January 22, 2018

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Kovind okays disqualification After Jacob, Patton; Chishi also likely to join BJP NEW DELHI, JAN 21 (PTI/IANS): In a major setback to AAP, President Ram Nath Kovind has disqualified 20 of its MLAs in Delhi for holding offices of profit, a move the party described as “unconstitutional” and “dangerous for democracy”. Kovind gave his assent yesterday to the recommendation by the Election Commission (EC).

Reacting to the development, senior AAP leader Ashutosh said, “President’s order to disqualify AAP MLAs is unconstitutional and dangerous for democracy.”

The Election Commission (EC) had on Friday recommended to Kovind that the 20 MLAs were liable for disqualification for holding offices of profit between March 13, 2015, and September 8, 2016.

AAP MLAs were appointed parliamentary secretaries and this was described by petitioner Prashant Patel as them holding offices of profit.

The Commission had said that it is basing its opinion on judicial pronounce-

Om Prakash Rawat appointed new CEC New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): Om Prakash Rawat was, on Sunday, appointed the next chief election commissioner, the Union law ministry said today, a day before the present incumbent Achal Kumar Joti demits charge.

Former finance secretary, Ashok Lavasa was also appointed as an election commissioner to fill up the vacancy that would have arisen in the three-member Election Commission after Joti’s retirement tomorrow.

Sunil Arora is the other commissioner in the poll body. Rawat will take over as the CEC on January 23, a law ministry notification said. His tenure will end in December this year and Arora, the senior most commissioner after the CEC, is expected to take over as the head of the poll panel as per convention.

Arora will retire in April, 2021, and will oversee the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as the CEC. Lavasa will demit office in October, 2022 and will be the CEC after Arora.

An EC or CEC has a tenure of six years. But if he turns 65 before that, he demits office.

Born on December 2, 1953, Rawat is a former Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer. His appointment will come into effect from the day he assumes office, a law ministry statement said here.

This is it!

“I’ve decided on my first choice for party ticket but in a fix on which party should be my second choice?”

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ments of the past, the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act and the Constitution. The AAP had also approached the Delhi High Court seeking a stay on EC’s recommendation. On Friday, the Delhi High Court had refused to pass any interim order of protection to AAP MLAs from being disqualified. If AAP fails to get reprieve from the courts, Delhi will have bypolls for the 20 seats and the AAP’s strength will go down to 46 from 66 in the 70-member House. AAP MLA, National Spokesperson and Co-Convenor of Overseas Affairs, Adarsh Shastri tweeted “We will approach the Hon’ble High Court against this extremely unconstitutional, unethical & biased decision of the EC. If required we will go the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

The Constitution is supreme & is the law of the land & has been protected by our Judiciary, time & again.”

The BJP Delhi unit on Sunday welcomed President Ram Nath Kovind’s approval to disqualify 20 AAP MLAs in the office-of-profit

case, saying the decision had contributed to protection of democratic values.

“The Delhi BJP welcomes the decision taken by the President to disqualify the 20 MLAs,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Delhi unit President Manoj Tiwari said here.

“The people of Delhi feel that these AAP MLAs must return all financial benefits they have taken after the date on which a circular on their appointment and facilities was issued,” Tiwari added.

Congress on Sunday accused the BJP and the Election Commission for delaying the disqualification of 20 MLAs of Delhi’s ruling AAP in the office of profit case to help the party gets its nominees elected to the Rajya Sabha.

“The Election Commission and the BJP delayed the disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs to help them.

Hitting out at the AAP, he said: “They made 21 Parliamentary Secretaries whereas as per rules, only seven are allowed.”

NSCN (I-M) responds to kidnapping allegation DIMAPUR, JAN 21 (NPN): NSCN (I-M) “secretary of law & order “, Khekuto Jakhalu, has issued a rejoinder to the reports that appeared in local dailies, on Sunday, of two NSCN (I-M) cadres attached to him, being arrested on charges of kidnapping one Subash Kumar Jain, proprietor of Amar Agency, Garment Shop at MP Road.

Calling the allegations “phony” and “unsubstantiated, unjustified and erroneously levelled” against him and his boys, he said that the two arrested, had been sent by him “to call Subash only for enquiry” on complaints received from the public.

According to Khekuto, as per complaints received

by Crime Cell, he called Subash for enquiry and “left him after a while.” On detailed enquiry, Subash had willingly admitted that he was using misappropriated price tags to sell Rs. 70 MRP goods for Rs. 100, the rejoinder claimed.

The rejoinder further said that they later discovered to their “utter surprise” that FIR was lodged by one Rongsen, ASI, East Police

Station, Dimapur.

Khekuto further alleged that on thorough inquiry, they found that all “these fraud, cheating and daylight robbery” was carried out under the shelter and protection of “one Ronsen, ASI, East Police Station, Dimapur for he was handsomely paid on monthly basis.”

He asked the police to check the CCTV footage to ascertain if Subash was dragged into the reported car or if he had willingly got in “as he was formally called for enquiry.” He further asserted that anyone can confirm if this was a case of kidnapping or a case of Subash being called for enquiry and being released unhurt within a few hours, by calling Subash’s wife at ph. no. 7005459529.

Khekuto added that it was painful that police personnel involved themselves in daylight robbery and give security to cheaters of the public. He asserted that stopping these practices was not the duty of the NSCN alone and appealed to interested civil societies to come forward and help stop these practices.

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JAN 21 (NPN): In a significant development, the BJP in Nagaland appears to attracting recently resigned MLAs including leaders of other parties during the past fortnight.

On Saturday, Independent MLA from Ghaspani-I constituency Jacob Zhimomi resigned from the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly and later joined the BJP. It may be recalled the former home minister Y. Patton who resigned from the NPF party and assembly joined the BJP. Patton was elected in 2008 on BJP ticket but defected to NPF in 2009 through merger.

According to BJP sources, the party is to organise a programme on Tuesday to welcome MLAs or members of other parties who will be joining the BJP. With the NPF in doldrums over the issue of party tickets to its sitting MLAs, there have been speculations that even chief minister T.R. Zeliang along with around 30 MLAs could

choose to go their own ways in the event of most of them not getting party tickets.

CHISHI : On Sunday, former chief minister K.L. Chishi held a press conference at his residence, where he indicated that he was going to join a national party.

Though not saying it yet, Chishi did not deny it could be the BJP. Veteran politician and chief minister for a brief one-month period during 1990, K.L Chishi, who resigned from Congress Saturday, said he would join another national party and contest the assembly elections 2018 from his former 32 A/C Atoizu assembly constituency. Chishi had won the 2008 assembly election from Dimapur-I with Congress ticket.

Though Chishi kept it confidential perhaps till he formally joined it, he did not deny when asked if it was the BJP. Chishi said he would join a national party as only a national party could bring a solution to the protracted Naga political issue.

“National party with

K.L. Chishi with well wishers at his residence. (NP) a daring determination can bring about final solution, that is honourable and acceptable to all the Nagas”, Chishi said.

According to Chishi, only national parties like Indian National Congress (INC) and BJP, could bring a solution to the Naga political issue. However, he said INC had no determination to solve the “Naga political issue between the Nagas and Indians”.

“But the BJP has the guts to initiate and finalize the solution between the Government of India and the people of Nagaland”, he added. Therefore, Chishi was of the view that there was no point in running with Congress whose dream cannot be “relinquished”

and that Nagas would be sailing only in dreams.

On the other hand, Chishi also said that a regional party cannot bring the solution either as the ruling regional party NPF in the state was only interested in fooling the people by making false promises during electioneering.

He recalled how the NPF party had fooled the people in 2008 by making false promises in the assembly that it would bring a solution within six months.

When the question was raised in 2012 again, he said NPF claimed that the solution to the Naga political issue was going in the “right direction”.

In this regard, the former Congress leader won-

dered whether there was an end to the “right direction.”

He also claimed that the ruling NPF party at the state has been mired in all kinds of corruption that were beyond human imagination.

He said that the last five years of the current tenure of the NPF led government has brought the state into turmoil, where the state exchequer had been emptied with no sign of development, students with unpaid scholarships, teachers/government servants not paid their due salaries and the authorities at the helm of affairs robbing the funds meant for the people and development. He claimed that all this money has been amassed and spent at Kaziranga by those in power for their selfish ends to topple “this or that government”.

At the moment, Chishi said, Congress due to poor leadership in the organization and also infighting among themselves over the leadership failed to take advantage of the situation when there was infighting within the ruling parties.

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Misuse alleged in LADP sanction usage ‘Congress-free’ is to be D I M A P U R , JA N 2 1 (NPN): Anomalies have been revealed on the sanction and usage of Local Area Development Programme (LADP) funds, totalling up to 7.5 lakhs, under District Planning Machinery, Mokokchung, Nagaland.

A joint statement from para-legal volunteers, S. T. Yapang Lkr and Odi Jamir said, as per a PIO reply to an RTI at 22 Arkakong AC under Local Area Development Programme, on sanction/ usage of money, they personally visited the areas where the work against the sanctioned money was supposed to have been carried out, but could find no work in progress.

They alleged that, in regard to the non conduct of work for sanctioned funds, the response they got from the public was “Local Area Development Programme money is party money and it does not matter whoever acquires it.”

To this they had replied that in order to verify the legality of withdrawing money without doing the

actual work the money was sanctioned for, by claiming it was “party money”, they would lodge an FIR with the police.

The press release stated that they will lodge the FIR on January 22 including an FIR against the misuse of National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) funds (As reported on January 16). Lkr and Jamir said it was discouraging to learn that even the deceased were not spared for selfish motives let alone the cases relating to people with handicaps and senior citizens which also remained to be discussed.

Laying down some figures from the RTI reply, the release stated, under 22 Arkakong AC for the year 2014-15, at Changtongya, Imti and party were allotted Rs. 1 lakh for ‘Renovation of Log Drum shed’.

According to Lkr and Jamir, people of the village confirmed no work was done on either one of the two log drums in the village neither did they know of the name of the beneficiary.

They also said, in the same village for the years

2015-16, Rs. 1 lakh was allotted for ‘Construction of culvert near Tia’s residence’, and for 201617, Rs. 50000 allotted for ‘Renovation of drainage near Nungsang’s residence’, but the locations could not be identified.

Further, according to them, at Unger village five persons were given Rs. 1 lakh each for ‘Horti farming’ but the villagers did not know the names of the beneficiaries or their father’s names.

As the identities of the people executing the work and those of the beneficiaries under 22 Arkakong AC were unclear, the duo said they would hand all the cases over to the police.

They also stated that Nagaland Police being the police department with the highest percentage of personnel as per the state’s average population, they were handing the cases over to the police with great trust.

They further revealed that cases of departments that no one had heard of will also be exposed soon.

rid of ‘Cong culture’: Modi

New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said his slogan of ‘Congress-free India’ was not about eliminating the main opposition party politically but about ridding the country of the “Congress culture” which he termed as casteist, dynastic, corrupt and involving total control over power among other ills.

Maintaining that the Congress has been the “main pillar” of politics in the country that spread its culture to all political parties, he told Times Now in an interview that his call for “Congress mukt” or ‘Congress-free India’ was “symbolic” and he wants even the Congress to be free of the “Congress culture”, according to the transcript provided by the channel.

He also attacked the opposition party for its objection to the triple talaq bill in the Rajya Sabha, saying instead of indulging in vote bank politics it must get out of this “regressive mindset”.

Modi wondered if politics has fallen so low that it cannot look at the legislation from the point of view of

women’s empowerment.

The prime minister dwelt at length for the first time on his “Congress-mukt Bharat” slogan, which he had coined during his 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign. The slogan became a popular political weapon, after the Congress was reduced to a tally of 44 seats in the Lok Sabha, and subsequently lost power in many states to the BJP. It is now in power only in Punjab, Puducherry, Karnataka and northeastern states of Meghalaya and Mizoram.

Elections have already been announced for Meghalaya in February.

Modi said in the interview that even though the slogan became famous, the sentiment behind it could not spread effectively, as things are often said in a hurry in the flow of politics. Modi said that when he spoke of the ‘Congress-free India’, it was not limited to the Congress as an organisation or its particular unit. The Congress at the time of the freedom struggle also had a culture which inspired the youth to sacrifice their lives for the country, he said.

DRFCB wants suspension bridge built immediately Grenade explosion kills two in Manipur DIMAPUR, JAN 21 (NPN): Dhansiri River Flood Control Board (DRFCB) has appealed to the Urban Development Department to expedite construction of the suspension bridge at Dhansiri River (Purana Bazar) immediately in the interests of the general public.

A press release from DRFCB chairman, Hokheto Kiba said that the appeal was in favour of the “five to ten thousand students and public” who cross the narrow bamboo bridge daily, which could wash away come summer.

Recalling that several organizations, including student bodies, had made appeals on this issue, DRFCB asked the Urban Development Department to give

Correspondent

I M P H A L , J an 2 1 : Two children were killed and two others critically wounded in an accidental grenade explosion in Noney district of Manipur on Sunday.

The tragic incident happened at Subunglong part-1 village under Khoupum police station of Noney district this morning, around 9.30 am.

The children were playing in the courtyard of the house of a former pastor behind a village church when they found the hand grenade and accidentally The makeshift bamboo bridge over Dhansiri River at Purana Bazaar. set it off, police said.

The children were left reasons at the earliest why They also requested issue before the public had construction work had been the District Administration to face the repercussions of behind to play in the courtstopped or suspended. to take serious note of the the authorities’ inaction. yard while their parents

and guardians were attending the Sunday prayer services.

“The children were found lying in a pool of blood when villagers attending prayer ser vice rushed to the spot after hearing a loud explosion,” the elders said.

Nine-year-old, Shahatgam Kamei (9) son of late Ringlungpou, died on the spot while five-yea r-old Silas Kamei, son of Khuaithoalung Kamei, succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital.

Doctors at RIMS (Regional Institute of Medical Sciences) hospital, Imphal, where they were evacuated, declared the boy (Silas Kamei) brought dead.

The two girls were identified as Zaojianthuliu Kamei (2), daughter of Gaijaini Kamei, and Guillianei Kamei (4), daughter of Gairihpou Kamei.

Doctors attending the two girls with multiple splinter injuries stated that the injuries were severe but the children were stable.

Police are still clueless about the origins of the hand grenade. A case has been registered and investigation has been launched, the police said.

Villagers suspect that the hand grenade might have been lying there for a long time recalling a fierce gun battle that took place between militants and security forces in the area in 2014.

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DLSC, MCC, EM meetings held in various places

DC and DEO Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan and other officials at first meeting of DLSC on January 20. (DIPR)

Officials at the co-ordination meeting on Election Expenditure Monitoring Team at Wokha on January 20. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: The first meeting of the District Level Standing Committee (DLSC) and Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and Expenditure Monitoring (EM) was held with the various NGOs representatives and political parties for the upcoming 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly Election under Kohima district on January 20 at DC conference hall, Kohima.

According to DIPR report, chairing the meeting, the deputy commissioner and district election officer Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan said the meeting was convened to discuss about the various

offences under the election law such as bribing of voters, intimidation of voters, impersonation of voters, canvassing within hundred meter of polling stations, holding public meeting during 48 hours prior to the closing of the poll, the transport and conveyance of voters and from polling station. He added that no party or candidate should indulge in any activity which may aggravate existing differences or create mutual hatred or cause tension between different tribes and communities, religious or linguistic and no political party or candidate will be permitted to make used of any individual’s

election related issues and responsibilities. He further requested the members to use (suvidha) which was the online permission management portal where the candidates could apply for permission for meetings, rallies along with NOC from concerned authorities to the concerned ROs . He appealed to every candidate to open a separate dedicated bank account for the election expenditure monitoring at least one day prior to the date of nomination. He requested all the political parties to extend best support and co-operation as it was a constitutional duty of every one to conduct a

free and fair election.

SP Kohima, Aotemsu also sought co-operation from the various NGOs, political parties and public for a peaceful conduct of election and assured to provide adequate security arrangement during the election process.

The nodal officer EEM and assistant commissioner, Shashank Pratap Singh also highlighted briefly on the Election Expenditure Monitoring.

Briefing on the model code of conduct, EAC Weku Zhiemi stated that all political parties and candidate should avoid scrupulous activities which were corrupt practices and

Kithagha Public Organisation change of guard DIMAPUR: The Kithagha public of Chunlikha, Nsunyu & Likhwenchu villagers under the aegis of Kithagha GB Union at the request of the Kithagha citizen held a general public meeting on January 20, at Nsunyu village council hall.

In press release, session chairman Heshu Tep and session secretary Yaskha Magh stated that during the meeting, house dissolved the present Kithagha Public Organisation (KPO) executive body following resignation of five office bearers out of seven and the general public having lost confidence on the present team who had held the office for more

than nine years. Subsequently, Kithagha public opted for re-organisation of KPO and accordingly elected new team of office bearers and executive members for a term of three year tenure (2018-2021).

The team would be led by Vitsolie Tep as president, Ketsukha Kath as general secretary along with six other members and thirteen executive members.

Meanwhile, house along with newly elected office bearers adopted drafted KPO constitution with slight modification and changes to inculcate ownership, accountability and transparency to the public.

land, building, compound, wall etc. without the owner’s permission for erecting flag-staffs, suspending banners etc.

WOKHA: A co-ordination meeting for implementation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for Wokha district comprising of Election Expenditure Monitoring Cell (EEMC), Election Expenditure Monitoring Control Room (EEMCR) & call centre, assistant expenditure observers, video surveillance team, video viewing team, accounting team, flying squads, static surveillance team and media certification & monitoring cell was held at DC conference hall,

Wokha on January 20.

DIPR reported that the meeting was chaired

by SDO (C) Wokha, T. Lanusenla Longkumer, wherein she apprised all the team members about their roles and responsibilities to be carried out during the election process. She also reminded all concerned officials to remain in their respective place of assigned duties and perform their responsibilities with sincerity.

Now that the Model Code of Conduct is in-force, she urged all officials to strictly follow the laid down guidelines for the smooth conduct of election.

PUGHOBOTO: Meeting for all the recog-

nized political parties was held with the ADC & DEO Pughoboto, Avelu Ruho at the ADC office chamber on January 20. DEO has apprised the party representatives under 13 Pughoboto A/C that everything would be enforced according to the rules of General Election Model of Conduct and direct them to inform their respective candidates to maintain separate bank account for transaction which was going to be monitored by the election observer. A team of income tax would be in station during the election period, she informed. Every candidate should not incur expenditure of Rs. 20 lakh and above. She informed that for organizing rally/campaign permission has to be taken from the authority.

Hiring of everything likes chairs, flower boats, sound systems, tents, banners, hiring of vehicles, posture and others items would be fixed at a reasonable rate, she said. The entire item fixation for election purpose would be issued to all the parties in time. Both SDO (C), Tiayanger and SDPO, Vekhrolo Koza also explained how the political parties have to follow the guidelines of the MCC. Meanwhile, a meeting of all election teams under Pughoboto was held at the DB Customary Court Pughoboto which was conducted by SDO (C) Tiayanger on January 20. SDO Civil Pughoboto explained the MCC -General Election

2018 and asked them to be available in station 24x 7 and report to the official in-charge. SDPO Vekhrolo briefed the static surveillance team and flying squad to follow the MCC rules and also informed that so far two check points have been set up, one at Tsaphimi and the other at Kashanyu junction, which would have CCTV and web casting facility.

KIPHIRE: In pursuance of the Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland Kohima, Kiphire district level Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) has been constituted for the forth coming 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly Election 2018. The members include Mohammed Ali Shihab, DC & DEO as chairman, Meyazungba Jamir SDO (C) & AROmember, Sangpangchang Longkumer EAC Longmatra member, Deepak Kumar DIO Kiphire member, Tsipise Antony journalist member and N. Yapan Konyak DPRO Kiphire as member secretary. The MCMC would be scrutinizing and verifying all advertisements by individuals contesting candidates of political party, beside discharging the functions of certification of advertisements and checking of paid news, would also assist in enforcement of Media related regulations under the Representation of People Act as per the existing guidelines.

NSCN (I-M) condolence DIMAPUR: The NSCN/ GPRN has deeply mourned the untimely demise of ‘(L) lieutenant’ Khamjailung Gabriel Kamei, Army No. AX-40152, son of (L) Albert Kamei from Luangchum/Awangkhul village (Zeliangrong Region) of the general head quarters (GHQ), Naga army.

NSCN (I-M) through its MIP stated that that Kamei succumbed to his

injury at the Senapati district hospital after he met an accident while in the line of duty on January 18. The release stated that Kamei had enrolled for the national service on October 1, 2005 and remained loyal, dedicated to the national service until his demise.

MIP stated that in paying homage to the departed and in recognition of his service rendered to the nation, the office of

the adjutant general, GHQ, Naga army had bestowed upon him posthumously the rank of ‘captain’.

While his contribution to the national cause would be cherished, the nation shared its pain and grief with the bereaved family members and extends its deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolence to family of the departed and that his soul rest in eternal peace.

Assam Rifles organise various activities

Liangmai Baptiest Association (LBA) Nagaland during the 34th annual conference organized a vehicle dedication programme purchased for use during the silver anniversary memorial hall construction on January 21.

DIMAPUR: Various battalions of the Assam Rifles had conducted civic action programmes in different places during the month of January.

According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), medical camp was to provide medical treatment to the needy people in remote areas of Tizit and adjoining villages. A total of 486 patients to include 108 male, 215 female and 163 children have been treated during the camp and free medical K

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check up and medicines were provided to the ailing.

Basic knowledge of health education, drug menace and importance of hygiene and sanitation were explained to the villagers. An awareness lecture on various employment opportunities in central government organisation was also delivered during the camp.

Kohima Battalion: Kohima battalion under the aegis of HQ IGAR (N) organised a lecture on the

topic “Wildlife conservation & Amur Falcon” at IG Stadium Kohima on January 20 with an aim to spread awareness about wildlife conservation and its importance in the ecosystem. The lecture also covered migratory bird “Amur Falcon” and exhorted the people to assist conservation of the bird in Nagaland. A total of 50 students along with teachers attended the lecture.

Kiphire Battalion: Kiphire battalion under the

aegis of HQ IGAR (North) organized a medical-cumveterinary camp at Seyochung town and Seyochung village on January 19. A team of doctors, paramedical and veterinary diet from 14 MFVH organised the camp wherein free medicines were also distributed to the ailing patients and to the owners of pets. A total of 234 patients and 734 animals were treated during the camp.

Zunheboto Battalion: Zunheboto Battalion

under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) organised an awareness lecture on “opportunities for recruitment in defence and paramilitary forces” at Chare village, Tuensang on January 20. According to PRO HQ IGAR (N) the motivational lecture emphasized on the importance of education for a bright future of the young students. Students were also educated about various kinds of entry schemes to join the defence and paramilitary

forces for both boys & girls.

A total of 45 youngsters attended the lecture.

Shamator Battalion: Shamator battalion under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) organised a lecture on government schemes at C Saddle on January 19 with an aim to educate the locals about various beneficiary schemes of the government for employment, pension, development and health. A total of 25 locals attended the programme.

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WEATHER FORECAST January 22

(Temperature in ºC)

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Agartala Hazy sun

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Guwahati Hazy sun Imphal

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Itanagar Hazy sunshine

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Shillong Hazy sun

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Dimapur Nice with sunshine

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Tuensang Mostly sunny and cooler

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Zunheboto Mostly sunny and cooler

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Wokha

K. G. Kenye MP (RS), Jacob Zhimomi MLA and members of WCH. DIMAPUR: The Western Chakhesang Hoho (WCH) celebrated its golden jubilee at Seluophe village, Dimapur under the theme, “peaceful co-existence,” with K. G. Kenye MP Rajya Sabha, N. Jacob Zhimomi advisor PHE and Neiba Kronu MLA as the guest speakers.

A press release by WCH golden jubilee publicity member, Vecuto Tenyi stated that Kenye unveiled the jubilee monolith after it was dedicated by

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Rev Bulechu Koza. In his address, Kenye also spoke about honesty, hard work, unity of the community and to live in peaceful coexistence with fellow Naga brothers and other communities.

He also challenged the community to contribute to the Nagas in every field for overall human progress and peace.

President Vekhosayi in his speech congratulated the pioneers of the Hoho, the then Chakhe-

sang Panchayat Dimapur, for taking initiative to come under a common platform and all the former leaders for their tireless efforts towards community welfare.

He asserted that the unity which had been preserved and maintained by leaders, past and present was the biggest strength of Chakhesang community. In this regard, he said unity among the community must be preserved as guided by the motto “Chavi

Aro Küku” (Unity Our Strength).

Calling for revival of ethical values and moral integrity as practiced by forefathers, the president said that healthy lifestyle practice was the most important issue for present day generation. He also cautioned that while searching for avenues, “we” must prioritize economic development and recognize the resource availability so that it was utilized meaningfully for livelihood. In this, he urged that the community needed to sincerely undertake trading, business, farming and entrepreneurship in order to support and create self dependency.

The programme was attended by thousands of citizens of Western Chakhesang area, invitees from other tribal units and well wishers. Artists like Jano Nyekha, Veswuzo performed special items and folk songs were presented by various groups.

Sounding of jubilee horn and showcasing of indigenous items were some of the highlights of the 50th year celebration programme.

CBCC 67th general council concludes; resolves

CBCC deligates at the 67th general council.

DIMAPUR: The 67th general council of Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) was held at CBCC Mission Centre, T. Chikri, Pfutsero hosted by Baptist Theological College (BTC) from January 19 to 20 under the theme “Knitted together in Christ”.

Altogether 514 delegates representing all the CBCC churches participated.

A press release by CBCC executive secretary, Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo stated that in the annual meeting resolutions were adopted by the delegates present. It resolved on church unity whereby it reaffirmed its commitment and endeavour to keep up the unity of the spirit

and further resolved to remain “Knitted together in Christ” under the banner of Chakhesang Baptist Church Council with the sole purpose of advancing the Kingdom of God and fulfilling the great commission of Lord Jesus Christ. It also resolved on church sanctity and called upon all the believers and churches to uphold the Biblical sanctions of Christian marriage.

It urged every Christian believer to refrain from practicing Yoga and appeal all concerned authority not to impose yoga practices to Naga students to uphold the religious freedom envisaged in the Constitution. CBCC resolved to

ACYA, ACRWA conduct respective conventions in Kohima

(L-R) ACYA presenting folk song during its convention on Saturday. (NP) CCRWA chairperson, Nini Sekhose speaking at Sunday devotional service.

Correspondent KO H I M A , JA N 2 0 (NPN): The second-day of Angami Catholic Youth Association (ACYA) 31st convention under the theme, “celebrating faith, celebrating culture,” held at Mary Help of Christians Cathedral in Kohima included cultural program and exhortation from the three key speakers Rovilatuo Nicholas, Richard Belho and Kezhasezo Kenneth. They spoke on the

topics, “prospects in civil services,” “enhancing livelihood through development,” and “teaching as a career option” respectively under the theme, “passion in my profession.”

Rovilato Mor spoke about the various aspects and responsibilities as an administrative officer. He highlighted the different steps and designations when a person cleared NCS, NPSC, UPSC and competitive exams. He drew on his own experi-

ences as an administrative officer citing incidents such as tribal clashes, factional clashes, etc and the responsibilities an administrative officer had to shoulder in his day to day life to maintain law and order.

He said, “an administration officer has the most difficult job, the most tested but most satisfying profession.”

Meanwhile, Richard Belho said the number of graduates, post graduates and unemployed people

was increasing. Therefore, he challenged the youths to think beyond the government jobs, dream bigger and take risks.

He said, “productive skills are ingrained in the DNAs of Nagas but most of the time, we tend to take the shortcut route.”

He called upon the youths to open their minds and change their outlook and think innovatively. “We need a change of heart, look to God and give an extra time to pick up a new

skill,” he added.

Kezhasezo Kenneth who also spoke on the occasion said amidst the ever growing development and innovations in the society has given rise to thousands of new profession and streams, teaching remained a profession that would keep on going and continue to flourish.

“Sharpen your skill and ability, then even the most simplest position will enable and drive you towards greater opportunities,’’ he

said. He urged the youth to take up teaching to enhance the prevailing society and lives and create a more supportive, richer and meaningful society.

Meanwhile, cultural program included folk songs and debate competitions, skit and songs presentations from the four regions namely, Southern, Western, Northern and Kohima Town Angami regions. The newly office bearers of ACYA for the next term were also nominated.

ACRWA: The threeday convention of 55th Angami Christian Revival Women Association (ACRWA) which began on January 19 at Mengujuma village culminated on January 21.

A press release by ACRWA stated that Nini Sekhose, chair person, Chakro Christian Revival Women Association (CCRWA) was the main speaker during Sunday morning devotional service. Sharing the words of God, she said according to the Scripture number 7

stands for Christ and number 8 stand for beginning, likewise the year 2018 was the beginning and the victory for all the believers of Christ. She prayed that God would bless every believer throughout 2018 and beyond.

The main speakers of the three-day programme included Rev. Neivotso Nyakhe, mission director NEICRC Council, Rev. Luozielie Sanchu, executive secretary ACRCC, Kevi Visielie, general secretary ACRWA, Nini Sekhose, chairperson, Chakro Christian Revival Women Association and Neilhosienuo Chakriino, executive member KTCRWA. Thousands of delegates attended the Sunday devotional service from all the five sub-councils of Kohima Town, Chakroma, Northern Angami, Souther n Angami and Western Angami attended the convention.

The convention was hosted by Christian Revival Church (CRC) Mengujuma.

pray and fight against all exploitative and oppressive forces and ideologies that were found inimical and detrimental to Christian faith and practices. It also resolved that in view of the forthcoming state general election, it would commit to consciously and faithfully exercise one’s franchise and further rededicate to sensitize, advocate, promote and practice clean election in accordance with the NBCC Clean Election guidelines.

The release also expressed appreciation and gratitude to BTC for hosting the council and other participants and resource persons for success of the programme.

BJP Longleng dist tour; consultative meetings DIMAPUR: Five-member team of BJP Nagaland unit led by president B. Ajoy Phom toured Longleng district and held public consultative meetings from January 18 to 19.

A press release by BJP Longleng district general secretary and organiser, B. Chemben Phom stated that consultative meetings were held in 49th A/C Tamlu for the forthcoming 13th Nagaland state general election assembly 2018. The village councils which attended the meeting were Tamlu, Ametchong, Kangching, Tangha, Amosen, Yongshei and Yungja. It stated that the team dwelt on forthcoming election which would be peaceful, harmonious, free and fair as directives of clean election by the Election Commission of India (ECI) as well as directive by the Nagaland Baptish Church Council of Nagaland (NBCC) and as per Supreme Court declaration on January 9 according to the Council Board of Religion of India.

KVK, Kiphire conducts trg on livestock production DIMAPUR: Two-day training-cum-free vaccination and health camp was conducted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Kiphire, ICAR for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre at Tethuyo village and Kiphire town in collaboration with chief veterinary office (CVO) Kiphire on January 16 and 17 with Dr. Ekonthung Ngullie as the resource person.

According to press release by KVK Kiphire, the technical session discussed briefly about the various management techniques involved in the successful livestock production, by resource person.

Dr Ekonthung also emphasized the importance of vaccination and further encouraged the participants to ensure timely and regular vaccination of their animals as a preventive measure against diseases.

During the programme, senior scientist and head (i/c), KVK, Kiphire, N.Khumdemo Ezung highlighted the participants about the activities of the KVK and has also K Y M C

requested for their cooperation for successful conduct of all the programmes undertaken by the KVK. He also expressed his gratitude to chief veterinary officer (CVO) Kiphire, Dr. Toluvi and pastor, Lotha Baptist Church, Kiphire, Khoben Jami and joint director, ICAR, Nagaland Centre, Dr. D. J. Rajkhowa for providing the needed support, cooperation and for the successful conduct of the camp.

Altogether around 200 farmers were benefitted from the programme, where approximately 70 dogs including poultry were vaccinated. Free consultation and medicines were provided to the participants including distribution of mineral mixture and vitamins.

The programme at Tethuyo village was facilitated by the village council and at Kiphire town by Lotha Baptist Church, Kiphire which was assisted by technical assistant, KVK, Kiphire, Dr. Patel and three VFA’s deputed from chief veterinary office, Kiphire.

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Pakistan has not forgotten enmity with India: RSS chief

Guwahati, Jan 21 (PTI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat Sunday said India has forgotten all enmity against Pakistan but same is not the case with the neighbouring country.

Addressing a gathering of RSS ‘swayamsevaks’ in North- East here, days before three states of the region go to polls, the RSS chief said India will survive as long as Hinduism thrives.

“Struggle took place.

Pakistan was born. ‘Bharatvarsh’ forgot the enmity with Pakistan from August 15, 1947. Pakistan has not forgotten it yet. This is the difference between Hindu nature and other nature,” Bhagwat said at the rally.

Bhagwat said all ancient civilisation such as Mahenjodaro, Harappa and our culture developed in places which are now in Pakistan.

“Why didn’t Pakistan tell (India) to take another name since every thing of ‘Bharat’ has emerged from here. So we are ‘Bharat’ and you take any other name.

“They did not say this and rather wanted to separate from the name ‘Bharat’.

Because they know that with the name ‘Bharat’, Hindutva

Tripura CPI-M leader dead AGARTALA, Jan 21 (Agencies): Veteran CPI-M leader and former Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha member Khagen Das died of a massive cardiac arrest here on Sunday, party sources said.

Das, 80, a for mer Tripura minister, leaves behind his wife and two daughters.

Das, also the convenor of Tripura’s ruling Left Front, was here to attend the Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist. He complained of chest pain early on Sunday.

“He expired within 10 minutes at 3.35 a.m,” a party leader said.

Das was a Rajya Sabha member from 1998 to 2002, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Tripura West. He retained the seat in 2004 and 2009.

Das was a two-term (1978 to 1988) legislator in the Tripura assembly and served as the Health, Statistics and Revenue Minister from 1983 to 1988.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at an RSS mega rally in Guwahati on Sunday. (PTI) comes in. And Hindutva is there, so is ‘Bharat’,” he said.

The RSS chief said that despite its diversity, India was united because of Hindutva.

“We have internal unity based on Hindutva and that is why India is a Hindu

Rashtra,” he said.

Bhagwat said India gives the world the message of humanity.

“Others talk, but do not behave. India teaches others with its own behaviour. The world names this nature of ‘Bharatvarsh’ as Hindutva.

That is why the people of

‘Bharatvarsh’ are called Hindu,” he said.

“If the people of India forget the Hindutva sentiment, then their relation with the country also gets snapped,” he added.

Bhagwat said that during the formation of Bangladesh, the country did not merge with India despite having similarities with it because of lack of Hindu sentiment. “..after partition of Pakistan, why did Bengalispeaking Bangladesh not merge with ‘Bharat’? (Because) That sentiment is not there -- Hindu sentiment...

If Hindu sentiment is forgotten, then ‘Bharat’ breaks,” he said.

Bhagwat said India has been “struggling” for thousands of years despite its benevolent nature and now must fight to safeguard its culture and the onslaught of people “who have a tendency to attack”.

“But we never become enemy, even while fighting.

We do not hate others,” he said.

Bhagwat also said that gau-raksha and gaudependent farming is the only solution to the woes of Indian farmers and appealed to people to work in this direction.

Manipur celebrates 47th Statehood Day High power committee to investigate Jan 15 twin blasts: CM

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IMPHAL, Jan 21: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh Sunday said a high power committee will investigate the recent twin blasts near Raj Bhavan in Imphal.

Speaking at the 47th Statehood Day celebration in Imphal, Singh said that government took the twin blast seriously and informed that a high power committee would be assigned to investigate the incident.

“It is suspicious that the blasts could have been carried out by some vested interest groups with a motive to discredit the present government,” said the chief minister.

Speaking on law and order situation, Singh expressed concern over the hindrances being given to the railway construction works in the state by the armed groups. He alleged some underground groups currently under Suspension of Operation (SoO) with the

government were involved in the abduction of officials and workers engaged in railway line construction.

While urging the public not to make any criticism on community and religious lines which may incite enmity among different communities, the chief minister appealed the political parties not to do politics by provoking hatred and dividing people.

Stating that the present government has kept its doors wide open to all the organizations for talks and discussions, the chief minister once again urged all the organizations not to clamp any bandh or general strike without highlighting their grievances to the government first.

While stating that it is essential to run the government in a transparent and responsible manner in order to accelerate development, he said that the state government had not only set up an Anti-Corruption Police Station and Anti-Corruption

Cell but also opened Grievances Redressal Cell.

The Anti-Corruption Cell of CM’s Secretariat received more than 500 complaints and action has been initiated in 165 cases so far, he added.

On the joyous occasion of statehood day, the chief minister expressed his respect and thankfulness to all those who had contributed their mites in achieving statehood.

It may be mentioned here that the then independent princely state of Manipur was merged to Indian Union on September 21, 1949 and became a union territory of India from 1962 and achieved full statehood in 1972.

Earlier, the chief minister inspected and received salute from 59 contingents comprising BSF, Assam Rifles, CRPF, Manipur Police, Manipur Fire Service, Home Guards, VDF, NCC, Scouts and Guides and school and college students.

AR conducts medical camp D i map u r , J a n 2 1 (NPN): Changlang Battalion conducted a medical camp at Ranglum village, Arunachal Pradesh on January 20. The camp provided necessary medical aid and relief to 90 patients from Ranglum, Hedmen, Tolim, Ranghil and surrounding villages, said PRO (Defence) in a press release. Ranglum is one of the remote villages of Changlang district near the Indo-Myanmar border with little or no availability of medical facilities.

A health awareness education class was also conducted by regimental medical officer and staff of BJP workers arrange party banners and posters for the election campaigns, medical platoon, the PRO informed. ahead of the Assembly polls in Agartala on Sunday. (PTI)

BJP to go it alone in Meghalaya Assembly elections

GUWAHATI, Jan 21 (Agencies): Dismissing speculation of alliances with regional parties in Meghalaya, BJP said it will go it alone in the upcoming assembly election. The party has finalised its first list of candidates for all 60 seats and sent it to the party’s central election committee

for approval.

“Our stand right now is that we are contesting the election alone. The list of candidates we have sent to the central election committee is for all 60 seats.

Whether we contest all of them or not will be decided by our central election committee,” president of the

Meghalaya unit of BJP Shibun Lyngdoh said. The list names 100 aspirants for party tickets. The final candidate list should be ready by next week. “Once the candidates are finalised, BJP will launch its election campaign in full swing,” Lyngdoh said.

A BJP leader said the

decision to not ally with regional parties was taken as a pre-emptive step against Congress accusing it of pursuing a religious agenda.

“We do not want to give Congress the opportunity to create divisions within the society to distract people from its failures,” the leader added.

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BJP aligning with extremist groups in Tripura: Yechury Kolkata, Jan 21 (PTI): CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Sunday accused the BJP of practising “double standards” and said the party that projects itself as a nationalist force across the country had joined hands with “extremist organisations” in poll-bound Tripura.

The saffron party will face defeat at the hands of the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Front and the Assembly elections in Tripura will be BJP’s “Waterloo”, he claimed. The CPI(M) leader also said that the BJP was trying to unite anti-Left forces in the state to win the polls.

“They (BJP) are trying to bring together anti-Left forces and extremist organi-

sations. They have already entered into an alliance with the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, they are negotiating with others too,” said Yechury.

The BJP, on one hand, has been thrusting its idea of ‘Hindutva nationalism’ upon people and, on the other, it is aligning with the divisive forces in Tripura, the CPI(M) leader alleged.

“The IPFT is now claiming that the BJP has assured them that their demand for a separate rebel state will be considered,” he said. The IPFT has been seeking a separate state for the indigenous communities of Tripura. The party recently said that it was holding talks with the BJP for a pre-poll alliance.

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Over 30 teachers resign to avoid prosecution in Manipur Imphal Jan 21 (IANS): Following action against some primar y schoolteachers, who were themselves enrolled as students in various medical and agriculture colleges and attending classes there, 30 such teachers have resigned in Manipur over the last few weeks.

Their move came after state Education Minister T. Radheshyam gave such teachers a fair chance to quit the government job.

Earlier, the govern-

ment took punitive action against nine teachers on charges of cheating -- out of which eight were found to be medical students in two medical colleges in the state, while one was doing post-graduate course in agriculture in Meghalaya.

Radheshyam said: “The nine primary schoolteachers have to return salaries and allowances they fraudulently took all these years over a period of six months.

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Tripura: Exams rescheduled for assembly polls

Poppy plantation destroyed in Senapati

Agartala, Jan 21 (PTI): The Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) has rescheduled Class XII examinations to avoid a clash with the ensuing assembly elections.

The state goes to polls on February 18 and the results for the sixty constituencies will be declared on March 3. Official sources have said the entire election process is likely to continue till March 5. “The Class XII examinations, which were scheduled to begin on March 5, will now commence on March 8 in view of the upcoming elections,” TBSE president Mihir Kanti Deb told reporters here Sunday. The schedule for Class X exams remains unchanged. “The Class X exams will begin on March 6, as scheduled earlier,” he said.

This year, around 27,000 candidates will be appearing for Class XII examinations and nearly 55,000 students will sit for Class X examinations, Deb added.

have been lodged with the police stations concerned. It will be better if the remaining dubious teachers resign of their own volition.”

The Minister said that more complaints against such “cheats” were received and all cases would be examined shortly. This triggered the resignation of over 30 teachers.

The modus operandi of these teacher, according to officials, is to engage some local youths to

teach the primary school students on payment of a fraction of their salary.

Officials confirmed that at least five head masters had been suspended on the charge of colluding with the absentee teachers and not bringing their long absence to the notice of the higher-ups.

The officials said there could be many more teachers in the medical colleges or gainfully employed in some other government offices as well.

Police and district administration destroying the poppy plantation.

D i map u r , Ja n 2 1 (NPN): A combined team of Senapati district administration, DRDA and revenue destroyed illegal poppy plantation at Khabung Khuman village hill range in Senapati

district on Saturday.

The 11 acres poppy plantation worth more than 2 crores was destroyed with the help of police.

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by Senapati deputy com-

missioner, Athem Muivah IAS and SDO Purul, Adahrii Maheo.

Cultivation of poppy is banned in Manipur under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Acts 1985.

Left sees red in Tripura over film called ‘Lal Sarkar’ New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): The ruling CPI(M) in Tripura is seeing red over a Hindi feature film called ‘Lal Sarkar’ which the party believes is a part of the BJP’s electoral campaign in the state ahead of Assembly polls.

Scheduled to be released in the first week of February, ‘Lal Sarkar’ - or the Red Government - is about a documentary filmmaker who discovers the alleged wrong-doings of the Left Front-ruled government in the northeastern state.

Producer and writer Susheel Sharman held that the film had nothing to do with the BJP or the February 18 Assembly polls, but was based on facts.

“I have used my own money to make this film.

The BJP has nothing to do with it. It is a commercial film, but based on facts,” Sharman said.

The CPI(M), however, insisted that the BJP was behind the film and questioned the timing of its release.

“In every constituency they have brought vehicles

with big screens. Why are they releasing the film in February, just before the elections? The producer may not say so, but the BJP is behind it,” CPI(M) Tripura state secretary Bijan Dhar told PTI. The BJP denied it was in any way connected with the film.

“It’s completely untrue that the BJP is behind the film. But if the film shows the truth about the Tripura government, I welcome it,” said Sunil Deodhar, incharge of Tripura BJP. Sharman, however, said BJP Member of Parliament Babul Supriyo had sung a song for free for the film.

“One of the songs has been sung by Babul Supriyo.

He has not taken any money for the song. He treats me like his younger brother. We share a personal relationship that has nothing to do with the BJP,” Sharman said. The producer added the film was to have been released last month.

“We had planned the film almost two years ago.

The film was supposed to have been released in

December 2017, but postproduction work took a lot of time,” he told PTI. The producer said the idea for the feature film struck him when he visited the state a few years ago to shoot documentaries on tribal people.

“We went to tribal areas and made two documentaries on the situation in Tripura. But we felt we could not reach out to the people only through documentaries,” he said.

It was then that he decided to produce a feature film that would highlight “the plight of the people” of Tripura.

“Nobody in the country knows about the things which are happening in Tripura. People don’t even know where Tripura is located,” the producer said.

The film tells its story through a documentary filmmaker who visits Tripura and sees alleged irregularities there. It mentions the national scheme MNREGA, which Sharman alleged was a scam in the state.

“Though the state government has claimed it has

successfully implemented the national rural scheme but in reality only 5 per cent work has been done. No one knows where the central fund has gone,” Sharman claimed.

The Left party denied the allegation.

Dhar pointed out that Tripura had been awarded seven times by the Central government for its performance.

“Why would the Central government give awards to us for MNREGA? For the last seven years, we are number one among the states. We have been considered the best among all states where MNREGA has been implemented successfully,” Dhar said.

Though the CPI(M) said it did not think the film would have an impact on the people of the state, the party was considering complaining to the Election Commission.

The 110-minute film, directed by Abhijit Ashok Paul, is subtitled in Bengali and Kokborok, a tribal language of Tripura, and is the Delhi-based producer’s first feature film.

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17 killed in fire at Delhi’s Bawana Factory owner arrested; 11 bodies identified

Police personnel stand guard outside the fire-crackers factory, where 17 persons died in a massive blaze at Bawana, in New Delhi on Sunday. (PTI) New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS): The bodies of 11 out of 17 persons who died in a major fire on Saturday evening in a factory here have been identified and the establishment’s owner arrested, police said on Sunday.

Out of victims in the fire in Bawana area, the bodies of 11 - nine women and two men, Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajneesh Gupta said.

Those deceased were

identified as Baby Devi, 40, Afshana, 35, Sonam, 23, Reeta, 18, Madeena, 55, Rajjo, 65, Sukhda, 42, Khusna, 47, Soni, 21, Suraj, 20 and Ravi Kant, 18.

Gupta also said that a forensic team reached the spot to investigate the reason for the blast, while the owner of the plastic factory which was also used as a warehouse for fire crackers has been arrested.

Manoj Jain was taken into custody on Saturday

AAP announces ‘Delhi bandh’ on Jan 23 to protest sealing drive New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): The Aam Aadmi Party will hold a day-long bandh on January 23 in Delhi to protest against the ongoing sealing drive by the BJP-ruled civic bodies and the Centre’s move to allow 100 per cent FDI in retail.

Speaking to reporters after the party’s Delhi State Conference, senior AAP leader Gopal Rai said the BJP-ruled civic bodies were trying to snatch employment opportunities from people in the name of sealing business establishments. “A large sum of money was collected under conversion and parking

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charges. The traders have neither received anything in return nor do they have any information about the money collected,” Rai said, demanding that the centre stop levying these charges until the information is made public.

“Our party cadres in all 70 constituencies will join traders unions to raise the voice against these issues on January 23,” he said.

The party also announced that its Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs along with other stakeholders will take part in a march to the Parliament on January 29 over the issue.

night after a brief interrogation as police filed an FIR against him under sections for negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter, for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others under the Indian Penal Code and the Explosives Act, he said.

“Jain runs the factory which he had taken on rent since January 1 this year,” said Gupta, also said add-

ing that as per an injured labourer, the packing of the crackers was being done in the factory.

Delhi Industries and Urban Development MinisterSatyendar Jain told reporters that a probe committee has been formed and strict action will be taken after the report is submitted. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday ordered a thorough probe into the tragedy and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the next of the kin of the deceased.

He said it will be probed how licence was given to the establishment and who gave it and also how the incident happened.

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manoj Tiwari also announced a compensation of Rs 50,000 each to the victims of the incident.

Gupta said the fire in Bawana Industrial Area was reported to the Police Control Room around 6.20 p.m., following which 10 fire tenders rushed to the spot.

The blaze was doused after three hours.

T h e v i c t i m s we r e trapped in the basement and the first and second floors when the fire spread from the basement to the floors above, the officer said.

He said seven of the deceased were women aged between 20 and 35 years.

AI aircraft to be used to ferry security forces NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (PTI): Air India aircraft will be hired by the home ministry to facilitate travel of personnel of central armed police forces, Intelligence Bureau and the NDRF serving in remote areas of the northeast, and Jammu and Kashmir from home and place of postings, an official said.

An amount of Rs. 109.84 crore has been sanctioned by the ministry to offer the air services to the security personnel during the first seven months of 2018 by hiring the Air India planes. Priority will be given to those personnel availing the facility for the first, second and third time respectively and those going on temporary duties, subject to availability of seats, a home ministry official told news agency PTI. The service will end a major grievance of the personnel of the CAPF like CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP, SSB etc, Intelligence Bureau and National Disaster Response Force deployed in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast as they have to spend at least six days of their leave only in travelling, another ministry official said. The official said that though the scheme has been approved until July 31, it will be further extended for the whole year and subsequent years too.

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India has shown it won’t hesitate to cross border: Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh speaks at Railway Mall Godam Sharamik Sangh Adhiveshan in Lucknow on Sunday. (PTI) Lucknow, Jan 21 (PTI): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday said India has shown it can attack its enemies not only on its soil, but also in a foreign territory, if need be.

Singh’s remarks come almost a month after a group of five Army commandos crossed the Line of Control in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir and killed three Pakistani soldiers and smashed a post, in a swift and daring operation.

The operation was seen as avenging the killing of four Indian Army personnel by a Border Action Team of the Paki-

SC to soon make public work allocation system

NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (PTI): Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has examined suggestions from stakeholders to bring transparency in allocation of sensitive PILs to judges and is likely to bring in the public domain soon the system he is going to adopt for it, sources close to him said on Sunday.

They said that the listing of two petitions demanding an independent probe into the death of CBI special judge B H Loya before a bench headed by the CJI manifests that all issues, including allocation of cases, raised by the four senior-most judges in their controversial January 12 press conference, are being considered.

The Loya case petitions will come up for hearing tomorrow.

The sources said that Justice Misra has held deliberations with fellow judges and also taken into account the suggestions put forth by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and a clear-cut roster system is likely to be followed in the apex court for allocation of cases.

“The apex court registry is very likely to upload on its website the decision of the CJI on allocation of matters. The system will be brought in the public domain as to who will hear what categories of cases,” a highly placed source told PTI.

When contacted, SCBA President Vikas Singh said there was a demand from the bar to follow the roster system of allocation of work prevalent in the Delhi high court.

“We are quite hopeful that the CJI in all likelihood is going to accept our suggestions and all misunderstanding that has come out in the open after the press conference of the four judges can be resolved,” Singh said.

He said that a system for allocation of cases identical to that in the Delhi high court is followed in the Bombay high court.

During the press conference, the four judges -justices Jasti Chelameswar,

Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- had raised various issues, including the allocation of important and sensitive PILs, and questioned the manner in which the CJI was allocating them to a particular bench.

The PILs in the Loya case was one of them which was being heard by a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra who later recused himself from it.

The list of the top court’s business for January 22 had on January 19 shown that it has been referred to an appropriate bench and late in the evening the website showed that it will be heard by a bench headed by the CJI.

stan Army in Keri sector Rajouri district.

“A few months ago, Pakistan, in an act of cowardice, attacked and martyred 17 of our jawans.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi consulted all of us on this serious issue, and the Indian Army entered the Pakistani area and killed the militants,” Singh said at a public meeting here.

“India’s image in the world has become that of a strong nation and we have given a strong message to the world that we can attack our enemies not only on our soil, but also in their territory. India has

developed this power,” he said. Singh said India wants to maintain a friendly relationship with Pakistan.

“But Pakistan is not mending its ways,” Singh said. “I want to assure you that our government will not let India to bow its head,” he said.

The home minister said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the country’s economy is moving ahead at a fast pace. “..and now even the global economists and experts accept this,” he said, adding that India’s prestige in the global arena is “rising rapidly”.

Singh was addressing a meeting of ‘Bharatiya Railway Maal Godaam Shramik Sangh’ here.

“The ‘railway maal godaam shramik’ have, for the past few generations, been sweating and giving the Railways a good income.

However, despite this, they do not have any identification card, nor do they get any treatment facility in any of the Railway hospitals,” said Rajnath.

He said he would take up the issues and problems of the labourers in the railway sector with their representatives and the railway minister.

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esides low Gross Enrolment Ratio(GER), Nagaland continues to grapple with poor standard in higher education. As per the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) for 2016-17 Nagaland was found to be bottom ranked among all seven north eastern states in Gross Enrolment Ratio(GER) in higher educational institutions. The AISHE report also reveals that the state has gone down from being the second lowest to the lowest.

The abysmal picture of enrolment in higher education is supposedly because of few numbers of higher educational institutions offering more diverse subjects other than the handful in general studies, B.Ed, Engineering & NIT. The report further stated that out of 64 colleges in Nagaland, the state has 43 private colleges (8 private unaided and 35 private aided) and 21 government colleges. The total enrolment in private and government colleges were 2467 in private unaided college, 17650 in private aided and 10000 in government colleges. It is pertinent that the quality of higher education and increase enrolment, at least in government colleges, should improve and the process should earnestly begin at the school level given the fact that a disparity exists between the two key players-government and private. The state also has shortage of skill-based higher educational institutions, to absorb students after they clear their higher secondary level. On the other hand, the literacy rate of Nagaland as per theNational Family health survey (NFHS)for 2011 stands at 79.55% at fourth place among seven states in the north east and higher than the national average of 67%.In literacy, Nagaland has risen from fifth to fourth place. However the GER of higher education does not reflect in the GER in government colleges. It would seem from past HSLC and HSSLC results held under the Nagaland Board of School Education, that the private educational institutions are producing much better results than their government counterparts. Although some government teachers are academically better qualified than a majority of those in private institutions, poor academic achievements only indicate that much is left to be desired. In other states that have achieved notable successes in higher education, much stress in put on the overall preparedness of a student during and after leaving the college. This is identified by a term called value added education which is about assessing the development of the student and what has been attained during college and various capabilities that have been imbued. The assessment of value added education also puts a lot of onus on the skills, methods and goals of teachers in adding capabilities on the students. It is not an easy concept to qualify since imparting quality education cannot be met simply by being assured that trained teachers would be able to do the job. What has to be defined is what does it mean in the first place? In technical terms, it means that the process first identifies learners’ cognitive development as the major explicit objective of all education systems. The second emphasises education’s role in promoting values and attitudes of responsible citizenship and in nurturing creative and emotional development. The educational environment has been seriously damaged due to the manner politicians and bureaucrats have dealt with this crucial subject over the decades.

It is unfortunate that even till today, there has been very little effort to analyse and diagnose the problem and bring remedies.

DailyDevotion Recall What God Remembers Thus says the Lord: “I remember…the kindness of your youth…” —Jeremiah 2:2 Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Does everything in my life fill His heart with gladness, or do I constantly complain because things don’t seem to be going my way? A person who has forgotten what God treasures will not be filled with joy. It is wonderful to remember that Jesus Christ has needs which we can meet— “Give Me a drink” (John 4:7). How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation?

God is saying to His people, “You are not in love with Me now, but I remember a time when you were.”

He says, “I remember…the love of your betrothal…”

(Jeremiah 2:2). Am I as filled to overflowing with love for Jesus Christ as I was in the beginning, when I went out of my way to prove my devotion to Him? Does He ever find me pondering the time when I cared only for Him? Is that where I am now, or have I chosen man’s wisdom over true love for Him? Am I so in love with Him that I take no thought for where He might lead me? Or am I watching to see how much respect I get as I measure how much service I should give Him? As I recall what God remembers about me, I may also begin to realize that He is not what He used to be to me. When this happens, I should allow the shame and humiliation it creates in my life, because it will bring godly sorrow, and “godly sorrow produces repentance…” (2 Corinthians 7:10).

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I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’. ~ Henry Moore

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conomy is receiving various signals. Some indicate unexpected growth, some show slowdown, and a UK organisation projects that India may be the 5th largest economy in the world.

The fact is that yes, India is growing and facing many problems too. The latest official steps allowing 100 percent FDI in single brand retail and 49 percent in Air India may change the business pattern. Getting rid of Air India would be right business decision.

The most important indicator for the present is the Central Statistics Office (CSO) statement that it would have a growth of 6.5 percent. In the current fiscal, agriculture and manufacturing have faced the difficult situation.

A few days later the CSO comes out with another figure that this November a 17-month high industrial production growth of 8.4 percent against the November 2016 figures of 2 percent. It comes with a caveat that the present percentage growth is based on the last year’s low figure, somewhat attributed to the note ban. It also revealed that retail inflation acceler-

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ated 5.21 percent beyond the RBI tolerance limit of 5 percent.

The truth is not difficult to find. The six-month (April-September 2017) figures at 6 percent implies, says economic affairs secretary Subhash Garg, growth of 7 percent for the second half and average of 6.5 percent. So it means the economy is back on growth trajectory. It also indicates that it is coming out of the shadow of the note ban and the after effects of the GST. The GST, however, is adding to the inflationary figures as many items that were untaxed, including handloom artifacts and many innocuous items, are now bearing a tax burden. It also is not an indicator that the tax buoyancy in indirect taxes would be as high as is the expectation. At least, National Statistical Commission former chairman Pronab Sen disagrees.

The statisticians can be given the benefit of doubt as the advance estimates for the full year are based on limited data for different sectors.

The non-government sector growth has plunged to 5.65 percent almost close

to that the country had in 2013 at 5.59 percent. This should draw attention.

So it means the government will have to do a rope trick to manage its finances.

On the policy parameter, the indication comes with the easing of FDI policy.

During the 2016-17, $ Shivaji 60 billion FDI poured in and this year’s figures touch $ 37 billion. The growth in the immediate context is to be sustained on foreign investment.

The CSO estimates indicate a U-shaped shallow progress. The private sector services are likely to remain sluggish in the second half of the current fiscal. The Purchasing Mangers’ Index (PMI) shows that the recovery in services is far slower than that in manufacturing.

Growth in trade, hotel, transport, communication and broadcasting sector is estimated to slow in the second half. Even despite favourable base effect insurance, finance and real estate has not improved.

Growth in defence and public administration is estimated at 11 percent far above the 9.1 percent

growth in the first half. It means the growth is being propped up by the government expenditure. It will be almost a continuation of the trends since 2016-17.

Thus the London-based World Economic League table (WELT) projection that India Sarkar is expected to overtake that of Britain and France to become the fifth largest in dollar terms need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

But it is an indicator of a confidence of people abroad in Indian progress.

Private investment and private saving are not in a happy state. Private sector investments have been crippled by the mounting corporate debt and inadequate capacity utilization.

Banks having bad debt of over Rs 8 to 12 lakh crore are unwilling to lend more.

It has shrunk private sector activity. It affects job creation and market viability.

It may take time. Investments will follow when managements are confident that the return on investments will exceed the cost of capital, says chief finance officer of engineering L&t R Shankar Raman.

It is a profound state-

ment. The cost viability would take time to return.

With inflation on the rise, the investors cannot expect interest rate to come down.

A lower bank interest rate also has its problems as it shrinks capacity of the buyer. So the government has to innovate how to boost the private sector because it should have the primary responsibility for creating jobs and growth.

The government job is to facilitate conditions that make private investments pour in. But till such time it happens the government has to shoulder the burden.

If the gover nment wants to reduce its burden, it should function as per the concept of Deendayal Upadhyay. It enshrines that the government should facilitate more, regulate less, and should ensure cash flow, free transaction and no shackle. The principles also professed low and affordable prices.

Higher inflation means not only a burden on the people but on the government as well. It should look at various aspects that are raising prices as the basic production cost and tax burdens are rising. These are complicated signals.

If the nation has to increase job availability, the cost has to be kept low.

Higher prices also mean higher wage costs both for the private and government sector. The present government financial crisis is attributed to the implementation of the Seventh pay panel recommendation.

It means the government must review its policies of routing every transaction through banks, which have increased charges exorbitantly; linkage of AadharKYC norms, too much of GST documentation and suspecting every citizen and the corporate. This is what the Jan Sangh had been propagating and this is why BJP welcomed 1991 liberalisation.

While through government investment the nation is progressing, it has to review many of its rulejigsaw for easier business flow. The general business and the rural sector need more freedom.

The government has good intentions. It has to change its tack a bit to become the facilitator to trigger the investments so that the tax revenue could be utilized for welfare and infrastructure.

Post-mortem Principal shot dead by a The cuckoo of Nagaland student; where do we proceed?

begin by stating, “There is no Solution to the Naga Issue in the foreseeable future.” My challenge to all those who tried to fool us with the mantra, “Solution before Election” has gone unanswered. You are singing the praises of something that’s not there, and urging the People of Nagaland to buy it; which makes you lowly touts. Despite all your glorified titles, you bring nothing but disgrace and infamy to the members of the Unions and Associations you represent.

And the N.S.F., Non Sense Federation, which claims to be a Students’ Federation has now taken up the role of a pompous little busybody by calling for a Rally on this Issue.

Why is it a Non Sense Federation? Because they have remained silent on ALL Issues detrimental to the Students of Nagaland and their future, such as absentee and ghost Teachers in the Education Department, missing midday meals of poor students, the looted Students’ Scholarships, the rampant backdoor employees in all Government Departments, the removal of jobs from the purview of the N.P.S.C. and a hundred other issues which directly affect all students in Nagaland; but want the same students to come to a rally demanding the deferment of Elections in favour of a non-existant Solution! Pure Nonsense!

A cuckoo lays its egg in the nest of a smaller bird.

The cuckoo hatches first and then destroys the eggs of the parent bird. The par-

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ent birds think the cuckoo hatchling is theirs and feed the monster chick, thinking that the very thing that has killed their babies is their baby. This is exactly what the NSF is. The students of Nagaland think that the NSF belongs to them, but somewhere along the way, it has been replaced by an alien monster born out of a cross between our corrupt politicians and our equally corrupt “Freedom Fighters”. The N.S.F., by asking students to attend its rally on the 23rd.of January, seeks to use students to support a cry which has no direct or appreciable impact on their Welfare. Whether the Executive Members of the N.S.F. have received any benefits in cash, kind or favours, is open to speculation; but, by calling for a rally on this issue, it is like acting on behalf of those who gain by the deferment of Elections.

I urge all College Students to boycott the Rally.

Use your brains, think! What do the Students or the Public of Nagaland gain by the deferment of Elections?

Nothing! In what way will the Elections hamper Peace Talks? No way! It is just an attempt by the Corrupt of Nagaland to prevent others from coming to power and investigating their countless Crimes and Scams.

To t h e Pa r e n t s o f Schoolchildren, I ask you, “Do you believe that the rally on Solution, not Election, carries any benefit, now or in the future, for your Children?” It is just a cheap trick to shield the very people who are destroying

the future of your Children.

I request you to prevent them from attending the Rally.

No Student Organization has the power to force its members to take part in any event or occasion; likewise, no Educational Institution has the authority to force its students to take part in any activity that is not directly connected to their Education. So you have the right to stop your children from heeding any directive, whether from a Student Organisation or a School Establishment, to attend this spurious rally.

And to to the NSF and all their minions who intend to attend this rally, I have only this to say, “You think you are clever? Your slyness and base cunning does not make up for your lack of intelligence. We see right through you. Just because your eyes are blinded by the Conjunctivitis of Greed, it does not mean our eyes are blinded too; you are nothing but pompous, self-serving cowards who hide behind innocent college and school children. Don’t talk about the trips you make to Delhi to speak with the Indian Authorities on the Naga Issue; you may as well travel into space and speak with aliens for all the good it will do or for all we care; just tell us who pays for your trips?”

I’m certain that a few paid people will turn up for the rally, the question is, “How many real students of Nagaland will be present?” God save Nagaland Kahuto Chishi Sumi, (kahuto107@gmail.com)

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ou might have come across the shocking news of a school Principal at Haryana shot dead by her own class 12 student inside her office room on 20th January 2018. The sad news brought shivering in my blood cells and I am unable to comprehend the gravity of the sense of fear this incident may instill in the minds of the teaching community. I do understand that isolated incidents cannot be considered as generalized affairs of a community.

But we need to accept that the ripples of conflicts between teachers and students occupying headlines in the media become more frequent than ever.

As per media reports the boy had a grudge against his principal for punishing him few times over his poor performance and low attendance in front of his class mates. He was earlier warned thrice that he won’t be able to write his pre-board examination because of low attendance. On the fateful day he went to the office room of the Principal who also taught economics to him and asked her to accept his project report. He allegedly opened fire when the principal refused to accept the report.

In my opinion, his parents are the primary reason behind the gruesome incident. It is reported that the boy broke open an almirah in his home and took the registered revolver of his businessman father. The father told police that he didn’t know anything about his son’s performance in school. How will he know? Today many parents neglect their primary duties of parenting and even they do not have time to listen to their children. Today’s children are exposed to too much of unregulated media and more shockingly many of the parents never know that most of the online games their children play in mobiles and computers gradually instill sense of violence in the minds of the young children. When parents tend to substitute money for love and parental care, what else can be expected from the children?

Let us be an agent of change

ome commented in social media, “If you want change, get out of your comfort zone and put into action outside.” I do believe that change becomes possible only out of our comfort zone but I also believe change begins from within our self and our home. There are many people who believe change can happen only out of our self and our home, that is, change is the outside force. But when it comes to reality, a question arises, “who is responsible for a change?” The answer could be me and you.

Peace and harmony is necessary in our state today. We cannot claim our Nagaland to be a peaceful state. Fighting among ourselves, groups against groups and most of all, there is no peace

and harmony between leaders and public. The so called political leaders or public leaders fail to do the needful of the people.

Students, youths and ordinary citizens are ignored of their rights and deprived of their shares.

Infrastructural developments for public are less visible. The Different organisations meant for different purposes fails to take up their respective responsibilities which create discontentment in the mind of the people.

I believe that together we can change our system and I believe togetherness comes from within, that is, willing to humble ourselves and willing to sacrifice our selfishness. We must replace selfishness with self-sacrifice and righteousness. Righteousness does not come from outside.

It is from within. Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam once said, and I quote, “Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home.

When there is harmony in the home, there is an order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.” Righteousness in each of our heart is, therefore, necessary for change and progress of our state. It is to conclude that each one of us is responsible for change and progress of our state. Change and progress is possible with the participation of every people with a righteous heart. I, therefore, call upon all the young and old citizens to be responsible in our fight for

The School Management and the Teachers of the school also are equally responsible for the tragic incident. The violent and cruel behavior exhibited by the student might have not been developed in a day or weeks. The violent characters might have been exhibited by him in many occasions from the childhood and unfortunately no one had time to take remedial measures before it reaches the critical stage. Just imagine how the boy who had resorted to murdering his Principal who enforced the rules of the institution might have behaved with his fellow classmates.

Handling today’s children is not an easy task. Today’s economically oriented nuclear families have changed the entire concept of life. Attitudes of everyone in the society have changed and children too are not exempted.

Unfortunately majority of the Teachers and Head of Institutions are poorly equipped to handle the challenges faced by today’s Education sector. In the present case when the boy was asked why he shot the principal, he said “she tortured me”. I am sad to say that this is a consequence of our failure to train the Teachers and the Head of Institutions in Positive Discipline techniques.

Moreover, educating parents about their duties and responsibilities also now becomes the responsibility of schools and we have completely neglected this aspect.

Both the Private sector and the Govt. sector should immediately initiate steps to train all the Teachers and Head of Institutions on the latest trends and strategies in dealing with students before another such unfortunate incident occurs. Expenditures made in these training programmes are investments made on the future of our country and I hope the school managements would not hesitate to empower their teachers for a better tomorrow.

Nellayappan B, Asstt. Director, DoSE, Kohima, (bnellayappan@gmail.com)

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change and progress in this coming general election. I call upon all the citizens to be an agent of change we want to see in our Sir, state. I also remind all citizens The usual power problem which has not to get fooled by the love plagued Nagaland throughout the year of money and promises made remains the same. The constant powerto you during the campaigns. cuts at odd hours have become a way of I also remind all citizens that life for the citizens of the state. Explanachoosing the right and honest tions are always given by the department leader is in our hands. It does concerned but smooth supply of power is not belong to others. Your one just totally impossible. In a couple of weeks vote can make difference because the students will be appearing for their when all of us choose the right most important examinations which will leaders together, we can have a determine their future. It is disheartening to better future. I believe all of us watch students from poor economic backwill be responsible for change ground without inverter back-up studying and progress of our state. Let in the dim candle light. Everyone is hoping Us Together Be An Agent Of that by March the power problem would Change. be settled and students can study without interruption of power supply.

Eyiekhrote Vero, Pfutsero Government College, Limawati Longkumer, Dhobinala, Dimapur Pfutsero Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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Ex-CAG Vinod was a ‘contract killer’: Raja

Former telecom minister A Raja address the gathering at the launch of his book, 2G Saga Unfolds. (PTI)

New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): Former telecom minister Andimuthu Raja Sunday alleged that former CAG Vinod Rai was a “contract killer” hired to kill the UPA-2 government and called for his prosecution for “abusing” the power and “cheating” the nation.

Raja went on to say that some forces were working against the UPA-2 and for that they used Rai as a tool. “Vinod Rai should be prosecuted for cheating and abuse of power... (he) was a contract killer... His shoulder was used to kill UPA 2,” Raja said during a media interaction following the launch of his book “2G Saga Unfolds”. The then comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Rai came out

with a report in 2010 which pegged notional loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the national exchequer due to 2G spectrum allocation in 2008 when Raja was the telecom minister. “Some forces wanted to kill UPA (United Progressive Alliance) 2 for which Vinod Rai was used as the gun,” Raja said.

The former telecom minister said that the Supreme Court got carried away with that CAG report and cancelled 2G telecom licences. Raja accused Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal of conspiring against him to stop new telecom players from entering the market so as to maintain a cartel of a handful of service providers. e, however, praised former Prime Min-

ister Manmohan Singh. The mobile tariff during Raja regime came down to 25 paise per minute from the range of Rs 2-4 a minute. Raja said that he met Singh for half an hour and gave him a copy of book. The former telecom minister also said that there were differences among the cabinet ministers on the spectrum allocation issue.

He said that Mittal approached courts against spectrum allocation but failed and also went to the then PM and law minister but again failed to get anything. Mittal “wanted to stall proceedings of my government,” Raja said adding that contradictions came from within the UPA ministers and there were instances to prove it. Raja said objections were raised by the finance ministry and the then Union Cabinet minister Kamal Nath wrote an open letter to (Manmohan) Singh that the matter should be sent to the group of ministers. Stating that the BJP benefited from the 2G controversy, Raja, however, ruled out any possibility of alignment with the saffron party. The book “2G Saga unfolds” was released by former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.

national/state Education start-up targets students, parents, teachers

New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): A new start-up aims at providing an innovation education module with the theme “effective parenting and teaching” and having programmes that not only help the students but parents and teachers.

Satam Patnaik, M Harihara Sarma, Arnab Sadhu and Jaya Gaur Sadhu founded EduTalent hoping to revolutionise the education system by making learning fun yet effective.

It has something for everyone, says Patnaik.

“It is basically designed for students to make learning stress free, exciting and interesting. It is also a helping tool for effective and stress-free parenting besides a support system for teachers and schools,” he says.

One can enrol with Edutalent programs through direct school tieups, interactions with parents during PTM sessions in schools, various camps conducted by Edutalent in housing societies or even online.

The programmes are all certified and managed by experienced professionals from the field of IT, education and other allied sciences, says Patnaik.

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Allocate more funds, increase expenditure: health experts New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): With the Union Budget around the corner, two health experts have urged the government to allocate more funds to sectors such as family planning and non-communicable diseases, increase expenditure and make health insurance more inclusive.

Observing that the Centre had acknowledged that socio- economic development goals could only be achieved on the foundation of a healthy population, Poonam Muttreja, the executive director of the Population Foundation of India, said this belief was reflected in the National Health Policy.

The government had said it would increase spending on health from 1.15 per cent to 2.5 per cent of the GDP by 2025, she said, adding that it had also renewed its pledge on family planning by committing three billion dollars towards stabilising the population at a conference last year.

“However, during the last financial year (201617), only 60.7 per cent of the funds for family planning were spent,” she said.

This year, she added,

the health sector hoped to see an increase in budgetary allocation and expenditure.

“Along with an increase in budgetary allocation, we hope to see an increase in expenditure and strengthening of the health systems that would enable better utilisation of the family planning budgets, thereby facilitating the government to translate their vision into action,” she said.

Dr Usha Manjunath, director of the Institute of Health Management & Research, Bangalore, said the government had set short-term and mediumterm targets for key health indicators and sought to bring down the Maternal Mortality Rate to 100 by 2018-2020 and the Infant Mortality Rate to 28 by 2019.

Noting that the finance minister had announced the preparation of action plans to eliminate Kala Azar and Filariasis by 2017, leprosy by 2018, measles by 2020 and tuberculosis by 2025, Manjunath said some of the targets appeared ambitious and would need to be backed up by concrete strategies and initiatives as

well as fund allocation.

“National Health Policy 2017 promises to increase public health spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP in a time-bound manner and guarantees health care services to all Indian citizens, specifically to the underprivileged.

“This is a realistic one but action on the ground and budget allocation and utilisation should be meticulously planned and implemented,” she added.

Manjunath said the move towards provision of a more comprehensive primary care by converting 1.5 lakh sub-centres in villages to health and wellness centres was a positive development and a systematic budgetary allocation and implementation should begin.

“However, no specific announcements were made for combating noncommunicable diseases which account for nearly 75 per cent of the disease burden. The present budget must take this into consideration,” she said.

Talking about medical devices, implants and disposables, Manjunath pointed out that most of these were imported. A

boost to the pharmaceutical sector would be of great help while indigenously manufactured devices and implants could be globally sold.

Manjunath said the government’s National Health Protection Scheme was expected to provide a Rs 1 lakh health insurance cover to all BPL families (up to Rs 1 lakh annual income). “It can further rolled up to include families with up to Rs 2 lakh income,” she said. She said the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) was a health insurance scheme for people below the poverty line and the scheme issues a health card, which enables them to receive inpatient medical care of up to Rs 30,000 in government or private hospitals.

“Budget 2018 should increase this amount to Rs 1 lakh to provide a more inclusive health insurance to the poor.

“Additionally, critical care and OPD care should be an inherent part of the scheme. As an additional advantage to senior citizens, the sum insured for this category should be increased to more than Rs 1 lakh,” she said.

Parl panel suggests govt provide PM to share vision for India’s global engagements at Davos better mobile telecom service meeting.

In the report, the committee has recommended urgent and earnest efforts by the Centre, state governments and the industry to vastly improve the quality of telecom and provide coverage evenly so that the digital divide is bridged in the country. It is necessary to be truly inclusive in such an effort, the panel said.

The report also emphasised that the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) should be fully deployed, particularly with public sector telecom companies for extending mobile and internet penetration.

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(from-p-1) Chishi also revealed that for a State like Nagaland, which depended only on the centre for financial assistance, a national party would be the better choice as the state requires huge amounts of money for development, human resources and to uplift the youth. His view was that, a resourceless regional party cannot promote the egos and ethos of the people.

Also, when asked whether he wishes to become the chief minister in the event of his party and him winning the elections, Chishi replied “ambitions never die”.

Chishi also termed his resignation from Congress as an “extreme and painful step” but he had taken the step as he was left with no other options.

“Till Saturday evening, I was a ‘die and live with the Congress party’ politician”, but certain dissatisfactions had compelled him to quit, Chishi added.

Davos.

“I am confident that these bilateral meetings would be fruitful and give a boost to our relations with these countries and further strengthen economic engagement,” he said.

“The existing and emerging challenges to the contemporary international system and global governance architecture deserve serious attention of leaders, governments, policy makers, corporates and civil societies around the world,” he tweeted.

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as 95 per cent, 75 per cent and 60 per cent population is covered by 2G, 3G and 4G spectrum respectively,” the report said.

During the finalisation of the report, members strongly objected to the fact that there were still areas in the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected districts that were not covered by even 2G network services.

“Digital transformation of the economy is not possible without basic 2G mobile services and staterun firms such as BSNL should play a more active role in it,” BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said during the

to people, security and other spheres”. In a series of tweets with ‘IndiaMeansBusiness’ hashtag, he said, “At Davos, I look forward to sharing my vision for India’s future engagement with the international community.”

Modi, who will deliver opening plenary address at the WEF summit on Tuesday, said he is also looking forward to separate bilateral meetings with Swiss President Alain Berset and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in

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New Delhi Jan 21 (PTI): Citing that several areas in naxal-affected districts did not have mobile network coverage, a parliamentary panel has suggested to the government to bridge the digital gap in the country by providing better telecom services.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance in its draft report on transformation towards digital economy noted that urgent and earnest efforts were required to improve the quality of telecom services in the country.

“The quality of telecom coverage in the country is unevenly distributed,

New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said he will share his vision for India’s future engagements with the international community during his Davos trip, as he sought “serious attention” of world leaders on existing and emerging challenges to the contemporary global systems.

A day before his visit to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, being attended by over 70 heads of states and governments, Modi said India’s engagement with the outside world in the recent years has become “truly and effectively multidimensional covering the political, economic, people

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Develop online platform to sell bad loans: Acharya

Mumbai, Jan 21 (PTI): The Reserve Bank has called for putting in place an online trading platform on the lines of the system in the US, to sell distressed assets to ensure more transparency and better price-discovery.

Deputy governor Viral Acharya has opined that such an online trading platform can help create a thriving market for selling bad loans, which is plaguing the domestic banking system, and asked all the stakeholders to come together to develop such a mechanism.

The banking system is saddled with over Rs 10 trillion of bad loans, which is over 10.2 per cent system wide, as of the September 2017 quarter.

Following a massive spike in stressed assets, the RBI has since last June identified as many as 40 largest stressed accounts and have asked banks to send them to various debt recovery tribunals.

These 40 accounts, which include Essar Steel, Bhushan Steel, Bhushan Power, Amtek Auto, Videocon Industries and JP Infra among others, constitute as much as 40 per cent of this Rs 10 trillion dud loans.

In the financial stability report released recently, the central bank had warned that the bad loans could

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spike to 10.8 per cent by March and to 11.1 per cent

by September 2018.

“The Indian Banks Association, Association of Asset Reconstruction Companies (Arcon) and the credit rating agencies can come together to set up what could be the equivalent to the Loan Syndication and Trading Association (LSTA) in the United States,” Acharya told an ARC summit hosted by the industry lobby Assocham over the weekend here.

The Loan Syndication and Trading Association or LSTA is a loan syndication and trading system which provides disclosure on credit events, digitisation of loans and legal documents apart from providing an online bidding platform for the sale of such assets, Acharya said.

“My recommendation to you, or at least what I

would encourage you, is to discuss whether there is value to building something like this or not. The US and South Korea have built such a platform during their banking crises and then it became an industry standard for doing loan sales thereafter,” the deputy governor said.

Acharya said it is in the interest of banks to create primary market liquidity to offload loans and probably in the interest of asset reconstruction companies to have a secondary market for such assets.

The deputy governor also said if such a platform is developed then loan sales can occur for risk transfer, perhaps prior to default or becoming an NPA because, maybe somebody wants to come in even before an (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) filing takes place.

“So, now you don’t have a measure of recovery only at the outcome of the IBC, you could have a measure of recovery even at stress because that will be reflected in the loan sale.

“I think if that is the point at which banks are going to be selling loans then that would be a relevant figure for calculating the expected credit losses and so on,” Acharya said.

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India to become fastest growing large economy in 2018: Report NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (PTI): India will overtake China to be the fastest growing large economy in 2018 and the country’s equity market will become the fifth largest in the world, says a report.

According to a Sanctum Wealth Management re por t, when the rest of the world offers low growth and insufficient structural change, India, by contrast, is seen as a reforming economy with the prospect of strong long-term growth.

“India will become the fastest growing large economy in the world, eclipsing China. Indian equity market will jump to become the fifth largest in the world,” the report noted.

At a time when developed economies are cheering 2-3 per cent growth, India is focused on breaching 7.5 per cent, it said.

Moreover, India also benefits from a favourable contrast to other emerging markets.

In particular, the fact that China is downshifting to a slower pace of growth.

“Prospective returns for equities are much higher than the 6-8 per cent that one can expect from fixed income,” it noted.

However, if inflation or rates rise, markets are not likely to register further gains. Muted earning could also impact market performance.

“Considering the fact that Nifty50 is in a broader uptrend, a sustained move beyond the 10,490-10,580 levels could lead to a rally towards 11,200-11,500 levels in the medium term,” it noted.

As per the report, a major factor that has changed is that the domestic buyer now sets market prices. Domestic mutual funds bought equities worth USD 15.3 billion against USD 8 billion by foreign investors in 2017.

The report that identifies various big-picture trends at play this year in the domestic and global economy, noted that Aadhaar, Jan Dhan, Demonetisation, GST, are working to create a new inclusive infrastructure in India. “ G ive n t h e r a p i d pace at which the Indian economy is developing, investors today are faced with the need to make crucial investment decisions amidst multiple cross currents, using a complex array of choices,” Sanctum Wealth Management Chief Executive Officer Shiv Gupta said.

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‘Regulation should not stifle industry’

NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (IANS): A government cannot run industry and regulation on businesses should be kept to a minimum to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) and spur domestic financing, according to a minister.

Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said that a committee had been set up under the chairmanship of the Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, to look at regulatory issues.

“The ultimate idea is that regulation should not stifle the possibilities of investment. I get a sense now that people have again started looking at investments,” Prabhu told this correspondent in a freewheeling interview here ahead of his visit to Davos for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual conference.

Prabhu also maintained that the government cannot run industry and a new industrial policy was in the works aimed at reducing regulations and promoting modernisation of existing industry. It will also seek to encourage new and emerging industries, even those which are not seen today.

The minister is slated to hold a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from many countries, including Australia and the

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UK, participating at the WEF in Davos, besides holding meetings with leading business leaders from around the globe in an attempt to attract more FDI into the country.

Taking note of India’s jump in the global “ease of doing business” rankings from 130th place to 100th, Prabhu said the government was in the process of initiating a number of measures, which might not have been captured in this particular ranking study.

“In the next few years’ time, we will see it (the ranking) improving again and again,” he said.

Prabhu said the change in rankings was largely because of the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) regime which was the single-largest and most significant reform post-Independence. It was also “a great positive” step in the direction of bringing transparency and greater reliability.

On the core focus

areas for India to boost exports, he said the government was in the process of drawing up strategies across five main components — promotion of services, value-addition in goods, focus on agriculture, improving standards, and logistics.

“We have identified champion sectors with untapped potential for value-addition, employment generation and technology upgradation to promote services. Focus will be on improving the ease of doing business across these sectors,” he said.

India, he said, was poised to become the thirdlargest economy in the world and the onward journey of becoming a $5 trillion economy was “inevitable and unstoppable”.

“Today, global output is higher than the global trade. We need to restrategise our global trade.

India’s journey towards achieving $5 trillion economy sooner is not possible without expansion of our basket of global trade,” Prabhu said.

Envisaging a new high in India’s economic scenario, he said: “If we grow by more than eight per cent we will reach there in the next 6-7 years; if we grow by today’s pace of around 7 per cent we will reach there in 1-2 years more.”

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Commenting upon the finding, Assocham’s Secretary General D.S. Rawat said the government needs to pursue policies which “focus on removing health and social inequities. Programmes and policies that aim to address the nutrition burden present a double-win situation”.

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“An all new version of compact car Wagon R is also in the pipeline but its launch timeline hasn’t been fixed,” a source said.

Maruti Suzuki India Senior Executive Director (Marketing and Sales) R S Kalsi, however, declined to comment on the company’s launch programme for the next fiscal.

“That’s a continuous process and we cannot comment on which one will come when,” he told PTI when asked about the upcoming new product introductions in the market.

that the country hosts 50 per cent of the world’s under-nourished children.

The paper quoted data from the National Family Health Survey-4 which showed that close to 60 per cent of children aged between 6 and 59 months are anaemic.

“It is only about 10 per cent of the country’s total children who are receiving adequate diet,” the research report said.

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Pune, Jan 21 (PTI): The country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India plans to introduce around four new products in the next 12 to 18 months to build further on five years of successive double digit sales growth.

The company expects to close the ongoing fiscal with double digit sales growth. Its sales in the domestic market during the April-December period grew by 15.5 per cent at 12,26,418 units as against 10,61,873 units in the yearago period.

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N e w D e lh i , J a n 21 (IANS): India loses about 4 per cent of GDP (gross domestic product) to malnutrition and the trend can be reversed by focusing “on production diversity as well as food fortification at a macro level”, a research paper revealed on Sunday.

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Bid to end shutdown in US far short of the 60 needed to advance the bill. With a 51seat majority in the Senate, the Republicans do not have enough votes to pass the bill without some support from the Democrats. They want funding for border security - including the border wall - and immigration reforms, as well as increased military spending. The Democrats have demanded protection from deportation of more than 700,000 undocumented immigrants who entered the US as children. The Republicans added a sweetener in the form of a six-year extension to a health insurance programme for children in lower-income families. But Democrats want this programme extended permanently. Mr Trump accused the Democrats of being “far more concerned with illegal immigrants than they are with our great military or safety at our dangerous southern border”.

But the leading Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, blamed the president, saying Mr Trump was under pressure from “hard-right forces

within the administration”.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders warned: “The president will not negotiate on immigration reform until Democrats stop playing games and reopen the government.”

The US budget must be approved by 1 October - the start of the federal financial year. But Congress has often failed to meet this deadline and negotiations continue well into the new year, with the previous year’s funding to federal agencies extended on a temporary basis.

Because Congress failed to agree an extension that would have maintained government funding through to 16 February, it means many federal agencies effectively closed for business as of 00:01 on Saturday (05:01 GMT).

Most staff in the departments of housing, environment, education and commerce will be staying at home on Monday. Half of workers in the treasury, health, defence and transportation departments will also not be going to work.

UN sanctions monitoring team due in Islamabad next week

Turkey begins military operation in Syria

A sign announcing the closure of the Statue of Liberty, due to the US government shutdown, sits near the ferry dock to the Statue of Liberty, January 20. (Reuters)

Islamabad, Jan 21 (PTI): Amid mounting global pressure on Pakistan to act against Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and entities linked to him, a UN Security Council team will visit the country this week for an assessment of Islamabad’s compliance with the world body’s sanctions regime.

The two-day visit of the UN Security Council’s sanctions monitoring team will begin on Thursday.

“The monitoring team of the UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee will be here on January 25 and 26,” a senior Pakistani official was quoted as saying

by Dawn.

The UN monitoring team’s visit is taking place amid increasing pressure on Pakistan from the US and India with respect to the inadequate implementation of the sanctions on Saeed and entities linked to him.

However, Pakistani officials, insist that the trip is a routine visit.

Saeed was listed under

receive the required 60 votes

by Friday. The Republican leader of the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, has said there will be a vote at 01:00 in the early hours of Monday (06:00 GMT) on a bill to fund the government until 8 February. The last government shutdown was in 2013, and lasted for 16 days.

This is the first time a government shutdown has happened while one party, the Republicans, controls both Congress and the White House. The vote on Friday was 50-49, falling

UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.

On Friday, the US State Department said it has told clearly to Islamabad that Saeed is a “terrorist” and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, reacting strongly to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s remarks that there was no case against the Mumbai attack mastermind.

State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said: “He is listed by the UNSC 1267, the AlQaeda Sanctions Committee for targeted sanctions due to his affiliation with Lashkar-e- Taiba, which is a designated foreign terror organisation.”

“We believe that he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Nauert had said.

Saeed, the chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), was released from house arrest in Pakistan in November. The JuD is believed to be the front organisation

for the LeT which is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai attack that killed 166 people. It has been declared as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US in June 2014.

“The terms of reference of the monitoring team for Pakistan visit are not publicly known, but as per its general mandate it assists the 1267 Committee in keeping an eye on the freezing of the financial assets of listed persons and entities and checking provision of training and other material to them and their travel,” the paper said.

The UNSC monitoring team intimates instances of non- compliance to the committee through its reports.

At the same time it also advises and assists member states on implementation of the regime.

Pakistan has remained under the Financial Action Task Force scanner over allegations by the US and India about the UNSC sanctions not being fully implemented, the paper said.

Ankara, Jan 21 (IANS): Turkish Foreign Ministry has informed the ambassadors of Iran, Russia and the US in Ankara about a military operation launched by Turkey’s army in Afrin in Syria, a ministry official said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also held a phone conversation with US counterpart Rex Tillerson in the wake of the announcement of the air strikes on Saturday

by Turkish Air forces, at Washington’s request, the official told Xinhua news agency on the condition of anonymity.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday the military operation in Syria’s Afrin has “actively” started. Turkey is determined to ensure its national security and to clear its borders of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is considered by Ankara as the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

18 pro-government militiamen killed in Afghanistan Kabul, Jan 21 (IANS): At least 18 pro-government militiamen were killed following a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh, officials said on Sunday.

The incident occurred in village Bozboy in Sholgra district on Saturday night when Taliban militants stormed a security checkpoint, resulting in a clash that left 18 members of the Local Uprising Groups dead, an official told Xinhua news agency.

T h e Ta l i b a n h a s claimed responsibility. Its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that a Taliban sympathizer was among the militia and he facilitated the attack. He said a Taliban fighter was killed and another wounded in the clash.

Fighting has escalated in Afghanistan as the Taliban insurgency spreads from its traditional strongholds in the south and east to the once peaceful region in the north, where the Taliban have been recruiting from among the youth.

The Taliban outfit and the Islamic State terror group often target civilians and religious clerics as well as local leaders for their support to the Afghan government and the US-led forces stationed in the country.

Lo n d o n, Ja n 2 1 (Agencies): Pope Francis, who is on a visit to Peru, has spoken out about violence against women in Latin America.

Speaking at a Mass in the northern city of Trujillo, the Pope called the violence “a plague” that needed to be combated across the region.

According to the UN, half of the 25 countries with the largest number of murders of women are in Latin America, reported BBC. The Argentine Pope, 81, is on the second and final leg of a week-long regional tour.

“There are so many cases of violence that stay silenced behind so many walls,” the Pope said on Saturday.

“I’m calling on you to fight against this source of suffering including legislation and a culture that rejects every type of violence.”

On Thursday, the pontiff arrived in Peru from Chile, where he became embroiled in a row over clerical sex abuse.

Pak SC orders police to arrest killer of minor girl within 72 hours Lahore, Jan 21 (PTI): The Supreme Court of Pakistan Sunday gave a 72-hour deadline to the Punjab police chief to arrest the culprit behind the brutal rape and murder of a seven- year-old girl that has sparked national outrage.

Police in Pakistan’s Punjab province have failed to nab the killer of the minor girl, whose body was found in a garbage heap on January 9, despite carrying out DNA test of 800 suspects in over two weeks.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar held the hearing of the case at the Lahore registry and admonished the police officers for their failure to arrest the killer of the victim.

The parents of the eight girls who have been raped and murdered in Kasur since 2015 appeared before the Supreme Court bench and pleaded for justice.

“An unspeakable crime has been committed against an innocent girl,” Nisar said and ordered the Inspector General of Police to arrest

the culprit in the case within 72 hours.

The minor had gone missing while going for tuition near her house in Kasur city, some 50 kilometres from Lahore, on January 5.

Her parents had been in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah and she had been living with her maternal aunt.

After her abduction, the footage showed her walking with a stranger near Peerowala Road. Police failed to trace her abductor and on January 9 her body was recovered from a heap of garbage near the Shahbaz Khan Road.

Autopsy report had confirmed that the girl was subjected to rape, torture and was then strangled to death.

The horrific incident triggered public outrage throughout the country with people demanding justice for the child.

The girl’s murder was the 12th such incident reported in Kasur district in a year. A police officer told the Chief Justice that the DNA

tests of 800 suspects had been conducted.

“The police are pursuing a one-track investigation and must widen the scope of the probe beyond simply using DNA testing to track down the culprits. The DNA tests of 21 million people will have to be conducted if the investigations continue in this way,” Nisar said.

No headway has been made in the case since the girl’s body was found, despite the Counter-Terrorism Department, Intelligence Bureau, Special Branch and Punjab Forensic Science Agency being tasked with investigating the case.

According to the initial investigation, the perpetrator of is a serial killer who may have been involved in some six or seven such incidents in Kasur.

Kasur had made headlines in 2015 when it was revealed that a gang of paedophiles was busted for running a child sex ring in the city. Last year 4,139 incidents of child abuse took place in the provi

Taliban attack on Afghan hotel ends, 18 dead

U.S. forces’ vehicle arrives s smoke rises from the Intercontinental Hotel after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday. (AP/PTI) Kabul, Jan 21 (Agencies): A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan’s capital killed at least 18 people, including 14 foreigners, and pinned security forces down for more than 13 hours before the last attacker was

killed Sunday, with the casualty toll expected to rise.

The heavily-guarded luxury hotel is popular among foreigners and Afghan officials. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the 18 killed included 14 foreigners and

a telecommunications official from the western Farah province who was attending a conference.

“11 of the 14 foreigners killed were employees of KamAir, a private Afghan airline,” said Danish. KamAir also put out an an-

nouncement saying some of their flights were disrupted because of the attack.

Ukraine says one of its citizens was killed in the attack. Vasyl Kyrylych, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, announced the death of the Ukrainian citizen in a brief statement on Twitter, without providing further details. Afghan officials did not identify the foreigner killed in the attack.

Ten other people, including six from the security forces, were reported wounded and more than 150 people, including 41 foreigners, were rescued from the hotel, Danish said.

The Taliban claimed the attack, which began around 9 PM yesterday, saying five gunmen armed with suicide vests targeted foreigners and Afghan officials.

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Lo n d o n, Ja n 2 1 (Agencies): The US Senate is due back in session to try to end a budget impasse before the start of the working week when the shutdown of many federal services will be felt around the country.

Hundreds of thousands of federal staff face the prospect of unpaid leave.

On Saturday, recriminations flew around over the Senate’s failure to pass a new budget and prevent the shutdown. A bill to fund the federal government for the coming weeks did not

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He made the announcement via social media on Saturday morning, reports CNN. “Got myself a fiancé just before new year. We are very happy and in love, and our cats are chuffed as well,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram.

Last year, Sheeran had revealed he has known Seaborn since they were children but they did not start dating until he invited her to Taylor Swift’s Fourth of July party in 2015.

His engagement comes after a roller-coaster year.

His album (“Divide”) -- which also brought him to India -- was the most popular album on streaming services for 2017, according to Nielsen data.

However, his appearance on the popular TV drama “Game of Thrones” was not welcomed by many fans, leading Sheeran to temporarily delete his Twitter account amid ritish singer-songwriter nounced his engagement the criticism.

(IANS) Ed Sheeran has an- with his longtime girlfriend

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obin Williams grew up as an only child t o a f u n - l ov i n g mother and businessman father far outside the Hollywood machine. But the moment he witnessed his stern dad laugh out loud at Jonathan Winters’ stick routine on “The Jack Paar Show,” Williams knew he wanted to be a performer.

Nearly four years after Williams’ death,

HBO is set to release a new documentary on the beloved comedian’s life and one-of-a-kind career.

“Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind,” directed

by Marina Zenovich and produced by Alex Gibney and Shirel Kozak, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday night to a sold-out crowd.

Audience members diligently followed the story of the award-winning ac-

tor from his childhood experiences at home and in school to his tragic suicide at age 63.

Featuring new interviews with Williams’ first wife, Valerie Velardi, “Mork & Mindy” co-star Pam Dawber, friends David Letterman and Billy Crystal, and his son Zak Williams, the film highlights the actor’s creative genius through some of his most beloved stage

‘I’m still trying to get better’: Britain’s Got Talent host Stephen Mulhern

H ctress Vaani Kapoor will be walking the ramp at the forthcoming Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) SummerResort 2018 edition as a showstopper of designer Neha Agarwal.

She will turn Agarwal’s muse for her label AGAMI

by Neha Agarwal.

The core essence of the brand is to revisit traditional Indian crafts, encouraging the age-old legacy of Indian couture. Agarwal will show ‘Lost in the Woods’ collection at the fashion gala.

The aim of the collection is to promote Indian zardozi craftsmanship in contemporary patterns. The colour story mixes a lot of pastel hues embellished with deeper tones.

The forthcoming edition of the fashion gala will be held from January 31 to February 4.

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and screen performances, including “A Night at the Met,” “Happy Days,” Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Aladdin,” his USO tour, “Good Will Hunting” and “Dead Poets Society.”

It also shines a light on Williams’ personal life - namely, his three marriages, his addiction to drugs and alcohol, and his friendships with the likes of John Belushi, Bobcat Goldthwait and Crystal.

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e missed out on the first round of Britain’s Got Talent auditions after he was diagnosed with laryngitis.

And now BGT host Stephen Mulhern, 40, has raised fears he may not be able to retur n as scheduled after tweeting out to

fans that he’s ‘still trying to get better’.

The veteran TV presenter was put on bed rest by doctors and told fans he would be ‘on mute’ until the London auditions on Saturday.

However, Stephen cast doubt over that start date after sending out a health update to his followers on Twitter - thanking them for their well-wishes.

Taking to the microblogging site, he wrote: ‘Thank you so much for all your get well messages. Am still trying to get better and fingers crossed will see lots of you at the BGMT auditions in London a week today. Have a good evening all.’

Stephen missed the first auditions in Blackpool on Tuesday due to the nasty illness, skipping out on the glamorous evening with his fellow BGT personalities.

MailOnline has contacted Stephen’s representatives for comment. Taking to

Twitter earlier in the week, he wrote that it was the first time he had been off sick in 11 years.

He wrote: ‘Morning!

Absolutely gutted to be missing the first round of @BGT auditions this week in Blackpool!

‘I am on doctor’s strict orders to rest my voice, after suffering a nasty bout of Laryngitis - first day off from the show in 11 years.

Unbelievable!’

Adding: ‘I will be on mute until London auditions on the 27th Jan, look forward to seeing you all then!’

Also hosting the show is Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - but there could be trouble behind the scenes of the show.

Ant is rumoured to be facing an awkward reunion with his estranged wife Lisa Armstrong on the show.

Sources told The Sun that the couple will come face-to-face when the series kicks off in Blackpool, as Ant reunites with co-host Declan.

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lobal star Priyanka Chopra is all set to announce the nominations for the Oscar awards this year. The Academy took to its Instagram page and shared some behind-the-scenes glimpses which revealed that few celebrities have been picked for the special occasion, which include our very own Desi girl.

The 90th Academy Awards will be held on March 4 and will be hosted

by Jimmy Kimmel for the second consecutive year.

(DNA)

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Mrs & Mr. Rushulo Seb Rengma Dear Mom & Dad, As you both count your 30 years of togetherness not by digit, but by the emotion you shared; we pray that may God's blessing of health & a long life be with you always.

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EPL: Man City maintain 12 pts lead

Sergio Aguero in action during an EPL match against Newcastle at the Etihad.

As a result, City stay 12 points ahead of rivals Manchester United at the summit, while the visitors are just two points clear of the relegation zone in 15th.

City kicked off knowing United had won at Burnley to cut the gap at the top of the table to nine points, but if the home team were feeling the pressure, particularly after their first defeat of the league season to Liverpool on Sunday, then they did not show any signs of it in the first half.

Right from the start Guardiola’s team went on the attack against oppo-

nents clearly intent again on playing for a draw, with the visitors playing with five at the back in their attempts to frustrate City.

For the opening half an hour of the contest, however, Rafa Benitez’s plan appeared to be working, with Karl Darlow, despite City’s domination of both possession and territory, not called upon to make a save.

Benitez’s game plan went out the window, though, when City - who had earlier seen a Raheem Sterling effort ruled out for offside - opened the scoring through Aguero 11 minutes before half-time.

Moments before Darlow had denied David Silva with an excellent pointblank save, only for City to quickly recycle the ball to De Bruyne on the left flank.

The Belgian, given too much time and space, looked up and crossed perfectly for Aguero to glance the home team ahead with the faintest of touches at the near post.

City doubled their lead just past the hour-mark when Raheem Sterling’s run into the box was ended when Javier Manquillo hauled the winger down, with Aguero making no mistake from the penalty spot.

However, totally out of the blue Newcastle pulled a goal back as Ciaran Clark’s inch-perfect through-ball released Murphy and faced with just Ederson to beat, the midfielder kept his cool to chip the advancing Brazilian.

Any hope the visitors may have had, though, of escaping with an unlikely draw ended with seven minutes to go as Leroy Sane’s quick feet left three Newcastle players for dead in the box, with Aguero’s neat finish giving the striker a perfect hat-trick.

Match results West Ham 1-1 Bournemouth Everton 1-1 West Brom Burnley FC 0-1 Man United Leicester City 2-0 Watford Stoke City 2-0 Huddersfield Arsenal 4-1 Crystal Palace

M OSCO W, J a n 2 1 (Agencies): Around 200 “clean” Russians will take part in the upcoming Winter Games, even though their country is suspended, the deputy prime minister responsible for sport, Vitaly Mutko, said on Saturday.

On Friday, IOC panel responsible for deciding which Russian athletes will be spared the ban on their country for state-sponsored doping and allowed to compete in Pyeongchang, announced it had provisionally eliminated 111 athletes from a list of 500 nominated by the Russian Olympic committee. The remaining athletes on the list must still meet further conditions, including “pre-Games checks and reanalysis of existing samples,” the panel said.

“We understand that there are athletes on this list who do not meet the new criteria,” Mutko told state news agency TASS. “We reckon the team will be made up of around 200 people.” IOC said that it will publish a final list of Russian athletes to go to Pyeongchang before January 27.

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ing Atletico Madrid player, Antoine Griezmann, and an alleged deal with our club,” said the statement on the Catalan club’s website.

Such a reaction can be explained by the fact that Atletico have complained to FIFA about “repeated contacts” between Barca and the France striker.

“FC Barcelona expresses its objections in the face of these events and reiterates its full respect for the institution of Atletico Madrid,” added the statement.

Sydney, Jan 21 (Agencies): A swashbuckling century by Jos Buttler and a disciplined bowling performance helped England beat Australia by 16 runs in Sydney that saw the visitors take an unassailable threenil lead in the five-match ODI series.

Buttler blazed his way to exactly 100 not out off just 83 balls as the tourists posted a total 302/6 in their 50 overs after Australia captain Steve Smith opted to bowl first after winning toss.

The right-handed Buttler received excellent support from all rounder Chris Woakes, who struck 53 not out off 36 balls, as the duo added an unbroken stand of 113 after coming together with the score on 186/6 with 12 overs still to go.

For the first time in the series, not one of England’s top four batsmen made a

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Players of Atletico Madrid and Girona during their La Liga match.

M a d r i d, J a n 2 1 (IANS): Atletico Madrid’s title hopes suffered a setback when they were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Girona in the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium here in the La Liga clash.

Antoine Griezmann opened the scoring after an assist from Diego Costa, who had to later leave the game with a groin injury.

But a hard-working Girona never let Atletico consolidate the lead and Portu poached an equalizing goal with 16 minutes remaining, reports Xinhua news agency.

Valencia wasted a chance to move second as it suffered a shock 2-1 defeat away to bottom of the table Las Palmas.

Santi Mina put Valencia ahead after just five

minutes but Jonathan Viera equalized 15 minutes later and the game tilted definitively Las Palmas’ way seven minutes after the break when they were awarded a penalty and Valencia defender Gabriel Paulista was sent off for protesting before Jonathan Calleri dispatched the spot kick.

Ruben Vezo was also sent off for two yellow cards in the closing minutes to leave Valencia with nine men and complete their misery.

Meanwhile Villarreal temporarily moved over Real Madrid into fourth place thanks to a routine 2-1 win at home to Levante.

M a nu Tr i g u e r o s opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the first

half and Denis Cheryshev doubled Villarreal’s lead five minutes after the break The only good news for Levante was Roger Marti’s return as a substitute after 6 months out with a knee injury and he scored his side’ s consolation goal from the penalty spot with the last kick of the match.

Sevilla gave coach Vincenzo Montella his first league win with a relatively comfortable triumph 3-0 away to Espanyol.

Fran Vazquez opened the scoring with a tap in after 15 minutes, before Pablo Sarabia doubled the lead in the 34th minute following a good run and shot and with Espanyol inoperative in attack, Luis Muriel sealed the win in the last minute of the game.

significant score with Jonny Bairstow (39) and Joe Root (270 failing to kick on after decent starts.

Buttler however showed the depth England have in their batting line-up in limited-overs cricket as he and Woakes continued to attack even though they only had four wickets remaining.

Seamer Josh Hazlewood, with figures of 2-58 from his 10 overs, was the pick of all the Australia bowlers.

The home side’s runchase got off to a shaky start as David Warner (8) and Cameron White (17) were back in the hut with 44 on the board.

Aaron Finch and his skipper Smith added 69 for the third wicket but the former was out for 62, trapped lbw on review by leg-spinner Adil Rashid.

Smith and Mitch Marsh then brought the Aussies back into the contest with

England players celebrate the wicket of Australia’s Marcus Stonis during their one day international cricket match in Sydney, Sunday. (AP/PTI)

a stand of 68 but both players fell within the space of five overs. Smith for 45 and Marsh for 55 as the hosts were 210/5 at that stage.

Marcus Stoinis (56) and Tim Paine (31 not out) tried to keep the home side alive and were left needing

22 runs off the last over but it was a bridge to far as the Aussies surrendered the series.

England fast bowler Mark Wood bowled with good pace and finished with 2-46 while Woakes capped a fine all round game with

two scalps and closing out the match by bowling the final over.

The fourth ODI will be played in Adelaide on Friday followed by the final game of the series at the new stadium in Perth on Sunday.

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Antoine Griezmann

Barcelona have been scrambling to add highquality players to their squad since Paris SaintGermain lured Brazilian star Neymar to France in a world-record signing last August. Philippe Coutinho joined from Liverpool this month in a 180 millioneuro ($220 million) deal.

Not wanting to add fuel to the fire, Valverde played down the transfer talk.

“Griezmann is a great player who plays for another club whom we respect,” he said. “When the transfer window is open, we are in a world where there is speculation on a daily basis and we have to live with that. But if you’re asking me if Griezmann is a good player, well obviously he is a good player. But I repeat what I always say: I prefer to talk about my own players.”

D i m a p u r , Ja n 2 1 (NPN): In the first match of the BCCI Under 23 one day matches tourney for North East and Bihar Zone being played at Patna, Nagaland defeated Sikkim by 201 runs.

Put to bat first after losing the toss, Nagaland scored 279 losing 4 wickets in 38 overs. The match was reduced to 38 overs a side due to bad weather.

Nagaland opening pair Sedezalie Rupreo (124 not out) and Puchu Deb (65 runs) gave a good opening partnership of 112 runs. Hemant also scored 30 runs while Ravi contributed 26 runs to the teams total.

For Sikkim, Rhonak, Saptula, Afzar and Sandeep claimed a wicket each.

Chasing the huge target, Sikkim was bowled out for just 78 runs. Yogesh (12 runs), Akash and Prasant 11 runs each were the only batsmen who could score double digits.

For Nagaland, Tahmeed claimed 4 wickets while Nagaho and Nadeem took 2 wickets each.

It may be mentioned here that Sedezalie, Puchu and Tahmeed have been regularly representing Nagaland in U-14, U-16, U-19 teams and now U-23.

In the next match, Nagaland will play Meghalaya at Urja Stadium, Patna.

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Barca deny reports of Griezmann agreement M ADRID, J a n 2 1 (Agencies): Barcelona have “strongly” denied claims made by Spanish daily Sport on Saturday that they have reached an agreement to sign Antoine Griezmann from Atletico Madrid at the end of the season.

“The Atletico Madrid forward has agreed to join Barcelona and will be under (coach) Ernesto Valverde’s orders next season,” Sport said, adding that Griezmann’s current buy-out clause of 200 million euros ($240 million) drops by half on July 1.

However, Barcelona later took the unusual step of releasing a statement to deny the reports from the Catalan newspaper.

“FC Barcelona strongly denies the information that has appeared over the course of the last few hours in different media regard-

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L ONDON , J a n 2 1 (Agencies): Watford announced on Sunday they had sacked manager Marco Silva, blaming an “unwarranted approach” by Premier League rivals Everton for a downturn in results and loss of focus.

The Portuguese coach was a target for the Merseyside club earlier in the campaign after an excellent start to the season but a run of one win in 11 Premier League matches has cost him his job.

Instead, Everton appointed Sam Allardyce to replace the sacked Ronald Koeman. “The club is convinced the appointment of Silva was the right one and had it not been for the unwarranted approach by a Premier League rival for his services we would have

continued to prosper under his leadership,” Watford said in a statement.

“The catalyst for this decision is that unwarranted approach, something which the board believes has seen a significant deterioration in both focus and results to the point where the long-term future of Watford FC has been jeopardised.”

The club are 10th in the Premier League table but only five points clear of the relegation places.

“For the security and success of the football club, the board believes it has to make a change,” Watford’s statement said.

“The club will seek to make a swift appointment and there will be no further comment until that appointment has been made.”

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Lo n d o n, Ja n 2 1 (Agencies): Sergio Aguero’s hat-trick helped Manchester City beat Newcastle 3-1 at the Etihad to keep Pep Guardiola’s side 12 points clear at the top of the Premier League table.

City broke the deadlock after 34 minutes when Aguero nodded in Kevin De Bruyne’s inch-perfect cross, before the Argentinian’s penalty doubled the lead (63).

Jacob Murphy pulled a goal back for Newcastle four minutes later, only for that man Aguero to seal the win with his 11th hat-trick for City, and his 22nd goal of the season.

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Aus Open: Nadal fights off gutsy Schwartzman

MELBOURNE, Jan 21 (Agencies): Spain’s Rafael Nadal fought off tenacious Argentine Diego Schwartzman to win through to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Sunday, ensuring he remains world number one after the tournament ends.

Nadal was taken to four gruelling sets in almost four hours before winning 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-3 on Rod Laver Arena.

It will be his 10th AusSpain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates after defeating Argentina’s tralian Open quarter-final Diego Schwartzman on Sunday. (AP/PTI)

appearance, second only to Roger Federer, and he will face Croatia’s sixth seed Marin Cilic.

Nadal broke in the eighth game on the way to taking the opening set, but he encountered stiff resistance in the second set.

There was a magical moment when Schwartzman ran down a drop shot and won the point with an angled volley across the net to break back at 4-4.

Nadal took control in the third set with a break in the fourth game, but he had

to fight off five break points before holding serve in a titanic 13-minute second game in the final set.

He broke in the third game of the fourth set, but had to make some monumental holds of service to keep Schwartzman at bay, winning on his third match point with a return winner.

S c h wa r t z m a n e n deared the crowd with the scampering around the court and his astonishingly Nagaland Sepaktakraw Sub-Junior team won silver medal at the 20th Sub-Junior powerful ground strokes for The National Sepaktakraw Championship. The championship was held at Kurnool, AP from one so small in stature.

January 16 to 20. In the finals, Nagaland boys team lost to Tamil Nadu.

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