February 4, 2020

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Ruckus in Parliament over CAA, NPR

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): Proceedings in both the Houses of the parliament were disrupted on Monday over the amended citizenship law and the issue of NPR. In the Lok Sabha, various opposition parties led by the Congress, including the DMK and the NCP, staged a walkout as their demand to discuss the new law was not entertained while proceedings in Rajya Sabha were washed out as opposition members raised slogans against the government, demanding a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and NPR. Soon after the House reassembled at 1.30 p.m. after a lunch break, leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury raised the issue of CAA, seeking discussion over the law in view of violent protests across the country against it.

As Lok Sabha Speaker did not allow Congress leaders to raise the issue and allowed Delhi MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma to speak on motion of thanks to President’’s address, the

NPF to field Dr. Imtiwapang for Speaker’ post KOHIMA, FEB 3 (NPN): NPF has decided to field former NLA speaker, Dr. Imtiwapang Aier as the party’s candidate for the election to the Speaker’s post scheduled to be held on February 7. This was disclosed by a senior member and NPF legislator.

NPF secretary general Achumbemo Kikon informed that the decision to contest the speaker’s election was made during February 1 consultative meeting. He however said that the house left it to the discretion of the MLAs to choose the candidate. He said party whip had been issued to all MLAs, including the seven suspended, hoping that the members would abide by it.

On the disqualification petition against the suspended MLAs, Kikon said the party was justified to go to high court seeking directive to the speaker to dispose the case. He however said that the matter would be taken up after the ensuing Assembly session got over.

Meanwhile, former Home minister Thenucho Tunyi was appointed as working president of NPF. He was administered the oath of allegiance by senior VP (adm) Kruzakie Kelio in the presence party functionaries. (Correspondent)

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Opposition members protest in the well of Rajya Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Monday. (RSTV/PTI Photo)

opposition led by the Congress, including DMK, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), NCP, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, walked out of the House.

Earlier, the opposition began to protest against the government to “roll back” CAA soon after the House assembled at 11am and the lawmakers came near the Speaker’s podium sloganeering “save our democracy”, “save our Constitution”, “save our India”, “Prime Minister, reply”, “stop inflammatory speeches” and “roll-back CAA” when Speaker Birla did not allow them to speak over the issue.

Amid pandemonium, run the House or not. the Speaker Om Birla conThe Deputy Chairman tinued the Question Hour tried to pacify opposition and Zero Hour. members, saying they can the issue during the RS adjourned for the day raise discussion on the Motion As soon as the House of Thanks on President’s assembled at 3 pm after Address. repeated adjournments, opHowever, when memposition members including bers refused to relent and those from the Congress, insisted on their demand TMC and CPM started rais- the Deputy Chairman ading slogans against NPR and journed the House for day.

CAA demanding a debate E a r l i e r, w h e n t h e on the issue. They did not House resumed its busiallow Bhupender Yadav ness at 2 PM, the Deputy (BJP) to move the Motion Chairman had to adjourn of Thanks on the President’s proceeding as Congress and Address.

TMC members continued Yadav said the Deputy shouting slogans and did Chairman Harivansh should not allow Yadav to move the ask the Leader of Opposi- Motion of Thanks on the tion whether they want to President’s address.

In the morning, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu disallowed notices given by several opposition members to discuss the issue and then adjourned proceedings till noon after MPs belonging to the Congress, TMC, Left and BSP rose to raise the issue.

Naidu said members will get enough opportunity to raise the issue during discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament.

The President’s address had specific mention of the amended citizenship law and it can be discussed during the debate on the Motion of Thanks, he said.

However, Satish Chandra Mishra of the BSP, Derek O’Brien of the TMC, T K Rangarajan of the CPM and other opposition members rose to speak on it.

Naidu cut them short, saying he has already given a ruling on adjournment notices and cannot allow them to speak now.

As other opposition members joined them, Naidu adjourned proceedings.

NPF to move anti-CAA resolution in Assembly; hold protest during session Correspondent

KOHIMA, FEB 3 (NPN): Opposition NPF has decided to move a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 during the fifth session of the 13th Nagaland Assembly, scheduled to begin from February 7.

Talking to media persons here, newly-appointed NPF secretary general Achumbemo Kikon said the party during, a consultative meeting of the NPF legislature wing and party officials held in the residence of party president Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu on Saturday, decided to let the legislators take up the CAA issue.

The MLAs would put up a fierce argument during the ensuing Assembly session and would move a resolution for “withdrawal or rolling back” CAA, he said adding that the party workers will also hold protests against CAA during the Assembly session.

Reiterating his party’s stand, he said the Act was discriminatory because it was based purely on religion, pointing out the NPF had always stood against any

policy that discriminated religion. He said the Act had already divided the people, with even European Parliament taking cognisance as it was dividing the people on religious lines.

On the alleged controversial comment of deputy chief minister Y Patton, Achumbemo remarked that a man of his stature was not expected to make such comments though the former had clarified that his statement during the LSU conference was “twisted misrepresented”.

“Patton must realise that being a deputy CM whatever he speaks matters and therefore should be careful and not say anything detrimental for the society,” he said.

Noting that the deputy chief minister had personally clarified on the matter, he hoped that the clarification was genuine.

Kenye misled Pfoze, says Kikon: On the reason for sparing NPF Lok Sabha member Lorho S Pfoze, while Rajya Sabha member KG Kenye was suspended, Kikon explained that Pfoze had clarified that he was

constantly in touch with Kenye as he was made to understand that Kenye was in touch with NPF president over the contentious Bill.

He said Pfoze was misled because after Kenye gave an interview to Rajya Sabha TV supporting CAA, , which was also circulated widely, the NPF president had advised Kenye through telephone call not to participate in the voting as it defied the party resolution.

Kikon claimed that Pfoze had also expressed regret in his reply “if his action has caused misunderstanding and breach in the principles, decisions and discipline of the party” and tendered an apology.

Considering all these, Kikon said the yardstick and degree of punishment meted out to Kenye could not be applied to the Pfoze.

He however said a stern warning was given to Pfoze, while asserting that the decision taken by DAC was fair and just. He added that NPF could not take cognisance of voluntary resignation as punishment, which Kenye had done during a press conference.

Coronavirus: India reports third case No nCoV case reported in

Medical staff dispose garbage outside an isolation ward for coronavirus, at a hospital in Kochi on Monday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): India on Monday confirmed its third coronavirus case, with another Kerala student being the target of the newly surfaced virus, who had a travel history from Wuhan, authorities said.

The medical student is in an isolation ward at a district hospital, said the Kerala’s Health Minister K K Shaila. “The patient’s condition is stable,” the official added. This is the third case in Kerala after deadly coronavirus claimed more

than 300 lives in China.

The death toll in China’s coronavirus epidemic soared to 361 with 57 deaths. China’s National Health Commission in its daily report said that 2,829 new cases of coronavirus were reported nationwide on February 2, taking the total number of infection to 17,205.

A i r p o r t Au t h o r i t y of India (AAI) has set up screening and testing counters in most of the airports of North East India, a top AAI official told PTI on Monday. Officials in Miz-

oram capital Aizawl said that two people, who had returned to the state from China early January, have been kept under house quarantine in Cente has asked all the hospitals across all states and Union territories (UTs) to prepare isolation wards.

Task force set up: Centre has set up a task force to monitor the situation arising out of the novel coronavirus with representatives from the ministries of health, home, civil aviation and women and child development, union minister G Kishan Reddy said on Monday.

“A task force has been set up to monitor novel coronavirus situation. The first meeting of the task force will be held today. We will discuss what all precautions need to be taken to prevent the spread of the virus,” Reddy told reporters here.

Reddy said Indians, who want to return, will be evacuated from China.

State BJP takes serious note of allegation against Dy CM state so far: H&FW deptt DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): Nagaland BJP unit

DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): Health & Family Welfare department on Monday informed that no coronavirus case has been reported in Nagaland so far.

Out of 33 persons, who had come to Nagaland from the affected countries, none of them were found to have symptoms of the virus, principal director H&FW, Dr. Vizolie Z. Suokhrie stated in a press note.

However, those coming from China have been quarantined in compliance of the extant protocol set by the Centre, Soukhrie added.

On Monday, Health minister, S. Pangnyu Phom on Monday held a meeting with the secretary, principal director, mission director (NHM) and departmental officers to review the situation of the 2019 nCoV (Novel Corona Virus) in the State.

The department has taken up all necessary precau-

Probe on Wuhan institute study on bats in Nagaland NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): The government has ordered an inquiry into a study conducted in Nagaland by researchers from the U.S., China and India on bats and humans carrying antibodies to deadly viruses like Ebola, officials confirmed to The Hindu.

The inquiry comes as officials worldwide grapple with the spread of novel coronavirus 2019, from Wuhan, China, to 20 countries, that has resulted in over 300 deaths.

The study came under the scanner as two of the 12 researchers belonged to the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, and it was funded by the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). They would have required special permis-

sions as foreign entities.

The study, conducted by scientists of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the U.S. and the Duke-National University in Singapore, is now being investigated for how the scientists were allowed to access live samples of bats and bat hunters (humans) without due permissions.

The results of the study were published in October last in the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal, originally established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

“The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sent a five-member committee to investigate.

The inquiry is complete,

and a report has been submitted to the Health Ministry,” a senior government official told The Hindu.

The US Embassy and the Union Health Ministry declined to comment on the inquiry. In a written reply to questions from The Hindu, the U.S. Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta said it “did not commission this study and had not received any enquiries [from the Indian government] on it.” An American official, however, suggested that the U.S. Department of Defense might not have coordinated the study through the CDC. Bats often carry ebola, rabies, marburg and the SARS coronavirus. Many high-profile epidemics have been traced to bats, and scientists are discovering new bat-borne viruses all the time.

The Nagaland study suggests bats in South Asia act as a reservoir host of a diverse range of filoviruses, and filovirus spillover occurs through human exposure to these bats. For the study done in 2017, 85 individuals participating in an annual bat harvest at Mimi, Nagaland, were picked. The majority of bat hunters were male, aged between 18 and 50, and participated at least eleven times in the harvest. The study says the potential virus present in the bats may not be an exact copy of the virus responsible for various outbreaks.

Given the widespread challenges from the newly discovered viruses, officials say they want to take no chance on their spread and will take action to ensure all medical studies in the country adhere to strict norms.

tions to monitor such persons and has also set up necessary measures for any untoward events in conformity of the Central guidelines.

While urging the public not to panic, H&FW has sought full cooperation, particularly from those who have/ will be coming from affected countries to self declare by contacting the department at:- 7005435243, 9856071745 and7005539653.

It further requested all those who have visited the affected country(s) on or before January 15, 2020 to send their detailed address (Country, Province and address as well as Nagaland Address along with contact number) to the above mentioned contact numbers through text message or by WhatsApp. The personal information of these persons will be kept under the preview of confidentiality, Health & Family Welfare department stated.

State NPP unit rebuffs Hayithung’s statement DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): National People’s Party (NPP) Nagaland State unit has outrightly rejected the statement issued by Hayithung Bill Lotha against deputy chief minister Y Patton, published on February 3, clarifying that it did not in any way endorse his statement in any form, nor it was aware of any such perspective, either at the state or national level.

In a rejoinder issued by state general secretary Samuel Sumi, NPP said Hayithung’s statement or remark was purely made in his personal capacity, and therefore any consternation or speculation that might have arisen in the light of the recent press release should be laid to rest.

While appreciating the stellar role played by fourth estate in Naga society in general and the cooperation it extended in particular, NPP unit also urged the local dailies to ascertain the veracity of news items pertaining to its affairs before publishing them.

has taken serious note of a recent video that went viral on social media on deputy chief minister Y. Patton delivering his speech on the occasion of the general conference of the Lotha Students Union at Merapani on January 27-28.

The BJP through its general secretary P. Kavili Achumi disclosed that the video had been posted on facebook by one Jandemo Lotha but for unknown reasons, was immediately deleted.

Then, said Kavili, it went viral after one ‘Vikato’ alias ‘Vyca Shihovinu Aye’ vice president of NDPP central youth wing reposted it on facebook in ‘The Nagas.’ BJP accused Vikato of waging a “communal politics and hate campaign against BJP and its leaders, both at the centre and state.”

BJP alleged that Vikato used to post “objectionable bigotry picture, videos and malicious statement against BJP leaders and precisely against the hon’ble deputy chief minister for quite sometime.”

On enquiry about Vikato, BJP claimed that he was a “self opportunist’ and habitual defector who earlier raised his right ‘Hand’ (Congress), then he was sweeping the street with the Broom as AAP and finally ending up with the Globe (NDPP). BJP said such “habitual defectors and fame mongers” have no ground to be leader in any political party of NGO. Further, BJP alleged that Vikato has a crime registered against him by the NIA Imphal branch as one of the prime accused in the March 5 incident in Dimapur. BJP also alleged that Vikato was “gainfully employed in a government sector as graduate teacher.” On this, BJP urged upon the authorities to “carefully investigate at the earliest and take necessary action if found true.”

In defense of Y. Patton, BJP clarified that he always stood for “fairness and meritocracy” in the examination process and in particular, credited him for being the one person who curtailed NPSC viva marks from 75 to 55.

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NGBF welcomes signing of Bodo accord DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) has welcomed the recent signing of Bodo peace accord between the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the Government of India.

In a press release, NGBF president Sahleem Konyak and general secretary Shikuto Zalipu congratulated the Bodo community of Assam and government of India for reaching a “consensus” leading to signing of peace accord followed by surrendering of arms and ammunitions.

NGBF maintained that signing of the peace accord has “boost up the chance to bring permanent peace in the north east region.” It also lauded the effort that has created a significant milestone under the leaderships of both the Prime Minister and chief minister of Assam. NGBF expressed belief that “this gesture of peace initiative should inspire all of us” and added that “we should strive for peace for better conditions of living in our North East region.”

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PDLSA awareness prog with police

Officials and participants of consultative meeting held in Phek on Monday. (NP) Correspondent KOHIMA, FEB 3 (NPN): The Phek District Legal Service Authority (PDLSA) in collaboration with district police Phek conducted a consultative meeting/awareness in a matter of disclosure of victim of sexual assault/pre-arrest, arrest & remand, investigation & trials at DRDA conference hall, Phek on Monday.

District & sessions judge and chairperson

Phek DLSA Mezivolu T. Therieh spoke on right to free legal aid in prearrest, arrest & remand & criminal investigation and trials.

She highlighted that police and judiciary will lose its relevancy if “we fail to win the trust of the public by delivering justice without delay.” She said that court and police should see that provisions of law were implemented be it for the accused or victims of crimes.

She stated that Article 21 of the Constitution of India guarantees right to free legal aid and assistance to accused persons and that it is essential that access to justice is available at all stages of the criminal process. She also touched on the provisions of arrest under Section 41, 41 B and 41 D of Code of Criminal Procedure. She said that while arresting women, procedures should not overlap and due care should be taken.

Superintendent of Police, Phek Vesupra Kezo speaking on the topic for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and its Amendment Act 2019 mentioned that 90% of POCSO cases went unreported. He therefore urged the police to take such reported cases of children very seriously and stated that non-registration of such cases entails punishment under the Act. He informed that the Act is meant for children of both sexes and mentioned that in no way should the identity of the victim be disclosed nor lower the child’s reputation.

He also informed the police about the child welfare committee, the juvenile justice board and the state commission for protection of child rights.

Programme was c h a i r e d b y Ke n e i nu o Swuro, project assistant PDLSA. Altogether, 23 police officers, officers in-charge and investigating officers from all the 6 (six) police stations under Phek district attended the programme.

NNC/GDRN (N-A) cautions on tax collection DIMAPUR: NNC/GDRN (N-A) has cautioned business establishments in Dimapur not to entertain any individual or groups without knowledge of chaplee affairs kilonser. A press release

by NNC/GDRN (N-A) through its MIP stated that, there has been reports on collection of commercial tax by some unscrupulous person claiming themselves as NNC/GDRN (N-A) officials. In this regard, the NNC/GDRN (N-A) has further informed all business establishments to contact at 9383203450 to authenticate identities.

State level mega exhibition

DIMAPUR: State level exhibition and entrepreneurship conclave under the National SC/ST Hub (HSSH) Scheme of the Ministry of MSME, India will be held from February 5 to 8 at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur. Besides the conclave, there will be exhibition/technology centers with live demonstration and also loan mela.

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news in Brief DC Dimapur informs: Deputy commissioner (DC) Dimapur Anoop Khinchi has informed that monthly DPDB meeting of Dimapur district scheduled for February 5 is postponed till further notice.

CFD informs: Christian Forum Dimapur (CFD) has informed that a prayer fellowship would be held on February 4, 7 a.m to 7:30 a.m at Chakasang Baptist Church, Dimapur. For more information, one may contact Rev. Moses Murry, chairman, CFD at 9436003612.

AUZT new office bearers: Asukhomi Union Zunheboto Town (AUZT) has in an annual meeting held at Zunheboto town, and nominated individuals to represent AUZT for the tenure 2020-2024.

The team is led by chairman Kiyexu Chishi, general secretary Kakiho Khujumi along with 5 others, 7 executive members and 3 advisors.

KMH 4th general session: Khiamniungan Meniu Hoikam (KMH) 4th general session will be held from February 5 to 6 at Thonoknyu Hq, under the theme “Dignity and progress”. Executive meeting will be held on the evening of February 5 and the registration fee will be Rs 10 each. Transportation is to be arranged by own unit and traditional dresses will be compulsory.

Horticulture training at Kohima: Department of Horticulture will be organizing two day event on “training and distribution of materials to benefi-

ciaries under low cost preservation unit MIDH” and “hortipreneurs meet on marketing of horticulture produces” on February 4 to 6, 9:30 a.m at the directorate of Horticulture.

AGEGAN 2nd general conference: Agricultural Engineering Graduates Association of Nagaland (AGEGAN) has convened its 2nd general conference on February 8, 11 a.m at Ungma Kiti, near Cimorb Hotel, Kohima. All bonafide members have been requested to attend the conference without fail and renew their membership with the association.

Failure to comply with the association’s directives will lead to necessary action against them for the greater interest of the association.

ADC & ERO Wokha informs: ADC & ERO, Wokha K. Mhathung Tsanglao has informed all concerned that as per the schedule provided by the Election Commission of India (ECI), programme for final publication of electoral roll with January 1 as qualifying date will be held on February 7, 11 a.m at deputy commissioner’s conference hall. All registered political parties under Wokha district have been requested to attend the programme and thereafter collect the electoral roll during the function. Designated party officers have been further reminded to bring their official seal along with them.

All concerned have been requested to attend the programme positively.

DMI SJGS motivational session for students NSCN (I-M) FAC felicitation programme in mushroom cultivation mean absence of failure, he said but facing failure that comes in the way with never-give-up attitude under all trying times.

Saying that for students, success means preparing oneself for life and employability, resource person also added that with positive attitude, one’s energy and time can be channelized to reap positive outcome.

Fr. Chezhian exhorted students with interesting related images and videos, to focus on what they desire and aspire to do steadily.

During the session, students interacted with the resource person expressing their views. Administrator Sr. Stella was present for the session.

condolence

DIMAPUR: NSCN (I-M) expressed grief at the untimely demise of late ‘sergeant major’ Pamshim Ramror (Naga Army No. AX-40246) of Kiusumong Battalion, Naga Army from Teinem village under Wung Tangkhul Region (WTR) on February 2.

A condolence note from NSCN (I-M) through its MIP stated that, late Fr. Arockia Sezhian resource person interacting Kiusumong enrolled in with students during the session.

Naga national service on October 6, 2005 and served DIMAPUR: DMI St. Jo- DMI SJGS stated that, the Naga nation with unseph Global School (SJGS) resource person Fr. Arockwavering national spirit unconducted a motivational ia Sezhian addressed the til his demise. It also stated session on the topic “Dis- students to discover the that the void created by his cover the diamond in you” diamond in them by learndemise would be deeply felt for classes V-IX on Febru- ing to confront failures and and difficult to fill in. For ary 1. disgruntling comments of his selfless contribution to A press release from others. Success does not the Naga national cause, NSNC (I-M) stated that his name shall be recorded in the pages of the Naga history and his sacrifice for the Naga nation ever be cherished by all. Further, the office of the adjutant general, Naga Army bestowed upon him posthumously the rank of ‘2nd lieutenant’ on February 3 in recognition of his service.

G P R N c o nve ye d deep condolences to the bereaved family members Dimapur Hindu Youth Organisation (DHYO) extended humanitarian service and pray to the Almighty by distributing winter clothes and school kits to children of Neighbourhood God to grant his soul eternal peace and rest.

Children’s Home, Dimapur on February 2. (DHYO)

NBCC 83rd annual general council at Tening

NBCC staff with delegates at 83rd NBCC annual general council in Tening on February 2.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) 83rd annual general council under the banner of “Stronger together” was held from January 30 to February 2, hosted by the Liangnai Baptist Association (LBA) at mission centre Tening.

A press release from LBA media cell Rutmakbo stated that, in the session the speakers of worship services were Rev. Dr. Hukashe Zhimomi president K Y M C

NBCC, Dr. Niholi H. Shohe, principal, Into Theological College, Zunheboto, Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, general secretary NBCC and Rev. Dr. Elyngkiebe Zeliang HoD, Peace Studies, Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong.

Speakers of focus groups were Rev, Maongkaba Lemtur, mission mobilizer, World Evangelization for Christ, Zuchonthung Ovung, associate pastor, Kohima Lotha Bap-

tist Church, Dr. Hovithal Sothu, project director, TaFMA and Rev. Phomlee Van, pastor Kohima Phom Baptist Church.

Speakers emphasized on the theme and that, each one has a talent to be used for the glory of God, whereby children of God must work together for enrichment of Christ’s kingdom.

NBCC also conducted farewell programme to outgoing state chaplain Rev.

Kuzierang Thou & finance and property secretary, NBCC Rev. T.W. Yamyap who will be the incoming state chaplain. NBCC also organised installation programme of Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho general secretary, Rev. Noksa Chiu, secretary, finance & property, Visadieu Dilie, secretary, women, Rev. Amop Noklang, state chaplain and Msotemsu Walling principal, Christian Higher Secondary School Dimapur.

DIMAPUR: Fazl Ali College (FAC) Mokokchung conducted a felicitation programme for certificate course on mushroom cultivation for 27 students on January 27.

A press release from FAC Mokokchung stated that, the 27 students had successfully completed the three-month certificate course. The certificates were handed over by T. Allong Tzudir, principal Fazl Ali College in presence of Dr. Imtiwati Jamir, RUSA co-ordinator and faculty members of department of Botany, Fazl Ali College.

College offers three months and 6 months vocational Students who had completed the course with FAC faculty. certificate courses, besides short-term training pro- cultivation in collabora- district horticulture officer, ten-year MoU has been grammes on mushroom tion with the office of the Mokokchung with whom signed by FAC.

Patkai Christian College organises semester topper award DIMAPUR: Patkai Christian College (PCC) organised “semester topper award ceremony” on February 2 at Bundrock auditorium.

A press release from PCC mass communication stated that, Husazu Epao, principal, PCC advised the students to be the beacons of light in the society while stating that the ceremony was a platform for students to realize their potential and do better.

Angel Sonari, vice principal, PCC congratulated the achievers and called upon the students to make Patkai proud in future. Rev. Vichukho

Mima village celebrates village day KOHIMA: Mima Village Council (MVC) celebrated its village day with 1st class contractor Vilelie Khamo as the chief host and main speaker on January 31.

A press release from MVC stated that, Khamo in his address said the villagers ought to be thankful to God for all the blessings upon the village and progress thus far.

He said the village celebrating the 75th years of Christianity should promote peace and understanding among the villagers and beyond.

He called upon the villagers to move forward with the love of Christ in the coming days too.

Rev. Dr. Vichükho Ngukha in his address urged the villagers to forget and forgive in the name of jubilee for any wrong doings and to walk in the will of God to receive more blessings.

On the occasion the villagers erected monolith which symbolizes the end of estrangement and beginning of a new dawn. Monolith was dedicated by Rev. Dr. Vichükho Ngukha, chaplian Patkai Christians College Dimapur.

Ngukha who read the scripture also offered prayers before the ceremony began.

Drawing inspiration from the life of Nehemiah who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, Samuel, controller of examination (COE), PCC, AG said that in the present day, politics, socio-economic and many other areas needed rebuilding and that rebuilding was possible only with quality education.

Dr Vivee Peseyie, dean music department, Dr Thefuvilie Pieru, dean of science department, and

Dr Renchumi K Kuotsu, dean of arts and commerce distributed the awards and around 16 students from bachelor of music, 5 students from master of science, 3 from master of arts, 49 students from bachelor of science, 54 from bachelor of arts, 5 students from bachelor of computer applications, and 3 students from multimedia and mass communication were felicitated on the day.

Altogether 135 students were conferred with the award. Ceremony was attended by all faculty, students and staff of the college.

New Church inaugurated at Khumchoyan

The new church for Catholic community of Khumchoyan.

DIMAPUR: A new church under the patronage of St. Joseph was blessed and inaugurated by Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, bishop of Kohima on January 31, at Khumchoyan under Sacred Heart Parish, Bhandari in the presence of fathers, sisters, well-wishers, village elders and leaders, parish community and friends.

A press release from secretary to Bishop of Kohima Fr. Renthungo Victor stated that bishop James Thoppil, in his homily said that a church is the external

sign of God’s love of the internal disposition of every Christian. He congratulated the persons responsible for the construction of the new church. The church was blessed in and around and the lectern and Crucifix were also blessed during the occasion.

Rev. Fr. John Ntonse, priest in-charge, Longsa accorded the words of welcome and appreciated the Khumchoyan Catholic community for the achievement. Fr. Rhanben Mathew, parish priest, Sacred Heart

Parish, translated the homily of bishop.

C h e n a H u m t o s e, chairman, Khumchoyan expressed his gratitude to the donners who made the construction possible and those who assisted for the successful completion of the church.

Nchumbemo Yathan, catechist, Khumchoyan delivered the words of gratitude and choir of St. Mary’s Church Merapani and Sacred Heart church Bhandari presented special songs.

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WEATHER FORECAST February 4

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Hazy sun

25 6

Hazy sun

21 4

Guwahati Hazy sun

24 10

Aizawl

Hazy sun

22 3

Itanagar Sunny to partly cloudy

21 9

Shillong Hazy sun

15 3

Hazy sun

16 4

Imphal

Kohima

Dimapur Hazy sunshine Mkg

Partly sunny and cool

Tuensang Sunshine and colder

22 9 17 5 10 2

Cooler with hazy sun

15 8

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Mmhonlumo Kikon hoisting the CCSU flag in the presence of CCSU officials and DC Tuensang.

DIMAPUR: Mmhonlumo Kikon advisor IT & C, Science & Technology, NRE, said that the state has a lot to learn from the Changs in regard to implementation of communitisation act and congratulated on the model of Sochum developed by ECS and CCSU. A press release from CCSU stated that, Kikon said this in his speech as special guest during the 57th general session of the Confederation of Chang Students’ Union (CCSU) under the theme “Propelling educational values” which started on Monday at Tuensang and will culminate on February 5.

He also said that Sochum ensures that problems of implementation were addressed which in turn insures that communitization was actually be-

ing practiced, implemented in spirit and letter. He acknowledged the efforts of the CCSU in the Tuensang district and shared that his understanding and interest in Tuensang town started few years back when he was here to do a study on the presence of migrants from Myanmar in Tuensang town.

Speaking on the idea of Sochum he remarked, “What impressed me most and what actually the Changs and the district has contributed but not yet acknowledged is your adaptation of the communitisation and your participation in insuring that, that Act is actually implemented in its right way.”

He spoke about the history of the Nagas as irremovable from its identity and culture and reminded

State level workshop on constructivist lesson planning

Teacher educators at the programme along with resource persons.

DIMAPUR: Two-day state level workshop on “constructivist lesson planning for teacher educators” was organised at Modern Institute of Teacher Education (MITE) Kohima from January 31 to February 1, where faculty members from all teacher education colleges participated.

A press release from MITE Kohima stated that, workshop was a follow up of the two-day state level workshop on constructiv-

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ism for teacher educators previously organized

by SCTE, Kohima from November 18-19, 2019.

Workshop was to bring together teacher-educators from all over Nagaland to brain-storm and deliberate on the 5E lesson plan format under the constructivist approach of teaching-learning.

Participants also engaged in group discussions and detail planning of sample lessons plan sub-

ject wise to come up with a uniform and suitable format for all the B.Ed colleges in Nagaland to be used during the school internship.

Dr. Bendangyapangla and Dr. Elizabeth from SCTE, Kohima facilitated a session on “micro skills and transactional strategy” to emphasize the importance of skills required in transacting lessons for student teachers during school internship.

about the contribution of the Changs in the Naga history talking about the then commander-in-chief Thungti Chang, who once led the Nagas under the unified banner of NNC. While mentioning that Nagaland is the only state in India to be created out of a political agreement he said that people were enjoying the facilities because of the sacrifices made by the elders. Kikon also commented that everyone wanted good governance and all the services that were there for the welfare of the people to be delivered to the intended beneficiary as per the Nagaland Communitisation Act that was passed in 2002.

In the short speech delivered by president, CKS, he exhorted the students present to emulate the past

Faculty development programme held

DIMAPUR: Internal quality assurance cell (IQAC), C-Edge College, organized faculty development programme (FDP) on January 31, at college’s conference room, attended by teaching faculty and members of other colleges.

A press release from HoD of Management Studies and IQAC coordinator, C-Edge College, Wapanginla Ao, stated in the first technical session HoD of Political Science, Viseno Koutsu, chaired the programme, keynote address delivered by vice principal, Tetso College, Dr. Hewasa Lorin. In her address, questions were raised on how to grade to encourage weak ones and challenge stronger ones and also some issues faced by students in classroom such as correct writing and inability to communicate effectively. The session further featured talk and presentation on professional ethics by Wapanginla Ao, while the second technical session was based on more interaction and practical exercises. FDP was held under the theme “Enhancing competencies”, sponsored by Kiremwati Chair.

glories of their ancestors who brought glory to the land through “dao” but to imbibe the same spirit with the use of “pen”. Deputy commissioner, Tuensang spoke about the gap in the generation which was creating a huge crack in the society and advised the older wiser people and younger hi tech people to give each other space in order to balance the differences.

Earlier, welcome address was delivered by speaker, CCSU, special number from TTBL choir and re-amendment of the constitution of CCSU was read out by drafting committee. Programme was compered by S. Nyimang Senti Chang, opening prayer was spoken by Changlimba APY, Yungkük Baptist Church and closing prayer

by Bin, APY, Mopung Baptist Church.

In the inaugural programme more than 800 registered students from 53 federating units attended accompanied by their village council members and student leaders.

Others present were Dr. Riku Khutso, EAC Bhandari, Tiameren Chang, ADC Bhandari, GBs Union, DBs Union, CTS members, CKS members, CBLT, CGOA, TTAWU, TCCI members and tribal unions of the district.

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AAA team members along with DBCK teaching staff in Kohima.

DIMAPUR: Don Bosco College Kohima (DBCK) held its state level academic and administrative audit (AAA) team visit on January 28, deputed by the directorate of Higher Education, Nagaland.

A press release from DBCK stated that team comprised of Dr. Visakhonü Hibo (convener), principal, Japfii Christian College, Kigwema, Kohima, Nagaland, Dr. Watijungshi Ao, Medongoi Rhakho, deputy director, Higher Education, Kohima to prepare the college for

the 1st cycle of NAAC assessment.

Fr Dr P. Suresh Innocent principal, DBCK, gave a report on the college profile, academic results of the last four years, fund and infrastructure enhancement undertaken.

Presentation was given

by Jarani Mao, coordinator, IQAC who deliberated on the NAAC criteria and also on the academic enhancement undertaken by the college. Departmental reports were presented by the heads of all departments.

The team also had interactions with the students, teaching faculty and staff separately. Physical verification of accounts & establishment sections, ex a m b r a n c h , D B C K Students’ Forum office, classrooms etc were also undertaken.

Exit meeting chaired by the IQAC coordinator was held with the principal, IQAC members, HoDs, and staff members, wherein the team members shared some key remarks and made suggestions for improvement.

Cadets trained on fire fighting at ongoing CATC-113

Cadet being shown how to use the fire extinguisher.

DIMAPUR: In the ongoing Combined Annual Training Camp (CATC113) for NCC Cadets held at IG Stadium, Kohima a team under SI C Patton from fire station, Kohima imparted theory and practical classes for cadets on fire fighting on February 3.

A press release from 24 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC

Kohima stated that demonstration on fire fighting was conducted by fire fighters for the cadets.

The theory and practical classes included types of fire, causes of fire, handling of various fire equipments and prevention of fire accidents.

Col Daniel Lotzem CO 24 Nagaland (I) Coy

NCC Kohima was also present during the fire fighting demonstration and also motivated the cadets to work hard and make full use of the training being imparted during the camp.

He also emphasised on the importance of fire fighting drills and its practical applications in day

today’s life.

The commanding officer on behalf of group headquarter NCC Kohima and 24 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC Kohima expressed gratitude to the team of Fire and Emergency Services FHQ Nagaland Kohima in conducting fire fighting capsule for the cadets.

Financial mela held at Seyochung village

Participants with officials during FI Mela at Seyochung village.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland State Rural Livelihood Mission (NSRLM) under Sitimi block held its first phase financial inclusion mela on January 31 at Seyochung village in convergence with Scheme Implementing department.

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that, EAC Seyochung, Moasunep Jinger as special invitee encouraged and advised the participants to apply whatever information relating to various schemes and benefits shared by the resource persons so as to improve their rural economy.

He also distributed PM-Kisan beneficiaries

form to the participants and told them to have aadhaar card and individual bank accounts in order to avail various welfare schemes.

Re s o u r c e p e r s o n s from SBI Kiphire branch T S. J o h n M o n s a n g , (branch manager) and Sarei Muinao (lead district manager) shared the

process and benefits of PMBSY, PMJJBY, APY and PM-Mudra Scheme etc. Dr. Kevi, medical officer, primary health center (PHC) Seyochung shared the benefits on Ayushman Bharat Yojana health card.

In the financial inclusion mela more than 50 new individual State Bank of India (SBI) accounts were opened and several Ayushman Bharat Yojana beneficiaries were registered.

Earlier, invocation prayer was pronounced

by Y. Sejungmong, senior pastor, Seyochung Village Baptist Lithro, overview of the NSRLM programme was shared by Limtimong Tikhir, BPM, Sitimi block, Ro thr o ng se Sa ng ta m , DC-FI, DMMU, Kiphire briefed and vote of thanks was delivered by Atokali.

K, area coordinator (financial inclusion) Sitimi block.

More than 220 SHG members under NSRLM and a host of village stakeholders participated in the daylong event.

Deputy director & mechanical staff of Central Store, Dimapur, Deptt of Agriculture underwent training/ exposure tour to Kolkata from January 21 to 24.

(Agriculture Deptt Dimapur)

Y. Patton, deputy chief minister, BLP leader Nagaland and Temjen Imna Along, state minister and BJP president campaigning for Delhi assembly election with BJP candidate Sunil Yadav contesting against Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister, Delhi. (PRO - Dy.CM) K Y M C

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International drug lord detained under NSA in Mnp Correspondent IM P HAL , F e b 3 : A Myanmar national who was tagged as “international drug lord” by Manipur police has been detained under National Security Act (NSA) 1980.

Thoubal district magistrate has issued an order detaining Kyaw Kyaw Naing alias Abdul Rahim (33) of Kawhmu village of Moha Rangoon in Myanmar under NSA on January 29 last, an official source said on Monday.

Naing was arrested by a team of Thoubal district police in August 2019 outside the Imphal International Airport in a follow up action to the seizure of Rs 400 crore worth WY (World is Your) tablet in the district on August 24, 2019.

The police who detained him after registering a case tagged him as “international drug lord.”

He was alleged of involving in smuggling contraband substances in Myanmar, India and Bangladesh.

The alleged drug kingpin has been in the judicial custody since his arrest has secured bail from a local court on January 28. While

Oil leakage sets Assam river ablaze GUWAHATI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): Upper Assam’s Buri Dihing river caught fire following a crude oil spill from an Oil India Limited (OIL) pipeline in the area. Images of the raging fire have been circulating on social media since.

“No casualty has been reported,” confirmed Dibrugarh SP Sreejith T, adding that the OIL had said a “technical glitch” caused the spillage on January 28.

A press release by OIL spokesperson, Tridiv Hazarika said “... oil managed to trickle into the Buri Dihing river. It appears that some miscreants set fire to oil floating on the river.”

OIL said by the time they reached, the fire had extinguished by itself.

Hazarika said: “This is our internal technical problem but it is under control now.”

An inquiry committee has been set up to find out the root causes of the incident.

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granting his bail with a surety bond of Rs.3 lakh, the court restricted him from going outside the state of Manipur during the bail period.

However, before releasing him on bail pending formalities, Thoubal district magistrate passed an order on January 29 to detain him under section 3(2) of National Security Act 1980 until further orders of the court.

District magistrate N Bandana Devi passed the order in exercise of the power conferred to her under sub-section 3 of section 3 of National Security Act on January 25.

In an order passed based on police report, the district magistrate stated Naing, who is currently in police custody, is likely to continue to act in the manner prejudicial to the security of the state and maintenance of public order.

It is pertinent to mention here that a team of Thoubal police arrested the alleged international drug lord in a follow up action to the seizure of 40 lakh pieces of World is Your tablet worth Rs 400 crore on the night of August 23 2019.

37 Meghalaya students return from China SHILLONG, FEB 3: 37 Students who are studying medical in China have returned to Meghalaya the following the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV), a cousin of the SARS virus in the neighbouring country, an official said on Monday Altogether 13 South Korean tourists and another person from Meghalaya who had returned from Vietnam are also under medical surveillance.

“No symptoms of the disease have been reported so far. However, the students and tourists are under medical surveillance daily,” State’s Health and Family Welfare, Spokesperson, Dr. M Marbaniang said.

She said most of the students are pursuing higher studies, especially medicine, in China’s Wangdong province, Sichuan province and Yunnan province.

“We have not collected any blood samples so far as there are no symptoms of the diseases. However, we have restricted them to stay indoors and wear mask,” Marbaniang said.

She also said the health department has activated the Integrated Disease Surveillance Team and Rapid Response Team to tackle the disease in case of any outbreak.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Alexander Laloo Hek has also appealed to the people not to panic as there is no case of the virus in Meghalaya. (Correspondent)

Youth arrested for stealing cash from ATM in Tripura Ag a rta l a , F e b 3 (IANS): A youth from Haryana was arrested in Tripura while stealing cash from an ATM using cloning devices, police said on Monday.

“Acting on a tip-off, police have arrested one Sunny Biddu while he was trying to steal cash from an ATM by using cloning devices at Dharmanagar on Sunday evening,” North Tripura District police chief Bhanupada Chakraborty told IANS. He said that some electronic devices and different types of tools were recovered from the possession of the the 23-year-old, a resident of Haryana’s Hisar district.

Police and intelligence officials were interrogating the detainee.

Meanwhile, Tripura police officials were also interrogating two Turkish and two Bangladeshi nationals, who were arrested in West Bengal last November for stealing a huge amount of cash from ATMs in Agartala using cloning devices.

As per the preliminary probe, the Turkish nationals along with their Bangladeshi collaborators had stolen Rs 50 lakh.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Through this column, the Liangmai Students’ Union Dimapur place on record our heartfelt appreciation and profound gratitude towards the individuals who donated towards the union to participate in 26th Liangmai Sports Association (LSA) 2020 held at Rianglong Village, Manipur.

The Union is obliged to mention the names of the following individuals for their support.

Sl. No Name 1 Shri Namri Nchang, Hon’ble MLA, Advisor Water Resource 2 Mr. Kinguidi Nring 3 Mr. Mairiliangmang Malangmai 4 Dr. Joshua Nchang 5 Mr. Asingbou Newmai 6 Mr. G.H Ramlia 7 Mr. Ab.Mazatkamang 8 Mr. Athiubo Kaurinta 9 Mr. Namgawi 10 Mr. Tsidi Hairang, EAC 11 Ms. Khiuzan Kaurinta, EAC 12 Mr. Hurui Namdaw 13 Mr. Neiba Newmai, DIG 14 Mr. Benjamin Newmai 15 Mr. Karaibo Chawang 16 Mrs. Aringliu Mayalambam 17 Mr. Kaichunglung Domta 18 Ms. Poukizonne Meriam 19 Mr. D.Moita 20 Ms. Pawangkhonliu Newmai 21 Mr. Mailingwang 22 Mr. Mathew Halam 23 Mrs Khiuniliu Newmai 24 Mr. Khangsiambo Newmai 25 Mr. Jacob Nring 26 Mr. Ridin Nbung 27 Mr. Widinbo Chawang The Union also takes pride in congratulating Mr. Paramsibou (Gold Medalist- Men’s Single at Open Badminton Championship) and Mr. Khangkhang & Mr. Paramsibou (Gold Medalist- Men’s Double at Open Badminton Championship) for bringing laurels to the Union.

The Union prays that the Almighty God showers His manifold blessings upon all the individuals.

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New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar town of Assam on February 7.

This will be the prime minister’s first visit to the Northeast since it witnessed several anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in which three people were killed. Prime Minister Modi will visit Assam on February 7 and address a rally in Kokrajhar, a government official said. The visit comes a week after the central government signed a peace pact with several Bodo militant groups and a student body.

The signing of the Bodo agreement led to surrender of over 1,500 militants of the major insurgent group National Democratic Front of Boroland. A summit meeting between Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, scheduled to be held in Guwahati in December, was also cancelled due to the anti-CAA protests.

Modi was also invited for the inauguration of the recently-concluded ‘Khelo India’ games in Guwahati but he did not attend it.

Soldiers of Indian and Bangladesh armies during the ninth edition of IndoBangladesh joint military exercise in Umroi, Meghalaya on Monday. (PTI) Correspondent Umroi, Feb 3: India and Bangladesh kick started the ninth edition of joint military exercise at the newly set-up training node in Umroi cantonment in Meghalaya on Monday.

The 14-day training exercise will continue till February 16.

A delegation comprising of 31 officers and 138 other ranks of Bangladesh Army is being led by Brigadier General Md Shafiul Azam of the 42nd Ban-

gladesh infantry regiment, while the Indian Army is led

by Brigadier Rajesh Sharma of the Bihar regiment.

Welcoming the Bangladeshi contingent, Sharma said that the main focus of the joint exercise is on counter terrorist operations in mountainous and jungle terrains under the United Nations mandate.

“India and Bangladesh are the two nations which progressed on a path of mutual co-existence and peace as neighbours. Both

FELICITATION

OFFICE OF THE

DIMAPUR MONGSENYIMTI SENSO TELONGJEM DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

FELICITATION With immense pride and joy, the Dimapur Mongsenyimti Senso Telongjem would like to extend our heartiest Congratulations to Shri.

OPANGYANGER AO (S/o. Meyinungsang Ozukum) Sanitation Inspector, Office of the Chumoukedima Town Council, Dimapur, for being the Recipient of Governor’s Award during India’s 71st Republic day celebration on 26th January 2020.

May God continue to Bless and lead you in all your future endeavours and may you continue to bring Laurels to our village and the community at large.

Sd/Wb. TALILEMZUNG PONGEN President

Sd/Wb. TEMSUMEREN Gen. Secretary

NAGALAND EDUCATION MISSION SOCIETY OFFICE OF THE STATE PROJECT ENGINEER SAMAGRA SHIKSHA NO.SPE/SAMAGRA/2019-20/

NAGALAND: KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 3rd Feb’ 2020

NOTICE INVITING TENDER The State Project Engineer, Samagra Shiksha, Kohima, Nagaland on behalf of the Nagaland Education Mission Society invite bids on Percentage rate basis for the under mentioned works in Nagaland from the Registered Contractors of Nagaland PWD Class-I/CPWD/MES. Earnest Money Estimated Sl. Time of (Rupees in lakhs) Name of work Cost (Rupees No. in Lakhs) Local1% Non-local2% completion Construction of G.H.S Singrep, Kiphire District, 1 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Mopungchuket, Mokokchung 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months 2 District, Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Jotsoma Lower, Kohima 3 111.234 1.12 2.24 24 months District, Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Chakhabama, Kohima 4 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months District, Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Phuhgi, Phek District, 5 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Thipuzu, Phek District, 6 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Nyengching, Longleng 7 111.234 1.12 2.24 24 months District, Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Aree Old, Wokha District, 8 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Akuk, Wokha District, 9 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Yonghong, Mon District, 10 111.234 1.12 2.24 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Pushu, Tuensang District, 11 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Mhaikam, Peren District, 12 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Mhanamtsi, Peren District, 13 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Jalukie B, Peren District, 14 111.234 1.12 2.24 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Azailong, Peren District, 15 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Chumukedima, Dimapur 16 111.234 1.12 2.24 24 months District, Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Diphupar B, Dimapur District, 17 111.234 1.12 2.24 24 months Nagaland.

Construction of G.H.S Zuheshe, Dimapur District, 18 87.045 0.87 1.74 24 months Nagaland.

Terms & Conditions: 1. Sealed tenders in 2 (two) envelopes containing Technical Bid in first envelope and Financial Bid in second envelope will be received upto 17th Feb’ 2020 till 1:00 pm along with the Earnest money affixing Court Fee Stamp of Rs. 7.50 (Rupees seven and fifty paise) only and will be opened on the same day at 2:00 P.M. in the Office of the State Project Engineer, Samagra Shiksha, Kohima, Nagaland in the presence of the tenderers or their authorized representatives.

2. Contractors are advised to purchase the tender documents from the Office of the State Project Engineer, Samagra Shiksha, Kohima, Nagaland from 7th Feb’ 2020 upto 17th Feb’ 2020 on payment of Rs. 5,000/(Rupees Five thousand) only (non-refundable) in cash for the above mentioned works during office working hours.

3. The Earnest money shall be in the form of Deposit at Call/Fixed Deposit receipt from any Scheduled Bank of India in favour of the State Project Engineer, Samagra Shiksha, Kohima, Nagaland.

4. The bid for the work shall remain open for acceptance for a period of 60(Sixty) days from the date of opening of bids.

5. The criteria for issue of tender documents in respect of eligible registered contractors (NPWD class I/CPWD/ MES) will be given provided they have completed one similar nature of work individually during the last 7(seven) years costing not less than 50% of the tender amount.

6. Other terms & Conditions and Additional clauses can be seen in the standard bidding document.

7. Only GST compliant contractors/firms may apply.

Sd/State Project Engineer Samagra Shiksha Nagaland : Kohima.

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the nations are also engaged in the process of socio-economic transformation of the people at an unprecedented pace and on a large scale,” he said Sharma said the exercise will go a long way in honing the skills of both the contingents based on sharing of specialised knowledge and tactical expertise.

On the inaugural day of the joint exercise, Azam and Sharma reviewed the parade of both the contingents.

The Longjakrep Semchir Ungma has the privilege to express our heartiest congratulations to Dr. S.C. JAMIR, Former Chief Minister and Governor on being conferred the Country's third Highest Prestigious "PADMA BHUSHAN Award" on the occasion of 71st Indian Republic day for his distinguished service of a high order for the Nation.

May the Almighty God grant long and healthy life so as to serve the people with your able wisdom and right guidance.

T. Onen Jamir Imtidongba Jamir Tatar Ungma Tatar ungma.

OFFICE OF THE

SHENA OLD TUGHALOMI KUQHAKULU Hq. Kohima : Nagaland

FELICITATION

The Shena Old Tughalomi Kuqhakulu (SOTK) would like to express our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Hutoshe Achumi (kits) S/o Mr. H. Lovikhu Achumi of Shena Old Village on being elected as the president of All Sumi Student’s Union (ASSU).

The SOTK takes immense pride in his achievement and prays to our Almighty God to guide him further for his future endeavours.

L. Shetovi Kits General Secretary, SOTK

Er. V. Ghoshito Achumi Chairman, SOTK

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procedure (SOP) received from the central government, a special screening, testing and checking counter with the help of the Assam government has been functioning at the Guwahati airport since last week.

A special ambulance is also kept ready at the Guwahati airport and an isolated unit has also created in a Guwahati hospital for the suspected patient. Similar such screening and testing counters were set up in the other major airports including Agartala’s Maharaja Bir Bikram airport, Lengpui airport in Mizoram and Imphal airport in Manipur.

Jindal said that the Coronavirus screening teams at the Guwahati airport has been equipped with various instruments including infrared thermometer to check body temperature and other symptoms.

“No case of the Coronavirus suspect has been detected in the northeast India. No reason to be panicky. None should not be hide any kind of symptom.

Airlines have been asked to to give announcement before landing so that the doubtful or suspected passengers could be able to screen and test them,” the AAI Regional Executive Director said.

India, Bangladesh joint military exercise kicks off in Meghalaya

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Guwahati/Aizawl, Feb 3 (IANS): In view of the Novel Coronavirus threat in China, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) with the help of the concerned state governments has set up screening and testing counters in most of the airports of northeast India, a top AAI official said on Monday.

Officials in Mizoram capital Aizawl said that two people, who had returned to the state from China early January, have been kept under house quarantine in view of the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus in the neighbouring country.

An official of Mizoram Health Department said that though both the person did not show any sign of being infected with the virus and both of them tested negative for the deadly virus, they were put under house quarantine as a precautionary measure.

AAI Regional Executive Director (NER) Sanjeev Jindal said that the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi international airport in Guwahati is the only airport in the northeast region from where the international flight operations took place with Singapore and Bhutan.

He told IANS that following the standard operating

PM to address rally in Assam on February 7

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The office of the Phenshunyu Lovwju Student's Union (PLSU) would like to thank and acknowledge every individual and Unions for the contribution of budgets and items in sufficient detail for the recently held RSU 40th General Conference held at Whenha Sports Complex Phenshünyu on 22 to 24/1/2020 .

1. Awa Lorin 2. Anilo Khing 3. Abit Mah 4. Chenoyhun Kesen 5. Er G. Keppen 6. Er J.G Lorin 7. John Kent 8. John Wanth 9. Er Kenyübu keppen 10. Kvülo Lorin 11. Kenilo Apon 12. Ar Logvuseng Semp 13. Er Levi Rengma 14. Ndayhun Kent 15. R. Khing 16. Dr Shanilo Khing 17. Samuel Thong 18. Samuel Thyü 19. Thapimo Semy 20. Tenyenyhunlo M Semy 21. Zakia Keppen 22. Zenlonyü Kent 23. Phenshünyu Lowjvü Teaching Staff 24. Phenshünyu Village Councils 25. Phentejon Village Councils 26. Khenyu Village Councils 27. Rumesinyu Village Councils 28. Phenshünyu Lowjvü Nezen Dimapur 29. Phenshünyu Lowjvü Nezen Kohima 30. Phenshünyu Lowjvü Nezen Tseminyu Though all could not be mentioned, we appreciate all your efforts and time.

Thank you for your faith and trust on us.

The conference was indeed a grand success.

Peter Lorin Albert Himb President PLSU General Sec. PLSU.

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Anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh, BJP’s Hegde remarks on Gandhi sparks row Jamia, Seelampur not coincidental: PM the British to recognise their freedom struggle and requested that they be imprisoned. “They said it’s enough if you(British) properly take care of us, nothing more than that.” The Congress demanded that the prime minister must come to Par-

liament and clarify his position on Hegde’s “objectionable” remarks, with its senior spokesperson Anand Sharma saying it was time for Modi to show whether his loyalty was with Gandhi or his assassin Nathuram Godse.

party took strong objections to Hegde’s remarks targeting Mahatma Gandhi.

In a video of the Bengaluru event which has gone viral, Hegde was heard saying “There were two types of freedom fighters, one which believed in ‘Shastra’ (arms) and another in shaastra’ (intellectual motivators)”.

There was also another category “who used to ask the British how to carry out” the freedom struggle and say, “We will agree to whatever you (British) say...simply adjustment and understanding, like 20-20 (cricket match),” the MP said in a rambling speech and possibly referring to a T20 cricket match in the context of some instances of match fixing.

In Hegde’s view, this third category of freedom fighters had pleaded with

The ruling party BJP has asked its MP Anantkumar Hedge to put out an unconditional apology after his outrageous comments.

The entire freedom movement was “staged with the consent and support of the British”, said Mr. Hegde, according to news agency ANI. BJP’s top leadership is unhappy with Mr. Hegde’s statements on Gandhi and has berated the serial offender saying his comments are unacceptable.

None of these so-called leaders were beaten up by the cops even once. Their independence movement was one big drama. It was staged by these leaders with the approval of the British.

It was not a genuine fight. It was an adjustment freedom struggle,” the MP is quoted as saying.

The BJP leader also labeled as “drama” Mahatma Gandhi’s hunger strikes and

satyagraha.

“People supporting Congress keep saying that India got independence because of the fast unto death and satyagraha. This is not true. The British did not leave the country because of satyagraha. Britishers gave independence out of frustration. My blood boils when I read history. Such people become Mahatma in our country,” Mr. Hegde said.

A minister in the previous government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he was dropped when the BJP was re-elected to power last year. The six-time BJP MP from Uttara Kannada is a repeat offender.

“Hegde is correct in saying Bapu’s Freedom Fight was a drama. It was so intense that it opened the eyes of the British to their immoral colonization and enslavement of India,” Tushar Gandhi wrote on Twitter.

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Swarms of locusts spotted in Punjab; threat neutralised

B E N G A LU RU / N E W DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): Stoking a huge controversy, BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde has termed the freedom struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi as an “adjustment” with the British, remarks condemned on Monday by the Congress and prompting the saffron party to ask him to tender a public apology.

The Congress also demanded that a sedition case be slapped against the former union minister and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise for the remarks. Freedom fighters who did not sacrifice anything made the country believe that it attained independence through ‘Upavas Satyagrah’, Gandhi’s preferred mode of agitation by undertaking fast, said the 51-year-old Uttara Kannada MP, as he mocked Mahatma Gandhi at an event in Bengaluru on Saturday.

“Such people became ‘Mahapurush (great person)”, said Hegde, who is no stranger to controversies.

“Those who sacrificed their lives and worked towards big reforms in the country were dumped in the dark corners of history, but those who fought in adjustment with the British became freedom fighters with

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had called himself an “anarchist” and there is not much of a “difference between an anarchist and a terrorist”.

His remarks come a few days after the Election Commission issued a show cause notice to BJP MP Parvesh Verma for allegedly calling Kejriwal a “terrorist”.

Addressing a press conference here, Javadekar raked up the issue of Kejriwal “staying a night at the Moga residence of Khalistan Commando Force chief Gurinder Singh during the Punjab Assembly polls”.

“You knew it was a militant’s house. Still, you stayed there. How much more evidence do you need?” he said.

“Kejriwal is now asking with a sad face, ‘am I a terrorist?’ You are a terrorist and there is a lot of evidence to prove that. You yourself had said you are an anarchist. There is not much of a difference between an an-

BJP asks Hedge to apologise for Gandhi remarks

Anant Kumar Hegde (File)

certificate.....

“This is the tragedy of the country,” the 51-year-old six-time Lok Sabha MP from Uttara Kannada said at the event in memory of BJP’s Hindutva icon VD Savarkar.

Karnataka state BJP spokesperson Go Madhusudan said his party disapproves of the statement and that its central leadership has asked Hegde to tender a public apology. The statement has been disowned by the party, he added.

BJP sources in Delhi said the central leadership including Modi is upset at Hegde’s remarks, calling it unacceptable, even as it sought an explanation from the former union minister and issued a show cause notice to him.

The party’s Karnataka state president Nalin Kumar Kateel told PTI that the

Prakash Javadekar and Arvind Kejriwal. (File)

archist and a terrorist,” the senior BJP leader said.

Flanked by Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari and Union minister Anurag Thakur, Javadekar said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was supporting Shaheen Bagh, where slogans of “Assam ko azadi”, “Jinnah wali azadi” were being raised.

“Supporting such slogans is also terrorism”.

He alleged that Kejriwal stood with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where “anti-India slogans were raised, and did not grant sanction to prosecute (those who raised the slogans)”.

“On January 26, you

threatened that you would stop their prosecution. How much more proof do you need? The people of Delhi now know that you are the chief of liars, you are an anarchist and sympathise with terrorists.

“You are supporting Shaheen Bagh, JNU, the slogans being raised there and all such anarchists... then you are definitely a terrorist. This is your identity, no matter how innocent face you make,” he said.

On Thursday, the Election Commission had issued a show cause notice to Verma, the BJP MP from West Delhi, for allegedly calling Kejriwal a “terrorist”.

Allahabad, Feb 3 (PTI): The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted bail to former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand, accused of sexually abusing a law student. Justice Rahul Chaturvedi issued the bail order on the plea filed by the BJP leader. On November 16, the court had reserved its order after hearing the counsels from both sides.

Chinmayanand, whose trust runs the Shahjahanpur law college where the woman studied, was arrested on September 20 under section 376-C of the IPC, a charge short of rape.

It is applied when someone in authority takes advantage of his official position to “induce or seduce” a woman to have sex with him. In a parallel case, the woman was charged with trying to extort money from Chinmayanand, whom she had accused of rape. The high court granted her bail on December 4. A special investigation team of UP Police, formed on the directions of the apex court, arrested Chinmayanand about a month later.

NIA to quiz ex J-K MLA for links with Hizbul commander SRINAGAR, FEB 3 (PTI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will question former JK MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid for his links with self-styled Hizbul Mujahideen commander Naveed ‘Babu’, arrested along with suspended Jammu and Kashmir Police DSP Davinder Singh, officials said here on Monday.

R a s h i d , p o p u l a r ly known as ‘Rashid Engineer’ and leader of the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), contested as an Independent candidate in the 2014 Assembly constituency from Langate in North Kashmir.

He is at present in judicial custody at the Tihar Jail after he was arrested by the NIA on August 9 in connection with a case related to finding of terror activities in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The officials said the agency would soon approach court for seeking a production warrant for summoning Rashid and question him about his association with Naveed alias ‘Babu’, whose full name is Syed Naveed Mushtaq Ahmad.

He is at present under the custody of the NIA till February 6.

Sheikh Abdul Rashid (File)

Naveed was arrested along with suspended Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Davinder Singh on January 11. The police officer was allegedly ferrying Naveed along with two others out of the Kashmir Valley.

As reported by PTI last week, Naveed had claimed during interrogation that he had been in constant touch with the legislator for establishing a firm base for the terror group in North Kashmir and was looking for possible hideouts in that area, the officials alleged.

This is definitely a serious offence and needs to be probed thoroughly, they said, while justifying the need for questioning

Rashid.

Along with Sing h and Naveed, Rafi Ahmed Rather and Irfan Shafi Mir, who claims to be an advocate, were also arrested on the day from the SrinagarJammu National Highway at Qazigund.

On January 23, Naveed’s brother, Syed Irfan Ahmed, was also arrested after he was brought from Punjab. He was in constant touch with his brother and had asked him to look for an accommodation in Chandigarh, where they could escape the harsh winter months of Kashmir.

Last year also, Singh had ferried Naveed to Jammu and facilitated his return to Shopian after “rest and recuperation”.

Rashid was first a mainstream politician who was arrested by the NIA last year in connection with a case related to the funding of terror activities in Kashmir.

His name had cropped up during the interrogation of businessman Zahoor Watali arrested by the NIA for allegedly supplying money to terror groups and separatists in the valley.

The NIA had registered the case against separatist

and secessionist leaders, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribed terrorist organisations Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtarane-Millat, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other outfits and gangs in 2016.

The case was registered for raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including hawala, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in the erstwhile state and for causing disruption in the valley by pelting stones on the security forces, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India, the probe agency said in the FIR. Hafiz Saeed, chief of the banned Jamaat-udDawa (JuD), the front of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit, has been named in the FIR as an accused.

The FIR also names organisations such as the two factions of the Hurriyat, one led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and the other

by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Hizbul Mujahideen and the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an all-women outfit of separatists.

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): The anti-CAA protests in Seelampur, Jamia Nagar and Shaheen Bagh are not a coincidence but part of a political design to harm national harmony, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday while accusing the AAP and the Congress of fuelling the demonstrations.

Addressing a rally in east Delhi ahead of the February 8 Delhi assembly elections, the prime minister referred to his government’s initiatives for the city and for the country, made promises and also put the spotlight on the protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Alleging that the protests across the city are not “coincidental” but “experimental”, he said Delhi’s ruling AAP and the Congress were provoking people and misinforming them and asked voters to back the BJP because Delhi could not be left to anarchy.

The two parties were keeping the Constitution and tricolour in the forefront, but the aim was to “divert attention from the real conspiracy”, Modi said in his 55-minute speech in Karkardooma.

Narendra Modi (PTI)

Referring to the protests in Shaheen Bagh, on the Delhi-Noida border, he said people commuting to and from the satellite city are facing a lot of problems.

The Shaheen Bagh protests have taken centrestage in the BJP poll campaign with the top party leadership raking it up in every rally.

The BJP has also accused the AAP of supporting the protests at Shaheen Bagh.

The people of Delhi are quiet and they are angry watching this vote bank politics, he said.

“If the strength of those plotting a conspiracy increases, then another road or lane will be blocked. We can’t leave Delhi to such anarchy. Only people of Delhi can stop this. Every

vote given to the BJP can do this,” he said.

“Be it Seelampur, Jamia (Nagar) or Shaheen Bagh, for the last several days, there have been protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Are these protests coincidental?

No, this is not coincidental, it is an experiment,” he added. Behind the protests, Modi said, is a political design aimed at harming national harmony.

“In the India of 21st century, politics of hate will not work. Only politics of development will,” he said.

Modi said the Supreme Court and the High Court have expressed their dissatisfaction over the violence during protests and the destruction of property.

“But these people don’t care about courts. They don’t accept what the court says and talk about the Constitution,” he said. In December, several parts of the national capital witnessed widespread protests against the amended citizenship act. Modi also took a swipe at the Congress saying those who questioned the Batla House encounter are now saving those who raised ‘tukde tukde’ slogans.

CHANDIGARH, FEB 3 (PTI): Swarms of locusts were spotted in two border villages of Punjab’s Fazilka district, prompting the state Agriculture Department to sound a high alert.

Emanating from Pakistan, the swarms of peststhree to four-km-long and one-km-wide, settled at the trees in these border villages on Sunday evening, officials said on Monday.

However, timely action against the attack ensured their elimination, the officials said, adding that no damage was caused to crops.

“Swarms of locusts were spotted at Wareka and Roopnagar villages of Khuian Sarwar block of Fazilka on Sunday,” said Punjab Agriculture Department Director Sawtantar Kumar Airi said, adding that locusts came from the Pakistan side.

As soon as swarms of locusts were spotted near the villages, a team including members from the Agriculture Department and fire brigade was pressed into service to eliminate pests, Joint Director Gurwinder Singh said.

“About 400-500 tonnes

which will ultimately hit commodity prices and food security.

Locusts, popularly known as ‘tiddi dal’, were earlier spotted in some villages of Fazilka, Muktsar and Bathinda districts.

Locusts are shor thorned grasshoppers with highly migratory habits and voracious feeding behaviour.

Their appearance in winter months is a new phenomenon.

India has not witnessed any full-blown locust cycles Locusts killed with pesticide spray. after 1962. However, during of insecticides were used to especially in Punjab, Harya- 1978 and 1993, large-scale eliminate locusts,” Singh na, Rajasthan and Gujarat, upsurges were observed. said, adding that boomer and tractor-mounted high velocity sprayers besides fire brigade vehicles were used to control the pests.

The operation started Sunday night and was completed Monday morning, officials said.

A few days ago, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to raise the issue with Pakistan.

The CM had warned that any failure to control the pests could lead to serious implications for agriculture production in India,

CAA, NRC made life difficult for Muslims: Mayawati

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) had made life more difficult for Muslims, as she appealed to the voters of Delhi not to get lured by the “enticing manifestos” of the Congress, BJP and AAP. Addressing a rally here, Mayawati said if her party won the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, it would bring development on the lines of the BSP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, driven by the principle of “sarvajan hitaye, sarvajan sukhaye”.

After the CAA and NRC issues, “lives of Muslims have become more difficult”, she said. “Also, beware of all the tricks of the trade that rival parties will use to lure you to vote for them,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.

Addressing a packed Talkatora stadium, she said “not much development and uplifting of lives” had happened for Dalits, tribals, people belonging to other backward classes, Muslims and other minorities in Delhi.

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rom a common perspective, the union budget 2020 presented by union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seems to trying to take the focus away from challenges to fiscal consolidation from slower growth remain. She said the government has decided to get Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) listed on the markets that is in line with the government’s aim to look at stake sale in government entities to shore up its finances and allow these PSUs to raise resources. The govt has pegged disinvestment for FY21 at Rs 2.11 lakh crore to generate revenue but the response from the market Sensex was to close nearly 2.43% or 988 points down, the highest for a single day loss in decades. Sitharaman spoke for two hours and 40 minutes on Saturday to present this year’s Budget to the Lok Sabha which seems transplanted from a world where India’s economy is booming. The symbolism of the economy was also marked by a speech that was so long that the finance minister was unable to finish it because she felt unwell by the end. The budget speech did not particularly acknowledge how dire India’s economic situation is and which should be a cause for worry. Over the last year, the BJP-led government has indeed refused to admit how dire the economic situation is- with the lowest Gross Domestic Product growth in the decade, multi-decade lows for employment and consumption, and a giant hole in tax collections. The massive gap in tax collections and the many woes of the Goods and Services Tax is another example. The Budget documents themselves anticipate a tax shortfall of about Rs 1.5 lakh crore, while analysts think the actual gap will be larger at more than Rs 2 lakh crore. Last year, Sitharaman had announced a series of rollbacks aimed at turning the economy around. She did not mention about the lowest GDP growth and huge gap in government finances due to low tax collections; instead Sitharaman talked about proliferation of technologies and India having the world’s highest number of persons in the productive ages of 15-16 years. She summarised both as a combination that was special to contemporary India. Even if the budget failed to acknowledge that the country recorded its worst employment in more than four decades due to slowdown and not doing so was like a mockery. Incidentally, the 15th Finance Commission, which tabled an interim report that same day the budget was presented, put forward a long paragraph on all the problems faced by the GST, which have contributed to this drop in tax collections. One of the most closely observed portions of the Budget speech is the section on the fiscal deficit – the gap between what the government spends and how much it expects to earn, which Sitharaman didn’t even include in the previous year’s speech. This year she mentioned it but also opened up an escape clause that allows the government to go beyond the legal mandate to attempt a balancing of the budget, called the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act. The budget documents include off-budget borrowings, that the government auditor has in the past flagged as a way for the ministry to hide” the true fiscal deficit. These are pegged at 0.8% of the GDP, meaning the actual fiscal deficit for this year is 4.6%. More than the fiscal deficit or the tax collection shortfall, it is the gap between that image and what the real world looks like that should worry citizens of the country.

DailyDevotion Becoming the “Filth of the World”

We have been made as the filth of the world…

—1 Corinthians 4:13

These words are not an exaggeration. The only reason they may not be true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot or misunderstood the exact truth of them, but that we are too cautious and concerned about our own desires to allow ourselves to become the refuse or “filth of the world.”

“Fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ…” (Colossians 1:24) is not the result of the holiness of sanctification, but the evidence of consecration— being “separated to the gospel of God…” (Romans 1:1).

“Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you…” (1 Peter 4:12). If we do think the things we encounter are strange, it is because we are fearful and cowardly. We pay such close attention to our own interests and desires that we stay out of the mire and say, “I won’t submit; I won’t bow or bend.” And you don’t have to— you can be saved by the “skin of your teeth” if you like. You can refuse to let God count you as one who is “separated to the gospel….”

Or you can say, “I don’t care if I am treated like ‘the filth of the world’ as long as the gospel is proclaimed.”

A true servant of Jesus Christ is one who is willing to experience martyrdom for the reality of the gospel of God. When a moral person is confronted with contempt, immorality, disloyalty, or dishonesty, he is so repulsed by the offense that he turns away and in despair closes his heart to the offender. But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but “to reveal His Son in me…” (Galatians 1:16).

Quotes

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ~ Bill Gates

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he moon influences life with its light.

Moonlight, its presence and absence, affects reproduction, foraging, communication and other aspects of an animal’s world. Nocturnal animals can hunt or forage more easily under the light of the moon – although venturing out on moonlit nights also comes with the risk of being hunted yourself. From prey behaviour to birdsong – lunar light affects everything.

Lions of the Serengeti in Tanzania are night predators, and are most successful in getting their prey during the darkest phases of the moon. But how do their prey react to the moon’s phases ? Scientists from Princeton University put camera traps, which spied on the lion’s favourite prey species, to see how they reacted to the moon’s phases. African buffaloes, lion prey, form herds as the moon wanes for safety in numbers.

Wildebeests appear to set their plans for the entire night based on the moon’s phase. During the darkest parts of the month, they stay in a safe place where the lions are unlikely to go.

As nights get brighter, wildebeests are more willing to venture into dangerous places where run-ins with lions could happen. The routines of zebras and Thomson’s gazelles also change with the lunar cycle. These scenarios in the Serengeti demonstrate the wide-reaching effects of moonlight, a clear example of how the presence

or absence of the moon can have fundamental, ecosystem-level impacts.

For nocturnal African dung beetles, moonlight is a compass. How well the insects navigate depends on the phases of the moon.

Once the beetle has located a fresh heap of dung, its main objective is to roll a ball of it away as quickly as possible, to the safety of a burrow, to avoid competition from other beetles and potential predators.

The quickest route away from the dung to safety is a straight line; under moonlight, the beetles make a direct getaway from the dung heap. But in the absence of moonlight the beetles roll their dung balls in confusion, often landing back into the feeding frenzy.

Marine ecologists have found that in the open ocean, moonlight helps baby fish grow. An otolith is an inner calcium carbonate ear structure in fish, from whose rings one can gauge the fish’s age. By measuring otoliths from 300 triplefins, who swim in New Zealand’s reefs, and comparing them to a calendar, the scientists found that fish grow faster on moonlit nights than on dark ones. And, if the moon is obscured by clouds, the night counts as a dark one. Could it be because the baby fish can find their food, plankton, easier by the moon’s light ?

When the moon is bright, predators, such as lantern fish, shy away from hunting baby fish in order to avoid bigger fish that hunt them by light. So these

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Moon influences life with its light babies may be able to focus on foraging.

But when young fish are ready to return to the coral reef, they do so when the moon is in its dark phase, so that they have a better chance of going undetected by the predators hiding in the corals.

In fact, scientists have discovered that these fish stay at sea several days longer than normal to avoid a homecoming during the full moon.

Doodlebugs — the larvae of dragonfly-like insects called antlions —run around sandy environments in search of places to catch prey. They dig funnel-shaped holes in the sand in which they sit and wait for prey to fall in. Doodlebugs dig bigger holes around the full moon. This could be because of the increased activity of prey when the moon brightens the night sky, creating a greater chance of catching dinner.

Scorpions have an especially unique reaction to full moon phases. The UV rays of moonlight react with a protein in scorpions that makes them glow in the dark. They hide during the full moon and hunt during the new moon’s

dark period. Many nocturnal creatures become less active during a full moon period. Rattlesnakes rarely leave their burrows when the moon is full, to protect themselves from predators.

Moonlight also impacts mating behaviour Badgers urinate to mark territory when they are getting ready to mate.

They do this when the moon is new, probably because the darkness allows their prolonged mating more security from predators. During the full moon period, badger urination is much less.

Certain owl species become more active during the full moon, both in their mating calls and in showing off their feathers to potential mates – probably since owl feathers are more visible in the light of a brighter moon. On the other hand call frequencies of nocturnal seabirds are very low in moonlight and quickly increase when the moon is hidden by clouds.

And, small Northern Sawwhet owls are less active during moonlit nights, in order to avoid ending up as the prey of larger owls.

The light of the moon also influences animals that are active in day-

time. Sparrow sized whitebrowed sparrow weavers, in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, live in family groups and sing together to defend territory. But during the breeding season, males also perform dawn solos and, when a full moon is visible, they get up even earlier and sing much longer. This reduces as the moon wanes.

For many animals, par ticularly birds, the moon is essential to migration and navigation.

A study, from Lund University in Sweden, shows that the presence, or absence, of moonlight has a considerable bearing on when migratory birds take flight in the autumn.

Scientists, at Lund University, studied European nightjars and how the lunar cycle, and moonlight, affects the departure time when the birds start their three-month-long migration flight to areas south of the Sahara. They found that the birds are more than twice as active in their hunt for insects during moonlit nights, compared with when it is dark. The study also shows that the birds begin their autumn migration southwards ten days after the full moon - no matter where they are.

A Japanese study, involving Streaked Shearwaters, determined that this marine bird flies for longer periods, and lands on water more often, during nights with a full moon. However, researchers reported that sharks also take advantage of

the increased light, so the shearwaters don’t remain on the water for long, in order to avoid winding up as shark prey.

Researchers find that lunar cycles affect bird hormone levels. The daily variations in melatonin and corticosterone disappear during full moons.

During a full moon the Whip-poor-will, a nocturnal insectivore, increases its activity levels, vocalizations and nest visiting behaviour. Albatrosses are more active during a full moon. A study, involving Leach’s Storm petrels, suggests that these birds assess predation risk. On nights with a full moon the petrels remain on their nests, to avoid nest predation from gulls that are also more active during a full moon. The Swallowtailed Gull, a nocturnal seabird of the Galapagos islands, is most active during the new moon phase, when its prey is closest to the water surface.

According to a study, by the Colorado State University Veterinary Medical Center, dogs and cats are more likely to need medical attention during the days surrounding a full moon.

Cats are 23 percent more likely to visit an emergency room during these days, and dog visits increase by 28 percent. Pets may spend more time outdoors when the night sky is brighter, increasing the chance of accidents and injuries. To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in, www.peopleforanimalsindia.org

Post-mortem

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Forgive and forget

day to forgive and to be forgiven is a desideratum because this world run by erring humans is a mess with unresolved conflicts and people tend to make an effort on special days. Celebrating global forgiveness day will not end conflicts or wipe out the grudges in a jiffy but rather help people advance the message of forgiveness to restore relationships and heal one another.

As I write this piece, “Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they are doing” flash before my eyes and in my mind, one of a kind impossible in the human realm.

Sonia Gandhi, addressed as Antonio Maino by ‘Andh- Bhakts’ and accused as a disloyal unpatriotic ‘foreigner’ displayed her strength and left a whole lot annoyed by forgiving those who blew apart Rajiv Gandhi into pieces. The mental agony Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka go through over the tragic loss of Rajiv Gandhi couldn’t make them vengeful but stronger in a state of grace. As a result they pardoned the killers ignoring vile remarks that spewed from all sides.

Another act of forgiving that made the world stop and gasp was how Gladys Staines did it. “How could she?” was my immediate response.

As a parent it’s impossible for me to ignore someone hurting my children, be it through a subtle comment or a look or deed. Setting a man and his sons on fire for the service he did unto mankind is a crime of the utmost savagery and it triggered storms of condemnation across the world while the government dilly dallied as always with unwarranted blames, comments and remarks. The killer’s proximity to a big enchilada of a political outfit ensured he remainedscot-free or earned him a secure hideout for almost a year.

That there wasn’t any appropriate reaction from India to Mrs. Staines’ noble act is still a shame to our country to which no more global obloquy could reasonable attach. Even today I’m unable to come to terms with this nobility of her’s that I come up with my own reasons as to why it was good on her part to forgive and move on and away from this country. Don’t we all know how bad our criminal justice system ails?

Even as we hail heroes of forgiveness, we ought to remember no two individuals are alike and blessed with the same emotional and spiritual ability. Insinuating a person to forgive a wrong doer is unethical. Not forgiving someone doesn’t rob a person of his/ her moral virtue. So, who is to judge and what is the guideline? We are but mere mortals with broken yardsticks, a vision not beyond touch screen and TV screens and may be thoughts of the upcoming TV debates or elec-

tions. When the unexpected happens to others for good, bad or worst, for many of us it’s easy to take refuge in the moral plane and advocate virtues written in the holy texts. For a moment, forget super souls who forgive killers. Questions of perceptions on forgiveness are open: to who and by who, necessary or unnecessary, for the larger good or bad, whether this great act builds or ruins a society, pragmatic or ideal, when and why… the list of this or that, not to mention the grey shades is endless. There can be a million debates on forgiveness but often only one decision and one course, resting solely on the conscience of the one forgiving unconditionally.

I hope with every other crime with a Mensrea, questions on the ethics of forgiveness keep getting sharper.

If every criminal is forgiven and crimes forgotten, why will we need laws of the land and institutions that enforce them? A felon, one of the most brutal among all the ‘Nirbhaya’ accused who had the brazenness to insert an iron rod into the victim’s vagina and pull out her internal organs, was rehabilitated and released with Rs. 10,000 and a sewing kit, only because he was a few months away from becoming an adult. Who should be forgiven, the rapist or the government! The then juvenile rapist has turned over a new leaf, but what good does it do the dead and her griefstricken family?

We are an emotional dramatic lot with a poor public memory. We speak and think differently at different times of the year. And peacemakers who have mushroomed overnight, if you had urged Mrs.Asha Devi to forgive criminals who raped, assaulted and killed her daughter because you assume ‘Time Heals’, I urge you to know it’s just another saying. In reality, time does nothing but grows a scar. Instead, swift and sure justice offers some hope as a great deterrent.

Forgiving is not letting criminals go free or help them escape their criminal past. This is never the right time to suggest the victim’s mother that she forgives the rapists and even if she does, advocating the abolition of punishment is unworthy.

Personal perceptions can pass off as public opinion. At the same time public opinion can’t be trusted or considered a criterion to ensure that forgiveness becomes a virtue of one and all. Forgiveness is a conscious decision which happens in its time, if need be and no human is holy enough to suggest a person to take a clue or cue and forgive. Forgiveness, rehabilitation and reparation to create a utopia may sound good, but at what cost?

Dr. Elsa Lycias Joel

Rejoinder to ‘Uneasy Calm within the NPF’

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hile it has never been the policy of the NPF to issue press rejoinders to each and every public article or commentary where the party is unfavorably mentioned, nevertheless, considering that the writer of this particular article Mr. Sebastian Zumvu, is an erstwhile functionary of the party, we are constrained to issue this rejoinder in order that the public may judge for themselves, his claim of “Uneasy Calm within the NPF.” It must be said that a public commentary on the state of affairs within the NPF by an influential and experienced functionary within the Ruling Party set-up is a vindication of the fact that NPF is a strong opposition party, meriting close monitoring by the Ruling Coalition.

In fact, the writer is so adept in political maneuvering that he has managed to stay close with whoever is in power, irrespective of the political party. He cut his political eye-teeth during the ChiefMinistership of S.C Jamir, when Congress (I) was in power in Nagaland. Thereafter, he followed his master to Goa as OSD during the latter’s tenure as Governor of Goa. When his service was not required by S.C Jamir, he inveigled his way into the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) in Nagaland when NPF was in power with Neiphiu Rio as Chief Minister and Mr. Sebastian designated himself as ‘Political Attache” to CMO. His mission was short lived and when Rio went to Delhi as an MP Lok Sabha, Mr. Sebastian knocked the

door of TR Zeliang, when the later took over as the Chief Minister and became his Press Secretary. Surprisingly, when TR Zeliang stepped down as Chief Minister and Dr. Shürhozelie was sworn in as Chief Minister, the NPF party was gracious enough to let Sebastian prove his integrity by continuing. However, he proved the party wrong and jumped the political boat by joining the NDPP after the 2018 General Elections to further continue his affair with the Ruling Party. Had the NPF been in power, we would no doubt be discussing his erudite commentary on the state of affairs within the NDPP and BJP Parties in Nagaland.

The Article correctly implies that there is no dearth of Capable Leaders within the NPF Party. Given that this Party has always attracted Nagas from all walks of life because of its Political Ideology, we do not refute the claim that it is a “Galho” of political personalities. Like any palatable Galho, The NPF party has availed of the opportunity offered by this ordained period in the opposition bench to select, sort and measure out the ingredients to be included in the preparation of NPF Galho before it is served to the Naga People. The ingredients thus decided upon have further been re-affirmed by the General Convention of November 22, 2019.

The prominence accorded to the issue of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the article is a dead giveaway that the writer is queasy about the position of his party, the NDPP on the issue and is

trying to shift the public focus on the opposition. The NPF has no secrets on the issue of CAA. Our position and actions in the aftermath of the Bill becoming Law has been debated and dissected in the public domain for any concerned citizen to peruse. Our Decision-makers has rightly decided that “Welcoming a Declaration” of a probability is not tantamount to “Support”. The Naga Public curiously awaits the response of the PDA Government given that the unrest created by the CAA in India shows no sign of abating.

The intimate manner in which the writer treats the subject of Leadership within the NPF, especially during the 2013-18 terms makes for an interesting read. It would be fair to assume that, given the political acumen and experience of the writer and that he was part of the NPF set-up during the said period, some of those intricate maneuvers and gambits must have been orchestrated by him and only his modest nature prevents him from disclosing them.

We can only wait expectantly to find out the internal politicking within the PDA Government from the writer when the present brittle coalition between the NDPP and the BJP finally collapses in the near future.

The party assumes that he has completed his fuming on the NPF. But incase if he has to continue with some more lines against the party, we don’t feel it necessary to counter as this response is suffice to what has been said.

Press Bureau, Naga People’s Front, Central Headquarter, Kohima

Reader’s Post Sir,

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With the outbreak of coronavirus, Nagaland should also take precautions, maintain a healthy hygiene and keep the citizens informed. Food handlers should be reminded not to prepare or handle food if they feel unwell and should also keep food preparation areas and premises clean and pest-free. Stallholders and cleaning contractors should step up their cleaning efforts and implement measures to maintain good public hygiene.

Wapangla Imchen, Kohima

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

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175 activists, women’s groups write to Modi Express horror over ‘hate speeches made by BJP leaders’

New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI): Around 175 activists and women’s groups on Monday sent an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing “horror” over the alleged hate speeches made by BJP leaders and accused them of using “fear of rape as a campaign message” during the ongoing Delhi poll rallies.

In the letter, the groups alleged that statements made by the BJP leaders urging their followers to inflict violence on women protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register had created an “atmosphere of violence”.

Prominent among the signatories include feminist economist Devaki Jain, activist Laila Tyabji, former Indian Ambassador Madhu Bhaduri, gender rights activist Kamla Bhasin, and groups like All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) and National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).

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by election campaigners of the BJP using fear of rape as a campaign message, urging their followers to inflict violence on peaceful women protesting against the CAANRC-NPR, is being made.

“What is this kind of communal hate and fearmongering that you, as a head of government, are encouraging, that seeks to make women of all communities feel more insecure and threatened? Vote for BJP or you will get raped! Is this your election message to Delhi’s women? Is this how low your party has sunk,” the letter asked.

Referring to BJP MP Parvesh Verma’s statement

where he had said, “Lakhs of people gather there (Shaheen Bagh). People of Delhi will have to think and take a decision. They’ll enter your houses, rape your sisters and daughters, kill them,” the letter asked the Prime Minister if the BJP is now “openly endangering the lives of India’s women and children?”

“This is what history will record and India will not forgive, Mr Prime Minister. For the nation saw the direct result of this violent atmosphere created by members of your party, which inspired ‘Ram Bhakt’ Gopal to open fire at innocent students in Jamia on January 30th, and another terrorist weaponised by the hate being spread by your party, fired at the women of Shaheen Bagh on February 1,” the letter stated.

Highlighting the statement made by Union minister Anurag Thakur, where he exhorted a crowd to “shoot the traitors” and comments made by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who said

“Boli se nahi toh goli se maanenge” (if they don’t understand through words, we will make them understand through bullets), the letter said the “traitors” here were peacefully protesting women. “When the esteemed Home Minister, Mr Amit Shah, asks people to push the EVM button on February 8 with such force “that protesters feel the current”, is he wishing to electrocute the women?” the groups asked the PM. “We speak to you as women of this country, and the women of Delhi – Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Adivasi and Dalit – who are horrified at the atmosphere of violence against women that members of your party have created merely to try and win an election,” the letter said.

The groups said they feared a government that directed its security forces to attack peacefully protesting students, elected members who openly threatened ordinary citizens and a police force that stood by and watched as people inspired

by “hate-filled rhetoric” indulged in acts of violence.

“Your government may disagree with the reasons for this nationwide uprising against the NPR-NRCCAA. But peaceful protest is our constitutional right.

That is all we are doing.

“Lakhs of Delhi’s women are not just part of this movement, they are leading it. Empowered women are on the frontlines.

We will not be silent when women are labelled terrorists and traitors, when all they are doing is fighting to protect and preserve the Constitution of our country,” the letter said.

Urging the Prime Minister to speak out against such targeted violence and hate speech, the letter sought immediate action, including under all relevant criminal provisions of the penal code, against “these violencemongering members of the BJP”. “You need to fight the Delhi election in a manner that upholds the dignity of our Constitution and ensures the security of India’s women,” it said.

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State-sponsored terrorism testing India’s patience: Rajnath Singh NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): State support to terrorism by a neighbouring country poses a serious challenge to India, but it has displayed capability to “disrupt and deter” terror networks and their patrons, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday.

Addressing a conference, Singh also announced creation of 10 new defence wings in as many Indian missions so that more Defence Attachés (DAs) could be appointed. “This will further strengthen India’s defence diplomacy,” he said at the conclave of India’s Defence Attaches (DAs) posted across the globe.

On threat of terrorism, Singh, in a clear reference to Pakistan, said continued presence of terrorist infrastructure and state support to terrorists in the country have tested India’s patience.

“As a responsible and powerful nation, India had displayed that it was able to disrupt and deter the activities of terrorist groups and their patrons,” the defence minister said.

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struck a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist training camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26, 2019 to avenge the killing of 40 paramilitary personnel in Kashmir. The strike reflected a doctrinal shift in India’s approach to deal with cross-border terrorism. “Terror and its related violence have posed serious challenge to the international security environment and the inter-play between state and non-state actors as proxies to spread violence have further increased the threat,” Singh said.

The defence minister also delved into security threats in the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Pacific region.

“We need to be more

focused to secure our interests. We have adopted proactive measures to promote peace and stability in the region as well as to increase defence and security cooperation with the Indian Ocean rim countries so as to create a stable maritime environment,” he said.

Singh also asked the DAs to work for attracting foreign direct investment in India’s defence manufacturing sector. “With the establishment of two industrial corridors in the states of Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, it is expected that this will increase defence manufacturing and exports.

“There is a lot of scope for DAs to work and attract FDI in these corridors,” he said, adding a large country like India cannot restrict its defence cooperation to a few countries. “The government has introduced a new scheme to promote defence exports through DAs to their respective countries. Under this scheme, funds have been allocated for export promotion to 34 countries,” the defence ministry said in a statement.

Ponzi scam: ED attaches Rs 70 cr assets of 3 entities Owaisi hints at ‘jail bharo’ over filing of cases on PM critics NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth over Rs 70 crore of three entities, including a company that owns actor Shah Rukh Khan’s IPL cricket team, in connection with its money laundering probe in the Rose Valley ponzi scam case, the agency said on Monday.

The three entities are Multiple Resorts Pvt Ltd, Kolkata’s St Xavier’s College and Knight Riders Sports Pvt Ltd. The agency said in a statement that “movable and immovable properties belonging to various entities and individuals who received funds from Rose Valley group and related entities having book value of Rs 70.11 crore have been provisionally attached under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)”.

The bank accounts of the three entities, that have been attached, have deposits totalling Rs 16.20 crore,

with Rs 11.87 crore funds in the account of Knight Riders Sports Pvt Ltd. The Knight Riders Sports Pvt Ltd owns the ‘Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)’ Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team and its directors include Shah Rukh Khan’s wife Gauri Khan, actor Juhi Chawla’s husband Jay Mehta, KKR CEO Venkatesh Mysore and two others.

Mysore was questioned in this case by ED’s Kolkata office in October last year. The agency has also attached 24 acres of

land at Ramnagar and Mahishdal in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, a flat at Dilkap Chambers in Mumbai, an acre of land at Jyoti Basu Nagar and a hotel of the Rose Valley group in Kolkata, it said.

The ED registered an FIR against the Rose Valley group, its chairman Gautam Kundu and others under the PMLA in 2014.

Kundu was arrested by the agency in Kolkata in 2015 and is in judicial custody at present.

The ED has filed multiple charge sheets in Kolkata and Bhubaneswar

courts in this connection and total attachments in this case are now worth Rs 4,750 crore.

The group has been charged by the ED and the CBI with “illegally and fraudulently collecting deposits from public with the intention to cheat them by falsely promising high returns on their investment”, thereby per petrating a ponzi-like fraud.

The probe found that the business group “collected more than Rs 17,520 crore from public throughout the country by luring depositors with false promises of high returns and interest on their deposits.

Out of the total, an amount of Rs 10,850 crore was refunded and remaining Rs 6,670 crore still unpaid that constitutes the proceeds of crime”, the ED said.

The company diverted and siphoned the amount through cheating and had no real business that could repay this amount, the agency charged.

Hyderabad, Feb 2 (PTI): AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday condemned the sedition charges against a school headmistress and a student’s mother in Karnataka for their alleged involvement in staging a drama on CAA and NRC, and hinted at a jail bharo programme over filing of cases against Prime Minister Narendra Modi critics.

“If somebody speaks against Modi, sedition cases are filed. I want to tell Narendra Modi that time will come wherein we will decide on when and what time to launch the jail bharo programme.

“All the jails in India can keep only three lakh people. If all of us come on roads, these prisons in India are inadequate to keep all of us. You (either) keep us in jails or shoot us with bullets,” Owaisi said while referring to the incident in Bidar in Karnataka.

He was speaking at a Women’s Protest Conference against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR) organised by the United Muslim Action Committee.

The Karnataka Police slapped a sedition case against the school on January 26, based on a complaint from social worker Neelesh Rakshyal.

The complainant alleged that the school’s authorities ‘used’ the students to perform a drama where they “abused” Modi in the context of the CAA and the NRC. He said the ongoing struggle against CAA, NRC and NPR is a long-drawn battle and people should be prepared for it.

“The forces which we are fighting against are full of RSS and Hindutva ideology since childhood,” the Hyderabad MP said adding

there is a need to “save” the country from “Hindutva ideology.”

Describing the men who brandished guns and fired on anti-CAA protesters in Delhi, recently, as “terrorists”, the MIM leader said people will give a befitting reply to Modi in a democratic way.

“I sincerely believe that the people of the country will give befitting reply to BJP and RSS in a demo-

cratic way. The sacrifices of the people will not be forgotten. The fight is to save the Constitution of our country. In this struggle even if we have to do some more sacrifices we are ready to do it,” he said.

He compared the present state of affairs in India with that of Germany during Hitler’s rule wherein fifty lakh Jews were allegedly massacred using gas chambers and other methods.

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BJP said in his speech at the LSU conference, Patton had only challenged Lotha student community to clear UPSC and NPSC exams on merit and for which, he even announced award for meritorious students.

It said the video in question was also clarified and corroborated by the LSU themselves.

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as member of NPSC and also against random marking in NPSC viva voce.

BJP said the open defiance against the chief minister and his cabinet was unheard of in parliamentary democracy, yet Patton stood his ground in the name of “justice, fairness and equality in the state.”

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Singh said the expenditure of Railways ministry and several other ministries were not included in the above figures. He also highlighted that ‘Krishi Udaan’ will be launched by the Civil Aviation ministry on international and national routes. This will immensely help improve value realisation especially in NorthEast and tribal districts, he added.

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(From p-1) BJP also mentioned that even during the winter of 2017, at the height of the Public Coordination Committee (PCC) protest against corruption and injustice at the “House of Hope” meeting between PCC and cabinet, Patton stood against appointment of non-civil service background

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (NPN): Union minister of state for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Dr. Jitendra Singh Monday said the hallmark of the Budget 2020-21 is that it accords the highest priority to the overall development of the North Eastern region.

Dr. Singh said the budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) saw a hike of over 14 per cent from Rs 2,670 crore last year to Rs 3,049 crore in 2020-21 “The Union Budget has accorded highest priority to the North Eastern region and the budget for the North Eastern Council (NEC) has been doubled from Rs 700 crore to Rs 1,474 crore in the last five years,” he told reporters here.

Dr. Singh said that in case of DoNER ministry, the budgetary allocation for 2020-21 is Rs 3,049 crore as against Rs 2,670 crore in the Revised Estimate (RE) 2019-20. Of the total Rs 3,049 crore, the provision for development of infrastructure is around Rs 2,900 crore compared to Advance Estimate (AE) 2014-15 of Rs 1,719 crore, Dr. Singh said adding, the budget allo-

cation of DoNER ministry in 2020-21 was higher by 77.26 per cent.

In case of schemes being implemented by the North Easter n Council (NEC), the current year’s budgetary allocation is Rs 1,474 crore, an increase of 19.23 per cent over RE 2019-20 allocation of Rs 1,237 crore. He said besides policy of 10 per cent Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) to NE region, the Gross Budgetary Support to 54 nonexempt ministries increased by 12.62 per cent in Budget Estimate (BE) of 2020-21 at Rs 60,112 crore over RE 2019-20 at Rs 53,375 crore.

Dr. Singh pointed out that in 2014-15, actual expenditure on 10 per cent GBS was at Rs 23,819 crore.

In 2020-21, BE would be Rs 60,112 crore, thus an increase of 142 per cent over the previous fiscal.

The minister said the ministries with an allocation of more than Rs 1,000 crore for NE region include the ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare (Rs 13,380.98 crore), department of Telecommunication (Rs 1,332 crore), Health and Family Welfare (Rs 5,000 crore). The other ministries include-- School Education and Literacy (Rs 4,705.66 crore), Higher Education (Rs 2,721.30 crore), Drink-

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dent unions, NGOs and well wishers to extend support and cooperation to the initiative, saying the success of the programme depended on the constructive involvement of the society in the functioning of government schools.

Meanwhile, the principal has notified all the senior SDEOs/SDEOs that Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme entitlements for the students would have to be displayed on the school notice board every day.

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The principal director cautioned that necessary action would be taken against the principal/headmaster/ head teacher/teacher in charge of schools found not displaying the poster on the school notice board during inspection.

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She said systematic and comprehensive checking, including legacy stock of PSBs’ non-banking assets (NPAs), for frauds under the framework has been taken note of by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its Financial Stability Report in December 2019, where it has observed that this has helped unearth frauds perpetrated over a number of years.

“This is reflected in the increased amount involved in frauds of Rs 1 lakh and above, reported by scheduled commercial banks and select financial institutions, from Rs 23,934 crore in the financial year 2016-17 to Rs 41,167 crore in 2017-18, Rs 71,543 crore in 2018-19, and Rs 1,13,374 crore in the first half of the current financial year,” she said.

The minister further said that while improved “detection” and “report-

DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): In its attempt to ensure reaching of government’s beneficiary schemes to all children without any wastage and misuse, Department of School Education (DoSE) Nagaland has introduced an innovative way in the distribution of Mid Day Meals (MDM) ration and cooking cost to all schools within the state.

In a notification issued on February 3, 2020, the principal director of school education, Shanavas C, informed that the department would issue posters displaying details of food grains and cooking cost distributed to each school covered under the MDM scheme for each quarter.

The principal director has directed head of institutions of all government schools to display those posters prominently within the school campus throughout the quarter.

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ing” has increased the reported amount involved in recent years, the comprehensive steps taken to check bank frauds have resulted in the amount involved by year of occurrence of fraud showing a declining trend.

She said amount involved in frauds that took place in the reporting year reduced sharply from Rs 38,548 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 16,084 crore in 201718, increased slightly to Rs 18,893 crore in 2018-19, and declined again to Rs 3,010 crore in the first half of the current financial year.

Sitharaman said that primarily, as a result of transparent recognition of stressed assets as NPAs, gross NPAs of PSBs, as per RBI data on global operations, rose from Rs 2,79,016 crore as on March 31, 2015, to Rs 6,84,732 crore as on March 31, 2017, and Rs 8,95,601 crore as on March 31, 2018.

She further said that as a result of the government’s strategy of recognition, resolution, recapitalisation and reforms, gross NPAs of PSBs have since declined by Rs 1,68,305 crore to Rs 7,27,296 as on September 30, 2019.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): Frauds involving Rs 1,13,374 crore were reported by banks and select financial institutions in the first half of the current financial year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Parliament on Monday. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the minister said the government in 2015 had issued ‘Framework for timely detection, reporting, investigation relating to large value bank frauds’ for public sector banks (PSBs) to deal with suspected frauds involving sums of money in excess of Rs 50 crore.

It had also instituted wide-ranging structural and procedural reforms through the framework and other steps to check fraudulent banking practices.

She said systematic and comprehensive checking, including legacy stock of PSBs’ non-banking assets (NPAs), for frauds under the framework has been taken note of by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its Financial Stability Report in December 2019, where it has observed that this has helped unearth frauds perpetrated over a number of years.

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China opens 1000-bed hospital as coronavirus death toll passes 361

Coronavirus in China may HK shuts most have come from bats: Studies China crossings The novel coronavirus that Yong-Zhen Zhang as medics strike China accuses US of spreading has claimed over 350 lives and colleagues from Fudan infected thousands in University in China studied Hong Kong announced it global ‘panic’ over coronavirus and China may have originated a 41-year-old male market was closing all but two land

Keralites who returned from tal in Wuhan built in record Wuhan. China opened a nine days to exclusively treat 1,000-bed makeshift hospi- the coronavirus patients.

Labours working in full swing during the construction of 1,000-bed hospital. (File)

BEIJING/WUHAN/ HONG KONG, FEB 3 (PTI/AFP): China on Monday opened a 1,000-bed hospital built in record nine days in Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus, and started clinical trials for a drug to treat the virulent virus as the death toll in the outbreak soared to 361, with 17,238 confirmed cases.

A noted Chinese health expert Zhong Nanshan said that based on the fresh evidence, the novel coronavirus

SL drops Tamil national anthem from I-Day COLOMBO, FEB 3 (PTI): For the first time since 2016, there will be no Tamil national anthem at the 72nd Independence Day celebrations in Sri Lanka and it will only be rendered in Sinhalese, the government announced on Monday, amply demonstrating the administration’s priority for the majority Sinhala community. The then Sri Lankan government in 2015 started including the Tamil national anthem as a means of achieving reconciliation with the Tamil minority community. This will be the first time since 2016 that there will be no Tamil national anthem at the Independence Day celebrations in the country.

The national anthem will be sung only in Sinhala, officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Monday. Sri Lanka’s Constitution provides for the singing of the national anthem in both Sinhala and Tamil.

The Tamil version ‘Sri Lanka Thaye’ is a direct translation of ‘Namo namo matha’ in the Sinhala language. Home Affairs State Minister Maninda Samarasinghe said last week that although there will be only the Sinhala version of the national anthem at the main ceremony, at province based ceremonies, the use of Tamil version will be permitted.

which is spreading rapidly in China and the world may reach its peak in the next 10 to 14 days, contrary to earlier estimates of climaxing sooner.

This means that the cases would drastically increase in the next two weeks before slowing down.

The death toll in China’s coronavirus epidemic soared to 361 with 57 deaths on Sunday while the number of confirmed cases climbed to 17,238, Chinese health of-

ficials announced on Monday.

A m o n g S u n d ay ’s deaths, 56 were reported from Hubei Province, the epicentre of the virus outbreak, and one from southwest China’s Chongqing, the commission said.

The Philippines already reported the first overseas death of the virus while 148 cases have been reported from abroad. India has reported three cases of the coronavirus, all of them in

China on Monday accused the US of spreading “panic” through its actions like travel bans and evacuation of diplomats and said there was no “substantial help” from Washington to contain the virus that has killed 361 people and infected 17,205 others in the country. The deadly virus - first emerged in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province - has spread to 25 countries, including India, the US and the UK. Joining a growing list of nations to impose travel restrictions, the US has announced a 14-day travel ban on all visitors from China, regardless of their nationality. The US citizens arriving from China’s virus-hit Hubei province will have to undergo a 14day mandatory quarantine on arrival, while those travelling to other parts of

China will face screening and monitoring.

A CNN report said the mandatory quarantine is the first time the US has issued such an order in 50 years. “What the US has done could create and spread panic,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said addressing the first online media briefing.

“The US government has not provided any substantive help to the Chinese side yet. On the contrary, it was the first to withdraw its consulate staff from Wuhan, the first to suggest the partial withdrawal of embassy staff, the first to announce a ban on entry

by Chinese citizens after the WHO made it clear that it doesn’t recommend or even opposes travel and trade restrictions against China,” she said.

from bats, according to two latest studies published in the journal Nature on Monday.

In the first study, the researchers carried out a genome sequence of the virus associated with the respiratory disease outbreak in China, isolated from a patient working in the seafood market linked to the initial cases.

The study found that the virus was closely related to a group of SARSlike coronaviruses previously identified in bats in China.

The first patient was admitted to a hospital on December 12 last year, and investigations have identified a seafood market, which also sold wild animals, in Wuhan, capital of Hubei, as the potential source of the outbreak.

worker admitted to a hospital in Wuhan on December 26, who experienced symptoms of respiratory illness, including fever, chest tightness and cough.

A combination of antibiotic, antiviral and glucocorticoid therapy was administered.

However, the patient exhibited respiratory failure and his condition did not improve after three days of treatment.

The researchers performed genome sequencing on a sample of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid - a lung secretion - collected from the patient.

They identified a novel virus and found that the viral genome shared 89.1 per cent nucleotide similarity with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronaviruses from bats.

crossings with the Chinese mainland on Monday to slow the spread of a deadly new coronavirus as medics staged strikes calling for the border to be completely sealed. On Monday afternoon city leader Carrie Lam said all land crossings would be closed at midnight except for two bridges, the first connecting Hong Kong to Shenzhen and the second linking it with Zhuhai and casino hub Macau. The city’s airport -- one of the world’s busiest -- would remain open to mainlanders, although there are already restrictions on people from central Hubei province where the epidemic began. Lam said the latest closures -- which came after four crossings were shuttered last week -- would reduce the number of Chinese mainlanders and allow officials to focus resources on two land entry points as well as the airport.

Britain to announce new rules for militants after street stabbing

LONDON, FEB 3 (AP): The British government plans to announce new rules for the imprisonment of convicted terrorists after an Islamic militant who was recently released from prison stabbed two people in south London, the second such attack in less than three months.

Home Secretary Priti Patel, who is in charge of the police, said the government would release its plans Monday.

Following Sunday’s attack and a Nov. 29 attack in which two people

extremists, double terror sentences and overhaul the conditions under which they are released back into the community.

The government will be “announcing some fundamental changes, in addition to what we’ve already said, that we will do to deal with counter-terrorism and counter-terrorist offenders,’’ Patel said late Sunday.

A man police identiA police forensic officer looks around near the scene after fied as 20-year-old Sudesh a stabbing incident in Streatham London, Sunday. (PTI) Amman strapped on a were killed in central Lon- it would effectively stop the fake bomb and stabbed two don, the government said early release of convicted people on a busy London

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We, the bereaved family of Lt. Nourhüü Pfukri would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to those who stood by us and supported us physically, financially, materially and spiritually during the prolonged illness and demise of our beloved mother on 27 th January, 2020.

Our special thanks to :1. CRC Rusoma 2. CD & HG Baptist Church 3. CRMC Kohima Lt. Nourhüü Pfukri Born – 1919 4. RDKK Died - 2020 5. Shri. S. Rotokha Zhimomi, Commandant C.T.I & Staff 6. Dr. Atsung & family 7. Dr. Thingtimla M.O C.T.I We regret our inability to thank each and every individual. However, it is our earnest prayer to our Almighty God to bless you all abundantly.

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We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude and thanks to all those who stood and supported us and has been a pillar throughout the illness and at the sad and untimely demise of my beloved husband and our father Mr. Aomeren (Chuchuyimlang Village) on January 30, 2020. We, the family and relatives, cannot thank everyone individually for helping and supporting us physically, spiritually, financially and morally.

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man struck outside a major pharmacy on a busy shopping afternoon.

The incident in London recalled a November stabbing attack carried out by another man who had served prison time for terrorism offenses. Two were killed in that attack.

Counter-terrorism officials have warned of the threat posed by militants unless the government couples prison sentences with effective de-radicalization

programs. More than 70 people convicted of terror offenses have have been released after serving their time.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Sunday’s attack was clearly foreseeable in the wake of the London Bridge murders.

“One of the questions I’ve got for the government is what are we doing about those 70-odd people who have been released from prison?” he asked.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We the family of Late Neizovi Vadeo wishes to acknowledge the many expressions of sympathy and gestures of kindness shown to us during his illness till his demise. We offer our heartfelt thanks to many friends, neighbours and well- wishers who supported us through financially, materially who attended his funeral and those who travelled far and near distance, sent floral tribute and message of condolences. We deeply appreciate.

We would like to convey our special heartfelt thanks to : 1 Kupota Khesoh and Family Born 22/03/ 1970 2 Puduhu Khesoh Pastor 5th NAP Died 31/01/ 2020 Baptist Church, Phek.

3 Murohu Chotso Former DC 13 Kutsapo Baptist Church Phek.

14 Kohima Kutsapo Welfare Union 4 Menuozotuo Pienyu and family.

15 Mission Compound Colony 5 Vechikhoyi Lohe and family.

Phek 6 Rtd General T. M Keyho NNC / 16 Chakhesang Students Union FGN President 17 Phek Town Chakhesang Students 7 T. M Rhakho C- in- C NNC/ FGN Union 8 Zaleo Tatar NNC/ FGN 18 Kutsapo Welfare Union Phek 9 NNC/ FGN Chakhesang Region.

Town 10 Doctors and Nurses of Naga 19 Phek Town Chamber and Hospital Authority Kohima.

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11 Chakhesang Baptist Church 20 NSCN IM Angami Region.

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21 VCC Kutsapo.

12 Phek Town Baptist Church 22 NDPP Youth Phek Town.

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street Sunday before being shot to death by police.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D’Orsi said Amman had been convicted of publishing graphic terrorist videos online and had stockpiled instructions on bomb making and knife attacks.

Officers had been trailing Amman at the time of Sunday’s attack, D’Orsi said, but were unable to head off the bloodshed in the commercial and residential south London neighborhood of Streatham, where Am-

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LATE Y YANPANTHUNG YA ANPA ANP NPAN ANTHUNG NGULLIE The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psalms 23 Through this column we the bereaved family members would like to express our deep sense of gratitude and appreciation to each and every individual, relatives, neighbours, churches, organisations, fellowships, friends and well wishers who stood by us and comforted us through your love, prayers, physical, material and financial support at the demise of our beloved Mr. Yanpanthung Ngullie.

We are unable to repay your overwhelming gesture, but it is our sincere prayer that the Lord Almighty in His abundance will bless you manifold. We are also sorry that we could not thank each and every one of you at the funeral, but we shall forever remain grateful in our hearts for your kind deeds.

Our heartfelt gratitude to: 1. Police Baptist Church Wokha 6. Pangti Ekhung Wokha Town 2. Youth Department Police Baptist Church 7. Yanshum Yankho Pangti, Wokha Town Wokha 8. Sr. Principal and Staff GHSS Wokha 3. Chanka Yankho Randan Khumshum 9. United Baptist Church (DHEP) Doyang 4. Chanka Colony Youth Fellowship Wokha 5. Chanka Colony Council 10. Saron Sector BYF Wokha Town Loving wife, Sons, Daughters, In-laws and Grandchildren K-311 K Y M C

Asangla Imlong Imti, daughter of Imlong Chang (OBE) of Mokokchung, wife of Late T. Aliba Imti passed away suddenly on January 24th 2020. She was 93 years old. Asangla Imlong Imti was mother to Rose. I. Jamir, Philip Imti and Late David Imti. She was grandmother to 11 grandchildren and great-grandmother to 7 great-grandchildren.

Asangla Imlong Imti lived a long and happy life filled with wonderful experiences during the pioneering years in NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh) and the rest of the country alongside her late husband. These memories will always be cherished by her loved ones.

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Radiohead to take ‘a year Al Pacino wants to play Hamlet Naga girl Rose Merry bags 2nd runners-up in Miss India Northeast away’ from music in 2020

year away from Radiohead, but we will pick that up again.” Asked if 2021 would mark Radiohead’s big return, Selway replied: “We’ll see. We’re talking.”

While Radiohead recently uploaded their entire discography to Youtube and delighted fans by sharing 18 hours of previously unreleased ‘OK Computer’ outtakes and launching a ‘Public Library’ featuring an extensive catalogue of rarities and archive footage,

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ctress-singer Jennifer Lopez and basketball icon Alex Rodriguez are planning a summer wedding.

A source told Us Weekly that J.Lo and A-Rod “are getting married this summer”, reports aceshowbiz. com. This is not the first time the couple is reported to be eyeing a summer wedding. Back in 2017, Life & Style magazine claimed that the pair were planning a romantic wedding in Cuba.

A source told the magazine that the two of them “know what they want, and they want to be husband and wife, sooner rather than later. They’ll be married by the summer!” Lopez and Rodriguez confirmed their romance in the spring of 2017. The wedding will be Lopez’s fourth and Rodriguez’s second.

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ollywood veteran Al Pacino says he would like to play Hamlet someday as it is one of those characters he hasn’t dealt with yet.

The 79-year-old actor said though he “always had an inkling” towards essaying the Shakespearean character, he might be too old to play the titular Prince of Denmark now. Asked on the red carpet of the 2020 Bafta Awards which roles he’d still like to play, Pacino said, “I’ve always had an inkling to play Hamlet. I don’t know, that’s a role I would like to play someday. “But the late great Richard Harris, the actor, he once said if you don’t do Hamlet when you’re young, you’ll never do it. And he was right.”

The actor lost his balance briefly at the red carpet after having tripped up as he ascended a small staircase.

He didn’t appear to be hurt and was promptly helped to his feet by the people around.

Pacino was nominated for the best supporting actor Bafta for The Irishman. The award was won by Brad Pitt for Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. (PTI)

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n a glittering coronation of the 10th Miss India Northeast held at GMCH Auditorium hall on February 1 in Guwahati.

Rishita Bora from Assam won the title of the Miss India Northeast, Adoryllene D Sawian from

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OFFICE OF THE YIMCHUNGRÜ TRIBAL COUNCIL HQ. SHAMATOR TOWN, DIST : TUENSANG, NAGALAND

Office of the Yimchungrü Tribal Council would like to extend our hearty congratulations and appreciation t o S h r i . S . To k i u m o n g Yimchunger IPS, IGP on being conferred Presidents Award for distinguished service during the 71st Republic Day on 26th Jan. 2020.

We wish you the best in all your future endeavours and pray that God will use you for his glory.

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Wi t h i m m e n s e pride and joy, we would like to congratulate Mr. Terrance E Kithan, S / o M r. E ky i m o Kithan for securing the post of S.A. in the recently conducted NPSC examination.

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(L-R): Adoryllene D Sawian, Rishita Bora and Nem Rose Merry during the crowing moment in Guwahati.

"But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love."

We the Changki Kaketsuri Longjem would like to congratulate Ms Ningdangnaro Tally, D/o Mr Akok Tally for successfully clearing the NPSC examination as Secretariat Assistant.

We wish all the success in her future endeavour.

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Radiohead drummer Philip Selway has said that the band plan to take “a year away” from working together in 2020 to focus on their other projects. The band’s last album was 2016’s acclaimed ‘A Moon Shaped Pool‘. For fans awaiting new material, it looks like you’ll have to wait until next year at the earliest. “There are always conversations going on, but we’ve always got other projects going on,” Selway told NME. “This is kind of the

members have also been busying themselves with solo projects. Frontman Thom Yorke wrote the soundtrack to horror movie Suspiria in 2018 before releasing acclaimed solo album and short-film ‘ANIMA’ last year, while guitarist Ed O’Brien has been sharing songs from his upcoming Brazil-inspired solo album as EOB. As for Selway, he’s also planning to get to work on his third solo album.

“For me, [2020 will be spent] writing and recording,” he told NME. “I’m just concentrating on that.”

He added: “Watch this space. It always surprises me how things can develop. I never expected to be doing soundtrack work before. All of these things are to develop your musicality and bring their own raft of ideas with them.”

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The Yaongyimsen Union, Kohima (KYST) along with Yaongyimsen Women's Union, Kohima (YTTK) and Kohima Yaongyimsen Fellowship (KYF) extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss Imkongnenla Longkumer, D/o Mr. A. Sentilepzuk and Mrs. Bendangsenla for successfully clearing the Combined Geo-Scientist and Geologist Examination 2019, conducted

by UPSC under Geological Survey of India.

We are immensely proud of your achievement and it is our prayer that you will continue to excel in all your future pursuits.

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POTSEIYI SOHO VEZHOTO SOHO The Phek Students Union expresses profound gratitude and heartily congratulates Mr. Posteiyi Soho, S/o Late Rev. D. N Soho for getting through in the combined Geo-Scientist and Geologist Examination, 2019 conducted by UPSC under Geological Survey of India and Mr. Vezhoto Soho, S/o Late Rev. D.N Soho for completing PhD course in Systematic Theology Under Asia United Theological University, South Korea.

The union wishes you the best in your future endeavours.

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The Mima Village Council takes immense pride and honour to extend heartiest congratulations to MR. VILELIE KHAMO, 1st Class Contractor for being announced the Governor Gold Medal on 26th Jan 2020, Indian Republic Day and also MISS MHASINUO TEPA D/o Lt. Teisovi Tepa for awarded the Union Home Minister Medal for being excellence in Police Training for outdoor Category award.

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The Mishilimi Village Council with immense joy and pride congratulates Er. OMEGALI SHEQI, daughter of Mr. Inashe Sheqi and Mrs. Xütoli Wotsa for her relentless hard work, perseverance, dedication and successfully securing Rank-4, Extra Assistant Commissioner (EAC) in recently declared Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC), Examinations 2018-19.

The Council prays and wishes her good health and more success as she persist to work with renewed zeal and dignity.

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eliance Entertainment and Amblin Partners war drama “1917”, World War I masterpiece, emerged as the big winner at the 2020 British Academy of Film and Televisions Film Awards (BAFTAs), taking home seven awards out of the nine categories it was nominated in, including Best Film.

“1917” won in the categories of Best Film, Best Director for Mendes, Outstanding British Film, Best Special Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Sound at the star-studded ceremony on Sunday night here, reports dailymail. co.uk. Actress Renee Zellweger, 50, continued her winning streak by picking up the trophy in the Leading Actress category for her role as Judy Garland in the namesake biopic “Judy”, with Joaquin Phoenix, 45, taking home the Leading Actor award for his role as Joker in the comic drama of the same name.

Despite receiving 11 nominations, “Joker” took home three awards -- Casting, Original Score and Joaquin’s Leading Actor gong. Actress Laura Dern, 52, won the Supporting Actress gong for her role as cutthroat lawyer Nora Fanshaw in Netflix’s “Marriage Story”.

The Supporting Actor trophy went to Brad Pitt, who was absent from the ceremony, for his role as Cliff Booth in “Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood”.

His co-star Margot Robbie collected the trophy on behalf of Pitt.

Actor Andy Serkis was honoured with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award by his “Lord Of The Rings” co-star Ian McKellen.

Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite”, which tells the story about greed and class discrimination which threatens the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan, was the other big winner, taking the awards for Best Film not in the English language and Best Original Screenplay.

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Barcelona’s Fati breaks La Liga record

Madrid, Feb 3 (Agencies): Barcelona starlet Ansu Fati has become the youngest player to score a brace in La Liga with his two goals in the first half of the 2-0 victory against Levante on Sunday.

Fati, aged 17 years and 94 days, struck in the 30th and 31st minutes at Camp Nou to surpass the record set by Real Zaragoza’s Juanmi Jimenez in 2010, who was 17 years and 115 days at the time.

The Guinea-Bissauborn attacker started the match in a three-man attack with Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann but proved to be the most lethal of the trio in front of goal across the opening 45 minutes.

With 30 minutes on the clock, Messi played a wonderful, defence-splitting through ball to set Fati through on goal, and the teenager took one touch to shrug off the defender before slotting home the

Barcelona’s Ansu Fati (right) and Lionel Messi celebrate after scoring a goal during their La Liga match against Levante.

opener. Seconds after the restart, Fati again received the pass from Messi, before drilling a low shot into the net at the near post to become the league’s youngest ever brace scorer.

Fati was delighted to again be on the Barca scoresheet once again but didn’t want too much emphasis on the record he broke “It’s a dream. I always

dreamed about this and it has been fulfilled,” Fati told reporters post-match.

“Thank you all for this opportunity.

“They just told me [about the record], but hey, I have nothing to say, to keep improving and take every opportunity. My teammates make everything easier from day one and I’m grateful to each one. It’s not easy for them

to behave so well and I’m very grateful.”

Fati made his debut for the Blaugrana this season as a 16-year-old and became the club’s youngest ever goalscorer - and the third youngest in La Liga - with his strike in the 2-2 draw against Osasuna in August. The Spanish under 21 international also became the youngest ever goalscorer in the Champi-

ons League with the winner against Inter at the San Siro in December.

Fati has made 19 appearances for Barca so far this season, scoring five goals and getting one assist.

B a r c a ’s m a n a g e r Quique Setien might have to play Fati more in the second half of the season because of the long-term injury to Luis Suarez.

The Spanish tactician hinted the teenager could get exposed to more game time after the Catalan’s Copa del Rey win against Ibiza. “The first thing we are doing is seeing the players in different positions,” Setien said. “[Fati] has a lot of talent. We will see how he progresses. He will get more starting time as long as he keeps developing.”

Barcelona’s victory against their Catalan opponent takes them within three points of La Liga leaders Real Madrid.

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Dimapur, Feb 3 (NPN): Vungoju FC, NRSA, Longsa Sports Association, RCR, Friends Club, A1 Tsungiki, Vankhosung FC and Young Generation have reached the quarter finals of 10th Lotha Football Championship organised by Wokha District Football Association.

Vungoju FC (VFC) defeated Vankhosung by 6-0 in the last league match to enter the quarter finals.

Ratobe of VFC scored a hat-trick with his goals coming in the 8th, 14th and 26th minute of the game. Nithong, Hatsabemo and Yanben also netted a goal each.

In the first quarter final, last year runners-up Vungoju FC will take on Longsa Sports Association while NRSA will lock horn with Vankhosung FC in the second quarter finals.

Robert Lewandowski

Warsaw, Feb 3 (IANS): Bayern Munich attacker Robert Lewandowski received the award for the best Polish footballer of the year on Sunday.

The event has been organized by the paper “Pilka Nozna” since 1973 and it’s believed to be the most prestigious plebiscite in Polish football. As the captain of the Poland team, Lewandowski got

the most important award for the best player of the year, reports Xinhua news agency.

“I would like to dedicate this title to my dad. I hope he is proud that I still do what I love and what I do best. He couldn’t watch too many matches with my goals but I strongly believe that now he looks at me from heaven,” said Lewandowski.

Djokovic takes aim at Federer’s Grand Slam record

Laxmi Ravi, wife of Governor with others after unveiling the plaque and inaugurating fitness centre at Ura Bhavan, Raj Bhavan, Kohima on February 3. Also seen in the picture are Governor RN Ravi; advisor, Youth Resources & Sports Er. Zale Neikha; Temjen Toy, Chief Secretary; Alun Hanging, Secretary, YR&S; Director of IPR Limawati Ao, Director of YR&S Akumla Chuba and officials of Raj Bhavan.

India fined for slow overrate in final T20I against NZ

Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined 20 per cent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time,” the ICC said in a statement.

India stand-in captain Rohit Sharma pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing.

decades . In an ominous sign for his rivals, the Serb has started the year unbeaten with Wimbledon, the French Open, the Tokyo Olympics and the US Open all lying in front of him as tantalising opportunities.

He is clear-sighted about his goals: overtaking Nadal’s 19 Major titles and Federer’s 20 to become the all-time Grand Slam king, and outdoing the Swiss master’s record 310 weeks in the top ranking.

Djokovic has so far

clocked up 276 weeks as number one and could pass second-placed Pete Sampras’s 286 in April, and Federer’s 310 on October 5.

“Obviously at this stage of my career, Grand Slams are the ones I value the most. They are the ones I prioritise,” said Djokovic.

“Grand Slams are one of the main reasons why I am still competing and still playing full season, trying to obviously get the historic number one. That’s the other big goal,” he said.

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Dubai, Feb 3 (PTI): The Indian cricket team has been fined 20 per cent of its match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate against New Zealand in the fifth and final Twenty20 International in Mount Maunganui.

Chris Broad of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees imposed the sanction after India were ruled to be one over short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration.

“In accordance with

Melbourne, Feb 3 (AFP): Novak Djokovic put Roger Federer on notice as he won his 17th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open and warned he was going all-out for the Swiss’s record of 20 -- and his mark for weeks as world number one.

Djokovic, who came through a mid-match slump to win his eighth title in Melbourne, is relentlessly totting up the victories that could soon end the debate Novak Djokovic over who’s the greatest in history. The five-set victory alongside Federer and Na- the first man in the Open over Dominic Thiem was dal as the only men to win era, and only the second his eighth in eight finals in the same Slam eight times. in history, to win Grand It makes Djokovic, 32, Slam titles in three different Melbourne, putting him

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KUKÜSÜ Asüto Town Qhaqhilu keu mpe 50 Jubilee Pinyini ke Atsala : Süphu (Feb) 21. 2020 lo püghüsü akeu lo, Nighakhumi, Tüghalo kiche eno Achexümi Pulokinimi Aqoshi akighini Lono ikhiluni ke alokivishi kusü ani.

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Tottenham sink Man City 2-0 in EPL

Tottenham players celebrate after scoring a goal during their English Premier League match against Manchester City.

LONDON, Feb 3 (Agencies): Steven Bergwijn made an instant impact on his Tottenham Hotspur debut with a stunning opener in his side’s 2-0 win over champions Manchester City in an incident-packed Premier League game on Sunday.

The Dutch midfielder, signed this week from PSV Eindhoven, produced a masterful piece of skill to chest down and sweep home a volley three minutes after City’s Oleksandr Zinchenko was shown a second yellow card on the hour.

With 10-man City stretched Son Heung-min added a second in the 71st minute with a deflected effort, allowing Spurs manager Jose Mourinho to get the better of his old adversary Pep Guardiola for only the sixth time in 23 clashes.

City remain 22 points behind leaders Liverpool.

Sergio Aguero was unusually profligate, striking the post in the first half and missing two other chances as City failed to score in con-

secutive games. Liverpool can be crowned champions if they win their next six league games, having won 16 in succession.

While City’s pursuit of Liverpool has long run out of steam, a second successive league win revived Tottenham’s push for a top-four finish. They have moved up to fifth in the table, four points behind London rivals Chelsea.

Tottenham were under siege for long periods in the first half but City’s attack misfired. Lloris did superbly to turn one Aguero effort against the post, but the City striker lacked his usual ruthless finishing, spurning some glorious chances.

The game burst into life when Aguero was fouled in the area by a reckless Serge Aurier, although, as the game continued, it took referee Mike Dean nearly two minutes to stop the action and award City a penalty courtesy of a VAR check.

Lloris made a great save to deny Gundogan, City’s fourth missed penalty

in their last six in all competitions, but Tottenham’s hearts were in their mouths as Sterling went sprawling under the French keeper’s lunge to stop the follow-up.

This time VAR ruled in Tottenham’s favour and as tempers flared, with Tottenham’s players feeling Sterling had simulated contact, Toby Alderweireld and Zinchenko were both booked for their part in a melee.

City’s territorial domination continued after the break with Gundogan firing over with the goal gaping but they were stopped in their tracks when Zinchenko ended a Harry Winks run with a crude challenge and was sent off.

Tottenham took rapid advantage as Bergwijn controlled Lucas Moura’s drilled pass with his chest and delivered an instantaneous right-foot volley that arrowed past Ederson. Son then latched on to a through ball and his shot nicked off Fernandinho to nestle in the bottom corner.

sports ‘Will make efforts to keep virus from affecting Olympic’ TOKYO, Feb 3 (Agencies): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that the government will keep in close touch with all relevant groups to ensure a virus outbreak does not have affect the Summer Olympics. Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto said organisers are not considering cancelling the Olympics, which start on July 24.

“We will keep in close contact with everybody, including the International Olympic Committee and the World Health Organization, to take appropriate steps and keep the coronavirus from affecting the Olympics,” Abe told a parliamentary committee.

The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in China rose to 361 on Monday and a growing number of countries are reporting cases. Japan has 20 confirmed cases, 17 of which were people who had been to China or are Chinese.

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Rohit out of NZ tour; Agarwal likely for ODIs New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI): In a blow to India, limitedovers vice-captain Rohit Sharma was on Monday ruled out of the upcoming ODI and Test series against New Zealand after sustaining a calf injury during the fifth T20 International in Mount Maunganui.

Rohit retired hurt after scoring 60 off 41 balls after he pulled his calf muscle while going for a quick single during the match that India won on Sunday.

“He is out of the tour.

Right now, it’s not looking good. The physio is assessing him. We will get to know how bad it is but he is not taking any further part in the series,” a top BCCI source told PTI on conditions on anonymity.

India are set to play t h r e e O D I s, s t a r t i n g Wednesday, and two Tests after that.

Going by the pecking order, Mayank Agarwal is likely to be the reserve opener in the ODI format just like during the home

Rohit Sharma

ODIs against the West Indies. However, Shubman Gill, with a double hundred in the ongoing A series Tests against New Zealand A, is also back in the mix.

The old selection committee under MSK Prasad will be announcing the re-

placement but it might take some time as convenor of the selection committee, secretary Jay Shah, is on his way to New Zealand along with treasurer Arun Dhumal.

“Once the secretary’s approval comes, the replace-

ment will be announced,” the source added. In the Tests, the experienced KL Rahul could well be back donning the India whites while Gill and Prithvi Shaw are likely to fight for the reserve opener’s slot.

It has still not been ascertained whether Rohit has had a calf muscle tear but he looked in severe pain even after physio Nitin Patel attended to him.

Despite pain, smacked a six off Ish Sodhi but had to be replaced after it became unbearable for him.

Rohit’s injury is a big blow to the Indian team especially after his stupendous show across formats in 2019.

H e c o n t i nu e d h i s match-winning efforts first against Australia at home followed by two fine knocks in the recently concluded T20 International series against New Zealand, which India won 5-0.

It included a stellar Super Over performance where he hit back-to-back sixes.

South Africa not fazed by playing England CAPE TOWN, Feb 3 (Agencies): New South Africa captain Quinton de Kock says facing world champions England will be just like playing any other team as they prepare for the three-match one-day international series starting at Newlands on Tuesday.

South Africa are seeking to rebuild after a disastrous World Cup in England last year in which the hosts claimed the trophy in thrilling fashion with victory over New Zealand in the final.

This will be England’s first match since the de-

cider at Lord’s in July.

“It is just like playing any other team,” De Kock told reporters on Monday.

“Just because you have a World Cup doesn’t change anything. It is still the normal England team we will play against.”

“I remember last time they came here (in 2016) we did pretty well and won the series. So it doesn’t really matter if they are World Cup winners or not.

It is the same as if we are playing Australia, India, Bangladesh, or whoever.”

South Africa have struggled in both the ODI

Quinton de Kock

and test formats in the last 12 months, and while there could be a certain amount of experimentation as they begin a new cycle to the 2023 World Cup, De Kock

says most important is to get a series win.

“We have new guys that have come in and they bring a lot of energy. We have guys who will potentially make their debut, so the team is very excited,” he said.

“We are in a rebuilding phase and we are looking forward to the next World Cup squad. We want to give the opportunities to youngsters and help them grow as cricketers.

But for this series, we just want to win. There is a lot of time to give opportunities, but for us right now it

is better to get a series win, just for the morale of the team.” England have rested Ben Stokes, arguably the world’s best all-rounder, but De Kock says there is still much quality in the squad.

“It’s always nice not to have to play against Ben Stokes, but they still have quality players,” he said.

“There are World Cup winners that are part of the squad and they have also got exciting young players. To start off with a win would be great for the team environment and the boys seem to be up for it.”

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