July 30, 2019

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RIIN will shield State from outsiders

DIMAPUR, JUL 29 (NPN): Nagaland deputy chief minister Y. Patton has defended the state government’s decision to compile a Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIN), asserting that it will help to safeguard the State from outsiders.

Speaking to The Hindu, Y. Patton, who also holds the Home portfolio said: “Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland may take more time; we are consulting all civil society groups, including the NSCN (I-M).

It can be delayed by a few months.”

As published in Nagaland on June 6, the state cabinet on February 15, 2019 approved the recommendation of the ILP committee, after which it was decided to compile a register to prevent issuance of indigenous inhabitant certificates to ineligible persons. In a notification dated June 29, the government set December 1, 1963 as the cut-off date.

The deputy chief minister, said there is a rethink on the cut-off date too: there has been a demand from a section that the date

State govt under serious pressure from BJP: Therie DIMAPUR, JUL 29 (NPN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president K Therie has alleged that the state chief minister has “surrendered his writ to BJP High command” and that the government of Nagaland was under “serious pressure” from BJP. Addressing the Phek District Congress Committee (PDCC), all the frontals bodies and five ACCCs at Phek town on July 29, Therie alleged that the chief minister has captured a Christian State like Nagaland and submitted into the hand of BJP. “I don’t know how he is at peace doing this to Nagas,” he said.

Further, alleging that BJP-led government at the centre was “EVM Govt and not a public mandated government”, Therie said the result sheets were “abnormal and unbelievable” by any political analysts.

“BJP Government is like an egg and when it falls, it will be utterly beyond repair,” he said.

He also thanked the people of Phek district especially the NPF for supporting INC candidate K L Chishi during the last Lok Sabha election with “a very laudable majority.” This was stated in a press release issued by PDCC general secretary Rilo Therie.

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“Formation of governments in Karnataka is like backdoor appointments.”

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be April 28, 1977.

According to the 1977 notification, the indigenous inhabitant certificate should be issued to only those who had settled in Nagaland or had bought a property before 1963. “Some are saying that the cut-off date should be 1963 or 1977, we have not decided anything but are contemplating on the date too. There is nothing wrong in compiling the list,” said Patton.

State chief minister Neiphiu Rio, during a meeting with representatives of the non-Naga communities on July 20, said RIIN would provide protection to genuine citizens who are permanent settlers of Nagaland and non-Nagas

will not be harassed during preparation of the list of indigenous citizens. Rio stated that unless a system was put in place to check illegal immigrants, the character of Dimapur, the commercial hub of the state, would not remain the same.

After holding consultations with the tribal hohos and civil society groups, some of which had expressed apprehension about the exercise, the state government constituted a three-member commission headed by former chief secretary Banuo Z. Jamir to study, examine and recommend and advise the state government on implementation of RIIN. The commission, which would submit its report within three months, has been asked to chalk out modalities for carrying out its work in the matter it deems fit.

The commission would recommend the eligibility criteria to be an indigenous inhabitant, the documents to be acceptable as proof for being an indigenous inhabitant, the manner in which the exercise is to be carried out

and any other issue relating to implementation of the RIIN. On July 17, 2019, a consultative meeting of civil society organisations (CSOs), tribal hohos, NGOs, senior citizens and legislators with State government representatives held at the State Banquet Hall, Kohima unanimously resolved to support and extend cooperation to the State government in implementation of the proposed RIIN. The meeting had also resolved that the process of enumeration for implementing RIIN would be carried out only after consultations with all stake holders and after the final modalities/guidelines were agreed upon.

After the state government issued notification dated June 29 for creation of RIIN, various sections of civil society and tribal bodies of Nagaland have expressed views, opinions and concerns on a number of matters pertaining to the exercise for RIIN. At two consultative meetings held by the government, several pertinent issues concerning RIIN were also raised.

LS passes Bill to repeal 68 Acts NEW DELHI, JUL 29 (IANS): The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2019, which seeks to repeal 68 Acts and makes minor amendments to four other laws as Shashi Tharoor (Cong) demanded abolition of the Sedition Law and criticised the government for its misuse.

The Bill makes minor amendments to the Income Tax Act, 1961, the India Institutes of Management Act, 2017, the Beedi Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1976, and the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2001. In case of first two laws, the amendment related to substitution of certain words. Moving the Bill for passage, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said strict action would be taken against law-breakers.

Tharoor said over 200 people had been arrested in the past five years under the Sedition Law. Demanding its abolition, Tharoor said the British government had used the law against (Mahatma) Gandhi, (Jawaharlal) Nehru and Bhagat Singh.

“We (the government) are using it against Jawaharlal Nehru University students,” he added.

BSY wins trust vote easily; Karnataka Speaker resigns BENGALURU, JUL 29 (PTI): The three-day old BJP government in Karnataka headed by B S Yediyurappa on Monday proved its majority, sailing through the confidence motion smoothly in the truncated Assembly, ending a month-long political turbulence in the state.

A day after disqualifying 14 more rebel MLAs in a parting shot on the trust vote eve, paving the way for an easy run for the BJP, Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar announced his resignation soon after Yediyurappa won the confidence motion in a process lasting less than an hour after the House met.

With the BJP comfortably placed in the numbers game after the disqualification of 17 rebel MLAs, including three earlier, that reduced the effective strength of the House, the opposition Congress and JDS did not press for division.

After brief speeches by Yediyurappa while moving the one-line motion expressing confidence in the Ministry headed by him, and by JD(S) and Congress leaders, the Speaker took up the trust

B S Yeddyurappa speaks during a confidence motion session to prove his majority in the state Assembly. (PTI)

vote and declared that it has been carried by voice vote amid thumping of desks by the treasury benches.

On Sunday, the Speaker had disqualified 11 Congress MLAs and three JDS lawmakers till the end of the current term of the House in 2023, bringing down the majority mark to 105, equivalent to the current strength of 105 of the BJP, which also enjoyed the support of an Independent.

The Congress has 66 members, JDS 34, the Speaker one (who has a casting vote in case of a tie) and one expelled BSP member who was thrown out of the party for violating

832 sq km of Assam land 4-lane firm to sprinkle July 26 mishap: CYO exasperated encroached by neighbours water to control pollution at negligence of construction firm Assam minister alleges Nagaland occupying largest area of 594.90 sq km GUWHATI, JUL 29 (PTI): In total 832.67 sq km of Assam’s land has been encroached by its neighbouring states with Nagaland occupying the largest area of 594.90 sq km till February, the state Assembly was told on Monday.

Arunachal Pradesh encroached 213.43 sq km, Meghalaya 14.83 sq km, Mizoram 9.26 sq km followed by Tripura 0.25 sq km, said Border Protection and Development Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary replying to a question by Debabrata Saikia of the Congress.

The Assam government has issued strict directions to its inter-state border district

deputy commissioners to recover the encroached areas, Patowary said.

To ensure that the recovered areas are not reoccupied, he said, border outposts were set up on the inter-state boundaries and eviction drives were being conducted immediately when illegal constructions were noticed on Assam land from across the border, the minister said.

A meeting between Assam and Mizoram on the interstate border issue was also held in the Union Home Secretary’s office on March 3, 2018, Patowary said.

Meanwhile, two cases filed in the Supreme Court against Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh were continuing since 1988. Border talks were going on with Meghalaya and Mizoram at various levels, the minister added.

DIMAPUR, JUL 29 (NPN): ECI Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd, a firm involved in ongoing four-lane road work, has agreed to take responsibility and provide adequate water tankers and water sprinkling in and around Medziphema town to control dust pollution.

In an undertaking, the firm assured that a water tanker would be stationed permanently at Medziphema town with a supervisor to monitor for 24 hours.

The firm also stated preparation for blacktopping would commence by October 2019, adding that it would take full responsibilities in case of negligence and failure on any part.

Meanwhile, Medziphema Village Council (MVC) and Medziphema Town Mechü Krotho (MTMK) have amicably accepted an undertaking from the ECI Engineering Construction Ltd. on July 29, 2019.

In a press release, MVC chairman Nikhonyü Kuotsu and MTMK president Akhoto Kuotsu and general secretary Khrielie Iralu stated that they have accepted the formal undertaking in good faith. The two bodies, however, reiterated that failure to adhere with the proposed remedial measures would lead to untoward consequences, for which, ECI would be held solely responsible in future. MVC and MTMK expressed regret for the inconvenience caused to the general public especially commuters.

its directive to support the H D Kumaraswamy government during the trust vote on July 23. Yediyurappa was sworn in as Chief Minister for a fourth time on Friday in a sudden twist to the protracted high voltage political drama in the state with a big challenge to manage numbers staring him in the face.

He succeeded H D Kumaraswamy three days after the Congress-JDS coalition government crumbled under the weight of a rebellion by a big chunk of its lawmakers, 20 of whom were absent for the voting that led to the defeat of its trust vote by 99-105.

Tinu appointed NHL chairman

DIMAPUR, JUL 29 (NPN): Tinu Longkumer, former NPP candidate for the 24Aonglenden A/C bye-poll, who later withdrew his candidature to support the NDPP-PDA consensus candidate has been appointed as Nagaland Hotels Limited chairman. In a notification dated July 29, principal secretary Lithrongla G. Chishi stated that Tinu has been appointed as NHL chairman with immediate effect. Tinu Longkumer, the brother of the former NDPP MLA Imtikumzuk Longkumer, had filed nominations for the bye-poll to the Aonglenden constituency on a National People’s Party ticket after he was denied an NDPP ticket.

However, on March 26, Tinu withdrew his candidature in support of PDA’s consensus candidate.

it to strictly adhere to public safety guidelines.

Urging law enforcing agencies to book the culprits and compensate the victims as per the law of the land, the organisation warned that failure to abide by the terms and conditions and safety guidelines would compel it to take its own democratic course of action.

Further, CYO urged the State government to take initiatives for developmental works across the State, which the public had been yearning for decades.

Meanwhile, the organisation also reminded the contractors to maintain the roads and timely water them as dust posed a major health threat for the people in general. It also announced extending its support to the ongoing development work from Purana Bazar to Chathe river bridge, Chumoukedima.

ENPO coordination This was stated in a press remeeting on Aug 3 lease by CYO president Seyieneilhou Keyho and general secretary DIMAPUR, JUL 29 (NPN): Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Noseho Peter.

Organization (ENPO) has reminded that a joint co-ordination meeting with all Naga tribes would be held at Hotel Millennium, New Ministers mitted at the hospital for opined that the district jail Hill Kohima on August 3, endoscopic examination must have a medical officer at 10 a.m. The following on June 28. to attend to the inmates organizations and tribes According to the MD, and treat minor ailments have been requested to attend Ahmed was hospitalised before admitting them to the meeting-- NTC, CNTC, Ao Senden, Sumi Hoho, for more than seven times the hospital. between June 26 and July He alleged that most Angami Public Organiza22 on various medical UTP patients were brought tion, Lotha Hoho, Chakhegrounds. However, on ex- to the hospital after OPD sang Public Organization, amination, he was found hours in the emergency Rengma Hoho, Pochury to be normal and managed ward, which compelled the Hoho, UNC, Zeliangrong to escape that fateful day hospital authority to admit Baudi, ZPO and TCL Public through a toilet that was the patients for thorough Forum (Arunachal). under construction. He said examination the next day. Fuel prices slashed UTP used to give lame exClaiming that there D I M A P U R , J U L 2 9 cuses each time the doctors was no State that had a hos- (NPN): The retail prices of checked him just to extend pital with UTP cell attached petrol were reduced by 12-16 his stay at the hospital. except Nagaland, Katiry paise across four metro cities Apparently, the ac- proposed that the UTP cell on Monday. Diesel prices, cused was not even hand- should be upgraded as it on the other hand, were cuffed during his stay at was dilapidated and needed slashed by 7-12 paise. After hospital that made his task special attention of the gov- the price cut, in Dimapur, of escaping easy. ernment to stop “human petrol was retailing at Rs. Katiry asserted that misadventure” and avoid 70.93 a litre. Diesel became the hospital authority was natural calamities. He also cheaper by 5 paise to Rs. not responsible for the secu- suggested separate rooms 63.87. In Kohima, a litre rity of UTP patients, except for male and female UTP of petrol and diesel was Rs. providing medical care. patients at the hospital.

71.74 and Rs. 64.48 respec(Cont’d on p-7) tively on Monday.

The NHAK MD

DIMAPUR, JUL 29 (NPN): Conveying its condolences to victims of the tragic incident that occurred at 7th Mile Chumoukedima on July 26 evening and in which one person died on the spot, Chakhroma Youth Organisation (CYO) has expressed its exasperation at the alleged negligence and failure of the highway construction company to take precautionary measures for safety and security of the people.

Having learnt after verifying about the incident on spot and obtaining necessary details from the police that the contractor failed to procure approval or inform the traffic department, police, administration and local bodies about the ongoing road development works, CYO urged the contractor to give prior information to the traffic personnel and administration for public safety and smooth work progress.

It warned the contractor against compromising in any manner on public safety and road development work, besides asking

Under trial rape & murder accused escapes from NHAK Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUL 29 (NPN): An under trial prisoner (UTP) and rape accused escaped from Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK), as the poor infrastructure at the hospital turned out to be the main reason for the escape.

A day after the escape of the UTP, NHAK authority held a meeting on July 23 to take stock of the situation and decided that henceforth all UTP patients would be examined by senior doctors and that all the UTP patients would be subjected to thorough medical examination before they were admitted at the hospital.

The meeting resolved that medical history of all UTP patients would be carefully scrutinised before their admission, besides deciding that security personnel

would henceforth bear the responsibility of securing the UTP patients and not the hospital management.

It may be recalled that the accused, Sabir Ahmed was on trial for rape and murder and had escaped from NHAK on July 22 after being admitted in UTP cell on medical ground.

Ahmed was on trial for allegedly raping and murdering a 51-year-old woman in Kohima in March last year and was arrested by the Nagaland Police from Aizawl and a case registered against him at the women police station here.

Interacting with Nagaland Post, NHAK managing director (MD) Dr Thorhusie Katiry said the UTP was admitted in the emergency room after comAn Under Trail Prison cell/toilet at NHAK from where the plaining of vomiting blood accused escaped. (NP) and was subsequently ad-

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World Hepatitis Day observed

Officials and participants in Dimapur on July 29.

DIMAPUR: Dimapur district observed World Hepatitis Day at CMO’s Office, Dimapur, on July 29, under the theme “Invest in Eliminating Hepatitis”.

A press release from Dy.Chief Medical Officer, Dimapur, Dr. Antoly Suu, stated that the programme aimed to build awareness

on viral Hepatitis and also empower for appropriate change in societal norms that reinforce positive attitude, beliefs, practice and addresses stigma and discrimination associated with viral hepatitis.

Dr. Molu, as resource person, sensitized participants on viral hepatitis, its

prevention, vaccination, risk factor, treatment and medical management. He stated that viral hepatitis B and C were major health challenges and its routes of transmission were similar to HIV virus, however, was preventable.

Timely testing and treatment can save lives,

while Hepatitis A and E were acute hepatitis and can be easily acquired as they were transmitted through feaco-oral route, therefore unhygienic food vendors and contaminated food should be avoided.

Safe drinking water and hygienic and sanitary toilet should also be maintained.

He further stated that there was no cure for Hepatitis B, however, medication were available to stop the progression of virus.

He informed that with the launching of National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme in the State, these medications will be made available to the public through the programme.

Chief Medical Officer, Dr. K Vikato Kinimi, also reiterated that prevention was the best cure. He stated that as health workers, it was their duty to first get self awareness and then spread message to families and communities.

The programme was chaired by Dy. Chief Medical Officer Dimapur, Dr. Antoly Suu.

Traffic in NH 702 D halted due to landslide

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MOKOKCHUNG, JUL 29 (NPN): Traffic along National Highway 702D (25 Kms towards Mokokchung from Mariani), was halted for more than four hours after landslide triggered by incessant rain blocked the highway at around 6:30 am to 7 am.

H owe ve r, d u e t o timely intervention by the concerned department the road was opened for commuters.

Speaking to this correspondent over phone, Executive Engineer of National Highway, Mokokchung, Er.Chubatoshi said that the timely intervention by the concerned department under the supervision of JE, Sapong cleared the debris, within a span of four hours, assisted by heavy machineries and workers.

He said that the road was cleared for light vehicles at around 10 am and was completely opened for traffic at around 11:30 am.

Dr. Shürhozelie rubbishes NDPP charges GSUK joint fresher’s day DIMAPUR: Reacting to news item issued by NDPP that mocked him by terming him a fortune taller, NPF president Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu asserted that he was not a fortune teller and he did not believe in such practices.

In a rejoinder the veteran politician clarified that he was a simple Christian, attended church on Sundays regularly, sat at the backside, listened to sermons and came back home happily, ate well and slept well. He claimed that he neither envied others nor had ill-will against anyone and only spoke what was in his mind.

Liezietsu said that while inaugurating a new building constructed by NPF Dimapur division on July 25 he had stated that NPF was the only viable regional political party representing the people of Nagaland and their identity. Many political parties like NNO, NCN, NPP, DLP, NDM, NDP and UNDP were formed but all of them disappeared, due to lack of political ideology and commitment. NPF was the only party that survived against all odds for more than 50 years because this party was handed down to “us with a purpose by our elders”.

According to him, that day he was speaking in Dimapur to party people when he had mentioned names of other political parties that

came up and disappeared, including NDPP. And if NDPP felt hurt, if it felt that it did not belong to that group of political parties, if it felt that it was growing from strength to strength every day, let matter end there and he had no argument, he proposed.

“I have nothing to say even if they grow out of proportion one day. But why they are repeating the same charges against me all the time as if the writers of the NDPP are always writing under some chemical influence,” he remarked.

Referring to the rejoinder issued by him in response to the allegations levelled against him by Chingwang Konyak on February 4 this year that appeared in local dailies, the NPF president recalled that he had thrown an open challenge to the former for a public debate as he had no interest in paper war.

But while NDPP’s president remained silent on the issue, its media & communication centre was repeating the allegations again and again as if under the influence of something that was so attractive to few people, he added.

Admitting that his government was dismissed “unceremoniously” by BJP government at the Centre with the help of then governor and “some tall leaders” in Nagaland, Liezietsu mentioned that NDPP always seemed amused at that

dismissal as it had played its role well in that drama, which it considered a success.

“But for me, I have no regret because I have never asked for that chair by myself. I was rather offered or forced to take up the responsibility under compelling situation when Nagas lost two precious lives with more than 20 government offices burnt down in the State Capital itself. We need not go further to find out who was responsible for creating such situation. During my short stay as CM, I have played my part fair. I brought the situation under complete control within one month’s time. It was not me but the providence hands that controlled the situation and the co-operation extended by the people. I am not claiming any credit but I am only telling about what had happened during that short tenure,” the rejoinder explained.

The veteran NPF leader advised the ruling party to concentrate its writing more on the achievements of its government, if any. But by forgetting its responsibility to highlight the achievements of its government and instead attacking the opposition by repeating the same allegations again and again, he said the people of Nagaland would judge if such a government could deliver goods to them.

DIMAPUR: Gorkha Students Union Kohima (GSUK), observed joint Gorkha fresher’s day at GPPK hall Chandmari, Kohima on July 27.

A press release from GSUK, stated that keynote address was delivered by president, GSUK, Meghraj Lama, where he urged the students to come forward and take active part in the union activities.

Voluntary speeches

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the programme.

The second team was led by District Project Assistant, Mapujungla Pongen, with PLVs Molusen and Bendangsenla, who visited Imsutemjen Higher Secondary School.

Mapujungla Pongen delivered the key note address, while topic on Consumer Protection Act was taken up by Bendangsenla and legal services and public

Naknyuliim festival: Chang community under the initiative of the Chang Union Kohima will be celebrating Naknyuliim festival on July 31 in their respective colonies as per the decision taken by the union’s executive council. All the Chang community residing in and around Kohima town have been requested to join in the celebration. The union also extended Naknyuliim greetings to all the Chang community living in Kohima in particular and to all the Chang in general.

Commission of water supply project in Chiephobozou: Minister PHED, Jacob Zhimomi will be commissioning Water Supply Project for Chiephobozou RD Block and surrounding villages on July 30 at 11 am at the Balancing Reservoir Site, Zhadima. Principal secretary, PHED, Dr. MaongwatiAier, will chair the programme.

Information on Teachers’ Day: Director, School Education, WonthungoTsopoe has informed all Districts Education Officers (DEOs) and Sub-Divisional Education Officers (SDEOs) to collect Teachers’ Day token flags from August 1 to 10 from the Directorate of School Education, Kohima (Training hall) without fail. All the heads of schools both government and private schools have been informed to collect the Teachers’ Day Token flags from their respective DEO and SDEO. Workshop on aviation hospitality: CAN youth in collaboration with Phoenix Institute of Aviation and Hospitality, Guwahati will be conducting a one day workshop on Aviation/ Hospitality and Personality Development on August 7 at 2 p.m. at Tourist Lodge, Dimapur. Interested individual willing to attend the programme can contact at 8794391328 for registration before August 6.

NSAP payment in Dimapur: District Welfare Officer, Tosheli, has informed that payments for old age, widow, disabled and blind under NSAP and department of Social Welfare, will be made in council halls on the mentioned

dates. Nihokhu village (under CDPO Niuland) on August 1, Nihoto village (under CDPO Kuhuboto) on August 2, Bade village ( under CDPO Dhansiripar) on August 3, Kukidolong (under CDPO Medziphema) on August 5, Diphupar (under CDPO Rural, Chumoukedima to Thilixu Village) on August 6, Purana Bazaar (Aoyimti to Shozukhu village) on August 7 and Duncan (under CDPO Urban), on August 8. All beneficiaries have bee requested to collect their pensions from nearest place of payment .

WTWRU general meeting: Wokha Town Wozhuro Range Union (WTWRU) has convened a general meeting on August 8 at 10 am at LTC Hall, Wokha. WTWRU general secretary Pankathung Ovung has informed all concerned members to attend the meeting without fail.

ADC Tseminyu informs: Tseminyu Town Council (TTC) has declared the town council area as Open Defecation Free (ODF). For any objection, general public can submit their objection to the TTC office within a period of 15 days.

Cluster level social science exhibition: Cluster Level Social Science Exhibition 2019 (Rashtriya Ekta Parv 2019) was held on July 26 and 27, at Kendriya Vidyalaya Dimapur. Kendriya Vidyalaya Nagaland University (KVNU) Lumami took part in the quiz competition on July 27, with team comprised of Tanubhav Bhagawati and Waluniba Longchar, led

by Rudresh Chhapola, Music teacher.

KNNU emerged as winner, and qualified for the regional level. The next competition (Regional level) will be held at Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) tentatively in the last week of August 2019.

Shamator College fresher’s meet: The 4th edition of Shamator College Fresher’s meet programme was held at its college campus with EAC Shamator Wanmei.

C. Phom as guest speaker. In the programme, guest speaker encouraged the students to strive hard reminding them that there was no shortcut success.

ATMA Zunheboto organises STRY

DIMAPUR: Reacting to a Dimapur police crime reports, NSCN/GPRN (K) has clarified that two arrested individuals- Kughaho Chishi and Kheghoto Swu “SS Rayapeyu”, who claimed to be the workers of “NSCN –K (Khango)”, were not the members of the government.

In a statement, MIP said it appreciated the Dimapur police for apprehending the imposters but asked them to authenticate the identity of the apprehended persons before publishing in the media in order to “avoid unnecessary malignation of the NSCN (K)’s image”.

One held for selling drugs DIMAPUR: Kacharigaon Phevima Youth Organization (KPYO) has apprehended Wochamo (James) Ngully (24) son of Yanbemo Ngully of Shaki village under Wokha district for allegedly selling brown sugar under its jurisdiction on July 21.

He was handed over to the police custody. In a press release, KPYO general secretary Kehodi Yoho claimed that the

Awareness programme in progress in Mokokchung. visited Mayangnokcha Government Higher Secondary School, where Patton spoke on functions of legal services, Sentinaro spoke on NALSA, Child Friendly Legal Services to children and their protection scheme 2019, and Wabangtoshi on the topic, “Cyber Crime and Child Abuse”.

An interaction with the principal and teacher in charge was carried on after

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MDLSA delivers lectures on legal awareness

DIMAPUR: Mokokchung District Legal Services Authority (MDLSA), visited two Legal Literacy Schools to give legal awareness to students. The team were divided into two groups.

A press release from District Project Assistant, MDLSA, Mapujungla Pongen, stated that the team led by secretary, WV Patton, along with PL, Sentinaro and PLV, Wabangtoshi,

were delivered by president GPPK, Santu Thapa and general secretary, NGA, P K Thapa.

The title of Mr. and Miss fresher’s, GSUK, were bagged by Sagar Dhoungel of Modern College and Momita Karki of Razhukhrie Higher Secondary School. The programme was chaired by vice president, GSUK, Jenny Lamechane Chhetri, the release added.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2019

utility services by Molusen Imchen. A brief discussion with administrator, principal and teacher in charge was also carried out.

It was learnt that the school needed more legal awareness programme and suggested to conduct a legal awareness seminar. A total of 700 students along with school authority and teachers participated in the seminar, the release stated.

accused was previously caught stealing from a residence.

The organisation has also barred Wochamo for entering the village and warned that stern action will be imposed if found in the village vicinity.

Meanwhile, KPYO has also banned movement of vehicles with modified silencer pipe inside the village jurisdiction as it creates noise pollution.

JSTD opposes bail to July 12 murder accused

DIMAPUR: Jangpetkong Senso Telongjem Dimapur (JSTD) has opposed granting bail to the murder accused, Sanjay Lodh, who was arrested by the Dimapur police for the murder of Naga girl Tasenjungla on July 12, at Chümoukedima.

In a press statement, JSTD general secretary, Bendang Tzüdir stated that the accused Sanjay Lodh has been currently under the custody of the law enforcement agencies/ judicial custody. The union urged the judiciary to take cognizance of the heinous nature of the crime committed and charges against the accused and to not consider any bail application for the accused.

The union further appealed to investigating agency to complete the investigation and file the charge sheet within the mandatory period. Further, the legal fraternity (defense advocates) has been requested not to defend the accused or take up bail application on behalf of the accused.

Participants and resource persons at the programme DIMAPUR: ATMA Zunheboto, organized Skill Training for Rural Youth (STRY) programme, in association with SAMETI, Nagaland and MANAGE Hydrebad, on the topic “Empowering youth through community vermin composting” from

July 22 to 27.

In a press release, ATMA Zunheboto, stated that ACTO Agronomy, Dr Visakho and farm manager KVK Lumami, Naro, were the resource persons for the programme. Senior Scientist and head KVK Lumami, Dr

Rakesh Kumar, stated that taking up of such vermin composting can employ youths as well as encourage Zunheboto district in following footsteps of Sikkim.

A total of 15 participants participated in the six days programme.

Traffic awareness campaign by EDBA

Members of EDBA, volunteers of East Dimapur Sumi Students and others at the awareness campaign.

DIMAPUR: East Dimapur Business Association (EDBA) conducted traffic awareness campaign from July 26 to 29 at East Dimapur justification.

During the campaign, volunteers from East Dimapur Sumi Students Union extended their assistance. The campaign

was conducted under the supervision of EAC Chumukedima and ACP Zone II traffic.

M e a n w h i l e, t h e EDBA has appealed to the general public to follow the traffic regulation especially in NH 29 where construction of highway is in process.

The EDBA has also appreciated the contractors for the “expeditious work” and urged them to complete the work within the time frame.

This was stated in a press release issued by EDBA president, Atoka Zhimomi and general secretary, Joseph Mero.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2019

nagalandpost.com Poll Q . : Is p ro g re s s o f t h e Dimapur-Kohima 4-lane highway satisfactory?

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WEATHER FORECAST July 30

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Agartala Clouds, a shower or t-storm

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Aizawl

Clouds, a t-storm in spots

Guwahati Clouds, a t-storm in the area Imphal

Clouds, a t-storm in spots

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Itanagar A stray t-storm, not as warm 27 23 Shillong

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Kohima

Clouds, a shower or t-storm

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Dimapur A t-storm around in the a.m.

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Mkg

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Tuensang Clouds, a shower or t-storm

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A t-storm around in the a.m.

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Wokha

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Startup boot camps in Mkg, Zbto

DIMAPUR: With an ob- and postal assistant, Tujective to create awareness ensang, Md Moin Uddin. and to promote interest The Club selected Prashant of Philately among the Kumar Sharma of Class students, Loyem Memo- 9 as president, Wenpung rial High School (LMHS) Hana of Class 8 as general Tu e n s a n g o n Ju ly 2 7 secretary. launched Philately Club The release said the at the school. main objective to form the A press release by club was to create awareLMHS stated that the ness and to promote interclub has ten students as est of philately among the members with teacher in- students and to provide an charge, Lanusangli Chang opportunity to the students as the patron of the club. to develop constructive The club was inaugurated hobby and habit which has Assistant Commissioner, Rohit Singh, president, MCCI , Tsukti Participants at the Startup Nagaland Boot Camp at VDB hall Zunheboto on July in the presence of LMHS much to contribute in their Longkumer with the officials and winners. (DIPR) 27. (DIPR) headmaster Debashish Deb education and learning.

DIMAPUR: A startup gramme, motivational talk entrepreneurship if they to the winners for their sion, Joel Phucho preNagaland Boot Camp or- on Startup and Entrepre- have innovative ideas as it innovative ideas. sented the Startup India ganized by the Depart- neurship was shared by Ro- will in turn contribute to The programme was introduction, Nagaland ment of Industries and hit Singh, Assistant Com- the state’s economy. chaired by I. Nochet, Startup Policy and Ide- DIMAPUR: Two-day youth camp organised by youth Commerce, Nagaland was missioner, Mokokchung An idea pitching ses- functional manager DIC ation workshop. S Akheto- department of Nepali Baptist Church (NBC) Chüheld in Mokokchung and and Tsukti Longkumer, sion was also held during while vote of thanks was Sumi, general manager, moukedima under the theme, “Preparing for the future” Zunheboto on July 27. president, Mokokchung the programme for the proposed by T. Lipokwati DIC Zunheboto gave pre- (Jeremiah 29:11) came to an end on July 27 at NBC The initiative was Chamber of Commerce students with Rohit Singh Ao, general manager DIC, sentation on PMEGP and Chümoukedima. taken up as part of the and Industries (MCCI). and Tsukti Longkumer as Mokokchung. Students EDP. A press release by the church stated that the camp implementation of the Earlier in the pro- the judges. along with their teachers During the second held under the leadership of youth director, Manju Nagaland startup Policy gramme, a power point The first prize was from different Schools and session, the participants Malla was organised to inspire, enrich, and motivate the 2019 and also in com- and video presentation on bagged by Noklensangyo colleges from Mokokc- pitched their ideas to the Christian Gorkha youth. pliance with the Startup Startup India initiatives Pongen of Jubilee Me- hung attended the event. judges and the top three Main speaker of the camp, United Baptist Church India Ranking Framework and Nagaland Star tup morial College followed Zunheboto: In Zun- ideas were presented with Dubagoan Pastor Richard Mech, enlightened the camp2019 of the Ministry of Policy 2019 was given by by Imjungnaro, Sharon heboto, the programme certificates along with cash ers on career and spiritual growth.

Industries and Commerce, Er. Keneirienuo K. Theun- and Imtisungla of Jubilee was held at VDB hall, prize.

NBC Chümoukedima pastor, Robert Aley exhorted Gover nment of India, uo, Startup Team Leader. Memorial School in sec- which was attended by The programme con- the campers and deliberated on the meaning and purpose DIPR reported.

B. Asangla, Functional ond place and Lirichum more than 100 participants cluded with vote of thanks of the camp.

In Mokokchung, the Manager, Mangkolemba Sangtam and Ayangshi from different schools and by Khetovi, functional Praise and worship was led by Clouds of Glory programme was held at while speaking on “entre- Jamir of SGHSS Ungma colleges under Zunheboto manager, DIC Zunhe- worship team of NBC Chümoukedima. King David at the Conference Hall of preneurship development” in third place respectively. district along with entre- boto. The programme was Team was declared the champion of the youth camp and Whispering Winds. encouraged the students Certificate of merit and preneurs. chaired by Hetoi, func- Team Nazareth as the first runner’s while Team Agape D u r i n g t h e p r o - to take risk and take up cash prizes were awarded During the first ses- tional manager. won the best disciplined award.

NBC youth camp concludes

LFA advocacy on HIV and AIDS

Awareness drive on environment crisis at Saijang DIMAPUR: An awareness drive on environment crisis was held by ARC, Ahthibung in Saijang village on July 25.

During the programme, painting/ drawing/ poster were conducted.

Lectures were also given by resource persons, where the villagers were made aware about the new farming techniques which were eco-friendly. Emphasis was given on various kind of farming activities where livelihood for the farmers can be boosted.

Demerits on use of polythene in village area was highlighted, students were made to pledge to throw all wrappers in garbage point.

Village self-help Group members were taught on low cost farming i.e organic manure.

On conclusion, GB, Saijang gave away consolation prizes to all students for taking part in the paintings held on the event theme.

Members of LFA and participants at Vankhosung, Wokha on July 27.

DIMAPUR: Legislators’ Forum on AIDS (LFA) organised one day advocacy programme on HIV & AIDS on July 26, at Witter Theological College Vankhosung, Wokha.

Giving a power-point presentation on HIV and AIDS scenario, Dr. Vinito L. Chishi shared the concern on increasing number of HIV infection in the state.

He also shared on the roles and responsibility of

the church on HIV and AIDS. He also encouraged the students, who are preparing to enter into Christian Ministry, to make use of their leadership opportunity by taking positive initiatives in addressing the issues related to HIV and AIDS and aim towards creating an AIDS free generation in the days to come.

Hukatoli from LFA shared on the risk factor

and social concern and responsibility with particular emphasis on its consequences, challenges and importance of responsible living.

Earlier, introduction and opening prayer was said by WTC principal Dr. Moanungsang and closing prayer by academic dean Talinungsang.

All the students and faculty members of the college attended the programme.

EA empowers women street vendors

Women street vendors at the meeting at Tenyiphe council hall on Monday. (NP)

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, JUL 29 (NPN): To empower women street vendors (wave-14), the Entrepreneurs Associates (EA) organised a meeting at Tenyiphe village council, here on Monday. The meeting was attended by 230 women street vendors.

In the meeting, EA advisor Neikule Doulo gave an introduction of uplifting women street vendors’ project.

She said that the EA’s initiative was to support women vendors of the state for better access to their rights and educate them on basic skills on business K Y M C

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heath and finance. It was in this connection, EA project was initiated and was officially launched on October 13, 2017.

Through the project, EA has been giving basic business skills to the women vendors, to help them understand on how the market works, facilitate financial empowerment through savings stock and finance, create awareness on product knowledge, sensitize on health and hygiene related topic, educate them on their basic rights and make them model entrepreneurs to influence their families. She also elaborated on the importance of street

vendor Act Street Vendors Act, 2014, an act of the Parliament of India enacted to regulate street vendors in public areas and protect their rights which is yet to be implemented in Nagaland.

Doulo further lauded the women on their contribution and hard work and asked them to continue to strive in expanding their business in the coming days.

She also cited common problems faced by the women street vendors which basically include lack of proper toilets, transportation, short shelf life of many of their products due to no availability of cold storage facility, etc.

Importance of saving and introduction of Entrepreneurs Associates Thrift & Credit Cooperatives Federation Ltd (EATACOL) was highlighted by EATACOL branch manager Temsurenla Ao, where she spoke on saving culture, how to mobilise savings and how it was done. She also highlighted about the different plans and schemes.

The meeting witnessed distribution of cheques for women vendors who have saved more than Rs. 10,000, experiential sharing and programme on the importance of financial planning. The programme also followed interactive session.

Car pass for NLA session

Seminar for 70 plus at Mungya

DIMAPUR: In view of the fourth session of 23th Nagaland Legislative Assembly to be held from August 6 to 8, car passes and official gallery passes will be issued from August 3 onwards.

In a press release secretary, K Sekhose has informed ministers and HoDs to collect it from special secretary (Home), Civil secretariat, Nagaland, Kohima and advisors, MLA’s, P.A, P.S, and other departments have been directed to collect from reception counter gate number 2, Nagaland Legislative Assembly Secretariat.

HoDs and media have been informed to collect from reception counter gate number 1, Nagaland Legislative Assembly Secretariat.

Members of SYM and elders at AG Church, Mungya on July 27.

Blood donation camp in Mkg

DIMAPUR: Rotary Club, Mokokchung, conducted Blood Donation Camp, in collaboration with Christ Church, Mokokchung, on July 27 at the Club premises.

A press release by secretary, RC Mokokchung, Allen Mark, stated that out of 23 volunteers, 18 units of blood could be collected. The camp was assisted by staffs of Blood Bank, IMDH.

Correspondent Wokha, Jul 29 (NPN): Senjümta Yinga, Mungya (SYM) organized a seminar-cum-worship service for the people who are 70 plus at AG Church, Mungya village on July 27.

Deputy CMO Wokha, Dr. Zuben Kikon advised the elderly on how to take care of their health at their stage in life.

Longsa Baptist Church pastor Rev. L.K. Tsanglao, who shared the word of God to the elderly gathering, emphasized on the importance of leaving a legacy of good deeds for the younger generations.

AG, NDC executive member Rev. T. Ngullie reminisced on the amazing work of the Holy Spirit during the years 1957-1962 at Mungya village.

Earlier, SYM chairman Zumchio Kikon, while elaborating on the objectives of organizing the programme, also expressed hope that God would give long lives to the elderly of the village.

SYM and The Jubilants also presented special numbers at the programme which was attended by many elderly people from the village.

CAN Youth organises ‘Vacation Reached Out’ DIMAPUR: CAN Youth along with the intern from NEISSR, Dimapur, Bosco Institute Jorhat, Lovely Professional University, Punjab and NEF College of Management and Technology, Guwahati organized a “Vacation Reached Out” at Swadhar Greh, Prodigals Home, Touch of Hope (Children Home) Shokhuvi 7th Mile, Dimapur and Ebenezer Orphanage Home, Indisen Village from July 15 to 24.

A press statement by coordinator and project development “4 adolescents” CAN Youth, Sentiwati Kichu stated that the objective of the programme was to mould the children on their interpersonal skills, help them to develop effective communication skills and confident level, and also to help them improve their listening skills, self awareness and self responsibility through life skill based activity.

The reached out programme also included motivational talks session, career skill guidance and outdoor activities and games.

Phek Village Council along with all the frontal organizations and vehicle owners carried out social work on July 22, at village approach road and PWD road within the village area. The social work was organized by Phek Village Youth Organization.

Christian Standard Higher Secondary School, Changtongya Town, conducted twoday vocational training on July 26 and 27. Altogether 43 students participated in the training programme.

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Activists urge govt to frame guideline for hostel Poster campaign seeking justice for Babysana launched

Correspondent

IMPHAL, Jul 29: Manipur child right activists and student leaders Monday questioned government’s indifference towards the demand of framing guidelines for running boarding and hostel in educational institutions.

Taking part in a ‘mass solidarity meet on child rights and demanding justice for Babysana,’ the activists stated, had the government framed the guideline, the incident of death of the minor girl student in her hostel room might have been prevented.

The meet was organised by Manipur Alliance for Child Rights and Child Rights in association with other NGOs working for the cause of child rights in the wake of hue and cry for justice for the deceased girl student.

The 12-year-old N Babysana, a student of Class VII was found death in suspicious manner in the hostel of Standard Roberth Higher Secondary School on July 18 morning.

Alleging that she was murder before being hung

A man pasting poster on an auto rickshaw in Imphal on Monday. (NP) in her dormitory, JAC against Mysterious Death of Ningthoujam Babysana Chanu backed by various student bodies and civil society organisations are demanding justice.

Student bodies are also pressing the state government frame a common guideline for opening boarding or hostel by educational institutions in Manipur.

Speaking at the mass solidarity meet, former member of Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights, K Pradip alleged that the commission

has been approaching the state government on the need for such a guideline since 2014.

The renowned child right activist said that Babysana’s death case was not the first time in which minor students staying in the hostel or boarding died in controversial circumstance. Such case of suspicious death of students has been on the raise since 2014, he observed.

The death of Babysana in suspicious manner would be the guiding light for the movement of child rights,

he said, and drew the attention of the government on the urgent need of framing the guideline.

If the state government happened to take the proposal of Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights seriously and put in place the guideline, the case Babysana might have not happened.

Shital Oinam, general secretary of Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) alleged that the authority concern was very irresponsible and such irresponsibility has led

New Tripura Gov Bais takes charge Agartala, Jul 29 (Agencies): For mer Union Minister and seventime Lok Sabha Member from Chhattisgarh Ramesh Bais, here on Monday, took over as the 18th Governor of Tripura, succeeding Kaptan Singh Solanki.

The 72-year-old Bais was sworn in by Tripura High Court Chief Justice Sanjay Karol at the old Raj Bhavan.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, his cabinet colleagues and leaders of several political parties, besides army and police officers attended the event.

However, the Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist leaders, including former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, kept away from the ceremony.

Speaking to media persons, the new gubernatorial head said he found Tripura a beautiful place and would dedicate himself to work for its development.”I shall sit with members of the state cabinet and find out areas that need development and shall work to the best of my capacity to solve them,” said Bais. Chief Minister Biplab

Sikkim CM seeks disqualification waiver from EC New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI): Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang has requested the Election Commission to waive off his disqualification from contesting polls.

Tamang, whose Sikkim Krantikari Morcha party won in the recently held assembly elections, took over as chief minister on May 27 but he cannot contest elections as he was convicted in a corruption case and stands disqualified. He has to contest assembly polls within six months of becoming the chief minister to hold the office.

In a letter, Tamang has requested the poll panel to use Section 11 of the Representation of the People Act to waive off his disqualification, a sources said.

Under the provisions, the EC can reduce or remove a person’s disqualification. The section states, “The Election Commission may, for reasons to be recorded, remove any disqualification under this Chapter 1(except under section 8A) or reduce the period of any such disqualification.”

Justice Sanjoy Koral administering the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed Tripura Governor Ramesh Bais on Monday. (PTI) Kumar Deb said he found previous two Governors – Tathagata Roy and Kaptan Singh Solanki – very helpful and pro-active for development of Tripura. He hoped that the gubernatorial head would be equally positive for developing Tripura into a model state in terms of development.

He also said that Bais has a long experience in the Parliament and conducting development-oriented activities, which would help develop Tripura.

A member of the BJP, Bais has earlier served as

the minister of Environment and Forests in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He also served as an MP for seven terms from Chattisgarh’s Raipur constituency.

Bais arrived here with his wife on July 27 and was given a formal reception at the new Raj Bhawan, which was completed a few months back at New Capital Complex, right beside the state secretariat. The Old Raj Bhawan is situated at Pushpavanta Palace, which used to be a leisurely palace of Tripura’s Manikya kings.

Death toll in Assam floods rises to 86 Guwahati, Jul 29 (PTI): Four more people died on Monday due to floods in Assam, mounting the toll to 86 this monsoon season.

The overall situation, however, improved with the water level in all 17 affected districts showing a receding trend since Sunday, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.

Of the fresh four deaths, two were reported from Barpeta and one each from Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts. Altogether 1,348 villages in 50 revenue circles of the 17 districts are still deluge-hit, the ASDMA said. The affected districts are Dhemaji, Sonitpur, Darrang, Baksa, Barpeta, Nalbari, Chirang, Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Goalpara, Kamrup, Kamrup (Metro), Morigaon, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat and Cachar.

About 50,470 inmates are still in 522 relief camps while 28 relief distribution centres are operational in various districts of the state, the ASDMA said.

Mnp to set up AYUSH hospital in all districts Correspondent

IMPHAL, Jul 29: Manipur health and family welfare minister L Jayantakumar on Monday said that government is mulling to set up AYUSH hospital in every districts of the state.

The minister said this after inaugurating a 10bedded AYUSH hospital at the premises of chief medical officer (CMO) office in Thoubal district.

Singh asserted that health sector is considered to be one of the most important segments of human beings.

“Everybody wish a happy and longer life. In order to fulfil the wish of the people, state health department not only initiated better health services but also has introduced wellness programmes of the people,” he said.

In this regard, many health and wellness centres have been opened in different districts in the state.

Jayantakumar asserted that Ayush method of treatment is no longer a new concept. “There are a lot of prospects in opting Ayush method as it has become cost effective and easily affordable,” he said.

Both ayurvedic and allopathic forms were equally preferable during these days according to the suitability of the prevailing condition/ case of the person, the minister added.

He maintained that the newly opened 10 bedded AYUSH hospital will benefit the people of Thoubal and also help to ease the problem of scarcity of AYUSH centres in the region.

He said that the government was always ready to accept suggestions from the public with regard to boosting the health sector in the state.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

HOME DEPARTMENT

SECRETARIAT ADMINISTRATION BRANCH ’B’

FINAL CALL NOTICE

Dated Kohima, the th July, 2019.

NO.SAB-5/14/2019: Whereas the principle of ‘No Work No Pay’ has been imposed upon the following Office Peons in the Nagaland Civil Secretariat for un-authorized absence from their Official duty.

1. Shri. Zekuotuo Dzuvichu 2. Shri. Shirepjaba 3. Shri. Tshuzholie 4. Shri. Wonjamo Tungoe 5. Shri. Zubenthung R. Kikon And whereas, they have not reported for duty even after imposition of ‘No Work No Pay’.

Therefore, they are hereby directed to report for duty on or before 31st July, 2019, failing which necessary disciplinary action, under the Nagaland Service (Discipline & Appeal) Rules, 1967 shall be initiated against them.

This should be treated as the Last and Final Call Notice. No further request will be considered after 31-07-2019.

Sd/- ABHIJIT SINHA, IAS Principal Secretary (Home).

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to the death of Babysana.

Educational institutions, particularly private schools in the state were running the hostels by framing rules and regulations of their own and authority concern of the state government has no desire of monitoring the manner in which the hostel or boarding are being run, he said.

The meet presided by acting chair person Khaidem Mani of Manipur Human Rights Commission, resolved to press the government to frame the needed guideline.

On the other, protests demanding justice for Babysana continued. JAC against Mysterious Death of Ningthoujam Babysana Chanu also launched a poster campaign.

On the first day of the campaign, residents of Thongju area in Imphal pasted posters on vehicles plying along the NH-102 at Thongju area of Imphal.

The protests have been continuing despite the assurance given by the state police department to continue its investigation into the case.

JE toll in Assam reaches 120 Guwahati, Jul 29 (Agencies): The death toll due to encephalitis in Assam has reached 120 this year, Minister of State for Health Pijush Hazarika said on Monday. Japanese Encephalitis has caused the death of 120 children till date in Assam,” Hazarika was quoted as saying by ANI in Guwahati.

Treatment for people affected by the disease has been made free at all government hospitals in the state, the minister said.

“The treatment for any person who is detected with Japanese Encephalitis has been made free by the government. Persons who are getting treated at private hospitals will be given Rs one lakh by the Assam government,” Hazarika said.

On the steps taken by the government to provide help to people in the farflung villages, he said, “Our doctors and paramedical staff are touring all villages and testing people who have a fever or any other symptoms related to Japanese Encephalitis.”

As per the data of the Assam health department, 92 people died in 2016, 87 in 2017 and 94 in 2018 due to the disease in the state.

India’s 7th Economic Census begins from Tripura Agartala, Jul 29 (IANS): India’s seventh Economic Census began from Tripura on Monday and a similar task would be launched in other states and Union Territories across the country next month, officials said.

“The three-month long fieldwork of seventh Economic Census launched today (Monday) in Tripura.

The fieldwork in other states and Union Territories would be undertaken in August and September,” Economic Census nodal officer Arup Kumar Chanda told IANS. He said the IT-enabled economic census would be done by the Common Service Centres (CSC) in each gram panchayat. The official said that the enumerators and supervisors engaged by the CSCs have been trained to collect data on mobile application developed for data capture, validation, report generation and dissemination.

At least 6,000 enumerators and supervisors from unemployed youths are being engaged to conduct the Economic Census in Tripura. An official release said that the data would be collected through door to door survey of each

SKM government to fulfil peoples’ expectations, says Sikkim Governor Gan g t o k , J u l 2 9 (PTI): Sikkim Governor Ganga Prasad on Monday said the coming to power of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha(SKM) government led by Prem Singh Tamang marks the beginning of a new era in the state and it will strive to fulfil expectations and aspirations of its people.

“I congratulate the SKM led by P S Tamang on winning the elections in Sikkim and forming the new government ... This is the beginning of a new era in Sikkim,” he said addressing the five-day budget session, which began on Monday.

“I am sure the new government will fulfil the expectations and aspirations of the people of the state,” Prasad said. In the Sikkim Assembly elections, held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls in the state, the SKM had trounced the government of Pawan Kumar Chamling who had ruled the state for five successive terms since 1993.

Prasad said the Sikkim Regd. No. 158/19

Ganga Prasad (File) government’s thrust will be to review the total committed liabilities of the state as well as addressing the immediate requirements of the State and the people.

H e o b s e r ve d t h a t Sikkim has evolved into a progressive state with marked improvements in socio-economic indicators despite disadvantages of inadequate connectivity, high cost of infrastructure building, maintenance and difficulties in delivering services to dispersed populations in hilly areas.

The state government will preside over prudent public finance management for achieving overall socioeconomic development in

DECLARATION

Date : 29/07/19

I, K. Hokani Paul, daughter of G. Khehovi Sema, and married to David Paul Devaraj, resident of Seiruzha Colony, ward no-8, H/No-102, Chumukedima Town, Dimapur, Nagaland- 797112, hereby change my name from K. Hokani Paul to Hokani Paul.

Deponent Notary Public Dimapur : Nagaland

DP-5807

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER HEADQUARTER : CHUMUKEDIMA CAMP : DIMAPUR, NAGALAND ORDER

Date Dimapur the 26th July 2019 No.Jud-27/Intended/2019-D/ / Shri. Santosh Gautam, S/o Shri. Rudra Nath Gautam and Smti. Imtiyala, D/o A. Imchak Walling R/o House No 206, Island Colony, Dimapur, who has filed intended Marriage on 18th July 2019, vide Intended Marriage Regd No. 10/2019 Dated 18th July 2017 and published in Nagaland Post, Dated 20th July, Page No 4, is hereby cancelled as per their application Dated 22nd July 2019.

(V. LOVITOLY SEMA) Additional Deputy Commissioner Cum Marriage Officer, Dimapur : Nagaland DP-5804

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER MON : NAGALAND

NO.GA/JUD-08/2018-19/29

Dated Mon, the 22nd April 2019

NOTICE

Whereas, an application has been submitted by Shri/Smti N. Khatwang Konyak with a prayer for issue of Succession Certificate for drawal of entitled pension dues and any other outstanding dues from the Government of Nagaland on behalf of his/her Daughter deceased Late Nginnon Konyak Ex Holder of SBI Mon Branch A/C. NO. 32604814463 under the establishment of SBI Mon Branch who expired on 13/11/2018.

Objections are hereby invited from persons in regards to claim for withdrawal of the dues by the applicant within 30 (thirty) days with effect from the date of issue of this notice. No petition will be entertained after the expiry of the given period.

Deputy Commissioner Mon : Nagaland MC-29

the state, he said.

The SKM government, he said, has also prepared a white paper comprising a department-wise detail about pending bills, fund requirements, liabilities, bank loans and revenue potential to streamline the finances and would be placed in the Assembly during the budget session for discussion.

The governor said that Sikkim has fulfilled most of United Nations Sustainable Development goals by tailoring its development policies and programmes to attain targets like poverty reduction, zero hunger, health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, clean energy, innovation, sustainable cities, peace and justice.

He said efforts should be made to put Sikkim, which is endowed with natural beauty and rich biodiversity on the global tourist map to generate revenue and create employment opportunities for locals.

household and commercial establishment under the provisions of Collection of Statistics Act 2008.

Household and establishment-level data collected would be kept strictly confidential and used only for developmental planning and statistical purposes by the state, Union Territory and central governments.

The data collected by enumerators would be verified by supervisors in subsequent visit to the concerned household and establishments. After completion of data collection and processing, the statistical results of the economic census would be released, it said.

The seventh economic census is being conducted by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. In the current Economic Census, the ministry has partnered with CSC eGovernance Services India Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics and Information in the seventh economic census.

The census would also cover all establishments including household enterprises, engaged in production or distribution of goods and services.

‘832 sq km of Assam land encroached’ Guwahati, Jul 29 (PTI): In total 832.67 sq km of Assam’s land has been encroached by its neighbouring states with Nagaland occupying the highest area of 594.90 sq km till February, the state Assembly was told on Monday.

Ar unachal Pradesh encroached 213.43 sq km, Meghalaya 14.83 sq km, Mizoram 9.26 sq km followed by Tripura 0.25 sq km, said Border Protection and Development Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary.

The Assam government has issued strict directions to its inter-state border district deputy commissioners to recover the encroached areas, Patowary said. To ensure that the recovered areas are not re-occupied, he said, border out posts were set up on the inter-state boundaries and eviction drives were being conducted immediately when illegal constructions were noticed on Assam land from across the border, the minister said.

AFFIDAVIT

I, T NIANGKHANCHING hereby declare that, in my service records my name is wrongly recorded as T NIANG KHAN CHING instead of T NIANGKHANCHING. Hence my correct name T NIANGKHANCHING be used/recorded in my service records and all correspondence as per verification endorsed in an affidavit before the Oath Commissioner (Judicial), Senapati on 04 Nov 2017.

K-2048 Regd. No. 371/19

DECLARATION AFFIDAVIT

Dated : 26/07/2019

I, M. Mannya K Wanghu, D/o Konnyei Konyak native of Chingphoi Village, District Mon, Presently residing at Chingai Ward Mon Town : Nagaland; do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows : 1. That I am a law bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my name has been written as :3. In my Bank Passbook my name has been written as: Mannya Konyak.

4. That in correspondence, official documents my name is correctly written as: Mannya K Wanghu.

5. That the above mentioned name appeared in the document such as Bank Passbook is the same concern person.

That the above statements are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing has been concealed.

DEPONENT I, therefore, hereby solemnly affirm and declare by the deponent in my presence on this day.

Magistrate Mon : Nagaland MC-30

DECLARATION That Mr Kilennungsang & Mrs Imnanaro (husband & wife) Kohima has been engaged in availing loans from various individuals and groups in the name of their family members without the knowledge and consent of the family members and consequently it is hereby made known to all those individuals and groups who have extended such loans that the family members of both sides will not be held responsible for any of the transactions/loans. It is further made known that it is the sole responsibility of (Mr & Mrs Kilennungsang) and none of the family members would be subject to any form of harassment from any individuals/groups for the past transactions and also for any future transactions.

Family members of both side.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2019

Unnao accident: BJP MLA named in FIR

Police and people stand near the wreckage of the car in which the Unnao rape survivor was travelling near Raebareli. (PTI)

spiracy) against 10 named persons, including the BJP MLA, and 15-20 others,” a police officer said.

It was registered at the Gurubuxganj police station in Raebareli, police said.

The case was registered on a complaint from the rape survivor’s uncle Mahesh Singh, who is lodged in the Raebareli jail, police said. He alleged that the MLA got the car hit on Sunday. “I am sure that the car was hit for killing all of them by the BJP MLA and his men,” Singh said in his complaint.

The mother of the victim, speaking to reporters in Unnao had alleged: “It was not an accident but a conspiracy to eliminate all of us.” The Uttar Pradesh government is ready for a CBI probe into the accident involving the Unnao rape victim, if a request is made, Director General of Police O P Singh said.

“The truck was overspeeding and it was raining

also. Prima facie, appears to be an accident, but a detailed unbiased probe is on in the matter,” Singh told reporters in Lucknow.

“The state government is ready for recommending a CBI probe into the Sunday’s mishap in Rae Bareli if the victim’s mother or any relative makes any request in this regard,” Singh said.

Tagging a media report on the accident, Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi tweeted:” “Beti BachaoBeti Padhao. A new special education bulletin for Indian women. Don’t ask questions if a BJP MLA is accused of having raped you.” While, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra described the incident as shocking, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav sought a CBI probe.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Commission For Women chief Swati Maliwal met the Unnao rape survivor at a Lucknow hospital and said she should be airlifted to Delhi for better treatment

as she is “critical”.

In a tweet, BSP supremo Mayawati said: “Her (the rape victim’s) maternal and paternal aunts were killed and she herself and her advocate are seriously injured. The Supreme Court need to take cognizance of the matter and ensure strict action.”

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to form a high-level inquiry committee to probe the survivor’s accident, while her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal described it as a “preplanned conspiracy” and that the incident is a “mockery of the law”.

Unnao Superintendent of Police MP Verma said that one gunner and two women constables have been assigned round-theclock duty for the safety of the survivor and her family, but they were not present at the time of the accident.

“An inquiry has been ordered to look into the reasons as to why the security personnel were not present with her and action will be taken after getting a report,” Verma said.

A police team that rushed to the spot in Rae Bareli after the accident found that the truck’s registration plate scrubbed and painted black, but they could retrieve the registration number UP 71 AT 8300, a police official said.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 29 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the All India Tiger Estimation Report 2018 and said the country has emerged as one of the biggest and safest habitats for tigers in the world.

The tiger population in the country has grown from 1,411 in 2006 to 2,967 in 2019, according to the report.

“With around 3,000 tigers, India has emerged as of one of the biggest and safest habitats for them in world,” Modi said as he lauded all the stakeholders involved in the country’s tiger conservation exercise.

“Nine long years ago, it was decided in St. Petersburg (Russia) that the target of doubling the tiger population would be 2022.

We in India completed this target four years in advance. This is the finest example of Sankalp Se siddhi (Attainment through Resolve),” he said.

He invoked two Bollywood movie titles to emphasise the need to expand and strengthen tiger conservation efforts.

The story of protecting tigers that started with “Ek Tha Tiger” (there was once a tiger) and reached “Tiger Zinda Hai” (the tiger is alive) should not end there, he said, efforts towards conservation should

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF LT. CHOSANYI ROSE

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November 1970 – 25th July 2019 Psalms 9:9 “The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble”.

We the bereaved family members of Lt. Vizotuono Mary Tsochü would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all who stood by us with prayers, physically, financially and spiritually during her prolonged illness till her last journey on the 25-07-2019.

We convey our heartfelt gratitude to: • Fr. Charles, Parish Priest, Jakhama • Deaconess Apele Savino & family • Er. Vikho-o Yhoshi, Speaker NLA • Doctors & Nurses, Bethel Hospital Kohima • Women Association Cathedral, Kohima • Küsoma Khel Women Society, Mima • Staff, Home Dept. Secret. Admin. Branch ‘A’ • Mima-Kewhira Thenuko Krotho • Mr. Neilese Peki • Staff, Coraggio School • Staff, GMS Mima • Friends, relatives & well-wishers We deeply regret our inability to mention and thank each and every individual personally but we pray that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly for your good works and noble gesture.

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Died:30-07-2018 One year ago, today you left us to be with the Lord.

We honour and cherish your beautiful life.

You have been a good husband, an amazing father and a wonderful grandfather.

Your life remains a splendid memory and forever alive in our hearts.

Until we meet again, may you find peace in heaven.

Loving wife, children, in-laws & grandchildren.

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‘And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth’ (Eccls. 7:1) Azu, you’ve gone a lot of Pain and hardship struggle each day to survive. Everyday we wake up praying and hoping for a miracle healing to happen. But God took you away without any warning giving you eternal rest.

No words could ever express our sincere appreciation to each and every Individuals, Churches, Associations, Unions, Families, Friends and well wishers for your Born: 1944 – Died: 2019 immeasurable sympathy, deeds of kindness, love and prayer support during the prolonged illness of our beloved mother Lt. Muhüsülü Khamo on 15th of July 2019 at BBCI, Guwahati. Your good gestures of love and affections in this darkest hour of our lives will be ever treasured.

Conveying our sincere gratitude to, 1. Doctors & Nurses of NHAK, Society, Guwahati Nagaland 9. Naga Christian Fellowship, 2. Doctors & Nurses of GMC & Guwahati Hospital, Guwahati 10. Lozaphuhü Welfare Union, 3. Doctors & Nurses of BBCI, Kohima Guwahati 11. Dimapur, Lozaphuhü Krotho 4. Lozaphuhü Baptist Church 12. NSO (RO) Kohima 5. Lozaphuhü Prayer House 13. Lanezho Baptist Church Baptist Church 14. Lanezho Check Gate 6. Lozaphuhü Village Council 15. Lozaphuhu Students’ Union 7. Chakhesang Christian 16. Uso Cezu Rhino Youth Club Fellowship, Guwahati 17. Uso Cezu Thünoko Krotho 8. Chakhesang Women Welfare We deeply regret and apologise for our inability to thank and mention each and everyone, but it’s our humble prayer that God the Almighty bless you all abundantly.

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We the bereaved family would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone for supporting us and extending your immense kindness during the illness and demise of our Father Lt. VINIHO ZHIMO. We would like to convey our special thanks to :1. Sumi Baptist Church Diphupar 'B' 2. Ao Baptist Church Diphupar 'B' 3. Konyak Baptist Church Diphupar 'B' 4. Sumi Baptist Church Eralibill Dimapur 5. Sumi Baptist Church Kohima SBCK 6. Sumi Fellowship Paramedical Born : 22/4/1942 Died : 22/7/2019 Kohima 7. Phushito Baptist Church 8. Lizu New Baptist Church 9. New Colony Prayer Fellowship Zbto.

10. Youth New Colony Zbto.

11. Lizumi Kuqhakulo Dimapur 12. Sumi Community Diphupar 'B' 13. Government High School Thilixu 14. Zunheboto Tokujo Kuqhakulu, Dimapur 15. V.K. Area Union, Kohima 16. Sumi Hoho 17. Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK) 18. Zunheboto Area Public Organisation (ZAPO) 19. Kukami Hoho Zunheboto Tokujo 20. Kukami Lizumi Tokujo 21. Shri. T.K. Sukhalu, Advisor, School Education 22. Shri. Kakheho Sukhalu, Ex-MLA 23. Dr. K. C. Nihoshe Yeptho, Ex. Parliamentary Secy.

24. Shri. Torechu MLA 25. Shri. Kuhovi H. Chishi, Commandant 2nd NAP 26. Dr. Vihuto T. Asumi, Principal, Immanuel Hr. Sec. School Zbto.

27. Shri. Inato Khuju, Deacon Chairman (SBCZ) We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone of you but it is our sincere prayer that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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be expanded and sped up.

The PM said that the development versus environment conservation debate will continue with both sides suggesting as if these are mutually exclusive, but it was possible to

strike a healthy balance between the two.

He said that while in the last five years, the focus was on to build next generation infrastructure in the country, there has also been an increase in the forest cover and number of protected areas.

“In 2014, the number of protected areas were 692, the number rose to more than 860 in 2019.

Similarly, the number of community reserves were 43 in 2014 and rose to more than 100 in 2019,” he said.

He said India will build more homes for its citizens and also create quality habitats for animals at the same time.

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JAIPUR, JUL 29 (PTI): A woman, who attempted self-immolation at a police station premises demanding arrest of her husband’s relative for allegedly raping her, succumbed to her injuries at a hospital here on Monday, an officer said.

The woman, aged around 36, had lodged an FIR with the Vaishali nagar police station on June 5, alleging that Ravindra Singh had raped her in 2015.

She reached the police station on Sunday with her son, poured some inflammable liquid and set herself on fire near its main gate.

JAMMU, JUL 29 (PTI): A 10-day-old baby, injured in heavy shelling by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC), died at a hospital on Monday in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

The infant, his mother Fatima Jan (35) and another civilian Mohammad Arif (40) were injured when mortar shells fired by Pakistan hit their village in Shahpur sector late Sunday. The injured were rushed to district hospital Poonch, where the minor succumbed to injuries in the early hours of Monday, a police official said.

He said the other two injured were referred to Government Medical College Hospital Jammu for specialised treatment, though their condition was stated to be “stable”. Pakistani troops lobbed mortars and used small arms to target forward posts and villages in Shahpur, Saujiyan and Mendhar sectors between 5 pm and 10 pm on Sunday.

Several houses were also damaged in the firing, the official said.

However, there was no fresh report of ceasefire violation by Pakistan from anywhere in the district so far.

The Indian Army retaliated to silence the Pakistani guns but the casualties on Pakistani side was not known immediately, an Army officer said.

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UNNAO/ LUCKNOW, JUL 29 (PTI): Swinging into action amid strident demands from Opposition for an inquiry into the road accident in which the Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer received grievous injuries, the Uttar Pradesh police on Monday named the accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar among ten people in the FIR in the case, charging them with murder.

A car in which the 19year old woman, her family and lawyer were travelling was hit by an overspeeding truck in Rae Bareli on Sunday, killing two members and leaving her and the advocate critically injured.

Sengar, a four-time MLA who represents Bangermau in the Uttar Pradesh assembly, is an accused in the rape case and was arrested on April 13 last year. The incident found its echo in Parliament with SP member Ram Gopal Yadav Monday alleging an attempt was made to “kill” the rape victim, leading to brief adjournment of Rajya Sabha.

Yadav said the security personnel provided to her was not with the victim at the time of the accident and registration plate of the truck involved was covered with grease.

“FIR has been registered under the Indian Penal Code’s sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 506 (criminal intimidation), 120b (criminal con-

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here are so many unsung heroes of society, working tirelessly and sometimes under hazardous conditions while society takes their contributions for granted . In the same way those electrical linesmen who serve every section of society day in and day out, putting their lives at risk to ensure that society can be benefitted, have unfortunately been compelled to make their voice heard. The All Nagaland Field Electricity Workers Association (ANEFWA)have served an ultimatum on the power department to address their grievances failing which they would resort to a state wide protest. The association demanded that several vacant posts in the Department of Power (DoP) be filled up and that field workers be given risk allowance. These two issues raised by ANEFWA – filling up of vacant posts and paying risk allowance to field workers- is genuine and need to be addressed urgently. All know that without field workers and back up technical staff, the DoP will not be able to run. It is unfortunate that the matter has to take such a turn where the staff have been left with no option but to threaten the government with through a protest. According to ANEFWA the commission set up by the DoP had recommended that the number of casual and work-charged employees be limited within 2052, whereas the finance department had asked the DoP to reduce work-charged and casual labour to 2035.

The finance department had also asked the DoP not to appoint any new staff. ANFEWA said that owing to this, the number of work-charged and casual labour within the department has been reducing and that no substitutes were appointed. This situation bodes ill for the department in general and the power consumers in particular. Again, the demand of ANFEWA that risk allowance should be considered for field workers is not only genuine but justified. When central employees are paid special allowance for serving in difficult areas and even armed forces are paid more for serving in conflict areas, it stands to reason that field workers who risk their lives daily ought also to be paid risk allowance. Everybody uses electricity almost 24 hours a day and so any disruption in supply causes great inconvenience. Sometimes power cuts can be due to technical problems even during late nights. The electricity field workers are expected to attend to faults anytime like doctors on emergency duty. There have been several electrocutions of field workers while attending to faults during the past few years. The deceased leave behind wife and children who have nothing to fall upon and no one to look to for help. It is like giving a pittance to a soldier who dies in the line of duty and leaving the entire dependents to fend for themselves. The DoP must consider the plight of the field workers on whom much is owed by the entire society. It may be recalled that the Association of Power Engineers Nagaland (APEN) has been reminding the government about the crisis plaguing the DoP. The association pointed out the need for funds to purchase spare parts to maintain the system and higher capacity transformers for proper distribution to replace outdated equipments. With geometric rise in number of consumers, the DoP also needs more technical staff but the ban on new appointments has caused big problems. It is incumbent upon the DoP to seriously consider these demands and ensure that DoP which is the biggest service provider, is able to effectively deliver.

DailyDevotion Do You See Jesus in Your Clouds?

Behold, He is coming with clouds… —Revelation 1:7 In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. “The clouds are the dust of His feet” (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clearshining brightness.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child— a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows. Until other people become shadows to us, clouds and darkness will be ours every once in a while. Is our relationship with God becoming more simple than it has ever been?

There is a connection between the strange providential circumstances allowed by God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in the light of our knowledge of God. Until we can come face to face with the deepest, darkest fact of life without damaging our view of God’s character, we do not yet know Him. “…they were fearful as they entered the cloud” (Luke 9:34). Is there anyone except Jesus in your cloud?

If so, it will only get darker until you get to the place where there is “no one anymore, but only Jesus …”

(Mark 9:8; also see verses 2–7).

Quotes

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. ~ Billy Graham

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few days ago I was on my early morning walk when a crow sitting on my gate started cawing to me. He was very agitated and I stood there trying to understand what he wanted. After two minutes I turned my back and started walking off. Immediately he flew at my head and pulled my hair. I turned around mystified and, because I didn’t know what else to do, I brought him a biscuit and water. He took a piece, honed it against the gate till it became a swallowable size, gave me one last disgusted look and flew off.

Crows and ants are my “thing”. So smart, so elegant, so sophisticated, so family minded, so disciplined, everything that humans should be and are not. Every few months I write about them, and each time it is about a new facet of their intelligence which so outshines mine.

What is intelligence?

Flying to a country several oceans away and landing in the same tree. Is that not uncommon intelligence?

But we only measure intelligence by comparing it to things we do, like mimicking human speech, or adding two and two.

According to a study, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and

Sociobiology, crows have a sharp memory for human faces and can even remember which person is dangerous. Even if they meet the same person in a new place, they will recognize them. In an experiment, researchers in masks held the bodies of dead crows while laying out food for live ones. The crows rejected the food, alerted all the other crows and attacked the researchers. When the researchers returned weeks later wearing the same masks and without the dead crows, the birds continued to harass them.

No food was picked up in the area for days after. When a crow encounters a mean human, it will teach other crows how to identify the human. Crows recognize cars, gaits and even timings, and they hold grudges.

Researchers captured 12 crows while wearing one face mask, and then housed them and fed them wearing another. After four weeks in captivity, the authors imaged the crow’s brains and they found that, like humans, the birds have the ability to recognize people tied to their experiences.

When shown the face of their captors, the threatening face “activated circuitry known in humans and other vertebrates to be related to emotion, motivation, and

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Crows and ants are my ‘thing’ conditioned fear learning”.

In contrast, when they saw the caretaker face, it activated areas of the brain tied to associative learning, motivation, and hunger. In other words, much like humans, the crows recognize faces, and link them to emotions and memory.

How smart are they?

In 2018 a study done by Von Bayern, Danel, Auersperg, Mioduszewska and Kacelnik, Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows, published by Nature Scientific Reports, used eight wild New Caledonian crows. In phase I, the birds were provided a long stick and a baited test box where food was within reach when using the stick, but not without it. In phase II instead of a single long stick, they were given a hollow cylinder and a second, thinner cylinder that needed to be combined in order to generate a tool long enough to reach the food. In phase III, the birds were given

new combinable items. In the final phase, birds were presented a bait box that required the combination of more than two elements.

The birds passed the initial tool test, then combined the two elements to get the food and then used this knowledge to combine the new objects. In the final phase, one bird succeeded in making a tool that required more than two elements.

These findings showed that New Caledonian crows are smarter than chimpanzees and gorillas in making compound tools. New research shows that New Caledonian crows carve thin strips of wood into skewers, and bend wires into hooks, and keep their favorite stick tools cached in “toolboxes” for further use!

In another study of Caledonian crows, the researchers set up a “vending machine” that could be operated by putting a piece of paper of a certain size into a slot, which would then

release a treat. The crows quickly learned how to put the paper into the vending machine to get food. Then the crows were given paper of the wrong size for the vending machine. They had no reference of how big to make the paper, except from their memory. The crows made the paper into the right size and shape without any problem.

Aesop’s famous fable “The Crow and the Pitcher” tells of a thirsty crow who drops pebbles into a pitcher with water near the bottom, raising the water level high enough to let the bird drink. Scientists, trying to corroborate this story, found that crows given a similar problem dropped stones into a tube containing water, but not into a tube containing sand. They dropped dense objects into the water until the water came within reach.

They did not select objects that would float in the water, nor did they select ones that were too large for the container. Human children gain this understanding, of volume displacement, around the ages of five to seven. Crows do indeed understand basic cause-effect relations.

A recent research collaboration, between Moscow State University and the University of Iowa, has

discovered that crows are able to solve problems that require abstract thinking.

For example, sameness and differentness are key abstract ideas, because two or more items of any kind—coins, cups, caps, or cars—can be the same as or different from one another. Analogical reasoning is considered to be the pinnacle of cognition and it only develops in humans between the ages of three and four. The team trained crows to match items that were the same as each other (same colour, same shape, or same number).

Next, the birds were tested to see if they could match objects that had the same relationship to each other.

For example, a circle and a square would be analogous to red and green rather than to two oranges. The crows grasped the concept the first time, without any training in the concepts of “same and different.”

Crows have relatively large brains for their body size, compared to other animals. Their brains have a higher neuronal density – the number of neurons per gram of brain than primates. So, they pack more processing power into their small brains.

I am still puzzled.

What could that crow have been saying to me?

Post-mortem Revisiting the backdrop of agriculture English as a language but not as a subject: Learn

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griculture is the pivotal ingredient in the archetype of our economy and the powerhouse that fuels all walks of subsistence essential to progress and survival.

The agricultural yields are then transformed into monetary asset that holds value to make purchase of commercial goods that are satisfying to our needs.

The net income of our state is mostly dependent on this equity of the total economic-agents, having about 60% of the population engaged, a steep decline of 10% compared to 1991 census — at least on paper. In spite of this agriculture predominantly caters to the generation of net revenue in the state GDP. Has Nagaland been performing poorly to subject its prime directives towards the achieving end?

As terrible as it sounds, Nagaland has an enduring rigor-mortis state of fiscal asset, but of course, we coincidentally obtained a special condition of faulty orchestration in our political time-events — plunging into the vacuum of corruption-loop, fragmented cesspool of politically targeted demotivation, lack of enthusiastic corporation/ team investors, no or little practical help from the state government for promotion, providing and improving the rating of subsidized entrepreneurial gig and shareholdings sanctioned from the good sense prevailing out of necessity in a developing India.

Agronomic infusion into the ecological hive produces ample raw materials to quickly increase and propel industrialization. By this way, it’s no wondering-point why our economy - bombarded by an army of unemployed citizens, is back-pacing since sophisticated programmes involving both m e t h o d s we r e d e n i e d initialization - for what else reasons. It is here the smudge on the economic portfolio creates further deviation of variants which are hindrances to balanced growth. With the little of what’s veneered in our melancholic rot of town imagery, with the horridly lack of intense networking of commerce/transportation, there is no hotspot for valuable raw materials to enter the production engines, hence enclosing the arcs of another great

elementary factor of economic predicament to its total.

One of the key variables the architects in our planning commission seems to leave behind or miss out on -is procuring the skeletal framework (blueprint) to assimilate gleaning data and attributing it with periodical contingency, after on, executing the prime objective one-at-a-time - little—by— little. The lock for the key being the questions that is answered first with progress duly of imperative significance. It may not be the billion dollar question but this initial, without evading the questionson-point, eradicates the natural instincts of self prioritizing emotions that encapsulates the human condition, into giving in towards the logic of efficiency constant (*e-c*) that are quantifiable in contextual frames of patterns via the egregore (brains department) reviewing of validation.

The increasing demand of growth for “urban infrastructure” has decapitated the tentacles— of—potential that foundates the hyperdrive pod where efficacious planning transpire into elaborative sustainability and wide margins of reliability during economic reforms. “Urban capitalization” the other way around broadly interacts with crosscheck mechanism that have been processed through consistent screening to increase innovation, identifying and manoeuvring growth dynamics, and consensus coherence — given the target is for a progressive event.

“Urban infrastructure” and its impression could be felt and observed in the arcades of downtown and suburban Dimapur County.

There seems to pop out commercial a complex structure more often than not, but in its place other turns non operational, or simply the spending capacity of the regular people is dispensed amongst the myriad merchants without any tangibly influential growth on the spender’s income. That is, urban capitalization is inclusive of human resource and treats it as a synergist inducing conditioning of his environment with benevolence, accountability and sweeping efficacy.

The two are proximally quasi-affiliated- as such

-the former could be usually confused with urban capitalization, or derive misconception altogether - generating failed and unrealistic hypotheticals.

Our ancestors have been greeted with the loins of industrial revolution albeit late, but oddly enough our agronomy has yet by far made sufficient contact with revolutionary instruments. It is not a meagre matter of experience through which modern (industrial) methods have proved to be substantial than primary modes of tilling and “yielding of crops”.

Our ancestors struggled to reflect the immediate environment and converge abstract potential from beyond the constraints of our piedmont terrains. On a more methodical lens based on eclectic data the subliminal contagion of reflective barrier causes a stiff syndrome in effect to poor customization of our ecological yields (socionics classification sheds some light on the fundamental cognitive functional set in extroversion and introversion psychological conditioned traits and their way of interacting with the environment on individual and group level - deriving from the theory of “conscious and unconscious” and “information metabolism” - a step further from mbti).

For the brighter prospect, the visualization of high yielding of contingency and the estimation of ubiquitous data are conditional to generate effects that are easily constructed into reality, with rich body of instrumental elements.

With due headlights of consideration it is apparent if we prompt focus on terraforming and genetically enhancing our agricultural arena, if that is what sparks our common need for efficacious growth and rigor management will be drenched with festering technological inputs.

The stalling of rigorous agro activities because of the ensuing political infer no has absolutely caused increasing loss of opportunity, time, hope and money to the Nagas - as a citizen of India, Nagaland and on a personal level. This has indeed lead us into discovering some imminent objectives that are cardinally poignant if left unchecked and further procrastinated.

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racing back to the history of using English in Nagaland, it has been almost 150 years but many Naga research scholars have commented in their findings that the learners’ proficiency level of the English language is still much to be desired. Of course there are some exceptional cases taking into consideration the family background but the rest should take a large amount of time and effort to improve. In Nagaland, English is taught as a subject and not as a language and it becomes evident from the memorization of it for the sake of securing good grades.

Students’ exposure to the language is very limited as they speak their mother tongue or Nagamese at home as well as often inside the classroom. Students get very less reinforcement outside the college/ school and were found taking private English tuitions. This inadequacy is unexpected at the undergraduate level since a majority of the students start learning English from a very young age. English is the official language of Nagaland but the irony is, it is treated more like a subject of discourse.

A majority of us think that “ENGLISH” is a study of only literature since literature has only been the area that has been focused on. Whereas, linguistics and ELE (English Language Education) have never been focused or even given importance. Linguistics, which is a scientific study of language focuses on; Phonetics, phonology, semantics, morphology, generative grammar, syntax, socio-linguistics, computational linguistics and many more. English Language Education or TESL (Teaching of English as a Second Language) seeks to develop learners’ proficiency level in English for study, work and leisure/real life communication by providing enough activities and opportunities enabling them to use the language fluently and accurately. One of the main aims of studying literature is to learn the English language as well as to know the English culture and tradition. But the question is, is the language really learnt? Is the content of the syllabus really in line with the objective of a course/subject?

Now, the query lies in how the curriculum has been carried out over the years. When we talk about curriculum, a syllabus is one of the main weapons to acquire the targeted objectives of a course. However, in order to carry out the content of a course/subject, teachers should play a vital role because they translate the content to the learners by

using appropriate materials to fulfill the objectives. So, are teachers really equipped with the required skills? Are they from the right background? An example to make the scenario clearer, to teach linguistics, are the teachers from the linguistic background? The same may follow with language skills/Functional English/communicative English/English for Specific Purposes where teachers from the English Language Education (ELE)/ English Language Teaching/Teaching English as Second Language/English as Second Language backgrounds are felt to be the most appropriate teachers to fulfill its every objective. When it comes to learning a second language/ third language/Foreign Language/, it is first the mastery of the sound system, and secondly, it is the mastery of the features of arrangement that constitute the structure of a language. Therefore, foundational courses should be introduced to get more familiar with the sounds so as to improve the learners’ pronunciation and reduce the level of mother tongue influence over the language. In addition, various situations, notions and functions should be provided to the learners/students to make them use the language confidently.

The importance of English as a language has been taken into consideration by a growing body of academicians in our state, as such the North East Christian University which was established in the year 2012 offers Bachelors’ Degree (honours) and Masters’ Degree in English TESL (Teaching of English as a Second Language). English TESL focuses on the introduction to phonetics and phonology, historical perspectives of language teaching and learning, enhancing listening, speaking, reading, writing, teaching grammar and vocabulary, how to design curriculum/syllabus and language materials, how we acquire a second language, English for specific purposes, sociolinguistics and research methodology. The masters’ degree students in the fourth semester get the opportunity to write a dissertation for the fulfillment of the course. Therefore, it is believed that this course will make the learners use the language (English in our context) efficiently and confidently in various situations and make them well equipped with the necessary skills to become employable citizens of the state as well as the country as a whole.

Arenka Kichu, Department of English TESL, North East Christian University (NECU)

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Protect right to personal privacy

It is viewed that ‘Right to Personal Privacy’ has been overlooked by reckless social media users in the present trend, who without chewing over the importance of another’s life haphazardly shares videos and pictures of somebody, whose personal privacy is sometimes deserved to be protected. The impinge of random sharing of video footages and pictures of somebody would leave a negative infliction on the person which would greatly affect the future of a person. It is said “To Err is to human”, likewise some personal matter of others should not be exposed off.

In the light of the above, I would like to appeal the responsible authority to book such irresponsible social media users under certain section to avert such episode in future.

W. Wangnao Konyak, 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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Lok Sabha passes NMC Bill

Harsh Vardhan speaks at Parliament. (FIle)

within the reach of meritorious students belonging to economically weaker sections.

The bill seeks to repeal the Indian Medical Council Act 1956 in the wake of allegations of corruption against the 63- year-old Medical Council of India (MCI) and shortcomings in the process by which it regulated medical colleges.

The Minister of Health and Family Welfare sought to assure the members that genuine concerns of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), which has been protesting against the Bill, have been addressed.

Vardhan said by bringing the bill the basic intention of the government is ensure and restore utmost standard of integrity of medical education.

9 IPS officers, top politicians under ED lens in IMA scam

BENGALURU, JUL 29 (AGENCIES): Nine IPS officers from Karnataka are under the Enforcement Directorate’s scanner for their alleged complicity in the IMA Ponzi scheme that defrauded around 30,000 people of Rs 3,000 crore in Bengaluru and other parts of the state.

The agency’s investigations have said these officers were allegedly paid not to crack down against the Ponzi scheme.

The ED, which has the custody of scam mastermind Mohammed Mansoor Khan, has not issued

a statement on the outcome of its investigations so far. “Khan has made disclosures on the bribes paid to police officers and politicians,” a police source said.

An IPS officer, who’s from Uttar Pradesh and has served in Bengaluru, allegedly got Khan to sponsor interior decoration-related accessories, including furnishings sourced from China, for a house he was constructing in Delhi.

‘IMA money used during recent polls’ The ED has reportedly stumbled upon a bill, worth Rs 60

lakh, paid towards the procurement of furniture for the officer’s house.

Sources said Khan has reportedly named a few high profile politicians, including a former CM and a deputy CM, as his beneficiaries. IMA money (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IMAmoney) is said to have been used extensively during the recent assembly and parliamentary polls in the state, the sources said and added: “The ED is likely to summon a few leaders in the coming days as part of its investigations.”

ALIPURDUAR (WB), JUL 29 (PTI): A person was lynched in West Bengal’s Alipurduar district by a mob on the suspicion of being a child-lifter, police said on Monday.

The incident occurred at the Tasati tea garden on Sunday evening when locals saw a person moving suspiciously in the area, an officer of Falakata police station said.

“Over 250 people had beaten up the man with fists and also kicked him.

He was seriously injured when we recovered him from the mob,” the officer said.

The man, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was declared brought dead at the Birpara hospital, hospital sources said.

“Seventeen people have been arrested in connection with the incident and they will be produced at the court on Monday.

Further investigation is on,” district Superintendent of Police Nagendra Nath Tripathi said.

septic leakage made it impossible for them to perform duties. After discovering the leakage in the water closet and septic lines, construction began, he added.

According to the engineer, he had cautioned the police personnel to take necessary precautionary security measures before the start of the construction work, adding that the hospital was not at fault for the escape of the rapist. He also suspected that the accused must have had experience as a construction labourer that enabled him to escape easily.

Meanwhile, the police have launched a massive manhunt to nab the accused and activated all the check gates. However, there is no clue yet about his whereabouts.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 29 (PTI): Under fire from various quarters, Samajwadi Party member Azam Khan on Monday apologised in Lok Sabha for his sexist remarks against BJP member Rama Devi.

Though Khan had to repeat his apology twice in the House, a visibly peeved Devi said the member has the habit of uttering derogatory words against women.

As soon as the House met for the day, Speaker Om Birla asked Khan, who has come under criticism from members across party lines for his sexist remarks against Devi last Thursday, to speak and he tendered his apology.

“I have been an MLA for nine times, a minister several times, a Rajya Sabha member too. I was a Parliamentary Affairs Minister too. I know legislative procedures,” he said. “However, if my words hurt anyone, I hereby apologise,” he said.

As some of his words were not audible, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said Khan should repeat the sentence clearly as the House could

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not comprehend what he actually said. Samajwadi Party President and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who was sitting next to Khan, stood up to say that the Rampur MP had already apologised in the House in proper words and he can vouch for it.

Yadav also referred to the Unnao rape survivor, who had met with an accident yesterday and was hospitalised, and said the House should also talk about it, inviting loud protests from treasury benches. A BJP MLA is an accused in the rape case. Yadav also took a swipe at the BJP wondering why they were only chanting ‘Jai Shriram’ and when they should chant ‘Jai

Sitaram’, eliciting another round of protests from treasury benches.

Devi said Khan has the habit of uttering derogatory words against women and had done so on many occasions in the past outside the House. Now he has said them inside the House, she noted. After this, the Speaker asked Khan to tender the apology again. Khan repeated the words and also said that Devi was like his sister.

“If my word hurts hurt anyone, I apologise,” he said.

Soon after Khan tendered apology but was not audible.

After the Samajwadi Party member again apologised in the House, Devi said his remarks had pained the whole country and that she did not come to the House to hear such things.

When Yadav tried to speak, a visibly peeved Devi asked why he was supporting Khan. Khan’s remarks against Devi during a discussion on the triple talaq bill on Thursday last were slammed by members as double-meaning, malicious, utterly condemnable and a blot on all legislators.

SC notice to Centre on plea over identity of rape accused

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(From p-1) Currently the UTP cell can hardly accommodate eight persons and has no separate rooms for male and female prisoners.

He said though NHAK authority had approach the State home department two years ago with a proposal to set up a separate cell for UTPs, there was no response till date. NHAK’s site engineer told this correspondent that the accused managed to escape through a septic tank that was being constructed around 1.45 pm when labourers were having a tea break, adding that the UTP cell did not have attached toilet.

He said repair work was taken up after a complaint was received from police personnel on duty at the UTP cell as the

Srinagar, Jul 29 (IANS): Another youth allegedly involved in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, that left 40 CRPF troopers dead, was taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), an agency statement said on Monday.

An NIA statement said that it has taken into custody 25-year-old Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat, of Monghama village in Tral area of Pulwama, for being in touch with a Jaish-eMuhammad (JeM) terrorist on phone to coordinate the attack.

Bhat, a member of the JeM outfit, was taken into custody from Kot Balwal jail in Jammu where he was detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and produced before the special NIA court in Delhi which sent him to the agency’s custody for 9 days, the statement said.

The accused was in constant touch on phone from Kot Balwal jail with Pulwama attack’s main accused, Wasim Ahmad, since killed by security forces in a gunfight.

NEW DELHI, JUL 29 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a petition seeking to frame guidelines for protecting the identity of undertrials accused in rape cases till the completion of trial or until proven guilty.

A bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and B.R. Gavai was hearing a public suit filed by advocate Reepak Kansal seeking the court’’s intervention to protect the dignity of men facing false charges of sexual harassment.

“It is a respectful submission that the cardinal principle of criminal law i.e. presumption of innocence until proven guilty contemplates that a person who is accused in a trial is innocent till the completion of trial until otherwise proven guilty which itself shows that the identity of the accused should not get tarnished as if it is revealed then the purpose of aforesaid principle will get defeated,” the plea read.

Mentioning that word “accused” is itself a derogatory nomenclature, he sought to address the men facing trial in such case as

their personal revenge and benefits.”

He raised the issue that no one discusses about the dignity and honour of a man as all are only fighting for the rights, honour and dignity of women. He said that there is no law or guideline to protect a man from being prosecuted and implicated in false cases. “...it is not possible to restore the dignity and honour of the accused nor and not for the people who compensate him for the “alleged accused”.

He also said that the want to ride the law for humiliation, misery, distress criminal law regarding sexual accusations needs some preventive measures to save innocents from false allegations. “The confidentiality of the victim also will be protected more. If the name and position of the accused is published, then the identity of the victim can be leaked easily,” the advocate said in his plea.

He also requested the court to issue directions to give punishment to complainants who make false allegations.

He said that “the purpose of the law is to give lawful justice and compensation for the real victims

and monetary loss due to false accusation,” the plea said.

Therefore he requested the top court to direct governments to frame the guidelines to protect the identity of undertrials and to restrict the discussion, debate and observations made by electronic and print media and social websites till the completion of trial.

He has also sought to award compensation to undertrials who are acquitted by trial courts in false cases.

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was against the spirit of federalism.

It is like “throwing the baby with the bathwater... the cure seems to be worst than the disease,” Congress’ Manish Tewari said during the debate and claimed the bill would end up legalising capitation fee.

However, Vardhan allayed the apprehensions saying genuine concerns over the Bill have been addressed.

He said the legislation is “anti-vested interests”, will help end ‘inspector raj’ and increase the number of seats in medical colleges.

“NMC will be lean and effective,” Vardhan said.

He termed the legislation as “pro-poor” saying it would bring not only government seats but also 50 per cent of all private seats

He noted that NMC bill 2019 is an improved version of the one brought in 2017.

“Once the NMC Bill is passed by both houses of Parliament, exit examination will be implemented in the next three years,” the Minister said. On issues related to federalism, Vardhan said, “No medical college will be set up without the state government’s permission.” The Minister also added that the government of India will have no role in the day-to-day running of the medical colleges.

“Yearly inspections have been done away with.

This is expected to do away with inspection raj and foster addition of UG and PG seats in the country,” he added. Vardhan said the Bill seeks to put in place a new structure to tackle challenges in the medical education sector and is a pro-poor.

“When history will be written... it (bill) will go down as one of the biggest reforms,” he noted.

A motion for consideration of the bill was passed by 260-48 votes after a division of votes was sought.

The bill was then passed by a voice vote.

Azam Khan apologises for his sexist remarks in LS

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NEW DELHI, JUL 29 (PTI): Lok Sabha on Monday passed the National Medical Commission Bill (NMCB) for replacing the corruption-plagued MCI with a new body, in what has been described by the government as one of the biggest reforms that will end ‘inspector raj’ in the medical education sector.

The bill also has a provision for making national standards in medical education uniform by proposing that the final year MBBS exam be treated as an entrance test for PG and a screening test for students who graduate in medicine from foreign countries.

This exam, called the National Exit Test (NEXT), would ensure that the proposed National Medical Commission (NMC) moves away from a system of repeated inspections of infrastructure and to focus on outcomes rather than processes, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

Opposition members objected to provisions like exit exam and replacing elected members with nominated members in the proposed commission. They alleged that the legislation

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Mumbai, Jul 29 (IANS): Country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday said it will reduce interest paid on all term deposits from August 1.

The lending major said that in accordance to the falling interest rate scenario and surplus liquidity, it will realign its interest rate on “Retail Term Deposits (less than Rs 2 crore) and Bulk Term Deposits (Rs 2 crore and above)”.

“For time deposits with longer tenors, there is a reduction up to 20 bps in the ‘Retail’ segment and 35 bps in the ‘Bulk’ segment.

“Interest rates have been slashed by 50-75 bps for time deposits with shorter tenors, i.e. up to 179 days.

Full details are available on the Bank’s web site,” the SBI said in a statement.

Mumbai, Jul 29 (IANS): Vodafone Idea shares on Monday fell to its all-time low level over sudden revenue deterioration reported in its quarterly results, reflecting the stress in the Indian telecom sector. Sell-off in the Vodafone Idea shares came on the back of investor concerns on the stability of the company, which saw the scrips fall as much as 29 per cent on the BSE before it closed 27.03 per cent lower at Rs 6.75 apiece.

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The Centre has been taking initiatives to popularise environment-friendly electric vehicles.

In the Union Budget 2019-20, the government proposed additional income tax deduction of Rs 1.5 lakh on the interest paid on loans taken to purchase electric vehicles.

Besides, certain parts of EVs have been exempted

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from customs duty to further incentivise e-mobility in the country.

The Centre has also approved Rs 10,000 crore under the FAME II scheme, which aims to encourage faster adoption of such vehicles by right incentives and charging infrastructure.

Recently, Kant had said electric vehicles are a sunrise opportunity as India has over 72 per cent two-wheelers.

Niti Aayog has proposed that two-wheelers below the capacity of 150cc sold in the country after March 31, 2025, should be electric ones only.

It also proposed that three-wheelers sold in the country after March 31, 2023 should be electric ones.

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ticipants are also looking forward to the US and China trade talks, which can impact rupee movement.

The US and Chinese officials are restarting negotiations in Shanghai on Tuesday in an effort to resolve the year-long trade dispute.

Cheruvu further noted that “domestically, FM Nirmala Sitharaman’s proposal of going ahead with sovereign currency bonds could help soften India G-Sec yields as this would reduce supply of onshore GOI bonds”.

The 10-year government bond yield was at 6.41 per cent on Monday.

According to V K Sharma, Head PCG & Capital Markets Strat-

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New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI): Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Monday said an inter-ministerial panel has sanctioned 5,645 electric buses for operations in 65 cities, a move seen towards environmentfriendly mobility.

Last week, the GST Council headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman decided to cut the tax rates on e-vehicles from 12 per cent to 5 per cent with effect from August 1.

“The inter-ministerial committee for EVs today sanctioned 5,645 electric buses for intracity operations in 65 cities and for intercity operations to 8 state transport undertakings. This will give huge impetus to automobile sector, clean up our cities & drive Make in India,” Kant

egy, HDFC Securities, this week will be the very busy and big for the forex market as there are series of economic and political events are lined up.

“The week will start with the US China trade meets and wrap by US employment data. In between, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and FOMC monetary policy decision will be watched for future path of forex market,” he said.

The dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, rose 0.09 per cent to 98.10.

Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, fell 0.20 per cent to trade at USD 63.33 per barrel.

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) remained net sellers in the capital markets, pulling out Rs 1,503.26 crore on Friday, as per provisional data.

Meanwhile, on the domestic market front, equity benchmark Sensex fell by 197 points on Monday, tracking weak global cues and unabated foreign fund outflows. Similarly, the NSE gauge Nifty slipped by 95 points.

New Delhi, Jul 29 (IANS): The operating environment for India’s banks will be stable but economic slowdown poses challenges to the sector, a Moody’s Investors Service report said.

According to the report, the country’s economic growth will remain weaker than in prior years at a time when lenders are recovering from legacy non-performing loans (NPLs). “Despite stability in the country’s macro fundamentals, stress among NBFIs will continue to constrain economic growth,” the report said.

The stress faced by NBFI sector and economic slowdown can also hamper asset quality improvements, the report said. “The formation of new NPLs in the non-financial corporate segment will further slow, helped by improved financial health of corporates and recoveries from legacy problem loans. “However, stress at NBFIs is a risk to banks’ asset quality because banks have large exposures to the sector. In addition, the moderation of economic growth could lead to the creation of new NPLs in the retail and small and medium enterprise segment,” it said.

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Mumbai, Jul 29 (PTI): After opening on a weak note, the rupee recovered the lost ground and finally settled 14 paise higher at 68.75 against the US dollar on Monday amid easing crude oil prices.

At the interbank foreign exchange (forex), the domestic currency witnessed a heavy volatility.

The local unit opened at 68.92 a dollar and touched a low of 68.95 and high of 68.73 during the day.

The local unit finally closed at 68.75 against the American currency, registering a rise of 14 paise over its previous close.

On Friday, the rupee had settled at 68.89 against the US dollar.

Forex traders said the rupee is trading in a narrow range as market participants are awaiting cues from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on July 31.

“All eyes now rivet onto the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday wherein markets are pricing a 25 bps rate cut,” said Rajesh Cheruvu CIO of Validus Wealth.

Besides, market par-

The proposed amended Code is also aimed at providing greater clarity on permissibility of corporate restructuring schemes, clarity on rights and duties of authorised representatives of voters, manner of distribution of amounts amongst financial and operational creditors and applicability of the resolution plan on all statutory authorities.

The bill provides for an explanation in the definition of “resolution plan” to clarify that a resolution plan proposing the insolvency resolution of corporate debtor as a going concern may include the provisions for corporate restructuring, including by way of merger, amalgamation and demerger.

This is to enable the market to come up with dynamic resolution plans in the interest of value maximisation.

It also provides that the votes of all financial creditors covered under section 21(6A) shall be cast in accordance with the decision approved by the highest voting share (more than 50 per cent) of financial creditors on present and voting basis.

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leading to sub optimal realisation or outcome of the legislative intent of the bill itself.

Earlier the average time taken for any resolution of insolvency was almost 4.3 years and that kind of time adds to the cost. “Nearly nine per cent resolution cost and recovery rate was only about 26 per cent,” she said.

“Within 2.5 years of this Code, we realised that there are certain areas in which for want of clarity the interpretation given by various courts or even by the National Companies Law Tribunal (NCLT) led to a very vital question, that if the legislative intent of the IBC was itself becoming weakened just for want of clarity,” the Finance Minister said.

In a way, the (Insolven-

cy and Bankruptcy) Code is being monitored through a Central Government Monitoring Committee and the amendments are being made after due consultations with stakeholder, the Finance Minister said.

She said the balance of interest of stakeholders was becoming an issue and therefore the amendments have been brought in.

The proposed amendments to the Code are aimed at filling critical gaps in the corporate insolvency resolution framework while at the same time maximising value from resolution.

The changes in the law are aimed at timely admission of applications and timely completion of the corporate insolvency resolution process.

The bill also provides that if an application has not been admitted or rejected within 14 days by the adjudicating authority, it shall provide the reasons in writing for the same.

It provides a deadline for completion of CIRP (Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process) within an overall limit of 330 days, including litigation and other judicial processes.

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New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday told Rajya Sabha that the proposed amendments in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code are aimed at ensuring greater clarity in the debt resolution process.

She said the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Amendment Bill has been brought to remove grey areas and ensure that no interpretations which are against the original intent of the Act prevail.

The minister said four out of the eight set of amendments being brought in are explanatory in nature.

“There is a fear that probably the original intent with which this Parliament brought Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code is probably getting diluted. We should not allow its dilution just for want of clarity,” she said while moving The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill 2019, for consideration and passage in Rajya Sabha.

The Minister said until the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 was brought in, the country’s insolvency framework was all scattered and fragmented

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I, Shri VINGOL MEKRO herewith rectified my date of birth is 19/04/1968 and father name PUDI MEKRO and the same will be use for all official references by an Affidavit, Judicial Magistrate, 1 st Class Kohima : Nagaland, Dated 22/07/19 Declarant K-2049

CHANGE OF NAME (SPOUSE) I, ILITO SUMI, spouse of Inaka S Yepthomi resident of Saghemi Village, Zunheboto : Nagaland have changed my name from "ILITO YEPTHOMI" to "ILITO SUMI" vide Affidavit Regd No. 486/2019 dated 29/07/19 before Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dimapur. DP-5799 K Y M C

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China backs Lam; calls to oppose violence 20 die as violence mar Afghan poll season

Hong Kong police officers detain a protester on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday. (PTI)

tive in 2017, Carrie Lam’s contribution to public welfare and economic development is well recognised…

On July 1, we took notice that Lam pledged to govern with a more tolerant and open style. Beijing will resolutely continue supporting her administration,” Yang said, brushing aside calls for her resignation.

He also praised Hong Kong police when asked whether China will back appointment of an independent commission of inquiry into police actions.

“Hong Kong police in the past month have been under a lot of pressure.

They have done their best to protect society and maintain stability, and have made a great degree of sacrifice,” he said.

“We understand the huge pressure facing the Hong Kong police and their families, and would like to salute officers who have been fearlessly sticking to their posts and fulfilling their duties against all odds,” Yang said.

The protests which began few weeks ago over the move by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region headed by Lam to introduce a bill to extradite wanted local persons to the Chinese

Iran says US rejected offer as ‘not seeking dialogue’ TEHRAN, JUL 29 (AFP): Iran said on Monday the US had rejected an offer from Tehran for more robust nuclear inspections in exchange for lifting sanctions because Washington is “not seeking dialogue”.

Under the 2015 nuclear deal agreed to by Tehran, Iran must ratify a document, known as the additional protocol, prescribing more intrusive inspections of its nuclear programme eight years after the deal was adopted.

“If the US is really seeking an agreement... Iran can make the additional protocol into law (in 2019) and (the US) at the same time bring a plan to the Congress and lift all illegal sanctions,” said foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi.

“But as we predicted it was rejected by them, because we knew that they are not for talks or an agreement

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that would yield a proper result,” he told a news conference.

According to Mousavi, the proposal was made by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a visit this month in New York to dismiss the idea of “Iran being against talks... (while) America is for dialogue”.

Tehran and Washington have been at loggerheads ever since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US form the nuclear deal last year and

reimposed biting sanctions on Iran.

Iran announced in May it would no longer respect some deal limits set on its nuclear programme in retaliation for US sanctions and threatened to go even further if the deal’s remaining parties -- Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia -- do not help it circumvent them, especially to sell its oil.

Envoys from the four countries and Iran met in Vienna on Sunday to discuss ways to stop the deal collapsing amid escalating tensions.

Mousavi said that during the meeting Iran strongly protested the Europeans’ “attitude, inactivity and the arrest of some Iranians in Europe at America’s behest” as well as the seizure of a tanker carrying Iranian crude oil off Gibraltar in early July.

mainland have now turned into a major rebellion with protestors demanding universal franchise of ‘one person, one vote’ with freedom for all the locals to contest the local elections.

Lam, a former bureaucrat, was elected in 2017 through a controversial process of China vetting contestants for the local legislature which was opposed by the pro-democracy activists.

Her announcement that the bill is dead has not satisfied the protestors who are now calling for its total withdrawal and her resignation. Answering a spate of questions at Monday’s press

conference, which is the first since Hong Kong was handed over to China by Britain, Yang and Xu were guarded in their comments on deployment of Chinese troops which was widely believed to provoke more protests.

Asked whether China would deploy its troops stationed at a garrison in the Hong Kong on the streets, Yang said, “the Basic Law has clear statements on that question, and I have nothing to add.”

For the first time, the Chinese military on Wednesday warned the protestors in Hong Kong that it could deploy its soldiers to quell the agitation and maintain social order at the request of the city’s government.

Yang also spoke of China’s bottom line in dealing with the growing dissent in Hong Kong.

“The development in the situation in Hong Kong, especially the violent acts of a small number of radicals, has severely damaged Hong Kong’s overall situation of prosperity and stability, severely challenged Hong Kong’s rule of law and social order, severely threatened the safety of Hong Kong residents’ life and property, crossed the bottom line of the “one country, two systems,” which are absolutely intolerable,” Yang said.

Afghan boys look the site of Sunday’s attack in Kabul, Afghanistan July 29.

KABUL, JUL 29 (AFP): Deadly violence marred the start of Afghanistan’s election season on the weekend, after President Ashraf Ghani insisted “peace is coming” to the war-torn nation.

At least 20 people were killed and 50 others wounded on Sunday in an attack targeting the Kabul office of Ghani’s running mate, Amrullah Saleh.

The violence came on the first day of campaigning for the upcoming presidential elections, serving as a grim reminder of Afghanistan’s woeful security situation and the sort of mayhem and murder that have beset previous polls.

The attack began around 4:40 pm (1210 GMT), when a huge blast

struck near the office of Green Trend, a youth and reform-focused civil society organisation Saleh heads.

He escaped without serious injury, his office said.

The interior ministry said the assault began when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car at the entrance to the building, then three attackers ran inside.

After about six hours the siege ended with all attackers killed and the rescue of about 150 people who had been trapped in the building, according to the interior ministry, which also provided the toll of 20 dead and 50 wounded.

No group immediately claimed responsibility.

Earlier on Sunday, a buoyant Ghani kicked off

his campaign by insisting “peace is coming,” after nearly 18 years of conflict, and that pivotal talks with the Islamist extremist Taliban would take place.

He is hoping to fend off challenges from 17 other candidates to score a second term at twice-postponed presidential elections now slated for September 28.

On Saturday Ghani’s peace minister, Abdul Salam Rahimi, said direct talks would take place with the Taliban within two weeks as part of a larger, US-led push for peace.

Such a development could be crucial, as the Taliban -- who now control or influence about half of Afghanistan -- have so far refused to speak to Ghani’s government.

Asif Ali Zardari’s remand Pakistan summons senior Indian diplomat over ‘ceasefire violations’ extended by 10 days ISLAMABAD, JUL 29 (PTI): A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Monday extended former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister’s remand by 10 days in the fake accounts case, according to a media report.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) presented the 63-year-old Pakistan People’s Party leader and his sister Faryal Talpur in the accountability court amid strict security, Geo News reported.

The Bureau pleaded to the court in Islamabad for an extension of two weeks in Zardari’s remand in the case. The court, however, extended the remand by 10 days only and ordered that the suspects should be presented before it again on August 10. According to NAB, Zardari is being investigated for his alleged involvement in extending loans and other misappropriation by Parthe-

non Private Limited, Park Lane Estate Private Limited and others. Zardari is the husband of the country’s first woman prime minister Benazir Bhutto. He was arrested by NAB officials in the Park Lane case on July 1. He was already in NAB custody since June 10 after the Islamabad High Court dismissed his pre-arrest bail petition in the fake accounts case.

Zardari, the 11th President of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013, has denied any link with the fake accounts. He has said the allegation was part of a vilification campaign by the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to malign opposition leaders.

His political career has been overshadowed by the allegations of corruption due to which he has spent several years in custody although he was never convicted.

ISLAMABAD, JUL 29 (PTI): Pakistan on Monday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner and condemned the alleged “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by Indian troops across the Line of Control which resulted in the death a woman. Director General (South Asia and SAARC) Mohammad Faisal, who is also the foreign ministry spokesman, summoned

Gaurav Ahluwalia and “condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian forces along the Line of Control,” the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement.

On Sunday, firing in the Nezapir Sector, killed the woman in Mandhar village and injured three others. On the same day, another civilian was injured due to firing in the Kailer Sector along

the LoC, it said.

Faisal said that the Indian forces along the LoC and the Working boundary are “continuously targeting civilian populated areas with heavy weapons.”

“This unprecedented escalation in ceasefire violations by India is continuing from the year 2017 when the Indian forces committed 1970 ceasefire violation,” it alleged.

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BEIJING, JUL 29 (PTI): China on Monday threw its backing behind Hong Kong’s beleaguered pro-Beijing Chief Executive Carrie Lam as well as the city’s police and called on people in the financial hub to oppose and resist violence.

Hong Kong has been witnessing a violent mass outrage with thousands taking to streets against the government’s plan to allow extraditions to the Communist nation.

Weighing its options including deployment of troops to deal with growing pro-democracy protests in the former British colony, a wary China also accused some Western politicians of stirring unrest in the financial hub in hopes of creating difficulties for the country’s overall development.

Addressing a muchpublicised press conference, Yang Guang and Xu Luying, spokespersons for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, took a number of questions about the current turmoil in Hong Kong, the worst since the former British colony was handed over to China in 1997.

They praised Lam and Hong Kong police in dealing with protests mainly carried out by youth and students.

“Since taking office as Hong Kong’s chief execu-

3 killed in US festival shooting, suspected gunman dead Trump earlier tweeted that law enforcement officers were at “the scene of shootings” in Gilroy, urging members of the public to “Be careful and safe!”

The Gilroy Garlic Festival features live entertainment including bands and cooking competitions as well as food and drink, and draws nearly 100,000 people over three days each year, according to organizers.

The family event is a major focal point for the small city of around 50,000.

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ing,” she said.

Smithee said the suspect appeared to have entered the 50-acre festival site via a creek, using cutting equipment to breach the event’s perimeter.

Metal detectors and bag searches were in place as part of “very tight security” at the festival, he said.

No motive was known but the suspect’s shooting appeared “somewhat random,” Smithee added. The suspect used “some sort of a rifle,” he said.

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LOS ANGELES, JUL 29 (AFP): Three people were killed and at least 15 others injured in a shooting at a major food festival in California on Sunday, police said. Officers confronted and shot dead the suspect “in less than a minute,” said Scot Smithee, police chief of the city of Gilroy, 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of San Jose.

Police said it was “still an active crime scene” at the site of the three-day Gilroy Festival attendees are transported on a bus following Garlic Festival, one of the a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, in Gilroy, largest food festivals in the Calif., Sunday. (PTI) country. A search for a possible second suspect was ongoing, Smithee said.

“We believe based on witness statements that there was a second individual involved in some way, we just don’t know in what way,” he told journalists.

Footage showed people fleeing in terror as shots rang out.

A witness named Julissa Contreras told NBC a white man in his 30s armed with a rifle opened fire indiscriminately.

“I could see him shooting in just every direction.

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Modi to feature on ‘Man Vs Wild’ on August 12

mental change.

“For years, I have lived among nature, in the mountains and the forests.

These years have a lasting impact on my life. So, when I was asked about a special programme focusing on life beyond politics and that too in the midst of nature I was both intrigued and inclined to take part in it,” the Prime Minister said in a statement.

The programme can be seen by viewers in 180 countries. Adventurer and television presenter Edward Michael Grylls, popularly

known as Bear Grylls, will appear in the programme along with Modi.

“For me, this show presents a great opportunity to showcase to the world India’s rich environmental heritage and stress on the importance of environment conservation and living in harmony with nature. It was a great experience spending time in the jungle once again, this time with Bear, who is blessed with indefatigable energy and quest to experience nature at its purest,” Modi added.

Top Acts Season-3 July Edition 2019 held

Organisers and participants of the Top Acts Season-3 in Kohima on July 27.

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op Acts Season-3 July edition was held under the theme “Life is not merely being alive but being well” on July 27 at Muskan Youth Centre, opposite to Martyr’s Park, Kohima.

The organizers welcomed the sponsor of Top Acts Season-1 and 2, Dr. S. Amenla Walling, International Diamond 4Life and her team. The organisers also acknowledged the presence of Dr. Aomayang Walling, Rtd. Director Veterinary Department, Government of Nagaland, who also exhorted the young participants and the gathering.

Programme Officer, Project AHANA, NE- II, Nagaland, Mhonthung Tungoe spoke on the theme and provided health information on one aspect i.e.

‘Hepatitis’, its mode of transmission, precaution, prevention and treatment to the gathering. He appreciated FPA India Nagaland branch for imparting knowledge on health to the young people during Top Acts.

The competition consisted of various performances starting from beatbox to solos and dances. Guest artist, Sangam Thapa, an upcoming rapper enthralled the audience with his smooth flow of rapping. Dieze Sothu, singer and songwriter gave some important tips to the young participants while Nunese Sale, president of Vision Trinity Charity Club acknowledged and encouraged a young dancer Pritam, who is a regular participant of Top Acts for his continuous

participation.

A y o u n g d a n c e r, Dhruv won the Top Acts Season-3 July edition 2019 “Best Performance” for his exceptional and compelling dance style who also received a cash prize of Rs.1000/- and best performance certificate. He was also the best performer of April edition 2019. Best performance cash prize is sponsored by Lady Ruo boutique. Also, partner and sponsors include 4Life, Life Pro Sound Solution, India Trail, Vision Trinity. The programme was organised by FPA India Nagaland branch. The next edition of Top Acts will be held on August 24.

Alenuo Kelio, Top Acts Season-2 participant and winner of the road to fame Pow Wow 2019 compeered the programme.

Quentin Tarantino smashes his own box office record with ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

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nce Upon A Time In Hollywood has smashed Quentin Tarantino’s record for his films’ most successful opening weekend at the boxoffice.

The veteran director’s ninth film has beaten his 2009 movie Inglorious Basterds for amassing the biggest receipts at US cinemas. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood depicts an aging Hollywood actor and his stunt double as K Y M C

successful new actor Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) moves in next door.

The film is based on the real-life killing of Tate by disciples of the Manson Family cult. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood grossed $40m in US cinemas this weekend, beating the $38m amassed by Inglorious Basterds a decade ago.

Tarantino’s new film is his first made without disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. Bosses at Sony had predicted Once Upon A

Time In Hollywood would make $30m on its opening weekend. Overall, Django Unchained has so far been Tarantino’s most successful film. It made $425m worldwide, after opening with $30m in its first weekend at US cinemas in 2012.

By comparison, Inglorious Basterds eventually made $321m worldwide.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is one of Tarantino’s most expensive films to make, at a cost of $90m.

Despite its successful opening weekend, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood only entered the US box-office charts at No 2 this weekend.

Disney’s new remake of The Lion King remains at No 1 on its second weekend. The Lion King made $75.5m this weekend in the US. It has so far amassed global box-office receipts of nearly $1 billion, having earned $963m worldwide.

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ctor Arjun Kapoor will join the upcoming Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) to discuss “The Future of Cinema”. “The masterclass is about the future of cinema and I’m looking forward to exchanging notes and thoughts with the other members on the panel and, importantly, with the audiences,” Arjun said.

Ar jun’s masterclass will see him discuss the change in the storytelling template and how members of the film fraternity are finding their feet through the shifting tiles. The actor will also talk about the shift in cinema. The hour-long panel discussion will be held at Arts Centre Melbourne on August 11. filmmaker Onir is the other promininet member of the panel, which will also have Ajit Andhare of Viacom18 Studios, Gaurav Verma of Red Chillies Entertainment and .

“This diverse panel of speakers, each with an incredible body of work, is what Indian cinema is about today. This is my first time at the festival and I’m looking forward to meeting people from Australia who watch Indian cinema.

Members of the organizing committee with Anindita Kakoti, reigning Miss North East Diva and Chow Poran Gogoi on Saturday.

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tage is set for the finale of Face of Nagaland Season-4 to be held on July 30 at IMC Hall, Dimapur. Minister for Geology & Mining and Soil and Water Conservation, V. Kashiho Sangtam will grace the occasion as special guest while reigning Miss North East Diva, Anindita Kakoti will make a special appearance besides being one of the juries for the event.

The mega event which is being organised by Nova Stellam (meaning- new star) will have on stage 24 young boys and girls selected from all over the state vying for coveted Face of Nagaland Season-4 title.

The contestants will also walk away with various sub-title awards.

‘The Lion King’ inches towards 150-cr mark in India

“The Lion King” is inching towards the Rs 150crore mark in India.

The film has hauled Rs 136.04 crore so far since release in the domestic market on July 19, in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu versions.

The Disney project collected Rs 38.93 crore (gross box office collection) in its second weekend, with nett collections standing at Rs 32.70 crore for this period.

This takes the cumulative 10-day gross collection to Rs 136.04 crore. The nett

box office figures for India stands at Rs 114.27 crore.

So far, “The Lion King” is the second-highest grossing Hollywood film in India this year after only “Avengers: Endgame”. The film also enjoyed the second-biggest weekend gross collection for any Hollywood movie in India, behind “Avengers: Endgame”, which released earlier this year.

The film is director Jon Favreau’s recreation of the 1994 Disney classic of the same name, and it brings back the adven-

tures of Simba, the lion cub who is to succeed his father Mufasa as King of the Pride Lands. Favreau’s film updates the classic tale with photo-realistic and computer-generated animation. The filmmaker had earlier helmed the 2016 global blockbuster, “The Jungle Book”.

The hyper-realistic remake of the animated classic is already the fifthbiggest global release of the year, having collected $963 million to date, reports variety.com.

The event is aimed at providing a platform for talented youngsters of the state and will feature various local artists on the stage.

The event is being sponsored by the department of Art and Culture, Nagaland and is being supported by department of Soil and Water Conservation, Nagaland, Nagaland State AIDS Control Society, Land Resources, Dimapur and Dimapur Forest Range.

The event is also giving emphasis on promotion of art and culture, creating awareness on the need for conserving the environment, awareness on HIV/AIDS, career guidance, spiritual nourishment and personal hygiene.

As part of awareness

programme, Soil and Water Conservation department led by its Joint Director, K. Khekiho Shohe conducted an awareness programme for the participants on Friday while Temsuyanger Aier and Orenthung Nguille of District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit, Dimapur conducted a programme on HIV/AIDS on Saturday.

Besides other daylong activities on Monday, I. Acato Chishi, District Programme Officer, Land Resources, Dimapur will facilitate the participants on career guidance followed by a session on oral hygiene by Dr. Meyisen Angh.

Chow Poran Gogoi, a renowned choreographer of Northeast region will choreograph the finale.

Alex Skolnick says USA has ‘Weakest gun laws in the developed world’

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estament guitarist Alex Skolnick says that no American citizen is safe as long as the USA has “the weakest gun laws in the developed world.”

Skolnick made his comments in response to a tweet from a fan who was concerned about the musician’s well-being following news reports that three people were killed and at least 11 others were injured Sunday (July 28) in a shooting at an annual food festival in Northern California. “I’m thousands of miles away, thanks,” Skolnick tweeted. “But as more mass shootings happen at schools, malls, movie theaters, concerts, nightclubs & elsewhere (we can add food

festivals, sadly) here in the country with the weakest gun laws in the developed world & the most guns, none of us are safe.”

Skolnick has made no secret of his political views, ocassionally tweeting against Donald Trump’s policies, including imporing the U.S. president to “get the HELL out of OUR country” in August 2017 after Trump tweeted about his proposed border wall while Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall in Texas. Back in 2012, Skolnick tweeted that Ted Nugent, Donald Trump and Dave Mustaine didn’t “seem that reasonable” to him because of their “militant” support of then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (Blabbermouth)

Chief Secretary, Temjen Toy launched the logo for the “Open House”, a pilot initiative of Task Force for Music & Arts (TaFMA). Open House is a new concept to promote musicians at the grass root level in a mini concert set up to nurture new talents and also provide a platform for local musicians of all ages and genres. The fist Open House will be held in Mon district on August 3 thereafter in all the other districts of the state.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE PROJECT DIRECTOR,

TASK FORCE for MUSIC & ARTs (TaFMA) RCEMPA, NAGALAND, KOHIMA, JOTSOMA

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rime Minister Narendra Modi will appear in an episode of “Man Vs Wild”, the popular television programme on Discovery Channel, on August 12.

T h e p r o g r a m m e, aimed at creating awareness about animal conservation and environmental change, will be aired at 9 p.m.

The special episode, which has been shot in the Jim Corbett National Park, will throw light on wildlife conservation, highlighting issues related to environ-

Grylls feels privileged to be taking “Prime Minister Modi on an adventure into the Indian wilderness”.

“I feel truly honoured to get to spend time with this remarkable world leader. The wild reminds us that we need each other and that together we are stronger. I am so excited to spend time with the PM and to get to know the man who leads this great nation,” Grylls added.

Grylls also took to Twitter on Monday to share the news.

“People across 180 countries will get to see the unknown side of PM Narendra Modi as he ventures into Indian wilderness to create awareness about animal conservation and environmental change.

Catch ‘Man Vs Wild’ with PM Modi @DiscoveryIN on August 12 @9 pm,” Grylls tweeted.

Grylls also posted a short video of the promos of the programme. The announcement comes on the occasion of International Tigers Day, celebrated each year on July 29. (IANS)

Arjun to join Melbourne film fest masterclass

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2019

Invitation for Expression of Interest The Task Force for Music and Arts (TaFMA) invites Registered Local Event Management Companies for management of “Hornbill Music Festival 2019” which will be held in Dimapur from 1st to 10th December 2019. Interested Companies/ Firms may apply to the undersigned on or before the 07th of August 2019 with the following documents-.

1 Photocopy copy of Registration of Company/Firm and GST number 2 Minimum of 3 years experience and should have hosted at least 2 or more National or International events (Photocopies for Highlighting past events) 3 List of infrastructure and assets owned by the company 4 Brief write up of vision and action plan to maximize the reach of Hornbill Music Festival 5 The expert committee set up by TaFMA reserves the right to select the best Company based on the details submitted.

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DIMAPUR NKONJAN NUNGYING EKHUNG FELICITATION The Dimapur Nkonjan Nungying Ekhung takes this opportunity to extend our heartiest congratulations to Bichano Lotha daughter of C. Thunglamo Kikon of Nungying Village, for securing Gold Medal (topper) in MA (Department of Sociology) from NEHU Shillong.

The DNNE lauds her for bringing laurels to the Ekhung as well as to the village as a whole. We wish her all the best in her future endeavours.

SdO. Renben, Chairman DNNE

SdMhathung Ngullie, Info. Secy. DNNE

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Ramos-Vinolas wins Swiss Open title

Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas with the winner trophy in Gstaad, Switzerland.

mos-Vinolas wrapped up his first triumph since winning in Bastad, Sweden, three years ago after both players’ patience was tested by a fourand-a-half hour delay to the start of the final because of persistent rain in Gstaad.

After the long wait, it was world number 455 Stebe

Lukaku left out of Man Utd’s Oslo squad

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familiar foe Yamaguchi turned out to be Sindhu’s nemesis.

The Indian would be desperate to break her sevenmonth long title jinx.

Seeded fourth, Sindhu will open her women’s singles campaign against unseeded Chinese Han Yue, whom she easily overcame in the first round of Japan Open.

If all goes well, Sindhu might face her first real test in the quarterfinals with a possible clash against sixth seed Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand.

The other Indian in

Home experience gives Eng edge: Woakes Lo n d o n, J u l 2 9 (Agencies): England’s Chris Woakes is primed to play a starring role against Australia after serving his Ashes apprenticeship.

The all-rounder tasted the euphoria of home success in 2013 when he made his Test debut in the final match of England’s 3-0 series win - bad light denying him and Matt Prior the chance to knock off the 21 runs required to improve the scoreline.

But he was then overlooked for the return Ashes tour that winter and more

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disappointment followed as he missed the 2015 series after knee surgery and, having fought his way back into the Test team the following summer he took 4-36 at Adelaide in December

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the District Driver’s Union Longleng, ANTA Longleng Unit and CIC Longleng carried out road repair works at ChangtongyaLongleng road for 5 days (11-7-19 to 15-5-19). Several individuals and groups came forward to show their support financially and morally. We extend our sincere gratitude to:1. Shri. John Tsulise Sangtam, Deputy Commissioner Longleng 2. Shri. S. Toshi Angh, Exec. Engineer R&B Longleng 3. Shri. Chubatoshi, Exec. Engineer N.H 702 Mkg Division 4. Shri. Charle Imchen, Exec. Engineer N.H Mon Division 5. Phom Baptist Christian Association Lempong, Longleng 6. The eleven wards of Longleng Town We have nothing to give you back in return but we hope and pray that our Almighty blesses you in abundance for your good gesture.

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2017, only for England to collectively fluff their lines and hand back the urn.

Now, aged 30, Woakes is ready to take centre stage.

“My main memory of my debut is probably the celebrations after it!” says Woakes.

Woakes faces stiff competition for a starting spot in England’s XI for the first Test on Thursday at his home ground at Edgbaston after being named in a 14man squad alongside fellow seamers Stuart Broad, Jofra

Archer, Olly Stone, Sam Curran and certain starter James Anderson.

He bolstered his claim for selection with Test-best figures of 6-17 in England’s ruthless 143-win over Ireland at Lord’s last week.

Woakes’ record of 60 wickets in 15 home Tests means that Broad faces a real battle to keep his place ahead of the Warwickshire seamer despite having taken 105 wickets in partnership with Anderson in the last three home Ashes series.

FELICITATION

With immense pride and honour we the Nrung Longidang Village Students’ Union express our heartiest congratulations to : 1. N Longshithung Ezung, S/o Rev. Dr. E Nrio Ezung for being appointed as Member Secretary, Nagaland State Legal Services Authority.

2. Rev. Dr. Thungdemo Lotha for being appointed as the President of National Christian Council Nagaland.

3. Mhono Ngullie, D/o Npyingo Ngullie for having secured the post of LDA-cum-Computer Assistant under the Department of Taxes.

The Union wishes them a bright future in their endeavours.

Zanbonthung T Murry President NLVSU.

Pyingjamo Ngullie General Secretary NLVSU.

OFFICE OF THE NUNGYING VILLAGE STUDENTS’ UNION DIST. WOKHA – 797111, NAGALAND

A page entitled "The Phom Nagas of Tamlu : Advent of Christianity and Impact of Education on the Society", posted in the website www.kakching.in by one Bangben Shuka, the history about the origin and establishment of Tamlu Village as written by the above author under the caption "Origin and Evolution of Tamlu Village" is fallacious and erroneous. Therefore, the same should not be construed as correct and fact.

(W. TINGKEN KONYAK) President Tamlu Citizen

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With immense pide and joy. The Sanis Students’ Union (SSU) would like to congratulate Shri Yiben B Humtsoe, S/o Shri.

Benrithung Humtsoe for securing Top No. 1 in the recently declared LDA – Cum Computer Assistant under the Department of State Taxes Dimapur Nagaland.

The Union further wishes him success in his future endeavour.

LIZAO MURRY LICHON KITHAN PRESIDENT GEN/SECRETARY

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Lo n d o n, J u l 2 9 (Agencies): Romelu Lukaku has not been named in Manchester United’s 26man squad for a pre-season friendly against Kristiansund in Oslo.

Both the Belgium international, who has yet to feature for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side during United’s pre-season, and defender Matteo Darmian will not be travelling to Norway for Tuesday’s friendly.

It is understood that Lukaku has a ‘minor injury’ which would not stop him playing if he was required to.

It is also understood that Juventus are preparing an offer for Lukaku and are willing to include Paulo Dybala as part of the deal - but the Argentine himself wants to remain in Turin.

Until last week, United have been negotiating with Inter Milan for Lukaku but the clubs remain far apart in their valuation of the 26-year-old.

The Serie A side made a bid of £53.9m upfront for Lukaku with no add-ons earlier this month which was rejected by United.

United would want in excess of the £79m they paid to sign Lukaku from Everton in 2016 if they are to allow him to leave Old Trafford.

DI M A P UR , J u l 2 9 ( N P N ) : Wo k h a D i s trict Cricket Association (WDCA) will be organising under 16 Inter School Cricket Tournament at Wokha Local ground on August 7.

WDCA informed that the tournament was being held to promote grassroot level cricket in the district. It also informed that the probable district team for the upcoming tournament in the next level would be selected from this tournament.

In this regard, WDCA has informed interested schools to participate in the tournament. The last date for confirmation is August 5. For more details, contact 7005617279 or 8118915539.

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MOPUNGCHUKET SENSO TELONGJEM KOHIMA : NAGALAND

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Over the year, the Mopungchuket Senso Telongjem Kohima (MSTK) has been at the receiving end of immeasurable blessings bestowed upon us and words are never enough to thank God who has been with us through all walks of life.

Our pioneers who has established the Union 54 years back with a handful of members has in reality visualized that the painstaking they weathered, the priceless sacrifices of our senior elders would be harvested in joy today. MSTK honours those pioneers and we are in awe of God’s measureless love that has led us this far. 2019 has been a special time to retrospect and count the blessings and MSTK takes pride to extend our heartiest appreciation and with immense pride and honour, would like to congratulate the following outstanding achievements made by the members of the MSTK who has put their very best endeavour in their dedicated service to achieve remarkable status as mentioned below: 1. Sh. Bendangkokba, IAS, for promotion from Commissioner & Secretary, to the post of Principal Secretary.

2. Sh. Maongwati Aier, IAS, for promotion from Commissioner & Secretary, to the post of Principal Secretary.

3. Er. Limatongdang Jamir, for promotion from Chief Engineer, to the post of Engineer-in-Chief.

4. Sm. Obangla Jamir, Additional Secretary, transferred as Secretary, NIC. 5. Sh. Lipoktuba Aier, for promotion from General Manager, Cooperative Bank, to the post of Managing Director.

6. Sh. Nungsangwabang, for promotion from Joint Secretary, to the post of Additional Secretary.

7. Er. Imnajungba Jamir, for promotion from Executive Engineer, PWD, to the post of Superintendent Engineer.

8. Sh. Wabang Lemtur, for promotion from Joint Director, Sericulture, to the post of Additional Director.

9. Sh. Lepden Jamir, Sr. Artist, Directorate of Agriculture, for being selected as one of the Executive General Council Member from Nagaland (State Nominee), Lalit Kala Akademi (National Academy of Art) under the Ministry of Culture.

10. Sh. Shilumakba, for promotion from Inspector, Fire & Emergency Service, to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police.

The milestone achievement is worth appreciating and we are thankful and humbled for bringing pride and honour for the village in particular and to Nagas in general. Your perseverance and commitment towards work culture are noted as exemplary and commendable. MSTK will continue to pray and thank God for leading this far, today we hold our heads high and pray that God will bestow wisdom and continue blessing your talents in the interest of the society. The glorious path you achieved will be long cherished and will go down our memory lane. Furthermore, MSTK pray for your humility that you always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom and the meekness of true strength.

Sd/Sd/(LIKOKSASHI) (LANUYAPANG) President (MSTK) General Secretary (MSTK)

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Gstaad, Jul 29 (Agencies): Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas eased past German Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-3 6-2 to win the second ATP title of his career at the Swiss Open on Sunday after not dropping a set at the clay court tournament all week.

The 31-year-old Ra-

who made the quicker start with a break of serve to begin the contest.

The 85th ranked Ramos-Vinolas, however, quickly found his groove and took a 4-2 lead when a Stebe forehand sailed wide to finish a lengthy game and earn him a second break.

Stebe was forced to play two matches on Saturday due to poor weather conditions earlier in the tournament and fatigue seemed to get the better of him in the final.

A backhand winner on the slide earned RamosVinolas a break of serve in the opening game of the second set and he never looked back, wrapping up the win in an hour and 21 minutes.

“It was not easy because everybody said it was raining all day,” Ramos-Vinolas said afterwards.

WDCA to conduct U-16 inter-school tournament

Bangkok, Jul 29 (PTI): The successive losses to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi have been disappointing but Indian ace P V Sindhu will have to put it all behind when she renews her chase for a maiden title this year in the Thailand Open badminton tournament, starting here on Tuesday.

The last two weeks have been an emotional roller-coaster ride for Sindhu as after finishing second-best at the Indonesia Open, she was shown the door in the quarterfinals of the Japan Open last week.

On both occasions,

The Mopungchuket Village Council through this column convey our heartiest congratulations, with immense pleasure, to the following individuals for their distinguished achievements in their respective positions: 1. Mr. Bendangkokba IAS, on his promotion from the post of Commissioner & Secretary to that of Principal Secretary to the Government of Nagaland.

2. Mr. Maongwati Aier IAS, on his promotion from the post of Commissioner & Secretary to that of Principal Secretary to the Government of Nagaland.

3. Mr. Temsuba Aier IPS, on his promotion from the rank of DIGP to that of IGP, Nagaland Police.

4. Er. Limatongdang Jamir, on his promotion from the post of Chief Engineer to that of Engineer-in-Chief, PWD, Government of Nagaland.

5. Mr. Nungsangwabang, on his promotion from the post of Joint Secretary to that of Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland.

6. Mr. Wabang Lemtur, on his promotion from the post of Joint Director to that of Additional Director, Department of Sericulture, Government of Nagaland.

7. Mr. Lepden Jamir, Sr. Artist, Directorate of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland, on his being selected as a member of the Executive General Council of Lalit Kala Akademi (National Academy of Art) under Ministry of Culture, GoI, as state nominee from Nagaland.

8. Mr. Shilumakba, on his promotion from the rank of Inspector to that of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Fire & Emergency Services, Government of Nagaland.

The above mentioned are indeed worthy of their promotions in their respective fields of profession and we are proud and humbled to be associated with such achievers. We pray that God Almighty guide and protect them as they discharge their duties in the service of the people and the land.

Lipok Jamir Imi Lemtur MKC-432 Chairman Secretary

We the NVSU would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to the following candidates for achieving their highest career in the academy year.

1. Subeno Odyuo, D/o. Yibemo Odyuo, Post ASI NPSC Examination.

2. Bichano Kikon, D/o. Thunglamo Kikon, Top 1 in Sociology, Gold Medalist in Shillong.

3. Yachumaro Kikon, D/o. Zubemo Kikon, Topper in Lotha Subject.

The Union wishes them more success in their future endeavours.

Sd/Sd/C. Sulanthung Ngullie Y. Woremo Ngullie President, NVSU Gen. Secretary, NVSU

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effort ultimately proved decisive.

The result leaves Milan bottom without a point after two games, while Benfica’s ICC campaign comes to a close with a strong chance of it winning the competition, with only Manchester United still able to join it on a maximum nine points.

A dominant Milan first went close in the 16th minute, as Hakan Calhanoglu struck the post from

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fray, Saina Nehwal has been seeded seventh here, but she has been hampered by several injuries of late.

Saina was forced to withdraw from both the Indonesia and Japan Open on medical grounds as she is focussing on getting into shape for next month’s World Championships. She has been pitted against a qualifier in the opening round.

In men’s singles, Shubhankar Dey has got a tough opening round against top seed Kento Momota of Japan, while B Sai Pranneeth, who lost in the semifinals last week, is up against Thailand’s Kantaphon Wangcharoen.

If both the Indians manage to get past the first hurdle, they will face each other next.

Fifth seed Kidambi Srikanth will take on a qualifier, while H S Prannoy will be up against Wong Wing Ki Vincent of Hong Kong in the opening round.

Sameer Verma, seeded eighth, will face Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia while Parupalli Kashyap will take on France’s Brice Leverdez.

Sourabh Verma and Ajay Jayaram will have to go through the qualifiers.

While Sourabh will play top seed Shesar Hiren Rhustavito of Indonesia in the first qualifying round, Jayaram will face Chinese Zhou Ze Qi.

VIRAZOUMA YOUTH ORGANISATION CONDEMNS THE 26TH JULY 2019 INCIDENT Virazouma Youth Organisation strongly condemn the unfortunate incident on 26th July 2019 at National Highway 29 near Niathu Resort Chumoukedima due to the ongoing four lane road construction.

The accident occurred when the machinery was uprooting a tree which fell upon the moving taxi bearing Regd. NL01 T 8373 and killed two occupants on the spot. One of the deceased was later identified as Kedichol Kiso, son of Mr. Pudaho Kiso, from Virazouma Village. This negligent and unwarranted act of the road construction group led to the loss of two innocent lives.

The demise of Kedichol Kiso, who was a simple and good person, is an irreparable and great loss for the people of Virazouma Village in particular.

The Youth Organisation questions this hazardous working system which is very unsafe for the lives of all the commuters and passersby. The Youth further appeals to the public for support and the competent authority to take the necessary course of action. The VYO will not remain a mute spectator and will leave no stone unturned until and unless justice is delivered.

Kezhanguto Yhoshü Vice President V.Y.O.

Swedevito Lothu President V.Y.O.

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mos saw the Rossoneri fall short.

Milan looked excellent at times in the first half and crafted a host of opportunities, but it was unable to find a way past the supreme Vlachodimos, who produced a string of impressive saves.

Marco Giampaolo’s men remained the more threatening side after the interval, in spite of Benfica’s relative improvement, but a fortuitous Taarabt

Paris, Jul 29 (IANS): Brazilian star Neymar may not play in Paris Saint Germain’s remaining preseason friendly, returning to the field when the Ligue 1 season kicks off next month.

Neymar is expected to miss the upcoming friendly against Sydney FC, scheduled to be played on Tuesday in the Chinese city of Suzhou, Efe news quoted the French newspaper L’Equipe as reporting.

The former Barcelona player plans to stay in the Chinese city along with defender Presnel Kimpembe to continue preparing for the league season, which gets underway for PSG on Aug. 11. The development came out amid media reports linking Neymar with a move out of the Le Parc des Princes stadium.

The 27-year-old Brazilian forward will also be on the sideline during the French Super Cup on Aug. 3 in the Chinese city against Stade Rennais FC, as he will serve a match-ban imposed last season. Neymar was kept off PSG’s squad for a friendly match against Inter Milan set to be played on Saturday.

As a result, Neymar will miss PSG’s whole Asian tour.

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Players of Benfica and AC Milan fight for the ball during their International Champions Cup match.

distance and Suso wasted the follow-up chance.

Opportunities started to come thick and fast for Milan, but Vlachodimos put up stern resistance, saving from Samu Castillejo and Fabio Borini in a 10minute spell.

Krzysztof Piatek then shot just wide from close range in the 43rd minute and Benfica nearly capitalised twice – Gabriel Pires testing Gianluigi Donnarumma from 25 yards, before the goalkeeper also thwarted Rafa at the end of a brilliant move.

Milan resumed its pressure early in the second half, but yet again Vlachodimos was unbeatable – the Greece international tipping over a Castillejo strike after the former Villarreal attacker dazzled the Benfica defence.

The Serie A giant was made to rue its profligacy when Benfica finally opened the scoring 20 minutes from time, Taarabt’s 20-yard strike taking a huge deflection on its way past half-time substitute Pepe Reina.

Milan almost forced a penalty shoot-out, but Lucas Biglia’s fine freekick strike crashed against the crossbar and Benfica held on.

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Foxborough, Jul 29 (Agencies): Adel Taarabt’s deflected effort against his former side saw Benfica edge AC Milan 1-0 to maintain its 100 per cent record in the International Champions Cup and move top of the table.

The entertaining contest in Massachusetts provided the Serie A side with a real test, but a combination of unimpressive finishing and fine goalkeeping from Odisseas Vlachodi-

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We fancy our chances at Napoli thump Liverpool 3-0 in friendly World Test C’ship, says Kohli including a maiden appearance for 16-year-old Harvey Elliott following the announcement of his signing earlier in the day.

The teenager became the youngest debutant in Premier League history when he played for Fulham against Wolves in May at

the age of 16 years and 30 days.

Liverpool, last season’s r unners-up, play Premier League champions Manchester City at Wembley on Sunday in the Community Shield, the traditional curtain-raiser to the English season.

Lyon beat Arsenal with 2 late goals

Liverpool’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain evades Simone Verdi during their pre-season friendly match against Napoli.

Lo n d o n, J u l 2 9 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : L ive r pool suffered a chastening 3-0 defeat by Napoli in a pre-season friendly in Edinburgh on Sunday, a week before they face Manchester City in the Community Shield at Wembley.

The European champions have not tasted victory in their past four friendly matches, losing to Borussia Dortmund and Sevilla and drawing with Sporting Lisbon before their loss at Murrayfield.

L o r e n z o I n s i g n e,

Arkadiusz Milik and Amin Younes scored for the Serie A side in front of a sellout crowd of 65,000, with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp using 21 players in total.

Insigne curled in the opener in the 17th minute and Carlo Ancelotti’s side underlined their superiority by doubling their lead just before the half-hour.

This time Insigne turned creator, squaring for Milik to finish.

Liverpool’s Georginio Wijnaldum had a goal

ruled out on the stroke of half-time for off-side.

The English Premier League side started the second half showing greater intent but Napoli struck again seven minutes after the re-start.

Insigne was involved once more, surging into the box and drawing a stop from Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet that bounced off one of his own defenders and presented Younes with a tap-in.

Klopp made 10 changes during the second half,

Lyon substitute Moussa Dembele scored two second-half goals as they came from behind to beat Arsenal in the pre-season Emirates Cup final.

Brazilian teenager Gabriel Martinelli thought he had scored the winner when his goal was ruled out for offside seconds before Dembele put Lyon 2-1 up.

Martinelli made his first appearance at Emirates Stadium as a substitute, with fellow new signing Dani Ceballos. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s volley had given Arsenal a first-half lead.

The Gabon international hit the outside of the post late in the second half, almost chipping Lyon keeper Anthony Racioppi from the edge of the box.

Arsenal were forced to reshape early on as Alexandre Lacazette, facing his former club, was substituted in the 12th minute, moments after receiving treatment on the touchline. Aubameyang’s volley in the 36th minute was cancelled out by Dembele’s first - a powerful header into the bottom right corner.

And there was drama late on as Martinelli’s strike was ruled out seconds before Dembele went up the other end and slotted it past a stationary Bernd Leno to double his tally.

New signing Ceballos, who joins on loan from Real Madrid, was given a standing ovation when he and Martinelli were introduced late in the second half.

The 22-year-old Spanish international had little time to make an impact but enjoyed the occasion, taking time at the end of the match to thank supporters.

Lo n d o n, J u l 2 9 (IANS): Insisting that India have performed well in the recent years in Test cricket, skipper Virat Kohli believes his boys will fancy their chances of winning the inaugural ICC World Test Championship.

The ICC on Monday officially launched WTC which begins with the first Ashes Test between England and Australia at Edgbaston from August 1.

“We are awaiting the ICC World Test Championship with great enthusiasm as it adds context to the longest format of the game,” Kohli told ICC. “Test cricket is very challenging and coming out on top in the traditional form is always highly satisfying.

The Indian team has done really well in recent years and will be fancying its chances in the championship.”

India, currently placed at the top spot in ICC Test Rankings, will begin their WTC campaign with the two-Test series against West Indies beginning August 22.

T h e Wo r l d Te s t Championship will see the top nine Test teams -- Aus-

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tralia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies -- compete in 71 Test matches across 27 series, played over two years; with the top two teams contesting the final in June 2021 (to be played in the UK) and the winners crowned World Test Champions.

With points available for every single game, each

team will play three home and three away series. Each series counts for 120 points, distributed over the number of matches in a series.

For example, a twomatch series will mean 60 points for each Test while a three-match series will give 40 points to each Test match. A tie will be 50 per cent of the points available, whilst a draw will be a 3:1 points ratio.

Evra retires from football Olympic champ Dalilah smashes world record

Patrice Evra

Paris, Jul 29 (Agencies): Former Manchester United defender Patrice Evra has announced his retirement from football.

Evra, 38, has called time on a 20-year career during which he played for Nice, Monaco, United, Juventus, Marseille, West Ham and the France national side.

“To be fair it was an easy decision to make. I feel blessed and really grateful everyday about what I have achieved,” he told Soccer AM. “I am a little bit emotional saying it now but I think it is the right time to do it. I went with my instinct, I just want to stop now. I am

38. I know I still look young but it’s time for the new generation. I am happy.”

The Frenchman says he has begun training for his coaching badges and intends to get a UEFA A license, but will take a year off before getting into a full-time coaching role. “My playing career is officially over,” said Evra. “I started training for the UEFA B Coaching License in 2013, now I want to finish it and then go on to get the UEFA A license.”

“Sir Alex Ferguson said two of my players will be great managers and he mentioned me and Ryan Giggs. It was a big compliment. I don’t want to do it

straight away so I will work in TV and with my brand. I love to make people happy and laugh but when I am work I know I need to focus.” “I need maybe another year to enjoy life after so many sacrifices before becoming a manager. I know I can do it. I can’t dedicate myself 100 per cent right now,” said Evra.

The left-back spent eight seasons at Old Trafford, winning five Premier League titles, the Champions League and three League Cups.

Evra also won two Serie A titles at Juventus and the French League Cup at Monaco.

Iowa, Jul 29 (Agencies): Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad smashed one of athletics’ oldest world records when she stormed to the women’s 400 metres hurdles title in 52.20 seconds at the United States championships in Iowa on Sunday.

The blistering r un shaved more than a tenth of a second from the previous mark of 52.34 seconds set by Russian Yuliya Pechonkina in 2003.

“I’m just shocked,” said the 29-year-old Muhammad, who suffered concussion after a fall during training two weeks ago.

“I’ve been kind of hitting that time in practice consistently and my coach was like, ‘There’s no way you can’t do it’.”

Te e n a g e r S yd n e y McLaughlin was second in 52.88, just 0.13 shy of her personal best, with Ashley Spencer third in 53.11, as all three runners made the U.S. team for September’s world championships in Doha. The record could fall again there, said Muhammad, who trains in Los

Alex De Minaur lifts Atlanta ATP title

Washington, Jul 29 (Agencies): Australia’s Alex de Minaur captured his second ATP title in dominant style Sunday, dropping just 10 points on serve in a 6-3, 7-6 (7/2) triumph over Taylor Fritz in a battle of rising stars in Atlanta.

Third-seeded de Minaur, 20, became just the third player to win an ATP title without facing a break point since the tour began keeping stats in 1991.

German Tommy Haas did it in Memphis in 2007 and American John Isner managed the feat in Newport in 2017.

More importantly, de Minaur cemented his return from the groin injury that sidelined him for nearly two months after he claimed his maiden victory at Sydney in January.

“This one is really special to me,” said de Minaur, who improved to 15-4 on hard courts this season with the US Open looming in August.

“I felt like I really needed this. To start the year with a bang and then

Alex De Minaur holds the trophy after defeating Taylor Fritz in the final.

be slowed down by injuries ... you expect your level to be right there once you come back, but you have to slowly grind your way back. I’ve been playing great tennis and felt like if I could keep it all together, the good results will come.

This is a week that will really help me out.”

De Minaur, the youngest ever to hoist the Atlanta trophy, lost just seven first-

serve points in his four matches of the week - holding in 42 service games.

His near-flawless display on serve again on Sunday heaped all the pressure on Fritz and the American was broken in the seventh game of the opening set with a double-fault on break point.

De Minaur broke again to pocket the first set when Fritz’s drop shot ef-

fort failed to clear the net.

Neither player faced a break point in the second, and de Minaur was on the defensive early in the tiebreaker with a double fault on the first point.

H e wo n t h e n ex t three points, however, to seize control, gave himself match point with a service winner and let out a shout of satisfaction after a backhand volley winner sealed the triumph.

“I don’t think I could start the American hardcourt season any better than this,” de Minaur said.

“I’m happy with where I am and enjoying every day.” Second-seeded Fritz, 21, is projected to reach a career-high ranking of 28th in the world on Monday despite the defeat.

“It was a good week,” said Fritz, who claimed his first career title at Eastbourne last month.

“It’s my first time being one of the top seeds and I made it to the final.

It hurts so much to lose a final, but I’m still confident and will keep moving forward.”

Dalilah Muhammad (centre) clears the last hurdle on her way to break the world record at the US Championships athletics meet.

Angeles. “That 52 is going to get broke,” Muhammad said. “If not by me by the other women.”

The first American Olympic gold medallist in the event, she had entered the American championships with a personal best of 52.64 seconds. Twice a world silver medallist but

Real Madrid block Bale’s China move

London, Jul 29 (IANS): Wales winger Gareth Bale’s move to China has been called off by Real Madrid, meaning he will be staying at the Spanish club.

Bale had been expected to join Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning on a three-year deal, earning a reported one million pound a week. That move is now off after the Real’s board reportedly decided they want a transfer fee for the player who joined from Tottenham in 2013 for a then world-record fee of 85 milion pound, reports the Guardian It is also believed that Real president Florentino Perez has requested an extra payment to sign the 30-yearold, who has three years remaining on the contract he signed in 2016, which is worth around 600,000 pound a week.

Last week, Real boss Zinedine Zidane said the 30year-old was “very close to leaving”, having fallen out of favour. He had also said that his exit would be “best for everyone”.

never the champion, she went out hard in the final and was clearly the leader by the final straight.

She smiled, put her hands on her hips and slumped down after crossing the finish line. Despite her Olympic gold medal, Muhammad had been overshadowed by the rap-

idly improving McLaughlin since the Rio Games.

In fact, many had expected McLaughlin, who went to the Rio Olympics as a 17-year-old, would be the to break the world record. Asked if she thought she was underrated with all the attention McLaughlin had received, Muhammad

said, “I do.”

“I felt like the underdog in the race,” she said.

“It definitely kept me humble this year, and even motivated me more.”

The stunning record overshadowed what had been expected to the highlight of the closing day of the four-day meeting - 100 metres winner Christian Coleman challenging wunderkind Noah Lyles in the 200 metres.

Lyles, the fastest man at the distance since Usain Bolt won the Olympics gold in 2012, got the victory in 19.78 seconds with Coleman running 20.02 to make the world championships in a second event.

The two were sideby-side before Lyles pulled away in the last 60 metres.

“Tons of joy,” said Lyles, who danced down the track after winning.

The women’s race went to Dezerea Bryant in 22.47 seconds.

Craig Engels edged Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz in the men’s 1,500m by fourhundredths of a second, winning in 3:44.93.

Dipa fighting time to be fit for Olympics Ko lkat a , J u l 2 9 (IANS): Ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar’s rehabilitation will take more time, said her coach Bisweswar Nandi casting a long shadow over her participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

“Dipa’’s rehabilitation is still going on and it will go on for some time now,” Nandi told on Monday.

Dipa’’s rehabilitation after a knee injury has been taking longer than usual and that forced her out of the Asian Championships which took place in Mongolia last month, where Pranati Nayak clinched a bronze medal in vault event.

“We cannot do anything right now. We will act according to doctor’’s advice. I won’’t risk her unless she is completely fine. Once she is fine, I will consult the doctor and the physio,” Nandi conceded.

The Tripura girl, who missed out on a medal by a whisker at the 2016 Rio Olympics, will now face an uphill task to be ready in time for the World Championships in Germany, starting October 4-13, which will

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serve as the qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympics.

Asked about a timeline as to when she can return to action with the Olympics less than one year to go, Nandi sounded noncommittal.

“I can’’t say anything about her Olympics participation at the moment. It won’’t be fair for me to comment. I need to talk to the doctor first. “I cannot tell you when she will return, I cannot give a tentative timeline. Like I said, her rehabilitation is still going on and it will go on.”

Nandi remained hopeful of a comeback, nonetheless. “But one thing I can

tell you, we haven’’t lost hope yet. Now it all depends on the condition of her feet, doctor and physio.

Even if there is one percent pain, we won’’t risk her,” he added.

For gymnasts to seal an Olympics berth, the qualification system comprises eight World Cups. The top three in these events make the cut.

Dipa aggravated her knee injury while participating in the Baku World Cup in March. She has been recovering since then and could not take part in the World Cup in Doha, losing crucial ranking points in the process.

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