February 10, 2021

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Protest will spread all India: Tikait 40 lakh tractor rally

Rakesh Tikait

NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (AGENCIES): The farmers’ agitation will keep moving forward and even spread to the rest of the nation, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait said on Tuesday. The farmer leader made the statement while addressing a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ in Pehowa in Haryana’s Kurukshetra district, India Today report stated.

In an exclusive conversation, Rakesh Tikait told India Today, “Now, a rally of 40 lakh and not four lakh tractors will be taken out.”

Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of agitation-savvy individuals, Rakesh Tikait said, “He [PM] has never been part of any agitation in his life. In fact, he did the job of breaking the nation.

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NH-29 stretch open for trucks from Feb 10-13 DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): In order to ensure availability of essential commodities, deputy commissioner Dimapur, R. Soundararajan has informed that only trucks carrying essential items and oil tankers will be allowed to ply in the stretch between Chathe river bridge (Patkai bridge) to Kukidolong.

As per the circular, the movement of trucks will allowed from February 10 to 13 between 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

However, movement of light vehicles or pedestrians have been restricted as precautionary measures to prevent any injury, loss of life and damage to property, till further orders.

Meanwhile, truckers have been asked to strictly follow traffic rules and maintain a distance of at least 30 metres between vehicles.

Fuel prices hiked

DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): After a three-day hiatus, the state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) hiked prices petrol and diesel on Tuesday with rates of fuel climbing to fresh highs in the country. According to price notifications of stateowned OMCs, petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 35 paise per litre each.

This is it!

“Great that markets are buoyed after the new budget. I love reading positive reports.”

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Now, a rally of 40 lakh and not 4 lakh tractors will be taken out... Agitation will continue till October 2, 2021 Andolanjivis?” “Bhagat Singh, even Lal Krishna Advani were part of agitations,” Tikait added.

Rakesh Tikait went on to say that the ongoing farmers’ agitation will continue till October 2 of this year.

“But the protest will not end even after that. Farmers will keep returning to the protest sites in shifts,” the BKU leader told India Today.

Asked why he has been addressing Mahapanchayats in Haryana, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait asked, “Is holding a Mahapanchayat in Haryana prohibited?”

On Monday, Reacting to PM Modi’s assurance on giving minimum support prices to farmers, Tikait said that the PM did not say that a law will be enacted for MSP and the country does not run on trust.

“Prime Minister said

‘MSP hai, tha aur rahega’ in parliament but he did not say that a law will be enacted. The country does not run on trust. It runs on the constitution and law,” said Tikait.

Tikait added that the farmers’ stir is not backed by any political party. “No political party is supporting us. We are here for a genuine cause,” he added.

“MSP (Minimum Support Price) tha, MSP hai aur MSP rahega’ (MSP was there, MSP is there, MSP will remain in the future) said Modi in Rajya Sabha on Monday. He also said that the need of the hour is to improve the lives of the

country’s small farmers and the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) initiated changes in the agriculture sector since 2014.

Earlier on Sunday, Rakesh Tikait delivered a fiery speech at a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ in Rajasthan’s Bhawani district. Tikait also addressed a large gathering of farmers in Haryana’s Jind district earlier this month.

Along with the leaders of as many as 40 farmers’ outfits, Rakesh Tikait has been part of a delegation of farmer leaders that participated in as many as 11 rounds of consultations with the central government.

Punjab will prove to be BJP’s nemesis: Amarinder

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unjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that Punjab would prove to be the party’s nemesis. The BJP should start preparing itself for political oblivion, Amarinder Singh said the chief minister, adding the party’s fate is now sealed, not just in Punjab but also at the Centre, where its despotic rule is all set to end.

“The farm laws will spell the death-knell for this repressive, despotic and autocratic party. For nearly seven years they have trampled over human rights, as well as the dignity and aspirations of Indians in every possible way, and now it is the people’s turn,” said Singh.

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Kohima reels under acute fuel shortage Correspondent

KOHIMA, FEB 9 (NPN): The State Capital was reeling under acute shortage of fuel on Tuesday, the second time within a span of one week.

Petrol and diesel tankers en route to Kohima are reported to have been hold up at Jharnapani since Friday, leading to the fuel shortage.

Sources said that the shortage was triggered following the closure of a stretch along NH-29 after the rockslide incident.

While most petrol pumps were closed, those selling petrol in black market are said to have increased the rate to Rs 120 per litre, further adding to the misery of citizens. Panic buying of petrol was also witnessed at several pumps in and around the State Capital, even as long queues of vehicles were spotted at the few pumps that were still open.

Sources from petroleum dealers said that fuel could reach here only on Friday, but unconfirmed sources stated that some tankers were allowed to move towards Kohima on Tuesday evening.

WSBAK installs RO plant, dialysis unit at DHD

Dialysis unit at District Hospital Dimapur. (NP)

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): Reverse Osmosis (RO) water purification plant and dialysis unit were installed at Dimapur District Hospital (DHD) here on Tuesday under the initiative of Western Sümi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu (WSBAK).

WSBAK executive secretary Rev. Dr. Phughoto Sema, who dedicated the RO plant and dialysis unit donated by WSBAK, said that a seven-day commitment was made to carry out the

initiative and communicated among members about the project. He said that about 780 young people came forward to donate money for the cause, adding Rs.19 lakh was collected from March 14 to 22, 2020 for setting up of RO plant and dialysis unit, bed and air conditioning.

Rev. Phughoto also informed that as of now the hospital had two functional dialysis units, but the infrastructure was set up for four dialysis units, adding that two dialysis units were still needed. Also, speaking

on the occasion, Covid-19 technical team of WSBAK, Dr. Hotokhu Chishi said that during the Covid-19 pandemic the WSBAK formed a technical team of WSBAK and decided to work on two things-- to establish a quarantine centre for the people (quarantine centre ran for around one month in collaboration with Western Sumi Hoho) and to identify the most needed areas that could be used during the pandemic. He said that during the survey, they found out that DHD did not have intensive care unit and chemo dialysis unit.

Dr. Chishi said the team has, therefore, set up their priority and decided to focus on providing a dialysis machine unit along with installation of RO plant in April 2020 and started the mission.

However, he said that due the lack of infrastructure, the installation was carried out only in December 2020.

Describing Dimapur

as a unique district unlike other districts in Nagaland, Dr. Chishi called upon all to come forward and extend help. “It is time for every tribe, community, leaders to learn and participate and contribute…,” Chishi said.

With regard to health infrastructure, Dr. Chishi said that “we have been neglected badly and have failed miserably, many have lost their lives because of the lack which is unfair.”

He, however, expressed optimism that with the participation and contribution there was hope for a change and better tomorrow. Dr. Chishi expressed hope that the responsible authority would utilize the installed facilities to the most possible for the needy and downtrodden.

Medical superintendent Dr Keveduyi Theyo proposed vote of thanks while WSBAK mission and evangelism secretary Rev. Tovishe Sema said the benediction.

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Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab: WHO WUHAN, FEB 9 (AP): The coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 said Tuesday, dismissing as unlikely an alternate theory that virus leaked from a Chinese lab.

A closely watched visit

by World Health Organisation (WHO) experts to Wuhan—the Chinese city where the first coronavirus cases were discovered—did not dramatically change the current understanding of early days of the pandemic, said Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of WHO mission.

But it did “add details to that story,” he said at a news conference as the group wrapped up a nearly four-week visit to the city.

And it allowed the joint Chinese-WHO team to rule out one theory on the origins of the virus. The Wuhan Institute of Virology collected many virus samples, leading to allegations that it may have been the source of the original outbreak, whether on purpose or accidentally.

But experts now con-

Findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hypothesis is extremely unlikely - Peter Embarek sider the possibility of such a leak so improbable that it will not be suggested as an avenue of future study, said Embarek, a WHO food safety and animal diseases expert. China had already strongly rejected that possibility and has promoted other theories. Chinese and foreign experts considered several ideas for how the disease first ended up in humans, leading to a pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide.

Embarek said the initial findings suggest the most likely pathway the virus followed was from a bat to another animal and then to humans, adding that would require further research.

“The findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hypothesis is extremely un-

likely to explain the introduction of the virus to the human population,” he said.

The mission was intended to be an initial step in the process of understanding the origins of the virus, which scientists have posited may have passed to humans through a wild animal, such as a pangolin or bamboo rat.

Transmission directly from bats to humans or through the trade in frozen food products are also possibilities, Embarek said.

WHO team’s visit is politically sensitive for Beijing, which is concerned about being blamed for alleged missteps in its early response to the outbreak. An AP investigation has found that Chinese government put limits on research into the outbreak and ordered scientists not to speak to reporters.

No time frame for NH 129A issue: 4 villages Naga solution, object to realignment says Centre DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): chas Pura. They said this DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs, G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday informed the Parliament that the talks with Naga groups were at an “advanced stage”.

Reddy, however, said no time frame for agreement can be indicated at this stage.

Reddy was replying to an unstarred question raised

by Lok Sabha MP, Tokheho Yepthomi on the progress of talks between the Government of India and the Naga groups and whether the agreement was likely to be signed this year.

As reported earlier, the draft of the blueprint for the agreement between the Government of India and Naga groups has been finalised and awaits the approval of the Prime Minister’s Office.

In another instance of villages objecting to re-alignment of road, four villages— Vidima, Razaphe, Razaphe Basa and Disagaphu- have reacted to the re-alignment of the proposed NH-129A (Dimapur-Peren-Maram).

The four villages in a joint statement have appealed to the state government to reconsider the decision to re-align the route and revert back to the old alignment in the larger interest of the public and convenience of all.

In a representation addressed to the deputy chief minister & minister PWD (R&B), VVC chairman Pelezo Zumvü, RVC chairman Neiphilie Kense, RBVC chairman K Kruzecha Rio and DVC chairman Joydanam Langthasa expressed shock that the route had been re-aligned towards Mhainamtsi- Ngwalwa-Pa-

was a total diversion from the old plan which was more convenient and likely to involve lesser time and resources.

The signatories pointed out that as per the old alignment, there was already an existing road, which was presently used as diversion route between Dimapur-Kohima in times of emergency, and was found to be the most convenient alternate route.

However, they said that taking the new alignment would only involve more inconveniences as there was no proper existing road and great amount of resources have to be put in to make it motorable. Further, they said that there was difference of about 10km between the two routes, adding that the old route was shorter and more convenient for the (Cont’d on p-8) public.

CM inaugurates NLA’s automated library, trg room NSF dismayed at Ravi’s directive to CS Correspondent

KOHIMA, FEB 9 (NPN): Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio inaugurated the fully automated library and state-of-the-art training room of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) here Tuesday at the Assembly secretariat.

In his address, the chief minister said it was important to note that the role of the library, in a broader perspective, was not just a repository of books and other information from which the elected members can draw, but a qualitatively different service which would attend to information management as well as facilitating information access.

Rio stressed that the vision for a good library for the legislators should be to transform itself into a professional, knowledge-based, technologically updated in-

Neiphiu Rio along with his colleagues after inaugurating the automated library on Tuesday.

stitution, providing quality service to the members.

He also lauded Assembly Speaker, Sharingain Longkumer for taking the initiative to incorporate the latest technology into the functioning of the Assembly library. Rio said this was also another step in the direction of paperless governance.

Rio also said another area that needed more attention was providing quality training periodically to human resources, whether it was for government functionaries or people from other fields.

“Only through quality training would the functionaries expand their

DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has expressed dismay at Government of India interlocutor and Nagaland governor RN Ravi’s alleged attempt to “silence the voice of Naga people and suppress their rights” by his recent directive to the chief secretary.

NSF president Ninoto Awomi and general secretary Liremo R. Kikon were reacting to a recent directive from the governor to the chief secretary to take action against a government official for “seditious and subversive” writings challenging the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country and posting them on social media.

NSF said it took serious note of the directive, and viewed it as another attempt

by Ravi to undo the peace and understanding brought (Cont’d on p-8) about by his predecessors.

knowledge-base, updating themselves with the latest development in their field of activity,” Rio added.

Also addressing the occasion, deputy chief minister Y. Patton said that libraries are traditionally seen as a source of information.

However, a modern library with internet connectivity provides access to so much more within a very short time, he said.

Patton said he was optimistic that the library will provide an effective information management service to all the members and will also replace paper-based processes creating a congenial atmosphere for effective time, resources and paper documents management.

He expressed the hope that the automated library and training room will go a long way in facilitating all

The federation alleged that by issuing the impugned directive, in singling an official, governor intended to “create fear psychosis among the State government employees” to send a message that he “has his eyes and ears planted in the Naga society to achieve his desired end of dividing Naga people.”

NSF said it was also a manifestation of his “dominant attitude and his ever failing approach of thrusting the dominant might upon them”.

NSF said that as interlocutor for the Indo-Naga peace talks, it expected much more from Ravi and “to not indulge in trickery and divisive politics”.

NSF said as the Centre’smandated interlocutor to bring lasting peace between India and the Naga people, it expected Ravi to truly understand and respect the

unique history of Nagas and accordingly work out mechanisms in the interest of the two entities. However, NSF said it was “appalled at his various misconducts and misdemeanours”.

NSF maintained that “Nagas would not be cowered down by attempts to stifle their voices and belittle their legitimate rights” and their voices cannot be muted, notwithstanding the “evil designs of opposing forces”.

NSF also asked Ravi not to treat the “Nagas’ struggle for self-determination as another secessionist movement” as the collective assertion of Nagas was to live “as a people free from any illegal occupational forces based on historical facts”. Therefore, said NSF not a single soul should be persecuted for voicing out the truth.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Second phase COVID-19 vaccination drive underway

One of the frontline workers receiving vaccine.

CP Dimapur, RothihuTetseo and DC Rajesh Soundararajan receiving vaccine.

DIMAPUR: The second phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive was conducted across Nagaland on February 9.

Phek: Phek district conducted its 2nd phase vaccination drive for frontline workers (FLWs) at Police station, Phek town.

A press release by district media officer stated that prior to vaccination, DIO Phek, Dr. Kolhitso Khalo sensitised the frontline workers on the vaccine.

Addl. SP Phek, R Tochumong Chang volunteered to take the first vaccine. Aotal of 2877 frontline workers were registered in the Co-WIN portal for vaccination.

Earlier, Peren DTF committee on COVID-19 vaccine held a meeting on February 8 at DC’s confer-

Duncan Basti for the district administration, CPs office for the Police personnel and Home Guards office for HG personnel. OC women cell, Rose Yanthan was the first to be vaccinated from among the lady police officers.

District immunization officer, Dr. Rebecca informed that there were no reports of adverse reactions and that the first dose of vaccination for the frontline workers will continue till March 6.

Mon: Covishield vaccination for Mon Police was conducted at Police Baptist Church, Mon Town. The drive started with a prayer

by Pastor, Mon Police Baptist Church.

According to DIPR report, SP Mon, Imnalensa Ao was the first to be ad-

ence hall, Phek and discussed issues pertaining to COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.

DC Phek, Razouvolie Dozo highlighted on the importance of advocacy program and requested the public to continue following all precautionary measures.

Government officials from various departments, NGOs, church leaders and well-wishers attended the meeting programme.

Dimapur: In Dimapur district, a total of 165 frontline workers were vaccinated.

According to DIPR report, DC Dimapur, Rajesh Soundararajan, Commissioner Police Dimapur, Rothihu Tetseo and district commandant Chishi led the vaccination from respective session sites set up at Urban Primary Health Centre

Meeting of Mon DTF in progress on February 8. (DIPR)

ministered with the vaccine.

So far, 199 Police personnel beneficiaries from all ranks have been administered with the first dose of Covishield.

Earlier on February 8, Mon District Task Force (DTF) held a meeting at the DC’s office Mon, conference room, for proper

implementation of Covishield vaccination drive in the district.

District immunization officer, Dr. Shasinle Tep provided the meeting with updates on data of various immunisation drives conducted in the district.

With regard to COVID-

Four injured after truck rams into trees in Kohima

Correspondent

Kohima, FEB 9 (NPN): Four persons were injured when the truck they were travelling lost control and hit trees on the roadside at Nagaland Secretariat, here Tuesday.

According to eye witnesses, the accident occurred at around 4:40 a.m. when the truck, bearing a Rajasthan registration number, heading towards Thizama, lost control due to suspected

The mangled truck yet to be recovered. (NP)

brake failure and hit trees alongside the road.

Four out of the five passengers were injured with two in critical condition while one miraculously

PRPO cautions govt employees

NSCN (R) extends Hega greetings

Dimapur: NSCN/GPRN (reformation) has conveyed Hega festival greetings to the Zeliangrong Nagas. NSCN (R) through its MIP hoped that the Almighty continue to protect and shower his blessings and guidance to Zeliang brothers and sisters and to be guiding force amongst Nagas.

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siding in vicinity of the accident, while heading out for his daily work, came across the injured and helped transfer two of the injured.

The other two injured persons who were stucked in the truck were rescued by personnel of 11 IR C Coy stationed at Secretariat area.

The jawans reportedly used crowbars and ropes as levers and pulleys to break open the stuck occupants.

According to eye wit-

‘‘Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment” For the Wonderful God-Given 102 years that you lived blessedly, we remain truly grateful. With the gift of years comes the treasure of knowing that there are many who love you dearly.The most beautiful gift you could ever give us is the spiritual root that you embedded in each of our lives. You left us with profound memories which will be cherished fondly forever.

‘MAY YOU FIND ETERNAL PEACE IN HEAVEN’ The family through this column, also wishes to acknowledge with deep gratitude and appreciation to all the churches and individuals for your love, support and kindness extended to us during our bereavement.

‘May God bless you all in abundance’ Loving, Husband, children, grand children, great grand children and in-laws

19 vaccination, Tep highlighted that Nagaland had the highest vaccine wastage figures and proposed for session sites to be set only when there were sufficient numbers of beneficiaries in order to avoid vaccine wastage.

The second phase start-

ed on February 8 where targeted group includes all frontline workers, while the second dose is scheduled to be conducted on February 17. The third phase will target persons above 50 years of age from the general public.

Data collection and

other necessary actions for successful implementation of the third phase was deliberated in the meeting.

Earlier, the meeting was chaired by DC, Mon, Thavaseelan K. Various district HoDs and members of DTF attended the meeting.

DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): Dimapur police have reportedly arrested four persons for illegally operating an inter-state vehicle theft racket on February 8, 2021.

Explaining the modus operandi of the gang, Dimapur police PRO, said they would, on the pretext of hiring the target vehicle (mostly from Assam),

snatch the vehicle after serving the unsuspecting driver with soft drinks laced with drugs.

The arrest took place after a driver from Dhemaji district on regaining conscious brought the matter to Niuland police.

The four were arrested from Diphupar, Blue Hill station area, Dhobinalah and Lengri-

jan area. The four arrested accused have been identified as Abdul Latif (36) and Nurzal Islam (35) of Hojai district, Assam; Uji Ali (28) of Golaghat district, Assam and Tovi Chishi (33) of Zunheboto district and currently residing at Diphupar ‘A’ colony. PRO said two stolen vehicles were also recovered.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

“But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him.”

- Job 5:8

LT. VITOLI. H. ZHIMOMI LAID TO REST ON 2ND FEBRUARY, 2021 (1919-2021)

Covid vaccination for police personnel in Mon.

Dimapur police nab inter-state car thieves

ness accounts the two who were stucked in the remnants of the truck would have died had it not for the timely assistance by the jawans.

Both the front tires of the truck were dismounted while the front part was totally mangled. Concerned authorities in the case could not be contacted even after repeated attempts.

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DIMAPUR: Pathso Range Public Organisation (PRPO), apex body of public organisations in Pathso range has reminded government employees within Panso administrative circle to station at their respective place of posting within the month of February 2021.

A press release by PRPO through its executive chairman, PRPO, L Peshia stated that those failing to comply with directive, PRPO would strictly impose the government’s policy of “no work, no pay”, along with appropriate necessary action. To ensure that the government servants perform their duties effectively, PRPO also asserted that it would “keep a vigilant eye on government establishments” within its jurisdiction. The organisation said that the range was already lacking behind in all fronts be it education, medical facilities and other developmental activities. However, it observed that many government servants were not stationed at their respective place of posting to perform their duties. Further, PRPO expressed apprehension that if such trend continued, there may be no stepping stone for them and stated that they would not let such situation ensue.

escaped unharmed.

The injured occupants were rushed to Naga hospital where they were being treated.

A zonal taxi driver re-

ADC Aboi, Chumlamo Humtsoe receiving vaccine

Lt. Jonathan Ao

(23.08.1961 - 06.02.2021) We, the family members of Lt. Jonathan Ao, would like to express our sincere gratitude to all friends, neighbours, family members and colleagues who stood by us during this time of tribulation.

We acknowledge your presence during the wake, the funeral and the burial. We thank you for your love and support which makes our pain bearable.

We especially thank, the medical teams at Zion Hospital Dimapur and GNRC Hospital Guwahati for their untiring efforts. We thank the Ao Baptist Church, Guwahati for their prayers which brought solace to us. We are grateful to the Mopungchuket Union Dimapur and the NPCC for the love and respect that they bestowed on Lt. Jonathan Ao, which has touched our hearts deeply.

We also thank DABA and all those who participated in the funeral and the Dimapur Traffic Police who helped in its smooth conduct.

As it would be difficult to thank everyone individually, for their support, spiritual, physical and financial; please accept this acknowledgement as an expression of our deepest gratitude. Our prayers go out for all of you.

Beloved Wife, Sons, Daughter-in-law and Relatives DP-791

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021

nagalandpost.com Poll Q.: Can Mamata hold her own against the Modi poll juggernaut ?

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Next poll

Q: Should the state govt

takeover the foothill road project?  Yes.  No.  Can’t Say.

WEATHER FORECAST February 10

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Plenty of sun

30 11

Hazy sunshine

26 9

Guwahati Partly sunny and beautiful

28 11

Partly sunny and beautiful

27 6

Aizawl Imphal

Itanagar Mostly sunny and nice

26 12

Shillong Pleasant with clouds and sun 20 5 Kohima

Nice with clouds and sun

Dimapur Pleasant with clouds and sun Mkg

Partly sunny and nice

Tuensang Mostly sunny and cooler Wokha

Team from Ukhrul visit springshed project BVP organises programme on

21 7 27 11 23 8 15 5

Partly sunny and not as warm 21 11

Zunheboto Partly sunny

20 6

LRD officials along with the team from Ukhrul at percolation tank site, Thizama. (NP)

Thizama village, sponsored

by NABARD and developed

by LRD Kohima district and also the springshed development staggered contour trench at Thizama village.

Meanwhile, speaking to Nagaland Post, team leader Pamchingla Kumrah said the success story of springshed project under the LRD came to light during seminars and workshops, which prompted them to organise the field trip to Nagaland. She said, after visiting the sites, they realised that many improvements had to be done on the first springshed project that was initiated, stressing that rapport between the government and community was very important for successful implementation of any such project. Kumrah said the implementation of the first project in 2020 sponsored by NABARD already saw an impact in mitigating

Correspondent KOHIMA, FEB 9 (NPN): Having learnt about the successful implementation of springshed water development programme in the State, a 13-member team from Ukhrul, Manipur arrived here to see the success story initiated by the land resource department (LRD).

The team was led by programme coordinator of Volunteers for Village Development (VVD), Pamchingla Kumrah, village council leaders and others.

Led by Kohima district project officer (DPO) Dr. Menuosietuo Tseikha and officers from the land resource directorate, the visiting team was taken to Thizama village where the springshed project has been implemented. The team visited the percolation tank site-- springshed project at

PNSU conducts mass social work

water scarcity and exuded confidence that, with two more projects in pipeline, the villagers would get huge relief from water scarcity.

According to her, water in some villages dried up in the last 10-15 years and now the villagers were compelled to buy water. Therefore, she said it was high time to rejuvenate the springs.

DPO explained the site projects and how the implementation was done with financial support from National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and cooperation from the village community. He urged the visitors to understand the concept of the project for its successful replication. Thanking the visiting team for organising the field trip, he said their visit would boost the morale of all those involved to be more committed during implementation of the

project.

NABARD DDM, Poji informed the visitors that NABARD had implemented nine springshed projects in Nagaland and one in Ukhrul, adding two more would be implemented in Ukhrul. He expressed the bank’s desire to sponsor more, if such projects came up. Thizama Village Council (TVC) chairman Kesoneilie Theünuo explained how water shortage could be minimised with springshed projects, adding that the village had many more success stories to share that where scripted with the help of LRD. He said in one of the springsheds, water was expected to increase in future since many trenches had been dug and trees preserved. Thanking State LRD, NABARD and TVC for making the field trip meaningful and success, the visiting team expressed hope to replicate the same in their village as there were a lot of similarities.

Earlier in the morning, LRD director Renben Jami explained to the visiting team at the directorate the positive impact the springshed project had made. LRD joint director Albert Ngullie gave a power point presentation on inventorisation and revival of springs in Nagaland.

Missing minor found in Kma

DIMAPUR: A 15-year-old girl who went missing has been found by District Child Protection Officer (DCPO), Kohima on February 7.

The minor has been identified as Angam Konyak.

In this regard, DCPO Kohima has informed the concerned parents/relatives to contact District Child Protection Unit/ Child Welfare Committee, Kohima.

Angam Konyak

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women & girls empowerment

DIMAPUR: Bharat Vikas Parishad (BVP) organised “women & girls empowerment programme” on February 7 at Dayanand Vidyaniketan conference hall, Dimapur.

A press release by secretary, BVP Dimapur, Dr Ramashankar stated that on the occasion, principal, St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Neena Dutta and NBSE topper, Class 12 (science stream), Anushka Bhattacharjee were conferred with certificate of appreciation by BVP central, core committee, through Dimapur

branch for their contribution in Nagaland.

At the programme, principal, Divine Grace School Shillong, Sumita Chakraborty graced the programme as chief guest.

Other guest speakers were assistant professor, SD Jain College, Dr Dalia Bhattacharjee and coordinator ABDSS, North East, Shantosh Kr Shastri.

Speakers from the organising committee were president BVP Dimapur, Pramod Singh, secretary Dr Ramashankar Siromoni, Madhusmita

Dutta, Nivedita and Neetu Kachari, while women leader, BVP, Puja Das Paul chaired the programme North East regional secretary and convenor of the programme extended gratitude to all women leaders, guests and girl participants for encouraging the gathering.

It was also informed that BVP would be organising “Bharat-Ko-Jano” state level quiz competition in Dimapur on April and requested submission of names of participants at BVP, Dimapur branch office.

news in Brief Power deptt disconnection drive: Power department has informed consumers under Wokha district as per directive of engineer-in-chief of power, the Wokha electrical sub-division will carry out disconnection drive against defaulting consumers with pending arrears (February and March). The division informed that the disconnection drive will be initiated and commence from second week of February. Consumers have been requested to clear all pending arrears to avoid disconnection.

KQWS road advocacy programme: Kipi Qomi Welfare Society (KQWS), state level NGO has informed that a road safety advocacy program will be organised at Thilixu Baptist Church junction 3rd mile Dimapur on February 12 at 10:30 a.m. under the guideline of Ministry of Road Transport and Highway. The society will conduct this awareness programme for Sadak Suraksha Jeevan Raksha.

GPPK general meeting: Gorkha Public Panchayat Kohima (GPPK) has informed that a general body meeting will be held on February 14 at GPPK hall, 1 p.m. All executives of Gorkha NGOs, GB, seniors and members within Kohima district including out stationed members have been requested to attend the meeting.

ANGDA 4th executive meeting: All Nagaland Government Drivers Association (ANGDA) has informed that 4th execu-

tive meeting of North Eastern State Government Drivers Forum (NESGDF) will be held from February 12 to 14, DUDA Conference Hall, Zienuobadze Kohima.

All affiliated units president and general secretary have been directed to attend the meeting.

Modification in the issuance of passes for NLA session: Commissioner & Secretary NLA, Dr. PJ Antony has informed that vehicle passes for ministers/ advisors and AHODs can be collected from office of Special Secretary, Home, Civil Secretariat on February 10 & 11 till 3:00 p.m. Collecting of vehicle passes for MLAs and PS/PA will remain the same, i.e. from reception counter (gate-II), NLA Secretariat, February10 and 11. All HODs/IPR and media persons car passes will be issued from reception counter (Gate-I), NLA Secretariat on February 10 and 11. All have been requested to follow the above schedules.

TYO informs: Tsieramia Youth Organisation (TYO) has banned anti-social activities within Tsieramia jurisdiction and therefore owners of business establishments have been directed to avoid illegal payments or entertain such groups/ persons. Tsieramia Youth Organisation through its president, Phuokuotuolie Dzüvichü informed that any person/ group caught in such activities would be doing so at their own peril and will be severely dealt with.

ESH on taxi fare

PNSU members, locals and civil societies partaking in the mass social work.

DIMAPUR: Pathso Nokeng Students’ Union (PNSU) initiated mass social works on February 1 and 8 with the support of civil societies and Church, with an aim to clean and beautify the two graveyards of the village.

A press release by its information and publicity secretary stated that the burial sites which were shabby and covered in twigs had remained neglected for

a long time.

With active community participation, the cemeteries were cleaned, demarcated and the memorial stones were rearranged with the participation of more than 400 people.

Keeping in mind the availability of limited space, the village resolved that no person would carry out concreting works inside the grave and the memo-

rial stone would be limited within the area of 3x3 square feet.

Meanwhile, it was decided that the youth department of Pathso Nokeng Baptist Doathe would take over the responsibility of future maintenance.

Further, PNSU expressed its appreciation to all who voluntarily helped through cash, kind, and manpower.

DIMAPUR: Easter n Sumi Hoho (ESH) has appealed taxi counters and taxi drivers to strictly adhere to the rates fixed

by Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) and administrator Kiphire Town Council (KTC) for different destinations from Kiphire which was informed on February 6. A press release

by ESH vice president, H Phutoi Sumi and joint secretary, Vikhugha stated that the Hoho would under no circumstances allow different counters and taxi drivers to ferry more than five passengers. ESH also directed all taxi drivers and passengers to strictly follow the SOPs and urged the public of Kiphire to be vigilant and report to the administrator KTC or ESH on any violation of the laid down rules.

ACID hosts development programme for women

Officials of ACID and NABARD with participants of the MEDP.

DIMAPUR: Assisi Centre for Integrated Development (ACID-cum-NDWM) through the support of National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD), RO Assam commenced Micro Enterprise Development Programmes (MEDP) for 60 self help group (SHG) members belonging to six SHG groups from Borlengri area and Rongpi Bosti.

A press release by ACID stated that the programme was officially inaugurated by DDM NABARD, Assam, Pauliankap K Y M C

Bulte on February 8 in Assisi auditorium.

In her welcome address, UFS, director ACID, Sr. Pramila Lobo expressed her gratitude to NABARD Assam for constant support, guidance and reaching out to many rural women to enhance their skills and make them economically stable.

She stated that NABARD has been supporting the organisation through different skill training programmes which attempts to bridge the skill deficit or facilitates optimisation of production activity pursued

by SHG members.

In his inaugural address, Pauliankap Bulte stated that the skills that SHG members learned was equal to training the whole family because as home makers, the skill trainings helped them become economically stable.

He also encouraged them to function their SHG groups with proper objectives and not to depend on the credit linkage alone but rather become self-sufficient by acquiring the skills tactfully.

Through proper savings, skill trainings and other

income generating activity programmes they should enhance their economic stability, he stated.

Meanwhile, LDM, R. Saha made the participants aware about financial literacy programme and social security schemes such as PMJJY, PMSBY, APY, Rupay scheme, Mudra Yojana. He also educated them on fraud calls from which deceive them by asking for bank details or lottery.

Earlier, the programme was facilitated by Moala and invocation by Noksenmakla.

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Transporters demand further Mnp Congress reignites demand for Govt officials to undergo reduction in fuel hike in M’laya disqualification of parl secretaries toxicology tests in Arunachal Correspondent

I ta nag a r , F e b 9 (PTI): Amid reports of drug abuse by many government officials, the Arunachal Pradesh administration has decided to conduct toxicology tests on officials suspected to be addicted to drugs in the worst-affected districts of the state, Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar has said.

The administration will also keep a close tab on officials suspected to be involved in drug trafficking.

Kumar said strong action will be initiated against officials found involved in any drug-related activity.

A toxicology test is conducted to determine traces of drugs in a person.

The chief secretary, during a State Level Technical Expert Committee (SLTEC) meeting on Monday, said that the districts of Namsai, Lohit, Dibang Valley, Upper Siang, Anjaw, Changlang, Tirap and

Naresh Kumar West Kameng are among the 272 worst drug-affected districts of the country.

“Destruction of opium or cannabis cultivation is not enough to curb the menace. Students in secondary and senior secondary schools have to be educated about drug abuse and it is imperative to involve women and panchayat members in the fight against drugs,” he said.

The students have to be taught about drug abuse through standard activities under the guidance of trained teachers, Kumar

Meghalaya Lokayukta issues notices to Chief Secy & others

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Shillong, Feb 9: The Meghalaya Lokayukta has issued notices to State Chief Secretary M.S. Rao and other senior officials over the allegations of illegal mining and transportation of coal in the state.

Lokayukta Chairperson, P.K. Musahary issued the notices based on a complaint lodged by Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly and former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on the illegal mining and transportation of coal violating the National Green Tribunal order banning rat-hole coal mining.

Sangma had alleged that illegal coal mining was still taking place in violation of the MMDR Act, 1957 as well as the ban issued by the National Green Tribunal.

“In the interest of public, this FIR be treated

as a complaint petition.

Registered it and proceed,” Musahary noted in his order and issued notices to the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police of West Jaintia Hills, first informant M Syrti, Officer in-charge of Raliang Police Station, the Divisional Mining Officer (DMO) and the Director of Mineral Resources (DMR), Jowai.

Syrti has been asked to file his response while the Officer-in-charge of Raliang Police Station has been asked to file the status report. Moreover, the Lokayukta also directed the Divisional Mining Officer, Jowai to file response as to why they should not be impleaded as respondents within 15 days.

Musahary asked the Chief Secretary as to why he should not be asked to prepare an action plan to fight coal racket.

said.

Activities by women and panchayat members are a preferred intervention in terms of sensitive handling of the matters.

Hence, their involvement for behavioural change is necessary for good influence on the ground level, he said.

“They should be trained to undertake public education on drug menace to create mass awareness.

Proper sensitisation and orientation for undertaking kiwi, large cardamom and ginger as alternative cash crops should be taken up,” Kumar said.

The SLTEC has recommended that experts be engaged for a study on the situational analysis of substance abuse in the state and its management under the guidance of the National Institute of Social Defence.

It also recommended a comprehensive baseline study on substance abuse, HIV and sex workers.

Mizoram Assembly Budget Session from Feb 23 Aizawl, Feb 9 (PTI): The Budget session of Mizoram Assembly will be held from February 23 to March 17, an official said.

The meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) chaired by Assembly Speaker Lalrinliana Sailo on Monday chalked out the detailed programme for the upcoming budget session as per which the session will last till March 17, Assembly Secretary H Lalrinawma said. There will be 15 sittings between February 23 and March 17, he said.

State Governor P S Sreedharan will deliver his address on the first day of the session, while Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who holds the Finance portfolio will present the annual budget for fiscal 2021-2022 on March 1, he added.

Shillong, Feb 9: The agitating Meghalaya Joint Action Committee of Commercial Vehicles (MJACCV) on Tuesday demanded further reduction in petrol and diesel prices from the Conrad Sangma-led government, even as it threatened to further intensify their agitation.

Commercial vehicles, including cabs and buses have been off the road in the State from February 3 demanding a rollback of price hike in petrol and diesel. Faced with public criticism, the State Government on Sunday reduced the price of petrol and diesel by Rs. 2 per litre. Unhappy at the “measly” price reduction, members of MJACCV held a sit-in demonstration at Malki ground and demanded further reduction.

“The increase in fuel prices has not only affected the livelihood of the vehicle owners and drivers, but it has also affected the entire society,” MJACCV Chairman, WandonbokJyrwa said. He said the State Government

Correspondent IMPHAL, Feb 9: Agitating government college teachers in Manipur on Tuesday resolved to go ahead with its planned intensified forms of stirs even as chief minister N Biren Singh appealed for a talk.

Teachers of government colleges were on strike for the last 10 days under the banner of the Federation of Government College Teachers Associations (FEGOCTA), pressing the state government to adopt 7th UGC Pay and Regulations 2018 in the state.

The teachers were on a series of sit-in-protest at various colleges in the last 10 days without affecting the normal classes and were planning to intensify their stir from February 12 by taking mass casual leave for two days.

It will be followed by indefinite class boycott

stir from February 17 as resolved by FEGOCTA in a meeting convened on February 6 last.

Chief minister N Biren Singh today made an appeal to the striking teachers to review their decision of boycotting class considering the student community, in the house of the ongoing budget session of the state Assembly.

During a calling attention motion, the chief minister admitted that the state government had agreed to adopt the 7th UGC Pay and Regulations 2018.

The state cabinet had agreed to adopt the same in principle. However, the implementation of the same was delayed because of the adverse impact of Covid-19 on the state’s economy and its precarious financial conditions.

The striking should know the financial problem being faced by the state.

The state government had even cut almost half of

the budget allocations of each department to meet the expenses incurred in the fight to contain the pandemic.

The teachers should think of the condition of the state economy. The government would like to hold a talk with the leaders of the agitating teachers.

“Do come to the negotiating table and cooperate with the government in finding a solution,” he told the house.

Earlier responding to a call attention motion, state education minister S Rajen Singh assured the house that the state government will address the demand of the college teachers as soon as possible.

Despite the appeal of the chief minister, college teachers will go ahead with its planned stirs, said FEGOCTA, in a statement, today.

“The government college teachers are set to take mass casual leaves on

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IMPHAL, Feb 9: Opposition Congress in Manipur continued its rally to demand disqualification of the 12 MLAs who were appointed as the parliamentary secretaries by the BJP government.

The party commenced its campaign for the disqualification of the 12 MLAs from Monday with a rally in Mayang Imphal in Imphal West district.

On Tuesday, the second day of the campaign, a similar rally was carried out at Naoriya Pakhanglakpa of the same district. Hundreds of Congress workers and supporters marched on the streets after a mass sit-inprotest.

The protest was organised by Naoriya Pakhanglakpa Block Congress Committee. They displayed various placards that read “Honour r ule of law”, “Honour court’s judgement”, “BJP should stop destroying constitution”, “Save constitution save democracy”, etc. during the

protest.

In September 2020, the High Court of Manipur pronounced the Manipur Parliamentary Secretary (Appointment, Salary and Allowances and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2012 and the Manipur Parliamentary (Appointment, Salary and Allowances and Miscellaneous Provisions) Repealing Act, 2018 invalid and unconstitutional.

A division bench of the HC delivered the judgment in response to the petitions filed by four persons including two Congress MLAs in 2018 challenging the appointment of parliamentary secretaries at the same time quashing the Act. The HC passed the order based on the ruling of the Supreme Court in the case of Bimolangshu Roy versus the state of Assam.

Following the judgment of the court, opposition Congress has been demanding disqualification of the 12 MLAs who were appointed as parliamentary secretaries. The party had even sought intervention

of the state Governor in this regard.

Taking part in the protest, MPCC secretary Dr S Manaoton said that the protest will continue until the 12 MLAs are disqualified.

He alleged that even after judgement of the court, the concerned authorities,including Election Commission of India, has not taken up disqualifying the 12 MLAs of the ruling parties.

He said that after the passing of the judgment, Congress party has approached the state legislative Assembly and state Governor to take up the needful steps to disqualify the MLAs. After failure on the part of the authorities, the party had even knocked on the door of ECI. However, no action is taken up so far from the ECI side, he said.

The secretary added that the BJP-led Manipur government has been proven to have committed illegal and unconstitutional acts by appointing the 12 MLAs as parliamentary secretaries.

Centre sanctions bridge between Majuli and Jorhat G U WA H AT I , F EB 9 (AGENCIES): The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has sanctioned for construction of a major bridge over river Brahmaputra to connect the world’s largest inhabited river island Majuli in Assam amounting to Rs 925 crore. The work has been awarded to M/s UP State Bridge Corporation Ltd, reports The Sentinel Assam.

The length of the bridge will be 8 km. The project is estimated to be completed within four years. The ag reement was signed on Monday

by MoRTH CE (Zone V) UC Katara and UP State Bridge Construction Corporation Joint MD Ashish Srivastava in the presence of MoRTH ADG SK Nirmal.

The MoRTH took to Twitter to announce the construction.

College teachers in Mnp vow to continue agitation

College teachers on sit-in-protest at Manipur College Imphal on Tuesday.

has the power to reduce fuel prices, as it is a state subject.

MJACCV said that various vehicle taxes, the COVID-19 cess, can also be done away with. Jyrwa warned that the associations have so far resorted to peaceful agitation, but the State Government seems not receptive to its demand and so they would take stringent action if their demands are not met.

Other members of the association pointed to the increase in vehicle taxes, which has affected the livelihood of several people and put them into economic hardship. On the other hand, the fuel price rise and the subsequent hike has affected mainly the people living in the rural areas as many have not been able to bring their ailing family members to the urban areas for medical treatment.

Meanwhile, due to the strike by the commercial vehicles, the prices of vegetables and some essential commodities in the State Capital are steadily rising as these have not been transported from some of the rural areas of the State.

February 12 and 13. It will be followed by class boycott from February 17,” FEGOCTA general secretary Dr N Somorendro Singh said, in the statement.

These were decided at the collective sit-in-protests cum meeting of government college teachers organised by FEGOCTA at D M College of Science, Imphal on February 6, he reminded.

“The government college teachers did not and do not want agitations in the past and present. Therefore, the college teachers request for orders of 7th UGC Pay and Regulations, 2018 at the earliest to avoid any disturbance in academic atmosphere in the colleges,” FEGOCTa stated.

Under the aegis of FEGOCTA, college teachers were staging sit-in-protests for the 10 day.

As the past three written assurances to FEGOCTA have not been fulfilled, there is a trust deficit, it added.

Unless the orders of 7th UGC Pay and Regulations, 2018 are issued, the present agitations will continue as resolved in FEGOCTA executive committee meetings.

Teachers have been compelled to undertake the unprecedented 5th agitations by FEGOCTA. The sit-in-protests was held in different government colleges in hill and valley areas, the statement claimed.

“The project is being taken up to fulfil the long-awaited demand of the local public,” said MoRTH. The bridge will provide connectivity between Jorhat and Kamalabari ghat of Majuli. As of now, people living in these areas rely on river ferries for transportation.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal welcomed the initiative of the Central government.

“The construction of one of the most important bridges over the Brahmaputra connecting Jorhat to the sacred river island Majuli is a great infra project for New India,” said Chief Minister Sonowal.

The Chief Minister’s Office took to Twitter to announce the project. They wrote, “Another great infra project for New India. Construction of one of the most important bridges over the

The agreement was signed by MoRTH CE (Zone V) UC Katara and UP State Bridge Construction Corporation Joint MD Ashish Srivastava in the presence of MoRTH ADG SK Nirmal.

Brahmaputra connecting Jorhat to the sacred river island Majuli, sanctioned by @MORTHIndia.”

The Chief Minister had earlier announced that the construction of the Jorhat-Majuli bridge would start by February

Rajiv Kumar Bora appointed as new APSC Chairman

20. The foundation stone of the bridge was laid by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in 2016.

The 15th Finance Commission, headed by N K Singh, recommended the construction of roads and

embankments in Majuli.

For that purpose, the Commission granted Rs 1,095 crore for Majuli.

The commission also recommended Rs. 300 crore for the development of the Kamakhya temple complex.

IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE WOKHA : NAGALAND NOTICE

S/C No. 13/2021

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefit of Late Ezanthung has been applied by Smti. Lovungi Kikon, W/o. Lt. Ezanthung, R/O Wokha, Nagaland for possession of: 1. SBI (Joint) A/c No. 30771034755 2. PPO No. PEN/M/S/NL/25072 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before 09-03-2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this day the 09-02-2021.

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IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE WOKHA : NAGALAND NOTICE

New Chairman of APSC Rajiv Kumar Bora shakes hands with Assam Governor Jagadish Mukhi. (PTI) G U WA H AT I , F EB 9 (AGENCIES): The State Government on Monday appointed retired IAS officer Rajiv Kumar Bora as the new Chairman of the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC), reports The Sentinel Assam.

“In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 316 of the Constitution of

India and Assam Public Service Commission Regulation 1951 as amended by the Governor of Assam is pleased to appoint Rajiv Kumar Bora, IAS (retd) as Chairman of the Assam Public Service Commission with effect from the date of taking overcharge,” said a government order issued on Monday .

Five arrested in scholarship scam

GUWAHATI, FEB 9 (AGENCIES): Raids by the CID at a few locations under Boko, Nagarbera and Dhupdhara police stations in the intervening night of February 7 and 8 led to the picking up of five persons in connection with the pre-matriculation minority scam, reports The Sentinel Assam.

Three of the five have been arrested later. As on now, as many as 35 arrests have been made in connection with the scam. The five persons who were apprehended by the sleuths of the CID during the raids are Nur Haque (38), Golam Mustafa (27), Azad Rofikul Islam (41), Muniruddin (25) and Azizul Haque (28). The CID conducted the raids in continuation of its investigation of the scam.

S/C No. 12/2021

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefit of Late W Thungjamo Tsanglao has been applied by Smti. Nzano Tsanglao, W/o. Lt. W Thungjamo Tsanglao, R/O H/No. 209, Wokha, Nagaland for possession of: 1. SBI A/c No. 11766573015.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before 08-03-2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this day the 08-02-2021.

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AFFIDAVIT

Date 26/10/2020

I, Shri/Smti NOCHOL SACHU, S/o Late Kerino, resident of BOC Kohima-Kohima Sadar, District : Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide law a biding of India by Birth and indigenous inhabitant of the State of Nagaland.

2. That my correct and official name is NOCHOL SACHU, nevertheless the same has been erroneously/wrongly recorded as NOCHOL ANGAMI in my Certificate of Indigenous Inhabitant, Registration No. 6443/99, Issued Dtd. 29/09/1999 by Establishment of Deputy Commissioner Kohima.

3. That, the names NOCHOL SACHU and NOCHOL ANGAMI are synonymous i.e the deponent's name.

4. That henceforth, I shall be called/known as NOCHOL SACHU for all official records/documents, correspondence and any future intent.

5. That the statements made by me herein above are all true and correct to the best of my knowledge and nothing is false herein.

VERIFICATION I further verified that the statements made by me herein above are all true and correct to the best of my knowledge and nothing material is concealed therein.

DEPONENT Solemnly affirmed and declared before me by the deponent on this th 26 day of October 2020 at Medziphema.

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PM concern over increasing violence in Afghanistan NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (PTI): In a message of solidarity with Afghan people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said “no external power” can stop the development of Afghanistan or its friendship with India and that both the neighbours want to see their region free from the “grave” threat of terrorism and extremism.

He also expressed concern over increasing incidents of violence in Afghanistan including cowardly targeting of innocent citizens, journalists and activists, and noted that India supports a comprehensive ceasefire to end the hostilities.

Modi was speaking at a virtual meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani which was organised to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of the Lalandar dam by India in Afghanistan that would help in meeting the drinking water requirement of Kabul city.

“I want to assure every Afghan brother and sister, from Badakhshan to Nimroz and Herat to Kandahar that India stands with you.

At every step of your journey of patience, courage and determination, India will be with you,” Modi said.

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In his remarks, Ghani said peace in Afghanistan is within the grasp if parties and their backers in the Taliban embrace a true political solution, seen as a clear reference to Pakistan.

The Afghan President said terrorism must be seen as a “full eco-system” and not as isolated groups or individuals, noting that the “destructive forces” are threatening the future of the region.

Modi said strengthening internal unity among Afghan people is very important and exuded confidence that a united Afghanistan will be able to face any challenge.“No external power can stop the development of Afghanistan, or the India-Afghanistan friendship,” he said.

India has been a major stakeholder in Afghanistan

and it has extended developmental assistance to tune of around USD 3 billion in the last few years to the country. “We are concerned about the increasing violence in Afghanistan. Innocent citizens, journalists and activists are being cowardly targeted. We have called for an immediate end to the violence, and we immediately support a comprehensive ceasefire,” Modi said.

“Violence is a retaliation for peace, and the two cannot go together. As a close neighbour and strong strategic partner, both India and Afghanistan want to see their region free from the grave crisis of terrorism and extremism,” he said.

The prime minister noted that India has been supportive of a peace process that is led, owned and controlled by Afghanistan.

“In the success of Afghanistan, we see the success of India and its entire region,” Modi said.

In his brief address at the meeting, Ghani said all stakeholders must be asked to respect “rules of sovereignty’’ and stop giving “sanctuaries” and interfering in the affairs of their neighbours, in an apparent reference to Pakistan.

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States asked to hold mop-up rounds to inoculate health workers NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (AGENCIES): The Centre on Tuesday said frontline workers who do not get inoculated against COVID-19 in the scheduled or mop-up rounds of the vaccination drive will have to be relegated to the age-specific batches as it advised the states and Union territories to conclude the first-dose administration of all frontline workers by March 6.

Addressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said all states and Union territories have been asked to schedule vaccination for all the healthcare workers listed on the CoWIN mobile application by March 1.

“We have further advised the states and Union territories that all frontline workers must be given the opportunity of getting vaccinated in the mop-up rounds

by March 6. Those frontline workers who do not get vaccinated in the scheduled vaccination rounds or in the mop-up rounds will have to be relegated to the age-specific vaccination rounds,” he said. “States and UTs have also been advised that mop up rounds for healthcare workers must be organised

by February 24. The aim is to ensure that those workers who could not come during scheduled vaccination ses-

sions will avail the benefit to get vaccine dose,” Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Union Health Ministry said at a press conference here.

“We can’t indefinitely keep on scheduling and rescheduling healthcare workers. States/UTs have been advised that all healthcare workers must be scheduled at least once for vaccination by February 20. Timelines are communicated to states,” he added.

The COVID-19 inoculation process for people aged above 50 is scheduled to start in March.

Speaking about the pandemic situation in the country, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, Dr V K Paul said protecting the healthcare system, the frontline workers and also the larger population from not being a candidate for mortality even if they get infected with COVID-19 is the priority.

He also said it might be a few months before vaccines become available through emergency use authorisation. “The country is fortunate to have two made in India vaccines and as many as six-seven in the pipeline,” Paul said.

“First and foremost, the comprehensive goal is to achieve the public health objective of vaccinating 30 crore people.

Deep Sidhu arrested in connection with R-Day violence NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH, FEB 9 (AGENCIES): A Delhi court on Tuesday send actor-activist Deep Sidhu to seven-day police custody in connection with Red Fort incident during Republic Day violence.

Earlier, police sought 10day custody of Deep Sidhu.

Sidhu was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Prigya Gupta. The police had announced a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading to Sidhu’s arrest.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police was involved in arresting Sidhu. Police are yet to disclose the details as to how they zeroed in on the actor who was on the run for the past two weeks.

Reports suggest that he was found through his social media uploads as he was using his California-based friend for

updates.

Deep Sidhu and a few others, including LakhaSidhana, moved towards the Red Fort after breaking the barriers near Mukarba Chowk.

The protesters had ignored a pre-decided route on Republic Day, resulting in clashes with the police. It is alleged that Deep Sidhu handed the flag to another accused Jugraj Singh, and it was hoisted at the Red Fort.

After registering an FIR in connection with the violence at Red Fort, Delhi Police had announced cash rewards of Rs 1 lakh each leading to the arrests of Deep Sidhu and three others.

Meanwhile, a Punjab Police spokesperson in Chandigarh declined to confirm if Deep Sidhu was arrested from Zirakpur Actor Deep Sidhu, accused in the violence on Republic Day during a farmers’ tractor rally, arrested by Delhi Police special cell in New Delhi, Tuesday. (PTI) or from any part of the state.

Government asks people to register as cybercrime volunteers

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Mehta said that “horrendous” tweets were made.

“Horrendous tweets have been made,” Mehta said, adding, “I can show you what horrendous effect these tweets have with such lakhs of followers”.

The bench asked Mehta, “Are you going to arrest them?”. The solicitor general said, “I am before your lordships. Please hear it tomorrow”.

The bench asked Mehta whether he was appearing for all the concerned states.

“I will appear for all,” he said. Sibal, while arguing that petitioners should be protected, said, “What prejudice will it cause if this protection is given?”

“We will hear you after two weeks and stay the arrest in the meanwhile,” the bench said.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for one of the journalists, said no religious sentiment has been hurt and it was a January 26 report on some person being allegedly shot and then

it was corrected to something else. On January 30, Delhi Police had filed a case against Tharoor, Sardesai and others.

Earlier, Tharoor and the six journalists were booked by Noida Police for alleged sedition, among other charges, over the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi, officials had said. Madhya Pradesh Police had also filed a case against Tharoor and the six journalists over their alleged ‘’misleading’’ tweets on the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi.

Tharoor has moved the apex court, through advocate Sandeep Kapur, challenging the registration of multiple FIRs against him for his tweet on the January 26 violence in Delhi.

On January 26, thousands of protesting farmers had clashed with the police in the national capital during the tractor rally called by the farmer unions to highlight their demand for repeal of the three farm laws.

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(A Central University Established by the Act of Parliament No.35, 1989) School of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development Medziphema Campus – 797 106(Nagaland) Email-nusasrdstiner@gmail.com Ref.No. SASRD/NU/STINER-4(I)/2020-318 Date: 09-02-2021

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process is complete, the details of the volunteers would be accessible to the Union Territory Inspector General of Police (crime branch) who is the nodal officer for cybercrime.

The I4C is an idea conceived to fight against cybercrime in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.

“One of the important objectives of I4C is to create an ecosystem that brings together academia, industry, public and government in prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes,” a document of the Home Ministry said.

This programme also envisages bringing together citizens with a passion to serve the nation on a single platform and contribute in the fight against cybercrime in the country.

The Home Ministry document made it clear that the programme is “purely volunteer” with no monetary benefits and a volunteer shall not use it for any commercial gain.

Shashi Tharoor

This is to inform you that the Tchuyi village (Chuyiro) general meeting will be held on the 13th of February 2021 (Saturday) at 11:00 AM at Tchuyi village.

Therefore all the bonafide members are requested to attend the meeting positively.

Attendee members are requested to send 'ROV KA' to the given number either by SMS or WhatsApp. 8729803294/982318918.

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tent like child pornography, rape, gang rape, terrorism, radicalisation, anti-national activities etc, the second category will help create awareness about cyber crime among citizens, including vulnerable groups like women, children, the elderly, rural population etc.

Cyber Expert category volunteer will help deal with specific domains of cybercrime, forensics, network forensics, malware analysis, memory analysis and cryptography.

While there is no prior verification required for the first category, a background verification of volunteers of other two categories will be done as per the norms of Know Your Customers (KYC) by the respective state governments and union territories.

The volunteers are required to furnish personal particulars like full name, father’s name, mobile number, email address, residential address.

Once the registration

NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (PTI): The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed the arrest of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists including Rajdeep Sardesai in connection with FIRs lodged against them for their allegedly “misleading” tweets on the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally here on the Republic Day. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde issued notices and sought responses from the Centre and others on the petitions filed

by Tharoor, Sardesai and journalists Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Vinod K Jose and Anant Nath.

When the bench said it was issuing notice in the matter, senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, appearing for Tharoor, said that no coercive action be taken against them in the meantime. “Nothing is going to happen. Where is the danger,” said the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian.

Sibal objected to the observation of the bench that nothing would happen to the petitioners in the meantime, saying Solicitor General Tuhsar Mehta is appearing for Delhi Police and the cops of other states might “knock at my doors and arrest me in the meantime”.

“Kindly protect us in the meanwhile,” Sibal said, prompting the bench to ask the law officer whether the police was planning to arrest Tharoor and others.

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JAMMU/NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (PTI): In a bid to keep an eye on the cyber world in a “coordinated and comprehensive manner”, the government has asked common people to register as cyber crime volunteers to help check posts against the sovereignty of the nation, on child and women abuse and attempts to disturb the law and order situation.

The project known as Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) is an initiative of the Union Ministry. It was started in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir last week where the police issued a circular asking citizens to register themselves as volunteers.

The volunteers are asked to keep an eye on posts which are against the sovereignty and integrity of India, against the defence of India, against the security of the State, against friendly relations with foreign States, content aimed at disturbing public order, disturbing communal harmony and child sex abuse material.

A spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir police said that any Indian citizen can get associated with this programme by registering in any of three categories of cyber volunteers -- Cyber Volunteer Unlawful Content Flagger, Cyber Awareness Promoter and Cyber Expert.

While the first category will help identify illegal and unlawful online con-

R-Day violence: SC stays arrest of Tharoor, Sardesai & others

STINER-TFC, SASRD: NU, MEDZIPHEMA CAMPUS, NAGALAND SPOKE INVITES ASPIRING ENTREPRENEURS FOR TECHNOLOGY INCUBATION AT THE CENTRE 1. Multi-purpose drier (for spice crops like king chilli, ginger, turmeric & cardamom) 2. Banana & Pineapple fiber extraction machine (Basic Technologies at the centre handicraft skills on extracted fiber will be provided) 3. Oil-distillation Unit (Lemon grass) 4. Smoke-free meat drier 5. Vermi-compost Unit 1. Infrastructure 2. Provision of work space/office Services 3. Machineries 4. Technical assistance 5. Packaging & sealing of finished products Aspiring entrepreneurs and start ups from in and around Who can apply the state Mail your application at: How to apply email: nusasrdstiner@gmail.com Mb. No: 7005238788/8794567014/6009144686 Last date of application 20th March 2021 Incubation Tenure 1 year from the date of joining (can be further renewed) Incubation charge Nominal rate fixed for use of infrastructure & technology STINER-TFC, Nagaland centre aims to help local entrepreneurs to start up/scale up their business through all possible infrastructure and technical assistance from the centre.

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Vol. XXxI NO. 65 Dimapur, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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ngoing researches have shown that the COVID-19 virus is mutating almost once in two months, by giving rise to new RNA genetic material and structural proteins. Scientists have identified a pattern of mutations in the novel coronavirus which enable it to evade the immune system's antibodies, findings that shed light on how the virus may possibly escape existing vaccines and therapeutics. Findings say that , the new coronavirus has sloughed off small chunks of its genome, leading to changes in a viral protein that is frequently targeted by antibodies. The researchers believe this long time of "cat and mouse" play between the immune system and the coronavirus in such patients gives "ample opportunity" to initiate a "co-evolutionary dance". They said this competition results in "worrisome mutations" in the viral genome that are resulting in variants of the coronavirus such as the ones first reported in the UK and South Africa. The emergence in Britain and South Africa of two new variants of SarsCoV-2, which are potentially far more infectious versions of the virus, has prompted widespread concern. One mutation - variant B117, which likely emerged in southeastern England in September, according to Imperial College London - has now been detected in countries across the world, including the US, France and India. Another variant, 501.V2, was detected in South Africa in October, and has since spread to several nations, including Britain and France. Both have multiple mutations to the virus, most notably on its spike protein - the part of the virus that latches on to human cells and helps it spread. According to studies, recent variants of the virus seem to spread more easily, which scientists say will rapidly lead to many more cases, deaths and hospitalisations. "Evolution was repeating itself. By looking at this pattern, we could forecast. If it happened a few times, it was likely to happen again," said Kevin McCarthy, a co-author of the study from the University of Pittsburgh. While it is yet to be determined how far these mutations erode protection, McCarthy said "At some point, we're going to have to start reformulating vaccines, or at least entertain that idea." Researchers at Imperial College London released the results of a study into thousands of genetic sequences of Sars-CoV-2 found in Britain between October and December last year. They found that the new variant had a "substantial transmission advantage", with a reproduction rate between 0.4 and 0.7 higher than the unmutated virus. Preliminary studies on the South African variant have also concluded it is more contagious than regular Sars-CoV-2. Producing newer vaccines to counter the mutations is keeping the scientific research community on their toes. Researchers have developed a new method using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to counter emergent mutations of the coronavirus and speed up vaccine development to stop the pathogen responsible for killing thousands of people worldwide. Another counter has been to treat severe Covid-19 patients with an anticancer drug- Bevacizumab- believed to reduce mortality and speed up recovery, a new study suggests. Bevacizumab is a medication that has been used to treat various types of cancer since 2004. With the global race to find the near-perfect vaccine with least side effects, the mutating virus is certainly going to keep remind people that the worst isn’t over yet for sometime.

DailyDevotion Are You Exhausted Spiritually?

The everlasting God…neither faints nor is weary.

—Isaiah 40:28 Exhaustion means that our vital energies are completely worn out and spent. Spiritual exhaustion is never the result of sin, but of service. Whether or not you experience exhaustion will depend on where you get your supplies. Jesus said to Peter, “Feed My sheep,” but He gave him nothing with which to feed them (John 21:17). The process of being made broken bread and poured-out wine means that youhave to be the nourishment for other people’s souls until they learn to feed on God. They must drain you completely— to the very last drop. But be careful to replenish your supply, or you will quickly be utterly exhausted. Until others learn to draw on the life of the Lord Jesus directly, they will have to draw on His life through you. You must literally be their source of supply, until they learn to take their nourishment from God. We owe it to God to be our best for His lambs and sheep, as well as for Him. Have you delivered yourself over to exhaustion because of the way you have been serving God? If so, then renew and rekindle your desires and affections.

Examine your reasons for service. Is your source based on your own understanding or is it grounded on the redemption of Jesus Christ? Continually look back to the foundation of your love and affection and remember where your Source of power lies. You have no right to complain, “O Lord, I am so exhausted.”

He saved and sanctified you to exhaust you. Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply. “All my springs are in you” (Psalm 87:7).

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung

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angana Ranaut again and again is attacking the Indian farmers as terrorists. She has done that in response to the world famous pop singer Rihanna and famous environmentalist girl Greta’s support to farmers’ movement. Sachin Tendulkar and other pro-BJP forces also joined the chorus.

Most of these forces are promonopoly houses and hardly have any engagement with the agrarian production.

One’s own social location in terms of caste plays a key role in taking stands when the farmers of India and the business and industrial houses are on the course of conflict. International expressions cannot be judged based on convenience. In a globalised world international opinions get expressed on many things. In fact the BJP/RSS mobilized international opinions in their favour on many occasions. Such international opinions were expressed during the antirape Nirbhaya agitation and the RSS/BJP combine was very happy and welcomed such global opinions coming in since those opinions were against the Congress Government at that time.

The farmers issue is a massive survival issue of the whole nation itself. I have never in my life time experienced such massive agitation by farmers.

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What do Sachin Tendulkar and Kangana kind of people know about agriculture? Particularly Kangana Ranaut’s language against farmers has shocked the whole world, not just the nation.

It is a well known fact that Kangana is a Ksatriya arrow left on the Indian Shudra farmers by Yogi Adithyanath. I say this with conviction because the agitating farmers mostly are Shudras and the Ksatriyas as a community did not put its hand on the plough, in their historical existence, though they own estates of land. They treat tilling land below their community status. Quite interestingly the Jats of Uttar Pradesh are in the lead of the movement at present under the leadership of Rakesh Tikait, who is a son of the famous Mahendra Singh Tikait. Even then Kangana says the same thing that she was saying against Punjab farmers linking this agitation to Khalistan. The caste system makes many of the policy decisions biased. There is a clear divide between the agrarian production and the business networks that want to make business and make profits around agrarian produce.

Farmers have never evolved into a business community in India. Even the high end agriculturist communities

like Kamma, Reddy, Velama, Kapu, Lingayat, Jat, Gujjar, Yadav, Maratha and so on did not get into high end monopoly businesses. The high end business is mainly in the hands of national Banias, Brahmins, Kayathas, Khatris. Of late Ksatriyas are also entering into business. The farmers’ fears get compounded because of this caste divide also.

Kangana, who characterises the food producers comes from a family that never tilled an acre of land and never sowed a seed and produced a ton of grain.

She comes from a horse riding and knife wielding family heritage. Perhaps she has not seen how a farmer’s furrow germinates the plant that becomes the source of life blood of all others in the country while living in a mansion in Himachal Pradesh.

There is a fine Telugu folk song that has become a trend setter on youtube written by a Telugu writer Asta Gangadhar ‘Raithu (farmer) the Legend’ and sung by Relare Ganga, which broadly goes as follows: O farmer you are our hero O farmer you are our legend O farmer you produce food from the mud Unless you produce

Conservative SCOTUS reaffirmed life and liberty

ne among the final acts of President Donald Trump was the signing of an Executive Oder on January 17, 2021 to promote and protect life, male and female and born and unborn, by proclaiming the National Sanctity of Human Life Day to be observed on January 22, 2021, which coincided with the 48th anniversary of the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion which is nothing less than a death warrant for an unborn child.

In his proclamation letter, he stated that: “Every person is made in the holy image of God… On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we celebrate the wonder of human existence and renew our resolve to build a culture of life where every person of every age is protected, valued, and cherished”.

This proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day, coinciding with Roe v. Wade anniversary, had invoked the conscience of America and the world on the evil acts of destroying life of an unborn child inside the mother’s womb and that too with the protection of the establishment, and reminding everyone that life, beginning from conception, has a supreme value and cannot be equated with nor replace by any other beings, living or non-living, on this planet earth, and that time is now appropriate to overturn the nearly five decades old deadly ruling which devalues life.

Through the proclamation, the president also pledged his commitment to the Geneva Consensus Declaration signed by 34 countries on October 22, 2020 with an objective of promoting life globally through a “global efforts to provide better healthcare to women, protect all human life, and strengthen families”.

In a stark contrast, Joe Biden’s series of executive orders at the start of his presidency only reflect his administration’s anti-life agenda which aims at devaluing life of a human being. His Executive Order on “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity” undermines God’s unique creation of human being as distinctively two genders – male and female. There is no more gender beyond the two. Government or human reasons and opinions cannot change this God’s nature of creation.

Any male or boy who is thinking that he is a girl is in a state of mental turmoil and confusion, struggling to come to term with his gender, and is in desperate need of help. He needs the best possible form of treatment and counseling. But the new President unfortunately did not agree to that. Instead his executive order, under the guise of gender identity and equality, is adding more confusion to the boy by giving him the right and privilege to use girls’ private spaces including washrooms and locker rooms in school or public places and permitting him to participate in girls’ sports. This is bound to severely affect the right, privacy and safety of women.

One of the most cherished values that make life worthwhile and the most important aspects of freedom of an individual is the right to freedom of religion.

A Conservatives’ majority Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), which was reorganized by Donald Trump by converting it into a conservative’s fortress, had conforms to this right, and did it right once again at the time when the powerful establishment and Democrats cohorts under

President Joe Biden launched a scathing and systematic assault on people’s right to life and freedom of religion, and the February SCOTUS’ ruling ensured that these rights will be guarantee, and that under no circumstances will the government be permitted to undermine the same.

On February 5, 2021, in a South Bay United Pentecostal Church vs. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, the SCOTUS’ in its 6-3 ruling overturned California’s Governor’s enforcement of prohibiting indoor church services as part of the state’s Covid-19 crisis related restrictions.

The state government’s attempts to regulate the way people speak or worship is an act of showing hostility directed against the free speech and religious liberty. In effect, this series of restrictions imposed by the state establishment on religious institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic proved that the first amendment comes under formal attack not by unruly rioters/mobs but by state establishment itself.

The California state’s Covid restriction specifically targeting religious institutions and events in a time such as this, while letting violent protests across the state go on with no constraint from the authority, is a manifestations of a typical establishment’s character taking advantage of the crisis to amass political power for their own and government establishment at the expense of the right of the citizens. The crisis granted an undue pretext for the governments’ elites to further empower governments and trampled the power of the people, which was the ultimate promise of democracy not only for America but for the whole world. The explanation, based on the face value, behind the restrictions is that all the religious related events/gatherings are potential virus super-spreader events, and that if the spread of the Covid-19 virus has to be control then those religious gatherings need to be restricted, if not barred for some time. This restriction had created a ridiculous hypothesis that the Covid-19 virus spread only during religious events and gatherings, and not in the bars, casinos and in the violent protests in the streets.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett while concurring with the ruling exposed the hypocrisy of the left and the Democrats of the state on their biased approach to religious gatherings and other non-religious gatherings where restriction was imposed only on the former. She held that: “If a chorister can sing in a Hollywood studio but not in her church, California’s regulations cannot be viewed as neutral”. The Democrats and the mainstream liberal media see this coming and that’s why they did everything they can to stop the then President in November 2020 from appointing her as a new Justice to the SCOTUS which they failed eventually. Amy Coney Barrett will go down in history as a legendary conservative figure, and many similar actions from her, like the one in this latest SCOTUS’ ruling, in defending and promoting life and religious liberty is expected in the coming years.

A conservative SCOTUS overruling the legislation of the major blue state on the question of religious liberty is a testament to the fact that the Donald Trump’s presidency continues to impact America and the world even after he left office.

Dr. Nsungbemo Ezung, Wokha, Nagaland

food computers cannot work Unless you produce food the robots do walk Unless you produce food the soldier cannot fire a gun Kangana calls this farmer who is the real hero of the nation and real legend of the nation, a terrorist repeatedly.

She does not seem to read or hear what is said and written about her daily attack on farmers.

Why did the international response come even after so many days of farmer agitation against the new farm laws? A tribal environmentalist young girl from North East India called Kangujam, who is just nine, gave a call to the world to respond to the suffering farmers in the cold, in corona pandemic in the open on Delhi borders.

They are facing police lathis, barricades along with insufficient food and water.

Kangujam tweeted, “Dear friends, our millions of poor farmers sleeping in the streets in this cold weather don’t expect anything from you. Just your one tweet of love and support /solidarity to their cause means a lot to them. Our Indian celebrities are lost!”

This appeal of our own environmentalist young Adivasi girl invoked responses from many global celebrities

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including Rihanna who said in her hashtag tweet “Why aren’t we talking about this farmers’ protest” with a picture of Indian farmers living in the cold on the Delhi border. This led to a series of tweets.

Greta Thunberg said “We stand in solidarity with the farmers protest in India” Actress and Instagram influencer Amanda Cerny too showed her support: She said: “The world is watching.

You don’t have to be Indian or Punjabi or South Asian to understand the issue. All you have to do is care about humanity. Always demand freedom of speech, freedom of press, basic human and civil rights-equity and dignity for workers. #FarmersProtest #internetshutdown” Kanagana said in her tweet in response to these international tweets, they “are not farmers but terrorists who are trying to divide India”.

She not only repeatedly slut shamed Rihanna in a aseries of tweets, Ranaut also called Thunberg a “dumb and spoilt brat”. Kangana’s response must be seen in the background of the BJP Government trying to project the farmers movement as Khalistani terrorist movement. For the first time in six years Modi rule a political

blunder has been committed. He went after farmers who voted the BJP to power twice. His Government and party also do not stop such a miscalculated attack on the farmers. Why should the Government of India become very sensitive to individual criticism from abroad?

As I said such a criticism came more than this when Nirbhaya rape agitation took place in Delhi.

The narrative of farmers getting attacked as terrorists is certainly making the organic intellectuals coming from the agrarian family background who write in every regional language their own songs, stories and novels. The farmers agitation has inspired a new genre of writing, singing and dancing in the villages. The farmer terrorist language is infuriating them. That will have its fall out sooner or later.

Social media cuts both ways. In one particular stage it worked in the RSS/BJP favour. But now the narrative is changing. Farmer is too much of a nationalist to be brandished as terrorist or anti-national.

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The author is a political theorist, with an upcoming new book The Shudras — Vision for a New Path co-edited with Karthik Raja Karuppusamy (Penguin)

A budget for V shaped recovery, V for Vindication

ince the past few days, a phrase that had caught the fancy of many people from both sides of the political fence was “V shaped recovery”. If I jog my mind, the last time, the alphabet V had found itself amidst such anticipation was when the artsy British Film “V for vendetta” released. Before the budget, many intellectuals from opposite ideologies had advocated a “V for Vendetta” budget, Increase the Income taxes, heavily tax the corporates, decrease Government spending etc. But, if I have to put a label on this budget, I would call it “V for Vindication” budget. This budget is sheer vindication of this Government’s approach towards economic revival. What the Government has aimed to achieve through this budget is indeed courageous, it surely has not missed the woods for the trees. The budget came amidst a pandemic that had ravaged much of the last year.

The Indian economy contracted by 7%, revenue dried up, spending soared, demand stalled, exports flattened and business investments came to a standstill. With the depletion of revenue, the only way by which the country was kept afloat was Government expenditure. Much of this expenditure was in providing food grains to 800 Million people under PM Garib Kalyan Yojana. In the face of such fiscal challenge, any other Government would have been on its knees, pressured to overtly please its constituents or take recoursein economic patchwork. But this Government accepted the challenge of a burgeoning fiscal deficit of 9.5% to focus on productive growth. The Government astutely increased capital expenditure, or expenditure to create productive assets by 26%, to an unprecedented 5.5 Lakh Crore while decreasing the non-productive revenue expenditure substantially.

An increase in creation of productive assets has a multiplier impact of jobs and spending, thus this budget is much more than what meets an untrained eye. When time called for stepping up and taking responsibility for a revival, the Government took a brave stance and provided buoyancy to the other sectors to recover at its own expense.

This risk is indeed a certificate of trust and appreciation that the Government has placed on the entrepreneurial spirit of its people.

When Covid disrupted everything, many countries

went into panic spending, while India spent incrementally, this cautious yet pragmatic approach coupled with the foresight of the Government saw India emerging as a lone bright spot in the post Covid era. The only thing that could further augment investor confidence on India was a dream budget, thus the bull of the stock market has not stopped running since. One logical question that followed was,if the Government is not increasing taxes then how will it be able to fund this capital expenditure? The answer lies in disinvestment, IPO’s and unlocking the potential of assets that Government holds. Thus, this budget has a disinvestment target of 1.75 lakh crores, monetization of assets held by Government and state’s PSU’s.

The Corona pandemic laid bare before our eyes the inadequacy of our health infrastructure, the world feared absolute pandemonium but the Government’s deft handling of the pandemic left many global opinion makers at loss of words. In contrast to the western countries, India emerged victorious albeit with a realisation to strengthen our health infrastructure, after all as the Honourable PM had put it “Jaanhaintoh Jahan hain”. The Budget hiked the allocation for health by a whopping 137% to 2.23 Lakh Crore, aone-time allocation of 35,000 Crore for Corona vaccination coupled with a new scheme “PMAtmaNirbharSwasthya Bharat Yojana” with an outlay of 64,6180 Crores will mark a paradigm shift in the health systems of the country. As a stamp of approval for the Jal Shakti Ministry’s tremendous work of providing tap connections to 3.3 Crore households, a number more than the total tap connections provided in the last 70 years, 2,87,000 crores has been allocated to Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban).

1.41 Lakh crore for Swachh Bharat 2.0 for complete faecal and waste water management

will push India towards Holistic sanitation. Broadening the ambit of providing social benefits to every Households, the UjwalaYojana has been given a target of 1 crore more households. The allocation of 16.5 Lakh Crore to agricultural credit, allocation of 40,000 crore to rural infrastructure fund, doubling the funds for micro irrigation and bringing 1000 more mandis into e-nam system are statements of commitment towards our annadatas.

The voluntary vehicular scrapping policy is the shot in the arm that the automobile sector needed, the phasing out of unfit vehicles will generate new demand for the auto industry which will translate into massive benefits throughout the value chain. The PLI scheme worth 1.97 Lakh crore has been broadened to 13 sectors, the confidence shown on manufacturers in 2020 through PLI scheme was well rewarded thus this year’s budget envisions India as a world class manufacturing hub for the world. Railways has been given the highest allocation of 1.1 Lakh crore ever. The railways ensured that transportation of goods went onunhindered during the pandemic. The resilience of the Indian railways was at full display and thus, the railways is expected to chug India forward in 2021.

The numerous steps taken for the reinvigoration of Indian economy in this year’s budget will take much more ink and space then possible, but one thing Is for sure, the Government could have gone for a survival budget, a recovery budget, but it showed the gumption to think long term and went for a growth budget, a resurgence budget. India has finally unabashedly embraced growth, the budget is one major step towards the cherished dream of the country, the dream of AtmaNirbharta.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister, Ministry of Jal Shakti

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Act fast before an accident happens

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I would like to bring to your attention that massive potholes have developed on Hokishe Sema Road also known as the Army Supply road. As there are lot of bylanes and the area is largely residential, I would like the concerned authorities to carry our repair works before the pot holes on the road account for lives.

Mughato Yeptho, Dimapur.

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Modi breaks down as he bids adieu to Azad

NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke down several times in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday while reminiscing about his close association with Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad whose term is coming to an end next week.

The prime minister was participating in the farewell speech for Leader of Opposition Azad and three other members from Jammu and Kashmir -- Nazir Ahmad Laway, Shamsher Singh Manhas, Mir Mohammad Fayaz-- whose terms in the Upper House are coming to an end. Modi said it would be difficult for anyone to fill the shoes of Azad as he cared not only about his political affiliation but also about the country and the House. “I worry that after Azad whosoever will take over from him will have to fill very big boots because he cared not only about his party but about the country as well as the House. This is not a small thing, this a big thing,” Modi said.

He noted that Azad had called him to ask for an all party meeting during COVID-19 period. “I liked that and also did it. This kind of connection is there

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I’m proud to be an Indian Muslim: Azad

Narendra Modi gets emotional during his farewell speech for Ghulam Nabi Azad in Rajya Sabha. Tuesday. (PTI)

because he has the experience of both being in power and in opposition. Twentyeight years experience in all, it is a big thing,” the prime minister said. Reminiscing about their long association, Modi said that as chief ministers of Jammu ad Kashmir and Gujarat, both of them kept in touch with each other. Sharing details of their communication during a terrorist attack on some Gujarati pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir, Modi said Azad was the first one to call him about the incident.

With tears rolling down his cheeks, Modi said that Azad cried on the call while informing him about the horrific attack. “Azad was the first person to call me.

During that call he could not stop crying,” Modi said with a choked voice as tears rolled down from his eyes.

Azad later went to the airport when the bodies were sent back and kept in touch till the plane landed in Gujarat, Modi said. “Power comes and goes but (only a few know) how to digest it...therefore like a friend, I respect him on the basis of the things he has done over these years,” Modi said while wiping his tears and saluting Azad. Modi said he believes that Azad’s concern for his country won’t let him sit and whatever responsibilities he takes in the future would be beneficial for the nation. “At a personal level, I would request him to not believe that he is not in the House. My door is always open for all of you. I will always expect and value your inputs,” he said. “I will not let you become weak,” the prime minister told Azad as he closed his comments.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and senior Congress politician Ghulam Nabi Azad, whose Rajya Sabha term is ending this month, on Tuesday said that “I am a proud Indian Muslim. Muslims should be proud of this country but the majority community should take steps forward towards the minority.”

Azad said, “I never visited Pakistan but I know the problems and circumstances in that country and I hope those problems do not come to haunt the Muslims of India and after seeing the fate of Muslims in many countries I feel proud of being a Hindustani Muslim.” He said, “I have been in Parliament and state assembly for 41 years and got a chance to work with Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi as party Presidents.” He said the Congress gave him a chance to interact with many big leaders, including Jyoti Basu.

The retiring Rajya Sabha members from Jammu & Kashmir urged the house that issues of J&K should be considered and statehood should be restored soon for

Ghulam Nabi Azad the benefit of the people of the state. Azad thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his kind words and also said that he first cried when Sanjay Gandhi, then Indira Gandhi and later Rajiv Gandhi all died unnatural deaths and he also wept after a cyclone in Odisha. Prime Minister Modi also got emotional while bidding farewell to Azad and saluted him in the Rajya Sabha. Azad is one among four members retiring from the Upper House this month.

The Prime Minister, while referring to Azad’s contribution to politics and the House, said: “You are retiring from the House, but I will not let you retire and my doors are open for you and I will need your contribution and advice.”

Toll rises to 31in Uttarakhand flood; Shah says rescue ops on war-footing NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (AGENCIES): With the recovery of five more bodies on Tuesday, the death toll from the Uttarakhand glacier disaster rose to 31, even as a multi-agency operation to rescue around 35 workers feared trapped inside a swamped tunnel at the Tapovan power project in Chamoli district continued on Tuesday, officials said, reported PTI. Union Home Minister Amit Shah also issued a statement in Rajya Sabha on the avalanche in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district and said all concerned agencies of Centre and State are monitoring the situation.

Members of Rajya Sabha also paid tribute to victims of the disaster.

In Lok Sabha, Shah said that Centre is monitoring the situation. “PM himself is monitoring it. Both the control rooms of the Home Ministry are monitoring the situation round the clock and the state is being provided with all the possible help,” he said.

Earlier during the day, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat conducted an aerial survey of areas affected due to the glacier

NDRF personnel carry the body of a victim who died in the massive in the Dhauli Ganga river in Uttarakhand. (PTI)

disaster and took stock of the situation.

Personnel of the ITBP, NDRF and Army worked to locate around 170 people, mostly labourers working at two power projects, who are still reported missing.

Officials said rescue operations are centred around a 1,900-metre-long tunnel at NTPC’s Tapovan site, where at least 35 people are believed to be trapped.

A barrage at the project site had been washed away in the flood that saw water rise up to 70 feet, leading to debris blocking the 20feet-wide opening of the tunnel.

Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar told The

Indian Express that they had managed to reach 130 metres into the Tapovan tunnel. “We do not anticipate much trouble after we reach 200 metres,” he added.

Manjunath S R, commandant, Indian Reserve Battalion, who is coordinating the rescue operations at the site, said, “Till yesterday, we had managed to go 80 metres into the tunnel and managed another 50 metres by Monday evening. The operation will continue the whole night.

There is a lot of slush that needs to be removed. The armed forces, NDRF, SDRF and police are all working in coordination.”

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been taken. You all will get to know about the same once the notification is issued”, the chief minister told reporters, smilingly, after the ceremony.

With the exception of Pramod Kumar who held key portfolios in the previous government, the BJP placed its trust in “fresh faces”.

Other BJP leaders who took oath were NitinNabin, Samrat Chaudhary, Neeraj Kumar Singh “Bablu”, Janak Ram, Subhash Singh, Alok Ranjan Jha and Narayan Prasad.

The JD(U) gave preference to experienced hands though there were also a handful of debutants, including Zama Khan who got elected on a BSP ticket but joined the party recently, and Independent MLA Sumit Singh who has pledged full support to the chief minister.

Others from the JD(U) who took oath included Sanjay Kumar Jha and Shravan Kumar, both known to be trusted aides of the chief minister who held key port-

folios in the previous government. JD(U) leaders Madan Sahni and Lesi Singh also returned as ministers. Sunil Kumar, a former IPS officer who joined the JD(U) last year shortly after retiring from DG rank, and Jayant Raj, a 35-year-old who is among the youngest party MLAs, have also been given ministerial berths.

Sunil Kumar is an alumni of St Stephen’s College, Delhi.

LesiSinghs induction has raised the number of women in the cabinet to three. Earlier, BJPs Renu Devi and JD(U)s Sheela Mandal had been sworn in and the former was elevated as a Deputy CM. The NDA had been facing flak from the opposition over the absence of a Muslim in the cabinet. With the induction of Hussain and Khan, it now has ammunition in its armour to counter the charge.

Shahnawaz Hussain took oath in urdu, Sanjay Jha did so in maithili language while others chose hindi at the swearing-in.

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“There are about 2000 Roller Flour Mills throughout India, which are producing Atta, Maida, Suji and Bran at large scale. These Roller Flour Mills are the major consumers of wheat used as raw material.

The apex court on January 12 had stayed the implementation of controversial new farm laws till further orders and decided to set up a 4-member committee to resolve the impasse over them between the Centre and farmers’ unions protesting at Delhi borders.

“Since the Petitioners are major stakeholders of the farm produce they are entitled to have a member in the Committee Constituted by this Court vide interim and other connected matters, so that the grievances/ hardships of the Petitioners who are supporting the impugned laws may be duly considered/addressed upon and hearing before the Committee submits any report,” the plea said.

Only the BJP canprotect these. The insider-outsider culture is not the realculture of Bengal. “ T h e Tr i n a m o o l Congress is pitting people against oneanother by branding them as outsiders. This is shameful. It isnot the culture of the land of Swami Vivekananda, Gur udevRabindranath Tagore,” Nadda said.

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Supreme Court notice to Centre on implementation of farm laws NEW DELHI, FEB 9 (PTI): The Supreme Court Tuesday sought response from the Centre on a plea by a firm seeking implementation of the controversial new farm laws and its inclusion as a member in the committee formed by the top court to resolve impasse between the government and farmers protesting against the legislations.

A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued notices to the Ministry of Law and Justice and Ministry of Agriculture while tagging the plea with similar petitions.

The apex court was hearing a plea filed by an Aligarh-based company seeking immediate direction to the Central government and Uttar Pradesh government to implement the three laws -- the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act. The plea filed by Ramway Foods Limited and others stated that the peti-

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PATNA, FEB 9 (PTI): The much awaited expansion of the Nitish Kumar cabinet in Bihar took place on Tuesday with the induction of 17 members, including Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, the high-profile Muslim face of the BJP which walked away with the lions share.

The former union minister and party national spokesman, who got elected to the legislative council in a surprise move last month, was the first to be administered oath of office by Governor Phagu Chauhan.

He was among nine inductees from the quota of the BJP which now has 20 members in the state cabinet. The Chief Ministers JD(U), which has suffered diminution in clout because of its poor performance in assembly polls, settled for eight and has been left with 12 members in the cabinet.

As per norms, the state cabinet can have up to 36 members including the chief minister.

With the expansion cabinet strength has risen to 34. One member each was inducted from the quotas of smaller allies Hindustani AwamMorcha (HAM) and VikassheelInsaan Party (VIP) when the cabinet was formed in November last.

“Decision about the allocation of portfolios has

BIRBHUM (WB), FEB 9 (PTI): BJP national president J P Nadda on Tuesday slammed the TMC for dividing communities bybranding people as insiders and outsiders, and said the richculture of West Bengal is under threat in Mamata Banerjee’srule.

Nadda, while flagging off the second phase of the’Parivartan Yatra’ from Tarapith in Birbhum district, allegedthat the state government “criminalised politics,institutionalised corruption and politicised the police”. The BJP chief also said the “cut money government”will be defeated by people in the upcoming assembly elections.

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CHENNAI, FEB 9 (PTI): Expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala on Tuesday arrived here, 23 hours after her departure fromBengaluru, where she had served a four year jail term in acorruption case and also underwent treatment for COVID-19.

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In the previous session, the rupee had slipped 4 paise to settle at 72.97 against the US dollar.

“Indian rupee gained strength amid weakness in Dollar and rise in risk appetite in the global markets. Market sentiments improved on the expectation that stimulus packages, easy monetary policies and

progress in vaccination programme would boost economic growth.

“Further, consistent FII inflows supported Rupee. However, the sharp upside was prevented on a surge in crude oil prices.

Rupee may trade in the range of 72.65 to 73.30 in next couple of sessions,” Saif Mukadam, Research Analyst, Sharekhan by BNP

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DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): Six new COVID-19 cases were reported in Kohima on Tuesday, taking the State’s caseload to 12166.

As on February 9, there were 88 active cases in the state while (From p-1) 11840 patients have recovered from the infection.

The signatories stated that sudden diversion has come as a shock to the people of the four villages who were eagerly looking State health & family welfare department has informed that forward to the early implementation of the a total of 816 beneficiaries were vaccinated on Tuesday across the project and ready to extend all cooperation to state by the Covishield vaccine. ensure quality workmanship. “We are made to In a press release, the state immunization officer (UIP) Dr. believe that certain forces with vested interest Ritu Thurr stated that 6,453 health care workers and 1,134 frontline has been applied to the great disadvantage of workers from administration, police etc have been vaccinated till the public particularly the people of our vildate taking the total vaccinated tally in the state to 7,587. lages,” the signatories stated.

Dr. Thurr also said that no adverse events needing medical The four village councils have, therefore, intervention have been reported tin dote after the vaccination. appealed to responsible minister to reconDr.Thurr said that rise of new SARI COV-2 variants across sider the decision to re-align the route and the world points to the need of urgently scaling up immunization revert back to the old alignment. In the event across the state and the globe. of the project crossing their area, the four Informing that till date more than 6.2 million beneficiaries village councils assured to extend all neceshave been vaccinated across the country by the Covishield and sary assistance to ensure that the project was Covaxin vaccines, Dr.Thurr said both vaccines approved in the implemented smoothly and satisfactorily in country were highly efficacious and safe. their area.

(From p-1) responsible people within and outside the Assembly secretariat. He therefore urged all stakeholders to make proper use of the facility.

In his address, Assembly Speaker Sharingan Longkumer said that fully automated digitized library was a milestone for the State as it was important keep important documents securely and also make it easily accessible.

He said the library besides having huge collection of books also houses important and historic documents from the time of the Interim period.

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though enquiry levels and bookings remained high. New launches and SUV’s continued to see high traction and helped in restricting the overall PV registrations fall by a bigger margin.”

Besides, he cited recent price hike undertaken by OEMs as adding to the woos as two-wheelers which became more expensive for lower and middle income class.

“Commercial Vehicle registrations were also hit due to vehicle financing still not back to normal and high BS-6 cost.”

In addition, FADA said the Centre’s announcement of scrappage policy though voluntary is in the right direction.“The spend on infrastructure projects like roads and public transport will help build traction for commercial vehicles over a longer period of time,” FADA said in the statement.

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The proposal, Mohapatra said will benefit the end consumer via increased competition leading to more innovative and affordable products.

FY22 Union Budget has proposed to raise the foreign-ownership limit on insurers to 74 per cent from 49 per cent which would allow foreign investors to hold majority stakes in Indian-based insurers for the first time.

The proposal comes with new requirements to ensure sufficient local participation, such as the majority of insurers’ key management personnel and board members to be resident Indians and a requirement that at least half of the board comprises independent directors.

rose 11.14 per cent on a YoY basis in January to 60,754 units.

As per the data, dealer inventory continues to fall with personal vehicles’ inventory ranging from 10-15 days and two-wheelers’ inventory from 30-35 days.

“After witnessing a one off growth in December and January, the auto registration fell once again by 10 per cent YoY. Auto industry clearly misjudged the demand which returned postlockdown. Industry’s under estimation of post-Covid rebound along with chipmakers prioritising higher-volume and more lucrative consumer electronics market has created a vacuum for semiconductors,” FADA President Vinkesh Gulati was quoted as saying in a statement.

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On further moves to promote startups, Mohapatra pointed out that the Centre is considering implementation of a ‘Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups’ which will provide guarantee up to a specified limit against credit instruments extended by member lending institutions to finance eligible startups.

This fund is likely to be established with a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore and will provide guarantee to banks, FIs, NBFCs and AIFs for collateral free loans to DPIIT recognised startups up to Rs 10 crore.

Furthermore, he said the higher FDI limit for the insurance sector with safeguards will have a positive

hicle registrations in January 2021 declined 9.66 per cent on a year-onyear (YoY) basis.

On Tuesday, data released by the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) showed that over 15.92 lakh vehicles were registered in January 2021, compared with over 17.63 lakh units in January 2020.

The fall comes after December 2020’s registration rose on a YoY basis.

Notably, December 2020’s rise was the first positive growth in a month during the current financial year. At that time, 18.44 lakh vehicles were registered compared with over 16.61 lakh units in December 2019.

In January 2021, registration of personal vehicles fell 4.46 per cent on a YoY basis to 2.81 lakh units. Similarly, two-wheeler registration fell. It slid by 8.78 per cent to 11.63 lakh units.

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New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS): India’s budgetary boost for startups is expected to trigger employment generation, besides ushering in manufacturing and innovation-led growth in FY22.

According to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra, measures such as extension of startup tax holiday and norms to incorporate One Person Companies (OPCs) will give a major boost to the sector and these benefits will percolate to the overall economy.

The Union Budget 2021-22 has proposed to extend tax holiday for startups by one more year. The move comes as India focuses on ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ mission aimed at making India a more selfreliant nation.

In another boost for startups, OPCs will be allowed to grow without any restriction on paid-up capital or turnover and to convert into any other type of company at any time.

Besides, the Budget proposes to allow non-

New Delhi, Feb 9 (PTI): The government will soon bring a bill on crypto currencies as existing laws are inadequate to deal with issues concerning them, Minister of State For Finance Anurag Thakur told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

Replying to a question in the Upper House, Thakur said regulatory bodies like RBI and Sebi do not have any legal framework to directly regulate crypto currencies as they are not currencies, assets, securities or commodities issued by identifiable users.

The government had formed an Inter-Ministerial Committee which has given its report on issues related to virtual currencies. The Committee of Secretaries chaired by the Cabinet Secretary has also given its report.

“A bill (on crypto currencies) is being finalised and it will soon be send to the Cabinet. We will soon be bringing a bill,” Thakur said. In view of the risks associated with Virtual Currencies (VCs), including Bitcoins, the RBI in 2018, had advised all the entities regulated by it not to deal in VCs or provide services for facilitating any person or entity in dealing with or settling VCs.

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Yangon, Feb 9 (AP): Police cracked down on crowds of demonstrators against Myanmar’s military takeover who took to the streets again on Tuesday in defiance of rules making the protests illegal.

Water cannons were used in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-biggest city, where witnesses said at least two warning shots were fired to try to make the crowd disperse. Reports on social media said police arrested more than two dozen people there. They also used water cannons in the capital Natpyitaw for a second day running and fired shots into the air.

The protesters are demanding that power be restored to the deposed civilian government and are seeking freedom for the nation’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other ruling party members detained since the military took over and blocked the new session of Parliament from convening on February 1.

The g rowing defiance is striking in a country where past demonstrations have been met with deadly force and are a reminder of previous movements in the Southeast Asian country’s long and bloody struggle for democracy. The military

Protesters run after police shot warning shots and used water cannon to disperse them during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, Tuesday. (AP/PTI)

used deadly force to quash a massive 1988 uprising against military dictatorship and a 2007 revolt led by Buddhist monks.

The decrees issued Monday night for some areas of Yangon and Mandalay banned rallies and gatherings of more than five people, along with motorised processions, while also imposing a 8 pm to 4 am curfew. It was not immediately clear if regulations have been imposed for other areas. Demonstrations Tuesday were also held in

other cities, including Bago — where city elders negotiated with police to avoid a violent confrontation — and Dawei, and in northern Shan state. In Magwe in central Myanmar, where water cannons were also used, unconfirmed reports on social media claimed several police officers had crossed over to join the protesters’ ranks. A police officer in Naypyitaw was also said to have switched sides.

Crowds also gathered in Yangon, the country’s biggest city where thousands

of people have been demonstrating since Saturday, despite a heightened security presence. No violence was reported.

Soldiers do not appear to have been deployed yet to stop the demonstrations, a small indicator of restraint by the military government.

The army has a record of brutality in crushing past revolts as well as in fighting ethnic minorities in border areas seeking self-determination. It also has been accused of carrying out genocide in its 2017 counterinsurgency

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Tehran, Feb 9 (AP): Iran’s intelligence minister has warned the West that his country could push for a nuclear weapon if crippling international sanctions on Tehran remain in place, state television reported Tuesday.

The remarks by Mahmoud Alavi mark a rare occasion that a government official says Iran could reverse its course on the nuclear programme. Tehran has long insisted that the programme is for peaceful purposes only.

A 1990s fatwa, or religious edict, by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei states that nuclear weapons are forbidden. “Our nuclear programme is peaceful and the fatwa by the supreme leader has forbidden nuclear

weapons, but if they push Iran in that direction, then it wouldn’t be Iran’s fault but those who pushed it,” Alavi was quoted as saying.

“If a cat is cornered, it may show a kind of behaviour that a free cat would not,” he said and added that Iran has no plans to move toward a nuclear weapon under current circumstances.

The 81-year-old Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state in Iran, on Sunday urged the United States to lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to live up to commitments under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. However, President Joe Biden has said the US won’t be making the first move.

Following the killing last December of an Iranian scientist credited with

spearheading the country’s disbanded military nuclear programme, Iran’s parliament has approved a law to block international nuclear inspectors later this month — a serious violation of the accord.

Alavi, the intelligence minister, was also quoted as saying that a member of the Iranian armed forces “facilitated” the killing of the scientist, which Iran has blamed on Israel.

The minister did not expand on what he meant — and it was not clear if the soldier had carried out the explosion that killed the scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Israel, which has been suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the last decade, has repeatedly declined to comment on the attack.

This was the first time that Iran acknowledged a member of its armed forces may have acted as an accomplice in the killing of Fakhrizadeh, who headed Iran’s so-called AMAD program, which Israel and the West have alleged was a military operation looking at the feasibility of building a nuclear weapon.

The International Atomic Energy Agency — the UN’s nuclear watchdog — says that “structured programme” ended in 2003.

US intelligence agencies concurred with that assessment in a 2007 report.

However, Israel insists Iran still maintains the ambition of developing nuclear weapons, pointing to Tehran’s ballistic missile programme and research into other technologies.

In December Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani vowed to avenge Fakhrizadeh’s killing, saying his country will decide time or venue of any retaliatory action.

In response to former President Donald Trump’s so-called “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, the country began to gradually violate its atomic commitments under the nuclear deal, and threatened further provocations in a bid to increase its leverage and get Biden to prioritise a return to the deal as he moves to dismantle Trump’s legacy.

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to curtail the raw animosity of the Trump years, both the Democratic and Republican parties maintain strong support for Taiwan and a tough approach toward China over trade, human rights and its increasingly assertive military and foreign policies.

Tsai’s remarks came as the US Pacific Fleet conducted exercises in the South China Sea combining ships and planes from the aircraft

carriers Theodore Roosevelt and Nimitz. The exercises Tuesday were aimed at “increasing interoperability between assets as well as command and control capabilities,” the US 7th Fleet said in a statement.

“The ships and aircraft of the two strike groups coordinated operations in a highly trafficked area to demonstrate the US Navy’s ability to operate in challeng-

Pak SC orders rebuilding of vandalised temple

SANAA (YEMEN), FEB 9 (AGENCIES): Heavy fighting between government forces and Houthi rebels has killed more than two dozen people in the past three days in the central Marib province, Yemeni officials and tribal leaders said Tuesday.

The U.N. voiced concerns about the Houthi attacks in the oil-rich province.

The war in Yemen erupted in 2014, when Iran-allied Houthi rebels seized the capital and much of the country’s north. A Saudi-led coalition, determined to restore the authority of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government, launched a sweeping military intervention months later.

The officials said at least 29 people were killed and dozens were wounded from both sides in the most recent fighting for Marib.

The rebels have sought to take control of the province, an anti-Houthi stronghold held by the internationally recognized government. Tribal leaders said the Houthis have deployed reinforcements to break government defenses in Marib, but they have made no progress.

Wa r s aw / B e r l i n / Stockholm, Feb 9 (IANS): In a tit-for-tat move, the governments of Poland, Germany and Sweden have expelled Russian diplomats in direct response to Moscow’s expulsion of officials from the three European nations over their participation in rallies against the detention of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

On February 5, the Russian Foreign Ministry had declared the Swedish, Polish and German diplomats personae non gratae due of their participation in the January 23 “unauthorized rallies” in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Representatives of these countries’ embassies were summoned to the Russian Ministry and handed notes of protest.

In a statement on Monday, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that it would take what it called appropriate steps if the “groundless expulsion” of its diplomat was not reconsidered, reports Xinhua news agency.

The Ministry said the decision was taken “in coordination with Germany and Sweden to consider the Russian diplomat as a persona non grata”.

The expelled diplomat worked at the Russian Consulate in Poznan, Poland’s fifth largest city.

Also on Monday, the Federal Foreign Office of Germany said that Russia’s decision to expel the diplomats “was not justified in any way”.

It added that the German diplomat was merely carrying out his task of reporting developments on the spot in a legal fashion.

Taking to Twitter on Monday night, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said: “We have informed the Russian Ambassador that a person from the Russian embassy is asked to leave Sweden.

“This is a clear response to the unacceptable decision to expel a Swedish diplomat who was only preforming his duties.”

Navalny, a harsh critic of the Russian government, was detained on January 17 upon his landing at a Moscow airport from Germany, where he had received medical treatment for alleged poisoning over the past few months. His detention sparked ongoing mass protests in major Russian cities, including capital Moscow, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yakutsk, Omsk and Yekaterinburg.

Arab spacecraft enters orbit around Mars in historic flight

Islamaba d, F eb 9 Dubai, Feb 9 (AP): A (PTI): Pakistan’s Supreme spacecraft from the United Court has ordered the Khy- Arab Emirates swung into ber-Pakhtunkhwa govern- orbit around Mars on Tuesment to immediately start day in a triumph for the rebuilding a century-old Arab world’s first interplanHindu temple that was van- etary mission.

Ground controllers dalised by a mob in the province, and submit a timeline at the UAE’s space centre in Dubai rose to their feet for its completion.

The attack on the tem- and applauded when word ple in Terri village in Khyber came that the unmanned Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak dis- craft, called Amal, Arabic trict by members of radical for Hope, had reached the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party end of its nearly seven(Fazal ur Rehman group) month, 300-million-mile in December drew strong journey and had begun circondemnation from hu- cling the red planet, where man rights activists and the it will gather detailed data minority Hindu community on Mars’ atmosphere.

The orbiter fired its leaders, prompting the apex court to order its reconstruc- main engines for 27 minutes tion last month. On Mon- in an intricate, high-stakes day, a three-judge apex court maneuver that slowed the bench, headed by Chief Jus- craft enough for it to be tice Gulzar Ahmed, heard captured by Mars’ gravity. the suo motu case regarding It then took a nail-biting 15 the burning of the temple, minutes or so for the signal The Express Tribune re- confirming success to reach ported. During the proceed- Earth. Tensions were high: ings, Justice Gulzar said, Over the years, Mars has “Inform us if any recovery been the graveyard for a or arrest has been made on multitude of missions from the temple issue in Khyber- various countries.

Pakhtunkhwa?”

To a standing ovation, In January, the apex a visibly relieved Omran court had ordered the provin- Sharaf, the mission’s dicial government to recover rector, declared, “To the the money for the construc- people of the UAE and tion of the temple from those Arab and Islamic nations, who had burnt it. Evacuee we announce the success of Trust Property Board lawyer the UAE reaching Mars.”

Ikram Chaudhry apprised Two more unmanned the bench that no recovery spacecraft from the US and has been made so far on China are following close the temple issue, the paper behind, set to arrive at Mars said. “The government had over the next several days. approved Rs 30.41 million All three missions were for the reconstruction of launched in July to take adthe temple,” Chaudhry in- vantage of the close aligning environments.” it said. formed the bench. ment of Earth and Mars.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the US exercises were GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND not conducive to regional OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT peace and stability. th 12 NAP BN (INDIA RESERVE) “China will continue CHINGTOK : LONGLENG to take necessary measures Dt. Chingtok, the th Feb ’2021 to firmly defend its national NO.12BN(IR)/RO-10/2020-21/ sovereignty and security and SHOW CAUSE NOTICE work with regional countries To, to firmly maintain peace Regt. No 121517 Rank C/N Name KEVICHUSA METHA and stability in the South Son of Shri SAKHO METHA China Sea,” he said. China Village SEIYHAMA claims ownership over virtu- P.O CHIEPHOBOZOU ally the entire South China P.S CHIEPHOBOZOU Sea and has built military Dist. KOHIMA installations on reefs and State : NAGALAND Whereas, you have been found absent from bonafide atolls by covering them with sand and concrete. Taiwan Govt. duty with effect from 21/01/2021 without any leave or holds Taiping Island in the permission from the competent authority till date. And whereas, highly contested Spratly Calling Notices was issued to you through concern P.S vide order group, joining Malaysia, the No.12BN(IR)/RO-10/2020-21/814 Dt. 29/01/2021.

Regt. No. 121517 C/N (GD) KEVICHUSA METHA, is Philippines and Vietnam in actively challenging China’s hereby directed to report to the undersigned within 7 (seven) days ambition to exert control from the date of publication of this notice, failing which he will be declared as deserter without further notice. over the area, through which Commandant, an estimated $5 trillion in 12th NAP Bn (India Reserve) international trade travels DC-125 Chingtok, Longleng. annually.

Ties with US strong amid threats from China: Taiwan Taipei, Feb 9 (AP): As the US Navy asserts its presence in the South China Sea, Taiwan’s leader says its ties with Washington remain solid over the transition from the Trump to the Biden administration.

President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday that US military support remains firm even as China sends increasing numbers of military aircraft into Taiwan’s southwestern airspace. “I would like to reiterate that Taiwan will not back down when receiving pressure and will not rashly advance when receiving support,” Tsai said in a traditional Lunar New Year television address.

“As long as the Beijing authorities are willing to resolve conflicts, we also want to have a dialogue with them under the conditions of equality and dignity,” Tsai said. While China and the US have indicated a desire

campaign that drove more than 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority across the border to seek safety in Bangladesh.

State media for the first time on Monday referred to the protests, claiming they were endangering the country’s stability.

“Democracy can be destroyed if there is no discipline,” declared a statement from the Ministry of Information, read on state television station MRTV. “We will have to take legal actions to prevent acts that are violating state stability, public safety and the rule of law.” However, the military commander who led the coup and is now Myanmar’s leader made no mention of the unrest in a 20-minute televised speech Monday night, his first to the public since the takeover.

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing instead repeated the claims about voting fraud that have been the justification for the military’s takeover, allegations that were refuted by the state election commission. He added that his junta would hold new elections as promised in a year and hand over power to the winners, and explained the junta’s intended policies for COVID-19 control and the economy.

Spacecraft Amal in Mars orbit.

Amal’s arrival puts the UAE in a league of just five space agencies in history that have pulled off a functioning Mars mission. As the country’s first venture beyond Earth’s orbit, the flight is a point of intense pride for the oil-rich nation as it seeks a future in space.

An ebullient Mohammed bin Zayed, the UAE’s day-to-day ruler, was on hand at mission control and said: “Congratulations to the leadership and people of the UAE for the indescribable joy of the arrival at Mars.”

About 60 per cent of all Mars missions have ended in failure, crashing, burning up or otherwise falling short in a testament to the complexity of interplanetary travel and the difficulty of making a descent through Mars’ thin atmosphere.

A combination orbiter

and lander from China is scheduled to reach the planet on Wednesday. It will circle Mars until the rover separates and attempts to land on the surface in May to look for signs of ancient life.

A rover from the US named Perseverance is set to join the crowd next week, aiming for a landing February 18. It will be the first leg in a decade-long US-European project to bring Mars rocks back to Earth to be examined for evidence the planet once harbored microscopic life.

If it pulls this off, China will become only the second country to land successfully on Mars. The US has done it eight times, the first almost 45 years ago. A NASA rover and lander are still working on the surface.

For the UAE, it was the country’s first venture beyond Earth’s orbit.

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We KSU would like to congratulate Dr. MIZHIKA WOTSA, S/o. Er. NITOVI & JE. DIETHOSEU MEPFHOU WOTSA for successfully completed MBBS from MVJ Medical College, Bangalore.

With immense pride and honor, the Union further wishes him success in all his future endeavors.

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LOVITO KIHO Gen. Secy., KSU

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Zunheboto Area Public Organisation would like to acknowledge our Hon'ble Advisor, School Education, Nagaland Shri. K. T Sukhalu for the numerous road development projects ongoing in the heart of Zunheboto town.

ZAPO is grateful of the fact that the developmental works have been allotted to well statured citizens of the town and expects them to discharge durable and good quality roads. Hence, we assure full co-operation to the contractors for the ongoing development.

In connection to this we, therefore, appeal to all the Ward Councils, G.B's, NGO's, various groups of national workers and the public of Zunheboto town in general to kindly co-operate and extend full support to the contractors for execution of quality works.

S/d: Y. Kikheto Muru Kiyeka Zhimo President, ZAPO. Press Secretary, ZAPO

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love to connect with a B’wood ‘Ram Teri Ganga Maili’ actor Rajiv Kapoor dies Would artiste and perform: Ronan Keating A I ctor-director Rajiv Kapoor, son of celebrated filmmakeractor Raj Kapoor, died on Tuesday due to heart attack.

He was 58.

Neetu Kapoor, wife of late actor Rishi Kapoor, was the first to confirm the news on Instagram.

She wrote “RIP” alongside a picture of her brother-in-law.

Brother Randhir Kapoor said Rajiv Kapoor died due to heart attack “He passed away about 1.30 pm due to heart attack,” Randhir Kapoor told PTI. Rajiv Kapoor made his acting debut with 1983 film “EkJaan Hain Hum”, but made first appearance as a leading man in blockbuster “Ram Teri Ganga Maili” (1985), which was Raj Kapoor’s last directorial venture.

He went on to feature in films like “Aasmaan”, “Lover Boy”, “Zabardast” and “Hum ToChalePardes”.

Rajiv Kapoor’s last film as a leading man was 1990’s “Zimmedaar”. A lesser known face from the famous Kapoor film clan, he then made a switch to production and direction.

His first production was “Henna” (1991), directed by his brother Randhir Kapoor.

In 1996, Rajiv Kapoor made his feature directorial debut with “PremGranth”, starring Rishi Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit.

He also produced the Rishi Kapoor-directed 1999 romance drama “Aa Ab LautChalen”.

In 2001, the married architect Aarti Sabharwal, but the couple divorced later.

Rajiv Kapoor was the youngest among three brothers and two sisters -- Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Ritu Nanda and Rima Jain. His eldest sister Ritu Nanda and brother Rishi Kapoor passed away in January and April last year.

The actor was set to make a comeback to the screen with sports drama “Toolsidas Junior”, starring Sanjay Dutt in the lead.

Produced by filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker and producer Bhushan Kumar and directed by Mridul, the movie was announced in December last year.

Mourning Rajiv Kapoor’s death, legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar said she is “deeply saddened”.

“I just got to know about the passing away of the talented actor Rajiv Kapoor, the youngest son of Raj Kapoor Sahab. I’m deeply saddened by the

Sunny Leone moves Kerala HC seeking anticipatory bail

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ollywood actor Sunny Leone on Tuesday moved the Kerala High court seeking anticipatory bail in a cheating complaint filed by an event management firm which alleged she had failed to appear for their Valentine Day event here in 2019 after accepting payment of around Rs 29 lakh.

The petition is likely to come up on Wednesday.

The petitioners-- Leone alias Karenjt Kaur Vohra along with her husband Daniel Weber, and another person—submitted they were innocent, ready to cooperate with the investigation and no manner of

criminality can be attributed against them.

It was also submitted that”if arrested and remanded, it will cause irreparableloss and injury” to them. Leone, who was questioned by Kochi crime branch officials on February 3 at Thiruvananthapuram, said it was only then she realised that an FIR had been registered against them under various sections of IPC including 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating). They submitted they have fully cooperated with the officers and apprised them of the facts and circumstances, handed over documents substantiating

the transactions that transpired between them and the complainant.

It was also submitted that the complainant, Shiyas, had demanded Rs two crore as compensation from them, tried to “exploit and cheat the petitioners by compelling them to participate in shows prepared by him without paying the agreed consideration”.

While the event management organisers maintained that the former ‘Big Boss’ contestant had not turned up for their function, Leone said she had come twice and the event was not held.

Though the function had to be postponed several times, it was finally scheduled to be held at Adlux International Convention Centre at Angamally near Kochi. The ‘Ragini MMS 2’ star reportedly stated that the programme had been rescheduled several times by the organisers and it was not due to her inconvenience and a balance amount of Rs 12 lakh was still due to her.

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news. May his soul rest in peace,” Mangeshkar tweeted.

Director-producer Naved Jaffrey remembered Rajiv Kapoor as someone with “a pure heart and a very nice human being”.

“May his soul rest in peace, deepest condolences to the family,” Jaffery wrote on Twitter.

Actor-producer Tusshar Kapoor offered his deepest condolences to the Kapoor family.

“Sad to hear of the passing away of Rajiv Kapoor! May his soul rest in peace,” he tweeted.

Cine & TV Artistes’

Association (CINTAA), a trade union which looks after the rights and welfare of its members in the entertainment industry also expressed its deepest condolences on the demise of Rajiv Kapoor.

The late actor was a CINTAA member since October 1983, the association said on Twitter.

“Sad to hear of the passing away of #RajivKapoor (Chimpu) ji ! Deepest condolences to the family!

RIP,” producer Girish Johar tweeted.

Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh said he was “devasted” with the news of Rajiv’s demise.

“Devastated! Another big loss to the family Folded hands one of my most favourite people in the world. Love him so so dearly. Don’t remember a Happy Moment without him. Chimpu uncle we will miss you,” he wrote on the micrblogging site.

Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid remembered Rajiv Kapoor as “one of the most versatile” actors of his time.

“My heartfelt condolences to the entire Kapoor family. #OmShanti,” director Madhur Bhandarkar wrote.

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Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning original member of The Supremes dies

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ar y Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes, the trailblazing group from the 1960s that spun up a dozen No. 1 singles on the musical charts and was key to Motown’s legendary sound, died on Monday at her home in Henderson, Nev. She was 76.

Wilson’s death was confirmed by her publicist, Jay Schwartz. No cause of death was given.

Formed in Detroit as the Primettes in 1959, the Supremes originally included Florence Ballard and Diana Ross, and released a string of hits in the early 1960s like “Baby Love” and “Stop! In the Name of Love.”

The Supremes are

America's most successful vocal group with 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and they have been credited with making it possible for future African American R&B and soul musicians to find mainstream success.

I n 1988, The Su premes were inducted into the Rock of and Roll Hall of Fame.

CONDOLENCES: Offering her condolences, Diana Ross wrote,” I just woke up to this news, my condolences to you Mary’s family, I am reminded that each day is a gift, I have so many wonderful memories of our time together. The Supremes will live on, in our hearts.”

The Recording Industry Association of America issued a statement Tuesday, commemorating Wilson and her work on stage as a member of The Supremes, as well as a fierce advocate for civil rights and policies to protect artists and musicians.

“Mary was a force of nature,” said RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier.

nternational pop sensation Ronan Keating understands why Grammywinning superstar Beyonce infuses an Indian flavour in her songs and videos, and says he hopes to work with a Bollywood star or a singer one day.

“I have been lucky enough to travel to India many times over the years, touring with Boyzone and on my own. I remember clearly being at the MTV awards. It was amazing,” Keating told IANS in an exclusive interview.

“I love travelling and having the opportunity to come to India was a wonderful experience. I loved it. The people were amazing. They were so warm, caring, and genuine. I had a real connection when I was there with the people, and I would love to come back,” added the singer, who performed in India at MTV Immies 2005.

After his brief affair with India, the singer wants to forge a deeper bond with the country by working with Indian talent.

“I would love to connect with a Bollywood artiste and perform, sing, shoot a music video… The colours, the performance, the energy,” said the 43-

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year-old singer.

Recalling an incident, he said: “I remember when I was at the MTV awards, there was this guy. He was like the Indian version of Justin Timberlake. He was a singer, and an amazing dancer. He had a whole troupe of dancers with him. He was amazing. I don’t know his name.

“I remember seeing that and thinking, ‘wow’, and then I watched a lot of the performances when I was there, and saw the local artistes perform, the colours. You could see why Beyonce has taken a lot of

inspiration from dance routines and from costumes and the flavours. You can see it’s been taken straight from an Indian artiste. I would love to collaborate with somebody,” added Keating.

With the world gradually opening up post pandemic, Keating is ready to connect with his fans once again. “It is a wonderful thing for me to be able to connect with my audience…. (Amid the Covid-19 pandemic), I haven’t been able to see my audience,” he shared.

(IANS)

Westlife leaves EMI

estlife have split from their record label.

The ‘What About Now’ hitmakers - made up of Shane Filan, Markus Feehily, Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne - have parted ways with EMI over two years after the release of their 2019 album ‘Spectrum’, which topped the charts in the UK and featured five songs written by Ed Sheeran.

A spokesman for the band told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “They’ve agreed a mutual parting of ways with EMI and details of a new and groundbreaking partnership are imminent.

“The next 18 months are shaping up to be the band’s busiest, including a new album, sold-out stadium shows — featuring a first show at Wembley Stadium — plus their biggest-ever global tour, which will include their first-ever American shows.

“The band are also considering opportunities for a spectacular end-of-year TV show and a documentary special.”

The news comes almost a year after the Irish band had to cancel their

planned UK stadium shows - which were due in June and July 2020 - due to the coronavirus pandemic.

They said at the time: “We have been monitoring the UK government advice surrounding mass gatherings and it is very clear that this is the course we need to take to ensure the protection of our fans, our crew and everyone around us but also to ease pressure on those working tirelessly to fight this virus.

“Those who have been

on the Westlife journey with us know how important performing is to us but also know that safety must come first and foremost in delivering a successful tour.

“Our promoters are currently working with their ticketing partners and they will be in touch very soon to process your refund. Please look out for an email from your ticketing agent shortly.

Please only contact them if you have not been contacted

by May 5th.”

(Contactmusic)

Lorence Kachari releases Hollywood music video for amazon

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orence Kachari from Dimapur has released a Hollywood music video for amazon prime featuring Canadian artists Sheena Osman and the famous Hollywood artist Danny Fernandes (platinum recorded artist) which was nominated for world scout (USA).

“Let you go” was added to Spotify top 20 hit list -Romainia and also featured in England, Italy, Norway, Asia, Canada, India and some more countries The music video was shot in Canada and was presented in collaboration with Lorence Kachari Films (A filmmaker from Dimapur, Nagaland) Lorence Kachari hugged the limelight in 2015 when he directed a music video for VH1. He has also directed several music videos and also the founder of international Miss photogenic India & worldwide and The Next Superstar.

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not only enable him to be outspoken but also having the opportunity of becoming one of the organizers in the various beauty contest in his country such as, The Next Super Star, Miss Photogenic India, Miss Photogenic World Wide and many more. Kachari became the Indian brand ambassador for Streamiser Inc, Global icon nominee 2019, World Scout 2020 (USA) and more.

His upcoming project comprise of Bollywood Jee Le Zara, sung by Rajen Debnath.

Police Baptist Church 2nd NAP, Alichen celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 6th & 7th Feb. 2021 on the theme “I Will Carry You” under the leadership of Mr. Sashichujang, Pastor and Mrs. B. Achetla Ao, Commandant 2 nd NAP Alichen. Mr. Tsenbemo, Youth Secy, NPBCA, Rev. Dr. Hukashe Zhimomi, Executive Secy. NPBCA and Mrs. Pusuinla, Women Secy. NPBCA grace the auspicious occasion as the speakers. The two day programme was a grand success and a blessing.

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AUS OPEN: Nadal, Barty reach 2nd round Sumit Nagal crashes out

Ace India tennis player Sumit Nagal on Tuesday faced a crushing straight-sets defeat against Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis in the first round contest to bow out of the men’s singles event of the Australian Open.

Nagal, India’s second-highest ranked men’s singles player, lost 2-6, 5-7, 3-6 to Berankis in a match that lasted two hours and six minutes at Court 17. Last week, the 23-year-old Indian had lost to the world number 72 in the build-up event.

This was Nagal’s third Grand Slam men’s singles appearance as he had competed in 2019 and 2020 edition of US Open. He had won in the first round of the US Open in his last appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam.

It was the first time an Indian had progressed beyond the opening round of a Grand Slam in singles event since Somdev Devvarman in 2013.

Egypt’s Sherif creates history

Rafael Nadal

Melbourne, Feb 9 (IANS/AP): Rafael Nadal on Tuesday started off his chase for a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam in an emphatic manner, registering a straight-sets win against Serbia’s Laslo Djere in the opening round contest of the men’s singles event of the Australian Open.

The World No. 2 defeated Djere 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 in one hour and 51 minutes to reach the second round where he will play one of two qualifiers -- Michael Mmoh or Viktor Troicki.

Nadal did not compete in the ATP Cup due to injury. Earlier in the day, Daniel Medvedev also advanced to the second round, beating Vasek Pospisil 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. However, there was disappointment for India’s

Ash Barty

Sumit Nagal who faced a crushing 2-6, 5-7, 3-6 defeat to Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis to bow out of the competition. On Monday, Dominic Thiem and Novak Djokovic had registered comprehensive victories in their respective first-round clashes.

In her first match at a major in more than a year, top-ranked Ash Barty dropped only 10 points in a 6-0, 6-0 rout of Danka Kovinic. Barty lost to Sofia Kenin in the Australian Open semifinals last year and then skipped the U.S. Open and her title defense at the French Open because she stayed in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sofia Kenin struggled with nerves in her first match as a defending champion at

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a Grand Slam tournament earlier in the day before beating 133rd-ranked wildcard entry Maddison Inglis 7-5, 6-4, Garbiñe Muguruza, the Australian Open runnerup last year, defeated Margarita Gasparyan 6-4, 6-0.

P l aye r s w h o we r e forced into hard lockdown — not allowed to leave their rooms for 14 days after landing in Australia last month — have struggled in the opening round.

Victoria Azarenka, a two-time Australian Open champion and the runnerup at last year’s U.S. Open, appeared to have trouble breathing and received medical attention in the second set of a 7-5, 6-4 loss to Jessica Pegula of the United States. .

Mayar Sherif

Mayar Sherif became the first Egyptian woman to win a main draw match at a Grand Slam when beating France’s Chloe Paquet at the Australian Open on Tuesday. The 24-year-old, who is currently ranked 131 in the world, beat 187thranked Paquet 7-5 7-5 in Melbourne.

The Egyptian was delighted to get a first Grand Slam win under her belt after losing to the Czech Republic’s Karolína Pliskova in three sets at last year’s

French Open. “It means a lot because finally this is a barrier that I had to pass, a mental barrier,” said Sherif, who has has been buoyed in the past by support from fellow Egyptian Mo Salah.

Sherif will next face Slovenia’s Kaja Juvan, who won through after the withdrawal of Great Britain’s 13th seed Johanna Konta due to injury. Both the Egyptian and Paquet had won through to the main tournament at the qualifying event, which was held in Dubai - due to the global Covid19 pandemic - last month.

Tunisian star Jabeur wins first round match at 2021 Australian Open “Honestly, it was not very easy to start,” said Sherif. “My second Grand Slam main draw, my first on a hard court, and the conditions are not easy.

India, remember I had warned you: Pietersen tweets

C h e n n ai , F e b 9 (IANS): Former England captain Kevin Pietersen on Tuesday pointed out a tongue-in-cheek warning he gave to India through a Hindi tweet before the England series, rubbing salt into host India’s wounds after they lost the first Test by 227 runs at the M.A.Chidambaram Stadium.

“India, yaad hai maine pehele hi chetawani di thi ke itna jasn na manaye jab aapne Australia ko unke ghar pe haraya tha (India, remember I had warned you earlier to not celebrate so much when you had beaten Australia at home)” Pietersen tweeted in Hindi.

Pietersen had earlier congratulated India for their historic series win in Australia while reminding them that they still have to face England at home.

“India - yeh aitihaasik jeet ka jashn manaye kyuki yeh sabhi baadhao ke khilaap hasil hui hai. LEKIN, ASLI TEAM toh kuch hafto baad a rahi hai jisse aapko harana hoga apne ghar mein. Satark rahe, 2 saptaah mein bahut adhik jashn manaane se saavadhaan rahen (India, celebrate this win because it came against all odds. But, the real team is coming in a few weeks whom you have to beat at home.

I-League: Clinical Chennai beat 10-man NEROCA 2-1 Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS): A clinical attacking display helped Chennai City FC get three points against a ten-man North Eastern ReOrganising Cultural Association (NEROCA) Football Club at the Salt Lake Stadium on Tuesday. Strikes by Vineeth Kumar and Demir Avdic were enough to hand Chennai a 2-1 win with Subash Singh halving the deficit for NEROCA in the 79th minute.

With this win, Chennai City FC find themselves in the top half of the table while NEROCA remain tenth.

Chennai wasted no time in showing their attacking intent. Vladimir Molerovic took a shot at goal in the fourth minute itself which went above the bar by just a few inches. However, they only had to wait two more minutes to take the lead. Vineeth Kumar was

it would have been a simple goal for Chennai.

With Chennai City FC having the lion’s share of possession and creating chances at will, NEROCA relied on counter-attacks to test the opposition. Subash Singh Singham scuffed his shot from range in the 33rd minute and substitute Khaiminthang Lhungdim, shortly after, headed a Gobin Singh cross wide of the goal.

The half-time scoreline read 1-0 in Chennai’s favour.

NEROCA did not hold Chennai City move to the top of the table. back in the second half and found by an accurate cross However, NEROCA even- was almost latched upon by fought for every inch on the

by Mohamed Iqbal from tually regrouped and started a lurking Demir Avdic. If field. Although they attacked the left flank on the far post. pressing higher up the pitch. Avdic had stolen possession, in droves, the Gift RaikhanKumar put the ball into the Subash Singh tried to dribble back of the net with a diving his way past the Chennai header and Chennai took a defence, but failed to release 2 nd DEATH ANNIVERSARY 1-0 lead. a powerful shot in the 15th OF OUR BELOVED Lt. H. NAMBA LEINAK Chennai kept attacking minute. with NEROCA goalkeeper NEROCA survived a Bishrojit Singh having to scare on the 18th minute make multiple saves in the when defender Manjit Sharminutes after conceding. ma’s loose pass for Bishrojit

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coached side lacked creativity up front with Subash Singh mostly isolated and unable to link play with Judah Garcia. They were dealt a blow when Shoaib Akhtar was shown a red card in the 61st minute for a rash tackle on Jockson Dhas.

Av d i c e v e n t u a l l y doubled Chennai’s lead in the 68th minute he headed home his effort from close range. NEROCA, however, did not go out without a fight.

HL Singson memorial tourney DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): The 9th HL Singson Memorial Football Tournament 2021organised by Recreation Club Ahthibung, got underway at public ground, Ahthibung Town on February 9.

Commissioner and secretary Youth Resources and Sports, Alun Hangsing graced the event as special guest.

The special guest was accompanied by officers of YR&S and SDO(C) Ahthibung, Alemyapang, who was the chief host of the event.

Highlights of the opening ceremony included special presentation by Nemboi Sitlhou and Aching Hangsing and cultural dance by Cultural Troupe Ahthibung. Earlier, the programme began with an invocation

by Rev K. Singsit and concluded with a prayer by Rev. David Vaiphei.

DDCA registration of members

DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): Dimapur District Cricket Association (DDCA) has informed Dimapur based cricket clubs and its members to get registered with the DDCS before March 10, 2021. Details can be contacted 7005677026 and 9615264233.

7A side football tournament

DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): Naga United FC in collaboration with Northeast Sports Development Foundation and Spoedia will be organising Nagaland State Championship 7 A side football tournament from February 22 in Dimapur.

The opening ceremony will be graced by Dr. Roland Lotha, social activist and Class 1 contractor as special invitee. The state champion will represent Nagaland in the national championship to be held in April 2021.

Naga United Football Club president, Shiyeto Wotsa has informed interested clubs and teams to contact 8575394092 and 8787883848 for more information.

Champions Trophy T20 underway

DIMAPUR, FEB 9 (NPN): United XI, Manu Brothers and Dimensions CI CC won their respective matches on the opening day of the 1st Champions Trophy T-20 tournament at local ground, Chümoukedima town on Tuesday The tournament is organised by Nagamese Baptist Fellowship (NBF) Sports Ministry Chümoukedima Village and powered by G-Sports on the theme “Pursue oneness”.

In the first match, put into bat, Royal Club were restricted to 108 runs in 18.6 overs by United XI. In reply, United XI managed to achieve the target in 14 overs losing 7 wickets. Abinash was named man of the match.

Manu Brothers defeated Patriotic by 3 wickets in the second match.

Batting first, Patriotic scored 132 runs in 19 overs but Manu Brothers achieved the target in 16 overs losing 7 wickets. Labunesh was named man of the match.

In the last match of the day, Dimensions XI CC defeated Green Galaxy CC by 165 runs. Deciding to bat first after winning the toss, Dimensions scored 233/5 in 20 overs. In the run chase Green Galaxy batsmen CC were bundled for 68 runs in 14 overs. Aletuo was adjudged man of the match.

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Eng thrash India by 227 runs in 1st Test

Chennai, Feb 9 (IANS): Left-arm spinner Jack Leach (four wickets) and veteran speedster James Anderson (three wickets) on Tuesday bowled England to a massive 227-run win on the fifth and final day of the first Test here, and take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.

Chasing an extremely difficult target of 420 runs on a crumbling and dusty MA Chidambaram Stadium pitch, India in their second innings were bundled out for 192 in 58.1 overs in the second session on the fifth and final day.

Having set India a 420-run target to win, England bowled a listless India out for 192 in 58.1 overs, with 29-year Leach taking four for 76 and Anderson bagging three for 17. All five bowlers took wickets, with fast bowler Jofra Archer, off-spinner Dominic Bess, and pacer Ben Stokes taking one scalp each.

Leach was the pick of the England bowlers in the second innings as he returned with figures of 4/72 in the 25 overs he bowled.

He was ably supported by Anderson who scalped three wickets, conceding just 17 runs in his 11 overs.

Dominic Bess, Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer picked one wicket each. Earlier, England had scored 578 runs in their first innings in

James Anderson took three wickets in an outstanding spell of bowling for England.

reply to which India posted 337, thus conceding a lead of 241. The visitors were then bundled out for 178 to set a 420-run target for the Indian team.

This was India’s first Test defeat at home since 2017 when they had suffered a 333-run loss against Australia in Pune. After that, they played 14 Tests in between, registering win in 11 while three matches ended in a draw.

This was India’s fourth Test defeat against England at the Chepauk, first after 1985 when the visitors registered win under David

Gower’s captaincy.

Before this Test match, India had faced England in 60 matches at home, registering win in 19, losing 13 and drawing 28.

Overall, India and England have competed in 123 Tests, out of which India have won 27, England 47 while 49 matches have ended in a draw.

Earlier on the fifth and final day on Tuesday, India resumed their chase at 39/1 but lost Cheteshwar Pujara early as he was caught in the slips against Leach, after scoring 15 runs off the 38 ball he faced.

IOC says Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro comments ‘absolutely inappropriate’

Tokyo, Feb 9 (Reuters): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday that comments about women made

by Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games chief Yoshiro Mori were “absolutely inappropriate”.

Mori has come under fire for saying last week that meetings with female participants take a long time, adding that they “get competitive” with each other.

He later apologised and retracted his comments while also attempting to justify them, inviting further criticism.

“The recent comments of Tokyo 2020 President Mori were absolutely inappropriate and in contradiction to the IOC’s commitments and the reforms of its Olympic Agenda 2020,” the Olympic body said in a statement.

Yoshiro Mori

The Tokyo Games organising committee (TOCOG) will convene a special board meeting as early as Friday as a result of the outcry, broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday.

Following Mori’s remarks, about 440 Games volunteers have quit and local organisers have received more than 5,500

complaints, according to local media.

The Tokyo Olympics was postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The IOC, working with local organisers to host the Games in July, did not mention any further action against Mori but said TOCOG also considered its own chief ’s comments as inappropriate “Besides Mr Mori’s apology, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee also considers his comment to be inappropriate and has reaffirmed its commitment to gender equality,” the IOC said.

“As the leader of the Olympic Movement, we are committed to our mission to encourage and support the promotion of women in sport at all levels and in all structures, as stated in the Olympic Charter.”

Shubman Gill (50) and skipper Virat Kohli then shared a 34-run stand and tried to steady the ship.

However, just after reaching his third Test fifty, Gill was bowled by a ripper from Anderson.

Vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane once again failed to perform with the bat as he got out in the same over against Anderson, thus leaving India in a precarious situation. Rahane, who had scored just one in the first innings, went back to the dressing room without troubling the scorers.

Rishabh Pant, India’s

Ireland tour of Z’bwe postponed Dublin, Feb 9 (IANS): Zimbabwe Cricket and Cricket Ireland have mutually agreed to postpone the forthcoming limited-overs bilateral series due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation in Zimbabwe. Ireland were due to fly to Harare on March 28 and play a three-match T20I series, followed by as many ODIs in April.

The postponed ODIs were not part of the ICC World Cup Super League and those fixtures against Zimbabwe are scheduled to be played in Ireland this summer.

“We’re obviously disappointed, but to be honest, it is not an unexpected announcement from our Zimbabwean counterparts. We appreciate their efforts and willingness to try and make the tour possible, but in the end the health and safety of players and support staff must be of primary consideration,” Richard Holdsworth, High Performance Director for Cricket Ireland, said in a statement.

batting hero in the first innings, scored 11 off 19 before he became the third scalp of Anderson. Washington Sundar, the next batsman in, also couldn’t stay long and got out for a duck against Dom Bess.

Ashwin then faced some blows on his body but made sure that he didn’t give his wicket away as India went into Lunch needing 276 runs with just four wickets in hand.

After the lunch break, Ashwin -- after sharing a 54-run partnership with Kohli -- got out after scoring nine runs while attempting a square cut against Leach, leaving India reeling at 171/7. Kohli, who was fighting the lone battle with the lower order, then got out bowled to a Stokes delivery that kept low and disturbed the wood. Shahbaz Nadeem and Jasprit Bumrah got out after scoring 0 and 4 while Ishant Sharma remained not out at 5.

The two teams will now face other in the second Test beginning Saturday at the same venue in front of spectators.

BRIEF SCORES: India 337 (Rishabh Pant 91; Dominic Bess 4/76) and 192 (Virat Kohli 72, Jack Leach 4/76) lose to England 578 (Joe Root 218; Jasprit Bumrah 3/84) and 178 (Joe Root 40; Ravichandran Ashwin 6/61) by 227 runs

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ISL: ATK Mohun Bagan ease to 2-0 win over Bengaluru FC New Delhi, Feb 9 (Agencies): ATK Mohun Bagan sent out a statement of intent across the Indian Super League (ISL) 2020-21, going a point within current league leaders Mumbai City FC with a solid 2-0 victory over a hapless Bengaluru FC at the Fatorda Stadium on Tuesday. In a first for Bagan this season, two first-half goals signalled the downfall for a beleaguered Bengaluru FC who were punished for their defensive mistakes. Roy Krishna (37’ Pen.) beat Gurpreet Singh Sandhu from the spot before Marcelinho (44’) put the game to rest with a freekick of the highest order, News18 reported.

The Mariners stand second with 33 points from 16 games while Bengaluru FC remains 6th with 19 points, 4 points adrift of the top-four chasing pack with one less game to play.

It was Bengaluru who looked more confident with the ball in the initial stages but Bagan got things under control. Bagan pressed aggressively, forcing BFC into mistakes. While Bengaluru had more possession, ATKMB attacked better and had more shots at goals.

Gupreet was constantly called upon with him keeping Krishna out early on. He came up with another fine

ATKMB celebrate their second goal from a magical Marcelinho free kick. (ISL)

save, getting a hand to Carl McHugh’s fierce shot which should have seen the back of the net. After a series of raids, Bagan were awarded a penalty when Pratik Chaudhari brought down Krishna in the penalty box after the Fijian was set through on goal by Marcelinho. Krishna sent the keeper in the wrong direction to put his side ahead. Habas’ side went two goals ahead just before the break. Once again, BFC conceded from a set-piece.

Harmanjot Khabra committed a foul on David Williams just outside the box. Marcelinho’s freekick snuck past Gurpreet, his second goal in three games. BFC continued to dominate possession but lacked attempts on goal.

ATKMB continued to find

the right time to pounce on opportunities. Sandesh Jhingan tried a powerful strike which Gurpreet once again kept out. The custodian prevented BFC from losing by a bigger margin. Manvir Singh had a chance when he was set through on the right flank. But with options in the box, Manvir tried for glory only for Gurpreet to make a strong save.

Bengaluru had to wait until the 87th minute for their first real chance. Sunil Chhetri managed to get past Jhingan and struck a low shot at goal but Arindam Bhattacharja dived to his right to deny the BFC skipper.

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James scores 28pts as Lakers beat Thunder London, Feb 9 (Agencies): LeBron James scored 28 points in a stellar display to help the Los Angeles Lakers to a 119-112 overtime win against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

James also served up 14 rebounds and 12 assists as his team earned a fifth straight win to leave them second in the Western Conference.

Montrezl Harrell added 21 points and eight rebounds for the Lakers, while Dennis Schroder added 19 points.

Only the Utah Jazz sit above the Lakers in the Western Conference.

Giannis Antetokounmpo produced 30 points and nine rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks - the only other team on a five-game winning streak - won 125112 at the Denver Nuggets, leaving them second in the Eastern Conference.

Elsewhere on Monday, Stephen Curry was in fine form for the Golden State Warriors but his 32 points

LeBron James scored 28 points to see off Oklahoma City Thunder.

were not enough to beat the San Antonio Spurs. In a thrilling game, the Spurs led by a single point with less than nine seconds on the clock before DeMar DeRozan converted four free throws.

The Chicago Bulls’ Zach LaVine scored 35 points but the Washington Wizards’ Bradley Beal

matched that tally as the Wizards edged the game 105-101. Trailing 103-101 with 9.8 seconds left, LaVine missed a contested layup.

Beal recovered the rebound, drew a foul and hit two free throws to seal the win.

Devin Booker’s 36 points helped the Phoenix Suns to a third win in a row as they saw off the Cleve-

land Cavaliers 119-113.

The Charlotte Hornets dominated the Houston Rockets as LaMelo Ball landed a career-best seven three-pointers in a 119-94 win.

Luka Doncic scored 26 points as the Dallas Mavericks held off a late rally to defeat the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves 127-122.

Bayern beat Al Ahly; reach Club WC final Inter-ward football tourney in Mkg Doha, Feb 9 (IANS/ AFP): Robert Lewandowski scored twice to help Bayern Munich see off Al Ahly in the last four at the ongoing FIFA Club World Cup here.

Last season’s UEFA Champions League winner booked a clash with Tigres UANL of Mexico in the final on Thursday, reports Xinhua news agency.

The Egyptian club on Monday set up a solid defense at the beginning of the game. But Lewandowski put the title favourite ahead with a close-range low shot 17 minutes after the break.

Marc Roca almost created the European powerhouse’s second goal in the 26th minute, but his shot was denied by Al Ahly’s goalkeeper Elshenawy Mohamed.

In the 37th minute, Lewandowski lobbed his rival goalkeeper but the ball drifted high. Bayern could have enlarged its lead but missed chances.

Bayer n dominated possession with 63 per cent of the ball in the first half, seeing Thomas Muel-

Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski in action during the FIFA Club World Cup 2020 semi-final against Al Ahly. (AP)

ler force Mohamed into a good save before Lewandowski scored the second, heading in from Leroy Sane’s long cross in the 86th minute.

After having won the Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League, and the German and European Super Cups in 2020, the German Bundesliga giant

is seeking a sixth trophy of a major event in one year at the tournament which was delayed from December 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bayern won the Club World Cup, and its predecessor the Intercontinental Cup, in 1976, 2001, and 2013.

Meanwhile, Robert

Lewandowski says Bayern Munich are eager to claim their sixth title in a year after advancing to the Club World Cup final.

“It was a very good match and we’re ready for the final,” Bayern striker Lewandowski told reporters.

Bayern are bidding to become only the second

team after Barcelona in 2009 to win all six domestic and international titles up for grabs in one season.

The German giants lifted the Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League, German Super Cup and UEFA Super Cup trophies in 2020.

“We want to claim another title — title number six during this season,” Lewandowski added.

“This is a World Cup, which is always something special.

“I hope we can play even better in the final and that we will have more goalscoring chances.”

The European champions ended Ahly’s 32match unbeaten run in all competitions under their South African-born coach Pitso Mosimane.

“You understand why they are number one at this point in time in the world and in Europe also,” said Mosimane.

“They regained the ball quicker, they pressed us quicker, they’re more experienced.

“We could only do something on a break.”

Members of Marepkong Youth Association at the press conference. (NP) Correspondent

MOKOKCHUNG, FEB 9 (NPN): The 2nd Mokokchung Inter-Ward Football tournament, an initiative of the Marepkong Youth Association, will commence from March 9, under the theme: ‘towards excellence’, at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex.

Addressing a press conference at the Marepkong Community Hall, the convenor of the tourna-

ment, Bendangnukshi stated that the 2nd Mokokchung Inter-ward will be conducted by following the SOPs for COVID-19.

With an aim to promote local talents, the convenor said only local players would be permitted in the tournament.

A coaching camp for the selected and interested local players would also be conducted by the coaches association of Nagaland after the tournament, he

added.

The champions will receive a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 30,000 for the runner up along with individual prizes for best goalkeeper, best defender, highest goal scorer and player of the tournament.

Registration forms will be available at the ‘Cyber 48’, 2nd Floor MMC Complex, from February 12 and the same can be submitted before February 28.

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