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Exit polls: Cong-BJP in tight finish MP, C’garh undecided ; Cong win in Raj, TRS in Telangana

NEW DELHI, DEC 7 (PTI): Exit polls Friday predicted a tight finish between the BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and a win for the opposition party in Rajasthan.

They also predicted that the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in Telangana will retain power.

M a d h ya P r a d e s h , Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan are all ruled by the BJP presently.

While Republic TV-Jan Ki Baat gave 108-128 seats to the BJP and 95-115 to the Congress in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh, India Today-Axis said the saffron party could win 102-120 seats as against 104-122 for the Congress.

However, the Times Now-CNX exit poll predicted a majority for the BJP in MP with 126 seats and gave the Congress a tally of 89 seats.

On the other hand, ABP News exit poll said the Congress is likely to get a majority by bagging 126 seats. The BJP, it added, would get 94 seats.

State govt sets up DPCA in all dists DIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): State government has constituted District Police Complaints Authority (DPCA) in all the 11 districts as per the Supreme Court directive and appointed four retired district judges as chairman vide order No.POL-I/ ESTT/17/2013 dated September 24, 2018.

The four appointed chair men include LK Achumi, retired district judge for Dimapur, Wokha and Peren; K Chophi retired district judge for Zunheboto and Tuensang; Veprasa Nykha retired district judge for Kohima, Phek and Kiphire and Lanu Walling (died after appointment) retired district judge for Mokokchung, Mon and Longleng.

OVERALL AVERAGE POLL OF Exit Polls

MADHYA PRADESH Total Seats: 230 Majority: 116 Rajasthan Total Seats: 199 Majority: 100 CHHATTISGARH Total Seats: 90 Majority: 46

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In the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly, exit polls broadcast by Republic-C Voter predicted 35-43 seats for the BJP and 40-50 for the Congress while the News Nation forecast a close race with 38-42 seats for the BJP and 40-44 for the Congress.

T i m e s N ow - C N X , however, gave a simple majority to the BJP in Chhattisgarh, saying it may win 46 seats while the opposition

NJCF opposes recruitment exams being held on Sunday

DIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): Nagaland Joint Christian Forum (NJCF) has opposed the recruitment examinations for social welfare department and taxes department, which fall on Sunday, December 9 and December 16, 2018 respectively.

In a press release, NJCF president, Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, said that if the exams were fixed by the central government, the state government could give good excuse on the ground that it was out of the state control.

However, NJCF said that knowing fully well that Sundays were worshipping days for Christians, the dates fixed were “intentionally done to violate (Cont’d on p-11) the religious rights of the candidates and defile the scanty of Sunday as workDIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): ing day.”

Public Action Committee (PAC) of NCD has convened an emergency meeting of the presidents and secretaries of 19 tribal hohos, DUCCF, BAN, DCCI, GBs Staff Reporter Union, and Naga Women Hoho Dimapur along with DIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): youth leaders on December Taking note of the high can8, 2018 at 11a.m. at NCD cer incidence in Nagaland, office. PAC has, therefore, and with around 75 percent informed all the responsible of patients travelling out of members to attend the meet- the state to avail treatment, ing without fail.

Eden Medical Centre (EMC) Dimapur has partnered with BLK Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi to launch BLK’s OPD services at Eden Medical Centre, to bring the best treatments available to Nagaland.

To announce its launch, a team of specialist doctors from BLK Super Speciality Hospital comprising of senior consultant and director for BLK centre bone marrow transplant, Dr Dharma Choudhary ; director and HoD for BLK institute for digestive and liver diseases, Dr Manav Wadhavan; and “The fact that Hornbill is consultant of surgical oncolalmost extinct makes the ogy, BLK Cancer Centre, Dr meat tastier.That’s why Bikash Gurung; along with it’s expensive.”

MD, Eden Medical Centre ,

PAC emergency meet

Congress may bag 35 seats.

ABP News said the BJP may get up to 52 seats against 35 of the Congress.

However, India TodayAxis predicted the Congress is set to end Chief Minister Raman Singh’s 15-year old reign by winning anywhere between 55-65 seats. The BJP, it said, may be reduced to 21-31 seats.

All the exit polls said the alliance of former chief minister Ajit Jogi’s Jan-

When the government does not act right in one area, the forum said it would add another burden in trying the fix the matter right, adding that dates fixed for the exams were re good examples of such act.

Reminding that the church had voiced out earlier to keep Sundays holy and sacred at all cost, NJCF said the government knowingly fixing the two exams on Sundays was unacceptable and has hurt the sentiment of the church.

Therefore, the Christian Forum has appealed to the chief secretary to reschedule the exam dates on any working days and not on Sunday. “This should be taken as a good example and we must from here on learn to respect the church and its sacred days,” the forum stated.

ta Congress Chhattisgarh (Jogi) and the BSP may win between three and eight seats, which may help him to emerge as a king-maker in the event of a hung house.

If exit polls differed in their projections for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, most of them predicted the Congress’ return to power in Rajasthan.

India Today-Axis said the opposition party may win 119-141 out of 199 seats

Fuel prices slashed again NEW DELHI, DEC 7 (AGENCIES): Petrol, diesel prices fell again on Friday as international crude oil continued its downward trend on Friday after a pullback earlier in the week. Fuel prices were cut by 39-45 paise per litre in major cities of the country today.

After the recent price revision, petrol in the national capital is sold at Rs 70.92 and Diesel is sold at Rs 65.55.

Meanwhile, petrol price stood at Rs. 67.10 per litre and diesel was sold at Rs. 61.52 per litre in Dimapur on Friday. In the state capital, a litre of petrol and diesel was Rs. 67.91 and Rs. 62.13 respectively.

State-run oil marketing companies Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum revise fuel prices with effect from 6 a.m. on a daily basis.

for which elections were held. The BJP, it added, may win 55-72 seats.

Times Now-CNX forecast 105 seats for the Congress and 85 for the BJP. However, Republic TVJan Ki Baat forecast a tighter race between the two parties.

It gave the Congress and the BJP 81-101 and 83-103 seats respectively.

Exit polls were almost unanimous in predicting that TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s gamble of advancing the assembly polls will pay off and he will retain power.

Republic TV and Times Now forecast that his party will 50-65 and 66 seats in the 119-member assembly.

TV9 Telugu and India Today forecast a tally between 75-85 and 75-91 for the ruling party respectively. Some exit polls saw a tighter battle between the TRS and the Congress-TDP combine.

The counting of votes for five states, including Mizoram besides the four states, will be take place on December 11.

Correspondent

KOHIMA, DEC 7 (NPN): In spite of the State government’s best efforts to hard sell Hornbill Festival before the world, regrettably, the much-talked-about festival at Naga Heritage Village Kisama does not have accessibility for persons with disabilities (PWDs).

The seventh day of the ongoing festival witnessed a huge number of visitors, both domestic and international, on Friday, but the differently-abled people were sadly seemingly overlooked.

Purnima Kayina, director of Cherry Blossoms School, Kohima, an inclusive school for special needs that had set up stalls at Kisama spoke to Nagaland Post on Friday about the experience and exposure of the differently-abled children at the venue.

She obser ved that

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Dr. Lima Imchen with doctors from BLK super speciality hospital addressing the media. (NP)

Dr Lima Imchen and Eden Medical Centre’s HoD of Pathology, Dr Moatoshi Aier held a press conference at the Eden Medical Centre conference room.

The launch is aimed at providing highly specialized health care facilities to the citizens of the state and also to people of adjoining areas.

This initiative is also part of BLK Hospital’s yearlong flagship community outreach campaign- “Know Cancer- No Cancer.”

During the initial

phase, super specialist doctors from BLK hospital will be available for consultation on a monthly basis for different types of cancers.

There will be a weekly consultation initially which will then be increased depending on the requirement of the public and the dates will be notified in local dailies.

In the opening remark, Eden Medical Centre MD, Dr Lima Imchen lamented the lack of specialist doctors, adding that the state was still lagging behind in cancer care. He however ex-

Jaswantsinh Bhabhor (NP) Correspondent

KOHIMA, DEC 7 (NPN): Union minister of State for tribal affairs Jaswantsinh Bhabhor heaped praises on Nagas for their bravery, unique culture, handicrafts, dance and music, even as he stated that Hornbill Festival was a big platform to showcase unity in diversity.

Addressing the seventh day of the festival as chief guest at Kisama, the minister thanked the organisers for inviting him to witness the festival.

Bhabhor said tribal society comprised 1.45 crore people and were spread all over the country, while acknowledging the initiative of late Atal Bihari Vajpayee of creating a separate department for tribal affair 52 years after the India’s Independence.

He also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his efforts to safeguard the interest of the tribes and for their educational, economic and social upliftment.

Later in the afternoon, director general Assam Rifle, Lt. Gen. Sukhdeep Sangwan graced the occasion as the guest speaker.

Gen Sangwan remarked that Hornbill Festival had been receiving accolades year after year and described the Nagas as brave, courageous and fearless, and having unique custom and traditions.

He described the people of Nagaland as fearless with unique custom, tradition and culture.

Hosts of Day-7 of the festival were rural development minister Metsubo Jamir and food & civil supplies, legal metrology and NSDMA adviser Pukhayi.

Hornbill festival not PwD-friendly

BLK super speciality hospital launches OPD at EMC

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Hornbill Festival platform to showcase unity: Bhabhor

pressed optimism with BLK Super Speciality Hospital, stepping in to partner with Eden Medical Centre, adding that people in Nagaland can now avail the services of super specialists without having to spend money to travel out of the State for treatment.

However, Dr. Lima said: “There are certain treatments like bone marrow transplant in leukaemia in which patients may need to receive treatment outside the state.”

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many differently-abled people desire to come to the festival, but owing to non-availability of facilities for PWDs at the venue, many cannot.

She pointed out that there were hardly any place where the special children or persons could access and enjoy, with even the Morung not having any accessibility.

Kayina informed this correspondent that in 2015, a proposal was submitted to the Social Welfare department to make ramps for the differently-abled near Morung.

However, she regretted that even with the inspection carried out by a consultancy from Bangalore, nothing had been initiated thereafter.

She hoped the department would look into the matter at the soonest possible time so that people with disabilities too could be a

part of Hornbill Festival and more PWDs could join the celebrations in future.

Alleging that toilets that were constructed for PWDs did not have sufficient water, the school director said the State government and citizens must focus more on “inclusion”.

Meanwhile, Kayina explained that the main objective for setting up stalls for the special children was to provide them an exposure and help them explore the world outside to make them feel equal with others.

A recent study conducted by Disability Rights India Foundation (DIRF) stated that Nagaland has fared poorly in implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act, 2016. The study was conducted to evaluate the progress made in implementation of the RPWD Act in States and Union Territories.

Dimapur December Fest from Dec 18 DIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): An event to bring different communities and denizens of Dimapur to celebrate unity and diversity, “The December Fest” organized by ‘The Better Dimapur’ (TBD) team in collaboration with the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), Naga Council Dimapur, GB Union Dimapur, Dimapur Urban Council Chairman Federation, and Naga Women Hoho Dimapur will be held from December 18 to 20 at DDSC Stadium.

Meanwhile, the organizers have clarified that the fest is being organised in the interest of the citizens and with no political motive, keeping in mind the festive season, heralding in the Christmas and New Year celebration.

It said that the TBD team is constituted of independent groups looking towards making Dimapur a better place and making peo-

ple aware on various social, civic and health issues.

Highlights of the fest includes-- aero-modelling show, coral competition, exhibition & competition-photography, flower; open dance competition, waste to art competition, face painting competition, Santa Claus competition, traditional events-- Tug of war and bamboo stilt race.

Artistes/groups like Kate Shoo (Ukraine)– DJ & model, Ravator (Delhi), Zuchobeni Tungoe, Meribeni Patton and Dj Sumika, Musikal Mojor, Musik-A School, K.C. Lights Shillong (Winner of International Choral meet 2018) and ANTB (Alobo Naga & the Band) will be performing.

On the final day (Dec 20), Christmas choral competition, open choral competition, cleanest colony award and concert by various artistes of Dimapur will be held.

SKH appeals for early solution DIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): Sumi Kukami (GBs) Hoho (SKH), which held its baghi hoho (general session) on November 29, 2018, unanimously resolved to appeal to the Government of India to settle the Naga political issue at the earliest before the next parliamentary election.

In a press release, SKH general secretary Vikato Yepthomi said that the house, which adopted 8-point resolution, also appealed to all factions to join the peace process with the Government of India for early solution. The house reaffirmed support to Sumi Hoho and Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) “for Naga peace process and solution.”

SKH baghi hoho resolved to appeal to individuals and small groups not to talk about Naga Peace talk unless the authority sought their views.

Further, Sumi Kukami Hoho re-affirmed its stand that the “Kukami will unite Western, Eastern, Northern. Southern and central to protect and save in times of Good and Bad days.”

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Mokokchung night carnival from Dec 20

Correspondent

MOKOKCHUNG, DEC 7 (NPN): Mokokchung Municipal Council in collaboration with Adventure and Motorsports Association Mokokchung (AMAM) and Mokokchung District Musicians’ Association (MDMA) will be organizing a “Christmas Night Carnival” from December 20 to 22 in Mokokchung Town with the support of All Ward Unions of Mokokchung and Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industries.

Addressing a press conference here today at his office chambers, ADC and MMC administrator, Manphai Phom, along with representatives of AMAM and MDMA said that the Night Carnival will be held under strict guidelines and will include food stalls, fun games, music booth, photo booth etc. However, use of liquor and other illegal substances will not be allowed in any of the stalls.

The carnival will be held from Town Square (Police Point) to Rotary Point from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Phom also added that the MMC has also entrusted AMAM and MDMA to organize the midnight service (New Year’s eve) program, which is a tradition for Mokokchung Town.

Power outage in parts of Dimapur

DIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): Power department informed that power supply to the certain areas in Dimapur will be affected on December 8, 2018 from 7am till 2pm due maintenance and oil filtration works on 10 MVA Industrial Sub Station. The areas include Duncan Basti, Industrial village, Kashiram village, Senjum village, Aoyimkum village, Kacharigoan village, Taxes colony, Lingrijan area, Indisen village and Dillai gate area. In a press release, executive engineer electrical division Dimapur has requested the responsible consumers to bear with the inconvenience.

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Highlights of Hornbill Festival 2018 Day 7 Tourists flock to food stalls in Kisama Eastern Air Command AOC-in-C visits Kohima

Anungla (3rd from R) with customers at her food stall in Kisama. (NP)

People throng the Naga Chef Food Stall in Kisama on Friday. (NP) Correspondent

KOHIMA, DEC 7 (NPN): Any Naga tribal festival is celebrated with lots of drinks and food, and it seems no different in the Hornbill festival, both for locals and tourists.

A food stall “Geebees Appetites”, located at food court above the Hortiscape exhibition and sale, is owned and run by one Anungla Longkumer, a Naga entrepreneur who also has been running a restaurant in Mumbai for the last 13 years.

news in Brief GHS Diki Dihoma Golden Jubilee: GHS Diki Dihoma will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee on December 15, 10 a.m. at GHS Diki, Dihoma. The Organising Committee has invited all pioneer teachers, village leaders, parents, alumni and well wishers to attend the program.

DDCC pre-Christmas: Dimapur District Congress Committee (DDCC) will be celebrating pre-Christmas on December 8, 2 p.m. at Congress Bhawan, Dimapur.

KUD 30th general session: Khiamniungan Union Dimapur (KUD) has convened its 30th general session for December 8, 9 a.m. at its union treasurer’s residence. All its members have been informed to the session.

PSU 60th session & seminar: The Phek Students’ Union (PSU) will be holding its 60th session & seminar on December 28 at Phek Village Community Hall under the theme “Quality Education.”MLA Kuzholuzo

(Azo) Nienu will be the inaugural speaker.

Nagaland Tool Room & Training Centre inauguration: An inaugural function for Upgrade of Nagaland Tool Room & Training Centre, Dimapur, will be held on December 8, 2:30 pm, at Nagaland Tool Room & Training Centre, New Industrial Estate, near Sub-Jail Junction.

Chief minister Neiphiu Rio will inaugurate the Centre in the presence of MSME (GoI) secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Panda, and advisor industries & commerce, & chairman NIDC Nagaland, Imnatiba.

ANTA Wokha Unit Advent Christmas Celebration: All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) Wokha Unit will be celebrating Advent Christmas on December 9, 3 pm at the ANTA Wokha Unit Office premises.

All concerned members and family, sub units, and ACVA have been invited to attend the program.

Interacting with this correspondent, she said this was her first time running a food stall in Kisama. The idea for the Kisama food stall came to her when a friend from Mumbai, who visited Hornbill festival last year, asked her to open one especially for tourists coming from mainland India.

According to Longkumer, a chef from Mumbai is preparing both the vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. She has also brought some ingredients not available in Kohima town.

She explained that many tourists wish to taste Naga food in Kisama, but at the same time it should also accommodate as many taste-buds as possible.

Thousands of local visitors, domestic and foreign tourists are coming to her food stall.

Another food stall people thronged in the hundreds was the Naga Chef Stall at the Amphi theatre, run by four finalists of Naga Chef season 6 namely Mhomo Ngullie, Vikhuli Achumi from Dimapur and Dennis Suohu and Lipok Longkumer from Kohima.

They offer a variety of Naga food items, which are prepared by their expert hands.

In the Group Round of Naga Chef Season 6, held under the aegis of Synergy Group Enterprise and supported by the state government, many dignitaries, tourists (both domestic and foreign), and local people have tasted its great food.

The winner of Naga Chef season 6 will walk home with Rs. 3 lakhs to start his or her own restaurant or food business.

Black Pepper cultivation training

KIPHIRE: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), in collaboration with Nagaland Centre for Human Development-Information Technology (NCHD-IT), conducted a two-day training program on packing and practices of black pepper cultivation for Joint Liability Groups (JLG) at Hopongkyu Memorial Hall, Kiphire on December 6 and 7 with Livika from Spice Board of India as the resource person.

A press release from NABARD stated that Imsunaro, Block Development Manager (BDM) and Yashimenla Lemtor executive director NCHD-IT were present during the training. Altogether 30 farmers from six villages attended the training and committed to start cultivating from 2019 onwards. The NSCB Kiphire Branch promised all possible help to the farmers. The release pointed out that the present market rate for Black Pepper is Rs. 600 per kg and when it is polished, it becomes white pepper and its price increases to Rs.2000 per kg. One plant costs Rs.30.

Air Marshal R Nambiar with Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and others in Kohima on Thursday.

DIMAPUR: Air Officer Commanding in Chief (AOC-in-C) of Shillong-based Eastern Air Command (EAC) Air Marshal R Nambiar, along with his wife Luxmi Nambiar, attended the ongoing Hornbill Festival at Naga Heritage Village Kisama on Thursday as chief guest.

The EAC has jurisdiction over 11 States in the eastern region.

The AOC-in-C was accompanied by project director (IAF) Nagaland, Wing Commander SA Jakhalu.

According to PRO (Defence) Col C Konwer, Nambiar also met Governor PB Acharya in the morning and chief minister Neiphiu Rio in the evening.

The chief minister thanked

Nambiar and Eastern Air Command for being part of the celebrations of 55th Statehood Day by putting up a spectacular first of its kind air display, over the Kohima skies.

The Air Marshal apprised both Acharya and Rio of the proactive involvement of Eastern Air Command in improving and carrying out infrastructure development in the eastern region, which should not only enhance its capabilities but also help the local population.

Further, Nambiar promised all support to the State administration, especially in providing humanitarian assistance during disaster relief operations, which is also a peace time role of the Indian Air Force.

This year, when the State was badly affected by landslides, IAF and its Air Warriors carried out relief operations with helicopters in coordination with civil administration and supplied life-saving essential commodities to stranded people and carried out casualty evacuation in bad weather, and remote and difficult mountainous terrain.

To honour the State guest, a dinner was organised that was attended by director general of police John Longkumer and other senior government officials.

The Air Marshal interacted with Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan and additional chief secretary Temjen Toy on Friday before leaving for Shillong.

Dimapur Police arrest three for extortion

The three arrested individuals. The items seized from their possession.

DIMAPUR: On December 7, based on specific input that some armed miscreants were extorting money from a brick kiln near Dobagaon village, Dimapur Crime Branch CID (PHQ) apprehended three persons.

Dimapur additional deputy commissioner of police/PRO, in a press note identified the three as Tokiye Awomi (37 years), “lt. col” of NSCN (K), of Xekiye village; Kahoto Aye (37 yrs), tatar of NSCN (K) of Xe-

kiye village; and Hokheto Yepthomi (27 yrs), of Xekiye village.

One .22 pistol, nine live rounds, two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Rs. 96000 cash, and one Maruti car, were seized from their

possession. The press note added that a case has been registered at Diphupar Police Station under relevant sections of the IPC, Arms Act, Explosives Act and UAP Act for further investigation.

Two day Tenyidie seminar held

DIMAPUR: A two-day seminar on Tenyidie, was organised by the Razeba Public Organisation (RPO) Literature Committee at RPO Hall, Razeba on December 6 and 7.

The resource persons for the seminar were professor D. Kuolie, head of linguistics, Nagaland University; Vipralhou Kesiezie, rtd. director, SCERT & former member, NPSC Nagaland; T. Sekhose, director, SCERT Nagaland; Dr. Zavise Rume, associate professor, SCERT Nagaland; and Kekhwengulo Lea, president, Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO).

Observing that many families converse in Na-

gamese at home, professor D. Kuolie remarked in day one’s first session that the Nagamese creole has become a silent killer of Naga mother tongues. He asserted that “if we have any objective or great aspiration for the wellbeing of the community, we have to promote our language and literature.” He deliberated on various scopes of learning and studying Tenyidie while highlighting that it was the only Naga language that is being studied at the Ph.D level.

Eight scholars are currently pursuing Ph.D in Tenyidie, he said.

Vipralhou Kesiezie spoke on the importance of

having a common language and stated that a common language for Tenyimia as a group of people will be good.

“We can do g reat things not only for ourselves but Nagas as a whole”, he said.

Lauding the RPO for organising the seminar on Tenyidie, T. Sekhose said that most of the elderly in Razeba area knew the Tenyidie language. But observing that the younger generation was slowly losing touch, he said, learning it will greatly benefit “our children.”

He pointed out that there was immense scope for students pursuing Tenyidie, and he encouraged

more students to take up the subject.

On day one of the seminar, Kezevinuo Krome chaired the first session while Rekha Rose Dukru chaired the second session. Vizo Pohena, pastor RBC offered the invocation while Khazi Lea, president RPO gave the concluding remarks.

On day two, where Dr. Zavise Rume and Kekhwengulo Lea were resource persons, the sessions were chaired by Deo Movi and Vikholie Venuh respectively.

Mozho Krocha, catechist, Catholic Church Razeba said the invocation.

The seminar was sponsored

by SCERT Nagaland.

Tangkhul Hoho Nagaland offers condolences

DIMAPUR: The Tangkhul Hoho Nagaland (THN) has expressed deep pain over the sudden demise of Joseph Singnaisui, former president of the THN. THN president VS. Angam, in a condolence note stated that Singnaisui passed away in Ukhrul at 8

p.m on December 6. “We have lost a dynamic public leader and a key player of the Tangkhul community who was a person with vision and conviction” it stated.

It further said that his demise had created a great vacuum, adding that it was a huge loss for the Tang-

khul community, particularly for Tangkhuls living in Nagaland.

The president, on his and his community’s behalf, offered heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and relatives and conveyed prayers for eternal peace and rest to the departed soul.

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WEATHER FORECAST December 8

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Guwahati Hazy sunshine Imphal

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DIMAPUR: Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya met with ex-servicemen and officers of the Rajya Sanik Board (RSB) of Nagaland to mark the Armed Forces Flag Day (AFFD) on December 7 at Raj Bhavan Kohima.

According to DIPR, Achar ya, who is also the ex-officio president of RSB, paid respects to the soldiers and veterans for their courage, honour, bravery and sacrifices, on the occasion and urged the people to contribute to the Armed Forces fund for the welfare of ex-servicemen and their families. An Armed Forces Flag Day badge was also pinned on the Governor.

On the occasion, it was decided that Rajya

A delegate pins the Armed Forces Flag Day badge on Acharya on December 7. (DIPR)

Sainik Board Nagaland and Raj Bhavan will invite cobblers, individual tailors and dhobis to Raj Bhavan

in January 2019 (at least 200 of them), and tell them about different projects of the Central Govern-

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PGC declared Litter Free

DIMAPUR: Pfutsero Government College (PGC) was declared a “Litter Free Campus” on Friday at a “Pledge and signature campaign” program organised by the college in collaboration with Pfutsero administration with an aim to declare Pfutsero a “Litter Free Town”.

A press release by PGC stated that in the program, ADC Pfutsero, Zeneikhonuo Vimero, appreciated the college for taking the initiative and on being declared a “Litter Free Campus”.

She called upon the students, faculty and members present to take a pledge to make Pfutsero a “Litter Free Town.” The ADC also highlighted the importance of waste segregation.

EAC Pfutsero and nodal officer Swachh Bharat Mission Pfutsero sub-division, Abeinuo Jasmine Ashao, gave an introduction to Swachh Survekshan 2019 and also introduced the Swachhata App. The program, chaired

by PGC assistant professor, Megono Chucha, ended with a vote of thanks by PGC vice president, T.L Singsit.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2018

K. Okie and Col. Abdul Hameed Khan with teaching faculty and students after the Annual Cultural Day program held on December 7.

Discusses loss of culture and identity DIMAPUR: Sao Chang College, Tuensang, Nagaland celebrated its 44th Annual Cultural Day on December 7 at the college premises on the theme “Your Culture, Your Identity.” K. Okie, executive secretary of Khiamniungan Tribal Council (KTC) was the special guest and Col. Abdul Hameed Khan, DIG of 7 Sector Assam Rifles Tuensang, was the special invitee for the program.

Sao Chang College media cell convenor, M. Shiu in a press release stated that Okie, in his address, said that the Nagas have very rich cultural values, unique and different from the rest of the country and even the world.

But with modern society’s influence of western culture, young people face identity crises. Okie advocated for educating Naga

youngsters about traditions and culture through cocurricular programs.

He lamented that many youngsters cannot speak their own mother tongues. Okie pointed out that many parents give their children wester n names and speak English within the family contributing to the loss of traditions and customs.

“We should teach modern education to our children but not at the cost our culture” he asserted.

Col. Abdul Hameed Khan, while speaking in the program said that Nagas are known by the people of mainland India for their love, honesty, truthfulness, sincerity, hard work and hospitality. He said that culture was a set of things people do in our lives repeatedly and encouraged the gathering to preserve it. Also encouraging the young people, Col. Khan urged them to set targets and strive to achieve them and not cite limited facilities of their

home town as an excuse.

He encouraged them to explore the rest of mainland India and the world to acquire more knowledge and skills.

During the program, traditional attires in the Ancient, Present and Future forms were displayed by students. Folk dance and cock fight competitions were also held. The winners of the Cultural, Fine Art and Literar y completions received certificates. Judges for the cultural competitions were assistant professors Tekameren, and Temjentula.

The prog ram was compered by Elonbeni Jami and Youngtu Khumba. Hoamniu, prayer secretary, Evangelical Union, SCC offered the invocation and a welcome address was delivered by Khaikho, SCCSU general secretary.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Mulai T., literary & cultural secretary, SCCSU and benediction was pronounced by Dr. Kenilo, assistant professor.

ment launched for their welfare.

Two rabbits were given by the Governor to the office of the Rajya Sainik Board for them to rear.

“Love for birds, animals and trees has to be slowly inculcated and the people should be in tune with nature. Those who are in office should have peace of mind” the Governor added.

Director, Rajya Sainik Board Nagaland, Rajiv Dong said Flag Day has been observed annually in India on December 7 since 1949. Over the years, it has become a tradition to commemorate this day as an occasion to honour soldiers, sailors and airmen of India.

Director F&CS Kohima informs DImapur: Office of the director Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) Kohima has informed all FPS/Village Councils of Kohima Centre that PHH and AAY food-grains will be released from December 11, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. onwards.

Kezocha Circle Villages and Merema, Tsiese Basa & Bawe, Thizama & Rusoma on December 11; Jakha circle villages on December 12; Kohima sadar and Secu circle villages on December 13 and Kohima town FPS on December 14 & 17.

All FPS/village councils have been directed to collect their respective quota within the stipulated period.

DIMAPUR DEC 7 (NPN): Ao Students Union Dimapur (ASUD) celebrated its Golden Jubilee at Senden Riju, Burma Camp, Dimapur on December 7.

Addressing the gathering as the speaker, executive director, Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland (SDFN), Amba Jamir stressed on the topic of Nagas rapidly losing grip in preserving cultural ethnicity. He mentioned that Nagas were on the verge of forgetting cultural values and morals in the thirst for book knowledge.

According to Jamir, culture is never a museum piece and people should try their best to preserve it by reaching out to elders.

He also pointed out that skill development is a very much ignored sector and it is high time it is given importance. Citing to a statistical survey, Jamir stated that only 7 percent of MBAs in India were employable because they are not able to apply book knowledge in practice.

MLA, Moatoshi Longkumer also spoke on the occasion where he urged the gathering to retrospect

on what we had achieved in the last 50 years as citizens of Dimapur. He mentioned that Nagas in the early days were innocent, humble and generous but now they have changed perspectives. He stated that one reason why there were very few beggars in Dimapur was because Nagas had over taken them by even going to the extent of begging from door to door. He also mentioned that palm readers had left Dimapur because they did not see a future for Dimapur.

Longkumer challenged the youth to try and bring changes and contribute something towards building a better society. He further urged them to be party to preventing deterioration of the environment, partners for sustainable development and pioneers for peaceful coordination of all races.

He ended his speech by mentioning that if Nagas want to change, they should be ready to make painful sacrifices and always walk the talk.

P r e s i d e n t , A S T D, L. Wati Jamir, president, AKM, Imkongwati Lkr., president, DWT, Yarsangla and former president, AKTD, I. Anungba Sanglir

also spoke at the program.

The opening of the jubilee celebration was done

by Aoyimti Kaketshir Telungjem, and songs were presented by Diphupar Ao Kaketshir Telungjem and DABA Youth Choir.

A cultural song was also presented by Dimaput Ao Lanur Telungjem.

Earlier, the program was compeered by Dr. Sangmong Longchar and Meyisangla Jamir and introductory speech delivered by president, AKTD, Lanutoshi Aier. The Jubilee book was released by convenor, Editorial Committee, P. Alem Jamir, and felicitation of various individuals was initiated by executive convenor, L. Bendang Jamir.

A special prayer for the students was offered by Rev. Kari Longchar.

Invocation was offered by pastor DABA, Rev. I. Wati Jamir and a vote of thanks was proposed by convenor, Jubilee Planning Committee, K. Temjen Jamir. Planned Post-Jubilee activities were read out by convenor of Pangzüng Committee. Benediction was offered by pastor, Diphupar ‘B’ Ao Baptist Arogo, Rev. Lanuakum, followed by a mass feast.

Nagaland State BJP Legislators celebrated a pre-Christmas & get-together event at the deputy chief minister, Y. Patton’s residence in Kohima, on December 7. The party has extended warm Christmas greetings and a prosperous happy New Year wishes to all the people of Nagaland. (Dy. CM, Media Cell)

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NESO, KMSS to protest Citizenship Bill

NESO activists during a sit-in-demonstration against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Guwahati on May 12, 2018. (UB Photos/File)

ens to nullify the ongoing process of preparing the updated National Register of Citizens in Assam.

“The Centre must realise none of the north east states are alone. All the seven states of Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Nagaland are united in our fight to protect our identity, language and culture”, he asserted. The KMSS along with 69 other indigeneous and support-

ing organisations will stage indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi from December 9, ahead of the Parliament winter session demanding the scrapping of the Bill.

“The BJP government is misleading the people, have gone against the constitution and has threatened the very identity of the indigenous people of the state if it is passed by the Parliament”, KMSS chief Akhil Gogoi told reporters here. Two teams have

IMPHAL, Dec 7: Manipur government on Friday constituted a committee headed by state PHED minister L Dikho as chairman to facilitate settlement of existing the Manipur-Nagaland interstate boundary dispute.

State revenue minister Karam Shyam, Tribal affairs and hills minister N Kayisii were among nine members of the committee which state additional secretary (tribal affairs and hills) is the convener.

Other members were additional secretary (revenue), deputy commissioners (DCs) and district superintendents of police of Senapati and Ukhrul (the districts bordering with Nagaland) besides social

worker PT Arhai of Tunjoy village and president of Mao Council Peter Khrasi (both from Senapati district.

The committee will facilitate settlement of interstate and inter-village boundary dispute at Tungjoy village and Dzuko valley and other areas having inter-state boundaries with Nagaland, an official source said. The committee will meet from time to time to facilitate the task assigned to them. The constitution of the committee by Manipur to facilitate settlement of interstate border disputes comes against the backdrop of the recent arrest of eight members of Manipur Mountaineering and Trekking Association (MMTA)

by Khuzama police of Nagaland on November 27.

Govt asked to remove names of Bangladeshis

All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) Friday demanded that the state government take immediate steps to remove the names of Bangladeshis from the NRC. The Sarbananda Sonowal government should take

The eight trekkers were from a 15-member team of the MMTA who were trekking at Dzukou Valley as part of the Sangai Festival.

Tungjoy village and Dzukuo valley have been flash-points for decades besides the dispute at some border areas in Ukhrul district of Manipur bordering Nagaland. A dispute over traditional land ownership of Dzukuo valley, dispute b e t we e n M a n i p u r a n d Nagaland over Jessami in Ukhrul district is yet to be resolved. In their effort to settle the disputes, Manipur government had written to the Centre seeking help to resolve the protracted inter-state border dispute with direct involvement of the Survey of India in September 2017.

Agartala, Dec 7 (IANS): The CPI-M on Friday ‘gheraoed’ the Tripura Police headquarters to protest against attacks on party cadres and leaders by alleged BJP workers and against attempts to turn the ongoing local urban body election process into a “farce”.

After more than three hours of ‘gherao’, a delegation of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders led by Badal Choudhury met senior police officials and apprised them about the “abnormal situation prevailing in the state”.

“Democracy totally throttled after the BJPled government came to power in Tripura in March.

We have told the Director General of Police (Akhil Kumar Sukhla) and other

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senior officials that if the violent attacks on opposition leaders, cadres and supporters were not stopped, then our agitation will be intensified,” Choudhury

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2. That my name has been inadvertently recorded as Akum Ao in my Bank account bearing A/C. No. 11802955471 of SBI Diphupar Branch, Dimapur.

Whereas my name has been recorded as Limakum in all my official documents, service records etc., including my Aadhaar Card bearing Aadhaar No. 5255 1344 5426.

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animal. Sample collected during an initial investigation from the area where the attacks were reported already points at canine family, he said, adding similar case has occurred in Kerala, Orissa. In addition to this, stray dogs have the instinct of attacking animals during their lactating period.

The expert cited poor and unhygienic husbandry practice and open garbage as possible reasons for the attacks. According to the latest report of the forest department, 162 livestock have been killed in 42 incidents since Oct 27. The first mass killing of fowls was reported in Chiengkawnpang village and later spread across the state. In retaliation to the attacks on livestock, four animals have been killed including Mongoose, Fruit Bat, Chinese Ferret badger and a Leopard cat.

told the media.

Former Minister Manik Dey, CPI-M west Tripura district secretary Pabitra Kar and three MPs - Jitendra Chowdhury, Sankar

Prasad Datta and Jharna Das Baidya - led the demonstrations.

Badal Choudhury said that after preventing the submission of nominations

of Left party candidates for the by-polls to the urban local bodies, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers attacked the houses of the candidates belonging to opposition parties.

Kar accused the attackers of looting valuables from the houses and not sparing even women and young gils. He accused the police of not taking any action.

CPI-M state secretary Gautam Das said that following the demands of the Left parties, the State Election Commission asked the state police chief to take action against the attacks on candidates and others but the Director General of Police did nothing.

By-elections will be held on December 22 in 158 vacant seats of 13 Municipal bodies and Agartala Municipal Corporation.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER, WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT NAGALAND, KOHIMA NO.WRD/ESTT/APT-21/2018 Dated Kohima the 6th Dec, 2018 To, Shri. Awanye Tep Driver Gr-II, Father's Name-Hilo Tep, Village-Tseminyu, P.O- Tseminyu-797109 Sub:- Calling Notice You have been found absent from duty without any prior permission from the competent authority for the last four months.

And whereas calling notice has been served to you vide this office order NO.WRD/ESTT/APT-12/2018/3830-34 Dated Kohima the 12th Nov, 2018 where you have not responded to the notice served till date.

You are therefore asked to report to the undersigned within 7(seven) days from the date of receipt of this calling letter failing which your service will be terminated without further notice.

(Er. TSUKTINUNGSANG) Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department Nagaland, Kohima.

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2. That inadvertently my name was entered and recorded as "ZAPOI TETSEO" in my Pension Passbook bearing PPO No.- 111712492 whereas my official and correct name is "ZAPOYI TETSEO" as per my SBI Account Passbook, Residential Certificate, Aadhaar Card and PAN Card.

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Video footage and camera traps set up by the WII team revealed that dogs were responsible for the attacks, he added. The Minister informed that a directive will be issued to urban local bodies to serve a public notice to round up all the stray dogs including pet dogs without collars.

He appealed to dog owners to collar their pet and keep them indoors in order to avoid any misunderstanding while carrying out the exercise. “We will take all possible measures to control this menace. These dogs prowling in the streets and villages could turn to man if they get infected with rabies”, he asserted.

Shyamkumar also informed that the expert team from WII arrived in Imphal a day after a pregnant woman in Imphal East district was allegedly attacked by a wild

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G u wahat i , D e c 7 (AGENCIES): In a move to tame the stray dogs in Manipur, State Forest and Environment Minister, Th. Shyamkumar will soon issue a directive to urban local bodies for serving a public notice to round up all the stray dogs including pet dogs without collars.

According to The Sentinel, Th. Shyamkumar confirmed that stray dogs are behind series of killing of livestock in Manipur since October, creating panic amongst the public.

Addressing media persons at his office chamber, the Minister said, “team from Wildlife Institute of India (WII), who has been conducting the probe on the string of attacks on livestock have collected enough evidence to conclude that the attacks were carried out by stray dogs.”

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already left for Delhi to take participated in the hunger strike and another team will leave by tomorrow, Gogoi added.

up a suo motu verification drive for this as it has the power do so, AASU advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya told reporters here.

“The names of Bangladeshis have entered the NRC and they must be removed by the government and an error-free NRC should be given to people of the state,” Bhattacharya said.

The government can verify and delete the names of foreigners instead of pushing the onus on different organisations to file objections, Bhattacharya said, adding that if the government does not act, the AASU will approach the court. AASU President Dipanka Nath said, “The people of Assam are aware that there are many pockets in the state where suspected Bangladeshis reside. But going to such places to file objections is difficult because of security reasons.”

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G u wahat i , D e c 7 (PTI): North East Students’ Organisation(NESO) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti(KMSS) who are opposing the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 have decided to launch protests against it before and during the coming winter session of the Parliament.

The NESO, comprising the leading students organisations of the seven north eastern states, have taken the decision to protest against the Bill before the Parliament when it is in session on December 19, its advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya told reporters here on Friday.

“We cannot allow the bill to be passed at any cost and we will continue to protest against it as Northeast is not a dumping ground for illegal Bangladeshis”, he said. The bill, he said, violates the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and threat-

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2018

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Applications are invited for appointment to the post of State NSS Officer in the level 16 (79900-193700) of the pay Matrix under the National Service Scheme (NSS) subject to the following conditions as laid in the NSS guidelines of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

1. Qualification for the post of State NSS Officer :(a) He/She should have served as Programme Coordinator in the University or Programme Officer in a college for a minimum period of 4 (four) years contiuously. (b) He/She should posses the academic qualification for being appointed as Programme Coordinator as prescribed by the department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India. (c) He/She should have interest in youth work in particular and social work in general.

2. Tenure of the State NSS Officer :The State NSS Officer will be initially appointed on deputation/ contract basis for a period of 3 (three) years initially. The period of deputation may be extended by another 2 (two) years subjected to the satisfactory works as State NSS Officer.

3. Last date for Receipt of Application :The application should be submitted to the Secretary, Youth Resources & Sports Department on or before 20th December, 2018 for scrutiny and conduct of interview by the Selection Committee constituted for the purpose.

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Meghalaya bars govt teachers from politics S h i l lo n g, D e c 7 (Agencies): Teachers of government-aided schools in Meghalaya have been barred from taking part in politics, and they have to quit their job if they want join the electoral battle.

According to The Telegraph, the prohibition came amid strong argument that present day politics is being dominated by business tycoons and a section of cash-rich people, including contractors, who do not possess any educational qualification.

All these years, teachers of government-aided schools and colleges were allowed to take part in politics. Those who contested elections were also allowed to take leave for a certain period, and got the chance to come back to the profession if they emerged unsuccessful.

Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, education minister Lahkmen Rymbui said barring teachers from joining politics has been part of the Meghalaya State Education Policy, 2018.

The policy was approved by the state cabinet

Lahkmen Rymbui on September 21 and the same was approved by governor Tathagata Roy on September 26.

“So far as education is concerned, schools should be kept free from politics.

For this purpose, government and government-aided school teachers will be barred from taking part in political activities and political associations,” the policy said.

According to Rymbui, now there are many qualified people, and they should come forward and take part in politics and contest elections.

The minister, however, said teachers in privatelyrun schools are out of the purview of the policy.

“Now, teachers have to resign from their profession if they want to join politics and contest elections. Mixing political activities with educational institutes is not a healthy trend,” Rymbui said, adding that since the policy has been approved, a rule would be framed in this regard.

In the past, the Meghalaya Assembly would have highly qualified representatives from different constituencies which include authors, professors, lecturers, teachers, lawyers and others, because they are considered as the most qualified people who can legislate laws and frame policies for the state.

Former chief minister, late Evansius Kek Mawlong who began his political career in 1972, was a high school teacher. He got elected for the first time in 1978 from Umroi constituency.

Similarly, former chief minister D.D. Lapang was a school teacher and had held the post of sub-inspector of schools.

Lapang got elected for the first time in 1972 from Nongpoh constituency.

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Connecting Vijaynagar to Miao a priority: Khandu I ta nag a r , D e c 7 (Agencies): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday announced that construction of 156-km-long road to connect Vijaynagar, the remotest circle of Changlang district with Miao would be taken up on priority and as a major road soon.

According to Northeast Now, it takes seven to 10 days on foot through dense forest to reach isolated region of Vijaynagar, nestled in the Himalayas along the India-Myanmar Border. The circle is surrounded on three sides by Myanmar and the other side by a vast and thick forest of Namdapha National Park.

Spread across 8,000 square kilometres, Vijaynagar is unique for many reasons. It was discovered by the Assam Rifles paramilitary force during an expedition named Srijit II in 1961 under Major General A S Guraya, IG of Assam Rifles. The valley was later named by him after his son.

Addressing a public meeting on the sidelines of the launch of his twomonth-long Arunachal Rising campaign, Khandu said Vijaynagar has huge tourism potential owing to its scenic

Pema Khandu beauty and also huge potential for horticulture and agriculture activities.

“These potentials have, however, not been tapped as yet because of lack of proper surface and air communication,” the chief minister said while adding that “though former chief minister Late Dorjee Khandu had approved for survey and preparation of a detailed project report for constructing said the road under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, the same was hampered and delayed due to improper work allocation.”

The Chief Minister also assured that an additional 70 metre long steel suspension bridge besides the existing Empen Bridge would be constructed on the 32 km motorable road from Miao which normally gets cut off during monsoon.

5 Two NDFB(S) militants held in Udalguri Uda l g u r i , D e c 7 (Agencies): Two hardcore militants belonging to the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit faction) or NDFB(S) were arrested by security forces from Mazbat Railway Station in Udalguri district on Assam on Thursday evening.

According to Northeast Now, the arrested militants were identified as Swmkhwr Daimary alias D Swgwr(23), an inhabitant of Daifang Khoirabari village under Udalguri Police Station of Udalguri district and Jwngswr Mushahary alias M Jwmwi(18) an inhabitant of Salguri village under Serfanguri PS of Kokrajhar district.

Security sources informed that acting on a specific intelligence input, a joint team of security forces comprising troops of 14th battalion of Garhwal Regiment of the Army, Cobra Commandos and police from Mazbat Railway Station under Mazbat Police Station in Udalguri.

The two NDFB (S) cadres were arrested from Coach No.4 of Dekargaon-Rangia Passenger train. Both of them were trained cadres of the outfit who were travelling from training camps in Myanmar.

Assam panchayat repoll: 73 per cent voting recorded G u wa h a t i , D e c 7 (PTI): Around 73 per cent voters exercised their franchise in repolling for panchayat election held in 15 polling stations of seven districts of Assam on Friday, Assam State Election Commission sources said.

Panchayat polls were held in the first phase on Thursday and the repolling was necessitated due to anomalies found in the ballot papers.

“An estimated 73.16 per cent polling was recorded in repolling held in 15 polling stations. Voting was peaceful,” the sources said. Repolling was held in polling stations in Dhemaji, Kamrup, Bishwanath, Charaideo, Lakhimpur and Jorhat districts.

Over 75 per cent people cast their votes in the first phase of panchayat elections held in 16 districts to decide the political fate of 43,515 contestants in 15,899 posts in the three tiers of panchayati raj - Zilla Parishad, Anchalik Panchayat and Gaon Panchayat.

Altogether 442 candidates of various parties have already been declared winners uncontested.

The second phase of polling will be held on December 9, when fates of

35,056 candidates will be decided for 10,909 posts by 64,21,518 voters through 9,428 polling booths in 13 districts. The counting for both the phases will take place on December 12.

Re-poll in 29 stations across Lakhimpur

Meanwhile, according to Northeast Now, re-poll has been announced in 29 polling stations across Lakhimpur district following irregularities in the first phase Panchayat polls held on December 5.

The first phase of Panchayat polls, held in Lakhimpur district on Wednesday was marred by faults in the electoral roll, faulty ballot papers with wrong poll symbols and short supplies of ballots.

The re-poll is scheduled for December 10 in 27 polling stations in North Lakhimpur sub-division.

These were messaged to the state election commission by the four election observers appointed by it for Lakhimpur Panchayat polls. Meanwhile Lakhimpur Deputy Commissioner Dr. Jeevan B. said that an enquiry would be conducted for the irregularities that had happened on December 5 poll day.

Tripura to take Rs 200 cr 3 held in Assam horticulture board scam loan from HUDCO, LIC

Foundation Higher Secondary School Dimapur, Nagaland at the Interstate competition of play (Drama/Theater) conducted at NEZCC, Shilpgram, Guwahati from November 29 to 30 in commemorations of 150 birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The play “True Spirit” directed by Uto Chishi won the second position.

DHD shooting case: 2 arrested Correspondent

Diphu, Dec 7: Two persons were arrested from Karbi Anglong near the Assam-Nagaland border on November 4 by Assam police in connection with the shooting incident of DHD (Dima Halam Daugah) Commander-in-Chief, Dilip Nunisa, on October 6, 2018.

The two arrested persons have been identified by police as P. Hasnu and Kumlin Diphusa.

A .32 pistol along with magazine and 26 live ammunitions and a 12 bore single barrel shot gun were recovered from their possession.

The two were later handed over to Diphu police station for investigation.

Agartala, Dec 7 (PTI): The BJP-IPFT government would take a loan of Rs 200 crore, either from LIC or HUDCO, to overcome severe financial crunch that the former Left Front government has left behind, a minister said on Friday.

The former Left Front government had emptied the state’s coffers due to unplanned projects undertaken without arrangement of funds, state Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath alleged.

“The state cabinet yesterday decided take a loan of Rs 200 crore from either Housing and Urban Development Corporation or the Life Insurance Corporation of India for now,” he told reporters.

Nath said, 231 projects are under progress in 21 government departments including school education,

higher education, health and family welfare, home, fire, jail, tribal welfare, law, tourism, youth and sports affairs, urban development, science and technology, minority, food and civil supplies, animal resource development, handloom, labour, panchayat and PWD. “These projects, most of which are buildings and other structures, have a cumulative financial involvement of Rs 1,497.75 crore,” he added. He alleged that the projects were started keeping the February Assembly elections in mind.

The Left Front, which ruled Tripura for 25 years since 1993, was defeated by the BJP and IPFT combine in the election this year.

“We are trying to get Rs 300.58 crore as Special Plan Assistance (SPA) from the NITI Aayog,” the law minister said.

GUWA H ATI , D e c 7 (Agencies): A CBI court has convicted three persons, including the then assistant director of National Horticulture Board, Guwahati and the then branch manager of Manipur Rural Bank, for fraudulently releasing subsidy money of Rs 37 lakh to “beneficiaries” for cultivation of horticulture crops.

The CBI had received source information that during the year 2005, NK Chaurasia, Assistant Director, National Horticulture Board (NHB), Guwahati entered into a criminal conspiracy with Chanam Basanta Kumar Singh, the then Branch Manager, Manipur Rural Bank, Imphal and Haobijan Shamu Meitei, proprietor of M/s Shamu Offset Printing Press, Imphal for the fraud.

Chaurasia, by abusing his official position, fraudulently released the subsidy cheques in respect of 25

beneficiaries for cultivation of horticulture crops under the scheme of ‘Development of Commercial Horticulture through Production and Post Harvest Management’ for total amounting to Rs 37,10,350 on the basis of

fake sanction letters of term loan, including inspection reports. The three accused were tried under sections 120B/420/409/468/471 IPC and under section 13(2) read with section 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, 1988.

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11 illegal immigrants arrested in Meghalaya

Shillong, Dec 7 (PTI): Eleven illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, including four minors, and a human trafficker from West Bengal, were arrested from a remote village in Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills district, officials said.

The illegal immigrants took advantage of the absence of a border fence along the Indo-Bangladesh border and entered the country with an aim to settle permanently here, they said. We have arrested seven Bangladeshi nationals who were caught fleeing their country by the BSF,” district SP Abraham T Sangma told PTI. He said the arrested were remanded to judicial custody. The four minors, belonging to the age group of 2 and 5 years, who were travelling with the adult immigrants were dealt with as per law, he said.

The BSF had apprehended the 11 Bangladesh nationals during a routine check of vehicles on NH-62 which connects the district headquarter and Tura, the division headquarter of Garo Hills division.

The Bangladeshi nationals are residents of Netrakona and Sunamganj district of Bangladesh and had crossed the Indo Bangladesh border with an aim to travel up to Coochbehar in West Bengal, a BSF spokesperson said.

He said that ahead of the general elections in Bangladesh, the Hindus in that country are feeling insecure and illegally entering India. A resident of Kalarayekuthi village in Coochbehar district of West Bengal, has been approaching the Bangladeshis to cross over, a BSF official said.According to the BSF, the arrested Bangladeshi nationals, said that their family members have already migrated to Coochbehar and have settled there.

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hose closely following the inner dynamics within the BJP have reasons to believe that the resignation of Dalit MP Savitri Bai Phule from BJP is a portent of things that will play out in 2019. Phule said her reason for resigning from the BJP was because the party “is playing divisive politics” and that the divisive politics was the ideology of the RSS, the VHP and the BJP which were hurting the sentiments of Dalits and Muslims by creating a 1992 like situation. She accused the sangh parivar of playing divisive politics and vitiating the communal atmosphere. Phule has been critical of the manner in which the BJP under Modi-Shah duo have strengthened their grip over the government and party to remove political obstacles and rivals. She hit out hard against the temple mania of the BJP saying “the country needs a “constitution, not a temple.” Phule reiterated that the nation’s resources were being looted under the watch of the watchman (Modi). The BJP has deep and serious problems within. On the surface, the party MPs and leaders appear to absolutely obedient to their leader Modi and party chief Shah. The resignation of Phule may not be such a news but it does matter. This has exposed the unrest among many Dalit MPs in the BJP, most of who were pinched by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah from the Bahujan Samaj Party or the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP could be facing some reverse migration and homecoming (or going) of its own. Everything is not hunky dory in the BJP and which is an open secret. A vast majority of MPs and legislators who were pinched by the BJP to swell its electoral numbers, are already making overtures to the parties from where they migrated. There are many legislators in the BJP who are perched strategically with wings spread, and who may fly away at a moment’s notice. It is speculated that even Union Minister Ramdas Athawale, the most fair-weather friend of them all, is making rumbling noises and could return to the NCP soonest. Observers believe that much of all this has to do with the style of functioning of both Modi and Shah. A BJP ideologue has been expressing the concern that the duo have rubbed many in the party, including Devendra Fadnavis and Nitin Gadkari, the wrong way.In addition MPs and ministers of the BJP are extremely unhappy with being corralled by the super powerful Prime Minister’s Office(PMO).

In a lighter vein, the absence of scams in the Modi ministry would indicate that the ministers cannot make and decision on financial matters since the PMO decides and the latter makes all the deals.

So ministers in the Modi ministry are powerless and exist only in name. That has made many very unhappy. Worse, many who are just building their political career also realise most of the sitting MPs will not get tickets. The Modi-Shah duo will decide and could even handpick politicians from other parties who have winning potential. The only thing that brought them to the BJP was the smell of power.

With no understanding of issues by Modi and Shah and even less inclination to listen to better counsel, the disgruntled can now smell defeat. They have nothing to keep them in the BJP. Thus, the BJP has nothing to fear from the Congress but much to fear from its own.

DailyDevotion Repentance Godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation… —2 Corinthians 7:10 Conviction of sin is best described in the words: My sins, my sins, my Savior, How sad on Thee they fall.

Conviction of sin is one of the most uncommon things that ever happens to a person. It is the beginning of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict people of sin (see John 16:8). And when the Holy Spirit stirs a person’s conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not that person’s relationship with others that bothers him but his relationship with God— “Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight…” (Psalm 51:4). The wonders of conviction of sin, forgiveness, and holiness are so interwoven that it is only the forgiven person who is truly holy. He proves he is forgiven by being the opposite of what he was previously, by the grace of God. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.”

The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes— a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

The entrance into the kingdom of God is through the sharp, sudden pains of repentance colliding with man’s respectable “goodness.” Then the Holy Spirit, who produces these struggles, begins the formation of the Son of God in the person’s life (see Galatians 4:19).

This new life will reveal itself in conscious repentance followed by unconscious holiness, never the other way around. The foundation of Christianity is repentance.

Strictly speaking, a person cannot repent when he chooses— repentance is a gift of God. The old Puritans used to pray for “the gift of tears.” If you ever cease to understand the value of repentance, you allow yourself to remain in sin. Examine yourself to see if you have forgotten how to be truly repentant.

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Characters around Christmas As solar industry booms, start thinking about recycling I

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ne of the few encouraging trends in the global efforts on mitigating climate change is the rapid adoption of solar energy across the world. This change is driven by a combination of government policies and declining costs.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the global solar photovoltaic (PV) installed capacity is expected to increase beyond 1,600 Gigawatts (GW) by 2030. India has set an ambitious target of 100 GW of solar capacity by 2022, with onefifth of that already installed.

However, it is important to be foresighted about potential future problems. PV panels, the most commonly deployed solar application, will inevitably pile up as waste at the end of their useful lives and create challenges in the absence of an effective plan to deal with them.

Why should we worry now when the potential problems are decades away? Consider the case of electronic waste (e-waste). With the explosive growth in the adoption of computers and consumer electronics over the last two decades, India is one of the worst affected countries by e-waste, according to the United Nations Environment (UNEP). Only recently has the Indian government started to address the crisis. Since waste management and recycling systems take a long time to evolve, India must start planning now to avoid a similar situation with solar PV. Although the theoretical

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lifespan of PV panels is 25-30 years, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) points out that multiple factors frequently contribute to the early retirement of panels. These include improper installation, minor manufacturing defects, poor maintenance and soiling, and unfavourable climatic conditions. Many of us have come across defunct solar street lights which demonstrate this unfortunate reality.

Generation of waste panels under regular and early loss scenarios in both India and the world, as calculated by IRENA are: * For India: Under regular loss scenario, 0.05 and 0.325 million tonnes by 2030 and 2050. Under the early loss scenario, the figures climb to 4.4 and 7.5 million tonnes by 2030 and 2050. * For the World, the figures are 1.7-60 million tonnes and 8 and 78 million tonnes under the two scenarious.

State-of-the-art recycling processes can recover up to 90 per cent of the clean glass and 95 per cent of the semiconductor materials from a retired module.

The major components recoverable from PV waste include glass, aluminium, silicon, copper, polymers and other minor metals.

Recycling not only prevents wastage of resources and leaching of pollutants from waste, but is also a significant economic opportunity.

IRENA estimates that PV recycling will become a $15 billion industry globally by 2050; the potential for secondary raw

material recovery equates to about 60 million new panels (18 GW of equivalent installed capacity) by 2030 and 2 billion new panels (630 GW of equivalent installed capacity) by 2050.

India can learn from global best practices in solar PV recycling.

For example, the European Union’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directives impose recycling requirements on solar panel manufacturers and mandate the fabrication of new panels using recycled components.

However, the Indian E-Waste Rules of 2016 do not include solar PV panels, which means that retired panels are dealt with by the unorganised sector with poor recovery rates and associated pollution. To establish a formal recycling ecosystem, a producerfinanced compliance fee or consumer-financed end-of-life fee can be used to create a viable financial model. This model will impose Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on manufacturers, similar to the approach being followed for e-waste.

In addition to creating employment, the silicon extracted from retired panels could provide high-quality raw material to strengthen the domestic solar PV manufacturing chain, which is currently weak. Engagement of all stakeholders is essential to develop the appropriate policy and business framework for a circular economy approach to solar PV. (IANS) Vishu Mishra & Dr Abhijit Banerjee

ronically, Christmas stirs up mixed feeling across a cross section of Society, for children, its ‘’Happy Holidays’’ gift, new clothes, good food and so on, for parents, it might turn out to be an expensive festival. In the church context, the clergy and laity would be on their toes, preparing messages, organizing choir presentations, carol-round and so on. The business community sets the streets ablaze with flashy lights and loud music, luring people to make big purchases by offering tantalizing discount.

Each year we celebrate Christmas as a time of giving, a time of getting together with loved ones and as a time of joy. Unfortunately each year there are more and more people who want to take Christ out of the celebrations.

Many Christians do not state or expresses Merry Christmas instead just wishes by saying X-Mas. What we forget is that Christ is truly the reason for the celebration to occur at all.

When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a peculiar star appeared in the sky. In those days men believed that they could foretell the future from the stars and they believed that a man’s destiny was determined by the stars under which he was born.

We do not know what stars arose when Jesus was born, about 11 BC Halley’s comet was visible shooting Brightly across skies, about 7 BC there was Brilliant conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. In the year 2 to 4 BC, on the first day of the Egyptian month Messori, the dog star rose Helically at Sunrise and shone with Brilliance. The name Messori means the Birth of a prince and to the Ancient Astrologers such a star would undoubtedly mean Birth of

some great king. Probably this star was sighted by three magi who were wise men skilled in philosophy, medicine and Natural science. And so they set out from the East following it till they reached the place where Christ was born.

They must have been expectantly looking at the Heavens for a sigh and that Heavenly Brilliance made it clear to their minds that a king has entered into the world, their entire focus all long their journey was only on the star that they followed it carefully till it reached Bethlehem. And when they saw the Baby Christ, they were undoubtedly convinced that he was the king. They worshipped him in Adoration! How Amazing!

Christmas is joyful because what man lost in the garden of Eden is regained-The relationship with above father. What better way can we celebrate Christmas than to share this news with those who have lost everything.

For Believers Christmas does not mean ‘’Santa Claus, cakes and gifts, it is a time when our hearts are filled with gratitude and reverence as we think of the condescension of our lord. The word of Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 8:9 put that in perspective.

Christmas-The season of joy, peace and togetherness it is the time of the year we give gifts to each other and help generously the needy and the downtrodden.

Let this Christmas remind us to seek the lord to worship him and to offer our own selves to him.

May the joy of Christmas fill our hearts forever!

D. Akato Achumi, Co-ordinator, 24/7 Chain of Prayer Ministry, Dimapur

Poland seeks to send a climate-change message to the world

s humanity in peril due to climate change? The much-publicised underwater meeting of the Maldavian cabinet 2009, just about two months before the 15th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 15), was deemed to have already responded to that question, albeit symbolically.

Maldavian ministers, led by then President Mohamed Nasheed, literally went down in the shallow waters off the island of Girifushi, one of the nearly 1,000 that make the Maldives most vulnerable to climate change. They then got down to the business of governance by communicating through hand gestures.

Some critics dismissed that meeting as a publicity stunt. Many in the diplomatic world, however, judged it a remarkable and bold gesture. It was considered a clarion call to global consciousness on issues that must be hammered out at the COP 15 in Copenhagen.

(From previous issue) Considering aforementioned theological discourse it may be understood that the creator wants humanity to reserve sex for marriage not because it’s “bad”, “dirty” or sinful but precisely because it is the most beautiful and spiritual way to experience the epitome of pleasure of union of man and a woman.

Sex is a sacred mystery. It’s a powerful bonding agent that shapes and affects the relationship between man and a woman as nothing else can. It is also important to understand that the sex also causes a free exchange of spiritual energies. A sex with a wrong person can create a spiritual-psychological havoc in the life. Therefore it has always been said that the sex is the heavenly pleasure on the Earth that can even take man and a woman to ‘spiritual enlightenment’. In many cultures sexual experience has been associated with godly encounter.

Creator has enough reasons to make laws for the man. However, it is the man who breaks the law and as a result heavily pays for it. One of the purposes of this article Is not to inject

The most intense climate campaigner among the then Heads of State, Nasheed wanted to create awareness about not just the plight of the small-island countries in the wake of the rise in sea levels but also the extinction of life on Earth as hinted in the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that went on to win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Come 2018 -- and three years after Paris Climate Agreement -- COP 24 is now being held, literally, on top of one of Poland’s deep coal mines. It is yet not clear if it is another bold experiment by Poland’s young President, Andrzej Duda, to draw the attention of the international community to the darker side of the long and fatally flawed international efforts in addressing one of the deadly sources of climate change.

The conference is underway (December 2-14) in the region called the Upper Silesian Basin, known for

the deep mines of lignite, hard and dirty coal. These are not just Poland’s largest operating coal mines, but the mine workers there are the key deciding factors in Polish politics.

The conference venue, Katowice, not far from Krakow where President Duda comes from, is in a busy mining area with strong political clout. The region is the home to the European Union’s largest coal producers. Needless to emphasise, ownership of these coal mines is not just Polish but other European countries as well. So, the roots of the mining are not only deep but, in a globalised world, have spread far and wide.

As if to broadcast the “reality-show” and to make the green movement extremely anxious, many of the events on the margins of COP 24 are financed by the coal-mining companies.

Until the affordable access to alternate fuel that provides similar employment and prosperity to Pol-

Love in the time of HIV theological doses, but to give different perspectives as to what has been said about casual sex. ‘Right to make Choice’ and liberty thereof have been well respected, protected and upheld by the supreme law of the land. However, the question haunts as to whether people in the vulnerable age group are really capable to understand the meaning of sex?

Would they really be able to bear psychological burden that comes with ‘guilty pleasure’? Do people really understand the unfathomable depth of the meaning of love?, Is Marriage an ultimate, final deterrence to the menace of HIV? There have been instances in Nagaland and elsewhere in India where people have hidden their HIV status from their sexual partners. What kind of psychological and emotional solace the ‘infected’ people might be getting by infecting the same disease to their innocent partners whom they claimed to have loved? This is very serious question. On the other hand, there are people who are not willing to undergo the HIV TEST which is very simple and can

be done free of cost. Many cases of HIV infection when diagnosed late has already progressed to the advance stages which actually diminishes the chances of survival of infected patient.

Aforementioned analysis leads us to the direction of ‘Human Psychology’.

Authorities, Care givers, Doctors, NGOs, Lawyers, Priests, Clergymen, Theologians should essentially take a psychological element into consideration while helping people to understand the dynamics of HIV Virus, its infection and management.

It has been observed that the people attempt to indoctrinate people as to not to have sex till they get married, however, through this article it is urged to the humanity to face the hard-core fact that pre-marital and extramarital sex has always been the reality of any given society in the world since the dawn of humanity and the introduction of “system of marriage”. HIV doesn’t see who is unmarried and who is married or who is having holy sex or sinful sex. There have been well documented cases wherein much married people got infected with the

ish workers, sticking with coal is the only option for the Polish government. To hammer home the point, the government recently announced it is planning to invest in the construction of a new coal mine in Silesia.

By selecting it as venue for COP 24, Poland is making audacious efforts to raise global consciousness and awareness on the stark ground reality of the global war to tackle one of the greatest challenges of our times. A positive message from Katowice and the Upper Silesian basin is that the world needs to eliminate coal through technopolitical-social solutions and not just through “clean coal”-like soft technological options.

What is the stark and dark reality? Nearly 80 per cent of the electricity in Poland is derived from coal. Globally, coal is the single-largest contributor to the Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, in this case carbon dioxide. On

deadly disease due to infidelity of one of the partners.

Therefore, along with regular sex education, people should be taught an art to manage their psychological outbursts and emotional impulses before and during sex. Love and Sex goes hand in hand however, marriage is a union that protects the sanctity of ‘holy orgasm’ and divine ‘insemination’, but it cannot guarantee HIV free life. It is untrue to say that by rule married couples are protected from the attack of HIV virus. It is the mind that is culprit- a mind that one day can take you to the God, and the next day to the Prostitute. Let us understand the meaning of Love in the time of HIV. Let us act responsible.

Let us wait for marriage to happen to experience the divine pleasure. Let us act at least sensible and responsible when caught in the ‘storm’ of emotions.

Let us not lose control. Let us use CONDOMS. Let us fight HIV. (Concluded) Aniruddha Babar, PhD, Department of Political Science, Tetso College, Dimapur

a weight-by-weight basis, coal produces 30 per cent more GHGs than oil and 50 per cent more than natural gas. It is also the major contributor to air pollution that is now a life-threatening menace in the urbanised world.

Coal mining is also a significant source of emission of methane, which has even more global-warming potential than carbon dioxide. Widespread use of lower quality coal to heat homes, especially in the colder months, has led to smog and respiratory illnesses in Poland’s southern cities, as in many emerging economies like India and China.

So, this black gold is now called dirty and antienvironmental in all its characters. But historically, coal has been serving humanity for ages for heating, cooking, steaming, lighting, manufacturing and electrifying. It was instrumental in triggering and spreading the industrial revolution that

started with steam engines in the mid-18th century and has provided direct and indirect employment to billions.

To be fair, Poland is not the only country that uses coal to meet a major part of its energy needs. Globally, 40 per cent of the energy is produced by burning coal.

China, India, the US are the three largest emitters of GHGs, most of which come from coal. In the US, the fracking revolution has in recent years reduced the use of coal for electricity to 30 per cent.

So, will delegates from all over the world to COP 24 get the symbolic message of President Duda in hosting the Climate Conference of world leaders on top of a coal mine?

(IANS) Rajendra Shende (The author is Chairman TERRE Policy centre and former director UNEP. The views expressed are personal.

He can be contacted atshende. rajendra@gmail.com)

Reader’s Post

Road development and Water Scarcity at Kohima

Sir,

The ongoing up-gradation work of NH crossing Kohima carrying out by the reputed firm M/S Vilelie Khamo & Sons is highly appreciated. Hopefully the state government will ensure that the work will be completed within the stipulated time allotted without compromising quality of work. The citizens should also cooperate and support the Government and the contractor as the benefit is for all.

The citizens of Kohima the capital city of Nagaland are facing water scarcity due to damaged of water supply pipe line from Phesama village stream. The poor citizens are paying `5000/- and above per month for purchase of water from the private water suppliers, as a result many families are facing hard time to manage their families.

The writer’s view is that the government should make temporary/alternate arrangement to continue regular water supply without interrupting it due to road works.

If government has to arrange it, I believe that it will not cost much as temporary rubber pipes can be used and laid on the other side of the road till the damage permanent pipe lines are re-restored.

As of now the government is charging `200/- only being monthly fee for water supply which is only nominal fee and nobody complaint about it. I also believe that nobody will complain even if government enhance the rate to some extend so as to commensurate government revenue followed by regular water supply and proper distribution.

E.Stephen Rikha, Kohima Town

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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have mysterious powers 74% turnout in Rajasthan; 67 % in Telangana EVMs in Modi’s India, says Rahul

those from the other four states which saw Assembly elections in the past few weeks.

Raje, who is the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate, is fighting against veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s son Manvendra Singh in Jhalrapatan, the constituency she has represented since 2003. In the current House, the BJP has 160 seats and the Congress 25.

T’gana voting largely peaceful

An estimated 67 per cent of over 2.80 crore voters cast their ballots in Telangana in an election that will test the popularity of the ruling TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao and the wisdom of the great gamble he made in going for early elections.

NNC Zeliangrong Region appeals for peace DI M APUR , DEC 7 (NPN): Naga National Council (NNC) parent body, Zeliangrong Region (Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland) has appealed to all the Naga National workers of various factions to desist from factional clash and shun bloodshed, violence and factional killing in the interest of the Naga people yearning for peaceful living.

In a press release, NNC parent body Zeliangrong Region (AMN) urged the “Naga revolutionary groups” operating in the Zeliangrong territory to maintain a peaceful environment and to co-exist in mutual understanding as brothers and sisters. It stated that any misunder-

standing among different groups of “national workers” must be sorted out for the cause of Naga people’s interest, adding that hatred, jealousy, and enmity had no place in society.

It also maintained that ongoing Naga peace talk with the government of India by six NNPGs Working Committee and NSCN (I-M) was in “a fruitful and in an advanced move”, which it claimed would be “a highest political arrangement and honourable for the Nagas basing on the unique Naga historical and political rights.”

The region extended support to six NNPGs Working Committee leaders under the leadership of N Kitovi Zhimomi, Ato

SC dismisses PIL against Arun Jaitley

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Proactive, AI-based tools to check objectionable contents

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): Social media platfor ms like Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter will soon deploy ‘proactive, artificial intelligence (AI) based tools’ to check spread of hate messages and rumours inciting violence and crimes against women, Home Ministry officials said Friday.

Anyone found involved in disseminating fake news creating social tension or pornographic contents inciting sex crimes will be identified, name disclosed and prosecuted.

This was agreed upon after a series of meetings between representatives of the social media platforms and central government officials led by Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba, a Home Ministry official said.

The social media sites have agreed to deploy ‘pro-

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The compliance period has come down from 72 hours to 24 hours and it was agreed that if a case is made out in any incident, the person will be identified, name disclosed and he/she will be prosecuted, the official said.

The social media plat-

forms have engaged NGOs working in the field and appointed grievance redressal cell for prompt action.

Earlier, the government had said social media sites were “slow” in removing objectionable or unlawful content which allegedly aided the spread of hate messages, rumours inciting violence and crimes against women and they were warned of strict legal action if they failed to comply with the directives of law enforcement agencies.

In the recent past, some objectionable content which could potentially disrupt public peace or law and order and incite criminal offences, including communal violence, have been posted on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube .

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of the Home Ministry. Action was taken for removal of such content after the intervention of the ministry and the Delhi Police.

During the meetings, specific instances of legal requisitions were shown where the Delhi Police had sought removal of content openly inciting violence but the social platforms’ response had been neither “full nor timely”, another official said.

Specific legal notices issued by the Delhi Police seeking investigation-related information were also shared with them.

During the series of meetings with all social

media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter, the government had sensitised them about preventive and other actions to remove unlawful content immediately, another official said.

Gauba had held the meetings in June and October. A series of meetings were conducted by senior officers of the Home Ministry, Delhi Police and police officers of other states to sensitise the country representatives of social medial platforms about gravity of unlawful or objectionable content posted on their platforms, and their possible consequences.

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New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a PIL raising allegations against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley relating to capital reserve of the Reserve Bank of India. The apex court also imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on advocate M L Sharma, who had filed the public interest litigation (PIL).

“We find no reason whatsoever to entertain this PIL,” said a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justcie S K Kaul. Sharma had accused the finance minister of “plundering” the capital reserve of the RBI. The bench also directed the apex court registry not to allow Sharma to file any PIL till he deposits Rs 50,000. The top court imposed the cost as the advocate continued with the argument after the dismissal of the PIL. The Chief Justice warned him not to con-

tinue with the submissions, saying cost will be imposed if he was unable to satisfy the court.

The apex court expressed displeasure that the advocate made the finance minister as the main party in the PIL. The bench said: “What is this PIL? You cannot go on with such misadventure. What exactly is this?

You are saying the finance minister is plundering the capital reserve of the RBI. “We don’t subscribe to such plea and picking up on people. You are not bringing honour to this institution. Why do we permit you to go ahead with this PIL.” The advocate had also alleged interference by the Centre in the functioning of the Reserve Bank. He submitted that the finance minister favoured waiving loan of up to 55,000 crore given by the PSU banks to prominent corporates who have been giving donations to a particular party.

The lawyer said that previously receiving donations from foreign companies was a criminal offence but later the Centre and the finance minister brought amendments in the provisions of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act to permit such donations.

Kilonser GPRN/NSCN as convener, who is leading the peace talk with the government of India.

It claimed that negotiations were in a transparent, inclusive and practical manner.

NNC ZeliangrongRegion also endorsed and supported the collective leadership of NNC-Parent Body, president Z RoyimYimchunger, also working committee co-convener and executive member NNC parent body Toshi Wallling, and working committee member and Zeliangrong-Region general secretary Liangkebo.

Meanwhile, NNC Zeliangrong-Region extended Christmas and New Year wishes to all.

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suspended the poll official responsible for the delayed submission of EVMs. Doubts have been raised over the third controversy, which rose from short video clips of voting machines allegedly being kept in a hotel belonging to a local BJP leader.

However, doubts over the reliability of EVMs refuse to die down. A Border Security Force sub-inspector was removed from election duty on Tuesday, a day after Congress workers found him using a laptop outside a Mandi strongroom.

The authorities said they will take action against the officer on the basis of a probe.

Most opposition parties in the country demand that paper ballots be brought back in the next Lok Sabha elections owing to the alleged susceptibility of EVMs to technological manipulation.

However, the Election Commission maintains that returning to the previous system makes “no sense”, and voterverifiable paper audit trail units should be more than enough to put all such doubts to rest. The BJP, for its part, insists that opposition parties are blaming EVMs to hide their insecurities.

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disperse miscreants trying to force their way into a booth at a village in Alwar’s Shahjahapur.

In Bikaner’s Kolayat, two groups clashed outside a polling booth and a vehicle was torched. In Sikar too there was a clash.

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sachin Pilot and other leaders were among those who exercised their franchise. Raje (Jhalrapatan), Pilot (Tonk), former chief minister Ashok Gehlot (Sardarpura) are among the 2,274 candidates in the fray.

The election in Ramgarh constituency of Alwar district was put off following the death of Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Laxman Singh.

The results will be out on December 11, along with

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (Agencies): Electronic voting machines (EVMs) can do much more than just record one’s vote. Going by a tongue-in-cheek tweet

by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, they can also hijack buses to go on road trips and slip away from booths to park themselves in seedy hotel rooms.

According to NDTV, Gandhi made these references while exhorting party members to keep an eye on voting machines after polling is completed in Telangana and Rajasthan today.

“Congress party workers, be vigilant after the polls close. In MP, EVMs behaved strangely after polling: Some stole a bus and vanished for 2 days! Others slipped away & were found drinking in a hotel. In Modi’s India, EVMs have mysterious powers. Stay alert!” his tweet read.

The Congress president was referring to several EVM-related controversies that erupted after Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh went to the polls recently.

Congress parliamentarian Vivek Tankha complained to the Election Commission that several reserve EVMs were brought to the Sagar district collector’s office in an unregistered school bus over two days after voting on November 28, indicating that they could have been taken elsewhere to be tampered.

In another incident, CCTV cameras installed at an EVM strongroom in Bhopal stopped functioning for over an hour on November 30 due to an unprecedented power cut -- provoking accusations of tampering from opposition parties.

A backdoor of another strongroom was found open, ensuring access to everybody.

The Election Commission admitted to lapses in all these instances and

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Jaipur/ Hyderabad, Dec 7 (PTI): About 74 per cent of the 4.74 crore registered voters had cast their vote in Rajasthan and Telangana 67 per cent as voting in these two states came to a close on Friday, the Election Commission said.

In Rajasthan, elections were held for 199 of the 200 assembly seats. At the close of the polling, the Election Commission said the turnout 73.85 per cent, less than a percentage point short of the 75.23 registered in 2013.

Officials said the final figure could be higher.

Polling began at 51,687 booths across the state at 8 am. The police reported a few clashes among supporters, but said polling was largely peaceful.

Paramilitary jawans opened fire in the air to

Reddy and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi were among leaders who cast their ballots.

Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged that his party candidate in Kalwakurthy Assembly segment Vamsichand Reddy was attacked by BJP cadre in Amangal where he had gone to observe the poll pattern. However, BJP’s chief spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao denied the allegation claiming the Congress was “playing victim games sensing disastrous defeat.” TRS supremo and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, widely credited for the creation of Telangana, exuded confidence that his party would come back to power with a “huge majority.”

Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi, veteran actor Krishna, popular heroes Nagarjuna, “junior” NTR and Mahesh Babu, and ‘Baahubali’-fame director S S Rajamouli exercised their franchise. Tennis ace Sania Mirza and star badminton player P V Sindhu also cast their vote. The Congress has stitched together “Praja Kutami” (People’s Front) with the TDP, Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) and CPI in a bid to wrest power from the TRS, which is seeking a second term in office. As many as 1,821 candidates including a transgender are in the electoral fray.

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(L-R) Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote. Telangana caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his wife Shobha show their ink-marked finger after casting their votes on Friday. (PTI)

Barring stray incidents of clashes and malfunctioning of voting machines at a few places, the polling was largely peaceful, including in areas affected by Maoist insurgency.

“As of 5 pm, we have reports that the polling was at 67 per cent. Webcasting shows that some people are still in queues. So, we expect the polling to go up by another two per cent,” the state’s chief electoral officer Rajat Kumar told reporters.

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Jitender told PTI that the entire polling process was “incident free”.

However, independent reports said TRS and Congress workers clashed at a place in Nagar Kurnool district. Kumar said there was a delay in start of polling at some booths on accounts of malfunctioning of EVMs and voter verifiable paper audit trail machines.

Vote was taken for all the 119 seats of Telangana assembly for the first time after the division of Andhra Pradesh and creation of India’s youngest state in 2014.

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On Thursday, the rupee fell by 44 paise against the dollar to close at 70.90.

The BSE Sensex rallied 361.12 points, or 1.02 per cent, to close at 35,673.25.

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M e a n w h i l e, B r e n t crude, the international oil benchmark, was trading 0.52 per cent higher at USD 60.37 per barrel Friday.

The Financial Benchmark India Private Ltd (FBIL) set the reference rate for the rupee/dollar at 70.5663 and for rupee/euro at 80.2245. The reference rate for rupee/British pound was fixed at 90.1212 and for rupee/100 Japanese yen at 62.53.

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Forex dealers said the local unit recovered lost ground tracking weakness in American dollar against some currencies overseas following reports that the Federal Reserve could slow down its pace of interest rate hikes next year.

At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (forex), the rupee opened on a firm footing at 70.58 against the US dollar and surged further to touch a high of 70.44 during the day.

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He obtained his MBA and PhD in Financial Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business under the advice of Professor Luigi Zingales and Professor Raghuram Rajan (former CEA and RBI governor).

The Economic Survey of India is also compiled and released by the CEA. Arvind Subramanian assumed the role in October 2014 and stayed beyond the usual three-year term at the request of union minister Arun Jaitley.

Raghuram Rajan, who too was a CEA, became the governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 2013.

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airports with an investment of about USD 65 billion in the coming years, the minister added.

Improvement in infrastructure, hike in per capita income, availability of huge market and high return on investments are some of the reasons available for global funds to invest in India, Prabhu said.

Speaking at the summit, secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Ramesh Abhishek said that to further improve ease of doing business, the ministry would create ranking at district levels. He said that so far 21 regulations have been eased to promote growth of startups and “we need to do more”.

Mumbai, Dec 7 (PTI): The country’s foreign exchange reserves increased by USD 932.8 million to USD 393.718 billion in the week to November 30, mainly due to a rise in foreign currency assets, according to RBI data.

In the previous week, the reserves had dropped by USD 795 million to USD 392.785 billion.

In the reporting week, foreign currency assets, a major component of the overall reserves, jumped by USD 787.9 million to USD 368.487 billion, as per the RBI data.

Expressed in US dollars, foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of nonUS currencies such as the euro, pound and yen held in the reserves. Forex reserves had touched a record high of USD 426.028 billion in the week to April 13, 2018. Since then, the forex kitty has been on a slide and is now down by over USD 31 billion. Gold reserves rose by USD 151.8 million to USD 21.150 billion in the reporting week, the data showed. The special drawing rights with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dipped by USD 2.5 million to USD 1.454 billion. The country’s reserve position with the IMF also decline by USD 4.4 million to USD 2.625 billion, the apex bank said.

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New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu Friday sought investments from global funds in startups from different sectors. He said huge investment potential exists in India as the country’s economy is going to reach $10 trillion by 2035.

“Global funds will get huge return on investments here.

Big opportunities exists in areas like infrastructure, services, healthcare and education,” he said here at the Global Venture Capital Fund summit.

He said phenomenal growth would happen in the next few years in the infrastructure sector in areas like roads, ports and airports. India will be constructing 100

Forex reserves rise by $932.8 mn

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): The government Friday appointed ISB Hyderabad professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian as Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) for a period of three years.

The post of CEA had been lying vacant since Arvind Subramanaian left the finance ministry after a four-year stint in July this year.

“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved for the appointment of Dr Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Associate Prof. and ED (CAF), ISB, Hyderabad, to the post of Chief Economic Adviser,” said a government notification.

His appointment will be for a period of three years, it said.

An IIT-IIM alumnus, Subramanian holds Ph D (Financial Economics) from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, the US. The government had invited applications for the post CEA in July.

The key responsibilities of the CEA include providing policy inputs on industrial development and foreign trade, conducting analysis of trends in industrial production and releasing statistical information on key economic indicators.

It could not be ascer-

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half of them under a PCA plan and the rest cautious due to a record $150 billion in bad debt, there is concern that their ability to lend is restricted.

The government is particularly anxious to increase the availability of credit for small and medium-sized businesses.

The government has been using some of the members it nominated to the central bank’s board to increase pressure on the RBI to relax curbs on the 11 lenders and to take a series of other actions to increase liquidity. The BFS was brought into the matter at the last meeting at the direction of the board.

The RBI kept interest rates unchanged and retained its “calibrated tightening” stance at its monetary policy committee meeting on Wednesday despite a steep downward revision in its inflation projections.

The government said in a statement it believed the “policy stance probably required calibration,” in an indication it may be unhappy with the RBI retaining its tightening bias.

A finance ministry official declined to clarify the statement.

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measures that the 11 banks, the government and the RBI will need to take to revive them, the source said.

The lack of momentum is only likely to add to tensions between the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RBI at the next board meeting on Dec. 14. The BFS only meets once a month.

The RBI did not reply to an email seeking comments for this story.

T h e g o ve r n m e n t , which wants the central bank to make it easier for banks and other lenders to make loans ahead of a general election due by May next year, is now in a position to control the board following its recent appointments of new members.

In recent months, the government and the central bank have been at loggerheads over whether the RBI has been too hawkish in its stance towards lenders and the economy given a drop in the inflation rate and signs of slower growth, as well as in the face of defaults by a major lender.

There are 21 listed state-run banks in India that cater to about twothird of the total loans in the economy. With nearly

Currently, MSIL sells a range of vehicles starting from the entry level hatchback Alto 800 to the S-Cross with prices ranging between 2.49 lakh and 11.5 lakh (all prices ex-showroom Guwahati). Maruti Suzuki’s portfolio currently comprises of 14 car models – Alto 800, K10, Wagon R, Celerio, Swift Dzire, newly relaunched Ertiga, Omni, Eeco, Gypsy and Brezza apart from Baleno, Ciaz, Ignis and S-Cross through its NEXA channel.

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MUMBAI, Dec 7 (Agencies): A crucial Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sub-committee did not discuss easing lending curbs facing 11 state-run banks on Thursday despite intense pressure from the government to take a softer stance towards them, a source close to the discussions said.

The source said that the central bank’s board for financial supervision (BFS) only discussed the banks’ September quarter results and did not address the so-called prompt corrective action (PCA) plan that they currently have to operate under. That plan which restricts their lending has been imposed in recent years after the 11 suffered from a surge in bad loans, capital depletion and mounting losses.

The BFS is waiting for a detailed plan from RBI officials before it can submit recommendations to the central bank’s board, which will decide on steps to ease any of the curbs facing individual banks, the source said. “The RBI did not indicate any date so far to complete and submit the detailed plan,” this person added.

The plan will include

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We’re not your ‘hired gun’ anymore: Imran tells US

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countries. We want a similar relationship with the US.” He said Pakistan was not “hedging” towards China, rather it was Washington’s attitude which had brought a change in the bilateral relationship. “The US has basically pushed Pakistan away.”

Asked why he “harboured anti-US sentiments”, Khan said disagreeing with Washington’s policies did not make him “anti-American”. “This is a very imperialistic approach. You are either with me or against me.” Khan condemned the 2011 US operation in Abbottabad that killed Osama

Herat, Dec 7 (IANS): At least 14 Afghan soldiers were killed after Taliban militants attacked an Army camp in the country’s Herat province overnight, officials said on Friday.

“Hundreds of Taliban militants attacked and overran an Army camp in Cheshma area of Shindand district, killing 14 Army soldiers,” an official told Xinhua news agency.

The militants also captured 20 Army personnel along with weapons and ammunition and took them to an unknown location after the attack in the restive district, the official added. He said the militants also suffered casualties but did not give exact figures. The district has been the scene of heavy clashes as Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints and Army camps from time to time.

Early in June, 17 Afghan soldiers were killed after Taliban stormed an Army checkpoint in Shindand.

The Afghan security forces’ casualties have risen recently as they struggle against a surge in attacks by the Taliban militant group and other anti-government fighters.

bin Laden, saying that it was “humiliating” that Washington did not trust Pakistan to kill the terrorist.

“It was humiliating that we were losing our soldiers and civilians and (suffering terrorist) bomb attacks because we were participating in the US war, and then our ally did not trust us to kill Bin Laden,” he said, adding that the US “should have tipped off Pakistan”.

“We did not know whether we were a friend or a foe.”

He also dismissed claims that there were safe havens for terrorists in Pakistan, saying that “there are no sanctuaries in Pakistan”.

Referring to US President Donald Trump’s South Asia policy, Khan said he was committed to having dialogue to achieve peace in war-torn Afghanistan.

“I talked for years about how there was no military solution in Afghanistan and they called me Taliban Khan. Now I’m happy that everyone realises there is only a political solution.”

Malala Yousafzai honoured

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Washington, Dec 7 (IANS): Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has been honoured by Harvard University for her global work promoting girls education.

The 21-year-old received the 2018 Gleitsman Award on Thursday from the Centre for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School for her global movement to equip girls with 12 years of free, quality and safe education.

The award was presented to Malala at a public ceremony at Harvard Kennedy School, NBC TV Network reported. In 2014, Yousafzai became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her efforts for children’s rights. On October 2012, she was shot in the head at point-blank range by Taliban gunmen as she was returning from her school in Pakistan’s Swat valley.

Yousafzai is now a student at Oxford University. The Gleitsman Award provides $125,000 for activism that has improved quality of life around the world.

France tightens security amid fears of more riots

France’s leading unions and prominent politicians across the political spectrum called for calm after the worst rioting in Paris in decades last weekend.

Museums, theatres and shops in Paris announced they would close tomorrow as a precaution - including the city’s famed Eiffel Tower. President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday agreed to abandon the fuel tax hike, part of his plans to combat global warming, Riot police face high school students demonstrating in but protesters’ demands front of the Prefecture of Lille, northern France. have now expanded to other networks and chat groups.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told senators yesterday that the government will deploy “exceptional” security measures for the protests in Paris and elsewhere, with additional new forces on top of the 65,000 security officers already in place.

Some “yellow vest” protesters, members of

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issues hurting French workers, retirees and students.

In a move questioned by both critics and supporters, the president himself has disappeared from public view. Scores of protesting teenagers clashed with police at a high school west of Paris yesterday, according to French news reports, as part of nationwide student protests over new university admissions procedures and rising fees.

Drivers wearing their signature yellow safety vests continued to block roads

around France, now demanding broader tax cuts and wider government social benefits.

A small union representing police administrators called for a strike on Saturday, which could further complicate security measures.

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Washington, Dec 7 (IANS): Apprehensions of migrant family members who illegally crossed the southern border into the US broke another record in November, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.

This is the third month in a row that family apprehensions have set a record, the data issued on Thursday rvealed.

Overall arrests, however, remained relatively stagnant from October, ticking slightly up from 51,001 to 51,856, and came nowhere close to setting a record. In the early to mid2000s, there were months when well over 100,000 migrants were apprehended illegally crossing the southern border.

What has changed is

Place : Dimapur State Stadium, near D.C Court

Date : Dec. 7, 2018

Time : 3:00 PM

ORDER OF SERVICE : Ps. K. Thenjamo (Dimapur Lotha Baptist Church) 2. Welcome address : Rev. Dr. Thungdemo 3. Invocation prayer : Rev. Dr. Lohe (CBC) 4. Special No. : (a) Konyak Baptist Church Dimapur (b) Golden Crown Theological College 5. Scripture reading : Pastor Peter Basumatary, Kachari Basti Church, Lotha Colony 6. Offertory prayer : Rev. Dr. Xashepu Wotsa (Foundar & Director NLBC) 7. Message : 8. Benediction : Rev. R. Meren (Executive Secretary NBCA)

the demographics of the undocumented migrants coming over the MexicoUS border.

The US is “continuing to see family groups percentage-wise continue to rise”, said a CBP official in Texas.

The official said the uptick in families has been “really stretching resources”, everything from transportation to processing to medical care.

The official added that while the families and minors are not necessarily a threat, genuine threats can slip by amid the “humanitarian mission”.

The number of family members arrested by the US Border Patrol rose around 9 per cent month to month, from 23,115 in October to 25,172 last month.

However, the November 2018 figure was up more than 200 per cent from the 7,016 family member apprehensions in November 2017.

Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, called the November numbers “predictable” and blamed a “broken immigration system”, CNN reported.

Thousands of Central American migrants have been waiting at the Mexican border city of Tijuana as part of the caravan for their turn to enter the US and seek asylum.

The issue gained national attention over the Thanksgiving weekend when some migrants attempted to rush the port of entry into California.

Theme : "Revive us again" Ps. 85:6 Speakers : 1. Rev. Michael Choo, (Philippines) 2. Rev. Dr. Lee Ki-do, (Seoul, South Korea)

REVIVAL AND HEALING FESTIVAL DIMAPUR

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent pats down Honduran migrants after they crossed onto U.S territory from Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday. AP/PTI)

Date : Dec. 8, 2018

Time : 3:00 PM

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: Sr. Nukshila Aying Doulo (DBWU President)

2. Invocation prayer

: Rev. Thridong (Sangtam Baptist Church Dimapur)

3. Special No.

: (a) Neighbourhood Children's Home (Midland Dimapur)

4. Scripture reading

: Rev. Dulal Sarkar Pastor Bengali Baptist Church

5. Offertory prayer

: Rev. K. N. Kele

6. Message

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(b) Yanbeni Ngullie, EBC

Date : Dec. 9, 2018

Time : 3:00 PM

ORDER OF SERVICE 1. Leader : Rev. Daniel M Shayan 2. Invocation prayer : Rev. I. Wati (Ao Baptist Church DABA) 3. Exhortation : Shri. Maongwati, (Secretary PHED Kohima) 4. Special No. : (a) Jolo Voice Rengma Baptist (b) Angami BAPTIST Church Dimapur 5. Scripture reading : Pastor Wilungbo, Youth Pastor, Zeliang Rong Baptist Church Sewak 6. Offertory prayer : Rev. Fr. Ritesh Kumer Believers Eastern Church 7. Message :

FELICITATION

The Kulolau Yeputhomi Kuqhakulu Dimapur (KYKD) would like to congratulate Dr. Kito K. Yeputhomi, son of Shri. Khutoi Yeputhomi, resident of Naga United Village Dimapur for being commissioned as Assistant Commandant, Assam Rifles.

The Union is immensely proud of his achievement and wish him unlimited success in all his future endeavours.

HOKHETO YEPUTHOMI Chairman KYKD

OTOKA H. YEPUTHO Media & Publicity Secretary KYKD

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Paris, Dec 7 (Agencies): France will deploy more than 65,000 security forces amid fears of fresh rioting at protests in Paris and around the nation.

Police unions and local authorities held emergency meetings on how to handle the weekend protests, while disparate groups of protesters did the same thing, sharing their plans on social

US border family arrests maintain record-high streak

14 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban attack

OFFICE OF THE LENGRIJAN VILLAGE COUNCIL DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

COME ONE

COME ALL

Advent Christmas Night Carnival

ORGANISED BY LENGRIJAN VILLAGE COUNCIL Time : 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM Date : 17th Dec. to 21st Dec. 2018.

Venue : Lengrijan, Tuesday Market, Dimapur Inauguration by

Patron of the Carnival (Day-2)

D.C Dimapur.

O.C West Police Station, Dimapur

Sushil Kumar Patel, IAS.

Among Jamir,

Closing of the Carnival (21st Dec) Basu Damani Nagaland State Gen. Secy. NDPP

Limited Stall Available. First Come First Serve Basis. For Booking of Stall and Other related queries please contact Night Carnival Committee Convener.

Contact No. : 9862846685 / 8837271215

All Are Welcome (N MEREN IMCHEN) Chairman Lengrijan Village Council, Dimapur : Nagaland

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Islamabad, Dec 7 (IANS): Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the US of “pushing Pakistan away” and said he would never want to have a relation with Washington where his country is treated like a “hired gun”.

“I would never want to have a relationship where Pakistan is treated like a hired gun -- given money to fight someone else’s war,” Khan said in an interview with the Washington Post on Thursday, referring to the 1980s war against the Soviet Union and the ongoing war on terror.

“We should never put ourselves in this position again. It not only cost us human lives, devastation of our tribal areas, but it also cost us our dignity. We would like a proper relationship with the US,” he said.

Asked to elaborate on the ideal nature of relationship that he would like to have with the US, Khan said: “For instance, our relationship with China is not one-dimensional. It’s a trade relationship between two

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Longleng DPDB discusses Positivity seminar in Tuensang encroachment, Officers’ Club

DIMAPUR: The Longleng District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) meeting was held under the chairmanship of ADC Longleng, Temsuwati on December 7 at the DC’s conference hall, Longleng.

According to a DIPR report, the chairman introduced the new administrative officers of Sakshi and Yachem EAC headquarters, followed by review of the last DPDB meeting minutes. Pointing out that

parliamentary elections are likely to be held early 2019, the chairman appealed to all members to submit detailed lists of government employees of their respective departments.

Temsuwati also urged the developmental departments and agencies to consult with and inform the district administration before initiating any developmental projects in private land to avoid landownership issues.

He informed the meet-

ing that all government land for offices and quarters will be resurveyed to avoid encroachment by private individuals and organizations.

The chairman also apprised the members that the Officers’ Club will be made fully functional by 2019. According to Temsuwati, the officers club is being created to give officers posted in the district a platform to build strong and cordial relationships among themselves.

DIMAPUR: A seminar on “Positivity” was held at SIRD hall, Tuensang town on December 4, with resource person, assistant pastor YBC Tuensang, Apong Yimchunger, organised by Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK) Tuensang and its Human Resource Development Department of Youth Affairs & Sports (GoI).

According to a DIPR report, Apong Yimchunger stated that pessimism leads to weakening and optimism leads to power. Reflecting on Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s speech he said that positivity leads to a country’s progression and emphasized on youth and

its positive attitude in every field for the betterment of one’s community and the country as a whole. Encouraging the youth he said that one should focus on issues like natural calamities, train in fire fighting and encourage blood donation etc. They also focused on social issues like female foeticide, child abuse, drug abuse and HIV/ AIDS, he added. A welcome address was delivered by Chancham Yimchunger and the program was led by NYV, Lucy who delivered a vote of thanks. The program concluded with an interaction conducted by program Hindustan Scouts and Guides (HS&G) training camp for Dimapur district concluded December 2 at DMI St. Joseph Global School. A total of 120 scouts and guides coordinator NYK, Ripen on participated in the camp. (HS&G) Humtsoi.

Departmental co-ordination meeting in Medziphema

DIMAPUR: A departmental coordination meeting was held at the Medziphema ADC’s office on December 4, chaired by ADC. Thsuvisie Phoji. According to a DIPR report, discussions were held on policy for restricting the use of plastics in Nagaland with a view to eradicate the menace of plastic and the serious environmental and ecological challenges posed by its rampant use. It also deliberated on how the administration in co-ordination with village councils and municipal bodies could sensitize key areas so that proactive action to discourage use of plastics in Medziphema subdivision is encouraged.

The meeting also discussed some important issues regarding Medziphema subdivision. All heads of offices under Medziphema attended the meeting.

A Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan cleanliness drive was organised by Chümoukedima Hindu Society in collaboration with Chümoukedima Hindu Yuva at Chümoukedima Town on December 5. The team was led by working president, Pintu M. Ghosh, and general secretary of Chümoukedima Hindu Society, Prakash Chetri. (Pintu M. Ghosh)

Kiphire World AIDS Day Salomi village located 18 km away from Pungro town of Kiphire district, has approximately 500 households and a population of 2786 living in six khels with only four water supply outlets. Individual households with running water are negligible.

Around 80% households have electrical connections because some households are unable to pay their electricity bills. (Tsipise Antony)

DIMAPUR: Joining the global community, Kiphire district observed “World AIDS Day” on December 1 under the theme, “Know Your Status”, at the Conference Hall of Kiphire District Hospital.

A press release by the office of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Kiphire stated that the program was organised by District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit, Kiphire in collaboration with Nagaland Health Project.

Speaking in the pro-

gram, SDO (C) Kiphire, Longdiba L Sangtam, highlighted the need to create more awareness on HIV & AIDS and called upon the younger generation to do their bit educating their parents and those who may be ignorant of the disease.

Sangtam also pointed out that the administration or medical department alone could not shoulder the responsibility of creating HIV & AIDS awareness and called for active participation from different communities.

Inter-Denomination Good News Ministry dedicated a ministry office, at Lotha Colony, Sewak Road, Dimapur on November 29. The dedication service was conducted by Lotha Baptist Church associated pastor, Lanlongo Yanthan and colony chairman, Renathung Ezung. (James Lotha)

Training on SHG bank linkage in Jotsoma

Lamkang Nagas celebrated its 4th Dilkoor Festival on December 5 at Haikaveen, DIMAPUR: With the Eralibill Dimapur with much pomp and gaiety. The festival was blessed by LCF objective of guiding Self Help Groups (SHG) on the president, Rev. R Khular. (J. Rangdon Lamkang)

various facets of banking related matters, a one day Sensitization-&-Training on Bank Linkage for leaders of 35 SHGs was organized at Jotsoma village on December 5, sponsored by NABARD in collaboration with NSRLM. A press release from NABARD Kohima stated that delivering the keynote address, district development manager Kohima NABARD, Poji stressed on the importance of practicing “Panchasutra” (regular meetings; regular savings; regular inter-loaning; timely repayment and up-todate book of accounts) by BJP Dimapur district organised a cleanliness drive under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at SHGs. In his exhortation, Dimapur District Hospital on the occasion of Nagaland Statehood Day on December lead district manager Ko1. (BJP Dimapur general secretary, Pouhiamlung Gangmei).

Participants, organizers and resource persons of the Sensitization-&-Training on Bank Linkage program held on December 5 in Jotsoma.

hima SBI, Peter Lokho, beseeched the participants to maintain credit discipline for maintaining good rapport with banks and also cautioned against ATM and tele-frauds.

Deputy manager SBI Kohima Main Branch,

Partha Pratim Buragohain, explained the procedures to be followed by SHGs to open bank accounts and avail financial support from banks.

He also emphasized on the importance of building good relations between

SHGs and banks. Program manager (FI) NSRLM, Rajuselie Lhousa, while sharing on the concept and guiding tenets of NSRLM, said that the support of banks was a vital component in bringing significant improvements in the lives

of the rural populace as envisaged in the mission.

The members of the SHGs took active participation in the interactive session to clear various doubts and sought suggestions on how to ease transactions with the banks.

Agri produce collection centre inaugurated DPS Dimapur organises exhibition

Ringsanbo Zeliang, village officials and others at the inauguration of the Agriculture Produce Collection Centre on November 27.

DIMAPUR: An Agriculture Produce Collection Centre constructed under North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) – a project Under Ministry of DoNER Government of India – was inaugurated

on November 27 at Ntu village.

A press release by office of the District Project Management Unit (DPMU) Peren stated the project was implemented by the Self Help Group Vil-

lage Federation (SHGVF) under the supervision of DPMU Peren.

Inaugurating the centre as special guest, state coordinator NERLP, Ringsanbo Zeliang, appreciated the efforts of women

SHGVF of Ntu village in successfully completing the project. He said the women have proved beyond doubt that they can take up bigger responsibilities beyond the four walls of their home.

While emphasising on

economic sustainability, he said the collection centre would go a long way in enhancing the economy of the village, if utilized in a proper way.

Zeliang also stressed on the need to strengthen SHGs and the SHGVF so as to make a proper utilisation of the fund with proper and regular rotation of loan.

Block project coordinator, Janthuiyang RK John, who represented NERLP block project facilitation, also lauded the role of the SHGVF in timely completion of the work. He also encouraged the gathering to take the ownership of the building for the welfare of the village. In the program, an invocation was said by pastor Tunchapbo, welcome address by Namziusiliu, shorts speech by secretary Ntu SHGVF and the village council chairman and benediction by deacon, Namtanbo.

A school girl explains her team’s model to DPS principal B.K Nanda at the ‘India and the World’ exhibition held on December 4.

DIMAPUR: An exhibition on the theme, “India and the World” was organised by the Social Science department of Delhi Public School (DPS) Dimapur on December 4 at the school Assembly Hall.

A press release by DPS Dimapur stated that the exhibition, inaugurated by the school principal, B.K Nanda, aimed to give creative thinking and expression a platform, and to actualise learned concepts

and knowledge.

Covering subjects from history, geography, economics and politics of India and the world, the release stated that 90 models were displayed by students of classes 4 to 9 and XI.

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Pace of development increased in 4 yrs: PM Cong slams Modi’s ‘big surnames’ remark

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Jagran forum on the 75th anniversary of Dainik Jagran newspaper, in New Delhi, Friday. (PTI)

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said there was lack of work culture in the past and India lagged behind in development despite “big surnames” running the country.

He said since the BJP came to power in 2014, change can be witnessed.

Addressing the ‘Jagran Forum’ organised by the Dainik Jagran media group, he said, “People with big surnames came to power and went but no solution could be found to the problems.”

He was making an oblique reference to the Nehru-Gandhi family.

“In the last four years, you have yourself witnessed

this change. Figures speak for itself. But this did not happen in the past. If poverty was alleviated, how would the slogan of ‘garibi hatao’ be given... It would hit vote bank politics,” Modi said.

He was referring to the slogan ‘garibi hatao’ (remove poverty) slogan given by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1971 Lok Sabha elections.

Modi said when the poor and deprived will get basic amenities such as toilets, gas connection, power supply and bank accounts, then “the poor will be able to defeat poverty themselves”.

He said today, the government has the courage to

aim high and take big decisions because it is a strong government which has the full mandate of the electorate. “For a new India, the focus of the government is on ability, resources, culture and security.”

He suggested that while there was no shortage of funds in the past, what was actually missing was the passion to get things done. He also said, solutions were present, but what was needed was sensitivity.

Modi also claimed that work culture was missing in the past, though the bureaucrats, the system and the people are the same today, things are moving at a faster pace now.

“Our youth are talent-

J&K Governor should not ‘encroach’ upon democratic space, says Mufti S r i nag a r , D e c 7 (PTI): PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said there should be no meddling with the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir till a popular government takes power.

Mehbooba said there seemed to a “hidden agenda” behind the decisions to treat Jammu and Kashmir Bank as a PSU, changing procedures of state subject r ules, revoking Roshni scheme and reports of changing Juvenile (Justice) Act. “We respect the governor (S P Malik), (but) why is he encroaching upon the democratic space? There is no emergency on these issues. They can happen after elections when a new government is formed. It seems that there is perhaps someone’s hidden agenda, which I hope the

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governor will not be a part of... There should be no fiddling with the constitutional status of the state,” Mehbooba told reporters here.

“Unfortunately, the governor’s team does not advise him well, otherwise they would not have taken such decisions which have to be revoked later. Such decisions should be left to a popular government,” she said.

The former chief minister warned of an agitation

if the state administration, headed by Malik, accords divisional status to Ladakh region, while ignoring Pir Panjal and Chenab valley.

“There are reports that the governor’s administration will accord a divisional status to Ladakh. We are not against it. I request the governor and I hope all parties like the National Conference, Congress and others come together on this and demand that if you are giving Ladakh a divisional status, then Pir Panjal and Chenab Valley should also get it.”

“If the governor decides to grant divisional status to Ladakh, then Chenab valley and Pir Panjal should also get it, otherwise we will be forced to agitate peacefully and I will talk to other parties also on this,” Mehbooba said.

State govt sets up DPCA in all dists

(From p-1) DPCA would enquire into or set up investigation agencies in matter of complaints against police officer up to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police whenever any complaint is filed before the authority in the district.

DPCA for the first time had brief discussion with commissioner of Police, Dimapur, on November 27, 2018. The commissioner assured to look after all the available resources for the success of the DPCA. He further assured to take up the interest of DPCA to the appropriate authorities.

ed and hardworking too. We have abundance of natural resources. Despite having all these, why could our country not prosper,” he asked.

Modi cited figures such as number of people paying income tax and number of entities registered with GST to drive home his point that more has been achieved under his government than during previous regimes.

“Can you imagine that before we came to power, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura were not on the rail map of India... Why is it that 67 years after independence, only 38 per cent rural households had toilets and how the number went up to 95 per cent in the last

Govt calls all-party meet ahead of winter session New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): The government has called an all-party meeting on Monday ahead of the winter session of Parliament to build a consensus for smooth functioning of the two Houses.

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

This would be the last full-fledged Parliament session before the Lok Sabha polls. The results of the Assembly elections, in which both the ruling BJP and the Congress have high stakes, are bound to cast a shadow on parliamentary proceedings. The results of polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram would be out on December 11, when the session begins.

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

four years,” he said.

Modi also expressed the hope that that India’s efforts to ensure that economic offenders who flee the country do not get safe haven abroad will show results.

“India has put forth some suggestions before the international community to ensure that people “who commit economic offences, those who are fugitives... should not get any sanctuary anywhere in the world”, Modi said.

“I am confident that our campaign will show results,” he said.

The prime minister said he put across New Delhi’s stand before the strong economies at the recent G-20 meet in Argentina.

The gover nment is working to bring back people like Vijay Mallya, Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi for their alleged involvement in scams.

India presented a ninepoint agenda to G-20 countries, calling for “strong and active cooperation” to comprehensively deal with fugitive economic offenders.

Modi presented the agenda in the second session of the G20 Summit on international trade, international financial and tax systems.

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): The Congress Friday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that India could not prosper despite people with “big surnames” ruling the country, saying he could not mislead the people by “lying” as he had been “exposed”.

Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also listed a string of achievements over the last seven decades to highlight the progress made under Congress governments.

Addressing the ‘Jagran Forum’ organised by the Dainik Jagran media group, Modi had said, “People with big surnames came to power and went but no solution could be found to problems.” He was making an oblique reference to the Nehru-Gandhi family.

He also alleged that poverty was not alleviated as it could hit the “vote bank” of parties in the past.

Surjewala dismissed the prime minister’s remarks as “baseless” and listed several achievements of the country.

“When he had not been born, India had won a war against Pakistan,” the Congress leader said.

He cited steps such as building of the Bhakra

on Facebook ahead of India’s general elections next year.”

Facebook said the identity and location confirmation will take a few weeks. So those planning to run political ads next year should better start the verification process now by using their mobile phones or computer to submit proof of identity and location.

“This will help avoid delays when they run po-

litical ads next year,” informed Schiff.

Advertisers in India can download the latest Facebook app and visit Settings to get started.

Early 2019, Facebook would also start to show a disclaimer on all political ads that provides more information about who’s placing the ad, and an online searchable Ad Library for anyone to access.

“This is a library of all ads related to politics

from a particular advertiser as well as information like the budget associated with an individual ad, a range of impressions, as well as the demographics of who saw the ad,” said Facebook.

At that time, the company would also begin to enforce the policy that requires all ads related to politics be run by an advertiser who’s completed the authorisations process and be labelled with the disclaimer.

“We will not require eligible news publishers to get authorised, and we won’t include their ads in the Ad Library,” Facebook added.

Visiting India couple of months ago, Richard Allan, Facebook’s Vice President for Global Policy Solutions, said that the social networking giant was in the process of establishing a task force comprising “hundreds of people” in the country to prevent bad actors from abusing its platform.

“With the 2019 elections coming, we are pull-

Nangal Dam, abolition of the Zamidari system, abolition of untouchability, setting up of the Navratnas, the IT boom, liberalisation, to state that there had been a tremendous transformation in the country.

“When he was attending an RSS shakha, the country had changed the geography of the Asian sub-continent. When he was running an arrogant rule in Gujarat, the UPA government had lifted 14 crore people above the poverty line,” he said.

Sur jewala said the Congress had not done all this, but it was the result of the hard work of 132 crore Indians in over 70 years.

“You dishonour the journey of 70 years that India has undertaken. You cannot mislead the people by lying as you have been exposed,” Surjewala claimed.

Nine nabbed for Bulandshahr violence

Lucknow/Bulandshahr, Dec 7 (PTI): A UP police team was sent to Jammu to arrest an Army jawan allegedly involved in the murder of a police inspector during the Bulandshahr violence, and five more people were nabbed in the case, taking the total number of arrests to nine, officials said Friday.

Sedition is one of the 17 charges in the FIR in which 27 people have been named besides 50-60

unidentified people. They were allegedly involved in the violence that led to the killing of Inspector Subodh Singh and Sumit Kumar, 20. The violence was triggered after cattle carcasses were found in nearby fields.

Jeetu alias Fauji of Mahav village is a named accused in the case, Inspector General (Crime) S K Bhagat told reporters in Lucknow when asked about his alleged involvement in the mob

violence.

Jeetu’s actual name is Jeetendra Malik and he is the 11th suspect named in the first information report (FIR) lodged at Siyana police station on December 4.

According to preliminary information, he is posted in Jammu and a police team has been sent there, Bhagat said.

“We hope that he will be arrested soon,” the IG said, adding the Special Investigation Team (SIT)

formed to probe the case would be able to ascertain his actual role.

Army sources in New Delhi confirmed that the police have contacted the Northern Command and they are cooperating in the probe.

The five people arrested were identified as Chandra, Rohit, Sonu, Nitin and Jitendra but their names were not mentioned in the FIR lodged for the murder of the Syana SHO, Bhagat said.

BLK super speciality hospital...

(From p-1) In his address, Dr Dharma Choudhary said the aim of its OPD services at Eden Medical Centre was to enhance services and prevent people from travelling out of the state for diagnosis and treatment which can otherwise be done in the state. Pointing out that most cases of blood disorders can be treated in the state, he said that the team will do its best to treat patients within the State.

Also highlighting the availability of advanced facilities, Dr Dharma Choudhary added, “BLK Super Speciality Hospital, with its advanced facilities and highly experienced team reckoned as one of the largest in Asia, its OPD services at Eden Medical Centre will open up new vistas for specialized health care in the region.”

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FB begins verifying political ads ahead of 2019 polls New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS): Facing intense scrutiny over the misuse of its platform globally during elections, Facebook has announced fresh steps to increase ad transparency and defend against foreign interference ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in India.

Now anyone who wants to run an ad in India related to politics will need to first confirm their identity and location, and give more details about who placed the ad, the social networking giant said in a statement late Thursday.

“We’re making big changes to the way we manage these ads on Facebook and Instagram. We’ve rolled out these changes in the US, Brazil and the UK, and next, we’re taking our first steps towards bringing transparency to ads related to politics in India,” said Sarah Clark Schiff, Product Manager at Facebook.

“This is key as we work hard to prevent abuse

Randeep Surjewala

He also claimed that when the results of the assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana come out on December 11, the Congress was confident that it would mark a “new dawn for the country” and the beginning of a “new kind of politics”.

He claimed that the Congress’ campaign throughout the state polls remained positive, while the BJP’s campaign was one of “abuses and negativity”.

Sur jewala claimed they had been indulging in divisive politics of caste and religion, but the extreme was reached when in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan polls they did not even spare the Gods.

“Someone says Hanuman ji is from the Dalit community, someone says he is an adivasi, someone says he is from Arya Samaj.

From Lord Ram to Hanuman, casteist and varna based divisions were made to divert the country’s attention,” he alleged.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took part in 82 public meetings and a dozen road shows. He held press conferences in almost all the poll-bound states, Surjewala said.

ing together a group of specialists to work together with political parties,” he said.

Facebook has been under intense scrutiny ever since allegations of Russialinked accounts using the social networking platform to spread divisive messages during the 2016 presidential election surfaced.

Echoing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s earlier comments on elections across the world, Allan said the social media platform “wants to help countries around the world, including India, to conduct free and fair elections”.

In April, Zuckerberg said Facebook will ensure that its platform is not misused to influence elections in India and elsewhere.

“Our goals are to understand Facebook’s impact on upcoming elections -- like Brazil, India, Mexico and the US midterms -- and to inform our future product and policy decisions,” he told the US lawmakers during a hearing.

gestive and liver diseases, Dr Manav Wadhawan rued that patients from Nagaland had to travel out of the State even for trivial problems and appealed to the people at large to develop faith in the system in the State. He said BLK in partnership with Eden Medical Centre will try to develop a relationship whereby everyone will stand to gain.

Dr Bikash Gurung in his address highlighted about the alarming rise in cancer incidents, saying people do not give importance to pre-diagnosis of cancer due to lack of awareness.

Assuring a comprehensive health care for cancer, Dr Gurung added, “The cancer specialist team of BLK hospital is well-versed with the most advanced and latest surgical modalities including minimal invasive and robotic surgery for thoriac and abdominal malignancies, endoscopic, laser and robotic sur-

gery for head and neck cancers, breasts conservations, oncoplasty and sentinel node biopsy, HIPEC, radical treatment for GI, urological and gynaecological cancers.”

EMC HoD of pathology, Dr Moatoshi Aier, in his address, emphasized on the need to urgently address the growing menace of cancer in the State pointing out that Nagaland ranked amongst the top states with incidents of nasopharyngeal cancer. He revealed that 75 percent of patients in the State go out for treatment however most of them return to the State to continue treatment. While the team from Eden Medical Centre impressed on the need for academic interactions, the team from BLK hospital called for greater focus on research and workshops. Both focused and aspired to take the partnership further.

SKH appeals for early solution (From p-1) The house appealed to all the Churches for observance of “Kukumi Prayer Day” on the first Sunday of November every year. In this regard, the hoho has asked all executive secretaries of church associations and denominations to put in their calendar and observe starting from 2019.

SKH has also resolved that term of NGOs within Surni jurisdiction has been enhanced from 3 years to 5 years effective from 2019.

Further, Hoho appealed to NGBF to induct Western Sumi Kukami Hoho (WSKH) president to be the executive in NGBF. At the session, the house also approved Hobo constitution (Yezahboh) which would be implemented from 2019. The house resolved that SKH president should be advisor in Sumi Hoho and not executive.

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Young doctors should treat patient with compassion: VP

New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS): Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said that young doctors need to uphold medical ethics and treat every patient with compassion and empathy, irrespective of his or her financial background.

“Only doctors can provide the healing touch to the ailing humanity and they only can make the difference between life and death. People admire actors but they adore doctors, and doctors must treat their profession as a mission,” he added.

While addressing young doctors at the 46th Annual Convocation of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, he stated that medical education has undergone a paradigm shift from classroom-based teaching to self-directed small group learning using principles of adult learning.

“The traditional methods of learning have evolved into competencybased learning to ensure that trainees acquire all essential skills before licensure. The curriculum in

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medical education needs to be constantly upgraded in tune with the latest advancements,” Naidu stated.

Citing a report, Naidu said that India has only 1.1 beds per 1000 population compared to the world average of 2.7.

“Seventy per cent of India’s health care infrastructure is in the top 20 cities. We have to make quality healthcare accessible and affordable. There is also a significant urbanrural divide, and we have to bridge this gap in providing state-of-the-art healthcare services,” he added.

Naidu also pointed out that India faces a ‘paradoxical’ situation in the health sector and the same treatment should reach all

Bill granting voting rights to NRIs to come up in RS

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): The Centre Friday informed the Supreme Court that a bill to amend electoral law to allow NRIs to vote through postal or e-ballots has been passed by Lok Sabha and is likely to come up in Rajya Sabha in the upcoming Winter Session.

The government told this to a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta which was hearing a batch of petitions filed

by Nagender Chindam, chairman of London-based Pravasi Bharat organisation, and other Non Resident Indians (NRIs) including Shamsheer V P. The petitions have said that 114 countries, including 20 Asian nations, have adopted external voting, which could be held by setting up polling booths at diplomatic missions or through postal, proxy or electronic voting.

Additional Solicitor General A N S Nadkarni, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that the bill was likely to be taken up in the Rajya Sabha in the Winter Session, which is to commence from December 11.

The bench said it would hear the matter in last week

of January.

In July last year, Attorney General K K Venugopal had told the court that NRIs could not be allowed to vote by merely changing the rules made under the Representation of People (RP) Act and a Bill was needed to be introduced in Parliament to amend the Act itself to grant the voting rights.

The court had asked the Centre to decide whether it would amend the electoral law or rules to allow NRIs to vote by postal or e-ballots in the polls in the country, taking note of the fact that the Centre and Election Commission of India (ECI) were agreeable to the report of a panel that NRIs might be allowed to vote.

The poll panel had earlier said the move to allow NRIs to use proxy voting on the lines of defence personnel and e-ballot facility would require changes either in the RP Act or in the rules made under the Act. The Centre had said in principle, it was agreeable to the recommendations made in the report prepared by a 12-member committee to explore the feasibility of alternative options for voting by overseas electors.

citizens.

“An important step in this direction will be to promote manufacturing of state-of-the-art devices and equipment in the country, particularly under the ‘Make in India’ programme and such a move will not only save precious foreign exchange but also bring down the costs of devices,” he added.

At the convocation, Naidu presented the Lifetime Achievement Awards to Dr. A. K. Saraya, Dr. Samira Nundy, Dr. Kamal Buckshee and Dr. Gomathy Gopinath.

He also presented gold medals and certificates to 31 medical students who have achieved highest merit.

corpus to buy an annuity to secure a regular income after retirement. Currently, the minimum employee contribution in NPS is 10 per cent of basic pay and an equal contribution is made by the government.

The Cabinet at its meeting Thursday cleared raising the government’s share to NPS to 14 per cent, the source said.

It also cleared tax incentives under Section 80C of Income Tax Act for employee contribution of up to 10 per cent towards National Pension System.

The tax measures are likely to come into effect from April 1, 2019.

Central government employees had approached the government seeking tweaking of the terms of the current ‘contribution’ based NPS. Also, the Cabinet has given more flexibility to the government employees to withdraw the amount from NPS corpus at the time of retirement.

Once the changes are notified, central government employees can com-

JAMMU, Dec 7 (PTI): The Jammu and Kashmir police today arrested a suspected Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent who was allegedly planning terror attacks in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said.

Sehran Sheikh alias Abu Zubair, a resident of Kishtwar, was arrested during a raid in the district on charges of working as an agent for the Pakistan spy agency.

Sheikh was gathering information about the establishments of Jammu and Kashmir Police, armed forces and army deployment in Kishtwar. He had come in contact with a Pakistan-based militant group, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), the official said.

The aim of gathering information about the security establishments was to plan terrorist attacks, the official added.

According to the official, the accused has confessed to his involvement.

The police found that many videos, including some on the paramilitary forces’ establishments, have been exchanged on Pakistan numbers.

Shah accuses Mamata of ‘throttling democracy’

New Delhi/Coochbehar, Dec 7 (PTI): Declaring that the BJP’s growth in West Bengal has scared Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, BJP president Amit Shah Friday accused her of “throttling” democracy in the state by denying permission to three ‘yatras’ of his party.

Shah’s scathing attack came after the BJP had to postpone three ‘rath yatras’ in the state due to the Mamata Banerjee government refusing permission and the party failing to get any relief from the court so far.

“We will definitely carry out all ‘yatras’, nobody can stop us. The BJP is committed to change in West Bengal. The ‘yatras’ have not been cancelled, just postponed,” Shah said at a press conference in the national capital.

His party will follow the judicial process to get permission for them, Shah, who said he would visit the state on Saturday, said.

Shah’s comments came a day after the Calcutta High Court refused the BJP permission to hold a ‘rath yatra’ in Coochbehar, following the state government expressing apprehensions of violence. Shah was scheduled to flag off the ‘rath yatra’ on Friday.

The BJP, which held

ED raids Robert Vadra’s office; two aides under scanner

New Delhi, Dec 7 (Agencies): The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted raids at two offices of businessman Robert Vadra. Raids were carried out at the Delhi and Bengaluru offices of Vadra’s firm Sunlight Hospitality in connection with alleged commissions received by some suspects in defence deals.

According to India Today, ED officials reached Vadra’s South Delhi office on Friday evening. Vadra was not present at the Sukhdev Vihar office but his team of lawyers met ED officials.

Vadra’s lawyer asserted that the raids were part of a conspiracy to falsely implicate the son-in-law of Congress matriarch Sonia Gandhi.

“I have submitted full documents twice to the ED office. Last time, I went there on December 5, with a 600-page document. Now they are asking him [Vadra] to be present in person. What do they want from him in person?

Do they want to see his face? These officials are trying to manufacture and

Centre’s contribution to NPS hiked

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): In a bid to make retirement income scheme more attractive for central government employees, the government has agreed to chip in a higher 14 per cent of the basic salary of an individual as its contribution to the National Pension System (NPS), a top source said. The move would benefit over 36 lakh central government employees.

Also, individual contributions, which will continue to be capped at a maximum of 10 per cent of the basic salary, will be exempt from taxable income.

National Pension System (NPS) is a governmentsponsored pension scheme that was launched in January 2004 for government employees. However, in 2009, it was opened to all sections.

The scheme allows subscribers to contribute regularly in a pension account during their working life. On retirement, subscribers can withdraw a part of the corpus in a lump sum and use the remaining

Pak ISI agent held in J&K for ‘plotting terror attacks’

mute up to 60 per cent of the NPS fund accumulated, up from 40 per cent at present.

Sources said if an employee decides not to commute any portion of the accumulated fund in NPS at the time of maturity and transfers 100 per cent to annuity scheme, then his pension would be more than 50 per cent of his last drawn pay.

Also, employees will have the option to decide on investing their annuity either in fixed income instruments or equities, sources said.

While the gover nment is yet to decide on the date of notification of the new scheme, sources said many of the changes require amendment to the Income Tax Act and hence will come into effect from April 1, 2019.

T h i s f o r mu l a f o r changes in the National Pension System was worked out by the Finance Ministry based on the recommendation of a government-appointed committee, sources said.

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plant false evidence inside the office. They are not allowing us to enter, this is not the rule of law,” his lawyer said.

Vadra’s counsel also said, “They have locked the people of Skylight Hospitality [Vadra’s firm] inside, they are not allowing anyone to go inside.

Isn’t this Nazism? Is this a jail? It has been fourand-a-half years and they found nothing, so now they are locking us outside and planting and fabricating evidence.”

ED officials clarified that no raids had been conducted on Vadra. “The searches were linked to two employees of Vadra over money-laundering allegations. They are alleged to have acquired assets

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abroad, allegedly bought using commissions from certain defence deals,” they said.

Vadra has also issued a statement on Facebook via his counsel, saying that he will not be ‘cowed down by such malicious intimidation and threats for settling political scores’.

Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Randeep Sur jewala alleged that the raids were conducted to divert attention from a potential defeat for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming assembly elections.

Vadra’s firm Sunlight Hospitality is also implicated in a land-scam case in Rajasthan. According to the ED, Vadra-owned Skylight Hospitality had purchased 69.55 hectares of land for Rs 72 lakh and then sold it to Allegeny Finlease for Rs 5.15 crore, earning a profit of Rs 4.43 crore.

The agency registered a criminal case under the Money Laundering Act in 2015, taking cognizance of a case filed by the Rajasthan Police following forgery allegations.

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a meeting of senior party leaders in Coochbehar on Friday, has moved an appeal before a division bench.

Training his guns on Banerjee and the Trinamool government, the BJP president said people in the state are ready for change and asserted that the party will win a majority of seats in the Lok Sabha polls.

His party’s expansion in the state and win in over 7,000 seats in panchayat polls has rattled the Trinamool Congress chief. It is giving her “sleepless nights” and left her “scared”, Shah said.

“She knows these yatras will lay the foundation for change. That is why she is trying to stop them,” he said.

There was no immediate reaction from Banerjee or her party to Shah’s charges.

According to Shah,

12 policemen injured in clash with BJP workers Jalpaiguri (WB), Dec 7 (PTI): The police and BJP workers fought a pitched battle in a forested area of Jalpaguri district on Friday injuring 12 policemen, including an additional SP. The addtional superintendent of police was seriously injured after a stone hit him in the eye, Jalpaiguri SP Amitabha Maiti said.

The incident occurred near Dhupjhora under Dhupguri police station when the BJP activists were going to a public meeting of senior party leaders in neighbouring Cooch Behar district.

A bus carrying BJP workers was stopped by the police near Dhupjhora, a village in a forested area, and the activists got down from the bus and started hurling stones towards the policemen, Maiti said.

The policemen were outnumbered by the BJP workers and 12 police personnel, including additional SP Thendup Sherpa, were injured by the stone pelting, he said.

Sherpa suffered serious injury in the eye and was hospitalised, said the SP who has visited the spot.

the state government often denied permission to his party’s programmes. It had kept writing to the home department and the director general of police to seek their nod for the ‘yatras’ but in vain, Shah alleged.

“The way Mamata Banerjee is using her government to trample upon democratic norms is very undemocratic and is throttling democracy,” he said.

In his view, his party’s campaign in the state against the “misgovernance” of the Trinamool has resulted in people rising against it.

He said he would give the chief minister “unsolicited” advice -- that the more her government tries to suppress the BJP, the more will anger spread among people.

The BJP’s expansion was a reason behind violence in the panchayat elections, allegedly by Trinamool Congress workers, with more than 20 BJP workers being victims of political killing, he said.

Shah cited the murder of three party workers and asked Banerjee what action the police had taken so far.

Such massive violence was not seen even during the Left government, he alleged, adding that the police and Trinamool Congress combined to abet political

murders.

The BJP president cited a study to claim that the state accounts for 26 political murders out of 100 in the country.

“The entire West Bengal administration is working for the ruling TMC,” he added.

The mafia, he alleged, was working in sectors like health, education and business, and governance has collapsed.

Not just the government, the state administration has also resorted to the “politics of appeasement” to please a community, Shah said, in an apparent reference to the Muslim community.

The state government had neither the capability nor the intention to act against outfits linked to terror, he added.

Shah also rejected the state government’s claim that his party’s events will lead to communal tension, saying he visited the state 23 times as BJP president and there had never been any communal flare-up.

Asked to comment on the recent violence in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, Shah noted that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has already spoken about it and a SIT has been set up to probe the matter.

CBI monitoring health parameters of Michel New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI): The blood pressure of Christian Michel, alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland chopper deal, remains a concern for the CBI which is questioning him in its custody, sources said.

The CBI, however, ensured a constant medical supervision so that he remains in good health during its questioning sessions.

The sources said there is no serious health condition but the medical team is monitoring essential parameters of Michel, 57, regularly as a precaution.

The CBI may seek increasing his custody beyond December 10, they said.

Michel, against whom the CBI had filed a charge sheet in September last year, was extradited from Dubai after clearance from the UAE government on December 4.

He was sent to the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by a special court till December 10.

Michel is one of the three middlemen be-

ing probed in the case, apart from Italian Guido Haschke (US and Italian nationality) and Carlo Gerosa (Swiss and Italian nationality).

It was alleged that he had entered into a criminal conspiracy with coaccused persons, which included then IAF chief SP Tyagi and his family members, and the public servants had abused their official positions by reducing service ceiling of the VVIPs helicopter from 6,000 m to 4,500 m.

The reduction in ceiling made AgustaWestland eligible for contract worth 556.262 million Euros, which was awarded to it by the Defence Ministry on February 08, 2010, for procurement of 12 VVIP helicopters.

On January 1, 2014, India scrapped the contract with Italy-based Finmeccanica’s British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of paying kickbacks to securing the deal.

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Heather Nauert nominated as US Ambassador to UN

Will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons: Donald Trump

Washington, Dec 7 (PTI): President Donald Trump Friday nominated chief State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as US’ next envoy to the UN to replace the outgoing Indian-American Nikki Haley.

In October, Haley announced that she was leaving the post by the end of the year. The 46-year-old former South Carolina governor has served nearly two years in the post. She is the first Indian-American ever appointed to a Cabinet position in any US presidential administration.

Trump told reporters at the White House that “Heather Nauert will be nominated for the ambassador to the United Nations”.

Nauert, 48, is an unorthodox choice, given her little experience in government or foreign policy before she took up the role at the state department.

She was made the state department spokeswoman in April 2017, her first government position. This year, after former Secretary of State Rex W Tillerson was fired, she was named the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.

Prior to that, Nauert, worked for Fox News from 1998 to 2005 and after two years, during which she worked for the ABC, returned to Fox in 2007.

Washington, Dec 7 (Agencies): United States President Donald Trump has vowed not to allow Iran acquire nuclear weapons.

“We cannot let the world’s leading sponsor of terror, a regime that chants death to America and threatens Israel all the time with annihilation and constantly screams out death to Israel, to possess the deadliest weapon on earth. We will not allow that to happen,” the US President told a select Jewish audience on December 6 at the White House reception for Hanukkah.

His administration has imposed some of the toughest sanctions on Iran, which among other things ask countries like India and China to cut off import of oil from Iran. Both the countries have significantly reduced their oil intake since then.

Trump told the Jewish community that the US now has “left the horrible Iran nuclear” deal.

“It was a horrible, horrible deal. Should have never been made and imposed the toughest-ever sanction.

We sanctioned Iran like I guess few have ever been sanctioned before. We must never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon or a nuclear bomb,” he said.

A year ago, he said, the United States recognised the true capital of

Will send naval ships, warns Ukraine MINSK, Dec 7 (Agencies): Ukraine’s defense ministry warned Russia on Friday that it will soon send navy ships through the Kerch Strait where Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian vessels two weeks ago.

The announcement sets up another possible flashpoint in the long-simmering conflict between Russia and Ukraine that erupted in 2014 with Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula burst into the open on Nov. 25 when Russian border guards opened fire on three Ukrainian navy vessels that were moving through the Kerch Strait near Crimea and seized the ships and their crews.

Ukraine responded by introducing martial law for 30 days, a measure Kiev did not take even after Crimea’s annexation and amid large-scale fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in 2014-2015.

As part of martial law, Ukraine has beefed up its forces on the border with Russia and called up reservists for training.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak told reporters on Friday that his country intends to send naval ships through the Kerch Strait soon, saying that “otherwise Russia will fully occupy the Sea of Azov.”

Ukraine has ports both

Ukraine has Friday warned Russia that it will soon send navy ships through the Kerch Strait. (File)

on the Black Sea and on the Sea of Azov which are linked by the Kerch Strait that separates Crimea from Russia.

More than 140 ships were stuck on both sides of the strait on Friday due to excessive checks and delays on the Russian side, the Ukrainian Border Guard Service said, accusing Russia of creating a bottleneck for Ukrainian ships and preventing them from passing.

Speaking in Rome at a ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov brushed off suggestions

White House Chief of Staff may resign soon: Report

John Kelly (File)

Washington, Dec 7 (IANS): White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is expected to resign in the coming days, CNN reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the situation.

Kelly’s potential replacements included Nick Ayers, Vice-President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff, the report said.

C N N q u o t e d t wo White House sources as saying that Kelly’s relationship with the President, often reported as “tumultuous”, was no longer seen as “sustainable” and will likely lead to Kelly’s ouster

in the near future.

The former secretary of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, Kelly joined the White House in July 2017 following the resignation of former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

In April, Kelly issued a public statement denying reports from NBC News that he referred to Trump as an “idiot” during conversations with colleagues and mocked the President’s lack of policy knowledge.

Kelly’s tenure working for the President was marked by controversies.

He was faced with Trump’s controversial response to the racially charged protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He also mishandled the situation involving former staff secretary Rob Porter, who was accused by two of his ex-wives of abuse.

Kelly’s shifting stance in the row caused his credibility inside the West Wing to plummet.

Russia could release or exchange the 24 Ukrainian seamen captured in last month’s maritime confrontation.

Lavrov said it was too early to speak about any offers of a prisoner swap until Russia’s investigation of the incident is completed and the servicemen are put on trial for violating the Russian border.

Lavrov also reacted to a suggestion by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to expand the OSCE monitoring mission to the Sea of Azov, saying that Russia “has no need” for any intermediaries or monitors in the area.

Russian ombudswom-

an Tatyana Moskalkova told Russian news agencies on Friday that she visited three Ukrainian seamen who were injured in the incident and are being held in a Moscow prison hospital.

Moskalkova said she spoke to the men and “got the impression” that the crew “were not aware that they were committing a crime.”

Meanwhile, a court in Crimea on Friday jailed for five days lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who represents the commander of one of the Ukrainian ships.

The court found Kurbedinov guilty of spreading extremist material in a social media post he made in 2013.

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Israel. Commemorating the miracle of Hanukkah, Trump said throughout history, Jewish people have suffered unthinkable repression and terrible violence.

“Yet in the face of this hardship, the Jewish people have endured, overcome and thrived like few that I can tell you. Thrived,” he said.

“Five weeks ago, our nation mourned a horrific tragedy. Jewish-Americans were brutally killed in a sinister anti-Semitic attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and we went to see what had happened and to meet some of the people and they were incredible people,” Trump said.

“The way they stood up so bravely, so proudly was just something very incredible to see, and the rabbi was just a great person. In the aftermath of that wicked assault, we reaffirmed our solemn duty

to confront anti-Semitism everywhere it occurs,” the president said amid an applause.

“We must stamp out this vile hatred from the world,” Trump said as he invited eight survivors of the Nazi Holocaust: Sara Censor, Bertha Einhorn, David Einhor n, Ethel Flam, Gita Landau, Dolly Rabinowitz, Ruth Salamon and Zahava Ungar. Trump told the survivors that they inspired the world with their courage.

Tr u m p a p p l a u d e d Jewish people for building Israel into a “mighty and majestic nation”. He also pledged his administration’s support to Israel.

During his speech, the audience started chanting “four more years!” Someone in the crowd noted that once the math is completed from this date, it would be “six more years”.

Trump expressed his agreement with the 2 + 4 equation. “I’ve actually never heard ‘four more years,’” he said.

“That’s an interesting one.We’ll go for six, and then we’ll all be in very good shape.” The president claimed he was told that renovating what now is the US embassy in Jerusalem could cost as little as USD 200,000, which he said was “too cheap”.

So he told his officials to do it for USD 400,000, Trump added.

Pakistan unlikely to get IMF bailout by Jan 15 3 killed in Cyprus flash flood Islamabad, Dec 7 (PTI): Cash-strapped Pakistan’s quest for a USD 8 billion IMF bailout package by January 15 may not realise as the global lender wants the government to adopt tougher measures to address the external sector imbalances before sending the country’s case to its Executive Board, a media report said Friday.

Pakistan is seeking USD 8 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bail itself out from a severe balanceof-payments crisis that threatens to cripple the country’s economy. The Express Tribune, quoting sources in the ministry of finance, said that the two sides made their first contact on Thursday for the first time since November 20 when they concluded their first round of talks for the bailout package.

Finance Minister Asad Umar and the IMF’s Washington-based mission chief Harald Finger made contact through a video link, the report said. The two sides

discussed the developments that took place during three weeks. Talks between Pakistan and the IMF remained inconclusive last month after both sides could not bridge the gulf on issues like the increase in electricity prices, hike in interest rate, rupee devaluation and tax collection targets.

At that time, Pakistani officials had claimed that the staff-level agreement could be reached before Christmas holidays and Pakistan could request the IMF to send its case to the next board meeting, tentatively scheduled for January 15, the report said.

Both the sides showed flexibility and talks on Thursday were held in a more conducive environment than last month, said a senior official of the ministry. The finance minister informed the IMF mission head about developments on exchange rate and monetary policy.

The sources said that the IMF welcomed both the developments but urged Pakistan to continue these

necessary actions to address the external sector imbalances. The IMF wanted further adjustments in the exchange rate and monetary policy, said the sources.

During the video conference, the two sides also discussed the issue of the increase in the electricity prices that remain unimplemented, the report said.

The IMF was demanding 22 per cent further increase in electricity prices to address the issue of the circular debt, the report said. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s debt and liabilities rose to nearly Rs31 trillion at the end of September 2018 with an addition of Rs 984 billion in just three months, another report in the same newspaper said.

The increase comes amid concerns over a rapid rise in the debt burden in coming months owing to currency depreciation and interest rate hike.

Statistics released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) showed that by the end of first quarter of the current fiscal year,

Pakistan’s total debt and liabilities soared to Rs 30.9 trillion.

Within a span of just three months, there was an increase of Rs 984 billion, or 3.3 per cent, in the overall debt.

Of the Rs 30.9 trillion, the gross public debt, which is the direct responsibility of the government, stood at Rs 25.8 trillion, the report said.

There was an increase of Rs 839 billion in the gross public debt in three months, which was far higher than the overall budget deficit of Rs 542 billion for the period. One of the key reasons behind the higher debt was the increase in interest rate and depreciation of the rupee during July-September 2018, the report said.

A single rupee devaluation adds Rs 97 billion to the public debt. Similarly, a 1 per cent increase in interest rate increases the cost of debt servicing by roughly Rs 180 billion. This ultimately increases borrowing requirements of the finance ministry, it said.

A forklift removes destroyed cars after heavy rain caused flash floods near Kerynia city in the Turkish Cypriots breakaway north part of Cyprus, Thursday. (AP/PTI)

NICOSIA, Dec 7 (Agencies): Three people were killed and one is still missing in northern Cyprus after a flash flood swept their car away, Turkish Cypriot authorities said Thursday.

Turkish Cypriot media said the car the two men and one woman were travelling in was swept off a mountain road near the town of Kyrenia on the ethnically divided Mediterranean island.

Authorities were looking for a missing fourth person in the same car that was found buried in mud a few hundred meters (yards) away.

Torrential rains over the

past four days have pounded the small, eastern Mediterranean island nation, causing widespread flooding and power blackouts. Some Turkish Cypriot officials blamed poor urban planning and construction in river beds for raising the risk of flooding.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, a Greek Cypriot, spoke to Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci late Thursday to express his condolences and to offer any assistance. Akinci thanked Anastasiades and said Turkish Cypriot authorities were handling the search.

Former US president George HW Bush laid to rest in Texas Merkel bids farewell to CDU party Texas, Dec 7 (Agencies): Former US president George H.W. Bush, remembered as much for his legacy of service as his impact on history, was buried Thursday, capping days of tribute from a nation that briefly set aside political divisions to honor him.

After a state funeral on Wednesday in Washington that was attended by the country’s five living presidents and foreign dignitaries, Bush’s flag-draped casket was flown to Texas for a final farewell.

A compassionate national spotlight had shone on Bush’s passing and the memorial proceedings throughout this week.

But his burial at Bush’s presidential library center in College Station, Texas -- alongside Barbara, his wife of 73 years, and their daughter Robin who died of leukemia at age 3 -- was a private family service.

“The 41st President of the United States of America, George Herbert Walker Bush, has reached his fi-

A joint military honor guard carries the casket of former President George H.W. Bush after it arrived by a presidential funeral train at Texas. (AP/PTI)

nal resting place,” family spokesman Jim McGrath posted on Twitter.

Bush, who died Friday at age 94, lay in repose at St Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, where he was eulogized at a final memorial service by close friend James Baker, who served as his secretary of state.

“His incredible service to our nation and the world are already etched in the marble of time,” Baker said, highlighting the sense of duty, service, and personal grace that drove Bush.

Fighting through tears, the 88-year-old Baker recalled how Bush’s deeds “expressed his moral char-

acter, and they reflected his decency, his boundless kindness and consideration of others, his determination always to do the right thing.”

Son George W. Bush, the nation’s 43rd president, appeared somber at his wife Laura’s side, and stood ramrod straight as military pall-

bearers carried the casket from the Houston church to a waiting hearse.

It was then placed on a train -- with a locomotive painted in the colors and pattern of Air Force One, the presidential jet -- for the final journey to the presidential library, part of a precise series of ritualized events.

There were emotional displays along the route in towns like Spring, Magnolia, Navasota and College Station.

C r owd s o f p e o p l e braved rainy weather to mass beside the tracks, where they held American flags, saluted, cheered and waved goodbye as the train rolled slowly past.

Bush was the 12th president to lie in state in the US Capitol rotunda.

Thousands paid respects there to a statesman who steered the nation through turbulent times including the end of the Cold War and the marshalling of an international coalition to oust invading Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

Berlin, Dec 7 (IANS): German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave an emotional farewell speech to her ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) as she stepped down as party leader on Friday and was given a standing ovation of over six minutes.

Her conservative party of 1,001 representatives, among them 658 male and 343 females, was set to vote later in the day to decide on a successor to Merkel, its leader of 18 years.

She decided not to rerun in October, after suffering major setbacks in two state elections earlier this year.

Merkel hinted that she was supporting the party’s current General Secretary, Annegret KrampKarrenbauer, to succeed her, praising her electoral performance as Chief Minister of Saarland, the BBC reported.

According to a DeutschlandTrend survey, 47 per cent of CDU supporters would like KrampKarrenbauer to take the

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party lead. Popular in Saarland and Berlin, KrampKarrenbauer has an unpretentious style and a reputation for calm analysis as well as political acumen.

Kramp-Karrenbauer’s key rival is millionaire corporate lawyer Friedrich Merz. He was a powerful player in the CDU in the early 2000s but left politics when he fell out with the Chancellor.

Merz has strong links to the US, has built a career in the private sector and works for US investment firm Blackrock.

Jens Spahn, currently the Health Minister in Merkel’s government and

the third candidate in the running, appeared to have less chance of winning, the BBC reported. He was once described by former Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble as “one of the great hopes for the future of our party”.

“Our liberal values must be defended, internally and externally,” Merkel said in her speech that was punctuated by applause and she got a standing ovation of more than six minutes at the end.

She warned of tough challenges ahead, including climate change, maintaining European unity and coping with Brexit. The leader reminded the CDU of other electoral successes in 2017 and avoided mentioning this year’s setbacks in state elections.

“I don’t need to be party chairman to remain bound to this party. And I’m still chancellor,” said Merkel, who has been CDU chair since 2000 and was elected Chancellor in 2005.

She was re-elected in 2009, 2013 and 2018.

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GLOCAL Hornbill Hipfest photo contest; CM takes part Audition for FBB Colors Akho and Tapan win Naga International Film Femina Miss India Nagaland on Dec 10 King Chilli eating competition Festival on Dec 8 and 9 T T T

Tapan (Sitting right), who won the competition, taking part in the Naga King Chilli eating competition in Kisama on Friday. (NP)

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kho from Phek district emerged winner of the Naga King Chilli eating competition after consuming five chillies in 20 seconds. The event is part of the ongoing Hornbill festival’s 7th day in Kisama, Friday afternoon.

The Naga King Chilli Eating Competition was organized by XL Nagaland and sponsored by the department of Horticulture.

A total of 12 participants, including four from the “Tourist Category”, took part in the competition.

Tapan from Guwahati, who ate six chillies in the competition, was declared winner of the Tourist Category.

For the Local Category, the second prize was bagged Seintong from Peren, who ate four and a half chillies.

Aku Khamo of Kohima and Seiminlal from Peren ate four each to take the third and fourth places. Keneiselhou Viyie took the fifth position after consuming three chillies.

The winners from the local category received Rs 20,000 for 1st place, Rs 15,000 for second, Rs 10,000 for third, Rs 5000 each for fourth and fifth places respectively.

Mhabemo Yanthan, secretary, Tourism gave away the awards to the winners.

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IMA Zunheboto ‘Advent Christmas Concert’

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mmanuel Music Academy (IMA), Zunheboto organized an “Advent Christmas Concert” on December 7 at Immanuel Higher Secondary School premises featuring various artistes including IMA Choir, The Truth, Bliss

Achumi, Akavi Yeptho, Yeshika Asumi, Nogheli Chipiku, Abotoli Achumi, Iloto Chishi, Boloto Achumi, Milotoli Kiho and Akivi Asumi. Commanding officer of 32 AR, Colonel Vikram S. Pal, was the special invitee for the

programme, who also extended Christmas greetings to all the people gathered.

During the concert, Niza Lejo, a local singing group from Zunheboto town released a Christmas song titled “Susu Lono Jisu Punu (Jesus was born in winter)”. The song was dedicated and released by music director Sumi Baptist Church Zunheboto, Inaholi H. Rochill.

The video can be viewed at “aronasumi” YouTube channel.

The concert was hosted by Mary Chishi. Key note address was delivered by director IMA, Aron T. Asumi, while cake cutting prayer and benediction was offered by UESI staff, Toli Assumi.

he 2nd edition of GLOCAL, Hornbill International Film Festival will be held on December 8 and 9 at Bamboo hall, Heritage village, Kisama from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Information & Public Relations, commissioner & secretary, V. Maria Yanthan will inaugurate the Film Festival.

The two day film festival will not only involve the screening of short films, animations and documentaries from across the globe but will also feature workshops and seminars covering a wide array of subjects related to film making.

The highlight of the film festival will be the screening of award winning shor t films from Myanmar including the much acclaimed animated film titled “My Life I Don’t Want” which has bagged 38 global film awards in various film festivals including the prestigious Human Rights Human Dignity Film Festival.

Two short films from of renowned film maker from Nagaland Sophy Lasuh titled ‘IRIS YINGZEN’ and Rone along with a number of other short films from America, Latvia, Nagaland and North East will be screened during the two day film festival.

The film festival is being organised by Eastern Art Council in collaboration with directorate of Information and Public Relations.

he Hipfest photo contest saw 59 participants under two categories-general and junior’s.

In the General category, the 1st position was bagged by Sara Lorin, 2nd

by Achano Tungoe and 3rd by Samrat Sengupta including two consolation prizes

by Sophy Lasuh and Njune Lorin. The winners received Rs. 40000, Rs. 20000, Rs. 10000 and Rs. 5000 each respectively.

In the junior’s category, the 1st position was bagged by Chenogi Tep, 2nd – Kenyuhile Lorin & 3rd – Kikruleno Casavi.

They will get Rs.10000, Rs. 5000 and Rs. 2000 respectively.

The prize distribution ceremony will be held at the culmination programme of the Hornbill festival on December 10.

Organizers have requested the prize winners to be present at the closing function to collect their prizes.

This time, Nagaland chief minister,

Neiphiu Rio also took part in the contest.

Rio submitted three photographs for the contest. Neiphiu also got an ‘Honourable Mention’ from the Judges.

The judges for this year's competition are well known personalities in the field of photography which includes artist & professor of Art, University of Rochester, Newyork USA, Heather Layton, Director of Miracle Post, Myanmar and the acclaimed photographer & videographer, Wunna Kyaw, well known photographer & proprietor of artworks from Nagaland, Merimvu Doulo and coordinator, Eastern Art Council, M. Ababe Ezung.

Heather Layton, one of the judges said she was honoured and delighted to be part of the photography contest once again. She said that she could see the past, present and the future of Nagaland after seeing the pictures because they depict characteristics of the Nagas in many ways, she added.

‘Twenties love’ wins song of the year 2018

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he 10th edition of the Music Awards of Nagaland (MAN) 2018 ceremony was held at Bamboo Hall, Kisama on Friday evening.

“Twenties love” by Imti Mong, Azha & Aloiwas adjuged as the song of the year 2018 during the annual music awards ceremony.

It may be mentioned that the award under “song of the year” category was given away to the one secured the highest points based on ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ on the Music Awards of Nagaland facebook page and number of views on the Music Awards of Nagaland youtube channel.

Altogether, 62 nominees from various music genres were selected and 21 awards were given away during the event.

Imti Mong and Azha recieving the best EDM award (vocal) here at Kisama on Friday evening. (NP)

The annual awards ceremony was organized

by Native Trax Society, which seeks to honour local music makers and those working within the local music industry.

In a bid to acknowl-

edge efforts behind the scenes, awards for technical categories such as Best Music Video, Best Video Director, Best Sound Engineer, Best Producer and Best Lyricist were also given.

(Correspondent)

he screening and preliminary audition for the FBB Colors Femina Miss India Nagaland will be held at Commissioners Guest House, Kohima on December 10, Monday at 10 a.m.

According to Beauty and Aesthetics Society of Nagaland (BASN), the talent partner for FBB Femina Miss India Nagaland, informed that interested female aspirants between 18-25 years (as on December 31, 2019) with the height of 5.5” and above (without heels, single unmarried and not engaged) holding a valid Indian passport are eligible.

Aspirants can contact Tiarenla at 8730883907 and Lanutoshi at 7005630231.

Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India that annually selects representatives to compete in the Miss World beauty pageant.

It may be mentioned that Miss Ropfüzhano Whiso and Miss Kaheli Chophy had also been selected as FBB Colours Femina Miss India Nagaland representing the state at the Femina Miss India in 2018 and 2017 respectively.

(Correspondent)

25th Wedding Anniversary

List of 10th MAN 2018 award winners Category Best Music Video Gospel Gospel (Local) Hindi/ Local Pop Instrumental EDM EDM vocals Rock Alt Indie Rock Heavy Rap/ Hiphop Folk fusion Best Producer Song of the year Best Sound Engineer Best Video Director Lyricist Upcoming artiste Upcoming band Patron

Name Powerfaith Powerfaith Zekuosa Zhale Hentick Konyak Renbeni Odyuo Sunep Lemtur Ina Imti Mong, Azha & Aloi Beyond Sunday Winterwind Moko Koza Ato Yim & Sunep Lemtur DJ Lil’ Bomb Imti Mong, Azha & Aloi Kevi Pucho for Wildfire by Renbeni Sans Production for Contemplation Imtisenla for Contemplation Kubanglung Pamei Annie’s OK & Storyline Moa Walling

Song Contemplation Contemplation Kekhriethuo Apuo Ilomi Wildfire The beautiful dawn Feels like home Twenties love Grace Freedom to our land Heal Sound of inspiration Summer Feels Twenties love

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Mrs. & Mr. David and Khetoli Achumi

May the unconditional and unceasing Love of God bind you closer together and may you both live long lives to continue to be an example of what Love means.

Happy 25th Wedding Anniversary Mummy and Daddy.

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DIMAPUR PANGTI EKHÜNG DIMAPUR -797112, NAGALAND

With immense pride and honour, We the Dimapur Pangti Ekhung (DPE) would like to congratulate one of our esteemed members Shri C Mhonrao Jami S/O Lt. Chumchamo Jami on being promoted to MANAGING DIRECTOR, NIDC Nagaland, Dimapur. His promotion and to head the Corporation brings immense glory to DPE in particular and Pangti Villagers in general.

DPE wishes him success and prays that Almighty God continue to bless and grant wisdom and good health in his future endeavors.

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Australia post 191/7 vs India on Day 2

Australia’s Travis Head watches the ball while batting during the first cricket test between Australia and India in Adelaide, Australia on Friday. (AP/PTI)

A de l aide , D ec 7 (IANS): Travis Head’s fighting 61 off 149 balls helped Australia reach 191/7 at stumps on Friday, the second day of the first test against India, after off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took three toporder wickets and helped the visitors dominate the day’s play.

India were all out for 250 runs in the first innings when Mohammad Shami got out on the first ball of the day, reports Efe news.

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Ishant Sharma bowled opener Aaron Finch in the very first over of the Australian innings with a beautiful in-swinger, providing a crucial breakthrough before Ashwin started troubling the hosts with his drifters.

Marcus Harris was caught at silly mid-off trying to defend an Ashwin delivery after making 26 off 57 balls, and soon after Shaun Marsh attempted a drive against the spinner and ended up dragging the ball back on to the stumps.

With Australia reduced to 59/3, Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb slowed down the tempo and tried to stabilize the innings before Khawaja nicked an Ashwin delivery to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.

Down at number six, Head defended well and attacked loose deliveries as wickets continued to fall at the other end, with Handscomb departing for 34 and keeper Tim Paine managing just 5 runs.

India took the new

ball in the 81st over and Pat Cummins was adjudged leg before wicket to Jasprit Bumrah immediately, but Head and Mitchell Starc managed to stay on until stumps.

Pacers Sharma and Bumrah took two wickets apiece, while Mohammad Shami looked off-colour after an injury-scare on Thursday.

India will look to take early wickets and ensure a first-inning lead on Saturday after Chetweshwar Pujara’s century on the first day helped them reach a decent total.

Australia will expect Head to stay put and take them beyond the Indian total. With the wicket already offering some turn, the hosts will be backing off-spinner Nathan Lyon to trouble the Indian batsmen in the second innings.

The visitors are playing the first test of the fourmatch Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and will also play three one-day games in their nearly two-month long tour of Australia.

Brief Scores: India first innings: 250/10 against Australia first innings: 191/7 (Travis Head 61 not out, Peter Handscomb 43; Ravichandran Ashwin 3/50)

PSG could sign Ajax’d De Jong for record €75m deal

THE HAGUE, Dec 7 (Agencies): Paris SaintGermain could pip Manchester City to the signing of Ajax and Netherlands midfield star Frenkie de Jong in a record €75 million deal, a Dutch newspaper report said Friday.

“It is almost certain that De Jong, 21, will exchange Ajax for Paris SaintGermain,” popular tabloid De Telegraaf said.

If the deal goes through, it will be “the most expensive and sensational in the history of the Eredivisie and Ajax in particular,” the newspaper added. PSG’s move to secure the talented midfielder, who made his debut for Ajax two years ago, comes after a lightning intervention from the club’s technical directors Maxwell and Antero Henrique.

Top PSG officials met De Jong’s agent Ali Dursun yesterday and, later, Ajax management at the Johan Cruijff ArenA, De Telegraaf said.

The highest outgoing transfer amount paid so far in the Dutch top flight was last year when Davinson Sanchez moved from Ajax to Tottenham Hotspur for €40 million.

ISL: Pune beat Kerala 1-0 Kochi, Dec 7 (Agencies): Kerala Blasters were handed their third defeat on home soil in the 2018-19 ISL as FC Pune City ran out 1-0 winners at the JL Nehru Stadium in Kochi on Friday.

Marcelinho’s 20thminute goal proved to be the difference between the teams as the Yellows extended their winless run to ten games.

The injured Keziron Kizito was replaced by Courage Pekuson but the visitors had four changes from their 2-1 loss to Bengaluru FC. Nim Dorjee Tamang and Ashique Kuruniyan were deployed as the wingbacks with a Golui, Matt Mills and Panwar shielding Kamaljit Singh in goal.

Pradhyum Reddy’s news three-at-the-back system paid dividends from the very off.

Marcelinho snatched the ball from an unsuspecting Anas Edathodika inside the box. In what should have been the opener in the seventh minute itself, the Brazilian chose to slam the ball right towards young ‘keeper Dheeraj Singh from the one-on-one situation.

Kerala Blasters’ only bright chance in the entire first half came from the counter-attack that ensued.

Players of FC Pune City and Kerala Blasters during their match on Friday.

Pekuson did exceedingly well to lob to ball into empty space inside the box.

However, Slavisa Stojanovic failed to make any contact whatsoever in front of an empty net.

Marcelinho did make amends as he broke the deadlock. Kuruniyan at his enigmatic best, skippered through two men on the left and released the ball into the box, splitting the Blasters’ defence. Marcelinho hit the ball towards the goal on the angle as it took a deflection off of Edathodika’s shin to spin over Dheeraj’s reach.

The home side were second best in attempts to create any sort of spark in the final third as the Pune backline had it easy going into the second half.

Alaphra Group organises 7th Hornbill cycle rally in Dimapur Staff Reporter

Medziphema volleyball tourney D imapur , D ec 7 (NPN): The two day Medziphema town inter-ward volleyball tournament was declared open Friday by Miathou Krose, chairman, NHHDC Ltd, Nagaland at Thehouba ground, Ward5.

Speaking as the chief patron at the inaugural ceremony, Miathou lauded the efforts of the organisers Medziphema Town Youth Organisation (MTYO) and also the participating teams.

“All activities are a display of character and more so, good character is vital for long-term success even in games and sports”, said the chief patron. He further added, “it is not about winning but participating in the

MGM sports meet concludes

D imapur , D ec 7 (NPN): The 2nd annual sports week of MGM College, Dimapur was held from December 5-7. The sports meet was declared open by principal, Fr. Dr. Shibu Varghese.

Indoor games were conducted on December 6. On the concluding day, events like sack race (boys and girls), football final (boys), volleyball final, tug of war and athletic events were conducted.

The closing ceremony was graced by Col. Mukesh Kumar, director works, SEWAK as the chief guest.

Addressing the students, Col. Mukesh Kumar highlighted the importance of sports in a person’s life.

Sports help a person learn the value of team spirit and time management, he said.

Yellow house emerged as the winner of the meet while Red house, Green house and Blue house bagged the second, third and fourth positions respectively.

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true spirit of the game.”

While wishing all participating teams the very best, Krose said, “we should always abide by the rules of the game with discipline and keep the team spirit” in order to excel. He further noted the fact that events such as games and sports can heal differences and bring about mutual understanding between people or groups.

T h e p r o g r a m wa s chaired by Kevisese Krose, president, MTSU, while invocation prayer was offered

by Anungba Imsong, pastor, MTABC. Asazo Talie, president, MTYO delivered the welcome address and Letginlal Singson presented a special number.

gathering and distributed prizes to the winners. The prizes included eight Tshirts, two smart phones and one bicycle, and cakes were distributed to everyone present.

Altogether 70 riders from all over the state including some out station riders took part in the rally.

Kinayala Aier (8 Years) and Sanjay Ojha (47 Years) were the youngest and eldest riders respectively.

1st Death Anniversary of our beloved Father

Lt. Lanutsulak Langu Dt. 8/12/2017

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Participants of the 7th Hornbill cycle rally along with the organisers on Friday.

DIMAPUR, DEC 7 (NPN): The 7th annual Hornbill Cycle Rally was held on Thursday in Dimapur under the theme “We Ride Together”.

The event was organised

by Alaphra Group, and endorsed and supported by the Department of Tourism, government of Nagaland.

The rally is an initiative to promote the GoGreen campaign, and also

to introduce cycling as a professional sport in Nagaland. The rally was initiated to create awareness and draw attention to the importance of environmental conservation, living a healthy lifestyle and energy conservation.

After the flag in at Eden Medical Centre (EMC), a short program was held, where managing director, ALAPHRA Group, Ricky Ozukum addressed the

Stojanovic had a shot saved by Kamaljit after the change of ends.

Zakeer Mundampara curled a couple of balls in from the corner kick, in which one Sahal Abdul Samad came close to heading it inside the box. While the Pune City defence remained solid, the hosts had numerous half chances.

Stojanovic remained clueless despite the home side’s frantic attempts to pull a goal back. Skipper Sandesh Jhingan had the most glaring opportunity in stoppage time as he headed the ball on target but Kamalji pulled off a brilliant save.

Kerala Blasters remained on 7th with 11 points while Pune City are on 8th with 5 points.

A beautiful memory of a father who guided us to lead a life of prayer without fear, your loving memories is always with us.

Loving son, daughters, in-laws, grandchildren and great grandchildren

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the bereaved family members would like to thank each and every individuals, unions, department, churches, friends and well wishers who stood by us physically, financially, morally and spiritually at the sudden demise of our beloved father Lt. Thinuosielie Nakhro, S/o Lt. Pfürü Nakhro on 4th December 2018.

We sincerely convey our special thanks to:1. Naga Bazaar Baptist Church (Lower) Kohima 2. Calvary Baptist Church, Jotsoma 3. Jotsoma Baptist Church 4. All ranks and files of IGP (INT) establishment 5. Staff of Crime Branch and PHQ Staff 6. Well Wishers We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individual but pray that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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CONDOLENCE MESSAGE

S. Heno, Former Parliamentary Secretary, express shock at the demise of Temsukaba of Longsa village. Late Temsukaba came to Sanglao village in the year 1970 and served as pastor till the time he left for his native village in the year 1993.

At that time the church Ministry in the village was in a very bad shape. During such transition period, young and energetic pastor Temsukaba laid a strong foundation in the minds of innocent villagers, and through his untiring effort, a strong Baptist doctrine was set in every heart.

Through his good quality leadership and his guidance Sanglao Baptist church building was the first such building to be built in the area. Apart from the Church ministry, through his able leadership and wisdom, he was the eye opener for the people of Sanglao Village in the field of education as well. The news of his demise has shocked me and saddened the hearts of every Sanglao citizens.

I convey my deepest condolences to the bereaved family and pray that the Almighty God grant eternal peace to the departed soul.

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5th DEATH ANNIVERSARY LT. CHIPOSAO KIKON

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?

No man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the day of his death” Ecles. 8:7,8 ------and yet ------“…… the day of death is better than the day of birth” Ecles. 7:1

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LATE Y. KYURANGSE SANGTAM 10/11/1959 to 18/11/18 We the bereaved family of Late Y. Kyurangse Sangtam, Senior Superintendent of Police, Vigilance & AntiCorruption Commission Nagaland; express our heartfelt gratitude and sincere appreciation to all the individuals, organizations and well-wishers for your support and help physically, financially, morally and spiritually at the demise of our beloved on 18/11/2018 at Dimapur.

We convey our special thanks to:1. All the Officers and Staff of Vigilance & Anti11. Burana Bazaar Sangtam Lithro, Dimapur.

Corruption Commission, Nagaland.

12. Sangtam Baptist Church Women Society, Purana 2. Shri. Müthingnyuba, MLA 52 A/C Bazaar, Dimapur, 3. Kohima Alisopur Union 13. Alisopur Suro Union, Dimapur.

4. Sangtam Baptist Lithro, Kohima.

14. Alisopur Village Council.

5. Sangtam Baptist Women Dept. Kohima.

15. Alisopur Baptist Lithro.

6. Sangtam Baptist Lithro Youth Dept. Kohima.

16. BYE Alisopur Baptist Lithro 7. Prayer Group, SBLK 17. Alisopur Choir 8. Sangtam Union Kohima.

18. Alisopur Suro Service Union 9. United Sangtam Gazetted Officers’ Union (USGOU) 19. Alisopur Baptist Women Department 10. Sangtam Baptist Fellowship, Eralibil, Dimapur 20. Trongar Village Council We deeply regret our inability to be able to thank each and everyone, however, it is our humble prayer that our God Almighty bless each one of you abundantly.

Loving wife, children & family members.

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The World changes from year to year.

Lives changes from day to day but the love and memory of you shall never pass away dad.

May Almighty God grant you solace and peace in his arms till we meet again.

Loving wife, children & family members

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

“The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, praise the name of the Lord” Job: 1:21 We the family of Late Nüzoshülü Chizo would like to convey our heartfelt and profound gratitude to each and every individual, neighbors, friends, churches and well wishers in so many ways during her prolonged illness and following her last day on 24th Nov. 2018.

We have been immensely blessed and indebted to everyone. May Almighty God shower abundant blessings to you all.

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1930 - 3rd December 2018 We the bereaved family of Late Hetoi Jimo would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to every individual, families, churches and well wishers who supported us physically, morally, financially and through prayers during the demise of our beloved.

We regret our inability to thank each and everyone individually but pray that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Tsuknungakum retains strongest man title Ranji Trophy: Nagaland trail Mnp by 60 runs

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KOHIMA, DEC 7 (NPN): Reigning champion Tsuknungakum Jamir retained his title as ‘Strongest Man’ during the second edition of the Hornbill International Strongest and Fittest Man Competition held at Amphitheatre, Naga Heritage Village Kisama on Friday.

The event was organised by Nagaland Strongest and Fittest Association in collaboration with tourism department.

Tsuknungakum from Flex Appeal Gym walked home with a cash prize of Rs. 40,000 while Sedevizo Keretsü from Life Fitness Gym bagged the runner-up in the competition and receive a cash of Rs. 20,000.

The winners were decided based on points and minute.

Strongest man competitors underwent gruelling stages such as squat lift (170 kg), farmers walk (100 kgs each), power stairs (50 to 60 kgs), loading race (90 kg), tyre flip (80kg) Naga stone (70kg) and dead lift (190 kg).

A total of seven participants took part in the competition.

Meanwhile Vizobilie

Dimapur, Dec 7 (NPN): Manipur are in control of the ongoing Ranji trophy match against Nagaland at Nagaland Cricket Stadium, Sovima, Dimapur.

Nagaland were 150 for the loss of 4 wickets, trailing Manipur by 60 runs, at the close of play on Day-2 in the second innings. K B Pawan was on 47 runs and Abrar was on 24 not out at the close of play. Jonathan contributed 59 runs to the team’s total.

Nagaland scored only 126 runs in the first innings.

Tsuknungakum Jamir (3rd from left front row) and others winners with the organisers at Kisama on Friday evening. (NP) Manipur, who were 173

for 3 on Day-1 were all out for 336 in the first innings.

Mayank Raghav scored 228 runs while Yashpal Singh scored 35 runs for Manipur in the 1st innings.

Meanwhile, young Nagaland off-spinner, Tahmeed Rahman, who is the youngest from the Northeast to play first class match for the season 2018-19, created history by becoming the first player from Nagaland to take a hat-trick in Ranji trophy in the plate group D teams. The group consists of Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim, Pudducherry, Bihar,

Uttarkhand, Arunachal, Meghalaya and Manipur who are all playing First class cricket from this season. He took the wickets of Manipur players Homendro, William and Kishan in the three consecutive balls. Tahmeed finished the first innings by taking 5 wickets for 108 runs.

Brief Scores: Nagaland 150/4 (Rongsen Jonathan 59; KB Pawan 47*; Bishworjit Konthoujam 2/29) & 126 trail Manipur 336 (Mayank Raghav 228, Yashpal Singh 35; Tahmeed Rahman 5/108) by 60 runs

Pünyü from Body Power Dimapur Gym who was also the reigning champion secured the ‘Fittest Man’ title at the competition in the second edition on Friday. He received a cash of Rs. 40,000.

Küvemuri Ringa from Amplified Fitness Club, Kohima Gym was adjudged as the runner-up and was awarded with Rs. 20,000.

The competitors for fittest man event went through stages like snatch (15kg), clean & jerk (35kg) , burpee (30times), one leg squat (30 times), dead lift (25 times), push up (15 times) , box jump (30 times). The winners were decided on the time taken by the participants.

Altogether 19 participants including one each from Manipur, Kerala, USA and Israel took part in the competition.

Aus beat China 11-0 in Hockey WC

China’s Meng (red) and Australian players vie for the ball. (PTI)

Bhubaneswar, Dec 7 (IANS): A brilliant performance saw Australia thrash China 11-0 in a Pool B match of the hockey World Cup here on Friday.

Blake Govers scored a hat-trick (10th minute, 19th and 34th), Tim Brand (33rd, 55th) scored a brace, while goals from Flynn Ogilvie (49th), Jake Whetton (29th), Aran Zalewski (15th), Tom Craig (16th), Dylan Wotherspoon (38th) and Jeremy

Hayward (22nd) helped Australia get their second highest win.

Australia fell short of their own World Cup record of a 12-0 win against South Africa in 2010.

Australia is now sitting at the top of the group with nine points. Right from the start, the Australians were on the mark and continued to press their opponent’s defence regularly which resulted in their massive win.

Arsenal players filmed using ‘hippy crack’ London, Dec 7 (Agencies): Arsenal said Friday they will “remind players of their responsibilities” after a video emerged that appears to show a number of stars inhaling nitrous oxide.

Players including Mesut Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette and Matteo Guendouzi feature in the footage, which appears to come from CCTV footage and was published by the Sun newspaper on Friday.

In a statement Arsenal said: “The players will be spoken to about this and reminded of their responsibilities as representatives of the club.” Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas or “hippy crack”, is freely available although it is technically illegal to sell it for recreational purposes.

In the video, which reportedly comes from a London venue shortly before the start of the current season, other Gunners players including Henrikh Mkhitaryan can be seen rejecting the offer to use the gas.

The footage is the latest to show top players being linked with nitrous oxide. Raheem Sterling was warned by his then club Liverpool after footage emerged of him using the substance in 2015.

In the same year, Jack Grealish was warned by the then Aston Villa manager, Tim Sherwood, after pictures emerged of him appearing to inhale the gas, and Saido Berahino was reprimanded by West Brom for a similar incident in 2014.

When an image was posted of then Tottenham player Kyle Walker in 2013, he apologised on Twitter, writing: “I won’t be doing this again and hope that no one else is influenced into putting their health at risk by my actions.” Arsenal, under new manager Unai Emery, are currently fifth in the Premier League table and are unbeaten in 20 consecutive matches in all competitions.

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