them was identified as Samsuddin of Doboka, Nagaon district, and the other is yet to be identified. Police have taken custody of the truck.

UPLA cadre arrested in KA

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Diphu, Dec 9: Dillai police has arrested one United Peoples Liberation Army (UPLA) cadre from Lahorijan locality of Karbi Anglong district on Saturday night. The cadre has been identified as Linkai Gantey. Police has recovered one .22 pistol and five rounds of bullets from the arrested person.

Coal laden trucks seized

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Diphu, Dec 9: Forest department officials seized five coal laden trucks from various locations of Silonijan area on Saturday night. However, the officials failed to arrest the drivers and handymen of the trucks. Official source informed that the illegal coals were headed for Nagaland without any valid documents. Coal mining has been prohibited in Karbi Anglong district.

75 % voter turnout in Assam panchayat polls Lack of govt focus adds to man-

Voters show their voting cards as they stand in queues to cast their votes during the 2nd phase of the panchayat elections, at Bhoragul in Nalbari, Sunday. (PTI)

Guwahati, Dec 9 (PTI): An estimated 75 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise Sunday in the second phase of panchayat polls in 10 districts of Assam which was largely peaceful, the state election commission said.

Voting will continue till

late in the night in 900 polling stations as many voters entered the polling stations in the last hour before the end of the stipulated time, Assam State Election Commissioner H N Bora told reporters here.

Barring three incidents of complaints received from Cachar, Karimganj

and Nalbari districts, polling was peaceful, he said.

Repolling will be held in eight polling stations of Cachar and Karimganj and one in Nalbari on December 11, Bora added.

The polling percentage in the 10 districts is 75 per cent, with Dhubri recording the highest of 86 per cent,

the SEC said.

The polling figure will go up as many people are still in the polling booths to exercise their franchise, officials said.

As voting began in the morning, a few cases of anomalies regarding names of voters and candidates, symbols along with ballot papers were reported, which were resolved locally and polling continued uninterrupted, the SEC officials said.

Polling is being held in Nalbari, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, South Salmara, Goalpara, Cachar, Hailakandi, Karimganj and Hojai to elect 169 zila parishad, 895 anchalik parishad, 895 gaon panchayats presidents and 8,950 gaon panchayat members from among a total of 35,056 contestants.

The first phase of polling was held on December five in 16 districts. The voter turnout on December 5 was 81.5 per cent.

Counting of votes will be held on December 12.

elephant conflict in Assam

Tripura: 18-yr-old killed, dumped in jungle by friend

State government as a whole has added to the intensity of the conflict.

“Key issues, like deforestation and degradation of forests, must be addressed as a matter of policy. Growing fragmentation of elephant habitat and movement corridors are having a worsening impact on the conflict. The situation is akin to that of a disaster and responses should follow in that line, with resources procured accordingly from line departments concerned,” Dr Bibhab Talukdar, CEO of conservation NGO Aaranyak told The Assam Tribune.

More than national parks and wildlife sanctuaries which enjoy better protection, the shrinkage and fragmentation of the vast network of reserved forests that account for a substantial portion of elephant habitat is triggering a spurt in human-elephant

I TA NAG A R , D E C 9 (AGENCIES): In what may be termed as an unfortunate incident, the dead body of a youth was found lying in the jungle on Saturday. The incident was reported by the local villagers Taruni Nagar of Fatikroy under North Tripura district after spotting the dead body. According to TNT, the police immediately rushed to the spot and recovered the body of Biplab Malakar aged 18 of the same village.

After few hours of investigation, police arrested a young boy identified as Bishal Malakar aged 19, residing in the same locality. Sources informed that the accused has confessed his crime. His confessional statement said that during Kali Puja in their house both Bishal and Biplab had consumed liquor in the adjoining areas of his house.

Later the accused murdered his friend Biplab due to unethical relationship with his mother.

GUWAHATI, Dec 9 (Agencies): The forest authorities seem completely clueless as elephant fatalities accruing from the raging human-elephant conflict have reached an unprecedented high in the State in the past two years.

According to The Assam Tribune, the statistics are chilling. In 2017, over 60 elephants died in Assam, mostly from trainhits, poisoning and electrocution, and 43 of the fatalities took place during September-December. The human casualty, too, was high at over 40 for the year.

The situation apparently turned worse this year with 64 humans and 53 elephants losing their lives till December 4, 2018.

Conservationists feel that the absence of a focused approach by the forest department and the

conflicts.

“Elephant habitat in reserve forests is not only getting degraded and fragmented, but is also shrinking rapidly, causing drastic reduction in the carrying capacity.

It is not surprising that the conflict is now being witnessed in areas previously not exposed to such conflict,” he said.

While forest officials point out that various measures, including compensation against crop loss and human death, have been adopted to reduce humanelephant conflict, conservationists stress that much more needs to be done to ease the situation.

“Plantation, better vigilance on elephant movement, quick dispensation of compensation, relocation of inhabitant on elephant corridors, etc., are on our agenda to ease the conflict,” a forest official said.

China and Pak supported Mizo insurgency: Zoramthanga UBC pre-Christmas musical night Aizawl, Dec 9 (PTI): Once a dreaded militant and now a leading politician in North East, Zoramthanga has completed writing his autobiography, which, he terms, will be a very controversial book and is likely to be objected by both Pakistan and Chinese governments because of detail accounts of their “support” to the insurgency in Mizoram.

The two-volume book, to be called ‘MILARI’ in Mizo language, is currently being translated into English and the Mizo National Front President Zoramthanga plans to make it into a Hollywood movie in future with the potential of being at par with the flicks on the life of legendary revolutionary Che Guevara. In an exclusive interview to PTI, the two-time Chief Minister of Mizoram expressed confidence of his party forming the next government in the state and said he will release the Mizo version of the book post the election results on December 11.

“I have written my autobiography in two volumes.

It will be really, let us say, a very controversial book. (It) may be objected by Pakistan government and the Chinese also,” Zoramthanga said.

The book will have detailed descriptions of his 20 years of underground

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days, which will include how Dhaka had failed with the capture of Lieutenant General AAK Niazi’s one lakh troops by Indian forces, he added. Zoramthanga informed that MNF cadres were mixed with commandoes of East Pakistan and were captured by Lieutenant General JS Arora, but later all escaped and went into jungle again.

The autobiography will talk about “how we made a dead devil James Bond type escape to East Pakistan through Rangoon and through the Arakan forest marching for days and days, how we met Bhutto and how we started peace talk with the Government of India in foreign countries”, he added. Zoramthanga said it will also mention about how he and MNF insurgents

had gone to China and “met Premier Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, Lin Biao and Chiang Ching” along with other Chinese leaders. “...and how we here got a help from the Chinese government in the form of arms etc. This has to be recorded. Some of the publishers dare not publish these things. But anyhow, I have written these in Mizo language and it is now being translated (into English),” the MNF President said.

Asked when he plans to release the book, Zoramthanga said the printing of the two volumes in Mizo language is already completed and once he forms the government in the state post Assembly results, it will be released.

Talking about the release of the English version,

he said: “I don’t not know.

Translation is starting now.

(It) depends upon when it is finished. Some Mizo professors are translating it. I believe that I will find a good publisher.”

Expressing his desire to see his life on the silver screen, Zoramthanga said his autobiography has all the spices and plots to become a wonderful Hollywood movie if any producer comes forward.

He, however, is not interested in giving the book to Bollywood as the Mumbaibased industry may not have the courage to showcase everything that includes MNF’s fights and strategies against the Indian government... and many other sensitive information.

“So in India, they may not like to make it into a Bollywood movie. But in the United States, where everything they dare to make it, I believe that it will be at some sort of par with the Che Guevara’s those underground days movie. And I will try to publish these and make it into a movie. And it will be a very good movie for the Hollywood people,” Zoramthanga said.

After releasing the English version of the book, if any Hollywood movie maker shows interest, he is ready to discuss and make

the project successful, he said enthusiastically.

‘MILARI’ is the name of Zoramthanga’s daughter.

It is also a collection of initials of different words.

“MI stands for Mizoram, LA stands for Lalpa that means Lord and R stands for arrangements -- Remruatna arrangement.

The last one ‘I’ took it for myself. That is, Mizoram -the lord’s arrangements and myself. And the book is going to be called MILARI,” he added. When the Mizo Freedom Movement started in 1966, Zoramthanga joined the underground agitation and moved to the jungle. MNF’s secessionist movement came to an end in 1986, when it signed the Mizo Peace Accord with the Government of India and created a separate state for the Mizos, called Mizoram. When the MNF formed the government in 1987 under the leadership of Laldenga, Zoramthanga looked after Finance and Education departments. In 1990, when Laldenga died, he became the President of the MNF. In the Assembly elections of 1998, he led his party to victory and became the Chief Minister of Mizoram and was re-elected in 2003 for the second consecutive term.

Guest band, Friends Male Voice band performing at the pre-Christmas musical night. (NP)

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DIMAPUR, DEC 9 (NPN): To spread Christmas cheer in the locality and invite people of all communities to join in on the festivities, United Baptist Church (UBC) in Choto Lengri, Karbi Anglong, organized a pre-Christmas celebration through gospel music and songs at Choto Lengri playground on Sunday evening.

Retired principal director, health and family wel-

fare, Dr Sukhato A Sema, who was the special invitee on the occasion, urged the crowd to invite the “King of hope and God of Glory into your lives” assuring them that they would experience His goodness.

United Baptist Church, Choto Lengri, Lumtsuo Ezung who delivered the welcome note, said the idea behind organizing the program was to move beyond the confines of the Church and invite everyone residing in the area to be part of

Christmas.

The program witnessed performances by pastor Robin Mech; retired joint director, Agri, Keyivi Sema; the guest band Friends Male Voice Band; and Gideon Ministry Dimapur.

The invocation was pronounced by UBC associate pastor, H Phangla Phom the benediction was offered by UBC youth director, Mark Konyak. The program was chaired by, Elemy Mech and Alem Luklem.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018

RSS leading ‘forces of darkness’: Brinda

5 Goa missing out on medical tourism: Rane

Stalin holds talk with Sonia, Rahul ahead of opposition meet

of darkness led by RSS and to take forward the values of social reforms. This is the big battle of ideas happening in Kerala and not just on the Sabarimala issue,” Karat, 71, asserted.

Bi-polar polity dominates Kerala, where the Left Democratic Front and the Congress-headed United Democratic Front remain the big players. The BJP, a relatively new entrant into the state’s politics, has extended support to the devotees opposed to the entry of women of menstrual age into the shrine whose deity, Lord Ayyappa, is celibate.

The temple opened for the two-month-long pilgrim season on November 16.

But prohibitory orders had been imposed in and around Sabarimala by police following the protests and fear of violence after the apex court order. The BJP has demanded that the prohibitory orders be lifted.

Terming the court judgment on Sabarimala issue

as one aspect of what the BJP, RSS’s blueprint is for Kerala, Karat said the state witnessed a wave of social reforms in the 19th and the 20th century and its people needed to decide now if they want to stand with social reforms or recede into darkness.

“All section of society had been involved at that time and mobilised by the great social reformers. Even that time they had to face the wrath of the Hindu orthodoxy.

“What is the fight now is whether those values of social reform and renaissance movement should be taken forward or whether Kerala’s society will be pushed backwards by the RSS. That is the real issue,” she asserted.

Karat said the CPI(M) has always said whether a woman goes to the temple or not is her choice and if she wants to go, she can’t be prohibited.

“Only the fertile wom-

en are prohibited, which assumes that menstruating women are impure just as Manushruti (an ancient legal text among many Dharmashastras of Hinduism) holds,” she alleged.

She said the agitation launched by BJP-RSS against the Supreme Court verdict has been exposed for “what it really is”.

She said the RSS-BJP and also the Congress leadership initially had welcomed the apex court verdict but later made a U-turn because one section of Kerala’s Nair Service Society, which are linked to royal family, opposed the SC’s judgment.

She alleged the Congress too has been protesting against the implementation of the September 28 judgment.

“The Congress by siding with BJP-RSS’s protest in Kerala over the Sabarimala issue became an accomplice in advancing the political agenda of the saffron party,” Karat alleged.

Cong threatening probe officers: BJP

Pass resolution in support of Women’s Bill: Rahul Gandhi

Facing flak, threats Ramchandra removes beef tweet

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI): CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat has alleged that the RSS is leading the “forces of darkness” and it is now the fight of ideas with them in Kerala as the right-wing organisation is piggybacking the Sabarimala issue to gain entry to the state.

In an exclusive interview to PTI, Karat, her party’s lone woman politburo member, claimed the entry of women of all ages into the Lord Ayyappa Temple in Sabarimala is not about religion but politics for the BJP. Her allegations against the RSS-BJP came as Kerala witnessed massive protests by devotees opposing the entry of women of menstrual age into the hill shrine after the LDF government decided to implement the September 28 Supreme Court order to that effect. The BJP has said it stands with the devotees who hold the Sabarimala tradition close to their hearts — and will not

New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS): A day after the Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of misusing investigating agencies, the BJP hit back saying the Congress was threatening probe officers and that there will be action against the corrupt, irrespective of which powerful family they belonged to.

Addressing a press conference here, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain said the Congress was questioning the credibility of investigating agencies and threatening their officers because action was being taken against Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra.

His remarks come after the Congress stepped up its attack on the Modi government over the searches at the premises of people linked to Vadra. It alleged that actions by investigative agencies were being carried out on opposition leaders

Brinda Karat (File) let the LDF “crush people’s faith with impunity”.

The court is set to hear on January 22 petitions seeking a review of its verdict.

Karat said one million women in Kerala will march against the BJP and the RSS on January 1 to halt their foray into Kerala by piggybacking on the Sabarimala issue.

Women will form human chains across Kerala to stand up for social reforms, she said.

“It is to stop the forces

Shahnawaz Hussain (File) at the behest of the Prime Minister. “Our agencies do not see how powerful a person is or which powerful family he belongs to. People from powerful families used to think there won’t be action against them no matter what they do. But based on evidence, the action has happened and will continue to happen,” Hussain said.

“Since there has been action against Robert Vadra and his company, the Congress leaders are now raising questions and threatening investigative agencies and their officers saying ‘desh ka mausam badal raha hai’

(the wind is changing).

“They should know that the wind is not changing but the nation is changing.

Now there is no place in this nation for the corrupt.

If anyone indulges in corruption, there will be action against them,” he said.

Hussain said the Congress party had no argument left and was making allegations against the BJP government to hide its failures. He said the Congress would never come back to power. “They can’t even wait for the (December 11) results and are already threatening officers. We will win Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan. We worked at the ground level and are confident of forming the government with clear majority.” Asked if the government would pass an ordinance to build the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, he said the larger ‘janbhavana’ (public sentiment) was that it should be built at the earliest.

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI): Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, urging his government in the state to pass a resolution calling on the Centre to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill.

Gandhi has written the letter, seeking passage of a resolution urging the central government to pass the bill, to the chief ministers of those states where the Congress is in power.

In his letter to the Punjab CM, Gandhi noted that the Rajya Sabha passed the 108th constitutional amendment bill in 2010, but it lapsed after the dissolution of the 15th Lok Sabha in 2014.

“The Congress and several parties have called on the prime minister to ensure the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill and pledged their support.

New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS): Eminent historian Ramchandra Guha, who is amongst the most vocal critics of the BJP, facing flak on Twitter after he put up a picture of himself enjoying beef, was on Sunday forced to remove and apologise for his earlier take after threats and phone calls.

Guha on Saturday wrote: “After a magical morning in Old Goa we had lunch in Panaji, where-since this is a BJP ruled state-I decided to eat beef in celebration.” To this repartee, one Twitter user replied: “If a Hindu eating beef and publicise it he is stigma on this religion. One Ramchandra Guha is doing so. He is trying to tease whole of Hindus by this dastardly action of such publicity. Should be given befitting reply.”

Guha identified this Twitter user R.K. Yadav as “a former official of the Research and Analysis Wing”, and reported the matter to the social media site on

Panaji, Dec 9 (PTI): Goa is missing out on medical tourism as it has failed to attract patients from abroad, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said Sunday.

He said private and government hospitals will have to work unitedly to ensure Goa becomes a destination for people from other countries looking for quality health care. “We are missing the boat as far as medical tourism is concerned. We are still not in a position to attract people from other countries to Goa to get operated,” Rane said. “There are other states which are achieving this (medical tourism). I strongly believe private and government (health sectors) need to work in a united manner to achieve this,” Rane added. He said there should be integration of private and government health care establishments since it was not possible for the state to work alone to improve medical facilities.

MK Stalin (File) New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS): Ahead of the crucial meeting of opposition parties in their bid to forge an anti-BJP front, DMK President M.K. Stalin met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday and discussed a range of issues.

Informing about Stalin’s visit on twitter, Rahul Gandhi said: “We had a warm and cordial meeting and discussed a range of issues.

“I look forward to continuing our dialogue and to strengthening our alliance that has stood the test of time.”

Stalin met Sonia Gandhi on the day of her 72nd birthday along with former Union Minister D. Raja and Kanimozhi.

The December 10 meeting in the national capital has been called

by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu, aimed at brainstorming over a possible front to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

A host of opposition leaders were expected to participate in the meet that was earlier scheduled for November 22 but was postponed because of the Assembly polls to the states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Mizoram and Rajasthan.

tone and responded with: “I take your point. The photo was cavalier and unnecessary. The argument about the freedom of choice as regards diet could have been made without it.”

“I have deleted the photo of my lunch in Goa as it was in poor taste. I do wish, however, to again highlight the absolute hypocrisy of the BJP in the matter of Ramchandra Guha (File) beef, and to reiterate my Sunday. An indignanat rian tweet such stuff. What own belief that humans Guha said: “I would like to will the lesser-read do?” must have the right to eat, dress, and fall in love as they place it on record, and will Tarun Shukla said.

Guha then changed his choose.” do with every subsequent threat received.”

He aslo said: “I have received threatening calls from a man calling himself Sanjay from Delhi. He threatened my wife as well as me.”

However, later when some more tweets from other people criticised his photograph for being in bad taste, he removed the tweet.

“One may have political leanings/views but why say celebrating an animal’s slaughter. Sad to see a histo-

Union Cabinet ‘biggest casualty’ in Modi govt: Sinha Kolkata, Dec 9 (PTI): Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha Sunday accused the Narendra Modi government of destroying various institutions in the country, including the Union Cabinet.

Speaking at a talk show, ‘Idea of Bengal’, organised by the ruling Trinamool Congress, Sinha accused the prime minister of trying to “undermine” the Rajya Sabha during the passage of key bills.

“The Modi government has destroyed various institutions of the country.

But the biggest casualty is the Union Cabinet,” the former Union minister alleged.

“I am saying this because several important decisions are being taken without informing the Cabinet, be it the Rafale jet deal or demonetisation,” added Sinha, who held the finance and external affairs portfolios in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.

Parliament was the “second casualty” as the Modi gover nment has “tried to undermine” the Rajya Sabha, during the passage of several important bills, Sinha said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) does not enjoy majority in the Upper House of Parliament.

Calling demonetisation a “disaster”, Sinha said the government was trying to “dress up” the figures of economic growth to hide the “failures” of its economic policies.

“First they changed the methods by which

economy,” he said.

The Modi government has a “habit” of blaming the previous governments for all the wrong things that had “either happened or are happening” in the country, he added.

“In 2014, the government had given specific figures of the amount of NPAs, now again in 2018 they have come up with a new figure of NPAs till 2014. The idea is to put all

the blame on the previous regimes,” he said further.

Sinha stressed that West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee had “all traits” to make a good prime minister.

He hoped that West Bengal and Trinamool Congress would play a major role in defeating Modi in the 2019 general elections.

Shri Y. PATTON Dy. Chief Minister Nagaland

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Exiting on 2019

s per exit polls, out of five states, results are a mixed bag with Congress expected to wrest Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The polls show the TRS retaining Telangana while the MNF is likely to spring back to retake Mizoram.

The big fight in the state of Madhya Pradesh is likely to be inconclusive with neither the Congress nor BJP expected to obtain majority. All in all, the BJP appears to be the biggest loser if it cannot retain Madhya Pradesh, loses Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The party has been in power for 15 years in MP and Chhattisgarh, and voices of a vote for change were heard often during the campaign. The exit polls seemed to confirm the two-decade trend of Rajasthan voting out the incumbent government. The final outcome will have a significant impact on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in these states where BJP had done exceedingly well in 2014. These trends promise a shot in the arm for Congress, which is BJP’s main political adversary at the national level. The Grand Old Party has not defeated BJP in a direct contest in any state election since 2014. The outcome will certainly adversely impact the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. If exit polls for five assemblies come true on December 11, the Congress is all set to have its resurgence since May 16, 2014 when it was reduced to 44 MPs in the Lok Sabha polls. The BJP, on the other hand, has to not just go back to the drawing table but will also have to buy a new one. Though Narendra Modi is still the most popular leader for the simple reason that he has is being projected as the only leader by the media and also for being a good orator; whether that alone can work wonders is doubtful.

Besides Modi’s popularity, the BJP also has total sway over a pliable and scared media which dare not make things difficult for Modi as any criticism against him could bring unwanted consequences.

True there is no other leader who comes close to Modi but that does not mean voters will continue to vote for the BJP because of Modi. The nearly five years under Modi has shown how the ‘Gujarat Model is tailor made for the inventor and driver.

Be that as it may, the exit polls indicate that the BJP would be ruling in 11 states after December 11. Presently, the BJP is ruling in 12 states and heads coalitions in two states. The undercurrent of disenchantment within the BJP is a factor that can upset the Modi-Shah partnership. The other factors include failure to meet the impatient aspirations of voters and dismal performance of CMs either RSS men or handpicked leaders is already eating into the BJP’s base in states like Haryana, UP, Maharashtra, Goa. It’s worse in states like Maharashtra, where the Congress is back with the NCP. The exit polls speak numbers and probable trend. Even if exit polls turn right, one thing is clear, that the BJP is not going to be a pushover. This is so because BJP has a highly effective leadership hierarchy which Congress sees little need of and huge resources which Congress lacks. These are going to be crucial when the going gets tough.

DailyDevotion The Opposition of the Natural Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. —Galatians 5:24 The natural life itself is not sinful. But we must abandon sin, having nothing to do with it in any way whatsoever. Sin belongs to hell and to the devil. I, as a child of God, belong to heaven and to God. It is not a question of giving up sin, but of giving up my right to myself, my natural independence, and my self-will. This is where the battle has to be fought.

The things that are right, noble, and good from the natural standpoint are the very things that keep us from being God’s best. Once we come to understand that natural moral excellence opposes or counteracts surrender to God, we bring our soul into the center of its greatest battle. Very few of us would debate over what is filthy, evil, and wrong, but we do debate over what is good. It is the good that opposes the best.

The higher up the scale of moral excellence a person goes, the more intense the opposition to Jesus Christ.

“Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh….”

The cost to your natural life is not just one or two things, but everything. Jesus said, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself…” (Matthew 16:24). That is, he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.

The natural life is not spiritual, and it can be made spiritual only through sacrifice. If we do not purposely sacrifice the natural, the supernatural can never become natural to us. There is no high or easy road. Each of us has the means to accomplish it entirely in his own hands. It is not a question of praying, but of sacrificing, and thereby performing His will.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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he RBI monetar y policy is cautious, speaks of the broad spectrum, apprehensive of the future course and is silent on rising NPAs beyond the known sectors.

It speaks of GDP growth around 7.1 percent, much less than in the first quarter. It has maintained status quo on interest rates.

But ideally it should have gone in for a rate hike. The policy is more industry – even crisis hit real estate – centric. It expresses a veiled concern about the banking finances but overtly does not speak it out.

Does it mean it may be considering a rate hike after April 2019? It may be necessary for two reasons – to safeguard banks and spur deposits. The low interest rates and high bank charges on people’s own money are leading to a credibility crisis as NPAs do not abet. It hints at not so stable market conditions.

The monetary policy has pegged itself on inflation and its uncertainties. The RBI is not confident that food inflation would remain low and is uncertain about the falling crude prices and international geo-political tensions.

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Monetary policy cautious

The policy statement has cited seven risks to inflation, including volatility in the food grain market. The biggest risk it sees is in the unusually low food prices and in many cases lower than July minimum support prices (MSP). It is a soft way of saying that farmers are not able to sell their products even at MSP. The RBI apparently is seeing a distress situation. Its food price volatility sensing may be based on a crisis in the farm sector as logically such low prices are unaffordable for the producers.

As GST collections are yet to stabilize, it fears a fiscal slippage at the centre and state levels. If this were to happen, the policy outlook says it would heighten market volatility and crowd out private investment as inflation may not be avoidable for long. The statement should be taken as suggestion to the government for adopting a tight-rope fiscal policy – something politically difficult to accept in an election year.

The banking sector had gone through an intense banking sector health check in October-November. The loan portfolios, including

that of MUDRA, credit guarantee scheme for MSMEs run by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and even kisan credit card had been closely scrutinized.

The sector had been particularly concerned about many MUDRA loans turning bad, credit risk to SIDBI and the issues of waivers to farmers. According to a Merrill Lynch report waivers are likely to double to Shivaji $40 billion – Rs 28000 crore - by March 2019.

Many political parties have promised waivers during the recent state assembly elections. This is a populist move ostensibly to help the farmers but bankers view it as a way to vitiate the credit culture. The banking sector found that in view of such announcements many farmers who are capable to repay have stopped repayments. It bodes ill for banking.

It is a strong suggestion for correcting the political economy and populism.

In June, 2018, a joint study by SIDBI and credit bureau TransUnion CIBIL, revealed that while MSME NPA rates had remained stable between March 2017

and March 2018, there was a looming threat. “The future NPA in the segment may be driven by Rs 11,000 crore exposure, which are currently tagged as ‘standard’ but belongs to entities at least one or more exposures of which are tagged as NPA by other banks or credit institutions,” read the report. “Additionally, as of March 31, 2018, there is a system-wide exposure of Rs 1,20,000 crore belongSarkar ing to entities having risk exposures. These exposures are expected to add Rs 16,000 crores in NPA by March 2019”.

In October, a study of the situation of MSME and MUDRA creditors in banks all over the country has found the situation difficult.

This is a follow up of the parliamentary Estimates Committee meeting. The NPAs of the 38 listed banks collectively crossed Rs 10.17 lakh crore in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal, with the 21 public sector banks (PSBs) accounting for the bulk of it.

In a written answer to the Rajya Sabha in endMarch, Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla

had admitted that the PSBs had collectively written-off over Rs 1,154 crore in NPAs in the last fiscal till December 31. It is 103 percent jump over the amount written off in 2016-17.

The concern of MUDRA, a flagship programme, is palpable. Some irregularities have reportedly been found and steps are being contemplated.

A major concern is the Shishu – tiny – loans where loans of up to Rs 50,000 are given out, with an average loan size of Rs 23,316 crore.

This means that the majority of loans are small amount loans to almost 90 percent of the people. Arguably, it is difficult to imagine what a start-up can do with Rs 23,000. Tarun – mid-size – upto Rs 5 lakh, loans, as per 2016-17 annual reports is 1.36 percent of the total credits disbursed.

In 2018-19, so far, over 63 lakh loans have been sanctioned with a total disbursed amount of Rs 26,600 crore. These are being closely monitored for repayments.

The banks are also not seeking much refinancing, a factor necessary for the sector to grow. In 2016-17, 11 banks sought Rs 1886.73

crore, as against Rs 2432 crore availed a year bank.

This is attributed to slowdown following note-ban. It has also led to a repayment crisis.

A revelation is that mere loan disbursements do not increase production though it causes depletion of bank assets. Deposits are not growing the way it used to be as the depositors are less enthused about the low interest rates.

For the survival of the banking sector, it is looking for a critical balancing and is looking to work on a low spread between lending and deposit rates. The monetary policy does not address these issues though now it has to.

It also needs to ponder over how long it could survive on the low deposit interest rates as it prevents infusion of funds. Low lending rates increase immediate offtake but the repayments are problems.

The banking sector has to go through an overhaul and the industry could not thrive long on low rates.

Banks have to act for deposits’ safety and expansion lest a decade-old Lehmantype crisis develops, now in India.

Post-mortem

Right to live with depression #notashamed Nagaland: The paradise for the corrupt

W

hat is Depression?

A question to which you would receive many answers, where many believe it to be too much of tension, where some would say its sadness, and some would term it as madness but very few would term it as a mental illness, an illness which definitely isn’t about being or going mad, it’s an illness similar to any other diseases that’s diagnosed by the Dr and also cured over a period of time. In the 21st century that we live in, many people in the country and worldwide suffer from depression, where some are able to identify it and then seek help, where as the rest are still in the process of digesting the fact that depression is just a mental illness and we can survive it with the help of psychiatrists and psychotherapy.

Most people experience feelings of anxiety or depression at the times of grief, loss of a job, divorce or any other reasons that can lead to feelings of sadness, worry, frustration and loneliness.

These are definitely normal reactions to difficult situations in life. BUT some people experience these feelings daily without any reason, which then tends to interfere in their daily life ,where normal activities isn’t possible. In this case, people might be suffering from depression, anxiety or a combination of both.

Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hate socialising.

It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralysingly numb. It’s being colourblind and yet constantly being told how colourful the world is.

People think depression is sadness. They think depression is only crying and dressing in black. But no they are wrong depression is the constant feeling of being numb, being numb to emotions and being numb to life. Wherein you wake up in the morning to just go back to bed- going to bed is itself an escape from the world and from its reality.

It’s a total feeling of emptiness and a big void that’s filled within. in the initial stage it’s when you begin to have mood swings, irritability, lack of sleep or too much sleep that’s either insomnia or hypersomnia, fatigue or loss of energy everyday, feelings of worthlessness and excessive guilt, a loss in appetite,

which leads to a significant weight loss or a gain in appetite for junk food or plenty of sugar products that leads to immense gain in weight, impaired ability to think or concentrate, then slowly it comes to a point where you no longer care if there a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel, that’s when recurrent thoughts of death occur, recurrent suicidal thoughts or attempts happen without a plan. And that’s how many people with depression put an end to life, because we think that’s the only escape BUT NO my dear friends DEATH ISNT THE SOLUTION, there is medical help that we can seek at the right time and get cured. I know many people going through depression while reading this article would say it’s so easy to say but hard to do, trust me I CHOKPA BHUTIA post graduated from university of Delhi and a former journalist have depression. But I prefer to say “I battle” depression instead of saying “I suffer” with it because depression hits but I want to hit back and battle on. In the initial stage I was afraid to even utter the word depression, wondering what my colleagues or my conservative society would say or comment or even judge me for that matter, I was very scared but today I have taken up all the courage to share my story because I don’t want another Chokpa to go through what I went through. My family stood by me all these years as I went through this mental illness that at first I thought wasn’t curable but then my Doctors and my family had more faith in me than I did myself, they saw that I would be cured over a period of time and that this wouldn’t last. I am still under medication but have come a long way and today I feel Proud that I have come to a state where I have gained the courage to share the fact that I was diagnosed with depression and that I am #NOTASHAMED of it.

Discussing mental health in itself would be edgy, as one can’t underestimate the seriousness of depression.

It literally drains a person’s energy, optimism, and motivation. Your depressed loved one can’t just “snap out of it” by sheer force of will. As this makes it difficult for a person to connect on a deep emotional level with anyone, even with the people he or she loves the most. Mostly depressed people often say hurtful things and lash out in

anger but always remember this is the depression talking and not your loved one so try not to take it personally.

So this International Human Rights Day lets all stand by those with depression and spread awareness that they also have a right to live a normal life just as the rest. Let’s all promise to help a depressed loved one or a near one, let’s all hold hands and tell them they are not alone in this fight with mental illness. First and foremost let us all accept the truth that it’s OK to have depression or be depressed, let’s not consider it something very contagious but rather lets accept it with open minds and lets come forward to help those in need. If not by anything else atleast by making those ignorant about what it is, lets educate them and tell them that its curable and it’s just a matter of time.

Let us all accept them and support them in living a life that they have the right to. If you know someone who is depressed, please resolve never to ask them Why?. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Someone rightly said “when your depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you.

I wish people would understand this.”

If someone you love is depressed or is suffering from depression, your support and encouragement can play an important role in their recovery. You can help them cope with depression symptoms, overcome negative thoughts and regain their energy, optimism, and enjoyment of life.

These guidelines can help you support a depressed person in their recovery. All of these facts only suggest that concern and attentiveness is the key prevention of losing someone due to depression.

My dear friends Trust me no matter how bad things are right now, no matter how stuck you feel. No matter how many days you have spent crying and wishing things were different. No matter how hopeless or depressed you feel. I promise you that you won’t feel that way forever. Keep going!!

I say “I am hurt or bent, but am not broken, I am scarred, but not disfigured.

I am sad, but not hopeless.

I am tired, but not lifeless. I am afraid, but not Powerless.

I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed but not giving up now or ever”.

Chokpa Bhutia, (chokpab@gmail.com)

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hat I believe life in Paradise is this. The literal meaning of Paradise is heaven as I learnt it from the Bible; it denotes the third Heaven. Paradise is the place where the saved souls will inhabit eternally. It is a country of bliss as God will provide everything in plenty.

That country is filled with joy, contentment and happiness as equality is the rule for life and as the environment is totally bereft of evil –Satan and cohorts are bound and imprisoned in Hades forever and from where none can escape.

Beside, in that country, there is no law for punitive measures for the reason that every citizen is immune from blame and suspicion. Each citizen has, by grace, becomes perfect in the eye of the Ruler. None of the citizens of that country has the tendency to commit sin nor any evil is present to tempt anyone to lust for sin.

Therefore, the country has no Police as no force is required to remain vigil on wrongdoing. There is no law court as without law the establishment of court does not arise or required for there is no case to try. There is no prison as there is no citizen who is required to be imprisoned. Thus, that country has no such imposing and frightful infrastructure except the infrastructure of freedom.

The Reports of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India was presented in the last session of Nagaland Assembly. Subsequently, local papers repeatedly highlighted immense anomalies committed in many Govt. departments relating to misappropriation of funds. However, the agency of CAG in Nagaland seems to have strong tendencies to skip and shelve the most sensitive and bigger scams by bigger rats. In such business, the said agency is not free from stigma. However, the layman have to rely only on those corrupt evidences so published in the media, and here the readers are once again reminded of how the State of Nagaland is run today.

1. Brown Sugar Seizure: In this case of seizure of 6.9 kgs of brown sugar on 3rd. August, 2018, the IGP, (CID), now under suspension, did neither register the criminal case against the peddlers nor the case was entered in the General Diary while releasing the two black marketers from whom the drug was seized along with their vehicle, with the condition that they

have to bring the kingpin, kept the drug in PHQ store and then took it to his residence saying that his house was safer than the Police Store are simply funny. Beside, the way the IGP (CID) was conveniently manipulating the whole issue without timely intervention of the higher authority is looked murky. It took almost 3 months, from 3.8.2018 till the fake end of October, 2018 for the State Govt. to decide to suspend the officer. The way the concerned authorities who handled such serious matter casually and lethargically appears to be of clandestine joint venture. The suspended officer is the ringleader and for which he deserves punitive action and yet shelving the issue under the guise of taking action against a single officer will amount to scuttling the case. This case needs comprehensive investigation so as to bring it to a logical conclusion.

2. Student Scholarship: Very minimum percentage of student population belonged to creamy layer whose parents have more than enough to finance their education. Whereas, absolute majority of our students who enjoy Scholarships are poor. Thousands depend on their scholarships to make both ends meet. The responsible authorities in Technical Education Department refusing to acknowledge the hardships and struggles of pooper section of parents in financing their children education is un-Christian. See the exposures of the CAG as to how the Technical Education Department has been misusing the Scholarship funds from three Scholarship Schemes, namely, State Technical Scholarship, Merit-cum-Mean based Scholarship and Post Metric Scholarship as published by local papers dated 22nd September, 2018. Being conscious of space, inclusion of the analysis here is not advisable. Only brief instances of how funds released to Technical Department have been grossly misused. For 2014-15 and 2015-16, a total amount of Rs.3.30 crore was released to Technical Directorate. Out of Rs.3.30 crore, Rs. 1.81 lakh was paid to students during 2015-16 and 2016-17 respectively leaving a balance of Rs.1.49 crore. Out of Rs.1.49 crore, Rs.35 lakh was spent for admission fee of 3 MBBS students from backward tribes.

(To be concluded) Z. Lohe

Reader’s Post

Have some consideration Sir,

The festive season is already here and people are beginning to gear up for parties and so forth. However, it would be for the interest of all if loud music is played only up to a certain hour of the night. No one has the right to stop others from partying but those partying must also have some consideration for neighbours. Loud music till 2 to 3 am is not advisable even if it is Christmas time.

Temsunaro Longkumer, Kohima

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

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018

‘Kartarpur a game plan of ISI’

Chandigarh, Dec 9 (PTI): Claiming that Pakistan Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa had broken the news of opening of the Kartarpur Corridor to Navjot Singh Sidhu even before Imran Khan was sworn in as their prime minister, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh Sunday dubbed the whole affair as a “bigger conspiracy” hatched by the Pak army.

“The opening of the Kar tar pur Corridor is clearly a game plan of the ISI,” the Chief Minister said, adding a bigger conspiracy seems to have been hatched by Pakistan Army against India.

He admitted that Pakistan was attempting to revive militancy in Punjab and thus everyone should be wary of all of its overtures, no matter how grand they appear to be, an official release, quoting him, said here.

The Sidhu affair was being unnecessarily hyped and those raising it had clearly failed to see the ISI game plan, said Captain

Amarinder Singh (File)

Amarinder, lashing out at the Akalis for branding the Punjab minister as stooge of the Pakistan Prime Minister. The Chief Minister hit out at the Akalis and the BJP Central leadership for “indulging” in unwarranted controversy over his (Chief Minister’s) relations with Sidhu.

This, he said, was in a bid to divert public attention from the core issue of Pakistan’s continued and deliberate perpetration of terror activities in Punjab with the ultimate aim of destabilising the border state. Singh said the demand for opening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor was pending since partition as several holy Sikh shrines (Sri Nankana Sahib, Sri Panja Sahib, Dera Sahib

and Kartarpur Sahib) had been left in Pakistan. Even former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Dr Manmohan Singh had taken up the issue of opening the Kartarpur corridor with Pakistan, he added.

Amarinder said he himself had raised the issue with his Pakistan Punjab counterpart Parvez Elahi and with the then President, Parvez Musharraf during his previous tenure as the chief minister.

The Chief Minister said Imran Khan was undoubtedly making efforts to bring peace, tranquillity and harmony with India, but at the same time he should also prevail upon the top brass of Pakistani Army to ensure that killings of our soldiers at borders are stopped immediately.

On why he opted not to go to Pakistan for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor, Amarinder said he declined the invite because he could not think of going there while Indian soldiers and civilians were being killed by the Paki-

stani Army.

Amarinder Singh warned Pakistan against carrying on with its nefarious designs and urged it to desist from trying to foment trouble in Punjab.

He also asked Pakistan to put an immediate end to the killing of Indian soldiers at the borders.

The Chief Minister charged the ISI with pursuing its ulterior motive to create law and order problem in Punjab by exploiting the religious sentiments of innocent Sikh youths in Canada, USA and even in Europe, and arming them with funds and weapons.

Captain Amarinder Singh also lashed at the ‘Sikhs For Justice’ for abetting terrorism in Punjab by whipping the religious sentiments of Sikhs.

He said that the people of Punjab, especially the Sikhs from rural areas, would not lend support to its so called ‘referendum 2020’. The SFJ’s claims of the Kartarpur Corridor being a gift of Pakistan also had no takers in Punjab, the Chief Minister added.

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Accused jawan denies role in Bulandshahr violence

L u c k n ow, D e c 9 ( AGEN C IE S ) : U t t a r Pradesh government transferred another police officer over allegations of negligence on Sunday, even as an Indian Army soldier was questioned over the killing of a police inspector and a 21-year-old man in mob violence following allegations of cow slaughter in Bulandshahr.

Additional superintendent of police (rural) of Bulandshahr, Raaes Akhtar, was the fourth officer to be removed after the violence that erupted on December 3 after the recovery of cow carcasses in the district’s Mahwa village.

Special Task Force deputy superintendent Brajesh Kumar said the soldier, who was handed over by the army to the UP Police on Saturday and arrested shortly after midnight, denied any role in the violence during interrogation by a special investigation team set up to probe the matter.

Jitendra Malik alias Jeetu Fauji was later sent to 14-

day judicial custody. An SIT member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Malik told investigators he had no motive to kill the police inspector.

The jawan denied he was carrying a firearm during the violence, the SIT member said. He added that the police will apply for the jawan’s custody on Monday to question him further.

Malik’s lawyer Sanjay Sharma said he will move his client’s bail application on Monday. “Jitendra Malik told the court that he had no involvement in the inspector’s murder,” he said.

A team of the army brought Malik from Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir late on Saturday and handed him over to officials of the STF in Meerut. He was shifted to Bulandshahar late at night, according to the police.

Principal secretar y (home) Ar vind Kumar said on Sunday Akhtar was transferred to the post of ASP, Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) head-

quarters in Lucknow. Manish Mishra (a Provincial Police Service officer), who was serving as in-charge of a modern control room in Ghaziabad, will replace Akhtar, an IPS officer of the 2014 batch, he said. The three other police officers are senior superintendent of police Krishna Bahadur Singh, Syana circle officer Satya Prakash Sharma and Chingrwathi police outpost in-charge Suresh Kumar.

Bulandshahr peaceful now: UP DGP

Uttar Pradesh DGP O P Singh Sunday said the situation in Bulandshahr district, where two people died in violence following an alleged cow slaughter incident last week, is peaceful now.

Singh, however, evaded a query by reporters on the role of Army jawan Jitendra Malik who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh during the violence.

Man detained for trying to slap Union minister Athawale

Thane/Mumbai, Dec 9 (PTI): A 30-year-old man was detained for allegedly attempting to slap Union minister Ramdas Athawale at a public event in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Saturday night, police said.

The Republican Party of India (Athawale) chief was in Ambernath town to address a rally. Athawale had just got off the dais after delivering a speech on the Constitution when the incident happened at around 10.15 pm, a police officer said Sunday.

Pravin Gosavi, on the pretext of garlanding Athawale, allegedly tried to slap him, following which people overpowered him, beat him up and handed him over to the police. The minister of state for social justice and empowerment was not harmed as the bystanders and police managed to foil Gosavi’s attempt to assault him, the officer said.

Gosavi, who was first admitted to a hospital in Ulhasnagar town following the public beating, has been shifted to a state-run hospital in Mumbai, police said.

PM, leaders greet 3 LeT militants killed in encounter near Srinagar RSS leader Joshi attacks BJP Sonia on her birthday Among the opposition leaders were DMK president MK Stalin, M Kanimozhi and A Raja who called on Mrs Gandhi.

Her son Rahul tweeted a picture of Mr Stalin greeting her with a bouquet of peach roses.

The DMK also invited Mrs Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for the inauguration of M Karunanidhi’s statue in Chennai on December 16, according to news agency ANI. Like every year, Congress workers celebrated outside 10 Janpath, her home in central Delhi. Top Congress leaders wished her on Twitter.

Other opposition leaders who wished her include West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav.

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah too joined the chorus and tweeted his wishes.

Sonia Gandhi was born in 1946 in Lusiana, Italy. She has been the longest serving president of the Congress and headed the party for 19 years before Rahul Gandhi succeeded her last year.

She was married to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991.

The fire was retaliated, leading to a gunfight, he added.

“In the initial exchange of fire, one Army jawan was injured, who is admitted to a hospital. Three civilians also sustained injuries as the area was open and they were shifted to a hospital.

They are stated to be stable,” the spokesperson said.

Three militants were killed in the counter and their bodies were retrieved from the site, he added.

The slain militants were identified as Mudasir Rashid Parray and Saqib Bilal Sheikh -- both residents of the Hajin area in Bandipora district -- and from the evidence collected, one militant was learnt to be a Pakistani, identified as Ali,

Jyotiraditya Scindia (File)

Asked if he considers himself as a front-runner for the chief minister’s post in case the Congress wins the elections, Scindia said he does not want to answer hypothetical questions. The Guna MP said he has consistently maintained that the goal of the entire Congress party has been to unseat the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh.

“Once that is achieved, the next step is for the party leadership to decide (on the chief ministerial face),” said Scindia, one of the top Congress leaders in the state who had won the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 despite a huge wave in favour of the BJP. Scindia and the state Congress chief Kamal Nath are being seen as main contenders for the chief minister’s post if Congress

encounter site, the police spokesperson said.

“All those materials have been taken in the case records for further investigation and probing the slain militants’ complicity in other terror cases,” he added.

The slain militants were wanted by the law for “their complicity in terror crimes”, he said.

“Ali, according to police records, was involved in several terror crimes and cases were registered against him, including for attacks on security establishments and civilian atrocities. He was involved in the recruitment of ultras in the Hajin and Sumbal areas of Bandipora,” the police spokesperson said.

Maneka orders inspection of all Odisha shelter homes Bhubaneswar, Dec 9 (PTI): Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has ordered an inspection of all shelter homes in Odisha, a fortnight after allegations of sexual abuse of minor girls at a home in Dhenkanal district came to light. In a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik last Friday, Gandhi said, “I strongly believe that the concerned authorities must assume moral responsibility for this incident. I have asked Secretary, Ministry of WCD to get an inquiry conducted in this.

“I have also asked (the) National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to get all the homes

emerges victorious in the state.

On whether the selection of the chief minister by the Congress in case of a win could leave some senior leaders “hard done”, Scindia said: “Not at all. One must understand, that we have to learn from our past.

in Odisha inspected immediately.”

An NGO-run shelter home in Beltikiri village of Dhenkanal -- 106 km from Bhubaneswar -- was sealed last Sunday and two people, including its managing director, had been arrested following allegations of sexual harassment.

“It is a matter of regret that the district administration has no knowledge about how it functions, despite the fact that it is only 10 km away from the district headquarters,” Gandhi said, adding that the license of the shelter home in question had expired in October.

The minister said there were also

reports of “religious conversions” at the shelter homes run by the NGO, pointing out that most of it had been functioning without registration since the last two years. The minister alleged that the state government had failed in providing security to women and children. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, too, had sought the Centre’s intervention in the matter.

“I sincerely urge you to take exemplary action against the perpetrators of this heinous crime in order to stop the illegal functioning of the shelter home,” Pradhan had written in a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI): Senior RSS leader Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi on Sunday made a veiled attack on the BJP for not fulfilling its promise of constructing Ram Temple in Ayodhya and demanded the Union government to enact a legislation, if need be, for it.

Speaking at a VHP rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, the RSS executive head said, “Those in power today had promised to construct Ram Temple. They should listen to people and fulfil the demand of temple in Ayodhya. They are aware of the sentiments.”

Without naming the BJP, Joshi added, “We are not begging for it. We are expressing our emotions. The country wants ‘Ram rajya’.”

Thousands of people have gathered at Ramlila Maidan for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad rally, which comes ahead of Parliament’s winter session commencing on Tuesday. The title suit of the Ayodhya land dispute case is pending before the Supreme Court. In January, the court is expected to announce a date for the beginning of the hearing. But as

the dispute has remained unresolved for more than 25 years, right-wing groups are demanding that the Union government sidestep the courts and go ahead with the temple building. VHP president Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje and its international working president Alok Kumar are also expected to address the rally.

The traffic police has issued an advisory detailing diversions in view of the rally. It said no traffic will be allowed on Ranjeet Singh Flyover (from Guru Nanak Chowk to Barakhambha Road), JLN Marg (from Rajghat to Delhi Gate), Chaman Lal Marg near VIP gate. Elaborate security arrangements have been made at Ramlila Maidan and snipers have been deployed on high-rises.

The VHP had carried out a door-to-door campaign to make the rally a success.

“It is a massive gathering which will change the hearts of all those who are not in favour of bringing the bill for construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya,” VHP’s spokesperson Vinod Bansal said.

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Unity our strength in MP polls: Scindia New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI): Asserting that factionalism in the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Congress party is a “thing of the past”, senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia said Sunday the entire state leadership worked as a “united front” during the assembly polls in a bid to dislodge the BJP government.

Scindia, who spearheaded an energetic and spirited campaign for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, said there is an “uprising for change” in the state.

“During my campaign, I covered over 115 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh.

There is an omnipotent energy -- it is an uprising for change,” he told PTI in an interview. Some exit polls have given an edge to the Congress to form a government in the state after remaining in opposition for 15 years, while others have predicted a close finish for the grand old party and the ruling BJP. Counting of votes for the November 28 elections to 230 assembly seats in the state will take place on December 11.

the spokesperson said.

“The three militants were affiliated to proscribed terror outfit LeT,” he added.

Parray was reportedly 14 years of age and one of the youngest militants killed in the valley. His gun-wielding picture had surfaced on the social media earlier this week, after he had gone missing from his house in August. However, the police said Parray’s age could not be confirmed.

“We do not know if he was 14 or 16, though he looked young. There is no way to confirm whether he was the youngest militant ever or not,” a senior police official said. A huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including rifles, was recovered from the

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New Delhi, DEC 9 (Agencies) UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was greeted by leaders from across the political spectrum on her birthday, a day before the crucial meeting of opposition parties in Delhi. Mrs Gandhi turns 72 today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished her on Twitter. “Best wishes to Smt. Sonia Gandhi Ji on her birthday. I pray for her long and healthy life,” PM Modi tweeted.

A meeting of opposition parties to discuss a grand alliance against the BJP for the 2019 national elections is scheduled for Monday. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, MK Stalin, Tejashwi Yadav and Chandrababu Naidu are among the leaders who are expected to attend.

The meeting also comes just ahead of parliament’s winter session, seen as the opposition’s last chance to take on the government in the house.

The opposition is likely to raise several issues such as the Rafale deal, distress in farm sector, and working of the CBI. Gandhi, who has been facing health issues, did not campaign actively for the recently-concluded elections. She attended only one public meeting in Telangana last month.

Srinagar, Dec 9 (PTI): Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including one of the youngest ultras in Kashmir, were killed in an 18-hour gunfight with security forces on the outskirts of Srinagar Sunday.

A soldier and three civilians were also injured during the encounter, a police spokesperson said.

“A search operation was launched Saturday jointly by the police and the security forces, based on a credible input about the presence of militants in the Mujgund area on the Bandipora road,” he added.

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The store is owned by young entrepreneur Nishant Harlalka.

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI): Public sector lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) has put up for sale two dozen non-performing assets to recover dues of over Rs 1,779 crore.

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M-cap of Hindustan Unilever (HUL) surged Rs 14,990.19 crore to Rs 3,94,583.03 crore and that of Kotak Mahindra Bank rose by Rs 9,516.85 crore to Rs 2,44,548.88 crore.

DIMAPUR, Dec 9 (NPN): ‘Ikali Studio’, a fashion store was launched on December 8 at 3rd Mile Dimapur opposite Chekiye Gate by advisor, Skill Development, Labour & Employment & CAWD, Kazheto Kinimi.

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New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI): Six of the 10 most valued Indian companies together lost Rs 54,916.4 crore in market valuation last week, with Reliance Industries (RIL) taking the biggest hit. ITC, HDFC Bank, SBI, HDFC and ICICI Bank were the other companies that witnessed a decline in their market capitalisation (m-cap), while TCS, HUL, Infosys and Kotak Mahindra Bank finished with gains for the trading week ended December 7. The market valuation of RIL slumped

by Rs 22,153.28 crore to Rs 7,18,317.52 crore while that of ITC plummeted Rs 14,877.75 crore to Rs 3,35,637.09 crore.

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The newly inaugurated Ikali’s Studio. (Inset) Ikali Sukhalu.

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assets, or being a company whose assets or directors/ promoters are not traceable, as also individual defaulters being untraceable. In some cases, the dues remain unrecovered even after executing all modes of recovery.

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Therefore, Sebi is of the view that treating outstanding dues that cannot be recovered even after exhausting all modes of recovery as ‘difficult to recover’ will help allocate resources towards dues that have better chances of recovery.

Sebi, which had also sought views of the Finance Ministry, Reserve Bank and the Corporate Affairs Ministry, has also clarified that it is not considering any “scaling down or writing off ” of the dues.

While the RBI did not offer any comment on Sebi’s proposal, the Corporate Affairs Ministry has said it had no objection to the proposed policy. The Department of Economic Affairs has stated that Sebi may formulate such a policy, but it needs to be comprehensive on the lines of the one for the income tax department.

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challenge of finding right candidates for investments and on the other hand possible candidates are waiting for that money. We are also discussing a structure,” he told PTI. He said during his meetings with Japanese funds, they raised certain issues like regulatory burden and long documentation process.

“I have asked to them to give the list (of those regulations) and we will take up all those,” he said.

He added that a committee has been set up under Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secretary to ease regulatory burdens.

“There was an issue of too much documentation.

We have suggested to bring Japanese and Indian lawyers together who are dealing with corporate and commercial laws and we will

prepare a set of standardised documents...So we are going to do this immediately,” the minister said.

“We will discuss the sector limitations of these funds. So we would do mandate matching and we will talk specifics,” he said, adding the ministry is collecting details about startups.

“We will provide all information but fund has to take a call to invest and startups have to take call whether they want money from them.

We will do match making,” Prabhu said.

Further, he said that as pension funds want to invest for the long-term, India could provide information about infrastructure projects, “so we are working on all this and have told them that we will put in place a complete research”.

According to DIPP data, foreign direct investment into the country grew by 3 per cent in 2017-18 to USD 44.85 billion.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is important as India would require huge investments in the coming years to overhaul its infrastructure to boost growth.

Overseas inflows help maintain equilibrium with respect to the country’s balance of payments and value of the rupee.

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI): Faced with difficulties in recovery of penalties and other dues from some defaulters, capital markets regulator Sebi is planning to create a separate category of ‘difficult to recover’ cases for optimal utilisation of its resources.

However, Sebi can initiate or continue its prosecution proceedings against the defaulters even after such a segregation and recovery procedure can be reopened in case there is any change in prevailing parameters regarding the defaulter, officials said. A proposal in this regard is expected to be discussed by Sebi’s board at its meeting this week, they said.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has got powers to recover money from various entities by way of passing orders for refund of money to investors, disgorgement of funds to be distributed to investors, and also collect fees and penalties levied by it.

Since getting the recovery powers in 2013, Sebi has initiated recovery proceedings against more than 1,600 defaulters, but it has experienced difficulties during the execution of these proceedings in certain cases.

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Panaji, Dec 9 (PTI): The government will put in place a proper mechanism including easy regulations, detailed information and less paperwork for global funds to invest in the country in areas such as infrastructure and startups, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said.

The minister has held multiple meetings in the recent months with several global sovereign wealth funds, insurance funds and pension funds from countries like Japan, Australia, Canada, Singapore and South Korea to attract investments in India.

Prabhu said these global funds face certain challenges like finding the right candidates in the country for investments, among others, “so we are discussing a structure (for them)”.

He also said there are sector limitations of these funds as they have mandates to invest in specific areas like renewable energy.

“There are challenges for getting funds for startups. We are following up with sovereign wealth funds, insurance funds, pension funds, and other large funds.

We are discussing with International Finance Corporation (IFC).

“These funds have a

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French PM seeks ‘unity’; 1,700 protestors arrested

Paris, Dec 9 (IANS): French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Sunday vowed to “restore national unity” after violence during the weekend forced police to use tear gas and rubber bullets against the “yellow vest” demonstrators, who protested against fuel tax rises and high living costs, leading to over 1,700 arrests.

However, the violence on Saturday that was the fourth one was not on the same level as the week earlier, the BBC reported.

Discussions with peaceful protesters “must continue”, Philippe said, adding “No tax should jeopardise our national unity.

We must now rebuild that national unity through dialogue, through work, and by coming together.”

He said President Emmanuel Macron, who many protesters felt should stand down, would soon “put forward measures to foster dialogue”.

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner praised police, who had been deployed in force, for containing much of the unrest. Castaner, who warned that the number of arrests increased due to the violence in Paris and some other cities added that 118 demonstrators were known to have been injured along

slashing taxes, improving infrastructure, curtailing immigration and ending the privatisation of public services, among many other issues. In a tweet late on Saturday, Macron thanked the security forces for their “courage and exceptional professionalism” against the “gilets jaunes” protesters.

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People run away from a burning car during clashes, Saturday in Marseille, southern France. (AP/PTI)

Elysees, the Yellow Vests’ main meeting point.

With a view to prevention, and following the December 1 vandalism, most businesses in the threatened areas remained closed, starting with the big department stores. Also shut were the monuments and museums of Paris like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. In addition, from the early hours, 36 subway stations remained closed.

Other disturbances

took place around the country, including Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseilles, Lyon and Nantes.

Demonstrations by the Yellow Vests movement began as a protest against increased taxes on fuel planned for 2019, a ruling that was annulled this week by the government.

Many still demand the resignation of Macron as they continue to demand an increase in social spending on pensions and education,

Twitter CEO under fire for Myanmar tweets

Iran to stage military drills in Indian Ocean

San Francisco, Dec 9 (IANS): Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey, who faces a lawsuit for hurting Hindu sentiments during his visit to India in November, now faces criticism for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the country.

In a series of tweets, Dorsey said he had travelled to northern Myanmar in November for a meditation retreat.

“The people are full of joy and the food is amazing,” he said, before encouraging his four million followers to visit.

This led to widespread criticism of the Twitter chief, some accused him of ignoring the plight of the Muslim Rohingya minority.

In 2017, Myanmar’s military launched a violent crackdown after Rohingya militants carried out attacks on several police posts.

Thousands of people were killed, and human rights organisations said the army

with 17 police officials.

During protests on December 1, 201 civilians and 284 police personnel were injured amid scenes of urban guerrilla tactics.

French authorities deployed a huge police force and used water cannons, tear gas and, for the first time in 40 years, a dozen armoured cars.

The first clashes between police and protesters occurred last Saturday morning in the Champs

Jack Dorsey (File)

has burned land and committed arbitrary killings and rape.

“Writing what is effectively a free tourism advert for them at this time is reprehensible,” one Twitter user wrote in response to Dorsey’s tweets.

“The tone-deafness here is... wow,” another user said. “This is an extremely irresponsible recommendation,” yet another reads.

“Does he pay no attention to the news and the outcry on his own platform?”

The military crackdown had also sparked an exodus of more than 700,000 Rohingyas who have since fled to neigh-

bouring Bangladesh to escape the violence and the destruction of their homes.

The UN has described the operation as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and says senior Myanmar officials should be investigated and tried for genocide.

Mohammed Jamjoom, an Al Jazeera correspondent, who has interviewed Rohingya refugees, said he was left “utterly speechless”

by Dorsey’s tweets.

Dorsey is yet to respond to the criticism, but earlier said he would track the responses to his tweets.

A court in Rajasthan on December 1, asked the police to file a First Information Report against Dorsey for hurting the sentiments of the Brahmin community by posing for a picture holding an antiBrahmin message.

Dorsey was seen posing with six female journalists in a picture on Twitter, with a poster in his hands carrying the offending antiBrahmin message: ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’.

Tehran, Dec 9 (IANS): Iran’s navy has planned to stage large-scale military drills in the Indian Ocean in the coming months, the media reported citing officials.

The exercises are aimed to “boost Iran’s naval performance in international waters and to display the country’s military prowess,” Xinhua news agency quoted Deputy Navy Commander for Coordination, Hamzeh Ali Kaviani, as saying to Press TV. The manoeuvre will be held this winter within the perimeters of Iran’s southern territorial waters and high seas, Kaviani said.

The naval official added that the navy’s state-ofthe-art equipment, including two submarines and destroyers, would take part in the drills, Press TV reported on Saturday. In February 2017, Iranian naval forces held another large-scale manoeuvre in the north of the Indian Ocean.

The “yellow vest” protests have been “a catastrophe” for the French economy, the finance minister says.

According to BBC, France has seen four consecutive weekends of demonstrations against fuel tax rises, high living costs, and other issues.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called the situation “a crisis” for both society and democracy.

“It’s a catastrophe for commerce, it’s a catastrophe for our economy,” he said during a visit to shops in Paris that had been damaged during the protests.

The capital was particularly badly hit, with windows smashed, cars burned, and shops looted, as 10,000 people took part in demonstrations.

“There was much more damage yesterday than a

Alarm sounded, nations urged to act at UN climate talks. (File)

difficult.” Delegates said a major issue was how to reassure developing countries that richer nations would deliver on promises to help finance the cost of shifting to a lower carbon economy.

Environmental campaigners are concerned the Katowice talks will lack ambition, after the United

States said this year it was withdrawing from the U.N. process. Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, in the talks on Saturday added a further challenge by blocking consensus on a major scientific report.

The U.N. report published in October said it was possible to limit the earth’s temperature rise

to 1.5 degrees Celsius and prevent damaging levels of global warming provided radical changes in energy consumption and other steps were implemented.

But Saudi Arabia refused to back a proposal from other nations to use wording to “welcome” the report.

Delegates said the task

week ago” because Saturday’s protests were more dispersed, deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire told local radio.

However, he added that there had been fewer injuries compared with last week.

It is too early to calculate the full economic cost - but it’s clear the damage is severe.

On Friday, the French retail federation told Reuters news agency that retailers had lost about 1bn euros ($1.1bn; £900m) since the protests first began on 17 November.

Mr Le Maire said last week, before the most recent protests, that the restaurant trade had declined by between 20% and 50%.

Meanwhile, the authorities in Paris say that riots have caused millions of pounds’ worth of damage.

London, Dec 9 (IANS): With two days to go until the crucial Brexit vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday warned MPs they will face “uncharted waters” if they rejected her deal, saying their actions could lead to a general election, as there was a “very real risk of no Brexit”.

Speaking to the Mail, May said a rejection of her proposals would mean “grave uncertainty” for the UK. If the deal is rejected, it is unclear what happens next, with May insisting her deal was best for the country.

“When I say if this deal does not pass we would truly be in uncharted waters, I hope people understand this is what I genuinely believe and fear could happen,” May said. “It would mean grave uncertainty for the nation with a very real risk of no Brexit or leaving the European Union with no deal.” Downing Street has already denied newspaper suggestions that May could postpone Tuesday’s vote.

“The vote is going ahead,” a spokesman said. In November, the UK agreed a Brexit deal with the EU, however, it still needs to be approved by the Parliament.

Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the DUP, the SNP and dozens of Conser-

Theresa May (File)

vative MPs have said they cannot support the deal, meaning it was unlikely to pass, the BBC said.

She accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of thinking of “nothing but attempting to bring about a general election, no matter what the cost to the country” and, in a warning to Tory rebels, said: “I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.”

Brexit Minister Kwasi Kwarteng told Sophy Ridge on Sky News that the deal allowed the UK to leave the EU “in an orderly and smooth way”. The Brexiteer added: “I understand why people who want to stay in the EU want to do it down... I’m very surprised that people on our side of the argument... are willing to blow up a deal which actually delivers a very good path out of the EU.”

Key Trump aide Kelly to leave White House Washington, Dec 9 (PTI): White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will step down by the end of the year, President Donald Trump has announced, becoming the latest top-level official to quit the administration amidst reports that relations between them have soured beyond repair.

The 68-year-old retired Marine Corps general has been President Trump’s Chief of Staff since July 31, 2017 when he replaced Reince Priebus, who resigned, In the first seven months of the Trump administration, Kelly was the secretary of Homeland Security. “John Kelly will be leaving - I don’t know if I can say ‘retiring’.

But, he’s a great guy. John Kelly will be leaving at the end of the year,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday.

“We will be announcing who will be taking John’s place...I shall be announcing that over the next day or two.

But, John will be leaving at the end of the year. He has been with me almost two years now,” Trump said.

UN climate negotiators sweat over detail and divides

KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 9 (Agencies): Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggled over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggled to bridge deep political divides.

According to Reuters, the two weeks of talks, which began at the start of the week, are billed as the most important U.N. conference since the Paris 2015 agreement on climate change.

The challenge is to meet a year-end deadline to agree a rule book to limit global warming, when the unity that underpinned the Paris talks has fragmented. U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his call to scrap the Paris climate pact.

By the end of Saturday, negotiators aim to have a simplified a draft for highlevel ministerial debate starting on Monday.

“We still have a lot to do,” Michal Kurtyka, the Polish president of the U.N. talks, told a news conference. “It is very technical, very complex, very

taken to the streets wearing the high-visibility yellow clothing that is required to be carried in every vehicle

by French law.

Over the past few weeks, the social media movement has morphed from a protest over fuel prices to a leaderless spectrum of interest groups and differing demands, the BBC said.

9 No Brexit can lead to fresh polls: Theresa May tells MPs

of driving the process forward would fall to ministers next week.

“It’s a question of who wins? The likes of the European Union and China with economies deeply invested in climate action and dependent on multilateralism for global trade, or the likes of Saudi dissenters of climate science, with vested interests that put us all in the firing line?” Camilla Born, senior policy advisor at E3G, a non-governmental organisation, said.

On the streets of Katowice, the capital of Poland’s Silesian coal-mining region, thousands of demonstrators marched to demand a deal to limit temperature rises to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Environmental campaigners also marched in Paris, where violent demonstrations triggered by a fuel tax have taken place.

Delegates in Katowice said the French social protests were unrelated to the U.N. climate debate, but U.S. President Donald Trump seized on them to call for an end to “the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement”.

John Kelly (File)

Nick Ayers, the 36year-old chief of staff to vice-president Mike Pence, is Kelly’s likely successor.

There were reports that the relationship between Trump and Kelly had deteriorated to such an extent that the two were no longer on speaking terms.

Kelly, who was brought in by Trump after he fired Reince Priebus, has been instrumental in bringing in a sense of discipline inside the White House.

Kelly was one of the several generals appointed

by Trump to key roles, including defense secretary Jim Mattis, and former

Taliban key commander among 10 killed MAIMANA, Afghanistan, Dec 9 (Agencies): A total of 10 militants including a Taliban key commander, Mawlawi Nasratullah, have been killed in the nor ther n Faryab province, an army spokesman in the northern region, Ghulam Hazrat Karimi said Sunday.

“The security forces, acting upon intelligence report, attacked a Taliban gathering in Dawlat Abad district in the wee hours of Sunday, killing 10 rebels including a notorious commander, Mawlawi Nasratullah, on the spot,” Karimi told Xinhua.

According to the official, 15 more insurgents have been arrested in the ongoing operations.

Mawlawi Nasratullah, according to the official, was an important Taliban commander in Faryab province and his physical elimination could prove to be a major setback to the insurgents in the restive Faryab and adjoining areas.

Ta l i b a n m i l i t a n t s haven’t commented yet.

national security advisers Michael Flynn and HR McMaster.

According to a report in ‘The Wall Street Journal’, the relationship between Kelly and Trump had completely broken down, leading the president to tell an associate to “stop calling John” and to instead “call Nick, he’s my guy”.

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward wrote in his bestselling book ‘Fear’ that Kelly called Trump an “idiot” at the head of a “Crazytown” administration.

Kelly is said to have used the description repeatedly and also allegedly said that “it’s pointless to try to convince him of anything” Kelly, however, denied such reports and stayed in post. CNN reported this week that Kelly and Trump were no longer even speaking to each other. It said Trump wanted a chief of staff with more political expertise, to help him handle the inevitable investigations and legislative battles with next year’s Democrat-controlled House, and to prepare for

the 2020 election.

In France in November for events marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Kelly visited an American cemetery outside Paris while Trump remained in the city, the White House said rain made a presidential visit impractical.

Kelly’s exit from the White House is the latest in a series of reshuffles in the Trump administration.

On Friday, Trump said he will nominate William Barr his attorney general, replacing Matthew Whitaker who was named acting attorney general only a month ago. Whitaker replaced Jeff Sessions for the top Justice Department post. Sessions was fired on November 7 after he was attacked and ridiculed for months by the president. Trump appointed State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as the US’ next ambassador to the UN, replacing Indianorigin Nikki Haley who said in October that she would step down at the end of the year.

At least 5 officials dead in Sudan helicopter crash Khartoum, Dec 9 (Agencies): A helicopter crashed Sunday in eastern Sudan, killing at least five local officials who were on board, state media reported.

According to AFP, witnesses said the helicopter caught fire after hitting a communications tower as it tried to land in a field in the state of Al-Qadarif.

“Flames and thick dark smoke rose from the aircraft,” one of the witnesses, Adam Hassan, said.

Al-Qadarif governor Mirghani Saleh, his cabinet chief, the local minister of agriculture as well as the local police chief and head of border guards were killed, state television said.

It did not give details about the circumstances of

the crash near the border with Ethiopia, or say if there were any survivors.

Sudan’s state news agency SUNA gave a slightly higher toll of six government officials killed.

It said an unspecified number of other people were taken to hospital for treatment, without providing further details.

Most of Sudan’s military and civilian fleet consists of old Soviet-made aircraft, and the country has suffered a series of crashes in recent years, with the military frequently blaming technical problems and bad weather.

In October eight people were injured in a collision between two Sudanese army planes on the runway at Khartoum airport.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the Village Council of Chunchamlong Rongmei Bosti Lahorijan wants to acknowledge the timely action taken by the Khatkhati Police under the dynamic leadership of Khatkhati OC Shri Haokam Changsan when our council chairman was abducted by unknown miscreant on 1st Dec. 2018. We wish him all the best for his future endeavour.

TR. Peter Lenny Gonmei General Secretary Chairman

DP-9294

Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018

international

French PM seeks ‘unity’; 1,700 protestors arrested

Paris, Dec 9 (IANS): French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Sunday vowed to “restore national unity” after violence during the weekend forced police to use tear gas and rubber bullets against the “yellow vest” demonstrators, who protested against fuel tax rises and high living costs, leading to over 1,700 arrests.

However, the violence on Saturday that was the fourth one was not on the same level as the week earlier, the BBC reported.

Discussions with peaceful protesters “must continue”, Philippe said, adding “No tax should jeopardise our national unity.

We must now rebuild that national unity through dialogue, through work, and by coming together.”

He said President Emmanuel Macron, who many protesters felt should stand down, would soon “put forward measures to foster dialogue”.

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner praised police, who had been deployed in force, for containing much of the unrest. Castaner, who warned that the number of arrests increased due to the violence in Paris and some other cities added that 118 demonstrators were known to have been injured along

slashing taxes, improving infrastructure, curtailing immigration and ending the privatisation of public services, among many other issues. In a tweet late on Saturday, Macron thanked the security forces for their “courage and exceptional professionalism” against the “gilets jaunes” protesters.

The yellow vests are so-called because they have

France protests ‘an economic catastrophe’

People run away from a burning car during clashes, Saturday in Marseille, southern France. (AP/PTI)

Elysees, the Yellow Vests’ main meeting point.

With a view to prevention, and following the December 1 vandalism, most businesses in the threatened areas remained closed, starting with the big department stores. Also shut were the monuments and museums of Paris like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. In addition, from the early hours, 36 subway stations remained closed.

Other disturbances

took place around the country, including Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseilles, Lyon and Nantes.

Demonstrations by the Yellow Vests movement began as a protest against increased taxes on fuel planned for 2019, a ruling that was annulled this week by the government.

Many still demand the resignation of Macron as they continue to demand an increase in social spending on pensions and education,

Twitter CEO under fire for Myanmar tweets

Iran to stage military drills in Indian Ocean

San Francisco, Dec 9 (IANS): Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey, who faces a lawsuit for hurting Hindu sentiments during his visit to India in November, now faces criticism for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the country.

In a series of tweets, Dorsey said he had travelled to northern Myanmar in November for a meditation retreat.

“The people are full of joy and the food is amazing,” he said, before encouraging his four million followers to visit.

This led to widespread criticism of the Twitter chief, some accused him of ignoring the plight of the Muslim Rohingya minority.

In 2017, Myanmar’s military launched a violent crackdown after Rohingya militants carried out attacks on several police posts.

Thousands of people were killed, and human rights organisations said the army

with 17 police officials.

During protests on December 1, 201 civilians and 284 police personnel were injured amid scenes of urban guerrilla tactics.

French authorities deployed a huge police force and used water cannons, tear gas and, for the first time in 40 years, a dozen armoured cars.

The first clashes between police and protesters occurred last Saturday morning in the Champs

Jack Dorsey (File)

has burned land and committed arbitrary killings and rape.

“Writing what is effectively a free tourism advert for them at this time is reprehensible,” one Twitter user wrote in response to Dorsey’s tweets.

“The tone-deafness here is... wow,” another user said. “This is an extremely irresponsible recommendation,” yet another reads.

“Does he pay no attention to the news and the outcry on his own platform?”

The military crackdown had also sparked an exodus of more than 700,000 Rohingyas who have since fled to neigh-

bouring Bangladesh to escape the violence and the destruction of their homes.

The UN has described the operation as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and says senior Myanmar officials should be investigated and tried for genocide.

Mohammed Jamjoom, an Al Jazeera correspondent, who has interviewed Rohingya refugees, said he was left “utterly speechless”

by Dorsey’s tweets.

Dorsey is yet to respond to the criticism, but earlier said he would track the responses to his tweets.

A court in Rajasthan on December 1, asked the police to file a First Information Report against Dorsey for hurting the sentiments of the Brahmin community by posing for a picture holding an antiBrahmin message.

Dorsey was seen posing with six female journalists in a picture on Twitter, with a poster in his hands carrying the offending antiBrahmin message: ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’.

Tehran, Dec 9 (IANS): Iran’s navy has planned to stage large-scale military drills in the Indian Ocean in the coming months, the media reported citing officials.

The exercises are aimed to “boost Iran’s naval performance in international waters and to display the country’s military prowess,” Xinhua news agency quoted Deputy Navy Commander for Coordination, Hamzeh Ali Kaviani, as saying to Press TV. The manoeuvre will be held this winter within the perimeters of Iran’s southern territorial waters and high seas, Kaviani said.

The naval official added that the navy’s state-ofthe-art equipment, including two submarines and destroyers, would take part in the drills, Press TV reported on Saturday. In February 2017, Iranian naval forces held another large-scale manoeuvre in the north of the Indian Ocean.

The “yellow vest” protests have been “a catastrophe” for the French economy, the finance minister says.

According to BBC, France has seen four consecutive weekends of demonstrations against fuel tax rises, high living costs, and other issues.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called the situation “a crisis” for both society and democracy.

“It’s a catastrophe for commerce, it’s a catastrophe for our economy,” he said during a visit to shops in Paris that had been damaged during the protests.

The capital was particularly badly hit, with windows smashed, cars burned, and shops looted, as 10,000 people took part in demonstrations.

“There was much more damage yesterday than a

Alarm sounded, nations urged to act at UN climate talks. (File)

difficult.” Delegates said a major issue was how to reassure developing countries that richer nations would deliver on promises to help finance the cost of shifting to a lower carbon economy.

Environmental campaigners are concerned the Katowice talks will lack ambition, after the United

States said this year it was withdrawing from the U.N. process. Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, in the talks on Saturday added a further challenge by blocking consensus on a major scientific report.

The U.N. report published in October said it was possible to limit the earth’s temperature rise

to 1.5 degrees Celsius and prevent damaging levels of global warming provided radical changes in energy consumption and other steps were implemented.

But Saudi Arabia refused to back a proposal from other nations to use wording to “welcome” the report.

Delegates said the task

week ago” because Saturday’s protests were more dispersed, deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire told local radio.

However, he added that there had been fewer injuries compared with last week.

It is too early to calculate the full economic cost - but it’s clear the damage is severe.

On Friday, the French retail federation told Reuters news agency that retailers had lost about 1bn euros ($1.1bn; £900m) since the protests first began on 17 November.

Mr Le Maire said last week, before the most recent protests, that the restaurant trade had declined by between 20% and 50%.

Meanwhile, the authorities in Paris say that riots have caused millions of pounds’ worth of damage.

London, Dec 9 (IANS): With two days to go until the crucial Brexit vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday warned MPs they will face “uncharted waters” if they rejected her deal, saying their actions could lead to a general election, as there was a “very real risk of no Brexit”.

Speaking to the Mail, May said a rejection of her proposals would mean “grave uncertainty” for the UK. If the deal is rejected, it is unclear what happens next, with May insisting her deal was best for the country.

“When I say if this deal does not pass we would truly be in uncharted waters, I hope people understand this is what I genuinely believe and fear could happen,” May said. “It would mean grave uncertainty for the nation with a very real risk of no Brexit or leaving the European Union with no deal.” Downing Street has already denied newspaper suggestions that May could postpone Tuesday’s vote.

“The vote is going ahead,” a spokesman said. In November, the UK agreed a Brexit deal with the EU, however, it still needs to be approved by the Parliament.

Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the DUP, the SNP and dozens of Conser-

Theresa May (File)

vative MPs have said they cannot support the deal, meaning it was unlikely to pass, the BBC said.

She accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of thinking of “nothing but attempting to bring about a general election, no matter what the cost to the country” and, in a warning to Tory rebels, said: “I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.”

Brexit Minister Kwasi Kwarteng told Sophy Ridge on Sky News that the deal allowed the UK to leave the EU “in an orderly and smooth way”. The Brexiteer added: “I understand why people who want to stay in the EU want to do it down... I’m very surprised that people on our side of the argument... are willing to blow up a deal which actually delivers a very good path out of the EU.”

Key Trump aide Kelly to leave White House Washington, Dec 9 (PTI): White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will step down by the end of the year, President Donald Trump has announced, becoming the latest top-level official to quit the administration amidst reports that relations between them have soured beyond repair.

The 68-year-old retired Marine Corps general has been President Trump’s Chief of Staff since July 31, 2017 when he replaced Reince Priebus, who resigned, In the first seven months of the Trump administration, Kelly was the secretary of Homeland Security. “John Kelly will be leaving - I don’t know if I can say ‘retiring’.

But, he’s a great guy. John Kelly will be leaving at the end of the year,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday.

“We will be announcing who will be taking John’s place...I shall be announcing that over the next day or two.

But, John will be leaving at the end of the year. He has been with me almost two years now,” Trump said.

UN climate negotiators sweat over detail and divides

KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 9 (Agencies): Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggled over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggled to bridge deep political divides.

According to Reuters, the two weeks of talks, which began at the start of the week, are billed as the most important U.N. conference since the Paris 2015 agreement on climate change.

The challenge is to meet a year-end deadline to agree a rule book to limit global warming, when the unity that underpinned the Paris talks has fragmented. U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his call to scrap the Paris climate pact.

By the end of Saturday, negotiators aim to have a simplified a draft for highlevel ministerial debate starting on Monday.

“We still have a lot to do,” Michal Kurtyka, the Polish president of the U.N. talks, told a news conference. “It is very technical, very complex, very

taken to the streets wearing the high-visibility yellow clothing that is required to be carried in every vehicle

by French law.

Over the past few weeks, the social media movement has morphed from a protest over fuel prices to a leaderless spectrum of interest groups and differing demands, the BBC said.

9 No Brexit can lead to fresh polls: Theresa May tells MPs

of driving the process forward would fall to ministers next week.

“It’s a question of who wins? The likes of the European Union and China with economies deeply invested in climate action and dependent on multilateralism for global trade, or the likes of Saudi dissenters of climate science, with vested interests that put us all in the firing line?” Camilla Born, senior policy advisor at E3G, a non-governmental organisation, said.

On the streets of Katowice, the capital of Poland’s Silesian coal-mining region, thousands of demonstrators marched to demand a deal to limit temperature rises to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Environmental campaigners also marched in Paris, where violent demonstrations triggered by a fuel tax have taken place.

Delegates in Katowice said the French social protests were unrelated to the U.N. climate debate, but U.S. President Donald Trump seized on them to call for an end to “the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement”.

John Kelly (File)

Nick Ayers, the 36year-old chief of staff to vice-president Mike Pence, is Kelly’s likely successor.

There were reports that the relationship between Trump and Kelly had deteriorated to such an extent that the two were no longer on speaking terms.

Kelly, who was brought in by Trump after he fired Reince Priebus, has been instrumental in bringing in a sense of discipline inside the White House.

Kelly was one of the several generals appointed

by Trump to key roles, including defense secretary Jim Mattis, and former

Taliban key commander among 10 killed MAIMANA, Afghanistan, Dec 9 (Agencies): A total of 10 militants including a Taliban key commander, Mawlawi Nasratullah, have been killed in the nor ther n Faryab province, an army spokesman in the northern region, Ghulam Hazrat Karimi said Sunday.

“The security forces, acting upon intelligence report, attacked a Taliban gathering in Dawlat Abad district in the wee hours of Sunday, killing 10 rebels including a notorious commander, Mawlawi Nasratullah, on the spot,” Karimi told Xinhua.

According to the official, 15 more insurgents have been arrested in the ongoing operations.

Mawlawi Nasratullah, according to the official, was an important Taliban commander in Faryab province and his physical elimination could prove to be a major setback to the insurgents in the restive Faryab and adjoining areas.

Ta l i b a n m i l i t a n t s haven’t commented yet.

national security advisers Michael Flynn and HR McMaster.

According to a report in ‘The Wall Street Journal’, the relationship between Kelly and Trump had completely broken down, leading the president to tell an associate to “stop calling John” and to instead “call Nick, he’s my guy”.

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward wrote in his bestselling book ‘Fear’ that Kelly called Trump an “idiot” at the head of a “Crazytown” administration.

Kelly is said to have used the description repeatedly and also allegedly said that “it’s pointless to try to convince him of anything” Kelly, however, denied such reports and stayed in post. CNN reported this week that Kelly and Trump were no longer even speaking to each other. It said Trump wanted a chief of staff with more political expertise, to help him handle the inevitable investigations and legislative battles with next year’s Democrat-controlled House, and to prepare for

the 2020 election.

In France in November for events marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Kelly visited an American cemetery outside Paris while Trump remained in the city, the White House said rain made a presidential visit impractical.

Kelly’s exit from the White House is the latest in a series of reshuffles in the Trump administration.

On Friday, Trump said he will nominate William Barr his attorney general, replacing Matthew Whitaker who was named acting attorney general only a month ago. Whitaker replaced Jeff Sessions for the top Justice Department post. Sessions was fired on November 7 after he was attacked and ridiculed for months by the president. Trump appointed State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as the US’ next ambassador to the UN, replacing Indianorigin Nikki Haley who said in October that she would step down at the end of the year.

At least 5 officials dead in Sudan helicopter crash Khartoum, Dec 9 (Agencies): A helicopter crashed Sunday in eastern Sudan, killing at least five local officials who were on board, state media reported.

According to AFP, witnesses said the helicopter caught fire after hitting a communications tower as it tried to land in a field in the state of Al-Qadarif.

“Flames and thick dark smoke rose from the aircraft,” one of the witnesses, Adam Hassan, said.

Al-Qadarif governor Mirghani Saleh, his cabinet chief, the local minister of agriculture as well as the local police chief and head of border guards were killed, state television said.

It did not give details about the circumstances of

the crash near the border with Ethiopia, or say if there were any survivors.

Sudan’s state news agency SUNA gave a slightly higher toll of six government officials killed.

It said an unspecified number of other people were taken to hospital for treatment, without providing further details.

Most of Sudan’s military and civilian fleet consists of old Soviet-made aircraft, and the country has suffered a series of crashes in recent years, with the military frequently blaming technical problems and bad weather.

In October eight people were injured in a collision between two Sudanese army planes on the runway at Khartoum airport.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the Village Council of Chunchamlong Rongmei Bosti Lahorijan wants to acknowledge the timely action taken by the Khatkhati Police under the dynamic leadership of Khatkhati OC Shri Haokam Changsan when our council chairman was abducted by unknown miscreant on 1st Dec. 2018. We wish him all the best for his future endeavour.

TR. Peter Lenny Gonmei General Secretary Chairman

DP-9294

Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018

10-man Mumbai City hold Bengaluru

Players of Bengaluru FC and Mumbai City FC in action during their match on Sunday.

Bengaluru, Dec 9 (Agencies): Bengaluru FC and Mumbai City played out an entertaining draw as the hosts failed to capitalise on the numerical advantage, in a top of the table Indian Super League (ISL) clash at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru on Sunday.

Udanta Singh drew first blood but Moudou Sougou equalised without the break. The visitors had to play with ten men for around forty minutes as Sehnaj Singh was sent off in the second half.

The hosts introduced just one change from their stalemate against NorthEast United as Chencho Gyeltshen – the scorer of the late equaliser – was rewarded with a start at the expense of Spaniard Xisco Hernandez.

In a slight variation from tradition, Nishu Kumar started at right-back for Bengaluru and the versatile Rahul Bheke was entrusted with the left flank in a move that would later pay dividends.

Mumbai City FC started the same line-up that defeated defending Champions Chennaiyin FC 2-0 at home.

The first chance of the game popped up in as early as the sixth moment when a pass from Sunil Chhetri found Chencho in space behind a napping Mumbai defence, only for the Bhutanese striker to shoot wide.

Neither teams threatened the opponent’s goal for the first quarter of an hour until Udanta Singh broke the deadlock in the 23rd minute. Rahul Bheke

delivered a cross to the centre of the box and Udanta did will to head it to the far post, out of the reach of the outstretched Amrinder Singh.

The Islanders drew level in the 30th minute after a well-orchestrated move saw the in-form Arnold Issoko deliver the ball into the path of Moudou Sougou, who powered a header past a hapless Gurpreet Singh Sandhu.

It was a quiet first half as the visitor assumed control of the game but failed to really test the Bengaluru custodian apart from the goal.

The hosts started the second half on a positive note as Chhetri forced a good save from Amrinder in the 48th minute. Mumbai’s Sehnaj Singh received his marching orders in the 53rd

X1 International held in Chennai

(L-R) Kekhrieneitso Angami, Longtsukumba Ao, Khriemelie Metha (coach) and K. Mungling Konyak.

Dimapur, Dec 9 (NPN): X1 International was hosted in Chennai at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research on Saturday.

Kekhrieneitso Angami won his featherweight bout

against Ankur Patel from Mumbai by unanimous decision. K. Mungling Konyak beat Sameer Jhanjotra from Chandigargh via knockout in the first round itself.

Longtsukumba Ao fighting for X1 feather-

weight belt was the main event of the night. He lost via unanimous decision to Kaushik Saikumar from Chennai.

All three fighters are from The Combat Academy- Nagaland in Dimapur.

Vijay Merchant (U-16) Boys trophy

Nagaland lose to UP in pre-quarters

Dimapur, Dec 9 (NPN): Nagaland (U-16) team which qualified from its zone in the Vijay Merchant (U-16) trophy has lost against Uttar Pradesh in the pre-quarterfinal-I at Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur on Sunday. UP won the

match by an innings and 270 runs In the first innings, Nagaland scored 157 runs.

Yughandar scored 53 runs while Sujal scored 38.

In the second innings, Nagaland were bowled out for 134 runs. Yughandar

scored 23, Yash – 33 and Jatin – 24.

Uttar Pradesh declared the first innings on 561 runs. Satnam Singh scored 173 while Deepanshu scored 19 runs.

For Nagaland, Khrievitso took 5 wickets.

minute as a rash challenge on Dimas Delgado earned him a second yellow.

The next big chance arrived in the 65th minute as a cross from Rafael Bastos found Sougou at the centre of the box but the Senegalese forward headed it wide and failed to generate any movement from Gurpreet.

Erik Paartalu saw his header go tantalisingly close to the Mumbai goal in the 74th minute as it struck the woodwork and then went out of play. The hosts were in complete control of the game in the second half but lacked the edge that could propel them forward.

The game ended 1-1 and a fair reflection of the performances of both the teams ensured that they held on to their unbeaten run.

Benzema’s talent underrated: Modric

Madrid, Dec 9 (Agencies): Luka Modric has defended Real Madrid team-mate Karim Benzema, insisting that his talent is under-appreciated.

Benzema is approaching a decade with Real, having joined the club in 2009.

He has scored 202 goals in 433 games for the Spanish giants, making him the seventh-highest goalscorer in the club’s history.

However, Benzema has received criticism for only scoring five La Liga goals so far this term and Modric has talked up the talent of the Frenchman.

Speaking to Telefoot, the Croatia international said, “I think people do not realize how good he is, they do not realize how important he is to our team.”

Modric beat the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Real teammate Raphael Varane to the Ballon d’Or, becoming the first player to break Ronaldo and Messi’s duopoly on the individual award.

His displays at the World Cup, as he helped Croatia to their first ever World Cup final, eventually saw him victorious ahead of a number of French players who actually lifted the trophy.

Lomachenko unifies lightweight belts N e w Yo r k , D e c 9 (Agencies): Vasyl Lomachenko added the WBO lightweight world title to his WBA belt with a unanimous 12-round decision over Jose Pedraza on Saturday.

Ukraine’s Lomachenko, a three-weight world champion who had never before unified two titles in the same class, knocked down Pedraza twice in an explosive 11th round.

Two judges saw it 117109 for Lomachenko while a third made it 119-107 for the 30-year-old, who was fighting for the first time since having shoulder surgery in the wake of his 10th-round technical knockout of Jorge Linares on May 12.

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Lomachenko crouches low to avoid a punch from Pedraza in a contest that went the distance.

It means Lomachenko is now set to face Anthony Crolla, who received confirmation from the WBA that he is next in line to fight the winner of Saturday’s fight.

The Mancunian defeated Daud Yordan on points

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in a WBA final eliminator in November to become mandatory challenger for Lomachenko.

“Everything is good, I’m healthy 100 per cent,” Lomachenko declared after wrapping up the victory to

improve to 12-1 with nine wins inside the distance.

“I am happy,” he said.

“I [moved] a little closer to my dream, to my goal.”

That’s to unify all of the major lightweight belts.

“Two more belts, and maybe we can make in the next year a fight with Mikey Garcia,” he said.

Garcia is the unbeaten World Boxing Council 135pound champion.

Pedraza, making his first defence of the WBO title he won with a unanimous decision over Ray Beltran on August 25, was the first fighter to go the distance against Lomachenko since Suriya Tatakhun in a featherweight world title bout in 2014.

Title race wide open, says Pep Lo n d o n, D e c 9 (Agencies): Pep Guardiola thinks the Premier League title is wide open and that anyone can win it after Manchester City lost 0-2 to Chelsea.

The Blues became the first team to beat City in the league since Manchester United in April, breaking a run of 22 games without defeat.

When quizzed about the title race, Guardiola responded by saying, “We are in December - if you [ask] me if Liverpool can win the Premier League, I will say yes. If you [ask] me right now in the position, Tottenham or Chelsea or Arsenal can win the Premier League, I will say yes. Everybody can win the Premier League.”

There had been talk pre-match of City going through the entire season unbeaten and replicating Arsenal’s achievement when they became the first - and to date only English side - to go unbeaten in the league all season.

G u a r d i o l a a lway s played down the chances of City achieving the landmark and reiterated that point when asked about it again.

He said, “Everybody asks me every time. Last season it happened the same in that period. I said that isn’t going to happen.

Yesterday they asked me in the press conference and I said again that isn’t going to happen. We are not here to be invincible, we are here to try and be champion, to try and make one point more than our opponents.”

Barcelona trounce Espanyol 4-0

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates with team-mates after scoring a goal against Espanyol.

Barcelona, Dec 9 (Agencies): Lionel Messi produced an incredible individual performance as LaLiga leaders Barcelona demolished Espanyol 4-0 in Catalan derby.

Messi placed fifth in this week’s Ballon d’Or voting, the first time he has been outside the top three since 2006, but offered a timely reminder of his enduring brilliance at RCDE Stadium.

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner was inspirational for Barca, opening the scoring with an unstoppable free-kick, then setting up Ousmane Dembele for a superb curling finish.

Dembele sent Luis Suarez clear for Barca’s third before half-time with Messi adding his ninth freekick goal in LaLiga in 2018

after the break to wrap up a completely dominant derby victory.

Barca led in the 17th minute thanks to the first moment of Messi magic in an astounding display.

The Barca captain, playing in this fixture for a joint-record 32nd time, beat Diego Lopez with a perfect free-kick from 25 yards that curled away from the goalkeeper’s despairing dive.

Messi was leading Espanyol a merry dance and he set up Barca’s second in the 26th minute, twisting and turning defenders on the edge of the box before slicing the back four open with a fine pass for Dembele, who cut inside and fired across Lopez into the top-right corner.

Suarez and Messi hit the post in quick succession

as Espanyol completely failed to cope with Barca’s attacking movement and sublime passing, a third goal arriving before the break.

Dembele was the creator this time with a superb pass to Suarez, who slipped his finish through the legs of Lopez from a tight angle.

To their credit Espanyol started the second half on top but they could do little to stop Messi, who beat Lopez again with another unbelievable freekick in the 65th minute, this time from 30 yards.

Oscar Duarte saw a consolation goal ruled out for offside by VAR when he volleyed in Sergio Garcia’s free-kick, with Espanyol at least able to restrict the damage to a four-goal defeat.

Hockey WC: Germany book quarterfinal berth Bhubaneswar, Dec 9 (PTI): Olympic bronze medallist Germany defeated Malaysia 5-3 in a keenly-contested match to maintain their all-win record and seal a direct quarterfinal spot by topping Pool D at the men’s hockey World Cup here on Sunday.

Ger many finished their pool engagements with a maximum of nine points from three games.

Tim Herzbruch (2nd, 59th minutes) and Christopher Ruhr (14th, 18th) scored two goals each while Marco Miltkau (39th) struck the other one for the world number 6 Germans.

Malaysia’s all three goals came from penalty corner conversions by Razie Rahim (26th, 42nd) and Nabil Noor (28th).

By virtue of this win, the Germans joined twotime champions Australia, Olympic champions Argentina and hosts India in the quarterfinals.

Asian Games silver medallist Malaysia are all but out of the tournament as they are placed last in Pool D with just one point and an inferior goal difference. Only a miracle can save Malaysia from packing their bags. They can still remain in the fray if the

Germany (in white) and Malaysian players vie for the ball during their match, at Men’s Hockey World Cup 2018, in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. (PTI)

Netherlands beat Pakistan by at least eight goals or more.

Both the teams had their chances in the game but it was Germany who were more precise with their finishing skills.

The Germans started brightly and raced to a 3-0 lead inside 18 minutes through goals from Herzbruch and Ruhr.

But the Malaysians tried to make a valiant

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fightback and managed to reduce the margin to 2-3 in the 28th minute through goals from Rahim and Noor.

The clinical Germans capitalised on Malaysia’s defensive errors when Miltkau deflected in a Niklas Wellen’s perfect lay-off in the 39th minute.

The Malaysians did not give up and narrowed down the gap to 3-4 when Rahim converted another

penalty corner. The Germans had the last laugh when Miltkau scored from a counter-attack just a minute from the final hooter to dash any hopes of Malaysia’s comeback.

Both the teams had numerous scoring opportunities in the form of penalty corners. While Malaysia earned as many as eight penalty corners, the Germans secured seven in the match.

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1st Test: India on top after day 4

Indian players celebrate after taking a wicket on the fourth day of the opening cricket Test match against Australia on Sunday.

Adelaide, Dec 9 (IANS): Australia were precariously placed at 104/4 in their second innings as India took a decisive advantage at the end of the fourth day of the opening cricket Test here on Sunday.

At stumps, Shaun Marsh was batting on 31 while Travis Head was on 11 at the other end. The Australians still need 219 runs to win.

Star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and fast bowler Mohammed Shami bagged two wickets each for India.

The Indians were dismissed for 307 runs in their second innings earlier during the day which gave them a formidable lead of 322.

Indian pacer Ishant Sharma was unlucky not to bag a wicket in the very first over of the hosts’ second essay when he trapped Aaron Finch leg before.

But the Australian opener decided to call for a review which showed that Ishant had overstepped the crease.

But the Indians did not have to rue that missed opportunity for long as Ashwin, Shami and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah tied down the Australian batsmen with their nagging line, length and movement.

Earlier, the Indians batted steadily to put themselves a somewhat comfortable position before Lyon cleaned up the middle and lower order in quick suc-

cession.

Lyon was the pick of the Australian bowlers with figures of 6/122. Fast bowler Mitchell Starc returned figures of 3/40.

Re s u m i n g a t t h e overnight score of 151/3, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane frustrated the Australian bowlers with their patience and almost flawless technique.

The visitors suffered a setback a short while before lunch when Pujara and Rohit Sharma were dismissed by off-spinner Nathan Lyon in quick succession.

Pujara, who faced 204 balls for his 71 runs, eventually conceded a soft dismissal when he tried to fend off a Lyon delivery with his pad.

Likho wins traditional shot put competition

Likho Sangma (centre) and other two winners at Kisama on Sunday. (NP)

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Kohima, Dec 9 (NPN): Likho Sangma from Garo tribe won the traditional shot put competition held at Naga Heritage Village, Kisama on Sunday.

The competition was organised by Department

of Youth Resources & Sports and supported by Department of Tourism.

The competition saw 15 people representing different tribes of the state.

In the competition, Sangma managed to throw the 20kg stone to 16.6 m to take the title and walked

home with a cash of Rs 7000.

Second position Keleseho (15.8 m) from Angami tribe received a cash of Rs 5000.

Third place Chinglei Phom from Phom community (15. 7 feet) was awarded Rs.3000.

But the ball nicked his gloves after hitting the pad before offering an easy catch to Aaron Finch at forward short leg.

Rohit lasted for only six balls and scored only one run before falling prey to an excellent catch by Peter Handscomb at silly point.

Rahane however, continued to bat on steadily and brought up his halfcentury in style with a boundary off pacer Josh Hazlewood.

The visitors lost wickets at regular intervals after lunch.

Pant was the first to go. The wicketkeeper-batsman smashed Lyon for 18 runs in one over. But the Australian off-spinner had his revenge in the very next over when Pant went after a slightly wide delivery only to see the ball loop up for an easy catch on the offside. The Indian tailenders could not do much.

When Rahane fell while attempting to reverse sweep a Lyon delivery, the Indian innings was as good as over.

Brief scores: Australia: 235 and 104/4 (Shaun Marsh 31 batting; Ravichandran Ashwin 2 /44, Mohammed Shami 2/15) vs India: 250 and 307 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 71, Ajinkya Rahane 70; Nathan Lyon 6/122).

Gibbs in race for India’s women’s coach

New Delhi, Dec 9 (Agencies): For mer South African cricketer Herschelle Gibbs has joined the race to become India’s next head coach of the women’s national team.

The list of contenders reportedly incudes former international cricketers and coaches like Dav Whatmore, Venkatesh Prasad and Tom Moody.

The post became vacant following BCCI’s refusal to extend the contract with former incumbent Rames Powar following the Mithali Raj controversy.

After playing for South Africa in 90 Tests, 248 ODIs and 23 T20s, Gibbs had his first stint as a coach with Kuwait for their qualification for the ICC T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia. And of late, he is associated with Afghanistan Premier League (APL) franchise Balkh Legends as their coach.

“Yes, Gibbs is very much interested in the role of women’s coach,” a source close to the cricketer confirmed to CricketNext. “It is a very prestigious job, to be associated with the Indian national team. He has applied for the position and hopes to be called for the interview soon.”

BCCI is reportedly ready to offer a two-year contract to the final candidate where the coach will earn a substantial amount of Rs. 3 to 4 crore a year.

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Chelsea end City’s unbeaten run

Chelsea’s David Luiz wheels away in celebration after scoring the second goal.

London, Dec 9 (Agencies): Chelsea ended Manchester City’s unbeaten Premier League run with a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge.

N’Golo Kante (45) stunned City by scoring with Chelsea’s first attack before David Luiz - exposed against Tottenham two weeks ago - went from zero to hero by looping a header (78) into the top corner.

The Blues become the first team to beat City in the league since Manchester United in April while Liverpool now lead the way by a point in the title race.

Chelsea remain in fourth place following Tottenham’s 2-0 win at Leicester but they have cut the gap to league leaders Liverpool to eight points.

The first half was dom-

inated by the visitors, who should have made their territorial dominance count on nine minutes but Raheem Sterling snatched at a closerange chance.

There was only one team conjuring up any attacking opportunities but Luiz, Antonio Rudiger and Cesar Azpilicueta stood firm against constant City probing. However, just as it looked a case of when rather than if City took the lead, Chelsea hit on the counter just before the break.

Luiz’s long ball found Pedro, whose cross-field ball to Willian made City retreat into their own box.

Willian found Hazard, who slid the ball back for Kante smash home from 15 yards.

Ederson’s only job of the half was to pick the ball out

of his net.

The goal triggered a surge in confidence for Chelsea, who were now able to handle City’s high press and play into their midfield.

City mustered little in response as Kyle Walker hit a speculative free-kick that summed up their frustrations. Chelsea remained organised in their shape and ended the game as a contest with the second goal.

Hazard’s corner was met by Luiz who sent a looping header into the far corner of the net.

Manchester City will now play Hoffenheim in their final Champions League group game in midweek while Chelsea travel to Hungary to play MOL Vidi in the Europa League.

Hornbill Angling Festival 2018 concludes Dimapur, Dec 9 (NPN): The Hornbill Angling Festival 2018 which kicked off on December 3 at Tsuza Eryu, Doyang, Wokha culminated at Lavi Lake, Dimapur on Saturday.

K. N. Mhonthung Lotha who won the pond/ lake event received a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 along the certificate of citation.

Kedibe Liegise and Roon Hazarika who stood in second and third position were awarded cash prizes of Rs. 30,000 and Rs. 20,000 respectively.

Other winners include Peteneizo Kense, Akai Awomi, Kuhokhu, Akashe Zhimomi, Mar Longkumer, Chandan, Sujit, Deepak Sarkar, Amal Kumar Banik, Lawrence Humtsoe, Kamal Kanta and L. Edward Lotha. The pond/lake event carried a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakhs while river event, held at Doyang on December 3 gave away a total cash prize of Rs. 1.5 lakhs.

Winners with departmental officials of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and organisers at Lavi Lake, Dimapur.

Kevisa Kense, director of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, who graced the prize distribution ceremony as a special guest lauded the Anglers Association of Nagaland for the all out effort to promote angling in the state of Nagaland and said Nagaland need such recreational and sporting activities that can promote tourism, conservation etc

in the state. He was also of the view that sport fishery is much profitable and therefore it must be encouraged in the state.

Assuring to extend all possible support to extensively promote angling in the state, Kense informed that the department will explore places earmarked by the department in other districts and develop those

areas.

Phukato Sumi, president, Anglers Association of Nagaland thanked the department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources for being ever supportive towards the association.

Asang Jamir, convenor, Hornbill Angling Festival 2018 proposed vote of thanks. H. Lawrence, Secretary, AAN, chaired the price

distribution ceremony.

More than 150 avid anglers from different parts of the country and state participated in the festival.

Hornbill Festival 2018 was organised by Anglers Association Nagaland (AAN) in association with the Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Resources and Department of Tourism.

Police probe Sterling abuse

London, Dec 9 (Agencies): Chelsea and the Metropolitan Police are investigating an incident of alleged racist abuse against Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling during Saturday’s Premier League match at Stamford Bridge.

Twitter users highlighted a first-half incident when a Chelsea supporter appeared to abuse Sterling while he attempted to retrieve the ball from behind the goal line.

A Chelsea spokesman said, “We’re aware of reports and video footage. We will investigate the matter and take the strongest possible action where necessary.”

The Met Police said, “We are aware of a video circulating online in which it is claimed racial abuse was allegedly directed at a player at a Chelsea v Manchester City game at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, December 8.”

“We will review the footage to determine whether any offences have been committed.”

No arrests have been made, the Met added.

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