March 2, 2021

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STATEWISE PREDICTION STATE

PARTY

ABP NEWS and C-VOTER PREDICTION

Assam

BJP-NDA

68-76 (of 126 seats)

Kerala

CPI(M)-LDF

83-91 (of 140 seats)

Puducherry

BJP

17-21 (of the 30 seats)

Tamil Nadu

DMK-UPA

154-162 (of 234 seats)

West Bengal

TMC

148-164 (of 294 seats)

NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (AGENCIES): The stage is set for crucial Assembly elections in five states where voters will exercise their franchise to choose a new government. The Election Commission has announced the schedule for these elections, with West Bengal holding the longest polling in eight phases. As the political parties head into campaigning mode, ABP News and C-Voter tried to gauge the mood of the voters. They claim that the situation is in favour of Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, though the BJP is likely to see a better prospect.

West Bengal: Looking at the trends, Banerjee will score a hat-trick in the Assembly election, according to the opinion poll. The ABP-C-Voter poll said the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is likely to get 148-164 seats in the 294-member Assembly. The BJP, meanwhile, can get 92-108 seats, the opinion poll further said. There is bad news for the Congress and left Front, which ruled the state for more than three decades. The Left-Congress alliance may get 31-39 seats, according to ABP-C-Voter poll. Puducherry: The Congress is likely to receive a

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big setback in the union territory, the opinion poll said. The BJP will be able to form the government in Puducherry by winning 17-21 of the 30 seats, said ABP-C-Voter. The Congress tally is likely to shrink to 12, it further said. Kerala: The Left government is expected to survive in Kerala, the opinion poll said. It predicted that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) led by CPI(M) is expected to get 83-91 of the 140 seats. On the other hand, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) may get anywhere between 47-55 seats in the upcoming assembly election. The BJP may barely get two seats, the ABP-C-Voter opinion poll said. Assam: The BJP-led alliance is expected to retain power in the state, the ABP-C-Voter survey said. Out of the state’s 126 seats, the opinion poll predicted 68-76 seats and 42 per cent vote share for the BJP, and 43-51 seats and 31 per cent

vote share for Congress-led alliance. The others may get 5-10 seats in the state. Tamil Nadu: MK Stalin led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-UPA is likely to return to power in Tamil Nadu, ABP-C-Voter opinion poll has predicted.

The DMK is likely to get 154-162 of the state’s 234 seats, whereas the ruling AIADMK 58-66, the survey further predicted. In terms of vote share, the DMK is expected to get 41 per cent whereas AIADMK 29 per cent.

PM takes first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

Modi in Bengal, Rahul in Kerala most suited for PM

IANS: Despite being the top choice as a Chief Minister in West Bengal, the voter in the state prefers Narendra Modi as a suitable candidate for the Prime Minister’s post. However, Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Wayanad constituency Rahul Gandhi is preferred in the state over Modi for the Prime Minister’s post. A total of 34.44 respondents preferred Gandhi, son of Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, as a suitable candidate for the post while 33.71 per cent people think Modi as a most suitable candidate for the office. Interestingly in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, 19.94 per cent people prefer Gandhi as most suitable for the post of Prime Minister while about 21.84 per cent find Modi as the best candidate for the job. In West Bengal, only 10.16 per cent respondents believe that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is the most suitable for the Prime Minister’s post while 50.83 per cent people in the state find Modi best suited for the job. The outcome is based on IANS C-Voter Opinion Poll survey conducted in the last six weeks on over 8,796 people in Kerala and about 38,932 people in West Bengal.

Modi being administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS here and appealed to all those who are eligible to get inoculated. Setting the pace for the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive, the prime minister reached the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here early this morning and was administered Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN by nurse P Niveda,

who hails from Puducherry. Another nurse Rosamma Anil from Kerala also assisted in the process. “Took my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS. Remarkable how our doctors and scientists have worked in quick time to strengthen the global fight against COVID-19,” Modi tweeted after taking the vaccine shot. “I appeal to all those who are eligible to take the vaccine. Together, let us make India COVID-19 free!” he said.

BJP silent on CAA in Assam: Priyanka Manipur cops nab 2 more women for bomb attack at media house

No new COVID case in State

DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): No new COVID-19 cases were reported in Nagaland on Monday while the active cases also remained at seven. As on March 1, the total caseload stood at 12200 and altogether 11949 patients have recovered from the infection. PTI: India’s COVID19 tally surpassed 1.11 crore on Monday with 15,510 new infections, while the active cases registered an increase for the fifth consecutive day and were recorded at 1,68,627, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases reached 1,11,12,241 in the country, while the death toll rose to 1,57,157 with 106 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am on Monday showed. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,07,86,457, which translates to a national COVID19 recovery rate of 97.07%, it stated. The case fatality rate has dropped to 1.41%. The active cases further increased to 1,68,627, which comprises 1.52% of the total infections, as per the data.

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LPG price hiked again by Rs 25; ATF price up 6.5% DIMAPUR/NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (NPN/PTI): Cooking gas LPG price was on Monday hiked by Rs 25 per cylinder across all categories, including subsidised fuel and those availed by Ujjwala scheme beneficiaries - the fourth increase in rates in a month’s time. LPG prices have gone up by Rs 125 per 14.2-kg cylinder since the beginning of February, price data from state-owned oil marketing companies showed. Also, jet fuel prices were hiked by a steep 6.5 per cent on the back of a rally in international oil prices. A 14.2-kg cylinder in Dimapur now costs Rs 837.50 while in the state capital-- Kohima a cylinder now costs Rs. 838.50, the highest in the state and in Kiphire at Rs. 838. In all the other districts, the price of cylinder has been fixed at Rs. 835. The increase is applicable across all categories, including subsidised and non-subsidised users. LPG is available only at one rate, market price, across the country. The government, however, gives a small subsidy to select customers. However, this subsidy has been eliminated in major cities through successive price increases over the years.

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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra performs rituals at Madhabdev’s Janmasthan in Rangajan, Bihpuria. (PTI Photo)(

L A K H I M P U R / GOHPUR, MAR 1 (PTI): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday claimed that BJP leaders talk about implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in various parts of the country, but lack the courage to mention it in Assam. The state witnessed violent protests against the

CAA in 2019 and five persons lost their lives. The protestors saw the law as a threat to their cultural identity and livelihood. The grand alliance of the Congress and six other parties will form the government in Assam after the election as people are fed up with the false promises made by the BJP, she said. She was clad in a hand-

woven traditional Assamese ‘mekhla chador’, with designs typical of its Mising tribe. “The BJP makes tall promises before elections but during the next five years, they do nothing to fulfil them and people have realised it,” the Congress leader told reporters after addressing a meeting of party workers at Lakhimpur. B J P l e a d e r s m ove around the country talking about implementing the CAA but they are silent about it when they come to Assam, Gandhi said. “They lack the courage to mention it in the state and people of Assam should never allow them to even talk about it, let alone implement it,” she said. The objective of the CAA is to grant Indian citizenship to people of minority communities Hindu,

Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who had come to India till December 31, 2014 due to religious persecution in these countries. Indicating that there is more than one power centre in the BJP-led government in Assam, she said, “We are confused on how many chief ministers the state has -- one, two or many. Or is it remote-controlled from outside?” Beginning and ending her speech with “Joi Aai Asom” (Hail, Mother Assam), the Congress leader said, “You are not fighting for the party or your seat but Assam’s identity and your motherland”. The BJP-RSS ideology is such that it does not take the cultural identity of the state or its people into consideration, she claimed.

5 more hostels for State polytechnic institutes DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): Union Education ministry will sanction five more hostels for polytechnic institutes in the State and also upgrade laboratories and IT equipments in all of them. Conveying this to a PDA delegation that called on All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) chairman Dr Anil Sahasrabudhe at AICTE office in New Delhi on

Monday, ministry officials however set a condition that proposals (DPR) in this regard must be submitted to the ministry within 15 days. On setting up National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR) in the State, Sahasrabudhe agreed to send a recommendation to the education ministry in this regard. During the meeting with the AICTE chair-

man and education ministry officials, the delegation highlighted activities of the State’s higher & technical education department, requirements and problems of the State and appealed to the ministry for consideration of the State’s proposal and any other scheme under the ministry not availed by the State. AICTE vice-chairman MP Poonia, member secretary Rajive Kumar and other

senior education ministry officials were also present at the meeting. The PDA delegation comprised higher education & tribal affairs minister and State BJP president Temjen Imna Along, housing & mech minister Tongpang Ozukum and higher & technical education and election adviser Medo Yokha. This was stated in a press release by Kuolie Mere, PRO of Nagaland House, New Delhi.

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IMPHAL, MAR 1: Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Manipur Police investigating into the recent bomb attack at a media house here arrested two more women suspects. Police have so far arrested six suspects involved in the bomb attack at the office of Poknapham, a local daily published from Imphal, which also houses its sister publication People’s Chronicle. Four male suspects were arrested earlier and are currently in police custody after Imphal West chief judicial

magistrate (CJM) remanded them till March 6. The two women suspects were also produced in the Imphal CJM court on Monday with a prayer for taking their custody for further investigation on their involvement in the case. The court remanded them in police custody till March 6. On the evening of February 13, an Activa scooter without registration plate and rode by a woman lobbed a Chinese-made hand grenade at the office of Poknapham in Imphal’s Keishampat, which failed to explode. The police suspect

the woman to be a member of valley-based armed group and declared her wanted, besides announcing Rs 50,000 as bounty on her head. Denouncing the bomb attack, journalists launched a cease-work strike from the day of attack till February 19. However, the journalists once again launched the cease-work strike after an armed group, while owning up the attack, asked Poknapham to suspend publication for six months. After two days of ceasework strike, the journalists once again resumed work from Sunday.

DHD COVID warriors not Phase-2: 180 paid two-month salary sr. citizens avail Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): Doctors and other staff working under Medical Superintendent (MS) District Hospital Dimapur (DHD) have reportedly not received salary for the last two months. Speaking to Nagaland Post, one of the employees disclosed that doctors, nurses and other staff working under DHD-MS have not received two-month salary despite working relentlessly. “COVID Hospital Dimapur is one of the busiest District Hospitals amongst

all the district hospitals in the state. The staff here are working tirelessly, however, we have not received our salary for last two months,” lamented the employee. The employee claimed that other government employees working under chief medical officer (CMO) Dimapur and other districts have already received their salaries while those working under DHD-MS have been neglected. “The doctors, nurses and particularly the GradeIV staff are facing difficulties due to non-payment of salary,” said the source.

COVID vaccine

DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): As India’s Covid-19 vaccination phase-II began Monday, 180 senior citizens in the age group of 60 years and above and 13 beneficiaries with associated comorbidity above 45 years were vaccinated across the state Monday without any reported adverse events needing medical intervention. According to State Immunization Officer (UIP), Dr. RituThurr, the oldest beneficiary was an 89-year-old man from Longleng. The total doses administered in the state till date stood at 35,789. Dr. Thurr also informed that vaccination of age-appropriate highrisk groups will be scaled up across the state from March 7, 2021. All citizens can selfaround ten square km of a register through cowin.gov. community-owned forest in or do onsite registration into a wildlife preserve. along with a Photo ID. Speaking to Nagaland Post, team leader and founder of Lemsachenlok and recipient of the Governor’s gold medal, Nuklu Phom, said DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): the YCBCA area was earlier Following the resignation of used as a Jhum fields. The Justice (Retd). Uma Nath area is now a safe haven for Singh as Lokayukta of Na85 species of birds, including galand, the state government Amur falcons, 15 species of has notified that Mayang frogs, as well as leopards, Lima, the Upa-Lokayukta of barking deer, serows and ot- Nagaland, would discharge ters etc. The area has become the responsibilities of the one of the major roosting Lokayukta of Nagaland site for Amur Falcons in the with immediate effect till state, he said. further order.

Naga conservationist Nuklu Phom shortlisted for Whitley Award DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): Nagaland’s renowned conservationist, Nuklu Phom is among the 15 names shortlisted for the prestigious “Whitley Awards 2021”, along with Assam’s Bibhuti Lahkar. The duo are the only Indians to be shortlisted for this year’s awards from among the 106 applications received from across the globe for their exceptionally high standards, representing diverse approaches across a broad range of countries, habitats and species etc. After a comprehensive

assessment, top 15 candidates were identified for doing incredible work with communities to safeguard wildlife, habitats and the future of society for which name of the winners would be announced on May 12 this year, TFM report stated. The Whitley Awards 2021 ceremony will be streamed live online from 7 p.m. onwards that day. To be hosted live by Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) ambassadors Kate Humble and Tom Heap, the ceremony would honour six grassroots conservationists with Whitley

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Awards – providing winners with funding, training and profile. The finalists will be announced on the night, where it will also reveal the recipient of this year’s Whitley Gold Award – top

prize for WFN alumni who have gone on to make an outstanding contribution to conservation. In recognition of their work at Yaongyimchen Community Biodiversity Conservation Area (YCBCA), Lemsachenlok organization bagged the coveted India Biodiversity Award 2018 for conservation of wild species, initiated by government of India and United Nations Development Programme. Three villages under Longleng district- Yaongyimchen, Alayong and Sanglu, formed the YCBCA in 2007, main-

tained by a committee under the aegis of Lemsachenlok organisation. The concept, spearheaded and initiated by churchman Nuklu Phom, has brought tremendous progress in sustainable biodiversity in the area which has also become the largest roosting area for Amur Falcons. After several years of deliberation among the village councils at the initiative of Nuklu, the villagers decided to start YCBCA. They not only decided to sacrifice their jhum lands but resolved to transform

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Free medical camp at Longsachung

news in Brief DMC informs on trade license: Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) has reminded all shopkeepers, traders and business establishments under DMC jurisdiction that the last date for renewal of trade license for the year 2021 is March 31, 2021. Therefore, it has informed all trade license holders who have not renewed their license to renew their respective license within the stipulated period to avoid late fine. RASU informs: Ralan Area Students Union (RASU) has informed all constituents units, Ralan Area Lotha Hoho (RALH), Ralan Range Union Dimapur (RRUD), Ralan Area Eloe Hoho (RAEH), concerned village councils within Ralan Area, Ralan Area Chairman Association, Ralan Area VDB Association, Ralan Area Lotha Hoho Wokha, senior leaders, advisors and elders, that a consultative/conclave RASU general meeting will be held on March 13, 10 a.m. at Lotha Hoho Ki Dimapur. All concerned have been informed to attend the meeting without fail. DTE informs: Dimapur Tsopoe Ekhung (DTE) has convened a general meeting on February 27 at 10 a.m. at Duncan Community Hall. All members have been informed to attend positively.

Dr. Temsusashi DTO (NTEP) delivering a short speech in Longleng.

DIMAPUR: Along with the rest of the country, the second phase Covid vaccination for above 60 years of age and those above 45 years with co-morbidities was launched on March 1 in Mon and Longleng. A press release by District Hospital, Mon, stated that identified facility was selected only for launch, while more facilities will be open to public in phase wise manner. A photo ID will be required to register for those above 60 years of age. For co-morbidity issues, a medical certificate will also be required. DPO, UIP & RCH, Dr. Sashinle Tep informed that COWIN app 2.0 allows onsite registration and that beneficiaries including HCWs & FLWs, who were not registered previously can avail the service and get vaccinated, provided

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WEATHER FORECAST march 2

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Agartala Mostly sunny and very warm 34 18 Aizawl

Hazy sunshine and very warm 29 13

Guwahati Mostly sunny Imphal

Nice with sunshine

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Itanagar A brief morning showers or two 27 14 Shillong

Mostly sunny and pleasant

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Tuensang Partly sunny and cooler

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they bring their photo ID. All beneficiaries of Mon have been requested to follow the Covid Appropriate Behaviour (CAB), wearing of mask, sanitize hands at entry and maintaining physical distance, on every session sites. Long leng: At the launching programme held at district hospital, DTO (NTEP) Dr Temsusashi stated that on site registrations would be available so that beneficiaries could walk into identified vaccination centres, get registered and inoculated. Beneficiaries will be able to self register in advance by downloading the Co-Win 2.0 portal and through other IT applications which would list government and private hospitals serving as Covid19 vaccination centres with date and time of available schedules.

EYF holds first general meeting DIMAPUR: Englan Yingsung Federation (EYF) held its first annual general body meeting on February 26 at Tourist Lodge, Old Riphyim. At the meeting, EYE secretary, Zubeni Odyuo read out the report of the federation and gave a detailed overview on all the activities in EYF. The program was followed by presentation of best VLO/SHG/CSP/VF/ MBK within the cluster. It may be noted that Englan Cluster Level Federation comprises of 67 SHGs under 8VLOs promoted by Nagaland State Rural Livelihood Mission (NSRLM) aims to initiate development interventions for poverty reduction. Two representatives from EYF namely Thungalo Odyuo (Krishi Sakhi New Riphyim) and Nzanbeni Kithan(Yikhum) shared their success story after the intervention of NRLM. Thungalo Odyuo, Agri Community service provider shared on the importance of agri-nutrition garden. Project director DRDA Wokha, K.Shekiho Phuleshe shared a brief history of NRLM. Also speaking at the meeting, chief operation officer, NSRLM, M Rollan Lotha stated that Englan CLF was one among the three CLFs taken up as a pilot model.

Dr. Temsusashi further stated that nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive was launched on January 16, which would be exponentially expanded to vulnerable age groups, all citizens above 60 years and those within the age bracket of 45-59 years with specified co-morbidities. This was stated in a press release issued by by CMO, Longleng, Dr. Obangjungla. SDO (Civil), Trongdiba Sangtam, in his short speech thanked all beneficiaries for coming forward to get vaccinated, and further encouraged them to spread the message to their near and dear ones at home and in their own respective wards and villages to avail the vaccine. The program was attended by the staffs from medical department, beneficiaries and well wishers.

NSCN (I-M) fasting and prayer: NSCN (I-M) Union Territory will observe prayer and fasting programme on March 5, 7 am at Showuba Village Baptist Church. All national workers of UT (RSI to kilonser) have been informed to attend the programme positively.

Excise MS seize liquor

DIMAPUR: Excise mobile squad duty party manning Chumukedima excise check gate arrested one person and seized 420 bottles of assorted IMFL near Jharnapani on February 26. The arrested person has been identified as Bensolemla Chang. According to superintendent of Excise and Prohibition (MS), K. Toshiho Yeptho, the excise mobile squad party during routine checking signalled Mahindra Scorpio (NL01P0035) to stop for checking, but the vehicle sped away. However, the duty party chased down the vehicle at Jharnapani. Both the accused and seized articles were handed over to higher authority for further investigation.

FIRST DEATH ANNIVERSARY of Late Angphangchuba. C. Imlong

One year has gone by, Memories are all we have of you. But, we know that you are ‘In God’s arms of eternal rest’

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visiting and educating the villagers about the benefits of various schemes and policies for the wellbeing of the village community. Later, a free medical camp was also conducted for the villagers where 672 patients were treated and free medicines were distributed to the patients.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We, the family of Lt. Mrs. Aruno Sakhrie (Mhapeni) who died on 23rd Feb 2021, would like to thank most sincerely, all those who sympathized on our great loss. We offer our heartfelt thanks to the many friends, neighbours and well wishers who visited our home, attended the wake, service and burial and who provided emotional and practical support for us at our difficult time. For those who telephoned, travelled and messages of condolences as well as those who made charitable donations, we are truelly grateful. Loving husband, son, daughter & relatives.

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Medical officer, Primary Health Centre, Nyiro, Dr.Thungjamo Jungio sensitized the villagers about the COVID vaccination and encouraged all to avail the vaccine for healthy life. Longsachung Village Council chairman, Yakhasao Ezung thanked the team for

Three days Sunday School Teacher’s training, organised by Education Department of Kuki Baptist Association Nagaland, commenced on February 27. 35 Sunday school teachers from different churches of KBAN participated with director ABNK, ABCC, Azonuo Ciesetsu, CEM, Immanuel Baptist Church, Kohima, Ruusano and Ministry Assistant, Khedi Baptist Church, Kohima, Neingulanuo Khruomo, as resource persons.

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Elderly women attending medical camp.

CNTC lauds news ENPO officials: Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) has lauded the newly elected officials of the ENPO, under the leadership of T. Sashi Naga Sangtam as president and Manlang Phom as general secretary, for the tenure2021-2023. CNTC in a press release stated that it looked forward to work together for uplifting Nagas for brighter future and hoped to continue inculcate spirit of brotherhood as displayed by pioneers shown since time immoral. The council further wished brighter and successful journey to the new team.

2nd DEATH ANNIVERSARY

You loved us much more than we love you. You did for us more than we did for you.

DIMAPUR: District administration and DLCW –MSK under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) in collaboration with the department of Health and Family Welfare, Sakhi- One Stop Centre organised a one day awareness programme on PCPNDT Act (pre conception and pre Natal Diagnostic Technique Act) and Pradhan Mantru Vandana Yojana- Maternity Benefit Scheme (PMMVY) and free medical camp on February 28 at Longsachung village Community Hall. According to DIPR report, during the programme, case worker-Sakhi-One Stop Centre, Thungbeni Kikon highlighted on PCPNDT Act & OSC, while Emilo, assistant district co-ordinator PMMVY enlightened about the benefits of Pradhan Mantru Vandana YojanaMaternity Benefit Scheme.

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Meghalaya moots cable cars for Shillong

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SHILLONG, MAR 1: Cable cars for the highly congested city of Shillong was on Monday mooted by the Meghalaya government as expansion of existing roads is difficult due to the land tenure system prevalent in the State. Addressing a workshop on ‘Urban Mobility for Shillong City’ at the State Convention Centre here, Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong hoped that the recommendations made through the extensive and comprehensive study conducted by Dalberg will aid in decongesting Shillong. “Suggestion for operation of cable cars is highly favourable for the city as land acquisition for construction of roads and flyovers often meet with stiff opposition due to the land tenure system that exists in our State,” he

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said, adding that the “need of thehour” was to meet short term goals. Tynsong also reiterated the need for improving and increasing public and school bus services. The workshop, inaugurated by the Deputy Chief Minister deliberated and chalked out an

action plan on the recommendations of the study on Urban Mobility for Shillong City conducted by the Meghalaya Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation Limited (MIDFC) and the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the World Bank-funded Meghalaya

Integrated Transport Project (MITP). The study was entrusted to a global consulting firm, Dalberg. Project Director, Meghalaya Integrated Transport Project (MITP) and CEO, Meghalaya Infrastructure Development and Finance Cor poration Ltd. (MIDFC), D. Vijay Kumar said that the problem of improving urban mobility was a complex, multi sectoral problem which involves many stakeholders. Stating that Shillong has the potential of becoming a world class city and one of the best hill stations in the country, he, however, said that unless the mobility problem remains unsolved, this potential will not be realized. The study conducted by Dalberg focused on the needs of the citizens, sustainability and unlocking

economic growth and with this vision in mind, ten key suggestions were made for improving mobility systems in the capital city. The suggestions include introducing high frequency people friendly public buses; building of ring roads so as to divert traffic from National Highways; introduction of cable cars as an alternative to road based mobility; creating walk-able culture corridors connecting places of tourist attraction to encourage walking; providing smart streetlights in municipal areas; introducing non fuss school buses; establishing next door markets to decentralise daily need markets; reduction in street parking by curbing illegal parking in Municipal areas; introducing car cap policy to reverse trends in car ownership and creating a self-sufficient new Shillong township.

Centre sanctioned Rs 170cr for calamity-related measures: Khandu

I TA NAG A R , M A R 1 (PTI): The Centre has sanctioned an amount of Rs 170 crore for restoration work in the wake of floods and other calamity-related measures in Arunachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said on Monday. Responding to a question by senior BJP member Kento Rina, Khandu said in the assembly that the state’s finance department has released the funds to the disaster management department. Out of the total amount, Rs 70 crore has been sanc-

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tioned under the National Disaster Response Force and Rs 100 crore under the State Disaster Response Force. Meanwhile, replying to another query, Deputy Chief

Minister Chowna Mein said there is no provision for taking up individual schemes under the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) and the State Annual Development Agenda. Mein, who also holds the finance, planning and investment portfolios, was responding to a question by senior Congress member Lombo Tayeng, who alleged that many individual schemes are being recommended by the District Development Committees (DDCs) constituted by the state government.

Kashiho bats for eco-tourism

Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Assam Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, presenting a certificate of appreciation to Assam Down Town UniversityDeputy Registrar (Academics) Nitul Jyoti Das for their contribution in the fight against Covid-19 in the state.

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Rice mill building inaugurated at Mhainamtsi

of the members in particular and the public in general. The programme was chaired by ARCS & chief project officer Peren, Temjen Ao, invocation and dedication of rice mill building and machineries was done by Mhainamtsi Village Baptist Church, pastor Kentippe. Short speech was delivered by chairman of Hepui MPCS Ltd, Asing Haining and vote of thanks by SRCS & development officer, Zasevituo Angami.

Leo Club hosts EKSANG-Dobara V. Kashiho Sangtam, Khehovi Yepthomi and others at the Hausum Khel Resort.

minister made this appeal while inaugurating the Hausum Khel Resort, Poilwa on February 27 in the presence of advisor, Tourism, Art & Culture, Khehovi Yepthomi. The monolith of the resort was dedicated by pastor Hindi Baptist Church, Dimapur, Rev. Peuhau N. Hau. In line with the appeal

made by the minister, the advisor also called upon the people of Poilwa and its neighbouring villagers to preserve the flora and fauna of the “beautiful land” which was God’s gift to the people of the area. Commissioner and secretary, Soil and Water Conservation, Geology and Mining, K. Libanthung also spoke on the occasion.

DIMAPUR: Leo Club Dimapur, successfully hosted EKSANG-Dobara, 3rd council meet of Leo District 322D on February 28, at Hotel Europa Inn. A press release by Leo Club, stated that district president, Leo Rishav Dadlika, presented awards for 3rd quarter, where Leo Club of Dimapur, was recognised with certificate. District Governor further presented DG Medal to Leo Rishab Chhabra for getting recognition of International Leo of the Year. All council members including district president, Rishav Dadlika, district secretary, Shreya Modi, district treasurer, Pranay Poddar, district vice president, Taran Soni and immediate past district president, Rishab Chhabra, took part in the meeting. The meeting was also graced by DG Lion Lalita R Khadria. The event took place under the chairmanship of Sneha Jain, Abhishek Atal and leadership of Vishal Patni.

KBC church building inaugurated

The newly constructed Khezhakeno Baptist Church building.

DIMAPUR: The newly constructed church building of Khezhakeno Baptist Church (KBC) was inaugurated by Chakhesang Baptist Church Council

(CBCC) executive secretary, Rev. Krotso Mero at the church premises on February 28. A press release by KBC stated that, the foundation

stone for church building was laid on December 2, 2012 by Rev. Khrotso Mero while he was sr. pastor of Chakhesang Baptist Church, Kitsubozou (CBCK) and the

Arunachal remains coronavirus-free for second day

ITANAGAR, MAR 1 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh remained a coronavirusfree state for the second consecutive day, as no positive case was reported in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said on Monday. The total caseload remained at 16,836, while the number of recoveries stood at 16,780, State Surveillance Officer Lobsang Jampa said. So far, 56 people have died due to the contagion, he said. Arunachal Pradesh’s recovery rate and positivity rate are at 99.66 per cent and zero per cent, respectively, the official said. Altogether, 4,05,804 samples have been tested, including 157 on Sunday. Meanwhile, State Immunisation Officer (SIO) D i m o n g Pa d u n g s a i d 32,325 health and frontline workers received vaccine shots in the state so far.

Mizoram CM presents annual budget for FY 22 AIZAWL, MAR 1 (PTI): Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Monday presented the annual budget for the 2021-22 fiscal with an outlay of Rs 11,148.90 crore and no proposal to levy new taxes or raise existing rates. Zoramthanga also presented the supplementary demands for grants for 2020-21 amounting to Rs 3,058.08 crore. Revenue expenditure for 2021-22 is estimated at Rs 9,216.39 crore, which is 82.67 per cent of the total budget, he said. The CM, who also holds the finance portfolio, said the state government is constantly taking measures to increase its revenue from all sectors. The revenue targets will be achieved not by imposing fresh taxes but through more efficient tax collection, he said. The state government

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also expects a Rs 5,267.82crore grant from the 15th Finance Commission, and Rs 2,570.39 crore for implementation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS), Zoramthanga said. He said in spite of limited revenue resources, his government is aiming at maintaining a revenue surplus of Rs 579.42 crore in 2021-2022. Zoramthanga added that the Mizoram government will have to continue with its austerity measures till the state’s financial position improves.

Tripura Edn minister emphasizes on class room education at ICFAI University

DIMAPUR: A rice mill building under cooperation department was inaugurated by deputy commissioner, Peren, Sentiwapang Aier at Mhainamtsi village on March 1. While citing the success stories of Amul Dairy and Lijjat Papad, DC Peren also encouraged the cooperative society members and reminded them to uphold the values and principles of cooperatives and work together for the economic upliftment

DIMAPUR: Minister of Soil and Water Conservation, Geology and Mining, V. Kashiho Sangtam has batted for promotion of eco-tourism in the state in order to generate employment avenues through tourism industry. According to a press release by chairman of Hausum Khel, Poilwa, Namkwa Diswang, the

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same was later inaugurated by him as an executive secretary CBCC. Earlier, the dedicatory programme was led by chairman of new church building committee, Timikha Koza, special praise was presented by local church choir and children department. Meanwhile, the worship service was led by, pastor C. Kemvu Koza, invocation was pronounced by associate pastor, Thochu and chairman, Khezha/ Ku z h a Te p h e B a p t i s t Church Council (KKTBCC) extended greetings. It may be noted that, the three storied church building was constructed at approximate Rs. 2.10 crores with four years duration of time with a seating capacity of 1200.

DIMAPUR (NPN): Minister for School & Higher Education, Government of Tripura, Ratanlal Nath graced the fresher’s welcome programme “Novatos2K21” of ICFAI University Tripura as chief guest on February 24 at the University Campus, Kamalghat. Dwelling on the loss in economy and education due to sudden break of Covid-19, the minister maintained that the economic loss can be recovered but loss in education cannot be recovered. He

emphasized on class room education as destiny of the country is being shaped in its class room. He actively took initiatives to reopen the schools, colleges and Universities in Tripura. He informed that the preprimary schools will also open very soon. T h e m i n i s t e r wa s happy to note that the ICFAI University Tripura is steadily advancing towards its object to disseminate high quality soft skills, Life skills and placement oriented contemporary education

to the students of Tripura and other NE States. He also expressed his happiness to note that the University is presently having a large number of good blends of experienced and highly qualified faculty members in the University. He also urged to the students to become a good citizen with a goal to build their bright future. He tested the quality of students by asking some short quizzes to experience himself how much potentials are there with the ICFAI students.

AR organise weapons display for NCC DIMAPUR: NCC cadets of Kohima group witnessed weapon display organised by 1 Assam Rifles Lushai battalion under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) at Kohima on February 26. According to 24 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC, Kohima, instructors of 1 Assam Rifles Lushai battalion explained about various weapons of the Indian Army to the cadets. The release stated that the display motivated a number of cadets to take up the armed forces as a career. On behalf of Brig. K Venugopal, SM, group commander Kohima NCC group, Col Daniel Lotzem commander officer, 24 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC, Kohima expressed gratitude to commanding officer, Col UC Sati and all ranks of 1 Assam Rifles Lushai battalion for their services during the display. Commanding officer of 1 Naga girls, Col AH Khan along with NCC officer and 200 NCC cadets

Unidentified body recovered

DIMAPUR: An unidentified body of a non-Naga male, aged around 25-30 years was recovered at Dimapur Railway track near 254/4 Kms towards RXR Rangapahar on March 1. According to PRO of Dimapur police, the deceased was suspected to be run over by a moving train. The body was shifted to District Hospital Dimapur morgue. Claimant/ relatives/friends of the deceased have been requested to contact officer-in-charge, GRPS, Dimapur.

Happy 6th birthday to the little prince (Gaisingam Kamei), Wishing you a joyful life, full of beautiful moments! Let the Almighty shower all His blessings over the birthday child. With love and best wishes, mom, dad and all your loved ones. Dear ilo Wishing you many many happy returns of the day ! may you live long and have a blessed life.. Happy birthday beautiful ilo..... from okharo Ren

AR, Kohima battalion demonstrating weapons and equipment to the cadets.

(approx) from both senior Naga Girls Bn of Kohima division of 24 Nagaland (I) NCC group witnessed the Coy and senior wings of 1 weapon display.

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ith the rise of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) as the dominant political force in Indian politics since 2014,a plethora of defections from the politically weakening Congress party and other regional parties who joined the BJP at various points of times in the last six years, have continued the trend. After coming to power in 2014, BJP turned its attention on the north east which used to be dominated by Congress and regional parties. In 2015.BJP began with Assam when Congress leader Himanta Biswa Sarma was lured to join the party along with several Congress MLAs. A determined BJP government at the Centre managed to wrest Assam for the party in alliance with regional parties. Later, in Arunachal Pradesh, the BJP formed a government in 2016 through backdoor after engineering the defection of 33 of the 43 MLAs of the People’s Party of Arunachal Pradesh (PPA). In Manipur in 2017, BJP was invited to form the government courtesy of the governor even though the Congress had emerged as the single-largest party with 28 MLAs, and BJP trailed with 21 in the 60-member house. Later this was legalised post-government formation when six Congress MLAs defected to BJP. Interestingly, the Congress even failed to get some of the defectors as the house speaker sat on the petition for over a year. The same thing happened in Goa, where the BJP formed the government even though its tally (13) in the 2017 elections was lower than that of the Congress (17). The destabilisation game or ‘Operation Kamal’ continued when the BJP elbowed the Congress-JDS alliance government in Karnataka and managed to lure 17 Congress MLAs into resigning in 2019 and enabling the BJP to topple the Congress-JD(S) government and forming its own under the leadership of BS Yediyurappa. Even in Madhya Pradesh, BJP dislodged the Congress-led coalition government after Congress leader Jyortiraditya Scindia joined BJP along with 20 Congress MLAs. This was followed by an attempt to destabilise the Congress-led Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan by working on the friction between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. However Gehlot proved more than a match and after Sachin had “a change of heart”, ‘Operation Kamal’ was temporarily suspended. Even the recent instances of defections in the poll-bound West Bengal from the State’s ruling party Trinamool Congress (TMC) to the BJP is testimony to this fact. This has helped BJP to make steady political inroads in West Bengal. The BJP set its sight even in Puducherry where Congress-led alliance was in power. The house had no BJP MLAs in the 30-member house that includes three nominated. The Centre nominated three members belonging to BJP and set the ball rolling for the destabilisation game. Eventually, six ruling MLAs recently resigned and joined BJP. Puducherry was then placed under president’s rule and subsequently, election announced for April 6. BJP hopes to make its presence in Puducherry and also as backseat driver in Tamil Nadu in alliance with AIADMK. The proliferation of such practices resulted in the enactment of the anti-defection law in India in 1985. Thereafter, the subsequent unfolding of political developments revealed that the anti-defection legislation has largely failed to stall the menace of defections and it continues to take place unabated even today. What is however clear is that the BJP has inched ever closer to its stated goal of a Congress-free India, or even an opposition-mukt India.

DailyDevotion The Piercing Question Do you love Me? —John 21:17 Peter’s response to this piercing question is considerably different from the bold defiance he exhibited only a few days before when he declared, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” (Matthew 26:35; also see Matthew 26:33-34). Our natural individuality, or our natural self, boldly speaks out and declares its feelings. But the true love within our inner spiritual self can be discovered only by experiencing the hurt of this question of Jesus Christ. Peter loved Jesus in the way any natural man loves a good person. Yet that is nothing but emotional love. It may reach deeply into our natural self, but it never penetrates to the spirit of a person. True love never simply declares itself. Jesus said, “Whoever confesses Me before men [that is, confesses his love by everything he does, not merely by his words], him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God” (Luke 12:8). Unless we are experiencing the hurt of facing every deception about ourselves, we have hindered the work of the Word of God in our lives. The Word of God inflicts hurt on us more than sin ever could, because sin dulls our senses. But this question of the Lord intensifies our sensitivities to the point that this hurt produced by Jesus is the most exquisite pain conceivable. It hurts not only on the natural level, but also on the deeper spiritual level. “For the Word of God is living and powerful…, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit…”— to the point that no deception can remain (Hebrews 4:12). When the Lord asks us this question, it is impossible to think and respond properly, because when the Lord speaks directly to us, the pain is too intense. It causes such a tremendous hurt that any part of our life which may be out of line with His will can feel the pain. There is never any mistaking the pain of the Lord’s Word by His children, but the moment that pain is felt is the very moment at which God reveals His truth to us.

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nternational communities have seen many peoples’ struggles over land and its sovereignty. Prior fights for justice were exceedingly faced with blood baths rather than a friendly departure. But after the Second World War, majority of world powers has changed its views in solving the problem of rights to self-determination in a much matured approach of ever relational binding. The much speculation on the impending IndoNaga political settlement is not only confined to Indian and the Nagas alone, but it has become a universal concern. The present challenge to India today is their ability to shift from focusing on weaknesses to focusing on finding strength to solution, for the idea of strength to political solution had been endured by ‘shared sovereignty’ that was mutually accepted to end Asia’s longest resistance movement by signing the 3rd August, 2015, “Framework Agreement”. Form long and after considerable observations one can be critic that government of India is apprehensive to settlement with ‘shared sovereignty’ assuming that it will immediately give to a new round of violence, especially in Manipur, Assam, Arunachal

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Pradesh and elsewhere in the Indian subcontinent. However, in Amsterdam 11 July, 2002, Indian Government represented by the then interlocutor K. Padmanabhaiah and Naga people represented by the General Secretary of the NSCN, Th. Muivah communiqué a significant recognition formally signed the Unique History and Situation of the Naga people which was considered as the greatest justice done to rights of humanism. It was recognized not because Nagas are above other world communities’ rights, but for the facts that Nagas were never been a part of India ever before and after India formed Independent republic. History is cleared as Nagas’ situation is totally a different case from those merged into Indian Union was implicit yet, the fear to conflict settlement by India is her greatest weakness and nothing more than fearing her own-shadow. It is a deliberate denial of right to life and existence on earth. The main pillar of moder n democracy is based on the concept of sovereignty that honor liberty, freedom and identity; that recognized juridical independent territorial entity; that gives the right to independently deter-

mine its own institution of government. Undoubtedly, Indo-Naga concept of shared sovereignty must be without ambiguity refers to sharing of competencies, resources and power between the two entities. Most of the conflicts found in Asia and Africa are due to displeasure against the poor performed governing state powers nevertheless, Naga historical and situation is cleared to be unique thus, the contemporary concept of share sovereignty cannot be leveled to Indian petty domestic unitary vernaculars thereby, finding Indo-Naga political solution must be within the acceptance of international legal sovereignty to withstand the test time. India deceitfully wobbled Nagas into the confluence of two influences which every sensible soul should perceive and despise the dualistic antagonist. Significant are, one that was formally acknowledged and mutually entered into “Framework Agreement” on 3rd August, 2015 at the presence of the honorable Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi for peaceful coexistence. The event was globally broadcasted and it was taken as the historic moment for India and the Nagas. Subsequently, GoI silently revealed its expertise in

Freedom of speech is a joke

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ow that the intolerance debate is over and it has been established beyond reasonable doubt that we are a tolerant nation, we can safely discuss the limits of freedom of speech. Back in the bad old days when there was presumed intolerance, people had to be silenced by mob lynching or guns. Not such uncivilised behaviour anymore. We can take revenge in a nonviolent civilised way by filing FIRs and slapping defamation cases. That is a massive upgrade. Had it not been for those in the bad habit of speaking out about anything, including their elected Government, it wouldn’t be required. Earlier it was journalists, writers, authors and thespians. Now, another breed of the so-called champions of free speech, comedians, have joined the gang, especially the stand-up comedians. The freedom to speak, laugh or breathe has to be balanced with the other person’s right to get offended. Sure thing. If you are breathing air reserved for someone else, you are choking him. If your deafening laughter hurts and jokes make me throw up, you had better watch out. Now that is a joke but no laughing matter. Indeed, offending anyone is not a good idea, especially when you laugh at someone’s looks or body size. The person has indeed the right to get offended. Ironically, that is often tolerated by the society. Kapil Sharma’s blatant humour at the expense of his co-stars is ignored. No one files an FIR against him. The problem starts when the jokes, laced with truth, blast the hypocrisy of those in power. The jokes cracked by the standup are rarely personal. Her/his jokes are about the hypocrisy in the system, religion and society, and that offends people. In fact, the two most offended sets of people are religious gurus and politicians. To say you belong to a religion is one thing

but to presume that the religion belongs to you, quite another. In 2015, the self-appointed defenders of Islam shot Charlie Hebdo employees in Paris. For what? For a few lines they had used to depict the Prophet! But the Quran does not explicitly forbid images of the Prophet. Back home, Munawar Faruqui spent a few nights in the Indore Jail for allegedly cracking anti-Hindu jokes. Now, who gave these people – Hindus and Muslims – the proprietary of the religion they were accidentally born into? When did the gods ask you to defend them? Be offended if a priest of your shrine rapes. Be outraged when your coreligionist kills in the name of your religion. But that doesn’t happen. You prove your bravado by heckling and harassing a comic whose words were too offending for you. Religion is not someone’s personal turf that he ought to defend. A person has the right to get offended if he is body shamed. A guy may take offence to being called fat but it would be rather absurd that he becomes the spokesperson for all fat people on the planet. A self-appointed policeman to protect all people overweight! The other group of most offended types is the politicians. These are the people who make a joke of the system but, when ridiculed, act sacrosanct. They must not be laughed at. That is the exaggerated sense of entitlement. Napoleon Bonaparte once said: “In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.” Exactly, they are kind of necessary evil but don’t risk telling them that. You could end up in jail. Indian politicians are known for many things but humour isn’t one of them, though we have had a few exceptions. Mahatma Gandhi was never offended when Sarojini Naidu called him Mickey Mouse. Piloo Mody often took jibes at Indira Gandhi. Laloo’s humour is infectious. The incumbent Prime Minister, too, has a

carrot and stick policy by signing “Agreed Position” on 17th November, 2017 with the WC, NNPGs. RN Ravi undertaking to IndoNaga political issue is nothing more than advocating Nagas are Indian and it is the only contemporary realties. However, NSCN is committed to recognition of Naga identity for all time to come, while the later (WC/NNPGs) accepted temporary settlement for present Nagaland state (taken as an honorable and inclusive) and left Naga national issue as an aspirational pursuit lest assured to the future vision. To the Naga people and the Churches of Nagalim, Naga national movement is author and survives by Jehovah thus, Nagas will live by God and her land shall be for Christ. The rainbow and the Bethlehem star are the sacred covenant between God and the Nagas, “blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage” (Psalm 33:12), reading Isaiah 60:12, “for the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste”. So, will Nagas surrender their living God for worldly material advantages and fear bereavement? “Jerusalem”

is everything for the Jews; the inscription of “In God We Trust” is sacred to the United State of America. Will the Jews, American and world nations ever disown their consecration? Likewise, Nagas will be failed in her obligation to the Almighty if IndoNaga political settlement is sought without Naga flag and constitution. Nagas are colonized by India through militarization; divided and rule by Myanmar and India without any legal rights; Nagas house are sliced into pieces and placed for the conveniences of the oppressors so, surrendering Nagas rights shall amount to abandoning the living God. Realizing that force marriage can’t build a home, peaceful co-existence between the two entities within the modern mechanism of shared sovereignty was ceremoniously agreed upon. How then, acceptance or recognition of ones’ symbolic political elements comes to be contentious? Every sensible being ascertain illogical validity and who is fooling whom. Is political negotiation a stage of conscious dictation and terrorization? Every sectional detachment polices and to stub out the hard earned peace and procrastination to settlement laid

by India will soon face a tragic end. Recalling to “A Tale of Two Cities”, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way”. I chose this phrase because it is very much applicable to both negotiating parties the time that we’re going through now. The time of harvest is plentiful and at hand. Nagas and the churches of Nagalim, how obstinate will you remain when His coming kingdom is challenged? If anyone is taking God, be fearful to take anything lesser than your God. In this divine affair, knowing and following God must be proved. The battling war is God’s fight; it is choosing God or comfort; light or darkness, to live with identity or to live without a future and a nation with God or without is the ultimate choice. Dr. Aaron Lungleng (The writer is a freelancer and can be reached at parislungleng@gmail.com)

History of Consumer International & World Consumer Rights Day

good sense of humour. He pokes fun at his opponents he Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ on March 15. Later on Indian Parliament with élan, though how Organisation (NVCO) would like to passed a similar Bill and the President of much he enjoys jokes on highlight the history of Consumer India gave his assent on 24th December and himself is not clear. We have had the tradition of International and World Consumer Rights became fully implemented as the Consumer court jesters, or vidushaks. Day as the event is approaching. Every Protection Act, 1986. There were several Haasya kavis kept the joke year 15th March is observed as World major amendments in the Act but as of alive and roasted the politi- Consumer Rights Day in a global level now the Consumer Protection Act 1986 cians to their face. Today, where NVCO president Kezhokhoto Savi has been replaced by the Consumer Protecthe mantle has passed on who is also a recipient of National Award tion Act, 2019. India would be observing for Consumer Protection said that NVCO World Consumer Rights Day for the first to stand-up comics. Political humour and would be officially launching 2 weeks-long time with the Consumer Protection Act satire are well established celebration of World Consumer Rights Day 2019. And in this respect the NVCO rein the US. At the Presi- in the state of Nagaland(2nd March – 15th minds the state government to immediately dent’s dinner, people roast March 2021). Consumer International framed necessary rules and regulations the very President who founded in 1st April, 1960 is the member- for the implementation of the Consumer hosts them. The fearless ship organisation for consumer groups Protection Act 2019 in Nagaland. NVCO stand-up, George Carlin, around the world having over 250 member president Kezhokhoto Savi said that the never compromised his organisations in 120 countries. Consumer International Consumer has announced right to free speech. To- International’s focus is “consumer protec- that the theme for World Consumer Rights day’s comedians in the tion watchdog” having its office based in 2021 is “Tackling Plastic Pollution”. The campaign will raise awareness and US owe much to Carlin. London, England, with regional offices in engage consumers globally to adopt and Latin America, Asia Pacific, Middle East In India, stand-up compromote more sustainable practices. Savi and Africa. Formerly the International edy started rather late, further stated that the theme – “Tackling Consumer was International Organisation but the comedians have Plastic Pollution” is very appropriate and of Consumers Union (IOCU) and was caught up with the rest. important for our state especially Kohima founded by Elizabeth Schadee. Their fearless rendering and Dimapur and therefore, he urged the However, the idea of World Consumer has made many people civic bodies, state government departments, uncomfortable but, at the Rights Day was inspired by President John churches, civil societies, tribal hohos, etc F Kennedy. On March 15 1962, President same time, won them the to come out in one’s own way or joint respect and following they John F Kennedy sent a special message to our hands together to fight against plastic the US congress formally addressing the well deserve. pollution in our respective town. Savi has In the US, comics can issue of consumer rights. John F Kennedy also urged the district/sub-division level get away with a lot. It’s dif- was the first world leader to do so. On April, consumer voluntary organisations in the 1985, the United Nations approved the genferent here. Cases of sedieral guidelines for consumer protection. In state to take advantage of the event to tion have been filed against the year 1983, the first celebration of World reduce plastic pollution as to promote and cartoonists, satirists and Consumer Rights Day was marked. Since protect our environment. artists. That is the price Press & Media Cell, NVCO then, this (WCRD) is celebrated annually for calling the Government’s bluff. We live in a country where the political system itself is a big joke. In the House, you have a Speaker who won’t let you speak. We have lawbreakers making laws for us. The judiciary judges everything except itself. Sir, This is in reference to your circular no.DEV-52/MISC/2015D/12199-200 dated the It is a system in which the Treasury benches become 16th of February 2020 regarding the restricted movement of vehicles from Chate river rich and the Opposition bridge to Kukidulong from 50:00 am to 3:00 pm needs to be revised. ICAR office and gives walkovers to the SASARD happens to be in between the said locations and as a single parent traveling opponent by walking out. from Dimapur everyday is difficult to chase the timing of 3:00pm as the office timing is Is this not a joke worth 9:30 am to 4:30pm and we have to move out of the office before 3:00pm. It is creating a big trouble to all our staffs travelling from Dimapur and Chumukedima. The Head laughing at? Comic relief is what officials of the office expect us to stay beyond office hours owing to the end of financial the people in power need. year and we have to chase expenditures. However, for two weeks now we have to move It is a safety valve. So here out early from office because of which we are being asked to stay overnight nearby or is my unsolicited advice at office and as a single parent I can’t leave my kids alone. it will be highly appreciated to those politicians who if your esteemed authority could kindly revise the timing please. Temjen Longkumer don’t laugh at jokes. Join a laughter yoga club in your vicinity. It is good for your health. It lowers blood pressure and increases Sir, your longevity. It might The decision to hold offline examination for B.Ed 3rd semester examination after also increase the longevity conducting only online classes took us by surprise as we are not mentally prepared for of your political career. it. To add more woe, the exam routine without a single day gap on course 11 (optional paper) have left us in trauma. Therefore, we request your kind authority to look for an Gyaneshwar Dayal (The writer is a columnist alternate way to atleast provide study gap for our paper (course 11) taking the online and documentary film-maker. classes into consideration. The views expressed are per- Khrietuo Liezietsu, 3rd semester, Ura College of Teacher Education, Kohima. sonal.) (On behalf of 3rd semester, UCTE) 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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An appeal to the DC Dimapur

Plea to the controller of Examination, NU, Lumami

FASTags to save fuel worth Rs 20k cr: Gadkari

Nitin Gadkari and VK Singh address the launch of the Live Monitoring System for Toll-plazas, Monday (PTI)

be charged double at electronic toll plazas across the country. According to the transport ministry data, shared by the minister during the launch, on arriving at the pay-axis of the toll booth, fee payment through FASTag takes 5 seconds as against 40 seconds for cash payments. Gadkari said India was moving towards a toll-booth free mechanism, and the central government’s income had increased Rs 10,000 crore due to the implementation of the new system. After the implementation of the FASTag mechanism, national highway toll plazas alone have crossed 6 million transactions worth Rs 100 crore. In addition, there is a 10 percent growth in the number of transactions on a weekly basis, the government data showed.

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Tikait questions govt’s silence

RSS, Modi insult Tamil language: Rahul Gandhi

BIJNOR (UP), MAR 1 (PTI): BKU leader Rakesh Tikait has claimed that the Centre’s “silence” for the past few days indicates that it is planning some steps against the farmers’ agitation over newly enacted agriculture laws. He also stressed that it is the government that will have to come forward with a proposal for talks to resume with the protesting farmers. Before leaving for Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar on Sunday night, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader told reporters in Bijnor’s Afzalgarh, “The government’s silence for the past 15-20 days is indicating that something is going to happen. The government is planning some steps against the agitation.” However, Tikait said farmers will not step back till a solution is found. “The farmer is also ready. He will look after his crop as well as the agitation. Let the government hold talks when it has the time,” he said.

KANYAKUMARI (TN), MAR 1 (PTI): Tamil Nadu should show the way to India in keeping away forces that are inimical to language and culture and those projecting “one culture, one nation and one history” concept, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Monday. The Lok Sabha MP participated in multiple engagements in this district as part of his three-day tour of Tamil Nadu, ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls in the state which his

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party is facing in alliance with the M K Stalin-led DMK. If he were to interview Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gandhi said he would ask “why are you convinced that all answers should come from you”. He also said the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), strongly opposed to by Tamil Nadu political parties, was a “big issue” and “not beneficial” for students. The Wayanad MP displayed his fitness when

he effortlessly did multiple pushups, including onehanded, while he shook a leg with the students he interacted with, as accompanying Congress leaders Dinesh Gundu Rao and K S Alagiri joined him. At a public address in Nagercoil in the district, Gandhi said history has shown nobody can rule Tamil Nadu other than the Tamil people. “This election will show the same thing that only a person who truly represents the Tamil people can be a Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,” he said. “Tamil Nadu chief minister (K Palaniswami) who bows to Prime Minister Narendra Modi will never be able to do this. The chief minister should bow to the people of the state,” he said. The RSS and Modi “insult Tamil language and culture”, he said, adding the people should not to allow them to gain a

foothold in the state. Gandhi further said “Modi talks about one culture, one nation, one history and one leader.” “Is Tamil not an Indian language? Is Bengali not an Indian language? Is Tamil culture not Indian culture? This is the battle that is being fought in this election,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It is my duty to protect the Tamil language, culture and history just as it is my duty to protect all languages and religions in India,” he said. He accused the BJP-led government at the Centre as well as the Palaniswami government of not respecting Tamil language, culture or tradition. Recalling the yeoman service of late Congress MP H Vasantha Kumar, Gandhi said he always stood by the party values. He laid a wreath at Kumar’s memorial at Kanyakumari.

NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (AGENCIES): The adoption of FASTag has reduced the average waiting time at toll plazas to 150 seconds this year, compared to 464 seconds last year, which is expected to save fuel worth Rs 20,000 crore for the country, said Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday. The minister, who launched a live monitoring system for toll plazas across the national highways to

gauge waiting time and traffic queue length on a real-time basis, also said the move would reduce carbon emission by 5 lakh tonnes per month. He said the system will come out with a Daily Congestion Index monitoring the traffic across the country. The government made FASTags mandatory starting from February 15 this year. As per the current regulations, vehicles not having FASTags will

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leadership of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi. We are all with the leadership, we are with the Congress. We are not against them becoming President”, he said. Moily noted that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi promised to effect changes in the organisation and hold elections. “I don’t think we regret”, he said when asked whether he regretted signing the August letter. “We should not pursue (with our letter). That (G-23) is not meant to be a dissident organisation and will not be. Once the memorandum (the letter) is given, the purpose is over...”, Moily said.

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been misread as a ‘dissident’ meeting. “It is not a dissident meeting. We (some of the ‘G-23’ leaders) are not part of it,” he told PTI. In a public show of dissent, the leaders, including Azad, Anand Sharma and Kapil Sibal gathered on one stage in Jammu on Saturday, saying the party is weakening and they have come together to strengthen it. Moily, who had also served as chief minister of Karnataka, said the purpose of the August letter was to improve the party, for effective reformation and organisational elections at all levels. “It’s not against the

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front company Chengdu 404 Network Technology. The report said, “One of the accused previously claimed to be ‘very close’ to the MSS (Chinese Ministry of State Security), continuing an established trend of Chinese private contractors and front companies conducting cyber espionage activity on behalf of the MSS. Conversely, Tonto Team has been linked to the PLA (Peoples Liberation Army), specifically the Shenyang Military Region Technical Reconnaissance Bureau.” Recorded Future linked the intrusions to the recent border tension between the two countries and identified ten Indian power generation and transmission organisations and two ports that it said were targeted. The company said that it had “notified the appropriate Indian government departments prior to publication of the suspected intrusions to support incident response and remediation investigations within the impacted organisations”. The report said that India was also involved in cyber espionage and that it had “observed the suspected In-

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NEW YORK, MAR 1 (IANS): A cyber intelligence company says it has found that hackers linked to China have infiltrated power systems and ports in India in a “show of force” and they have the ability to create disruptions. The company, Recorded Future, warned, “As bilateral tensions continue to rise, we expect to see a continued increase in cyber operations being conducted by China-linked groups such as RedEcho in line with national strategic interests.” In the report made available to IANS, Recorded Future said that the intrusions “pose significant concerns over potential pre-positioning of network access to support Chinese strategic objectives”. The incursions could also be “a precursor to kinetic escalation” -- that is, preparing for possible cyberattacks on infrastructure by planting malware. The report said that the intruders into the Indian networks used a malware called ShadowPad to set up a backdoor for them to enter the system, which was also used by other Chinese espionage teams. The RedEcho group linked to the intrusions into India shared characteristics with Chinese groups APT41/Barium and Tonto Team, the report noted. It said that in September the US government filed charges against five Chinese APT41 and linked it to the

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NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (PTI): The Supreme Court Monday directed 2,318 undertrial prisoners, who were granted interim bail by the trial courts here amid the COVID-19 pandemic, to surrender in jail within 15 days. The apex court said that 356 prisoners, who were earlier granted interim bail by the Delhi High Court in view of the pandemic, would also surrender in jail within 15 days from today. A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat passed the directions while hearing the pleas, including an appeal filed by ‘National Forum on Prison Reforms’ (NFPR) against the October 20 last year direction of the Delhi High Court which had said that its blanket order extending all interim stays and bails granted prior to and during the COVID-19 lockdown would not remain in effect after October 31, 2020.

BENGALURU, MAR 1 (PTI): Distancing himself from the Jammu meet of G-23 leaders, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Monday virtually expressed concern over internal differences in the party spilling out into the open, and backed Rahul Gandhi’s return as President of the outfit. The former union minister was one of the group of 23 leaders who wrote to the interim President Sonia Gandhi in August last year urging her to ensure “fulltime” and “visible” leadership. It has since come to be known as ‘G-23’.

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where the data may have been transferred. Deshmukh’s comments came in the wake of a US company’s report claiming that amidst the border tension in Ladakh last year, a Chinese government-linked group of hackers targeted India’s critical power grid system through a malware. The report raised suspicion whether the massive power outage in the financial capital was a result of the online intrusion. On October 12, a grid failure in Mumbai resulted in a massive power outage, stopping trains on tracks, hampering those working from home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and

hitting the economic activity hard. Deshmukh also referred to a related news report in the ‘New York Times’ as he spoke to the media persons. The Cyber Cell’s report into the outage, prepared with the help of electricity department experts, was handed over to Raut on Monday evening. We had discussion with our colleague Raut about examining if there was any such possibility (of cyber sabotage) after the power failure in Mumbai. The Maharashtra Cyber analysed the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (of the MSEB).

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While the Trinamool Congress Party-led West Bengal will have elections over eight rounds from March 27-April 29, polling in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry will be held in one phase on April 6 and in Assam over three phases. The plea, which may come up for hearing in few days, also seeks a direction to the CBI to register an FIR into the alleged chanting of religious slogans during electioneering in West Bengal. The chanting of “Jai Shri Ram, other religious slogans are creating disharmony” and is an offence under the IPC and the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the plea said.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (PTI): A plea challenging the Election Commission’s decision to conduct assembly elections over eight phases in West Bengal was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday. The plea, filed by lawyer M L Sharma, seeks the apex court’s direction to the poll panel to stop it from conducting eight-phase elections in the state as it violates Article 14 (right to life) and Article 21 (right to life) of the Constitution. On February 26, the Election Commission announced the schedule for assembly elections to be held in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and in Puducherry.

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of south peninsula and adjoining central India,” it added. It said above normal seasonal minimum (night) temperatures are likely over most of the of north India along the foot hills of Himalayas, northeast India, western part of central India and southern part of peninsular India. “However, below normal season minimum temperatures are likely over most of the subdivisions of eastern part of the central India and few subdivisions of extreme northern part of the country,” the IMD

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NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (PTI): Day temperatures are likely to be above normal in north, northeast, parts of east and west India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Monday in its summer forecast for March to May. However, it has forecast a likelihood of below normal temperatures in south and adjoining central India. “During the upcoming hot weather season (March to May), above normal seasonal maximum (day) temperatures are likely over most of the subdivisions of north, northwest and northeast India, few subdivisions from eastern and western parts of central India and few coastal subdivisions of north peninsular India,” the forecast said. There is a probability forecast for above maximum temperatures in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gujarat, coastal Maharashtra, Goa and coastal Andhra Pradesh. “However, below normal seasonal maximum temperatures are likely over most of the subdivisions

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great systemic reforms. Sitharaman said that to keep government accounts transparent, the CGA will have to adapt and keep pace with changing technology to keep government account transparent. “Seamlessness of payments is more important,…I will bring it here as an example to say even where complete foolproof systems are laid, you find in NSE a couple of days ago when there was a glitch, a kind of technology-driven glitch, which nobody could

NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (PTI): The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CICSE) will conduct board exams for classes 10 and 12 from May 5 and April 8 respectively, officials announced on Monday. “The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), which is class 10 exam, will be conducted from May 5 to June 7. The Indian School Certificate Examination (ISC), which is class 12 exam, will be conducted from April 8 to June 16,” said Gerry Arathoon, CICSE’s Chief Executive and Secretary. “The results will be issued through the convenors to the heads of schools by July. The results will not be available from office of council in New Delhi and no queries will be entertained from candidates, parents or guardians,” he added. The board said the class 12 exams will begin on April 8 with Computer Science (Practical)-Planning Session, which will be a 90-minutes paper, instead

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NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (AGENCIES): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked civil accounts officers to have a clear roadmap for seamless digital payments, saying there are lessons to be learnt from the “technology-driven glitch” that happened at National Stock Exchange. Addressing the 45th Civil Accounts Day she said the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), who is the bookkeeper of government accounts, has adopted

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of three hours scheduled for other subjects starting April 9. Usually, the CICSE board exams are conducted in February-March. However, the exams have been delayed this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Central board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducts board exams around the same time every year, has also deferred its exams to May-June this year. The class 12 timetable of CICSE noted that the date and time for practical examinations of the subjects Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Indian Music (Hindustani), Fashion Designing, Physical Education, Computer Science (Examination Session) and Home Science (Examination Session), will be provided by the school concerned. “Applications for recheck of answer scripts must be submitted online and must be received by the Council’s office not later than seven days from the day of declaration of the ISC Year 2021 Examination results,” Arathoon said.

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have anticipated, but that glitch has caused us immensely and lessons are being learnt. “Maybe that was an issue of interoperability between the two exchanges, but that is the kind of thing where seamless digital payment is the goal that we have to aspire for. That was also an example that tells us about how seamless payment modes or technology-driven platforms can face. So, taking lessons from that, I would think seamless digital payments is something you have to clearly have a roadmap for,” Sitharaman said. The NSE had on Wednesday halted trading on the stock exchange for nearly four hours due to a technical glitch. The minister suggested that the CGA should move towards being more paperless and user friendly in its functioning and also aim for greater integration with the Department of Expenditure and states.

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In the matter of an application submitted by Smti. Amongla C, D/o I. Chubatemsu Jamir resident of Darogapathar, Dimapur has applied for rectification of name entered as Smti. C. Amongla Jamir in Jamabandi Patta No. 233 and rectification of existing Dag No. 69/360 to Dag No. 103 & Dag No. 106 with existing area of 01B-00K-00Ls to 03B-04K-16Ls located at Darogapathar in the Revenue Record. The undersigned hereby invited claims/objections concerning to the said land for correction of Revenue Record and should be submitted to this court in written within 1(one) month the date of issue of this notice. DP-1163

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YA N G O N, M A R 1 (AGENCIES): Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared at a court hearing via video conferencing on Monday as supporters marched in several towns and cities in defiance of a crackdown after the bloodiest day since the Feb. 1 military coup. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters in the main city of Yangon on Monday, witnesses said. They later combed through side streets firing rubber bullets and at least one person was hurt, media reported. Suu Kyi, aged 75, looked in good health during her appearance before a court in the capital Naypyidaw, one of her lawyers said. Two more charges were added to those filed against her after the coup, she said.

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Suu Kyi appears in court via video link. (IANS)

“I saw Amay on the video, she looks healthy,” lawyer Min Min Soe told Reuters, using an affectionate term meaning “mother” to refer to Suu Kyi. “She asked to meet her lawyer.” The Nobel Peace laureate, who leads the National League for Democracy (NLD), has not been seen in public since her government was ousted and she was detained along with other

party leaders. She was initially charged with illegally importing six walkie-talkie radios. Later, a charge of violating a natural disaster law by breaching coronavirus protocols was added. On Monday, two more charges were added, one under a section of a colonialera penal code prohibiting publication of information that may “cause fear or alarm”, and the other un-

der a telecommunications law stipulating licences for equipment, the lawyer said. The next hearing will be on March 15. Critics of the coup say the charges were trumped up. Myanmar has been in chaos since the military seized power after alleging fraud in a November election won by the NLD in a landslide, with daily protests getting increasingly violent as police and troops try to stamp them out. On Sunday, police fired on crowds in several places killing 18 people, the United Nations human rights office said. A committee representing lawmakers elected last year said 26 people were killed but Reuters was unable to verify that. “We have to continue the protest no matter what,” Thar Nge said after police firing tear gas forced him

and others to abandon a barricade in a Yangon street. “This is my neighbourhood. It’s a lovely neighbourhood but now we’re hearing gunfire and we don’t feel safe.” The military has not commented on Sunday’s violence and police and military spokesmen did not answer calls. The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper warned that “severe action will be inevitably taken” against “anarchic mobs”. Demonstrators marched on Monday in the northwestern town of Kale holding up pictures of Suu Kyi and live video on Facebook showed a crowd in the northeastern town of Lashio, chanting slogans. Police and soldiers later raided a church in the town and detained 11 people, a church group said in a statement.

Former French prez Sarkozy convicted of corruption; handed prison sentence PARIS, MAR 1 (AGENCIES): A French court found former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in prison, a stunning fall from grace for a man who led France and strode the world stage for five years. However, he may not spend any time in prison. Two years of the sentence were suspended, and the presiding judge said she would accept allowing him to be tagged with an electronic bracelet outside of prison for the remaining year. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, is the second head of state in modern-day France to be convicted of corruption. Prosecutors persuaded

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the judges that after leaving office, Sarkozy had offered to secure a plum job in Monaco for a judge in return for inside information about an inquiry into allegations that he had accepted illegal payments from L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 presidential campaign. “He took advantage of his status and the relationships he had made,” presid-

ing judge Christine Mee told the court. Another judge will decide whether to permit Srakozy to wear a bracelet instead of being imprisoned. Retired from politics but still influential among conservatives, Sarkozy has 10 days to appeal the ruling. He left the court without speaking. He had denied any wrongdoing, saying he was the victim of a witch-hunt by financial prosecutors who used excessive means to snoop on his affairs. Sarkozy burst onto the world stage as a reformer full of ideas who would break with France’s stagnant past on the domestic front and restore the birthplace of human rights to a place of prominence in international affairs.

Chinese hackers targeted India’s Donald Trump indicates he’ll run for 2024 prez election Says we’ve gone from ‘America power through malware: US firm first to America last’ in 1 month departments prior to publication of the suspected intrusions to support incident response and remediation investigations within the impacted organisations. There was no immediate response from the Indian government on the study by the US company. S i n c e e a r ly 2 0 2 0 , Recorded Future’s Insikt Group observed a large increase in suspected targeted intrusion activity against Indian organisations from the Chinese state-sponsored group. The New York Times, in a report, said that the discovery raises the question about whether the Mumbai outage was meant as a message from Beijing about what might happen if India pushed its border claims too vigorously.

YISEMYONG STUDENTS’ UNION

DIMAPUR KHAR SENSO TELONGJEM

The Yisemyong Students’ Union with immense pride and profound gratitude would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Er. Tekayanger Walling, S/o Lt. Repatsüngba Walling, on being promoted to the post of Executive Engineer under Nagaland Public Works Department. The Union further wishes him the very best in all his future endeavours.

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Dimapur Sakshi Union (DSU) conveys its heartiest congratulations to Shri. Wanmei C. Phom for being promoted to the post of SDO (civil). The DSU wishes him good health and success in his future endeavours. T. Shahnyü Phom President, DSU

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The Kohima Jangpetkong Senso Union (KGST) with immense joy congratulates Shri. Er. Moatemsu Aier, Chief Engineer (Power), Govt. of Nagaland on being elected as Kohima Aor Officer Union President (KAOT) The Union wishes him all success in his future endeavors and prays that God Almighty bless him with wisdom and knowledge in serving people. T. Alem Pongen I. Wati Walling President General Secretary

PUBLIC APOLOGY

I, Shri. Vehuto Rhakho, S/o Vechupra Rhakho, resident of Chetheba Town, Phek District hereby confess that I have unscrupulously hacked the “INSTAGRAM” account of Dr. Chotisuh Sazo (Hon’ble MLA & Former Speaker of NLA) during November 2020 and chatted with several people impersonating him wherein I have used inappropriate and obscene languages/phrases. My actions have adversely tarnished the reputation and maligned his good and clean image. I sincerely tender my unconditional apology to Dr. Chotisuh Sazo and all those I have come into contact through the hacked account for all the unpardonable and irresponsible actions. Having realized the gravity of my folly, I promise never to repeat such reprehensible acts in future.

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FELICITATION The Satakhami Union Dimapur with grateful hearts to the Almighty God and with pride, convey our heartiest congratulations to Er. H. Akavi Ayeh and Mr. Hekato K Jimo, who have been promoted to the post of Drilling Engineer, Geology and Mining and Functional Manager, Industrial and Commerce respectively. The Union prays that God Almighty guide them and give them wisdom in their days to come. HEVITO ZHIMO President Satakhami Union Dimapur

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The Dimapur Khar Senso Telongjem (DKST) and all the bonafide Khar citizens in general extend our heartfelt congratulations to Er. Tiameren Walling on being promoted to Additional Chief Engineer (E), Power Department, Government of Nagaland, Kohima. The Senso takes this privilege to express our appreciation for bringing such laurels to our Senso and to our community. We are proud of him and his accomplishments. We further wish him good health and success in all his future endeavours.

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critic Senator Mitt Romney, have said that they will support Trump in his presidential bid, if he wins the 2024 Republican party primary. Romney has said that Trump will win the party’s primary, if he decides to run for president again. Opinion polls have shown that Trump, who is the first US president to have been impeached twice, is highly popular among Republican party members and

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the White House. I wonder, who that will be,” he said amidst cheers from his supporters at the annual session of the committee. Trump, however, ruled out forming a new party, arguing that such a move will split votes of conservatives, and called on his supporters to unite for defeating the ruling democrats in the 2022 mid-term polls. Several Republican leaders, including his top

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APOLOGY We, the signatories of the press release published in Nagaland Post on 25/02/2021 (Page No - 4) apologize for going against the Lakhuni Village Council Resolution of 2017 which debars any member of Lakhuni Villager to use the name of the village in media on any political matters. 1. Watitoshi 2. Lanuakum 3. Lolenmongba 4. Suchakumba 5. Moalong 6. Watitemjen

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We, the Chen Area Sheko Khong Kohima Unit (CASKK) extend profound happiness and our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Yingngam Wangnaolim, D/o Shri Yapho Wangnaolim from Chenloisho village for securing 3rd position in Post Graduation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Kerela University of Health Science. CASK Kohima Unit wishes her success in all her future endeavors. Minlem Konyak H Mongngam President Secretary K-476

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE KOHIMA : : NAGALAND

NO. DEF/KMA/ESSTT/(13)/(1)/2020-21/346 Dated, Kohima the 01st March 2021.

LAST AND FINAL CALLING NOTICE Whereas No.4917 R/C Yanbeni Lotha of DEF Kohima, D/o- Benrithung Lotha, Village – Elumya, PO-Wokha, PS-Wokha, Dist.- Wokha is found absenting from Government bonafide duty w.e.f. 01/10/2020 till date. And whereas this office had issued 3 (three) consecutive calling notices vide Order No. DEF/KMA/ ESSTT/(13)/(1)/2020-21/175 Dated 01/02/2021, Even No.241 Dated 10/02/2021 and Even No.294 Dated 18/02/2021, which were duly served to you but you have failed to report back for duty. You are hereby directed to report for duty within 07 (seven) days from the date of publication of this calling letter, failing which departmental enquiry proceedings will be initiated ex-parte.

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supporters, and way ahead of others. In a bid to galvanise his base, Trump, during his 90-minute speech, repeatedly attacked the Democrats and President Biden. “We will persist and we will prevail. We are tougher than they (Democrats) are. We are stronger than they

are. Together in the coming years, we will carry forward the torch of American liberty,” he said, alleging that the policies of the Biden administration were taking the country on the path of socialism and vowed to not let the country move in that direction.

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CHIMONGER VILLAGE COUNCIL & CHIMONGER SUHRO DÜMPI (CSD) FELICITATION

The Chimonger Village Council (CVC) and Chimonger Suhro Dümpi (CSD) convey our heartfelt congratulations to Shri. Sashi Naga Sangtam, the newly elected President of Eastern Naga People's Organization (ENPO) and his team. The CVC and CSD thank the people of United Sangtam and the six federation tribes of ENPO for having faith and confidence in him. The Village Council & Citizens of Chimonger Village (CSD) with much pride and hope extends best wishes to him and his team as they take up their newly assigned position and responsibilities. Sd/(Mr. Thsatsase Sangtam) Chairman Chimonger Village Council

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network traffic analytics and expert analysis. Data sources include the Recorded Future Platform, SecurityTrails, Spur, Farsight and common opensource tools and techniques, the report said. On October 12, a grid failure in Mumbai resulted in massive power outages, stopping trains on tracks, hampering those working from home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and hitting the stuttering economic activity hard. It took two hours for the power supply to resume for essential services, prompting Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to order an enquiry into the incident. In its report, Recorded Future notified the appropriate Indian government

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WASHINGTON, MAR 1 (PTI): Amidst the tense border tension between India and China, a Chinese government-linked group of hackers targeted India’s critical power grid system through malware, a US company has said in its latest study, raising suspicion whether last year’s massive power outage in Mumbai was a result of the online intrusion. Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based company which studies the use of the internet by state actors, in its recent report details the campaign conducted by a China-linked threat activity group RedEcho targeting the Indian power sector. The activity was identified through a combination of large-scale automated

WASHINGTON, MAR 1 (PTI): In his first public speech since leaving office, former US president Donald Trump has called for Republican Party unity while indicating that he might launch a third presidential bid in 2024 even as he slammed the Biden administration, claiming that the country has gone from “America First” to “America Last” in just one month. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee in Orlando, Florida on Sunday, the 74year-old leader, who left the White House on January 20, stopped short of announcing to run for the president in 2024, although he gave enough indications that he is moving in that direction. “We will take back the House. We will win the Senate and then a Republican president would triumph

Sd/(Mr. H. Noksangba Sangtam) President Chimonger Suhro Dümpi (Citizen)

APOLOGY LETTER

I, Mr. Khosathung Yanthan, S/o Jenisao Yanthan of New Tssori Village got arrested on 19-02-2021 by Wokha Police for assault case Ref. No. 448/290/323 IPC, for which I gave false statement by claiming that, I am Chonben Yanthan, S/o Chenio of New Changsu Village to the Investigating Officer while interrogating me for PR at Police Station Wokha. So on 28-02-2021, I was summoned by the Village Court of New Changsu Village and in front of all general public, I made an apology and confessed my misinformation/statement that I am not Chonben Yanthan nor my father is Chenio and I do not belong to New Changsu Village and do not have any relation to the said Village but my original Name and Village is Mr. Khosathung Yanthan, S/o Jenisao Yanthan of New Tssori Village. Therefore, I put my sincere apology to the general public of New Changsu Village for defaming the Village name and bringing bad image to the society. Mr. Khosathung Yanthan S/o Jenisao Yanthan New Tssori Village Wokha District

Sd/(KEVITHUTO SOPHIE) IPS, Sr. Superintendent of Police, Kohima, Nagaland.

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LAST AND FINAL CALLING NOTICE Whereas No.4924 R/C W. Longwa Konyak of DEF Kohima, S/o- Wangyen Konyak, Village – Wangti, PO-Mon, PS-Mon, Dist.-Mon is found absenting from Government bonafide duty w.e.f. 01/10/2020 till date. And whereas this office had issued 3 (three) consecutive calling notices vide Order No. DEF/KMA/ ESSTT/(13)/(1)/2020-21/178 Dated 01/02/2021, Even No.240 Dated 10/02/2021 and Even No.293 Dated 18/02/2021, which were duly served to you but you have failed to report back for duty. You are hereby directed to report for duty within 07 (seven) days from the date of publication of this calling letter, failing which departmental enquiry proceedings will be initiated ex-parte.

LAST AND FINAL CALLING NOTICE Whereas No.4965 R/C Dziesekholie of DEF Kohima, S/o- Kedihie, Village – Meriema, POKohima, PS- North PS Kohima, Dist.- Kohima is found absenting from Government bonafide duty w.e.f. 01/10/2020 till date. And whereas this office had issued 3 (three) consecutive calling notices vide Order No. DEF/KMA/ ESSTT/(13)/(1)/2020-21/176 Dated 01/02/2021, Even No.243 Dated 10/02/2021 and Even No. 292 Dated 18/02/2021, which were duly served to you but you have failed to report back for duty. You are hereby directed to report for duty within 07 (seven) days from the date of publication of this calling letter, failing which departmental enquiry proceedings will be initiated ex-parte.

Sd/(KEVITHUTO SOPHIE) IPS, Sr. Superintendent of Police, Kohima, Nagaland.

Sd/(KEVITHUTO SOPHIE) IPS, Sr. Superintendent of Police, Kohima, Nagaland.

NO. DEF/KMA/ESSTT/(13)/(1)/2020-21/347 Dated, Kohima the 01st March 2021.

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Nagaland thrash Arunachal by 7 wkt

DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): Nagaland thrashed Arunachal Pradesh by seven wickets in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 202021 in Chennai on Monday. Led by centuries from Jonathan Rongsen and SS Mundhe, Nagaland chased down 286 runs target set by Arunachal Pradesh in 42.1 overs. Jonathan scored 113 runs while Mundhe scored 102 runs. Stuart Binny remained not out on 55 runs. Fo r A r u n a c h a l , Nazeeb Saiyed, Kumar Nyompu and Obi took one wicket each. Earlier, Arunachal Pradesh decided to bat first after winning the toss, managed to score a competitive total of 285/7 in 50 overs. Rahul Dalal scored 138 runs and Vipin scored 56 runs. For Nagaland, Mundhe also took four wickets while Hopongkyu Sangtam and Khrievitso Kense scalped one wicket each. Meanwhile, Nagaland

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Cricket Association (NCA) has announced the team list of the senior women’s cricket team for Women’s Senior Trophy 2020-21 According to NCA (hon) secretary, Hyunilo Anilo Khing, Nagaland Women’s team placed in Elite D group, will play their first match in the against Punjab on March 13 at Indore. The team will then take on Madhya Pradesh on March 15, fol-

lowed by match against Mumbai on March 17, Baroda on March 19 and the last match against Kerala on March 21. TEAM LIST: Sentilemla Imsong (C), Elina Muru, Sariba Khan, Ke k h r i e n u o R u p r e o, Rwisumwi Basumatari, Lovikali V, TalirenlaPongen, Merensola, Soyimkumla, Alemienla, Sara Jamir & Ritu Karmakar STAND-BYES: Mha-

Chelsea, Man United play out goalless draw in EPL

Players of Chelsea and Manchester United in action during the EPL match.

LO N D O N, M A R 1 (AGENCIES): Chelsea and Manchester United played out a drab 0-0 draw at the Stamford Bridge in a Premier League clash on Sunday. The two clubs thus created some unwanted history as this is the first time in 99 years that they have been involved in two goalless draws in a single season. While the contest as a whole was nothing much to talk about, what did make the news is a dubious penalty decision that went against Manchester United. After some pressure from Mason Greenwood, Callum Hudson-Odoi of Chelsea appeared to have handled the ball with the referee Stuart Attwell stopping the play to consult the VAR monitor. However, Hudson-

Odoi was deemed to have not committed any error and thus the penalty wasn’t awarded. The decision didn’t go down well with Man United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who accused Chelsea of influencing referees. “Yep. 100 per cent,” Solskjaer replied when asked whether he thought penalty should have been awarded. “When they stop it and (Attwell) walks across. From here you can see it’s handball, they’re shouting handball against our player. It’s taken two points away from us. I can’t say, because that’s not gonna be good for him. I didn’t say it, I don’t want to cause controversy. It’s not right is it.” Solskjader pointed fingers to a recent article on Chelsea website that talked

about Harry Maguire. “It’s all this outside influences, VAR talk before the game on Harry, cheeky when they put that on the website. That’s influencing referees. You can read what they’re saying about Harry Maguire and putting pressure on referees to give penalties against us,” he said. “We’ve seen there was a manager, was it Frank [Lampard], that started it. Loads of talk about us getting penalties when there’s no doubt, and of course today we should’ve had a penalty,” he added. What the draw does is hurt Chelsea’s chances of finishing among the topfour and further increased the gap between PL leaders Manchester City and chasers Man United to 12 points.

sibeinuo Rupreo, Roma Subha, Iluneule Zeliang, Pausamyile Hegui, Jyoti Thapa, Priyanka Karmakar & Kikayangla Professional Guest Players: Vaincy Chaudhary, Nazma & Tulika Support Staffs: Kechesin Ke ppen (Team Manager), Methasielie (Team Coach) Sujit Rane (Team S & C Coach) and Wangshila Jamir (Team Physio)

Dr. Savizo N Yhome Memorial Tennis Cup concludes DIMAPUR, MAR 1 (NPN): The closing ceremony of the 1st Dr. Savizo N Yhome Memorial Tennis Cup was held at Chavino Peseyie Tennis Complex, Kuda Village, Dimapur on February 27. In men’s singles, Vilasier Khate emerged as the champion while Icheraibe Salie bagged the runners-up. In Men’s Doubles, Vilasier and Theja Khate took the first place while Vitsi and Zaputso were the runnersup. Winners of both categories in Men’s single and Doubles walked away with a sum of Rs 50,000 and trophy while runners-up received a cash amount of Rs 30,000 and trophy. President NLTA, C Apok Jamir in his speech dwelt on the popularity of tennis all over the world and hoped that this trophy will have an impact in the state.

Punia shuts down social media until end of Olympics NEW DELHI, MAR 1 (IANS): Ace wrestler Bajrang Punia said on Monday that he is shutting down all his social media handles until the end of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics which are scheduled to be held from July 23 to August 8. The 27-year-old Asian Games gold medallist is one of the favourites to win a medal for India at the Games. “Mein apnesabhi social media handles ko aaj se band karraha hu. Ab Olympic ke baad aap sabhi se mulaakaat hogi ... ummeed karta hu aap apna pyaar banaye rakhenge ..... Jai Hind (I will be shutting all my social media handles starting from today. Now I will meet all of you after the Olympics.... I hope you will continue to shower me with your love),” he said on Twitter and Instagram. Punia, who turned 27 last week, will take the mat next at the Matteo Pellicone World Ranking series which will be held from March 4 to 7 in Rome, Italy.

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Novak Djokovic equals Roger Federer’s world number one record MELBOURNE, MAR 1 (AGENCIES): Novak Djokovic has equalled Roger Federer’s record of 310 weeks ranked as world number one. The 33-yearold Serbian is guaranteed to break the mark next week. Djokovic won his 18th Grand Slam title and his ninth Australian Open crown in Melbourne last month. “After achieving the historic number one for the longest weeks at number one, it’s going to be a relief for me because I’m going to focus all my attention on slams mostly,” he said. His victory in Melbourne takes him to two wins behind the joint holders of the men’s Grand Slam record, Federer and Rafael Nadal. Djokovic has been helped by temporary changes to the ranking system because of the coronavirus pandemic which means players can currently count tournaments from two years instead of one. However, he is still the

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in-form player on the men’s tour, beginning 2021 by winning nine consecutive matches while last year he did not lose a completed match until the French Open final in October. Djokovic’s fifth spell at the top of the rankings began on 3 February last and he has been number one for all but 32 weeks since Federer hit 310 weeks in June 2018. His longest stint as number one was 122 weeks between July 2014 and No-

vember 2016. Djokovic sits on 12,030 points - more than 2,000 clear of Rafael Nadal, with Daniil Medvedev and Dominic Thiem the only other players with more than 7,000 points. However, he still trails the women’s number one record holder Steffi Graf who held top spot for 377 weeks, while Martina Navratilova (332) and Serena Williams (319) have also had longer spells at number one than Djokovic.

55th Secheku Range Sports meet underway DIMAPUR, Mar 1 (NPN): The 55th sports meet of Secheku Range Spor ts Association (SRSA) got underway on Monday at Tsupfume village under Phek district. The opening ceremony was graced by Deputy Director, Department of Tourism Nagaland, Veyielo Doulo, as the special guest and declared the tournament open. Touching on 2021 meet theme “Bringing out the best in each other”, Doulo urged upon the youth to make the best use of their talents and adopt healthy competition. Stating that sports is a competitive activity, he stressed on the need to accept the defeat happily and honourably. Pointing out that sports is not a leisure activity anymore, Doulo called upon the youth to take the same on professionalism line. Phek District Sports

Veyielo Doulo and others during the inaugural function of 55th SRSA meet at Tsupfume on March 1.

Association (PDSA) president Nezosa Tetseowhile extending greetings informed that the PDSA 2021 meet will take place in the last week of March. SRSA president, Puwezo Tsiihah said that Secheku is a conglomeration of 12 affiliated units. “Sports is all about

friendship, understanding and building a wall of peace and unity”, Tsiihah added. SRSA general secretary Wedepe L. Mero chaired the inaugural function while Tsiipfume Village Council chairman Ngonyi Lea delivered the welcome address. The oath was ad-

ministered to the participating teams by SRSA games and sports secretary Lecho Krocha. Meanwhile, the tourney will conclude on March 6 wherein Director Life Ministries Nagaland, Colo Mero will be the valedictory guest.

Kapur, Malvika win titles at Uganda International K A M PA L A , M A R 1 (IANS): Indian shuttlers Varun Kapur and Malvika Bansod emerged champions at the 2021 Uganda International in Kampala on Monday. The junior world No 2 Kapur registered a hardfought 21-18, 16-21, 21-17 win over seventh seeded compatriot Sankar MuthVarun Kapur Malvika Bansod usamy to lift his maiden senior international men’s hard during her come- compatriot Anupama Upsingles title while second- from-behind 17-21, 25- adhyaya in the women’s seed Malvika had to work 23, 21-10 victory against singles category.

The 17-year-old Kapur, who has been a consistent performer on the junior circuit and clinched his sixth title earlier this year, won the first game convincingly before losing the second. However, he looked in complete control in the decider and wrapped up the match comfortably in his favour. Meanwhile in the women singles summit clash, Haryana girl Anupama started off well to take

an early lead by winning the first game. However, the 19-year-old Malvika recovered well in time and was rewarded for her never give up attitude as the Nagpur girl worked hard to win the next two games as well as the gold medal. Sankar and Anupama settled for silver medals in the four-day tournament which saw participation of athletes from India, Germany alongside African countries.

La Liga: Atletico extend lead with 2-0 win against Villareal LA Lakers James marks 1,300th NBA regular-season game with victory

MADRID, MAR 1 (IANS): Atletico Madrid opened up a five-point lead over Barcelona at the top of La Liga after a 2-0 win away to Villarreal. Recent results implied the game could be another potential banana skin for Atletico, who have seen their lead at the top of the table cut from 10 to three points over the past three weeks, but Diego Simeone’s side got through their visit to the east coast with three vital points, Xinhua news agency reported. They had a touch of fortune in their opening goal when Stefan Savic’s 24th-minute header was saved by Sergio Asenjo only to bounce back over the line off Antonio Pedraza, but an assured second-half display saw Joao Felix double their lead in the 69th minute after a poor clearance from Pau Torres.The result puts pressure on Real Madrid, who

Match in action between Atletico Madrid and Villarreal.

entertains Real Sociedad on Monday night. On Saturday, FC Barcelona produced one of their best displays of the season to win 2-0 away to Sevilla. Ousmane Dembele and Lionel Messi scored as Barca gave their rivals very few options in attack less

than three weeks after losing 2-0 on the same ground in the Copa del Rey. Dembele put Barca ahead after a pass from Messi in the 29th minute and Messi doubled the lead with five minutes remaining. Barca will worry about losing key players after Pedri went off injured and Ronald

Araujo lasted just minutes in his return from an ankle injury. Kike Barja’s 77thminute goal gave Osasuna a 1-0 win in their local derby away to Alaves, who have lost six games from eight since Abelardo Fernandez returned as first-team coach and now slip back into the relegation zone. Getafe will breathe easier after ending a run of five defeats from six games which had put the future of coach Jose Bordalas in doubt. Mauro Arambarri opened the scoring in the 39th minute with a 35-yard thunderbolt, Juan Mata doubled Getafe’s lead shortly after Valencia defender MouctarDiakhaby was sent off for a professional foul, and on-loan midfielder Carles Alena completed the rout five minutes from time. Huesca continued their improved form with a 1-1 draw away to Eibar with Sandro Ramiro opening the

scoring for Huesca in the 81st minute, before Pape Diop’s header two minutes later drew Eibar level. Valladolid climbs out of the bottom three despite conceding an injury-time equalizer that condemned them to a 1-1 draw away to Celta Vigo. Winger Fabio Orellana put Valladolid ahead after Celta goalkeeper Ruben Blanco parried a shot to leave him with a tap-in, but Jeison Murillo’s powerful 93rd-minute header denied the visitors a vital away win, even if it lifts them above Alaves. The round of matches kicked off with Levante and Athletic Club warming up for Thursday’s Copa del Rey semi-final with a 1-1 draw with both goals coming from the penalty spot as Roger Marti opened the scoring for Levante 10 minutes before halftime and Raul Garcia cancelled that goal out after the break.

LOS ANGELES, MAR 1 (AGENCIES): LeBron James marked his 1,300th NBA regular-season game by helping the Los Angeles Lakers to a 117-91 victory over the Golden State Warriors. James, who has won championships with three franchises, had 19 points plus six rebounds, four assists, two steals and two blocked shots in 24 minutes. He sat out all of the fourth quarter along with the rest of the starters from both teams as the Lakers closed out a dominant victory. It avenged a narrow loss in January. The Lakers are still without star forward Anthony Davis but have now won two in a row after a run of five defeats in six

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games. “When you lose a mega-piece like AD, it’s going to take some time both offensively and defensively,” said James He added that the Lakers were becoming more

comfortable in the roles they have had to adopt with Davis sidelined, an absence that Lakers coach Frank Vogel said called on them to develop a “little bit of a new identity”.

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