July 10, 2019

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Vol XXIX No. 213

DIMAPUR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019 Pages 12 ` 5.00

Guj court reissues summons to Rahul in defamation case for remark against Shah

India-NZ match to resume today

Immediately cancel arms sale to Taiwan: China to US

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sports, Page 12

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Oppn creates ruckus in Parl over Karnataka issue

NEW DELHI, JUL 9 (AGENCIES): The Parliament on Tuesday witnessed uproar over the Karnataka crisis with opposition Congress members storming the well of the House and raising slogans. The opposition parties led by Congress, including DMK and National Conference later staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha registering their protest over political developments in Karnataka.

Earlier at the start of the Zero Hour, pandemonium scenes prevailed in the House after Speaker Om Birla disallowed Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to raise the same issue.

Several opposition members trooped into the well of the House raising anti-government slogans.

Chowdhury said that the politics of “poaching” as pursued by the BJP should come to an end forthwith - a charge denied by the ruling side. For the second consecutive day, the issue was raised by Congress leader Chowdhury and others wherein Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that his party and the government had nothing to do with the “internal mat-

Cong seeks disqualification of rebel MLAs

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi with party MPs walks out of the Lok Sabha in a protest over Karnataka issues, during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday. (LSTV/PTI)

ters” in the Congress party.

“It is unfortunate that they (Congress) are unable to control their own house and dragging the matter into the Lower House of Parliament and disturbing its functioning,” Rajnath Singh said.

Later, Congress president Rahul Gandhi joined those raising slogans. This is for the first time that Gandhi was seen raising slogans in the 17th Lok Sabha. “It is your duty to save democracy,” a Congress member said. Unsatisfied with the Speaker’s response, Chowdhury again tried to raise the issue. He scribbled a few

slogans on a piece of paper and gave it to his fellow MPs sitting behind him, who promptly raised them. The members raised slogans like “Down with dictatorship” (Tanashahi Band Karo), “Stop the politics of poaching” (Shikar ki rajneeti Band Karo Band karo).

As members entered the Well, they continued with the sloganeering. Opposition members from other parties Indian Union of Muslim League, NCP and RSP also stood up supporting the Congress leader’s contention that he has right to raise the issue affecting Meanwhile, the Ra-

Petrol, diesel Tokheho urges Centre to revise prices slashed allocation of funds for NER

NEW DELHI/DIMAPUR, JUL 9 (AGENCIES/ NPN): State-run oil marketing companies lowered the retail prices of petrol and diesel on Tuesday (July 9) across four metro cities.

After the daily revision in retail fuel rates, the price of petrol in all metro cities slashed by 3-6 paise per litre while diesel became cheaper by 6-11 paise.

Petrol prices were cut in New Delhi by 6 paise to Rs 72.90 a litre on Tuesday and diesel became cheaper by 10 paise to Rs 66.49.

Meanwhile, in Nagaland’s commercial hub Dimapur, the price of petrol was Rs.70.85 per litre and in the state capital Kohima it was Rs. 71.34 per litre.

Diesel prices in Dimapur and Kohima was Rs. 64.27 and Rs. 64.71 per litre respectively.

It is worth mentioning here the pump price of petrol and diesel in the national capital Delhi are the cheapest among all metros and most state capitals owing to lower taxes.

As per the country’s daily dynamic pricing mechanism, the fuel price is dependent on the global prices of benchmark fuel and the rupee-US dollar exchange rate as India imports 80 per cent of its crude requirements.

This is it!

“Problem is, after Rahul resigned, who do they submit their resignations to?”

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DIMAPUR, JUL 9 (NPN): Lok Sabha MP, Tokheho Yepthomi urged the Centre to revise allocation of funds for the North Eastern Region (NER), pointing out that the total allocation of funds for the region under North Eastern Council and Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) had stagnated over the past few years.

The stagnation of financial allocation would make it very difficult for the region to develop on a par with rest of the country, he added.

In this regard, the Lok Sabha MP therefore urged Prime Minster Narendra Modi and Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to revise the allocation of funds for the North Eastern region in the coming days.

Participating in the debate on Union Budget 2019-

20 in Lok Sabha on Monday, Tokheho also urged Sitharaman to hike the import duty on import of natural rubber to enable domestic rubber farmers to get a good price for their produce.

Highlighting the problems faced by natural rubber industry in the country, he stated that natural rubber farmers, especially in the South and Northeast, were facing difficulties due to increased import of rubber from Southeast Asian countries.

He said there had been a sharp fall in rubber prices over the last few years due to low import duties, which resulted in decrease in domestic rubber prices.

Yepthomi also lauded the 2% tax on withdrawals of more than Rs one crore in a year, which would increase digital transactions and also aid in controlling black money.

jya Sabha also witnessed protests by members of the Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) as soon as it reconvened at 2 p.m. following two adjournments earlier in the day.

The House was adjourned within three minutes as ruckus prevailed.

Deputy Chairman Harivansh, who was chairing the proceedings, made repeated appeals to protesting members to return to their seats. However, as protests continued, he adjourned the Rajya Sabha for the day.

A defiant Congress on Tuesday sought the disqualification of nine of the 10 rebel party legislators who have submitted their resignations from the Karnataka Assembly. “We have petitioned the Speaker (K.R. Ramesh Kumar) to disqualify 9 rebel legislators under the anti-defection law if they don’t withdraw their resignations,” Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah told reporters here.

The party has, however, not sought disqualification of senior legislator Ramalinga Reddy, hoping he would withdraw his resignation letter soon. Of the 13 rebels, including three of the ally Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), 12 resigned on July 6 while Congress MLA Anand Singh did on July 1.

“We urge the rebels to withdraw their resignations and be in the party…,” Siddaramaiah said after a twohour long CLP meeting in the state secretariat here.

Admitting that all the rebels did not attend the CLP meeting despite informing them in advance, he alleged that they were “trapped” by

the rival BJP, offering them money and minister posts for defecting. Hoping better sense would prevail in the rebels to return to the fold, Siddaramaiah said the party would issue a whip to them on Thursday to attend the 10-day monsoon session of the Assembly from July 12 and be present when the budget for 2019-20 has to be passed.

“As the BJP failed 5 times over a year to overthrow our government and return to power, it will again fail for the sixth time, as majority of our legislators are loyal to the party and will not betray it,” Siddaramaiah said. The party has also petitioned the Speaker not to accept the resignations, as they were not voluntary and genuine in accordance with the anti-defect law.

The Speaker told reporters later that he would look into the Congress’ petitions on Thursday and decide on them after hearing the rebels whom he has summoned to meet on July 12, July 15 and July 21 in three batches along with the JD-S rebels.

NSF asks state govt to restrict RIIN to non-locals DIMAPUR, JUL 9 (NPN): While welcoming the decision of the State government to start Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN), Naga Students Federation (NSF) stressed that there were several underlying questions and practical issues that needed to be addressed before beginning the exercise.

In a press note, NSF president Ninoto Awomi and general secretary Liremo R Kikon suggested that the RIIN, to become helpful in the implementation of ILP, should be restricted to “non-locals” who might have taken citizenship in villages, towns, district and subdivisional headquarters with December 1, 1963 as the base year. NSF also said it felt that the entire exercise should not inconvenience the aborigine Nagas of Nagaland.

NSF further pointed that as every village authority had records of who were the aboriginal Nagas and who was not, it proposed that the exercise could be reduced to checking the background of indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland who had come before December 1, 1963 and those who came post

that date. NSF pointed out that there were other issues like non-Nagas being married to Nagas and orphans being adopted and raised in orphanages whose parents were unknown, besides nonlocal orphans being adopted

by Nagas whose real parents were unknown.

NSF urged the State government to reduce the task of RIIN exercise by addressing the issues of indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland who had come before December 1, 1963 and other inhabitants who came post that date, so that proper policies could be framed to deal with those who had come after the cutoff date.

Appealing for implementation of ILP at the earliest by limiting the present RIIN exercise to the targeted group, NSF declared that it was ever ready to give full support to the State government in this regard.

However, it added that the government should first review its policy before beginning the RIIN exercise.

NSF said more consultation was required before beginning the process of its implementation.

BJP received over `900 cr donations from corporates Merangkong village NEW DELHI, JUL 9 (AGENCIES): BJP received more than Rs 900 crore as donations from over 1,500 corporates between 2016-18, over 16 times more than what the Congress got in the same period, a new report said on Tuesday.

The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) analysed the donations from corporates to national parties said during the period 2016-18.

According to the ADR analysis, during the period 2016-18 business houses donated a total of Rs 985.18 crore, constituting 93 per cent of the total contribution to political parties from known sources.

“Out of the six national parties, BJP received the maximum donations of Rs 915.596 crore from 1,731 corporate donors followed

by Congress which received a total contribution of Rs 55.36 crore from 151 corporate donors and NCP with Rs 7.737 crore from 23 corporate donors in financial year 2016-17 and 2017-18,” the report said.

It said during financial years 2016-17 and 2017-18, the voluntary contributions of BJP and the

Congress above Rs 20,000 from corporates was 94 per cent and 81 per cent, respectively.

Between financial years 201213 and 2017-18, the BJP received the maximum corporate donations of Rs 1,621.40 crore, constituting 83.49 per cent of the total corporate donations in six years.

The ADR analysis said donations from corporates to national parties increased by 160 per cent between financial years 2004-05 to 2011-12 and financial years 201617 to 2017-18.

Between financial years 201213 and 2017-18, donations from corporates to national parties increased by 414 per cent, with a major drop in the percentage of corporate donations in financial year 2015-16. Donations from corporates to national parties reduced by 25.07 per cent between financial year 2016-17 and 2017-18.

The political parties considered for the report were Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Communist Party of India (CPI), CPM and All India Trinamool Congress (AITC).

Though a national party, BSP was not considered for analysis in this report as the party has declared that it received no voluntary contributions above Rs 20,000 from any donor during this period as well as during the time period since 2004, the report said. The report said CPI had the lowest share of corporate donations at two per cent. Trinamool Congress asked the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday how it could manage such a steep rise in donations a year after demonetisations.

“In the context of BJP’s penchant of giving moral lessons on corruption, it owes a public explanation as to how its funds jumped by 81 per cent from Rs 570 crore to Rs 1,040 crore within a year post demonetisation,” said TMC ‘s Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’ Brien while addressing the press in Parliament House. O’Brien cited BJP’s tax returns and the ADR report to claim that BJP was the biggest beneficiary of Election Commission’s electoral bonds, and corporate funding. He said a large part of these funds were spent on advertising.

council revokes edict

DIMAPUR, JUL 9 (NPN): Merangkong Medemsanger Putu (village council), comprising of all eight clans has declared to citizens of Merangkong and all person(s), union(s) that it has unanimously resolved at the July 8 meeting in Merangkong village that it has “unconditionally revoked” the edict against those who were excommunicated/expelled or barred from entry into the village jurisdiction arising out of differences during the last state assembly elections 2018.

This was contained in a joint statement issued by Medemsanger Putu Secretary Noktisang and assistant secretary Takotoshi.

The Merangkong Medemsanger Putu also reiterated its desire that all citizens of Merangkong village “should live together, in unity, peace, harmony and with due respect and regard to all concerned.”

The Medemsanger Putu has therefore, cautioned that it will not hesitate to exercise its mandate as per the prevailing Ao customary law “to punish” any person(s) or organisation(s) going against the wishes of its declaration (unanimously adopted on July 8).

Weather alert: heavy rain predicted in Nagaland Organizations condole Joseph Sumi’s demise DIMAPUR, JUL 9 (NPN): Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) has predicted heavy rainfall in the State this week.

According to a press release issued by NSDMA, the State will not only witness heavy rains and strong winds, but there is also the possibility of flash floods and mud slides and landslides. Lightning strikes would also be a common feature during this time, while the showers were expected to continue until July 14, it added.

NSDMA has warned that the northern half of Nagaland would be more vulnerable than the southern half, adding there was a bigger risk in places like Mon, Tizit, Tuli, Longleng, Tuensang, Mokokchung, Wokha and Bhandari.

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management authorities (DDMAs) and other line departments responsible for attending to any emergencies caused by natural calamities have been asked to be on alert to save lives and properties during this period.

NSDMA has also urged people to be vigilant during this pre-monsoon period from lightning, gusty winds and thunderstorms. It appealed to the public not to take shelter under large trees and near river banks to prevent unnecessary risk to their lives from lightning and flash floods.

Accordign to SkyMet weather report, North East is all set to witness some torrential rains in the coming days as Monsoon surge would become vigorous particularly in states like Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland and

Sikkim and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal would be at risk. According to Skymet, the region is gearing for heavy to very heavy rains during the next few days.

Threat of flash floods, landslides and mud slides are looming large over these states.

This upcoming spells can be attributed to the trough, which is presently running through IndoGangetic plains would now move north, towards the foothills of Himalayas during the week. Especially eastern end of the trough would be running through and through Sikkim, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh.

As per weathermen, this trough is semi permanent feature during the Monsoon and keeps oscillating north-south. As the system moves along the foothills, Northeast India remains

vulnerable for heavy to very heavy rains, with some extremely heavy spells.

Weather models are indicating that these rains and thundershowers are in no mood to relent and would stay for almost a week, even more than that. Flash floods are all set to return to the state as incessant rains to make comeback.

Northeast India is the rainiest pocket of the country during Southwest Monsoon. However, presently it has been battling huge rainfall deficiency. As on July 8, Arunachal Pradesh is rain deficient by 33%, followed by NMMT (Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura) at 34% and Assam and Meghalaya at 27%. These upcoming rains are likely to help in reducing the rainfall deficiency and North East might see some good recovery.

DIMAPUR, JUL 9 (NPN): Various organizations including political par ty leaders have condoled the demise of Joseph Sumi, who passed away on July 8 in Dimapur. Late Joseph Sumi was president of Dimapur District Football Association(DDFA), vice president Nagaland Football Association (NFA) and treasurer Dimapur District Volleyball Association.

T.R. Zeliang: In a condolence message, NPF legislature party leader, T.R Zeliang described late Joseph Sumi as a true sportsman of a very high standard.

“His outstanding talent in the field of football is praise-worthy and losing such a personality is a great loss to all sports-lovers and the Naga people in general,” he added. Zeliang prayed that God grant peace and solace to the bereaved family members, relatives, friends,

colleagues and all his near and dear ones.

Tovihoto: Advisor for Power, H. Tovihoto Ayemi expressed pain to learn about the untimely demise of Joseph Sumi. Tovihoto said late Joseph contributed immensely in the field of sports especially in the development of football in the State that contributed to the progress of many young talented footballers in this particular sporting field under his able guidance.

Tovihoto said that besides being a prominent public leader and social worker, late Josephy Sumi was also actively involved in politics till his last breadth. Tovihoto said that the demise of late Joseph Sumi, was a great loss not only to the family but also for Dimapur district as he could have contributed more in taking the young generation to a scale of greater heights. Tovihoto

conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved family and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

DMC: Dimapur Municipal Council, administrator Moa Sangtam expressed deep shock and grief over the untimely demise of Joseph Sumi , member of the then Dimapur Town Committee (DTC). Moa Sangtam described late Joseph as a dedicated leader, who was associated with various organizations and who served the people in various capacities for Dimapurians.

“His untimely demise is not only a loss to his family but also great loss to the society which will be difficult to fill the vacuum,” he added.

Moa Sangtam recalled that late Joseph served as member of the erstwhile Dimapur Town committee from November 8, 1994 to June 6, 2001.

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Q: Can a non-Gandhi new

Vikosielie Nagi addressing the gathering at the Nyempo Walling speaking at the ICDP training programme at Hopongkyu ICDP training programme on Tuesday. (NP) Memorial hall, Kiphire on July 9. (DIPR) Correspondent

president for Congress make any impact?

ties like farming livestock, weaving, netting, marketing and others.

On the sideline of the programme, Angami said a total of Rs. 55 crores has been sanctioned for the five districts.

He said in the first phase, one pick up Van (Tata mobile) was given to Zubza Veitho industrial cooperative society and in the second phase five pickup vans will be given to other societies.

He said that under this project the department has planned to set up cold storage for the farmers.

Deputy registrar sub registrar of cooperative society, Vikosielie Nagi in his address explained to the participants about the governing system, members system and operating system in the cooperative society. He advised the members for proper planning and budgeting by maintaining a proper register.

Agriculture inspector, Meciesunu Sakrie interacted with the participants related to agri and allied matter in the programme.

Agriculture officer Akuno Zao also attended the programme.

In the second session, deputy director poultry, Dr. Elizabeth and deputy director chief veterinary officer, Dr. Pusazono spoke on the issue related to animal and veterinary husbandry for the farmers.

The programme was attended by chairmen, secretaries and board members from 20 various societies of Kohima district.

It may be mentioned that under this project the selected beneficiaries will be receiving Rs. 2 lakh (minimum) to Rs. 99 lakh per group based on capacity and functioning of the group. Altogether 41 societies were selected from the five districts.

Kiphire: In Kiphire, the training was held under

Kohima, Jul 9 (NPN): The first phase of training programmes on Integrated  Yes. Cooperative Development  No. Project (ICDP) 2018-19  Can’t say was held in Kohima and Kiphire on Tuesday.

WEATHER In Kohima, the twoFORECAST day training programme july 10 was organised by ICDP (Temperature in ºC) Max Min Kohima at AngamimiapAgartala Periods of rain and a t-storm 30 12 fü Mechü krotho (AMK) Aizawl 24 11 Rain at a time building Kohima.

Guwahati Rain and a thunderstorm 28 20 Deputy registrar of coImphal 26 21 Rain and a thunderstorm operative society, Anthony Itanagar Heavy rain and a thunderstorm 24 22 Angami, who is also inShillong Some rain and a thunderstorm 20 19 charge of Kohima district Kohima Rain and a thunderstorm 22 19 and chief project officer, Dimapur Cloudy, not as warm 28 24 said that ICDP is a cenMkg 24 20 Periods of rain and a t-storm trally sponsored scheme unTuensang Heavy rain and a thunderstorm 18 16 der National Co-operative Wokha Rain and a t-storm; cooler 23 21 Development Corporation Zunheboto Periods of rain and a t-storm 21 18 (NCDC).

He said ICDP scheme is a four years project and five districts- Kohima, Peren, Tuensang, Longleng and Kiphire were included DIMAPUR: Two-day train- in the first phase. He said ing on Oral Substitution the project will cover all Therapy (OST) centre doc- major agri & allied activitors of targeted intervention; facility and satellite OST centre organized by Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) commenced on July 9.

A press release from NSACS media cell stated that, joint director of TI Division NSACS in her welcome address, thanked the participants from different part of the district despite the different challenges of travelling during monsoon. She also thanked Project Sunrise - FHI360 for the financial support towards the training cost. In his opening remarks, project director of NSACS thanked all and encouraged the medical doctors, who work sincerely in limited Kaito Aye at the inauguration of SRCS at Pfutsero on July 9. resources for better result.

The release stated that DIMAPUR: Minister of to take care of the office for Akato Sema and Registrar of Cooperative Sothere are 31 OST centres Agriculture and Coopera- proper functioning.

He also requested the cieties, Wepe Ritsealso in the state supported by tion, Kaito Aye on July 9 NSACS. OST centres sup- inaugurated the office of gathering to make proper also spoke in the function. plies illicit drug users with Sub-Registrar Cooperative use of this opportunity add- The programme was atthe replacement dr ugs, Societies (SRCS) at Pfut- ing that the Pfutsero unit tended by several governhas the highest registered ment officials, prominent supervised under clinical sero.

According to DIPR, 700 cooperative societies public leaders from Kosettings. Besides treating hima, Phek and Pfutsero users, it also protects illicit the minister in his inaugural in the state.

Commissioner and town, cooperative societies drug users from HIV and speech, appealed to the public and department officials secretary cooperation, L. and VDB secretaries. hepatitis.

NSACS conducts training on OST

the theme “team work and work ethics” at Hopongkyu Memorial Hall, Kiphire.

According to DIPR, the programme was graced

by SDO (C) Hq, Nyempo Walling as the special guest. Nyempo, in her short speech, said that after Kiphire was declared as aspirational district many developmental activities have taken place. She therefore, urged the district to show positive challenge to other districts.

She also encouraged the registered societies to repay their loan in time and create good reputation in order to avail loans in future.

Nyempo also requested the Cooperation department to keep in touch with the district administration to work hand in hand.

Joint registrar of Cooperative Societies HQ & Monitoring Officer ICDP Kiphire, Temjen Longkumer said that cooperative movement started in 1904.

He said that the coopera-

tive work was for the poor people to establish their livelihood and encouraged the registered societies under Kiphire district to start their work with small amount to develop their societies. Chief project officer said that ICDP was seed money and the societies should judiciously use it to repay their loan in time for their future developmental activities.

He also urged them not to stop their project half way. Chairman of Hurung Village, Chemlongse encouraged the societies to be honest and dedicated with what they have been given by the government.

The welcome address was delivered by Lipoknungsang while vote of thanks was tendered by development officer ICDP, Athonlo Thyug. The function was presided by development officer ICDP, Tsipongse Anar. The training session will continue till July 10.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019

news in Brief ANFATA emergency meeting: All Nagaland Fine Art Teacher Association (ANFATA) has convened its emergency meeting on July 16 at 10 a.m. at LCS building, Midland Colony near Ao Baptist Church Kohima. All members have been asked to attend the meeting.

Meeting on poor telecom service in Mkg: DC Mokokchung has convened a meeting on July 17 at 12 noon at ADC planning conference hall, Mokokchung in connection with the poor telecom service in Mokockhung district. In this regard, the following officials/officers EE PWD (NH), Mokokchung, EE PWD (R&B), Mokokchung/Mangkolemba/Changtongya, Divisional Engineer BSNL, representative Ao Senden, representative Watsu Mungdang, representative Ao Students’ Conference (AKM), managers- Reliance Jio, Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone to attend the meeting.

ENCSU emergency meeting: Eastern Nagaland College Students’ Union (ENCSU) has convened emergency meeting on July 11 at 11:30 a.m at DUDA guest house, Kohima. All the college students of Eastern area, presidents and general secretaries from Kohima units have been informed to attend the meeting mandatorily. For any queries, one may contact 8575285075/8974538660/ 9366783627.

ZSUN asks government to cancel redeployment order

DIMAPUR: Zeliangrong Students’ Union Nagaland (ZSUN) in a representation has appealed to the director of School Education to cancel the redeployment order (No. DSE/ESTT/ UPGRADATION/1-1252017/589) dated June 24, 2019.

In a press statement ZSUN president, Dithuibo Newmai and vice president, Sangwangbou Shingbengmai expressed dismay and anguished on the redeployment order and requested the director of DoSE to immediately cancel the above mentioned

order.

It stated that the union and its federating units in the past have been voicing against the acute shortage of teachers under the establishment of SDEO and DEO Peren especially Math and Science teachers.

In this regard, the union has requested the competent authority to take appropriate measures within three months duration. ZSUN expected that the department will take stock of the situation and address the representation with top most priority.

Kaito inaugurates SRCS office WVI organises consultation on WASH DIMAPUR: World Vision India (WVI), organized a one-day consultation on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in collaboration with Nagaland Development Outreach and PHED Nagaland at Hotel Japfü Kohima, on July 9.

The event was graced by commissioner and secretary PHED, Maongwati Aier as the special guest.

A press release from WVI stated that, Aier in his speech stressed on convergence of various government departments and civil society organisations to address water crisis across the state. He further emphasized on water conservation and water harvesting and also appreciated the work of WVI in the North East region on water, sanitation and child health. Mahesh Nathan, associate director-WASH, WVI, said

Maongwati Aier speaking in the programme on July 9. that through this consultation, it wanted to draw the attention of multiple stakeholders to focus on water scarcity and evolve multi-sectoral approaches to mitigate water insecurity in the North East states.

The panellists deliberated on WASH in relation to child and maternal health, clean sanitation and hand washing at critical

More reports on Tuluni festival celebration

(L-R): G. Kaito Aye being presented traditional attire by Pimla Baptist Church. Mothers group of ZGKD presenting folk song.

Dr. Sukhato and others at the Tuluni celebration at Lazami on July 8.

DIMAPUR: Minister for Agriculture & Co-operaton, G. Kaito Aye encouraged the citizens of Pimla village to act as mediator to bring peace and harmony in the society and to maintain good communal bond with the neighbouring villages and tribes within its jurisdiction.

Kaito said this while addressing Tuluni festival as “Tuluni Papu” at Pimla village ground on July 8 organised by Pimla Baptish Church (PBC). He emphasised on the importance of agricultural practices and encouraged the women folk of the village to make use of government funded societK Y M C

ies like self help groups. He asked them to take up agriculture as the main source of income and livelihood.

Kaito also appreciated the dance troops, mostly the elders of the village, for demonstrating the old practices followed by the forefathers.

He said that such presentations were very educative for the younger generation to know their roots and rich culture of the Sumis.

Other highlights of the programme were Kipitimi Aphile Kuwo and Totimi Athi Kuqole (cultural dances) by men and women troops respectively, Amalimi Kughulhu, Ami Kukula and Asu Kimiche.

Meanwhile, the programme chaired by Livi Swu began with an invocation by pastor Pimla Baptist Church, Ahovi Achumi.

Welcome address was delivered by head GB, P. Dohoi Swu and vote of thanks by Lughozhe Swu and benediction by associate pastor women PGBA, Kiyeshi Zhimo.

ZGKD: Zhekiye Village Community Dimapur (ZGKD) also celebrated Tuluni at Eralibill, Dimapur hosted by Er. N. Shikaho Zhimomi and his family on July 6. A press release from ZGKD chairman, Ghuvishe Zhimomi and secretary, Hutoka Chishi stated that,

host Er, N. Shikaho Zhimomi in his welcome speech exhorted the gathering to develop and ponder more on the sense of loving, caring and harmony within the village community and Dimapur in particular. He added that progressive ideas/concept should be shared to one another for the betterment of society.

Sumi Tuluni history and its significance were presented by Kuhoi P. Zhimomi, ex-chairman, ZGKD. Tuluni Folk Song (Lezhole) was presented by a group of fathers led by Visheto Chishi and cultural song (Thishole) was presented by mothers group led

by Hekali A. Zhimomi and Mughalito S. Zhimomi.

There was also competition on Akhetsu Kukulo Kukuxu (top spinning competition), Shulupa Kiche (head hunting spear throwing competition) and Ashi Kumuza (pork fat eating competition).

LIKL: Laza Iyinu Khel Lazami (LIKL) celebrated Tuluni festival under the theme “Reviving our culture and tradition” on July 8, with Dr. Sukhato A. Sema, Rtd. principal director, Health & Family Welfare as “Tuluni Papu”.

A press release from Tuluni organising committee co-convenor, Vikato

Swu stated that, Dr. Sukhato stressed on the importance of preserving cultural identity specially the originality of the dialect. He also asked the denizens of Lazami to coexist with neighbouring villages as it shares a boundary with Angamis, Chakhesangs and Rengmas.

He further asked the young educated youths to not only seek government jobs but cultivate a work culture and be an entrepreneur.

Traditional Tuluni blessing was invoked by Ashu Kieto Pukho Swu, (90 years) the oldest man in the khel. Puloto T. Sumi delivered welcome address while Mixikha Achumi, GB spoke about rites and rituals performed before and after the festival in olden days.

The programme also witnessed cultural regale p e r f o r m e d b y va r i o u s troupes and display of antiques crafts. Village leaders from Mishilimi, Natsumi and Laza-Phuyeqa village, and in-laws from different parts of the state attended the programme. Men folk sang traditional folk songs.

Shikaje Lohe Sumi and Jenili Achumi hosted the programme.

times and innovation in the field of WASH related to schools, hospitals and community both in rural and urban settings.

Panellists included, Dr. Neikhrielie Khiamiao, mission director, NHM Nagaland, Dr. Longri Kichu, state RMNCH+A consultant, UNICEF, B. Nelleyyappan assistant director, School Edcua-

tion Department, Khrolou Lohe, NSDMA and Dr. Anjana Purkayastha sr. director WVI. E a r l i e r, S a m u e l Therieh, associate director, PMO Guwahati delivered welcome speech and introduction while Dr. Anjana gave opening remark and L. Kohbung manager WVI Mon gave the closing remark.

P B Acharya interacts with students, officers of NAPTC

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya interacted with the students, officers and staff of Nagaland Armed Police Training Centre (NAPTC), Chumukedima, who called on him during their visit to Raj Bhavan, Kohima on Tuesday.

In a statement, PRO to Governor said that during the interaction, Acharya encouraged students to focus on their talents and work towards achieving their goals.

Stating that education was the pillar of development, he encouraged the students to take their studies with all seriousness.

He also emphasised on the importance of taking skill courses and to take the challenge of being an entrepreneur.

Commissioner and secretary to Governor, Dinesh Kumar, while welcoming the children urged them to enjoy the opportunity of visiting and interacting with the Governor and hoped that they will cherish the moment.

Commandant, NAPTC, Ben Longkumer

while giving a brief highlight stated that NAPTC also has a vibrant and active Family Welfare Association with the wife of the commandant as the president.

He stated that the association aim at the holistic development and fulfilment of social obligation through various welfare measures, social empowerment and skill building of spouses and dependents of the unit personnel.

He stated that an exposure and sightseeing trip to Kohima was planned as a welfare initiative and as a positive group activity for the children of NAPTC during their summer holidays.

The commandant expressed gratitude to the Governor and his wife for inviting and hosting lunch for the children at Raj Bhavan.

A folk song was presented by the children. A total number of 52 children within the age group of 10 to 23 accompanied by unit officers and members of the NAPTC Family Welfare Association attended the interactive meeting.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019

Paper bag making unit in Kiphire

Members of Green Land Society and others after the inauguration programme.

DIMAPUR: To impart training to the local entrepreneurs and SGHs, a paper bag making unit under the initiative of Green Land Society Kiphire was opened in Kiphire on July 5.

The paper bag making unit was inaugurated by SDO (C) Kiphire, Nyem-

po Wallim. In her speech, the SDO said Kiphire was privileged to be part of aspirational district and has many things to execute.

This was stated in a press release issued by the society press secretary, Temong Y Tikhir. KTCCI secretary Tsalichem, also spoke in the

programme by encouraging local entrepreneurs to avail paper bags from within the town.

Members from SHGs, daily bazaar union, local shops union attended the programme. Sample bags were distributed among the attendees.

3 RIFN welcomes ILP extension DIMAPUR: Rongmei Indigenous Forum of Nagaland (RIFN) has welcomed the decision of implementing Inner Line Permit (ILP) and initiation of Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) exercised by the state government.

In a press release, RIFN media cell said it welcomes and appreciated the ILP and Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland movement proposed by the several civil organisations and government of Nagaland to enforce entry into the state through legal process. RIFN said through this the state could welcome the visitors legally and peacefully and check the illegal immigrants at the same time.

The forum also expressed hope that the act would pave way to safeguard the Naga populace in general and the other Non-Naga indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland in particular. Rongmei Indigenous Forum of Nagaland also assured its support and co-operation to the enforcement.

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Assam flood grim: 8 districts affected

Kaziranga readies to tackle flood situation

Around 62,400 in eight districts are affected by floods. (Image credit- Pratidin Time.)

G U WA H AT I , J U L 9 (PTI) : The flood situation in Assam turned serious on Tuesday with over 62,000 people getting affected across eight districts.

The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said 145 villages are under water and 3,435 hectares of crop areas have been damaged.

The situation could turn worse as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast enhanced rain in the northeastern states including Assam in the next few days.

Around 62,400 people are suffering due to flood

in Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Biswanath, Barpeta, Chirang, Golaghat, Jorhat and Dibrugarh districts.

The ASDMA said authorities are running five relief camps and distribution centres in two districts, where 203 people have taken shelter.

Embankments, roads, bridges, culverts and many other infrastructure have been damaged at various places in Barpeta, Udalguri, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur and Jorhat districts.

Massive erosions have been witnessed at various places of Sonitpur, Udalguri, Jorhat and Barpeta districts.

The Brahmaputra river at Nimatighat in Jorhat, the Dhansiri at Numaligarh in Golaghat, the Jia Bharali at NT Road Crossing in Sonitpur, the Puthimari at NH Road Crossing in Kamrup and the Beki at Road Bridge in Barpeta are flowing above the danger marks, the ASDMA said.

The IMD said the North Eastern states are likely to experience enhanced rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rain in Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura during July 9-12.

Authorities of the Kaziranga National Park in Assams Golaghat district have started preparations to tackle the flood season as the Brahmaputra river was flowing above the danger level due to torrential rains.

The Park, which is the home to world’s largest onehorned rhino population, shuts for tourists in May so that the officials can prepare for the flood season that starts from June onwards.

A UNESCO world heritage site, the Park again reopens in November.

“We are ready for the flood season. We have completed repairing all the 200 highlands inside the park where the animals can take shelter. Meetings were held with NGOs working in and around the park as well as with the local villagers so that the animals can be saved and helped during a high flood like situation,” Park Director P. Shiv Kumar told IANS on Monday.

On Monday, the Central Water Commission (CWC) informed that the Brahmaputra river is flowing above the danger level at Nimatighat, Dhansiri, while the Jia Bharali river was overflowing at some places in Sonitpur district.

Kaziranga is bound

by the Brahmaputra on its northern end. “We are expecting the flood waters to enter the park by tomorrow (Tuesday). There have been rains in the upper catchment areas in Arunachal Pradesh but the waters take at least 48 hours to reach here. We are ready and have taken all necessary precautions to deal with the situation,” the Director added.

Another senior park official said: “We have also started implementing a speed limit on the National Highway 37 that touches the southern boundary of the park. The vehicles passing through the park area from Jakhalabandha to Numaligarh have been asked to keep their speed limit maximum to 40 kms/hour so that no animal is hit while crossing the road.”

During the high floods, some animals cross the highway to go to the higher grounds in Karbi Anglong district which is on the other side of the NH37.

In the 2017 floods, over 360 animals drowned due to the floods in Kaziranga, of which 31 were rhinos, according to official data.

This was the highest toll of rhinos in the last three years due to flooding and not poaching.

Manipur education minister inspects govt schools, colleges

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IMPHAL, Jul 9: Manipur education minister Thokchom Radheshyam and officials of education (school) department on Tuesday inspected some government schools and colleges in Imphal.

The minister inspected Tamphasana Girls Higher Secondary School, Hindi Teachers Training College, and Dhanamanjuri College of Teachers Education at DM College Campus among others. During the inspection at Tamphasana Girls Higher Secondary School, the minister praised the teaching staff of the school for the good performance of its students in the 2019 Higher Secondary School Leaving Examination (HSSLE).

The school recorded pass percentage of 92.36% this year compared to 54.9% in 2018. With the improvement in performance in the HSSLE, there has been an increase in demand for admission to the school, he claimed. Radheshyam also stated that maintaining proper infrastructure of the school was essential towards bringing a quality education.

He said that the increase in student intake capacity has also increased the pressure

Manipur education minister inspecting government schools, colleges in Imphal on Tuesday. (NP) on existing infrastructure and added that four additional classrooms will soon be constructed.

The school authority highlighted the minister on the need of a proper toilet facility for the hostel students which the minister assured that a temporary toilet will be set up within one or two months at the ground floor of the hostel building.

The school has been playing an important role in imparting girls’ education in the state. It is one of the best government schools of Manipur and for the country as well, he added.

Principal of the school A Sangeeta Devi stated that the student intake capacity for the current academic year has increased by 100 students and overall total student capacity is around

1700. She also said that each class has student strength of 100 each.

The minister suggested that there was a need to increase the number of section from four sections to five sections. The minister also inspected the Hindi Teachers Training College and Dhanamanjuri College of Teachers Education both located at DM College Campus, Imphal wherehe said that teachers were one of the important constituent of education system, adding that they play a major role in imparting education to the young minds.

With regard to the visit at the Hindi Teachers Training College, he said that Hindi is used as a common language for communication across the country.

IMD issues weather warning in NFR awarded for method to prevent elephant dashing Meghalaya; Govt alerts citizens

OFFICE OF THE YANTHAMO VILLAGE COUNCIL YANTHAMO VILLAGE STUDENTS’ UNION WOKHA : NAGALAND

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With immense pride and joy, the Yanthamo Village Council and the Yanthamo Village Students’ Union heartily congratulate the following members for their success and achievements. Your dedication, hard work, efficiency is commendable.

1. Shri. Khonthungo Kikon on his promotion to Deputy Secy., Govt. of Nagaland 2. Shri. R. Nchumthung Odyuo for being selected to the Post of Supervisor, Social Welfare Dept.

3. Shri. Mhonjan N. Odyuo for being selected to the Post of LDA Cum Computer Assistant under Commissioner of Taxes.

4. Smti. Soreni Odyuo, (Gold Medalist) Dept of Economics, NEHU 5. Smti. Chichanbeni N. Odyuo, (Gold Medalist) Dept of Education, NEHU We wish you good health and success in your future endeavour.

Sd/- Yitsabemo Odyuo Sd/- S. Zubenthung Ngullie Chairman, YVC President, YVSU K Y M C

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The Sanis Ekhung Baghty extends our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Yiben B. Humtsoe, S/o Shri.

Benrithung Humtsoe for securing the top No. 1 in the recently declared LDA-cum-Computer Assistant in State Taxes Department.

Wishing the best of luck in all your future endeavours.

(Chumben Murry) Chairman Sanis Ekhung Baghty

(Renbi Erui) Gen. Secretary Sanis Ekhung Baghty

ful trial, an equipment was designed to generate amplified sound of honey bee audible from a distance of about 700-800 metres.

The first instrument was installed at level crossing gate NN-274 between Azara and Kamakhya station under Rangiya division.

Finding the results very

We the Yongnyah Hongnyü Students Union Kohima Unit would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss Moithei Esther Phom, D/o of Mr. & Mrs. Bompen Phom for being selected to undergo MBBS course in recently declared NEET Examination.

We wish her very best in the future.

(Nyambei B Phom) (Moipen B Phom) President, YHSUKU Gen. Secy., YHSUKU

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GRATITUDE The Tsungiki Village Council (TVC), Longsa Village Council (LVC), Wokha Town Tsüngiki Ekhüng (WTTE) and Wokha Town Longsa Hoho (WTLH) would like to take this opportunity to express our profound gratitude to all departments, groups, organizations and individuals who supported physically, financially and through prayers during the search for the bodies of Late Renbemo Ngullie, S/o Thechamo Ngullie of Tsungiki Village, and Late Limhathung Ezung, S/o Aremo Ezung of Longsa Village who unfortunately drowned in Doyang River on July 5, 2019. Their bodies were eventually recovered through your help and support on July 7, 2019.

We would also like to record our special thanks to: 1. Wokha District Administration and Police 2. HOP, DHEP and Staff 3. NDRF Personnel 4. SDRF Personnel 5. CISF Unit DHEP 6. Local Divers 7. Lotha Hoho 8. LOU-DHEP 9. Lotha Students’ Union 10. Doyang Lotha Hoho 11. Englan Range Village Councils’ Union 12. Thillong Village Council 13. United Baptist Church, Doyang 14. St. Thomas Church, Doyang 15. Residents of Permanent Colony, Doyang 16. SHG Unit, Doyang 17. Business Community, Doyang 18. Neighbouring Villages of Doyang 19. Wokha Town Baptist Church 20. Tsungiki Youth Organization 21. Yikhum Village Baptist Church 22. Tsumang A Colony, Wokha Town Though we are unable to mention all groups and individuals here, we pray to the Almighty to continue blessing you all for your good works rendered.

Pilamo Ezung Zayio Ezung Chairman, TVC Chairman, LVC Nchumthung Ngullie Er. Yanpvuo Ezung Chairman, WTTE Chairman, WTLH

With pride and joy, we the Yongnyah Hongnyiü Students' Union, Dimapur Unit extends our heartiest congratulations to Ms. Esther Moithei Phom, D/o M Bompen Phom on her selection to undergo MBBS course in the recently declared NEET Examination 2019.

The Union further wishes her greater success and achievements in her future endeavors.

encouraging the instrument was installed in many level crossing gates in the zone located in the vicinity of forest areas.

Currently, 46 such equipment have been installed all over NFR. “The gateman, posted Regd. No. 1415/2014

in level crossing gate where the device has been installed, claims that its use is very helpful to divert herds of elephants, especially when trains are approaching and dashing become almost eminent,” he said.

Although there are as many as 29 earmarked corridors, where trains slow down and signs are fixed for drivers to observe the speed restrictions, elephants have ventured into the path of trains even in non corridor areas, often leading to elephant deaths.

From 2013 up to June 2019, a total of 67 elephants were knocked down by trains in incidents of elephant dashing. While elephant population in Assam itself is about 5620, there are few thousands in Dooars area of North Bengal also.

AFFIDAVIT

Date : 12/12/2014

I, Shri. Vipral John, resident of Kacharigaon (Phevima), Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm on oath and declare as under :1. That I am a citizen of India.

2. That in my PAN Card bearing No. AZKP J3067H my name has been entered as "Vipral John" however in my educational and other documents my name has been entered without title as "Vipral".

3. That both the names "Vipral John" and "Vipral" are same and one person only.

4. That the purpose of swearing this affidavit is to declare that henceforth, I shall be called "Vipral John" only for all official purposes and wherever "Vipral" is appeared may be corrected as "Vipral John" by competent authority.

That the statement made by me in Para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge, belief and information and no materials are concealed therein.

DEPONENT Solemnly sworn and declared before me on this ____ day of ___ 2014.

Chief Judicial Magistrate/ Notary Public Dimapur : Nagaland DP-5358

OFFICE OF THE KOHIMA RIPHYIM EKHUNG KOHIMA::NAGALAND

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER WOKHA : NAGALAND No. Judl-47/2017-18/ Dt, Wokha the 01st July 2019 NOTICE Whereas Smti. Thosano, wife of Late Shri. Yamosao Echungmongrui, a permanent resident of Wokha Village, has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to enable her to draw all dues and benefits/family pension from the Govt. and to close SBI AC No. 20140161242 in favour of her deceased husband Late Shri. Yamosao Echungmongrui who expired on 12/06/2019.

Now, therefore, public and relatives are hereby asked to file claims/ objections if any, within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice. Further, no claims/objections shall be entertained after the cut off date and Succession Certificate shall be issued to the concerned.

(ANDREW C. IMTI) Addl. Deputy Commissioner WC-243 Wokha, Nagaland

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SHAHYONG General Secretary

MANLEI PHOM President

The KOHIMA RIPHYIM EKHUNG would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to the following members for having being promoted to a higher status in their profession.

1. Shri. M. Patton (IAS) on his designation as Principal Secretary, to the Govt. of Nagaland.

2. Mrs. Asasola Longkumer, W/o Albert Ezung on her promotion to Sub- Registrar of Co-Operative Societies, Govt. of Nagaland.

The Union also congratulates Rev. Z. John Patton, Pastor Vankhosung for his achievement as the first Ordained Minister from the Baptist denomination of Old Riphyim village.

The Union wishes them good health and further success in their future endeavours.

Further, the Union extends gratitude to Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Nagaland for granting a new Parish Centre at St. Peter’s Church, Old Riphyim. The union prays that this new development will usher in a new era of hope for the region both in the educational and spiritual aspects.

Sd/Sd/(KONTHUNGO ODYUO) (SHUMBENTHUNG PATTON Chairman, Secretary, Kohima Riphyim Ekhung.

Kohima Riphyim Ekhung

AOYIMKUM SENSO MONGDANG DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

CONDEMNATION

The Aoyimkum Senso Mongdang vehemently condemn the assault meted out on the Aoyimkum Village Council Chairman by some police (IRB) personnel(s) led by an officer on the peaceful night of 5th July 2019 at around 10:30 P.M without any rhyme and reason.

We therefore request the competent authority to take disciplinary action on the erring police officer as per the provision of the law at the earliest.

President AoSM

Secretary AoSM

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The office of the 26 Aonglenden Assembly Constituency, NDPP have the honour to express our outmost gratitude to Shri Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister of Nagaland and Shri Chingwang Konyak, Party President for appointing Shri Sharingain, MLA as Chairman, District Planning Board, Mokokchung. We prayerfully hope that he shall do his best for the upliftment of the people and all round development in the state.

Further more, our newly elected MLA Shri Sharingain Longkumer toured his 26 Aonglenden Assembly Constituency for three days from th 6 July to 8th July 2019 by holding meetings with the village and ward authorities and the National Democratic Progressive Party functionaries within 26 Aonglenden A/C. The general public of the the Constituency anticipate that the honourable MLA would bring great changes and all round development in the constituency .

May God grand Good health and Long life to our MLA Shri Sharingain.

Sd/Sd/Nungsangmeren Lkr S. Lendi Pnr President General Secretary 26 Aonglenden A/c 26 Aonglenden A/c NDPP Office NDPP Office

Continuous rains across the state of Meghalaya for the past few days have affected normal life besides triggering landslides in several places.

In the latest incident in the city, landslide hit one of the busiest localities in Shillong — Malki in which connectivity has been cut off.

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Landslide hits Malki

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extra care during heavy rainfall as there is likelihood of flash flood, especially in areas near the rivers and streams and they are not to go near the waters or walk through moving water and to stay away from streams, drains, culverts, etc.

People are advised not to drive through flooded areas and to stay away from electric poles or power lines to avoid electrocution.

Students are advised not to cross rivers and streams during heavy rain and tourists visiting the tourist spots should not venture into streams, rivers

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SHILLONG, JUL 09 (AGENCIES): The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall to likely to occur at isolated places in the State on 11th and 12th July, 2019 and heavy to heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls likely to occur on the 10th and 13th July, 2019, reports The Northeast Today.

Therefore, the Additional Deputy Commissioner & CEO DDMA, East Khasi Hills District has issued advisory for the information of the public.

People are advised to take

elephant dashing, posing a threat both to the trains and to the elephant population in the vicinity of tracks,” he said.

Sharma added that the Rangiya division field officers in consultation with forest department officials worked on the idea of using certain deterrents to repel elephants from the tracks.

He said that a team led by the then divisional railway manager (DRM) Ravilesh Kumar took the lead to form a team who carried out the first testing of honey bee buzz on a pet elephant at Rangapara.

“When the second testing was conducted in Phulbari Tea Estate under Rangiya division, it was found that the wild elephant starting moving away once the honey bee sound was generated,” Sharma added.

Following the success-

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G U WA H AT I , J U L 9 (AGENCIES): An innovation by the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) to drive away elephants from railway tracks has won the best innovation award for 2018-19,reports Northeast Now news.

The NFR team successfully used the buzzing sound of honey bees to drive away elephant herds in different areas where there is prevalence of elephant movement along the railway tracks.

The NFR by using this technique has been able to reduce incidents of elephant dashing by trains to a substantial extent, said NFR chief public relation officer PJ Sharma on Tuesday.

“With a large portion of its tracks passing through vast areas of forest land which are home to various wild animals including elephants, the NFR has been facing serious problem of

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‘Resignation letters of 8 MLAs not in format’

BENGALURU, JUL 9 (PTI): Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar on Tuesday said the resignation letters of eight out of 13 MLAs of the ruling coalition were not in the prescribed format and he has asked the legislators to submit them properly.

The fate of the 13month-old Congress-JD(S) government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy is hinged on the Speaker’s decision on the resignation of the 14 MLAs including Shivajinagar MLA R Roshan Baig who joined the bandwagon of dissidents on Tuesday.

“Baig’s letter was submitted today and so I have not scrutinised it,” Kumar said. “Among these 13 resignation letters (submitted earlier), five are in the prescribed format as per the regulations.

“These five are of Anand Singh, Narayana Gowda, Pratap Gouda Patil, Gopalaiah and Ramalinga Reddy,” Kumar told reporters at his chamber.

“Since the other resignation letters were not in

The Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Kar nataka Wednesday suffered another blow following the resignation of Shivajinagar Congress MLA R Roshan Baig.

“Today I have submitted my resignation from the Karnataka Assembly to the Speaker,” Baig told report-

Every step I make will become history, can’t make any mistakes

the prescribed format, we have sent them a reminder letter that they were not in the prescribed format and hence, if you wish you can submit your resignations properly,” he added.

The 14 MLAs who submitted their resignations are S T Somashekhar, Munirathna, B A Basavaraj, Pratap Gouda Patil, B C Patil, Ramesh Jarkiholi, A Shivaram Hebbar, Mahesh Kumathalli, Ramalinga Reddy, Anand Singh and R Roshan Baig (all congress), and Gopalaiah, Narayana Gowda, Adagur H Vishwanath (all JDS), the speaker

said. He said he has asked Anand Singh, Pratap Gouda Patil, Narayana Gowda to appear before him for personal hearing on July 12 at 3 pm and 4 pm, though the assembly session will begin on that day.

Since July 13 and 14 are holidays, Kumar said he would hear K Gopalaiah and Ramalinga Reddy on July 15. “I have given them two days time and asked them to present their argument on July 11. Then I will have to fix a date to hold a hearing and serve notices to the persons concerned,” Kumar said.

Every step he takes will become history and he cannot afford to make any mistakes, Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar, who holds the key to the future of the CongressJD(S) coalition government, said on Tuesday.

All eyes are now on Kumar who has to take a call on the resignations tendered by 13 MLAs of the Congress and the JD(S) from the Assembly.

Asked whether the resignations submitted to his office were acceptable, Kumar hinted the MLAs might have to personally hand them in and told reporters, “Then I am not required at all. If everything can happen through postal correspondence, I am not required at all.”

The MLAs -- along with two inde pendent MLAs -- are said to be camping somewhere in Maharashtra and have most likely switched their loyalty to the BJP.

ers at Vidhana Soudha after coming out of the office of Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar.

The suspended Congress MLA made it clear he would not fly to Mumbai or Delhi, unlike the other disgruntled MLAs who have camped in a Mumbai hotel.

“I am not going to Mumbai or Delhi. Being the chairman of the State Hajj committee, I am going to the airport to oversee arrangements for the Hajj pilgrims,” Baig said.

To a question as to whether his party colleagues spoke to him, Baig said, “They said ‘hello’ to me.

That’s it.”

The MLA was suspended from Congress for his alleged anti-party activities as he had rebelled against the party leaders.

A minister in the previous Congress government, Baig had held the party functionaries, specifically former chief minister Siddarama-

Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar arrives at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Tuesday. (PTI)

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Police seek to reinvestigate case against Pehlu’s sons

Pehlu Khan’s relatives protest against the delay in the police case on his lynching.

JAIPUR, JUL 9 (PTI): The Rajasthan police has sought permission from an Alwar court to investigate further the cow smuggling case against the two sons of Pehlu Khan, who was lynched two years ago for allegedly transporting the animals illegally.

The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan had faced criticism a fortnight ago after a charge sheet was filed against Khan’s sons, Irshad Khan (25) Aarif Khan (22), and a truck operator, Khan Mohammad, in the cow smuggling case.

Gehlot had then responded that the police could reinvestigate aspects of the cow smuggling case, registered when the BJP government was in power.

Alwar Superintendent of Police Anil Paris Deshmukh said Tuesday the police filed an application in the court of additional chief judicial magistrate on Saturday, seeking permission to further investigate the cow smuggling case.

“Certain aspects will

be further investigated. His sons have said that they were going to sell the animals in Tapukara (in Alwar) and the truck operator claims that he had sold the vehicle to someone else before the incident had taken place,” Deshmukh said.

Earlier, the police had said the animals were being taken to Haryana. Also, Mohammad could be absolved from the charges if it is proved that the truck did not now belong to him.

The three have been charged under the Rajasthan Bovine Animal (Prohibition of Temporary Migration or Export) Act. Pehlu Khan’s name was dropped in the chargesheet as he has died, police said.

Pehlu Khan and his sons were thrashed by a mob on the suspicion of cow smuggling on Aprli 1, 2017.

He died at a hospital in Alwar on April 3. They were on their way to Haryana’s Nuh district from Jaipur when the cow vigilantes stopped two of the vehicles on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF A.H. & VETERINARY SERVICES NAGALAND :: KOHIMA DECLARATION OF RESULT NO.VET/EST-3/PK/111/Pt/2019-20/15051-76 Dt. Kma. the 9th July, 2019

In pursuance of the Government’s approval letter NO.AHV/EST-1/26/2011 253 Dated Kma. the 8th July’ 2019 and this office Advertisement NO.VET/EST-3/PK/ III/Pt/2019-20/1229-34/ Dated Kohima the 21st June’2019, Shri. Chosheta Ringa bearing Roll No. 5 is hereby selected for appointment in order of merit to the post of Chowkidar under the establishment of Chief Veterinary Officer’s Office, Phek, Nagaland.

Sd/DR. TEMSUMEREN ADDL. DIRECTOR (HOD) A.H. & VETY. SERVICES NAGALAND :: KOHIMA DC-1064

Ahead of the assembly session from July 12, the speaker’s decision on the resignation letters holds great value as it will decide the future of the shaky coalition government led by H D Kumaraswamy.

With the support of the two independents, the BJP has 107 MLAs in the 224-member House, where the half-way mark is 113.

If the resignations of the 13 MLAs are accepted, the coalition’s tally will be reduced to 103. The speaker also has a vote.

Asserting that he will go through the rule book, the speaker said he will consult seniors about the developments, whether the resignations can be accepted or was a different course of action needed.

“I have to make a conscious decision. Every step I take will become history, so I can’t be committing a mistake. Future generations should not look at me like an accused,” Kumar added. iah, Congress general secretary K C Venugopal and Karnataka Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao responsible for the party’s poor show in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.

So far 14 MLAs have resigned, which includes 11 from the Congress and three from the JD(S).

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The undersigned hereby invites quotation from reputed person/firm to run a Canteen at Nagaland Lokayukta Office, New Capital Complex, Kohima.

The tenderers are required to submit the rates of the following specifications/items: Items Quantity Items Quantity 1. Tea : 150 ml 11. Jalebi : per plate 2. Coffee : 150 ml 12. Cake : per plate 3. Puri with meat (Pork/Beef) : Per plate 13. Galho : per plate 4. Puri with mattar : Per plate 14. Paratha : per plate 5. Suka roti with meat (Pork/ Beef) : Per plate 15. Patties : per plate 6. Suka roti with mattar : Per plate 16. Chow : per plate 7. Bread with butter : Per plate 17. Momo : per plate 8. Omelette/half fry : Per plate 18. Sandwich : per plate 9. Singara/Namkeen : Per plate 19. Any other items : per plate/piece 10. Rasgulla/Gulab Jamun : Per plate The quotation should be sent in sealed cover addressed to the Secretary, Nagaland Lokayukta, Kohima subscribed with the following: 1. Quotation for Canteen 2. Reference letter No. and Date 3. Due date of opening quotation The quotation will be opened on 30th July 2019 at 1:00 pm in the official chamber of the Secretary, Nagaland Lokayukta, Kohima. The quotation will be valid for three (3) years. The Authority reserves the right to reject any quotation without assigning any reason. Normally, Canteen should be operated from 9:00 a.m to 4:00 pm during working days. However, the timing may be changed as per requirement. The quotation should be submitted to the Secretary, Nagaland Lokayukta, Kohima only on 30th July 2019 at the official chamber by 12:00 pm.

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Guj court reissues summons to Rahul in defamation case for remark against Shah AHMEDABAD, JUL 9 (PTI): A court here issued fresh summons to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday directing him to appear on August 9 in a criminal defamation suit filed against him by a local BJP leader for allegedly calling Union Home Minister Amit Shah a “murder accused”.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate D S Dabhi re-issued the summons after the one issued on May 1, which was to be served through Lok Sabha Speaker as Gandhi is a Member of Parliament, was returned. The Speaker returned the summons saying he has no locus standi in the matter, the complainant’s lawyer Prakash Patel said.

The fresh summons asking Gandhi to appear on August 9 will now be served directly to the Congress leader at his residence in New Delhi. The court earlier held that prima facie there was a case of criminal defamation against Gandhi under Indian Penal Code

Rahul Gandhi (File)

Section (IPC) section 500.

Krishnavadan Brahmbhatt, a local BJP corporator, alleged that Gandhi made the objectionable comments at an election rally in Jabalpur on April 23.

Brahmbhatt contended that Gandhi’s remark was defamatory as Shah was acquitted by a CBI court in 2015 in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.

Neither the high court nor the Supreme Court entertained the challenge to Shah’s acquittal, he said.

“Gandhi (thus) committed an offence of defamation as per Sections

499 and 500 of the IPC,” he said.

The CBI court’s January 2, 2015 order acquitting Shah got wide publicity and was well known “in all political circles including that of the Congress”, the complaint said.

After Gandhi’s remark at the rally, Shah hit back at him, pointing out that he had been acquitted in the case, and questioned Congress president’s “legal knowledge”.

In 2015, a special court discharged Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter cases, holding no case existed against him and that he had been implicated for political reasons.

Earlier, another magistrate’s court here also issued summons to Gandhi and Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala in a criminal defamation suit filed by the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank and its chairman.Amit Shah is a director of the bank.

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OPINiON/EDITORIAL

What the Ancients meant?

Nagaland Post Vol. XXIX NO. 213 Dimapur, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019

A bane on democracy

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hat the current political drama that has been unfolding in Karnataka again brings to mind how crafty politicians continue to violate the very principle against defections through loopholes in the Anti Defection Law. Whether it is floor crossing or simply horse trading, the purpose for such is certainly not in the interest of democracy and by that, also not in the interest of the people who had voted for them. Those who defect are motivated by greed and are turning democracy on its head. The Anti Defection Law was a landmark legislation of the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1985 which introduced the 52nd Amendment with insertion of the Tenth Schedule. This amendment helped to restrict the elected members belonging to a political party to leave that party and switch to another party in Parliament. Earlier, paragraph 3 of the Tenth Schedule recognised a ‘split’ if at least one-third members of the legislature party decided to form or join another political party. However, this provision was done away with by the 91st amendment to the Constitution in 2003. The amendment, which came into force in January 2004, does not recognise a ‘split’ in a legislature party and instead, it recognises a ‘merger’. That means there has to be a split prior to merger with another party. However, Para 4 of the Tenth Schedule makes three points clear : 1. The original political party should merge with another party; 2. As a result, not less than two-thirds of the members of the legislature party merge with that party and 3. The merger becomes legally recognisable only when two-thirds of the members of the legislature party also merge with the other party.

There have been many controversies surrounding the role of the speakers or chairman of the house in the past while deciding for or against disqualifications. Under the Anti Defection law Schedule 6, the speaker of chairman of the house has been given absolute powers to decide on cases related with disqualification on the grounds of attracting provisions of the law. However, the speaker belongs to a party and there arises the issue of conflict of interest. Two Speakers of the Lok Sabha, one being Rabi Ray in 1991 and another being Shivraj Patil in 1993 have themselves expressed doubts on their suitability to adjudicate upon the cases related to defections. Petitions in court have raised questions about the partiality of the speaker or chairman of the house while deciding on such cases. To plug all the loopholes in the Law there is need to rid of defections under the guise of mergers. Para 4 of the Tenth Schedule must be reiterated. To stem the tide of more defections in other states which is being triggered by the recent Lok Sabha election results, those who resign from both the party and the house should be barred from holding any office of power.

There should also be a provision where a member of one party who gets elected as a party nominee should sign an undertaking to remain a member of that party for the full five-year tenure of the house.

In the current Karanataka political drama, even though the MLAs of both Congress and JDS have voluntarily resigned from the membership of the party and the house, they should not be allowed to contest in the by elections as nominees of a different party till the tenure of the house expires. This will perhaps end the kind of unprincipled politics being played out through bypassing of the Anti Defection Law.

DailyDevotion Will You Examine Yourself?

Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the Lord…"

—Joshua 24:19 Do you have even the slightest reliance on anything or anyone other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural quality within you, or on any particular set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any manner whatsoever regarding this new proposal or plan which God has placed before you? Will you examine yourself by asking these probing questions? It really is true to say, “I cannot live a holy life,” but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. “You cannot serve the Lord…”— but you can place yourself in the proper position where God’s almighty power will flow through you. Is your relationship with God sufficient for you to expect Him to exhibit His wonderful life in you?

“The people said to Joshua, ‘No, but we will serve the Lord!’ ” (Joshua 24:21). This is not an impulsive action, but a deliberate commitment. We tend to say, “But God could never have called me to this. I’m too unworthy. It can’t mean me.” It does mean you, and the more weak and feeble you are, the better. The person who is still relying and trusting in anything within himself is the last person to even come close to saying, “I will serve the Lord.”

We say, “Oh, if only I really could believe!” The question is, “Will I believe?” No wonder Jesus Christ placed such emphasis on the sin of unbelief. “He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58). If we really believed that God meant what He said, just imagine what we would be like! Do I really dare to let God be to me all that He says He will be?

Quotes

I learned that being considerate helps me in my life and career. ~ Lee Min-ho

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ometime in the 1870s, Captain John Butler, a British agent in the Nagas Hills, made a comment that the word Naga could have come from the Kachari word nahngra, meaning “warrior.” But this was nothing more than a conjecture as it has no supporting historical evidence. After all, Butler was just a political agent, not a historian. Besides, it is very unlikely that the Kacharis, who had suffered greatly at the hands of the headhunters from the hills, would extol these Nagas with such a glamorous term as “warriors.”

Almost all historians and anthropologists, past and present, are of the opinion that the name Naga was a non-native derivation given by non-Nagas. But the question is: Who were the people who originated it and when? And who was a Naga according to those people?

A r o u n d 1 0 0 A D, Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman geographer, was most likely told by the Vedic Aryans about the existence of some hill people who lived on the eastern side of the River Brahmaputra, whom the

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Vedic Aryans called Nangalogue, meaning “naked people” in Sanskrit. Such derogatory name-calling implies that the Aryans clearly looked down upon our ancestors, perhaps because they were barely clothed and ate all kinds of animals, let alone of a different race. No wonder Ptolemy not only faithfully recorded the word Nangalogue as he heard it but also added that where this people lived was an “unprotected country,” meaning, not under any nation-state.

That means the existence of Nagas living in their own land was known as far back as two thousand years.

As for the word Nanga, it could have, over the last two millennia, morphed into its current form, Naga, as many proper names often do. For example: Keniak into Konyak, Gnami into Angami, Mokongtsu into Mokokchung.

Another possibility for the origin of the word Naga is the Sanskrit word Nag, which means “mountain.”

Many scholars think this to be the most probable root meaning, as it would benatural for the early Vedic people of the Gangetic

plain to call any of the Mahabharata, their race is hill peoples who lived in linked with River Iravati their close proximity as the in Kashmir and the lower people of Nag. If this was Himalayas (Book I: Adi indeed the case, then the Parva, Sections 13-58). name “Naga” could refer to These Nagas are depicted any person who lived in the as enemies of the Brahlower Himalayan regions: mins and “persecutors of from the hilly areas in Kash- all creatures.” At some mir to other hilly areas in point in time, their race in Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, North India was almost Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal completely annihilated by Pradesh, Nagaland, North- Janamejaya, king of Kuru, west Myanmar, Manipur, who conducted a massacre Mizoram, Tripura, Me- at Takshasila. This genoghalaya, and Bangladesh’s cide, however, was stopped Chittagong hills.

by Astika, a Brahmin whose Indeed, the presence mother was coincidentally of a nona Naga. The Aryan race Mazie Nakhro point to note living along here is this: the Himalayan regions, Since these compilations starting from north India to of stories in the Vedas and Northeast India, is well at- Mahabharata date back to tested in the Rig Vedas and around 10th century BC, Mahabharata. Sometimes it implies that the “Naga they are described as a race race” existed even prior to of mysterious creatures or that time. Even eminent dreaded “serpent” (“Naga” Indian historians, such as in Sanskrit). At other times Akshoy K. Majumdar and they are presented as real S. K. Chatterji, believe that people. For example, the some “Nagas” inhabited Vedas mention about the the eastern Himalayas, inKiratas as hillmen of gold- cluding the hilly areas of like complexion inhabit- Bangladesh and Tripura, ing the eastern Himalayas for several millennia.

(Shukla Yajurveda, ch.

So, then, are we the 30.6; Krishna Yajurveda, Nagas of Naga-land to be ch. 3.4, 12; Arthavaveda, considered as the direct ch. 10.4, 14). Also, in the descendants of the ancient

Nagas mentioned in the Vedic Scriptures? Perhaps not. But it seems very probable that at least this historic name eventually got stuck to us. After all, we may be the last Indo-Mongoloid people still standing not totally absorbed by the Indo-Aryan civilization.

And if this assumption is correct, when could have this narrowing down of the appellation to the Nagas of Naga-land happened?

Surely it must be before the arrival of John Butler in the Naga Hills around 1870s, because he was then already attributing the term Nagas to those living in the present Naga Hills, whether correctly or incorrectly.

Or, it could be the British who adopted the same appellation(s) and applied it/them to the hill tribes of Naga-land when they arrived in the Indian subcontinent around 1800.

Regarding the times when our Naga ancestors arrived in their new homeland, we have almost zero written records. But in the words of V. Nienu, a Naga archeologist and ethnographer, “The fact that none of the Naga tribes could trace their origin beyond

Khezakeno or Chungliyimti—the mythological places located within Nagaland— from where they claimed to have originated, testifies that Nagas have been living in their present habitat for several millennia. This fact is evidenced by recent archeological discoveries.”

So, how do we determine who a Naga is today?

Here the answer cannot be based on whether or not a person belongs to one of the tribes in the State of Nagaland, because the term Naga must be interpreted the same way the namegivers meant it (the Law of Interpretation). This being so, the determining factor could be just this: Any person of Mongoloid race whose ancestors had lived in the hills and mountains of Northeast India and North Myanmar and were traditionally very different from the plain- and valleydwellers. And yes, since the word Naga is generic, supra-tribal and somewhat elastic, it must transcend tribalism to unite rather than discriminate. That way whoever fits the above descriptions would gladly wear that nameas a badge of honor.

Post-mortem

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Naga national movement and AFSPA

his piece of write up gives a brief historical background of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) and its connection with Naga national movement. Many educated Nagas may not be aware of the various special provisions given to Indian Armed forces under AFSPA and hence may lack knowledge of its colossal harmful effect on the daily life of common people. This is an (in) famous Act which gives sweeping powers to the armed forces to maintain law and order in the insurgent affected states of India.

It is a legal mechanism to have the Indian Army operates not against external aggression, as is the normal duty of any army in the world, but in situations of civil insurrection. Applicable to the Seven Northeast states and Jammu and Kashmir, this Act becomes operational if any of these states or regions within the state has been declared as ‘disturbed’.

The origins of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 can be traced to the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1948. The latter in turn was enacted to replace four ordinances—the Bengal Disturbed Areas (Special Powers of Armed Forces) Ordinance; the Assam Disturbed Areas (Special Powers of Armed Forces) Ordinance; the East Bengal Disturbed Areas (Special Powers of Armed Forces) Ordinance; the United provinces Disturbed Areas (Special Powers of Armed Forces) Ordinance—invoked by the central government to deal with the internal security situation in the country in 1947. In fact, India inherited AFSPA from the colonial British Ordinance 1942.

On August 15, 1942, the Viceroy Lord Linlithgow declared emergency all over British India and promulgated the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Ordinance, 1942, conferring vaguely defined special powers to the armed forces to arrest and use force (even kill) civilians on mere suspicion. After India’s Independence, the Parliament modified the Ordinance in 1958 and thus born AFSPA. It was made harsher and more deceptive than the Ordinance. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Ordinance was promulgated all over British India but AFSPA was confined to the ethnically distinct North East region and Kashmir. AFSPA is in fact a racial and region specific law.

According to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958 in an area that is proclaimed as "disturbed", an officer of the armed forces has

powers to,  After giving such due warning, Fire upon or use other kinds of force even if it causes death, against the person who is acting against law or order in the disturbed area for the maintenance of public order.  Destroy any arms dump, hide-outs, prepared or fortified position or shelter or training camp from which armed attacks are made by the armed volunteers or armed gangs or absconders wanted for any offence.  To arrest without a warrant anyone who has committed cognizable offences or is reasonably suspected of having done so and may use force if needed for the arrest.  To enter and search any premise in order to make such arrests, or to recover any person wrongfully restrained or any arms, ammunition or explosive substances and seize it.  Stop and search any vehicle or vessel reasonably suspected to be carrying such person or weapons.  Any person arrested and taken into custody under this Act shall be made present over to the officer in charge of the nearest police station with least possible delay, together with a report of the circumstances occasioning the arrest.  Army officers have legal immunity for their actions.

There can be no prosecution, suit or any other legal proceeding against anyone acting under that law. Nor is the government's judgment on why an area is found to be disturbed subject to judicial review.

Initially the Act was passed

by Independent India to suppress the rebellion movement of the Naga people. The Naga National Council (NNC), in 1951, had conducted a plebiscite in which 99 percent of the Naga people voted for a “Free Sovereign Naga Nation.” Thereafter they boycotted the first General Election 1952 and later extended the boycott to the government schools and officials. Again, in 1953, the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and the Prime Minister of Burma U Nu visited Kohima. When the administration did not allow NNC to submit memorandum to the Prime Ministers, the fifteen thousand Naga assembled walked out of the Public meeting place. U Nu and Nehru were left to address only a handful of government servants. Nehru who had faced a humiliating experience, immediately issued arrest warrant against eight NNC leaders. The Assam Maintenance of Public Order Act of 1953 was

promulgated in the Naga Hills District and sensitive areas were declared as “disturbed.”

Following this order, the Assam Police and paramilitary forces began to arrest and torture many people at random.

Properties were confiscated.

Houses burnt down. Crops in the fields were destroyed. Wives and children of Naga leaders were arrested and jailed. Collective fines were imposed on entire villages and leaders from all villages were arrested and jailed. This forced many Naga leaders and their followers to go underground in order to avoid the harsh treatment of Indian armies that subsequently resulted to armed struggle movement of the Nagas. Thus the political freedom movement of the Naga tribes in the 1950s necessitated a progressive build-up of forces in the north-east, and by the end of the 1950s a division was tied down in guerrilla fighting in the Naga Hills. More units of the Indian Army were siphoned across from Punjab to the north-east. Thus militarisation begins in the north-east with Naga freedom movement and gradually spread to the whole parts of North East.

When the Act was debated in the Parliament to impose in Manipur to deal with Meitei insurgency, the then two MPs from Manipur Mr. R. Suisa and Mr. Laishram Achaw Singh argued that this Act that gives blanket powers to the army would lead to the violation of Fundamental Rights of the people. The people of neighbouring Nagaland were already going through their worse time under AFSPA and other related black laws. Mr. Laishram Achaw Singh, said that “this measure is unnecessary and also unwarranted. I have found that these military authorities have always committed excesses in many cases, especially in the sub-divisions of Kohima and Mokokchung.

Instead of rounding (up) the hostile Nagas, some military personnel trespassed into the houses of some retired tribal official and committed rape on the widow. So, such things have deteriorated the situation. The tribal people have risen against the military people there. It is, therefore, dangerous to invest the military authorities with extraordinary powers of killing and of arrest without warrant and of house breaking. I have got reports of the operations of the armed forces in these tribal sub-divisions of Manipur, especially in the sub-division of Tamenlong where these armed forces have by force occupied the religious institutions, in

spite of the protests from the local people. Most of them are Christians there and hold their Churches sacred. But these armed forces would forcibly occupy these institutions. This piece of legislation violates democratic measure and also a reactionary one. This is a black law. This is also an act of provocation on the part of the Gover nment. How can we imagine that these military officers should be allowed to shoot to kill and without warrant arrest and search? This is a lawless law.”

The independent India had framed various draconian laws to deal with terrorism.

This includes Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA), Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), the Disturbed Areas Act (DAA), the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA).

Each of this black law, when implemented, resulted in the oppression of the most underprivileged members of our society. Almost all the black laws of the country have been repealed but AFSPA remains intact and continue to serve as a tool of the Indian armed forces.

AFSPA that is being imposed in NEI and Jammu and Kashmir has alienated the people of these regions from the mainlanders. It is nothing less than a racial law. Even in the central India where a tribal leftist rebellion, popularly referred to as Maoist rebellion, is raging, and is considered to be ‘the greatest threat to India’s integrity since its independence’ AFSPA is not invoked. It is certainly a specific area-targeted draconian law that forces people to live according to the dictum of armed forces. AFSPA has outlived its utility. It does not serve the interest of the civilian population nor does it fulfils the projected purpose of the state to contain insurgent movement in NEI. Imposition of AFSPA

has made the armed forces the enemy of its own citizens. It manifests the weakness of the Indian state that no democratic solution/measure to replace the AFSPA has come about in the more than six decades the AFSPA has been in operation.

Despite all these problems, a ray of hope can be seen through the Indo-Naga Peace talk. The Naga insurgent movement, being considered as the ‘mother of all insurgent movements’ in NEI and for which cause, AFSPA was primarily imposed, there is possibility of AFSPA being revoked in the entire NEI once the Indo-Naga talk concludes.

Hence, every peace loving citizen must help the Indo-Naga peace talk to come to its logical conclusion. The sooner, the better.

Z K. Pahrü Pou BTC, Pfutsero References • Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in http://www.satp. org/satporgtp/countries/india/ document/actandordinances/ armed_forces_special_power_ act_1958.htm, • Combat Law, “The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act – Repressive Law” in Combat Law, April –May 2003, • G. Baruah, “AFSPA As I See It”, in The Sangai Express, • A F S PA i n h t t p s : / / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_ Forces_(Special_Powers)_Act, • Kaka D. Iralu, The Naga Saga, Third Edition, 2009. Kohima: Kaka D. Iralu, 2009 • Odious Comparisons in Economic and Political Weekly, July 24, 2004, • Phanjoubam Tarapot, Insurgency Movement in North Eastern India, revised version.

New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1996 • Vivek Chadha ed. Armed Forces Special Powers Act: The Debate. New Delhi: Lancer’s Books, 2013

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Letter to secretary NBSE, Nagaland

Sir,

As a concerned parent, I would like to know whether, those students who have failed in the HSLC & HSSLC Examination 2019, will be getting a separate set of question paper in all subjects in the final examination next year? It is learnt that some units have been changed/omitted in certain subjects and thus there are some confusion regarding the same. Therefore, it would be better if our confusions can be cleared regarding the failed students.

Among, concerned parent

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BSI Pfutsero branch inaugurated

BSI officials at the inauguration of Pfutsero branch on July 8.

DIMAPUR: AoYimkum Youth Organisation (ALT) has condemned the action of police officer (IR), who in an intoxicated state allegedly entered the village premises on July 5 night at around 10:30 pm and harassed the villagers and also physically “abused” the village council chairman. In a condemnation note, ALT president, Akumba Imchen and secretary, Imnatoshi Aier said that they were not aware whether the officer was acting in his personal capacity or was following orders from higher authority but warned that such kind of intimidating act will not be tolerated.

It therefore, appealed to the concerned authority to take up the matter and initiate stringent action against the officer and his aides, so that such incident was not repeated.

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KOHIMA, JUL 9 (NPN): A plantation drive was carried out at TsiesemaPeducha bypass road on July 8 led by Shürhoneiu Sanchu with a team of 18 Keeping in mind that Nagaland had featured in the volunteers, all alumni of Guinness World Record for the tallest Rhododendron Shalom Bible Seminary, tree in 1993, Dr. Keliihol Tase and brothers planted 500 Sechü Zubza.

Sanchu was instruRhododendron trees at Jakhama. (Dr. Keliihol Tase) mental in planting trees along the National Highway particularly in the Northern Angami region under the theme, “Plant a Tree: Grow A Life.” During the drive, more than 200 trees were planted.

So far, under the “Plant a Tree: Grow a Life” project, a total plantation of more than 3000 trees since its inception in December 2015. Earlier, a A portion of road connecting Dorkajan gate to Purana Bazar (B) and Kushabill under Dimapur district had been washed away by downpour.

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short programme was held before the plantation drive where Sanchu shared on how he started the plantation drive.

Sanchu, who is also an assistant pastor maintained that caring for God’s creation was also a part of the mandate of every believer.

Speaking on Sanchu’s desire to plant 10,000 trees, Ruokuovilie Kense, associate pastor, Touphe Basa Baptist Church expressed happiness at the plantation drive and urged everyone to contribute in achieving the desired target.

Mezhüvolie Khrabvü, a volunteer at the plantation stated that more plantation drives was needed in order to check landslides especially near the roads.

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DIMAPUR: Police personnel of Sechü (Zubza) police station during routine checking near Old KMC dumping site on July 5, seized 230 Kg of contraband ganja from a vehicle (Maruti Suzuki SX4 AS-19B-4844). According to PRO/ DEF Kohima, the ganja was concealed in 23 packets and proceeding towards Dimapur. The driver has been identified as Neli (31), son of Hirisu, village, Manipur. A case has been registered under NDPS Act for investigation.

KOHIMA, JUL 9 (NPN): In an unfortunate incident, seven people were injured when a Maruti Eco travelling to Wokha from Kohima met with an accident between Botsa and Henbenji under Tseminyu sub-division Tuesday afternoon.

According to police sources, the vehicle rolled down about 300 feet from the highway, grievously injuring a women and her minor child. The injured were immediately rushed to Kohima.

The cause of accident could not be ascertained till the time of filing this story, as OC Tseminyu was unavailable for information.

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importance of media in spreading the Word of God in today’s world.

BSI Pfutsero branch is led by Thekho Rova, pastor Poumai Baptist Church as president, Aba Dazo, principal CMHSS as secretary and Ngotso Dai, associate pastor Rukizu as treasurer.

The new office bearers were installed by CBCC executive secretary, Khrotso Mero.

BSI also expressed gratitude to CBCC for sponsoring the inauguration programme.

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iliary is covering 111 tribes in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland and Karbi Along district of Assam.

BSI does not only translate, produces and supplies Bibles, but also engaged in evangelism work by providing Children’s Bible to needy children, free Bibles to destitute women and tracts to non-Christians.

President of BSI Kohima branch, Those Kraho shared the activities of BSI. Zakiebito Terhuja media in-charge pointed out the

2013, by some members of the RS on the alleged monitoring and surveillance of mobile phones of Arun Jaitley by Delhi Police personnel and some other individuals. In action taken in the case, the Delhi Police had filed charge sheet in the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala House here under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

It was later revealed in the probe that the main accused in the case was in touch with family members and businessmen belonging to big corporate entities. No link could, however, be found with any politician in the high profile snooping case.

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DIMAPUR: Bible Society of India (BSI) inaugurated its branch at Pfutsero town at CBCC Mission Centre, T. Chikri on July 8.

The inaugural programme was attended by pastors and leaders of 17 churches, CBCC and BTC staff. A press release from BSI Dimapur auxiliar y secretary, Yiepetso Wezah stated that, the aim of BSI was to provide Bible to all believers of Jesus Christ and even to non-believers. At present BSI, Dimapur Aux-

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Moa on behalf of the DMC also conveyed heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family members and prayed to Almighty for the departed soul to rest in peace.

DDSC: Dimapur District Sports Council (DDSC) has expressed shock at the sudden demise of Joseph Sumi. In a condolence message, DDSC vice president Tsenthungo Lotha said late Joseph was an ardent supporter of DDSC from the time of its inception.

Lotha said late Jospeh was also a founder executive member of DDSC and former vice president of DDSC. Lotha noted that late Joseph’s contribution to the DDSC was valued in high esteem by the office and the people of Nagaland in sports arena. Futher he said that in the demise of late Joseph, the DDSC has lost a loving and an active member whose absence would be dearly missed. The DDSC offered condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that the Lord grant solace at this time of their great loss.

DDFA: Dimapur District Football Association (DDFA) has said that the vacuum left behind by the demise of late Joseph Sumi president of DDFA would be very difficult to fill. DDFA joined the bereaved family in their hour of grief and mourning and prayed that the Almighty God give solace to the bereaved family members and for peace to the departed soul, DDFA vice president Tsenthungo Lotha stated in a condolence message DDVA: Dimapur District Volleyball Association (DDVA) president Tsenthungo Lotha expressed shock at the demise of Joseph Sumi, treasurer of the association. The association also prayed the Almighty God for solace to the bereaved family member at the hour of grief.

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been made an Act. The court, after briefly hearing both sides, listed the matter for further hearing on October 22.

The Bill allows voluntary use of Aadhaar as proof of identity for users to open bank accounts and get mobile phone connections.

It also provides for a stiff Rs 1 crore penalty and a jail term for private entities for violating provisions on Aadhaar data.

It further provides for use of Aadhaar number for KYC authentication on voluntary basis under the Telegraph Act, 1885, and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

A five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court had in September last year declared the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 9 (PTI): As Parliament has passed the Aadhaar amendment bill for voluntary use of the biometric ID in private sector, the Ordinance on the issue “does not survive”, the Centre informed the Delhi High Court Tuesday.

The submission by the central government before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar came on a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Ordinance on the ground that it was brought to “overturn” the Supreme Court decision regarding the use of Aadhaar by private sector.

President Ram Nath Kovind had in March given his assent to the Aadhaar Ordinance that allowed voluntary use of Aadhaar as ID proof for obtaining mobile SIM cards and opening bank accounts. Subsequently, on June 24, the government introduced the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to replace the Ordinance.

On July 4, the Lok Sabha passed the Bill and on July 8 the Rajya Sabha passed it by a voice vote.

“Both Houses have passed the Bill. The Ordinance does not survive,” the lawyers for the government told the court during the day’s hearing.

However, the lawyer for the petitioners, who had challenged the Ordinance, said that the Bill has not yet

NEW DELHI, JUL 9 (IANS): A Parliamentary panel has directed Delhi Police to pursue criminal cases filed in connection with a snooping case on then Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha (RS), Arun Jaitley, while maintaining that accessing call data records (CDRs) of legislators would amount to breach of privilege only if it hindered their parliamentary functions.

The Committee of Privileges chaired by Harivansh, also the deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, found no evidence in the matter of unauthorised access of CDRs of mobile phones of Arun Jaitley to suggest that the motive of the accused persons in the case was to get information about his Parliamentary functions or to create any impediments in this regard.

“Therefore, the Committee reiterates its opinion given in the Sixty-first report to the effect that in the given facts and circumstances of the case, there was no breach of privilege of either Arun Jaitley, the then Leader of Opposition or of the House in that matter,” the Committee said in its report.

A notice of breach of privilege was given on February 27,

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from food inflation. The pickup remained barely subdued in the grander scheme of things,” said Vishnu Varathan, an economist at Mizuho Bank.

Some economists expect the central bank will cut rates in August for the fourth consecutive time since February to enhance liquidity after the government’s annual budget last week lacked any direct steps to boost the economy.

The fiscal deficit target for this financial year was reduced to 3.3% from 3.4%, and domestic borrowing was estimated at 7.1 trillion rupees.

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systemic and comprehensive checking of legacy stock of NPAs of PSBs for frauds has helped unearth frauds perpetrated over a number of years, which is getting reflected in increased number of reported incidents in recent years compared to previous years.

Replying to another question, Thakur said liquidity in the financial system turned into surplus in early June 2019, after a large injection of durable liquidity by RBI in the previous months.

“The liquidity surplus/ deficit in the banking system is reflected in the net amount absorbed/injected by RBI under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) and includes Marginal Standing Facility (MSF),” he said.

As per RBI data, the daily net liquidity progressively improved from an average daily deficit of Rs 70,004 crore during April 2019 to average daily deficit of Rs 33,400 crore during May 2019. In June there was an average daily surplus of Rs 51,710 crore, he said.

T h e l i q u i d i t y s u rplus reached a level of Rs 1,39,265 crore as on July 3, 2019, he added.

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to a question raised by BJP leader R K Sinha.

Besides, the government has enacted Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 to deter offenders from evading the process of Indian law by remaining outside the jurisdiction of Indian courts, he said.

The Act provides for attachment of property of a fugitive economic offender, confiscation of such offender’s property and disentitlement of the offender from defending any civil claim, he added.

In addition, public sector banks have been advised to obtain certified copy of the passport of the promoters or directors and other authorised signatories of companies availing loan facilities of more than Rs 50 crore and, decide on publishing photographs of wilful defaulters.

The heads of these banks have also been empowered to issue request for Look Out Circulars (LOCs), he said.

The impact of the above steps is reflected in Reserve Bank’s Financial Stability Report (FSR) of June 2019, he said.

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in 2018-19, lower than Rs 2.39 in the same period a year ago.

The selling price of Rs 200 note per piece declined to Rs 2.15 in 2018-19 compared to Rs 2.24 in 201718. These figures pertain to the notes printed by the BRBNMPL. The Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd (SPMCIL) also prints currency notes.

The selling price of a Rs 500 note printed by SPMCIL was Rs 3.375 in 2018-19, unchanged from the year-ago period.

As per the data, the selling price of Rs 200 note remained the same at Rs 3.12 in 2018-19 and 2017-18. The expenditure incurred on printing of currency notes rose to Rs 7,965 crore in 2017-18 (July-June) from Rs 4,912 crore in 2016-17.

omists polled by Reuters between July 4-7, retail inflation rose at an annual rate of 3.20% in June, up from 3.05% in May. Forecasts ranged between 2.90% and 3.84%.

Food prices which account for nearly half of the inflation basket have been rising since early this year, a dramatic shift from their deflationary path in late 2018. If the consensus forecast is realised, retail inflation will have been below the RBI’s mediumterm target of 4% since July last year.

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New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI): Banks and select financial institutions have reported 44,016 cases of fraud in the last 11 years beginning 200809 involving amount of Rs 1,85,624 crore, Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

The year 2016-17 witnessed reporting of 3,927 cases of fraud involving amount of Rs 25,883.99 crore, which was the highest in the last 11 years, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

In the following year, the number of such cases rose to 4,228 but the amount involved declined to Rs 9,866.23 crore.

In 2018-19, 2,836 cases of fraud were reported involving amount of Rs 6,734.60 crore, he said.

During 2012-13, banks and select financial institutions reported 4,504 cases with amount involving Rs 24,819.36 crore.

The government has taken comprehensive steps to reduce the incidence of frauds in banks including examination of all NPA accounts exceeding Rs 50 crore by banks for any possible fraud, he said in reply

New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI): The cost of a Rs 2000 currency note fell 65 paise or 18.4 per cent in 2018-19 compared to the year-ago period, according to official data.

Introduced after demonetisation in November 2016, Rs 2000 notes are printed only by the Bharatiya Reser ve Bank Note Mudran Pvt Ltd (BRBNMPL) - a wholly-owned subsidiary of the RBI. According to data provided by the government to the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, the selling price of Rs 2000 note from the BRBNMPL was Rs 3.53 apiece in 2018-19. It declined 65 paise from Rs 4.18 apiece in 2017-18. The data, provided by Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur in a written reply, showed that the selling price of a Rs 500 note was Rs 2.13

New Delhi, Jul 9 (Agencies): India’s retail inflation likely reached an eight-month high in June on rising food prices, but stayed under the Reserve Bank of India’s mediumterm target of 4% for an eleventh straight month, a Reuters poll predicted.

Another reading below the inflation target will likely support the RBI’s decision last month to cut interest rates to boost economic growth that slowed to more than a four-year low in the January-March quarter.

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issues 1st golden Extradition bill is dead: HK’s Carrie Lam Immediately cancel arms Sharjah card visa to Indian expat sale to Taiwan: China to US military pressure on Taipei since the election in 2016 of President Tsai Ing-wen, whose Democratic Progressive Party refuses to acknowledge that the island is part of “One China”.

It has staged military exercises near the island, and steadily reduced the already small number of nations that recognise Taiwan.

The United States switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, but has remained an important ally -- and arms supplier -- to Taipei. Laws passed that year by Congress required Washington to provide the island with means of self-defence.

But it has been wary of big-ticket military equipment sales to Taiwan in recent years, fearful of stoking anger in Beijing.

President Donald Trump -- whose administration is locked in a trade war with China -- has however sought to strengthen ties with Taiwan and appears more willing to sell arms.

Taiwan would be massively outgunned in terms of troop numbers and firepower in any conflict with China, and has sought to upgrade much of its increasingly obsolete military equipment, especially in its air force.

Beijing, Jul 9 (AFP): China demanded Tuesday that the United States “immediately cancel” a potential sale of USD 2.2 billion in arms to self-ruled Taiwan, including battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles, adding fuel to tensions between the two powers.

It would be the first big-ticket US military sale to the democratically-governed island in decades, and comes as ties between Washington and Beijing are already strained by their trade war.

China has lodged formal complaints through diplomatic channels expressing “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the move, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular press briefing. The deal includes 108 M1A2T Abrams tanks, 250 Stinger portable anti-aircraft missiles, related equipment and support at an estimated cost of just over USD 2.2 billion, according to the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

The proposed sale “will contribute to the modernization of the recipient’s main battle tank fleet”, improve its air defense system and “support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security and defensive capability (of Tai-

wan),” DSCA said.

It would not alter the “basic military balance in the region,” the agency added, and Congress has been notified. US lawmakers have 30 days to object to the sale but are unlikely to do so.

Geng said the proposed deal “seriously violates the one-China principle” and “grossly interferes” in the country’s internal affairs.

“China urges the US to... immediately cancel the planned arms sale and stop military relations with Taipei to avoid damaging Sino-US relations and harming peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” he said.

Taiwan has been ruled separately from China since the end of a civil war in 1949, but Beijing considers it a part of its territory to be retaken -- by force if necessary. China has significantly stepped up diplomatic and

Afghan peace talks: Taliban agrees to reduce violence

‘No longer acceptable’: Trump slams India over tariffs on US products

DOHA, JUL 9 (IANS): The Taliban has agreed to reduce violence by stopping attacks on “religious centres, schools, hospitals, educational centres, bazaars, water dams and workplaces” in Afghanistan, that could expedite the end of the 18-year war in the war-torn nation, the media reported on Tuesday.

The agreement taken at the Intra-Afghan Dialogue Conference on Peace in Doha on Monday night came in the form of a resolution prepared by a committee of six members from Kabul and three members from the Taliban, reports TOLO News.

The participants from Kabul from politicians, civil society members, and government officials. They attended the intra-Afghan talks with their personal capacity. The resolution also called for an end to civilian casualties and the protection of women’s rights within an “Islamic framework”.

Washington, Jul 9 (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said India has long had a “field day” imposing tariffs on American products, which is “no longer acceptable” to the US. Trump’s terse comment came days after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28 where the two leaders aired their concerns over the bilateral trade disputes and agreed for a meeting of their commerce ministers to sort out the issues. “India has long had a field day putting Tariffs on American products. No longer acceptable!” Trump tweeted on Tuesday.

Later this week, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Energy Secretary Rick Perry are scheduled to address a major India centric conference in Washington DC. President Trump, championing his ‘America First’ policy has been a vocal critic of India for levying “tremendously high” duties on US products, has

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described the country as a “tariff king”.

Though trade is an important part of the booming bilateral relationship, a row over market access and tariffs has escalated in recent months, leading to fears of a protracted dispute.

Before his meeting with Modi, Trump tweeted, “I look forward to speaking with Prime Minister Modi about the fact that India, for years having put very high Tariffs against the United States, just recently increased the Tariffs even further. This is unacceptable and the Tariffs must be withdrawn!”

India has raised tariffs on 28 items, including almond, pulses and walnut, exported from the US in retaliation to America’s withdrawal of preferential access for Indian products.

Trump has also criticised India’s high import tariff on the iconic Harley Davidson motorcycles as “unacceptable”.

President Trump terminated India’s designation as a beneficiary developing

Human rights laywer Amal Clooney to lead defence team of Duterte critic MANILA, JUL 9 (IANS): Acclaimed human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will head the international legal team defending a Philippine media personality who is one of the fiercest critics of President Rodrigo Duterte.

The CEO of the independent news portal Rappler, Maria Ressa, who was selected by Time magazine as one of its 2018 Persons of the Year, faces several criminal charges for alleged tax evasion, cyber libel and violating media nationalization laws, which both she and human rights defenders describe as persecution for her journalistic work that has often railed against Duterte’s administration, reports Efe news.

“Maria Ressa is a courageous journalist who is being persecuted for reporting the news and standing up to human rights abuses,” Clooney said in a statement released by her Londonbased law firm, Doughty K

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Street Chambers, on Monday. “We will pursue all available legal remedies to vindicate her rights and defend press freedom and the rule of law in the Philippines,” the Lebanese-British attorney added. Clooney, together with Caoilfhionn Gallagher - both specializing in international law and human rights - will lead the team of global attorneys that will work in coordination with the Philippine lawyers advising Ressa.

“I am delighted that Amal Clooney and her team will be representing

me at the international level to challenge the violations of my rights and those of the media organization I represent,” Ressa said in a statement on Tuesday.

Ressa, who in the past was CNN’s correspondent for Asia, has been arrested twice this year and has had to post bail up to seven times for her release while awaiting trial.

She is the recipient of the 2018 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award presented by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and won the 2018 Knight International Journalism Award in Washington.

The head of Rappler, a website established in 2012 that has since gone on to become one of the most influential news sites of the Philippines, claims that all the charges against her are an attempt to silence her and in retaliation for her critical reporting on Duterte.

Lalu Samuel, the chairman and managing director of Kingston Holdings, has been awarded Sharjah’s first golden card visa. Kingston Holdings.

SHARJAH, JUL 9 (IANS): Sharjahs first Golden Card visa was issued to an Indian expat businessman, as part of the permanent residency system tailored for investors. The visa was issued to Lalu Samuel, Chairman and Managing Director of Kingston Holdings and Chairman of Sharjah Industry Business Group, which functions under the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on Monday, reports WAM news agency.

The Golden Card is a 10-year long-term visa eligible for investors and entrepreneurs and aims to attract capital, investments, and owners of leading companies with international experts as well as professionals in all vital sectors of the national economy, researchers in scientific fields

nation under the key GSP trade programme from June 5 after determining that New Delhi has not assured the US that it will provide “equitable and reasonable access” to its markets.

The Generalized System of Preference (GSP) is the largest and oldest US trade preference programme and is designed to promote economic development by allowing duty-free entry for thousands of products from designated beneficiary countries. The Trump administration wants India to lower the trade barriers and embrace “fair and reciprocal” trade.

Last February, India slashed the customs duty on imported motorcycles like Harley-Davidson to 50 per cent after Trump called it “unfair” and threatened to increase the tariff on import of Indian bikes to the US. The government on June 21 last year decided to impose these duties in retaliation to the US decision of significantly hiking customs duties on certain steel and aluminium products.

and outstanding students, so as to engage them in the renaissance and development of the UAE. The cardholders are entitled to a host of privileges and facilities including a residency visa without a sponsor to them and their families (spouse and children).

They can also sponsor up to three workers and obtain a residency visa for one of his/her senior employees. Samuel thanked Sharjah’s Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs for its initiative, stressing its importance in supporting the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) investment sector, ensure family stability, and highlight the importance of cultural diversity, tolerance and acceptance of others within the UAE community.

Hong Kong, Jul 9 (IANS): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday declared that the highly controversial extradition bill that sparked several mass protests was “dead”, changing from an earlier claim that it “will die” in 2020.

However, whether the legislation, which would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to mainland China and other jurisdictions with which the city had no extradition agreement, was effectively withdrawn, as demanded by protesters, remained unclear, reports the South China Morning Post.

“There are still lingering doubts about the government’s sincerity or worries (about) whether the government will restart the process with the Legislative Council,” Lam said.

“So I reiterate here: there is no such plan. The bill is dead.”

She also announced an independent investigative committee to look into police actions during the protests that erupted in the city over the last month, as well as the establishment of a platform for dialogue with those opposing the law, Efe news reported.

“I will publish the result of this report to let everybody know what happened over the last month, and all the people involved in activities last month -

Carrie Lam (File) police officers or protesters - can submit materials to this independent investigate committee,” she said.

The Chief Executive assumed full responsibility for the crisis but did not give in to the protesters’ recent calls for her resignation.

Instead, she asked for an opportunity to bring Hong Kong back to normalcy.

Lam added that it was necessary to reduce the tension, and called for the participation of the entire society to restore calm in the city.

The leader also reached out to the youth, who have played an active role in the recent protests, and announced a platform for better dialogue with students as well as improved management of the universities.

“We need to hear from the younger generations, from different backgrounds, to know what they’re thinking,” she said.

The Chief Executive added that she was “willing

to engage in an open dialogue with students without any preconditions”.

Last week, a group of Hong Kong student leaders rejected Lam’s offer of a private meeting about the recent protests over the bill, which would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to mainland China and other jurisdictions with which the city had no extradition agreement, calling it “too little, too late”, according to the South China Morning Post.

The government’s offer came after hundreds of mostly young protesters stormed the city’s legislature on the night of July 1, writing slogans on the wall, defacing Hong Kong’s official emblem and smashing equipment, furniture and work areas.

Protesters have been urging the government to respond to other demands: withdraw the bill completely, retract all references to the protest on June 12 as a riot; set up a commission of inquiry to examine police use of force; and launch democratic reforms.

Lam admitted that the public’s trust in the government was fragile.

Tuesday marks exactly a month since the first mass protest against the bill brought an estimated 1 million people onto the streets on June 9, followed by about 2 million the following weekend.

Hunt, Johnson set for TV debate clash Johnson, is regarded as the clear front-runner in the race, having won the support of more than 50 per cent of Conservative MPs in the first phase of the contest, reports the BBC. Hunt has in recent days won the endorsements of Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson (File)

London, Jul 9 (IANS): Conservative leadership contenders, former London Mayor Boris Johnson and the UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Jeremy Hunt, will on Tuesday debate head-to-head for the first time in front of a live TV audience.

The hour-long debate, entitled “Britain’s Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate”, will be broadcast on ITV from 8 p.m. The show will be hosted by journalist Julie Etchingham in front of studio audience of 200 people at MediaCityUK, the BBC reported.

One of the two contenders will succeed Theresa May as the new Conservative leader and Prime Minister, with the winner due to be announced on July 23.

Hunt and Johnson have been participating in hustings across the UK but this is the first time they will share a stage. The two contenders will face questions from members of the public, including Conservative activists, on Brexit and other issues. The 160,000 or so Conservative members eligible to take part have already begun voting by post, after ballot papers started arriving at people’s homes on Friday. It will be the first time a sitting British Prime Minister has been chosen by party members.

Hunt had been pressing for the TV debate to take place earlier, warning that many people will have made up their minds before seeing the two men crossquestioned on live TV.

veteran Conservative leaders John Major and Willian Hague. Both men have said they would prefer to leave the European Union (EU) on October 31 with a negotiated deal but are willing to get out without an agreement if necessary.

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Born on : 3.02.1975 – Died on : 28-06-2019 We the bereaved family member of Late S. KHEZHETO TSUQU humbly convey our heartfelt gratitude to all individuals, neighbor, friends, churches, unions and well wishers who stood with us in prayer, physically, morally, mentally, financially and materially during his brief illness and sudden demise on 28th June 2019 at Naga Hospital Kohima.

Though we are not able to mention each and every individuals and organizations. It is our humble prayer that God Almighty bless all abundantly.

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“The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” Job 1:21 We the bereaved family members of our beloved Lt. Avizo Albert, son of Vilhoutuo Kuotsu would like to express our profound heartfelt gratitude and sincere thanks to all our relatives, churches, neighbors, friends, colleagues and well wishers who stood by us physically, morally, financially and spiritually during the sudden demise of Lt. Avizo Albert on 18.06.2019 We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone. It is our sincere prayer that our Almighty God blesses one and all abundantly.

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Our indebtness goes to: 1. New Reserve Christian Revival Church, Phesama, Kohima.

2. Union Christian Revival Church, Kipfüzha, Kigwema.

3. Union Christian Church, Kipfüzha, Kigwema.

4. Christian Revival Church, Kigwema Village.

5. Union Christian Revival Church, Dairy Farm, New Reserve, Phesama.

6. Japfüphiki Christian Revival Church, Women Association.

7. Kigwema Kewhira Kebapfü Krotho, Kohima.

8. New Life Church, Kohima.

9. PWD Prayer Fellowship, Kohima.

10. Doctors and Nursing Staff of Bethel Hospital, Kohima.

11. New Reserve Police Project Colony, Phesama, Kohima.

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Not bothered by social Ryan Reynolds joins Dwayne Johnson Rapper Honey Singh media trolls: Sunny Leone and Gal Gadot in ‘Red Notice’ thriller booked for lewd lyrics P unjab Police have booked rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh and producer Bhushan Kumar over lewd lyrics in the singer’s new song, “Makhna”, an official said on Tuesday.

The duo was booked, among others, under Sections 294 (punishment for obscene act or words in public) and 509 (words, gestures intended to insult woman) of the Indian Penal Code at a Mohali police station near here on Monday evening.

Senior Superintendent of Police Harcharan Bhullar told reporters that they were booked on a letter by the Punjab State Women Commission, asking the police to look into the contents of the rap number “Makhna”, which has garnered over 200 million views on YouTube since release last year.

“The contents are objectionable,” said Bhullar,

Instagram to let you restrict bullies without notifying them

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o curb online bullying, Facebook-owned Instagram has announced a unique feature where a user can “shadow ban” or “restrict” a bully from commenting on his or her posts.

Once you “restrict” someone, comments on your posts from that person will only be visible to that person. You can choose to make a restricted person’s comments visible to others by approving their comments.

“We’ve heard from young people in our community that they’re reluctant to block, unfollow, or report their bully because it could escalate the situation, especially if they interact with their bully in real life,” Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, announced late Monday. “We wanted to create a feature that allows people to control their Instagram experience, without notifying someone who may be targeting them”.

In this upcoming feature, “restricted” people won’t be able to see when you’re active on Instagram or when you’ve read their direct messages. Instagram is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to detect bullying and other types of harmful content in comments, photos and videos.

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adding they would be summoned soon.

Taking a suo moto cognizance, Punjab State Wo m e n C o m m i s s i o n Chairperson Manisha Gulati had said she had written to the Director General of Police to register a criminal case against the singer for using lyrics like “Mein hoon womaniser (I am a womaniser)”.

“A legal action and

an inquiry is required to be initiated by the police on the matter as the song readied

by T-series chairman Bhushan Kumar and singers Honey Singh and Neha Kakkar uses vulgar words against women,” she had said in a communique.

Demanding a ban on the song, she said it was “indecent and have a degrading influence on society”.

The rapper in 2013 was involved in a controversy over the lyrics of his song “Main hoon balatkari (I am a rapist)”.

Even the Punjab and Haryana High Court had ordered the Punjab government to file a case against Honey Singh for singing vulgar songs.

It had also said singers like Honey Singh should be boycotted, as “his songs make us hang our heads in shame”.

(IANS)

Country singer says visit from Jesus on her porch changed her life

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ountry singer Jo Dee Messina said she got a visit from Jesus on her front porch before hitting “an all-time low,” which inspired her to add a new faith-based song to her shows.

The 48-year-old single mother of Noah, 10, and Jonah, 7, was diagnosed with cancer in 2017. She said her battle is ongoing but her faith hasn’t wavered -- and it goes back to an encounter she said happened five years ago.

“Jesus Christ walked onto my front porch and argued with me all day long. As real as I’m sitting in this seat, Jesus came to my front porch and He’s like, ‘She’s mine,’” she told PopCulture and other media.

Messina added: “I was trying to sustain a career. I had a lifestyle and a family and everything, all on my own, and I couldn’t do it.

I couldn’t. I was pulled way too thin and so, I was just standing on my porch one day, and Jesus Christ walked out and said, ‘She’s mine.’ I just knew it, in the middle of that, in the middle of my spirit and my soul, I’m like, ‘That’s Jesus.’”

She heard Cory Asbur y’s song “Reckless Love,” which he released

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ctress Sunny Leone who has immense fan following on social media platforms has said she does not get bothered by the trolls.

Sunny said this on Monday while interacting with the media during the launch of her own lingerie brand ‘Infamous’ at the India Licensing Expo 2019 here.

Asked whether she feels bad when people troll her due to her dressing sense, she said: “I feel being a celebrity, we get trolled every day but I don’t necessarily get bothered by trolls. I wear clothes of my own choice. When I feel like wearing T-shirt and jeans or a sweatshirt, I wear it so, I

Pearl Jam, RHCP, Foo Fighters members get together for Superjam

A through Bethel Music early last year. Messina did a cover of the song in a country style.

“I spent my entire career, my entire life glorifying myself. It’s time for him. He gets the glory from this point on,” she added. “When you are going through a hard time in your family situation and you are diagnosed with cancer, and you don’t know what’s going to lie around that corner, and you have the arms of Jesus there, holding you. You never want to walk away from it.”

She was recently invited to get back onstage for the CMA Fest, which filled her with gratitude.

“To be able to stand out there,” she said, “and sing a few songs, and tell them, and not leave the stage without saying, ‘And tell you what, God loves you more than you can even imagine. That’s the greatest gift of all.’”

(FoxNews)

ccording to The Pulse Of Radio, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready hosted the first-ever “Peak To Sky” music festival in Big Sky, Montana over the weekend (July 6 and July 7), a twoday event featuring performances from McCready’s visual and arts project Infinite Color & Sound, Brandi Carlile and others.

The festivities were capped with an all-star super jam consisting of McCready, Carlile, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) drummer Chad Smith and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Among the songs the supergroup performed were Led Zeppelin’s “Moby Dick”, “Good Times, Bad Times” and “Dazed And Confused”, Van Halen’s “Eruption”, Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion”, Prince’s “Pur ple Rain”, David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure”, Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream” and “Ziggy Stardust”, plus others.

Foo Fighters are doing scattered live dates throughout the summer, while both Pearl Jam and the Chili Peppers are off the road and reportedly working on new albums.

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wear what makes feel good at that moment.”

Talking about her upcoming film projects, Sunny said: “I am part of ‘Arjun Patiala’ and also doing a film called ‘Coca Cola’ which would be hopefully released this year.”

Asked if she is keen to produce a film in Bollywood, she said: “Yes... now, we have a good story and we have set up our production team so, once we will finalise the dates, we will start shooting the film.”

Sunny had earlier launched her cosmetic brand ‘StarStruck by Sunny Leone’ and now, she has come up with a lingerie brand ‘Infamous’.

Asked how she sees herself as a businesswoman, she said: “I like to think that I am very good but my husband (Daniel Weber) is better. I feel both of us do very different kind of things for our business but we do it to attain same goals. Our outcome and goals are always the same so, I like to think that I am a pretty good businesswoman.”

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ed Notice, the previously announced heist movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot, has a new home and addition to its cast: Netflix has snatched ownership of the movie, and Ryan Reynolds has signed on.

The film was originally under the banner of Universal Pictures, which had purchased the rights after a reportedly heated bidding war. Yesterday, the studio announced it had dropped the film, Deadline reports.

And Netflix – which had emerged runner-up in the bidding – took the movie under its wing, chalking up

another point against the big Hollywood studios.

When Red Notice was announced, it was touted as Johnson’s first $20 million payday. He will star as an Interpol agent tasked with hunting down the world’s most wanted art thief. The film will reunite Johnson with writer and director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who directed him in 2018’s Skyscraper and 2016’s Central Intelligence.

“This is big and exciting,” Johnson wrote on Twitter of the film’s move to Netflix, highlighting how the streaming service would help turn Red Notice into

“a true global event movie watched and enjoyed by the world – at the exact same time.”

Red Notice will be both Johnson and Gadot’s first big project with Netflix.

Johnson previously starred in Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, which is slated to premiere on the streaming service later this year.

Under Universal, Red Notice was slated to premiere on November 13, 2020. Deadline reports that the film – which takes place in multiple countries – will now begin production in 2020.

(NME)

India will attempt to go to the Moon next week

ndia's space agency is preparing to launch its ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission next week which is set to land near the currently unexplored south pole of the moon.

Chandrayaan-2 will blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota on the country's south west coast at 2.51am (10.21pm BST) on July 15.

It is the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) second lunar probe, and the first one destined to land on the moon, and is scheduled to land on September 6.

India will become only the fourth country, after the US, Russia and China, to reach Earth's satellite if successful.

The ISRO has said it chose to explore the south pole as it is possible there is water in the permanently shadowed areas, which could pave the way for future lunar habitation.

It also hopes to examine the inside of craters which are cold traps - to get a greater understanding of the evolution of the moon.

These areas have stayed extremely cold for huge amounts of time and scientists believe it is likely they contain a fossil record of the early solar system.

Chandrayaan-2 has three modules, an Orbiter,

a Lander called Vikram, and a Rover called Pragyan, which means 'wisdom' in Sanskrit.

Vikram, named after Dr Vikram A Sarabhai, the father of the Indian Space Programme, should land on a high plain between two craters, Manzinus C and Simpelius N, which are around 70° south.

From there, the sixwheeled robotic vehicle Pragyan will roll out and spend one lunar day, or a fortnight on Earth, carrying out scientific experiments on the surface.

ISRO hope topographical studies, mineralogical analyses and other experiments will help the world gain a better understanding of the moon's origins.

Using solar energy to power itself, Pragyan will be able to communicate with the Lander, which in turn can send information to both the Indian Deep

Space Network in Byalalu and the Orbiter.

The Orbiter will spend a year circulating the moon at a distance of 62miles (100km) from the surface.

Explaining the reasoning behind choosing to explore the south pole, the

ISRO said on its website: 'The lunar South Pole is especially interesting because of the lunar surface area here that remains in shadow is much larger than that at the North Pole.

'There is a possibility of the presence of water in permanently shadowed areas around it.

'In addition, South Pole region has craters that are cold traps and contain a fossil record of the early Solar System.'

The countr y's first mission, Chandrayaan-1, launched in 2008 and was terminated a year early after scientists lost contact with the unmanned orbiting spacecraft.

(Mailonline)

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CGY conducts 5th cultural and literary competition

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hümoukedima G o r k h a Yo u t h (CGY) organised its 5th cultural and literary competition for the Gorkha students of Chümoukedima on July 7 at St Gabriel School Chümoukedima ward-5. The completion was organised on account of 205th Bhanu Jayanti celebration 2019 which is going to be held on July 13 at CTC hall Chümoukedima.

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President CGY Manoj Shrestha in his brief address encouraged the students to inculcate the habit of writing and to participate actively in literary and art works to enhance one’s skill in various areas.

During the day, various competitions on poetry reading, singing competition, painting, dance, eating competition, quiz, extempore speech, photography and debate were conducted.

The programme was chaired by general secretary CGY, Tara Chettri, welcome note was addressed by cultural secretary CGY, Reema Chettri. Chümoukedima Gorkha Union president, advisor, general secretary and office bearers also attended the programme.

Altogether 57 Gorkha students took part in the events and competitions respectively.

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Deuel Khual, a prominent classical guitarist and a senior music teacher at Mountain Music Academy released his debut classical guitar solo album, ‘Rays of Hope’ at the Mountain Music Academy Performance Hall, Dimapur.

The video album has 7 tracks and it is a blend of his compositions as well as transcriptions of various songs for the classical guitar.

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Serena through to semi-finals

Serena Williams returns the ball to Alison Riske during their quarterfinal match on day eight of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. (AP/PTI)

London, Jul 9 (Agencies): Serena Williams won a thrilling encounter against fellow American Alison Riske to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals on Tuesday and take a step closer to a record-equalling 24th grand slam title.

In a battling performance from start to finish, Williams mounted a fightback to win the first set, lost a tight second, and edged a topsy-turvy third to clinch a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory on Centre Court.

Former world No 1 Simona Halep recovered from a slow start to beat Zhang Shuai 7-6, 6-1 and reach her second Wimbledon final on Tuesday.

Much like her fourth

round match against 15year-old Coco Gauff on Monday, Halep initially struggled and looked in real danger when 4-1 down and facing more break points in the opening set. However, the Romanian dug in to see off the threat then played her usual percentage tennis as Zhang lost her way.

“I fought hard in the first set, even if I knew I was 4-1 and she was hitting hard, I knew she would hit with a lot of power. I knew I would have to play aggressively and I did it great,” 2018 French Open champion Halep said.

“I have energy, I feel fresh and confident and I am perhaps playing my best tennis on grass.”

Federer cruises into quarter-finals

Roger Federer reached a record-extending 17th Wimbledon quarter-final with a comprehensive 6-1 6-2 6-2 win over Italian Matteo Berrettini.

In truth, a match that on paper looked as if it might provide his first big test of the tournament as he chases a ninth title was a no-contest as his 23year-old Italian opponent self-destructed on Centre Court.

From the moment Federer broke in the fourth game with a silky smooth smash, any tactical plan a dazed Berrettini took on court with him unravelled

Weightlifting C’ship: Mirabai wins gold

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Apia, Jul 9 (PTI): Former world champion Mirabai Chanu led the Indian medal rush by notching up a gold on the opening day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship here on Tuesday.

The Indian contingent won 13 medals that included eight gold, three silver and two bronze medals in senior, junior and youth categories.

Mirabai lifted a total of 191kg (84kg + 107 kg)

in the senior women’s 49 kg event to win the gold medal in the Olympic qualifying event, the points from which will come in handy for the final rankings of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Mirabai last took part at the Asian Championship in Ningbo, China in April where she lifted 199kg (86kg+113kg) to miss out on a medal by a whisker.

The qualification process for the 2020 Olympics is based on the performanc-

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We, the bereaved family of Late Mrs. KIKALA PETER (PILLAI) would like to express our profound gratitude to all the relatives, friends, neighbours and well-wishers who rendered us through spiritual, physical and financial support during her prolonged illness and demise on 27 th June, 2019.

We would also like to convey our special thanks to Dimapur Molungyimsen Senso Union, Chairman, Lakeview Colony and Youths of Lakeview Colony.

Born on 08-08-1939 Died on 27-06-2019 We regret our inability to thank each and every one personally but humbly pray to Almighty God to bless you all abundantly.

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es of the weightlifters in six events over a period of 18 months out of which the four best results logged by a lifter will be considered.

Jhilli Dalabehra also clinched the first place on the podium with a lift of 154kg (70kg+94kg) in the senior women’s 45 kg event which is not an Olympic weight category.

In the senior women’s 55kg, Soroikhaibam Bindyarani Devi and Matsa Santoshi won the gold and silver medals respectively.

Bindyarani lifted 78 kg in snatch to bag the silver medal. Her effort of 105 kg fetched her a gold medal in clean and jerk as well as the overall gold.

Santoshi stood first in snatch with a lift of 80kg but could only manage 102kg in clean and jerk taking her total to 182kg.

In the senior men’s 55kg category, Rishikanta Singh grabbed the gold with a total lift of 235kg (105kg+130kg).

in spectacular fashion.

After losing the first two sets, Berrettini disappeared off-court - presumably to try and locate a panic room somewhere in the All England Club.

When he retur ned Berrettini found even more unusual ways to gift points to eight-time champion Federer, notably when he dribbled a dreadful attempt at a drop-volley into the net with Federer out of position behind the baseline.

Even the 37-year-old Swiss, anxious to save energy and get off court quickly as dark clouds gathered, looked aghast, shaking his head at the ineptitude of his opponent’s error.

It was a shame for Berrettini, who was hoping to become only the fifth Italian to reach the quarter-finals here, as he is clearly a much better player than this performance suggested.

There was sympathetic applause from the crowd when he did connect properly, but Federer was having none of it as a sweet volley put Berrettini out of his misery in one hour 14 minutes.

Second seed Federer will face eighth-seeded Japanese Kei Nishikori for a place in the semi-finals.

Rhodes’ tenure as Bangladesh coach ends

London, Jul 9 (IANS): Bangladesh coach Steve Rhodes’ tenure has come to a premature end following the team’s eighth-place finish at the ongoing World Cup in England and Wales.

“The board had a review following the Pakistan match (Bangladesh’s last at the World Cup) in a meeting in London,” Bangladesh Cricket Board CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury told ESPNcricinfo. “There it was decided that the BCB and Steve Rhodes will not continue on their agreement. The separation was by mutual consent.

“The BCB has not yet decided on a new coach for the Sri Lanka series, which is their next assignment,” he added.

Rhodes, who had taken charge in July 2018, had a two-year contract with the Bangladesh Cricket Board and was supposed to be in the role till the 2020 T20 World Cup.

Allen, Pooran handed West Indies contracts

St. J o h n ’ s, J u l 9 (IANS): Fabian Allen, Nicholas Pooran and Oshane Thomas have been handed central contracts by the West Indies Cricket for 2019-20 season. Pooran, Allen and Thomas were all part of the World Cup squad where West Indies finished at the ninth spot.

The CWI contracts for male cricketers are divided into all-format, red-ball and white-ball contracts.

Opening batsman John Campbell, who made his Test debut against England earlier this year, has also been handed his first contract in the red-ball category.

The number of all-format contracts on the men’s side has now increased from four to seven with Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer and Keemo Paul joining those in the Test and ODI formats, captain Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph and Kemar Roach on the list.

A total of 15 women - an increase of three have also earned central contracts to run for the same period, including veteran all-rounder Stacy-Ann King, fellow lefthander Kycia Knight and newcomers Shabika Gajnabi, Shawnisha Hector, Chinelle Henry, Natasha McLean and Karishma Ramharack.

Kohima Inter-School Football Tournament

St. Mary’s CHSS, DBHSS enter last-8

Players of St. Mary’s Cathedral HSS (black and yellow) and Chandmari HSS in action during their pre-quarterfinal match at IG Stadium, Kohima on Tuesday. (NP) Correspondent

Kohima, Jul 9 (NPN): St. Mary’s Cathedral Higher Secondary School and Don Bosco Higher Secondary School have entered the quarterfinal round of the 3rd Kohima District Inter-School Football Tournament 2019 played at IG Stadium, Kohima on Tuesday.

In the first match, St. Mary’s Cathedral Higher Secondary School defeated Chandmari Higher Secondary School 2-0.

Chandmari team got off a better start and dominate the game with counter attacks but failed to break the deadlock in the first half.

St. Mary’s captain Jigme scored in the 57th minute and in the injury

time, Viva struck the winning goal (61 minute) to hand St. Mary’s Cathedral Higher Secondary School the win.

St. Mary’s Cathedral Higher Secondary School will now play against Mount Carmel HSS in the quarterfinal match on July 11.

M e a n w h i l e, D o n Bosco Higher Secondary School overcame Christ King Higher Secondary School vie tie-breaker 4-2 after the match ended 1-1.

During the match, Don Bosco HSS opened the scoring in the 23rd minute through Khriesizo.

Four minutes later, Mhaphruolhou Sekhose got the equaliser for Christ King HSS to end the first half 1-1.

In second half, both

teams failed to break the deadlock. Even at the additional time of 15 minutes, the match was evenly contested and remained 1-1 draw.

Hardluck for Christ King HSS who defeated defending champions Loyola School in their first match of the tournament as the penalty shootout went in favour of Don Bosco HSS and knocked the team out of the tournament.

Don Bosco HSS will now play against Minister’s Hill Baptist HSS in the quarterfinals round of the tournament on July 11.

Today’s fixture 1st quarter final: 1:00 pm GHSS vs John GHSS Viswema 2nd 2uarter final: 2:40 pm Rüzhükhrie GHSS Vs Baptist High Kohima

Australia will find it difficult to beat Eng: Root Birmingham, Jul 9 (IANS): England’s Joe Root is feeling confident that both recent and distant history have the tournament hosts ready for revenge in the rematch against Australia in the second semi-final of the ongoing World Cup. England were downed in convincing fashion by their fiercest rivals at Lord’s last month and looked in serious danger of missing out on the semi-finals at their home tournament.

However, back-to-back wins over India and New Zealand turned the tables and have put England in world on a collision course with Australia at Edgbaston in the second semi-final on Thursday.

Joe Root

England have lost their last two clashes with Australia including a warm-up game before the World Cup began, but before that Root and co had the edge with a series win Down Under and a 5-0 whitewash on home soil.

“If you look at the past 11 games against them we have won nine,” Root was

quoted as saying by the ICC. “These guys and this group over the last four years, their experience against Australia have been very positive and they have got a lot of success in the bank. I don’t see that as a big worry for this group, we will be drawing on that confidence that over a long period of time now we have been successful against Australia and we should take that into Thursday.”

Add to that the fact that England have found their best form - with Jason Roy back firing fit at the top of the order - and the mood is clearly buoyant.

“I feel we are in a good place coming into it, I feel

like the last two days have almost been like knockout cricket for us. We have been playing in a high-pressure environment for a while now and hopefully that will hold us in good stead going into this game.”

“It doesn’t matter (who are the favourites). It comes down to who plays their best cricket on the day. If we play in the manner we have the last two games, we will be a very difficult side to play against.” “You can look at form, statistically who is stronger, but it all comes down to who handles the day better, who plays the stronger cricket for the longest period and who will stand up and be victorious at the end of it,” Root added.

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY of Late S. Alem (Waromung)

IN REMEMBRANCE

OF OUR BELOVED OKHARO LT. ROSY C HUMTSOE ON HER 10th DEATH ANNIVERSARY 10-07-2009 We’re missing you a little more Each time we hear your name, We’ve cried so many tears Yet our hearts' broken just the same.

We miss our times together Things in common we could share, But nothing fills the emptiness Now you’re no longer there.

We’ve so many precious memories To last our whole lives through Each one of them reminders Of how much we’re missing you With Love

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Dad, Mom, Brother, Sisters and In-Laws

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY of our beloved Father Lt. Khusheto Kits

“Absent from the body Present with the Lord”

10-07-2018

An eternal memory Until we meet again.

Ipu!

Remembering you is easy, we do it everyday.

Missing you is the heartache that never goes away.

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Loving wife & children

In Loving Memory of our Aba It has been a year since you left us and it still breaks our hearts to think that you are not here with us anymore. But your legacy of wisdom, guidance, integrity, love and courage will remain pristine forever in our hearts.

If death could be beseeched, we would have beseeched death not to take you away from us but death took you away, our unsung hero.

Your demise will always remain a blurry memory but your life will always remain fresh and vivid one, the epitome of greatness and sacrifice.

Aba, Thank you for being a Great Father to us and your memories are alive in the core of our hearts.

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India-NZ match to resume today

India players make their way off the field as the Umpires look on due to a rain delay during the ICC World Cup semi-final match between India and New Zealand.

Manchester, Jul 9 (PTI): The notorious Manchester weather pushed the first semifinal of the World Cup to the reserve day after dominant Indian bowlers excelled yet again to restrict New Zealand to a sub-par 211 for five, here Tuesday.

Rain forced players off the field after 46.1 overs and as per ICC’s playing conditions, the game will resume on Wednesday from where it stopped.

Despite half-centuries from skipper Kane Williamson (67 off 95 balls) and veteran Ross Taylor (67 not out off 85 balls), the Black Caps could not force the pace against tournament’s best bowling attack.

By the time when the covers were off at 10pm IST, the outfield had too much water and there was

no way match could have started.

However the day belonged to the Indian bowlers as skipper Virat Kohli found out that it was a good toss to lose.

After a brilliant start

by Jasprit Bumrah (1/25 in 8 overs) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/30 in 8.1 overs), Ravindra Jadeja (1/38 off 10 overs) and Hardik Pandya (1/55 in 10 overs) did well in the middle overs to keep the opposition under check.

If the first Powerplay was witness to fine exhibition of swing bowling under overcast conditions, the middle overs had Pandya using the newly-laid twopaced pitch to good effect, bringing the slow bouncer to the fore.

That was one delivery that Taylor initially found

difficult to get away as the dot ball count increased with each over.

Martin Guptill (1) looked like a ‘walking wicket’ and Bumrah relieved him off his misery with a delivery that kicked up from three quarter length, forcing him to push at it.

Kohli at second slip made no mistake with a sharp chance.

Williamson looked compact in his defence along with the edgy Henry Nicholls (28 off 51 balls) during their 68-run second wicket stand.

Such was the impact of the first spell bowled by Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar that the Black Caps innings never gained the momentum.

But credit should also be given to Jadeja and Hardik for keeping the Ki-

wis under a tight leash.

Jadeja vindicated his skipper’s decision with tight wicket-to wicket bowling and the odd one that turned created problems for Nicholls. He had 38 dots to his credit by the time he ended the spell.

Williamson, who was getting into some sort of rhythm however couldn’t capitalise as Taylor got stuck playing one dot ball after another.

In fact, during the crucial second Powerplay, New Zealand managed only 65 runs in 17 overs as Chahal got decent turn off his leg-breaks.

The New Zealand captain, who was hitting a few slog sweeps against the turn was getting impatient having reached 50 off 79 balls.

Williamson paid the price by gifting his wicket to the leg-spinner when his team needed him the most.

Tay l o r u p p e d t h e ante in the final overs with three boundaries and a six but it looks unlikely to be enough.

A fresh day will certainly be advantageous for India as it will be a continuation and not a restart.

Any advantage earned on the scheduled day will be carried through to the reserve day. Super over will determine the winner, if it’s a tied match.

If the match doesn’t happen on Wednesday, then India will progress to the final by virtue of finishing on top of the league table.

Brief scores: New Zealand: 211/5 in 46.1 overs (Ross Taylor 67*, Kane Williamson 67; Ravindra Jadeja 1/34)

AIFF recommends ISL for AFC CL slot

New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI): The All India Football Federation Tuesday decided to recommend the winners of Indian Super League to play in the AFC Champions League qualifiers, virtually according ISL the status of the country’s top tier competition.

The executive committee of the AIFF, which met here, will recommend the Asian Football Confederation to “positively” consider its request to grant ISL’s winning team the ACL qualifier slot.

The winning team of the I-League, the official top tier competition till date, has so far been playing in the qualifying round of the ACL -- Asia’s top tier club competition. I-League 2017-18 champions Minerva Punjab FC played in the ACL qualifying round this year.

Normally, the slots of continental top-tier competition across the world are given to the clubs playing in the national top division leagues.

Under the ‘Entry Manual for AFC Club Competitions for 20172020’, the ACL slots are distributed among teams of the member countries of Asia which plays in their respective national top division league.

The ACL slot has been the bone of contention between the AIFF and six I-League clubs -- Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, Minerva Punjab, Churchill Brothers, Aizwal FC and Gokulam Kerala -- which had said that giving ISL winners the ACL slot will demote the I-League to second tier competition.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur wednesDAY, july 10, 2019

Naga girls to take part in Gothai Cup

Nagaland U-15 girls football team along with advisor for Er. Zale Neikha, advisor, Youth Resources and Sports, coaches and others at IG Stadium, Kohima on Tuesday. (NP) Correspondent

Kohima, Jul 9 (NPN): The Nagaland U-15 girls football team under the banner ‘Sports Club Nagaland’ will take part at the international tournament ‘Gothai Cup’ from July 14 in Sweden. In this regard, a brief send off programme was held at IG Stadium, Kohima on Tuesday afternoon.

A total of 21 members including 14 budding footballers led by Imli Meren Jamir as the team captain, Advisor for Youth Resources and Sports, Er. Zale Neikha and two team coaches – FIFA Grade-A coach Sebastian Rasmussen and state coach Ruopfuo Meyase and other officials will be leaving on July 10 from Dimapur to Delhi for onward journey to Sweden.

It may be mentioned here that Gothai Cup is the world’s largest International Youth Football Tournament and it will be held from July 14 to 20 at Gothenburg, Sweden.

Besides taking part in the tournament, the Nagaland team will also be representing India in the parade of nations during the opening ceremony.

Speaking to media persons, Zale Neikha, advisor, Youth Resources and Sports said representing India in an international tournament is no less an achievement and also once in a lifetime opportunity.

The advisor hoped that Nagaland team will be able to compete professionally at the highest level with other teams and show the rest of the world their talent as a sportsperson and also the uniqueness

of our Naga identity and culture during the opening ceremony.

He also expressed hope that participating at the Gothia Cup will motivate and inspire other budding sportspersons to excel and become professionals at the national and international level.

Mentioned be made that Department of Youth Resources and Sports has taken the initiative to send a team to the international tournament to help the players gain exposure and also as part of the year long centenary celebration of legendary Naga footballer Dr T Ao. The department in collaboration with Soccer Competition had been conducting football training session for four months at IG Stadium to compete at the international event.

Leicester seal £40m Tielemans deal London, Jul 9 (Agencies): Leicester City have confirmed the signing of midfielder Youri Tielemans from Monaco for a club-record £40m on a four-year deal. Tielemans spent the second half of last season on loan at the King Power Stadium, making 13 appearances, scoring three goals and adding four assists.

His performances alerted a number of other top clubs, in the Premier League and Europe, but Leicester City have worked hard to secure him on a permanent deal with Rodgers making him his top transfer target.

It was earlier reported that Tielemans had made it clear Leicester was

his preferred destination, even though it was suggested Manchester United might come in for him if Paul Pogba left Old Trafford this summer.

The 22-year-old is Brendan Rodgers’ third signing of the summer following full-back James Justin’s arrival from Luton and Ayoze Perez joining from Newcastle for £30m.

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