March 16, 2019

Nagaland Post www.nagalandpost.com

Vol XXIX No. 98

DIMAPUR, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2019 Pages 12 ` 5.00

Global students demand action on climate

Arsenal, Chelsea reach Europa League quarters

Sushma denies diplomatic failure over Masood Azhar

international, Page 9

sports, Page 11

national, Page 7

Congress names KL Chishi for LS seat; 49 killed in New Zealand mosque massacre Alemjongshi for 26 Aonglenden by-poll

CHRISTCHURCH, MAR 15 (AP): Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people in New Zealand as authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack.

The alleged gunman – who identified himself as Brenton Tarrant – made a livestream video of his attack available online.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the events in Christchurch represented “an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence” and acknowledged many of those affected may be migrants and refugees. In addition to the dead, she said more than 20 people were seriously wounded.

“It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack,” Ardern said. Police took three men and a woman into custody after the shootings, which shocked people across the nation of 5 million people.

One of the suspects was later charged with murder.

While there was no reason to believe there were more suspects, Ardern said

‘Suvidha App’ for candidates, political parties DIMAPUR, MAR 15 (NPN): Election department has informed that an online application, “Suvidha” App –– single window clearance for all types of permissions related to campaigning –– was available for candidates and political parties to apply online for different permissions during election campaign.

In a press release, chief electoral officer (CEO) Nagaland, Abhijit Sinha, informed that “Suvidha” App provides facilities for applying, processing, granting and monitoring permissions.

Candidates and political parties can seek permission: to hold meeting and loud speaker, open temporary party office, vehicle permit, permit to take out procession and loud speaker, permit for street corner meeting and loud speaker, helicopter and helipad, permit for construction of rostrum/barricade and vehicle permit (intra district). CEO pointed out that the permissions for all the above were mandatory.

Application link has been provided in CEO official website: www.ceonagaland.nic.in and for any query on “Suvidha”, one can call the toll free number 1950 or send an email to ceo_nagaland@eci.gov.in.

and train for the attack. He said he was not a member of any organisation, but had donated to and interacted with many nationalist groups, though he acted alone and no group ordered the attack.

He said the mosques in Christchurch and Linwood would be the targets, as would a third mosque in the town of Ashburton if he could make it there.

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(Inset) Alleged shooter-- Brenton Tarrant. (R) Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday. (AP/PTI)

the national security threat level was being raised to the second-highest level.

Authorities have not specified who they detained, but said none had been on any watch list. A man who claimed responsibility for the shootings left a 74-page anti-immigrant manifesto in which he explained who he was and his reasoning for the attack. He said he was a 28-year-old white Australian and a racist.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed that one of the four

people detained was an Australian-born citizen.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush said Friday night that a man had been charged with murder. He did not mention the other three suspects and did not say whether the same shooter was responsible for both attacks.

Ardern at a news conference alluded to anti-immigrant sentiment as the possible motive, saying that while many people affected by the shootings may be migrants or refugees “they have chosen to make New

Zealand their home, and it is their home. A video that was apparently livestreamed by the shooter shows the attack in horrifying detail.

There was a second shooting at the Linwood Masjid Mosque that killed at least 10 people.

The police commissioner warned anybody who was thinking of going to a mosque anywhere in New Zealand on Friday to stay put. The man who claimed responsibility for the shooting said he came to New Zealand only to plan

Pay taxes and take ownership: CEO IDAN

Alemtemshi Jamir (DIPR)

D I M A P U R , M ar 1 5 (NPN): Investment & Development Authority of Nagaland (IDAN) CEO, Alemtemshi Jamir, Friday said Nagas have to change and move forward as they were now living in the age of acceleration.

According to an official bulletin, former chief secretary opined that Nagas should start paying tax and start having ownership in the roads and development.

Jamir said that taxation would help the government or people to judge whether a person has wealth dispropor-

tionate income. Speaking at the officers’ conference at the Directorate of Information & Public Relations (DIPR) Kohima on March 15, 2019, said Alemtemshi also said that Nagas, in the age of acceleration, cannot stay idle and needed to participate and grow along with it or they would be nowhere.

Deliberating on the topic ‘Government media in the age of Acceleration’, Alemtemshi said that the age of acceleration was here to stay and therefore Nagas have to think on how to cope with it.

Also, stressing on the importance of connectivity, he said that everything that was happening globally was also affecting us. “In this age where things are changing fast and we cannot just sit and listen but we should act,” he said.

Pointing out that social media has a great power and potential of mobilising opin-

ion, Jamir, however, said it was not capable of sustaining or arriving at a consensus. He, therefore, said that finding a solution of how to control the social media and to see that it did not go out of control was another role the department has a part to play. He also stated that one cannot be just mute spectators, adding that one has to be alert and start working in disseminating information about important issues that was affecting the society.

Also, speaking at the conference, commissioner &secretary IPR, V Maria Yanthan, said that one should keep oneself up to date as the world was moving at a fast pace. She reminded the officers that they were the mouth piece of the government and needed to play an important role in disseminating information to the people especially at the grassroots level.

DIMAPUR/KOHIMA, MAR 15 (NPN): All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Thursday night announced the names of K.L. Chishi and Alemjongshi Longkumer as candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election and by-election to the 26-Aonglenden constituency respectively.

In a statement, NPCC general secretary Capt. GK Zhimomi informed that the Central Election Committee of the AICC selected K.L. Chishi as INC candidate for the ensuing elections to the lone Lok Sabha seat and Alemjongshi as the Congress nominee for the by-election to the 26-Aonglenden A/C. K.L. Chishi, former chief minister, had rejoined the Congress on March 14 after quitting the BJP on March 7 last. Chishi, who joined the BJP before the 2018 state Assembly elections, had lost the February 2018 assembly election for Atoizu assembly constituency.

Alemjongshi Longkumer is a former state civil

service officer, who resigned as DC Tuensang.

The battle for Lok Sabha, as of now, will be between two former colleagues- Tokheho Yepthomi (NDPP) as PDA’s consensus candidate and KL Chishi of the Congress. Both Tokheho and Chishi were part of the Congress ministry during the reign of Dr. S.C. Jamir as the chief minister.

Till now, the contest for the by election to the 26Aonglenden constituency could be triangular fight between NDPP member and PDA consensus candidate Shiraingan Longkumer, INC candidate Alemjongshi Longkumer and Independent candidate O. Tinujungshi Longkumer, brother of late Imtikumzuk Longkumer, who was the NDPP legislator of 26Aonglenden A/C. On the other hand, the opposition NPF party which currently has 26 MLAs is yet to decide on its candidates for both the Lok Sabha election as well as for the Aonglengden -by poll.

When contacted sources from NPF election committee informed

Nagaland Post that discussions was still on and the picture would be clear by next week.

Meanwhile NPF has scheduled the ticket distribution ceremony of both Nagaland and Manipur Lok Sabha poll on March 19 at its central office, Kohima.

Asungba clarifies

Meanwhile former Lok Sabha MP Asungba Sangtam has clarified that he has not sought Congress ticket to contest for the Lok Sabha on April 11.

He was reacting to a report carried in this newspaper that he was among three who had sought Congress ticket to contest in the Lok Sabha polls.

In a statement, the former Lok Sabha MP said that the information given by Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee sources was “wrong and speculative”.

NPCC sources had informed that the state Congress had forwarded the names of three aspirants, including Asungba, to All India Congress Committee’s screening committee for selection.

CNC calls for continuing Sunday trade suspension

DIMAPUR, MAR 15 (NPN): Council for Nagalim Churches (CNC) has called for continuation of closure of all shops and business establishments in Dimapur area, barring those dealing in life-saving and emergency services, including hotels, on Sundays.

In a statement, CNC general secretary Rev Seksim Kasar called for proper discussion on the matter, instead of quarrelling.

And till the time a proper understanding on the subject was reached, he called for

closure of all business activity in Nagaland’s commercial nerve centre. Appealing for not selling God for perishable commodities, not desecrating holy day and not to be money minded, Kasar called for becoming serious about the “national faith in God”.

The CNC’s appeal comes in the backdrop of six Dimapur based organisations asking traders to resume trade on Sundays with effect from March 17.

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Kohima village to hold plastic-free Sekrenyi festival

Preparations underway for Sekrenyi celebrations at Khouchiezie, Kohima on Friday evening. (NP)

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Petrol price up, diesel down

NEW DELHI, MAR 15 (AGENCIES): After the daily revision in retail fuel prices, petrol prices rose for the second consecutive day by 7-8 paise across the country while oil marketing companies have again lowered diesel prices by 10-11 paise on Friday.

In the national capital Delhi, petrol costs Rs 72.55 a litre as compared with Rs 72.48 a litre on Thursday while diesel is retailing at Rs 67.22 a litre, 10 paise decrease from yesterday’s price, according to data from IOC website.

After today’s rate revision, price of petrol in Dimapur was Rs.70.23 per litre up from Rs.70.16 and diesel was Rs. 64.65 down from Thursday’s price Rs.64.74.

In the state capital, petrol was sold at Rs. 71.05 per litre while the price of diesel per litre was Rs. 65.27 (Cont’d on p-7) on Friday.

This is it!

“Quite symbolic of present political friendship between the two parties.”

At least 9 people of Indian nationality or Indian origin are missing after Friday’s shootings at two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch left 49 people dead, High Commissioner Sanjiv Kohli said.

“As per updates received from multiple sources, there are 9 missing persons of Indian nationality/ origin. Official confirmation still awaited. Huge crime against humanity. Our prayers with their families,” Kohli tweeted.

Meanwhile, Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of AIMIM (All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen Party) has said that two Indians have died in the attacks, a third was battling for his life.

Staff Reporter/Correspondent

KOHIMA, MAR 15 (NPN): Hectic last minute preparations were underway at Khouchiezie (Kohima local ground) Friday evening, as Kohima village gears up to celebrate a ‘Plastic-Free’ Sekrenyi festival on March 16 under the theme “Pride of Kewhimia”. Festival organizing committee secretary, Thenuokhrie-ü Tsiekha,

told this correspondent that the organisers, in an effort to support the state government’s commitment for plastic-free state, have requested everyone to bring their own plates and water bottles.

Informing that Kohima village has an approximate population of 17,734, she said around 10,000 people were expected to attend the celebration. She stated that the celebration was a cul-

tural one and did not have any bearing on religious sentiments.

The committee convenor, Neibu Sekhose, said this was the first time that the village was celebrating a combined Sekrenyi, unlike other years where each of the four Khels celebrated it separately.

On the issue of a Christian convert celebrating Sekrenyi, Sekhose said that

the festival was all about purification, adding it was a time when everyone comes together to praise the Lord.

He said that the programme would begin with a prayer. Besides that, there would be no religious activity. He said the main goal was to bring forth unity among all communities and to come together for the betterment of the village.

Sekhose added that they would not be celebrating Sekrenyi like in the old days where people came together, make merry, drink alcohol, and perform significant tribal religious activities. It would be a time for social gathering and to display beautiful cultural attires and tradition, he said.

In support of the VIP free culture declared by the State government, the celebrations would have no chief guest and everyone would be considered equals.

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Nagaland celebrates World Consumer Rights Day

PDVCO with participants of the World Consumer Rights’ Organizers and participants of the WCRD program held Organizers, resource persons and participants of the Kezhokhoto Savi, principal and professors with Day program in Peren. in Phek on March 15.

WCRD program in Wokha. students of Kohima Law College.

DIMAPUR: World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD), celebrated on March 15 every year, is an annual occasion for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement. Participants observe the day by promoting basic rights of all consumers, demanding that those rights are respected and protected, and protesting against market abuses and social injustices which undermine them. Following are reports of programs organized on the day across Nagaland.

Peren: Peren District Voluntary Consumers Organisation (PDVCO) observed “World Consumer Rights’ Day” on March 15 at Peren Town Council Hall with member Peren District Consumers’ Forum and president, Zeliangrong Mipui Organisation, Apeuna Iheilung as resource person. A press release from PDVCO president, Josia Zeliang stated that the resource person spoke on the

significance of celebrating World Consumer Rights’ Day. She retrospected on the declaration made by John F. Kennedy, the then president of the United States of America on March 15, 1962 to commemorate the day as “World Consumer Rights Day”.

The resource person dwelt on the importance of consumer rights and consumer education in sustaining a healthy life and healthy environment under the Consumer Protection Act 1986. She also cautioned the audience against unscrupulous trade practices and urged them to be aware of consumer rights and duties. The program was chaired by PDVCO advisor, Deusoyl Rangkau; invocation was offered by Peren Kipeuzang Baptist Church pastor, Neilhou; a welcome note was said by Lungrahei Herie; a special melody was presented by Hurang Ndang; and the program concluded with a

note of gratitude delivered

by Zeliangrong Students Union (ZSUN) joint secretary, Adona Herie.

Phek: The depar tment of Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection (LM&CP), Phek observed World Consumer Rights Day at Phek Town Council Hall on March 15.

A press release from LM&CP, Phek stated that Phek Chamber of Commerce and Industries (PCCI) president, Kevethisa delivered a short speech which was followed by a discussion hour. The program ended with a concluding remark from Phek Town Youth Society (PTYS) advisor, Kevese Lasuh. The program was attended by members of PTYS, Phek Town Chakhesang Students’ Union and PCCI. Earlier, PTYS president, Neizote Venuh, chaired the program, and PTBC youth director, Chivo Medeo, invoked God’s blessings. A keynote address was deliv-

ered by LM&CP, assistant controller, Shiekhozo.

Wokha: World Consumer Rights Day was observed at VDBSA hall, Wokha on March 15 with district judge and president, Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum, Wokha, Nino Iralu as theme speaker.

A press release by assistant controller, Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection, Wokha, T. Aimong, stated that Iralu, who spoke on the theme, “Trusted Smart Products”, advised consumers to be aware of details and security before buying any online products.

She urged consumers to be smarter than smart products while placing orders online because of the lack of security and privacy.

She asked consumers to bring complaints related to consumer protection to the notice of the Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum or the department of Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection so that timely

action could be initiated.

EAC (J), Imtinungla Longkumer, who also spoke on the occasion, said that the District Administration was willing to support consumer activities in the district. T. Aimong, who also delivered the key note address, challenged youth to take up the responsibility of taking the consumer movement to greater heights so that consumers are sensitized about their rights.

T h e f u n c t i o n wa s chaired by Nyanbeni Ngullie; a vote of thanks was proposed by chairman, Voluntary Consumer Organization, Wokha, Mhonyimo Humtsoe.

KLC: World Consumer Rights Day was observed at Kohima Law College (KLC) on March 15 under the theme: “Trusted Smart Products.”

A press release by the college stated that in his key note address, president of Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation

CAN Youth launches SPATIAL magazine news in Brief

R. Amongla Jamir with members of CAN Youth launching the SPATIAL magazine on March 15, in Dimapur. (NP) Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, MAR 15 (NPN): CAN Youth launched a Project Students Parents and Teachers Involvement for Authentic Learning (SPATIAL) magazine, on March 15, in Dimapur at the District Education Officer’s (DEO’s) office.

Speaking at the launching program, CAN Youth chief functionary, Jenpu Rongmei, stated that Project SPATIAL was launched to build competency in students through self understanding and also to fill gaps in relationships between teachers, students & parents.

The main goal of SPATIAL is to prevent students from dropping out of school by making education holistic and meaningful and making an impact in each individual student’s life through life skill education.

Jenpu opined that education system these days has completely changed. According to him, schools put more importance on marks

and pressurise students to achieve good results, irrespective of whether they learn or not.

In this regard, Jenpu said that SPATIAL will sensitize the community on smart education and learning through collective involvement of students, parents, teachers, village education committees, village leaders and student unions. DEO, R. Amongla Jamir, launching the magazine, acknowledged CAN Youth for its initiatives to spread its positive message. She credited the CAN Youth’s active participation and results with having encouraged her to be more dedicated and perform her duties better. She also stated that her office was trying its best to improve productivity of government schools. Amongla then encouraged CAN Youth to approach more parents, teachers and students so that their message is spread even wider. The program was chaired by CAN Youth secretary, Kivitoli Chishi and an invocation prayer earlier was offered by CAN Youth executive board member, Zhove.

CGBU general meeting: Chakhroma GBs Union (CGBU) has convened its general meeting for March 22, 10 a.m. at Tenyiphe village council hall. All members have been requested to attend the meeting.

SBM Dimapur to conduct Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Dimapur will be conducting a Swachh Bharat Abhiyan activity on March 16, 6 a.m. at ward 3, 4 and 5 of Dimapur town.

NPGN/NNC terminates service: The NPGN/ NNC, under the directive of its collective leadership, has terminated “col.” Iheto from active national service with immediate effect, for indulging against principles of the anti-defection law, which is against government Yezabo. The decision to this effect was initiated as per “the Re-affirmation taken by the 7 NNPG on 29th January 2019.”

Information for Pughoboto Arms License holders: All arms license holders under Pughoboto subdivision have been directed to deposit their arms at Pughoboto Police Station on or before March 18 in view of the coming elections. Carrying of arms/ weapons within the sub division is also strictly prohibited till the election process is over, except for the purpose of verification or to deposit them and for uploading their information to the National Database on Arms License (NDAL). (DIPR) Election control room in Phek: The DC & DEO, Phek, Sachin Jaiswal, has informed the public that a Control Room has been set up at his offices to address all matters connected with the forthcoming General Elections to the Lok Sabha 2019. For any queries one may contact: Email electionphek@ gmail.com, landline 03865-223060 or mobile number 7005044909. (DIPR)

Nagaland gets first recognized Fine Arts institute 63% of drawing teachers in Nagaland untrained: ANFATA

V. Hetoi Swu (L) along with director WFA&TC Dimapur, board chairman and principal of Imphal Art College, on March 14. (NP) Correspondent

KOHIMA, MAR 15 (NPN): Wotsa Fine Art and Training Centre (WFA&TC) Dimapur, became the first among such centres in the state recognized by the government. The recognition certificate was formally handed over to the centre’s director, Hekuto Wotsa in the presence of All Nagaland Fine Arts Teachers Association (ANFATA) president, V. Hetoi Swu, board chairman, principal and faculty members of lmphal K

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Art College, at the principal’s office on March 14. The training centre has been recognized for its one year diploma course for Arts teachers.

Wotsa Fine Art and Training Centre Dimapur is affiliated to Imphal Art College Manipur, under Manipur University.

Speaking to this Correspondent, V. Hetoi Swu described this achievement as a milestone in the field of Fine Arts in the state. He expressed happiness and extended gratitude to the Board chairman,

principal and faculty members of lmphal Art College Manipur for recognizing Wotsa Fine Art and training centre Dimapur. Swu said he went through much struggle in the last ten years to get the centre recognized.

Swu opined that Naga people have talents in drawing and fine art, however they have no opportunity to explore their talents. With the government recognized centre now, many educated unemployed would find avenues for employment, he added.

According to Swu, without a fine arts institute in the state, the government had faced a lot of issues to employ and train nearly 400 drawing teachers because they have to go to Imphal or some other place to train. He added that 63% of the drawing teachers in the state were untrained.

To address this issue, Wotsa Fine Art and Training Centre will reserve 40 seats for in-service drawing teachers of the State. According to Swu, every year 20 drawing teachers are sent out of the State for training and if this practice has to continue, it will take around nine to ten years to train all the drawing teachers required by Nagaland.

National Seminar ends at Immanuel College

DIMAPUR: The two-day national seminar on “issues and challenges of higher education in North East India,” sponsored by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and organised by the IQAC Immanuel College, concluded at the college Friday. A press release by the college stated that the final day of the seminar saw paper presentations on “Identifying the Crisis and Remedies in Higher Education (North East India)”. The release stated that the two-day seminar had 16 presenters from all over the region. The technical sessions of the seminar were chaired by assistant professor, Dr. K.N. Tennyson from Afghanistan Studies Program, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University) New Delhi; assistant professor, Dr. T Jamedi Longkumer from the department of Philosophy, Dimapur Government College; professor Dr. Xavier P.Mao, HoD Philosophy, NEHU Shillong; and associate professor, Akha Khaihrii Mao from School of Vocational Studies Ambedkar University, Delhi.

The seminar concluded with a valedictory session in which Immanuel College, vice principal, Imchanochetla Changkija, gave the valedictory address and distributed certificates.

(NVCO) Kezhokhoto Savi stressed on the importance of creating better awareness among consumers and traders and on pressurizing authorities to take timely action in correcting the prices of goods and services in the state.

He said the observance of World Consumer Rights Day is an annual occasion for solidarity within the international consumer movement. More importantly, it is a time to promote basic rights of consumers, he added. On this year’s theme, “Trusted Smart Products,” Savi pointed out how many of the products in use are increasingly connected by default. He added that the WCRD this year wants to highlight what consumers want and need from a connected world. Globally, there are currently 23.1 billion smart products, outnumbering people three to one. There are, however, some significant causes for concern, Savi said.

Assistant professor, Moasenla spoke on ‘The exploitation of consumer rights in the state.’

Assistant professor , Soni Tep spoke on ‘The role of women in promoting consumer rights’ and revealed that women consumers not only constitute 50% of the total consumer

population but also make 80% of all purchase decisions. Topics including consumer rights, duties, awareness, alertness were presented by four students.

The program was chaired

by Dieku Wetsah and the invocation was pronounced by the KLC-EU president, Alibo.

Organization for Consumer Rights Awareness (OCRA) observed World Consumer Rights Day under the theme ‘Trusted smart products’ at Phesama Village Council Hall, Phesama under Kohima district on March 15 with advocate and legal advisor, OCRA Vekehieto Chuse as speaker.

OCRA Action Committee convenor, Vimezo Zashümo also spoke on consumer grievances and general secretary, Neitho Tacü chaired the program. (Vimezo Zashümo)

Woman found loitering in Kohima NNC (PB) warns

Kanchi, alias Geeta Chetri.

DIMAPUR: A mentally challenged woman aged about 35 to 40 years was found loitering near Hotel Vivor, Kohima on March 14 and has been admitted to the State Mental Insti-

tute, Kohima. A press release by Women Helpline 181, Nagaland stated that the woman identified as Kanchi, alias Geeta Chetri, was admitted with the help of Women Police Station Kohima under the initiative of the Women Helpline 181 Nagaland and Sakhi-One Stop Centre, Kohima.

For further information, one has been asked to contact Women Helpline – 181 and the helpline manager at 9485239095, 9436815684.

DIMAPUR: NNC (Parent Body), under the leadership of its president Z Royim, a signatory and representative to the NNPGs, has warned unauthorized individuals and group(s) from using its name for any publication or activity. A press release by publicity and information wing NNC (Parent Body) had warned that such individuals and group(s) would be punished as per the ‘azah’ of joint memorandum signed and agreed to by all the NNPG representatives.

Workshop on fundamental science

Participant students and resource persons of the workshop on fundamental science held at HFHSS Kohima on March 14 and 15.

DIMAPUR: A two-day workshop on fundamental science learning, with fun toys and activities, was organised on March 14 and 15 by Holy Family Higher Secondary School (HFHSS) Kohima to let the students take a break from classroom learning.

A press release by the school stated that Shivani Pethe, project assistant at Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune and Tanushree Borundia, co-founder of Shibumi, a learning Centre in Bangalore, were the resource persons. Shivani demonstrated basic fundamental principles of science such as conduction of heat, generation of sound (frequency and pitch), effects of pres-

sure, effects of heating on matter, Newton’s third law of motion, etc. The release said Tanushree gave a fascinating paper craft demonstration on the workings of a helicopter propeller with simple explanations of the principle governing it. She also narrated a story using props made from newspapers.

The students actively participated in the workshop activities. Speaking on the occasion as special guest, Hrishikesh Pandey from Akhil Bharatya Vidyarthi Parishad (All India Students Council) exhorted the students to work hard and succeed with integrity. He also spoke about the superiority of creativity over seniority and of knowledge over resources.

ENSUB holds annual general meeting

ENSUB members after their annual general meeting held on March 14 in Bengaluru.

DIMAPUR: Eastern Nagaland Students’ Union Bangalore (ENSUB) held its annual general meeting on March 14 at Kuki Worship Centre, Geddalahalli Rammana Layout, Bengaluru.

A press release by EN-

SUB stated that the meeting, attended by 60 members, began with a prayer

by Atok Konyak (UTC) followed by a welcome address by ENSUB president, Pongkyuse.

The release stated that

the meeting discussed vital issues and also elected new ENSUB officials with Rhakiumong Lims as chairman and Hocheli Sangtam as assistant general secretary along with seven other members.

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nagalandpost.com Poll Q.: Despite the recent drubbing by Australia, is India still the best ODI team?

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(L-R Sitting) Y Longkumer, Rosanna Lyngdoh, (Standing) Temjensenla, Sonia Singh. A section of the gathering at the conference held on March 15. (NP)

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WEATHER FORECAST March 16

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Agartala Hazy sunshine; fog

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Hazy sun; fog

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Guwahati Hazy sunshine; dense fog

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Aizawl Imphal

Hazy sunshine; fog

Itanagar Hazy sun

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Shillong

Hazy sunshine; foggy

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Kohima

Hazy sun; dense fog

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Dimapur Mostly sunny; foggy

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Hazy sun; dense fog

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Tuensang Hazy sun; dense fog, cooler Wokha

Human trafficking conference held

Hazy sun; dense fog

Zunheboto A t-storm in the area; foggy

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DIMAPUR, MAR 15 (NPN): In order to sensitize law enforcement officers to human trafficking issues, a State level conference on Anti-Human Trafficking was held on Friday, at Rhododendron Hall, Central Police Officers’ Mess, Chumukedima.

The conference was organized by Nagaland Police under the aegis of the ministry of Home Affairs, Women Safety Division, New Delhi.

Delivering a keynote address, Sr SP (crime) Temjensenla mentioned that the main objective of the program was to: i) enable law enforcing agencies (in particular) to take proactive measures against human trafficking, ii) to spread awareness and com-

prehensive understanding about human trafficking, iii) and to develop practical skills in learners to engage with the process of understanding, rehabilitation, prevention and reintegration of human trafficking victims.

Besides these, the program was organized to bring a positive change in attitude among officers and equip them to function with adequate knowledge of the human trafficking scenario today.

Te m j e n s e n l a a l s o hoped that the officers would take the advantage of the knowledge they get from the program to help them better combat human trafficking.

Among the program highlights was a technical session with principal district & session judge,

Dimapur, Y Longkumer (NJS); Impulse NGO network, Shillong’s, Rosanna Lyngdoh; and IGP (range) Nagaland, Sonia Singh, as resource persons.

Covering the topic “Legal awareness & role of judiciary in tackling human trafficking,” Y Longkumer spoke about coordination between law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial responses in cases of trafficking.

Longkumer started with the meaning of trafficking and went into details about various crimes at various stages of human trafficking and the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary.

According to Longkumer, on this issues, the Police, public prosecutors, the department of Labor,

the department of Health, Judiciary etc., all have a role to play.

Slide-show presentations on the topics, “Multi facets of human trafficking with special emphasis on NE India” and “Preparedness of Nagaland Police in its fight against human trafficking” was presented

by Rosanna Lyngdoh and Sonia Singh, respectively.

The importance of different kinds of victim compensation mechanisms, role of NGOs and police collaboration in prevention, rescue and rehabilitation were discussed.

A discussion hour was held after each presentation where queries and doubts were raised, discussed and clarified.

The prog ram was chaired by SP (N&P) PHQ, Narola Sophie.

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DIMAPUR: A partners h i p b e t we e n S h a l o m Bible Seminar y (SBS), Sechü-Zubza, Kohima, and Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS), Bade, Dimapur, under the aegis of Asia Theological Association (ATA), known as the Asia Graduate School of Theology, North East India (AGST, NEI) was launched from Shalom’s Spicer Hall on March 10.

According to a press release issued by SBS principal, Sanyu Iralu, with the launching of this consortium, SBS and Oriental Theological Seminary will collaborate to kickstart Master of Theology (M. Th) programs in several disciplines starting from the July 2020 session.

The charge and declaration was administered by general secretary of ATA, Dr. Theresa Lua, and the prayer of blessing was pronounced by Dr. Paul Cornelius, regional secretary (ATA), India.

The day’s proceedings were attended by a host of well-wishers from the Philippines, Ghana and India, besides board members, faculty, staff, and students from both the seminaries.

MCCK organizes parting social Tobu declared AYO directives to preserve bio-diversity

DIMAPUR: Model Christ i a n C o l l e ge, Ko h i m a (MCCK), organized an annual parting social program for its outgoing students at the college auditorium on March 9.

A press release from the MCCK administrator stated that managing director, SP Francis, exhorted the outgoing students to work hard for the upcoming university examinations and pass with flying colours.

Speeches on behalf of the outgoing students were delivered by Fuchumo Lotha of B.Sc. 6th semester

and Mankham Konyak of B.A. 6th Semester, where they both expressed gratitude to their juniors for making their stay memorable. A speech on behalf of the juniors was presented

by Nukulu of BA 4th semester, who thanked outgoing seniors for being good role models and always being supportive and encouraging.

A special number was presented by Evangelical Union of MCCK, and Asangla prayed for God’s guidance and wisdom for the outgoing students.

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DIMAPUR: Tobu was declared Mon district’s aspirational block during the monthly District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) meeting of Mon, held on March 15 at the DC’s Conference Hall.

DIPR reports that in the meeting, DC Mon, Thavaseelan K, welcomed newly posted officers and the house recommended the creation of a Health Care Centre in the newly recognized L. Mongnyu village.

Thavaseelan who is also the District Election Officer, Mon spoke about the coming Lok Sabha elections and directed all officers to be at station. Trainings will be conducted in three phases, he stated. The Konyak Union general secretary highlighted the Aoleang festival for which various events like cultural exhibition, pulling of Log drum, folk dance and songs etc. have been planned.

Chief Medical Office Mon, Dr. Kechongol Sophie, Department of English, Pfutsero Government College, expressed his gratitude for visited Khonoma Village (Green Village) on March 9, with the successful conduct of five assistant professors along with its vice principal the polio immunization on and former HoD, Chandani Singsit. (CJ Wetha Krome) March 10.

DIMAPUR: The Angami Youth Organization (AYO), in an effort to preserve and protect natural bio-diversity and its flora and fauna, has issued a six-point directive to be implemented within Angami areas/jurisdictions.

In a press release, AYO environment secretar y, Mhiesirieto Punyü, said the organization was committed towards the preservation and protection of the natural bio-diversity and its flora and fauna and sought cooperation from everyone towards this initiative.

The AYO reiterated its June 16, 2017 AYO presi-

dential council resolution adopted in Kisama and reported that it has added certain conditions which should be implemented effective immediately.

The six point directives are: jungle burning and deforestation shall be strictly prohibited; use of air-guns shall be banned and sale of pellets is totally discouraged; stone crushers, quarries, car washes and vehicle repair workshops are advised to maintain maximum distance from the main highway and roads; “Relaxation of hunting period is strictly a prerogative of the concern village and youth organiza-

tions in the event of any life threatening and livelihood matters. However, it is to be noted that this season is the most crucial period for wild animals and plants”; defaulters shall be sternly penalized and penalization shall be effected by the concerned unit or range youth organizations; and the resolution shall be implemented in every Angami area/jurisdiction.

In an endeavour to sensitize the public to preserving biodiversity, the AYO has said it is also issuing a car sticker under the theme, “Care for nature,” this year.

Dr. Lily Sema, declaring the SJC (A) Spring Fest, held on March 8 and 9, open.

DIMAPUR: St. Joseph College- Autonomous (SJC), Jakhama, Kohima, celebrated its annual Spring Fest on March 8 and 9, to showcase cultural vibes of the people of Nagaland.

A press release from SJC’s (A), James H.K, stated that Kohima Science College principal, Dr. Lily Sema, was the special guest. Speaking at the program, Dr. Lily highlighted the importance of the spring season and congratulated the college for its mammoth achievements. She also remarked that colleges in the state should have a platform like the SJC Spring Fest.

In his speech, Fr. Dr. Sebastian Ousepparampil also highlighted the importance of extra-curricular activities.

The day’s events began with a traditional cart race at the football ground the winners of which were

the Konyaks, Chakesangs, Lothas in order of position.

Other events included a bamboo walking competition, and a traditional fire making competition.

The Beat Contest involved five bands, of whom, Volumes, One Purpose and 5 Angry Women won the first, second and third places respectively.

Menou Soukhrie enthralled the college with her beautiful songs, with Vipito Swu joining in to perform a duet. Polar Lights and The Carmel Sisters also performed during the event. A lottery was also drawn at the end of the day.

Other presentations included folk dances, Naga wrestling, modern dance, with lots of other entertaining numbers from Table Three, Petros Dance and other extravaganza presentations from students of the college.

Disaster awareness in Tuensang

DIMAPUR: A Disaster Management Training Program was conducted under the aegis of Home Guards and Civil Defence, Tuensang on March 8 for inmates of district Jail, Tuensang. The program was graced by district commandant, Home Guards & Civil Defence Tuensang, Ngongvai E Phom.

According to a DIPR report, Ngongvai explained the difference between home guards and civil defence and said that such an awareness program was being held for the first time in a district Jail.

Speaking to the inmates, the command-

ing officer also stated that disaster could be of different types -- natural and manmade.

When such disasters occur, emergency preparedness exercises become necessary to save lives.

During conduct of the mock drill, the civil defence personnel gave training on emergency methods of rescue, triangles and rolled bandages.

Earlier in the program, a welcome address was delivered by superintendent of police jail, K. Hamtok Phom. All jail inmates and staff attended the training.

Veterinary & Medical Camp in Inbung

Organizers, resource persons and others after the free veterinary & medical camp at Inbung village on March 10.

DIMAPUR: A free veterinary & medical camp was set up at Inbung village of Peren district on March 10 organized by Assam Rifles in collaboration with PHCAhthibung; Nagaland State AIDS Control Society; Veterinary College, Jalukie; St Xavier College, Jalukie; Inbung Students’ Youth Union; and ARC (Ahthibung Region Club).

A press release by the vice chairman of Ahthibung Region club, Henpu Kuki stated that an interactive session was also organised

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of Veterinary College, Jalukie, Dr Gunjan Das, where people were educated on the health of their animals.

Students and faculty of Veterinary College, Jalukie conducted a door-to-door animal de-worming kit distribution drive.

Other significant activities were: a free medical camp, polio immunization drive and blood tests (AIDS, malaria,TB and flu). With the help of Dr. Vezokholu Khamo from PHC Ahthibung, 376 villagers, comprising 90 Male,123 female and 163 children, were treated

along with having their blood tested.

An AIDS awareness lecture was also delivered

by Hiareu, who addressed college students and village youth in an interactive session to answer their queries on sex-education. Free condoms and pamphlets were also distributed among the youth and villagers.

A total of 704 animals including cows, buffaloes, dogs, cats, goat, pigs and poultry from Inbung, Songhlu, Ahthibung and Old Chalkot villages were examined and vaccinated.

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Mnp needs MP affiliated to strong party: AITC observer

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IMPHAL, Mar 15: All India Trinamool Congress on Friday assured that it will resolve issues plaguing Manipur if its candidates were sent to the Parliament.

AITC observer for Manipur Bishwajit Deb observed, for a small state like Manipur, there was the need to send candidates from a strong political party who can draw the attention of the Parliament to issues arising in the state from time to time.

Hinting at AITC fielding its candidates in both the Parliamentary seats from Manipur, he said, “I, on behalf of AICC and Mamata Banerjee will ensure that candidates of AITC are elected in the ensuing Parliament elections so that Trinamool Congress can give you a better Manipur, a developed Manipur in all respect.”

The AITC leader was talking to reporters on the sideline of a ‘one-day workers conference’ of Manipur Pradesh Trinamool Congress held in Imphal on Friday.

He alleged that issues of Manipur were not focussed upon in Parliament till date citing absence of backing from the party to the Parliamentarians they were affiliated coupled with lack of political will of the Parliamentarians from the state as the reason.

Deb added that for a small state like Manipur, there was the need for sending well-qualified representatives having affilia-

tion with strong party so that issues of the state can be highlighted in the Parliament.

Manipur is plagued with various issues which need attention of the Central government and the Parliament is the appropriate forum to draw the attention of the Central government, Deb stated, while observing the need to highlight issues in the state arising from time to time.

He revealed how despite its big size, issues from West Bengal were unable to reach the ear of the Central government until Trinamool Congress came to power in the state.

It was only after the Trinamool Congress came to power in the state (West Bengal) that Centre started focussing on the state, he claimed. Deb further highlighted all-round changes that were brought about in West Bengal in the past seven years, claiming that it was possible because of AITC under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee.

The one-day workers conference held at GM Hall, Imphal was organised by Manipur Trinamool Congress with the objective of bringing together all its split workers and supporters to revive the party.

The Manipur unit of the party was very popular at the initial stage winning eight seats by securing 10% of the total votes in the 2012 state Assembly elections.

The party was the only opposition party in the Manipur Legislative Assembly.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2019

Porters still indispensable part of elections in Arunachal Itanagar, Mar 15 (PTI): A remnant of the British Raj, Auxiliary Labour Corps (ALCs) or porters are still indispensable in Arunachal Pradesh, especially during elections, for carrying poll materials and transporting EVMs to remote polling stations in the mountainous state.

The ALCs were first appointed by the British for carrying materials. After Arunachal Pradesh became a full-fledged state in 1987, regular appointment of ALCs was stopped. They are now recruited only on a temporary basis.

Trekking the rugged and almost inaccessible terrains of the state, ALCs serve as a bridge between the government and the people, and make polling possible by carrying poll materials defying all adversities.

Even after 72 years of Independence, ALCs play an important role as stretches of roads in several districts are nonmotorable.

“Services of ALCs are required at the time

of transporting public distribution system (PDS) materials,opening of new administrative centres, natural calamities and during polls,” Additional Chief Electoral Officer Kanki Darang said.

Moreover, they also carry ration items being dropped by choppers, to the Central Procurement Organisation (CPO) godowns in several districts,” Darang said.

The election office here had hired 2,100 ALCs during the 2014 elections and deployed 1,400 during the 2009 assembly polls to carry poll materials to remote polling stations, officials said.

“The number of ALCs to be deployed this time will be more than the previous elections in 2014, as the Election Commission of India for the first time has introduced voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) for which additional porters will be required to carry the extra instruments,” Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Liken Koyu said.

Many candidates eye BJP ticket in Diphu Correspondent

Diphu March 15: With many candidates vying for tickets from Diphu Autonomous Districts constituency under BJP, some names are doing the round while others have been voiced.

Sitting MLA of Howraghat, Joyram Engleng, who was BJP’s nominee in 2014, fought against all odds and missed the target by a narrow margin can be regarded a capable contender.

He in fact established the foundation of BJP in the autonomous hill districts of Assam .

Former MLA of Diphu, Bidyasing Engleng who recently joined BJP after ditching Congress is another contender whose name features among the higher ups of the BJP leadership. His name was shortlisted by the State Screening Committee of the BJP on Thursday as candidate for the upcoming elections. Apart from Engleng, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council’s Executive Member Horensing Bey is also in the fray as a probable candidate for the forthcoming election.

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SC stays Meghalaya HC order 7 HPC(D) cadres nabbed with convicting newspaper editor arms, ammunitions in Manipur N ew D elh i , M ar 15 (PTI): The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Meghalaya High Court judgment convicting The Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim and publisher Shoba Chaudhuri in a contempt case.

The high court had also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh each on them and said if they failed to deposit the amount, they will have to undergo six months simple imprisonment and the paper will be banned.

The case relates to an article published by the paper on the perks and facilities for retired judges and their families.

A Supreme Cour t bench, comprising of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna, also issued notice to the high court registrar on the appeal filed by the editor and the publisher of newspaper.

While pronouncing the judgement in the contempt case, the high court

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had on March 8 asked both of them to serve the sentence by sitting in the corner of the court room till the rising of the court.

Immediately after the high court order was stayed, Mukhim told PTI, “The Supreme Court has stayed and suspended the judgment passed by the Meghalaya High Court on March 8, 2019. I have full faith that judiciary will protect the freedom of press.”

In her December 10, 2018 article titled “When judges judge for themselves”, Mukhim sought to draw parallels between

the order by Justice S R Sen on perks for retired judges and an order passed by two former judges of the high court in 2016 before their retirement.

The order by the two judges demanding special category security was quashed by the Supreme Court.

Mukhim and Chaudhuri were asked to show cause as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against the newspaper for publishing the article.

In his show cause notice, Justice Sen had said that the media is not to dictate what the court should do.

“It is really shocking that the publisher and editor of the said newspaper without knowing the law or background of the case are making comments which are definitely derogatory to a judge who is handling the case as well as the entire fraternity of the judges,” Justice Sen had said.

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IMPHAL, Mar 15: Seven cadres of Hmar People Convention (Democracy) carrying a large cache of arms and ammunitions were arrested by troops of Assam Rifles in Manipur Churachandpur district on Friday.

The seized arms and ammunitions included four M4-Rifle with two magazines, four AK 56 with 12 magazines, 262 rounds of AK ammunitions, 110 rounds of M4 ammunition, three each of Kenwoods, combat pouches, combat dresses, five mobile phones and 20 pencil cells.

Two vehicles (Bolero and Tata DI) in which the seven cadres travelled were also seized, the source said.

The troops intercepted the HPC(D) cadres at its mobile vehicle check post at Lungthullen and Parbung area of the district on Thursday evening.

The mobile checking post was opened based on

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Arms and ammunitions seized from seven HPCD cadres arrested by Assam Rifles in Manipur. (NP)

inputs informing presence of armed cadres of HPCD in the area.

The arrested cadres

along with the seized items have been handed over to Churachandpur police station today, the source said.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER WOKHA, NAGALAND NOTICE

Dated Wokha the, 13th March 2019

No. Judl-47/2017-18/ /Whereas, Shri Renphamo Lotha, husband of Late Smti.

Renthunglo a permanent resident of Wokha Town has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to enable him to draw all dues and benefits from the Govt. pertaining to PPO No. PEN/COM-21182/NL/V/20968 in favour of his deceased Wife Late Renthunglo, who expired on 20/02/2019.

Now, therefore, public and relatives are hereby asked to file claims/objections if any, within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice. No claims/objections will be entertained after the cut off date and Succession Certificate shall be issued.

ANDREW C IMTI Addl. Deputy Commissioner, Wokha : Nagaland K-718

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TSEMINYU : NAGALAND.

NO.GA/TSNU/JUD/SC-1/2009PT-II/ Tseminyu, Dated the 1 March. 2019 OBJECTION – NOTICE Whereas Smti. Tisiyi Apon, W/o Late Gwanyelo Kath (H/T GHS Kandinu) has applied for issuance of Succession Certificate to Draw / Operate / Transfer her late husband Pension / GPF / GIS / FBF / Gratuity / Commutation / Leave Encashment / SBI Account No.11826860525 (Tseminyu Branch) and NSCB Account No.102010006001390 who expired on 25th January 2019 under section 375 of the Indian Succession Act 1925 Public are hereby asked to file any claim/objection within 30 (Thirty) days from the date of issue of the notice failing which no claim/objection will be entertained after the stipulated time.

(NOKCHASASHI), Additional Deputy Commissioner, Tseminyu : Nagaland.

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DECLARATION OF ACTUAL NAME I, Smti. K. VITOLI SEMA, W/o LATE KEYKHO GURUNG, resident of LAGHILATO COLONY, District Zunheboto, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India, resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That my actual name K. VITOLI SEMA but due to clerical error my name is inadvertently recorded as BEDULI SEMA in my husband's PPO NL/0C/103.

3. That my husband's actual name is LATE KEYKHO GURUNG but due to clerical error my husband's name is inadvertently recorded as KIYEKHU in my Succession Certificate.

4. That from the date of this declaration, I shall be called and used as K. VITOLI SEMA and husband's name as LATE KEYKHO GURUNG for all official purpose, legal proceedings and at all times and occasions.

5. That the statement made in para 1-4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge & belief and nothing material has been concealed therein.

DEPONENT Solemnly affirm and declared before me by the deponent on this 13 day of 03. 2019 at Zunheboto, Nagaland.

1st Class Magistrate/Notary Public Zunheboto : Nagaland Regd. No. 306/19 Y Katovi Awomi, Date : 13/03/2019 Advocate, Notary Public

AFFIDAVIT (CHANGE OF NAME) Regd. No. 3475/8, Dated 16/07/18

I, Shri. P Koi Meya (Present Name) and P. Koi Shiu (Previous Name) S/o, K. Putsong Shiu aged about 24 years presently residing at AG (Upper) Colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India by birth.

2. That my name was P Koi Shiu but now my name has changed/renamed to P Koi Meya.

3. That henceforth, I will be known/called as P Koi Meya for all official, correspondences and future record/reference.

4. That this affidavit shall stand as a piece of evidence and I shall rectify and it shall be kept in records if any complication that may arise with regard to change of my name.

Notary Public Deponent K-707

NAGALAND UNIVERSITY

NAGALAND UNIVERSITY (A Central University Estd. By the Act of Parliament No. 35 of 1989) Headquarters : Lumami - 798627

NO.NU/ADM/Gen-84(A)/2013 (Pr-1)

Dated : 14th March, 2019

TENDER NOTICE

Sealed tenders are invited from Manufacturers/Authorized dealers of reputed brands for supply of Scientific equipment and furnishing of Lab room at Nagaland University, SASRD, Medziphema. Interested parties may download the tender documents and Terms and Conditions from University website : http://nagalanduniversity.ac.in DC-401

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER CUSTOMS PREVENTIVE DIVISION :: DIMAPUR

Khermahal Chariali Police Point, Dimapur-797112, Nagaland Phone : 03862-226688/ Fax : 03862-226868/ Email: cusdmr@yahoo.com

AUCTION THROUGH SEALED TENDER NOTICE 01/ET/2018-19

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Description of items

Total Quantity

1

Furniture (Table, Chair, Revolving Chair)

42

2

Electronics & Electrical items (Computer Key Board, CPU, Monitor, Printer, UPS, Fax Machine, Xerox Machine, Type Writer, Inverter, Battery)

45

DC-403

(Dr. Abemo), Registrar

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It is hereby notified that the under mentioned old and used office furniture/ electronics items will be sold in Auction through Sealed Tender "AS IS AND WHERE IS BASIS" in the Office of the Assistant Commissioner of Customs Preventive Division, Dimapur, Khermahal Chariali Police Point, Dimapur on 26.03.2019 at 12:00 hrs.

All intending bidders are requested to be present on the stipulated date and time. For futher details contact PRO, Customs Preventive Division, Dimapur on working days during office hours.

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choices for the BJP ticket is sitting MLA of Baithalangso, Dr. Mansing Rongpi who is widely considered an excellent physician. However , if the apex body of BJP chooses not to ground any elected person from

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Rahul to address rally in Arunachal Itanagar, Mar 15 (PTI): Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address an election rally here on March 19 in support of party candidates, a party leader said here Friday.

Election to the 60member Arunachal Pradesh Assembly and the two Lok Sabha seats in the state will be held on April 11.

The Congress will announce the names of the candidates for the polls in the state before Gandhis visit, Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Takam Sanjoy said.

Gandhi will address an election rally at Indira Gandhi Park here on March 19, the party leader said.

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public office to avoid any re-polling, member of BJP state body and former Karbi Anglong district BJP president Lonki Phangcho, a retired IAS may become the ultimate choice of the party.

The BJP has formed a panel to finalize candidates for the upcoming election.

Speaking to media persons, Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Out of the 14 seats, the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) will field candidate in Kokrajhar. We will declare the final list of the candidates on March 16.”

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Sd/(L. Dutta) Administrative Officer

OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT 12th NAP BN (INDIA RESERVE)

(A Central University Estd. By the Act of Parliament No. 35 of 1989)

HEADQUARTERS : LUMAMI - 798627

NO.NU/ADMN/B-3/03 - 7717

TENDER NOTICE Nagaland University invites sealed tender for Supply of Furniture at Nagaland University. Interested parties may download advertisement details from University website: nagalanduniversity.ac.in

Dt. Chingtok, the th March ’2019.

SHOW CAUSE NOTICE To

Regt/ No. 121388 C/N SUCHAMO Son of SAMUEL Village – MUNYA PO –WOKHA PS – WOKHA Dist –WOKHA, NAGALAND. Whereas, you have been found absent from bonafide Govt. duty with effect from 02-03-2018 without any leave or permission from the competent authority till date. And whereas, Calling Notices was issued and served to you through concern P.S vide order No.12BN(IR)/RO-10/201819/1438 Dt. 07/03/2019.

The said Regt. No 121388 C/N SUCHAMO is hereby directed to report to the undersigned within 7 (seven) days from the date of publication of this notice failing which he will be declared as deserter without further notice.

Commandant, 12th NAP Bn (India Reserve) Chingtok, Longleng DC-400

Dr. Abemo Registrar

DC-398

IN THE COURT OF

JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE FIRST CLASS ZUNHEBOTO : NAGALAND

CHINGTOK : LONGLENG

NO.12BN(IR)/RO-10/2018-19/

Dated : 13th March, 2019

Date: 14.03.2019

PROCLAMATION RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY (Issued Under Section 457, Code of Criminal Procedure)

Proclamation is hereby made that a Bolero SLE - 2 WD seater (white), no number plate/registration number, bearing Engine No. GHA4K59550, Chassis No. MA1PL2GHKA5K88161 has been seized in connection with Zunheboto P.S. Case No. 33/18 on 26.06.2018 near Philimi Village, Zunheboto and is in the custody of the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Zunheboto.

Any person having a rightful and lawful claim to the aforesaid property is hereby required to appear before me and establish his claim within six months from the date of the proclamation, failing which the said property will be held at the disposal of Government.

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EC to prohibit political ads on social media UP oppn parties to hold 11 joint rallies

Mumbai, Mar 15 (AGENCIES): The Election Commission (EC) told the Bombay High Court on Friday that it is willing to prohibit any political advertisements on social media 48 hours before polling day, provided the high court issues such orders.

The EC also told a bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice N M Jamdar that it was going to ensure implementation of all its previous notifications regulating political advertisements on social media, particularly around the time of elections.

The statement was made by the EC’s counsel Pradeep Rajagopal.

He was responding to a query posed by the court on a previous hearing, asking why the EC was hesitant to issue specific directions prohibiting political advertisements on social media 48 hours before an election day.

Rajagopal submitted that the EC was aware that specific rules were required to govern advertisements on social media ahead of elections and that it was going

Election Commission of India. (File) to implement all safeguards to ensure that there were no obstructions to free and fair elections in the country.

“The EC will implement directions passed by it (sic) from time to time with respect to social media intermediaries,” Rajagopal said.

“It will also issue directions keeping in view the submissions made by other parties in the PIL on the 48-hour period. If this court passes orders on prohibitory regulations for social media during this 48 hour period,

it will implement them,” he said. The court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Sagar Suryavanshi seeking directions to the Election Commission to regulate fake news in the form of paid political ads on social media.

The PIL had also urged the court to direct the EC to prohibit all persons, whether politicians or private individuals, from posting advertisements related to politics or elections, or paid political content on social

media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter 48 hours before election day.

On the previous hearing, Facebook had told the court that it had introduced strict “pre-verification processes” for all political ads and paid content of “national interest” on their websites in India ahead of the 2019 general elections.

The new system ensures that only bonafide individuals, who are citizens of India, and political organisations based in the

country can place political ads.

Twitter and YouTube had told the bench that they already only permitted such political ads that had been verified by the EC. The social media sites, however, told the court that they could not voluntarily impose a 48-hour ban as sought by the petitioner.

The counsels for Facebook, Google and YouTube said that they could prohibit display of political ads on their websites 48 hours before polling day, if they were directed by the EC to do so.

The Representation of the People’s Act already prohibits political campaigning 48 hours before polling day and a notification of the EC regulating ads on TV and print media prohibits publication of political ads 48 hours before polling day.

The court, therefore, asked why the Election Commission could not formulate a similar direction for political ads on social media.

The HC is likely to take up the matter for further hearing on Monday.

(L-R) Akhilesh Yadav, Ajit Singh and Mayawati (File) Lucknow, Mar 15 (IANS): In bid to give a tough challenge to the BJP, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and RLD leader Ajit Singh will hold 11 rallies jointly in Uttar Pradesh including in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi.

Sharing their plans, SP Secretary Rajendra Chaudhary said: “The leaders will address a total of 11 rallies in the state beginning on April 7, the first day of Navratra. The last will take place on May 16 in Varanasi.”

He said the first rally would be organised at Deoband on April 7.

The three leaders will also hold rallies for the candidates of the alliance in Badaun on April 13 and Agra on April 16. Dharmendra Yadav, a cousin of SP chief and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, is contesting from Budaun.

Chaudhary said the joint rally of three leaders had been planned in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s constituency Mainpuri on April 19.

It will be for the first time after the 1995 guest house episode that Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav will share the stage together.

The SP leader also

said that the alliance will also organise rallies in Rampur and Firozabad on April 20.

The three leaders will also hold joint rallies in Kannauj, currently represented by Dimple Yadav on April 25. A similar rally will follow in Faizabad on May 1, in Azamgarh on May 8 and in Gorakhpur on May 13.

Chaudhary said the last joint rally is set for May 16 in Varanasi.

The Samajwadi Party is contesting on 37 seats in Uttar Pradesh, RLD on three and the BSP on 38 seats. Amethi and Rae Bareli have been left for the Congress.

Pakistan response on Kartarpur NIA issues fresh summons to Mirwaiz for questioning inadequate, says Amarinder Singh Chandigarh, Mar 15 (AGENCIES): Expressing disappointment at Pakistan’s response to the various issues raised by India during the first meeting on the Kartarpur Corridor, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday urged Islamabad to be more amenable and responsive to India’s demands, keeping in view the interests of the devotees seeking to pay obeisance at the historic gurdwara across the border.

In a statement issued here, the Chief Minister said Islamabad’s response to India’s demands is totally inadequate and the neighbouring country needed to reconsider its stand if the corridor is to serve its true purpose, in the spirit in which it was decided to be opened.

The governments of the two countries took a historic decision by agreeing to open the corridor to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, in November this year, Amarinder said, lauding the fact that

Amarinder Singh (File) the Pulwama attack and the subsequent IAF airstrikes were not allowed to scuttle the talks between the two sides on taking the project forward. It was good that the two countries remained on track with the project deadlines, but Pakistan needed to go a step further to make the initiative truly meaningful for the pilgrims, particularly the Sikh community, which had been deprived of darshan at the Kartarpur gurdwara for over 70 years, he added.

The limitation of 500 pilgrims a day, as proposed

by Pakistan, is extremely insufficient to cater to the aspirations of the large number of devotees desirous of

darshan at the gurdwara, said the Chief Minister.

And curtailing the visit to a limited number of days in a week would defeat the purpose even further, he added.

“Pakistan’s response to India’s demands on Kartarpur Corridor is totally inadequate. The Corridor won’t serve its true purpose with such limitations. Sikhs have been deprived of Kartarpur gurdwara darshan for 70 years, need to allow more people every day, including from overseas,” he tweeted.

Amarinder reiterated his demand for visa-free ‘khule darshan’ at the gurdwara for Indians of all faiths, from India and overseas, seven days a week. “Pilgrims should be allowed to go through Kartarpur Corridor for ‘khule darshan’ at the historic gurdwara all 7 days a week. Special permits should be good for identity, the visa requirement needs to be waived. Pakistan has to be more responsive on this issue,” he further tweeted.

Srinagar, Mar 14 (PTI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Thursday issued fresh summons to moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq to appear for questioning at the probe agency headquarters in connection with a terror financing case, officials said.

According to the notice, the Mirwaiz has been asked to appear at the National Investigation Agency (NIA) headquarters in New Delhi on March 18, the agency officials said.

The NIA had on February 26 carried out searches at premises of separatist leaders, including the Mirwaiz, in connection with the case related to financing of terrorist and separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir.

The NIA team, accompanied by police and CRPF personnel, searched residences of some of the separatist leaders, including the Mirwaiz, Naseem Geelani and Ashraf Sehrai, the chairman of the Tehreek-eHurriyat.

The houses of Jammu

Mirwaiz Umer Farooq (File) Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yaseen Malik, Shabir Shah, Zaffar Bhat and Masarat Alam were also raided.

Barring the Mirwaiz and Sehrai, all other leaders were jailed for some time.

The NIA had questioned two maternal uncles of the Mirwaiz -- Maulvi Manzoor and Maulvi Shafat -- and his close aides last year. Both Manzoor and Shafat are retired senior government officers.

He had been asked to appear before the NIA on March 11 but the Mirwaiz had expressed his inability to join the investigation in the national capital fearing for his security in view of

Muslim bodies condemn New Zealand mosques attack

Pollachi sex abuse case: Kamal Haasan hits out at CM C h e n na i , M a r 1 5 (IANS): Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) leader Kamal Haasan on Friday lashed out strongly at the AIADMK government led

by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami for its silence on the Pollachi sexual abusecum-blackmail case.

In a video clip uploaded in his Twitter account, Kamal Haasan attacked the state government for its inaction and threatening the complainants/victims.

Kamal Haasan charged the government with revealing the name of the victim and scaring away the students who protested on the road by manhandling them.

The students who came to register their just anger in an honest manner were removed forcibly by the police. The students

are asking whether this police force would ensure their safety, Kamal Haasan said. “ D o n’ t y o u h e a r Mr.CM?” Kamal Haasan said.

Recalling late Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa’s statement that sexual assault on women will be considered as a serious crime and will be probed by senior officials, Kamal Haasan said the government has not done anything to protect the victims.

He said the police officer investigating the case had revealed the name of the victim in a press meet. The current AIADMK claiming to run the government on the footsteps of Jayalalithaa has not taken any action and wondered how it can be so careless and lethargic in this regard.

and condemnable. “This is very painful and should be condemned in the strongest word. We, the Muslims, need to think as to why such incidents are happening. Of course, it is Islamophobia, but we need to look inwards as to what is wrong with the ‘ummah’ (community),” Madni told IANS. Expressing shock over the incident,

Navaid Hamid, President of All India Muslim Majlis-eMushawarat, an umbrella body of various Muslim organisations, said: “No words to express shock and grief over the killing of peaceful worshipers at Christchurch mosque in New Zealand terror attack.”

“My heart goes to the bereaved families who are

victims of Islamophobia created by western policies in the last 20 years,” he added. He also questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence over the incident. However, the Prime Minister has expressed his “shock” over the accident in a letter to his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern.

sue which needs political resolution either through implementation of UN resolutions or through dialogue amongst the three stakeholders -- India, Pakistan and people of Jammu and Kashmir,” the counsel of the Mirwaiz said The NIA probe seeks to identify the chain of players behind the financing of terrorist activities, pelting of stones on security forces, burning down of schools and damaging of government establishments.

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client was not acquainted with the subject matter of the FIR referred to in the NIA’s notice and added that the notice to the separatist leader appears to have been issued on the basis of “fallacious assumptions and misinformation solely aimed at maligning the Mirwaiz”.

On his client’s stand on the Kashmir issue, the lawyer said it has always been clear.

“He has always stated that the Kashmir issue is a political and human is-

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New Delhi, Mar 15 (IANS): A number of prominent Muslim bodies in India on Friday condemned the terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch in which at least 49 people were killed.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind General Secretary Maulana Mehmood Madni said that the incident was painful Maulana Mehmood Madni (File)

“conditions of hostility”.

“Under the prevailing conditions of hostility wherein there is a threat to the personal safety of my client, it becomes unwise for my client to travel to Delhi,” counsel for the Mirwaiz, Aijaz Ahmad Dhar, had said in a letter to the NIA. If the NIA wants to question the Mirwaiz, it can do so in Srinagar and he is willing to cooperate as “he has nothing to hide”, the letter had said.

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DailyDevotion The Discipline of Dismay As they followed they were afraid. —Mark 10:32 At the beginning of our life with Jesus Christ, we were sure we knew all there was to know about following Him. It was a delight to forsake everything else and to throw ourselves before Him in a fearless statement of love. But now we are not quite so sure. Jesus is far ahead of us and is beginning to seem different and unfamiliar— “Jesus was going before them; and they were amazed” (Mark 10:32).

There is an aspect of Jesus that chills even a disciple’s heart to its depth and makes his entire spiritual life gasp for air. This unusual Person with His face set “like a flint” (Isaiah 50:7) is walking with great determination ahead of me, and He strikes terror right through me. He no longer seems to be my Counselor and Friend and has a point of view about which I know nothing.

All I can do is stand and stare at Him in amazement. At first I was confident that I understood Him, but now I am not so sure. I begin to realize that there is a distance between Jesus and me and I can no longer be intimate with Him. I have no idea where He is going, and the goal has become strangely distant.

Jesus Christ had to understand fully every sin and sorrow that human beings could experience, and that is what makes Him seem unfamiliar. When we see this aspect of Him, we realize we really don’t know Him. We don’t recognize even one characteristic of His life, and we don’t know how to begin to follow Him. He is far ahead of us, a Leader who seems totally unfamiliar, and we have no friendship with Him. The discipline of dismay is an essential lesson which a disciple must learn. The danger is that we tend to look back on our times of obedience and on our past sacrifices to God in an effort to keep our enthusiasm for Him strong (see Isaiah 50:10-11). But when the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come the ability to follow Jesus truly, which brings inexpressibly wonderful joy.

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If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women ~ Nina Shaw

An appeal on Sunday C market closure issue

Modernisation of Kohima city bus service

A will to a way

ince 22 years the much debated 33% women reservation bill has been in the political limbo and routinely punctuated by frayed tempers and war of words since 1996. The bill was introduced in Parliament but it lapsed each time when the House was dissolved and was re-introduced by the Government of the day. The seats were proposed to be reserved in rotation and would have been determined by draw of lots in such a way that a seat would be reserved only once in three consecutive general elections. The Rajya Sabha passed the bill on March 9 2010 during the UPA rule but the Lok Sabha never voted on the bill.

The bill lapsed after the dissolution of the 15th Lok Sabha in 2014. Almost all major political parties felt it useful to promise 33% women reservation. The Congress, BJP, TMC etc have mentioned the bill in their respective manifestos. However when it came to the test in the Lok Sabha, the parties never got to even consider passage of the bill. The main grouse against the bill was that it seeks to provide quotas to one gender but deprived the other gender. The argument was that in democracy and especially in India, if women constituted around 50% of the population, then what stopped the women from voting for women? The other point that has been often cited is that instead of providing constitutional reservation, political parties should instead give 33% tickets to women candidates. After more than two decades, the Biju Janata Dal(BJD) supremo and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik made it a reality when he announced that his party will give 33% of party tickets to women candidates for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Naveen termed his party’s decision as a “benchmark for women’s empowerment” in the country. That will mean that the ruling BJD in Odisha will field women candidates for at least seven out of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state. At present, there are three women Lok Sabha MPs from Odisha. The BJD had won 20 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in 2014. Not long afterwards another party supremo and chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee also announced that her party would set up not 33% or 35% but 41% women candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Mamata Banerjee on March 12, released her party’s list of candidates for the general election, naming 17 women among the party’s contestants from 42 seats in the state and fielding new faces from 19 constituencies. She said the TMC had nominated 41% women candidates for 2019 as against 35% the party set up in 2014. The BJP had taunted the Congress about the bill being stalled in the Lok Sabha in 2010. However, the party which won a brute majority in 2014 hasn’t done anything about it. In fact the Modi government showed its intent when it hastily introduced the 10% job quota bill for poor upper castes on January 9,2019.

However, when it came to women’s reservation the BJP did precious little. Earlier, the Modi government introduced the triple talaq bill, officially known as the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, on December 27 and got it passed. These above instances, clearly point out that if political parties were sincere they could always find out a way to achieve what they promise.

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imple yet seriously, I would like to question to those civil societies and individuals who are advocating for Business on Sundays in favour of perishable vegetables against the imperishable God / Yahweh Worship.

1. Who were the builders and destroyers of a society in history?

2. How did they build the society/nation?

3. How did they destroy the society/nation?

4. What do our leaders ought to learn and follow today?

The prophets and the Church leaders are the mouth piece of God who give instructions and guidance to all the people as per the revealed Word of God. The leaders of the people in the Government, Society, Community, Tribal Council, etc. are the implementers of the revealed word of God. Moses instructed the people to abide by the revealed word of God. He was opposed by the community leaders. They all perished in the wilderness.

Joshua was instructed to follow and he and his family was committed to God till to the end.

They entered the Rest. King David was instructed by the prophets and he followed. All the people were led according to the word of God and in the fear of the Lord. He and the people flourished. King Asa recalled all the Levites and the priests and brought back the people to the way of the Lord. King Hezekiah ordered the priests and the people to observe the Passover and he pleased the Lord God of Israel. Nehemiah and Ezra wept for the sins of Israel and challenged the people to rebuild Jerusalem and to restored the Jewish worship according to the word of God. They indeed rebuild Jerusalem and Jewish nation was restored. There are many more great leaders and kings of whom we read in the Bible and in the extra biblical books. They were the builders of nations, societies of faith and civilization of the world based on the word of God. How great were those leaders!

King Manasseh was in-

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ve r yo n e wa n t s a world filled with bright colours defining peace and happiness but why is it still gloomy out here? No matter how timid, brave, angry or strong a person may present himself in front of all, deep inside he also wants a world of peace and joy where there is no such thing called ‘Corruption, Injustice, wars’ or anything that is unpleasant and wrong. There are many thousands and millions of people praying and wishing for the bright days to fill their lives because they still believe there is goodness in every single being and that, one day the people who have gone wrong will realise and come back and contribute for a better tomorrow. Well, it is not wrong to think that way because we human beings are the ones created by a God who is pure and righteous with no hint of mistake in Him so yes, every person, no matter how scary or angry he may show himself to the world, he too has a goodness in him, a goodness gifted by God to all of us.

Sometimes we blame things and people too much when things don’t go according to our plans and I do not know if that is human’s nature but let us just accept the fact that we tend to blame a little too much intentionally or unintentionally. We human beings are gifted with so many talents and we got a lot of potentials but I do not understand why we limit ourselves just because we don’t have confidence in ourselves or say, because of the most common phrase,

structed but he killed the prophets who spoke to him. King Ahab was instructed and confronted by the prophets for the wrongs he had done but in stead of mending his ways, he sought for the lives of the prophets.

Scores of leaders were there in the Bible who were condemned and cursed by the Lord. They were the ones who destroyed the societies and brought doom to the nation. How did they scheme a plot and kill Naboth? Why and how did they kill prophet Isaiah? How did they treat Elijah, Elisha, Jeremiah, Micaiah, Zachariah and many more servants of the Lord? How did they bring doom upon themselves and the nation? Were they not responsible for Israel’s captivity and destruction? There are lots of stories written in books about the causes of the doom of a nation. When God is not happy, that’s the end of the nation.

We all must know for sure that the living God of yesteryears is the same living God today.

His judgement and standard remains the same. There will be no partiality in Him. Let us pick up one lesson - How the rulers of the nation conspired against the anointed of the Lord in favour of Barabbas, the criminal? Now in whose favour are you today? Are you in favour of perishable vegetable vendors or the imperishable Holy Day of the Lord? Did not God say to every one of us to keep His Rest Day Holy?

Who are those vendors of perishable vegetable – Naga, non Naga,illegal immigrants, miyas, Christians, non Christians, etc. etc. Should Naga Christians go to market on Sunday for their perishable vegetables or should they go to Church and worship the Everlasting God, the Creator and the Sustainer of the Universe for gain of eternal blessing? What is your choicevegetable or God? Worship or marketing on Sunday?

In the Old Testament too, it was the leaders who were the ones that defiled the Holy days of the Lord for their selfish monetary gain. They exchanged justice or sold the poor for a pair of sandals. They made holy fasting days into horrible cursing

days. Alas! Israel nation was destroyed because of the leaders.

Jesus had to come and cleanse the Temple before he goes to the cross forrestoration.

Corruption does not start from the bottom, the common men. It starts from the higher up, the powerful and the rich.

Abuse of power does not start from the common men but from the powerful. Law breaking does not start from the simple common men but from the law making, law enforcing, affluent people and criminals. Justice perversion does not start from the common men but from the rulers of the people. Communal fighting or war does not start by a common man, it starts from the communal, political, social, tribal, business leaders.

The commoners are used and victimised. The common men are followers. They are not the law makers, law enforces and justice adjudicators. The common men are just citizens. That’s all. But one danger that lies with the common men is that, if you spread to them rumours, wrong messages, give wrong teachings and instructions, then they become the active elements of havoc and complete destruction of the society. If doom comes, you are not exception to destruction. Mind it seriously. Let us not be advocates of wrong things.

My suggestion is, let there be proper discussion on matter of the closure of Business on Sunday in Dimapur area. As of now, before proper understanding is brought about, let there be closure of the market on Sunday as it is, except for life saving and emergency services in which Hotels etc. are included. Let us not quarrel, let us not sell God for perishable vegetables, let us not desecrate our Holy Day, let us not be money minded (in spite of poverty) but let us be very serious of our national faith in God and for the society that has been saved Lord.

Oh, blessed child Jesus, go to God/Church for Blessing on Sunday.

Don’t go to Market for Money on Sunday.

God bless you. Amen Rev. Seksim Kasar, General Secretary, CNC

ommuters of the Kohima City have long been benefiting from the generosity of some relatively affluent individuals, who have committed themselves in providing community service in the form of running private city buses. Unlike many other Municipal Councils/Corporations, which have their own fleet of public transport, Kohima’s public transport system is an agglomeration of mostly private owners, unifying for the sole purpose of providing efficient affordable bus services for decades now. With the advancement of engineering and technology, city buses have transformed over time, for achieving better efficiency, comfort and more recently, lesser emission of environment pollutants. Today, there are vast array of buses available which are not only equipped with modern technologies such as GPS trackers, on board/ dash cameras, hydraulic lifts, panic buttons, information display systems, PA systems, etc. but also runs on alternative fuels like CNG and electricity. For instance, electric buses in particular has lesser emission, has brand value, free from rising diesel/petrol cost, cheaper maintenance, quieter operation and can avail various incentives for procuring. The Government of India(GoI) is promoting these recent innovations through introduction of schemes like Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles(FAME).

Various air quality monitoring sources have shown that Kohima and Dimapur are exposed to harmful air pollution levels beyond permissible limits even with the absence of major air polluting factories and industries.

This may be related to the increasing number of vehicles in the Cities.

Automobile emissions such as Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide(SO), Nitrogen Dioxide(NO), Lead, Particulate Matter (PM) and other toxic air pollutantscan lead to serious health issues like asthma, cancer, lung infections, etc. Elderly citizens and children are found to be more susceptible to these health hazards. Due to the adverse implications of polluted air, India has made it a fundamental right to breathe clean air through the National Green Tribunal(NGT) in 2014.

Inorder to regulate the output of air pollutants from internal combustion engines and spark-ignition engines equipment, including motor vehicles, India follows the Bharat Stage Emission Standards(BS). Presently the accepted norm, since 2017, is the BS-IV, but by April 2020, India is set to adopt the BS-VI norms; which would mean after this, legally there should not be any more vehicle sales

Where have we gone wrong?

“What will people say?” and I do not understand why it bothers us too much to do something we are good at just because we think the society will judge us.

I believe everyone should follow their hearts as long as it ain’t harming anybody.

Now, coming back to ‘we blame too much’, don’t you think instead of complaining, blaming and criticising, we need to question ourselves,”where have we gone wrong?” And maybe that way we can see things clearly.

Once upon a time, a man kept blaming the leaders for being corrupted and when his son got a government job through backdoor appointment, he said, ”Thank God. My son finally got a job”. The wise will understand what I intend to deliver through this.

You see, there are so many of us wanting to get government jobs and at the same time there are many others who are so good in their own different fields and wish to do something good out of it but why are they pressurised to do something they do not desire for?

Why do many of us think that getting a government job is the answer to all the problems? No job is big or small but what matters at the end of the day is if we are happy with who and what we are and if we are being any source of help and contribution to the society. Not everyone is born to draw an apple; some are born to draw pineapples too.

When a young man speaks his heart out or protest against something

which he think is wrong, correct him if he is wrong and let him know where he went wrong but let your words be filled with wisdom when you correct him however, when he protest against something which is actually wrong, do not stop him because what he has in him is called ‘Courage’ and why Courage? Courage because he knows many will try to stop him or judge him for fighting for what is right because they think he is too young to speak or fight for what is right but he also knows that if he stays quiet, he will only end up encouraging the wrong thing which, as a responsible citizen, irrespective of his age, he would never let such ugly thing take place. No matter how old a person may be, he should always fight for what is right. A person may be young but if he has the qualities of understanding, knowledge and wisdom, that is what matters. Age is just a number.

Why do we fear too much? When we see someone doing something very wrong right in front of us, we just tell to ourselves, ”Mind your own business” or “Stay Away” and not only do we stop ourselves but we tell the rest to stay away too if they do not want to invite problems for themselves. When a person is treated badly or insulted in front of us, we know it is wrong but most of us just smiles away and leave, feeling guilty for the rest of the day. This ‘what ifs’ are always a headache to many of us.

“What if people judge

me? What if I invite trouble for myself for fighting back? What if ?” Have your ‘what ifs’ helped you in any way?

We all want peace but what have we contributed to the society that we think we deserve peace? I believe those who are struggling day and night for the betterment of our society really does deserve peace.

We talk about peace, peace and peace yet why is there always a heavy comparison and competition among tribes? That! I do not understand because I see every one as human beings; creation of God; special and wonderful in our own ways. Everyone wants their tribe to do well which is not a bad thing but when we look down on the other tribes thinking that we are the superior ones, that’s when things go wrong, very wrong! We are all diverse people with diverse culture and traditions which beautifies us and when all of us come together, we are no less than a piece of art to be admired and appreciated by all. We limit the level of our understandings a little too much. Many of us thinks that unity of a tribe is about supporting and defending or being there for each other which is not wrong but we, most of the times tend to used such understandings in the wrong way.

“If you are emotionally attached to your tribes or political leaning to the point that truth and justice become secondary considerations, your education is useless, your exposure is useless. If you cannot reason

from authorised dealers or registration of vehicles at regional transport offices, of non BS-VI compliant vehicles. As per Indian Emissions Regulations(ARAI), BS-VI norms shall implement use of BS-VI fuel grade with only 10 parts per million (ppm) sulphur content, compared to 50ppm in BS-IV fuel. The most hazardous components of pollutants like PM 2.5 and PM 10, which can cause cancer, shall be reduced by a phenomenal 80%, in case of diesel engines. It should be noted that diesel engines generate more pollutants compared to petrol engines; hence, a major concern bears on the diesel city buses that ply for almost 10 hours a day within our City limits.

Considering the development of modern-day public transport buses and consequences of harmful emissions, our city buses need to be upgraded and modernised. Whereas the viability of acquiring the coveted e-buses or even CNG buses maybe questionable for now, there has to be interventions in upgrading the existing fleet, even in terms of equipments and meeting the regulated emission norms. For instance, the GPS trackers, if fitted in buses, can greatly enhance the traffic management, increase reliability and improve the service in general. Similarly, the hydraulic lifts can help accessibility for disabled and elderly people, panic buttons for emergency situations, information display systems for passenger convenience, etc. With respect to cutting the emission levels, existing bus fleet will have to be analysed and older buses should be replaced strategically without hampering the city public transport service.

The City Bus Owners Union Kohima can play a vital role in taking the collective decision in the right direction, while the Municipal Council can strongly advocate suitable standards for city buses. Kohima Smart City Development Ltd. can facilitate the process by drawing in the appropriate vehicle manufacturing companies and financial institutions for financing, assist in acquiring and installing necessary equipment and features, provide display informations and improve the public transport management.

The Transport Authority also should take note of the upcoming developments and adhere strictly to the latest norms. A collective effort from all stakeholders shall ensure that public transportation is safe, convenient, and comfortable; more importantly, environment remains lesser polluted and we inhale clean air each day as we go bustling about in our scenic hilly town of Kohima.

Atuo Angami, Kohima Town

beyond petty sentiments and tribal attachments, you are a liability to mankind”, Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman.

The point to all the things that I’ve written is, we need to stop blaming and complaining over every little thing and start questioning ourselves because there are so many rooms of improvement for us where we need to make things right again.

Most of us are being those heavy thick clouds covering the brightness which is why our world is still gray yet we blame someone else for being those thick clouds. Many have come and gone, there were fighters, activist, leaders, and so on, many taught us the moral values of life, many spoke to us of how a responsible citizen should be. It’s not like we have never come across such teachings before but why is it so hard for us to do something that we already know will be good for us and the people?

Is this where we have gone wrong?

Why is it easy for us to blame and criticise others but so difficult to live as responsible beings?

Is it because we are lazy? Is it because we are irresponsible? Is it because we think we will be judged by others? Is it because we think too low of ourselves? Or is it because we are afraid?

The future lies in our hands. Our dreams will come true one day. We will have brightness filled with songs of joy and laughter in the morning; sleeps filled with sweetness of peace and happiness at night; we only need to start living as responsible citizens and contribute to the society. We can always try to be a better person, we can always try to live a better life, we can always try to be the future we want to see in others.

It is better to try and fail than to never try and fail and regret for the rest of our lives.

Kepevino Hozoyeh, Medziphema Town

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Be sincere in duty

Naga Christians (believers) are very faithful in the Church in terms of honesty and Outward appearance.

On the other hand, in government offices, duties are very neglected and irregular. They tend to forget about the public grievances and troubles. Comparing our behaviors’ with the Bible, it is completely in contradiction with the word of the Bible as we fail horribly at work.

Woe is for me and yours if not dwell with love according to the Bible. “Faith without work is death.”

L.K. Naga, Dimapur

Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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shall depute a suitable officer to assist the Court on the date fixed i.e. March 25, 2019,” the court said in its order.

The plea was filed, among others, by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of the Telugu Desam Party, Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party, Farooq Abdullah of the National Conference, Sharad Yadav of the Loktantrik Janata Dal, Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party, Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Derek O’Brien of the Trinamool Conference and M.K. Stalin of the DMK. In the plea, they urged the court that 50 per cent of results of EVMs must be matched and cross-checked with VVPATs before the

India, Myanmar army conduct ops to protect Kaladan project diplomatically ahead of the operation with the two armies holding several meetings to plan it, it was by no means a cross-border strike as is being portrayed in some reports. “We operated in coordination with the Myanmar army and our main aim was to prevent these elements from moving into India,” said a senior officer in the military establishment, who did not want to be named.

“We don’t need to cross the Myanmar border because there is a mutual understanding on both sides and the Myanmar army largely obliges with whatever we ask them for,” said a senior army officer closely monitoring the North East.

“The Myanmar rebels have been creating more problems on their side than ours. At their request, we had killed 5 of their rebels and captured 8-10 on our side in 2017. Thus, the Myanmar army, too, struck the separatist NSCN (K) HQ in Taga on our behalf,” the officer said.

Governor gives away award to JNU students DIMAPUR, MAR 15 (NPN): Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya Friday gave away NAMASTE Governor Acharya Award 2018 to five students from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi.

The award was instituted in honour of freedom fighters of North East India including U Tirot Sing of Meghalaya, Rani Gaidinliu of Nagaland, Bir Tikendrajit Singh of Manipur, Lokpriya Gopinath Bardoloi of Assam and Pasaltha Khuangchera of Mizoram respectively.

In a press release, PRO (IPR) Nagaland House, New Delhi stated that the competition for the awards was based on MPhil and PhD researches being carried out by students of JNU in various issues and problems of the region.

Speaking at an award distribution ceremony held at JNU, Governor remarked that the award was a way to encourage and inculcate competitive spirit among students working

P.B. Acharya with the awardees at JNU campus, Delhi. (PRO)

on North East.

Achar ya said the award recognises the students who have not only excelled in their academic pursuits but also developed all round skills and attained remarkable achievements in the domain they have a strong passion for.

NAMASTE Governor Acharya Award 2018 was organised by Special Centre for the Study of North East India, JNU. Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, Vice Chancellor of JNU, who is instrumen-

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tal in establishment of the special centre, said such a programme is first of its kind in JNU. He expressed the need to promote and encourage multidisciplinary research on Northeast.

Prof. Bhagat Oinam, Chairperson of the centre while welcoming the dignitaries, said that the five awards would be given every year in honour of freedom fighters of the

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Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the United Nations. Gandhi had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “weak” and “scared” of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“Weak Modi is scared of Xi. Not a word comes out of his mouth when China acts against India.

NaMo’s China Diplomacy: 1. Swing with Xi in Gujarat 2. Hug Xi in Delhi 3. Bow to Xi in China,” Gandhi said on Twitter.

On Wednesday, the UN Sanctions Committee could not come to a decision on naming the JeM chief as a global terrorist after China put the proposal on hold. India expressed its disappointment at the outcome.

No room for authoritarianism in India, says Manmohan Singh

New Delhi, Mar 15 (IANS): Delivering a lecture here on Friday, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that in a democratic country like India, there is no room for authoritarianism and advised the leaders to “temper the Singh was addressing a gathering of business leaders and press as chief guest at the Changemakers 2019 Award ceremony organised by The Hindu Business Line.

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public policy realm, can succeed without a reasonable consensus about it. We have opted for a democratic path for ourselves. There is no room for authoritarian imposition from above,” he said in his speech.

“Perhaps I may be allowed to add that it is responsibility of the political leadership to temper the harshness of change, especially for the more vulnerable sections of the society,” he added.

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of the 15 UN Security Council Members and also co-sponsored by Australia, Bangladesh, Italy and Japan - non members of the Security Council.

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She said that more of such trainings should be organised in the future so as to refresh and upgrade the skills of the officers and staffs.

While speaking about the vision of IPR, APRO Atuzo stated that the department should disseminate information by dwelling more into social media through sites like Twitter and Instagram etc.

He also stressed on the role the department can play in visual media because of the importance that films and videos have in the society especially among the youths.

He further suggested that the rural sectors have infrastructure set up, like Community Information Centres where they can get up to date information and news and also the importance of human resource management.

New Delhi, Mar 15 (IANS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday hit out at the Congress over its allegation that China blocking the bid to name Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist” was a diplomatic failure of the Narendra Modi government, saying the proposal was mooted four times but India could get worldwide support only in 2019.

She took to Twitter to counter the opposition’s charge and said India secured unprecedented support from the international community for listing Masood Azhar under the UN Sanctions Committee.

“I wish to apprise you of the facts regarding listing of Masood Azhar under the United Nations Sanctions Committee. The proposal has been mooted four times. In 2009, India under the UPA Government was the lone proposer. In 2016, India’s proposal was cosponsored by USA, France and UK. In 2017, USA, UK and France moved the proposal,” she said in a series of tweets.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 15 (AGENCIES): Senior Indian army officers have confirmed that more than 12000 Indian troops were deployed along the IndiaMyanmar border between February 17 and March 2 but categorically dismissed reports of a cross-border strike by Indian armed forces.

The recent deployment, which reportedly comprised mainly of Assam Rifles units being moved south to the Myanmar border, took place simultaneous to a crackdown by the Myanmar army against rebels who were threatening and trying to extort money from Indian personnel working on the USD 484 million Kaladan multi-modal transit transport project in Myanmar being funded by India. The project aims to connect India and Myanmar by sea and land and is expected to be operational by 2020.

While the officers confirmed that India and Myanmar were in touch

New Delhi, Mar 15 (AGENCIES): The BJP is likely to release its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday, when its central election committee is scheduled to meet, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah and other top BJP leaders in attendance.

The list will have the names of most of the candidates for the first phase of polling on April 11 for 91 seats. Elections to 543 constituencies will be held in seven phases till May 19 and the counting of votes will be taken up on May 23.

All the 42 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will go to the polls in the first phase. A fraction of constituencies in many States, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam, will also witness polling that day.

Assembly polls in Telangana and Odisha will be held simultaneously with the general election.

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New Delhi, Mar15 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Election Commission’s response on a plea by 21 opposition parties seeking audit of at least 50 per cent of EVMs with corresponding Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs).

Issuing the notice to the poll panel, the bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the election panel to depute an officer to assist the court on the next hearing of the matter on March 25.

“Matter will be heard on March 25, 2019. The Election Commission of India to be served through the Secretary. The competent authority of the Election Commission of India

verifying the votes exercised through EVMs with VVPAT that is undertaken by the election panel at present.

The top court had on January 7 sought the poll panel’s response on a PIL by a retired bureaucrat, a former army officer and a former diplomat seeking to increase the cross-verification of the VVPATs with EVMs from the current 10 per cent to 30 per cent for this year’s general elections.

In their plea, retired Indian Army Officer and former IAS officer M.G. Devasahayam, former Indian Foreign Service Officer K.P. Fabian and retired banker and All India Bank Officers Confederation General Secretary Thomas Franco Rajendra Dev had described as “manifestly arbitrary, irrational, unreasonable and, inter alia, in violation of Article 14” of the Constitution, the Election Commission’s decision to “confine such a crossverification exercise to a statistically insignificant number of approximately only one polling station in each constituency, regardless of the number of polling stations in such a constituency”. The PIL is still pending.

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(L-R) Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna. (File)

declaration of results in the general elections.

Earlier in February, the opposition parties approached the EC to audit at least 50 per cent of EVMs with corresponding VVPATs in all constituencies during the Lok Sabha polls.

The parties had said there are “serious doubts about the credibility of EVMs and the purity of the entire electoral process” and asked the EC to mandate physical countercheck of paper trail and match it with the electronic vote in at least 50 per cent of all EVMs, if not all. The 21 opposition party leaders had challenged the Election Commission’s decision to verify VVPAT of only one randomly selected booth of a constituency.

Speaking to media persons later, senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that verifying the VVPAT of just one randomly selected booth in a constituency would account for just 0.44 per cent of the votes polled and this would defeat the entire purpose of attaching VVPAT to EVMs for recording votes in printed form.

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DIMAPUR, Mar 15 (NPN): Meyer Direct franchise, global leaders in cookware, was launched in Dimapur on March 15 at Hotel Acacia.

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New Delhi, Mar 15 (PTI): Sluggish demand from local jewellers pulled down gold prices by Rs 260 to Rs 33,110 per 10 gram in the national capital on Friday, All India Sarafa Association said.

Traders said gold faltered as buying by local jewellers saw a dip, though a positive trend overseas capped the fall. In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity shed Rs 260 to Rs 33,110 and Rs 32,940 per 10 gram, respectively.

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T.C.Suseel Kumar has also taken charge as managing director of LIC. He was in-charge of south central zone, heading operations in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka States, since April 2016. Prior to this, he has served in various important capacities as executive director, Customer Relations Management and executive director, Bancassurance at Central Office, Mumbai.

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D i m a pu r , M a r 1 5 (NPN): M.R.Kumar has taken charge as chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on March 14. He was in-charge of north zone comprising of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan States and Union Territory of Chandigarh since April 2017. Earlier he has held other important positions as executive director, Pension & Group Schemes and executive director, Personnel at Central Office, Mumbai.

Besides north zone, he has also headed south zone at Chennai and north central

DIMAPUR, Mar 15 (NPN): State Bank of India (SBI) Friday launched “YONO Cash” facility here at SBI Dimapur main branch complex. The facility will enable its customers to withdraw cash from ATM machines without using an ATM/Debit card. The same has been launched at over 16,500 SBI ATMs across the country.

YONO Cash facility in Dimapur was inaugurated by Regional Manager, Dimapur, Paogin Haokip and AGM, SBI Dimapur Branch, Besii Bosco.

At present, 25 selected ATMs across Dimapur, Ko-

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lahabad Bank, Corporation Bank have already come out of the PCA. The non-PCA banks close to the threshold are Punjab National Bank, Union Bank, Syndicate Bank and Andhra Bank Banks that have exited PCA, but need to be helped to remain above the PCA triggers, are Bank of India and Bank of Maharashtra.

Central Bank, United Bank, UCO Bank and Indian Overseas Bank are the PCA banks requiring help to meet minimum regulatory capital norms.

With the February round, the government has so far pumped Rs 1.90 lakh crore into PSBs since it announced the recapitalisation plan in October 2017.

If capital is required between now and June, there is always the route of seeking Election Commission approval for it, the sources added.

gold fell by about 11 per cent to USD 2.58 billion in February as against USD 2.89 billion in the corresponding month last fiscal, inward shipments of petroleum products were down by nearly 8 per cent to USD 9.37 billion.

During the April-February period of the current fiscal year, exports grew 8.85 per cent to USD 298.47 billion, while imports rose by 9.75 per cent to USD 464 billion.

The trade deficit has widened to USD 165.52 billion during the 11 months of the current fiscal from USD 148.55 billion compared to the year-ago period, the data said.

Non-petroleum and non-gems and jewellery exports in February 2019 stood at USD 19.87 billion, as compared to USD 18.90 billion in year-ago month.

Non-petroleum and nongems and jewellery exports in April-February 2018-19 were USD 217.43 billion, as against USD 201.95 billion in the comparative period last fiscal.

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not provided money towards banks’ capital infusion in the 2019-20 interim Budget.

The sources said banks might need funds to support credit growth and they may have to raise capital from the market or wait for the full Budget in July.

In February, the gover nment approved Rs 48,239 crore recapitalisation bonds for 12 PSBs. The latest recap bonds broadly fall into four categories -- better-performing banks under the RBI’s Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework to deal with bad loans, non-PCA banks that are close to going under PCA, banks that have exited PCA, and PCA banks that need to meet minimum regulatory capital norms.

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New Delhi, Mar 15 (PTI): Marginal 2.44 per cent increase in exports as well as lower imports of gold and petroleum products in February significantly narrowed the country’s trade deficit to USD 9.6 billion, according to data released by the commerce ministry Friday.

India’s merchandise exports rose to USD 26.67 billion in February from USD 26.03 per cent in the year-ago month mainly on account of higher shipments in sectors such as pharmaceutical, engineering and electronics.

Imports declined by 5.4 per cent to USD 36.26 billion in the last month, narrowing the trade deficit to USD 9.6 billion. The gap between imports and exports was USD 12.3 billion in February 2018, and USD 14.73 billion in January 2019.

As per the data, the decline in imports was mainly on account of sharp decline in inward shipments of gold and petroleum products.

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New Delhi, Mar 15 (IANS): Public Sector Banks (PSBs) may raise capital themselves to meet regulatory and growth capital needs because there is unlikely to be any fresh bank recapitalisation till the next government takes over in June, official sources said on Friday.

Finance Ministry sources here also said the government has kept around Rs 5,000 crore as buffer for any last-minute contingency, for possible infusion into the merged entity of Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank.

In January, the government got Parliament nod for an additional Rs 41,000 crore to recapitalise public sector banks, over and above the already budgeted Rs 65,000 crore taking the total recapitalisation package for the current financial year to Rs 1,06,000 crore.

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Global students demand action on climate

Canberra, Mar 15 (IANS): Thousands of schoolchildren across the world, inspired by 16-yearold Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg who has been nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, abandoned their classrooms on Friday to demand action on climate change as part of a global youth campaign.

The protests in about 100 countries, including India, were a part of a movement started by Thunberg, who protests every Friday outside Sweden’s Parliament. Scientists say that tougher measures are needed to cut global warming, the Guardian reported.

In India, several students joined the “Fridays for Future” movement seeking action on climate change.

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by Greenpeace International on Twitter showed students in Delhi and Gurugram holding placards and posters urging action over climate change.

“We demand clean air, water and soils for our

Thousands of students demonstrate during a “Climate strike” protest in Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday. (AP/PTI)

safe future,” tweeted Greenpeace, sharing a photograph which shows a row of students in their uniforms holding placards with slogans against air pollution.

The Paris climate agreement of 2017 committed nearly 200 countries to keeping global temperatures “well below” 2.0 Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and to striving for a maximum of 1.5 Celsius.

At one of the largest protests, in Sydney, the protesters held up banners with slogans such as “The seas are rising and so are we”, “You’re burning our future” and “There is no planet B”.

The students ignored calls from authorities to stay in class.

A leader of the student movement, 15-yearold Vivienne Paduch, led

the crowd of protesters in a chance of “the youth are rising, no more compromising”.

“We really want everyone to know that the fight for climate justice and the fight for climate action really is a global fight and involves equity for everyone”, Paduch said.

Hundreds of school students gathered in Stockholm’s central square.

Thunberg joined the crowd in the Swedish capital and said: “We have been born into this world and we have to live with this crisis, and our children and our grandchildren.

“We are facing the greatest existential crisis humanity has ever faced.

And yet it has been ignored.

You who have ignored it know who you are.”

In New Zealand, Climate Change Minister James Shaw, who was assaulted on Thursday on his way to Parliament, came out in support for the strikers in Wellington, still sporting a black eye.

In London, thousands of schoolchildren poured into Parliament Square brandishing banners declaring “Coral not coal” and “Stop denying the earth is dying”.

The big crowd in central London on its way to Whitehall blocked traffic and chanted slogans.

Hundreds of children converged on the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh.

9 Boeing black box review begins in France PARIS/ADDIS ABABA, mar 15 (Agencies): Investigators in France on Friday examined the black boxes of a Boeing 737 MAX that crashed in Ethiopia, as a spooked global airline industry waited to see if the cause was similar to a disaster in Indonesia months before.

According to Reuters, Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed soon after takeoff from Addis Ababa last weekend, killing 157 people, the second such calamity involving Boeing’s flagship new model after a jet came down off Indonesia in October with 189 people on board.

In both cases, pilots asked to return minutes into flight.

The international repercussions are huge. Regulators have grounded the 737 MAX around the world, and the U.S. planemaker has halted next deliveries of the several thousand planes on order for a model intended to be the future industry workhorse.

‘Man who grabbed Mosque shooter, saved us all’: Survivor CHRISTCHURCH, Mar 15 (Agencies): Hours after a right-wing extremist killed 49 worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch, a survivor of Indian origin today recalled how the heroism of an unidentified man in their midst prevented the incident from turning into a much bigger tragedy.

“We were in a small mosque - measuring about a hundred square metres - and when you have a gunman coming in and opening fire in such circumstances, your heart beats faster and you can’t feel anything,” Faisal Sayed, who has been living in New Zealand for over 10 years, told NDTV. “But a friend and I witnessed this gentleman creep up behind the shooter and hold him until his gun dropped.”

Mr Sayed said the unidentified man’s heroic action left the shooter with little choice but to rush for the door. “If that hadn’t happened, many more would have died and I wouldn’t be here now. Hats off to that man; I will definitely try and

look him up,” he added.

The survivor said that the incident has left him with no ill-feelings towards his adoptive country, and reiterated his belief that New Zealand was one of the safest places in the world.

“I can’t speak for anybody else, but I have been in this beautiful country for the last 10 years and I don’t see my loved ones, my family or even my community facing any challenges. I will never be the one to pass judgment based on a single incident,” he explained.

So, did the thought of leaving New Zealand not cross his mind at all? “Not an option,” said Mr Sayed.

“I love New Zealand, I love the people around here, and I have received more calls from Kiwi families and friends than anybody else.

Even people I worked with over 10 years ago have been texting to find out if everything is alright.” According to the survivor, the need of the hour was to reassure affected families and ensure that the incident is not blown out of proportion.

UK MPs vote by majority to delay Brexit Over 371,000 Syrians killed in civil war: War monitor L o n d o n, M a r 1 5 (IANS): UK MPs have voted in favour of delaying the Brexit process by at least three months, acknowledging that more time was needed to break the deadlock over Britain’s departure from the European Union (EU), although a call for a second referendum was decisively rejected.

On Thursday night, the MPs voted 412 votes to 202 to approve of Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to delay Brexit, after the House of Commons earlier this week overwhelmingly rejected her withdrawal agreement by a large margin, for a second time, and then voted to reject a no-deal Brexit, CNN reported.

The votes were the last

in a series of vital parliamentary decisions on Brexit over several days, mean that Britain’s departure from the EU should not now take place before June 30 and gave May a window to resuscitate her plan.

May will now ask European leaders to grant an extension to Article 50, the mechanism taking the UK out of the EU on March 29.

Unless a delay is approved by all 27 remaining EU leaders, Britain is heading for a chaotic exit on March 29.

The MPs, earlier on Thursday, rejected an attempt to secure another Brexit referendum by 334 votes to 85, the BBC said. They also rejected a cross-party plan to allow MPs to take control of the Brexit process

North Korea may break off US talks: Top official Pyongyang, Mar 15 (IANS): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may break off denuclearisation talks with the US and resume missile and nuclear testing, a senior official here said on Friday.

Vice Foreign Minister Choe Sun-hui told foreign diplomats here that Washington threw away “a golden opportunity” at the Vietnam summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim, the BBC reported.

Choe accused the US of taking a “gangster-like” stance at the February summit which was held to discuss the regime’s denuclearisation process. Trump and Kim first met in Singapore last year. North Korea had earlier offered to dismantle its main Yongbyon nuclear complex. But talks collapsed

France freezes assets of JeM chief Paris, Mar 15 (IANS): The French government announced on Friday that it has decided to freeze the assets of Masood Azhar, the founder and leader of the Pakistan-based Jaish-eMohammed (JeM) terrorist group, a media report said.

A joint statement issued by the French Interior Ministry, Finance Ministry and Foreign Ministry said that France would also discuss putting Azhar on an European Union list of people suspected of being involved in terrorism, Reuters reported. Pakistan is under pressure from many countries to act against terrorist groups including the JeM, which claimed responsibility for the February 14 suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 40 CRPF personnel.

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after Trump refused to lift sanctions unless Pyongyang destroyed all its nuclear sites.

“We have no intention to yield to the US demands in any form, nor are we willing to engage in negotiations of this kind,” she told reporters in North Korea, according to Russian state Tass news agency.

Choe said that North Korea’s demand during the summit was for five key economic sanctions to be lifted, not all sanctions, as Trump said after talks broke down.

“What is clear is that the US has thrown away a golden opportunity this time. I’m not sure why the US came out with this different description. We never asked for the removal of sanctions in their entirety.”

to hold a series of votes on the next steps, by the narrow margin of two votes. Meanwhile, most MPs from the ruling Conservative Party voted against delaying Brexit - including seven cabinet members - meaning May had to rely on Labour and other opposition votes to get it through. But some opposition Labour frontbenchers resigned to defy party orders to abstain on a vote on holding another referendum.

Shadow housing minister Yvonne Fovargue, shadow education minister Emma Lewell-Buck, shadow business minister Justin Madders, Ruth Smeeth, a shadow ministerial aide, and Labour whip Stephanie Peacock, all resigned to oppose one.

L o n d o n, M a r 1 5 (IANS): More than 371,000 Syrians have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, a United Kingdom-based war monitor reported on Friday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) was able to document the 371,222 Syrian war dead, saying that the overall death toll may exceed 570,000 dead given the large numbers of foreign fighters involved in the conflict as well as 88,000 prisoners who were tortured to death in detention centres set up by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Of the officially recorded 371,222 dead,

An estimated 65,726 non-Syrians died in the fighting.

They were mainly from the Arab World but also included Afghans and Iranians belonging to radical armed groups, such as the Islamic State terror organization and the Levant Front, a Syrian rebel group.

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around 112,623 were civilians, 21,065 were minors and 13,173 were women, the monitor was cited as saying by Efe news.

The observatory said

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that 65,187 soldiers died to date fighting on behalf of the Assad regime, out of which an estimated total of 50,484 were of Syrian decent.

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“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mathew 11 : 28) Days will pass but we will forever remember you with silent tears.

Through this column, we the bereaved family of Late Loreni Patton express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual for the support and kind gestures shown to us through Prayers, Physically, Financially, Morally at the sad demise of our loving Mother, who left us for her heavenly abode on 9th March 2019.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone individually, we pray that may our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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We the bereaved family members of Lt. Rabenthung Patton express our profound gratitude to all who stood by us though prayers, donation and physical presence during the sad demise of our loving father.

We convey our special thanks to :1. Baptist Church, Old Riphyim 2. NEEPCO, DHEP 3. Medical Department, DHEP 4. Doctor, Englan PHC 5. Wokha Town Riphyim Union 6. NNC, Lotha Region 7. NNC, Old Riphyim 8. Deputy Chief Minister & Family 9. ‘D’ Khel Youth We regret our inability to mention and thank everyone individually but pray that Almighty God bless each one of you.

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BORN ON : 13th Dec 1970 – DIED ON: 26th Feb 2019 We the family of Late Zhazolie Zehol wish to acknowledge the many expressions of sympathy and gestures of kindness shown to us following our sad loss.

A special thank you to Rev. Khriezetuo Keretsii, Pastor Tsiepfutsiepfhe Christian Revival Church, AG Colony and his church members and Ngopelo Koza, Pastor Nagamese Fellowship, Lerie We offer our heartfelt thanks to the many friends, neighbours well-wishers and relatives who visited our home, attended the wake, service and burial and provided emotional and practical support for us.

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05.10.1925-10.03.2019 God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be So he put His arms around you and whispered, “Come to Me” With tearful eyes we watched you And saw you pass away And although we love you dearly We could not make you stay.

A golden heart stopped beating Hard working hands at rest.

God broke our hearts to prove to us He only takes the best.

We the bereaved family members of our dearest Mother and Grandmother Lt. Vichosale Kirha, with a heavy heart express our profound gratitude to one and all, who stood by us during her short illness and sudden demise on 10.03.2019. We would like to covey our special thanks to :1. Nagaland Christian Revival Church, P.R Hill, Kohima 2. Union Christian Revival Church, New Market Road 3. Soul Harvest for Christ Ministry, Dak lane Kohima 4. Counselling and Deliverance Ministry, New Market 5. Er. Kevisekho Kruse and Family 6. Mrs. Nino Iralu, Dist & Session Judge, Wokha 7. Ms. Swedezhano Tsükrü, Vice Principal, Mt. Olive College 8. Viwomi and Phemi Khel, Jakhama Village 9. Kirha Clan, Jakhama Village 10. Dak lane Women Organisation 11. Dak lane Social Youth Organisation 12. Dak lane Sector III 13. Women Society, Dak lane Sector III 14. 14th SAI Women Organisation We could not thank everyone individually, but it is our fervent prayers that may the Almighty God bless you and your family abundantly.

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estimated 4,500 kidnapped individuals taken by IS or the estimated 4,700 hostages taken from Assad regime and affiliated forces.

Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011 after the government clamped down on popular protests sweeping the region. It claimed the lives of roughly half a million people, according to the Syrian Centre for Policy and Research.

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in the form of brief three to four minute presentations.

A canvas with signatures of the participating artistes will be handed over to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

The participating artistes are: Alka Raghuvanshi, Arpita and Paramjit Singh, Aruna Vasudev, Bharati Shivaji, Dattatraya Apte, Geeta Chandran, Geetanjali Lal, Gopi Ga-

New Facebook technology to curb revenge porn

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o deal with the problem of non-consensual intimate images, often referred to as revenge porn, on its platform, Facebook on Friday announced new detection technology and an online support hub to help people respond when this abuse occurs.

Called “Not Without My Consent,” the resource hub will help victims find organisations and resources to support them, including steps they can take to remove the content from Facebook and prevent it from being shared further, Antigone Davis, Facebook’s Global Head of Safety, said in a statement.

“We’re also going to make it easier and more intuitive for victims to report

when their intimate images were shared on Facebook,” Davis said.

Facebook said it will also build a victim support toolkit to give people around the world more information with locally and culturally relevant support.

“By using machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can now proactively detect near nude images or videos that are shared without permission on Facebook and Instagram,” Davis said.

“This means we can find this content before anyone reports it, which is important for two reasons: often victims are afraid of retribution so they are reluctant to report the content themselves or are unaware the content has been shared,” he added.

A specially-trained member of Facebook’s Community Operations team will review the content found by its technology.

jwani, Kiran Segal, Lavlin Thadani, Madhavi Mudgal, Madhup Mudgal and Nalini-Kamalini Asthana.

The list also includes: Naresh Kapuria, Neeraj Gupta, Niren Sengupta, Prathibha Prahlad, Prerana Srimali, Raja-Radha Reddy, Ranjana Gauhar, Rashmi Vaidyalingam, Rita Ganguli, Sadhna Shrivastav, Saroja Vaidyanathan, Satish Gujral, Shanno Khurana, Sharon Lowen, Sonal Mansingh, Sunit Tandon, Sushma Seth, Uma Sharma, Vidya Shah and Wasifuddin Dagar.

Members of the art fraternity, art lovers and the public may pay their homage through their presence at the function, the 1992 Padma Shri recipient said.

Key members from the CRPF are also expected to attend the gathering, she added.

(IANS)

Now Johnny Depp accuses Google files Steven Spielberg may be patent for ‘Z-fold’ Heard of domestic abuse display technology ending his battle with Netflix

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Depp, who filed a $50 million defamation case against Heard earlier this month, denied Heard’s accusations of domestic abuse against him, claiming that she used to abuse him instead, reports nme.com.

In the counter-lawsuit, Depp has accused Heard of being a “perpetrator” of domestic abuse and alleged that she attacked him numerous times, including an incident where Heard “violently” threw a bottle of vodka at him which “severed (his) middle finger on his right hand and shattered the bones, causing him to require surgery”.

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to kind of co-ordinate a schedule so we’re able to service everyone as well.

So we really have to get it together so we can spend a little bit of time in each place so we can make the most of the record when it’s released. So we’re kind of in the process of putting that together, but, geez, I’d imagine it’d be out by the fall.”

Dexter also confirmed that The Offspring was without a record label and was looking into various options about how to make its new music available to the masses.

“We were on Sony ever since ‘Ixnay [On The Hombre]’ — and we finished out our contact,” he said. “We did, like, seven records for them. We’ve got to be the only band that’s ever finished out a record contract without being dropped by their record label. We didn’t get dropped, we just finished! But then we took a couple of years off because I wanted to go

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oogle has recently filed a patent which suggests that the search-engine giant could be interested in a “Z-fold” display technology that could bend in two different places without breaking.

The patent does not mention the word “phone” even once, instead it refers to how the display could be used by “modern computing devices” which could refer to tablets or laptops, The Verge reported on Thursday.

The search engine giant’s interest in foldable smartphones is being speculated to be more inclined towards the software aspect of their designs, because typically, Google does not produce displays or handsets on its own.

Hence it is also likely that Google licences the foldable screen out to a third-party rather than producing it by itself.

Google added support for foldable displays into Android in November.

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Tech bridging music boundaries for the blind

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eople across the world make music in one form or the other but for the visually impaired, the universal language of mankind is somewhat blurred from the very onset. Not anymore.

Moving beyond Braille music and by-ear lessons, technology has come to their rescue in couple of apps that are helping people who are either blind or with lowvision learn and make music anytime, anywhere.

There is, however, one technology that has left apps somewhere behind in the race: the new-age ‘haptic baton’ from British Paraorchestra, the world’s only large-scale ensemble for professional disabled musicians.

Most musicians read music and follow a conductor with their eyes, but visually impaired and blind musicians not only need to memorise scores, they also find a non-visual way of taking cues from a conductor.

The upbeat -- when the

conductor raises their baton to indicate the start of the piece or change of tempo -- is ‘sensed’ by blind musicians, perhaps by listening for an intake of breath or movement from the person next to them.

The haptic baton has a microchip inside that transmits wireless signals communicating the precise movements of the conductor to devices worn on the wrists or ankles of the musicians.

“The devices translate the signals into vibrations enabling the musicians to follow a conductor,” says Laura Evans from Paraorchestra.

For the first-time, the ensemble recently performed Beethoven’s fifth Symphony along with a new piece by a South Korean composer to an invited audience.

Paraorchestra partnered with Human Instru-

South Korean composer.

There are also some apps to help the visually challenged learn music.

TalkingTuner is an iOS app that talks to you if your instrument is in tune or not, so you don’t even have to look at it or touch the display.

With the “Auto-Speak” switch turned on, Talking Tuner will listen for a note to be played, and then, at the end of the sound, will speak the name of the musical note, and how sharp or flat the note is estimated to be.

Talking Tuner uses speech synthesis and works with or without VoiceOver being enabled.

Then there is Samsung Audio Acordes (Chords) which is a free Android app that teaches people with visual impairment to play the guitar in a practical and intuitive way.

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ollywood is buzzing that Steven Spielberg and Netflix are calling a truce in a public battle over the Oscars.

The iconic “Jaws” director — who’s reportedly been pushing for the Oscars to create guidelines that would keep streaming services from competing for Academy Awards — was spotted this week having dinner with Netflix honcho Ted Sarandos at LA’s most private members club.

Said a source of the sit-down at uber-exclusive San Vicente Bungalows, “This is being seen around town as a truce between two of the most powerful men in Hollywood who are not getting along.”

Spielberg has never publicly mentioned his stance on Netflix, but has previously said of streaming films and the Oscars, “I don’t believe films that are just given token qualifications in a couple of theaters for less than a week should qualify for the Academy Award nomination.”

Netflix’s “Roma” just won three Oscars, after a three-week run in theaters, and the service has a number of awards contenders lined up for next year, including Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.”

Spielberg is on the Academy Awards board of governors and was reportedly pushing for films to play theaters for a month before streaming.

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30th ANNIVERSARY OF TOGETHERNESS Mr. Mhonjan Yanthan, Mrs. Margaret Yanthan 16-03-1989

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back to school, but now it’s, like, ‘We’re back! Anybody want to sign us up?”

Last fall, guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman told Junkee that The Offspring has been “spending a bit of time in the studio” with producer Bob Rock, who also worked on the band’s last two albums.

“He’s great, man — we get along with him really well,” the guitarist said.

At the time of the Junkee interview, Noodles said that The Offspring had been contemplating releasing all of its new music on two separate albums.

“I think there’s a record’s worth in there, but we’re thinking that maybe the songs are just a little too different,” he said. “We know there’s a song or two on every record that comes out of left field for us, but it’s more than just a couple this time. Right now, we’re entertaining the idea of doing two records — one where we can put all of these, and another of straight-up Offspring songs.”

The Offspring debuted a new song called “It Won’t Get Better” live in concert last June and has been performing it ever since.

Noodles described the track as “kind of like a straight-forward Offspring song.”

The Offspring’s last single, “Coming For You”, dropped in 2015.

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ments, innovators of accessible musical instrument technology, to develop the haptic baton.

Kevin Satizabal, who is a pianist and a blind, had to sit close to the conductor and listen for their breathing to know when to begin.

“But if you’re in a big orchestra, and you’re miles from the conductor, that’s going to be really, really difficult information to pick up and this technology essentially plugs you into the conductor’s movements, which is really exciting,” he said in a statement posted on Paraorchestra’s website.

“It emulates what a sighted musician sees,” said conductor Charles Hazlewood who successfully trialled the technology with a dozen blind and sighted musicians at a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and a new work by a

(L-R) Steven Spielberg and Ted Sarandos.

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The Offspring hoping to release new album by the fall

alifornia rockers The Offspring are “98 percent finished” with their long-awaited tenth album, singer Dexter Holland has revealed. He told U.K.’s Kerrang! magazine about the long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s “Days Go By”: “It sounds like our old shit. That’s what I’m supposed to say, right?

I don’t really know how to describe it. I guess it’s punk rock, but then we throw in a couple of songs that aren’t what you’d normally predict. We have a lot of really fast stuff on there, plus a couple of things that you might not really expect from us. But I’m really really happy with it. It’s not completely finished, but it is 98 percent finished. So we’re trying to put together a plan to release it.

“We’re very lucky that we have fans in lots of different places — in Australia, in Japan, in Europe and the UK, of course,” he continued. “But what that means is that we have

Heard has also been accused of punching Depp while he was in bed, kicking him on numerous occasions and staging attacks.

Depp’s lawsuit calls Heard’s allegations of domestic violence against him a “hoax”.

“Unaware that members of Mr. Depp’s security team were mere feet away, Ms. Heard falsely began yelling, ‘Stop hitting me, Johnny’.

“The interaction culminated with Ms. Heard making false allegations that Mr. Depp struck her with a cell phone, hit her and destroyed the penthouse. There were multiple eyewitnesses to this hoax.”

Heard recently spoke about the allegations of domstic abuse against Depp in December 18, 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post.

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Wing Commander S. Akheto Jakhalu VSM

Hekani Jakhalu Kense

Hotoshe Sema

With immense pride and profound gratitude, on behalf of all the members of the Suruhuto Range Students' Union (SRSU), we congratulate the under mentioned persons for being awarded at the national level for their extra ordinary contribution in their respective fields and bringing laurels to Suruhuto Range in particular, Sumis and Nagas in general.

1. Wing Commander S. Akheto Jakhalu VSM on being conferred the Presidential Award "Vishist Seva Medal (VSM)" on 26th January 2019 by the President of India for dedication, extra ordinary contribution and recognition of his distinguished meritorious career of the highest order.

He was also earlier awarded the Vice Chief of Air Force commendation for his administrative acumen, leadership and commitment in 2012.

2. Mrs. Hekani Jakhalu Kense, founder of Youth Net Nagaland, being awarded the "Nari Purushkar Award", the highest civilian award for women in India by the President of India on "International Womens' Day" for promotion of livelihood activities, skill development and reaching out to more than 1 Lakh college/school dropout and unemployed youths. She was the lone recipient from North East. She was also awarded prestigious Brittworldwide (BWW) Parivartan India "Inspire award 2018-19" under the youth empowerment category on 4th March 2019.

3. Mr. Hotoshe Sema, a teacher by profession and social worker was honoured with "Bharat Excellence Award", "Leading Educationist of India Award" and "Jewel of North East Gold Award" at India International Centre, New Delhi on 24th Feb 2019 in recognition of his Ceaseless efforts put in for upliftment of the poor tribal students in particular and society in general in rural areas. In addition to National Teacher Award (2014) from the President of India, he had been a recipient of many awards at national level.

The Union prays that Almighty God continues to guide and bless them in their future endeavours.

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sing music, dance and arts, members of India’s classical artistes fraternity will pay their respects and homage to the 40 CRPF troopers who were killed in the February 14 suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

Kathak doyen and former civil servant Shovana Narayan is spearheading a gathering of over 30 artistes who will present brief tributes to the victims.

“As artistes, we must express our solidarity with the martyrs of Pulwama attack. We have collected 30-35 artistes together.

As a small humble gesture, some will sing, some will dance or recite poetry or just address the gathering,” Narayan told IANS. It will be held at the India International Centre (IIC) on Sunday evening.

The tributes will be

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The Women Department SBAK Nito Mount shares the joy and happiness and thereby recognises and profoundly acknowledge the SBAK Ordination Board for officially authorising the 19 male and 5 female Ministers on 13 th March, 2019 in the capacity of LICENSE Ministry and further conveys its heartiest congratulations to 5 female LICENSE Ministers who are serving in the capacity of : 1. Mrs. Hukheli, Lecturer, Trinity Theological College, Thahekhu, Dimapur 2. Dr. Botoholi, Asso Pastor Women, SBC (B), Mokokchung.

3. Dr. Niholi, Academic Dean, Nito Theological College, SBAK NM, Zunheboto.

4. Mrs. Visheli, Women Co-ordinator, SBAK Nito Mount, Zunheboto.

5. Mrs. Hokhuli, Asso. Pastor Women, Sheyipu Baptist Church, SBAK Nito Mount.

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Maitland-Niles to double the lead with a header.

Although Rennes hit the post early in the second period, they were mostly toothless and Aubameyang cemented the victory with another goal from close range after 72 minutes.

Arsenal became only the second team in Europa League history to win a tie after losing the first leg 3-1.

Chelsea’s French striker Giroud, the competition’s top scorer this season, got his seventh and eighth goals before Marcos Alonso tapped in a third just before halftime.

Giroud netted his third goal after 59 minutes when he headed home a Willian free kick and Callum Hudson-Odoi added a fifth to cap an 8-0 aggregate vic-

tory for the Premier League side.

The perfect hat-trick – goals with his left and right foot plus a header - was Giroud’s first for Chelsea and the win was the London club’s ninth in 10 European games this season and their biggest in the UEFA Cup or Europa League.

In the only tie between two former winners of the UEFA Cup, the predecessor to the Europa league, Eintracht stunned threetime champions Inter with a 1-0 victory that took them through.

Luka Jovic, the 21year-old striker on loan from Benfica, lobbed Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic after six minutes and the visitors held on to progress after a goalless first leg.

Ko h i m a , M a r 1 5 (NPN): The 1st Nagaland Premier Badminton League, organised by Nagaland Badminton Club under the aegis of Nagaland Badminton Association, will be held from April 24 to 26 at Indoor Stadium, Kohima.

A release from the club stated that the league system was aimed to promote badminton in the state and to set a platform for young upcoming talents as well as masters (above 35+) to get back into the game of badminton and to check their fitness level and share their experiences.

Teams will be divided into groups depending on team registration and the league format will be best of seven matches. The categories includes boys singles for Under-15 years, girls singles for U-17, boys doubles for U-19, men singles, mixed doubles (Men 40+ & Women 30+), 85+Men Doubles,

New Delhi, Mar 15 (IANS): The third Test between New Zealand and Bangladesh in Christchurch was called off on Friday after gunmen opened fire at two mosques in the city, with the police saying that there were “multiple fatalities”.

The decision was made

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ing a week later on April 16 and 17. Spurs will travel to the Etihad Stadium in the Premier League on April 20 meaning the two sides will play three times in the space

of ten or 11 days.

Liverpool’s quarterfinal against Porto will be a repeat of last year’s last-16 tie which Jurgen Klopp’s side won 5-0 on aggregate.

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This is to inform to all those who have land holding under its jurisdiction to get it registered with the village council on or before 20th March to 6th April 2019. Non-compliance with this notification; the village council will not be responsible if any dispute arises in future.

(PELHOUVILIE) (VILOTO ZHIMO) Chairman Secretary KUKIDOLONG VILLAGE COUNCIL KUKIDOLONG VILLAGE COUNCIL 8787486112 8119892437

Chishilimi Welfare Kohima conveys our heartiest congratulations to Dr. H. Hotokhu Chishi, son of Lt. Hokhuvi Chishi on being promoted to the post of Addl. Director under Health and Family Welfare Department.

Chishilimi Welfare Kohima wishes him the best and prays that the Almighty God grant him good health and guide him in his future endeavours.

Ghunato Achumi Secretary Chishilimi Welfare Kohima

after discussions between New Zealand Cricket (NZC) and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).

“Our heartfelt condolences go out to the families and friends of those affected by the shocking situation in Christchurch. A joint decision between NZC and the @BCBtigers has been made

to cancel the Hagley Oval Test. Again both teams and support staff groups are safe,” NZC said in a tweet.

The Bangladesh team had a narrow escape on Friday morning as they were in the vicinity of one of the two mosques where the shootings took place.

The players took to

D.P Yadav exhorted the students on the essence of a disciplined sportsperson.

A series of outdoor events were conducted during the meet. Red House emerged as the overall champion while Blue House as bagged the runners-up. In the march past competition, Blue

social media to inform fans and family that they were safe and also asked them to pray for the cricketers.

Senior batsman Tamim Iqbal tweeted: “Entire team got saved from active shooters!!! Frightening experience and please keep us in your prayers #christchurchMosqueAttack”

House and Yellow House contingents were placed in first and second position respectively.

On the last day, an exhibition women’s football match was played between teachers and students wherein the teachers won the match by 4-2 via tie break.

KILOMI(M) VILLAGE COUNCIL SUB-DIVISION- PUGHOBOTO DISTRICT- ZUNHEBOTO, NAGALAND

PRESS RELEASE With regard to uses of both KILOMI and MUDUTSUGHO as the name of our village, it may be clarified that KILOMI is the official name of the village whereas MUDUTSUGHO is using locally. It has brought about confusion at all levels. As a matter of fact, the village council has been applied for changing the nomenclature from KILOMI to MUDUTSUGHO but this case is not yet finalise. As such, it is felt necessary to clarify the position of official/unofficial name of the village. In this connection Village Council has convened public general meeting to deliberate issue on 9-2-2019 at village and unanimously resolved as under :1. That the official name of the Village as usual shall be KILOMI till the change of nomenclature on all official correspondences.

2. However, for the Non- Government organization (NGOs)/Civil Societies particularly, Hohos, Churches, Student bodies etc may be use as KILOMI (MUDUTSUGHO). This KILOMI (MUDUTSUGHO) can use locally because it is subjected to change the nomenclature sooner or later (BOSKHA SWU) Secretary

(N. PHUHOI SWU) Chairman

Test captain Mushfiqur Rahim wrote: “Alhamdulillah Allah save us today while shooting in Christchurch in the mosque... We r extremely lucky ...never want to see this things happen again.... pray for us.”

The shootings took place at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Masjid.

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Ko h i m a , M a r 1 5 (NPN): The annual sports meet of Royal Foundation School, Phek was held from March 12 to 15 under the theme “Believe and achieve.”

Vitsikolie Kehie, principal of the school formally declared the sports meet open while senior teacher

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Catalan giants winning on both occasions.

The draw means a return to Nou Camp for United Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who scored a stoppage-time winner in United’s Champions League final win over Bayern Munich in 1999.

United, initially drawn away, will play at home in the first leg to avoid a clash with City, who will host Spurs in their second leg.

The first legs of the quarter-final ties will take place on April 9 and 10, with the second legs com-

Players of Red House and Blue House before the football final match.

NZ-Bangladesh Test called off after Christchurch shootings

Tottenham face Man City in CL quarter-finals Nyon, Mar 15 (Agencies): Tottenham have been drawn against Manchester City in an all-English Champions League quarter-final tie, while Manchester United will face Barcelona.

In the other two ties, last season’s finalists Liverpool were drawn against Porto, while Real Madrid’s conquerors Ajax will face Juventus in a rematch of the 1973 and 1996 finals.

United and Barcelona have met twice in the final, in 2009 and 2011, with the

95+ Men Doubles. Team owners of the group will have to pay a registration fee of Rs 50,000 to NPBL (non refundable) for registration of teams, while player who wishes to take part in the league must register themselves with a nominal charge of Rs 200 to NPBL. The categorisation of the players include Alpha - international/national players, Beta- state player, gamma- district player and Omega- amateur player.

The total cash prize of the league is Rs 2,30,000 along with trophy and certificate for the winner and runner-up, player of the league and most promising player. Accommodation and food will be provided by the organiser. Interested players can download the enrolment forms by visiting https:// w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / groups/334585693835147 /?fref=nf (Nagaland Premier Badminton League)

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Arsenal players celebrate after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scores a goal during their Europa League match against Rennes at Emirates Stadium.

Nagaland Badminton League from April 24

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Arsenal, Chelsea reach Europa League quarters

L O N D O N, M a r 1 5 (Agencies): Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang struck twice as his side beat Stade Rennes 3-0 to reach the Europa League quarter-finals and join Chelsea, who earlier on Thursday thrashed Dynamo Kiev 5-0 with a hat-trick from Oliver Giroud. But Inter Milan went out after a 1-0 home loss to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Arsenal had lost the first leg 3-1 against Rennes in France but it took them just 15 minutes to swing the tie their way.

Their Gabon forward Aubameyang tapped home a cross from Aaron Ramsey with just five minutes on the clock and then turned provider 10 minutes later when he crossed for Ainsley

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2019

With immense pride and great honor, we the "Dimapur Longsai Ekhung" (D.L.E) conveys our heartiest congratulation to Er. Chonrothung Ezung on being promoted to the post of Executive Engineer.

The Ekhung extend its best wishes in his future endeavours.

Through this column, we the Shalom Children's Home Kiphire would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to Kiphire Battalion of Headquarters 5 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters Inspector General Assam Rifles (North) for conducting free medical check up and refreshments to the children of Shalom children's home on 9th March 2019. Our special thanks goes to 2 I/c, SMO, L. Singson and his colleagues. We will remain ever grateful for your generosity.

(TSUSU MARY) Superintendent, Shalom Children's Home Kiphire.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE GENERAL MANAGER DISTRICT INDUSTRIES CENTRE WOKHA : NAGALAND

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Dt, Wka the 11th March 2019

TRAINING ON RURAL ARTISAN PROGRAMME (RAP) Application are hereby invited form educated unemployed youth (male) for undergoing 9 (nine) months Sheet Metal training under Rural Artisan Programme (RAP) at District Industries Centre, Wokha. The required minimum education qualification must be class VIII pass. A monthly stipend of Rs. 500/- will be given. Applicants can apply through an application in a plain paper addressed to the General Manager, DIC Wokha.

Last date of submission of application will be 25th March, 2019 and oral interview will be held on 29th March, 2019.

Applicants are requested to bring their original documents at the time of interview. Training will commence from 1st April 2019. After completion of the training course certificate will be awarded to the trainees’ but no employment is guaranteed by the Department.

Sd/- Nchumbemo Patton WC-109 G.M, DIC, Wokha : Nagaland OFFICE OF THE

LANGKOK CITIZEN EMPLOYEES UNION DIST : KIPHIRE, NAGALAND

Ref. LCEU/F-1/2018-19

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Date : 14/03/2019

(T. YANGLIBA SANGTAM) President

(T. ASEPA SANGTAM) General Secretary

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The Langkok Citizen Employees Union (LCEU) take immense pride and honour to convey our heartiest congratulations to our esteemed members for their achievements in their respective fields.

1. Shri. C. Selikyü Sangtam on being promoted to Agri Officer, SDAO, Kiphire, Nagaland.

2. Sensei Thsathriba Sangtam, for achieving the prestigious “Referee B Certificate,” becoming the First Referee in KAI from Nagaland conducted by Karate Association of India under the Exam rules of World Karate Federation (WKF) 2019.

The Union further wishes them the best and pray that the Almighty God bless and guide them constantly in all their future endeavours.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL GOVT HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL DIMAPUR

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Acknowledgement The Principal, faculty members and the students of GHSS Dimapur appreciates the Rotary Club of Dimapur for organising teachers and students training programme on Menstrual Health Management and Hand Washing on the 13th of March 2019 at GHSS Dimapur Assembly Hall as a part of Water and Sanitation Hygiene in the schools District 3240 WinS Project in collaboration with Rotary Club of Walsall Saddlers District 1210, United Kingdom under the Rotary Foundation. Shri. Nelson Deb, President Bodhana NGO, Social Entrepreneurs, the Eco Hub Bokaghat, Assam as a resource person. The talk was quite enlightening and educative. The school look forward to have more of these kind of programmes in the near future.

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