January 21, 2021

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KOHIMA, JAN 20 (NPN): In a bid to allay apprehensions and misconceptions among people against the vaccine for COVID-19, principal secretary Health & Family Welfare (H&FW) Amardeep Singh Bhatia explained that Covishield vaccine against the virus was rolled out after trials and recommendation from an expert panel of scientists.

In an interview to Nagaland Post, Bhatia said only after exper ts and scientists prioritised the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and after the recommendation of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), the vaccine was being administered on an emergency basis. He said, based on the data made available by the experts, the vaccine was safe and effective.

Further, Bhatia informed that around 65% of the beneficiaries listed in the first three days had been administered the vaccine.

He said out of the remaining 35% left out, quite a substantial number could not turn up for the vaccination as most of them were out of

State COVID tally 12067 D I M A P U R , JA N 2 0 (NPN): Nagaland on Wednesday recorded only one COVID-19 positive case in Kohima taking the tally to 12067.

As on January 20, seven more patients recovered from the infection while the number of active COVID-19 cases in the state was at 104.

Meanwhile, the distribution across various categories include 4666 cases from the armed forces/ police, 1856 returnees, 4973 traced contacts and 572 frontline workers.

PTI adds: With 13,823 infections reported in a day, India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,05,95,660, while the recoveries surged to 1,02,45,741, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday.

The death toll due to the disease increased to 1,52,718 in the country as 162 new fatalities were recorded, the ministry data updated at 8 am showed.

The total number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,02,45,741, pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 96.70 per cent.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent, it said.

The active caseload remained below 3 lakh.

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station. He claimed that only a small percentage of health workers were apprehensive to get the vaccine due to certain misconceptions. He, however, said that majority of the health workers who registered were happy and eager to get the vaccine.

Bhatia also informed that some health workers could not be vaccinated on medical grounds like pregnancy including lactating mothers. He further informed that another 23,000 doses of COVID vaccines were received on Wednesday to cover the first phase. Bhatia said the vaccines would be issued to the beneficiaries registered in CoWIN App. To another query, he said vaccination days would be reduced to three or four days in a week so that other services are not affected.

Meanwhile, in order to allay fear and apprehension against the vaccine for COVID-19 and also to encourage health workers to get inoculated, H&FW principal director, Dr. Vizolie Z Suokhrie assured that the vaccine will protect them and in turn enable them to protect the community.

Dr. Suokhrie was administered with the Cov-

ishield vaccine at Seikhazou Urban Primary Health Centre on Wednesday morning.

Dr. Suokhrie said that he was fortunate to be inoculated with the vaccine and reiterated that it was safe.

He appealed to the people to come forward and take the vaccine so as to protect the community. National Health Mission director Dr Kevichusa Medikhrü was also administered with the vaccine in the afternoon.

It may be mentioned that AIIMS director Randeep Guleria had also allayed apprehensions about the vaccines and assured that the side-effects will not result in death of the beneficiary. “Even if a person takes Crocin or Paracetamol, they may develop allergic reactions. There is nothing to worry about.

There is no side-effect which would result in death,” Dr Guleria said.

2nd batch of vax arrives

The second batch of Covishield vaccine arrived Dimapur on Wednesday from Guwahati by Air India flight. The consignment, containing 23000 doses, was received by health authorities at Dimapur airport.

Day 4: 1097 health workers vaccinated as first woman District Day 4 (20.1.2020) Cumulative (Till date) Vice President 127 784 Dimapur Mokokchung Zunheboto Phek Kohima Wokha Mon Peren Tuensang Longleng Kiphire Total

320 125 128 167 46 105 13 52 0 14 1097

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tate Health department informed that vaccination of healthcare workers was done with great success on Wednesday as the state achieved 73% of Wednesday’s target.

According to state immunisation officer (UIP) and spokesperson for Covid-19 vaccination, Dr. Ritu Thurr, 1097 healthcare workers were vaccinated on Wednesday without any adverse events being reported across 41 session sites.

Till date 3,970 health workers have been vaccinated in the state safely by the covishleld vaccine

655 435 375 368 367 363 255 180 114 74 3970

across all districts.

Though H&FW directorate has directed districts to conduct COVID-19 vaccination days on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, it gave permission to Kohima district to hold session sites at Botsa PHC, Viswema CHC, Kemipfuphe PHC, Kezocha PHC, Kohima Village PHC, Zakhama PHC, Zakhama army hospital and Mon district at Aboi Chc & Thomching PHC. All vaccination sites are entered in COWIN portal and all beneficiaries are verified with photo identity card before receiving the vaccine, Dr. Thurr said.

WASHINGTON, JAN 20 (PTI): Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris took oath as first woman Vice President on Wednesday in a historic but scaled down ceremony under the unprecedented security umbrella of thousands of security personnel, who transformed the Capitol into a fortress to prevent any breach by pro-Trump extremists.

The 78-year-old veteran Democrat leader was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice John Roberts at the West Front of the Capitol - the traditional location for presidential inaugural ceremonies.

The inauguration was held under the watch of more than 25,000 National Guards, who have transformed the capital into a garrison city, mainly because of the threat of more violent protests by the supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, who became the first president to skip his successor’s inauguration since

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday. (AP/PTI)

Andrew Johnson in 1869.

Outgoing Vice President Mike Pence attended the ceremony.

Biden, who is the oldest president in American history, took the oath by placing his left hand on his 127-year-old family Bible, which was held by his wife, Jill Biden. He used the same Bible during his swearing in as vice president and seven times as senator from Delaware. Just before Biden’s oath, his deputy 56-year-old Harris was sworn in as 49th Vice President of the United States by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina member of the Supreme Court, creating history as the first female, first Black and first Indian-American vice president of the world’s

oldest and most powerful democracy. The ceremony was attended by former presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton. Former first ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton were also present.

Around 1,000 people attended the swearing-in ceremony, including Supreme Court justices and members of Congress, who were limited to just one guest each due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden enters the White House with the top challenge to lift the country from the devastation of a raging pandemic. Revival of the economy, which has been badly bruised by the pandemic, is another challenge that he faces.

Centre offers to put on hold farm CM inaugurates Noklak as 12th district of Nagaland laws for 18 months to end protest NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (AGENCIES): In a major climb down, the Centre has offered to suspend the three contentious farm laws for up to 18 months in a bid to end the protests at Delhi’s doorstep. Centre also proposed to constitute a committee to review the laws and continue the ongoing dialogue with farm unions.

The proposal came at a meeting between farm unions and the centre on Wednesday, after nine rounds of talks failed to resolve the deadlock. Farm unions, however, told the government they will respond on Thursday after discussing the proposal. The next meeting is scheduled on 22 January. “The government is ready to suspend the three laws for one to one-and-ahalf years during which a solution can be reached by mutual dialogue. We want the agitation to end and

the talks with farm unions to continue,” Agri minister Narendra Singh Tomar said after the meeting.

Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan said: “...We rejected the proposal but since it has come from the government, we will meet tomorrow and deliberate over it.”

The government has offered to suspend the implementation of the three laws for up to 18 months or a mutually agreeable period of time to restore the trust of farm unions, and they are willing to do this through an affidavit in the Supreme Court, said K. Kuruganti, who is part of the 41-member delegation of Samyukta Kisan Morcha negotiating with the government. “The government has also proposed to form a committee to decide on the future of these laws on whether they

will be repealed or amended.

We will send our response in a day,” Kuruganti added.

On a plea filed by Kisan Mahapanchayat, the court also issued notice on the application to reconstitute the four-member review committee it had formed on 12 January while staying the implementation of the laws. One of the members, Bhupinder Singh Mann, recused himself on January 14 stating he cannot compromise with the interests of farmers.

Supreme Court further said that the expert panel has no power to adjudicate and will only submit a report to the court after hearing all sides. Protesting farmer unions have refused to present their views before the committee and argued that they will only hold a dialogue with the government which has the powers to repeal the laws.

Neiphiu Rio with his cabinet colleagues and others at the inaugural.

DIMAPUR, JAN 20 (NPN): State chief minister, Neiphiu Rio, inaugurated Noklak as the 12th district of Nagaland at public ground Noklak Hq on January 20, 2021 in the presence of deputy chief minister Y. Patton, advisor L.Khumo and advisor H.Haiying.

Speaking at the inaugural programme of Noklak district cum KhaozaosieHok-Ah festival as special guest, the chief minister extended his best wishes to the people of Noklak and expressed hope that Noklak

district would set a good example.

According to a DIPR report, the chief minister encouraged all to have a competitive spirit and to co-operate with the government for all round development. He also called upon the people of Noklak district to be self sufficient.

Besides, Rio encouraged the young people to start modern farming. The chief minister named Noklak district as ‘Frontier District’ as the district was located in the international bound-

ary with Myanmar, which connects to other East and South East Asian countries.

Further, Rio appealed to all responsible to safeguard and protect the region.

With regard to the COVID-19 vaccine, Rio asserted that preference would be given to health care workers, frontline workers and elderly people who were above 50 years of age.

On the occasion, Rio also greeted the people of Khiamniungan community a happy Khaozaosie-HokAh festival, and hoped that it would usher in a prosperous year.

State deputy chief minister, Y Patton, while exhorting the gathering, advised the people of Noklak district to be peace loving citizens. “If people are united, Noklak will be more advanced district in Nagaland,” he said and urged people to avoid land issues when it comes to development.

Advisor Fisheries & Aquatic Resources, Eco & Statistics and Evaluation, L. Khumo, advisor Prisons, Printing & Stationery H. Haiying, state chief secretary J. Alam, deputy commissioner Tuensang, Kumar Ramnikant, Khiamniungan Tribal Council president M.Thangou also spoke on the occasion.

Khiamniungan Baptist Churches Association (KBCA) executive secretary, P.Hempao Lam dedicated the monolith during the inaugural ceremony while special numbers were presented

by K.Okie and the Forlic band. Earlier, DC Noklak, Reny Wilfred, welcomed the gathering. Superintendent of Police Noklak, Dr.Pritpal Kaur Batra, proposed the vote of thanks.

Meanwhile, vice president of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu released a video on Noklak district’s profile and extended his best wishes to the new district.

NBA raises red flag on attempts to codify social customs, practices Leaking classified info act of DIMAPUR, JAN 20 (NPN): Nagaland Bar Association (NBA), has cautioned the attempt to codify old social customs and practices of various tribes and seriously viewed the impending negative effect to the age-old customary practises of Nagas.

NBA president Talitsungba Ao and secretary V.Hukavi Zhimomi, in a statement, said the bar at its executive committee meeting on January 13,2021 came to this conclusion after discussing matters related with the ongoing steps taken by the state government for codification of Naga social customs and practices.

The NBA executive pointed out that in order for social customs and practices to have the force of law, ought to fulfil the three necessary requirements: it must have been in practice

without any interruption since the time immemorial; it must have been regarded as having the force of law and also it must be unwritten.

According to NBA, social customs and practices once reduced into writing under the authority of the government, will become a “code” and lose the essential legal ingredients of customary laws.

It emphasised that social customs and practices codified by the government or under the authority of the government which becomes code and no longer customs and practices in the eye of law.

Further, NBA pointed out that apart from protection of religious and social practices of the Nagas, and the Naga customary laws and procedures under Article 371A (a) (i) (ii) of the Constitution of India 1950,

the protection and preservation of the social customs and practices of the ethnic minorities all over the world were universally acclaimed inherent rights.

NBA said these practises were also recognised and protected by declarations of the United Nations, adding that no authority can lawfully impose codification of these customs and practices.

However, NBA said the government of Nagaland apparently “may not have taken proper legal advice or may have been wrongly briefed on the subject matters.”

According to NBA, even the Centre could not so far codify the social customs and practices uniformly for the entire populace of the country because of the divergence among communities - religiously, ethnically or for the other

reasons.

It said that the leaders of tribal unions/associations in Nagaland could be lacking in knowledge about the likely negative legal consequences that could arise if such codification was allowed to be made by the government or under its authority.

NBA said the recent requisition by the state government in directing all the tribal unions/associations in the State to furnish in writing, the questionnaire it circulated relating to various social customs and practices, appeared to be “misdirected in the eye of law” and liable to be abandoned to maintain the legal sanctity of the social customs and practices.

Meanwhile, NBA has stated that despite of the Nagaland state having the distinction of the second oldest among the North-

Eastern states, it was lacking far behind other states in the establishment of the State Judiciary.

Apart from Article 214 of the Constitution of India 1950, NBA said the Union Cabinet had also passed resolutions providing separate High Courts for each state.

NBA said Nagaland was still controlled by the Gauhati High Court that functions under “different social atmosphere as distinguished from our tribal social conditions.”

It said Nagaland “has ample provisions for independent higher judiciary in the state as against the control from the authority located in another state.”

NBA appealed to the state authorities “to exercise the Constitutional powers so the people in the state would enjoy the full privileges of being a full fledged state”.

‘treason’: Cong on Arnab chat NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (AGENCIES): Congress Wednesday upped the ante in its attack on the Narendra Modi government over the ‘Arnab Chat Gate’, with former defence minister A.K. Antony saying the government’s committed an “act of treason” by allegedly passing on information about the Balakot airstrikes to Republic TV Editor-inChief Arnab Goswami, The Print reports.

“Leaking of an official secret is a criminal act… leaking information about sensitive military operations is treason. It is an antinational activity. They need to be punished. No mercy,” Antony said, adding that it was a violation of the Official Secrets Act (OSA).

“This was an anti-national act,” Antony said.

On Wednesday, the Congress party fielded a battery of leaders at a press conference to intensify the heat on the issue that has caused a political storm in the last few days. Congress leaders said they will also raise the issue in Parliament (Budget session) scheduled to begin on January 29.

The move came just a day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held a press conference, where he termed the passing on of information a “criminal act” and pointed fingers at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top leaders of the government.

Hours after the party’s press conference, Goswami released a statement denying all the allegations and said he will “sue the Con(Cont’d on p-8) gress”.

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TVBVLN organises third edition of Chengu festival

DIMAPUR: Third edition of Chengu festival organised by the Tizu Valley Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihood Network (TVBVLN), supported by Japan fund for global environment of the environmental restoration and conservation agency under the theme “With special focus on traditional agriculture” was celebrated at Ghukhuyi village on January 20.

According to DIPR report, advisor of Tourism, Art and Culture, H. Khehovi Yeputhomi was the special guest and agriculture production commissioner (APC), Y. Kikheto Sema was guest of honour.

Khehovi in his speech thanked God for bringing together everyone safely for the festival despite the pandemic and also extended New Year greetings to the

Advisor of Tourism, Art and Culture, H. Khekovi Yeputhomi addressing as special guest on January 20. (DIPR)

people. He said that God’s greatest gift to human was nature and its resources and despite being a small state, Nagaland has many beautiful landscapes, rich culture and traditions, whereby he urged everyone to preserve one’s natural resources.

He further said that human greed was insatiable and constant hunting of birds and animals, cutting down of trees etc has been practiced randomly every-

where thus adding to global warming which in the long run would make it impossible for any living being to survive on earth.

He encouraged the people to make good use of the various schemes and projects that the central and state governments have been giving to help the poor and needy in rural areas. He also requested the people especially elders to teach the young the various folk-

NDPP Wokha region holds consultative meeting

NDPP party workers at the get together and consultative meeting, Longjung village.

strengthen the party. He assured to extend support towards party workers in the agri-allied sector.

Secretary NDPP Nagaland & CEB member, Wokha region, L. Meribemo Kinghen shared his experience in the political field and encouraged party workers to collect ideas and contribute towards uplifting the party.

Meanwhile during the meeting, Wokha region NDPP reaffirmed and extended unflinching support to the leadership of chief minister, Neiphiu Rio and chairman PDA and president NDPP Nagaland, Chingwang Konyak.

NDPP Wokha region also extended gratitude to advisor, Horticulture and Border Affairs, Mhathung

Yanthan and vice president NDPP Nagaland, Y. M Humtsoe for their assistance towards the success of the programme.

Earlier, programme was chaired by president NDPP Wokha region, Yanpansao Lotha and vote of thanks by NDPP youth wing Wokha region president, Amos Odyuo.

or any artificial means of cultivation.

Deputy commissioner Zunheboto, Peter Lichamo appreciated the GBs, elders and all the citizens of the three villages i.e Kivikhu, Sukhai and Ghukhuyi for making Chengu festival happen and also requested them to do even more better and be an example to other villagers.

Earlier, programme was led by Tavin Chishi and Eli Yeptho and Venato Yeptho pastor Sumi Baptist Church pronounced the invocation prayer. Keynote address was delivered by Sataya Prakash Tripathi, chairman NSBB and Kakishe Murru delivered the vote of thanks.

Cultural items were presented by various traditional teams from the three villages.

KPC conducts monthly revival programme DIMAPUR: Koinonia Prayer Centre (KPC) held its monthly revival programme from January 15 to 17 under the theme “He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the Children of Israel” (Psalm 103:7).

A press release by KPC media cell stated that, on January 15, senior pastor, Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo dedicated the Koinonia Prayer Centre staff quarter.

In his dedicatory remark, Rev. Zotuo said that they were living the words of the prophets that were declared in the 1970s by spiritual men of God. Quoting 2 Chronicles 15:7, he challenged all ministry workers and believers to continue serving God with purity and sincerity.

During the Sunday evening service, Dr. Thungdeno Murry from Wokha shared her testimony of physical healing from na-

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DIMAPUR: National Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), Wokha region held its get together and consultative meeting on January 16 at Longjung village under Wokha district.

A press release by NDPP Wokha region media cell stated that, general secretary NDPP and convener in-charge Wokha region, T.L Merry called upon the newly inducted office bearers and senior party workers in the district to work tirelessly for strengthening of the party.

In his short speech, NDPP agri & allied president, Tali Pongen highlighted on the importance of grassroot politics where they were told to gather more ideas from lower level to gain larger support to

lore, songs, dances and to preserve one’s traditional attires, thereby preserving the rich culture and traditions. He further released one Chengu bird which was rescued from hunters.

Y. Kikheto Sema in his speech said that conserving natural resources was important so that they can persist for future generations and to achieve that, one must protect wildlife and promote biodiversity i.e by prohibiting hunting, logging, mining etc. By conserving natural resources, he said one can minimise the depletion of resources as well as preservation of resources for the future generation. He urged the villagers to practice self cultivation and come forward to the concerned department if they have any doubts regarding the use of pesticides

sopharyngeal carcinoma (head, neck cancer). She shared that constant prayer of Rev. Zotuo and Koinonia ministry and Bible verses sustained her in the dark hours of her painful treatment till complete healing.

Meanwhile, KPC extended its gratitude to contributors and well wishers for which the building was completed.

Earlier, praise and worship was led by KPC worship team with its leader, evangelist Neilhou Sopfünuo. The three-day revival programme was hosted by Esther, Ruth, Lydia, Joshua, Daniel, Paul and Joyce Kiewhuo.

It may be noted that KPC is located at Tsiesema Basa and is open 24/7 for all in need of prayers and blessings. It holds revival meeting every second week from Friday to Sunday hosted by well wishers.

news in Brief BAC meeting at assembly secretariat: Commissioner and secretary, Dr. P. J. Anthony has informed that speaker of NLA, Sharingain Longkumer has convened a meeting of the business advisory committee (BAC) to finalise the provisional programme for the seventh session of the 13th NLA on January 29, 11 a.m at committee room of assembly secretariat. All members of the BAC have been requested to attend the meeting as scheduled.

DC Kohima informs GBs: DC office Kohima has informed all concerned GBs under Kohima sadar areas to submit annual house tax for the year 2020-2021 to DC’s office on or before February 25. Failure to submit house tax within stipulated time will entail forfeiture of house tax commission and red blankets to erring GBs. House tax must be collected by concerned GBs and submit to the authority as per prescribed format: Name of the village/ward; Block (area); Name of the GB; Period from (month and year); Total no of household, sl. no. name of head of household; Village/town; house no; Amount.

Ministry of Social Justice launches app: DC office, Mon, has notified that “Swachhta abhiyaan” app has been launched on December 24. App is to identify insanitary latrines and manual scavengers servicing them. Any person can download the app from Google Play Store and upload photos/ details of insanitary latrines so that the state government will initiate appropriate action.

DoSE training for teachers: Directorate of School Education (DoSE) has notified that the department will be conducting training for science and mathematics graduate teachers through online mode for the remaining 6 (six) districts namely Mokokchung, Tuensang, Longleng, Mon, Phek and Kiphire as per schedule. Date and duration: Mokokchung from January 28 to 30; Tuendang from February 1 to 3; Longleng from February 4 to 6; Mon from February 8 to 10; Phek from February 11 to 13 and Kiphire from February 15 to 17, all from (;30 a.m to 3:30 p.m. The concerned teachers have been directed to get registered online through the link provided (https://reg.ramietech.in) within 5 (five) days from the date of issue of this notification. Disciplinary action shall be imposed to those teachers who fail to comply with this order. For any query regarding online registration, contact +91-8730029961.

DIPR briefing held: Director, IPR, Tokishe Sema, along with senior department officials had a zoom session with DPROs on 20th January 20 at director’s chamber, DIPR, Kohima regarding the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive. Director informed the DPROs to follow the guidelines of their respective spokespersons of the districts in planning out the activities related to the vaccine in ensuring safety and to access timely and accurate information.

ESU urges for regular power supply in Chizami range DIMAPUR: Due to the frequent power failure in Chizami range, the Enhulumi (Yoseba/Pfutsemi) Students’ Union (ESU) has stated that students’ community were unable to open their question papers to submit answer scripts on time.

In an appeal to the district administration and concerned authority, the ESU president Lhite Sekhamo and general secretary, Eyiekhrote Vero stated that, power supply in the area has become so erratic causing great inconveniences to

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Loving Husband, children, grandchildren and in-laws

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

The family members of Late TEMJENKALA LEMTUR (Molungkimong) would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to every individual, neighbours, friends, churches and unions who stood by us physically, financially, morally and with prayer support at her sad demise on the 14th of January, 2021.

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

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students’ community whose online exam has already started.

Enhulumi (Yoseba/ Pfutsemi) Students’ Union stated that due to irregular power supply students were unable to study properly during night time and also facing slow internet connectivity. Enhulumi (Yoseba/ Pfutsemi) Students’ Union therefore requested the ser-

vice providers to provide stable network connectivity around the state and particularly in the Chizami area for students to write their exam.

ESU further urged the concerned authorities to look into the matter urgently and take necessary steps to ensure regular power supply and stable internet connectivity.

S.D. JAIN GIRLS’ COLLEGE CONDOLES The Managing Committee, Principal, Faculty, Staff and Students of S.D. Jain Girls’ College extends heartfelt condolences on the sudden demise of Shri Samir Das, Asst Prof of Commerce on 19 Jan 2021.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the bereaved family at this difficult time.

We pray the Almighty for the strength and perseverance to all family members to get through this difficult time of irreparable loss.

“When we lose a loved one here on earth, we gain an angel in heaven who watches over us. May we take comfort in knowing that we have an angel to watch over us” (S.D. Jain College Family) DP-388

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OBITUARY

Ecclesiastes 7:1 “A good name is better than fine perfume”

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(16/10/1999 – 21/01/2020) We always remember you in every moment of our lives.

God be with you till we meet again

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LATE HOTOLI V AWOMI 05-04-1953 to 15-12-2020

Our sincere gratitude to all who stood by us during our time of sorrow. We are grateful, it is our inability to thank you all individually, may the God Lord acknowledge your benevolence. Amen DP-381

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Loving Husband & Family Members

Born: 30/07/1935 – Died:12/01/2021 The family of Late Mongyang Ao (Changki) wishes to express our deepest gratitude to every individuals, family, church and organization who stood by us spiritually, morally, physically and financially at the time of our bereavement.

Our sincere prayer for God’s abundant blessing to all.

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BORN: 16.05.1933

DIED: 12.01.2021

LT. C. NOKENTEMLA. LANGU (LIRMEN), W/O S.TEKA LONGCHAR (LIRMEN) Our always beloved loving mother Late C. Nokentemla Langu (Lirmen) who was God fearing, forgiving, humble, righteous, truthful, willingness to give and a perfect mother have left us suddenly leaving us painfully in a deep sorrow and sadness. While mourning her death, we the bereaved family members would like to express our profound gratitude and appreciation to all individuals, groups, churches, village communities, neighbours, relatives, in-laws, families, friends and well wishers who stood by us financially, physically, spiritually, materially, prayers and unceasing support till her laid to rest.

We regret our inability to thanks each and every one but it is our sincere prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Born on 04-06-1953 : Died on 17-01-2021 “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” Philippians 1:21

The family of Late Mrs Latongmongla, Chuchuyimlang wishes to acknowledge the many expressions of sympathy, unceasing prayers and gestures of kindness shown to us during her brief illness and sad demise.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all Churches, Villages Councils, Groups, Organisations, neighbours, friends, individuals and well wishers.

We express our inability to thank each and everyone of you individually. But may God who sees all, bless you abundantly for your prayers, support, physical presence and financial help rendered to us in times of our needs.

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WEATHER FORECAST January 21

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Max Min

Agartala Decreasing clouds

26 14

Aizawl

A little rain in the morning

20 10

Guwahati Pleasant with some sunshine 23 12 Imphal

An a.m. shower; mostly sunny 22 9

Itanagar A morning shower in places

19 11

Shillong

A passing afternoon shower

15 5

Kohima

A passing morning shower

17 7

Dimapur Partly sunny and pleasant

23 11

Partly sunny

19 7

Tuensang Cool with clouds breaking

13 4

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Zunheboto A shower in the morning

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Metsubo Jamir exhorting at the KOAT general meeting held at Molu Ki, Kohima on January 19. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Kohima Ao Officer’s Union (KAOT) held its general meeting 2021 at Molu Ki, Kohima on January 19, with minister of Rural Development, Metsubo Jamir as the chief guest.

According to DIPR report, speaking on the occasion, Metsubo appreciated the officers for their sacrifices, in rendering their services towards the union besides their busy schedule in their respective offices and departments. Lauding the officers, he said God has blessed the Aos in many different fields but lamented that due to disunity they were not able to move forward and take up challenges

or solve problems that arises.

Lamenting that the Aos were losing their culture as many of them were more into foreign cultures and not being proud to be an Ao, Jamir added that the Ao dialect was on the verge of extinction as many parents and children communicate in different languages rather than their own.

Metsubo also called upon the officers to take it as an opportunity when they are posted or being transferred to Mokokchung since transformation and development of the district can only be brought about by one’s own citizen. Dismayed that “Mokokchung the land of pioneers” has now lost its

Fire contained from spreading at Tenyiphe-I, Dimapur

Fire personnel dousing out fire on January 19 at Tenyiphe-1, B Khel, 6th Mile, Dimapur.

DIMAPUR: Fire & Emergency Services (F&ES) team from Fire Station Chümoukedima rushed to extinguish fire that broke out at Tenyiphe-I, B-khel, 6th Mile, Dimapur on receiving a fire call around 4:52 pm.

A press release by F&ES, RO (E) Kohima,

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Kenny Khing stated that, two fire tenders along with sufficient equipments & fire personnel were pressed into action. It took the fire team around 20 minutes to bring the fire under control, where one katcha house was gutted in the inferno.

Due to timely information and response, fire was

prevented from spreading further to the surrounding buildings. Property worth Rs.1.5 lakhs approximately was lost in the inferno.

Cause of fire is suspected to be from electrical short circuit, but there was no casualty. The response team was led by duty commander SI Kenyuyhun Kent.

meaning since there were only a few schools and colleges having less students, Jamir said that this was due to many parents sending their children to other districts and cities for their education. Therefore with fewer citizens in Mokokchung district, he said the census in the district has gone down and this factor may reduce the number of constituencies of the district. Citing these drawbacks, he encouraged the officers to be united, give prior importance to one’s culture, language and census to be given serious thought, since they can bring about a change in the Ao community.

Minister of PWD (Housing & Mechanical), Tongpang Ozukum who also spoke said Kohima Ao Officertem Telongjen (KAOT) was a union where others can look up to for ideas, help etc and bring unity and change in the Ao community.

He called upon the KAOT to educate the Aos by imparting knowledge in their trades, and in different fields and also suggested them to call for conferences annually or biannually where all Ao officers from other districts and Ao parliamentarians can attend to sort out a way to bring about a change in the Ao community.

P r e s i d e n t K AO T, Meyionen Jamir briefed that the KAOT was established in 2003 with more than 600 Ao officers but in recent years the numbers were decreasing with more retirements of Ao officers than new recruits in the government offices and departments.

Therefore he called upon the officers to retrospect. Newly elected office bearers for KAOT 20212022 is led by Moatemsu Aier as president along with five others. Programme was chaired by KAOT officials and vice president, KAOT, Dr. N. Meren Imchen proposed vote of thanks.

nullifying revised compensation plan

DIMAPUR: A consultative meeting held at Peren town on January 17 has urged commissioner of Nagaland to nullify/invalidate the revised compensation details submitted to him

by Peren deputy commissioner (DC) on January 13, and called for issuing directive to review compensation for damages to standing structures considering 18-20 metres as width for the upcoming national highway (NH)-129A Package 1A. In a representation to the commissioner on behalf of residents of Peren town, consultative meeting’s session chairman Pingkam Namdau alleged that Peren district administration in connivance with few public leaders of the town had taken biased, unjust and arbitrary decision in formulating revised compensation details, which was then forwarded to the commissioner countersigned by Peren DC, PWD (housing) SDO and Peren Town Ward Chairmen Union president.

Pointing out that the revised compensation details were assessed considering a width of 2-lane NH at 12-14 metre, instead of 18-20 metre, he further alleged that this was done

DIMAPUR: Pfütsero Government College (PGC) organised a two-day state level seminar on “Social values: self-leadership and good citizenship” from January 14 to 15 at the college auditorium. The programme was supported

by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD).

A press release by PGC stated that, the purpose of the seminar was to bring together scholars from different parts of the country to discuss on social issues and share insights of spreading social awareness in the society.

In her inaugural address, Centre for Training Orientation and Capacity Building, RGNIYD, Chennai, prof. Vasanthi Rajendra emphasised on vital need for social awareness, through teleconferencing and was joined by director, RGNIYD, Chennai prof.

Sibnath Deb. Technical sessions were organised around

Thongpang, medical attendant, the first person to CMO, Wokha, Dr. C. W. Tungoe being administered with receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Noklak. the COVID vaccine at Wokha on January 20. (DIPR)

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with a short period of time and the vaccine was an answer to people’s prayers to God. Like all other vaccines, he said COVID-19 vaccines (Covishield) may have mild reactions following immunisation but so far, he added no one has experienced severe reactions in the district. He also appealed to the church to create awareness regarding the vaccine among the congregation to clear doubts and false rumours about the vaccine on social media.

A total number of 37 medical staff of CHC Noklak received the first dose of vaccine, wherein Thongpang, a medical attendant was the first person

to receive the vaccine. Programme was chaired by Dr. Victor SMO, CHC Noklak while A. Penglang, pastor, LBCNT invoked God’s blessings.

Wokha: On the fourth day session of COVID vaccine at District Hospital Wokha, 42 beneficiaries got vaccinated on January 20.

According to DIPR report, this was informed by district immunization officer (DIO), Wokha, Dr. Khelito Zhimomi. Till today, altogether 364 beneficiaries were vaccinated with the COVID vaccine.

Dr. Khelito also informed that for next session of vaccination, the government of Nagaland

by the union ministry of road transport & highways (MoRTH) and demanded that compensation for damage to standing structures must be assessed considering 18-20 metre as the width of the NH. The m e e ting a l so resolved to endorse and support the memorandum of Zeliangrong Baudi Nagaland and Zeme Council Nagaland to commissioner of Nagaland on January 15, 2020 that cited grievances caused to the public due to alteration made to NH-129A Package 1A. Terming the revised compensation details submitted to the commissioner, Nagaland by Peren DC as biased, unjust and arbitrary, the meeting demanded that this must be nullified at the earliest, while entrusting session chairman Pingkam Namdau to submit a representation to the authority concerned on behalf of the general public of Peren town and pursue all other matters with the government for resolution of the matter at an early date.

And following the consultative meeting, a representation was submitted to the commissioner, Nagaland through Peren DCon Tuesday, Namdau said.

PGC organises state level seminar on social values common themes to facilitate further discussions and impart different perspectives that encompass social concerns and values.

The seminar focused on social justice, civic and good citizenship, issues concerning human rights and social tolerance with special reference to North East India.

Principal, Japfü Christian College, Kigwema, Dr. Visakhonü Hibo talked on ancient practice of taboo, feast of merit, community occupation and other cultural practices in the Naga society.

Assistant professor, Histor y, PGC, Tavezo Latso spoke on an individual responsibility to become a good citizen of a country which can be exemplified through practice of patience, tolerance for ambiguity and an aversion to either or solutions.

Secretar y general, N a g a Pe o p l e ’s M ovement for Human Rights (NPMHR), Neingulo

Dignitaries during the state level seminar at PGC auditorium, Pfutsero.

Krome presented a paper on “Issues concer ning human rights” and said that NPMHR advocated the Naga cause and emphasised on basic human rights and freedom, issues, standards, security and violations of individual rights.

Meanwhile, assistant professor, department of Sociology-PGC, research scholar, Tata Institute of

COVID-19 vaccination drive at Noklak, Wokha, Aboi

D I M A P U R : C OV I D 19 vaccination drive was launched at Noklak district, in Wokha, 42 beneficiaries availed the vaccine, and in Aboi the health care workers were vaccinated on January 20 respectively.

Noklak: Coinciding with the inauguration of Noklak district, COVID-19 vaccination was launched at CHC Noklak by Dr. I Moatemjen Jamir, CMO Tuensang on January 20.

A press release from CMO office stated that, the CMO in his short speech encouraged the staff to receive the vaccine without fear. Stating that God has given the knowledge and wisdom to the scientists to discover the vaccine

without consulting the stakeholders concerned and has deeply hurt the sentiments of people as it not only deprived the compensation rights of several landowners but also downgraded the anticipated 2-lane NH to an ordinary single-lane road.

The representation clarified that neither Peren Town Ward Chairmen Union nor any CSO or CBO had given consent or approval for assessment of damage compensation to standing structures considering 12-14 metre as the width.

In the event of demand of landowners beyond the specified entitlement, the memorandum stated that Peren district administration was responsible for negotiating the rate of compensation as per norms/guidelines, instead of compromising the specification of the road.

Earlier, the consultative meeting held at GB Hall, Peren town on January 17 to deliberate on matters pertaining to construction of NH-129A (Package 1A) 2-lane from Peren to Dimapur resolved that the construction must take place as per specification in detailed project report (DPR) approved

has directed to have only three days of vaccination in a week, that is Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so that routine immunization and routine essential services were not disturbed or interrupted.

This first phase is mainly targeted for the health care workers (HCWs) as the government wants to protect the HCWs as well as the patients since the HCWs directly come in contact with the patients during clinical practices at the same time goes for contact tracing.

After the health care workers are vaccinated the government targets to vaccinate the frontline workers, added the DIO.

Social Sciences, Guwahati, Mhabeni W presented the paper on “Social tolerance: With special reference to NE India” which emphasised the need for a mechanism for systematic and effective dissemination of information to inculcate spirit of tolerance in the existing socio-cultural diversity.

Earlier, PGC principal, Dr. Bweyhunle Khing

and vice principal, Medozu Mero addressed the inaugural function, while prof. Sibnath Deb delivered valedictory speech and vote of thanks by programme co-ordinator, Sutoli Sema.

The seminar witnessed four resource persons, four technical sessions and was attended by 43 students and 35 college faculties.

Multi skilled handyman training prog concludes

DIMAPUR: Department While presenting of Employment, Skill the certificates, special Development & Entre- guest, SDO (C), Rohit preneurship, Tuensang exhorted the trainees to sponsored “multi skilled make good use of the skills handyman training pro- acquired. gramme” which concluded General secretar y on January 20 at town hall, ENSF, Imtichuba appreTuensang held in partner- ciated ESD&E director, ship with Zynorique Initia- Chiden Yaden and his tives Society (ZIC). team for paying special According to DIPR focus to Eastern Nagas report, the training was in skill development of held for ten days on plumb- the region.

General secretar y Dr. Hukiye Chopy, MO CHC Aboi was the first to receive ers, tiling and electricians at town hall and GHSS ENSF, Imti Chuba also the vaccine under Aboi sub-division. (DIPR) Thangjam Tuensang. attended the programme.

Khelito also stated that and avail the vaccine while up-loading of beneficiaries the government of India of HCWs were done and at was giving the vaccine the same time, up-loading for free. of frontline workers is also Aboi: COVID-19 vaccontinuing at the State cination drive for health level. She also added that care workers under Aboi more vaccine was expected sub-division was launched to reach so that frontline at Community Health Cenworkers can be vaccinated tre (CHC) Aboi on January and after that the target 20. According to DIPR rebeneficiaries will be 50 port, MO, CHC Aboi, Dr. years and above and next Hukiye Chopy was the first 50 years and below who to receive the vaccine from have co-morbidity. She Aboi sub-division. also appealed all to avail Earlier, Dr. Hangsha the vaccine during the first Konyak spoke during the phase. short programme and while Chief medical officer, invoking God’s blessings, Mokokchung Battalion of Assam Rifles carried out Wokha, Dr. C. W. Tungoe pastor Mongnyei urged awareness and registration drive for the youths of who was also administered the people not to panic Mokokchung and Longleng. The exercise was to prepare with the COVID vaccine and dispel rumours and them for the upcoming army recruitment rally to be held today urged and encour- misconceptions regarding at Rangapahar Military Station, Dimapur from March 10 to aged all to come forward the vaccine.

20. Altogether, 58 boys have been attending the course.

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Tripura CPI(M) protests against BJP

Former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar leading the protest.

AGARTALA, JAN 20 (IANS): The opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLAs on Wednesday staged a protest for the first time after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in Tripura in 2018.

The left party staged the protest against the attacks on opposition parties, MLAs, MPs and other leaders.

The CPI(M) legislators carried placards during the protest march in the capital city Agartala before the sitin demonstration, terming the BJP-led government’s rule as ‘Jungle Raj’.

Demanding his immediate intervention, a sixmember CPI(M) delegation

led by former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar met Governor Ramesh Bais and apprised him about the “total lawlessness in the state”.

The Left party leaders demanded to allow democratic and political activities by opposition parties and elected leaders without hindrance.

Sarkar said the CPI(M) leaders and MLAs, including Tripura Legislative Assembly member and former Minister Badal Chowdhury and Rajya Sabha member Jharna Das Baidya, were attacked three to 12 times while undertaking any political activity or visited their areas during the past

three years.

“A large number of opposition party offices, including district level offices specially the CPI(M), are either occupied or destroyed by the ruling BJP workers and their goons.

In many cases police and the concerned authorities are not giving permission to organise indoor or outdoor rallies, meetings and democratic activities,” the Left leader told the media.

Sarkar, who was Tripura’s longest serving Chief Minister for 20 years (19982018) until the BJP-led alliance captured power in March 2018, alleged that “jungle raj has been un-

Arunachal CM mourns 7 new COVID-cases, death of former governor seven recoveries Itanagar, Jan 20 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu deeply mourned the death of former Governor Mata Prasad on Wednesday.

Prasad, 95, had served as the governor of Arunachal Pradesh from October 21, 1993 to May 16, 1999.

“The news of the sad demise of Dr Mata Prasad, the eighth and the longest serving Governor of Arunachal Pradesh came as a shocker to me.

He had held the helms of the state in its transitional phase from where we have had an eventful journey of progress and ably emerged as a distinct and deter mined state, rubbing shoulders with our peers with pride,” he said.

During his tenure as the governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Prasad inaugurated the Upper

Siang district, the office of Divisional Commissioner and Deputy Inspector General for East and West of the state at Namsai and Ziro. The famous Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan was also constructed during his tenure, Khandu said.

Prasad authored a book on Ar unachal Pradesh in Hindi titled ‘Manoram Bhoomi Arunachal’.

“In his demise, the country has lost a dedicated and sincere administrator who set pinnacles in his chosen career. I believe, leaving this mortal world will not diminish the love and affection showered on him by the people and his soul will remain immortal,” Khandu said.

Prasad, a senior Congress leader, died at a hospital in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh following a multi-organ failure.

in Meghalaya

Correspondent Shillong, Jan 20: Meghalaya registered seven new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the active cases to 133, even as seven more persons recovered from the viral infection, surging the recovery figure to 13,440.

Director of Health Services (MI), Dr. Aman War informed that six new cases were detected in East Khasi Hills district and one in West Garo Hills district.

East Khasi Hills district, which includes Shillong, is the most affected district in the State with 100 active cases including two patients from Armed Forces and Para-Military Forces.

War said the seven new recovered cases were recorded in East Khasi Hills district. Meghalaya has so far registered 13,717 COVID-19 cases, which include 144 deaths, 133 active cases and 13,440 recoveries.

Rhino horn seized in Karbi Anglong; one arrested

The horn recovered from Arif Jakaria in Dillai.

Bokajan, Jan 20: Karbi Anglong police recovered a rhino horn and arrested a person from the Dillai area of Bokajan in East Karbi Anglong on Wednesday.

As reported, a team of Karbi Anglong police based on a specific information regarding dealing of a rhino horn at Dillai area carried out an operation and recovered one rhino horn weighing around 390 grams from the possession of Arif Jakaria a resident of Tinsukia village under Juria

police station in Nagaon district. During preliminary interrogation, it was revealed that the horn was supposed to be sold in Dimapur.

The operation was carried out under the leadership of John Das, APS, SDPO Bokajan, Nahid Karishma, APS, DySP(HQ), CI Barpathar Inspector Bhupen Kalita, OC Dilai SI(UB) Raju Bahadur Chetry, OC Manja SI(UB) Jitu Moni Deka and staff.

It needs to be mentioned here that there has

been a recent spike in smuggling of animal parts in the Bokajan sub-division of Karbi Anglong district which is contiguous to Kaziranga National Park.

Recently, the Karbi Anglong police have arrested three members of a seven member rhino poacher ring involved in the poaching of a rhino at Agoratoli range of Kaziranga National Park.

Police also recovered one AK 47 rifle, two AK 56 rifles, one double-barrel rifle, one grenade, 4 live round of bullets and other incriminating documents from their possession.

Earlier in February 2020, the Bokajan Police recovered a rhino horn weighing 510 grams while conducting random search and frisking of motorcyclists on NH-39 in the Amrajan area of Bokajan. The Bokajan Police had also recovered a pair of elephant tusks from the Balipathar area of Bokajan back in 2019.

In March 2019, Khatkhati Police had arrested two youths in a restaurant along the Assam-Nagaland border with an elephant ivory tusk which had been brought for sale for an amount of Rs 2,00,000.

leashed after the BJP came to power in the state”.

He said the BJP workers and the “goons backed by them” are not sparing even doctors, nurses, health workers, lawyers, journalists, police personnel, besides thousands of opposition party members and supporters.

The former Chief Minister and other party leaders said thousands of houses, properties, shops and business establishments belonging to opposition party members specially the CPI-M were either burnt down, damaged or looted during the past three years.

Sarkar said they told the Governor that crimes against women, including teenagers, minors and aged women, are happening every week.

“The incidents of killing and unnatural deaths have become the order of the day. Police and the law enforcement agencies remain mute spectators leading to a rise in crimes of a horrifying nature,” he said.

Former Minister and CPI(M) Central Committee member Badal Chowdhury said the BJP workers and their hooligans also attacked the condolence meetings organised after the death of any party leader, worker or any eminent personality.

EC to keep in mind Bihu and exams for Assam polls

Guwahati, Jan 20 (PTI): Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Wednesday said the 2021 Assam assembly polls will be held taking into consideration the Rongali Bihu festival in April and the CBSE board examinations for students of class 10 and 12.

The assembly elections will be completed before the CBSE board exams which are scheduled between May 4 and June 10, he said.

“We have already taken the festival into consideration before coming here for the review meetings,” he told reporters here.

The commission is aware of the festivals held in the states, the CEC said.

He said the commission has also held discussions with CBSE officials to decide on the poll schedule. “We have decided that the election process will be completed before the board exams which will start from May 4,” he said. The elections will be held in strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols, Arora said, adding that the number of auxiliary polling booths would be increased. “The number of electors at each polling station has been restricted to 1,000 as against the existing 1,500,” he said.

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‘Child trafficking case may increase post COVID-19 lockdown’

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IMPHAL, Jan 20: Child trafficking case may increase post COVID-19 lockdown, cautioned resource persons and guests who attended a one-day state-level workshop on combating child trafficking post COVID-19 lockdown in Imphal on Wednesday.

The workshop was jointly organised by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR) in Imphal’s City Convention. The workshop was being organised with the objective to protect children from trafficking in the backdrop of reports of some child trafficking cases in the state, particularly in Tengnoupal and its border town Moreh reported post COVID-19 lockdown.

Speaking at the inaugural session of the workshop, chairperson of Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR) Ph Manibabu Sharma expressed apprehension over increasing child trafficking cases post COVID-19 lockdown in the state. He cited that post COVID-19 lockdown, financial problems may be the main factor

Female voters outnumber male electors in Mizoram

Aizawl, Jan 20 (PTI): Female voters in Mizoram again outnumbered their male counterparts by 22,192 margin, an election official said on Wednesday.

According to the final roll published Wednesday, there are altogether 8,16,138 voters, including 4,19,165 females, in the state, the official said.

Apar t from these, there are 4,834 service voters, including 63 females, he said.

Aizawl district with 12 assembly constituencies has the highest number of voters at 2,71,422 followed

by Lunglei district, which has 95,497 electorate.

There are six assembly constituencies in Lunglei district in the southern part of the state.

Hnahthial district, which was created in 2019, has the least electorate at 15,526. There is only one assembly constituency in

There are altogether 8,16,138 voters, including 4,19,165 females, in Mizoram.

Hnahthial district.

West Mizorams Mamit district has 69,357 voters, Kolasib district (60,863), Champhai district (54,227), Serchhip district (51,736), Lawngtlai district (85,151), Siaha (41,778), Saitual (53,610) and Khawzawl district has

1,000 doses of COVID vaccine wasted in Assam; probe ordered SILCHAR (ASSAM), JAN 20 (PTI): The authorities have ordered an investigation to find out how 1,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine got frozen and wasted due to their storage in subzero temperature violating norms at Silchar Medical College and Hospital in Assam’s Cachar district, an official said on Wednesday.

The ongoing inoculation drive will not be affected by this wastage, which came to light on Tuesday, as the district has adequate stock of the vaccine, Cachar Deputy Commissioner Keerti Jalli said.

She said that 100 vials of Covishield vaccine were spoiled mainly due to lapses in the storage facility and cold store management.

“We have, however, initiated an inquiry into the incident to ascertain the exact reason behind the lapses,” Jalli said.

The vaccination drive will not be hampered due to this as “we are prepared with enough stock and error margin was also taken into account during the allocation of doses for the district,” she added.

National Health Mission Director in Assam,

Dr S Lakshmanan, said that show-cause notices have been issued to those responsible for storing and supplying the vaccine.

The priority now is to ensure scientific disposal of the wasted doses, he added.

A senior doctor of Silchar Medical College and Hospital said that the vaccines were supposed to be stored at a temperature of 2-8 degree Celsius.

However, it was found that the vials were kept in sub-zero temperature and they got frozen and wasted.

U s u a l ly, a n a l e r t message is received if the temperature in Ice Lined Refrigerators in which the vaccines are stored rises or falls, but no such message was received when those vials were damaged, the doctor said.

It appears that there was some problem in the messaging system, he said.

In Cachar district, 11,710 healthcare workers are scheduled to be vaccinated in the first phase and there are two session sites in the district - Silchar Medical College Hospital and S M Dev Civil Hospital.

16,971 voters.

There are 40 assembly constituencies in Mizoram and 12,42 polling stations, including 2 newly created polling stations in Serchhip districts.

The last state polls were held in this northeastern state in 2018.

for the possible increase in child trafficking or human trafficking in the state.

Sharma said, “Issues of lack of financial support is high due to the slowing down of the economy amid the pandemic, so child trafficking may be used as a means of earning”.

The apprehension was felt after analysis on the finding of some cases that were reported to police and MCPCR, he said.

The mapping of children and families vulnerable to child trafficking and matching them with relevant schemes of the Central government and the Manipur government to combat trafficking is one of the objectives of the workshop, he said.

Manipur’s Tengnoupal district and its town Moreh bordering with Myanmar is the easiest route of trafficking and a vulnerable area. There was the need for protecting the borderline in this area with special attention, he stressed.

Earlier, addressing the inaugural function, state social welfare minister Okram Henry said child trafficking is a serious crime.

“We need to make the public aware about the incidents of child trafficking.

Human trafficking has also

become a serious social menace,” he said.

He said that children, particularly girls were in many ways misled by traffickers for the sake of money. “We all need to fight against such heinous crime,” he added. At the same time, children are the future of the nation. To protect and build great children are necessary to bring a strong generation, he said.

State education minister Sorokhaibam Rajen urged for awareness on child trafficking, especially among parents to protect children as well as women was highly essential. “The causes and factors of trafficking should not be taken easily. Although authorities concerned are taking the responsibility to protect children and women, cooperation from the people is needed,” he added.

Imphal East DC Khumanthem Diana Devi said that child trafficking or human trafficking in the state was on the rise as the state has an easy route for trafficking.

Representatives from the Manipur police department, personnel from Assam Rifles and BSF and other government department representatives attended the workshop.

PM to virtually address Tezpur University convocation on Jan 22 Guwahati, Jan 20 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the convocation of Tezpur University in Assam on January 22, the central university said on Wednesday.

The prime minister will virtually address the 18th convocation of the university from New Delhi and confer degrees and diplomas upon students who passed out in 2020, a statement said.

“The convocation will be held in a blended mode observing COVID-19 protocols, where only PhD scholars and toppers will receive their degrees and gold medals in person,” it said.

The university will award the remaining students with their degrees and diplomas virtually.

A total of 1,218 students will receive their degrees and diplomas in the convocation.

Narendra Modi

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Tezpur Lok Sabha MP Pallab Lochan Das will also attend the programme.

“Assam Governor and chancellor of Tezpur University, Jagdish Mukhi, will preside over the convocation and award the degrees and diplomas to the students virtually,” the varsity said.

KHADC objects illegal construction of transit camp by Assam

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SHILLONG, JAN 20: The Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) in Meghalaya objected to the constr uction of an Assam State Transport Corporation transit camp at Khanapara in Ri-Bhoi district claiming the land belongs to Meghalaya.

KHADC Chief Executive Member, Titostarwell Chyne said the land is well within Meghalaya and therefore the “illegal” construction work undertaken by the Assam government must stop immediately.

“We have written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner Kamrup district on December 23 asking him to intervene and stop the construction work as the land belongs to Meghalaya," he said.

Chyne has also written to the State Chief Secretary and the Deputy Commissioner Ri-Bhoi district urging them to take necessary steps to stop the illegal construction.

“Not less than three land owners of the plot, where the transit home is being constructed, have approached the council seek-

ing redressal,” he informed, adding that the land owners have all the legal documents to lay claim over the land.

Meghalaya and Assam share a several decade old boundary dispute. There are 12 areas of dispute, which both sides claim as its own territory. Block I and II are some of the major areas of dispute.

The Meghalaya Democratic Alliance Government would be taking up the issue of boundary dispute with Assam during Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to the State on January 23.

Five new COVID cases in Mizoram

Aizawl, Jan 20 (PTI): Five more people, including two minors, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, pushing the tally in the northeastern state to 4,334, an official said on Wednesday.

Three fresh cases were reported from Aizawl district and two from Lunglei and Siaha.

Three new patients have travel history and it is yet to be ascertained how the remaining two have contracted the infection, the state information and public relations department official said.

Two new cases were detected through RT-PCR and TrueNat methods and three through rapid antigen tests.

Altogether 537 health workers have received shots of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, state immunisation officer Dr Lalzawmi said.

“At least 204 healthcare professionals from Aizawl district, 133 from Lunglei and 100 each from Mamit and Lawngtlai have received the jabs on January 19,” she said.

Lalzawmi said 1,082 people have been vaccinated since the launch of the nationwide inoculation programme on January 16.

Mizoram now has 67 active cases, while 4,258 people have recovered from the disease and nine died.

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PM releases Rs 2,691 cr for PMAY-G beneficiaries Slams previous govts for their policies, ‘wrong’ intentions

Working on addressing misinformation on user policy update, says WhatsApp NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (PTI): A day after India asked it to withdraw changes to its privacy policy, WhatsApp on Wednesday said the proposed change does not expand its ability to share user data with Facebook and that it is open to answer questions on the issue.

The Indian government on Tuesday posed 14 questions to WhatsApp on its “invasive” changes in Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

“We wish to reinforce that this update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook. Our aim is to provide transparency and new options available to engage with businesses, so they can serve their customers and grow,” a WhatsApp spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added

that WhatsApp will always protect personal messages with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see them.

“We are working to address misinformation and remain available to answer any questions,” the spokesperson further stated.

In a strongly worded letter to WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has said the proposed changes to the WhatsApp Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, without giving users an option to optout, “raise grave concerns regarding the implications for the choice and autonomy of Indian citizens”.

The letter noted that with over 400 million users in India, the changes will have a disproportionate

impact on the country’s citizens, it said.

It has also asked WhatsApp to provide details of the services provided by it in India, categories of data collected and permissions and consents sought.

It has also asked WhatsApp to withdraw the proposed changes and reconsider its approach to information privacy, freedom of choice and data security.

WhatsApp had earlier this month begun asking its 2 billion users worldwide to accept an update of its privacy policy if they want to keep using the popular messaging app. The new terms caused an outcry among technology experts, privacy advocates and users and triggered a wave of defections to rival services such as Signal and Telegram.

“On one hand there is strictness with criminals and rioters and control on the law and order situation and, on the other, work on expressways and institutes like the AIIMS is on, expediting the speed of development,” he said, adding big companies are coming to the state even while the doors are open for small industry.

Hailing the One-District-One-Product scheme of the UP government for making local workers selfreliant, the PM said it would pave the way for achieving the target of ‘atmanirbhar Bharat.’ He also praised the efforts of the UP government during the difficult coronavirus times as well as its works for the migrants returning home.

The prime minister earlier pressed the remote button to release the assistance and interacted with some

beneficiaries. Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Adityanath were present on the occasion.

The assistance includes the release of the first instalment to 5.30 lakh beneficiaries and the second instalment to 80,000 beneficiaries who have already availed of the first instalment of assistance under the PMAY-G. Modi had given a call of Housing for All by 2022, for which a flagship programme of PMAY-G was launched on November 20, 2016. So far 1.26 crore houses have already been built across the country under the scheme, an official release said.

Under PMAY-G, each beneficiary is given 100 per cent grant of Rs 1.20 lakh (in plains) and Rs 1.30 lakh (in hill states/NE region/ difficult areas/JK & Ladakh besides Naxal-hit districts besides areas falling under the Integrated Action Plan IAP).

Stressing that his government aims at extending basic facilities in the rural areas through this scheme to bridge the gap between villages and cities, the PM also referred to the housing schemes of the earlier governments, especially in UP. He also praised the efforts of the UP government

during the difficult corona times as well as its works for the migrants returning home.

On the occasion, he interacted with one beneficiary each from Kheri, Chitrakoot, Varanasi, Ayodhya and Saharanpur districts and said the scheme has helped people believe that they will be able to have a house of their own.

Saying that the history of housing schemes is very old in the country, the PM said earlier also there was a need for cheap housing for the poor but the experience of the poor had been very bad.

“So when the Centre was working on this schemes, we paid special attention to ridding those wrongs and reached those people in the villages first who had lost all hope of having their own houses,” he said.

The prime minister said the effort of the country today is that the gap between villages and towns, as per the basic facilities, is bridged and life in the rural area is as easy as in cities for which the scheme is being linked to the basic facilities like toilet, power and water supply.

Referring to the ‘Prime Minister Swamitva Yojna’, he said it would change the life of the poor in villages.

Telangana man dies day after getting Covid shot; govt says not linked to vaccine

3 infiltrators killed, 4 soldiers injured at LoC

Covid vaccines sent by India reach Bhutan, Maldives

HYDERABAD, JAN 20 (AGENCIES): A 42-yearold healthcare worker in Telangana died on Wednesday, a day after he was inoculated with the anti-coronavirus vaccine. However, the state government said it was not linked to the vaccine shot, even as the postmortem of the deceased is yet to be conducted.

Telangana’s Director of Public Health and Welfare said the male worker was vaccinated on January 19 at Kuntala PHC in Nirmal district of northern Telangana. A day later, he developed chest pain and was brought dead to District Hospital, Nirmal at around 5:30 am.

“Preliminary findings suggest that the dead seems to be unrelated to the vaccination. As per the guidelines, postmortem will be conducted by a team of doctors,” a statement issued

JAMMU, JAN 20 (IANS): Three infiltrators were reportedly killed and four soldiers injured overnight on the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K’s Jammu district where the army foiled an infiltration bid, officials said on Wednesday.

Defence sources said Pakistan Army started heavy shelling in Khour area of LoC’s Akhnoor sector on Tuesday evening to facilitate infiltration of terrorists.

“Four army soldiers were injured in Pakistani shelling and three terrorists were killed in Indian retaliatory action while the infiltration bid was foiled.

“The bodies of the slain terrorists are lying on Pakistan side of the LoC and these have not been so far picked up by Pakistani troops,” a source said.

This is the first major ceasefire violation by Pakistan on the LoC in 2021.

LUCKNOW, JAN 20 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lashed out at previous governments, saying the poor had to bear the brunt of their “wrong” policies and intentions.

He said the poor people never believed in the past that the government will help them get a roof over their heads.

“Their (previous governments’) policies were wrong and the poor had to bear the brunt of their wrong intentions,” he said while releasing financial assistance of Rs 2,691 crore to 6.1 lakh beneficiaries in Uttar Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.

The prime minister specifically criticised the state’s previous Samajwadi Party government for its alleged failure to take advantage of the Prime Minister Awas Yojna (Gramin) after its launch in 2016.

“When we brought the PMAY-G in 2016, the government here, which you all removed, despite our repeated requests did not provide the names of beneficiaries,” said Prime Minister Modi.

“We were ready to provide funds but all requests, letters in this regard were ignored. This behaviour of the government of that time has not been forgotten by

Narendra Modi during the release of financial assistance in UP via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Wednesday. (PTI)

the poor,” he added, in his 30-minute speech through video conferencing.

“The poor did not believe that the government could help them in constructing houses. What kind of houses were made by earlier governments is known to all. It was because of the wrong policies. But it was the poor who had to bear the brunt in the name of destiny,” the prime minister said.

Modi also praised Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the “all-round development” in the state and “speedy implementation of central schemes.

“In the past four years, the manner in which the Central government schemes have been implemented and provided momentum has given a new identity to the state,” the prime minister said.

by the Director of Public Health and Welfare read.

The statement further said that the district Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) committee will submit its report to the state AEFI committee, which will further brief the Centre.

This is the third incident of a healthcare worker dying after getting vaccine shots. In both cases, the Union Health Ministry has denied that the deaths could be attributed to the severe adverse events following immunisation. The nationwide vaccine drive, which was kickstarted on January 16

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aims to inoculate over three crore healthcare and frontline workers before it is made available for the general public.

In the first two cases, Mahipal Singh, a 52-yearold who worked as a wardboy in a government hospital in Moradabad, died on Sunday, a day after he was vaccinated. The post-mortem procedure in the second case — that of 43-year-old Nagaraju, an employee of the state health department in Bellary, Karnataka, who died on Monday, two days after getting the vaccine — was being done.

PM must wake up to reality about poverty: Chidambaram NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (IANS): A day after 15 migrant construction workers, including a child, were crushed to death by a truck in Gujarat’s Surat, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday slammed the Modi government at the Centre, saying it is time that the Prime Minister woke up to reality

and not repeat the statistics about toilets, housing and open defection-free numbers fed by bureaucrats.

In a statement, Chidambaram said, “The tragedy of 15 migrant construction workers being run over and killed in Gujarat must open our eyes to the reality of poverty in India.”

Budget session of Parl: PM to chair all-party meet on Jan 30 NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an all-party meeting on January 30 (Saturday) during which the government will put forth its legislative agenda for the Budget session of Parliament, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday.

He said the meeting will be held virtually and an invitation has been extended to floor leaders of all parties.

An all-party meeting is a customary procedure before the beginning of every session of Parliament to ensure its smooth functioning. However, this time it is being held a day after the session starts on January 29.

“The all-party meet-

ing will be held on January 30, where government will put forth its legislative business for the Parliament session and would also listen to the opposition’s suggestions,” Pralhad Joshi told PTI. The Budget session of Parliament is starting from January 29 and will be held in two parts.

The first part will conclude on February 15 and second part will be held from March 8 to April 8.

Parliament will sit in two shifts with Rajya Sabha in the morning and Lok Sabha in the evening.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting of top government officials for holding the Budget session amid the pandemic.

Firing salvos at the government, former Finance Minister Chidambaram asked “why were the workers sleeping on the roadside? Is not the contractor obliged to provide them shelter near the construction site?

Where do they wash, bathe, cook and keep their children? On the roadside in the open?”

NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (PTI): Bhutan and Maldives on Wednesday became the first two countries to receive COVID-19 vaccines sent by India in sync with its ‘neighbourhood first’ policy.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shared on Twitter photos of the consignments reaching the two countries.

On Tuesday, India had said it would send COVID19 vaccines under grant assistance to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles from Wednesday.

The supplies to Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius will commence after confirmation of necessary regulatory clearances.

It is learnt that 1,50,000 doses of Covisheild vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), were sent to Bhutan and 1,00,000 doses reached Maldives as part of India’s grant assistance.

“Indian vaccines reach Maldives, reflects our special friendship,” Jaishankar tweeted along with a photograph of the consignments. “#VaccineMaitri begins. Consignment arrives in Bhutan. Another example of #NeighbourhoodFirst,” he said in another tweet.

India is one of the world’s biggest drugmakers,

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Rijiju gets additional charge of AYUSH Ministry NEW DELHI, JAN 19 (PTI): Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has been temporarily assigned the charge of the Ministry of AYUSH, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique issued on Tuesday.

The move was necessitated as Shripad Yesso Naik, the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy (AYUSH) was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Goa. Naik (68) was admitted to the hospital on January 12 after he met with an ac-

cident while on his way back to Goa from Karnataka. The minister’s wife and his close aide had succumbed to the injuries in the accident. “The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed that during the hospitalization and treatment of Naik, following a road accident, his portfolio related to Ministry of AYUSH be temporarily assigned to Kiren Rijiju in addition to his existing portfolios,” according to the statement. The president has further directed that this arrangement may continue till Naik resumes his work related to Ministry of AYUSH, it said.

Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering (2R) on the arrival of a consignment of COVID-19 vaccine in Bhutan. (PTI)

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to partner countries over the coming weeks and months in a phased manner, keeping in view the domestic requirements.

I n d i a h a s a l r e a dy rolled out a massive coronavirus vaccination drive under which two vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin, are being administered to frontline health workers across the country.

While Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield is being manufactured by the Serum Institute, Covaxin is being produced by Bharat Biotech.

The MEA said it will be ensured that domestic manufacturers have adequate stocks to meet the country’s requirements while supplying abroad.

India had earlier supplied hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir and paracetamol tablets, as well as diagnostic kits, ventilators, masks, gloves and other medical supplies to a large number of countries to help them deal with the pandemic.

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hina’s intrusion deep inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh, where a village was reportedly constructed during 2019-20 speaks volumes about the state of vigil by Indian agencies.

In a report by NDTV, though the area is Indian territory, according to official government maps, it has been in effective Chinese control since 1959. The latest image that establishes the village in question is dated November 1, 2020. The image dated a little more than a year before that - August 26, 2019 - does not show any construction activity. So, the village was set up in the last year. Even if the particular area has been occupied by China since 1959, it was only recently that the village was constructed. Earlier only a Chinese military post existed, but this time a full-fledged village that can house thousands has been built. The village, located on the banks of the River Tsari Chu, lies in the Upper Subansiri district, an area which has been long disputed by India and China and has been marked by armed conflict. If the village came up during 2020, then it means that the government of India and its security agencies remained in the dark. The tragic incident in June last year, when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with the PLA in the Galwan Valley, confirmed that China is on a land grab mode, even if it means sparking another war. Even when the ruling BJP’s own MP from Arunachal Pradesh, Tapir Gao, had warned the Lok Sabha of Chinese incursions in his state, referring specifically to the Upper Subansiri district, India continued to believe that China will desist from further adventure. In an interview to a TV channel, Tapir Gao said the construction included a new double-lane road some 60 -70 kms inside the state’s upper Subansiri district along the path of the river known locally as the Lensi that flows in the direction of the Subansiri river. China continues to intrude into Indian territory over the past several decades. Since India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and successive prime ministers, China has followed a double-edged policy of talking friendship with one hand and land grab with the other hand. There are several disputed areas along the Indo-China border mainly because the communist giant refuses to accept the McMohan Line, the boundary demarcation between the two neighbours. China has conceptualised the Line of Actual Control(LAC) to mean that it recognises territories it held after the 1962 war. India maintains that the LAC to be 3,488 km long, while the Chinese consider it to be only around 2,000 km. It is divided into three sectors: the eastern sector which spans Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, the middle sector in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, and the western sector in Ladakh. China has made it amply clear that it will not give up its claims over disputed territories within India. Even in 2009, media reports claimed that Chinese forces occupied Indian territory and constructed a highway. In order to defend and protect its borders, India has to respond effectively. China has territorial ambitions of other nations. India should respond effectively and not let China mistake its peaceful approach as weakness since the communist giant firmly believes that might is right.

DailyDevotion Are You Fresh for Everything?

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” —John 3:3 Sometimes we are fresh and eager to attend a prayer meeting, but do we feel that same freshness for such mundane tasks as polishing shoes?

Being born again by the Spirit is an unmistakable work of God, as mysterious as the wind, and as surprising as God Himself. We don’t know where it begins— it is hidden away in the depths of our soul.

Being born again from above is an enduring, perpetual, and eternal beginning. It provides a freshness all the time in thinking, talking, and living— a continual surprise of the life of God. Staleness is an indication that something in our lives is out of step with God. We say to ourselves, “I have to do this thing or it will never get done.” That is the first sign of staleness.

Do we feel fresh this very moment or are we stale, frantically searching our minds for something to do?

Freshness is not the result of obedience; it comes from the Holy Spirit. Obedience keeps us “in the light as He is in the light…” (1 John 1:7).

Jealously guard your relationship with God. Jesus prayed “that they may be one just as We are one” — with nothing in between (John 17:22). Keep your whole life continually open to Jesus Christ.

Don’t pretend to be open with Him. Are you drawing your life from any source other than God Himself? If you are depending on something else as your source of freshness and strength, you will not realize when His power is gone.

Being born of the Spirit means much more than we usually think. It gives us new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything through the neverending supply of the life of God.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021

Post-mortem

How NEP 2020 will influence the education system in Nagaland

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world-Nelson Mandela.

he calendar year 1968 proves pivotal in Indian history when the Government of India under the then Premier Indira Gandhi announced its first national policy on education based on the recommendation of the Kothari Commission which seek to develop proposals to bring overhaul reformation in the Indian education system. Till then three significant reformation on the education policy has so far been introduced with Narendra Modi administration kicking the latest spot that formidably prints ‘New Education Policy 2020’.The NEP 2020 unequivocally manifest galore positive feedback from the intelligentsia and the stakeholders who believes a better implementation and cooperation from the Indian states will bring education revolution thence elevating the Indian education system on the par with other developed countries. Yet the stain on the white clothe persists with the southern states of India obstructing the new language formula and the raising issue of anganwadi workers to educate the children at pre primary level storms the deck with many perceiving it could handicap the childrens education as less educational qualifications are conveyed by most of the anganwadi workers/ teachers. Wherever the pros and cons the New Education Policy eye promising.

The education landscape in Nagaland needs revamping and the NEP 2020 could prove influen-

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tial. The Gross Enrollment Ratio which seek to target 100 percent in the secondary school and 50 percent in the higher education by 2035 marks a significant step. Article 21a and 45 of the Indian constitution clearly guarantees right to free education. Nagaland GER in higher education currently holds at 18.7 in contradictory to India’s GER at 26.3 percent. The contract of GER by the NEP will impetus the children from Nagaland to eschew crucial insurmountable task for instance the major school drop outs due to socio economic condition or financial constraints particularly advancing the children to work in domestic or commercial field.

The World Day against Child Labour 2020 focuses on the theme ‘children shouldn’t work on fields but on dreams’ perspicuously solicits towards the child education. The child labour survey conducted by the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) which aim to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 of eliminating Child labour by 2025 in the country interprets the inclusion of Nagaland as among the 10 states of India which constitute 14 percent of the total child labour population in the country is daunting. The GER targeted could henceforth bear out noteworthy.

The Plato’s “allegory of the cave” explains on how education can implicate the ignorant people by transforming them into being

amal Haasan recently announced through his political party Makkal Neethi Manram’s political promise that he was in favor of paying women for household chores. While many argue that such a move would help visibilise the unpaid work done by women, and eventually contribute to improving the value of unpaid work and domestic chores, many others feel it will be an assault on traditional family values. The response of actor Kangana Ranaut led to a barrage of comments culminating into arguments around the value of women being diminished if they were paid for their work that was their natural forte.

ILO defines unpaid work as non-remunerated work carried out to sustain the well-being and maintenance of other individuals in a household or the community, and it includes both direct and indirect care. Women in India spend more than nine times the time spent by men on unpaid care work. In actual terms, this is what the gender disparity looks like – 297 minutes of women’s time a day compared with 31 minutes of men’s time a day. The gap is wider in urban India according to Oxfam’s “Time is Up” report of 2020 based on surveys conducted on 1,047 individuals.

According to the time use data from the most recent round of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) 2020, women spend 238 minutes (four hours) more on unpaid work each day than men in India. Drawing from this data, economists Jayati Ghosh and CP Chandrashekhar point to the wide diversity between work participation figures of men (nearly 70 per cent) and women (just over 20 per cent) in the 15-59 age group. According to them as high as 94 per cent of women in the age group surveyed were forced to engage in unpaid labour, while the number was just 20 per cent for men.

Kamal Haasan’s stirring of the hornet’s nest should be grounds for much deeper introspection. Is payment for work going to actually elevate the position of women as argued? Or is going to further institutionalise patriarchal roles of women’s responsibilities within the homestead and men’s outside?

Who will pay for this ‘salary’ for housewives? Husbands? Government? Tax subsidies? Should there

rational and how it can eliminate the ideologies they perceive or illusion as it ought to be. This explicit extraction from the Plato’s work audibly shows the education paramount and how it can impact the people living in poverty and without education.

The 5+3+3+4 formula which seek to replace the 10+2 current system of education will infact prove titanic to the Naga students as it will enhance their cognitive skills and the aptitude inherent .The new 4 system formula will perhaps activate the thunderstorm and bring joy of rain to the students as it will enable them the right to choose the subjects based on their individual interests which will open up various combinations for students unlike the 10+2 system where the students are required to plump for one of the streams like science, humanities, social sciences or commerce. The likes of IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur attaching department of humanities and social sciences in their institute is the perfect paradigm which NEP envisages on attaining multiple disciplines in various schools and institutions. The co-curriculum and vocational subjects like sports, arts, commerce, science will be treated at the same level. This will enable many enthusiastic Naga sportsperson, photographers, designers, artisans etc to display their proficiency in their field of interest hence evading the incom-

ing unemployment which strike at the boastful 21.4 percentage according to the report tabled by Periodic labour Force Survey 20172018. This will also churn out less anxiety and hence could prove beneficial to the students possessing different enterprises.

The NEP unveils a host of opportunities to the students in the educational technology sector. This will enable many students from Nagaland to avail the elbow room. This ed-tech will make their learning more accurate, interactive and engaging. For instance online tutoring and peer learning platforms will not only integrate the students-teacher relationship but simultaneously student-student integration. The Diksha application will also help teachers to create training content, profile, in-class resources, assessment aids and connect with teacher community.

The students will in addition be able to get access to diverse digital platforms such as Divyang Friendly Educational Software, Massive Open online Courses( MOOCS) ,e-content in various languages, virtual labs etc which will make them competent suffice to throw one’s hat in the ring with the outside world. This ed-tech will ease the learning burden of the Naga students.

The Mother tongue which the NEP proposed to bring until at least grade V sounds viable. Research has shown that children’s first language is the optimal language for literacy and

learning through primary school (UNESCO 2008a).

Without skeptic mother tongue in primary education will succor the child in the learning process as the child is taught in the language he or she is familiar to. This will help them to develop critical thinking and evolve better comprehension. This was rightly stated by Nelson Mandela when he quoted “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language that goes to his heart.”This policy indeed looks quite fascinating and deliberates word of honour.

The backlash of this policy averred where English is the dominant language of internet, science and technology. It will also affect the children of people in transferable jobs and so forth.

In the binocular context of Nagaland where English is literally the taste, colour and blood of the Nagas as most of the communication process is done in English in the educational sector, official premises or paper documents, the inception of mother tongue as the medium of instruction at the primary level may not prove so considerable as reflected and it will hamstrung the child communication skills in the long sprint where English is entirely a requisite subject and indispensable. After the primary level the child has to learn English anyhow as English is still regarded as the heart and soul in our education system. With

Wages for housework

be payment for household work, rather making it a special pay for women?

In 2007, Sweden, which ranks top on the European Union’s Gender Equality Index, introduced subsidies to domestic chores (cleaning, laundry and ironing).

Thirteen years later, studies indicate that those who opted for subsidies reported more hours of earned income (around $2000 more annually than those in the same bracket who did not avail of the subsidies). There seem to be improvements in work conditions for domestic workers too by institutionalising proper pays and work conditions for them.

But there are many arguments around whether subsidies for doing domestic chores is actually the way out to address the household chores parity, with critics calling it socialism for the rich and others saying that household chores are a part of work. Critics also argue that these subsidies tend to perpetuate gender stereotypes further. A significant number of women employed as domestic workers tend to be women, and immigrants.

No matter what the response to Haasan’s proposal will be, a few things are certain. The data pointing to wide gender disparity when it comes to work participation, unpaid work, pay gap, etc and the wide-ranging arguments reinforce that we have a long way to go when it comes to rejecting patriarchal norms that entrench ‘love’ and ‘duty’ deep in family values.

One, it is not just about whether the unpaid work of women at home is recognised, it is also about the more basic question of why domestic work is seen as the domain of women. Manu, the patron saint of patriarchy in the Indian context, associates the fire-place, the grinding stone, the broom, the pestle and mortar and the water-pot, with impurity/sin – all activities that he also linked with women’s responsibilities.

From matrimonial advertisements to television serials, from films to the neighbourhood gossip mill, all celebrate “homely” brides, “good” housewives, who will take care of their families well.

The Twitter debate following Ranaut’s response to the Makkal Neethi Manram poll promise laid bare arguments that spoke about not monetising the value of the

labour of love performed by wives and mothers.

G i r l s a r e t r a d i t i o n a l ly “trained” for marriage by being taught how to cook from a very young age. The phrase, “padhke kya karogi, chulha chauka hi to Karna hai” (why study when you have to manage the hearth) has been heard across geographies.

Several adolescent girls at the Voices from Margins webinar series hosted by Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices during the lockdown last year underlined the increased burden of household chores for young girls and the consequent impact on their studies. The pandemic’s impact on unpaid work by women across the globe has already been well documented.

Until and unless sexist association of domestic chores with women is called out and questioned, there will be a range of justifications to ensure women stay within the hearth. The argument of paying them for it or not will not change the situation.

Two, the second question is how domestic work is viewed.

In addition to the centuries-old argument made by Manu, the recent reference to “pathetic” living conditions of our cricketers in Australia because they have to make their own beds and clean their toilet is another case in point.

Whether the cricketers made this link or those in the newsroom did, the message is clear. Cleaning toilets, making beds, are inferior tasks, unworthy of some.

The casteist association with domestic chores, and within it, tasks related to cleaning toilets has been forever connected to the oppressed castes. Domestic workers are, even today, treated as polluting, with households laying limits on where they can enter and what they can touch.

Not just that, domestic workers are seen as dispensable. Linking back to the pandemic, once again, many domestic workers pointed out that they were laid off without salaries and with no certainty of when they would be hired again.

Domestic workers mentioned how while they were forced to undergo COVID tests before being allowed into societies where they worked, their employers were allowed to roam around scot-free.

Domestic work has to be treated as a profession, and work-

ers must be accorded fair wages.

Being seen as unskilled work for women who are not capable of doing any other work, thereby falling outside labour legislations, said Bharti Birla from the ILO at a webinar last year. Unless there is value associated with domestic work, payment for household chores to homemakers alone will fail to bring about any far-reaching changes in the stature of women and gender relationships.

Three, concepts of family, rooted in these patriarchal constructs of “love” and “duty” derive from a dominant male gaze over the years. It draws from one that has led people to believe that not just through history, even prehistory, women sat at home, while the men turned the wheels of time (literally and metaphorically). Not just that, it is also time to relook at serious discrepancies within the concept of family, introspecting into how the following are understood – gender roles, issues of consent, child sexual abuse and violence. Families are not spaces for equals, but hierarchical institutions with a patriarch and patriarchal rules. Payment for household chores is not independent of these debates and discussions on the larger questions of patriarchy and gender.

Overall, it is interesting that invisibilised work carried out by women becomes a moot point in an election. The poll promise also

English being used excessively in our everyday life from the time we wake up to greet good morning till the dawn of goodnight shows how depended the word English has set foot our life. For example a well qualified person with tad proficiency in English pitch will distinctly facetime embarrassment when confronting an interviewer and more likely to experience disconcert as lack of proper speech will tend to one evince detrimental. With 16 tribes and languages spoken indistinctively it is quite difficult to bring any specific mother tongue into our education system. The Andhra Pradesh government recently approved English as the medium of instruction at the primary level taking into account the English necessity in the age of artificial intelligence. If at this juncture the Nagas genuinely want to excel and compete with the exterior factor then English should be given utmost importance of all at the primary level irrespective of any languages be it regional or local. However mother tongue should in no way remain unacknowledged and the current process of MIL(Modern Indian languages) should be given at par importance to that of English. It is now up-to the Nagaland government to deal with this issue intensively and implement policies essentially as of attractive and perpetual beneficial to the students.

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comes at a time when government policy-making is expressing interest in putting a number on the time spent by men and women on paid and unpaid work. A neoliberal government may even put its weight behind such a law, arguing the business case for paying for household work. But let us be aware of larger arguments of patriarchy and gender.

Keeping in mind the basic principle of providing visibility for unpaid work, and challenging patriarchy, policymakers can follow the ideals of visionaries like Kanshiram and Periyar who wanted women to free themselves from domestic chores so that they contribute in social and political responsibilities in the public domain. Gender-neutral solutions such as institutionalising women’s right to property and co-ownership of any assets purchased by a couple could also go a long way in recognising the value of unpaid work and gender-equal family structures. And last, but not the least, laws such as this must go hand in hand with universal basics such as labour rights, assured fair living wages for all work, including for domestic work, grievance redressal systems in place, protection from violations of human rights.

Anusha Chandrasekharan, Senior Programme Manager, Communications at Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices

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Even double government service parents find it difficult to raise their kids with their surplus earnings, so why would we think that these vendors with their meagre earnings not face any hardships? The common mentality of our people about Naga vendors charging too much and rather buying from the cheap non local vendors is very discouraging. Therefore, I would like to encourage our people to promote our local vendors by buying from the local vendors and also not be stingy for a few rupees.

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SC rejects pleas seeking review of Aadhaar verdict

NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (PTI): The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its 2018 verdict which had upheld the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions, including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar, by a majority of 4:1, rejected the review pleas against the apex court’s September 26, 2018 verdict.

Justice D Y Chandrachud, one of the five-judges of the bench, dissented with the majority verdict and said that the review petitions be kept pending until a larger bench decides the question related to certification of a bill as a money bill.

The Aadhaar Bill was certified as a money bill which enabled the government to get it cleared without getting the assent of a majority in the Rajya Sabha.

“The present review petitions have been filed against the final judgment and order dated September 26, 2018. We have perused

the review petitions as well as the grounds in support thereof. In our opinion, no case for review of judgment and order dated September 26, 2018 is made out,” the majority order of January 11 said. “We hasten to add that change in the law or subsequent decision/judgment of a coordinate or larger bench by itself cannot be regarded as a ground for review. The review petitions are accordingly dismissed,” said the bench, also comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, S Abdul Nazeer and B R Gavai.

The review pleas were taken up for consideration in-chamber by the bench.

In its 2018 verdict, a five-judge Constitution bench headed by then Chief Justice Dipak Misra had held that while Aadhaar would remain mandatory for filing of Income Tax

Return and allotment of permanent account number (PAN), it would not be mandatory to link Aadhaar number to bank accounts and telecom service providers cannot seek its linking for mobile connections.

In its 4:1 verdict that had also quashed some contentious provisions of the Aadhaar Act, the top court, however, had held Aadhaar would be needed for availing facilities of welfare schemes and government subsidies.

Ruling that seeding of Aadhaar would not be required for opening bank accounts, availing mobile services, by CBSE, NEET, JEE, UGC and for admissions in schools and free education for children, the top court had observed that Aadhaar had also become a household name and that its use has spread like a “wildfire”.

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MUMBAI, JAN 20 (PTI): The Shiv Sena on Wednesday asked the Centre to clarify “the actual situation on ground” in view of reports that China has built a village in Arunachal Pradesh.

Sena spokesperson and Raya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said she has written to DefenceMinister and External Affairs Minister “to bring to their urgent attention the building of new settlements by China in Indian Territory of Arunachal Pradesh, within past year, as per the satellite images available in public domain”. “Will the government be transparent and clarify the actual situation on ground? While our soldiers have been bravely fighting out these incursions it is saddening to see the political blame game being indulged in by the Central government.

“Till when will the government continue to blame the past to justify the present and future decisions?,” Chaturvedi said in a statement. Citing news reports, she stated that this newly-built Chinese village is approximately within 4.5 kms of the Indian territory of the de facto border.

“As per the official government maps, this area is part of Indian Territory but has been in Chinese control since 1959. However,

while earlier only a Chinese military post existed in these areas, this time a full-fledged village has been built in it and the military post has been upgraded,” the Sena MP stated. She further said that while China has been stepping up expansionism in the border-lands “while our government is not even willing to call China out by name”.

“The area where these villages have come up may be disputed, but international law forbids unilateral change of the status quo in such disputed territories,” she said.

Chaturvedi also said that China’s construction of a village is just the latest example of how it is encroaching on areas inside India.

“China has no land claim in this occupied region that can be backed by international law. However, now by constructing villages that were uninhabited but strategically important areas, it is seeking to challenge the international law,” she added.

Chaturvedi stated that the construction of this village is a violation of a key part of multiple agreements reached by China with India that asked the two sides to strictly respect and observe the LAC and work together to maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas.

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KO L K ATA , JA N 2 0 (AGENCIES): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Kolkata on 23 January to attend two programmes commemorating Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary.

In a six-hour-long trip, Modi will attend the valedictory session of a daylong seminar on Bose, titled ‘Revisiting the legacy of Netaji Subhas in 21st century’, in the National Library, and a light-and-sound show at the Victoria Memorial Hall. He will land in the city at 3 pm and leave for Delhi around 8.40 pm.

According to the organisers of the programmes, Modi will also be conducting an important meeting during an hour-long free slot.

The seminar — which is a joint collaboration between the culture ministry, Delhi-based INA (Azad Hind Fauj) trust, National Library, and the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS) — will be attended by 150 selected invitees, including Bengali intellectuals and academicians.

Prahlad Singh Patel, the Minister of State for Culture, will also attend the seminar while the inaugural speech will be delivered

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by noted scholar and historian Purabi Roy. However, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is not part of the invitee list as of now.

Banerjee is a member of the high-level committee led by Modi that was constituted to plan Bose’s birth anniversary in early January but she also did not attend the committee’s meeting to discuss the modalities and activities on 15 January in Delhi.

The committee was formed on 9 January and includes distinguished citizens, historians, authors, experts, family members of Subhas Chandra Bose and eminent persons associated with the INA. The invitee list to the seminar also does not include Bose’s family members, BJP leader Chandra Bose, and historian and

former TMC leader Sugata Bose.

According to Chandra, he wanted to speak on Bose’s vision but was not accommodated for the same.

“I was called by a senior member of INA (Indian National Army) trust and was requested to speak on Netaji’s childhood. But I wanted to speak on his vision. I know nobody does that. We all speak all repetitive things about him, but none really want to focus on his vision and his ideology. I expressed my wish, but I am yet to get any confirmation as of now,” Chandra told ThePrint Meanwhile, Sugata, a former Trinamool MP, confirmed to ThePrint that he was not invited to any of the programmes. He is also not part of the high-level committee despite heading the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata.

Anirban Ganguly, director of the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Institute and member of the committee, said: “Sugata Bose is there on many committees related to Netaji.

And he is allergic to Prime Minister Modi. So, there is no point inviting him. He leads a group of intellectuals against Modiji.

Court rejects bail plea of BARC’s ex-CEO ‘Not proper’: CJI irked at Dave’s absence in farm laws hearing tice noted that Dave was not there the next day. “You always appear, you were not expected not to appear,” he said. “This is not proper... if you were interested in the matter, then you should have appeared. Everybody appears when we dictate orders,” he added.

Dave replied that there was a genuine misunderstanding. The Chief Justice said: “We normally know you were happy to appear, but do not know why you didn’t appear.” After this, he closed the topic.

The observation was made by Chief Justice during hearing on an application by Rajasthan-based farmer union, Kisan Mahapanchayat, seeking modification of its order January

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laws. The farmers union contended that all the four members have been staunchly and ardently advocating the implementation of farm laws, and it is important to include members who are against the laws to create a balance.

However, the Chief Justice said: “The purpose of the appointment (of the four-member committee) was clearly to listen to the grievances of the parties affected by the laws with reference to provisions enacted.

Adjudicatory power has not been conferred on the committee. The committee role is to share the grievances of parties affected by law.”

The Chief Justice also held a brief discussion with advocate Prashant Bhushan, who was also representing the farmer unions, along with Dave.

“We are asking what solution can be found. We are calling upon you to counsel your litigants to bring about peace,” he told Bhushan.

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NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (PTI): Top Congress leaders will deliberate on the way forward to elect the new party chief at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee on Friday, sources said.

Members of the CWC, the party’s top decision-making body, are expected to discuss and finalise the schedule for organisational elections and the AICC plenary session.

This follows a report by the Central Election Authority chaired by Madhusudan Mistry making certain recommendations on the election to the Congress president’s post. The sources said the virtual CWC meeting will be chaired by party chief Sonia Gandhi, who has asked the leadership to hold organisational polls including for the party president’s post. Sonia Gandhi took over as interim Congress president after Rahul Gandhi resigned in the wake of the party’s Lok Sabha debacle in May 2019.

There have been demands from a section of the Congress leaders for having a full-time and active party president and an organisational overhaul. The CWC had in its earlier meeting decided to hold organisational elections, following a storm in the party in August last year over a letter to Sonia Gandhi by a group of 23 leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari and Mukul Wasnik raising these issues.

NEW DELHI, JAN 20 (IANS): Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde on Wednesday expressed his dissatisfaction at the absence of senior advocate Dushyant Dave, representing eight farmer unions protesting against the farm laws, from the hearing in connection with the laws last week.

Citing the hearing where Dave was not present, the Chief Justice said: “We remember saying that we are not passing any orders and keeping it (the matter) for tomorrow.” Dave submitted before the bench also comprising Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian that he had sought time to seek instructions from his clients.

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and holds sizeable control over the entire system, hence his release will amount to tampering with the prosecution witnesses, who work under him.

The special public prosecutor also drew the court’s attention towards the purported WhatsApp chat between Dasgupta and Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami. “We have shown to the court the WhatsApp

chat regarding the TRPs in which Dasgupta promised to take down some other channels and put Arnab’s channel on the higher position,” he said.

Dasgupta’s lawyer, on the other hand, told the court that allegations made against him were without any evidence. However, finding merit in the prosecution’s submissions, sessions court judge M A Bhosale rejected Dasgupta’s bail plea.

Police have alleged that Dasgupta, in connivance with another senior official from the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) and ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd’s owner Arnab Goswami, manipulated the TRPs of Republic TV and Republic Bharat (Hindi).

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MUMBAI, JAN 20 (PTI): A sessions court in Mumbai on Wednesday rejected the bail application of former CEO of ratings agency BARC, Partho Dasgupta, an accused in the alleged fake Television Ratings Point (TRP) case. Dasgupta was arrested by the Mumbai crime branch from Pune district last month.

A magistrate court had earlier rejected his bail plea, observing that he played a vital role in the scam.

Opposing Dasgupta’s bail application in the sessions court, special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray submitted that although the charge-sheet in the case has been filed, there still are multiple things which need to be investigated. He argued that Dasgupta is a key person

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LG confirmed the internal memo was genuine in a statement to The Verge, noting that nothing has been decided yet. “LG Electronics management is committed to making whatever decision is necessary to resolve its mobile business challenges in 2021,” says an LG spokesperson. “As of today, nothing has been finalized.”

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The Korea Herald reports that Kwon Bong-seok sent out an internal memo to staff on Wednesday, hinting at a change in direction for LG’s phone business.

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Foreign institutional investors remained net buyers in the capital market as they purchased shares worth Rs 257.55 crore on Tuesday, according to provisional exchange data.

duction base for Jimny, Suzuki aims to leverage Maruti Suzuki’s global production stature.

The company pointed out that there is a large customer demand worldwide well beyond Suzuki Japan capacity for this model and the Indian manufacturing will supplement capacity to meet this global demand.

“Jimny manufactured at Maruti Suzuki’s Gurugram plant shares the same specification as the export models produced at the Suzuki Motor Corporation’s Kosai plant in Japan,” said Kenichi Ayukawa, Managing Director & CEO, Maruti Suzuki India.

“We are confident with Jimny we will be able to enhance our overall exports.”

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Mumbai, Jan 20 (PTI): Rising for the second session on the trot, the rupee finished 12 paise higher at 73.05 against the US dollar on Wednesday amid a rally in domestic equities and a weak greenback overseas.

At the interbank forex market, the rupee opened at 73.11, and hit an intra-day high of 73.05 and a low of 73.14. It finally closed at 73.05, higher by 12 paise over its last close.

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D I M A P UR , J A N 2 0 (NPN): Nagaland State Transport department will be introducing a new bus service between Tuensang to ITC (DAN) as alternate day service for the convenience of public with a view to provide affordable means of transportation.

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Maruti Suzuki India has commenced export of Suzuki’s compact off-roader Jimny from India.

Accordingly, the first shipment of 184 units left New Delhi, Jan 20 from Mundra port to Latin (PTI): Gold gained for the American countries such as third day on Wednesday Columbia and Peru. rising Rs 347 to Rs 48,758 Besides, the three-door per 10 gram in the national Suzuki Jimny will also be capital in line with rally exported to the Middle East in global precious metal and African markets from prices, according to HDFC India, the company said on Securities.

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create jobs in rural, agricultural and tribal segments and eradicate poverty, he added. Gadkari said that in order to protect the interests of MSME vendors, the government has mandated public sector undertakings to settle their dues within 45 days of sale and also plan to introduce legislation to this effect. Urging the MSMEs to spread their wings, he said they must form joint ventures with start-ups or technology transfers from institutions like IITs or IIMs to compete on a global scale.

Highlighting the initiatives and innovations by his ministry, Gadkari said that they encourage development of high-quality, costeffective but sustainable local products as import substitutes. “Local MSMEs have developed indigenous paint, Khadi Prakritik Paint made with cowdung which is 50 percent cheaper than top brands, but is still world-

of the time. The Congress party called Goswami’s chat about Jaitley an “inhumane display of insensitivity”. “What exactly did Arnab Goswami mean when he said that they were ‘maintaining him’?” the party said in its statement.

Khurshid said he was really “hurt” by the context in which Jaitley was mentioned in the chats.

“The kind of conversations that have come up about him, when he was in death bed… nothing can be more painful than this.

Here is a cynical, hardened mind talking about why he is being kept alive.

If this is how they treat their own people-and I don’t know how many favours they may have received from him throughout his career — then I don’t know how they would treat ordinary people,” Khurshid said.

The chats in question are part of Mumbai Police’s charge sheet, submitted before a court, in a case pertaining to alleged manipulation of Television Rating Points by news channels, including Republic TV. Among other things, the chats purportedly show Goswami having prior knowledge of major government decisions such as the Balakot airstrikes.

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class. A small unit can produce this paint with a capital investment of barely Rs. 15 lakhs,” Gadkari said.

He said Indian farmers can save Rs.100,000 per annum by replacing fossil fuels with bio-fuels and bio-CNG in their tractors and farm equipment since the government promoting biofuels of ethanol from rice and other foods, biomass from cotton straws, etc.

With a huge scope of producing bagasse and bioCNG as a fossil fuel substitute Indian can slash its annual crude oil import bills by a staggering Rs.Eight lakhcrore, Gadkari pointed out.

He also outlined schemes for cattle-owners to monetize their livestock wastes and generate additional revenue of upto Rs.4,500 per month by selling cowdung and cow urine at Rs.5/kg and Rs.10/ litre respectively.

In his welcome remarks, AIAI President Kalantri highlighted the challenges confronting the MSMEs in recent years, especially access to finance, bank credits which has sharply decline from 12.30 percent to just 8.50 percent in the past 10 years, the cash crunch after the Covid-19 pandemic, etc.

(From p-1) In its latest salvo, Congress leaders also questioned the context in which former finance minister and BJP leader Arun Jaitley’s name was mentioned in Goswami’s purported WhatsApp chats with former BARC chief executive Partho Dasgupta.

When Jaitley was in hospital in August 2019, following deterioration in his health condition, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) did not know what to do as the former FM was “stretching it”, Goswami had purportedly told Dasgupta.

In the WhatsApp chats, dated August 19, 2019, Goswami purportedly said, “Jaitley stretching it. PMO doesn’t know what to do. PM leaving on Wednesday for France.”

To this, Dasgupta replied, “So hasn’t died yet?” In response, Goswami said: “maintaining him. I expect something by evening. One of my meetings in Delhi gets pushed because of this.” Jaitley died on August 24, 2019, five days after this conversation.

The France trip referred to in the chats is presumably PM Modi’s visit to the country on August 22, 2019, as the first leg of his three-nation tour

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Mumbai, Jan 20 (IANS): The Centre is working with State Bank of India to launch an E-portal on the lines of Amazon to facilitate Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises to sell their products, Transport & MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari said here on Wednesday.

At present, Amazon. com generates a business of around Rs.70,000 crore annually for Indian MSMEs, which can be enhanced by a dedicated E-Portal to enable them complete with global brands, he said at a webinar organised by All India Association of Industries President Vijay Kalantri.

Stating that the government aims to increase the share of MSME sector in total exports from the current 48 percent to 60 percent in the coming years, Gadkari said that this would go a long way in boosting the Atmanirbhar Bharat programme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

On similar lines, the union minister said that the government is making efforts to increase the turnover of the village industry from the current Rs.80,000 crore to Rs.5-lakh-crore in next couple of years which will

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Biden plans sweeping executive orders to unwind Trump legacy on Day-1

WASHINGTON, JAN 20 (AGENCIES): Presidentelect Joe Biden plans to begin immediately unwinding President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, climate and other issues on Wednesday with at least 15 executive actions, including moves to reverse US withdrawals from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization, and stop construction of a border wall, reports The Mint.

Biden will also sign orders revoking a permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, imposing a mask mandate on federal property to combat the coronavirus pandemic and ending Trump’s travel ban against some predominantly Muslim and African countries.

While some of the orders roll back unilateral measures Trump imposed, others -- including an extension of moratoriums on student loan payments, foreclosures and evictions -- are intended to address the health and economic crisis wrought by the pandemic.

“We’re seeing too many Americans that are just barely keeping their heads above water,” incoming National Economic Director Brian Deese told reporters in a call previewing the executive actions.

Biden’s aides say he’ll sign more Day One executive actions than any of his predecessors, to be followed by additional regulatory and policy changes over the

coming weeks. That will includes rolling back the socalled “Mexico City policy” restricting federal funding for organizations that provide abortion counseling and revoking the ban on military service by transgender Americans The Day One agenda includes: Re-engaging with World Health Organization Biden plans to immediately rejoin the World Health Organization, which Trump exited in May, saying China exerted too much pressure on the agency. He’ll dispatch the government’s foremost infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, to represent the US Thursday at the WHO’s Executive Board meeting.

Mask mandate on US properties The new president’s mask mandate will require face coverings and physical distancing for everyone in federal buildings and on federal lands. The requirement isn’t itself likely to have a major impact, as many federal offices are closed or have already implemented safety measures, but the Biden administration says it’s an illustration of the government leading by example after Trump and his aides flouted federal public health guidance.

Biden will simultaneously launch a “100 Day Masking Challenge” asking Americans to mask up for the first 100 days of his ad-

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ministration.

Eviction and foreclosure moratoriums His actions on the economy are intended to aid people suffering because of the pandemic. He’ll direct federal agencies to extend moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures until at least March 31.

Some 20% of renters and 1 in 10 homeowners are behind on their payments, Biden’s transition team said.

His administration will request additional assistance for Americans struggling with their housing payments as part of a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief proposal to Congress.

Easing burden of student loans Another action will pause the accrual of interest and principal payments on federal student loans until Sept. 30.

Rejoining the climate agreement Biden will make several initial moves to restore efforts by the Obama ad-

ministration to combat climate change, including re-joining the Paris accord.

That deal, negotiated while Biden was vice president, requires countries to create emissions targets with the goal of keeping global average temperatures less than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Revoking Keystone XL pipeline Biden will also revoke permits for projects he’s determined aren’t in the nation’s best interest -- including the Keystone XL pipeline, which was rejected

by Obama only for Trump to approve it on his third day in office. Canadian officials have already registered a protest over the planned move, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying Tuesday his government was “making sure that Canada’s views are heard and considered by the incoming administration.”

Fuel standards, and use of federal lands The new president will

also direct agencies to consider revising federal fuel economy and emissions standards for vehicles, appliances, and construction after the Trump administration looked to reduce requirements, calling them excessively burdensome or expensive for businesses and consumers.

Biden will also call for the Interior Department to review protected federal properties that were reduced in size or opened to commercial use during the Trump administration -- often at the request of energy companies. He plans to issue a temporary moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Revisiting Trump’s regulatory agenda The incoming administration has also compiled a list of more than 100 agency actions taken during the Trump administration for review, in what could result in a massive regulatory revision.

Also planned are broader measures the administration argues will assist disadvantaged Americans, including a policy to make it easier for the federal government to issue regulations.

No more money for wall Biden is expected to repeal the national emergency on the US-Mexico border, halting funding for Trump’s signature border wall that symbolized his crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The new president

will order an immediately pause in construction on the barrier, and a review of how best to redirect funds diverted from military construction and counter-narcotics budgets that Trump used to build the wall.

Scrapping the travel ban The incoming administration is also scrapping Trump’s travel ban on several Middle East, Central Asian and African countries, most of them with majority Muslim populations, that the outgoing president had deemed terrorist threats.

Trump’s policy was “was nothing less than a stain on our nation” and “rooted in xenophobia and religious animus,” Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in a conference call.

Counting noncitizens for the US Census Biden also intends to end Trump’s plan to exclude noncitizens from the decennial U.S. Census, a change that could affect how congressional seats and Electoral College votes are apportioned for the next decade. Steven Dillingham, director of the Census Bureau under Trump, announced his resignation this week amid criticism by the Office of Inspector General for the Census, which found career employees felt pressure to produce a report without clear rules on how to count undocumented persons.

Bolstering Sanctuaries and the DACA Program

Biden plans to repeal a Trump executive order that sought to crack down on undocumented people living in the country by withholding funding from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, cities and counties that don’t allow their police to cooperate with immigration authorities. Trump’s order also directed federal agencies to prioritize resources for immigration enforcement over other duties.

And Biden will seek to strengthen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provides deportation protections to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

Trump sought to unwind the program during his administration, believing it would provide him leverage in congressional negotiations on an immigration overhaul.

Protecting liberians who fled civil war Biden will also extend a deportation deferral for Liberians living in the U.S. under a two-decade old program designed to offer safe haven to people who fled that country’s civil war. Trump sought to eliminate the protection, arguing conditions in Liberia had improved, while Biden will extend it to at least June 2022.

‘Racial equity review’ for all of government Biden will order a whole-of government “racial equity” review led by Domestic Policy Council director Susan Rice that will

require each department and agency to conduct a “baseline review” of whether its policies disadvantage any demographic group. The Office of Management and Budget will also undertake a review to “more equitably allocate federal resources,” according to a summary of the action provided by Biden’s team.

“The president-elect has promised to root out systemic racism from our institutions,” Rice said.

Closing down the 1776 commission Biden will also reverse Trump’s efforts to ban diversity training for federal workers, and eliminate the 1776 Commission -- a project Trump created last year to counter efforts to teach American students the foundational role slavery played in the nation’s creation.

Trump’s commission issued its own version of the history of the nation’s founding on Monday, arguing that “the foundation of our Republic planted the seeds of the death of slavery in America.”

New protections against discrimination The new administration will sign an executive order prohibiting workplace discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Ethics rules for political appointees Biden will also implement new ethics rules for political appointees across the administration.

Blinken indicates US to continue Concerns grow over global Jack’s back: Chinese e-tycoon backing India against China incursions disparities in vaccination ends silence with online video New York, Jan 20 (IANS): Anthony Blinken, who is President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be the secretary of state has indicated that the US would continue to back India against challenges to its sovereignty from China and work with it in the fight against terrorism.

Speaking at the confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Blinken said that cooperation in defence equipment and information sharing that had deepened under former President Barack Obama had been carried forward

by Trump’s administration “including its concept of Indo-Pacific and to make sure we were working with India so that no country in the region including China could challenge its sovereignty and also working with it on concerns that we share about terrorism”.

He made the comment when asked by Republican Senator Mitt Romney about China’s recent clashes with India.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has given strong support to India against China following the deadly clashes between the two

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neighbours along the Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh area last year.

“The US will stand with the people of India as they confront threats to their sovereignty and to their liberty,” Pompeo said in New Delhi during a visit for the “2+2” meeting of the heads of defence and foreign relations of the two countries.

“I’m glad to say that the US and India are taking steps to strengthen our cooperation against all manner of threats, and not just those posed by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party),” he added.

China figured prominently in the marathon hearings held before Biden takes office on Wednesday in order to speed up the confirmation process.

“There is no doubt that it poses the most significant

Italy ponders suing Pfizer for vaccine delays Rome, Jan 20 (AP): Italy’s virus czar is pressing ahead with plans to take legal action against Pfizer after the US pharmaceutical company announced delays in delivering pre-ordered COVID-19 vaccines to Europe.

Domenico Arcuri said he had secured unanimous backing from Italy’s regional governors to take civil or criminal action, where possible. In a statement late Tuesday, he said: “It was unanimously decided that such action will be taken in the coming days.”

Pfizer confirmed last week it would temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe and Canada while it upgrades production capacity to 2 billion doses per year at its Belgium plant. Arcuri said the delay would amount to a 29% reduction in upcoming deliveries to Italy.

In announcing the impending legal action, Arcuri said: “The health care of Italian citizens isn’t negotiable.” As of Wednesday, Italy had administered more than 1.2 million vaccine shots, or 76% of the doses already delivered to Italian regions. (AP)

challenge of any nation” to US interests and there are “rising adversarial aspects to the relationship”, Blinken said. He gave credit to President Donald Trump for recognising the China challenge, even though he disagreed with how he went about it. “I also believe that President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China,” he said.

About the future of relations with India, Blinken said that he expected it to grow, boosted by cooperation on climate change, an issue that is a priority for the new administration.

Blinken referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programmes for renewable energy, he said, “I think there’s a very strong potential for our countries to work together in that area.”

Biden has put a premium in battling climate change and has said that one of his first acts will be to have the US rejoin the Paris climate change accord, from which President Donald Trump withdrew. He said that India’s greenhouse gas emissions could catch up with China in the coming decades and, therefore, cooperation on climate change was a necessity.

BEIJING, JAN 20 (IANS): As an increasing number of countries started mass vaccination, gaps in access to Covid-19 vaccines, especially huge disparities between the developed world and developing world, have become glaringly evident.

While the three wealthy economies of the US, Britain and the European Union “have given citizens about 24 million doses so far -- more than half of the shots administered globally -- vast numbers of countries have yet to begin their campaigns,” the Xinhua news agency reported..

Disparities in immunity “pose a threat to both have and have-not states,” it said.

“Giving the coronavirus an opportunity to advance and generate new mutants would have significant economic and public-health consequences, adding to the pain as the death toll surpasses 2 million,” it said. More worryingly, opening the 148th session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on

Monday warned of the moral consequences of the lack of Covid-19 vaccines for poorer countries, saying that the higher-income countries are privileged compared to the developing countries.

“More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country.

Not 25 million, not 25,000, just 25,” he said.

Similarly, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for solidarity with developing countries in the context of Covid-19 and pre-existing inequalities and injustices.

Vaccines must be a global public good, available to everyone, everywhere, he said.

The good news is that China has, on various occasions, pledged continuous efforts in global Covid19 response.

“We were the first to pledge to make vaccines a global public good, bearing in mind the greater good of humanity,” Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said recently.

Beijing, Jan 20 (AP): China’s highest-profile entrepreneur, Jack Ma, appeared Wednesday in an online video, ending a 2 1/2month absence from public view that prompted speculation about the future of the e-commerce billionaire and his Alibaba Group.

In the 50-second video, Ma congratulated teachers supported by his foundation and made no mention of his disappearance or official efforts to tighten control over Alibaba and other internet companies over the past six months. The video appeared on Chinese business news and other websites.

The normally voluble Ma disappeared from public view after he irked regulators by criticising them in an October 24 speech at a Shanghai conference. Days later, regulators suspended the planned multibilliondollar stock market debut of Ant Group, a financial platform that grew out of Alibaba’s payments service, Alipay.

That prompted speculation online about whether the 56-year-old Ma, China’s biggest global business celebrity and a symbol of its tech boom, had been detained or might face legal trouble.

Indonesian leader promises compensation for plane crash Jakarta, Jan 20 (AP): Indonesia’s leader on Wednesday assured relatives of 62 people killed in a Sriwijaya Air plane crash that they will be compensated.

President Joko Widodo visited the command centre at Jakarta’s international container terminal where tons of plane debris hauled by divers from seafloor were collected for an investigation into what caused the Boeing 737-500 to nosedive into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on January 9.

He also witnessed the first three relatives of the victims receiving money from the compensation fund.

Sriwijaya Air offered relatives an insurance payout of 1.25 billion rupiah ($89,100), in line with the Indonesian law that stipulates compensation must be offered within 60

President Joko Widodo, left, confers with Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi as they inspect pieces of the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 retrieved from the Java Sea.

days of a crash. In addition, state-owned insurance company Jasa Raharja has provided 50 million rupiah ($3,560) to each family of the victims.

“I assure you that all

compensation will be completed immediately for all victims,” Widodo said.

A search is still ongoing for the crucial memory unit of the cockpit voice recorder.

The device apparently broke loose from its exterior and officials have said the underwater locator beacons attached to both crash-proof black boxes became dislodged due to the impact.

The flight data recorded was recovered three days after the crash.

The 26-year-old Boeing had been out of service for almost nine months last year because of flight cutbacks caused by the pandemic.

Indonesia’s aviation industry grew quickly after the nation’s economy was opened following the fall of dictator Suharto in the late 1990s. Safety concerns led the United States and the European Union to ban Indonesian carriers for years, but the bans have since been lifted due to better compliance with international aviation standards.

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Alibaba and the government haven’t responded to questions about him.

The Jack Ma Foundation said in a statement Wednesday: “Jack Ma participated in the online ceremony of the annual Rural Teacher Initiative event on January 20.” The foundation and Alibaba didn’t respond to questions about Ma’s status and when his next public event might be.

President Xi Jinping’s government says anti-monopoly enforcement against internet companies will be a priority this year. Alibaba and other companies have been fined for violating anti-monopoly rules. Some social media services have been reprimanded for lapses in enforcing censorship.

In his October speech, Ma complained regulators had an antique “pawnshop mentality” and were ham-

pering innovation, according to Chinese media. He appealed to them to make it easier for entrepreneurs and young people to borrow.

That clashed with the ruling party’s marathon campaign to reduce surging debt in China’s financial system that prompted fears about a possible bank crisis and led rating agencies to cut Beijing’s credit rating for government borrowing.

Some people suggested the ruling Communist Party was making an example of Ma to show entrepreneurs couldn’t defy regulators.

But finance experts said Xi’s government was uneasy about Alibaba’s dominance in retailing and Ant’s potential financial risks.

Anti-monopoly regulators warned executives Alibaba and five other tech giants in December not to use their dominance to block new competitors from entering their markets. The central bank and other regulators have ordered Ant to overhaul its business before its market debut can go ahead.

Alibaba’s share price in Hong Kong is down 10% since October but recovered some of its loss from its low point this month.

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Netflix surpasses 200 million subscribers

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etflix has surpassed another major milestone: 203.6 million subscribers around the world. The achievement comes after Netflix saw spectacular growth in the first half of 2020. But as it celebrates passing the 200 million subscriber mark, Netflix is also acknowledging that 2021 likely won’t see as many net subscriber gains every quarter, starting in the first quarter of 2021.

Netflix added a total of 8.5 million paid net subscribers in Q4, bringing in a record breaking 37 million paid memberships in 2020.

Netflix “achieved $25 billion in annual revenue,” according to the earnings report. Still, Netflix is warning that “we expect paid net adds of 6 million” in Q1 2021 compared to last year’s “15.8 million, which included the impact from

the initial COVID-19 lockdowns.” Most importantly, however, Netflix executives are telling shareholders that “we no longer have a need to raise external financing for our day-to-day operations.” Or, more simply put, Netflix no longer needs to borrow substantial amounts of cash.

Coming off a less than stellar third quarter in terms of subscriber gains (2.2 million added compared to the 6 million expected), the current uptick in growth is a sign of what Netflix can achieve with a string of must-watch content. In the fourth quarter, new shows like The Queen’s Gambit and Emily in Paris found a sizable fan base right away.

Plus, strong returns for popular shows like The Crown helped make Netflix a destination streamer, even amid competition from Disney

Plus (The Mandalorian’s second season premiered at the end of October) and HBO Max. More than 62 million households watched The Queen’s Gambit within the first four weeks of its release, making it the second most watched limited series on Netflix. The only show that beat it was Tiger King. Toward the end of the quarter, Netflix also saw another big hit with Shonda Rhimes’ Bridgerton, which Netflix projected would amass more than 63 million household views within its first four weeks. If true, that would make Bridgerton Netflix’s fifth most-watched series to date. The Crown’s fourth season also remained one of the most-watched shows for weeks. George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky is also estimated to reach 72 million households.

Now, as Netflix moves into 2021, the company is trying to let subscribers know that it has plenty more to come. Just a month after Netflix announced price increases in the US to its most popular plan, the company also declared it would release at least one movie a week — or about one every five days. (The Verge)

C2C music festival has been postponed till 2022

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he Country To Country (C2C) music festival has been postponed until 2022.

The annual country music extravaganza had already been delayed from last year to March 2021, but due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on mass gatherings and travel, the organisers have taken the difficult decision to move this year’s events in Europe to March 11 to March 13, 2022.

A statement issued on their social media pages reads: “Due to the complications of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel, we are sad to say that C2C will not be able to go ahead in March 2021 as planned.

In March of 2020, we could never have foreseen the extent of what has unfolded and the prospect that we would be without

C2C for 2 years running was unthinkable. We are devastated that we are unable to deliver you the event that we all love.

As we write, we are working really hard to make C2C 2022 the very best yet.

Tickets will remain valid for the 2022 event, and we encourage you to hold on to your tickets if possible so we can celebrate together.

If you wish to be refunded please contact your point of purchase.

We are working on delivering numerous pieces of content for you throughout 2021 to make sure you’re getting your country fix!

The dates for the 2022 festival will be 11-13 March 2022, and we will share more information about the 2022 event and line up in the coming weeks and months.

We appreciate your patience on this matter and we can’t wait to see you soon!”

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utgoing US President Donald Trump has pardoned Lil Wayne and commuted the prison sentence of Kodak Black during his last full day in office.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that the rappers appeared on the list of individuals Trump was expected to pardon. Today (January 19), those speculations were confirmed.

Wayne and Kodak Black were two of over 140 people who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted on Trump’s final day in office. That list also notably includes former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who was a founding member of far-right media organisation Breitbart News.

Back in December, Wayne pled guilty to a federal firearms charge relating to a December 2019 incident, in which he was arrested for illegal possession of a handgun during a flight on his private jet from California to Florida. He had been set to appear in court on January 28, facing a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

The rapper met with Trump back in October of last year ahead of the federal election, posting

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a heavily-criticised photo of the pair together on his social media accounts.

“Just had a great meeting with [Trump] besides what he’s done so far with criminal reform, the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership,” he wrote alongside the image. “He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done.”

Today (January 19), Lil Wayne took to social media again, appearing to tweet about his pardon.

“Because he had a dream I am able to live out my dreams. I am forever mindful. Forever grateful.

Because he had a dream I’ll never stop dreaming and dreams are forever. King.

Forever,” the rapper wrote on Twitter.

Kodak, meanwhile, is currently serving a 46-

month prison sentence on federal weapons charges.

He was sentenced back in November 2019 after being found guilty of falsifying information on background forms while attempting to purchase firearms.

Late last year, in a since-deleted tweet, the rapper – real name Bill Kahan Kapri – said he would give $1million to charity if the President released him from prison early.

Earlier this month, Lil Yachty tweeted at Trump, calling for Kapri to be released.

“My friend… deserves to be commuted,” Yachty wrote on January 5. “The system punished him way to [sic] hard for a paperwork crime.”

Kodak Black is yet to comment on Trump’s decision to commute his sentence. (NME)

Kangana reacts after Twitter Scientists discover 480-mn-year-old ‘missing link’ in starfish evolution trends #SuspendKanganaRanaut

account is suspended she would exit the virtual world and show the real Kangana Ranaut to the real world.

Responding to the hashtag #SuspendKanganaRanaut, the actress tweeted: “Anti nationals are trending #SuspendKanganaRanaut .... please do, when they suspended Rangs I came and made their lives even more miserable, now if they suspend

Epic Games announces $20 mn prize for Fortnite esports in 2021

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ortnite developer Epic Games has announced that the games competitive scene will have a prize pool of $20 million this year.

Last year’s total prize pool was $17 million and in 2019, it was a massive $30 million.

“Our overall goal is to create better consistency throughout the year and tie the 2021 seasons together for a more cohesive experience.

“For 2021, the pinnacle of Fortnite Competitive, Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS), will have $20 million in prizes - compared to $17 million in 2020 - and format tweaks also after considering player feedback,” the company said in a statement.

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The developer earlier said that all competitions would take place online and now revealed more details about the schedule: qualifiers will kick off on February 4 with the finals starting on March 12.

As for the prize pool, there will be four seasons of the FNCS in 2021, with a total of $3 million in prize money for each.

The remaining $8 million will serve as the prize money for these yet-to-bedetermined tournaments.

“We also have plans for mid and end of year competitions where we will bring together the top-performing FNCS players in each region in multiple competitive formats,” the developer added. (IANS)

features to assess how the fossil species was related to other members of the echinoderm family – a diverse group including sea cucumbers and starfish.

Their analysis indicated that only the food groove – which funnels food along each of the starfish’s arms – was present in the fossil

species. Everything outside this, the extra-axial body parts, was added later.

The study’s authors plan to expand their work in search of early echinoderms. “One thing we hope to answer in the future is why starfish developed their five arms,” said Dr Hunter. (Science Focus)

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE PARTY (NDPP) WOKHA REGION GET TOGETHER CUM CONSULTATIVE MEETING 480-million-year-old fossil which was found in Morocco

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480-million-yearold fossil found in Morocco is a “missing link” between modern-day starfish and their ancestors, a scientist has said.

The fossil, discovered in the Anti-Atlas mountain range, captures the early evolutionary steps of the animal at a time in Earth’s history when life suddenly expanded, a period known as the Ordovician Biodiversification Event.

The fossil species has an intricate design, with feathery arms akin to a lacework.

The origin of starfish has eluded scientists for decades but the new species is so well preserved that its body can finally be mapped in detail and its evolution understood, according to researchers.

The species, named Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis, is the earliest starfishlike animal, according to a study published in the journal Biology Letters.

“Finding this missing link to their ancestors is incredibly exciting,” said Evolutionary palaeoecologist Dr Aaron Hunter, of Cambridge University, one of the paper’s authors. “If you went back in time and put your head under the sea in the Ordovician, then you wouldn’t recognise any of the marine organisms – except the starfish, they are one of the first modern animals.”

The fossil lacks roughly 60 per cent of a modern starfish’s body plan, with its features instead a hybrid between those of a starfish and a sea lily or crinoid – not a plant but a wavyarmed filter feeder which fixes itself to the seabed via a cylindrical “stem”.

Scientists can now use the fossil as a template to work out how it evolved.

“The level of detail in the fossil is amazing – its structure is so complex that it took us a while to unravel its significance,” said Dr Hunter.

Wokha Region NDPP on 16th Jan. 2021 at Longjung Village held a get together cum consultative party meeting which was attended by Tali Pongen, President, Agri & Allied NDPP, TL Merry, General Secretary NDPP and convener in-charge of Wokha region, and L Meribemo Kinghen, Secretary NDPP Nagaland and CEB Member Wokha region.

Wokha Region NDPP on the meeting reaffirmed ‘Unflinching Support’ to the leadership of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and PDA Chairman & president NDPP Chingwang Konyak. NDPP Wokha region extend gratitude to Shri Mhathung Yanthan MLA & Advisor Horticulture & Border affairs GoN, and Shri. YM Humtsoe, Vice president NDPP for extending financial assistance towards the success of the programme.

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angana Ranaut has reacted to the hashtag that has been trending throughout Wednesday on Twitter, demanding the suspension of her verified account on the microblogging site.

Even as netizens felt Kangana’s account should be suspended owing to her tendency at alleged hate speech on Twitter, the actress reacted saying if her

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me will exit virtual world and in real world will show you real Kangana Ranautthe mother of all fathers #babbarsherni.”

Netizens are apparently disturbed by Kangana’s now-deleted tweet where she wrote: “Time to take their heads off.”

Allegedly, the tweet was aimed at the makers of the web series “Tandav”.

The recently released web series has courted controversy because sections of viewers felt it had allegedly insults Hindu gods.

Earlier in the day, Kangana tweeted informing that her account was temporarily restricted. The actress slammed the “liberal community” for allegedly reporting her account to Twitter and referred to the microblogging platform CEO Jack Dorsey as “chacha”.

Kangana had written: “Librus cried to their chacha @jack and got my account temporarily restricted. They are threatening me mera account/ virtual identity kabhi bhi desh keliye shaheed ho sakti hai, magar my reloaded desh bhakt version will reappear through my movies. Tumhara jeena dushwar karke rahungi.(They are threatening me that my account and my virtual identity might get martyred for the country anytime.

But my reloaded patriotic spirit will reappear through my movies. I will make your life miserable.”

(IANS)

Dr Hunter and coauthor Dr Javier OrtegaHer nandez, previously of Cambridge University and now based at Harvard University, examined the new species alongside a catalogue of hundreds of starfish-like animals.

They indexed all of their body structures and

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Leicester City blank Chelsea 2-0

Chelsea board target 'Germanspeaking' coach to replace Lampard

James Maddison kept his cool just before the half time interval to beat Chelsea keeper Edouard Mendy.

L o nd o n , J a n 2 0 (Agencies): Leicester City beat Chelsea 2-0 on Tuesday to go top of the Premier League, for 24 hours at least, thanks to goals from Wilfred Ndidi and James Maddison.

Leicester have 38 points from 19 games but Manchester United, on 37 points, can return to the top with a victory at Fulham later on Wednesday.

Chelsea's fifth defeat in eight matches dropped them to eighth place, nine points behind the leaders.

While Chelsea had 65% possession, it was the home side, champions in

2016, who looked the more dangerous throughout the game.

Leicester took a sixthminute lead when a shortcorner, which caught the visitors by surprise, was mis-hit by Harvey Barnes and fell to Ndidi on the edge of the box, whose shot flew in off the inside of the post.

Chelsea were awarded a penalty in the 38th minute when Jonny Evans brought down Christian Pulisic, but after a VAR review, the challenge was ruled to have occurred just outside the area and Mason Mount blasted the free kick over

16 yr-old boy from Nagaland shortlisted for MI trail camp

Khrievitso Kense

Dimapur, Jan 20 (NPN): 16-year old, leg spinner, Khrievitso Kense who made his debut at the recently held Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021 has been called up by the Mumbai Indians for trials.

Informing this on twitter, Nagaland Cricket Association (NCA) honorary secretary Hyunilo Anilo Khing said that Kense was shortlisted for trials by fivetime Indian Premier League winners, Mumbai Indians.

Meanwhile, according to Northeast Nation, this was his first Tour of his career representing team Nagaland in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy as a leg spin bowler.

He played four matches and took 7 wickets.

Khrievitso Kense son of Atuo Kense resident of Sovima Village, Dimapur, is an right arm leg spinner/ right handed batsman.

Kense started his career playing in Dimapur district Boys U-16 InterSchool Tournament 2017 & 2018. He also represented Nagaland Boys U-16 in Vijay Merchant Trophy and took 5 wickets against Uttar Pradesh in his debut match in the pre-quarter finals 2018 & 19.

On the same year, he attended Zonal Camp for North-East States and also got selected for Inter-Zonal Tournament in 2018 & 2019.

He also represented Nagaland boys U-16 in Vijay Merchant Trophy 2019 & 2020. Because of his best records in cricket career, he also represented Nagaland team in Senior Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy for the Plate Group at Chennai and took 7 wickets in 4 matches.

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the bar. Within three minutes Frank Lampard's side went from the brink of an equaliser to being 2-0 down when Chelsea's defence failed to deal with a high ball from Marc Albrighton, which fell to an unattended Maddison whose composed finish gave Edouard Mendy no chance.

Chelsea substitute Timo Werner had an effort ruled out for a narrow offside in the final stages but the Foxes were good value for their win -- the first Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers had managed in 16 matches against Chelsea.

Chelsea are looking at 'German-speaking' coaches to replace Frank Lampard as the pressure continues to ramp up on the Blues boss.

A limp sixth defeat of the season at Leicester on Tuesday night left Chelsea in eighth place, despite a summer spend of £230m that was expected to see them challenge for the title.

And the club's hierarchy are looking into the possibility of hiring a coach fluent in German to get the best out of their Bundesliga acquisitions.

Kai Havertz and Timo Werner have both struggled to impose themselves in the Premier League since big-money moves from the Bundesliga in the summer.

Werner joined from RB Leipzig for £53m, while Havertz cost the Stamford Bridge outfit £89m when joining from Bayer Leverkusen.

As previously reported

by Sportsmail, Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl is being considered by the Chelsea board, while Ralf Ragnick and Julian Naglesmann are also admired.

And the coaching ethic of those schooled in the Bundesliga is also a massive draw for the Blues.

As evidenced with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool,

Ralph Hasenhuttl

there is a tendency for German-reared managers to avoid run-ins with club hierarchies due to the structure at most Bundesliga clubs - that include directors of football.

With Chelsea embracing similar methods, it adds to the desire at Stamford Bridge to bring in a less political character, according to the Athletic. Indeed, they have had their hands burnt in recent years with infighting during the reigns of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte.

But with Roman Abramovich, who spent £230m in the summer on the likes of Havertz, Werner, Hakim Ziyech and Ben Chilwell, rarely an owner to show patience, Lampard backed himself to handle the heat.

He said: 'I am good at handling pressure. I took this job knowing there would be difficult times as it's not a club ready to compete.

Shakib takes 4 wkts on return as B’desh beat Windies in 1st ODI

Dhaka, Jan 20 (Agencies): Shakib Al Hasan on Wednesday made a stunning return to international cricket as Bangladesh defeated West Indies by six wickets in the first ODI of the threematch series here at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.

The hosts made a light work of the 123-run chase and the side wrapped up a victory by six wickets and with 97 balls to spare, ANI reported. Earlier, while bowling first, Shakib went on to record figures of 4-8 as the hosts bundled out Windies for 122 inside 33 overs. With this bowling performance, Shakib also recorded the best ODI bowling figures by a Bangladesh bowler against West Indies.

In 2019, Shakib was handed a 12-match ban for breaching the ICC’s anti-corruption code. The international body had charged Shakib for failing to report two approaches to engage in corrupt conduct during the tri-series and in an IPL match.

Chasing 123, Tamim Iqbal and Liton Das provided a solid start to the hosts as the duo put on 39 runs inside the first ten overs. West Indies finally got the breakthrough in the

Shakib Al Hasan returned in style after one year by taking four wickets for eight runs in just 7.2 overs. (ICC Twitter)

14th over as Akeal Hosein dismissed Das (14).

Soon after, Bangladesh found themselves in a spot of bother as the visitors managed to dismiss Najmul Hossain Shanto (1) and Tamim Iqbal (44), reducing the hosts to 83/3 in the 23rd over. Shakib also went on to play a knock of 19 runs, but with just 18 runs away from the target, Shakib ended up losing his wicket.

In the end, Mushfiqur Rahim (19*) and Mahmudullah (9*) guided the hosts to a victory by six wickets.

Earlier, asked to bat first, Windies just managed to post 122 on the board as Shakib and Hasan Mahmud scalped seven

wickets among themselves.

West Indies decided to give six players their debut in the first ODI and the lack of experience was clearly visible in their ranks.

No Windies batter was able to stay at the crease for a long time, and only Kyle Mayers (40) and Rovman Powell (28) were able to record respectable individual scores.

Both the sides will now lock horns in the second ODI on Friday.

BR IE F SCO RES : West Indies 122 (Kyle Mayers 40, Rovman Powell 28; Shakib Al Hasan 4-8); Bangladesh 125/4 (Tamim Iqbal 44, Shakib Al Hasan 19; Akeal Hosein 3-26).

(ANI)

57 players released by 8 IPL franchises ahead of auction New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS): Fifty-seven players have been released by eight IPL franchises ahead of the 2021 auction, to be held next month. They include Mumbai Indians' fast bowling great Lasith Malinga, former Rajasthan Royals captain Steve Smith, Chennai Super Kings off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, and Kings XI Punjab all-rounder Glenn Maxwell.

Royal Challengers Bangalore have released the most number of players, 10, though it is noteworthy that among them are wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel, who announced his retirement from all cricket recently, and veteran South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn, who had opted out of the IPL in the first week of this month.

Delhi Capitals said in a statement that they have traded all-rounders Harshal Patel and Daniel Sams to RCB. The Indian cricket board is yet to announce the auction date.

Full list of retained and released players: Rajasthan Royals: Retained players: Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Robin Uthappa Released Players: Steve Smith, Ankit Rajpoot, Oshane Thomas, Akash Singh, Varun Aaron, Tom Curran, Anirudha Joshi, Shashank Singh Delhi Capitals: Re t a i n e d : S h i k h a r Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, R Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Avesh Khan, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes Released: Mohit Sharma, Tushar Deshpande,

Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane, Alex Carey, Jason Roy Royal Challengers: Retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Josh Philippe, Kane Richardson, Pawan Deshpande Released: Chris Morris, Aaron Finch, Moeen Ali, Isuru Udana, Dale Steyn (opted out), Shivam Dube, Umesh Yadav, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Mann, Parthiv Patel (retired) Mumbai Indians: Retained: Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock,

Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan Released: Lasith Malinga, Mitch McClenaghan, James Pattinson, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sherfane Rutherford, Prince Balwant Rai, Digivijay Deshmukh Kolkata Knight Riders: Retained: Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Kar thik, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna,

Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Ali Khan, Tim Seifert Released: Tom Banton, Chris Green, Siddhesh Lad, Nikhil Naik, M Siddharth, Harry Gurney Kings XI Punjab: Retained: KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel Released: Glenn Maxwell, Karun Nair, Hardus Viljoen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Sheldon Cottrell, Jimmy Neesham, Krishnappa Gowtham, Tajinder Singh Chennai Super Kings: Retained: MS Dhoni, Imran Tahir, Lungi Ngidi, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati

Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, N Jagadeesan, Mitchell Santner, KM Asif, Shardul Thakur, R Sai Kishore, Faf du Plessis, Dwayne Bravo, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran, Karn Sharma Released: Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Piyush Chawla, Shane Watson (retired), Murali Vijay, Monu Kumar Singh SunRisers Hyderabad: Retained: David Warner, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddharth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Shahbaz Nadeem Released: Bavanka Sandeep, Fabian Allen, Sanjay Yadav, Billy Stanlake, Prithvi Raj

Indian cricket’s unlikely new heroes

New Delhi, Jan 20 (AFP): After India ended Australia’s 32-year unbeaten streak at Brisbane’s Gabba ground to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series, we look at the injury-hit team’s unlikely heroes.

Mohammed Siraj: tragedy to triumph

Shardul Thakur: ticket to ride

It was also the third-highDespite grieving his father, who died just est score by an Indian number before the series, the 26-year-old emerged as one eight in Australia. of India’s new stars. Thrust into the limelight after Growing up in a village in a succession of injuries to front-line bowlers, Siraj Maharashtra, Thakur, 29, had rose to the challenge with a maiden five-wicket to commute in crowded local haul in Brisbane, only his third Test. Siraj’s father, trains for two-and-a-half hours an auto-rickshaw driver from the southern city of every day to chase his cricketHyderabad, always dreamed of seeing his son play ing dreams. for India, but he passed away on November 20.

He would set out early and Siraj stayed in Australia and missed his fareturn home late. For one year, ther’s last rites despite an offer to fly back home. he stayed at his coach’s small The image of Siraj welling up when India’s national apartment in Mumbai because anthem was played in Sydney went viral. he could not afford any other “The boy has become a man on this tour. Siraj, accommodation. leader of the attack in his first Test series and he Playing his first Test of “We didn’t take any monhas led from the front,” said former India opener the tour, Thakur steadied India ey from him. I got him admitVirender Sehwag. with a valuable 123-run first- ted in my school, and Shardul Washington Sundar: defiant on debut innings stand with Sundar and stayed with us for a year,” said the coach, Dinesh Lad. Australia were in the driver’s seat after also top-scored with 67. they ran through India’s top-order on day Shubman Gill: farming the strike three. But in walked Sundar, a 21-year-old The opener from India’s agriculTest debutant who hit a defiant half-century.

Sundar also took three wickets, including the tural state of Punjab came in as a replacement for Prithvi Shaw and struck key scalp of Steve Smith.

91 on the final day to pave the way for Sundar became the toast of Indian media India’s stunning win. Gill, 21, spent a and when his father was asked about his son’s good amount of his childhood in his unusual name, he revealed he had christened home village and was fascinated to him after a friend who helped the struggling see his grandfather, father and uncles family buy uniforms and pay school fees. working in the fields. It was in the He even bought books for Sundar and sprawling fields that Gill started playtook him on his bicycle for training. ing cricket with farm hands bowling to “My mentor was called Washington. He him. “I can tell you if he had not been helped me a lot and I kept my son’s name after a cricketer, he would have become a him as a way to show my gratitude,” Sundar’s farmer. He still has an interest in farmfather told local media. ing,” said his father, Lakhwinder.

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Gorkha Students’ Union Dimapur and Dimasa Students’Union Nagaland before the friendly football match at Singrijan Village ground on January 17. Gorkha Students’ Union Dimapur won the match 4-3 after the match ended 2-2 draw in the regulated time.

Rijiju inaugurates kho-kho camp

New Delhi, Jan 20 (PTI): Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday inaugurated a kho-kho national coaching camp to pick the best players through a scientific evaluation programme.

Kho-Kho Federation of India (KKFI) and Ultimate Kho-Kho (UKK) introduced a High Performance Assessment and Scientific Analysis and Evaluation Programme called ”Rise in Sports Excellence” for the first time in the country, a release said.

“I have always believed sports science is the future. To make India a sporting powerhouse, each

sport needs to be developed, especially indigenous sports like Kho Kho which is a speed-reliant sport,” Rijiju said.

“The federation and Ultimate Kho Kho have done a commendable job in putting together such an exhaustive plan in such a short time. Indian sports need the backing of corporates,” he added.

During the 30-day camp, 138 players, including 18 women, from across the country will be monitored by and analysed by vastly experienced experts at Manav Rachna Sports Science Centre in Faridabad and SGT University in

Gurugram.

The findings and parameters ranging from sports physiotherapy, rehabilitation, injury management, biomechanics, biokinetics, sports performance analysis, nutritional guidance and posture corrections will be put into action.

“This camp will be a milestone for Sports Science and Technology in developing our players in many ways. Our motive will be to create a large pool of players who can be developed into world-beaters and ready for the upcoming challenges,” KKFI President Sudhanshu Mittal said.

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Dimapur thrash Kma by 9 wkts; enter final D I M A P U R , JA N 2 0 (NPN): Dimapur registered its third successive win, defeating Kohima by nine wickets in its final league match (Group -A) to enter the finals of the 1st G.Rio Memorial U-19 (Boys) Inter-District Tournament at Nagaland Cricket Stadium, Sovima here on Wednesday.

With today’s victory, Dimapur, who won all the league matches topped Group-A and qualified for the finals. The league matches of Group-B (Peren, Wokha, Zunheboto and Mon) will start from January 22 and the winner of the group will play Dimapur in the final on January 26.

Electing to bat first after winning the toss, Kohima were restricted to 81/9 in 22 overs.

Z ay i e K i k h i a n d Daghachu Thupithor scored 17 and 15 runs for Kohima. Keduowhetuo and Renben N. Odyuo claimed three and two wickets for Dimapur.

In reply, Dimapur overhauled the target in 8.2 overs. Yugandhar and Sujal remained not out on

Players of Dimapur and officials at Nagaland Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.

36 and 10 runs respectively.

For Kohima, Kelhousilie Zaputou took one wicket.

Earlier, in the first match of the day, Mokokchung thrashed Tuensang

by 108 runs but failed to qualify for the final.

Electing to bat first after winning the toss, Mokokchung scored a huge total of 216 runs with

both openers- Nripen Rai (108*) and Mughavi (100*) scoring centuries. Chasing the target, Tuensang were restricted for 108/9 in 22 overs. Rajesh Das (30*) and

Monu (28) were the major run scorers. Purtongzuk took three wickets while Neizekho and Temsulong claimed two wickets each for Mokokchung.

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Prannoy stuns Christie in Thailand Open Ban g ko k , Jan 2 0 (PTI/IANS): Indian shuttler H S Prannoy showed nerves of steel to stun world number seven Jonatan Christie and enter the men’s singles second round at the Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 tournament here on Wednesday.

A former top-10 player, Prannoy recovered from a game down to outwit sixth seed Christie 18-21 21-16 23-21 in a thrilling contest that clocked an hour and 15 minutes. It is Prannoy’s first win against the Indonesian in last four attempts.

Prannoy, who had failed to complete the job after doing all the hard work against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia last week, seemed determined to never give up. His stroke-play was a treat to watch. The 28-year-old from Kerala had spent two weeks stressing over his physical and mental health after being down with COVID-19 nearly two months ago.

The infection left him with pain in his ribcage even though everything looked normal in the tests. He could resume training only in the second week of December but again had to go through the ordeal of a false positive result ahead of the Yonex Thailand Open last week.

Prannoy and Sameer Verma

H S Prannoy

will carry India’s charge in the men’s singles after the withdrawal of fellow colleagues B Sai Praneeth and Kidambi Srikanth. Praneeth and his roommate Srikanth were forced to pullout after the former tested positive for COVID-19.

Praneeth tests Covid-19 positive, Srikanth withdraws

Indian shuttler B. Sai Praneeth has been withdrawn from the Thailand Open after testing positive for the Coronavirus, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) has informed.

Praneeth’s result came on Monday and he will now be in the hospital for at least 10 days. “BWF can confirm India player Sai Praneeth B. has tested positive for Covid19 and has been withdrawn from the TOYOTA Thailand

Open,” the BWF statement on Tuesday evening said.

The world number 14 thereby missed his firstround match against Daren Liew from Malaysia who has now been given a walkover. The badminton body further informed that Kidambi Srikanth has also been withdrawn from the tournament and is in quarantine due to his close contact with Praneeth.

“In line with BWF protocols, Kidambi has been withdrawn from the TOYOTA Thailand Open and is in strict self-quarantine. However, Kidambi tested negative on Monday’s test and has returned negative results since arriving in Thailand.

Kidambi tested negative for Monday’s test and has returned negative results since arriving in Thailand,” BWF informed.

Kerala fight back to beat Bengaluru 2-1 Aizawl beat Gokulam 2-0 for first win in I-League New Delhi, Jan 20 (Agencies): A late injury-time goal from Rahul KP handed Kerala Blasters a dramatic comeback 2-1 win overheated rivals Bengaluru FC in the Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium on Wednesday.

An acrobatic first-half effort from Cleiton Silva (24’) handed Bengaluru the lead before substitute Lalthathanga Khawlhring netted an equaliser (73’). The game looked to be heading for a draw before Rahul scored a brilliant individual effort in injury time, News18 reported. Despite starting the game better, Kibu Vicuna’s men lacked the final ball and was promptly punished by a Bengaluru goal that came arguably against the run of play.

Bengalur u promptly punished them for not making the most of their opportunities. Rahul Bheke’s long throw from the right was not properly dealt with by the Kerala defence and it fell to Cleiton, whose acrobatic volley gave Kerala keeper Albino Gomes no chance.

As was the case with the

Kerala Blasters FC players great each other after their win over Bengaluru FC. (ISL)

first half, it was Kerala who started the second period brighter. And similar to the first period, their failure to find that final pass meant that for all their bluster, they had nothing to show for it.

Their first chance came soon after the restart with

Juanan brought down Lalthathanga just outside the box. Lalthathanga took the free-kick himself but only succeeded in smashing it straight into the wall.

H oweve r, h e m a d e amends for it, albeit in contentious circumstances.

At 13th spot, Pant is now world’s best-ranked keeper in Tests New Delhi, Jan 20 (PTI): India’s Rishabh Pant became the top-ranked wicket-keeper batsman in the world after his sensational series-winning 89run knock in the Brisbane match pushed him to a career-best 13th spot in the ICC Test batting rankings, issued on Wednesday.

Pant, who won many admirers for his fearless and mature batting, has 691 points in his kitty.

South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (677) is the next best wicket-keeper batsman in the list in the 15th position.

Australia batsman Marnus Labuschagne’s first-innings century in Brisbane took him past India skipper Virat Kohli (862 points) to third position with a career-best 878 rating points. Kohli missed the action as he was on paternity leave.

Young India opener Shubman Gill continued his upward trajectory, moving up from 68th to 47th spot after a crucial 91 in the second innings of the fourth Test, which India won by three wickets on

Rishabh Pant

Tuesday.

Middle-order mainstay Cheteshwar Pujara moved up one place to seventh after his dogged effort, while Mohammad Siraj jumped 32 places to 45th after taking six wickets in the match, including a five-wicket haul in the second innings.

Debutant Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur too gained in rankings following their useful contributions with both bat and ball.

Washington entered the rankings in 82nd (batting) and 97th (bowling) positions, while Thakur re-entered the batting list in 113th position and bowling list in 65th position.

Au s t r a l i a c a p t a i n Tim Paine moved up three spots to 42nd after scores of 50 and 27 while fast bowler Josh Hazlewood leapfrogged New Zealand’s Tim Southee to the fourth spot after grabbing six wickets in the match, including a haul of five for 57 in the first innings.

England’s Joe Root has returned to the top five with his highest rating points tally (738) in two years after scoring a first-innings 228 to help his team win the first Test against Sri Lanka by seven wickets in Galle.

Root has advanced six places, overtaking the likes of Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Pujara in the process.

Bengaluru keeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu went down after using his body to block a powerful Gary Hooper shot from close range. With Gurpreet still on the ground, Sandeep Singh fired the ball back into the box. After a melee, the ball finally broke free for Lalthathanga, who netted the equaliser.

Both teams pressed hard for the winner, getting freekicks from threatening positions that eventually came to nothing. Bengaluru came close to scoring, with substitute Leon Augustin finding himself clean through on goal in injury time. However, he failed to get the ball past the onrushing Albino.

There was still time for a late winner, though. After Bengaluru struck the post, a rapid counter-attack from the men in yellow saw Rahul sprint into the Bengaluru half. Instead of trying to find a teammate, he took the shot himself and succeeded in beating Gurpreet for a dramatic winner.

THURSDAY’S MATCH ATK Mohun Bagan Vs Chennaiyin: 7:30 pm

Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS): Aizawl FC grabbed their first win of the I-League with a 2-0 verdict against Gokulam Kerala FC at the Mohun Bagan training ground here on Wednesday. Malsawmzuala and Lalrammawia were the goal scorers.

Aizawl FC started the match on an attacking note but despite dominating possession and chances created, Aizawl FC lacked could not prise open the Gokulam Kerala defence.

On the other side, Gokulam Kerala

FC relied on counter-attacks, but did not get a clear sniff of Aizawl’s goal.

The breakthrough for Aizawl FC came in the 40th minute when Malsawmzuala was brought down inside the box after a cross from the rightwing. The forward slotted it comfortably from the spot to give Aizawl a solitary goal lead. In the second half, Gokulam Kerala FC dominated possession and searched hungrily for the equaliser, committing men in attack to salvage a point from the match.

In the 69th minute, Philip Adjah was handed a golden opportunity to score after he was put through on goal by a sublime through ball from Jitin. Adjah, shot straight down the goalkeeper as he made an easy save to deny him from close range.

Aizawl FC killed the game in the 76th minute when Lalrammawia connected from a corner kick and side-footed the ball into the back of the net and the full-time scoreline read 2-0.

Tennis cricket tournament DIMAPUR, JAN 20 (NPN): The first Champions Trophy Open Tennis Cricket Tournament (T-20) will be held from February 6, 2021 onwards at local ground Chumukedima Town. The tourney is organized by Nagamese Baptist Fellowship Sports Ministry Chumukedima village on the theme “Pursue oneness”. The champions will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000, runners-up – Rs 25,000 and different individual awards. Forms will be available at G Sports Chumukedima, Kiran Sports Dimapur and Mercy Photoshop, near Blackberry Showroom Kohima. The entry fee is Rs. 4000 while the last date of submission is January 31, 2021 and further details can be contacted 8132896500 or 7085836354.

3rd Aphuyemi Cup

DIMAPUR, JAN 20 (NPN): The 3rd edition of Aphuyemi Cup will be held on January 27 at Ghatashi Town based on “Muku Bidi Jukucho” “Twenty four dream”.

SDO, PWD (R&B), Dimapur division, Er. Nagashe Swu will grace the event as chief invitee.

The tournament carries a total cash prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh.

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