June 6, 2019

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Vol XXIX No. 179

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Dimapur bandh evokes mixed response ANCSU calls off protest

Dimapur Police pacifying college students at Deluxe point Dimapur, Wednesday. (NP)

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): The lightning bandh called in Dimapur from 10 a.m. onwards Wednesday by the college students unions in Dimapur affiliated with ANCSU, evoked mixed response against the backdrop of the strong opposition from the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) and Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU).

Students from different colleges, in hundreds, gathered at several pockets of Dimapur including Clock Tower, Deluxe Point, Town Hall, Nagarjan Petrol Pump etc. Volunteers gathered in large numbers particularly at Deluxe Point, where police

personnel and security forces were deployed to ensure peace and security.

Some of the student leaders told Nagaland Post that the bandh went ahead despite opposition from DCCI and DNSU. On DNSU opposing the bandh, they said the 19 colleges in Dimapur did not come under DNSU but were affiliated with ANCSU. During the bandh period, police personnel were seen trying to pacify the student volunteers to maintain peace and not to indulge in violence. Many shops remained open while several were closed. Many shops and business establishments owned by Muslims were also closed due to Eid.

An ANSCU member however claimed that the bandh was total and successful. He expressed gratitude to students and leaders for their support. There were reports that volunteers had harassed and shop owners threatened to down shutters, allegations that were strongly refuted by some student leaders Four ANSCU functionaries from Kohima were deputed to Dimapur to monitor the students.

Meanwhile, ANSCU acknowledged police personnel for extending cooperation. They also claimed that colleges that were not affiliated to ANSCU also turned up for the event in support of the cause.

(NWHD clarifies on p-7)

SKK seeks Along regrets use of force clarification from against ANCSU activists H&TE minister Correspondent

DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): All Sumi Students’ Union (SKK) has claimed that Higher & Technical Education (H&TE) minister Temjen Imna Along tried to convey to All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) leadership “through some feelers” that unless ANCSU re-considered its approaches on the Scholarship issue, the long pending issue of up-gradation of Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu (KPA) could be hampered.

In a press release, All Sumi Students’ Union president Atokiho Sumi and general secretary Hutoshe Kits also alleged that the ANCSU leadership was “constantly being intimidated through phone and otherwise by his henchmen.”

Stating that such practice was “most unbecoming” of a cabinet minister, the SKK has, therefore, asked the minister to put out clarification in the public domain on the following: Do Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu and ANCSU belong to Sumi tribe alone; did ANCSU raise the issue of up-gradation of Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu to professional engineering college of which the cabinet has already made its decision

KOHIMA, JUN 5 (NPN): Minister of Higher & Technical Education Temjen Imna Along has expressed regret for Tuesday’s incident when police had to use force to disperse activists of All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) protesting against the misuse of scholarship fund and also the scholarship issue of 2014 to 2016.

Along, appealed to students to be patient and to give the law to take its own course while also reiterating that the department of H&TE had recovered the scholarship money and that the matter was being investigated by the state Lok Ayukta. He said this at a function organised by the BJP State unit here Wednesday to celebrate the return of BJP-led NDA to power under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In an attempt to assuage the sentiments of students, Along admitted that some student protestors were injured on Tuesday but maintained that this should not have happened. On the other hand, he also urged upon students to be more responsible as prior permission was required as per rule, to hold any protest. On encroachment of government land under Science College campus, he said the process began in 1982 and continued till 2008-10.

(Cont’d on p-7)

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State BJP legislators and party workers gathered to celebrate BJP-led NDA’s second term. (NP)

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KOHIMA, JUN 5 (NPN): BJP leader and deputy chief minister, Y. Patton on Wednesday exuded confidence that the decades old Naga political issue would be resolved during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second stint in office.

Addressing a programme organized by the BJP State unit at Old DC Bungalow here on Wednesday to celebrate the return of BJP-led NDA, Patton reminded that it was under Modi’s able leadership and commitment that the Framework Agreement was signed between NSCN (I-M) and the Centre.

In his address, Patton also congratulated BJP central leaders led by Modi, leaders in charge of the North East and party workers for successful return of the party at the Centre. He maintained that India being a Hindu-majority country would cater to the interest of the community, irrespective of whichever party formed the government at the Centre, and appealed to BJP critics not to tag the party as being anti-Christian.

Patton announced that those party workers who deliver good service to the people would be rewarded, while calling for avoiding anything that could weaken the party.

BJP’s pre-poll agreement with NDPP intact: Along State BJP president and minister Higher & Technical Education, Temjen Imna Along rebuffed all rumours about crisis within the PDA allies.

Along reaffirmed that the prepoll agreement with NDPP was still intact and that it would be maintained for five years without any hitches. The same was echoed by Patton, assuring that the BJP was committed to the pre-poll alliance with NDPP and that there would not be any crisis till 2023.

Patton said that the ruling coalition under the leadership of chief minister Neiphiu Rio would complete its full tenure and appealed to the workers not to be swayed by rumours.

Along therefore appealed to party workers and political parties not to spread rumours, but remain focused on strengthening the party.

(Cont’d on p-7)

DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has appreciated the efforts of the state government and ANCSU in sorting out the issues amicably, but maintained that it would not accept verbal commitment without action.

In a press release, NSF president Ninoto Awomi and general secretary Liremo K. Kikon said the federation held an emergency meeting on June 5, 2019 at its office with regard to ANCSU’s charter of demands and decided to press on the matters including scholarship issue, nodal cell, land encroachment issue and recruitment of assistant professors.

Scholarship issue: NSF has given two weeks to complete the investigation on the alleged misappropriation of scholarship. NSF said it would expect copies of the investigation report/charge-sheet. It stated that Lokayukta should complete the investigation pertaining to the scholarship issue within two weeks time and charge-sheeted officials be

immediately suspended.

Nodal cell: On the setting up of nodal cell, NSF stated that nodal cell should function as a separate entity of the higher & technical education department. It suggested that nodal cell should consist of seven member headed by the commissioner & secy., hr & technical education.

It stated that funds allocated by the Centre and all students’ related schemes should be directly transferred into the accounts maintained by the nodal cell. The scholarships should be released to the students latest by the month of August each year.

KSC land encroachment issue: NSF has sought the status of action taken on the commissioner & secretary report dated October 24, 2018 submitted to the chief minister, which was with DC Kohima. NSF said government was expected to give status report and action taken within 30 days from the date of receipt of the communication from NSF office.

The Federation also demanded that all land encroachment issues in the district colleges and polytechnic institutions be immediately recommended for proper land survey and land belonging to the institutions must be immediately settled.

110 asst. professor posts for recruitment: With regard to ANCSU’s demand for advertising the 110 posts of asst. professors, NSF said it expected the government to issue public advertisement within two months. If the demand was not met by the government, the NSF said it would have no other option, but to resort to its own course of actions.

The federation said it expected a matured approach from the government and the responsible department in dealing with the genuine issues that the student community has raised under the banner of ANCSU. NSF also urged the government to settle the issues with utmost seriousness and sincerity.

consultation ‘uncalled for’: DCCI

DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has clarified that it was not opposed to the cause of All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU), but stressed that calling an indefinite bandh without consultation was “totally uncalled for”.

Asserting that it had no choice but to see the welfare of shop owners and customers at large, DCCI made it clear in a press release to student bodies and public that indefinite bandh only led to “massive negative effect”, not only on the business community but on all fronts in “our daily lives”.

While fully expressing its solidarity and moral support to the student community whose scholarship fund was allegedly misappropriated that tantamount to “nothing less than daylight robbery”, the trade

body also condemned the reported high-handedness of the State government in dealing with the democratic agitation of students.

The use of force to silence the democratic voice by lathi-charge, water cannon and arrest, instead of listening to their plight was “very unfortunate”, the release stated.

Mentioning that the action amounted to denial of citizen rights to air their grievances, DCCI wondered what the government was trying to teach the future generation by using such a brutal force. It suggested that the government should learn to deal with students, “who are our future”, with patience and respect.

Meanwhile, the traders’ body said due to celebration of Eid, the Muslim business community could not open their shops.

(Cont’d on p-7)

Dzükou valley declared ‘plastic-free zone’ NSCN (K) must take NCA path: Tatmadaw

Er. Zale Neikha with SAYO, SAPO, AYO officials and others after unveiling the monolith at Viswema village. (NP)

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“Is he trying to show off his Kendo stance to scare them?”

pendency of the probe; assured to immediately set up a Nodal Cell to implement all scholarship schemes in Nagaland; to take up the land encroachment issue in Kohima Science College with the cabinet on June 10,2019 with alternative arrangements and initiating measures for the welfare of the college; assured that sanctioned posts of assistant professors under Higher Education department would be recruited through NPSC; that all scholarship schemes will be implemented in a fair manner and also to monitor all scholarships for students.

ANCSU has expressed gratitude to chief minister Neiphiu Rio for his sympathetic response to their demands. It has also thanked NSF, NLSF, ASSU (SKK), ENSCU, NPRAAF, NVCO, DSSU, HASSU, NASSU and TSUD for their support to ANCSU in its quest for justice.

In addition, ANCSU has also thanked its units, media and well wishers for their cooperation during the indefinite hunger strike.

Will not accept verbal commitment: NSF Calling indefinite bandh without

(Cont’d on p-7)

This is it!

In view of the assurances given by the state government to the five-point charter of demands made

by All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU), the student body has agreed to call off its indefinite hunger strike.

This was arrived at after state chief minister Neiphiu Rio held a meeting with ANCSU representatives in Kohima in presence of minister of Higher and Technical Education Temjen Imna Along during which the two expressed regrets over the police action on student protestors on Tuesday in Kohima.

According to ANCSU president Katho P.Awomi and general secretary Vimeyiekho Vitso, the chief minister and minister H&TE assured students of fulfilling their five-point charter of demands which included: ensure that probe on the scholarship scam be submitted at the earliest and stern action against those involved; it was also assure that the incumbent Director H&TE will be shifted and if needed be, suspended, till

PM Modi will resolve Naga issue in second term: State BJP unit

KOHIMA, JUN 5 (NPN): Coinciding with the World Environment Day and as a pledge to protect the environment, Dzükou Valley was officially declared as “plastic-free zone” on Wednesday.

This declaration was officially announced by adviser youth resources and sports Er.Zale Neikha in the presence of Angami Public Organisation (SAPO),

Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) and SAYO leaders and the general public at a programme held under the aegis of Southern Angami Youth Organisation (SAYO) at Viswema Village Council Hall Wednesday.

Speaking on the occasion, Neikha described Dzükou Valley as one of the biggest assets of Nagas, besides being a prominent tourist spot in the Northeast and one of the most sought-after destinations

in the State. He called for collective efforts for preservation and protection of the valley.

Neikha also requested the frontal organizations in the region to take up the initiative of beautifying the valley and also the responsible department to take up developmental activities in the valley to create avenue.

Department of Tourism additional director (HoD), Akhale Vizol, appreciated SAYO for making a pledge to keep the plastic-free zone.

She also stressed on the need to protect environment at the local level. She also suggested that the responsible organisations to man entry points to curb plastic use in the valley. HoD maintained that Dzükou valley has the potential to be recognised by the UNESCO if taken good care of.

SAYO president Zake-

leto Tsukru said SAYO took the initiative in order to combat plastic pollution in the valley. He reminded that the valley attracted many visitors but at the same time, faced a lot of challenges due to littering by the visitors.

He said a mass social work was undertaken before declaring the valley as plasticfree zone. He said around 150 volunteers took part in the cleanup drive.

In his short speech, SAPO president Vimeyol Theyo urged upon SAYO to follow the guidelines strictly as they have taken the pledge to make the valley plastic-free zone. He appealed to the gathering to protect the valley. AYO representative also spoke in the programme.

Earlier, a monolith was unveiled by the adviser at the Dzükuo point, Viswema to mark the occasion.

DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): In stark contrast to NSCN (K)’s affirmation that the group would not sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the Myanmar government, the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, has reportedly asserted that current problem could be solved if the NSCN(K) abides by three points: to take the NCA path, to uphold the principles stated in the bilateral agreement and not to support Assam and Manipur rebels.

According to a report published by The Irrawaddy, Tatmadaw spokesperson Brig-Gen Zaw Min Tun said “First of all, they must not allow rebels who are fighting with the neighbor (India) to stay with them.

They need to honestly take the NCA path and follow its principles.”

The Tatmadaw has

accused the NSCN (K) of supporting insurgent groups of Indian origin, including ULFA (I), National Democratic Front of Boroland (S), KLO, PDCK, KYKL, PREPAK, PLA, UNLF and RPF in Myanmar’s soil.

NSCN(K) signed a regional bilateral ceasefire with the Sagaing Region government on April 9, 2012. The Myanmar government is inviting them to sign the NCA along with other armed groups.

NSCN (K) MIP incharge Joseph Lamkang has said “The Naga did not sign the first 1947 Panglong Agreement and the current NCA is a transformed structure of the 1947 Panglong.”

Joseph said the Naga affair is different to Myanmar’s other ethnic affairs and that the Myanmar government understands it very well.

He said instead of pushing them to sign the NCA, the

government should find another means of dealing with the NSCN(K) push for independence.

“The Myanmar government has never cared about the Naga’s true desire.

The seven-year ceasefire has been one-sided and they (the military) have gained advantages. They have not treated us well. The Myanmar government understands that Naga affairs are different from other ethnic group affairs. Instead of pressuring the Naga to sign the NCA, I am sure that the Myanmar government can find an alternative way,” he stated.

He said Nagas did not sign the old Panglong Agreement because they decided to be independent. “Nagas have fought and died for it, hence why should we sign NCA? Myanmar has made a terrible mistake by trusting India too much,” MIP in-charge said.

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UTRC meeting reviews UTPs & convict cases

Tuensang UTRC meeting

Zunheboto UTRC meeting

Peren UTRC Meeting DIMAPUR: Following are the reports of the monthly Under Trial Review Committee (UTRC) meetings conducted at various districts.

T u e n s a n g : U T RC meeting at Tuensang was conducted on May 31 at District Jail, Tuensang.

During the meeting, it was informed to the mem-

Wokha UTRC meeting bers that 15 Under Trial Prisoners (UTC) and 12 convicts were lodged in at the district jail. Three of the UTPs were found eligible for free legal aid, where panel

lawyer incharge of jail will take up the cases for further proceedings. The meeting also deliberated that most of the UTPs/convicts in the jail have psychological prob-

Unity College holds medical camp DIMAPUR: With a purpose to create awareness among the girls about the importance of women’s health and hygiene, Unity College Dimapur Women Cell organised a medical camp for females on June 4 at the college campus. A press release by the college stated that the consultants for the camp were Dr. Sunil Sharma (Gynaecologist) from a private Hospital, Dimapur and Dr. Molu Ozukum (Dermatologist) Dimapur District Hospital. The release informed that the consultants also delivered a talk on women’s health and hygiene emphasizing on various diseases which are common among women.

attend the meeting.

ARSU golden jubilee: Atoizu Range Students Union (ARSU) golden jubilee planning board has convened a meeting on June 8 at 3 p.m at Hotel Saramati. All the committee convenors, ARSU advisors along with its members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

SOA, MCTE informs: Society of Alumni (SOA), MCTE has informed that launching programme of the society will be held on June 8, 11 a.m onwards at the college campus. All alumni have been requested to attend the programme.

WSTH first foundation day: Western Sümi Totimi Hoho will celebrate its first foundation day on June 7 at IDBL, Don Bosco School, Dimapur.

Hoho has requested all the past lead-

ers and present executive members of WSTH to attend the programme and share in the blessings.

Chokri literature consultative meet: Consultative meeting has been convened by Chokri speaking area public organization presidents on June 8, 11 a.m at Phek Town Council (PTC) conference hall to deliberate on some unresolved issues on Chokri literature. All Chokri speaking area church council chairmen and at least 5 responsible leaders from each Chokrimi area public organizations have been requested to attend the crucial meeting.

GDRN/NNC (N/A) discharge: GDRN/NNC (N/A) has discharged Nyan Ovung Lotha, regional secretary, on health ground with effect from June 5, 2019.

Diphupar Muslim community celebrates Eid

Members of Diphupar Muslim community with others.

DIMAPUR: Muslim Community Diphupar (MCD) on Wednesday celebrated Eid-ul-fitr by organising a mass prayer at Diphupar Jame Masjid under the leadership of

Pesh Imam Moulana Abdus Shahid.

A press release by MCD stated that in his greetings, Imam greeted the members of Muslim community and stressed

on living harmoniously with other communities.

On the occasion, a team from MCD also visited Dimapur Central jail and offered mass prayer with the inmates.

DHH felicitates successful UPSC and APSC candidates

Diksha Langthasa and Julie Hagjer Khemprai with DHH officials.

DIMAPUR: Dimabang Halali Hosom (DHH)), Dimapur organised felicitation programme for successful UPSC candidate 2019, Diksha Langthasa and Julie Hagjer Khemprai, APSC candidate 2019 K Y M C

at Bamunpukhuri village on June 4.

A press release from Dimabang Halali Hosom secretary, P. M Thaosen stated that, Diksha Langthasa interacted with members of Dimasa Stu-

dents’ Union Nagaland (DSUN). She shared her stories and experiences in cracking the toughest exam of India and motivated the students.

Invited guest Dr. Sontosh Hasnu, asst. pro-

lem. The committee has also called the concerned to take prompt steps for the appointment of regular trained counselors in jail.

The meeting was attended

by Victo Sema, PD&SJ/ chairman UTRC, N Kano, CJM & secy. TDLSA, K Hamtok Phom, superintendent of Jail Tuensang, Tshelhiu, EAC HQ. Y Chubasangle, assistant jailor and Yimtsusangla Chang, project assistant TDLSA. Zunheboto: In Zunheboto, the URTC sitting was held on June 3 whereby the cases of three UTPs were brought up for consideration by the committee.

It was recommended that since the statutory period of detention has expired, it intimated the Zunheboto

District Legal Services Authority to take necessary steps for filing bail application on statutory ground.

As per the jail report, there were 17 UTPs and 5 convicts at the end of May. Phek: Phek District Legal Services Authority conducted the monthly UTRC meeting at district and sessions judge chamber on May 28, attended by Mezivolu T Therieh, chairman, Phek DLSA. Cheliam Khiamniungan, secretary, Phek DLSA, Sachin Jaiswal, DC Phek, Ovung, Dozhoyi, asst jailor Phek, James Ovung, SDPO Phek. The assistant jailor informed the committee that there were 10 UTPs and four convicts for the month of May. Dimapur: The com-

Dimapur URTC meeting mittee stated that the district magistrate, who is also member of the URTC, will take up the matter to the competent authority for post creation of regular doctors at district jail. It was also recommended to take necessary steps to increase the bed capacity to 5/6 beds or to provide extra larger room at District hospital for medical treatment of the UTPs and convicts for the present jail inmates. On recommendation made to the trial court, an accused with medical needs was released on personal bond on medical ground.

Peren: The URTC meeting under Peren district was held on May 29. Under Section 436 CrPC and 436 A of CrPC, one case was

recommended by the committee for release. A case of compoundable offences of UTPs was identified and further recommended

by URTC for release. The meeting was attended by district magistrate, Peren, SP, Peren, member secretary, Peren DLSA and deputy superintendent, District Jail.

Wokha: Nino Iralu district & sessions judgec u m - c h a i r m a n Wo k h a DLSA, W.V Patton chief judicial magistrate & secretary WDLSA, SDPO. Imkongsangba Jamir , asst. jailor Mhademo Kithan & WDLSA panel lawyer inchare of Jail, Renbonthung Y Tsanglao were present at the UTRC meeting at District Jail Wokha.

Orgns condemn; extend support to ANCSU

news in Brief ANGPTA emergency meeting: All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) has convened an emergency meeting on June 6, 10 a.m. in Kohima. All the central office bearers and executive members have been informed to attend the same.

Dimapur police informs: Dimapur police has informed all concern that all firearms deposited during the recent Parliamentary Election 2019 can be collected back from the respective Police Station from June 6 onwards.

GPRN/NSCN Rengma region meeting: GPRN/NSCN Rengma region has convened its general meeting on June 13, 10 a.m. at Tsuminyu Town. All national workers under Rengma region have been asked to

Phek UTRC meeting

fessor, Hansraj College, Delhi University, Kumar Naben, president Dimasa Public Organisation, Bankim Phonglo, asst. general manager FCI and leaders of DLM, DWWS & DYON also spoke.

DIMAPUR: Various organisations have condemned the action meted out to ANCSU during its peaceful rally on June 4. They have also extended support to the issues taken up by All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) for the welfare of students’ community.

DNSU: Diphupar Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) has vehemently condemned the “high-handedness and irrational action” of the state machinery against the agitating students fighting for their scholarship at Kohima Secretariat area and the arrest of its leaders.

In a statement, DNSU president, N. PitoviAchumi and general secretary, Grizel A. Ngullie said that such irresponsible action of the State government will not only boost the morale of the corrupt officials to commit more offences but will undermine the voice of the people.

DNSU also extended its firm support to the demand of ANCSU and viewed that the charter of demands put forth by the ANCSU was just, and a necessary step towards eliminating corruption in the state especially with regard to scholarship for students.

DNSU further said that the misappropriation of scholarship by the government officials was a gross denial of the basic fundamental right enshrined in the constitution - Right to Education.

In this regard, DNSU demanded that the government come out clean with the full report on the misappropriation of funds and initiate exemplary action against the erring officials.

Further, the student body warned that it will not hesitate to stand and fight for the rights of the students when their life and career was put at stake in the hands of some selfish and corrupt officials. It also warned that the state government would be held solely responsible should there untoward incident.

Meanwhile, in another press statement, Chang Students Union Tuensang Town (CSUTT) has extended full support to the agitation called by All Nagaland College Students Union on scholarship issue.

CSUTT president, Thungti Khumba S. Chang and general secretary, A. Hanso Chang said that the demand laid by the ANCSU should be addressed by the government at the earliest. It also appealed to student’s community in general to not take laws into their hands and reminded the government that days where people said yes to everything had gone and that time has come and for which the students’ community will not hold back against corrupted leaders.

NSUI: National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) Nagaland unit in a press release by president, Niloboto Sheqhi has condemned the use of police force upon the students and arrest of students leaders who were staging peaceful protest against the misappropriation of scholarship funds.

NSUI has urged the state government to look into the genuine rights of the students’ community and expedite the

matter at the earliest.

ANPTA: All Nagaland Polytechnic Teachers’ Association (ANPTA) has also expressed its growing discontentment in a press release by president, Er. Sorenthung Ezung.

It stated that association members who are significant stake holders of the Technical Education will not be mute bystanders when its members and the student’s community are affected. However, the ANPTA has its confidence on the Lokayukta that it will expedite the process and bring to light any corruption associated with technical scholarships. ANPTA therefore appeals the NGOs/student’s organisations to ascertain and discern their stipulations based on the Lokayukta reports and findings. ANPTA further appealed the decision making authority to deliver befitting action as per government norms against any erring officials if found.

PSAN: PSAN has condemned the use of police brutality against innocent young students through lathi charge, water cannon and tear gas. A condemnation by PSAN media cell stated that, it has become a culture for successive governments in Nagaland to come to their senses only when people take to the streets to ask for their rights. PSAN appealed the government to look into ANCSUs charter of demands with utmost seriousness and sincerity. PSAN further challenged the government to expedite the process of investigation and to punish any official if found guilty of misappropriating the scholarship fund meant for students.

NNQF: Nagaland NET Qualified Forum (NNQF) has condemned the action of the government towards the students and also the arrest of ANCSU president and his colleagues.

In a statement, the forum stated that the claim of the authorities that the students were “peacefully dispersed” while using force was deplorable.

NNQF also expressed shock on the DNSU’s statement and stated that they (DNSU) should actively be supporting ANCSU. While expressing relief at the release of the ANCSU president and his colleagues, the NNQF extended its solidarity on the ongoing hunger strike.

Meanwhile, NNQF stated that it has repeatedly appealed to the government to advertise the 68 (now 110) Assistant Professors and Librarian posts since September 2018, but no action has been taken by the authorities.

However, the forum said that since ANCSU has began indefinite hunger strike demanding the advertisement of the 110 Assistant Professors and Librarian posts through NPSC, it hoped that there will be an immediate response on the issue.

Likewise, NNQF also stated that it has taken the case of the alleged backdoor/illegal appointments in the Higher Education to court and hoped that government will instill the faith of the people in the system by peacefully discussing with the ANCSU in a more democratic manner.

Further, NNQF urged the public not to turn a blind eye to any fight against corruption and appealed to the Naga intellectuals, activists, churches, artists, leaders and public to come together to voice out and fight corruption in whatever ways they can.

NUSU: Nagaland University Students’ Union (NUSU) comprising of four campuses- NU Lumami, NU Kohima, SASRD Medziphema and SET Dimapur have expressed shock at the ill treatment meted out to the students during the peaceful dharna on June 4 in Kohima.

Condemning the high handedness of the government and the police, the student bodies in a joint press statement expressed that such events should be handled in a more humane and effective way by the leaders and not act brutally. They also expressed hope that the government will come out with certain solution on the prevailing issue.

ENCSU: Eastern Nagaland College Students’ Union (ENCSU) has expressed strong condemnation at the detaining of ANCSU president and colleagues by the state police when they were staging peaceful hunger strike against misappropriation of scholarship funds under the Department of Technical Education.

ENCSU in a condemnation by president, M. Longre Chang and general secretary, Wangnei Jessuhu stated that it was distressed at how the students had been sprayed with water cannon and lathi charged by police force, whereby some students were injured and some in unconscious condition. ENCSU therefore strictly demands the higher authority and state government to immediately take up the students issue and cautioned that if any untoward incident occurred to the students, the state government will be responsible. ENCSU also urged the state government to rescue all the injured students and find solution at the earliest.

DNYO: Diphupar Naga youth organization (DNYO) has condemned the arrest of ANCSU president and his colleagues for standing on the rights of students fraternity.

A press release from DNYO president, Kikheto Sumi stated that it was high time politicians see the gravity of the issue and hear the plight of the students and public in general. It also questioned as to how when right thinking Naga citizens were fighting against corruption, the law could be so blind. DNYO also stated that if any untoward incident occurs, the state government shall be responsible and answerable.

NASU: Niuland Area Students’ Union (NASU) in a condemnation by president Yepeto Aye and general secretary, Kaka K. Holo stated that it was appalled at the way government is handling the students’ issue. In this regard, the union strongly appeal the state government to deliver justice instead of further aggravating the situation. The union pledge to render unflinching support to ANCSU till justice is delivered.

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‘World Environment Day 2019’ creates awareness on air pollution

Principal secretary, Horticulture MK Mero planting Administrator, DMC, Moa Sangtam planting a Delegates of world encironment Day, held at PCC DFO Kohima, Forest officials, students & village community at Pulie sapling during plantation drive organized by DoH. (NP) sapling. (NP) Dimapur. (NP) Badze peak.

Eco Club of Stella Higher Secondary School with paper Participants at the Norfolk Regiment Memorial, Dzüvürü ADC Longleng, Temsu Wati handing over dustbin to Zuvotong Colony Youth Organisation members during bags made of recycled paper. (NP) on June 5. (NP) principal GHSS Longleng. (NP) plantation drive. (NP)

Principal Secretary Horticulture, M. K.Mero planted the first tree followed by DC Dimapur, Keveka Kevin Zehol, Airport Director, M Zhimo and others. Along with the Horticulture department, the Airport Authority of India and other stakeholders including CISF, Indian oil, Bharat Petroleum, Indigo, Air India also participated in the plantation and cleanliness drive. (Staff Reporter) DMC: Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) initiated a plantation drive under the theme, “beat air pollution”, at the DMC dumpsite at Burma Camp in Dimapur. DMC administrator Moa Sangtam stated that plantation drive was under taken to beat air pollution, in line with this year’s theme “beat air pollution” and the dumpsite was chosen considering the need to plant trees to redress the pollution concern. DUCCF president, Tsenthungo Lotha in his keynote address remarked that it was a significant day as “our” environment was marred with destruction and observation of such day should sensitise the people.

(Staff Reporter) Wildlife Dmu division: Commemorating World Environment Day, a short programme was organized by wildlife Dimapur division in collaboration with Green Succession Of Nagaland State (Green SONS) and Nagaland NGOs Forum at PCC auditorium.

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DIMAPUR/KOHIMA, JUN 5 (NPN): Nagaland on Wednesday joined people around the world in observing “World Environment Day (WED)” by creating awareness on United Nations (UN) theme for WED 2019, “Air Pollution”.

According to United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), WED is the UN day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect environment.

Horti deptt: A plantation drive under the theme Air Pollution “Breath Healthy, Live Healthy” was organised by the department of horticulture, Nagaland at Dimapur airport. During the drive more tree saplings were planted at the stretch of road leading towards Dimapur Airport.

On the sideline, talking to the media persons, Director Horticulture, Dr. Elithung Lotha, said the plantation was carried out the Dimapur airport area as it was the “focussed area”.

Keeping in mind that tourist first land at the airport, he said the department took the initiative to beautify and re-green the state starting from Dimapur Airport.

Lotha also informed that the trees planted would be nurtured by the department to ensure that the saplings do not wither.

Besides plantation the team also cleaned and picked all the non- biodegradable plastics along the road to make the place not only green but clean.

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Po i n t i n g o u t t h a t planting a tree would be the simplest contribution in fighting air pollution, Kinimi encouraged all to take a pledge to plant more trees and continue to nurture it.

Short speeches was delivered by Nagaland NGOs forum president Dt. Y Hesheto Chishi and Green SONS Chairman Jess T Murry where they encouraged the gathering to join hands in unity to beat air pollution and continue to plant and nurture trees.

A documentation on “Nagaland is changing But” by wildlife division Dimapur was also presented.

Painting competition award was also given out during the programme. Later, saplings were also distributed to the participants. (Staff Reporter) Pulie Badze: On World Environment Day, Pulie Badze under Kohima district was declared “plastic free zone” under the initiative of department of environment, forests & climate change, Kohima forest division in collaboration with Jotsoma Nature Conservation & Ecotourism Committee (NCEC) and village functionaries of Jotsoma village.

DFO Kohima, Rongsenlemla Imchen, appreciated the efforts of the community for conservation of environment in collaboration with forest department.

She highlighted the need of declaring Pulie Badze as “plastic free” and the importance of corroborative efforts of all sections of the society in the community to check plastic pollution along with other environmental issues.

Jotsoma Students’ Union, president, thanked the department for the initiative and said it would go a long way in protecting the area sustainably. Secretary

JNCEC, Asito Peseyie, read out the plastic free resolution resolved by the village community. Ranger Kohima Range Pezaneinuo administered the pledge “Say No to Plastic” and also led the declaration.

To mark the occasion, cleanliness drive was carried out from the peak to the base camp and plantation was conducted along the road leading to the base camp. The forest department distributed Eco Friendly waste bins, signboards and posters to the community. (Correspondent) SHSS: Eco Club of Stella Higher Secondary School on WED made a little contribution towards greener environment and a plastic free environment by distributing paper bags made by the students with recycled paper.

The students distributed the bags in and around shops and medical stores with the message, “plastic bags are choking the earth”.

(Correspondent) Save Dzüvürü Campaign: On the occasion of World Environment Day, Kohima Village Students Union (KVSU) initiated “Save Dzüvürü Campaign” under the theme, “Clean Kohima” on Wednesday at Norfolk Regiment Memorial, Dzüvürü.

Panchayat of six colonies, four colleges, 20 schools, 13 church, six NGOs and eight support group and many other clubs, groups and individuals partook in the campaign.

In a shor t speech, Neiphi Kire, from Kohima Village Council, appreciated the overwhelming support of students and public in making Dzüvürü cleaner and safer. He encouraged all to keep Kohima district clean and to stop dirtying rivers and streams.

Kovi Meyase, from Kohima Municipal Council, admitted that it has

taken a long time for people to realise the extent of environment pollution. He appreciated KVSU for taking the initiative to save Dzüvürü and hoped that through this campaign Kohima would become cleaner, better and more liveable.

KVYO social & cultural secretary, Vitsu Yhome, while lamenting the practice of dumping waste in rivers and streams called for more awareness on ill effects of such practices.

KVSU advisor, Peluopfhelie Kesiezie, also called upon all to extend support in making Kohima a cleaner and liveable place.

Swach Bharat brand ambassador, Supong Mer en, a l so d isc our a ged dumping of waste in rivers and streams and called for more practical and healthier ways of managing waste.

(Correspondent) L o n g l e n g : Wo r l d environmental Day was observed at Government Higher Secondary School Longleng under the aegis of Land Resource Department (LRD) Longleng.

On the day, cleanliness drive and planting of tree saplings were carried out at different schools of the town which was initiated by the Land Resource Department (LRD), Additional Deputy Commissioner Longleng and Principal Government Higher secondary school Longleng. LRD department Longleng also distributed water bins to schools. (Correspondent) MMC: Commemorating WED, Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) organised a tree plantation drive at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, District Jail, Imkongliba Memorial District Hospital (IMDH) and MMC Shopping Complex under the theme “Beat Air Pollution”.

The plantation drive was carried out under the su-

pervision of ADC Mokokchung, W. Manpai Phom, where representatives from District Administration, Mokokchung District Legal Services Authority, Socio Environment Management Board (SEMB) Aongza Ward, Run Mokokchung Group, SDRF and MMC participated. In the morning, “plogging” (collection of trash/rubbish while on a run) was done in the main town area by Run Mokokchung Group.

ZCYO: Zuvotong Colony Youth Organisation (ZCYO) Wokha organised tree plantation drive within the colony on Monday to commemorate “World Environment Day”. (Correspondent) RJHSS: Students of Ram Janaki Higher Secondary School (RJHSS), Dimapur observed WED by taking part in various indoor activities to create awareness of environment and impact of global warming. Highlights included speech competition on “role of human to sustain and protect environment”, essay competition on “say no to plastic” and painting and poster design competition.

Students of various classes brought saplings and flower plants and planted in the school campus.

SEN: Save Environment Network (SEN) organised a plantation-cumawareness campaign in

Dimapur to commemorate WED. SEN members undertook plantation drive at Super Market Dimapur and later distributed saplings to commuters as part its “drive towards nurturing a greener environment”.

Saplings were also planted at Police Colony, Dimapur.

The members also distributed green pledge card (car sticker) to commuters.

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Mission Higher Secondary School (CMHSS) T. Chikri, Pfutsero observed WED by organising like art and painting competition, poster making and planting trees in the school premises.

On the occasion, speaker, Mululü Tunyi, briefed the students on the factors leading to air pollution and also what measures could be taken to prevent air pollution.

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Assam Police posts cheeky 50,000 saplings planted in one hour in Manipur tweet to report ganja seizure

The cheeky tweet by Assam police that won the internet.

GUWAHATI, JUN 5 (AGENCIES): The Assam Police has found a huge amount of cannabis and also a unique way to disseminate this piece of information to the people, reports Business Standard.

“Anyone lost a huge (590 kgs) amount of Cannabis/Ganja and a truck in and around Chagolia Checkpoint last night?

Don’t panic, we found it.”

This is how the official Twitter handle of the Assam Police reported the seizure of ganja in Dhubri district on Tuesday.

With emojis and smi-

leys, the cheeky post got huge traction on the micro blogging site and the tweet has become viral.

“Please get in touch with @Dhubri_Police.

They will help you out, for sure ;) Great job Team Dhubri.” Assam Police “asked” the owner of the contraband drug, and pinned the post.

The message, attached with a photograph of a large number of packets containing the cannabis, has seen over 6,000 retweets, while over 16,800 users have liked it and more than 1,200 people, including shuttler Jwala Gutta and stand-up comedian Papa

CJ, commented in it.

Gutta’s crisp ‘Lol’ was accentuated by Papa CJ who used emojis for claps saying “for the job done and the sense of humour :)” An user Devaraja who said, “ha, ha,.... If only you had not mentioned the actual contents, definitely some one would have made an appearance and claim before you.”

“Well done, @assampolice . And (emojies) to the person handling this account. Great sense of humour.” wrote Madhumita D Mazumdar.

Sangita Nambiar said, “You po-lees are really funny guys online! Bangalore cops Mumbai cops all of you... makes you guys a bit less frightening. Not for the owners of this cache though.”

“I never thought police in india would be funny too...thank you @assampolice for ur great job and breaking streotype..,” was the reaction from Adarsh Singh.

IMPHAL, Jun 5: The planting of 50,000 tree saplings within an hour in 950 schools and 80 colleges across Manipur marked this year’s celebration of World Environment Day on Wednesday.

It was for the time in the history of Manipur that such a large number of saplings were planted, officials of the state education department, under which the tree saplings were planted, claimed.

The initiative was taken up by the forest department and All Manipur Working Journalist Union (AMWJU) under the guidance of state education minister Th Radheshyam, the officials said.

The education minister planted a sapling at SK Ideal High School, Konthoujam in Imphal to launch the campaign.He said planting a tree sapling was very easy but making it survive, grow and attain its maturity was a big challenge.

He stated that the joint initiative taken up by education department, forest department and AMWJU

Manipur CM Biren hints at cabinet reshuffle

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IMPHAL, JUN 5: BJP, the party leading a coalition government in Manipur is taking up a round of cabinet reshuffle reportedly in a bid to check rebellion by the party MLAs. “I am sure there will be a reshuffle (in the council of ministers) within this month (June), chief minister N Biren Singh told reporters on the sideline of a World Environment Day event in Ukhrul district on Wednesday.

Even as the chief minister recently claimed to have resolved the problem with its partner NPF after it threatened to pull out of the BJP-led coalition government, he is now reportedly facing revolt from his own party’s MLAs. Recently, when the Lok Sabha election results were yet to be announced, some section of media in Imphal reported that some BJP MLAs were camping outside the state for a change in the leadership of the coalition government.

However, there was no further report about the camping of the MLAs after BJP registered a landslide victory after the Lok Sabha election.

Chief minister N Biren Singh on Wednesday said that the reshuffle in his council of ministers is most likely within this current month while hinting that the reshuffle has to be done with the instruction of the party (BJP) higher authority.

Singh who refused to divulge further details of the reshuffle hinted that some of the cabinet ministers will be dropped to induct new faces.

He also spoke about re-allocation of portfolios of the cabinet ministers.

As done at the Centre as well as in other BJP rule states, the reshuffle of cabinet ministers will be based on the performance of the ministers, the chief minister said.

He said, “One has to bear the fruit of one’s own conduct” and added that party higher authority was also monitoring the performance of each ministers in the state apart the same being done by his office (CM office).

“Above my office, higher authority is also monitoring the performance of each minister. Normally dropping and induction of ministers are based on performance and loyalty,” he said.

He said that 40% of the ministers in the previous regime were dropped after the second term of BJP-led NDA government was recently installed at the Centre. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP-led NDA government is based on performance and loyalty.

Those who are loyal to the party and discipline can be in the council of ministers, he maintained.

To queries from the reporters about six cabinet ministers who neither part of his visit to Ukhrul nor present at the cabinet

Assam govt mulls complete ban on plastic bags MANGALDAI, JUN 5 (AGENCIES): The Assam government has planned to ban plastic carry-bags all over the state, reports Northeast Now news. Assam minister of state for health Piyush Hazarika on Tuesday said the process to ban the use of plastics has already started and the health department has written to the authorities of all the civic bodies. “The government has already started the process and in this connection letters have been sent to all the civic bodies to take necessary steps. We are also going to introduce a Bill in this regard in the next Assembly session,” minister Hazarika told reporters at Kharupetia in the sidelines of an event. Earlier the minister ceremonially opened the distribution of funds under the Urban Livelihood Mission amounting to Rs 25,000 each to a total of 55 SHGs under Kharupetia Municipal Board. The function was also K Y M C

attended by newly elected Mangaldai Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia , Mangaldai legislator Gurujyoti Das and Kharupetia Municipal Board chairperson Krishna Saha among others.

meeting, the chief minister said that two cabinet ministers officially informed him while giving reasons for unable to attend the cabinet meeting.

According to the chief minister, deputy chief minister Y Joykumar (from NPP), in his official later, informed that he would not be part of the tour as he has to attend a family funeral ceremony.

In a similar manner, PHE minister L Dikho (of NPF) also informed that he was currently in Kohima (Nagaland) for a family related issue.

Besides the two, four other cabinet minister including BJP’s Th Bishwajit who is holding key portfolios like works, panchayati raj and rural development among others and three NPF ministers did not take part in the cabinet meeting convened at Ukhrul district headquarters.

However, they had not officially intimated the chief minister about their absence from the cabinet meeting, as informed by the chief minister. To another query from reporters, Singh said that NPF is still an alliance of the NDA government at the Centre and will continue to be partner of the coalition government in the state.

“There is no more misunderstanding between the two parties,” he said.

After the Lok Sabha results, NPF had had threatened to pull out of the government in Manipur, alleging “indifferent and step-motherly treatment”

towards the party by BJP. However, the chief minister along with state NPF leaders and legislators including newly elected MP from Outer Manipur PC held a meeting with BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav recently after the Lok Sabha elections.

After the meeting, Singh claimed that NPF agreed to continue its partnership with the BJP in the coalition government while assuring that grievances of NPF will be addressed.

However, the matter discussed with the NPF was to be addressed was not mentioned.

If the propose reshuffle is materialised, NPF is likely to get one more ministerial berth which the BJP had promised while forming the coalition government in March 2017.

The BJP-led coalition government led N Biren Singh as chief minister was installed in Manipur on March 15, 2017. NPP and NPF, both having four legislators each are the major partners.

However, all the four NPP legislators are enjoying cabinet ministerial berth even as only one from the NPF was inducted in the council of ministers.

Currently, the BJP that managed to form the coalition government even though it won only 21 of the total 60 seats against 28 won

by Congress has now got the support of as many as eight Congress MLAs who joined the party later.

ZELOME WELFARE UNION, KOHIMA FELICITATION

The Zelome Welfare Union, Kohima takes immense pleasure and honour to convey its heartiest congratulations to our bonafide member Mr. Dezu Domeh (Marketing Officer) on being promoted to Deputy Director under the Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Nagaland.

The Union wishes him all the very best in his new assignment and pray that our Almighty God continue to bless him.

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JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA NIHOKHU,

(Ministry of Human Resource Development, Dept. of Education, Govt. of India) Dimapur District, Nagaland – 797103 E-mail: jnv_dmp @ rediffmail.Com

NOTICE INVITING RE-TENDER

Sealed Tenders are invited from the authorized registered Dealer/ Manufacturer/ Supplier/ Company for supply of store items like Dry Ration, Hiring of Vehicle, Furniture, Laboratory Items, Sports Items, Hardware Items, Electrical Items, Toilet Items etc. for the session 2019-20.

The Tender forms can be purchased on payment of Rs. 500/- for each set of tender forms from the office of the Principal, JNV, Nihokhu, Dimapur w.e.f. 06/06/2019 to 20/06/2019 during the office hour. Further, the same can be downloaded from the school website: www.dimapur.jnv.academy, however, during the submission of tender form an amount of Rs. 500/- per each set in the form of Demand Draft should be deposited in favour of Principal, JNV, Nihokhu payable at SBI, Dimapur Evening Branch.

The last date of submission of completed sealed tenders in the office of the Principal, JNV, Nihokhu is 20/06/2019 upto 12:00 hrs.

The Tender will be opened on 21/06/2019 at 10:00 am in the office of the Principal, JNV, Nihokhu by the Vidyalaya Purchase Advisory Committee.

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not only aims in planting of trees but also monitoring the survival chances of trees that are planted.

He added education department in collaboration with the forest department and AMWJU was all set to take up the big challenge of planting more than 50,000 saplings, and monitor the survival and growth of these trees.

Radheshyam explained that every sapling being planted on Wednesday has a name tag of the student, teacher and staff which indicates that these individuals are in charge of the trees planted.

The teachers and students are the owners of the tree saplings and it is their responsibility to nurture the plants to make it survive and grow until it attains its maturity.

He highlighted that the target to plant more than 50,000 saplings was carried out in and around the educational institutions throughout the state.

At another World Environment Day event organised by the state government, Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh has revealed that the state

State education minister, Th Radheshyam launching Mass Tree Plantation programme to mark World Environment Day on Wednesday. (NP)

government will launch a campaign known as 'Green Manipur, Clean Manipur' with a solemn objective to protect environment and combat climate change soon.

A cabinet decision in this regard would be taken at the earliest, he added.

Singh was speaking as the chief guest at the state level World Environment Day observation organised under the theme 'Air Pollution' by directorate of environment at the auditorium of Manipur State Film Development Society (MSFDS), Imphal.

Under the campaign,

GOC-in-C, Eastern Command visits North East

Lt Gen MM Naravane (File)

G U WA H AT I , J U N 5 (NPN): Indian Army’s General Officer Commandingin-Chief of Eastern Command (GOC-in-C) Lt Gen MM Naravane visited army and Assam Rifles formations in Nagaland and southern part of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of his two-day visit to Spear Corps and Inspector General, AR (North).

According to PRO Defence Lt Col P Khongsai, during the visit, Lt Gen Naravane reviewed the security situation and ongoing counterinsurgency operations in

both the States, and was briefed by commanders on the prevailing security situation. The OC-in-C also visited forward operating bases and interacted with soldiers involved in operations to trace out the perpetrators of Khonsa and Tobu incidents. Over the years, the two States had witnessed improvement in the situation on ground largely due to the concerted efforts of the army and AR. During his interaction with the troops, he appreciated their contribution to peace and stability in the region.

Office of the

WOKHA DIST. SMALL TEA GROWER’S ASSOCIATION

Regd. No. H/Rs-5528, Dtd. 25/08/2009 NTSIJANTA YILAN Wokha District Small Tea Grower’s Association (WDSTGA) thugina yilan shi Wokha District lo jaha li ejon topvü thungi oküpoe sekae lio shiang ephanina yivon yisi khi elhilan tssotale to ntsijantala.

1) Omyingeran (Registration) Shiang zikatala:- (i) Shompo. H. Orenpomo Ngullie, Gen. Secretary – 9402632268, tona (ii) Shompo. K.S. Ngullie Treasurer – 8732884502.

2) Jaha mojü chumü tsukona Shompo. R. Mhabemo Lotha, President – 7085687095 tona Shompo. K.S. Ngullie, Treasurer to zikatala.

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NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMANTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925).

the chief minister elaborated that the state government would encourage every village of the state, both hill and valley, to protect or develop forest land each having an area of at least five to 10 acres.

The government would install open gym worth around Rs five lakh each at these greenery areas so that people may do physical exercise or take rest there.

Urban and semi urban localities, which do not have such land for forest development, would be encouraged to plant trees at their Umang Lai (Sylvan Deity) complexes.

He also said that the state government would also put in effort to enact a law in consultation with Hill Areas Committee to check unnecessary and frequent shifting of habitation or village in hill areas.

Stating that the World Environment Day observation would continue for a week in the state this year, Singh said that planting of saplings and imparting awareness on environment would go on during this week at all the educational institutions and government office complexes.

State forest and environment minister, Th Shyamkumar obser ved that people should have the mind-set of feeling ashamed if they do not grow trees and plants at their residential complexes.

He added that water scarcity that people are facing today was the impact of deforestation.

In order to encourage planting of saplings and impart awareness on the importance of trees, the minister said that forest and environment department would present saplings instead bouquets and gifts in all its functions in future.

Search for missing IAF AN-32 continues

ITANAGAR, JUN 5 (IANS): Despite inclement weather, a massive search operation is on for an Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft with 13 people on-board that went missing over Arunachal Pradesh.

On Wednesday, the IAF pressed into service a SU-30 jet fighter, C130 J, Mi17 and ALH helicopters to trace the missing Russian-origin transporter aircraft that was last seen on Monday afternoon.

The searches were taking place along thickly forested routes between Assam’s Jorhat and Mechuka advanced landing ground in Arunachal Pradesh.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) satellites — CARTOSAT and RISAT — were also taking images of the area.

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal R.D. Mathur is monitoring the search and rescue operations. He had interacted with the families of the missing IAF personnel.

In addition, the Army, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Arunachal Police and local communities were trekking on the ground to search for the missing aircraft.

“The search is still on but the missing AN-32 is yet to be sighted,” IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh told IANS. On Monday, the AN-32 trasnporter had taken off from Assam’s Jorhat at 12.27 p.m. for the Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground in Arunachal Pradesh’s Shi-Yomi district bordering China. The aircraft lost contact with the ground staff at 1.30 p.m. On Tuesday, the Indian Navy’s Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft P8i conducted an aerial survey to locate the partly upgraded AN-32 aircraft.

ANPTA opines on State Technical Scholarship Imbroglio: In light of the recent events paralleled to the Technical Education Scholarships the All Nagaland Polytechnic Teachers’ Association (ANPTA) exhibits its growing discontentment. The association members who are significant stake holders of the Technical Education will not be mute bystanders when its members and the student’s community are affected. However, the ANPTA has its confidence on the Lokayukta that it will expedite the process and bring to light any corruption associated with the Technical Scholarships.

The ANPTA appeals to the NGO’s/Student’s Organizations to ascertain and discern their stipulations based on the Lokayukta reports and findings. Further, the association also appeals the decision making authority to deliver befitting action as per government norms against any erring officials if found.

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In the Court of Smti SHARON LONGCHARI Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur District, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late LANUCHUBA Deceased, has been filed by Smti MARSOLA relation Wife R/o H/No-297, Lhomithi Colony, Dimapur to draw his/her Family Pension, Bank Acct, etc, who expired on 16-04-2019.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he/she so desire may appear in this court within 30 days, on the said day of 5/7/2019.

Given under the hand and seal of the court this 4 day of 6/2019.

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NOTICE OF INTENDED MARRIAGE

I, Marriage Officer, Dimapur, Nagaland hereby give notice Under Section 15 of the Special Marriage Act, 1954, that a petition of intended marriage has been filed by Mr. Precious Oluchi Agholor aged about 38 years, S/o Shri. Agholor Jacob, resident of Abavo Nigeria AND Miss Kalivi Awomi aged about 24 years, D/o Shri Lt. Nizheto Awomi, resident of Hoito Village, Dimapur before me on 4th day of June 2019 and whereas 5th July 2019 has been fixed for solemnizing their Marriage. Objections, if any are to be furnished on or before the aforementioned fixed date.

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Protestors wearing masks during clashes between protestors and security forces after Eid prayers in Srinagar, Wednesday. (File) SRINAGAR, JUN 5 (PTI): Clashes between protestors and security forces broke out after Eid prayers in some parts of Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said.

There were no reports of anyone getting hurt, they said.

Protesters pelted stones on security personnel in some parts of the old city after Eid prayers.

Similar incidents were reported in Sopore in north Kashmir and Anantnag in south Kashmir, the officials said.

In Nowhatta area of the city, masked protestors reportedly held banners in support of banned Jaish-eMohammed chief Masood Azhar and slain militant commander Zakir Musa.

However, police officials said they are verifying the

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JAIPUR, JUN 5 (IANS): Hours after he blamed his deputy Sachin Pilot for his son’s poll defeat from Jodhpur in a TV interview, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Pilot put up a united face during a Roza Iftar organised by the Pradesh Congress Committee here on Tuesday.

In the TV interview, which has become the talk of the town, Gehlot said: “Sachin Pilot said we would win with a huge majority. We have six MLAs and our campaigning has also been fabulous. So Pilot should take responsibility for at least Jodhpur seat.”

While Gehlot’s re-

mark indicated simmering differences between the two state leaders, the Iftar presented a different picture, with both seen sitting together. The two leaders even shared pictures from the gathering on their Twitter handles.

This was the second Iftaar Gehlot and Pilot attended together. On Monday, they posed together at an event held at the Chief Minister’s residence.

However hours later, the TV interview revealed the rifts and when other TV channels went to town with it, the Gehlot tweeted

that an some sections of the media were making an unnecessary issue out of the context. He also shared excerpts from the interview on his Twitter handle to prove his point.

A Congress worker told IANS: “They are trying to put up a united face when factional feud is peaking in the party.”

Vaibhav Gehlot lost the Jodhpur seat Parliamentary election to BJP’s Gajendra Singh Shekhawat by 2.7 lakh votes. Shekhawat is now the Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti.

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The Labour Ministry data revealed joblessness in the country was 6.1 per cent of total labour force during 2017-18, the highest in 45 years. Much to the discomfort of the government, this has confirmed the unemployment rate projected in a preelection leaked report.

Data from the Labour Ministry showed that 7.8 per cent of all employable urban youth were jobless, while the percentage for the rural segment was 5.3 per cent.

The core sector data, too, pointed towards a gloomy picture as contraction in crude oil, natural gas and fertiliser output pulled down the aggregate growth rate of eight core infrastructure industries in April to 2.6 per cent.

This was much lower than the 4.7 per cent growth recorded in same month last fiscal.

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NEW DELHI, JUN 5 (PTI): The Delhi government has invited suggestions from people on its proposed scheme to make commute for women in public transport buses and Metro trains free, and asked them to submit the same till June 15.

According to the Transport department, people can send their suggestions at delhiwomensafety@gmail. com, besides to the Chairman, DDC, Delhi Govt., 33, Shamnath Marg, Delhi110054.

“The government has sought people’s suggestions for its free-ride scheme for women in buses and Metro trains till June 15,” an official said.

On Tuesday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia took a bus ride to get feedback from passengers about the proposed free travel scheme.

measures were not taken after the Indian Air Force (IAF) lost an AN-32 aircraft en route to the Andaman and Nicobar islands, which was not tracked.

rain when we have a better aircraft to fly on that route.

Why has the government not allocated sufficient defence budget to replace the AN-32 fleet.”

“The Gover nment and Defence Minister must also answer that despite a similar accident earlier of losing an AN-32 aircraft en route to Andaman and Nicobar islands and which was not tracked, why have mitigating measures not been taken by Defence Ministry,” the Congress leader asked.

hendra Nath Pandey and ministers of state Santosh Kumar Gangwar (Labour) and Hardeep Singh Puri (Housing and Urban Affairs).

The stupendous success of the Modi government at the hustings with 303 Lok Sabha seats was marred by the news on the economic front. The New economic and job numbers set alarm bells ringing. Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has already said the slowdown of Q4 could persist in the Q1 of the currnent fiscal.

The numbers were unimpressive. The fourth quarter GDP growth (JanMArch) is at 5.8% , a 17quarter low while the same day a government report of joblessness pegged it at the highest in 45 years.

These macroeconomic figures released last month — GDP growth, unemployment numbers and core sector data — laid bare the enormous challenges the Modi 2.0 team faces in resurrecting the slackening economy and restoring the confidence of investors.

In March the IIP fell to 21-months low.

The fourth-quarter GDP growth for 2018-19 came

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“Pray for safety and well-being of IAF personnel and crew of missing Aircraft AN-32. Sad to know that missing AN-32 had SOS Signal Unit that’s OBSOLETE. “Government must tell - Why was upgradation of AN-32 not completed despite India and Ukraine agreement of 2009?,” Surjewala asked on Twitter.

He said the government and the defence ministry must also answer, “Why was the AN-32 flying on that treacherous ter-

veracity of these reports.

Security forces exercised maximum restraint while dealing with the law and order situation, they said.

The situation elsewhere in the valley remained peaceful, they said.

The festival of Eid was celebrated with much fanfare in other parts of the state with people thronging mosques, shrines and Eidgahs to offer prayers on the culmination of the holy moth of Ramzan.

The biggest gathering of people was witnessed at Hazratbal shrine where thousands of faithful offered the Eid prayers, officials said.

Jamia Masjid at Nowhatta in the old city also witnessed a huge crowd.

There were large congregation in Sonawar and Soura shrines in the heart of the city, they said, adding similar gatherings were held at all districts headquarters and major towns in the valley.

NEW DELHI, JUN 5 (IANS): Hit hard by the 5-year low GDP growth and a 45-year high unemployment rate of 6.1 per cent, the newly formed Modi government swung into action and on Wednesday, as it formed two new cabinet committees to check the declining trend in growth and employment and spur demand as well as consumption.

A five-member cabinet panel on investment and growth has members which include Union Home MInister Amit Shah, Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

The Government’s other panel which will look at the unemplyment issue -- Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Developement -- has 10 members. This committee apart from Shah, Sitharaman and Goyal has Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar, Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank , Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Skill and Entrepreneurship Ma-

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Cong questions govt for not replacing AN-32 fleet NEW DELHI, JUN 5 (PTI): The Congress expressed concern Wednesday over the safety and well-being of the IAF personnel on board an AN-32 aircraft that went missing in Arunachal Pradesh after taking off from Assam’s Jorhat, and questioned the government on why it had not allocated resources to replace the obsolete AN32 fleet.

C o n g r e s s ’s c h i e f spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the defence minister must answer why

measures to prevent the spread of the disease.

The administration has launched an awareness campaign through the media to meet the challenge.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had also spoken to Shailaja Tuesday to discuss the situation and assured all support from the Centre to the state.

A control room has also been set up and the Strategic Health Operations Centre of the National Centre for Disease Control has been activated, phone number for which is 011-23978046, a health ministry statement said in New Delhi.

According to state government figures, the Nipah virus had claimed 17 lives -- 14 in Kozhikode and three in neighbouring Malappuram in May last year.

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KOTTAYAM (KERALA), JUN 5 (IANS): A 62-year-old man died here on Wednesday after three hospitals, including one run by the government, refused to admit him citing lack of ventilator, the distraught family said.

Jacob Thomas, suffering from H1N1, was transported to the Kottayam Medical College Hospital from Kattapana in the Idukki district in an ambulance after his condition worsened.

“We reached the emergency and casualty department of the Kottayam Medical College Hospital.

But the PRO told us they cannot admit my father as there was no ventilator available. Despite passionate pleas, not even a doctor came to see him,” Reny Jacob, daughter of Thomas told media here. The family of Thomas has filed a complaint of medical negligence with the police.

collected from the five people currently being treated at the isolation ward of Kalamassery Medical College Hospital have been sent to National Institute of Virology in Pune this morning.

“The preliminary assessment of their health shows that they are not in a severe condition. Their health now is better than yesterday. But they are under constant watch of doctors. We expect tests of their blood samples would be negative. But we should

fight against the potentially deadly virus, said 311 people from various districts were under observation of health officials and an analysis is being carried out to confirm on how many of them had directly contacted with the student infected with the virus.

A government bulletin had said Tuesday that a list of 311 people, who have interacted with the student, has been prepared and they were under medical observation.

Hailing from North Paravur in Ernakulam, the 23-year-old is studying in a college in Thodupuzha in Idukki district.

The student, who was suffering from fever, had gone to Thrissur district with a group of students to attend a training programme.

The government has urged people not to panic and take precautionary

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wait till the final results come,” Shailaja, who is constantly monitoring the situation with medical experts and top health officials, said.

She said treatment for Nipah will start only if their blood test confirm they have contracted the infectious disease.

The results are expected by Thursday evening.

“We should be very careful till the completion of the incubation period of the virus,” she said.

At present, they were being treated for fever and sore throat, said the minister.

According to the World Health Organisation, the incubation period (interval from infection to the onset of symptoms) is believed to range from 4 to 14 days.

Shailaja, who has been camping here since Monday to lead the state’s

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KOCHI, JUN 5 (PTI): The Kerala government Wednesday said the condition of the college student being treated at a private hospital for Nipah virus is stable w hile the condition of five others kept under watch was improving.

A total of 311 people from various districts are under observation, Health Minister K K Shailaja said.

“The condition of the student is stable. It has not turned worse,” she said, a day after the 23-year old student here was confirmed to be infected with Nipah virus.

A medical bulletin issued by the hospital Tuesday night had said he was admitted on May 30 and “the patient is clinically stable, slowly improving and his fever is subsiding.”

Talking to reporters here, Shailaja said samples

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Language controversy

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t was a strong message to the newly installed BJP-led NDA government under prime minister Narendra Modi, that attempts to squeeze in the draft of a new education policy released by the Centre that made Hindi compulsory will only stir up a hornet’s nest especially in the southern states. The southern states led by Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and even Bengal expressed outrage over the new education policy that makes it mandatory for school students to be proficient in either of the three languages that included Hindi. Among several proposals made in the draft National Education Policy (NEP), the one clause that came under fire was the “3-language formula”. According to the 3-language formula, the First language: Mother tongue or the regional language. Second language: Modern Indian language or English (in Hindi-speaking areas) or Hindi or English (in Non-Hindi speaking areas). Third language (not studied as the second language): Modern Indian language or English (in Hindi-speaking areas) or Hindi or English (in Non-Hindi speaking areas).

Even in the north east, the draft education policy has the potential of boomeranging into a confrontation.

The proposal was seen as a move to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states. After the uproar, the Central government released a revised draft NEP. The new draft has removed the clause that was seen as imposition of Hindi by several states. The new government has also directed that all employees in the national capital should be well versed in Hindi. Moreover, it has also decided to install Hindi software in the systems of government offices all over India. India is a multilingual nation as it has 22 languages. Hindi is the fifth most widely spoken language in the world. Though Hindi is spoken in almost all parts of India, none of the schools in India have made Hindi compulsory till the senior secondary level education. There is no second opinion that Hindi should be encouraged but many do not support it being imposed in any manner. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who was a graduate of Trinity College London and every aspect a westernised Indian, had chosen Hindi as the official language of India in 1965. Even the Indian constitution states that Hindi should be the official language of India.

Hindi was adopted as the official language by the constituent assembly on September 14, 1949. On this day, India celebrates it as Hindi day. All these prove that Hindi occupies a very important place among major languages in India. However, the pro-Hindi lobbyists lack understanding that India is not only a multilingual but also a multi-cultural and multi-religious nation of 120 crore people. Even historically and factually, a majority of people in India have a non-Hindi language as their mother tongue. Far from embodying India, Hindi is actually India’s youngest literary language. The dangers of one language seeking to dominate are easy to see in India’s neighbourhood. Sri Lanka went through a bloody civil war after Sinhalese nationalists tried to foist their language on the island’s minority Tamils.

Pakistan was split asunder in 1971, as Bengalis found their own culture oppressed by the Urdu of West Pakistan. Therefore, by trying to promote Hindi, those who deem fit that it should be imposed, are only doing a disservice to the language and the national diversity.

DailyDevotion God’s Assurance He Himself has said….So we may boldly say…

—Hebrews 13:5-6 My assurance is to be built upon God’s assurance to me. God says, “I will never leave you,” so that then I “may boldly say, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear’ ” (Hebrews 13:5-6). In other words, I will not be obsessed with apprehension. This does not mean that I will not be tempted to fear, but I will remember God’s words of assurance. I will be full of courage, like a child who strives to reach the standard his father has set for him. The faith of many people begins to falter when apprehensions enter their thinking, and they forget the meaning of God’s assurance— they forget to take a deep spiritual breath. The only way to remove the fear from our lives is to listen to God’s assurance to us.

What are you fearing? Whatever it may be, you are not a coward about it— you are determined to face it, yet you still have a feeling of fear. When it seems that there is nothing and no one to help you, say to yourself, “But ‘The Lord is my helper’ this very moment, even in my present circumstance.” Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God’s Word fit what you have said? Take hold of the Father’s assurance, and then say with strong courage, “I will not fear.” It does not matter what evil or wrong may be in our way, because “He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you….’ ” Human frailty is another thing that gets between God’s words of assurance and our own words and thoughts. When we realize how feeble we are in facing difficulties, the difficulties become like giants, we become like grasshoppers, and God seems to be nonexistent. But remember God’s assurance to us— “I will never…forsake you.” Have we learned to sing after hearing God’s keynote? Are we continually filled with enough courage to say, “The Lord is my helper,” or are we yielding to fear?

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Post-mortem

New car but no place to park

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very single day more and more cars and bikes are added to Nagaland roads. It is seen that most of these vehicles are parked on the side of the roads. This has led to ever increasing traffic jams in places like Kohima and Dimapur where most roads have become one way traffic. Getting stuck in long traffic jams have become regular now making urban commute a very unpleasant and time-wasting affair. There is thus a need to find ways and means to decrease this wastage of productive hours in long traffic jams.

Therefore it is desirable that the govenment make a rule or issue an advisory for all new buildings to have parking space on the ground floor of their building or in their compound. Even without a municipal rule or formal guideline, the public must build responsibly and make parking space in their new buildings. Also it will be good if the landlords who sell plots keep spacious place for roads. This idea of having big personal compound but having very small roads is decreasing ease of travelling in many colonies. Contrast this to developed cities like London or Paris where they have big roads but small or no personal compound.

Making a parking lot must apply especially to those plots which are attached to the main roads. There are many buildings on the side of busy roads like churches, office, schools, banks, commercial buildings etc. But they have no parking space in their building complex. As such, hundreds of cars are just parked on the side of the small roads. This is a planning blunder. A big public building that looks beautiful but has no parking space is just stupid and adds to the congestion and traffic jams.

In hilly areas like Kohima, it is desirable that homeowners keep their ground

floor as parking space not just for themselves but for their neighbours as well who have no place to park their cars.

They can get parking rent out of it and can be win-win for all. Proper parking space is also important because the climate is changing and extreme weather events that can damage cars like big hail storms and landslides are becoming more frequent. Proper parking lot can also protect our cars from thieves.

The recent fire in a coaching institute in Surat in which students jumped from the building to save their lives should make us ponder over many things. One of them is, how can emergency services like police, ambulance or fire brigades reach the spot on time in congested places when the roads are packed with cars? Kohima is a water scarce place which has houses almost joined together. An open road could atleast give room for fire brigade trucks to reach before its too late.

There are some public buildings like churches and schools who have big compounds but they don’t allow cars to enter their compounds even after classes nor do they allow it to be used as places for evening daily markets.

As such, vegetable vendors occupy the small roads which lead to more congestion on the roads. It will be good if the big compounds of schools, colleges and churches etc can be used for parking or holding daily markets etc. These institutions can then collect rent in return. Increasing population of humans and cars dictates that we use these big un-used compounds innovatively on a daily basis and not just on festive seasons.

It is also felt that the government must make ring roads around congested city centres to ease the traffic from the centre. In the absence of alternate roads, the people are forced to flock the places near the main town roads. If

The Earth Belongs to God

(From previous issue) However, there are much more to its meaning that we have to address them time and again. Educating the younger generation biblically about the nature of the earth and everything that is in it; the concern that God has for his creation, must be instilled in every mind of a Christian. It is because, we do care for the things that belong to others, and which is what exactly we must render to God for it is His creation. The psalmist exalted the Lord saying, (Psalm 24:1-2) “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.” This makes it clear that God is the master of all.

It is He whose hand is behind every existence.

In Genesis 1:31, “God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.” Also in the view of the psalmist, (Psalm 65:9-13) “You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops. You crown the year with your bounty and your cart overflow with abundance.

The grasslands of the desert overflow; the hills are clothes with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.” God not only created everything but He also valued and sustained them. If God takes keen interest on His creation in sustaining them, would not He mean the job for the steward be likewise when He commanded us to rule over them? (Gen. 1:26, 28) Researchers revealed that “human activities are responsible for the disturbance of balanced system of an envi-

ronment. Increasing human population produces a strain on the resources and availability of energy and materials, which deplete. The process of Urbanization and industrialization, use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, hasty approaches to the formulation and developmental projects particularly hydro-electric and those on tourism, road, building, mining and disposal of waste materials are the main developmental activities of man. All these activities introduce many unwanted substances in the environment and disturb the balanced system of the environment”. Every year the increase in suffering due to insufficiency of drinking water, global warming, natural calamities etc. can be due to our ignorance, our avoidance, our non-participation towards maintaining ecological balance. It directly affects our duty as Christian stewardship in upholding the value of God over the creation. We must understand that caring and sustaining God’s creation is part of our responsibility. Talking about being ‘environmentally sustainable’ is therefore very much associated with Christian teaching.

Every Christian should know that, caring for His creation is not by choice but it is our moral responsibility.

We cannot do away with it nor leave to the atheists and progressive thinkers alone. We have to be the example for others to follow. True loving and caring can only be projected when we do things in the right manner and that includes even in creation care. Thus, if we proliferate these concerns and execute them appropriately, we can only say that we live the word “The earth belongs to God”.

(Concluded) Viphrezo Khrieo, youth director, Police Baptist Church, Peren

new pucca roads or ring roads are made, it will encourage businesses and people to spread horizontally towards the new roads.

The municipal bodies in Dimapur and Kohima have incomplete multi-storey parking lots lying incomplete and neglected for years now.

It is desirable that these are completed at the earliest on priority basis. It is disheartening to see that such projects are taking so long for completion.

In the latest “Ease of Living Index” prepared by the Centre, Kohima got a rank of 110 out of 111 cities. Only one city was worst than Kohima.

Getting stuck in traffic jams for long hours is definitely one of the reasons for the very low ranking of Kohima is the Ease of Living Index.

Since Nagaland and the entire Northeast is an earthquake and landslide prone area, we must think twice before erecting very tall buildings. Our rescue and fire departments currently do not have the needed machines to rescue people trapped in high rise buildings due to fires or earthquakes. Therefore we need open spaces and roads for the emergency services to move around to help us in times of need. Otherwise, like in Surat fire, we will only watch disaster happen and be unable to do anything to help the victims.

Proper town planning and public cooperation can achieve a lot and make our State a better place to live in. The schools, colleges and private individuals can play a big part to ease congestions in the cities. Last but not the least, it is hoped that all new buildings, especially public buildings will be mandated by law to have essential features like parking lots and disabled friendly structures etc. which are totally missing at the moment.

Lelen Singsit, Kuda Village, Dimapur

A confluence of hope and despair

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s responsible and informed citizens of the Naga society, let us all take a moment to bow our heads in shame as we witness the political system of our State attain an all time low. First, the teachers had to face the water cannon and now it’s the students with an additional bonus of tear gas and lathi-charge for the same offence of standing up for what is right and raising a united voice against what is wrong. One wonders if the future of our State in under serious threat of compromise with both teachers and students hitting the road more often for dharna’s and strikes than towards the classroom.

The irony of the situation is such that, it comes at a time when more than half of the citizens of the State capital is reeling under acute water shortage giving rise to unregulated water delivery business throughout the nook and corner, with a vast majority of moderate income citizens like myself praying for an early monsoon to save budget on water cost. Meanwhile, our dear government seems more enthusiastic on splashing the precious water on people who stand up for their rights rather than to solve the unending water crisis.

However, Looking through the lens of rationality one must realize that the government is not to be blamed for entirely, as it is not something that fell down from the sky but rather they are manned by the very people with whom we share the same history, blood and culture and it is only right to say that our government is nothing more than a reflection our thoughts. Hence, if the government of the day is good then congratulations to all of us but if it is bad, then we have very little choice than to tolerate until we learn to exercise our political rights in the right way on that one occasion that comes once in every five years. We all talk and pray for God fearing leaders but how often do we realize that God fearing leaders will rise only when we- the voters become God fearing ourselves.

Maybe it was too much for the student leaders to demand the resignation of the Director or maybe it is politically right to say that none of us are completely free from corruption, given the fact that most of us, barring a few rare species amongst us, applied for post matric scholarships as

students by selling our parents image because frankly speaking, back then, we would often write our parents occupation as farmers and producers either knowingly or unknowingly that it is a corrupt act however mild an act it be may be, and I believe nothing much have changed since then.

Nevertheless, regardless of all that, whatever happened on that fateful day of 4th June 2019 at the State Secretariat junction defies all logic on how appalling and aghast it was to see uniformed personnel’s in all protective gears charging at young people in college uniforms and delivering blows. Chance are that, they might end up beating their own children and wards which will be such a tragedy for the concerned family because the daughters and sons of most of the high and mighty are definitely outside the State pursuing their studies in some of the most prestigious institutions of the country- far away from the melee, to even share concern for their contemporaries back home, facing the brunt of the bad decision that some of their proud parents took on this historical day.

As I write this, I am reminded of a very emotionally provoking video I watched recently on respected Shri.

Pawan Kumar Chamling vacating Mintokgang residency, the official Chief Ministers’ residence after being unable to form the government post his Sikkim Democratic Front party’s defeat in the 2019 State Assembly election by a small margin of 2 seats but after having served for a record 24 years and 5 full terms, the longest by any chief minister in the country. The hundreds and thousands of supporters and well-wishers of all age group that thronged the street weeping and wailing so genuinely on having to witness their most beloved leader vacating the top position and the way he was consoling and appreciating each one of them with such grace and dignity was a sight to behold. Should God provide us one such leader in our lifetime- remains one of my wildest dream; A selfless leader who is all for the people, is something we must pray for and support before we all go down into the deep abyss of political suicide.

May rationality triumph over greed in our blessed State of Nagaland.

Nyanbemo Lotha Naga, Billy Graham Road, Kohima

Preserving our environment on a daily basis

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ots of measures have been taken by the Government and NGOs to safeguard our environment. All the same human existence has become a threat to the environment. We threaten our very existence by our careless living. The more we pollute the environment, the more we negate our life. We appreciate a clean and serene environment for it gives us clean thoughts and decent living.

Those who live in a clean environment live a better life. People living in polluted environmentare prone to numerous sicknesses and diseases. Often we appreciate other States for cleanliness and healthy environment and forget to implement the same in our State.

The capital of Nagaland, Kohima is facing numerous problems with regard to environment. Most of these problems arise from our own kitchen,drainage andtoilet.

Pollution can be prevented on a daily basis by every individual.

Some important places of preserving our environment are 1. Homes: Home is the first school of learning. Parents and children must learn to keep their homes neat and clean. The way parents and elders take care of children is reflected in their daily lives. Children coming from a clean home are able to keep themselves and their surrounding clean. A clean home will enable children to respect any place of living. Many people keep their kitchen and other rooms neat and clean in order to promote homely atmosphere. Dirty homes encourage children towards lesser care for the environment in which they live.

2. Schools and Colleges: We spend 15-20 years in Schools and Colleges. If every Student can become agent of preserving our environment then a massive change can come about within a short span of time. Today, many Schools and Colleges have taken up EVS as a subject. Eco Club is also formed with the aim of protecting and preserving our environment. Principals, Head-

masters and teachers must teach Students the importance of clean environment both in and outside Schools and Colleges. Students must learn the art of preserving life and environment.

3. Church: A place of worship like Church must promote clean environment. The Church and its surrounding must be kept clean for cleanliness is next to godliness. All members must be taught to keep clean the benches, kneelers and other furnitures of the Church.

There are some Churches where tea and snacks are served inside.

This is not advisable for by this we turn a place of worship into a tea shop. We cannot eat and drink inside the Church as we do in hotels and restaurants. A place meant for worship should be clean enough to worship, pray and sing.

The surrounding of the Church must provide good atmosphere.

The Church has lots to do in conscientizing its members with regard to preservation of environment.

The Church must become the best environment for all people.

4. Public places:Today, public places have become dumping ground in cities like Kohima and Dimapur. All waste materials are dumped in public places like stadiums and football grounds.

Such habitual defaulters must be brought to task by cleaning up

waste materials from time to time.

We see many notice boards where it is written, “Do not litter here” or “Do not throw garbage here.” The funny part is that people still throw garbage in those places in spite of those warnings. Warning becomes invitation for many people. We must keep up the dignity of public places for they reflect the social life of the people. Social life is a combination of individual life.

5. Private and Government offices: All Private and Government offices are built for the purpose of promoting better atmosphere of work. Yet, today some offices are filled with waste materials and dirts. A small dustbin in the office room is filled with spittles of paan and other tobacco products. The smell from such dustbin is a good welcome note for the guests and visitors. Smokers continue to smoke inside the offices. We don’t interfere in the personal life of anyone. But it is good to keep our offices neat and clean. In some offices, a corner of the room is used for spitting and collection of waste materials. Those working in Government or Private Offices must keep their places of work in a hygienic atmosphere.

This will enable us to promote healthy atmosphere of work and relationship.

(To be concluded) Rev. Fr. G. L. Khing, Kohima

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The action meted out against the ANCSU rally held yesterday was very inappropriate as using tear gas and water cannon will not solve the festering volcano in Naga society. So many issues are going to resurface and there might be a repetition of last year incident wherein some young people were killed. The government needs to thoroughly study the core problems and if there are corrupt officials involved in the scholarship scam, then action must be initiated against them.

Elina Walling, Agri Colony, Kohima

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Praful expected to depose before ED in PMLA case

Praful Patel (File)

the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The four-time MP from the Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra had earlier told PTI that he would be happy to cooperate with the ED for their understanding of the complexities of the aviation industry.

The central agency has recently filed a chargesheet in the case, naming Talwar and claiming that he was in regular touch with Patel.

It has alleged that Talwar finalised various communications addressed to Patel on behalf of Emirates and Air Arabia.

According to the chargesheet, Talwar obtained undue favours for the private airlines using his contacts. The agency has also alleged that Talwar

was engaged in lobbying with politicians, ministers, other public servants and officials in the civil aviation ministry for Emirates, Air Arabia and Qatar Airways in order to secure undue benefits to these airlines.

“He (Talwar) illegally managed to secure favourable traffic rights for these airlines during 2008-09 at the cost of the national carrier, Air India,” the ED has claimed.

It has also been alleged that in lieu of securing favourable traffic rights, these airlines made payments to the tune of Rs 272 crore to Talwar during 2008-09.

“He created a web of his own entities and used the companies of his son, Aditya Talwar, in India and international offshore havens to launder Rs 272 crore received from foreign airlines. Part of these payments were made to a bank account in the Bank of Singapore, belonging to a company called Asiafield Limited, registered in the British Virgin Islands and beneficially owned by Deepak Talwar,” the agency has said in the chargesheet.

NEW DELHI, JUN 5 (PTI): Election Commission may “revisit” a rule that provides for prosecution of an elector if a complaint of EVM and VVPAT machine malfunction turns out to be false, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora has said.

“Now that the current elections are over, we will probably be discussing it internally whether it should be modified, softened etc ... we may revisit it,” he told PTI. Arora was responding to a question on the penal provision which many feel is unwarranted. A voter who claims that the electronic voting machine (EVM) or

CS’s statement condemned

KOHIMA, JUN 5 (NPN): ANCSU strongly condemned chief secretary Temjen Toy’s statement and asked how he could say that protesters had dispersed peacefully when “innocent” students were lathi-charged, assaulted and got injured. Stating that such statements added fuel to fire and were misleading, the union leaders added that these deserved “strong condemnation”.

Speaking to the media during the press conference, KROS College Students’ Council president Viketuonuo Kikhi said the “physical and mental harassment” caused to the peaceful student protesters deserved strong condemnation.

She alleged that the students were beaten up and chased like cats and dogs, following which many were hurt physically and mentally, though they were peacefully demonstrating for their genuine reasons. Baptist College Students’ Union vice-president Thungpang Chang also condemned the “brutality” of the police personnel on the students. He also criticised the chief secretary for his statement.

Computer Baba takes charge in MP; demands chopper BHOPAL, JUN 5 (IANS): Namdev Das Tyagi, aka, Computer Baba, who joined office at the state secretariat here as chairman of the Narmada-MandakiniKshipra trust with ministerial rank on Tuesday, did not waste even an hour after taking charge to demand a helicopter within a week to inspect the Narmada River.

Tyagi assumed charge amid rituals and chanting of mantras in the presence of former chief minister Digvijaya Singh, state Law Minister P.C. Sharma and a few religious functionaries.

No one should be surprised if the Baba gets a chopper to survey the Narmada. The baba said he wants the job expedited. Any other means would delay action.

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Nath had handed the job of rejuvenating the holy river to Tyagi, saying the river would get a new life. “We will form a Narmada Sena for the task.

The previous Shivraj Chouhan government was corrupt to the core,” Nath had said.

He said there should be no objection to ‘babas’ coming into the government. There is one already running a state government, he had said, referring to UP Chief Min-

the paper trail machine did not recorded his or her vote correctly is allowed to cast a test vote under Rule 49 MA of the Conduct of Election Rules. But, if the voter fails to prove the mismatch, poll officials can initiate action against the complainant under section 177 of the IPC. Section 177 applies in the case as it deals with giving false submission. The IPC section states that the person “shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both...”

ister Yogi Adityanath. ‘Computer Baba’ had campaigned for Digviajaya Singh during the recent Lok Sabha elections. He had conducted a havan to ensure Singh’s victory. He had also announced that Prime MInister Narendra Modi would lose the Lok Sabha Election and that BJP would never win. The results are out now and the state government’s persistence with the mumbo-jumbo of godmen is drawing derisive comments from people. After the Congress was trounced, the Baba said the sanyasis (seers) don’t support any political party. They stand by the religion while the parties come and go.

On May 9 the Bhopal police had lodged an FIR against the Baba, ironically, on a complaint from the BJP saying the Baba was fanning communal sentiments.

On May 7 he had performed ‘Hath Yoga’ and performed a ‘chillies havan mahyagna’ along with Digvijaya Singh and his wife to ensure Singh’s victory. This had prompted the Election Commission to serve a notice on him for violation of Model Code of Conduct.

a momentous and historic occasion as all rumours and propagandas were laid to rest with the victory of BJP and congratulated Modi on the occasion. Along also lauded Union Home minister Amit Shah for being able to penetrate the innermost region of the country and laying rumours to rest, besides congratulating BJP leaders in charge of the Northeast and all party workers for the victory.

Calling for making the party stronger, the minister said workers must respect one another and take heed of one another’s advice and suggestions. He informed the gathering that the party would launch an extensive active and primary member-

SKK seeks clarification...

(From p-1) way back in 2007; what is the rationale in clubbing together the issue of misappropriation of scholarship and up-gradation of KPA and is the minister trying to polarise the issues raised on tribal line? Unless the people were satisfied with the clarification, SKK cautioned that the minister would be held responsible for any negative effects that could arise.

NWHD clarifies

DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): Naga Women Hoho Dimapur (NWHD) Wednesday clarified that the video that went viral on social media regarding the remark made by its vice president, was her own personal statement.

In a press note, NWHD publicity and info secretary, Keninguno Kath further clarified that the office of the NWHD had nothing to do with the VP’s remark.

NCSU Phek bans Madhucon DPM’s entry to district DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): Holding Madhucon Company DPM Anuch Mishra responsible for the failure of the two-lane project under Gayatri Maytas in Phek district, the Nagaland Contractors’ and Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) Phek district unit has banned him from entering Phek district with immediate effect.

In a press release, NCSU Phek president Kuzhosheyi Soho Alex and general secretary Razou Lohe stated that to ensure quality works and timely construction of ongoing two-lane SARDP Project i.e Pfustero-Phek and Zero Point-Zunheboto, the union undertook a tour from May 23-25, 2019.

NCSU Phek stated

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urged the State leaders to look into the affairs of the minority communities as it was observed that they were deprived of Central government’s minority schemes.

He requested them to set up a State minority commission for the welfare and benefit of the minority communities. PHED minister Jacob Zhimomi, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Bharatiya Janata Mahila Morcha, Bharatiya Janata Kisan Morcha leaders also spoke on the occasion. Nagaland Empowerment of People through Energy Development chairman Kevechutso Doulo too addressed the gathering, which was attended by party leaders from across the State.

(From p-1) He claimed that the PDA government was trying its best to resolve the matter but that nothing could be changed overnight. Along maintained that the objectives of both ANCSU and state government was for the welfare of students. The minister also disclosed that it was for the first time that a huge sum of Rs.40 crore was received from the Centre as scholarship in January 2019 and disbursed to student beneficiaries .Along also reasserted that he has been working for the students’ welfare and assured that anyone found guilty of embezzlement of scholarship fund would not go unpunished. Deputy chief minister Y Patton, who attended the programme, also appealed to the student community not to go for agitation, while assuring that officials involved in misuse of scholarship fund would be booked.

Calling indefinite bandh without consultation...

(From p-1) However, rest of the business community opened their shops and business was conducted smoothly and as usual, it added. DCCI thanked all its frontals organisations, welfare committee and business community for their cooperation and showing unity. It warned the traders not to give in to the social media rumours regarding bandh or shutter-down but rely on its official directions.

The traders’ body also thank the district administration and police for their cooperation in enabling smooth conduct of businesses during the period of bandh.

ers and chairmen to listen to the voice of party workers and not to remain confined to their respective constituencies only.

Along urged the BJP legislators to follow deputy chief minister Y Patton who brought out a booklet listing what he had done for the people. He said the booklet was testimony that BJP was not in Nagaland to destroy the people or their religion, but to stand with them. In his brief address, Health & Family Welfare minister Pangnyu Phom asserted that the 12 BJP legislators in the State were united under the leadership of BJP Legislature Party leader and party president. Speaking on the occasion, BJP

Along regrets use of force against ANCSU activists

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NEW DELHI, JUN 5 (PTI): Former civil aviation minister and NCP leader Praful Patel is expected to depose before the ED on Thursday in connection with a money-laundering probe related to the losses suffered by national carrier Air India as part of an alleged multi-crore-rupee aviation scam.

Patel (62) has also been named in a recent chargesheet filed by the federal agency before a court as a person known to alleged aviation lobbyist Deepak Talwar.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, who was in charge of the civil aviation ministry between 2004 and 2011, has not been mentioned as an accused in the case.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), sources said, had already questioned a number of people in the senior management of the state-owned airline and the aviation ministry.

Patel was expected to be quizzed about the statements and revelations made

by Talwar, they added.

The statement of Patel, a Rajya Sabha MP, will also be recorded under

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that lack of conviction and commitment of the Madhucon Company was evident especially the company DPM Anuch Mishra, who was a member official of Ramky Infrastructures and responsible for the failure of the last two-lane project Gayatri Maytas in Phek district.

The union stated that Mishra had gone against the agreement despite several appeals and had been playing “hide and seek” till date.

Cautioning that Mishra would be held responsible for any untoward incidents hereafter, the union has appealed to the Madhucon Company to replace Mishra with someone who could work with more conviction

and commitment towards the project.

Meanwhile, the union has expressed gratitude to minister for planning coordination & land revenue, Neiba Kronu for helping and enabling the union to undertake the touring programme successfully.

It also expressed its satisfaction with the progress of works being carried out by firms like KKB and Shivalaya.

NCSU Phek, however, expressed concern over the works being undertaken by Madhucon Projects Limited. Besides the ongoing earth works done by some local contractors, NCSU Phek said the company has so far not installed any machinery or testing labs.

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of 1.5, National Insurance has an insolvency ratio of 1.5, while United India’s level is comparatively lower at 1.21.

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Depending on the capital that Budget provides, individual allocation would be made, they added. The profitability of many general insurance companies, including that of state-owned ones has been under pressure owing to rising underwriting losses and higher claims.

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Traders said silver prices rose on pick-up in offtake by industrial units and coin makers at the local spot market. Globally, spot gold was trading higher at USD 1,333.70 an ounce, while silver was up at USD 14.92 an ounce in New York.

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As per a Finance Ministry report in March, though easing of monetary policy has the potential to support growth, the recent cuts in repo rate are yet to be transmitted to the weighted average lending rate of banks, thus the effects of the easing on investment activity are yet to manifest.

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In April, the IMF cut India’s growth projections for this year by 0.2 per cent from the 7.5 per cent made in January to 7.3 per cent. It projected next year’s growth at 7.5 per cent, though lower than the earlier 7.7 projection.

The Asian Development Bank said in April that India’s growth rate would be 7.2 per cent this year and 7.3 per cent next year.

China’s economy grew by 6.6 per cent last year and is forecast to grow by 6.2 per cent this year and further decelerate to 6.1 per cent next year and 6 per cent in 2021, the World Bank said.

Pakistan was estimated to have grown by 5.2 per cent last year, but is forecast to steeply decline to 3.4 per cent this year and 2.7 per cent next year, before recovering to 4 per cent in 2021, according to the report.

global crude oil prices will be key factors to determine the magnitude of the rate cut.”

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The Bank said that the cut-off dates for data used in the report was May 23.

On May 31, the CSO said that India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth during the 2018-19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent, lower than the previous year’s 7.2 per cent.

The CSO said the Indian economy grew by only 5.8 per cent in the fourth quarter. That dragged down the fiscal year’s growth rate.

Finance Secretary Subash Garg attributed the slowdown to “temporary factors like stress in non-banking financial company (NBFC) sector affecting consumption finance”.

The World Bank report said, “Growth in India is projected to accelerate to 7.5 percent in FY 2019-20.”

“Private consumption and investment will benefit from strengthening credit growth in an environment of more accommodative monetary policy, and with inflation below the Reserve Bank of India’s target”, it added.

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New Delhi/Mumbai, Jun 5 (IANS): A booster dose in the form of further rate cut is expected from the Reserve Bank to rekindle economic growth which has been stunted by low demand, receding production and stagnant wages.

Economy watchers contend that subdued food prices coupled with growth concerns allows RBI to aggressively cut key lending rate.

Market observers have prescribed a range between 25 and 50 basis points to bring down the cost of finance and give impetus to consumption growth.

Overall, the apex bank might cut repo rate by 75100 basis points throughout this fiscal, if inflation target remains in sight. RBI’s medium-term target for consumer price index (CPI) inflation is of “4 per cent within a band of +/- 2 per cent”.

“Slower growth and lower inflation has given the RBI room to go in for a repo-rate cut,” Sunil Kumar Sinha, Director -- Public Finance and Principal Economist India Ratings and Research (Fitch Group), told IANS. “We expect that there might be 25 basis points reduction in the repo rate, but the apex bank can also go in for a larger cut. However, progress of Monsoon and

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New York, Jun 5 (IANS): As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares her budget, the World Bank reports India’s economy grew by 7.2 per cent in 2018-19 in contrast to the recent Indian Central Statistical Office (CSO) estimate of only 6.8 per cent growth during the period.

The Bank’s Economic Prospects Report released on Tuesday forecast India’s economy to grow by 7.5 per cent during this and the next two fiscal years, retaining its top spot as the fastest growing major economy. It would be helped by a “more accommodative monetary policy” and low inflation, it said.

The report retained the forecasts it made in January for India.

India’s growth forecast is the brightest spot in a grim forecast for the world economy. The report said that the global growth rate was estimated at 3 per cent last year and is forecast to dip steeply to 2.6 per cent this year, before edging up to 2.7 per cent next year and 2.8 per cent in 2021.

India “is estimated to have grown 7.2 per cent in fiscal year 2018-19, which ended March 31”, the report

Washington, Jun 5 (IANS): Business advocacy group USIBC has chosen Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Nasdaq President and CEO Adena Friedman as recipients of its prestigious 2019 Global Leadership Award for “catalyzing growth in the US-India commercial corridor”.

Reacting to his selection, the India-born Google CEO said he was “grateful to the USIBC for its leadership and for this honour”.

“Growing up in India, I saw the profound impact technology has on improving people’s lives, and I am proud that Google has been able to contribute to India’s exciting growth story,” Pichai said.

“At the same time, India is playing an increasingly important role in helping Google build products for the US and globally, and we’re only at the beginning of what’s possible.”

The awards will be conferred at the USIBC India Ideas summit and annual meeting, scheduled to be held at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC on June 12-13, USIBC said on Tuesday.

“We are enormously excited to recognise the contributions of Google and Nasdaq as leading tech-

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Chinese President Xi China first to launch rocket from sea Trump joins world leaders Jinping arrives in Russia in 75th D-Day anniversary

Donald Trump (left), British Prime Minister Theresa May (second from left) and first lady Melania Trump arrive at the D-Day event.

London, Jun 5 (IANS): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday arrived at Portsmouth port city of the UK to join Queen Elizabeth II, outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May and other world leaders to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

May will host 15 world leaders to remember the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history. Personalities from every country that fought alongside the UK will be attending. Coming at the end of a three-day state visit to the UK, Trump said he was looking forward to marking what “may have been the greatest battle ever”, the BBC reported.

The countries being represented at the event have agreed to make a joint statement pledging to ensure the “unimaginable horror”

of World War II is not repeated.

Called “the D-Day proclamation”, the 16 signatories -- including the UK and the US -- will commit to work together to find common ground and recommit to the shared values of democracy, tolerance and the rule of law.

The proclamation says, “Seventy-five years ago, our countries were about to embark on a decisive battle. On June 6, 1944, 160,000 allied troops landed at Normandy, signalling the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. Casualty figures on all sides were immense, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, aviators and civilians killed or wounded in the days and weeks that followed.

“We stand together today to honour the memory of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice on D-day,

and those many millions of men and women who lost their lives during the Second World War, the largest conflict in human history.”

May will use the occasion to call for continued Western unity in tackling what she will call “new and evolving security threats”.

On Thursday, memorial services are planned to mark the 75 years since the D-Day landings. Troops from the UK, the US, Canada and France attacked German forces on the coast of northern France on June 6, 1944. It was the largest military naval, air and land operation and marked the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied north-west Europe.

The commemorations to mark the Allied invasion of northern France come a day after Trump had a series of political meetings as part of his state visit.

During a joint news conference with May on Tuesday, Trump had said, “everything is on the table” in future discussions between the countries. But he told Piers Morgan in an interview for ITV’s Good Morning Britain that he did not “see it being on the table”.

“I said everything’s up for negotiation because everything is, but I don’t see that being...that’s something that I would not consider part of trade. That’s not trade,” he said.

‘Remove Imran to save nation’

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Islamabad, Jun 5 (IANS): Former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has called for the immediate removal of Prime Minister Imran Khan to save the nation and end peopl’s miosery. If the prime minister was not removed soon, he will bring the nation to a

point where “we too won’t be able to run the country”, the former president said while addressing an Iftar gathering of party workers in Daulatpur on Tuesday.

“I am not hungry for power, but the present government must be sent packing. Otherwise, the life of most people will become a misery,” Zardari was quoted as saying by Dawn newspaper. He further said the Pakistan Peoples Party will release its manifesto after Eid and declare its plans that “will signal the beginning of the end”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin with China’s President Xi Jinping. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool Photo via AP)

MOSCOW, JUN 5 (IANS): Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Russia on Wednesday for a state visit.

Xi is expected to join Russian President Vladimir Putin in reviewing the achievements and experience in the development of the bilateral relationship over the past seven decades and charting the course for its future development, Xinhua news agency reported. The two leaders are also expected to sign or witness the signing of important cooperation documents and attend a gathering celebrating the 70 anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.

“We have the confidence and capability to bring our relations to a new era of greater development at a higher level, based on our experience and achievements of the past 70 years,” Xi said in an interview to Russia’s TASS news agency

and Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper on the eve of the visit.

During his stay in Russia, Xi will also attend the 23rd St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

He will address a plenary session to expound China’s ideas on sustainable development and call for concerted efforts to safeguard multilateralism and improve global governance for the common development and prosperity of the world.

Xi’s visit to Russia, the eighth since 2013 when he was elected Chinese President, comes as the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination is at its best in history, according to Xinhua news agency.

Xi and Putin, maintaining close friendship, have met nearly 30 times on bilateral and multilateral occasions since 2013.

Beijing, Jun 5 (IANS): In a first, China on Wednesday successfully launched a rocket from a sailing ship into space, showcasing its prowess in the field.

A Long March-11 solid propellant carrier rocket blasted off at 12.06 p.m. from the mobile platform in the Yellow Sea off Shandong Province, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.

It is China’s first space launch from a sea-based platform and the 306th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series, the stateowned news outlet said.

China has spent billions of dollars on space technology and aims to become a dominant superpower by 2030.

The Long March-11 can carry small satellites and can take multiple satellites into orbit at the same time.

The rocket carried two technology experiment satellites and five commercial

The Long March 11 carrier rocket blasts off from a mobile launch platform in the Yellow Sea off the eastern province of Shandong on June 5, 2019.

satellites into space.

“The seaborne launch technology will meet the growing launch demand of low inclination satellites and help China provide launch services for countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative,” experts

Russia intercepts US plane over Mediterranean Sea Washington, Jun 5 (IANS): A US aircraft flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea was intercepted three times by a Russian fighter jet in three hours, according to the US 6th Fleet.

“On June 4, 2019, a US P-8A Poseidon aircraft flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea was intercepted by a Russian SU-35 three times over the course of 175 minutes,” the 6th Fleet said in a statement on Tuesday. The second of the three interactions “was determined to be unsafe” due to the Russian aircraft “conducting a high speed pass directly in front of the mission aircraft, which put our pilots and crew at risk,” it was cited as saying by CNN. The American aircraft was maintain-

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ing international standards and “did not provoke this Russian activity”, the statement said.

“While the Russian aircraft was operating in international airspace, this interaction was irresponsible. We expect them to behave within international standards set to ensure safety and to prevent incidents,” the 6th Fleet wrote, adding that “unsafe actions increase the risk of miscalculation and potential for midair collisions”.

According to CNN, the last unsafe intercept by Russia occurred in November 2018 over the Black Sea. In that incident, a Russian SU-27 fighter jet sped directly in front of a US Navy plane and then made a second pass.

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In Remembrance “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed and very dear.”

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Sydney, Jun 5 (IANS): The Australian police raided the headquarters of the country’s public broadcaster ABC early on Wednesday over an investigative story into misconduct by Australian forces in Afghanistan The search warrants named two journalists and News Director Gaven Morris, the BBC quoted ABC as saying.

The action comes a day after police searched the home of Annika Smethurst -- a News Corp journalist -- over the alleged leak of classified information.

Journalists expressed alarm over the raid. A spokesperson for the press gallery in Parliament called it “an outrageous move that should concern all Australians who value their freedom in an open society”.

Tuesday’s raid came weeks after a new centreright government was elected in which Prime Minister Scott Morrison returned to power.

According to a police statement, no arrests were planned and the warrant was “not linked” to Tuesday’s search and was “in relation to allegations of publishing classified material”.

“The search warrant relates to a referral received on July 11, 2017 from the Chief of the Defence Force and the then-Acting Secretary for Defence,” the statement said without giving further details.

were quoted as saying by Xinhua.

The two satellites are expected to step up allweather monitoring of ocean wind fields, improve typhoon monitoring and accuracy of the weather forecast in China.

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Born : 12th Oct 1950 – Died : 4th June 2019 We the bereaved family members would like to acknowledge and convey our heartfelt gratitude to all those who stood by us physically, morally, spiritually and financially during prolonged illness and demise of Lt. HARI CHETTRI, 3rd Mile, Dimapur.

We convey our special thanks to : 1. Head G.B. Shri. Hecto Kiba, Thilixu 2. G.B.C. Thilixu 3. Thilixu Baptist Church 4. Kingdom Church, 4th Mile.

5. Doctors and Staff.

6. Darogapathar Village Council 7. Friends & well wishers.

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Ford unveils driverless van with its own two-legged delivery robot

Ken Washington, chief technology officer at Ford, wrote in a blog post.

‘If we can free people up to focus less on the logistics of making deliveries, they can turn their time and effort to things that really need their attention.

‘Enter Digit, a twolegged robot designed and built by Agility Robotics to not only approximate the look of a human, but to walk like one, too,’ Washington added. Ford’s robot is capable of lifting packages that weigh 40lbs, so it can deliver your pizza, Amazon package or groceries straight to your doorstep.

Since Digit is designed to move like a human, it’s able to walk up and down stairs, traverse uneven ter-

Miley Cyrus speaks out after being grabbed by fan without her consent

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ays after a fan took things too far with Miley Cyr us by grabbing her and trying to kiss her — without her consent — as she was walking to her car with husband Liam Hemsworth, the “Malibu” singer is speaking out about the scary incident.

In a series of powerful posts on social media Tuesday, the 26-year-old pop star wrote: “She can be wearing what she wants.

She can be a virgin. She can be sleeping with 5 different people. She can be with her husband. She can be with her girlfriend. She can be naked. “She CAN’T be grabbed without her consent,” Cyrus added along with the hashtag “#DontF-kWithMyFreedom,” which is also a lyric from her new song “Mother’s Daughter.”

Cyrus also shared clips from “Inside Edition” and “The Talk” which featured both shows discussing the encounter.

In her final post, Cyrus shared a screenshot of a few social media users’ com-

ments asking what did she “expect” since she “wanted to be ‘sexy’” and she dressed “like a w---e.” In response, Cyrus hit back stating “Dont F--K With My Freedom” and the hashtag “#stillnotaskingforit.”

On Sunday, a video surfaced online that shows the “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” songstress trying to get through a sea of fans and photographers with her husband while in Barcelona, Spain over the weekend.

In the footage, Miley is seen walking through the packed crowd behind Hemsworth, 29, when a man’s hand comes into frame and grabs her hair. He then wraps his arm around her and pulls her in for a kiss.

Fortunately, the star was too fast for the handsy fan and managed to turn her head just in time to miss the uncalled for advance.

Security quickly noticed what was happening and intervened. It didn’t take much longer for Hemsworth to realize something was happening and put his arm around his wife to help usher her to the vehicle.

The incident came on the heels of Cyrus dropping her new EP, “SHE IS COMING,” which was released on Friday. It’s reportedly the first of three, six-song EPs she plans to release before the year’s end. (FoxNews)

Salman Khan slaps Veteran actor Dinyar Rihanna named as the security guard, Contractor passes away world’s richest female musician cleaves netizens

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ihanna has been named as the world’s richest female musician after defeating tough competition from the likes of Beyonce and Madonna.

The pop giant is believed to have amassed a staggering net worth of $600 million (£472 million), through her music catalogue, huge tours and the recent success of her lucrative Fenty Beauty line.

As Forbes reports, this means that her fortune has surpassed Madonna who is said to be worth $570 million (£448 million), Celine Dion who is worth $450 million (£350 million) and even Beyonce, who has reportedly amassed $400 million (£314 million).

The details of her huge

fortune come as Rihanna’s fans eagerly await news on the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Anti’.

Speaking to The New York Times, she recently revealed a few new pieces of information including the long-rumoured idea that she is making a reggae inspired album. She also said there is currently no album title but hinted at what it may eventually be.

“No, so far it’s just been R9, thanks to the Navy,” Rihanna said of the record’s title. “I’m about to call it that probably, ’cause they have haunted me with this, ‘R9, R9, when is R9 coming out?’ How will I accept another name after that’s been burned into my skull?”

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video of superstar Salman Khan slapping a security gaurd has gone viral on social media, leaving netizens split whether actor’s behaviour was right or not.

In the video, Salman is seen exiting a cinema hall amidst a lot of people and then suddenly turning and slapping one of his security guards, who was making way for the actor.

T h o u g h i t ’s n o t clearly visible what irked “Bharat” actor and made him slap the guard, it’s reported that Salman got angry because guard had pushed a young fan.

Social media users have a mixed reaction on this.

Supporting Salman’s behaviour, one user wrote, “True human can never see torture on children. Salman is a true human being.”

Another gushed, “One of the million reason why we love this man.”

But there is a section of social media users who slammed Salman for slapping the security man.

One Instagram user wrote, “This is not the way to deal. He (security guard) was doing his job. It’s very difficult to handle fans.”

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eteran model, comedian, theatre and films actor Dinyar Contractor passed away here on Wednesday morning, according to family sources.

He was 79 and was suffering from old age related issues.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Smriti Irani condoled his death.

“Dinyar Contractor was special because he spread lots of happiness.

His versatile acting brought smiles on several faces.

Be it theatre, television or films, he excelled across all mediums. Saddened by his demise. My thoughts are with his family and admirers,” Modi tweeted.

Irani wrote: “He brought bursts of laughter with him wherever he went, he lit up the screen and

our lives with his wit and charm. We will miss your presence Dinyar bhai. Rest in Peace Padma Shri Dinyar Contractor, theatre legend, actor par excellence.”

Dinyar Contractor was an accomplished actor, comedian and was renowned for his work in Gujarati and English theatre, TV serials and films. He acted in several Gujarati, Hindi and English stage productions as well as Hindi movies.

Launching his acting career while at school, he began as a professional in 1966 in Mumbai.

Initially, he was seen on television programmes with the legendary Adi Marzban when Mumbai Doordarshan launched the DD-2 channel in Mumbai with “Aao Marvao Meri Saathe,” a Gujarati programme.

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Scorpions Guitarist: We don’t know yet Kachari selected Indian brand ambassador whether we’re doing a new album or not L

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"I am in the studio, trying to find new ideas and get them together," Rudolf said in a new interview (hear audio below). "But we don't know yet whether we're doing an album or not. It's a question of inspiration.

When the inspiration is coming well, then we go.

It's up to the inspiration.

We want to be inspired."

He clarified: "We are not doing an album at the moment. We are looking where we have inspiration and whether we are ready for an album. It has to be inspired, the album… We wait for the right moment.

Now we have Mikkey Dee on drums, which is a new kind of element, a new chemistry, which gives us a lot of possibilities of creating something special. But you have to feel… It's like cooking a soup. You cannot eat a soup now directly — no. You have to wait until the taste is good, until the spice is good and until the temperature is good. And when the soup is too hot, it's even sometimes very good, because then you have to eat it slowly. This is the way how to create music — not going and

playing something. You have to get goosebumps to your own music."

Scorpions' last fulllength collection of new recordings was 2015's "Return To Forever", partially comprising songs the band had in the vault from the '80s. It was the final recorded appearance of Scorpions' longtime drummer James Kottak, who was dismissed from the band in September 2016. He has since been replaced by Dee, formerly of MOTÖRHEAD. Scorpions singer Klaus Meine told Scorpions Brazil last month that "there were plenty of ideas" when the band returned to the studio in April. "It was a really good vibe to work without big pressure or anything — just come back together, write a couple of songs, enjoy some time in the studio," he said. "And it really turned out really good and in a very positive way. Because we hadn't been in the studio for quite a while, so it was a very positive experience. And I would have loved if we could keep going, because we just have a great flow.

But knowing that we go back on the road soon — in June — there's just limited time right now."

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orence Kachari, a already promoting several filmmaker from Diartistes in Africa and worldmapur has become Inwide,” said Kachari, who dian brand ambassador for hogged the limelight in 2015 Streamiser Inc, an Africawhen he directed a music based online platform whose video for Diphu-based rock services include promotion band Celestial Sphere. of upcoming artistes from Streamiser Inc is a comAfrica and the world. puter company, founded by Kachari, who is the a young Cameroonian comonly Indian to be chosen puter code engineer named as a brand ambassador for Daniel Fofou. It has three Streamiser Inc, will look branches - Streamiser Cinout for local talent from the the region. Our platform is ema, music and HDTV. Northeast and the rest of the country in the fields of filmOFFICE OF THE making - artistes, musicians, actors and actresses - and TSARÜ BAPTIST CHURCH bring them to the global B.P.O. Chare, Tuensang, Nagaland platform.

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elf-driving delivery vehicles may be getting closer to becoming a reality, but Ford believes there’s one leg of the process that could be further solved by robots.

The auto giant has partnered with startup Agility Robotics to create a twolegged robot called ‘Digit’ that can ferry packages to your doorstep. It solves a problem generated by selfdriving delivery vehicles, which is that if there’s no humans in the driver’s seat that can drop off a package, autonomous robots can pick up the slack.

‘It’s not always convenient for people to leave their homes to retrieve deliveries or for businesses to run their own delivery services,’

rain and regain its balance even if a human bumps into the machine on a busy sidewalk.

Other delivery robots, such as those created by Starship Technologies, are fairly limited in terms of where they can deployed because they’re equipped with wheels that make it impossible to go up and down stairs. Instead, Digit is able to walk upright on two legs, allowing it to navigate a wider array of environments. Additionally, the robot can fold itself up into a compact shape so that it conveniently fits in the back of a delivery truck.

Once it arrives at the delivery destination, Digit unfurls itself, picks up a package and finishes the final step in the delivery process, Washington noted.

Ford isn’t the only company working on autonomous delivery robots. It’s joining a crowded field of early entrants like SoftBankowned Boston Dynamics, as well as robotics firm ANYbotics, which unveiled its robot delivery dog at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year.

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C. Elina Sangtam from Dimapur is all set to represent at MIHM Queen Universe 2019 for the first time. Elina was selected as a finalist to represent Nagaland at the first ever International Beauty Pageant organized by the Reigning Miss World Diversity 2017/18, Aizya Naaz Joshi. The Finale is scheduled to be held from June 16 - 19 in New Delhi.

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The Pine Wood Dealer's Union, Dimapur organised a plantation drive on 5th June 2019 at Government Primary School and its surrounding areas at ERALI BILL VILLAGE, Dimapur observing the World Environment Day, attended by Village Council Chairman, Shri. Hokito Tissicca, WATSAN Chairman, Shri Chuba Ao, S.M.C Chairman, Shri. Cliff Sangma and students of GPS, Erali Bill Village, Dimapur.

Speaking on the occasion, Union President Shri. L. ZHIMOMI encouraged the students and gathering to plant more trees as cutting of forest trees for human needs are unavoidable. The only solution is planting more trees in order to conserve environment and ecology and therefore Healthy Environment and free from "AIR POLLUTION" which is the biggest challenge in today's modern world.

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US shocks France in U20 WC

US players celebrate scoring a goal against France.

Wa r saw, J u n 5 (Agencies): United States shocked France 3-2 in a breathtaking match in boiling Bydgoszcz to reach the FIFA Under-20 World Cup quarter-finals.

Sebastian Soto opened the scoring shortly before a cooling break where the players had to take on water, running onto Richard Ledezma’s pass and curling past Alban Lafont at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium.

It sparked France into life and they equalised when Amine Gouiri sprinted onto Moussa Diaby’s

through ball and fired past Brady Scott.

France looked to be on their way to the last eight in the second-half when Nabil Alioui tapped in the rebound after Diaby hit the post, Soto, however, bagged his second with a cool finish after Paris Saint-Germain starlet Timothy Weah played a beautiful pass with the outside of his boot.

US scored the winner in the 83rd minute when Justin Rennicks scored after Lafont spilled a shot.

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Saturday (June 8).

S Korea, Mali through

South Korea are also through to the quarterfinals in Poland after a 1-0 win over East Asian rivals Japan at the Lublin Stadium.

After a first-half devoid of clear chances, Japan thought they were ahead five minutes after the break when Yuta Goke netted a close-range volley, but the video assistant referee ruled Taisei Miyashiro was offside in the build-up.

Japan dominated the second half and in the

78th minute Miyashiro hit the post - but it was Korea, who reached the knockouts thanks to a shock win over Argentina, who scored the winner.

With six minutes to go, Oh Sehun headed in at the far post from Kim Jusung’s chipped cross to break Japanese hearts.

South Korea are now due face Senegal in Bielsko-Biala in the late kick off on Saturday.

The evening match, the final round of 16 match, went to penalties between Argentina and Mali after a 2-2 draw, with the African side progressing 5-4 in the shoot-out at the BielskoBiała Stadium.

Adolfo Gaich opened the scoring for Argentina on 49 minutes, however, centre back Abdoulaye Diaby equalised to force extra time.

Diaby appeared to have gone from hero to villain when he turned the ball into his own net in the first minute of extra-time, only in the 121st minute for Boubacar Konte to dramatically force a shoot-out.

Thomas Chancalay had his spot kick saved by keeper Youssouf Koita as the Mali scored all five of their efforts to go through.

Mali are now set to play Italy in their quarter-final in Tychy on Saturday.

Nadal and Federer welcome Andy Murray return L o nd o n , J u n 5 (Agencies): Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have welcomed the prospect of Britain's Andy Murray returning to top-level tennis, while admitting his Queen's Club comeback has taken them by surprise.

Murray, 32, has not played since hip surgery following the Australian Open.

He described his doubles appearance alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez at the Fever-Tree Championships later this month as "the next step" in his return.

"It was a little surprising he announced that so quick," said Nadal.

"I always thought that he will find a way to try to be back, because he's still young and still very passionate about the game.

"It's great news for, first, for him and for his team and family, and then for the tour by itself. I'm happy for it, and especially happy for him."

Federer and Nadal were among a raft of players who appeared in a video shown on the big screens at Melbourne Park, congratulating Murray for his career in the wake of the Scot's first-round defeat by Roberto Bautista Agut.

ICC posts illustration of Virat Kohli on throne; fans unhappy

Virat Kohli sits on a throne with a crown on his head and a bat. (Twitter)

New Delhi, Jun 5 (IANS): The International Cricket Council (ICC) has raised eyebrows by posting an illustration of India skipper Virat Kohli sitting on a throne with a crown on his head and a bat in hand on Twitter.

The picture has seen some cricket fans fuming as they feel that such a post of one captain when all ten

teams are fighting it out for the coveted World Cup gives out a wrong impression.

One of the fans wrote: “The @ICC and the @ BCCI must get a room.”

Another one wrote: “BCCI ownes ICC clearly....(sic).”

Another India fan also made his displeasure clear when he wrote: “ICC acting like Indian team fan.

BCCI > ICC (sic).”

Earlier, the fans had trolled the ICC for keeping them waiting to see their favourite stars in action as Team India are playing only their first game of the tournament on Wednesday while some teams have played two games already.

Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar was also not impressed as he wrote in TOI: “The internal issues at BCCI probably didn’t allow the officials to have a close look at the schedule before it was firmed up, else they would have noticed that India, one of the top draws of the event, were going to play their first game well after almost every other team would have played their second one. Going in cold against good teams is never easy.”

But Kohli said: “It is a bit of an advantage in terms of understanding how the games have gone, what the conditions have to offer, what the overcast conditions bring into play.

“When you see other teams playing and what the approach is, from that point of view we would say that we have a lot of positives we can take out of starting late.”

Rain washes out play at Roland Garros

No place for complacency: Reid

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Bhubaneswar, Jun 5 (PTI): Complacency is something which has no place in any high performance sport, said Indian men's hockey team chief coach Graham Reid, insisting that respect for any opponent is the hallmark of a good team.

Reid made the statement in context of the FIH Series Finals, where India start as overwhelming fa-

vourites having been pitted against seven other lowerranked sides. "Complacency for me is not an option in high performance sport.

I always try and respect the opposition no matter who they are. They can always score a goal against you and there is no referral here as well," Reid told PTI on the eve of India's opening Pool A match against world no.

22 Russia. At fifth position, India are the highest ranked side in the tournament, which kickstarts here on Thursday.

South Africa (16th) and Asian Games gold medallist Japan (18) are the closest to the hosts in terms of world ranking. The

other participating teams are Poland (21st), Uzbekistan, United States (25) and Mexico (39). However Reid, who replaced Harendra Singh as India coach in April this year, said ranking hardly has any significance in any modern day hockey.

"World ranking is something that FIH (International Hockey Federation) uses to put teams in a particular order but on any given day any team can beat another. "World hockey has got very close.

For me I know what I can control and that's what I will be focussing on doing.

Whatever happens in terms of results will work its way," Reid said.

ing champion Simona Halep of Romania was scheduled to face 17-year-old Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. in Court Philippe Chatrier, and No. 8 Ash Barty of Australia was supposed to meet No. 14 Madison Keys of the U.S. in Court Suzanne Lenglen.

Those matches were to be followed by the two remaining men’s quarterfinals: No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia, who is attempting to win a fourth consecutive Grand Slam title, against No. 5 Alexander Zverev of

Germany, and No. 4 Dominic Thiem of Austria vs.

No. 10 Karen Khachanov of Russia.

One semifinal in each singles draw already was set Tuesday. On the men’s side, Rafael Nadal faces Roger Federer, meeting for sixth time at Roland Garros and 39th time overall.

On the women’s side, it’s No. 26 Johanna Konta of Britain against unseeded 19-year-old Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic.

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PARIS, Jun 5 (Agencies): Rain washed out the entire schedule at the French Open on Wednesday, the second time since 2000 a full day of play at the tournament was lost to showers.

According to AP, two men’s quarterfinals and two women’s quarterfinals were postponed until Thursday, when the forecast calls for clouds but no drizzle.

Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam site without a covered court; a re- to be added to the main tournament. tractable roof is expected stadium before next year’s On Wednesday, defend-

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Leo Club organizes women’s cricket

DIMAPUR, JUN 5 (NPN): Leo Club of Dimapur organised a two-day women’s cricket tournament on June 1 and 2.

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best bowler of the tournament and Nihar Ajmera awarded as the best batswoman. The project chairperson and co-chairperson were Nalini Jain, Bhawna Gangwal Sneha Jain and Payal Bagri.

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Rohit, Chahal lead India to 6 wkts win over S. Africa

(L-R) Rohit Sharma raises his bat to celebrate scoring a century. Yuzvendra Chahal, left, celebrates the dismissal of South Africa’s Rassie van der Dussen, Wednesday. (AP/PTI)

victory.

For South Africa, everything went wrong from the start as skipper Faf du Plessis first surprised everyone by deciding to bat first and then dropped Rohit in the slips when he had barely got off the mark.

Once Du Plesses dropped Rohit, he played a ramp shot to add salt to the wound. In all, he hit 13 fours and two sixes. The Indian opener was given a

second life towards the end of the chase with David Miller dropping a regulation catch.

The bowler on both occasions was Rabada, whom the Indians played cautiously while attacking the others. With no Dale Steyn and Lungi Ngidi, it would have been difficult for a second string attack to contain the Indian batsmen.

The weak link was the two spinners, Shamsi (0/54

Australian Open: P.V. Sindhu, Sameer make impressive starts

National Stadium gets blue turf with Olympics in mind

Southampton, Jun 5 (PTI): Rohit Sharma curbed his natural flair for greater good as his gritty hundred complemented a superb bowling effort in India’s resounding six-wicket victory over South Africa in their World Cup opener here Wednesday.

It was an uncharacteristic 23rd ODI hundred for the Indian vice-captain (122 no off 144 balls) in a successful chase of 228 in

conditions that were not exactly conducive for freeflowing strokeplay.

It might have taken India 47.3 overs to complete the chase but not for once were they in any sort of trouble.

Jasprit Bumrah (10-135-2) bowled a scary opening spell while leggie Yuzvendra Chahal (10-0-51-4) displayed his guile in the middle overs, making them equal contributors in India’s

P.V. Sindhu

Sameer Verma

Sydney, Jun 5 (PTI): India’s top shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and Sameer Verma made a good start to the Australian Open 2019 on Wednesday by progressing to the second round.

World No 5 Sindhu defeated Indonesia’s Choirunnisa 21-14, 21-9 in a lop-sided contest in women’s singles to set up a clash with Thailand’s

Nitchaon Jindapol in the next round.

Sixth seed Sameer Verma exacted revenge against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia 21-15, 16-21, 21-12 in a thrilling opening round men’s singles match. The Indian had lost to Lee at the Sudirman Cup last month.

The 25-year-old from Madhya Pradesh, who had

reached the semifinals at World Tour Finals, will square off against Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei in second round.

Among others, former Singapore Open champion B. Sai Praneeth, who had reached the finals at Swiss Open this year, beat Korea’s Lee Dong Keun 21-16 21-14, to set up a clash with second seed Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting next.

In men’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated compatriots Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy 21-12 21-16 to enter the second round.

The young duo will next fight it out against second seeded Chinese pair of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen.

However, Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Sikki Reddy lost 14-21 13-21 to Korean combination of Baek Ha Na and Kim Hye Rin.

New Delhi, Jun 5 (IANS): With just over a year left for the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in the Capital has been equipped with a new blue turf.

With the stadium’s original green turf wearing a worn out look, a committee consisting of officials from the Sports Authority of India, the sports ministry and Hockey India decided that it would be best to replace it with a turf that will be used at the Olympics as that will give the players practice before the big event.

“It was unanimously decided that since the turf is being changed, it is better to use one which will make the experience of players more in sync with the upcoming Olympics,” the official told IANS. While Hockey India did not ask for it specifically, it was part of the decision making process that led to the laying of turf, the official said.

Mighty Aussies to face stern Windies Test

Thursday’s match Australia Vs West Indies (3 pm) Trent Bridge, Nottingham Aaron Finch

Nottingham, Jun 5 (IANS): Riding on confidence after their emphatic win over Afghanistan, Australia will face an uphill task against the buoyant West Indies when the two teams meet in their World Cup fixture at Trent Bridge on Thursday.

Both the teams were at their menacing best in their opening World Cup encounters and literally thrashed their opponents.

Aaron Finch-led Australia had registered a convincing seven-wicket win over Afghanistan. The bowlers, especially the pacers, were on song as they restrict-

Jason Holder

ed Afghan Tigers to 207.

While chasing, Finch and David Warner showed signs of being in great form as both scored half centuries and rang alarming bells for the opposition teams.

On the other hand, Windies had demolished the Pakistani batting line-up with a barrage of short-pitch deliveries and ultimately bowled them out for mere 105 in their opening encounter in the ongoing World Cup. Oshane Thomas had finished with 4-27, while captain Jason Holder and Andre Russell shared five wickets between them before Windies clinched a

seven-wicket win over Pakistan. Australia are wary off the fact that Windies line-up boast of having some of the biggest hitters in world cricket at the moment and it would really require some effort from the Aussie pacers to control the likes of Chris Gayle, Russell and Carlos Brathwaite. Head coach Justin Langer has already said that Australia would need to adjust their mindset to take on the West Indies quicks and other fast bowlers at the tournament in England and Wales.

“We have to adapt to West Indies no doubt, who have got a number of good,

fast bowlers. South Africa will be same. England will be the same. Have to adapt our game plan and adapt pretty quickly,” Langer said on Tuesday. “Obviously a very dangerous team the way they bat and aggressive bowling, but they’ve got weaknesses as well and we’re playing pretty good cricket.” He also said that Australia, in all likelihood, will go in with the same XI that featured against Afghanistan.

SQUADS AUSTRALIA: Aaron Finch (captain), Usman Khawaja, David Warner, Steve Smith, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Kane Richardson, Nathan CoulterNile, Jason Behrendorff, Nathan Lyon, Adam Zampa WEST INDIES: Jason Holder (captain), Andre Russell, Ashley Nurse, Carlos Brathwaite, Chris Gayle, Darren Bravo, Evin Lewis, Fabian Allen, Kemar Roach, Nicholas Pooran (wicketkeeper), Oshane Thomas, Shai Hope, Shannon Gabriel, Sheldon Cottrell, Shimron Hetmyer

in 10 overs) and Imran Tahir (0/58 in 10 overs), who were attacked by the Indian batsmen.

With the scoreboard pressure not being there, Rohit and KL Rahul shared an 85-run partnership and later Rohit and Dhoni, who added 74, could afford to wait for the loose balls.

Earlier, Chahal grabbed four wickets helping India restrict South Africa to a sub-par score in testing conditions.

Du Plessis’ decision to bat under overcast conditions backfired with Bumrah setting the tone with twin blows in his opening spell.

Chahal then tightened the noose on South African batsmen as they could never really force the pace during the middle overs.

Incidentally, this was the best 10-over single spell (in terms of wickets taken) by any bowler in a World Cup game.

South Africa’s total got some semblance of respectability courtesy Chris Morris (42 off 34) and Rabada (31 not out off 35), who shared a much needed 66-run stand for the eighth wicket.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar (10-0-44-2) coming in place of Mohammed Shami was

impressive in his second spell. Bumrah dismissed Amla (6) with a beautiful delivery that rose from length outside the off-stump and the outside edge was taken low in the slips by Rohit Sharma.

De Kock (10) was out in his next over when his back of length delivery was angled across and the lefthander’s slash was pouched by skipper Virat Kohli at the third slip.

Skipper Du Plessis (38 off 54 balls) and Rassie van der Dussen (22 off 37 balls) did add 44 runs for the third wicket but it was more of a consolidation job as they found scoring runs difficult.

Third seamer Hardik Pandya (6-0-31-0) also hit the hard lengths and one of his deliveries, a nasty snorter, hit Du Plessis flush on the gloves, leaving him in pain. Along with Kedar Jadhav (4-0-16-0), they shared the fifth bowler’s duties admirably giving away only 45 runs.

BRIEF SCORES: India 230/4 in 47. 3 overs (Rohit Sharma 122*, MS Dhoni 34; Kagiso Rabada 2/39) against South Africa 227/9 in 50 overs (Chris Morris 42, Faf du Plessis 38; Yuzvendra Chahal 4/51)

Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019

Gianni Infantino re-elected unopposed as FIFA president

Gianni Infantino

Lo n d o n, J u n 5 (Agencies): Gianni Infantino has been re-elected as president of football’s world governing body Fifa for a second term.

According to BBC, the Swiss-Italian, 49, was reelected until 2023 without opposition at Fifa’s annual congress in Paris.

He succeeded Sepp Blatter in 2016 and has increased the number of teams at the 2026 World Cup and proposed key changes to the Club World Cup. Ex-president Blatter was in charge for 17 years until he was banned amid a corruption scandal in 2015.

Infantino’s re-election was marked by a round of applause, after rules were changed earlier in the day to no longer require a vote from Fifa’s 211 members if only one candidate was

standing.

In a lengthy speech at the congress, Infantino focussed on the relative calm of his first term in charge compared to the situation he inherited.

“Nobody talks about crisis at Fifa any more or rebuilding it from scratch,” he said.

“Nobody talks about scandals or corruption, we talk about football. We can say that we’ve turned the situation around.

“This organisation has gone from being toxic, almost criminal, to being what it should be - an organisation that develops football and is now synonymous with transparency, integrity.”

Former Uefa secretary general Infantino was behind the expansion of the World Cup from 32 teams to 48 for the 2026 tournament, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Plans to bring the expansion forward to the 2022 World Cup were however abandoned last month.

In March, Fifa approved Infantino’s plans for a 24-team Club World Cup starting in 2021, despite top European clubs saying they would boycott the tournament.

India lose 3-1 to Curacao in King’s Cup opener

Buriram (Thailand), Jun 5 (IANS): India started their campaign in the King’s Cup with a 3-1 loss to Curacao in Thailand.

In what was Igor Stimac’s first game as Indian coach, the Blue Tigers were completely outplayed by the higher ranked Curacao in the first half. Sunil Chhetri was the sole scorer for India through a penalty.

India were playing a side which has a number of its players plying their trade in European leagues. Leandro Bacuna, who scored the third goal, plays for Cardiff City, who got relegated from the Premier League last season while captain Cuco Martina has played for Southampton and Everton and was last seen at Feyenoord with Robin Van Persie.

India had the better share of possession in the first half but were caught out defensively by Curacao on a number of occassions which led to them conceding the three goals. The first true chance of the match came India’s way when

Rape case against Cristiano Ronaldo dropped: report L a s V e g a s, J u n 5 (IANS): In a dramatic turn of events, a rape case filed against Juventus star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been dropped, a media report said.

In September 2018, Katheryn Mayorga had filed a lawsuit alleging Ronaldo for sexual harassment and rape in a penthouse in the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The incident went back to June 2009 when he had recently moved to Spanish giants Real Madrid. Ronaldo was in the US for a pre-season tour.

According to the complaint, Ronaldo, then 24, was on vacation in Las Vegas and met her in the Rain nightclub at the Palms Casino Resort before inviting her to a party in his suite. It was there that Ronaldo forced himself on Mayorga while she begged him to stop, the complaint alleged. It added that “when Cristiano Ronaldo completed the sexual assault of the plaintiff, he allowed her to leave the bedroom stating he was sorry, he was usually a gentleman”, Efe news had reported.

Players of India and Curacao in action at the King’s Cup.

Brandon Fernandes played in Sahal Abdul Samad. The Kerala Blasters forward raced past his marker and fired a first-time volley that missed the target.

After that, however, it was mostly Curacao’s half with Rolly Bonevacia scoring the first goal in the 15th minute and Elson Hooi scoring the next two minutes later. Pronay Halder was unable to prevent the ball being played out wide where

Gebaro Nepomucenco put a cross in that was drilled in

by Bonevacia. The second came when Hooi caught out the Indian defence and beat Gurpreet Singh Sandhu in a one on one situation to put the ball into the empty net.

India then won a penalty when the referee called foul on a high boot from a Curacao defender against Sahal. Chhetri was as calm as ever as he slotted it home but three minutes later, Ba-

cuna’s shot from the edge of the box went past Sandhu and Curacao’s two-goal lead was restored.

There were no more goals in the match after that and it was India that had the more clear cut chances in the second half. India’s next match will be on June 8 and it will be against the loser of the match between Thailand and Vietnam that will be played later in the day.

Champions League architect Lennart Johansson dies at 89 Copenhagen, Jun 5 (IANS): Former UEFA President and former FIFA Vice President Lennart Johansson has died after a “short illness”, Sweden’s football association said on Wednesday. He was 89.

During his 17-year at the helm of European football’s governing body from 1990 to 2007, Johannson oversaw the introduction of the Champions League, which has become one of the world’s most prestigious soccer tournaments, reports Efe news.

“During his term of office, the face of the European game changed completely, in sporting and commercial terms. UEFA itself developed from being a purely administrative body in a suburb of the Swiss federal capital Berne to a dynamic modern sport organisation”, UEFA said in a statement.

UEFA said that a moment of silence would be observed at all matches this week to mark Johansson’s passing.

“Lennart Johansson

Lennart Johansson

was our biggest international football leader of all time, no Swede has had a similar influence on football in the world,” Swedish Football Association president KarlErik Nilsson said in a statement. “He was deeply respected as UEFA president and vice president of FIFA, his leadership has aroused admiration worldwide.”

“UEFA and European football are deeply saddened by the passing of Lennart Johansson, and I would like to express my sincerest condolences to his family and loved ones, as well as to the Swedish Football Association, on their loss”, UEFA President

Aleksander Ceferin said.

“He was a devoted lover and servant of football, who put his passion at the heart of his life. He will always be remembered as a visionary leader, and as the architect of the UEFA Champions League, and world football will be always be grateful to him for all he has achieved for the beautiful game”, Ceferin added.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino also paid tribute to Johansson, calling him a “friend and an invaluable source of wisdom and inspiration”.

“I will be forever grateful for having had him as the president of UEFA when I joined the organisation in 2000. Since then, Lennart has always been a role model of professionalism and, more importantly, of humanity”, Infantino said.

Johansson was born in 1929 in a suburb of Stockholm, the Swedish capital city, and began his administrative career at AIK Solna, a club with which he would maintain close ties.

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