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Mamata, Naidu on mission ‘Third Front’

NEW DELHI, MAR 28 (AGENCIES): Plans for a combined anti-BJP federal front gained momentum when West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met dissident BJP leaders including UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to take forward her idea of a “united opposition”, to “eradicate BJP politically” from the country while on the other hand, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu also planned to meet opposition leaders in the coming week ahead.

Banerjee, who has been meeting leaders of various opposition parties and some allies of the ruling BJP here, Wednesday held discussions with Arun Shourie, a former Union minister in the NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After the meeting, Shourie, who has been critical of the Modi government, said Mamata’s theory of putting up a oneon-one fight against the BJP in every state was the right path to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“If the one-on-one formula is implemented, the opposition will be able to

Fiscal Deficit Figure

Zeliang seeks directive from speaker to CM

DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): Leader of Opposition (LoP) TR Zeliang has urged NLA speaker Vikho-o Yhoshü to direct chief minister Neiphiu Rio to reconcile the accurate fiscal deficit figure at the earliest and bring it to the notice of all legislators and people of the State in order to clear the cloud on the issue and maintain accountability and transparency.

In a letter to the speaker, Zeliang referred to budget discussion of March 26 on point of order where he asked Rio to furnish the correct reconciled fiscal deficit figure as on March 31, 2014.

Stating that it was most unfortunate the budget for 2018-19 was passed without furnishing fiscal deficit figure and clarification, LoP claimed that the deficit figure mentioned in Governor’s address was only a projected amount and not a confirmed figure of 2013-14 from RBI. The letter added that the speaker’s observation on the contradictory statement given by leader of the House on the subject had only created confusion in the minds of members of both the treasury and opposition benches.

This is it!

“Forget about cabinet berth and portfolios; those alliance members also want posts.”

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it,” Mamata said elaborating on her idea of a federal formation of parties to counter BJP. Mamata said she told Sonia that “BJP should be politically finished from the country. Other than vendetta politics, BJP has done nothing.”

Mamata Baneejee (File)

Chandrababu Naidu (File)

corner 69 per cent of votes,” Shourie said.

Though Yashwant Sinha did not clarify on whether he or Shatrughan Sinha would join a united force against the BJP, he said, “Mamata is our old cabinet colleague. Her personality is known to everyone. The role she has taken to save the country is appreciable.

In future also, we will support her.”

During her meeting, Mamata told Sonia Gandhi that Congress should cooperate in allowing each of the regional parties to fight BJP in 2019 in their respective strongholds.

After a half-hour meeting with Sonia at her 10, Janpath residence, Mamata told the media that she

discussed the “political situation in the country” with Gandhi with whom she has “always had a good relationship and will continue to have a good relationship.”

The TMC chief also said that Sonia had been unwell but she has fully recovered now.

Mamata said she informed Sonia about her interactions with a host of other party leaders on Tuesday and that they all agreed that the fight against BJP will have to be fought together.

“We have discussed this issue (each party fighting in their stronghold) and I said that all state regional parties should form a united conclave and Congress should be a strong part of

Naidu to meet Opposition leaders

After Mamata Banerjee’s round of hobnobbing with opposition party leaders in Delhi, it will be the turn of Telegu Desam Party (TDP) leader and Andhra Pradesh chief minister, N Chandrababu Naidu’s to connect with the opposition group next week.

On his first visit to the national capital after parting ways with the ruling NDA two weeks ago, Chandrababu Naidu will be in Delhi on April 2 and 3, essentially to meet with leaders of different parties belonging to the opposition camp and share the anti-BJP platform in preparation for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and also the assembly polls in his state that coincides with it.

Naidu hopes to gather

support for the ruling TDP in Andhra Pradesh and win the perception war over the BJP which has blamed his government for the failures in the newly formed state.

The Andhra CM has accused the Narendra Modi government at the Centre of betrayal. On this count, Naidu’s attacks have perceptibly gone up after BJP chief Amit Shah wrote a scathing letter to the TDP chief blaming him for the breakup.

Having failed to raise the no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha so far, Naidu hopes to communicate at the national level his woes and his allegations against the BJP-ruled Centre and open up negotiations for new alignments for 2019.

Chandrababu Naidu, it is learnt, has been in regular touch with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, since he left the NDA. Naidu said at the A n d h r a a s s e m b ly o n Wednesday, “I will go to Delhi. I will garner support from all parties and fight for justice. Will seek their support and cooperation for our rightful demands.”

KVC objects move to rename IG stadium ENCSU makes final plea for SIT report on PMS

DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): Reacting to the cabinet’s decision to rename Indira Gandhi (IG) Stadium in Kohima to Dr. T. Ao Stadium, the Kohima Village Council (KVC), Wednesday asserted that the government must maintain the status quo with regard to IG Stadium.

In a press release, KVC chairman, Dr. Neiphi Kire, and secretary, Zeneizo Rutsa, said they were delighted to observe that games and sports were finally getting the recognition and attention it deserved. They also said it was encouraging to see that the new government was bringing positive changes in the fields of games and sports by introducing a New Nagaland Sports policy, Dr. T. Ao Football Academy etc.

However, the KVC opined that changing the name of Indira Gandhi Stadium to Dr. T. Ao Stadium was not advisable, because there were other ways to honour someone without dishonouring the other. After all, KVC said late Indira Gandhi was the former Prime Minister of India.

Further, the council also pointed out that the foundation stone of the stadium was laid

by Rajiv Gandhi, Former Prime Minister of India, on October 6, 1987. Besides, KVC said the inauguration of IG Stadium was done on October 28, 2003 by none other than Atal Behari Vajpayee, another Prime Minister of India.

The Foundation stone, Inaugural Stone are laid prominently at the entrance of the gallery for all to see, said KVC, adding that to destroy these historical monoliths physically was not a wise decision.

“Therefore we are surprised that the Government has suddenly decided to do away with the legacy of these former Prime Ministers without consultation with the stake holders, landowners and public leaders,” KVC said.

Meanwhile, the council expressed its opinion that if at all the government wished to honour late Dr. T. Ao, then it should establish a new stadium altogether elsewhere and not show disrespect to the country’s prime ministers.

DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): Eastern Nagaland College Students’ Union (ENCSU), which has been asking the state government to disclose the SIT report on misuse of Post Matriculation Scholarship (PMS) funds, Wednesday made a final peal to the state government to release the report. SIT constituted to probe into the alleged misuse of PMS fund had submitted its report to the state government through the chief secretary on January 31, 2018. In a press release, ENCU president, M Longre Chang, and general secretary, WanGnei C Jessuhu, cautioned that the union was “ever ready” to lock the gate of directorate of higher education in the event the government failed to respond immediately.

In this regard, ENCSU has informed all the students to remain mentally and physically prepared “to fight for our right...”

The union asserted that there was no reason for setting up SIT or any other investigation team if its report was to be kept confined. Affirming that it was standing firmly to protect the interest of the student community, the ENCSU also reminded the former chief minister, former chief secretary and former secretary higher & technical education to remain in touch with the issue till it came to a close.

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Centre slashes tribal scheme budget to Rs 1 cr from Rs 200 cr NEW DELHI, MAR 28 (IANS): Allocation for a Centrally-sponsored tribal welfare scheme launched in 2014 has come down to a mere Rs 1 crore in 201617 from Rs 200 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 100 crore in 2014-15, according to an RTI reply that also indicates that the lion’s share of the allocations went to BJP-ruled tribal states while Congressruled states were ignored.

Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY) was launched in 2014 by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs for overall development of the country’s estimated 60 million tribal population.

It was included as a Central Sector Scheme in the ministry’s annual plan with an initial allocation of Rs 100 crore for 2014-15.

However, the then Congress-ruled states of Meghalaya, Manipur (both predominantly tribal states), Congress-ruled Karnataka and Uttarakhand (which then had a Cong-led govt) did not feature in the list provided by the ministry.

Among the NDA-ruled states that did not feature in the list are Goa, Haryana

and Punjab (then ruled by SAD-BJP alliance). The last two don’t have any tribal population.

Andhra Pradesh received Rs 10 crore in 201415 and Rs 5 crore in 201516. Arunachal Pradesh got not even a penny in 2014-15 while in 2015-16 it got Rs 6 crore.

Other northeaster n states like Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura -- all of which have substantial tribal populations -- received no funds in 201415. However, in 2015-16, Mizoram got Rs 4.95 crore, Nagaland received Rs 7.66 crore, Sikkim Rs 3.82 crore and Tripura Rs 6.13 crore.

Tamil Nadu, UP and West Bengal received no funds under the scheme in 2014-15. However, in 201516, Tamil Nadu received Rs 7 crore, UP Rs 2 crore and West Bengal Rs 2.45 crore.

Assam and Bihar too did not receive any amount in 2014-15, while in 201516, they got Rs 8.52 crore and Rs. 7.6 crore, respectively.

BJP-ruled states got lion’s share under VKY. Chhattisgarh, Guja-

SSA teachers demand release of pending salary

RNPO welcomes NSCN (I-M)’s recognition of three tribes

DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): Nagaland SSA Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) has demanded immediate release of the pending salary to SSA teachers.

In an open letter to chief minister, school education minister, school education director and SSA director on Wednesday, NSSATA called for adherence to the government’s letter of November 2016 that assured regular payments of monthly salaries to SSA teachers. The teachers should not be made to beg for their hard-earned “paltry salary” and instead be enthusiastically teaching in schools, it added.

While acknowledging various welfare activities being initiated by the present government, NSSATA said it was constrained to write the open letter appealing for (Cont’d on p-11)

DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): Rongmei Naga Pe o p l e ’s O r g a n i s a t i o n (RNPO), the apex body of Rongmei people living in the three States of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland, has expressed its heartfelt gratitude to NSCN (I-M) for recognising Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei as separate tribal communities at the recently-held Tatar Hoho assembly.

The organisation said clubbing of these tribes together as a single tribe with the nomenclature Zeliangrong for so long had created confusion and had also suppressed their right to assert their separate identities.

In a press release, RNPO also termed as baseless the claims of certain Zeliangrong organisations that the Tatar Hoho’s decision was taken without

rat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan were allocated Rs 10 crore each in 2014-15.

In 2015-16, Chhattisgarh received Rs 13.84 crore, Gujarat got Rs 17.23 crore, Jharkhand Rs 13.44 crore, Madhya Pradesh Rs 19.09 crore, Maharashtra’s share was Rs 14 crore and Rajasthan got Rs 10.46 crore.

On the other hand, Himachal Pradesh was allocated Rs 10 crore in 2014-15 while it received a zero sum in 2015-16.

Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala too did not receive any amount in 201415. In 2015-16, J&K and Kerala got Rs 5 crore and Rs 3 crore lakh, respectively.

Odisha got Rs 10 crore in 2014-15 and Rs 16.50 crore in 2015-16. Telangana, meanwhile, got Rs 10 crore in 2014-15 and in 2015-16, it was allocated Rs 42.7 crore.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi had attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi before the Gujarat election last year and asked: “Where did the Rs 55,000 crore meant for the Vanbandhu scheme go?”

people’s prior consultation and rubbished their appeal for revocation of the decision. The organisation pointed out that the decision was taken up after a series of meetings and discussions at the joint council meeting of Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei tribes at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur on September 22, 2015.

Referring to resolution no. 2 that clearly stated that Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei would represent themselves as distinct tribes in all apex Naga civil society organisations, the release added that RNPO had also made a declaration to this effect at the Rongmei people’s convention at Tamenglong on January 9 this year.

Hence, the claim that the tribes concerned were not consulted made no sense, it added.

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NITI launches ranking of ‘aspirational’ 101 dists NPA asks govt to enhance Deadline for linking accreditation of journalists Aadhaar with welfare

NEW DELHI, MAR 28 (PTI): NITI Aayog has come up with a mechanism under which 101 most underdeveloped districts (including Kiphire district) of the country termed as ‘aspirational’ would be competing with each other in terms of performance and they will be ranked on 49 indicators based on various data points.

The 49 indicators on 81 data points will cover five development areas of health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion and skill development and basic infrastructure.

From the beginning of next fiscal year from April 1, this real-time data collection and monitoring will be open for public viewing.

India cannot grow at a high rate on a long run until these districts catch up, whatever high are the GDP number, it has no meaning until the benefit of growth percolates down to very basic level, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said while an-

nouncing the launch of ranking for the “Aspirational Districts’.

The ranking of districts follows the launch of ‘Transformation of Aspirational Districts’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January with an aim to quickly and effectively transform some of the most underdeveloped districts in the country.

This will converge the central and state schemes, collaborate central, state and district collectors to strengthen these districts by identifying the lowhanging fruits for immediate improvement, measure progress and then rank the district by getting the data on a real-time basis.

All the states -- except West Bengal and Kerala -- are on board in this ranking initiative; however, these states are expected to join soon, Kant said.

As per the baseline ranking, Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh is ranked highest with score of 48.13 per cent while Mewat in Haryana tails at the

end with 26.02 per cent.

Among others, Asifabad (Telengana), Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh), Kiphire (Nagaland), Shrawasti, Siddarthnagar and Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh), Namsai (Arunachal Pradesh), Sukma (Chattisgarh) are ranked at bottom of the list.

While on top of the list among others include Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh), Osmanabad (Maharashtra), Cuddapah (Andhra Pradesh), R a m a n a t h a p u r a m ( Ta m i l Nadu), Udham Singh Nagar (Uttarakhand), Mahasamund (Chhattisgarh), Khammam (Telangana), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh).

N I T I A ayo g a n d t h e Andhra Pradesh government have created a dashboard for monitoring the real-time progress of the districts.

From April 1, these 101 districts will start entering data and from May onwards, they will be ranked based on progress made (delta ranking) on a realtime basis.

DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): Nagaland Press Association (NPA) Wednesday urged the state government to enhance the number of accredited journalists and also notify the enhancement of the operational subsidy of the accredited journalists.

In a press release, NPA said this was resolved at a coordination meeting with the press clubs of Dimapur, Kohima and Mokokchung on March 28, 2018 at Press Point, Dimapur. The meeting deliberated various issues confronting the press fraternity and stressed on strengthening the association with the inclusion of more working journalists from the state.

They also demanded that the government soon convene a meeting of the accreditation committee and clear the pending applications at the earliest so

journalists were benefited.

It further demanded the gover nment implement Pension and Health Schemes for the Working Journalists in consonance with the schemes being implemented in other states of the country.

Meanwhile, the NPA said that its membership drive would begin from April 1 to June 30, 2018. It stated that journalists working in the state with one year experience were eligible for membership.

NPA requested press clubs of Dimapur, Kohima and Mokokchung to encourage its members to join the association. For membership forms, working journalists in Kohima, Mokokchung and Dimapur can contact their respective press clubs while journalists from other districts can contact NPA.

schemes extended

NEW DELHI, MAR 28 (PTI): Centre on Wednesday extended by three months to June 30 the deadline for linking of Aadhaar with welfare schemes, where the benefits are funded from the Consolidated Fund of India. The earlier deadline for the same was March 31, 2018.

The Ministry of Electronics and IT, in an office memorandum, informed about the extension of the stipulated date for the linkage to June 30. The deadline for linking bank accounts and mobile phone numbers with Aadhaar has already been extended indefinitely, till the five-judge constitution bench delivers its judgement on petitions challenging the validity of the biometric scheme and its enabling law.

Sources familiar with the development said that while there is a threemonth breather for linking of the 12-digit biometric identifier with welfare schemes (that include PDS, MGNREGA and pension schemes amongst others), availing of the benefits will require either Aadhaar number, enrollment slip or request for Aadhaar enrolment after March 31.

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KVK Kohima conducts trainingcum-awareness programme

BSI Dmu exceeds collection target

DIMAPUR: The Bible Society of India (BSI) Dimapur auxiliary has extended gratitude to associations, churches, denominations, organizations, families, individuals, 788 regular donors, 45 BSI branches, 461 patron members, members of different categories, auxiliary committee members, different sub-committee members for their contribution and support to its ministry.

In a press note senior auxiliary secretary Rev. Dr. Z. K. Rochill said Bible Society of India Dimapur auxiliary could raise Rs.86,71,025 crossing the target of Rs.68,00,000 given by BSI head office Resource person, officials and participants of the training-cum-awareness and sensitization Bangalore. programme.

DIMAPUR: A trainingcum-awareness and sensitization programme on “Protection Of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act” was organized by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Kohima on March 27, sponsored by Protection & Plant Varieties and Farmers Authority, New Delhi.

A press release from KVK Kohima, senior scientist and head, Dr. V. Akashe Zhimomi stated that Dr. Manoj Sachan, ACTO (PB&G) KVK Mon, when speaking as the resource person, highlighted the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Geographical Indication (GI) and

Plants Gene Bank. He further encouraged individual farmers, community members and groups to register their crops as it protected the identity of the crops.

Bendang Aier AGM & DDM (NABARD), in his short speech, also spoke about registering the different varieties of crops

news in Brief DC & DEO Dmu informs: Deputy Commissioner (DC) & District Election Officer (DEO) Dimapur, Sushil Kumar Patel has informed all concerned that a meeting will be held with Expenditure Observers on March 31, 11 a.m. at the conference hall of DC Dimapur. All the candidates/election agents of I-Dimapur I, 2-Dimapur II, 3-Dimapur III, 4-Ghaspani I & 5-Ghaspani II under Dimapur district have been asked to attend the meeting.

PRC, Delhi designated NO: Principal Resident Commissioner, Nagaland House, New Delhi, Jyoti Kalash, has been designated as the nodal officer to pre-authenticate documents (personal and educational) originating from the State of Nagaland, (DIPR) AND & DGDU inform members: All Nagaland Directorate and District govt. Drivers’ union (AND & DGDU) has informed its members, on membership fee collection of Rs. 200 for the year 2017-18, that all the executive members, vehicle inspectors and head drivers are requested to submit their membership fee to the finance secretary on or before May 10 along with two copies of members’ name list. President AND & DGDU C.K Longchar and finance secretary AND & DGDU Indra Bhadur Dorjee said that there will be an audit report in the first week of June 2018.

Principal AG (A&E) informs: Office of the principal accountant general (AG) A&E has informed all head of departments that in pursuance to the finance department order dated March 14, to expedite the settlement of GPF final payment claims, the

manual system of collection and submission of confirmation of GPF final payment cases will be replaced by online GPF confirmation system.

The Office of the principal accountant general (A&E) will seek confirmation by sending the list of retirees to the email addresses of the head of departments for confirmation. Head of departments are directed to reply electronically to agaenagaland@cag. gov.in with a copy duly endorsed to the finance department. All head of departments have been informed that the new system will be implemented w.e.f April 1. All HODs are requested to furnish their email IDs at the earliest.

BJP Dimapur district unit coordination meeting held: BJP Dimapur district unit held a coordination meeting with its morchas, frontals and mandals on March 27 at its district office, wherein reports, reviews and inputs were collected from all its constituent wings regarding the recently concluded 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly 2018. The meeting was chaired by L. Bendang Ao president Dimapur district.

KPA informs: Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu (KPA) has informed all concerned that form filling for ODD semester (I,III,V) compartmental examination scheduled to be held on May 2018 will commence from April 9 to 12 during office hours, 9 a.m- 4 p.m). Students have been directed to submit a photocopy of their last examination mark sheet while filling the forms. Forms will not be accepted or entertained in any manner after the last notified date.

saying that Farmers Club could contribute towards this end.

Ninty-nine farmers from 10 villages participated in the programme which was chaired by Dr. V. Akashe Zhimomi, while the vote of thanks was delivered by Khekali Sema ACTO KVK Kohima.

IMFL, drugs worth Rs. 12 lakhs destroyed DIMAPUR: Seized IMFL and drugs worth around Rs. 12 lakh were destroyed at the premises of the Commissioner of excise here on Wednesday.

The seizures were made by excise mobile squads during the month of February, 2018.

According to superintendent of excise mobile squad, Dimapur, Kahoto Sumi, the seized items were: 7207 bottles of assorted liquor, 711 litres of country of liquor and 1500 capsules of spasmoproxyvon. Kahoto said 92 persons were arrested in this connection and a fine amount of Rs. 92,000 had been realized from the offenders.

Kohima combined Easter sunrise service

DIMAPUR: Kohima combined Easter sunrise service organized by Kohima Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship (KBPF) will be held on April 1, 5 a.m at Kohima war cemetery with president KBPF, Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao as the speaker.

KO H I M A , M A R 2 8 (NPN): In order to maintain a hygienic and healthy environment, a burning site and garbage disposal was inaugurated by chief guest, Botsa Baptist Church Pastor, Rev. Rudilhou Rio, initiated by Dieze Khel Botsa, at Botsa village on K

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dress, said such an initiative by Dieze Khel was appreciated and other places should should emulate the initiative. Stating that unity is essential to development, he urged the Khel members and villagers to stand together to bring positive changes to the village.

Stressing the importance of sanitation, he reminded the

Zhaleo Rio addresses party leaders on March 28.

DIMAPUR: The newly elected deputy speaker of the NLA, Zhaleo Rio, who visited his party office at Medziphema on March 28, said that it was time for positive action and constructive encouragement from all corners in order to bring about change in the state.

A press release from NDPP 5 Ghaspani-II A/C press secretary, Thejangukho Yalietsu stated that, while addressing party

leaders, Rio also briefed them on the different stages in forming the PDA government.

While thanking all rank and file of the party and the public for their commitment in his favour, Rio, who is the MLA of 5 Ghaspani-II A/C, acknowledged all the MLAs who have been instrumental towards the installation of the PDA government in Nagaland.

He stated that some

candidates may be rescuers but he considered himself a “saviour” who had sacrificed for the welfare of the government, representing the people of 5 Ghaspani-II A/C. He pledged to give his utmost for the constituency as also the Nagas while requesting for people’s prayers and support.

He urged people to leave aside all differences to build “Naganess” which could be possible through unity, constructive criticism and consideration of characteristic aspects that forge people together in the society.

Miathou Krose, chairman, NHHDC, who also addressed the gathering, expressed confidence that he would be able to deliver the goods with constant support and guidance from the public leaders, government officials and Zhaleo Rio. The prog ram was chaired by Duosau Kuotsu, president, 5 Ghaspani-II A/C.

DIMAPUR Jain organisations will be celebrating the 2617th birth anniversary of their 24th Lord Mahavira across the globe on March 29.

A press release issued

by S.D. Jain Samaj Dimapur executive member, Ajay Sethi stated that live and let live was the primary motto of Lord Mahavira which will be reflected in the afternoon procession beginning and culminating at Jain Temple after passing through Jain Temple road-Ram Janaki road- G.S. road- MP roadNyamo Lotha road- GS road-Kalibari road between 1 to 3 p.m.

Various Digambar Jain organisations viz, Jain Samaj, Mahila Samaj, Jivan Jyoti, Sanmati Mahila Parishad, Jain Ahinsa Samiti,

Officials and members of Jain organisations on their visit to Deaf Biblical Ministry.

Namokar Yuva Mandal and Jain Yuvak Sangh together visited District Hospital, Blind School and Deaf Biblical Ministry to distribute fruits, juices and edibles.

Many programs are be-

ing organised at Dimapur’s Jain Temple, Mahavir Bhawan and Jain School such as cultural show by Veer Kanya Manch, Namokar chanting, morning procession, showering of Lord Mahavira for World Peace,

afternoon procession and feast.

It regretted the inconveniences to commuters during the procession and further wished that the year brings peace and prosperity in Nagaland.

MALT undertakes road repairs at Mangkolemba DIMAPUR: Mangkolemba Ao Lanur Telongjem (MALT), on March 24, undertook the task of repairing the much neglected approach road to the cemetery at Mangkolemba, stretching around 400 meters from Mangkolemba to Longnak road. A press release by MALT president, Tia Jamir and general secretary, Sentimeren Imchen stated that the said road becomes

Rev. Rudilhou Rio along with village leaders and others stand in front of the burning and disposal site after its inauguration on Wednesday (NP).

Wednesday, some 37 kms away from the state capital under Kohima district.

Dustbins were also distributed among all the shops in the area. The burning site is few kilometres away from the village, uniquely made and designed with cement walls and iron bars on the floor for lasting use.

Rev. Rio, in his ad-

Deputy speaker calls for unity and constructive criticism

Jains to celebrate birth anniversary of Mahavira

muddy and inaccessible for vehicles during the monsoon season. Around 150 MALT volunteers dug up side drains and laid stones along the road as part of their annual social work. The volunteers also cleaned the cemetery by cutting and trimming trees and shrubs. MALT also expressed its gratitude to individuals and groups for their help and donations during the social work.

Garbage burning & disposal site inaugurated at Botsa

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gathering that cleanliness is next to Godliness. The Revered appealed business people to cooperate with the village in keeping the town and its area clean for a healthy living environment. He also suggested that the area people remind travellers to not litter.

Secretary Dieze Khel Botsa, Ruokuolhoulie

Zumu in his secretarial report, said that the fund for this initiative was raised through wage and manual works. He informed the gathering that the colony people organized sanitation drives every 2nd Saturday. According to Zumu, 15 quick response team members were set up at the colony to oversee the colony affairs including sanitation. While urging the business community to cooperate in maintaining cleanliness in the town, he suggested that action be initiated against defaulters.

Chairman Sishunyu Village Council, Joel Kath, in his address, appealed to the gathering and people of the area to set a good example by keeping the village clean and making it popular for its cleanliness.

Chairman Botsa village council Zhahelie Rio also addressed the gathering.

The programme was led by Ruokuobeilie Zumu, the invocation prayer said

by Medokrei-ii Sanchu while a vote of thanks was proposed by Neizo Zumu, GB Dieze Khel Botsa.

The Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) Dimapur district branch donated mosquito nets, rice etc. on March 24 to the fire victims of Y. Zhimo Colony, Signal Bazar, Dimapur. Chairman Chandu Agarwal, Kuldeep Jain and honorary secretary K K Paul were present on the occasion besides other Red Cross members.

New NBDA chairman felicitated

The new NBDA chairman, Visasolie Lhoungu with officials and staff.

D I M A P U R : Vi s a s o l i e Lhoungu, president, BJP Nagaland and the new chairman of Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA) was felicitated at a formal fuction on March 26.

According to state secretary, BJP Nagaland, K Thong, while welcoming the new chairman, leader of NBDA, Peter Lichamo highlighted the various activities and programs being undertaken by the agency.

He stated that the govern-

ment has a new structural policy for the bamboo mission. He was hopeful that with the new chairman, many new ventures may be opened and taken up.

Speaking at the programme, Visasolie Lhoungu stated that he was happy to be working with experienced officers and statff of NDBA and that they should have confidence with each other to work together as a team. Stating that he would fully cooperate with officers and staff he said he would

expect the same from them.

Lhoungu added that he would take care of the needs of the agency.

The officers and staff showed him various units and activities being taken up by the agency. The new NDBA chairman was accompanied by a number of state BJP and frontal office bearers.

BJP Nagaland also wished NDBA and its new chairman the best in its venture to further promote the agency’s objectives.

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Atoizu Tokukujo GBs meeting Dimapur: An emergency meeting for all the GBs of Atoizu Tokukujo GBs will be held on April 4, 10 a.m at GBs hall Atoizu town.

This was stated in a notification from its General Secretary David Chishi.

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Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu dedicating the new office building. (NP)

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): The newly constr ucted Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) office -cum-commercial building was inaugurated at Nyamo Lotha road, Dimapur on Wednesday, after a dedicatory prayer and unveiling of the monolith by senior pastor Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church, Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu.

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NCD general secretary, Thsapongkyu Sangtam, who presented a brief report on the building, said that the total cost of the project was Rs. 2.26 crores.

The foundation stone was laid on October 17, 2016.

He said that the project for the Naga Council office building was necessitated taking into consideration the expiry of the old building’s life span and safety concerns. The report

mentioned that the old building was dismantled under advisement from expert technical housing engineers.

T h e r e a f t e r, N a g a Council Building Project was initiated in 2006 and a comprehensive project proposal for the construction was submitted to HUDCO, with the state government as the guarantor. However, the project proposal was rejected by HUDCO, the

report said.

Later, the project was revived IN 2015 under the present NCD president T. Bangerloba and executive members. The building project was finally approved by the “general councillor” at the meeting held on June 16, 2016 and after preparing a detailed project report, the work was allotted to M/S. D.P. Angami and Sons on October 8, 2016, the report said.

At the dedicatory programme held at the Naga Council conference hall, short speeches were delivered by NCD president T. Bangerloba, Lotha Hoho Dimapur chairman, Etsungmomo Kikon, Western Chakhesang Hoho Dimapur president, Vekhosayi Nyekha and ENPUD president, Ongbo Chang.

The programme was chaired by NCD vice president (admn) K. Ghokheto Chophy.

LCD conducts orientation programme at SDJHSS

Leo Club members with students during their visit to S. D. Jain Higher Secondary School.

DIMAPUR: Leo Club of Dimapur (LCD) conducted an orientation program at S. D. Jain Higher Secondary School (SDJHSS) on March 28.

A press release by PRO LCD, Ankit Paharia

stated that programme was conducted to make students students, staff (teaching and non-teaching) aware on how to save water and electricity.

O t h e r s w h o we r e present on the occa-

sion included district theme chairman Rishab Chhabra, club chairman Vishal Pareek, Sheetal Sethi, president of Leo Club of Dimapur and Reji Abraham principal of SDJHSS.

173 BN CRPF inaugurates Chief Secretary to hold meeting on basic amenities for commuters ‘Liveability Standards’ for AHoD & HoDs

DIMAPUR: In line with the “Clean India Campaign”, 173 BN CRPF under the aegis of IGP Manipur & Nagaland sector, constructed two toilet complexes at two different locations, Jharnapani, Dimapur district and Peducha, Kohima district for the convenience of the public commuting between Dimapur and Kohima. The toilets were inaugurated on March 28.

A press release by commandant 173 BN CRPF, Joseph Keishing stated that these toilets were inaugurated by Sarbjit Singh, DIGP (Ops) CRPF, Kohima in the

DIMAPUR: A “kick-off ” meeting on “Liveability Standards” has been convened on April 4, 11 a.m. at the Conference Hall of the Chief Secretary (CS) Nagaland, Kohima under the chairmanship of the CS. According to a DIPR report, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India launched the “Liveability Standards” for Indian Cities on June DIGP (Ops) CRPF, Sarbjit Singh inaugurating one of the 23, 2017 at New Delhi to toilet complexes. generate a Liveability Index presence of Joseph Keish- men of 173 Bn. CRPF. Both and rate cities. ing, along with villagers of set of toilets have separate The City Liveability Index will help build a mathe areas and officers and blocks for ladies.

ture data ecosystem with a common baseline data, which States and Cities can leverage as an instrument for urban planning and management.

The ministry has engaged a consortium for assessment of the liveability indices in 116 cities and the exercise is to be completed by June 15, 2018. The consortium has appointed State Level Coordinators to conduct State and city level workshops to collect data & information.

The release said that Kohima has been selected for Liveability assessment in Nagaland for which “a

kick-off meeting” has been convened.

All AHoD & HoD of the departments/organizations listed under have been requested to attend the meeting without fail: Urban Development Department, Municipal Affairs Department, Finance Department, Public Health Engineering Department, Transport Department, Power Department, Nagaland Electricity Commission, Health & Family Welfare Department, School Education Department, Higher & Technical Education department, Youth Resources & Sports Depart-

ment, Works & Housing Department, Forest Department, Taxes Department, Home Department, State Disaster Management Authority, Pollution Control Board, New & Renewable Energy, Kohima Smart City Dev. Limited, Kohima Municipal Council and Development Authority Nagaland.

For a preliminary exercise, all concerned Departments have been requested to come with available required data. A nodal officer from each concerned department is required to be nominated and also to attend the workshop.

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Manipur textile, commerce and industries minister inaugurating powerloom unit in Imphal on Wednesday.

16 lakh registered educated job seekers in Assam

aid from banks and other lending agencies in starting their business ventures and said that they have the requisite talent and creativity to become pioneers and trend setters in business ventures too.

He regretted that there has been a festering trend among the local people to always look upon government jobs as only source of employment.

He said the state government has created numerous opportunities for the locals to work in sectors like tourism, organic agriculture, horticulture, industries, etc.

“Our Sikkimese youth must venture into these private sectors and become job providers instead of being job-seekers,” he said.

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BJP revamps teams in Assam and Arunachal

reached the international market. The main objective of the handloom and textiles was growth of the state’s economy and increase production of weavers, he said.

He further said that the main objective of the government was to improve production, increase income and to generate employment. Biswajit also announced a power incentive for powerloom weavers as encouragement.

In this regard, he announced that an apparel and garment centre will be set up at Imphal East district which will be followed by other industrial estate in all the districts.

Guwahati, Mar 28 (Agencies): Ahead of Lok Sabha polls in 2019, BJP is refurbishing its organisational set up in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

The Centre-r uling party is replicating the o r g a nisa tio na l m o d e l of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. This model was implemented in Tripura, where BJP produced spectacular results in the recently held assembly polls and decimated Left Front which was ruling the state for 25 years, reported The Economic Times.

The party has built up network of Vistaraks

(expansionist) in assembly constituencies. These group of people are tasked with the responsibility of working towards the expansion of the party and organisation.

Arunachal Pradesh now has a network of 36 Vistaraks which is looking after 60 assembly constituencies. Arunachal will also go to assembly polls simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls.

President of Arunachal Pradesh unit of BJP, Tapir Gao told ET, “We have built a network of Vistaraks and these people are adding new members and looking after the ex-

AGP, BJP fret over panchayat poll in Assam

Four die in scrub typhus infection in Mizoram

Meghalaya woman found dead in Delhi

GUWAHATI, Mar 28 (Agencies): An uncertainty looms large over alliance between allies BJP and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) ahead of the ensuing Assam panchayat elections, expected in April. The BJP favours a tie-up with the AGP in the panchayat polls but the regional party appears opposed to the idea. Back in 2016, the two parties had come together and formed the Sarbananda Sonowal government with the support from the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), reported The New Indian Express.

The AGP is wary of upsetting its grassroots workers who are miffed with the BJP for its ‘big

of the Articles for Production Act 1985) which would be reserved for traditional handloom weavers.

The list will be released by next month, Biswajit added, and therefore traditional weavers need not worry over the growth of powerlooms.

Justifying on the move of the government to protect the traditional handloom sector, the minister said that “Industrialization is a must in every society however we have to think of the unemployment problem facing by the state.”

The minister also lauded handloom and handicrafts artisans, stating that handloom and handicraft products of the state have

Gangtok, Mar 28 (PTI): Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling Wednesday urged the local people to come forward and take full advantage of the Chief Minister’s Start-up Scheme to become selfreliant entrepreneurs.

“We have earmarked Rs 79 crore for the Chief Minister’s Start-up Scheme in the current financial year so that our young people come forward and utilize this fund to become selfreliant entrepreneurs in their chosen fields,” he said after inaugurating an Entrepreneur’s Hub and Consultation Centre.

The centre has been dedicated to budding entrepreneurs of Sikkim.

Chamling urged the youngsters to seek financial

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brother’ treatment. They are also angry for not getting due recognition and respect from the BJP.Another factor for heartburn is the Centre’s move to grant citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh.

The AGP was born out of a six-year-long anti-outsider agitation — spearheaded by the All Assam Students’ Union — in the 1980s.

Recently, BJP national president Amit Shah had favoured his party’s alliance with the AGP and the BPF in the panchayat elections.

But, AGP leader and former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said he was not bothered about Shah’s opinion. “Amit Shah is not my leader and, hence, I am

not concerned about what he said. Our course of action will be decided by our party workers. Most of our district committees have already expressed reservation against the alliance with the BJP. They want us to fight it alone.”

AGP president Atul Bora said the party would take a call on the alliance following a booth level workers’ meet on April 5.During an internal meeting, Shah had insisted on the party’s continuance of ties with the AGP. He had said if the AGP fought the polls separately, the party would take into confidence social organisations opposed to the citizenship move.

Guwahati, 28 (PTI): There are 16,65,866 Registered Educated Job seekers and 2,97,510 Registered Unskilled Job seekers in employment Exchanges in Assam as on December 31, 2017, the Assembly was informed today. Of the Registered Educated Job seekers, 3,17,824 are graduate and 5,67,340 are high school pass, Skill Employment and Entrepreneurship Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said. While replying to questions of Rupjyoti Kurmi of the Congress and Aminul Islam of the AIUDF. The Employment Exchange sends names of the registered job seekers to various organisations when they ask for filling up their vacant posts, besides facilitating employment to those undergoing training on various trades in the Industrial Training Itanagar, Mar 28 (Agencies): jalu Ngadong (16), Ashilu Yun (15) and Institutes across the state, Four young girls who went missing from Kambli Chetry (14) -- have admitted to Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh since have left their homes on their own in Patowary said.

March 21, have been traced in South search of jobs, Waii added.

India, a senior police officer said.

According to an FIR lodged at the Deputy Inspector General of Police Tezu police station by the mother of one (East) Uper Bitin said that the girls, aged of the missing girls, they went missing between 12 and 16 years, were found from Wakro on the evening of March 21 travelling in a train between Chennai last and the families feared that they could be the victims of human trafficking.

Guwahati, Mar 28 and Bengaluru yesterday.

He said the girls were intercepted A police team from Tezu was be(Agencies): Travellers flying on Jet Airways from by the Government Railway Police ing sent to bring the girls back and they were expected within the next few days, Guwahati are in for a sweet personnel.

However, state Home Minister Kuthe DIG said. surprise as the airline plans Their parents have been informed to add traditional Assamese mar Waii said that the girls were traced in Vellore by Lohit district Superintendent accordingly, he said. sweets to its in-flight menu.

It was not clear whether the girls Jet Airways will mark the of Police Issac Pertin in close coordinawere together when they went missing, celebration of Assam’s big- tion with his Vellore counterpart.

The girls -Kumaisi Pul (12), AnBitin said. gest harvest festival — Rongali Bihu — by introducing ‘laaru’ and ‘pitha’ to its inflight menu for all their flights operating from Guwahati, reported The Indian Express.

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Aizawl, Mar 28 (PTI): At least four people died due to scrub typhus infection in Mizoram during 20172018, Health Minister Lal Thanzara today informed the state Assembly.

In a written reply to a question from Dr K Beichhua of the Mizo National Front (MNF) Lal Thanzara said that three people died due to the scrub typhus infection in Aizawl district, while another one died in Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh border Mamit district.

He said that 540 people were found to be infected with the scrub typhus.

SHILLONG, Mar 28 (Agencies): In a shocking incident, a 23-year-old woman from Meghalaya was found allegedly murdered in her flat in Delhi’s Munirka on Tuesday morning, the police said.

According to The Hindu, the woman’s identity was established with the help of her Aadhaar card details, the police added.

At around 9 a.m, the police received a PCR call stating that a woman was lying dead inside a flat in Munirka, the police said.

A team reached the spot and found the flat to be locked from outside.

On breaking open the door, they saw a highly

OFFICE OF THE

CHUMUKEDIMA AO SENSO TELONGJEM Chumukedima : Nagaland

FELICITATES

The Chumukedima Ao Union takes the pleasure to extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri Dr. M Chuba Ao for being appointed as the Chairman of MARCOFED. We also share our deepest appreciation to the Government of Nagaland under the able leadership of Shri. Neiphiu Rio, Honourable Chief Minister for having faith in our leader Dr. M Chuba Ao. The Union looks forward that his innovative knowledge will help to revamp the department concerned and bring positive changes in the near future.

(Limakumzuk) President Chumukedima Ao Union Dimapur : Nagaland

(K. Wati Imchen) General Secretary Chumukedima Ao Union Dimapur : Nagaland

IN THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) KOHIMA BENCH CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 1 (K) OF 2018

Shri. Md. Tamjit Ali : ...Petitioner.

VS The State of Nagaland & Anr. ...Respondent.

To, Shri. Vishito Zhimo, S/o Late Hezuekhe R/o Thilixu Village, Block 5 P.O. Dimapur, P.S. Diphupar, District - Dimapur WHEREAS the petitioner Shri. Md. Tamjit Ali, S/o Late Monozzir Ali, R/o Gopal Nagar village, Hojai district, Assam has instituted a Criminal Petition No. 1 (K) of 2018 challenging an order dated 15-12-2016 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate, DImapur in G.R. Case No 910 of 2015. You are hereby called upon to appear in the Court in person or by a pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the Criminal Petition on the day of 21-05-2018 without fail.

Take NOTICE that in default of your appearance on the day before mentioned, the Criminal Petition shall be heard and determined in your absence.

Signed and sealed by Order of the Court on this the 26th day of March 2018.

Deputy Registrar (Judl) Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench.

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pansion of the party in the state.”

He added, “Recently we had a convention of booth-level workers and Vistaraks.”

BJP president Amit Shah, in his recent visit to Guwahati, stated the party has set a target of winning of 21 Lok Sabha seats in the northeast, where the total number of Lok Sabha seats stands at 25.

“Presently the BJP has eight Lok Sabha seats from eight states. In 2019, we will win 21 seats,” Shah had said.

In Assam, the saffron party has started appointing Pristha Paramukh for

decomposed and disfigured body of a woman lying inside the flat.

A blanket was kept next to the body, the police added.

The victim’s landlord who lives in the same building went to her flat following a foul smell but found it to be locked from outside. He then peeped through the flat’s ventilator and saw the woman lying dead inside.

Following this, he called up the police. Milind Dumbere, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-West) said, “month back, the woman had joined a call center in Gurugram and was staying in a rented flat in Munirka.

Her family members have

every 60 voters in Assam.

In the voter list, each page has 60 voters and the Paramukh will look after these voters in terms of mobilisations and ensuring that they come to vote.

Besides this there is booth in charge and these units are clubbed in the clusters termed as Sakti Kendras (power centre).

A senior leader in Assam BJP said, “We are building organisation base in Bodoland and hill districts. Our organisation model will be tested in the panchayat election which will be held shortly. BJP will fight panchayat polls on its own.”

been informed about the incident. They will soon come to the city. The body has been sent for post-mortem”.

The victim’s landlord told the police that he had seen her last on Friday evening. The police said that they are waiting for the postmortem report to get more details on the same.

Also, it will confirm if there has been any sexual assault. The items in her flat were found intact, the police added.

Police officer said, “The body appears to be around five days old. We are going through her call records and CCTV footage of the area”.

FELICITATION

We, the Ungma Imsongunger Kidong felicitates Dr. Chuba Imsong on being appointed as Chairman of MARCOFED, Nagaland. We also thank our honourable Chief Minister, Shri Neiphiu Rio for the said appointment. Our Kidong wishes him success in his leadership.

1. IMLI IMSONG, Tatar 2. ALEMTOSHI IMSONG, Tatar 3. CHUDENSANGBA IMSONG, Tatar 4. TAJENSANGBA IMSONG, Tatar 5. LIMASUNGIT IMSONG, Tatar 6. NUKMETSUBA IMSONG, Tatar.

DC-688 OFFICE OF THE

AONGZA WARD YIMDEN MOKOKCHUNG TOWN MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND – 798 601

Dated Mokokchung the 28th March 2018.

CONGRATULATIONS The Aongza Ward Local Authority, Mokokchung Town and on behalf of the ward people would like to congratulate Shri. Metsubo Jamir on his successful electoral victory and entry into the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly and for being inducted as a Cabinet Minister for Urban Development & Municipal Affairs, Nagaland.

We are confident that the trust placed in you by the citizens of the 27 Mokokchung Town AC will inspire you to continuously work for the good of the people, leading us towards prosperity, further well-being and security for the people.

We also would like to put in record our sincere thanks and appreciation to all the other candidates; Shri. C. Apok Jamir, Dr. Temsuwati and Shri. Rongsenshilu, for your interest, sacrifice and commitment shown to shoulder the responsibilities of the people. We hope that you will continue to work for the welfare of the constituency and the Nagas in general in the days ahead.

Sd/Chairman Aongza Ward Mokokchung

Sd/Secretary Aongza Ward Mokokchung

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IMPHAL, Mar 28: Manipur textile, commerce and industries minister Thongam Biswajit on Wednesday inaugurated the Powerloom Unit, with 11 looms in Imphal’s Industrial Estate, Takyelpat.

In his inaugural address, the minister called for promotion of weavers in the state, while stating that Manipur has the highest numbers of weavers in the country.

He said that the introduction of powerloom will increase production which will increase the income for the weavers. However, there was concerned over

the survival of traditional handloom due to growth in powerloom sector, he added.

“We need to protect the traditional handloom weavers, he said and that certain items must be reserved for production through traditional handloom weaving process only and it should not be touched by powerlooms,” he said.

He therefore appealed to the powerloom entrepreneurs not to produce those reserved items.

To this, the minister said that the government was working to release a list of items (to be included in the Manipur State Textile Policy under the Reservation

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USBPU conference held in Shillong

Pastors and USBPU officials at the conference in Shillong.

to Sheep.”

Pastor, Shillong Baptist Church, Rev. L. Malsawma Vanchhawng, while delving on the topic ‘Wild Boars in God’s Vineyard’, encouraged the church leaders to be cautious of false prophets, unproductive people and worldly leaders. While

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Itanagar, Mar 28 (PTI): Two men were paraded naked by a mob in Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh for allegedly raping a high school student, a top police official said.

The two accused were thrashed and paraded naked by the mob, including women, in Yingkiong market area on March 26 before being handed over to the police.

Two others are absconding, the police official said.

The 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by the four men, including her boyfriend, near the underconstruction Gandhi Bridge on March 25, DIG (central range) John Neihalaia said.

The incident took place at around 8.30 pm at a place, about six kilometre away from Yingkiong town and the police received information on the following day, the DIG said. The accused are from Pangkang village.

The DIG said that a search has been launched to nab the two accused and a police team has been sent to Jengging in search of the duo, he said.

Terming the incident as “unfortunate”, state Home Minister Kumar Waii has sought the support of one and all to bring the guilty to book.

He also asked minors to avoid going out with strangers to unknown locations and travelling after dark.

“Such incidents are unexpected but could be tackled with coordinated efforts,” he said and advocated that the civil society should be vigilant to ensure the security of girls.

Meanwhile, the Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Women has asked the Upper Siang SP to nab the absconding culprits under the POCSO Act, 2012 and award exemplary punishment to them.

The APSCW also requested the family members of the culprits and society to cooperate with the police to deliver justice to the victim and her family.

This is the second rape incident in the town this year. A six-year-old girl student was allegedly raped by her teacher on February

22 last. Cases of mob outrage and vigilante justice have surfaced in the state over the past few months prompting the state government to enact a legislation on March 16 which would provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years.

Earlier this month, a man accused of raping a 12-year-old was paraded naked around Daporijo town in Upper Subansiri district before he was handed over to the police.

A mob of around 800 people stormed into the Tezu police station in Lohit district on February 19 last and dragged out a man and his accomplice accused of raping and murder of a fiveyear-old girl and lynched them in the market area.

sion for their involvement in accepting huge bribes for the plum positions in the administration.

With the arrest of the six officers in last 24 hours, the total number of arrests of officers in the case rose to 34. Police said that they have substantial evidence against these officers to prove their involvement in the cash for job scam.

Police said that they are now looking for a few others who had secured the plum jobs by allegedly bribing Paul, who is currently in jail.

The scam was unearthed in 2016 when the Dibrugarh police had caught assistant engineer, Nabakanta Patir, red-handed while accepting bribes from a woman dentist whom he promised a job through the Assam Public Service Commission.

The dentist had tipped off police about Patir leading to his arrest.

Sonowal interacts with students Guwahati, Mar 28 (PTI): Assam government is committed to create an ideal atmosphere for the growth of students as they are the country’s future, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said Wednesday.

“The state government is working resolutely for the intellectual, physical and social development of students so that they can contribute to the growth of the state”, he said in an interaction with students at the Central Hall of Assam Assembly here. He also appealed to the students to live in peace with people belonging to various castes, creeds, communities and religions and work for a new Assam which could claim to be among the five most developed states in the country.

Rapists must be shot dead in public: BJP MP Coal mining ban: GoM to review NGT decision GUWAHATI, Mar 28 (Agencies): A BJP MP from Assam wants rape convicts gunned down in public by shooting squads to create a sense of “fear” among the perpetrators.

Ram Prasad Sharma, who represents Tezpur constituency, while proposing stricter laws for rape convicts, said even minors should not get away with “lax” punishment, reported TNN. “There should be shooting squads set up to deal with rapists. There

should be a punishment of minimum 10 years in prison for assaulting, molesting or touching a woman appropriately,” he said in New Delhi.

Sharma was responding to the rape and murder of a class V student in Assam’s Nagaon district. The girl was raped and set on fire by three persons, two of whom were minors, on Friday.

Extending his demand for “shooting squads” for minor rape convicts as well, Sharma, “A crime

like rape cannot go unpunished. If a minor can commit rape, why should he be considered a juvenile? He should be given the maximum punishment as well.

A rapist should be hanged or shot in public.”

Justifying his stand, the BJP MP said this form of punishment would “create a sense of fear” among the perpetrators. He went on to urge the state government to come up with a “deterrent law” to check the rising graph of crimes against women.

GUWAHATI, Mar 28 (Agencies): The Meghalaya government will soon set up a group of ministers to examine the four-yearold ban by National Green Tribunal (NGT) on rat-hole coal mining, which was the source of livelihood for several thousands and a revenue earner for the state government.

According to TNN, the ban, imposed in 2014, proved costly for Congress in the recently held state as-

sembly election. While the Congress government failed to get NGT to reverse its ban, the National People’s Party used it as one of its poll planks and assured voters to look into it if it was voted to power.

On Tuesday, chief minister Conrad K Sangma, in a meeting with the State Coordination Committee of Coal Owners and Mine Dealers’ Forum, promised to study the current status of the NGT ban and the way

forward. The CM’s office, quoting Sangma, said, “We will understand the issue and take feedback from all stakeholders and prepare a master plan as to how it can be taken forward. The issue of coal is a priority for our government. We are going to look at environmental concerns as we take forward our discussion with the Centre as well as with other concerned authorities.”

NGT ordered an interim ban in April 17, 2014

and asked the state government to immediately stop illegal rat-hole coal mining.

The ban was based on a petition by the All Dimasa Students’ Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee before the tribunal, alleging that coal mining in Jaintia Hills of the state has turned the water of the Kopili river acidic. According to a source, the ban has resulted into revenue loss of more than Rs 600 crore over the years.

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SHILLONG, Mar 28 (Agencies): Khasi Disabilities Association (KDA) has asked Meghalaya Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma to fully implement 4 per cent Reservation Policy for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) as announced by the Central Government through the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

According to Shillong Times, a delegation of the Association on Wednesday met Conrad Sangma and submitted a charter of demands seeking his interventions. The Chief Minister has assured to look into their grievances. The Chief Minister has called for a joint meeting of the organisation along with the officials of the concern departments and Minister Social Welfare after the Budget Session next month. The Chief Minister also assured the delegation that the issues of concern for the disabilities would be look at on a priority basis.

He also assured to look into various other requests of the organisation with regard to development of infrastructure for disabilities and other facilities which are to be made available to them.

The other issues raised by the organisation were 5 percent special allotment permit for local taxis in all districts for the disabled persons, who want to apply for a loan under the National Handicap Finance Development Corporation, 5 per cent reservation from the Scheme Pradhan Mantri Awass Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G), special recruitment drive to fill up backlog recruitment for persons with disabilities in State Government Department.

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Replying to a notice brought by opposition MLA Bhanulal Saha, Deb said he had no reports from the police on CPM party offices being put under lock and key and requested Saha to furnish him details and assured proper action.

He also said that strict legal action would be taken if party offices are illegally set up on government land.

“Any party office illegally set on government land including those of BJP will face legal action,” Deb said amidst applause of both treasury and opposition benches.

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On the other hand, 166 elected representatives from different gram panchayats, 2 re presentatives from panchayat samities and nine representatives in village committees in Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) had resigned since March 3 on the same grounds.

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Making a statement on a matter of public importance raised by opposition CPI(M) MLA Sudhan Das, Deb said that 16 elected public representatives resigned in different civic bodies, including the municipal councils and nagar panchayats, due to illness, personal reasons and family affairs since March 7.

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(IANS): The Assam Police on Wednesday said that they have arrested six more officers of the Assam Civil Service (ACS) and allied services for their alleged involvement in the multicrore cash for job scam carried out by the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).

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Executive secretary USBLA, Rev. C. Lima, while speaking during the Sunday devotional service, brought out themes from 1st Peter 5:1-4 on “Prototype

Aizawl, Mar 28 (PTI): Mizoram finance minister Lalsawta on Wednesday informed the state legislature that the state government intended to implement the seventh central pay commission during 2018-2019.

Replying to questions from five members, Lalsawta said that the government had been waiting for the recommendation of a committee to study the seventh pay commission which was yet to submit its report and recommendations.

The four-member committee, constituted on 13 November last year, is headed by the State Planning Board Vice chairman H. Liansailova and was instructed to submit its report within six months.

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F u r t h e r m o r e, t h e Union also thanked Dr. Benjung Tuensang and Mr. & Mrs. Lima Yanger Sangtam for extending financial help for the program.

The conference also elected a new team of office bearers with Kijung as president, Tsaose vice president, Yangkhumse general secretary, Müwapi assistant general secretary and Tsosechu finance secretary.

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXVIII NO. 111 Dimapur, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018

Reviewing performance

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hat opposition members in the recently concluded budget session raised, were pertinent issues that had been commented in a series in this column on several occasions in over two decades back. One of the concerns was the entire logic behind the hectic 10-day carnival known as ‘Hornbill Festival’ in the ‘Land of Festivals(Nagaland)’. Similar to the opinion in this column in the past, opposition member and former minister Chotisuh Sazo raised the issue over the rationale behind huge expenditure on showcasing Naga culture-turned pop-cultureturned-contemporary food and beauty pageant culture and the overly long duration of ten days(10) of the festival which practically leads to grinding halt on the functioning of the government. Chotisuh echoed the concern that the expenditure for the ten-day festival/ carnival to the tune of Rs.6 crore or Rs.60 lakh per day cannot be justified by a pittance of Rs.6 lakh earned each day by the government. It may also be noted that each Hornbill Festival event there are at the most around two lakh visitors, that included mostly from within Nagaland. Today, after so many years, perhaps it is time to take a holistic look at the whole issue of promoting tourism and the after effects and see where improvements could be made. Instead of the carnival-like event, it would be worth considering eco-tourism. This can provide some income where local guides and people, who are landowners, will be able to gear themselves for tourism during the dry months. Tourism can take off if only road and power can be accorded top priority and therefore, vast improvement in there two fields is necessary. Damage to the environment reflects a confused priority since it is the backbone of eco-tourism. In contrast, a small country like Singapore, which is one third the size of Nagaland, gets more than six million or sixty lakh tourists annually. Nagaland, on the other hand attracts just a meagre two lakh tourists each year and that too restricted within the ten-day Hornbill Festival. Hotels get overbooked during Hornbill Festival and many are compelled to backpack. In the true sense, tourists need to also be encouraged to visit other districts that offer their own allurements. While infrastructures fall within the state’s domain, connectivity by air, rail and road come under the centre’s domain. The other concern that is vital to progress is electrical power. After statehood, Nagaland’s march was more astounding in power sector. The officers in those days were hard core professionals and created a hugely successful and efficient system. Raising the issue on the power department’s huge losses in revenue, NPF member Y. M. Yollow Konyak and also suggested that repairing centres for transformer should be set up in every district headquarter to avoid wastage of time for any minor cases which also causes inconvenience for the public. True, loss of around Rs.100 crore due to pilferage or transmission losses are of very serious matter.

The accumulated total loss from all these has been pegged at around 55% to 60% which is equivalent to 30MW to 40MW out of the total power that the state receives. The other factor, as pointed out by the Association of Power Engineers Nagaland(APEN) was that power transmission, distribution and maintenance in Nagaland has reached a critical stage and could virtually collapse in the coming summer months.

These are few of the challenges posed against good governance and it is here that genuine changes would be expected.

DailyDevotion Isn’t There Some Misunderstanding?

“Let us go to Judea again.” The disciples said to Him, “…are You going there again?” —John 11:7-8 Just because I don’t understand what Jesus Christ says, I have no right to determine that He must be mistaken in what He says. That is a dangerous view, and it is never right to think that my obedience to God’s directive will bring dishonor to Jesus. The only thing that will bring dishonor is not obeying Him. To put my view of His honor ahead of what He is plainly guiding me to do is never right, even though it may come from a real desire to prevent Him from being put to an open shame. I know when the instructions have come from God because of their quiet persistence. But when I begin to weigh the pros and cons, and doubt and debate enter into my mind, I am bringing in an element that is not of God. This will only result in my concluding that His instructions to me were not right. Many of us are faithful to our ideas about Jesus Christ, but how many of us are faithful to Jesus Himself? Faithfulness to Jesus means that I must step out even when and where I can’t see anything (see Matthew 14:29). But faithfulness to my own ideas means that I first clear the way mentally.

Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can’t see the way ahead.

Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with unrestrained joy. When He tells you something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a misunderstanding of what honors Him and what doesn’t. Are you faithful to Jesus, or faithful to your ideas about Him? Are you faithful to what He says, or are you trying to compromise His words with thoughts that never came from Him? “Whatever He says to you, do it” (John 2:5).

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018

Post-mortem

Framework agreement: An observation

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henever a society is at a crossroad, numerous claims touted to be objective facts begin to emerge.

Citizens begin to develop their own opinions about the issue, whatever it may be. The opinions may either be formed by assessing the relevant facts and information or they may be formed through blind obedience to the opinions of others, without enquiring into the prejudices of those opinions. Such scenarios are a recurrent theme in any society, where a series of crisis leads people to ponder about that particular crisis. In any case, when any issue preoccupies the attention of the society, more often than not, there is bound to be confusions about the topic. This is either due to the lack of relevant information available to the public at large or due to conscious manipulation of information and facts to suit the needs of the vested interests (as it is advantageous for those who want the public to remain in the dark about the realities of the issue). And in both instances, the public are manipulated: in the former, the lack of necessary information enables the public to be manipulated by those who have access to it, and in the latter, the vested interests, by supplying distorted information, manipulate the public en masse. This is what, in my humble opinion, is happening in our state with regard to the issue of the ‘Framework Agreement.’

I think people ought to have opinions about issues that concern them as well as the well-being of their society, it is good, it is healthy.

However, such opinions ought not to be formed on the basis of one’s pre-existing prejudices and predilections; nor should opinions and beliefs on important issues be formed by uncritically trusting the opinions of others. I say this because, it is glaringly evident by the manner in which a majority of the intelligentsia, leaders, politicians, and public at large seem to view the ‘framework agreement.’ The popular belief among the public, at least as has been portrayed by society’s leaders and those involved in the talks with the Union Government of India (GoI), is that the signing of the framework agreement is an indication that the solution which has been sought after for decades is at hand; that anytime, the solution will be brought; that the conflicts of interests between the various groups/factions and the GoI is resolved; that the GoI is willing to meet the demands of these groups. All these statements are made based on this single term, ‘framework.’

Anyone with rudimentary knowledge of politics and diplomacy is well aware that ‘framework agreement’ is just an empty shell to be filled later on with its contents, after long and protracted negotiations. In other words, ‘framework agreement’ provides the basis for setting up factors for a relationship between protagonists with regard to specific issue/matter.

The ‘Framework Agreement’ provides the conditions under which the contending sides will work together toward a specified goal or objective, with specific details, as regards to how to go about achieving that objective/goal, to be added later on. In the context of the Naga solution, this means the framework agreement signed with the GoI only sets out that the contending sides have agreed in principle to cooperate and build a relationship, minus the contents,

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to bring about a mutually agreeable solution to decades-long political struggle. The framework agreement does not yet contain the solution, it is not the solution; rather it is just the opening phase to initiate dialogue between the protagonists to resolve the Naga issue. This is what Framework Agreement is, nothing more, nothing less. To think or hold the belief that the framework agreement contains the solution is not only a folly of the highest magnitude but, more seriously, is to risk ruins.

The framework agreement is only the frame. It is the supporting structure. It does not contain the essential ingredient, the nittygritty part of the deal. All these essential ingredients must first be negotiated and agreed upon by the contending sides before they are included in the final settlement. And to do this, it takes time, maybe even years, especially to negotiate sensitive topics—such as sovereignty, currency, foreign affairs. This is particularly true when we consider the implications of such settlements: determining the fate of people (Nagas) spread across four national states and two international countries (India and Myanmar). Such sensitive topics are neither easy to be negotiated, nor can they be negotiated quickly and easily. And if such issues are negotiated easily and quickly, it would mean that the solution is not the final solution, but a temporary one. Thus further prolonging the political struggles and protracting the sufferings of the people.

What is certain, however, at this juncture is that the signing of the Framework has established the basic structure to initiate talks for resolving the Naga issue. That is it. Now, the obvious next step, which I am certain, is the coming together of the contending parties to the negotiating table with their own sets of demands and grievances. And these grievances and demands will have to be arduously negotiated point by point. At this stage, the contending parties may reach an impasse, a stalemate. If this happens, the negotiation is stalled, further delaying the settlement. And the negotiations can be stalled for months, if not years.

One can be sure that none of the contending parties, to the talks, will easily give up their claims. This makes it even more unrealistic to assume that a permanent solution is attainable in such a brief period (i.e. few months or a couple of years) of time.

Furthermore, the essentiality of having a unified front is necessary for any negotiations.

This is a matter of vital concern especially with regard to the present framework agreement. As it stands, the Nagas are represented by various groups (to which we never consented), who are at odds with one another and all claiming to be the legitimate representatives of the people. Moreover, there are two separate groups presently in talks with the GoI, while others are either excluded or are not willing to participate. The important question for any astute citizen is: how can we attain a permanent solution when many groups are claiming to represent the people? It is unrealistic for one to reasonably think that a permanent solution is possible when we have so many groups, with equally different interests. The groups themselves are busy looking after their own interests and self-preservation.

Indeed, we must instead question

their true intentions as to why they prefer to splinter away rather than work together for the common goal and well-being of the people they claim to represent. As such, how can one reasonably expect these groups to achieve anything useful for the society? In addition, the framework agreement will not attain anything concrete if the contending parties lack good diplomats in their envoy. If this is so, negotiation becomes even more onerous and the more likely it is for the talks to be stalled. Hence, a good envoy consisting of astute diplomats and knowledgeable advisors are essential for a successful solution to this long-drawn-out political problem.

Another point of significance is the need for the stakeholders, i.e. the people, to be subsequently made aware of the substance of the framework, following the negotiations between the protagonists and prior to its implementation. Whatever is brought to the table by the contending parties and which points/ demands have been mutually agreed must be made aware to the people, for ultimately they are the ones who will bear the brunt of the settlement. As one African proverb goes, “When Elephants fight; it is the grass that gets trampled.” Hence, the ingredients or items of what is been negotiated should reflect the interest of the people. And the only way for those who represent the people, in the negotiating table with the GoI, to know what its people want is to let its citizens have their say in what is being negotiated and how it is to be negotiated.

There is a reason why after the signing of the Framework Agreement in August 2015, the protagonists have declined to disclose its contents. The reason is: there is nothing about the solution in the framework agreement, yet; it is empty; the contents are yet to be negotiated. That is why the contending parties continue not to reveal the contents of the framework. Rather, they distracted the public’s attention with vague and nebulous proclamations about how the framework agreement contains the solution, how close we are to the final settlement, how sensitive matters which have been up for debate are resolved, and how in few months’ time all will be brought to pass. Indeed, no party wants to come out saying that it contains nothing, for that would undermine their legitimacy and authority. And who in their right mind would want to do that?

All these issues must be soundly understood by all the concern parties, including the people, so as to avoid the potential pitfalls that invariably accompany such political agreements. I do hope the readers have acquired some relevant knowledge about the framework agreement, thus enabling them to utilize their rational faculty to make sound judgments about the Naga issues, which are of concern to us as citizens. As for my own observation, there will be a solution, no doubt, but a temporary one. We’ll have to wait longer, if not decades, for the permanent solution. Regardless, don’t let my pessimism defile the optimism of the framework agreement. Who knows, I may be wrong in my estimation. Lastly, we ought to have confidence in our representatives— whoever they are, for we’ve lost count—that they will always have our interests at heart.

Dr. Salikyu Sangtam, St. Joseph University

Against silence & dichotomised spirituality

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he unifying factor of the many decade long aspiration of hope for change and transformation appears to be fading away under the invading force of the mighty Indian Hindutva Philosophy. Many pro right wing thinkers and critics alike are singing praises of the Sangh Parivar’s ‘victory’ basing their judgement on the recently declared result of the 13thNLA Election. It seems some of them have even made proposal of adopting similar methodologies to defeat other Christian strongholds elsewhere in the Indian subcontinent.

Now the most pertinent question remains for the Nagas; ‘What went wrong?’ To this, one can always conveniently ascribe (and rightfully so) the reason for the defeat to the powerful ‘back to the Vedas’ Hindutva Movement that is beginning to germinate pervasively in Naga soil. Or one may do the usual and expected game called ‘Pointing Fingers at each Other!’ in this game, blame usually goes to the Church, Politicians, Bureaucrats, Contractors, and the Haves; while they in turn blame the mass. Though all the above mentioned actors provide significant insights upon further inquiry, the writer of this article wishes to focus on ‘silence and dichotomised spirituality’ among other equally important factors for the present as well as other predicaments in our society. And ‘silence & dichotomised spirituality’ will be a significant dynamic for other defeats even in the days to come!

While it is encouraging to see many youngsters voicing their concerns in the virtual and print media.

It appears to be confined to the ‘individual realm’ and therefore still not a force to be reckon with. The Church, time and again raises its voice but it is met with silence by the believers (believers here means, all of Christians including the clergy). Take for example, NBCC’s clarion call for Clean Election seems to have met with silence-use of money for votes, alcohol, violence and other degradable and dehumanizing vices were unashamedly displayed by the so called ‘Christians’!? As a result, it is not a surprise that the Naga Christians have ‘actively’ elected a political party who vigorously associate with those who persecute Christians elsewhere. Now, this is definitely not an isolated issue where Naga Christians chose to act against its own proclamation. NLTP Act was formulated and passed in the Assembly due to the pressure from the Church to make Nagaland a dry State (NLTP, 1989). However, the irony is that liquor freely flows in a State boasting a Christian majority! Church going Christians continues to unashamedly violate the Act! This is ‘silence’ to me.

This ‘silence’ in turn points to a gap in our spirituality (a very dangerous one-killing the Naga society

Cut down number of organizations

o you still remember the old story about the three sons who learnt a lesson through a bundle of sticks? Like an old antique, this story is also getting more valuable with time.

It is understandable the intriguing factor that lies in being the lead role players in intercepting and solving specific issues that a specific group of people may be facing. But like our deficit budget today, with time, it matters lesser to us how efficiently the money were used- but worries us more on the accumulated liabilities that

puts itself on the back of our shoulders.

The accumulated liabilities in this case, is division and diversification.

The real sense of respect and inspiration comes when a single entity introduces the whole team of players- not when several entities with equally ‘prestigious eminence’ introduce the same players according to their specific roles.

With hundreds and hundreds of organizations, associations and unions in Nagaland today and growing, it’s no more a question of ‘if ’, but ‘when’ the sticks are

going to break and with the bundle never given a chance to be formed.

It is not going to be an easy task to undo what has become a trait. But let’s start slow. Let’s first dissolve those groups or organizations that have fulfilled their agendum or solved their issues.

Then, unite those organizations that share identical aspirations. A little compromise is fine when you look at the bigger picture. Eventually, even different organizations with contrasting agenda can compile them into a single agendum and realise them one at a time

on a faster pace.

When you asser t your belief on “Nagas Without Borders”, your definition of the ‘border’ cannot be only the territorial boundary of Nagaland. It should be broader. It should include the virtual borders that demarcate our every colony, our every clan, our every motive, our every village, our every taste and our every bit of freedom. It isn’t a short process, I know. But if we start now, our children would live as one in peace.

Motsuthung Yanthan, (motsuthungy.my@ gmail.com)

from inside): dichotomised spirituality. While inside the ‘church building’ we act like Christians, but outside we exactly do the opposite! Within the church walls we make a lot of noise but outside we are silent. This pervasive and prevalent dichotomy silently plays havoc in our society today.

Therefore, it is high time to retrospectively rectify our understanding of spirituality by asking ontological questions-questions of truth and answers-and raise our voice together: 1. We must learn to take life as a whole, and imperatively question the dichotomysacred and secular. Life is a whole, therefore, real spirituality must embrace life as a whole. Then, the phoney issue of life ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the Church will not arise.

2. We must come to a place of ‘social critical awareness.’ It is a self-conscious awareness that solution lies within us and consciously stop ascribing the ‘other’ for our own catastrophic social reality. It is also a realization that we are the ‘subject’ of change.

3. Critically examine our belief and action. And create an enabling environment where change for better will begin. Begin the retrospect by asking ‘What is our belief ’? If we profess to believe in Jesus Christ; become a real disciple.

A true believer will love the Lord with all his/her heart, mind, soul and strength; and actively denounce the forces of evil like Jesus did. The gospel story is full of Action against the destructive element. We see Jesus rebuking evil spirits, healing diseases, condemning the hypocrites, cleansing the Temple by beating and chasing away the corrupt leaders and over turning their tables, etc. etc. etc. Through this Jesus’ active action He announced the reign of God! What He preached inside the Temple and synagogue He did exactly the same in His life.

Our noise inside the Church and Our deadening silence in the face of destructive force is hypocrisy! We are no better than the Pharisees of Jesus’ time if we allow evil forces to perpetuate and flourish in our land (evil forces here means all other dehumanizing issues such as, corruption, bloodshed, division, un-development, issues of Women, so on and so forth). Therefore, let us make a concerted voice before it’s too late! A Voice that takes life as a whole. A Voice of Action. A Voice that translates what we believe into tangible and measurable Action. A Voice that condemns every form of slavery and enslavement. A Voice that Announces the reign of God in our Land. A Voice that will not be silenced by any other force. A Voice that gives light in darkness and liberates the enslaved. May such a Voice gather momentum promptly and bring the much desired Transformation in every aspect of our life. Amen.

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Reader’s Post

Sir,

Let us condense the stigma

I have come to the realisation that very sadly people who experience stigma regarding drug use are less likely to seek treatment, and this result in economic, social, and medical costs.

Perceived stigmas in hospitals and doctors’ offices have also been an underlying factor. Society is forever evolving and changing, we may talk about developments, up gradation of this and progression of that but seeing the stigmatisation, could we actually call ourselves educated? The chronic stress of discrimination not only affects the mental and social health of individuals who use drugs. When a person does not have social ties or a person to talk to, they are less likely to reach out for healthcare or treatment. We live in a society where hundreds of Naga youth are dependent on drugs. Becoming dependent on drugs can happen to anyone and it’s important to keep in mind that we can all do a better job of decreasing stigma around drug use.

Lucy Angami, Supply Colony, Dimapur

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

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No stay of trial in civil or criminal cases to last beyond six months: SC New Delhi, Mar 28 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the stay of trial court proceedings, both in civil and criminal cases, would come to an end after the expiry of six months from the date of grant of stay, unless extended in exceptional circumstances.

“We ... direct that in all pending cases where stay against proceedings of a civil or criminal trial is operating, the same will come to an end on expiry of six months from today unless in an exceptional case by a speaking order, such stay is extended”, said the bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Navin Sinha in their judgment.

Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman gave a separate but concurring judgment.

The court said that in all pending matters before the high courts or other courts relating to Prevention of Corruption Act or all other civil or criminal cases, where stay of proceedings in a pending trial is operating, “stay will automatically lapse after six months from today unless extended by a speaking or-

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der on above parameters.”

In cases, the court said, “where stay is granted in future, the same will end on expiry of six months from the date of such order unless similar extension is granted by a speaking order”.

Saying that the stay of trial in civil and criminal matters would not operate beyond six months unless extended, Justice Goel and Justice Sinha said that the “rhe speaking order must show that the case was of such exceptional nature that continuing the stay was more important than having the trial finalized”.

The trial court, the judgment said where order of stay of civil or criminal case is produced, may fix a date not beyond six months of the order of stay so that on expiry of period of stay, proceedings can commence unless order of extension of stay is produced.

The top court further said that the challenge to an order of charge should be entertained in a “rarest of rare” case only to correct a patent error of jurisdiction and not to reappreciate the matter.

Even where such challenge is entertained and stay is granted, the matter

must be decided on day-today basis so that stay does not operate for an unduly long period.

Though no mandatory time limit may be fixed, the court said that the decision may not exceed two-three months normally.

“If it remains pending longer, duration of stay should not exceed six months, unless extension is granted by a specific speaking order, as already indicated.

“Mandate of speedy justice applies to the PC Act cases as well as other cases where at trial stage proceedings are stayed by the higher court i.e. the High Court or a court below the High Court, as the case may be,” the apex court said.

“The trial courts may, on expiry of above period, resume the proceedings without waiting for any other intimation unless express order extending stay is produced.”

The court asked the high courts to issue instructions to this effect and monitor the same so that civil or criminal proceedings do not remain pending for unduly period at the trial stage.

Goa panel mulls ways to help banhit liquor outlets

Panaji, Mar 28 (PTI): The Goa government will categorise on certain parameters the liquor outlets located along the highways which are yet to get any relief from a Supreme Court ban.

The move is aimed at providing relief to such outlets within the existing law, a minister said today.

The government has formed a three-member committee to find ways to help the liquor outlets shut post the 2016 SC order banning sale of alcohol within 500 metres along national and state highways across the country.

The panel comprises three ministers - Francis D’Souza (urban development), Vijai Sardesai (agriculture) and Rohan Khaunte (revenue).

The committee, which met today at the secretariat, decided to categorise the liquor outlets which are yet to get any relief from the SC order, which came into effect on April 1, 2017.

“There are 1,332 liquor outlets which are still affected by the ban,” Sardesai told reporters after the meet.

He said the panel will meet again on next Wednesday to categorise these outlets on various parameters like their location close to cities and in developed areas.

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Oppn ridiculing Parl, will get befitting reply: Ananth Kumar New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI): Union minister Ananth Kumar today accused opposition MPs, including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, of ridiculing Parliament and said people would give them a “befitting reply” for mocking the process of a noconfidence motion.

The tactics would boomerang on the opposition, the Union parliamentary affairs minister said, a day after opposition parties protested in the Lok Sabha by holding placards to suggest they had numbers to move a no-confidence motion against the government.

The second leg of the budget session, which started on March 5, seemed to be heading for a washout with both Houses failing to transact any business due

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to adjournments forced by noisy protests by some parties. Today as well, the Lok Sabha was adjourned today and is to meet again on Monday.

“They (opposition MPs) tried to ridicule the functioning of Parliament by holding placards right from the beginning and creating a ruckus. It is the style of Shri Rahul Gandhi to try to ridicule country’s

politics. This won’t yield anything,” the Union minister told reporters outside Parliament.

He claimed that the opposition parties lack the numbers to move the motion and wanted show people that “they can achieve something without the numbers”.

“The people will give a befitting reply across the country, and also in Karnataka, for the way they have stalled functioning of Parliament, created a ruckus and ridiculed the process of a no-confidence motion,” he added.

The Rajya Sabha yesterday saw a unique protest by opposition parties with members continuing to be in their seats for over 30 minutes after Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu called it a day and left the House.

Shatrughan Sinha says he may quit BJP New Delhi, Mar 28 (AGENCIES): Disgruntled BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday indicated he may contest the next Lok Sabha election on a different party ticket, saying leaders like him were “unfairly treated” from the day the Modi government was formed. But the Bollywood-actorturned politician also made it clear that he would not shift from the Patna Sahib constituency seat in Bihar from where he has

been elected to the Lok Sabha. “I have offers from other parties. Whether I serve through my party or some other parties or even contest independently, it hardly matters,” he told TimesNow. “There were rumours in the last elections too that I will not get ticket from the BJP. But I got the ticket. (In 2014) My name was announced at the last moment from the same seat. Now, I am again hearing these rumours,” Sinha said.

Communal violence claimed 300 lives: Govt informs RS

Vehicles set on fire after a clash between two communities in Kanpur.

NEW DELHI, MAR 28 (AGENCIES): Nearly 300 people, including 111 in 2017 alone, were killed in various incidents of communal violence in last three years across India, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Han-

India condemns missile attacks on Saudi Arabia

New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI): India today strongly condemned renewed missile attacks targeting civilian areas in Riyadh and other cities of Saudi Arabia, and reiterated its resolve to fight terrorism and violence in all its forms.

According to Saudi authorities, one person was killed after seven missiles were fired from Yemen by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday.

“We strongly condemn the renewed missile attacks targeting civilian areas in the direction of Riyadh and other cities of Saudi Arabia. We are deeply concerned about the escalating situation threatening the lives of innocent civilians. We reiterate our resolve to fight terrorism and violence in all its forms,” the External Affairs Ministry spokesperson said.

The missiles were fired at four targets, including the capital city of Riyadh, and all were intercepted and destroyed, said spokesman of the Saudi coalition forces for supporting the legitimacy in Yemen Colonel Turki Al-Malki in a statement yesterday.

Fragments from the intercepted missiles killed an Egyptian resident, the statement added.

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sraj Gangaram Ahir said 111 people were killed and 2,384 others were injured in 822 communal incidents in the country in 2017.

In 2017, the highest 44 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh in 195 communal incidents, followed by 12 deaths in 91 such incidents

in Rajasthan.

In 2016, 86 people were killed and 2,321 others were injured in 703 communal incidents in the country. That year, among all the states, Uttar Pradesh had seen 162 communal incidents in which 29 people were killed.

As many as 12 people were killed in 101 communal incidents in Karnataka in 2016.

In 2015, 97 people were killed and 2,264 others were injured in 751 communal incidents in the country.

In 2015, among all the states, the highest 22 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh in such incidents, followed by 20 in Bihar and 14 in Maharashtra.

Centre seeks WB report on violence during Ram Navami New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI): The Centre has sought a report from the West Bengal government on incidents of arson and violence during Ram Navami processions in the last two days and offered assistance to deal with the situation, an official spokesperson said.

In a communication, the Ministry of Home Affairs asked the West Bengal government to send a report about the incident, the steps being taken to restore normalcy and the action taken against those involved in the violence.

The Centre also offered assistance of para-

military forces in the light of reports of continuing violence and tension in some districts of the state, the MHA spokesperson said.

At least two persons were killed and nearly a dozen others injured, some of them seriously, in intermittent violence involving Ramanavami processions at various places in West Bengal, including Purulia, Murshidabad, Bardhman West and Raniganj.

The injured included several policemen with a senior police officer losing a hand after a bomb was hurled at him during a clash in Raniganj area.

MPs meet PM to discuss verdict on SC/ST atrocities act

New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI): A delegation of NDA’s SC and ST MPs, led by LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan and Union Social Justice Minister Thawarchand Gehlot, today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the apex court judgement diluting provisions of the SC-ST atrocities act.

“It was a good and elaborate discussion with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Supreme Court judgement on the SC/ST atrocities act. Modi-ji listened to us and heard our concerns,” Paswan told reporters after the meeting. On March 20, the Supreme Court diluted stringent provisions mandating immediate arrest under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities (POA) Act. It took note of the rampant misuse of the stringent Act against government servants and held that a public servant can only be arrested after approval of the appointing authority. A non-public servant can be arrested after approval by the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) which may be granted in appropriate cases if considered necessary for reasons recorded, it said.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 28 (PTI): There is no proposal to replace the National Pension System (NPS) with the old pension scheme, the Lok Sabha was informed Wednesday.

The NPS gives the utmost importance to the welfare of subscribers, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said in a written reply. “Representations have been received regarding the implementation of NPS which,

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inter alia, include the demand that the NPS may be scrapped and the government may re-introduce the old defined benefit pension system,” the minister added. The government made a conscious move to shift from the defined benefit pay-as-you-go pension scheme to the defined contribution system, now called NPS, after considering the “rising and unsustainable pension bill”, he said.

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“As far as April 2, 2018 is concerned, since it has been declared as a holiday to enable the banks to close their yearly accounts, although RBI offices will work on that day, centralised payment systems such as the RTGS and NEFT will not be operational on that day,” the statement added.

New Delhi, Mar 28 (Agencies): IDBI Bank Ltd has said that fraudulent loans of Rs 772 crore were issued from five of its branches in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, sending its shares lower on Wednesday. IDBI shares fell as much as 3.5 percent to 73.6 rupees by mid-session, while the index for public sector lenders Nifty PSU Bank index dropped as much as 1.8 percent, reported Zeenews.

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Mumbai, Mar 28 (IANS): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced special measures for transaction of central and state government business by banks handling government accounts on March 31 in view of the closing of the financial year on that day. In a release late on Tuesday, the RBI also said special arrangements have been made to conduct special clearing operations on March 31 in order to facilitate government receipts and payments.

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D I M A P UR , M AR 2 8 (NPN): “Easy Go”, a consultancy dealing service has been opened at 2nd floor, Khakhus building, Nyamo Lotha road, near foot bridge, Dimapur on Wednesday.

Proprietor Lovito Zhimomi said that it will offer services such as tax service, cab, courier services for local deliveries and skilled men power services (electrician, mason, painter and plumbers etc) at the initial stage.

He mentioned that the service will also cover seasonal services that includes wedding planning, catering, events and photography for events, lifestyle etc in the later stage.

Zhimomi said that the concept of the service was to provide door step services such as in cities so that one need not go out and stand in a queue and on the other hand provide employment opportunities to the locals.

He also looked forward for more venture registration with “Easy Go” services in the days to come.

During the short programme, dedicatory prayer was proposed by Thahekhu village Baptist church pastor Tovishe.

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government will have to develop clear protocol on how you share the data, what are the conditions under which it should be shared because it’s also about state capacity,” he said. GSTN is handling the IT backbone for the new indirect tax regime.

So far 1.05 crore businesses have registered on the portal and are required to file GST returns periodically.

He said most countries compute economic growth data from demand side, as against the consumption led estimates by India. The GST data, Subramanian said, could help in computing GDP growth based on demand side data on quarterly basis. “We (GSTN)

estimates.

In 11 months till February, over Rs 5.29 lakh crore has been transferred to state governments as devolution of share of taxes by the Centre, which is Rs 66,039 crore higher than the corresponding period of last year 2016-17.

Total expenditure incurred by the government during the period was over Rs 19.99 lakh crore, which is 90.14 per cent of revised estimates for 2017-18.

Of this, Rs 17.02 lakh crore is on revenue account and Rs 2.97 lakh crore is on capital account.

Of the total revenue expenditure, Rs 4.50 lakh crore is on account of interest payments and Rs 2.27 lakh crore is on account of major subsidies.

In the Budget for 201819 presented on February 1, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had revised upwards the fiscal deficit target to 3.5 per cent of the GDP for 2017-18, as against the initial target of 3.2 per cent, on account of GST implementation and deferment of spectrum auction. The fiscal deficit or gap between total expenditure and revenues has been pegged at 3.3 per cent for 2018-19.

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are just at early stages. In terms of what kind of skill and training the GSTN have to acquire, the breadth will have to be increased much more than what it is.

In initial stage it (GSTN) is much more IT focussed, fire fighting focussed. Over time this is going to evolve much more,” he said. The Rs 86,000 crore monthly revenue collection under GST reflect a “decent performance”.

“I think there is going to be enormous scope for increasing tax buoyancy because we are only beginning to start (getting) the benefits from (invoice) matching, e-way bill and further simplification... I expect GST to be a highly buoyant source of revenue over the medium term,” Subramanian said.

Observing that honest bureaucrats are often not willing to take bold decision because of the fear of investigative agencies, he said GSTN “is a genius of public private partnership where you actually facilitate bold decision making, which I think has been exceptional”.

New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI): India’s fiscal deficit soared to Rs 7.15 lakh crore at the end of February, exceeding the revised target of Rs 5.94 lakh crore for the entire 2017-18 fiscal.

As per data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), fiscal deficit for April-February was 120 per cent of the revised estimates on account of increased expenditure and subdued revenue receipts.

The monthly account till February-end revealed that the government has collected Rs 12.83 lakh crore revenue, which is 79.09 per cent of revised estimates.

Of this, over Rs 10.35 lakh crore is collected from taxes, while over Rs 1.42 lakh crore and Rs 1.05 lakh crore accrued on account of non-tax revenue and non-debt capital receipts, respectively.

Non-debt capital receipts consist of recovery of loans of Rs 13,301 crore.

Besides, Rs 92,493 crore has been mopped up through PSU disinvestment till February-end. In the revised estimates of 2017-18, the government had raised the disinvestment target to Rs 1 lakh crore, up from Rs 72,500 crore in the Budget

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NEW DELHI, Mar 28 (PTI): Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian on Wednesday made a case for developing a clear protocol for sharing of GST data with government departments, saying it is a reflection on state’s capacity and can also be used to estimate GDP in a better manner.

He further said that the introduction of e-way bill and matching of invoices will enormously help in increasing tax buoyancy and revenue collection.

Speaking at an event to mark GST Network Foundation Day, Subramanian said GST data will provide better insights into economy, formal sector employment and exports and has the potential to improve statistical indicators on a real-time basis. “The GST data, which GSTN is compiling, will truly transform the way we estimate all our numbers...

On monthly basis we can produce high frequency numbers on the economy which we could not do earlier. “That means that you (GSTN) and other parts of

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China to share B’putra river data with India

because of the renovation of the data sharing stations, experts say it was a water war waged by China due to Doklam.

Meanwhile, the 11th meeting of the India-China Expert Level Mechanism (ELM) on Trans-Border Rivers concluded on Tuesday.

The Indian side was led by Teerath Singh Mehra, Commissioner (B&B), Ministry of Water Resources, and the Chinese side by Yu Xingjun, Consul, Department of International Cooperation Science and Technology, Ministry of Water Resources.

The meeting reviewed the progress made since the earlier meetings of the ELM and their continued cooperation on the provision of hydrological information and emergency management in respect of trans-border rivers, the Indian Embassy said in a statement.

The officials also reviewed the data utilisation report upon provision of hydrological information provided by China to India in flood season on Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers.

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9 Attack on Facebook privacy settings Suu Kyi’s close aide elected Brazilian new Myanmar President revamped after data scandal former Prez entourage WASHINGTON, MAR present, mobile users see 28 (IANS): Facebook on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its privacy tools that will make it easier for users to find and edit the personal information the company holds.

The move followed intense criticism of the social media giant after it emerged that data of about 50 million users had been harvested and passed on to political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, the BBC reported.

The London-based political research organisation, which collaborated with the election campaign of Donald Trump in the runup to the 2016 US vote, used the leaked information to develop a computer programme to predict the decisions of US voters and influence them.

However, Facebook said the revamp was already in the works ahead of the scandal in order to comply with new EU rules.

The announcement coincided with a fresh dispute with New Zealand’s privacy watchdog, which accused Facebook of being in breach of local laws.

The changes fell into three categories and were announced in a blog. At

a list of about 17 different options, each of which is marked by a short title.

However, the new version regroups the controls and adds descriptions to make it simpler.

Now, there is a new privacy shortcuts menu. The dashboard brings together what the firm said “were the most critical controls into a single place. It suggested this will make it faster for people to do things such as review the posts they have shared or reacted to, and to limit the information used to target ads at them.

Also, a new page called Access Your Information allows users to review past interactions with the site -- including the things they have “liked” and the comments they have posted -- with the option to make deletions.

In addition, members will be able to download specific categories of data -- including their photos -from a selected time range, rather than only being able to export a single large file that might take hours to obtain. The action preceded the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which will come into force on May 25.

RIO DE JANEIRO, MAR 28 (IANS): The entourage of Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was hit by gunshots in southern Brazil, his Workers’ Party said.

One of the buses in a caravan for Lula’s campaign tour was shot at four times in the state of Parana on Tuesday. No one was injured and Lula was not in one of the buses, Xinhua news agency reported.

Lula was Brazil’s President from 2003 to 2010 and had been travelling around the country seeking support for another Presidential run in October.

However, the buses in which Lula’s campaign group travels have already been hit with rocks and eggs along the tour. On his Twitter account, the former President called the attackers “fascists”. “Our caravan is being stalked by fascist groups. They have thrown eggs and rocks. Today they even shot at the bus,” he tweeted. The police were investigating the case, which the Workers’ Party’s President Gleisi Hoffmann called an “ambush”. Public Security Minister Raul Jungmann said he asked the local authorities to double their efforts on the case.

B E I J I N G, M A R 2 8 (IANS): China on Wednesday said it has agreed to share the Brahmaputra river water data with India, which it had withheld last year after the Doklam military stand-off.

The announcement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry came a day after India and China held talks over the trans-border rivers in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

“The 11th meeting of the India-China Expert Level Mechanism was held in Hangzhou and the two sides reviewed the achievements made by the previous meetings as well as bilateral cooperation on emergency response and hydrological information provision,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said.

“The two sides agreed to continue with such cooperation on the grounds of humanitarian principles, and on the basis of bilateral relations, China will continue with its cooperation with the Indian side on the provision of hydrological information and emergency response cooperation,” Lu said in a

response to a question by the Indian media.

The Brahmaputra originates from China’s Tibet and flows into Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

For India, hydrological data is helpful in preparing for the floods its northeast states.

India had complained that it did not receive hydrological data from China.

Under an agreement, Beijing is supposed to share the river data with India, but it stopped last year after the two armies had a 73day face off at Doklam in the eastern sector of their border.

Although Beijing said that it was unable to do that

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Yemen’s education system Kim pledges commitment to denuclearisation devastated by conflict: UNICEF

Girl students look at a school that was damaged in an air strike in the southern Yemeni city of Taez. (File AFP)

U N I T E D NAT I O N S, MAR 28 (IANS): Yemen’s education system has been devastated by the country’s brutal conflict, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said here on Tuesday, reporting that at least half a million children have dropped out of school since the escalation of the war in 2015.

“An entire generation of children in Yemen faces a bleak future because of limited or no access to education,” said Meritxell Relano, UNICEF Representative in Yemen.

“Even those who remain in school are not getting the quality education they need.”

The total number of

out-of-school children now stands at about 2 million, and almost three quarters of public school teachers have not been paid their salaries in over a year, putting the education of an additional 4.5 million children at grave risk, Xinhua reported. More than 2,500 schools are out of use, with two thirds damaged by attacks, 27 per cent closed and 7 per cent used for military purposes or as shelters for displaced people. Children risk being killed on their way to school. Fearing for their children’s safety, many parents choose to keep their children at home, according to UNICEF. The lack of access

to education has pushed children and families to dangerous alternatives, including early marriage, child labour and recruitment into the fighting.

UNICEF appeals to the warring parties, those who have influence on them, government authorities and donors to put an end to the war, pay teachers, protect children’s education unconditionally, and increase funding for education.

On March 26, 2015, a coalition of countries led

by Saudi Arabia intervened militarily at the request of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi to secure the return of the government to Sanaa, which had been seized by Houthi militias and allied units of the armed forces when the conflict initially erupted in 2014.

Three years on, the fighting is still raging and the United Nations has listed Yemen as the country of the world’s number one humanitarian crisis, where seven million Yemenis are on the brink of famine.

B E I J I N G, M A R 2 8 (IANS): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made an unannounced visit to China and met President Xi Jinping reaffirming his commitment to denuclearization, weeks before planned summit meetings with US and South Korean leaders, Chinese and North Korean media said on Wednesday.

Kim, 34, made the visit to China at the invitation of Xi, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol-ju and key officials, including de facto No. 2 figure Choe Ryong-hae, according to North Korea’s state news agency.

The two leaders held talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan held a welcoming banquet for Kim and his wife and watched an art performance together, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

It was Kim’s first trip outside North Korea since he took power in 2011 and his first meeting with another head of state.

His trip unfolded in extraordinary secrecy and security. It was officially confirmed only after he

NAY PYI TAW, MAR 28 (IANS): Myanmar’s Parliament on Wednesday elected Win Myint, close aide of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and former Speaker of the lower house, as the country’s next President, a week after the resignation of his predecessor.

Win Myint, 66, has been the Speaker since 2012 and was widely tipped for the top job. However, his role will be essentially ceremonial, with Suu Kyi acting as de facto President, the BBC reported.

Win Myint’s appointment came after Htin Kyaw resigned as President last week amid growing health concerns. Parliament then had seven days to choose a successor and voted from a

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left Beijing on the same armoured train that stirred speculation when it arrived mysteriously in the Chinese capital on Monday.

K i m ’s f a t h e r a n d grandfather, the North’s former leaders, used similar trains for foreign trips.

Xinhua described the North Korean leader’s visit as “unofficial” and said during the talks, Xi expressed “warm welcome” on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to Kim. Kim told Xi that he was “open to dialogue with the US, including a potential summit meeting with US President Donald Trump and was committed to the denuclearization

of the Korean Peninsula”, it said.

Kim is due to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in next month and US President Donald Trump in May on North Korea’s nuclear tests.

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short-list of the three Vice Presidents on Wednesday.

Earlier last week, Win Myint was made a Vice President, signalling that he was likely to assume the presidency.

As a long-time member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, Win Myint is seen as a Suu Kyi loyalist. The other two Vice Presidents were Myint Swe, who served as acting President after Htin Kyaw stepped down, and Henry Van Thio.

Win Myint won the election with 403 votes as a total of 636 MPs voted in Parliament. Of the votes cast, four were cancelled.

Myint Swe won 211 votes and Henry Van Thio gained 18 votes.

arization of the Korean Peninsula can be resolved if South Korea and the US respond to our efforts with goodwill, create an atmosphere of peace and stability while taking progressive and synchronous measures for the realization of peace,” Kim said.

The North’s leader told Xi that the situation on the Korean Peninsula was starting to “get better” as it has taken an initiative to ease tensions and propose for peace talks, the news agency said.

“It is our consistent stand to be committed to denuclearisation on the peninsula, in accordance with the will of late President Kim Il Sung and late General Secretary Kim Jong Il,” Kim told Xi.

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CAIRO, MAR 28 (IANS): Egyptians continued to head to the voting booths on Wednesday on what was the third and final day of the presidential elections in which incumbent President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to ease to victory. The country’s nearly 60 million eligible voters have the chance to choose between Al-Sisi and Chairman of the liberal Ghad Party Moussa Mostafa Moussa, Efe news reported.

Emad al-Zarif, one of the voters lining up at one of the polling stations in Cairo’s Zamalek district, said the voting process was “very easy,” adding that his entire family went to cast their ballots.

The Egyptian National Electoral Authority confirmed that no incidents were recorded during the three-day elections so far.

The final results are expected to be officially announced on April 2.

The elections, which were held under tight security, were supervised by nine Arab and international organisations and 50 local civil organisations, as well as the Arab League and the African Union.

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Aung San Suu Kyi (right) and Win Myint (left) attend a parliament session to elect the country’s new president, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 28. (IREUTERS)

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The Tata Trusts’ is looking for committed Professionals to fill the following posts for the Handloom Development project “Charkha to Market” Program Officer : Textile Design (1 Position) Knowledge, Experience, Qualification 1. Desirable minimum 5 years in the domain of woven textile production, preferably handloom textiles 2. Graduate degree in textile design from NIFT/NID 3. Thorough knowledge of textile design particularly of Handlooms textiles 4. Subject expertise in woven textiles, hand spinning, dyeing (preferably natural dyeing) 5. Well versed in Nagamese

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Program Officer : Business/Fashion Management (1 Position) Knowledge, Experience, Qualification 1. Thorough knowledge of fashion management/business management 2. Subject expertise in micro-enterprise development/rural livelihoods 3. Desirable minimum 5 years in the domain of rural livelihoods/micro-enterprise development/handloom sector 4. Post Graduate degree in Fashion Management from NIFT or any other reputed institution/ Post Graduate in Business Management from reputed university/institution 5. Well versed in Nagamese Job Posting : Dimapur, Nagaland Salary : Will be competitive and shall be commensurate with experience Application Procedures: Your application should be sent to crafts@tatatrusts.org by April 3, 2018 consisting of : a) Curriculum Vitae (CV) with all contact details

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“Only short listed candidates will be contacted for next stage of the selection process” Charkha to Market (C2M) Program is a comprehensive handloom program which aims at arresting drift of weavers, particularly younger generation from the handloom sector. Overarching objective is to create entrepreneur led microenterprises across each element of the value chain viz. pre-loom, on-loom and postloom activities.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018

CCSU assembly adopts resolutions

DIMAPUR: Confederation of Chang Students’ Union (CCSU) adopted a four-point resolution on its 55th federal assembly session held at Kumpüng village. According to CCSU president, Chingmak and general secretary C. Pongsu Kumchuba, the grade-IV recruitment in district offices of the department shall be filled up by indigenous inhabitants of the district.

The confederation appealed to the government to withdraw all the non-indigenous

appointees. CCSU resolved that all HODs and employees of the government established department in Tuensang should remain in station and perform the assigned duties diligently.

Also, hunting will be strictly prohibited under Chang jurisdiction from January to October wherein violators will be penalised. It also resolved to not allow declaring holidays in schools/ institutions due to any festival or celebration other than national holidays.

Government reconstitutes SAC

Officials and organizers at the two-day regional workshop on rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.

DIMAPUR: Representing the Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA), Master Trainer (MT), Tongpang Jamir, attended the two-day regional workshop on rehabilitation of persons with disabilities with special reference to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

A press release by NSLSA said that the workshop was organised by Ali

Yavar National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities in collaboration with Office of the Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Government of Manipur at Imphal on March 27-28.

The release stated that the speakers in the programme spoke on rehabilitation facilities for PwDs in Nagaland- an overview, latest trends in educational options and

opportunities for children with hearing impairment, welfare schemes for persons with disabilities.

The workshop also witnessed a panel discussion and group discussion on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and skill development programme for persons with disabilities. Representatives from the North East states attended the workshop.

DIMAPUR: Government of Nagaland has reconstituted the State Advisory Committee (SAC) with minister/ parliamentary secretary/advisor, to the government of Nagaland, Labour Department, as the chairperson with immediate effect. According to a DIPR report, commissioner and secretary /secretary L&E department will be the member secretary while Minister Planning & Coordination; Minister/Advisor (DUDA); Joint Secretary, Labour Department; Labour Commissioner, Labour Department; John Kath (Employers’ Representative); NtsenthungTungoe (Employers’ Representative); Sunep Jamir (Workers’ Representative); KhrievinuoMetha (Workers’ Representative); Er. Richard Belho (Representing Architect Engineers) and the Branch Manager, LICI, Kohima will be members.

The report stated that other than commissioner and secretary /secretary L&E department, Joint Secretary, Labour Department; Labour Commissioner, Labour Department, all members “shall hold as such for a period of three years from the date of this notification.”

NTCP review meeting held in Dimapur DIMAPUR: Nagaland Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) coordination committee’s review meeting for the 4th quarter 2017-18 for Dimapur district was held at the conference hall of Dimapur deputy commissioner, on March 27.

According to a DIPR report, ADC Dimapur, Sara Jamir, who chaired the review meeting, welcomed all the officers and representatives from schools and colleges. During the meeting tobacco free certificates were awarded to 3 schools and 1 college: G. Mhinsiu School Burma Camp, St. Thomas Higher Secondary School, Naga Gaon, St. Francis De Sale School, Phiphema and Yemhi Memorial College, Neoali Basti. The certificates were handed over by ADC, Sara Jamir, DPRO Dimapur, Lolano Patton, deputy CMO, Dr. Antoly and liaison officer, DMC, G. Sharma.

Dr. C. Tetseo (DNO, NTCP) highlighted the 2016-17 global adult tobacco survey with a presentation. He said that

TCD to organize ‘Walk For Cleanliness’

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, MAR 28 (NPN): Team Clean Dimapur (TCD), a group of young people who have been voluntarily engaged in organizing cleanliness drives in and around Dimapur city, will be organizing a ‘Walk For Cleanliness’ on March 31.

The walk, scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m. will start from PWD junction, head to Dhobinalla, then to Nyamo Lotha Road and culminate at Super Market.

TCD has invited all concerned citizens to come and be a part of the event to help Child help foundation (CHF), Dimapur branch visited Y. Zhimo Colony, signal keep the city clean. The event also marks Basti area, Dimapur on March 28, wherein the foundation gave blankets to the first anniversary of TCD’s formation.

44 fire affected children. The project was coordinated by Yashimenla Lemtor TCD members also confirmed that of Child help foundation Dimapur branch. students from various schools and colleges

NTCP coordination committee review meeting for Dimapur district in progress at DC’s conference hall, Dimapur on March 27. (DIPR)

the tobacco free campaign was a continuous journey which needed to keep improving. He wished success to the schools and colleges in their campaign to make their institutions tobacco free zones.

Principal, St. John High School, Diphupar, Johnny Abraham, while sharing his experiences, said with the awards, responsibilities of the schools/ colleges increase also. He suggested the forming of

Dmu police nab one for extortion

in Dimapur had assured of their participation. Members of Tenyimia Students Union Dimapur will also participate in event and more than 500 people are expected to come together for the event. It may be mentioned here that TCD had been actively organizing mass social works, cleanliness drives, installation of garbage bins at strategic locations in the city and poster campaigns on hygiene. The group also collaborated with Dimapur Municipal Council on numerous occasions to create awareness on proper disposal of garbage. The group has extended its invitation to all citizens of the city, especially the youth, to be part of the cleanliness initiative which should go a long way in creating a healthier and The accused along with the seized items and cash. greener Dimapur.

Meeting for PwDs in Tuensang

DIMAPUR: A First Tuensang District Level Consultations for Inclusion and Participation of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) meeting was held on March 28 under the Chairmanship of Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), Tuensang, Albert Ezung.

According to DIPR, the house was apprised of the directives given by the election commission regarding providing facilities to Government High School, Darogapathar, Dimapur, held its Annual Sports persons with disabilities, by the ADC. Meet 2018 from March 26 to 28.

He also said the each elector was important for better functioning of democ-

racy and they must get their rights. The election commission focuses especially on PWDs to participate in the election process with their inclusion in the electoral Roll and encouraging them to exercise their franchise, he added.

He urged the members to have an action plan in the District level and make it its basic fundamental responsibility to identify PwDs and once they are identified they need to be sensitized.

The meeting was attended by the District Administration, Chief Medical Officer, Welfare depart-

a committee by roping in parents, teachers and members from village authorities in order to create more awareness amongst children about tobacco health hazards. He said change should start from the home to make the child and family tobacco free.

In her concluding remarks, the chairperson congratulated all the tobacco free schools and encouraged them to continue in their campaign.

DIMAPUR: Dimapur police along with AET zoneII party while performing ment, Education depart- surveillance duty in and ment, DPRO, Tuensang and around Dimapur’s DhoAssistant Election Officer binala area, nabbed one person near the traffic point Tuensang.

for demanding money from business establishments.

According to Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police/PRO, Dimapur, during the arrest, the accused tried to flee by pulling out a pistol and threatening to fire upon the officer on duty, but was overpowered. The accused has been identified as Pukhato Kiba (Nikato Kiba) (19) son of Atol Kiba, and a permanent resident of Zhekishe village under Niuland police station /post office.

The PRO said that one .22 pistol with magazine, one .22 live round and Rs. 3915 cash was recovered from his possession.

A case in this connection has been registered and further investigation on.

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Loving Parents and families

BORN : 6/9/1958 – Died : 15/3/2018

“I have fought the good fight,I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

2 Timothy 4:7

There are no words that seem adequate enough to say thank you to everyone who expressed their love and sympathy and also helping us through physically, spiritually and financially during the short illness and demise of our beloved Lt. Gwasolo Kent, S/o Lt. Daniel Kent. We the family also have immense gratitude to each and every one who accompanied us in his cortege from Dimapur to Tseminyu on 16th March 2018.

We like to give special thanks to: 1. Dimapur Rengma Baptist Church (Khermahal) 2. Rengma Baptist Church Sovima 3. T. Zisunyu Baptist Church 4. Tseminyu old town Baptist church 5. Tseminyu Union Dimapur 6. Dimapur Rengma Baptist Church Nagarjan Fellowship.

7. Doctors and staff of Zion hospital Dimapur 8. Officers hill Colony Council Kohima 9. Ao NCRC Kohima (Officers Hill Colony Kohima).

There are many individuals and families who helped us greatly in our recent bereavement but we greatly regret our inability to mention and thank each and every one of you but it is our sincere prayer that God Bless you all abundantly.

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We the bereaved family of Lt. Wesete Rhakho would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to one and all who have stood by us and helped us physically, financially and spiritually at the demise of our beloved on 17th March 2018. Though words are not enough, may God bless you all.

We the bereaved family of Late Müleyi Ringa would like to acknowledge our sincere appreciation to each and every individual, families, friends, neighbors, churches and organizations who supported us physically, morally, financially and materially and through prayers during the prolonged illness and at the sad demise of our beloved on 23rd Feb. 2018.

We deeply regret our inability to personally acknowledge each and every individual and groups, however it is our earnest prayer that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Born on : 17-01-1942 – Died on : 24-03-2018 We, the bereaved family members of Late J. Benli Longchar (Nokpu) Dimapur, express our heartfelt gratitude to all those who stood by us at his sudden demise. We are indebted to all who graciously extended prayer, financial help and moral support. We deeply regret and apologize for our inability to mention all the names individually, but Almighty God bless abundantly for your gracious deeds.

Beloved children, grandchildren, in-laws and family members

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We, the bereaved family members of Late Niheto Achumi wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, relatives, neighbours, unions, churches, village council, friends and well-wishers who have extended your love and concern at the demise of our beloved father through your physical presence, financial, spiritual and material support.

We can never repay the act of kindness you have shown to us, but it is our earnest prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

LATE NIHETO ACHUMI

Loving wife, children and family members

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spokesperson informed that the said expenses did not pertain merely to serving tea, but also snacks, meals, refreshments served at cabinet meetings, flowers and garlands for felicitations, gifts, shawls, coconuts at various departmental meetings, functions and for delegations.

Besides, the expenses cited in the RTI reply included not only Mantralaya (the state government’s headquarters in Mumbai), but also CM’s official residence ‘Varsha’, the Sahyadri Government Guest House, the CM’s official residence Ramgiri in Nagpur and the Hyderabad House there.

Justifying the hike in expenditure, the CMO pointed out there has been

“a stupendous increase in the number of visitors meeting (Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra) Fadnavis, Indian and foreign delegations, business groups and prominent personalities.”

Responding, Nirupam said that the RTI query pertained specifically to tea and snacks, so how come all these other expenses at multiple locations came to be included by the CMO now, and termed it as “unbelievable”.

Earlier, seeking to know “what kind of tea is Fadnavis drinking, since we have heard of only green tea, yellow tea and so on”, Nirupam sarcastically observed that “the CM and CMO seem to be indulging in some kind of highly expensive ‘golden’ tea’ to mount up such a huge bill”.

In contrast, he said it’s an irony that farmers are dying daily in Maharashtra, but the CMO seems to be incurring an unprecedented expense on “serving tea worth crores of rupees”.

Alleging corruption in the tea bills of the CMO, he said: “On one hand, the

Prime Minister takes great pride in saying that he was a ‘Chaiwala’. On the other hand, Fadnavis has clearly taken this a bit too far with the massive and unnecessary expense incurred on serving tea in his office. Both the PM and the Maharashtra CM are taking the country for a ride in the name of chai.”

To a question whether its practical or feasible to serve tea to more than 18,000 people in the CMO every day, Nirupam quipped that “those Mantralaya rats must be drinking it all up...!”

He was referring to an alleged scam highlighted

by Bharatiya Janata Party ex-minister Eknath Khadse, who claimed that around 319,400 rats were eliminated in just one week in Mantralaya. Later, the state government said he was referring to 319,400 doses of rat poison which were deployed in Mantralaya to kill the rodents. Nirupam said the huge expenses or the inflated bills for serving tea at the CMO is happening right under the CM’s nose and needs to be probed as it is done at the cost of honest tax payers’ money.

Marginal shortage of pilots in IAF: Minister

Nirmala Sitharaman

New Delhi, Mar 28 (IANS): There is a marginal shortage of pilots in the Indian Air Force, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, though it did not give the exact figures.

“There is a marginal shortage of pilots in the Indian Air Force against the authorised establishment.

However, the available strength of pilots in the IAF is sufficient to meet the current operational requirements,” Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply.

“With the accretions sanctioned by the government in the recent past, these shortages will be mitigated,” the Minister said.

In the Navy, the pilot shortage is 82 as against the sanctioned strength, while this figure for the Army is 192.

Students fume on re-exam decision by CBSE Government sends SIT set up to probe CBSE paper leak

notice to Facebook

New Delhi, Mar 28 (IANS): The CBSE faced a hailstorm of rebukes and criticism on Wednesday after it announced that two papers of class X and XII will be re-conducted on account of their being leaked earlier, with the victims admitting the incident has shaken their faith in the school board.

Parents and students in unison dubbed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) “incompetent” and flayed it for “playing with the future of the students” by re-conducting the maths and economics exams for Class X and Class XII respectively.

“We all are very affected with the news. Why could the CBSE not keep the question paper safe?

It speaks a lot about its incompetency,” Tishita Chopra, mother of a Class X student of Shiv Nadar School, told IANS. Chopra raised some pertinent questions on the functioning of the board

when she said “why did it not have any alternate paper” when it came to know of the leak well before the exam and “why did it not cancel the paper” in the first place, instead of reconducting it now.

Sharma said she was confident of having done well in her maths exams but is a student of Sardar Patel School in Delhi, Ojas, charged the board with acting like an “absolute authority”. “We were shocked to hear of the news. CBSE knew of the rumours earlier of the paper leaks but it issued a note saying there was no paper leak and went ahead with the exam.

“It reacted very casually then. When a government authority issues a statement we take it very seriously... this is how it (CBSE) is ruining the future of students,” Ojas told IANS. This year, 16,38,428 students registered for Class X and 11,86,306 for the Class XII board examinations.

ENCSU makes final plea for SIT report on PMS

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(From p-1) ENCSU also asked the present government to respond whether those involved in misuse of PMS fund and mismanagement of state government fund would be awarded punishment as per the law.

Meanwhile, ENCSU has expressed surprise that the department of higher education and the state government were confusing the Naga students on the release of scholarship.

The union also termed as “unfortunate” that finance department had to make alternative arrangements for scholarship.

However, it said that there has been no response from department and the home commissioner on why it could not receive the final instalment from the central ministry.

F u r t h e r, E N C S U sought to know how the department could adjust the first instalment of 2017-18 amount sanctioned from the central ministry for 2016-17 scholarship. It reminded that students’ scholarship was a scheme from the ministry of tribal affairs. ENCSU has also appealed to all the Naga apex organisations to keep an eye on scholarship.

NEW DELHI, MAR 38 (AGENCIES): The Congress, backed by several opposition parties, is reportedly leading efforts to bring an impeachment motion in parliament against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. The parties are circulating an unprecedented petition for sacking the top judge, leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have confirmed, reports the NDTV. NCP’s Majeed Memon said 20 signatures have been collected so far.

Three Congress leaders, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Ahmed Patel have reportedly signed the petition and five more signatories are from the NCP. Congress leaders said nothing on record on the move that has been confirmed mainly by NCP leaders Majid Memon and DP Tripathi.

“The Congress as the

D e l h i Po l i c e o n Wednesday set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of its Crime Branch to probe the alleged leak of CBSE’s Class 10 and 12 examination papers.

“The SIT is headed by Joint Commissioner Alok Kumar.

It will also have DCP and ACP rank officers conducting the probe,” Special Commissioner of Police R.P. Upadhayay told IANS. The SIT was formed after the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) registered two cases with the Crime Branch.

The first case was registered on Tuesday evening about Class 12 economics question paper leak and the second related to leak of Class 10 maths paper was filed on Wednesday.

The new dates for the examinations and other details will be announced on the CBSE website within a week.

largest opposition party has belatedly initiated the proceedings for impeachment of the Chief Justice of India,” Majid Memon said on Tuesday.

His colleague DP Tripathi said: “I have signed it and others are also signing it and the process is going on.” The CPI-M and CPI have also signed the petition, he said.

The Samajwadi Party today said it supports the petition. “The Samajwadi Party stands with the impeachment motion, which is about bringing independence and unquestionable integrity to the judiciary,” SP leader Ghanshyam Tiwari told news agency ANI. Tripathi said it is not just corruption, but “the charges are far more serious” and it emanates from the letter that four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court had earlier written stating that there

New Delhi, Mar 28 (AGENCIES): After sending notice to the U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica last week,the Government of India has now sent a notice to Facebook amid controversy over misuse of its users’ data.

The government has raised five questions, including whether the personal data of Indian voters and users have been compromised, and specific steps proposed to be taken to prevent any misuse of personal data for potential interference in, or manipulation of, the Indian electoral process.

The government has asked Facebook to reply

by April 7.

“Facebook today has its largest footprint in India in terms of its user base and therefore what proactive measures are being taken to ensure the safety, security and privacy of such large user data and to prevent its

was danger to the independence of judiciary.

The petition refers to allegations that sensitive cases were assigned to handpicked judges and the most-senior judges were ignored; the allegations were raised in January by the four top judges of the Supreme Court after the Chief Justice. To move an impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of India, signatures of 100 MPs are needed in Lok Sabha. In Rajya Sabha, signatures of 50 members are required.

Leaders of several opposition parties reportedly met and discussed the issue with the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad.

Many opposition leaders, including those from Trinamool Congress, NCP and the CPI(M), have reportedly held discussions over the past few days.

RNPO welcomes NSCN (I-M)’s recognition of three tribes (From –p1) Thanking NSCN/GPRN for ascertaining the fact that the Zeliangrong was never a tribe and never would be in future, but a social organisation for the three kindred tribes, RNPO said it remained truly indebted to the militant outfit for fulfilling the long-felt aspiration of Rongmei people. The organisation also extended its support and co-operation to the ongoing peace process for resolving the decades-old Naga political issue.

Government has asked Facebook to reply by April 7.

misuse by any third party,” the notice states.

The government has asked Facebook whether the social networking site or its related or downstream agencies utilising its data have previously been engaged by any entities to manipulate the Indian electoral process.

In the notice sent to Cambridge Analytica, six questions were posed to it, including a demand to disclose whether data of Indian users was misused and name the entities that used their services.

The company was asked to reply by March 31, and it is yet to respond.

SC notice on plea for excluding SC/ST reservation New Delhi, Mar 28 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Central government spell its position on a plea seeking to leave out the “creamy layer” amongst the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from the ambit of reservation.

The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A.M.Khanwilkar sought the government’s response after Additional Solicitor General P.S. Narasimha told the court that there was no concept of creamy layer in the SC/ ST to be excluded from reservation.

However, he made it clear that he was stating this by way of assisting the bench in his capacity as an officer of the court.

Asking the Centre to state its position on affidavit, the court gave it four weeks time to this and gave petitioner Samta Andolan Samiti two weeks to file its rejoinder as it directed the listing of the matter in second week of July.

Referring to the newspaper reports on the “outrages” being committed on the members of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities across

No action against forest law violation in Guj: CAG Gandhinagar, Mar 28 (IANS): A CAG report has said that despite an order to the Gujarat government to file complaints against Adani Power Limited (APL) for alleged violation of the Forest Conservation Act of 1980 while laying a power transmission line, the state had till date failed to take action in the matter.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) economic report ending March 2017 observed that for the transmission of power produced at Mundra plant, the APL set up high-voltage transmission line in the wildlife protected area of the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK) without prior approval from the central government in 2009.

The LRK is a nesting ground of lesser and greater flamingoes and also a stopover for migratory birds.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER MON : NAGALAND NO.GA/JUD-08/2017-18/2179 Dated Mon 20th Dec. 2017 NOTICE Whereas, an application has been submitted by Shri/Smti Ngaplem Konyak with a prayer for issue of Succession Certificate for drawal of entitled pension dues and any other outstanding dues from the Government of Nagaland on behalf of His/her/wife/ husband deceased Late Along Konyak, Ex Pensioner of PPO NO. NL/3893 under the establishment of SBI Mon A/C NO 11854137192 who expire on 25/11/2017.

Objection are hereby invited from persons having objection or claim for withdrawal of the dues by the applicant within 30 (Thirty) days with effect from the date of issue of this notification. No petition will be entertained after the expiry of the given period.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION NAGALAND, KOHIMA

NO. DTE/SCTE/6/2018-19/ Dated Kohima, the 26th March 2018.

NOTIFICATION

In continuation to this Office Notification of even no. dated 5th March & 7th March 2018, the last date for issue and submission of prescribed application form of Diploma Entrance Examination for admission to 3 (three) years Diploma Courses within the state has been extended to 7th April 2018 in the interest of the students community. Other conditions remain the same.

(ER. ARJUN SINGH) Director Issued by DIPR

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NAGALAND UNIVERSITY

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

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Dated : 28th March, 2018.

SHORT TENDER NOTICE Sealed tenders are invited from the authorized dealers for supply of Furnishing items to Nagaland University, SASRD, Medziphema. Interested parties may download the tender document from the University website: nagalanduniversity.ac.in and submit their quotation along with tender fee of ` 1000/(non-refundable) to Registrar, Nagaland University, Lumami in sealed envelop superscript on the cover "Quotation for supply of furnishing items" and addressed to the undersigned on or before 5th April, 2018 up to 4:00 PM. No tenders will be accepted beyond this date and time.

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the country, the petitioner said that despite the Constitution’s Article 17 that provides for abolishing untouchability, the “amelioration of these communities remain a pipe dream”.

The provisions for reservation in Articles 15 and 16, not to mention Articles 330 and 332 have for long sought to uplift these communities, it said, but noted that only a select few from SC/ST communities continue to reap the benefits of reservation generation after generation while almost the entire community remains deprived.

Articled 15 prohibit discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth and Article 16 guarantees equality

of opportunity in matters of public employment. Article 330 and 332 provides for the reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and the State assemblies.

The petition says that the only way situation can be remedied is to exclude the creamy layer so that only the truly backward in the SC/ST could avail the benefit of reservations.

“It cannot anymore be taken for granted that the entirety of the SC or ST communities are backward and have remained so for nearly 70 years, because that would be a sad commentary on this nation’s governance,” the Samiti said in its petition.

SSA teachers demand release of pending salary

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redressal of the “immeasurable hardships” being faced by the teachers.

Reminding the government that the SSA teachers had not been paid for the last five months (from November 2017 till March this year), the letter said salary payment had been irregular since 2013.

The matter has been made known to the concerned authority a number of times in the form of representations, meetings with authorities concerned and even stirs, it added and recalled the dharna at the directorate of school education office in 2016 where unpaid teachers, including nursing mothers from far flung areas, had participated to show resentment and where the administration had used a water cannon to try and disperse them.

Stating that the SSA teachers were experiencing “dry Christmas” and “dry New Year” for the past four years, the association also lamented that while the authority concerned talked about welfare of school children, the salary of teachers – their only source of income – was held up for several months.

NSSATA said the bright future of students in the State was imperilled as teachers with empty stomachs could not provide quality education.

The open letter was signed by the association’s Wokha unit general secretary Z Libenthung Murry.

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Congress slams Maha CMO’s tea cost of Rs 3.35 cr

Mumbai, Mar 28 (IANS): The Congress’s Mumbai unit on Wednesday alleged a massive “Tea Scam” in Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) where daily, an average of 18,500 cups of the hot beverage are served, costing nearly Rs.3.35 crore.

However, hours later, the CMO denied the allegations hurled by Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam. Furnishing RTI documents, Nirupam said there has been a dramatic and steady increase in the amount of expenses incurred on tea consumption in the CMO in the past three years.

Citing RTI replies, he said the amount spent on tea has risen from Rs 57,99,156 in 2015-2016 to Rs 1,20,92,972 in 2016-2017 and then Rs 3,34,64,905 (almost Rs.3.35 crore) in 2017-18.

“This is a staggering increase of 577 per cent. It means that on an average, daily a whopping 18,591 cups of tea are served in CMO... How is it possible?” he asked.

In a defence, the CMO

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IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT : NAGALAND NOTICE

NO.REV-1/90-D/7612-13

Dt. Dimapur the 10th July'15

Notice is hereby given that Shti/Smti. Regina Rongmei resident of Dimapur who has applied for issue of mortgage clearance concerning to Patta No. 20, Dag No. 37 measuring an area 00-02-15½ located at Block No/Village 09 Mouza No 02 which has been mortgage in the Kuloti Multipurpose Bank/Society.

Claims & Objection if any on the aforesaid land may be submitted in written in the Court of the undersigned on or before 04-04-18.

Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Nagaland

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IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE DIMAPUR, NAGALAND

NOTICE

S/C No. 58/18

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Tekasashi Jamir has been applied

by Shri. Yapang Jamir, G/o Master Tarepmenba Jamir & Sungjemrenba, R/o H.No 28 Sector 'C' Signal Angami Village, Dimapur, Nagaland for possession of : (1) Pension Benefits & other Service benefits.

(2) Nagaland Rural Bank A/C No - 2700900945-9 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may if she/he so desire appear in this Court on or before the said day of 26th April 2018.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this 26th March 2018.

(Neiko Kanuo) Principal District and Sessions Judge Dimapur : Nagaland DP-2514

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LS disrupted again; RS bids farewell to MPs

New Delhi, Mar 28 (IANS): The Lok Sabha saw repeated adjournments and cou ld not take up the no confidence motion once again on Wednesday amid ruckus as Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, angry over the disruptions, threatened to adjourn the house sine die midway through the Budget session.

Disruptions in the Lok Sabha started as soon as it met for the day, and within minutes, it was adjourned to meet at 12 p.m. Mahajan tried to conduct the Question Hour, but her efforts went in vain.

“You are wasting everyone’s time. All MPs are saying they want the House to run or end the session...

I will have to adjourn the House sine die,” an angry Mahajan said.

When the House met at 12 p.m., the scene was no

different, and members from the AIADMK trooped near the Speaker’s podium.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said the government was waiting to discuss the no confidence motion and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said the opposition also wanted to debate it.

“We are ready for a debate... At least 80 people have stood and supported the no confidence motion, I request the Speaker to take it up...” Kharge said amid the din.

Mahajan once again expressed her inability to count the number of MPs supporting the around halfa-dozen no confidence notices, and said that in the din she cannot decide if leave can be granted to take it up. She the adjourned the House till Monday.

Speaking to reporters

outside Parliament, Ananth Kumar, however, ruled out an early end for the Budget session while blaming the Congress and its President Rahul Gandhi for the disruptions in the two Houses.

In the Rajya Sabha order returned briefly for the first time since March 5 as the House assembled to bid farewell to its retiring members.

However, the truce lasted only for the duration of farewell speeches and the members who have been agitating for the last few weeks were again on their feet as soon as the House reassembled after the lunch break.

A majority of the retiring members in their short farewell speeches stressed that there should be more discussion and less disruption in the House. Some even advocated tweaking of

Nirav Modi’s ‘close’ associate arrested by ED

Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien, a Congress member who is also retiring, said that earlier the Minister were grilled by the Members but currently the MPs resort to slogan shouting which gives the Ministers a chance to escape tough questions from the MPs. However, the ruckus returned to the upper House as soon it was reconvened at 3.40 p.m. and Kurien tried to take up a short duration discussion on banking fraud to be moved by BJP’s Roopa Ganguly and Janata Dal United’s Harivansh.

However, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma objected to it, asking the Chair as to why the notices given by the opposition leaders on the same topic (bank fraud) were not being accepted.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Goel said that if the members did not want the short duration discussion, then other government business can be taken up.

Meanwhile the AIADMK, TDP and the opposition members trooped near the Chair’s podium. Earlier, AIADMK member A. Navaneethakrishnan said that back in Tamil Nadu, people were asking AIADMK MPs to resign from Parliament since they could not do anything about the Cauvery water issue.

Amid the pandemonium, Kurien adjourned the House till Monday - as Thursday and Friday are holidays.

JD (U) rejects allegations of using caste surveys

Yogi Adityanath ridicules SP-BSP friendliness

Mumbai/New Delhi, MAR 28 (AGENCIES): A “close” associate and vicepresident of a firm of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering probe in the over Rs 12,000 crore Punjab National Bank scam, officials said on Wednesday.

Shyam Sunder Wadhwa, vice-president of Firestar group, was arrested on Tuesday night under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the officials said.

The arrest was made in connection with the alleged fraudulent issuance of 150 Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) worth Rs 6,498 crore through a Punjab National Bank branch and subsequently laundering of the funds so raised.

Preliminary investigations into the PNB scam involving Nirav and his companies have revealed

that his partnership firms Diamond R US, Solar Exports and Stellar Diamonds had got issued the LoUs between February and May 2017 by suppressing SWIFT transactions from the Bank’s official records.

Of the total amount, about Rs 5064 crore was used allegedly for extinguishing the existing credit liabilities of the buyers, availed earlier from Indian bank branches abroad. The balance amount of Rs 1,448 crore was used for making payment to 17 overseas firms, including Hong Kong-based Aura Gem Company Ltd and Sino Traders Ltd. The ED alleges that Wadhwa, who is also a Chartered Accountant, had made one Kartik Doshi a shareholder in Sino Traders and got him to sign all the relevant documents of the Hong Kong-based company.

“Similarly, Divyesh

India increases aid to $5 mn for Palestinian refugees

CBI issues lookout notice against Punjab CM’s son-in-law

New Delhi, Mar 28 (AGENCIES): India has increased its annual contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from $1.5 million to $5 million from 2018-19 for a period of three years, the External Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday.

According to a ministry statement India made the announcement of this substantive increase in annual contribution at the extraordinary ministerial conference held in Rome on March 15 following a flash appeal made by the UNRWA, which is faced with a major funds crunch.

“This enhancement was made in the backdrop of the unprecedented financial crisis being faced by UNRWA, which has been delivering valuable public services to Palestine refugees around the world,” the statement said.

The UNRWA’s present predicament came about after US President Donald Trump last month withheld more than half of the US-pledged aid to the agency.

New Delhi, Mar 28 (IANS): The CBI has issued lookout notice against Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s son-in-law Gurpal Singh in connection with the alleged bank fraud case of Rs 109.08 crore by Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd, an official said on Wednesday.

The agency also issued the circular against three other top former executives of Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd -- CEO G.S.C. Rao, Chief Financial Officer Sanjay Thapar and Executive Director Gursimran Kaur Mann.

Simbhaoli Sugars, one of the largest sugar mills in the country, and its executives are being probed for cheating Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) in 2011 by availing credit facilities on the pretext of financing sugarcane farmers.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on March 1 questioned Gurpal Singh in connection with the case.

The agency had registered a case against the sugar mill, its Chairman Gur-

Gandhi was made directors and Sonu Shailesh Mehta the owner in Aura Gem Company. These two companies were used for laundering proceeds of crime. In total, about Rs 5,921 crore was paid to these two companies from the fraudulently issued LoUs in faviour of Nirav’s partnership firms,” said an official.

Of the funds so received, Aura Gem transferred an amount of Rs 468 Crore and Sino Traders Rs 506.69 crore to the partnership firms, thus allegedly completing the money laundering process.

Accordingly, the agency has accused Wadhwa of assisting Nirav Modi in the offence of money laundering. “However, he was not coming out with the facts related to the deals to which he was privy and was also trying to mislead the investigators. Therefore, he has been arrested,” said the official.

the rules of conduct to make the House disruption-free.

The retiring members also recalled their experiences as members of the upper House of Parliament and fondly remembered their associations with various members of the House across party lines.

Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu appreciated the contribution of women MPs, who constitute only 11.7 per cent of the house’s total membership.

He also rued that disruptions have become a part of “political tactic and the House has often become the theatre of protest politics”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that what happens in the Lok Sabha (disruptions) need not be followed in the upper house.

He said that thanks to disruptions the retiring members missed the opportunity to contribute towards a crucial legislation like the triple talaq bill that was listed to be taken up in the current session.

Leader of the Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad tried to justify the protests by members in the House saying MPs raise issues of public concern and not of their private concern.

Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury did rake up the “Soorpanakha” jibe made against her by the Prime Minister, saying as an old member of the upper House she had “seen it all from Shah Bano to Shoorpanakha” as Modi looked on.

mit Singh Mann, the then (in 2015) Deputy Managing Director Gurpal Singh (now director) and others in connection with the alleged bank loan fraud.

Rao, Tapriya, Gursimran Kaur Mann and five non-executive directors were also booked by the agency.

The CBI had carried out searches at eight premises including residences of the directors, factory, corporate office and registered office of the company in Delhi, Hapur and Noida.

The probe focuses on two loans -- Rs 97.85 crore which was declared fraudulent in 2015 and another corporate loan of Rs 110 crore which was used to repay the previous loan.

The bank was allegedly cheated to the tune of Rs 97.85 crore, but the loss incurred by the bank was Rs 109.08 crore, the FIR read.

The OBC complained to the CBI on November 17, 2017, but the agency registered a case of criminal conspiracy and cheating under the Prevention of

New Delhi, Mar 28 (AGENCIES): The Janata Dal (United) rejected on Wednesday allegations that it had used caste analysis provided by Cambridge Analytica, accused of data breach, saying the party does not believe in using such means for electoral politics. The party’s reaction came after Christopher Wylie, who blew the lid off the alleged scam involving mining of Facebook user data to manipulate elections, tweeted details that claim to expose the British consultancy’s work in India dating back to 2003.

Wylie, 28, has claimed that SCL India (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica) was asked to provide electoral research and strategy for the 2010 Bihar elections for the JD (U).

Corruption Act on February 22.

According to the FIR, the OBC sanctioned a loan of Rs 148.60 crore to the company in 2011.

The loan was sanctioned for financing 5,762 sugarcane farmers based on a tie-up agreement under an Reserve Bank of India scheme for supplying sugar produce to the company from January 25, 2012 to March 13, 2012, but the money was “dishonestly and fraudulently diverted by the company for its own needs”, the CBI alleged.

The account turned NPA on March 31, 2015 and was declared alleged fraud by the bank to RBI on May 13, 2015 for an amount of Rs 97.85 crore.

The OBC alleged that in addition to the existing NPA, the bank, under multiple banking arrangements, sanctioned another corporate loan of Rs 110 crore to the company on January 28, 2015 to pay its outstanding loan of Rs 97.85 crore.

Lucknow, Mar 28 (AGENCIES): Ridiculing the new found SPBSP bonhomie in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Wednesday some people have become “circus lions” and were surviving on “leftovers”.

The chief minister targeted the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) during the Budget discussion in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.

“Some people have become circus lions, who do not hunt, but survive on leftovers of others and remain glad as if it has got a prey. It will be good if, instead of becoming such type of lions, one trusts his self-respect,” he said without naming anybody.

Adityanath also attacked ‘samajwad’ (the political ideology of the Samajwadi Party) on which SP members objected and

New Delhi, Mar 28 (AGENCIES): Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the number two judge in the Supreme Court, has written to Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra questioning an enquiry initiated

by Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari against a judge recommended twice by the Supreme Court Collegium for elevation to the High Court.

Justice Maheshwari began the enquiry solely on the basis of a letter from the government.

Justice Chelameswar has asked Chief Justice Misra to call a Full Court meeting of the Supreme Court to discuss the issue.

Sources said the CJI is currently interacting with Justice Maheshwari.

As per norms, the Centre does not directly communicate with the High Courts after the Supreme Court Collegium has recommended a name for elevation.

A highly placed source in the Supreme Court said the Union Law Ministry had “no business” to write to the High Court Chief Justice directly and bypass the Supreme Court Collegium led by Chief Justice Misra. Secondly, Justice Maheshwari should not have unilaterally commenced the enquiry solely on the basis of the government’s letter, thus casting serious aspersions on the Collegium for reiterating

requested the Chairman to expunge a particular word from the proceedings.

“The country does not need ‘samajwad’, but ‘Ramrajya’,” he said in his address.

Hitting out at Adityanath, SP members said the word ‘samajwad’ (socialism) is there in the preamble of the Constitution and the chief minister should not say like this.

“I know very much about this fake brand. This brand was seen in Germany as ‘Naziwad’ and in Italy as fascism. Have we not seen it’s distorted form as ‘gundaraj’ (hooliganism) in UP?” he asked.

Terming allegations of the opposition that the Budget was “anti-development” and “anti-people”, he said, “We have presented the biggest Budget of Rs 4.28 lakh crore.”

“In the Budget, funds for the agriculture department, sanctioned last year

AFFIDAVIT I, Shri. Rabenthung Lotha, S/o Rhamomo Lotha both the names R. Rabenthung Ezung are one and the same persons having single identity.

Hence, from today onwards my name shall be known as Rabenthung Lotha with vide Regd. No. 150/2018 Date 28-03-2018.

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Notary Public Regd. No. - Law-13/73(Pt-IV) Govt. of Nagaland

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMENTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF THE INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925) AND (SECTION 10 OF THE GUARDIAN AND WARD ACT 1890) In the Court of Smti. Sara S. Jamir Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 and Guardian and ward Act 1890 for grant of Succession & Guardianship for the estate of Late Akiula Yimchunger Deceased, has been filed by Shri. Tekayangba Ao Guardian of Miss/Master Aoyanger Ao and whereas the 28 day of 4, 2018 has been fixed for hearing the case notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the Administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he she so desire may appear in this Court on the said day of 28/4/18.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court this 27 day of 3/18.

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Addl. Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur : Nagaland.

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMENTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF THE INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925) In the Court of Smti. Sara S. Jamir Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late Angtoshi and Late Sentilemba Aier Deceased, has been filed by Shri. Bendang Ao relation Brother/Uncle R/o. Diphupar Village 4th Mile to draw his/her Landed Property etc, who expired on 1.8.15 and 5.2.18 respectively Covered by Patta No. 603, Dag No. 802, Mouza No. 4 Block No. 2.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he/she so desire may appear in this Court within 30 days, on the said day of 30/4/18.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court this 29 day of 3/18.

DP-2533(A)

Addl. Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur : Nagaland.

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMENTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF THE INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925) AND (SECTION 10 OF THE GUARDIAN AND WARD ACT 1890) In the Court of Smti. Sara S. Jamir Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 and Guardian and ward Act 1890 for grant of Succession & Guardianship for the estate of Late Henjapao Mangjel Deceased, has been filed by Smti. Lhingkhokim Singsit Guardian of Miss/Master Lhaihoiching Mangjel and whereas the 28 day of 4, 2018 has been fixed for hearing the case notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the Administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he she so desire may appear in this Court on the said day of 28/4/18.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court this 27 day of 3/18.

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Addl. Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur : Nagaland.

Justice Jasti Chelameswar

the name of the judge twice for elevation.

The judge in question, District and Sessions Judge P. Krishna Bhat, was first recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium for appointment to the High Court in August 2016.

However, the Supreme Court and the Centre received complaints against him from a woman judge, accusing him of “atrocities and abuse of power”. The Centre had returned the recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium to appoint Judge Bhat.

The then Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur had asked Justice Maheshwari’s predecessor, Justice S.K. Mukherjee, to probe the complaint. Justice Mukherjee filed a report in November 2016, concluding that the allegations against Judge Bhat was “incorrect and concocted”.

Subsequently, the Supreme Court Collegium reiterated its recommendation for the appointment of Judge Bhat in April 2017.

Yogi Adityanath

in July, 98 per cent has been spent.

“Besides, 100 per cent budget of the Home department, 78 per cent of the Panchyati Raj department, 65 per cent of the PWD, 87 per cent of the medical education department has been spent,” the chief minister said.

“Our government has sanctioned construction of 9.71 lakh houses under the PM’s housing scheme and gave 32 lakh power connections to BPL families and gave relaxations to farmers. This is Ramrajya,”

The government’s letter followed the Collegium’s second recommendation.

The Memorandum of Procedure for Appointment of Judges makes it imperative for the government to comply if the Supreme Court Collegium reiterates its recommendation of a name for appointment as judge.

The direct communication made by the law ministry to the High Court without consulting the Chief Justice of India was a violation of several judgements of the Supreme Court, which hold that “the opinion of the Chief Justice of India should have the greatest weight”.

The Third Judges Case judgement specifies that the selection of a judge to the high courts and the Supreme Court is a “participatory consultative process” which reduces the “executive element in the appointment process to the minimum and any political influence is eliminated”.

he said.

The chief minister alleged that due to the faulty policies of the SP and the BSP governments in the past, B.Ed and other degree holders were agitating in the state.

The Uttar Pradesh government is going to start recruitment in a big way, he said.

Adityanath said that no farmer had committed suicide during his government and added that work on the Purvanchal expressway will start next month.

On a report mentioned

by SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav that maximum riots took place in UP, he said, “The report was of 2016 when Akhilesh was in power.” “ We h a v e m a d e such an atmosphere that criminals have no options left. Our government has changed the image of UP in the eyes of investors,” he said.

FELICITATION The SUMI KIPHIMI KUQHAKULU (Sughuna) extends its heartiest congratulations to SHRI L. HOSHITO CHOPHI on being promoted to the post of DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Government of Nagaland, Your achievement is a living example of hard work, dedication and sincerity.

May God bless you in all your future endeavour.

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Order returned briefly to Rajya Sabha on Wednesday for the first time since March 5 as the upper house of Parliament assembled to bid farewell to its retiring members.

Justice Chelameswar questions K’taka CJ’s enquiry on judge

Akivito K. Yeptho (General Secretary)

Mughabeto Ayemi (President)

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Medziphema Dist : Dimapur, Nagaland NO.JUD4SUC-1/2016/670

Date 27/03/2018 NOTICE Whereas, Smti. Kholneihoi, M/o Lt. Siemlalson Kuki has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under we Indian Succession Act. 1925 to draw/operate his GPF/GIS/Family Pension and all relatives to pension matters, bank account No 31139128413 SBI, Medziphema of Late Siemlalson who was expired on 4/8/2017.

Therefore, public are hereby asked to file objection/claim if any within 30 days of issue of this notice.

Addl. Deputy Commissioner Medziphema Dist. Dimapur, Nagaland DP-2519

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMENTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF THE INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925) In the Court of Smti. Sara S. Jamir Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late Yhunthonlo Tep Deceased, has been filed by Smti. Sentile Tep relation wife R/o. H.No. 8A Walford to draw his/her family Pension, Bank Acct etc, who expired on 13.1.2018.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he/she so desire may appear in this Court within 30 days, on the said day of 24/4/18.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court this 23 day of 3/18.

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Addl. Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Nagaland.

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Cannes Film Festival has banned Netflix and selfies for 2018

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annes Film Festival has announced that it has banned Netflix – as well as selfies – from its 2018 outing.

Last year saw Netflix movies Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories allowed to compete for a Palme d’Or prize, with Okja booed and heckled by audience members during its premiere.

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a controversial one, with some critics angered by Netflix’s failure to screen the movies at cinemas in France.

Film festival head Theirry Fremaux has now told Le Film Francais that Netflix and other streaming services can still screen films at Cannes, but those films won’t be accepted into the running for a Palme d’Or. “Last year, when we

selected these two films, I thought I could convince Netflix to release them in cinemas. I was presumptuous, they refused,” Fremaux said.

Cannes has since changed its rules to require a French theatrical release for any movies that wish to enter the competition.

“The Netflix people loved the red carpet and would like to be present with other films. But they

Heineken removes beer advert after racist label

hance The Rapper has accused Heineken of racism over a new beer advert, leading the company to remove the ad.

The Heineken Light commercial sees a bartender sliding a beer bottle past three black people before it reaches its intended recipient. The tagline reads: “Sometimes, lighter is better”.

Chance has since taken to Twitter to accuse companies of “purposely putting out noticeably racist ads so they can get more views”.

“That shit racist/bogus so I guess I shouldn’t help by posting about it,” he added, before describing the Heineken beer ad as “terribly racist”.

“Im not saying [boycott] them or go off,” Chance

continued. “I’m just noticing how often it happens and I think they baiting consumers and tweeters”.

Heineken has since removed the ad and responded to the controversy, with a spokesperson telling BBC News: “Heineken has developed diverse marketing that shows there’s more that unites us than divides us.

“While we feel the ad is referencing our Heineken Light beer, we missed the

mark, are taking the feedback to heart and will use this to influence future campaigns.”

L a s t D e c e m b e r, Chance critiqued the depiction of racism in Netflix movie Bright. He expressed reservations over a scene in which an orc is lynched, which he interpreted as a thinly-veiled and “shallow” metaphor for racism.

“I always feel a lil cheated when I see allegorical racism in movies cause that racism usually stems from human emotion or tolerance but not by law or systems the way it is in real life,” Chance said. “The characters in #Bright live in a timeline where racism is gone… cause we hate ork now.”

(NME)

understand that the intransigence of their own [business] model is now the opposite of ours,” Fremaux added.

“We have to take into account the existence of these powerful new players: Amazon, Netflix and maybe soon Apple. We’ll defend the image of a riskprone festival, questioning the cinema, and we must be at the table every year.”

Fremaux also dismissed the similarities between TV series on streaming services that often get compared to films. “Cinema [still] triumphs everywhere even in this golden age of series,” he said. “The history of cinema and the history of the internet are two different things.”

As well as the Netflix ban, Cannes has also banned selfies from the red carpet, saying that fans taking photos with stars created a “mess”.

Cannes takes place in 2018 from May 8-19.

(NME)

K-Pop Singer Seo Minwoo found dead at 33

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amous K-pop singer and member of the boyband 100%, Seo Minwoo, has died at the age of 33.

According to the band’s label, TOP Media, the singer was found dead in his home in Gangnam, Seoul on Sunday. Though Minwoo’s official cause of death has yet to be determined, the label reported that the singer died after suffering from cardiac arrest.

“His family, the 100% members, and the TOP Media artists and staff members are all grief-stricken and in mourning from the unexpected, sad news,” TOP Media wrote in a statement on their website. The label also included that the funeral for the singer “will be held quietly according to the will of the family.”

(FoxNews)

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Nise Meruno gets a mention in top piano magazine

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ne of the world’s top magazines on piano has mentioned renowned Naga pianist Nise Meruno as the first and only Indian to be endorsed by Yamaha Pianos, Japan and also represent AKG, Austria.

International Piano, a unique bimonthly magazine published by Rhinegold Publishing House, UK, focuses on pianists and piano aficionados all over the world.

The magazine provides interviews with top pianists and rising talent, performance tips, news, features, analysis and comments besides exclusive tutorials by concert artistes, in-depth articles on piano recordings and repertoire, master-classes on piano technique, and festival, concert and competition reports from around the globe.

The appearance on the magazine itself is a tremendous achievement, let alone being recognised as the first among thousands in a country, and Nise has yet again achieved a remarkable feat by securing a place for himself among the world’s finest pianists.

He was placed alongside the likes of famous jazz pianist from across the world including Chick Corea (American), Hiromi (Japanese), Julian Joseph (British) and Ananda Sukarlan (Indonesian) under the Yamaha artiste names’ list. These artistes are regarded as some of the top pianists of modern times and they all have gained raving reviews for blending music

and style in truly artistic values.

In a chat with Nagaland post following the recognition, Nise said he couldn’t help but be overwhelmed by the success.

He attributed the success to God saying it was He who make dreams a reality.

He said it never occurred to him that he would one day be listed among the world’s leading pianists and also be labelled as a ‘Yamaha Artist’, which, he said, was solely by the grace and favour of God. An elated Nise hoped that the recognition would propel him to attain greater heights and pave the way for more of such achievements.

(Aneila Seyie Keretsü)

Anthrax drummer says tech giant Apple ‘had a big hand in destroying music’

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nthrax dr ummer Charlie Benante says that “Apple had a big hand in destroying music” nearly 20 years ago when the music business refused to adapt to the changes brought about by the Internet.

The digital music revolution started with Napster — the file-sharing service dreamt up by two teenagers in 1999 and shut down in 2001. A prime example of disruptive technology, Napster allowed people to download just about any track or album they wanted — for free. The music industry never really recovered.

Music-industry lobbying group Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued around 18,000 people between 2003 and 2008 in an attempt to discourage people from downloading songs from filesharing sites

like Kazaa. While the legal actions brought widespread attention to copyright theft, many viewed them as heavyhanded.

Benante told “The Metal Command” radio show that “what happened with the music business is the ground kind of fell out from beneath all of us, and everybody kind of scrambled to think of ways of compensating for what had just happened or what had taken place. And I think some bands who thought they were maybe smarter than other bands started to do things where, ‘We’ll give the music for free,’ and, ‘You tell us what you wanna pay for it,’ and I thought that was really stupid to do, because… Maybe they thought that was a great thing at the time, but I felt it was just devaluing music and what we were doing,” he said. “I

mean, why… why would you do that? Does that mean that all these chefs from around the world are saying, ‘Just come to my restaurant.

If you like the food, just pay what you want or don’t even pay at all. Don’t worry about it. I’ll survive.’ I just thought that was a real ignorant thing to do.”

The drummer went on to say that “you really have to put a lot of blame on the tech industry” for its role in devaluing music by giving

free users the ability to play any album or artist catalog on shuffle.

“As much as everybody loves Apple, I also think Apple had a big hand in destroying music, and nobody really says that; everybody’s still on the side of Apple,” Charlie said.

“But I believe Apple was one of the big hands in this that helped destroy music.

The record companies had a big hand in it, because they got greedy. The art-

ists got greedy when they felt, ‘Oh, I can get a threealbum deal for 75 million dollars,’ but at the end of the day, if they’re taking all that money, what happens to the lesser-known bands who are striving to become something? Where does that money come from? I mean, it was just such a mess, and it really dug a hole for itself.

And now who is paying for it? Everybody.”

According to Charlie, music consumers still prefer to get their music for free and an increasing number are getting more and more comfortable with paying a relatively low monthly fee to access a catalog of tens of millions of songs, making it unlikely that they will go back to paying a much higher price for a much more limited product like an album.

(Blabbermouth)

Sons of Apollo releases ‘Tengo Vida’ lyric video

digital EP, “Alive / Tengo Vida”, which came out on March 23. The six-track release also includes acoustic renditions and radio edits of the title cut in both English

and Spanish.

The release of “Alive / Tengo Vida” precedes Sons of Apollo’s upcoming tour dates in Mexico and South America, after which the

group will hit the road in North America for a monthlong tour. From there, Sons of Apollo will spend much of the summer performing at European festivals, including Germany’s Wacken Open Air, France’s Hellfest and Belgium’s Graspop Metal Meeting. The group will continue to tour Europe in the fall, including a special performance alongside an orchestra at the Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on September 22. That night, the band will perform two sets — one of which, says

Portnoy, will be a “very special covers set” — and record the show for a future live CD/DVD. Sons of Apollo’s debut album “Psychotic Symphony” was released last October via InsideOut Music. It sold around 5,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release, earning the band the top position on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, which focuses on top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared on the top 100 of the Billboard 200.

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ons of Apollo — the progressive metal supergroup featuring former Dream Theatre bandmates Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, as well as bassist Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, The Winery Dogs), guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (Guns N’ N’ Roses) and vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (Journey, Talisman, W.E.T.) — has released a lyric video for “Tengo Vida”, a Spanish-language version of the group’s current single, “Alive”. The track is taken from Sons of Apollo’s new

Queen biopic coming sooner than you think

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he Queen biopic is coming to a screen near you this November.

Bohemian Rhapsody has reportedly been bumped up the schedule to allow more time for the X-Men sequel. And who needs Magneto when you have Freddie?

It comes after director Bryan Singer was replaced just three weeks before the end of shooting by the studio, which Singer claimed was “not my decision and was out of my control” “I wanted nothing more than to be able to finish this project and help honour the legacy of Freddie Mercury and Queen, but Fox would not permit me to do so.”

A Twentieth Century Fox source told the BBC the main reason for the firing was “a pattern of unreliable behaviour on the set”.

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as Roger Taylor and New Yorker Joseph Mazzello as John Deacon.

Both May and Taylor serve as producers on the film.

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WFI creates new policy to deter dope cheats

New Delhi, Mar 28 (Agencies): Fed up with paying penalties for dope offenders, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has come up with a new policy to deter dope cheats.

According to WFI secretary Vinod Tomar, the national federation has to pay a fine to United World Wrestling (UWW), the world governing body in wrestling, for any anti-doping violation in an international meet, reported Hindustan Times.

“For each positive test we paid R 15 lakh approximately to the world body.

Since the wrestlers didn’t pay, the federation had to bear the burden for no fault its own. So now we have a policy in place. If any wrestler doesn’t pay fine after testing positive, he will face life ban,” he said.

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over their arch-rivals, reported Hindustan Times.

It was a match where everything that the Australian women touched turned into gold while England were in complete disarray from the moment they were asked to bat. The pitch had so far produced high-scoring games but for the first time in the tournament there was some assistance for the bowlers due to heavy overnight dew that had left the wicket moist. England’s star opening batsman Danielle

Wyatt, who had slammed a whirlwind hundred against India on Sunday, began with a boundary off the first ball, but perished three balls later when she miscued a pull to Amanda Wellington off leftarm spinner Jess Jonassen.

Tammy Beaumont, another in-form player, played some delightful strokes before nicking one to wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy to give medium pacer Delissa Kimmince her first wicket.

From there on, wickets fell like ninepins and barring

2010 champion Saina wants bestever finish for India at CWG 2018

NEW DELHI, Mar 28 (PTI): Memories of a pathbreaking 2010 CWG gold are still fresh in her mind as Saina Nehwal embarks on a quest to regain the title at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games next month.

Eight summers ago, a 20-year-old Saina stood on the podium with the gold medal around her neck on the final day to not only become the first Indian woman to achieve the feat but also take the country to the second position ahead of England with a gold count of 38 in the overall medal’s tally. “India was second in overall medal tally in 2010.

On the last day we were on 99 medals and Indian hockey (men) and badminton women’s singles were left for last day. I won gold and

in hockey we were runners up,” recalled Saina.

“I felt so happy to be on the podium with the national tri-colour that I cannot forget it.”

It has been an interesting journey for Saina since she was handed her debut at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the team event as a 15-year-old by former India coach Vimal Kumar, who also later trained her for three years (2014-2017).

The Har yana-bor n shuttler shocked all and sundry and eventually beat New Zealand’s Rebecca Bellingham 21-13 24-22 to help India win a bronze in the mixed team event. “ 2 0 0 6 C WG M e l bourne was my debut and we won bronze in team event where my role was

also a major one as I won women’s singles event for the team. My journey in CWG has been fantastic,” Saina said. “Of course, in 2014, I had a lot of injury issues, so I did not participate,” she added, referring to the Glasgow edition where she pulled out after failing to recover from blisters and a groin injury sustained during the Australian Open Super Series.

With Saina skipping the Glasgow Games, PV Sindhu won a bronze even as Parupalli Kashyap broke a 32 year wait for a men’s gold medal. RMV Gurusaidutt won a bronze and the women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta clinched the silver. The Indian badminton team won four medals in all.

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MUNGYA (WOKHA), MAR 28 (NPN): Government Middle School (GMS) M u n g ya u n d e r S D E O Wokha conducted its annual sports 2018 here at Mungya village football ground with Mungya VEC chairman Lomongo Kikon as chief guest Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest said that games and sports were an integral part of the education process and plays an important role in children’s overall development. Lauding the efforts of the teachers in organizing the one-day annual sports meet, the chief guest also asked the children to give importance to their physical development even as they imbibed scholastic wisdom during their academic year.

The chief guest also declared open the annual sports 2018 of GMS Mungya.

Others who spoke on the occasion included former VEC chairman Tsemomo Ezung, who recounted the history of the school and also offered advice to both the students and teaching staff. Earlier, Mungya AG church assistant pastor Nzanmongo Ngullie offered invocation and also shared words of wisdom from the Bible, GMS Mungya head teacher N. Abenthung Kithan delivered welcome speech, Liben Ezung presented a special number, GMS Mung ya P/T Y. Chanbemo Ezung proposed vote of thanks, and Mungya NCRC pastor Wobamo Ezung pronounced benediction at the short inaugural function chaired by GMS Mungya P/T and sports incharge Nzio who also administered the sports pledge to the participants.

L o n d o n, M a r 2 8 (Agencies): France’s sport minister has called for an investigation into alleged racist abuse directed at players during their 3-1 win over Russia. Manchester United’s Paul Pogba and Barcelona’s Ousmane Dembele are said to be among those subject to taunts. The match was played the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, a host venue at this summer’s World Cup. “Racism has no place on the football pitch,” said French Minister for Sport Laura Flessel.

“We have to act in unison at a European and international level to put an end to these inadmissible actions.” The issue was first reported by photographers from news agency AFP, who said they heard chants when players went to take corners.

It is the latest in a number of incidents of discrimination linked to Russia. In October Uefa charged Spartak Moscow for racist chanting during a Uefa Youth League fixture against Liverpool, and the club were later criticised for a “racist” tweet about their own players.

GOLD COAST, Mar 28 (PTI): About 200 members of the Indian contingent and officials participating in the Commonwealth Games beginning next week arrived on Wednesday.

“The contingent members comprising athletics, boxing, basketball, hockey, lawn bowling and shooting have reported at the Village as they arrived in batches,”

“Sanoubü Abou tat kashousi shuongei no wangbüei asou ko kia nou”.

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The FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) network monitors discrimination in football on a national scale and detailed close to 90 incidents of racism in the Russian league last season. Piara Powar, head of the organisation, feels the actions that marred France’s win raise concerns about fan and player safety during the World Cup. “For us, the key issue is that the match took place at a stadium that will host one of biggest games during the World Cup, a semi-final will be there, plus many group

games,” he told BBC Sport.

“In many ways this match was a test of the protocols that the Russian FA has put in place, it was a match governed by the Russian FA. “This is a cause for concern, just over two months before the tournament, with no response from the stadium authorities after what looked to be a major incident.” Russian football’s anti-discrimination chief Alexei Smertin has insisted that minorities will feel “safe and comfortable”, and dismissed fears as “propaganda”.

an IOA release said.

The teams and individuals were seen acclimatizing to the conditions and visited their training facilities.

The chef-de-mission, Vikram Singh Sisodia along with team mangers Namdev, Ajay Narang and Shiyad set up the IOA office at the Village to help

India team members a hassle-free consultation and providing day-to-day facilities.

IOA President Narinder Batra and Secretary General Rajeev Mehta congratulated Sisodia for setting up of office smoothly to take care of the various athletes of Indian teams at the Village.

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR BELOVED LT. N. MADEM LONGCHAR

OF LATE C. TSENPOMO EZUNG

He was a father so very rare, content in his home and always there, on earth he toiled In heaven he rests, God bless you APO, You were one of the best.

Each time we look at your picture, You seem to smile and say, Don’t be sad but courage take, And love each other for my sake.

We miss you APO and Always will.”

Aba,

They say times a healer but as the times goes on we seem to find it just as hard to face the fact that you've gone.

Loving wife, sons, daughters, grand daughter and relatives.

REMEMBERING YOU ON YOUR

1st Death Anniversary our beloved father

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LATE KHATOVI. Z. AWOMI (Retd P.A.to D.C) ON HIS 1st Death Anniversary.

28-03-2017 A year has passed since you left for your eternal home yet your memories still lingers.

You were one of a kind and will always be in our hearts.

Paul Pogba was one of the France stars to receive racial abuse in Russia on Tuesday night.

Indian contingent arrives in Gold Coast

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

In Loving Memory

DEATH ANNIVERSARY of Lt. Ongmang Kejong

France players ‘racially abused’ in Russia

And today it's the anniversary of the day you went away; your love is still our guide.

You never looked for praises, you were never the one to boast, you just went on quietly working for the ones you loved the most.

Your dreams were seldom spoken Your wants were every few, And most of the time your worries went unspoken too, You were there- a firm foundation through all our storms of life.

Your patience and wisdom will always be our inspiration.

But although, you have left this world you'll stay within our hearts guiding like an Angel even though we are apart.

Ipu, not a day passes by without something or someone reminding us of you. Your death has left us bereft and this void can never be filled.

For Love is everlasting and so are your memories. Your legacy that's always there to light for us.

"Until We Meet Again Aba," You are greatly loved and deeply missed.

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Australian cricket team members celebrate the dismissal of England’s batswoman Heather Knight at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Wednesday. (PTI)

Alice Richards, who scored a run-a-ball 24, none of their players managed to go past even 20.

England’s total of 96 was their second lowest in T20s. For Australia, Kimmince was the pick of the bowlers as she finished with figures of 3/20. Jonassen and Megan Schutt too chipped in with two wickets apiece while Perry, Gardner and Wellington claimed one wicket each.

A target of 97 in 20 overs was never going to test the Australian team with plenty of fire power in their rank. And though openers Healy and Ash Gardner departed early, skipper Meg Lanning (41 not out, 28b, 8x4) and all-rounder Ellyse Perry (47*, 32b, 9x4) batted with complete authority to put on an unbeaten stand of 85 runs to take their side home with 51 balls to spare.

India take on England in an inconsequential, last league match of the tournament on Thursday.

Brief scores: England 96 in 17.4 overs (A Richards 24, D Kimmince 3/20, M Schutt 2/13, J Jonassen 2/20) lost to Australia 97 for 2 in 11.3 overs (E Perry 47*, M Lanning 41*).

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Mumbai, mar 28 (Agencies): In what was a dress rehearsal for Saturday’s final, Australia thumped England by eight wickets in their last league match of the women’s Twenty20 International triseries,also involving India, at the Brabourne Stadium here on Wednesday.

The victor y meant that Australia were able to avenge their defeat earlier in the tournament and would now go into the title clash with a psychological edge

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Loving Wife, son, daughters, grandchildren, brothers, sisters & in-laws

We miss you Greatly.

From : Loving wife, children, grand children and in-laws.

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29.03.2017 Died on 29th March 2017

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"Avo, today was the day, March last we saw you beside us; we wish we could see you one more time; come walking through the door and scare us like you do; but we know that is impossible-so, sometimes we just looked up, smile and Say's' we know that was you'. If only we could have you back just for a while!

Our lips cannot speak how we love you; Our hearts cannot tell what to say; but God only knows how we miss you, in our own home that is lonely.

Avo, we remember all the good and bad times we had, you cheered us up; we often think of times we shared when we were very young, stroll down all the way miles to buy little things though you cannot walk but just to make us happy; your love and warm affection are so precious to recall Avo. In tears we watched you sinking: We watched you fade away; our hearts were breaking seeing your positive attitude to live with us a little longer, we knew you could not stay, we sat beside your bedside, our hearts were crushed and sore, we did our duty to an end till we could do no more.

Avo, they say memories are golden, well, may be that is true, but for us, we never wanted memories, we only wanted you.

On Heaven's golden shore, one quiet day the angels come and took our most loved grandpa far away from us....See you in Heaven Avo'

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Smith, Warner banned for 1-yr Out of IPL, India series; Bancroft gets nine year ban

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Sydney, Mar 28 (PTI): Steve Smith and David Warner were slapped with a one-year international ban and ousted from this year’s IPL, while Cameron Bancroft was suspended for nine months as Cricket Australia cracked the whip on the errant trio for its role in the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.

The lengthy bans on the trio effectively rule them out of the November-December series against India. Virat Kohli’s men are scheduled to tour Australia to play four Tests, three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.

In an extensive statement, Cricket Australia announced the sanctions imposed on the three players, who were ordered to leave for home yesterday midway

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through the ongoing Test series against South Africa.

The cricketers have seven days to appeal against the bans imposed on them.

“Steve Smith: suspension of 12 months from all international and domestic cricket. David Warner: suspension of 12 months from all international and domestic cricket. Cameron Bancroft: suspension of 9 months from all international and domestic cricket,” the CA statement read. All three players will, however, be permitted to play club cricket “to maintain links with the cricket community”.

As per the CA code of conduct, Smith has been found guilty of having knowledge of a potential plan to attempt to artificially alter the condition of the ball; failure to take steps to

seek to prevent the development and implementation of that plan; and directing that evidence of attempted tampering be concealed on the field of play, among other things.

Smith had also been charged for “seeking to mislead Match Officials and others regarding Bancroft’s attempts to artificially alter the condition of the ball; and misleading public comments regarding the nature, extent and participants of the plan.”

“In addition, all three players will be required to undertake 100 hours of voluntary service in community cricket.”

In a double blow for Smith and Warner, the two were barred from this year’s IPL. This came after the CA sanctions and their forced stepping down as captains

of Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad respectively. Bancroft does not play in the IPL. CA said Smith and Bancroft will not be considered for team leadership positions until one year after the end of their ban, while Warner will never be an option for captaincy role.

“Any consideration of future leadership would be conditional on acceptance by fans and the public, form and authority among the playing group. David Warner will not be considered for team leadership positions in the future.”

CA Chairman David Peever said the rather stringent penalties are a reflection of Australia’s current outrage at the actions of the players. “These are significant penalties for professional players and the Board does not impose them lightly. It is hoped that following a period of suspension, the players will be able to return to playing the game they love and eventually rebuild their careers,” he said.

CA CEO James Sutherland echoed the sentiment.

“I am satisfied that the sanctions in this case properly reflect a balance between the need to protect the integrity and reputation of the game and the need to maintain the possibility of redemption for the individuals involved, all of whom have learned difficult lessons through these events,” he said.

Silver Cup T20: Woodland, Bokajan win Correspondent

K o h im a , M a r 2 8 (NPN): Woodland Cricket Club and Bokajan CC registered victories while Diphu XI got a walk over on the third day of the 9th Silver Cup T20-Cricket at Jakham local ground, Wednesday.

In a close encounter, Woodland CC snatched a two-wicket win over NBCK. Put into bat, NBCK were bowled out for 120 runs. Robi Thapa scored 45 runs. Woodland bowler Atsungri took five wickets.

In reply, Woodland CC managed to achieve the target losing eight wickets with major contributions from Mepong - 26 runs and Tizuk - 20 runs. NBCK bowler Suresh Thapa claimed three wickets. Atsungri was named man of the match.

In the second match, Bokajan CC beat Kat’s Xl by 64 runs. Put into bat, Bokajan CC scored a huge 167 runs in the allotted overs.

Trinath Bey scored ighest 56 runs while Ajay and Siddharth supported with 31 and 25 runs respectively.

Kat’s Xl bowler Gobi took two wickets.

Chasing the target, Kat’s XI managed to score only 102 runs with Toto scoring the highest 19 runs.

Bokajan CC bowlers Kanhaiya, Samir Sarma, Badal and Siddharth claimed two wickets each.

Trinath Bey was named man of the match.

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Santosh trophy 2018: KarnatakaBengal,Mizoram-Kerala in semis

Karnataka defeated Mizoram 1-0 to set-up semi-final clash with defending champions Bengal in the Santosh Trophy. (HT Photo)

Kolkata, Mar 28 (Agencies): Karnataka set up a semi-final date with defending champions Bengal beating Mizoram 1-0 in the National Football Championship for the 72nd Santosh Trophy here Wednesday.

The win helped Karnataka go past Mizoram and top group B on head-to-head as both the teams sealed their last four berth.

In the semi-finals slated for March 30, Mizoram will face group A toppers Kerala at the Mohun Bagan ground, while Karnataka will lock horns with hosts Bengal at the Howrah Maidan.

Having already sealed a semi-final berth, Miz-

oram rung in nine changes to test their bench against Karnataka.

Defenders Buanga and Zomuana were only players, retained from their 2-1 win over Punjab.

Both the teams had their chances and it was only in the 74th minute Rajesh scored the winner from a goalmouth melee.

Karnataka’s win also dashed hopes of a resurgent Goa, which signed off with a 4-1 win over Punjab at the Rabindra Sarovar Stadium.

Goa started the game on a positive note and were exploiting the Punjab defense with quick moves down the flanks. They were awarded a penalty in the 23rd minute and,

Mackroy Peixoto slot it home to give Goa the lead.

Experienced campaigner Victorino Fernandes made it 2-0 for Goa in the 27th minute, 4 minutes later.

In the second half, Goa dominated the proceedings as well. Nestor Dias made it 3-0 in the 59th minute as he headed the ball from an out-swinging corner.

Shubert Pereira made it 4-0 in the 67th minute, as Punjab looked well out of contention.

Punjab looked to score one consolation goal in the final-third period of the game. They were finally rewarded in the second half in injury time through Gurtej Singh.

Muskan bags gold in 25 m Pistol Miami Open: Azarenka in semis; Del Porto wins

S y d n e y, M a r 2 8 (IANS): Muskan Bhanwala delivered India’s ninth gold medal at the Shooting Junior World Cup as she topped the women’s 25 metres Pistol event here on Wednesday.

The 16-year-old shot a total of 35 hits to overcome Chinese Qin Sihang and Thailand’s Kanyakorn Hirunphoem, who respectively took silver and bronze on the concluding day of this World Cup edition. Muskan, who finished fourth at last year’s ISSF Junior World Championship in Suhl, Germany, took the lead at the end of the sixth round, as she nailed a perfect 5-hit series and found herself sitting on a three-point advantage over her closest rival, Sihang. Muskan successfully defended that lead throughout the rest of the final, taking gold with 35 hits, while Qin finished with 34. It’s the first ISSF medal for both the Indian

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and the Chinese junior shooter. The bronze medal was awarded to Thailand’s 16-year-old Kanyakorn Hirunphoem, currently ranked 62nd in the world in this event and bearing a six-start World Cup experience. The Thai shooter - silver medallist in the Air Pistol event four days ago - finished with 26 hits and pocketed her second medal in Sydney.

Muskan’s compatriot 16-year-old Manu Bhaker finished fourth with 18 hits. She survived a shootoff at the end of the sixth series against Chinese Zhu Siying, who then took the

sixth spot with 12 hits.

Fellow Chinese Xiao Jiaruixuan was fifth with 14 hits, in spite of a twopoint penalty given to her for early loading.

Finally, two first-time participants - India’s 18year-old Arunima Gaur and China’s Li Xue - respectively took seventh place with eight hits and eighth place with seven hits. The top of the team event podium was taken

by India’s Bhaker, Muskan and Devanshi Rana, while their country-mates Gaur, Mahima Turhi Agrawal and Tanu Rawal secured silver. Thailand’s Hirunphoem, Viramon Kidarn and Luxciga Srinitivoravong were third.

Meanwhile, in the final event of the World Cup, Anant Jeet Naruka finished fifth in the men’s skeet competition with a score of 24 while China’s Xuyang Duo bagged gold with 58 hits -- a junior world record.

Washington, Mar 28 (Agencies): Victoria Azarenka booked her place in the semi-finals of the Miami Open with a 7-5 6-3 win over Karolina Pliskova.

The Czech fifth seed, 26, recovered from going two breaks down to level at 5-5, before Belarus’ Azarenka took the opener on her fifth set point.

The pair exchanged breaks in the second set before the three-time champion pulled through. Azarenka, 28, will meet Sloane Stephens in the last four, after the American’s win over Angelique Kerber.

Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, brushed aside the German former world number one 6-1 6-2 in just over an hour to advance to her first semi-final since her victory in New York.

It means the 13th seed will be named in the world’s top 10 when the rankings are released next week. “I am

so tired of hearing that I am number 11 in the world,” said the 25-year-old.

“It’s very exciting to get there, something I have wanted to do for a while.

Getting into the top 10 is pretty special and something I have worked on for a long time.”

Raonic advances; Cilic ousted by Isner

Juan Martin del Potro sent his devoted fans home happy Tuesday by powering into the ATP Miami Open quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-2 triumph over Serbian Filip Krajinovic. Roared on by a partisan crowd, the 29-yearold Argentinian recovered from 1-4 down in the first set to reel off nine games in a row on his way to a lasteight match with Canada’s Milos Raonic on Wednesday. Del Potro’s welcome return to form and fitness saw him win the Indian Wells title and continue to impress

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at the last tournament in Key Biscayne before a move north to the NFL Miami Dolphins home stadium next year.

Windy conditions hampered players all day and the former US Open champion took time to find his groove in his first meeting with 27th-ranked Krajinovic. Raonic, who easily saw off Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3 6-4, lost to del Potro in the Indian

Wells semi-finals and will be eagerly seeking revenge.

Del Potro is the top seed remaining after second seed Marin Cilic was beaten 7-6 (7/0), 6-3 by resurgent American John Isner.

The Croatian’s run was halted by big-serving Isner in just 87 minutes to set up a last-eight meeting with South Korean 19th seed Chung Hyeon.

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goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

Chances were scarce in the first half. Germany’s best opportunity came in the 16th minute when Ilkay Gündogan sent a good cross from Julian Draxler skyward.

Two minutes after threatening on the counter, Jesus got the eventual game-winner in the 38th minute with an assist from Willian. Gabriel’s header from point-blank range went directly into the body of Kevin Trapp, but the backup keeper failed to control it.

The Brazilians dominated for the first 20 minutes of the second half and generated three solid chances to increase their lead. Trapp turned aside a Paulinho effort in the 54th minute for a corner and shots by Philippe Coutinho and Jesus were deflected away from the goal.

Germany improved as the half wore on, yet Brazil goalkeeper Alisson had little to do until the 90th minute, when he had to swat away a shot by Draxler.

Shillong, Mar 28 (IANS): Indira Gandhi Academy SE (IGASE) notched up a 2-1 win over India Rush Soccer Club in a Hero Indian Womens League football match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Wednesday.

Forward Pradee pa opened the scoring in the 15th minute for IGASE with Dalima equalising for Rush in the 28th before Sandhiya scored the winner in the 74th minute of the game. The win took Indira Gandhi to three points from two matches. The opening goal came when Pradeepa unleashed a left footer in the 15th minute. Her shot beat Aditi on her left and went into the left bottom corner to give Indira Gandhi Academy the lead. The goal seemed to revitalise Rush as they punched away at the IGASE goal.

A couple of free-kicks were earned as the trio of Dalima-Grace-Jyoti tried to stitch together an attack.

The equaliser did arrive and how. Dalima Chibber took

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mance by Isner, the 14th seed, who rattled down 12 aces and was boosted by winning 85 percent of points on his first serve.

All three of Isner’s wins over the 2014 US Open champion have now come in ATP Masters events and once a first set tie-break was negotiated in windswept conditions, the 32 year-old confidently held his nerve to send Cilic home.

Indira Gandhi Academy SE Isco scores hat-trick as Spain beat Argentina 6-1 register win in IWL football

Madrid/Berlin, Mar 28 (IANS): Attacking midfielder Isco scored a hat-trick while half-time substitute Iago Aspas scored a goal and gave three assists as Spain thrashed Argentina 6-1 in a football friendly here.

The game on Tuesday had been billed as a World Cup warm up game between two of the favourites for this summer’s tournament in Russia. But Spain showed they are currently on a different level from Argentina, who were without star attackers Lionel Messi,Sergio Aguero and Angel Di Maria, reports Xinhua news agency.

Argentina had the first chance in the game when Juventus centre-forward Gonzalo Higuain was clean through on goal, but he delayed his shot, allowing Marco Asensio to make a decisive challenge. It was an important miss as Spain opened the scoring in the 12th minute after Andres Iniesta, making his 125th international appearance, won possession and fed

Asensio, whose pass picked out Diego Costa to open the scoring.

Jordi Alba went close to a second as Spain began to control the ball, but the home side doubled their lead in the 26th minute when Isco side-footed home after another Asensio assist following a poor goal kick from Willy Caballero. Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi then scored a header from a corner in the 38th minute to get Argentina back into the match.

Real Madrid star Isco scored the third in the 52nd minute after good work from substitute Iago Aspas, who had taken the ball wide past Caballero and pulled it back for the midfielder. A minute later Thiago Alcantara made it 4-1 following another pass from the lively Aspas, who had probably done enough to book his ticket for the World Cup in under 10 minutes. Otamendi sent another header against the woodwork as the game threatened to heat up following several niggly fouls, before Aspas scored the fifth

Isco (centre) takes on Argentina captain Javier Mascherano as Spain went 2-0 ahead in the opening 26 minutes of the game

goal after a long goal kick from David de Gea in the 73rd minute. A minute later Aspas turned provider for the third time in the game to set up Isco for his hat-trick as Argentina fell apart.

football friendly featuring two of the favourites to win the 2018 FIFA World Cup which starts less than three months from now in Russia.

The victory on Tuesday at Olympic Stadium Brazil nip Germany 1-0 could betheseen as a small porA first-half goal by Gabriel tion of revenge for the 7-1 Jesus gave Brazil a 1-0 win pounding Germany inflicted against Germany here in a on Brazil in the semi-finals

of the 2014 World Cup, reports Efe. While Brazil coach Tite made only one change to the line-up that defeated Russia last week, replacing winger Douglas Costa with Fernandinho, his German counterpart Joachim Löw rested six of the starters who played in the 1-1 draw with Spain, including

on the goalie from 40 yards out with her effort finding the back of the net.

The goal lit up the match as the teams attacked and counter-attacked but were let down each time with indecisiveness in the final third.

Indira Gandhi ASE dominated the proceedings after the break as India Rush found it difficult to get the ball into the other half. Aditi Chauhan was also forced into action as she made two vital saves in the 60th and 64th minute. The first one was a blinder where she denied Sumithra from point blank range while in the next one she denied Amalarasi by rushing out to cut the angle.

IGASE continued the onslaught by earning a couple of corners but the goal didn’t arrive. Then a forward pass from the back split open the Rush defence as Sandhiya made the run forward to latch on to the ball.

She rounded up the keeper and then placed the ball into the empty net to score the eventual winner.

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