July 18, 2019

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Vol XXIX No. 221

DIMAPUR, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019 Pages 12 ` 5.00

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SC ruling defangs whip in K’taka

BENGALURU, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave 15 dissident MLAs of Karnataka complete freedom to opt out of the ongoing Assembly session even as it acknowledged the Speaker’s discretion to decide on their resignations as and when he considers appropriate In its interim order on Wednesday, the bench led by the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi observed that the 15 rebel MLAs cannot be compelled to participate in Assembly proceedings despite a whip order being issued by the Congress and JD(S). This allows the dissident legislators to skip the crucial trust vote on Thursday. The court verdict was interpreted in political circles as a relief for the rebel lawmakers, as it categorically said an option should be given to them as to whether they wanted to take part or stay out of the assembly proceedings.

The ruling coalition had held out the threat of using the Whip against the wayward MLAs, citing the disqualification provision under the anti-defection law.

Armed with the court or-

JCPI to support RIIN exercise DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Joint Committee on Prevention of Illegal Immigration (JCPI) has resolved to support the ongoing exercise of Registration of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) in the state, stating that RIIN was indispensable to effectively enforce the new system of ILP. In a press note, JCPI convenor K Ghokheto Chophy and secretary Tia Longchar stated that the resolution was unanimously adopted at a meeting with the apex Naga tribal hohos of Nagaland on July 16, 2019 at Hotel Japfu, where nine out of 14 tribes attended the meeting. JCPI stated that three tribes of ENPO have, however, expressed their desire to take collective final decision with ENPO. JCPI said the house also reaffirmed the earlier resolution and urge government to notify extension of BEFR, 1873 to cover the entire administrative jurisdiction of the state including Dimapur immediately. The house noted that establishment of real time RIIN, to identify the status of the stakeholders under various categories and to rectify the past anomalies with authentic statistics, was essential for implementation of government programme and policies in the state.

Kumaraswamy leaves Vidhana Soudha after meeting with Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar, Wednesday. (PTI)

der, the rebel Congress-JDS MLAs camping in Mumbai said there was no question of stepping back on their resignations or attending the session.

“We are happy with the decision of the Honourable Supreme Court, we honour it,” rebel Congress MLA B C Patil said in a video released to the media, further receding the hopes of the ruling coalition to win them back to their fold. Flanked by 11 other Congress-JD(S) MLAs who have quit, Patil

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DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Nagaland and Manipur Governor, P.B. Acharya met Union Home minister Amit Shah and his deputy G Kishan Reddy, who is in charge of Northeast, separately in New Delhi on July 15.

According to PRO to governor, Acharya apprised Shah on the difficulties faced by people living in border areas due to lack of development. He said public private partnership (PPP) projects should be started in these areas for the benefit of the people.

Acharya also informed Shah about his recent meeting with vendors and other service providers during an interactive meet held at Raj Bhavan in Kohima. He said Food Security Act should be implemented for the benefit of targeted group.

At the metting with Reddy, Acharya the minister that people of the State were eagerly waiting and were hoping for an early honourable and respectable solution to the over six-decades-old Naga issue. He expressed the hope that a permanent solution would be achieved at the earliest.

Consultative meet gives thumbs up to RIIN

Rio addresing the consultative meet, Wednesday. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): The consultative meeting of civil society organisations (CSOs), tribal hohos, NGOs, senior citizens and legislators with State government representatives held at the State Banquet Hall, Kohima on Wednesday unanimously resolved to support and extend cooperation to the State government in implementation of the proposed Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN).

According to a government statement, the meet-

ing also resolved that the process of enumeration for implementing RIIN would be carried out only after consultations with all stake holders and after the final modalities/guidelines were agreed upon.

Chaired by chief secretary Temjen Toy, the meeting was attended by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and his cabinet colleagues, speaker, deputy Speaker, deputy chief minister Y Patton and members of Nagaland Legislative Assembly, senior state government officials and office bearers and representatives of Angami Public Organisation, Ao Senden, Chakhesang Public Organisation, Chang Kulei Setsang, Konyak Union, Khiamniungan Tribal Council, Lotha Hoho, Phom People Council, Pochury Hoho, Rengma Hoho, Sumi Hoho, Western Sumi Hoho, United Sangtam Likhum Pumji, Yimchunger Tribal Council, Zeliang People’s Council,

Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation, Nagaland Tribes Council, Central Nagaland Tribes Council, Naga Mothers’ Association, Eastern Nagaland Women’s Organisation, Naga Students’ Federation, Eastern Naga Students’ Federation, Nagaland GBs’ Federation, Naga Council Dimapur, Joint Committee on Prevention of Illegal Immigrants and Senior Citizens Association of Nagaland.

After the introductory remarks by Patton, Rio called upon all tribal hohos and CSOs to cooperate with the government in this endeavour.

He said the government alone would not be able to carry out the task and thus urged all concerned to be part of this exercise by way of engaging themselves with the common people at the grassroots level.

And as suggested by the tribal hohos and CSOs, the chief minister said the

government would also reconsider the timeframe and work out the modalities with the help of the stakeholders.

In the meeting, the tribal hohos and CSOs were given an opportunity to express their thoughts and suggestions for effective implementation of RIIN, the statement claimed.

While all the tribal hohos and CSOs present endorsed the decision of the State Government for creation of RIIN and desired to support the initiative, they, however, asked the government to give sufficient time to have further discussions on the matter and suggested the necessity to work out clear and practical modalities while carrying out the RIIN exercise.

Naga Hoho and NSF failed to attend the meeting, while mediapersons were not allowed inside the State banquet hall, saying it was a closed-door meeting.

Rio to re-shuffle ministry soon Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUL 17 (NPN): As reported by Nagaland Post on June 8, chief minister Neiphiu Rio is all set to effect a minor reshuffle of his ministry soon.

According to source, pressure from ally, the BJP has triggered the move of the alliance which just completed one year in office.

It was also learnt that Rio held a thorough discussion with BJP national general secretar y Ram Madhav over the proposed re-shuffle of his cabinet. A list of ministers and their re-shuffled portfolios was also sent to Delhi to apprise the Central BJP leadership, sources said.

Meanwhile, sources informed Nagaland Post that deputy chief minister Y Patton, who is currently in charge of Home and National Highway, is likely to be given the charge of Road and Bridges department, which is held by Independent MLA, Tongpang Ozukum.

Also, Zhaleo Rio, who is younger brother of the chief minister, is likely to be relieved from the post of deputy speaker and assigned as adviser of Sericulture

and Excise departments, while newly elected member from 26 Aonglenden constituency Sharingain Longkumer may be given the post of deputy speaker, sources added.

Current PWD (R&B) minister Tongpang Ozukum is likely to be assigned Housing and Mechanical, while another BJP MLA Dr Longriniken is likely to be assigned Border Affairs and National Highway.

Incumbent Urban Development & Municipal Affairs minister Metsubo Jamir is likely to be given Rural Development portfolio, while Dr Nicky Kire is likely to be given the Urban & Municipal Affairs department.

PDA to last its full term: NDPP, BJP NDPP and BJP Wednesday asserted that People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) was a pre-poll “sacred coalition” and supported by the highest leadership of the country, and assured the people that the ruling coalition was based and founded on mutual trust and collective responsibility, and that both would ensure that the alliance

RIIN a means to address illegal migrant issue: Cong DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Underlining his party’s stand on RIIN, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president K Therie maintained that the issue of illegal migrants needed to be resolved sooner or later either by RIIN or other means and extended cooperation in this regard. In a statement, the NPCC chief stressed on the need for a clear census and identification was necessary for all political and economic programmes both for the nation and for the State.

In this regard, Therie said RIIN was meant to further authenticate census while Aadhar and electoral roll were to enable the State to apply ILP. Therie explained that the simple qualification for RIIN was that the name of a person or his/her name or his/her legitimate ancestor must be in the electoral list of December 5, 1963. He said this would impact upon those who don’t qualify for RIIN and would be subject to ILP and Article 371(A). Therie said bona fide citizens who fail to qualify RIIN would be required to give more explanation regarding their status and position. There said some remained critical of Article 371(A), because the state assembly had failed to make laws for effectively implementing Article 371(A) in letter and in spirit.

(Cont’d on p-7)

Govt to identify & deport illegal immigrants JYO alleges illegal collection by traffic police at land slide area

NEW DELHI, JUL 17(PTI): Centre will identify illegal immigrants staying in any part of the country and deport them as per international law, Home Minister Amit Shah said in Rajya (Cont’d on p-7) Sabha on Wednesday.

The minister was replying to a supplementary query by Samajwadi Party member Javed Ali Khan on whether the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be implemented in other states as well.

Currently, the NRC is being updated under the strict monitoring of the Supreme Court in Assam and July 31 has been set as a deadline for final publication of the registered data.

“It is a very good question. The NRC is part of the Assam Accord and was also “No. Our party is not in (BJP’s) election manifesto involved with these rebel based on which the governMLAs.They’ve come only ment came to power. The to relax.” government will identify ille-

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said, “we all are together and whatever decision we have taken....at any cost no question of going back (on resignations). We stand by our decision. No question of going to assembly.”

As the spotlight turned on the Supreme Court, a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the Speaker was free to decide on the resignations of the rebel MLAs within the timeframe decided by him.

The apex court was hearing the plea of 15 rebel

MLAs of Congress and JD(S), seeking a direction to the Speaker to accept their resignations from the Assembly.

Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar welcomed the Supreme Court decision, giving him freedom to decide on the resignations of rebel MLAs, and said he would conduct himself responsibly in accordance with the principles of the Constitution. The Speaker has, however, not given any indications about the time frame within which he would decide on the resignations.

As many as 16 MLAs -- 13 from the Congress and three from JD(S) -- have resigned, while independent MLAs R Shankar and H Nagesh have withdrawn their support to the coalition government, putting the coalition government in jitters.

Meanwhile Congress has pressed for disqualification of 13 MLAs, including independent R Shankar, who had merged his Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party with it. If the resignations of the 16 MLAs are accepted, the ruling coalition’s tally will plummet to 101, reducing the 13 month-old government to a minority.

Gov Acharya calls on Home minister Shah

gal immigrants living on every inch of the country’s soil and will deport them as per the international law,” Shah said in the Upper House.

Noting that the Centre has received many representations for extending the NRC deadline in Assam, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said a petition signed by about 25 lakh applicants submitted to the Centre and the President demanded extension to correct anomalies.

Since many genuine names have been left out and many bogus names are registered, the minister said, “So the government has requested the (Supreme) Court to extend the time for this purpose”.

“There will be some delay but the NRC will be implemented properly without any faults,” he said, asserting that the government’s intention is to ensure

no genuine citizen is left out of the NRC. To a query on number of Rohingya Muslims in India, Rai said, “We don’t have an accurate data. They are spread across the country. Some of them have gone back to Bangladesh. We will get the data soon.”

The government’s intention is to ensure no illegal immigrant is registered under the NRC. Foreigner tribunals have also been set up to curb illegal stay of foreigners in India, he added.

People in Assam are scrambling to prove their citizenship as part of an exercise to prepare a Supreme Court-ordered registry of citizens in the state. The list is due to be released on July 31.

Other states in the North East have launched similar exercises to identify people without Indian citizenship.

DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Jotsoma Youth Organisation (JYO) has alleged unauthorised collection of money by Kohima traffic police at landslide area (Kezhanu), Jotsoma and demanded that the district administration take necessary action against the traffic police personnel on duty.

In a complaint letter addressed to the deputy commissioner (DC) Kohima, JYO president Khrieto Peseyie and secretary Rokozhalie Gwirie claimed that Kohima traffic police personnel on the night of July 16, 2019 at around 6-7:30pm collected money from heavy vehicles to cross the landslide.

Claiming that the illegal activity was going on for the last two weeks, the JYO said traffic police were collecting Rs 100 up to Rs 2000 depending on the load capacity of the trucks. Further, JYO stated following report of heavy traffic jam along NH-29 on July 16 evening, youth volunteers led by its president rushed down to help regulate

the vehicles to cross its jurisdiction without hardship.

On verifying the cause of the jam, JYO said the volunteers caught a traffic police personnel collecting money from each trucks to cross the sinking area of the road. On further interrogation, JYO said the traffic police personnel admitted that they were collecting money just for “chai pani” expenditure.

In this regard, JYO wondered whether the collection by the Kohima traffic police personnel was authorised by the district administration? “If the collection is not authorised, we request you to take necessary action against the Traffic Police personnel on duty as their unauthorised and illegal activities had caused untold misery to the travellers,” JYO demanded. JYO expressed hope that action taken by the administration would be intimated to the organisation for better coordination to help the general public.

(Action taken agaisnt erring personnel, see on p-7)

completed its full five-year term unhindered.

In a joint statement, NDPP president and PDA c h a i r m a n C h i n g wa n g Konyak and BJP Nagaland president and PDA cochairman Temjen Imna Along declared that both the parties were prepared to face any hurdle in a united manner that was in the greater interest of citizens of Nagaland.

Claiming that the PDA was going from strength to strength and that cohesiveness and teamwork within the alliance continued to grow and improve, both the leaders also extended their appreciation and gratefulness to the people of Nagaland for their overwhelming support and assured all the citizens to continue to strive tirelessly for the welfare of the State.

They also sincerely appealed to all sections of people to come forward and participate in “our collective endeavour” of bringing progressive change.

The statement recalled that the alliance was formed between NDPP and BJP prior to the 2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election.

(Cont’d on p-7)

NPMSA temporarily suspends stir

DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Nagaland Planning Machinery Service Association (NPMSA) has resolved to temporarily suspend the agitation/pen-down strike with immediate effect.

In a letter to the state chief secretary, NPMSA president Imlikokba Longkumer stated that the strike has been suspended following government’s assurance that the ‘matter will be taken up at the earliest in the next Cabinet Meeting’ and ‘all steps will be taken to ensure that the service interests of the members are not put to a disadvantageous position’.

In the event of government’s failure to remove/expunge the post of OSD (Skill Development) from Schedule I & II of the Nagaland Planning Machinery Service Rules, 2019, in the next cabinet meeting, the association cautioned that it would be compelled to resume the agitation.

RIIN consultative meet 2.0 on Jul 20

DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Government of Nagaland has convened a consultative meeting on the exercise for creation of the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) with Garo Tribal Council Nagaland, Dimapur; Kachari Tribal Council Nagaland, Dimapur; Karbi Union, Nagaland, Dimapur and Kuki Inpi Nagaland, Dimapur at the Rhododendron Hall, Police Mess, Chumukedima, Dimapur on July 20, 2019 at 11 am. According to an official bulletin, the chief minister and the deputy chief minister would be present at the proposed meeting. Presidents of four tribal bodies have been requested to attend the meeting along with two representatives each.

Aghunato GBs resolve to back NH

DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Village chiefs (GBs) union of Aghunato area, erstwhile un-administered area under North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), who had consultations on prevailing Naga peace process vis-à-vis Naga tribal hohos “in pursuance of one goal one nation”, said they have resolved to support the Naga Hoho (NH).

In a press release, GBs union Aghunato area general secretary Kivito Awomi said the consultations deliberated at length that “Nagas are one and there cannot be different opinion in pursuance of common goal.” Therefore, the house unanimously resolved to support the NH to strengthen the peace process and to pursue the unity among the Naga community.

The union pointed out that the first “Indo-Naga” battle took place under Aghunato area (Aghushito sub-division) where “several villages were burnt down to ashes and so many precious lives have been lost...”

On the basis of this “historical record”, the union has appealed to all the tribal hohos to come together and stand unitedly to fight against the unseen forces that confronting Naga society today.

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DM Dashboard launched in Kohima NE at the heart of Act East Policy: Assam Gov

Chief secretary Nagaland, Temjen Toy launching the DM Dashboard on July 17. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: District Magistrate (DM) Dashboard for Nagaland was launched through video conferencing by chief secretary (CS), Temjen Toy at CS’s office on July 17.

According to DIPR report, Temjen, in his remark, said that a Nagaland DM dashboard is the second in the country to cover all the districts. He stated that the world was changing and this launching of online DM dashboard tool will help the DC in monitoring and analysing the performance of the districts. He mentioned that deputy commissioner being the chairman of many communities and organisations in

the district should keep tag and monitor the activities of various departments.

He also appealed to the DC to make full use of the DM dashboard, which will help them save lot of time and give them a clear picture of what is happening in the district.

Deputy director general and NIC Nagaland coordinator, NIC Hqr, New Delhi, Dr. Kishore Kumar in his opening remark stated that with the support of state government the NIC is able to extend connectivity to all the districts & government officials in Nagaland and implement the application.

He further appraised that

NIC team will give full support in providing technical support in implementing e-governance application in the state to strengthen digital India.

DMD is an online tool which will help the deputy commissioner/ district administration in monitoring and to analyze implementation of high priority government schemes, programmes and projects in the district. It has also been made available to the citizens to view and track all the performance of certain schemes like Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), MGNREGA

and Soil Health Card etc.

DMD currently has 14 Sectors, 17 departments and 53 projects onboard.

Out of which, few projects are centrally fed through online web services and the rest through offline mode.

Altogether, nine districts participated through video conferencing. This dashboard is designed, developed and hosted

by National Informatic Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, GoI. The contents on this website is published, managed and owned by the respective departments and can be accessed from anywhere anytime.

DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Assam Governor, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi said that the development of North East has to be viewed not just from a domestic perspective but also in the context of neighbourhood of India.

He said friendly partner countries essential to our vision for Northeast, can contribute substantially for a comprehensive development of NE, India and ASEAN as a whole. Addressing the seminar on “Natural Resources, Skill Manpower and Development of North East” at St. Joseph’s College(Autonomous), Jakhama on July 17, Prof.

Mukhi said Centre views the North East region as very vital for the development of the entire country and has put the region at the heart of Act East Policy In view of this, he said Bhutan and Bangladesh have already opened their Consulate offices in Guwahati and Singapore is in talks to open one.

With the proximity of NE to many ASEAN capitals, Prof. Mukhi said Centre was keen to start flights between Guwahati and ASEAN capitals with Thimpu, Singapore and

Governor of Assam, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi addressing the seminar St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Jakhama on 17th July, 2019.

Dhaka already connected to Guwahati. The government is also working to improve the motorable road link, the ASEAN trilateral highway connecting NE and ASEAN countries, he added.

Mukhi maintained that Nagaland had always occupied the nucleus of North East development agenda. He said the Civil Aviation Ministry approved two helicopter services to keep the state headquarters connected with the district headquarters and under the Union Budget, 2019-20, Rs. 500 crore was allocated

for rail, connecting Dimapur with Kohima.

To augment air services in Nagaland, he said three new routes were taken up in which Dimapur will be connected with Guwahati, Imphal and Dibrugarh and under UDAN scheme, construction of Greenfield Airport at Ciethu, Kohima was on the pipeline.

With the strategic geographical location of the State in the ambit of the Act East Policy, Prof.

Mukhi said Centre and the State government was planning, executing and

DMC conducts free health camp for animals 8 lakh liters water harvesting scheme inaugurated

DMC officials and others during the camp held on July 13.

DIMAPUR: A team of Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) veterinary and public health cell conducted a free antirabies vaccination-cumanimal health care camp

on July 13 at Imkonglenden Primary School, Dimapur, A press release from Imkonglenden Colony Council, Ura Villa Colony Council, Circuit House

Pfutseromi Students’ Union (PSU) cleaning and beautifying the NSF monolith stone area on at Pfutsero on July 13. (PSU president Vibi Mero)

Colony Council stated that around 150 dogs were vaccinated during the camp.

Besides, the vaccination, medicines and treatment was also provided to 300 pigs/ livestock.

DIMAPUR: Assam Rifles HQ 5 Sector located in South Nagaland has executed a unique water harvesting scheme storing 8 lakh liters of water within its premises in large LDPE lined reservoirs.

According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), the reservoirs were excavated within house resources & lined with special sheets sourced from Gujarat, water runoff from rooftops and open spaces has been channelised to feed the reservoirs. The entire project from concept to creation took merely 60 days and capable of not The LDPE lined reservoirs. only supporting the 2000 strong Chieswema GarThis project, created the water scarcity in the but also accrue an annual rison but also the adjoining with very little resources garrison. This will not only saving of Rs.20 lakh per anTsisema Basa village. has effectively mitigated enhance eco friendly living num to the government.

monitoring development schemes and projects with special emphasis on Nagaland.

He further said that Centre was working to stimulate economic development of the State by incentivizing farmers to expand the scale of commercial production, create employment opportunities in non- agricultural sectors to absorb the educated unemployed and to ensure that regional balance takes place.

While pointing out the regions rich natural resources and biodiversity, he emphasised the need for the growth in economy with the growth of ecology.

Nagaland Governor, P. B. Acharya, in his address also emphasised that “unless Northeast develops India cannot progress.” He said that skill and manpower development should be the agenda and there is a need to bridge the gap of skill and manpower with natural resources, industries, trade and commerce.

Acharya said that universities play an important role in bridging this gap by not only being centres of knowledge, but also centres of development and empowerment.

DWT condemns murder incident

DIMAPUR: Dimapur Watsü Telongjem (DWT) condemned the barbaric murder of Tasenjungla, whose decomposed body was found at Chümoukedima.

A press release by president, DWT, Yarsangla and secretary, DWT, Aoinla Jamir, stated that DWT vehemently condemn the inhuman and brutal act which can never be tolerated in any society.

While appreciating the prompt recovery of the body by Police, DWT further appealed law enforcing agencies to arrest the culprit at the earliest and award stringent punishment as per provision of law.

Newea Nagaland Chapter (NNC) has launched its unit branch in Mokokchung on July 5, at DIC office Mkg. Functional Manager Nochet and Inspector Mhebemo with the women entrepreneurs along with NEWEA officials. (NNC Mokokchung)

Education department of JN Aier College in collaboration with the IQAC organized a mock exam at the College venue on July 6, to prepare the students for the future competitive exams where the questions were set according to the competitive exam pattern. Cash reward was also given to the students who secured the top three positions. (JN Aier College) Ngwalwa Baptist Church under the Zeme Baptist Church Council (ZBCC) Peren, Sunday school department held its Vacation Bible camp from July 13 to 14, wherein many activities were held for the children. (Ngwalwa Baptist Church, Peren) SDAO Mangkolemba conducted training on oil palm cultivation under NMOOP-II at Longtho under Japu village on July 6. (SDAO Mangkolemba, A. Temsu Aier)

Department of Education, Economics and Sociology, Unity College (UC), Dimapur organised an interdepartmental quiz competition on July 6. Participants Assam Rifles, Mon Battalion, under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North), after felicitating were awarded with cash prize and certificate. (UC, Govt Middle School, Tangnyu village and Govt Higher Secondary School, Mon with 2 Dimapur) computers and accessories each on June 20 and 22, respectively. (PRO HQ IGAR N) K Y M C

Naharbari Kachari women and youth organized its 9th felicitation programme for the HSLC and HSSLC -2019 successful Kachari candidates at Naharbari Kachari community hall on July 14, graced by the Naharbari Kachari community chairman Joseph Mech. (NK) K Y M C

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WEATHER FORECAST July 18

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala A t-storm around in the p.m.

34 26

A p.m. thunderstorm or two

30 22

Guwahati A t-storm around in the p.m.

35 26

A t-storm around in the a.m.

32 21

Aizawl Imphal

Itanagar A thunderstorm in spots

31 23

Shillong Couple of thunderstorms

28 17

Kohima

Mostly cloudy, thundestorms

26 19

Dimapur Clouds giving way to some sun 33 24 Mkg

A thunderstorm in spots

Tuensang Some sun, a t-storm in spots Wokha

A stray thunderstorm

Zunheboto A thunderstorm in spots

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Organisers along with some of the attendees at the programme. (NP)

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (NPN): Two-day capacity building programme aimed at effective implementation of Scientific Waste Management (SWM) rules (notified in the year 2016) was organized Wednesday, at Hotel Acacia, Dimapur.

It may be mentioned that Dimapur is amongst the 20 cities selected by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).

The programme was organized by National P r o d u c t iv i t y C o u n c i l (NPC) and sponsored by MoEF&CC in association with Dimapur Municipal

Council (DMC).

The six waste management rules (2016) includes solid waste management rules (2016), bio-medical waste management rules, 2016, E-waste management) rules 2016, hazardous and other wastes (management and transboundary movement) rules, 2016, plastic waste management rules 2016 and construction and demolition waste management rules, 2016.

Resource person of the programme, ex-member secretary, Bihar State Pollution Control Board chairperson, Environment and Eco Development, Indu Shekhar Singh put up a power point presentation

DAMU conducts farmers’ awareness programme at Singrep village

Farmers at the awareness programme held at Singrep village, Kiphire on July 11. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: District Agromet Unit DAMU, KVK Kiphire conducted a farmers’ awareness programme on agro advisory services at Singrep village on July 11.

According to DIPR report, the farmers were made aware on the impact of climate change on agriculture and allied sectors and various adaptation strategies to counter its impact on climate change.

They were also informed on agro meteorology of weather and the use of weather and the climate to enhance and expand the farmers’ agricultural crops and increase the villagers’ crop production.

The participants were also appraised about the activities to be undertaken under the district Agromet Unit (DAMU, KVK) Kiphire by Temjenna Jamir SMS (Agro Metrology)

Setsiba Sangtam AFA. DAO Kiphire also appraised on the incidence of Fall Armyworm (FAW) on maize and its management strategy measures.

Fa r m e r s we r e i n formed about the importance of registration of their phone numbers for mobile short message services on Agro Advisory. A total 67 farmers attended in the agro advisory services programme.

that dwelled on the solid waste management scenario in India and gaps in implementation, introduction of solid waste management rules, 2016, stake holders and their duties/ responsibilities and methods and options for collection, treatment, processing and disposal of waste including the options.

The steps to follow for effective waste management as per SWM rules, 2016 includes storage at source, provide primary collection service at door step, street sweeping, secondary storage, transportation of waste, treatment and processing of waste and final disposal of waste

ay engineered landfills. He asserted that citizens can play a significant role in minimizing the waste and decentralized composting/ bio gas generation could be promoted, incentivised at household and community level.

Singh said that effective waste management will be possible only when public awareness is created at all levels, community participation ensured, segregation and storage of waste at source is practised by waste generators and concept of reduce, reuse, recycle and recover is understood by the community. In regard to institutional strengthening, it was mentioned that SWM requires managerial and technical skills, each city should have directorate or department of SWM and the department should be headed by an environmental or civil engineer with experience in SWM. During the inaugural programme, opening remark was delivered by Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) administrator Moa Sangtam as guest of honour, wherein he acknowledged NPC and MoEF&CC. He encouraged the participants to be sincere saying that “Ignorance of the law is not an excuse”.

Pointing out the pro-

NPF 55 A/C Tobu holds coordination meeting DIMAPUR: Naga people’s Front (NPF) 55 A/C Tobu held a coordination meeting on July 15 at Tobu headquarters with the village level NPF Party under was 55 A/C Tobu.

A press release by NPF 55 A/C Tobu secretary press and media cell, M. A. Wanmai Konyak, stated that the meeting was attended by more than 160 party workers of A/C level, youth wing, women wing and village level of NPF party.

The release stated that the house resolved to initiate immediate implementation of primary/ active membership drive within the constituency.

The meeting also re-affirmed to work under the leadership of NPF president, Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu and opposition leader, T R Zeliang. It also resolved to uphold the party principle at any circumstances in future.

The meeting was chaired by NPF 55 A/C, general secretary, P Shammaoh and welcome address was delivered by interim president NPF 55 A/C Tobu, C. Yanghi Konyak. Ex-MLA, S. Nyakba, CEC member S. Akai, Farmer’s wing, president, S. B. Poangba, youth wing president, H Khamba and women wing president, Khomo Neangnyu and other party leaders spoke at the meeting.

gramme as an important event to sensitize the stakeholders on waste management rules, NPCB, environmental Er Aghali A Swu as guest said that clean environment and clean water were essential for health but if not managed and disposed in proper way it will have a serious effect on environment and health.

S w u b e l i e ve t h a t by conducting such programme, the participants through their active participation will bring about positive outcome and result in the society and state in general.

The quantity of waste generated as per the Dimapur city alone comprises of 110 to 111 tonnes per day, Swu maintained. She asserted that as long as human beings exist in the planet earth, there will be waste generation and thereby the only solution will be how best waste can be generated.

Various stakeholders, NGOs, organizations and institutions attended the programme. Earlier, welcome address was delivered

by NPC Guwahati deputy director Manoj Verma and later vote of thanks was delivered by DMC superintendent Ganesh Sharma.

The two-day programme will culminate on July 18.

3 Coordination meetings for JSA held in Longleng

Central team with DC Longleng during field visit. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: In connection with Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA), coordination meetings of the line departments with the visiting central team were held on from July 15 to 16 at DC’s conference hall, Longleng.

According to DIPR report, the two central team Minga Sherpa and Dharan along with the district administration and HoDs of the line departments also visited Hukphang and Lingtak villages. During the field visits projects related to water shed management, irrigations, ponds, traditional wells were shown to the central team. They also held a meeting with the village council members and public to have better knowledge of water cycle in their respective villages and also to learn the grievance faced

by the general mass.

On July 16 another coordination meeting of JAS was conducted at DC’s conference hall, Longleng under the chairmanship of the DC Longleng John Tsulise Sangtam. The nodal officer, JSA Vineet Joshei highlighted about the JSA projects and encouraged the officers to work harder to cater to the needs of the people. He spoke about the IWMP projects and the importance of water conservation and how it can rejuvenate the existing ponds & wells or structure and also to frame a plan for proper implementation of the projects. DPO Land Resource department, Longleng presented the departmental activities through powerpoint presentation.

Mon holds meeting on conserving biodiversity

ADC Mon, Hiazu Meru along with participants at the programme on July 17. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: District level seminar on “conserving biodiversity and threatened species in community conserved areas” was held at council hall Mon on July 17.

According to DIPR report, ADC Mon, Hiazu Meru said protecting the environment and conserving the biodiversity was everybody’s responsibility. Citing an example, he stated that the presence elephant and tiger in the district has become a story because all have been hunted and eaten up, and likewise other species will follow. He urged upon the gathering to start protecting and conserving the flora and fauna for future generation.

Keeping in mind the Naga culture of directly depending on biodiversity like construction of

house and hunting, on this he further advised to start convergence policy where all stake holder departments have to come together in order to uplift the village economy and the villagers should form a village forest committee, he added.

Divisional forest officer (DFO), Mon, Priy Singh said that the biodiversity of Nagaland was unique and very rich in flora and fauna but it’s gradually degrading due to deforestation, habitat loses, poaching of animals and pollutions. Many medicinal plants species in the region has become endangered, he added. He also mentioned that, protecting diversity will bring a huge benefit like supply of food, natural resources, medicines, energy and shelters.

Heirang Lungalang, secretary NCCAF said Nagaland Community Conserved Areas Forum (NCCAF) was a common platform created by the Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) of Nagaland to share experience, learning, good conservation practices and fostering a collective voice for CCAs in the state.

Tapas Das, programme manager, FES and Pikato V Jimo, member (POU), NEPED were the resource persons during the seminar.

The programme was attended by all village councils under Mon district, GBs, NGOs and students and was organised by NCCAF, supported by Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), NEPED and Forest department.

Seminar on ban of single use plastic at Pughoboto District level orientation on LAQSHYA at DMMH Wokha

Participants at the seminar on total ban on single plastic use at Pughoboto on July 17. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Seminar on alternative to total ban on single use plastic by the government of Nagaland was held at Pughoboto on July 17, where all shopkeepers, NGOs, GBs, village councils of neighbouring villages and ad-hoc town council attended the workshop, organized by the district administration.

According to DIPR report, SDO (Civil) Pughoboto, Tiayanger Jamir exhorted the gathering on the decision of the governK Y M C

ment’s notification on total ban on single use plastic.

He urged the people to work on a locally arranged alternative to plastic ban.

A collective effort of all stakeholders was the only way to achieve this menace of plastic and its alternative, he said. He also added that more seminars will be organised in the coming days to sensitize the people and also to explore the manufacture of ecofriendly alternatives from Pughoboto itself rather

than depending on outside market.

Bokavi, an NGO in the field of eco-friendly products gave a presentation of what alternatives were available for the people so that they can completely do away with plastics. Eco friendly products like carry bags were distributed to all the shops as a gesture of “say no to plastics” and what the alternatives were.

Dr. Alvis spoke on the ill effects of plastics

and non-biodegradable products from a medical perspective.

EAC Pughoboto, Luchui Fithu said that the role of women and mothers was very crucial in the combat against plastics as women were the managers of homes and kitchens.

She also urged upon the churches to play a proactive role in this issue since plastic pollution is also a major cause during marriages and feasts in the churches.

DIMAPUR: District level orientation on LAQSHYA was held at conference hall, Dr. Motsuo Memorial Hospital (DMMH) Wokha on July 16 attended by CMO, deputy CMO, DPM, MOs and nurses of district hospital.

A press release from CMO office, media officer (NHM) stated that, resource persons for the orientation were Dr. Thungchanbeni Patton DPM (QA) and Dr. Nouneneo Terhase MO (Obs &Gy) District Hospital. A session on the overview of NQAS, Assessment and LAQSHYA certification process was taken by Dr. Patton. She oriented the participants on different areas of concern which included the service provision, patient’s right, clinical service, infection control, quality management etc.

Dr. Terhase spoke on the key components and operational aspect of DAKSHATA and stressed that it will enable the service providers to give high quality services during

child birth in health facilities. She further added that Objective Structure Clinical Examination (OSCE) was designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills which is a core component of LAQSHYA. Dr. Terhase also highlighted on respectful maternity care which includes right to choose birth companion, freedom from physical abuse and discrimination.

Earlier, Dr. Robin Lotha, chief medical officer (CMO) Wokha welcomed the participants and gave a brief introduction on the background of LAQSHYA which was launched in 2017 by the union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to improve quality of care in labour room and maternity operation theatre in public health facilities.

Dr. Khelito Zhimomi, DPO (UIP/RCH) urged the participants to be inquisitive and utilize their skills in order to provide quality care in the health facilities.

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BJP non-committal on IPFT’s demand

Representatives of IPFT with DoNER minister Jitendra Singh.

Agartala/New Delhi, Jul 17 (IANS): The Union Government has remained noncommittal about the statehood demand of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), a junior ally of the ruling BJP, officials and party sources said on Wednesday.

Senior officials of Tripura’s Home Department and leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) separately said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other central ministers have remained ambiguous about the statehood demand of the IPFT. A delegation of the IPFT led by party President and Revenue Minister Narendra Chandra Debbarma and party General Secretary and Tribal Welfare Minis-

2 injured, 1 trapped in Arunachal Pradesh landslide I tanaga r , J u l 1 7 (PTI): Two persons were injured and another was feared to be trapped under the debris due to a landslide here on Wednesday morning, police said.

Many vehicles were also damaged in the landslide that occurred along N H - 4 1 5 , b e t we e n t h e Gohpur-Tinali trijunction and the police headquarters here, at around 8.45 am, Capital Superintendent of Police (SP) Tumme Amo said. A search was on for a motorcyclist, who was feared to be trapped inside the debris, he added.

State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and state police personnel have joined the rescue operation.Five excavators were also pressed into service, officials said.

The injured, identified as Tarin Mosu (40) and Biri Tath (55), were admitted to the Ramakrishna Mission Hospital (RKMH) here with hand and head injuries, the SP said. Vehicles were stranded on the highway due to the landslide. State Home Minister Bamang Felix went to the spot to monitor the rescue operation. He also met the injured at the hosipital.

ter Mevar Kumar Jamatia met Union Home Minister Amit Shah, DoNER (Development of North Eastern Region) and PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) Minister Jitendra Singh and Forest and Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi on Monday and Tuesday and discussed about their various demands including statehood.

The IPFT, a tribalbased local par ty, has been agitating since 2009 for a separate state to be carved out by upgrading the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), which has jurisdiction over two-thirds of Tripura’s 10,491 sq-km area, home to over 12,16,000 people.

“BJP never supported the statehood issue of the

IPFT. Central leaders of the party are also against the demand. IPFT is a separate party, they can agitate on the issue,” Tripura BJP spokesman Nabendu Bhattacharjee told IANS. On the other hand, the IPFT leaders after meeting the central ministers are very hopeful about their demand. “We are very positive about the central ministers’ reaction to our demands.

Amit Shah and other central ministers assured us to continue discussions on the statehood and other demands,” IPFT spokesman and the party’s Assistant General Secretary Mangal Debbarma told IANS over phone from New Delhi. He said that they have urged the central ministers to give more autonomy and power to the TTAADC.

Swine flu claims 18 -yrold boy in Manipur Correspondent IMPHAL, Jul 17: After Swine flu has claimed the life of an 18-year-old boy in Manipur, the state health authority has sounded an alert.

The boy hailing from Imphal East died at a hospital in Assam’s Dispur where he was referred to from a hospital in Imphal.

An official report from the state health department said that the boy who was treated at a hospital in Imphal for sometime was referred to a hospital in Assam’s Dispur on July 13 last where he was tested positive for the H1N1 (swine flu).He died around 8.15 am on July 15,, the report said.

The boy was the third victim of the dreaded disease after it claimed life of a 35-year-old woman in May 2015.

M e a n w h i l e, s t a t e health director Dr K Rajo said that though swine flu was positively detected in the state, there is no cause for panic.

Addressing a hurriedly call press conference in his office chamber in Imphal on Wednesday afternoon, the health director said general public of the state need not to panic as the state health department

was fully equipped to fight the eventuality of an outbreak.

The state has enough stock of strips of Tamiflu tablets he said, adding that these preventive tablets were not for general public but for those who are directly involved with infected patients or for those who are high risk of exposure to H1N1 virus.

He said that the government hospitals already have spare isolated wards to accommodate infected patients and the treatments will be free of cost.

As of now, only one patient is confirmed infected with H1N1 influenza virus which causes swine flu. Government run hospitals and private hospitals are fully prepared to tackle the swine flu disease round the clock in case it was detected from other people, Dr K Rajo said.

He added that isolated rooms equipped with ventilators were also made available for the infected patients.

Reiterating that there is no need to panic, the director said that swine flu can be cured if certain precautions are followed like frequent hand wash, using a mask at public places and using a handkerchief while sneezing.

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“The Central government had earlier constituted a high-level committee to recommend various measures for the socio-economic and cultural development of the tribals. We have told the central ministers to implement the recommendations of the committee,” Debbarma said.

The IPFT’s other demands include the inclusion of the tribals’ ‘Kokborok’ language in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution and introduction of the Roman script for ‘Kokborok’.

The IPFT, the junior partner of the BJP and which has two ministers in the eight-member Tripura ministry, contested the recent Lok Sabha elections and the ongoing panchayat polls against the BJP. “We are contesting the elections separately to highlight our basic issues especially the statehood demand.

The majority tribals are most backward in all respects, they need much more financial, social and administrative support,” the IPFT President told IANS. The IPFT had held agitations in Delhi and Tripura in support of its separate ‘Twipraland’ (full-fledged state for the Tripuris or indigenous tribals) and other demands.

MZP to take out rally on Friday: LR Renthlei Aizawl, Jul 17 (PTI): Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or Mizo student’s federation would organise a rally on Friday to protest the state government’s “inaction” to solve the border dispute with neighbouring Assam, MZP president L Ramdinliana Renthlei said Wednesday.

He accused the state government of “soft pedalling” the issue of solving the border disputes.

“We sent an ultimatum to the state government to construct ‘Zofate Chawlhbuk’ at Zophai on or before July 17, and the failure to do so resulted in going ahead with our plan to take out our rally,” he told media persons here.

The border dispute between Mizoram and Assam has been a long pending issue.

In March 2018, tension erupted in Zophai area near the Mizoram-Assam border when Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) members attempted to construct a hut inside the land of Ch Chhunga the first chief minister of Mizoram but were prevented from doing so by Assam Police.

The MZP president accused the state government of not take any action when Assam officials renovated a building near Vairengte on July 6.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

Two Mizo girls rescued by RPF; trafficker arrested

Meghalaya CM seeks central assistance to tackle flood

MALIGAON, Jul 17: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of Katihar division of N.F. Railway rescued two minor girls from 19306 Kamakhya - Indore Express on 14th July after receiving an alert from Mizoram police. The girls were allegedly kidnapped by a human trafficker who was also nabbed. A press statement by the Chief PRO, Pranav Jyoti Sharma stated that after the RPF Security Control Room at Maligaon Headquarters received information about the kidnapping of the minor girls from Mizoram Police, they immediately relayed the information to Security Control of RPF at Katihar with instruction to intercept the kidnappers who were reportedly travelling by train.

On receipt of the information, the RPF team launched search operation in 12423 Rajdhani Express and 19306 Kamakhya - Indore Express. During the search, the minor girls and an alleged human trafficker identified as Rabina Begaum alias Lalmunanpuii, aged about 24 yrs of Kawngthar Veng Vairengte (Mizoram) was taken into custody. Later, the rescued girls along with alleged kidnapper were handed over to Mizoram police.

Twenty relief camps have been set up by the district administration.

The deputy commissioner said 52 boats have been pressed into service and gratuitous relief is being given to the flood-affected people for one week.

Incessant rains across Meghalaya for the last 10 days and rising waters of two rivers flooded the plains of West Garo Hills district.

Rising waters of the Brahmaputra and the Jinjiram rivers, both flowing from Assam, submerged the low-lying areas of the district, an official said, adding the water level has yet not receded.

While visiting Phulbari, the state home minister met the flood-affected people at the inspection bungalow and reviewed the ongoing relief work.

He, accompanied by a delegation, also toured the flood areas on a boat and took stock of the damage caused by the overflowing Brahmaputra and Jinjiram rivers.

West Garo Hills was affected because of heavy rains in the neighbouring states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in the past few days.

S h illong, J u l 1 7 (PTI): Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has sought assistance from the Centre as floods in West Garo Hills district and parts of Khasi Hills region have affected 1.3 lakh people in the state, officials said on Wednesday.

The chief minister, his deputy Prestone Tynsong and Tourism Minister Metbah Lyngdoh met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday night and appealed to him for assistance, an official in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said.

State Home Minister James Pangsang Kongkal Sangma, along with Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Kyrmen Shylla and MLAs of Phulbari, Rajabala, Selsella and Tikrikilla constituencies, toured the flooded region in West Garo Hills district on Tuesday.

The state home minister met the affected people and reviewed the rescue work. A total of 159 villages with an estimated population of 1.30 lakh people have been affected by the unprecedented floods in the area this year, Deputy Commissioner of West Garo Hills Ram Singh

Correspondent IMPHAL, Jul 17: Titular king of Manipur, Leishem Sanajoaba on Wednesday expressed concerned over the escalating in-fighting within the ruling BJP for leadership change.

The in-fighting with the BJP, the party leading a coalition government in Manipur has been going on since May, soon after the 17th Lok Sabha election was over.

Some section of BJP MLAs were batting for a leadership change accusing chief minister N Biren Singh of operating in a monocratic style and exercising undue favouritism while dealing with the eight Congress turncoats over BJP’s own MLAs Minister Th Biswajit Singh from whom the chief minister had even removed two key portfolios - power and works

Leishem Sanajoaba (File)

departments – in the wake of the height of revolt against chief minister N Biren Singh is believed to be the leader of the MLAs in dissident camp.

A concerned titular king said that he sometimes thought of meeting the Governor and pressing him to take up certain steps to end the in-fighting in the ruling party.

He said it was long enough that the MLAs were engaging in such an ugly power tussle which was not in the interest of

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE TUENSANG : NAGALAND NO.PD&SJ.TSG OBJECTION NOTICE-1/2017-18/198 /Dt.Tsg th 16th July '2019 OBJECTION NOTICE Whereas Mrs. Nasen Kechong W/O Late Mr. T. Satang Chang St. John "A" Sector Tuensang has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to operate/draw/transfer/withdraw the debts & security in respect of her Late husband, who expired on 10/07/2019.

Now therefore, the public are hereby asked to file claims/ objection if any within 30 (thirty) days from the date of publication of this notice.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION NAGALAND :: KOHIMA

Dt. Kohima, the 17th July 2019.

NO. DTE/ ESTT- NP-14/2017 : In continuation of this office letter of even number dated. 27th March, 2019, the following Roll Nos. listed below are hereby selected on the merit basis of written examination held on 15th June 2019, for the post of LDA-Cum-Computer for Yimchunger Tribe.

The candidates are therefore informed to appear Viva Voce and Computer test on 25th July, 2019 (Thursday) from 10:00 A.M onwards with all their necessary documents in original along with written test Admit Card at the Directorate of Technical Education.

No separate calling letter will be issued in this regard.

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CHURACHANDPUR, JUL 17: Assam Rifles seized a huge cache of explosives from Vengnoum South village, in Churachandpur, Manipur on July 16.

The explosives could have been used by the insurgent groups to make IEDs for use against civilians and security forces, the PRO of Assam Rifles stated in

its press release. The press release by the PRO (Defence) stated that based on specific input, columns of Assam Rifles raided Vengnoum South village at Churachandpur in Manipur and seized a huge cache of explosives which included 190 explosive sticks, 62 detonators and 145 cases of illicit liquor from a resident

of the village. The press statement stated that it is also believed that the individual is involved in selling explosives, preparation of fake documents and liquor permits. The individual, explosives and illicit liquor have been handed over to the Churachandpur Police, Manipur for further investigation, the release added.

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Aizawl, Jul 17 (PTI): Former Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla would continue as the president of the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) with no other candidate filing nomination paper for the post till Tuesday, party sources said.

The MPCC elections were scheduled to be held on July 24 and Tuesday was the last date for filing nominations.

The former five-time chief minister would continue as the MPCC chief at the age of 81 due to absence of a viable alternative, a senior party leader said.

An extended meeting of the office bearers of the party on Tuesday decided that Lal Thanhawla should be elected unopposed as the MPCC chief and that he would appoint the vice president and treasurer of the party.

Manipur titular king unhappy with power tussle

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The accused with explosives and illicit liquor.

said.

Lal Thanhawla to continue as Mizoram Cong chief

NO. ED/SE/C/4/20-40 Dated Kohima, the, 17th July 2019 In continuation to Advertisement NO.ED/EST-1/ADVT/2015/785, dated Kohima the 26th March 2019, which is in compliance to the Hon’ble High Court Order dated 26/07/2018 of W.P. (C) NO.297(K) 2017, for advertisement of 1(one) Primary Teacher post at GHS Wakching under DEO Mon. Following information are given for the Candidates who applied for the same.

1. There will be a written examination consisting of 90 marks and 10 marks for Viva-Voce to be held on the same day.

2. The syllabus for written examination shall consist of : (i) General English (ii) General Knowledge (iii) All subjects taught from Class 1 – Class V (textbooks approved for Nagaland Government schools only) 3. Candidates are to bring all their educational and other related documents, with two passport photographs on the day of the examination for verification.

4. Date of examination & Viva-Voce :- 22nd August 2019 Place :- Directorate of School Education, Nagaland, Kohima Time :- 10:00 am – 12:00 noon 5. The Eligible Candidates are personally asked to collect their Admit Card on 20th August during the office working hours from the Undersigned.

6. Henceforth , no separate call letter will be issued to the candidate.

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the people.

“Now is not the time to remain fighting for power. General people are at the limit of their woes,” he claimed.

He added that the state is facing a drought like situation and it was time for all the 60 MLAs to go to their respective constituencies and extend help to the people.

They must at least sideline their position and think of the people as responsible leaders. As they come forward to work for the people, they should at least meet the people at the time of their woe, he said.

Party leaders should also work to resolve the crisis within the party considering the plights of the people, he added.

Apart from the political in-fighting, there was

fresh controversy over the location of border pillar at the Manipur sector of Indo-Myanmar border.

While the government was to deal with the issueseriously, the leaders in the governance were remaining concentrated on power tussle.“It is not in the interest of the people,” he added.

If the in-fighting continue further without any conclusion, he was thinking of meeting the Governor and pressing him to intervene to end the power tussle considering the woes being facing by the people, he added.

The titular king was talking on the sidelines of his visit to a woman leader of Tangkhul community from Ukhrul who is currently being treated at Iboyaima Charitable Hospital, Imphal.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER PFUTSERO : NAGALAND

No. Jud-4/SC/2014/246

NOTICE

Dated Pfro, the 29th June 2019

Whereas Smti KUHUSULU, W/o Lt. VEKHRUYI THELU-O, Ex Pensioner, of Reku Colony, Pfutsero Town under Phek district has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925 to draw the retirement benefits, Pension and Bank Account etc. belonging to Lt. VEKHRUYI THELU-O who expired on 17-06-2019.

Therefore, notice is hereby issued inviting any claims and objections from the public pertaining to the above mentioned property and the same to be submitted to the office of the Additional Deputy Commissioner Pfutsero, within a period of 30 days from issue of this notice. In the event of this office not receiving any claims and objections within the stipulated time, Succession Certificate will be issued to the applicant as prayed for.

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WOKHA DISTRICT VILLAGE COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ASSOCIATION

WOKHA : NAGALAND (Govt. Regd. : No. Home/SRC-6542) PRESS RELEASE The Wokha District Council Chairman Association (WDCCA) inform all the general public of Lotha areas that, as per the resolution passed on 14th March 2019 at Town Hall, Bhandari Town by the Association which resolved that the Lothas in general will not be divided within the jurisdiction of the Lotha areas and in addition to that, since the Lotha Hoho is the apex body of the Lotha tribe, the WDCCA will be under the umbrella of the Lotha Hoho from now and in future without any distinction as resolved by the association.

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The Last date for Submission of Tender: NIT-N/ EO/2019/05-02 Dated:15-05-2019, for Repair, Fitting & Re-Installation of 3 Nos. of Deep Tube Well and Supply of 04 Nos. of Brand-New Submersible Pump at NIT Nagaland has been extended upto 19/07/2019 at 12:00 P.M (Noon) Complete sealed quotation should reach to the Registrar, NIT Nagaland, Chumukedima, Dimapur797103 on or before the 19.07.2019 by 12:00 (Noon.)

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Over 80 terror attacks on armed forces in 2 yrs New Delhi, July 17 (IANS): More than 80 terrorist attacks against Indian armed forces have taken place in less than two years despite strict security guidelines having been issued for defence installations across the country in the wake of the 2016 Pathankot attack.

In order to counter incidents like the Pathankot attack, the Defence Ministry had in March 2017 issued a set of concrete measures to ensure safety of armed forces vide the guidelines for security of defence installations. These guidelines are based on recommendations of a panel headed by former Army Vice Chief Lieutenant General Philip Campose (Retired), formed to examine the Pathankot attack.

As per a written reply in Parliament by the Defence Ministry on Wednesday, militants have carried out 83 attacks against the armed forces from 2018 till

Shripad Naik (File)

July 2019.

Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik informed through the reply that these 83 incidents were reported only from Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

All 83 attacks were carried out against the Army.

Providing a breakdown of the incidents, Naik’s reply states that 54 terroristinitiated incidents were reported from J&K in the year

ED quizzes suspended TMC leader Ghosh in Saradha case KO L K ATA , J U L 1 7 (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has been probing the money laundering aspect of the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scheme, on Wednesday interrogated suspended TMC leader Kunal Ghosh for the second time.

Ghosh, who visited the agency’s office here at CGO Complex, was questioned for nearly two hours.

ED sources told PTI that Ghosh, a former Trinamool Congress MP, had allegedly received funds from the Saradha group to head its media unit.

“We are probing the flow of funds which Ghosh had allegedly received from the Saradha group and also the money laundering angle,” the sources said.

Ghosh was earlier interrogated by the agency in connection with the case in October 2013.

The Saradha group owned the dailies ‘Ben-

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gal Post’ and ‘Sakalbela’, which had ceased publication after the scam broke out in April 2013.

Ghosh was initially arrested by a special investigation team of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate in November 2013 in connection with the case and later, the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) took over the investigation on the orders of the Supreme Court.

Ghosh was granted an interim bail in 2016.

2018 while the corresponding figure for north-eastern states was 11. In 2019, J&K had reported 13 incidents while five attacks were reported from north-eastern states till July 7.

“No Indian naval ship or establishment has been attacked during the last three years,” stated the reply. The Defence Ministry has, however, in the same reply claimed to have undertaken various measures to counter security threats on defence establishments.

“Various measures including strengthening of physical security through layered defence and perimeter security, deployment of quick reaction teams, use of airborne platforms etc, for security of defence installations have been instituted. Periodical review of the security arrangements based on threat assessment to devise suitable measures are adopted to counter such threats,” it said.

Parl passes bill to give NIA more teeth NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Parliament Wednesday approved a bill to enable the National Investigation Agency to probe terror attacks on Indians and Indian properties abroad, with Amit Shah assuring the Rajya Sabha that the legislation will not be misused.

Shah defended the government for not filing an appeal against the acquittal of all four accused, including the radical right-wing’s Swami Aseemanand, in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blasts case. He said the four were charge-sheeted by the previous Congress government without proof.

Replying to the debate on the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, he attacked the Congress for questioning the efficiency of NIA, saying 184 terror accused have been convicted since the BJP government came to power in 2014. Two days after Lok Sabha passed the bill, Rajya Sabha approved it unanimously.

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10 killed, 24 injured in land dispute clash in UP SONBHADRA (UTTAR PRADESH), JUL 17 (IANS): Ten persons were killed and over 24 injured in clashes over a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, officials said.

According to reports, the incident took place on Wednesday afternoon in Murtiya village in Ghorawal when a dispute arose over a land between the Gujjar and Gond communities.

The dispute soon took a violent turn and both the groups opened fire and attacked each other with sickles. The bloody war continued for more than an hour, leaving 10 persons dead including three women and seven men while over 24 were injured - six are in a critical condition.

Police officials rushed to the village and the injured have been admitted to medical centres.

District Magistrate Ankit Agarwal said the dispute was over a piece of land that was being tilled by one group and the other group objected to it.

According to sources, the village head was one of

S P Salman Taj Patil visits the house of a victim in Sonbhadra district, Wednesday. (PTI)

the parties in the incident and his men opened fire which led to the bloody clash. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police O.P. Singh said that all the deceased belong to one group.

He said that two persons were arrested and house-tohouse searches were being conducted in the village.

“We have deployed police in ample measure to prevent fallout of the incident. The injured are being treated. Investigations will

reveal the real reason behind the incident,” the District Magistrate told reporters.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased and has directed proper medical treatment of the injured persons.

He has also asked Singh to personally monitor investigations and ensure that the guilty are brought to book. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav

condemned the incident, claiming was one more massacre during the tenure of the BJP, “which has surrendered before criminals”.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi said he criminals’ morale is high in the BJP regime and murders are being committed in broad daylight.

“The Sonbhadra incident is heart-rending and has caught the administration, CM and ministers napping,” she said.

Supreme Court to get new administrative building NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (IANS): The Supreme Court will on Wednesday get a new administrative block to cope with the space constraints of the top court.

“The Additional Office Complex of the Supreme Court with a futuristic vision was planned on land measuring 12.19 acres abutting Pragati Maidan,” a press statement said.

The foundation stone of the building was laid on September 27, 2012. The building is a state-of-the-art, environment-friendly, centrally air-conditioned office complex with all modern facilities. The curvature of the building is in the European style with pillars that rise from the ground level and the colour scheme and sandstone external cladding

Panorama view of the new building of SC, New Delhi. (PTI)

depicts an attempt to retain the original marvel of the Supreme Court. Designed to maximize the use of available sunlight, air and water, the new complex will generate solar power of 1,400 KW which will be integrated in the main grid.

The project has been designed as a GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) -compliant energy efficient building complex.

The new building will

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have five functional blocks and one ser vice block, which are four to nine storeys high.

The additional building complex will have a three-level basement with car parking capacity for about 1,800 car units.

It has been built by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), with a total built-up area of 1,80,700 square meters and has imbibed technology intensive features, a show-

case of avant-garde building technology, statement said.

The additional complex sets new standards in energy-efficient and environment-friendly building design and construction.

There are two world class auditoriums with a seating capacity of about 620 and 250 people and a conference-cum-meeting room. Its rooftop solar power grid connected system, has the maximum solar power capacity of any building in Delhi-NCR till date.

It has energy-efficient LED lighting with occupancy sensors to switch off lights when there are no occupants in the area.

An Integrated Building Management System is provided to achieve an effective, safe, energy saving and com-

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of Lt. Imchak Walling

Reference to the Acknowledgement of Late Chumdemo Ngullie (IOFS), published on 17th July 2019, Page 5, Sl. No. 11 should be read as PVC instead of VCC and not as published.

fortable solution including a highly scalable and robust architecture with seamless integration of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, fire alarm system, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), public address system and other vital building systems, it said.

The new complex will also be equipped with a state-of-the-art data centre for storage and retrieval of documents. Its IT-enabled

security framework spanning 825 CCTV cameras will also be the most modern. The latest innovative design concepts and technology have been used to make one of the most ecologically clean buildings ever made.

The building has consumed about 20 lakhs blocks made out of construction and demolition waste. No clay bricks have been used at the site saving about 35,000 MT of fertile soil.

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR BELOVED

Lt. T. Pangerlemba Ningdangri (18.07.2018) A year has passed since God called you Home.

Although you are no longer with us, Your Presence is always felt in our hearts.

Loving wife, children & grandchildren.

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Born - 22.02.1948 Died - 18.07.2018 Sadly missed along life's way, quietly remembered everyday. No longer in our life to share, but in our hearts, you're always there.

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of our beloved Late Hutoshe Chishi 18th July 2018

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

“No eye has seen no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9

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NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a Bill allowing the central government to withdraw Rs 98.18 lakh crore from the consolidated fund to meet its expenditure during 2019-20.

The House approved the Appropriation (No. 2) Bill 2019, after the demands for grants for several ministries were collectively put to vote and passed by applying guillotine.

The Bill, moved by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, was passed by a voice vote.

The minister is scheduled to move the Finance Bill 2019, containing tax proposals of the government for the fiscal, for passage in the Lower House on Thursday.

The budgetary exercise for 2019-20 will be completed with the passage of the Finance Bill by Parliament.

After its passage in the Lok Sabha, it will go to the Rajya Sabha.

The Lok Sabha has earlier discussed the demands for grants of different ministries including rural development, agriculture and farmers welfare, railways, youth affairs and sports, and road transport and highways.

In view of the general elections, the government in February came out with an interim Budget seeking Parliament nod for meeting expenses for four months (April-July 2019-20).

Died 11-07-2019

Lt. Z. Ikato Zhimomi His work is honourable and glorious and his righteousness endures forever. Psalm 111:3

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Your golden words, love and care that you bestowed upon us will always be remembered.

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Your loving wife, sons, sisters and relatives

Although our hearts are heavy with sorrows that we bear.

We are comforted to know how deeply others care.

Thank you all for your support and love during this difficult time.

Loving wife, children and family members

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OPINiON/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post Vol. XXIX NO. 221 Dimapur, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

Political and legal tangle

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n the light of the present political crisis in Karnataka where the rebel MLAs have petitioned the Supreme Court against the house speaker for the delay in deciding on their resignations, the case has only highlighted the frequent tussle between the legislature and the judiciary. The 16 rebel MLAs- 13 from the Congress and three from JD(S)- have submitted their resignations to the Speaker while the latter was out of station. The rebel MLAs have clearly indicated that they want to bring down the Congress-JD(S) coalition government led by H.D.Kumaraswamy. The Karnataka crisis as it is known, has paralysed the entire administration as greedy MLAs are engaged in a self destruct mode purely to feed their greed and shamed the nation by the spectacle of ferrying the rebels from one high class hotel to another. These MLAs have been elected under their respective party tickets with a mandate to serve people. However, the motive for the resignations had nothing to do with the people’s welfare; instead, the elected seem to have put their interests above people. The issue of resignations does not come into play since there was no specific cause that would warrant such. If the government refused to look into people’s welfare in the constituencies or if the MLAs were not allowed to function, then it would have been a fit case of taking the issue back to the people.

In the Karnataka case, the rebel MLAs were only interested to bring down the coalition government for all its alleged ills and return through byelection after being given plump portfolios. The speaker who belongs to the Congress party, has shown reluctance in acting on the resignations so as to enable the government to lure them back. Now two things that should have been within the folds of the legislative is for the speaker either accept the resignations or initiate proceedings to disqualify them if they voted against their own party government in a motion of confidence. When none of these were effected, it was therefore quite intriguing that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the petitions of the rebels. Perhaps the Supreme Court could have waited for the action of the assembly speaker before responding. Since no action had been taken, there was no urgent need to intervene in directing the speaker not to take any action. It would be considered proper if courts hear petitions by aggrieved parties against decisions or actions of the speaker. It may be recalled that in 2007, the Supreme Court had upheld the decision of the Lok Sabha speaker in disqualifying 11 members involved in the cash for-query scam in 2005. In its landmark judgment, the Supreme Court said parliament as a legislative body has all the rights but its actions must adhere to the basic structure of the Constitution and any trespass can be struck down.

Courts must act with caution and proper restraint. It needs to be remembered that courts cannot dictate on the government or seek to dictate on it. The judiciary should act only as an alarm bell; it should ensure that the executive has become alive to perform its duties.

Members of the legislature or parliament have been elected by the people and in democracy this is the highest forum. If law makers cannot perform their constitutional obligations, then it would be a great blow to democracy.

DailyDevotion The Miracle of Belief My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom… —1 Corinthians 2:4 Paul was a scholar and an orator of the highest degree; he was not speaking here out of a deep sense of humility, but was saying that when he preached the gospel, he would veil the power of God if he impressed people with the excellency of his speech. Belief in Jesus is a miracle produced only by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God. The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.

Real and effective fasting by a preacher is not fasting from food, but fasting from eloquence, from impressive diction, and from everything else that might hinder the gospel of God being presented. The preacher is there as the representative of God— “…as though God were pleading through us…” (2 Corinthians 5:20). He is there to present the gospel of God. If it is only because of my preaching that people desire to be better, they will never get close to Jesus Christ. Anything that flatters me in my preaching of the gospel will result in making me a traitor to Jesus, and I prevent the creative power of His redemption from doing its work.

“And I, if I am lifted up…, will draw all peoples to Myself” (John 12:32).

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Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding. ~ Gloria Estefan

Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

Post-mortem

Social background leading to Budget 2019-20: Promising Act RIIN, Can RIIN save Nagaland? East vision under Narendra Modi

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uch have been written and spoken on Registration of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) lead by civil society organizations, individuals from various backgrounds giving their expert opinion on why RIIN is necessary and how to carry out RIIN, at the same time creating more confusion day by day at the absence of clear cut guideline/rules laid down by the State Government to set up RIIN. The drama unfolded following the Nagaland Government decision to go ahead with RIIN shows that State Government is not well prepared for carrying such complicated task of preparing a master list for bonafide indigenous inhabitant of Nagaland nor seem to have effective mechanism to contain its numerous loopholes surrounding this RIIN. The State Government continues to commit blunder after blunder by publishing the notification to set up RIIN without laying down any guideline, failing to include indigenous Kuki and Dimasa-Kachari tribal organizations in the list of Tribal Hohos and organizations invited for consultative meeting with the state government on 17.07.19, expecting civil society organizations to pressurize the government to stick to 01.12.1963 cut off year to decide who is indigenous inhabitant of Nagaland and bringing up draft format of RIIN sticking to 1963 as a cut off year.

When State government itself is not clear on how to carry out its policy what can we expect, except chaos and disgruntlement from every corner? In the act of protecting one right, one should not violate other basic rights.

Social Background: The PDA lead Nagaland Government hurried push for registration of indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland reveals the mindset of the confused, helpless and anxious Nagas of Nagaland and the deficiency of practical idea to effectively deal with the rising populations of legal and illegal migrants from mainland India and Bangladesh. Not to forget the prosperity of the migrants especially the business community are always seen as a threat by the indigenous groups.

The debate of checking the high influx of illegal migrants has been going on for long time. In the near past, concerned, indigenous citizen group had formed association, young rugged individuals taken law in to their hand by checking defaulters of ILP and some even report in face book of slapping ILP defaulters, in most cases, the victims were Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants (IBI) running a small shops for migrants whether be legal or illegal running big shops can’t be touch, sharing ideas and debating in social media to tackle influx of illegal migrants with no positive results.

Sometime the debate will shift focus from illegal migrants to non indigenous Nagas mainly from Manipur, such debate

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often triggered by Rongmei tribe recognition issue.

It is not wrong to conclude that the certain section among the indigenous Naga sub tribes of Nagaland seeks protection not only from the legal and illegal migrants but from the non indigenous Naga tribes whose presence in the state are equally seen as a threat. Past accommodative spirit based on Naga brotherhood now in death bed as a result of old age and multiple chronic ailments thanks to unsettled Indo-Naga peace talks, only Nagas of Nagaland policies favoured and implemented by high and mighty of Nagaland, misrule of different armed factions. In such ground reality, the idea of Nagas without border popularised by FNR and NSF will quietly take back seat.

The policies of state administrations will supersede Naga Nationalism. Nagaland being a capital for all Naga tribes needs to show that all Naga tribes are welcomed without ILP in Nagaland, applying tribe colour in lands ownerships system and government policies will create deeper fragmentation in the long run even among Nagas of Nagaland.

I wish, I may be proven wrong but post execution of RIIN; regional feeling will grow manifold beyond control, Naga nationalism, peace talk will carry little meaning until the final settlement arrives if it is meant to be and satisfies some leading dominant Naga tribes of Nagaland.

But now it appears majority of Nagaland based indigenous tribes have lost hope in political negotiations and will go to any length to protect and preserve its limited state resources, for high and mighty greatest excuse to play regional politics is to bring out the card of limited resources and go on diverting state limited resources to their kitchen not caring to equally share resources among fellow recognized indigenous people, also deny state privileges and rights to non-indigenous groups of people including Nagas settling in the state for several decades but originally from outside Nagaland state.

Nagaland government has stated the RIIN is not to target traders (includes legal and illegal migrants), so who is their target now?

Nagas being a part of the minorities in India had never shied away of attacking BJP lead Central Government of violating minorities rights on several occasions.

Time has come to show how Nagaland Government will treat its minorities living in the state. Not forgetting the established rules that the kind of Democratic Government is known by how it treats their minorities and its commitment to respect and protect minority rights. Whether the tyranny of the majority will prevail as usual or minority rights will be respected by giving administrative safeguards to the minorities.

Pakinrichapbo (Advocate), Samziuram Village, Peren, Nagaland

“It is very Indian… It is easy to carry. And it is high time to overcome the British hangover,” remarked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaking about her decision to do away with the ‘briefcase’ culture while bringing in the Budget papers to Parliament.

She made every Indian who take immense pride in Swadeshi spirit proud about it. Nirmala Sitharaman’s maiden Budget certainly highlighted various aspects of running of the Indian economy.

Many things are being said and written about the Budget 2019-20. What strikes me most is the courage and determination shown by the Finance Minister towards incentivising private investment.

This is bound to have positive impact and will open doors for flow of foreign money. As a layman my understanding is such a mechanism will open opportunities to spur growth.

The much talked about domestic fiscal constraint will be handled and eased and the government will be able to stimulate new economic activity.

In summing up these, one ought to understand that Finance Minister’s decision on these lines and also take other measures is guided and blessed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – the captain of the ship.

The true test of a leader is in his or her ability to gauge the future trends.

This is one test, Prime Minister Modiji has able to handle very well.

Prime Minister has already made his presence felt in the international realm and diplomacy and in months to come, India’s economy will be more guided by India’s engagement in global economic partnership with big players including the three giants Russia, China and the United States.

It will be certainly left to Narendra Modi

to strike a right balance between justification of higher tariffs announced by the Commerce Ministry and also raising funds to push growth.

All eyes are on Modiji on how he steers Indian diplomacy and economic journey in his second tenure.

I must say from the Act East Policy of the Modi government – which has specific importance for us in the north eastern region – and other foreign policy efforts, an important underlining message we get is that Prime Minister has strong focus towards India’s domestic interest.

This is all the more important for us the Nagas and other natives in the north east because our smaller states have so far not able to take any major step in augmenting funds from abroad. Though it is true some beginning has been made in recent past.

The push for FDI in major infrastructure including modernizing the railways and building new highways also ought to be appreciated in that spirit.

The developments over last five years have demonstrated clearly that the foreign policy is being driven by PM Modi and rightly so.

My understanding is clear – economic prosperity of Indians is now linked to diplomacy and foreign policy, and the roadmap in international realm is guided by the footsteps Prime Minister has taken.

Mr Modi’s effor ts have yielded positive results and in last few years countries like Japan have started taking immense interest in north east of India. These are all welcome developments.

Modi’s stewardship of foreign policy, his interactions with world leaders and the manner India is being given importance in the comity of nations suggest the world “wants India to do well”.

This is the New India vision – Prime Minister has been underlining.

I have said elsewhere that my knowledge about hardcore economics could be limited. But I have always appreciated one basic fact that the absence of quality infrastructure has more often hampered faster economic growth.

The Budget 2019 makes it clear that the government of Prime Minister Modi has sent a strong signal that infrastructure development will be a top priority in the second term.

The push for connectivity includes connecting all the habitations through all weather roads under PM Gram Sadak Yojana and building a network of industrial corridors.

I am sure north eastern states and other smaller states will benefitting from these.

Before wrapping up, how does one look at a good Budget? In simpler sense, a good Budget is one that promotes investment, encourages consumption by making citizens happier – and in doing so we have to drive investment for creating jobs. The maiden Budget of Modi Goverment 2.0 –has the potential to achieve it.

In terms of policy, we have China and East Asian models driven by ‘exports’ that helped spur growth.

India will have to focus on manufacturing and link agricultural produce to ‘export’.

The Modi gover nment is now all set to push reforms, encourage corporatisation of units wherever necessary and will also undertake the necessary labour reforms to attract investment. There is no replacement to meticulous planning and that is what is my take away from Budget 2019-20.

(The views expressed are personal) Dr Sukhato Sema, Vice President of BJP Nagaland

NPMSA statement on pen down strike

he NPMSA hope that deputation was in 1992 as decision for absorption of established Judgement and this press release will Planning Assistant (entry the service of Smt. I Sino Orders and prior to the clear the stand of level).

Phom OSD (Skill Devel- interpretation by the Law the Association as to how At present, there are opment) under Planning & Justice Department, the and why the Association 3 (three) branches/cells & Coordination and also Cabinet on 29/06/2019 had resorted to pen down under the Planning & Co- decided to make the post of has gone ahead and incorstrike. ordination Department viz, OSD (Skill Development) porated the post of OSD The State Planning State Planning machinery permanent in the Depart- (Skill Development) in the Machinery was created in headed by Additional De- ment. Although the Cabinet Planning Machinery Ser1973-74 and was placed velopment Commissioner approved for her absorp- vice rules (Schedule I & under the Administrative with another two separate tion and making the post II). The memo to approve control of Home (SAB) De- cells ie, Monitoring Cell permanent in the Planning the service rules was put up partment. With increased and GIS & Remote Sens- Department, the Cabinet to the Cabinet by the stop work load and increasingly ing. These three branches never approved the post of gap Development Commiscomplex nature of works, have different functions and OSD (Skill Development) sioner without the knowlthe administrative control duties with respective cadre as a regular cadre in the edge of the stakeholders was transferred to Planning strength.

State Planning Machinery and furthermore, without & Coordination DepartWith the formulation as the post is under Moni- taking into view the interment with Development of National policy on Skill toring Cell. pretation of the latest Court Commissioner as its admin- Development, the State The said absorption of Judgement provided by the istrative head in 1986.

Government had placed Smt. I.Sino Phom was con- Law & Justice Department.

With a view to en- the subject matter in the tested in the Court thrice. It may be wondered why a sure smooth functioning Planning & Coordination The Court Judgment dated decision on such a sensitive of the new department, Department. Accordingly, 30/06/2014, 17/03/2017 and contentious matter was the authorities had to pool a post of OSD (Skill De- and 20/05/2019 have up- taken in haste. To put things qualified personnel from velopment) was created in held that the post of OSD in perspective, the process various fields. Accordingly, 2011 and Smt. I Sino Phom, (Skill Development) and of putting up the Cabinet officers from various de- from Nagaland University, Assistant Development memo as additional agenda partments were brought on Mass Communication De- Commissioner (ADC) in was completed in a day for a deputation against cadre partment was appointed the Planning & Coordi- case that has been disputed vacant sanctioned posts against the post on depu- nation Department are for the last 7-8 years. as Research Officer (now tation initially for a period not inter-transferable, not It may be noted that Planning Officer), Assistant of 2 years. This post is to identical, not of the same the entry level of officers in Research Officer (now As- function under Monitoring cadre and the functions, the Planning Machinery are sistant Planning Officer), Cell and not under State duties and responsibilities levels 7 (Planning Assistant) Research Assistant (now Planning Machinery, as is are fundamentally different and 6 (Assistant Planning Planning Assistant), UDA, clearly mentioned in the which has been corrobo- Officer). However, Mrs I. superintendent etc. Simul- post creation order; quote rated by the Department Sino Phom had directly entaneously, officers were The OSD (Skill Develop- of Law & Justice. There- tered into level 4 (ADC) in also recruited as per the re- ment) shall function under fore, the post of OSD (Skill the grade pay of Rs. 6600/cruitment rules notified by the Monitoring Cell of Development) cannot be which is unprecedented and Home Department (SAB) in the Planning Department, treated as regular cadre in will destroy the career of 1982 which had prescribed unquote. the Planning Machinery as many as 56 officers in methods of recruitment and On 18.12.2012 before Service cadre and cannot the Planning Department educational qualifications. completion of her 2 years be governed by the same which is unfair. In fact, as The last officer brought on tenure, the Cabinet took a service rules. Despite the per the present Recruitment Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this

Rules in the State, there is no provision for direct recruitment in the grade pay of Rs. 6600/-. The highest post for direct recruitment being in the grade pay of Rs. 5400/-.

It may also be noted that all OSD posts in the State, by the very nature of the duties attached to them, are always ex-cadre posts.

Their posts being ex-cadre are not included in any Department’s Service rules.

If the Planning Machinery Service rules is enforced as approved by the Cabinet, it will have the same impact in all departments in the State having OSD (ex-cadre). It will create a bad precedence and cripple the whole government system in future.

Other OSDs may also start

claiming to be encadred in their respective Departments, in which case, will the State government be prepared to apply the same yardstick?

In view of the above, the NPMSA had resorted to agitation. Now since the Chief Secretary on behalf of the Government has given a written assurance that the matter will be taken up in the next Cabinet meeting and that all steps will be taken to ensure that the service interests of the members are not put to a disadvantageous position.

Based on this assurance, the NPMSA has temporarily suspended the agitation.

Imlikokba Longkumer, NPMSA, president and Orenbomo Lotha, general secretary.

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Jio network service

Jio network supposed to be the fastest service is facing problems in many parts of Nagaland. In Dimapur, around the Lhomithi Colony, the network service is really terrible as it goes off randomly. The service providers need to keep regular check in various areas as Dimapur is the commercial hub and most businesses are transacted online. Apart from slow network, sometimes there is no service at all making it very difficult for subscribers of the Jio service. The concerned authority needs to review their service facilities as top priority.

Seema Das, Lhomithi Colony, Dimapur. newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

SP chief forms panel to probe Khan’s fake case the district administration is planning to put up local MP Khan’s name on the anti-land mafia portal that was introduced by the Yogi Adityanath government.

Azam Khan (File)

to defend the party leader and rake up the issue in the state Assembly, which is going to commence on Thursday.

Based on the findings, the SP may try to put pressure on the BJP government for alleged harassment of Khan.

It is alleged that Khan had forcibly taken land from farmers and the Rampur district administration has lodged around two dozen cases against the former cabinet minister.

There are reports that

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Govind Chaudhary has accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of implicating SP MP Azam Khan in fake cases and said his party would fight against this harassment.

“Yogi Adityanath is personally taking interest in inciting people to lodge fake cases against Azam Khan out of political vendetta,” the SP leader Chaudhary said Tuesday night.

“Samajwadi Party will raise this issue of harassment of its senior leader in the Vidhan Sabha and also come on the road against it,” said Chaudhary, also the Leader of Opposition.

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DENSU members during the installation programme.

DIMAPUR: Dimapur Eastern Naga Student’s Union (DENSU) initiated the installation of dustbins along the stretch from Fingerprint Junction, Duncan till Metro Hospital on July 17.

A press release from DENSU information and publicity secretary, Mukamchim stated that, the initiative was carried out under the banner of “Clean Dimapur” in collaboration with DMC. DENSU also hope and look forward to the concerned citizens to make use of the dustbins in proper way to keep the colony clean.

on July 20 and probe fake cases pertaining to the encroachment of land of farmers against Khan, who is also the vice-chancellor of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University,” said SP chief spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury.

The committee will also probe into incidents of harassment to Khan by the district administration and submit its report to the party president within three days of the visit, he added.

It is alleged Khan had forcibly taken land from farmers and the Rampur district administration has lodged around two dozen cases against the former Cabinet minister.

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): With the Congress facing uncertainty after Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as party chief, voices within are growing in favour of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading the party in these critical times.

Former MP Abhijit Mukherjee, who is the son of ex-president Pranab Mukherjee, made an open plea in favour of Priyanka Gandhi, saying she should not ignore the “clarion call of lakhs of Congress workers” across the country to take over the party.

Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Anil Shastri said Priyanka Gandhi is the best person to lead the party at this time and the AICC should elect her as the new Congress chief in the wake of Rahul Gandhi’s insistence on quitting the post.

“Now that Rahul Gandhi is firm on his resigna-

Priyanka Gandhi (File)

tion as Congress President, it’s the question of party’s existence. And, if the party has to survive we have to have a President at the earliest. There can’t be a better person to lead the Congress than Priyanka Gandhi and let the AICC elect her,” Shastri said on Twitter.

Abhijit Mukher jee said the party is facing an existential crisis and Priyanka Gandhi should take over its reins and change its fortunes. She will drive

it back to a landslide victory like her grandmother Indira Gandhi did, he said.

Chiming with the views of these leader, former Union minister Shriprakash Jaiswal also made a strong pitch for Priyanka taking charge as party president.

“When Congress is facing an existential crisis after Rahul Ji has tendered his resignation, Priyanka Gandhi Ji must not ignore the clarion call of lakhs of Congress workers and supporters throughout India,” Mukherjee said.

“I am strongly hopeful that it will be a rewind of 1980 once again driving the Congress to a landslide victory like her grandmother and our charismatic leader Priyadarshini Indira Gandhi did,” the leader from West Bengal said. Senior Congressmen say Rahul Gandhi is still the Congress president as the CWC is yet to accept his resignation.

JCPI to support RIIN exercise

news in Brief PHED KUWCSA emergency meeting: PHED Kohima Unit Work Charged Staff Association (PHED KUWCSA) has convened an emergency meeting on July 19, 11 a.m at RHE Rural PHE office Kohima.

All the work charged members have been requested to attend the meeting.

DoH&FW informs on STF meeting: Department of Health & Family Welfare (DoH&FW), has informed that a state task force (STF) meeting for Rotavirus Vaccine (RVV) will be held on July 18, 12 p,m at IDSP conference hall, DoH&FW, Kohima. All officers have been requested to attend the meeting.

KMC informs: Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) administrator has informed that in view of the forthcoming Independence Day celebration, all the shopkeepers and business establishments within KMC are directed to whitewash/paint the front side of their respective building and shops, facing the road on or before August 12.

TBBWA to organize medical camp: Tibetan Bhutia Buddhist Welfare Association (TBBWA) will be organizing medical check up on July 19 and 20 at TBBWA community hall, Ellora Lane, opposite Hotel Yak, Dimapur.

(From p-1) Towards this resolution, the house further resolved that JCPI and apex tribal organizations would “take the responsibilities to sincerely work” in order to obtain acceptable and authentic RIIN towards the fulfilment of the basic concept and objectives of the exercise. The house urged the state government to invoke the provisions of the Nagaland Village & Tribal Councils Act, 1978 (Fourth Amendment) Act, 2009 (Nagaland Act No. 2 of 2010) to involve the Village Councils and the Apex Tribal Councils to authenticate the list of indigenous inhabitants with vetting power in their respective jurisdictions.

Further, the house resolved that the proposed RIIN must be generated on the basis of the notification No. AR-8/8/76 dated Kohima, April 28, 1977 with a clear cut off date as the December 1, 1963.

The House, therefore, decided to approach the state government to provide certified true copy of the 1st Electoral Roll published on December 5, 1963 from the original record of the Election department which was free from manipulation.

RIIN a means to address illegal migrant issue: Cong

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He said : “Sometimes when the need comes, we cite Article 371(A) to protect us and at other times some call it traitors’ agreement,” he remarked.

Therie said the suggestion made by NPF president Dr. Shürhozelie would be more reliable by making village authorities in Nagaland involved with RIIN. He said before such authority was delegated as adoption law differed from village to village, the State required a consensus law on adoption. Therie said it was the bounden duty of the State Government to execute and discharge justice, equality, protect and preserve without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.

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Cadre Authorities/ Heads of Departments are requested to forward applications of eligible and willing candidates whose services can be spared on deputation immediately on selection so as to reach the Deputy Secretary (Admn.) within 60 days from the date of publication of this advertisement in the Employment News (This advertisement has already been published in Employment news edition of 22-28 June, 2019). For eligibility criteria, job requirement, qualifications and experience, as per Annexure-I and Prescribed format of Curriculum Vitae at Annexure-II and for other necessary details, please visit the NEC website http://necouncil.gov.in.

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The pre-poll alliance and the agreement to jointly contest the assembly elections with a seat sharing formula was announced in Guwahati on February 3, 2018 by then Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju in the presence of NDPP leader Neiphiu Rio and other senior BJP leaders. The two parties announced to contest as one pre-poll alliance entity with NDPP contesting in 40 seats and BJP in 20 seats. The PDA election campaign was launched at Mon town jointly by Rijiju and Rio on February 14, 2018, it added.

Therea fter, P rim e Minister Narendra Modi addressed a PDA election rally in Tuensang town on February 22, 2018, wherein he had announced that the PDA would be led by chief ministerial candidate Rio. The rally was attended by senior leaders of NDA and PDA, BJP’s national general secretary Ram Madhav.

And with the support of the people, the PDA won the mandate of the electorate by winning in 30 Assembly constituencies, thereby emerging as the single largest entity in the Assembly election, the statement pointed out.

Konyak and Along said the PDA government was sworn in at an official public swearing-in ceremony at Kohima Local Ground on March 8 with Rio as the chief minister and Y Patton as the deputy chief minister. They added that the historic ceremony was attended by BJP national president Amit Shah, Union defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Rijiju, Madhav and chief ministers of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh and several other senior national and regional leaders.

KOHIMA, JUL 17 (NPN): As per the complaint lodged by the Jotsoma Youth Organization (JYO) against some Kohima traffic police personnel, the Additional SP and PRO Kohima informed that disciplinary action has been initiated against the erring police personnel Wednesday.

Interacting with Nagaland Post at his office chamber Wednesday, the PRO and additional SP Talisunep Imchen expressed regret over the incident. PRO assured to be more vigilant and ensure that such unwanted incidents did not take place in future.

The charge of land grabbing against Khan is fake as the university about which it is being levelled is 16 years old and no one had raised it till now.

Chaudhary alleged Muslims and Yadavs were being targeted in the state as per a plan.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has already constituted a 21-member committee, led by leader of opposition in the Legislative Council Ahmad Hasan, to probe “fake cases” lodged against party MP Azam Khan in Rampur.

“The 21-member committee of party legislators led by the leader of opposition in legislative council will reach Rampur

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cion. The incidents happened between 2006 and 2016. Khan was a powerful minister in the Samajwadi Party government (201217).

UP CM framing Azam Khan in false cases: Ram Govind

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LUCKNOW/ BALLIA, JUL 17 (PTI): Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav has constituted a 21-member committee, led by leader of opposition in the Legislative Council Ahmad Hasan, to probe “fake cases” lodged against party MP Azam Khan in Rampur.

“The 21-member committee of party legislators led by Leader of Opposition in Legislative council will reach Rampur on July 20 and probe fake cases pertaining to encroachment of land of farmers against Khan, who is also the vice-chancellor of the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, and incidents to harass him by the district administration,” SP chief spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury said.

The committee will submit its report to the party president within three days of the visit, he said.

The formation of the committee is seen as a bid

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The dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, fell 0.08 per cent to 97.31.

Market benchmark BSE Sensex extended its gains for the third consecutive session.

The 30-share index settled 84.60 points or 0.22 per cent higher at 39,215.64. The broader NSE Nifty ended 24.90 points or 0.21 per cent up at 11,687.50.

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) remained net sellers in the capital markets, pulling out Rs 16.97 crore Wednesday, provisional data showed.

Meanwhile, the 10year gover nment bond yield was at 6.35 per cent Wednesday.

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New Delhi, Jul 17 (Agencies): The Narendra Modi government’s second bid to sell Air India may be finalised by the end of this year, sources told Zee Media.

Sources further added

The Finance Minister had also set a target of Rs 1, 05,000 crore of disinvestment receipts for the FY 2019-20.

The Finance Minister had added that government is considering, to go below 51 percent to an appropriate level, on case to case basis, in case where the undertaking is still to be retained in government control.

The government also decided to modify present policy of retaining 51% stake inclusive of the stake of Government controlled institutions.

During its first term, the Modi government had tried to exit from the debtburdened Air India, but it failed to get any potential buyer, and had to eventually defer plans of divestment.

New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI): The rupee depreciated by 11 paise to close at 68.82 against the US dollar Wednesday due to foreign fund outflows and rising crude oil prices.

Forex traders said cautious trading in the domestic equity markets also weighed on the local unit. However, weakening of the greenback vis-a-vis other currencies overseas supported the rupee to some extent.

At the interbank foreign exchange (forex) market, the domestic currency opened at 68.69 per dollar, but lost ground during the day and finally settled at 68.82, down 11 paise over its previous close.

The rupee had settled at 68.71 against the US dollar Tuesday.

“The rupee slipped along with other emergingmarket currencies amid better than expected US economic data. The foreign fund outflows from the domestic equity market also weighed on the rupee.

For the month, they have sold USD 770 million in the equity market,” said V K Sharma, Head PCG & Capital Markets Strategy, HDFC Securities.

Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark,

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NEW DELHI, Jul 17 (PTI): The government has extended the 15th Finance Commission’s term till November 30, and broadened the ambit of its recommendation to include funds for defence and internal security, an official statement said. Government on November 27, 2017, notified the 15th FC, headed by N K Singh, to suggest, among other things, the formula for devolution of funds to states by the Centre for five years commencing April 1, 2020.

“Cabinet approves extension of the term of the 15th FC up to 30th November, 2019; approves Amendment in the Terms of Reference for the 15th FC to address concerns regarding funds for defence and internal security,” an official tweet said.

Govt plans Air India’s divestment by year-end

Rupee falls 11 paise to 68.82 vs USD on foreign fund outflows

Bengaluru, Jul 17 (Agencies): Punjab & Sind Bank (PSB) said on Wednesday it has reported a Rs 238 crore ($34.58 million) fraud to the country’s central bank, relating to allegations of diversion of funds by the indebted Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd, Reuters reported.

Earlier this month, Punjab National Bank (PNB) said it had reported a borrowing fraud of Rs 3805 crore in Bhushan Power’s account to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Both these banks are among a host of financial creditors who have claimed a collective Rs 47,303 crore from Bhushan Power, which the RBI referred to a bankruptcy court in 2017.

It has been observed that the company has misappropriated bank funds, manipulated books of accounts to raise funds from the consortium of lenders, New-Delhi based PSB said in a statement on Wednesday.

The case is currently at the country’s company law tribunal and the bank expects good recovery, it said.

State-owned PSB also said it has made provisions amounting to Rs 189 crore relating to its exposure to the Bhushan Power account.

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tions, central government ministries concerned and departments and state governments have been held by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) to consider issues facing the retail sector and possible solutions for resolving them.

“Valuable suggestions have been received in this regard. Necessary steps for formulation of a National Retail Trade Policy are underway. The government aims to take a decision in this regard at an early date,” he said.

Replying to a separate question, Goyal said the government has recently approved a new pension scheme, Pradhan

have tie-ups with about 30 universities. In fact, the first such tie-up is with Chennai based SRM University”, she said.

NASSCOM, Success Lead, Futureskills, Kirti Seth said the industry body last year focused on emerging technologies and this year it would be on developing “professional” skills of existing talents.

Some technical skills required by companies include bigdata analytics, Artificial Intelligence while professional skills include problem solving ability, story telling, negotiation intelligence among others, she said.

If reskilling does not happen, companies may look at recruiting from each other as the biggest task was the talent issue “right now”.

“It is the biggest challenge we need to overcome.

Today, mergers and acquisitions is one of the key charters of every company”, she said.

To a query, she said NASSCOM was bullish on achieving the USD 5 trillion economy as envisaged by the Central government.

“It is a pretty realistic goal... “, she said. The Centre has set itself a goal of making India a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024.

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New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI): The government has no proposal to allow foreign companies to operate multi-brand retail, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Goyal also said there is a need to create conducive environment for retail trade by simplifying rules and regulations hindering the growth of retail sector.

“We have no proposal to allow multi-brand retail,” he said during Question Hour.

The minister said the government proposes to formulate a National Retail Trade Policy and a number of interactions with industry, trade associa-

Chennai, July 17 (PTI): The demand for digitally skilled workforce would rise at 35 per cent Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) till 2023 of the current talent base of four million, Information Technology body NASSCOM said here Wednesday.

NAASCOM said the top priority for it was to reskill this base and has taken a number of initiatives, the first of which was proposed tie-ups with educational institutions.

“Lack of talent availability is one of the key challenges faced by organisations..We want it to make it as job one initiatives (to reskill talent base)”, NASSCOM President Debjani Ghosh told reporters on the sidelines of the annual Human Resource Summit here.

She said of the four million jobs in industry, 60-65 per cent of job profiles were expected to change in the next five years.

“By 2022, 54 per cent of all employees will require significant reskilling and upskilling”, she said.

Under the National Association of Software and Service Companies initiatives to reskill the talent base, the industry body planned to tie-up with around 30 universities this year.

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Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan Dhan Yojana (PMLVMY), for the benefit of shopkeepers, retail traders and self-employed persons providing monthly minimum assured pension of Rs 3,000.

“It is a voluntary and contribution based central sector scheme, for the entry age group of 18-40 years.

The contribution under the scheme is payable by the subscriber and the central government, in equal share, i.e. 50:50 basis,” he said.

The minister said any shopkeeper, retail-trader and self-employed person registered with GSTN and with annual turnover below Rs 1.5 crore, not an income tax payee and not a member of Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO)/Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)/National Pension System (NPS)/Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan (PM- SYM) are eligible for enrolment.

The monthly pension will start after attaining the age of 60 years by a subscriber. The enrolment under PM-LVMY will be after notification in the Gazette of India, he said.

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was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court.

A month after the former officer’s death sentence, India took Pakistan to the world court, and the execution was stayed in May 2017.

Pakistan claimed that its security forces had arrested

Mr Jadhav from Balochistan province on March 3, 2016, after he entered the country from Iran.

India asserted that he was kidnapped from Iran, where he had business interests after retiring from the Navy.

US slaps sanctions on Myanmar Army chief over Rohingya killings

Gen. Min Aung Hlaing (File) of the sanctions, which do not appear to have any financial impact. The US’ top diplomat expressed concern that “the Burmese (Myanmar) government has taken no actions to hold accountable those responsible for human rights violations and abuses,” and said there

were ongoing “reports of Burmese military committing human rights violations and abuses throughout the country.”

Pompeo cited as an example the recent disclosure that General Hlaing “ordered the release of the soldiers convicted of extrajudicial killings at Inn Din” who spent only months in prison, while the journalists who told the world about the killings in Inn Din were jailed for more than 500 days.” More than 723,000 Rohingyas have fled from Rakhine across the border to Bangladesh since August 2017 due to a military campaign by the army, which has been accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing by the UN.

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Washing to n, J ul 17 (IANS): The US has imposed sanctions on the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar’s armed forces and another three top military leaders of the Southeast Asian country for the extrajudicial executions of members of the Rohingya ethnic minority. These are the most restrictive sanctions that the US has imposed so far in response to what a UN Special Commission last year called crimes against humanity committed by soldiers and militant groups against the Rohingya, Efe news reported. “With this announcement, the United States is the first government to publicly take action with respect to the most senior leadership of the Burmese military,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Tuesday.

“We designated these individuals based on credible information of these commanders’ involvement in gross violations of human rights,” including “extrajudicial killings in northern Rakhine State during the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya,” the statement added.

The sanctions are against Gen. Min Aung Hlaing (the commander-inchief of the national army) and his number two, Soe Win, as well as the Brigadier General of the 33rd Light Infantry Division, Aung Aung, and his counterpart from the 99th Infantry Division, Than Oo. All of them and their immediate families are now banned from entering the US, Pompeo said while explaining the effect

Colombo, Jul 17 (PTI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has demanded death sentence to all the suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks, amid his differences with the governing coalition over reintroduction of capital punishment after four decades.

Sirisena said the move to bring in a motion in Parliament to abolish the capital punishment is a move to prevent the death sentence being implemented on the barbaric terrorists who killed nearly 260 people on April 21 in a series of coordinated suicide bombings on three hotels and three churches, the Daily Mirror reported.

Sirisena is fighting against efforts by his governing coalition in parliament to abolish capital punishment, which has been subject to a moratorium since 1976.

The president, speaking at an event in Pelenda Rajamaha Viharaya on Monday, said punishment should be implemented to create a good society and added that having scared of the punishment will reduce wrongdoings in a society which will help create a good society and a country.

He said that according to the criminal law of Sri Lanka anyone charged with murder, anti-government coup and terrorist activity are subjected to death sentence. “Moves by some government members to abolish death sentence would prevent any such criminal being punished,” he said.

Sirisena has claimed that international drug syndicates orchestrated the Easter Sunday bombings.

The statement came amid a nationwide narcot-

South Asia floods threaten 6mn, risk of disease rise: Red Cross

Maithripala Sirisena (File) ics crackdown, with the president advocating to reintroduce capital punishment for drug offences.

Srisena last month signed the death warrants to hang four drug convicts.

It would have been the first time that convicts would have been hanged in Sri Lanka since June 1976 as it maintained a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment. However, earlier this month the country’s Supreme Court stayed until October 30 the execution order. The apex court’s order came on a fundamental rights petition filed by one of the convicts against the presidential order.

M A Sumanthiran, a lawyer, had filed the case, claiming that Sirisena’s decision impinges on the rights of one of the drug convicts. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he and his United National Party (UNP) are opposed to the capital punishment.

Sirisena’s decision has come in spite of a UN moratorium on death penalty which Sri Lanka has been consistently supporting. All his predecessors since 1978 had declined to sign death warrants. The death sentencing is commuted to life terms - 20 years in prison.

The number of people affected is likely to rise and there are growing concerns about potential food shortages and disease outbreaks in South Asia.

United Nations, Jul 17 (IANS): Nearly six million people across South Asia are under threat from rising flood waters, with more than one million already displaced in Assam alone, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies (IFRC).

“The number of people affected is likely to rise and there are growing concerns about potential food shortages and disease outbreaks in South Asia,” IFRC said in a statement on Tuesday.

According to some reports, the floods from monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people.

IFRC’s Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Xavier Castellanos, said: “We are seeing growing numbers of displaced and increasing loss of life with each day of rain. Entire communities have been cut off by rising waters, increasing the risk of people going hungry and

getting sick.

“All of our efforts right now are focused on reaching these people and ensuring that they have the supplies and support needed to withstand coming floods.”

More than 1,000 volunteers from the Bangladesh Red Crescent, and Nepal and Indian Red Cross have been working with local aid to run search and rescue operations, and to distribute relief, the IFRC said.

Castellanos said that in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, the Red Cross and Red Crescent teams had gotten relief supplies ready before the rains so that volunteers could rush food supplies, first aid, clean water, temporary shelters and hygiene kits to flood victims.

Tallying the flood toll, the IFRC said that a million people have been displaced in Assam after the Brahmaputra river burst its banks swamping more than 749 villages.

The worst-hit districts of south-eastern Nepal are under water and inaccessible to Red Cross response teams, it said.

One third of Bangladesh is under water, displacing 14,000 people and destroying over 11,000 homes, it said. In Cox’s Bazar, which hosts 900,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, heavy downpour have caused more than 200 landslides, it added.

Meanwhile, General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa has expressed her solidarity with the people affected by floods in South Asia, according to her Spokesperson Monica Grayley.

Espinosa “expressed her sadness for the loss of lives and sent her condolences to the families of the victims, the peoples and the governments of all the five countries” -- India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan -- Grayley said.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): The death sentence of retired navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, accused by Pakistan of spying, will remain on hold until Islamabad “effectively reviews and reconsiders” his conviction, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled today, reports NDTV. The world court, ruling in favour of India, granted it consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav. The verdict was 15 to one in favour of India. The Court rejected, however, most of the remedies sought by India, including annulment of the military court decision convicting Kulbhushan Jadhav, his release and safe passage to India.

India had challenged the “farcical trial” that Kulbhushan Jadhav was put through on the basis of what it called an extracted confession, and had asked the world court to order Pakistan to annul the sentence and allow India consular access. The verdict was read out at a public sitting of the United Nations court in The Hague.

Kulbhushan Jadhav, 49, was arrested by Pakistan in March 2016 and accused of espionage, a charge India has rubbished.

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GoT earns record-breaking 32 Emmy nominations

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opular fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” has set a new record by earning 32 nominations for the 2019 Emmys, the most ever for a single season of a show. The nominations for the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday.

“Game Of Thrones”, which wrapped up its story with the final season earlier this year, will go out with a bang. By scoring 32 nominations, the show broke the record previously held by “NYPD Blue”, which got 26 nominations in 1994.

The fantasy HBO epic leads the field of Emmy nominees, including Out-

standing Drama Series, actor Kit Harington in competition for the Best Actor trophy, Emilia Clarke in run for the Best Actress, four Best Supporting Actress nods -Gwendoline Christie, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams and actors Alfie Allen, Nikolaj CosterWaldau and Peter Dinklage being contenders in the Best Supporting Actor category.

In the Outstanding Drama Series category, “Game of Thrones” is competing with “Better Call Saul”, “Bodyguarda, “Ozark”, “Pose”, “Succession”, “This is Us” and “Killing Eve”.

Harington is in race for the trophy with Jason Bateman from “Ozarka, Sterling

K. Brown from “This Is Us”, Bob Odenkirk from “Better Call Saul”, Billy Porter from “Posea and Milo Ventimiglia from “This Is Us”.

Clarke will be competing with Viola Davis (“How to Get Away with Murder”), Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”), Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”), Laura Linney (“Ozark”), Mandy Moore (“This Is Us”) and Robin Wright (“House of Cards”) for the Lead Actress in a Drama Series trophy.

Amazon Prime’s “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” is the second-most-nominated show with 20 nominations, including for Outstanding Comedy Series and Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Actress Rachel Brosnahan will fight it out with Christina Applegate (“Dead to Mea), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep”), Natasha Lyonne (aceRussian Doll”), Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek”), Phoebe WallerBridge (“Fleabag”) for the accolade.

(IANS)

Taika Waititi is returning to direct ‘Thor 4’

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aika Waititi is set to return to direct the next Thor film.

The man behind What We Do In The Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople has inked a deal to write and direct a follow-up to his 2017 smash Thor: Ragnarok, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

No official title or release date has been set for the sequel but it has apparently resulted in Waititi’s other project, the anime Akira, being put on hold.

Thor was last seen at the end of Avengers: Endgame on board the Guardians Of The Galaxy’s ship.

He is likely to also make an appearance in the Star Lord-led franchise’s third installment. Waititi made an appearance in the last Avengers film and Thor: Ragnarok as the character Korg. Meanwhile, Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo have sparked excitement among Marvel fans after recently teasing a new announcement.

(NME)

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Naga singers represent at International choir

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wo Naga singers from Nagaland, Tiakümzük Imchen and Imosongla took part in the opening and closing function of Inner-Mongolia Choral Festival held from June 28 to July 4 at Hohhot and Beijing Horticulture Exhibition 2019 Honor Day of Shanghai Cooperation on July 6 at Beijing, China.

They were members in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Countries Youth Choir and the events were organized by the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation respectively.

In the administrative centre of the autonomous district of Inner Mongolia (Autonomous PRC) Hohhot passed a week of choral music "Inner Mongolia 2019" from July 1 to 5.

At the event hosted by the government of autonomous and the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM), the youth choir of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCOC),

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Countries Youth Choir

composed of 60 young performers from 18 member states, observer countries, was successfully debuted.

According to the advisor of the SCO Secretariat, Vladimir Zakharova, the choir was created on the initiative of IFCM to strengthen through the choral music of peace, mutual understanding and cooperation.

The choir, which has up to 60 performers at the age of 18-35, uniting singers from 18 Eurasian countries was led by two world famous conductors - Maria Goundorina and André De Quadros, performing first of all the international repertoire.

The singers developed their musical and vocal talents, under the leader-

ship of world-class conductors.

Tiakümzük Imchen did his Master of Music from European University Cyprus and Imosongla did her graduation from Nagaland Conservatory of Music, Dimapur. Both of them represented India in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Countries Youth Choir.

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eonardo DiCaprio gave Brad Pitt an iceberg-sized cold shoulder when he asked about the famous door scene at the end of “Titanic”.

DiCaprio, Pitt and Margot Robbie joined MTV News to discuss their upcoming film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” when the subject shifted to the

controversial scene from the Academy Award-winning movie. Whether DiCaprio’s character, Jack, could have fit onto a floating door with Kate Winslet’s Rose – as opposed to dying of hypothermia in the freezing North Atlantic Ocean – has remained at the forefront of film debate in the decades since its release in 1997.

‘Gully Boy’, ‘Andhadhun’ up for honours at Melbourne

“That is the biggest controversy in modern cinema,” said the 29-year-old Robbie.

“Ever,” DiCaprio jokingly adds.

But DiCaprio wasn’t done being teased as his costars continued to try to get an answer out of him.

“Could you, could you have squeezed in there? You

could’ve, couldn’t you?” the 55-year-old Pitt asked DiCaprio, who laughed before responding: “No comment.”

Robbie jumped in, asking: “Did you mention it at the time? Were you like, ‘Should we make the door smaller–” when DiCaprio interjected.

(FoxNews)

Cotton country band at a press conference at Ching Tsoung Kohima on July 17.

Sekhose on bass, Kekhrie Dziivichii on drums, Imti Z Lee on rythym vocal and Senti Johnny on vocal and special appearance by

Dziesekhrienuo, Kekhrie Ringa, Seyievinuo and Dessert King (DK). The band expressed gratitude to all well wishers, fans

for always supporting and encouraging and invited all to come and celebrate with the band.

The band will be performing all kinds of music which includes broadway, country etc. It is also informed that Dessert King will be performing their famous song King Chill.

The concert would be plastic free concert. In this regard, all have been asked to cooperate and avoid plastic in the venue.

Tickets will be available on the venue.

(Correspondent)

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CHÜMOUKEDIMA LONGJANG SENSO TELONGJEM P.O. Chümoukedima - 797103 Dimapur : Nagaland

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We t h e m e m b e r s o f Ward 10, Chümoukedima, Dimapur, with immense pride would like to congratulate Dr. Be nd a ng ie nla A ie r , Daughter of Mr. Akangkokba Aier and Mrs. Tongpangnungla Longkumer of Longjang Village for successfully completing PHD (Entrepreneurship in Nagaland: A Gender Prespective) From Department of Management, Mizoram University We thank our Almighty God for your success and wish you a bright and prosperous future.

Chairman, Ward 10 Chümoukedima Seliba Sangtam

Secretary, Ward 10 Chümoukedima Lawrence Odyuo

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With great honour, we the Chümoukedima Longjang Senso Telongjem acknowledges and congratulates Dr. Bendangienla Aier, D/o. Mr. Akangkokba Aier and Mrs. Tongpangnungla Longkumer on being conferred PhD in Management from the Mizoram University.

Her research topic was titled "Entrepreneurship in Nagaland : A Gender Perspective."

The Union further wishes and prays that the Almighty God continue to guide and bless her in all her future endeavours.

Sd/(Mr. N. Pangjung Jamir) (Mr. Imrongsüngba Pongen) President, CLST General Secretary, CLST

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part of the Congressional Black Caucus, are going to continue to weigh in forcefully until ASAP Rocky is free.”

A petition demanding Rocky’s release has now been signed by over half a million people. Stars including Tyga and Tyler, The Creator have also spoken out on his behalf, with the former cancelling a show in Sweden and the latter vowing not to play in the country again. Yesterday, Skepta told NME that A$AP’S arrest was proof that authorities were “trying to make an example of him”. The North London star explained: “His security was with him – that’s what really pisses me off. And if you have security with you then you should never have to raise a hand. That’s what they’re there to do. But you know, shit happens.

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S Politicians from the Congressional Black Caucus have led calls to free A$AP Rocky from prison, almost two weeks after he put behind bars.

The rapper was arrested in Stockholm on 3 July on suspicion of assault after an alleged fight between his entourage and another man was captured on camera.

He remains in jail while police investigate the claims against him. In a new video uploaded by TMZ, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York has confirmed that the Congressional Black Caucus are joining the campaign to free the star. “The situation with ASAP Rocky is unfortunate, it’s outrageous, it needs to be addressed,” he said.

“You can expect that members of Congress, particularly those of use who are

otton Country band will be celebrating 15 years of existence by holding anniversary concert on July 20, 6 p.m. at RCEMPA Jotsoma.

This was announced in a press conference held on July 17 at Ching Tsoung, Kohima.

Founding member and vocalist, Senti Johnny informed that Cotton Country was formed in 2004 with the objective of entertaining the public.

The band had also performed officially in many occasions including National Level programmes and entertainment.

The line up of the concert will be Kennedy -C on lead guitar, Adi

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ilmmaker Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy” and Sriram Raghavan’s “Andhadhun” have bagged top nominations at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), 2019.

The films are in the race to win the Best Film at the festival. Also, actors Ranveer Singh and Ayushmann Khurrana, who wooed the audience with their performances in “Gully Boy” and “Andhadhun” respectively, have been nominated in the Best Actor category.

Other Best Film nominees are “Badhaai Ho”, “Sui Dhaaga: Made In India” and “Super Deluxe”, while Best Actor nominees also include Amitabh Bachchan (Badla), Vijay Sethupathi (Super Deluxe), Manoj Bajpayee (Bhonsle), Vicky Kaushal (Uri: The Surgical Strike) and Namdev Gaurav (Namdev Bhau).

Z o ya A k h t a r a n d Sriram Raghavan earned nominations in the Best Director category, along with competing with Thiagarajan Kumararaja, Rima Das, Praveen Morchhale, Abhishek Chaubey and Jahnu Barua.

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India held by Syria in Intercontinental Cup this changed after a rather rash tackle by Jerry Lalrinzuala, who had replaced Mandaro Rao Desai only a few minutes earlier, forced the referee to give Syria a penalty. Firas stepped up

and made no mistake with the spot kick.

India lived dangerously after that and saw off waves of Syrian attack to win a point at the end of the game.

India drawn with hosts Qatar in Round 2 of World Cup qualifiers

Players of India (blue) and Syria (red) vie for the ball during ‘Hero Intercontinental Cup 2019’ match, in Ahmedabad, Tuesday. (PTI) Ahmedabad/ New Delhi, Jul 17 (IANS): India were held to a 1-1 draw by Syria in their final Intercontinental Cup match in Ahmedabad on on Tuesday. Narinder Gahlot (18) scored in the 51st minute while Syrua struck back with skipper Firas Al-Khatib converting a penalty in the 78th minute.

Having lost both their previous matches to Ta-

jikistan and North Korea, India were already out of contention for a spot in the final while Syria needed a win to get there.

India played much of the game with more cohesion than they showed in the previous two matches, both of which exposed defensive frailties for new coach Igor Stimac to solve.

The two sides traded blows for what turned out to be a goalless first half.

In the 51st minute, Anirudh Thapa sent in a corner kick from the right.

Gahlot rose above the rest and headed the ball in and scored his first goal in his second international outing.

India looked to be on top after that. While chances were few and far in between, India dominated possession in midfield and kept the pressure on the Syrians. However,

The Indian football team has been clubbed in Group E alongside Bangladesh, Oman, Afghanistan and hosts Qatar after the draw for the second round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar was held at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.

The 34 top-ranked Asian sides as per the FIFA world rankings for June are joined in the second round by the six winners (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Guam, Malaysia, Mongolia and Sri Lanka) of the Round 1 ties.

The competing nations were drawn into eight groups of five teams, with a side from each of the below pots (also determined

by June’s FIFA rankings) making up the five-team pools. The matches in

the second round will be played from September 5 to June 9, 2020. The group winners and four best runners-up (12 teams in total) will advance to the third round of Asian World Cup qualifiers.

The group stage will be played in a double round-robin format where all teams will face each other twice in home and away conditions.

India are likely to face some tough competition from hosts Qatar, given their impressive performance in the recentlyconcluded Copa America, while Oman could also pose some difficult challenges.

On the other hand, the Blue Tigers are expected to easily get the better of Afghanistan and Bangladesh, against whom India have strong records.

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New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI): The Committee of Administrators (COA) running Indian cricket has tasked the Kapil Dev-led ad-hoc committee to pick the next national coach, a move that could again divide the Supreme Courtappointed panel.

The ad-hoc body comprising former India captain Kapil, Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy had earlier appointed W V Raman as the Indian women’s team coach in December.

One of the members confirmed to PTI that the BCCI has approached them to pick the men’s head coach as well.

Back then, the COA was a two-member panel -- comprising chairman Vinod Rai and former India captain Diana Edulji, who had called the women’s coach selection process unconstitutional.

She had asserted that only the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) was empowered to do so. COA is now a three-member body with the appointment of Lt General Ravi Thodge in February.

New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI): With various steps taken by the government for promotion of sports and its infrastructure in the country in the last 5 years, winning 100 Olympic medals by 2032 could be a possibility, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Participating in debate on Demands for Grants of Ministry of Youth and Affairs, he said the Khelo India campaign launched

by Prime Minister Naredra Modi has brought a remarkable change in the arena of sports.

Rathore, a former Youth and Sports Minister, said the Khelo India campaign initiated by the Modi gover nment has changed the attitude of the country towards sports.

Thanking Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the proposal to set up a National Sports Education Board during her budgetary announcements, he said, it will help widen the scope of Khelo India campaign.

Besides, he said, the government has envisaged setting up of a sports

R.S. Rathore (File) school in every district.

Rathore, an Olympic medal winner, said there is no dearth of money for sports now with setting up of the National Sports Development Fund.

He expressed hope that winning 100 medals in 2032 Olympic Games can be a realty with various steps taken by the government and pool of talents available across the country.

Participating in the debate Danish Ali (BSP) asked the government to take steps to clean up various sports associations in the country.

Hibi Eden (Cong) said the government should desist from changing the name of Nehru Yuva Kendra which has been playing a major role.

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The Dimapur Nkonjan Mekokla Ekhung extend our profound gratitude to the collective leadership of NSCN-K (Khango), for promoting our Member Shri Nonghothung N. Kikon, S/o. Lt. Nkhao Kikon of Mekokla Village to the post of Lieutenant Colonel.

Further the Ekhung wishes him good health, wisdom and to continue to serve the people with diligence and integrity.

Chuphathung Yanthan Y. Mhao Ezung Vice Chairman Asst. General Secretary DNME DNME

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MEDZIPHEMA ‘A’ VILLAGE (SIRHI ANGAMI) COUNCIL

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Teisozha hanhie 13/07/2019, Mr. Zhavikuolie Kehie, S/o Lt. Neizo Kehie mu Mr. Mezhükho Kuotsu, S/o Lt. Lhouzevi Kuotsu unie kepesikeshüu pete puotou zo mu hie Council-e unie pukeshüu siethazo ükecü se mechüu pesishüya.

Eden Academy, Mokokchung

Coaching classes for JEE, NEET & NSEE Congratulations to our successful candidates in JEE, NEET & NSEE 2019.

CIRCULAR ROAD, DIMAPUR; NAGALAND.

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We the people and village councils of Lotsu, Pyangsa, Moilan and Pyotchu would like to acknowledge Mr Trongdiba Tongpi, EAC Lotsu for taking up the petition in widening and repairing the road condition between Lotsu to Pyotchu.

Through his support and effort the roads have been restored satisfactorily.

Trongdiba Tongpi not only contributed financial but personally saw through it all, we pray that God grand him long life. The four village councils would also like to wish him grand success in his future endeavour.

We would also like to acknowledge the concern PWD department for providing the finances and transport for the road. In return we have nothing to give but we pray that God bless you and your family with long life.

We would also like to express our gratitude to the following individuals Mhathung Yanthan advisor (Horti) Dr Manazir Jeelani, DC Wokha Avelu Rehu, ADC Sanis Orhyo Ovung Er. Mhathung, EE R&B Baghty division Zanao, JE R&B Baghty div Mhonchumo, PA to advisor Ovungthung, Lotsu village From the citizens of Lotsu, Pyangsa, Moilan and Pyotchu

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MINISTRY OPPORTUNITY The Lotha Baptist Church Dimapur requires one Personal Secretary for Pastor.

Total emoluments of monthly salary as per 2013 Pay Revision : Rs.24,000/- + (A New Pay Scale to come into effect from January 2020.)

Qualifications : 1. Male candidate.

2. A baptized member of any Lotha Baptist Church.

3. Graduate (Regular) of any stream from a recognized university.

4. Age limit : 28-35 years.

5. Fluency in Lotha and English (speaking and writing).

6. Fluency in Word Processing, Spreadsheet, DTP, Power Point, etc.

7. Reasonably good typing speed/shorthand.

Desirable Additional Qualifications : 1. Diploma in Secretarial Course.

2. Knowledge of general office procedures and book-keeping.

Application in standard CV must reach the office by 24th July 2019 to the address below :

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The Wokha Town Akuk Ekhung (WTAE) conveys our heartfelt congratulations and profound appreciation to Miss Chandeno A. Patton, D/o. Mr & Mrs. Ahao Andrew Patton of Akuk Village for achieving a post of Stenographer under Home Department, in the recently declared NPSC examination result.

The Ekhung prays that God bless her with good health and wisdom as she undertakes her new assignment.

Sd/Sd/Yanthithung Patton Longshithung Kithan Chairman, WTAE Gen. Secretary, WTAE

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14, 21-13 in the contest that lasted for 38 minutes.

Earlier on Tuesday, India had a good opening day as two doubles pairs entered the second

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DIAMPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Dimapur District Football Referee Association (DDFRA) will be conducting football referee exam on first week of August. Interested persons may contact 8979086163, 8837048122 and 8413815281.

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round of the competition.

The men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin 21-19 18-21 21-19 in their opening match.

The world no. 20 Indian pair will face Indonesian top seeds Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo next.

In the mixed doubles event, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N. Sikki Reddy edged out Netherlands’ Robin Tabeling and Selena Piek 25-23, 16-21, 21-19 to set up second-round contest against top seeds Zheng Si Wei and Huang Ya Qiong of China.

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* WE express our heartfelt gratitude to Shri Temjenmoa Jamir, son of Shri Metsubo Jamir, Hon’ble Minister, Urban Development & Municipal Affairs Nagaland for sponsoring the coaching classes which makes our community progress and let the dreams of the youth of Mokokchung into reality. * Dream of becoming a Doctor/Engineer???Join the premier coaching classes UVA/ Empowering the youth, Eden Academy Mokokchung. * Admission in progress for JEE, NEET & NSEE 2020 Contact No. 7005589446

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The Chudi Students' Union with immense pride and honor would like to congratulate and felicitate Dr. Lorenbeni Z Jungio daughter of Mr. Zanbenthung Jungio, for becoming the first Lotha Post Graduate in Homeopathy, the first Naga Lady Doctor Post Graduate in Homeopathy and second Naga Post Graduate in Homeopathy. Currently working as an Asst. Professor, Dept. of Homeopathic Materia Medica in NEHMC &H Itanagar. Dr. Lorenbeni Z Jungio BMHS, MD(HOM) graduate from North East Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Itanagar and Post Graduated from Fr. Muller Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Mangalore, Karnataka. The Chudi Students' Union wishes her more success in all her future endeavours as she continues to map the name of Chudi Village in particular and the Lothas in general.

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in the final I couldn’t really catch up with my shooting,” Deepika said after her loss in the final.

“Recently, I changed my technique. I’m catching up. That’s why the different score,” the 25-year-old said.

“I learnt a lot of things from here. I will improve.

When I lose a match, I totally forget my shooting.

I’ve to work on that.”

The Indian women’s team are yet to qualify for the next year’s Olympics but Deepika said the exposure will help.

“We saw the place.

Hopefully we qualify for the Olympics if we perform the same,” the former world number one said about the event at the Yumenoshima Archery Field, which is hosting its first international competition

London, Jul 17 (IANS): Amid the furore over umpires call to give an extra run when a throw struck Ben Stokes’ bat in the World Cup final, it has now come to light that the all-rounder had asked the umpires to take away the four overthrows which ultimately proved to be decisive in England’s win over New Zealand.

During the final over in England’s chase of 241 on Sunday at Lord’s, Stokes accidentally knocked the ball coming in from deep midwicket fielder and deflected it off to the third man boundary, while attempting to dive for his crease with an outstretched bat in a bid to complete his second run. After consultation with Marais Erasmus and the rest of his umpiring colleagues, Kumar Dharmasena signalled six runs for the incident, meaning that England -- who by then seemed to be drifting out of contention needing nine runs from three balls -- were suddenly right back in the hunt for their World Cup glory needing three more from two. James Anderson, Stokes’ Test team-mate, has revealed that the all-rounder, who was hugely apologetic the moment the incident happened, had appealed to the umpires to overturn their decision.

J a k a rta , J u l 1 7 (IANS): Top Indian shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and Ki da m bi Sri ka nth on Wednesday progressed to the second round of the $1,250,000 Indonesia Open BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament after winning their respective opening-round matches.

Fifth-seeded Sindhu had to fight it out against Japan’s Aya Ohori as she came from a game behind to win 11-21, 21-15, 21-15 in a match that lasted almost an hour.

In the men’s singles event, world no 9 Kidambi Srikanth found it relatively easy as he went past Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto 21-

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New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI): India’s top-ranked woman archer Deepika Kumari Wednesday clinched a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games test event after going down to 18-year-old Korean An San in straight sets here.

Ranked four th in the qualification round, Deepika found the going tough against the second seed, who produced fine shooting including a flawless third set to clinch the match 6-0 in her favour.

A double gold medallist at the recently-concluded fourth stage of the World Cup in Berlin, San took the first set narrowly when she pipped the Indian by one point. The Korean then won won the second set 29-25, before three perfect 10s won her the gold.

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ahead of Tokyo Olympics.

This was Deepika’s first individual final in a world event since she won a gold at the third stage of the World Cup in Salt Lake City in June, 2018.

The silver medal for Deepika will definitely boost the sagging morale of Indian women’s archery contingent, who missed the Olympic quota places for Tokyo Games.

“I’m improving myself. We don’t have any Olympic medal. We will try our best for next year and hopefully we win the medal. We have to qualify for next year. Our team is confident,” said Deepika, targetting Olympic qualifications through the Asian Championships in Bangkok from November 21-29. In the semifinal, she thrashed China’s eighth seed Zheng Yichai 6-0, but Deepika was at her best in the quarterfinal against Italy’s Tatiana Andreoli as she bounce back from a 0-4 deficit to win 6-5 in the tiebreker.

Earlier, Deepika defeated Lee Shuk Kwan of Hong Kong (6-0) in the first round, before ousting Anastasia Pavlova (6-4) of Ukraine and Sonoda Waka of Japan (6-0).

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Players of SC Nagaland along with the coaches before the match on Wednesday.

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Kohima, Jul 17 (NPN): Sports Club Nagaland (under-15) snatched a late 2-2 equalizer against Åhus IF in the last league match of the International Youth Tournament “Gothai Cup” at Gothenburg, Sweden on Wednesday.

Abeno Humtsoe and Imlimerenla were the goal scorers for Nagaland during the encounter.

Despite losing 14-0 against one of the top football club in Europe IF Brommapojkarna in the second league match on Tuesday. The team made a comeback in their last

league match to settle for a draw.

After humiliating defeat, there was a much relieve with tears of emotions and satisfaction for the girls at the end of the match.

They will play Halvikens SK 1 in Round-32 on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. IST. State football coach

Ruopfüo Meyase told this Correspondent over the phone that the top two teams will qualify for Group A play off, while the bottom two teams in Group B will play knock out.

On the experience, he said that it was a good platform for all the players and

hoped the state also adopt some of their system.

Advisor for Youth Resources and Sports, Zale Neikha said the team were displaying a great performance despite loses. He said that the girls have never played in a league before and said that they have faced teams that are ranked in the world top 10.

He further said that girls needed experience which can be achieved with greater participation in leagues and longer professional training.

“With their limited experience some of our girls have already been spotted for future endeavors viz, Imlimerenla, Neke Konyak and Medokhono”, he said.

On experience in international level, the advisor said that the level of football in Sweden was undoubtedly top level and added that they have visited a few clubs in Sweden including one of the top European Club FC Rosengard.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

NE U-19 girls football tourney kicks off

Maj Gen Pradeep Nair, YSM, IG AR (North) and others at the opening ceremony.

D IMA P U R , J UL 1 7 (NPN): Tripura came from behind to register a 2-1 win over Sikkim in the opening match of the North Eastern Girls (Under-19) Football Tournament at KASA stadium, Diphu.

Sikkim drew the first blood in the 8th minute.

Thereafter, the Sikkim girls continued to dominate the proceedings in both the sessions. However, in a spectacular show of perseverance, Tripura girls came back strongly to score two goals in the 88th and 90th minutes to win the match.

Earlier, the inaugural func-

tion was graced by Maj Gen Pradeep Nair, YSM, IG AR (North) as the chief guest and attended by Tuliram Ronghang, Chief Executive Member, KAAC, Gourav Upadhyay, SP and RupsinghTeron, Executive Member, KAAC among others.

In his brief speech, Maj Gen PC Nair congratulated and encouraged the players to compete in the true sportsmanship and make lifelong friends from all eight sister states through this tournament.

He observed that North East has the potential and talent for football but lack of

opportunities were holding back these potentials. He added that this tournament will provide a launch pad for all the aspiring female footballers of the North East. Highlights of the opening ceremony included enthralling performances

by Karbi Anglong culture troupe and band display by Assam Rifles. The tournament carries Rs 3 lakh and selection of potential players for Assam Rifles team.

On Thursday, Manipur XI will play against Meghalaya XI, Arunachal XI against Assam XI and Nagaland XI against Mizoram XI.

NSFA set for Strongman Competition Thunderbold FC thrash Mt. View 9-0

Participants along with head team coach Vechita Khesoh and NSFA officials.

D IMA P U R , J u l 1 7 galand Strongman & Fit(NPN): Four competitors ness Association (NSFA) under the aegis of the Na- will be participating in the

North East India Strongman Competition 2019 schedule to be held at Polo Ground, Shillong, Meghalay on July 20. The competition is organized by the Meghalaya Strongman and Amateur Power Sports Association under the banner of Strongman Cooperation India.

In a short briefing held at the Chisel Gymn, Jail Colony, Kohima on Wednesday, the association general secretary and head coach, Vechita Khesoh stated that the entire expenditure was borne by Class-I Contractor KC. Angami.

In this regard, NSFA expressed gratitude to KC. Agami for his generosity towards the association and the participants.

The participants inc l u d e - Ts u k nu n g a k u m Jamir, Vizobilie Punyu, Sedevizo Keretsu and Kevilelie Pienyu. The team will be led by Vechita Khesoh as head coach and Ketseii Talie as the assistant coach.

The team will be leaving for Shillong on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the team has sought prayer and moral support from the entire Naga people.

D IMA P U R , J UL 1 7 (NPN): Thunderbold FC registered a thumping 9-0 victory over Mt. View Youth Organisation in the first Open Soccer Tournament at Showuba Local Ground, here on Wednesday. The tournament is organised by KUTO FC. Manic FC also registered a 6-2 drubbing of Loyir FC. In the other matches, SM College beat Etruseans FC 4-1, Lotovi FC beat Showuba FC 2-1 and Thunderwolves beat Kirha Youth Organisation 1-0.

Earlier, the opening ceremony of the tournament was graced by senior superintendent of Taxes, Nitoli as guest of honour.

The final will be played on July 24.

THURSDAY’S MATCHES

Diphupar Vs Kuhuboto KUTO FC Vs Thunderwolves Evergreen Vs Showuba SM College Vs Naga United Chumukedima Vs Thunderbolt

Action in the match between Manic FC (yellow) and Loyir FC on Wednesday. (Ivuto Wotsa)

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