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Don’t take democracy for granted: PM NEW DELHI, JUN 30 (IANS): Recalling Emergency that was imposed on June 25 in 1975, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said democracy was a part of India’s culture and heritage but warned people not to take it for granted.

Resuming his ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio programme after being elected for a second term, the Prime Minister also urged people to make water conservation a mass movement - like the Swachh Bharat mission - to overcome water shortages.

When the Emergency was imposed, people felt something had been taken away from them, he said.

And it was opposed not only opposed by political parties but also by the common man, he added.

“When there is something close to us, then we underestimate its importance,” Modi said. “We overlook it’s amazing facts too. We take for granted the invaluable democracy we have got.

“We should keep reminding ourselves that our democracy is very great and it has a place in our veins.”

Modi added: “India can say proudly that apart from rules and law, democ-

Fuel prices hiked for fourth consecutive day DIMAPUR, JUN 30 (NPN): Petrol and diesel price witnessed a hike for fourth day straight on Sunday. Petrol price went up 9-10 paise while diesel price went up 8-9 paise.

In Delhi, petrol on Sunday was retailing at Rs 70.37 per litre as against Rs 70.28 on Saturday. Diesel in the city was selling at Rs 64.19 per litre.

In Dimapur, petrol was priced at Rs 68.37 per litre on Sunday while diesel was retailing at Rs 61.98 per litre.

In the state capital Kohima, fuel price was up by 20 paise on Sunday-- petrol cost Rs. 68.86 per litre and diesel Rs. 62.43 per litre.

Analysts believe trade tensions between Washington and Beijing has weighed on crude prices, stoking fears that slowing economic growth could reduce demand for the commodity in the coming days.

Oil marketing companies such as Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum review fuel prices on a daily basis, and any revisions are implemented at the fuel stations with effect from 6 am. The domestic fuel prices are determined broadly by the global crude oil and rupeedollar forex rates.

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“After landing us in this mess, insists that someone else take over the wheels.”

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racy is our heritage and culture. “When Emergency was imposed, resistance against it was not limited to the political arena or politicians. There was outrage in the conscience of one and all.

“The collective torment on the loss of democracy was evident... It is difficult to savour the joy of democratic rights unless they are snatched away.”

Calling the 2019 Lok Sabha elections -- which brought him back to power with a thumping majority -the “largest democratic election ever held in the world”, he said its sheer scale made every Indian proud. He said the number of Indians

who voted in the Lok Sabha election was more than the entire population of the US, “close to double the figure”.

It also exceeded the entire population of Europe, he noted.

Modi paid tributes to teachers, officials and security forces for making the election a success.

The Prime Minister also stressed on the need to save water -- and also read books. “There is no one way to conserve water. In different parts, different methods are adopted but the aim is to conserve every drop.”

He sought ideas about water conservation. “If you know about individuals or NGOs working on water, do

share details about them.”

He said he read about the collective efforts in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore where 20,000 women came together to revive the Nag river.

“I believe that many such attempts are being made and we can turn the impossible to possible when we are together and strive with collective resolve.”

Modi also appealed to people to make book reading a habit and reiterated that bouquets should be replaced by books as gifts.

“In today’s digital world and in the time of ‘Google Guru’, take some time out and devote it to books.” He spoke glowingly about ‘Mann ki Baat’.

“The programme conveys that there is no dearth of inner fortitude, strength and talent within our countrymen. The need of the hour is to synergize those strengths and talents, to provide opportunities, to implement them.”

He said that in the last five years he got a lot of letters and phone calls during ‘Mann Ki Baat’. But, “I have not come across a single instance where somebody asked for something for personal gain”.

Dmu contractors for early completion of road projects

Dimapur, Kohima districts record maximum crimes against women

DIMAPUR, JUN 30 (NPN): Noting that many roads in the town were becoming worse by the day with the onset of monsoon, Dimapur District Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (DDNCSU) has urged the State government, particularly Roads & Bridges department, to complete the works in time.

At a general body meeting held at its office at PWD Colony on June 26, the union stressed that bridge projects, mainly the one connecting the town from Purana Bazar to Walford Colony and Nagarjan bridge, had to be completed at the earliest in order to ease traffic congestion. It said the two bridges were the main concern for the general public as well.

Observing that in comparison with Kohima, progress of works in Dimapur was very slow even though work orders were issued several months ago, DDNCSU said it would try to reach out to all the ongoing works in Dimapur district by deputing its action committee members to take first hand information on the progress of (Cont’d on p-7) works.

Correspondent KOHIMA, JUN 30 (NPN): In a shocking revelation, Kohima and Dimapur have emerged as most unsafe for women as the State’s highest number of crimes against women was reported from these two districts. This was stated in a report “Gender Statistics 2017-18” released by the directorate of economics & statistics on the occasion of National Statistics Day on Saturday.

The report mentioned that, in recent years, crime against women in the State had witnessed a spurt, especially cases like harassment, rape, abduction, murder and outraging of modesty.

In 2017, there were three cases each of harassment and murder, 15 cases of rape, three cases of kidnapping and abduction and 10 cases of outraging of modesty. Interestingly, maximum women in the age group of 18-30 years and 30-50 years were also arrested for crimes related to activities under special and local laws (SLL), including Immoral Traffic Act, Excise Act, NDPS Act and Explo-

sives Act, during this period.

While 24 women were arrested in 2017 under SLL, two were arrested under Excise Act and 19 for other crimes.

Further, there were 52 female prisoners in 2017, of which 47 were released the same year. The report stated that 19 women were arrested under different sections of IPC, of which six cases were related to cheating, one to murder, one to robbery and six for other crimes.

According to the report, women comprised 30.35% of the total government employees, whereas the men comprised the remaining 69.65%. Also, the percentage of women in various categories of government jobs were as follows – Class I: 37%, Class - II: 31 %, Class – III: 26 % and Class – IV: 36%.

Female participation (voters) in general election witnessed an increase from 80.51% in 1969 to 91.33% (with five female candidates) during the 12th general election in 2013. Two women had contested the 6th and 7th Parliamentary polls in 1977 and 1980, with one managing to get elected in 1977.

Patton apprises Shah on ILP, Naga issue PIL against ILP a serious threat: CPO

Amit Shah being greeted by Y. Patton, in New Delhi. (DCMO)

DIMAPUR, JUN 30 (NPN): Against the backdrop of strong reactions from various organisations against the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in Supreme Court by a BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, seeking protection of nonNagas residing in Dimapur, deputy chief minister Y Patton apprised Union Home minister and BJP president Amit Shah about the position and determination of the PDA government to implement Inner Line Permit (ILP) throughout Nagaland

so as to protect the rights and interest of indigenous people, especially keeping in mind the unique history of Naga people and the special legal provision granted to the State.

In a press note, DCMO media cell stated that Patton called on Amit Shah Saturday in Delhi and held discussions on a wide range of issues concerning Nagaland, among them was the ILP issue. Patton also apprised Amit Shah about the prevailing law and order situation and the measures

taken by the State government in coordination with security agencies, civil society groups and NGOs for maintaining peace and security in the State.

While impressing upon the seriousness of the PDA government and the will of Naga people in the ongoing peace talks, the Dy CM expressed the hope that an honourable and acceptable solution would be reached at the earliest under the “visionary leadership” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the “able guidance” of Shah.

On the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), Patton reminded the Union home minister about the commitment of the Central leadership and urged him to take into consideration the concerns in protecting the identity and culture of the indigenous people of the North-eastern States while taking a decision on the CAB issue.

DIMAPUR, JUN 30 (NPN): Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO) has expressed concern over the filing of PIL in Supreme Court against extension of ILP in Dimapur by one Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.

In a statement by its president Mikha Kenye and general secretary Veduvo Rhakho, the organisation said the PIL had become a serious threat to the very umbilical cord by which Nagaland was brought to be part of the Union of India. It warned that scrapping of the law or even crippling any of its clauses would definitely tantamount to severing of ties between Nagaland and the mainland.

CPO felt that the PIL was an eye opener to Nagas in general and the State government in particular, even as it stressed that it was the bounden responsibility of the State government to rise up to the occasion and ensure that no stone was left unturned for securing the existing laws to be protected under any circumstances. The organisation also urged the petitioner and his associates to be “rational” and never “concoct or exaggerate” ground (Cont’d on p-7) realities out of any apprehensions.

CPO explained that understanding the vulnerability of Nagas, in view of their backwardness and their demography, the then British government had promulgated the Bengal Eastern Frontier regulation (BEFR) of 1873 with the sole objective of giving protection to the Nagas and their land and resources from undue interferences of non-Nagas.

Else, the Nagas would have been subjugated by illegal migrants in the long run and would have become secondclass citizens in their own land.

Subsequently, when Nagaland was created in 1963 out of political agreement, BEFR of 1873 was retained, beside Article 371(A) was inserted in the Constitution of India, through which a special status was given to Nagaland. Providing these protective laws for the Nagas was out of natural justice and in the spirit of India’s “unity in diversity”.

Asserting that these protective laws had neither infringed on anyone’s basic rights nor encroached on others’ territories, CPO emphasised that Nagas deserved to have these protective laws and they were given so under the Constitution of India.

Strength of women in police force: There were seven senior officers and 238 junior officers (sub-inspector rank and below) in civil police force, and four senior officers and 178 junior officers (from sub-inspector and below) in armed/reserved police in 2016-17.

Quoting employment exchange report, the report mentioned that 34.19 % of the total registration was women in 2011, which decreased to 34.09% in 2017.

Dimapur district recorded the highest number of women registration in employment exchange. In 2014-15, female employment constituted 25.54% of the total employment and Phek district had the highest percentage of female employees in public sector, while Mon district had the highest female percentage of female employees in private sector.

In health sector, Nagaland had the lowest Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), compared to national IMR. IMR had reduced substantially from 1.58 in 2011 to 0.17 in 2014, indicating improvement in health mechanism for infants.

Govt upgrading all subhealth centres: H&FW

KOHIMA, JUN 30 (PTI): Nagaland Health and Family Welfare (HWF) Department is upgrading the 394 existing sub-health centres in the state, an official said on Sunday. The department has already upgraded 49 out of the 394 existing sub-health centres and the remaining would also be upgraded in phased manner, said State Programme Officer, National Health Mission, Dr Thangho Lam. Interacting with media persons on the sidelines of the inauguration of Health and Wellness Centre (HWC) at Science College sub-centre. Jotsoma here Sunday, he informed that the department has also set up several new sub-centres. Lam said the project is being implemented with the financial support from the Government of India under National Health scheme of Healthy India while technical expertise is imparted by USAID. Director (Health Office) USAID Xerses Sidhwa speaking on the occasion said Nagaland has been performing very well in healthcare delivery system, specially the death rates of children in the state is the lowest in the entire country. Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare department, I Himato Zhimomi said there is a paradigm shift in looking at health (CPO resolution on roads, others on p-7) throughout the world.

Ayushman Bharat: Over Rs.1 crore worth benefits availed till June NSCN camps busted Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUN 30 (NPN): Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) has emerged as one of the most successful Central schemes as patients had availed over Rs 1 crore worth of benefits till June this year.

Faith Hospital, Dimapur provided the highest number of treatments to beneficiaries with 194 preauthorisations, followed

by Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (167), CIHSR Dimapur (108) and Mon District Hospital (107). A total of 37 pre-authorisations were raised through patients from Nagaland being treated outside the State amounting to Rs 6.5 lakh.

Six pre-authorizations were raised through patients from other States being treated in Nagaland, amounting to Rs 3.3 lakh.

The Central government had launched ABPMJAY in September 2018 with an aim to reduce the financial burden on poor and vulnerable population due to exorbitant out of pocket expenses on healthcare.

According to informa-

tion provided to Nagaland Post by State Health Agency (SHA), AB-PMJAY, the scheme covered 2.33 lakh poor and vulnerable households in Nagaland.

The scheme seeks to provide cashless and free services in all public and pri-

vate empanelled hospitals.

So far, 55 public and five private hospitals have been empanelled in the State and, with a PMJAY card, a beneficiary can avail benefit from any of empanelled public or private hospitals across the country.

There are altogether 1,534 treatment packages (including Nagaland-specific packages) under the scheme covering surgery, medical, day care treatments (including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and dialysis), cost of medicines and diagnostics. There is no cap on family size and age of members, and all family members are covered.

Till June 30, a total of 37,127 households have been covered through beneficiary identification system and 75,316 cards generated.

With a target to cover 2.33 lakh households, the target coverage was still low

at 16%. And SHA, PMJAY has been undertaking beneficiary identification drives to generate cards for beneficiaries while common service centres have also been authorised to identify beneficiaries and make ecards.

The scheme made rapid progress since its inception and within five months from its launch, 11,520 cards were generated and in the subsequent five months, 63,796 cards were generated.

In the first five months, 125 pre-authorisations were raised, i.e., the number of times the treatment procedures were booked. In the subsequent five months, there were 889 pre-authorisations and till June-end, 1,014 pre-authorisations were raised amounting to Rs 1.4 crore and 879 claims were submitted amounting to Rs 1.1 crore.

in Arunachal Pradesh

DIMAPUR, JUN 30 (NPN): In separate operations, two suspected NSCN (I-M) hideouts were destroyed by Assam Rifles on Sunday in Changlang in Arunachal Pradesh, Defence PRO col. C. Konwer stated in a press note.

Based on specific inputs, PRO said AR personnel along with police destroyed two hideouts, one in Jongrum and the other near the Indo Myanmar border.

The troops also recovered heavy cache of arms including AK series Rifle, ammunition and other war like stores from these hideouts.

According to reports, these camps were used as temporary transit camp by NSCN cadres.

“Security forces are conducting sustained operations against the insurgent

Arms, ammunition and other items seized by security forces. (PRO)

groups active in the region providing the much needed sigh of relief and confidence to the locals,” PRO stated.

The operation was part of the ongoing crackdown

by Army and Assam Rifles under Spear Corps on insurgent organisations active in South Arunachal Pradesh.

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CNSA cautions on donations DIMAPUR: Central Nagaland Students’ Association (CNSA) has warned individual or group soliciting donations in the name of CNSA. In a press release, CNSA president, Himato Yeptho stated that, CNSA does not believe in sustaining the organisation on free will donations and collections from the markets.

In this regard, CNSA has cautioned that if any member is found indulging in such activities the matter should be brought to the notice of the Central Nagaland Students’ Association.

CNSA also appreciated and supported the initiative taken by SKK in regard to Kheloshe Polytechnic Atoizu (KPA) and appealed to the state government to take up the matter in all seriousness as KPA belongs to the Nagas.

A section of VBS campers performing during the grand final.

DIMAPUR: Chakhesang Baptist Church Ministers’ Hill, Kohima (CBCMHK), Sunday School department and Koinonia Baptist Church (KBC) organized Vacation Bible Schools (VBS) for the students during their summer vacation break.

The week-long event organised by CBCMHK was held at the church premises and Mt. Sinai Higher Secondary School, Kohima, under the theme, “Goodness of God” (Psalm 100:5) from June 25 to 30.

A press release from Sunday School superintendent, Akhrole Ngachu stat-

ed that 744 students from LKG to class 10 registered for the camp, with 23 families of non-Chakhesang community participated in the camp along with 51 teachers.

Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, sr. pastor, CBCMHK, Akhan Koza, secretary, Law & Justice, Nagaland and church deaconess, Zhovelu Hiesuh were the session speakers during the camp.

Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBC), Children & Education department director, Chinehulu Rhakho, graced the grand finale as the guest

PGC holds fresher social

DIMAPUR: Peren Government College (PGC) held its fresher’s day on June 28.

A press release from PGC principal Dr. Katoni Jakhalu and vice principal Albert stated that at the programme Iheigumlung and Idaizaule were crowned as Mr and Miss Freshers, respectively.

Earlier, principal, Dr. Katoni Jakhalu while addressing the gathering emphasized on the sense of taking pride in doing one’s duty sincerely and the need for sense of responsibility and dedication in executing

the assigned duties.

The programme also highlighted annual Academic Excellence Award to the College Topper, 2019 Namgwangheile, who apart from topping her class in the recently conducted BA 6th Semester Examination, 2019 also won several prizes at the district and state level competitions.

At the programme, PGCSU vice president Rezulungbe welcomed the fresher’s and Idaizeule of B.A. 1st Semester representing the fresher’s presented a speech.

Attendees of three-day Vacation Bible School (VBS) at KBC.

speaker on June 30.

Addressing the congregation, she emphasised on the importance of differentiating the family and the institution where due importance should be given for the growth of children’s soul.

She stressed on the defect of children engaged in mobile gaming and internet browsing without limitation which brings immense destruction to the family and the society at the later stage and urged the parents to be vigilant.

VBS director, Chosuve Nakro, said the camp was held primarily focusing

on the word of God and at the same time aimed at providing livelihood earning skills by incorporating trainings in broom making, painting, sketching, embroidery, crafts etc.

The camp culminated with performances from all participating classes.

Earlier, Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, sr. pastor, CBCMHK, chaired the grand finale ceremony and Rev. Dr. Wepre Mero, pastor, CBCMHK offered a pastoral prayer.

KBC: The three-day event was held under the theme, “Unmasked: and to put on the new self, cre-

ated to be like God in true righteousness and holiness (Epheshians 4:24)” from June 26 to 28 at KBC. A press release from Koinonia media ministry stated that, a total of 386 children, 64 officials and volunteers participated in the programme. The main speakers for the gospel services were Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, senior pastor, Medotseilieü Kiewhuo, pastor and Neibalie Kiewhuo, pastor. 12 teachers were engaged for the four different classes namely, beginners, primary, junior and intermediate class with sessions each day.

National Service Scheme (NSS) and ECO Club of J.N Aier College (JNAC) observed Swachh Bharat by organising a mass social work in and around the college campus on June 29. Students were divided into different groups under the guardianship of their respective assistant professors. (JNAC)

Legal awareness on welfare schemes SCC organized AASCC organizes awareness Special Camp programme on HIV and AIDS

Participants and resource persons at the programme.

D I M A P U R : Ko h i m a DLSA organised legal awareness programme on various welfare schemes/ rights and privileges at Chiechama village.

During the programme, topics on “Right of Women” was presented by panel lawyer, Keduvi Zhotso by sharing on how crimes against women and child should be eradicate in the society and their rights protected.

Various procedures on law for women were also shared. Topic on various “Welfare Schemes for Women” under Social Welfare Department was shared by panel lawyer, Apila Sangtam.

Apila explained on how to get registered on various schemes ICDS, Poshan Abhiyaan, Angawadi centers, PMMVY, vocation training for adolescent girls, old age pen-

sion schemes,etc. Topic on “Rights to Free Legal Aid” was presented by panel lawyer, Vikehiepie Sirie.

The programme ended with a closing remark by panel lawyer, Nulhuvolu Rhakho.

Earlier, the programme chaired by panel lawyer, Medochiituo Kiewhuo began with an invocation by Chiechama Village Council, Zanie and welcome address by Neitso Keditsu.

DIMAPUR: NSS Unit of Sao Chang College (SCC), Tuensang, organized special camp under the theme “Community Living” in the adopted village, Keshai, Tuensang from June 22 to 26.

A press release from Programme Officer, NSS unit, Sao Chang College, stated that the objective of the camp was to have teaching and lear ning experiences with village community.

Student volunteers of NSS unit actively participated in the Sunday devotional service, medical camp, learning and making bamboo basketry and crafts and held a door to door interaction with the villagers.

Various programmes, interaction time and field trips were conducted during the five-day long event.

Altogether 22 NSS volunteers along with programme officer and two assistant professors attended the special camp.

Resource person with AASCC members at the awareness programme.

DIMAPUR: Alumni Association Salt Christian College (AASCC) organised an awareness programme on HIV and AIDS at the college auditorium on June 29.

A press release from AASCC stated that, Dr Molusen Jamir, medical officer from DHD was

the resource person. He enlightened the students, teachers and alumnus present about the HIV and AIDS scenario in the state.

He also stressed on HIV and AIDS related stigma and overview of the impact on Naga society.

Dr. Jamir responded to a plethora of queries

raised by the students.

Principal of the college Tapanjit Sinha delivered welcome speech while vote of thanks was proposed by Menute Keyho, president of the Alumni Association and benediction was pronounced by Maheungaulie Zeliang, assistant professor Education.

State BJP condolence

DIMAPUR: State BJP president, Temjen Imna Along has expressed condolences on the untimely demise of Thsanyimong of Lirise village, at Mokokchung hospital on June 30 early hours.

In a condolence note, Along said late Thsanyimong was a sincere and dedicated party worker, who had served the party with loyalty as local president till his demise.

Further, the party president conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in eternal peace.

Weekly medical OPD inaugurated

DIMAPUR: A week medical OPD initiated by Assam Rifles Training Centre and School (ARTC&S) was inaugurated on June 29 at ARTC&S, Shokhuvi.

The camp was for the medically deprived sections of nearby villages, namely Shokhuvi, Kiyeto, Pimla, Disagaphu and Shitovi of Dimapur district.

According to Maj Offg SO-1 (Edn), Anshul Sundriyal, Assam Rifles medical team led by Chief Medical Officer, ARTC&S, Commandant, Dr. Aguina K Y M C

Nsarangbe, which aimed to provide medical support to neighbouring villages.

The medical OPD was inaugurated by DIG, ARTC&S, Brigadier Arjun Segan, in presence of GB’s, veterans, patients and villagers. The team of doctors and paramedical staff treated a total of 62 persons on the inaugural day and provided free medical checkups and medicines on the spot.

Medical OPD services will be made available every Saturday from 9am to 1 pm.

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Assam to hold instant hearing on NRC claims

Unlike last time, these 1,02,462 people can file their claim for inclusion of their names and their claim will be disposed off instantly.

GUWAHATI, Jun 30 (IANS): Racing against time to meet the Supreme Court deadline, the authorities of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam will hold instant hearings for those whose names were included in the additional draft exclusion list published by the government on Wednesday (June 26), reports The Northeast Today.

On Wednesday, the Assam government updating the NRC published an additional draft exclusion list with the names of 102,462 people who are found to be ineligible to be included in the NRC, which is scheduled to be published not later than July 31 this year.

The names of 102,462 persons were included in

the Draft NRC published on July 30 last year but subsequently found ineligible due to different reasons.

“Unlike last time, these 1,02,462 people can file their claim for inclusion of their names and their claim will be disposed off instantly. A Disposing Officer will take the hearing of the claim instantly and will dispose it,” said a senior official of the NRC on Saturday.

He said this is being done to meet the deadline as the Supreme Court has made it clear that the final NRC has to be published not later than July 31 this year.

The Assam government started the process of updating the NRC of 1951 in 2013.

After a rigorous pro-

cess of application and verification at different levels, a draft NRC was published last year which included the names of 2.9 crore people out of the total 3.29 crore people.

The names of 40,07,707 people were kept outside the draft NRC due to some discrepancies in their documents.

“The process of claim and objection started on September 25 last year and ended on December 31, 2018. Hearing for the claims and objections started on February 15,” the official said adding that in case of the people listed in the additional draft exclusion list, the claims and hearing will be held instantly so that things can be finalized on time.

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Assam foreigners’ tribunals need more transparency, says Setalvad Guwahati, Jun 30 (PTI): Rights activist Teesta Setalvad Sunday called for more transparency in the functioning of foreigners’ tribunals (FT) in Assam while deciding the fate of suspected foreigners.

The FTs are quasijudicial bodies which determine the citizenship of people suspected to be illegal immigrants.

“We are currently touring some districts of Assam and have come across a large number of cases where people have been declared foreigners despite having the required documents,” said Setalvad, secretary of Mumbai-based NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace.

Many people in Morigaon, Nagaon and Chirang districts have been declared foreigners by the tribunals even though they had the required documents, she said.

The NRC Seva Kendras and the FTs are in a hurry to meet targets and as a result, the poor people, irrespective of communities, have become victims of anomalies in the process of determining citizenship, she alleged.

The Seva Kendras are help desks set up to assist people in enrolling for the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The NRC should be prepared in the “original spirit of the Assam Accord so that no genuine Indian citizen’s identity of citizenship is wiped out”, Setalvad said. The FTs lack transparency as open trial is not allowed, rendering the process vulnerable to charges of bias, senior advocate Mihir

Teesta Setalvad

Desai, accompanying Setalvad, alleged.

He said tribunal proceedings should be transparent so that the public is assured that no injustice was meted out to those who faced trial for being suspected foreigners.

“Open court trial is the rule of justice. There are exceptions only in the cases of rape, child victims and where the victims demand in-camera trials,” Desai said.

He claimed that most of FTs are headed by people who lack judicial experience.

There are several cases like that of Army veteran Md Sanaullah in which people having proper documents were wrongly declared foreigners by the FTs, Desai said.

The Supreme Courtmonitored NRC updation exercise is being carried out in Assam to identify illegal immigrants in the state which has seen an influx of Bangladeshis since the early 20th century.

The draft NRC, which was published on July 30 last year, included the names of 2.9 crore people out of total 3.29 crore applicants, leaving out 40 lakh of them.

Mnp govt employees to go on mass casual leave over 7th Pay commission Correspondent

IMPHAL, Jun 30: Joint Administrative Council (JAC) of All Manipur Trade Unions’ Council (AMTUC) and All Manipur Government Employees’ Organisation (AMGEO) on Sunday announced going ahead with its proposed mass casual leave stir of government employees on July 1 and 2.

Two days ago on Friday (June 28), the JAC threatened two days mass casual leave by employees of state government if the state government fails to review an order related with the adoption of pay structures recommended by the Central 7th Pay Commission issued by the state finance commission.

The JAC has alleged that an order issued by the state finance department on June 28 regarding imple-

mentation of the 7th pay commission to the state government employees was almost similar to one issued in July last year which the JAC had rejected.

Addressing a news conference at JAC office in Imphal today, JAC general secretary Laitonjam Biken said employees of the state government will take mass casual leave stir on Monday and Tuesday.

Strongly condemning the state government’s approach to the issue of 7th pay, the JAC had decided to undertake mass casual leave on July 1 and 2, Laitonjam Biken reminded.

A cabinet meeting convened by the chief minister on June 27 last decided to deposit employees’ GPF in their accounts from 2019 and start payment of salaries to the scales recommended by the 7th Central Pay Commission from April 2020.

The JAC general secretary pointed out that the cabinet decision taken on June 27 was almost similar with the decision adopted by the same cabinet ion in July last year.

The order on July 20, 2018 was already rejected by the JAC and atleast five rounds of talks at the chief minister’s level were held in which the chief minister assured review of the order. However, contradictory to the chief minister’s assurance, the state cabinet adopted a decision and the finance department issued an order which was almost similar to those of last year.

“This is unacceptable to the JAC,” Biken said.

As per the cabinet decision, monthly salaries for the period April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 entitled to the state government employees and which have been hiked to the scales

recommended by the 7th Central Pay Commission would be deposited in the employees’ GPF accounts but cash payment would start from April 2020.

However, the JAC has demanded implementation of the 7th Pay in toto and arrears with effect from January 2016.

Including the demand for the 7th Pay, the JAC has been urging the government to fulfil a 22-point charter of demands, the JAC general secretary said.

He said that the JAC decided to go ahead with the proposed stir as no response from the government came up even as the JAC requested the chief minister for a talk over the matter.

Biken hinted that if no positive response comes up from the government even after the two days mass casual leave stir, the JAC may resort to cease work strike

and other intense modes of agitation.

He demanded that the cabinet decision adopted on June 28 should be reviewed on or before July 10. He reminded that earlier, the JAC has resorted to an indefinite cease work strike.

It was however suspended only when the Lok Sabha election model code of conduct came into force on March 11.

The JAC’s 22-point charter of demands include implementation of 7th Pay into payment of DA/DR, establishment of Manipur State Staff Selection Commission, rectification of pay anomalies, revision of minimum wages, regularisation of genuine work charge, muster roll, casual and contract employees, increasing medical allowance from Rs 300 to Rs 500 and complete abolition of service extension/re-engagement.

Opium worth Rs 50 lakh seized in Manipur

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Timber smuggling continues ‘unabated’ in Garo Hills TURA. Jun 30 (AGENCIES): In continuation with their ‘fight’ against timber smuggling in Garo HIlls region of the state, the All Achik Youth Federation (AAYF) and GSU – Dainadubi regional units caught timber-laden pick-up truck in North Garo Hills on the wee hours of Friday, reports The Northeast Today .

It was informed that the truck (AS 01 DC 9159) was allegedly being taken by smugglers through Dainadubi in NGH towards Assam.

However, all the occupants of the vehicle caught with illegal timber took flight when they saw the NGO members approach. Interestingly an escort car, that was allegedly behind the vehicle also managed to flee from the spot.

The incident apparently took place at about 2 am on Jun 29 when the NGOs saw the vehicle moving suspiciously. When they saw logs at the back of the mini truck, they immediately informed the police before seizing it.

The timber allegedly belongs either to the Darugre or Rongjeng Reserve in East Garo Hills. The two NGOs later handed over the seized timber and the vehicle to

Fakiragramn triple murder accused lands in police net KOKRAJHAR, JUN 30 (AGENCIES): Police on Sunday arrested the prime accused in the triple-murder case of June 26 of Fakiragram in Western Assam’s Kokrajhar district, reports Northeast Now news.

Police officials said the arrested accused has been identified as Sarbananda Barman of Kijurbari Jogdoi village under Fakiragram police station of the district.

24-year-old Sarbananda has confessed to the crime and police have recovered an iron rod used in the murder.

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the RFO, Dainaduni Range with a FIR filed in the Dainadubi Outpost as well. They also sought stringent action against the criminals and asked for the vehicle not to be released.

“We are shocked to find that the vehicle was able to move through so many police stations and check points without being stopped. This stinks of a nexus between the smugglers and the authorities meant for the preservation of forests,” said the NGO members.

According to locals, the escort vehicle in all possibilities may have belonged to local smugglers ho were assisting the vehicle in moving through to Assam.

“They must have come to help if there were problems but they ran when we stopped the smugglers,” added the NGOs. Angered at the continued smuggling of timber despite the presence of Forest and police authorities, some members felt it was time to stop the rot before Garo Hills becomes completely denuded.

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IMPHAL, JUN 30: Manipur police on Sunday arrested two persons along with 20 kilogram of opium valued at around Rs 50 lakh in the local market, a police source said.

The two arrested persons were identified asMontes Prasad (27) from Bihar’s Tikapur village and Manoj Kumar Gupta (32) of Rahatpur village from Bihar.

The opium was found in a Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire brand car (MN01S6274) coming from Imphal towards Jiribam along NH37 during a check by a team of police in Jiribam district, the source said.

A team of personnel of anti-drug cell of the Jiribam district police who have been on alert on movement of habitual smugglers on NH37 detained the two persons after a daring chase.

The police said that the team on frisking and checking duty near Chandrapur K Y M C

The two drug smugglers arrested with 20 kg of opium by Jiribam police on Sunday.

Oil Pump came across the car at the checking point and signalled it to stop.

However, paying no attention to the signal, the car speeded towards Jiribam town after which the team immediately alerted all the police check points ahead while in pursuit of the car Personnel at Jiribam police station who swung into action in front of the station stopped the car

and detained the two occupants.

While they were verified by the personnel of the station, the anti-drug team reached there and conducted a thorough check to the car and detected two packets of 10 kg each opium concealed underneath the right and left footboard of the vehicle.

During spot interrogation, the police learnt that the contraband item was

picked up by the duo from a person from Kangpokpi district and being transported to Silchar to be handed over to another person.The approximate value of the opium would be around Rs 50 lakh.

Jiribam police has lodged a case against the arrested duo and investigation ison to find out the smuggling racket, police added.

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Heavy rains wreak havoc in Shillong

Landslide caused by heavy rainfall. (Image Courtesy: The Northeast Today)

SHILLONG, JUN 30 (AGENCIES): Heavy rains might have brought the much needed relief and respite from the heat but, at the same time, caused extensive damage to private and public property, reports The Northeast Today. Incessant rains have left many roads submerged in many parts of Garo Hills and cases of landslides, collapsed trees, erosion and road damages

have also been reported in many parts of the state.

In his tweet, the Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma has directed all the Deputy Commissioners to monitor situation and take immediate steps to give necessary relief: “Heavy rain in many parts of the State has caused extensive damage to private and public property. Cases of landslides, collapsed trees, erosion

and road damage. All the DCs asked to monitor situation and take immediate steps to give necessary relief @AmitShahOffice.”

Spells of light rains to continue over NE India

It has been raining in Northeast India since the Monsoon made an onset over the region. Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh have been recording heavy to very heavy rains.

According to Skymet weather, in the past 24 hours, very active Monsoon activities were seen over most parts of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, while normal rains were seen over remaining places. While isolated yet vigorous activities were seen over West Assam and Tripura. North Lakhimpur witnessed 15.2 mm of rain while Cherrapunji saw 23.8

Guwahati High Court glare on Assam bonded labourers

Perform or leave: Tripura CM to govt employees

made in the statement of one of the rescued labourer who was a minor back then.

The court said the labour commissioner would have to file an affidavit by July 22, failing which he has to appear in person before the court on that date.

The five were part of the 12 labourers who were rescued. They toiled from 7am till midnight in various hotels and resorts in Una. Gorana reported the matter to the authorities.

The court said the minor’s statement indicated that one Bilias had come to the residence of a middleman, Anaru Dhubi, and taken the youths to Delhi.

“The minor was rescued by Delhi police from a hotel in Himachal Pradesh and was kept in a children’s home for three months,” the order said. Debasmita Ghosh from the HRLN, who appeared for the petitioner, said: “The case exposed the Assam government’s lackadaisical approach in implementing the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.” Ghosh submitted in the high court that both Bilias and Dhubi, without

Agartala, Jun 30 ( P T I ) : Tr i p u r a C h i e f Minister Biplab Kumar Deb Sunday sent a stern warning to non-performing government employees at all levels, saying anyone not found to be working properly would be sent on “voluntary retirement”.

“I worship my work and take my job seriously.

I want everyone to perform properly. If you want to do government job, do it properly. Thousands of youth are unemployed. So, if you don’t want to perform, leave the service.

“A n y o n e f r o m the chief secretary to a Group-D employee, who doesnt perform properly, would be sent on voluntary retirement,” he said while addressing a rally of Tripura Karmachari Samiti here.

Noting that there were problems with work culture in various government offices, the chief minister advised employees to perform properly, if they wanted to save their jobs.

The BJP-IPFT government in ths state, after assuming office in March, 2018 had introduced a new employment policy.

GUWAHATI, JUN 30 (AGENCIES): Guwahati High Court has asked the state labour commissioner to file an affidavit over a case of five bonded labourers (aged 19 to 31 years) from the tea-tribe community who had been trafficked and sent to Una in Himachal Pradesh, reports The Telegraph.

Some of the labourers worked as toilet cleaners in inhumane conditions in hotels till they were rescued by police following a tip-off by a social worker.

The case relates to a public interest litigation (PIL), filed last year in the high court by Delhi-based social worker and convener of the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labourer, Nirmal Gorana. The Guwahati chapter of the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) had filed the petition on behalf of Gorana.

The five labourers hail from Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Biswanath districts.

The high court, in its June 27 order, said the labour commissioner did not indicate whether any further action has been taken consequent upon the revelations

being registered as contractors and without obtaining an appropriate licence under the act, could not have recruited anyone for employment in any establishment in another state.

“The court asked the labour commissioner to file an affidavit, stating what action the authority will take.

The Assam government has offered the minor only Rs 5,000. However, as per a central government scheme, upon rescue, a bonded labourer should be paid Rs 1 lakh as rehabilitation immediately. Only the minor’s case has come to the fore.

The case of the remaining four rescued labourers is yet to be taken up by Dispur,” Ghosh added.

The PIL, besides seeking the act’s implementation, also sought monetary compensation for the victims under the 2016 scheme.

The youths toiled in Una for almost three years until they were rescued in September 2017. Gorana had contacted the local district magistrate and the National Human Rights Commission. The bank cheques that the youths received from their respective hotels and resorts bounced.

mm of rain.

Also, a Trough is extending from North Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim up to the North Bay of Bengal. Meteorologists anticipate a Low-Pressure Area to form over the North Bay of Bengal and adjoining the southern parts of West Bengal. Rainfall activity is likely to decrease from most parts of North East and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

However, light to moderate rains will continue at many places with isolated heavy spells. The hills of Northeast India will start witnessing a decreasing trend in the rainfall activities starting today and would continue so for the next three to four days.

The next spell of good rains is likely to pick up pace around July 4 due to a trough which would move over the Northern parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim across Assam and its adjoining areas. Then the southerly and moistureladen winds from the Bay of Bengal will strengthen and reach the Northeastern states.

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Sikkim University teachers ‘worried’ over low ranking in NIRF G A NGTO K , J u n 3 0 (AGENCIES): The Sikkim University Teachers’ Association (SUTA) has submitted a memorandum consisting of 16 demands to improve the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking of Sikkim University, reports The Northeast Today.

The memorandum was submitted to Prof Avinash Khare, the Vice Chancellor, who is also the chairman of the Academic Council and Executive Council, the prime authorities of Sikkim University.

The items included in the memorandum but not limited to are Low ranking in NIRF, Digital File Tracking System, Gender Neutral Language, increase allowances such as LTC, Housing, health and field visits, Campus Construction etc., are among other things.

S U TA a l s o u r g e d the University to comply with UGC guidelines on Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.PHIL./PH.D Degrees, Regulations, 2016 as well as fall line with Section 22 of

Sikkim University (File)

Statute in terms of formation of various committees in Sikkim University.

SUTA further encourages Sikkim University to revoke such rules (CCS) that are not relevant to academia and implement the objects as spelt out in the Sikkim University Act, 2006 both in letter and spirit to promote interdisciplinary teaching and research as well as devise ways to improve the quality of human resource in the region.

In order to improve NIRF ranking, SUTA has requested the University to promote research aptitude among teachers by sponsoring to attend international and national conferences to bring forth quality publica-

tions rather than wasting their energy in file movements and in administrative activities. Digital File Tracking system and leave application process would liberate the teachers from drudgery of running from pillar to post and concentrate on teaching and research, they believe.

SUTA has also urged Sikkim University to bring gender neutral language and even third gender in Act, Statue and Ordinance at the earliest without any delay.

Allowances such as travel, housing, health as well as reimbursement of externals are not in conformity with contemporary realities and 7th CPC recommendations.

Central team sent to Assam to probe JE cases New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI): In view of the recent cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Assam, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Sunday dispatched a central team to review the situation in the state.

He directed the ministry to extend all support and assistance to the state government.

“I am closely monitoring the situation. The Health Ministry is coordinating with the Assam government for prevention and management of JE to ensure that the cases don’t rise in the state,” Vardhan said.

He said the Health Ministry is providing all logistical and technical support to the state government in terms of surveillance and diagnostic kits to strengthen their efforts in addressing JE. Noting that community participation and empowerment are the most crucial in JE prevention, Vardhan

A Japanese Encephalitis patient being taken to hospital. (File photo)

urged all the stakeholders to start rigorous awareness campaigns regarding the preventive steps to be taken by the communities.

The central team is headed by Additional Secretary Sanjeeva Kumar and he is accompanied by the senior officers from the National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme, New Delhi,

an official statement said.

As per the directions of the health minister, the team will reach the state by Sunday evening to review the situation.

All 27 districts of Assam were covered under the JE vaccination campaign for those aged between one to 15 years followed by routine immunisation, it said.

Ten high endemic districts of Assam (Shivsagar Barpeta, Nagaon, Sonitpur, Darrang, Udalguri, Bongaigaon, Cachar, Morigaon, Nalbari) have been included under the multipronged strategy for prevention and control of JE. These districts have also been covered under adult JE vaccination campaign.

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OPINiON/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post Vol. XXIX NO. 204 Dimapur, MONDAY, JulY 1, 2019

Land for development

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gainst the backdrop of tardy progress in the construction and expansion of the NH 29 to four-lane between Dimapur and Kohima, the issue of land acquisition and compensation has surfaced with one section declaring they would welcome acquisition without compensation while another section reaffirmed their right to be compensated for acquired land for road expansion. Two groups of landowners having lands beside the NH 29 between Dimapur and Kohima are at loggerheads about whether they should freely donate land for road expansion or not. The problem with this issue is that the state government has not been forthcoming with facts on whether or not it has paid any money as compensation. It may be noted that as per the rule over Right of Way(ROW) for two-plane the area is 40 feet wide, approximately 20 feet on both sides of the section/survey line (which typically corresponds to the roadway centreline). However, as per the National Highways Act of 1956 for fourlane, issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) 2018, ROW is between 75 feet or 90 feet on either side from the centre of the road.

The width of the ongoing four-lane is less than 30 feet on either side of the road, which is the desired width for two-lane highway. Be that as it may, public expectation is that the four-lane highway should conform to the desired standard, after all, once a road is built it cannot be re-built for decades and an impossibility when landowners are not willing to give land, either free or with compensation. Even on the issue of compensation, there has to be transparency by the paying authorities. There have been complaints in the past that rate of compensation to beneficiaries varied. In some cases, there were unexplained deductions. Such practises need to be checked and unscrupulous officials should not be allowed to create misgivings and resultant hurdles.

Today most villages favour progress and especially connectivity through good roads. Without good roads, there is no point in talking about development. In this regard, the Lotha Hoho has come out with a clear statement that it will ensure land was made available for widening of the NH 2 passing through Wokha district. The Lotha Hoho was reacting to reports that the NHIDCL was contemplating to forego widening of the NH 2 owing to hurdles over compensation for land and structures. Even on the issue over land acquisition for widening of the two-lane NH 29 to four-lane, there is need for immediate intervention by the state authorities and reputed NGOs to resolve the matter. Taking the matter to court would only add to further delay of the project. The four-lane NH 29 has to be complete on time since travellers have been facing a harrowing experience for the past decade due to potholes and deplorable condition of the road.

The widening of the NH 29 to four-lane has further added to the problems especially after monsoon has set in. Not only roads but also construction of infrastructure needed for providing facilities to public, it is time for people to realise that they are obligated to facilitate progress by keeping the larger public interests over their own interests. Of course, as stated, the process of acquisition and compensation needs to be done within the bounds of law and in a transparent manner.

DailyDevotion Do It Now! Agree with your adversary quickly… —Matthew 5:25 In this verse, Jesus Christ laid down a very important principle by saying, “Do what you know you must do— now. Do it quickly. If you don’t, an inevitable process will begin to work ‘till you have paid the last penny’ (Matthew 5:26) in pain, agony, and distress.” God’s laws are unchangeable and there is no escape from them. The teachings of Jesus always penetrate right to the heart of our being.

Wanting to make sure that my adversary gives me all my rights is a natural thing. But Jesus says that it is a matter of inescapable and eternal importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord’s standpoint it doesn’t matter whether I am cheated or not, but what does matter is that I don’t cheat someone else. Am I insisting on having my own rights, or am I paying what I owe from Jesus Christ’s standpoint?

Do it quickly— bring yourself to judgment now.

In moral and spiritual matters, you must act immediately. If you don’t, the inevitable, relentless process will begin to work. God is determined to have His child as pure, clean, and white as driven snow, and as long as there is disobedience in any point of His teaching, He will allow His Spirit to use whatever process it may take to bring us to obedience. The fact that we insist on proving that we are right is almost always a clear indication that we have some point of disobedience. No wonder the Spirit of God so strongly urges us to stay steadfastly in the light! (see John 3:19-21).

“Agree with your adversary quickly….” Have you suddenly reached a certain place in your relationship with someone, only to find that you have anger in your heart? Confess it quickly— make it right before God. Be reconciled to that person— do it now!

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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he coming budget has many expectations.

More so as after presenting the interim budget, then finance minister Piyush Goel hinted that after returning to power Narendra Modi government would give more relief to taxpayers in the main budget.

Normally, a pre-election interim budget gets the final nod with minimum touches after polls. Would it be different?

That is the great expectation. Many expect that it may not be so. The sops have been announced pre-poll.

Now the government does not have political compulsion. It has the option to be tough. It may not be soft but is likely to have a glittering package.

After presentation of interim budget, it is said that there are some mismatches in tax collection figures to the tune of almost Rs 1 lakh crore. Questions are being raised about the fiscal deficit figure of 3.4 percent. Mismatches were noticed in for the 2016-17 budget too.

The revenue department has asked tax officials to scrutinize the mismatch in turnover towards services between income-tax returns and TDS. Many businesses,

I-T department suspects, are not depositing all tax deductions. Even in customs collections mismatches are noticed. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Chairman P K Das in a letter to field formation stated that there was a considerable gap of Rs 12 lakh crore between the turnover on account of services as per the ITR/TDS (tax deducted at source) data and the value of services declared in the corresponding service tax returns for fiscal 2015-16.

If these suspicions are correct, it means the budgetary figures have to be collated again. In such case, the government would be in a quandary how to correct it figures and allow the sops to taxpayers – no I-T upto Rs 5 lakh income, pension to farmers and many welfare schemes announced.

Rolling back is not easy but managing the finances in a not so bright economy is difficult. The post-interim budget there was questions also on growth figures. It is now stated to be sub-6 percent. Even government figures point to 6.8 percent growth.

This is not sufficient for a burgeoning population, a government that wants to

Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, JulY 1, 2019

Tightrope walk reshape of the country and has to have the crutches an economy that has to of government spending to sprint. The Narendra Modi boost the growth. But the net government wants to pick borrowing requirement was it to $ 5 trillion economy increased in the revised estiby 2024. mates of 2018-19 to Rs 4.47 A good target. This trillion from Rs 4.07 trillion needs to double growth in the budget estimates. It rate to around 12 percent. means more bonds have to Intentions of prime minister be launched. are pro-people but the path Leveraging more fiis not so smooth. Revenue nances from government collection, key to success, institutions like RBI is a is not so promising. Having possibility. It may also conallowed almost 50 percent sider selling its silver – PSU of taxpayers go out of the disinvestment. In some cases net, though a practical deci- it has been noticed that one sion, there is PSU is purShivaji Sarkar chasing the less scope for widening the stakes of net. The GST figures are others. These show better yet to stabilize. It has acted realizations but in reality it more against the smaller is taking from one pocket to entrepreneurs. So, further put in another. corrective steps and rationalThe international sceization of the rates is likely. nario is becoming uneasy.

The transitory period may The US belligerence is an pose problems. area of discomfort. It has The centre’s share of forced India to buy oil at GST receipts is expected higher prices from the US to be about Rs 1 trillion firms under threat of sancbelow the budget estimates tions against Iran, a friend in 2018-19. It is projected of India. Iran for years has to grow over 20 percent in supplied oil at discounted 2019-20 rates apart from providing The government is left many logistic supports like with the option either to transit to central Asia. borrow more or be stingy As the region is hoton expenses. The second ting up, detour by aviation is not considered good for companies to avoid conflict a fledgling economy that zones are adding to ex-

penses. The US withdrawal of concessions, forcing scrapping of S 400 missile deals from Russia and call for giving sops to imports from the US to India are other difficult propositions.

The US President Donald Trump wants tax concession complaining “high tariffs”.

There are points of friction, admits external affairs minister S Jayashankar.

Some analysts question the US moves. The US is India’s largest trade partner, including in defence. It is not easy to comprehend why the US is putting India almost at par with China.

Apart from bilateral relations, this is impinging on India’s growth. Balancing the act as Prime Minister Modi has been trying to do in Osaka, in Japan, he tries to keep it smooth. Though, relations with Japan, ASEAN and Pacific countries are being strengthened.

The foreign policy is becoming key as it helps spur export growth and boost industries and businesses at home.

These also have ramifications on IT sector and telecom, which want clarification on spectrum charges.

Real estate sector is keen on GST policy. The health

and insurance sectors are demanding.

Savings rate are at a low. This is an opportunity too. For almost 40 years domestic savings has been the key to country’s growth.

Private sector sits on their savings and pounces upon low-cost public savings. This needs correction to check rising bank NPAs Interest rates and other benefits have to be increased to boost domestic savings.

This should be, as previously, be used for official programmes. This can take care for government’s rising fiscal deficit. This also takes care of happiness at household level, who finally boosts consumption.

The budget cannot give all solutions. It should be used to have a holistic look at the economy to create co-existence of industry, agriculture and overall happiness. The government must start looking at economy in a holistic manner and ask NITI Ayog to begin intersector dialogue and multisector communication to create the needed synergy for growth.

The impending budget has government hands full.

It has to give definite directions.

Post-mortem

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Domestic Workers invisible part of the informal economy

omestic work forms one of the largest sectors of female employment in the urban areas. All such workers are in the unorganized sector and domestic work largely remains unregulated by virtue of the nature and specificity of the work. Domestic workers help keep labour markets and economies working around the globe. Most, though not all, domestic workers are women and the vast majority is from the poorer sections of the society.

What Domestic workers do? Domestic workers provide a range of services in private homes, they sweep and clean, wash clothes and dishes, shop and cook, care for children, the elderly, and the disabled, they provide gardening, driving and security services, some live on the premises of the employer, others work part time, often for multiple employers. Women are concentrated in cleaning and care services, while men tend to have the better paying jobs as gardeners, driver and security guards.

Domestic Workers constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in the society despite no comprehensive regulatory mechanism for this sector. In North East India, it has roughly been estimated that there are around 5 to 6 Lakh domestic workers engaged in household works, and belong to this unorganized sector.

Domestic Workers invisible part of the informal economy. Domestic work has been one of the oldest job in the world. Dueto various reasons like lack of adequate skills, migration, displacement, easy availability many choose to be domestic workers. Mainly women and the girl choose this job. The society thinks that mobbing, sweeping, cleaning, cooking washing, taking care of the sick, children, elderly, pets is the work of the women. domestic workers are workers and domestic work is work . it is high time now to recognize the great contribution made by the domestic workers to the growth of the economy of the country and the state as well. We the people have to recognize domestic workers as workers not as servants or helpers.

Let us remember our Domestic workers back at home. Because she is

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ater is a resource that nature provides us. All terrestrial life forms need clean water to drink. If there is no water to drink the life forms will perish.

Contaminated or dirty water is unsafe for consumption.

We need clean potable water: Human beings need water to drink and cook their food. When human beings consume contaminated water they contract diseases that can be fatal. It is therefore important that humans consume potable water. Other life forms also develop diseases if they consume contaminated water.

Water serves many purposes: Humans need water for many other purposes. Water

there, we are able go out work. Because she is there we can wear clean and ironed clothes. Because she is there our homes are clean. Because she is there our children can go to school on time. Because she is there we can go to office on time. Because she is there my wife can go out and earn.

Because she is there we get food on time.

Because she is there we can go out and do work peacefully.

Now think a day without the domestic worker… now the government of Nagaland has revised the Minimum wage that is the skilled should get minimum Rs.235/- , semi skilled Rs.210 /-and the unskilled Rs. 176/-. Its almost 11 yearly passed in Nagaland identifying and working for the rights, empowerment , dignity of the domestic workers by National Domestic Workers Movement –Nagaland Region. The Government should recognize them as workers and include Domestic workers in the schedule of employment so that the Domestic worker’s get at list the minimum wage of Rs. 176/-.

Therefore dear employer’s and the public recognize domestic worker’s contribution for the growth of the economy and urge you to enroll them under All Nagaland Domestic Workers Union .

Dear Employers • Help them sign a contract between bot employee and the employer.

• Don’t falsely accuse them • Fix lunch break and permit to take leaves during emergencies • Give them paid leave • Give them overtime compensation.

• Recognize their work • Appreciate them and call them by name.

• We need to pay them just and decent wage Let us recognize their great contribution for the home and the society. We need to accept them as workers not as helpers or servants or like our own son or daughter or cousins.,give them, safety and security at the work place.

Sr.Pramila Lobo, Coordinator, NDWM-Nagaland Region

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EREAN (Acts 17:1015.). Greek words Beroia. Transliteration: Beroia. Pronunciation: ber’oy-ah. Definition: perhaps a provincial form a derivative of Perea that is the region beyond the coastline; Berea a place in Macedonia:-Berea, KJV Usage: Berea occurs two times.

The believers in Berea, their eagerness, inquisitive mind, are what we should emulate.

In speaking of Thessalonica, we have spoken of the Church gathered out of the world. The nobleness of the Bereans was shown not in their way of acting upon a gospel already believed, but in their way of trying the credentials of a gospel first heard. They did not refuse the gospel because it contradicted their previous opinions; neither did they, in an excess of credulity, receive it because it was presented to them.

They listened to it with the readiness of a candid spirit, and they daily examined their Scriptures to see whether its language and theirs were the same. “Many therefore of them believed.”

If our teaching were carried back by you to your Bible; if, when we urge upon you any particular duty or any side of the truth, you would readily examine your Scriptures to see whether what you have heard has God’s sanction to it or not, how interesting would become the work of hearing and the work of teaching! You would feel that you were engaged in a pursuit of truth; that it was not a question of pleasure or interest, but a question of right and wrong, of life and death; you would come hither

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is needed for agriculture. Humans need water to maintain personal hygiene and cleanliness. Water is also needed for humans to keep their homes and surroundings clean and neat. Lack of cleanliness and hygiene also leads to diseases in man. Water is also needed by people to run certain processes in industries.

Terrestrial life forms may also take a dip in the cool waters of a river, stream or lake when it is hot. Aquatic creatures like fishes live in water bodies. They cannot survive out of water. Water is therefore an essential requirement for all life forms on Planet Earth.

Water is a vital natural resource: Man has been wan-

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tonly wasting water in many ways causing shortage of the natural resource. All kinds of non-biodegradable waste like plastics, chemicals and synthetics are dumped into water bodies such as rivers, streams, lakes, seas and oceans thus contaminating and polluting them. If the water is saline, as it is in seas and oceans, it is, of course, unfit for drinking.

But when water bodies, which contain water that can be consumed, are polluted, the water becomes unfit for human consumption. It becomes unfit for animals too to drink.

Polluting of water bodies is a menace of grave ecological consequences. Not only can the water be consumed by life forms, creatures that live in the

not to criticize, but to learn, and you would go hence not to discuss, but to digest. And we on our part should feel that we were aiding you in settling the most momentous questions, and that out of such inquiries would spring forth a full-flowing stream of satisfaction, strength, and peace. The word denotes the examination of a witness or the trial of a challenging life.

Let us thus put the Word of God upon its trial. Let us not treat it as a dead, unmeaning, monotonous thing, to be carried in the hand, read at church, or suffered on the table; but rather as a living person, to be questioned, to be listened to and judged. So treated, the Bible will become to us a voice, not a page only.

So treated, we shall, at last, be able to say, “Thy Word is tried to the uttermost, and Thy servant loveth it.”

(Dean Vaughan.) A spirit of earnest inquiry after religious truth. The gospel offered them no secular advantages (Acts 14:22; 2 Tim 3:2). In the total absence, therefore, of all worldly attractions, what could induce them to receive the Word with all readiness of mind but a deeply serious concern about religious truth? The origin of this state of mind may probably be referred to that spiritual influence which went forth a little before this period -- “to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” A remarkable superiority to the power of prejudice. They did not refuse to listen to these strangers, although they were either unknown or had been preceded by unfavorable rumors (Acts 17:6, 7). An exercise of cautious investigation before they proceeded to make up their

minds. The Bereans received the Word in a widely different manner to those in Matt 13:5, 20, 21, and, there is a reason to believe, abode in it with far greater stability. As the result of the whole, note -- their professed faith in the gospel, and their union with the Church. The Church thus founded appears to have been numerous: at Thessalonica, some believed, at Berea many.

And where the good precedent of the Bereans has been followed, a solid work of God has been perpetuated; but where people have rushed into religious profession under the influence of novelty or angry sectarianism, the consequence has too often been the erection of an airy castle, soon scattered to all the winds of heaven. It farther appears, that many of the Berean believers were highly respected in their station and circumstances; literally, persons of figure and the addition of such to the Church is a very desirable occurrence; for, to say nothing of subordinate and extrinsic advantages, their piety, found in connection with knowledge and refinement, is likely to be instrumental of great good in giving a tone to the whole community.

Like Bereans how do we evaluate sermons and teachings? The people in Berea opened the Scriptures for themselves and searched for truths to verify or disprove the message they heard. Always compare what you hear with what the Bible says. A preacher or teacher who gives God’s true message will never contradict or explain away anything that is found in God’s world.

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water bodies perish too.

Water should not be wasted: In modern towns and cities river water that is contaminated is treated and purified by municipalities and Sir, If we are so concerned about environsupplied through a piped supply system to homes. Potable mental pollution and pay so much attention water should therefore not to plastic bags etc, etc, then the very concept be wasted in our homes. We must also cover various other practices in our should use water judiciously. society. For instance, public are discouraged We must also not pollute from burning trash in their own yard, whereas water bodies. Proper waste jungle burning has not been banned totally disposal is of vital importance because farmers need to prepare for the next so that water bodies are not sowing season. Likewise, smoking meat in choked up with domestic and our private kitchens using firewood must also industrial waste. Recycling be banned then because that smoke can also of water is a means of sav- disturb the neighbouring houses. Firewood is ing water. Watering gardens still being sold in truck loads whereas there are and parks with such recycled so many reminders to people not to chop down water is a sound step in sav- trees in the forest. There must be a proper plan before all these can be halted. ing water.

Thomas Kath, Agri Colony, Kohima N. Kalyani Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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Democracy part of our culture, says Modi New Delhi, Jun 30 (IANS): Describing democracy as a part of India’s culture and heritage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said people felt something was taken away from them when the Emergency was imposed this month in 1975.

Resuming his ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio programme after being elected for a second term, Modi also urged people to make water conservation a mass movement like the Swachh Bharat mission to overcome water shortages.

Talking about the country’s democratic spirit, Modi said the Emergency -- clamped by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi -- was not only opposed by political parties but also by the common man.

“India can say proudly that apart from rules and law, democracy is our heritage and culture.”

He said people have grown up nurturing on the fruits of this heritage. “That is why the lack of it was felt deeply by our countrymen during Emergency.

“When Emergency was imposed, resistance against it was not limited to

People listening to PM Narendra Modi’s radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, at a tea stall in Kolkata on Sunday. (PTI)

the political arena or politicians. There was outrage in the conscience of one and all. “The collective torment on the loss of democracy was evident... In day to day life, it is difficult to savour the joy of democratic rights unless they are snatched away.”

The Prime Minster said the country was blessed with democracy, “yet we take it for granted”.

During the 1975-77 Emergency, hundreds of

opposition party activists and leaders were jailed and fundamental rights were suspended.

Calling the 2019 Lok Sabha elections -- which brought him back to power with a thumping majority -- the “largest democratic election ever held in the world”, he said its sheer scale made every Indian proud.

“In the Lok Sabha election, India saw over 61 crore voters exercising

CPO adopts resolution on road works, others DIMAPUR: Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) during its extended executive council meeting held on June 29, at Phek Town Council Hall, Phek adopted several resolutions particularly concerning road construction.

Attended by all the frontal organizations including Chakhesang Mothers’ Association, Chakesang Students’ Union, Chakhesang Youth Front, Chakhesang Wrestling Association, Chakhesang Cultural Organization, all the seven area presidents, VCC and Head GBs from every village, the house resolved to stand united and extend cooperation to the implementing agencies for the successful completion of the two-lane road work-Chakahbama to Zunheboto via Chozuba and Pfutsero to Phek via Sakraba. The house resolved to impress upon NHIDCL and the district administration to ensure that the contractors are not allowed to compromise on

quality workmanship and to ensure that the works are completed within the stipulated time.

It was also decided that CPO will pursue for compensation for properties that were damaged during works carried out by Gayatri & Maytas. For any grievances under the ongoing road project, the house resolved that no unauthorized body-- individual/ group would approach the administrative authorities unless it is routed through its own village council.

As per the Article 6(v), the house re-affirmed that in the event of any area/unit failing to function properly as per the traditional tenants of CPO, and if their activities are found detrimental to the common interest of the Chakhesangs, the CPO will resort to reformative measures.

The house also asked the VCCs, Head GBs and Town ward chairmen be cautious while certifying ‘residency

certificate’ in order to avoid any repercussion relating to Aadhaar card and Indigenous Certificate. They have also been asked to maintain strict adherence in observing Village Council Act.1978.

It was also decided that the village authorities will extend full co-operation with administrators and various agencies for any kind of developmental projects.

The house also re-affirmed its commitment to uphold the ban on burning of forest, hunting of wild animals, import of pork from outside the district. It also decided that preservation of biodiversity-- flora and fauna will continue to be imposed.

Meanwhile, the house entrusted Chakhesang Youth Front to enforce the above resolutions, CPO president Mikha Kenye and general secretary Veduvo Rhakho stated in a press note.

their franchise... If you exclude China, the number of people who voted in India exceeds the population of any other country in the world.”

Modi paid tributes to teachers, officials and security forces for making the election a success.

The Prime Minister also stressed on the need to save water -- and also read books.

“There is no one way to conserve water. In differ-

ent parts, different methods are adopted but the aim is to conserve every drop.”

He sought ideas about water conservation.

“Share knowledge of traditional methods of water conservation. Use #JanShakti4JalShakti to upload your content relating to water conservation.”

“If you know about individuals or NGOs working on water, do share details about them.”

Speaking on the steps taken to save water, he said drainage lines were being fixed in Punjab, the construction of a water tank in Telangana’s Thimmaipalli had changed the lives of people of the village and small ponds had helped develop fields at Kabirdham in Rajasthan.

He said he read about the collective efforts in Vellore in Tamil Nadu where 20,000 women came together to revive the Nag river. “I believe that many such attempts are being made and we can turn the impossible to possible when we are together and strive with collective resolve. When people will join hands, water will be conserved.”

Allot seats only to indigenous candidates: NSF DIMAPUR: With the results having been declared of National Eligibilitycum-Entrance Test (NEET) and Nagaland State Entrance Examination (NSEE), Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has reiterated its stand and demands that allocation of seats for MBBS, BDS, BASLP and Ayush courses through NEET and Paramedical, Agri.

And Allied courses through NSEE mains examination should be awarded only to indigenous inhabitants – “Nagas by blood” – against the seats allotted to the State.

In a press release, NSF vicepresident Dievi Yano and education secretary Kegwayhun Tep asserted that the federation would closely monitor the seat allotments so that no non-indigenous inhabitant applicants were given seats. They further asked all selected students, after acceptances of their courses, to get their documents verified in person at NSF office located at Naga Club building in Kohima.

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Patton apprises Shah on ILP, Naga issue (From p-1)

Referring to Nagaland being awarded the “Best Performing Small State in the Category of Law & Order” by India Today in 2018, Patton urged the Government of India to help in the initiatives taken by the State government to improve the infrastructure of police department and modernise the police force to tackle cyber crimes.

Amit Shah assured all possible help and assistance towards the initiatives of the State government.

Patton also extends invitation to the Union home minister to visit Nagaland, to which the latter expressed his willingness to visit at the earliest possible time.

Later in the day, Patton met the state’s advocate general, K.N. Balgopal and apprised him about the

various legal issues that confronted the interest of the people of Nagaland and instructed him to take up all matters seriously at the appropriate legal forum on behalf of the State and assured him of all help and cooperation from the State government in this regard.

Patton was accompanied by Director General of Police, T.J. Longkumer and Home commissioner R Ramakrishnan.

Dmu contractors for early completion...

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Urging the department concerned and contractors to cooperate, the union warned that any lapse on the part of the department or concerned contractor would be reported to the higher authority.

It also expressed concern over the quality of roads in the district.

Further observing that the experimental German technology road project between Dhobinalla and Thahekhu junction was found to be viable and durable for the State as the road condition remained good during both dry and rainy seasons, Dimapur District Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union appealed to the government to study the method in detail, so that it could be replicated in other districts as well.

The meeting also deliberated on

some major abandoned projects like the new market complex, which had become unhygienic and a den for illegal activities.

The union also reaffirmed its stand to the government that all contract works should be allotted only through open tenders, adding only valid NCSU card holder were eligible to take part in the tender process.

It reminded the concerned department in the district to abide by the resolution.

The meeting also discussed other issues, included the progress of various ongoing works, particularly the road and bridge projects in various pockets of Dimapur district.

This was stated in a press release by Dimapur District Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union president Hotoshe Chophy and general secretary A Tureng.

Money in Swiss Banks: India slips to 74th place ZURICH/NEW DELHI, Jun 30 (PTI): India has moved down one place to 74th rank in terms of money parked by its citizens and enterprises with Swiss banks, while the UK has retained its top position, as per data released by the central banking authority of the Alpine nation. India was ranked 73rd last year, after jumping 15 places from its 88th position a year ago.

An analysis of the latest annual banking statistics released by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) shows that India remains ranked very low when it comes to money parked by Indian individuals and enterprises in Swiss banks, including through their India-based branches, while accounting for just about 0.07 per cent of the aggregate funds parked by all foreign clients of Switzerland-based banks.

In comparison, the topranked UK accounted for more than 26 per cent of the total foreign funds parked with Swiss

banks at the end of 2018. Among the top-ranked jurisdictions, the UK is followed by the US, West Indies, France and Hong Kong in the top five.

The top-five countries alone account for more than 50 per cent of the aggregate foreign funds parked with the Swiss banks, while the top-10 account for nearly two-thirds. The top-15 countries account for nearly 75 per cent of all foreign money in Swiss banks, while the contribution of the top-30 is almost 90 per cent.

The top-10 countries also include Bahamas, Germany, Luxembourg, Cayman Islands and Singapore.

Among the five-nation BRICS block of emerging economies, India is ranked the lowest while Russia is ranked the highest at 20th place, followed by China at 22nd, South Africa at 60th and Brazil at 65th place in terms of amount of money parked by their residents and enterprises at the

end of 2018.

The countries ranked higher than India also include Mauritius (71st), New Zealand (59th), the Philippines (54th), Venezuela (53rd), Seychelles (52nd), Thailand (39th), Canada (36th), Turkey (30th), Israel (28th), Saudi Arabia (21st), Panama (18th), Japan (16th), Italy (15th), Australia (13th), UAE (12th) and Guernsey (11th).

However, several of India’s neighbouring nations are ranked lower, with Pakistan ranking 82nd, Bangladesh 89th, Nepal 109th, Sri Lanka 141st, Myanmar 187th and Bhutan 193rd.

This is the first time in the last four years that the funds linked to Pakistan in Swiss banks have slipped below that of Indians.

With Switzerland putting in place an automatic information exchange framework with India and various other countries, the famed secrecy walls of Swiss banks are said to have crumbled.

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However, since the NCLT has stated that matter of resolution at Jet Airways is considered to be of “national importance”, the resolution professional is widely expected to request the aviation regulator to extend the AOC’s validity.

At the same time, buyers have shown interest in the grounded airline.

complete financial details about the company’s liability emerge. Similarly, he did not reveal the source of funding, but said that AdiGroup will hold 49 per cent followed by employees consortium’s 26 per cent and the rest will be handed to Indian lenders.

The NCLT process entails that resolution professional will first finalise a list of genuine claimants of due money from Jet. It has asked all to submit claims before the IRP by July. A committee of creditors will then be formed which will invite expression of interest (EoI) from potential bidders. If a bid is approved by a majority of CoC members, only then resolution can move ahead.

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Currently, the RBI “levies minimum charges” on banks for transactions routed through its RTGS and NEFT system.

Banks, in turn, levy charges on their customers.

The RBI has also constituted a high-level committee under IBA Chief Executive V G Kannan to examine ATM charges and fees by banks amid demands for reviewing the levies.

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New Delhi, Jun 30 (IANS): With prospective buyers lining up to take a shot at bagging Jet Airways cheap, its prime asset -- the flying license -- is under the aviation regulator’s scrutiny that might derail the NCLTbacked resolution process.

Industry insiders privy to the development say that buyers are waiting for the final word from the regulator which is expected to be announced on July 16.

Even the bankers to the now grounded airline are nervous. A revoked Air Operator Certificate (AOC) will render lower than expected recovery from the airline which has an outstanding of over Rs 8,000 crore. A meagre return will be equivalent to bank’s taking a massive

Mumbai, Jun 30 (PTI): Fund transfer through RTGS and NEFT systems is set to become cheaper from Monday after the Reserve Bank of India decided it will not impose any charges on such transactions.

After announcing its decision to waive all charges on fund transfer through RTGS and NEFT systems from July 1, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had also asked banks to pass on the benefits to customers from the same day.

The real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system is meant for large-value instantaneous fund transfers, while the national electronic funds transfer (NEFT) system is used for fund transfers of up to Rs 2 lakh.

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not matching the huge agricultural package the government is giving like the recent Rs 87,000 crore expense, up from Rs 75,000 crore for the Direct Income Scheme for the poor and marginal land farmers. With a slowdown gripping the economy, the non-tax revenues like CPSE profits and dividends are also not on higher trajectory.

Besides laying the roadmap, the Finance Minister’s challenge will be a tightrope walk between containing the fiscal slippage and handling growth slowdown. The latter, due to slowdown in consumption, exports and gross domestic capital formation, calls for an economic stimulus package which is at odds with the objective of fiscal consolidation.

Fiscal deficit at 3.4 per cent will be difficult to maintain, but credit rating agencies warn of downgrade for India should it fall, making raising capital for Indian companies costly. It will also raise the interest costs of the government while FIIs will shy away.

But at the same time she will have to fulfil the common man’s aspirations as it is the common man which has voted her party back to power for the second time with as the largest party.

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In 2018-19, the government raised Rs. 18,729.85 crore through Bharat 22 ETF in two tranches. It raised another Rs. 26,350 crore through CPSE ETF. DIPAM has raised Rs. 2,350 crore against a disinvestment target of Rs. 90,000 crore for the current fiscal year. In 2018-19, it raised Rs. 84,972.16 crore as disinvestment proceeds against the budgeted target of Rs. 80,000 crore.

The usual mode of taking a partial disinvestment offering of CPSEs and other public sector enterprises to the market include initial/further public offering, offer for sale through stock exchange and Institutional Placement programme.

The proposed new ETF will serve as an additional mechanism for the government to monetise its shareholdings in listed PSBs, PSICs and PSFls that will eventually form part of the new ETF basket. For this, the government will select and appoint one advisor with experience and expertise on creation and launch of ETFs/ Mutual Funds/Index linked fund.

The last date for submission of application by merchant bankers, investment bankers, consulting firms, financial institutions and asset management entities is July 26.

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missing with unemployment at the highest 6.1 per cent.

Sitharaman also has to meet a tough disinvestment target in a slowing economy and tough market to expand the government kitty in a year when tax revenue are almost certain to be lower.

The government is looking to garner Rs 90,000 crore from disinvestment, up from Rs 85,000 crore it got last year. The bulk of last year’s earnings, however, came from the central public sector enterprise (CPSE) exchange-traded fund (ETF), a pool of PSU shares, as against the government’s desire to sell strategic stake in government-owned companies.

This fiscal government will milk the current ETFs and launch new ETFs like financial sector ETF and debt ETF. So far the government raised Rs 2,350 crore in the first two months of the current fiscal. To kickstart the disinvestment process, Niti Aayog, a think-tank of the government has suggested 35 PSEs where the government is likely to sell its stake.

Recently government said Air India will be attempted to be sold. Last year too, the government had tried to sell Air India, but it didn’t find any takers.

Both Direct and Indirect Tax revenues are also

NEW DELHI, Jun 30 (PTI): The government will depend heavily on resource mobilisation by selling its stake in public sector banks through the newly launched financial sector ETFs (exchange traded funds).

Government sources said that ETFs have been saviour for government disinvestment plan for the past few years and even in FY20, these exchange trade funds would help it to surpass the targets set for the year.

The NFOs (new fund offers) and FFOs (further fund offers) of these ETFs had received huge response from all categories of investors.

The total subscription received by the Centre from various ETFs launched so far stands at Rs. 1.87 lakh crores and of this government has retained over Rs. 51,000 crores in the last five years, said DIPAM (Department of Investment and Public Asset Management) in an estimation of the proceeds from such funds.

Recently, DIPAM said keeping in view the encouraging response and demand for such product, the government proposes to create and launch a new ETF in addition to the existing two ETFs, comprising stocks of listed PSBs, public sector insurance companies and public sector financial

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New Delhi, Jun 30 (IANS): Parliament is likely to start discussion on the General Budget on July 8 while voting on Demands for Grants is likely between July 11-17 as the Narendra Modi government presents the first Budget of the second term on July 5.

“The tentative dates for discussion and voting on demands-for-grants for 2O19-20 are expected between July 11-17. The general discussion on Budget is tentatively scheduled on July 8,” a communication from the Finance Ministry’s Budget division said.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman faces an uphill task. She has to rescue Asia’s third-largest economy from the brink of a major slowdown. In May, India lost its spot as the fastestgrowing major economy in the world though government said it still is the fastest growing.

India’s GDP slipped to a 5.8 per cent growth in the last quarter of FY19, down from 6.6 per cent in the previous quarter, and lower than the 6.4 per cent growth registered by China. The consumtion demand and investment cycles are the lowest pressing for higher government spending in a year when revenues are on the downside. Job creation is

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Trump becomes 1st sitting US leader to enter N. Korea Panmunjom, Jun 30 (AP): With wide grins and a historic handshake, President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday and agreed to revive talks on the pariah nation’s nuclear program.

Trump, pressing his bid for a legacy-defining accord, became the first sitting American leader to walk with Kim into North Korea. The meeting, another historic first in the yearlong rapprochement between the two technically warring nations, marks a return to face-to-face contact between the leaders since talks broke down during a summit in Vietnam in February.

Trump announced after the meeting that the two nations had agreed to resume discussions in the coming weeks. But significant doubts remain about the future of the negotiations and the North’s willingness to give up its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Trump’s brief crossing into North Korean territory marked the latest milestone in two years of roller-coaster diplomacy between the two

Donald Trump with Kim Jong Un in North Korea.

nations, as personal taunts of “Little Rocket Man” and threats to destroy the other have been ushered out by on-again, off-again talks, professions of love and flowery letters.

“I was proud to step over the line,” Trump told Kim as they met in a building known as “Freedom House” on the South Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom. “It is a great day for the world.”

Kim hailed the moment, saying of Trump, “I believe this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future.”

He added that he was “surprised” when Trump invited to meet by a tweet on Saturday.

What was originally expected to be a brief exchange of pleasantries over the raised line of concrete marking the border between North and South - Trump had said it would last “two minutes” - turned into private talks stretching about 50 minutes. Trump was joined in the Freedom House conversation with Kim by his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers.

As he announced the

resumptions of talks, Trump told reporters “we’re not looking for speed. We’re looking to get it right.”

He added that economic sanctions on the North would remain, but seemed to move off the administration’s previous rejection of scaling down sanctions in return for North Korean concessions, saying, “At some point during the negotiation things can happen.”

Peering into North Korea from atop Observation Post Ouellette, Trump told reporters before greeting Kim that there has been “tremendous” improvement

since his first meeting with the North’s leader in Singapore last year.

Trump claimed the situation used to be marked by “tremendous danger” but “after our first summit, all of the danger went away.”

But North has yet to provide an accounting of its nuclear stockpile, let alone begin the process of dismantling its arsenal.

The meeting represented a striking acknowledgement by Trump of the authoritarian Kim’s legitimacy over a nation with an abysmal human rights record. Trump told reporters he invited the North Korean leader to the United States, potentially even to the White House.

“I would invite him right now,” Trump said, standing next to Kim, who speaking through a translator, reciprocated that it would be an “honor” to invite Trump to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang “at the right time.”

Trump’s summit with Kim in Vietnam earlier this year collapsed without an agreement for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. He became the first sitting U.S.

Sudan security forces ‘carry out raid’ ahead of mass protest

KHARTOUM, JUN 30 (AGENCIES): Sudan’s main opposition group says security forces raided its office and blocked a news conference on the eve of mass protests against military rule, reports BBC news.

Security forces have been patrolling parts of the capital, Khartoum, ahead Sunday’s planned protests.

The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) called for a “millionstrong” march on Sunday to push the military to hand control to civilians.

But there are no reports so far of huge protests

Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (C), the head of the ruling military council, rallied support in the city of Omdurman on Saturday. AFP

in Khartoum.

The military overthrew President Omar alBashir in April following a popular uprising against

his rule. He seized power in a coup on 30 June 1989.

T h e S PA h a d o r ganised a media briefing on Saturday evening to

unveil plans for the rally, which would be the first mass demonstration since dozens were killed when the military opened fire on pro-democracy protesters on 3 June.

Protest leader Ahmed al-Rabie told AFP news agency that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had broken up the media briefing.

“Before we could start the press conference, three vehicles from RSF, full of armed men, came to our building and told us not to hold the press conference,” he said.

Everyone in the building was ordered to leave,

Mr al-Rabie said.

He told Reuters news agency that the raid was “a violation of liberties that is even worse than the regime of the former president”.

The military said it would hold the opposition responsible for any violence or loss of life in the protests.

Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemeti, warned of “vandals” and a “concealed agenda” that might take advantage of the demonstrations.

Shops were shut on Sunday in areas of the capital where protests were expected, AFP reports.

president to meet with the leader of the isolated nation last year, when they signed an agreement in Singapore to bring the North toward denuclearization.

North Korea’s nuclear threat has not been contained, Richard Haas, president of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, tweeted Sunday.

Haas added that the threat of conflict has subsided only because “the Trump administration has decided it can live (with) a (North Korean) nuclear program while it pursues the chimera of denuclearization.”

Substantive talks between the nations have largely broken down since the Vietnam summit. The North has balked at Trump’s insistence that it give up its weapons before it sees relief from crushing international sanctions. The U.S. has said the North must submit to “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization” before sanctions are lifted.

Every president since Ronald Reagan has visited the 1953 armistice line, except for George H.W. Bush, who visited when he was vice president.

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Turkey’s support for Libya follows air strikes on Tajoura as part of Gen. Haftar’s Tripoli offensive. (AFP)

AN K A R A , JUN 3 0 (AGENCIES): Turkey says it will “retaliate in the most effective and strong way” to any threats from the Libyan warlord’s Khalifa Haftar’s army.The warning came after Gen Haftar’s Libyan National Army said it would strike Turkish vessels in Libyan waters and view Turkish businesses as targets, reports BBC news.

The LNA controls most of the east and south of Libya and started an offensive against the internationally recognised government in April.Turkey supports the Libyan government.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has

said that his country supplies weapons and drones to Tripoli’s Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Prime Minster Fayez al-Sarraj.

He said Turkish backing helped “rebalance” the fight against Gen Haftar, who has backing from UAE and Egypt.

Turkish Defence Minister Huluski Akar warned that LNA forces would pay a “very heavy price” for any attacks on Turkish interests.

On Thursday, the GNA reclaimed the strategic town of Gharyan, a main supply base for Gen Haftar’s forces in their offensive on Tripoli.

Eight election commission employees killed in Afghanistan Kandahar, Jun 30 (AFP): At least eight election commission employees were killed in a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

The Taliban used explosive-filled vehicles to attack Maruf district centre in southern Kandahar province on Saturday night, Zabiullah Sadaat, an Independent Election Commission (IEC) spokesman, told AFP. “Unfortunately, eight employees of the commission who were stationed in the government offices inside the district to register

Taliban fighters killed eight election commission employees in Kandahar. (File photo-AFP)

voters were killed,” he said.

Qasim Afghan, a Kandahar police spokesman, said some security forces

were also killed in the attack, and that communications with the centre of the district were cut off.

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1982 by the IWC which Japan joined in 1951.

However, it started hunting whales for what it claimed were research purposes in the Antarctic and northwest Pacific oceans in 1987 and in 1994, respectively, a practice criticized internationally as a cover for commercial whaling.

Meat from the captured whales was sold domestically.

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Tokyo, Jun 30 (IANS): Japan withdrew from the Inter national Whaling Commission on Sunday after more than 60 years of membership, as it plans to resume commercial whaling amid criticism from antiwhaling states and conservation groups.

Japan exited the IWC in its first walkout from a major international organization after three decades of lobbying for the restart of commercial whaling, reports Kyodo News Agency.

It remains unclear whether there will be any increase in demand for whale meat even if commercial hunting begins for the first time in 31 years.

The decision came after Japan’s latest proposal to resume commercial whaling was voted down at the annual IWC meeting last September.

Tokyo had threatened to leave the international organization that remains divided between pro- and anti-whaling nations and others that support one side or the other.

Japan halted commercial whaling in line with a moratorium adopted in

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Japan’s exit from international whaling treaty may actually benefit whales.

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AOSGU annual summer camp

Scouts and guides during the annual summer camp at Nerhema village.

DIMAPUR: Alpine Open Scout and Guide Unit (AOSGU) conducted annual summer camp at the Nagaland State Bharat Scouts and Guides (NSBSG), State Training Centre Nerhema from June 25 to 29.

Altogether 63 scouts and guides, rovers and rangers from the unit attended the camp.

A press release from

AOSGU scout master, Imlisünep stated that, inaugural programme was graced

by John Tochimong, state organising commissioner (scout) NSBSG and Vimezhonu, state organising commissioner (guide) NSBSG on June 26.

Vimezhonu, exhorted the scouts and guides, followed by march past by the different groups- Mt. Japfü

news in Brief ZVSU annual felicitation: Zutovi Village Students’ Union (ZVSU) will be organising its annual felicitation programme on July 7 at 4:30 p.m at Zutovi. All concerned members have been asked to attend the programme positively.

PBBVC general meet: Purana Bazar ‘B’ Village Council has convened general meeting on July 6 at 9 a.m. at GMS, Purana Bazar ‘B’ Village. Members have been informed to submit meeting agendas before July 2.

NPGN/NNC (N/A) elects/appoints: NPGN/NNC (N/A) at its meeting held on June 28, elected and appointed M. Toshiba Ao as the vice president unanimously by the house in the interest of the nation. The house wished him success in his endeavours to lead the nation peacefully in good health.

GPRN/NSCN condolence : GPRN/NSCN through its MIP has expressed pain on the sudden demise of “Sgt.Maj” Itolu son of Vishiho of Ahoto village.In a condolence note, GPRN/NSCN stated that late Itolu was not only upright in character but contributed selfless service for the Naga cause.Further GPRN/NSCN extended condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

Dimapur Police recovers unidentified body : Dimapur Police recovered unidentified body of a non-Naga, approximately 40 years old at Railway Station area, Dimapur. According to Police/PRO, after observing all legal formalities, the body has been shifted to the District Hospital Morgue for identification.

group, Mt. Tiyi group, Mt. Pauna and Mt. Saramati.

A song was presented

by Manpei Konyak, rover scout followed by the declaration of the camp opened

by John Tochimong. The grand campfire was conducted on June 28, where Khriesanyü Pienyü, district organising commissioner (scout) Kohima graced the programme as the grand

TBHJ celebrates 12th freshers day DIMAPUR: Tyrannus Boys Hostel Jakhama(TBHJ) celebrated its 12th freshers day under its motto, “Personality development” on June 22 at hostel premises.

A press release from TBHJ warden, Thorhu stated that, advocate Kezhokhoto Savi president NVCO & assistant professor Kohima Law College graced the occasion as speaker and a former member of Nagaland Chamber Choir Yeshika as special guest.

The speech on behalf of seniors and freshers was given by Yuwang and Achang respectively. A token of gift was given to all the freshers by hostel proprietor, Neisedeno. Hostel Management awarded the best hosteller and the cleanest room award to Vimezo Keyho and Imtiatsung respectively.

campfire chief.

Camp was conducted under the leadership of Imlisünep, scout master of the unit assisted by Sashikala Jamir, ranger leader.

Various competitions were organized during the camp which included colour party, march past, flag procedure, camp craft, folk song, folk dance, district exhibition etc.

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STMS felicitate rank holders DIMAPUR: St. Thomas Mission Society (STMS), parent body of MGM College, MGMHSS, MGM Hostel felicitated HSSLC rank holders of MGMHSS and semester toppers of MGM College in a function organized at MGM College on June 22.

A press release from MGM College stated that, a new rolling trophy award was declared by bishop, in loving memory of late Priyanka Ganta, BA (Pol. Sc) second semester student, who died in a car accident on February 12, 2019 on their way to attend Zoomax competition, where a cash award was given to Suhana Begum 1st Rank, HSSLC, Commerce, Shingke Pongmai 2nd Rank, HSSLC, Arts.

From MGM College, Akung, 1st semester topper, Idimchu and Limatula Aier 4th semester toppers were also felicitated with K. V. Ponnan memorial cash award.

The first rolling trophy and cash award was given to Akung, BA 2nd semester.

LEDP on piggery farming in Wokha

SHG members during the training programme.

DIMAPUR: Mass Educational Welfare Society (MEWS) organized Livelihood Enterprise Development Programme (LEDP) on piggery farming for the matured SHG members from June 20 to 28.

A press release from MEWS chairman, Lanchibemo Tsopoe stated that, resource persons were Dr. N Morothung Ezung

(VAS), Dr Zuchamo Tongoe (SRF), Benrithung Lotha (SVFA), Shongmao Khumungyan (VFA), Yantsomo Ezung (progressive piggery farmer) and Khomesa Odyuo (community resource person).

Modern and scientific breeding of pigs were taught for six days at MEWS training hall and a field/practical class was

conducted at Pig Breeding Centre Wokha on the seventh day of the training. Altogether 68 SHG members from 14 SHGs attended the training in two batches.

Training was fully sponsored by NABARD RO Dimapur. The next two batches will be held at Meriyan village from July 2.

State BJP conducts workshop on membership drive DIMAPUR: After a state membership workshop in Dimapur on June 22, BJP Nagaland Unit conducted Membership Drive Workshops (MDW) in districts along with rest of the country, from June 26 to 29, as per the national schedule to hold district workshops during the period from June 24 to 30.

A press release from state general secretary and co-incharge, state membership drive, BJP, Nagaland, Jaangsillung Gonmei, stated that the message that was delivered in all workshops were for mandal membership committees to set up minimum 25 member booth committees and hold in charge and co-in charge workshops before July 5. The workshop also addressed party workers and intensive membership enrolment drive would be launched nationwide on July 6.

All the participants were briefed on the process of enrolling members.

After July 6, any member can give a missed call to 8980808080, to enrol into the party. While doing so, they shall be assisted by membership committee members and party workers in filling up membership enrolment form with basic information of the enrolling members.

Primary enrolment would last for one month followed by active membership enrolment for one month in August. The membership committee has appealed to all party workers and people to come forth for the enrolment after the launch on July 6.

Meanwhile, BJP, Zunheboto district, conducted an official tour to all assembly constituencies under Zunheboto district to access overall performances of mandal offices and to ad-

Members of BJP Kohima district during membership workshop. dress its functionaries.

A press release by general secretary, BJP Zunheboto district unit, Yewoto Kiba, stated that BJP full time worker, Aliba Sangtam, joined the touring team and on his speeches,

emphasized mostly on party organizational matters and cautioned that there might be reshuffles in places where mandal activities were weak. He further encouraged mandal presidents to work hard.

The tour began from 33-A/C Zbto, and ended at 36A/C Satakha.

Meanwhile, workshop on “Sangathan Parv” membership drive was conducted on June 28 at the district party office.

Reports of ATMA activities from across Nagaland

ATMA Wokha

DIMAPUR: Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) has been conducting various activities across Nagaland for the benefit and welfare of farming community.

Following are the reports.

AT M A Wo k h a : ATMA Wokha, conducted interstate farmers exposure visit and training for a group of rubber growers of the previously established Rubber Farm School under ATMA from Wokha village to the Nucleus Rubber Estate and Training centre (NRETC), Rubber Board, Agartala, Tripura from June 25 to 30.

A press release from ATMA Wokha, deputy project director, T. Subenthung Yanthan stated that, the team visited Manimalayar Rubber Pvt. Ltd & Tripura Latex Pvt. Ltd and Rubber Park ISNR & Centrifuged Latex factories, M S Industries by S.K Chakraborty, ADO. Far mers were also trained and taught thorK Y M C

oughly on rubber cultivation covering important topics.

The team also visited Hrishidas Colony B.P units rubber farm and processing unit where practical demonstration on latex harvesting and, quality sheet production, packing and marketing and Tripura Latex site for different smoke house models were held.

Earlier the introductory session was chaired by Shyamal Sen Jt. RPC and short speech was delivered by joint director RRS Dr. S.K Dey. Film was also screened on rubber and certificates were also distributed along with hand book on rubber.

The team was led by two deputy project directors T. Subenthung Yanthan and Yangeln Y Jami along with eight rubber growers.

AT M A D i m a p u r : ATMA Dimapur in collaboration with KVK (ICAR) Jharnapani conducted a one-day farmer scientist interaction programme at KVK training hall on June 12.

A press release from

ATMA Dimapur

ATMA Dimapur stated that, during the technical session, detailed explanation on Fall Armyworm (FAW) and its preventive measures, importance of timely sowing and cultivation practices, management and housing practices of rabbit and poultry, vaccination and disease management etc were discussed. Resource persons also discussed on fishery management, precautionary measures, fish feeds and feeding.

Resource persons included Jyotish Barman, programme co-ordinator and head i/c, KVK (ICAR), V. Kenny Rhetso, CTO (home science), KVK Jharnapani, Dr. Ebibeni Ngullie, CTO (animal science), KVK Jharnapani, Lireni Kikon, SMS (plant protection), KVK Jharnapani, Z. James Kikon, ACTO (soil science), KVK Jharnapani and Ch. Roben Singh, ACTO (agronomy), KVK Jharnapani.

SHGs were also encouraged to go for the preparation of jackfruit chips and king chilly (raja mircha)

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pickle.

The programme was chaired by Chubanaro Jamir, BTM (Medziphema block), welcome address

by Z. James Kikon, keynote by Jyotish Barman and vote thanks by Keneisanuo Keditsu, ATM, Chumukedima block. Altogether 23 participants attended the programme.

Chessore block: ATMA Chessore block Tuensang district conducted BFAC meeting, kisan ghostis, training and demonstration programme for farmers on various topics on May 23-25 at Sotokur and Y/ Aunur village with BTT convener, AHO, Imnuksyngba and AFA, Mosa Soma as resource persons.

The resource person spoke on the topic awareness training-cum- demonstration on management of fall army worm on maize crop and gave detailed information on facts about fall army worm, their life cycle and reproduction.

Demonstration on control measures was delivered

and also shown the pest and disease which effect maize.

New food security group (FSG) was formed and mobilized, wherein seed money was given to two SHGs through direct benefit transfer. Altogether 58 farmers attended the training and demonstration programme in different villages.

Ch un li k h a Bloc k : ATMA Chunlikha block conducted BFAC meeting and demonstration programme on May 21-24 at KVK Tesophenyu and Chunlikha villages.

Resource person ACTO plant protection KVK Kohima, K. Michael Pienyii, gave a lecture on integrated pest management with special reference to fall army worm infesting maize crop.

He stated that this pest pose a potential threat to food security as it was a “polyphagus pest” with a host range of more than 80 crops.

In case of severe infestation, Michael said IPM

methods alone may not be effective so he advised farmers to go for chemical control and at the same time warned the farmers to use insecticides judiciously and apply only the recommended dosage.

Resource person ATM, Sinlo Khing, spoke on stages life cycle and identification of fall army worm.

Resource person BTM, Kekhriesielie, demonstrated on using of chemical pesticides its recommended concentration and precautionary measures while using in the field.

A total of 14 farmers were benefited from the demonstration programme.

Chemical pesticide named Emamectin benzoate and a sprayers was given to the farmers.

The BFAC meeting was chaired by ATM, Chenobu Seb where members from respective village discussed on topics for upcoming activities based on their farmer needs.

Tuli block: ATMA, Tuli block, conducted aware-

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ness training on management of Fall Army Worm (FAW) on May 27 at SDAO office Tuli.

The programme was initiated by BTM Tuli, Imlisunep Ajem and welcome address was given by Agriculture officer Imsu Tuli.

Resource person ATM Tuli, Shilunokdang Jamir, shared brief history about the occurrence of pest and how it has been spreading worldwide and ultimately reaching Nagaland. He explained about the pest infestation, its severity and management of fall army worm.

He also emphasized on usage of Neem oil at initial stage and Emamectin Benzoate @ 4-5 grams per litre of water on the affected plant at severe stages and encouraged the farmers to keep keen observation and report immediately to the authorities for timely management.

Organic and chemical pesticides were provided and distributed by the District Agriculture office. Alto-

gether 20 farmers attended the programme.

Chetheba Block: ATMA Chetheba block conducted training and BFAC meeting on May 27 at Thenyizu village.

A press release by the block stated that ATM, Raveyi Khesoh, gave training on backyard poultry and piggery and BTT convenor, Dzuthoru Chotso, talked on several issues related to paddy-cum-fish culture.

Block Farmers Advisory Committee (BFAC) meeting was also held on the same day where ATM, Visavinuo Victoria, highlighted about the activities and the role of BFAC members.

New food security group (FSG) under the name “Young group” was formed and mobilized with ten groups. Seed money was distributed to the new FSG and also to the SHG under the name “Dzüzü ginger cultivation”. Altogether 35 farmers along with ATMA officials attended the programme.

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Cong slams govt over rise in fuel prices New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI): The Congress on Sunday slammed the Centre over rise in fuel prices, saying the BJP is back to “fleece” the people.

Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the petrol prices in Delhi on June 22 were Rs 69.93 per litre and went up to Rs 70.40 per litre on June 30, a rise of Rs 0.47 per litre.

He also compared the diesel prices, saying they were at Rs 63.78 per little on June 22 and rose to 64.22 per litre on June 30, a hike of Rs 0.44 per little.

“BJP back to fleece people! Rising Petrol-Diesel Prices in past 8 days burdening middle class and farmers! (sic)” Surjewala tweeted.

In another tweet, Surjewala also hit out at the NDA government at the Centre and the LDF government in Kerala over farmers’ miseries in the state.

“Post 2018 floods in Kerala, farmers miseries abound as State and Central Government apathy continues unabated (sic),” he said.

“Tea production down by 120 lakh tonnes. Rubber production down by 15,000 tonnes. Pepper, Banana & Nutmeg crops suffering too (sic),” Surjewala said, adding, “Wake up call!”

organisations behind such incidents and all of them are linked to the Sangh Pariwar,’’ the AIMIM chief said.

Owaisi also attacked Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who had earlier pleaded people not to see the incidents of attack on Muslims from a religious angle.

‘If a Muslim is born, it is said that they are increasing their population, if he goes to a ‘madarasa’, he is linked to terrorism, if he dies, they say a piece of land is needed to bury him..what is this happening in the country...a message is being given to India, which is not correct and against the Constitution of the country,’’ he said.

Refer ring to the chargesheet filed by the Rajasthan government against 2017 Alwar mob lynching victim Pehlu Khan and his family members for cow smuggling, Owaisi said that this has exposed the double face of the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in the state.

The AIMIM chief

Asaduddin Owaisi (File)

had on Saturday urged the Muslims to stop supporting Congress, alleging that the party has betrayed them.

“When Pehlu Khan was attacked, Congress condemned it. It is a condemnable act by the Ashok Gehlot government. I urge the Muslims of Rajasthan to stop supporting the Congress, which has always betrayed them,” Owaisi said.

All this came after Rajasthan Police filed a chargesheet for cow smuggling against Khan, who was allegedly lynched in 2017 by a mob of cow vigilantes in Alwar for allegedly transporting cattle,

T hir u v a n a n thapuam, Jun 30 (PTI): A German woman, who had come here in March, has gone missing from here, police said Sunday.

The foreigner, in her 30s, is identified as Liza, they said. A senior police source told PTI that they received a complaint in this regard last week and an investigation was on. “Police have received a letter from the German Consulate that she is missing. A probe has begun. She came here in March,” sources said. A case was registered and a probe on and further details cannot be divulged at this moment, the source added.

The report of the alleged missing of the German woman has come a year after the brutal killing of a 33-year-old woman tourist from Latviya had rocked the state. The Latvian woman had gone missing from nearby Kovalam on March 14 last year. Her highly decomposed and headless body was recovered from a mangrove forest at Thiruvallam on April 21.

Centre mute spectator to mob lynching incidents: Jama Masjid’s Shahi Imam DELHI, Jun 30 (Agencies): The Shahi Imam of Delhi’s famous Jama M a s j i d , S ye d A h m e d Bukhari has attacked the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre over rising incidents of mob lynching and the alleged killing of Muslims in the name of cow protection.

Refer ring to the chargesheet filed by the Congress government in Rajasthan against 2017 Alwar mob lynching victim Pehlu Khan and his two sons on charges of cattle smuggling, the Shahi Imam said that the government has become a mute spectator to such incidents.

In a press release issued by his office, the Shahi Imam said, ‘’people are making a mockery of the law and the government is doing nothing to stop such elements.’’

Imam Bukhari said that Muslims in India were suffering due to the discriminatory attitude of the government. An Indian

Syed Ahmed Bukhari (File)

Muslim is fighting a war every day for his survival.

He is being threatened, suppressed and terrorised every day.

The Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid warned that Muslims are now running out of patience. ‘’Several years since the country gained Inde pendence, Muslims in India are yet to get justice,’’ he said.

The Shahi Imam also attacked the Rajasthan government for filing the chargesheet against Pehlu Khan, who was killed by a violent mob of cow

vigilantes in Alwar in 2017 on suspicion of cow smuggling.

He also condemned the recent mob lynching incident in Jharkhand.

Imam Bukhari had in past written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking stern action against mob lynching and alleged atrocities on minorities, including Dalits and Muslims in India.

In his letter, Imam Bukhari alleged that the Modi gover nment has failed to deliver its poll promise ‘sabka sath sabka vikas’.

“You gave a promise of treating 125 crore Indians with equality, irrespective of their religion and ethnicity... but unfortunately, the ground reality is not only contrary to this, but is a cause of concern for every civilised Indian citizen,” he said in the letter.

The Shahi Imam, Syed Ahmed Bukhari had also written a similar letter to Rahul Gandhi.

Heavy rains batter south Gujarat VHP reiterates demand to repeal articles 370 and 35-A

People go about their daily routines during rainfall in Surat, Gujarat.

Ahmedabad, Jun 30 (PTI): Heavy rains Sunday battered parts of south Gujarat, with authorities keeping rescue teams in Valsad on stand-by due to rise in river levels and water- logging in many areas, officials said.

Valsad received 203 millimetres rainfall in ten hours since Sunday morning, leaving several areas flooded, while nearby Vapi in the district received 228 mm rainfall during this period.

Auranga and Par rivers flowing through the district swelled due to heavy rains though they were still below the danger mark, said Valsad Collector CR Kharsan, adding that a team of the NDRF and personnel from the fire brigade have been kept on stand-by.

The national highway connecting Mumbai to Surat was under water on some stretches, causing traffic snarls. Apart from Vapi, areas like Kaprada and Pardi in Valsad district, Khergam in Navsari and Mangrol in Surat district also received heavy rainfall, an official said.

While Khergam taluka in Navsari received 126 mm rainfall from 6 am till 2 pm Sunday, Mangrol in Surat received 70 mm rainfall, as per data provided by State Emergency Operation Centre.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said some areas of south Gujarat namely Navsari, Valsad, Narmada, Tapi and Surat among others received “extremely heavy” as well as “heavy to very heavy” rain-

It is a case of sour grapes: Yogi tells Priyanka Saharanpur, Jun 30 (IANS): UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday took a dig at Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for her criticism of the law and order situation in the state.

Gandhi had questioned whether the state government had surrendered before criminals. “It is a case of sour grapes. Her party President lost from UP, so sitting in Delhi, Italy or England, they have to comment on something or the other to remain in headlines,” the Chief Minister told reporters here. Yogi Adiytanath was in Saharanpur to take a stock of the law and order situation and review developmental works.

He was apparently referring to Rahul Gandhi, who lost the Amethi to the BJP’s Smriti Irani. The Congress, which once had a huge presence in the state, has now been practically eradicated. UPA chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, is the sole Congress lawmaker from the state.

Despite the defeat, Pri-

and his two sons.

Equating Congress with BJP, AIMIM chief said, “Whenever they (Congress) come to power, they become a replica of the BJP. When they are in opposition, they shed crocodile tears.”

The police chargesheeted Khan and his sons - Irsad (25) and Arif (22) under various sections of Rajasthan Bovine Animal (Prohibition of Slaughter and Regulation of Temporary Migration or Export) Act, 1995.

The chargesheet against Khan was prepared on December 30 last year, 13 days after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot`s government came to power in Rajasthan.

55-year-old Khan, a native of Nuh in Haryana and a dairy farmer, was allegedly beaten up by self-styled cow vigilantes near Behror in Rajasthan on Delhi-Alwar highway on April 1, accusing him of smuggling cattle. He succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital on April 3.

German woman goes missing in Kerala; probe on

fall in the last 24 hours.

The IMD warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall in isolated places in south Gujarat till Monday and advised fishermen to not venture into the sea for the next 24 hours.

Most places of south Gujarat received rainfall due to active monsoon conditions, with Saturday’s “upper air cyclonic circulation” over south Gujarat and neighbouring areas persisting in the region, the IMD said in a weather bulletin.

“Due to active monsoon conditions, squally weather is very likely to prevail along and off south Gujarat coast during next 48 hours. The sea will be rough with waves from southwesterly to westerly direction for next 24 hours,” the IMD said.

Jammu, Jun 30 (PTI): The Vishwa Hindu Parishad Sunday reiterated its demand for revocation of articles 370 and 35-A of the Constitution at the end of its two-day central managing committee meet here.

The right-wing outfit also raised sought early delimitation of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly constituencies, besides an expeditious step for rehabilitation of the migrant Kashmiri pandits in the valley.

The VHP meet also strongly raised the demand of the deportation of Rohingya and Bangladeshi Muslims from the state, said the outfit’s national spokesperson Vinod Bansal.

The VHP’s other demands included steps for opening up of the Sharada Peeth pilgrimage in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and facilitating Kailash Mansarovar yatra through Ladakh, said Bansal.

“This is for the first time that the central managing committee met in Jammu. The meeting was attended by 225 senior office bearers including national president Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje,” Bansal told PTI. “This was also for the first time in the history of the party that a full day was devoted to any state as both the resolution passed yesterday (Saturday) were related to Jammu and Kashmir,” he added.

Bansal said several other impor tant issues

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yanka Gandhi Vadra has been active in the state. Last week, after a video of two prisoners flashing a countrymade pistol in Unnao jail was widely shared on social media, the government came under sharp attack.

Referring to the incident, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted: “In entire Uttar Pradesh, criminals are roaming around freely, doing whatever they wish.

Criminal incidents continue to happen but it has fallen on deaf ears of the BJP government. Has the Uttar Pradesh government surrendered before criminals?”

The UP Police responded to the tweet with data and

claimed that it had recorded unprecedented decline in crimes and improvement in the law and order situation.

“UP Police has taken strict action against serious offenders. 9,225 criminals were arrested and 81 were killed in two years. Illegal property worth nearly 200 crore was seized under the NSA and there was unprecedented decline in dacoity, murder, loot and kidnappings,” the state police tweeted. “Because of UP Police’s effective working, there has been 20 to 35 per cent decline in crimes. All sensational crimes were solved in 48 hours,” the police added.

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He said the resolution also demanded the rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrant Hindus in their respective places of birth in the valley, besides proper security and restoration and preservation of their places of worship.

The meeting also discussed the alleged discrimination with the Jammu and Ladakh regions and demanded delimitation of the state’s assembly constituencies to end the lingering bias against the two regions.

The VHP leaders also sought immediate deportation of all Rohingyas and Bangladeshi nationals from the state, saying there is a conspiracy afoot to change Jammu’s demography by settling them in the region.

Another resolution adopted in the VHP meet called for the development of Hindu religious places in the state with provision for better facilities to devotees undertaking pilgrimages here, said Bansal.

“The holy places of pilgrimage in Jammu and Kashmir will have to be developed, their grandeur enhanced, adequate security cover will have to be provided, the traditional modes of worship reinstated, only then will the real soul of Kashmir be strengthened,” said Bansal, quoting the VHP resolution.

He said the Sharda Peeth in Pakistan-occupiedKashmir near the Line of Control is not only one of the most important ‘Shaktipeeeth’ (power house) of Hinduism but also a great place of learning.

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like construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, protection of cows, “love jehad”, and the mismanagement in the government-controlled temples.

The VHP spokesperson said the issue of the alleged spending of offerings to some temples in south India on Christian missioneries instead of the welfare for Hindus also came up for a detailed discussion during the meeting.

Bansal said the meeting was of the opinion that the Article 370 and Article 35-A, which give special status to Jammu and Kashmir, should be revoked immediately to counter separatism in the state.

“A resolution was adopted unanimously, demanding immediate revocation of these articles which make the state different from the rest of the country and encourage separatism besides being discriminatory to some sections of the people living in the state,” he said.

Bansal alluded to the discrimination referring to

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HYDERABAD, Jun 30 (Agencies): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has alleged that Muslims in India are being terrorised today for not saying ‘Jai Sri Ram’ and ‘Vande Mataram.’

The AIMIM chief made these remarks while speaking to ANI during which he refrained from saying ‘Jai Sri Ram’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ and referred to them as JSR and VM. Owaisi alleged that Muslims are being lynched and an atmosphere of hatred is being created against them for their refusal to chant religious slogans.

The Hyderabad AIMIM MP further said that the Muslims are being targeted at the behest of the RSS – the ideological parent of the ruling BJP. ‘’People are being beaten up if they do not raise slogans of JSR (Jai Shri Ram) and VM (Vande Mataram). Such incidents aren’t going to stop. Only Muslims and Dalits are being targeted. There are

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BJP MLA Vijayvargiya gets bail

BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya is welcomed after being released from the district jail.

Indore, Jun 30 (PTI): BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya, who was arrested four days ago for allegedly assaulting a civic official with a cricket bat here, was released on bail from a local jail on Sunday morning. He was released after the order granting him bail reached the jail authorities here from a court in Bhopal.

Vijayvargiya was welcomed with garlands and sweets by his supporters, triggering a verbal duel between the Congress and the BJP with the former accusing the latter of “favouring hooliganism”, while the saffron party said it was a natural reaction from

youngsters.

After coming out of jail, Vijayvargiya dubbed his prison experience as “good” and said he was happy to be out as he would now be focussing on his pending public works.

District Jail Superintendent Aditi Chaturvedi told PTI that they got the court order to release Vijayvargiya on bail at 11 pm on Saturday.

“After completing all the formalities, he was released on Sunday morning,” she said.

The Bhopal-based court of Additional Sessions Judge Suresh Singh granted bail to the 34year-old MLA, son of BJP

BJP eyeing 1 crore membership from WB

Ko l k ata , J u n 3 0 (IANS): West Bengal BJP President and party MP Dilip Ghosh said on Sunday that the saffron outfit was eyeing one crore membership from West Bengal this year.

“Last year, we had enlisted 42 lakh members. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the party had got 86 lakh votes. In the recently held general elections, we got 2.30 crore votes and half of them should be enlisted as party members.

“We will renew the membership of the existing members and target over one crore membership from West Bengal this year,” he told party workers at a meeting in Howrah district.

Urging the party workers to expedite the process of enlisting members, which will commence from July 6, Ghosh told them to reach out to those who did not

even vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“Other states may look at 20-30 per cent increase in membership, but West Bengal is different. The state is at the centre of the country’s focus. We should double our membership,” he said, adding that the party is gaining popularity everyday as workers from other parties are joining the BJP. Ghosh also accused the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress of inciting violence in West Bengal and destroying the democratic rights of the citizens.

“Fed up with Trinamool’s extortion, people have started to come to a party which had three members in the legislative Assembly before four new BJP MLAs were elected in the by-elections. Many Trinamool Congress MLAs too have crossed over to the BJP,” Ghosh said.

BJD supporting BJP under pressure: D Raja

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1st batch of pilgrims leave for Amarnath

general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, on Saturday in the case of assault as well as in an earlier case in which he was accused of staging an illegal protest.

Vi j ay va r g i ya wa s asked to furnish a personal bail bond of Rs 50,000 in the assault case and another of Rs 20,000 in the earlier case. “I was in jail for the first time in my life, but the experience was good. My time in prison was very good. However, I am happy that I have came out as I have to complete unfinished works of the public,” the MLA said.

The first-time legislator from the Indore-3 Assembly segment was arrested for allegedly assaulting municipal official Dhirendra Singh Bais with a cricket bat on Wednesday while opposing the demolition of a dilapidated building.

A civic official on Sunday said they were preparing to demolish the dilapidated house, which was declared dangerous, ahead of the rainy season.

Asked about the civic body’s preparations, Vijayvargiya said, “I do not have any information at this point of time, I will get the

information about it. However, my fight over public issues will continue.”

Denying him bail, a magistrate’s court sent him to judicial custody till July 11 on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the Indore Sessions Court refused to hear his bail plea, saying it had no jurisdiction and he should approach the special court set up in Bhopal to hear cases against public representatives.

Vi j ay va r g i ya wa s booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty).

Besides, he was also charged under IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 147 (rioting) and 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons).

Meanwhile, the jail superintendent said, “We did not receive the court order till 7 pm on Saturday, the scheduled ‘lock-up’ time.

So, we could not release him on Saturday night, in accordance with the jail manual.”

Himachal launches antidrug mobile app

532 kg heroin smuggled from Pakistan seized at Attari

Shimla, Jun 30 (IANS): In a bid to crack down on the drug menace in Himachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday launched a mobile app called ‘Drug-Free Himachal’ and a toll-free helpline number 1908 for rehabilitation of drug addicts. “Anyone can register a complaint against a drug peddler through the ‘Drug-Free Himachal’ app,” a government spokesperson told IANS. The Chief Minister said his government was committed to making Himachal Pradesh a drug-free state by ensuring effective law enforcement. Thakur said a major part of the state’s anti-drug strategy focused on certain drugs originally derived from plant sources such as cannabis and opium and added that his government had taken stringent steps against cultivation of these plants in the state.

A m r its a r , J u n 3 0 (PTI): In its biggest ever narcotics haul, the Customs Department seized 532 kg of suspected heroin worth Rs 2,700 crore, which was smuggled into India from Pakistan in a truck through trade route at the Attari border, officials said Sunday.

An official said the smuggling racket’s alleged mastermind, based in Kashmir valley, has been arrested and the importer of the rock salt consignment, who is based in Amritsar, has been detained for questioning.

The consignment of heroin and another 52 kg of suspected mixed narcotics was concealed under hundreds of bags of rock salt inside the truck which arrived at Attari through the Integrated Check Post (ICP) two days ago, Customs (Preventive) Commissioner Deepak Kumar Gupta said.

“In a major breakthrough in busting the international organised drug smuggling, the Customs

Bhubaneswar, Jun 30 (PTI): Accusing the BJP of “forcing” regional parties to toe their line, CPI national secretary D Raja Sunday said the ruling Biju Janata Dal in Odisha has been “compelled” to support the saffron party.

He said the BJP was “deliberately utilising” probe agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI against rival parties.

Addressing a press conference here, Raja said, “The nexus between BJD and the BJP has been exposed after the 2019 general elections. During the polls, they were helping each other and they are doing it even after the polls.”

“The BJD is supporting the BJP under pressure,” he added. Denying the charge, BJP state vicepresident Samir Mohanty said the people of India have rejected the Left parties.

“CPI’s statement is nothing but political bankruptcy,” he said.

Raja also accused the BJP of “misusing power” after getting absolute majority in the Lok Sabha.

Preventive Commissionerate, Amritsar has seized 532 kg of suspected heroin and 52 kg of suspected mixed narcotics in the import consignment at ICP, Attari,” he said.

“This is the biggest ever achievement in annals of the Indian Customs history,” he told a press conference here.

Tariq Ahmed, the mastermind of the organised smuggling racket based in Handwara, Kashmir, has been arrested with the help of Jammu and Kashmir police, Gupta said, adding that further investigations is underway.

“We are also questioning the importer of the consignment of rock salt,” he said. The import consignment from Pakistan had arrived here two days ago and the truck driver had returned after unloading it.

Before clearing a consignment, the Customs Department carries out its detailed checking and ex-

Security personnel stand guard as vehicles carrying the first batch of Amarnath pilgrims leave for yatra from Jammu on Sunday. (PTI)

Jammu, Jun 30 (IANS): A first batch of Amarnath Yatris on Sunday left Jammu for the Kashmir Valley, to begin this year’s annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine.

The 45-day long Amarnath Yatra will officially commence from Monday and conclude on August 15 coinciding with the Shravan Purnima festival.

“The first batch of pilgrims include 1,051 bound for the north Kashmir Bal-

tal base camp and 1,183 to the Pahalgam base camp.

The pilgrims comprised 1,839 males, 333 females, 45 sadhus and 17 children,” police sources said here.

“The pilgrims left in security escorted convoys.

No opposite movement of traffic will be allowed on the Jammu-Srinagar highway till 3 p.m. today (Sunday) in order to ensure that the pilgrims cross the Jawahar Tunnel without any delay.”

Extraordinary secu-

rity arrangements have been made to ensure a smooth, violence-free Amarnath Yatra this year.

During his visit to Kashmir last week, Union Home Minister, Amit Shah reviewed the security arrangements.

Situated at 3,888 metres above sea-level, the Amarnath shrine houses an ice stalagmite structure that symbolises the mythical powers of Lord Shiva, according to the devotees.

Labourers carry bags of heroin, which were seized by from the trucks coming from Pakistan, at a court in Amritsar on Sunday. (PTI)

amination.

On Saturday, at about 1330 hours, during examination of the consignment by customs staff at ICP, Attari, one sack was found containing white coloured powder substance.

On a detailed examination of 600 bags, 15 were suspected to contain narcotics. On further examination, all 15 bags were found to

contain heroin with a net weight of 532 kg and mixed narcotics of 52 kg, Gupta said.

“The value of heroin in the international market is approximately Rs 2,700 crore,” he said.

The heroin was seized under provisions of the Customs Act and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Gupta

said.

“This is one of the biggest seizures of heroin by Indian agency along the Indo-Pakistan border... It is the biggest success of Customs Preventive Commissionerate, Amritsar against organised smuggling of narcotics including heroin along Indo-Pakistan border through trade route,” he said.

Despite high cut-off, Delhi University Telangana forest officer Compare govt schools run by BJP sees 9,000 enrolments in two days thrashed by TRS workers and AAP: Sisodia tells J P Nadda

More than 9,196 students were enrolled for the 62,000 seats available in different DU colleges, according to University officials. (File)

New Delhi, Jun 30 (IANS): With more than 9,000 students enrolled in just two days, the Delhi University (DU) has witnessed a wave of admissions even though the cut-offs this year were as high as 99 per cent.

According to University officials, more than 9,196 students were enrolled for the 62,000 seats available in different DU colleges.

Despite announcing the highest cut-off (99 per cent) among all colleges, Hindu College’s B.A. (Hons.) Political Science received 70 enrolments, more than the 43 available seats.

“We got more admissions than the available general category seats in B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics, Chemistry and B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy as well. The admissions for general category might be closed in

these courses,” said Hindu College Principal Anju Srivastava.

However, the trends have created panic among students who were hoping to get into popular colleges in the second cut-off.

“I was hoping for the Hindu College to bring the cut-off down by at least 2 per cent in the 2nd and 3rd cut-off, but people are saying that it might not open its cutoffs for the general category at all. It is heart breaking,” said Ayush Sayal, who got enrolled in the B.A. (prog.) course at Delhi College of Arts and Commerce.

The DU had released the first cut-off list for 63 colleges on Thursday night.

Since then, top colleges like Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) witnessed a lot of admissions. Nearly 77 per cent

admissions were done in B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and 40 per cent in B.Com (Hons). Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College witnessed a good number of students enrolling themselves in undergraduate courses, as almost 700 seats were filled with the majority of admissions in B.A. (Hons.) Political Science.

Another girls college, Miranda House enrolled about 800 students for the 1,100 seats available. Ramjas College witnessed 450 admissions for more than 1,700 seats available.

Set up in 1922, the Delhi University is the one of the biggest and most respected universities in India.

It has 77 affiliated colleges and five other institutions spread across the city as well as 16 faculties and 86 departments.

HYDERABAD, Jun 30 (Agencies): A forest officer who was leading preparations for a tree plantation drive in Telangana was left bleeding and injured after she was attacked violently on Sunday morning by a ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti party leader, his followers and some local villagers. She has been hospitalised after the attack.

In a disturbing video, forest range officer C Anita, defenceless, is seen standing on a tractor as a violent mob armed with huge wooden sticks surround her and land blows on her and the tractor that she is standing on.

Among those attacking Anita is Koneru Krishna, vice chairperson of the local zilla parishad and also brother of local Sirpur segment legislator Koneru Konappa.

The mob continues its attack even as other police officers try to shield her and push them away.

Anita and her team were attacked in SirpurKaghaznagar in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district when they went for a tree plantation drive in a 20hectare degraded forest land in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district’s SirpurKaghaznagar.

The plantation drive, aimed at afforestation, is

part of the Kaleshwaram irrigation project of the state government which Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao calls his “second-biggest dream”.

The local villagers reportedly did not want the land on which they were cultivating illegally to be reclaimed by the government.

Sources say tension had been building up over this issue for the last few days and anticipating trouble, the forest range officer had gone along with 30 policemen and 30 forest guards.

Even as Anita was explaining that they were following the instructions of the government, the mob, which included farmers, did not stop the attack.

Sixteen people, including the brother of the TRS legislator, have been arrested and more are likely to be taken into custody, district police chief Malla Reddy told NDTV. Case of attempt to murder and obstructing forest officer from performing duty has been registered, he said.

W h e n a s k e d w hy none of the armed police personnel tried to stop the attack, Reddy said, “The attack on the officer happened too fast. Why no one fired, we need to inquire.

But firing may have been a disproportionate reaction,” he said.

New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI): Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday challenged senior BJP leaders J P Nadda and Vijay Goel to compare the top 10 government schools in BJP-ruled states with the ones under the AAP government and then debate.

The challenge by Sisodia comes in response to Bharatiya Janata Party working president J P Nadda’s claims, on Saturday, that the ruling AAP in Delhi had become “a laughing stock”, as he exuded confidence that his party will form the next government in Delhi as the city needs a leadership with “serious vision”.

In retort, Sisodia said the BJP’s working president was ridiculing the people of Delhi, by calling the AAPled Delhi government a laughing stock.

“I challenge @JPNadda & @VijayGoelBJP to choose top 10 govt schools of BJP education model from any BJP state. I’ll choose top 10 govt schools of Kejriwal education model. I’ll visit your schools, you can visit ours. Let’s then debatewhat’s laughing stock and what makes one cry (sic),” Sisodia tweeted.

Addressing BJP Delhi leaders on Saturday on the second day of the state working committee’s meeting, Nadda asked them to

Manish Sisodia (File)

work together for the Delhi assembly elections due early next year.

Referring to the 2015 Assembly election results, where the Aam Aadmi Party had won 67 of the 70 seats, Nadda claimed the people of Delhi were now realising what the leaders had actually done.

“They (AAP) have become the laughing stock.

Delhi, being the national capital, needs a leadership which has a serious vision for the city,” he said.

Nadda claimed the people were not happy with the the Arvind Kejriwal-led government. “I am fully confident that we will succeed in Delhi,” the BJP working president said.

Reacting sharply to Nadda’s words, the Delhi deputy minister said, “By calling the choice made by the people of Delhi a subject of ridicule. I want to remind him about what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said

in his maiden speech in the new Lok Sabha. He said that when some people make fun of the elected government, they are making fun of the people of the country. Perhaps Nadda-ji’s views differ from the prime minister’s.”

Stating that the BJP has governments in a number of states and in a few for decades, Sisodia sought to compare the schools being run by the BJP and the AAP governments.

“Delhi schools posted the best result in Delhi’s history this year with 94 per cent pass rate. What is the best result in your states?

Delhi has the highest portion of the budget (for education), at 26 per cent, do any of your states have such a high allocation for education? Show us even one state run by the BJP where the school infrastructure has been developed, which can be compared with the Kejriwal model,” he said.

Sisodia claimed children from Gurgaon in Haryana and Noida, Loni and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh were coming to Delhi to study in schools run by the AAP government.

The BJP has formed the state governments in both Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The AAP leader alleged the BJP has failed to improve the school education system in its states.

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Albania votes amid election boycott TIRANA, JUN 30 (AGENCIES): Albanians are voting in an election like no other since the nation emerged from 50 years of communism, reports BBC news.

Prime Minister Edi Rama has campaigned hard for Sunday’s local polls even though his Socialist candidates face almost no opposition at the ballot box.

The main opposition is boycotting, but has urged militants to remain peaceful.

President Ilir Meta has issued a decree to postpone the poll, but Mr Rama has rejected it and has started moves to impeach the president, once an ally.For months now, the opposition has held protests demanding the resignation of the prime minister and new general elections.They accuse Mr Rama of previous electoral fraud and corruption - which he denies.

PM Rama mocks the opposition during a campaign rally.

their charges. Mr Rama has sued in a German court.

Every poll result since the 1991 election - which took place a year after the fall of communism - has been disputed.

This time, however, the Albanian opposition took the unprecedented step of relinquishing their parliamentary mandates en bloc.

Their tactic appears to have backfired. They had hoped to derail the work of parliament and force the government to back down.

Is there any hope of reconciliation?

Unlikely. Traditionally, election winners in Albania have adopted a “winnertakes-all approach” and the

opposition has often seen street protests deliver what parliamentary discourse failed to.

Wester n diplomats have been busy interceding to enable Sunday’s vote to proceed without violence.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has deployed election observers. Their initial report underlines the challenges they face.

European Union leaders are assessing whether to start of membership negotiations for the Balkan nation, also a Nato ally.

A decision expected in October may hinge on the outcome of Sunday’s exercise.

Thousands oppose suspension of Madrid anti-pollution plan

Prince William, Kate to visit Pak

What happened on Sunday?

Some local opposition mayors have used their powers to stop the use of public buildings - such as schools - as polling stations.Their supporters have clashed with police - and in some cases set fire to ballot papers and boxes.

Lulzim Basha, leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party, has been under international pressure

to rein in militants. On the eve of the vote, he urged supporters to refrain from violence.

Mr Rama has been mercilessly mocking him, the president and the president’s wife who now leads one of the opposition parties.

What’s causing this confrontation?

Mr Rama - in power since 2013 - won the last parliamentary elections in 2017.Early this year, the opposition alleged that the vote had been “bought”.

German newspaper Bild has published intercepted telephone conversations that the opposition says prove

Protesters held up placards at the march in Madrid’s city centre.

M A D R I D, J un 3 0 (Agencies): Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Madrid on Saturday to oppose the newly elected conservative mayor’s decision to reverse car pollution restrictions, reports BBC news.

The People’s Partyrun city hall has provoked an outcry by suspending a ban on most petrol and diesel cars in Madrid’s centre.

The policy aimed to ensure the city complied with the EU’s clean air rules.

Fines were levied on drivers who broke the rules.

But PP mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who took office on 15 June, has shelved the scheme, introduced last November by Madrid’s former left-wing mayor.

The new mayor has been backed by other par-

ties, including centrist Ciudadanos and the farright VOX. They oppose the plan, known as “Madrid Central”.In heatwave conditions, demonstrators thronged the streets of the Spanish capital on Saturday, calling on the mayor to reinstate the ban.

Some protesters chanted, “yes we can, I do want Madrid central”. Others waved placards and banners, including one containing the message “I want to breathe free”.

Mariano Sánchez Bayle, a retired paediatrician, told Spanish newspaper El País he was marching to “defend the population” from pollution. “Pollution is one of the most important health problems now,” he said.

“We have to save [the planet] starting at the local

and small level, the first thing is Madrid’s centre,” actress Laura Martin, 39, told Reuters news agency.

She fears Madrid’s new mayor may seek to weaken environmental regulations.

Madrid’s scheme mirrored those of other European cities such as London, Stockholm and Milan, whose governments are ramping up anti-pollution efforts as evidence of the harmful effects of vehicle emissions grows.

Under the plan, certain petrol and diesel cars were prohibited from entering a restricted area of around five sq km (two sq miles). Drivers were fined €90 (£80) if they did so.

Research by environmental groups suggests the plan has reduced air pollution levels to historic lows.

L o n d o n , J un 3 0 (IANS): The UK’s Prince William and his wife Kate will visit Pakistan laster this year at the request of Britains Foreign Office, the Kensington Palace has confirmed.

Further details will be provided in due course, Geo News quoted the Palace as saying on Saturday.

Prince William and Kate’s visit will be the first official visit by a member of the British royal family to Pakistan since 2006 when Prince Charles and Camilla had travelled to the South Asian country.

Previously, Queen Elizabeth II had visited in 1961 and 1997, and the late Princess Diana in 1991.

Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK Mohammad Nafees Zakaria welcomed the announcement. “ T h e g ove r n m e n t and the people of Pakistan warmly welcome the announcement of the Royal Visit by Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Pakistan this year,” Geo News quoted Zakaria as saying.

He added the people of Pakistan “still cherish and fondly recall” the visits by the Queen and described the upcoming trip as a “reflection of the importance the UK attaches to its relations with Pakistan.

The two countries enjoy historical links which both sides wish to strengthen further”.

Osaka (Japan), Jun 30 (IANS): Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasised on the need of close bilateral ties between Russia and Japan.

“Much work needs to be done to take RussiaJapan relations to the next level,” Xinhua quoted Putin as saying during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the conclusion of the Group of 20 (G20) summit here on Saturday.

“But this will set the stage to resolve the most difficult issues we are facing in a mutually acceptable manner,” said the Russian President.

Putin and Abe, on the long-standing territorial dispute, said both governments would continue the negotiations in line with a joint declaration signed in 1956, and in the meantime forge ahead with joint economic activities on the disputed islands.

“It will not be easy to reconcile our differences, but it is becoming clearer what the issues we need to overcome are,” Abe said.

The meeting of Abe and Putin took place after leaders of G20 members wrapped up the two-day summit in Osaka where the duo also held expanded talks over dinner.

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Beijing, Jun 30 (IANS): China has reduced the number of sectors and economic activities under restriction for foreign investors and firms in another step towards opening the economy, authorities said on Sunday.

The National Development and Reform Commission on Sunday published an updated “negative list” of sectors restricted for foreign investment, which now consists of 40 activities with restricted or no access to foreign investment, down from the 48 items mentioned in the last list, which came into effect in July 2018, reports Efe news.

The NDRC specified that it was no longer mandatory for domestic agencies of shipping, piped gas and heating in cities of more than 500,000 people to be controlled by Chinese entities. Wider invest-

ment access has also been granted in exploration and development of oil and gas, agriculture, services, mining and manufacturing.

Foreign investors are also expected to be allowed to develop businesses as majority shareholders or on a freehold basis, having been forced until recently to collaborate with local companies in order to operate in most sectors in China.

The new list will come into effect from July 30.

The decision comes just a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed to resume trade talks to resolve the one-year-old trade war in a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan’s Osaka.

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Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris racially targeted Washington, Jun 30 (PTI): Kamala Harris, the first Indian-origin Senator and one of the top Democrats eyeing the White House in the 2020 presidential run, has been racially targeted online of her identity as “not an American Black”, according to media reports.

Harris, 54, who was born in the US to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father who were both immigrants, has directly confronted critics before who have questioned her black heritage.

Harris, Senator from California, was the target of birtherism-like attack, the latest jabs to racism faced by former President Barack Obama, CNN reported.

“Birtherism,” promoted by some Republicans, including President Donald Trump before he assumed the presidency, was a movement that denied former President Obama was a natural-born US citizen, implying he was ineligible to be president.

“Kamala Har ris is *not* an American Black.

She is half Indian and half Jamaican,” the critic, who identified as African American, tweeted.

“I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It’s disgusting. Now using it for debate time at #DemDebate2? These are my people not her people.

Freaking disgusting,” the critic tweeted.

The viral tweet by

HK protests: Thousands rally in support of police and Beijing HONK KONG, JUN 30 (AGENCIES): Tens of thousands of pro-Beijing protesters are rallying in support of the police in Hong Kong, reports BBC news.

The demonstrators, dressed in white and blue and waving Chinese flags, oppose the anti-extradition protests that have taken over the city this month.

Two record-breaking rallies were held against a proposed law that would see suspects extradited to mainland China.

On 12 June police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds - the worst violence in the city in decades.

Hong Kong’s justice secretary Teresa Cheng later Many protesters waved Chinese flags at the rally in Tamar Park.

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is banned or restricted has been one of the main demands of foreign companies active in China, especially European and US firms.

T h e s e c o m p a n i e s, along with their governments and institutions of the European Union, have complained to Beijing about the lack of reciprocity in market access, given that Chinese companies enjoy subsidies and many other freedoms to operate, invest and buy entities in their territories.

Saturday’s meeting between Trump and Xi showed their intent to return to the table after the apparent breakdown in negotiations in May and the subsequent exchange of tariff hikes.

As a result of the meeting, Washington suspended the imposition of further tariffs on China and agreed to allow US companies to sell products to Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which was put on a business blacklist last month.

Trump also claimed after the meeting that China had agreed to buy huge amounts of farm products from the US, although Beijing had already made such a commitment in December as part of an agreement to begin trade negotiations, reached between Trump and Xi in Buenos Aires during the last G20 summit.

ruled out an investigation into police brutality: How radical youth forced the government’s hand, the apps powering Hong Kong’s ‘leaderless’ protests, all the context you need on the Hong Kong protests. However, the demonstrations forced the government to apologise and suspend the planned bill.

How big is the propolice rally?

Local media say about 165,000 pro-Beijing protesters turned up to the rally in Tamar Park on Sunday.

This is far fewer than the number of people who protested against the extradition bill - activist groups put the figure at about two million for the latest rally.

Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris.

right-wing personality Ali Alexander, has also gone by the name Ali Akbar, The New York Times reported.

The tweet was however, re-tweeted by President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. Trump, a valuable Republican surrogate as his father faces a bruising 2020 race, posted the tweet of unverified information, then asked his more than three million followers: “Is this true? Wow,” the report added.

“Don’s tweet was simply him asking if it was true that Kamala Harris was half-Indian because it’s not something he had ever heard before,” said the spokesman, Andy Surabian, “and once he saw that folks were misconstruing the intent of his tweet, he quickly deleted it.”

Lily Adams, the campaign communications director

for Harris, dismissed the attack, explaining that people, including President Trump, used similar rhetoric to question Obama’s birthplace.

Obama was born in Hawaii.

“This is the same type of racist attack his father used to attack Barack Obama,” Adams told CNN. “It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.”

Harris has often resisted sharing her personal background on the campaign trail. But during Thursday’s debate, she confronted former Vice President Joe Biden about his history opposing busing and said she herself had been bused to a public school.

Biden, however, defended Harris on Saturday, saying in a tweet that “racism has no place in

America.”

“The same forces of hatred rooted in ‘birtherism’ that questioned @BarackObama’s American citizenship, even his racial identity, are now being used against Senator @KamalaHarris,” Biden said. “It’s disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it.”

Of the 2020 Democratic hopefuls, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared to be the first on Saturday to defend Harris.

“The attacks against @KamalaHarris are racist and ugly,” Warren tweeted.

“We all have an obligation to speak out and say so. And it’s within the power and obligation of tech companies to stop these vile lies dead in their tracks.”

Other Democrats on the campaign trail chimed in. Washington Governor Jay Inslee accused the Trump family of “peddling birtherism,” an apparent reference to the president’s attacks against Obama.

US Representative Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, also compared the online attacks, which claim Harris is not a black American because her father is Jamaican, to “birtherism,” whose proponents claimed incorrectly that Obama was born in Kenya.

“The attack on @KamalaHarris is racist and we can’t allow it to go unchecked,” Ryan tweeted.

“We have a responsibility to call out this birtherism and the continued spread of misinformation.”

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Dangal star Zaira Never-before-seen rocks Apollo’s Mission Control Wasim quits films and dust from the moon is back to its former glory N A

Lunar Mission Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong’s gloves seen inside the Conservation Laboratory of the Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, near Washington.

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ASA facility is restored 50 years after the first moon landing to capture ‘the look and feel of July of 1969’ down to the wallpaper and retro coffee cups! Gone is the haze of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke. Gone are the coffee, soda and pizza stains. With only a few exceptions, NASA’s Apollo-era Mission Control has been restored to the way it looked 50 years ago when two men landed on the moon.

It gets the stamp of approval from retired flight director Gene Kranz, a man for whom failure - or even a minor oversight - is never an option.

Seated at the console where he ruled over Apollo 11, Apollo 13 and so many other astronaut missions, Kranz pointed out that a phone was missing behind him. And he said the air vents used to be black from all the smoke, not sparkly clean like they are now.

Those couple of details aside, Kranz could close, then open his eyes, and transpor t himself back to July 20, 1969, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s momentous moon landing.

‘When I sit down here and I’m in the chair at the console ... I hear these words, ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle

has landed,’’ Kranz said during a sneak preview at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

With all the empty seats, the room reminds him of a shift change when flight controllers would hit the restroom. ‘It’s just nice to see the thing come alive again,’ said Kranz, who titled his autobiography, ‘Failure is Not an Option.’

Friday’s grand opening - just three weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first otherworldly footsteps - culminates years of work and millions in donations. It opens to the public Monday.

Meticulously recreated down to the tan carpeting, gray-green wallpaper, white ceiling panels, woven-cushioned seats, amber glass ashtrays and retro coffee cups, Project Apollo’s Mission Operations Control Room never looked - or smelled - so good.

The goal was ‘to capture the look and feel of July of ‘69,’ said NASA’s restoration project manager Jim Thornton.

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a t i o n a l Aw a r d winning actor Zaira Wasim on Sunday announced her “disassociation” from the field of acting, saying she was not happy with the line of work as it interfered with her faith and religion.

In a detailed post on her Facebook page, which she later shared across all social media platforms, the Kashmiri-born Dangal fame star said she realised “though I may fit here perfectly, I do not belong here”.

The 18-year-old actor said as she completed five years in the profession, she wanted to “confess that I am not truly happy with this identity i.e my line of work”.

“This field indeed brought a lot of love, support, and applause my way, but what it also did was to lead me to a path of ignorance, as I silently and unconsciously transitioned out of ‘imaan’ (faith). While I continued to work in an environment that consistently interfered with my ‘imaan’, my relationship with my religion was threatened,” she said.

Talking about her life as an actor, she said she continued to observe things and twist her perceptions as she wanted them to be, without really understanding that the key was to see them as they

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were. Wasim said she began to heavily rely upon Allah’s mercy for help and guidance instead of valuing her own believability.

The actress, who made her big Bollywood debut in Aamir Khan’s 2016 film Dangal, said she questioned the deepest sources of her ideas of success, meaning and the purpose of her life.

Wasim said the journey has been “exhausting, to battle my soul for so long” and life was too short yet too long to be at war with oneself.

About announcing the decision on social media, the actor said she was openly doing so not to paint a holier picture of herself, but “this is the least I can do to start afresh”. Wasim will be next seen in The Sky is Pink, which also stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Farhan Akhtar.

(PTI)

treasure trove of hundreds of lunar rocks procured in the first-ever human moon landing are now available to select scientists to analyze for the first time.

Nine U.S. teams picked in March will begin to pore over the relatively unseen lunar samples which have been stowed away in vault at Johnson Space Center for decades.

The samples include pristine rocks, dust, and cross-sections of the lunar surface recovered by astronauts in NASA’s Apollo 11 moon landing nearly 50 years ago.

Using a host of equipment not available to scientists at the time, scientists plan to analyze the specimens with unprecedented clarity. As NASA’s Apollo sample curator Ryan Zeigler put it, the agency can now ‘do more with a milligram than we could do with a gram back then.’

According to Zeigler, the best samples will be opened and sent to scientists over the next year, some of them vacuumed-sealed on the moon never actually exposed to Earth’s atmosphere.

Other specimens have been stored in gaseous he-

lium while others have remained frozen.

Researchers have been toiling away, trying to figure out how best to remove the samples from their tubes and other containers without contaminating or spoiling the pay dirt, practicing with mock-up equipment and pretend lunar dust.

The unprecedented research come with particularly salient timing, as the Apollo 11 mission approaches its 50th anniversary on July 20 - a timing that Zeigler said is mere coincidence.

In addition to the anniversary of Apollo 11’s ground-breaking lunar landing, the moon has experienced a renaissance among

those set on space exploration.

Of the six manned moon landings, Apollo 11 yielded the fewest lunar samples, totaling 48 lbs. It was the first landing by astronauts and NASA wanted to minimize their on-themoon time and risk.

All five subsequent Apollo moon landings had longer stays. The last three — Apollo 15, 16 and 17 — had rovers that significantly upped the sample collection and coverage area.

The total Apollo inventory exceeds 100,000 samples. Some of the original 2,200 were broken into smaller pieces for study.

(Press Association and James Pero for dailymail.com)

PUBG working on new game Pupils unearth a forgotten work by artist John Constable

ity Playerunknown Battlegrounds or PUBG has gained, it doesn’t come as a surprise. Notably, this won’t be a sequel rather a new game in itself that will have an original narrative in the PUBG universe.

While the game doesn’t have a name or even a working title, we do know that it is being developed by a new studio

called Striking Distance.

The company is headed by Glen Schofield who has been credited for popular games like Call of Duty and Dead Space.

Apart from that, there is no crucial information about the gameplay as it is still in its early stages. There is no information around the release date either.

As of now, we can

WTBC youth fellowship hymnal competition

GA/CC/PWD youth fellowship, the winner for the WTBC youth fellowship hymnal competition 2019 along with the judges, and WTBC youth ministry officials.

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o k h a To w n Baptist Church (WTBC) youth ministry organized youth fellowship hymnal competition under the theme, “Master, the Tempest is Raging” on June 29 at the church premises.

Altogether seventeen (17) fellowships numbering 697 participants participated in the said competition.

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The programme started with an invocation offered by Elithung, deacon, WTBC, welcome and keynote address delivered by Y. Chumbenthung Murry, asst. pastor/youth director, who explained the purpose of the hymnal competition as well as the background of the hymn which was composed by Mary Ann Baker basing on Mark 4: 36-41 during her trying moment

in her life at the tragic death of her younger brother.

Meribeni Patton presented two special numbers, Bible reading by Lithungbeni Khuvung, offertory prayer

by Ronsuo Ezung, mass prayer was led by Lothungbeni Odyuo, announcement and declaration of result by Zuchanthung Lotha, and closing prayer by Ajano Kikon, assistant woman leader, WTBC.

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t lay forgotten for decades among a pile of dusty exercise books, pens and staplers in the back of an old school cupboard.

But this painting – discovered by pupils of Roedean School in Brighton when clearing out an old headmistress’s office – could be worth up to £1 million.

The painting was in a dusty package wrapped in plastic which they almost threw in the bin.

But when they unwrapped it they found a forgotten work by British painter John Constable.

Titled The Chain Pier Brighton In A Gale, it is understood to have been painted when the artist, most famous for his masterpiece The Hay Wain, visited the seaside resort in the 1820s.

On the rear is a bill of sale which states that the painting was bought from the artist’s grandson Hugh Constable and exhibited at the Constable Exhibition

in 1900. It was then auctioned in 1909 by Christie’s as a J. Constable R.A. and sold for £31 10s.

It was sold by Christie’s at the same time they sold a much larger painting of the pier by Constable which is now in The V&A. Richard Chamberlain, Roedean’s senior deputy head, said: ‘A couple of the girls and I were waiting to attend a school event one evening and we were chatting outside the room that was, many moons ago, the headmistress’s office.

‘One of the girls asked what was now kept in there and I said I believed it was just used as a stationery cupboard, so we had a look. ‘ To o u r a b s o l u t e amazement, when we unwrapped the small package at the back of the room we found the painting.

After some research in the school archives we found it was donated in 1955 by former pupil Bea-

trice Weber and the school magazine reported it as a Constable at the time.’

Three pupils at the £35,000-a-year girls school – M a r y M c H a r g, 1 8 , Amirah Mehdi, 17, and

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Celebrity news site TMZ reports that officials were called to Adler’s home shortly after 6:30pm on Thursday, following reports that someone had stabbed themselves at the property.

Police and ambulance services attended the scene, where Adler was allegedly found to have stab wounds on his stomach.

TMZ’s sources report Adler was taken to a local hospital with “non lifethreatening injuries”, and that no one else was involved in the incident.

He hooked up with with Slash, Axl Rose and Duff McKagan for two shows with the band in summer 2016, but back problems prohibited him from having a bigger role in the band’s reunion shows.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns N’ Roses in 2012.

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Eris Kennish, 17 – accompanied Mr Chamberlain to Christie’s in London to check the authenticity of the painting.

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PUBG Corporation is said to be working on a brand new game. With the amount of popular-

only speculate as to what kind of game will be developed by the new studio.

Since it is confirmed that the new game won’t be a sequel for PUBG, it could be a completely new game and might not have any of the battle royale features. n other news, PUBG Lite for PC is finally heading its way to India along with a bunch of more countries in the Asian region.

After launching in countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brazil and Bangladesh, the lightweight version of the game has been confirmed to be released in one of the biggest markets for the battle royale game.

While the official release date hasn’t been confirmed, pre-registrations for the game have already begun.

Early registration to PUBG Lite will also offer free skins and other rewards to players once the game arrives.

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SALVADOR, Jun 30 (Agencies): Goalkeeper Pedro Gallese saved Luis Suarez’s penalty as Peru beat Uruguay on penalties on Saturday to reach the Copa America semi-finals, where they will face Chile.

Edison Flores scored the decisive penalty as Peru, who were thrashed 5-0 by Brazil in their previous match, qualified for the semi-finals for the third time in the last four editions of the Copa.

It was a remarkable turnaround for Gallese, who was the villain of that thumping by the hosts, gifting Brazil their second goal by clearing the ball straight to Roberto Firmino, while he was also partially at fault for the first and third scores.

But in Salvador, he guessed the right way for the first shoot-out penalty to deny Barcelona forward Suarez, after which Peru’s own penalty-takers were faultless.

Giorgian de Arrascaeta, Edinson Cavani and Suarez had all put the ball in the net, only to be denied by a linesman’s flag.

Uruguay’s Rodrigo Bentancur (top right) jumps for the ball with Peru’s Paolo Guerrero during their match.(AP/PTI)

Brazil beat Paraguay on spot-kicks on Thursday and champions Chile did likewise to knock-out Colombia on Friday.

In the only match to feature any goals, Argentina

defeated Venezuela 2-0 on Friday.

Peru will face Chile in the second semi-final in Porto Alegre on Wednesday, a day after hosts Brazil take on Argentina in Belo

Horizonte.

Copa winners in 1939 and 1975, Peru lost to Chile in the semi-finals four years ago.

After a slow opening, Uruguay burst into life on 15 minutes when Federico Valverde surged onto a loose Peru pass in their own half and picked out an unmarked Luis Suarez on the penalty spot, but the Barcelona forward couldn’t keep down his header.

Two minutes later Nahitan Nandez broke into the box from the flank but his shot was blocked by a sliding defender.

In pouring rain, Uruguay looked set to take the lead on 24 minutes with a rapier counter-attack, but Cavani ballooned the ball into the sky from six yards after Gallese parried Suarez’s shot, although it wouldn’t have counted as the Barcelona forward was retroactively deemed offside when he received the ball.

Moments later Nandez headed over from six yards.

De Arrascaeta had the ball in the net on 28 minutes but that was chalked off for an offside against Nandez.

Peru finally created a worthy chance late in the first half but Jose Gimenez made a stunning recovery tackle to deny Guerrero a goalscoring chance. Up the other end, Gallese made himself big to block Cavani’s shot on the turn.

Gallese was called into action early in the second period to punch out a dipping Valverde free-kick.

Center-back Godin, up for a throw-in deep in Peruvian territory, emulated Cavani’s first-half howler, spooning over from seven yards after he was picked out

by Suarez.

Cavani appeared to have broken the deadlock just before the hour mark as he latched onto a Suarez through ball and chipped Gallese, but he was pulled up for offside.

Suarez poked home a Martin Caceres cross inside the six-yard box on 73 minutes, but that too was ruled offside.

Uruguay pushed hard late on but Peru held out as Suarez failed to make contact with the ball when trying to lob Gallese in the clearest chance.

LO N D O N, J u n 3 0 (Agencies): Trent Boult’s hat-trick and a screamer of a catch from Martin Guptill would have graced any cricket match but there is no doubt that New Zealand’s World Cup hopes took a battering in Saturday’s loss to Australia.

The 86-run defeat was a second in a row at the tournament for the Black Caps and although they can still qualify for the semifinals, the Lord’s loss will raise questions about their ability to beat top quality opposition.

They had their chance after reducing Australia to 92 for five but the defending champions rallied to make 243-9 and New Zealand’s response fizzled out at 157 all out with more than six overs still available to them.

Boult’s hat-trick was only the 11th in a World Cup match, and a first for a New Zealander, but the paceman was left ruing the fact that it came in Australia’s final over rather than when they were on the ropes.

“Any bowler dreams of getting three wickets in

Trent Boult picked up the second hat-trick of World Cup 2019 against Australia

a row, but to do it out there in front of a big crowd at the home of cricket was pretty special,” Boult told reporters.

“It felt pretty good at the time, I would have liked it to be in the first over that’s for sure. I always want the ball, there’s no doubt about it. 90-5 and then them getting through to 240 odd, in my opinion, around that 200 mark would have been a very good score.”

Left-armer Boult ended up with figures of 4-51 and Lockie Ferguson and Jimmy Neesham also

grabbed a couple of wickets apiece but the 29-year-old said the bowlers had to take their share of the blame for the defeat.

“I’m sure the boys are disappointed with the chase,” Boult said.

“From a bowling point of view, to let them get over 200 was frustrating. If we could have kept them under that, it makes it a whole different ball game. But they bowled well, used their bowlers well and pushed their run rate up very nicely and it was too much for us in the end.”

SL clash with WI in must-win game Brazil still wary of Messi, says defender Thiago Silva BELO HORIZONTE, Jun 30 (Agencies): Lionel Messi has not been at his best at the Copa America but Brazil defender Thiago Silva says his side will not take their eyes off the Argentina captain for a minute in their semi-final on Tuesday.

“He is the best player in the world and he still could spring to life,” Silva said ahead of the first Copa meeting between the sides since the 2007 final.

“We will have to be

especially focused on him when we have the ball and when we don’t. Sometimes he can be at walking pace during a game but he’s always looking for space to launch a counterattack. It’s a privilege to be able to face him again and we’ll have to try and put the brakes on him.”

Messi has scored once in the tournament and has Thiago Silva acknowledged he is not playside’s 2-0 win over Venezueing at his usual level. He had only three shots during his la in the quarter-finals, none

of which hit the target.

“The truth is I’m not having my best Copa America, it’s always very difficult for us because we want to do something different and attack and teams pack out the middle of the pitch,” he said.

“No one is giving anything away cheaply in this Copa, it’s very difficult to play because the pitches are very bad, it’s shameful. The ball is like a rabbit, it can go anywhere and you can’t

dribble.”

Argentina winger Angel di Maria says Messi is working hard for the team even if he is not making it onto the scoresheet. “We are used to seeing him score goals but Leo is doing very well, he is running a lot, he is working hard,” he said.

“He knows more than anyone that at this Copa America the first thing you need to do is run, then you can think about the rest, playing well and scoring.”

Cops bust two cricket betting rackets; 6 held Sri Lanka players during their match against South Africa.

Chester-le-Street, Jun 30 (PTI): Mathematically still alive in the race for the semifinals, Sri Lanka will aim to give their best shot against West Indies, who have just pride to play for in their World Cup encounter, here Monday.

Sri Lanka’s 20-run win over England had breathed life into their inconsistent campaign but a painful defeat against South Africa, in the very next game, hurt their semifinals chances.

The 1996 champions, who are placed seventh on the points table with six points from seven matches, need to win their final two games, and hope for favourable outcomes in the England and Pakistan’s next fixtures.

In their nine-wicket loss to South Africa, their inconsistent batting came to the fore yet again and skipper Dimuth Karunaratne would look to improve on that aspect against a challenging West Indian bowling attack.

With their batting unit misfiring more often than

not, the onus to secure favourable results has always been put on the experienced bowling attack, led by veteran speedster Lasith Malinga. And with Nuwan Pradeep’s exit (due to chickenpox), Sri Lanka will rely heavily on their bowling spearhead once again.

The Jason Holder-led side, on the other hand, will look to finish on a high after being knocked out of the tournament.

West Indies came into the tournament, tipped as a potential surprise package, especially after scoring 421 in a warm-up victory over New Zealand. They also started their World Cup campaign with a bang, demolishing Pakistan by seven wickets.

But since then, things have gone from bad to worse for the Caribbeans.

They have suffered five defeats. Though they have been impressive in parts, the side has failed to hold on to their nerves in tight games and ended up enduring heartbreaking losses.

They currently occupy the penultimate spot just above Afghanistan on the points table, having crashed out of the semifinal race. But with nothing to lose, the West Indies will be playing for pride and could be unstoppable if their destructive batting line up, comprising power hitters like Chris Gayle, Carlos Brathwaite and Shai Hope, clicks.

“We had some frank discussions about the World Cup that we’ve had and we’ll try to finish the tournament as a strong unit now,” West Indies head coach Floyd Reifer had said after the loss to India.

“We are still playing for pride, we know that.

People back home in the Caribbean are backing us and we are representing them here.”

The Riverside Ground produced a sluggish surface in Sri Lanka’s nine-wicket loss to South Africa. Durham is expected to have clear skies on Monday, with extremely low chances of rain.

New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI): The Delhi Police has arrested six people for running cricket betting rackets in two separate operations at Rohini and Shakti Nagar, officials said on Sunday.

Those arrested were Sandeep (40), Pankaj (35), Arun (31), Rajeev Sachdeva (52), Amit (31) and Deepak Gupta (38), they added.

Four laptops, 26 mobile phones, two LED TV sets and calculators were seized during the operations, the police said.

“Acting on a tip-off, the police conducted a raid at Shakti Nagar Extension and arrested Deepak Gupta and Rajeev Sachdeva, while they were taking bets on the World Cup,” ACP (Crime) Rajiv Ranjan said.

In another operation, the police raided a house in Rohini Sector-2 on Friday and arrested Sandeep, Pankaj, Arun and Amit while they were placing bets on the World Cup match between South Africa and Sri Lanka, the ACP said.

Sandeep and Pankaj were scrap dealers, while Arun ran a mobile phone shop and Amit worked at a private firm, the officer said. They were running the racket for the last year-anda-half, the police said.

M adrid, J u n 3 0 (Agencies): Alvaro Morata has been assured that Diego Simeone and Atletico Madrid want to keep hold of him amid concerns the striker might be forced to return to Chelsea this summer.

The Blues are discussing a deal to offload their star with the La Liga runners-up after loaning their failed £58 million signing in January as he pushed to leave the club.

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the Spanish club already paid £4.4m in loan fees.

“I want to stay at Atletico but, contractually, Chelsea can call me back,” Morata told Goal in early June.

“We will see what happens in the negotiations between them, but the two clubs already know what I want.”

Atleti will have money to sign both Benfica’s £112m prospect Joao Felix and Morata after selling the likes of Antoine Griezmann in a deal involving Barcelona at around £107m and Rodri for £63m to Manchester City.

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Eng beat India to stay in hunt for WC semis Federer opposes on-court coaching

Birmingham, Jun 30 (PTI): England survived to live for another day as they outbatted India by 31 runs in a high-scoring World Cup encounter, keeping their semi-final hopes alive here Sunday.

Opener Jonny Bairstow’s hundred (111 off 109 balls) set the platform and a cavalier 54-ball 79 by all-rounder Ben Stokes took England to an imposing 337 for 7 in 50 overs.

The total proved to be good enough as Rohit Sharma’s (102) 25th ODI hundred and skipper Virat Kohli’s (66) fifth consecutive half-century could only take India to 306 for 5 as England captain Eoin Morgan rotated his bowlers effectively at the death.

England, now on 10 points, will need to beat New Zealand in their last game to qualify for the semifinals while India (11 points from 7 games) will need to win at least one of their remaining two games - against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - to seal the last four spot.

Chris Woakes (2/58 in 10 overs) and Liam Plunkett (3/55 in 10 overs) were steady and impressive but it was Jofra Archer’s (0/45 in 10 overs) extra pace that the Indian middle-order, includ-

England players celebrate after taking a wicket during their Cricket World Cup match against India on Sunday. (AP/PTI)

ing the hard-hitting Hardik Pandya (45 off 33 balls), found difficult to negotiate.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (42 not out off 31 balls) with his waning powerhitting abilities also could not have done better against Archer.

The Barbados born speedster, who bowled fast and full with occasional slower deliveries, had 33 dot balls to his credit.

KL Rahul (0) did not have the measure of Woakes as he was out for a nine-ball duck. bringing Kohli and Rohit together. They were cautious till the 15th over

Fritz wins maiden ATP title

Taylor Fritz with the trophy after defeating Sam Querrey in the final.

Eastbourne, Jun 30 (Agencies): American Taylor Fritz claimed his maiden ATP title in Eastbourne, beating compatriot Sam Querrey 6-3 6-4 in the final on Saturday.

Playing only his second final, Fritz made a solid start to break Querrey to love in his first return game.

Fritz went on to dominate the majority of the baseline rallies, while Querrey was undone by unforced errors in key moments of the match.

The 21-year-old Fritz

clinched another early break of serve in the second set before closing out the victory in just over an hour with an ace.

Fritz, son of former top-10 player Kathy May, will look to carry his success over to Wimbledon, where he begins his campaign against Czech Tomas Berdych on Tuesday.

Querrey, who was playing his first final since the New York Open in 2018, will meet world number four Dominic Thiem in his opening match.

before opening up against Adil Rashid and Ben Stokes, hitting the duo for a flurry of boundaries.

While Kohli reached his fifth successive halfcentury of the tournament, it was Rohit who dominated the bowling after reaching his own half-ton.

Their 138-run stand ended when Kohli’s slash drive off Plunkett was pouched by substitute fielder James Vince at point.

Rohit and young Rishabh Pant (32 off 29 balls) added 52 off 48 balls and the Indian vice-captain also reached his 25th ODI

hundred in the process.

However, his innings ended as Woakes got him first ball off his second spell, caught

by Jos Buttler.

Pant tried his shortarm pull-shot off Plunkett and was brilliantly caught by a diving Woakes in the deep as Dhoni joined Pandya.

Opting to bat, Bairstow (11 off 109 balls), along with fit-again Jason Roy (66 off 57 balls), added 160 for the first wicket on a track where Kuldeep Yadav (1/72 in 10 overs) and Yuzvendra Chahal (0/88 in 10 overs) had a forgettable day.

Stokes (79) then used

the platform to give the total a menacing look in a do-orie game for the hosts.

Mohammed Shami (5 for 69) got his maiden fivewicket haul but even he lost his bearings in the last two overs. Jasprit Bumrah (1/44 in 10 overs) was amazing as ever, being the only bowler to finish with a sub-5 economy rate and the only maiden of the innings.

Bairstow, who stoked a controversy by taking an indirect dig at former England skippers Michael Vaughan and Kevin Pietersen for their criticism, channelized his anger in a positive manner, scoring his eighth ODI hundred.

Chahal and Kuldeep were hit for 12 fours and as many as nine sixes as they hardly got any purchase from the Edgbaston track.

Incidentally, Sunday’s pitch was not the one which was used during Pakistan’s game against New Zealand where Kane Williamson’s parttime off-breaks turned right angles.

Brief scores England: 337/7 (Jonny Bairstow 111, Ben Stokes 79; Mohammed Shami 5/69) India: 306/5 (Rohit Sharma 102, Virat Kohli 66; Liam Plunkett 3/55, Chris Woakes 2/58)

L ON D ON, J u n 3 0 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : Ro ge r Federer says he would be opposed to men’s tennis following the women’s example and allowing oncourt coaching.

The WTA Tour already allows players to call their coaches at certain points of matches and the U.S. Open has considered allowing players to receive coaching from their players’ box this year at Flushing Meadows.

“I don’t know the latest,” Swiss Federer told reporters at Wimbledon on Saturday. “In Halle, I heard you can speak to the player from the player box at the (U.S.) Open. This is maybe not happening any more.

So nothing is sure. But in my opinion we shouldn’t have coaching in tennis.”

“I’m a big believer in that. I know some people are completely on my side.

Some people are, Why not? Every other sport has it. I guess you can see both angles.”

Federer is blessed in that he invariably makes the right decisions on court, the reason he has won 20 Grand Slam titles and, aged 37, is chasing a ninth Wimbledon crown.

Thinking your way through a match and

Roger Federer

switching tactics when needed, is what makes the sport so unique, he says.

“I think the player gets his advice (before the match) then it’s how much can he remember, how much can he deal with in the moment, figure it out yourself a little bit.”

“I’m against on-court coaching in any shape or form except for rain delays,

whatever you call it, when it gets too late, gets carried over to the next day. I don’t think it’s necessary, to be honest. Then we go deeper into the sport where maybe I can obviously afford more coaching than others. Is that fair? It is what it is.

I think it puts everybody on an even playing field if there’s no coaching,” added Federer.

Sweden knock Germany out of Women’s World Cup R e n n e s, J u n 3 0 (Agencies): Sweden ended Germany’s hopes of a third women’s World Cup win, coming from behind for a surprise 2-1 quarter-final victory on Saturday thanks to goals from Sofia Jakobsson and Stina Blackstenius.

The Swedes now face a last-four clash with the Netherlands in Lyon on Wednesday after a win which means Olympic champions Germany will not have a chance to defend their title in Tokyo next year.

Many will still look to the other semi-final, Tuesday’s clash between England and the United States, for the likely winner of the tournament but the Swedes showed they should not be underestimated with their swift counter-attacking style.

Germany began brightly and took the lead in the 16th minute through Lina Magull, who twisted her body perfectly to beat Hedvig Lindahl with a hooked volley.

Germany had not conceded a single goal in the tournament but their

defence surprisingly failed to deal with a long ball down the middle from Linda Sembrant which Jakobsson latched onto and slotted home past goalkeeper Almuth Schult.

At the break, Germany coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg threw on midfielder Dzsenifer Marozsan, who had not played since breaking a toe in their tournament opener against China, looking to add some much-needed creativity.

Instead, just three minutes after the resumption, it was the Swedes who struck again.

Schult did well to turn away a powerful header by Fridolina Rolfo but the rebound fell kindly to striker Blackstenius, who fired home from point blank range for her second goal in as many matches.

Substitute Lena Oberdorf missed a great chance to force the game into extra time when she headed wide with the goal gaping in the 80th minute but Sweden held their nerve to reach their fourth World Cup semi-finals.

There were tears on

Sweden players celebrate after scoring a goal during their Women’s World Cup quarter final match against Germany.

the faces of many of the Germany squad as the reality of their exit — and Olympic absence - hit home hard.

The win was Sweden’s first over Germany at a major tournament since 1995,

having previously come close in the 2003 World Cup final and in the 2016 Rio final.

Sweden’s semi-final opponents were confirmed earlier in the day when Netherlands defeated Italy

2-0 in Valenciennes.

Dutch reach WC semis for 1st time

Defending European champion Netherlands bested Italy 2-0 to advance to the semifinals of the

Women’s World Cup 2019 for the first time ever.

After a somewhat lethargic first half amid the blazing sun heat at Stade du Hainaut, here, the Dutch squad lifted their game in the second on Saturday. The Netherlands dominated possession and were relentless on the attack.

Italy, the Cinderella team of the tournament, were unable to convert the handful of chances they created in the first 45 minutes and didn’t get so much as a whiff of the opposing goal after the restart.

The Italians found themselves forced to resort to fouls to disrupt the Dutch attack, picking up four yellow cards. And while goalkeeper Laura Giuliani handled the shots from open play, she finally conceded on set pieces.

Vivianne Miedema got her head to a strike from free-kick specialist Sherida Spitse to put the Netherlands ahead 1-0 in the 70th minute.

The second goal came 10 minutes later from Stefanie van der Gragt, again off a Spitse free kick.

I’ve become an important player: Winks

Harry Winks

L o n d o n, J u n 3 0 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : H a r r y Winks believes last season was the best of his career and says he has now “become an important player” for Tottenham.

Winks, who came though Spurs’ academy, broke into the first team in 2014 after making his debut against Partizan Belgrade in the Europa League and is preparing for his sixth full campaign at the club.

The 23-year-old England international midfielder made 41 appearances across all competitions last season as Mauricio Pochettino’s side went on an unlikely run to the Champi-

ons League final, losing out to Premier League rivals Liverpool.

“I had a relatively injury-free season last year until the end,” he told Spurs’ official website. “I played a lot of matches, started a lot of matches and it was incredible, probably my best season so far at the club.”

Tottenham’s 2-0 win over Crystal Palace in April - their first match in their new stadium - marked Winks’ 100th appearance for the club, but he was forced to watch the rest of the Premier League season from the sidelines due to a groin injury.

The 23-year-old made

a quicker return than anticipated and was in the starting XI for the club’s biggest game of the season, the Champions League final in June.

Despite the disappointment of losing 2-0 to Liverpool in Madrid, Winks feels he has become a vital cog in the Tottenham squad.

“I feel I’ve become an important player now and I couldn’t ask for more,” he added.

“If you’d asked me three or four years ago if I wanted to be in this position now I would have snapped your hand off, but the most important thing now is not to get carried away, to work as hard as I can and try to stay in there and maintain that position because there are so many top players here.”

“Staying in is the hardest. It’s fantastic to get there, but staying there is tough with so many top quality players at the club, all wanting to start.”

Tottenham kick off their Premier League season on August 10 when they host newly-promoted Aston Villa.

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