January 6, 2020

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Vol XXX No. 29

DIMAPUR, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020 Pages 12 ` 5.00

‘Rahul, Priyanka misleading people’

FA Cup: United, Wolves draw; City wins

Protest outside White House over prospect of war

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Masked goons attack students, teachers at JNU; several injured

(L) JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh attacked by (R) armed masked miscreants inside the campus, Sunday.

NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (AGENCIES): Violence hit Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Sunday evening as a gaggle of masked goons with rods and sticks entered the campus and went on a rampage, focused lecturers and college students.

Several college students including JNU students’ union president Aishe Ghosh were brutally attacked by goons wearing masks. At least 18 people were injured and admitted to the All India Institute of

NH objects to AFSPA extension in Nagaland DIMAPUR, JAN 5 (NPN): Taking strong exception to the extension of Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 in Nagaland by six more months, Naga Hoho (NH) has questioned what was the necessity to impose “this most unwanted law” when the state has been declared peaceful?

In a press release, NH general secretary, K Elu Ndang, said AFSPA was only a means to terrorize and create fear among innocent people. “The Draconian Law is not to maintain law and order in the region but to act and suppress the people,” the general secretary said, adding that the imposition only proved “the iron hand of India and militarisation” against the Nagas.

The hoho asserted that the past decades had proved beyond doubt that through “this demonic law” many human rights have been abused and fundamental rights of its citizen violated by the armed forces.

Fur ther, the Naga Hoho said that “this inhuman law” has lost its relevance in a civilised society and its applicability had no place in the modern (Cont’d on p-7) world.

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Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

A shor t video clip shows blood on Ghosh’s face, she breaks down in the video while revealing that she was attacked.

Ghosh, who belongs to the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said she was attacked by “goons wearing masks”. “I have been brutally attacked by goons wearing masks. I have been bleeding. I was brutally beaten up,” she was quoted as saying by news agency

ANI. Sucharita Sen, faculty of Centre for the Study of Regional Development, was admitted in AIIMS with head injury.

Soon after Delhi police reached the campus later in the evening, the personnel carried out a Flag march.

Situation has been brought “under control”, police said.

Sources said Home Minister Amit Shah has asked Delhi Police chief Amulya Patnaik for a report.

Late in the evening, hundreds of people also

gathered outside the police headquarters to protest against the violence.

Eyewitnesses stated 50-odd masked goons had entered the campus round 6.30 pm. A professor, Atul Sood, told NDTV, “The mob entered hostels and threw huge stones, vandalising property.”

“These were not small stones, these were big stones that could have broken our skulls. I fell on the side and when I came out, I saw cars being completely vandalised including my car,” Professor Atul Sood said.

Hashtagged “#EmergencyinJNU and #SOSJNU, a tweet from the students’ union’s official handle read: “Professors who have been making an attempt to guard us have been crushed up.

These are unknown ABVP goons, not all are college students, they’ve coated their faces, and they’re transferring in the direction of the lodges close to the West Gate. Stay alert. Make human chains. Protect one another.” (Cont’d on p-7)

Petrol, diesel prices up for 4th straight day DIMAPUR, JAN 5 (NPN): State-run oil marketing companies raised petrol and diesel prices for the fourth straight day on Sunday across major cities of the country. Retail pump price of petrol was hiked by 9 paise per litre and that of diesel by 11 paise, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.

Global oil prices have jumped after the US killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of conflict in the crude-rich Middle East.

Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 75.54 per litre -- the highest in more than a year, while a litre of diesel comes for Rs 68.51.

After today’s hike, in Dimapur petrol was retailing Rs.73.37 per litre while price stood at Rs.66.18 per litre. In the state capital Kohima, a litre of petrol and diesel was Rs. 74.18 and Rs. 66.81 respectively.

While global stock markets were mixed following the US killing of Qasem Soleimani, oil prices jumped more than 3 per cent on Friday. Oil markets will reopen on Monday after the weekend break.

Nagaland finalizes action plan to boost Agriculture Export Spl. Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (NPN): Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India Sunday informed that eight states including Nagaland have finalized action plan for Agri Export Policy (AEP), which was announced last year with an objective of doubling the export and ensuring doubling of farmers’ income.

In order to achieve the objective, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has been adopting a focused approach for ensuring greater involvement of the state governments for effective implementation of AEP. Throughout the year, APEDA held a series of meetings with the state government officials and other stakeholders for the preparation of State Action Plan which included all essential components like production clusters, capacity building, infrastructure and logistics and R&D and budget requirements for the implementation of AEP.

M a n y s t a t e s h ave nominated nodal agency and nodal officer. Nagaland, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Punjab and Karnataka have finalized the state action plan and other states are at different stages of finalization of the action plan, the ministry informed.

It also stated that state level monitoring committees have been formed in many of the states. Cluster visits have been made by APEDA nodal officers to the product clusters, it added.

The roadmap for cluster development in the clusters notified under AEP was prepared to address the identified interventions during the cluster visits.

“As a result of cluster visits by APEDA, the cluster level committee has been constituted in the states viz. potato in Punjab, isabgol in Rajasthan, pomegranate, orange and grapes in Maharashtra and banana in Tamil Nadu,” the statement said.

APEDA organised a number of seminars and meetings for the implemen-

tation of AEP throughout the year.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the National Cooperative Development Corporation to include co-operatives for active role in AEP. A Farmer Connect Portal has also been set up

by APEDA on its website for providing a platform for Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and Farmer Producer Companies to interact with exporters, it said.

Over 800 FPOs have been registered on the portal.

A Market Intelligence Cell was set up in APEDA and the activity of dissemination of e-market intelligence reports comprising detailed market analysis, international trade issues, current scenario of the interest to Indian exporters in important markets and statistical information has been started from November 25, 2019.

All e-reports are available on APEDA website https://apeda.gov.in. Till now 27 reports have been disseminated for mango, basmati rice, non-basmati rice, groundnut, grapes,

Oppn NPF to decide UNTABA appalled at advise by border affairs adviser Kenye’s fate on Jan 7 Correspondent

KOHIMA, JAN 5 (NPN): Dissatisfied with the response of Rajya Sabha member KG Kenye to the showcause notice served on him for voting in favour of Citizenship (Amendment) Act, NPF’s Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) had recommended NPF president Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu to discuss the matter on a bigger platform, including with Central office bearers and Central Executive Council.

Based on the recommendation, the president called for a meeting on January 7, where the MP has also been reportedly invited.

A senior NPF functionary informed Nagaland Post that the matter would be discussed during the meeting and a decision taken.

The senior party member regretted that despite being

in opposition, the image of the party was stained, even as the confidence of the people on the party was also greatly being affected.

Echoing Liezietsu, who had told Nagaland Post during an interview that NPF would never ever accept CAA, the senior member claimed that his party had always stood by the people and would not step back, but continue to remain with the people, while also restoring the party’s image.

Meanwhile, though the NPF president had accepted the resignation of Kenye from the post of secretary general, the party was reportedly yet to identify anyone for replacement.

According to sources, the names of at least three senior party functionaries were doing the rounds. However, NPF remained tight-lipped on the issue.

DIMAPUR, JAN 5 (NPN): United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) said it was appalled by the statement made by adviser Horticulture and Border Affairs Mhathung Yanthan during his recent visit to border areas in Indisen and Rilan, requesting villagers to maintain peace which it described as “nothing but stupid and ignorant”.

UNTABA chairman Hukavi T Yeputhomi and general secretary Imsumongba Pongen, claimed that Nagaland was the only State with no clear-cut boundary demarcation till date.

UNTABA said that the current intricacies in and around Indisen and Rilan villages were nothing but the “undoing” of the state government.

It pointed out that since the chief ministership of P Shilu Ao in 1960s and Dr Hokishe Sema in early 70s, the government of Nagaland

had initiated appropriate steps demanding implementation of the 16th Point Agreement’s points 12 and 13. This led to institution of Sundaram Commission, which submitted its findings in 1971 based on which an Interim Agreement was reached between Nagaland and Assam governments in 1973.

UNTABA said , the basic idea of the agreement was identifying the historical, geographical and political rights of the Naga people.

In accordance with this, it said the Centre and Assam had agreed that Nagaland did not have a definite boundary demarcation till date, which prompted the Government of Assam to file a civil suit against the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Chief Election Commission of India and Government of Nagaland in 1988 (Civil Suit No. 2 of 1988) in Supreme Court of India, which made

the boundary issue sub judice now.

Referring to recent happenings in and around Indisen and Rilan villages, UNTABA alleged that the forest department of Assam had been trying to erect reserved forests posts without inviting

Nagaland forest department.

However, it asserted that any pillar or post erected by the Assam forest department would never be the boundary between the two States until and unless the Government of Assam implemented the Interim Agreement of 1973

and 1979. While the Government of Nagaland as a plaintiff had been consistently insisting that 4,974.16 square miles or 12, 883.07 square km area was still under the illegal occupation of Assam, UNTABA (Cont’d on p-7)

BJP flayed for ‘missed call’ campaign N E W D E L H I , JA N 5 (AGENCIES): With the BJP and the Centre coming in for intense criticism for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the party had begun a campaign asking people to give a missed call to a number to “register” their support for the controversial law. While reports said that the BJP IT cell would also “give a push” to the campaign on social media outlets, the strategy took a rather interesting turn, as it later emerged.

A number — earlier shared by BJP leaders like Amit Shah asking people to give missed calls to show support for the CAA— is now being shared by many Twitter accounts pretending to be bored women looking for companionship.

From offers of “100 percent guaranteed” jobs to promises of free Netflix subscriptions and mobile

internet data to discounts on premium watches and private hot chats, several accounts on Twitter are asking users into sending missed calls to the BJP’s tollfree number launched two days ago to register people’s endorsement for the contentious CAA. Just to obtain the ‘missed call’ many Twitter accounts had begun misleading their followers into calling the number on pretexts that callers would get in touch with phone sex operators. While some of the accounts claimed that they were doing it as a “prank”, evidence suggests many are linked to the BJP IT cell. At least one of the prominent accounts which tweeted misleading information about the phone number is followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Naga Hoho, NSF slam state BJP

KOHIMA, JAN 5 (NPN): Naga Hoho (NH) and Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) criticized the state BJP for launching the “missed call” campaign in support of CAA, which sparked nationwide protests after it was passed.

Reacting to BJP’s campaign in support of CAA launched by BJP state president and minister Temjen Imna Along; Naga Hoho has termed it as “ridiculous” as BJP knew that Nagas were against the Act. NH general secretary Elu Ndang informed Nagaland Post that the launch by BJP tantamount to demeaning people’s voice. Further, he said it was unfortunate that “our own elected member” ignored the sentiments of people he represented just to please his bosses in Delhi.

Ndang also demanded to know as to what was the advantage of CAA in Nagaland and what the BJP president was expected to consider the sentiments of his people he represents. He reiterated that CAA will never be accepted and that people will remain opposed to it.

Expressing similar views, NSF president Ninoto Awomi said that even though state BJP president, Temjen Imna Along may have followed the directive of the central BJP, he should have kept in mind the sentiments of the Nagas that have been hurt by the passage of CAB. Therefore, Ninoto said the missed call initiatives was like provoking the general public. “As a Naga leader, he should choose to rather respect the sentiments and wishes (Cont’d on p-7) of the people,” he added. (Correspondent) K Y M C

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SASU silver jubilee monolith unveiled

Rev. Y Imtiba Sangtam, executive secretary USBLA along with president USLP and SASU officials.

DIMAPUR: Monolith erected in commemoration of Seyochung Area Students’ Union (SASU) silver jubilee was unveiled

at Seyochung on January 5.

A press release from SASU planning secretary Horiba Sangtam stated

that, the monolith was unveiled by Rev. Y Imtiba Sangtam, executive secretary, United Sangtam Baptist Lithroti Ashimükhung

(USBLA) as dedication minister in the presence of Seopi Sangtam, president United Sangtam Likum Pümji (USLP). During the dedication programme, Rev. Y Imtiba read out the word of God from the book of Joshua 24:25 and said that survival of human beings can be limited but this monolith will stand witness from generation to generation.

Earlier, programme started with an invocation

by Yanglise, pastor Old Monger Baptist Lithro, and a special number was presented by Seyochung Village Students’ Union.

Pilila, youth pastor made an offertory prayer. Seopi Sangtam, president USLP and Tsichomong, GB Seyochung town, exhorted the gatherings. Rotiba G and Tingpila chaired the programme.

news in Brief CFD first prayer fellowship for 2020: Christian Forum Dimapur (CFD) will hold its first prayer fellowship for 2020 on January 7, 7 a.m to 7:30 a.m at town Baptist Church, Dimapur. All the leaders and believers are encouraged to join in the programme.

CFD also wishes the people of Nagaland a very prosperous New Year.

Siimi and Chakhesang first fraternity culture exchange: Siimi and Chakhesang community of Dziilhami village, Phek district, Kilomi and Khughutomi villages under Zunheboto district will hold its first fraternity culture exchange on January 21 at Dziilhami village local ground. Flag will be unfurled at 8:30 a.m. All the members of Dziilhami, Kilomi and Khughutomi residing outside the village have been invited to the occasion.

LHD general meeting: Lotha Hoho Dimapur (LHD) has convened general meeting-cum-installation of new office bearers for 2020-2022 on January 11, 10 a.m at Lotha Hoho Ki Dimapur. All frontal organizations and units members are informed to attend the meeting positively.

Tuensang DPDB meeting: District planning and development board (DPDB) meeting of Tuensang district will be held on January 8, 11 a.m at DC conference hall. All the DPDB members have been requested to attend the meeting.

Activities and programmes of department of Social Welfare, Wokha The department of Social Welfare was set up in 1968 with the sole purpose of implementing Welfare programmes to uplift the weaker section of the society. Currently, the following programmes are being implemented in Wokha District for the benefit of child, women, poor and needy people.

1. Child Welfare Programme.

2. Welfare Programme for Senior citizens.

3. Welfare Programme for Person with Disabilities.

Child Welfare Programme (a) Anganwadi Services:-Anganwadi services erstwhile Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is a flagship programme of the GOI and represents one of the world largest and unique programmes for early childhood care scheme and development.

The beneficiaries under the scheme are age group of 0-6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers.

There are 5 ICDs projects in the district covering 22,575 beneficiaries through 358 Anganwadi Centres.

Packages of services provided through ICDS are: - Supplementary nutrition, Pre-School nonformal education, nutrition and Health education, Immunization, Health checkup & Referral services.

The latest three services are related to health and are provided in collaboration with Department of Health through NRHM & Health system. Each ICDS project is under the charge of a Child Development Project Officer who is assisted by Supervisors for implementation of the scheme. The Anganwadi Worker is assisted by a helper who looks after the activities of each Anganwadicentre. Besides, the delivery of the package of services, the AWW conduct regular health and nutrition education in the centers and home and home visits are carried out regularly.

National Nutrution Mission:-National nutrition mission PMs Convergence scheme for holistic nourishment is being implemented in Wokha District. The objective of the scheme is to address nutritional deficiencies of children in the age group of 0-6 years, pregnant and lactating mother to reduce low weight, under nutrition and prevalence of Anemia through advocacy and IEC. This mission is based on Real Time-Monitoring so as to ensure targeted and timely interventions of the scheme.

Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY):- PMMVY was launched in 2007. The objective of the scheme is to improve the health and nutrition status of pregnant women and lactating mothers (PW & LM) and infants. A sum of Rs.5000/- in three installments is directly credited in the bank account of the beneficiaries so as to provide partial compensation

for the wage loss in terms of cash incentives so that women can take adequate rest before and after delivery of the first child. As of now 1318 beneficiaries are enrolled under this scheme.

Welfare programme for senior citizens. National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), the NSAP scheme is funded by the Ministry of Rural Development and Department of Social Welfare implements the following 4 scheme.

1. Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS).

2. Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension scheme (IGNDPS).

3. Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension scheme (IGNWPS).

4. National Family Benefit scheme: - under this scheme a lump-sum assistance will be given to the bereaved household in the event of death of the bread-winner. The family benefit will be paid to such

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surviving member of the deceased poor. However, the death of such a breadwinner should have occurred whilst he/ she is in the age of 18 to 59 years.

State welfare programme for person with disability (PwD): 1. Financial assistance to invalid persons: - financial assistance of Rs.300/- per month per head is provided to the needy persons with disabilities. Altogether 323 persons are covered under this scheme.

2. Financial Assistance to Blind Persons: - this scheme is a financial assistance to Blind persons.

A sum of Rs.300/- is provided to 167 visually impaired persons as of now in Wokha district.

3. H a n d i c a p p e d Scholarship: - Disable students from Class A to VII are provided with scholarship of Rs.300/per month. At present the benefit is extended to 5 students in the district.

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Assam Rifles conduct civic action programmes

SXCC Kidima celebrates epiphany 2020

LPO condemns December 26 murder incident DIMAPUR: Lotha Public Organisation (LPO) has strongly condemned the inhuman murder of late Yanbemo Mozhui, son of Yisamo Mozhui of Bhandari village under Wokha district while he was under judicial custody at Wokha district jail on December 26, 2019.

A press release from LPO chairman Sulanthung Humtsoe stated that, “no words is enough to condemn such beastly act of

barbarism” and that “no man with human heart will ever think of committing such act even to animals.”

LPO called on the authorities and the law enforcing agencies to award befitting punishment to the culprits as per the law of the land and bring those responsible to justice. It further conveyed condolence to the bereaved family members and pray for the departed soul to rest in peace.

Peraciezie colony bodies ban liquor DIMAPUR: Peraciezie Colony parent body, Peraciezie Mothers’ Union and Peraciezie Youth Organization (PYO), Kohima have resolved to ban production, stock and sale of liquor (both IMFL and local brew) within Peraciezie Colony jurisdiction with effect from February 1.

A press release from president, PYO, Kevisetso Miachieo, stated that the resolution was passed considering negative effects on overall health of individual, peace, tranquillity and social fabric of the society.

It further stated that the resolution complies with NLTP Act and appeals made by various bodies and wishes of colony residents in general.

Further, house owners have also been informed not to indulge or rent out their properties to individual/s dealing in illicit liquor business.

Individuals dealing in production, stock and sale of alcohol within the colony jurisdiction have also been informed to take serious note of this resolution.

DIMAPUR: St Xavier Catholic Church (SXCC) Kidima under the diocese of Kohima celebrated epiphany (manifestation of God to Gentile through Magi) 2020 with rest of the world with Rev. Fr. Raymond D’ Souza, director of Eden Garden and Children Home, Khuzama as main celebrant at church premises.

A press release from SXCC Kidima stated that, Fr. Raymond D’ Souza said epiphany concludes the season of Christmas which began with advent. Father said that three kings from the east journey with great difficulties to come and worship Jesus at Bethlehem guided by a bright star. At the end of their journey, the wise men were surprised that the Messiah was born in the manger instead of palace, he added.

He urged the large faithful gathering to manifest as Catholic with hard work, sincerity, correct motive, honesty and good intention to be true followers of Jesus.

Reading of the Holy Bible, eucharist, enchanting of Gloria, special song presented by women’s association and sharing of joy and hap- Mount Sinai School Wokha, Home Mission School piness were the highlights of of Wokha Town Baptist Church (WTBC) went on an the daylong programme. educational tour to New Delhi- Agra.

Patients at the free medical and dental check up camp Patients availing the free medical camp at Yakor village conducted on December 29. during the 54th general session of YSU.

DIMAPUR: Various battalions of Assam Rifles organized activities for the local people as part of their civic action programmes in the state.

Phek Battalion: Phek Battalion conducted an interaction with village functionaries at COB, Jessami on January 2, 2020.

According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), the aim of the interaction was to cover issues pertaining to security of Jessami area, K Y M C

ongoing political scenario and cooperation to tackle illegal tax collection. The event concluded with the Company Commander expressing the need for such interactions at regular interval and assurance for addressing concerns of the locals of the region. 30 village functionaries attended the event.

Phek Battalion also provided medical assistance to Machimo, age 12 years of Avangkhu village

who sustained cut injury to his left hand on January 4, 2020. The individual approached troops of Assam Rifles for first aid wherein four stitches were administered on the lacerated wound at company operating base mi room.

Dimapur Battalion: Dimapur Battalion conducted an interaction with Assam Rifles ExServicemen (ARESM) on December 28 at Kashiram Basti, Dimapur. According

to PRO HQ IGAR (N), 23 ARESM, 17 families, 20 veer naries and 19 children of Dimapur town area.

Commander, 6 Sector Assam Rifles interacted with the ARESM to understand their concerns, problems and grievances. An assurance of all possible support and assistance was given to the ARESM. Dimapur Battalion also conducted coaching and training of students for All India Sainik School entrance

examination from December 2 to January 3. 14 students from various schools availed the facility.

Chieswema Battalion: Chieswema Battalion conducted a free medical and dental check up camp at TsiesemaBasa village on December 29. A total of 350 patients were treated and provided with free medicines. Villagers were also briefed on life style diseases and precautions to be taken to avoid them.

Shamator Battalion: As part of the ongoing 54th general session cum literary & cultural programme of Yakor Students Union (YSU), Shamator Battalion conducted a free medical camp at Yakor village, Tuensang district wherein medical consultation and basic treatment was administered to 12 male 126 female and 51 children.

According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), interactive lectures on healthy living, hygiene, child care was also conducted. The event also witnessed various cultural and traditional presentations.

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Participants with Assam Rifles personnel at the interaction held at COB Commander, 6 Sector Assam Rifles interacting with the Jessami. participants during the programme.

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WEATHER FORECAST January 6

(Temperature in ºC)

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Agartala Sunshine; nice in the p.m.

23 11

Partly sunny

18 9

Guwahati Partly sunny

21 11

Aizawl Imphal

Partly sunny and cool

18 8

Itanagar Clouds and sunshine

18 10

Shillong Partly sunny

12 1

Kohima

Sunshine and cool

Dimapur Partial sunshine Mkg

Partly sunny and cool

Tuensang Sunshine and cooler Wokha

13 4 19 10 15 6 8

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An a.m. shower; partly sunny 13 8

Zunheboto Partly sunny and cool

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B S Nganlang Phom, MLA inaugurating the jubilee monolith. (NP)

Correspondent LO N G L E N G, JA N 5 (NPN): Yongnyah Hongnyiu Village Buhu (YHVB) Citizens’ Forum under Longleng district celebrated its golden jubilee under the theme, “For our native village”, from December 28 to 29 with B.S. Nganlang, MLA & chairman DPDB as the special guest.

Speaking on the occasion, B.S. Nganlang stressed on the need for the villagers to come together like one big family and sort out all the differences for a better tomorrow. He lauded the founding members of Yongnyah Hongnyiu Buhu (Citizens’ Forum) for their bright vision and tireless ef-

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fort in uniting the people of the village. He also encouraged the younger generation to do research and keep a record of all the traditional and cultural values.

The first day began with tribute to late S. Bangjak Phom, the founding president of Yongnyah Hongnyiu Buhu (Citizens’ Forum), who had rendered his entire life for the welfare of the village and community at large. Later, there was showcasing of different traditional log drum beats of all the five morungs in the village began with Bangnyei Phom, JE, R.D Block Jalukie, as the special guest. Youths of different morungs displayed their rich cultural and traditional

practices with their much enthusiasm.

Other main speakers for the various sessions were Rev. Fr. Charles Ongdok, dean of studies, Good Shepherd Seminary, Dimapur, H. Mongngoi, pastor, Longleng Town Baptist Church (LTBC) and Rev. D. Vangpong, general secretary Nagaland Christian Revival Church (NCRC).

On behalf of Yongnyah Hongnyu Buhu (Citizens’ Forum) and jubilee planning, chairman Ongnyei Phom and convener P. Bongshak, expressed their heartfelt gratitude to all the citizens of the village for their support and co-operation in successfully organizing the golden jubilee.

Tripura govt installs biometric system in schools AG A RTA L A , JA N 5 (AGENCIES): The Tripura government has started installation of the Aadhar-enabled biometric system in all government and gover nment-aided schools across the state.

Tripura education minister Ratan Lal Nath said this in Agartala on Saturday, reports Northeast Now news.

“The BJP-IPFT state government, in a circular issued on December 14, 2018, had said that the Aadhar-enabled biometric system would be introduced in all departments and government offices, and, accordingly, it has been introduced in many places while it is yet to be introduced in some places,” Nath said.

The education minister said the biometric system had been introduced to mark the attendance of employees, teachers and non-teaching staff in government offices and government-aided schools across Tripura for transparency.

The biometric system has been installed in almost all the general degree and professional colleges and 21 government departments in the state.

New Year festival of Thangal community held in Manipur

Nemcha Kipgen, social welfare and cooperation minister of Manipur along with others. (Northeast Now)

IMPHAL, JAN 5 (AGENCIES): The New Year Festival of the Thangal community of Manipur known as Ng-Ngee (Angee) Pheo Tangnit 2020 was held held at Tumnoupokpi Village in Kangpokpi district on the first Saturday of the New Year 2020, reports Northeast Now. Manipur social welfare and cooperation minister Nemcha Kipgen formally opened the Ng-Ngee (Angee) Pheo Tangnit which is the first of all the festivals celebrated by the Thangal tribe in a year.

Chairman Haokholal Hagshing of Sadar Hills Au t o n o m o u s D i s t r i c t Council, Kangpokpi; Ambassador of India to the Republic of Cote d’ Ivoire, Guinea & Liberia, Y K Sail-

as Thangal and president Y K Kaping of Thangal Union also attended the formal inauguration of the New Year festival which was held under the theme “Retrospection towards culture”.

Speaking on the occasion, social welfare minister Nemcha stressed that all round development in any fields can be achieved only when people resides

in peace and harmony irrespective of caste, creed, religion and culture.

Stating that one should work not just for the welfare and development for today’s generation but for the future generation too, minister Kipgen also expressed that forgive and forget is one of the most essential qualities to live peacefully amongst all the different communities residing in the state.

Arunachal to have long highway along India-China border

I TA NAG A R , JA N 5 (AGENCIES): Arunachal Pradesh deputy chief minister Chowna Mein on Saturday said that construction work of the 2000 km long Arunachal Frontier Highway along the India-China border will be commenced soon, reports Northeast Now. The highway will connect the border areas from

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Vijaynagar in Changlang district to Mago-Thingbu in Tawang district.

Mein also said that the survey work and Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the ambitious highway has been completed.

While inaugurating a steel suspension bridge over the Pare river at Balapu in C h o w n a M e i n , c h i e f Papum Pare district on minister of Arunachal Saturday, Main also said Pradesh. (Northeast Now)

that an East-West Industrial Corridor will soon be constructed along the foothills of the state.

Dedicating the 75 metre steel suspension bridge to the people of Pech-Hoj, UpperBalapu & Balapu in Sagalee sub-division, the deputy chief minister said that the bridge is a New Year gift from the state government to the people

of these areas. He also hoped that the bridge will help in development of the villages besides boosting connectivity.

The deputy chief minister called upon the people to change their mindsets if they wish to see fasttracking of developmental activities in the state. He also said that connectivity is one of the most impor-

tant sectors of the state government.

Mein claimed that connectivity to far-flung areas of the state is important to boost the tourism industry.

He also urged the people to create a congenial atmosphere for the development of tourism industry and to make the state investment friendly.

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Loopholes in ILP: Manipur Congress

Correspondent IMPHAL, Jan 5: After JCILPS and student bodies, the opposition Congress also pointed out flaws in guidelines of the Inner Line Permit System (ILPS) framed

by Manipur government and published in the state gazette on December 31, 2019.

Manipur came under ILP regime with effect from January 1, 2010 making the state the fourth northeastern state after Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh where the ILP is in force. To enforce the regulation, Manipur government framed the guidelines, pending rules and regulations, which according to chief minister N Biren Singh will come up later.

JCILPS and student bodies have been demanding review of the guidelines published in the state gazette pointing out that there was no provision to protect indigenous people.

While pointing the same, opposition Congress today demanded that the guidelines be tabled in the house of state Assembly in its one-day session to be convened on January 6.

“Let’s discuss loopholes in the ILPS guidelines in the

Fromer Manipur CM O Ibobi and Cong leader Gaikhangam at a press conference in Imphal on Sunday Assembly,” former chief minister O Ibobi Singh demanded, addressing a press conference here attended by Congress MLAs. The state Assembly will be reconvened on Monday for ratification of the Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill 2019. Speaker of the Assembly Y Khemchand has reconvened the sitting of second part of the 9th session of the 11th Manipur Legislative Assembly at 11 am on January 6.

Demanding a discussion on the agenda, the former chief minister said that the Centre’s decision to extend ILPS in the state should not be taken lightly.

He said, to have a mechanism to protect the indigenous people of the state was a long pending demand of the people and the state

Assembly had passed bills during the previous Congress tenure as well as the incumbent government.

He however stated that none of the bills was converted into Act with the latest one being the Manipur People Bill 2018, was is still pending for assent from the President of India.

While the people and state government were waiting for the assent of the President to the Manipur People Bill 2018, the Centre announced the extension of ILPS under Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation 1873 in the state, he added.

The people had demanded ILPS with the sole objective of protecting the indigenous people of the state from the ever increasing population of migrants in the state.

Unfor tunately, the guidelines framed by the government failed to address the long desire of protection of indigenous people of the state, the former three-time chief minister alleged.

He said the guideline was full of loopholes pointing out that the ILP system introduced in the state was a huge difference with the system being enforced in other states of northeast –Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.

In the guideline, some terms were not clearly defined, he observed, pointing out that no definition of the term “indigenous people” and “permanent residents” were mentioned in para no. 8 of a clause of the guideline. He asked for a thorough discussions and consultations on the ILP guidelines to fulfil the desire of the indigenous people of the state.

He demanded that the state government must consider incorporating provisions related with the protection of indigenous people included in the Manipur People Bill 2018, a bill still pending with the Rastrapati Bhavan for the President’s assent.

FIR against SP for molesting minor Guwahati, Jan 5 (PTI): An FIR has been registered against the Superintendent of Police of a hill district in Assam under the POCSO Act on the charge of sexually harassing a minor daughter of another senior police officer during a new year party.

The SP threw the party on December 31 in which a senior lady police official went with her teenage daughter, sources said on Sunday. The IPS officer allegedly sexually harassed the teenager in an inebriated condition inside a room of his official bungalow at the district headquarter town.

The girl’s mother, who is a senior Assam Police Services officer, lodged a complaint along with her daughter at the All Women Police Station and “a case was registered on January 3 under the POCSO Act,” a police source said.

The girl’s statement has already been recorded but whether the SP has been questioned is not yet clear.

At the Crime & Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) website, the status of the FIR has been blocked with a message, “Case considered to be sensitive, cannot be displayed.”

Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020

Himanta takes a jibe at AASU’s ‘Gana Hoonkar’ programme

Himanta Biswa GUWAHATI, JAN 5 ( AGENCIES): Senior BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma Saturday took a jibe at the All Assam Students Union’s ‘Gana Hoonkar’ (Citizen’s Roar) programme against the CAA saying it is a “baby” compared to the gathering of the BJP boothlevel presidents of the state during the day, reports The Northeast Today.

The programme by AASU, which is spearheading the continuing state wide protests against the CAA, was held at the sprawling Latasil ground and a cultural programme at the Chandmari grounds here on Saturday for people to register their protests against the contentious Law. The gathering by the BJP booth level presidents was held during the day at the Veterinary Field here.

I want to tell the people

(AASU) who are roaring from the Latasil field and Chandmari field that Latasil (the protests against CAA) is a baby and our rally here (at Veterinary Field) is the father, Sarma, who is the BJP NEDA convenor, said in his address at the gathering.

Gesturing towards the crowd at the Veterinary Field, Sarma, who is also the Assam finance minister, said These are the booth leaders only. The party karyakartas (workers) are at home.

Referring to the protestors against the CAA, he said, I want to tell these people read the history of the Assam Agitation… the agitation was successful because it was peaceful and non-violent.

On the AASU hinting at launching a political party to be an alternative to the ruling BJP-AGP combine and opposition Congress, Sarma said that BJP will fight it in the political arena.

“If in the name of protests, somebody begins harboring dreams of becoming the chief minister or forming a political party BJP will not hesitate to fight it politically,” he added.

Miscreants loot Bandhan Bank employee in Tripura AGARTALA , JAN 5 ( AGENCIES): Yet again in Garzi area of Udaipur subdivision a group of miscreants looted Rs 72, 810 from a bank employee yesterday in Tainani area in Tripura, reports The Northeast Today.

According to Police sources, Sanjit Rudrapaul, an employee of Bandhan bank, Matabari branch near Udaipur had collected Rs 72,810 from borrowers in different villages.

On his way, a gang of armed miscreants stopped Sanjit Rudrapaul’s motor bike and encircled him before looting the entire bagful of money with his personal mobile set.

They fled the area with Rudrapaul’s motor bike, leaving him injured.

The local people rescued him and informed the police who later recovered the motor bike.

Sanjit Rudrapaul was shifted to hospital where he was given first aid.

A ‘Bandhan’ bank agent said that repeated looting of bank money would ultimately harm the interests of the rural people who draw small loans from the bank on easy terms.

Forward bloc opposes NRC, ILP for Tripura Archbishop Menamparampil NIA appeals for fresh custody of Akhil who came to Hill Tipperah were from areas of eastern Bengal where they paid taxes to the Tripura kings,” Roy said, quoting from historical texts.

“It was natural for these Bengali people to move to another part of the Tripura kingdom when their hearth and home fell in Pakistan,” said Roy. “The Chakma tribespeople also moved to Tripura in large numbers when the princely region of Chittagong Hill Tracts was given away to Pakistan, where Muslims were less than 3 percent of the population,” he said.

Roy said that though the wise kings of Tripura introduced the Tribal Reserve system to protect the tribal lands, they did not adopt the “very divisive” ILP system introduced by the colonial British rulers to divide tribals and non-tribals. “If the centre now introduces the ILP in the state’s Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, it will paralyse movement of goods and people throughout the state.

A Bengali will have to take an ILP every time he goes 20 kms outside Agartala,” Roy said. He said Tripura was the only state where citizenship certificates have

been issued regularly since 1960s and these certificates were mandatory for jobs, education, business and purchase of property.”The state already has a list of citizens, so we don’t need NRC here,” said Roy. He said the CPI (M) was divided on these issues “because a section of their leadership was trying to push for NRC and ILP while the party leadership was against it.”

The CPI (M) is the senior partner of the Left Front which has ruled Tripura between 1978 and 88 and then between 1993 and 2018. Some tribal leaders of the party, under pressure from regional tribal parties, were pushing their leadership to demand NRC to weed out illegal migrants and ILP to curb movement of non- tribals into the tribal council area.

“There was an attempt to pass this off as a Left Front decision. Our forceful objection stopped that and now we want to nip in bud both NRC and ILP because it will bring untold miseries to thousands,” Roy said.

The BJP and its chief minister Biplab Kr Deb was also known to be circumspect about both the NRC and the ILP demands.

nominated for journalism award

GUWAHATI,JAN 5: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) will honour noted peace activist Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, by conferring him with its prestigious annual ‘Louis Careno Award for Excellence in journalism’ for his bold writings against communalism and fundamentalism that is gaining ground globally.

The Award will be conferred on the Archbishop by former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurien Joseph, during the 25th National Convention of Christian Journalists, organized by the ICPA, scheduled to be held in Delhi, on February 29.

“Archbishop Menamparampil’s name is synonymous with peace, intercommunity dialogue and social harmony. His incisive, thought-provoking writings on these subjects have broken new grounds,” says ICPA President Mr Ignatius Gonsalves.

Kochi based senior journalist Mr Gonsalves adds, “His razor-sharp analysis of socio-cultural and political issues, especially relating to North-East, have led to soul-searching debates and concrete peace initia-

tives.” Besides being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, the former archbishop of Guwahati has also received “Ambassador for Peace” award from the International Human Rights Council, New Delhi on December 9, 2019.

Having spent a lion’s share of his life in the NorthEast, the Kerala-born 84 year old Archbishop’s writings reflect his deep understanding of the region’s cultural values and ethnic diversity. Editor of Indian Currents weekly and ICPA Secretary Capuchin Father Dr. Suresh Mathew says, “His articles are marked by scholarly insights and he minces no words in raising his voice against irrational, biased and unfair policies and decisions of the governments of all times.”

Most of his early writings were talks he gave to his co-workers like A Path to Prayer, Let Your Light Shine, Thought on Evangelization, Never Grow Tired. His reflections on culture and its relationship with missionary work came to be published next, like The Challenge of Cultures, Cultures in the Context of Evangelization.

Tungjoy village wants road to protect disputed land bordering Nagaland Correspondent IMPHAL, Jan 5: Manipur Tungjoy village authority has demanded immediate construction of an approach road till Khezhakeno village near Nagaland border to protect the present disputed land between Nagaland and those of Manipur.

The memorandum was submitted to a ministerial team led by deputy chief minister Y Joykumar who attended inaugural ceremony of “The Veymy Teithe – Tungjoy Glory Day” 2020 held today at Tungjoy village in Senapati district on Saturday.

In the memorandum, the Tungjoi village authority drew the attention of the state government for immediate construction of an approach road around three km with any available fund at the earliest.

There has been a long standing conflict between Tungjoi village of Senapati district of Manipur and Khezhakeno village of Phek district of Nagaland on dispute over a land between the two border villages.

The memorandum stated that there was an age-old K Y M C

Manipur deputy CM attending Tungjoy Glory Day 2020 celebration on Saturday. boundary dispute between Tungjoi village and Khezhakeno village since the 19th century and has since then remain unsettled.

It alleged that in order to protect the land and the people of Nagaland, the Nagaland government has carried out so many developmental works in the disputed land such as construction of an NAP camp, an extra- assistant commissioner office, one forest beat office, one border magistrate office, black topping of roads etc.

However no such preventive steps have been taken up by Manipur government.

The Tungjoi villagers further urged the deputy chief minister to construct a community hall and upgradation of the sub-primary health centre to primary health centre.

After receiving the memorandum, state deputy chief minister Y Joykumar assured that he will convey the message to the chief minister as well as the state cabinet and ministers con-

cerned. He further informed villagers that an all out effort will be made to settle the issue. State cabinet has already discussed on the issue and it will be settled as soon as possible, he assured.

On the occasion, the deputy chief minister said that culture and tradition bridges the past and present and also showed the footnotes of the future.

The way of life of a community can be depicted through the culture and tradition of that particular community, he added.

Highlighting the impact of modernization in preserving one’s culture and tradition, the deputy chief minister said, t though modernization is important, it should not affect traditions.

“A balancing approach is needed to preserve our traditions and also to avail the benefits of modernization in our lives,” he said.

State PHED minister Losii Dikho also said he was impressed by the commitment and dedication shown by the people of Tungjoy village. “It is one of the oldest historical villages in Senapati district. There has been a good work culture among the people of the village giving them a socioeconomic prosperity for the last many decades,” Losii Dikho said. The minister added that the state government was committed to the welfare of people even in the interior hilly areas.

He claimed that almost all t villages in Mao Assembly Constituency have been given safe drinking water supply, adding that inter-village roads have also been developed and black topping of village roads are in progress.

G U WA H AT I , JA N 5 (AGENCIES): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will approach Gauhati High Court, seeking peasant leader Akhil Gogoi’s custody again, reports Northeast Now. A source said the NIA might ask a division bench for Akhil’s custody on Monday.

He added that there were possibilities of the hearing related to the custody being heard on Monday or after Akhil’s judicial custody is over. The source said although there was no confirmation on how many days the agency had sought Akhil’s custody, everything would be cleared on Monday. The agency may ask for 10 or 14 days’ custody for further investigation into the charges against him.

Akhil was first arrested

by Assam police on December 12. On December 17, he was handed over to the NIA which arrested him under the Unlawful Activities

(Prevention) Act. He was in 10-day NIA custody and after the end of the remand he was produced in a special NIA court on December 26, which sent him to 14 days’ judicial custody.

A police officer said an NIA team carried out search operations at Akhil’s house at Nizarapar on December 26 and seized documents and a laptop. Another team raided Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) office at Gandhibasti and seized books and files.

During the three-hour raid on Akhil’s house, the

sleuths seized copies of his identity cards, registration certificate of Orchid Park in Kaziranga (of which he is the founder), a bank passbook, a file with the name tag “Credit-deposit ratio KMSS file Misc”, a diary which he had written in jail in 2017, a debit card, a file related to NHPC Lower Subansiri hydroelectric project and a laptop. All these were seized from the library in his house.

During the raid on the KMSS office too, the sleuths seized several books and files.

Dear Vernica jain (Guddu), We wish you lots of joy and happiness on your 6th birth day! You will now be another year older which means you will be another year wiser. May you have lots of fun on this special day of yours!

Lotz of Love, Mom, Dad, Aarav, Tia &All. OFFICE OF THE

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LPO IN SUPPORT OF PAN NAGA HOHO

For many years the Nagas has fought with the consequences that, lakhs of life have been sacrificed for the cause of the Nation building. Nagas of today are proud and grateful to our Almighty God for the achievement form this sacrificial struggle which our freedom fighters has made it thus far, by making the Naga Political Movement Globally at large.

Time has come for us to make a realistic assessment of the distance we have covered in our journey of Naga National Movement. When the whole World is looking at the Nagas for a peaceful solution, why should we keep on creating an ecosystem of hatred among ourselves? we should no longer weaken our unity by blaming and demonizing one another for what we have not yet achieved. Instead, it is the time for peace and time to bring an end to this sheer jealousy and prejudice for the greater interest of the Naga Nation and accept the spirit of oneness among our Naga families.

Nagas must appreciate and acknowledged the peace talk negotiators for projecting the PAN NAGA HOHO to facilitate the integration of all the Naga inhabited areas under one administration, as it is the only way forward for the Nagas to live together as one family in the truest of harmony and brotherhood which has separated the Nagas by the occupational forces without the consent of the Naga people. Therefore, Lotha Public Organisation (LPO) urged to the Naga family to facilitate the integration of all the Nagas areas by supporting and accepting the PAN NAGA HOHO as the herald of re-building the Naga families once again.

Further, the LPO appreciated the GOI and the NSCN for the breakthrough of the Naga Peace Talk and desiring both the entities to sign the Final Agreement soon. The twenty three (23) years of negotiation in between the GOI & NSCN could make the Naga position loud and clear. Having understood the Naga Political rights and its situation, the Framework Agreement has been signed on 3rd August 2015 with an inspiration to solve the long standing Naga Political issue. Basing on the unique history of the Nagas and its situation, the GOI and NSCN has proposed for shared sovereignty power as two entities.

Meanwhile, the Nagas in general and the LPO in particular support the proposed PAN NAGA HOHO as a statutory Naga body, comprising of all the Naga tribes wherever they resides, LPO believes that welcoming of PAN NAGA HOHO in the Naga soil will safeguard and promote Naga identity, integrity, and interest including social, cultural, customary practices, languages and dialects of various Naga tribes and it is a paramount goal in the making of Naga Nation as one.

LPO puts on records that, Nagas are one since time immemorial and no force on earth can divide and separate the Nagas, as the Nagas aspiration and desire is to live as one Nation. Therefore, Naga should be united as on Nation. Therefore, LPO also appeal to all the Nagas not to change the ideology on Nagas unity as it was started from the inception of Naga National Movement, LPO urged the Nagas to shoulder the responsibility to carry forward the unified Nagas regardless of class societies. Nagas should not forget our true spirit of Nationalism, but follow the principles and ideology of the forefathers. Meanwhile, LPO urge all the Nagas to shun divisive force of hostility among ourselves directly or indirectly and bury bitter past and come together as one Naga family.

Further, LPO categorically note that, any individual or any organization who opposed the idea of PAN NAGA HOHO are projecting themselves to the whole world that they are against the unity of the Nagas to promote cordial family.

Sd/(SULANTHUNG HUMTSOE) (ZAREMO KIKON) Chairman General Secretary Lotha Public Organisation Lotha Public Organisation

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AG A RTA L A , J A N 5 (AGENCIES): The forward bloc has opposed the NRC exercise for Tripura and said the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system should not be extended to the state, reports Northeast Now news.

The party’s state secretary Shyamal Roy says the bloc, a constituent of the Left Front, has made this clear in a letter to home minister Amit Shah. “Tripura cannot be compared to Assam or other Northeastern states. Its kings conquered large parts of eastern Bengal and Bengali subjects were as much a part of the kingdom as indigenous tribes,” Roy told Northeast Now, quoting census statistics for the whole of last century.

Tripura royals got twothird of their revenue from Chakla-Roshanabad (now in Bangladesh) and the kings encouraged Bengali farmers to move to Hill Tipperah (roughly the present area of the state) to spread the practice of settled agriculture to boost royal revenues, Roy said .

The kings also brought Bengali professionals to modernise administration and Bangla was the official language of the Tripura kingdom. “Most Bengalis

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Maha portfolios: Cong alleges ‘raw deal’

Mumbai, Jan 5 (PTI): The Maharashtra Congress is facing discontent over allocation of portfolios, with a section of leaders blaming state unit chief Balasaheb Thorat for the party getting a “raw deal” as compared to the Shiv Sena and NCP in the Uddhav Thackeray-led alliance government.

Their ire is also directed towards NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, who emerged as the key player in the alliance, with a Congress leader claiming that they need someone in the state unit who could stand up to the Maratha strongman.

Some Congress leaders say they demanded at least two ministries from the list comprising agriculture, rural development, industries, housing, transport and cooperation, but the allies Shiv Sena and NCP refused to pay heed.

Instead, ministries like culture, salt pan and port development, which were earlier with the Shiv Sena, have been handed over to the Congress.

“The Congress has got a raw deal in power-sharing among the three alliance partners. Thorat has not been able to put forth the Congress’ interest during deliberations on powersharing,” a senior party leader told PTI on condition

of anonymity.

According to sources, Congress leader Nitin Raut, who has been made the energy minister, is unhappy over the Public Works Department being given to his senior colleague and former chief minister Ashok Chavan and Thorat being allocated the revenue department.

Citing how intense was the bitterness in the Congress rank and file, a leader said vandalising party office and burning effigy of a party general secretary never happened earlier, and added that “such acts of indiscipline need to be taken seriously”.

Some alleged supporters of Congress MLA Sangram Thopte ransacked the party office in Pune on December 31 to protest against his exclusion from the state ministry.

Besides, some party workers in Solapur, who were unhappy over MLA Praniti Shinde not getting a ministerial berth, burnt an effigy of AICC general secretary in-charge of Maharashtra Mallikarjun Kharge.

When contacted, former Maharashtra Congress president Manikrao Thakre admitted that such outpouring of anger was earlier unheard of in the party.

IAF flew 625 tonnes of new notes after demo: Dhanoa Mumbai, Jan 5 (PTI): Former Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa has said that after demonetisation in 2016, the Indian Air Force (IAF) transported 625 tonnes of new currency notes to various parts of the country.

Speaking at the Techfest event organised by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay here on Saturday, Dhanoa said, “When demonetisation took place, we (IAF) took the currency and brought it to you. If one crore comes in a bag of 20 kg, I do not know how many crores we moved.”

One of the slides of Dhanoa’s presentation showed that as part of internal services, the IAF carried out 33 missions transporting 625 tonnes of treasury consignment after the demonetisation was announced.

Dhanoa was the IAF chief from December 31, 2016 to September 30, 2019.

During the Techfest event, he also referred to the row over the Rafale

BJP starts campaign on CAA in Bengal Ko l k at a , J a n 5 (IANS): In a bid to counter the onslaught on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by the ruling Mamata Baner jee-led Trinamool Congress and other political parties in West Bengal, the BJP on Sunday began a door to door campaign on the new citizenship law in various parts of the state.

From Malda in north Bengal, to Kolkata in the south, BJP leaders and workers visited houses of commoners and distributed leaflets and booklets on the Citizenship Amendment Act. Malda Nor th MP Khagen Murmu undertook a mass contact programme in Maheshpur and Gadua More localities under ward number one of Englishbazar municipality, apprising people about the law.

In Durgapur of West Burdwan district, BJP workers knocked on the doors of the people assuring them that the CAA would do no harm.

BJP national Secretary Rahul Sinha led the campaign in Sovabazar area of North Kolkata.

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purchase deal, saying such controversies slow down defence acquisitions, affecting capabilities of the armed forces.

The Bofors deal too got mired in controversy (during the Rajiv Gandhi government) despite the Bofors guns “being good”, he noted.

He also said that had Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman been flying a Rafale instead of a MiG 21 during the IndiaPakistan stand-off after the Balakot strike last year, the outcome would have been different.

He, however, said, “Both MLAs (Thopte and Shinde) have nothing to do with these incidents. They have said they are with the Congress and abide by the leadership’s decisions.”

Meanwhile, a senior party functionary has written to AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal, complaining about there being no discipline in the party.

“Several Congress leaders and workers are unhappy because most of the party decisions are being taken after discussion with NCP supremo Sharad Pawar.

This is very dangerous,” the functionary wrote.

He also gave an example of the recent Ahmednagar zilla parisahd polls where the Congress has 23 members and NCP 18.

Out of the 23 Congress members, 10, including Congressman-turned-BJP MLA Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil’s wife, had promised to obey the party whip.

Despite this, Thorat let the Congress settle for the vice president’s post, giving the post of zilla parishad president to the NCP, the Congress functionary said.

Another Congress leader said as part of the three- party alliance government, the Shiv Sena and NCP would boost their

cadre strength and improve organisationally, but the Sonia Gandhi-led party should also not be left behind.

“The Maharashtra Congress needs a president who can stand up to Sharad Pawar to ensure we don’t fade into oblivion in the state,” he said.

A leader close to Thorat, however, said the Congress state chief managed to get the best for the party, keeping in mind the fact that it has just 44 MLAs in the 288-member Assembly.

As per the allocation of portfolios, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar has got the finance and planning department while party colleague Anil Deshmukh is the state’s new Home minister.

Besides, first-time Shiv Sena MLA Aaditya Thackeray, who is the son of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, has been given the environment, tourism and protocol departments.

State Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat has got the revenue ministry while his party colleague and former chief minister Ashok Chavan got PWD-excluding public undertakings.

The Sharad Pawar-led NCP has got most of the ‘plum’ ministries in the allocation of portfolios

NPR in Bihar to begin on May 15: Sushil Modi Patna, Jan 5 (PTI): Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi has said the updation process of the National Population Register (NPR) will be carried out in the state from May 15 to May 28 this year, notwithstanding the West Bengal and Kerala governments’ decision to put the exercise on hold in their respective states.

Bihar senior BJP leader also said administrative and punitive action would be taken against officials if they refuse to carry out the NPR. “The NPR process in 2020 will be carried out between April 1 to September 30 in the country. In Bihar it will be done between May 15 and May 28, 2020,” Sushil Modi told reporters on Saturday.

The Centre is “updating” the NPR 2010 in 2020 just before the 2021 census, Bihar Deputy chief minister said.

“NPR and NRC are two different things”, he said. He also dared West Bengal and Kerala Chief Ministers, Mamata Banerjee and P Vijayan respectively not to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the NPR if they can.

Cold wave prevails in Punjab, Haryana

Karnal was the coldest place in Haryana with a low of 1.8 degrees Celsius, five notches below the normal, a Meteorological Department official said

Chandigarh, Jan 5 (PTI): Intense cold wave conditions persisted in Punjab and Haryana on Sunday, with the mercury plunging several degrees below the normal and fog cover over a few areas, including Ludhiana.

Karnal was the coldest place in Haryana with a low of 1.8 degrees Celsius, five notches below the normal, a Meteorological Department official said.

Bathinda and Adampur

were the coldest in Punjab at 3.3 degrees Celsius each.

Among other places in Punjab, Amritsar, Ludhiana and Patiala shivered at 4 degrees Celsius, 5.4 degrees Celsius and 7 degrees Celsius respectively.

Pathankot, Halwara, Faridkot and Gurdaspur recorded minimum temperatures of 5.1 degrees Celsius, 5 degrees Celsius, 3.7 degrees Celsius and 5 degrees Celsius respectively.

In Haryana, Hisar,

Ambala and Narnaul recorded lows of 4.2 degrees Celsius, 7.2 degrees Celsius and 4.9 degrees Celsius respectively.

In Rohtak, Bhiwani and Sirsa, the minimum temperatures were recorded at 6 degrees Celsius, 7.1 degrees Celsius and 5.8 degrees Celsius respectively.

Union Territory Chandigarh, joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, recorded a minimum of 5.6 degrees Celsius.

Deaths during anti-CAA protests in UP caused by police bullets: Akhilesh Lucknow, Jan 5 (PTI/ IANS): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged that all deaths during anti-CAA protests in Uttar Pradesh were caused by police bullets and said the BJP’s campaign in support of the Act was to “mislead” people.

Yadav, who visited the residence of Mohammad Wakil killed during an anti-CAA protest in the state capital, said, “He (Wakil) was not involved in the agitation. The government should probe as to whose bullet hit him. They (police) have the post-mortem report now.”

“All the deaths during the agitation in the state were caused by police bullets,” he claimed. Yadav also demanded compensation, house and job for Wakil’s family, currently living in a rented accommodation.

He said families of all those killed during protests should be given adequate compensation.

The UP police initially claimed that none of the deaths was caused by po-

lice firing, but subsequently admitted some casualties in police bullets when cops fired in “self defence”.

Officials have put the death toll at 19 in widespread clashes in the state, though the opposition parties claimed a higher figure.

Yadav asked the government that if it wanted to make someone from another country its citizen, then why has it not given this “right” to Muslims.

“This is because you (BJP) want to divide the society and play politics. Every Indian is against CAA and NCR. When Aaadhaar has all information why NPR?” he posed.

“In a village, who has papers...From where will I bring date of birth paper of my mother. Government wants the people to only search for papers and not do daily chores,” he lamented.

He said his party will resort to “Satyagrah” by not filling the form.

Noting that people of all walks, castes and religions were coming out against CAA and NPR, Ya-

Akhilesh meets family of CAA protest victim

Akhilesh demanded a thorough probe into the killing of Mohd Wakeel and punishment to the guilty.

dav said, “The BJP knows its decision is wrong and against the Constitution.”

Asked to comment on the BJP’s campaign in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, he said it was to “mislead” people.

“The BJP is misleading the people. What will they tell the people now?

They could not convince us in Parliament. Now, they

UP is 1st state to shortlist Farmer, daughter detained migrants for citizenship outside Uddhav’s residence L u c k n ow, J a n 5 (IANS): Uttar Pradesh is all set to become the first state in the country to start the exercise of shortlisting migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, eligible for citizenship under the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The exercise will also identify those who are living illegally in the state.

According to additional chief secretary (home) Avanish Awasthi, all 75 district magistrates have been asked to track down migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who have settled here for decades, without citizenship. The official said that though the number of people from Afghanistan living in UP would be minimal, estimates indicate there would be a substantial number from Pakistan and Bangladesh, who settled here after being persecuted in their countries.

The presence of migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh has been found mainly in Lucknow, Hapur, Rampur, Shahjahanpur, Noida and Ghaziabad. “The purpose of compilation of the list is to ensure the state

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Yogi Adityanath (File)

government could intervene and ensure that ‘genuine migrants’ become citizens of the country. This is the first time such a list is being prepared. Citizenship will be granted according to the new CAA provisions,” said Avanish Awasthi.

The state government will also update the Union home ministry on illegal Muslim migrants in the state and they could be deported to their countries though no decision has been taken on this yet. The new citizenship law had recently triggered protests and demonstrations in the state recently, leading to violence in various parts in the country that left 28 dead. The protesters claimed that the amended law was designed to target Muslims living in India.

Mumbai, Jan 5 (PTI): A 45 year-old farmer and his minor daughter were detained outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s residence in suburban Bandra on Sunday when they came to meet him over some bank-related issue, police said.

The duo was later released and the Shiv Sena asked the officials concerned to find out the purpose of their visit, a party spokesperson said.

Fa r m e r M a h e n d r a D e s h mu k h , w h o h a i l s from Panvel in neighbouring Raigad district, came along with his 12-year-old daughter to meet the chief minister and Sena president at his residence ‘Matoshree’ in connection with some bank-related issue, a police official said.

“When the security guards did not allow Deshmukh to enter the premises, he said he will sit outside until he gets to meet the chief minister. He was then detained and taken to Kherwadi police station along with his daughter. He was later released after being questioned,” senior police inspector Nikhil Kapse said.

Uddhav Thackeray (File)

The farmer has an account in a governmentowned bank and had some issue pertaining to it which he wanted to discuss with the chief minister, he said.

“During questioning, the farmer said he had been coming to ‘Varsha’, the chief minister’s official bungalow in south Mumbai, and ‘Mantralaya’ (secretariat) for last five days to meet Thackeray, but in vain. He then decided to approach the CM at his Bandra residence,” the official said.

Meanwhile, a Sena spokesperson said the farmer was released after being detained for some time. “The farmer came to meet Thackeray along with his daughter.

We have asked the officials to find out the purpose of his visit to Mumbai,” he added.

have come out to mislead the people,” he said.

His remarks came hours after the BJP launched a 10-day campaign to dispel doubts about the law and also inform people “how the Congress and other Opposition parties are spreading lies about the CAA and inciting rebellion and anarchy in the country for their politics of appeasement”.

The Act grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who came to India on or before December 31, 2014. Opposition parties have called the law against India’s Constitution for making religion a ground for citizenship.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, on Sunday, met the family of Mohd Wakeel, who had lost his life in anti-CAA protests in Lucknow on December 19.

Wakeel had suffered a bullet injury in his stomach.

Akhilesh Yadav said that Wakeel was the sole bread winner of the family and demanded adequate compensation, a job for a family member and a house, should be given.

“A software engineer had been killed in police firing and the state government had given a compensation of Rs 25 lakh, a house and a job to the family. The same should be given to Wakeel’’s family,” he said.

He also demanded a thorough probe into the killing of Mohd Wakeel and punishment to the guilty.

Akhilesh Yadav gave a sum of Rs one lakh to the bereaved family from the Samajwadi Party fund.

Priyanka demands immediate release of Chandrashekhar Azad

New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS): Extending her support to the Dalit leader Chandrashekhar Azad, who is in jail for anti-CAA protest in Delhi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Sunday, has demanded his immediate release.

Priyanka slammed the government for keeping the Dalit leader in jail. Azad, who hails from Saharanpur, has considerable influnece among the Dalits and is rising in prominence.

Priyanka Gandhi tweeted, “The government’s policy of oppressing all expressions of dissent and protest has reached the point of cowardice. The lack of basic humanity in their actions is shameful. There are absolutely no grounds to keep Chandrashekhar in jail, let alone deny him medical treatment, if he is unwell. He should be sent to AIIMS to be treated immediately.”

Congress General Secretary has been touring the state and meeting the victims of police action during anti-CAA protests.

“Priyankaji has made considerable impact in the

Chandrashekhar Azad (File)

state while taking up the cause of the oppressed and has been meeting the victims, the kind of ill treatment the government has meted out to the Dalits and minorities, the way they have dealt with Chandrashekhar Azad case is unacceptable,” said Jitin Prasada, who is trying to woo Brahmins, and meeting the victims kin in the state who have been killed during the BJP regime.

Its because of his effort that the government, under pressure, ordered a CBI probe in girl student’s death in Navodaya School in Mainpuri, a party leader said.

Priyanka Gandhi, on Saturday, met the victims in Muzaffarnagar and Meerut who were brutally beaten by the police in anti-CAA protests including children and elderly people.

The way Priyanka Gandhi has reached out to the victims has rattled the opposition and the government in the state. Now Congress is the main opposition which is taking up the people’s cause, said spokesperson of the party, Rajiv Tyagi.

The Congress which is in the opposition in UP since 1989 is now trying to woo its core support of Dalit Muslim and Brahmins.

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New infra pack needs wider vision

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Act of impunity

early 77 years after the draconian law known as Armed Forces Special Powers Act was enacted by the British colonial rulers to confront the widespread civil disobedience movement known as ‘Quit India Movement’; the Act was amended in 1958 specially for the then Naga Hills and parts of Manipur. The AFSPA has been further extended by six months w.e.f December 30,2019 and will be effective all over Nagaland. This leads to the question as to why Nagaland, since 1958 continues to be designated as “disturbed” when political negotiations indicate normalcy? The Act came into operation in 1958 ostensibly for a period of six months, but till date it has not been removed, even after multiple protests by civil liberties organisations all over India. Presently, AFSPA extends throughout Assam, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland including districts of Changlang, Longding and Tirap in Arunachal Pradesh while it has been withdrawn from Meghalaya, Imphal Municipal Council area and Tripura. The purpose of the AFSPA is to give armed forces the power to maintain public order in “disturbed areas”. As per AFSPA 1958 a NonCommissioned Officer(NCO) can use force or even open fire to the point of causing death, after giving due warning if they feel a person is in contravention of the law. As per the Act no uniformed personnel can be tried in civil courts for offences under CrPC, unless permitted by the centre. The AFSPA is a classic example of how some of the colonial laws, may prima facie, seem to be repressive and not inspire confidence in present day India, but state governments seem satisfied in relying on statutes of such colonial laws to justify their actions. If the AFSPA could be lifted from Meghalaya, Tripura, parts of Arunachal except three of its districts and Manipur, the question is, why is it that the same has not been done for Mizoram, where insurgency ended more than two decades ago?

Also why are Assam and Nagaland still placed under the Act? Perhaps the government has a very good reason to extend AFSPA all over Nagaland even as political groups have concluded the peace deal and solution now awaited. If AFSPA is so necessary to tackle armed rebels/ insurgents/ secessionists etc, then why the government of India has not found fit to impose this Act in Naxal/Maoist-infested states where hundreds of armed personnel were killed during the recent decades? If the government of India does not need AFSPA to tackle the brutal and hardened Maoists/ Naxals, then why should it persist with the Act in the north east, which by the Army’s own admission, the situation is largely peaceful?. The north east and J&K are made to bear the brunt of the repressive law which people in other states of the country have relatively no experience or interest. People in non-AFSPA states appear to acquiesce to the government’s claim that these are circumstances where security must trump over liberty. With a view to address AFSPA, in 2004 the UPA constituted the Jeevan Reddy committee on. The report was submitted on June 6,2005 but as usual nothing was done. Then in 2015 the BJP rejected the recommendations for dilution of the Act. The AFSPA is a prime example of how democracy legitimises violence on the people that it considers errant/deviant.

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Between these two times Peter denied Jesus with oaths and curses (see Matthew 26:69-75). But then he came completely to the end of himself and all of his self-sufficiency. There was no part of himself he would ever rely on again. In his state of destitution, he was finally ready to receive all that the risen Lord had for him. “…He breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’ ” (John 20:22).

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Quotes

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020

None studies tech immorality and why investments of the Centre should lead to burdening people with high costs, taxes or tolls

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he government has woken up. It has announced Rs 102 lakh crore programme for strengthening Indian infrastructure.

It aims at transforming India with investments pouring in from centre, states and the private sector.

Conceptually it is a good initiative. In principle, with the investment in infra projects, chain of activities begin in different sectors.

A government that is facing slowdown and related problems expects to turn over the economy with increase in jobs, all-round activity and synergizing funding.

It is a sequel to the Independence day speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he announced investment of Rs 100 crore in next five years in infrastructure.

Joint Secretary of the finance ministry’s National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) Kumar V Pratap says that funding would be done by the centre, states and about 22 to 25 percent by the private sector. A centralized funding body will be formed.

The investment pattern is traditional – 24 percent for energy sector, 19 percent roads, 16 percent urban development, 8 percent rural infrastructure and 3 percent

social infrastructure, including health, drinking water and 3 percent for education.

It stresses on roads, railways, ports and airports.

It has taken into account about Rs 42.7 lakh crore investments under implementation. The rest are being conceptualized.

It is aimed at growing business, create jobs, improve ease of living and equitable access to infrastructure for all, making growth more inclusive. A good aim but flawed.

The prescription is slightly away from reality.

The country’s economic path since 1950s has been stressing this. The 1991 socalled reforms also veered around it. It has not served the people forcing introduction of MREGA and PM Kisan pension to help the deprived.

Prime Minister Modi with broad vision is expected to look beyond.

The funding pattern is also not novel. Once again depending on private sector to invest has a problem. The private sector somehow is miser in using its reserves and funding or incentives means it would draw from the banks and drive them to penury.

The concept of a cen-

tral funding body is also not new. The IL&FS was created with that aim for the road sector. It gave funds and had expected to be repaid with the toll fee. The toll was collected but IL&FS was not repaid leading to its collapse with Rs 91000 crore losses.

The nation cannot repeat the mistakes.

Job generation is the key. The overall corporate approach has been to replace manpower by the machine, employ less and make any facility accessible with a fee only.

It would be wise on the part of the government to do a survey at Delhi’s railway stations only. The surveyors would find that at least 20 percent of the poor and Shivaji middle class people enquire about trains that are affordable – meaning there is no superfast charge, dynamic fare, ‘insulting’ penalties and other obstructive fees.

Strengthening railways is fine but everything like the toll roads is “access controlled” – as the 5 expressway projects in Delhi-NCR alone are. It deprives more than serving all, the primary goal. Privatisation of public sector trains is adding to discontent.

The nation has to think beyond burdening the highlytaxed people living a marginalized life. It is the society’s responsibility to empower the growing number of deprived people. They have expectations from a kind prime minister, who has risen from their ranks. The rise in rail fare – Rs 40 for a 1000 km travel – hits them hard. It is inflationary too.

Similarly, the people are getting oppressed as every highway, good or bad, is being tolled. It is a direct tax on the farmers, villagers and every poor. Such taxes stymie growth.

The NIP did not discuss why should there be toll after over Rs 1 lakh crore collection from fuel Sarkar cess of Rs 10 per litre for road construction.

The government is of the people and it is expected to help, not heap with heavy taxes and bar them from using facilities created with their money.

The concept could have gone beyond the traditional.

Energy from 1950s to 2000 was the greatest need. The country now in most part is electricity surplus. If it means petroleum sector, the Indian basin does not have enormous resources as

per various studies carried out National Geophysical Research Institute and others. Ostensibly the aim for doubling power generation to 619 GW is being based replacing thermal energy to solar.

The country is being divided between rich corporate usurping public utilities like road, rail, gas and infrastructure and making these inaccessible with high discriminating fees.

Let us get out of the myth that India is the least taxed country. An average Indian, a non-tax-payee, pays about 40 percent in indirect taxes and an income tax payee loses 70 to 82 percent in taxes. The taxation is rising as the last budget’s 42 percent I-T slab denotes.

The NIP has not discussed these core issues.

It has also not taken into account that even bank financing to help the corporate is eroding savings and hitting the depositors hard as interest rate is being reduced. The NIP should look into it and suggest a corrected path.

It speaks of digital penetration from 40 percent now to double it. It does not discuss the techno immorality of changing a software or insignificant hardware

to “create new” rendering lakhs of crores of citizens’ investment redundant.

It also has not discussed the recent violent protests in France, Germany and elsewhere against the stranglehold of banks and their oppressive charges. Instead in default it has allowed their anti-people perpetration.

It has ignored the benefit of cash transaction, more so as currency note circulation rises by Rs 5 lakh crore since note ban, and creation of huge middle men of digital payment instruments making transactions expensive.

The cost of digital is beyond affordability apart from its rising insecurity.

It has to review why the investments of the Centre should lead to burdening people with high costs or tolls.

These various problems are hindrances in growth.

The government can be wellintentioned but the prescription has many flaws. It needs to discuss and remove the problems before launching it.

It can take six more months to study and launch it for wider access with no fee and empower the countrymen to walk on the path of development and progress.

If that happens growth is assured.

Post-mortem

Will Iran-US issue act as a dampener or much more

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arkets had begun to roll on expected lines and the breadth was improving as well, till Thursday/Friday when US President Donald Trump had a top commander of Iran and others killed through a drone attack. Markets fell globally and suddenly a positive and feel good atmosphere has been vitiated.

BSE Sensex lost 110.53 points or 0.27 per cent to close at 41,464.61 points. It had earlier made a lifetime high of 41,649.29 points on Thursday. NIFTY lost 19.15 points or 0.16 per cent to close at 12,226.65 points. Like BSE Sensex, NIFTY too made a new lifetime high of 12,289.90 points before losing ground.

The broader markets saw BSE100 lose 0.06 per cent, while the BSE200 and BSE500 gained 0.08 per cent and 0.32 per cent, respectively. BSEMIDCAP gained 1.24 per cent, while BSESMALLCAP was up 3.26 per cent.

Dow Jones lost 10.38 points or 0.04 per cent to close at 28,634.88 points. Incidentally even the Dow made a new lifetime high of 28,872.80 points.

The Indian Rupee lost ground on Friday post the attack and lost 44 paisa or 0.62 per cent to close at Rs 71.80 to the US dollar.

In 2011, Trump had said that former President Bill Clinton would start a war with Iran to help him win the upcoming elections. Whether Trump has done the same or something different one wonders.

The trade war issue with China which lasted over a year is probably and hopefully coming to an end and now this new escalation? The US would be electing their new President in the later half of this calendar year. Whether this is a diversionary tactic for the upcoming impeachment hearing or election gimmick or both, only time will tell. However, it would impact global markets adversely.

Oil prices have begun to rise post the event and they would hit all oil importing countries including India. The irony is that it would benefit the oil producing states which include Iran and others in the Gulf region. Further there is a small portion of sea known as Gulf of Hormuz which is controlled by Iran and from where over a fourth of world's crude passes on a daily basis. The situation between Iran and US has become very fluid and would be tracked on a daily basis as escalation is likely to rise. India is closely aligned to Iran and does have friendly relations with them but if the gulf becomes messy, one is not sure how things would pan out.

Tata Sons and Ratan Tata have filed petitions in the Supreme Court requesting urgent hearing against NCLAT order of restoring Cyrus Mistry. The order of NCLAT has been challenged on the ground that it has gone beyond relief asked for by Cyrus Mistry. It is expected that Supreme Court would take up the matter when they resume this week after their vacation.

FII's or FPI's as they are now known were big buyers in 2019. They invested over Rs 1.01 lakh crore in calendar year 2019. Taking a rough dollar equivalent of Rs 71, it means a net investment of over 14 billion dollars. This figure is the highest over the last five years if not more. This is despite the fact that India has not been a better performing market in global markets.

The week ahead would closely follow developments on the Iran-US front. With Iran issuing very strong condemnation of the attack and threatening stern retaliation, one wonders in what form it would be. The world response would also be crucial to the ongoing dispute which seemed to be resolving with US diluting sanctions on Iran in the previous fortnight.

While markets would be nervous and cautious it does not mean that they would lose ground significantly.

They would consolidate and take cues from the news flow from the two countries. While an Iran retaliation is given, the real issue would be to see what US does in reply to that. Do they talk or it becomes tit for tat?

Knowing Trump, the latter is imminent.

The best advice would be to lighten positions and use sharp dips to buy and strong rallies to sell. Markets are in a buoyant mood and probably this issue could help to cool them of.

Arun Kejriwal (IANS)

Climate change poses threats to children’s health

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he health effects of climate change will be unevenly distributed and children will be among those especially harmed, according to a new report from the medical journal The Lancet.

The report compared human health consequences under two scenarios: one in which the world meets the commitments laid out in the Paris Agreement and reins in emissions so that increases in global temperatures remain “well below 2 degrees Celsius” by the end of the century, and one in which it does not.

The report, published Wednesday, found that failing to limit emissions would lead to health problems caused by infectious diseases, worsening air pollution, rising temperatures and malnutrition.

“With every degree of warming, a child born today faces a future where their health and well-being will be increasingly impacted by the realities and dangers of a warmer world,” said Dr. Renee N. Salas, a clinical instructor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the United States policy brief that accompanied the report.

“Climate change, and the air pollution from fossil fuels that are driving it, threatens the child’s health starting in the mother’s womb and only accumulates from there,” she said.

Children are especially vulnerable partly because of their physiology.

“Their hearts beat faster than adults’ and their breathing rates are higher than adults’,” said Dr. Mona Sarfaty, the director of the program on climate and health at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who was not involved in the report.

As a result, children absorb more air pollution given their body size than an adult would in the same situation.

But unless nations halt emissions, air pollution, which, according to the report, killed seven million people worldwide in 2016 alone, will quite likely increase. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal and gas also releases a type of fine air pollution called PM 2.5 that can damage the heart and lungs when inhaled.

Exposure to PM 2.5 air pollution is correlated with health problems such as low birth weight and chronic respiratory diseases like

asthma.

Research published in The New England Journal of Medicine after the passage of policies designed to improve air quality “shows that the children who grew up when the air was better quality literally had more functioning lung tissue,” Dr. Sarfaty said.

In addition to the emissions associated with burning fossil fuels, the report said future generations would be exposed to a growing source of fine-particulate pollution: wildfires.

As temperatures rise, wildfires are becoming more frequent in part because hotter temperatures dry out vegetation, making it easier to ignite. The smoke, like the smoke that comes from burning fossil fuels, has negative health effects.

According to the report, since the middle of this decade there has been a 77 percent increase in the number of people exposed to wildfire smoke worldwide. Much of that growth has been in India and China.

The 2018 California wildfire season, though, when the Camp Fire became the state’s deadliest and most destructive blaze in terms of acres burned, and this year’s wildfire season make it clear that increasing wildfires are also happening in the United States.

Across the Western United States, the rise of giant wildfires has worsened air pollution enough to erode some of the airquality gains from the Clean Air Act. “You have young kids escaping fires that are going to be, in effect, challenged for life,” said Gina McCarthy, a former administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. “There are mental health issues happening as a result of these climate events and fires and floods that children have never had to face, certainly not to the frequency and intensity that they have to face now.”

The report said that there were many links between climate change and mental health, including the loss of property and the loss of livelihoods but stopped short of quantifying the impact.

Part of the exposure risk that children face is simply that they spend more time outside than adults.

Coupled with their differing physiology, it makes them more susceptible to fine particulate pollution.

These same factors also mean they are more likely to suffer from the effects of extreme heat associated with climate change; eight of the 10 hottest years on record have happened this decade.

The European heat waves in 2003 lead to the deaths of 70,000 people.

“We know that climate change had its fingerprints there and that’s concerning,” said Dr. Nick Watts, the report’s executive editor, adding that subsequent heat waves have “resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.”

While many of those people were elderly, young people suffered, too.

As heat waves become more severe, parents and coaches “may not realize that the children are more exposed and therefore more vulnerable,” Dr. Sarfaty said.

A 2017 repor t that she helped prepare found that, in the United States, heat related illnesses were the leading cause of death and disability in young athletes.

This is the third time The Lancet has weighed in on the health impacts of climate change, but the first with a focus on children.

“It was our contention, both negatively, that the health costs were huge and underestimated. But also, more positively, that by putting health first in our response to climate, there were dividends for both the public and for the economy in terms of cleaner and safer cities and healthier diets,” Dr. Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet, said.

To that end, the report does contain glimmers of hope. Carbon intensity, or how much energy can be produced for each unit of greenhouse gas released,

has increased. And more cities are filing climate assessments detailing solutions that can be put into place. But these actions are happening against a backdrop of greenhouse gas emissions that continue to rise.

A child bor n today will live until 2090 on average, Dr. Watts said, noting that without changes to greenhouse gas emissions the planet could warm by 4 degrees by then. “We roughly know what that looks like from a climate perspective," he said. “We have no idea what that looks like from a public health perspective. But we know it is catastrophic.”

The report, and its focus on children, comes at a time when youth climate demonstrations including school strike protests spearheaded by Greta Thunberg, the Sunrise movement and Extinction Rebellion have attracted attention.

“This may be the first time in the history of the United States that there are children wondering whether they are going to have a future, whether they should have children as a result of the potential for climate change to get worse and worse,” Ms. McCarthy said.

T h i s y e a r, J a m i e Margolin, the 17-year-old founder of the climate activist group Zero Hour testified before Congress.

“Everyone who will walk up to me after this testimony saying I have such a bright future ahead of me, will be lying to my face,” she said. “It doesn’t matter how talented we are, how much work we put in, how many dreams we have, the reality is, my generation has been committed to a planet that is collapsing.”

(Kendra Pierre-Louis)

Reader’s Post

Sir,

A productive year

Now that the first week of the new year is over, it is time to get back to normal routine for our daily life.

It would also be nice to see that offices start functioning properly as public have pending work which needs to be wrapped up with just a signature of the concerned officer. While it is good to indulge in the festive season, we need to remember that it cannot go on for an indefinite period. The cold wave has become an excuse for many to avoid taking up their respective responsibilities and causing inconvenience for public at large. Please let us make 2020 a productive year.

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

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020

‘Rahul, Priyanka misleading people’

Amit Shah lies over the CAA, he said, asking BJP workers to carry out an intensive campaign to inform the masses about its features.

Its beneficiaries are largely Dalits and poor and those opposing the law are against these people, Shah said, calling Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Gandhis “anti-Dalits” for questioning it. “(Arvind) Kejriwal has misled people. The Congress, especially Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, has instigated riots by misleading people. Do you want a government in Delhi which incites riots for politics,” he asked.

The opposition was

inciting minorities against the CAA by alleging that they will lose their citizenship, he said.

“I want to tell brothers and sisters from the minority that none of them can lose their citizenship because the CAA has no provision about taking it away,” Shah said.

The BJP leader also claimed that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had extended her support to rioters by saying that she will visit houses of those who carried out riots.

The CAA seeks to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jains and Parsis who had arrived in India by December 31, 2014 from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh due to religious persecution.

Opposition parties have called the law against India’s Constitution for making religion a ground for citizenship.

The country has been witnessing protests against the amended citizenship law, with protesters arguing

that the CAA in combination with other citizenship measures like NPR and NRC can be used to discriminate against people.

The Modi government has asserted that it has so far not discussed the proposal for National Register of Citizens.

Shah said opposition parties have become habituated to the “politics of opposition and vote bank” and referred to their stand against measures like the law against triple talaq among Muslim men and nullification of Article 370.

They also opposed construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, he said, noting that a recent Supreme Court order had paved the way for building the temple.

He asked people to give missed calls to a toll free number put out by the BJP to show their support to the CAA and slammed rumours that the number belonged to Netflix, a streaming service. This number belongs to the BJP, he said.

BJP flayed for Pavan asks Nitish Kumar to reject Owaisi slams Pak ‘missed call’.., ‘divisive CAA-NPR-NRC’ scheme PM; asks him to (From p-1) New Delhi, Jan 5 statement by you to this ef- focus on Pakistan When the “tactics”

being closely monitored,” he tweeted. The Congress alleged that the attack on JNU students by masked miscreants was “state-sponsored mayhem”.

Delhi chief minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, “I am so shocked to know about the violence at JNU. Students attacked brutally. Police should immediately stop violence and restore peace.

How will the country progress if our students will not be safe inside univ campus?”

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited AIIMS Trauma Centre where 20 people from Jawaharlal Nehru University were admitted following violence at university.

(From p-1) said it was unfortunate for the border affairs adviser to be saying that the villagers should maintain peace and tranquillity, instead of insisting Naga people’s rights over their land.

UNTABA pointed out that it had a clear perspective on the issue, based on which it had had multiple interactions with successive governments in Nagaland and in New Delhi, including Centre’s interlocu-

tor and incumbent governor RN Ravi and the entities involved in the ongoing peace process.

Mentioning that there was no country or state without definite border demarcation, UNTABA wondered how any authority could have a say on things that it was not supposed to.

It therefore urged the state government to check its perspective and be consistent on the rights of Naga people over their land.

After Nankana attack, Sikh man shot dead in Peshawar NEW DELHI, JAN 5 ( AGENCIES): Amid outrage over the recent incident of vandalism at the Sikh shrine of Gurudwara Nankana Sahib, a Sikh youth was killed by an unidentified person in Pakistan’s Peshawar city on Sunday, reports Indian Express.

According to reports in Pakistan, the deceased has been identified as Parvinder Singh. He is the brother of first Sikh news anchor in Pakistan, Harmeet Singh.

“A 25-year-old Sikh man, was killed by unidentified persons in Peshawar.

The body was found under Chamkani police station area, today. Investigation is on into the matter,” ANI quoted SSP Operations Peshawar as saying.

Speaking to media, his brother Harmeet said, “My brother used to do business in Malaysia and had returned to Pakistan a month ago. He was going to get married in February

The deceased has been identified as Parvinder Singh (pic), who is the brother of first Sikh news anchor in Pakistan, Harmeet Singh. (Source- ANI)

and went to Peshawar for shopping.”

The Ministry of External Affairs was quick to respond to the news, calling upon Pakistan to stop prevaricating and take immediate action against the perpetrators of crime. In a statement, MEA said, “India strongly condemns the targeted killing of minority Sikh community member in Peshawar that follows the recent despicable vandalism and desecration of the holy Gurdwara Sri Janam Asthan

at Nankana Sahib and the unresolved case of abduction, forced conversion and marriage of a Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur.”

“India calls upon the Government of Pakistan to stop prevaricating and take immediate action to apprehend and give exemplary punishment to the perpetrators of these heinous acts.

The Government of Pakistan should act in defence of

their own minorities instead of preaching sermons about it to other countries,” the statement read.

Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh also tweeted, “Shocked and anguished over the killing of Sikh youth in Pakistan, coming on heels of Nankana Sahib attack. @ ImranKhanPTI govt must ensure a thorough investigation and strict punishment for the culprits. This is the time to act on what you preach.”

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC), the apex body which manages Sikh shrines in India, said it will send a four-member delegation to Pakistan to take stock of the situation and urged the Pakistan government to take stringent action against the culprits who attacked the gurdwara – one of the holiest sites in Sikhism.

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Hyderabad, Jan 5 (PTI): AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has asked why losses were not recovered from those who indulged in damage to public property during the Jat agitation in Haryana, while money is proposed to be recovered by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the recent anti-CAA protests.

Owaisi, who was addressing a protest meeting at Sangareddy town near here late on Saturday night against the amended citizenship law, also said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan need not worry about Indian Muslims.

The AIMIM president also announced that a protest meeting will be held at the historic Charminar here on January 25 against the CAA, adding “We will hoist the tricolour on January 25 midnight and recite the national anthem. The meeting would be to save the Constitution and the country.”

On Januar y 10, a peaceful march will also be taken out in Hyderabad against the CAA, he said.

“Around four to five hundred members of the left wing gathered around the Periyar hostel, vandalised the hostel and forcibly entered the hostel to thrash the ABVP activists inside,” ABVP’s JNU unit President Durgesh told IANS. Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal condemned the incident and said the situation was being “closely monitored”.

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(From p-1) NH has, therefore, stated that AFSPA must be repealed if the government of India truly honoured the peace process and a peaceful solution to the “Indo-Naga” political talks. The Hoho also expressed the view that Nagas cannot fully blame the Government of India for imposition /extension of AFSPA, saying the GoI alone might not have acted upon without the consent or recommendation from the state government. NH, therefore, appealed to the state government to seriously take initiative to remove “this draconian law from our land.”

fect would be a major step towards preserving and strengthening the idea of India to which, I know, you yourself are committed.

The politics of principle cannot be sacrificed at the altar of short term political gain,” Varma said in the letter.

The JD(U) leader has been critical of his party’s decision to support the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Parliament, and it has now become a law following its passage in both Houses. Protests have occurred in different parts of the country against the law, which seeks to give citizenship to minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who had arrived in India due to religious persecution by December 31, 2014.

JD(U) vice president Prashant Kishor has also spoken strongly against the CAA and said this, in combination with the NRC, can turn into a “lethal combo in the hands of the government to systematically discriminate and even prosecute people based on religion.”

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NH objects to AFSPA extension ...

(PTI): JD(U) general secretary Pavan Varma on Sunday asked party president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to categorically reject the “divisive CAA-NPR-NRC scheme”, saying this has “nefarious agenda to divide India and create a great deal of unnecessary social turbulence”.

In an open letter to Kumar, Varma expressed his surprise at the “unilateral” announcement of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi, who is from the BJP, that the National Population Register exercise will be carried out in the state between May 1528 despite Kumar’s stand against the National Register of Citizens. “... in consonance with your own publicly stated views, and long established secular vision, may I request you now to take a principled stand against the CAA-NPRNRC scheme, and reject its nefarious agenda to divide India and create a great deal of unnecessary social turbulence.

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came to the attention of other Twitter users, they accused the BJP of resorting to “desperate measures” in “desperate times”.

More Twitter users poked fun at the strategy, with one person asking people to call the Prime Minister’s Office to remind him of the promise to deposit Rs 15 lakh in every person’s bank account. Streaming platform Netflix joined in, saying if somebody wanted a free subscription, they should just use another person’s account, “like the rest of us”. “This is absolutely fake. If you want free Netflix please use someone else’s account like the rest of us,” Netflix India tweeted.

Oppn spreading confusion: BJP BJP on Sunday claimed opposition parties are spreading confusion over a toll free number it has issued to seek people’s support on the amended Citizenship Act. BJP hit out at opposition parties after several memes and misleading posts emerged on social media about the number (8866288662). Hours after BJP president Amit Shah said rumours were being spread about the number and noted that it belonged to his party and not to Netflix, as claimed in some posts, the party held a press conference to slam those spreading confusion over it. Noting that vulgar claims are also being made, such as people can speak to lonely girls by dialling this number, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said the exercise should not be reduced to ridicule. “Opposition leaders are doing politics over such a positive step,” Patra said, adding that the BJP has worked to fix a decades-old issue like citizenship for persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries by enacting the CAA.

Kota, Jan 5 (IANS): The head of paediatric department at JK Lon Hospital in Rajasthan’s Kota has been removed following deaths of over 100 kids since December last year in the medical facility, an official said on Sunday.

Amritlal Bairava would be replaced by Jagjit Singh, a senior medical professional from Kota Medical College.

Four other pediatricians will also join the paediatric department.

“The broken window panes have been replaced with poly carbonate sheet which is unbreakable. We are renovating a room which will be converted into 9-bed newborn intensive care unit (NICU),” Suresh Dulara, the hospital superintendent said. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has also arranged funds to the tune of Rs 40 lakh via CSR, he said.

JK Lon hospital has been in news for all the wrong reasons since December following a spike in the death of children, apparently due to carelessness of hospital administration.

(From p-1) “This is the last thing you expect. Delhi police are at the gate and under their protection the assault is going on. This is a premeditated attack. I was told that it is in the presence of the SHO of the locality that the ABVP goons entered the campus,” said Swaraj Abhiyan chief and former student of JNU, Yogendra Yadav.

M e a n w h i l e, A k h i l Bhartiya Vidhayrthi Parishad (ABVP), an affiliate of the BJP, accused left inclined students of vandalising the Periyar hostel of Jawharlal Nehru University (JNU) and severely injuring various students present inside the hostel.

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New Delhi, Jan 5 (PTI): BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday accused Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of instigating “riots” by “misleading” people on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and sought to reassure Muslims, saying the law has no provision about taking away citizenship of minorities.

Addressing a meeting of Delhi BJP workers, Shah, also the Union home minister, attacked Pakistan for “terrorising” Sikhs as he referred to a recent attack on Gurdwara Nankana Sahib by a violent mob in Pakistan and asked opposition leaders to open their eyes to atrocities against minorities in the neighbouring country.

“This is an answer to all those opposing the CAA. Tell me if these Sikhs who were attacked the other day in Gurdwara Nankana Sahib will not come to India, then where they will go?” he asked.

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“Former Tata leaders worked together with the minority partner to create value for all stakeholders.”

The statement comes just days after Tata Sons and it Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court challenging the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s December verdict which ordered the reinstatement of Mistry as the Chairman of Tata Sons.

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To recent media reports attributed to Ratan Tata and others questioning the NCLAT judgment ahead of an hearing in the Supreme Court, he con-

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“The question in these legal proceedings is whether the oppressive actions of a majority that stifles minority shareholders is beyond reproach and outside judicial oversight,” he added.

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New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS): In a major turn in the Tata-Mistry saga, Cyrus Mistry on Sunday said that he would not take up the chairmanship of Tata Sons or become director of any Tata Group company but pursue all options to protect the Shapoorji Pallonji Group’s rights as minority stakeholder, including a seat at the Tata Sons’ Board.

He said that his decision has been made in the interests of the Tata Group, “whose interests are far more important then the interests of any individual”.

MSMEs are affected and 75,000 more are likely to be affected. If a solution is found to repay their dues, the burden on the financial creditors would be minimal and decline to 1.18-1.33 per cent, it said, citing the June 30, 2019 IBBI data.

“After discussions with stakeholders, we propose that the payments due to MSMEs from corporate debtors before and during the CIRP process be included in the ‘insolvency resolution process costs’ as provided for under section 5(13) of the IBC read with regulation 31 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016,” it said.

As per the FISME, recoveries of the financial creditors will remain unaffected as the dues of MSMEs would be treated as part of the insolvency process cost, while at the same time it would ensure substantial recoveries of dues for micro and small enterprises.

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NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (IANS): The recovery of money owed to the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) by corporate debtors should be brought in the ambit of corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) costs, said the Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME) in its pre-budget presentation to the Finance Minister.

The FISME said as operational creditors, the MSMEs were not able to recover dues and the protection to that under the MSMEs Development (MSMED) Act had been undermined. “The current recovery process under the IBC is one-sided. The MSMEs are classified as operational creditors. They get nothing if their buyer undergoes CIRP. This is against the letter and spirit of the MSMED Act, which guarantees recovery of the dues along with interest,” it said.

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“There is no reason for protests. Their apprehensions are baseless. For attracting the required investment in the airport sector, PPP is the way forward,” an Aviation Ministry official said wishing not to be named. He said that inputs to the draft cabinet note are expected from various ministries and as soon as feedback is received the final note would be submitted for cabinet approval.

The fresh round of PPP has come close on the heels of government privatizing six airports for which Gujarat-based Adani Enterprises emerged winner.

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Similar exercise is being undertaken by other state-owned lenders as well in an effort to raise capital.

In addition, the government has already front loaded Rs 68,855 crore, out of Rs 70,000 crore earmarked for capital infusion for the current fiscal, to take care of the mega-merger plan announced in August, 2019.

Among all four anchor banks -- Punjab National Bank NSE -2.47 % was given Rs 16,091 crore, Union Bank of India Rs 11,768 crore, Canara Bank Rs 6,571 crore and Indian Bank Rs 2,534 crore.

Merging entities like Allahabad Bank NSE -0.26 % was provided Rs 2,153 crore, United Bank of India 1,666 crore and Andhra

NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (IANS): Undeterred by protests against privatization, state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) has appointed global consultancy PwC as transaction advisor to bid out half a dozen airports including Varanasi on public private partnership (PPP) basis.

The parent Civil Aviation Ministry (MoCA) has circulated draft cabinet note seeking comments from various ministries such as Finance and Road Transport before putting up the proposal for final government approval. “We have engaged PwC as transaction advisor. The bidding process for the six airports would start after Cabinet approval.

We see significant progress on this by February-end,” a senior AAI official said.

The six airports up for privatization are Varanasi, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar, Trichy, Indore and Raipur.

Unionised employees of AAI have been opposing the government move to offer “profit-making” airports to private players and have got support from Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), an RSS affiliate. Over the last few months, they have escalated the agitation organising sit-in protests to mount pressure on the government

Kolkata, Jan 5 (PTI): UCO Bank is on track to come out of RBI’s Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework in the current fiscal, a top official of the lender has said.

The bank is hopeful of bringing down the net NPA below 6 per cent in 2019-20 from 7.34 per cent as on September 2019, Managing Director and CEO A K Goel said.

The framework is used to put lenders with high non-performing assets, weak return on assets and low capital adequacy ratio on a short leash.

Fund infusion by the government will also help maintain capital adequacy required under the corrective measure, he said.

With recoveries on track, net NPA in the December quarter is likely to be under 7 per cent, he said. In the third quarter, the lender recovered Rs 800-900 crore from four large accounts.

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He said liquidity is now sufficient in the system, but “pessimism” is holding back credit growth.

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Bank NSE -0.60 % Rs 200 crore.

Besides, Bank of Baroda got a capital infusion of Rs 7,000 crore, Indian Overseas Bank Rs 4,360 crore, UCO Bank Rs 2142 crore, Punjab & Sind Bank 787 crore and Central Bank of India Rs 3,353 crore.

LIC-controlled IDBI Bank NSE -0.80 % too received additional capital of Rs 4,557 crore through the first supplementary demands for grants approved

by Parliament last month.

With the deadline of March 31 to complete other regulatory requirements, the merged entity will come into existence beginning next fiscal.

Alternative Mechanism of Government of India gave in principle approval for merger of United Bank of India and Oriental Bank of Commerce with Punjab National Bank, making he proposed entity the second largest public sector bank (PSB).

Syndicate Bank will be merged with Canara Bank, while Allahabad Bank will be amalgamated with Indian Bank.

Similarly, Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank will be consolidated with Union Bank of India. The government remains committed to maintain financial health of public sector banks and it will provide capital in case if the need arises in the future, sources added.

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NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (AGENCIES): The government is unlikely to announce capital infusion for the public sector banks (PSBs) in the upcoming Budget and will rather encourage them to expedite recovery of bad loans and raise funds from the market.

Besides, sources said, banks may also look for divesting or selling their non-core business as part of fund raising exercise during 2020-21.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to present the second budget of the Modi 2.0 government on February 1.

According to sources, banks have robust pipeline of recovery from the resolution of both NCLT and non-NCLT cases during this calendar year and also headroom for raising capital from the market. The provision coverage ratio of public sector banks is at a 7-year high of 76.6 per cent.

In some of the nonperforming assets, banks have done provisions up to 100 per cent, sources said, adding that recovery from those account will straightaway form part of the bottomline.

Share price of some of the banks are firming up which provide them opportunity to dilute government holding, sources said.

Country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has already initiated the

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Washington, Jan 5 (AFP): Demonstrators chanting “no war on Iran” rallied Saturday in Washington, New York and across the US to protest the assassination of a top Iranian military commander in a US drone strike. Outside the White House, around 200 people gathered as part of a wave of rallies called by leftleaning organizations. They chanted slogans including “No Justice, No Peace, US out of the Middle East.”

Organizers said demonstrations were convened in some 70 US cities to denounce the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani early Friday in Baghdad on

orders from President Donald Trump. The attack has prompted fears of a major conflagration in the Middle East.

“We will not allow our country to be led into another reckless war,” one speaker outside the White House said. The protesters later headed toward the Trump International Hotel, which is just down the street from the presidential mansion.

“Need a distraction? Start of a war,” read a sign held

by Sam Crook, 66.

Trump faces a looming trial in the Senate following his impeachment by the House of Representatives in the Ukraine scandal.

The Somali jihadists have staged several large-scale attacks inside Kenya, in retaliation for Nairobi sending troops into Somalia as well as to target foreign interests.

Nairobi, Jan 5 (AFP): Jihadists from Somalia’s AlShabaab group on Sunday attacked a military base used

by US and Kenyan forces in Kenya’s coastal Lamu region, the army spokesman said. The strike on the base known as Camp Simba in Manda Bay is the latest by the group in Kenya since Nairobi sent troops across the border in 2011.

Kenya’s army spokesman Colonel Paul Njuguna said in a statement that at 5:30am “an attempt was made to breach security at

Nankana Sahib attack against my vision: Imran Islamabad, Jan 5 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said that the recent attack on the on Nankana Sahib gurdwara in Punjab province goes against his “vision and will find zero tolerance and protection from the government including police and judiciary”.

On Friday, the Gurdwara Nankana Sahib was attacked by a huge Muslim mob while Sikh devotees were stuck inside the shrine.

The mob that had gathered outside raised communal and hateful slogans against the minority community and pelted stones on the shrine, videos circulated on social media showed.

Pakistani sources said the mob was led by the family of Mohammed Hassan, the man who had abducted and converted a Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur, to protest police action against him.

Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Khan said: “The major difference between the condemnable Nankana

control of major urban areas in Somalia.

The Lamu region, close to the Somali border, has been plagued by attacks from Al-Shabaab, with frequent strikes along the frontier notably targeting security forces with roadside bombs.

In their November report, a UN panel of experts on Somalia noted an “unprecedented number” of homemade bombs and other attacks across the KenyaSomalia border in June and July last year.

Manda Air Strip.” “The attempted breach was successfully repulsed. Four terrorists bodies have so far been found. The airstrip is safe. Arising from the unsuccessful breach a fire broke out affecting some of the fuel tanks located at the airstrip.”

He said the fire had been brought under control “and standard security procedures are now on-going.”

Lamu County Commissioner Irungu Macharia also confirmed there had been an attack and said the militants “have been repulsed.” “We are not sure if there are still remnants within,” he said.

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, saying it had “successfully stormed the heavily fortified military base and have now taken effective control of part of the base.” The group said there had been both Kenyan and American casualties, however this could not be immediately verified.

Al-Shabaab said the attack was part of its “Al-Quds (Jerusalem) shall never be Judaized” campaign -- a term it first used during an attack on the upscale Dusit hotel complex in Nairobi in January last year that left 21 people dead.

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Outside the White House, around 200 people gathered as part of a wave of rallies called by left-leaning organizations.

Crook described himself as concerned.

“This country is in the grip of somebody who’s mentally unstable, I mean Donald Trump, that is. He’s not right in the head,” Crook told AFP. “He’s crazy, and has a childish reaction to everything. And I’m afraid he’s going to inadvertently -- he doesn’t really want to, I think -- but I think he could easily start some sort of a real conflagration in the Middle East,” Crook added.

Shirin, a 31-year-old Iranian-American who would not give her last name, said she was worried about the possibility of war with Iran, which has vowed revenge for the death of Soleimani. “We already spent trillions of dollars fighting unjust wars in Iraq and, you know, the longest war today in Afghanistan. And what do we have to show for it?” she said. She argued that the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq caused instability throughout the region and strengthened Iran, “which is now, you know, a major political, social and cultural force in Iraq.”

The Somali jihadists have staged several largescale attacks inside Kenya, in retaliation for Nairobi sending troops into Somalia as well as to target foreign interests. Despite years of costly efforts to fight Al-Shabaab, the group on December 28 managed to detonate a vehicle packed with explosives in Mogadishu, killing 81 people.

The spate of attacks highlights the group’s resilience and capacity to inflict mass casualties at home and in the region, despite losing

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incident and the ongoing attacks across India on Muslims and other minorities is this: the former is against my vision and will find zero tolerance and protection from the government including police and judiciary...”

In a statement issued late Friday, the Pakistan Foreign Office had clarified that the incident in Nankana Sahib was the result of an “altercation between two Muslim groups” and that it should not be portrayed as a communal issue.

On Saturday, activists of the Aman Council visited the gurdwara and expressed satisfaction with the security measures adopted by the law enforcers.

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We, the bereaved family members of Late Takasangba Sangtam, would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who stood by us through his prolonged illness and sad demise of our beloved on 27/12/2019.

Our sincere thanks to all our relatives, well wishers, neighbours who stood by us in our difficult times.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone individually, yet it is our humble prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Jakarta flood death toll rises to 60 Jakarta, Jan 5 (IANS): The death toll due to the floods in the Jakarta metropolitan area has increased to 60, Indonesian authorities said on Sunday, adding that many areas in the capital remain inundated. The majority of the deaths - 51 - occurred in Jakarta and its satellite cities, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNBP) said in its latest statement. It added that at least two other people were missing, reports Efe news. The places with highest number of fatalities were Jakarta (16) and Bogor (17), while the rest were distributed between Bekasi (10), Tangerang (five) and Depok (three), in addition to nine others in Lebak, situated just outside the metropolitan area but in the same area in the west of Java island.

More than 92,000 people remain evacuated in temporary shelters in Jakarta’s metropolitan area, where some 30 million people live and which still has many areas waterlogged, according to BNPB. More than half of the victims died as they were dragged away by floodwaters or buried in landslides due to heavy rain last week that led to the overflow of waterways that cross the capital.

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Born on: 01.03.1944 – Died on: 03.01.2020 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race.

I have kept the faith”.

We the bereaved family members of Late Peghithang Tep Rengma would like to convey our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to every individual, friends, neighbours and relatives, who stood with us in prayer and supported us physically, morally, spiritually and financial during his demise.

We are deeply humbled by the gesture you have shown for which we will be ever grateful. We pray that the Almighty God bless you abundantly. We regret our inability to thank each and every individual.

Nevertheless, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to: 1. Nsünyü Baptist Church 2. Rengma Baptist Church, Chumoukedima Town 3. Kithagha Welfare Society, Chumoukedima Town 4. Rengma Public Union, Chumoukedima Town 5. Prayer Cell Nsünyü Baptist Church 6. Kithagha Prayer Fellowship, Dimapur 7. Enu Kithagha Nu Nyi Nnu Kewa Khan Fellowship, Chumoukedima Town 8. Unity Prayer Group, Sabalie Colony 9. Naga Christian Fellowship, Itanagar 10. Kithagha Nu Nyi Nnou Kewa zie,Dimapur 11. Sabalie Colony, Chumoukedima Town 12. Tesophenyu Group Public Union 13. Christian Revival Church, Chumoukedima Town 14. Apollo Hospital, Guwahati 15. Zion Hospital, Dimapur 16. Mr.Vikho Khezhie Loving wife, children, grand children & relatives DP-74

ZUCHAMO MOZHUI 26/11/1990 – 25/12/2019 We, the family of Lt. Zuchamo Mozhui would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, unions, societies, families, churches, friends and well wishers who stood by us with warm expressions of love, prayers, financial support and sympathy at the sudden demise of our beloved Lt. Zuchamo Mozhui on 25th December 2019.

We have nothing to give in return but may the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

We convey our special thanks to: 1. Doctor & Nurses of Zion Hospital, Dimapur 2. Doctor & Nurses of CIHSR, Dimapur.

3. Yanmhon , Ruchan, Liphi Ekhung, Dimapur 4. Kohima Yanmhon Ekhung 5. Ruchan Baptist Ekhumkho 6. Ruchan Catholic Ekhumkho 7. Kohima Baptist Ekhumkho 8. Hayiyan Ekhumko 9. Yanmhon, Ruchan Eloe Randan Khumshum 10. Lotha Community Khushiabill, Dimapur 11. Grace Baptist Church Khushiabill, Dimapur 12. Ruchan Village Student’s Union 13. Self Help Group (SHG) Ruchan Village 14. New Minister Hill Randan fellowship 15. E. Patton & family 16. Y.M Humtsoe & family 17. Myinthungo Mozhui & Family 18. Dr. Wati, Thahekhu 19. Mhonchumi Lunkim 20. Chomomo Patton & family 21. Staff of GHC , Kohima Bench 22. Staff of NStCB Ltd. Loving parents, siblings & family members DP-62 K

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Nicole, Pink, Hugh Jackman rally to support Australia as wildfires rage

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bevy of Hollywood celebrities like Nicole Kidman, Pink, Hugh Jackman have come out in support of Australia as massive wildfires rage across the country.

Celebrities are making donations to organisations that support fire relief and urging their followers on social media to do so as well, reports variety.com.

Singer Pink posted a list of organisations that her followers can donate to and pledged to donate $500,000 to the local fire services.

“My heart goes out to our friends and family in Oz,” she wrote. Australian native Nicole Kidman shared the same list

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Actor Nick Kroll teamed with Australian actor and filmmaker Joel Edgerton to raise money for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service to “combat the terrible fires ravaging Australia.”

Marvel’s “Shang-Chi” star Simu Liu tweeted on Friday “a reminder that Australia is on fire and people are voluntarily risking their lives to keep communities and homes safe!”

Other personalities such as Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ellen DeGeneres, reposted climate activist Greta Thunberg’s post about Australia with message of support.

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A and added her pledge of $500,000, writing that “our families’ support, thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the fires all over Australia.”

“Wolver’ne” star Hugh Jackman shared a picture of with links to organisations receiving donations and captioned it: “How can you h’lp?”

“Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness wrote that his “heart has been broken these last days watching the situation deteriorate there... Go to the link in my bio & donate to Celeste Barber’s Australia fundr’iser & if you’re in a position to donate that would be very much appreciated.”

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ctress Deepika Padukone made her debut on TikTok a day prior to her birthday, and received a grand welcome from her fans on joining the platform, amassing 1.2 million followers in just 12 hours.

Deepika, who is busy promoting her upcoming film “Chhapaak”, joined the destination for shortform mobile videos on January 4.

The first six videos posted by her reached 54 million video views with three videos crossing over 12 million views, individually. Some of the videos show the superstar grooving to trending challenges on the platform. She has also posted a dance video, a rap video as well as an introduction video. Lax-

mi Agarwal, on whom “Chhapaak” is based, features in two of the actress’ videos too.

“While most know me to be poised and graceful, there has always been a crazy, fun and spontaneous side to me that only people close to me know of and get to see. Now with TikTok, I get to share that side of my personality with my fans as well,” said Deepika.

She has joined the list of celebrities such as Chris Gayle, Justin Bieber, Will Smith, DJ Snake, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Riteish Deshkmukh, Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline Fernandez who have joined TikTok to connect with their fans in a fun way.

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he Last Wish, one of the books on which the first season of Netflix‘s The Witcher was directly based, has landed on The New York Times Best-Seller list 27 years after it was first released.

Landing at Number Four on the list, The Last Wish is a collection of short, Geralt-focused stories written by Andrzej Sapkowski, that were used to make up the bulk of the hit fantasy series’ first season.

Originally released in 1993 in Polish and then eventually 2007 in English, the book includes the plots of show episodes like the Striga, the Djinn and the initial pilot episode focused on Renfri and Stregobor.

The Last Wish isn’t the only Witcher source book to find its way onto the NYT Best-Seller list. Landing at Number 12, Blood of Elves is the first ‘official’ Witcher saga book (which spans five others) that focuses on the fall of Cintra and Ciri’s escape.

The eight books that make up The Witcher Saga consist of: The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of Swallows, The Lady of the Lake and Season of Storms.

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The Netflix show starring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia has been criticised for leaving aspects of Sword of Destiny out, but Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich last week (December 29) posted a thread about how it was a very tough decision, but ultimately she thinks they made the right call based on the needs of the show.

Prior to the Netflix series, The Witcher found true international fame through a video game adaptation

by Polish developers CD Projekt Red. Since 2007, CDPR has released a trilogy of bestselling computer roleplaying games and two digital card games based on the franchise (which has also expanded to include a mobile game and a board game available).

Although author An-

drzej Sapkowski does not consider these games as part of the canon as established by the books, they do expand on the story and offer one version of what happens to Geralt and company after the end of the series.

The Witcher debuted on Netflix last month, and the show’s creator is already talking about a second instalment.

Speaking to NME, Showr unner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich confirmed that a second season of the show is on the way.

“I’m so thrilled that before fans have even seen our first season, we are able to confirm that we’ll be returning to The Continent again to continue telling the stories of Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri,” she said, before teasing the “different” approach they will be taking on the new episodes. (NME)

System of a Down singer condemns Trump’s attack on Iran Daniel Craig’s ‘very emotional’

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ystem of a Down frontman Serj Tankian has implied that President Trump may have ordered the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani to distract the public from impeachment proceedings.

Trump personally ordered the killing by airstrike of Iran’s top general, who was viewed by the United States as a ruthless killer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement saying that Trump ordered the airstrike “without the consultation of Congress.”

Tankian suggested on Friday that Trump was thinking of his own political future when he authorized the killing of Soleimani.

“A month before his impeachment trial in the Senate and on an election year Trump makes a call to assassinate a leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, “ the singer wrote.

“A move [Bill] Clinton made, bombing Iraq before his Senate impeachment.

We’re saying NO TO ANOTHER WAR!” President Trump on Friday said he ordered the

death of Soleimani to stop a war, not start one. He also said Soleimani was plotting “imminent and sinister attacks” on Americans.

Trump told reporters that the general should have

been taken out by previous presidents.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S. after the airstrike that killed Soleimani.

In 2011 and 2012, Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of seeking war with Iran to help win the 2012 presidential election.

During his second term, Obama successfully negotiated the Iran nuclear deal that saw Iran halt its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

Two years ago, Trump scrapped the nuclear deal and introduced new sanctions.

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ctor Daniel Craig has reflected on filming his last scene as James Bond in the upcoming part of the spy franchise. He says it was very emotional.

“No Time to Die” will be Craig’s fifth and final appearance as the British Secret Service agent and the Hollywood actor revealed that it wasn’t easy when it came to saying goodbye to the movie’s team, reports digitalspy.com.

“It was potentially a bit of an anti-climax, because they usually are,” Craig told Empire. “Actually, it was very emotional.”

“The whole crew came round and gathered out-

side. Everybody was hugging each other. I tried to make a speech and couldn’t get it out,” he added.

The actor also spoke about how he came to accept the iconic role.

“I was completely ready to just go, ‘That’s the way I see Bond. You don’t like it? Fair enough,’” Craig said.

“One of the biggest reasons I did ‘Casino Royale’ is the line, ‘A vodka

martini, please’. ‘Shaken or stirred?’ My reply was written in the script as, ‘Do I look like I give a f**k?’

And that’s it. That’s the reason I did it.

“Because what I could not do, and what I refused to do, was repeat what had gone before. What was the f**king point? So I’d rather have just done one and gone, ‘Okay, swing and a miss. There you go. Tried my best’.”

“No Time to Die”, the 25th James Bond movie, will see the return of actors Rory Kinnear, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Lea Seydoux, Christoph Waltz and Ralph Fiennes.

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Miley Cyrus settles lawsuit claiming she Award winners dared to plagiarised reggae song for ‘We Can’t Stop’ also return monetary gains

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tially incorporated” his “vocal melody/rhythm/cadence/inflection”, pointing to a “substantially similar hook” and alleged similarities between Cyrus’ refrain, “We run things. Things don’t run we” and his lyrics, “We run things. Things no run we.”

Now, Reuters reports, that the lawsuit has been settled. May and Cyrus reportedly filed a joint stipulation in Manhattan federal court on Friday (January 3) ending the suit with prejudice, which means it can’t be filed again.

Cyrus’ lawyers wrote in a letter last month that a settlement agreement had been signed and that the stipulation would be filed “pending payment of the settlement proceeds.” The amount was not specified.

Back in November, Miley Cyrus postponed all recording and performances while she recovered from vocal surgery.

While receiving treatment for tonsillitis, Cyrus was diagnosed with a separate issue with her vocal cords. The ‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ singer underwent surgery, and was advised by her doctor to rest her voice for several weeks.

Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus has put in an application to trademark the phrase ‘Bandit and Bardot.’

Though largely unconfirmed up until this point, it seems that the phrase relates to a potential new musical project between Cyrus and her Australian singer-songwriter boyfriend Cody Simpson.

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when people have started believing that the level of humour has declined in our society, reflecting intolerance,” he said.

Pandey said he wanted to bring focus on the sad state of Yamuna in Agra.

“Not just human life, the tourism industry and the grand Mughal monuments are dependent on the good health of Yamuna. But, unfortunately, no attention is being paid to address the problem,” he said.

“In my humble way, I am trying to draw attention of the literary community to the plight of our rivers.

Writers should help support campaigns for rejuvenation of Yamuna, our life line,” said Pandey.

Chakradhar said it was a unique initiative as unique as Pandey’s style of writing, which was simple, lively and touches the heart. (IANS)

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lawsuit claiming that Miley Cyrus plagiarised a line from a reggae song on her 2013 song ‘We Can’t Stop’ has now been settled.

Originally suing Cyrus for $300 million (£215m) in 2018, Jamaican songwriter Michael May, who performs under the name Flourgon, claimed that the ‘We Can’t Stop’ infringed upon his 1988 single ‘We Run Things’.

May filed the complaint on March 13, 2018, Reuters reported, with producers Mike WiLL MadeIt and Rock City (Timothy and Theron Thomas), Cyrus’ manager Larry Rudolph, plus the labels RCA Records and Sony Music also named in the suit.

May’s lawyers argued that Cyrus’ song “substan-

atirist and columnist Piyush Pandey on Sunday dared those who had been making a show of returning awards to also return the royalty and the monetary gains made from various recognitions.

To begin a new trend, Pandey donated his advance royalty to a local non-government organisation (NGO) working for rejuvenation of the river Yamuna. The cheque was received by Shravan Kumar Singh, vice-president of the Braj Mandal Heritage Conservation Society from Ashok Chakradhar.

Talking to IANS at a book release function during the National Book Fair in New Delhi, Pandey said his latest book, Kabira Baitha Debate Mein, is a collection of satires and humour pieces.

“It comes at a time

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Atletico Madrid’s defender Felipe celebrates after scoring his team’s second goal against Levante.

MADRID, JAN 5 (IANS): Atletico Madrid has edged Levante 2-1 and climbed to third place in LaLiga and remain within striking distance of Barcelona and Real Madrid.

After 19 matches, Atletico are tied on points with Sevilla at 35, but the Colchoneros are ahead in

the table based on better goal difference. Levante, with 26 points, are ninth, just a point above Villarreal, who have a game in hand, reports Efe news.

The hosts started the match in high gear and created three chances in succession inside the first minute, yet neither Angel

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Correa, nor Joao Felix nor Saul Ñiguez could break the ice. But the Colchoneros found success on the second wave, culminating in the 14th minute with a resounding strike from Correa, who has scored two of the team’s last four goals and assisted on two others. Just two minutes later, the score was level

at 1-1 thanks to a goal by Levante’s Roger following a Jose Campana free kick.

While the defending could have been better, the equaliser was mainly due to the skills of Campana and Roger, and the same was true of Felipe’s goal in the 18th minute to give Atleti a 2-1 lead.

Anderson takes five as England seize control of second test

CAPE TOWN, JAN 5 (REUTERS): Seamer James Anderson took five wickets and Ben Stokes an England record five catches as the tourists took control of the second test against South Africa at lunch on day three at Newlands on Sunday.

Cricket - South Africa v England - Second Test - PPC Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa - January 5, 2020 England’s James Anderson celebrates the wicket of South Africa’s Anrich Nortje REUTERS/ Mike Hutchings England are 52 for one in their second innings, a lead of 98 with nine wickets remaining, after they bowled their hosts out for 223.

Opener Dom Sibley (18 not out) and Joe Denly (9 not out) will resume after the interval as England seek to bat themselves into a winning position in the low-scoring test to tie the four-match series.

Zak Crawley (25) was the only wicket to fall in their second innings as he edged Kagiso Rabada to wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock after taking two

James Anderson celebrates wicket during the second test match against South Africa at Cape Town on January 5.

blows to the body from the fiery South African fast bowler.

E n g l a n d a r e we l l poised to build a solid lead on a wicket that is showing some wear and tear, and has significant cracks outside of the right-hander’s off-stump at the Kelvin Grove end.

They made short work of wrapping up the South African innings at the start of play, with Rabada (0) out first ball as he nicked Anderson (5-40) to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.

Anderson completed his 28th test five wicket haul when number 11 An-

rich Nortje (4) edged to Stokes at slip for the allrounder to take an England record five catches as a fielder.

It is also the joint most by any player and the 12th time a fielder had taken five catches in a test innings.

The world record in a match is eight, held by South African AB de Villiers and Ajinkya Rahane from India, and could be under threat given how many wickets have fallen behind the stumps in this test.

South Africa won the first test in Pretoria by 107 runs.

MoU signed to boost badminton in Brunei

BA N DA R S E R I B E G AWA N ( B RU N E I ) , JAN 5 (IANS): A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that has been signed with a sports equipment supplier will give a major boost to the development of badminton in Brunei, according to the country’s badminton association.

Local daily the Borneo Bulletin said on Sunday that the Brunei Darussalam National Badminton Association (BNBA) signed the MoU with Yonex Sunrise Singapore at Mulia Hotel, reports Xinhua news agency.

BNBA President Haji Hamzah said the memorandum serves as a catalyst for the association to move forward. The signing hopes to encourage the association to be active in organising badminton championships in the country.

Through the MoU, Yonex Sunrise will sponsor national badminton athletes and associations in the form of equipment and prizes for competitions organised by BNBA from October 2019 to September 2024.

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Carter, 4th batsman in T20s four-day Tests a ridiculous to hit six sixes in an over idea, says Gautam Gambhir

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CHRISTCHURCH, JAN 5 (IANS): Canterbury batsman Leo Carter achieved a rare feat on Sunday as he smashed six sixes in an over to becoming only the fourth batsman to do so.

In the 16th over of a T20 Super Smash tournament at Hagley Oval here, Carter hammered left-arm spinner Anton Devcich, who was bowling for Northern Districts. It was Carter’s heroics which helped Canterbury overhaul a challenging 220run target with seven balls to K Y M C

spare. Carter remained unbeaten on 70 off just 29 balls and his knock was laced with three boundaries and seven hits into the stands.

The other batters who have achieved the feat in T20s, include India’s Yuvraj Singh (2007), Worcestershire’s Ross Whitely (2017) and Afghanistan’s Hazratullah Zazai (2018).

Significantly, Garry Sobers and Ravi Shastri had also achieved the feat however, that came in first-class cicket.

NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (IANS): Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has termed the ICC’s proposal of fourday Test matches “a ridiculous idea” and felt scrapping a day from the original format would lead to more matches ending without any result.

The ICC cricket committee is likely to consider fourday Test matches as being part of the World Test Championship from 2023. ICC’s increasing demand for event windows, the proliferation of domestic T20 leagues, BCCI’s demands for its own sizeable share of bilateral calendar space, and the costs of staging Test series are all said to be the factors contributing to the move.

Sharing his views on the proposal, Gambhir wrote in Sunday’s column for Times of India: “At the outset, let me say that I think four-day Test matches are a ridiculous idea and should be dropped immediately. It will invite drawn games, will have no place for spinners and will take away the charm of playing on a wearing fifth-day pitch.” “Some felt said day-night Test cricket is the future, others felt better management of players’ fitness was the need of the hour. I also heard that cricket needs an ‘American marketing hand’ to make it more of a global game. When my turn came, I listed two aspects: lack of champion cricketers and lively pitches,” he added.

Earlier, India skipper Virat Kohli also didn’t favoured the ICC’s idea as he felt it was unfair to the ‘purest format of the game’.

According to Kohli, the concept of Day-Night Test, which is already in place in world cricket, is the most that should be brought to commercialise the traditional red-ball cricket format.

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that the competition is a good platform for the youth. The third edition of the tournament will be held in Guwahati from January 10.

“The Khelo India Youth Games is a good platform for youth athletes.

My biggest achievement in my career so far has been the gold medal I won in the Khelo India Youth Games in 2019. The competition was very tough and the athletes were very good.

I participated in the 10 m air rifle mixed team event (along with teammate Mehuli Ghosh in the U-21 category),” said the 11year-old. Abhinav, who is currently preparing for the

India trials (youth, junior and senior categories), has not played an international tournament as yet. However, the young shooter has had success at the national level.

“I started shooting two and a half years ago at the Asansol rifle club. I have not played any international tournament as yet.

I am currently preparing for the India trials (youth, junior and senior), which will take place in January.

I have played in the senior nationals in 2018 and 2019.

I won two gold medals in the mixed team event (youth and junior category) at the nationals in 2018,” Abhinav signed off.

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Asutsa hipau pesuno Hoshepu Range Union Dimapur (HRUD) lo kihikusumi kumtsu lau pithi ani thosulo toi ampe Sukusho Kighini lo kumtsuno ighino akighini kukumgha ighilu penike kusu ani. Eno akighini thiu Ino/Inoli. Shikheto Aye (Banker) kibono chuqukusho kuto tsu ani.

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Hovishe ghami Council küküputsa lono Xakütha shi keu toi Hovishe Phulo Ayeghi/Alu (Farm) akemi kümtsü pelo Kükami eno Council sasü atsala 20 Lu uqhi 2020 zuuno kileküghü shi küpütsa eno kighithi kile luve penike yepithi ani.

Kileküghü shimo kemiye aküpuna kiu kiu shive pinamu kükami eno Council ye amakho pumoni eno lüthu makho shive peni.

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The Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung, Nagaland.

Sub:- REJOINDER Sir, On the subject cited above, we the undersigned through your good authority would like to state as under for favour of your information and necessary action.

That Sir, the Lika Board (Land Owners Board) of Mokokchung Town is constrained to make this rejoinder to the State Govt. (Land Revenue Department) Office Memorandum vide No. LR/LAND-PLCY/5-26/ 2011 of 06.08.2018 under the seal and signature of Chief Secretary, Nagaland and published in local dailies including Ao Milen dated Sept. 18th, 2018.

1. That the establishment of the District HQ or Departmental Offices in our land have never been on the request or demand of the concerned landowners. However, the landowner(s) at no point of time ever obstructed or not cooperated in the establishment of the same till today.

2. That to the best of our knowledge whether on occupied, donated or sold land, such establishments had been done under certain condition between the concerned Department and the landowner. This understands that such land had never been given for never ending use by the user except sold ones.

3. That the benefit/opportunity/advantage/facility, if any, been taken by the landowners cannot be construed as absolutely sold out or handed over to the user. Rather, if had it been given by the Govt. Departments that itself is the justifying evidence that the concerned landowners are the absolute owners of the very land.

4. That if such is the attitude of the State Government as carried out in the above cited Office Memorandum, it is a direct challenge to the landowners belittling their far sighted sacrificial gesture given to the Government for the common welfare.

In the light of the above, therefore, if the Government don’t rectify the Memorandum, the Lika Board would be compelled to take appropriate step in the days to come.

On behalf of Lika Board, Sd/Sd/BUR LONGKUMER IMTISUNGKUM PONGEN Secretary Chairman

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The AAI Sagi Sports-2020 organised by Mech Kachari Public Organization at Kachari Sports Complex, Kushiabill Darogajan village concluded on January 5. The Men’s volley ball was won by Kushiabill sector-3 beating Kushiabill veterans. The women’s volley ball was won by Kushiabill women team. The prizes for the volley ball men were sponsored by the family members of late Priyolal Sonowal, late Tarun Mech and family members of late H.B Brahma.

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morning. “It’s tough for them because ... there’s a lot of different things involved. But health concern is a health concern for me and for anybody.”

The smoke has so far caused the most disruption to the sporting calendar in Canberra, where a Twenty20 cricket match was abandoned on Dec. 21 when conditions became too hazardous to continue.

An ATP Challenger/ ITF Futures tennis tournament scheduled for next week in the capital was moved to Bendigo, while on Sunday the city’s ACT Brumbies rugby team announced they would be moving their pre-season training camp to Newcastle.

The twice Super Rugby champions made the decision after their training ground at the University of Canberra was closed indefinitely “due to hazardous air quality”.

NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (IANS): Abhinav Shaw, who became the youngest gold medallist at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) in 2019, wouldn’t have known that his career path was chosen on the day he was born. Shaw’s father Rupesh Kumar Shaw named Abhinav after India’s first individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra and decided that his son would become a shooter.

Rupesh, who is a home tutor, also had a stint in shooting. He took part in the 10m air pistol event for East Zone.

“I decided that Abhinav would be a shooter on the day he was born. Abhinav was born in the year 2008, the year when Abhinav Bindra won the gold at the Beijing Olympics. Our son is named after the great Abhinav Bindra. I took our son to the club at the age of eight and started his shooting training. When he was nine years old, he cracked the youth trials at Trivandrum in 2017. He became the state senior champion in 2018 and then he went on to win the gold at the Khelo India Games. Everyone says that Abhinav is a natural shooter,” said Rupesh.

While speaking about the KIYG, Abhinav said

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Four climbers of Nagaland Sport Climbing Association (NSCA) namely Heno Khiam (men’s open), Hengaohou (junior), Thanglalmon Thomsong (sub junior), Jeliam Khiam (women’s open) were selected to represent North East Zone at the upcoming 25th National Sport Climbing competition which is to be held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha from January 6 to 10.

SYDNEY, JAN 5 (AGENCIES): Tennis world number two Novak Djokovic said he is concerned that smoke might cause some problems at the Australian Open later this month as bushfires continued to blaze across large sections of the southeast on Sunday.

Hundreds of fires in New South Wales and Victoria have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 5.25 million hectares (13 million acres) of land over the last few months.

Smoke from the blazes has also resulted in hazardous conditions in Sydney, where the final rounds of the inaugural ATP Cup will take place next weekend, and Melbourne, where the year’s first tennis Grand Slam gets underway on Jan. 20.

Seven-times Australian Open champion Djokovic, who is playing in the ATP Cup, said he hoped the crisis would “dissipate” soon but that an action plan would be needed to avoid any impact on the health of players if it did not.

“If it continues same way and if the quality of air is affected in Melbourne or Sydney, I think Tennis Australia probably will be forced to create some rules about it,” he told a Brisbane news conference in the early hours of Sunday

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FA Cup: United, Wolves draw; City wins Lyon takes five as Australia dominate in Sydney

Manchester City players celebrate victory against Port Vale in FA Cup at Etihad Stadium, Manchester on Jan 4.

LONDON, JAN 5 (IANS): Wolverhampton and Manchester United battled to a scoreless draw in their FA Cup third-round match, while Manchester City romped 4-1 over fourthdivision side Port Vale.

Wolves were the better side in the contest at Molineux Stadium late on Saturday, but failed to capitalise on their chances and saw what they thought was a goal in the 75th called back for a hand ball, reports Efe news.

Romain Saïss’ header

Karan makes winning start at TT meet VA D O DA R A , JA N 5 (IANS): Delhi girls Yukti Malhotra and Shreya Goel won their qualifying round 1 matches in the U-14 and U-17 categories respectively at the UTT 65th National School Games Table Tennis Championships at Sama Indoor Sports Stadium here on Sunday, under the aegis of School Games Federation of India (SGFI).

W h i l e Yu k t i b e a t Gayatri Bhist 11-3, 11-4, 11-1, Shreya thrashed Sikkim’s Palmu Bhatia 11-4, 11-3, 11-5. Maharashtra paddler Karan Kukreja registered a dominating 11-4, 11-6, 11-4 victory against Tripura’s Shubhrajit Das in the U-17 boys singles qualifying round 1. In the other matches of the U-17 boys’ category, Tamil Nadu’s K Harish and Telangana’s Yelle Raju also notched up easy victories against their respective opponents.

from a corner in the 13th minute was deflected away from the net moments before United backup goalkeeper Sergio Romero made an outstanding save to deny Matt Doherty from close range.

Both teams began the match with starters on the bench, but both rolled out their big guns -- Marcus Rashford for United, Raul Jimenez for Wolverhampton -- in the second half in pursuit of a goal.

Romero stopped Pedro Nato in the 50th min-

ute, nine minutes before United’s Juan Mata fired wide on a free kick. Wolves’ Conor Coady dove in the path of a Rashford strike, sending the ball into the cross-bar.

The final chance belonged to Jimenez, whose shot clanged off the bar.

Which club moves on to the next round will be decided in a replay at Old Trafford later this month.

The other Manchester team hosted humble Port Vale at the Etihad. The two-time defending Premier

League champions and 2019 FA Cup winners took the lead in the 19th minute with a goal by Oleksandr Zinchenko, only to see Tom Pope equalise for Port Vale.

City retook the lead before the break on Sergio Agüero’s goal in the 42nd minute. Taylor HarwoodBellis, 17, widened the lead to 3-1 before the hour mark and Phil Foden added a fourth in the 76th. Leicester City, currently second in the Premier League, cruised to a 2-0 win against seconddivision Wigan.

SYDNEY, JAN 5 (GENCIES): Nathan Lyon took 5-68 as a dominant Australia dismissed New Zealand for 251 before the home batsmen took over to extend their lead to 243 by the close of play on the third day of the third and final test on Sunday.

Already 2-0 down in the series after thumping defeats in Perth and Melbourne, New Zealand have been ravaged by illness and injury and now face a huge battle to avoid a third heavy loss before they head home.

The Sydney Cricket Ground was turned pink for the 12th straight year in aid of cricketing great Glenn McGrath’s breast cancer foundation but there was nothing charitable about Australia’s approach to the match.

Openers David Warner (23) and Joe Burns (16) steered the hosts to 40 without loss at stumps to add to the first-innings tally of 454 built on the back of Marnus Labuschagne’s maiden double century.

It was the Australian bowling attack, though, that once again set the tone as they took all 10 New Zealand wickets for the fifth time in the series. Off spinner Lyon carried the ball off the pitch to huge applause an hour after tea after he had Matt Henry stumped to end New Zealand’s innings and secure the 17th five-wicket haul of his career, his first

Nathan Lyon

against the Black Caps.

“It’s always special being part of the Sydney test match and playing in front of your family and friends, and to perform in the first innnings was pretty special,” Lyon said.

“There’s still plenty of work to do in the second dig ... but if you were rocking up today and saying we’d end up with a lead of 240 and 10 wickets in hand, we’ll take that every day,” he added.

Henry batted despite breaking the thumb on his non-bowling hand on day one of the match, the latest in a catalogue of misfortune that robbed the tourists of captain Kane Williamson and a string of other top

players.

Glenn Phillips, flown over from New Zealand on the eve of the test to cover for the sick Williamson and Nicholls, offered the most resistance with a 52 on his test debut.

The 23-year-old enjoyed some luck when he was dropped twice by the normally reliable Lyon and again just before tea when he was caught in the deep off a James Pattinson no ball.

He brought up his maiden half century with a brilliant pull shot through square but two balls later was clean bowled by paceman Pat Cummins, who took 3-44 to show once

again why he is the world’s top-ranked test bowler.

“It was a really enjoyable time out there,” Phillips said. “It’s a shame I wasn’t able to go on and extend the innings a bit, but that’s cricket.” Lyon tops a few lists of his own these days and it was the unassuming off-spinner who broke New Zealand’s early resistance after they had resumed on 63 without loss. He bowled opener Tom Blundell for 34 and trapped Jeet Raval leg before wicket for 31 in the first session and returned after tea to send back tailenders Will Sommerville and Neil Wagner, both for ducks, in a magnificent twowicket maiden.

Ibrahimovic statue vandalised again Maha wins team gold in Sub-Junior Artistic Gymnastics Nationals

STOCKHOLM, JAN 5 (AGENCIES): The statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic erected in his home city has been attacked again and almost completely removed from its plinth outside Malmo Stadium after vandals sawed it off at the ankles.

AC Milan striker Ibrahimovic was present for the unveiling of the statue in October last year, but he subsequently angered fans in Malmo by acquiring a stake in Stockholm rivals Hammarby and saying that he was going to turn them into Scandinavia’s biggest soccer club.

Ibrahimovic made his name at Malmo FF before going on to a trophy-laden career in Netherlands, Italy, Spain, England, France and the U.S. The nose of the statue was cut off in a pre-Christmas attack but the vandalism this weekend was the most severe yet.

Swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic poses in front of a 2,7m bronze statue of him during the unveiling ceremony near Malmo Stadium, Sweden, October 8, 2019.

Only the two feet were left on the plinth and the rest of the body was left leaning over a security fence erected to protect it, connected only by a sup-

porting pole in the right leg.

The words “take away” in Swedish were sprayed on the ground close to the statue.

The 38-year old is ex-

pected to make his first appearance since returning to Serie A on Monday when AC Milan take on Sampdoria at the San Siro stadium.

JODHPUR, JAN 5 (IANS): Maharashtra has struck gold at the team event of the 28th Sub Junior Artistic Gymnastics National Championship 2019 while representing the same state, while the 12-year-old Mann Kothari from the Mumbai Suburban team begged silver in the Floor and High Bar event.

The team from Maharashtra which won the yellow metal late on Saturday comprised Aadhyaan Desai and Jash Parikh, other than Kothari. Nearly 500 young gymnasts of the 10-14 years’ age group took part in the championships held in the Sub-Junior category.

An elated Kothari said: “Representing Maharashtra is a huge pride for me and getting all round silver at national level is huge motivation to pursue

Mann Kothari

Gymnastics further. I train 26 hours a week, but the tough part is performing elegantly, which requires thousands of repetitions and extreme flexibility and strength. Hundreds of hours of practice comes down to few seconds of performance so I feel nervous.”

“Competition was stiff at nationals as best clubs and full-time sports school gymnasts give their

best for the top spot. Teams from Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi and Manipur gave us tough competition. I need to learn a lot for my dream to represent India at the Olympics, especially work on Pommel Horse. My coaches Vishal K, Shailendar Lad, Shubham Giri and PTKS Gymnastics are core to my journey. I hope I keep working towards victory and give my best.”

Ethiopian runners dominate Kohli receives special gift 2020 Xiamen Marathon ahead of Guwahati T20I

Men’s 2020 Xiamen Marathon competition in action on Sunday.

XIAMEN (CHINA), JAN 5 (IANS): Ethiopian runners dominated in both men’s and women’s competition at the 2020 Xiamen Marathon on Sunday, the first Gold Label road race of the year.

Ethiopian Birhan Nebebew Tesfaye, 25, clocked 2:08:16 to win the men’s title.

He was the silver medallist in 2019 Xiamen Marathon and his personal best of 2:06:52 was set in 2019 Lisbon Marathon. He was followed by Kenyan athlete Reuben Kip-

rop Kerio whose result was 2:08:46. His compatriot Grimay Birhanu Gebru ranked third and clocked 2:08:52, reports Xinhua news agency.

Chinese runner Yang Dinghong timed 2:13:50 in Sunday’s race, ranking first among the Chinese athletes in the men’s event.

In the women’s race, the Ethiopians were more outstanding. Medina Deme Armino, 22, clocked 2:26:12 to defend women’s title, creating her personal best.

She was followed by her compatriots Mesera Hussen Dubiso and Afera Godfay Berha, finishing 2:26:28 and 2:26:42 respectively.

Chinese athlete Li Zhixuan finished in 2:32:44, best among the Chinese women athletes.

A total of 35,071 runners from 41 countries and regions participated in the event, making it the largest marathon in China. Runners were selected from 82,205 applicants across the world.

GUWAHATI, JAN 5 (IANS): Virat Kohli is undoubtedly one of the most loved and admired cricketer in recent times and ahead of starting his new year campaign against Sri Lanka in the first affair of the three-match T20I rubber, the Indian runmachine has received a special gift from his fan in Guwahati.

The fan named Rahul met Kohli at the team hotel and presented him a portrait, which he made using old and discarded mobile phones and wires. The fan said that it took him three days and as many nights to make the portrait Kohli.

Kohli too, didn’t dissapoint his fan and signed the potrait, a video of which was posted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on its social media pages.

“Portrait of @virat. kohli using old phones.

How is this for fan love!” the BCCI wrote on Twitter.

India will take on Sri Lanka in their first match

Virat Kohli

of series at the Barsapara cricket stadium in Guwahati later on Sunday as the contest will also mark the return of two significant players -- Shikhar Dhawan and Jasprit Bumrah -- in the Kohli-led side.

Dhawan was not part of the West Indies series at home last year after suffering a knee injury during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy while Bumrah has been out of action since India toured West Indies in July-August last year. The pacer had suffered a stress fracture on his back but has now regained full fitness.

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