December 17, 2019

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Vol XXX No. 15

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INTERNATIONAL, PAGE 9

SPORTS, PAGE 12

NATIONAL, PAGE 5

Protests across India over CAA, police action against students

NEW DELHI, DEC 16 (AGENCIES): Massive protests- some peaceful, some violent- erupted across India on Monday against the police crackdown in Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi and the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act as students and political leaders took to the streets, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called these protests “deeply distressing” and appealed for peace.

Home Ministry has asked states and Union Territories (UTs) to take all possible steps to check violence and ensure safety of life and properties.

The protest spread across college campuses and institutions across India as students in thousands voiced out against police action in Jamia Millia Islamia University and Aligarh Muslim University, Lucknow.

Delhi: Thousands of students took part in the protests in Delhi against the police action on Jamia students. Students of Delhi University boycotted their examinations and held protests outside the Arts faculty in North Campus amid heavy deployment of police personnel.

At the protests at India Gate, which were mainly led by students, demonstrators read out the preamble to the Constitution on Monday evening.

Students alleged that members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) caused trouble.The Hyderabad: Students from the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, University of Hyderabad and Osmania University protested against the amended law and the police action in Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia.

Protestors at Hyderabad University called for a rollback of the amended law, and asked for stringent action against the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police.

Uttar Pradesh: In Uttar Pradesh’s city of Lucknow, students of Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama had planned to protest against the amended Citizenship Act but were stopped by the police from stepping outside the gates of the institution. This led to demonstrators throwing stones at the police guarding the gates. There were no reported injuries in the incident. Authorities at the

Lt Gen Naravane to be next Army Chief

CTAN, CEAN stage sit-in protest

Lt Gen MM Naravane

NEW DELHI, DEC 16 (PTI): Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane will be the next Chief of Army Staff helming the 1.3 millionstrong force, official sources said on Monday.

Lt Gen Naravane is currently serving as Vice Chief of the Army.

Sources said Naravane’s appointment has been cleared at the highest level, adding the government has followed the principle of seniority in the appointment.

Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat is due to retire on December 31 after a threeyear stint. He is expected to be appointed as the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff.

Before taking charge as vice chief of the Army Staff in September, Lt Gen Naravane was heading the Eastern Command of the Army which takes care of India’s nearly 4,000-km border with China.

This is it!

“Now we’ll have to make Christmas stars because the immigrants have fled.”

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Correspondent

KO H I M A , D E C 1 6 (NPN): Members of combined technical association of Nagaland (CTAN) and civil engineers association of Nagaland (CEAN) staged sit-in demonstration outside the office of Nagaland PWD here on Monday demanding immediate termination of all illegal appointments made without any advertisement.

The two bodies also submitted a memorandum to the engineer-in-chief NPWD and demanded the department to terminate the services of SO GradeII, draftsmen and surveyor appointed between June 6, 2016 and August 10, 2018.

The associations affirmed that they would not allow any departmental exam till their demands were made.

CTAN and CEAN pointed out that a repre-

PM appeals for calm as students take to the streets; MHA advisory to states

Anger over CAA

Many campuses across the country joined the agitation against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and the police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University Chandigarh Patiala Chandigarh University Punjab University Delhi Jamia Millia Islamia JNU Delhi University Aligarh Aligarh Muslim University Kanpur IIT Kanpur Ahmedabad IIT Ahmedabad Mumbai TISS Mumbai Mumbai University IIT Bombay Bangalore IISc IIM Bangalore Kochi Kerala CUSAT Central University

seminary said it will remain closed till January 5, 2020.

Students at the Banaras Hindu University staged protests at the main gate of the campus in solidarity with Jamia and Aligarh Muslim University students. Protestors carried posters, banners

sentation to the department on February 7 and another letter on November 25. The associations, however, lamented that the responsible department had failed to pay heed and address the grievances of the educated unemployed youth.

The associations have, therefore, appealed to the authority for immediate termination of all illegal appointments and advertise all the posts along with existing vacancies. The associations warned that their peaceful sit-in protest would intensify if there was delay in delivering justice.

Meanwhile, deputy chief engineer of NPWD, Er. P.I. Imna Ao informed that commissioner and secretary (works & housing) has convened meeting in the office chamber of commissioner and secretary, works and housing department Nagaland on December 17 at 11am with the representatives of the CTAN and CEAN.

Lucknow Nadwatul Ulama Institute Varanasi Banaras Hindu University Patna Patna University Kolkata Kharagpur Jadavpur IIT Kharagpur University Hyderabad Maulana Azad Urdu University Osmania University Chennai IIT Madras Puducherry Puducherry University

and shouted slogans.

Other cities: More than 100 students of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concerns over the police crackdown on students at Jamia and

Gov Ravi to take addl charge of Meghalaya DIMAPUR/SHILLONG, DEC 16 (NPN): President of India Monday appointed Nagaland Governor, RN Ravi, to discharge the functions of the Governor of Meghalaya, in addition to his own duties, during the absence on leave of Tathagata Roy, Governor of Meghalaya.

Meghalaya High Court, Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq will administer the oath of office to Ravi at the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan here.

The sudden leave taken

by Roy came after the opposition Congress in Meghalaya demanded for his recall following his controversial tweet asking those who did not want “divisive democracy to go to North Korea” in the wake of the ongoing protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.

Aligarh Muslim University.

“We stand in solidarity with students around the country protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019,” the statement reads. “We call upon you to not trample the democratic rights of citizens to peacefully protest an unjust law.”

Students from three Indian Institutes of Technology– Kanpur, Madras and Bombay– also joined the protest against police crackdown. Around 50 protestors were detained for protesting without permission outside the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Apart from students and a few faculty members of IIM-A, students of the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, and a few other institutions had taken part in the protests.

Students in states like Kolkata, Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh held protests against the police action on students.

As videos from Sunday’s violence inside Jamia circulated widely on social media, many spoke out, including from Hollywood and Bollywood.

Hollywood star John Cusack was one of those

who took to Twitter to air his views. “Reports from Delhi are it was a war zone last night – Fascism is not a joke – we use the word with the understanding it’s deadly.”

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who had quit Twitter in August, returned on the microblogging site, saying he cannot stay “silent any longer”. “This government is clearly fascist… and it makes me angry to see voices that can actually make a difference stay quiet..” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, thousands gathered in the eastern city of Kolkata for a major demonstration called by state chief minister Mamata Banerjee against the citizenship law.

Life was thrown out of gear in several places in North East with trains between West Bengal and the North East came to a halt with the railways suspending all services to the northern region of the state, officials said.

Protest unites UDF, LDF

In a rare show of unity, Kerala’s ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the opposition United Demo-

Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

GUWAHATI, DEC 16 (AGENCIES): Former Assam chief minister and senior AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta has said that his party may snap ties with the BJP. “We are mulling over option of withdrawing support from government in Assam,” Mahanta told India Today.

Mahanta also expressed his displeasure over his party’s support to Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

“It was unfortunate that we voted in favour of Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sab-

of the family. State Chaplain Rev Kuzierang invoked God’s blessing at the program. Deputy chief minister Y Patton along with hosts of ministers, advisors, MLAs, government officials and well-wishers were present to pay their respects

Condolences

Neiphiu and others paying homage to late T. Torechu (Inset).

lost as NNDP candidate.

Send-off service held: A send off service was held at the residence of late T Torechu where host of legislators and well-wishers led by chief minister Neiphiu Rio paid homage to the departed soul. In his brief address, chief minister Neiphiu Rio said late Torechu was a good friend and a true leader, who was sincere and committed to serve his people.

NPF president, Dr.

Shürhozelie Liezietsu also paid homage to the departed soul. He recalled Torechu as a student leader and a teacher, who was dedicated to the people.

Liezietsu said during the last 17 years, the people of his area witnessed development due to his commitment. Short speeches were also delivered by minister V Kashiho Sangtam, Yimchungru Tribal Council and his son spoke on behalf

Cong stage sit-in protest in Delhi

Congress leaders led by party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held a dharna at the India Gate on Monday in solidarity with students protesting against the amended Act. Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the two-hour protest, which began at 4 pm, is to express solidarity with students from Jamia Millia Islamia University and other places.

“The prime minister should answer what happened at the university yesterday.

Whose government beat up the students?” Priyanka told reporters.

AGP may withdraw support Issue regarding memo to CM from BJP govt: Mahanta resolved: DCCF ha,” said Mahanta. He further said the prime minister and home minister should think about the people of Assam and the act should not be implemented here.

“We will not allow this act in Assam,” he said.

Amid protests in Guwahati, AGP has realised that people of Assam are angry with them for supporting BJP when the CAB was being passed. All the three ministers led by party president and minister Atul Bora held a meeting at the residence of Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

After the meeting, BJP leader said, “Discussions are going on between us.

We can’t say anything more at this point of time.”

AGP on Monday filed two separate writ petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

NPF legislator T. Torechu passes away; state funeral today DIMAPUR, DEC 16 (NPN): NPF legislator T. Torechu passed away on Monday at CIHSR, Dimapur. He leaves behind his wife, six sons and one daughter. He was 71.

In a notification, the state government has announced to hold a state funeral on December 17 at 11 a.m. at Pungro town local ground. T. Torechu, did his early education from Pungro government school, higher secondary from GHS Tuensang and pursued higher studies from Fazal Ali College, Mokokchung.

Before joining active politics, late Torechu served as government teacher and also held several posts in various organisations.

Torechu won four consecutive elections from 2003 (as BJP) and from NPF ticket in 2008, 2013 and 2018.

In 1982 Torechu lost as an Independent and in 1987 he

cratic Front (UDF) together staged a satyagraha at the Martyrs’ Square here to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act of the Modi government.

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala blasted the legislation, which they said was against all that the Constitution stood for. He said Kerala was united as one against the legislation, which has pushed the entire country into a crisis.

Governor: Nagaland governor, RN Ravi in a condolence message to late Torechu’s wife Kiusushi, said he was deeply pained to learn the sudden demise of T. Torechu, MLA of 60 A/C Pungro, Kiphire in the early hours of December 16, from Referral Hospital, Dimapur.

Ravi said Torechu was known for his cheerful appearance, who was very kind at heart. He acknowledged that Torechu, a committed leader belonging to one of the most interior region of the State border-

ing Myammar, brought big transformation in terms of progress and development in the constituency after successfully contesting 2003 General Election to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. In his death, a vacuum has been created which will take a long time to fill up, Ravi added.

He further conveyed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed to Almighty God to grant peace and solace at this hour of great pain.

CM: Nagaland chief minister, Neiphiu Rio expressed deep pain by the demise of T. Torechu, MLA of 60 Pungro-Kiphire A/C. Recalling his association with Torechu for more over a decade, Rio said he found him to be sincere and committed in his service to the people.

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DIMAPUR, DEC 16 (NPN): Against the backdrop of the memorandum to chief minister by non-Naga communities of Dimapur, published in the local dailies, Dimapur District Citizen Forum (DDCF) held emergency meeting consecutively on December 15 and 16.

The forum said that the house resolved to denounce the statement by “presidents and secretaries”, of non-Naga communities of Dimapur. After an apology was tendered by the concerned person(s) and the president of Marwari Samaj in front of all the members present in the meeting, DCCF said that the matter was resolved within the DDCF. Further, the house also resolved that no member/s of the DDCF will make any publication, which can hurt the sentiments of other members of the forum.

RBI opens NEFT transfer 24×7 NEW DELHI, DEC 16 (AGENCIES): Reser ve Bank of India operationalised 24×7 NEFT facility from 12 a.m. Monday. In the first eight hours, over 11 lakh NEFT transactions were settled, RBI said.

In a series of tweets, RBI said: “RBI operationalized NEFT 24×7 basis from today 12:00 am. This ensures availability of anytime electronic funds transfer. RBI now joins an elite club of countries having payment systems which enable round the clock funds transfer and settlement of any value...”

Customers of SBI, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Punjab National Bank, ICICI Bank or any other commercial lender can now do National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) transactions 24×7.

NEFT will now be available on any day of the week or month, including holidays.

SC to hear pleas against CAA on December 18 NEW DELHI, DEC 16 (AGENCIES): The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on December 18 a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.

Senior advocates and Congress leaders Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Kapil Sibal mentioned the pleas before the three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde. The bench, also comprising Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant, decided to club all the petitions challenging the validity of the Act and hear them on Wednesday.

More than 10 separate petitions have already been filed in the Supreme Court against the Act. Senior Assam Congress leaders have reportedly filed a petition in the apex court. AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi and Congress’ Lok Sabha lawmaker from Thrissur, Kerala, TN Prathapan also filed separate petitions.

Meanwhile, the powerful North East Student’s Organisation Monday filed a petition in Supreme Court seeking stay and implementation of the CAA.

JCPI calls for meeting to discuss CAA, ILP DIMAPUR, DEC 16 (NPN): Joint Committee on Prevention of Illegal Immigrants (JCPI) has called for a meeting with all tribe hohos and civil society organizations on December 18 at Hotel Tourist Lodge at 11 a.m. In a press note, JCPI convenor K. Ghokheto Chopy and secretary Tia Longchar said the meeting will deliberate on the Citizenship Amendment Act, RIIN and ILP notification for Dimapur.

Despite festive season and busy schedules, JCPI has urged the leaders to attend the meeting as the agendas were important, where an informed decision in the interest of all Nagas can be taken.

NUSU KC flays police action at Jamia varsity

DIMAPUR, DEC 16 (NPN): Nagaland University Students’ Union (NUSU), Kohima Campus has vehemently condemned the “atrocious actions” of police on the students of Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi on Sunday.

In a press release, NUSU KC president Rhilo Mero and general secretary Longsthithung N Ngullie expressed shock at the “callous act” of police invading the varsities and brutally assaulting the students.

The union said that police action led to disrupting the peaceful atmosphere. NUSU KC also affirmed support to those who were peacefully protesting against the Citizen Amendment Act. It said that the Act was a threat to country’s secular fabric and was “in no way favourable to the people of a democratic state”.

The union hoped for a positive solution to the impending issue that was affecting the country as a whole. It also prayed for the safety of everyone and appealed for protesting in a non-violent manner.

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Neiba for progress & development

Neiba Kronu addressing the gathering (NP).

Correspondent

KO H I M A , D E C 1 6 (NPN): Minister for Planning & Coordination, Land Revenue and Parliamentary Affairs Nagaland, Neiba Kronu called upon his constituency people for active participation in taking the constituency towards progress and development. He reiterated his

commitment and determination to develop Pfutsero constituency into a model constituency in the state by creating infrastructure such as road connectivity, sports facilities, Agri-link roads to ease the burden of farmers and promotion of tourism.

Minister said this during inauguration of multipurpose hall at Lekromi

village under Pfutsero subdivision Phek district as guest speaker on Monday.

Addressing the gathering also attended by the village community leaders, Kronu spoke on the importance of physical development through sports for a healthy society.

He appreciated the Lekromi village for extensive plantation of large

UCD celebrates annual cultural prog

Students enjoying the performance by DJ Aloza.

DIMAPUR: Unity College Dimapur (UCD) celebrated its annual cultural programme under the theme, “Revisiting tradition” on December 14 with colors and hornbill feathers making the college campus vibrant and lively.

A press release from UCD stated that, Ekonthung Jami assistant professor of English exhorted on the distinct culture of the Nagas and its importance in saving the identity of the entire community as a whole by relearning what ancestors have given.

Dr Temjenwabang, convenor of research committee announced the completion of two academic works by Unity College; the special edition of the college’s peer reviewed “Journal of humanities and social science” and the “proceedings” of a national seminar.

They were released by N.M.

Ovung, chairman and Dr. Lichumo Enie, principal of Unity College.

The students presented a Lotha folk song titled “Potsow Ekhungyan (God’s Kingdom)”, Bengali victory dance symbolizing victory over evil, “Jen mong hoi chem” a Phom folk song.

Two dances “Ahuna (season of plenty)” of the Sumis and the hornbill dance of the Aos were also presented.

Imlijungla Jamir (BA 6th semester) presented a narrative on Ao traditional attires and its significance.

The formal cultural event concluded with a Nepali folk dance. The event also hosted indigenous games and the competition included sports like war cry, cock fight, fire making, greased pole climbing, bamboo stilt race and cart racing.

The evening session was marked by “Unity Voice Hunt”, an annual singing

competition celebrated by the college to find the best voice among the students.

The judges were Moanungsang, the first Naga Idol winner and Maheukosing Eliem bassist of Papersky and a music teacher at Musika. There were a total of ten participants and the competition saw some new talents. Judge Moanungsang also gave a special performance, “When you love a woman” by Journey, Asuvi Kiho (assistant professor), Marshiba and Jentysangla both winners of Unity Voice Hunt also performed for the college.

Gabriel Pucho of BA 2nd semester was declared the winner of Unity Voice Hunt 2019 followed by a runners up Zareni C Kithan of BA 4th semester. DJ Aloza also featured at the end of the event. The hosts were Shunbana Rahman and Zuben Ngullie.

cardamom and organic vegetables.

He informed the villagers on “Fruit Trees for Wealth” project launched recently by the Entrepreneur Associates Nagaland and urged the people to make best use of fruit tree saplings which will be made available soon.

Kronu urged the people to utilize available village land for coffee plantation while sharing his view about the prospect and scope of coffee plantation in Nagaland.

He also called on the people to intensify its efforts towards bio-diversity conservation as our lives are dependent on them.

Programme was led by chairman Lekromi Village Council Kewete Mero, executive secretary CBCC Rev. Khrotso Mero invoked God’s blessings, Kedulhinyi Mero head GB of the village proposed vote of thanks and Rev. Dr. Kedungulo Mero pronounced the closing prayer.

Wife of late Vizol, Razoulhouü laid to rest

DIMAPUR: Razoulhouü Vizol, wife of late Vizol, two times chief minister and former member of Rajya Sabha passed away due old age on December 13, 2019 at her residence Daklane, Kohima.

According to DIPR report, late Razoulhouü Vizol was born on May 14, 1919 and died on December 13, 2019. She was the fifth daughter of Chüpfü-o Sekhose and Vilhouü Sekhose.

Late Razoulhouü attended Barbeta British Mission Hospital Jorhat for nursing training. She was the founding member of Japfüphiki Baptist Women Association and served as the first president in 1947.

Razoulhouü married Vizol on March 28, 1948.

Her descendants include 7 children, 32 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

Dr. Atha Vizol former state commissioner of Disabilities, Nagaland spoke on behalf of the family.

Akhale Vizol, director of Tourism, expressed gratitude to those who cared and mourned her mother till her last journey.

The mortal remains of late Razoulhouü Vizol was taken to Viswema and laid to rest in the family cemetery.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019

news in Brief Ex-PAN emergency meeting: President of Ex-Parliamentarian’s Association of Nagaland (Ex-PAN) has called for an emergency meeting of Ex-PAN on December 19, 11 a.m onwards at residence of Ex-PAN advisor, SI Jamir, near Delhi Public School, Dimapur. All the Ex-PAN members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

SSUD annual general meeting: Sangtam Students’ Union Dimapur (SSUD) annual general meeting has been convened on December 18, 10 a.m at treasurer’s office, opposite Belho’s Clinic, Burma Camp, Dimapur. SSUD has requested all students within its jurisdiction to attend positively.

Gorkha souvenir release programme: Gorkha Public Panchayat Kohima (GPPK) in association with the Gorkha NGOs & Clubs will be organising the souvenir release programme of the WW II, Battle of Kohima in the context of settlement of Gorkhas on December 18, 10 a.m at Gorkha Public Panchayat Complex, Chandmari, Kohima. Members of the Gorkha Public Panchayat Kohima residing within Kohima and outside Kohima district as well as wishers have been invited to the programme.

EDSSU 27th annual conference

DIMAPUR: East Dimapur Sumi Students Union (EDSSU) celebrated 27th annual conference on December 14, at East Dimapur Sumi Baptist Akukuhou, Purana Bazaar Dimapur.

A press release from EDDSU, stated that the conference comprised of two sessions where chief engineer (Power) Shikato Sema was the special guest and entrepreneur, Abeto L Shohe, was the guest speaker.

The special guest while delivering his speech, encouraged students by stating that it was an investment for their future and that more they studied, the more they benefited in the long run.

He also said that motivation plays a key role in whether they become successful in life or not and that no one can achieve success without determination to reach goals

Special guest, chief engineer (Deptt of Power) Shikato Sema speaking during the conference. no matter how big or small.

In the second session, guest speaker Abeto L. Shohe, spoke about importance of entrepreneurship and skill development.

He encouraged students by stating that government sector was

not the only way to earn livelihood and instead if one was skilled enough and have passion, one can utilize resources available to become successful entrepreneurs. He further added that local entrepreneurs should promote each other.

DPDB meetings held in Dimapur, Mon

Zhaleo Rio at the Dimapur DPDB meeting on December ADC Mon, Haizu Meru addressing at the DPDB 16 in the conference hall of DC Dimapur. (DIPR) meeting held in Mon on December 16. (DIPR) DIMAPUR: District planning and development board meetings were held in Dimapur and Mon on December 16, where various issues were discussed for further implementation.

In Dimapur, advisor Sericulture, Excise & Minority Affairs, Zhaleo Rio underlined the importance of district planning and development board (DPDB) noting that policies of government are implemented through various departments after deliberations in the said meeting.

According to DIPR report, addressing the Dimapur DPDB meeting, the advisor called upon all the HoDs under Dimapur district to take DPDB meetings seriously and to give their best for the interest of the general public.

Dubbing Dimapur as mini India inhabited by all Naga tribes and various communities from the mainland, Zhaleo felt the need for working collectively

amongst the various departments and sister departments to avoid duplications.

Considering the fact that several societies bring up proposal for registration during DPDB meetings, Zhaleo advised the board members for proper scrutiny of their documents, aims and objectives so that only deserving cases are approved.

A dv i s o r a l s o we l comed DC Dimapur Anoop Kinchi, and reminded him that general public look up at DC as their mentor and encouraged him to continue guiding the public.

In the meeting, the board recommended registration of societies in respect of City Tower Business Owner Welfare Association, proposal for opening Hitech Institute of IT & Multimedia at Signal Army Supply Road Junction, Japukong Sensor Telongjum Welfare Society, Western Chakesang Mother’s Association, Sisters’ of Providence Medziphema, and Tribal Synergy

Society.

As entrusted, departmental activities were presented by Agri and PHED, Rural and Urban.

Dimapur DPDB meeting for the month of December was chaired by DC Dimapur Anoop Kinchi, who is also the vice chairman DPDB Dimapur. Meeting ended with a word of thanks from the chair.

Mon: Mon district planning and development board (DPDB) meeting was held on December 16 at DC’s office conference hall under the chairmanship by additional deputy commissioner, Mon, Hiazu Meru.

According to DIPR report, agendas discussed included upgradation of Government Primary School Aopao village to Government Middle School to run with class VI from next year, upgradation of Government Primary School Chingkho Chingnyu (A) to run with class V from next year. The house approved

and recommended to the higher authority for considering and necessary action.

Department of Fisheries and Wangkhao Government College presented their activities and needs in the DPDB meeting.

Meanwhile, the chief electoral officer (CEO) Nagaland, Abhijit Sinha has informed to all concerned that January 1, 2020 as the qualifying date has been done in all the 60 assembly constituencies of the state by concerned electoral registration officers on December 16, and a copy of the said roll is available for inspection at the offices of the EROs, assistant EROs and BLOs. Any objection to the inclusion of name or any objection to particulars in an entry should be lodged with the concerned ERO/AERO in the relevant form latest by January 15, 2020. Draft roll is also available on www. ceo.nagaland.gov.in. Applications may also be filed online through nvsp.in.

Meetings with political parties for draft electoral roll

NVCO condemns voting in favour of CAB

DIMAPUR: In connection with the ongoing special summary revision of photo electoral roll January 1, 2020 as the qualifying date, the draft publication programme was held on December 16 in various districts.

Kiphire: A meeting with political parties was convened at the office chamber of deputy commissioner (DC) & district election officer (DEO) Kiphire on December 16 for the publication of draft electoral roll w.r.t 01/01/2019 as the qualifying date. The meeting was chaired

by DC & DEO Kiphire, Sarita Yadav.

During the meeting, assistant election officer (AEO) Kiphire, Olivi Thurr requested the stake holders to appoint BLAs

TCS AA programme conducted in Kohima

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) has strongly condemned both members of parliament (MP) from Nagaland for voting in favour of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).A press release from NVCO press and media cell stated that, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) MP (Rajya Sabha) K G Kenye voted for the Bill in the upper house, while the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) MP (Lok Sabha) Tokheho Yepthomi voted for the same in the lower house. While condemning the support by the MPs for the CAB, the NVCO expressed its resentment to both the MPs for misrepresenting the interest and wishes of the people of NaDC Kiphire, Sarita Yadav handing over DC Kohima Gregory handing over the DC & DEO Phek, Sachin Jaiswal, along with galand and both have no moral right to represent various political parties. (DIPR) the draft copy to political parties. (NP) draft publication. (DIPR) its people in parliament. NVCO conveyed to

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and co-operate with the administration and election department to achieve 100% error-free electoral roll.

The meeting was attended by political parties, administration and Election department staffs. The draft electoral roll (both hard copy and soft copy) were handed over to the political parties after the meeting. (Correspondent) Kohima: In Kohima, meeting was held at DC conference hall, Kohima. According to DIPR report, handing over the draft publication of electoral roll to the recognized political parties, DC Kohima Gregory Thejawelie said that the new initiatives have been undertaken over the years to have a robust, refined and

updated eroll. He requested the political parties to give their sincere efforts and services so that the left out voters would also be enrolled in the eRoll.

Mon: In Mon, Hiazu Meru, additional deputy commissioner & electoral registration officer, Mon, Nagaland has notified on publication of electoral roll in draft for 41-Tizit AC, 42Wakching AC, 43-Tapi AC, 44Phomching AC, 45-Tehok AC, 46-Mon Town AC, 47- Aboi AC, 48- Mika AC & 55- Tobu AC that the electoral roll has been prepared in accordance with the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 and a copy thereof is available for inspection in his office, and at the office of AEROs, VRECs and Election Office, Mon

during office hours. If, with reference to the above said qualifying date, there be any claim for the inclusion of a name in the roll or any objection to the inclusion of name or any objection to particulars in any entry, it should be lodged on or before the January 15, 2020 in Form 6, 7 or 8 as may be appropriate. Every such claim or objection should either be presented in his office or to the AEROs and BLOs or sent by post to the address to reach not later than the aforesaid date.

Tuensang: Draft publication of electoral roll for Tuensang was conducted at DC conference hall Tuensang, chaired by ADC Tuensang Ajit Kumar Verma which was attended by political parties of the district.

DIMAPUR: Affirmative action programme (AAP) initiated by Sub-Regional Employment Office (SREMO) along with Model Career Centre (MCC)/Regional Employment Exchange) in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was completed on December 12, at conference hall, Directorate of Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Kohima. A press release from MCC/Regional Employment Exchange, Kohima stated that, training was launched on November 25 and focused on enhancing and improving the confidence level of

the people to learn from mistakes for voting them both to represent the people in the Indian parliament. NVCO also stated that Tokheho Yepthomi in his earlier tenure as MP in Lok Sabha was absent when CAB was tabled in Lok Sabha but again “we” voted him to continue as MP as he voted in favour of CAB. NVCO further stated that K G Kenye was initially going against CAB but when it came to voting, he had also voted in favour of CAB. In this regard, NVCO president Kezhokhoto Savi said that the people of Nagaland are not to be convinced by the word “exemption” and “safeguarding interests of NE” as CAB is “totally bad and dangerous to our land” and “we are not to say that we are protected by ILP & Art. 371 A as the word ‘citizenship’ is totally different.”

the participants and their communication skills in English and analytical reasoning. TCS AA programme aims at providing free employability training for the SC/ST and extremely economically backward candidates from Minority and other social groups of the country.

All candidates who completed the training received a certificate of completion & appreciation. They will also have the opportunity to be selected by TCS and be part of this corporate giant awarded the best employer and is one of the top five employers in the world.

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training for the candidates with TCS was also conducted on December 13 and further information will be published after completion and final selection of the candidates. The felicitation programme was attended by the additional director, joint director, Directorate of Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, SREO Kohima, ITI principal and officers of MCC, Kohima. The next batch of training will start in a few months and for more queries, one may get in touch with the MCC/Regional Employment Exchange, Kohima, High School Road, Nagaland.

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ADC Dimapur and DMC administrator lighting the torch at the inaugural programme of December Fest. (NP)

Delivering keynote address at the opening ceremony, Dimapur Municpal Council (DMC) administrator Albert Ezung maintained that Dimapur municipal area comprises of 23 wards consisting of 95 colonies and within the municipality, the population as per 2011 census stands at one lakh twenty two thousand, the number of household comprises of 29 thousand and the district figure stands at three lakh seventy eight thousand as per 2011 census.

As per the 2001 census the population of Dimapur was one lakh sixty six thousand so within a decade there has been huge increase in population, showing an increase of 127 in terms of percentage with quantum increase over the ten years. As per the statistical

handbook released by the directorate of Economics and Statistics the population projection of Dimapur district in 2021 stands at five lakhs forty five thousand, Ezung maintained.

In this regard, Ezung asserted that the figure indicates an explosion in terms of population, infrastructural development and urbanisation.

Ezung also spoke on the importance of sense of responsibility to ensure that “we” all live in healthy, clean and hygienic environment, responsibility to build and promote sense of brotherhood and peace amongst the different communities, colonies and villages.

Ezung hopes that the endeavour to make Dimapur a better place increase through the participation of stakeholders. Furthermore,

Khehokhu celebrates golden jubilee

Pregnancy awareness held in Tsiesama

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WEATHER FORECAST December 17

(Temperature in ºC)

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Agartala Hazy sunshine

26 15

Mostly sunny

20 9

Aizawl

Guwahati Sunny to partly cloudy Imphal

Sunny and pleasant

24 14 22 9

Itanagar Clouds and sun with a shower 19 12 Shillong Some sun with a shower

16 6

Mostly sunny

16 8

Dimapur Mostly sunny and pleasant

22 13

Kohima

An a.m. shower; partly sunny

18 9

Tuensang An a.m. shower; partly sunny

11 5

Mkg Wokha

Cooler with hazy sunshine

Zunheboto Partly sunny and cooler

16 10 15 8

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, DEC 16 (NPN): The much awaited second edition December Fest organized with the objective of bringing different communities and denizens of Dimapur in one arena with the twin objective of “festivity” and “opportunity” to be realized in multiple way commenced Monday, at DDSC, Dimapur.

The two-day fest is being organized by The Better Dimapur team in collaboration with Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), Naga Council Dimapur (NCD), Dimapur Urban Council Chairman Federation (DUCCF), GB Union Dimapur (GBUD), Naga Women Hoho Dimapur (NWHD) and Dimapur Naga Students Union (DNSU)

Executive secretary, WSBAK, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi dedicating the jubilee monolith at Khehokhu village on December 15.

DIMAPUR: Khehokhu village celebrated its golden jubilee on December 15, wherein executive secretary of Western Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi unveiled and dedicated the bust of late Khehokhu Yepthomi, founder of the village.

A press release from the organisers stated that, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu also ded-

icated the jubilee monolith.

During the programme, Ato Kukau (head GB) of the village, Hokiye Yeptho delivered the welcome address.

Director, Sumi Baptist Convention, Rev Dr. Khehovi Shohe released the jubilee souvenir. Rev. Dr. Hevukhu delivered the sermon.

Ex-pastor of Khehokhu Village Baptist

Church, Rev. Kiheto led the jubilee monolith unveiling programme.

A host of invitees including advisor for Power, Tovihoto Ayemi; ex-MLA, Hewoto Awomi, Naga national political group leaders including Q. Tuccu, Akato Chophi, Samson Aye and public leaders, church leaders and GBs of various villages attended the programme.

DIMAPUR: Pregnancy related issues awareness talk was held at 14th Battalion Assam Rifles, Tsiesama, on December 15.

A press release from trustee, Dr K & T Keditsu Foundation, Keduovinuo Keditsu, stated that obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr. Thejavinuo Keditsu, delivered lecture followed by interactive session, attended by 75 women.

The lecture was part of WHOLE Project (Women’s Health, Oncology, Lifestyle Endeavour) of Dr. K & T Keditsu Foundation, started in 2017 with objective to educate women about basic health and hygiene, pregnancy related issues, warning signs of women related diseases specifically cancer, and to promote health seeking behaviour.

14th Battalion Assam rifles, Tsiesama having around 100 families living within camp with 25 expecting women, greatly benefited through the interaction awareness programme.

he urged the gathering to act as torch bearers to make Dimapur city, a city to be proud of.

Additional de puty commissioner (ADC) Dimapur, V Lovitoly Sema as special guest extended her appreciation towards the organizing committee for providing a platform to come together and enjoy the spirit of celebration of the season. She lauded the organizing team for providing a platform where people from different communities, religion, tribes and different backgrounds could be part of the fest and to keep back the differences.

She was also optimistic that the fest will provide a platform for economic enhancement and therefore encouraged the young upcoming entrepreneurs and talented artistes. She encouraged them to avail this kind of opportunity to showcase their talents.

She asserted that “community unity” was the basic foundation of a progressive society for growth, harmony and development.

With the advancement of science and technology, people have become lazy and therefore Sema felt the need of organizing such events for balance growth and at the same time keep the youths occupied in constructive thoughts and chan-

Peace activist, Niketu Iralu speaking during the occasion. (NP)

Correspondent KOHIMA, DEC 16 (NPN): Peace activist, Niketu Iralu suggested that Northeast India must come together to create a wider common stability through a platform or meetings to achieve development in the region.

To this, he said change was needed to achieve for development and added that without stability, peace, mutual trust and cooperation, the neighbouring community cannot grow together.

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He was speaking at the two-day festival on “Cultures of peace” which began at Kohima on Monday organised

by Zubaan, the Heinrich Boell Foundation in collaboration with Morung Express.

Iralu viewed that if one dealt with these issues, one could build mutual trust, while also apologising in times of need was important for the region.

Iralu believes that Northeast region will be able to see wider common stability and to do that, the people

DC Kohima, Gregory Thejawelie delivering Christmas message on December 13. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Kohima district administration along with sister departments within the office premises celebrated advent Christmas on December 13 at deputy commissioner’s office compound, Kohima.

According to DIPR report, delivering the Christmas message, the DC Kohima, Gregory Thejawelie said that celebrating the advent Christmas was to prepare “our” souls on how well “we” prepare ourselves to recieve the blessings and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Adding that the celebration should ensure the happiness of the one who has saved “us” from sins, he encouraged the gathering to share love and happiness out of their heart not with the people who have but to share with people who do not have sufficient, whereby Christmas will be more meaningful.

The programme organized and sponsored by Kohima district administration was chaired by Medoneisa Chadi while invocation prayer was offered by Rakalung and scripture reading

by Ketoulhoutuoü Rame.

Christmas gifts were also exchanged with bonfire.

INTCWS: Meanwhile the India Northeast Tribal Community Welfare Society, (INTCWS) Notun Bosti, Dimapur under its Education wing, Libra Consultancy celebrated pre-Christmas programme on December 16. God’s blessing was invoked by its member Hitol Swu and the society chairman thanked the members for tireless ser vices and sacrifices made by all for uplifting the tribal people, especially in creating awareness and counselling students towards achieving quality education.

KSCD Ltd office inaugurated in Kohima

Host of dignitaries after inauguration of the new office at Kohima on Monday. (NP)

Correspondent KOHIMA DEC 16 (NPN): New office building of Kohima Smart City Development (KSCD) Limited and Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) was inaugurated at New Super Market Complex, Kohima on Monday.

Kohima village council chairman Neiphi Kire inaugurated the new office building, while dedicatory prayer was given by Union Baptist Church Kohima pastor Rev. Dr. Rachulie

Festival on ‘cultures of peace’ underway in Kohima needed to go to one another and express their concern to neighbouring states to build up the relationship.

Stating that the region is a fragile community, he said if NE stays united, it can become very strong as the region was in sensitive, strategic meeting point.

He opined that “if we cannot solve our common problem, we will be used by others or used other for immediate instant desire for vengeance for ourselves, such community will not survive.”

He was also of the view that northeast has to do away with the culture of bandh and that calling a bandh will not solve problems.

Towards this end, Iralu maintained that the bandh is not at all sustainable, but that people have to think to serve for more sustainable doctrine revolution and society building.

While mentioning that the aspirations of each state was sacred and varied according to the geography, Iralu said “we forget our responsibility to be worthy of our aspiration, we have to have our aspiration declared and

nel their energy towards the right perspective.

She also encouraged the participants to compete in the spirit of true sportsmanship as the ultimate thing is not about winning but participating and getting to know each other better.

At the programme, special song was presented by winners of choir competition, December Fest 2018, Maple Tree School, lighting and oath taking ceremony, special presentation by Star Excellence Kindergarten and declaration of the fest open by the special guest.

Programme was hosted

by Bobita Rai and invocation prayer offered by Father’s House Church pastor Robert Ezung.

Highlights of the fest included various competitions in categories for both men and women such as tug of war, Santa Claus competition; bamboo stilt race and pole climbing for men; penalty shoot-out for women, art competition, photography competition and penalty shoot-out competition.

Altogether, 15 stalls were set up at the venue offering myriad ethnic costumes, magnificent jewellery etc, besides mouth-watering cuisine from indigenous Naga dish to continental.

The fest will culminate on December 17.

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have the world respect, we must live life in such a way, we will began to solve our problems, the problems that the quality of our life’s will be solved.”

He said “our aspiration, our slogans are very young compared to the other around us, recently declared and defended, they have been ignored or treated with, sense of superiority by other people of India.”

Earlier, short introductions were given by publisher of Morung Express, Akum Longchari. Chock Tsering of Heinrich Boell Foundation India, said the culture of peace aimed to bridge the gap between Northeast and mainland India to bring them closer through such events.

Highlight of day included panel discussion among chairman of Kohima Educational Society, P. Ngully, dean, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Guwahati, Xonzoi Barbora, senior journalist and writer, Pradip Phanjoubam, moderated by advisor, Naga Mothers Association (NMA), prof. Dr. Rosemary Dzuvichu.

Vihienuo.

In his address, special guest Kire said Kohima has expanded over the years where different tribes from all walks of life have come to live. While welcoming everyone, he said it was their wish that everyone live in peace and harmony as they go about in their daily activities.

He expressed gratefulness to Smart City under the leadership of Kovi Meyase and assured that the Kohima village will give their best coopera-

tion to make smart city a success.

KMC administrator and KSCDL, CEO Kovi Meyase said that this was the first project under the Kohima smart city and completed before one month ahead of the actual date.

He appreciated Ura Academy for renting out their complex when the KMC was razed down by fire on February 2, 2017, and also the Municipal Affairs department for portion of the new Supermarket

Complex to build their office.

KSCDL GM projects Er. Theruovituo Pienyü giving a brief report said the project was approved during the 13th board of directors on September 28, 2018 to be taken up under upgrading central commercial area as per the smart city proposal.

After necessary approvals was obtained, the work order was issued to M/S Golden traders on Dec 14, 2018 with a completion time of one year.

DLCW-MSK Mokokchung awareness programme in schools

Students and officials during the awareness programme held under BBBP.

DIMAPUR: Awareness programme on violence against women and women centric schemes was conducted at various schools in Mokokchung town from November 22 till December 16.

A press release from women welfare officer (DLCW-MSK) Mokokchung, Moamenla stated that, there was also distribution of sanitary napkins in the schools and a survey was also conducted.

Programme was organised by the district administration in collaboration with district level centre for women (Mahila Shakti Kendra) under the banner of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.

During the programme, different services provided by for the women in case of emergency which are women helpline 181, Sakhi one stop centre, legal aid services, counselling service and different helpline numbers which will be available 24x7 for

the welfare of a woman were shared. Government schemes/ programmes, training and capacity building for empowerment of rural women were also shared during the awareness.

Distribution of personal hygiene kit and awareness programme on personal hygiene for women was also conducted in Amenyong sector Khensa village, Aliba village and Alongchen compound Sungratsu village.

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Manipur students stage anti-CAA protest

Students of DM College of Arts staging anti-CAA protest outside their college campus on Monday. (NP) Correspondent

IMPHAL, Dec 16: Extending solidarity to the anti- Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest in West Bengal and in Northeast, students of DM College of Arts, Manipur staged a peaceful protest in their college campus in Imphal on Monday.

During the protest, students displayed placards which read “Largest democracy turned into dictatorship”, “NE not dumping ground”, “We oppose CAA, withdraw CAA”, “Ready to die but not ready to accept CAA”, etc.

And later at the concluding part of the protest, the students chanted

“Down with fascist Modi government”. While showing solidarity to the cause of the people of Assam and Tripura, the slogans read “Manipur stand for Assam and Tripura,” “Stop brutality, we strongly condemned the brutal act of police”, “Save indigenous people of northeast,” etc were also displayed.

“We oppose CAA for the sake of our future generation,” said general secretary Motang Makunga of DMC Arts Student Union while talking to reporters.

He called upon the student community across the Northeast region to stand united to fight against the CAA, asserting it was the bounden duty of the today’s generation to think

for the welfare of the future generation.

The general secretary also said that ILP regime was not a legislation that will save the indigenous people of the region from the evil impact of CAA. He further demanded that police and security forces immediately stop brutality being meted out to the anti-CAA protestors.

Finance secretar y Sagolshem Tamtam called for united struggle against CAA for the sake of future of the indigenous people of the region. “If not fight today, our future is dark.

Preventing CAA today will be our priceless gift to the future generation,” he said.

Shillong limps back to normalcy S hillo n g, D e c 1 6 (PTI): After days of pitched protests against the amended Citizenship Act, the Meghalaya capital limped back to normalcy on Monday with people seen thronging banks and markets before the Christmas season.

Curfew was lifted for 13 hours in areas under Sadar and Lumdiengjri police station limits in the hill town and will be reimposed at 7 pm on Monday, East Khasi Hills District Magistrate M W Nongbri said. The situation is returning to normalcy and no untoward incident was reported during the curfew hours and when the curfew was lifted, another senior district official said.

Long queues were seen at the banks, who also replenished the ATMs with cash. “We are open for business transactions as the prevailing situation has improved,” a bank official said. Shops and business establishments at major markets in Police Bazaar and Iew Duh areas of the town were seen doing brisk business before the Christmas season. The Confederation of Meghalaya Social Organisation (COMSO), an umbrella body of all groups protesting the Act, expressed its happiness over the state government’s decision to pass a resolution on December 19 seeking implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state.

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Orange festival kicks off in Tamenglong Correspondent

IMPHAL, Dec 16: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Monday inaugurated the 16th State level Orange Festival-cum-centenary celebration of Tamenglong district administration at the district headquarters.

On the occasion, Singh announced that separate funds would be earmarked in the state budget for festivals related to fruits.

Stating that horticulture products of the state have a unique taste, he said orange of Tamenglong would be receiving Geographical Indication (GI) tagging certificate very soon.

Manipur has immense potential in tourism and horticulture sectors, he said and added that the state should focus on these sectors to bring economic development. The chief minister further claimed that BJP-led coalition government was able to make significant developmental changes in the state in the past two and a half years, where hill-valley bonding had been strength-

Manipur CM N Biren Singh and others at the Orange Festival in Tamenglong district on Monday. (NP) ened and law and order situation have been improved.

On the developmental projects in Tamenglong, the chief minister said that projects like widening of Khongshang-Tamenglong road, construction of FCI Godown and water supply scheme at Duithanglong were going in full swing.

The chief minister also said that the present women’s market will be upgraded by allocating more funds.

Also speaking in the

programme, State forest minister Th Shyamkumar said that Tamenglong was known to the world for its oranges having unique taste and Amur Falcon migratory birds. He said state government will put all-out efforts to hold a special festival for Amur Falcon and Hornbill.

Minister of Public Health Engineering, L Dikho said that effort of the government to bring positive developmental changes would be achieved through the

support and cooperation of the people.

Awangbou Newmai and Samual Jendai MLAs, ADC Tamenglong chairman Namsinrei Pamei were among others who attended the programme. Around 370 growers participated in this year’s festival.

The festival was organized by the district administration under the sponsorship of North Eastern Council and government of Manipur.

Normal situation slowly returning to Assam: Himanta

Guwahati, Dec 16 (PTI): As- the law and order situation daily and is trying to lift the prevailing restricsam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa have asked the deputy commissioners tions and reopen schools and colleges, Sarma Monday said that normal situ- of the districts to lift the curfew as which had been closed in view of ation is slowly returning to the state soon as possible”. the state-wide violent protests which after the violent protests against the “The decision on restoration of began on December 11. amended Citizenship Act and internet the internet services in the state will Commenting on the amended services would be restored soon. be taken in a short span of time,” he Citizenship Act, Sarma, a senior BJP Curfew, which is clamped in vari- told newsmen here. leader, said that it is now sub-judice ous parts of Assam, too would be lifted The suspension of internet ser- as several petitions have been filed soon, he told newsmen here. The state vices in Assam was extended by an- against it in Supreme Court. police has registered 136 cases and ar- other 24 hours on Monday to prevent “I am sure that the Centre will lives for the nation during rested 190 persons so far in connection misuse of social media in disturbing definitely reach out to those protesting peace and maintain law and order in against it. The Assam government has the Indo-Pakistan war in with the violence, he said.

“Normal situation is slowly re- the state, officials said. no issues with democratic protests,” 1971, on Vijay Diwas on turning to the state.

We are reviewing The Assam government, he said, he said.

Monday.

The state level observance was held at the banOFFICE OF THE AFFIDAVIT quet hall of 1st Battalion NAMCHONG BUHU PANGTHAI, KOHIMA (Correction of name) Regd. No. 10408/19 Date. 16/12/19 Manipur Rifles with chief Motto: Growing Together I, No. 4382926 Sepoy, SAMUEL MAGH 15 Assam Regiment C/o. 99 APO do minister N Biren Singh FELICITATION hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows: and deputy chief minister We the Namchong Buhu Pangthai 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

Y Joykumar Singh as the Kohima, would like to express our heartiest 2. That my mother’s correct name is GWENI RENGMA and she was born congratulations to Shri. L. ONGPA. PHOM chief guest and functional (Yanpai), on being promoted to the post of on 1st Feb. 1972 however, in some of the documents including my Service president respectively.

Superintendent Class-1 gazetted under the Record her name has been inadvertently recorded as JWENLE MAGH of Directorate of Printing and and date of birth has been recorded as 13.02.1968 which is a clerical error Addressing the func- department Stationary, Govt of Nagaland. hence, the stated name represents the same person i.e. my mother. tion, the chief minister With much pride and honour, we praise 3.

That that henceforth I herewith rectified the same and declare that my our Almighty God and we appreciate your said “we all must commit mother’s correct name will be GWENI RENGMA and her correct date of and sincerity towards your duty, ourselves to improve the dedication deserving you to be placed in this position. birth will be 1st Feb. 1972 and the same will be for all official references. human resources sector in We pray that our Almighty God grant you long life and a fulfilling 4. That the above statements made are true to the best of my knowledge future. the state.” and no material facts has been concealed herein and I signed this affidavit H. BAUONG. PHOM before the competent authority on 16th Dec. 2019 at Kohima, Nagaland. “ O u r s t a t e wo u l d President K-3406 Namchong Buhu Pangthai, Kohima DEPONENT move forward only when K-3410 we develop our human Regd. No. 3320/19 AFFIDAVIT Date : 04/12/19 GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND resources,” he added.

I, Smti. YANGTEMCHILA, W/o Lt. Nokenchujang Ao, Presently Residing at H/No. OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ZUNHEBOTO On the occasion, the 54, Chumukedima, Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm an declare on oath as :NO.JUD.21/2017-18/399 Dtd. Zbto. the 4th 12 2019 chief minister led the gath- under 1. That, I am a bonafide and law abiding citizen of India and residing at the above mentioned address. ering in paying rich tribNotice calling objection for the issue of Succession Certificate my husband NOKENCHUJANG AO expired on 29/11/2019 and he died while ute to those soldiers who 2. That, serving at 1st NAP Bn. Smt. Tokhuli Sumi of Shena New District Zunheboto has sacrifice their lives for the 3. That, my husband's correct name is "NOKENCHUJANG AO", which is entered in applied for the issue of Succession Certificate/Guardianship all his official documents and records. However, his name has been inadvertently or integrity and sovereignty of wrongly entered/recorded as "NOKYIMCHUJANG AO" in his service Book.

Certificate declaring that her Husband Late Shitoho has 4. That "NOKENCHUJANG AO" and "NOKYIMCHUJANG AO" denotes to one and same the country. expired on 30-7-2019. person i.e. my late husband only.

Ministers, MLAs, ad- 5. That, I am swearing this affidavit to declare that "NOKENCHUJANG AO" and It is hereby notified that if no objection to issue this "NOKYIMCHUJANG AO" are the names of one and the same person and wherever ministrative secretaries, certificate is received from anyone within a period of 30 days this names appears it refers to my late husband "NOKENCHUJANG AO" only. heads of departments, top 6. That, the statement made in the above paras (1) to (4) are true and correct to the best w.e.f the date of publication in press, the Certificate shall be of my knowledge and belief and nothing material has been concealed therein. issued and no further complaint will be entertained for issue ranking civil and police And I have signed this affidavit on this 4th day of Dec. 2019 at Dimapur, Nagaland. of the same. officials also attended the DEPONENT Sworn and declare before me. function. (Correspondent) Deputy Commissioner Magistrate/Notary Public

48th Vijay Diwas celebrated in Northeast Guwahati/Agartala/Shillong, Dec 16 (IANS): The 48th Vijay Diwas was celebrated in all the Northeastern states on Monday by paying tributes to the Indian soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice during the 1971 India-Pakistan war, resulting in the creation of Bangladesh.

Vijay Diwas is celebrated every year to mark the victory of the Indian Army over the Pakistan Army. The signing of the Instrument of Surrender

by Pakistani forces’ Eastern Command Chief Lt Gen A.A.K. Niazi on December 16, 1971, in Dhaka brought the war for the liberation of Bangladesh to an end.

In Assam, Tezpurbased Gajraj Corps celebrated the Vijay Diwas to commemorate the decisive victory of the Indian Army 48 years ago.

To mark the occasion, in a solemn function held in the corps headquarters, GOC Lt Gen Manoj Pande paid homage to the fallen bravehearts and laid a wreath at the War Memorial on behalf of all ranks

Akhil Gogoi linked to Maoists, claims NIA Guwahati, Dec 16 (Agencies): National Investigation Agency (NIA) has labelled arrested peasants’ leader Akhil Gogoi as an overground worker of the proscribed CPI (Maoist).

Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) chief Gogoi has been booked by the NIA on charges of sedition and under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Northeast Now reported.

KMSS is one of the key organisations spearheading protests in Assam against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

The FIR lodged by NIA on Saturday alleged that Gogoi and several others, “through their visible representation and spoken words… have abetted, incited hatred and caused disaffection towards the government…”

The NIA alleged that Gogoi merged KMSS with Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC) in 2009.

RCC later merged with CPI (Maoist), it alleged.

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of the Corps.

In his address the GOC recollected the brave deeds of the army personnel.

The Gajraj Corps under its then GOC Lt Gen Sagat Singh had played a key role by launching an extremely daring thrust from the East towards Dhaka.

The day was also celebrated in Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur and other parts of northeast India.

In Tripura, Governor Ramesh Bais accompanied

by Tripura social Welfare Minister Santana Chakma paid tributes to the valiant personnel of the Armed Forces at the war memorial in the heart of Agartala city.

The Army and the Assam Rifles also paid homage at Shahid Smarak at Lichu Bagan on the outskirts of the city. Army officers and soldiers of the Agartala Military Station and ex-servicemen of Tripura took part in the commemorative event. The Bangladesh Assistant High Commissions in Guwahati and Agartala also organised discussions, cultural pro-

grammes and a get-together on the occasion. The daylong celebrations are taking place in both the mission complexes.

The 1971 war comprised two major operations -- Operation Cactus Lily and Operation Nut Cracker -- and 57 Mountain Division was actively involved in both operations with fire power support from 57 Mountain Artillery Brigade, said defence analyst Manas Paul.

“Both operations progressed from Agartala westwards towards Dhaka. The war finally culminated on December 16, 1971 with the unconditional surrender of 93,000 Pakistani soldiers.

Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Arora, Maj Gen (Retd) Ian Cardozo, Lt Arun Khetrapal, Lance Naik Albert Ekka are a few of our war heroes,” the analyst added.

Manipur joins Vijay Diwas observance

Manipur also joined the rest of the country in paying tributes to the martyrs, who laid down their

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IN THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT

KOHIMA BENCH WRIT APPEAL NO. 20 (K)/2018.

Union of India & 5 Ors ... Appellants.

-VersusN/L Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd & 2 Ors. …Respondents.

To, 1. Nagaland Pulp and Paper Company Ltd. Post Office – Paper Nagar, Tuli, Mokokchung, Nagaland – 798623.

NOTICE Take notice that the above referred appeal is pending before the Hon’ble Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench, which will be listed on or before 28.01.20 from the date of below mentioned order. You are therefore directed to appear in person or through a pleader before the Hon’ble Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench, as per the direction of the Hon’ble High Court Vide Order dated 06.12.2019, failing which the matter shall be heard in your absence.

Signed and sealed by order of the Court, this the 9th day of December, 2019.

Deputy Registrar (Judicial) Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench K-3408 Regd. No. 3326/2019

AFFIDAVIT

Date : 16/12/2019

I, Shri. Kishor Tamang, S/o Late Pancham Bahadur Tamang of 5 Assam Rifles, C/o. 99 APO, Firing Range, Kashirma Village, Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as under :1. That, I am a bonafide and law abiding citizen of India.

2. That, the correct and incorrect official names and title of me, my parents, my wife and children are as follows :-

NOTICE INVITING TENDER

Dated : 12.12.2019

Nagaland University invites sealed tenders from reputed Original Equipment Manufacturers/ Authorised Dealers/Bidders for supply and installation of equipments under the project entitled "Development of plant based assay system for primary screening of lead molecule(s) from medicinal plants of Nagaland" of Dr. Rajkrishna Mondal, Pl and Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Nagaland University. Interested firms may download the tender documents and Terms and Conditions from the University website: nagalanduniversity.ac.in and submit their quotations along with tender fees of Rs. 500/- (non-refundable) in the form of DD in favour of Registrar, Nagaland University, Lumami in sealed envelope superscript on the cover "Tender for supply of Equipments under DBT Project of Dr. Rajkrishna Mondal, Department of Biotechnology, Nagaland University" and addressed to the undersigned on or before 10th January, 2020 up to 4:00. P.M. No tenders will be accepted beyond this date and time.

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

I, the Member Secretary, on behalf of the Presidents/ Secretaries of Non-Naga Communities of Dimapur, who all are the signatories of the Memorandum submitted to Hon'ble Chief Minister of Nagaland on ILP issue, tender this unconditional apology to all the concerned individuals or Organisations or Tribes or Communities whose sentiments have been hurt through our said Memorandum which was published in the Local Dailies on 15th Dec'19.

We regret for the unfortunate error.

Ajay Sethi Member Secretary Non-Naga Communities of Dimapur, Nagaland DC-1695

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Sl. Incorrect Names/Surname Correct Names/Surname No. Particulars 1. Father's Name Late Pancham Bahadur Tamang Late Durga Bahadur Rana 2. Mother's Name Dhan Kumari Tamang Dhan Kumari Rana 3. My Name Kishor Tamang Kishor Rana Magar 4. Wife's Name Nanda Devi Tamang Nanda Kumari Rana Magar 5. Daughter's Name Sujata Tamang Sujata Rana 6. Son's Name Navraj Tamang Suraj Rana 3. That, I have sworn this affidavit to declare the correct name of me my parents, my wife and children and further to rectify the same in my relevant service records and other official documents accordingly.

4. That the content of this affidavit from para (1) to (3) are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing material has been concealed therein.

And I have signed this affidavit on this 16th day of December 2019 at Dimapur, Nagaland.

Deponent Sworn before me by the Deponent.

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Notary Public

NOTICE INVITING TENDER (Dated 16th December 2019) Sealed tenders are invited from the appropriate class of Civil Contractors empanelled with Nagaland University for the under mentioned works.

Tender Value Earnest Tender Fee Sl. Money (through Completion inclusive of Particulars No. time applicable GST Deposit NU Challan) [`] [`] [`] Re-Tender Notice for Providing Metalling and Cement Concrete at Approach Road 03(Three) 1. and Courtyard 42,16,350.00 84,330.00 1,000.00 months to Examination Section building, NU, Hqrs. Lumami (No. NU/ENGG/M60/C/Rd/2012-708) Providing CGI Roofing with M/S Frame at Officers 03(Three) 2. Quarters (10 Nos.), 38,64,250.00 77,285.00 1,000.00 months NU, Hqrs. Lumami (No. NU/L/ENGG/A37/2010-709) Conversion of Garage to Residential Quarters(2 Nos.) at 06(Six) 3.

19,49,920.00 38,995.00 1,000.00 NU, Hqrs. Lumami months (No. NU/ENGG/M/ T-B/Qtr(2)//2016710) Tender documents can be collected from Engineering Section, NU, Hqrs.

Lumami on working days upto 9th January 2020 and the same should be submitted in a sealed envelope addressed to the Registrar on or before 10th January 2020 (upto 2:00 PM). Nagaland University reserves the right to accept or reject any tender without assigning any reason, whatsoever.

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BJP trying to prepare ground for Unnao rape case: Court convicts ex-BJP MLA making India Hindu rashtra: Gehlot

NEW DELHI, DEC 16 (PTI): A Delhi court convicted expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar on Monday for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017 saying the victim’s testimony was “truthful and unblemished” against a “powerful person”.

The court convicted Sengar for rape under the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act for offence by a public servant committing penetrative sexual assault against a child. The court will hear arguments on quantum on sentence on Wednesday.The offences entail maximum punishment of life imprisonment.

District Judge Dharmesh Sharma, however, acquitted co-accused Shashi Singh of all charges.

Convicting Sengar, 53, under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the court said the CBI proved that the victim was a minor and he was rightly prosecuted under the special law.

“I found her statement truthful and unblemished that she was sexually assaulted. She was under threat, worried. She is a village girl, not from cosmopolitan educated area...

Sengar was powerful person.

So she took her time..,” the judge said while reading out

Kuldeep Singh Sengar (File)

the verdict.

When the judge started pronouncing the verdict, coaccused Singh fainted.

The court noted that after the victim wrote letter to the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, several criminal cases were filed against her family and “imprints of Sengar” were visible in them.

The court expressed surprise over the delay by the CBI in filing charge sheet in the rape case and said it prolonged trial against Sengar and others.

The court pulled up the CBI for delay in filing the charge as also the absence of women officer in conducting the probe “without bothering for the kind of harassment, anguish and revictimisation that occurs for a victim of sexual assault”.

It also expressed dis-

pleasure over the agency leaking selectively the vital information relating to the statement of the survivor to put a cloud over her case.

The court said that “according to law there should be female officers in CBI to record statement of victims in such cases but surprisingly the girl was called many times to CBI office instead of going to her residence”.

It noted that investigation in such cases has to be conducted by a woman officer as mandated under Section 24 of the POCSO Act but the successive statements of the victim girl had been recorded by calling her at the CBI office “without bothering for the kind of harassment, anguish and revictimisation that occurs for a victim of sexual assault in such case”.

Referring to the POCSO, which had come into being to impart expeditious justice involving children as victims of sexual assault, the court said there was “nothing wrong” with law but its ineffective implementation on ground and lack of human approach of officers concerned led to a situation where justice was delayed.

It said that the CBI itself was not following the manual relating to investigation and prosecution.

The woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped

by Sengar in 2017 when she was a minor.

The court had also framed charges against coaccused Shashi Singh in the case. Sengar, a four-time BJP MLA from UP’s Bangermau, was expelled from the BJP in August 2019.

The c our t had on August 9 framed charges against the MLA and Singh under Sections 120 b (criminal conspiracy), 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping or inducing a woman to compel for marriage), 376 (rape) and other relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The trial in the high profile case was held in-camera after the Supreme Court transferred the matter from UP to the national capital.

A special court was also held at AIIMS hospital here on September 11, 12 and 13 to record the statement of the rape survivor, who was admitted there after she was air-lifted from a hospital in Lucknow.

The judge heard the case on a day-to-day basis from August 5 after it was transferred to Delhi from a court in Lucknow on Supreme Court’s directions.

On July 28 this year, the car of the survivor was hit by a truck and she was severely injured. The woman’s two aunts were killed in the accident and her family had alleged foul play.

Her father was allegedly framed in an illegal arms case and arrested on April 3, 2018. He died while in judicial custody a few days later, on April 9. The local court here has framed murder and other charges against the MLA, his brother Atul and nine others in the case.

The apex court, taking cognisance of the rape survivor’s letter written to the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had on August 1 transferred all five cases registered in connection with the Unnao rape incident from a Lucknow court in Uttar Pradesh to the court in Delhi with directions to hold trial on daily basis and completing it within 45-days.

JAIPUR, DEC 16 (PTI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday alleged that the BJP government at the Centre is trying to prepare the ground for making India a “Hindu rashtra” instead of focusing on the country’s economy.

Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, the chief minister said they are trying to create a “division” in the name of religion and questioned whether the country would remain intact if they continue doing so.

“A dangerous game is being played. The ground is being prepared on how to take things towards the making of a Hindu rashtra.

Economy must be the prime agenda for the government but instead the agenda of the government is Article 370 and provocation in the name of nationalism,” Gehlot said here at a press conference here.

He said the amended citizenship law is “impractical” and therefore it cannot be implemented.

“The northeast is burning. There is widespread reaction to the amendment.

This will not be implemented because this is impractical. Six-seven states have already said this. The gov-

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ernment should repeal it,” the chief minister said.

He alleged the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate are conducting raids on the directions of the Prime Minister’s Office.

The chief minister said during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government rule, talks of India’s emergence as “economic superpower” used to be there and comparison used to be between India and China in context of economic growth but now the government has create an atmosphere where talks of India and Pakistan are there.

“What is Pakistan as compared to India? Pakistan’s prime minister has himself stated that they cannot stand in comparison to India but now there are talks

of India-Pakistan,” he said.

The chief minister claimed that the Centre has significantly cut grants of the state which is a matter of concern.

“States are suffering due to wrongdoings of the Centre. The grants from the Centre to Rajasthan have been cut by Rs 11,000 crore.

How the developmental activities will take place?” he questioned. The senior Congress leader also alleged that electoral bond is a scandal and the BJP government is running a campaign to end other political parties.

“Where is democracy?” he asked.

Targeting PM Modi and Home Minister Shah over the BJP’s ‘Congressmukt Bharat’ slogan, Gehlot said they have realised their agenda of a Congress-free India cannot be fulfilled.

“After Haryana and Maharashtra assembly results, they have realised that the BJP’s graph is going down. They will never say Congress-free India. People have wisdom and they understand what is going on,” he said.

The chief minister also accused the BJP of trying to mislead the youths and spending crores of rupees to run propaganda.

Nirbhaya’s parents seek justice Army celebrates 48th anniversary of 1971 Indo-Pak war

Phase-IV Jharkhand elections: 56.58 per cent polling recorded RANCHI, DEC 16 (PTI): An estimated 56.58 per cent of over 47 lakh electorate cast their votes as polling in the fourth phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections to 15 seats ended peacefully on Monday, Election Commission (EC) officials said.

The final polling percentage is likely to increase, they said.

Polling, which began at 7 am, went on peacefully in the constituencies spread over Giridih, Deoghar, Dhanbad and Bokaro districts, they said.

Voting ended at 3 pm in Jamua, Bagodar, Giridih, Dumri and Tundi seats while the exercise concluded at 5 pm in the remaining seats, the officials said.

The seats which went to polls in this round were Deoghar (SC), Jamua (SC), Chandankiyari (SC), Madhupur, Bagodar, Gandey, Giridih, Dumri, Bokaro, Sindri, Nirsa, Dhanbad, Jharia, Tundi and Baghmara.

Prominent among the candidates in this phase were state Labour Minister Raj Paliwar from Madhipur seat and Land and Revenue Minister Amar Kumar Bauri from Chandankiyari constituency.

Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer Vinay Kumar Choubey said out of total 6,101 polling stations, 587 were marked ‘critical’ and 405 ‘sensitive’ in Left Wing Extremism-affected constituencies while there were 546 ‘critical’ and 2,655 ‘sensitive’

polling booths in other seats.

A total of 47,85,009 voters, including 22,44,134 female and 81 third gender voters, were eligible to decide the fate of 221 nominees, including 23 women candidates.

Of the total electorate, there were 34,106 octagenarian and 66,321 differentlyabled voters, the CEO said.

Webcasting was done in 2,122 polling stations while 70 booths were manned only by women polling personnel, Choubey said, adding more than one EVMs were used in four seats where there were more than 16 candidates in the fray.

Choubey said there were 9,902 ballot units, 7,628 control units and 7,931 VVPAT machines.

The ruling BJP had contested all the 15 seats that went to polls in this phase.

Its ally AJSU Party contested on its own for the first time since the creation of Jharkhand in 2000.

The opposition alliance of the JMM, the Congress and the RJD fielded candidates in constituencies as per their pre-poll seat adjustment.

Of the total 81 Assembly seats, elections to 50 seats concluded in the first three phases held between November 30 and December 12.

The fifth and final phase of polling to 16 seats will be held on December 20 and votes will be counted on December 23.

SRINAGAR, DEC 16 (PTI): The Army on Monday here celebrated the 48th anniversary of the 1971 India-Pakistan war that culminated in the creation of Bangladesh.

Corps Commander Lt General K J S Dhillon led officers and other ranks of the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps in paying tribute to the martyrs by laying a wreath at the war memorial, a defence spokesman said.

“The 48th anniversary of the Indian victory in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war was celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm. Several functions were held to mark MoS Defence, Shripad Naik, Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat, Navy Chief Admiral the occasion,” he said.

The spokesman said Karambir Singh and Air Chief Marshal RK Singh Bhadauria pay homage at the National a felicitation function was War Memorial on the occasion of Vijay Diwas, in New Delhi, Monday. (PTI) held to acknowledge and honour the sacrifices of the NETWORK OF KOHIMA DISTRICT PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS Near Naga Hospital, Above Famous Bakery, Kohima, Nagaland veterans and martyrs of the ADVERTISEMENT 1971 war.

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“The war veterans and Eligibility Criteria: The applicants should be class 12 pass with relevant families of the martyrs of experience and essentially from PLHIV Community.

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that characterises the Army was on display as the veterans and families of martyrs interacted with the present generation of the soldiers,” he said.

Addressing the function, Lt Gen Dhillon said the Army is grateful to the veterans for their services to the nation in their younger years and expressed the resolve that Army will look after their welfare.

“The Army immensely values the sacrifices of the Veer Naaris and their family members. The victory of such a magnitude would not have been possible without the tremendous sacrifice by the soldiers,” the corps commander said, referring to the 1971 war victory.

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courts and Supreme Court should not take time since they only have to examine the judgement of the lower court.

“It should not go on for long and should be made online. Cases in HC and SC should not go on for more than a fortnight,” he adds.

When talks about instant justice arise, there is also talk about the Hyderabad encounter, where four suspected rapists were shot dead in an encounter by police, which also saw celebrations there.

Do they agree with such a thing?

“Whatever punishment they got it was not for burning that daughter so justice was not done,” says Nirbhaya’s mother.

“The reason people celebrated was because justice is delayed and they felt at least somewhere it was delivered on time. Even I had rejoiced at that time,” she says. For seven years, her parents will not have to go through the same trauma that we are going through, she says.

“If you look at it from the legal point she did not get justice but at least her family would be at peace that they are no longer alive,” she says.

NAGALAND : KOHIMA No.NPWD/E-IN-C/DRB/2019 Dated: Kohima, the December, 2019

NOTIFICATION With reference to this Department’s ADVERTISEMENT NOS. NPWD-1/2019 and NPWD-2/2019 dated Kohima the 23rd November 2019, the last date ONLY for submission of forms is hereby extended till the 18th December 2019. No further extension will be granted.

Sd/Engineer-in-Chief NPWD Nagaland : Kohima.

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medic student’s parents have not lost faith in God, despite facing so much.

“I have believed in karma for the last seven years.

I have the support of God. But I didn’t lose faith in him.

Of course there are questions like ‘Why did we have to face this? ‘” Her father says they believe in doing good karma.

While they might be closer to getting justice, they said their fight for other ‘Nirbhayas’ will continue.

“With the hanging of the four accused, Nirbhaya will get justice. But there are many Nirbhayas in the country. We will fight for other daughters too,” says her father.

The last seven years have given the couple a lot of experience and they now understand the loopholes of the criminal justice system and how to tackle them.

He said their fight ahead will centre around time-bound justice.

“There is no timebound procedure for filing mercy or review petitions.

There should be a fixed duration of cases,” he says.

He says it is understandable that trial courts take time because they have to hear both parties and examine evidence, but high

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NEW DELHI, DEC 16 (PTI): It has been seven years to that fateful day when their daughter - who came to be known as ‘Nirbhaya’ - was brutally gangraped and thrown off a bus, but her parents still await justice.

The tag of rape capital became all the more pronounced after the Nirbhaya incident but her parents say it is a pan-India problem and cannot bring themselves to hate the national capital, which snatched their child.

“Delhi snatched everything away. But we cannot hate Delhi since our state Uttar Pradesh has also been seeing such incidents. There is no place in the world where we can go where such incidents do not happen.

You cannot hate the entire world,” says Nirbhaya’s mother.

But they hope and pray that things improve for the better. In the last few days, they have seen a bit of hope, with reports saying the four accused in the case might be hanged soon.

As Nirbhaya’s mother puts it, “We are hopeful.

We have been waiting for it.

It is not easy till the time we get their death warrant and the date.”

The 23-year-old para-

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xcept for the Sikkim Democratic Front(SDF), all Rajya Sabha MPs from the north east –based regional political parties voted for the controversial Citizen (Amendment) Bill which has become an Act after the President of India gave assent. There are a few points that come up over the CAB (now CAA) in view of its inherent contradiction with the spirit of the Indian constitution as drafted by the founding fathers.

There is also another point that reveals how the MPs from the north east-based regional parties were literally sailing on two boats. The CAB is as highly emotive as the core issue of illegal immigration mostly from Bangladesh. It may be pointed out that the term ‘illegal immigrant’ which has been overused since the late 70s especially at the height of the violent anti-foreigner movement in Assam in the mid-80s, was subjectively applied to mean a particularly religious community.

The fear was not misplaced mainly because of the real threat posed by the illegal immigrants on the demography of most of the states. Tripura is a classic and living example of how the illegal immigrants have consistently, persistently and blatantly circumvented the ineffective border protection and weak and inoperable immigration law to swamp the state for many decades. The consequences of the influx has resulted in the local indigenous Tripuris being systematically reduced to minority of only 25% of the population in their own land and state.The ‘illegal immigrants’ turned Indian citizens are mainly Bangladeshi Hindus who constitute 60% of the state’s population at over 20 lakh. Muslims comprise of 8% of the state’s religious community, while Christians make up 4% of the population. For the Hindus of Bangladeshi-origin who are in majority in Tripura, the CAB was a bounty promised by the BJP in granting them Indian citizenship.The recently enacted CAA would inspire more Bangladeshi Hindus to cross over to the north east, which is like the Nazi Lebensraum. The vote bank syndrome which the BJP heavily criticised the Congress is being replicated through the CAA. However, the Congress tried to make amends by incorporating the issue of illegal immigrants in the Assam Accord where those who came to India(read northeast) after March 24,1971 will be treated as illegal immigrants.The CAA has put the cut off as December 31,2014. The Congress lost its Muslim vote bank to the AIUDF. In public, the north east-based regional political parties expressed outrage. Even the AGP, the opportunistic ally of the BJP took a moral stand on it. The people across the north east were united in one voice against “all illegal immigrants.” The north east regional parties adopted resolutions against the CAB. They decided to take a principled stand against the bill. However, in parliament, the north east regional parties barring the SDF took a “practical step” by voting in favour of the bill.By voting for the CAB, perhaps the regional parties concluded,that all illegal immigrants are Muslims.

Clearly, regional parties owe an explanation to their people as to what made them take a U-turn? Whether they were convinced the ILP will solve the issue of illegal immigrants? By voting for the CAB the regional parties exposed they were running with the hare and hunting with the hound. ILP has not checked illegal immigrants in Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram. CAA will legalise the illegal in Assam and the other states are bound to suffer the consequences.

DailyDevotion Wrestling Before God Take up the whole armor of God…praying always… —Ephesians 6:13,18 You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God, and wrestle in prayer for other people; but to wrestle with God in prayer is unscriptural. If you ever do wrestle with God, you will be crippled for the rest of your life. If you grab hold of God and wrestle with Him, as Jacob did, simply because He is working in a way that doesn’t meet with your approval, you force Him to put you out of joint (see Genesis 32:24-25). Don’t become a cripple by wrestling with the ways of God, but be someone who wrestles before God with the things of this world, because “we are more than conquerors through Him…” (Romans 8:37).

Wrestling before God makes an impact in His kingdom.

If you ask me to pray for you, and I am not complete in Christ, my prayer accomplishes nothing. But if I am complete in Christ, my prayer brings victory all the time.

Prayer is effective only when there is completeness— “take up the whole armor of God….”

Always make a distinction between God’s perfect will and His permissive will, which He uses to accomplish His divine purpose for our lives. God’s perfect will is unchangeable. It is with His permissive will, or the various things that He allows into our lives, that we must wrestle before Him. It is our reaction to these things allowed by His permissive will that enables us to come to the point of seeing His perfect will for us. “We know that all things work together for good to those who love God…” (Romans 8:28)— to those who remain true to God’s perfect will— His calling in Christ Jesus.

God’s permissive will is the testing He uses to reveal His true sons and daughters. We should not be spineless and automatically say, “Yes, it is the Lord’s will.” We don’t have to fight or wrestle with God, but we must wrestle before God with things. Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.

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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ~ Jim Rohn

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egan festivals are probably good, in that they create a climate for you to turn into a non meat/milk/egg person, but these are events meant to peddle goods, not to advocate for the rights and freedom of other animals, or inspire political and social activism. Instead of advising people to consume less, they push people to buy more and, in doing so, send the message that veganism is a personal, consumer choice, instead of a moral imperative. “Vegan outreach” and “the power of the wallet” are unquestioningly upheld as the most powerful tools we have in the fight for animal liberation. But this is a damaging mix of dogmatic naivety, privilege and single issue reformism. This consumerism promotes capitalism by actively advocating for an increased demand of vegan products. It upholds the same structures that commodify and oppress all beings. How easily capitalism has accommodated vegan consumer choices in many countries — how easy it is now to shop vegan anywhere, even in Uruguay.

A vegan needs to truly see beyond the walls of his/ her privileges. Why have we allowed the world to degenerate into a hellhole for all, why is speciesism, the superiority of humans and their right to kill and use all other species, the normal way to live. Why is western development superior to native societies – when clearly every indicator of mental and physical health indicates otherwise. Why do we allow a capitalistic company to decide what

and how we live and what we use . Why do we allow governments at every level to do nothing, when the signs of global warming are all around us ? Why do we allow governments to listen to pesticide companies rather than cancer patients ? Why do we allow governments to ban e-cigarettes on the grounds that 500 people a year die from them, when normal cigarettes kill 500 people per second ? Why is meat eating normal ? Why are 80% forests dying because they are infested with animals that are grown for meat ? Why are people who oppose tree cutting regarded as anti- development – when the development is simply a hotel, or some other useless capitalistic structure ?

Why are animals regarded as commodities when they clearly are as sentient as humans ? Vegans need to be humble and radical, to think their way through these issues before it is too late.

Veganism is sold by companies to people as an individual lifestyle choice, “ethical consumerism”. So, animal liberation is on offer, reduced to a choice of products to make us feel guilt free, that we’re “doing our bit”.

But the refusal of vegans to eat animal products has not led to fewer animals being slaughtered. Many companies selling “ethical” products are directly involved in, and profit from, animal exploitation. There is no such thing as ethical consumerism under capitalism. As Animal Liberation says “The interconnected atrocities of petrochemical, weapons, fashion, pharma-

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Decide what your issues are ceutical and agribusiness industries, alongside the meat and dairy industry, make “ethical consumption,” of any kind, an illusion.” The abolition of non-human animal exploitation must be part of a wider struggle to bring about freedom and autonomy for all living things.

Rather than revolving around consumption, veganism should commit to combating the deeply embedded ideology of speciesism, as well as all other violent ideologies. Veganism needs to put its efforts to create a society with empathy; not to be the fifth wheel of the consumer train. As Prof Steven Best of the University of Texas, award-winning writer and seasoned activist, notes that veganism “seeks radical social transformation at the institutional level, rather than a lifestyle with occasional and perfunctory efforts at ‘education’.”

For Prof. John Sanbonmatsu, author of critical animal studies, “what is at stake is not simply a set of eating guidelines, but a total critique of society – of a way of life that has become inimical to life.”

“Capitalism, as a global system with an unprecedented level of technological power, is the first to carry

ecocide to a global scale.

The biodiversity and biomass of Planet Earth today is the lowest it has ever been in human history. There is obviously a connection between capitalism’s abuse of animals, its destruction of the environment, and its oppression and abuse of humans.”

Because the meat industry is the ghastly face of abuse, the vegan movement has responded with a prohibition on the consumption of meat. But do these people also ban fertilizer and pesticides on their lawns and on agricultural produce?

Is it easier to boycott the meat industry, or easier to change policies at government levels. I would say that the latter is easier, and that is where the vegan movement should be going.

Can veganism’s boycott of meat alone destroy the meat industry ? “Within capitalism, a decrease in demand can lower prices, and increase total consumption.

While the number of vegetarians and vegans in the US exploded from almost none to millions in the last decade, total meat consumption did not decrease In fact, it increased as meat prices decreased. More animals died. Veganism has become a religion rather than a lib-

eration strategy. And, like all religions, it accommodates every wish that its followers have.

Do vegans not kill animals ? With our consumption of industrially farmed vegetables, use of plastics, dependence on petroleumfuelled transportation, coal, hydro, solar- (mining for panel and battery construction) powered electricity, we kill thousands too. And those vegans who wear silver and gold, and pearls and any stone, kill millions.

The shoes may be rubber but they are held together with glue which is made of animal bones. The insulin injection is made with cow/ pig pancreas. The point is, everything we use causes suffering. So the answer to being a vegan is to use very little. Consumerism is killing the planet. The food, clothes, footwear, the useless toothpicks and umbrellas, facepacks and lipsticks. What is needed is for a generation to call a halt to this.

Will simply stopping meat, and carrying on with the rest of your extravagant lifestyle, change the world?

Do the banks, they put your money in, invest in any supermarkets, or any other industries involved with the meat industry? Does your insurance agency also insure slaughterhouses? Are these not issues that vegans should look into? Products that should not be available should be off the shelves, not available as alternative choices. But for that to happen, vegans have to make time for policy, the only means to eliminating consumer choices that shouldn’t

be available because they are dangerous for the planet.

Direct action, for me, is more acceptable for a vegan. Go and liberate an animal from a laboratory or a slaughterhouse. Surround an abattoir and make it impossible to work. Stop trucks that carry animals.

These actions are brave and passionate and inspirational – even though they save small numbers, but each individual is worth saving.

They are also important for spreading consciousness of the viciousness of our civilization towards other living things. Vegans raise environmental consciousness, clean waterbodies, grow pesticide free crops, eat locally grown food only. Act, be an activist, rather than a consumerist and a person who sits on a computer and passes along T Shirt messages on veganism and listens to lifestyle gurus.

To commit to veganism is good, but it is just the starting point to a more nonviolent and just world.

We need to educate, disrupt, resist, confront, and change institutions that shape policies and culture and make animal abuse possible in the first place. It’s a tall order that requires discipline and courage; not vegan ice-cream.

Decide what your issues are, and what difference you can reasonably make with the time and energy you have available.

What are your skills? Who else can you get involved?

What effect do you want to have? To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in, www. peopleforanimalsindia.org

Post-mortem

I.L.P. and C.A.B: Fact versus fiction

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he Inner Line Permit and Citizenship Amendment Bill (now the Citizenship Amendment Act, but for the purposes of this article, C.A.B., due to its familiarity, will be used) are two totally different things.

The C.A.B. is a law passed by Parliament whereas the I.L.P. is a Permit required by a law, specifically, the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1863.

The B.E.F.R., 1863 was a regulation passed by the Colonial British India Government to control its economic interests in parts of India’s Eastern regions; and also as an instrument to isolate many of the indigenous people of the northeast from the influence of the rest of erstwhile British India and the modern world. It was not a regulation to protect the Tribals of the Northeast of modern India. The proof lies in the fact that the Colonial Government changed the demarcated Inner Line as and when it suited their economic interests; the fact that nowhere in the B.E.F.R.,1863 are the words, “Tribe” or “Tribal” mentioned and the fact that the Colonial Government never established a school above the Primary Level within the boundaries of the Inner Line. Among others, some of the clauses of the B.E.F.R.specify that:- non native persons are required to obtain a pass, called the “Inner Line Permit”, to travel within the limits of the Inner Line and are not permitted to to purchase or own land without permission of the government within the said line.

That this Regulation has been made a law by a recent act of Parliament makes no difference, except that, while previously, the B.E.F.R. could be abolished by the Union Cabinet, now, it can only be removed by an act of Parliament.

The C.A.B. on the other hand, is a law which amends the Citizenship Act,1955 in the following ways. (i) The Citizenship Act, 1955 ( hereinafter C.A.) clearly states that anyone who has entered India illegally cannot obtain Indian Citizenship; the C.A.B. states that anyone who enters India illegally, from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who is not a Muslim, but is a Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian is eligible to become an Indian Citizen. (ii) The C.A. states that one must be a legal migrant and a resident in India for 11 years before being eligible to apply for Indian Citizenship; the C.A.B.

reduces this period to 6 years and says that illegal migrants, provided they are not Muslims, are eligible for citizenship. (iii) The C.A. states that all those who were born in India on or after 26th. January, 1950, (1st. January 1966, in the case of Assam), and are not the children of illegal immigrants, are Indian Citizens; and any one having even one illegal immigrant parent is not an Indian Citizen, and is not eligible for Indian Citizenship. The C.A.B. changes that and states that any Illegal Immigrant, provided he is not a Muslim, who entered India on or before 31st.December 2014, is eligible for Indian Citizenship. (iv) The C.A. states that any Illegal Immigrant must be deported, the C.A.B. states that only Illegal Muslim Immigrants will be deported.

WHY THE I.L.P. IS USELESS AND THE C.A.B. DANGEROUS: Many people in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and, more recently, Manipur, are living under the illusion that the I.L.P. will protect them from the C.A.B. What these fools fail to realise is that any Indian Citizen is eligible to apply for an I.L.P. and can travel and conduct business freely once he is issued one. The only difference is that he has to go through the minor hassle of renewing it periodically. The only real drawback for a non indigenous Indian Citizen is his inability to purchase or own land within the boundaries of the Inner Line, but that is easily overcome with a long term lease with the concerned landowner.

In Nagaland, the same fools are celebrating the extension of the Inner Line to cover the entire district of Dimapur; what these nincompoops fail to realise is that the I.L.P. restriction of ownership of land will only really be applicable to the land falling under the ownership of the surrounding villages; non indigenous Nagas have owned land in the cadastral areas of Dimapur Town before the nation of India was born, the government is not going to confiscate it and give it to us. Furthermore the exemption of the I.L.P. for non indigenous people who had settled in Dimapur prior to 1979, an arbitrary year, allegedly first proposed by a purported Illegal Bangladeshi Hindu Immigrant (the irony!) will see only the real contributors to the economy of Dimapur, the masons, car-

penters, electricians, plumbers, barbers, tailors, cobblers, sharecroppers, domestic servants, thela and rickshawallahs etc., going through the harassment of obtaining an I.L.P. This same problem will crop up in the Manipur Valley.

A bigger bunch of fools are those who are parroting the phrase that, “The I.L.P. and Sixth Schedule Areas are exempt from the C.A.B.” These brainless robots are not only stupid, but dangerous. The C.A.B. states that these areas are exempt, but what it really means is that the Illegal Bangladeshi Hindu Immigrants who are residing within the boundaries of the Inner Line and Sixth Schedule Areas are disqualified from applying for Indian Citizenship.

All these I.B.H.I.s have to do is temporarily move out from these areas and apply for Citizenship from anywhere else in India. Once they are granted citizenship, which the C.A.B. automatically guarantees them, they can apply for I.L.P.s as bona fide Indian citizens and carry on where they left off.

But what is more dangerous for the indigenous people of, not only the Northeastern States (who face the most immediate danger), but all of India, is that the C.A.B. aims to create a new class of Indian Citizens, who have no ties to the land and only a cursory allegiance to The Constitution of India and whose real allegiance will lie with the R.S.S./B.J.P. and their Ideology of Hindutva.

With Citizenship comes the right to vote, the vote gives them the power to choose the Parliamentarians, the Parliamentarians give them the power to make the laws. Just as easily as they made the B.E.F.R. an law, they can easily remove it and all others laws which stand in the way of the the R.S.S. vision of, “One Nation, One Religion, One Law”. SAY NO TO C.A.B. Kahuto Chishi Sumi, General Secretary, Nagaland Indigenous People’s Forum Richard Haolai, Press Secretary, N.I.P.F. Khehoto Swu, Executive Member, North East Indigenous People’s Forum Dr.Lima Jamir, Executive Member, N.E.I.P.F. Kahovi Sumi, General Secretary, Concerned People of Nagaland

Citizenship (Amendment)Act 2019: Why is it problematic?

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he Northeastern states have erupted in spontaneous protests as soon as the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was passed in both houses of the parliament.

Assam has been the epicentre of protest. The reason is that only seven out of thirty-three districts in the state will be exempted from the Bill (now Act). Large part of Assam which are non-tribal areas will still be effected by this new law. The region saw widespread protests when the Bill was first introduced in January 2019.This new law enables Indian citizenship for undocumented nonMuslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. While many called the amendment “anti-muslim”, “constitutional blunder”, “an attack on secularism “, “unconstitutional “ & “anti-minority”. Northeastern people are fear of losing their native identity to a possible influx of refugees. To prevent the flare-up, the Modi-Government made several concessions. It exempted all tribal areas covered under Six Schedule from the Bill. It also exempted states like Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and much of Nagaland that comes under the Inner Line Permit (ILP) rule. The Government even extended to Manipur state and Dimapur district in Nagaland overnight.

In Assam, trouble started long before, when the partition took place, a number of Bengali migrants came and settled in this region. This

created more resentment among the locals. After a long struggle, the famous Assam Accord was signed in 1985.Under this, 1971 was set as the cut-off year for granting citizenship to illegal migrants in the state. With Citizenship Amendment Bill, the Government has now extended the deadline for non-Muslim migrants to 31st December 2014.It looks like a clear violation of Assam Accord and they are afraid that there will be influx of refugees in the state. There is another element to this. The NRC or National Register of Citizens, more than Seventeen Lakh people have been identified as illegal immigrants by NRC and many of them are Hindus.

They will now be eligible to become citizens under this new Act/Law. This is the most problematic part.

Since the NRC was a long-standing demand of Assamese people, they see the Citizenship Amendment Act as a betrayal.

In Nagaland too, NSF or Naga Students’ Federation spearheaded the protest against the Bill. Though the state of Nagaland has ILP (Inner Line Permit) rule, the state cannot able to control or prevent the influx of illegal immigrants till today.

Now unfortunately, the CAB is passed, the demography of Northeast India will change dramatically in the next few years. This new law does not look fair and equal.

Openthung Kithan, 4th Mile, Diphupar, Dimapur

Rejoinder to memorandum

Article on non-Naga communities memo to CM on ILP that appeared on December 15, 2019 in a local daily has dragged the indigenous communities of Kuki, Kachari, Garo, Mikir, wrongly labelling us as non locals, which we vehemently condemn. As far as extension of Inner Line Permit to Dimapur is concerned, we strongly support the decision of the state government on the issue of ILP extension to Dimapur, so as to check the massive influx of outsiders. The purported signatories to the Article-president & secretaries, non-Naga communities of Dimapur: Nagaland have to apologise for publishing such fabricating memorandum and warned that they should desist such practice in future.

KIN president LL Kuki

Reader’s Post Sir,

Curb the menace

The male macho feeling and adventurism that the bikers and modified racing cars seemed to show-off with the increasing use of modified silencers in motorbikes and few vehicles around Kohima town is creating public nuisance. The extra thumping sound are harmful for frail ears of children, infants, the elderly and the sick people, not to mention leading to an enormous increase in the noise level of neighbourhoods. While congratulating the Dimapur police for its efforts I also urge the Kohima Traffic Police and concerned authorities to make efforts in curbing this menace.

Mercy, Kohima, (mmenguzenuo@gmail.com)

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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guard against “traitors” like Mir Jafar, alleging the Congress could neither develop the country and secure its borders nor honour the sentiments of the people.

Saluting the tribal freedom fighters who had launched ‘Santhal Hul’ (revolution) against the British, Shah told the poll rally it was traitors like Mir Jafar who had allowed the British to establish their ‘raj’.

“Even today I will tell (you) that identify traitors like Mir Jafar, who should not become your representatives and vote for the BJP, Narendra Modi with 56inch chest can develop and protect the country,” Shah said without identifying any of the rivals.

A powerful aide of Siraj-ud-daulah, Bengal’s last Independent nawab, Mir Jafar refused to help the besieged nawab during the Battle of Plassey in 1757, paving the way for British

rule in India. “(JMMs) Hemant ji (Soren) wants to become chief minister sitting in the lap of the Congress. I would like to ask Hemant Soren who had opened gun-fire, tear-gas and resorted to baton-charge on the youth of Jharkhand during the statehood movement? If you dont remember, ask Guruji (as Shibu Soren is referred to in the state),” he said.

“It was the Congress/ RJD and Lalu Prasad who forced the youth of Jharkhand to martyrdom while the BJP-led Atal Bihari Vajpayee government had created Jharkhand,” he added.

“Now you made an alliance to become chief minister. You should feel ashamed of stooping to so low,” Shah said apparently taking potshots at Hemant Soren, who is JMM’s working president.

HC annuls election of Azam Khan’s son Abdullah as Suar MLA

ALLAHABAD, DEC 16 (PTI): In a jolt to Rampur MP Mohmmad Azam Khan, the Allahabad High Court on Monday annulled the election of senior SP leader’s son Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan as an Uttar Pradesh MLA on the ground that he was underage and not qualified to fight the poll in 2017.

A bench of Justice SP Kesarwani declared the election of juniour Khan from the Suar assembly segment null and void on a plea by the defeated BSP candidate, Nawab Kazim Ali Khan.

Allowing Kazim Khan’s election petition,

Payal Rohatgi sent to judicial custody till December 24

Payal Rohatgi

KOTA (RAJASTHAN), DEC 16 (PTI): Bollywood actress Payal Rohatgi was on Monday sent to Bundi Central jail under judicial custody till December 24 after a local court rejected her bail application in the case relating to alleged objectionable content against the Nehru-Gandhi family on social media.

She was produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court a day after being brought to Bundi from her residence in Ahmedabad where she was detained, Bundi Superintendent of Police Mamta Gupta told PTI. S h e wa s f o r m a l ly placed under arrest on Sunday night, the SP said.

Meanwhile, Bhupendra Sahay Saxena, Rohatgi’s legal counselor, confirmed the rejection of the bail application but added that she would move the higher court for remedy.

Abdullah Azam Khan

the bench ruled that Abdullah Azam Khan was not qualified to contest the election of the legislative assembly as he had not yet turned 25 when he the filled nomination paper for the assembly election in 2017.

In his election petition against Abdullah Khan, Kazim Khan had contended that the elected MLA’s actual date of birth was January 1, 1993 and not September 30,1990, as claimed in the nomination paper.

Accordingly, he was yet to reach 25 years of age to become eligible to fight the election, when he filed the nomination papers on January 25, 2017, Kazim Khan had contended.

Abdullah Khan was elected as MLA from Suar constituency of Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh on a Samajwadi Party ticket on March 11, 2017.

Asking the JMM leader why “Naxalism grew” during his time even though he raised issues like ‘jal, jungle and jameen (water, forest and land)’, Shah said “it is Narendra Modi government which has buried Naxalism 20-feet under the ground”.

Listing out a host of welfare and developmental schemes and programmes of the BJP-led governments in the centre as well Jharkhand in the past five years, Shah said, “Rahul baba (Gandhi) is talking about developmentI have given an account of developmental works.

“Even BJPs youth morcha president or worker can give the account. You will not know as you are wearing ‘Italian chasma’ (goggles),” he said poking fun at the Congress leader.

Shah also promised to increase reservation percentage of the OBC without reducing the SC/ST reservation and said OBC Commission would be accorded constitutional status in Jharkhand.

He also ridiculed the Congress and the JMM leaders for reportedly asking what Jharkhand has to do with the country’s security.

Shah also touched upon issues of abrogation of Article 370, 35 A, surgical strikes and airstrikes following Uri and Pulwama terror attacks. Pakur is going for the fifth and final phase of polling on December 20.

SC committee on rape cases NEW DELHI, DEC 16 (PTI): The Supreme Court has set up a 2-judge committee to look into the issue of expeditious disposal of rape cases across the country, a source said on Monday.

In an administrative decision, Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde has set up the two-member committee of Justices Subhash Reddy and M R Shah, the source said.

The decision comes in the wake of rise in rape cases across the country and the recent incident of encounter killing of four accused in the gang rape and murder of a veterinarian in Telangana.

Old guards not ready to pave way for young leaders: Sena

MUMBAI, DEC 16 (PTI): Ahead of the Maharashtra Cabinet expansion, the Shiv Sena on Monday said old guards are not ready to give up ministerial berths for young leaders and they should come out of the illusion that the state government cannot do without them.

Without naming anyone, an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ also underscored the need for coming out of the psyche that one should get only a lucrative portfolio in the government “to serve the state or country”, and questioned the intention of such leaders.

It, however, named senior Congress leaders like Ashok Chavan and Prithviraj Chavan and NCP’s Ajit Pawar, who are being seen as contenders for Cabinet berths in the second round of expansion.

The state Cabinet expansion is likely to take place after the state legislature’s winter session, which begins in Nagpur on Monday and will conclude on December 21.

The editorial expressed surprise at party president and Chief Minister Thackeray Uddhav Thackeray not keeping the key Home department with himself, as had been the practice.

Thackeray’s predecessor Devendra Fadnavis had

kept the portfolio with himself.

The Shiv Sena said re-allocation of portfolios will take place during the Cabinet expansion.

The Sena, NCP and Congress formed government in the state by joining hands after the October 21 Assembly polls under the banner of the ‘Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi’.

The Shiv Sena, which is leading the government, said former state chief ministers Ashok Chavan and Prithviraj Chavan are keen on joining Thackeray’s Council of Ministers.

The question is as to which departments befitting (their stature) should be given to them, it said.

“It will be a trapeze act to incorporate Ashok Chavan and Prithviraj Chavan during Cabinet expansion and re-allocation of portfolios,” the Marathi daily said.

It said NCP heavyweights like Ajit Pawar, Dilip Walse Patil, Rajesh Tope, Nawab Malik and others are also in the contention for ministerial berths.

“The Shiv Sena, too, will have to pick leaders (for ministerial positions) from among its old hands and young turks. It is expected that fresh faces come into Maharashtra’s politics... but the old guards are not ready to let go of chairs for

youngsters,” the Thackerayled party said.

Without naming anyone, it said, “Big people should come out of the illusion that Maharashtra or the government cannot do without them.”

Noting that the Fadnavis government is no more there in Maharashtra, the Sena said it is not that the state is unable to do without it.

Those who think that only lucrative portfolios can help serve the state or the country do not have “clean intentions”, it remarked.

Government departments like relief, rehabilitation, information technology, skill development, school education and health are also important, but nobody is ready to take charge of them, the Sena alleged, without naming its allies.

“The definitions of words ‘public services’ and ‘state’s interest’ need to be changed if the jousting is only for portfolios like home, urban development, public works and irrigation, thinking that holding these portfolios only marks the epitome of life,” it said in sarcastic remarks.

The Sena alleged that the previous Fadnavis government ensured its sustainability through the home department and the BJP’s growth through the urban development department.

(From p-1) He was a simple, hardworking and down to earth person and enthusiastic to serve the people.

Rio said he had visited late Torechu at the hospital on December 13, but had no inkling that fate would take him away from us so soon.

He said it was painful to lose a friend, a brother, a fellow colleague and most importantly a leader whose presence will be dearly missed.

In a condolence to Mrs Kiushe, Rio, on his behalf and on behalf of the state government, extended heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that Almighty God grant strength and solace in this hour of grief and for the departed soul rest in eternal peace.

NLA speaker-incharge: Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) speaker-in-charge Sharingain Longkumer has expressed deep grief over the demise of T Torechu, MLA, and said that in his death, the State has lost a committed leader which will be felt greatly by the Naga people in general and the Yimchunger tribe in particular.

In a condolence message, Sharingain Longkumer described late Torechu as a dynamic public leader who dedicated his life for the welfare of the Naga people.

NLA speaker-incharge, on behalf of the Members of the 13th NLA, conveyed heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Kiusushi, children and family members and prayed that the Almighty God grant them solace and comfort at this hour of grief.

Dy. CM: Deputy chief minister, Y. Patton has expressed deep anguish over the untimely demise of his friend and long associated colleague Torechu, MLA 60 Pungro Kiphire A/C. Patton described late Torechu as profound gentleman, simple, respectable and lovable in the eyes of the people. His untimely demise was a huge loss not only to the Yimchunger community or the constituency, but to the Naga society as a whole. Patton said Torechu’s immense contributions, as legislator, towards the Naga society will

be fondly remembered.

Patton on behalf of the BJP legislators extended heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that the Almighty grant them strength to bear the loss in fortitude and also prayed that the departed soul rest in eternal peace.

NPF president: NPF president Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu said he along with the party rank and file was deeply pained and saddened to learn the demise of one of its senior most NPF legislator, T. Torechu after a prolong illness.

Dr. Liezietsu said it was tragic that one of the finest and loyal MLA of the party had left for his heavenly abode. Though he is no more, Dr. Liezietsu his name will always be on record and his demise was a great loss to the NPF family.

The NPF party expressed deepest condolences to the family, his constituency and prayed to Almighty to grant solace and comfort to all. The party also prayed that Almighty lift up the light of His countenance upon the departed soul and give him peace, now and forever.

BJP state president: BJP Nagaland state unit president and minister of higher & technical education & tribal affairs, Temjen Imna Along, has expressed sadness over the passing of T Torechu, MLA, and said that in his death, the state has indeed lost “an upright and towering leader”, whose contribution of developmental activities in his constituency as well as the state were immense.

In a condolence message, Along said late Torechu was a leader whose benevolent nature had captivated the hearts of many who were fortunate to have been associated with him during his lifetime.

BJP state president also recalled that late Torechu’s association with the State BJP dated back to the year 2003, when he contested and won the State Assembly Election on BJP ticket from 60 Pungro Constituency, Kipheri District.

“Thus, his contribution to the state BJP party is well acknowledged,” Along said and conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved family members.

ACHUMI KUPOSHUKULU Acknowledgement

The Achumi Kuposhukulu expresses our immense gratitude

to the following individuals and groups for making our 5th General Session a grand success.

1. Er. Tohiho Achumi & family 2. Joshua Achumi, former Dy. Speaker, NLA 3. Hosheto Achumi, Rtd. Transport Commissioner 4. Hovishe Arkha Achumi, former president Sumi Hoho 5. Er. Kahuli Achumi, Addl. Chief Er. PWD, R&B 6. Dr.L.K.Achumi, Rtd.District & Sessions Judge& Former President WSH 7. Rev. Heikhu Achumi 8. Lhokishe Achumi, Pastor Erailibil Sumi Baptist Akukuhou 9. Jacob Achumi, Assoc. Pastor, Diphupar Sumi Baptist Akukuhou 10. Lazami Achumi Women Group 11. Mongzar Clan Sangtam Tribe 12. Ngukaho Achumi, Assoc. Pastor Youth, Lukuto Ghami Baptist Akukuhou 13. Khatomong Mongzar 14. Akum Yimchunger 15. Shikuto Zalipu Achumi,Gen. Secy, Nagaland GB Federation 16. Tokishe Achumi, GB, Thilixu & Vice President WSKH 17. Pukhaxu Achumi, convener search committee 18. Er. Atoho Achumi EE, Power Deptt. Zunheboto 19. Er. Vihokhe Achumi, EE, Police Engineering Project 20. Mithipu Kughuko Azza ngo Amuliqo 21. Khehoto Achumi & Bohoto Achumi, mithipu Lagha Lizuto 22. Mrs. Shetoli Vika Achumi 23. Mughavi Achumi, & Maj. Kohito Achumi,Unity Village, 5th Mile 24. Phujuto Achumi and Khuvishe Achumi,Shena Old 25. All Achumis who attended and made the programme successful 26. Hinoto Achumi, IV/LRC colony 27. All volunteers, well wishers and Achumi in-laws.

28. Editorial Board Achumi Kughuko Kaku 2nd Edition 29. All donors of Achumi Kughuko Kaku,(2nd Edition) 30. All Achumi Officers, GBs ,Elders & Achumi Clan members Vika Achumi Chairman

Kiyevi Achumi General Secretary

LoP: Leader of Opposition (LoP) Nagaland, TR Zeliang, has expressed pain at the demise of NPF MLA, T Torechu, and said that his demise was a great loss to the Naga Peoples’ Front in particular and the Nagas in general.

In a condolence message to Mrs. Kiusushi Torechu, the leader of opposition remembered late Torechu as a man of his word whose service and contributions to the Naga people would be ever remembered. Zeliang also said that late Torechu was a tall leader who understood the pain and suffering of his Constituency people and the Naga people in general.

“He was also a man of few words but remained committed to what he said,” LoP said and extended deepest condolences and pray that God grant peace and solace to all the bereaved family members, relatives, friends, colleagues and all his near and dear ones.

Lok Sabha MP: Lok Sabha MP, Tokheho Yepthomi, has expressed deep shock over the passing of T Torechu, MLA. In a condolence message, Tokheho said he had had the privilege of knowing late Torechu for many years as colleagues and friends in the Nagaland legislative assembly. MP said late Torechu worked for his people and Nagaland with all sincerity and dedication. “During his illness also he continued to serve the people of Nagaland.

We have lost a good person in him,” MP said and conveyed deepest sympathies and condolences to the bereaved family.

YTC: Yimchungr ü Tribal Council (YTC) has deeply mourned the demise of T Torechu, MLA, and said that his selfless sacrifices and contributions for the welfare of the people during his lifetime would always be remembered.

In a condolence message, YTC president, Throngso, and general secretary, Laji Luyanba, said late Torechu served as joint secretary and general secretary YTC and

also the founding member of TMPO/ENPO. He also served as Social and Cultural Secretary of Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA).

YTC said that late Torechu was the pioneer and the torchbearer of the people of Yimchungrü.

YTC conveyed its deepest condolences and sympathies to the bereaved family members and near and dear ones at this time of pain and grief.

NPF minority wing: NPF Minority Wing Central has extended deepest condolences on the sudden demise of T Torechu, MLA, who it said was a strong and dynamic political leader.

In a condolence message, NPF minority wing said that “He will be remembered in the midst of NPF party worker and people of Nagaland for his immense contribution.”

DENSU: Dimapur Eastern Nagaland Students Union (DENSU) has expressed sadness at the untimely demise of late T Torechu, MLA, and said that vacuum created by his death would be difficult to fill.

In a condolence message, the union described late Torechu as one of the sincere, honest, and kindhearted persons who also had a vision for younger generation.

DENSU also conveyed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members at this grief hour.

ANTA Pungro unit: All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA), Pungro unit has expressed shock and grief over the demise of T. Torechu, MLA, and said his passing would be a great loss not only for Yimchunger but Nagas as a whole.

In a condolence message, ANTA Pungro unit described late Torechu as a man of patience, who dedicated his life for the welfare of the people, and said he would always be remembered as “our greatest leader.”

The association extends heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and relatives.

CHAKHESANG COMMUNITY TENYIPHE PRE-CHRISTMAS The Chakhesang Community Tenyiphe is celebrating PreChristmas on 21st December 2019 (Saturday) at the residence of Lhikedu Chiero 'E' Khel Tenyiphe-1 at 12 noon.

It is the therefore, requested to all the community members, plot holder and residing in Tenyiphe to come and be a part of the celebration.

KHUVOYI VESE Chairman (8837410697)

LHIKEDU CHIERO Secretary (9402992668)

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PAKUR (JHARKHAND), DEC 16 (PTI): BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said a sky-touching Ram temple would come up in Ayodhya within four months which Indians from all over the world have been demanding for 100 years.

Making a blistering attack on Congress, Shah asked its leader Kapil Sibal why he sought to drag the Ram Janmabhoomi case in the Supreme Court.

“Congress leader and advocate Kapil Sibal sahab said, ‘abhi mat chalaye case, baad mein chalaye. Keon bhai, aap ke pet mein kyon dard hai’ (take up the case latter, why do you have a stomach ache following the case),” Shah asked Sibal.

The BJP president was addressing an election rally in Pakur in favour of the party candidate.

His another poll meeting is lined up at Kamli Baghicha maidan, Poraiyahat in the neighbouring Godda district.

Not long ago, the Supreme Court gave its ruling on Ayodhya, there was a demand of Indians from all over the world for 100 years that a grand Ram temple should be built at Ram Janmabhoomi, he said.

“I want to tell you that the Supreme Court verdict has come, a grand Ram temple touching the sky is going to be built in Ayodhya within 4 months,” Shah said. The BJP president asked the people to be on

NPF legislator T. Torechu passes away...

OFFICE OF THE SUOKHRIE CHIENUO L. KHEL, KOHIMA VILLAGE

FELICITATION

The Suokhrienuomia Clan of Lhisemia Thinuo, Kohima Village hereby express our profound joy and happiness to Dr. Vizolie Suokhrie, S/o Late Zakieneilie Suokhrie who has been promoted to the post of Principal Director from Director, under the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland.

Achieving this great feat not only brings personal happiness to oneself but is also a pride for the family, Clan and the whole community as well.

We congratulate Dr. Vizolie Suokhrie and we pray that God grants good health and wisdom so that you execute the responsibilities and duties with glaring examples.

Sd/Sd/Menuolhoulie Suokhrie Ketoulelie Suokhrie President, Gen. Secretary, Suokhrie Chienuo Suokhrie Chienuo

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The 1 st Winter Challenge Badminton Tournament Khensa 2019, organized by Badminton Association Khensa, powered by G Sports Chumukedima, under theme “Nurturing Excellence” concluded on Friday 13th Dec 2019 at Multipurpose Hall Khensa. The tournament which was played in six different categories with 105 players participating from different parts of the district was one of the best contested tournaments ever. The Association would like to thank all the groups, organizations and individuals who have contributed in cash, kind and knowledge for the grand success of the tournament. The following are the results of the tournament: Under 13 Boys Single: Champion – Temjenthy Kichu.

Runner up – Alichang Kichu Under 13+15 Boys Doubles: Champion – Kiren/Sentiyatet.

Runner up – Deepesh Lama/ Temjenthy Kichu Mens Open: Champion – Imomar/Imliakum.

Runner up – Temsuyanger/Sashiwapang 35+ Mens Doubles: Champion – Sashiwapang/Temsuyanger.

Runner up – Sendongyanger/Imomar 95+ Mens Doubles: Champion – T. Imlisunep/Kreho Atheli.

Runner up – Temsuwabang/ Nadu Yaden Mixed Doubles: Champion – Temsuyanger/Mepulila.

Runner up – Tiayanger/Aling MKC-583

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India should focus on structural reforms: IMF

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CBDT Chairman Pramod C h a n d r a M o dy, C B I C Chairman P K Das, Chief Economic Advisor K V Subramanian and other senior officials of the Ministry of Finance.

The representatives of digital economy, fintech and start-ups shared their views on big data, incentives for encouraging setting up of data centres, fiscal incentives for data localisation, incentives for pushing digital penetration in rural areas, corporate guarantee to start-ups for competing with other nations, rationalisation of minimum alternate tax rate and tax exemption for start-up units.

They also spoke about the creation of specific agency for looking after cross border financial crimes, increasing women employment (gender dividend in skill development), training youth in skill development along with international internships and incentivising research and development within India.

Moody’s cuts India’s FY20 growth projection to 4.9%

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“Although a modest recovery is expected for next year, supported partly by spillovers from policy stimulus, economic growth will be weaker than in recent years, which will have negative credit implications for Indian issuers in a range of sectors,” it noted.

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Moody’s expects that government measures to stimulate domestic demand – including income support for farmers and low-income households, monetary policy easing and a broad corporate tax cut – will be limited in offsetting this slowdown.

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weakening consumption, driven by financial stress among rural households on the back of stagnating agricultural wage growth and constrained productivity, as well as weak job creation due to rigid land and labour laws,” said Deborah Tan, a Moody’s assistant vice president and analyst.

Household consumption has been the backbone of India’s growth, making up about 57 per cent of GDP in FY2018-19. Like other major markets, India’s growth has decelerated, with GDP growth falling to 4.5 per cent in Q3 2019 from 5.0 per cent in Q2 2019.

The report further noted that the credit crunch among non-bank financial

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New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI): Moody’s Investors Service on Monday said that India’s weak household consumption will curb economic growth and weigh on the credit quality of Indian issuers in a range of sectors.

Moody’s has lowered its GDP growth projection for India for the fiscal year ending March 2020 to 4.9 per cent from 5.8 per cent.

The major factors responsible for weakening economic growth were rural financial stress, low job creation and liquidity constraints, said Moody’s in a report.

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New Delhi, Dec 16 (Agencies): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday started her pre-Budget consultations with different stakeholder groups, the first one being with those from the digital economy, fintech and startups.

She is likely to present her second Budget for the Modi 2.0 government in Parliament on February 1.

According to ANI, the main areas of discussion during the meeting included data issues like the use of big data technology for small and medium enterprises and unleashing its power for public governance.

The other issues included digital infrastructure and role of government, regulation of digital economy especially in privacy, financial regulation, ease of doing business environment for start-ups, infrastructure gaps for Digital India and taxation issues.

The meeting was attended by Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur, Finance Secretary Rajeev Kumar, Secretary of Economic Affairs Atanu Chakraborty, Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Secretary at the Department of Electronics and Information Technology Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary at the Department of Telecommunications Anshu Prakash,

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resentatives of oppositionruled states met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and expressed their concern over delay in payment of GST compensation.

Most of the states rued that the delay in payment has put pressure on their finances affecting many development work.

Earlier in the day, Sitharaman assured states that the Centre will not “renege” on the promise of GST compensations.

The delays to pass on the money are due to a slippage in collections and the states have nothing to be embarrassed about, she said.

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New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI): Ahead of the crucial GST Council meeting, the Centre on Monday released about Rs 35,000 crore to states and Union Territories as pending compensation.

The GST Council, the highest decision making body of the indirect tax regime, is slated to hold its meeting on December 18.

“The central government has released GST compensation of Rs 35,298 crore to States and Union Territories today,” Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) said in a tweet.

Earlier this month, finance ministers and rep-

Mumbai, Dec 16 (PTI): The rupee reversed all its early gains and settled 17 paise down at 71.00 against the US currency on Monday, following rising crude oil prices and fag-end selling in domestic equities.

Forex traders said the rupee ended the day in the negative territory after inflows related to Essar steel got completed.

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee had opened at 70.80 against the US dollar. Later, the local unit lost ground and fell to the day’s low of 71.03.

The domestic unit finally settled at 71.00, registering 17 paise decline over the previous closing. On Friday, the rupee had settled at 70.83 against the American currency.

“Indian rupee declined after strengthening to the highest level since September as inflows related to Essar steel completed. Rupee should weaken from here on expectation of hedging dollar demand from importers.

“Domestic Economic data are coming weaker and requires multiple steps to back on growth track,” said V K Sharma, Head - PCG & Capital Market Strategy, HDFC securities. In near term, spot USD/INR has support at 70.29 and resistance at 71.24, the 200 and 50 days simple moving average respectively, he added.

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has been affected because of recent rains. This has resulted in increase in prices,” Potato and Onion Merchants Association at Azadpur mandi General Secretary Rajendra Sharma told PTI. Some of the vegetable crops have been damaged and in some places, harvesting of onion and other crops has delayed due to water-logging in the farm fields, he said.

Currently, Delhi is getting the potato supply from neighbouring Punjab and Haryana, where the crop is damaged because of last week’s heavy rainfall. Similarly, harvesting of onion has been affected due to wet fields, he added.

An onion trader at Azadpur said the arrival of fresh onion crop has not improved much even as private traders have started importing some small quantity.

“We are not able to buy onions at such high rates, now potato and other vegetables are also becoming out of reach for poor people like us,” e-rickshaw driver Akbar in Bhogal market said about rising food inflation.

Milk and butter prices have also gone up. Even cooking oil prices, especially of mustard oil, has increased by Rs 15/kg litre, he said adding that it is becoming hard to feed family members.

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low domestic consumption.

Kolkata-born Gopinath said the policy priorities of the government should also include a credible fiscal consolidation path that is more ambitious than currently envisaged by the government. “This is needed to reduce the high level of debt and reduce crowding out which would free up financial resources for private investment. This should be driven by subsidy-spending rationalisation and tax-base enhancing measures,” Gopinath said.

Responding to a question, Gopinath said India’s medium-term vision to reach a USD 5-trillion economy which focuses on boosting investment is appropriate.

And so is the commitment to support the rural economy, boost infrastructure spending, streamline the goods and services tax (GST), direct tax reforms, and pursue a business-friendly policy agenda, she noted.

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI): Not just onion, retail prices of potato and other vegetables have also shot up in the national capital on Monday as recent winter rainfall has damaged some of the crops, according to traders.

At the Azadpur wholesale mandi here, prices of main vegetables, especially onion, are ruling high in the range of Rs 70-90/kg, potato at Rs 22/kg, tomato at Rs 18/kg.

For instance, wholesale rate of cabbage was quoting Rs 7-10/kg on Monday at Azadpur mandi, as against Rs 1.40-3/kg a year ago, cauliflower at Rs 8-22.50/ kg as against Rs 5-10/kg in the previous year, while carrot at Rs 4-23/kg as against Rs 2-12/kg, and capsicum at Rs 12-22/kg as against Rs 6-12/kg in the said period, according to data from central government portal Agmarknet.

However in retail markets, the rates are much higher depending on the quality and locality. Onion is available at above Rs 100/kg, potato at Rs 35-40/ kg and tomato at Rs 60/kg in retail markets of the national capital region. Prices of other vegetables like gobi, cabbage and spinach double the rates quoted in the wholesale mandis.

“The supply of most of the vegetables, including potato and tomato,

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In this regard, Gopinath advocated, among others, three policy priorities for the Government of India.

First is to accelerate the clean-up of the banks, other financial institution, and corporate balance sheets and enhance governance of public sector banks to revive bank credit and enhance the efficiency of credit provision, while monitoring closely emerging risks from the liquidity stress in nonbanking financial companies (NBFCs) and enhancing supervision and regulation of the NBFCs. The Indian-American called for continued fiscal consolidation over the medium term -- both at the Center and state levels -- to lower elevated public debt levels, supported by further steps to increase tax compliance and administration, as well as improve fiscal transparency. And finally, labour, land, and product market reforms aimed at enhancing competition and governance, along with infrastructure investment, should be a priority to create more and better jobs for India’s young and rapidly growing labour force. “ I m p r ove m e n t s i n health and education are essential for broad-based inclusive growth,” Gopinath said.

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Washington, Dec 16 (PTI): With economic growth slowing to a six-year low, IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath says the government should undertake structural reforms such as bank clean-up and labour reforms to address the slowdown in domestic demand.

Gopinath, 48, who is travelling to India this week, rooted for government policies focusing on managing a slowdown in domestic demand, and on boosting productivity growth and supporting employment creation in the medium term.

“Given the cyclical position and the structural challenges of the Indian economy at this point, we recommend that policies focus on managing the slowdown in domestic demand, and on boosting productivity growth and supporting employment creation in the medium term,” she told PTI in an interview.

Recommending a series of key policy priorities for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, she said, “Politically, the time -- early in the government’s second term -- is right for a structural reform push.”

GDP growth slowed for the sixth consecutive quarter in the July-September quarter to 4.5 per cent as manufacturing slumped on

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Climate summit a ‘lost opportunity’: Guterres

Madrid, Dec 16 (AFP): A major climate summit wrapped up in Madrid Sunday with a compromise deal that left little to show, prompting UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres to lament a “lost opportunity” to act. Almost a fortnight of COP25 talks just squeezed out hard-earned compromises from countries over a global warming battle plan that fell well short of what science says is needed to tackle the climate crisis.

“I am disappointed with the results of COP25,” Guterres said. “The international community lost an important opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, adaptation and finance to tackle the climate crisis.” The summit’s final declaration “expresses the urgent need” for new carbon cutting commitments to close the gap between current emissions and the Paris treaty goal of capping temperature at below two degrees Celsius, said host country Spain. “Today, the citizens of the world are asking for us to move ahead faster and better,” Carolina Schmidt, Chilean environment minister and President of COP25, told the closing plenary. But Tina Eonemto Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands, de-

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nounced the response as inadequate for facing an existential threat of rising sea levels. “Unfortunately, the new text we adopted this morning does not reflect anything near what we would have wanted. It is the bare minimum and we regret that countries could not agree on a more ambitious text,” Stege said.

Major players ‘did not deliver’ Following a year of deadly extreme weather and weekly protests by millions of young people, Madrid negotiators were under pressure to send a clear signal that governments were willing to double down. The summit -- moved at the last minute from Chile due to unrest -- was at times close to collapse as rich polluters, emerging powerhouses and climate-vulnerable nations groped for common ground

in the face of competing national interests.

‘Missing in action’ With the accord set to become operational next year, campaigners had hoped that protests, irrefutable science, and deadly storms and wildfires that marked 2019, would move governments to redouble their efforts at COP 25.

But that greater ambition largely failed to materialise, leaving some veteran observers aghast.

“Most of the world’s biggest emitting countries are missing in action and resisting calls to raise their ambition,” said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a 28-year veteran of the climate process.

The push for strengthening voluntary carbon cutting plans is led by smallisland and least-developed states, along with the European Union. These have called out nations they see as blocking consensus -- notably the United States, Australia and Saudi Arabia. China and India, the world’s No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, made it clear they saw no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

LATE SENTINUNGLA TSÜHAH

5th August 1932 – 3rd December 2019 “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul.” Psalm 23:1-3 “A mother’s love is always with her children. Losing a mother is one of the deepest sorrows a heart can know. But her goodness, her caring, and her wisdom live on like a legacy of love that will always be with us. May that love surround us now and bring us peace.”

We the family members of Late Sentinungla Tsühah, W/o Late Wezolo Tsühah would like to express our sincere thanks and deep appreciation to everyone who stood by us and supported us through your prayers, physical presence, material & financial help, phone calls, messages of condolences at the demise of our beloved mother.

We regret our inability to thank everyone personally but do accept this acknowledgement as an expression of our deepest gratitude and we pray that the Lord bless you abundantly in return.

We convey our special thanks to: 1. Chizami Welfare Organization, Kohima 2. Chizami Baptist Fellowship, Kohima 3. Kohima Neighbours 4. Those who travelled with us from Kohima to Chizami 5. Loved ones of our mother who travelled long distance to pay tributes 6. Chizami Baptist Church, Chizami 7. Chizami Village Council 8. Staff of Primary Health Centre, Chizami 9. Mesulumi Tsühah Clan 10. Longjang Prayer Group, Longjang Loving Children, Grand Children, In-Laws and Relatives.

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Women are indisputably better than men: Obama Singapore, Dec 16 (IANS): Former US President Barack Obama said on Monday that if women ran every country in the world, there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes.

Speaking at a private event on leadership here, Obama said while in office he had mused what a world run by women would look like, reports the BBC. The former leader said women weren’t perfect, but were “indisputably better” than men, adding that most of the problems in the world came from old people, mostly men, holding onto positions of power. “Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re better than us

(men),” Obama said.

“I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything... living standards and outcomes.”

When asked if he would ever consider going back into political leadership, the former President said he believed in leaders stepping aside when the time came.

“It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there to prop up your own sense of self importance on your own power,” the BBC quoted Obama as saying.

20 hurt in Beirut anti-govt protests Beirut, Dec 16 (IANS): At least 20 people have been injured after clashes erupted between protesters and security forces in the Lebanese capital for a second straight day since anti-government rallies began in the country two months ago. The violence that started on Sunday and lasted into the early hours of Monday outside the Parliament in central Beirut came on the eve of talks the Lebanese President Michel Aoun was expected to hold with parliamentary blocs to name a new premier, reports Efe news. The Lebanese Civil Defence said on Twitter that they had transferred those “20 injured to hospitals in the region to receive medical attention”, adding that at least 72 others, including a photographer, were treated on the ground. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Red Cross added it transported four injured in the clashes that broke out when the forces fired teargas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators, who started hurling fireworks.

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Bangladesh celebrates 49th ‘Victory Day’ with grand parade dian students belonging to the National Cadet Corps (NCC) was also present among the audience at the Parade Ground here along with DG NCC Lt Gen Rajeev Chopra. Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das was also among the guests.

President Hamid took the salute and accompanied

by Parade Commander Sheikh Hasina place wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Major General Mohammad Akbar Hossain, riding Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on December 16. (PID) an open jeep, reviewed the Dhaka, Dec 16 (PTI): A delegation of 20 In- Victory Day Parade.

Bangladesh on Monday celebrated its 49th ‘VicTH DEATH ANNIVERSARY tory Day’ that marks its 25 liberation from Pakistan, as Late M Meyichizung Ozukum (Mongsenyimti) 1924 - 17th Dec 1994 the country showcased its military might at a parade Dear papa, it's been 25 years which included spectacular since you left us for your aerobatics and display of heavenly abode. defence acquisitions.

For the first time, a But you are still sadly missed band contingent of the each and every day.

Indian Army also took part in the parade watched by Remembering you on this Bangladesh President M day and always; Rest in peace Abdul Hamid and Prime dear papa.

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The Indian Ar my 1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY band contingent drew loud OF OUR BELOVED MOTHER cheers from the crowd as it marched past playing LT. THONGDINARO MHONTHUNG LOTHA 17th DECEMBER, 2018 the tune of ‘saare jahaan se achcha’ with the announcer acknowledging India’s contribution in Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the bereaved family members of Lt. Vezovoto Keyho would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to each and every individuals, friends, neighbours, churches, relatives and well wishers who helped and supported us with prayer, financially and physically during his illness and sad demise on 8th Dec. 2019.

We convey our special thanks to: 1. Khütsami Welfare Society, Kohima 2. CRC Merhülietsa Kohima 3. CYE CRC Merhülietsa Kohima 4. CRC Merhülietsa Thenumiapfü Krotho 5. CRC Merhülietsa Miapuonuo Krotho 6. Merhülietsa Panchayat 7. Chakhesang Organisation Merhülietsa 8. Youth of Nagamese Church Paramedical 9. Merhülietsa Youth Fellowship Sumi Baptist Church 10. United Brothers Prayer Fellowship Kohima 11. Khütsami Women Society Kohima 12. Nagamese Church Paramedical Kohima 13. Baptist College Pol. Science Dept.

14. Love in Action Foundation 15. Spread the Gospel Group (STG) 16. Staff of Naga Hospital Authority Kohima 17. Nagaland Post We deeply regret our inability to mention each and every individual but we pray the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Anyü ! On this day, you left from us for your heavenly abode. Yet in our hearts, you are always fondly remembered by us with silent tears and prayer.

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We miss you everyday.

Loving husband, children, mother and relatives

10TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF LATE(1921 ZASIVI PESEYIE – 17.12.2009)

Dear Apuo/Aputsa, To d a y ’ s t h e 1 0 t h Anniversary of the day that we lost you, but your unconditional love, your memories are always fresh on our minds.

Yo u r b l e s s i n g s a n d wisdom have guided us and kept us together.

Your love as a father and a grandfather is something we deeply miss. Today, we do not only mourn but we also celebrate the life you well lived and appreciate your wisdom, your good moral that you have set for all of us.

Yo u a r e g r e a t l y missed!

Loving children, grand children and great grand children.

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF JASAHIE ANGAMI

We the family members of Late Seyiesilie (BUBU) Sekhose resident of Kenuozou Colony Kohima would like to express our deepest and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood by us spiritually, physically, financially and upholding us in prayer at the sudden demise of our beloved who left us on 12th Dec. 2019 at 7:34 P.M. We would also like to mention and convey our special thanks to:1. Shri. Temjen Toy (IAS) Chief Secy. to the Govt. of Nagaland & Family.

2. Shri. Neibu Sekhose.

3. Shri. Keviselhou Sekhose 4. Shri. Alakuo Sekhose 5. Mrs. Thenunhieû Sekhose 6. Pastor, Deacons, C.Y.E, Junior C.E & Church members of Rokabozou C.R.C Kohima 7. Inter Denomination Christian Prayer Fellowship (K.N.Z) 8. Trinity Prayer Centre (KNZ) 9. Kerûli ki Prayer Centre (D.Khel) 10. Doctors & Nurses of I.C.U (NHAK) 11. Tangkhul Union Kohima 12. Tangkhul Baptist Church Kohima 13. Neighbours, Relatives, Friends and Well Wishers.

We deeply thank each and every one of you. We pray that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving Wife, Son, Family Members & Relatives.

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A year has passed without you.

A thousand words won’t bring you back.

We know because we've tried; neither will a thousand tears, we know because we’ve cried.

Through thick and thin you were always there to guide and protect us.

You were our strength and inspiration in every need.

Now, the time has changed and we have nothing but your memories which we cherish every single day.

We remember you always and will always pray for you. We miss you dad.

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‘Espérance’ Fall/Winter launched DMI SJGS celebrates 2nd annual day

“Clout Connect” has launched ‘Espérance’ Fall/ Winter 2019 on December 14 evening at de Oriental Grand, Kohima.

A total of 24 models walked the ramp for the creation of eight designers: Rakholu Rose Puro, Japuno Zinyii, Kedorovino Punyii, Atsi Yhoshii, Neisavonuo Riipreo, Aso Tsiirho, Nutso Kire and Rokozono Nagi. Theja Sekhose was choreographer and show director with Aleno Keditsu & Christina Jemu as make-up artiste, Kilangyala Longkumer as hairstylist and Shahilo Kent of Rinyu Studio as official photographer.

‘Espérance’ Fall/ Winter 2019 aims to open platform for designers to animate an idea, as models highlight their creativity, and the audience embrace the personality of each artist in the grand gallery of fashion.

The event is dedicated Models walking the ramp during Espérance’ Fall/Winter to celebrate an assemblage of the young creative 2019 in Kohima.

minds possessing a drive and passion to create a variance of art forms seeking catharsis through careful craftsmanship.

Clout Connect is a start up based in Kohima, formed with the primary goals of working with leading local personalities and brands in the northeast to help them achieve their business objectives through social media advertisement, marketing and live events.

Kohima based advertising agency Clout Connect hopes to create a platform where young artistes can showcase their art, whether be it a design manifesting in the mind of a creator or a concept waiting to be exhibited.

Clout Connect aim to provide a platform for artists to showcase their products and services on the main stage, and through its innovative marketing ideas complimenting the show.

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Children presenting an item based on Christmas.

DIMAPUR: DMI St. Joseph Global School (SJGS) celebrated its 2nd annual day with Rev. Fr. Neisalhou Carolus Kuotsu as the chief guest, the vicar general, Diocese of Kohima, Abel Joseph Aloor, branch manager of South Indian Bank, as the guest of honour and Dr. Gnanadurai, vice chancellor of St. Joseph

University as the special invitee on December 16.

A press release from DMI SJGS stated that, Rev. Fr. Neisalhou Carolus Kuotsu, in his keynote addressed stressed that schools should draw upon the holistic development of each child.

W h i l e ex p r e s s i n g the every activity that the

schools conduct must bring out the inherent potential of the child, he also noted that parents should take their role and mould their children at home.

Abel Joseph Aloor said that every child should always strive for excellence in everything he/she does, while special invitee Dr. Gnanadurai said that

failures were the stepping stones to success.

Administrator Sr. Stella felicitated the chief guest while principal T. Backiyaraj felicitated the guest of honour Abel Joseph Aloor and Rev. Fr. Ratheesh felicitated the special invitee Dr. Gnanadurai. Principal T. Backiyaraj presented the school annual report of the academic year 201920. School honoured the students who had secured academic excellence and hundred per cent attendance with shields and certificates.

Students from KG to class IX presented cultural items ranging from dance, skit, songs, instrumental music to marital art. Class VI students put up traditional dance.

Students of class V put up a skit depicting ill-effects of use of excessive use of the mobile phones, while class IV students put up a skit based on the theme obedience to elders. Vote of thanks was given by class IX students followed by national anthem.

2nd Christmas Night Carnival underway in Mokokchung Frozen 2’ crosses $1 billion Celebrities oppose firmly against CAB rom Richa Chadha to mark at global box office Twinkle Khanna and

Thungchabemo Tungoe SDO (C) Mokokchung inaugurating the carnival.(NP)

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he 2nd Christmas Night Car nival Mokokchung got underway Monday evening at Mokokchung, organized by the Adventure and Motorsports Association Mokokchung

(AMAM) in collaboration with Mokokchung Municipal Council. A brief inaugural programme was held where Thungchabemo Tungoe SDO (C) Mokokchung was the special guest.

More than 40 stalls have

been set up for the carnival where items ranging from pastries, barbecue, toys and erotic local food and others are on sale. The carnival will continue till the December 19.

(Correspondent)

on a quest to find their own identity, by tracing their past and piecing it together with their present. “Frozen 2” released in India in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu on November 22.

In 2013, “Frozen” grossed $1.28 billion at the global box office, and became the top-grossing animated film of all time. It also won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The film’s voice cast includes Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad and Santino Fontana, Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown.

Globally, the film is leading in China with $111.5 million, followed

by South Korea ($85.4 million), where “Frozen 2” is now the top grossing animated title of all time, then in Japan ($67.3 million), the UK ($49.6 million), Germany ($39.9 million) and France ($37 million).

(IANS)

Miss Barak 2019

Dimapur Family Carnival and Fun Fair was officially launched at state stadium on December 16, organised by Dimapur Ao Youth Organization (DAYO), featuring stalls, drive-in theatre and family safe environmental games and activities. DAYO also officially launched the DAYO helpline number, which seeks to help Ao denizens of Dimapur in case of any help or emergencies in and around Dimapur, rendering service and protection. The toll free helpline number is 8974851911. (NP) Amidst cold freezy winter weather and over-crowded spectators, A.R Mathing from Ukhrul, was crowned the new Miss Barak 2019, while Epeiwangle Pamei from Tamenglong and Keipila Lovety Teinamei from T.Khullen Senapati were crowned 1st & 2nd runners-up respectively,

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ajeshwari Karuna School Tuli (RKST), observed its 5th annual function on December 16 at the school campus with around 400 parents, students, teaching faculty and invitees. The programme started with an invocation by Limawapang, followed by vibrant presentations from the students from each class which included dance, songs and speeches by Rongtijen and Chubasenla of Class 7.

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Swara Bhaskar and Anubhav Sinha, all have spoken strongly against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).

Controversial CAB which the BJP ruled centre was so eager to implement, not only met with stiff opposition and uproar before being passed in Lok Sabha.

Scientists, scribes and celebrities too are speaking up against it. Several Bollywood personalities took to Twitter to oppose the Bill before the debate on it started in the Rajya Sabha.

Actress Pooja Bhatt was among the first Bollywood personalities who openly expressed her opinion against the CAB. She quoted American intellectual and sociologist, DaShanne Stokes: If you won’t stand up against those who tear us apart with their lies, hate, and bigotry, expect to do a lot of sitting down.”

When the introduction of the Bill in Lok Sabha was favoured by 293 ‘yes’ against 82 ‘Nos’, actress Richa Chaddha succinctly wrote: God Save Us! Actress turned author Twinkle Khanna, was more direct in her criticism saying “Discrimination based on race, colour, caste, religion and other such social constructs in whatever form, goes against the fundamental moral integrity of the human condition.”

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt also took a pledge not to support the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

He stated “We believe Citizenship Amendment Bill is discriminatory and it violates the constitutional values” and “We pledge not to submit any documents if

asked to prove our citizenship”. Director-actor Farhan Akhtar on Sunday, hit out at troll over Citizenship Act and called a social media user “bigot” after the person asked him to reach out to Muslims, to stop destroying the country’s property while protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act. Actress Swara Bhaskar said she doesn’t want her tax money to be wasted on such a “sick” project. Film director Anubhav Sinha admired the patience of Indian Muslims by tweeting “Dear Indian Muslims..... this too shall pass. You have shown exemplary patience past few years and you should be proud of it. I am....”

Actor Siddharth in her tweet criticised Palanisami for supporting the CAB and said had Jayalalithaa been there, she would never have supported the Bill.

Several parts of India have been witnessing violent protests ever since the Citizen-

ship (Amendment) Bill was passed in Lok Sabha last week. The situation further escalated after the bill was cleared in Rajya Sabha.

The Bill, which has since become an Act, will provide Indian nationality to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, Jains and Buddhists fleeing persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.The issue has caused widespread unprecedented violent protests in the northeast, especially in the states of Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya, with the agitating demonstrators demanding the withdrawal of the CAA claiming that the fresh legislation would jeopardize the demographic situations and life, culture and socio-economic positions to the 45.58 million populations of region. There is a strong criticism of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the entire country. But will the ruling dispensation listen? (National Herald)

FELICITATION With immense pride and honour, the Aghunaqa Area Associate Pastors Women, extends our heartiest congratulation to Madam Kakheli Inato Jimo, Secretary, department of women ministry, WSBAK, on being conferred Ministerial License.

May the Lord continue to bless and guide you as you shoulder new responsibilities.

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Rajkummar condemns ‘violence’ towards students by police

Rachel Katty Area Incharge Aghunaqa Area APW

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cclaimed Bollywood actor Rajkummar Rao has strongly condemned the violence police have shown in dealing with students of Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University and Uttar Pradesh’s AMU and said that violence is not the solution for anything.

Rajkummar, who has played a lawyer in the film “Shahid” and a journalist Deepu Sebastian in the movie “Aligarh”, took to Twitter on Monday afternoon and said “citizens have the right to peacefully protest”. “I strongly condemn the violence that the police have shown in dealing with the students. In a democracy the citizens have the right to peacefully protest. I also condemn any kind of act of destruction of the public properties. Violence is not the solution for anything,” he tweeted.

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Star Excellence Kindergarten special presentation during the December Fest opening ceremony held at DDSC Dimapur on December 16. (NP)

on the closing day of the 2nd state level Barak Festival 2019.

The Jury’s were supermodel and former Mr. India International Opang Jamir; Mrs. Asia Pacific 2019 Sylvia Adaphro; Cynthia Kolakhe fashion artiste. The choreographer was Robert Pao and makeup and hair stylist Genevie.

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The Walt Disney Animation project has grossed $366.5 million in the US and $666 million internationally, taking the worldwide total to $1.032 billion, reports hollywoodreporter. com. Set in fantastical land of Arendelle, “Frozen” is a story of two sisters Elsa and Anna who are on a path of finding acceptance and love, while trying to save their kingdom infused with heart-touching music and emotions. Elsa is struggling to accept her magical icy powers and effervescent Anna is trying to find a bond with her sister.

“Frozen 2” brought back their story as they go

We convey our heartfelt congratulations to Dr Kitoholi V Zhimo, D/o LT. Z Vikheho Zhimo and V Tokheli Zhimo of Xuivi Village on being conferred Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology on the topic entitled “Social and Religious Construction of HIV/AIDS with Relation to Gender in Nagaland” from Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi at the convocation held in November 2019.

Years of your hard work and dedication have made us proud with everything you have achieved so far.

Best wishes and prayers for your future endeavours.

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Rourkela to get Rs. 600 cr facelift before Hockey WC

File photo from the opening ceremony in Bhubansewar to announce Odhisa as hosts of the 2023 Men’s Hockey World Cup (HI photo)

hosts for the second consecutive World Cup after 2018. It did irk many in India, because a chance to revive venues like Chandigarh, Mohali, Delhi, Chennai and Lucknow had gone begging. But the addition of Rourkela as the second place, together with Bhubaneswar, for the 2023 edition he was welcomed to some extent.

To develop Bhubaneswar ahead of the 2018 World Cup, Odisha spent crores (reportedly around Rs 200 crore). But that will become a distant second to Rourkela, which is set to receive a facelift worth over Rs 600 crore.

Plans for air ports, roads, bus terminals, museums, parks, multi-level car parking facilities, besides upgradation of the existing stadium in Rourkela are part of the development blueprint in the next four

NEW DELHI, Dec 16 (Agencies): What Indian state of Odisha What he is doing is terms of hosting international sports tournaments is setting new standards. If not yet, the 2023 Men’s Hockey world cup will ensure that the state has a special place in the list of sports venues.

According to Newsjizz, there are multiple examples where multi-disciplinary events like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games became a region’s source of development.

But in the case of Odisha, it can be credited to just one sport - hockey.

Last month, the FIH granted India the rights to host the Men’s World Cup for the second consecutive edition. Amid voices of dissent, mainly from Europe, against the decision of FIH, Hockey India went on to announce Odisha as

years. The development plan is part of Odisha government’s check Smart City program, of which both Bhubaneswar and Rourkela are part. The below (approximate) figures are, however, almost certain to cross the cumulative mark of Rs 630 crore, with the fund allocation process for upgrading the Rourkela Steel Plant Stadium and the practice pitch under process. In addition, the development of airports at Jharsuguda, Jeypore, Utkela and Rourkela is expected to cost around Rs 150 crore. This, however, comes under the central government scheme UDAN. The stadium that will host the world cup matches belongs to Rourkela Steel Plant, Vishal Dev, Odisha’s commissioner-cum-secretary for sports and tourism, told Timesofindia.com.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019

Winter Cricket Challenge from Jan 7

DIMAPUR, Dec 16 (NPN): The 24th edition of the Winter Cricket Challenge, organised by Senior Noble Klan will be held from January 7, 2020, at local ground, Wokha.

The tournament has been rescheduled due to the Centenary Jubilee celebration of the Wokha Town Baptist Church.

The tournament carries a total cash of Rs. 130000 along with running a trophy. Registration forms will be available at N K Enterprise, Tsumang Colony, Wokha, from December 15 onward. The last date for registration is January 3, 2020 and fixture will be drawn on January 4, 2020. Further details can be contacted at 7005775828/ 8415006001.

Unity Cup

DIMAPUR, Dec 16 (NPN): The 5th edition of Unity Cup, Tennis Ball cricket tournament organised by Nepali Baptist Church Chümoukedima Youth Ministry, will be held from January 6 to 16, 2020 at Chümoukedima Town.

Entry form will be available at Dimapur Grace Enterprise (Circular road) +918732810173 and Chümoukedima Town Classic provision store (near 2nd gate) 8413002017.

1st darts masters competition in Kohima

KO H I M A , D e c 1 6 (NPN): Fun Tree Crew (FTC) hosted the “1st darts Masters” at Mhachaki, Kohima on December 14. 19 participants from different parts of the state participated in the competition.

Vikehelie Suohu emerged as the champion and walked away with a cash prize of Rs. 15000 with trophy and a certificate.

While runner -up Neiketou Suohu pocketed Rs. 10000 cash with trophy and a

certificate. Lima Toshi and Lanu Pongen were awarded joint-third winner. They received cash, trophies and certificates. Highest scorer and highest check out was awarded to Lima Toshi and Lanu Pongen respectively.

15 year-old Noko Konyak, the youngest player of the competition, won the most promising player award.

Rohan Abraham and Daniel Metha were awarded fighting spirit award of the tournament.

Metba Phom(left) with his partner Abhishek Gaur from Haryana after winning the men’s doubles at the Tennis Championship Tournament organised by My Tennis in New Delhi on December 15. Metba Phom also finished as runner-up in the men’s singles which was played against Dubai, Dec 16 (IANS): India skipper Virat Kohli has the winner Abhishek Gaur in the same tournament.

Kohli’s reign continues in Test

maintained his numero uno spot in the latest ICC Test Rankings for batsmen. Kohli, had in the first week of December, reclaimed the top spot from Australia’s Steve Smith after the latter took the top spot post his Ashes heroics. The 31-year-old, who had struck 136 in the Day-Night Kolkata Test against Bangladesh last month to reach 928 points, is now 17 points ahead of Smith who returned with scores of 43 and 16 in the first Test against New Zealand which Australia won by 296 runs.

Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane have also maintained their respective 4th and 6th spot in the rankings where Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne and Babar Azam have moved upwards.

Labuschagne, who narrowly missed joining Pakistan’s Zaheer Abbas and Mudassar Nazar in scoring at least 150 in three successive Test innings, has gained three slots to occupy fifth place. He has overtaken compatriot David Warner and is the second-highest ranked Australia batsman after Steve Smith.

Azam has reached the top 10 for the first time, moving from 13th to ninth position after his unbeaten knock of 102 in the drawn Rawalpindi Test against Sri Lanka. He is currently No.1 in the T20I rankings and has enjoyed a best ranking of second in the ODIs.

1st YEAR REMEMBRANCE

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Those we love don't go away, They walk beside us everyday, Unseen, unheard but always near still loved, still missed, and held so dear.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and in-laws

(1941 to December 11, 2019) “In life, we loved you dearly; in death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place; no one else will ever fill.”

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We the bereaved family members of Late Mrs. Neisanuo Dozo, W/o Mr. Pukronyi Dozo (Thüvopisü Village) would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all those who showered us with sympathy and shared our grief during the time of our sorrow.

We express our sincere thanks to every individual churches, KOHIMAS hospital, relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, village councils/Panchayats and well-wishers who stood by us through their act of kindness, love, prayers as well as moral, material and financial support. Our gratitude also extends to those who sent their condolences messages, floral tributes, travelled from far places and filled our hearts with memories to cherish.

We deeply regret our inability to personally thank each and every one, nevertheless through this acknowledgment we express our profound gratitude. We pray that the Lord Almighty will bless all abundantly.

We the family members would like to express our deepest and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, Church, friends and well wishers who stood by us and supported us in every possible way at the demise of our beloved Late V. Mughavi Awomi of Naga United Village who left us on 13/12/2019.

We convey our special thanks to : 1. SBA NUV 2. Lothemi Pha, SBA NUV 3. Sumi Community NUV 4. Sumi Students’ Union NUV 5. HASSU 6. Mishkikito Sumi Baptist Church 7. Mishkikito Sumi Students’ Union 8. Kushiabill Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individual but we pray that our Almighty God bless all abundantly.

Loving Husband, Children, In-laws & Grandchildren.

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In fond memory of our beloved Grandmother LATE TOVILI RITSÜLA

Born on 22-11-1951 – Died on 17-12-2018

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Late Retsamo Ngullie

It has been a year since you left us, but your love for us, your wisdom and guidance and your good moral that you left behind will always be appreciated and treasured. You are deeply missed.

Loving Wife, Children and Relatives.

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Apuza, our lives go on without you, but nothing is the same.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We the bereaved family members of Late Medum Sosang would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to every individual, who stood by us during his brief illness and demise.

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“Blessed are those who die in the Lord, for they will rest from their hard work, for their good deeds follow them” - Rev 14:13 We, the family members of Late Mr. Kanito Shohe, spouse of Mrs. Electoli Awomi, would like to express our extensive heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual including friends, neighbours and relatives who stood by us spiritually, physically and financially during the tragic event of his unforeseen demise.

We strongly regret our incapacity to mention name of every person involved nevertheless we’d like to render our deepest indebtedness to: 1. Unity Village Sumi Baptist Church: General, Women and Youth 2. Choir Members Unity Village Sumi Baptist Akukuhou 3. Rotomi Welfare, Dimapur 4. Rotomi Welfare, Kohima 5. Rotomi Baptist Akukuhou 6. Rotomi Student Union 7. Women Department, Rotomi 8. Akuhaito Town Baptist Church 9. Sumi Council Unity Village 10. Jail Staff Welfare, Zunheboto 11. 15th NAP (IR) Mahila Baptist Church 12. Charlie Company 15th NAP (IR) Mahila Bn 13. Echo Company 15th NAP (IR) Mahila Bn 14. Principal Unity Christian Hr. Sec. School 15. Charity Residential School and Montessori 16. Unity Sporting Club, 5th Mile.

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Man City crush Arsenal 3-0

Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno was full stretch down to his right but was unable to keep out De Bruyne’s fizzing low drive.

Lo n d o n, D e c 1 6 (Agencies): Manchester City resumed normal service in the Premier League as a masterful display by Kevin De Bruyne fired them to a 3-0 victory over a listless Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday.

Belgian De Bruyne produced two sublime finishes and one silky assist for Raheem Sterling as Pep Guardiola’s City killed the match as a contest before halftime, Reuters reported.

There was no big celebration by the travelling City fans as the champions, who dropped eight points in their

previous five games, remain 14 points behind runaway leaders Liverpool.

They did, however, close the gap on secondplaced Leicester City to four points ahead of their clash next week.

Arsenal managed only six shots — their lowest total at home in the Premier League since 2008 — and are ninth with 22 points, seven points adrift of the top four and showing little sign that things will improve anytime soon.

It is now six home games without a win for Arsenal in all competitions,

yet they almost took the lead in the opening minute when Gabriel Martinelli burst through.

A minute later, however, they were behind as City counter-attacked and Gabriel Jesus cut the ball back from the byline to an unmarked De Bruyne who belted a stunning side-footed finish into the roof of the net from just outside the penalty area.

City were two up in the 16th minute and again they sliced through Arsenal with alarming ease. De Bruyne swapped passes with Jesus and then picked out Sterling

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019

UCL: Real to face Man City; Liverpool meet Atletico in last 16

NYON, DEC 16 (AGENCIES): The draw for next year’s Champions who was all on his own to calmly League has been announced in a dispatch the ball past Bernd ceremony at the Swiss city of Nyon Leno. on Monday.

Shortly before halftime, with Arsenal briefly down to 10 men as left back Sead Kolasinac limped off, City made it 3-0 with De Bruyne again given time and space to pick his spot, this time passing a sublime left-foot finish just inside the post.

Many Arsenal fans headed for an early halftime coffee, or perhaps home, and missed a superb save by Leno to deny the outstanding De Bruyne a first-half hat-trick, clawing the Belgian’s bending effort against the post.

City could and should have scored more after the break, despite taking their foot off the accelerator, while for a chastened Arsenal it was simply a case of damage-limitation.

POINTS TABLE (TOP 10) Team P GD Pts 1 Liverpool 17 28 49 2 Leicester 17 29 39 3 Man City 17 28 35 4 Chelsea 17 6 29 5 Tottenham 17 8 26 6 Man Utd 17 6 25 7 Sheff Utd 17 5 25 8 Wolves 17 3 24 9 Arsenal 17 -3 22 10 Crystal Palace16 -4 22

Thirteen-times winners Real Madrid were drawn against English champions Manchester City while title-holders Liverpool will face Atletico Madrid in the round of 16.

In other ties, Serie A champions Juventus will face French side Lyon, Paris Saint-Germain will play Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona pitted against an unpredictable Napoli.

Stokes named BBC Sports Personality of the Year

London, Dec 16 (IANS): All-rounder Ben Stokes, who played a crucial role in England’s maiden win in ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup earlier this year, has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

On an unforgettable day at Lord’s on July 14, England won their first ever men’s World Cup as they initially levelled the scores to tie with New Zealand at the end of the 50 overs before going on to tie the Super Over as well

Ben Stokes with the trophy.

-- winning the tournament by virtue of striking a higher number of boundaries during their innings. The all-rounder was named the man of the

match in one of the most dramatic matches in the history of the game. Stokes was presented with his award by the Princess Royal and former Manchester United and Scotland footballer Denis Law. Previous winners of the award have included Andy Murray, Jonny Wilkinson and Steve Redgrave. In a public vote, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton finished second while sprinter Dina Asher-Smith was third.

The other shortlisted athletes

were the footballer Raheem Sterling, the Wales rugby captain, Alun Wyn Jones, and the world champion heptathlete, Katarina JohnsonThompson.

At the awards ceremony, which took place on Sunday evening in Aberdeen, the World Cup-winning squad were crowned Team of the Year while Jos Buttler’s run out of Martin Guptill in the final was voted the Greatest Sporting Moment of the Year.

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