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‘Triple Talaq Bill will ensure gender equality’

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Saudi Arabia slams US Senate vote as ‘interference’

National, Page 7

sports, Page 16

international, Page 9

GoI, NSCN (K) hold informal meeting

Petro, diesel prices hiked

1984 Sikh riots case: Sajjan Kumar given life in jail; Kumar to move SC

NEW DELHI, DEC 17 (AGENCIES): Petrol, diesel prices rose on Monday tracking the recent fall in the value of rupee against the US dollar. While petrol became costlier by 19-20 paise per litre, diesel prices rose by 9-10 paise per litre across major cities of the country, according to data available on Indian Oil Corporation website.

After Monday’s price revision, unbranded petrol, in the national capital Delhi is priced at Rs 70.53, up 19 paise compared to Sunday’s price of Rs 70.34 and diesel is retailing at Rs 64.47, 9 paise higher than Sunday’s price. Meanwhile, cost of petrol was Rs. 68.27 per litre and diesel was Rs. 62.03 in Dimapur on Monday while in the state capital Kohima a litre of petrol and diesel was Rs. 69.09 and Rs. 62.64 respectively. It may be mentioned that retail fuel prices in India depend on both international oil price and the rupee-dollar exchange rate.

While Brent crude futures are hovering around $60 per barrel mark, the Indian rupee has depreciated to 72 level against the US dollar causing the recent hike in retail fuel prices.

NEW DELHI, DEC 17 (AGENCIES): Senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was on Monday convicted and sentenced to life term for “remainder of his natural life” in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case by the Delhi High Court which said the riots were a “crime against humanity” perpetrated by those who enjoyed “political patronage”.

The high court said though it was “undeniable” that it took over three decades to punish the accused in the case, it was important to assure the victims that despite the challenges faced by the court, “truth will prevail and justice will be done”.

The case relates to killing of five Sikhs in Raj Nagar part-I area in Palam Colony in South West Delhi on November 1-2, 1984 and burning down of a Gurudwara in Raj Nagar part II. The high court directed the 73-year-old Kumar and other five convicts to surrender by December 31, 2018 and not to leave the city of Delhi. Six accused, including Sajjan Kumar, who was a Member of Parliament at that time, were sent for trial in 2010 and three years

Institutions consume 50% of total electricity in India

NDPP extends Christmas greetings

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DIMAPUR, DEC 17 (NPN): In a significant development, Government of India (GoI) and the NSCN (K) led by Khango Konyak Monday held an “informal meeting” at Delhi to chalk out the differences.

The meeting was held following Khango-led NSCN (K)’s December 6, 2018 declaration to revoke its decision of unilaterally abrogating the ceasefire agreement with the GoI. Highly placed sources informed Nagaland Post that Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) and GoI representative for Naga peace talks, R.N. Ravi and three members representing the NSCN (K) led by general secretary, Isak Sumi sat for an informal meeting at New Delhi.

Sources informed that both the sides had a “good meeting” and explored the possibilities to include NSCN (K) in the ongoing peace process. Sources also disclosed that the two parties were likely to meet for

the second round of informal meeting during the first half of January 2019.

It may be recalled that the undivided NSCN (K) had unilaterally abrogated the ceasefire in March 2015, leading to multiple violent incidents, including attacks on security forces.

Acknowledging the efforts and appeal by NGOs and civil society organizations to restore the ceasefire agreement with Government of India (GoI), NSCN (K) led by Khango Konyak decided to revoke its decision of unilaterally abrogating the ceasefire agreement.

In a joint statement, NSCN (K) chairman and president, Khango Konyak and general secretary Isak Sumi had informed that the group, after holding wide consultations with civil society groups during the past one month and keeping in view the positive response

by GoI, resolved to revoke the unilateral decision of abrogating the ceasefire.

It may also be mentioned that the Khango-led NSCN (K) had placed a

Bank representatives with resource persons and organizers.

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DIMAPUR, DEC 17 (NPN): Large, medium and small industries, commercial and government institutions account for about 50% of the

Union Cabinet nod to amend Aadhaar laws

total electricity consumption. But while there exists a substantial energy saving potential by adopting energy efficiency (EE) technologies, reinforced by a number of financial products offered by

four-point demand to the GoI for consideration-- lift ban imposed on NSCN and removal of terrorist tag; rescind the bounties placed on NSCN leaders; repeal AFSPA/DDA on the enforced Naga areas and unconditional release of NSCN cadres arrested after the abrogation of ceasefire and undergoing trials or serving sentences in different prisons across the state/country.

The Centre in response to the demand had stated that as soon as NSCN (K) comes into peace process dialogue with the Centre, ban on NSCN (K), terrorist tag and bounties on its leaders will be automatically removed/close.

However, Centre said it was committed to solve the Naga issue with one comprehensive solution and therefore cannot have many agreements. Centre also categorically stated that it was not in a state to take up third party with fresh negotiation at this juncture. Further, GoI stated that there should not be any insecurity on the part of NSCN (K).

the Central government to save on electricity bills and also combat global warming, financial institutions are still largely unaware of EE initiatives by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).

To address this lack of awareness, a two-day workshop for financial institutions on EE financing got underway at Hotel Lake Shilloi near City Tower here on Monday. The workshop is being jointly organised by BEE, International Finance Corporation of World Bank Group and Indian Banks’ Association, and co-funded by the European Union.

Resource persons of the

two-day workshop are Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd (IREDA) assistant general manager (AGM) KP Phillip and Frost and Sullivan’s sustainability initiatives programme manager Chandan Roy. Pointing out the erratic and extreme weather conditions of Nagaland in the last few years, State’s chief electrical inspector Er IB Chishi, in his welcome address, warned that the “world is waging an invisible war against global warming and people have to take collective responsibility for the predicament we find ourselves (Cont’d on p-11) in.”

DIMAPUR, DEC 17 (NPN): NDPP Monday extended Christmas greetings to all.

In a message, NDPP president Chingwang Konyak said that with the birth of the “Prince of Peace”, who devoted his life to giving messages of hope, peace, love, and redemption, everyone should realise that there is no Christmas without Christ.

“Let us all put Christ in the centre of our lives and give gratitude for all the blessings we received,” Chingwang stated and wished all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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later, the lower court had convicted five of the accused but acquitted the Congress leader of all the charges.

Deciding the appeals against acquittal of Sajjan Kumar, a bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel convicted the Congress leader for offences of criminal conspiracy and abetment in commission of crimes of murder, promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of communal harmony and defiling and destruction of a Gurdwara.

The bench said the accused in the case were brought to justice “primarily on account of the courage

and perseverance of three eyewitnesses”-- Jagdish Kaur, her cousin Jagsher Singh and Nirpreet Kaur.

The bench also upheld the conviction and varying sentences awarded by the trial court to former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, retired naval officer Captain Bhagmal, Girdhari Lal and former MLAs Mahender Yadav and Kishan Khokhar.

Sajjan Kumar to move SC: Sajjan Kumar intends to move an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court verdict on Monday sentencing him to spend the remainder of his life in jail in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, his lawyer said.

The lawyer told PTI that since the high court verdict was over 200 pages long, time was required to apply the mind and thereafter, they will move the apex court.

Advocate Anil Sharma, who represented Kumar in the high court, said the 73-year old Congress leader has been given time till December 31, 2018 to surrender and efforts would be made to challenge the conviction and the sentence before that.

Forest fire at Mount Puliebadze contained; JVC warns trekkers DIMAPUR, DEC 17 (NPN): The ravaging fire that broke out on Mount Puliebadze on Sunday allegedly due to carelessness on the part of some trekkers was finally contained on December 17 evening, Jotsoma Village Council stated in a press note.

It was reported that the fire that broke out at Jotsoma community reserved forest area led to burning down of a large number of Rhododendron trees. Since the fire had spread to adjoining areas, the Jotsoma Youth Organisation and villagers had a hard time extinguishing the fire.

Meanwhile, Jotsoma Village Council chairman Mego Nagi and general secretary P. Rino have cautioned trekkers against making fires in the forest as forest fires could be triggered by the slightest spark during dry season, and which could destroy the entire vegetation.

The council also appreciated the forests, ecology, environment & wildlife department for helping in containing the fire.

Rafale row: Privilege notices against PM, Rahul NEW DELHI, DEC 17(AGENCIES): Opposition Congress Monday gave privilege notices against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government on the Rafale aircraft deal only to be countered with a notice against Rahul Gandhi by the ruling party MPs. Congress gave notices of breach of privilege in both houses, demanding an explanation from the government on why it provided the Supreme Court “wrong” information on the Rafale deal. While Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad sent the notice to chairman of Rajya

Sabha, Congress’ leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge gave the notice in the Lower House.

In Lok Sabha, Congress leader Sunil Jakhar also gave a notice, which he said was being moved against the prime minister for allegedly misleading the Supreme Court and Parliament in connection with the recent judgement on the Rafale deal.

During the Zero Hour, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she received the notice for privilege motion and the matter was under her consideration.

Separately, three BJP MPs

-- Anurag Thakur, Nishikant Dubey and Sanjay Jaiswal -moved a notice of breach of privilege against Congress president, alleging he spoke “falsehood” and “misled the House” over the fighter aircraft deal in his speech during a debate in July on the no-confidence motion against Modi government.

In Rajya Sabha, Azad was countered by sloganshouting from members of treasury benches, when he said he has given a notice for taking up of a discussion over the government allegedly misguiding the Supreme Court over the purchase of Rafale jets from France.

Candidates spent `1,061 cr in 2018 polls

DISTRICT-WISE EXPENDITURE PARTY-WISE EXPENDITURE NEW DELHI, DEC 17 District Candidates Amount (IANS): Union Cabinet on Party Candidates Amount Zunheboto 16 Rs 2,36,20,45,000 Monday gave its approval NPF 58 Rs 3,73,90,00,000 to amend two existing AadMokokchung 35 Rs 1,91,90,00,000 NDPP 40 Rs 2,67,20,00,000 haar laws giving preference Dimapur 17 Rs 1,32,80,00,000 NPP 26 Rs 81,85,50,000 to the people to voluntarily Mon 30 Rs 95,43,00,000 NCP 5 Rs 11,68,00,000 share the biometric identity Wokha 18 Rs 92,40,00,000 LJP 2 Rs 7,50,00,000 card while obtaining new Kohima 18 Rs 76,22,80,000 mobile phone connections JD-U 13 Rs 76,15,00,000 Tuensang 25 Rs 65,35,00,000 and opening of bank acINC 19 Rs 29,32,80,000 Longleng 8 Rs 59,25,00,000 counts, sources said. The BJP 20 Rs 1,91,25,00,000 Phek 17 Rs 42,30,00,000 Cabinet headed by Prime AAP 3 Rs 4,77,50,000 Kiphire 7 Rs 38,28,00,000 Minister Narendra Modi Ind 10 Rs 17,45,45,000 Peren 5 Rs 30,85,00,000 approved amendments which will be carried out Correspondent representatives spread across ing candidates were from under the Telegraph Act and 11 districts headquarters. Zunheboto, Mokokchung the Prevention of Money KOHIMA, DEC 17 (NPN): She said the expenditure in- and Dimapur districts havLaundering Act (PMLA). A whopping over Rs 1,060 cluded amount spent on ma- ing spent Rs 30 crore, Rs (Full report on p-11) crore – Rs 10,61,09,25,000 terials like mobile phones, 27 crore and Rs 23 crore to be precise – was cumu- two wheelers, four wheelers, respectively. latively spent by 196 candi- etc, adding that it only covAs per the YouthNet dates who had contested the ered cash expenditure. report, the highest average State Assembly election held The press conference spent per household was Rs on February 27 this year. was also attended by Youth- 75,000 and the overall averThis was revealed in a study Net director Lezo Putsure, age of Nagaland per vote conducted by YouthNet. governing council member was between Rs 5,000 and Stating this at a press Joshua Sheqi and consultant Rs 10,000. conference at Food Hub, Chichanbeni Kithan.

And of the 60 MLAs, Made in Nagaland Centre Jakhalu informed the two of them had spent less here on Monday, YouthNet media that the five lowest- than Rs 1 crore, 20 from Rs founder and chair Hekani spending candidates in- 1 crore to Rs 5 crore, 19 from Jakhalu, however, remarked cluded one candidate each Rs 5 crore to Rs 10 crore, 14 that the trend of spending from Zunheboto district (Rs from Rs 10 crore to Rs 20 dipped slightly from 65% 45,000), Kohima district (Rs crore and five had spent over (2008-2013) to 13% (2013- 2.80 lakh) and Mokokchung Rs 20 crore. Among the par2018). district (Rs 5 lakh) respec- ties, NPF spent the highest She admitted that the tively, and two from Wokha amount Rs 3,73,90,00,000 “Well, besides the sound amount might not be accudistricts (each of whom had for 58 candidates followed by of rock music, the noise rate, while pointing out that spent Rs 7.5 lakh).

NDPP Rs. Rs 2,67,20,00,000 certainly came from the report was a product of Conversely, she said for 40 candidates. these.”

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SJC Tseminyu celebrates 50 years

The jubilee monolith being blessed during its unveiling at the St. Joseph’s Church Tseminyu Golden Jubilee program on December 15.

D IMAPUR: C a tholic community of St. Joseph’s Church (SJC) Tseminyu celebrated its Golden Jubilee under the theme, “My Father is Glorified by this, that you bear much fruit,” on December 15.

A press release from SJC Tseminyu, father Vic-

tor Renthungo stated that, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima, offered the Holy Eucharistic celebrations as the main celebrant and R. Khing, advisor, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services, Women Resources Development, as guest of

honour.

The celebration began with the blessing and unveiling of a jubilee monolith by Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil and Very Rev. Fr. Carolus Neishalou, the vicar general of the diocese of Kohima.

Bishop James in his

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Teachers and resource persons at the training programme.

DIMAPUR: A five week Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) training was conducted for teachers at the North East Christian University (NECU), Dimapur, from October 15 to November 16, under the aegis of its coordinator and assistant coordinator, Neisakuonuo Tungoe and Arenkala Ki-

chu. A press release from NECU Dimapur stated that the trainers were sent by Asia’s Centre for TESOL (ACTESOL), Chiang Mai, Thailand. TESOL training is an intensive and rigorous training for Christians who are interested in teaching English to people of other language backgrounds.

NECU plans to organize

it annually, hence, interested candidates have been requested to keep in touch with NECU for next year’s TESOL training. Furthermore, a short-term training course on “Accountancy and Management of Church Accounts” for handling church finances and accounts will be held in the month of January 2019.

homily recalled the sacrifice of the pioneering missionaries and the faithful who had toiled to stand strong against opposition to their faith. He said that “The first Catholic community took shape in this village against all odds and difficulties 50 years ago, that is in 1968.” He reaffirmed a re-dedication with sincere repentance, renewal and resurgence of faith, both as individuals and as a community. He encouraged the faithful to live with greater fervour and determination and look to the future with hope.

Speaking on the occasion R. Khing, confessed that he was most fortunate to celebrate the golden jubilee and exhorted the assembly to celebrate the festivity in the heart with a sense of gratitude to God who has given the many blessings for their existence.

Earlier Rev. Fr. Lawrence Khing, accorded the words of welcome.

Free medical camp at Wuzu village DIMAPUR: Medical team from Phek district conducted a free medical camp under “Op Sadbhavana” at Wuzu village under Meluri block on December 16.

A press release by district media officer Phek, Kutolu Nakro stated that the main aim of the medical camp was to provide medical assistance to remote village.

Altogether 234 patients were examined and provided medical assistance and free medicines by a medical team consisting of Epidemiologist Phek, Dr. Limatoshi Imchen, surgeon DH Phek, Dr.Shevosa Vese along with medical officers of Assam Rifles (Phek battalion).

Basic knowledge on epidemic disease was also imparted during the camp.

The medical team also visited the house of elderly people who could not attend the camp because of health issue.

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Soft skills on making paper bags

Participants and children at the programme on ‘paper bags making’ DIMAPUR: Inauguration programme of education for basic vocation and soft skills on “paper bags making” was organised by Ebenezer Welfare Society (EWS) in collaboration with Nehru Yuva Kendra, Dimapur (NYKS) at EWS, Indisen village Dimapur on December 17. A press release from EWS stated that, chief guest Col. Keisham Debendra, commandant 5th

Northeast summit on entrepreneurship: State government, in collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact organization will be organizing a North East Summit on the theme “Developing North East through the Power of Entrepreneurship” on December 20 and 21 at Niathu Resort Dimapur.

According to DIPR, the summit will be inaugurated by chief minister Neiphiu Rio VDC, Rengma Basti informs: Village Development Committee (VDC) of Rengma Basti in Khatkhati, Karbi Anglong, through its chairman, D Kenilo Kemp, has requested land owners and share holders in the village to attend a general annual meeting on December 28 at 10 am.

SBI general foundation day was observed on December 15 at Wondang-Ki Charitable Foundation (Orphanage) at Fellowship Colony Dimapur. (SBI general insurance, Dimapur, Ashok Gupta.)

Poumai Naga Union condoles

DIMAPUR: Poumai Naga Union (PNU) has expressed sadness at the sudden demise of General (Retd) Kholi Konyak, Vice Chairman, NSCN/GPRN on December 12. In a condolence note, PNU described late Kholi as a tall leader with a clarity of vision, commitment, dedication and sacrifice his life until his last breath. The union termed Kholi’s death as a great loss to Naga people when the Naga political movement was heading towards solution. PNU further conveyed condolences to bereaved family members Xelhozhe Youth Department (XYD) held its annual picnic and thanksgiving programme at Chate River on December 15 with youth pastor Omega Aye. (XYD) and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

R. Khing and officials singing a hymn of celebration at the SDPDB Students presenting a song at the MGM HSS Advent Christmas Pre Christmas celebration in Tseminyu on December 8. (DIPR) celebrations on December 1.

LCK members with inmates of Old Age Home, Meriema, Kohima Advisor Rural Development, Dr. Neikiesalie Kire addressing at the preon December 16.

Christmas celebration of PWD (Ward 11), Kohima on December 16.

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Concerning local agricultural productions, the R. Khing encouraged farmers to produce organic, and extended his appreciation to the department of Agriculture, to SDAO Tseminyu Viwheto Thorie in particular for providing one (13 HP) power tiller to Rumensinyu village.

The Advisor then formerly handed over the power tiller to chairman, Rumesinyu Village Council by gifting the engine starter key, and he encouraged the villagers the use the power tiller properly.

At the same time, the advisor also appreciated the ADC and departmental

officers for organising advent Christmas celebration program.

OSD to chief minister, Thapimo Semy, who also accompanied the advisor, also spoke on the occasion and reminded the departmental officials to continuously maintain cooperation in implementing programs and policies of the government for development. ADC Tseminyu, Nokchasashi Ao, on behalf of various departments, delivered Christmas greetings on the occasion. Christmas celebration hymns were also sung at the program.

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E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme chaired by Chubarenla began with an invocation by Teplok, advisor, EWS. EWS chairman, Imli Amri while welcoming the gathering explained about the importance of paper bags usage in the environment pollution control.

Children of Ebenezer Orphanage Home presented special song.

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More organizations celebrate pre-Christmas

DIMAPUR: SDPDB Tseminyu held a pre-Christmas Celebration & Monthly Meeting at Rumesinyu village of Tseminyu Subdivision on December 8.

According to DIPR, R. Khing, advisor of Vet. & AH and Women Resources Development Department and SDPDB Chairman, attended the program. Leaders of the Planning Board discussion meeting and the pre Christmas programs were ADC Tseminyu, Nokchasashi, and EAC, Tsogin Rozy Sangtam respectively.

The meeting discussed agriculture farming, health care sector etc. as agendas.

BN Assam Rifles while appreciating the initiatives of EWS and NYKS stressed on entrepreneurial attitude and behaviour for attaining success in life.

District youth coordinator, NYKS Phyobemo Lotha, in his speech explained about NYKS and the aims and objectives of the programme. He mentioned about enhancing the skills and to be well trained for there are wide scopes in

Khing, shared from the Bible in which he mentioned how the John the Baptist prepared the way for Christ. He therefore called upon the people to celebrate Christmas in His holy name so that everyone will be blessed. Hyusinlo, Pastor Rumesinyu Baptist Church offered the invocation prayer. A special song was presented by women group, where Dr. Gwathonlo, VAS Tseminyu said the benediction prayer, followed by gifts exchanges and a Christmas feast.

MGM HSS: MGM Higher Secondary School (MGM HSS) celebrated Advent Christmas on De-

cember 15.

MHM HSS media cell, in a press release stated that the program was addressed by headmaster, Bishwajit Paul. In his speech he spoke about the meaning of celebrating Christmas, where he said it should be celebrated with prayers and with Christ in the heart.

The program continued with choir songs presented by students of standard 10, and higher secondary students followed by benediction and refreshments. Class 11 Science bagged the first prize in the carol singing competition. The prizes were sponsored by St. Thomas

Mission Society.

LCK at OHA Merima: Lions Club of Kohima (LCK) organized an advent Christmas program at Old Age Home (OAH), Meriema, Kohima for the inmates and staff on December 16.

A press release from LCK secretary stated that, LCK president Aroba, while speaking at the program expressed happiness that members of the club could once again visit the inmates and staff in the home. He told them that “You are our old parents and happy that we get time to spend with you on such occasion”. Former LCK president Tali Jamir also shared his love and concern and spoke of the association of the club with the inmates over the years. LCK provided 25 blankets to inmates. There are 25 inmates and seven staff members at OHA Merima.

Pre-Christmas at Mon: DC Mon office celebrated pre-Christmas on December 15 at DC office Mon. According to DIPR, during the programme, Christmas greetings was delivered by DC Mon Thavaseelan K. District chaplain, Tuishimla Konyak shared Christmas message and prayer.

Christmas carol competition was also organized which was won by Dobashis. The other competitors were ministerial staff, drivers and Elections/Planning/CAWD/NIC. The programme was chaired by Chumlamo Humtsoe SDO (C). Minister Paiwang Konyak and advisor Bongkhao Konyak also attend the programme.

MCCI on busting of LPG pilfering racket DIMAPUR: Describing the recent busting of LPG pilfering racket in Mokokchung as “uncomfortable surprise”, the Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industr y (MCCI) Monday said that it was not the first instance that the Mokokchung police have apprehended such offenders.

On December 15, 2018, Mokokchung police arrested six persons while pilfering LPG cylinders along NH-702, near Mongsenyimti village, under Mokokchung district.

In a press release, MCCI president, Tsukti Longkumer, and general secretar y, Limalenden Longkumer, appreciated the Mokokchung police personnel for arrest and demanded that the arrested

accused not be released until all due course of law was applied.

Further, MCCI also requested the police to investigate deep into the LPG pilferage racket and uproot the menace, adding it was ready to extend support in all possible way.

Stating that the police have reportedly confirmed that the dealer of LPG had no hand in the latest pilferage case, MCCI has however expressed regret that dealer’s name has been tarnished after a video pertaining to the case went viral on various social media platforms.

MCCI has requested the consumers and public in general “not to jump to hasty conclusions until the due process of law is completed.”

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Sendenyu Baptist Church (SBC) centenary celebrations, which was held from December 14 to 16, in progress.

DIMAPUR: Sendenyu Baptist Church’s (SBC’s) centenar y celebrations culminated on December 16 with calls to believers to renew their faith and commitment to the Lord.

The 100 years celebration of the Church, which began on December 14, was jointly organised by the SBC and the Council of Rengma Baptist Churches (CRBC).

A press release from SBC stated that, it had the distinction of being the first church to be established on Rengma soil.

On Sunday, during the morning worship service, the SBC acknowledged Rev. Seliezhü Sorhie, an

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Angami evangelist from Khedi Baptist Church in Kohima village, who was stated to have brought the gospel of Christ to Sendenyu 100 years ago.

The Church also paid rich tributes to the first converts from the village who went on to become pioneers of Christianity not only in the village but in the other Rengma areas as well.

Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) general secretary Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho delivered a powerful message on the theme of the celebration ‘He has done great things’.

He stated that the faith journey of the believers at

SBC was a testimony to the love and mercy of God. He however reminded the believers that celebrating what they achieved 100 years back should not be the sole purpose of this occasion as they must think of the present and prepare the way for the future. Stating that SBC and its members should enlarge their tents and their thoughts in the ministry perspective, the NBCC general secretary called upon them to be the torch bearers of the Good News to the people.

Khedi Baptist Church pastor Rev. Viwelie Khezhie in his greeting message, spoke of how the Nagas had come a long way after

the Gospel reached their land. He observed that the Naga people are very blessed but somehow over the years, many have become spiritually unsound, missing the purpose for which God made us.

Besides believers from Sendenyu, delegates from various Rengma villages including from Assam state, neighbouring Angami villages and well wishers participated in the three-day long celebrations.

In his message to the Sendenyu Baptist Church on the occasion, chief minister Neiphiu Rio who hails from the neighbouring Touphema village, conveyed his best wishes stating the centenary was a time of thanksgiving and asked them to seek God’s blessing for the future. He acknowledged that since the arrival of Christianity the Nagas in general had come a long way from the traditional animistic religion.

Highlights of the centenary celebrations over the past three days included centenary monolith dedication at Phenuga Memorial Park, dedication of monument at Kehunkathun (first Church site), tribute to early converts from the village, and jubilee celebration at Centenary Memorial Park at Nsonji Lake.

Blood Storage Unit power back-up inaugurated in Wokha

Dr. Manazir Jeelani Samoon inaugurating the Power Back-Up for Blood Storage Unit at District Hospital Wokha on December 13.

DIMAPUR: Dr. Motsuo Memorial District Hospital (DMMDH), Wokha received a long awaited Blood Storage Unit power back-up from the district administration under the leadership of Deputy Commissioner (DC) Wokha, Dr. Manazir Jeelani Samoon on December 13.

A press release from NHM Wokha district media officer, Mhonbeni Ezung stated that speaking on the occasion, Dr. Samoon expressed his happiness on being able to donate the equipment.

He also encouraged the district hospital staff to make it functional as soon as possible so that the public can avail of its services, and promised that the district administration and medical department will continue to work together in initiatives in future.

Team Metamorphosis (NGO) Wokha president Thungdemo, thanked the district administration for the initiative and also promised that his team was ever ready to donate blood when needed.

Chief Medical Offi-

cer (CMO) Wokha, Dr. Robin Lotha expressed his gratitude to the former DC Wokha, Wezope Kenye, and Wokha ADC, Thavasalem, as this project was initiated during their tenure. He also thanked the HOD NEEPCO Doyang for providing the blood storage refrigerator, and extended his appreciation to all well-wishers who contributed to making the project a reality for the people of the district.

The programme was chaired by DMMDH medical superintendent, Dr. Tumchobeni.

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ADC, Wokha Mhathung Tsanglao addressing during the opening of the three days soft skill training programme at GHSS, Wokha on December 15. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Three-day soft skill training got underway at Government Higher Secondary School, Wokha on December 15.

According to DIPR, the training will focus on soft skill to builders and other construction workers, as to how they create interpersonal relations, personality development and how to build relationship with other employees/ workers.

ADC, Wokha, Mhat-

hung Tsanglao, while addressing the trainees thanked the department of Labour for organizing the training programme and giving platform to the people of Wokha.

Labour commissioner, Nagaland, Er.L.Nungshi Yanger Aier, while giving a brief activities of the department said, even though the department of Labour is a small department, they have been assisting in giving children scholarship,

maternity benefit medical assistance and insurance.

He therefore urged the gathering to avail the opportunity.

The function was chaired by join secretary Labour. The programme was organized by Nagaland Building and other Construction Workers, Welfare Board, department of Labour in collaboration with career Bridge Human Capitals Solutions, Gurgaon, Haryana.

DIMAPUR: Zunheboto Range Students Union (ZRSU) organized night carnival in aid to raise fund for its federating units from December 10 to 12 Center Point, Town Area Zunheboto.

According to DIPR, the carnival was participated by 18 Units of ZRSU. Open concerts, food stalls, bamboo crafts, indoor games, photo booth, etc were the main events during the night carnival.

Z S RU p r e s i d e n t , Kabo Kiba said that the main aim in organizing the carnival was to promote solidarity in the union and create a platform to help themselves financially through their creativity.

The union also thanked Zunheboto district administration for the permission and 32 Assam Rifles, Zunheboto for providing technical assistance during the event.

DIMAPUR: Alahuto Colony, Zunheboto celebrated its silver jubilee (19932018) under the theme “Spring up oh well” at Alahuto Colony, with A. Pitoho Chophy accountant general (Audit) as special guest and Rev. Dr. Daniel Chishi, pastor ZTSBC and Rev. Dr. S. Yevito Sumi, senior pastor SBCZ as speakers on December 14.

A press release from silver jubilee committee, Alahuto Colony Zunheboto media and publicity in-charge, Vitoka Aye stated that Chophy in his address said that jubilee was one of the remarkable milestones of Alahuto colony and its denizens.

He further said that the good works done for other people bring blessings and therefore urged the gathering to live in faith of God. Rev. Dr. Daniel Chishi pastor ZTSBC, as one of the speakers, also extended jubilee greetings to the

Village officials and residents, elders and delegates after the inauguration of Alahuto Colony welcome during its Silver Jubilee celebrations on December 14.

gathering.

In commemoration of Alahuto Colony jubilee celebration a new welcome gate of Alahuto Colony was dedicated by A. Pitoho Chophy, and Rev. Khuvikhe Sumi, ex-pastor, offered the dedicatory prayer.

Vikheshe Aye, GB Alahuto Colony, chaired the program during the dedication

ceremony.

Meanwhile, the jubilee celebration began with an opening prayer and song dedication by Luvito Aomi, ex-pastor (convenor); welcome address

by Kikheto Muru, jubilee planning chairman; followed by release of jubilee souvenir by Rev. Dr. Daniel Chishi, pastor ZTSBC.

Kakheto Aye, ex-convenor Alahuto Prayer Fellowship pronounced the benediction.

The Jubilee program concluded with an evening service with Rev. Dr. S Yevito Sumi senior pastor SBCZ as speaker and Er. Kitoshe Aye EE (PHED) Zunheboto delivering the welcome address.

Sensitization on Swachh Survekshan in Kiphire Swatchh Survekshan 2019 said that the programme is organized for sensitization of the wards for cleanest survey.

He said during the survey, citizen feedback, interaction of swachhata in different categories will be considered.

All eleven wards under Kiphire Town took part in the sensitization programme.

A section of gathering at DC’s Conference Hall Kiphire.(Inset: Mr.Kohima 2018 speaking at the programme.

Correspondent Kiphire, Dec 17 (NPN): Kiphire Town Council and Swatchh Bharat Mission Kiphire organized sensitization programme on Swachh Survekshan 2019 at DC conference hall, Kiphire on Monday.

Mr. Kohima 2018 Atsungba Sangtam attended the programme as special guest.

In his speech, Atsungba spoke on proper utilization of funds provided by the government.

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ing that cleanliness was basic things needed, he said it was everyone responsibility to contribute starting from their own kitchen.

Swachh Bharat Mission Kiphire, secretary, Tsipise Antony while delivering key note address highlighted on the programme of Swachh Survekshan 2019.

He said that Swachh Survekshan 2019 is a ranking exercise taken up by the Government of India to assess rural and urban areas for the levels of cleanliness and active implementa-

tion of Swachhata Mission initiatives in timely and innovative manner.

Antony also spoke about the municipal documentation such as solid waste management including door-to-door collection, processing and disposal and open defecation free status, citizen feedbacks and on independent observation during the Swachh Survekshan(Surveying) 2019.

Member of Swachh Bharat Mission Kiphire, K.Rothrongki Sangtam who too spoke on the

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme began with an invocation by associate pastor of KTBL (South Zone),T.Setsiba Sangtam while member SBM Kiphire, Lilongla Sangtam delivered vote of thanks.

It may be mentioned that under the initiatives of Kiphire Town Council, cleanliness drive in all the wards were also carried out on December 15.

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M’laya seeks MHA help to rescue miners

Shillong, Dec 17 (PTI): The Meghalaya government Monday sought the Union Home Ministry’s help to rescue 13 miners who were trapped in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district for the past five days, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said.

The decision to seek MHA help comes after the initial rescue operations proved to be futile and the exercise to pump water out of the 370-feet-deep mine yielded little result, he told newsmen here.

The miners were trapped on December 13 after water from nearby Lytein river had gushed into the illegal rat-hole mine at Ksan area Lumthari village, a senior district official, who is supervising the rescue operation, said, adding that the miners are now feared dead.

“I have spoken to the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and requested him to send in more professional teams and the best equipment

Sailo to be elected Mizoram assembly speaker Aizawl, Dec 17 (PTI): The ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) legislator Lalrinliana Sailo would be elected unopposed as Speaker of the new Assembly on Tuesday, an official said.

Sailo, a former minister in the previous Congress government, is the only candidate to file nomination till 3.30 pm Monday, the deadline for doing it, Assembly secretary S R Zokhuma said. Protem Speaker Lalrinawma would conduct the Speaker’s election after oath taking of newly elected legislators is concluded, he said. The 49-year-old Sailo had quit the Congress and the assembly on October 3 and joined the MNF. He was elected to the Assembly for four consecutive terms since 2003 and was a cabinet minister keeping portfolios like health and trade and commerce.

Election of deputy speaker would be held on Thursday, the third and last day of the first session of the eighth state assembly. Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan would deliver his customary address in the assembly on Tuesday, the first day of the session. The motion of thanks on his address would be deliberated on Thursday.

Nagaland Gov addresses 5th Distinguish Lecture D imapu r , D e c 1 7 (NPN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya called on the youth of north east to walk hand in hand with the nation and to work towards building a better tomorrow.

Acharya was addressing the 5th Distinguish Lecture Session at Cotton College, Guwahati on December 15.

Acharya stated that the strength of the youth can change the fate of the country and called on to educate and motivate the youth so that they will be for the betterment of tomorrow.

He also urged the youth to be honest and hard working and to stand against all the wrong doing in the country instead of blaming the system. The Governor also said that the state governments in the NE region need to expedite the skill development activities in tandem with the national initiatives proactively involving social partners in the region towards providing employment skills to the youth.

The lecture was organised by the Byatikram Mass Awareness and Social Development Organisation.

NDRF personnel conduct rescue of the thirteen people who remain trapped in a flooded illegal mine, in East Jaintia hills on Monday. (PTI)

they have,” Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma told mediapersons at the sidelines of a programme here on Monday.

The union minister, he said, has taken up the matter with experts and soon more assistance would arrive at the accident site.

Conrad said rescue

teams are trying their “level best” but the situation was “very difficult” as no matter how many pumps they used the flow of water was so high they were unable to bring it down to a level where they would be able to rescue the trapped miners.

He assured the government will engage “whoever

it takes and will try its level best to save the lives of the people who are trapped inside”.

Rescuers are using the sonar system and underwater cameras to detect the 13 miners but due to poor visibility in the water, the trapped miners could not be located, officials said.

Sonar is an acronym for Sound Navigation and Ranging and is a technique that uses sound propagation, usually underwater to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water.

The NDRF teams, which are involved in the rescue operation, along with the SDRF, have suggested to the district administration to call in Oil Natural Gas Corporation to deploy submersible water pumps to reduce the water level.

According to an expert in the water resources management, over 5 lakh litres of water, reaching up to 70 feet, was estimated to be present in the main shaft of the mine.

BJP embarks on mission to win Zodintluanga all Arunachal assembly, LS seats elected CLP GUWAHATI, Dec 17 (Agencies): The BJP, undeterred by recent electoral defeats, has initiated its Mission 60 Plus Two seats in Arunachal Pradesh and has said it will contest the polls in the northeastern state on its own.

With assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh likely to be held along with the parliamentary polls next year, the party, which rules India’s frontier state, has embarked on a mission to win all 60 assembly constituencies and the two Lok Sabha seats.

“We will fight the polls and will have no seatsharing arrangement with any party,” BJP state chief unit president Tapir Gao told ET. The BJP had won one Lok Sabha seat in 2014.

Union minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju was elected from Arunachal East, while Ninong Ering of the Congress party won Arunachal West.

“We have activated the grassroots organisational model of pristha pramukhs (page in-charges) in all polling stations of the state,” Gao added.

He said the recent losses for the BJP in the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will have no impact in Arunachal Pradesh.

The party has already declared that chief minister Pema Khandu will be the face of the party for the assembly polls.

Khandu has been touring the state as part of his “Arunachal Rising Campaign,” a two-month publicity drive to disseminate information on major state and central flagship programmes for the people of the state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the state in January to inaugurate a couple of power projects and lay the foundation stone for the construction of a road tunnel bypassing Sela Pass towards Tawang.

Although the Congress won 42 of the state’s 60 assembly seats in the April 9, 2014, election, the party lost power after dissident MLAs switched sides and joined the People’s Party of Arunachal, which later merged with the BJP.

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Aizawl, Dec 17 (PTI): The five-member Congress legislature party (CLP) in Mizoram Monday elected Zodintluanga, a former minister and treasurer of the recently dissolved CLP as its leader, party sources said.

Zodintluanga has been CLP treasurer for three consecutive terms (15 years) and is the seniormost Congress legislator who made it to the state legislative assembly. Former ministers C Ngunlianchunga and Nihar Kanti Chakma were elected as treasurer and secretary respectively of the CLP, while first-timer Lalrindika Ralte was elected as the Whip.

Tripura state museum to get digital facelift Agartala, Dec 17 (PTI): The over-a-centuryold Ujjayanta Palace of Tripura’s Manikya Kings, which houses the state museum, would be equipped with digital galleries in a bid to boost tourism, a state minister said on Monday.

The palace, built by Maharaja Radha Kishore Manikya during 1899-1901, served as the state legislative assembly till 2011.

“We would soon install digital galleries in the state museum, which would make use of projectors. I think this initiative would also attract more tourists in the museum and help promoting tourism industry in the state,” Tripura Higher Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath told reporters.

An official of the Tourism Department added that the visitors would feel like walking around the gallery with life-like illusions.

Nath said that in the last five years, 9,50,000 tourists visited the museum, of which over 4,000 were from abroad.

IMPHAL, Dec 17: Manipur State Rural Livelihoods Mission (MSRLM) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with 11 project implementing agencies (PIAs) of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) on Monday.

With the signing of the MoU, the 11 new PIAs will train state’s youth in the field of healthcare, hospitality, documentation, apparel sector, beauty and wellness, hair styling, tourism, retail sector, electrical sector and provide job placement.

Speaking on the occasion, Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh informed

NOTICE

functioned normally as employees attended their duties responding to government’s warning against those not attending their duties during the general strike.

Some fuel stations were opened with security protection in the city. However, all the stations in the outskirt of Imphal city and other places across the valley areas remained close for the day.

Meanwhile, a scooter was reportedly burned down by suspected strike supporters at Waithou area along Imphal-Moreh section of NH-102 in Thoubal district.

Militant group, Maoist Communist Party of Manipur gave the 24-hour general strike demanding restoration of disappearing historical and religious sites of Manipur.

It alleged that the culture and society of the state has been at stake as the BJPled state government was waging a war against its own people, where voices are muffled, mouths are gagged and where only their henchmen are being favoured.

Dimasas want GI tag for traditional brew Judima Guwahati, Dec 17 (Agencies): The Youth Association for Development and Empowerment (YADEM) of Dima Hasao district has moved the Assam Agriculture University (AAU) for its support to get the GI tag for Judima.

The organization has submitted its proposal to Intellectual Property Right Act (IPRA) cell of AAU, asking its support through a proper channel to Chennai-based GI office to take forward the initiative.

Judima, prepared from rice, is consumed in all the Dimasa-dominated belts in the Northeast.

The brew is closely associated with the Dimasas’ social and cultural life. It is popular among non-indigenous people in central Assam and in Dimapur in neighbouring Nagaland for its taste and quality, reports The Telegraph.

Judima is the second item of the two hill districts of Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao for which GI tag has been initiated so far.

Officials of MSRLM and DDU-GKY during the signing of MoU on Monday. (NP)

that Centre has allocated a target of 10, 518 rural poor youths from across all the districts of the state to be trained under the DDUKGY. Six PIAs had already started providing training

to youths in various trades, he added.

Singh explained that the projects under DDUGKY are market linked and implemented in PublicPrivate-Partnership (PPP) mode.

The involvement and partnership between civil society organizations, educational institutions, apex skill partners and regulating organizations ensured that the DDU-GKY can leverage on the strengths of all and achieve transformation, he added.

“It is a very good programme for our poor and rural youths,” the chief minister said and appealed the youths of the state to avail the opportunities.

On the occasion, chief minister and other dignitaries distributed certificates to some youths who had undergone training in food and beverage sector and also got placement in reputed firms outside the state.

IN THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT

(THE HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) (KOHIMA BENCH) W.P (C) NO.264 (K)/18.

Shri Marnokden & 28 Ors. -VsState of Nagaland & 21 Ors. To

Shri. R. Yohan Junior Engineer Directorate of Municipal Affairs, Kohima.

2. Shri. Mhabemo Ovung Junior Engineer Urban Development, Kohima, Nagaland.

3. Shri. Rokuozanuo Jacinta Junior Engineer Office of the Chief Engineer, PWD, National Highway, Kohima, Nagaland.

4. Shri. Bendangwati Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, PWD (R&B) Mokokchung Division.

5. Shri. Vizokhunuo Angami Junior Engineer Office of the Chief Engineer, PWD (Housing), Kohima, Nagaland.

6. Shri. Kewepu Tsuha Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, PWD (R&B) Pfutsero Division.

7. Shri. P. Chubathung Ngully Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, PWD (R&B) Peren Division.

8. Shri. Kevimelie Linyu Junior Engineer Office of the Chief Engineer, PWD (Housing) Kohima, Nagaland.

9. Shri. Kenieseto Kera Junior Engineer CAWD, Kohima, Nagaland.

10. Shri. Khrielievio Tsumyu Junior Engineer NCID (Housing) Kohima.

1.

Whereas Smti. Bitsala, wife of Late Yongki of Yingshukur Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the India Succession Act 1925 in order to draw/ receive the payments of movable/immovable properties of her husband of Late Yongki Mason serving under the establishment of Office of the Executive Engineer PWD (Housing), Division Tuensang District, who expired on 02/06/2017.

Public are herby asked to file objection/claims if any within 30 (Thirty) days from the date of issue of this order. If no objection /claims is received within the given time, Succession Certificate will be issued in favour of the applicant.

(Mohammed Ali Shihab) IAS Deputy Commissioner Kiphire : Nagaland K-3665

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-I OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late T. Shokheamong Yim has been applied by Smti. Z. Chikamla W/o T. Shokheamong, Chumukedima R/o H.No. Dimapur, Dimapur, Nagaland for possession of : 1. Pension benefits 2. SBI A/C No. 20065039780 Chumukedima Branch.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may if she/ he so desire appear in this court on or before the said day of 17/1/19.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this the 17/12/18.

Principal District & Sessions Judge Dimapur : Nagaland DP-9512

IMPHAL, Dec 17: Normal life was partially hit in Manipur, particularly in valley districts on Monday due to the 24-hour general strike call given by Maoist Communist Party Manipur (MCPM).

Public transports stayed off the road. Inter-district and inter-state transports were also affected.

Even as a tightened security was in place by detailing a good number of police and state security personnel, almost all the market places across the twin Imphal district wore deserted look as shops and business establishments remained closed.

However, vegetable vendors were seen coming out in the late afternoon and people were seen rushing to purchase essentials.

Even though government run educational institutions remained opened, most of the private schools across the valley districts closed for the day.

Government offices

DISTRICT : KOHIMA.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late LORENI LOTHA, deceased, has been filed by Shri A. MHATHUNG PATTON relation HUSBAND R/O LANDMARK COLONY DIMAPUR to draw his/her family pension, Bank Acct, Landed Property etc, who expired on 08-12-2018.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he/she so desire may appear in this court within 30 days, on the said day of 17-01-2019.

Given under the hand and seal of the court this 16 day of 12-2018 Addl. Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Nagaland DP-9508

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

Correspondent

Correspondent

NO.DC/KPE/JUD-11/2016-17/639

Dt.Dimapur the '18 No.M-699/15 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Y. BANKATHUNG LOTHA -VrsHito Swu resident of Dimapur Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 17-01-19.

SCHEDULE OF LAND AND BOUNDARY Name of Patta Holder Y. Bankathung Lotha Village/Block No. Ekranigaon Patta No. 41 Dag 4/64 Area 00-01-05 North : PEKRUSETUO South : KUGHAHO East : Y. BANKATHUNG West : R. KIN Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Nagaland DP-9507

General strike hits normal life in Manipur

MSRLM signs MoU with 11 PIAs of DDU-GKY

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMANTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925) In the Court of Shri Albert Ezung Additional Deputy Commissioner Dimapur District, Nagaland

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP:DIMAPUR: NAGALAND NOTICE th

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER KIPHIRE, NAGALAND NOTICE

Dated Kiphire the 05th Dec’ 2018

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER CHOZUBA: PHEK

No. JUDL/SUCC-20/2012-13/55

Dated Chozuba 13th Dec. 2018

NOTICE

Whereas, Shri/Smti/Kumari Thukuvolu S/o,W/o D/o Lt. Thurisu Nyekha a resident of Chesezu village/Town has applied for Succession Certificate in her/ his name under the Indian Succession Act of 1925, to enable her/him to draw/ claim dues and benefit in respect of her/his late husband Lt. Shri/Smti Thurisu Nyekha who was working as Chowkidar BSNL Office under the establishment of Pfutsero (Department) and expired on 8-9-2018.

Public are asked to file claims/objection if any, within 30 thirty days from the date of issue of this notice.

Sd/- Japheth Woch, Additional Deputy Commissioner Chozuba, Phek, Nagaland K-3671

IN THE COURT OF CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE KOHIMA : NAGALAND. SUMMON FOR SETTLEMENT OF ISSUE (ORDER- V, RULE -1,5,20) IN THE COURT OF CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE, KOHIMA : NAGALAND. Suit No C.MC NO. 7/2018 arising out of Civil Suit No.2/2018.

Plaintiff : Mr. Krovielhoupe Koza.

Defendants : Mr. Netsozu Tunyi and Anr To Zesanyii Peli, Kohima Village, D. Khel, Represented by Mr. Lhoukhrietuo Khezhie R/o House No. 40,D. Khel, Kohima .

Whereas the above named plaintiff has instituted suit against you for declaration of Title on Land.

You are hereby summoned to appear before the court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all the material questions relating to the suit on 04/02/2019 at 11:00 AM without fail.

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

Given under my hand and the seal of the court this 14th day of December 2018.

K-3662

................PETITIONERS. .............RESPONDENTS.

11. Shri. Chingshen C Phom Junior Engineer Department of Under Developed Areas, Kohima, Nagaland.

12. Shri. L. Semo Khiamungan Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, PWD (R&B), Noklak Division 13. Shri. Sejongmong Sangtam Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, National Highway, Tuensang Division.

14. Shri. Yanbemo Ezung Junior Engineer, PWD, National Highway Division-I, Kohima, Nagaland.

15. Shri. Y.Yehevi Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, National Highway, Tuensang Division.

16. Shri. Neidilhoulie Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, PWD (Housing) Tuensang Division.

17. Smti. Vikali Zhimomi Junior Engineer Office of the Executive Engineer, PWD (Housing) Dimapur Division.

18. Shri. Razoutuolie Junior Engineer Office of the Chief Engineer, PWD (Housing), Kohima, Nagaland.

NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that W.P (C) NO.264 (K)/18 has been filed by the above named Petitioners in the Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, wherein you have been impleaded as Respondents No. 5-22.

The Hon’ble High Court vide Order dated 12-12-2018 has directed for substituted notice through 2 (two) local dailies and the matter has been fixed after 1 (one) month for entering of appearance. If no appearance is made on your behalf or by your advocate or by someone authorized by law to act on your behalf on the next date of appearance, the matter will be heard and decided in your absence.

Signed and sealed by the order of the Court on this the 12th day of December 2018.

K-3664

Deputy Registrar (Judicial) Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, Kohima, Nagaland.

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Nath, Baghel, Gehlot sworn in as chief ministers

Bhopal, Dec 17 (PTI): Congress leader Kamal Nath was sworn in as the 18th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh here Monday.

Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office to Nath, 72.

The governor had on Friday invited Nath to form the new government in the state.

The Congress on Thursday named Nath, the nine-time Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara, to head the state Congress Legislature Party, after hours of hectic parleys held by party chief Rahul Gan-

dhi with senior party leaders.

Those present at the swearing in ceremony included Rahul Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, AICC general secretary Mallikarjun Kharge, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his deputy Sachin Pilot, MPs Jyotiraditya Scindia, former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, Andhra Pradesh

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav, DMK’s MK Stalin, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and Kamal Nath’s predecessor and BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan were also present.

Meanwhile Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel was Monday sworn in as the chief minister of Chhattisgarh.

MLAs T S Singh Deo and Tamradhwaj Sahu, who were front-runners for the CM’s post, were sworn in as ministers.

Governor Anandiben

where Congress won 68 seats in the 90-member House. Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot took oath as the Rajasthan chief minister on Monday while state party chief Sachin Pilot was appointed as his deputy in a ceremony that turned into a show of strength for Opposition unity.

G ove r n o r K a lya n Singh administered oath of office to Gehlot at the historic Albert Hall here. Pilot took oath as a minister and was subsequently appointed as the deputy chief minister by the governor in the presence of a large number of leaders from various political parties.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, outgoing chief minister Vasundhara Raje attended the event.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav were also present.

6 killed, 147 injured in Separatists march against fire at hospital in Mumbai civilian killings stopped in J&K S r inag a r , D e c 1 7 (AGENCIES): Authorities on Monday imposed restrictions on people’s movement, detained separatist leaders and sealed the roads leading to Srinagar’s Badami Bagh Cantonment to prevent a march Kashmiri separatists had called to protest against the killing of seven civilians in south Kashmir on Saturday.

The seven were killed after security forces fired on civilians when they gathered at the scene of a firefight with militants and allegedly threw stones in Pulwama district’s Sirnoo village. The separatists had called for a three-day strike and asked the people to march towards the cantonment on Monday

in protest against the killings.

Three militants and a soldier were killed in the firefight.

Separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was put under house arrest when he tried to take out a protest march from his residence on the outskirts of Srinagar.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik was detained along with dozens of his supporters in central Srinagar when he tried to do the same.

The Army had called the march call an attempt to sabotage peace at Pakistan’s behest and advised the people against marching towards the cantonment.

Elsewhere in the Kashmir Valley, a complete shutdown

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was observed against the killings. The mobile internet was slowed across Kashmir to prevent mobilisation for the protests while train services from north Kashmir’s Baramulla to Banihal in the Jammu region were suspended. All examinations scheduled in the Valley were also postponed in view of the call for protests.

Shops and businesses remained shuttered and the traffic mostly remained off the roads. Additional forces were deployed at sensitive places across the Valley to prevent protests.

New Delhi, Dec 17 (AGENCIES): India will give financial assistance of $1.4 billion to the Maldives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, the biggest aid yet to the Indian Ocean island nation that is grappling with debt from a Chinese building spree.

Modi made the announcement after talks with Maldives’ new president, Mohamed Ibrahim Solih, who defeated the pro-China strongman Abdulla Yameen in a surprise election result in October and is trying to reset ties with India.

During a five-year construction boom in the Maldives, China built a sea bridge connecting the capital, Male, to the main airport and is developing the airport itself, as well as building housing on land reclaimed from the sea.

But the fast-paced

New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS): With 460 leopard deaths, India in 2018 recorded the highest mortality rate of the particular big cat species across the country in the past four years, Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) said on Monday.

According to official records, a total of 431 leopards died in 2017. These included 159 incidents of poaching. Some 450 big cats died in 2016 and 127 of them were found poached. In 2015 (399) and in 2014 (331) died.

“The highest leopard mortality rate was recorded in Uttarakhand with 93 deaths. This is followed by Maharashtra (90), Rajasthan (46), Madhya Pradesh (37), Uttar Pradesh (27), Karnataka (24), and Himachal Pradesh (23) among others,” WPSI programme coordinator Tito Joseph told IANS. “Poaching, road accidents, and human-animal conflict are the main reasons for this increased mortality rate. In 2018 only, 29 leopards were killed by villagers and eight leopards considered to be maneaters were killed by the forest department workers,” he said. Mortality is a category

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Earlier, IANS reported that as many as 106 leopards died in the first two months of 2018 in forests across the country -- a number that conservationists and officials said was “alarmingly high”.

Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan had on March 9 informed the Parliament that his ministry was aware of the deaths and that the matter was being dealt with.

Leopards have been targeted by poachers for their hides and other body parts.

However, habitat loss, especially due to farming, has posed a new threat to them.

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Soon after he took over last month, Solih said state coffers had been looted over the past few years and warned that the country was in financial difficulty after racking up debt with Chinese lenders.

Solih said the Maldives and India had signed agreements to cooperate on trade, health and defence.

India would help improve Maldives’ security through joint patrols as well as aerial surveillance, officials said. India’s big worry has been that China’s expansive diplomacy in the region was aimed at securing an outpost on an island in the Maldives.

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Solih’s administration has said it is trying to find out just how much the country of 400,000 people owes China.

Modi said India stood ready to help the Maldives as a close friend and neighbour. “For Maldives’ social and economic development we are providing a financial assistance of $1.4 billion in the form of budgetary support, currency swap agreements and concessional lines of credit,” he said during a brief media appearance with Solih.

Both India and China have been trying to build regional influence in the Maldives and other Indian Ocean countries such as Sri

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The rescued people were sent to three nearby hospitals.

All the nearby hospitals have been alerted as the rescue operation is still on.

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Apart from the baby, whose death was confirmed by doctors, the BMC’s Disaster Management department said five others were killed, including two unidentified bodies recovered from the fire.

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Patel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Baghel, 57, and the two during the swearing-in ceremony at the Balbeer Juneja Indoor Stadium here.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were among the leaders from across the political spectrum who attended the event.

Others present included AICC general secretary Mallikarjun Kharge, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his deputy Sachin Pilot, Puducherry CM V Narayansamy, MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav.

Baghel’s predecessor Raman Singh was also present.

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXIX NO. 16 Dimapur, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018

Shadows of Rafale

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fter the Supreme Court shot down the petitions for ordering a court monitored probe on the Rafale deal on December 14, the government got away from being corralled in the dock mainly because the Court saw no wrongdoing in the procedure since it was led to believe that the CAG report was tabled in parliament and also discussed by the PAC. The opposition cried foul and accused the Modi government of having misled the Supreme Court that the CAG report was tabled in parliament and also discussed in the PAC. The government has now claimed that the Supreme Court had misread or misinterpreted the contents of the deal submitted by the government in a sealed envelope. The BJP lost no time in demanding that Rahul Gandhi apologise making allegations against prime minister Narendra Modi for wrong doing. Of course, the BJP also did not lose the opportunity to question the nationalism of the Congress party for debating a security-related matter in public domain.

The Supreme Court judgment was a blow to the Congress which BJP lost no opportunity in exploiting it to the hilt after its disastrous political setbacks in the recent assembly elections where it lost all three important Hindi belt states- Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan- to the Congress.

The Supreme Court ruling came as a face saver for the BJP after Christian Michel, who was extradited from Dubia just on the eve of the recent polls by CBI to expose the Gandhis, did not toe the line. A day after the Supreme Court verdict on the Rafale deal, Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of the CLP in Parliament , accused the government of “misleading” the Supreme Court by presenting wrong facts about the CAG report on the Rafale deal and demanded an apology from the government for it. The Modi government was accused of having misled the Supreme Court that the CAG report was tabled in parliament and also discussed in the PAC. The government has now claimed that the Supreme Court misread or misinterpreted the contents of the deal submitted by the government in a sealed envelope. According to an official source, the Government of India has filed the application to correct the statement in the Rafale judgment. The source said that the court’s statement was based on the sealed cover note in which certain points were set out. The government claimed that the court misinterpreted that the CAG report ‘has been placed’ - instead of saying ‘is to be placed’ - before the PAC.” The Congress parliamentary party leader Mallikarjun Kharge who is chairman of the Public Accounts Committee(PAC) cited the Supreme Court judgment, which claimed that the CAG report on Rafale pricing had been tabled in Parliament and discussed in PAC. Kharge challenged the government by demanding to know as to when has the CAG discussed the PAC report?

He reiterated that the report has not been tabled so far and so a wrong information was fed by the government to the Supreme Court. He said “ it is a matter of shock...government should apologise for misleading the Supreme Court by presenting wrong facts on CAG report before the Court.” He reiterated that only a joint parliamentary committee can investigate the alleged corruption in the Rafale deal. Perhaps only a probe by JPC will be logically, legally and constitutionally tenable.

DailyDevotion Test of Faithfulness We know that all things work together for good to those who love God… —Romans 8:28 It is only a faithful person who truly believes that God sovereignly controls his circumstances. We take our circumstances for granted, saying God is in control, but not really believing it. We act as if the things that happen were completely controlled by people. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, or object of our faith— the Lord Jesus Christ. God may cause our circumstances to suddenly fall apart, which may bring the realization of our unfaithfulness to Him for not recognizing that He had ordained the situation. We never saw what He was trying to accomplish, and that exact event will never be repeated in our life. This is where the test of our faithfulness comes. If we will just learn to worship God even during the difficult circumstances, He will change them for the better very quickly if He so chooses.

Being faithful to Jesus Christ is the most difficult thing we try to do today. We will be faithful to our work, to serving others, or to anything else; just don’t ask us to be faithful to Jesus Christ. Many Christians become very impatient when we talk about faithfulness to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more deliberately by Christian workers than by the world. We treat God as if He were a machine designed only to bless us, and we think of Jesus as just another one of the workers.

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

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n 1990 I went to the dreadful Kolkata zoo.

They had imported a young female giraffe from Africa- a practice we need to ban. She was utterly beautiful with her shy long lashed eyes and graceful ballet legs.

I named her Teesta – after the mysterious and spectacular river. The Kolkata zoo officials, and the Minister, promised that they were going to relocate the zoo to a large area where the animals would roam free.

Forty years and at least 4,000 deaths later I am still waiting. Teesta is dead.

The Kolkata zoo decided to relocate the giraffes to Odisha’s Nandankanan zoo.

They loaded them into an open truck and, while they were swerving, the animals hit their heads on an electric pole and died.

While the world concentrates on lions, gorillas and elephants being decimated, the giraffe is almost extinct. In the last 15 years the population of giraffes has fallen by 40%. Now there are less than 80,000 left and they reduce every day. Soon, they will only be seen in zoos and then it’s over.

The main culprits in this case are the Americans. Conservation groups, like Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society International, Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Natural Resources Defense Council, have been petitioning the government since the last two years to protect giraffes

under the Endangered Species Act. No action has been taken.

What difference will it make to giraffes in Africa if America passes the Act? Because giraffes are losing their lives to tribal hunting and to souvenir hunters in America, who kill through Fedex- one giraffe is killed for a carving to be made on its bone. On average, the U.S. imports about one giraffe hunting trophy a day, and the country has imported 21,402 bone carvings, 3,008 skin pieces and 3,744 miscellaneous hunting trophies from giraffes over the last few years . Giraffe bones are now the new ivory and the USA is heavily implicated in the trade with its large market for giraffe parts. Once China gets into it as well- then giraffes will be gone in six months.

Africa now has fewer giraffes than elephants. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature elevated the threat level to giraffes from “least concern” to “vulnerable” on its “Red List of Threatened Species” in 2016.

Giraffes are the tallest mammals on Earth. Their legs alone are taller than many humans. They can run at 35 miles an hour – but who can run fast enough to dodge a hunter’s bullet?

They are found in the dry savannas of Africa, where they roam on the open plains and sparse woodlands. They eat acacia leaves from the trees – their necks are far too short to reach the ground,

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018

Clock is now ticking but long enough to reach the tree tops.. Their long blue tongues help them pull down 45 kg of leaves and twigs daily. Their height, and eyesight, makes it easy for them to spot predators, like lions and hyenas, from far away. Their kicks are strong and sometimes lethal.

They bellow, snort, hiss and make flute like sounds.

Giraffes are social animals and roam around in groups of females and calves led by an adult male.

Giraffes can live till 40. The age can be found in the skin spots. The darker the spots, the older the giraffe.

Female giraffes give birth standing up. Newborns fall 6 feet to the ground but within 30 minutes they are standing, and hours later they’re able to run with their mothers.

The gestation period for a giraffe is 457 days, which is about 15 months.

Generally, only a single baby is born. A female giraffe averages around five calves in her lifetime About 50 per cent of all giraffe calves do not survive their first year.

This percentage of infant mortality goes up, depending on the number of lions in the area. Recent studies

show the death of 82% of young calves in lion rich areas.

Giraffes used to be distributed throughout North and West Africa, including the Sahara, and along the Nile. Today giraffes are only found in sub-Saharan Africa. From herds of 2030 animals in the 90s, their average herd now contains fewer than six individuals.

According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) the creatures are undergoing a “silent extinction”. A mass extinction of giraffes will disrupt ecosystems in Africa, with the lions next.

In the war torn areas of northern Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan the giraffe is seen as a large animal whose meat can feed a large number of people – and all it costs is a single bullet. The giraffe is dispersed over 21 countries, in state-owned national parks, private and communal lands. Out of nine subspecies fewer than 300 “West African giraffes” survive in Niger and less than 700 “Rothschild’s giraffes” are dispersed between Uganda and Kenya, according to a

report by wildlife experts at Elephant Without Borders.

Kenya is down from 30,000 mammals in the 1990s to 5,500 today.

The statistics of their survival now go from the species increasing in southern Africa over the last three decades, to decreasing by 95% in East Africa. The success in keeping giraffe numbers high in Southern Africa has much to do with the management of the wildlife areas.

In Tanzania the belief is that consuming giraffe brains and bone marrow could be a cure for HIV “freshly severed heads and giraffe bones can fetch prices of up to $140 per piece.”

Giraffe is a part of bush meat in a number of rural African communities. Their skin is used for clothing, shoes, bags, belts, hats and covers for drums.

Their hair makes jewellery, thread for sewing or stringing beads. Their tails are used to swish flies away and were originally symbols of authority.

Many African governments have restrictions on hunting, bans on hunting in National Parks, introduction of license systems, but people continue to hunt wildlife illegally. And American tourists pay local poachers to do the hunting and send them the parts through couriers, like the Minnesota dentist who had Cecil, the iconic and protected lion in Zimbabwe, killed in 2015 and the head shipped to him. The US is the largest importer of trophies in the

world.

As human populations grow, and increase agricultural activities expand settlements, and construct roads, the giraffe is losing its acacia trees, which are its main source of food. They face the risk of collisions with vehicles and power lines. But the species is mainly threatened by “trophy” hunters who travel to Africa to shoot their big-game quarry.

These hunters overwhelmingly come from the US. In August pictures emerged of a 12-year-old girl from Utah posing with her rifle beside the slumped body of a dead giraffe. “In the past few years, several gruesome images of trophy hunters next to slain giraffe bodies have caused outrage, bringing this senseless killing to light,” said Masha Kalinina, international trade policy specialist with Humane Society International.

Giraffes are one of the most iconic animals in the world, but the clock is now ticking for their survival.

America’s government must realize the importance of banning giraffe trophies.

An endangered species listing would place heavy restrictions on any American hunter wishing to travel to Africa and bring back a slaughtered giraffe.

ABCD books for children have all got G for giraffe. How will we explain to a child in ten years time what a giraffe was? To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@ nic.in, www.peopleforanimalsindia.org

Post-mortem Hornbill and its side effects

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he govt of Nagaland has branded the festival of hornbill as the festival of festivals or in other words mother of all festivals. The festival is to attract and promote the tourism in the state both domestic and international tourist, by showcasing our indigenous culture and traditions while exposing Nagaland to the rest of the world, putting Nagaland in the tourism world map. Hornbill festival is loved by the tourist because of its unique culture, traditions and lifestyle of different tribes with lash green enchanting and beautiful landscape also known as the Switzerland of the east. Hornbill festival started in the year 2000 the 19th hornbill festival which concluded recently where the inflow has increased as compared to last year, we have the potential to attract more tourists if our services are improved, exorbitant prices are controlled and our infrastructure is improved. The most important thing in promoting tourism and the first hand of contact the tourist come in contact is the taxi drivers.

As an old saying says “your first impression is your last impression”.

The taxi drivers plays a vital role to attract the tourist, we need to discipline our taxi drivers who charge triple the normal price during the Hornbill festival. So why are they made to hike the fare as they like, why does the KMC stay mum do we have a responsible administrators to regulate the taxi fare. We live in a state of anarchy where there is no value for money, and this is the massage that we are conveying to our tourist who pay a visit to the hornbill festival. We should fix it before it is too late which has no place in the civilized society. There is a story of a gentleman who paid a visit to Singapore for a business trip and landed in Singapore he picked a taxi had a fine conversion with the driver finally they reached the destination the taxi bill showed $12 but the driver charged him only $10 so to his surprise he asked him why the driver told him that the actual route will cost $10 but he had taken a longer route and said it is legally right to charge $12 but it is morally wrong and told him that we represent the country as country ambassadors by promoting the true values of our country. We should learn from those examples which make the most preferred destination in the southeast Asia. The second most important thing in the tourism industry is the hospitality industry considered to be the backbone of the tourism industry. The exorbitant hotel tariff rate low standard and the quality service provided does not tally with the value for money

they pay for it, with the number of increasing tourist year by year required budget medium and a few star hotels need to be in place to cater to the needs of tourist arrivals in the state. Thirdly we lack basic infrastructure facilities like the poor road connectivity, the only commercial city Dimapur and the state capital is full of pot holes and dusty no place to think about the rest. The Govt of Nagaland has spend Rs 5 crore for the hornbill festival this year, so what purpose does it serve spending huge amount of money when we do not have the required infrastructure in place, the smart city Kohima is voted to be one of the worst liveable city in India.

We should calculate how much revenue is earned in the process and not focus only on merry making by turning it into another Sodom and Gomorrah. The air connectivity that we have connects Delhi via Kolkata with no direct flight, it cost time and money since time is money the more money it costs the lesser the tourist in flow, and vice versa.

Fourthly the exorbitant prices at the food stalls double the amount of the normal price, we try to copy the international standard bur our quality and services does not match with the price being offered.

So what kind of massage are we conveying to our tourists. As per the customer relationship management it takes 12 positive incidents to make up one negative incident, also a delighted tourist will convey to 10 others and 10*10=100 means that one delighted tourist creates 100 tourist and vice versa. many comments in the print media by both the domestic and international tourist expressing their bitter experiences regarding the cab service, hotel tariff deplorable road condition, unfunctioning ATM, high food prices and many more so as per the calculation how many dissatisfied tourist have we created those tourist will never turn back at the same time they will share their bitter experiences to the other parts of the world. Tourist come and tourist go but hornbill remains, they are our guest we have the responsibility to make sure that our tourist are safe and secure, A good initative to the tourism police in its efforts for the safety of the tourist . As a responsible entrepreneur we should not look for short term gain but focus on long term benefits and easy money or short term gain has long term effects in our tourism industry. It is not only the tourism department but every individual owes the responsibility to make our state a perfect tourist destination Kahoto V Sumi, (27toka@gmail.com Eranipathar)

Re-enactment of the Nativity of Jesus

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hristmas celebration draws our attention to that blessed night when Christ condescended to assume human status and be born at stable in Bethlehem. This event is observed solemnly every year by Christians worldwide. Christmas makes the month of December spectacularly unique. The monotony that accompanies rest of the months ceases and festive atmosphere commences its enchantment. Stereo set booming all time favourite Boney M songs, churches and houses adorned with stars and glittering light, cakes ubiquitously sold in bakeries and grocery shops, carol singing with stringed instruments, Santa Claus planted tall with bulging belly and gift bag slung on shoulder standing at shopping mall entrance, alley, street and Churches, all indicating the significance of that glorious birth which divided human history decisively into B.C and A.C for all ages to come. However, all these in a strict sense fail to capture our imagination to immediately connect ourselves to historical birth of Jesus Christ. There is one popular tradition which depicts vividly making us to time travel back to Bethlehem, namely (crèche) or crib. It is a creative portrayal that re-enacts the nativity scene as recorded in the Holy Bible.

This supremely edifying tradition goes back to St. Francis of Assisi one of the most faithful sons of the Catholic Church. This marvelous recapturing happened in 1223 in the town of Greccio in Italy.

St. Francis desiring to witness the lowly poverty of Christ’s birth sent word to a religious nobleman Messier Giovanni Velitta in Greccio. Giovanni

provided an ox and donkey, with a stable, getting ready as Francis requested with great excitement for the coming celebration. When holy night arrived, Francis with many of his friars gathered around the first crib. The hay in the manger with live cattle around it, the vigil celebration began with joy. Great multitude of people came from various places, with lighted candles and torches to witness the Nativity scene being re-created by the saint.

Instantly this novel devotion to Infant Jesus grew very popular in that vicinity and gradually it spread throughout European continent. For almost three centuries (1223 origin of crib - 1517 Protestant Reformation) crib making took prominent place among all external preparations during Christmas. However, after the Reformation Movement, crib assumed pre-eminent place among southern European nations where Catholicism was prevalent, while Christmas trees were preferred choice for decoration in northern Europe where Protestantism thrived there. Over the centuries crib tradition spread beyond Europe finding place in all Christian churches worldwide. Here I would like to recap on how American Christians began crib making tradition, since Nagas had first American Baptist missionary to preach Christ to us. It was Moravian missionaries (Moravian Church Founder by John Huss in early 15th century began in the Kingdom of Bohemia in today’s Czech Republic.

He parted way from Catholic Church because he personal differences to some of the practices and doctrines.) The Sect also known as Unitas Fra-

trum (Unity of the Brethren) entered the USA in 1735 and established the first ever community in Pennsylvania, North America. Moravian missionaries from Germany brought with them the tradition of Putz making from their country.

Putz is a miniature landscape, with figures, structures and animals neatly arranged at the foot of Christmas tree. This tradition was found mostly among the Moravian till late 1800’s with simple handcrafted castles, landscape and other figurines. But with the Industrial Revolution in the first quarter of 19th century Christmas decoration manufacture

by Japanese manufacturers with expensive Christmas tree decorated with lights and Putz items flooded the US, from then on the machine made Putz items began to find place in Malls, homes and Churches in the US, perhaps that is how they brought some elements of Christmas celebration to our State. However, India is a home to first Century Christianity, we have St. Thomas who landed here to preach Christ thus, our Christian brethren in other parts of our country had these traditional practices for centuries. And they brought the traditions of Crib and Christmas tree to our State. Today, irrespective of denominations we have cribs dotting our churches, roads and even houses, Christmas trees in the middle of the villages with balloons and cards embracing wholeheartedly the good old practices to embellish our spiritual life, recreating Bethlehem in our own native land. Happy Christmas to all brethren in Christ Jesus.

Fr. Vonoto Justin Lazami

Extolling the Naga martyrs

“The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities”.

- Benjamin N. Cardozo How noble are your deeds? Man can never comprehend the pains and sufferings you have courageously endured. Fearless, even in the face of death; boldly embraced the cold hands of death with a satisfied smile - ‘For you gave your all, even the only most precious irreplaceable thing called ‘life’.

Lives, selflessly sacrificed to bring forth a better future for us (Nagas) and the generations that is to follow. There ain’t words to describe your audacious demeanour and bravery, such act of love for Nagalim, your land, and the

Nagas, your people, will never be forgotten but cherished with thankfulness and admiration. Lamentable, it is to have lost so many a patriots whose devotion and benevolence for Nagalim was uncompromising even when confronted by adversities conjured up by adversaries (hunger, thrist, pain and eventually death/murder).

Nagalim stands strong because of the tears, sweat and blood you have shed. Nagas will never forget the supreme exemplary sacrifice you have rendered. Thanking God for the gift of men and women like you who stood your ground. Kuknalim!

Ashing Muivah, (muivaha9@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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‘Triple Talaq Bill will ensure gender equality’

New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS): Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday sought to justify the ordinance on triple talaq and said the Bill that would replace it would ensure gender equality and the fundamental right of nondiscrimination to married Muslim women.

Prasad introduced in the Lok Sabha The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, commonly known as the Triple Talaq Bill, despite opposition from the Congress and amid din over the Rafale controversy and several other issues.

Soon after the House met for the day and then reassembled at noon after the first adjournment and during the post-lunch session, the Congress, the AIADMK and TDP members were on their feet.

The Congress members demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale jet fighter deal with a French

Ravi Shankar Prasad (File) company, accusing the government of misleading the Supreme Court with wrong information.

The AIADMK members wanted Karnataka to shelve its proposal to construct a dam across the Cauvery river at Mekadatu, while the TDP members raised several issues related to their demand for a special status to Andhra Pradesh.

Amid the din, Prasad sought permission from the Chair to introduce the Bill.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor opposed the Bill

No need for debate on Oppn’s PM candidate: NCP

Nawab Malik (File) Mumbai, Dec 17 (PTI): The NCP Monday said the Congress has declared that opposition parties would pick their prime ministerial candidate post the general polls if they were to form government, so there was no need to debate the issue.

The Sharad Pawar-led party’s remark came a day after DMK president M K Stalin pitched to make Congress chief Rahul Gandhi as the next prime minister of the country in case the opposition parties form an alliance government in 2019.

“The Congress itself has declared it (the prime minister) will be decided after the (Lok Sabha poll) results,” NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik said.

He said it was good to see that Stalin supported Gandhi. “But when the Congress and other likeminded parties themselves have talked about it, there is no point in debating the issue now. All parties will take the decision after polls,” Malik added. In a dramatic assertion, Stalin had on Sunday vowed to make Gandhi the country’s next prime minister and lauded the latter for having the ability to defeat the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre. He was speaking at a rally followed by the unveiling of a bronze statue of DMK patriarch and his father late M Karunanidhi at party headquarters Anna Arivalayam in Chennai.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram had earlier maintained that the party never “officially” said its president Rahul Gandhi should be the prime minister if an opposition alliance formed the next government. The decision on who would be the prime minister in the event of an opposition alliance winning next year’s Lok Sabha poll will be taken by its constituents, he had said.

claiming it was targeted at a particular religion and hence unconstitutional.

“The Bill conflates civil law with criminal law by criminalising a wrong form of divorce and by criminalising an act which is already legally null and void,” he said.

He said the Bill was an attempt at creating a classspecific legislation on the grounds of religion.

“Instead of focusing on the larger issue of mistreatment and desertion of wives and dependents, which affects all communities, the Bill is couched in terms of a specific religion and therefore is in violation of Article 14 and Article 15 of the Constitution,” he said.

Tharoor said the Bill had no procedural safeguards to prevent its misuse.

“This Bill is a misconceived Bill. It should not be brought to the House.

I do not believe the Parliament has the competence to

enact such a Bill,” he said requesting the Speaker to deny permission to introduce the Bill.

His objections were rejected by Prasad.

“The Bill was brought in as per directions of the Supreme Court to protect the rights of Muslim women. Several Muslim women suffered due to instant talaq.

“This Bill is in the nation’s interest and constitutional. The objections raised are baseless,” Prasad asserted while introducing the Bill.

The Bill says that any pronouncement of instant triple talaq by a Musim husband upon his wife, by words, either spoken or written or in electronic form or in any other manner, shall be void and illegal.

If anybody pronounces talaq upon his wife, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable for fine.

“As the Bill is pending

for consideration in Rajya sabha and the practice of divorce by triple talaq is continuing, there is an urgent need to take immediate action to prevent such practice by making stringent provisions in the law.

“Since both Houses of Parliament were not in session and circumstances existed rendering it necessary for the President of take immediate action in the matter.

“The legislation would help in ensuring the larger constitutional goals of gender justice and gender equality of married Muslim women and help subserve their fundamental rights of non-discrimination and empowerment,” Prasad said in the statement of objects and reasons for bringing the Bill. The government could not pass the Bill in Rajya Sabha during the previous monsoon session.

Later it issued an ordinance on September 19 making Triple Talaq a criminal offence.

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Non-BJP front will come into being post elections: Yechury

Sitaram Yechury (File) New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS): CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said a non-BJP front will come into being on its own post elections and that the opposition was united in its resolve to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Yechury’s observation came in response to a media query as to what he thought of the DMK proposing Congress President Rahul Gandhi as the opposition’s Prime Minis-

Cyclone ‘Phethai’ hits AP; triggers heavy rains Visakhapatnam, Dec 17 (IANS): Cyclonic storm ‘Phethai crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast in East Godavari district on Monday, causing widespread rains, uprooting trees, paralyzing transport and damaging crops.

‘Phethai’ made the landfall near Katrinekonda in East Godavari district with a wind speed of 80 kmph and re-emerged into the Bay of Bengal before crossing the coast between Kakinada and Yanam, an enclave of Puducherry in the same district.

Authorities heaved a sigh of relief as no loss of life was reported till Monday evening. The coastal region was also spared of major

losses, barring damages to standing crops over hundreds of acres.

According to officials at the Visakhapatnam Cyclone Warning Centre, the severe cyclonic storm weakened due to unfavourable environmental conditions and crossed the coast as cyclonic storm. After crossing the coast, it moved towards Odisha.

The incessant rains accompanied by gusty winds lashing the coastal district since Sunday inundated low-lying areas, disrupted electricity and drinking water supply throwing normal life out of gear. The cyclone also paralysed road, rail and air traffic in the region.

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Collector Kartikeya Mishra said electricity supply was disrupted to 99 villages and it would be restored soon.

Over 5,000 people from some coastal and low-lying villages were shifted to relief camps opened by the East Godavari district administration.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu monitored the situation from Real Time Governance Society (RTGS) control room in Amaravati.

Home Minister N. Chinna Rajappa, who monitored the situation at the Collector’s office in Kakinada, said all measures were taken to tackle the situation.

He said efforts were on to restore normalcy in the affected areas.

RTGS officials said the measures taken by the authorities and the precaution by people ensured that there was no loss of life and also minimised the property damage. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and naval helicopters were on standby along with 10,000 government employees as part of disaster preparedness.

Rescue workers were busy removing fallen trees, electric poles and debris from roads to restore vehicular traffic.

terial face.

“It is their (DMK) opinion. They are entitled to their opinion,” Yechury said.

He stressed that it was not necessary that the opposition must declare a leader of its alliance or an alliance must formally be formed before the Lok Sabha elections.

He said there was discontent among the masses who now wanted change.

“The results of the state Assemblies have

shown there is discontent among the people. This discontent is not likely to subside by the next Lok Sabha elections. People will vote for a change of government. Our tactic will be to maximise the antiBJP votes in coordination with the dominant regional players,” he said.

He slammed the Modi government for meddling with the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) autonomy.

“The government is eyeing the RBI reserves to keep the Current Account Deficit in control as well as to give sops ahead of elections. But in doing so (extracting the reserve money), it is playing with fire,” he said.

Yechur y said that sensing instability in the country’s central bank, the foreign capital will take a flight and that will prove further disastrous for the economy which is already in a bad shape.

EGI asks Kerala to revoke ‘restrictions’ on media

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): The Editors Guild of India (EGI) has condemned a recent Kerala government directive which it said imposes “undue restrictions” on the media, and called for the order’s revocation.

A controversy erupted over the Kerala government issuing guidelines on media’s interaction with the chief minister, cabinet ministers and celebrities within the Secretariat and other public places. According to the circular issued by Additional Chief Secretary Subrata Biswas, the chief minister and ministers would inform the Public Relations Department (PRD) in advance, if they are planning to interact with media at public venues. The Guild, in a statement, said that the circular issued by the Kerala state Home Department on November 15 is a “brazen attempt” at restraining the movement of media persons while they are discharging their professional duties. It urged the state government to revoke the circular without any delay. The circular prevents the media from approaching the chief minister, other ministers and higher officials except through the Information and Public Relations department of the state, the Guild noted.

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New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): Dengue cases in Delhi have mounted to 4,704 this year even with the onset of winter when conditions become unfavourable for the breeding of mosquito larvae, a municipal report said Monday.

At least four people, including a minor boy, have died in the city due to the vector-borne disease this year till December second week.

Three of the victims were identified by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) as Aman Tiwari (13), Sanskriti (21) and Gagan (23).

The report said the total number of cases of dengue in the national capital had mounted to 4,704 till December 15.

At least 117 of these have been recorded in December, while 1,062 dengue cases were reported in November and 1,114 in October, the report said.

Also, 473 cases of malaria and 164 of chikungunya have been reported this season, it said. Of the 4,704 dengue cases this year, 374 were recorded in September, 58 in August, 19 in July, eight in June, 10 in May, two in April, one in March, three in February and six in January.

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Mumbai, Dec 17 (PTI): The Indian rupee Monday recovered by 34 paise to close at 71.56 against the US dollar as forex market sentiments were driven by the country’s narrowing trade deficit in November as also smart gains in domestic equities.

Besides, the American currency’s weakness against its major rivals globally helped the rupee further its gains.

According to commerce ministry data, India’s trade deficit came down to USD 16.67 billion in November 2018 from USD 17.13 billion in October this year.

At the Interbank Foreign Exchange, the rupee

outside banks trying to cope with rationing of currency.

One Harinder Dhingra had approached the Central Information Commission (CIC) after he failed to get a satisfactory response to his RTI application seeking to know the total number of newly introduced Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes printed by the RBI between November 9 and November 30, 2016.

The currency printer told Bhargava that the very nature of currency printing and allied activities call for “utmost exclusivity and confidentiality” as such vital information pertaining to overt and covert features of the note, its raw material, printing, stocking, transport details etc and these cannot be shared with the public at large, lest this result in proliferation of counterfeit cur-

rency and economic chaos.

It also claimed disclosure of the data would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, economic interests of the country and hence, such information is exempted from disclosure under Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act. Rejecting the arguments, Bhargava said the data of total number of currency notes printed daily is not so sensitive as to attract exemption provisions under Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act as it relates to a past event. It cannot be presumed that its disclosure would lead to divulging the other non-disclosable information pertaining to printing of currency notes like raw material, printing, stocking and transport details, he said.

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The said investment made by the LIC will adversely hamper its own abilities to pay its insurance holders.”

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TeamLease estimates said Except SBI, 20 per cent of total employees in PSBs now fall in the category of clerks. Only SBI has around 45 per cent employees as clerks.

“Going forward, the plain vanilla generalist recruitment will give way to specific niche, strategybased hiring,” the business daily quoted Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, CEO, Syndicate Bank as saying. Syndicate Bank is recruiting 500 people this financial year.

“We need new type of manpower as they will be put in new areas like digital marketing and stressed asset recovery. Remunerations are also attractive at the first three entry levels compared to foreign and private lenders,” Mahapatra added.

the 51 per cent stake”.

The petition had stated, “The said investment will be made from the funds of 38 crore policy holders of the LIC who have invested

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hiring for specialised functions like wealth management, analytics, strategy, digital banking and customer services.

“State-owned banks are turning competitive after battling mammoth bad assets,” the publication quoted Sabyasachi Chakraverty, business head – banking & financial services at TeamLease as saying. “The need is to change the culture of PSUs to drive business, and this has been seen in their hiring patterns. They are now focusing on hiring talent in line with new age as well as private/multinational lenders. This, in turn, should yield results over a period of time,” he added Banks are now hiring more officers and few clerks. The ET report citing

past made several attempts to have a bank of its own, but its endeavours had “failed” as “nothing fructified”.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for LIC, had also said it has applied for a banking licence.

Senior advocate Sandeep Sethi, representing the bank, said that consent of employees was not required while changing the status of the company by government’s dis-investment.

IDBI, in which the government holds 85.96 per cent stake, had posted a net loss of Rs 2,409.89 crore in the quarter ended June 2018. It had posted a gross non-performing asset (NPA) of about Rs 57,807 crore.

The association, represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan, had claimed that the change in shareholding was not in public interest as it “exposes the investments made by the public in the IDBI and corrodes the ability of the LIC to pay back its policy holders since it will have to invest an amount of Rs 13,000 crores to acquire

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New Delhi, Dec 17 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : S t a t e owned banks like State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank and Syndicate Bank are likely to hire one lakh people in the current financial year to match new-age banking requirements and grow their business, the Economic Times reported citing staffing firm TeamLease Services.

According to Team Lease estimates this is more than double the number they hired in the last two years. Barring lateral hires, PSU banks collectively hired 95,000 in last two years for positions like clerk, management trainees and probationary officers, the business daily said.

According to the report, PSU banks will be

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the LIC move to acquire 51 per cent stake in the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI).

Justice Vibhu Bakhru rejected the petition by the All India IDBI Officers Association, which had opposed the move of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) on the ground that change in shareholding could take away the public sector bank status of IDBI. The association was concerned that taking away public sector status of IDBI could affect the employment conditions of its staff.

LIC had earlier told the court it wanted to acquire 51 per cent stake in the IDBI as the state-run insurance company has been toying with the idea of having banking operations since 2000.

LIC said it had in the

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Recapitalisation has continued for both public and private sector banks.

“We note that more needs to be done to recapitalise public sector banks in general. In our view, the RBI’s Prompt Corrective Action to rebuild capitalisation at distressed banks is appropriate given the fundamental issues these banks face,” said S&P in a report on the Indian banks.

Resolution of stressed assets is likely to occur within the next 12-18 months, particularly given the new bankruptcy framework and courts. “We view this system as a positive step to reduce the time and potentially increase recoveries associated with stressed assets.”

“We believe the restrictions on the RBI’s authority to reform governance of public sector banks as a weakness in its mandate.

The central bank has demonstrated a willingness and ability to reform governance at private sector banks, which we see as a healthy check-and-balance that supports accountability and renewal of leadership.”

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): The note printing subsidiary of the RBI has failed to explain how disclosure of data on Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes printed after demonetisation will affect economic interests of the state, the CIC has noted ordering its disclosure.

The Bhartiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran (P) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), claimed that the printing of currency and related activities cannot be shared with people as it will result in “proliferation of counterfeit currency and economic chaos, it observed.

The matter was being heard

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They were replaced by new Rs 2000 and Rs 500 currency notes but their erratic supply saw empty ATMs and long lines of people

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New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): Gold prices fell by Rs 190 to Rs 32,000 per 10 gram at the bullion market Monday, owing to slackened demand from local jewellers amid a weak trend overseas.

On the other hand, silver prices remained steady at Rs 38,400 per kg in restricted activity.

Traders said tepid demand from local jewellers and retailers at domestic spot markets due to end of wedding season and a weak trend overseas, mainly weighed on the precious metal prices. Globally, gold fell 0.07 per cent to USD 1,238.20 an ounce, while silver traded a shade higher at USD 14.64 an ounce in Singapore. In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity dropped by Rs 190 each to Rs 32,000 and Rs 31,850 per 10 gram, respectively.

said.

opened higher at 71.84 a dollar and soon gathered momentum to touch a high of 71.51.

The domestic unit, however, pared some gains and settled the day up by 34 paise at 71.56 a dollar.

On Friday, the rupee had dropped by 22 paise to close at 71.90 against the US dollar.

Fo r e x d e a l e r s attributed the rupee gains to the greenback’s weakness against some currencies overseas and improving macro picture in form of narrowing trade deficit numbers.

Heavy buying in domestic equities also helped trading sentiments in the forex market, they added.

Equity benchmark Sensex continued its winning streak for a fifth straight session Monday. The 30share BSE Sensex closed at 36,270, showing a rise of 0.85 per cent or 307 points.

Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty ended at 10,888, a gain of 0.77 per cent or 83 points.

Brent crude, the international benchmark, was trading at USD 60.89 per barrel Monday, higher by 1.01 per cent.

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regional peers, and a robust institutional culture. But sustained and intense external pressure from the Indian government risks eroding these settings over time and could also undermine the long-term financial stability in the country,” said S&P. This is particularly a risk because the central bank was focusing on four R’s - Recognition, Recapitalisation, Resolution, and Reform - to restore the health of the financial sector, it said.

“In our opinion, the RBI’s actions in recent years have materially improved accountability and transparency in the banking system, since asset quality reviews were introduced by former governor Raghuram Rajan.

However, this is off a low base and continues to face headwinds,” it said.

Recognition of stressed assets significantly improved following the RBI’s circular on February 12, 2018, which eliminated previous schemes for restructuring.

“In our opinion, this simplified recognition and associated provisioning for stressed assets,” the agency

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Singapore, Dec 17 (PTI): Indian government’s “sustained and intense” pressure on the RBI could “undermine” the hardfought improvements in the banking system over the past few years as well as the longterm financial stability in the country, S&P Global Ratings warned on Monday.

In par ticular, S&P Global Ratings views as credit negative the circumstances leading to the recent resignation of RBI Governor Urjit Patel.

“We await any changes to banking system regulation at the next RBI board meeting in January 2019,” said the agency, days after Patel resigned as Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) amid talk of a face-off with the government over autonomy and independence of the central bank.

At this time, it sees no material change in the central bank’s level of independence, especially with regards to its adoption and implementation of prudent policy.

“The RBI has traditionally shown greater independence than many

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North Korea warns on US sanctions

Donald Trump nd Kim Jong-un. (File)

Washington last week added three senior North Korean officials to those subject to sanctions over human rights abuses, including Choe Ryong Hae, who has been considered a righthand man to Kim. In a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, the North said Trump had repeatedly expressed his desire to improve relations with Pyongyang, but the US State Department was “bent on bringing

the DPRK-US relations back to the status of last year which was marked by exchanges of fire”.

DPRK is the acronym for the North’s official name.

In recent months highranking US politicians including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had “almost every day slandered the DPRK out of sheer malice”, added the Sunday statement by the policy research director of the foreign ministry’s

Institute for American Studies. Using sanctions and pressure “to drive us into giving up nuclear weapons” would be the “greatest miscalculation”, it added, and would “block the path to denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula forever”.

A second summit between Trump and Kim -who exchanged personal insults and threats of war throughout 2017 -- is expected to be held next year, with the US leader facing criticism over the planned talks since North Korea has taken few concrete steps to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

Pyongyang has long said it needs the weapons to deter a possible US invasion, and has spent decades developing them, at a heavy cost in both resources and the imposition of multiple sets of UN, US, EU and other sanctions.

But on Monday its nuclear assets were conspicuous by their explicit absence from coverage of

the seventh anniversary of the death of Kim’s father and predecessor Kim Jong Il, on whose watch Pyongyang carried out its first two nuclear tests.

Alongside extensive coverage of commemorative events across the country, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the mouthpiece of the ruling Workers’ Party, published a lengthy editorial lauding Kim Jong Il’s efforts to secure a “firm military assurance for peace and prosperity”.

A year earlier, the same newspaper praised his “immortal feat” in building a “Juche nuclear power state”.

Its front page was dominated by a large picture of soldiers and officials including Kim paying their respects at his father’s mausoleum, a sprawling palace on the outskirts of the capital.

It was the leader’s first public activity in two weeks after visiting a shoe factory in Wonsan earlier this month.

No IMF loan to Pak to repay Chinese debt: Congressman which has been cut by the current Trump administration is unlikely to be restored soon.

Sherman said that last week, he has raised with the Trump administration the issue of IMF loan to Pakistan.

He spoke on this issue during a Congressional hearing with David Malpass, Under Secretary of Brad Sherman (File) Treasury for International Democratic Congressman Affairs.

“I’ve shared with him Brad Sherman, who in an address to a dissident the concern that any IMF Pakistani leader also said that the US aid to Pakistan

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The Molungkimong Students' Union take great pleasure in felicitating two of our members for their achievement in Academics, on being conferred the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy.

1. DR. IMTIMANGYANG, S/o. Mr. Medemkaba.

Degree awarded by University of Delhi, for his Ph.D Thesis titled - "Religious Beliefs and Practices Among the Ao Nagas of Molungkimong Village, Nagaland" under Department of Anthropology.

2. DR. TALILULA, D/o Late Dr. Purtongzuk.

Degree awarded by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, for her Ph.D Thesis titled - ''A Study of Wawa Menü as Theatre in the Ao Oral Tradition" under Department of English.

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The NST Colony Union, Wokha Town felicitates MISS GRACE W. EZUNG, D/o. Wonimo Ezung for winning the prestigious Miss. Nagaland, 1st Runners-Up in the 19th Hornbill Festival 2018.

May Almighty God continue to bless her with good health and wisdom in her future endeavour.

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Bu dap e s t, D e c 1 7 (IANS): About 10,000 people have been rallying over the weekend in the Hungarian capital here against new labour laws, which have been labelled “slave laws” by opponents, media reported.

According to the new rules, companies could demand up to 400 hours of overtime a year and delay payment for it for three years, the BBC reported.

The crowds had marched towards parliament and the state TV headquarters, in what was the fourth and largest protest since the laws were passed last week.

Police had to fire tear gas to disperse protesters near the TV station.

The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the labour reform would benefit workers as well as companies who need to fill a labour shortage.

Sunday’s demonstrations were led by trade unionists and students and the event was dubbed “Happy Xmas Prime Minister”.

Orban is being seen by his opponents as becoming increasingly authoritarian.

Such demonstrations have been rare in Hungary, where Orban’s policies enjoy widespread support, despite repeated condemnation from other EU nations.

Saudi Arabia slams US Senate vote as ‘interference’ Riyadh, Dec 17 (AFP): Saudi Arabia on Monday slammed as “interference” US Senate resolutions over its war in Yemen and critic Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, warning that the move could have repercussions on its strategic ties with Washington.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted on Thursday to end American military support for a Riyadh-led war in Yemen, and separately held Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for Khashoggi’s killing.

The largely symbolic vote dealt a fresh warning to President Donald Trump, who has staunchly backed the Saudi regime in the face of intense global outrage that analysts say has left the kingdom diplomatically weakened.

“The kingdom condemns the latest position of the US Senate that was based on unsubstantiated allegations and rejects the blatant interference in its internal affairs,” the foreign ministry said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency. On the Yemen measure, which more broadly attacks the president’s prerogative to launch military action, 49 Democrats or their allies voted in favour, along with seven Republicans, while another three Republicans abstained.

Mohammed bin Salman (File) The Senate also approved a resolution cond e m n i n g K h a s h o g g i ’s murder and calling Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, “responsible” for it.

The Saudi ministry warned that the kingdom would not tolerate any “disrespect” of its rulers.

“This position by the US Senate sends the wrong messages to all those who want to cause a rift in SaudiUS relationship,” the ministry said. “The kingdom hopes that it is not drawn into domestic political debates in the US to avoid any... significant negative impact on this important strategic relationship.”

A day after the Senate vote, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo again defended US ties with Saudi Arabia on national security grounds, saying the kingdom was a bulwark against common foe Iran.

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CONDEMNATION

The Dimapur Longjang Senso Telongjem (Dimapur Longjang Union) condemn the false allegation levelled by Sangtamtilla Village Council on one of its bonafide member Mr. ALEMNUNGSANG (Longjang) on 10th December, 2018. It has come to the knowledge that he was forcily abducted by the Village Council (Members) from his house and illegally detained in the Council Hall. The Village Council members were armed with Spears and Daos in a belligerent and aggressive mood. Thereafter he was threatened with dire consequences and coerced to execute a Bond. Therefore the Longjang Union Dimapur shall leave no stone unturned to seek justice for a member of its Union who has been made to undergo immense mental and physical agony during his abduction and detention by the Village Council of Sangtamtila.

The Dimapur Longjang Union further appeal to the law enforcing agencies to complete detail inquiries and investigate on the strength of FIR lodged by the Victim/Complainant.

(Y. AMONG JAMIR) President

(LIMASANEN) Gen. Secy.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

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REJOINDER

In response to the rejoinder published by Hokato Vusshe on 13th of Dec 2018, the Sangtamtilla Village Council (SVC) clarify that: 1) The Sangtamtilla Village Council (SVC) had lodged a complaint against Hokato Vusshe on 5th April 2017 to the Office of Deputy Commissioner Dimapur on illegal land occupation by Hokato and party.

On learning that the said land allegedly claimed by Debu Sharma of Tilla Bosti, the matter was required to be referred to Debu Sharma and accordingly the Council decided to withdraw the complaint lodge against Mr. Hokato and party. The claim made by Hokato and party asking for his clarification over the land has no right at all and therefore the question of lodging complaint lodge against Mr. Hokato and party did not arise at that time.

2) The so called disputed land falls 500 metres inside the Sangtamtilla Village boundary as given in the settlement of land memo No. L.S/i/44 of 10/4/1953 and L.S/45/D dated 10/4/1953.

3) The land lease agreement allegedly claimed by Mr. Debu Sharma is completely without the knowledge of Sangtamtilla Village Council, whereas Debu Sharma has admitted himself in presence of Deputy Commissioner that he did not inform nor he submitted the land lease agreement Xerox copy to Sangtamtilla Village Council, therefore the land lease agreement has been revoked.

It may be stated during the attempt made by Hokato and party to occupy the said land, Mr. Debu Sharma had encouraged the Sangtamtilla Villagers to chase out the illegal attempt to occupy the land.

It is surprising for a high ranking National worker to claim publicly that the land of Sangtamtilla Village falling clearly under Nagaland State is a part of Karbi Anglong District Assam, which clearly shows the level of his Nationalism.

It is for the reader/public to analyze the truth.

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age countries not to repay bad loans.

“The idea that Pakistan would turn to its own people and vilify a man who helped us destroy Osama bin Laden, does not speak well of the future of US-Pakistani relations.

Our aid has been cut to Pakistan.

I do not think it will be restored to major levels until the Dr (Shakil) Afridi issue is dealt with,” Sherman said in his keynote address to the conference.

MOLUNGKIMONG STUDENTS' UNION

OFFICE OF THE ELUMYO STUDENTS' UNION The Elumyo Students’ Union would like to extend its heartiest gratitude to Er. Orenvungo S Ovung, SDO, Dept. of Power, Wokha, Nagaland, for his contribution towards Electrification of ESU Office cum Library Hall at Elumyo Village.

The Union further prays that Almighty God continue to grant good health and bless him with wisdom in his future endeavour.

Senjumbeni P Tsanglao Eshanthung Ovung President, ESU Gen. Secretary, ESU

loan to Pakistan cannot be just a convenient way to repay China. China has engaged in a debt trap.

We’ve seen it in Sri Lanka.

We’re seeing it in Africa. If the Chinese do that, then China has to learn that sometimes they just don’t get repaid,” he said.

“In fact, this is beyond just South Asia, I’m working on a legislation that I would call Chinese Debt Trap Relief Act,” Sharman said, adding that the legislation would encour-

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Washington, Dec 17 (PTI): A top US lawmaker has said that any IMF loan to cash-strapped Pakistan cannot be just a “convenient way” to repay its debt to China which has engaged many countries in a debt trap.

Pakistan is seeking USD 8 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bail itself out from a severe balance-ofpayments crisis that threatens to cripple the country’s economy.

The US almost has a veto power in the IMF, said

Hungarians rally against ‘slave laws’

On account of Rev. R. Sanga Keivom, Gen. Secretary, AGEI going public over the issue and the publication at Nagaland Post with the caption “For Public Information” appearing on 06-12-18, the undersigned’s Churches are constrained to issue this Rejoinder as clarification to the effect.

The whole issue relates to Placing of the Holy Bible at the Foundation stone during cornerstone laying ceremony of AG Church at Chukitong and N. Longidang Village as per the last Para of Page. 96 ‘PLACING THE STONE’ Volume 3, SERVICE FOR MINISTER AND WORKERS published by the Assembly of God Headquarter at Gospel publishing House Springfield, Missouri. (Ref. Library of Congress catalog card No.65-13222) followed by many Ministers in the past and present and which has been termed as “Unscriptural Practices” by Rev. Sanga Keivom.

As per the manual it says, “The minister, standing by the stone, may exhibit to the people the box which is to be placed in the stone, it may contain such article as a Bible, history of the church, articles of faith, names of pastor and boards, church roster, and any other documents which might be of interest to future generation. The minister, or one of the staff, may read a list of the articles to be deposited in the box.

The box shall be placed in the stone. Then, with the aid of the builder, the minister shall lay the stone in its place.”

Rev. T. Nzio Ezung, the Former Nagaland District Council Superintendent and Presbyter of Wokha Section, was deputed by Rev. Moses Murry on his behalf to administer the laying of foundation stone at Chukitong and N. Longidang AG Church. As a past practices, the Chukitong AG Church Pastor along with the deacons handed him the Bible to be placed at the cornerstone. Similarly, at N. Logindang AG Church, it was the Pastor along with the Deacons who had handed him the Bible. It may be noted that it was the Pastors and the Deacons board of both the Churches who in consultation with the church congregation had unanimously decided to adopt the practices as contained in the Ministers Manual. It was not a case where Rev. T. Nzio Ezung had imposed the said practices on them. Therefore, the question of Rev. T. Nzio Ezung practicing the act as unscriptural does not arise.

After the suspension order was passed, the N. Longidang Village AG Church Pastor and Church Board on three occasions had written to Rev. Moses Murry, General Superintend, AGEI, to revoke the suspension as no sin or unscriptural practices was committed. Thereafter, 6 member teams comprising the Head GB, Pastor and Deacon boards of N. Longidang AG Church, had called on Rev. Moses Murry at his residence, and had apprised him that it was the Church Members who should be held responsible and not Rev. Nzio Ezung as he performed the act according to their will.

Similarly, the Chukitong AG Church member comprising of 5 person of the Deacon Board, had met Rev. Moses Murry at his residence and had requested him to revoke the suspension of Rev. T. Nzio Ezung, as no fault had been committed or breached and that the Deacon Board took the responsibilities of what happened as it was them who had handed him the Bible to be placed at the foundation.

In spite of repeated appeals, it landed on deaf ears as Rev. Moses Murry was adamant and unwilling for amicable solution. Moreover, by declaring the practice as unscriptural practice, it has caused great disrepute to the AG denomination of the world. It is to be noted that as per the Constitution and By Laws of AGEI at Article 3, “the AGEI in faith and fellowship is related to the General Council of Assemblies of God throughout the world”. Therefore, Ministers Manual is also part and parcel of the AGEI. Moreover, at Article 7, section 1 Para C, all local assembly are self-governing churches who has the right to adopt its own affairs.

As such, adopting the practice of placing the bible at the foundation stone as envisaged under the Ministers Manual by both the churches is neither a sin nor is unscriptural practice. However, it was the Pastor and Deacons of both the churches had given him the Bible to be placed at the cornerstone then what wrong has he committed? Which amount to so much humiliation and disrepute with his credentials, i.e., Reverendship being suspended and removal as Pastor of AG. Church Wokha Town. Therefore, both the Churches own full responsibilities for the act and actions committed by Rev. T. Nzio Ezung.

It is humbly prayed that, common sense will prevail and that the matter be settled immediately by way of restoring the credentials of Rev. T. Nzio Ezung.

1. Ps. T. Ezanbemo Ngullie 1. Ps. T. Mhonbemo Kithan AG Church, Chukitong.

AG Church, N/Longidang.

2. Mr. Yanthungo 2. Mr. Zantsemo Ngullie, Former Church Secretary, AG Church Chukitong.

Church Secretary, AG Church N/Longidang.

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Seoul, Dec 17 (AFP): Nuclear-armed North Korea condemned the United States over its latest sanctions measures, warning Washington’s approach could “block the path to denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula forever”.

After a rapid diplomatic rapprochement this year that culminated in the Singapore summit in June between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, progress has stalled in talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal.

In Singapore the two men signed a vaguely-worded statement on denuclearisation, but have since disagreed on what it means.

Now Pyongyang is demanding sanctions relief and condemning US insistence on its nuclear disarmament as “gangsterlike”, while Washington is pushing to maintain the measures against the North until its “final, fully verified denuclearisation”.

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More ATMA reports from across the state

Tseminyu block

Peren block

Meluri block

Bhandari block

Longmatra block

Sakshi block

Niuland block DIMAPUR: In its efforts to reach out to the farmers and assist them, Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), conducted a series of activities across the state.

Following are some more reports of these activities from across the state.

Ts e m i n y u b l o c k : ATMA Kohima district under Tseminyu block in collaboration with subdivisional planning and development board (SDPDB) conducted a demonstration on ginger candy preparation and training on jam/pickle preparation in Rumesinyu village on December 8.

The demonstration

was led by the resource person Assistant Technology Manger (ATM) of Tseminyu block, Kebegi Kent.

The main objective of the programme was to create awareness for the farmers about the value addition of ginger and how to enhance their daily income. SDAO Tseminyu Vewheto Thorie, gave a brief introduction on the importance of value addition and how easily it can be generated. He also encouraged the farmers specially the women to focus on these programme.

Peren block: ATMA Peren block launched fishery farm school at Mhainamtsi village on December 17 with Wangan Phom,

EAC Jalukie as special guest.

A press release by AO Peren block, Mapeuheile Ndang, the special guest encouraged the fish farmers to go on large scale farming so as to sustain their livelihood and to improve the economy. He also requested ATMA to nurture the adopted farm school.

Mapeuheile Ndang AO & convener while chairing the programme, highlighted the activities of ATMA and also spoke on the concept of farm school.

Dibamleule was appointed farm school teacher. She expressed her appreciation to ATMA for recognising her work. Haimia, fishery

demonstrator also spoke on fish pond management such as selection of site for fish pond, soil type, fingerlings care and management, disease management and feeds etc.

During interaction, fish enthusiasts also shared their experiences, views and opinions. Special guest along with ATMA officials and farm school teacher visited fish ponds after the programme. Altogether 21 fish farmers attended the programme.

Meluri Block: ATMA Meluri block, Phek conducted training, demonstration, mobilization of SHGs, inauguration of farm school and a farmers award program at Lephori and Matikhru villages on December 8, with BTM Meluri block, Ekonthung and ATM Meluri block, Khriebelie and Kelvin Khamo as resource persons.

A press release from ATMA Phek, stated that, demonstrations on mushroom cultivation was conducted by BTM Meluri block, Ekonthung where he emphasized on the importance of mushroom growing and nutritional benefits.

He encouraged farmers to grow mushrooms as it would help them enhance their economy as home grown mushrooms are in

high demand. Various steps in growing mushroom were shown to the trainees.

ATM Meluri Khriebelie and Kelvin also conducted field demonstrations on growing garden pea, onions and carrots.

The resource persons demonstrated for the farmers how to make proper nurseries for growing the crops and also emphasized on the importance of line sowing, mulching, staking and harvesting indices.

Demonstration on vermiwash preparation and application of bio pesticides was also imparted to the farmers. A Farm School on tree bean was inaugurated at Lephori village. The best farmer award was given to Mesethsuluo of Matikhru village. Spawns, vegetable seeds and bio pesticides were also distributed to the farmers.

Bhandari block: ATMA Wokha Bhandari block conducted a mobilization of farmers group on December 7 at the office of SDO (Sc), Bhandari Town, sponsored by ATMA, Wokha.

A press release from ATMA Bhandari block stated that, SDO (Sc)-&-BTT convener ATMA Bhandari block, Chumbeni Odyuo was the resource person,

who spoke on the concept and importance SHGs, farmer interest groups, woman groups, commodity organizations etc.

Altogether 12 persons representing two SHGs attended the programme.

Meanwhile, ATMA Wokha, Bhandari block also conducted a training and demonstration programme on December 6 at Bhandari village, sponsored

by ATMA Wokha.

A press release from ATMA Bhandari block stated that training on package and practices of arecanut was delivered by Phyobeni Mozhui. Demonstration on radish cultivation was shown by ATM Bhandari block, Tracy Mozhui. Bordeaux mixture was demonstrated by ATM Bhandari, Thungchobeni Kikon. The program was chaired by SDO (Sc)-&-BTT convener ATMA Bhandari block, Chumbeni Odyuo. Altogether 19 persons attended the programme.

Longmatra block: ATMA Longmatra block, Kiphire inaugurated a farm school, mobilization of farmers group and training programmes from December 7 to 11.

A press release from Moakumzuk, BTM, Longmatra block stated that a Fishery Farm School

was inaugurated at Sanphure village on December 7 where John Sangtam was appointed as the farm school teacher. Chairperson Tsungrozen ATM, Longmatra block delivered a welcome speech and spoke on the concept of farm school and the importance of maintaining farm school registers.

Mobilization of farmers group was done at Ngoromi village on December 10. Resource person Imnawati ATM, Longmatra block highlighted the concept and importance of forming SHGs, FIGs, forming organizations and management of such groups.

On December 11 at Pungren village, training on package of practice for cultivation of cabbage was conducted by resource person Tsungrozen ATM, Longmatra block while another training program on mushroom cultivation was conducted by Imnawati ATM, Longmatra block.

Altogether 22 participants attended the programme.

Sakshi block: ATMA Longleng inaugurated, an “integrated farm school” at Auching village, Sakshi block on December 3. A press release from ATMA Longleng, BTM Sakshi Moisen stated that it was set up with an aim to impart

benefits of incorporating various types of farming for improvement and utilization of limited resources in the best way possible.

In a similar programme, demonstrations on “vermi composting” and “nursery bed preparation” were imparted at Auching village, Sakshi block under ATMA Longleng block. Resource person Athai AFA from Agriculture department, Longleng sensitized people about the benefits of using vermi composts as manure for growing plants. Demonstrations were also given on “semi-intensive piggery housing” by Dr Moisen BTM Sakshi block, ATMA Longleng. This exercise was to introduce to people the concept of semi-intensive rearing of pigs where a part of the pig shed could be left uncovered for health benefits of animals.

Niuland block: ATMA Dimapur, Niuland block conducted a farmers’ friend-&-BFAC meeting chaired by BTM Niuland block, Demalu Hasnusa at Muga Farm School on December 5 to discuss management practices and also joint visits to be conducted based on the Rabi crops which were distributed to some farmers during 2018-19.

Reports of Assam Rifles civic action programmes

Wokha battalion DIMAPUR: As part of its civic action programmes, Assam Rifles has been conducting various activities for the local population to help it become more capable, learn about diseases and to improve military and civil relations. Following are some reports of their activities.

Wokha battalion: Wokha Battalion of Assam Rifles conducted a lecture on skill development under K Y M C

the theme, “Today’s youth tomorrow future” at Bhandari on December 15.

According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), the lecture covered details of various employment options available for youth in the state and central government departments. Information on latest government schemes for business start-ups and list of skill development institutes in Nagaland was also covered. 20 youths at-

Medziphema battalion tended the lecture.

Medziphema battalion: Medziphema battalion of Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) conducted a lecture on the occasion of “Human Rights Day” in Longleng on December 10.

According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), the aim behind organizing the lecture was to spread awareness among participants about various inalienable rights that a

person is inherently entitled to. The rights of an individual as enshrined in the constitution in ‘Fundamental Rights’ was also covered. 65 locals attended the informative and motivational lecture.

Phek battalion: Phek battalion of Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) conducted “Free Medical and Check up Camp” at Pokhungri village, under Phek on De-

Phek battalion cember 10.

A press release from PRO HQ IGAR (N) stated that the aim of the medical camp was to provide free medical treatment and check up for local residents of Pokhungri and neighbouring villages, devoid of requisite medical facilities.

A specially constituted team under Assam Rifles medical officer examined 137 people that included 58 male, 43 female and 36 children. Free

medicines were provided to ailing patients. The medical team also visited houses of elderly people who were unable to attend the medical camp owing to general weakness. Apart from the medical assistance, basic knowledge on epidemic diseases and precautions was also imparted.

Mokokchung battalion: Mokokchung Battalion of Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North)

Mokokchung battalion organised a free medical camp on December 11 at Kobulong Village, Mokokchung.

A press release by Assam Rifles stated that a specially constituted team under Assam Rifles medical officer examined 126 patients of varying age groups. Medicines were provided for free according to diagnosed ailments and on the basis of what patients needed.

In another event, a friendly volleyball match was played between local youth of Chungliyimsen village and troops of COB Changki, on December 12.

AR stated that the match was organised to encourage the youth of the region to utilise the medium of sports and games for recreation, social interaction and overall growth of health and mind.

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Parl panel concerned over Chinese infra near Doklam

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): It took 13 rounds of diplomatic discussions between India and China to resolve the faceoff between their militaries in Doklam last year, according to a report by a parliamentary panel.

The report by the committee on External Affairs termed the Chinese intrusion at Doklam as a “blatant but unsuccessful attempt” to unilaterally change the status quo at the India, Bhutan, China tri-junction in Doklam, seriously affecting India’s security interests.

Complimenting the government’s handling of the face-off, the committee said it remained concerned that Chinese infrastructure built “uncomfortably” close to the tri-junction has not yet been dismantled. The committee, headed by former minister of state in External Affairs Ministry Shashi Tharoor, said Doklam was not a sovereignty issue for India as the disputed territory was Bhutanese, but nevertheless it was a major security challenge for New Delhi. “The committee

Shashi Tharoor (File)

would like to put on record their highest appreciation for the brave and timely action of our security forces which checked the PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) troops from continuing with their road construction activity in South Doklam,” the panel said in the report tabled in Parliament on Monday.

Troops of India and China were locked in a 73day face-off in Doklam from June 16 last year after the Indian side stopped the building of a road in the disputed area by the Chinese Army.

The impasse ended on August 28. The report quoted the then Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar as telling the panel on October 18 last year that 13 rounds of diplomatic discussions were held with China and they were

led by the Indian envoy in Beijing. Vijay Gokhale, who succeeded Jaishankar as Foreign Secretary in January, was India’s Ambassador to China during the Doklam crisis. The report said diplomatic communications with China began following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hamburg on July 7 last year on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

In the talks, India contested the Chinese claim of sovereignty in Doklam region, conveyed to Beijing that its action represented a significant change in status quo with serious security implications for India and amounted to unilateral determination of the tri-junction point, according to then foreign secretary.

The committee complimented the government’s overall handling of the crisis as it managed to send necessary signals to China that India will not “acquiesce” in its unilateral and forceful attempts to change the status quo at any of India’s territorial boundaries.

Chidambaram counters Jaitley on Rafale deal New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Monday rejected Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s argument against a JPC probe into the Rafale deal, saying the government and Parliament have overruled Supreme Court verdicts in the past, most recently in the SC/ST Act. His counter came as Jaitley, while ruling out referring the Rafale deal to a parliamentary panel after the apex court verdict against a probe, asserted a political body cannot review what the Supreme Court has ruled and called the Congress “bad losers”.

Chidambaram took to Twitter to say, “FM asks ‘Is a Committee of Politicians fit to review issues decided

by SC?’. When Government/Parliament amended the Atrocities Prevention

P Chidambaram (File)

Act to overrule the judgment of the SC, was it not a review by politicians of a judgment of the SC?”.

Chidambaram also said several aspects of the Rafale deal were not decided by the Supreme Court.

“Who will examine those issues? Or will they go unexamined?” he asked.

The Cong ress has been alleging corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal and demanding a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).

Institutions consume 50% of total electricity in India (From p-1) Chishi reminded bank representatives present at the workshop of the objective of the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held from December 2 to 14 at Katowice in Poland – to control the average global temperature from rising above 1.5 centigrade per year.

In his special address, Philip explained how replacement of incandescent filament bulbs with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs could save electrical consumption and even slash bills by thousands of rupees.

He pointed out that while an incandescent bulb consumed two units in two days, an LED bulb consumed the same unit in a month.

Taking Rs 5 as the cost of one unit of electricity, he said the bill for an incandescent bulb would be Rs 75 and Rs 7.5 for an LED bulb.

The IREDA AGM further pointed out that while an incandescent bulb lasted barely a few months, a good quality LED could last for even up to 10 years.

He also destroyed the argument that LED bulbs were costly by stating that the savings from LED

bulbs in one or two months more than made up for the price.

Urging people to think out of the box, Philip cited China’s mega ambitious project of releasing artificial moons over Chengdu city to do away with street lights. There were naysayers who questioned the viability of such an idea, but it was a step in the right direction nonetheless, he added.

Meanwhile, Roy explained why financing was an important aspect, adding that financing could provide the much-needed impetus to conserve energy on a large scale. He hoped that banks would lend a helping hand to various agencies working towards energy conservation.

Others sessions on Day-1 of the workshop comprised assessment of the participants on energy efficiency, which was followed by four technical sessions and a site visit to an energy-efficiency project.

The inaugural day of the workshop was moderated by assistant electrical inspector Kevingukhuo Suokhrie and vote of thanks was delivered by senior electrical inspector TK Halder. Around 13 representatives from several banks in Dimapur are attending the workshop.

Jaitley, while ruling out referring the Rafale deal to a parliamentary panel, said a political body cannot review what the Supreme Court has ruled and launched a blistering attack on the Congress.

The Finance Minister also said the CAG’s view of the deal is not relevant after the Supreme Court’s clean chit.

“After the Supreme Court has spoken the last word, it gets legitimacy.

A political body can never come to a finding contrary to what the Court has said,” Jaitley wrote in a Facebook blog, titled ‘Rafale - Lies, Shortlived lies and now further lies?’.

Both houses of Parliament witnessed uproarious scenes on Friday and Monday amid a demand for the JPC probe into the Rafale issue.

Delhi’s air quality ‘very poor’ New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI): The air quality in the national capital remained ‘very poor’ on Monday even as authorities predicted drop in pollution level with increased wind speed.

The overall air quality index or AQI for the national capital was 327, which falls in ‘very poor’ categor y, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data.

An AQI between 100 to 200 comes under ‘moderate’ category, 201 and 300 is considered ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’ while between 401 and 500 it is ‘severe’.

According to the Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting (SAFAR), the overall air quality of Delhi may improve due to increased wind speed.

“It may improve as wind speed is sufficiently high. Wind speed continued to remain a key factor to improve the air quality after rain washed away pollutants on Thursday. However, other factors are still unfavourable as relative humidity is high,” it said.

Candidates spent `1,061 cr in 2018 polls (From p-1) District-wise data, as per YouthNet report, Zunheboto district was the highest spending district followed by Mokokchung and Dimapur districts.

Pointing out that “clean election” campaign did not have much impact, the YouthNet leaders stressed on continuing the campaign. They explained that the main purpose of conducting the study was to initiate electoral reforms by creating accountable and transparent governance in the State.

Clarifying that there was no intention of maligning any individual or political party whatsoever, they emphasised that awakening of people’s conscience would help politicians to serve the society better.

Citing the recentlyconcluded Assembly election in Mizoram, Jakhalu remarked that it was quite shameful for a Christian State like Nagaland which did not even posses the

Gross violations of guidelines at Swadhar Grehs: NCW New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS): The National Commission for Women has found “gross violations” at 25 out of 26 Swadhar Grehs (governmentfunded shelter homes for women in difficult circumstances) that it inspected randomly.

Inspections were made on a random basis at five Swadhar Grehs in West Bengal, eight in Odisha, eight in Karnataka and five in Uttar Pradesh, and it was found that only one Swadhar Greh is running as per the guidelines of the scheme and the remaining 25 Swadhar Grehs are not running as per the guidelines. In Uttar Pradesh, Swadhar Grehs have been found to be grossly violating the principles and guidelines framed by the Central scheme.

An inquiry committee was formed by the NCW to carry out the inspection of

five Swadhar Grehs in the state’s four districts, namely Allahabad, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Varanasi.

“In certain cases, the Swadhar Grehs are not existing in the address mentioned in the authenticated list from the Women and Child Development with that of the State Government. It is necessary to initiate action in correcting the anomalies in the lists of Swadhar Grehs uploaded in the website by different agencies of the government,” the report noted.

Likewise, separate inquiry committees were formed for each state.

“The committees conducted inspection by examining attendance registers of both the inmates and staff, case files of inmates, condition of the infrastructure, facilities available to the inmates like counselling, medical aid, vocational training and so on.

EGI concerned Congress playing with over censuring nation’s security: Javadekar tabloid editor Lucknow, Dec 17 New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI): The Editors Guild of India Sunday expressed “grave concern” over the Meghalaya High Court censuring the editor of a leading daily in the state, saying the judiciary should stand by the media in helping it discharge its functions in an independent manner.

Shillong Times Editor Patricia Mukhim was censured by the high court on Thursday for publishing an article about a court order seeking perks and facilities for retired judges and their families.

Mukhim and publisher Shoba Chaudhuri, who appeared in person before Justice S R Sen, were asked to turn up before Chief Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir this week, even after they apologised for the article.

The Editors Guild of India, in a statement Sunday, expressed “grave concern” over the issue.

“It is unfortunate that an editor has been summoned by the Meghalaya High Court for what appears to be a factual news report,” the Guild said.

The Guild believes that the judiciary is one of the pillars of India’s democracy and should stand by the media in helping it discharge its functions in an independent and unbiased manner, the statement said.

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(PTI): Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar Monday charged the Congress with playing into the hands of those who are trying to undermine the nation’s security.

“The Congress is playing into the hands of those who are playing with the security of the country...

This is a sin. The party needs to apologise for the same to the country and the army,” Javadekar told news persons here.

Alleging that during the previous Congress governments no defence deal had been finalised without the involvement of middlemen, Javadekar said the Congress did not support the Rafale deal as no intermediary was involved in the process.

The union minister said after the Supreme

Prakash Javadekar (File)

Court’s clean chit, all the lies of the Congress party had been exposed.

“The Congress raised allegations against the BJP government in the Rafale deal as it (Congress) was itself neck-deep in corruption, whereas there has not been a single scam in the present central government’s tenure.

“The actual pain of the Congress is ‘how come their (BJP) shirt is whiter than ours’,” Javadekar alleged.

IAF flies first military plane with bio-jet fuel

Chandigarh, Dec 17 (IANS): In a first, experimental test pilots and test engineer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) flew an An-32 military transport aircraft using blended biojet fuel. The sortie was flown at Chandigarh on Monday morning. The project is a combined effort of IAF, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the Directorate General Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum.

“The IAF carried out extensive engine tests on the ground. This is now followed by flight trials using 10 per cent bio-jet blended ATF. This fuel is made from Jatropha oil sourced from Chattisgarh Biodiesel Development Authority (CBDA) and then processed at CSIR-IIP, Dehradun,” the IAF said in a statement.

BJP declares Rs 1,027-cr income in FY18: Report

New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS): TheBJP has declared total income of Rs 1,027 crore and expenditure of Rs 758 crore (74 %) during financial year 2017-18, while the Congress has not yet submitted its audited reports to the Election Commission (EC), as per a report issued on Monday.

The report was prepared by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) after analysing the total income and expenditure incurred by the seven national parties as declared in their Income Tax Returns submitted to the EC. It said the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) total income was Rs 51.7 crore, of which it spent Rs 14.78 crore (29 per cent). NCP is the only party to have spent more than its total income.

While declaring an income of Rs 8.15 crore, the party spent Rs 8.84 crore, an excess of Rs 69 lakhs, as per the report. The Trinamool Congress (TMC), CPM and the BSP submitted their audited reports in time while the CPI submitted it after a day, NCP submitted after 20 days, and the BJP 24 days after the due date, October 30.

conscience of “our pagan forefathers.”

She said election was the root cause of corruption as the candidates spent staggering amounts and then, after having been elected, they spent the first half of their tenure recovering the amount and second half in saving money for the next election. Hence, there was no development, she added. A YouthNet member said some voters did not take money but received assurances of government jobs that lead to backdoor appointments.

On the reason for spending such huge sums of money during the elections, the member explained that as most Naga people were poor and lacked jobs, many of them took the opportunity of elections to earn money.

Corruption was a vicious circle that included political leaders and public and hence everyone must wake up to bring change in the society, he added.

So while Rs 569.96

crore was spent in the 2008 election, Rs 937.80 crore was spent in 2013 polls.

YouthNet leaders explained that the study was a follow-up to similar studies carried out post 2008 and 2013 elections to assess how much money was spent during the elections to address election-related corruption in the State, which had become a deeply disturbing trend.

To carry out the survey, youth representatives from all the 11 districts came together to collaborate and then collected information from their respective districts on which this report is based.

The present system of election creates a vicious circle – wealth drainage during election, rampant corruption of cut/share system from funds meant for development, no development and no productivity, stagnation of jobs both in public and private sectors, unemployment and poverty and same system of election.

2 children dead after school wall collapses in Noida

Cab nod to amend Aadhaar laws

Noida, Dec 17 (PTI): Two children were killed and three others injured after a wall of a school building collapsed on them in a village here Monday, police said.

The incident took place around 10 am at a private primary school in Salarpur village under Sector 49 police station limits, they said.

“Two children have died, while three others were injured in the incident,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ajay Pal Sharma said.

The injured students were undergoing treatment at a local hospital, he said.

SSP Sharma and District Magistrate Brajesh Narain Singh met the families of the victims and took stock of the situation, officials said. The cause of the wall collapse is yet to be ascertained, they said.

NEW DELHI, DEC 17 (IANS): The Union Cabinet on Monday gave its approval to amend two existing Aadhaar laws giving preference to the people to voluntarily share the biometric identity card while obtaining new mobile phone connections and opening of bank accounts, sources said.

The Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved amendments which will be carried out under the Telegraph Act and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). “The authentication through Aadhaar is permissible for mobile phone SIM cards and banking purposes. But this shall not be the only option. Apart from Aadhaar KYC, passport and any other document the government may notify can also be used,” said the source. He said as almost 99 per cent people have been using Aadhaar, whichever entity will authenticate through the 12digit identification number, they will have to take care

of privacy and safety code as per the standard described by the government. The government’s move comes after the Supreme Court in September imposed restrictions on the use of Aadhaar by private companies.

The Supreme Court had struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act that made seeding of the biometric ID with SIMs and bank accounts mandatory, saying it had no legal backing.

To overcome this lacuna, the Telegraph Act is being amended to provide legal backing for the issuance of mobile SIMs through Aadhaar. Similarly, the amendment to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) will give individuals option to link their bank accounts to Aadhaar in the KYC option. The Cabinet also took decision to give parallel platform of digital authentication which has been named as “offline verification” through which authentication can be done by using QR code.

Mamata is now the only woman CM in India New Delhi, Dec 17(PTI): Mamata Banerjee, who is being seen as a major centre in the country’s political power-play ahead of next year’s general elections, is now the only woman chief minister in India.

The year started with three women chief ministers but after the recent elections, Banerjee is the only one to be in office. While, Vasundhara Raje Scindia lost power in Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir’s Mehbooba Mufti resigned in June after ally BJP withdrew support from her government.

“Each woman chief minister, including me has won elections and then lost.

Once you have lost, you have to leave. I am happy that Mamata Banerjee represents all of us women at the moment as the chief minister of Bengal and of course as a part of the opposition, she will have a role in the upcoming elections,” Sheila Dikshit, who was the longest serving chief minister of Delhi, serving from 1998 to 2013, told PTI. Banerjee, the eighth and current chief minister of West Bengal since 2011, is the first woman to hold the office. Known for her fiery speeches and keen political acumen, people close to her refused to comment on her achievements through the prism of her gender, but chose to highlight her political activism

Mamata Banerjee (File)

instead.

“She has led struggles for people’s issues over decades, including a historic 26-day hunger strike. She has served as a seven-term MP, a three-time Union Cabinet Minister and twiceserving chief minister. Her courage, conviction and accomplishments are her credentials,” said Derek O’Brien Trinamool’s Parliamentary party leader in the Rajya Sabha, listing Banerjee’s achievements.

Banerjee’s political rivals too seem to see her as a politician first and a woman later. CPI(M)’s lone politburo member Brinda Karat said that Banerjee’s style of governance did not benefit women.

“In politics it is not biology but ideology and political programmes that determine whether women as chief ministers are successful or not. What is of concern to me is that the number of women MLAs have decreased. There is no use having a woman on top and no women at lower levels of governance.

“As far as Mamata is concerned, her politics is one of authoritarianism and women cannot benefit from that,” she said.

Ahead of the 2019 elections, Banerjee is being seen as one of the major centres of power in the nation’s electoral politics.

She has floated the idea of federal front in an effort to bring the regional parties together to take on the BJP. From holding meeting in Kolkata with Telangana’s K Chandrashekar Rao, to supporting Arvind Kejriwal’s sit-in at Delhi Lieutenant Governor’s home, Banerjee is leaving no stone unturned.

Recently, the Congress even attacked her after she stopped short of congratulating the party or its chief for victories in the three Hindi heartland states.

Congress leaders said these victories are giving sleepless nights to Banerjee’s supporters, who want her to be the next prime minister.

Political analysts that PTI spoke with said that while as Bengal chief minister she has emerged as a force to reckon with, her role in the national level will depend on her final equation with the opposition leaders.

“Its too premature to comment on her role in the opposition. However she is and will always remain a significant player,” said a senior political analyst, who didn’t want to be named.

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Wickremesinghe abused power: Sirisena

Colombo, Dec 17 (PTI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who lost badly in his tussle for power with Ranil Wickremesinghe, is not ready to bury the hatchet with the triumphant Prime Minister, saying they do not see eye to eye on a number of issues, including on the release of LTTE political prisoners.

An embarrassed Sirisena, whose controversial actions plunged the island nation into an unprecedented political turmoil for nearly two months, reinstated Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister on Sunday, after sacking him on October 26 and appointing ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place and also dissolving Parliament, some 20 months early.

Sirisena was left with no other option following two separate decisions by the Supreme Court, which nullified his illegal moves.

Addressing the members of his United National Front, Sirisena, 67, reiterated that he does not like Wickremesinghe, despite having to reappoint him as the Prime Minister, Colombo Gazette reported.

He said that there were

Turkey grants citizenship to 72K Syrian refugees

Maithripala Sirisena (File)

several issues between him and Wickremesinghe, 69, since 2015.

He accused Wickremesinghe of abusing his powers as Prime Minister before Wickremesinghe was sacked in October. Sirisena claimed that Wickremesinghe even usurped some powers of the President.

He accused Wickremesinghe of failing to follow his instructions not to arrest monks and members of the military, the report said.

The President insisted that if members of the Sri Lankan military are to be arrested for committing war crimes, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam members and their supporters overseas must also be arrested for the same.

Sirisena also said that

if the former LTTE (Tamil Tiger) cadres are to be released on the basis they are political prisoners then the military officers in prison must also be freed.

President Sirisena’s prime ministerial appointee Rajapaksa led the military campaign to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009 when he was the president of Sri Lanka.

He said he and Wickremesinghe differed on several differences since 2015.

Sirisena said he offered to reappoint Wickremesinghe as the prime minister as he respects parliamentary traditions and democracy.

“A statement I made to say that I would not appoint Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister is a personal view of mine. That is my personal political view, but as a leader who respects Parliamentary traditions and democracy, I decided to invite Wickremesinghe and offered him the premiership, the President said. President Sirisena claimed that the power to name a Prime Minister is vested with the Executive President according to the Constitution.

interNational US praises Pak for promoting Afghan talks Washington, Dec 17 (IANS): The US has said that it welcomes Pakistans efforts to promote peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, a media report said on Monday.

The acknowledgement on Sunday came a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that Pakistan had arranged another round of talks between the US and Taliban officials but he did not say when and where, the Dawn report said.

But Voice of America (VOA) radio’s Dari service reported on Sunday that US special representative Zal­may Khalilzad is likely to meet Taliban representatives in Islamabad on Monday.

Previous talks were held in Doha, Qatar.

“The US welcomes any actions by the Pakistani government to promote greater cooperation, including fostering negotiations between the Taliban, the Afghan government, and other Afghans,” a US embassy spokesperson in Kabul told VOA. Khalilzad, had met, and would continue to meet, all interested parties, including the Taliban, to support a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan, the spokesperson added.

Pakistan releases Indian prisoner Ansari

He claimed that Ansari was an “Indian spy who had illegally entered Pakistan and was involved in anti-state crimes and forging documents.”

Ansari went missing after he was taken into custody by Pakistani intelligence agencies and local police in Kohat in 2012 and finally in reply to a habeas corpus petition filed by his mother, Fauzia Ansari, the high court was informed that he was in custody of the Pakistan Army and was being tried by a military court.

He entered Pakistan from Afghanistan, reportedly to meet a girl he had

befriended online.

A two-judge Peshawar High Court bench, comprising Justice Roohul Amin and Justice Qalandar Ali Khan, on Thursday heard an appeal filed by Ansari through his lawyer Qazi Muhammad Anwar.

Anwar informed the bench that both the Ministry of Interior and authorities of prison, where he was lodged, were completely silent about his release and deportation to India.

After hearing this, Justice Khan asked the Additional Attorney General to explain how would they keep the prisoner in jail after completion of his term.

An officer, representing the interior ministry, informed the court that a prisoner could be kept for one month while the legal documents were being prepared.

After knowing the legal position, the court directed the ministry to make all the arrangements within a month for releasing and deportation of the prisoner.

Malaysia files criminal charges against Goldman Sachs

Explosion at Greek TV station, no casualty

films and spent on luxuries such as diamond jewelry for Najib’s wife, a yacht, ar tworks and high-end properties. Goldman Sachs denied any wrongdoing in response to Malaysia’s criminal charges.

Thomas said $2.7 billion was stolen from three bond sales organized by subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs. The investment bank, he said, received $600 million in fees for organizing the bond deals, which was several times higher than industry norms.

Leissner and Ng conspired with Najib associate Low Taek Jho, a key architect of the entire 1MDB fraud, to bribe Malaysian government officials to use Goldman Sachs as the arranger of the bond deals, according to Thomas. They and Goldman Sachs knew that the money would be stolen, he said.

“Having held themselves out as the pre-eminent global adviser/arranger for bonds, the highest standards are expected of Goldman Sachs,” the attorney general’s statement said.

At h e n s , D e c 1 7 (IANS): A powerful explosion shattered windows and damaged the premises of a Greek television station early on Monday but left no casualties, police said in a statement.

The blast occurred at Skai TV Headquarters here around 2.35 a.m., which followed two anonymous phone calls that warned that explosions would take place in 45 minutes and it would not be a prank.

Police had evacuated the building and secured the perimeter, Efe news reported.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras issued a statement describing the incident as “a cowardly attack” against democracy, and vowed that its perpetrators “will not achieve their objective.” Security cameras detected two individuals arriving at the premises, leaving a backpack in front of the building and fleeing on a motorcycle, Police chief Aristides Andrikopulos said, adding there was no evidence pointing to any specific group.

Ankara, Dec 17 (IANS): The Turkish government has granted citizenship to a total of 72,000 Syrian refugees, Hurriyet daily reported on Monday.

Turkey issued citizenship to 36,000 Syrian adults and 36,000 children, said Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu addressing lawmakers in parliament.

Some 3,80,000 Syrian refugee babies were born in Turkey, the minister said, expressing his individual wish to issue them citizenship as well. “That will be the biggest investment in our brotherhood for another century,” Xinhua quoted Soylu as saying.

A total of 28,000 of them had the right to vote in the June 24 elections and 36,000 Syrian refugees are now eligible to cast votes in upcoming local elections in March 2019, he added.

Turkey has been hosting a large number of refugees since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 17 (AP): Malaysia filed criminal charges against Goldman Sachs and two former executives on Monday for their role in the alleged multibillion-dollar ransacking of state investment fund 1MDB. Attorney General Tommy Thomas said the government is seeking several billion dollars in fines from Goldman Sachs for breaches of securities laws that involved it making false and misleading statements to investors.

He said his office will seek prison sentences of up to 10 years for the former Goldman executives, Roger Ng Chong Hwa and Tim Leissner, who is married to model Kimora Lee Simmons. Malaysian and U.S. prosecutors allege that bond sales organized by Goldman Sachs for 1MDB provided one of the means for associates of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to steal billions over several years from a fund that was ostensibly set up to accelerate Malaysia’s economic development.

Islamabad, Dec 17 (PTI): Pakistan on Monday released Indian prisoner Hamid Nihal Ansari, who was detained by the country’s intelligence agencies in 2012 and subsequently sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a military court in 2015 for possessing a fake Pakistani identity card.

Ansari, a 33-year-old Mumbai resident, was lodged in the Peshawar Central Jail after being sentenced by the military court on December 15, 2015. His three-year jail term ended on December 15, 2018 but he was not able to leave for India as his legal documents were not ready.

On Thursday, the Peshawar High Court gave the federal government a month deadline to complete his repatriation process.

“Ansari is being released upon completion of his sentence and is being repatriated to India,” Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said.

Tommy Thomas (File)

The scandal, first reported by Sarawak Report and the Wall Street Journal, resulted in Najib and his ruling coalition losing power in a historic election defeat earlier this year. Najib himself is facing corruption charges.

He has said that more than $700 million that moved through his bank account was a political donation from the Saudi royal family, but U.S. prosecutors say it came from 1MDB, of which Najib was the top official.

U.S. legal filings that are part of a Justice Department civil case to recover assets bought with 1MDB funds allege the money was used to finance Hollywood

Hamid Nihal Ansari (File)

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018

China, Pak and Afghan sign MoU on counter-terrorism Beijing, Dec 17 (PTI): China, Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to cooperate on counter-terrorism and coordinate to call on the Taliban to return to the negotiating table and to move ahead the Afghanled and Afghan-owned reconciliation process, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Monday.

On December 15, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the second China, Afghanistan and Pakistan trilateral foreign ministers’ dialogue in Kabul where a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on counter-terrorism was signed between the three

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countries, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said here.

Wa n g m e t S h a h Mahmood Qureshi and Salahuddin Rabbani, his Pakistani and Afghan counterparts respectively as the three sides agreed to use the existing dialogue mechanism to enhance coordination and promote cooperation, Hua said.

“It is important for the three parties to enhance counter-terrorism cooperation and to enhance communication to move forward the trilateral cooperation,” she said.

The three sides will coordinate to call on the Taliban to return to the ne-

gotiating table, Hua said.

The three countries will seize the opportunity and move ahead the Afghan-led, Afghan-owned reconciliation process with Afghanistan playing the primary role, she said.

It was decided that Afghanistan and Pakistan will further improve their bilateral ties and engage in more sound interactions and resolve their differences through friendly consultations and avoid hurting bilateral ties, Hua said.

China is a friend to both Afghanistan and Pakistan and would like to play a constructive part to help improve their bilateral ties, the spokesperson said.

“The three countries have also decided to expand soft approach such as exchanges and training, and explore hard projects like livelihood and transportation and infrastructure,” Hua said.

It was also decided that the three sides will enhance regional connectivity and economic development within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, she said, adding that Afghanistan could benefit from regional cooperation projects including the multi-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor by leveraging its unique geographic advantages.

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 17th December, 2018 NOTIFICATION In pursuance of the Nagaland Public Service Commission Advertisement No. 3/2017 dt. 07.12.2017, Addendum/Corrigendumn dt. 12.03.2018 & 18.04.2018 and Corrigendum dt. 21.03.2018 & 08.10.2018, the Commission had conducted Written Examination and Viva-voce for Combined Technical Services Examination 2017.

On the basis of marks obtained in the Written Examination and Viva-voce, the Commission is pleased to declare the results of successful candidates in order of merit for the following post(s) under the Government of Nagaland: Item No. 1(a) & 34 8 (Eight) Posts of Medical Officer (Cl-I Gazetted) 7th DZIESEVOLIE KHRO 3953 under Health & Family Welfare Department 8th KEKHRIE LHOUSA 4102 Rank Name Roll No Remarks 9th KUMZUKENLA PONGEN 4011 st th 1 THEJAVITUO KIRE 2077 10 KHRIEZO KISO 4041 nd 2 VIKASHE SWU 2127 11th RULIN T 4110 B.T. Yimchunger rd 3 BENCHUMI Y HUMTSOE 2138 12th SUMO T 3988 B.T. Khiamniungan th 4 JOSIA SEMA 2075 13th LONGSHIMONG 4112 B.T. Chang 5th CHONGYA B L 2029 B.T. Khiamniungan th 14 ASUILE LEIGISE 4132 B.T. Zeliang 6th MENINGSILIU RENTTA 2024 B.T. Zeliang 15th AVILA 4047 B.T. Yimchunger 7th DOJINLA YIMCHUNGER 2134 B.T. Yimchunger 8th WEALLEN CHILA LOYEM 2114 B.T. Chang Item No. 33(a 2 (Two) Posts of Sub-Divisional Officer (Electrical Engg.) (Cl-I Ga-

Item No. 1(b) 1 (One) Post of Medical Officer (Cl-I Gazetted) under Home Department Rank Name Roll No Remarks 2015 B.T. Phom 1st YINGLONG H PHOM Item No. 1I 2 (Two) Posts of Medical Physicist (Cl-I Gazetted) under Health & Family Welfare Department Rank Name Roll No Remarks 5220 1st TSUKNUNGKALA PONGENER 5222 2nd AOZUNGLA LONGKUMER Item No. 2 4 (Four) Posts of Veterinary Assistant Surgeon (Cl-I Gazetted), under Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Department Rank Name Roll No Remarks 2178 1st VINOTO H AYEMI 2199 2nd KEVISENUO EVALYN VIZO 2152 3rd Y YAWING KONYAK 2179 4th VILIE MEDOZE Item No. 3 1 (One) Post of Asst. Director (Engineering) (Cl-I Gazetted), under Industries & Commerce Department Rank Name Roll No Remarks 4683 1st NUNGSANGINLA LONGKUMER Item No. 4(a) 3 (Three) Posts of Asst. Geologist (Cl-I Gazetted), under Geology & Mining Department Rank Name Roll No Remarks 2242 1st VILZOTO VALEO nd VITHOLETO NAGI 2258 2 2314 B.T. Yimchunger 3rd DEVENTHONG Item No. 4(b) 1 (One) Post of Junior Engineer (Drilling), (Cl-II Gazetted), under Geology & Mining Department

Rank Name 1st HEDU K. YEPTHU

Roll No 5088

Remarks

Rank 1st ILIHO

Roll No 4935

Remarks

Item No. 5 partment

1 (One) Post of Project Manager, (Cl-I Gazetted), under Election De-

Name

Item No. 6 3 (Three) Posts of Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil Engg.) (Cl-I Gazetted), under under PHE Department

Rank

Name

Roll No

Remarks

zetted), under Power Department

Rank Name 1st ARENLONG 2nd PULOVI SUMI

Roll No 4410 4351

Remarks

Item No. 20 & 33 (b) 8 (Eight) Posts of Junior Engineer (Electrical Engg.) (Cl-II Gazetted), under Power Department

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Name NUTHOZO HOSHI E LIMHACHAN KIKON ATSUNGBA SOR TIASUNEP JAMIR SHANCHOTHUNG ODYUO JUMEI Y KONYAK NGUVITHO KATIRY LIHORI SANGTAM

Roll No Remarks 4473 4479 4453 4509 4375 4497 B.T. Konyak 4431 B.T. Pochury 4503 B.T. Sangtam

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

Name Roll No Remarks LIMASUNEP JAMIR 3411 L. SUBENTHUNG HUMTSOE 2992 MECIESUNU SAKHRIE 3388 MHATHUNG T. TSOPOE 3010 M CHINGSANG PHOM 3110 B.T. Phom SELILA 3291 B.T. Sangtam SOTSULA 3201 B.T. Yimchunger

Item No. 21 & 27 (b) 7 (Seven) Posts of Agri. Inspector (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Agriculture Department

Item No. 22 1 (One) Post of Agri Marketing Inspector (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Agriculture Department

Rank Name 1st ZHAVINUO KEDITSU

Roll No 3114

Remarks

Item No. 24 1 (One) Post of Assistant Entomologist (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Health & Family Welfare Department

Rank Name 1st KHISEN JEMU

Roll No 2415

Remarks

1 LICHONTHUNG PATTON 3579 Item No. 25 & 28 (b) 2 (Two) Posts of Demonstrator (Chemistry) (Grade-III/ Grade-C), under Technical Education Department 3745 2nd VEZHOYI RINGA rd 3 BETO T JIMO 3617 Rank Name Roll No Remarks Item No. 18 1 (One) Post of Junior Engineer (Civil Engg.) (Cl-II Gazetted), under 1st LEMTSALA 2490 B.T. Sangtam PHE Department nd st

2

MENNYEI B PHOM

2462

B.T. Phom

Rank Name Roll No Remarks Item No. 27 (a) 3 (Three) Posts of Agriculture Officer (Cl-II Gazetted), under Ag3962 B.T. Yimchunger 1st DELIMLA K riculture Department Item No. 7 (a) 1 (One) Post of Sub-Divisional Officer (Agri/Civil Engg.) (Cl-I GaRank Name Roll No Remarks zetted), under Water Resources Department 1st DITOLYN SUMI 3292 Roll No Remarks Rank Name 2nd KHRIEZOSIENUO 3207 1st NEIZEVONO MOR 3463 3rd POTSULU THELUO 2998 Item No. 7 (b) & 17 2 (Two) Posts of Junior Engineer (Agri/Civil Engg.) (Cl-II GaItem No. 28 (a) 1 (One) Post of Demonstrator (Grade-C) (Civil Engg.), under Techzetted), under Water Resources Department nical Education Department Rank Name Roll No Remarks Rank Name Roll No Remarks 3541 B.T. Chang 1st SHARONSANGLA C CHANG 1st MAYANGCHILA JAMIR 3787 3543 B.T. Yimchunger 2nd C YAMUKAM YIMCHUNGRU Item No. 8 1 (One) Post of Vice-Principal (Cl-II Gazetted), under Labour & Employ- Item No. 28 (d) 1 (One) Post of Demonstrator (Grade-C) (Electronics & Electrical Engg.), under Technical Education Department ment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Department Rank Name Roll No Remarks 3974 1st NETENBA AJEM Item No. 9 1 (One) Post of Lecturer (Computer) (Grade-II), under ATI Rank Name Roll No Remarks 4946 B.T. Konyak 1st PETER KONYAK Item No. 10 2 (Two) Posts of Junior Engineer (Mechanical), (Cl-II Gazetted), under Public Works Department

Rank Name 1st PETEVI MEKRO 2nd R. LITHRISE SANGTAM

Roll No 5027 5091

Remarks

Item No. 11 (a) 2 (Two) Posts of Economics & Statistical Officer, (Cl-I Gazetted), under Economics & Statistics Department

Rank Name 1st T MHACHAN OVUNG

Roll No 4508

Remarks

Item No. 28 (e) 2 (Two) Posts of Demonstrator (Grade-C) (Civil Lab), under Technical Education Department

Rank Name 1st IMLITONGZUK JAMIR 2nd MECHIE-Ü KHUTSOH

Roll No Remarks 4080 3970 B.T. Chakhesang

Item No. 29 2 (Two) Posts of Assistant Conservator of Forests (Cl-I Gazetted), under Environment, Forest & Climate Change Department

Rank Name 1st CHUPITHO 2nd ILAMWANGBE ZEME

Roll No Remarks 2854 2909 B.T. Zeliang

Item No. 31 7 (Seven) Posts of Junior Soil Conservation Officer (Cl-II Gazetted), Rank Name Roll No Remarks under Soil & Water Conservation Department VISI YHOKHA 2741 1ndst 2 HEKATO THONGER 2750 B.T. Sangtam Rank Name Roll No Remarks Item No. 11 (b) 2 (Two) Posts of Inspector of Statistics, (Grade-III Non-Gazetted), 1st KHRIEBEILIE PEINYU 5229 under Economics & Statistics Department

Rank Name 1st TAJENYULA 2nd NCHIBAMNEU NEWMAI

2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

Roll No Remarks 2768 2735 B.T. Zeliang

Item No. 12(a) 2 (Two) Posts of Junior Lecturer (Cl-II Gazetted), under Soil & Water Conservation Department

Rank Name 1st NEIZOVOLIE MIACHIEO nd 2 LICHAMO J YANTHAN

Roll No 2806 5240

Remarks

Rank 1st 2nd Rank Name Roll No Remarks 3rd 1st KEVILETO ROTE 2851 4th Item No. 13 1 (One) Post of Planning Assistant (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Plan5th ning & Coordination Department Note: Rank Name Roll No Remarks 1st

NEITSHO-U KROME

2649

Rank Name 1st VETHITO NYEKHA

Roll No 3520

1.

Remarks

Item No. 15 2 (Two) Posts of Fishery Inspector (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Fisheries Department

Rank Name 1st NZANTHUNG T YANTHAN 2nd ANGUN WANGSHU

Roll No Remarks 2453 2450 B.T. Konyak

Item No. 30(a) 2 (Two) Posts of Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil Engg.) (Cl-I Gazetted), under NPWD

Rank Name 1st KEVIKA Z 2nd LONGKAI N CHEMDOK

Roll No Remarks 3963 3884 B.T. Phom

Item No. 19 & 30 (b) 15 (Fifteen) Posts of Junior Engineer (Civil Engg.) (Cl-II Gazetted), under Works & Housing Department

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

Name MHONJAN R LOTHA KUMUGHA K SHOHE WECIE LOMI KONATHUNG N KYONG LANKONTHUNG C JAMI TZURABA JAMIR

Roll No 3812 4002 4045 3880 4059 4091

Remarks

5230 2841 5239 2867 5247 3377

B.T. Konyak B.T. Khiamniungan

Item No. 32 5 (Five) Posts of Technical Assistant (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Information Technology & Communication Department

Item No. 12(b) 1 (One) Post of Assistant Research Officer (Cl-II Gazetted), under Soil & Water Conservation Department

Item No. 14 1 (One) Post of Inspector Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection

SHANGPONG KONYAK M ELITHUNG B ODYUO ZULUMEREN PURAKUM LONGKUMER TEIHOM MERCY KONYAK MUYONIU

2.

Name Roll No Remarks BOJIVIE KEVICHU 4889 NEIKETOUZO THORIE 4813 BENDANGJUNGSHILA LONGKUMER 4679 RENITHUNG T EZUNG 4805 H MONGNGAM 4817 B.T. Konyak

Due to the non-availability of eligible BT/I.I. candidates/candidates not securing the minimum qualifying marks, the following posts could not be recommended for appointment. The same posts shall be re-advertised in due course of time as backlog vacancies.

Item No. No. of Posts 1(a) 1 2 & 16 3 15 1 21 1 22 1 23 1 26 2 28(b) 2 28(c) 3 28(f) 3 28(g) 3 30(b) 1 32 1 Any selected candidate not intending to accept the post for which he/ she is selected may submit a Non-Acceptance Letter within 1(one) week from the date of issue of this notification.

(KHRUPI SOTHU), Secretary, Nagaland Public Service Commission, Kohima

Liverpool beat Man Utd to go top

L o n d o n, D e c 1 7 (Agencies): Xherdan Shaqiri came off the bench to make an instant impact with two second-half goals as Liverpool returned to the top of the Premier League with a 3-1 win over Manchester United at Anfield.

Liverpool took a deserved lead through Sadio Mane’s neat control and finish from a fine Fabinho assist (24), but Alisson was at fault for United’s equaliser as he dropped a cross into the path of Jesse Lingard, who finished with ease (33).

Though United improved in the second half, Liverpool regained their lead through sub Shaqiri as his shot from 12 yards deflected off Ashley Young and in off the crossbar (73), just three minutes after the Swiss had come on.

Shaqiri scored again just seven minutes later with another deflected effort from 20 yards, and the result means Liverpool are a point ahead of Manchester City after 17 games.

United remain sixth, 19 points off the leaders.

United have now also conceded more goals this season (29) than in the entire 2017/18 season (28), while Liverpool’s 36 attempts on goal against their old foes was the most by any team in the Premier League this season.

Shaqiri is mobbed by his team-mates after restoring the Reds’ lead against one of their fiercest rivals.

It was all Liverpool during a frantic start, as David de Gea was tested early by Roberto Firmino’s low effort from the edge of the box, tipping the ball away to his left.

Liverpool got the goal their start deserved midway through the half as Fabinho brilliantly picked out Mane in-between the United defence, before the forward took the ball down and tucked it under De Gea. B u t U n i t e d we r e handed an early Christmas present as Alisson spilled Romelu Lukaku’s simple cross from the left, allowing Lingard to turn the

ball home with ease from close range. Though Paul Pogba was once more an option from the bench, Jose Mourinho decided to introduce Marouane Fellaini at half-time in place of Diogo Dalot, and the Belgian proved handy in United’s own box by making several important clearances from Liverpool’s regular corners.

Liverpool nearly regained their lead shortly after the break as Firmino danced his way through the United defence, only to see his poked effort turned away low by De Gea, and though the visitors forced a few attacks, Liverpool

WSSA sports meet concludes

A player of Shokhuvi team receiving the trophy.

Dimapur, Dec 17 (NPN): Wester n Sumi Sports Association (WASA) and 20th M.B.E Zhuikhu Memorial Football Trophy annual sports meet culminated on Saturday at K. Hetoi village under Niuland sub-division. Akihito Zhimomi, president, Sumi Games and Sports Association graced the four days’ event as guest of honour. In his speech, Akihito exhorted the sportsmen and women not to simply play sports just for the sake of playing but set their life mark and achieve it through sports. He however said that one shouldn’t abandon their

studies for the sake of any sports.

The football final match, Shokhuvi team emerged as the champion after beating P. Vizheto Team 3-0 via penalty shootout after the match ended in a 0-0 draw.

The winner walked away with trophy and cash prize of Rs.75,000 while the runners-up team received Rs.50,000 and trophy.

WINNERS Badminton (Women) Winner: Nikhekhu Team Ru n n e r s - u p : Vi h o k h u Team Badminton (Men) Winner: Highway Area

Sumi Sports Association Team Runners-up: Phukato Team Volleyball (Women) Winner: Hezulho Team Runners-up: K. Hetoi Team Volleyball (Men) Winner: Vikuho Team Runners up: Kikheyi Team Football (Men) Winner: Shokhuvi Team (Aqhahuto Area) Runners-up: P. Vizheto Team (Niuland Area) INDIVIDUAL AWARDS Badminton Best Player Wo m e n : Ro s y Z h i m o (Nikhekhu Team) Men: Veto Ayemi (Pukhato Team) Volleyball Best Player Women: MughapuSwu (Ghowoto Team) Men: NisukaAssumi (Vikuho Team) Football Best Player: Tokugha Yeptho (P. Vizheto Team) Best Goalkeeper: Avika Sumi (Shokhuvi Team) Highest Score: Kakhevi Sumi (P. Vizheto Team) Hat-Trick: HebotoChophi (K. Hetoi Team) Discipline: Nikhekhu Team

did eventually get their second.

After De Gea flicked away Mane’s cross at the byline into the path of Shaqiri, the summer signing struck a low effort which deflected off Young and beyond the stretch of De Gea. His second goal came in similar circumstances, deciding to take on a shot from the edge of the box, before seeing it deflect of Eric Bailly this time and into the left corner.

Liverpool now go to Wolves on Friday Night while United are at Cardiff on Saturday in the Premier League.

Mitrovic named Serbian Player of the Year Belgrade, Dec 17 (Agencies): Aleksandar Mitrovic has been named Football Association of Serbia’s Player of the Year.

The 24-year-old has scored 31 goals in 2018 and scored against Switzerland at the World Cup. He reached a Nations League-high of six goals as Serbia were promoted to league B, topping group C4. Mitrovic joined Fulham on-loan in January, helping them gain promotion to the Premier League before making that deal permanent in the summer.

He’s scored seven goals this season and joins a list of former winners including Manchester United’s Nemanja Matic and former Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. The Football Association of Serbia tweeted: “The winner of the prestigious award #FSS “Golden Ball of Serbia” for the best player in 2018 is the attacker of our national team and player @FulhamFC, Aleksandar Mitrovic”

Chelsea draw Malmo in last 32 of Europa League Nyon, Dec 17 (Agencies): Chelsea have drawn Malmo, while Arsenal have been pitted against BATE Borisov in the last 32 of the Europa League.

Celtic, who were unseeded in the draw, play Valencia with the home leg scheduled for February 14 and the return match in Spain taking place seven days later on February 21.

Chelsea are away on February 14 and will host Malmo in the second leg at Stamford Bridge on February 21. Arsenal are also away on February 14 but their second-leg clash with Belarusian side BATE will be played at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday, February 20 at 5pm, a day earlier than the other Europa League last-32 ties.

UEFA rules stipulate that two teams cannot play in the city on the same night, so Chelsea - who also topped their group and play their second leg match at home - have been given priority to play on Thursday as they won last season’s FA Cup. Benfica were paired with Galatasaray, while Sporting Lisbon face an Iberian Peninsula clash against La Liga side Villarreal. Serie A side Lazio were drawn to play five-time winners Sevilla. The Europa League final takes place on May 29 at Baku’s Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan.

M.C Mary Kom

we have received immense support from BSI, SAI and the ministry. We have full faith in them and are sure that all the three bodies clubbed with AIBA will make the right decision for boxing,” the Manipuri icon asserted.

Mary Kom fought in her original 48 kilogram category after a considerable gap since she was concentrating on the 51kg division, since it is the lowest category at the Olympics.

“For the last three

years, I was fighting under the 51Kg category and it was only during this World Championship that I returned to my (48kg) category. It was a new experience as I fought against new opponents,” she said.

“This World Championship gave me a chance to assess the strengths and weaknesses of opponents in the 48 Kg category which I had lost track of since the past few years. Overall, it was a great experience,” she added.

“During the World Championships, I have observed those who are fighting in the 51kg category.

I have got all the videos ready and will watch videos of prospective rivals in the 51Kg weight category.”

Winning six world titles and an Olympic medal, that too in different weight categories, is not an easy task. But Mary has performed it with consummate ease throughout her illustrious career.

“Switching between

NZ in control 1st Test against SL

New Zealand’s players celebrate as they take three early wickets against Sri Lanka.

WELLINGTON, Dec 17 (Agencies): Tom Latham put any questions about his future in the New Zealand cricket team to bed with a maiden double century as he effectively batted Sri Lanka out of the first test on the third day at the Basin Reserve on Monday.

Latham finished 264 not out, a world’s best for an opener carrying their bat through a completed innings, as New Zealand were bowled out for 578, and holding a 296-run first innings lead, about an hour before stumps on the third day.

Tom Southee and Trent Boult then reduced the visitors to 20 for three at stumps, with Kusal Mendis, who is on five, and Angelo Mathews (two) to return on Tuesday to see if they can avoid an innings loss inside four days.

Despite the pace bowl-

ing fireworks towards the end of play, the third day belonged to the 26-year-old Latham.

The left-hander was concentration personified as he built on the century he completed on the Sunday and brought up his double with a controlled push into the leg side for a single.

He immediately broke into a grin as he trotted through to complete the run and become the 15th New Zealand batsman to score a test double century and first since Ross Taylor scored 290 against Australia in Perth in November, 2015.

His score is the sixthhighest for New Zealand, with Brendon McCullum’s 302, on the same ground against India in 2014, still the benchmark.

It was a welcome return for Latham, whose place in the side while

probably not under serious threat, had begun to be questioned after a lean run of form.

Since his last century of 177 against Bangladesh in early 2017 he has scored a total of 488 runs in 19 innings at an average of 27.11, almost 10 runs lower than his career average.

In that period he passed 50 just four times.

Latham played the anchor role to a fluent Kane Williamson on Sunday and continued to accumulate on Monday as the rest of the lineup took a more aggressive approach.

Only BJ Watling from the top seven failed to get going on a placid pitch, with Taylor and Henry Nicholls both scoring 50, while Colin de Grandhomme hit three fours and three sixes in his 49.

Jeet Raval (43) and Williamson (91) were both dismissed on Sunday.

Serie A: Roma battle back to beat Genoa 3-2

MILAN, Dec 17 (Agencies): Roma battled back for a 3-2 Serie A victory over Genoa to give beleaguered coach Eusebio Di Francesco a lifeline at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday despite goalkeeper Robin Olsen’s early blunder.

It ended Roma’s fivematch winless streak dating back to a 4-1 triumph over Sampdoria on November 11, and lifted Di Francesco’s side.

The hosts had got off to the worst possible start in a tense atmosphere in Rome when Swedish keeper Olsen let the ball slip through his legs and hands to allow Serie A top-scorer Krzysztof Piatek pounce in the 17th minute. Polish striker Piatek slid in for his 12th goal of the season to overtake Cristiano Ronaldo as Serie A’s leading scorer.

But goals from Federico Fazio and Justin Kluivert twice pulled Roma level before the break, with Bryan Cristante grabbing the winner just before the hour mark.

Di Francesco, 49, was reported to be set for the axe

Mary Kom determined to win Olympic gold New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS): Having created history by claiming a record sixth title at the women’s World Championships, legendary boxer M.C Mary Kom is determined to fulfil a life long dream by winning a gold at the 2020 Olympics.

“It has been my dream to win gold at Olympics ever since I started boxing. I have overcome many challenges in my life to become a world champion. I have already won gold medals at Asian Games, Commonwealth and multiple other medals in other world championships but now my vision is set at winning the gold medal at Olympics,” Mary Kom told IANS in an interview.

There has been speculation that boxing may not feature at the 202 Tokyo Games since he International Olympic Committe (IOC) is reportedly unhappy with the way the spot is being run by the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

Mary however, brushed aside such concerns.

“For the last two years,

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weight categories is not a one day task, it is a rigorous process but you learn to manage it with experience.

After competing in both 51Kg and 48Kg, I have learnt that the best way to beat the weight challenge is to know and understand the game of your opponents as everyone has a different style and technique. As per my opponents game, I plan my game,” she said.

Mary also asserted that better infrastructure and financial support is essential to improve India’s performance at the world level.

“Indian sportspeople have huge potential and talent but many sportspeople are not able to start competing while young due to the lack of sporting infrastructure, except perhaps in a few metros,” she said.

“But now that seems to be changing, substantial cash incentives for winning performances, besides subsidies for coaches, trainers and dieticians are all being involved in the preparation of athletes.”

Genoa’s Krzysztof Piatek and Roma’s Federico Fazio vie for the ball during an Italian Serie A soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Rome. (AP/PTI)

if his team failed to deliver a win against Genoa, who are now 16th. Roma suffered their second Champions League defeat in a row at Viktoria Plzen, although they still qualified for the knockout rounds.

But to the despair of the home fans in a rainy capital, a crouching Olsen failed to control Oscar Hiljemark’s shot from a distance, turning

to watch as the ball rolled towards the empty net before desperately scrambling back to try and save.

After the initial shock, Fazio pulled the hosts level just after half an hour, only for unmarked midfielder Hiljemark to give Genoa the advantage again two minutes later.

Kluivert pulled Roma level before the break with a

I want to kill racism: Pochettino

Zlatan hints at LA Galaxy stay

Lo n d o n, D e c 1 7 (Agencies): Mauricio Pochettino has branded racism “the worst thing in the world” ahead of Tottenham’s midweek Carabao Cup visit to Arsenal.

Spurs boss Pochettino says he finds any form of racism abhorrent and echoed the Premier League’s message ahead of the weekend that supporters ought to get behind their team “in passionate, positive and respectful ways”.

“Our fans, Arsenal fans, Chelsea fans, [fans] around the world, we need to celebrate for us,” Pochettino said.

“I don’t care if it is Arsenal fans, Argentina fans, Tottenham fans, Espanyol or Barcelona fans - I am against this type of situation. For me, it [racism] is the worst thing in the world and that is why I am completely against this behaviour.”

“I don’t want to be populist. I don’t care whether it is our fans or other fans. I want to kill racism. For me, it is like this. Our responsibility is to behave like this.”

fantastic individual goal.

Genoa thought they had a third after the break when another Olsen error allowed Darko Lazovic through, but his goal was disallowed because of Piatek’s offside position.

Cristante missed the chance for a brace when he hit the post, with Genoa remaining dangerous until the final whistle.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Los Angeles, Dec 17 (Agencies): Zlatan Ibrahimovic has dropped a heavy hint that he will spend a second season in MLS with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

The Sweden g reat joined Galaxy in March and proved a huge success in his first season in the United States, scoring 22 goals in his 27 appearances.

Ibrahimovic’s goal haul was enough to finish second in the MLS scoring chart, beaten only by Atlanta United’s Josef Martinez.

Since the end of his season, Ibrahimovic has been linked with a move back to Europe with former clubs AC Milan and

Manchester United among those mentioned as possible destinations.

Milan ruled out a return for the 37-year-old last week but it appears now he could well be staying in California.

Ibrahimovic posted on Twitter on Monday that he was “not done with you yet” and attached a video which closed with a Galaxy badge and included background commentary about all of the teams he was being linked with. Ibrahimovic’s goals last season were not enough to see the Galaxy into the MLS playoffs, missing out when they lost to the Houston Dynamo in the last round of games.

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Stage set for ‘The Dimapur Fest’

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dvent Christmas Night Carnival) organized

by Lengrijan Village Council (LVC) Dimapur, was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Sushil Kumar Patel, on December 17.

Speaking in a inaugural programme, DC greeted season’s greetings to the residents of Lengrijan and said night carnivals were meant for quality time with families and loved ones.

He also said that local entrepreneurs will get a chance to showcase their talents and will benefit from selling their products.

He informed the gathering that the district administration will also help and assist the Lengrijan village in whatever possible ways.

Maroon 5’s Super Bowl worries take new turn

Naga Hoho Dimapur.

Some of the main attractions of the festival include, Aero Modelling, Christmas Choral Competition (Open & Junior Categories), Photography Contest, Waste to Art,

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entrepreneurs and one of the special attractions will be this year’s Naga Chef winner Vikhuli Achumi.

The three day festival will have a series of well planned events which has been designed to keep the festival goers entertained.

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Thikadars Association, Dimapur went for its first Picnic Trip to Dhadi River on 15th Dec. 2018.

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Happy Golden Wedding Anniversary Mrs. S. Narola Lkr & Mr. J. Meren Jamir 18th December 2018

Dearest Apa & Oja, Today is the milestone for 50 Years of successful marriage, which reminds us of God’s wonderful blessing. May God continue to fill your life with more love, happiness and good wealth.

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OFFICE OF THE

CHUCHUYIMLANG LAISHIR TELONGJEM

P.B.O. Chuchuyimlang -798614, Mokokchung, Nagaland

CONGRATULATION

Dr. C. Alitemjen Longkumer (Son of Shri. S. Chuba Longkumer & Mrs. C. Limala Pongen) of Chuchuyimlang Village for being conferred the degree of Doctor in Theology (D.Th) in the Department of Communication under the Senate of Serampore, India.

The Chuchuyimlang Laishir Telongjem expresses our joy and appreciation, on receiving your hard-earned doctoral degree.

Best wishes for the future.

President Mr. T. Lima Longkumer, CLT

Secretary Mr. Senti Pongen, CLT

OFFICE OF THE

DIMAPUR KELINGMEN SENSO TELONGJEM FELICITATION

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

May this day be as sunny as your smile, and as beautiful as you are. You shine everyday but on this day, you will shine the brightest. May life bring you everything you are dreaming about.

Happy Birthday My Love.

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Best wishes from Nzan

50th Wedding Anniversary (18-12-1968)

Mr. W. HENYONG PANJA & Mrs. C. MONGYO

The Dimapur Kelingmen Senso Telongjem conveys its heartiest felicitation to Miss T. Temsunaro Tsudir, Naik 15th NAP (IR) Mahila Battalion D/o. Mr. & Mrs. Takoliba Tsudir for qualifying as 1 (one) Star Referee/Judge securing 89%, by Boxing Federation of India (BFI) The union further conveys best swishes for her future endeavours.

(T. MEREN JAMIR) (TEMSUNUNGSANG) President Gen. Secretary

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ith the NFL’s anthem controversy still swirling, Maroon 5 has a problem: Who will perform with them at halftime?

The band has approached several stars but can’t get a yes.

“Nobody wants to be associated with it,” an insider tells Variety.

Cardi B, Andre Benjamin, Mary J Blige, Usher, and Lauryn Hill were all in the mix, but none have confirmed.

Maybe the fact that it’s a free gig doesn’t help—or “maybe there just won’t be a halftime show next year and we can all agree to take an extended bathroom break at that time like we were going to anyway,” quips Vulture. (FoxNews)

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organised by The Better Dimapur Team in collaboration with Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), Naga Council Dimapur, GB’s Union Dimapur, Dimapur Urban Council Chairman Federation (DUCCF) and

time the festival will feature renowned artistes including Kate Shoo, Alobo Naga and The Band, KC Lights (Shillong), Ravator, DJ Sumika, Zuchobeni Tungoe, Meribeni Patton and Musik-A. Stalls will be set-up by various youths bodies, local

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tage is set for the much anticipated three-day festival, ‘The Dimapur Fest’ which begins today at Dimapur District Sports Complex (DDSC) from 10 a.m. onwards.

The event has been

Dance Battle, Tug of War, Bamboo Stilt Race, Best Santa Claus, Quiz Competition and Penalty Shootout.

The festival is slated to bring together around 90 colonies in Dimapur to participate in various activities wherein the cleanest colony award will also be given away.

With the people now gearing up for the upcoming festivities, the festival guarantees to provide healthy and family-oriented activities through the food stalls, games & sports and also making the festival an alcohol-free zone.

Organized for the first

OFFICE OF THE

Your Anniversary Day is our Thanks giving day to thank you for getting married, giving birth to us and being the amazing parents that you are.

From the bottom of our hearts, we wish and hope for nothing but the best for you two.

Be priceless and courageous For each other’s endless Love.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Dear Mom & Dad

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HAPPY 45TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY of Mr. Zaveru Chuzho & Mrs. Nephulu Chuzho (18/12/1973 – 18/12/2018)

May God bless you both abundantly with many more years together.

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Loving children in-laws & grandchildren.

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Progressive Peren organises half marathon

3rd Death Anniversary of our beloved

LATE THEJAKO PUCHO (21.09.1986 - 18.12.2015)

Participants of the half marathon with the organisers on Monday.

Dimapur, Dec 17 (NPN): A half marathon was organised by Progressive Peren in collaboration with Peren district administration on Monday.

The half marathon was flagged off from Pedi village and culminated at Peren town local ground, covering a distance of 21

kilometres for both men and women.

In the women’s category, Peheitei from Peren town emerged as the winner while Keyipeusile (Peren town) and Nengneihoi (Athibung Running Club) came second and third respectively.

In the men’s category,

Letginlung from Athibung Running Club came first while Pauheiko (Peren town) and Ichizuibe (Peren town) came in the second and third respectively.

Altogether 113 runners participated in the half marathon out of which 59 men and 20 women completed the race.

Our hearts still ache in sadness and secret tears still flow.

“We live our lives one day at a time.”

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We the family members extend and express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one who stood by us during the prolonged illness and sad demise of our beloved mother Qhutoli Chishi who left us for her heavenly abode on the 10th of December 2018. Though we could not thank each and every one individually and personally but we hope and pray that our Almighty God will bless everyone abundantly.

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Arsenal ‘working’ on transfers: Emery

the players to compete in healthy and sporting spirit.

The inaugural function was chaired by Zuthungbemo K. Ngullie.

Ajano M. Odyuo, youth director, LBDC offered the invocation prayer. Kikheto

Sumi, president, DNYO delivered welcome address. Nzanbeni Kithan presented a song while Pongjelewang, games and sports secretary, DNYO administered oath to the participating teams.

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FUNERAL SERVICE

1st Death Anniversary of LT. MEDO VIZO

“But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus”.1 Thessalonians 4:13-14.

It’s been a year since you left us for your eternal journey to Heaven on 18th Dec. 2017. We thank God for the opportunity of having you in our lives even for a short time. We are blessed to have been sired by such a great and wonderful man. We will always love and miss you in our hearts.

Until we meet again.

Loving Wife, Children, Grandchildren

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Funeral service of Late Jasahie Angami, S/o Dihu Rupreo, Venue: Sovima Village Date: 18th December 2018 Time: 11:00AM

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DEATH ANNIVERSARY LATE MRS. POTSOLU LOHE

Just a year ago, on this day, the 18th December 2017, you left us for your eternal peace.

Since then, your presence as the mother, the grandmother and the great grandmother has become just a memory to reminisce. Your absence is immense.

Loving children, grand children and great grand children

We, the bereaved family members of Late S. Alila (Chuchuyimlang), would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, churches, friends, neighbours, and well-wishers who supported us physically, morally and financially during her prolonged illness till the time of her demise on 11th Dec. 2018.

We have been immensely blessed and indebted to everyone. Our sincere prayers that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY of Lt. Orenimo Tsanglao

Died on 18.12.2017 It has been a year since you left us for your eternal heavenly home. We miss you more than ever, your guidance and your love. The love you gave still warms us, the way it always will.

We love you and will forever remain alive in our hearts.

We deeply miss you Daddy.

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L o nd o n, D e c 1 7 (Agencies): Arsenal are likely to dip into the transfer market in January if performance levels drop off, according to head coach Unai Emery.

The Gunners 22match unbeaten run in all competitions was unceremoniously ended by Southampton at the weekend, leaving fifth-placed Arsenal three points off the Champions League places.

Emery is largely happy with the way in which his youthful squad have played this season but revealed Arsenal are assessing their transfer options.

Asked if January will be an important window for Arsenal, Emery said, “Only if we think the players can’t help us with a good performance.”

“January is not a good transfer window for this reason, but we are going to look and the club is working for transfers in January, but also we are in a [good] way. We are making progress with young players and giving them chances, and when we need to give them more chances to play and show their progress we are going to do that.”

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Dimapur, Dec 17 (NPN): The 20th InterKhel Football Tournament of Diphupar village organised by Diphupar Naga Youth Organisationcum-DCYSA commenced Monday morning at Diphupar village ground.

Hovishe Achumi, accountant, Rural Development Department graced the inaugural function as special guest.

Addressing the gathering, Hovishe termed Diphupar as a gifted village where different tribes live in brotherhood. Village as a whole must portray the same spirit of unity to other villages, he said.

Stressing on the development aspects of the village, Achumi was of the view that all must come together, encouraging one another and work collectively for all progress of the village.

Wishing the event to serve the purpose of promoting oneness, he lauded the organisers for organising the event as an annual meet and also encouraged

We miss you, Mummy, Daddy, Brother and Sisters.

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Loving husband, children, grand children and relatives.

Born : 03.04.1962 Died : 11.12.2018

Loving Family, Children & Grandchildren

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We the family of Late Viphrezo Xavier Suohu of Daklane Sector-III, Kohima, would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to relatives, friends, organizations and everyone who have helped and stood by us in every way through spiritual, physical, emotional and financial support during his prolonged illness till the time of his demise on 13th December 2018.

We convey our special thanks to : 1. Dr. Ato Rhutso and his Doctors and Nurses of KOHIMAS hospital, Kohima Nagaland.

2. Doctors and Nurses of ICU, Naga Hospital Authority Kohima.

3. Principal and Tutors, School of Nursing, Naga Hospital Authority Kohima.

4. Principal and Authority, Students (Donors), NCC of St. Joseph College Jakhama.

5. St. Francis De Sales Church, Kohima.

6. Angami Catholic Youth Association, of SFS Parish Kohima 7. Angami Catholic Women Born on : 20.06.1963 Association of SFS Parish Died on : 13.12.2018 Kohima 8. Fathers Association of SFS Parish Kohima.

9. Nagaland Rural Bank Employees Association.

10. Nagaland Rural Bank Officers Association.

11. Daklane Youth Organisation.

12. New Market Youth Organisation.

Though we couldn’t thank you all personally, but pray that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Loving Wife, Children, Family Members and In-law.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

“Adonai gave, Adonai took, blessed be the name of Adonai”.

Job 1:21

Loving Wife, Children, In-Laws & Relatives.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the bereaved family of Late Dziesevituo Belho would like to convey our sincere and heartfelt thankfulness to all the individuals, churches, organizations, friends and well wishers who stood by us with prayers, material support, financial and physical assistance at the sudden demise of our beloved Late Dziesevituo Belho on 12th December 08-04-1957 to 12-12-2018 2018 With special thanks : 1. C.I.H.S.R, Dimapur 2. Town Baptist Church, Medziphema 3. Baptist Church, Khonoma 4. Green Hill Club, Medziphema We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every one of you personally. Our sincere prayers that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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12.03.1959 – 09.12.2018 We the bereaved family of Lt. Deacon Zholiho Savi (Rtd. Inspector, Fire Service) would like to express our gratitude to all those who stood by us during the prolonged illness and untimely demise of our father on 9th December 2018.

We specially would like to give thanks to:1. CRC Jakhama 2. Baptist Church, Jakhama 3. Angami Pastors & Deacons Christian Revival Association 4. Cross Wonder Church, Kohima 5. Sangtam Baptist Church, Kohima 6. GGCRC, New Delhi 7. Middle PWD Youth, Kohima 8. Doctors & Staff of K.P. Bethesda Hospital 9. Jakhama Union, Kohima 10. All ranks & files of Fire Service 11. Well wishers Though we are unable to thank each and everyone individually, we pray that our Almighty God will bless each one of you abundantly.

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Born : 07.06.1970 – Died : 13.12.2018 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2nd Timothy 4:7 We the family of Lt. Keneisanü Lüho wishes to express our deep appreciation and sincerely thank you for your expressions of sympathy during the prolonged sickness and ultimate demise of our beloved mother who left for her heavenly abode.

We offer our heartfelt thanks to Police Union Baptist Church, Kohima, Khuzama Baptist Church, Doctors and Nurses of N.H.A.K and Putuonuo Nursing Home, friends, neighbours and well wishers for providing emotional and practical support for us during our time of bereavement.

We are unable to thank each one of you individually but it is our prayer that our Almighty God will bless you all abundantly.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018

India staring at defeat in Perth Barcelona thump Levante 5-0

Australian players celebrate the dismissal of India’s Rahane on Monday. (AP/PTI)

Perth, Dec 17 (IANS): India were at 112/5 against Australia at stumps on the fourth day of the second test match on Monday, pursuing of a stiff target of 287, which appears achievable only in theory.

The visiting team’s

hopes were shattered with the departure of captain Virat Kohli for 17, off Nathan Lyon, who also accounted for Murali Vijay and has been the man largely responsible for Australia enjoying an upper hand in this match, reports Efe

news.

The Australian quicks were ruthless, as Mitchell Starc sent back Lokesh Rahul in the first over of India’s second innings for a duck, while Josh Hazlewood accounted for Cheteshwar Pujara not too

long after that.

Ajinkya Rahane was out for 30 off Hazlewood, almost putting the final nails in the coffin.

Rookie Hanuma Vihari was batting at 24, in the company of the explosive but reckless Rishabh Pant on nine.

In the morning session, Australia were at 190/4 in their second innings, taking a healthy lead of 233 runs.

Resuming the day at 132/4, overnight batsmen Tim Paine and Usman Khawaja started the proceeding on a positive note.

The duo played cautiously in the first hour and then started playing their shots.

Indian bowlers struggled in the first session, allowing both the overnight batsmen to continue batting till lunch.

Soon after the lunch break, Australia were bowled out for 243, setting India a target of 287.

Mohammed Shami grabbed four wickets in the second session while Jasprit Bumrah took the re-

maining two, getting them all out for 243, with the former recording a careerbest 65/6.

Usman Khawaja (72) was the highest scorer for the hosts. Skipper Tim Paine (37) also contributed handsomely.

Towards the end, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood forged a 36-run partnership in 38 balls for the last wicket to help their team post a challenging score.

Chasing the target, India lost two quick wickets in the form of Lokesh Rahul (0) and Cheteshwar Pujara (6). India were 15/2 at the tea break.

Skipper Virat Kohli and Murli Vijay were batting when tea was taken but soon after tea India lost three quick wickets.

Australia now need five wickets to win the second Test and level the four match series 1-1.

Brief scores: Australia 326 & 243 vs India 283 & 112/5 at stumps on Day 4 (Ajinkya Rahane 30; Josh Hazlewood 2/24)

Valencia, Dec 17 (IANS): A triple strike by forward Leo Messi helped Barcelona register a massive 5-0 win over Levante at Ciutat de Valencia stadium.

Barca coach Ernesto Valverde had to shift his deployment to 3-5-2 after Nelson Semedo sustained a knee injury earlier in the day and had to be scrubbed.

Despite the fact that it was Levante who played a better game and developed some good chances in the first 45 minutes, Barca took advantage of its two goals before to break to head for the locker room sitting pretty at 2-0 on Sunday night, reports Efe news.

The first tally came in the 35th minute on a strike by Suarez, assisted brilliantly with a cross

by Messi, and then the Argentine notched the second one himself just two minutes before the break, tapping the ball in between Oier Olazabal’s legs.

Levante came out in the second half with great

Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi celebrate after scoring a goal against Levante at the Ciutat de Valencia stadium.

intensity, putting pressure on goalkeeper Ter Stegan but it didn’t take Messi long to score his team’s third tally - his second of the night - in the 47th minute, with Suarez helping out.

It was Messi again for his third of the night in the 60th minute, with Suarez sending over a great crossing shot and then Arturo Vidal adjusting it back to Messi for an easy goal.

The final Barca goal came in the 88th minute, when Pique sank one of his own after Cabaco had been expelled 12 minutes beforehand, leaving Levante a man short.

The win leaves Barca in first place on the La Liga table in the 16th week of the Spanish tourney with 34 points, three ahead of Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, while Levante is in seventh with 22 points.

Man Utd to face PSG in CL round of 16 Ranji Trophy: Nagaland salvage draw against Uttarakhand

NYON, Dec 17 (Agencies): Manchester United have drawn Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16 of the Champions League, while Liverpool will face Bayern Munich and Tottenham will take on Borussia Dortmund.

Manchester City were drawn against Bundesliga side Schalke, meaning three of the four English teams will face German opposition. Cristiano Ronaldo will return to the city of Madrid, with Juventus drawn against Atletico.

Holders Real Madrid must overcome Dutch side Ajax, while Barcelona will take on Lyon and Roma will face FC Porto.

The first legs of the last-16 ties will be split over two midweek dates, on February 12/13 and 19/20, with the second legs played over March 5/6 and 12/13.

It will mark the first time United have faced PSG in a competitive match and Danny Mills feels Jose Mourinho’s side will find it difficult to beat the Ligue 1 champions, who were top scorers in the group stages with 17.

Correspondent

Kohima, Dec 17 (NPN): After a deficit of 350 runs in the first innings, Nagaland team managed to secure a draw and salvage a point against group leader Uttarakhand in their Ranji Trophy Plate Group fixture in Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun on Monday.

Abrar Kazi unbeaten century 157* and Nitesh Lohchab 44* helped Nagaland to reached 467 runs for 7 wickets (127 overs) in the second innings to con-

clude the match on the final day. But Uttarakhand will take three points on the basis of their first-innings lead.

Resuming the day at 182/4, Abrar Kazi unbeaten century and captain Rongsen Jonathan (64) guided the team to 467/7 in response to 557 all out (151.5 overs) in the first innings of Uttarkhand.

For Uttarkhand, Mayank Mishra took three wickets (3-82) and Malolan Rangarajan claimed two wickets (2-113) in the second innings.

Nagaland all rounder Abrar Kazi, a guest player from Bangalore with his century in the second innings was declared the man of the match. The team managed to score only 207 runs losing all wickets (59.4 overs) in the first innings.

While the Uttrakand scored a mammoth 557 leaving the batsmen an uphill task in the second innings.

A Rahman, team manager, Nagaland and secretary, Nagaland Cricket Association talking to this correspondent said, “our boys

did not lose hope even if defeat was staring in front.

They fought till the end with the strongest team of the plate group D Uttarkhand”. They are slowly adapting to multi days cricket, which is the real cricket, he said.

Talking on the experience in the first class cricket arena, he was optimistic that cricket will definitely be an upcoming game in the state of Nagaland as he observed that a lot of youngsters are following cricket from the interiors of Nagaland.

In five matches played so far, Nagaland have won a match, drawn one and lose three matches and have eight points in Group D of the Ranji trophy.

Up next Nagaland team will take on Bihar from December 22 to the 25 at Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna in round 7.

Brief scores: Uttarakhand 557 /Nagaland 207 & 467/7 (Abrar Kazi 157*, Rongsen Jonathan 64, Nitesh Lohchab 44*; Mayank Mishra 3/82, Malolan Rangarajan 2/113)

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