July 23, 2018

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Cong, BJP gear up for 2019 LS battle

New Delhi, Jul 22 (AGENCIES): As both BJP, its NDA allies and the disparate opposition gear up for the big fight in 2019, the Congress has given its president Rahul Gandhi the ‘green signal’ to forge alliances and also as the party candidate for prime minister.

This was decided at the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on July 22 held in the party headquarters here.

The decision about Rahul Gandhi being the final word on alliances came amid perceptions that Sonia Gandhi had a wider acceptability among present and potential allies and was better placed to negotiate with them.

The CWC discussed preparations for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as also its readiness to take on the BJP in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarhwhere elections will be held at the end of this year. It also discussed Mizoram where elections are due this year.

With the party having suffered electorally due to “indiscreet remarks” of some of its leaders close to elections, Rahul Gandhi

Senior NSCN (I-M) kilonser resigns DIMAPUR, JUL 22 (NPN): Citing old age and health issues, a senior kilonser of the NSCN (I-M), AZ Jami has resigned from both primary and active membership of the NSCN. In a statement issued to media, Jami said he was one of the very few surviving senior Naga freedom fighters. Jami explained that he had been compelled by circumstances to resign from active national service in his 63rd year of Naga national service.

Admitting that during his long services for the Naga nation he might have hurt and offended many persons through his words and deeds, Jami sought apology for the same.

Jami however said that if he was called upon by the nation to perform any work, it would be his bounden duty and obligation as a citizen to respond positively to the call of the nation, provided he lived and his health permitted him.

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“After Friday’s hug in the Lok Sabha, they seem to be smiling more now.”

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emphasised on “gravitas of the language and conduct” and to keeping the party line in mind while making statements. Rahul Gandhi added that Congress can come together with other parties and win the coming elections. “After that, the damage done by the BJP & RSS to India’s institutions will have to be undone. Only the Congress can do this”.

Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala said the party president was also authorised to form a small committee for the purpose, if needed as well as campaign committees and other panels for 2019 elections.

Meanwhile, in her remarks at the meeting, Sonia

Gandhi cited “the reign of despair and fear heaped upon India’s deprived and poor” and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rhetoric “shows his desperation reflecting that reverse countdown of Modi government has begun”.

People will reject Rahul, says BJP

Attacking the Gandhi scion over his speech at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Sunday, BJP’s national media in-charge Anil Baluni said the people will reject him in the next general election.

In a series of tweets, he also claimed that the Congress had decided to contest only 150 seats in

the Lok Sabha polls, while Gandhi was dreaming to become the prime minister.

“Heard that desperate and disappointed Congress at its meeting today has set a target of contesting 150 Lok Sabha seats, while its president Rahul Gandhi is dreaming to become prime minister,” Baluni tweeted in Hindi.

Referring to the Congress chief ’s hug to Modi during the debate on the noconfidence motion against the government in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the BJP leader said it was done forcibly. “Rahul ji, you forcibly hugged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament but people will not hug you in the 2019 general elec-

Harmful foods under scanner

Staff Reporter

D imapur , J ul 2 2 (NPN): Following the ban on all varieties of imported fishes by Food Safety Officials, the net has widened to include varieties of fruits such as -mangoes, bananas , pomegranates, watermelonswhich were also found with traces of carbide, for artificial ripening. All fruits were banned for sale until tests are done to rule out traces of various banned chemicals used for artificial ripening or making them look fresher.

On Saturday, Food Safety officials, after conducting tests, ordered disposal of around 5000 kgs of various fruits at DMC dumping site. The Food Safety officials also ordered the closure of M/s Modern Ice Cream Factory and Plaza Bakery for unhygienic conditions. The scanner for the Food Safety officials will also have to get widened to

bring even ‘green’ imported vegetables under focus. It may be pointed out that Sikkim is the only state declared as the ‘Organic State’ in India. Sikkim bans import of vegetables of all kinds into the state. The ‘deep green’ look on many imported vegetables is a clear sign of chemicals being used to make them look fresh despite having to be transported over ten to twenty days to reach Nagaland.

First, silicone spray is used on vegetables to slow down the ripening process then they are put in a dump where the desired color is mixed before they are packed and sent.

Artificial color on green vegetables also make ridge gourd, lady fingers, pointed gourds, beans appear fresh.

The harmful dye is actually used in textile industries.

The huge and oversize ‘bilaty’ vegetables in markets are actually due to growth

hormones injected to speed up the growth. Vegetable farmers would use a syringe and inject those hormones into individual veggies.

Fruits that have a uniform colour are more likely to have been artificially ripened. The naturally ripened fruits are not uniformly coloured; rather, they are patchy. When tomatoes are uniformly red, or mango and papaya are uniformly orange/yellow, then Calcium Carbide may have been used. Bananas can also be identified if the fruits are all yellow green whereas the stem is dark. It is not advisable to buy fruits when they arrive in the market before the due period i.e. early and off-season.

The Food safety officials also need to check kitchens of restaurants and eating places not only for hygiene but also whether recycled oil used since it is very harmful for health.

tion. You should prepare yourself for bringing a noconfidence motion in 2024,” he tweeted.

BJP president Amit Shah has said the defeat faced by the Opposition in the notrust vote in Parliament is just a “glimpse” of the 2019 Lok Sabha poll results and a reflection of people’s faith in the Modi Government and its mantra of ‘sab ka sath sab ka vikas’.

With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address 50 rallies across the country by February next year, covering more than 100 Lok Sabha constituencies, party sources said. BJP chief Amit Shah and senior leaders Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari will also address 50 rallies each, a source said.

Before the election dates of the Lok Sabha elections are announced, BJP will have covered at least 400 Lok Sabha constituencies by organising 200 rallies, said a party leader said. Besides these 50 rallies, Modi will also address rallies in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, where elections are scheduled later this year, he said.

Deficit rainfall in 5 NE States GUWAHATI, JUL 22 (AGENCIES): As per the latest data available with the Borjhar-based Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here, five NE States have recorded deficit rainfall this monsoon-- Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya.

With 511.8 mm of rainfall so far, Assam recorded a 32% deficit rainfall against the normal of 749.1 mm for the period. Manipur recorded the highest deficit of 71% (actual 198.9 mm, normal 681.5 mm) during the monsoon this year.

Likewise, Nagaland recorded a deficit of 48% (actual 330.1 mm, normal 636.6 mm), Meghalaya- 47% (actual 757.5 mm, normal 1425.8 mm) and Arunachal Pradesh recorded a deficit of 43 per cent (actual 495.8 mm, normal 876.5 mm) during the monsoon period this year, The Assam Tribune report stated.

Manipur parties for special Assembly session on Naga issue Correspondent/PTI

IMPHAL, JUL 22: All political parties of Manipur, barring the Congress, Sunday demanded a special session of the Legislative Assembly be convened to discuss the framework agreement reportedly signed by the Centre and the NSCN (I-M) in 2015.

However, a communiqué reportedly sent by the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee to chief minister N. Biren Singh said that the matter could be discussed during the ongoing Assembly session.

The all political party meeting deliberated on the latest development of the Framework Agreement, which was widely reported in the national media.

According to media reports, the interlocutor for the Naga talks R.N. Ravi informed a Parliamentary panel on Thursday that it signed a framework agreement with the NSCN (I-M) after it agreed on a settlement within the Indian federation with a “special status.”

Ravi had reportedly

Manipur CM, N. Biren Singh chairing the all-party meet. (NP)

told the panel that the government called it a framework agreement and signed it.

“At the meeting today (Sunday) at the Chief Minister’s Office, it was decided that the Centre’s framework agreement on the Naga issue should not infringe on the territorial integrity of Manipur,” L Sotin Kumar Singh, state Secretary of CPI, told PTI. On the Indo-Myanmar border issue, he said that it was decided that all political parties of Manipur would join the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) team which will visit the disputed border

pillar No. 81 at Kwatha village of Tengnoupal district of Manipur on July 25.

“The MEA team will inspect the disputed site to figure out if the border post was installed in the right place,” Sotin Kumar said.

The Congress abstained from the meeting as it felt the way the things were dealt with was not proper, Sotin Kumar added.

The meeting was attended by representatives of AAP, AIFB, AITC, BJP, BSP, CPI(M), CPI, DBSP, JD (S), JDU, LJP, MNDF,MDPF, MPC, MPP, NCP, NPF, NPP, NEIDP, RSP and Shiv Sena.

NDPP clears air over party’s recognition issue DIMAPUR, JUL 22 (NPN): Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) on Sunday issued a statement to clear the confusion over the status of the party saying it had filed appropriate reply to Election Commission of India (ECI) and prayed for dismissal of the petition filed by an individual seeking its de-recognition.

NDPP claimed that no adverse order had been passed by the commission and that there would be no change of status under any circumstances.

In a press statement issued by its media & communication committee, NDPP said it had appropriately replied to the petition and also pointed out the deficiencies therein and attempts to mislead ECI with false information and certificates.

Alleging that there had been some misinformation campaign in public domain regarding the petition, the

ruling party said its political adversaries had extensively used it to spread false propaganda and create confusion in the minds of people.

Mentioning that the petition was timed to coincide with the recently held Lok Sabha by-election, NDPP alleged that it was used by its adversaries as a campaign strategy to garner votes by creating confusion in the minds of people. However, despite such propaganda, the party emerged victorious, the statement added.

On close scrutiny, the petition was found to be not only politically motivated by the party and senior legal luminaries but also fabricated with false content, inaccuracies and fraudulence, the statement claimed.

NDPP claimed that it was founded in the most democratic manner on May 17, 2017 by following due processes and as per the guidelines of ECI for reg-

istration. Public notices in the form of advertisements were published in national, local, Hindi and vernacular newspapers for two days on September 6 and 7 inviting objections within 30 days, the party pointed out, adding that no claims or objections were received then.

After completion of all formalities, the party was formally registered with ECI on October 13, 2017 and that on December 7 the commission allotted the “globe” symbol for the Nagaland Legislative Assembly election held earlier this year, NDPP pointed out. In the election where it forged a pre-poll alliance with BJP, NDPP won 18 out of the 40 seats it had contested and polled 25.23% of the votes polled. And on the basis of the electoral victory with BJP, the PDA government was sworn in alliance with NPP, JD (U) and independent, NDPP added (Cont’d on p-7)

Nagaland, Mnp, M’laya last among best governed small states ST status: 6 communities threaten Assam bandh

BENGALURU, JUL 22 (IANS): Kerala stands as the best governed state in the country and Karnataka is in the fourth position, said the Public Affairs Index 2018 released by the think tank Public Affairs Centre (PAC) here.

Among smaller states (with population less than two crore), Himachal Pradesh topped the list, followed by Goa, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura which figured among the top five states with good governance.

Nagaland, Manipur a n d M e g h a l aya we r e ranked at the bottom of the index among small states.

“Kerala has topped the Public Affairs Index (PAI) for 2018 as the best governed state for the third consecutive year since 2016 among large states,” said Bengaluru-based PAC at an event in the city on Sat-

urday evening to release its third annual PAI. Released annually since 2016, the index examines governance performance in the states through a data-based framework, ranking them on social and economic development they are able to provide.

Founded in 1994 by renowned Indian economist and scholar late Samuel Paul, the think tank works to mobilise a demand for better governance in the country.

Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat followed Kerala among the top five states delivering good governance, according to the report.

M a d hya P r a d e s h , Jharkhand and Bihar ranked the lowest on the PAI, indicating higher social and economic inequalities in the states.

As a young country with growing population,

India needs to assess and address its developmental challenges, said the Chairman of PAC, K. Kasturirangan, on the occasion.

“The PAI 2018 is one example of a data-based framework that provides some basis, even if rudimentary, to assess the performance of states in India,” added Kasturirangan, the former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The think tank has undertaken the study across all the Indian states con-

sidering them across 10 themes such as essential infrastructure, support to human development, social protection, women and children as well as law and order.

“The index provides a multi-dimensional and comprehensive matrix that attempts to capture the complexities of governing the plural and diverse people of this sub-continent,” added Senior Fellow at PAC C.K. Mathew.

The states were divided into two categories — large and small — on the basis of their population. States with more than two crore population were considered large.

A total of 30 focus subjects and 100 indicators were measured to derive the PAI, relying solely upon government data.

The PAC said it was not keen to access private data sources that may be

interpreted as “biased”.

This year’s PAI also included a separate index on the children of India, giving a measure of how child-friendly each of the states are.

Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram topped the index on being the states to provide better living conditions for all children.

The former chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Shantha Sinha, who was present on the occasion, delivered the Samuel Paul Memorial Lecture, drawing attention to children’s rights in the country.

“Children growing up in poverty cannot be blamed for their situation and it is the state’s responsibility to ensure that they are provided with opportunities for a better living,” Sinha said.

GUWAHATI, JUL 22 (AGENCIES): The six c o m mu n i t i e s s e e k i n g Schedule Tribe (ST) status in Assam-- Moran, Muttock, Tai Ahom, Koch Rajbongshi, Sootea and Tea Tribes have threatened to impose Assam bandh on July 23 and 24 after talks between Centre and its leaders failed to make any headway.

According to The Telegraph report, the organizations have also decided to organize a 12-hour hunger strike in New Delhi on July 30 in support of their demand.

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday tried to reach out to the six communities seeking Scheduled Tribe status by assuring them that the government would take the right call in “consultation” with their

representatives.

They however alleged lack of seriousness on the part of the Centre to resolve the issue, triggering calls for bandhs and protests against the Centre’s indifference towards their demands.

At a government-held function in Dhubri, Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, according to a government communiqué, said both the central and state governments were working with “genuine” interest for the six communities seeking Schedule Tribe status.

Sonowal said the process “is getting prolonged due to technical complications” but “assured” that the government would take it “in the right direction” in consultation with the representatives of the six communities.

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Town Colonies Union DMI SJGS organises first PTA meet Farmer’s orientation and Wokha adopts six-point resolution capacity building trg held

Participants during the block level farmer’s orientation & capacity building training program.

DIMAPUR: Department of Animal husbandry and Veterinary services (CVO office Kohima) conducted a Block Level Farmer’s Orientation & Capacity Building Training Program under NLM (2017-18) at Phesema

village on July 16 and 17.

The training program educated the farmers on livestock activities like preventive measures for animal’s health and economic upliftment through livestock development. Phesama vil-

lage council expressed gratitude to the department for organizing the program and also requested it to conduct more such programs to bridge the gap between farmers and the department.

DIMAPUR: Wokha Town Colonies Union (WTCU), in a meeting held on July 20 at Lotha Tribal Council Hall, deliberated at length on NPG taxation, Public Distribution System (PDS) a nd Wo kha - M e r a pa ni Road among other issues and adopted a six-point resolution.

A press release by WTCU president, S. Mhonlumo Lotha and secretary, Thungdemo stated that the union unanimously resolved to continue with the standing decision of the Nagaland general public’s desire for “One Government One Tax” and therefore, said it shall not comply with any group’s demand for tax in any form.

In case of any harassment meted out to any of its members in this regard, the union has warned that it would not extend any cooperation in whatsoever manner in the near future to the concerned group.

The house also decided to hold a “serious meeting” with the concerned department authorities

AH&VS block level orientation

The resource person with attendees during the block level orientation program, on July 19.

DIMAPUR: The department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services (AH&VS) conducted a “Block level orientation program on training and capacity building” under “National Livestock Mission 2017-18” for Kohima block with Veterinary Field Assistants (VFAs) on July 19, at Kohima CVO conference hall.

A press release from

Chiephobozou, Veterinary Dispensary VAS, Dr. Vikuolie Mezhatsu said the program was chaired by CVO deputy Dr. Joseph M. Angami, who also acted as the moderator.

CVO Kohima Dr. Vilatuo Felix Rutsa, exhorted the VFAs and officers present asking them to be pragmatic rather than procrastinators. He also encouraged the staff to work as a team

in order to achieve different milestones.

The resource person for the program VAS Dr. George, spoke on “Terminologies & physiological parameters,” DLDO Dr. Pusazono Chüsi deliberated “Commonly used Medicines & Vaccine”, Dr. Keduzol Ltu, VAS spoke on “Sample collection & Site of injection/ vaccination”, Dr. Elizabeth

Yhome, VS emphasized on “Common diseases & their treatment” and Dr. Akangnungla, DDDO spoke on the importance of “Record Keeping.”

The technical session was followed by an interactive session where various issues related to field conditions were discussed.

Later, a vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. Kenalo Kath.

with regard to the PDS reimbursement for transportation, house rent etc. and only after this, necessary decisions shall be taken in the next meeting.

WTCU also unanimously decided to extend full cooperation to the Lotha Hoho on the WokhaMerapani road activity.

The union has also appealed to all government employees posted in Wokha district to be sincere in their responsibilities. WTCU has endorsed the authority of the youth of the respective colonies, wherever the offices exist, to monitor attendance of the concerned employees.

WTCU, in the meeting, has also agreed to comply with the government’s decision on the matter relating to issue of PRCs and other concerned documents.

The house also unanimously decided that each colony shall be represented by two office bearers from all the concerned colony council in all the union’s meetings.

KPC mourns

DIMAPUR: Kohima Press Club (KPC) has expressed sadness to learn of the demise of Bendangkokla, mother of journalist and Dimapur Press Club treasurer Asungba (Imrong) Ao. KPC general secretary Alice Yhoshü, in a condolence note said KPC extends its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and also conveyed prayers for the Almighty to grant them solace at this time of grief.

Tolino giving a report of the achievements of the school in a slide-show presentation.

DIMAPUR: DMI St. Joseph Global School (SJGS) Dimapur held its first Parents Teachers Association (PTA) inaugural meeting under the theme “Stepping towards the future” on Saturday at St. Joseph

University Campus.

A press release from DMI SJGS stated that special speaker, correspondent of Mount Carmel Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, Rev. Fr. Johnson, encouraged the parents to

work hard and place God first to be successful. Asserting that parents and teachers were the backbone of the institution, he asked the parents to join hands together with the teachers and management to impart quality education to children.

Rev. Fr. Johnson also called upon the parents and teachers to be role models for the student community.

The release stated that the meeting commenced with the prayer song followed by Bible reading and prayer which was followed by introduction of executive committee members

by DMI SJGS, principal, Sr. Sahaya Rani while DMI SJGS vice president, Tolino presented the achievement of the school in a slide-show presentation.

Boy drowns in Kohima Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUL 22 (NPN): A high school boy reportedly drowned in a small pond near high school junction below BRTF camp Kohima at around 10:30 a.m on Sunday. The deceased boy is reportedly from Warumong village under Mokokc-

hung district. Other details about the incident could not be ascertained as the police were unaware of the incident and eyewitness or nearby residents could not be contacted. A video circulating in social media shows the lifeless body of the boy being fished out from the pond by an unidentified person.

Summer Bible Camp in Phaipijang ends

St Xavier’s Catholic Church Kidima Sales Day

Resource persons with Summer Bible Camp.

DIMAPUR: A Summer Bible Camp, which began on July 19 at Phaipijang Christian Church, Dimapur concluded on July 21 on an exuberant note.

According to camp director Hahao Singsit, the camp was organized by

the students of the Children Bible School at the

DIMAPUR: St Xavier’s Catholic Church Kidima, under Kohima Diocese of Vegetable Village will be organizing a Sales Day in aid of its new church building on July 25 at Bamboo Building below Police Headquarters (PHQ), Kohima. Indigenous resources and organic products like allium chinesis (khuvie), chilli, banana, tomato, wild mushroom, oak tree worm (lonyü), bee, crab, snail, local pork, local rice including bamboo and meat chopping wood will be sold on the day.

ABAM Sunday School Teachers orientation, Zone 6 & 7, was held from July 20-22 in Impur under the theme “Look, translate and practice” with Kohima Ao Baptist Church Christian Education Ministry, T. Apok, secretary, Education & Literature, ABAM and Chubatemjen coordinator, Sunday School, ABAM as resource persons.

Children Bible School in collaboration with Phaipijang Christian Church. The three-day summer Bible Camp was held under the theme “God Steward” and was declared open by Church elder Upa L.Khongsai. The resources persons were

Dougin, M.Div, Hoineichin, BD, and Neikhochin.

Sessions of singspiraton, choreography and media education marked the camp, which concluded with sports activities and other performances by children, the release added.

ATMA conducts various activities across Nagaland

ATMA Chuchuyimlang Block Inauguration of ATMA Chuchuyimlang block Demonstration on ATMA Thonoknyu block training & demonstration ATMA Wokha, Farm School at New Wokha Apiary Farm School ‘Uses of biofertilizers’ program Village.

DIMAPUR: Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), in its continued efforts to being the latest agricultural technology methods has been continually performing a series of activities across the state. Following are some more reports of their activities.

Chuchuyimlang Block: ATMA Chuchuyimlang block started an “Apiary Farm School” in Mongsenyimti village which was inaugurated K

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by T. Mayang, A.O. & BTT Convener, on June 14, where Akumnungsang was appointed as the farm school teacher.

ATMA, Mokokchung Chuchuyimlang Block ATM Lipoktila in a press release said, Chubaienla Jamir, ATM highlighted the functions of ATMA and the concept of farm school.

During the program, training and demonstration on various topics were also conducted. The farm

teacher trained the farmers on apiary management and elaborated upon the benefits and economic aspects of bee keeping. He also gave a demonstration on extraction of honey and colony maintenance. The farm school was named Akumtemjen Apiary Farm School.

Further, on June 18, the same block conducted a demonstration program at Salulamang village.

A press release from ATM Chuchuyimlang

block, Lipoktila stated that resource person T. Mayang AO & BTT convener demonstrated the uses of biofertilizers, where he highlighted their importance and benefits. He also explained the safety and precautionary measures in using biofertilizers.

The prog ram was chaired by Chubaienla Jamir, ATM. Altogether 20 participants attended the program. Various biofertilizers were also distributed

to the attendees.

Thonoknyu block: ATMA Tuensang, Thonoknyu block organised a training demonstration program from June 20 and 21, at Thonoknyu town.

BTM Achet longchar, ATM Yanger Walling and Kevi were the resource persons who trained the farmers on various topics covering the package of banana and cardamom.

The use of trichoderma, bordeaux mixture preparation, organic pesticide

preparation, yellow sticky trap and nursery seed bed preparation were also covered and demonstrated.

During the training a new Farmer Security Group (FSG) under the nomenclature “HAIMEIHOI” was formed with seven members.

Altogether 21 farmers from both Thonoknyu town and village and two SHGs participated in the program.

Later, a Cardamom farm school was inaugu-

rated with Suthem as the farm teacher.

AT M A Wo k h a : ATMA, Wokha, conducted a Farm School at New Wokha Village on June 22 on the topic “Floriculture”.

Zuthunglo Erui, BTT convenor said a brief introduction and explained the concept of a farm school.

The resource person Shanchobeni Humtsoe HEA elaborated the various uses of flowers; their ornamental, industrial, occasional,

and medicinal uses besides making homes beautiful.

She also explained how to grow rare flowers and the fertilizers used for growing better flowers.

The program was attended by ATMA officials Elilo Kikon ATM, Zachamo Humtsoe ATM along with 15 members who participated in the program.

At the end of the program water-cans and biopesticides where distributed to the members.

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Sense of re- 72% sponsibility That govt a l o n e c a n 3% bring progress Imbalance between politics 25% and economics

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on July 20 in the Lok Sabha, can Rahul lead the opposition in 2019 ?  Yes  No  Can’t say

WEATHER FORECAST July 23

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Cloudy, a thunderstorm

31 25

Cloudy, a shower or t-storm

25 21

Guwahati Cloudy, a drenching t-storm

31 25

Aizawl Imphal

Cloudy, a thunderstorm

27 21

Itanagar An a.m. thunderstorm in spots 27 24 Shillong

Cloudy, a shower or t-storm

23 19

Kohima

An a.m. thunderstorm or two

23 19

Dimapur A morning t-storm; cloudy Mkg

Couple of thunderstorms

31 24 26 20

Tuensang Some rain and a thunderstorm 19 16 Wokha

A stray t-storm; not as warm

Zunheboto A shower or t-storm around

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Brig SS Dhankhar, Lt. Col. Vivek Shukla with other officers in Dimapur.

DIMAPUR: A ten-day annual training camp of 24 Nagaland (Indep) Company NCC under the aegis of NCC Group Hqs, Kohima commenced on July 20 at Livingstone Foundation Higher Secondary School, Dimapur.

A press release from 24 Nagaland (Indep) Company NCC stated that 400 NCC boy cadets from various institutes located in

six districts of Nagaland along with associate NCC officers and permanent instructor staff of the unit are attending the camp.

The camp was formally opened by Group Commander NCC, Kohima, Brig SS Dhankhar on July 21, the release said.

The training aims to impart collective training to NCC cadets with special emphasis on development

Export Development Project training

DIMAPUR: An Integrated Export Development Project, a first of its kind training in the state, sponsored by the Department of Horticulture and executed by North East Foundation, was held on July 14 at Development Association of Nagaland, Chekiye Village.

The resource person for the training was Flt Lieutenant (retd) and expert on Import/ Export Business (Faculty, Delhi School of Business), Malayendu Mukherji.

During the training the lack of infrastructure to facilitate and promote

export was discussed. The need to have a Customs department to conduct customs valuation in Dimapur Airport was also discussed besides the need to conduct value addition training for farmers under the aegis of the state government.

The discussions resulted in the conclusion that the state had a lot of potential to export agro and horticulture based products.

The trainees also formed an association called ‘Nagaland Importer and Exporter Association’ and a seven-member

drafting committee was elected to provide tentative guidelines and draft the constitution for approval by the house.

The valedictory program was graced by director of Horticulture, Dr. R. Elithung Lotha who interacted with the trainees and expressed the hope that the trainees would take this venture forward and put Nagaland on the international exporting market in the future.

Thirty trainees were awarded certificates on their completion of the Integrated Export Development Project training.

Farmers trained on Vermicomposting

DIMAPUR: A four-day vocational training on vermicompost production and vermiculture was conducted by ACTO (Soil Science), KVK Phek, ICAR-NRC on Mithun, Dr. T Esther Longkumer from July 17-20 at KVK Porba.

A press release by KVK Phek stated that during the training, a presentation covering different topics was shown to the participants.

They were also educated about the different types of organic and inorganic

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fertilizers and its impact on soil, plant and human health.

A film on vermicomposting technology – “A living soil amendment and for bio fertilization, vermiculture practices and its application in different crops” was shown to the participants.

On the last day of the program, the class went on a field visit to vermicomposting units in the KVK farm-low cost HDPE vermibed, heap type and concrete composting pits. Altogether 10 youths attended the program.

of leadership qualities.

Camp commandant, annual training camp, Lt. Col. Vivek Shukla said that special efforts have been made to engage domain specialists to train cadets on disaster relief and response, environment awareness, career in armed forces, health and hygiene, drug abuse, HIV & AIDS and vector borne diseases.

Womenfolk trained on increasing income

DIMAPUR: A training program on doubling rural women income through processing and preserving locally available fruits and vegetables was conducted at Zaphumi village, under Zunheboto district by KVK, Nagaland University (NU) Lumami from July 17 to 19.

A press release from sr. scientist & head KVK, NU Lumami, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaurasia stated that Narola Anichari (Home Science) welcomed all the participants and highlighted the purpose of conducting the training which was to provide information regarding preservation and processing of various locally available fruits and vegetables. It was targeted at the womenfolk who are engaged in farming, who produces various fruits and vegetables like pineapple, mango, brinjal, chilli, tomato etc. Most of these

perishable products require processing and preservation to prolong their shelf lives.

The training focused on teaching and demonstrating to the participants preser vation methods like making pickles and squash.

There are different

kinds of vegetables and fruits locally grown in Zaphumi village. The training focused on a few of them to show how the locally available fruits and vegetables could be utilized without wastage.

At the end of the training, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaurasia handed over cer-

tificates to the participants for attending the training.

He also encouraged, and gave useful insights and information to, the gathering. KVK, Nagaland University Lumami also distributed training materials to all the participants.

Altogether there were 25 women participants.

Puliebadze Club foundation day

Dimapur: The 46th Foundation Day of Puliebadze Club will be held on August 1, Jotsoma Village. Social work and a plantation drive along the approach road of Mt. Puliebadze followed by a formal session at 5 p.m at the Jotsoma Village Council Hall, will be held. All members have been informed to attend the program.

ANCSU holds 2nd union assembly

DIMAPUR: The 2nd union assembly of the All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) was held at the Auditorium Hall of Saku’s Mission College Dimapur on July 20.

A press release from its speaker Pithungo Shitio and assembly speaker Toito D Chishi said the union assembly was chaired by the ANCSU speaker and roll call was conducted where 30 affiliated units attended the assembly.

The assembly deliberated on the Kohima Science College Jotsoma Land Encroachment issue where it was decided that it will wait till August 9 as proposed by the district Administration.

Other issues discussed were MBBS/BDS and other professional courses issue; 2017-18 scholarship issue; immediate detachment of teachers attached (self-styled) to VIPs, Directorate, DEOs, SDEOs and other missions.

Thejasenuo Kire of St. Joseph College of

The women trainees with KVK organizers and trainers.

Bank of Baroda Kohima branch, on the occasion of the institution’s 111th Foundation

Jakhama was inducted as Day visited Eden Garden Orphange in Khuzama on July 19. the women Coordinator of ANCSU for the tenure 2017-19.

Mountain View Christian college students Council Kohima was suspended till further notice due to the college being declared non- functional.

ANCSU general secretary pronounced the vote of thanks and the assembly secretary read out the meeting minutes of the assembly.

The union assembly speaker pronounced the quorum formed. Inato Y. Chisho Finance Secretary invoked God’s presence and Benjong Longchar, ANCSU vice president welcomed the congregation to the assembly.

Spiritual Camp held at Mount Olive College DIMAPUR: A Spiritual Camp was held at MOCK Auditorium, Mount Olive College, on July 20 and 21, organised and sponsored

by Sumi Baptist Church, Women Department under the theme “Integrity Life” with associate pastor women SBCK, Kitoshi Kiba as the camp director.

According to DIPR, Sumi Baptist Church Kohima pastor, Rev. Dr. Hokheto Chophi was the main speaker for the two-day camp. Speaking under the theme, he encouraged the students to be disciplined, and have a good attitude of sincerity in life, because a person’s life reflects their integrity.

Referring to Psalm 139:13-14, he said that God had created each and everyone beautiful and unique and therefore everyone could achieve their goals in different ways. He stated that these days many young people were failing to understand God’s purpose, and become frustrated and depressed thinking that that it is the end of their lives.

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Rev. Dr. Hokheto Chophi speaking at the Spiritual Camp held at MOCK Auditorium, Mount Olive College, Kohima. (DIPR)

Chophi called upon the students to discipline themselves and push themselves so that they could perform well and live a much better life by putting their faith and trust in God. Chophi also urged the students to add Jesus into their lives and let Him be the driver, mentor and master of their lives.

Principal Mount Olive College, Narendra S Tiwari, in his short greet-

ing, said that getting a certificate was not the only achievement of life but becoming a person free from evil was the best integrity.

He appealed to the students to practise what they had learnt from the camp and he also encouraged them to retain a strong bond with God. The prog ram was chaired by associate pastor Women SBCK, Kitoshi Kiba and associate pastor,

Nitoshe Zhimo. A message of greetings was delivered by vice chairperson (Women Department), Tokali Rochill and chairman Governing Board (MOCK), Tokheni Awomi. A special number was presented by SBCK Youth praise team and MOCK students. A health care session was also conducted by Dr. Vili Swu Yeptho (for Women) and Dr. Rio Chishi (for Men).

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Manipur Assembly session last day; security beefed up

Manipur chief minister’s bungalow being fortified with barbwire barricades. (NP) Correspondent

IMPHAL, Jul 22: Security measures in the twin Imphal districts, have been tightened with the deployment of a large number of police and security personnel as a precautionary measure to check any possible untoward incident during the Monday session of the State Assembly.

Besides the already promulgated restrictions

under section 144 of CrPC, sensitive VIP places like chief minister’s bungalow, Raj Bhavan and the Assembly complex have been fortified by armed state police and security forces.

Office of the ruling BJP office in Imphal’s Nityapat Chuthek opposite Raj Bhavan Manipur has also been fortified.

In these places, besides fencing with barb-

Call to stop illegal mining near Kaziranga National Park Guwahati, Jul 22 (Agencies): An Assambased RTI-cum environment activist has written to the state government, saying he would be compelled to approach the Supreme Court for contempt of its order against illegal mining near Kaziranga National Park, Northeast Now reported.

In a letter to the Assam chief secretary, dated July 20, activist Rohit Choudhury said more than 60 illegal stone quarries are in operation at Karbi Anglong hills, adjoining the national park, threatening the landscape, and thus, the very survival of the national park.

All stone quarries in this area are being run illegally against the Supreme Court’s order, as it falls within the eco sensitive zone of the KNP & TR, said the environment activist.

“I request you to immediately stop the operation of all these illegal stone quar-

ries/ mining with immediate effect. If your office fails to stop the illegal stone quarries/mining operation with immediate effect, I would be compelled to approach the Supreme Court for the contempt of its order dated December 4, 2006, against all officers concerned,” he said in the letter.

“Your office, including offices of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council, the Assam forest department, the department of mining and minerals, the state environment impact assessment authority and the Pollution Control Board, has not shown any respect to the order dated December 4, 2006, of the Supreme Court, in which it had directed all cases where environmental clearance was granted, where activities are within 10km zone of the protected area, be referred to the standing committee of National Board for Wildlife.

wire barricades, frequency of police patrolling has also been intensified.

The security measures have been implemented in view of the prevailing high tensions among the people and taking into account sensitive issues like the Manipur University crisis, the protest objecting a bill proposing an amendment to the liquor prohibition, latest developments in the Framework Agreement and the border

pillar issue among others.

While a students’ agitation demanding immediate removal of vice-chancellor Prof AP Pandey of Manipur University was in full swing, civil society organizations, particularly women, have shown discontent about the proposed amendment to The Manipur Prohibition Act 1991.

Another issue in the fore for the people of the state was the latest development in the Indo-Naga peace talks after some sections of the media reported a possible special status to Nagas under Article 371(A) of Indian Constitution.

Leading civil society organizations like UCM, AMUCO and CSSK have been demanding that the Assembly thoroughly discuss Article 371(A) of the Indian Constitution in view of the reports of its proposed extension to Naga inhabited areas of Manipur.

The CSOs had even warned that they would go to the people, depending on the resolution the house arrives at after deliberating on the matter.

Four poachers arrested in Assam Guwahati, Jul 22 (PTI): Police arrested four suspected rhino poachers, including two from Nagaland, and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from them in Assam’s Darrang district.

Assam Police Spokesperson today said police teams launched an operation last night after getting information of presence of poachers at Kachomari Sonari village in Darrang district.

Police got information of presence of two poachers from Nagaland and they were about to go for hunting rhinos at the Orang National Park, he said.

The suspected poachers have been identified as Nur Hussain alias Lengra, Abul Hussain, Daniel Yepthomi and Alobo Kipa, the official said.

“Out of them, Daniel and Alobo are from Nagaland. They came here to poach rhino at Orang,” the spokesperson said.

The accused persons then led the police team to recovery of some arms and ammunition, which were buried in a paddy field.

The police team recovered two .303 rifles, one 9 mm carbine, one silencer and four live rounds of .303 ammunition, the spokesperson added.

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Assam NRC draft: Will give chance to file objections, says Rajnath New Delhi, Jul 22 (IANS/PTI): As the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam is set to be published by the July 30 deadline, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said it was “only a draft” and people would be given “adequate opportunity for objections.”

The minister said that the NRC is being updated in accordance with the Assam Accord signed on August 15, 1985, and that the entire process is as per the directions of Supreme Court, which is constantly monitoring the process.

The NRC is being prepared to identify illegal migrants in Assam. The Supreme Court on July 2 extended its June 30 deadline by a month due to the flood situation. The government and the State Coordinator agreed to adhere to the new deadline by July 30 for the publication of the draft.

“I will like to assure everyone that the NRC exercise is being carried out in a totally impartial, transparent and meticulous manner and will continue to be so.

At every stage, adequate opportunity of hearing is given to all persons concerned.

The entire process is being conducted according to law and due procedure is being

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followed,” a Home Ministry statement quoting Rajnath Singh said. “We will ensure that every individual gets justice and is treated humanely. All individuals will have sufficient opportunity for all remedies available under the law.”

“After the draft’s publication, adequate opportunity for claims and objections will be available. All claims and objections will be duly examined. Adequate opportunity of being heard will be given before the claims and objections are disposed of.

Only thereafter will the final NRC be published,” said the Minister.

The senior BJP leader said that the Citizenship Rules provide that any person not satisfied with the outcome of claims and objections can appeal to the Foreigners Tribunal. “Thus, there is no question of anyone being put in a detention centre after the publication of the NRC.”

He said that the state government has been asked to ensure law and order and to allow no one to take law into their hands, adding that all possible arrangements will be made to ensure safety and security of all.

Noting that there is no reason for panic or fear, Rajnath Singh said: “No person will be allowed to be harassed. The central government will provide all necessary help to the government of Assam in this regard.”

Nobody will be allowed to take law in hands: Sonowal

The Assam government will not allow anyone to take the law into own hands and ensure the peace in the state is not disturbed, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Sunday said.

After a meeting with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the CM said the final draft of the NRC, a list of Assam’s citizens, consisting of names of all eligible applicants will be published on July 30.

“Applicants who do not find their names in the complete NRC need not be apprehensive as they will be given adequate opportunity to prove their eligibility for inclusion in the final NRC,” he told reporters here.

BGB discuss Assam man creates fake FB Tribal students call hill bandh, BSF,border crime profiles of 17 police officers MUSU to disrupt Assembly today Imphal, Jul 22 (PTI): Throwing its weight behind the beleaguered vicechancellor of Manipur University, A P Pandey, a tribal students’ body has called for an indefinite hill bandh from Monday, coinciding with the Manipur University Students’ Union’s (MUSU) decision to disrupt the Assembly session for not discussing the impasse at the institute.

Ever since he assumed charge, Pandey worked with efficiency and maintained transparency, the Joint Bodies of Tribal Students, Manipur said in a statement yesterday.

The body, a conglomerate of tribal students’ unions, said Pandey’s removal must be based on the findings of the probe by the committee appointed by the government, adding, “We are also against the prolonged closure of the

university.”

The university remained closed for the 52nd day today.

The decision of the tribal students’ association followed the MUSU resolution on Friday to disrupt the last day of the ongoing Assembly session tomorrow as the House had not taken up the crisis in the university as well as the ruling BJP’s “failure” to take a stand on the issue in its agenda.

As a precautionary measure, a large number of security personnel has been deployed in the high-security zones here in the state capital, including in front of the main BJP office, Raj Bhavan, Secretariat and Assembly complex, the police said.

Iron barricades with barbed wires were also kept ready, they added.

Chief Minister N Bi-

ren Singh, after consulting with Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on July 17, has re-constituted a factfinding committee comprising a retired chief justice of the Meghalaya High Court and representatives of the UGC and the HRD ministry to probe the allegations of financial irregularities and administrative negligence against Pandey.

The students’ union, teachers’ association and staff association of the central university have rejected the move and demanded an independent inquiry into the matter.

Earlier, the students’ union, supported by various civil bodies, had called a two-day general strike from July 17. The strike was by and large peaceful till the second evening, when clashes broke out between the bandh supporters and security personnel.

Agartala, Jul 22 (PTI): Reduction of border crimes and smuggling of drugs besides erection of border fencing in the unfenced areas figured prominently at the fourday meeting of Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) that began at the BSF frontier here Sunday.

“It is a routine periodic meeting and the issues related to border fencing, border crimes and coordination between the two border guard organisations”, BSF officials said.

A 14-member delegation of the BGB, led

by Regional Commander Javed Hassan, arrived here through Akhaura check post today to participate in the meeting.

“We have come to talk about border-related issues. Our relation with BSF is now very cordial,” Hassan told reporters.

Guwahati, Jul 22 (Agencies): Assam police have arrested a man for allegedly operating fake Facebook accounts of 17 police officers, including those of the DGP, Kuladhar Saikia and Guwahati commissioner, Hiren Nath, Hindustan Times reported.

The crime branch of the Guwahati Police arrested 30year-old Suleiman Ibrahim Ali from the city on Saturday evening.

“He admitted that he was operating fake Facebook profiles under the name of as many as 17 Indian Police Service officers,” Nath said.

The fake Facebook accounts operated by Ali include those of police officers from outside the state.

“He claims he was doing it just for fun. He would add the fake profiles of the police officers to his account, perhaps to show off the proximity to his friends,”

Nath said.

Ali, son of a retired superintendent engineer of the state government, is unemployed. Apart from the 17 fake accounts of cops, he had six Facebook profiles under his name.

Police recovered 47 cellphones, 13 tablets and 15 SIM cards from Ali, who Nath said, claims to be fond of gadgets.

After the city police discovered the fake profiles, especially of the DGP, an investigation was launched in late June.

“We approached Facebook and they provided us with crucial information.

Many of the profiles were registered with fake mobile numbers which made investigation difficult,” Nath said.

“He will be produced before the magistrate today (Sunday) and we will seek a week’s police custody to ascertain if it’s a big conspiracy,” Nath said.

Resettled Bru refugees NE states active stakeholders Arunachal students’ body to initiate in ‘Act East’ policy: V K Singh demand equal rehab package third phase of anti-Tibetan movement VADODARA, JUL 22 (PTI): Improving connectivity in northeastern states is the key to the success of the ‘Act East’ policy that seeks to strengthen India’s ties with countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh said.

Ever since India transformed its ‘Look East’ policy to ‘Act East’ policy, there have been continuous efforts to make this relationship result-oriented and practical, he said at a seminar here yesterday.

The aim of ‘Act East Policy’ is to promote the country’s economic cooperation, cultural ties and develop strategic relationship with countries in the Asia-Pacific region through continuous engagement at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels.

It was originally conceived as an economic initiative, but has gained political, strategic and cultural dimensions, including establishment of institutional mechanisms for dialogue and cooperation.

At the ‘National Security Dialogue’ organised at the Maharaja Sayajirao

University here, Singh called for greater connectivity between the northeast states and South East Asia with the aim to build ties with the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries.

“Connectivity is the most crucial factor in furthering India’s relations with South East Asia. Therefore, it is imperative to focus on improved airways, roadways, waterways, railways and information ways in this region,” he said, adding India’s northeastern states are active stakeholders in the country’s Act East policy.

“Continued development of relevant infrastructure, both within the (northeastern) states and at international borders, is necessary with a view to enhance trade, investment, tourism and people-to-people ties,” Singh said.

Greater connectivity and economic integration of India’s northeast with its eastern neighbours is considered a key focus area for growth and development of the region, the Union minister said.

It is in the interest of ASEAN members to develop infrastructure projects

in their respective countries with India’s help as the cost will be three times lower as compared to projects executed by Chinese firms, Singh said.

Talking to reporters before the seminar, he called for improving air links between ASEAN and BBIN (Bangladesh- Bhutan-IndiaNepal, a sub-regional grouping) countries. “Among the connectivity projects already envisaged is a four-lane trilateral highway linking India (Moreh in Manipur) with Mae Sot (Thailand) via Myanmar which will be expanded to Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam,” the minister said.

This highway can only be sustained through movement of goods and also economic activity along the route through Myanmar.

Hence, the growth of northeast states in important, he said. For this, it is essential to focus on development and connectivity in India’s northeast states itself, with new roads and rail links, opening of multi-modal transport, including river navigation, and setting up industrial corridors and ‘haats’ or local markets, Singh said.

Aizawl, Jul 22 (Agencies): Bru refugees resettled earlier in Mizoram now raised the demand for same rehabilitation package to be given to the remaining Bru refugees who would be repatriated to Mizoram before September 30, Northeast Now reported.

Altogether 8,000 Bru refugees who went back to Mizoram in the earlier process of repatriation under the newly floated committee called Equal Package Demand Committee demanded the same rehabilitation package also be given to them by the union home ministry and threatened to go for strike if their demands are not met by August 16.

“We came back to Mizoram from Tripura as abiding citizens when repatriation was organised by the Mizoram government. It is sad and unfair that the obedient citizens are neglected.

We demand the same and equal rehabilitation package which the union home ministry has offered to the remaining refugees,” the Equal Package Demand Committee said.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla also had urged the union home ministry to look into the

pleas of the 8000 Brus who were earlier repatriated.

The Equal Package Demand Committee stated that unless their demands are met, they would even go to the extent of boycotting the union home ministry’s planned repatriation.

According to the agreement which was recently signed, Bru refugee families, who would be repatriated to Mizoram from Tripura, would be given one-time financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh, a house to each family and free rations for two years. Besides, they would also be provided a monthly assistance of Rs 5,000.

Under the Bru Migrants Repatriation Agreement, displaced people, who are currently living in temporary camps in Tripura, would be repatriated to Mizoram before September 30, 2018.

Each resettled family would be given a cash assistance of Rs 5,000 per month along with free rations for two years. The Bru refugee families would receive house building assistance of Rs 1.5 lakh to be disbursed in three installments as per the agreement. However the Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDF)

I tanag a r , J u l 2 2 (Agencies): The Students’ United Movement of All Arunachal (SUMAA) on Sunday announced that it would initiate its third phase of democratic movement against the State Government from July 25 next over the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy (TRP), 2014.

The union, which has been demanding rollback of TRP from the State said, its movement would be intensified and it would continue till the time the Government does not fulfill its demands.

Besides the rollback of TRP, the other demands of SUMA are – the Tibetan committee should furnish the family tree-cum-records of all Tibetan refugees settled in Arunachal Pradesh and a clarification in written from the representatives of the Tibetan population that they would not ask for ‘citizenship’ in the future.

Appreciating the West Kameng Deputy Commissioner for taking prompt action and serving notices to the illegal Tibetan refugees, who have allegedly obtained trading licenses, ST certificates and PRCs illegally, the SUMAA at

the same time appealed the administration and Government not to protect or shield the Tibetans.

Further urging the DC to furnish the data/dossier of Tibetans refugees in the West Kameng district at the earliest, the union said it would not withdraw its ‘Camp Bomdila’ till its demands are met.

The union also informed that it would summon the duplicate PRC and ST certificates holders in front of the Deputy Commissioner on July 24.

Meanwhile, reacting to SUMAA’s ‘Camp Bomdila’ on the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy (TRP) and the related issues which hit the district headquarters, Bomdila, a few days back, MLA Japu Deru has called upon the people to stand united

and stand tall against any perpetrators bent on disturbing the peace and tranquility of the area.

Addressing the business communities, community-based organizations, students’ unions and general public of West Kameng district at the Buddha Park in Bomdila, MLA Deru opined that whatever good the intentions may be, but no one has the right to take law into one’s own hand.

“The district administration needs to be taken into confidence to sort out the issues,” he said.

Deputy Commissioner Dr Sonal Swaroop urged the people, especially the business community, to come out of the fear-psychosis and help the administration and the police by keeping the communication lines open.

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BJP minister Meghwal links Alwar lynching to PM’s popularity Police laxity blamed Alwar lynching victim for victim’s death was sole breadwinner

Arjun Ram Meghwal (file) In Bihar elections, it was ‘award wapsi’. In Uttar Pradesh elections, it was again mob lynching. In 2019 elections, it will be something else. Modiji has given (developmental) schemes and their effect is now being felt on the ground. Such incidents are reaction to (his popularity).”

The killing comes four days after the central and state governments came under a sharp criticism from the Supreme Court over frequent lynching incidents.

The Supreme Court also asked Parliament to come up with a law to tackle cow vigilantism and lynch, calling such incidents “horrendous acts of mobocracy” that should be nipped in the bud.

GST rates cut with eye on elections: Chidambaram

P Chidambaram (file) New Delhi, Jul 22 (IANS): Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Sunday said that the decision to slash GST rates on 100 mass-use items was taken keeping upcoming assembly elections in mind.

“When elections are around the corner, government cuts rates. I suppose that makes a good case for frequent elections in different state!” he said on Twitter.

Terming the decision “belated wisdom”, he questioned why it was not taken earlier.

“GST Council cuts rates on 100 items, approves quarterly returns. Belated wisdom. Why did Government not follow our advice in July 2017?” he said.

Assembly elections are due in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram later this year.

The GST Council on Saturday reduced tax rates on a slew of items including refrigerators, washing machines and small televisions from 28 per cent to 18 per cent, and cleared widely demanded exemption on sanitary pads.

The Congress leader also called the present GST regime “unreformed” and filled with “lacunae”, and pitched for immediate implementation of three-rates structure.”

“The present GST is still ‘unreformed’. Government must notify three rates immediately and signal its intention to move to a single rate in the medium term.

That will be true GST.

Even as two leaders claimed that 28-year-old Rakbar Khan died due to police laxity, the autopsy report states that he succumbed to serious lung injuries caused by thrashing.

According to the postmortem report released on Sunday, brutal assault on the deceased led to fracture in the ribs that caused water to fill in the lungs. Khan’s wrist was also found to be broken.

The victim was beaten to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar on Saturday after a group of people suspected that he was a cattle smuggler. However, contrary to the prima facie report, BJP legislator, Gyan Dev Ahuja claimed that the police officers, who had arrived at the spot, took Khan into custody and beat him up in the police station.

“My sources have told me that the police took him to the police station and beat him up again just to show that they are hard on people indulging in cattle smuggling,” he said, adding that there should be a judicial inquiry in the incident.

Rakbar Khan, the man who was beaten to death on Friday on suspicion of being a cow smuggler in Rajasthan, was the sole breadwinner of his family. Hailing from Haryana’s Mewat district, Khan had gone to Lalavandi village (in Rajasthan’s Alwar district) with his friend Aslam to buy two cows to expand his milk supply business, his family said.

Aslam Khan, who returned to Kolgaon village in Haryana’s Mewat district on Saturday morning, said he hid in the fields taking advantage of the dark while a crowd attacked Rakbar.

Rakbar’s family members said he wanted to start his own dairy in the village with 10 more cows. He had taken a loan from his in-laws and friends to buy two cows on Friday.

His body was brought to the village by the Mewat police after the postmortem on Saturday. He lived in the village with his wife, seven children and parents.

Women politicians welcome no GST on sanitary pads New Delhi, Jul 22 (IANS): Women politicians, cutting across party lines, have welcomed the government’s decision on scrapping GST on sanitary napkins.

Reactions flowed in from many women politicians after Finance minister Piyush Goyal announced that sanitary pads are now 100 percent exempt from tax. “In a remarkable move, Piyush Goyal during the 28th GST Council Meet announced to exempt Sanitary Napkins from the GST. Indeed, this will give the required thrust to our Menstrual Hygiene initiatives and will transform lives of many Women,” Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi tweeted.

Sanitary pads, which were initially taxed at 18 per cent, were brought down to 12 per cent under GST that was launched in July 2017.

Gandhi, however earlier had justified the imposed tax saying that scrapping it would kill the indigenous pad makers. Congress MP Sushmita Dev who last year had launched an online petition with Change.org demanding total removal of taxes on pads welcomed the government’s move saying that it is a victory of more than four lakh citizens who had signed it.

M U M B A I , J UL 2 2 (AGENCIES): Two days after abstaining from the no-trust vote against the Narendra Modi government, Uddhav Thackeray has said that he won’t let anyone shoot from the Shiv Sena’s shoulders.

In a teaser of an interview released on Sunday, Thackeray said that his party had supported its ally

openly in the past and will now oppose openly too.

While the BJP and the Sena have been at loggerheads for a while now, Uddhav’s decision to ask his 18 MPs to not support the BJP in Friday’s showdown in Lok Sabha has signaled that the alliance has now reached a breaking point.

Adding to the snub in Parliament was the praise

Uddhav Thackeray (file)

C h e nna i , J u l 2 3 (AGENCIES): Five people including three women drowned in Tamil Nadu on Sunday after they were washed away by a flood while bathing in the Cauvery river in Salem district following the release of excess water from the Stanley reservoir of the Metur dam.

“When six people were bathing in Cauvery water at Reddiyarpalayam which is about three kilometres away from Mettur dam, a sevenyear-old boy was washed away into the flood. Five others tried to rescue him but four of them lost their lives,” said C Murugesan, district fire service officer in-charge, Salem.

“The deceased have been identified as G Vaishnavi (20), N Saravanan (35), S Mythili (32), S Raveena (17) and S Hariharan (7). We rescued one G Dhanushri (18) alive but we could only recover the dead bodies of four others. We are yet to retrieve the body of Hariharan,” said the officer. Saravanan, his wife Mythili and their children Raveena and Hariharan from Vijayamangalam of Tiruppur district were visiting their relative’s house in Reddiyarpalayam on Sunday. Two of his relatives

Mettur dam gates opened to release disputed-river Cauvery water, after the Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami ordered release.

Vaishnavi and Dhanushri who were sisters had gone with Saravanan’s family to take bath in the Cauvery when the tragedy struck, Murugesan said.

The PWD which maintains the dam had been releasing 20000 cusecs of water every day since Thursday to reduce strain on the Stanley reservoir.

Authorities say they had issued mandatory warnings about possible flooding before and after the release of excess water.

Authorities had sounded a flood alert in Dharmapuri, Salem, Erode, Namakkal, Karur, Trichy, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Cuddalore, Pudukkottai and Ariyalur.

“We have given flood alerts through media, loudspeakers and notices. Also, we have kept danger signboards at 30 vulnerable points in the Salem district.

Boat operations have also been stopped. Police and fire service forces are kept ready to respond to the unexpected situation. Tourists who are visiting Mettur should not enter into the river. No one should take selfies by the river,” Rohini Bhajibakare, collector of Salem told Hindustan Times. While describing the loss of lives as unfortunate, she also said that she had informed collectors of 11 other districts about the increase in outflow of water.

the party lavished on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his no-holds barred attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The party’s mouthpiece Saamna splashed a picture of Gandhi hugging Modi, and the headline read, “Brother, you have won us over”.

The full interview that was taken by party leader Sanjay Raut on Friday, the

day of the no-confidence motion, will be released Monday and even holds the potential to wreck the coalition government in Maharashtra.

According to sources, Thackeray was peeved by how the BJP tried to get its support for the noconfidence motion. Party sources said that the whip, which was “mistakenly”

issued asking MPs to vote for the government and was later withdrawn, was actually a BJP ploy.

Upset over this, Thackeray had decided to abstain, sources said. .

Re p o r t s h a d a l s o claimed that BJP chief Amit Shah had dialled Thackeray to convince him, but top Sena sources denied it.

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Heavy rainfall warning in 5 Bengal districts in 48 hours Ko l kat a , J u l 2 2 (IANS): The Met officials on Sunday warned of spells of thundershowers accompanied by strong winds in five West Bengal districts even as moderate rain lashed parts of Kolkata and adjoining suburbs since morning.

According to the regional Meteorological Department, depression over the Bay of Bengal near the state’s coastline will maintain its intensity for the next 12 hours, causing a downpour in the Gangetic West Bengal over the next two days.

“Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7-19 cm) is likely over the districts of North and South 24 Parganas, Hoogly, West Midnapore, and Jhargram on Sunday.

Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore districts are likely to receive heavy rains on Monday,” G.K. Das, Director of Area Cyclone Warning Centre of the Regional Meteorological Centre said in a release here.

The sky above Kolkata and adjoining areas was overcast since morning, with mild rain witnessed at regular intervals.

Five drown in Tamil Nadu; flood alert across 12 districts

Uddhav Thackeray says Shiv Sena will oppose BJP openly

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New Delhi, Jul 22 (AGENCIES): Union Minister and senior BJP leader Arjun Ram Meghwal has sparked a controversy, saying the Alwar lynching incident was related to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rising popularity and the more popular he becomes the more such incidents would happen in the country.

He said while the death by beating on Friday night of a 28-year-old man on suspicion of cow smuggling was condemnable but the 1984 Sikh riots remain the “biggest example of mob lynching” in India’s history.

“We condemn mob lynching but this is not a single incident. You have to trace this back in history.

Why does this happen?

Who should stop this?

What happened with Sikhs in 1984 was the biggest mob lynching of this nation’s history,” Meghwal said on Saturday.

He said such mob lynching incidents were happening to defame the BJP government amid rising popularity of Modi.

“The more popular Modiji becomes, the more such incidents will happen.

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXVIII NO. 226 Dimapur, MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018

Relevance of Behenji

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ith the unexpected and unthinkable alliance between arch political rivals - Samajwadi Party(SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)- the political fortunes of BSP supremo Mayawati appears to steadily rising. After being swept off her UP bastion in the 2017 assembly election, many had written her off completely. Despite all that, Mayawati however continued to hold on to her vote share of over 20 percent both in 2014 elections and 2017 state polls. The 20 percent holding may not be considered much, in a first past the poll scenario where many getting as low as around 30 to 35 percent votes win elections. Thus, even with her vote bank remaining almost intact, it was generally believed that Mayawati would find it impossible to stage a comeback. Many political pundits had virtually given her up especially after the second successive trouncing in UP in 2017. In the post-2014 parliamentary elections, the scenario was also not so promising for Mayawati’s arch rival the Samajawadi Party or its leader Mulayam Singh Yadav. The downslide meant that even his son and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav too suffered the same fate.The circumstances have now brought about some interesting permutation which may be arithmetically wrong. There is difference between financial and political arithmetic. In financial arithmetic, 2+2 = 4. However, in political arithmetic, the equation could be three or five or more. This is what the developments since the Karnataka elections has proved. The BJP remains the single largest party but the political arithmetic could well prove to be a surprise. That was the result not only for Karnataka where it provided a roadmap for the 2019 poll.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi hugging BSP chief Mayawati at the swearing-in ceremony of Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru was a strong image. The opposition of all hues almost showcased a picture of unity. On top of it, Mayawati occupied the centre stage. She and Akhilesh had just sewn up the most formidable political arithmetic in UP. Forgetting their animosity, the ‘Bua’ and ‘Bhatija’ became alliance partners much before the Karnataka polls. Mayawati helped Samajwadi Party wrest a series of seats from the BJP, including the most crucial Kairana Lok Sabha seat, which BJP’s Hukum Singh had held and won with huge margins. However, with Hukam Singh’s death an invigorated BSP-SP alliance steamrolled the BJP. The unthinkable alliance has struck a magic formula and created much buzz in political circles. This magic could even propel Mayawati as one of the several opposition claimants as the prime ministerial face of an united opposition in the 2019 general elections. Mayawati is now a talking point and with Akhilesh Yadav they have shown the BJP what an awesome alliance they have forged. The Congress now realises it cannot ignore the changed scenario and has to do business with the SP-BSP if the party wants to be relevant in UP. Mayawati has the ability to transfer votes – it was 24 percent in 2014.

She has footprints in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and some pockets of Maharashtra. This is something that Mamata Banerjee does not have as the TMS is cocooned within West Bengal. The point is whether Mayawati can spring a surprise in 2019 by deftly forging alliances in various states where Dalits make up a sizeable vote bank?

DailyDevotion Sanctification (1) This is the will of God, your sanctification…

—1 Thessalonians 4:3 The Death Side. In sanctification God has to deal with us on the death side as well as on the life side.

Sanctification requires our coming to the place of death, but many of us spend so much time there that we become morbid. There is always a tremendous battle before sanctification is realized— something within us pushing with resentment against the demands of Christ.

When the Holy Spirit begins to show us what sanctification means, the struggle starts immediately. Jesus said, “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate…his own life…he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26).

In the process of sanctification, the Spirit of God will strip me down until there is nothing left but myself, and that is the place of death. Am I willing to be myself and nothing more? Am I willing to have no friends, no father, no brother, and no self-interest— simply to be ready for death? That is the condition required for sanctification. No wonder Jesus said, “I did not come to bring peace but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). This is where the battle comes, and where so many of us falter.

We refuse to be identified with the death of Jesus Christ on this point. We say, “But this is so strict. Surely He does not require that of me.” Our Lord is strict, and He does require that of us.

Am I willing to reduce myself down to simply “me”? Am I determined enough to strip myself of all that my friends think of me, and all that I think of myself? Am I willing and determined to hand over my simple naked self to God? Once I am, He will immediately sanctify me completely, and my life will be free from being determined and persistent toward anything except God (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).

When I pray, “Lord, show me what sanctification means for me,” He will show me. It means being made one with Jesus. Sanctification is not something Jesus puts in me— it is Himself in me (see 1 Corinthians 1:30).

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Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

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he Helsinki meet between US President Donald Trump and Russian has raised hopes for a better trade environment as Trump virtually gave a clean chit to Putin on interference in US elections.

This raised protests in some circles in the US and Trump was seen on backfoot. While Trump’s conciliatory moves were watched carefully in India and other countries, the hardliners in the US are not keen on an ease of the situation. The US business interests are involved. The US sanctions on Russia and even Iran are being seen as partial success.

The US industry wants to make progress and force its deals be it arms or other areas on countries across the world. Reconciliation on Iran or Russia is not acceptable to them. The way the US sanctions are tailored it extends not only to two countries but others having trade deal with them.

This impacts many countries. India is not an exception. India keen on balancing between the US and Russia is virtually being forced to do an act on the trapeze. It has strategic partnership with both

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EU, Asia divided on US actions

countries.

Russia is India’s top arms supplier for decades.

The US has consolidated its position in the Indian defence market during the past ten years. In some areas, the US traders have tried to ride the Make in India move. Russia is still cool on technology transfer and is not enamoured by Make in India.

Similarly, deals with Iran are easy and lucrative for India be it oil or transporting to Afghanistan and central Asia through Chabahar port. Iran of late extended credit on oil payments to three months, thrice the international practice along with many other flexibility, much better than what Saudi offers.

Major part of India’s defence equipment is of Russian origin. During 2013-17, 62 percent of arms imports are from Russia, according to Stockholm International Peace Research (SIPRI).

Even as S-400 Triumf air defence system deal reaches final stages, the shadow of sanction hangs. India is in talks with Russia to figure out alternative payment route as the sanctions have created banking hurdles.

The U.S. law, Counter-

ing America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, (CAATSA), is negatively affecting defense business with Russia. It is complex and extends beyond the direct trade partners.

India is working out ways to keep S-400 and Kamov helicopters, four stealth frigates and leasing of nuclear submarine from Russia out of CAATSA. The deal was struck by Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016.

This is amid the concern of the US, which wants India to diShivaji ve r s i f y i t s arms supply or in other words reduce its dependence on Russia.

The army chief Gen Vipin Rawat says that it is critical to find ways to bypass CAATSA. In a so far unipolar world, which has even hit Russia in terms of 3 percent fall in its GDP and almost 15 percent inflation, it is not easy to find new ways.

But it has been found that sanctions, as in the case of Iran has helped it strengthen its self-dependence. The world now believes that the true economic impact of sanctions has been limited. The Russian

slowdown is attributed to the global drop in oil prices.

Countries such as China, now the world’s biggest oil importer, and India, where demand is growing faster than anywhere else, had repeatedly expressed disapproval over the US measures that effectively forced them to curb Iranian crude imports.

As Russia remained firm against sanctions, some European nations are questioning the sanctions in the face of Ukrainian crisis in 2012.

GlobSarkar ally it has been found that the average success rate economic sanctions are limited to 20 to 30 percent and it can be a double-edged sword as many western Europe countries are now facing in the midst of eurozone crisis.

Russia is the European Union’s third largest commercial partner, and the EU, reciprocally, is Russia’s chief trade partner, accounting for almost 41 percent of the nation’s trade prior to the sanctions. In 2012, before the Ukrainian crisis began, the EU exported a record €267.5bn ($285bn) of goods to Russia.

With sanctions now hurting both sides, divisions are growing in Europe over whether to uphold the stringent measures. While Germany and the UK wish to maintain a hard line on Russia, other countries, including Greece, Spain, Italy and Cyprus, advocate lifting the sanctions. Europe is getting increasingly divided.

Trump’s Helsinki meet was apparently designed to send a signal to EU. The domestic US situations though has made Trump take some steps back, it is believed the NATO countries too are not happy as the US imposed additional expenditure on it. Trump is under pressure.

He is on record that he does not believe that Russia is meddling in US China and India are also acting against sanctions on Iran purely for economic reasons. Iran oil is not only better in quality, the deal it has offered suits its buyers.

The US aware of it is to hold talks with India on Chabahar. The Indian diplomats are aware that dialogues would ease the situation though it may take a bit of time.

To get around the problem, India and Japan offered state-backed insurance to

ships, helping carriers resume shipments from Iran with protection against risks including oil spills and collisions. Additionally, processors used tankers operated and covered by Iran to receive supplies.

India initially paid Iran via a Turkish bank before routing payments through a domestic financial institution. It had a rupee-trade deal and worked out export of wheat, soybean and consumer products.

The sanctions are eroding gradually. The US industry would have to learn that it cannot rise on muscle power of the state for long.

Trump realizes it and he is trying to mend fences with North Korea, Russia and certainly the next step would with Iran and looking for a solution to the Syrian crisis.

The world is passing through a phase of belligerence. It has also led to a situation of intense dialogue. In this situation, the slow and steady move ahead. India though having a problem now possibly is better placed to turn the tide. Prime Minister Modi’s whirlwind diplomacy would pave the way for rise in India’s international trade.

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The voice of the consumers are to be heard – NVCO

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very citizen is a consumer one way or the other and the Government as a welfare state is responsible to provide the basic needs of its citizens such as water supply, electricity services, good roads, essential as well as non-essential commodities at a reasonable prices/rates, central schemes such as supply of rice or wheat entitled by the citizens under the national food security act where legislators/minister/politicians have no shares, to regulate and control the rates and charges in goods and services, food safety and the list can go on and on.

However, to talk about electricity a place like Dimapur, the complaint is services, several citizens called up Mr. Kezhokhoto Savi, President of Nagaland Voluntary consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) complaining against electricity services where failures is very frequent and it even disturbed the citizens in the middle of the night at this hours of hot season terming it as purely deficiency services under the Consumer protection Act 1986. They also said that they pay electricity bills and even the bills is quite high and they are entitled regular services they have been paying regularly and even suggested for a protest in any form including PIL. Mr. Savi reminds the Power Department to the Govt. of Nagaland that this department is simply public services where consumers are legally entitled to enjoy 24 hours of electricity services and on unavoidable circumstances the consumers are to be informed in advance through local newspapers or All India Radio.

Another complaint is the excessive charges of labours such as daily wage and even in terms of sq.ft especially in bricks works.

The Kohima citizens complained that especially the non-locals who are engage in construction work such as simple construction of residential building, a mere labour who are fresh and does not have any working experience as labour/ unskilled charges not less than Rs.500/- as daily wage and the self-styled so called mistery claimed himself as skilled labour charges not less than Rs.700/- per day. The NVCO questioned as to why the locals tempt to give more money to non-locals than the local youth? The government so called competent authority is not sincere in controlling all these excessive charges and here it is the responsibility of the government as competent authority to fix the proper rate and even revised as per the market trend. The NVCO request the office of the Labour Commissioner & Kohima Municipal Council to look into the complaint at the earliest. One of the shops named Nikesh Variety Shop situated at Lower Chandmari junction Kohima charged Rs.3/- & Rs.4/- for zexox/photostat per copy of one side A4 size paper which was almost double of other shops, and to this complaint

of excessive charges a young small non-local girl in this shop harass her consumers asking them to go and do it in other shop. Is this right that “Consumers are the kings in the market”. No organisation is competent to fix for their own rates such as labour charges, carrying charges, transport charges including taxi fare and bus fare, zexox charges, service charges, bricks and other building materials, etc.

The competent body to regulate and control rates is Government alone. And now with the introduction of GST no tax or cash can be collected at the check-gates or on any highways or in any manner. The illegal collection of cash at the check-gates/highways caused price-rise and ultimately all these taxes are realised by the consumers. Concerning the food safety it was alarming to experience that almost all the imported fishes are injected with formalin and continually huge quantities of adulterated ‘fresh fruits’ were detected and the list go on. However, the Enforcement Wing and the Analysis Wing under the umbrella of State Food Safety Commissioner has to go a long way and the so called consumers are to extent co-operation and support to the department for the safety of our food. We cannot allow any unscrupulous traders to disturb this venture where food concerns to all. We cannot allow anyone to make money at the cost of public health.

Coming to bad roads, citizen as consumer especially vehicle owners paid road tax are solely entitled for good and smooth roads.

To provide good roads must be the top priority of the government as a welfare state. Having festival like road show or mini-hornbill should be secondary. The recent repairing of roads was just wash away with monsoon season but we cannot totally blame the down pour/rains but it is more to blame on poor quality works and for which whom to be blame? Are we to blame the concern minister or PWD department or PDA Government? We are to question whether there was any violation of NPWD or CPWD rules in executing the works when no competent contractors were engage in a work amounting to huge crores and no tender norm was followed. What is this fund?

Is it maintenance? The Government should not take its citizens for a ride. Several citizens called up the NVCO to initiate protest against bad roads. The President of NVCO Kezhokhoto Savi said that we don’t want our land to be a land of protest and rallies but if circumstances compelled and the government don’t pay heed to it then the voice of the consumers are to be heard. Citizens can call up Nagaland State Consumer Helpline through its Too Free No. 1800-345-3701 for any queries related to consumer daily complaints.

Press & Media Cell, NVCO

Myths surrounding organic farming

(From previous issue) The belief that organic farming produces more nutritious foods is one of the biggest myths. Over the last 50 years, scientists has comparatively studied about 3558 comparisons on contents of nutrition between organic and conventionally produced foods. They found zero evidence that one of them has a better nutritional value including vitamin c, carotene and calcium. However, they found that nitrogen contents were higher in conventional crops while phosphorus and acidity were higher in organic ones but none of them contributed to nutritional quality. A similar study on livestock products like meat, dairy and eggs also found very few differences in nutritional content although organic foods had higher levels of overall fat contents, specifically trans-fats. On this matter I would love to add a quote by Joseph D. Rosen, emeritus Professor of food toxicology at Rutgers, “Any consumer who buy organic food because they believe that it contain more healthful nutrients than conventional food are wasting their money”. There are many organic supporters who even claim that, “organic food tastes better”.

But a study by Fillion and Arazi (2002) and Basker D (2009) to cite some; found that people could not tell the difference between the two in blind taste tests. In short, organic farming has increased biodiversity and has helped us move on from the monoculture but producing foods that are healthier and tastier is not one of them.

We, the people in general have a habit of believing that we are doing the world a huge favor by eating organic. But the sad reality is, it does not. Organic farming indeed reduces the use of synthetic pesticides which are ecologically damaging but let us not forget that organic farming uses their own chemicals that are ecologically damaging as well. The most frustrating thing about organic farming supporter is their refusal to endorse technologies that reduce or eliminate the use of such pesticides.

In the debate between anti-GMO activist and GMO activist, the stand taken by organic farming supporters against GMO is rather surprising and very irrational. It is an undoubted fact that GMOs have the potential to increase crop yields, nutritional values and genetically improve farming practices while reducing synthetic chemical use.

For instance, engineering sweet potato to be resistant from virus, creating carrots with high calcium contents to fight osteoporosis and high anti-oxidants tomatoes, creating nuts lacking protein that causes allergic reaction to many people or engineering bananas to produce vaccines against hepatitis B allowing vaccination to occur are some major benefits that these plants have provided to human beings all over the planet yet organic supporters refuse to even give GMOs a chance.

Instead they sometimes make hypocritical stance such as in the case of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). Bt is one of the most widely used organic pesticides used by organic farmers.

However, when genetic engineering encoded the same Bt toxin into a plant’s genome, the resulting genetically modified plants are criticized by the organic farmers. Did they forget that they were once spraying the same toxin liberally for the same exact species? The only difference here is, ecologically, GMO is far better because it not only reduces the amount of toxin used but also reduced the chemicals from leeching into surrounding landscape and waterways. If the goal is to protect the environment; why aren’t the organic farmers incorporating the newest technology that is helping us to do so?

The biggest reason why Organic farming is not sustainable as compared to the conventional is because organic farms produce very less food per unit land as compared to conventional ones. We should remember that population is expanding every year across the world and the demands for food will continue to rise. Roughly 800 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition and about 16 million people will die from it. But on switching to organic farming entirely, 1.3 billion people is estimated to suffer considering that we are using the same amount of lands we are using now (FederoffN., 1999). Switching to organic entirely also means creating new farm by destructing currently untouched habitats to suffice the needs of human survival. More than 35% of the Earth’s ice-free land has been reportedly cleared for agriculture. Thus switching to organic means, mowing down another 20% of world’s ice-free land to accommodate for organic methods which does not sound like the wisest move. Bedgleyet al.

(2007) really shared a happy news saying that organic farming produces equal yield as conventional farming but this was short lived for it was strongly opposed, critiqued and was found to have so many flaws. Thus, the unfortunate truth remains that until organic farming can rival the production output of conventional farming, organic farming will ecologically cost us more than we can anticipate.

As bad as these pollution by pesticides and fertilizers can get, conventional farming still remains a better ecological situation but that does not mean organic farming has no hope at all. We just need

better technology to overcome the production gap. If that can be done, organic agriculture can become a lot more ecologically sustainable.

Actions taken in 2011 by NGOs like Greenpeace against Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), an Australian federal government agency for scientific research by destroying the entire crop of genetically modified wheat or the attacked by the anti-GMO activists in 2013 in Philippine Government’s International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) against “Golden-Rice” which was designed to eliminate the vitamin A deficiency for developing areas of the world are some instances that the scientific community will always be bitter about. Vilifying new technology and synthetic product without proper knowledge is really absurd and we as individuals or consumers can use our knowledge and intelligence to create things that are useful, cheap enough and sustainable.

In conclusion, organic farming isn’t all black and white. It does have many positive potentials and could perhaps, be the better way to go in the long run but it really depends on the technology or what we discover and learn in the future.

It is also a huge misconception if we think organic farming is a small business. Organic food is more like a brand name or a luxurious item. It is great to people who can afford the higher price and want to have it but the myths surrounding it should not be encouraged. An ideal agricultural system will be by merging the conventional and organic methods by using GMOs or other new technologies to reduce pesticides while increasing the bioavailability of the soils, crops yields, nutritional quality and biodiversity in agricultural lands. New technology should not be the enemy of organic farming but rather be the strongest ally. Also, as consumers we should not be obligated to pick a side. We should appreciate the upsides of what organic farming provides and how GMOs improves the output and nutrition (Christie Wilcox, 2011).

(Concluded) Arenjungla Kichu, NIT Nagaland, Chumukedima, Dimapur

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Participation of public

Visible improvements seem to be taking place around Dimapur city as garbage begin to move out of localities albeit at a slow pace. While it is noteworthy that some beautification has taken place in Dimapur, there is still a great deal that needs to be improved. However, the improvement cannot be on the part of government or DMC alone but on overall participation of the public. If one household can minimize its wastage in a day then it can solve a lot of problems where garbage accumulation is concerned. Kitchen waste can become compost in one’s own backyard (for those that have a sufficient plot) instead of spilling over the entire street.

Khumchanbeni Ezung, Midland Colony, Dimapur

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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Home Ministry distributes RIK to police stations: WCD

New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The Home Ministry has purchased 5,000 Rape Investigation Kits (RIK) which would be given to police stations across the country for speedy probe in sexual harassment cases, according to a senior Women and Child Development official.

The official said that for now, five kits each would be provided to randomlyselected police stations and states have also been asked to chip in with their contribution.

The kits are designed to carry out immediate medical investigation and aid the evidence-gathering exercise in sexual assault and rape cases.

“The Home Ministry has procured 5,000 rape investigation kits that would be distributed to randomly selected police stations across the country for speedy probes in sexual harassment cases,” he said.

Each kit comes with a set of test tubes and bottles and costs Rs 200 to Rs 300,

The kits are designed to carry out immediate medical investigation and aid the evidence-gathering exercise in sexual assault and rape cases.

the official said.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi last week urged states to buy such kits and arm their police station with them.

The official said the states have responded positively and the Haryana government has even approved their procurement.

“It is often seen that compromised evidence reach forensic laboratories

in such cases. So in a bid to overcome that, rape investigation kits would be distributed to all police stations,” the official said.

Explaining the functioning of these kits, he said it would be used to collect various samples -- such as blood, semen and sweat -of the victim which will be locked and sent to the forensic laboratory. It will carry the time of sealing of the samples and also the names

of the police officer and the doctor involved.

Gandhi had said there was no forensic analysis in 13,000 rape cases every year as the country’s laboratories lacked the capacity. She had also said her ministry has been looking to plug loopholes in the system to ensure rape cases are investigated expeditiously.

“The first ones we found were in the forensic department. We just have the forensic ability for 1,500 people. We used the Nirbhaya fund and with the help of the Ministry of Home Affairs, we are building five new forensic laboratories that will increase the capacity from 1,500 to 20,000,” she said.

“At times the forensic laboratories receive compromised evidence, that is why there is a need to distribute the rape investigation kits in every police station,” she had said. As many as 1,10,333 cases of rape were registered in the country between 2014-16, according to government figures.

CIC divided between proposed RTI Act changes New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): A voice of dissent has emerged from within the Central Information Commission against the proposed changes in the RTI Act, which many argue would “weaken” information commissions, with a Commissioner urging the panel to write to the government for withdrawing the controversial amendment bill.

With Chief Information Commissioner R K Mathur on leave, Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu on July 19 wrote to seniormost Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad to convene a meeting of all Information Commissioners on the subject, sources in the know of developments have said.

The PTI has a copy of the letter that also says the proposed Bill intends to defeat the very purpose of RTI Act 2005, besides being an affront to federalism enshrined as basic feature of Indian Constitution.

A call on Acharyulu’s demand is yet to be taken by the Commissioners, sources said.

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SC asks AIIMS to formulate national action plan to combat drug menace New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The Supreme Court has asked the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to formulate a national action plan to curb the growing menace of drug abuse in the society, including by school-going children.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also made it clear to Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, representing the Centre, that no extension of time would be granted to the government and AIIMS in formulating the policy on drug menace as the issue was of “national importance”. “Having heard Maninder Singh, Additional Solicitor General for Union of India, we direct the authorities of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to finalise the report of the High Powered Committee on or before September 7.

“It is hereby made clear that no further extension shall be granted. The competent authorities of AIIMS shall bear in mind that framing of this policy is of national importance and it cannot brook any delay,” the bench, also comprising justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, said.

The order came when lawyer Sravan Kumar, appearing for Ketireddy Jagadishwar Reddy, alleged that the 2016 verdict of the apex court on the plea of NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) was not being complied with. While deciding the PIL of BBA of Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, the apex court, in December 2016, had issued a slew of guidelines and had asked the Centre to formulate within six months the national action plan to curb rising substance

abuse cases among school children and had also ordered a national survey to gauge the extent of the menace. The bench took note of the submission of the lawyer and made it clear that its directions have to be complied with without any further delay. “A copy of the order be handed over to Balasubramanian Maninder Singh (ASG) so that he can communicate it to the Director, AIIMS,” the bench said. The AIIMS has to formulate the national policy to curb the rising drugs menace in society, besides formulating the measures to educate people about the ill effects of substance abuse.

Earlier also, the bench had taken a similar view on the plea filed by the NGO seeking enforcement of the apex court verdict delivered on its PIL in 2016.

Senior advocate H S Phoolka, appearing for the NGO, had said that the Centre has failed to comply with the judgement.

Besides directing formulation of the action plan, the bench had asked the government to undertake a nationwide survey to identify the prevalence of drug abuse across the country.

While asking the governments -- both at the Centre and in the states -- to create awareness about the serious consequences of drug abuse, the court had directed the Centre to include in the school curriculum the subject on harmful effects of using drugs. The national capital alone has approximately one lakh street children and substance abuse is reported as a major health problem in this segment of the population, the PIL had said.

NDPP clears air over party’s recognition issue Will support talaq bill if alimony CPWD to go for complete digitisation provision added: Sushmita Dev with digital systems to monitor projects

(From p-1)

The ruling party said its candidate also won handsomely in the subsequent Lok Sabha by-election held recently with a victory margin of 1,73,746 and secured 58.56% of the votes. It further claimed that ever since the formation of the coalition government, it had grown from strength to strength.

NDPP further pointed out that besides heading the PDA government, it had a representative in Lok Sabha and was a fullfledged member of both NDA and NEDA. It claimed that its presence and membership continued to grow all over the State with more than 8,000 primary and active members enrolled now.

The ruling party explained that it got reg-

istered with ECI on the basis of following all procedures meticulously by following all instructions and directions of the commission and that it had been accorded recognition by virtue of its numerical strength obtained through electoral performances in a democratic manner.

Under these circumstances and on the basis of the sequence of events, there was no question of any rollback with regard to its registration and recognition, the party asserted.

Reiterating that it was a registered and recognised political party with ECI and that it continued to grow as a movement with popular support and blessings, NDPP said attempts by its adversaries to mislead the public and even their own elected members by such false

propagandas only exposed their frustration and desperateness.

The ruling party recalled that on several occasions its adversaries had spread false propaganda, but had to face the bitter truth.

For example when it was formed, they said it could never be registered nor contest elections. And when it won elections, they said it could never be recognised.

They have been proved wrong time and again, the statement pointed out.

Explaining that it would not resort to any such strategy as it was a responsible party with mature leaders who had utmost respect for people’s wisdom, NDPP added that it would continue to march forward under its motto “facta non verba”.

New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The chief of the Congress women’s wing has said the party would support the instant triple talaq bill if the Centre includes a provision of alimony.

All India Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party government was trying to strike a quid pro quo with the passing of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill and the women’s reservation bill. “We were never against the instant triple talaq bill.

But the bill, in its present form, would be harmful to the interests of the Muslim women. It should have a provision of alimony for the victim,” Dev told PTI. “I tabled an amendment in the Lok Sabha for the provision of alimony in the bill, but it did not get passed. If the

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amendment is accepted, then we would definitely support the bill,” she said. Dev said the aim of the bill was to ensure justice for the Muslim women and end the practice of instant triple talaq. “But what will happen to the livelihood of the women if their husbands go to jail?” she asked, adding that this aspect should be kept in mind.

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, was passed in the Lok Sabha, but is pending in the Rajya Sabha.

New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The Central Public Works Department is set to undergo a mega restructuring exercise in which it will have digital systems to monitor projects real-time and assess performance of staff online.

The Central Public Works Department (CPWD), which comes under the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, has engaged a Londonbased agency to conduct a comprehensive study to establish the new system.

The move is intended to ensure transparency, accountability and work quality in the department, CPWD Director General Prabhakar Singh told PTI. “The CPWD is in the process to undergo a com-

plete restructuring exercise under which various initiatives will be taken by us.

The initiatives include 100 per cent digitisation and real-time monitoring of ongoing projects to ensure their timely-execution,” he said.

According to the infrastructure building agency, it has around 400 projects centres across the country, which can be monitored through online software.

“We have hired an agency to carry out a study on how to restructure the CPWD through a proper system.

“As per the plan, Annual Performance Assessment Report (APAR) of CPWD officials from bottom to top will also be done through the designated

software,” Singh said.

The new system is expected to come into effect

by October, 2019, according to the director general.

The CPWD is the government’s largest construction agency and it looks after maintenance of central government buildings and erecting of fences on the country’s international borders, among others.

The agency also carries out projects in foreign countries under friendship programmes with India.

The CPWD will build a 124-bed mental hospital in strife-torn South Sudan under a friendship programme between the two countries.

The agency will build the hospital at an estimated cost of Rs 120 crore.

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New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The RBI has directed co-operative banks of all categories to create Investment Fluctuation Reserve (IFR) with a view to guard against unforseen fluctuations in market and remain solvent. “...with a view to building up adequate reserve to guard against market risks, henceforth, all co-operative banks shall build IFR out of realized gains on sale of investments, and subject to available net profit,” the RBI said in a recent notification.

Further, all Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs), irrespective of their liabilities, will be required to maintain IFR. As per the notification, all State Co-operative Banks (StCBs) and District Central Co-operative Banks (DCCBs) “shall also be

required to maintain IFR on similar lines, minimum threshold in which shall be computed with reference to their investment in Current category”.

The RBI also said that with a view to address the systemic impact of sharp increase in the yields on Government Securities, it has decided to grant UCBs (which are not mandatorily required to create IFR) the option to spread provisioning for mark to

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The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki reported a net profit of Rs 7,337.7 crore in 2016-17, while Mahindra & Mahindra posted a net profit of Rs 3,955.7 crore. Similarly, Hyundai Motor India reported a net profit of Rs 1,973 crore C o m m e r c i a l ve h i c l e s maker Ashok Leyland posted a net profit of Rs 1,223 crore while Toyota Kirloskar Motor reported a net profit at Rs 557.7 crore. Other manufacturers Fiat India Automobiles, Force Motors, Mercedes Benz India, Nissan Motor India, Skoda Auto, VE Commercial Vehicles and Volkswagen India also reported profit in their operations in 2016-17. On the other hand, Tata Motors reported a loss of

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New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The combined net profit of top 23 four-wheeler automobile manufacturers in India stood at Rs 9,966.3 crore in 2016-17, which was just 2.79 per cent of their total gross turnover.

According to data sourced from SIAM and CMIE, the top 23 companies had a total gross turnover of Rs 3,56,702.9 crore.

In 2015-16, the net profit of the 23 manufacturers stood at Rs 8,825.4, which was just 2.69 per cent of the total gross turnover at Rs 3,28,236.3 crore.

Among the 15 manufacturers were Maruti Suzuki India (MSI), Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) and Hyundai Motor India, while the eight companies that reported losses include Tata Motors, Honda Cars and

Domestically, Federal Bank does not have any plans to increase its presence and will concentrate on the digital alternatives to help reach out to more customers, he said.

Srinivasan said the bank, which reported a massive 25 per cent spike in net income in the June quarter, has not opened new branches in the last four years, since when it has been focusing on the technologyled interventions.

It has relocated branches within a specific area to make them more profitable or realign the staff as the banking landscape changes to a relationship management-led model, he said.

The bank will be focusing more on the unsecured lending segment, where its book stands at Rs 380 crore at present, he said.

Having constituted a dedicated team for the unsecured play, the bank is targeting to at least double the loan book on the low base, Srinivasan said, adding the potential to grow in the segment is tremendous.

At a theoretical level, the bank has the scope to grow its unsecured book to Rs 10,000 crore given its overall loan book size of over Rs 95,500 crore.

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India’s finished steel export slumps over 33%

New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): India’s export of finished steel slumped by 33.7 per cent to 1.351 million tonnes (MT) during the first quarter of the current fiscal, according to a report.

The country had exported 2.037 MT finished steel during the same quarter a year ago, the Joint Plant Committee said in its latest report. The JPC, under the Ministry of Steel, is the only institution in the country that collects and maintains data on domestic steel and iron industry. “At 1.351 MT, export of total finished steel was down by 33.7 per cent in April-June 2018 over same period of last year,” the report said.

Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh had earlier said that India should export at least six to seven per cent of its total steel production.

As against the export, import grew by 10.9 per cent to 1.893 MT in April-June quarter of 2018-19, compared to 1.707 MT in the year-ago period. The total output of finished steel for sale in the quarter under review stood at 26.720 MT, up 4.4 per cent from 25.605 MT the country had produced in the three-month period last year.

tors in the host countries,” chief executive officer and managing director Shyam Srinivasan told PTI over phone.

He, however, did not give a timeline by when the bank expects the approvals from local regulators will come in, saying it depends on a lot of factors.

It can be noted that following the over Rs 13,500crore Nirav Modi scam at state-run Punjab National Bank, almost all the nationalised banks which account for the bulk of overseas presence by domestic lenders, have been reducing their overseas presence as part of a government directive.

However, the private sector ones have been continuing with their overseas expansion plans, with the likes of Axis Bank and Yes Bank having done so in recent months.

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Mumbai, Jul 22 (PTI): South-based private sector lender Federal Bank has received the regulatory nod to open offices in Bahrain, Kuwait and Singapore, but is awaiting local clearances before it starts operations, a top official has said.

The Kochi-headquartered bank, which leads diaspora remittances, already has representative offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and its desire to expand comes even as a majority of its larger peers are downsizing their overseas presence following the Rs 13,500-crore Nirav Modi scam and poor asset quality back home due to toxic loans.

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Karnataka and Goa regions (7,95,626) follow the tally apart from the 12 other I-T regions in the country.

The action plan said “new opportunities” for identification of potential tax payers have opened up due to data mining and data analytics conducted by the various intelligence gathering and investigation wings of the department.

“The effective utilisation of these data by the field officers would result in identification of a large number of potential tax payers.

“In addition to use of disseminated data, local intelligence, inputs from market associations, trade bodies and professional bodies should also be gathered and used to identify nonfilers,” the CBDT directed taxmen to do so that the taxpayer base of the country increases.

It added that awareness meetings and outreach programmes should be conducted to encourage voluntary compliance, especially in Tier 2 and 3 cities (that are smaller than metropolitan cities but with burgeoning population and economic activity).

Deloitte India Partner M S Mani said it would be logical to expect that once the GST collections after the recent reductions stabilise, the remaining items such as televisions of all sizes, dishwashers, digital cameras, air conditioners could be considered for an 18 per cent rate.

“It would be ideal if only demerit goods are retained in the 28 per cent slab so that a gradual movement towards having fewer GST slabs can be initiated,” Mani said.

After the latest rounds of rate cuts by the GST Council on July 21, only 35 items are left in the 28 per cent tax slab, an official said.

The Council brought down tax rates to 18 per cent from 28 per cent on 15 items, including vacuum cleaners, washing maching, 68 cm (27 inch) TV, fridge, laundry machines, paints and varnishes.

“The rate cuts would lead to a revenue loss of about Rs 6,000 crore,” the official said.

The official, however, said that the revenue loss would be only notional as increased consumption and compliance would lead to more revenues to the exchequer.

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“The Indian economy is growing at a rapid pace.

Considering the increased economic activities both in organised as well as unorganised sectors, there is scope for further widening of the direct tax base of the country. “... The Board (CBDT) has fixed an overall target of adding 1.25 crore new return filers during the current financial year,” the new central action plan (CAP) for 2018-19 said.

The CAP acts as the policy action vision document for the Income Tax (I-T) Department and is unveiled by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) annually. Its latest copy has been accessed by PTI. As per the target, the northwest region of the tax department (that has jurisdiction over Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir) has been asked to add the maximum new filers at 11,48,489, followed by the Pune region 11,33,950 and Tamil Nadu region 10,36,645.

The Andhra Pradesh and Telangana regions have to get 10,40,218 new filers.

Gujarat (9,88,101) and the

New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The GST Council has pruned the 28 per cent slab by cutting tax rates on 191 goods over the last one year, leaving just 35 items, including AC, digital camera, video recorders, dishwashing machine and automobiles, in the highest tax bracket.

There were around 226 goods in the 28 per cent category when Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented on July 1, 2017.

Over the last one year, the Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister and comprising state ministers, has slashed rates in 191 items.

The 35 goods, which will be left in highest slab once the new GST rates are implemented from July 27, also include cement, automobile parts, tyres, automobile equipments, motor vehicles. Yachts, aircrafts, aerated drinks, betting and demerit items like tobacco, cigarette and pan masala.

Experts said going forward as the revenues stabilise, the Council may look at further rationalisation of the 28 per cent slab, to restrict the highest tax slab to super luxury and sin goods.

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New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): The CBDT has directed the Income Tax Department to add at least 1.25 crore fresh tax filers from across the country - the highest to be from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and J&K - in view of increased economic activities.

The directions have been issued also as a part of the government’s drive to widen the tax base.

The policy-making body of the department said as a result of its past initiatives in this domain, about 1.06 crore new tax filers were added to the income tax net during the 2017-18 financial year.

A new income tax filer is defined as a person who is not included in the tax filing base at the beginning of the year, but who files the return during the year.

A new I-T filer may not be called a fresh taxpayer added to the net as a person may file their income return but may not pay tax as they can claim legitimate exemptions, a senior official explained. However, once a filer is in the I-T database there is a very bleak chance that such a person’s income

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reported efforts by Washington to destabilise Iran’s Islamic government.

In Washington, U.S. officials familiar with the matter told Reuters that the Trump administration has launched an offensive of speeches and online communications meant to foment unrest and help pressure Iran to end its nuclear programme and its support of militant groups.

Current and former U.S. officials said the campaign paints Iranian leaders in a harsh light, at times using information that is exaggerated or contradicts other official pronouncements, including comments by previous administrations.

Rouhani scoffed at Trump’s threat to halt Iranian oil exports and said

Iran has a dominant position in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping waterway.

“Anyone who understands the rudiments of politics doesn’t say ‘we will stop Iran’s oil exports’...we have been the guarantor of the regional waterway’s security throughout history,” Rouhani said, cited by the semi-official ISNA news agency.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday backed Rouhani’s suggestion that Iran may block Gulf oil exports if its own exports are halted.

Rouhani’s apparent threat earlier this month to disrupt oil shipments from neighbouring countries came in reaction to efforts

by Washington to force all countries to stop buying

Suicide attack at Kabul airport kills 11

Afghan security personnel and traffic police lie on the ground after a suicide attack near the Kabul Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday. (AP/PTI)

Kabul, Jul 22 (Agencies): A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people and wounded 14 at the entrance to Kabul international airport Sunday, officials said, as scores gathered to welcome home Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile, AFP reported.

Senior government officials, political leaders and supporters were leaving the airport after greeting the powerful ethnic Uzbek leader and former warlord when the explosion hap-

pened.

Dostum, clad in a Western suit and sunglasses and travelling in an armoured vehicle, was unharmed, said his spokesman Bashir Ahmad Tayanj.

Kabul Police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said 11 people had been killed and 14 wounded. He did not give a breakdown.

The suicide bomber was on foot, interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said, adding that civilians, including a child, and security force members were

among the casualties.

Dostum, who is linked to a catalogue of human rights abuses in Afghanistan, was mobbed like a celebrity as he left the chartered plane from Turkey where he has lived since May 2017.

His return, which has been the subject of much speculation, comes amid violent protests in several provinces across northern Afghanistan, his traditional power base. Thousands of Dostum’s supporters have taken to the streets in recent weeks, shuttering election and government offices and blocking sections of highways to demand the release of a pro-government militia leader and call for Dostum’s return. Expectations of the return did little to quell the unrest, with protesters vowing Sunday to continue demonstrating until the burly leader of the Uzbek ethnic minority tells them otherwise.

“We don’t trust the government. We will continue our protests unless General Dostum tells us to stop,” Ehsanullah Qowanch, a protest leader in Faryab province, told AFP.

Iranian oil. Iranian officials have in the past threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for any hostile U.S. action.

Separately, a top Iranian military commander warned that the Trump government might be preparing to invade Iran.

“The enemy’s behaviour is unpredictable,” military chief of staff General Mohammad Baqeri said, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

“Although the current American government does not seem to speak of a military threat, according to precise information it has been trying to persuade the U.S. military to launch a military invasion (of Iran),” Baqeri said.

Iran’s oil exports could fall by as much as two-thirds by the end of the year because of new U.S. sanctions, putting oil markets under huge strain amid supply outages elsewhere.

Washington initially planned to totally shut Iran out of global oil markets after Trump abandoned the deal that limited Iran’s nuclear ambitions, demanding all other countries to stop buying its crude by November.

Lo n d o n, J u l 2 2 (Agencies): Gunmen in South Africa have killed 11 taxi drivers in an ambush, police say.

The men from Gauteng province were travelling to Johannesburg on Saturday night when their minibus was fired on, BBC reported.

The victims, and four others critically injured, were retur ning from a colleague’s funeral in the coastal region of Kwa-Zulu Natal, police said.

The motive is unclear although rivalry between groups running minibus taxi routes in South Africa has led to violence in the past.

Minibus taxis are the most popular form of transportation among South Africa’s population of 55 million.

Police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker said the vehicle was attacked between the towns of Colenso and Weenen, in the coastal province.

“The vehicle was ambushed. There were 11 fatalities and four were seriously injured and are in hospital,” he told reporters.

“There has been a lot of taxi violence in the area but we are still investigating who the perpetrators were.”

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United Nations, Jul 22 (IANS): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed his “grave concern” over the dangerous escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel.

“I deeply regret the loss of life. It is imperative that all sides urgently step back from the brink of another devastating conflict,” the Secretary-General said in a statement on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.

“I call on Hamas and other Palestinian militants to cease the launching of rockets and incendiary kites and provocations along the fence. And Israel must exercise restraint to avoid further inflaming the situa-

JERUSALEM, Jul 22 (Agencies): The Israeli military said on Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization from the volatile border area on the Golan Heights and evacuated them to a third country, AP reported.

The announcement marked the first such Israeli intervention in Syria’s civil war, now in its eight year.

The military said it was an “exceptional humanitarian gesture” that was done at the request of the United States and its European allies due to “an immediate threat to (Syrians’) lives.”

Israeli media reported that some 800 members of the Syrian rescue organization known as White Helmets and their families were evacuated overnight.

The reports say they were transferred to Jordan and would travel on from there to Britain, Germany and Canada.

In Jordan, the Foreign Ministry confirmed that 800 Syrian citizens have indeed entered their territory

P e s h awar , J u l 2 2 (PTI): A former provincial minister and senior leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was Sunday killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near his car in the troubled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

Ikramullah Gandapur, a candidate for the provincial assembly seat from PK99 constituency, was on his way to an election meeting when the bomber targeted his vehicle in Dera Ismail Khan district.

His driver was also killed in the attack while three bodyguards were badly injured, Dera Ismail Khan DPO Manzoor Afridi said.

Gandapur had sustained critical wounds in the suicide blast this morning and was rushed to a Peshawar hospital by helicopter, however he succumbed to his injuries during treatment after fighting for his life for over four hours.

Gandapur had served as the provincial agricultural minister in the PTIled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

He was elected through a by-election on the Dera Ismail Khan PK-67 seat, after it was vacated following the death of his brother and law minister Israrullah Gandapur in a suicide attack.

Afridi said Gandapur was returning after attend-

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ing a corner meeting in Kulachi tehsil when the suicide bomber blew himself up close to his vehicle in a narrow muddy street.

Soon after the blast the police and officials of the security forces cordoned off the area and started search operation.

Around the same time that Gandapur came under attack, Jamiat-Ulema-IslamFazl (JUI-F) leader Akram Khan Durrani, a former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister, also survived a second assassination attempt in less than 10 days.

Durrani was to address a political convention when his vehicle was ambushed by unknown gunmen in his home district Bannu, bordering North Waziristan district. The gunmen opened indiscriminate fire on Durrani’s vehicle from the front.

However, he remained unhurt in the attack.

Durrani is contest-

ing for NA-35 under the Muttahida Majlise-e-Amal (MMA) banner against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.

This is the third attack on election candidates in Bannu district and second on Durrani ahead of the July 25 general election.

On July 13, an attack targeting JUI-F’s central general secretary killed four persons and wounded as many as 39. Durrani, however, remained unhurt in the attack. On the same day, 149 people, including a top nationalist leader, were killed and over 200 others injured in a powerful suicide blast in Mastung area in the troubled Balochistan province.

The security situation in Pakistan has deteriorated ahead of polls. The campaigning for the general election has been hit hard by terrorist attacks claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and ISIS outfits.

Gmail users warned of cyber threat Trade war a reality, Brits reject May’s Brexit plan

San Francisco, Jul 22 (IANS): Gmail users have been alerted about a new Google Mail feature which could be leveraged by online crooks to carry out a wave of scams, media reported.

The company, in April, unveiled its brand new design which introduced a clean new user interface and a swathe of new features including the ability to snooze a message, autogenerate smart replies and self-destruct emails in the brand new “Confidential Mode”.

“It’s the Confidential Mode which is at the centre of security fears,” Express. co.uk reported on Saturday.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly issued an alert on the “potential emerging threat... for nefarious activity” with the Gmail redesign, the report said.

“We have reached out to Google to inform them of intelligence relevant to their services and to partner to improve our mutual interests in cyber security,” Lesley Fulop, DHS spokesperson said. Central to these fears was the new “Confidential

Email” feature that can require users to click a link in order to access these messages. If you’re a Gmail user using the official Google Mail website then the “Confidential Email” appears when you click to open it.

It shows a date for when the content will expire and informs the users that the email can’t be forwarded or downloaded.

However, its different if you’re a Gmail user viewing the message as a third-party client or a non-Gmail user who receives a confidential email. In those cases, instead of the message appearing in their browser, users have to click a button to view the email. And this is where the security fears lie. With the Gmail redesign, scammers could send out fake versions of confidential email alerts and trick a user into entering sensitive details.

“The tech giant is committed to protecting the security of users’ personal information and hence, had created “machine learning” algorithms to detect potential phishing scams that cyber criminals carry out,” said Google spokesman Brooks Hocog.

UN chief concerned over Israel military evacuates Syrian escalation of violence in Gaza volunteers stranded in border area tion,” said the UN chief.

“I encourage all to engage with the UN, and particularly my special coordinator, and work to find a way out of this dangerous situation. Any further escalation will endanger the lives of Palestinians and Israelis alike, deepen the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and undermine current efforts to improve livelihoods and support the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza,” he noted.

Four Palestinians were killed and some 210 Palestinians wounded on Friday during fierce fighting between Israel and Hamas, the most serious one in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip since the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict that killed thousands.

The attack began after an Israeli soldier was killed during operational activity near the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. The soldier was the first one to be shot dead by Palestinian fighters since 2014, the Israel Defense Forces said.

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to be resettled in Western countries. The ministry’s spokesman Mohammed al-Kayed said the Syrians would remain in Jordan for three months.

“The request was approved based on pure humanitarian reasons,” he said.

The Israeli military said its actions did not reflect a change to Israel’s non-intervention policy in Syria’s war, where all the warring parties are considered hostile.

U.S. officials had said they were finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russianbacked government forces closed in on the Quneitra province.

The officials said the White Helmets, who have enjoyed backing from the United States and other Western nations for years, were likely to be targeted by Syrian forces as they retook control of the southwest.

Evacuation plans were accelerated after last week’s NATO summit in Brussels.

Since the Syrian government offensive began in June, the area along the frontier with the Golan Heights has been the safest in the southwestern region, attracting hundreds of displaced people because it is along the disengagement line with Israel demarcated in 1974 after a war.

The Syrian government is unlikely to fire there or carry out airstrikes for fear of an Israeli response. The White Helmets typically have operated in opposition-held areas across Syria, places where government services are almost non-existent, voluntarily risking their lives to save hundreds of civilian lives during relentless government airstrikes and bombardments.

Over the last month, Syrian government forces aided by Russian air power have swept through southwestern Syria to consolidate government control over this strategic corner of the country that straddles the border with Jordan and the frontier with Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

says French finance minister

Paris, Jul 22 (IANS): A trade war is now a reality, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has warned as G20 ministers gather for a summit in Argentina.

The current US trade policy of imposing unilateral tariffs is based on “the law of the jungle”, he said, BBC reported on Sunday.

But US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended the tariffs and urged the EU and China to open their markets to allow free competition.

Last week, US President Donald Trump described the EU as a foe on trade. Trump later threatened to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of Chinese goods entering the US in a growing trade row.

The US has large trade deficits with both the 28member EU and China.

The two-day talks in Buenos Aires bring together finance ministers and central bankers of the world’s top 20 economies.

“World trade cannot base itself on the law of the jungle and the unilateral increase of tariffs is the law of the jungle,” Le Maire said.

“The law of the jungle, the law of the fittest, this cannot be the future of global trade relations.

“The law of the jungle will only turn out losers, it will weaken growth, threaten the most fragile countries and have disastrous political consequences,” Le Maire said.

LON D ON , J u l 2 2 (Agencies): Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll.

According to Reuters, May’s political vulnerability was exposed by the survey which found voters would prefer Boris Johnson, who quit as Britain’s foreign minister two weeks ago, to negotiate with the EU and lead the Conservative Party into the next election.

Only 16 percent of voters say May is handling

Brexit well, compared to 34 percent who say that Johnson would do a better job, according to the poll conducted by YouGov for The Sunday Times newspaper.

With a little more than eight months to go before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, 2019, May’s government, parliament, the public and businesses remain deeply divided over what form Brexit should take.

May’s plans to keep a close trading relationship with the EU on goods thrust her government into crisis this month after two of her most senior ministers, including Johnson, resigned over the plans.

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Iran faces increased U.S. pressure and looming sanctions after Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from a 2015 international deal over Iran’s nuclear programme. Addressing a gathering of Iranian diplomats, Rouhani said: “Mr Trump, don’t play with the lion’s tail, this would only lead to regret,” the state new agency IRNA reported.

“America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” Rouhani said, leaving open the possibility of peace between the two countries which have been at odds since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

“You are not in a position to incite the Iranian nation against Iran’s security and interests,” Rouhani said, in an apparent reference to

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fter an initial silence, political parties in Kerala have started condemning the suspected right-wing outfit’s threats that forced a Kerala Sahitya Akademi award winning writer to withdraw his novel, serialised by a leading vernacular magazine.

Veteran Communist leader V.S. Achuthanandan on Sunday said that the writer S. Hareesh should not withdraw his work and the Mathrubhumi Weekly, that serialised the novel, should see that it is published again.

This is the time that all progressive and democracy-loving people should come together to break the hatred spread and intolerance of the Sangh Parivar forces. None should bend before them.

Hence the weekly and the writer should see this is resumed,” said the former Chief Minister.

C P I - M Po l i t b u r o member M.A. Baby said the cardinal principle in a

democracy is freedom of expression and this is what has exactly not happened in the case of Hareesh.

“One might have difference of opinion but when it comes to denying freedom of expression, we will certainly fight against that,” he said.

Trouble started for Hareesh after the first two chapters of the serialised novel “Meesha” (Moustache)” appeared in the popular Mathr ubhumi Weekly and soon his Facebook page was flooded with abuses by suspected right-wing activists saying the novel was an “insult” to Hinduism.

As when the threats

continued to come and even targeted his family, he closed down his social media account and asked the publishers to withdraw the novel.

What appears to have attracted the ire of the right-wing is a conversation between two characters in the novel, where they suggest that women who go to the temples are subconsciously making a declaration that they are ready for a sexual relationship.

The character also says that women, when they fail to turn up in the temple for four or five days in a month, are not ready for it on those days.

Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala, while condemning the act of the right-wing activists as a blatant attack on the freedom of expression, also blamed the Kerala Home Department and asked why they were silent on taking action against those who abused the writer and his family on social media.

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mail users have been alerted about a new Google Mail feature which could be leveraged by online crooks to carry out a wave of scams, media reported.

The company, in April, unveiled its brand new design which introduced a clean new user interface and a swathe of new features including the ability to snooze a message, autogenerate smart replies and self-destruct emails in the brand new “Confidential Mode”. “It’s the Confidential Mode which is at the centre of security fears,” Express.co.uk reported on Saturday.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly issued an alert on the “potential emerg-

ing threat... for nefarious activity” with the Gmail redesign, the report said.

“We have reached out to Google to inform them of intelligence relevant to their services and to partner to improve our mutual interests in cyber security,” Lesley Fulop, DHS spokesperson said. Central to these fears was the new “Confidential Email” feature that can require users to click a link in order to access these messages.

If you’re a Gmail user using the official Google Mail website then the “Confidential Email” appears when you click to open it.

It shows a date for when the content will expire and informs the users that the email can’t be forwarded or downloaded.

However, its different if you’re a Gmail user viewing the message as a third-party client or a non-Gmail user who receives a confidential email. In those cases, instead of the message appearing in their browser, users have to click a button to view the email. And this is where the security fears lie.

(IANS)

Always a pleasure to hear Daler Mehndi’s voice: Farhan

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arhan Akhtar has praised singer Daler Mehndi, who has lent his voice for a song of the forthcoming film “Gold”.

The filmmaker-actor-singer says it is always a pleasure to hear his voice.

Mehndi had tweeted: “My India is incredible. It is my humble request to all my fellow citizens to rise above religion, caste, politics and make India ‘Gold’. Thank you Akshay Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar and SachinJigar for giving me and all of India this beautiful gift of ‘Gold’.”

To which, Farhan replied on Sunday: “Daler Mehndi, always a pleasure to hear your voice and associate with your incredible talent. Thank you for taking the chant of ‘Ghar layenge gold’ to the audience.”

“Gold” is a sports drama directed by Reema Kagti and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan under the banner Excel Entertainment.

“Gold”, which stars Akshay Kumar, will mark the Bollywood debut of popular TV actress Mouni Roy. A view of world heritage monument Sanchi Stupa, in Sanchi on Sunday, July 22. The (IANS) monument motif is featured in the new Rs 200 currency notes. (PTI)

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Tom Hardy says there will be more ‘Mad Max’ movies in the future

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om Hardy has revealed that there are plans to make more Mad Max movies in the future.

Speaking to Variety, the actor who appeared in the acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015, said they were plans for three movies originally and they are just waiting for the “go ahead” to make the next one.

Hardy said: “It was always the plan to do three of them, so I think we’re still waiting on being given the opportunity and the green light to go ahead on the next one. But when I engaged on that there was a plethora of material on it.”

He continued: “Obviously it belongs to Warner Brothers so it would be them who green-lit it. But a lot of projects are in radial, you know you wait for something to land when it’s

real, and as soon as it’s real we’ll jump on it.”

Previously, Hardy said that the next Mad Max movie wasn’t a case of if but when, telling an audience at the Television Critics Association’s Taboo panel that he was “anxiously waiting to find out.”

Last year, he told the audience: “There’s mythology to do with Mad Max that spans copious amounts of tales.”

“What’s wonderful about George is that he’s created sagas for Max and

sagas for Furiosa [played

by Charlize Theron], so it’s what he chooses to focus in on. I’m really just waiting for the call like, ‘All right, let’s get the leathers on and get back out there and do some more.’”

“It’s there. I’m just waiting for it and looking forward to it.”

Hardy added: “It’s a question of when. I’m not sure it’s called The Wasteland or not ‘cause you never know. These titles change all the time. But, there’s definitely another Mad Max project pending.”

Antibiotics most frequently prescribed How Internet can help those who self-injure medicine worldwide: Study

dard units.

A majority of overall increase occurred in India, China, Brazil, Russia and South Africa.

“This overuse of antibiotics could facilitate the development and spread of antibiotic resistance. In India, for example, about 57,000 neonatal sepsis deaths occurring annually are due to antibiotic-resistant infections,” said Em-

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ositive messaging through social media could be a powerful tool to help people overcome non-suicidal selfinjury (NSSI), a new study has found.

The study, published in the journal Digital Health, suggested that those who engage in NSSI, the Internet can provide a less threatening and more anonymous information and support network, especially if individuals are not getting support elsewhere.

“Self-injury, including cutting and burning, is a serious public health concern around the world,” said lead author Stephen Lewis, Professor at Canada’s University of Guelph.

The researchers also found that while it affects people of all ages, selfinjury is more prevalent among people from 14 to

24. Within that age range, up to one in five have engaged in self-injury.

“We know that young people who struggle with self-injury often go online to obtain needed social support,” said Lewis, adding that the stigma surrounding self-injury contributes to a strong sense of isolation.

For the study, the researchers measured how online comments about self-injury affected the attitudes about recovery in people who have engaged in self-injury.

Twitter CEO responds to NYT journalist’s harsh criticism

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witter CEO Jack Dorsey hit back at Maggie Haberman -- a New York Times journalist -- who wrote about her break from the app, explaining why it has become an unbearable experience for her and others.

In Haberman’s Friday’s tweet, she describes how Twitter has gotten worse and worse in many regards over the years, developing into an unreliable source filled with toxic interactions and bitter criticism, Mashable reported on Deshna Jain, poses for a photograph after she won Saturday.

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man made in a thread.

Picking out a quote where Haberman said people were tweeting more and she felt she had to check in more frequently lest she miss something, the CEO said this is why the “show me the best tweets first” feature exists, a feature that is hated by many users. He

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he increased overthe-counter supply of antibiotics in many countries including India, is worsening antibiotic resistance globally, finds a study highlighting an urgent need for better enforcement of laws.

The study found that between 2000 and 2010, the consumption of antibiotics increased globally from 50 billion to 70 billion stan-

manuel Adewuyi, from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

It accounts for more than two million infections and 23,000 deaths annually in the US, and around 25,000 deaths in Europe each year.

“Reliable estimates of the burden of antibiotic-resistant infections in developing countries are lacking but it is believed to cause many more deaths in these countries,” Adewuyi added.

For the study, published in The Journal of Infection, the team analysed studies from 24 countries.

The study found that antibiotics supplied without prescription were largely for the treatment of acute and self-limited conditions such as upper respiratory tract infections and gastroenteritis.

(IANS)

then cherry-picked another part of Haberman’s piece that said, “Twitter is still an important source for news”, which the Twitter CEO of course agreed on, and then had a vaguely selfdeprecating response to a quote in which Haberman said “Twitter is not a good platform to have meaningful discussions”.

Throughout his thread, Dorsey brings up “identifying credibility” a couple of times, which may refer to changing how the verification system works so it’s not just for prominent names, people in media, and white supremacists, or maybe being more selective.

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India’s Rupinder Pal Singh celebrates the goal with team mates during third match of three test match series against New Zealand in Bengaluru on Sunday. (PTI)

Bengaluru, Jul 22 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : T h e r e could not have been better preparations for the Indian Men’s Hockey Team ahead of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta than playing against World No. 9 New Zealand in a three-match Series here at the Sports Authority of India in Bengaluru.

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Singh expressed content with his team’s performance.

“Playing high intensity matches against one of the Top 10 Teams in the World ahead of a crucial event like the Asian Games is beneficial for us. During these three matches, we tried out different combinations and variations in PC and we are better prepared for the upcoming Tournament,” stated Harendra Singh after the match.

In Sunday’s match,

Rupinder Pal Singh (8’), Surender Kumar (15’), Mandeep Singh (44’) and Akashdeep Singh (60’) scored for India while the team’s defence ensured a clean sheet denying the visitors any scoring opportunities.

In the first quarter, India took a 1-0 lead after Rupinder scored off the team’s second Penalty Corner. He fired low towards the right corner of the post, taking his personal goal count to four goals in the

series against New Zealand.

Brilliant stick work

by Surender Kumar and a clever assist by Rupinder from the top of the striking circle earned India their second goal of the match in the 15th minute.

“We had specifically worked on different variations in goal scoring and I believe the team still has scope to improve our field goal conversation rate. We missed quite a few easy chances today and we need to work on this ahead of the Asian Games,” expressed Singh.

India’s third goal came in the 44th minute through Mandeep Singh.

It was Sardar Singh who set up the goal as he worked magic with his stick making way from the left flank, beating New Zealand defenders to find Simranjeet Singh who later flicked it to Mandeep. A simple yet clever deflection was enough to beat New Zealand goalkeeper George Enersen.

It was Akashdee p Singh who was enthralling as he scored the home team’s fourth goal in the 60th minute, taking India’s winning scoreline to 4-0.

China beat India in women’s U-17 BRICS tourney Johannesburg, Jul 22 (IANS): The Indian U-17 womens team lost 1-2 against China in their last match of the BRICS U-17 Football Tournament here on Sunday.

Two goals by China late in the second half nullified the lead India had taken early on, as the opponents ran out eventual winners.

Manisha had put the Indians ahead in the 25th minute when she capitalised on a rebound off a free-kick and her shot went into the net to give India the advantage. The Indian women had a chance to double their lead before half-time in the 42nd minute but failed to make the most out of it as the shot was placed wide of the goal.

In the second half, the Indian custodian Archana made some good saves to keep India in the match but her citadel was breached in the 74th minute when China equalised from the penalty spot. Eight minutes later, the Chinese scored once again to take the lead. The Indian women could do little to muster an equaliser and with time running out, failed to make the most of their opportunities.

Anas sets new national record

Prague, Jul 22 (Agencies): Star sprinter Muhammed Anas Yahiya once again entered the record books on Saturday as he broke his own national record to win the 400 metres race at the Cena Noveho Mesta nad Metuji meet in Czech Republic.

Anas set a time of 45.24 seconds to break his own record of 45.31 seconds which he had set during the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast earlier this year.

The Athletics Federation of India posted a congratulatory tweet for Anas after he set a new Indian record in Czech Republic.

“Congrats Mohd.

ANAS for breaking his own 400m #Indian record in #Czech Rep. New Record-45.24s, Previous Best45.31s Congrats coach Galina Bukharina for success of #HimaDas and #Anas!,” AFI tweeted on Saturday.

Meanwhile, MR Poovamma won the women’s 400m event after clocking 53.01 seconds while sprinter Rajiv Arokia came third in the men’s 200m event with a time of 20.77 seconds. Three months back Anas had made his-

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tory by becoming only the second Indian sprinter to make it to the finals of the one-lap event at the quadrennial Games in Gold Coast after the legendary Milkha Singh who won Gold in the 440 yards race at Cardiff 1958.

Anas however, missed a Bronze at the Men’s 400m Final by a whisker at Gold Coast Games but managed to break the national record by clocking 45.31.

Anas clocked the timing of 45.31 in the race to finish fourth while Botswana managed a 1-2 with Isaac Makwala and Baboloki Thebe bagging the Gold and Silver, respectively. Jamaica’s Javon Francis bagged the bronze

medal after clocking 45.11 seconds.

Anas, who finished with the timing of 45.31, broke his own national record of 45.32 seconds in the 400m category, which he created in the Indian Grand Prix.

Anas had pulled off a stunning performance in the Men’s 400m semi-final, finishing with the timing of 45.44 seconds to qualify for the final. Anas’ timing was the fourth-fastest among all the qualifiers while Botswana’s Isaac Makwala finished the fastest. Last year in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar, Anas had won the gold medal after clocking 45.77 seconds.

734 youngsters shortlisted Taiwan’s Tien-chen wins Singapore Open title for Khelo India scholarship

New Delhi, Jul 22 (Agencies): The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has cleared the names of 734 players for a scholarship programme under Khelo India Talent Identification Development scheme for development of sports in the country.

The high-powered committee, which approved the names of the players, claimed that the scholarship program is designed to take care of the expenses of the players.

The selected players will be eligible for an annual stipend of Rs. 1.2 lakhs on a quarterly basis to meet their out of pocket expenses, treating injuries and even smaller elements like local travel.

In another major step in the direction of growth of sports, various private, State and SAI academies have been accredited along with 21 non-SAI academies.

The plan is to develop more such academies so

that young athletes can get access to the best training without having to travel long distances. The accredited academies will look after the training, boarding and tournament expenses of the athletes.

It was also decided that the academies will be divided into three categories and to encourage excellence, there will be a gap analysis which will provide these academies with opportunity for upgradation.

Singapore, Jul 22 (Agencies): Taiwanese badminton star Chou Tienchen stormed to a 21-13, 2113 win over compatriot Hsu Jen-hao to clinch the Singapore Open men’s singles title on Sunday.

Serving deep, crosscour t smashes at high speeds, the world number seven easily claimed the first game.

Hsu initially looked stronger in the second game, taking an 8-4 lead, but Chou bounced back impressively by winning seven consecutive points. The 28-year-old went on to win easily at the

Singapore Indoor Stadium, sealing victory in 43 minutes.

“I felt like I had good control at the start,” Chou, the top seed in the tournament, said after the match.

“There were several times that Hsu took the lead, but I managed to fight back and I knew when and how to take charge of the game.”

The win follows his German Open triumph in May and serves as a confidence boost for the upcoming World Championships in Nanjing.

Chou acknowledged

Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei with the trophy after winning the men’s singles final against Hsu Jen Hao.

that he will face stiff competition from top players, such as Danish world number one Viktor Axelsen and

Neymar defends his diving at World Cup

Neymar

“Do you think I want to suffer tackles all of the time? No, it is painful, it hurts,” he said.

“After the games I stay back for four or five hours putting on ice, it’s complicated but if you haven’t experienced that you will

MLS start for DC United was tough, says Rooney Los Angeles, Jul 22 (Agencies): Wayne Rooney has described his first start for MLS side DC United as a “tough” and “difficult” game.

Rooney’s new side, who are bottom of the Eastern Conference, lost 3-1 to Atlanta United on Saturday at the MercedesBenz Stadium in Atlanta.

It was a frustrating afternoon for the former Manchester United and Everton striker. His misplaced pass led to Atlanta’s opening goal and he later picked up a yellow card for a clash with Chris McCann before being substituted after 66 minutes.

“Today was a difficult game. Atlanta are top of the league and they’re a good team,” Rooney told the club’s website.

“We knew it was going to be a difficult game.

We knew it was going to be tough. We had to hang in there at times and unfortunately we didn’t quite do that well enough today.”

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never understand. I saw [the jokes], but I took them with a humour.”

“Even yesterday I posted on Instagram a joke with the children about it. My football is to dribble, to face the opponent, I can’t stand in front of the opponent and

say ‘my dear, excuse me I want to score a goal’, I can’t do that.”

“I have to dribble past him, I have to try to do something and he will not allow me to go past and he will try to foul me. A lot of time I’m faster and lighter than other players and they tackle me, and the referee is there for that,” added Neymar.

Neymar, who has been widely linked with Real Madrid as a replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo, insists he will be staying with French champions PSG.

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Through this column, we would like to convey our profound gratitude and appreciation to everyone who supported us morally, physically, financially, materially and your unceasing prayer at the sudden demise of our beloved LATE SHANCHOTHUNG KIKON, who left for his heavenly abode on 5th of July 2018.

We have nothing to give you in return for the kindness shown towards our family.

But we sincerely pray that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Paris, Jul 22 (Agencies): Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar has hit back at critics of his World Cup theatrics, saying they “will never understand”.

Criticism of Neymar was widespread, leading to memes of the player dominating social media sites and a TV advert poking fun at the Brazilian being broadcast in South Africa.

Neymar has taken the mockery in his stride but made it clear the treatment he receives is no laughing matter.

rising Japanese star Kento Momota, who both gave the Singapore tournament a miss.

“They are amazing players with great skills. I need to find a way to beat them,” he said.

In the women’s singles, fifth seed Sayaka Takahashi of Japan overcame a slow start to pick up her third title of the year, beating China’s Gao Fangjie 25-23, 21-14.

The 25-year-old won the Swiss Open in February and the New Zealand Open in May. Japan won another title with women’s doubles pair Ayako Sakuramoto and Yukiko Takahata beating compatriots Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida 16-21, 24-22, 21-13.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT With heartfelt gratitude, we the family members of Late N. Alemnungsang Imsong (Merangkong), Patizung Ward Tuli, would like to thank each and every individual who sympathized with us during our great loss.

We extend our sincere thanks to all the organizations, churches, friends, neighbours, relatives, villagers and all the well wishers who stood with us and helped us physically, mentally, financially and through prayers during the time of illness and demise of our beloved father.

Though we are unable to thank each and every individual, we pray that our Almighty God bestowed His blessings upon you all.

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Nokensangla Jamir (89 years) “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” In this moment of grief, at the sad demise of our beloved NOKENSANGLA JAMIR - a wife, a mother, grandmother and great grandmother, who left us to be with our good Lord on 13th July 2018, we are thankful for all who have stood by us.

We cannot comprehend but in despair, grief at the loss of such a beautiful life. But the beautiful promise of God revealed to us as in His word, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted” through everyone who has been there with us physically, financially and prayerfully has indeed comforted and blessed us. We are grateful and obliged towards each one of you and it is our humble prayer that our Almighty God bless you abundantly.

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2020 Olympics official mascots unveiled Stitch, Sukova inducted July 24 to August 9, 2020.

“I think a very worthy name has been picked not only for Tokyo, but for Japan as well as the Olympics and Paralympics,” said Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike.

After the ceremony, the mascots reappeared on a boat that cruised down the Sumida river, waving to children on the riverbank as they passed some of Tokyo’s most iconic landmarks

Heatwave raises concerns over Tokyo summer Olympics

Tokyo 2020 Olympic mascot ‘Miraitowa’ (L) and Paralympic mascot ‘Someity’ (R) pose with children during the mascot debut event in Tokyo on Sunday. (AP/ PTI)

Tokyo, Jul 22 (Agencies): The official mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled at a ceremony in downtown Tokyo on Sunday.

The blue-checked mascot for the Olympics is named Miraitowa while the pink-checked Paralympic mascot will be known as Someity.

Miraitowa is a combination of the Japanese words for future and eternity while Someity comes from a popular cherry blos-

som variety “Someiyoshino” and echoes the English phrase “so mighty.”

The two mascots were designed by illustrator Ryo Taniguchi, who won a nationwide competition that was determined by elementary schoolchildren across Japan, with his entries clinching more than half the total votes.

“These mascots are your friends,” Tokyo 2020 organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said at the ceremony. “You have helped to pick them

and across the country, I believe, 5 million children helped to pick this. And the name is also something we have picked together.

So this Olympics belongs to everyone.”

The selection process involving schoolchildren was introduced to get students enthusiastic about the games while also ensuring transparency.

Organizers say the pair of futuristic characters combine tradition and innovation. The Tokyo Olympics are scheduled for

As Japan swelters in boiling temperatures, the IOC has sought to allay fears that holding the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo might not be such a great idea. Several people died last week in a heat wave that is set to continue.

During a visit to Tokyo, head of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspection team, John Coates, acknowledged concerns that the heat could be a “huge challenge” for the Tokyo 2020 organizers. “We are mindful that we do have to prepare for extreme heat,” he said.

The Games are set to run from July 24 to August 9, 2020 when temperatures in central Tokyo could reach 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) and above.

The IOC’s Coates said the Japanese organizers must explore all options to deal with extreme heat.

The marathon, for example, will be held early in the morning to avoid heat, the IOC said last Wednesday.

Tetsuo Egawa, senior director of operation strategy planning for Tokyo 2020’s organizing committee, told AFP that most concern is for non-stadium sports, citing the marathon, sailing and canoeing, and golf. “Special measures will be needed,” he said.

The Japanese government and Tokyo’s metropolitan government, for example, are planning to lay pavements that give off less surface heat and also to plant taller roadside trees alongside the route of the marathon.

When Tokyo last hosted the Olympics, in 1964, the Games were held in October to avoid the heat.

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NEW YORK, Jul 22 (Agencies): Former Wimbledon champion Michael Stich said it was the “special moments” more than match results that he remembered as he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Stich and 14-time Grand Slam doubles champion Helena Sukova of Czech Republic were inducted in ceremonies in Newport, Rhode Island, during the ATP grass-court tournament.

Stich won his only Grand Slam singles crown at Wimbledon in 1991, downing countryman Boris Becker in straight sets in the final.

He was a runner-up at the 1994 US Open, falling to Andre Agassi, and in the 1996 French Open, losing to Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

Former world number two Stich partnered with Becker to win the 1992 Barcelona Olympic men’s doubles crown and joined American John McEnroe to claim the 1992 Wimbledon men’s doubles title.

Now tournament director of the ATP German

Helena Sukova and Michael Stich were inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Open in Hamburg, Stich won 18 career singles titles in 31 finals before retiring in 1997.

“But it’s just those special moments, occasions that I remember more than match results or scores I have achieved,” an emotional Stich said.

“It’s not so much about the special result or a special score that I’ve achieved -- it’s about the overall view on this sport.”

Sukova, a women’s world doubles number one for 68 weeks, captured nine Grand Slam women’s

doubles crowns and five mixed doubles titles.

Her doubles trophy haul included four women’s and three mixed at Wimbledon, one each at the French Open, two women’s and a mixed at the US Open and two women’s at the Australian Open.

In singles, Sukova reached as high as fourth in the world and reached the finals twice each at the US and Australian Opens.

She captured 10 singles titles as well as 69 career doubles crowns before retiring in 1998.

Lakshya wins Asia Junior C’ship title Promotional angling competition held at Wokha

New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI): Rising shuttler Lakshya Sen stunned reigning world junior champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand in straight games to become only the third Indian player to clinch a gold medal at the Asia Junior Championships in Jakarta Sunday.

The sixth seeded Indian from Uttarakhand, who had won a bronze medal in the last edition of the competition, notched up 21-19, 21-18 upset win over Vitidsarn in the summit clash that clocked 46 minutes.

“I am happy to win the tournament. It will boost my confidence. I played in the team event and then in the individual event, so it was a long tournament. The focus was on recovering well after

Dimapur, Jul 22 (NPN): The first promotional local angling competition was held on July 21 at Tsumang Lake, Wokha.

The event was graced by Deputy Commissioner, Wokha Dr.Manazir Jeelani Samoon, IAS as the special guest. The competition was organised District Angler’s Wokha Nagaland (DAWN) in collaboration with Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

Johny Ezung emerged as the winner of the competition and was awarded a cash prize of Rs.20,000.

Rensathung Kikon and M.Yilobemo bagged the second and third place and were awarded Rs.15,000 and 10,000 respectively. More

than 30 prizes were given in different category to the anglers. 69-year-old Ekyimo Erui, the oldest angler, was also awarded with cash prize and certificate, while the luckiest angler was bagged

by Simon Kikon.

Speaking at the prize distribution ceremony, Deputy Commissioner, Wokha said, the competition organized by the angler’s association was not just for recreation but for a cause. He said that initiatives like these will go a long way in helping conservation and creating awareness among the common masses about conservation of fishes. When it comes to saving endangered species of fish, it is the responsibility of every con-

Bayern Munich beat PSG 3-1 in ICC

Chhetri wins AIFF Player of the Year award

Lakshya Sen won gold at Junior Asian Championships.

each match and I am happy I could play well and win,” Lakshya told PTI. Late Gautam Thakkar (1965) and Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu (2012) had won the prestigious title earlier. Sindhu had won a bronze as well in 2011, while Sameer Verma won a silver and bronze in 2011 and 2012

and the pair Pranav Chopra/Prajkta Sawant bagged a bronze in 2009.

Lakshya has been sensational in the tournament as he stunned second seed Chinese Li Shifeng, fourth seed Indonesian Ikhsan Leonardo Imanuel Rumbay in the semifinals and top seed Vitidsarn in the final.

PSG and Bayern Munich players fight for the ball during their International Champions Cup match in Klagenfurt on Saturday.

Klagenfurt, Jul 22 (Agencies): Renato Sanches scored a free-kick as Bayern Munich came from behind to beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in the International Champions Cup. Both sides were opening their ICC campaigns in Klagenfurt on Saturday and it was the Bundesliga side who came out on top in Niko Kovac’s first game in charge.

T i m o t h y We a h opened the scoring for PSG in the first half, running on to a Kevin Rimane pass to finish well from inside the penalty area.

But three goals in 18 second-half minutes saw Bayern complete a fine comeback, Javi Martinez nodding in Arjen Robben’s corner to get his side level.

Sanches then took advantage of suspect positioning from substitute goalkeeper Remy Descamps to curl in a free-kick and boost his chances of first-team action with Bayern, with teenager Joshua Zirkzee wrapping up the scoring.

T h o m a s Tu c h e l ’s PSG will have a chance to make amends against Arsenal in a week’s time,

while Bayern’s next ICC game is against Serie A champions Juventus on Thursday.

PSG started on top despite Tuchel naming an inexperienced side, Adrien Rabiot’s downward header forcing an early save from Sven Ulreich.

Gianluigi Buffon was soon rolling back the years at the other end, the veteran goalkeeper diving low to his right to turn away an awkwardly spinning first-time shot from Oliver Batista-Meier.

PSG took the lead in the 31st minute, Weah racing through to slot home

past Ulreich.

But the goal owed plenty to Rimane’s fine work, the defender seizing upon a loose pass, juggling the ball as he broke away and sending Weah clear with an excellent pass.

Christopher Nkunku impressed through the first half and he flashed a drive over the angle as PSG pushed for a second.

Bayern almost equalised in the first minute after the restart, but Sandro Wagner’s header struck the crossbar, then Nkunku missed a fine chance by firing wide from Rabiot’s low cross.

The Bundesliga side’s second-half improvement told, though, Martinez heading in a right-wing Robben corner to level the scores with half an hour to play.

And Bayern took the lead with a cute free-kick from Sanches that caught out Descamps.

The Portugal international spotted the goalkeeper, who had replaced Buffon moments earlier, poorly positioned and whipped his 20-yard strike around the wall and in at the near post.

And the points were sealed when substitute Serge Gnabry burst away to set up Zirkzee for Bayern’s third, the 17-year-old recovering quickly after being struck in the head by team-mate Meritan Shabani minutes earlier.

Deputy Commissioner, Wokha Dr.Manazir Jeelani Samoon, IAS giving away the awards.

cerned individual to work together, he added. The DC also urged the gathering and participants to discourage the use of dynamites, chemi-

cals and electronic equipments to catch fish as it leads to depletion of fishes. The prize distribution ceremony was chaired by event orga-

nizing secretary Khyolamo, while the welcome address was delivered by DAWN president, K.N.Mhonthung Lotha.

Sunil Chhetri

Mumbai, Jul 22 (PTI): Inspirational captain Sunil Chhetri was named as the 2017 All India Football Federation (AIFF) Player of the Year by the national body.

Chhetri recently became the second Indian footballer to play 100 international games after Baichung Bhutia.

Chhetri is a star striker for both India and Bengaluru FC. While Chhetri was declared the 2017 AIFF Player of the Year in the men’s category, Kamala Devi was adjudged the 2017 AIFF woman Player of the Year.

Young Anirudh Thapa, who had impressed everyone with his performance in the four-nation Intercontinental Cup which India won, was declared as the 2017 Emerging Player of the Year.

E Panthoi was named as the 2017 woman Emerging Player of the Year, an AIFF statement said.

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