January 12, 2018

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Vol XXVIII No. 35

Speaker accepts Patton’s resignation

DIMAPUR, JAN 11 (NPN): Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) speaker, Dr. Imtiwapang Aier has accepted the resignation of former Home minister, Yanthungo Patton from membership of the 12th NLA w.e.f January 11. A press note from Commissioner and Secretary, N. Benjamin Newmai said that with Patton’s resignation, the Speaker has declared the seat under 37-Tyui assembly constituency as vacant.

Woman found dead

DIMAPUR, JAN 11 (NPN): Women Police Station has registered a case in connection with the death of a woman identified as Khonzani (24). According to a press note from Women PS, the police station received information on January 10 at 11:30 p.m, that the female was found dead at her residence in Supply Colony, Dimapur.

The press note said that husband of the deceased, Vincent Pichamo Kikon (30), has been detained and post mortem of the deceased was conducted at Civil Hospital, Dimapur on January 11.

ZPO condemn case of fatal domestic violence

DIMAPUR, JAN 11 (NPN): Zeliang People’s Organisation (ZPO) has strongly condemned the incident where one Heleulungbe Lungalang from Heningkunglwa village, in a drunken state, allegedly beat his wife Namdeuyile to death. A press statement from ZPO secretary, Kerang Dumtta urged the law enforcing agencies to book the culprit and take appropriate action against him. The organization offered their condolences and offered prayers for strength for the bereaved family and for the departed soul’s eternal rest.

ZPO further appealed to all to maintain peace and tranquillity in the area and let the law take its own course of action against the culprit.

Police order removal of crash guards, bull bars

DIMAPUR, JAN 11 (NPN): Vehicles owners with crash guards/bull bars installed on their vehicles have been directed to remove the fitments from their vehicles.

An order from Sr. SP, Vekhosa Chakhesang said that the installation of crash guards and bull bars in motor vehicles violates Section 52 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and attracts a penalty. The order directed such vehicle owners to remove the fitments within 15 days from the issue of this order, failing which penalty will be imposed on the offenders as per provisions of the said Act.

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“We thought the party manifesto should talk only about vision so as to ignore our messy past.”

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Merkel sees hard day in crunch coalition talks

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Nagaland polls on schedule: HM

NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI, JAN 11 (PTI/ AGENCIES): Assembly elections in Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are due in February-March and an announcement in this regard is expected early next month.

The assembly election in Nagaland will be held on schedule, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday amidst a demand by the state’s civil society groups for deferring the polls to facilitate a solution to the vexed Naga insurgency issue. This was conveyed by the Rajnath to Nagaland chief minister, T.R. Zeliang when the latter met him here Wednesday.

“HM also told the Nagaland chief minister that announcing the dates for assembly elections is the prerogative of the Election Commission and the elections have to be held on schedule,” the office of the Home minister tweeted.

During the meeting, the chief minister also gave some suggestions to the Home minister for a solution to the vexed Naga issue.

“HM told him that

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the negotiations of various Naga groups with the interlocutor will continue,” another tweet said.

However, on Wednesday, Nagaland chief minister, T.R. Zeliang’s office issued a statement stating that the Union Home minister Rajnath had assured Zeliang that he would convene a meeting on the demand of the Naga people and convey the outcome of the meeting to Nagaland government.

Zeliang had briefed Rajnath about the ‘desire’ by various civil society organisation and church leaders in Nagaland for “Solution before Election”.

The chief minister’s office said, “Zeliang also pointed out that the government of India was engaged with different Naga political

groups- NSCN (I-M) and Working Committee of the Naga National Political Groups for early solution and that it was the desire of the Naga people for solution to arrive before the ensuing election.”

In support of the demand, the chief minister submitted the resolution adopted by Nagaland Legislators Forum and parliamentarians and ex-parliamentarians on December 7, 2017, along with a copy of Nagaland legislative assembly resolution.

Various civil society groups, including legislators, had appealed to the Centre to defer elections demanding “solution and not election.”

Assembly elections in Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are due in FebruaryMarch and an announcement in this regard is expected early next month.

EC may announce poll dates today

Election Commission of India is expected to announce on Friday dates for ensuing assembly elections in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland.

According to reports, the full team of the Election Commission had already visited the three states to make a final assessment.

Reports quoted an official source as saying that the Election Commission was likely to make a formal announcement on January 12, 2018.

EC publishes final e-rolls

Amid demand in Nagaland for postponing the assembly elections due next month until the centre announces Naga solution, Election Commission of India published the final electoral rolls that showed a decrease in the number of voters from that in 2013 election following some intensive cleansing of the rolls.

According to TNN, Nagaland chief electoral officer Abhijit Sinha said that the final rolls published has 11,89,264 voters, lower than the electorate size of 11,92,377 enumerated in 2013. “The decrease is due to our cleansing of mostly multiple entries in the electoral rolls,” Sinha said. He said that 6,00,536 are male voters and female voters are 5,88,728.

Big BJP victory vital for peace, development in Nagaland: Rijiju NEW DELHI, JAN 11 (AGENCIES): Ahead of the Assembly polls likely next month, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, the BJP’s election in charge for Nagaland said that the Centre does not want to link talks with the NSCN (I-M) to the elections, The Hindu (TH) report stated. Excerpts of the interview with The Hindu TH: As election in charge for Nagaland, how do you propose to shape the campaign?

Rijiju: This [election] is special and challenging as talks are going on between the NSCN (I-M) and our interlocutor [R.N Ravi]. While talks are going on, many people expect it to conclude fast and the poll process to start thereafter. We don’t want to link the talks with elections.

Elections are a democratic process. There is an NDA government in Nagaland, where BJP is only a minor party. We got only one MLA elected last elections. The NPF also got into trouble because of internal conflicts and divisions. Even though Chief Ministers changed, the NDA government remained there.

BJP slams AICC secy’s claim Aboi dist demand: ADCC serves ultimatum on CM over Framework Agreement Correspondent

D I M A P U R , JA N 1 1 (NPN): Hitting out at All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary, Dr. K Jayakumar for crediting Congress for inking of the Framework Agreement between Government of India and NSCN (I-M), State BJP alleged that the Congress-led UPA government had adopted delaying tactics vis-à-vis the Naga political issue during its reign.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the State BJP said everyone knew that it was only under Narendra Modi’s leadership that things were now moving forward. It also claimed that the North-eastern region was exempt from any form of restriction over food consumption.

It further alleged that Congress had ruled Nagaland in the past, but

failed to deliver as per the aspirations of the people, and that rather corruption had bloomed in that era.

The statement claimed that BJP believed in the Constitution of India and that it was committed to “positive secularism” as enshrined in the party’s own constitution.

It said the party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership treated politics beyond considerations of caste, familydominance, appeasement and vote-banks and that it was mainstreaming the politics of performance in the country.

Meanwhile, the statement said that BJP would commence its second phase of booth-level training meetings from January 12 to 19 and cover Mon, Kohima, Phek, Wokha and Zunheboto districts.

KOHIMA, JAN 11 (NPN): Aboi District Demand Committee (ADDC) has reiterated that it would continue with its demand for a separate district of Aboi, even as it accused the State government of overlooking the May 16, 2017 notification that prioritised Aboi for examination and consideration.

The organisation also served an ultimatum to the chief minister and warned that ADDC would resort to its own course of action, if the state government failed to concede to its demand at the earliest.

Briefing media persons here Thursday afternoon, ADDC working convener Konwang Konyak asserted that Aboi, currently a subdivision, qualified to be upgraded to a district as it fulfilled all criteria and had the necessary facilities.

He said it had a population of 59,000 with three Assembly constituencies and 34 villages, excluding towns and unrecognized villages, five administrative offices (two SDO and two EAC) and one ADC office, three RD blocks and has 34 government departments with 10 departments having DDO powers.

Asserting that upgrading Aboi to a district would also be economically viable, Konyak explained that it was a huge problem for people from upper Konyak areas to visit Mon town even for petty issues, which ultimately affected the local economy.

The ADDC leader informed the media that in June 2017, Chang Khulei Sethsang, Phom People Council, Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation and United Sangtam People’s Organisation had extended their support to the de-

mand for a separate Aboi district.

On a similar demand for creating separate Tobu district, which was more than 100 km away from Mon, Konyak said currently Tobu area did not qualify to be upgraded to a district as there were pending disputes between Konyak and Chang communities.

According to him, though Tobu was far off from Mon town, the pending disputes should be first resolved, before considering whether the area qualified to be made a separate district.

Konyak also remarked that Tobu area did not meet the requisite criteria in terms of population or Assembly constituencies. He, however, added that it could be upgraded to an independent ADC headquarter as making it a district now would create problems.

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TH: What about seat adjustment?

Rijiju: We have not started the talks on seat adjustment, but we will definitely have a bigger share this time but we will not be unreasonable.

During the elections in 2012, the BJP fought in very few seats, whereas in 2007 we won seven seats.

An NDA government is absolutely necessary in Nagaland because the Congress that ruled the State for so long has failed miserably.

The Naga people are aspiring for peace, and peace is possible only if we go with the plan adopted

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who, within five months of assuming power, had signed a frame-

work agreement with the NSCN-IM. Of course, not every section of society and underground groups are endorsing the talks, but since it has been going on for long with the NSCN-IM, we cannot break it and have to continue with it.

I n t h e f r a m ewo r k agreement we have made one thing clear —that sovereignty which the Naga rebels were asking for, will not be granted nor is it part of the discussions. The talks will be within the framework of the Indian Constitution. The BJP coming to power with a bigger share of seats in Nagaland is necessary for peace and economic development.

TH: What is the status of talks on the Naga Accord?

Rijiju: While talks are going on, we cannot disclose the status. When you had signed the framework agreement, it was said that only a few things remained to be stitched up. The process has been simplified which is good, but sometimes, the whole issue will focus on one point.

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Govt drivers to hold ‘shanti march’

KOHIMA, JAN 11 (NPN): All India government drivers’ federation (AIGDF) has given a call for holding “shanti march” at the state level on January 18, 2018 and at the central level on February 2, 2018 to press for their charter of demands. In a press release, AIGDF (CC) president, Milan Raj Banshi, stated that holding of the proposed peace march was as per the AIGDF central committee meeting resolution adopted on November 5, 2017 in New Delhi. In this regard, the federation has informed all the affiliated association of the state, union territories and the central government to apprise their respective governments about their long-pending grievances (charter of demands of the federation) by submitting it to the governor/chief minister/administrator/chief secretary and deputy commissioner on January 18, 2018. AIGDF also informed all state/UT and central government associations to write to their governments requesting special leave for the drivers on January 18 and February 2.

NPCC suspends senior member

DIMAPUR, JAN 11 (NPN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president, K Therie, Thursday stated that the membership of Medokul Sophie to the Indian National Congress (INC) has been suspended with immediate effect. In a press release, NPCC president, K Therie, stated that Sophie has been suspended for “hobnobbing with multiple communal parties.” Meanwhile, a day after giving a clarion call to all former party leaders and functionaries to come back to the party fold to “block the divisive Hindutva forces from entering Nagaland”, the AICC secretary and in-charge of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, Dr. K. Jaya(Cont’d on p-7) kumar, Thursday through his twitter handle queried how many political parties dared to ally with BJP in Nagaland after seeing the real face of BJP-RSS in last four years? In a series of tweets, Dr. K. Jayakumar also asked “how many chiefs of political parties allied with BJP in Nagaland can consciously say that they are happy and did Good to their and associated risks, both public and administrators, people??” chose to ignore the threat and continued to build structures which were not earthquake- DIMAPUR, JAN 11 (NPN): Nagaland chief minister, resistant.” Due to such negli- T.R. Zeliang and NPF MLA, Yitachu have withdrawn the gence, he said, “many public- disqualification cases they had filed against each other. A ly-funded buildings suffered press note from NLA commissioner and secretary, N. Bensevere damage under shaking jamin Newmai said that the speaker accepted the petition intensity of VI–VII which to withdraw the disqualification case of T. R Zeliang Vs. is not only ironic but also Yitachu and eight others and the disqualification case of represents the utter betrayal Yitachu Vs. T.R. Zeliang and 35 others. Newmai said that the cases were withdrawn on January 10. of the public trust.”

Buildings at the Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Government Polytechnic DIMAPUR, JAN 11 (NPN): Naga National Political and Central Agriculture Groups (NNPGs) Working Group (WG), media cell has University (CAU) are all issued a condolence message mourning the demise of Nagovernment funded and tional Political Advisory Council (NPAC) of the GPRN/ supervised constructions, NSCN, co-convenor, Nimhalie Metha Angami. WG said, and were expected to per- irrespective of the political affiliation, the passing away of form satisfactorily during the senior national worker was a great loss for the Nagas. earthquakes, but they all WG described him as a faithful servant of the Naga nation, experienced moderate to se- who played key role in the Naga unity and reconciliation vere damages. Large build- process. They further extolled him as a loving husband ing campuses such as CAU and father and said that the Naga Nation had lost a sincere were constructed on landfill leader who was irreplaceable. “His contribution and sacsoil and they performed rifice towards the sacred cause shall ever be remembered” extremely poorly during the message read. NNPGs WG offered their prayers for the the earthquake shaking, the comfort of the bereaved family and solace for the departed study pointed out. soul in his Heavenly abode.

No lessons learnt in quake-prone North East NEW DELHI, JAN 11 (AGENCIES): It is often said that earthquakes don’t kill people; it is the building that does. If building codes are not enforced in seismically active zones, even moderate intensity quakes can cause widespread damage to buildings and injure people. This is what is happening in the Northeast, a new study has pointed out.

Manipur was hit with earthquake of intensity 6.7 on January 4, 2016 which caused devastation in state capital, Imphal, and adjoining areas. It provided an opportunity for scientists to understand risks posed to buildings and the state of construction practices in the region. While many buildings collapsed, it was noted that the damage caused to public building were disproportionate to the intensity of shaking.

A report published in the India Science Wire stat-

A half-constructed building damaged in an earthquake.

ed that scientists from three Indian Institutes of Technology– Kanpur, Guwahati and Patna - undertook a reconnaissance survey of earthquake affected regions immediately after the quake, and revisited the area after three months to see the condition of damaged structures

and restoration work.

It was found that while several reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Imphal suffered varying degrees of damage, traditional wooden houses made using bamboo and wood - known as ShingKhim- reported no damages.

Government buildings, cov-

ered in the study, were damaged heavily because they did not conform to seismic code of practices, and there is general lack of enforcement of existing regulations and codes. In addition, factors like inferior quality of raw materials and shoddy workmanship contributed to collapse of buildings.

“The seismic risk in the region is growing at an alarming pace with increasing inventory of vulnerable construction,” the study has concluded. The 2016 quake, it said, “should be regarded as a preview of what is likely to happen in the event of a greater shaking expected for the region and should hasten the community to take necessary steps.”

Dr Durgesh C Rai, a professor of civil engineering at IIT Kanpur, who led the study, told India Science Wire that “despite considerable awareness among the public about earthquakes

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Devote time to fruitful activities, Neiba tells youths

Neiba Kronu along with KYO officials and others at the annual general session at Khezhakeno village on Thursday. (NP) Correspondent

KOHIMA, JAN 11 (NPN): Neiba Kronu, MLA, while urging youths to detest from indulging from destructive activities has encouraged them to devote their time to fruitful activities so as to build up their future.

Speaking as guest speaker at the 34th annual general session of Khezhakeno Youth Organization at Khezhakeno village under Phek district, Thursday, Neiba encouraged the youths to cultivate good habits so as to progress in life.

He also lauded the youths of Khezhakeno village for “excelling” in the different fields and said it was made possible due to the wisdom and blessing of their elders. He then asked them to uphold the values and blessings of their elders.

Highlighting the gathering about the political scenario of the state, Neiba urged those gathered to believe in the Almighty and be patient and not get panicky.

He asked them to take the right decision at the right time by choosing the right

Assam Rifles apprehend one

The arrested person.

DIMAPUR: One person has been apprehended by Dimapur battalion along with police representative on January 11 during an operation at Burma Camp, Dimapur. According to a release by PRO to HQ IGAR (North), Dimapur battalion under the aegis of HQ

IGAR (North) conducted an operation basing on specific information.

During the search, one person identified as Neiwelhi Rume (35) son of Thezu Rume, resident of Zeleme village under Phek district was apprehended along with one point 22 mm pistol with one magazine.

The apprehendee has been identified as Neiwelhi Rume (35) son of Thezu Rume, resident of Zeleme village Phek police station, Pfutsero post office Phek district.

In this connection, the apprehend person along with recovered items has been handed over to East Police Station Dimapur, informed the release.

candidate to accomplish the developmental programme that was in the pipeline.

The inaugural programme started with invocation by CRC (Lower) Pastor Dikha, opening song was sung by Faith Reapers, presidential address by KYO president, Lhouvielo Chiezou, exhortation by head GB, T. Kamo Koza, statistical reports by Neikodo-o Koza, words of gratitude said by KYO general secretary, Kowotso Koza and benediction by KBMC Pastor Kodolhou. Earlier, the guest speaker unfurled the union flag.

news in Brief Mon DPDB meeting: Deputy commissioner, Mon, Thavaseelan K has notified all the District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) members that the monthly meeting of Mon DPDB would be held on January 15, 11 a.m. at the DC’s conference hall. All members have been requested to attend the meeting.

LVC general meeting: Liphanyan Village Council (LVC) has convened a general meeting on January 23, 8 a.m. at community hall, Liphanyan. All the Liphanyians residing in town have been requested to attend the meeting.

KKDA prayer meeting: Kichilimi Küqhakulu Dimapur Area (KKDA) would be organizing a prayer meeting on January 13, 7 a.m. at Valley View Sumi Baptist Church, Nagarjan Dimapur. All Kichilimi house hold of Dimapur and surroundings area has been requested to attend the prayer meeting.

MKCPB to celebrate Magh Utsav festival: Mech Kachari Community Purana Bazaar (MKCPB) would be celebrating “Magh Utsav festival” on January 13, 10:30 a.m. at Mandeville garden Purana bazaar. All the Mech community of Dimapur has been invited to the festival.

RWDA prayer meeting: Rotomi Welfare Dimapur Area (RWDA) would be organizing prayer fellowship programme on January 13, 7 a.m. at Sumi Baptist church Unity village, 5th mile Dimapur. All the members have been requested to attend the programme.

ACRWA ‘Lord’s programme’: Angami Christian Revival Women Association (ACRWA) would be observing “Lord’s programme” (55th session) from January 19-21 at Menguzouma Christian Revival Church.

ADC Pfutsero convenes meeting: In view of the forthcoming Republic Day celebration, a meeting was convened by ADC Pfutsero, Zeneikhonuo Vimero at the ADC’S conference hall on January 11. During the meeting, work distribution was assigned to various departments. Further, the ADC requested all the departments to cooperate and work as a team.

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Two students from Nagaland to compete in 1st ntl election quiz

Winners of state round national election quiz competition with CEO Abhijit, deputy CEO Vekho and liaison officer at CEO officer, Kohima. (DIPR) DIMAPUR: Two students from Nagaland, Merio N. Ngullie, Class-12 and Kekhriese Yhoshu, Class11 both from Ministers’ Hill Baptist Higher Secondary School, Kohima would be representing Nagaland at the first ever national election quiz on January 14 and 15 at New Delhi.

According to DIPR report, all 34 states/UTs would be competing in the quiz competition. The both the students as a team from Ministers’ Hill Baptist Higher Secondary School,

Kohima competed in the intra school competition which was held across the state in November 2017.

The winners from each school then competed in the district round during first week of December 2017. Finally the winners of district round then competed in the state round on December 15, 2017 wherein the duo emerged as winners of the state round.

Meanwhile, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Nagaland has appointed assistant professor, Bachu

Yhoshu from Sao Chang Government College, Tuensang as the liaison officer of the competitors.

The semi finals and finals would be held in the Rajya Sabha TV Studio from January 14 to 15.

This coverage would be telecast across the country later. As and when the telecast schedule is given by the ECI, it shall be shared with both electronic and print media for publicity so that the citizens would be able to watch the national events in Nagaland, informed the report.

Condolence messages DIMAPUR: Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) has conveyed its deepest condolences at the demise of late Neimhalie Metha who passed away on January 10.

In a condolence message, AYO said described late Neimhalie Metha as a charismatic leader who served as a nationalist for decades till his departure for his heavenly abode.

AYO said late Neimhalie’s enormous sacrifices throughout his life for Nagas shall never be forgotten. AYO also saluted and acknowledged with respect his contributions for the general welfare of the Nagas It has further conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

NPCC: Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has mourned the

demise of late Limei Konyak, president of Mon District Mahila Congress Committee on January 9.

In a condolence message, NPCC stated that the Congress party has lost a loyal and dedicated worker whose commitment to the cause of the party especially during these trying times was exceptional. It said late Limei works would continue to inspire other Congress Party workers as the party continue to march on for the cause of the people.

The condolence messages stated that NPCC president K Therie and all party rank and files have conveyed their heartfelt condolences to Wangnyem Konyak and the children at this hour of grief.

NPCC further prayed that the almighty God would grant strength and solace to bear this irreparable loss of a beloved wife and a loving mother.

National People’s Party (NPP) Nagaland state inaugurated its district party office at NPP Kiphire district on January 6, under the leadership of NPP Kiphire district, president, Lirimong Sangtam. The inauguration was graced by NPP Nagaland state vice-president, Kheapong Tikhir and other senior party workers.

Student bodies across Nagaland organise conference/session

Dr. Benjongliba Aier addressing students at Moayimti village.

Shetoyi Sumi being felicitated.

DIMAPUR: Various student bodies across the state have been organising its respective annual conference/session.

TSC: parliamentary secretary for CAWD & Taxes, Dr. Benjongliba Aier inaugurated the 22nd Tzürangkong Student’s Conference (TSC) on January 10 at Moayimti village.

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“self-sustenance” and encouraged the students to be self-reliant.

Lamenting the lack of work culture in the present Naga society, Dr. Benjongliba encouraged the students to change this mindset and work hard to be at par with the rest of the world.

Describing the students as the pillars of today’s nation and the leaders of tomorrow, Dr. Benjongliba said pursuing education should not be limited to

Y Vikheho Swu with SAKK members at Shesülimi village.

Zhaleo Rio addressing the gathering. acquiring degrees and certificates to get a job but to means to know one’s potentials.

Dr. Benjongliba also also congratulated the entire Tzürangkong range people for successfully hosting the 27th NSF general conference last year in May 2017.

SAKK: Minister for National Highway, Y Vikheho Swu, graced the inaugural function of the four-day 45th general con-

ference of Sümi Aphuyemi Kiphimi Küqhakulu (SAKK) on January 10 at Shesülimi village.

A press release by PS to minister stated that Vikheho has called upon the youths and students to be guided by four “Ps purpose, priority, principle and performance” if they wished to succeed in life.

The minister also said pursuing bookish knowle d ge w i t h o u t w i s d o m would be in vain and urged

Toshi Wungtung addressing the gathering. the students to seek wisdom from God and elders Vikheho said “aphuyemis” (Sumis of Pughoboto sub-division) have been blessed with pioneers in Christianity, the Naga movement and establishing villages and to share borders with other Naga tribes including the Angamis, Rengmas, Chakhesangs and Lothas.

Vikheho also said Sumis were fortunate to be settled in almost every

district of Nagaland, giving the opportunity to share culture and develop bond with other Naga tribes.

While stating that Sumi ancestors were known for their honesty and integrity, he said the “aphuyemis” should not lose these positive attributes but uphold them as their trademark.

The minister also expressed optimism that the “Framework Agreement” and ongoing talks with other Naga political groups,

would usher in lasting settlement.

On the “Naga Day” initiated by Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), Vikheho urged upon Sumis to nurture the spirit of reconciliation among all Nagas.

Other highlights of the inaugural function included welcome address by convenor, organizing committee, Vihoto Sheqi, presidential address by SAKK president, Khekuto V Achumi, and greetings by Sümi Kiphimi Küqhakulu president, Atokiho Sumi.

SRSU: Suruhuto Range Students’ Union (SRSU) held its 58th general conference from January 8 to 11 at Zhekuto village under Zunheboto district with parliamentary secretary for fishery, printing & stationary, Shetoyi Sumi as the chief guest.

In his address, the chief guest urged upon the students to have strong faith in God, to be disciplined, hardworking and compete in the competitive exams and be self-reliant He also called upon the students union, church leaders, various village level leaders to strongly support clean election campaign as spearheaded by SKK and NBCC. The programme was chaired by (STKK expresident, Hetovi Awomi.

SRSU: Sakipheto Range Students’ Union (SRSU) 17th general conference was held from January 3-5 at Zhuikhu village under the theme, “explore the possibilities” with Zhaleo Rio, MLA, as chief guest.

A press release by NPF 5 Ghaspani-II A/C press secretary stated that during

the inaugural ceremony, Rio remarked that “we are in a fast-paced, competitive era where only the sincere and committed can achieve their goals”.

He said that students must explore all possibilities to hone their knowledge for tomorrow.

Calling the Sumi Nagas as one of the most widely distributed Naga tribe across Nagaland, Rio urged them to strive towards bringing unity and posterity among Nagas as they have the requisite ability through such common platforms everywhere.

The programme included song presentations, reports, cultural shows among others and culminated with a traditional feast.

It may be noted that there are seven federating village units clubbed in Sakipheto Range under Medziphema sub-division.

WSU: Wapher Students Union (WSU) concluded its 49th general session with advisor to Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) , Toshi Wungtung as chief guest at village public ground on January 4.

A press release by WSU stated that Toshi spoke on the role of youth and young students towards future village development and society.

Toshi said with their active participation, village members could be sensitized on various issues related to primary health, quality education and scheme for development. He also urged the WSU office bearers to strive harder for quality in education as this was an important tool for all round development.

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Preserve, promote Nagas Co-ordination meeting at Bhandari culture & traditions: Eshak DIMAPUR: Co-ordination meeting with all the heads of de par tments under Bhandari sub-division was convened by Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Bhandari, Tiameren Chang on January 10 at the ADC’s conference hall.

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WEATHER FORECAST January 12

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Partly sunny and pleasant

23 8

Aizawl

Sunshine and patchy clouds

Guwahati Hazy sun Imphal

Pleasant with clouds and sun

20 4 24 9 21 6

Itanagar Sunshine and pleasant

22 8

Shillong Times of clouds and sun

18 3

Partly sunny

19 6

Dimapur Sunshine and pleasant

23 10

Kohima Mkg

Sunshine and some clouds

20 6

Tuensang Partly sunny and cooler

13 5

Partly sunny and cooler

17 10

Zunheboto Partly sunny and cooler

18 5

Wokha

and perform their assigned duties once the election was announced.

The meeting also deliberated on the upcoming Republic Day celebration in the sub-division and thereafter, the departments were assigned with certain duties to carry out for smooth functioning of the day.

It also decided to conduct a mass social work on January 24 at Bhandari town and the GBs were entrusted to supervise their

respective colonies on that day.

During the discussion, the PHE department stated that two main water reservoirs were washed away by the heavy rains due to which water was now being tapped directly from the source which needed to be looked into for more sufficient supply to the public.

Progress of works by departments, their performance and requirements etc, were also deliberated

in the meeting. The ADC, Bhandari, also, in continuation to deputy commissioner, Wokha Order No. ARMs/MISC/10-11/ VOL-1/116/DT WKA, the January 6, 2018, through a circulation, informed to all arms license holders under Bhandari sub-division that the last date for verification of arms license was extended till February 28.

Failure to comply with the directive would result in cancellation of license, the circular added.

KNCS branch inaugurated at Pangti village

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Wooden car race competition during the Phom students conference at Pongo village. Parliamentary secretary Eshak Konyak speaking addressing the gathering on Thursday. (NP) Correspondent

LONGLENG, JAN 11 (NPN): Parliamentary secretary for art & culture and chairman, NHHDC, Eshak Konyak, has called upon the people to put concerted effort to preserve and promote the rich culture and traditions of the Nagas.

Speaking at the second day of the ongoing 65th session of Phom Students’ Conference at Pongo village as the chief guest, Thursday, Eshak said the younger generation must preserve and promote the rich Naga culture and tradi-

tions so that Naga society would not face difficulties while tracing their culture in future.

Lamenting that Nagas have kept distance from their rich culture, tradition and identity while pursuing for the modern education, he cautioned that no society or organisation would progress unless it trace out and preserve the culture of their land.

Eshak also called upon the student community to be more vigilant while taking decisions and asked them to be honest and hardworking and not look for

easy earnings.

Appealing the people to opt for “clean election” so as to see positive changes in the society, he said the people should not also talk/preach about “clean election” but also put into practice.

The second day of the conference was marked by various competitions among the federating units which included volleyball match (male and female), clean election open marathon race, archery competition (male and female), essay & quiz competition and wooden car race.

EEM most important aspect of election: DC Kohima

DIMAPUR: Kyong Naga Cultural Society (KNCS) Pangti village branch was inaugurated on December 16 at Yondon Youth Association office, Pangti.

The branch was inaugurated

by Pangti village council chairman, Jenithung N. Shitiri and dedicated by Pangti Baptist Church associate pastor, Bijamo Yanthan. The programme was

chaired by Lochumbeni Murrypvüi, invocation and benediction by junior associate Pastor PBC, Zubemo Ngullie and secretary A.G Church Pangti, C. Yanabomo Kikon respectively and welcome address and KNCS aims, chairman governing body and president Oking Kohima, Zubemo Kithan.

Folk song was presented by Mother’s Group Yondon Colony, greetings by

president PVSU and vote of thanks

by KNCS branch president Pangti, Openthung Odyuo. Former president KNCS branch Wokha, Yanpo Ezung also spoke in the programme.

KNCS branch Pangti will be headed by Openthung Odyuo as president, T. Mhathung Patton as vice president and Orenthung Jami as general secretary.

JD (U) central confirms NSN Lotha’s appointment

DIMAPUR: Janata Dal United central party leaders in Delhi have confirmed that appointment of NSN Lotha as the convenor of JD (U) Nagaland when a team from the state unit met central party leaders in Delhi to ascertain the same.

Informing this in a press release, by JDU Nagaland unit general secretary, Lakiu Kips and senior vice president, Elvis Yanthan stated that a team of JD (U) Nagaland unit held a meeting with the central leaders on the issue wherein the leaders informed that the appointment was done due to major restructuring in the JD(U) Nagaland unit member with central leader. entire JD (U) setup after The release also in- al president, Nitish Kumar the split within the party formed that JD (U) nation- through the national secreat the national level.

tary, in an accommodative spirit, has assured to initiate the appointment of the party leaders from north east in national politics and that former president JD (U) Nagaland state, Rekhum would be representing Nagaland stated and inducted as JD (U) national level office bearer at the earliest.

DIMAPUR: Deputy Commissioner (DC) and District Election Officer (DEO) Kohima Rajesh Soundararajan while asserting that Election Expenditure Monitoring (EEM) was one of the most important aspects once the election has asked every personnel in various committees of EEM to be conversant with all the relevant guidelines laid by the Election Commission of India.

According to DIPR report, the DC was speaking at the briefing-cum-training for different cells of the EEM held in connection with the

forthcoming State Assembly Election, 2018, on Thursday at DC’s conference hall, Kohima.

DC said that EEM would become one of the most important aspects once the election was announced and that it would be an ongoing process till the conduct of the election.

He reminded all of their responsibility and also requested them to work in coordination wherever they have been assigned and to keep in touch with their concerned nodal officers in order to give their best service for the successful

conduct of the election.

Assistant commissioner, Kohima, Shashank Pratap Singh emphasized on the monitory related issues and the structure and functions of various committees under the EEM. Highlighting on the major legal provisions related to EEM issues, he stated that carrying cash was not illegal under any law and was not anathema to regular business but if it was undisclosed, Income Tax Department could seize, if it was out of illegal foreign exchange, ED can seize, if it was suspected to be

for bribery, terror, theft, narcotics etc. authorities could seize.

Shashank also elaborated on various topics such as use of money power, legal or illegal election expenses, legal provision, provision of the Indian Panel Code, 1860, election expenditure, modes of transport of cash, meeting with political parties, new expenditure monitoring machinery, Monitoring of Campaign through Media (MCMC), opening of separate bank account of the candidate, Static Surveillance Teams (SST), star campaigners etc.

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Kupota Khesoh addressing the gathering at PTYS youth festival-cum-Siikriinye.

DIMAPUR: Phek Town Youth Society (PTYS) weeklong youth festivalcum-Siikriinye held under the theme “tapping the feats” entered second day at Phek town, Thursday.

A press release by PTYS organizing committee stated that former chairperson of Phek Town Council (PTC), Kupota Khesoh, graced the second day events as host.

In his speech, Khesoh said Chakhesangs were K Y M C

known to be bold, honest and humble and urged the community to continue to uphold the moral values as practised by their ancestors.

He also appreciated the PTYS for reviving the “traditional legacy” by organising the youth festival.

The second day programme was chaired by Shekhoto Rhakho while Kuluvelu Swuro entertained the crowd with

special appearance.

During the evening session, 19th Phek A/C NPF president Api Vadeo graced the event as the host. Er. Dr. Vekho Swuro would grace day-three event as host.

Day-two was marked by bamboo stilt race, cart race, bow shooting, trumpet blowing, long jump, spear throw, sack rally race, quarter indigenous, fusion song and Mr and Miss Siikriinye contest.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides (NSBSG) State Secretary, Chubanungla, has informed that “Regional Rashtrapati Testing Camp” would be held from January 17 to 22 at State Training Centre, Nerhema, Kohima.

NSBSG has informed that testing would include testing of all skills acquired from date of investiture as a scouts/guides till date by experienced and skilled examiners from north eastern region.

It informed that this stage is reached on completion of five earlier stages completed at State level.

NSBSG has informed that it would be hosting the mega event wherein participants from North eastern states would attend the event. It said Nagaland being the host of the event would have the highest number of participants.

M e a n w h i l e, s t a t e chief commissioner, Atuo Mezhür Sekhose and team have welcomed all participants from the north east region.

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DC and DEO, Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan briefing the trainees during the briefing-cum-training for different cells of EEM at DC’s conference hall, Kohima on Thursday. (DIPR)

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Williamnagar, Jan 11: A top commander of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) was killed on Thursday when security forces raided a hideout in Meghalaya.

Matchallang Sangma alias Vietnam, the deputy commander-in-chief of the GNLA was killed in a gun battle in a makeshift jungle camp outside Bawe Duragre village, located on the southern bank of the Simsang river, 20 km from Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills. “We launched an operation in the area based on a tip-off that some members of the group were taking shelter there,” said Ringrang Momin, a district police official.

Sangma was wanted in several extortion, kidnappings and killings of people in Garo Hills and parts of West Khasi Hills.

One AK rifle along with ammunition, China made hand grenades, Bangladeshi currency notes and other incriminating documents were recovered from the site, the police official said.

PREPAK militant arrested in Mnp Imphal, Jan 11 (PTI): A high ranking leader of the banned militant outfit People Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) was arrested by Manipur police Thursday while he sneaked into Indian border from Myanmar.

The arrest was made by a team of Manipur police in course of search operation at Dalpati area of the Indian border town, Moreh in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district,Ibomcha Singh, Superintendent of Police (SP) told PTI over telephone.

The arrested leader of PREPAK has been identified as self-styled 2nd Lieutenant Thamangjam Imocha of Mayang Langjing village in Manipur’s Imphal West district.

carving out areas under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), comprising two third of the state’s territory and home to tribals, who form one third of the state’s population.

“The party would keep the separate state demand in abeyance for now as the central government has agreed to examine our problems and take measures,” the IPFT chief said.

During a meeting between IPFT leaders and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on January 5, the Ministry of Home Affairs has agreed to form a modality committee to explore the socio–economic, socio–cultural and linguistic conditions of the tribals.

C P I ( M ) Po l i t b u r o member Brinda Karat last week slammed the BJP for planning to form on alliance with the IPFT.

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IMPHAL, Jan 11: Thadou Students’ Association (TSA) Thursday announced a 36hour bandh on four main national highways of Manipur from January 16 after the state government allegedly failed to address their demands.

The bandh which would be effective from 6 am of January 16 would be imposed along ImphalMoreh, Imphal-Dimapur, Imphal-Jiribam, and Imphal-Churachandpur national highways.

Addressing a news conference at Manipur Press Club, Imphal TSA general secretary Michael Lamjathang Haokip said that the 36-hours bandh which will commence from 6 am of January 16 would continue till 6 pm of January 17.

The bandh is being

called over the failure of the state government to deliver justice in the May 5, 2017 Sugnu double murder case, the murder of Thongkhogin Haokip on February 29, 2016 and non-introduction of Thadou Kuki (MIL) subjects at higher secondary schools in the valley, he said.

He further alleged that state government has failed to solve the gang-rape and murder of a 21-year-old private school teacher Nengkhokim Haokip alias Cicilia/ Shila from Moltinchan village in Chandel district.

He said that a team of TSA met the superintendent of police, Kakching district, investigating officer (SDPO Kakching) of these cases and also ADGP (L&O) in this regards.

TSA had even served ultimatum on December 22, 2017 to the state home department to bring justice in

the case on or before January 10, 2018 but no satisfactory action has been taken up to date, he added.

On the matter of introduction of Thadou Kuki (MIL) subjects in the higher secondary schools in the valley, he alleged that the state government has in 2016 already issued an order for introduction of the same.

“But, the order still remains a mere piece of paper and it has not been implemented till now,” he informed.

While stating that TSA considers this as a deprivation of the rights of the Thadou tribal students to their language, the student’s leader warned that it would be compelled to resort to intensified forms of stirs if the state government failed to respond positively even after the imposition of the bandh.

Curfew continues in Assam’s Dhula area Suspected Chinese spy handed over to Mnp police

Dhula/Guwahati, Jan 11 (PTI): The indefinite curfew which was clamped in Dhula police station area of Assam’s Darrang district yesterday was in force Thursday, officials said.

The curfew continued today though National Highway 15 was kept out of the order for movement of traffic and there was no report of any untoward incident, the officials said.

Ranjit Hazarika, Officer-in-Charge of Dhula Police Station, where the

person allegedly died in police custody, was arrested yesterday. He was today produced before a local court in Mongoldoi which remanded him to 14-days judicial custody.

On the instructions of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, PWD Minister Parimal Shuklabaidhya has rushed to Dhula to take stock of the situation.

The curfew was clamped yesterday after a man died as police opened fire to control a mob, which attacked Dhula police sta-

tion alleging death of a person due to torture in police custody.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had yesterday ordered an enquiry by Additional Chief Secretary MGVK Bhanu into the incident of police firing and submit report to the government at the earliest. Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia has termed the official enquiry ordered by the government as “inadequate” and demanded a judicial enquiry.

Orphanage director held for molesting minor inmate

Lakhimpur, Jan 11 (PTI): The director of a private orphanage in Dhemaji district of Assam was arrested Thursday on the charge of molesting a minor inmate there, the police said. The girl also alleged that rape and molestation of inmates have been going on in the orphanage at Silapathar for long, but a section of the local people said the director is being framed.

The 13-year-old girl lodged a complaint with the police that the director forcefully took her out of her room and molested her in another room on the night of January 7. After the FIR was lodged on January 8, the director was arrested and forwarded to judicial custody, district Superintendent of Police Nilesh Sawakare said. The girl said in the FIR that she had managed to escape

from the orphanage and took shelter in a neighbour’s house. Official sources said the orphanage sheltering around 100 orphans and destitute is funded by the Assam Social Welfare and Social Justice department. “Rape and molestation of the inmates are going on for a long time and she somehow managed to escape to expose it,” the girl alleged before the media.

Some local organisations have also filed a separate FIR alleging illegal activities in the orphanage. A group of women also demonstrated before Silapathar police station yesterday demanding arrest of its director. However, a section of the local people claimed he is being framed by certain quarters as the orphanage has been operating successfully.

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(L-R) The suspected Chinese spy in police custody. The recovered documents.

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IMPHAL, Jan 11: A Chinese national, who was recently arrested on suspicions of spying by Assam Rifles Jawans near Moreh, has been handed over to Ma-

nipur police on Thursday.

Even though he was arrested on suspicions of spying, Moreh police of Tengnoupal district, where he was handed over today, took custody of him under the Foreigner Act.

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MAOVA VILLAGE COUNCIL P.O. Medziphema - 797106 Dimapur : Nagaland

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INFORMATION

This is for information to all the natives of Maova Village irrespective of temporary and permanent resident to attend the joint MimKut 2018 celebration on 17th Jan. at Maova Village.

The residents are further informed to generously contribute towards the fund achieve and submit the same to the assignee at the earliest.

(K. Hanneng) Chairman, Mimkut Committee

The Phekmi Collegiate Forum extends heartiest congratulations to Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu on his induction as Home Minister, Government of Nagaland.

The PCF also congratulates Vechisayi Venuh on his promotion as Headmaster GHS Sutsu.

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rese documents, foreign currencies, a pen drive and a compass were found in his possession.

Moreh police has registered a case -FIR no. 4(1) 2018 under section 14 Foreigner Act. In the FIR, he was reportedly accused of attempting to infiltrate into Indian territory without valid immigration documents.

The documents and other recovered materials were also handed over to Moreh PS for further action, the source added. The allegations of spying can only be confirmed after investigations, a police officer said.

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No.JUD.21/2017-18/114 Dtd. Zbto. the 4/12/17 Shrimati V. Hosheli Yeptho of Khuwaboto Colony Zunheboto District has applied for the issue of Succession Certificate/Guardianship Certificate declaring that her husband Late Viyiho Yeptho has expired on 13-11-2017.

It is hereby notified that if no objection to issue this certificate is received from anyone within a period of 30(thirty) days w.e.f the date of publication in press the certificate shall be issued and no further complaint will be entertained.

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The person, later identified as Qin Min Xiv Xiang (55), hails from Fuzian province of China, was apprehended by troops of 11 Assam Rifles on December 22, 2017.

A quick reaction team of the Assam Rifles was dispatched in response to inputs on the movement of a suspected Chinese agent attempting to infiltrate into India from Myanmar. Qin was subsequently apprehended from a place near T Minao village, a Manipuri village at the international border. Various Chinese, Vietnamese and Myanma-

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said the Central and State Government has encouraged the MSME sector to grow in the NE region.

He also highlighted the various issues faced by this sector which includes lack of infrastructural development, connectivity, inadequate application of technology, non-availability of risk fund and absence of NE Industrial Policy.

Chairman CII MSME Panel and SBI’s Chief General Manager (NE Circle) PVSL N Murthy pointed

out the contribution of SBI towards the development of MSME in the NE. He urged for a joint effort by the stakeholders and government in building the linkage between the needy and the giver.

He also highlighted some major issues like the poor accessibility of funds and utilization of venture capital and stressed the need for CII and banks to work together for the growth of the MSME sector.

The Conclave also held deliberations on bankers- entrepreneurs connect, building competitiveness and capacity building and marketing and branding– large industry partnership and market linkage by eminent experts and senior officials from various stakeholders’ organisations, state and Central Government.

Agartala, Jan 11 (PTI): The Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, an anti-Left tribal party, Thursday said it would forge an alliance with the BJP for the Assembly election due this year, while the saffron party said talks are still on in this regard.

Tenure of the 60-member Tripura Assembly ends on March 6 this year. The CPI(M) led Left Front has been in power in the state since 1993. “The decision to forge an alliance with the BJP was taken unanimously in the two-day deliberations of the party’s central committee concluded yesterday,” IPFT president N C Debbarma said here.

BJP Tripura unit chief Biplab Kumar Deb said the party’s central leadership and the IPFT are discussing about forming an alliance and the talks are positive.

The IPFT had long been demanding formation of a separate state by

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THEPA KHEL UNION NERHEMA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Thepa Khel Union Nerhema, humbly extend our sincere and profound gratitude to all the individuals and groups for the support and contribution both in cash and kind towards the success of Thepa khel day on 10th January 2018 at Tekhuzie ground Nerhema.

Our special thanks to Mr. D.P Angami, Vice President, Naga Council Dimapur , Mrs. Lithrongla.T.Rutsa, ADC Satakha for the exhortation and Mr. Luolhoulie Chadi, Retired. Asst. Director, Directorate of Census Operation Nagaland Kohima, for the speech on behalf of the in-laws.

We also extend our heartfelt gratitude to VCC Nerhema, Nerhe-model, Nerhe-phezha, Representative from Cüzie-Rülho khel, all our in-laws, Committee members and to all the members of Thepa khel. We are immensely blessed and joyful for your physical presence and being a part of our special day.

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Guwahati, Jan 11 (PTI): Assam Governor Jagadish Mukhi Thursday said that India can develop only if the North East develops and the Union government is very keen to ensure that this happens at the earliest.

“North East is the gateway to the ASEAN countries as well as other neighboring countries hence and can serve as a strong base for the nation’s economic growth”, the Governor said while inaugurating the North East MSME Conclave 2018, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII-NE), here.

MSME plays a critical role in the growth of GDP, Employment and Exports and the focus of ‘Start Up Stand Up’ initiative was on this sector, he added.

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Gadkari ‘attacks’ Indian Navy for obstructing Mumbai dev Mumbai, Jan 11 (IANS): Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday “attacked” the Indian Navy for creating obstacles in “development projects in Mumbai”, including opposing the plans for a floating jetty at Nariman Point.

Recently, the Bombay High Court declined permission to a private operator for building a jetty to launch seaplane services and a floatel since it did not get the green signal of the Indian Navy’s Western Naval Command, ostensibly for security reasons.

“Actually, what does the navy have to do with Malabar Hill (in south Mumbai).They should be guarding the borders of the country,” Gadkari remarked at a function where he laid the foundation stone for an international cruise terminal along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Giving a piece of his mind to Indian Navy accusing it of “creating roadblocks” in development projects, he sought to know why everyone on the navy wants to live in south Mumbai.

“They have come to me seeking a plot of land...

I will not give them even an inch of land, please don’t come again,” Gadkari declared, in the presence of top naval, maritime and government officials, including Western Naval Command chief Vice Admiral Girish Luthra.

He said ever ybody wants to build quarters in south Mumbai’s prime land and opined that only a few important, senior officials should live there.

“We respect you, but

Nitin Gadkari you should go to the Pakistan border... Land on the eastern seafront is being developed by the state government and Mumbai Port Trust which will be for the benefit of local citizens,” Gadkari added.

“We are the government, The Navy and Defence ministry are not the government,” he said.

Gadkari also accused the Indian Navy of making it “a habit” to stall development projects and asked how was the force concerned with Malabar Hill area which is a residential zone with Raj Bhavan and the Chief Minister’s official residences.

The Shipping Minister urged the navy to resolve the issues, pointing out that he chairs a committee of delayed infrastructure projects which are cleared as soon as they are put up on the agenda.

Incidentally, south Mumbai’s Colaba houses a large population of Indian Navy personnel, plus the headquarters of the WNC, residential quarters in Navy Nagar, and other pockets including Malad seafront.

The swank new international cruise terminal which will come up in the Mumbai port is slated to cost Rs 300 crore, and will have all facilities like an

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airport with separate arrival and departure lounges and cater to around 700,000 tourists annually arriving or departing by cruise liners. It is expected to be ready by December 2019.

Fadnavis said that this international cruise terminal is part of the government’s four-pronged policy to develop Mumbai on water, sky, ground and underground with water transport, new international airport, roads and flyovers, and the underground Mumbai Metro.

“This will make Mumbai a global cruise destination, create huge employment opportunities, increase the number of tourists and contribute to the GDP growth of Mumbai and Maharashtra,” he said.

Spread over 4.15 lakh sq. feet, the terminal will be equipped to host cruise ships with a capacity of around 5,000 passengers, with restaurants, shopping, recreated and leisure activities, which would also be accessible to the local population.

In 2016-2017, around 55 international cruise ships carrying over 60,000 passengers touched Mumbai, and this figure is now expected to grow 10 fold to around 700 vessels annually.

With Mumbai alone expected to handle nearly three-fourths of this estimated huge growth in cruise liner traffic, the government plans to develop other ports (besides Mumbai) like Goa, Mangaluru, Kochi and Chennai to cater to big and small international cruise ships.

SC to hear pleas for probe in judge B H Loya’s death New Delhi, Jan 11 (PTI): The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to hear tomorrow two separate pleas seeking independent probe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, in the forenoon, took note of the submission seeking urgent hearing on the plea filed by Maharashtrabased journalist B R Lone for a probe into Loya’s death on December 1, 2014.

Later in the day, another plea filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala on the same issue was mentioned by lawyer Varinder Kumar Sharma for urgent hearing before the bench, which agreed to hear it along with the earlier one.

Loya had died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014, when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague’s daughter. The issue came under the spotlight in November last year after media reports quoting his sister fuelled suspicion about the circumstances surrounding his death and its link to the Sohrabuddin case.

Poonawala, in his plea, said the circumstances revolving around the death of the judge were “questionable, mysterious and contradicting”.

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A first at R-Day parade: Women BSF bikers to display daredevilry

New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS): Men performing biking stunts at Republic Day functions is history.

The BSF has now trained 113 women bikers who will be riding on 26 350 CC Royal Enfield motorcycles to perform acrobatics and daredevil stunts at this Republic Day parade.

The bikers, in the age group 20 to 31 and led by Sub-Inspector Stanzin Noryang, 28, from Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region, would be a first all-women contingent from any force to perform biking stunts at the annual event that displays a mix of India’s military might and cultural prowess. Interestingly, Noryang didn’t know how to ride a bike when she volunteered to be included in the Border Security Force’s “women daredevil team”. That was in October 2016. But today she is confident she can not only ride but perform daredevil stunts with 10 other riders on single motorcycle.

“I never thought of riding a bike because of fear. Now, I am confident of doing any stunt on a Royal Enfield Bullet -- a very heavy two-wheeler. I am proud of my seniors who trained and chose me to lead the team and perform stunts at the Republic Day event,” Noryang told IANS. The team was rehearsing on Rajpath, days before the January 26 event which will be attended by President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime

A newly-raised all-women bikers contingent of Border Security Force (BSF) ‘Daredevils’ practice ahead of their first performance at the Republic Day parade, in New Delhi on Thursday. (PTI) Minister Narendra Modi and 10 leaders of Asean countries, who will be the guests of honour for this Republic Day parade.

In fact, most of the women in the “Seema Bhawani” contingent, named after a Hindu deity, didn’t know bike riding but still volunteered to learn it.

T h e i d e a wa s t h e brainchild of BSF Director General K.K. Sharma who wanted to replace men daredevils with women bikers, Deputy Inspector General Pushpendra Rathore said.

Rathore is in charge of the team that has been camping in Delhi since December.

Deputy Commandant Ramesh Chandra is the chief coach and Sub-Inspector K.M. Kalyana is the coach of the team trained by a special team of BSF instructors at the Central

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Chandra noted that a unique part of the team was that its members come from almost “every state across the country”.

The largest 20 are from Punjab, followed by 15 from West Bengal. Ten are from Madhya Pradesh, nine from Maharashtra, eight from Uttar Pradesh, seven each from Assam and Bihar, six from Odisha, five each from Rajasthan, Manipur and Gujarat, three each from Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh, two each from Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Kerala, one each from Meghalaya and Himachal Pradesh.

Disqualify 20 AAP MLAs, Maken urges CEC New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS): Delhi Congress President Ajay Maken on Thursday met Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti and demanded the disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs at the earliest for allegedly holding offices of profit as Parliamentary Secretaries.

Maken also submitted a representation on the matter to Joti.

After the meeting, a Delhi Congress leader said that Maken apprised the CEC of the delay in the matter since it dates back to May 2015.

“The CEC assured to look into the issue,” he said. The meeting between Maken and the CEC lasted around 20 minutes.

The Congress had on June 9, 2016, moved the poll panel to seek disqualification of 21 AAP MLAs and has been pursing the matter ever since.

S u b s e q u e n t ly, t h e proceedings were dropped against Jarnail Singh after he resigned as the Rajouri Garden MLA to contest the Punjab Assembly polls in February 2017.

In October last year, the EC had issued a notice to the Aam Aadmi Party lawmakers for an explanation.

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nce known as the Congress bastion, where the party had dominated politics and also ruled six of the seven north eastern states- Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura; today the situation has changed.

The main competitor to the Congress has been the AGP in Assam, NPF in Nagaland, regional alliance in Meghalaya, MNF in Mizoram and Left in Tripura.

That was till the ascendency of the BJP under Modi after 2014. Today, the single most potent challenger not only to the Congress but any regional party in the region is the BJP. The BJP managed to win 21 seats in Manipur and formed the government despite the Congress having won 28 seats. Interestingly, in Manipur the BJP polled 6,01,539 votes while the Congress polled 5,82,056 votes. In Assam, the BJP won 60 seats while the Congress( which ruled Assam for three consecutive terms) won only 26 seats from the 122 it held. However in terms of votes BJP got only 49,92,185 as against 52,38,655 for the Congress. In Arunachal Pradesh, the BJP came to power by engineering mass defections from the Congress and so cannot be credited with having won the election held in 2014. In 2014 assembly and Lok Sabha elections were held simultaneously where the Congress won 42 and BJP 11. However after nearly a year later, the BJP formed the government after engineering defections from Congress to PPA then to BJP. As stand, of the seven north eastern states, the BJP today rules in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur . Along with NPF, BJP has a coalition government in Nagaland. In Tripura, the Left has managed to sustain its innings after dethroning the Congress since 1998. The BJP is eying Meghalaya where the Congress runs a coalition government . In Meghalaya the BJP on its own may not be able to gain much but in alliance with its NDA partner, NPP, it can hope to form a coalition government. However at this moment, it is speculative. The Congress in Meghalaya is still alive and kicking and according to observers, the party is not down but able to renew its strength even after some of its legislators have defected to BJP. The next focus of the BJP is on other more difficult states like Nagaland and Mizoram. In Nagaland, the BJP is likely to focus on winning as many seats and as per the statements of its party leaders, the party will contest all 60 seats.

The BJP hopes to exploit the present confusion and division within NPF by playing the central card.The election scenario will be heavily dependent upon the issue of tickets by the NPF president Dr.Shürhozelie Liezietsu. The NPF troika- Dr.Shürhozelie, Neiphiu Rio and T.R.Zeliang- will be working overtime to get NPF tickets for their favoured candidates and which could lead to some frictions within. In this scenario the mention of NPP and NDPP and to an extent the BJP is being heard, as the parties that would benefit out of the NPF friction. In Mizoram, the BJP has very little chance of making it as the Mizo politicians are clear about their stand be it the Congress or the MNF. Thus, all parties will play hard to wing the elections in any of the three states and the outcome would be a psychological victory for any of them.

DailyDevotion What My Obedience to God Costs Other People As they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon…, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. —Luke 23:26 If we obey God, it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the pain begins. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything— it is a delight. But to those who do not love Him, our obedience does cost a great deal. If we obey God, it will mean that other people’s plans are upset. They will ridicule us as if to say, “You call this Christianity?” We could prevent the suffering, but not if we are obedient to God. We must let the cost be paid.

When our obedience begins to cost others, our human pride entrenches itself and we say, “I will never accept anything from anyone.” But we must, or disobey God. We have no right to think that the type of relationships we have with others should be any different from those the Lord Himself had (see Luke 8:1-3).

A lack of progress in our spiritual life results when we try to bear all the costs ourselves. And actually, we cannot. Because we are so involved in the universal purposes of God, others are immediately affected by our obedience to Him. Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent?

Or will we do just the opposite and say, “I will not cause other people to suffer”? We can disobey God if we choose, and it will bring immediate relief to the situation, but it will grieve our Lord. If, however, we obey God, He will care for those who have suffered the consequences of our obedience. We must simply obey and leave all the consequences with Him. Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

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Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~ Henry Winkler

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Why Naga Day?

he discussions and exchanges in the newspapers and social media on this subject of “Naga Day” have been vigorous and comprehensive. They have brought out the different views and perspectives held by different Nagas, and even by our regional neighbours and others beyond. So as we meet here today we can say we have a deeper, wider understanding of the subject and one another which is so important. There is no doubt the honest conversations during the last weeks havereopeneddoors people had started to shut to one another. The result would be more distrust.

I am keenly conscious of the undeserved privilege given to me to say something at the start of this programme. Yet I would like to propose that this acknowledgement and celebration of what our history has given us should take us in the creative direction I believe God is showing us. And that is reconciliation within our society through the healing of our wounded relationships which will enable us to grow properly with mutual goodwill and co-operation lifting us up instead of the opposite bringing us down. FNR is committed to this all-important task, and it is of course the joint responsibility of all Nagas.

The question “Why Naga Day” takes us back to what happened on this day 89 years ago. In 1929, on the 10th of January, in Kohima, the historic Naga Memorandum was submitted to the British Parliamentary Commission from London headed by Sir John Simon.

The points made by the 20 members of the Naga Club who signed the submission are well-known to all Nagas. I do not need to elaborate them here. What Naga Club was and what it is being revived to become again will soon be made clear by another speaker.

As we all know the clear, straightforward stand taken in the Naga Memorandum to the Simon Commission established the political position of the Naga people long before the British whose superior might defeated them left their Empire in South Asia in 1947. The modern Naga journey that started with the declaration in 1929 to to-

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he United Naga Democratic Party would like to convey its appreciation to the FNR (Forum of Naga Reconciliation) for the recently held Naga Day on 10th January ‘18 at Kohima, affirming to uphold the Naga Hills Memorandum submitted to the Simon Commission on January 10, 1929.

During the years 18321889 AD, Naga’s were under the British rule. But with the coming of American missionaries in 1885 AD, at a time when Naga’s were living the life of a savage and uncivilized living, conceiving Christianity at Mulong village and delivering it at Impur under Mokokchung district, we Naga’s were delivered with the love of Christ. The missionaries also brought education and unity. Unity because history says that the NEFA (ENPO)

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day brings to mind an African folk saying: “He who wakes you up in the middle of the night to go on a long journey, you will thank him only after you have travelled a very long distance with him”.

Today, on Naga Day, we are looking back and assessing the distance we have covered and what we have achieved. And many today may not at all be thankful to our pioneers who in 1929 woke their people up to go on the long journey.

Because to today’s generation the journey has taken them to where we are and what we are today – stagnant, corruption ridden, without a satisfying purpose of life, and paralysed, therefore unmanageably destructive, if we are honest.

At this baffling time we must not make our situation worse by denial of the facts and truth, our failures and shortcomings that have produced resentment, desire for revenge and poverty of spirit.

Or, by becoming irresponsible, greedy, opportunistic exploiters of our people’s bewildering crisis for personal gratification, disregarding the terrible consequences for society.

The time has come to reject the errors of hate, fear and selfishness of the past and take our society forward together. This will come down to a few points.

1. Because of the price the Nagas have paid to defend and build on the political position they articulated in the Memorandum to the Simon Commission Naga nationality has become a reality.

It is not a small thing at all. Today we must appreciate and thank one another and God for what we have achieved, ending our blaming and condemnations for what has not been achieved yet. This thoughtless mutual blaming has damaged our relationships so badly.

2. Being human, we all make mistakes of all kinds and easily come short of the perfection and glory of God. Therefore, instead of putting each other down by criticism we should learn to inspire and raise each other up to do what is right, needed and best for the common good. We inspire others the moment we point out precisely the places where we, not others, have been or are wrong!

The only choice left for the people

Remember “Walk in the light as He is in the light …. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sins”? Others are surprised by our simple truthfulness which gives them hope. They mutter to themselves “Damn it, if this rascal can be honest I too can!” I believe this is one of God’s elegant ways of building His kingdom on earth as it must be in Heaven. There’s no other project on earth more exciting, demanding and satisfying than building The Kingdom right here and now, the just society on earth.

Everyone building it His way is a VIP! The Kingdom up there He will take care. By making others great no one becomes smaller.

3. To create an environment where our society can grow and develop as it should, we need people - leaders and led - who want nothing for themselves. God is able to use such people to build trust, hope and unity.

I believe all this is do-able and on this very special day, let us all make a start and faithfully keep it up for the sake of our society and for the coming generations.

Our homeland is most strategically and perilously placed at the meeting point of nations, races, religions, cultures and ancient civilisations. It is also one of the areas on the globe still quite green with rare bio-diversity hot spots.

And we are surrounded by complicated and explosive problems that threaten to bring destabilisation to the entire continent.

If the impacts of the challenges from outside are not to overwhelm us, but make us grow stronger as we should, we urgently need to reach out to one another and restore the health and spirit of our society whatever the cost may be to our pride, prejudices, fears and selfishness. These enemies are not worth our protection.

These are compelling reasons for us to come together and celebrate Naga Day as we are doing today.

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hese days, the frequency by which Bandhs are being called for seemingly implies that any organisation, group or community can announce a bandh through a press statement along with the usual list of ‘what not to do’ and the conditioned citizens will comply by staying off the streets because let’s face it, nobody wants their vehicles smashed or their shops stoned till kingdom come.

The Exercise of a right to protest should not infract the fundamental right of another citizen who is equally entitled to exercise his rights.

India being a democracy the justification for imposing a bandh based on the right to protest seems good on paper but in reality, the contents of the said bandh spawns acts of vandalism; harassment, destruction of public and private properties, transport vehicles, private vehicles. The actual ‘contents’ of the said right to protest makes itself defeating and contradictory in itself- it is therefore imperative for the executive as well as the legislature to make a clear stand - a bandh cannot be recognized as a political right protected by the Constitution.

And while at it on the legality of the bandh, the Supreme Court in a 1998 verdict had upheld a Kerala high court ruling declaring bandhs illegal and made it applicable to the entire country.

It is however disheartening because the rate at which Bandhs are being imposed seems to suggest otherwisethat under no circumstances did any authority bestow so much power to any organization to dictate and pronounce fear in the minds of people by enforcing bandhs every now and then.

All Nagas have the right to move around freely and establish entrepreneurial goals in parts and areas in which they want to set up their establishments. The culture of bandhs puts a stop these establishments and brings

with it not only economical loss owing its debt to the past and present but also creates a deficit for the future.

Deserted streets or closed shops, schools and colleges do not define the success of a bandh No! On the contrary it is only when people voluntarily participate can we say it was a success- empty streets and closed business establishment being simply the product of fear from violent reprisals etc…A bandh takes away the individual freedom of a citizen and dilutes the importance of the issue because it is enforced by fear.

Having said all that, in the context of Nagaland it will be unwise and wouldn’t be wrong to assume that the above mentioned quagmire has its roots deeply entrenched with the inefficient state machinery- enough has been said and written about on the sorry state of affairs. The tale of the unstable State government which in its entirety is yet another story in itself.

With reference to Nagaland, calling for a bandh seems to be the only choice left for the people. One cannot simply do away with Bandhs - It brings immediate relief and prompt response from the concerned authority. As such the only fix to the current impasse might be possible by incorporating the “Principle of Checks and Balance” there must be a law to enforce the incorporated with penal measures. In the event of a bandh the organizers, leaders should be held responsible for any outward accident violence destruction of property. The 2004 verdict where the BJP and Shiv Sena were booked as per law for organizing a bandh in Mumbai as a protest against bomb blasts in the city is one fine example. There has to be a measure of accountability if things go south.

Kuknalim !!

Shitio Bonathung, Vungoju Colony, Wokha, (Marcusbonathung@gmail.com)

UNDP appreciates Naga Day

areas where the missionaries could not penetrate, were nurtured by the Ao’s. And since the past 200 years or more, this is the first time that such a day has been observed and it just goes to prove that a lot of positive changes have come about in the Naga society. Taking into account that we as a Christian state, we Naga’s dress, speak and follow most of the American style of conduct. We still don’t have a common language besides English and Nagamese, to call our own.(The moment when on the Naga Day, where Dr. Wati Aier Ao said “Naga manu sop eki loko prathana kuribo” (Let us Naga’s all pray together) is applauded.)

It was during the time when some Naga’s were under Assam and Manipur that the British’s separated out the NEFA (ENPO) but

after the American missionaries came and introduced education (besides Christianity) at Impur and other villages in the year 1919 by opening schools till class VI, the people of NEFA (ENPO) were also able to get education through that and for which the ENPO are also really appreciative till date.

Post Independence interim government, the Indian government has provided Nagaland with all amenities even though denied a separate parliament. It has given us special powers of non-taxation, village councils, DB etc. but we Naga’s being of different race as compared to the mainland Indians have always been the warring kind, yet inspite of this the Indian government has always given top priority to the state.

The Father of the Na-

tion, Gandhiji, who did not know even how to fire a gun believed in non-violence and gave us that freedom which we are still living in today. In the same way, Nehru during his tenure although expressed his love and concern for the Naga’s did not promise a sovereign state to the Naga’s. During the prime ministership of Vaipayee, we have also seen that he has provided Nagaland a package of above 1000 crore for the development of the state.

Even presently, PM Modi is also at works in regard to the Naga political issues and by what we are seeing today, we hope that the solution for the lndo-Naga problem is not very far off, and because of which, we hardly see any bloodshed in our society today.

Therefore, UNDP believes that when all Naga

tribes and communities come together to organize such a day as Naga day; will give a good impression to expedite our demand for an earlier solution. And if and when our prayers are answered, we also further pray that the fate which fell upon Dr. lmkongliba Ao who struggled for our land, but was denied his life by some negative elements, will not befall among anyone. Many Naga freedom fighters have given their life for the cause and we see today that the truly dedicated ones are few. It is because of their tireless endeavor that we have reached this juncture today. All the political parties registered under the Election Commission of India also play a part in this fight but the civil societies and the freedom fighters have a much larger role to play for the future genera-

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he Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) continues to engage scientists because of its complex nature. A team of scientists from India, UK and Spain have isolated near full genomes of HIV virus from a subset of South Indian patients - a subtype known as HIV clade C. Because HIV exhibits huge genetic diversity, the virus undergoes frequent genomic changes and each new variant differs in its response to therapy. Examining the entire viral genome can thus offer new clues for understanding infection dynamics and tracing the evolutionary history of different strains. For this, researchers made tweaked existing method for isolating and sequencing the viral genome.

The researchers first isolated the virus from blood of 20 patients.

But, unlike previous method where four overlapping fragments of viral RNA were amplified, the

scientists selected 6 overlapping RNA fragments for sequencing.

This tweak was to ensure good data acquisition for HIV clade C. It also helped in improving efficiency and coverage of prominent viral genes -env and gag. Once multiple copies of these fragments were ready, genetic code inscribed in different RNA slices was decoded by an Illumina sequencer. Next, the fragments were arranged in correct order by referring to the existing HIV clade C genomes recorded in the viral genome database.

In this way, scientists could generate 9 near full-length viral genome sequences. In the remaining samples, good sequence recovery was achieved across prominent viral genes like gag and env. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that in 18 cases the virus belonged to HIV clade C; one belonged to AIC type and the other resembled the B type.

This shows that minor clades of

A and B type are also prevalent in the population which must have given rise to the recombinant AIC form.

“The classification of HIV-1 genome into clades is based upon several factors, an important one being the geographic source of the virus”, Dr ShahidJameel, an Indian virologist and CEO of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance who was not involved with the study, told India Science Wire.

In India and South Africa, clade C is particularly rampant.

“Since the early 1990s, India has a predominance of clade C HIV 1. This study used nextgeneration sequencing to obtain near full-length sequences and arrive at the same result. In that sense there is little novelty”, added Dr Jameel.

Researchers have also traced evolutionary origins of the variants. They compared similarities in the isolated genomic sequences

with those that are recorded in the genomic database. The Indian clade C was found to be closely related to the African lineage whereas the recombinant forms are believed to originate spontaneously.

These finding may have implications for disease control.

“While refinement of amplification protocols, sequencing platforms and bioinformatics tools for analysis of this kind of data are ongoing and likely to supersede the current study, application of techniques and approaches described here will benefit both the clinical management of HIV-1 patients, but will further allow a more precise description of molecular epidemiological trends and direction in specific geographical locales,” the study has concluded.

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tion of the Naga’s.

Luckily or unluckily, if the 2018 state election is not deferred, the state functioning will still continue as per the directive of the EC. But, it is up to the civil societies who have the voting rights as to what is to come.

The UNDP may just be a minority party but as a registered party, we are concerned for our state, our people and we believe in development for the people and not for selling out our land for the love of money, which the central government is providing for the development of the state.

We strive to work for the upliftment of the land and to move forward. God Bless us all.

N. Hotongse Sangtam president United Naga Democratic Party Nagaland

Reader’s Post

The basic amenity Sir,

With the temperature plunging down in the last few days, so also the frequency of power cut. It is ironical that one has to keep on complaining year round about power cut and soon there is going to be change of government. Then the story will be taken up as chapter 1 all over again.

How long will this dilemma continue in the state and how can one even think of progressing with such pathetic power supply. How can one talk of being at par with other states when we still lack the basic amenity.

Hitoli Sumi, Duncan Basti Dimapur 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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nce known as the Congress bastion, where the party had dominated politics and also ruled six of the seven north eastern states- Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura; today the situation has changed.

The main competitor to the Congress has been the AGP in Assam, NPF in Nagaland, regional alliance in Meghalaya, MNF in Mizoram and Left in Tripura.

That was till the ascendency of the BJP under Modi after 2014. Today, the single most potent challenger not only to the Congress but any regional party in the region is the BJP. The BJP managed to win 21 seats in Manipur and formed the government despite the Congress having won 28 seats. Interestingly, in Manipur the BJP polled 6,01,539 votes while the Congress polled 5,82,056 votes. In Assam, the BJP won 60 seats while the Congress( which ruled Assam for three consecutive terms) won only 26 seats from the 122 it held. However in terms of votes BJP got only 49,92,185 as against 52,38,655 for the Congress. In Arunachal Pradesh, the BJP came to power by engineering mass defections from the Congress and so cannot be credited with having won the election held in 2014. In 2014 assembly and Lok Sabha elections were held simultaneously where the Congress won 42 and BJP 11. However after nearly a year later, the BJP formed the government after engineering defections from Congress to PPA then to BJP. As stand, of the seven north eastern states, the BJP today rules in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur . Along with NPF, BJP has a coalition government in Nagaland. In Tripura, the Left has managed to sustain its innings after dethroning the Congress since 1998. The BJP is eying Meghalaya where the Congress runs a coalition government . In Meghalaya the BJP on its own may not be able to gain much but in alliance with its NDA partner, NPP, it can hope to form a coalition government. However at this moment, it is speculative. The Congress in Meghalaya is still alive and kicking and according to observers, the party is not down but able to renew its strength even after some of its legislators have defected to BJP. The next focus of the BJP is on other more difficult states like Nagaland and Mizoram. In Nagaland, the BJP is likely to focus on winning as many seats and as per the statements of its party leaders, the party will contest all 60 seats.

The BJP hopes to exploit the present confusion and division within NPF by playing the central card.The election scenario will be heavily dependent upon the issue of tickets by the NPF president Dr.Shürhozelie Liezietsu. The NPF troika- Dr.Shürhozelie, Neiphiu Rio and T.R.Zeliang- will be working overtime to get NPF tickets for their favoured candidates and which could lead to some frictions within. In this scenario the mention of NPP and NDPP and to an extent the BJP is being heard, as the parties that would benefit out of the NPF friction. In Mizoram, the BJP has very little chance of making it as the Mizo politicians are clear about their stand be it the Congress or the MNF. Thus, all parties will play hard to wing the elections in any of the three states and the outcome would be a psychological victory for any of them.

DailyDevotion What My Obedience to God Costs Other People As they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon…, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. —Luke 23:26 If we obey God, it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the pain begins. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything— it is a delight. But to those who do not love Him, our obedience does cost a great deal. If we obey God, it will mean that other people’s plans are upset. They will ridicule us as if to say, “You call this Christianity?” We could prevent the suffering, but not if we are obedient to God. We must let the cost be paid.

When our obedience begins to cost others, our human pride entrenches itself and we say, “I will never accept anything from anyone.” But we must, or disobey God. We have no right to think that the type of relationships we have with others should be any different from those the Lord Himself had (see Luke 8:1-3).

A lack of progress in our spiritual life results when we try to bear all the costs ourselves. And actually, we cannot. Because we are so involved in the universal purposes of God, others are immediately affected by our obedience to Him. Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent?

Or will we do just the opposite and say, “I will not cause other people to suffer”? We can disobey God if we choose, and it will bring immediate relief to the situation, but it will grieve our Lord. If, however, we obey God, He will care for those who have suffered the consequences of our obedience. We must simply obey and leave all the consequences with Him. Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

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Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~ Henry Winkler

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Why Naga Day?

he discussions and exchanges in the newspapers and social media on this subject of “Naga Day” have been vigorous and comprehensive. They have brought out the different views and perspectives held by different Nagas, and even by our regional neighbours and others beyond. So as we meet here today we can say we have a deeper, wider understanding of the subject and one another which is so important. There is no doubt the honest conversations during the last weeks havereopeneddoors people had started to shut to one another. The result would be more distrust.

I am keenly conscious of the undeserved privilege given to me to say something at the start of this programme. Yet I would like to propose that this acknowledgement and celebration of what our history has given us should take us in the creative direction I believe God is showing us. And that is reconciliation within our society through the healing of our wounded relationships which will enable us to grow properly with mutual goodwill and co-operation lifting us up instead of the opposite bringing us down. FNR is committed to this all-important task, and it is of course the joint responsibility of all Nagas.

The question “Why Naga Day” takes us back to what happened on this day 89 years ago. In 1929, on the 10th of January, in Kohima, the historic Naga Memorandum was submitted to the British Parliamentary Commission from London headed by Sir John Simon.

The points made by the 20 members of the Naga Club who signed the submission are well-known to all Nagas. I do not need to elaborate them here. What Naga Club was and what it is being revived to become again will soon be made clear by another speaker.

As we all know the clear, straightforward stand taken in the Naga Memorandum to the Simon Commission established the political position of the Naga people long before the British whose superior might defeated them left their Empire in South Asia in 1947. The modern Naga journey that started with the declaration in 1929 to to-

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he United Naga Democratic Party would like to convey its appreciation to the FNR (Forum of Naga Reconciliation) for the recently held Naga Day on 10th January ‘18 at Kohima, affirming to uphold the Naga Hills Memorandum submitted to the Simon Commission on January 10, 1929.

During the years 18321889 AD, Naga’s were under the British rule. But with the coming of American missionaries in 1885 AD, at a time when Naga’s were living the life of a savage and uncivilized living, conceiving Christianity at Mulong village and delivering it at Impur under Mokokchung district, we Naga’s were delivered with the love of Christ. The missionaries also brought education and unity. Unity because history says that the NEFA (ENPO)

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day brings to mind an African folk saying: “He who wakes you up in the middle of the night to go on a long journey, you will thank him only after you have travelled a very long distance with him”.

Today, on Naga Day, we are looking back and assessing the distance we have covered and what we have achieved. And many today may not at all be thankful to our pioneers who in 1929 woke their people up to go on the long journey.

Because to today’s generation the journey has taken them to where we are and what we are today – stagnant, corruption ridden, without a satisfying purpose of life, and paralysed, therefore unmanageably destructive, if we are honest.

At this baffling time we must not make our situation worse by denial of the facts and truth, our failures and shortcomings that have produced resentment, desire for revenge and poverty of spirit.

Or, by becoming irresponsible, greedy, opportunistic exploiters of our people’s bewildering crisis for personal gratification, disregarding the terrible consequences for society.

The time has come to reject the errors of hate, fear and selfishness of the past and take our society forward together. This will come down to a few points.

1. Because of the price the Nagas have paid to defend and build on the political position they articulated in the Memorandum to the Simon Commission Naga nationality has become a reality.

It is not a small thing at all. Today we must appreciate and thank one another and God for what we have achieved, ending our blaming and condemnations for what has not been achieved yet. This thoughtless mutual blaming has damaged our relationships so badly.

2. Being human, we all make mistakes of all kinds and easily come short of the perfection and glory of God. Therefore, instead of putting each other down by criticism we should learn to inspire and raise each other up to do what is right, needed and best for the common good. We inspire others the moment we point out precisely the places where we, not others, have been or are wrong!

The only choice left for the people

Remember “Walk in the light as He is in the light …. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sins”? Others are surprised by our simple truthfulness which gives them hope. They mutter to themselves “Damn it, if this rascal can be honest I too can!” I believe this is one of God’s elegant ways of building His kingdom on earth as it must be in Heaven. There’s no other project on earth more exciting, demanding and satisfying than building The Kingdom right here and now, the just society on earth.

Everyone building it His way is a VIP! The Kingdom up there He will take care. By making others great no one becomes smaller.

3. To create an environment where our society can grow and develop as it should, we need people - leaders and led - who want nothing for themselves. God is able to use such people to build trust, hope and unity.

I believe all this is do-able and on this very special day, let us all make a start and faithfully keep it up for the sake of our society and for the coming generations.

Our homeland is most strategically and perilously placed at the meeting point of nations, races, religions, cultures and ancient civilisations. It is also one of the areas on the globe still quite green with rare bio-diversity hot spots.

And we are surrounded by complicated and explosive problems that threaten to bring destabilisation to the entire continent.

If the impacts of the challenges from outside are not to overwhelm us, but make us grow stronger as we should, we urgently need to reach out to one another and restore the health and spirit of our society whatever the cost may be to our pride, prejudices, fears and selfishness. These enemies are not worth our protection.

These are compelling reasons for us to come together and celebrate Naga Day as we are doing today.

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hese days, the frequency by which Bandhs are being called for seemingly implies that any organisation, group or community can announce a bandh through a press statement along with the usual list of ‘what not to do’ and the conditioned citizens will comply by staying off the streets because let’s face it, nobody wants their vehicles smashed or their shops stoned till kingdom come.

The Exercise of a right to protest should not infract the fundamental right of another citizen who is equally entitled to exercise his rights.

India being a democracy the justification for imposing a bandh based on the right to protest seems good on paper but in reality, the contents of the said bandh spawns acts of vandalism; harassment, destruction of public and private properties, transport vehicles, private vehicles. The actual ‘contents’ of the said right to protest makes itself defeating and contradictory in itself- it is therefore imperative for the executive as well as the legislature to make a clear stand - a bandh cannot be recognized as a political right protected by the Constitution.

And while at it on the legality of the bandh, the Supreme Court in a 1998 verdict had upheld a Kerala high court ruling declaring bandhs illegal and made it applicable to the entire country.

It is however disheartening because the rate at which Bandhs are being imposed seems to suggest otherwisethat under no circumstances did any authority bestow so much power to any organization to dictate and pronounce fear in the minds of people by enforcing bandhs every now and then.

All Nagas have the right to move around freely and establish entrepreneurial goals in parts and areas in which they want to set up their establishments. The culture of bandhs puts a stop these establishments and brings

with it not only economical loss owing its debt to the past and present but also creates a deficit for the future.

Deserted streets or closed shops, schools and colleges do not define the success of a bandh No! On the contrary it is only when people voluntarily participate can we say it was a success- empty streets and closed business establishment being simply the product of fear from violent reprisals etc…A bandh takes away the individual freedom of a citizen and dilutes the importance of the issue because it is enforced by fear.

Having said all that, in the context of Nagaland it will be unwise and wouldn’t be wrong to assume that the above mentioned quagmire has its roots deeply entrenched with the inefficient state machinery- enough has been said and written about on the sorry state of affairs. The tale of the unstable State government which in its entirety is yet another story in itself.

With reference to Nagaland, calling for a bandh seems to be the only choice left for the people. One cannot simply do away with Bandhs - It brings immediate relief and prompt response from the concerned authority. As such the only fix to the current impasse might be possible by incorporating the “Principle of Checks and Balance” there must be a law to enforce the incorporated with penal measures. In the event of a bandh the organizers, leaders should be held responsible for any outward accident violence destruction of property. The 2004 verdict where the BJP and Shiv Sena were booked as per law for organizing a bandh in Mumbai as a protest against bomb blasts in the city is one fine example. There has to be a measure of accountability if things go south.

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areas where the missionaries could not penetrate, were nurtured by the Ao’s. And since the past 200 years or more, this is the first time that such a day has been observed and it just goes to prove that a lot of positive changes have come about in the Naga society. Taking into account that we as a Christian state, we Naga’s dress, speak and follow most of the American style of conduct. We still don’t have a common language besides English and Nagamese, to call our own.(The moment when on the Naga Day, where Dr. Wati Aier Ao said “Naga manu sop eki loko prathana kuribo” (Let us Naga’s all pray together) is applauded.)

It was during the time when some Naga’s were under Assam and Manipur that the British’s separated out the NEFA (ENPO) but

after the American missionaries came and introduced education (besides Christianity) at Impur and other villages in the year 1919 by opening schools till class VI, the people of NEFA (ENPO) were also able to get education through that and for which the ENPO are also really appreciative till date.

Post Independence interim government, the Indian government has provided Nagaland with all amenities even though denied a separate parliament. It has given us special powers of non-taxation, village councils, DB etc. but we Naga’s being of different race as compared to the mainland Indians have always been the warring kind, yet inspite of this the Indian government has always given top priority to the state.

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tion, Gandhiji, who did not know even how to fire a gun believed in non-violence and gave us that freedom which we are still living in today. In the same way, Nehru during his tenure although expressed his love and concern for the Naga’s did not promise a sovereign state to the Naga’s. During the prime ministership of Vaipayee, we have also seen that he has provided Nagaland a package of above 1000 crore for the development of the state.

Even presently, PM Modi is also at works in regard to the Naga political issues and by what we are seeing today, we hope that the solution for the lndo-Naga problem is not very far off, and because of which, we hardly see any bloodshed in our society today.

Therefore, UNDP believes that when all Naga

tribes and communities come together to organize such a day as Naga day; will give a good impression to expedite our demand for an earlier solution. And if and when our prayers are answered, we also further pray that the fate which fell upon Dr. lmkongliba Ao who struggled for our land, but was denied his life by some negative elements, will not befall among anyone. Many Naga freedom fighters have given their life for the cause and we see today that the truly dedicated ones are few. It is because of their tireless endeavor that we have reached this juncture today. All the political parties registered under the Election Commission of India also play a part in this fight but the civil societies and the freedom fighters have a much larger role to play for the future genera-

Decoding genome of HIV variant found in India

he Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) continues to engage scientists because of its complex nature. A team of scientists from India, UK and Spain have isolated near full genomes of HIV virus from a subset of South Indian patients - a subtype known as HIV clade C. Because HIV exhibits huge genetic diversity, the virus undergoes frequent genomic changes and each new variant differs in its response to therapy. Examining the entire viral genome can thus offer new clues for understanding infection dynamics and tracing the evolutionary history of different strains. For this, researchers made tweaked existing method for isolating and sequencing the viral genome.

The researchers first isolated the virus from blood of 20 patients.

But, unlike previous method where four overlapping fragments of viral RNA were amplified, the

scientists selected 6 overlapping RNA fragments for sequencing.

This tweak was to ensure good data acquisition for HIV clade C. It also helped in improving efficiency and coverage of prominent viral genes -env and gag. Once multiple copies of these fragments were ready, genetic code inscribed in different RNA slices was decoded by an Illumina sequencer. Next, the fragments were arranged in correct order by referring to the existing HIV clade C genomes recorded in the viral genome database.

In this way, scientists could generate 9 near full-length viral genome sequences. In the remaining samples, good sequence recovery was achieved across prominent viral genes like gag and env. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that in 18 cases the virus belonged to HIV clade C; one belonged to AIC type and the other resembled the B type.

This shows that minor clades of

A and B type are also prevalent in the population which must have given rise to the recombinant AIC form.

“The classification of HIV-1 genome into clades is based upon several factors, an important one being the geographic source of the virus”, Dr ShahidJameel, an Indian virologist and CEO of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance who was not involved with the study, told India Science Wire.

In India and South Africa, clade C is particularly rampant.

“Since the early 1990s, India has a predominance of clade C HIV 1. This study used nextgeneration sequencing to obtain near full-length sequences and arrive at the same result. In that sense there is little novelty”, added Dr Jameel.

Researchers have also traced evolutionary origins of the variants. They compared similarities in the isolated genomic sequences

with those that are recorded in the genomic database. The Indian clade C was found to be closely related to the African lineage whereas the recombinant forms are believed to originate spontaneously.

These finding may have implications for disease control.

“While refinement of amplification protocols, sequencing platforms and bioinformatics tools for analysis of this kind of data are ongoing and likely to supersede the current study, application of techniques and approaches described here will benefit both the clinical management of HIV-1 patients, but will further allow a more precise description of molecular epidemiological trends and direction in specific geographical locales,” the study has concluded.

The study was recently published in journal PLoS One. Sarah Iqbal

tion of the Naga’s.

Luckily or unluckily, if the 2018 state election is not deferred, the state functioning will still continue as per the directive of the EC. But, it is up to the civil societies who have the voting rights as to what is to come.

The UNDP may just be a minority party but as a registered party, we are concerned for our state, our people and we believe in development for the people and not for selling out our land for the love of money, which the central government is providing for the development of the state.

We strive to work for the upliftment of the land and to move forward. God Bless us all.

N. Hotongse Sangtam president United Naga Democratic Party Nagaland

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The basic amenity Sir,

With the temperature plunging down in the last few days, so also the frequency of power cut. It is ironical that one has to keep on complaining year round about power cut and soon there is going to be change of government. Then the story will be taken up as chapter 1 all over again.

How long will this dilemma continue in the state and how can one even think of progressing with such pathetic power supply. How can one talk of being at par with other states when we still lack the basic amenity.

Hitoli Sumi, Duncan Basti Dimapur 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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This was corroborated from the sellers of the land as well as the brokers involved.

In another case, post demonetisation, two assessees were found depositing demonetised currency into multiple bank accounts in the names of their employees and associates to be ultimately remitted to their bank accounts.

The total amount attempted to be remitted to the beneficial owners was about Rs 390 million.

In another case, a cash amount of Rs 11.1 million was intercepted from a vehicle with a person who denied the ownership of this cash. Subsequently, no one claimed ownership of this cash and it was held to be benami property by the Adjudicating Authority.

New Delhi, Jan 11 (PTI): The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Thursday denounced the decision of the government to allow 49 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in Air India, and said it was aimed at expediting the privatisation of the national carrier. “The (Narendra) Modi government had already decided to push Air India for wholesale privatisation. And to expedite such privatisation move, the government has now made this announcement of permitting 49 per cent FDI. “Actually, this is nothing but complete foreignisation of the national carrier -– a public sector company with its huge asset base and a high-revenue earning international service network,” CITU general secretary Tapan Sen said today.

He has said that the government is taking the plea of huge loss Air India is being burdened with to justify its move, but the

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Benami properties. “Due to intensive efforts undertaken by the Department, provisional attachment has been made in more than 900 cases of properties under the Act. These include plots of land, flats, shops, jewellery, vehicles, deposits in bank accounts, fixed deposits etc,” the statement said.

The value of properties under attachment is more than Rs 35 billion including immovable properties of more than Rs 29 billion, the department said. Benami literally means ‘without a name’. An asset without a legal owner or a fictitious owner is called benami.

The original Benami Act was introduced in 1988 for prevention of black money and was amended in 2016 to prohibit benami transactions and provides for confiscating benami properties.

I-T Department said that in five cases, the provisional attachments of Benami properties, amounting to more than Rs 1.5 billion have been confirmed by the Adjudicating Authority.

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Globally, gold rose by 0.06 per cent to USD 1,317.10 an ounce and silver by 0.18 per cent to USD 16.97 an ounce in Singapore. In addition, increased buying by local jewellers ahead of wedding season, fuelled the uptrend, they said. In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity rebounded by Rs 145 each to Rs 30,620 and Rs 30,470 per 10 grams, respectively. It had lost Rs 25 yesterday.

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NEW DELHI, JAN 11 (PTI): The Income Tax (I-T) Department on Thursday said it has attached more than 900 benami properties including flats, shops, jewellery and vehicles worth over Rs 35 billion.

I-T Department said in a statement that it has stepped up action under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, which came into force from November 1, 2016.

The Act provides for provisional attachment and subsequent confiscation of benami properties, whether movable or immovable.

It also allows for prosecution of the beneficial owner, the benamidar and the abettor to benami transactions, which may result in rigorous imprisonment up to 7 years and a fine of up to 25 per cent of fair market value of the property.

The department had set up 24 dedicated Benami Prohibition Units (BPUs) under its Investigation Directorates all over India in May, 2017 to ensure swift action in respect of

New Delhi, Jan 11 (PTI): Gold regained glitter Thursday with the price rising by Rs 145 to Rs 30,620 per 10 grams, driven largely by a firm trend overseas as well as pick-up in buying by jewellers in the domestic spot market. Silver also recovered

by Rs 180 to Rs 39,680 per kg on increased offtake by industrial units and coin makers. Bullion traders attributed the recovery in gold prices to a firm trend overseas as the weakness in dollar boosted demand

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BERLIN, Jan 11 (Agencies): Chancellor Angela Merkel said her conservatives still had high hurdles to clear in Thursday’s talks on forming a coalition with Social Democrats (SPD) pressing for accelerated European integration.

Merkel, weakened by an election setback in September, turned to the left-leaning SPD to seek a re-run of their so-called “grand coalition” after the collapse in November of talks on a three-way coalition untested at national level.

The chancellor, who has won widespread respect abroad in more than 12 years in power, needs the coalition talks to succeed to avoid her personal authority being further undermined and Germany’s international standing diminished.

Speaking at the start of the final day of exploratory talks that could lead to formal negotiations, Merkel said it would be a tough day but she recognised that Germans expected results.

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Angela Merkel arrives at the headquarters of the German Social Democrats (SPD) for the conclusion of preliminary coalition talks on January 11, 2018 in Berlin.

“Of course we also have in mind that we have to create a good policy platform for our country. So it’s going to be a tough day,” she said.

SPD leader Martin Schulz, a former president of the European Parliament, made clear his priority was Europe.

“On the last day of exploratory talks we will make clear that above all this must be a new start for the European Union,” he told reporters. “If we join a government it will be on the condition that it makes

Europe strong.”

Schulz has called for a United States of Europe by 2025 - an idea rejected by senior conservatives, many of whom are wary of such ambitious reform plans that they worry could see Germany funnel more of its taxpayers’ money to other EU states.

H owe ve r, M e r k e l helped lead Europe through its twin euro zone and refugee crises and is adept at finding compromises, especially on European issues.

WASHINGTON, JAN 11 (PTI): Working with countries like India, Russia and China is a good not bad thing, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.

He was responding to criticism of his desire to improve relationship with Moscow.

“Working with countries, whether it’s Russia or China or India, or any of the countries that surround this world and encompass this world, is a very good thing.

That’s not a bad thing,” he told reporters at a joint White House news conference with Prime Minister, Norway, Erna Solberg.

Trump said he was for strongest military, massive oil and gas and a lot of energy. “Putin (Russian President Vladimir Putin) can’t love that,” he added.

Tr ump said it was “very much better” having to do with North Korea where the US currently has a problem.

“That should have never been my problem. It should have been a problem solved many years ago when it was much less dangerous.

But it was given to him, along with a big mess of other things,” he noted.

He blamed former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, his presidential rival in 2016 elections, saying she “was not was not for a strong military”.

“Hillary, my opponent, was for windmills, and she was for other types of energy that don’t have the same capacities at this moment certainly,” he said.

Trump said it was a “lot better” to work with other countries.

“We’re working with China on North Korea.

We’re working with various other countries, and I think we’re doing very well.

We had a great talk, as you know and as you reported.

“We had a great talk this morning with President Moon (of South Korea), and I think that a lot of good things are happening. We’re going to see what happens,” the US president said.

Solberg said Norway has a “very good” relationship with Russia.

“As a neighbouring country we do day-to-day work on things that we have to solve for the people and the economic activity that is in that area, which is a fragile area for the whole world,” she said.

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China’s new Silk Road hits political, financial hurdles BEIJING, Jan 11 (Agencies): China’s plan for a modern Silk Road of railways, ports and other facilities linking Asia with Europe hit a $14 billion pothole in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s relations with Beijing are so close that officials call China their “Iron Brother.” Despite that, plans for the Diamer-Bhasha Dam were thrown into turmoil in November when the chairman of Pakistan’s water authority said Beijing wanted an ownership stake in the hydropower project. He rejected that as against Pakistani interests.

China issued a denial but the official withdrew the dam from among dozens of projects being jointly developed by the two countries.

From Pakistan to Tanzania to Hungary, projects under President Xi Jinping’s signature “Belt and Road Initiative” are being cancelled, renegotiated or delayed due to disputes about costs or complaints host countries get too little out of projects built by Chinese companies and financed by loans from Beijing that must be repaid.

In some areas, Beijing is suffering a political backlash due to fears of domination by Asia’s biggest economy.

“Pakistan is one of the countries that is in China’s hip pocket, and for Pakistan to stand up and say, ‘I’m not going to do this with you,’ shows it’s not as ‘win-win’ as China says it is,” said Robert Koepp, an analyst in Hong Kong for the Economist Corporate Network, a research firm.

“Belt and Road,” announced by Xi in 2013, is a loosely defined umbrella for Chinese-built or -financed projects across 65 countries from the South Pacific through Asia to Africa and Europe.

Other governments welcomed the initiative in a region the Asian Development Bank says needs more than $26 trillion of infrastructure investment by 2030 to keep economies growing. Nations including Japan have given or lent billions of dollars for development, but China’s venture is bigger and the only source of money for many projects.

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Washington to Moscow to New Delhi are uneasy Beijing is trying to use its “Belt and Road” to develop a China-centered political structure that will erode their influence.

Among projects that have been derailed or disrupted, authorities in Nepal cancelled plans in November for Chinese companies to build a $2.5 billion dam after they concluded contracts for the Budhi Gandaki Hydro Electric Project violated rules requiring multiple bidders.

Consulting firm BMI Research has compiled a database of $1.8 trillion of infrastructure investments across Asia, Africa and the Middle East that include Chinese money or other involvement.

“It’s probably too early to say at this point how much of the overall initiative will actually be implemented,” said Christian Zhang, a BMI analyst.

The US and Japanese governments express interest in building contracts or other potential opportunities. But they also are trying to develop alternative initiatives.

WhatsApp group chats can easily be infiltrated, find researchers California mudslides death toll rises sApp server had access to the conversation, he or she could also use the server to selectively block any messages in the group. “He can cache all the message and then decide which get sent to whom and which not,” Mr Rosler said.

A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed the findings to Wired, however adding that “no one can secretly add a new member to a group and a notification does go through that a new, unknown member has joined the group”.

“We’ve looked at this issue carefully,” the spokesperson added.

WhatsApp is likely to give group administrators more powers where

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According to WABetaInfo, a fan site that tests new WhatsApp features early, the popular mobile messaging platform has submitted the “Restricted Groups” setting via Google Play Beta Programme in the version 2.17.430. Once restricted, other members will simply have to read their messages and will not be able to respond. They will have to use the “Message Admin” button to post a message or share media to the group.

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Lo n d o n, J a n 1 1 (Agencies): Hundreds of rescuers are combing wreckage in Souther n California for those missing after mudslides that have killed 17. Another 28 injuries have been reported in Santa Barbara County following the deluge that overwhelmed an area scorched by wildfires last month, reported BBC. More than 100 homes were destroyed, and another 300 have been damaged.

One rescue worker tearfully described plucking a “muddy doll” of a toddler from under several feet of debris.

Berkeley Johnson said the two-year-old girl was taken to hospital and

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suffered an injury to her hip.

“I don’t know how the baby survived,” Mr Berkeley told the Santa Barbara Independent newspaper.

He said of his own home in the community of Montecito: “This was an hour of rain, and the house was gone.”

Mr Johnson said he and his wife, Karen, heard a baby crying after the flooding had subsided and they managed to climb

down from the roof of their swamped home.

The pair joined a fireman to dig the toddler out, scooping mud from her mouth before she was taken to hospital.

“Had we not gone over there, I don’t think that kid would have [survived],” he added.

Police say 17 people remain missing. The death toll rose on Wednesday afternoon after two more bodies were found.

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Islamabad, Jan 11 (PTI): Pakistan Thursday kept mum over what action it will take against Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, but said it takes its “international obligations” very seriously.

Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal while replying to a question during his weekly briefing said Pakistan is serious to implement UN sanctions against listed individuals and groups including Saeed.

“As far as Hafiz Saeed is concerned, Pakistan takes its international obligations very seriously. We have been implementing the UN Security Council sanctions related to assets freeze, arms embargo and travel ban on all listed individuals and entities,” he said.

The Foreign Office spokesman was asked about action being taken against the founder of the Lashkare-Taiba after a BBC report that he toured the UK in the 1990s to incite Muslims to become jihadis.

A BBC investigation has said that Saeed, one of the world’s most wanted terror suspects, who now heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) group in Pakistan, had toured British mosques in 1995 and his visit was recorded in a magazine published by the LeT at the time.

Pakistan has banned the collection of donations by the JuD, the front organisation of banned outfit Lashkar- e-Taiba, as well as several other such organisations named in a list of banned outfits by the UN Security Council.

group with no interaction on the part of the administrator.

“The phone of every participant in the group then automatically shares secret keys with that new member, giving him or her full access to any future messages,” the report added. With over 1.2 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp is available in more than 50 different languages around the world and in 10 Indian languages.

Facebook-owned WhatsApp added end-toend encryption to every conversation two years ago. According to the researchers, once an attacker with control of the What-

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sion,” the report said, citing cryptographers.

“The confidentiality of the group is broken as soon as the uninvited member can obtain all the new messages and read them,” Paul Rosler, one of the Ruhr University researchers, was quoted as saying.

The WhatsApp attack on group chats takes advantage of a bug.

“Only an administrator of a WhatsApp group can invite new members, but WhatsApp doesn’t use any authentication mechanism for that invitation that its own servers can’t spoof,” the report said.

So the server can simply add a new member to a

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 11 (IANS): A team of German cryptographers has discovered flaws in WhatsApp’s group chats despite its end-to-end encryption, that makes it possible to infiltrate private group chats without admin permission.

According to a report in Wired.com, the cryptographers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany announced this at the “Real World Crypto Security Conference in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

“Anyone who controls the app’s servers could insert new people into private group chats without needing admin permis-

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Hayley Williams Invites ‘Stranger Jack White Releases Two New Songs, Seal Can’t Believe Oprah Didn’t Things’ Star to Perform With Paramore Talks ‘Getting Into a Character’s Head’ Know About Harvey Weinstein T

clip, before inviting him to “crash a pmore stage and thrash those luscious locks around (& harmonize, obv) whenever the spirit (of rock) leads you.” Matarazzo was ecstatic to be noticed by Williams and replied back, “Dude!! Yesss!!!! Let’s make this happen!” before Williams shared she would be sending him their 2018 tour schedule for him to pick a date. Paramore, who are currently touring around the world, will surely make Stranger Things and Paramore fans’ dreams come true when the collaboration finally comes to be.

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In December 2017, the brand was given £30 million investment by private firm, NEO Investment Partners, which will be used to build the brand’s digital and physical retail presence, drive growth in core categories and introduce new categories and collaborations.

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ments,” he explained.

K a s hya p, w h o i s keen on exploring the old storytelling tradition that infuses music and poetry, believes in adding entertainment value to any serious topic. “This is the first time that I have thought about the story as in ‘How would Rajkumar Hirani do it’ because as a filmmaker, he understands the pulse of a common man very well.

He took on the education system in ‘3 Idiots’, religion in ‘PK’ and a subject like Mahatma Gandhi in ‘Munna Bhai’.

“Raju proved the fact that if you can add a value of entertainment,

you can reach out to the largest audience with the most serious subject of the country. I think I have tried everything in this one -- whether adding humour, use of music and poetry... I have tried them all,” added Kashyap.

He believes in the existing fine line between a lyricist and a poet, and so, has used poetry penned by Hussain Haidry for “Mukkabaaz”. Being vocal on issues pertaining to the entertainment business, the filmmaker said that he prefers to stay as an independent individual.

However, he hopes better times prevail for the industry.

“I think the larger issue in the business of cinema is different. Things like censorship, forced rule of the interval by exhibitors, difficult distribution of a film in different states are some of them. I think we are living in a country where people want everything free, without responsibility. And they are certainly not ready to pay for entertainment.”

“Mukkabaaz” is releasing on Friday. (IANS)

something new into the universe,” he says with a laugh.

The original refrain was “I’m Infected By Love,” but he had second thoughts. “I thought ‘Well, people won’t get that metaphor — they’ll turn that into, ‘Well, Do you have an STD, or something?’ [laughs] It might hurt the rest of the messages of the song if I kept that as the main thing. So I changed ‘Infected’ to ‘Connected’ and then started to feed off of that.” (Rolling Stone)

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ictoria Beckham will show at London Fashion Week for the first time this September.

WWD reports that the event will be part of the brand’s 10-year anniversary celebrations, which will also include special pieces and a change to its existing show approach.

This February, Beckham will stage “intimate presentations” at the James Burden Mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to showcase her autumn/winter 2017 offering - a throwback to how she used to present her collections when the business was in its early stages. The label went onto to host full catwalk shows at New York Fashion Week, usually attended by her high-profile family, as well as the echelons of the fashion world.

Although Beckham has not held a show in the capital before, she did once make an appearance as a model on a London catwalk, namely for Maria Grachvogel in 2000.

Over the past decade, the designer has built up a lucrative business. In December 2016, annual global revenues came to £36.4 million with losses of £8.5 million. The company reported that the first half of revenues saw revenues grow in the

elebrated filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who counts himself as a social commentator and attempts to capture the complex reality of the Indian society in his films, says he wants thought-provoking films to help the audience start a conversation on issues.

His forthcoming sports film “Mukkabaaz” deals with the struggle of a boxer and with social issues like caste system, youth politics and the power play of people.

Known for his socio-political dramas like “Black Friday”, “Ugly” and “Gangs Of Wasseypur”, what made him make a film on boxing?

“I intend to start a dialogue through my films.

I am a social commentator as a filmmaker and (believe in) capturing the complexity of the society as it is. The idea is that after watching the film ‘Mukkabaaz’, if people start talking about the affected area of a sportsman’s life and who is responsible for that, I will be happy,” Kashyap told IANS in an interview.

“The fact is, in our country, people join sports to get a government job and once they get that, they do not want to do that and rather want to play the sport. As a result, neither do they become a good officer, nor a sportsman. Ultimately, the result shows on our achievement of medals in international tourna-

songs. “I just started humming notes out loud, staring out the window,” he tells Rolling Stone. “After that, you really can’t explain it. You just have to get out of the way and let it happen. And you don’t really notice it as it’s happening.”

White initially thought the song was “maybe some old melody I’m copying from some old song from 40 years ago, subconsciously – those are all the perils of trying to, you know, bring

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But the Kiss From a Rose star isn’t buying the idea that she was completely unaware of the disgraced movie boss’ alleged sexual misconduct – as detailed in New York Times and New Yorker exposes last year.

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Last month a video went viral showing Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo rocking out with his band, Work in Progress, to Fall Out Boy’s classic “Sugar We’re Going Down” and Paramore’s smash hit “Misery Business” before a crowd in Asbury Park, NJ, and one special viewer was sure to take notice -- Paramore’s Hayley Williams.

After seeing the video, Williams took to Twitter to tell Matarazzo -- who plays Dustin on the Netflix smash Stranger Things -that she had watched the

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inger Seal is refusing to believe Oprah Winfrey had no idea Harvey Weinstein was an alleged serial predator.

The media mogul has become a champion of equality and women’s rights in recent years and appeared more than a little presidential when she delivered her rousing Cecil B. DeMille Award accep-

with a photo, writing: “Oh I forgot, that’s right… you’d heard the rumors but you had no idea he was actually serially assaulting young stary-eyed (sic) actresses who in turn had no idea what they were getting into.

My bad.”

Oprah addressed the Weinstein sex scandal on her Facebook account late last year, writing: “I’ve been processing the accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s hideous behaviour and haven’t been able to find the words to articulate the magnitude of the situation.”

More than 80 women, including Mira Sorvino, Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd, and Gwyneth Paltrow, have now accused the disgraced studio boss of inappropriate behaviour, assault, rape, and misconduct. Weinstein maintains that while he may have behaved badly in the past he has never forced a woman to have sex with him. (Hollywood.com)

he four-year wait is over. Jack White has released “Connected by Love,” the blistering first single from his upcoming new album Boarding House Reach.

The song is a woozy plea for forgiveness from a lover who has burned all his bridges. Recorded with musicians who regularly play in the hip-hop world, “Connected by Love” sounds more modern than his previous solo material, albeit with a psychedelic edge.

White produced and recorded the song in three locations: Sear Sound in New York City, Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, and Third Man Studio in Nashville. It’s the first time White has recorded an album in New York and Los Angeles, and his first with an entirely new crew of musicians that includes dr ummer Louis Cato (Beyoncé, Q-Tip, John Legend), bassist Charlotte Kemp Muhl (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger), synthesizer player DJ Harrison, keyboardist Neal Evans (Soulive, Talib Kweli, John Scofield), percussionist Bobby Allende (David Byrne), and backing vocalists Ann & Regina McCrary of Nashville’s legendary gospel trio the McCrary Sisters “Connected by Love” was the first song he wrote in a Nashville apartment he keeps to work on new

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PERTH, Jan 11 (Agencies): The International Cricket Council on Thursday approved the new Perth Stadium to host all international formats of all the game, formally lowering the curtain on the city’s venerable WACA Ground.

The new 60,000-capacity stadium will host a sold-out one-day international against England on January 28 in the first sporting event held at the state-of-the-art arena.

ICC match referee Richie Richardson submitted a gushing report after inspecting the venue.

“This is by far the most impressive and well laid-out stadium I have ever visited,” he said.

“The comprehensive amenities, along with the quality and functionality of the facility, surpasses the required standard to host any international cricket match.”

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S Y D N E Y, J a n 1 1 (Agencies): Cameron White has replaced injured Chris Lynn in Australia’s squad for this month’s oneday international series against England, Cricket Australia said on Thursday.

The Victorian righthander has been in outstanding limited-overs form with 285 runs at an average of 142.5 and a strike-rate of 115.85 for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League.

White was the domestic one-day tournament’s top-scorer last season with 457 runs at 76.16, including two hundreds and two fifties.

He has played four Tests, 88 ODIs and 47 Twenty20 internationals and replaces big-hitting Lynn who was ruled out with a calf problem.

The opening match of the five-game series takes place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

M E L B O U R N E , Ja n 11 (Agencies): Roger Federer will open his title defence against Slovenia’s Aljaz Bedene and has a potential quarter-final with David Goffin in the Australian Open.

In Thursday’s draw, 36-year-old Federer, bidding for a record 20th Grand Slam title, has a first round encounter with the 51st-ranked Bedene.

The Swiss marvel, chasing a sixth Australian Open crown, could also face big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic in the fourth round in the bottom half of the men’s draw.

World number one and top seed Rafael Nadal starts his Australian campaign against the 83rdranked Victor Estrella Burgos of the Dominican Republic in the top quarter of the draw.

Nadal withdrew from his first tour event of 2018, in Brisbane, with continuing knee problems, and has been getting in match practice in a Melbourne exhibition event this week ahead of Monday’s start to the Open.

Nadal could face world number six Marin Cilic of Croatia in the quarter-finals.

Six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, seeded 14th for

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We the family members of Late Mr. Sa-o Angami would like to share our sincere thanks and gratitude to all organizations, unions, churches and individuals who stood by us during the brief illness till death on 09/01/2018.

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Defending men’s singles champion Roger Federer waves to the crowd during a ceremony for the official draw at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

this year’s tournament, has a couple of potential early obstacles with American Donald Young and potentially mercurial Frenchman Gael Monfils in the second round.

Twelve-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic has been sidelined since Wimbledon in July because of a right elbow injury, but beat world number five Dominic Thiem in straight sets in the Kooyong Classic this week.

Thiem is projected to face rising young German star Alexander Zverev in the quarters of Djokovic’s

section of the draw.

Former Australian winner Stan Wawrinka, who hasn’t played since Wimbledon after knee surgery, is the same section of the draw and faces Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis first up.

World number three Grigor Dimitrov faces a qualifier first up and could face American Jack Sock in the quarters.

Tempestuous Australian 17th seed Nick Kyrgios, is in the same section of the draw and faces Brazil’s 100th-ranked Rogerio Dutra Silva.

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We regret our inability to mention each and every individual but it is our humble prayer that the God Almighty bless you all abundantly.

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Federer to start Australian Open title defence against Bedene

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

"My presence will go with you" (Ex. 33:14)

Born on : 18/07/1960 Died on : 09/01/2018

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

The family of Late Sedebizo Zeliang (Born 25-10-1976, Died 08-01-2018) would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to all the ranks & files, Commandant NAPTC Chumukedima, churches & all well wishers from far and near, relatives, friends, for your prayer, support and help in different ways extended to us throughout the medical treatment till his last breath.

Though we are not able to repay you physically, may God bless you all abundantly.

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Loving wife, son & family members

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Lt. Tokheho H. Sema Padma Shree

Watson into Hobart International semis

Hobart, Jan 11 (Agencies): Heather Watson is through to the Hobart International semi-finals after a straight-sets win over an out-of-sorts Donna Vekic.

World No. 74 Watson took 61 minutes on Thursday to get past Croatia’s Vekic 6-0 6-4 but had to withstand a late surge.

Watson, who won the Hobart title in 2015, was forced to qualify at this year’s event. But, she has made an impressive run to the final four, knocking out third seed Sorana Cirstea in the opening round.

Watson won the first 11 games of Thursday’s match to take a 5-0 lead in the second set and looked on track for an untroubled win until Vekic fired up her forehand and reeled off four-straight games. But Watson steadied, breaking in the final game.

She’ll meet defending champion Elise Mertens for a spot in Saturday’s final.

The second seeded Martens advanced on Thursday via a walkover after last year’s runner-up Monica Niculescu withdrew due to a shoulder injury.

formance from his underperforming side and they were ahead within the opening 10 minutes after Vazquez netted his first of the night.

Dani Carvajal was given time on the right-hand side and his pinpoint cross was met by the Spaniard at the far post as he headed Real into the lead.

To their credit, however, Numancia did not give up during the opening period and they were rewarded with an qualizer on the stroke of half-time.

Guillermo, who had been

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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Perth Stadium gets ICC green light to host matches

victory.

Zinedine Zidane’s side lost further ground on Barcelona in La Liga last weekend following a 2-2 draw against Celta Vigo to leave them 16 points behind their rivals.

Zidane fielded a number of changes for the visit of Numancia with Gareth Bale – who scored in the opening tie and scored twice against Celta on Sunday – among the highprofile absentees.

Despite the raft of changes, Zidane will have demanded a strong per-

on the pitch only a matter of moments after he replaced the injured Higinio Marin, netted from close range to draw the away side level on the evening.

Real may have been up in the tie, but their performance was somewhat lacking following a rather drab first-half showing.

The home side, however, looked more threatening after the break and they were ahead once again as Vazquez scored his second shortly before the hour mark. Marco Asensio’s cross fell into the path of Bor ja Mayoral and his header was met by Vazquez, who fired home from six yards to score his first double in more than a century of appearances for Real and effectively kill the tie.

Guillermo netted his second with eight minutes remaining to ensure a draw for Numancia on the night, but it is Real who are into the last eight of the Copa del Rey. Elsewhere, Villarreal crashed out to Leganes after a 2-1 win at home was not enough to see them through. Leganes progressed on away goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw.

Alaves won 2-0 at home against SD Formentera to seal a 5-1 aggregate win.

White replaces Lynn in Australia’s ODI squad

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Real Madrid enter Copa del Rey quarter-finals

M a d r i d, J a n 1 1 ( Ag en c i es ) : L u c a s Vazquez scored twice as Real Madrid booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey following a 2-2 second-leg draw with Numancia at the Bernabeu.

The hosts were in command of the last-16 tie following last week’s 3-0 victory in the opening encounter, and despite a late qualiz from the visiting side, goals by Vazquez in both halves rubber-stamped their passage to the next stage with a 5-2 aggregate

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018

DOB : 11/11/2001 – DOD : 08/01/2018 We, the family members of Lt. KINOTOLI KINIMI would like to extend our sincere and profound gratitude to one and all who stood by us in prayer, morally, physically and financially as she left for her heavenly abode on 8th January 2018.

Our special gratitude goes to :Valley View Sumi Baptist Church, Women, Children, Youth Ministry Valley View Church Construction Committee Members Valley View Sumi Student Union Valley View Colony Dr. Bano, District Hospital Dimapur, doctors & nurses Er. Picto Shohe, Parliamentary Secy. Justice & Law. Shri. Jacob Zhimomi, Advisor PHED, Govt. of Nagaland.

Usutomi Baptist Church Usutomi Union Dimapur Area Usutomi Urban Forum Eden Hr. Sec. School, Principal, teachers and students Thilixu Village Block-II Family, friends, relatives & neighbours.

We deeply regret our inability to mention and thank each and every individual but pray that our good Lord bless everyone of you abundantly.

Loving dad, mom, sisters, brother & relatives.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

26.11.2012 – 04.01.2018

24th Nov. 1932 – 12th Jan. 2017 Dearest Daddy, You are not accident and your life is no fluke of nature.

Your parents may not have planned you, but GOD did.

Before you were even conceived in your mother’s womb, You were conceived in the mind of GOD. GOD surely had prescribed every single details of your body.

Despite colossal loss of you Your advice always sustain us with fresh Energy and Vigour.

The rich deposit of Wisdom that We have received from you will Lead us in Writing, Saying and Doing.

We still have the Sword and Shield you gave us, It will give us lifelong immunity and protection.

The Ball is now in our Court and the Battle in our Mind.

We will try to fight a good fight in His name and you Daddy, Remember, your death is not a punishment But a gift of rest… Well done DADDY! DP-285

Deeply missed by wife, children & relatives…

We the bereaved family members of Lt. Chüthuyio (Vikhoto) would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who stood by us physically, financially and spiritually during his prolonged illness.

We convey our sincere gratitude to:Mao Baptist Church, Kohima.

Mao Union, Kohima.

Little Wonder Pre-School, Kohima.

Cherry Blossoms School, Kohima.

Vineyard School, Kohima.

Officers Hill Youth Organization Metekhrielie Mejura & family Dr.Hovithal Sothu & family Fr. Goefrey (Vilasal) L. Mero & family Nagaland Home Commissioner & family Neighbours, friends, relatives & well wishers.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individual but it is our humble prayer that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Loving parents and relatives

10/12/1943 – 05/01/2018 We the family members of Lt. Thepfürovi Nakhro G.B would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who stood by us during his prolonged illness till his last breath.

Words will not suffice the gratefulness we have in our hearts for the kind gesture everyone has rendered upon us by upholding in your prayers, supporting physically and financially at the hour of our deepest sorrow.

We would like to convey our special thanks to:1. Dr. J. H. Nakhro 2. Dr. N Kezienuo 3. GBs Union Jotsoma 4. VDB Jotsoma 5. Jotsoma Village Council 6. Jotsoma Youth Organisation 7. Jotsoma Students' Union 8. Jotsoma Thenupfüko Krotho 9. Various Churches in Jotsoma Area.

Words fail to reach you individually, nevertheless it remains in our sincere prayer God Almighty in turn richly bless all abundantly for all your kind deeds.

Loving wife, sons, grand daughter and relatives.

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EFL Cup: Chelsea held to goalless draw by Arsenal

Players of Chelsea and Arsenal fight for the ball during their League Cup match.

LO N D O N, Ja n 1 1 (Agencies): Chelsea wasted a chance to take control of their League Cup semi-final against Arsenal as the misfiring Blues were forced to settle for a 0-0 draw in Wednesday’s first leg.

Antonio Conte’s side dominated possession for long periods at Stamford Bridge – where the Video Assistant Referee system (VAR) was in operation – but lacked the killer instinct required to take a step towards the final.

They had 21 shots to just eight from Arsenal, yet the tie remains on a knife-edge heading into the second leg at the Emirates Stadium on January 24.

While it was a frustrat-

ing evening for Chelsea as they chase a first League Cup final berth since 2015, the stalemate was a welcome tonic for their London rivals.

Arsenal, who also drew both Premier League encounters with Chelsea this season, suffered one of the most chastening defeats of Arsene Wenger’s reign on Sunday as second tier Nottingham Forest won 4-2 in the FA Cup third round.

While Arsenal were well below their best once again, in contrast to their surrender in Nottingham, the Frenchman will be encouraged that they showed enough spirit to keep Chelsea at bay.

Conte had mostly

Zidane pens new Real Madrid deal

Giorgi ousts Radwanska at Sydney International

M A D R I D, J a n 1 1 (Agencies): Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane on Wednesday confirmed that he has signed a contract extension which will keep him at the European champions until 2020.

“It’s signed,” said the French star.

After a dream start at Real, with eight trophies out of a possible 10, Zidane has endured a tough season with his side 16 points behind Barcelona in the La Liga title race.

And the 45-year-old cautioned, “I’m enjoying what I do every day, because that’s the way it is. I can’t imagine myself as a coach in two, three years, because things are not like that. I know how it goes, nothing more, even with this contract it does not change anything.”

S Y D N E Y, J a n 1 1 (Agencies): Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi continued her impressive run at the Sydney International by racing past Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1 6-2 on Thursday to set up a last four clash with Angelique Kerber.

Giorgi, belying her ranking of 100th in the world, beat U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens in the first round and then ousted twice Wimbledon and former Sydney champion Petra Kvitova.

She is yet to drop a set over six matches in qualifying or the main draw and will next meet world number 22 Kerber who staged a 6-3 6-1 victory over Dominika Cibulkova in the last eight.

Former world number one Kerber fell out of the top 20 last year but has

fielded fringe players en route to the last four, but Eden Hazard, back from a calf injury, N’Golo Kante and Thibaut Courtois were called upon with a Wembley showdown against Manchester City or Bristol City in sight.

Wenger surprisingly left Alexis Sanchez on the bench amid talk of the unsettled Chile forward joining Manchester City, while Mesut Ozil missed out with a knee injury.

After a tepid opening from Arsenal, Alexandre Lacazette escaped the Chelsea defence to collect Jack Wilshere’s pass, but the French striker wasted the chance as he scuffed a hurried shot wide.

Chelsea wing-back

Victor Moses forced David Ospina into action with a stinging drive that the Arsenal goalkeeper fumbled before recovering to snatch the ball away from Morata.

Moses was proving a problem for young left-back Ainsley Maitland-Niles and the Nigerian found space for another shot moments later, this time his low shot hit Ospina’s near post before Arsenal scrambled it away.

Fabregas should have given Chelsea the lead just before half-time, but the former Arsenal midfielder wastefully headed straight at Ospina from close-range.

Chelsea were piecing together their most convincing spell of pressure, but they couldn’t find the finishing touch as Morata’s powerful effort was well saved by Ospina.

Wenger’s response was to send on Sanchez for the ineffective Lacazette with 25 minutes left, yet within seconds Moses almost broke the deadlock when his goal-bound shot was deflected over by Shkodran Mustafi.

When Christensen headed wide of an open goal after Ospina misjudged a corner, Conte must have feared it wouldn’t be Chelsea’s night.

So it proved as Willian was denied by Ospina and Fabregas clipped a post in the closing moments.

NWA to participate in NTWFI belt wrestling c’ship

Dimapur, Jan 11 (NPN): Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) will be participating in the 7th NTWFI Belt Wrestling Championship scheduled to be held from February 3to 7 at Panaji, Goa. The selection will be done in the following age and weight categories: 1: Junior (18-19 yrs): 54 kg, 59 kg and 65 kg 2: Seniors (20 yrs & above): 50 kg, 57 kg, 65 kg, 74 kg, 86 kg and +86 kg.

Selection of players will be conducted on January 20 from 10:00 a.m onwards at IG Stadium Kohima. Therefore all intending wrestlers have been asked to attend the selection without fail.

All players are asked to bring Aadhar Card, Bonafide Certificate of school/college, driving license etc for age proof compulsorily.

The selected players will bear 30% (Rs. 3000) of total expenditure for entire trip and 70% (Rs. 7000) will be borne by NWA. All the selected players are to make the payment on January 20 itself.

For more details, contact mobile number 9612111544.

NAA meeting postponed

Dimapur, Jan 11 (NPN): The Nagaland Archery Association (NAA) meeting fixed on January 13 has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances.

The date and time will be notified in due course of time, informed NAA general secretary, Neiyalie Angami in a press release.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018

PSG reach French League Cup semis

PSG players celebrate after Neymar scores a goal.

PARIS, Jan 11 (Agencies): Neymar scored a second-half penalty as fourtime defending champions Paris Saint-Germain toiled before overcoming 10-man Amiens 2-0 to reach the semi-finals of the French League Cup on Wednesday.

PSG were again without leading scorer Edinson Cavani, who also missed Sunday’s French Cup rout of Rennes after returning late from his Christmas and New Year break in Uruguay.

Amiens’ hopes of springing an upset were heavily undermined by the dismissal of goalkeeper Regis Gurtner on 34 minutes for a foul on Kylian Mbappe after charging out of his area.

And Neymar eventually made the visitors’ numerical advantage count by winning and converting a spot-kick eight minutes into the second half at the Stade de la Licorne.

Mbappe, earlier denied by a fingertip save from Jean-Christophe Bouet, was then thwarted by a combination of the substitute keeper and the crossbar before firing another effort narrowly wide.

Marquinhos also struck the woodwork after connecting with a cross from Giovani Lo Celso, but Adrien Rabiot wrapped up a remarkable 35th consecutive win in domestic cup ties for PSG with a glancing header from an Angel Di Maria corner on 78 minutes.

The goal was given following consultation with the video assistant referee (VAR) – being used for the rest of the competition as a test ahead of its expected arrival in Ligue 1 next season – after goal-line technology failed to award it.

“Our team worked hard but we didn’t shine like on Sunday, but we also didn’t concede chances. It was easier to win because

we played with an extra man,” said PSG coach Unai Emery.

PSG will travel to Rennes, who they thrashed 6-1 in the last 64 of the French Cup, in the semifinals at the end of the month, with Monaco set to host Montpellier in the other last-four tie.

“All teams prefer to play at home. But we will make another trip to Rennes full of desire to reach the final and win the title,” Emery added.

Isaac Mbenza scored with four minutes left as Montpellier snatched a 1-0 win at Angers, while Adrien Hunou struck twice late on as Rennes defeated Toulouse 4-2.

Monaco became the first side to reach the last four of the competition on Tuesday as goals from Thomas Lemar and Adama Diakhaby saw Leonardo Jardim’s team overcome Cote d’Azur rivals Nice 2-1 at the Allianz Riviera.

Camila Giorgi of Italy hits a return to Agnieszka Radwanska from Poland during their Sydney International encounter.

made a strong start to the year ahead of next week’s Australian Open with victories over Lucie Safarova and Venus Williams this week. “I’m not looking back 2017 any more,” Kerber, who won the Australian Open and the U.S. Open titles in 2016, said.

“I’ve had a great offseason and I’m working hard. I’m trying to do my best on court and win as

many matches before going to Melbourne.

The other semi-final in Sydney will be an allAustralian affair between Ashleigh Barty and Daria Gavrilova. Barty completed a confident 6-3 6-2 victory over Czech Barbora Strycova, while Gavrilova advanced after her lasteight opponent Garbine Muguruza withdrew due to a leg injury.

Shashi enters final at IOC to decide on women’s boxing nationals N.Korea Olympic participation

G e n e va , J a n 1 1 (IANS): The IOC has said it will host a four-party meeting to decide on the participation of North Korea in the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games to be held in South Korea in February. The meeting was called following a joint proposal by the North and South Korea on Tuesday.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach will be joined by a delegation from the PyeongChang 2018 Organising Committee and delegations from the National Olympic Committees of both Koreas.

The meeting would have to take a series of essential decisions including the number and names of athletes and officials from the North since the deadlines for registration have expired. It would also have to decide on the format of such participation, including questions related to the official protocol such as the flag, anthem, ceremonies and uniform.

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Shashi Chopra

Rohtak, Jan 11 (IANS): World youth championships gold medallist Shashi Chopra entered the final of the featherweight category to set up a high-octane clash against Asian Championships silver medallist Sonia Lather at the 2nd Elite Womens Boxing Championship here on Thursday.

Shashi had to toil to emerge triumphant as Sonia of Andhra Pradesh -- her opponent in the semi-finals -- had done her homework well and had answers to her strategy.

Sonia used her height to land her jabs and hooks while she kept a safe distance and was in the mood to end Shashi’s winning

momentum.

However, Shashi’s undying spirit kept her alive in the bout as she launched a tremendous fightback.

After being bogged down from the first round, she got back at her opponent and countered with her nimble feet and after the end of three rounds she registered a slender 3-2 win.

In the flyweight category, Nikhat Zareen looked to be on course to get back to winning ways after her return to the ring but Ritu (Haryana) had other ideas as she upset the Telangana boxer with a comprehensive 4-1 victory.

World Championship silver medalist Sarju Bala of Manipur assured her spot into the finals as she defeated Meenakshi of Railways with a comfortable 4-1 scoreline.

Although the spirited Meenakshi managed to sneak in a point, she couldn’t destroy the Manipuri’s momentum as she stayed on course to defend her title.

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