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P S Golay sworn in as Sikkim CM

Atalanta reach UCL for first time

Sri Lanka security situation ‘99 per cent’ assured: Sirisena

northeast, Page 4

sports, Page 15

international, Page 9

Post LS polls: Turmoil in Cong Rahul insists on quitting; fate of Raj and K’taka govts uncertain

NEW DELHI, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): Faced with a colossal electoral defeat, the Congress was on Monday riven by internal turmoil with Rahul Gandhi insisting on quitting as party president while its governments in Rajasthan and Karnataka teetered on the brink.

In the midst of the disquiet, several state Congress chiefs, including Punjab’s Sunil Jakhar, Jharkhand’s Ajoy Kumar and Assam’s Ripun Bora, also offered to resign following the party’s drubbing in the elections, party insiders said.

Congress’s Rahul Gandhi has categorically said that the party will have to find a new chief as he won’t change his mind about stepping down from the post of the party chief, sources told NDTV. Gandhi is understood to have conveyed to several leaders that it is time for the grand old party to look for a new chief.

Hailing mother India and spitting in public cannot go together: Modi VARANASI, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave a lesson in nationalism saying one cannot hail mother India and in the same breath spit in public, which is not acceptable, ANI report stated.

“We say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and spit (in public) in the same breath after chewing Banarasi paan (betel).

What kind of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ is this?” he said at a gathering of BJP workers here.

Cleanliness has been one of the most important campaigns of the BJP-led NDA government since it came to power in 2014.

In his speech today, Modi asserted that government property belongs to everyone and appealed people to preserve. “Whatever is of the government is ours.

We clean our scooter even if it is so old, but when we board a government bus, we damage the seats. We do not feel rest unless we make a considerable hole in the bus seat,” he said.

“The moral of the story is that this country and its properties belong to us,” he said amidst laughter in the audience.

Rahul after paying tribute to India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniv, Monday. (PTI)

Sources also say Rahul Gandhi has not changed his mind, despite several Congress leaders pleading with him over the weekend and asking him to go for a full overhaul. Officially, the party told reporters on Saturday that Rahul Gandhi’s resignation offer had been “unanimously rejected”.

The Congress won only 52 seats in the Lok Sabha polls, just six more than its 2014 tally. The party could not open its account in 18 states and union territories.

At the recent Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, Gandhi accused

three senior leaders-- Ashok Gehlot, Kamal Nath and P Chidambaram — of placing their sons above the party.

His sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the entire top brass of the party left Rahul Gandhi alone to fight it out against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Crisis in Rajasthan, K’taka: As the party grapples with a severe existential crisis, its governments in both Karnataka and Rajasthan face a tough time with reports suggesting the BJP may try to wrest power in both states.

It is learnt that Congress MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi and Dr Sudhakar visited BJP leader S M Krishna’s residence in Bengaluru on Sunday along with several other BJP leaders and they are understood to have deliberated on dethroning the incumbent dispensation.

Sources said a number of Congress legislators in Karnataka are understood to be unhappy over the party’s electoral loss.

In Rajasthan, there have been reports of internal turmoil with several ministers demanding fixing of accountability and seeking action against those respon-

sible for the poll debacle in the state. The Congress drew a blank in Rajasthan as NDA won all 25 seats. In Karnataka, where it formed a government with the JD(S) in May last year, the Congress managed to win only one Lok Sabha seat out of 28.

The party was also crushed in most of the 29 states, including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, where it had defeated BJP in the assembly polls in December.

As crisis beset the opposition party, its chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Monday urged everyone to respect the sanctity of the CWC meeting and asked the media not to fall into the trap of “conjectures, insinuations, gossip and rumour-mongering”.

Surjewala said it is a democratic forum for exchange of ideas and taking corrective action. It was a “closed-door” meeting and any speculation about it was unwarranted and uncalled for, he added. He was reacting to news reports about happenings at the May 25 meeting, the first of the CWC after the Congress’s humiliating defeat in the parliamentary polls.

D I M A P U R , M AY 2 7 (NPN): In a major development concerning the land compensation issue plaguing the four-lane highway project between Purana Bazaar and Chumukedima, four village councils resolved that villagers will not claim any compensation from the government or lodge any form of complaint within their jurisdiction as people need development and have no regrets in sacrificing few inches of land for the purpose.

In a meeting held to discuss the ongoing construction work on National Highway-29 and the issue of land compensation that has cropped up and is likely to hamper the ongoing construction activities, the village councils of Purana Bazaar, Padumpukhri, Naharbari and Darogapathar also resolved that no indi-

vidual will be allowed to represent the concerned villages in any form in any association or group to claim compensation or lodge any form of complaint that could hamper the progress of the construction of the four-lane road within their jurisdiction.

Further resolving not to allow any organization or association to hinder the peaceful completion of the road project within their jurisdiction, the village councils called upon all citizens living within their jurisdiction to be vigilant about the development work taking place in the villages not allow any element to derail it.

The meeting appreciated the construction work that is going on and appealed to the contractor and district administration for timely completion of

the project without compromising on the quality of work in accordance with the specification, while assuring its full cooperation to the authorities concerned in this regard.

The signatories to the resolutions included Purana Bazaar gaon buras (GBs) L Vikuto Wotsa, T Hokheto, Rukusa Vero, Nuito Awomi, Vihoto Yeptho, Yehokhe Achumi, Vihoshe Awomi, Zhevito Aye; Padumpukhuri GBs Ahovi Sema, Kikhu Semy, Nokin Longkumer, village council chairman (VCC) Vitoka Katy; Naharbari head GB Garjalal Mech, GB Renthungo Kikon, village development board (VDB) secretary Hutoka Assumi, VCC Tokheli Kikon; Darogapthar VCC Nungtok Jamir, GB K Bendang Longchar, village council members R Kin and Shikuto Sema.

D I M A P U R , M AY 2 7 (NPN): Following reports of crop attack by fall armyworm (FAW) pest from various parts of the State, agriculture & cooperation minister G Kaito Aye has assured farmers of the state government’s commitment to their welfare by providing all assistance in the challenging moment.

Aye said it was unfortunate that farmers of Nagaland were facing the threat of the pest attack, and called for remaining alert both on the part of government agencies and the agricultural community to deal with the menace. He appealed for a concerted effort by employing technology and adopting timely, effective and innovative measures to ensure minimum damage.

He warned that a FAW attack could cause huge damage to crops and reduce yield which could be devastating, particularly for small farmers as it directly impacts their livelihood. He pointed out that Mizoram and Manipur have largely been affected by the deadly pest.

The minister said that

Fall Army Worm (FAW).

the agriculture department and agricultural agencies and various units of the State government were already on a high alert and working relentlessly to creating awareness and training farmers to mitigate the loss to crops.

Aye said he had personally conducted meetings with officials of the department and asked them to keep him updated on the course of action being taken.

Further, he assured that the department was keeping track of technological innovations and digital tools being developed to ensure timely and contextspecific information to enable farmers to track, spot and treat the FAW pest.

He also said the depart-

ment and other government agencies were conducting regular training camps to create awareness among farmers, besides conducting field Inspections to identify areas of infestation. Aye urged farmers to cooperate with officials of the department and other agricultural agencies and units in making a concerted effort to contain the massive outbreak.

He also called upon the farmers to take advantage of technical camps being organised for their benefit and employ scientific methods to battle the FAW invasion. Aye urged farmers to regularly scout the fields and plantations and immediately report any signs of pest infestation and crop damage to the nearest officials.

Dimapur, May 27 (NPN): Against the backdrop of the wave of apprehension in Tobu area under Mon district, Konyak Union Tobu ( Tobu) branch through its president S. A Ngamlao has condemned the attack on Assam Rifles personnel by insurgents on May 25, where two were killed and four others injured.

While noting currency of the ongoing peace process, KU Tobu termed the attack as an act of violence which has been condemned by the public of Tobu area.

KU branch on behalf of Tobu area public also expressed resentment on the disruption of peace and making Tobu area as a target zone for violence.

KU branch said people of Tobu area cannot bear such violence and anti-peace activities their soil any longer. In view of the attack on the security personnel, the union has declared non-cooperation to the group involved in the recent attack since Naga freedom was not at Tobu area soil which should not turn it into a battle ground for any vengeance.

Ngamlao stated that the people of Tobu area support and affirm Naga peace process and shall not tolerate such inhuman anti-peace activities in its land. It further extended condolences to the bereaved families.

On May 25, two personnel of the 40 Assam Rifles (AR) deployed in Tobu under Mon district were killed while four others sustained injuries in an ambush by suspected NSCN (K) militants from across the border. near Thanyak hydro project, between Tobu and Ukha villages.

DIMAPUR, MAY 27 (NPN): Highway Area Sumi Student’s Union (HASSU) has asked M/s T.K. Engineering Pvt Ltd., presently working on construction of four-lane between Purana Bazar, to provide adequate safety for commuters within the road stretch by strictly following directions for exercising quality work.

Stating this in a press statement, HASSU president Abovi K.Awomi expressed frustration at how soil dug were haphazardly dug all over without providing alternative route and thereby causing “immense hardship to the public” causing long hours traffic jam which resulted in losing hours of work time that indirectly affected economy.

HASSU also pointed out that despite various appeals made earlier by sec-

tions of society over safety that , the firm was asked to provide for public, it failed to curb dust pollution.

HASSU appealed to the firm to lessen inconvenience to public by undertaking construction work at night and at the same time, provide proper road signs and diversions at locations to avoid untoward accidents resulting in loss of life and material.

Highway Area Sumi Student’s Union cautioned that it will not bear any responsibility if untoward incident took place in the event o failure by the firm to comply with its direction.

HASSU also appealed to land owners association and district administration to resolve the deadlock amicably at the earliest and allow development of the road without further delay.

Pre-monsoon rains to increase further over NE NSCN (K) accuses Myanmar army

Trough Cyclonic Circulation

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NEW DELHI, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): The 17th Lok Sabha’s first session is likely to start from June 6 and go on till June 15, sources have said.

The dates of the first Parliament session are expected to be finalised during the first meeting of the new Cabinet on May 31, a day after Narendra Modi takes oath as prime minister for a second term, they said.

President Ram Nath Kovind will address the joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament on June 6, the first day of the session. A pro-tem speaker of the Lok Sabha is also likely to be appointed the same day.

The pro-tem speaker will administer the oath of office to all the newly elected MPs before the speaker’s election expected on June 10, sources said. Following the appointment of the speaker, both houses will take up the motion of thanks on which Modi will give his reply.

The president will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Modi and members of the Union council of ministers during a ceremony on Thursday at 7 p.m.

Agriculture minister assures assistance to combat FAW

4 village councils not to claim land KU Tobu flays attack on AR 4-lane contractor asked compensation for 4-lane highway Not to cooperate with group involved to ensure public safety

This is it!

“Dust and mud on 2-lane and now more dust and more mud on 4-lane.”

First session of 17th Lok Sabha likely from June 6

GUWAHTAI, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): After a slight dip, pre-Monsoon weather activities over the North Eastern states-- Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura have once again picked up pace.

At present, a cyclonic circulation is persisting over Assam and adjoining parts

of Meghalaya. Moreover, humid winds blowing over the region from Bay of Bengal are continuously increasing moisture in Northeast India.

Due to these weather conditions, the region may expect light to moderate rain and thundershower activities for the coming two to three days. From May 30, rain in-

tensity will be heavy to very heavy at times particularly over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland. Meanwhile, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura will also witness good rains, but intensity will be slightly less in comparison to the northern states.

Thereafter, the intensity of pre-Monsoon weather

activities over the North Eastern states will keep on increasing and heavy to very heavy to continue until the week of June.

On June 1, the region will experience further increase in the rain and thundershower activities. During this time, in the wake of such widespread heavy rains, many disruptions like water logging or flash floods may occur in parts.

However, these rains will continue till the onset of Southwest Monsoon over North East.

It needs mention here that in the meteorological parlance, a cyclonic circulation (Cycir) is an atmospheric wind flow in upper levels associated with any low pressure system and under it, the wind flow is counter clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

of violating cease-fire agreement

D I M A P U R , M AY 2 7 (NPN): Making a clarification over what was described as “confusions and doubts” created by the ongoing joint political military operation by India and Myanmar against NSCN/ GPRN (Aung Yung), the MIP in-charge ‘maj’ Joseph Lamkang has accused the Myanmar army (Tatmadaw) under northern command and comprising of eight battalions of complete violation of cease fire ground rules by forcibly intruding into the NSCN/GPRN council headquarter at Taka on January 29, 2019.

However, MIP said the NSCN/GPRN Naga army maintained restraint and vacating the headquarters.

In the midst of the confusion created, MIP said some senior party members (cease fire delegation team)

and Naga army cadres were arrested by the Myanmar military under false charges and were being confined at Khamti prison till date.

MIP accused the Myanmar army of creating a “war-like situation in the Naga areas” by deploying massive military forces with heavy artillery causing havoc and uneasiness among the Nagas.

It cited how, a few days back, the Tatmadaw had indiscriminately fired artilleries and heavy guns on jungles and nearby populated areas in Konyak region, in order to spark fear and panic in the minds of “revolutionaries and innocent public.”

For the record, it said NSCN/GPRN had signed a legal cease fire agreement with Myanmar at the invitation of the latter as two

entities on April 9, 2012 and that ever since the NSCN/ GPRN has been sincerely honouring the cease fire ground rule.

According to MIP, the cease fire ground rules included:1. cessation of all hostilities; 2.cease fire office at the designated camp at Khamti town;3.providing information on troop movements within each other’s jurisdiction;4.free passage for NSCN/GPRN members without arms and uniform within Myanmar and 5. That both Myanmar government and NSCN/ GPRN would cooperate and work together to promote peace and development in Naga areas.

MIP said the cease fire was hence “not secretive but crystal clear” with no hidden strings attached.

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ICAR conducts state level workshop

Scientists, experts and other officials at the state level workshop on May 27 at Medziphema. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region Nagaland Centre and ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research (IIMR), Ludhiana, Punjab jointly organized one-day state level workshop on “Promotion of scientific maize cultivation and FAW management in Nagaland” at ICAR Medziphema on May 27.

According to DIPR report, Dr. Narendra Prakash, director, ICAR-RC-NEH Region, Umiam highlighted on the scope of maize cultivation in Jhum land and the major constraints faced by the farmers such as non-availability of qual-

ity seed materials and lack of awareness among the farmers about the scientific managements practices. He urged for working in convergence mode for proper monitoring and reporting of major destructive pest in the state for timely management of the pest. He assured all technical support from ICAR for enhancing productivity of maize and pest management.

Dr. Sujay Rakshit, director, ICAR-IIMR, Ludhiana addressed the stakeholders to jointly tackle the menace of Fall Army Worm (FAW) at the state level. He emphasized the popularization of maize

hybrids for improving the productivity and the strategies to increase availability of quality seed of maize for the farmers.

Dr. Sujay Rakshit, director, ICAR-IIMR, Ludhiana, Dr. Narendra Prakash, director, ICARRC-NEH Region, Umiam; Dr. D. J. Rajkhowa, joint director, ICAR-RC-NEH Region, Nagaland centre, Dr. Neelam Chaudhury, deputy director, Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, Faridabad, Bendanglila, joint director, Department of Agriculture, Nagaland and Dr. S. L. Jat, coordinator IIMR-NEH Maize

programme, Dr. Suby S.B., scientist, ICAR-IIMR also attended the programme.

During the technical session, Dr. S. L. Jat, coordinator IIMR-NEH Maize programme, in his presentation briefed on the crop management practices and emphasized the importance of pest forewarning.

Dr. L.K. Baishya, senior scientist, organizing secretary of the programme also highlighted the importance of maize cultivation for feed production for livestock. The technical session was chaired by Dr. Narendra Prakash, director, ICAR-RC-NEH Region, Umiam and Co– chaired by Bendanglila, joint director.

Panel discussion was also held on the management strategies of FAW and promotion of scientific maize cultivation. The session was chaired by Dr. Narendra Prakash, director, ICAR-RC-NEH Region, Umiam and co–chaired by Dr. Neelam Chaudhury, deputy director, PPQS, Faridabad. Around 81 officials from different line departments and organizations participated in the workshop and a field visit to ICAR research farm was conducted.

SPC programme held in Mon MON, MAY 27 (NPN): In line with the directives of the Ministry of Home Affairs GOI for the implementation of the Student Police Cadet (SPC) programme, the deputy commissioner, Mon Thavaseelan K, in the presence of Imnalensa, superintendent of Police Mon handed over an amount of Rs 50,000/- (fifty thousand) to Bithunglo, vice principal, GHSS Mon at DC office chamber on May 27. Out of this amount a sum of Rs. 16,000/- (sixteen thousand) would be earmarked for teaching aids, Rs. 24,000/- (twenty four thousand) for outdoor activities, Rs. 5,000/- (five thousand) for training and the balance for contingency purposes. SPC programme aims to build bridge between Police and larger community through school students by inculcating values and ethics in them through classes in schools and outside.

TKK literature fest

DIMAPUR: Tenyidie Kephrünuoko Krotho (TKK) will be holding Tenyidie literature festival (Tenyidie Diemvü Nyi) on May 30 at the ongoing 49th Ura Academy seminar, at Ura Academy Badi, Kohima. All Tenyidie students and college level Tenyidie students (MIL/ Elective/Honors) have been requested to attend positively.

Workshop on empowering rural leaders NSCN (I-M) condemns raid by Assam Rifles

Community leaders with CASA staff at Auching village.

DIMAPUR: Workshop on empowering rural leaders was conducted by Pinnacle Skills, in collaboration with Phom Baptist Christian Association (PBCA) and supported by Church’s Auxiliary of Social Action (CASA) for 15 villages under Longleng district from May 21-23 at Yonglok village for Namsang block and Auching village for Yongnyah, Longleng and Sakshi.

A press release from project coordinator, Philip Nyam, stated that keeping in mind the objective of empowering communi-

ties in creating awareness on their rights, provisions and entitlements provided and guaranteed by the constitutions of India for less privilege communities, the project was to conducted to contribute immense growth of awareness among the communities on their “Rights and entitlements”.

CASA Nagaland officials, Vanjamo Murry, Bendangyangerla Imchen and executive secretary, PBCA, N. Tialemba Phom along with project coordinator, Philip Nyam facilitated the workshop on empowering

rural leaders by helping the communities in problem identification and analysis and objective settings.

EAC, Tamlu, Nungshimadong and advocate, Longleng, Mane Phom, delivered speeches on public rights and entitlements.

KVK, Longleng, technical officer, Thungchano S. Ezung, and senior research fellowship, A. Namei, enlightened the participants with an indepth understanding on livelihood sustainability in the context of Longleng district.

DIMAPUR: The NSCN (I-M) has condemned the raid at the residences of its members, by Assam Rifles at Doyapur under Dhansiripar sub-division, Dimapur district on May 24. In a press statement through its MIP, the NSCN (I-M) alleged that the AR personnel first raided the house of Samuel Lotha, a leacy of union territory, and in his absence recovered a country made pistol.

The AR raided colonel, Vikato Sumi’s house, also in his absence, when his caretaker, Chingrin was present. During the search, few arms and ammunitions were seized by the AR, MIP stated. The AR team also raided the house of a UT staff, Hekuto Aye and seized some MTRs related to house tax and a broken handmade revolver. NSCN (I-M) stated that the episode continued till the morning of May 25.

Following the raid, Kheliho (wife of Samuel), Chingrin (caretaker of Col. Vikato’s house) and Hekuto Aye were apprehended by AR and handed over to the police in Dimapur.

In this regard, NSCN

(I-M) has expressed displeasure against the conduct by AR, and stated that in the process of running after the NSCN members, the innocent family members should not have been targeted in such a manner “to give them physical and mental torment”.

The NSCN (I-M) also claimed that similar undesirable activities by AR were taking place across other parts of Nagalim like the ones around Hevuto Battalion (Mokokchung), Jadonang Brigade (Tamenglong), Phungtha Brigade (Ukhrul) and Jalukie-Hebron route/area.

Further, the release stated that when there was a desire to maintain peace in this crucial stage of Indo-Naga peace process, “such an unwarranted nuisance created by AR will only go to bring damnation”.

“The Indo-Naga peace talk and ceasefire is all to do with respect, trust and mutual understanding and not digging for alienation. But, when AR disconnects itself from this, it became a matter of making Indo-Naga ceasefire a caricature”, the release stated.

SRSU undertakes school inspection drive

SRSU members at GHS, Suruhuto during their school inspection drive on May 24.

DIMAPUR: Sur uhuto Range Students Union (SRSU) inspected government schools in 14 villages under Suruhuto range from May 22 to 24.

According to DIPR report, the inspection was done with an aim to eradicate the act of keeping K Y M C

proxy teachers as well as to strictly check on the attendance of teachers.

During the inspection, the union observed lack of facilities for students like toilet, drinking water, school building renovation, auditorium hall etc. in almost all the visited schools. All

the schools have started functioning in the month of February and the books and uniforms are being issued recently, in the month of May 2019. The union said this was destroying the future of thousands of students.

SRSU also warned

all the teachers appointed under Suruhuto range to strictly follow the resolutions passed by the union during its 2nd presidential meeting on January 5, 2019. If any of the teachers failed abide by the resolutions, their salary will be withheld and also report

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will be given to department for legal course of action.

Union also urged the village school management committee (SMC) to co-operate with the resolutions passed by the union and also urged the School Education department that transfer of teacher in Suruhuto area should not be practiced as in most schools, there was shortage of teachers. It further urged the department to give immediate replacement of teachers to those schools that were functioning with shortage of teachers specially the subject teachers due to their transfer for the last few years.

During the inspection, SRSU met the village authorities and also inspected the ongoing road construction from Asukho to Suruhuto and assured its full co-operation for the construction of road.

In this regard, it urged the concern department and contractor to implement the quality of work as per the DPR.

Lotha Academy seminar on Lotha language development

Resource person and participants during the one-day seminar on Lotha language development held at Mount Tiyi College (MTC), Wokha on May 24.

DIMAPUR: Lotha Academy (LA) in collaboration with Mt. Tiyi College, Wokha organized a oneday seminar on Lotha language development different resource persons on May 24, in keeping with the UN’s declaration of 2019 as year of indigenous language.

A press release from Lotha Academy Literature Committee (LALC) member, Aremo Ngullie stated that, Father Abraham Lotha, president of LA explained the importance and significance of

indigenous language of the world and the crucial role played by it in bridging the gap of social and religious divide. He further stressed on the importance and preservation of indigenous language, as thousands were on the verge of extinction.

A session on Lotha poetry and recitation was also held with Chophatung Humtsoe, Yimlothung Ezung and Nyanchumi Ezung of Longsa village Wokha as the resource persons. They recited various poems in the form of

dramatic monologue and sonnets which enlightened the gathering.

The seminar saw a huge turnout of people from different walks of life, besides students and more then forty Lotha teachers. A very healthy debate and interaction between the participants and resource person was the major attraction.

Thungrhomo Odyuo SDEO Chozuba chaired the first session and Dr. Apeni Lotha, principal MTC gave the welcome note.

news in Brief SASU to hold union assembly: Southern Angami Students Union (SASU) has convened its 1st union assembly on June 1, 11 am at Khuzama Village Council hall, hosted by Khuzama Students’ Care Union. All the13 units have been requested to attend positively. Union has also invited all the senior leaders. For further information, one may contact at 87298 56095.

CMO Phek informs: Chief medical officer (CMO) Phek has informed all HoDs of Phek district that medical board examination for confirmation of service/invalidation of service/commutation of pension for Gr III and Gr IV will be held would be held on June 11, 10:30 am in the office of the CMO Phek. All HoDs have been requested to send the list to CMO Phek on or before May 30.

NIU Colony to celebrate jubilee: Niu colony, Dimapur will be celebrating its silver jubilee on June 1, 9 am, under the theme, “One team one aim”.

Silver jubilee planning committee has invited all members of the colony and well wishers to attend the jubilee celebration.

DNSU union assembly: Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) has convened its first union assembly for tenure of 2019-2021 on May 31, 2 pm at Tourist Lodge, conference hall, Dimapur. All constituent units’ presidents, secretaries, executive members of DNSU have been requested to attend the assembly positively.

DCAB meeting: District Childline Advisory Board (DCAB) meeting has been convened on May 28, 2 pm at office chamber of DC, Kohima. All concerned members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

1st Altrura painting competition 2019: The Altrura Society (AS) in collaboration with Chümoukedima Town Council (CTC) will organise the 1st Altrura painting competition on the theme “Air Pollution” as part of “World Environment Day” to be held on June 5, 9 am at CTC hall for school students in an around Chumoükedima jurisdiction. For further information one may contact at +91-9774724756/ +91-7005350538 or e-mail at altrurasociety@gmail.com.

NPGN/NNC Lotha region cancels meeting: NPGN/NNC Lotha region has informed that meeting called on May 29 has been cancelled as it was unathourised and unofficial. NPGN/NNC through its Lotha region kilonser, N. Renben Yanthan stated that there was no such person empowered to hold such meeting without knowledge of higher authorities of Lotha region. NPGN/NNC further informed that if anyone attends the meeting, stern action would be initiated against him/her.

‘World Honey Bee Day’ celebrated at SASRD

Community leaders with CASA staff at Auching village.

DIMAPUR: Along with the rest of the world, All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Honey Bees and Pollinators (AICRP-HB&P), SASRD, NU, Medziphema Town celebrated “World Honey Bee Day” with students of Charis Higher Secondary School, Chumukedima, on May 20.

A press release from AICRP (HB&P), SASRD NU stated that assistant

scientist, AICRP (HB&P), Dr. Avinash Chauhan welcomed the entourage and encouraged them to be “best friends with bees” who are responsible for giving food crops, etc.

Bee professionals enlightened the students on the manifold importance of honey bees who provides not only honey but a host of by-products and most importantly, the vital role of bees in pollina-

tion.

42 students guided by two teachers visited AICRP (HB&P) apiary at SASRD, Medziphema during their exposure trip and were also shown a documentary video on honey bees. The young group were also given a practical demonstration about handling bee colonies and their hives, different types of bees as well as components that constitute a hive.

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WEATHER FORECAST May 28

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Partly sunny, hot

38 26

Aizawl

Partly sunny

32 20

Guwahati A strong morning thunderstorm 33 23 Imphal

Mostly sunny

Itanagar Partly sunny, a thunderstorm

32 18 27 21

Shillong

A p.m. t-storm in the area

25 16

Kohima

Partly sunny, a thunderstorm

27 17

Dimapur

Partly sunny, a thunderstorm

34 22

Mkg

Partly sunny, a thunderstorm

29 17

Tuensang Sunshine, a shower or t-storm 19 14 Wokha

Partly sunny, a thunderstorm

26 20

Zunheboto Mostly sunny, a thunderstorm 26 15

Officials at the SLOT meeting held at Hotel Vivor, Kohima on May 27. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: State level training of trainers (SLTOT) for the 7th economic census 2019 was held at Hotel Vivor, Kohima on May 27.

According to DIPR report, assistant director NSSO, Chinneivah Haokip said the census will be conducted in a span of three months starting from June covering the entire nation including organised and unorganised sectors.

She said CSC was the implementing agency in developing the platform,

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NSSO and the directorate of Economics and Statistics will assist with capacity and manpower.

She added that obtaining quality data should be the utmost importance considering the inexperienced field workers under CSC. Joint director & nodal officer for 7th EC, Neisatuo Puro highlighted on the functions of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, CSC E-Governance Services India Limited,

Student body constructs kitchen at GPS Lempong

Field Operations Divisions, state government, district magistrate etc. in regard to the 7th Economic Census.

The training workshop in all the districts and sub-divisions will be organised during the month of May and June, to provide comprehensive training strategy and to impart training to the master trainers i.e the enumerators and supervisors who will be actively engaged in the upcoming 7th economic census.

KVSU to launch ‘Save Dzüvürü campaign’ D I M A P U R : Ko h i m a Village Students’ Union (KVSU) under the theme, “clean Kohima” will be initiating a cleanliness drive in certain parts of Kohima, and will be officially launched on June 5 by advisor, Rural Development, Dr. Nicky Kire.

According to DIPR report, the areas adjoining the Dzüvürü stream were identified to be at its most crucial stage.

H e n c e, t h e “ S ave Dzüvürü campaign” evolved spearheaded by KVSU. Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has agreed to extend full support along with many other representing bodies such as the core teams of the respective localities adjoining to the said site (Tsiepfü Tsiepfhe/ AG colony, New Ministers’ Hill, Old Ministers’ Hill, Dzüvürü/Porter lane, Upper Chandmari, Lower Chandmari), the colony Panchayats, various traders’ unions, Church youth, schools and colleges falling under this jurisdiction (14 schools, 4 colleges so far).

Concerned citizens can volunteer for this cause and restore Kohima’s prominent beauty.

ABAM organises theological educators’ meet at Impur

ABAM with theological educators.

DIMAPUR: Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang (ABAM) theological educators’ meet under the theme, “Relevance of Theological Education in post modern world” was held from May 21-23 at Impur.

A press release by ABAM stated that the meet was initiated and organised by the ABAM theological education board with the vision that, while maintaining the identity of true

disciples of Christ, the institution may give relevant and contextual theological education whereby when the students go out to serve they will patently incorporate the whole sphere of ministry thus deliver the need of the people rightfully.

ABAM said that it was the first time in its history to have such a salient programme where teachers of great leaders of

Christian ministries came together and cogitate on what would be the right theological setting for this high paced generation.

The resource persons were professor Dr. Imsütoshi Jamir from CTC and pastor Dr. AkokAmer from Mangkolemba. Altogether 49 theological educators comprising of professors, lecturers and Ph.D students attended the meet.

Seats for Nagaland students under various institutes

DIMAPUR: At the initiative of the Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya and Indian National Fellowship Centre (INFC), an NGO from Mumbai, Nitte Medical University, Mangalore and Moodlakatte Institute of Technology, Kundapura Taluk, has announced seats each in various courses for the academic year 2019-20.

According to PRO Raj Bhavan, Governor Acharya has constituted a committee to select the students based on merit. Interested

students may submit their application stating the seat he/she wants to apply for along with a copy of their mark sheets, indigenous inhabitant of Nagaland certificate and their contact number addressed to OSD to Governor, Raj Bhavan Kohima by June 10.

The application may be emailed to secy.rajbhavannagaland@gmail. com.

For further information, one may contact at (0370)2245789 during office hours.

Students from different schools are seen in the photo, appearing for the Ajmal national talent search examination 2019 at Neingulie Memorial High School (NMHS) Dimapur, which is one of the ANTSE examination center on May 26. The exam was conducted by Ajmal Foundation, a registered public charitable trust. (NMHS headmaster M. Rahman Tapadar)

Brahma Kumaris conduct yoga & meditation TVSU members at the newly constructed kitchen for GPS Lempong.

DIMAPUR: Responding to the plight of Government Primary School (GPS) Lempong, K Khel Tuensang village of preparing midday meal without a proper kitchen, Tuensang Village Students’ Union (TVSU) constructed the same which was inaugurated on May 21.

A press release by TVSU stated that the union

during its routine checking of schools came to know about the situation and after long deliberation with the village community constructed the kitchen.

TVSU president, Imlong Zanchu said, “We initiated for a small project after we learnt that the teachers were facing difficulties in preparing midday meals due to lack

of kitchen. So, we decided to lend our hand and construct the kitchen for them so that the students are provided quality food.”

The inaugural programme was attended by students, teachers, student leaders, church leaders and elders and the kitchen was dedicated by Tuensang Village Baptist Church Pastor, Rev T Mongba.

DIMAPUR: Workshop on positive thinking and healthy lifestyle was conducted by Kohima page of Braham Kumaris at 93 BN BSF Campus at Chedema on May 25.

A press release from 93 BN BSF, Chedema stated that, during the programme troops learnt about the techniques of positive thinking and stress free living.

Surinder Singh, commandant 93 BN BSF while addressing the troops exhorted the importance of positive attitude in life.

He reiterated that positive attitude and healthy life helped in proper discharge of duties. He also added that such positive outlook helps in development of healthy relations within the organization and with civil community during its day to day functioning.

Legal awareness on road safety

Traffic personnel with ZDLSA members.

DIMAPUR: DLSAs of Zunheboto and Kohima organized legal awareness programme on road safety in collaboration with traffic police on May 25.

In Zunheboto, the programme was held at Daily Bazar Traffic Point Junction, Zunheboto.

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and those defaulters not producing proper documents were given legal awareness.

DTO, Zunheboto, Bendang, along with staff of DTO briefed on the procedure for obtaining pollution certificate, insurance, proper registration of vehicle which was earlier registered from outside

the state and legality of driving license.

SDPO Zunheboto, Zubenthung Ovung, along with traffic personnel explained the mandatory use of helmet and seat belt, prohibition of LED lights, penalty for driving without proper vehicle documents, prohibition of mobile phones and

driving under influence of alcohol.

Secretary ZDLSA, Wokono Yhoshü along with APP and penal lawyers explained to the defaulters, the penalty as per the provisions of MV Act. Similar programme was also held in Kohima organized by DLSA in collaboration with traffic police personnel and Phesama Village Students’ Union (PVSU) at Kisama Petrol Pump, Kohima.

Checking of vehicle documents, under age driving, use of led/neon lights/ benefits of insuring the vehicles were carried out during the awareness.

All together around 250 vehicles were checked.

During the awareness it was learned that most of the vehicles do not have proper documents and all the vehicles were not insured.

Further, the KDLSA team in appreciation for those vehicles owners who have all the proper documents were acknowledged with gift hampers.

Under the programme of Integrated Catchment Area Treatment (ICAT), department of Soil & Water Conservation carried out the construction of gabion and contour trench under the supervision of Medovikho Nakhro, SDO Chozuba at Thenyizu village under Phek district on Saturday. (DoS&WC)

NBDA & CBTC conduct product development training DIMAPUR: Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA) in collaboration with Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC), Guwahati, under the aegis of North Eastern Council, conducted product development training at Kangtsung village for 10 days from May 14 to 23.

A press release from NBDA stated that, the training was imparted to the villagers by expert trainers from CBTC, Gwahati, Anwar Hussain and Kolida.

They urged the participants to utilize the adequate availability of raw material like bamboo in the region and convert it into decorative domestic or other commercialized products to improve economic status and self reliant life.

CBTC also approved to set up a Common Facility Centre (CFC) at Kangtsung village for Tuli cluster which will be monitored and supervised by NBDA for successful implementation of the project.

HSCMC Pongidong SC, under the aegis of Nagaland Health Project (NHP), organised awareness programme on “Sanitation” on May 24, at Community Hall Pongidong with youth director, Pongidong Baptist Church, A Ben Lotha, as the resource person. DPMU NHP Wokha represented by district facilitator also attended the event.

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P S Golay sworn in as Sikkim CM

Announces 5-day working week for govt employees

Newly-appointed Sikkim Chief Minister P S Golay Monday announced a five-day working week for state government employees. After taking charge of

Governor Ganga Prasad administers the oath to SKM President Prem Singh Tamang as the new Chief Minister of Sikkim during a swearing-in-ceremony. (PTI)

the office at Tashiling state secretariat, he also held a meeting with top government officials.

Talking to reporters after interacting with senior officials, Golay said there will be five-day working week for the government employees in Sikkim.

“We have fulfilled one of our election promises to reduce the working week for government employees from six days earlier to five days,” he said. The government employees will get an additional day as holiday which they will use to take care of their health and that of their parents and family members, he said.

The chief minister also announced his ministers and MLAs, including himself,

India, Bangladesh resolve to curb cross-border crimes Agartala, May 27 (IANS): Indian and Bangladeshi officials on Monday jointly resolved to curb drugs smuggling, human trafficking and other crossborder crimes.

The decision was taken at the India-Bangladesh District Magistrate-Deputy Commissioner level meeting held here. “The District Magistrates-Deputy Commissioners of the six bordering districts of India and Bangladesh unanimously have decided to take joint

action to curb drug menace, human trafficking, terror activities, infiltration and illegal cross border movement,” North Tripura District Magistrate C.K. Jamatia, who led the Indian delegation, told the media.

He said that other issues including border fencing, maintenance of border pillars, joint patrolling of the Border Security Force and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) and setting up of more “border haats” (markets) were also discussed.

will use Scorpio vehicles instead of Fortuner SUVs which were being used by the elected representatives earlier. “For the time being we have no option but to use Fortuner SUVs, but we will use Scorpio vehicles once they are made available to us,” Golay said.

The SKM supremo had earlier accused the SDF government headed by his predecessor P K Chamling for “misusing public money”.

Golay said the money saved on using less expensive vehicles like Scorpio will be used for betterment of the people of Sikkim.

In the introductory meeting with chief secretary, additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and heads of department,

Correspondent

I M P H A L , M ay 2 7 (NPN): Former Manipur chief minister, O Ibobi Singh on Monday alleged that in Manipur, the recently concluded Lok Sabha election was not election but “selection”.

Talking to reporters on the sideline of observance of 55th death anniversary of the India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at Imphal Congress Bhavan, the Congress leader alleged that in the hill districts of the state,

Dated Kohima the ……… April 2019

PUBLIC NOTICE

To provide financial assistance to poor patients, the Government of India has launched a new umbrella scheme of Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi comprising of the following components: (1).

Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) (2). Health Minister’s Cancer Patients Fund (HMCPF) and (3).

Scheme for financial assistance for patients from Specific Rare Diseases. The objectives of the three components of RAN scheme are as follows: 1. Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) : To provide financial assistance to poor patients living below threshold poverty line and suffering from life threatening diseases relating to heart, kidney, liver etc for their treatment at Government hospitals/ institutes having super-speciality facilities.

2. Health Minister’s Cancer Patients Fund (HMCPF) : To provide financial assistance to poor patients living below threshold poverty line and suffering from cancer, for their treatment at Regional Cancer Centre (RCC)/ Tertiary Cancer Care Centres (TCCC) and State Cancer Institutes (SCI).

3. Scheme for financial assistance for patients from Specific Rare Diseases : To provide financial assistance to poor patients living below threshold poverty line and suffering from specific rare diseases, for their treatment at Government hospitals/ institutes having superspeciality facilities.

General Conditions : 1. The financial assistance to eligible patients will be in the form of ‘One-Time Grant’.

2. Government servants and their families will not be eligible under the scheme.

3. There will be no reimbursement of expenditure already incurred.

4. Families covered under Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yajna (AB-PMJAY) will not be eligible for financial assistance RAN and HMCPF components.

5. Maximum financial assistance admissible under the scheme will be Rs. 15.00 lakhs.

6. Financial assistance received under Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) or from any other source by the patient for treatment, shall be deducted from the admissible amount of financial assistance under the umbrella scheme of RAN. 7. Common application form has been prescribed for submission of request for financial assistance under any of the component of the umbrella scheme of RAN. The application shall be signed by the treating doctor/Head of the Department and countersigned by the Medical Superintendent of the hospital concerned.

The Application Form will be available free of cost during working hours from the Office of the Medical Superintendent of all District Hospitals across the State.

8. Application for financial assistance shall be submitted along with: a. Income Certificate (in Original) of the patient/ parents/ other major earning members of the family, indicating income from all sources, duly certified by the Head of the Local District Administration- Extra Assistant Commissioner/ Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)/ Additional Deputy Commissioner/ Deputy Commissioner/ Administrator of Municipal Corporations. b. A copy of the entire Ration Card along with cover page, with details of all family members, issued by the Food & Civil Supply department of the State government duly self attested. c. Application should be submitted to the Section Officer, Grants Section, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Room No: 541, A-Wing, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi-110011.

9. The details of the Guideline including- State-wise Poverty Line for Rural and Urban Area wef 01/01/2019 (Annexure : I), Illustrative list of categories of treatment for financial assistance (Annexure : II), List of Government hospitals/ institutes under Ran and Specific Rare Diseases components (Annexure : IIIA), List of Regional Cancer Centre (RCC)/ Tertiary Cancer Care Centres (TCCC) and State Cancer Institutes (SCI) under HMCPF component (Annexure: IIIB) and Prescribed Application Form for Financial under umbrella Scheme RAN (Annexure: IV) can be downloaded from the url:-https://mohfw.nic.in/sites/default/files/RAN_Guideline_2019. pdf (DR. VIKEYIE LOSU) Principal Director Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Nagaland :: Kohima DC-781

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Mani Kumar Subba

GUWAHATI, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): Former parliamentarian from Tezpur constituency of Assam, Mani Kumar Subba passed away in the wee hours of Monday.

Subba breathed his last at a private hospital in New Delhi. Subba had been paralyzed after suffering a stroke for some time and was undergoing treatment in New Delhi.

The former MP was suffering from heart ailments since 2014 when he was taken ill during campaigning in that year.

Subba represented the prestigious Tezpur parliamentary constituency from 1998 to 2009 in the 12th Lok Sabha, 13th Lok Sabha and 14th Lok Sabha. He was also a legislator of Naoboisa Assembly constituency that falls under Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency.

I M P H A L , M ay 2 7 (NPN): North East India Development Party (NEIDP) has warned the state government for revisiting of June 18, 2001 incident, if the Centre and state government failed to clarify on the fresh controversy over extension of GoI-NSCN (I-M) ceasefire agreement in Manipur.

Addressing reporters at its office in Imphal, NEIDP spokesperson, RK Anand Singh demanded the state and central government to clarify on whether the ceasefire between NSCN (I-M) and centre and the Framework Agreement applicable in Manipur.

Meanwhile, he pressed the concerned authorities to check activities of NSCN (I-M) by removing its designated camps allegedly located within Manipur’s territory.

Any camps whatever it may be designated in Manipur should be remove immediately, he demanded.

He also warned that if Centre and state governments remain silent on the issue, then it would invite another mass uproar similar to that of June 18, 2001 uprising that claimed lives of 18

people in the state.

Mention may be made that the ‘Bangkok Declaration’, a ceasefire agreement “without territorial limits” signed between the GoI and NSCN (I-M) on June 14, 2001 created mayhem in the Manipur capital that turned into a violent agitation.

H o w e v e r, N S C N (I-M), in a recent statement reacting to arrest of two of its cadres in Manipur, claimed that the cease fire agreement without territorial limits, signed between the group and the government of India on June 14, 2001exists in Manipur.

S t r o n g ly r e a c t i n g to the statement, United Committee Manipur (UCM) had served a 72hour deadline to Manipur and Central government to clarify on whether the ceasefire and Framework Agreement was applicable in Manipur.

However, the group later relaxed the deadline for the time being till the return of state chief minister N Biren Singh from New Delhi.

I n t h e m e a n t i m e, Naga Hoho came up with a statement reminding the UCM that Naga people in Manipur state were party to the Indo-Naga ceasefire

as well as the Framework Agreement signed between the NSCN (I-M) and the GoI. The spokesperson of the regional party also demanded the governments to clarify on the surfacing controversy in the interest of the ceasefire agreement, in the interest of Manipur, and also in the interest of Indo-Naga peace talk and not to repeat June 18 uprising in the state.

The NEIDP leader further pressed the centre and state government to resolve the issue of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill which the BJP had promised to bring back again if the party return to power at the Centre again.

He hoped that the two newly elected MPs from Manipur will also bring up the issue to the notice of the central government of CAB if bringing back will create a chaotic situation not only in Manipur but also in the entire Northeast region.

The spokesperson also asked about the latest status of Manipur People’s Bill 2018 which is pending for President’s assent while pressing the state government to approach central leaders for early president’s assent.

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the chief minister sought their cooperation and asked them to work collectively for the betterment of the state and its people.

He urged the entire government machinery to act as one family and support each other at every point of governance.

Golay said “good governance” initiated by the previous government will be continued and that the electoral fight against his predecessor Pawan Kumar Chamling was based solely on ideology, adding his government will always seek the latter’s advice for running the affairs of the state.

He also instructed the chief secretary, director general of police (DGP) and officials concerned to maintain law and order, and take necessary action irrespective of party affiliations of the accused.

Earlier in the day, the 51-year-old SKM supremo was sworn in as the sixth Sikkim chief minister along with 11 ministers by the governor at a function at Paljor stadium.

The SKM, founded in 2013, won a slender majority in the 32-member Sikkim Legislative Assembly by bagging 17 seats against 15 won by the SDF. The Chamling government was ousted by the SKM after over 24 years rule.

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it was not the election but selection.

“At the same time, the elections in both the Lok Sabha constituencies were not free and fair”, he said.

He alleged that the ruling parties in the fray had used their maximum available muscle and money powers and intimidated voters.

They had utilised even cadres of armed outfits closely associated with them not only to intimidate but in booth riggings.

He maintained that the high percentage casting of votes itself showed

that the elections were not conducted in free and fair manner.

The former three time chief minister observed that there was no reason for casting above 80% votes in a polling station; however, casting above 90% was recorded in some polling stations.

If the elections were happened to conduct in a free and fair manner, Congress candidate would have surely won the elections, he claimed.

He denied the 80% voter turnout and said that

recording above 80% or above in a polling station showed malpractices during voting.

Meanwhile, the state Congress leader said that whatever the result it may be, Congress respect the mandate and will take the role of being opposition.

“We have no disappointment for the poll debacle”, he added. He remarked that congress will continue to raise people’s issues coming from time to time in the floor of the Parliament as well as in the state Assembly.

Thank You for Honouring Me with Your Vote

I would like to express my utmost gratitude to our people of the 26th Aonglenden A/C for putting their trust in me and honouring me with their precious votes. I am immensely grateful to my loyal supporters, friends and family, who have generously contributed their time and effort to our campaign during this very long and peaceful election process.

I would like to especially thank our Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri. Neiphiu Rio, NDPP President and PDA Chairman, Shri. Chingwang Ko n y a k , P r e s i d e n t B J P Nagaland and senior party officials, President JDU and senior party members, Hon’ble Cabinet Ministers, Advisors and Members of the N.L.A, Chairman and members of Ungma Village Council, Aonglenden Tatar Members, Pastor and Office of the Ungma Baptist Arogo, President NDPP Mokokchung region, 26 A/C and frontal party leaders, members of the media fraternity and well wishers for their continued support.

I would also like to thank Mr. Toshipokba Longkumer, Mr. O. Tinu Longkumer and Mr. Lipokzulu Longkumer. My thank you to all of you is but a simple drop in the ocean when I compare it to what you have done to have me express my gratitude towards you.

I place my sincere gratitude to my opponent, Mr. Alemjungshi Longkumer, you ran a peaceful campaign and you should be proud of your hard work. I wish you the best for your future endeavors.

I would also like to take this opportunity to convey my heartiest congratulations to Shri. Tokheho Yepthomi, for winning the Lok Sabha elections.

Last but not the least I continue to thank our Almighty God for his blessings upon me and my family.

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Sharingain Longkumer, NDPP and PDA Consensus Candidate, 26th Aonglenden Assembly Constituency

Dear Father, You are more than a great Dad. You are an inspiration, a teacher and a friend. Happy Birthday.

Love, Family.

FELICITATION

We the Yarang Mongro Semchir of Imchen Kidong Longjang would like to felicitate Dr Imnameyu Imchen, S/o Lt. S.Yapang Imchen and Mrs R. Alemla Longchar on his great achievement on being conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) from the Centre of Contemporary Christianity (Bangalore) on the topic “A Socio-Historical and Missiological Studies on Prayer Centres in Nagaland”.

Our earnest prayer and best wishes that he will be an exemplary of God’s servant.

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CHANGTONGYATSUR TELONGJEM DIMAPUR DIMAPUR - NAGALAND

FELICITATION

CHANGTONGYATSUR TELONGJEM DIMAPUR takes pride in extending our heartiest congratulation to Mrs. Tainla Mar D/O Mr. & Mrs. Supongmar Longkumer W/O Rev. Zulu Jamir for being awarded PH.D On the topic "Professional Ethics and development of Teachers in Higher Education in Nagaland University" and for bringing laurel to our village.

May the good Lord continue to bless Her in all her future endeavors.

Mrs. Meyila Jamir Mrs. Ayangla Lkr. Sd. Sd. President Gen. Secretary C.T.D C.T.D

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Gangtok, May 27 (PTI): Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) president Prem Singh Tamang, popularly known as P S Golay, on Monday took oath as the chief minister of Sikkim.

Eleven SKM MLAs were also administered the oath by Governor Ganga Prasad at Paljor Stadium here. Bringing down the curtains on Pawan Kumar Chamling’s 24-year rule, Prem Singh Tamang, better known as P S Golay, emerged as the new satrap of Sikkim, when his party, the SKM, bagged 17 of the 32 assembly seats in the state in the just-concluded polls.

Once a founder member of the Chamling-led Sikkim Democratic Front, Golay had rebelled against the former chief minister and floated the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha in 2013, alleging corruption and misrule under his parent party.

Hundreds of SKM supporters who were at the stadium cheered the 51year-old party chief when he was taking the oath in Nepali language.

Former Tezpur MP Mani Kumar Subba passes away

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER WOKHA : NAGALAND

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Dated, Wokha the 17th May 2019

NOTICE

Whereas, Shri. Jenibemo Lotha, son of Late Shri. T. Nlumo Lotha, a permanent resident of Lakhuti Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to enable him to draw all dues and benefits/family pension from the Govt. in favour of his deceased father Late Shri. T. Nlumo Lotha who expired on 18/05/2007.

Now, therefore, public and relatives are hereby invited to file claims or objections if any, within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice.

Further, no claims or objections will be entertained after the cut off date and the Succession Certificate shall be issued to the concerned.

Sd/- (ANDREW C. IMTI) Addl. Deputy Commissioner Wokha, Nagaland WC-175

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Arunachal guv invites Khandu to form govt RSS cleared the air in NE, Assam on CAB

BJP Legislature Party leader Pema Khandu, accompanied by senior leader JP Nadda and others, submits letter of support of MLAs to Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brigadier (retd.) BD Mishra to stake claim for the formation of government, in Itanagar, Monday. (PTI)

Itanagar, May 27 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brig (Retd) B D Mishra on Monday invited BJP leader and chief minister-designate Pema Khandu to form the next government in the state, sources in the party said.

Khandu, who steered his party to a landslide victory in the Assembly polls and

Training on crime against women & children in M’laya DIMAPUR: Meghalaya Police organized a training programme on “Crime against women and children - problems related to investigations and systemic interventions” on May 27 at the Conference Hall, Police Head Quarter, Shillong.

According to special superintendent of police, CID Shillong,R. Muthu,tThe training programme was inaugurated by Chairperson, State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Meena Kharkongar and Additional Director Inspector General of Police (CID), B. L. Buam. The objective of the training was to address the problems related to investigation of crime against women and children and systemic interventions required to aid in the investigation.

The resource persons included Administrative Medical Officer, ESIS Shillong, Dr. S. A Lyngdoh, SSA, FSL Shillong, Sumit Lyngdoh, Principal PTS Shillong, Vivek Syiem, senior advocate, Meghalaya High Court Shillong, Md. Khalid Khan, President Shillong Press Club David Laitphlang, and WPSI Nongstoin Women Police station, F.K Marak.

has been elected as the BJP’s legislature party leader, and his council of ministers will be administered the oath of office and secrecy at the Raj Bhavan here on May 29, they said.

Accompanied by outgoing Union Health Minister J P Nadda among others, Khandu handed Mishra a letter in the morn-

ing staking a claim to form government.

On Sunday, he had submitted their resignations to Mishra requesting him to dissolve the sixth Legislative Assembly in the state.

The governor accepted the resignation and requested him and his council of ministers to continue until a new government is sworn

in.

Talking to reporters at the Raj Bhavan here, Nadda said the party had appointed him as the ‘observer’ to oversee the process of electing the BJP legislature party leader.

“Khandu was elected the leader of the House by an unanimous decision by 41 party legislators,” he

added.

The chief minister-designate thanked the people of state for reposing faith in the BJP. “For the first time in the state’s political history, a full-fledged BJP government will be formed. I thank people for their support that helped the lotus bloom in the state.

“The real challenge for my government begins now as people have lots of expectation from the new government,” he said in response to media query.

The BJP, which won seven seats in the 2014 Assembly elections, increased its tally to 41 this time, while the opposition Congress managed to secure four seats against 42 it had won in 2014.

The Janata Dal United (JDU), which entered into the state’s political scene for the first time, bagged seven seats and another new entrant, the National Peoples’ Party (NPP), won five.

The lone regional outfit - the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) - which had won five seats in 2014, could secure only one seat, while two independents also won.

GUWAHATI, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): Widespread protests in Assam and the rest of the Northeast over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill were a worry for the BJP ahead of the polls, but the RSS ensured that the party came out unscathed and with its best performance ever from the region.

The BJP increased its tally of Lok Sabha seats in Assam to nine from seven in 2014. Across Northeast India, it increased the count to 14 from eight. The BJPled NDA won 18 of the 25 seats in the northeast region.

Ahead of the elections, RSS cadres across Assam had initiated mass contact programmes, where it explained to the people that Bill was not inconsistent with the interest of the indigenous people. The RSS distributed around 90 lakh leaflets explaining what the Bill was all about and why Assam needed it.

In the past one year, there was stout resistance to the Bill, which is aimed at making minority communities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh

and Pakistan eligible to apply for Indian citizenship.

Assam had witnessed a series of agitations, bandhs and blockades to protest against the government move. There were also some organisations, however, supporting the Bill in Assam’s Barak Valley where the majority speaks Bengali.

A senior RSS leader, who does not want to be named, told ET: “There was a misinformation campaign being unleashed pertaining to the Bill by the Congress party and other organisations. We asked our people to explain to people that the Bill will protect the indigenous people.

We motivated the workers to overcome the fear and counter the campaign against the Bill.”

He added: “On January 30 this year, in Tinsukia, when the agitation against the Bill was at its peak following the passage of the Bill in the Lok Sabha on January 8, BJP district president Lakeswar Moran was brutally beaten up by the protesters. Unfazed by this, we asked the workers to hold meetings and meet people. A meeting was organised in Golaghat which

was attended by 300 to 400 people. The turnout of the people in this small meeting gave us confidence that the people are prepared to listen to us.”

At several places, people asked if the BJP was out to give citizenship to foreigners en masse, he said. “We explained that it is not like that and there is criteria for providing citizenship and nobody can take away the land of indigenous people. People believed us and the results of parliamentary elections are a testimony to it,” the leader said. “We have won all the seats of Upper Assam, which was the main centre of protest. The BJP won the Guwahati seat.

After two decades, we have won both the seats of the Barak Valley.”

He said the RSS effectively countered the peasant organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti led by Akhil Gogoi, the All Assam Students Union and others. “We have explained to the people that this Bill basically meant for stateless people from six communities and there is nothing to worry for it will not lead to influx of immigrants from neighbouring countries.”

Manipur CPI: Getting more than NRL facilitates group insurance of KNP forest staff one lakh votes is ‘moral victory’

CPI leaders addressing the media.

I M P HA L , M AY 2 7 (AGENCIES): Getting of more than 1.33 lakh votes in the 17th Lok Sabha elections in favour of the Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate in Manipur is the ‘moral victory’ of the party.

This was disclosed by the secretary L Sotinkumar of CPI Manipur State Council while speaking to the reporters at CPI office in Imphal on Sunday afternoon.

In Inner Manipur parliamentary seat, CPI candidate Dr Moirangthem Nara got 1,33093 votes and placed in third position after Congress candidate O Nabakishore who secured 2,44972 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Dr R K Ranjan won the seat by securing 2,61,802 votes.

On the other hand, Outer Manipur Lok Sabha

seat went to Naga People’s Front (NPF) candidate Dr Lorho S Pfoze who defeated his nearest rival BJP candidate Benjamin Shokhopao Mate (2,89,745) by securing 3,63,527 votes. Terming the return of BJP in power as ‘unfortunate’, CPI leader Sotinkumar said that CPI will continue to take forward the public issues from time to time even if the party candidate could not make it this time. Participating in the press conference, Dr M

Nara said the public have to judge the verdict adding that the need of the hour is to change the existing electoral system of the country.

“For this we require much stronger public campaign as the proportional electoral system is being used in 85 countries,” he said. He also demanded the tabling of the Indrajit Gupta Committee report for further steps for electoral reforms. Congratulating the MPs elect, Dr R K Ranjan of BJP and Dr Lorho S Pfoze of NPF, he said both of them were elected to serve the people. So we’ve to wait and watch, he added.

The CPI leader also informed that the national executive meeting of the party will be held on Monday and Tuesday to review the party’s performance in the recently concluded seven-phase Lok Sabha elections.

Guwahati, May 27 (PTI): Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has facilitated group insurance for 1,129 forest staff of the Kaziranga National Park with the National Insurance Company to secure their future.

NRL, as part of its corporate social responsibility has facilitated this step as the lives of the forest staff are often fraught with danger from wild animals attacks and poachers, an NRL official release said on Monday.

The Group Personal Accident Insurance policy will provide an insured sum of Rs five lakh per insured person nominee for death or bodily injury resulting solely and directly from accident caused by external violent and visible means.

Weekly benefit up to Rs five thousand for maximum 104 weeks has also been provided for temporary disablement and the insured amount can be directly

claimed from National Insurance Company Limited at Golaghat.

This policy will be effective from April one this year for a term of one year initially and would be further extended on and yearly basis. KNP Director P Sivakumar said that NRL is a success story in business enterprise while KNP is one in conservation efforts of wildlife and with both entities working and complementing each

other, greater things can be achieved. NRL Managing Director S K Barua said that since its very inception, the refinery’s identity is entwined with KNP as both are adjacent to each other in location and therefore reaching out to KNP has been a natural recourse. He hoped there would be more such meaningful collaborations in the future.

KNP Divisional Forest Officer Rohini Ballav Saikia thanked NRL for the noble

gesture which was much needed for the welfare of the forest guards.

He also apprised the forest guards present on the nitty gritties of the scheme.

The Group Personal Accident Insurance policy was ceremonially handed over to the KNP Director by NRL’s MD in the presence of KNP officials, rangers, forest guards, NRL officials and National Insurance Company officials at Kaziranga National Park.

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A global club

s the global platform , the United Nations (UN) today has become more of a global club than an effective catalyst for peace and development.

The UN is supposed to be an intergovernmental organization tasked with maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international co-operation, and being a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It was established after World War II, with the aim of preventing future wars, and succeeded the ineffective League of Nations.[4] Its headquarters, which are subject to extraterritoriality, are in Manhattan, New York City, and it has other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and The Hague. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states, today there are 193 member-countries.

Former US vice president and a votary of protection of the environment, has criticized the body for being only a ‘moral relativism’ in the face of rampant violation of environmental laws, human rights and global terrorism.

Another criticism of the UN Security Council involves the veto power of the five permanent members. As it stands, a veto from any of the permanent members can halt any possible action the Council may take. One country’s objection, rather than the opinions of a majority of countries, may cripple any possible UN armed or diplomatic response to a crisis. This was also seen in the manner in which a veto by China, or Russia or the US( three major countries) virtually kills important decisions. Some have questioned whether the UN might be relevant in the 21st century.[While the UN’s first and second Charter mandates require the UN: “To maintain international peace and security by taking preventive or enforcement action but due to its restrictive administrative structure, the permanent members of the Security Council themselves have sometimes prevented the UN from fully carrying out its first two mandates. One particular feature of the UN is that resolutions have invariably been passed against Israel and its ‘zionist policies’ while the body has been always supportive of the PLO, which had perpetrated terrible violence at Israeli citizens in the name of liberation. Scandals and other controversies have not escaped the UN. For many delegates, officials, and employees, particularly those from developing nations, the UN is little more than an enormous watering hole. A few in fact have noticed that the very existence of the UN in its current structure has become a problem in itself. It is becoming increasingly a talking shop wherein any world problem has rarely been solved. The clash of interests between the more powerful members of the organisation has rendered it as a mere meeting venue wherein delegates of 193-member states pretend that they are working to preserve world peace and security, a prerequisite for the stability needed for global economic growth, sustainable development and social progress. The real problem of the UN lies with the Security Council, which represents the interests of the more powerful members, rather than those of the international community. Thanks to the power of the veto, the UN has consistently been unable to resist being manipulated by the great powers to their own advantage. Thus, instead of being a global platform, the UN has been reduced to a playing ground of big nations.

DailyDevotion The Life To Know Him …tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. —Luke 24:49 The disciples had to tarry, staying in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost, not only for their own preparation but because they had to wait until the Lord was actually glorified. And as soon as He was glorified, what happened? “Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear” (Acts 2:33).

The statement in John 7:39— “…for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified”— does not pertain to us. The Holy Spirit has been given; the Lord is glorified— our waiting is not dependent on the providence of God, but on our own spiritual fitness.

The Holy Spirit’s influence and power were at work before Pentecost, but He was not here. Once our Lord was glorified in His ascension, the Holy Spirit came into the world, and He has been here ever since. We have to receive the revealed truth that He is here. The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of a believer. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord.

It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit. We all too often separate things that the New Testament never separates. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an experience apart from Jesus Christ— it is the evidence of the ascended Christ.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit does not make you think of time or eternity— it is one amazing glorious now. “This is eternal life, that they may know You…” (John 17:3). Begin to know Him now, and never finish.

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Don’t be afraid to show off who you are. ~ Barbie Ferreira

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n every survey taken across the world, the worst jobs that emerge are sewage cleaners, and people that work in the factory farm and slaughterhouse industry which includes fish, poultry, piggeries, cattle and, of course, all the other species you can think of – from rabbits and dogs to goats and camels.

Millions of people work in slaughterhouses, dragging animals out, stringing them up , bleeding them, breaking their bones, slitting their throats, skinning live beings. These are the direct killers. But equally horrible work is, growing them in tight miserable conditions, giving them injections every day, cleaning out their food and faeces, loading them into overcrowded trucks and then pulling them out half dead already. A poultry worker kills roughly 35,000 chickens a year.

These people work in dirty, smelly, blood filled, unsanitary conditions. Workers are usually trained for one specific part of the process.

For example, some workers kill and bleed the animals, while others make a series of cuts to separate fat, muscle and bone, some skin them while still conscious, others boil them alive. Hour after hour, day after day, the workers interact with countless animals in various states of fear and pain. They work with the constant noise of dying animals protesting till the end.

They return home full of the germs of dried blood.

What could they dream about at night and what aims propel them? How many women would marry

a slaughterhouse worker?

What do their children say when they are asked “what does your daddy do?”

Could this be the reason that all slaughter involved workers live together in tight, slovenly ghettos all over the world (with the highest crime percentages) – so that they meet only their own kind?

Slaughterhouse workers, which include fishermen who go out into the ocean and spend the day hunting and killing the animals of the ocean, have so many kinds of jobs – one more terrible than the last.

For instance, these are jobs that are so strange that one wonders how poor (or mentally disturbed) you have to be to do them: Animal Masturbator: The sperm of animals is always in great demand, whether by researchers or famers, who want artificial insemination. The only way to obtain the sperm is to masturbate the animal and catch the semen in a pot.

Whether it is a pig, ram, horse or bull, people have to physically excite the animals. When dealing with a bull, there have been cases were people have been seriously injured during this procedure. There are other options: They can ram an electric probe up an animal’s rectum, shove an artificial vagina onto the animal’s penis, or simply do it the old-fashioned way - manual stimulation using the hand. Electroejaculation generally requires anesthetizing the animal and is typically used on zoo dwellers. The AV - a large latex tube coated with warm lubricant - is used

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Keep their self respect primarily to get sperm from dairy bulls. The bull gets randy with a cow; when he mounts the animal with his forelegs, a brave technician, AV in hand, insinuates himself between the two animals and redirects the bull’s penis into the mock genitalia, which he must then hold tight while the bull orgasms. Three additional technicians anchor themselves to restraining ropes attached to a ring in the bull’s nose. The same thing applies to pigs and goats.

An artificial insemination technician, also known as Diary Cow Midwife, inserts semen deeply into female bovine vaginas to get them pregnant.

Chicken Sexer : This gentleman stands at an assembly line and picks up fluffy, hour old, chicks, turns them upside down and squeezes their faeces out from their anuses so that he can put a finger inside in order to determine their sex. Tiny bumps indicate a male, while a flat surface is female. The males are killed. This job requires a gentle hand (so as to not damage the female chicks), a good eye (to recognize whether they have a penis or not) and the ability to forget that your whole working life is going to be spent looking at baby

chicken’s sex organs.

Animal Shearers : These worthies pin the rabbit down flat on a surface and then shear the hair off, often breaking the bones and making a million body cuts in the process, while listening to it scream.

The same applies to sheep shearers – considered the worst job in Australia, next to Sheep Daggers, whose entire workshop consists of bending over sheep and removing soiled wool from their backsides – a process extremely painful for the animal and backbreaking for the human.

Goose/Duck Stuffers: To make pate foie gras, the diseased duck liver so beloved of rich people, the bird has to have an aluminium or plastic tube put into its food pipe. Workers stuff corn mesh down the tubes the entire day and make sure that the retching birds keep it down. If the mesh gets stuck they have to put their fingers into the tube to make sure it is pushed down into the stomach.

This goes on until the liver is as large as the bird and it can be killed.

Pig Hair Remover: The hair is pulled out from hogs while alive. Three people hold the squealing animal down and the fourth pulls out bunches of hair, which are sent to be

made into brushes – after the blood is washed off.

Pig Stabber: There is a belief that pigs should be stabbed many times before being killed so that the pork is more edible. People are hired in piggeries to take short knives and stab pigs repeatedly before killing them. A former kill floor manager gave the following account: “The worst thing, worse than the physical danger, is the emotional toll. . . . Pigs down on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy.

Two minutes later I had to kill them - beat them to death with a pipe. I can’t care.”

Animal Renderer : Workers who bring the entrails, bones and blood from butchers and slaughterhouses, clean and strip them, boil and sort them, so that these animals can be turned into soap, fertilizer, candles, pharmaceuticals and toiletries (previously, tooth brush handles and teething rings as well.)

De-animalising that leads to de-humanising.

You just have one short life. Are you sure you want to spend it killing other species? The pursuit of money cannot justify this, because these are the lowest paid with the poorest working conditions in the world. In India it has become a family profession and often parents start their children off at the age of four so that they know nothing else. Each slaughterhouse worker suffers from diseases ranging from tuberculosis, asthma and bronchitis, eye, nose and throat irritation, traumatic injuries, noise-induced hearing loss. Most facilities

operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – killing and processing hundreds or thousands of animals each hour. As one worker stated: The line is so fast there is no time to sharpen the knife. The knife gets dull and you have to cut harder.

That’s when it really starts to hurt, and that’s when you cut yourself. Workers suffer chronic pains in their hands, wrists, arms, shoulders and back. The industry has consistently operated with one of the highest injury rates in the country.

Fishermen experience one of the highest rates of fatalities among all classes of workers. They must stay at sea for extended periods, and withstand adverse weather and sea conditions, catch, extract and store fish, load and unload. Depleted supplies of fish in many waters add an element of uncertainty regarding the success of expeditions.

How sad that humans should want to do jobs like this. These jobs are killing not just animals but destroying the rest of the world through polluting the land and water and bringing about climate change so that all of us are unsafe. Instead of trying to increase our meat exports, the government should be looking at retraining slaughter workers and letting them get jobs that keep their self respect and bring more money. And you can help them by becoming vegetarian.

To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in, www. peopleforanimalsindia. org

Post-mortem

Irony of Naga nationalism: An observation

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all me ignorant, benighted and unknowledgeable for my understanding and observation of the very proud movement of the Nagas. I am pretty confident that many Nagas, young and old, take pride in the movement. There have been occasions where I am baffled by the enthusiasm of the younger generation on the Naga Nationalist movement. Maybe because I underestimated them by perceiving that they are more into pop culture thingy and don’t really pay much attention to their history or they are brainwashed to be unreasonably patriotic.

It is with no doubt that the Naga Nationalist movement had come a long way with countless patriots giving up their lives for the cause. It gives you chills when you hear or read about the struggles our forefathers, or for some, their own fathers, brothers, and uncles had sacrificed their lives for our better tomorrow. After all these sacrifices, one is left with no choice but to continue the legacy of our dear and near ones and finish the unfinished goals.

This is one of the many reasons, as to why this movement is held up till today and, of course, not forgetting that much has also changed in the nature of the sacrifices made by the older generation of patriots. To be brutally blunt, our predecessors who had made so many sacrifices in the struggle were truly for the cause of Naga Nation unlike most of the present pseudo-Nationalists who are parts to the innumerable factions solely for their individual benefits.

There were true stories of the Naga freedom fighter then who would hide in the jungle for years, hungry and worn-out to protect the village

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just so that we can have a peaceful sleep and undisturbed harvest, and the villagers in return provide food and safety. But the irony now is that nowadays the Nation workers live in skyscrapers (maybe by our Naga standard) and eat the best Indian food.

While on the other hand, most of us go through sleepless nights because these so-called freedom fighters think we, the citizens, owe them a tithe of our hard earned income just because they are fighting for a cause (which is already discredited). Many would agree with me, in spirit, of what I have just mentioned but probably would never admit it for fear of not having a share in the benefits.

The idea of having one’s own country with complete sovereignty (politically, socially, and economically) is very fascinating and endearing. Who would not want to be politically, economically, and socially independent?

However, one must not overlook what it entails to be truly independent, especially in the context of the Nagas Nationalist Movement. This is where I find that most of the Nagas (i.e. intellectuals, pseudo-Nationalists, and the mass) do not want to acknowledge or are consciously ignorant to admit that attaining sovereignty is a lost cause.

We only like to bask in the idea of being independent because it is easier said than done, and why not, because in many ways some are independent economically, socially, and politically in a very narrow sense.

Whenever we talk about gaining independent or having one’s own country the first thing I visualize is having our own currency.

(To be concluded) Pakinzinliu Chawang Salikyu

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hen primitive humans evolved to engineer sophisticated machinery for it to impact its operations to minimize task load and force as previously had to exerted through brute muscles, it also opened the doorways for unorthodox external and biological paradox for nature, which from modern vantage point and data expositioned, is quite certain the probability being eminent because of casualty: fossil fuels extradited and used hence it’s residual effects. If we time travel 4000 years back and the primitive people then had been presented with facts on how at an alarming rate earth has been enduring man activities derived pollution at a proliferating cataclysmic scale, their instinctual response would be subtle disbelief followed by backlash on how death is inevitable and mainstream should not astray from carpe diem. But presently it would be absurd for anyone to deny the facts of gradually and worsening degradation of the natural environment especially when most suburban and some rural areas are exposed to the experiential contagions of compromised elements like wind, water and air etc.

I could yammer on about the depleting ozone, excess GHG and else what I

Post election scenario

he din and dust kicked up by the general election have settled down, and the winners and losers have also retired to their places to resume their daily chores. And in the post election scenario, sadness and sobbing came to grip the minds of the losers. But for Rahul, a prime ministerial candidate for the election has had a mixed response from the people. In Amethi and in Wayanad where Rahul sought the people’s mandate, there was a mixed response from the people. While Amethi gave him bricks, Wayanad gave him bouquets. He won with a record lead of 431,770

votes over his nearest rival, CPI’s P.P Suneer.

Rahul Gandhi was not the only Congress heavyweight who faced defeat on Thursday. Stunning political pundits, Pragya Singh Thakur, who is out on bail and facing trial in the Samjahutta train blast case, trounced Congress’ Digvijay Singh from Bhopal and KP Yadav beat the other top Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna Lok Sabha constituency.

L i c k i n g t h e s e ve r e wounds inflicted by the poll debacle, Rahul has even readied to step down from the Congress’ president position owning up responsibility of

Challenges for modern times can list out from the archive that’s already not inaccessible to prying eyes, but I find this intriguing the fact debris from shredded space stations and equipments -- space junks -- travelling in proximity to 26,170 mph, creates a chain of further exponential collision with satellites threatening future space travels.

Experimental and applied science have not been able to keep speed with theoretical scientific breakthroughs in various fields. On the other hand there is the emerging renaissance of computational input and output machines, AI, to increase more optimal technological interface to upscale globalization and connected productivity. Advanced model like Sophia who have been degreed as the first ever AI to obtain Citizenship of any country (Saudi Arabia) has over 50 facial expressions, and the crucial congruent is that the expression are not void to empathy. Her limitations to good old biochemicals like serotonin and melatonin produced in the human pineal gland that excites emotional responses to stimuli does not defunct her from responding emotionally efficiently to situations. Contrary to robot susceptibility portrayed in science fictions, the potential is enormous for mankind with the advancement of AI that

remains rationally intact with every information it feeds to explore in a blink.

We may not have enough data for now to understand whether AI have a consciousness that has its own conscious ambience and it interacts with the electromagnetic field, or if the reasoning with which it interacts with, is happening on the circuit board in binary codes. The fact more upgrades could be integrated for AI to servile as a sentient program to lead humankind to achieve type 1 civilization as represented in Kardashev scale, no latter then sooner, could be our last best hope to perpetuate our existence to simulate from the basic of reality and consequently with synchronicity and sustainability explore humans’ higher position in Milky Way and beyond.

Humans str uggle to survive and this has been consistent since the dawn of humankind, ironically in modern times the conditions though have altered and now faces hectic challenges. If we could segregate apart our personal and communal priorities and index our identity from common challenges, our necessity to address anomalies in entangled proportions could be sublimely identified to adequately effect remedy.

Samuel Longkumer, Chumukedima, Dimapur

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the Congress debacle. As a thusiasm of the party leaders motivating man, he said that fizzled out. And in Kerala the Congress would con- too, it has not yet been able tinue to serve people without to open an account, which is compromising on its ideo- an eye-opener for the BJP. For Sir, logical stand. Rahul is very the BJP party in Kerala, it was The road between Jalukie and Peren is a apprehensive of the BJP’s the most favorable situation sight to behold where one cannot even see potHindutva policy as this policy and even at this most favorholes as the entire road has just been cut and left has oriented the majority of able situation, the BJP could the Hindus and consolidated not translate this favorable that way for decades. Commuters from Jalukie them as a strong platform to situation into winning a single to Peren faces severe problem as they traverse give strength to the BJP party. seat for the Lok Sabha. As through this way. During the rainy season, The think-tank and the mas- Kerala is the most literate and the road becomes nothing but a streamlet and termind behind the landslide politically conscious state, the vehicles have a hard time navigating through. victory of the BJP, Amit Shah BJP leadership has to study It would be in the best interest for the Peren has done a tremendous job why Kerala has refused to of Peren district and even other districts that swallow the bait of the BJP roads are given priority. There is a lot of defor the BJP. But in the south the BJP’s party though all other states velopment taking place on the NH but district plan and the ploy fell-flat at least gave some seats to road connectivity must also be looked into. It saddens me to see the weeping roads. except in Karnataka and so the BJP. Irang Zeliang, Jalukie, Peren the buoyant mood and enT K Nandanan, Kochi 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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Chemistry defeated arithmetic in elections: PM

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NSCN (K) accuses Myanmar army of violating cease-fire agreement (From p-1) However, MIP said, the complexity of the cease fire arose after the Myanmar gover nment began adopting hostile attitude towards Nagas when the Myanmar government accused NSCN/GPRN of making baseless allegation and enforced its National Ceasefire Agreement(NCA) on Nagas.

Despite such heavy threat and intimidations, MIP said the NSCN/GPRN refused to sign on the NCA as it was “completely alien to the Nagas” as it had nothing to do with the Naga struggle for independence.

Due to this, MIP said tension between the two reached its zenith and the rest was history.

Taking advantage of the situation, MIP said the government of India resorted to all kinds of “ill-tactics to sabotage the struggle” by masterminding the ongoing joint operation and extending all possible logistics and material support to the Tatmadaw.

MIP termed the joint operations by the intelligence and armed forces of “both colonial countries” as a “covert alliance” to carry out a well-coordinated op-

eration in order to “completely wipe out the Naga revolution and continue their hegemonic policies to dominate and subjugate the Naga country.”

MIP accused both countries of adopting similar policy to divide Nagas based on artificial boundaries to completely assimilate the Nagas politically, economically and culturally into the Myanmarese mainstream forever.

MIP said after independence, India has been exploiting and oppressing the Nagas for decades in the Western South East Asia(WESEA) in the “socalled north east and the Kashmiri people”, to suppress the liberation movements, through her brutal ,draconian and black laws, while still claiming to be the “world’s largest democracy”.

MIP said NSCN/ GPRN sincerely thanked every Naga citizen and well-wishers for their overwhelming support and encouragement for raising their voices at the crucial moment of the national struggle and appealed to all Nagas from north, south, east and west to unite and give “unwavering support for our genuine cause”.

Gambhir demands action in Muslim man assault case

Rahul Gandhi to visit Wayanad in first week of June

Varanasi, May 27 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that chemistry had managed to defeat arithmetic in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

“Elections are all about arithmetic but there is chemistry that goes beyond arithmetic. This time chemistry has defeated arithmetic,” he said while addressing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers at a thanksgiving function in Varanasi.

“Some people say that politics is all about perception but we do not create perceptions. For us, transparency and hard work scores above everything else,” he said. The Prime Minister said that he was a BJP worker and followed the directives of the party.

“I was asked to come here and on April 25 (for a roadshow) Kashi welcomed me with its ‘Vishwa Roop’ (larger than life image) that had an impact beyond Kashi and Uttar Pradesh. It impacted all parts of the country. Kashi made me PM but I will always remain a worker for you.” Modi said that if he seemed complacent and

New Delhi, May 27 (PTI): Newly elected East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir on Monday termed as “deplorable” the alleged assault on a Muslim man in Gurugram and asked authorities to take “exemplary” action in the matter.

His comments however did not go down well among a few of his partymen in Delhi who said the words of the cricketerturned-politician may be used against the BJP by the opposition parties.

A 25 year old Muslim man was alleged slapped by a group of men in Gurugram on May 25. The victim was reportedly asked to remove his skull cap and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

“In Gurugram Mus-

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP President Amit Shah and UP CM Yogi Adityanath during a meeting with the party workers at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hastkala Sankul in Varanasi, Monday. (PTI)

relaxed during elections, it was because of the love and strength that Kashi gave him. “You asked me not to come again for campaigning, so I went to Kedarnath after polling.”

The Prime Minister thanked local officials, media persons and even his electoral rivals.

“I thank the workers for not making the election a war and the rival candidates for maintaining the dignity of Kashi. Elections were a festival of democracy that was celebrated by all,” he said. He said that there are many in politics whose

Gautam Gambhir (File)

lim man told to remove skullcap, chant Jai Shri Ram”. It is deplorable. Exemplary action needed by Gurugram authorities. We are a secular nation where @Javedakhtarjadu writes “O palan-hare, nirgun aur nyare, & @RakeyshOmMehra gave us d song “Arziyan” in Delhi 6,” Gambhir tweeted.

However, a section of Delhi BJP leaders expressed their reservation

profile runs into 50 pages or more but they are not connected to the poorest of the poor. “We are dedicated to such people,” he said.

“Uttar Pradesh has elected us in 2014, 2017 and in 2019 and deserves to be lauded for this hat trick which is not a small feat,” he added.

Modi said that it was the BJP which had maximum belief in democracy.

“When we are in power, the opposition comes alive. Tripura, for years, had no opposition but now that BJP is in power, the opposition is vibrant.”

over the tweet and said Gambhir’s words may be used against the saffron party.

“Gambhir is no longer a cricketer and he should realise this that his words and actions will be seen through the prism of politics.

“Nobody likes such incidents but what is the use of commenting on an incident in Haryana which may be used against the BJP by other parties,” said a senior Delhi BJP leader.

However, Gambhir said his secularism emanated from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s philosophy of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ and added that any oppression based on caste or religion is deplorable.

“My thoughts on secularism emanate from

honourable PM Mr Modi’s mantra “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”.. I am not limiting myself to Gurugram incident alone, any oppression based on caste/religion is deplorable. Tolerance & inclusive growth is what the idea of India is based on,” he said in another tweet.

Gambhir who joined the BJP before the recent Lok Sabha polls, contested from East Delhi seat and defeated Congress’s Arvinder Singh Lovely by 3.91 lakh votes.

The Muslim man identified as Mohamad Baker Alam alleged in his complaint to the police that four unidentified youths accosted him in a lane in Sadar Bazar area of the city and objected to his wearing the skull cap.

T h i ru va na n thapuram, May 27 (IANS): Congress President Rahul Gandhi would visit Wayanad in the first week of June to thank the electorate for his record breaking win from this Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, said a Congress leader on Monday. Leader of opposition Ramesh Chennithala said this after the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) met for the first time after registering a resounding victory in the Lok Sabha polls, winning all but one of the 20 seats in the state.

A source in the know of things said Rahul Gandhi’s visit could be either on Saturday or Monday.

Historical Guru Nanak Palace in Pak’s Punjab partially demolished by locals ISLAMABAD, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): A group of locals partially demolished a four-storey centuries-old building allegedly with the permission of Auqaf department officials. Doors, windows and ventilators, deemed priceless, have also been sold.

The historical Guru Nanak Palace was constructed over four centuries ago in Bathanwala village, about 100 km from Lahore, on New Lahore Road.

Guru Nanak Palace was built of bricks, sand, clay and limestone. There were 16 large rooms in the building, all of which had at least three beautiful doors and at least four ventilators.

The rooms were constructed with large broad walls that had cupboards with wooden doors and flowers carved into them.

All the rooms were airy and their walls had small lamp enclosures in them. Diyar wood beams of various sizes were used in the roofs. The wood costs thousands of rupees per foot.

A local, Muhammad Aslam, said, “This old building is called the Pal-

The historical Guru Nanak Palace may have been constructed over four centuries ago in Bathanwala village on New Lahore Road. (Dawn.com)

ace of Baba Guru Nanak and we have named it Mahalan. A number of Sikhs from across the world, including India, used to visit this building.”

He said that once a six-member delegation, including a woman carrying a large book with information about the historical building, had come here from Canada. The delegation was elated at visiting the site.

Another local, Muhammad Ashraf, said, “The Auqaf department was informed about the demolition of the building by some influential persons, but no officer or official took any action or even reached here.”

“Three storeys of the building have already been demolished and new houses constructed. The influentials have demolished the building with the connivance of the Auqaf department and sold its costly windows, doors, ventilators and wood,” he said.

In an effort to determine the legal status of the building, locate its owners or find out which government department maintained its record, India Today TV reached out to various officials, but apparently everyone seemed clueless - from the deputy commissioner, Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) to the family that lived in the building.

Kejriwal calls cabinet meeting, reviews ongoing projects New Delhi, May 27 (IANS): A day after the model code of conduct was lifted, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday called a meeting of his cabinet and senior government officials and asked them to speed up ongoing development works in the city.

This was his first cabi-

net meeting after the Lok Sabha elections.

According to a senior official, the Chief Minister has directed the departments concerned to hasten the pending works.

“The Chief Minister wants that the ongoing development projects in the city should be completed by next few months,” the

official told IANS on the condition of anonymity.

Kejriwal’s six cabinet colleagues -- Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai, Satyendar Jain, Imran Hussain, Rajendra Pal Gautam and Kailash Gehlot -- were present at the meeting.

Delhi is expected to go for Assembly elections early next year.

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In the process, a CPIO receives and responds to the application.His decision to deny or provide partial information is first challenged before a senior officer within the organisation called the first appellate authority.

If the applicant is still unsatisfied, a second appeal can be filed before the CIC. During the hearing before the commission this month, the RBI had said on September 16, 2017, the date of filing of the RTI application, the information was not provided due to pending resolution and the list of defaulters had not been finalised, but now they can provide the information.

On the issue of note sheets and correspondence, the central bank said it not only pertains to the list of willful defaulters but also the burrowers suffering economic distress.

“The information in that regard are so intertwined that it may not be possible to separate or sever each and every document...

“Disclosure of names of the borrowers of economic distress would breach the confidentiality among the customers and the RBI, hence, may be exempted under section 8 (1) (d) of RTI Act,” it had said.

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In her RTI application, Thakur wanted to know from the RBI the list of loan defaulters that was referred to in the lecture and the records of note sheets and correspondence regarding these accounts.

The RBI had refused to provide the details to her by calling them “confidential information”, following which she approached the CIC. “The CPIO (chief public information officer) denied the information under section 8 (1) (d) (commercial confidence) of RTI Act whereas the first appellate authority held that the exemption under section 8 (1) (d) does not apply to the case and but falls under Section 45C and E of the RBI Act as per which the credit information submitted by all banks shall be treated confidential,” Information Commissioner Suresh Chandra noted.

The Right to Information provides a two-stage dispute resolution process.

(PTI): Investors’ wealth has gone up by Rs 3.86 trillion in two days of market rise where the Sensex has gained 872 points after a decisive mandate for the Narendra modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections.

The 30-share BSE key index has gained 871.9 points in two days. The Sensex on Monday closed 248.57 points higher at 39,683.29.

Led by the rally in the equity market, the market capitalisation (m-cap) of BSE-listed companies rose

by Rs 3,86,220.41 crore to Rs 1,54,11,395.90 crore.

At the close of trade on Thursday, the market valuation of BSE-listed firms had been Rs 1,50,25,175.49 crore.

The Sensex had hit its all-time high of 40,124.96 during the trade on May 23, the day election results were announced.

Hemang Jani, Head (Advisory), Sharekhan by BNP Paribas said, “Indian markets end the day on a positive note. The markets continue their upward trend supported by FII (foreign institutional investor) buying in the past two consecutive trading days. The current government wining the general elections by a two-thirds of majority will

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New Delhi, May 27 (PTI): The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Reserve Bank of India to disclose the list of big loan defaulters it had sent to banks for resolution.

The CIC’s directive came while deciding on a plea by Lucknow-based activist Nutan Thakur, who had based her RTI application on some media reports that RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya in a lecture in 2017 had said accounts of some loan defaulters have been sent to banks for resolution.

“The IAC (internal advisory committee) has recommended that the Reserve Bank of India should initially focus on stressed assets which are large, material and aged, in that they have eluded a viable resolution plan despite being classified as NPAs (nonperforming assets) for a significant amount of time,” Acharya had said.

The RBI had accordingly directed banks to file insolvency applications against 12 large accounts comprising about 25 per cent of the total NPAs, he had said.

“The Reserve Bank has now advised the banks to resolve some of the other ac-

Mumbai, May 27 (PTI): The rupee appreciated by 19 paise to 69.34 against the US dollar in opening trade Monday, driven by weakening of the greenback and positive opening in domestic equities. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the domestic unit opened at 69.40 against the dollar, then gained momentum and touched 69.34, up 19 paise over its previous close.

The rupee had settled at 69.53 against the US dollar Friday. The local unit, however, pared some gains and was quoted at 69.43 against the American currency at 0947 hrs.

Forex dealers said, selling of the American currency by exporters, positive opening in domestic equities and foreign fund inflows supported the rupee.

On the other hand, rising crude prices restricted the rupee upmove.

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) remained net buyers in the capital markets, putting in Rs 2,026.33 crore Friday, as per the provisional data. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.03 per cent to USD 68.71 per barrel.

Meanwhile, domestic bourses opened on a bullish note Monday with benchmark indices Sensex trading 183.34 points up at 39,618.06 and Nifty up 35.05 points at 11,879.15.

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of replacement for Juncker and his counterpart in the European Council, Donald Tusk. Parliament will have a veto over any choice of the commission President and on the whole of the new commission team.

The estimated results, based on exit polls, leave the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) as the largest in Parliament, but down from 221 seats to 179.

Analysts say it’s likely to

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The Socialists and the Democrats looked set to drop to 150 seats from 191.

The Liberals and the Greens also received big gains, while the nationalists were set for victory in Italy and France.

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Sri Lanka security situation ‘99 per cent’ assured: Sirisena Colombo, May 27 (PTI): Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena Monday said the emergency laws in the country will be lifted within a month as the security situation is “99 per cent back to normal” following the deadly Easter suicide bombings.

Sirisena thanked Colombo-based diplomats from the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, the US and European states for the intelligence expertise and cooperation provided by those countries, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said in a statement.

He expressed his gratitude to the international community for the cooperation and assistance provided to Sri Lanka at this time of need and urged them to continue to provide economic assistance and lift the adverse travel advisories issued to tourists, it said.

President Sirisena explained to foreign ambassadors in Sri Lanka on Monday that he could guarantee that the security situation in Sri Lanka was “99 per cent ensured,” his office said.

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Sri Lanka imposed the emergency on April 23 to crack down on the nine suicide bombers who attacked three churches and as many luxury hotels April 21, killing 258 people and injuring 500 others.

The ISIS terror group claimed the attacks, but the government blamed the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) for the Easter Sunday bombings.

The emergency laws gave the police and the military extensive powers to arrest, detain and interrogate suspects without court orders. “The emergency was essential because of the on-

group could jump from 50 to 67 MEPs. In the UK, the newlyformed Brexit Party claimed a big victory and a strong performance by the Liberal Democrats came amid massive losses for the Conservatives and the Labour.

The populists gained ground in some countries, but fell short of the significant gains some had predicted. The turnout on Sunday bucked a long trend

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going operations conducted by the security forces and the President expressed confidence that the emergency could be lifted at the end of the one month period,” Sirisena’s office quoted him as saying.

President Sirisena emphasised that current successful operations and the assistance of foreign expertise on intelligence could eliminate the threat of terrorism.

To prevent such terror attacks in the future, new regulations are being enacted and new security institutions will be set up under the restructuring of security services, the President said.

The emergency period is only for a month at a time. However, on May 22, Sirisena extended the state of emergency by a month.

Police say they have arrested over 80 suspects in connection with the attack.

Previously, Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ave urged foreign governments to lift the adverse travel advisories issued to tourists.

VIENNA, MAY 27 (IANS): Portraits of Holocaust survivors that were on display as part of a public exhibition in Austria’s capital have been vandalized and covered in swastikas, authorities said on Monday.

Luigi Toscano’s “Lest We Forget” project is the result of a year of interviews with Holocaust survivors in Germany, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and the US, and is a collection of 200 portraits of the individuals who shared their stories with the German-Italian artist.

“It deeply affects me that the exhibition ‘Lest We Forget’ was brutally destroyed. I know that the overwhelming majority of Austrian society has a clear, negative attitude towards Nazi atrocities,” Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen said on social media.

At least eight of the close to 100 giant portraits that were printed onto a robust fabric were vandalized, Efe news reported.

Toscano’s art installation fell victim to acts of violence and vandalism twice in the course of the last week.

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Jerusalem, May 27 (IANS): Israel’s Supreme Court President Esther Hayut criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday over the intention of the right-wing parties in the Parliament to limit the power of the state’s judicial system. In the general elections on April 9, the Likud right-wing party led by Netanyahu and the other rightwing parties won a majority of 65 seats out of 120 in the Parliament.

These parties then declared that they would act for legislation that would allow the Parliament to reenact laws that the Supreme Court rejected.

In addition, they intend to promote an immunity law that will prevent the prosecution of members of Knesset until the end of

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their term of office, Xinhua news agency reported.

The centre-left parties, which won only 55 seats, claim that such laws will harm Israeli democracy, allow corruption by Knesset members and are intended mainly to save Netanyahu, who is suspected of criminal offences in three cases.

Justice Hayut, who spoke at the annual conference of the Israeli Bar Asso-

ciation in Eilat city, quoted Netanyahu’s remarks made during her swearing-in ceremony in October 2017, according to which “the need for a strong, independent, honest and impartial court must not be changed and it will not change”.

Hayut said “since that ceremony, a year and a half has passed, and I ask what has changed during this period? Has anything ever happened since justifying a deviation from these important principles? The answer is negative.”

He added that the negotiations between the parties to form the new government “are characterized by a blatant and unbridled discourse, to the extent that the Israeli judicial authority and judges are described as the enemy of the people”.

French police arrest 2 Lyon explosion suspects

PARIS, MAY 27 (IANS): The French police on Monday detained two suspects involved in an explosion in Lyon city at the weekend. At least 13 people were injured in the home-made bomb blast on Friday.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner confirmed the first arrest on Monday in a Twitter message, saying: “Package bomb in

Lyon: A suspect has been arrested.”

Identified as a 24-year-old student in an engineering school, the suspect was detained while he was getting off a bus in central Lyon, the city Mayor and former Interior Minister Greard Collomb told news channel BFMTV. Later, a second suspect was also arrested.

China will stand by Pak’s ‘core interests’: Chinese VP ISLAMABAD, May 27 (Agencies): China will always stand by Pakistan’s “core interests” no matter how the international landscape changes, visiting Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan has said as he cited the USD 60 billion CPEC as the manifestation of their all-weather relationship.

Addressing a meeting on Sunday organised by the Pakistan-China Institute (PCI), the senior Chinese leader said the world was passing through a time of major developments and transformation.

The situation, he emphasised, had been further complicated by traditional and non-traditional challenges and conflict between opposing schools of thought and culture.

“No matter how the international landscape changes, China will always stand by Pakistan’s core interests, and both Pakistan

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and China have made the right choice based on equality and mutual benefit,” Mr Wang said.

Wang Qishan, a member of the politburo of the ruling Communist Party of China, said that the spirit of the Silk Road binds the two countries together with a common heritage and history. He also appreciated the success of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and said that the second phase of the project would even bring more benefits for both Pakistan

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and China.

The CPEC, launched in 2015, is a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking China’s resource-rich Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar Port on the Arabian Sea. “The CPEC has come a long way over the past five years. The CPEC is rapidly extending to new priority areas including industrial parks and livelihoods,” he said. The Chinese leader said that China and Pakistan were all-weather strategic partners. He recalled Pakistan’s support for China at “critical moments” and said that his country always sup-

ported Pakistan to achieve core interests.

He said that the CPEC was a manifestation of their collaborative relations.

Wang Qishan also referred to the international situation and said that despite challenges, the way forward is globalisation, free trade and people-to-people connectivity.

P a k i s t a n Fo r e i g n Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that the CPEC was a binding force between Pakistan and China.

Citing the recent visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to China for the Belt and Road Forum, he praised the CPEC for contributing to the progress of Pakistan.

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French far-right supporters celebrating early exit poll results at their campaign headquarters on Sunday. (EP)

of decline in voter numbers, rising to just under 51 per cent across the EU. Pro-EU parties are still expected to hold a majority of seats however, largely due to gains made by the liberal alliance of the Liberals and Democrats bloc, and particularly a decision taken by the party of French President Emmanuel Macron to join the group, the BBC said.

His Renaissance alliance was defeated by the far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen. In Ger many, both major centrist parties suffered. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats dropped from 35 per cent of the vote in 2014 to 28 per cent, while the centre-left Social Democratic Union fell from 27 per cent to 15.5 per cent.

The right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) performed worse than expected. It’s projected in exit polls to win 10.5 per cent.

In Hungary, Viktor Orban, whose anti-immigration Fidesz party claimed 52 per cent of the vote and 13 of the country’s 21 seats, was also a big winner.

Netanyahu slammed for plans to limit judicial power

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER WOKHA : NAGALAND No. Judl-47/2017-18/ Dated, Wokha the 22nd May 2019 NOTICE

Whereas, Smti. Rikhalo L. Ovung, wife of Late Shri. Chumchamo Humtsoe, a permanent resident of Wokha Town, has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to enable him to draw all dues and benefits/family pension from the Govt. and to close SBI AC No. 1176601272 in favour of her deceased husband Late Shri. Chumchamo Humtsoe who expired on 12/05/2019.

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

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Sd/- (ANDREW C. IMTI) Addl. Deputy Commissioner Wokha, Nagaland

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER WOKHA : NAGALAND No. JUDl-47/2017-18 Dated, Wokha the 22nd May 2019 NOTICE

Whereas, Smti. Mhonsali, wife of Late Shri Chonsuo Lotha, a permanent resident of Wokha Town, has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to enable her to draw all dues and benefits/family pension pertaining to PPO NO. NL/V/11025 and to close SBI AC No. 11766525914 in favour of her deceased husband Late Shri Chonsuo Lotha who expired on 9/04/2019.

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

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IN THE COURT OF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE/NOTARY PUBLIC DIMAPUR : NAGALAND DECLARATION

I, Shri Malaraj Mech, S/o. Lt. Jyotish Mech, resident of H/No. 15, Model Colony, Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows: 1. That, I am a bonafide Citizen of India and a resident of the above stated place.

2. That, Mr. Xavier Mech is my biological and legal son.

3. That, I have not signed any deed/loan agreement till date nor I have insisted my son, Xavier Mech to borrow money from anybody.

4. That, I made this declaration to declare that I shall not be held responsible for any cause of action if my son Xavier Mech borrow money or signed any deed/agreement in my name.

5. That, I made this declaration to declare that, the statements made in para 1 - 4 are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing is false and I signed this declaration on this 27th day of May, 2019 at Dimapur, Nagaland.

DECLARANT Solemnly affirmed before me by the declarant on this 27th day of May, 2019 at Dimapur Nagaland.

Registration No. 296A/2019 Judicial Magistrate/Notary Public Dated : 27-05-2019

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B ru s s e l s, M ay 2 7 (IANS): The big centreright and centre-left blocs in the European Parliament have lost their combined majority as voters turned out in record numbers to bolster radical alternatives, including the Greens and the far-right, in the European Parliamentary elections, according to media reports on Monday.

Pro-EU parties were still expected to be in a majority in the Sunday elections, but the traditional blocs would need to seek new alliances, the BBC reported.

The European Parliament helps shape the EU legislation. It’s made up of 751 members, called MEPs, directly elected by EU voters every five years. These MEPs represent the interests of citizens of the EU’s 28 member states.

The results will play a big part in who gets the key jobs in the EU institutions, including Jean-Claude Juncker’s replacement as the European Commission President.

The makeup of Parliament will be used by the 28 heads of state and government to guide their choice

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AFFIDAVIT

I, Smti. Alito, D/o Khunizhe, R/o. Chekiye Village, H/No. 34, Block No. 1, 3rd Mile, in the district of Dimapur : Nagaland do hereby solemnly declare as follows: 1. That, I am a bonafide Citizen of India and a resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That, my name has been entered as Alito in all my important documents whereas in my Savings Bank Account (SBI) Bearing No. 33378424493 it has been recorded as Alito Awomi.

3. That, the name Alito and Alito Awomi refer to same and one person.

4. That, this affidavit is made for the purpose of declaring that the name Alito shall be used as official and for all future correspondence.

VERIFICATION I hereby verify that the statements made in paras 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and that nothing material is concealed therein.

DEPONENT Solemnly Sworn Before me Notary Public Regd. No. 458/19 | Dated : 27-05-19 Dimapur : Nagaland

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IDCF campaigns to be launched in Mkg, Wka

DIMAPUR: District task force (DTF) meeting on IDCF and introduction of rotavirus vaccine was convened at ADC conference hall Mokokchung on May 27.

A press release from DPMU, CMO office stated that, Dr Ayangla Saku DPO (RCH UIP) gave a brief introductory about the programme, wherein she informed that IDCF campaign will commence from May 28 to June 8. It aims to create mass awareness about the most effective and low cost diarrhea treatment a combination of oral rehydration salt (ORS) solution and Zinc tablets.

She emphasized to attain zero child deaths due to diarrhea in the age group of 0 to 5 years.

During the fortnight, intensified community awareness campaign on hygiene and promotion of ORS and Zinc therapy will be conducted. ASHA workers would undertake distribution of ORS packets to household under 5 years in the village. Frontline workers will hold demonstration

Officials at the DTF meeting held on May 27 in Mokokchung.

of ORS preparation along with counselling on feeding during diarrhea, hygiene and sanitation.

She also informed about the introduction of rotavirus vaccine will be included in the routine immunization which will be launched in the state by

July 2019.

She urged the allied departments, NGOs and health workers to take active participation for the success of the programme.

Dr. Chubala Aier CMO in her brief speech welcomed and thanked the different departments, civil societies

for always supporting the Medical department.

T h e m e e t i n g wa s chaired by W. Manpai Phom ADC Mokokchung and attended by CMO, DPO (UIP&RCH), DVBO, representatives from Social Welfare, Education, DPRO, civil societies, medical offi-

cers and health workers.

Wokha IDCF: Wokha district will also observe the IDCF from May 28 to June 8. DC Wokha, Dr. Manazir Jeelani Samoon, chairman of IDCF urged all the stakeholders of the district to come forward and help the implementing agencies to reach the goal of zero death rate in the district. District immunization officer (DIO), Dr. Khalito said that the implementation agency has already targeted ten thousand children below five years of age to be administered ORS and zinc at households throughout the one hundred thirty seven (137) villages and thirty seven (37) colonies in the urban areas in the district.

ASHA workers will supervise the programme in the rural areas while the Anganwadi workers in the urban areas. Implementing agency has also identified 52 heath units, one district hospital, 12 CHCs, 12 PHCs and 37 sub-centres.

Agency will reach out to various educational institutions in the district.

Nagaland Dobashi Association (NDBA) during district tour to Zunheboto on May 20 along with DC Zunheboto, Shanavas C and DBs of Zunheboto. (NDBA general secretary, R. Kemerio Yanthan)

Missionary training concludes at FTC

DIMAPUR: One month missionary training course hosted by Faith Theological College (FTC), Ura Villa Colony, Dimapur which was started from April 24, concluded on May 25.

A press release from FTCT stated that, re-

source persons during the training were, former principal, DBC, Rev. Dr. Nuklu Longkumer; Director, Global Mission Asia, Rev. Khevihe Yetho; Deputy director, Referral Hospital, Dr. Viu Meru; Rev. Hyun Choi; Vice principal, FTC, Ju-

lie etc.

Trainees from Nagaland, Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Myanmar, attended the training, organized by MCM teams International, under the leadership of Rev. Hyun Choi.

Felicitation programmes for successful students DHS conducts VHND across six districts

The four toppers with cash awards each from SBI Kohima branch. (NP)

DIMAPUR: Regimental School DEF Wokha held a felicitation programme for the HSLC successful candidates on May 27.

According to DIPR report, additional SP & chairman School Managing Board, Regimental

School Imtimeren graced as special guest. Addressing at the programme, he congratulated the successful candidates and wished them the best for their future endeavour. He also encouraged the students to work hard to achieve their

Successful students at Jalukie town.

goals in life.

During the function cash incentives and certificates were given to the students’ on behalf of SP and all ranks and file of DEF, Wokha by the chairman.

Altogether 7 students’ qualified out of 9 appeared with an overall pass percentage of 78%.

RVSU: Rengmapani Village Students’ Union (RVSU) felicitation programme for successful HSLC and HSSLC candidates was held at Rengmapani village council hall on May 25.

A press release from vice president, RVSU, Michael Kath, stated that guest speaker, Yhunilo Thong, exhorted the successful students, wherein

he expounded that success was not permanent and that one should know how to use it the right way. He also spoke on how social media and internet hampered studies and encouraged the students to make the right use of it.

The programme was chaired by VP RVSU, Michael Kath, and invocation proposed by VP RVSU, Kepega Tep. NZU: Nzau Students Union (NZU) felicitation programme for successful students of HSLC and HSSLC examinations was held on May 25 at Jalukie town.

A press release from NSU president, Sanlak Namdau, stated that the programme was graced by Lily Khing Domta, who

PC & KVC programme on peace building

exhorted the students to be self reliant, disciplined and that one could achieve success only with determination.

Many leaders and elders also urged and motivated the students not to give up, set a goal in their mind and work hard every day.

SBI Kohima: State bank of India Kohima branch sponsored four NBSE toppers under social corporate responsibility with Rs. 25,000/- each namely to Wasgshitemjen Ozukum (HSLC), Imtijungla Pongen (Arts), Suhana Begum (Commerce) and Ananya Kumar Das (Science) during felicitation of rank holders held at Raj Bhavan Kohima on May 21. (NP)

Nurse and ASHAs with the community after conducting VHND at Lutsumi village, Agunato block.

DIMAPUR: The District Health Society (DHS) under CMO office Zunheboto conducted Village Health Nutrition Day (VHND) across six blocks in the district.

A press release from CMO office, Zunheboto, district media officer Shekho Sophie stated that VHND has been identified as an important tool to provide a unique platform at village level. This is being done to bring about convergence of health, nutrition and sanitation services at primary care level.

During VHND, package of services like registra-

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER WOKHA : NAGALAND No. Judl-47/2017-18/ / Dated, Wokha the 30th April 2019 NOTICE Whereas, Smti. Wolumi Kithan, wife of Late Shri. Yanbamo Kithan a permanent resident of Wokha Town, has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to enable her to draw all dues and benefits/family pension from the Govt. pertaining to PPO No. 111713368 and to close SBI No. 11766579889 in favour of her deceased husband Late Shri. Yanbamo Kithan who expired on 11/04/2019.

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

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Sd/- (ANDREW C. IMTI) Addl. Deputy Commissioner Wokha, Nagaland

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti Regional Office: SHILLONG Class VI JNVST 2019 Results

Members of KVC and Peace Channel along with others at the programme on May 25.

DIMAPUR: Peace Channel (PC) in collaboration with counsel of Kacharigaon organized a programme on “Ecumenical dialogue and peace building in Nagaland” at Kacharigaon (Pheyima) village panchayat hall on May 25.

A press release from Peace Channel stated that, Elizabeth Humtsoe, assistant professor City Law College, Dimapur, as the moderator explained

the meaning of “Ecumenical Dialogue” and to develop a closer relationship between the denominations. She also stated that, this programme was to equip ideas and thoughts from one another and to handle the conflict in the society.

Elizabeth also said that every individual has different good qualities and encouraged participants not to judge and discriminate others. She also focused on the shift

from micro identity to macro identity and exposing others on social media as another form of conflict.

There was discussion where participants shared their views on peace and reasons for conflict. After the discussion, an action plan was made where participants focused to penetrate the church, youth and women in smaller circles to focus on conflict management.

Earlier, Chumdemo

Odyuo, project coordinator, Peace Channel gave the welcome note, invocation by Ajanuo Rio youth director, PBC in the programme chaired by Livi Yepthomi from Oriental Theological Seminar y (OTS). Vote of thanks was delivered by Kacharigaon Village Council (KVC) chairman, Vitho Zau. This programme was participated by different community leaders from women, council, youth and students union.

NOTIFICATION

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test 2019 for admission to class VI for the session 2019-20 in JNVs was conducted in 6th April 2019. Select list of candidates is published.

Candidates can view their status of selection from the portal www.nvsadmissionclasssix. in byentering the Roll Number allotted for the selection test. The selected candidates can login using their Registration number and Password and submit their willingness for admission in the JNV concerned. The select list is provisional subject to submission of required documents as mentioned in the online application form.

Formats to submit the details to the JNV may be downloaded from the same portal.

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Principal JNV. Kohima

tion of pregnant women and vaccination for all eligible children especially focusing on drop out cases of pregnant women and children, growth monitoring and appropriate management of malnourished children, family planning services, and health education among others were provided.

VHND is organised once every month in the village. On the appointed

day, ASHAs, AWWs, and the stake holders mobilize the villagers, especially women and children to assemble.

ANM and other health personnel were present during VHND. Aghunato block conducted 27 VHNDs, Akuluto 15 VHNDs, Pughoboto 18 VHNDs, Satakha 30 VHNDs, Suruhoto 9 VHNDs and Zunheboto Sadar 30 VHNDs for the month of May 2019.

OFFICE OF THE

NAGALAND PEOPLE’S FRONT Kohima Division, Nagaland

GRATITUDE

The office of the NPF Kohima Division express our thanks and gratitude to all party ranks and files and all the voters/intellectuals who voted to rescue the Nagas of Nagaland from the doom of the days and years to the future generation. We are indebtedly grateful to all the voters during the just concluded Parliamentary Election 2019. Our special thanks goes to our Honourable MLAs Mr. Khriehu Liezietsu, Mr. Keneizhakho Nakhro who borned and upheld the party functionaries during the Parliamentary Election in favour of Mr. K.L. Chishi (INC Candidate) to prevent and rescue the Naga public in general from Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). No matter who wins or loses but the greater matters for the restoration of our rich tradition and practices handed down by our ancestors to protect our motherland. The velour of our rich tradition handed down to us is immemorial and shall not be compromised by the present civilized state as the Nagas are no longer living in a primitive life and shall not be undermined.

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KHUTSOKHUNO VILLAGE COUNCIL Phek District, Nagaland

APPRECIATION

The Khutsokhuno Village Council, Village Development Board and the entire people of Khustokhuno would like to thank the following persons for the extension of the Village Playground.

1. Vilelie Khamo, Class-I Contractor, for extending playground to a mini standard size on free of cost 2. Seyengoyi Venuh (Land Donor) 3. Shetsoyi Chizo (Land Donor) 4. The Lohe Clan, Khutsokhuno (Land Donor) 5. Siekuo Khamo (Supervisor) 6. Kamo Leno (Supervisor) 7. Drivers & Handymen of all Machineries 8. All Groups/Organizations & Individuals for helping throughout the extension work.

Though we are unable to mention all individually, but it is our prayer that God bless you all abundantly.

(Shetsoyi Chizo) VCC, Kutsokhuno

(Venehu Rhakho) VDB Secy. Khutsokhuno

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Toppers from Regimental School DEF Wokha.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019

Punjab Cong chief resigns after losing seat to Deol

Ready to be Cong leader in Lok Sabha: Tharoor

New Delhi, May 27 (IANS): Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said that he is ready to take the responsibility of the Leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha if party offers him the job.

“If offered, I am ready to be the Congress Lok Sabha leader,” Tharoor, elected for a third consecutive term as a MP from Thiruvananthapuram, told Tiranga TV on Monday.

He accepted the Congress’ main election theme -- ‘NYAY’ -- was not properly communicated among the electorate and criticized Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi’s “soft Hindutava” plank.

He, however, insisted that Rahul Gandhi should continue as the Congress President.

“The party could consider appointing a series of

Shashi Tharoor (File)

regional working presidents to assist him,” the former Union Minister said.

He said the Congress and other opposition parties must challenge the belief that the Hindutva concept of India, as essentially a Hindu country, has triumphed over the Nehruvian view of secularism that India is a country of multiple religions, castes, cultures and identities.

Tharoor, a former UN Under-Secretary General, has been representing Thiruvananthapuram since 2009.

OFFICE OF THE

PANGTI VILLAGE STUDENTS' UNION P. O. SUNGRO, VIA-DOYANG B. P. O. PANGTI Dist. Wokha : Nagaland.

FELICITATION

(ARHOMO A SHITIRI) President PVSU

(SHANJOTHUNG K JAMI) Info & Publicity Secy.

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With immense pride and honour, we the Pangti Village Students Union would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to all the successful candidates in the recently declared HSLC & HSSLC Examination 2019.

The Union future wishes them success in their future endeavours.

INFORMATION

It is hereby informed that on the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5th, 2019, any School/ College/ NGO or any other organisation under Dimapur district, can collect saplings from the Central Nursery, Forest Colony, Dimapur and Observe the day by planting saplings and submit photographs of planting activity to the office of the undersigned.

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SUMI ALAKISH KIGHINIMI (Sumi Peace Prayer Cell) Ghathashi P.O. Pughoboto, District Zunheboto : Nagaland

INVITATION

The Sumi Alakishi Kighinimi, Nagaland for Christ Peace Prayer Cell, which has been praying to stop bloodshed and to bring permanent solution to the Naga-Indo peace in obedience to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is celebrating the 25th Years (Silver Jubilee) on the 3rd and 4th of June 2019, at Ghathashi under Zunheboto District, Nagaland under the Theme “Blessed are the peace makers” Mathew 5:9.

Therefore, we cordially invite representatives from all Naga Areas.

(Rev., Dr. Luhoyi Jakkha) Convener

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1. Three (3) representatives from every Tribal Hoho.

2. Three (3) representatives from every Tribal Church with executive secretaries.

3. Representative from all the National Workers.

4. Representative from all denomination.

5. You are informed to bring light bedding.

The main speakers are Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, Gen Secy.

NBCC and Rev. Hukügha Zhimo E.S. SBAK (NM) “Come one come all and receive the prayer blessing” (M. Samuel Kinimi ) Secretary

New Delhi, May 27 (PTI): The Prime Minister’s Office has no records of income tax refunds of former prime ministers, according to an RTI reply.

“Information in respect of former prime ministers is not available on records held by this office,” the PMO said in a reply to the RTI application filed

by PTI. It was asked to provide details of income tax refunds received by former prime ministers and their council of ministers.

To a query seeking details of income tax refunds of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it refused to share the information, saying it was exempted under the Right to Information Act. “The infor mation sought is personal in nature and is exempt from disclosure under Section 8 (1) (j) of the RTI Act,” the PMO said.

The Section bars “in-

formation which relates to personal information the disclosure of which has no relationship to any public activity or interest, or which would cause unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the individual unless the Central Public Information Officer or the State Public Information Officer or the appellate authority, as the case may be, is satisfied that the larger public interest justifies the disclosure of such information”.

However, the very Section further says “provided that the information which cannot be denied to the Parliament or a State Legislature shall not be denied to any person”.

Prime Minister Modi has got income tax refunds at least five times in the last 18 years, according to the online ‘refund status’ service provided by the Tax Information Network of the Income Tax Department, managed by NSDL

e-Governance Infrastructure Limited.

The refund status since the assessment year 2001-02 can be checked online on this platform with an individual’s PAN (Permanent Account Number), which has been sourced from the election affidavits filed by the political leaders for the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.

Besides, the refunds for assessment years 201516 and 2012-13 got “adjusted against outstanding demand” in case of Modi.

While the portal does not disclose the amount of the refund, it mentions the date of the refund or adjustment, the challan sequence number and the mode of payment (cheque or direct credit), among other details.

As per the ‘refund status’ records, Modi got his refund for the assessment year 2018-19 through ‘direct credit’ to his account on September 26, 2018.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath earns ‘fresh mandate’

B h o pa l , M a y 2 7 (IANS): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has earned a “fresh mandate” as the leader of the state’s ruling combine by playing the victim card.

He tossed up the question of government’s stability at the first meeting of the combined Legislature Party of Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and independent MLAs on Sunday.

This was the first meeting of the state’s ruling alliance partners since the Congress’ disastrous performance in the Lok Sabha elections and was attended by former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, former

Kamal Nath (File)

State Congress Committee chief Suresh Pachauri, state in-charge Deepak Bavaria and newly elected MP from Chhindwara Nakul Nath.

Kamal Nath referred to Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) barbs like the ‘minority government’ and ‘lameduck dispensation’ and said: “You elected me leader of

the Legislature Party, made me the Chief Minister, now you have to decide whether I should quit or stay on.”

The purpose was served as all the MLAs expressed trust in the Chief Minister and offered to prove their support through a floor test during the Assembly session. “We are also ready to be paraded before the Governor,” they said in unison.

While the non-Congress MLAs assured the Chief Minister that their support was unequivocal and his government would complete its full term, Congress legislators Arif Masood, Hardeep Singh Dung and Kunal Chaudhary asked him to accept the BJP’s floor

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test challenge.

Some Congress MLAs also did some plain speaking to drive home vital points.

Bisahulal Singh said: “More than 30 legislators in the ruling combine are from Scheduled Tribes and the government draws considerable strength from them.

Yet they were not given due attention in the Cabinetformation.”

Hardeep Singh Dung

said the bureaucrats do not respect the legislators. “They must be upbraided for this,” he added.

Some legislators also talked of the losses caused due to the induction of some BJP rebels in the Congress in Gwalior-Chambal areas.

The Chief Minister offered to hold a separate meeting to discuss the issues.

One of the ministers demanded investigations

in past scams. The other ministers also suggested that investigations into scams in the last 15 years should be expedited. The state government has already ordered investigations into the etender scandal, Makhanlal Journalism University irregularities and corruption during the Simhastha fair at Ujjain and recruitment and examination scams through Vyapam.

VACANCY

Required a dedicated teacher for a Higher Secondary School in an around 3rd Mile, Dimapur 1. B.A (Eco/ Socio) Hons.

Salary Rs. 7,000 - 10,000 as per experience 2. One Male Warden preferably a Theologian Salary Rs. 5,000 (Fooding and lodging free) Contact No.: 6009128670 / 9366583370

Regd. No. 55/222/2017-17/PPS-I

CONGRATULATION / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The undersigned members on behalf of all party workers of 3 Dimapur III AC with immense pleasure would like to extend a hearty congratulation to our newly elected Member of Parliament Shri Tokheho Yepthomi, Hon'ble MP, in the just concluded Parliamentary Election, 2019.

We also take the opportunity to express our heartfelt thanks and sincere regards to the Govt. of Nagaland under the Hon'ble Chief Ministership of Shri Neiphiu Rio, Hon'ble Deputy CM Shri Y. Patton, all his Esteem Hon'ble Council of Ministers, all Hon'ble Legislature/ MLAs who has extended their helping hand toward the success of our PDA/NDPP Candidature.

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We would like to express our profound gratitude to all value electorate of Nagaland who has extended their valuable votes in favour of PDA/NDPP Consensus candidate. We also express our gratitude to all Rank and File of All PDA Alliance Partner Parties, NDPP Central Office Bearers, All NDPP Region Workers, AC level Partymen, and not forgetting all village level party workers for their constant support and sympathy.

With the theme of our Motto "Facta Non Verba" Lets march together for all round development of the state.

Shri Silas Khongsai Shri P. Wati Walling Gen. Secretary, NDPP. President, NDPP. 3. Dimapur III AC 3. Dimapur III AC

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Mohan Bhagwat (File)

J AI P U R , M AY 2 7 (IANS): Days after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) scripted a resounding victory in the Lok Sabha elections, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said that “Ram ka kaam karna hai, Ram ka kaam ho kar hi rahega (Ram’s work needs to be done and Ram’s work will be done).”

Bhagwat made the comments during his visit to Udaipur on Sunday for a “mandir pran pratishtha” programme in Pratap Gaurav Kendra, where he was accompanied by spiritual leader Morari Bapu.

The programme was

first addressed by Morari Bapu.Speaking on the occasion, he said, “Since centuries this country has been chanting the name of lord Ram. Today the country is passing through such circumstances that we need to think of doing Ram’s work too. It makes me happy to see Ram’s name written on the youth’s hands.”

Soon after his address, Bhagwat said, “We should remember the message given by Morari Bapu.

Ram’s work needs to be done and Ram’s work will be done. Ram resides in our hearts. We all need to be active and move ahead to fulfil our goals.”

Bhagwat was on a four-day trip to Udaipur since Friday to attend the RSS-run ‘Sangh Shiksha Seva II’ training camp.

Soon after landing in Udaipur airport on Friday, Bhagwat told the media: “Aa gaayi hai sarkar wapas (The government is back).”

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best for me but I was unable to defend my seat. In such a scenario I cannot continue as state chief. I feet a moral responsibility to quit,” said Jakhar, who lost by over 77,000 votes.

The BJP-Akali Dal fielded 62-year-old Deol from Gurdaspur, the seat represented four times by yester year actor Vinod Khanna, who died in April 2017 due to cancer.

Jakhar, 65, won the October 2017 by-election with a margin of 1.92 lakh votes.

The by-election fol-

lowed Vinod Khanna’s death.

Veteran actor Dharmendra, who had campaigned and sought support for his actor-turned-politician son Deol, said he was a friend of Sunil Jakhar’s father, the late Balram Jakhar.

He said if he had known that his son was contesting against Sunil Jakhar, he would not have allowed his son to contest against him.

As a BJP candidate, Dharmendra refused to contest against Balram Jakhar from Churu in Rajasthan in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. He contested from Bikaner.

Dharmendra won from Bikaner while Congress candidate Balram Jakhar lost from Churu.

In 1991, Dharmendra campaigned for Balram Jakhar in Sikar. Dharmendra hails from Sahnewal town near Punjab’s industrial town Ludhiana.

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Chandigarh, May 27 (IANS): Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar, who lost the Lok Sabha election from Gurdaspur to BJP candidate and actor Sunny Deol, has sent his resignation from the post to party chief Rahul Gandhi.

In the resignation sent three days back, he took moral responsibility for losing his seat and the party’s not so outstanding performance in the Congress-ruled state.

The Congress has won eight of the 13 seats. The Akali Dal and the BJP won two seats each while the Aam Adami Party (AAP) won one seat.

In his letter, Jakhar said he was unable to retain his seat despite the best support by the Congress President, General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

“Everyone supported me fully and put in their

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NEW DELHI, MAY 27 (AGENCIES): Amid unease among top Congress leaders about Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi taking on the leaders for not doing enough during the Lok Sabha poll campaign and for furthering family interests over party’s, the Congress on Monday issued a statement urging the media to respect the sanctity of a closeddoor meeting and wait for the corrective future course of action.

“The Congress Working Committee is the highest decision-making body of the Indian National Congress. It is a democratic forum to exchange ideas, formulate policies and take corrective action. In this realm and context, members of the CWC expressed their views in the meeting dated May 25, 2019,” Congress media Chief Randeep Surjewala said.

He said the CWC looked at the reverses in the Lok Sabha elections as an opportunity for radical changes and a complete organisational overhaul, for which it authorised Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

“The Congress Party expects everyone, including the media, to respect the sanctity of a closeddoor meeting of the CWC.

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Various conjectures, speculations, insinuations, assumptions, gossip and rumour mongering in a section of the media is uncalled for and unwarranted,” Surjewala noted not denying any news in particular.

He said the CWC held a collective deliberation on the performance of the party, the challenges before it, as also the way ahead, instead of casting aspersions on the role or conduct of any specific individual.

“The gist of the deliberations was made public in the CWC resolution of May 25, 2019.

We would request everyone, including the media, to not fall into the trap of conjectures or speculations and await the calibrated efforts by the Congress party towards future course of action,” Surjewala said, after reports that Rahul Gandhi named veterans Ashok

Gehlot, Kamal Nath and P Chidambaram for putting sons before the party and Priyanka Vadra also giving a piece of her mind to seniors accusing them of not standing by her brother during the canvassing.

Rahul is said to have taunted Chidambaram and Nath who allegedly threatened to leave the party should their sons not get tickets. Gandhi took swipes at Gehlot for spending a week on his son’s campaign neglecting the rest of the state.

Veterans are learnt to have been hurt by these outrpourings which even became public. “It’s hurtful. After all Ashok Gehlot and Kamal Nath just led two states to victory. Let’s see,” said a party veteran.

Randeep Surjewala’s statement today is seen as an attempt to douse some fires within the Congress over the Gandhi siblings losing their cool.

M e a n w h i l e, t h e r e was no discussion at the CWC on Amethi which Rahul lost or on the many seats where Priyanka campaigned but party drew a blank.

Kamal Nath’s son Nakul was the only Congress MP who won in Madhya Pradesh, while Chidambaram’s son Karti won Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu.

LS poll results create vacancies in UP, first reshuffle likely soon

Lucknow, May 27 (PTI): The BJP’s massive win in Uttar Pradesh has paved the way for the first reshuffle of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s council of ministers as three ministers have won the Lok Sabha election creating vacancies in the state Cabinet.

Also, a vacancy was created after disgruntled minister and SBSP leader O P Rajbhar was sacked by the chief minister for his outburst against his senior NDA partner, the BJP. The ruling party is likely to reward its leaders for their hard work during the general election campaigning which resulted in it winning 62 seats, BJP sources said.

This would be the first cabinet reshuffle since Adityanath was sworn in as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in March 2017.

Adityanath had indicated during an interview to PTI that a cabinet reshuffling was very much on the cards and he was likely to take a decision soon.

“We will do it (Cabinet expansion). We will do everything as and when time comes. We will do everything in the interest of the state,” he had said.

“Mahendra Singh was the party’s in-charge in Assam, where the BJP had won nine out of 14 Lok Sabha seats. After the elections were over in Assam, he was assigned the task of

organising the roadshow of BJP chief Amit Shah in Amethi and Gorakhpur.

Both the roadshows were highly successful,” a senior UP BJP leader told PTI. Mahendra Singh is the minister of state (independent charge) for Rural Development and Overall Village Development.

Another leader of the BJP state unit said UP minister Swatantradev Singh was made in-charge of the crucial state of Madhya Pradesh, where the party bagged 28 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats.

“The task was indeed very challenging as the BJP had lost in the assembly elections to the Congress.

Hence, to boost the morale of the party workers and to ensure that a positive result for the party comes from that state was a tough task. His efforts paid rich dividends for the party, as Congress bigwigs such as Digvijay Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia had to taste defeat,” he said.

Swatantradev Singh is the minister of state (independent charge) for Transport and Protocol.

Four cabinet ministers in the UP government were in the poll fray. Of them, three won and one lost.

UP Cabinet Minister for Animal Husbandry, Minor Irrigation and Fisheries S P Singh Baghel registered a win from Agra by a margin of 2,11,546 votes.

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4-yr-old girl raped by school helpercum-conductor

Chandigarh, May 27 (PTI): A four-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a private school’s helpercum-conductor in Dhuri town in Punjab’s Sangrur district, triggering protests by residents against the school management and the local administration.

The incident took place on Saturday when the 27-year-old accused lured the girl when her mother had come to the school to attend a parentteacher meeting, police said Monday.

He was playing in a park with the girl and later took her to a room and raped her, they said.

After the parent-teacher meet, the girl’s mother took her home unaware of the incident.

The girl complained of pain in abdomen on Saturday evening and repeated it on Sunday, following which her parents took her to a hospital where doctors confirmed the child was sexually assaulted.

As the news spread, protests erupted in Dhuri and residents gathered outside the local police station, demanding that the accused be arrested and handed over to them for punishment.

Sangrur SSP Sandeep Kumar Garg said the accused was arrested on Sunday.

Smriti Irani got Rahul’s message ‘loud and clear’

A me t hi , M ay 2 7 (IANS): When BJP MP Smriti Irani lost no time in reaching Amethi to meet the family of a former village head who had been murdered, she gave a strong message that she would take care of her constituency.

Irani has defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi and when the latter conceded defeat, he asked Irani “to take care of Amethi with love”.

“I have got the message loud and clear. To the person who gave me the message, I would like to say that I have received the message,” she told report-

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ers during her visit here.

She reached Amethi within hours of learning about the killing and went straight to the home of the deceased

Surendra Singh, who had worked relentlessly for her victory, in Barauliya village.

She participated in his cremation and even carried the

Shocked by RJD rout, Lalu gives up meal at hospital

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Ranchi/Patna, May 27 (PTI): Stunned by the rout of his Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar and Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha election, Lalu Prasad gave up lunch for two days after the declaration of poll results on May 23.

Prasad had the meal on Sunday, May 26, after doctors, worried for his health, pleaded him that proper food intake was required for his medication to continue, Dr Umesh Prasad, head of the team looking after him, told PTI on Monday.

The RJD president is under treatment for blood pressure, sugar and kidney ailment at the Ranchi-based Rajendra Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences since December 2017 after he was sent to jail by a court, RIMS sources said.

The doctor said Prasad’s health parameters are normal.

The jovial RJD supremo, known for his earthy humours, apparently could not digest that his party drew a blank in its stronghold Bihar and also in the neighbouring Jharkhand.

This is the first instance after its inception in 1997, that the RJD could

not win a parliamentary seat in Bihar but it’s the second time in a row that it failed to open account in Jharkhand.

Heading the ‘mahagathbandhan’ in Bihar, the RJD had fought on 19 seats and shared Arrah constituency with CPI(ML); it got a drubbing at the hands of NDA on all the seats.

Prasad’s eldest daughter Misa Bharti was defeated for a second time by Union minister Ramkripal Yadav, her father’s former close associate, on Pataliputra constituency.

On Saran seat, held by the RJD president for several times in the past, Chandrika Rai, father-inlaw of his elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, tasted defeat at the hands of BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

Of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, only Kishanganj was won by Congress, a grand alliance ally.

This was the first occasion that RJD went into an election without its popular leader Lalu Prasad. His wife Rabri Devi and son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav could do little to perk party’s poll performance.

Even during the “Modi wave” of 2014, RJD had managed to win four Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. Later, in the Bihar election, Prasad’s party in alliance with JD(U) and Congress emerged as the single largest party with 80 MLAs. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar left the grand alliance in July 2017 and joined hands with BJP again.

bier on her shoulders.

She spoke to the family members of the deceased, and said that they were her responsibility and she would take care of them. She asked party workers to exercise restraint. “Surendra Singh was killed so that Amethi could be ‘terrorised, disintegrated and bow down’. But now development will reach every household of Amethi in the memory of Surendra Singh,” she said.

She further said that if needed, she would even approach the Supreme Court to ensure capital punishment for the killers of the former village head. Ten

persons have been detained by the police in connection with the murder that took place early on Sunday when Surendra Singh was sleeping outside his house.

Smriti Irani had won from Amethi with over 55,000 votes, defeating Rahul Gandhi, its three-time MP. She destroyed the Congress bastion and scored one of the biggest upset of these elections.

After scoring the victory, she had tweeted Dushyant Kumar’s famous lines, “Kaun kehta hai assman mein surrag nahin ho sakta” (who says you cannot achieve the impossible).

Rajiv Gauba may be next Cabinet Secretary

NEW DELHI, MAY 27 (PTI): Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba may be appointed as next Cabinet Secretary, replacing P K Sinha, whose four year tenure comes to an end on June 12, officials said Monday.

Chief Secretar y of Jammu and Kashmir, B V R Subrahmanyam, a 1987 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, seems to be the top contender for the post of union home secretary after Gauba.

Gauba, one of the senior most bureaucrats, had served in various capacities in central government as well as in Jharkhand and Bihar governments, is supposed to complete his two-year tenure as home secretary on August 31.

There is all likelihood that Gauba will be the next Cabinet Secretary, the top post in the country’s bureaucracy, an official privy to the development said.

If Gauba, a 1982 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer, is appointed as cabinet secretary, he will have a fixed two-year tenure, which can be extendable for further two years.

Incumbent Sinha was first appointed in 2015 for two years. He got an year extension of service in 2017 and again another year in 2018.

Both predecessors of Sinha -- Ajit Kumar Seth and K M Chandrasekhar -had also served the post for

Rajiv Gauba (File)

four years. Seth, who was appointed by the UPA dispensation in 2011 continued in the post till 2015 after the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014.

As per the government rules, no government servant shall be granted extension in service beyond the age of retirement of 60 years but as per rule FR 56, extension in public interest may be given “for a period not exceeding four years in the case of Cabinet Secretary”.

If Gauba’s name is cleared by the Appointment Committee of Cabinet in the new government after it assumes charge on May 30, he will first be appointed as Officer on Special Duty, some time in first week of June before taking over the charge from Sinha, another official said.

In the central government, Gauba had served as secretary in the ministry of urban development, additional secretary in the ministry of home affairs, joint secretary in the ministry of environment.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION NAGALAND : KOHIMA

NO.HED/SCHO-1/2016/

Kohima,dated, the 27th May 2019.

NOTIFICATION ON POST MATRIC SCHOLARSHIP TO ST STUDENTS With reference to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs letter No. 19012/04/2017-edu/sch (pt) dated 12th April 2019, the Scheme Implementing Agency of Post Matric Scholarship to ST students of Nagaland is hereby publishing the same for general information to the Institutions and the beneficiaries that: 1. All Schools/Colleges/Universities should have DISE/AISHE code, which is given

by Ministry of HRD. Students who take admissions in Schools/Colleges/Universities which do not have DISE/AISHE code will not be given Scholarship.

2. The bank account of the beneficiary should preferably be Aadhaar linked. If the beneficiary is minor and has joint bank account with parents, the name of the minor should come first.

Sd/Director Higher Education Nagaland : Kohima.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND STATE COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING NAGALAND: KOHIMA

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May, 2019

RESULT With reference to the advertisement NO. SCERT/ TC/VG/2009 (Pt)/ dated the 30th April, 2019, and the recommendations of the Interview Board, the following candidates are hereby declared selected to undergo the 9 month Diploma in School Counselling at SCERT, Nagaland, Kohima from June 2019 – February 2020.

GOVERNMENT TEACHERS : 4. Seyiekhrienuo Khruomo 5. Keneizenuo Sote 1. H. Ethel Konyak 6. Annie M. Lotha 2. Renzumew Yimchunger 7. Thejasenuo Ngukha 3. Adeno Patton 8. Vechilu Kezo 4. Sinlozu Nsü 9. Sedevikhonuo 5. Kevisanuo Sizhü 10. Meyievinuo Sakhrie 6. Tsuknungrenla 11. Yanbeni W. Lotha 7. Vizovonuo Lhoungu 12. Leena 8. Samlamngaule Zeliang 13. Tosovino Tase 9. Kevitsosieno Nisa 14. Adeno Odyuo 10. Avilie Sopfünuo 15. Ruokuobeinuo Kuotsu 11. Jochusinle Kent 16. L. Nyanbemo Ngullie 12. Krovielhoupe Koza 17. Jene 13. Yanchibeni Tsanglao 18. Sedenuo Mere 14. Teisovino 19. Ruokuozenuo Sote 15. Ingwanglie Mbungcha 20. Visakhonuo Vimerha 16. T. Hopongkiu 21. Mesevituo Terhujah 17. T. Yato Konyak 22. Vili Kesiyie 18. Nuvohu Puro 19. V. Shekali Achumi WAITING LIST: 20. Keneichü-o 1. Jacob P. Nokmei Keikung 21. M.S Birimong 2. Vilika Zhimomi 22. Hailey Wanth 3. Arenlila Jamir 23. Kusi M. Yitsuthu 4. Ruuzono Puzieu 5. Suponglila S PRIVATE CANDIDATES 6. Khumvila Stm 1. Mhalesinuo Tepa 7. Kenyusen Kent 2. Mhono Ngullie 3. Hinokali Note : 1. The selected candidates serving in the government schools are required to submit the Deputation order/No Objection Certificate from the Director, School Education, Nagaland; failing which, the admission will be summarily cancelled.

2. A sum of Rs. 1000/- (Rupees One Thousand) only will be collected as admission fee from each selected candidate.

3. Candidates are required to submit 3 (three) copies of their recent passport photograph at the time of admission.

4. Selected candidates are to take admission from 28th – 30th May 2019, failing which the seats will be given to the candidates in the waiting list.

5. Any selected candidate pursuing for any other academic course simultaneously, his/ her admissions will be summarily rejected.

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N. Korea calls US NSA Bolton ‘war maniac’

L o n d o n , M ay 2 7 (Agencies): US President Donald Trump has backed a possible face-toface meeting between the leaders of Japan and North Korea.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Mr Trump pledged “full support” to the proposed meeting, in which he wants to have “frank” talks about North Korea’s nuclear policy and Japanese abductees.

The US president said he expected “good things” to come from North Korea.

Trump, who is on a four-day visit to Japan, earlier became the first foreign leader to meet Emperor Naruhito.

In their meeting on Monday at the Akasaka Palace - a state guest house - Trump and Abe discussed issues ranging from trade to foreign relations.

The Japanese prime minister said the two leaders were on the same page with ambitions to see North Korea denuclearised, but they appeared to disagree over the short-range missile tests conducted earlier this month. Abe, who sees the missile tests in nearby North Korea as posing a threat to security in Japan, described them as being “of great regret”, while Mr Trump said he was not “personally

Abe (R) and Trump tackled the thorny subjects of trade and Iran in their meeting.

bothered”.

The US president also described North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a “very smart guy” and said he expected “a lot of good things” to come out of North Korea.

His remarks came after North Korea called US National Security Advisor John Bolton a “war maniac”.

As well as backing talks between Abe and Kim, the US president said he would work with Tokyo to bring home Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korean agents decades ago.

North Korea has admitted kidnapping 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 80s, and returned five to Japan in 2002. It maintains

the rest are dead - something Japan does not believe.

The Japanese citizens were abducted to train North Korean spies in the Japanese language and customs.

The decades-old issue is a painful chapter in relations between Pyongyang and Tokyo.

Abe said the abduction issue remained the “most important thing” for his government, adding that families of the abductees were “appreciative” that Mr Trump had met with them on Monday.

“Irrespective of my term in office I have to do everything I can for the resolution of this issue,” he said.

Attempts to mend trade

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz loses confidence vote

L o n d o n, M ay 2 7 (Agencies): Austria’s parliament has voted to remove Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his government from office in a special parliamentary session.

His previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), backed the motions brought by the opposition Social Democrats (SPÖ).

The FPÖ had become embroiled in a political scandal caused by a secret video, which ended the coalition. Austria’s president must now decide who will be chancellor.

This leader will head a caretaker government ahead of elections expected in September.

Kurz, head of the conservative Austrian People’s Party, is the first chancellor in post-war Austrian history to lose a confidence vote.

At 32, he is the world’s youngest state leader.

Sebastian Kurz (File)

The SPÖ brought forward the two no-confidence votes - one against Kurz and the other against the government.

While they control only 52 of the 183-seat lower house, the FPÖ who hold 51 seats - agreed to back the motions, which needed only a simple majority to pass.

The left-wing environmentalist JETZT party also voted to oust the chancellor and his government,

although the liberal NEOS party reportedly backed Kurz in a bid to avoid instability.

Kurz’s surprise strong showing in Sunday’s European Union elections - with a projected 35% of the vote - was not enough to save him.

O n Fa c e b o o k h e accused the parties of a “game of revenge” ahead of the confidence votes, adding: “But at the end of the day the people will decide, namely in September.”

The parties ranged against Mr Kurz appeared to believe he should shoulder some of the blame for the fall of the coalition.

The Social Democrats say he should never have allied himself with the FPÖ in the first place. The FPÖ is still smarting from having had Kurz replace all of its ministers with technocrats.

disagreements were also central to the discussions between the two leaders.

Ties with the US are of great strategic importance to Japan, and the countries are currently working on a bilateral trade agreement.

Trump described the US’s trade imbalance with Japan as “unbelievably large” but said he hoped to announce a deal very soon.

“They are brilliant business people, brilliant negotiators and have put us in a tough spot but I think we will have a deal with Japan,” he said.

Trump also highlighted US relations with Iran, noting that Mr Abe was close to the leader of the Middle Eastern country.

Rohingya killings: Myanmar frees jailed soldiers Naypyitaw, May 27 (IANS): Myanmar has granted an early release to seven soldiers, jailed for killing 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown. The soldiers were sentenced in 2018 to 10 years in prison for the Inn Din village killings, but they “are no longer detained”, prison officials were cited as saying by the BBC. These soldiers were the only people convicted for the 2017 crackdown on Rohingya in Rakhine state. More than 700,000 people fled the country due to the military operation. A spokesperson for the Prison Department told reporters the seven soldiers convicted over the Inn Din executions were “no longer detained in our prisons,” without giving further details. On the other hand, the journalists -- Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo -who exposed the massacre were sentenced to seven years in prison.

Kabul, May 27 (Agencies): A roadside bombing claimed by the Taliban killed 10 Afghan soldiers in the country’s west while insurgent attacks on security checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed four policemen, local officials said Monday.

According to AP, the soldiers were driving back to base after picking up their salaries in the country’s western Farah province.

They were travelling in a Humvee when the explosion took place on Sunday afternoon in the Bala Buluk district, said Shah Mahmmod Nahimi, a provincial councilman.

“The blast was so intense that no one in the Humvee survived,” he added.

Elsewhere, the Taliban targeted several checkpoints in northern Sari Pul province on Sunday night, killing four members of the security forces and wounding 22, said Zabiullah Amani, the provincial governor’s spokesman.

The attacks took place on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Sari Pul and triggered gunbattles that lasted for hours, he said, adding that 15 Taliban fighters were also killed.

This handout picture taken on May 20, 2018 and released on June 12, 2018 by Damian Benegas shows discarded climbing equipment and rubbish scattered around Camp 4 of Mount Everest. (Damian Benegas/AFP)

Kathmandu, May 27 (IANS): The Nepalese government on Monday concluded its clean-up drive of the Mount Everest and said it had collected nearly 11 tonnes of trash that had piled up on the peak for decades.

The clean-up initiative, the first of its kind since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa conquered the summit 66 years ago, was launched in mid-April and involved an elite team of 12 high-altitude Sherpa climbers who spent over a K

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“Along with the rubbish, they also collected four dead bodies from the high camps of Mount Everest that were brought to Kathmandu last week,” Dandu Raj Ghimire, the Director-General of Nepal’s Tourism Department, told Efe news.

According to Ghimire, the clean-up campaign cost nearly 23 million rupees (some $207,000). He added that China had also launched a similar drive to clean the north side of the

world’s highest mountain.

“There are big environmental concerns and criticism from the international community that Nepal has not shown seriousness to maintain the beauty of the iconic peak,” he added, while vowing that the government would continue to clear the human residues left on Mount Everest.

Ang Dorje Sherpa, the Chairman of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), said around seven tonnes of waste had been collected

Seoul, May 27 (IANS): North Korea sharply criticized US National Security Advisor John Bolton on Monday, calling him a “war maniac” and a “security destruction advisor” as he accused Pyongyang of violating UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions following the Asian country’s tests of short-range missiles.

A spokesperson for the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement: “When it comes to UNSC resolutions, as we have declared repeatedly before, they are an outrageous total denial of our right to survival and development. Never once have we acknowledged them or been confined by them.

“Bolton said our regular military drills violated UNSC resolutions, which is beyond stupid.”

In the statement released by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA,

the spokesman called Bolton a “defective human product” after the latter told reporters on Saturday that there was “no doubt” that the missile tests carried out on May 4 and 9 were in violation of UNSC resolutions.

“It is no coincidence that there are criticisms of Bolton as a war maniac whispering war into the ears of the President although he avoided military service saying he did not want to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy.

“Such a defective human product must go away as soon as possible,” the North Korean spokesman was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.

Until now, both South Korea and the US have downplayed the launches, which were supervised by

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The family of Late Longrizüngla, wife of Late Tsüngbangshiba of Khensa Village, who passed away at the ripe age of 101 years on 15th May 2019, would like to extend our deep appreciation and heartfelt thanks to all well wishers for your love and sympathy during our sad loss.

Your presence and prayer has enabled us to see through this dark hour of losing a dear one who was so close to our hearts.

As it would be impossible to thank individually, please accept this acknowledgement as the expression of our deepest gratitude for your benevolent act.

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Loving Sons, Daughters, In-laws & Grandchildren

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY of Our Beloved Father

Lt. Tiatemjen (Mekuli)

Born on : 7th May 1967 – Died on : 22nd May 2019 We, the bereaved family members of Lt. Sharat Nath would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, friends, relatives, churches, various organisations and well wishers, who stood by us through prayer, financial support and physical presence during the prolonged illness and his sad demise on 22nd May 2019.

We would like to convey our special thanks to: 1. Doctors and Nurses of GNRC Guwahati Hospital, 6th Mile.

2. Shilpgram Khanapara Office Staff Ghy. 3. Former Director of NEZCC. 4. Present Director of NEZCC. 5. NEZCC Staff of Dimapur.

6. Boro Kachari Baptist Church, Naharbari, Dimapur.

7. Pillai Stationary.

8. Popular Bakery, Dimapur.

9. K.B.C Purana Bazaar.

Though we are unable to thank each and everyone individually but it is our earnest prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving wife, children and family members

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die we belong to the Lord. (Romans 14:8)

11 tonnes of trash cleared from Mt. Everest

from the Everest Base Camp and the high camps.

The other four tonnes were removed from the villages of Lukla and Namche Bazar, both of which are considered the gateway to Everest.

Hundreds of foreign mountaineers spend thousands of dollars to conquer the peak every spring season, which normally begins in early April and lasts until May. As they go on the dangerous climb, they leave behind a trail of litter.

Various stakeholders, including the Tourism Ministry, the Nepali Army, the Nepal Mountaineering Association, the Nepal Tourism Board, the Sagarmatha National Park, the SPCC and the local government have joined hands for this clean-up campaign.

In recent times, Everest has often earned the moniker of the world’s highest garbage dump.

Several tonnes of old equipment, oxygen cylinders, rubbish and human waste litter the famous mountain.

The government collects more than $3.55 million per year in revenue by issuing permits for climbers, but little had been spent so far to keep the ecosystem clean.

US National Security Advisor John Bolton.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Pyongyang has maintained that the launches were part of its regular military exercises and avoided using the term “missiles” for the weapons. Expert analyses, however, point towards the projectiles that were launched being shortrange ballistic missiles.

“Our military exercises did not aim at anybody, nor did it put anybody in danger, but Bolton surely has a different mindset from ordinary people in insisting that they are a violation of the resolutions,” said the spokesman.

US President Donald Trump acknowledged in a press conference in Tokyo that members of his team in the White House believed that the ballistic missile tests by Pyongyang “could have been a violation” of UN resolutions, although he disagreed.

“Very importantly, there has been no nuclear testing for two years,” Trump said.

He added that he was in “no rush at all” to reach an agreement with North Korea and that the two sides had achieved much since they initiated bilateral contacts.

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“A year has passed since you left us to be with Our Heavenly Father yet you are deeply missed.

Man is mortal but the love for them is immortal.

Though you are not present here with us your sweet memory is engraved in our hearts forever.

God has you in His arms, we have you in our hearts.”

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

17/3/1933 – 23/5/2019 We the bereaved family members of Late Mariam Kinghen would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to one and all for the many expressions of sympathy and gestures shown to us during her brief illness and sad ultimate demise.

Words are inadequate to thank you all for your prayer support , financially, materially and physically but we pray that our Almighty God will bless you all more abundantly.

Conveying our Special thanks to :1. Rev. Pastor and church members of Bor Lingri Lotha Baptist Church.

2. Changpang Villagers Union Dimapur.

3. Changpang Eloi Okho Randan Khumshum Dimapur.

4. Changpang Mission Society.

5. Pastor and Church Members of Changpang Baptist Church, Changpang Village.

6. Rev. Pastor and Church members of Changpang Baptist Church, Changpang D- Khel.

7. Relatives, Friends and well-wishers from near and far.

8. Neighbours and friends from Borlingri.

9. Friends and well wishers from Changpang D Khel and Assam.

Loving husband, son, daughters, grandchildren, great grandchildren and relatives.

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Died on 22/05/2019 We the bereaved family of LATE MRS. TUONUO ZUMVÜ would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all individual, churches, organizations, neighbours, well wishers from far and near who stood by us financially, materially, physically and most of all through your prayer during our deepest time of sorrow at the sad demise of our most beloved mother.

We convey our special thanks to : 1. Urra Village CRC 15. Nachama CRC 2. Urra Village Council 16. Chiephobozou CRC 3. Urra Women Society 17. Bethesda CRC 18. Calvary Church, Tenyiphe 1 4. Kenei Self Help Group Urra 19. Bade Baptist Church, 5. Nagamese CRC Urra Dimapur 6. Bengali Group Urra 20. CCRC Women Society 7. Nouzhie Group Urra 21. ACRC Thenuko Krotho 8. Reverend, Pastors and all Dimapur the other Leaders 22. Chiecha Kudapfiiko Krotho 9. FCTTK 23. Apfiiko Krotho, Dimapur 10. FCCRYF 24. GHSS, Chiechama 11. Razhaphe CRC 25. PGT, Chiechama 12. Diezephe CRC 13. Khriezephe CRC 14. United Christian Church, Seluophe Although we are unable to thank everyone individually it is our earnest prayer that may our Heavenly Father bless each and every one of you abundantly.

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On his 4th Death Anniversary

28/05/2015 We can no longer see you with our eyes, touch you with our hands but we will feel you in our hearts forever in silent tears.

Remembering & missing you.

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Two Fingers Band releases debut single Roman army camp uncovered in Scotland

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The song talks about the journey of a person from the shackles of bondage to freedom through grace. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Kevi Pucho at Element Indie Records, Dimapur.

Although new in the music circuit as a band, they have been active in different shows and competitions. They are all mu-

sic teachers at LFHSS, Dimapur and the finalist of NSACS 2018, Kohima and also the 1st Runners up at the Mini Hornbill Contest at Wokha wherein they brought home the best drummer and best bassists awards.

The band cites Planet Shakers, Imagine Dragons, and Kings of Leone as their influence.

been strategically located just a day’s march from other Roman camps in the region. Evenly distributed fire pits at the site are thought t o h ave b e e n used f o r baking bread.

“The location of the oven was recognized by the scorching of the subsoil base, stone slabs, and burnt clay fragments, some with wood imprints and with dome molding,” Arabaolaza said.

Much of the camp has been destroyed by construction and landscaping projects over the years, she added.

(The Herald)

Students of Modern Institute of Teacher Education (MITE) organized a theatrical evening under the theme “A fairy tale evening” as part of enhancing professional capacities (EPC) course. The event was curated by Cynthia Kolakhe and Ankur Deka. The evening showcased a choir piece and dance performance by the students of 2nd Semester. The highlight of the show was the theatre play entitled “Cinderella”. The evening also witnessed another enthralling theatrical comedy entitled “Welcome to the jungle”. (MITE principal, Dr. Devanand Sinha)

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wo Fingers Band, a four piece indiepop rock outfit from Dimapur formed on May 26, 2018 has released their debut single “Fatality To Grace” on Nagaland based music website www.indihut.com to commemorate the band’s one year anniversary. The song was written

by Abdon Mech, a singer/ songwriter from Dimapur.

vidence of a Roman army marching camp has been found at a construction site in southwest Scotland.

Archaeologist Iraia Arabaolaza said t h e camp m a y date to the first century A.D., and the victory of Agricola, the Roman governor of Britain, over an army of Caledonians in the Battle of Mons Grampius.

It had been previously thought that the Romans only travelled a route further to the east for the invasion.

This camp, Arabaolaza explained, would have

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Atalanta reach UCL for first time L o n d o n, M ay 2 7 (AFP): Atalanta won at Sassuolo on Sunday to secure their first ever UEFA Champions League spot and Inter Milan joined them while ensuring Empoli were relegated after a frantic second half in the San Siro. AC Milan ended up fifth despite winning at SPAL. Genoa and Fiorentina stayed in Serie A after a nerve-wracked goalless draw. The evening started with Inter, Atalanta, AC Milan and Roma battling for the two remaining Champions League spots and Empoli knowing that if they won they would survive. Because their ground is being redeveloped, Atalanta had to cede home advantage and play at Sassuolo where they quickly fell behind.

Duvan Zapata levelled before half-time. After Sassuolo lost their scorer Domenico Berardi, who received a red card for his part in the mass brawl that ended the first half, Atalanta comfortably sealed third as goals by Alejandro Gomez and Mario Pasalic completed a 3-1 win.

Milan took a two-goal

Atalanta players celebrate after scoring a goal against Sassuolo.

lead at SPAL, with goals

by Hakan Calhanoglu and Franck Kessie, but Francesco Vicari and Mohamed Fares replied.

Meanwhile at the San Siro, after a goal-less first half, Inter brought on Keita Balde. The striker broke the deadlock with a solo goal six minutes later, earning a yellow card for ripping off his shirt in celebration.

The home team had a chance to increase their

Hamilton dedicates Monaco GP victory to hero Niki Lauda

Lo n d o n, M ay 2 7 (Agencies): Lewis Hamilton led from start to finish at the Monaco Grand Prix to win his fourth race of the season after an emotional week for the world of Formula 1.

The Mercedes driver dedicated the victory to his hero Niki Lauda, the threetime world champion who died aged 70 earlier this month.

“That was definitely the hardest race I’ve had but nonetheless I really was fighting with the spirit of Niki [Lauda],” said an emotional Hamilton after the race.

After recovering from a near-fatal accident to become one of motor racing’s greatest drivers, Lauda served as a non-executive chairman of MercedesBenz Grand Prix and was influential in bringing Hamilton to the team.

The Brit continued: “He’s been such an influence in our team and I

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know he will be looking down and taking his hat off.

“I was trying to stay focused and make him proud that’s been the goal all week and we truly miss him.”

The Formula 1 world paid tribute to Lauda ahead of the race, wearing red caps with the Austrian’s name.

It was yet another dramatic afternoon on the track in the principality, where drivers hurtle around the winding streets of Monaco.

lead when Mauro Icardi tumbled over Empoli goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski. After a delay for video review, Icardi missed the penalty.

A few minutes later in Ferrara, Kessie rolled in a penalty to put AC Milan back in the lead against SPAL. They held on to win 3-2.

Back at the San Siro, Salih Ucan’s low cross from the right reached

Hamed Traore unmarked in front of goal and he levelled to lift Empoli out of the relegation places and push Inter out of the top four.

Five minutes later, Radja Nainggolan changed that when he pounced on a rebound to put Inter ahead.

In a frantic finish, Empoli came close several times with Inter centreback Stefan de Vrij deflect-

ing one shot onto his own bar. In added time, with Dragowski in the Empoli attack, Inter rolled the ball into the empty net, but Balde had pulled Dragowski back in the build-up.

The goal was disallowed and Balde earned a second yellow card.

Yet the 2-1 win was enough to save Inter and doom Empoli.

The wins of the three teams above them meant Roma finished sixth despite beating visiting Parma 2-1. They also bid farewell to captain and local hero Daniele De Rossi who came off to rapturous applause with nine minutes to play.

Earlier on Sunday, Massimiliano Allegri ended his Juventus career in disappointing fashion as the champions were undone by two late strikes at Sampdoria to finish the Serie A season with a fivematch winless streak.

Despite a poor final few weeks they still finished 11 points ahead of second-placed Napoli, who ended their underwhelming campaign beaten 3-2 at Bologna on Saturday.

PIL challenges auctioning of players in IPL New Delhi, May 27 (IANS): A Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Delhi High Court on Monday alleging that auctioning of players in the IPL is illegal and should be stopped.

A d iv i s i o n b e n c h headed by Chief Justice Rajendra Menon said the plea will be heard on July 26. The PIL was filed by a social activist Sudhir Sharma who has alleged that bidding of players in Indian Premier League is violation of constitutional and statutory rights.

In his plea, Sharma has sought direction to the government to look into the matter related to “international human auctioning”. Sharma said that such practice has promoted corruption and nepotism by selling of players through open bidding.

He said the government has remained a silent spectator to the illegal act.

He said that the government has failed to regulate, ban, stop and curb the menace of human bidding and selling through auctioning.

Rahi wins gold in Munich, seals Olympic quota

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M u n i c h , M ay 2 7 (IANS): India’s Rahi Sarnobat on Monday won the gold in 25m pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Munich. The 28-year-old in the process also sealed a quota place for India in the event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Rahi’s score of 37 helped her pip Ukraine’s Olena Kostevych, who was champion at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Bulgaria’s Anatoanea Boneva won the bronze.

Manu Bhaker, who was also competing in the final, finished fifth with a score of 21 following a pistol malfunction.

Rahi’s gold was India’s second of the day after Saurabh Chaudhary won the 10m air pistol event. 17-

year-old Chaudhary shot 246.3, thus pipping Russia’s Artem Chernousov who ended with a score of 243.8. Chaudhary’s compatriot Shahzar Rizvi finished fifth with a score of 177.6.

China’s 2008 Olympic gold medallist Wei Pang won the bronze with a score of 220.7.

Chaudhary and Rahi’s gold medals added to Apurvi Chandela’s victory in the 10m air rifle event which was held on Sunday.

Rahi won the first Olympic quota place that was available to the Indians in Munich with those in the pistol and rifle events already being won by Chandela, Chaudhary, Anjum Moudgil and Abhishek Verma.

Man Utd legends thrash Bayern in 1999 charity rematch

L o n d o n, M ay 2 7 (AFP): Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tormented Bayern Munich once again as the Manchester United manager scored in his club’s 1999 treble winners’ reunion on Sunday.

Twenty years after Solskjaer scored the last-gasp winner that helped Alex Ferguson’s side beat Bayern in the Champions League final, the current Manchester United boss joined his old team-mates for a charity match against the Germans at Old Trafford. Solskjaer again started on the bench as he did in the Camp Nou final, but he wasted little time after coming on for Andy Cole, turning home the opener after Dwight Yorke was denied.

With Alex Ferguson back in the dugout as manager for the day, there was

a feelgood factor in the air at Old Trafford for United’s 5-0 win after a troubled season for the current generation.

It was the first time Ferguson, 77, had managed a United team since his retirement in 2013.

He sat with ex-England boss Steve McClaren, his assistant 20 years ago.

The reunion match, in aid of the Manchester United Foundation, was also the first time Ferguson had been on the pitch since undergoing major surgery after suffering a brain haemorrhage last May. Rolling back the years, David Beckham was firing cross-field balls, Jaap Stam showed no mercy at the back and Paul Scholes bossed the midfield.

They faced a starstudded Bayern squad that

included Lothar Matthaus, Stefan Effenberg, Sammy Kuffour and Carsten Jancker from the 1999 starting lineup, as well as former Manchester City defender Martin Demichelis.

Solskjaer went off midway through the first half and skipper Peter Schmeichel followed suit shortly after Dwight Yorke scored a superb second for United Legends.

Thanks to their two late goals against Bayern, Manchester United remain the only English club to win a treble made up of the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in one season.

As the latest man charged with trying to engineer a return to those glory days he was such an integral part in, Solskjaer’s efforts were greeted with

Beckham took his goal well, dropping his shoulder so as to wrong-foot Daniel Van Buyten.

enthusiasm by a crowd in eclipsed by the one afforded excess of 60,000. to Beckham.

Popular as he is, the The former England reception for Solskjaer was skipper, 44, sold to Real

Madrid in 2003 after a fallout with Ferguson, got a standing ovation every time he went to take a corner.

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French Open: Nadal, Konta, Djokovic win Farah, Twell win London 10,000 titles

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L o n d o n, M ay 2 7 (Agencies): Defending champion Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic sailed into the second round of the French Open on Monday. While in women singles, British number one Johanna Konta earned her first victory in the French Open main draw with a straight-set win over Germany’s Antonia Lottner.

Nadal beat beat German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann in straight sets while Djokovic registered 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 win over Hubert Hurkacz.

According to BBC, the second seed, chasing a record-extending 12th Roland Garros title, beat the world number 180, 6-2 6-1 6-3.

A f t e r s av i n g f o u r break points in the first

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game, 17-time Grand Slam winner Nadal dominated throughout.

The 32-year-old won his first title since August at the Italian Open earlier in May. Nadal will face German qualifier Yannick Maden in the second round.

Despite dominating clay-court tournaments in the build-up to the French Open in previous years, the win in Rome was Nadal’s only 2019 final on the red dirt. But, after a slow start in the opening game, the Spaniard looked increasingly comfortable on his favourite surface as he claimed the first set.

Hanfmann won just one point in the first three games of the second, but recovered to hold his next

service game.

Nadal soon got another break to go 5-1 up, though, and quickly wrapped up the second set.

The German 27-year-old showed impressive composure as he saved two break points at 1-1 in the final set, but Nadal was successful on his third attempt.

The two-time Wimbledon champion increased the pressure at 5-3 to break Hanfmann’s serve again and close out the match.

Novak Djokovic sailed into the second round of the French Open as he defeated Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round on Monday.

World number one Djokovic was seen at his best and displayed his trademark attacking play

Manchester City rivals are ‘jealous,’ says chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan looks on during his club’s match against Liverpool in 2010.

L o n d o n, M ay 2 7 (Agencies): Manchester City dominated at home this season, winning the domestic treble -- the first English men’s team to do so.

In the process, it became the first club in 10 years to retain the English Premier League title.

However, success on the pitch has been marred by controversy off it -- including a UEFA investigation into allegations of unfair financial practices.

“With success, there is a certain level of jealousy, envy, whatever you call it.

That’s part of the game,” Mubarak said in his season review with the club website, denying any financial wrongdoing.

“When Manchester United dominated the Premier League for many years, they know what they had to deal with for so many years.

That’s part of the game. It’s not easy for our competition, we know that.”

Manager Pep Guardiola has produced a winning machine at the Etihad Stadium since joining in 2016, but Mubarak rejects suggestions the club has bought such success. Despite possessing some of the best players in the world, City does not have a single player in the top 10 most expensive signings.

“The reality is, we didn’t buy the most expensive player in the Premier League, we didn’t buy the most expensive goalkeeper, we didn’t buy the most expensive defender, we didn’t buy the most expensive midfielder, we didn’t buy the most expensive striker,” said Mubarak.

“Look at the facts, let’s talk about facts.”

Despite the club facing a possible ban from the Champions League, Mubarak is “comfortable” with the UEFA investigation, for now.

ended up going in Konta’s favour.

Both players settled down in the second, Konta earning the only break in what proved to be the match-winning game.

Konta took her first match point when Lottner could not return a thumping backhand, setting up a second-round match against American wildcard Lauren Davis.

The former Wimbledon semi-finalist is the first Briton through at Roland Garros, with men’s number one Kyle Edmund Novak Djokovic meeting France’s Jeremy Chardy later on Monday. in the first round match Compatriots Cameron that lasted for an hour Norrie and Dan Evans and 36 minutes on Court play their opening matches Philippe-Chatrier. on Tuesday.

As a result of this win, the Serbian record- Wozniacki knocked ed his 22nd consecutive out in first round Grand Slam win and this Former Australian is his 64th win at Roland Open champion CaroGarros. Djokovic looked line Wozniacki lost in the impressive throughout the French Open first round to match and he barely lost a Russian world number 68 point on serve and he had Veronika Kudermetova. to play against only two The Danish 13th seed break points. lost 0-6 6-3 6-3 on Philippe The 32-year-old fired Chatrier despite winning 23 aces and 13 unforced the opening seven games in errors and he controlled a row. Wozniacki won 62% the pace of the match with of the total points in the deep and accurate ground- opening set but crumbled strokes, leaving Hurkacz in the second and was brofar behind. ken three times.

Konta, seeded 26th, She fell 3-0 down in won 6-4 6-4 against the the decider as she lost a world number 147. first-round match in Paris A scrappy first set for only the third time since with seven breaks of serve 2007.

Lo n d o n, m ay 2 7 (Agencies): Late afternoon in Dallas and the Toyota Stadium in the city’s suburbs is all but empty. Dotted around an otherwise sweep of vacant red and blue seats are a few hundred fans.

In the lower bleachers, looking like the first specks of a pointillist

painting, some supporters are wearing plastic ponchos, protecting themselves from the drizzling rain on what is a chilly October Wednesday. Though they create sound, the cheers and the cries are largely swallowed up into the ether.

The majority of ticket-holders have yet to filter

into the 20,000-seat arena for that evening’s topbilled match between the US and Canadian national women’s teams. It means only the few experience the drama and the history unfolding on the pitch as Jamaica and Panama engage in a stomach-churning penalty shootout.

Deadlocked at 2-2

L o n d o n, M ay 2 7 (Agencies): Britain’s four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah won the Vitality London 10,000 for the seventh time as compatriot Steph Twell also retained her title.

Farah, 36, finished in 28 minutes 14 seconds as fellow Britons Andrew Butchart and Nick Goolab finished second and third respectively. Scotland’s Twell, 29, crossed the line in 31:55, ahead of Jess Piasecki and Verity Ockenden.

“I honestly thought this was my sixth [win],” Farah told BBC Sport.

“It’s even better when I heard it was my seventh

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one.”

European 5,000m bronze medallist Twell told BBC Sport: “I was a bit nervous because there is a great depth in British women’s running.

“I love running with the guys. I think that an equal run is a really good way to push yourself and push your body.

“This is the penultimate year before the Olympic year. You want to build as much foundation to give yourself the best chance of being selected.

“It’s a huge honour to become an Olympian but that’s not the finish line. The finish line is giving a really

good performance out in Tokyo.”

Daniel Sidbury and three-time Paralympic medallist Shelly Woods won the men’s and women’s wheelchair races, having both won their respective races in Sunday’s Westminster Mile. “I’m very surprised, but very pleased,” Sidbury told BBC Sport.

“I’m pleased with how both races went. I was more nervous for this 10k as I thought it would be more of a challenge.”

On Sunday, Twell and her husband Joe Morwood broke a world record for the fastest mile while holding hands.

Eng thrash Afghanistan in final WC warm-up

London, May 27 (Reuters): England cruised to a nine-wicket win over Afghanistan in their final World Cup warm-up at The Oval on Monday after a Jofra Archer-led bowling attack restricted the underdogs to 160.

Opener Jason Roy smashed an unbeaten 46ball 89, studded with 11 fours and four sixes, and Joe Root finished on 29 not out as England chased down the total with 32.3 overs to spare.

After defeat to Australia in their previous warm-up game, Roy was pleased with his team’s all-round display ahead of Thursday’s World Cup opener against South Africa at the same venue.

“I am feeling really good. I want the tournament to start now. It was a good preparation leading into Thursday (opening World Cup match,” Roy said.

“We want to be do-

ing this on Thursday and doing it throughout the whole tournament. The World Cup can’t come soon enough.”

After England captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and opted to field, Archer and Root’s part-time off-spin delivered three wickets apiece in bowlerfriendly conditions.

Barbados-born fast bowler Archer struck twice with the new ball, drawing a top edge from Hazratullah Zazai before wicketkeeper-batsman Rahmat Shah holed out to mid-on.

The wheels came off the Afghanistan innings when they lost four wickets in the space of just eight deliveries, with Hashmatullah Shahidi (19) and Najibullah Zadran (1) carelessly run out.

Captain Gulbadin Naib (14) was caught at long-on to Moeen Ali and Rashid Khan edged Root to slip for a golden duck.

Root claimed his third

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after 120 minutes, there was only one way to resolve the high-stakes third-place playoff which would determine which team would qualify for the Women’s World Cup in France. The winner, indeed, taking it all.

Jamaica had already been bold, bringing on McClure especially for the shootout. She and her teammates had practiced spot-kicks throughout the week. Was this shootout destiny or an example of how well prepared the squad was? Perhaps both.

Four penalties in and no one has yet missed.

Pulses quicken. Panama’s Lineth Cedeno steps up, directs her effort at an obliging height and McClure saves but there is no wild celebration from the team’s unflappable substitute goalkeeper. Instead, she calmly tells herself that she must save another. “The first save I felt something. I would say something within myself,” she recalls.

Supporters continue to filter into the stadium.

The majority of the Jamaican team look as if they’re on trampolines, bouncing on the halfway line in an attempt to contain the butterflies as Dominique Bond-Flasza prepares to take the penalty which could make history.

Walking towards the penalty spot, the PSV defender decides where to place her shot. To the right, towards the top corner.

Against the odds, after cuts in funding, after disbandment, after hearing naysayers opine that women couldn’t and shouldn’t play football, Jamaica’s women qualify for the Women’s World Cup for the first time in the country’s history.

The 22-year-old Bond-Flasza, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and Polish father, starts running towards her teammates before turning on her heels, switching direction to sprint towards McClure after noticing her goalkeeper is not among the yellow swarm racing towards her.

wicket as Aftab Alam chipped straight to point.

Mohammad Nabi offered some resistance with a 42-ball 44, which included three sixes, but he was the last man out when a thick edge off Archer found Jonny Bairstow at deep third-man.

Earlier in the day, England’s medical department delivered some positive news as seamer Mark Wood was declared fit to face South Africa.

The 29-year-old Durham bowler had left the field after feeling discomfort in his left foot against Australia but scans have shown no sign of injury.

BRIEF SCORES England 161/1 in 17.3 overs (Jason Roy 89*, Jonny Bairstow 39; Mohammad Nabi 1-34) beat Afghanistan 160 in 38.4 overs (Mohammad Nabi 44, Noor Ali Zadran 30; Jason Roy, right, and Jonny Bairstow celebrate Joe Root 3-22, Jofra Ar- during the Cricket World Cup warm up matchagainst cher 3-32) Afghanistan at the Oval in London, Monday. (AP/PTI)

Buffon eyes management role after retirement Lo n d o n, M ay 2 7 (Agencies): Buffon, a 2006 World Cup winner with Italy, arrived in Paris last July after making 656 appearances during a 17year stay at Juventus.

His current deal with French champion PSG runs until the end of the season and while no decision has been made on his future as of yet, Buffon says international management holds great appeal.

“I wouldn’t want to be the coach for a team, but I’d love to be the coach of a national team,” Buffon, Italy’s most capped player said.

“I’d love to meet other players, see other places in the world and I want to be known in other places, so the idea of becoming the coach of a national team, to live in another country, to learn another language, adapt to a new lifestyle and another way of thinking, would first and foremost help me improve as a person.”

Goa to host National Games in Oct; urges IOA to waive penalty Panaji, May 27 (PTI): Goa will host the 36th National Games in October this year and the state government has urged the Indian Olympics Association (IOA) to write off the Rs 10 crore penalty imposed on it for delaying the event, state sports minister Manohar Ajgaonkar said on Monday.

He assured that there would be no further delays in organising the National Games and said 10 stadiums were being refurbished to conduct the sports event.

“The entire infrastructure would be ready by July- August, so that the games can be held in October,” he said, adding that the existing facilities were being upgraded to the standards required for the event.

“We are trying to convince the IOA that imposing the fine may result in creating bitterness between the hosts (Goa) and the sports body (IOA),” the minister said, after chairing a meeting to discuss

the progress on developing infrastructure for the National Games 2019.

This was the first meeting held by Ajogankar, who is also Goa’s deputy chief minister, after the Election Commission lifted the model code of conduct enforced on March 10 for the Lok Sabha polls held recently.

“The games were not delayed purposely. There were several factors involved, including the poll code,” he said.

Goa was earlier supposed to host the 36th edition of the National Games in November last year.

However, it later set aside dates for it from March 30 to April 14, but then expressed its inability to host the event during that period owing to the general elections.

The IOA in April asked Goa to pay a penalty of Rs 10 crore for repeatedly postponing the National Games. It said the coastal state would not be allowed to organise the event till it pays the penalty.

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