January 18, 2020

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5TH SESSION OF 13TH NLA:

Ravi highlights early solution, development

Correspondent

KOHIMA, JAN 17 (NPN): Nagaland Gover nor R.N.Ravi highlighted various achievements and issues in the state among which was the successful conclusion of the protracted talks between the government of India and Naga political groups. Addressing the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly on the first day of the fifth session, Ravi expressed appreciation to the stakeholders for their sincerity, foresightedness and their spirit of understanding that helped create a conducive atmosphere for conclusion of talks.

He lauded the efforts of the Joint Legislators Forum for the November 13,2019 resolution on Naga political issue. Ravi also acknowledged the roles played by tribal hohos, mass-based organisations, churches and civil society in creating a favourable climate that enabled various outfits proceed unhindered towards a positive direction. Ravi also appealed to all state governments and people of neighbouring states, to show the highest level of understand-

Ravi, NSCN (I-M) to meet today Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JAN 17 (NPN): Governor of Nagaland and Government of India Representative and Interlocutor for Naga Peace Talks, RN Ravi would be meeting NSCN (I-M) leaders at Police Complex, Chumukedima here Saturday.

NSCN (I-M) sources told Nagaland Post that their delegation would be led by ato kilonser and chief negotiator, Th. Muivah.

It may be mentioned that negotiations over contentious issues between that negotiating parties concluded on October 31, 2019 after a three-month deadline set by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

After conclusion of negotiations, the negotiating parties have been working on tying the “loose ends” before inking the final agreement.

Dmu police refute

DIMAPUR, JAN 17 (NPN): Reacting to reported seizure of smuggled teak by the Assam Rifles, the Dimapur Police has clarified that no such seized consignment was reported to any of the police station, adding that it cannot confirm on the authenticity of such a seizure as claimed by the concerned agency.

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“All they do is talk about absenteeism and No Work No Pay but end up doing nothing.”

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ing so that the Naga peace process would conclude successfully for an enduring peace in the region.

On the CAB 2019, Ravi said Nagaland did not provide any ground for CAB since it enjoyed a special status under Article 371A and also applicability of ILP(under BEFR 1873). Ravi also mentioned that from December 9,2019 decision, ILP was made operative to entire Dimapur district to check influx of illegal immigrants as well as visible worsening of law and order on account of “entry of anti-social elements and groups of various shades from outside.”

On identifying indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland , he said the state government will examine the recommendation of the

RIIN Commission before tabling it in the house for further deliberations.

Ravi also informed that a Cyber Crime Prevention Against Women and Children Lab has been set up at Police Training School Chumoukedima.

He mentioned that from 2020 academic year, the Department of School Education has introduced Teachers’ Dairy on monitoring students outcomes and teachers performances. He also informed that the government will double farmers’ income by 2022 under various central schemes.

Emphasising on the importance on development of roads, he said four road projects have been sanctioned under NEC for upgradation. Also seven projects under North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme(NESIDS) and 13 under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY) have also been sanctioned. Further, he said the Roads and Bridges department is constructing nine roads under Inter-State Connectivity (ISC) covering 180.89 Kms amounting to Rs.631.18 crore.

NLA ratifies Bill on SC/ST reservation for LS, Assemblies China confirms Nagaland Legisla- by Lok Sabha and Rajya were reserved for schedule second death tive Assembly (NLA) Fri- Sabha on December 10 and tribes of Nagaland. He also day unanimously ratified the Constitution (126th) Amendment Bill that proposes to extend the reservation quota for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies by another 10 years, till January 25, 2030. The reservation quota was provided for a period of 70 years since the enactment of the Constitution and will expire on January 25, 2020 if not extended further. The Constitution (126th) Amendment Bill had already been passed

12, 2019.

During the fifth (special) session of the 13th NLA, the chief minister Neiphiu Rio, while moving for the resolution for rectification of the bill, said the amendment bill was made in regard to Article 334 pertaining to period of reservation of seats for SCs and STs in the House of the People and legislative assemblies of the state. Rio said that Nagaland was a direct beneficiary of this provision, wherein 59 out of 60 seats

said the house may have to pursue for further discussion in future on Dimapur -I , an unreserved seat. He said states like Meghalaya, Mizoram and Outer Manipur Lok Sabha seats were reserved for ST whereas Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha seat was not reserved. He said this could also be discussed in future. The house later adopted the resolution for ratification of the bill by unanimous voice vote. The house was then adjourned till February 7, 2020.

CM, deputy speaker make obituary references NLA deputy speaker Sharingain Longkumer and Rio also made obituary references to the deaths of speaker of the 13th Assembly Vikho-o Yhoshu and other members during the special session.

Yhoshü was elected as speaker on March 13, 2018, before be passed away on December 30, 2019. He was consecutively elected three times from

NDFB signs SoO with GoI NEW DELHI, JAN 17 (PTI): Banned NDFB, an insurgent group active in Assam, has signed an agreement with the government for suspension of operations, officials said on Friday.

According to the pact, the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) under the leadership of its ‘president’ B Saoraigwra will abjure violence and join in peace talks with the government.

The tripartite agreement was signed by representatives of the NDFB and the central and Assam governments, the officials said.

Active members of the NDFB including Saoraigwra were brought back from Myanmar on January 11.

Top leaders including Saoraigwra, its ‘general secretary’, ‘commanderin-chief ’ and ‘finance secretary’ were part of the group, an official said. The group carried 25 weapons, more than 50 magazines, more than 900 assorted ammunition and communication equipment with them.

Four family members also accompanied the group. Saoraigwra’s group was active in Myanmar along with other Northeast insurgent groups.

They had formed a joint plat-

Coronavirus outbreak in China: Centre issues travel advisory

form namely United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia along with NSCN-K and ULFA faction headed by Paresh Baruah. This was the only active Bodo insurgent group operating in Assam with the demand for a separate Bodo state.

The demand for a separate state for the Bodos has been in going on in Assam for about about five decades with several Bodo overground and militant groups raising it, leading agitations, protests and violence that resulted in many deaths.

Agreements were signed in 1993 and 2003 to resolve the vexed issue. A Bodo Territorial Council under Sixth Schedule of the Constitution was created in 2003 to meet political, developmental and identity-related aspirations of the Bodos. However, the demand for Bodoland state continued despite opposition by non-Bodo groups in the state. Another official said if a final settlement to the Bodo issue is found while keeping intact the territorial integrity of Assam, it will go a long way in improving the law-andorder situation and bring prosperity and progress to the state.

the 14-Southern Angami-I Assembly constituency since 2008. He was adviser (IT&TE), chairman of Development Authority of Nagaland from March 2008 to May 2009 and adviser (IT&C) from June 2009 to February 2013.

In his second tenure, he served as parliamentary secretary of housing, treasuries & accounts (T&A) from February 2013 to

April 2014; parliamentary secretary of animal husbandry & veterinary, T&A and legal metrology & consumer protection from May 2014 to December 2014; parliamentary secretary of mechanical & chairman NSMDC from February 2017 to December 2017; and adviser, mechanical & NSMDC from December 2017 to January 2018.

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NEW DELHI/BEIJING, JAN 17 (PTI/IANS): The government has issued a travel advisory asking citizens to follow certain precautionary measures while visiting China in the wake of the outbreak of Coronaviruses (CoV) there. China on Friday has confirmed a second death due to a new type of coronavirus in Wuhan city. The advisory issued by the Union health ministry stated that even though the mode of transmission of the novel coronavirus is unclear as of now, those visiting China are advised to avoid travel to farms, live animal markets or where animals are slaughtered, and refrain from consuming “raw or undercooked meat”.

It suggested avoiding close contact with people who are unwell or showing symptoms of illness, such as cough, runny nose among others. The travellers are advised to wear a mask if they have symptoms of respiratory problem.

It also stated that as on

January 11, as many as 41 confirmed cases of infection with the novel coronavirus have been reported so far.

“Only travel-related cases have been reported (one each) in Thailand and Japan. The clinical signs and symptoms are mainly fever with a few patients having difficulty in breathing. The mode of transmission is unclear as of now...,” the advisory read.

WHO Thursday stated that not enough is known about the coronavirus to draw definitive conclusions about how it is transmitted, clinical features of disease, or the extent to which it has spread. It urged all countries to be prepared to tackle the spread of the virus.

Meanwhile, as a precautionary measure, the Union Health Ministry has instructed screening of travellers from the neighbouring country at Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata airports using thermal scanners.

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan took a stock of public health preparedness in the country on Friday.

State governments have also been advised on the necessary precaution to be taken on the issue.

Peren firing: Dy.CM Nagaland cannot grow if smaller tribes orders through probe and minorities feel marginalised: Ravi

DIMAPUR, JAN 17 (NPN): Taking strong exception to the reported firing incident by two IRB personnel on duty at Peren town on January 16, the deputy chief minister Y. Patton, who also holds the home portfolio, has directed the director general of police to immediately conduct thorough enquiry into the incident and to submit its report to the government within 72 hours.

According to a statement issued by DCMO media cell, the deputy chief minister has also directed DGP to take stern and deterrent action against the duo as per the service jurisprudence.

Strongly condemning the alleged criminal act by the two IRB personnel in uniform, the deputy chief minister said that the government would not tolerate such indiscipline. He said that once their guilt was established, an exemplary and deterrent action would be taken as per the law of the land. “The hard earned good image of the State Police Force shall not be allowed to tarnish by some errant personnel at any cost,” Patton stated. The deputy chief minister has assured that befitting punitive action would be taken as per the law of the land. He, therefore, appealed to all responsible to cooperate with the department.

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JAN 17 (NPN): Governor of Nagaland and Meghalaya, RN Ravi, Friday said there was no second class citizen in Nagaland and maintained that all were equal and first class citizens. Speaking as special guest at the Mimkut Mini Hornbill Festival, at Molvom village, Medziphema sub division, organised

by Kuki Inpi Nagaland (KIN), on Friday, said that a country like India cannot grow if its minorities were marginalised or not taken care of. Similarly, Ravi said Nagaland cannot grow if smaller tribes or smaller communities feel concerned, apprehensive or feel marginalised.

Governor stated that Nagaland belonged to the indigenous people of Nagaland, where Kukis were indigenous people, and that

there was no question of it (Kuki tribe of Nagaland) being marginalised or being considered as a second class citizen. He maintained that if Nagaland was proud of its rich cultural heritage, it was also because Kukis of Nagaland have made it rich. “When we look at the beautiful and astounding presentation of various communities from whole over the state in the Hornbill festival, we see the presence of Kukis of Nagaland. So in the cultural sector of Nagaland, Kukis have a very significant position as well”, Ravi stated.

Ravi, who is also the government of India representative and interlocutor for Naga peace talks, stated that it did not matter whether a community was large or small. He said that every indigenous tribe was an equal partner and stakeholder, in all that happens

to Nagaland. Commenting on the condition of roads in the state, the governor compared road network to circulatory system in a human body and said that if road network in the state was good, the health of the state would be good.

Stating that road condition in the state was rather not in the best condition, the governor said road was one of his priorities, adding that good road was not merely an example of progress, but an essential requirement of a healthy state.

Ravi also stated that he has been constantly and regularly monitoring various road projects including Dimapur to Kohima four-lane project. He further stated that most local roads that linked villages to highways were also not being constructed in a proper manner.

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Nirbhaya case: 4 convicts to be hanged on Feb 1, says Delhi court Centre holds meeting with NEW DELHI, JAN 17 (PTI): Fresh death warrants were issued by a Delhi court on Friday for the execution of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrapemurder case on February 1, shortly after the President quickly rejected the mercy petition of one of them.

Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora while ordering that the four men, who are lodged in Tihar jail, be hanged at 6 am on February 1, however, expressed displeasure over the delay in their hanging.

“This case presents a scenario when convicts were given the opportunity to file mercy but only one preferred. There might be delay tactics. For how long will this go on? Had death warrant not been issued, the convicts would not have initiated their legal remedies,” he said.

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The judge was hearing the plea by Mukesh Kumar Singh for postponement of the date of his execution scheduled for 7 am on January 22 in view of the pendency of his mercy petition.

According to the Delhi government, the Prison Rules mandate a buffer period of 14 days between the day of the rejection of the mercy petition and the day of execution.

Besides Mukesh, 32, Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Kumar Singh (31) and Pawan Gupta (25) were to be hanged. Jail authorities have made preparations and staged mock hanging sessions using sandbags with new ropes.

The curative petitions of Mukesh and Vinay have already been dismissed by the Supreme Court, the last judicial recourse to challenge the death penalty awarded to them.

Akshay and Pawan have not filed any curative petitions yet. Also, the two men and Vinay have the option of filing mercy petitions before the President.

Pawan, meanwhile, moved the Supreme Court, against the Delhi High Court verdict rejecting his juvenility claim at the time of offence. Nirbhaya’s mother expressed disappointment

at the postponement of the execution. “I will fight and I will keep struggling… I will wait,” she said.

Tihar jail authorities sought issuance of fresh death warrants against the four convicts after Public Prosecutor Irfan Ahmed told the court that Mukesh’s mercy plea was rejected

by President Ram Nath Kovind. Remedies available for Mukesh to escape the gallows were effectively exhausted with officials saying the mercy plea has been rejected by the President and the Home Ministry sending it on to the Delhi government.

The president’s rejection of Mukesh’s mercy plea came after the Union Home Ministry forwarded the petition to his office late on Thursday night. On Friday, after the President turned down the mercy plea,

the home ministry sent it to the Delhi government. Officials said the petition was sent to the Delhi government for the dissemination of information to prison authorities.

“It’s a very good thing.

Our hopes have gone up after the disheartening news that the execution might be delayed,” the young woman’s father told PTI. “We are happy that the chances of them getting hanged have increased. We are assured that as soon as they file mercy pleas they will be rejected,” he added.

The 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as ‘Nirbhaya’ (fearless), was gangraped and savagely assaulted on the night of December 16, 2012, in a moving bus in South Delhi. She died of her injuries a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital.

states on Census and NPR

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NEW DELHI, JAN 17 (NPN): A half day Conference of the State/UT Chief Secretaries and Administrator was held in New Delhi Friday. The conference was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai. In his inaugural address, Rai laid emphasis on the need of conducting Census 2021 and the role of the States in doing the same.

He also said that the data collected in the Census helps the centre in framing policies for the welfare of the people of the country.

The Minister also inaugurated the Official “Mascot” for Census 2021.

The key note address was delivered by Union Home Secretary, Ajay Ku-

mar Bhalla. In his address, Bhalla remarked on the vastness of this exercise and involvement of the state functionaries.

At the outset, Dr. Vivek Joshi, Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India welcomed the Minister, Home Secretary, Chief Secretaries of the State and other State Nodal officers to the conference. He made a brief presentation on the Strategy for Census 2021.

After Dr. Joshi’s presentation before the gathering, presentations on the appointment of the Census functionaries, National Population Register (NPR), Printing and Logistics facilities, use of Mobile application in data collection and Central monitoring portal have been made by the respective in charge officials from the ORGI. K Y M C

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ACWA general conference underway at Phesama

Vicar General Kohima Diocese & Spiritual Director ACWA Rev. Fr. Neisalhou Carolus Koutsu speaking during the occasion.

Correspondent KOHIMA JAN 17(NPN): The 22nd general conference of the Angami Catholic Women Association (ACWA) got underway at St. Paul Church, Phesama village on Friday under the theme, “Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).

Vicar General Kohima Diocese & Spiritual Director ACWA Very Rev. Fr. Neisalhou Carolus Koutsu speaking on the theme said that human as a social being and as a basic nature of human was bound to live together through the covenant.

Delving on the significance of helping others, Rev. said that it points to-

wards “the call of a Christian” that encompasses all aspects of spiritual, psychological and social endowment and commitment.

Koutsu said man is bonded with the burden of sin, family and the burden of guilt and shame. These burdens which befall the human or anyone at any stage of life should not be despised but sympathised and cared. As a biblical reference, he said, “Jesus worked among the poor and needy”, adding that Jesus has taught them to be compassionate in their ways.

He also pointed out the application of reading the Bible within the family system is a source of spiritual nourishment to the self and a means of strengthen-

ing relationship. The Rev also stated that this year is being dedicated to “Reading the word” which he called all family to take opportune. He further added that all versus in the Bible are words of teaching and said that one need to explore those teachings in daily life while applying it in practical lives.

The programme was chaired by vice president Angami Catholic Women Association, Thinuoheü Teresa and welcome address was delivered by Ketholese Anthony.

In the following sessions, the speakers are Rev. Fr Vimedo Joseph Kezo, Director, Men’s Hostel, St. Joseph’s College (autonomous); Rev. Fr. Arul Susai, Parish Priest, St. Paul Parish, Phesama; Rev. Sr. Medokuonuo Margaret Sekhose, MSMHC Headmistress St. Paul High School, Majuli Island, Assam; V Lucas Meyase, Rtd. Director School Education; Rev. Fr. Keduoneilie Alex Vizo, Parish Priest & Chairman St Joseph School, Longleng; Rev Fr. Dr Keduolhou George Dzeyie, Vice Principal St Joseph’s College (Autonomous) Jakhama.

Meanwhile, Bishop of Kohima Diocese will be the main speaker on Sunday.

984 members attended the first day of the conference.

Interaction on Frontier & Nagaland at C-Edge College DIMAPUR: The Department of History and Political Science, C-Edge College, Dimapur organised an interactive lecture on “Frontier and Nagaland” on January 17 with Matthew Wilkinson as the guest lecture.

A press release from IQAC coordinator & HoD of Management Studies, CEdge College, Wapanginla Ao stated that the special lecture provides a wider perspective to the students on the social implications of frontier transitions - Nagaland from frontier to peace resolution.

Wilkinson is a research scholar from the University of New South Wales, Australia who is currently doing his PhD on “Men at the Margins: Patriarchy and Post-Conflict at the IndoBurmese Frontier”. He has been an academic tutor on a long list of interesting topics such as local politics of development, academic literacies, tactical counter terrorism, international relations, and terrorist networks and operations. He is also a research lead at the University of New South Wales and is also a freelance editor.

The lecture session highlighted on the dynamic outsider’s perspective and also encouraged dialogue and interaction on Nagaland as a frontier. The lecture session rounded off with some mind intriguing question which left the audience to retrospect on as to who holds the right to speak on behalf of the Naga society.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020

Gov interacts with NIT students at Raj Bhavan

Governor of Nagaland RN Ravi with students of National Integration Tour (NIT) at the Banquet Hall, Raj Bhavan, Kohima on Friday. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Flag-in of National Integration Tour (NIT) and interaction with NIT students and Youth Exchange Programme (YEP) NCC cadet was held at the Raj Bhavan, Kohima on January 17, where the Governor of Nagaland, R.N. Ravi interacted with

the students.

According to DIPR report, deputy commandant, K.S. Thakur said that the National Integration Tour is organised by Assam Rifles every year at various places in India. He informed that the tour is mainly for underprivileged students to

Zunheboto DPDB and Tobu SDPDB meeting held

DIMAPUR: Zunheboto District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) was held on January 17 at Conference Hall of Deputy Commissioner (DC) Zunheboto and Tobu SDPDP meeting was held on January 17 under the chairmanship of ADC Tobu, Mudongoyi Chuzho.

According to DIPR report, the DPDB Zunheboto meeting chaired

by DC and vice chairman DPDB, Peter Lichamo reviewed the work distribution for the forthcoming Re-

public Day celebration.

At the meeting, the DC directed all the head of departments to carry out the work distribution assigned sincerely.

He cautioned that anyone found not complying with the directives will be strictly dealt with.

EAC (headquarters), N. Nyamok Konyak informed all the head of departments under Zunheboto district to submit staff list for enumerators and supervisor for census 2021 as

workshop on ‘Intellectual Mokokchung DTF holds meeting on IPPI Property Rights’ held at ICAR

DIMAPUR: Intellectual Property and Technology Management Unit (ITMU) of ICAR-NRC on Mithun, Medziphema organized a one-day workshop on “Intellectual Property Rights” on January 16. The workshop was organized as part of the capacity building activity with the objectives to educate and to create awareness about IPR issues among the scientific community.

A press release from director ICAR- National Research Centre on Mithun Medziphema, Dr. Abhijit Mitra stated that Patent Attorney, Amrita Mazumdar, S Majumdar & co., Kolkata were the resource persons. Mazumdar delivered a series of lectures elaborating on the basics of Intellectual Property Rights and made

a detailed deliberation on different aspects of IPR namely copyright, design and patent. There was an interactive session to discuss the procedure of patent filing and submission of the application to the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA).

The workshop was attended by a total number of 44 persons including the staff and scientists of ICAR-NRC on Mithun and Nagaland Centre of ICAR Research Complex of NEHR, Medziphema, faculties of College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, CAU, Jalukie and SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema. The event was corrdinated by i/c ITMU, ICAR-NRC on Mithun Medziphema, Dr. Jayanta Kumar Chamuah.

DC Mokokchung chairing the meeting on IPPI on January 15.

DIMAPUR: Mokokchung District Task Force (DTF) on Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) held a meeting on January 15

at Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mokokchung office.

A press release by the office of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Mokokc-

hung stated that the DC, who chaired the meeting, stressed on mandatory immunisation of children.

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DTF meeting for immunization held in Wokha

Participants of the training programme after the training.

DIMAPUR: A one-day district level eVIN immunization refresher training for cold chain handlers and health workers was held on January 16 at District Hospital, Zunheboto conference hall.

A press release from district media officer CMO office Zunheboto, Shekho Sophie stated that during the training, DPO (RCH & UIP), Zunheboto, Dr. Alemwabang Aier in his address welcomed the parK Y M C

ticipants and briefed about the objectives of the training. He also encouraged the participants to work hand in hand.

Aier motivated the participants to work with dedication and sincerity and stressed on the micro planning, recording, reporting and monitoring tools.

He also highlighted about the rollout plan with timelines and other guidelines and outreach for universal immunization programme.

SPO-UNDP, Kingson facilitated the participants on strengthening universal immunization programme, recording, HMIS and eVIN reporting.

He also spoke on the objectives of the UIP schedules, session site and mobilization. He briefed on the importance of advocacy with the stakeholders and social mobilization and stressed on capacity building of community.

Project Officer-UNDP,

Imli briefed about the cold chain and vaccine logistics management, safe handling, maintenance and management of vaccines.

He also highlighted about the demonstration of eVIN store app, SOP of mobile app and web interface revision, online demo, resetting and troubleshooting methods. The training was attended by cold chain handlers, GNMs, ANMs from health units under Zunheboto district.

encourage them to learn more through visits of various places with historical, scientific and cultural background. He also mentioned that it was to motivate youth and to provide leadership in all walks of life and to be always available for the service of the nation.

Thakur further said that the tour was considered with an aim to give exposure to young girls for their development and progress in metropolitan cities like Bangalore and Chennai.

Apart from this, many activities were carried out by the NCC every year, like institutional training, camps, national level events, adventure activities and Youth E xc h a n ge P r o g r a m m e (YEP) with other nations of the world. This year, NCC group of Kohima, on behalf of NCC Directorate North East Region sent three NCC cadets: VinoleKeso of 1 Nagaland Girls Bn NCC from St. Joseph College Zakhama to Singapore, Deepak Das of 1 Nagaland Air Squadron NCC of Kohima Science College to Kazakhstan, and Karipong of 24 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC from St. Joseph College Kohima to Sri Lanka. The programme was organised by 40 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ 15 SECT Assam Rifles HQ IGAR (North).

DIMAPUR: District Task Force (DTF) Wokha meeting for immunization was held on January 17 at the DC’s conference hall, Wokha. Chairing the meeting, ADC Wokha, K. Mathung Tsanglao urged the members to provide proper information for the Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) programme to be held on January 19. He also stressed on surveillance and convergence for the success of IPPI programme.

D P O ( RC H / U I P ) Wokha, Dr. Khelito Zhimomi informed that the district was fully geared for the launch of IPPI with more than 200 booths and hoped to reach the target of 10,003 children below the age of five years. She further emphasized on the role of social welfare department (ICDS) and school education department to collectively ensure the eradication of polio.

RMO 40th Assam Rifles, Dr. Satya Prakash and representatives of Lotha Eloe Hoho also assured their full cooperation for conducting the IPPI programme in the district.

(RCH&UIP), Dr. Ayangla Saku briefed the members about IPPI which includes the poliomyelitis, risk of wild polio virus and to make the community aware of the necessity of multiple administration of OPV. She appreciated the achievement of 98% coverage in the previous IPPI and discussed the issues relating to the target set for immunization in the district.

Dr. Ayangla informed that 205 polio booths would be set up throughout the district on January 19 and that house to house visit would be carried on January 20-21, for those children who missed out the immunisation programme on the first day.

She requested the CDPOs to initiate the Anganwadi at their jurisdiction to be more active for the progress of immunization programme.

soon as possible.

SDPDB meeting Tobu: The meeting deliberated on sanctioning of more strength for police station Tobu and 6 NAP Poyang post Tobu, allotment of arms for V.G Tobu village and Tobu town, setting up of separate recruitment board at Tobu HQ, immediate posting of HM or AHM at Government High School Tobu HQ, non-functional of BSNL service at Tobu, immediate functioning of the Sub-Treasury office Tobu.

news in Brief NYKS Nagaland partake in NYF: Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) Nagaland participated in the 23rd National Youth Festival held at Lucknow wherein Vikuolelie Keditsu of Chiechama village representing NYKS Nagaland bagged third position. Youth from Nagaland participated in various competitions.

DC Dimapur informs on Republic Day: DC Dimapur, Anoop Khinchi has informed all heads of departments and public to attend the Republic Day celebration on January 26 to be held at DDSC Stadium, Dimapur from 8:30 a.m. onwards. All Head of Departments are also informed to collect their car pass and invitation from PA to DC, Dimapur.

L. Lenngoi Phom, daughter of Lungshen Phom of Orangkong village under Longleng, (class 10 at JNV, Longleng) has been selected to participate in Pariksa Pe Charcha, an event where students from across the Nation will be interacting with the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. she will leave for Delhi today. (NP)

GeM Samvaad held in Kohima

V. Kezo delivering the key note address at the National outreach programme GeM Samvaad at Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts on 17th January, 2020. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: A national outreach programme, GeM Samvaad was held on January 17 at Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts, Kohima. The programme is being held across the country from December 19, 2019 to February 17.

According to DIPR report, Special Secretary, Finance, V .Kezo, who gave the key note address, stated that GeM is a platform that will thrive to bring transparency and bring fast procurement procedure. He said that one may struggle to familiarize with the portal of GeM but it will benefit us in the long run. Therefore, he urged the stakeholders, departments and businesses communities to have the willingness to study, learn

and experiment, which the central government has created a platform for the benefit of buyers and sellers.

The resource persons for the programme were ACED GeM, Paritosh Singhal; DCEO GeM, Nirmal Kumar; and BF GeM, Biswajit Sankar. All government departments, state public sector undertakings, all commercial organisations, start-ups, Self- Help Groups, artisans, crafts persons also attended the programme.

Government e Marketplace (GeM) which was launched on August 9, 2016 is the national public procurement portal offering end to end solution for all procurement needs of government departments and their

autonomous bodies. GeM has transformed the public procurement in the country by leveraging technology and making procurement contactless, paperless, and cashless. Its basic aim is to provide efficiency, transparency and economy.

GeM Samvaad outreach programme will involve stakeholders and local sellers in order to facilitate on boarding of local sellers on market place while catering to specific requirements as well as procurement needs of the buyers. Rule 149 of General Financial Rules (GFR) 2017 mandates procurement of all common use of goods and services available in GeM portal mandatory for all government departments.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020

Seopi Sangtam speaking on the concluding day of the festival. (NP)

Correspondent KIPHIRE/TUENSANG , JAN 17 (NPN): First ever Tsungkamneo Mini Hornbill Festival held from January 15 organised by Yimchunger Tribal Council (YTC) concluded here on Friday at Mündün Yimchunger heritage village.

The occasion was graced by president United Sangtam Likhüm Pümji (USLP), T. Seopi Sangtam as tribal guest amidst colourful display of diversity of culture and traditional dances.

Addressing the gathering, T. Seopi Sangtam

extended gratitude to YTC for successful organizing Tsungkamneo-cum-Mini Hornbill festival and for inviting USLP to be a part of the event.

Expressing admiration for tribal culture and tradition, Sangtami expressed hope that the present generation would safeguard the rich and diverse culture saying that Yimchunger culture and tradition is second to none among the Nagas.

Expounding on the need to have constant cultural exchange, Sangtam said that such gathering

of different tribes will go a long way in maintaining peace and brotherhood in the true spirit of the festival. He urged upon the gathering to let past be past and come together with respect and understanding so that any problem or issues that might come along the way can be resolve through peaceful negotiation, which is the hallmark of their rich tradition.

The tribal guest also asserted that when leaders lead with integrity and principle, no society can go wrong, therefore he urged upon the leaders to lead

society in a right way for the betterment of society.

He also called upon the gathering to do away with making individual’s mistake which turns into tribal line stating that time has come for them as a tribal to think beyond one’s own community.

He further added that the festival will go a long way in building relationship across different layers of society.

Speaking at the event, Khiamniungan Tribal Council (KTC) president, Ngon Khianiungan appreciated YTC for taking responsibility in safeguarding the culture and tradition.

Pointing out that Nagas today do not live by the Christian principle, he advised the gathering to build friendship not only through good times but during difficult time as well.

The closing day of Tsüngkamneo –cum-Mini Hornbill Festival witnessed cultural presentation from Sangtam cultural troupe, Kemify Yimchunger Cultural club and folk song by Kuthur village.

The programme was led by M. Khalenmew while welcome address was delivered by general secretary YTC, Laji Luyanba and special appearance by S. Leshimong.

Participants after the Interaction programme in Kohima on Friday.

D I M A P U R : Ko h i m a Smart City conducted a briefing and interaction on the smart city projects for the trainees of waste management organized by the Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB) under “Green Skill Development Programme” on January 17 at the KSCDL office, sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

A press release from CEO smart city project stated that the smart city officials welcomed the trainees and presented slide show on the various upcoming and ongoing projects and the projects that were successfully completed.

This was followed by a discussion hour where the trainees asked about the green and environment related projects and projects focused on waste management.

Under the IT sector, one of the trainees opined that most of the government websites were not updated and contains with old images and write ups.

It was requested that an active and up-to-date website is a must and whether the Kohima Smart City can work on such a website.

The trainees were informed that under egovernance, the Kohima Smart City was working on Citizens Apps for information dissemination,

grievances redressal system, incident management system and websites also for applications like online trade license registration and renewal, building bye laws, smart transport system, etc. Some trainees also requested to conduct seminars and trainings for educated unemployed youth.

Altogether, 13 trainees who were all graduates and 5 NPCB officials attended the interaction.

The training also included site visits to the solid waste management site at Lierie and the Septage Management Plant at Meriema with the Kohima Municipal Council besides other activities.

Priest ordained to Salesians of Don Bosco Trg for educational administrators on academic supervision Correspondent

Phuvito Emmanuel along with his parents and Bishop of Kohima.

DIMAPUR: Deacon Phuvito Emmanuel was ordained priest for the congregation of Salesians of Don Bosco, Dimapur province at St. Francis of Assisi parish, Lazami on January 16, wherein Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima officiated the ceremony of ordination.

A press release from secretary to the Bishop of Kohima, Fr. Renthungo Victor stated that, deacon Phuvito dressed in the traditional attire was led to the altar by Lazami catholic community as a sign of offering to God. He was accompanied by his parents, siblings and relatives.

The prayer of blessing was given along by the parents, while Rev. Fr. Solomon Kivishe, assistant priest St. John the Evangelist Church,

Khonoma, anchored the ordination ceremony. Rev. Fr. Vinoto Justine OFM the parish priest St. Francis of Assisi Church Lazami, accorded the words of welcome.

Bishop in his homily, exhorted the candidate to be humble, building close intimacy with Jesus through the celebration of the Eucharist and prayer. Bishop also exhorted the new priests to stay in touch with the family and friends who can be source of strength in difficult moments of priestly ministry. Bishop urged the family members and the parish community to uphold deacon Emmanuel daily in their prayers.

Congratulatory song was presented by Phikuto and co, folk song by St. Francis of Assisi Church

Lazami. James Khakhu delivered the welcome speech and Rev. Fr. Jose Kuruvachira SDB, provincial Dimapur province expressed gratitude to the parents and those responsible for the success of the ordination.

He appreciated Loe Kiyeho and Avuli Rose for raising their children in the Christian spirit. Puloto Achumi & Vivitoli Swu anchored the felicitation programme.

Deacon Phuvito Emmanuel SDB was born on September 25, 1989 to Leo Kiyeho and Avuli Rose in Lazami village. He is the second son of the six children. Others present were priests, sisters, church leaders, CAN, NCWA, NCYM, parents and relatives, friends and well wishers. Over 45 priests concelebrated with the Bishop.

KO H I M A , JA N 1 7 (NPN): Samagra Shiksha Nagaland organized training programme for educational administrators on academic supervision & monitoring and educational administration & management at SIRD auditorium on Friday.

The training programme aims to develop effective tools for supervision and monitoring.

Addressing the trainees, Additional Mission Director, Samagra Shiksha, Limawabang Aier encouraged the administrators to build a sound network for better communication.

“Communication is the most important and necessary thing we need to take up right now to disseminate information at the right time,” he said.

Aier said that academic supervisions means not only checking teachers attendance but it is to motivate teachers and suppose to invoke their aspirations. “It is your duty to motivate teachers to perform better”, he reminded and called upon members to sacrifice for the state so that it will benefit the in the long run.

He also challenged to make schooling meaningful and asked to focus on elementary education first

Dignitaries and others during the training programme for educational administrators on academic supervision & monitoring and educational administration & management in Kohima on January 17. (NP)

before high school.

Principal Director School Education Nagaland, Shanavas C also took up sessions on “Academic Supervision and Monitoring, Educational Administration and Management” and briefed the field officers of the department to be prepared to carry out the assignments sincerely.

During the interaction, principal director shared the sample copy of the Teachers Diary 2020

which will be provided to all the government teachers and sought the views of the field officers.

Additional Director School Education, Razouseyi Vese spoke on the need to strengthen the supervision & monitoring system in the department.

He informed the participants that department is about to complete development of tools for the supervision and monitoring of schools.

Earlier, delivering keynote address, Assistant Mission Director Samagra Shiksha Nagaland, Kelhikha Kenye said that education is dynamic in nature.

“We need to constantly make effort to build robust education system by improving our schools through constant supervision and monitoring of our schools,” he said.

Stating that there is urgency to improve education system by im-

proving administration and management of the schools, he said “This can be brought about if we work out mechanism for effective supervising as supervising officers.”

The introductory session was chaired by Assistant Mission Director, Samagra Shiksha Nagaland, Chungngam and attended by the officers from the directorate, Samagra Shiksha, DEO, Sr. SDEO, AEO, JEO and school heads.

KVR students to partake in PM’s PPC 2020

Principal with students and teachers.

DIMAPUR: Four students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Rangapahar (KVR) Cantonment will be partaking in the third edition of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s “Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) 2020” K Y M C

scheduled to be held on January 20 at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi.

A press release by KVR informed that among the nine-member team representing Nagaland state, four

students namely Nikhilesh Yumnam, Sandhya Gurung, Rishav Dobriyal and Poulami Pandit of the school were selected to attend the live interactive session with the Prime Minister.

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Mizo parties, Csos hail Bru agreement

File photo of Bru refugees Aizawl, Jan 17 (PTI): Political parties and civil society organisations of Mizoram on Friday welcomed the agreement that puts an end to the over two-decadeold Bru refugee crisis.

Thousands of Br u community people have been living in relief camps in Tripura since 1997. They had fled their homeland Mizoram to reach the neighbouring state because of ethnic clashes. By now, the number of these internally displaced people has risen to over 30,000.

Many Br u families have refused to return to Mizoram, citing security concerns and inadequate rehabilitation package. There has also been a demand for a separate autonomous council for the community.

Following an agreement signed by representatives of the Brus, the central, Tripura and Mizoram gov-

Undertrial prisoner escapes in M’laya court Tura (Meghalaya), Jan 17 (PTI): An undertrial prisoner has escaped through the ventilator of a toilet in a Meghalaya court despite police personnel standing guard outside, an officer said on Friday.

The inc ident ha p pened when 32-year-old Bath N Marak, accused in kidnapping, extortion and other criminal cases, was being produced before the court of the district and sessions judge in Tura town on Thursday, the police officer said.

“He requested to be allowed to relieve himself.

However, upon entering a toilet in the court premises, Marak loosened the bars of the ventilator and escaped,” he said.

Marak was a former member of a group of notorious criminal William A Sangma, the officer said.

“He (Marak) was able to take advantage of the loose bars of the ventilator to flee. A search is on for the escaped prisoner,” West Garo Hills Superintendent of Police, MGR Kumar said.

ernments in New Delhi on Thursday, these tribal people will permanently settle in Tripura.

Political parties such as the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), Congress and the BJP, and civil society organisations like the Yong Mizo Association (YMA) and student bodies expressed happiness over the pact.

“It is a matter of joy that a pact, which would finally resolve the Brus imbroglio, has been finally inked.

We are highly indebted to Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Mizoram government for their outstanding effort in signing the historic agreement,” YMA Central Committee general secretary Prof Lalnuntluanga said in a statement.

One good thing about the pact is names of the Bru people would now be permanently deleted from

IMPHAL, Jan 17: Two UNLF cadres allegedly involved in a series of killing of rapists in Manipur were arrested during security measures being taken up in the state ahead of the Republic Day celebration.

The two UNLF cadres were arrested at 11:30 a.m. on Friday by a combined team of police commandos and 6 Assam Rifles at Top Khongnangkhong under Porompat police station of Imphal East. Two 9 mm pistols – Pietro Beretta Gardone VT (Made in Italy) loaded with six live rounds and Steyr Mannlicher Austria, Steyr M9-A1 bearing no. 062051 along with magazines loaded with five live rounds were seized from the two cadres.

A car (Cheveloret UVA, ML-05H/0604) in which K Y M C

Tripura to be made ‘drug free’

Agartala, Jan 17 (IANS): The Tripura government has taken up an ambitious action plan to make the state free of drugaddiction while the government’s proactive steps have reduced crimes against women, Tripura Governor Ramesh Bais said here on Friday.

In his customary speech on the opening day of the first session of the state assembly in the new year, the Governor said that in the past 20 months, 722 cases have been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and 1,241 people were arrested for trading in and smuggling various types of drugs.

He said that around 78,853 kgs of dry ganja (cannabis), 7375 grams of heroin and various others drugs have been seized during this period.

Highlighting the Bharatiya Janata Partyled government’s feat, Bais said that 1,891 cases of crime against women were registered in the past 20 months.

Referring to the data of the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), the Governor said that the crime rate against women has come down to 43.7 last year (2019) from 51.2 in 2017 against the national average of 58.8 in 2018 in per lakh of women populations.

According to the Governor, in the non-IPC cases, the conviction rate has increased from 28.15 per cent in 2017 to 34.9 per cent last year.

Team of Harvard University meets Manipur chief minister

A seven-member team of Harvard University called on Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh in his office chamber in Imphal on Friday.

Correspondent IMPHAL, Jan 17: A seven-member team of Harvard University called on Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh at his office chamber in Imphal on Friday.

The team led by Dominic Mao, PhD (Lecturer, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard) had a candid interaction with the chief minister during the meeting.

Dominic Mao was raised in Imphal before he moved to the US to pursue PhD in 2007.

The team is in the state to conduct Harvard’s Program for Scientifically Inspired Leadership (PSIL) at St Paul’s Retreat

Army conducts biggest Ruckus over tripura ex-minister’s arrest airborne exercise in NE

Soldiers carrying out a drill.

Kohima , Jan 16: Indian Army conducted the biggest airborne exercise in the North Eastern Theatre on 10 January 10 code named ‘Winged Raider’ signifying the multi dimensional nature of the exercise.

A press release PRO (Defence) stated that the exercise was preceded by a series of intense preparations involving movement of special forces and rallying up of transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force starting from January 6. More than 500 soldiers of Special Forces troops parachuted from C 130 Hercules, C 17

Two UNLF cadres involved in killing rapists held in Manipur Correspondent

the state’s voter list, the YMA said.

Hailing the agreement as “historic”, the MNF expressed hope that the pact is materialized quickly.

In a statement, the Congress said it had made earnest efforts during its regime in the state to repatriate the Bru people or allow them to permanently settle in Tripura.

The party claimed that former chief minister Lal Thanhawla had proposed that those Bru people who are unwilling to return to Mizoram be allowed to live permanently in Tripura but it could not be materialised because of objections raised by the CPI(M)-led Left Front government.

The state BJP said neither the Congress nor the MNF could resolve the crisis for more than 20 years.

Welcoming the agreement, the state’s apex stu-

dent body, Mizo Zirlai Pawl, asked the state government to ensure that those Bru families who had repatriated to the state are treated well and benefited from development schemes.

The agreement was signed one-and-a-half months after the latest initiative to send the Bru refugees back to Mizoram failed, as it was found that only 171 families of the targeted 4,447 returned to their homeland. The ninth round of repatriation began on October 3 and concluded on November 30.

The Brus are staying in six camps at Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions of North Tripura district.

They get free ration and a cash dole from the Centre.

The vexed Bru issue started from September, 1997, following demands of a separate autonomous district council by carving out areas of western Mizoram adjoining Bangladesh and Tripura.

The situation was aggravated by the murder of a forest guard in the Dampa Tiger Reserve in western Mizoram by Bru National Liberation Front insurgents on October 21 that year.

The first attempt to repatriate the Brus from Tripura was made in November 2009.

The Centre, along with the governments of Tripura and Mizoram, had been trying to repatriate them to their home state over the past one decade, with little success.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020

the two cadres travelled and some incriminating items were also recovered from the active cadres. Parading the arrested cadres, Imphal East district SP Dr Haobijam Jogeshchandra Singh identified the arrested cadres as; Kloijam Jiten Singh alias Kanglenjao (47) of Naoremthong Khullen and Athokpam Somokanta Singh alias Inaocha (40) of Tera Sapam Leirak (both from Imphal West district).

The SP alleged that the two arrested cadres were involved in killing two alleged rapists in separate incidents in August 2017 at Takyel Khongbal and at Thanga in Bishnupur district in September 2019. Three other cadres were also with them in the shooting and killing of the alleged rapists.

They were still at large, he added.

Globemaster and Dhruv helicopters during day and night. The newly inducted aerial platforms and equipment were validated, with clockwork precision and seamless integration between the Indian Army and Indian Air Force in difficult terrain. The exercise was telecast live to all field formation headquarters in the Theatre.

Exercise Winged Raider demonstrated the operational readiness of our Paratroopers and Air Warriors to undertake airborne missions, the release added.

AGARTALA, JAN 17 (IANS): The winter session of the Tripura assembly began here on Friday amid an uproar by the opposition Left legislators over the arrest of senior CPI(M) leader and former minister Badal Chowdhury.

Barely some minutes into Gover nor Ramesh Bais’s customary speech on the opening day of the first session, the opposition members led by Tapan Chakraborty rushed into the well of the House to protest against the arrest of Chowdhury in a “false case”, that led to the disruption of the proceedings for about half an hour. Outside the assembly, the CPI(M)’s youth wing -- the Democratic Youth Federation of India -- also organised a rally to protest on the same issue.

The Tripura police in October, 2019, arrested veteran CPI-M leader and former PWD and Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury and ex-PWD Chief Engineer Sunil Bhowmik in connection with “corruption charges in implementation of Rs 638 crore projects”.

The police in the same case has been looking for former Chief Secretary

BEFORE THE JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE/NOTARY PUBLIC, DIMAPUR : NAGALAND Regd. No. 1350/19 Date : 7/08/19 AFFIDAVIT

I, Army No. 75500Y, Rank - W/O, Name - SHYAM BAHADUR DAMAI, aged about 49 years, son of Late PADAM BAHADUR DAMAI, serving at 7th ASSAM RIFLES, C/o 99 APO, do hereby solemnly affirm and state on oath as follows :1. That, I am a citizen of India and presently serving at above stated place.

2. That, Smt. PARVATI DEVI DAMAI alias PARVATI DEVI is my legal wife.

3. That, correct Date of Birth of my said wife is 04/10/1973.

4. That, PARVATI DEVI DAMAI and PARVATI DEVI refers to the name of my said wife and is of one and same person only.

5. That, Henceforth my said wife shall be known as PARVATI DEVI DAMAI and her correct Date of Birth shall be known as 04/10/1973 for all purposes and intents.

6. That, the statement made above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief nothing is stated false.

DEPONENT Sworn before me on this the 7th day of August, 2019.

JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE 1st CLASS/NOTARY PUBLIC DP-439

DECLARATION Regd. No. 705/20 Date : 16/01/2020 I, Shri. Yokwang @ Yokwang Konyak, R/o H/No - 98, P.O.- Tizit, Lapa LampongVillage - UR, Lapalampong, Tizit, Mon, Nagaland, 798602, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as under :1. That, I am a bonafide citizen of India and presently residing at above stated place.

2. That, in my Daughter's Various Documents/Certificate etc.... my name has been entered and used as Yokwang Konyak whereas my actual/correct name should be used as Yokwang as mentioned in my daughter's Pan Card, etc...

3. That, both the above mentioned names such as Yokwang Konyak @ Yokwang belongs to the same and the only one person ie... me.

4. That from now and henceforth I shall be using my actual and correct name i.e...

Yokwang as mentioned in my daughter's Pan Card etc...

5. That, this affidavit is made for the purpose to declare that all the above mentioned names belongs to me and to use my actual name ie... Yokwang for all my future correspondences and to do necessary correction at the concern authority.

That, the statements made in Para (1-5) are true to the best of knowledge and nothing is false, and I signed this affidavit on this 16th 01' 2020 at Dimapur.

DEPONENT Sworn before me by the deponent on this 16th day of 01' 2020.

Notary Public Dimapur : Nagaland DP-423(B)

Yash Pal Singh, who was the Principal Secretary (PWD) in 2008-09. Bhowmik recently got bail from the Tripura High Court while Chowdhury, deputy leader of the Left group in the state assembly, is in custody since October 21.

According to Law and Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath, the Public Works Department under the Left Front government in 200809 had clubbed together 13 projects -- five bridges, five buildings and three road projects -- being implemented at a cost of Rs 638 crore on cost-plus norms.

Terming it the “biggest scam in the history of Tripura”, Nath said “Rs

168.13 crore had been siphoned off.”

Former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who is the opposition leader in the state assembly, had earlier said there was no corruption during the 35-year rule (1978-1988 and 19932018) of the Left parties in Tripura.

“Instead, state infrastructure and all other sectors improved in the state,” Sarkar had told the media adding that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government had hatched a conspiracy against CPI-M central committee member Chowdhury to malign the previous Left governments.

House, Mantripukhri in Imphal from January 14 to 18.

PSIL brings together three separate groups of students to create the PSIL community comprising Harvard Undergraduates, prospective teachers in the state of Manipur and high school students from various schools in Manipur.

While high school students are developing leadership skills, Harvard undergraduates and prospective teachers from Manipur are learning how to be effective teachers.

By interacting with one another, all three groups will gain a deeper understanding of teaching and learning as well as expand their worldviews as they share experiences

with people from many different backgrounds.

An important component of the program is cultural immersion, where the Harvard team will learn about the history and culture of Manipur by visiting various sites with the teaching team from Manipur.

While interacting with the team, Biren Singh highlighted to the team from Harvard about the state’s salubrious climate and unique flora and fauna including rare Sangai and largest freshwater lake in the Northeast, Loktak.

He also invited the team to the 5th Statehood Women’s (International) Polo Tournament underway at Mapal Kangjeibung.

Dear Cana Sangtam, Your birthday is a very special day for it reminds us that you came in this world on this day to bring joy in our lives. Happy birthday!!

From, S Litingse Sangtam, Victoria, Thsidi, Lumchong,....!! ____________________________ Dear mom, Happy birthday to the most awesome mom.

Nungothung

DECLARATION Regd. No. 704/2020 Date : 16/01/2020 I, Smti. Nginyei @ Y Nginyei Konyak, R/o H/No - 98, P.O.- Tizit, Lapa LampongVillage - UR, Lapalampong, Tizit, Mon, Nagaland, 798602, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as under :1. That, I am a bonafide citizen of India and presently residing at above stated place.

2. That, in my Various Documents/Certificate etc.... my name has been entered and used as Y Nginyei Konyak whereas my actual/correct name should be used as Nginyei as mentioned in my Pan Card, etc...

3. That, both the above mentioned names such as Nginyei @ Y Nginyei Konyak belongs to the same and the only one person ie... me.

4. That from now and henceforth I shall be using my actual and correct name as Nginyei as mentioned in my Pan Card etc...

5. That, this affidavit is made for the purpose to declare that all the above mentioned names belongs to me and to use my actual name ie... Nginyei for all my future correspondences and to do necessary correction at the concern authority.

That, the statements made in Para (1-5) are true to the best of knowledge and nothing is false, and I signed this affidavit on this 16th 01' 2020 at Dimapur.

DEPONENT Sworn before me by the deponent on this 16th day of 01' 2020.

Notary Public Dimapur : Nagaland DP-423(A) IN THE COURT OF

PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE

MOKOKCHUNG, NAGALAND NOTICE Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late A. Imlong Chang has been applied by Smt. Marsangla, R/o Majakong Ward H.No. 205, Mokokchung Nagaland, W/o Late A. Imlong Chang for possession of.

Notice is hereby given that any person interested in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire to appear in the court on or before 13.02.2020.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this day the 13.01.2020.

Sd/- Principal District & Sessions Judge Mokokchung, Nagaland MKC-31 Regd. No. 43

DECLARATION

Date : 03/05/19

I, Shri. KUKIYA SEMA, son of YEGHELO, permanent resident of Sumi Settsu Village, Zunheboto and presently residing at Naltoqa, Zunheboto, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows :1. That I am bonafide citizen of India, resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That my actual name is KUKIYA SEMA which is recorded in my first appointment order, in my GPF Account, in my service ID, in my SBI passbook bearing A/C No. 30584093087, in my PAN Card bearing No. GLOPS5011M and in my AADHAAR Card bearing no. 7073 8262 7918, however due to clerical error my name is inadvertently recorded as KHUKIYA SEMA in my service sheet.

3. That my name KUKIYA SEMA and KHUKIYA SEMA pertains to one and the same person and there is no discrepancy between the names.

4. That this affidavit is sworn for the purpose of rectification my name in all my service record.

5. That this affidavit is sworn to declare that the above mentioned names belongs to one and same person and henceforth I shall be known as KUKIYA SEMA. 6. That the statement made from para 1 to 5 are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing herein has been concealed.

DEPONENT Solemnly affirm and declare before me by the deponent on this 02 day of 05 2019 at Zunheboto, Nagaland.

1st Class Magistrate Zunheboto : Nagaland DP-427

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE

MON::NAGALAND NO/MON/DP/RO-46/2019-20/4483 Dated, Mon the 15th Jan ’2020 To, Shri. Tangyuh W Konyak Rank : Duftry S/O Wangyei Add: Tangnyu Village PO/PS : Mon Sub: SHOW CAUSE NOTICE Whereas, you have been found absent from bonafide Govt. duty w.e.f 04-08-2019 (FN) without any leave or permission from competent authority till date.

And whereas, your failure to respond to 3 (three) consecutive calling notices served to you vide letter NO.1.

RO-46/2019-20/3156 Dtd 30/10/2019, NO.2. RO-46/201920/4037 Dtd 26/11/2019, NO.3. RO-46/2019-20/ 4176 Dtd 6/12/2019, through the concerned Police station is found to be tantamount to neglect of relevant conduct rules and applicable laws.

Now therefore, the undersigned proposes to impose the penalty of dismissal/termination/removal from service.

You are hereby given an opportunity of making a representation to show cause as to why the proposed penalty should not be imposed against you. Such representation if any should be submitted in written to the undersigned within 7 (seven) days from the date of receipt of this show cause notice failing which you will be declared as a ‘deserter’ and ‘dismissed’ from service without any further notice.

Acknowledge the receipt of this show cause.

Sd/(IMNALENSA) IPS, Superintendent of Police Mon::Nagaland DP-441 K Y M C

national

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020

Present India like Hitler’s era: Amarinder country. People including students could see and understand, and are protesting spontaneously, without any instigation,” he said referring to the recent anti-CAA protests in different parts of the country.

Singh made it clear that the Census in Punjab will be conducted on the old parameters.

The new factors added by the Centre for the purpose of the NPR would not be included, the chief minister said. “The Census will take place shortly. It will be done in old way as it has been done in the past. We will not follow the new Act,” he said.

Making an impassioned appeal to the Akalis to rise above politics and “go by their conscience and think about their own country before deciding on their vote”, Singh said he had never imagined such a tragedy could happen in a secular country like India, which had more Muslims than Pakistan.

“Where will all those people, who you brand as non-citizens, go? Where will the 18 lakh people declared illegal in Assam go if other countries refuse to take them? Has anyone thought about it? Has Union Home Minister Amit Shah even thought about what has to be done with the so-called illegal people? Where will the poor people get their birth certificates from?” asked the chief minister.

“We all have to live to-

gether as citizens of secular India in our own interest,” he added.

“People of all faiths have lived harmoniously together in this country all these years, and Muslims have given their lives for this country,” Singh said, citing the example of Indian Army soldier Abdul Hamid, who received the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his actions during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.

“Why have Muslims been excluded? And why have they (Centre) not included Jews in the CAA?” he asked, pointing out that Punjab earlier had a governor, General JFR Jacob, who was a Jew, and who fought for the nation in the 1971 war.

“Those responsible for this situation should be ashamed of themselves,” said the chief minister, even as he lashed out at the Akalis for supporting the legislation in Parliament and then speaking on it in “different voices to promote their political agenda”.

Pointing out that Punjab had just celebrated the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, who taught that “koyi Hindu nahin, koyi Mussalman nahin, sab rab key bandey (no one is a Hindu, no one a Muslim, all is God’s creation)”, Singh asked the Akalis if they had forgotten the Guru’s teachings.

“You (Akalis) should be ashamed, and you will repent this one day,” he said.

SavingLives: Twitterati hails IAF

1 killed, 30 injured in Jallikattu at TN’s Alanganallur

Chandigarh, Jan 17 (PTI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday said the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act was against the secular fabric of the country and claimed that events unfolding now were similar to the ones witnessed in Germany in 1930s when Adolf Hitler was at the helm.

Participating in the discussion in the state Assembly on a resolution against the CAA, Singh termed the Act as “divisive” and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) as a “tragedy” and said he was unfortunate to witness in his lifetime the events unfolding now in the country.

“You want to change secular fabric of this country.

It is very sad what is happening now. We had not even thought of such a thing. We want to break brotherhood merely for politics,” he said.

“Clearly, no lessons have been learnt from history,” the chief minister added.

The Punjab Assembly on Friday passed the resolution by voice vote against the controversial CAA, seeking its repeal by the Centre.

The resolution also urged the Centre to put on hold the work on the National Population Register (NPR) till forms or documents associated with it are amended suitably in order to allay apprehensions that it is a prelude to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and designed to deprive a section of people from citi-

Amarinder Singh (File)

zenship of India and implement the CAA. The Punjab chief minister in an emotional tone said, “Where will poor go and from where will they procure their birth certificates...This is a great tragedy.

And I am very sorry to say that in my lifetime...I wish I was not here when this is happening to my country, where are we going to be in a situation where brotherhood is being broken for politics.”

He said it was ethnic cleansing in Hitler’s Germany in 1930s and claimed that now same events are unfolding in India.

“Germans did not speak then, and they regretted it, but we have to speak now, so that we don’t regret later,” he asserted, urging the Opposition, particularly the Akalis, to read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf ’ to “understand the dangers” of the CAA. He said he would get the book translated in Punjabi and distributed so that all could read and grasp the “historical mistakes that Hitler made”.

“What is happening in India is not good for the

IAF rescued 71 trekkers in the last 2 days.

New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS): Twitterati on Friday hails the Indian Air Force Personnel for saving the lives of the 71 trekkers by carried out a Search & Rescue Operation at Niraq in Zanskar valley.

The Indian Air Force @IAF_MCC shared a clip and wrote, “#SavingLives: Indian Air Force ALH Helicopters carried out a Search & Rescue Operation

at Niraq in Zanskar valley (Ladakh) and rescued 71 trekkers in the last two days. The trekkers were on the famous ‘’Chadar Trek’’ when they got stranded due to sudden flooding in the river.” As soon as the post get viral, Twitter buzzed with posts hailing the Indian Air Force.

A user praised the IAF personnel and wrote, “Nation admires our brave He-

Missing 1993 Mumbai blasts convict arrested by UP Police

Lucknow, Jan 17 (PTI): Mumbai serial blasts convict Jalees Ansari, who went missing while on parole, was on Friday arrested in Kanpur by the Uttar Pradesh special task force, state DGP O P Singh said.

Ansari, 68, convicted for the 1993 blasts, went missing From Mumbai on Thursday while on 21-day parole from Rajasthan’s Ajmer Central Prison, where he was serving a life term.

Known as Doctor Bomb, Ansari was considered an expert in explosives and played a key role in the blasts in Mumbai.

During the parole period, he was ordered to visit the Agripada police station in Mumbai every day between 10.30 am and 12 pm to mark his attendance, an official said.

H oweve r, A n s a r i did not visit the station on Thursday, triggering a manhunt. He was arrested on Friday at Kanpur’s Faithfulganj locality when he came out of a mosque and was heading towards the railway station.

Police recovered Rs 47,780 in cash, a diary, a

Jalees Ansari (File)

mobile and an Aadhaar card from him.

The UP police was already on high alert in areas adjoining Nepal, apprehending that he could use the porous border to flee the country.

Ansari stayed during the parole period at Mominpura in Mumbai’s Agripada area.

On Thursday, after Ansari failed to report at the police station, his 35-yearold son Zaid Ansari filed a complaint about his “missing” father.

According to the complaint, Ansari woke up in the early hours and told family members that he is going to offer namaz. But he did not return home.

licopter aircrew of Indian Air Force who rescued 71 trekkers in Ladakh.”

“Salute you heroes...” added another.

A post read, “Salute to those involved in this rescue mission. Hope all are well.”

A Tweeple remarked, “Tourists entry at highly sensitive eco zones eg chadar trek & pangong lake should be restricted.”

4 more detained leaders in Kashmir released S r i nag a r , Ja n 1 7 (IANS): Four former legislators including a former minister were released by the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday as part of the ongoing exercise to free detainees. They were under house arrest since August 5, when the Centre abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated the state into two union territories.

The four freed leaders included Haji Abdul Rasheed, Nazir Ahmed Gurezi, Mohammad Abbas Wani and former minister Abdul Haq Khan.

On Thursday five political leaders were released, including National Conference leaders Altaf Kaloo, Showkat Ganaie and Salman Sagar, and PDP leaders Nizamuddin Bhat and Mukhtar Bandh. Salman Sagar is a former mayor of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation. With the release of the four leaders, there are 21 leaders in detention in the valley presently. These include three former CMs -- Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehboob Mufti.

C h e n na i , J a n 1 7 (IANS): A bull owner lost his life when another bull attacked him in Alanganallur town in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district where the bull-taming sport of Jallikattu was held on Friday.

Sridhar had brought his bull to Alanganallur to field him in Jallikattu.

While he was waiting outside for his bull, he was attacked and injured by another bull and succumbed to his injuries.

Meanwhile, around 30 persons were injured while attempting to tame the bulls.

The traditional Jallikattu is part of the Pongal festival celebrations in the state and Alanganallur town is famous for this sport.

The Jallikattu began in the morning and over 700 bulls and bull-tamers participated in the event.

RSS calls for law to control population growth Moradabad, Jan 17 (IANS): It is not Mathura or Kashi that is on the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) agenda. It is now population control that the RSS will push for.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat who is presently on a four-day visit to Moradabad, has said at a meeting that a law for two children should be brought in to ensure proper development of the country.

Addressing the meeting at the Moradabad Institute of Technology (MIT) on Friday, Bhagwat said that RSS will support any law that calls for two children only.

“We feel this is the need of the hour though it is up to the government to take the final call on this.

This law will not have any relation to any particular religion and will be applicable to all,” he said at a meeting of about 40 senior Sangh functionaries.

Underlining the need for population control, he said that India was a growing country but uncontrolled population growth was not healthy for development.

Talking about the Ram temple, Bhagwat said that the role of the RSS on the issue was only for the temple was formed. “We will disassociate ourselves from the temple construction once the trust is formed.

5 De-radicalisation camps J’hand Cong MLAs nothing new: Kishan Reddy discuss berths

G Kishan Reddy (File)

Hyderabad, Jan 17 (PTI): Endorsing Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat’s comments,Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Friday said that the Army has been running de-radicalisation camps since ages.

Defending Rawat, who was attacked incessantlyby the opposition parties, which said he cannot comment on civilian issues as he was from the defence services, Reddy said the deradicalisation camps issue indeed pertains to the army and was not a civilian issue.

“He never spoke on civilian issues. He spoke on the security angle of the country. He never spoke about political and civilian issues... Reddy, the minister of state for home, told PTI. In the first such disclosure, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat on Thursday said de-radicalisation camps are operating in the country as it was necessary to isolate people who are completely radicalised.

In an address at the Raisina Dialogue, Gen Rawat, delving into the situa-

tion in Kashmir, said girls and boys as young as 10 and 12 years are being radicalised in the Valley which he described as a matter of concern.

Several political leaders, including AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury had hit out at Rawat, saying the CoD is meddling with civilian issues.

“It (de-radicalisation) is the responsibility of the Army.... This (these camps) are there for a long time. It is part of their (army) service.

They will go to places which have been identified as radicalized and organise medical camps, offer them educational guidance and counsel parents. Our military personnel always do this,” Reddy said.

The minister further said all these services are offered as part of thederadicalisation programme of the youth.

Speaking at a public meeting at Adilabad on Thursday night, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said de-radicalisation was needed for those who lynch and kill innocent Dalits and Muslims.

“This is deeply condemnable and shocking. A military commander has no business saying this. It shows the weakness of the political leadership and is detrimental to Indias case on Kashmir,” Yechury tweeted on Thursday.

Smriti flays AAP govt for ‘delayed’ hangings

Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Friday attacked the Aam Aadmi Party government for allegedly delaying the execu-

New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS): Newly elected Congress legislators of Jharkhand met Sonia and Rahul Gandhi here on Friday amid talk of cabinet expansion in the state which is likely to take place this month.

The Congress has 16 MLAs and is in coalition with the JMM in the Hemant Soren-led government. Two of its legislators - Rameshwar Oraon and Alamgir Alam - took oath of office along with the chief minister on December 29.

The Congress has got three more berths to be filled from its quota.

The party has decided to give representation to all sections of society - the women, forward castes and the OBC community - as it has to balance the caste and gender equation in the state.

There are 4 women MLAs from the party including the youngest Amba Prasad who can be the party choice for the cabinet while Deepika Pandey Singh is also a contender. The other two women MLAs are Mamta Devi and Purnima Singh.

Rajendra Singh could be the party choice for one of the ministers to placate the upper caste community.

Similarly, Banna Gupta can be the face of the Vaishya community (OBC) to give proper representation to everyone in the state, said sources.

Dalai Lama visits Bihar CM, prays for peace

Patna, Jan 17 (PTI): Bihar every year during December-January as part of an Tibetan spiritual leader the annual retreat during which Dalai Lama called on Bihe offers public discourses at har Chief Minister Nitish Bodh Gaya - where the BudKumar here at his official dha had attained enlightenresidence, and held a prayer ment more than 2000 years ceremony for peace and ago - and also conducts the well-being of one and all, “Kalachakra” tantric initiaofficial sources said. tion ceremony.

Kumar accorded a Last week, the chief warm welcome to the exiled minister had called on the Buddhist monk, and preDalai Lama at the Tibetan sented him with a bouquet temple in Bodh Gaya, and and ‘angavastram’, follow- The Dalai Lama with Nitish Kumar. apprised him of his governing which they posed for chief minister presented the Buddha. ment’s ‘Jal Jeevan Hariyali’ pictures, they said. monk with an idol of Lord The Dalai Lama visits campaign.

The Dalai Lama thereafter offered prayers before a Bodhi tree at the chief OFFICE OF THE minister’s 1, Anney Marg NAGALAND STATE SOCIAL WELFARE BOARD bungalow - along with other NAGALAND: KOHIMA Buddhist priests, making Dated: Kohima, the 17th January 2020 affirmations for all-round No. NSSWB/SRCW/Advt&Pub/2019-20/518 peace and prosperity.

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Nirbhaya convicts’ hanging now set for February 1

New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS): The Nirbhaya convicts will now be hanged to death at Delhi’s Tihar Jail at 6 a.m. on February 1.

Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora on Friday issued fresh death warrants against the four convicts in the case after being informed by Tihar Jail authorities that the mercy plea of convict Mukesh has been dismissed by the President.

Public Prosecutor Irfan Ahmed had earlier in the day moved a fresh application seeking issuance of death warrants against the four death row convicts, telling the court that no plea of the convicts is pending before it or any other forum. The four convicts - Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta - were earlier due to be executed at 7 a.m. on January 22.

with Sonia, Rahul

tion of four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape-murder case.

“I want to tell the Kejriwal government that even though the review petition of three of the four convicts was dismissed by the Supreme Court in July 2018, the executions may not take place on the due date (January 22) because the Prison Department under the AAP government was sleeping,” the Minister said.

She also slammed the Delhi government for giving Rs 10,000 and a sewing kit to one juvenile rapist after his release. “They did not see tears in the eyes of Nirbhaya’s mother? I salute her today for her struggle all these seven years.”

Irani’s statement comes after President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday rejected the mercy petition of 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case convict Mukesh Singh, officials said.

The MHA had forwarded Mukesh’s mercy petition to the President on Thursday night, hours after the plea was received from Delhi Lt Gov Anil Baijal’s office for review.

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Riskier flights

t was a narrow escape for 176 passengers, including three infants, on board IndiGO flight 6E-6129, a flight between Pune and Jaipur On Thursday, when one of the engines stalled mid-air which forced the pilot to declare an emergency and land the plane at Mumbai. This was the 21st such incident involving IndiGo(18 incidents) and GoAir(three incident) fitted to the A320NEO planes. The PW-1100 engine by P&W are used in A 320 Neo aircraft by France-based plane making giant Airbus. IndiGo and GoAir are the only two operators that use A320 Neo series planes in India. There have been several incidents of the A320neos having to make emergency landings due to either an engine stall or loud sounds and rattling emanating from the engines.

The problem has been identified and the engine maker - American manufacturer Pratt & Whitney -has been producing modified engines to replace the snag-prone ones. The fleet first reported engine failure in 2017 and has since faced several issues. In India, the Directorate General Civil Aviation(DGCA) had temporarily grounded A320 Neos in early 2018, which was gradually lifted after Airbus and P&W assured of fixing the problems. A year later, in January 2019, DGCA further issued directives for IndiGo and GoAir to have “weekly inspection” of the engines “as per P&W special directions” and “train staff to identify foul smell” in the aircraft. After four more incidents of engine stall, DGCA was compelled to issue a warning to replace the PW engines by January 31,2020 after serious concern were expressed.

Thursday’s incident comes just days after India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), gave the airline an extension till May 31,2020 to replace or modify all problematic engines across its fleet of Airbus A-320 and A-321 NEO aircraft. Critics have aired concern over the DGCA’s decision. By asking Indigo to ground the faulty A320neos one by one, it is giving a long rope to IndiGo risking passenger safety in the sky and a potential disruption in domestic civil aviation. The writing on the wall is unambiguous. How can DGCA predict that the risk is not likely to materialise soon and can be leisurely dealt with? Unfortunately, there is near monopoly in this restricted market and the common citizens are happy to risk their lives and disapprove disruptive regulatory action. In other countries, airline regulators have their own stringent standards to certify safety. The case of Boeing 737 Max is a case in point. Though the US based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had endorsed the explanations given by Boeing about the 737 Max whose the new Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System(MCAS) had led to two crashes within five months in 2019. Though the FAA had given the benefit of doubt to Boeing, yet 50 countries grounded the plane. Later in the face of mounting evidence, FAA was forced to follow suit. The DGCA itself requires a total revamp as the handling of the A320 NEO issue indicates that there is some laxity somewhere. It is not about disruption of flights in the domestic front or worse, not being thoroughly competent to make a decision to ground the entire fleet of planes fitted with the faulty engine. It is about safety and lives of passengers who are placed at great risk. It is hoped DGCA will not be compelled to take the right decision to place passenger safety before the commercial interests of any operator.

DailyDevotion The Call of the Natural Life

When it pleased God…to reveal His Son in me… —Galatians 1:15-16

The call of God is not a call to serve Him in any particular way. My contact with the nature of God will shape my understanding of His call and will help me realize what I truly desire to do for Him. The call of God is an expression of His nature; the service which results in my life is suited to me and is an expression of my nature.

The call of the natural life was stated by the apostle Paul— “When it pleased God…to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him [that is, purely and solemnly express Him] among the Gentiles….”

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God. Service becomes a natural part of my life. God brings me into the proper relationship with Himself so that I can understand His call, and then I serve Him on my own out of a motivation of absolute love. Service to God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God. Service is an expression of my nature, and God’s call is an expression of His nature.

Therefore, when I receive His nature and hear His call, His divine voice resounds throughout His nature and mine and the two become one in service. The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020

Post-mortem

surviving as a nation in a dangerous political & ideological world (Pt- 2)

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n the first article, we have had a sweeping bird’s eye view of political events that happened in the mid 20th century. We however must remember that all political events are inspired and motivated by political thoughts and political ideologies. For example Japan’s ambition for word domination was driven by a belief that they were a race destined to rule under the shadow of an omnipotent Emperor God. The “Tanaka Plan” which is a disputed document with Japan stating that it was never drafted by them while China and some western countries alleged that it was drafted

by Baron Tanaka Giichi, is there. To quote just one excerpt from the long document, it went like this: “Having China’s entire resources at our disposal, we shall proceed to conquer India, the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Central Asia, and even Europe. But to get control of Manchuria and Mongolia is the first step if the Yamato race wishes to distinguish themselves on Continental Asia.”

However by the end of 1945, Japan’s ambition for world conquest ended in her own destruction. Also, in the attack of China Japan created just the opposite of what it had intended to do which was to kill China’s spirit of nationhood from within. But instead of destroying China national

spirit and using her mineral resources for world conquest, Japan instead created a very powerful and united China which had never existed in Chinese history prior to this. In the end, what 4000 years of Chinese history had failed to accomplish was accomplished by Japan for China within two years of brutal occupation (1937-1 938).

However, the greatest tragedy for China was that after her victory in the 2nd world war where she came out with a lot of trained personnel as well as military equipment to build a great and strong China, Mao Zedong with his Communist ideology (CCP) and thirst for power threw the whole country into another bloody civil war against the legally established Nationalist Kuomintang Government (KMT) under General Chiang Kai-Shek.

In order to combat the nationalist government, Mao first mobilized the mostly poverty stricken Chinese rural peasants into a formidable fighting force with promises of an equilateral society.

Mao instigated these peasants to revolt against their landlords. There was an unrestrained mass killing of these landlords as they were rounded up and shot to death.

Mao next sent them into mainland China. As the peasant forces stormed into the mainland Chiang Kai-shek’s forces, outnum-

bered and overwhelmed fell in October 1949 and fled to the Island of Taiwan where they established a democratic government called The Republic of China in 1949.

As for Mao and his close colleagues, they consolidated their political power after brainwashing their rural armies with the communist ideology of: “From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.”

These newly formed storm troopers unleashed a reign of terror against anybody who opposed their political ideology.

Next, Mao launched his fantastic idea of “The great leap forward” from 1958-1960. This was a grandiose programme of mass producing vast industrial and agricultural products in one great leap of revolutionary fervour.

Mao’s government did not have the raw material or expertise to achieve such an ambitious plan. But in spite of all these facts, Mao first abolished private ownership of any lands by any peasant. All these lands became state property. (This meant, 14 to 20 % of the entire world’s surface now officially belonged to Mao and his cohorts!). The people were next forced into communes and collective farms for producing rice, grains and pulses- all for the state.

Their former villages were either destroyed or dismantled to build huge new

communal buildings where they had to eat together and sleep together. This was truly the uprooting of an ancient civilization into an artificial communist and socialist society. In order to fulfil the state’s high output of agricultural products, farmers were even forced to work far into the nights under the constant watchful eyes of communist guards.

Prior to this, since China was such a vast land, Land lordship as well as ownership of private lands was a reality. From these lands all of China’s millions used to eke out a living sufficient for their survival and joyful festivals. But now all these things were only bygone memories.

As for the technological leap, all metal scrapes in the abandoned villages and countryside- including iron and other metal pots were collected and melted into blocks of iron. These melted mixed iron blocks were however useless for any kind of industrial use.

The huge agricultural products produced from these forced labour of the peasants were, after giving a meagre sum to them, all taken by the government and stored in huge urban storages. This huge surplus grains were then exported to foreign countries like Russia to repay national debts incurred during the Second World War as well as the ensuing years of communist takeover in China. Russian debt for China at that time stood

at 1.973 billion. As a result of all these huge exports of grains for repayment of debts and purchase of arms, at home, an inevitable man made famine overtook the country from which at least 30 million Chinese peasants would die from starvation (Some Chinese historians even puts the death toll at 55 million). Many hungry citizens resorted to cannibalism when their bodies shrunk to just skeletons hanging on seemingly bare bones. Many other hungry citizens committed suicide in their thousands. It is said that when these statistics were shown to Mao Zedong, he simply said “I am ready to sacrifice half the population if the remaining half can bring about the success of the revolution.”

Despite all these horrifying deaths, through a tight censorship of the press and an equally successful state propaganda machiner y, the urban Chinese population was kept fooled into thinking that Mao was their great revolutionary leader who would put China into the central theatre of world affairs. Mao therefore, after publishing his famous little “Red Book” which contained his thoughts, launched the Cultural Revolution. This Cultural Revolution was an attempt to wipe out all western cultural influences imbibed by the Chinese over the centuries of western domi-

nation of China. As a result of this revolution, many young college and university students turned against their own parent’s western influenced lifestyles. Very soon, there were violent rebellions in many urban families where children turned against their own parents. From these rebellious student bodies, the brutal Red Guards were formed. These groups became the second storm troopers of Mao Zedong’s communist party. Time cannot allow me to write about their brutal activities but they were the equivalents of Hitler’s SS storm troopers and Mussolini’s Black Coats. Between 1966- 1976, their revolution killed over 20 million Chinese citizens. Add this number to the 30 million killed in “The great leap forward” of 1958-1960 and it is over 50 million people.

All these millions of Chinese citizens died from this tragic Chinese revolution which was all fuelled by a foreign political ideology.

(This final total does not include the Chinese 2nd world war death toll).

To conclude, this is what a single man with a few dedicated followers committed to a political ideology can do to a whole country. Nagas must be aware of these facts because within our national struggle, there are many leaders who are committed to Mao Zedong’s socialist political ideology.

Kaka D. Iralu

India and the ‘Fractured Syndrome’ Ramping up corporate growth

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urrent events indicate that India is at an inflection point. You can feel the the swirl of undercurrents and the violent conflict. See the process of disruption and sense the resurrection of ideologies. It is almost as if you are witnessing the birth of a nation. There is an upheaval under way and it is a strange feeling. There is uncertainty, there is aggression, suspicion, hysteria, and there is palpable fear in society. It almost seems as if India wants to revisit the holocaust and the horror of the Partition. It is a crisis in the making for a country that, until recently, the world respected for its commitment and its ability to survive as a democracy. We are witnessing Indian politics at its extreme. It is the politics of power and control.

Indian politics has evolved.

Instead of churning out Leaders and Statesmen, politics is today throwing up power wielders who, more often than not, do not have the depth or the perspective to run an organisation, let alone build a nation. The clarion call today seems to be to create a new India but not many would understand the difference between creating a nation state and creating a great nation. We need to draw some learnings from our history and the two-nation theory of 1947.

The nation that chose its identity based on religion has eventually gone rogue and is struggling to create a semblance of democracy.

India chose the more complex and difficult path of democracy, secularism, justice, equality and fundamental rights for all. The world admired India for this effort.

Just like Olympian athletes are admired for their hard work to create capabilities and achieve goals, India worked to create institutions that are meant to guarantee equality to all citizens and to ensure fundamental rights.

Today, there is an unfortunate perception that we have moved away from the concept of politics for progress. Our society is suddenly becoming more aggressive and intolerant, and unabashedly talking of revenge and hate. These are markers that India is walking away from the path of democracy and secularism that was its DNA. We are headed for a serious crisis. In fact, many would agree that we are already in the midst of Reader’s note: Articles

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the crisis. Government statistics potential it is necessary for us he need for private invest- concerned must decide to ensure and other economic indicators to nurture the economy like an ment by the corporate the most productive capital alare worrying. GDP has slumped adolescent child, with sensitivity, sector to provide impetus location.

Essentially, this means that to a low of 4.5 per cent. Industrial tact, knowledge and vision. The to the economy is of great interoutput is contracting quarter after priority now, as never before, is est and debate in India, given the for those companies which have quarter. Domestic savings rate to focus on economic growth. clamour for significantly more generated additional capital folis falling and unemployment is Without economic growth we private investment on the back lowing the tax cuts, they have to spiralling out of control. Student cannot progress as a nation and as of the corporate tax cuts by the make choices about what to do unrest seems to be gathering a society. The foundation of any government in the last calendar with the excess capital, subject momentum. There are other progressive nation is its ability to year. However, unfettering the to the nature of the industry, the headwinds to face as well. The create economic value, just as hu- corporates and allowing each debt-level of the company and US-Iran conflict will have fallouts man values are the foundation of agent to play its role in capital al- the demand of the product. For that are expected to add to our a just society. To revive economic location decisions is essential in certain companies, new private troubles, even as hardening stands growth we must understand the the grand scheme of things. The investment may make sense, on trade negotiations take their fundamental obstacles that are robust health of the corporate while for others reducing debt to toll. Our decision to stop import within our control and accept that sector and the consequent ad- shore up the balance sheet may of palm oil from Malaysia as a they are currently in the negative. vantages of a healthy investment be the most prudent decision. reaction to unfriendly comments We need to go back to the basics. environment are dependent on Regardless of what strategy from Malaysia will further polar- The pre-requisite for economic three major factors: the ability the company adopts, the only ise international opinions about growth really revolves around four for and of firms to make optimal criteria that should matter for India. We are becoming arrogant key parameters which include capital allocation decisions, an the long-run health of the Inand we lack humility which is the ‘a stable society’, ‘demographic environment of efficient corpo- dian economy is that companies anti-thesis of good governance. potential’, ‘purchasing power rate governance standards and choose the approach best suited These, amongst others, are all with the people’ and ‘confidence a regulatory framework that for their circumstances.

There is little point in a symptoms of an ailing economy in the managerial capabilities and facilitates business. and a troubled society. In this dif- policy making expertise of the While the counsel for rout- company expanding capacity ficult scenario, we need to imple- government’. The key is for us ing excess capital from the in the face of excess capacity. ment clear policies and plans. to focus on these four parameters corporate tax cuts to new in- Capacity expansion, when not The government has the re- and get the basics right. All else vestments commends itself, required, will lead to more of sponsibility to make decisions and will start falling in place auto- it is vital to ensure that at the the same issues that the Indian policies that are based on practical matically, including employment, firm level, new investments in economy faced, especially, over realities and unbiased root cause manufacturing growth, sales and the firm are indeed required. A the second half of the last analysis but knee-jerk reactions corporate profits. If we continue corporate with excess capital decade. Primarily, exuberant and policies are already creating the way we are moving today, has several choices, including capacity expansion when not an image of inexperience. The the chasm between the concept that of reducing debt, investing required, led to assets that failed picture is worrying. We are facing of civic nation and the ethnic in new capacity, share buybacks to deliver returns commensurate a severe ‘Fractured Syndrome’. nation will inevitably widen and and accumulating the capital. with the risk undertaken. For the We have a Fractured economy. will be difficult to bridge. It is a Investing in new capacity is overall wellbeing and growth of Fractured employment. Fractured serious error to be experiment- not necessarily always the best the economy, capacity expansion must ideally occur when society. Fractured vision. Excerpts ing with structural changes in option from this range. from an open letter to the Chief society and governance at a time The need to boost invest- most required due to relatively Justice of India by some law stu- when we should be stabilising ments in India cannot be over- higher capacity utilisation rates. dents is an indicator of discontent the country. emphasised, but the focus must A glance at the capacity utilisaamongst the literate youth. “In the There are three possible not shift from increasing produc- tion numbers released by the legendary history of this Hon’ble roads ahead. We have to choose tive investments. Mainly, while Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Court, this is the first time that between a proud democracy that one hopes that the corporate shows a utilisation level of 73.6 the plight of the fundamental honours the right to live with tax cuts delivered last year lead per cent in the second quarter rights of the people is being heard grace, or a closed society that to new private investments, the of 2019. This number was up at on a ‘conditional basis’ “. The swears by religion and faith, or investments must not be at the 83.20 per cent back in the first letter further says, “where the perhaps an autocratic society cost of efficient capital alloca- quarter of 2011. the executive is dismantling the that only believes in the power tion. Therefore, at the level of Taponeel Mukherjee Constitution, the police is wreak- of the gun. We are now at a stage each business, the management (IANS) ing havoc, an autocratic system is where no matter what route we on the rise and voices are being take, it is inevitable that the road suppressed, it becomes critical for ahead will be demanding and the judiciary to act expeditiously will require knowledge, skills and and save the rights of the people; statesmanship. We need to have but your approach did not seem the courage to consciously accept to conform to this principle, Sir”. the road we want to travel. It will Clearly the ‘fractured syndrome’ not be easy. There are inherent requires introspection. This is per- dangers in choosing either of haps critical because the ongoing these three roads. The answer will Sir, While a lot has been done in our neighbouring states like turmoil is deconstructing the rea- lie in what we want to become as Meghalaya and Assam to develop tourist spots, Nagaland still lags soning minds into aggressive and individuals. far behind in terms of infrastructures and facilities. I hope the defensive ideological camps.

Himanshu Manglik There is no doubt about the (Himanshu Manglik is Founder state government puts in more serious efforts to improve tourist immense potential of the Indian and President, Walnutcap Consult- sites in the state. This will attract more tourist and also generate economy. Provided it is handled ing LLP. The views expressed here income for the locals.

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A Shaheen Bagh in Kolkata’s Park Circus

On January 7, taking a page out of the Shaheen Bagh protests that has been going on for over a month now.

who have come from conservative Muslim households, and are participating in a protest for the first time in their lives.

They sit on spread out matresses, plastic sheets, blankets, durries and simple clothes they brought from their houses or offered to them by the volunteers.

NGOs, social groups and solitary individuals also arrive at the spot every day, bringing in tea, coffee, drinking water and even ‘’haleem’’, to keep the protesters going amid the dwindling temperature.

Asmat Jamil, a resident of Ripon Street who runs the NGO Azzumar,

is considered the pivot of the protests. “It is a movement to claim our rights as citizens. It is a movement to show the power of people’’s voices to the powers that be in Delhi,” she said.

Some of the demonstrators sleep under the open sky every night, while others make their daily trips to the venue after completing their household work or meeting their professional commitments.

While a group of women have stayed put since the start of the protests, most faces change every couple of days, as people take turns in gathering for the protests.

“We have left our

CM, deputy speaker make obituary references RJD demands scrapping

(From p-1) He got re-elected for the third consecutive time in 2018 from the same constituency on NDPP ticket. Longkumer also made obituary reference to the passing away of former members during the special Assembly session.

Netsutso Theyo had passed away at Oking Hospital after a brief illness. He was 82 and is survived by three sons and four daughters and 27 grandchildren. He was the former minister and a member of the first NLA. Lutjakai Kuki, a prominent figure among the Kukis and the first interim body member of Nagaland in 1961-63, had died on October 13, 2019 at Zion Hospital, Dimapur, following a brief illness. The death of former legislator Z Katiry, who joined politics in 1992 and had contested in the eighth general elections held on February 15, 1993 from Meluri constituency on NPC ticket and got elected, too found reference. He was 63 and is survived by his wife, five sons and one daughter.

T. Torechu had won four consecutive elections from 2003 (on BJP ticket) and as NPF candidate in 2008, 2013 and 2018. In 1982, he lost as an Independent and in 1987 he lost as an NNDP candidate. The deputy speaker said the grief and sorrow expressed by the House would be conveyed to the bereaved family members. The House also observed two-minute silence in remembrance and honour of the departed souls.

Nagaland cannot grow if smaller tribes and...

(From p-1) He said that if local or link roads were not built as per specifications, it was also the responsibility of the people and village councils to be closely associated with it and see that issues were raised.

Further, governor stated that he dreams of Nagaland of tomorrow to be a Nagaland, free from two serious ailments – “Corruption” and “Fear of guns”, which according to him, was like a cancer.

Ravi stated that he would try his best, and that, if God willing, “we will all succeed together.”

Before ending his speech, the governor said “we will build a new Nagaland which will be proud of its roads, people, rich heritage and also be very proud of its future... we will build a new Nagaland together.” Earlier, KIN president, LL Kuki, while delivering the welcome address also read out the memorandum submitted to the governor. Traditional blessings and proclamation of Mimkut festivities was pronounced by Lensei Lotzen, while introductory speech was delivered by secretary to the government, Alun Hangsing. Highlights of the festival included traditional dances, folk songs and indigenous games by various groups and cultural troupes.

New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has questioned the NIA probe in Jammu and Kashmir’s suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh case and tweeted with the hashtag #WhoWantsTerroristDavinderSilenced.

Rahul Gandhi raised objections to the NIA chief and alleged that “the case is as good as dead.”

Rahul tweeted: “The best way to silence Terrorist DSP Davinder, is to hand the case to the NIA. The NIA is headed by another Modi - YK, who investigated the Gujarat Riots & Haren Pandya’s assassination. In YK’s care, the case is as good as dead. #WhoWantsTerroristDavinderSilencedAnd why??”

A day earlier on Thursday, former Congress presi-

dent had questioned the silence of the Prime Minister on Davinder Singh who was arrested for ferrying terrorists, and had also questioned the suspended Deputy SP’s role in Pulwama attack.

“DSP Davinder Singh sheltered 3 terrorists with blood on their hands at his home & was caught ferrying them to Delhi. He must be tried by a fast track court within 6 months & if guilty, given the harshest possible sentence for treason,” Rahul had tweeted on Thursday.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi also criticised the government on Davinder Singh saying,

“his arrest in J&K raises disturbing questions critical to India’s national security.

It seems rather odd that he not only evaded detection but was entrusted with extremely sensitive duties like escorting foreign envoys to J&K under the prevailing circumstances.”

Davinder Singh was arrested on January 11 along with Hizbul Mujahideen commander Naveed Babu, his accomplice Rafi and a lawyer named Irfan from a car on the highway near Kulgam. He was allegedly taking Babu to Jammu to help him travel to Pakistan in connivance with Irfan.

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tion demanded “adequate legal and constitutional guarantees to safeguard the rights of locals over land, jobs and admissions in professional courses in Jammu & Kashmir”.

“All curbs and restrictions on mainstream political parties, their leaders and activists should be lifted to allow them to resume their usual political activities to create a congenial and conducive political atmosphere for a meaningful and credible political process to pave way for holding of early Assembly elections,” the resolution said.

The resolution also demanded “a special employment package for the youth, especially fulfilling the promise of 50,000 jobs, announced by then Governor in August, 2019.”

the CAA... He is leading such a big party and has to decide himself how he has to do it, but he should not mislead the country,” the BJP working president said.

The amendments in the citizenship law are meant to give citizenship to members of minority communities who fled Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan due to religious persecution and took refuge in India, he said. Likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi had advocated giving citizenship to these persecuted minorities but the Congress does not have any leader now who could understand the issue, Nadda said. Since coming to power for a second term,

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Jammu, Jan 17 (IANS): The executive committee of J&K Congress met under the chairmanship of Ghulam Nabi Azad, leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, here on Friday and passed a four-point resolution for the restoration of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir and demanded constitutional guarantees in jobs and land for the people.

The resolution passed by 216 members from 20 districts of J&K also demanded freeing of all the political detainees and creating an atmosphere conducive for politics in Jammu and Kashmir.

“We demand restoration of statehood for J&K,” J&K Congress President Ghulam Ahamd Mir told IANS. He said the visits of foreign delegations and Central ministers to J&K are futile exercises until all the political detainees, including three former Chief Ministers, are released.

“We demand the release of all the detained leaders,” Mir said.

Mir said the four-point resolution is a road map that will be adopted by the party across all its forums.

“Congress will continue its struggle for the rights of the people,” Mir said.

The Congress resolu-

New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS): The Leader of Opposition in Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, on Friday, hit out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on National Population Register (NPR) notification and asked him to scrap it.

In a tweet in Hindi, Tejashwi Yadav said that Nitish Kumar’s assurance for not applying National Register for Citizens (NRC) in Bihar was false.

Taking a jibe on Kumar he said: “Nitish ji’s false assurance of not applying NRC is the same as the surgeon assuring the patient of no pain by giving anesthesia before performing surgery.”

Yadav questioned the intention of the chief minister behind issuing NPR notification and tweeted: “Nitish ji, if your intention is right then why did you issue the notification of NPR? If the intention is okay then cancel the notification of NPR with immediate effect.” he added in another tweet.

On January 5, While addressing a press conference, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi had said that National Population Register (NPR) data collection will be carried out from May 15 to 28 in Bihar. The opposition RJD maintained that the NRC and the NPR were one or the same, therefore rejecting one and implementing the other is merely an eye wash to the people of Bihar.

New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI): BJP working president J P Nadda on Friday accused Rahul Gandhi of misleading the country on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and dared the Congress leader to speak 10 sentences on the law.

Speaking at a programme organised by a Buddhist body in support of the CAA, Nadda said it is “unfortunate” for the country that some people “exhibit their wisdom” without understanding the issue so as to mislead the masses.

“The Congress is opposing the CAA. I dare Rahul Gandhi to speak 10 sentences on the law. He should tell us in two sentences what is his problem with

the Modi government has in six months resolved issues which had been pending for 70 years, he asserted, adding that opposition parties were left without any issue and had seized on the CAA to mislead the country.

“For the Congress and the Left, their vote bank comes before the country.

For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the country comes first and votes later,” he said. Critics are claiming that crores of people will arrive and settle in India due to this law, but the fact is that it is for those who arrived here by December 31, 2014, he added. Opposition parties believe in keeping problems unresolved so that they could do politics over it while the Modi government has addressed issues like Article 370, he said.

Minorities were persecuted in Pakistan and Bangladesh and their population, he claimed, fell to three and seven per cent respectively there from 23 per cent in 1947. Humanity demanded that the members of these minorities living in India be given justice so that they could join the mainstream and avail of education, health and job facilities, he said.

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by women belonging to all societal strata from various areas of the city -- be it Topsia, Ripon Street, Khiddirpore, Metiaburuz or Prinice Anwar Shah Road.

Top professionals like medicos, lawyers, teachers, professors, to those earning a living by cooking or washing utensils in others’’ homes -everybody is joining in, and the numbers continue to go up every day.

“Tumhari lathi se tez hamari awaz hai” (our voice is stronger than your batons) says a poster, as the participants shout “Halla Bol, Halla Bol”.

There are hundreds of women wearing the hizab,

homes, schools, kids. Thousands of women have followed us. They have come out of their homes for their freedom,” said a burqa-clad woman in her 70s, pointing to the chants of “Azadi” (freedom).

“Look, not only do we demand scrapping of the CAA, NRC and NPR, we are also looking at the larger picture. Women here are also voicing their demand for freedom to move freely and fearlessly, the liberty to study, freedom to pursue their vocation and profession of choice and even the freedom to choose whom to marry,” she said.

A young woman -- a teacher -- joined in.

“Most of the people in this gathering are poor.

Majority of them don’’t have any papers to show. I am a teacher. I have seen the mothers of my students cry.

“I support my country, I support India. We don’’t want to go on a troubled way, right? That’’s why we should all come together,” she said.

Apart from the huge number of women, men are also there in strength, chanting slogans, singing songs of protests, waving the tri-colour and reading the Constitution.

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Ko l k at a , J a n 1 7 (IANS): They clap in rhythm, shout “Azadi” slogans, cry “Halla Bol”, clench their fists in solidarity and display high spirits. The tri-colour is omnipresent, as are the faces covered with hizabs -- this is City of Joy’’s own version of Delhi’’s Shaheen Bagh in Park Circus Maidan in south Kolkata, where primarily Muslim women have been on a sit-in against the CAA, NRC and NPR for 11 days now.

On January 7, taking a page out of the Shaheen Bagh protests that has been going on for over a month now, some women from the largely muslim-dominated neighbourhood of Park Circus descended on the local park expressing their anxiety, disappointment and anger over the goings on in the country.

They started the protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, a proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR) exercise, as also the “state repression on anti-CAA protesters in Uttar Pradesh”.

Their stock grew as the days passed. First their friends, families and acquaintances came, followed

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Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio to gain market share.

Shares of Vodafone Idea plunged 25.21 per cent.

Ahead of their quarterly earnings, Reliance Industries and HCL Tech advanced up to 2.79 per cent, while TCS fell 0.79 per cent.

Heavyweight HDFC dropped 1.23 per cent.

In percentage terms, IndusInd Bank, SBI, HDFC, ICICI Bank and L&T were among the top losers.

On the contrary, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Sun Pharma, HCL Tech and Maruti Suzuki emerged as major gainers.

sales in the US picked in December. From the US, market participants will be keeping an eye on industrial production and housing numbers and better-thanexpected number could extend gains for the dollar,” said Gaurang Somaiyaa, Forex & Bullion Analyst, Motilal Oswal Financial Services.

During the week the rupee has depreciated by 14 paise.

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or 0.025 per cent lower at 12,352.35. The NSE barometer too touched its life-time intraday peak of 12,385.45

points or 0.83 per cent; while the Nifty rose 95.55 points or 0.77 per cent.

In a session marked by high volatility, gains in Reliance Industries offset losses in other heavyweights HDFC, ICICI Bank and TCS. On the Sensex chart, Bharti Airtel was the top gainer, rallying 5.47 per cent, after experts said the Supreme Court’s rejection of a review of its order that put Rs 1.47 lakh crore liability of past dues on telin early deals before losing cos, will weaken Vodafone Idea’s ability to compete in momentum.

During the week, the the Indian market; in turn, Sensex advanced 345.65 providing an opportunity for

Mumbai, Jan 17 (PTI): The Indian rupee dropped 15 paise to close at 71.08 against the US dollar on Friday amid strengthening of the American currency overseas and rising crude prices.

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened lower at 70.98 to the US dollar and lost further momentum to touch a low of 71.10.

It finally settled the day at 71.08, showing a fall of 15 paise over its previous close.

Global crude benchmark Brent was trading 0.51 per cent higher at USD 65 per barrel.

The dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, fell by 0.17 per cent to 97.48.

“The greenback rose after data showed retail

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Mumbai, Jan 17 (PTI): Market gauges Sensex and Nifty gave up early gains to close on a flat note on Friday as investors moved to the sidelines amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling on telecom AGR issue might further aggravate stressed assets problem in the banking sector.

At the closing bell, the BSE benchmark Sensex was up 12.81 points or 0.03 per cent at 41,945.37. The index also marked its new all-time high of 42,063.93 in intraday trading, before surrendering some of its gains. The broader Nifty, however, settled 3.15 points

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Mumbai, Jan 17 (PTI): The country foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 58 million to reach a life-time high of USD 461.21 billion in the week to January 10, according to the RBI data.

In the previous week, the reserves had increased

by USD 3.689 billion to USD 461.15 billion.

In the reporting week, the reserves rose despite a decline in foreign currency assets (FCA), which is a major component of the overall reserves.

FCA decreased by USD 367 million to USD 427.582 billion, the RBI data released on Friday showed.

Expressed in dollar terms, the foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and yen held in the forex reserves.

In the reporting week, gold reserves rose by USD 435 million to USD 28.492 billion.

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improve economic growth in 2020 going forward. However, fiscal stimulus in itself will not be enough.”

He mentioned two areas where India could do better: Labour and green energy.

“The labour markets are not performing optimally with high levels of informality (and) gender barriers that effectively limit the participation of women,” he said.

In addition a high number of youth are neither working nor undergoing training, he said.

“This is something the government will have address, to both improve long-term economic growth and to reach (the UN’s) sustainable development goals,” he said. Access to clean and affordable energy is another major area for improvement, both to improve growth in the long-term and to reach green energy goals for sustainable development, Slotman said.

Moreover, “India being an importer of energy has much to gain from improving access to clean and affordable energy” even if it has to put up with high upfront costs, he added.

Another barometer of economic growth in India and the world will be coming out on Monday when the International Monetary Fund releases its World Economic Outlook report,

(UNM) spoke about the global population ageing and the need to understand the aged customers.

Guest of eminence Dr. Rozalini M. FernandezChung, director, Centre of Academic Partnership and Engagement, University of Nottingham, Malaysia (UNM) emphasized on the role of education on sustainable economic prosperity.

She proposed various approaches to promote education collaboration among the BRICS countries to develop a sustainable economic foundation.

Prof. (Dr.) Biswajeet Pattanayak, president, ASBM University highlighted that cross-border trade barriers have been demolished through advanced smart technology, open mind approach of the developing countries.

Further, he said that contribution of the BRICS to the world economy is expected to continue to account for more than half of the global economic growth by 2030.

The valedictory session of the conference was attended by guests of eminence Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, IAS (Retd.), former chief secretary, government of Odisha., ambassador Abasar Beuria, ambassador Malay Mishra, Vivek Pattanayak, IAS (Retd.), former director, ICAO, Montreal, Canada.

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gross product growth rate dropped to 2.3 per cent, the lowest in a decade.

He said that rising tariffs and rapid shift in trade policies were responsible for the lower growth rate with the United States-China trade disputes playing a significant part.

In South Asia, Bangladesh is forecast grow by 8.1 per cent this fiscal year and 7.8 in the next, while Pakistan’s growth rate estimated at 3.3 per cent for 2019-20 is projected to slip to 2.1 per cent next year.

Associate Economics Affairs Officer Julian Slotman, the UN’s pointperson for Indian and South Asia, said in an interview to IANS that “a huge decline in investment and in private consumption” were the major reasons for the economic slowdown in India.

External factors have also contributed to the lower growth, he said.

“Globally we have seen a large impact of trade tensions, particularly between the US and China, but also other major economies, that have affected growth rates across the globe and also, of course, India which is a very open economy, that has a lot to gain from international trade,” he said.

In India, he said, acethe government has responded to those issues by announcing some stimulus steps, which we do expect to

D i m a p u r , Ja n 1 7 ( NPN) : I nte r na tio na l M a n a ge m e n t C o n f e r ence (ImCon), an intellectual conglomeration of management gurus, administrators, research scholars, industrialists and students was organized from January 9 to 11 in ASBM University under the theme ‘Rise of the BRICS Economies: The New Globalization’.

Subthemes of the conference were managing money- maximizing value, managing people and process, managing market competitiveness and managing technology and operations.

The three-day long event was inaugurated by ambassador Lalit Mansingh, former foreign secretary of India.

Speaking at the programme, Mansingh provided a kaleidoscopic view of the current global economic situation with specific thrust on the BRICS countries.

He traced the chronological evolution of the economic reforms of India and the major hurdles that encompasses the economic stronghold.

He also enumerated the major problems pertaining to BRICS countries such as international terrorism, HIV and AIDS, cyber crime.

The guest of eminence, Prof. Fon Sim Ong, Vice Provost, University of Nottingham, Malaysia

Forex reserves rise by USD 58 mn

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United Nations, Jan 17 (IANS): The UN projects India’s economy to grow by 5.7 per cent in the current fiscal year and expects it to rise to 6.6 per cent in the next.

The projection in the UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects report released on Thursday are higher than the 5 per cent made by the World Bank earlier this month.

The UN growth estimate for the current fiscal is drastically lower than the forecast of 7.6 per cent made in last year’s report in January and 7 per cent in the May update.

The head of UN’s Global Economic Monitoring Branch, Dawn Holland, told IANS that although there has been a steep decline in growth, India was still one of the high performers globally.

She said that it was expected to improve its growth rate in the coming year because of the steps being taken.

According to the report, only China has a higher growth rate than India among the world’s large economies with a 6 per cent forecast for the current calendar year.

Briefing the media about the report, UN’s Chief Economist Elliott Harris presented a dire picture of the global economy last year when the world’s

Management Conference held at ASBM University

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No peace with India without Kashmir resolution: Pak FM bourhood. We want, we need peace in order to focus on achieving our domestic agenda for economic reform and development. But we are not prepared to pay any price for peace with India, certainly not our dignity and certainly not without resolving the Kashmir dispute in a just manner,” Qureshi said.

He alleged that instead of fighting poverty and hunger together, the “RSSinspired BJP government has embarked upon the project of turning India into a Hindu Rashtra”.

“The adherence of Hindutva and an Akhand Bharat have established this ascendancy with disastrous consequences for all in India and the world to see,” he alleged. Qureshi said on August 5 India tried to change the “disputed status” of Jammu and Kashmir and “alter” its demographic structure, breaking all rel-

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evant international laws and “violating” several UN Security Council resolutions in the process. India has been seeking to break the will of the Kashmiri people by imprisoning them in their homes and imposing a communications blockade that continues to this day, he said.

“Indian narrative that Kashmir is India’s internal part is firmly refuted by its being on the Security Council agenda. If this were not

the case, why would the French President raise it with the Indian Prime Minister?” he asked.

“We know that President Trump is profoundly worried by the Kashmir situation and we welcome his repeated offers of mediation in resolving the Kashmir dispute. The United States alone commands the moral authority and respect in South Asia to resolve the longest pending dispute on the UN agenda,” he said.

“We hope president Trump is successful in realising his goal and can make a lasting contribution to substantial peace in South Asia.

That could be his enduring legacy,” Qureshi said.

Although President Trump has offered to mediate on the Kashmir issue in the past, New Delhi has told Washington that it is a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan and there is

Locust plague devastates crops in Horn of Africa

A Samburu man walks through a swarm of desert locusts flying over a grazing land in Lemasulani village, Samburu County, Kenya on January 17.

J IG J IGA , J a n 1 7 (Agencies): Ethiopian farmer Ahmed Ibrahim batted empty water bottles at a swarm of desert locusts the size of his palms that were devouring his field of khat - the mildly narcotic leaf that is his family’s main source of income.

“We have nothing else to sell at the market. How will I feed my eight children?” he asked helplessly, shouting over the sound of the insects as his children chased them with a yellow

Ukrainian PM offers to quit in audiotape furore Kiev, Jan 17 (IANS): Ukraine’s Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk on Friday tendered his resignation after a leaked audio recording apparently revealed him criticising President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A voice sounding like Honcharuk’s, but not officially confirmed as his, says President Zelensky, a TV comedian and businessman who was elected last April, only has a “primitive” understanding of economics, reports the BBC. “To remove any doubts in our respect for and trust in the President, I have written a resignation letter and submitted it to the president with the right to hand it to the Parliament,” Honcharuk, 35, made the announcement on his official Facebook page. “He is a man in whom Ukrainians have expressed unprecedented confidence.

And he has every right to evaluate the effectiveness of every member of his team.” The presidential office said Zelensky had received the resignation and would consider it, reports Xinhua news agency.

The controversial audiotape was uploaded to an anonymous YouTube channel on Wednesday evening.

Honcharuk was apparently discussing the national budget with some other government ministers and finance chiefs.

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headscarf and a stick.

The locusts devoured Ibrahim’s small grazing plot as his donkeys brayed anxiously and goats scrambled to eat the remaining foliage.

Scenes like this are happening across the Horn of Africa, where swarms of desert locusts have damaged tens of thousands of hectares so far, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

“These infestations represent a major threat

to food security in Kenya and across the entire Horn of Africa, which is already reeling from floods and droughts,” said Bukar Tijani, FAO’s Assistant Director General, calling the swarms “vast and unprecedented”.

Breeding is continuing on both sides of the Red Sea, in Sudan and Eritrea and in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the FAO said.

The swarms spread from Ethiopia and Somalia into eastern and northern

Kenya last week, threatening food production and the economy, Kenya’s thenagriculture minister said, before being fired in a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday.

Kenya began aerial spraying in the north on Jan. 4 to head off the invasion. Kenyan media showed police shooting bullets and teargas at an oncoming swarm as residents banged on buckets and hooted car horns to try to frighten the insects.

A farmers’ association in Kenya’s northern Laikipia area said it was planning aerial spraying of pesticides to combat the worst locust plague since 1954. The FAO estimated one swarm in Kenya to be 40 km wide by 60 km long (25 by 40 miles).

“These things are in their millions and will eat all the vegetation here. Our animals will not have anything to feed on,” said Peter Learpanai, a herdsman in the northern Samburu region who was flapping his jacket at a cloud of the insects that had descended on his grazing land. “ T h e g ove r n m e n t needs to get serious about fighting them.”

no scope for any third-party mediation.

On the sidelines of the G7 summit in the French town of Biarritz in August last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while interacting with the media alongside President Trump, categorically rejected any scope for third party mediation between India and Pakistan on Kashmir, saying the two countries can discuss and resolve all issues bilaterally and “we don’t want to trouble any third country”.

On a two-day visit to Washington DC, Qureshi is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien on Friday. On Thursday, he met lawmakers at the US Capitol. In his speech, Qureshi referred to the recent arrest of an Indian police officer and joined the conspiracy theory about terrorist at-

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Tehran, Jan 17 (IANS): While leading the Friday prayers for the first time since 2012, Iran’s Supreme L e a d e r Aya t o l l a h A l i Khamenei said that the January 3 killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani in an American drone attack, was a “disgrace for the US”.

“They stealthily and cowardly assassinated Gen. Soleimani in a terrorist fashion. This resulted in a disgrace for America,” Khamenei said as he led the prayers in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque, where huge crowds of worshipers had already gathered from early Friday morning.

Regarding the January 8 Iranian missile attack on two military bases in Iraq that houses US troops which

was in retaliation of Soleimani’s death, Khamenei said that Tehran’s response “dealt a blow to the American prestige”, reports Press TV. The attack was a “military blow, but more important it was a blow to the American grandeur”, he added.

Khamenei also lashed out at British, German and French leaders who admitted this week to have launched a process that could lead to European sanctions being reimposed on Iran. “You are too small to bring the Iranian nation to its knees,” he said.

The last time Khamenei led Friday prayers in Tehran was in 2012 on the 33rd anniversary of the country’s Islamic Revolution.

3rd Death Anniversary of Late S. ARENLA

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LATE C. NCHUMBEMO MURRY

(01/03/1956 – 18/01/2019)

Dearest Daddy, Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.

The pain of loving you is immeasurable. We know the biggest star in the sky that is shining the most is you. We hope you are living well in the world of our Creator.

Daddy, you are deeply missed.

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Three years have passed without you, Three years without seeing your soothing smile, Three years without your beautiful laugh, Three years without your warm presence in our lives.

Yet, we know that you are always smiling and hoping for the best for each one of us from Heaven.

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Loving husband and daughters.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the family of Lt. Y. Benjamin Ngullie would like to acknowledge our heartfelt thanks and appreciations to all the Churches, Organizations and Individuals who stood by us through prayers and support us morally, spiritually, financially and physically during the sad, sudden tragic 08/10/1976 – 26/12/2019 loss of our beloved.

We regret our inability to thank each and every individual but it’s our sincere prayer that our Almighty God bless you abundantly.

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5th Death Anniversary of LT. VIZOLTO SAKHRIE

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We the bereaved family of Late Asheli Ayemi, W/o Khetoho Ayemi would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to all the individual, neighbour, family, well wisher and church who have supported us physically, spiritually and financially throughout the brief illness and demise of our beloved wife (mother).

We would like to convey our special thanks to : 1. DSBC, General & Women Dept. Dimapur.

2. Kiyezu 'A' Genaral, Women & Youth Dept.

3. Zutovi Baptist Church.

4. NCRC Zutovi Village.

5. Niu-Vety Fellowship, Youth Fellowship & S.S.T. 6. DSBC. Burma Police Colony Fellowship.

7. DSBC. UNB Fellowship.

8. Gospel Light Ministry, Niu-colony 9. Life Reform Ministry.

10. Niu-Colony Council.

11. STh. Niu-colony.

12. BJP-1 Dimapur-1 Mandal.

13. BJP-1 Dimapur-1 Mahila.

14. BJP-1 Dimapur-1 Ward 22 & 8.

15. Zutovi Ghami Inalimi Kuposhukulu.

16. Zutovi Ghami Kuposhukulu, Dimapur.

17. Staff of BSNL, Dimapur.

18. Shri. Tovihoto Ayemi, Hon’ble MLA Advisor of Power Dept (GON).

19. Shri. Hokuto Zhimo, GB Vety Colony.

20. Shri. Niholu Ayemi, OSD Transport Dept.

(GON).

21. Shri. Bonathung, CDPO Dimapur (Rural).

22. Shri. Kiyezhe Aye (Thahekhu).

23. Shri. Yeshito Zhimo (Thahekhu).

24. Shri. G. Phuhoto Zhimo, Hd. GB. (Ghowoto Village).

25. Shri. Oded Zhimo, Hd GB (Kiyezu ‘A’) 26. Shri. Khehovi H. Awomi.

27. Dr. Heto Swu. 14/02/1975 – 15/01/2020 28. Shri. Kikheto Chishi, CAO NSCN IM. 29. Shri. H. Thong, Spokesperson BJP Nagaland.

30. Shri. Kughato Yeptho (Thahekhu).

31. Doctors & Nurses of District Hospital, Dimapur.

32. Faith Hospital, Dimapur.

33. GNRC Hospital, 6th Mile, Guwahati.

34. Nikos Hospital, Dimapur.

Words of gratitude are not enough to express my feelings, for all the sacrifice that each of you have rendered upon our family. We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individual but we prayed that our Almighty God bless each one of you abundantly.

tacks in India.

“Meanwhile, we all followed reports of capture of Indian police officer, Davinder Singh, whose footprint is now being seen in some major terrorist attack, which India itself orchestrated and blamed on Pakistan,” said Qureshi. “We have been consistently warning the world community about another false flag operation against Pakistan that Davinder Singh was accompanied by two militants on his way to Delhi in close proximity to Republic Day celebrations should not be lost on anyone,” the minister said.

Qureshi said that the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens were raising fundamental questions about the ideals like democracy and secularism that India’s founding father passionately advocated.

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Washington, Jan 17 (PTI): Pakistan is not prepared to pay any price for peace with India and certainly not without resolving the Kashmir issue in a just manner, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said. Addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think-tank here on Thursday, Qureshi reiterated Pakistan’s demand that US President Donald Trump should mediate to resolve the Kashmir issue. Ties between India and Pakistan came under severe strain after New Delhi revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and bifurcated it into two Union Territories on August 5, evoking strong reactions from Islamabad.

Pakistan has been trying to rally international support against India on the issue. “Our government wants peace in the neigh-

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Losing you is one of the deepest sorrows. On a day like today we miss you a lot. Yet, we remind ourselves that you are in a much better place.

You have gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.

Loving Dad, Sis’s, Bro & Loved ones PUKUOLIE PHILIP KERHÜO Died on : 18-01-2019 Your life was a Blessing, your Memory a Treasure; you are loved beyond words and missed beyond Measure.

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1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

of our beloved LATE NTSOLO LOTHA Died 18.01.2019

One year has passed since you left silently to be with the Lord. The void you left behind still lingers and we miss you so much. We are comforted in the assurance of Eternity, where we will never part. Until then, keep watch over us from the heavenly abode as we live in the memories you left behind.

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Loving Family Members

LATE L. TONGTI IMCHEN BORN ON : 13-02-1926 – DIED ON : 12-01-2020 We the bereaved family members of Late L. Tongti Imchen, would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to : 1. Aoyimti Village Council 2. Aoyimti Village Arogo 3. Aoyimti Village Women Dept.

4. Aoyimti Village Youth Dept.

5. Nokpu Village Council 6. Nokpu Tamang Telongjem 7. Medem Society All individuals, friends, neighbours, relatives and well wishers, who stood by us physically, financially, materially and through constant prayer and support, during our time of grief and sorrow at the sudden demise of our beloved father on 12th of Jan. 2020.

We regret our inability to thank each and every one individually, but we pray that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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SRK’s ‘gold medal’ AbRam Ariana Grande sued for copyright Grammys boss Deborah removed wins silver, bronze at races infringement over ‘7 Rings’ only 10 days before ceremony A

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rammys boss Deborah Dugan has been placed on leave only 10 days before the prestigious ceremony, after facing an allegation of misconduct.

In a statement, the Recording Academy confirmed Dugan was placed on leave “in light of concerns raised to the Recording Academy Board of Trustees, including a formal allegation of misconduct by a senior female member of the Recording Academy team.”

It comes less than a year since she took over as the first female president of

the Recording Academy – which oversees the Grammy Awards – in August 2019.

“The Board has also retained two independent third-party investigators to conduct independent investigations of the allegations.

The Board determined this action to be necessary in order to restore the confidence of the Recording Academy’s membership, repair Recording Academy employee morale, and allow the Recording Academy to focus on its mission of serving all music creators,” a statement given to The Los Angeles Times confirmed.

“Board Chair Harvey Mason Jr. will serve as interim president and CEO pending the conclusion of the investigation. The Recording Academy Board of Trustees is committed to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace, music industry and society.”

Dugan had replaced long-standing Recording Academy Chief Executive Neil Portnow, who faced major backlash in 2018 when he suggested that female artists should “step up” if they wanted to achieve access.

While the full details of the misconduct allegation are yet to emerge, a source told The LA Times that Dugan “didn’t fit in, from the get-go.”

Before becoming president of the Recording Academy, Dugan had been the chief executive at (Red), the AIDS nonprofit founded in 2006 by U2 singer Bono.

The Grammys will take place on January 27, with nominations led by the likes of Shawn Mendes and Ariana Grande. Confirmed performers include the likes of Lizzo and Demi Lovato.

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proud father Shah Rukh Khan shared photog raphs of his youngest son AbRam, whom the superstar fondly called his “gold medal”, after he won races.

SRK on Friday took to Twitter, where he shared a photo collage of AbRam along with the medals and and certificates.

“Day at the Races...

My little ‘Gold Medal’ with his Silver and Bronze wins at the races today!” Shah

Rukh captioned.

SRK married Gauri in 1991, after a six-year courtship. They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000). In 2013, they welcomed AbRam, who was born through surrogacy.

On the work front, Shah Rukh was last seen in “Zero”, where he was seen playing a dwarf. The film also stars Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma.

(IANS)

riana Grande is headed to court.

The “Thank U, Next” singer and Universal Music Corp. are being sued by hip-hop artist DOT for ripping off the chorus of his song in her hit “7 Rings.”

D O T, w h o s e r e a l name is Josh Stone, claims that his song “You Need I Got It,” released in 2017, was infringed upon by the 26-year-old pop star.

The suit alleges that music producer Tommy Brown heard DOT’s song and lifted key elements for Grande’s.

The chorus of Grande’s song repeats the line “I want it / I got it / I want it / I got it,” while the chorus of DOT’s features the refrain ““You need it / I got it / You Want It / I Got It.” The lawsuit alleges that two forensic musicologists have examined the songs and determined that the rhythm and notes within the song are also similar.

“Literally, every single one of the 39 respective notes of ‘7 Rings’ is identical with the 39 notes of ‘I Got It’ from a metrical placement perspective,” claims the suit. “Said an-

other way, the rhythm and placement of the notes and lyrics are identical.”

Grande is up for five Grammy Awards next week, two nominations being for the song “7 Rings.”

“This lawsuit is about protecting artists and their work. Josh’s song was taken and used without his consent, without his knowledge and without a license,” said DOT’s lawyer in a statement to Fox News. “Many people

made a LOT of money on Josh’s work. And that is wrong. It is copyright infringement. Laws were specifically created to protect artists like Josh from copyright infringement.

Those laws were violated and Josh has rights that we are now exercising to right that wrong.”

Reps for Grande and Universal Music Corp. did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

(FoxNews)

BTS unveil new single ‘Black Stay on hanging of Nirbhaya convicts ‘demoralising’: Mallika Sherawat Swan’ and share elaborate art film

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TS have shared a striking new art film which is soundtracked by their new single ‘Black Swan’.

The latest track from the K-Pop stars is set to feature on ‘Map Of The Soul: 7’, which will arrive on February 21.

It was released in the form of a new artistic dance film, with the song soundtracking an elaborate performance by Michal Rynia and Nastja Bremec Rynia of the MN Dance Company from Slovenia.

While the video does not feature an appearance by the band themselves, the slowed-down and contemplative sound suggests that they’re heading in an entirely new direction on their next record.

In an official press release, the track sees BTS

“dive deep into their inner selves as artists and faces the shadows they had once hidden”.

“The song lends voice to their fears that one day music will no longer be able to move or touch them,” it continues. “The very moment they come face to face with the Black Swan within themselves, however, they are stricken with a paradoxical retaliation that music is all they have.

“It is a confession of an artist who has truly learned what music means to himself.” Fans have also been able to glimpse the artwork for the first time — which features a large ‘7’ set against a white background.

The K-Pop outfit’s last full-length effort, ‘Face Yourself ’, came in April 2018 and followed on from 2016’s ‘Youth’.

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day after a Delhi court stayed the order to hang the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case on January 22, Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat has reacted to the development. The actress, who works actively for the rehabilitation of rape and child prostitution victims feels the news is “demoralising for the women of the country”.

Reacting to the piece of news, Mallika told IANS: “How demoralising I feel it is for the women of this country. Imagine what her parents must be going through!”

Almost ever y day there are newspaper reports about rape and murder of women from different parts of the country, which highlight how crime against women is becoming

rampant. Are we losing respect for women?

Mallika seems to believe Indian men never respected women. “Did we ever respect women?

Indian society is very regressive towards women.

When I had tried saying this earlier, a section of the media started attacking me saying Mallika is tarnishing our country’s reputation before the world. But I am a patriot, I love my country, that’s why I draw attention to this issue.

I want to see a positive change. The country’s reputation cannot be more important than what is happening with our women. So, my question is, did India ever respect its women? Because if you do, then all these shouldn’t happen -- that too regularly.

Everybody thought there will be a change after the

a common practice. Rape was inevitable, why did she go out at night? Imagine, people actually say these things! This is so wrong. I think, our mindset needs to change.”

Mallika also pointed out the sad reality about how women have been

Nirbhaya case but Nirbhaya has not got justice yet!”

Talking about victimblaming, which is a common practice in the Indian society, the actress added: “I strongly feel this and I always get into trouble for saying this because people like to think that women are really progressing in India. Nobody supports me when I say no, they are not. Don’t talk about Mumbai or Pune -- these are privileged women.

Come to the small towns where victim-blaming is

propagating patriarchy in our country for ages and continue to do so. Drawing from experience at the beginning of her Bollywood career, she said: “Women in our country are very patriarchal. They propagate patriarchy even more. This mindset needs

to change. When I started my career with films like ‘Murder’, a lot of bullying that I faced came not from men but from women. I believe in sisterhood, in supporting women and pulling them up. So that came as a shocker to me.”

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ctress Priyanka Chopra has added a dash of Bollywood to the new music video that her popstar husband Nick Jonas has released along with his brothers.

In the video, “What a man gotta do”, Priyanka features with the other Jonas wives, Sophie Turner and Danielle Jonas. The three wives had also starred in the Jonas brothers’ 2019 music video, “Sucker”.

Priyanka took to Instagram on Friday to share the latest video with her 48.4 million followers.

“OUT NOW. #WhatAManGottaDoVideo @nickjonas @jonasbrothers,” she captioned the post about the video in which singers and brothers Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas recreate classic films with their wives.

Priyanka even posted a brief video from the shoot. “Always need me some Bollywood #gotthewindinmyhair,” she wrote.

A day prior to the release of the music video, Priyanka had given a glimpse of it and captioned it: “I’m risky... he’s the business.”

The couple is seen giving tribute to the 1983 film “Risky Business”.

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ojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi is reportedly in talks to direct the next Star Wars film.

The Rise Of Skywalker only came out last month, but talks are already underway regarding the next film in the franchise.

The original plan for the next films was to recruit Game of Thrones showrunners David Wenioff and D.B. Weiss, but they stepped down in October after penning an overall deal with Netflix.

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of Disney+ spin-off show The Mandalorian, and The Hollywood Reporter now reveals that he’s been approached to helm the next Star Wars film.

The report goes on to say that it’s unclear whether Waititi’s prospective Star Wars film is related to the future project involving Marvel president Kevin Feige.

Taika Waititi is currently working on Thor: Love And Thunder, the follow-up to his lauded Thor: Ragnarok.

His latest outing came in the form of Jojo Rab-

bit, a film that NME said saw Waititi’s “hot streak continue”.

The review continued: “Fans of Waititi’s whimsy will find much to admire in Jojo Rabbit –yet another mirth-inducing concoction that keeps the filmmaker’s career on an upward trajectory. How long can he keep it going?”

The Rise Of Skywalker, meanwhile, recently passed the $1 billion dollar mark at the box office, creeping up on the $1.3bn picked up by 2017’s The Last Jedi.

(NME)

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Sania sails into women’s doubles final in Hobart

Hobart, Jan 17 (IANS): Former World No.1 Sania Mirza continued her dream comeback to the WTA circuit when on Friday she entered the women’s doubles final at the ongoing Hobart International.

Mirza, back from a two-year absence from the tour after having her baby, paired with Ukraine’s Nadiia Kichenok to win their semi-final clash over Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic and Slovenia’s Tamara Zidansek, 7-6(3), 6-2, and move into the summit clash.

Mirza and Kichenok beat Bouzkova and Zidansek in a match that lasted one hour and 24 minutes.

The Indo-Ukranian pair had 15 break points in the match and were able to convert just four of them, but they were only broken twice in the match, to garner the straight-set victory.

The Indian star, who has three Grand Slam titles in women’s doubles and another three Grand Slam titles in mixed doubles, is now into her 62nd WTA doubles final and would be seeking her 41st title.

The 33-year-old Indian, who has spent 91 weeks as the top-ranked player in the WTA doubles

Chelsea youngster James handed five-year deal L ONDON , J a n 1 7 (Agencies): Chelsea have handed 20-year-old defender Reece James a longterm contract until 2025.

James is one of several young homegrown players to have thrived in Frank Lampard’s first season in charge at Stamford Bridge, benefiting from the transfer ban which prevented the club from buying new players in the close season.

He has made 18 appearances since returning from a successful loan spell at Championship side Wigan Athletic, scoring on his debut against Grimsby Town in the League Cup and netting in a 4-4 draw with Ajax Amsterdam in the Champions League.

“It has been my dream to be here at Chelsea and play week in week out and to have a contract for another five-and-a-half years is living the dream again,” James told Chelsea’s website.

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rankings in her career, had not played on the WTA since a semi-final run at the 2017 China Open.

During her time away from the circuit, she gave birth to her first child,

Izhaan, who has been on site in Hobart this week.

Mirza and Kichenok will now face the secondseeded Chinese pair of Zhang Shuai and Peng Shuai on Saturday.

Murray return delayed due to slow recovery L ONDON , J a n 1 7 (Agencies): Andy Murray has delayed his comeback to tennis because of a slower-than-expected recovery from bone bruising that resulted from a careersaving hip surgery last year, the three-times Grand Slam champion told the BBC. The former world number one played in the Davis Cup last November but decided in late December that he was not fit enough to play the Australian Open after bruising flared up. He had, however, hoped to return for tournaments in February.

“The bone bruising is taking longer to heal than first thought, so I won’t be playing in Montpellier or Rotterdam in February,” the 32-year-old told the BBC. “I don’t want to rush anything or put a timeline on my recovery. I’m going to listen to my body and step back on the court to compete when the time is right.”

Murray had the hip resurfacing surgery at the start of 2019 after he tearfully told reporters at last year’s Australian Open that he was constantly in pain and his career appeared over.

The Scot, however, returned to the circuit last June and played doubles before singles at the Cincinnati Masters and then played six further tournaments, winning in Antwerp.

Pakistan’s Hafeez to retire after T20 WC

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Lahore, Jan 17 (Agencies): Recalled Pakistan allrounder Mohammad Hafeez Friday said he will retire from international cricket after the Twenty20 World Cup later this year, vowing to end his career on a positive note.

The 38-year-old was Thursday recalled to Pakistan’s Twenty20 series against Bangladesh starting in Lahore from January 24.

Hafeez has been one of Pakistan’s key players

-- in all three formats, as a top order batsman and a handy off-spinner -- since making his debut during an England tour in 2003.

But his career was dogged by questions over the legality of his bowling action, reported on three occasions during international matches. He was also banned from bowling for 12 months in 2015.

Hafeez, dubbed the “professor” for his knowledge of the game, said he enjoyed playing for Paki-

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“It has been a privilege,” he told media.

“I want to play the Twenty20 World Cup and then exit from Pakistan’s international team.”

Hafeez retired from Tests in December 2018 after playing 55 Tests. He was more successful in limited over formats, scoring 6,614 runs and took 139 wickets in 218 one-day internationals.

His last ODI was during the World Cup (50 overs) in England last year, and he has not been selected for that format since then.

His tally in 89 Twenty20 internationals stands at 54 wickets and 1,908 runs.

“I have played 17 years for Pakistan and tried my level best. At times I missed my bowling,” said Hafeez, who also captained Pakistan in 29 Twenty20 internationals, winning 17 and losing 11 with one ending in a tie.

Maguire named new Man Utd captain

Lo n d o n, Ja n 1 7 (Agencies): Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed Harr y Maguire as Manchester United’s new captain less than six months after his £80 million ($104 million) move from Leicester.

Maguire will take over as skipper from Ashley Young, who is expected to complete his move to Inter Milan.

The England international, 26, has led the side in games when Young has been absent and was an obvious choice for the role having played in every Premier League match this season.

“Harry has been wearing the captain’s armband and he will keep wearing it,” said Solskjaer, whose side take on runaway leaders Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.

“He’s come in and been a leader in the group. I have not been surprised but I’ve been impressed by his leadership skills.”

“He is part of a group that we’ve had that have been leading this young group,” added Solskjaer.

“Ashley has been of course, Marcus (Rashford) is a young lad but he has been involved, David (de Gea) and Harry, so Harry will keep on wearing the armband now.”

Young, who moved to Old Trafford in 2011, will link up at the San Siro

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with former United teammates Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez.

“Ashley has been a good servant for the club, he’s been captain, he’s won trophies, the league, various cups,” said Solskjaer.

“But we’ve got players coming through and when Ashley’s head and mindset was, ‘I want to try this’, why not do it now?”

Solskjaer’s main concern ahead of Sunday’s match is the fitness of striker Rashford, who was injured during his substitute appearance in the midweek FA Cup win against Wolves.

“We’ll do some more

checks and treatment with him today,” said the United boss.

“Yesterday was just a recovery day and some treatment for him. I’m not going to hold my breath.

I would probably think he wouldn’t be ready, but let’s see.”

Rashford has been in impressive form this season, with 22 goals for club and country, meaning his absence would be a big blow for Solskjaer.

United are the only team to have taken any points off Liverpool in the Premier League this season following the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford in October

but trail their rivals by 27 points.

Solskjaer said his team needed a “very, very good performance” to win at Anfield, calling on them to match the levels they showed in their victory against Manchester City last month.

“But the last two performances against Liverpool at Old Trafford, we’ve drawn twice and been closest to winning both games,” he said.

“So we have some games to look back at and that will give us loads of belief and if we perform to our best we have a chance to win.”

Paire through to final in Auckland

WELLINGTON, Jan 17 (Agencies): Benoit Paire overcame a second set of simmering frustration that ended with a smashed racket and point penalty to advance to the Auckland Open final on Friday and a showdown with fellow Frenchman Ugo Humbert.

The 30-year-old Paire b e a t Po l a n d ’s H u b e r t Hurkacz 6-4 6-7(1) 6-2 to set up a final on Saturday with Humbert, who earlier tamed the big serve of U.S. two-time champion John Isner in a 7-6(5) 6-4 win.

It will be 21-year-old Humbert’s first ATP Tour final.

“I’m very sorry,” Paire said of his tantrums. “I broke one racket and ... I only have two left so I have to be careful in the final before I get to Australia.

To play against Ugo in the final, two Frenchman, is very special.”

Paire, who lost to Hurkacz in the final in Winston-Salem in August, ap-

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peared to become frustrated towards the end of the first set when he wasted his first opportunity to serve out.

Two double faults gave Hurkacz the break and the Pole then served to love with the Frenchman visibly annoyed and appearing to just want to get off court.

Paire ensured he closed

out the set the next game but his frustration levels increased in the second set and he smashed a ball out of the stadium when he was broken and then complained throughout the tie-break of a fan heckling him.

He smashed his racket on set point and having received a warning when he

earlier hit the ball into the adjoining Auckland Domain he simply walked off and sat down as the umpire awarded Hurkacz a penalty point and the set.

Paire, however, raced through the decider and advanced to his ninth final when Hurkacz served his seventh double fault.

Sexual harassment not rampant at our institutes: SAI Rabada fined for ICC code breach

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which can only be changed at the Ministerial level,” he said.

SAI said as per its 2011 to 2019 records, 35 complaints of sexual harassment have been received out of which inquiry is in progress in 15 cases.

Three were found to be false allegations, while two accused were acquitted by the court. One accused committed suicide while another complaint was withdrawn.

Out of these 35 cases, 27 were against coaches while eight were against SAI officials.

“To ensure that there is no possibility of intimidation to the complainant, the officer/coach against whom the complaint is raised is shifted from the place of posting as soon as a complaint is received,” read an official statement from SAI. “A call centre is also in operation (since April 2019) through which trainees can lodge their grievances directly,” it added.

The release stated that in December last year, more than 350 distress calls were received. The body did not specify how these

complaints were dealt with but assured that “follow up” action was taken.

The Sports Ministry, under whose jurisdiction SAI functions, pointed to some data of its own to highlight that sexual harassment cases were more of an aberration than the norm.

“Every year around 15,000 athletes sign up to get training in different SAI facilities all over the country. Out of this 4,000 to 5,000 go on to compete in national and international competitions. It means around 1,50,000 athletes were trained at SAI facilities in the last 10 years,” an official said.

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said he has nonetheless directed the SAI to dispose off pending

cases within the next four weeks.

“The inquiries that are underway will be speeded up. We will ensure that the already existing system of addressing sexual harassment cases and protecting our athletes, both boys and girls, is made more robust,” he asserted in a statement issued on Friday.

Along with its head office in Delhi, where the sexual harassment committee is headed by Regional Director Meena Bora, SAI has 12 regional committees to deal with complaints.

“The report says 45 sexual harassment cases were reported over the last 10 years. If we go by the figures, these 45 cases were out of 1,50,000. So, the percentage stands at 0.03,” he added.

“What does it say? It only says that we have a robust system and deterrents in place.”

The official also said that false allegations is another aspect which cannot be ignored.

“There is a system in place. In case of a sexual harassment complaint, an impartial inquiry is conducted and if the accused is found guilty, action is taken against him or her,” he said.

“Sometimes false allegations also come up after inquiry,” he added.

As per the prevalent norms, the SAI constitutes an Internal Complaint Committee at every region with a senior lady as chairperson after receiving a sexual harassment complaint.

The panel also includes representatives of NGOs with “majority of committee members being ladies”.

Besides, the SAI also conducts workshops in local languages in every region for women trainees to sensitise them about sexual harassment and the recourse they can seek in case they are faced with it.

Port Elizabeth, Jan 17 (IANS): South Africa pace ace Kagiso Rabada was on Friday fined 15 per cent of his match fee and also received one demerit point after being found guilty of a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel during the first day of the third Test against England here on Thursday.

The South African bowler was found to have violated Article 2.5 of the code, which relates to “using language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a batter upon his or her dismissal during an international match”.

The charge relates to Rabada’s actions following the dismissal of Joe Root.

After the day’s play, Rabada admitted to the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee Andy Pycroft and, as such, there was no need for a formal hearing.

Rabada has now accumulated four demerit points in a 24 month period and will miss South Africa’s next Test match. The four-match series is locked 1-1 and Rabada took two wickets on Day 1.

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New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI): The Sports Authority of India on Friday rejected criticism that sexual harassment complaints are not dealt with strictly at its institutes, asserting that a robust system is in place to tackle the menace but acknowledged that punishments should be harsher for those found guilty.

Stung by a repor t which claimed that 45 cases of sexual harassment were reported from 24 SAI institutes over the last 10 years, the nodal body to administer Olympic sports in the country asserted that the number of cases stands at 35 for the past decade in which action has already been taken in 14.

Also, it said that a “robust” system and substantive “deterrents” are in place to deal with such cases. However, speaking to PTI, a top official, on conditions of anonymity, conceded that punishments, which currently range from transfers to cuts in pay and pension to suspensions, ought to be more stringent.

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Rajkot, Jan 17 (PTI): Kuldeep Yadav bowled a game-changing 38th over to complement a KL Rahul blinder as India levelled the series with a comfortable 36-run victory over Australia in second ODI here on Friday.

Put into bat, India put up a much-improved batting performance with Rahul’s blistering 52-ball80 taking India to 340 for six after Shikhar Dhawan (96 off 90 balls) and skipper Virat Kohli (78 off 76 balls) laid the foundation.

Australia were in the game till Steven Smith (98) carried the battle back to the enemy camp but Kuldeep’s ninth over turned out to be a game-changer as he first dismissed wicketkeeper Alex Carey and then had a delivery that bounced extra to have Smith played on.

The visitors were all-out for 304 in 49.1 overs.

Kuldeep’s final figures of 2 for 65 may not be mind-blowing but did just enough damage to see that the third ODI in Bengaluru doesn’t lose context.

Mohammed Shami (3/77 in 10 overs) and Navdeep Saini (2/62 in 10 overs) then bowled some exquisite toe-crushers to put an end to the contest.

Jasprit Bumrah (1/32 in 9.1 overs) was economical as ever and his contribution cannot be overlooked.

Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli run between the wickets during the 2nd ODI match against Australia at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot on Friday. (PTI)

However on a placid track, Smith, a proverbial thorn in India’s flesh was again proving to be dangerous along with Marnus Labuschagne (44) as they added 96 in quick time.

Ravindra Jadeja (2/58 in 10 overs) steady spell and got rid of Labuschagne in nick of time to upset Smith’s rhythm after he had hit nine fours and a six off 102 balls.

Earlier, it was Dhawan laid a solid platform for the aggressive duo of skipper Kohli and Rahul to ensure a commanding total.

The senior opener looked solid in his 90-ball-

96 while Kohli, back at his familiar one drop position, held the middle-order with a 78 off 76 balls and Rahul (80 off 52 balls) provided the final flourish in what was much improved batting performance from the hosts.

While Dhawan added 81 for the opening stand with Rohit Sharma (42) who would regret this missed opportunity on a batting belter after getting set, the southpaw also had a vital 103-run stand with Kohli for the second wicket.

The Kohli-Rahul duo’s 78-run partnership off 10.3

overs was also pivotal as it helped the latter to launch a final assault during the end overs.

Adam Zampa (3/50 in 10 overs) was once again the stand-out performer taking Kohli out of equation for the seventh time in limited overs just when he was looking to get his 44th ODI ton.

At the start, Dhawan began with a bowler’s backdrive, giving a glimpse of what was in store. The southpaw completed his sixth fifty versus Australia in 60 balls as he played shots all around the ground.

The last time Dhawan

scored successive fifties was in January 2019 against New Zealand. This was his 29th in 50-over cricket.

The left-hander was particularly harsh on leftarm spinner Ashton Agar (0-63 in 8 overs), whom he hammered for two successive fours in the 25th, a sweep and a reverse-sweep, and then in 27th over stuck a four and a six, not allowing him to settle down.

In fact the 77 runs from 10 overs bowled by fifth and sixth bowling option Marnus Labuschagne (0/14 in 2 overs) was the difference from the last game.

However, Dhawan missed out on his 18th ODI hundred by four runs when he pulled a Kane Richardson ball straight to fine leg in 29th over.

Shreyas Iyer (7) fell cheaply. But Kohli was in sublime touch as he ran the singles and doubles with intensity and also it the loose balls for boundary.

Brief Scores India: 340/6 (Shikhar Dhawan 96, Virat Kohli 78, KL Rahul 80, Rohit Sharma 42; Adam Zampa 3/50).

Australia: 304 all out (Steve Smith 98, Marnus Labuschagne 46; Mohammed Shami 3/77, Kuldeep Yadav 2/65, Ravindra Jadeja 2/58, Navdeep Saini 2/62).

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Mumbai City ease past Bengaluru FC Mumbai, Jan 17 (Agencies): Mumbai City FC do the double over Bengaluru FC as they beat the Blues 2-0 in an Indian Super League (ISL) clash on Friday at the Mumbai Football Arena.

Modou Sougou (13’) and Armine Chermiti (55’) were on target for the Islanders as edged out Bengaluru convincingly at home.

Ashique Kuruniyan expertly rode three challenges and saw a shot deflected out.

The resulting corner saw Khabra deliver a succinct ball to Sunil Chhetri, who failed to control well, looping his shot wide.

However, Bengaluru were to be left red-faced just moments later. Rowlin Borges’ lofted through ball saw Moudou Sogou dart tacitly between Juanan and Gurpreet Singh Sandhu. India’s number one did to the ball but was only successful in punching the ball straight into the opponent, who made it 1-0 for the hosts.

The match descended into an unruly brawl in the 40th minute on account of a rash and late challenge

by Dimas on Rowllin. The two teams squared up with several members taking part in the fisticuff, but only the Spanish Midfielder earned a caution.

Subashish Bose had the ball in the net around the 44th minute, but his effort, off a well-crafted cross by Carlos was ruled out on ac-

Players of Mumbai City FC and Bengaluru FC fight for the ball during their match on Friday.

count of the offside flag.

Bengaluru introduced Udanta Singh into the fray at the beginning of the second half and he registered the visitors’ first attempt of the second 45, a tame, looping header over Amrinder from a Bengaluru corner.

Disaster struck again in the 54th minute for the ISL champions. Rowllin was in the act again launching yet another aerial ball into the Bengaluru box.

However, Harmanjot Khanra erred on his defensive positioning and instead of heading clear or to the keeper, he steered the ball into Chermiti’s path. The Albanian forward lashed

the ball past a hapless Gurpreet as Mumbai cushioned their lead. Defensive lapses glared in the face of Cuadrat, with another mix-up between the covering defender and Sandhu nearly gifting a chance to the hosts. Luckily the keeper made a dash to slash away the ball.

The away side nearly pulled one back with Udanta Singh’s poor finishing touch letting him down right in front of Amrinder, from a low driven cross by his Captain.

The win moved the Mumbaikars to within two points of Odisha, while Bengaluru remained in 2nd place behind FC Goa.

Vinesh to fight for gold; Anshu settles for silver in Rome

Inter-School (U-15) cricket tourney Dimapur, Jan 17 (NPN): The Under15 Inter-School Cricket Tournament, organised by Dimapur District Cricket Association (DDCA) will be held in the first week of February at DDCA Stadium and Sovima Village Ground. Therefore, DDCA has informed all the interested schools within Dimapur district to contact C.K Mech (8415869357) for participation in the forthcoming The tournament of 25 overs a side

will be played in red cricket ball and with white dress. Entry forms with all rules and regulations will be issued on payment of entry fees of Rs.2000 on January 20 between 2 to 5 pm from DDCA office at DDSC stadium, Dimapur. The last date of submission of the forms will be January 28.

The tournament will be followed by another inter-school tournament for the under-18 in the month of March.

Kekhrie wins Kigwema wrestling meet

Kekhrie Yhoshü and other top three wrestlers at Kigwema on Friday.

KOHIMA, Jan 17 (NPN): Kekhrie Yhoshü emerged as the champion of the 80th Senior cum Under 16 Wrestling Meet of Kigwema Youth Organization (KYO) held at Kigwema local ground on Friday.

The two-day wrestling meet witnessed senior wrestling event on the second day, while the U-16 wrestling was held on

January 16.

On Friday, Kekhrie Yhoshü downed Ketouvilie Kere in the final bout to take the title in senior category. Kekheneito Kere and Kekhrielelie Chale secured the third and fourth position respectively.

In under-16 category, Pelevoto Kiso defeated Thejanguzo Pfükha in the final match to take the title while

Khisamhale Kere and Kevizekho Yhoshü secured the third and fourth position respectively.

Earlier Deputy Viwheto Thorie, District Agriculture Officer, Wokha and Rokovikho Chale, president, Southern Angami Sports Association (SASA) graced the meet as special guest and guest of honour respectively.

With two wrestlers, having immense upperbody strength, jostling for upper hand from standing position was a sight to watch.

Fighting a measured bout against Pang, Vinesh was in control in the semifinal, With two take downs in each period she led 4-0 and conceded points only towards the end of the fight.

Vinesh will now fight for her first gold of the season with Ecuador’s Luisa Elizabeth Valverde Melemdres.

The 18-year-old Anshu carried her sparkling form from the trials at her maiden international tournament at the senior level but could not replicate it in the gold medal bout, losing to Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye.

The 18-year-old was very dominant till the final, beating American Jenna Vinesh Phogat Rose Burkert, Grace Bulallist Pooja Dhanda durlen of Norway, 2019 world final.

Anshu had upset world ing the trials. But Divya champion from Canada Linda Morais en route the championship bronze med- Kakran returned empty-

handed after losing the 68kg bronze medal play-off bout to Danielle Suzanne Lappage of Canada.

Also in medal contention is Nirmala Devi, who will fight for 50kg bronze after losing her semi-final to Sarah Ann Hildebrandt.

Nirmala was aggressive throughout, going for leg attacks, but the American stayed solid in her defence, reminding the tactics that Vinesh had employed against her at the 2019 World Championship in Nur Sultan.

Nirmala has another American in her way as she will lock horns with Victoria Lacey Anthony.

In the men’s freestyle competition, Satyawart Kadiyan (97kg) and Sumit Mailk (125kg) exited following their quarterfinal defeats.

K a d i ya n l o s t 0 - 2 t o U k r a i n e ’s M u r a z i Mchedlidze while Sumit suffered defeat by technical superiority against Canada’s Amarveer Dhesi.

Konta to miss Fed Cup in 2020 Lo n d o n, Ja n 1 7 (Agencies): Johanna Konta will be fit to play in the Australian Open but has announced she will not compete for Great Britain in the Fed Cup this year.

Konta is Britain’s best female player and has won her last 11 singles matches in Fed Cup, the most recent two to help Britain to victory over Kazakhstan last April.

That saw Britain finally promoted back to World Group level after 26 years, although a subsequent revamp of the competition means they must win a play-off against Slovakia in Bratislava next month to book a spot at the inaugural finals week in Budapest. “I had a really good chat with Anne in November and so everyone who is important to me does know about this decision and has been really supportive,” she said. “It’s kind of a combination of things: it’s an Olympic year, I’m looking to schedule things slightly differently for the longevity of my body and to be able to come back in following years and hopefully play more Fed Cup.”

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Champions of 5th Unity Cup Cricket Tournament, Knight XI Thahekhu with the special guest and organisers at Chümoukedima local ground on Friday. The tournament was organised by Nepali Baptist Church Chümoukedima Sports Ministry under the theme ‘Solidarity for Peace,’ from January 6 to 17. Altogether, 19 teams participated in the tournament.

Rome, Jan 17 (PTI): A dominant Vinesh Phogat downed two tough Chinese rivals on her way to the 53kg final of the Rome Ranking Series event after teen sensation Anshu Malik settled for a silver medal in 57kg competition, here on Friday.

Vinesh won by technical superiority against Khrystyna Bereza (10-0) and Lannuan Luo (15-5) before getting the better of Qianyu Pang (4-2).

If the win against Ukrainian Bereza was about spectacular double leg attacks, the quarterfinal win over the Luo was much tougher than the what the score-line suggested.

Luo was a strong opponent, who led 5-2 at the end of first period but Vinesh turned it around with smart point-scoring moves from nowhere in the second period.

Twice she threw Luo with moves from between the legs when the Chinese was holding her from the back.

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