May 29, 2018

Nagaland Post www.nagalandpost.com

Vol XXVIII No. 171

TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018 Pages 12 ` 5.00

US delegation in N Korea to prepare for summit: Trump

Barca my only club in Europe: Messi

Holistic strategy to find a long-term solution to fuel prices, says Pradhan

international, Page 9

sports, Page 11

business, Page 8

Over 70% caste votes in by-poll

Voting by and large peaceful in Nagaland

BALLOT MACHINE DAMAGED IN KUBZA PS; DC & ARO RECOMMENDS RE-POLL

Correspondent

KOHIMA, MAY 28 (NPN): By-election to Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha seat passed off peacefully on Monday with no major untoward incident being reported, except for a stray incident of violence in Mokokchung district.

Briefing media persons here at the Commissioner’s office conference hall in the evening, Commissioner Nagaland and Returning Officer, M. Patton said the polling ended by and large peacefully and the overall polling percentage was projected to be around 75%.

Patton further added that the exact figure of the percentage will be updated

by Monday midnight or by Tuesday. He said that the overall voter turnout was higher, which was above the state average this time.

Meanwhile, Patton said that the CEO had received few complaints and countercomplaints from political parties demanding re-poll in some polling stations.

Patton informed the media that around 1:30

New scheme for surrendered militants of NE GUWAHATI, MAY 28 (AGENCIES): In a bid to lure away “misguided youths” from the fold of the militant outfits, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has come out with a revised surrender cum rehabilitation scheme for North East with additional incentives.

However, to prevent misuse of the scheme, state level screening committees have been formed to examine the credentials of the militants before they become eligible for the benefits under the new scheme.

Special Director General of Assam Police (Special Branch) Pallab Bhattacharyya told The Assam Tribune that as per the new scheme, the militant who comes over ground for talks with the Government would get Rs 6,000 each as monthly stipend and an additional incentive if they deposit arms and ammunition depending on the weapon that they deposit.

Moreover, an amount of Rs four lakh would be kept in fixed deposit against each militant and they would get the money after the signing of the MoS.

p.m., a group of 70-80 people forcefully entered 13Kubza polling station under 26 Aonglenden constituency in Mokokchung district and damaged ballot unit (BU) and controlling unit (CU) of the electronic voting machine. However, the voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) was reported to be intact, he added.

Patton said seven persons were arrested by police in this connection.

He said that all necessary precautionary measures were taken and the situation was brought under control.

In this regard, Patton informed that the Mokokchung deputy commissioner (DC) and assistant returning officer (ARO) have recommended re-poll at Kubza polling station.

Informing that a complaint was also received against a vernacular newspaper for allegedly publishing an article without the approval of Media Certification & Monitoring Committee (MCMC), Patton said the matter has been forwarded to Dimapur police commissioner.

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was forwarded to Kohima DC and ARO. The commissioner assured that all the complaints would be carefully scrutinised on Tuesday, before forwarding them to ECI through CEO. He said re-poll, if any, will be held on May 30.

On Ladigarh polling station issue, Patton said ECI had allowed setting up of a polling booth at the makeshift police station adjacent to the polling station where polling was held. He said a team of Assam police reached the area around 9 a.m., but returned without obstructing the polling process.

To queries on proxy voting, he said he had not received any complaint in this regard till late in the evening.

Altogether, 11, 97, 436 electors-- 607589 male and 589847 female—were to exercise their franchise in 2196 polling stations across the state.

Scrutiny of records and polling parties will be held at the respecting election district headquarters at 11 am on Tuesday.

(L-R) Tokheho Yepthomi. C Apok Jamir. The damaged BU/CU in Kubza. 98 year old Dielepuü Metha of Chiechama village being assisted to the polling station to cast her vote.

Staff Reporter/Correspondents/DIPR stopped for around 40 min- tions, many polling stations Jaiswal confirmed the inci-

DIMAPUR/KOHIMA, MAY 28 (NPN): Polling in the keenly contested Lok Sabha by-elections in Nagaland was held peacefully.

Both the candidates-- Tokheho Yepthomi of PDA and C. Apok Jamir of NPF cast their vote in Dimapur and Mokokchung respectively.

Dimapur: Braving heavy downpour during the early hours, citizens of Dimapur turned out in large numbers to cast their franchise, registering around 72% approximately.

According to DC & DEO Dimapur, Sushil Kumar Patel, polling was

EC fights EVM allegations with ‘heat’ logic as 4 LS seats, 9 A/Cs go to polls N E W D E L H I , M AY 2 8 (IANS): Amid complaints of dysfunctional electronic voting machines (EVMs) in three parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the bypolls on Monday to four Lok Sabha and nine Assembly seats across India saw moderate to high turnout.

The Congress and some other opposition parties complained to the Election Commission (EC) about “hundreds of EVMs” having malfunctioned, particularly in Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana, but the poll panel said the news reports of “large scale” failure of EVMs were “an exaggerated projection of reality”.

It said that adequate number of reserve EVMs-VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) were kept and deployed in almost half hour where there were reports of non-functioning of the machines.

The poll panel said the malfunctioning could be attributed to “first-time use by polling staff, extreme heat, placement of the machine under direct sunlight and mishandling during use”.

In Kairana, where the BJP is locked in an intense fight with combined opposition including the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress, the polling percentage was 54.17 per cent till 6 p.m.

In the Noorpur Assembly segment of the state, the polling percentage was 61 till 6 p.m.

In Kairana, there were reports of firing in Bhura village and skirmishes between supporters of the oppositionsupported RLD candidate Tabassum Hasan and BJP’s Mriganka Singh, daughter of late Hukum Singh, whose death necessitated the bypoll.

Both the RLD and the BJP filed complaints alleging that

over 100 voting machines were malfunctioning.

In the national capital, a multi-party delegation including Congress leader R.P.N. Singh, Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav and RLD chief Ajit Singh met the EC officers and demanded a repoll in booths where there were reports of dysfunctional EVMs. In Maharashtra, about 40 per cent polling was estimated till 6 p.m. in the BhandaraGondiya Parliamentary constituency. In Palghar, the polling percentage was around 47 till 6 p.m.

Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel alleged that “nearly 25 per cent of all the EVMs in BhandaraGondiya were defective or had malfunctioned”. EC officer in-charge Abhimanyu Kale told the media that around 156 EVMs were replaced or spares deployed.

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utes at Polling Station 35 under Dimapur III, when a voter reportedly “mishandled” a ballot unit where the EVM had to be changed.

A total of 1,99,407 voters were eligible to exercise their franchise in the five Assembly constituencies as voting was conducted in 323 polling stations.

The voter turnout for Dimapur district was-- i. Dimapur I- 72 %; ii. Dimapur II- 64 %, iii. Dimapur III- 76 %, iv.

Ghaspani I- 69% and v. Ghaspani II- 80 %. There were no reports of any untoward incidents from anywhere.

Kohima: Unlike the previous parliamentary elec-

in Kohima wore a deserted look with very few voters turning up.

According to chief electoral office (CEO), the polling percentage was 23% in the first two hours of polling (till 9 am), which subsequently drastically increased to 68% by 3 p.m.

Mokokchung: The bypoll concluded peacefully in Mokokchung district, barring one incident at Kubza village under 26 Aonglenden constituency where some miscreants reportedly damaged EVM when voting was in progress.

Mokokchung DC and returning officer Sachin

dent and said some miscreants barged into the polling station and damaged the EVM. He said seven persons were arrested in this connection.

The issue of re-poll at the centre will be decided by ECI, he added. The DC has pegged the voting percentage in the district at 85%.

Kiphire: By-poll in Kiphire district passed off peacefully in all 111 polling stations and voting percentage was 88.24 %. Kiuro village polling station witnessed only 33 voters, reportedly the lowest turnout in the State.

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Correspondent

States can cut petrol price by `2.65/ litre by giving up additional gains

Diphu, May 28: Security forces on Sunday night apprehended the chairman of a militant outfit-- United People’s Revolutionary Front (UPRF) from Manja in East Karbi Anglong.

Based on a specific input, a unit of the Red Horns Division launched a search operation along with a police team. During the operation, the team arrested the suspected cadre from a house, along the Singhason hill track, around 35 kilometers from Diphu Sunday night.

Upon interrogation, it was found that the cadre was the chairman of the UPRF. According to Manja police sources, one .75 mm pistol, several live ammunitions, stamp and letterhead of the outfit was seized from the arrested person.

NEW DELHI, MAY 28 (PTI): States can cut petrol price by Rs 2.65 per litre and diesel by Rs 2 a litre if they decide to forego potential additional gains out of high crude oil rates, an SBI report said on Monday.

“Our analysis shows that at the current crude prices and extending our analysis to 19 states (overall consumption share is 93 per cent), the states could have gained at least an additional Rs 18,728 crore of revenue (in 2018-19),” said SBI’s Ecowrap report.

It further said that states earn an additional revenue of Rs 2,675 crore over and above the budget estimates for every $1/barrel increase in oil prices.

“Given that these revenue if foregone will not impact states fiscal position, we estimate that on an average, states can cut petrol prices

by Rs 2.65/litre and diesel by Rs 2/ litre, if the entire revenue gain was to be neutralised. This is the most plausible scenario under the current circumstances,” the report said.

It also said that one suggestion to

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further rationalise the petrol and diesel prices is to consider a pricing mechanism where VAT is imposed on base price only by states and not on prices inclusive of the Centre’s tax.

If this was the case, diesel prices could further reduce by Rs 3.75 a litre and petrol prices by Rs 5.75 per litre, it said.

“However, if this was to happen, the state will have to forego Rs 34,627 crore of tax revenue / 0.2 per cent of consolidated fiscal deficit of states,” said Ecowrap.

On the other hand, if the Centre cuts the excise by Re 1, the loss of revenue will be to the tune of Rs 10,725 crore for every Re 1 cut in central excise and the amount will become twice if it cuts the excise duty by Rs 2.

This will push up the deficit of Centre, unlike states, it added.

Petrol price has been hiked by Rs 3.64 a litre and diesel by Rs 3.24 in Delhi since state-owned oil firms ended a 19-day pre-Karnataka poll hiatus to resume daily price revision on May 14. The prices are at an alltime high.

Massive protests across Assam against Citizenship Bill Political parties cold to law panel

Guwahati, May 28 (PTI): Large-scale protests took place across Assam Monday against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 with a number groups burning the effigies (Full report on p-4) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, taking out processions and blocking rail and road traffic.

The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra Parishad burnt the effigies of Modi, Singh and Sonowal at Nalbari.

The members of the All Assam Sutia Students’ Union blocked the rail traffic at Sarupathar, prompting the police to detain a number of agitators, an official said.

“All these politicians talk Thousands of sloganabout is political power. shouting protestors, carryWhy aren’t they talking ing banners against the bill, about extortion and rising marched through towns prices?” across the state, before sub-

This is it!

He said BJP too lodged a complaint against NPF Mokokchung unit for allegedly publishing the article that sought votes on religious lines, adding the matter has been forwarded to SP Mokokchung with a copy marked to Dimapur police commissioner.

NPF had also lodged a complaint against NDPP and Meluri Council for allegedly obstructing its supporters to exercise their franchise in 10 polling stations. He said necessary instruction was directed to Phek DC and ARO in this regard.

Meanwhile, BJP has demanded re-poll in six polling stations under 20 Meluri Assembly constituency, alleging that NDPP supporters were not allowed to cast their vote.

Similarly, NPF has demanded re-poll in 38-polling station in Lerie colony of Kohima, alleging that its supporters were barred from exercising their franchise even after they produced relevant documents approved

by Election Commission of India (ECI).

Patton said the matter

mitting memoranda addressed to the prime minister to the respective district deputy commissioners.

The agitators shouted slogans refusing to take the “burden of foreigners” and criticized the BJP-led government in the state for supporting the Centre’s attempt to amend the bill, which they described as “a destroyer of ethnicity, culture and language of the local indigenous people of Assam”.

The All Assam Students’ Union chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya told reporters, “There is a continuous people’s movement against the bill. Organisations, individuals and various other forums have united as the proposed bill will cause a great damage to Assam’s political future and the survival of its indigenous people, their identity, culture and land.”

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Parishad, the All Boro Students’ Union, the All Assam Adivasi Students’ Union, the Missing Students’ Union, the Gorkha Students’ Union, the Sodou Assam Karmachari Parishad, former ULFA members, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, among others, joined the protests.

The All Assam Karbi Students’ Union, the All Assam Adivasi Students’ Union, the All Assam Tea Tribe Students’ Association and the All Assam Karmachari Parishad joined an AASU protest march in Tezpur. Socio-cultural, women’s and students’ organisations also took to the streets in Digboi on Monday demanding withdrawal of the Bill.

Meanwhile, a number of MLAs of the ruling BJP also opposed the bill and said allowing citizenship to Hindu Bangladeshis would pose a threat to the identity

of the Assamese people and affect the interest of the indigenous people of the state.

State Cultural Affairs Minister Naba Kumar Doley said the issue was related to people’s emotions and the government would not do anything to harm the interests of Assam.

“We cannot accept the Bangladeshis. I will not remain as an MLA if they are allowed to come in. We will force them to leave,” BJP MLA Binod Hazarika told a public meeting in his constituency, Chabua.

Bokajan MLA Numal Momin said the Assamese people could not become a minority community in their own state and that he would always work for the indigenous people of the state.

Other BJP MLAs, including Suren Phukan, Terash Gowalla, Jogen Mohan and Debananda Haza-

rika, said the chief minister would not do anything that would impact the interests of Assam and its people.

Lahowal’s BJP MLA Rituparna Baruah claimed that there was a “conspiracy” against Sonowal to destabilise his government, but did not elaborate.

Reacting to Baruah’s claim, state BJP chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass told reporters that he would seek a reply from the MLA to clarify about the “conspiracy”.

On the bill, he said, “Let us wait till June 30, when the final draft of the NRC will be published. We will make our stand public after that.”

Replying to a question, he said BJP allies AGP and BPF, who were opposed to the bill, would not part ways with the saffron party and the Sonowal government would complete its five-year term.

consultation on simultaneous polls

NEW DELHI, MAY 28 (PTI): None of the seven recognised national and 59 state parties have responded to the Law Commission’s consultation on the ‘working paper’ on holding simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls, a proposal being pushed by the government. May 8 was last date of submitting response.

Among the prominent people who responded to the document are V Narayanasamy in his capacity as Puducherry chief minister and former chief election commissioner H S Brahma.

BJP, Congress, CPI, CPI-M, Trinamool Congress, BSP and NCP are the national parties recognised by the Election Commission (EC). Highly-placed sources in the Commission said Narayanasamy was of the view that simultaneous polls cannot be held without

amending the Constitution.

He said any move to amend the Constitution to extend or reduce the term of the state assemblies would be against the federal structure.

Brahma has supported the idea of holding the two sets of elections together, the sources said.

Seeking to give shape to the government’s concept of ‘one nation, one election’, the Law Commission’s internal working paper has recommended holding of simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls in two phases beginning 2019. The second phase of simultaneous polls can take place in 2024, the document states. The document has proposed amending the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act to shorten or extend the terms of state legislative assemblies to effect the move.

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WDLSA, NSLSA organise induction trg

LLC members, teachers in charge, resource persons and others at the induction training in Wokha.

DIMAPUR: An induction training for teachers in charge and Legal Literacy Clubs (LLCs) was organized by Wokha District Legal Services Authority (WDLSA) on May 26, at LTC Hall Wokha.

A short speech was delivered by chief team metamorphosis Thungdemo Kyong and panel lawyer Meribemo spoke on effective methods to establish LLCs, superintendent observation home Wobenthung Patton spoke on constitutional values. Yansathung Kikon, Emilo Kithan and Yansathung Jungio shared their experiences on behalf of the LLC

Altogether 78 LLC members, teachers in charge of five schools -- GHSS Wokha, Springdale, CHMS, Little Angel’s School and Mt. Sinai School -- and Alex Tsopoe PLV, WDLSA attended the programme.

The programme was chaired by retainer lawyer, Gracy Ezung and later vote of thanks was delivered by panel lawyer Shanchobeni P Lotha.

Also, a one-day induction training for teachersin-charge and students of LLCs was organised on May 25 by Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) with Longleng District Legal Services Au-

thority (LDSA), Zunheboto District Legal Services Authority (ZDLSA) and Phek District Legal Services Authority (PDLSA).

A press release from NSLSA stated that the training expounded on topics such as effective methods to establish legal literacy clubs and to ensure its performance- attendance of club members and teachers, documentation/reporting and record keeping, role of teachers-in-charge, individual activities of the LLC and academic credit for the students for the activities done.

The release stated that for LLC in community

based engagement and its networking, the teachersin-charge and students were taught to identify the needs of the community, community involvement and building trust and networking.

The induction training was attended by 84 students and five teachers-in-charge from four schools in Longleng, 56 students and five teachers-in-charge from five schools in Phek and 49 students and five teachersin-charge from five schools in Zunheboto.

Certificates of participation were given by the NSLSA to all the participants present at the training.

Excise Mobile Squad seizes IMFL MTC Wokha conducts one-

day education seminar

The seized IMFL in Excise custody.

DIMAPUR: Excise mobile squad election expenditure monitoring team, while conducting raids in Dimapur on May 25 and 26, seized 611 bottles of assorted liquor, 530 litres of country liquor and apprehended two individuals.

In a press release, superintendent of excise,

mobile squad, Dimapur Katoho Sumi mentioned that later the seized items were destroyed on the spot and the bottled liquor was kept at the unit’s malkhana for future destruction.

The two apprehended were booked under relevant sections of the NLTP Act.

DIMAPUR: Department of Education, Mount Tiyi College (MTC) Wokha organized a “One day district level education seminar” under the theme “Community based educational practices and its development in Wokha district” on May 24 at seminar hall MTC. A press release from MTC Wokha education department stated that the resource person, associate professor, department of Education MTC, Sentimenla Jamir said that the first years of communitization in Nagaland showed community involvement, but slowly the enthusiasm was dwindling down and needed effective and strong participation to improve the educational system. Resource person, assistant professor, DIET Wokha, Dr. Yanthan emphasized on a research project which shows government schools to be actually performing better where community involvement was higher. He further elaborated on teaching methodologies that needed to be adopted inside the classroom to improve the student’s analytical thinking to create creative minds rather than convergent thinking. The programme was chaired by assistant professor, department of Education MTC Wokha, Azhanuo Peki, opening of the programme was addressed by principal MTC, Dr. Apeni Lotha, while vote of thanks was proposed by assistant professor, department of Education MTC Wokha, Veto Nakro.

WRSU mourns Yanrenthung’s demise

Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018

Polling pictures

DIMAPUR: Wozhuro Range Students Union (WRSU) has expressed deep grief over the sudden demise of Yanrenthung Patton, chairman Wozhuro Range Public Organisation.

A condolence message from WRSU president, Zademo Lotha and general secretary, Nchumthung described late Yanrenthung Patton as a capable leader who made valuable contributions in many ways to the society at large and the Wozhuro community in particular.

The union stated that it had lost a great visionary Chief minister of Nagaland, Neiphiü Rio after Deputy Speaker, Zhaleo Rio after casting leader and said his contri- casting his vote at Tuophema village. (Photo his vote at Khanakhurü (Jharnapani) on Monday. butions would be cherished Courtesy Sey Rio) in the days to come.

Wozhuro Range Students Union conveyed prayers for the bereaved family’s solace and further, prayers to Almighty God for the departed soul to rest in peace.

Career guidance session held for GHSS Dmu

DIMAPUR: A two-day career guidance session was held on IT sector & Digital Transformation with the students of Govt Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur on May 17 and 18, at NIIT Dimapur centre auditorium with computer instructor of the school, Kakishe Sumi.

Resource person of the programme, NIIT Dimapur center, head Daniel Changkiri, spoke about the importance of IT in today’s world explaining growth path and career opportunities in IT sector.

Another session on digital transformation was presented by NIIT tech mentor Lungdsuo Mozhui.

The students were encouraged in a speech by NIIT Dimapur centre MD, Ajay Sethi, while vote of thanks was delivered by NIIT placement executive, Mughato Sumi, who gave a video presentation on NIIT centres activities and programmes.

People stand in line to vote for the Lok Sabha by-election at Darogapathar village in Dimapur on May 28. (NP)

In Mon, the by-election to the lone lok sabha seat passed off peacefully.

Overall voter turnout was reported to be about 76 % till 3 p.m. (NP)

ATMA conducts various activities across state

Jakhama block

Longkhim Block

Sangsangyu block

Noklak block

DIMAPUR: Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) has been conducting a series of programmes involving demonstrations and other activities to enrich the life of farmers across the state.

Jakhama block: A programme for launching ‘Vi’ FSG was organized by ATMA, Jakhama block at Khuzama village on April 27. The group, constituting of 10 members of mostly middle-aged women, were explained the purpose of their group formation and the role it played in attaining food security.

Thereafter, a demonstration on wedge grafting of plum was shown by Zakieho Lüho, a seasoned grafter, who has been practicing the technique for the K

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past 70 years.

Hybrid maize seed (HQPM-5) was distributed among the farmers and also, hybrid maize cultivation, IPM of stem borer of maize and application of neem oil in agriculture were also demonstrated based on the need of the farmers and to instill in them an awareness of the various technologies available for profitable agriculture. Hybrid maize, HQPM-5, while rich in protein is also resistant to MLB disease and tolerant towards stem borer, thus, plays an important role in eco-friendly pest and disease management all the while contributing towards food security.

Altogether, 11 farmers and 3 ATMA functionaries participated in the pro-

gramme.

Longkhim Block: A two-day training and demonstration programme was conducted for farmers of Holongba and Old Sangsomong village, Longkhim block, Tuensang on April 27 and 28 respectively with Hopise, BTT convenor, chairing the programme.

According to a press release from ATM Longkhim Block, Moatemsu, in both the villages, major focus was put on improving the production technologies in horticultural crops: Ginger, King chilly and potato. Application of recent advances in the field was demonstrated by Watisenla Imsong, ATM and Odilemla, ATM Longkhim Block.

Farmer’s friend, Temsu Sangtam also gave trainings

on preparation of white, green and black tea. Sharing his own success story, he encouraged the famers that such organic produce were in huge demand in the market. During the programme, Kisan Ghosti on banana cultivation was demonstrated

by Moatemsu, ATM Longkhim Block. Two SGH’s namely Vili SHG (Holongba village) and Alongdi SHG (Old Sangsomong Village) were established to encourage the women folk to empower themselves.

Sangsang yu block: ATMA Tuensang Sangsangyu block conducted training and demonstration programmes at Buthenbuo and Khuthei villages from April 27 to 28, with ATMs Mayangthemba and Neilhouvo as the resource

persons.

ATM Mayangthemba demonstrated cultivation practices of ginger, potato and disease management of seasonal crops. The farmers were shown methods of seed treatment, land preparation, spacing, mulching and crop rotation. They were given practical training on application of Neem seed kernel extract and bordeaux mixture at the field. Training & demonstration on rearing of poultry and prevention of poultry diseases was given

by ATM Neilhouvo. Altogether 30 farmers attended the programme.

Noklak block: ATMA Tuensang, Noklak block conducted Kisan Ghosti on “packages and practices of large cardamom” at Kusong village on April 28, chaired

by BTM Jongkoi, while keynote address was delivered

by Vinoka Y Kiba, deputy project director ATMA Tuensang. The resource person Richa, HEA Tuensang stressed on the importance of selecting plantation sites where there were perennial sources of water. He also emphasized on the selection of variety -- according to the suitability and adoptability of the location. Preventive and precautionary measures for diseases control were taught to the farmers. Altogether 22 farmers attended the training programme.

For another training programme conducted at Nokyan B village on March 27, the resource persons included Richa HEA, M. Chingsang Phom ATM Noklak block. Altogether 21 farmers attended the training programme.

Voting in progress at Railway Colony, Dimapur. (NP)

All women polling team at Dilong Polling Station, Alonglenden Constituency, Mokokchung. (DIPR)

Voters line up to cast their votes at Government College Dimapur on May 28. (NP) K

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018

nagalandpost.com Poll Q . : Why is the Centre unwilling to reduce excise on fuel?

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WEATHER FORECAST May 29

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Max Min

Agartala An a.m. thunderstorm in spots 35 25

An a.m. thunderstorm in spots 29 19

Guwahati Some rain and a thunderstorm 34 22 Imphal

An a.m. thunderstorm in spots 28 20

Itanagar Some rain and a thunderstorm 31 20 Shillong

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Thunderstorm

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Dimapur An afternoon thunderstorm

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Clouds and sun, a t-storm

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Tuensang A heavy afternoon t-storm

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An a.m. thunderstorm in spots 26 20

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SET NU organises parting social DIMAPUR: School of Engineering and Technology (SET), Nagaland University organised its 8th Parting Social on May 19 at NU Residential Complex, Landmark Colony, Dimapur.

A press release by SET NU stated that speaking at the programme, dean of SET, professor S. K. Sharma, reminded the students that there was no shortcut towards success and that they have to take the stairs of hard-work.

He also wished all the outgoing students grand success in their future endeavours.

Er. Imlitoshi Jamir, in his address, said that teachers had given their best to make students competitive and wished for all the outgoing students to be best among the best.

The programme was hosted by Techie Letro and Visakhonuo Kuotsu while special speeches and songs were presented by students.

Rüzaphema BlockIII Students Union felicitates students

DIMAPUR: Rüzaphema Block-III Students Union celebrated its 3rd felicitation program for successful candidates of HSLC and HSSLC examinations, 2018 on Sunday.

Headmaster of Saint Francis School, Whezo, who exhorted the students, emphasized on how there was no substitute for hard work. Calling upon on the students to be honest, humble, disciplined, and God-fearing, he said that dreams cannot be realized through magic. He reminded them that what they do today will determine what they become in the future.

The programme started with an invocation by deacon Kelhoungusa, welcome address was delivered

by Bato, followed by a prayer for students.

According to the press release from Rüzaphema Block-III Students Union, the Union also encouraged the students to fully utilize their potential and set examples for younger students.

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Medical professionals attend to patients at the health camp.

DIMAPUR: Entrepreneurs Associates (EA) under its project of Uplifting Women Street Vendors, in partnership with Caring Friends and the K&T Keditsu Foundation, organized a health camp and a livelihood enhancement programme at Pfutsero Town for vegetable vendors as well as wholesalers of the town on May 26.

A press release from E A I / C c o m mu n i c a tions and editor katalys,

Neikule Doulo said that around a hundred women participated in the programme organized at Baptist Theological College auditorium. Free Cervical Cancer screenings were also made available for the women.

A team of three doctors comprising of a cancer surgeon, a gynaecologist and an orthopaedic with nine nurses and a pharmacist conducted the health camp that offered free Pap smear tests and

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medicine. come as savings. This is the second in a series of events conducted at Pfutsero Town for the women vendors.

Speaking to the women vendors at the inaugural session, prior to the health camp, doctors from the K&T Keditsu Foundation highlighted the need for women to take care of themselves and their health seriously.

Dr. Thejavinuo Keditsu spoke on the ‘Basics of Women Health’ while Dr. Keduovinuo Keditsu gave an “Introduction of Cervical Cancer”. The programme was chaired by Vechulou Kanuo, director of the Chakhesang Women Welfare Society (CWWS) who is the Pfutsero partner of EA for the project.

The health camp was followed by a session on “Livelihood Enhancement” led by the EA team.

Neikule Doulo spoke on the need for the women vendors to increase their sources of income by taking up other livelihood options alongside their vegetable vending.

EA’s Pfutsero branch manager, Cukhoyi Chiero spoke on the need for the women to plan financially for their future and stressed on the need for the women to put aside part of their in-

Nature conservation programmes held at Khudei and Buthembou

DIMAPUR: A program for nature conservation was jointly organized by the Tuensang Forest Division and Kiphire Wildlife Division of the Nagaland Forest Depar tment at Khudei and Buthembou villages.

A press release from Kiphire wildlife warden, Suman W M Sivachar, said the centrally sponsored programme witnessed the participation of officers from the forest department, chairman, members of the forest department, GBs, head GBs of village councils.

Dr. C. Zupeni Tsanglao, divisional forest officer, in her address, opined that due to increase in population and urbanization, the habitat for wildlife has been shrinking, thereby leading to increased reports of human and wildlife

conflict. She shared on the importance of wildlife and added there would be no life without wildlife. The provisions given to the forest officers under The Wildlife Protection Act 1972 were also discussed with the villagers. It was observed that many village council members were not aware of such existing laws. Dr C. Zupeni Tsanglao, attended both the meetings at Khudei and Buthembou villages.

Tu e n s a n g r a n ge r, Tsingthringse Sangtam, who also spoke on the occasion, emphasized on mitigation measures for human-animal conflict and how to manage any eventuality in the village.

The programs in both the villages were chaired by the chairman of each village council. The village council of both the

villages have assured the Forest Department of their full cooperation to reduce human-animal conflict in their villages.

CHS felicitates HSLC toppers DIMAPUR: Chumukedima Hindu Society (CHS) organised a felicitation programme for HSLC toppers under the theme “May you fly high in life and success be always with you” on May 27 at Hotel NL 7, second gate, Chumukedima town.

A press release from CHS general secretary, Prakash Chetri stated that speaking on the occasion, head GB Chumukedima town, Kelenguzo Kuotsu, appreciated and acknowledged the organisers. He advised the students not to forget the sacrifices made by their parents and teachers and urged them to continue to work hard to bring good results and make the people of Chumukedima proud.

CHS general secretary, Prakash Chetri, who was also the convenor of the

felicitation programme acknowledged the hard work and success of the students.

He said that passing exams with good percentages was not the only education -- what mattered the most was how it was applied in one’s real life.

One of the toppers Yangerjungla Pongener from St. Joseph Hr. Sec. School stated that she was overwhelmed, honoured and touched over receiving the award. She credited her achievements to her parents and the school.

CHS joint treasurer, Sujoy Dey, also spoke at the programme. The programme was chaired by CHS assistant cultural secretary, Papiya Chakraborty, while a welcome address was delivered by CHS cultural secretary, B.B. Sewa.

Marian procession held at CKC

DIMAPUR: The Annual Marian procession of Christ King Church (CKC), Kohima village was held on May 27, wherein a large number of Marian devotees, Catholics in general as well as members of various associations, gathered at Don Bosco College, Kohima.

A press release from Ketsuse Belho stated that the service began with a song devoted to blessed virgin Mary, and reflection of the devoted to Her was given by vice rector Don Bosco Kohima, Fr. Alex. This was followed by blessing of the decorated statue of Mary

by Christ King Parish Kohima Parish priest, Dr. Fr. Peter Salew.

The faithful started the Marian procession from Don Bosco College, Kohima and went up to Christ King Church Kohima, praying and singing praises.

The procession concluded with a Eucharistic adoration service at Christ King Church Kohima.

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Ampati (Shillong), May 28: Nearly 91 per cent of the total 28,699 electorate cast their votes Monday as polling for the by-election to Ampati assembly election in Meghalaya ended.

Polling began at 7 a.m. in all the 39 polling booths amidst heavy security.

Voters came out in high spirits to elect their new leader.

“90.42 per cent of the electorates voted in the Ampati by-election. The percentage is likely to increase once all the tabulation is completed” Chief Electoral Officer, Frederick Roy Kharkongor said.

He said the voting passed off peacefully with no report of any poll-related incident.

The run up to the polls saw unprecedented allegations against both parties – with Ampati becoming the battleground to one of the most interesting elections in the recent past in Garo Hills. Many sections also saw violence between the two parties.

Only one of the VVPAT machines malfunctioned in a polling station which was replaced immediately.

Thakuranbari and Jelbongpara with 96 percent each stood out amongst the polling stations with the highest polling %. Others, such as Godalgre 92%, Rangsa Abanggre 92%, Chodonpara 93%, Kongpara 85%, Joyfur 85%, also witnessed record turnouts among voters eager to exercise their franchise.

The by-election was necessitated after Leader of Opposition and former Chief Minister Mukul M. Sangma vacated the seat while retaining the Songsak assembly seat.

Mukul’s eldest daughter Miani D. Shira is confident she will retain the Ampati seat for the Congress.

Her main rival is Clement G. Momin of the ruling National People’s Party, who is supported by the BJP and regional parties.

Subhankar Koch is also contesting the by-election as an Independent.

The by-poll holds big significance for the Congress to stake claim to form

government following Karnataka. The Congress had staked claim to form government in Manipur, Goa and Meghalaya.

The Congress and the NPP have 20 members each In the 60-members Meghalaya Assembly.

The ruling NPP is supported by United Democratic Party, People’s Democratic Front, Hill State People’s Democratic Party, Bharatiya Janata Party, Nationalist Congress Party besides two Independents.

Meanwhile, Congress candidate Shira today filed another complaint with the returning officer, Dikki D Shira complaining of distribution of money, assault on her party workers as well as the presence of the CM, Conrad Sangma in Ampati, allegedly violating the poll code of conduct that is in effect at the constituency.

Miani complained that Nipen Koch, MDC of Kumiligaon and Prema Koch (BJP member) were distributing money to villagers at Samatigaon and were moving towards Murikati and Bandrakona. She also complained that there were

a lot of people in the house of Nipen Koch. Nipen was a Congress member recently defecting to NPP in GHADC. Miani further alleged that the CM, Conrad Sangma was seen passing through right in front of her house in Chengkompara, all the while avoiding the cameras that were placed around Ampati. “ T h e c o nvo y h a d around 30 vehicles and were moving through town though ensuring they did not come in the various CCTVs placed,” said Miani.

However, election officials could not locate the CM in any of the places mentioned by Miani.

The Congress candidate also complained of sporadic violence by NPP members who she alleged were trespassing, shouting slogans and threatening people of Ampati.

“They have created a mockery of the model code of conduct. I am still writing this complaint in the hope that law shall prevail.

I would like to request for necessary action on the matter,” she added.

Itanagar, May 28 (PTI): Mountaineers Kishon Tekseng and Taka Tamut from Arunachal Pradesh have achieved the rare feat of scaling Mt Everest without any sherpas, a senior state government official said Monday.

Tekseng, from Yingkiong in Upper Siang district and Tamut, who hails from Jomlo Mongku in Siang district scaled the world’s highest peak on May 24, ten days after Muri Linggi of Roing who became the seventh Arunachalee to achieve the feat, state sports and youth affairs joint director Ramesh Lingi said.

Tekseng and Tamut reached the peak at 9 am of May 24 and unfurled the national tricolor atop it after a gruelling 13-hour non-stop climb from camp four (south column) known as Death Zone without any support staff, Lingi said.

“Both the climbers have inked a new record with this heroic climbing of the Mt Everest. They did not use supplementary oxygen till camp four (26000ft),” he said.

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Employees of Mnp secretariat MHA adopts new scheme for service join cease-work strike surrendered NE militants

IMPHAL, May 28: Normal working hours at Manipur civil secretariat was affected as the employees under the aegis of Manipur Secretariat Services Association (MSSA) joined the cease-work strike demanding immediate implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations on Monday.

Manipur government employees have been on cease-work strike since March 22 demanding that the state government fulfill their demands immediately.

Accusing the state gov-

ernment of failing to give positive response to the demands after more than two months of cease-work strike, employees of civil secretariat joined the strike with effect from today.

Owing to the strike, working at all the sections and offices in the North Block and South Block of the Manipur Secretariat, was almost paralyzed.

Most of the employees attended the offices but did not discharge their duties.

Meanwhile, there was a heated argument after some lower rank employees discharged their duties abiding with the orders of principal secretaries and

Arunachal: Cabinet reshuffle, RWD no longer with Kumar Waii

ITANAGAR, May 28 (Agencies): Arunachal Pradesh government has ordered a number of ministerial and bureaucratic changes, with a number of Cabinet members being given additional charge aside from the portfolios they are already holding, according to The Dawnlit Post.

Unconfirmed reports have been circulating in social media that a major reshuffle was on the cards and that chief minister Pema Khandu was dropping some members from the Cabinet, including home minister Kumar Waii.

While Waii still has the home portfolio, he has been given additional charge of urban development, and town planning, housing, and urban local bodies. The major development is that he has been relieved of his RWD portfolio.

IPR minister Bamang Felix has been given the RWD portfolio as part of the reshuffle.

Senior legislator Wangki Lowang, who was

the advisor to the chief minister, has been given charge of PHE apart from the trade and commerce, and department of Tirap, Changlang, and Longding portfolios that he was already holding.

administrative secretaries, who are not covered by the strike. Timely intervention by the police, however, put the situation under control.

Leaders of MSSA said that they were compelled to launch the cease-work strike accusing the state government of failing to provide tangible response regarding the implementation of 7th Pay by May 26, the deadline set by the association.

On the other hand, the Manipur State Pensioners’ Union (MSPU) with more than 46000 members has also threatened to launch a series of protests from May 31.

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VIWOMI & PHEMI YOUTH ORGANISATION

With immense pride and honour, the Viwomi and Phemi Youth Organisation Jakhama Village would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss Visakhonu Kulnu, D/o Lt. Kehosül Kulnu for securing 4th Position in HSSLC (Arts) Examination.

The Organisation also congratulates all the students who qualified in HSLC & HSSLC Examination and wishes them success in their future endeavour.

President ROKOVIZO MEZE

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RMSA, KMA EXTENDS SUPPORT In support of the NRMSATA’s press release, dated 24th May, under the caption “RMSA 2013 demands 7th ROP”, its Kohima unit is constrained to issue this article in support of its apex body and to serve a reminder to the government in addressing the genuine demands of the RMSA teacher without further ado.

In a press release, the RMSA, 2013 Kma unit Presidents, Khriekuo Rupreo and Dziesengulie Theunuo reiterated that since its appointment, a step motherly treatment have been meted out to the RMSA employees with regard to non payment of salaries and other allowances from time to time and the present delay in implementing the 7th ROP in par with other regular state employees. Therefore, it reminded the government of its advertisement NO.ED/EXAM/2010-11, dated 9th Dec, 2011 and stated that RMSA 2013 teachers were recruited by the District Selection Board constituted by the government through open competition and not otherwise and that they are also regular State employees by virtue. Resultantly, the government made a blunder and an error of judgement in absorbing them into the ambit of CSS programmes. Hence, it reminded the government to rectify its folly at the earliest time possible because at no point of time, were they recruited

by CSS flagship programmes.

Speaking of this, it appraised the government and the Education department to understand the agony and pain of the teachers who, in accordance with their appointment order, are performing their duties with dedication and all sincerity despite being maltreated from all quarters. Therefore, RMSA kma fully endorse and support the genuine demand of its parent body in the implementation of 7th ROP on or before 10th June and also the regular payment of salaries due to the rightful teachers.

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as monthly stipend and an additional incentive if they deposit arms and ammunition depending on the weapon that they deposit.

Moreover, an amount of Rs four lakh would be kept in fixed deposit against each militant and they would get the money after the signing of the MoS. However, if any surrendered militant is found to be involved in any criminal activity during the period, he or she would not get the money. Bhattacharyya pointed out that such a clause would definitely prevent surrendered militants from indulging in any unlawful activity when they are under cease-fire agreement.

To prevent bogus surrenders, the new scheme has a provision for screening of the militants who express desire to come over ground and the State Government has already formed a screening committee headed by the Special DGP of the Special Branch.

The screening committee also comprises of senior officers from the Army, Assam Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force, SSB, Border Security Force, Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau etc.

PRJA convener remanded to judicial custody Correspondent

IMPHAL, May 28: Social activist-turned politician Leichombam Erendro, who was arrested on May 26 has been remanded to judicial custody after he refused to apply for bail in the court of Imphal West Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM).

The convener of Peoples’ Resurgence and Justice Alliance (PRJA), a political party founded by social activist Irom Chanu Sharmila was arrested on Saturday for refusing to take down a video, containing inflammatory speeches, from his Facebook profile. He was among seven persons detained by police for allegedly circulating the video after it triggered panic among public. He was produced in the court of Imphal West CJM Langkhanpao Tonsing today. While the rest had applied for bail and granted by the CJM, Erendro refused to apply the plea for bail by remaining firm on his stand that he had not committed any crime instead accused the police of failing to arrest the culprits involved. As he failed to do so, the CJM sent him in the judicial custody for 15 days while the other six were released on bail on a surety bond of Rs 5,000 each.

CONGRATULATIONS

The Naga United Village Council and GBs join hands in congratulating all the successful HSLC and HSSLC candidates 2018 of Great Commission Hr. Sec. School, Highland Hall School and Naga United Village Govt High School.

Furthermore, the village council and GBs wishes all the successful candidates that God bless them immensely with good health and grant them success in all of their future endeavour too, Kuthukuo Shijoh Ng Sheh Chairman, NUVC Secretary, NUVC

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GUWAHATI, MAY 28 (AGENCiES): In a bid to lure away “misguided youths” from the fold of the militant outfits, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has come out with a revised surrender cum rehabilitation scheme for North East with additional incentives.

However, to prevent misuse of the scheme, state level screening committees have been formed to examine the credentials of the militants before they become eligible for the benefits under the new scheme.

Special Director General of Assam Police, Special Branch, Pallab Bhattacharyya told The Assam Tribune that as per the provisions of the previous scheme, the surrendered militants and the militants under cease fire agreement used to receive a stipend of Rs 3,000 each per month and they used to get one time grant of Rs 1.50 lakh each after the signing of the memorandum of settlement (MoS) between the Government and the concerned militant group.

But as per the new scheme, the militant who come over ground for talks with the Government would get Rs 6,000 each

eers take the help of sherpas while summiting the Mt Everest. But the duo decided to risk it on their own after one of their sherpas received a head injury when rocks rolled down while climbing at camp three and had to be rescued by helicopter.

The sherpa was airlifted to Kathmandu in a critical condition and underwent head surgery.

T h e t wo c l i m b e r s reached camp four with the help of one Sherpa, but the man fell ill due to high altitude sickness which prevented him to proceed further.

The two then set out on the last leg on their own.

They had had been trained in mountaineering in different national institutes over the past four years and had scaled Mt Stok Kangri (20,187 ft) of Ladakh as preEverest expedition.

The other Arunachalee climbers who scaled the highest peak include Tapi Mra (2009), Tine Mena (2011), Anshu Jamsenpa (2011), Nima Lama (2011), Kalden Paljor (2011)and Tame Bagang (2013).

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MOPUNGCHUKET SENSO MONGDANG (MSM) HQ : MOPUNGCHUKET VILLAGE

FELICITATION Mopungchuket Senso Mongdang would like to express our heartiest congratulations to Mr MEYIPOKYIM AIER (IFS) for his commendable achievement of promoting to the post of Principal Chief Conservator Forest (PCCF), Government of Maharastra.

May you be endowed with wisdom, strength and justice to Administer your duties. God bless you in your future endeavor.

Sd/Sd/Martsüngba Aier Tajen Jamir President, MSM General Secretary, MSM

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Rhongyia couple detained at Mao gate Correspondent

IMPHAL, May 28: A Rhongyia couple along with their eight-month-old baby was, on Monday, detained

by Manipur police at Mao gate NH-2 bordering Nagaland.

The Rhongyia couple was detained by police manning the border check at around 11.30 a.m., police here said. Police claimed that the couple entered Indian Territory from Bangladesh in West Bengal sector of IndoBangla border a few days ago. They were produced in the court of Senapati district magistrate and remanded to police custody, the source added.

2,952 pigs and piglets die in Mizoram

Aizawl, May 28 (PTI): At least 2,952 pigs and piglets have died in Mizoram and 6,664 other pigs took ill due to the outbreak of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) and Classical Swine Fever (CSF) since early March, state government officials said Monday.

The officials said that 101 villages in seven out of eight districts in southern Mizoram have been affected.

Only Lunglei district has been declared safe, they said.

According to animal husbandry and veterinary department officials, veterinary experts collected blood samples from 467 pigs and 455 samples tested positive.

While PRRS virus was found in 255 samples, 200 samples were infected with CSF virus, an official said.

The PRRS killed almost 9,000 pigs and piglets in 2013 and 2016, the official added.

Rajasekharan to be sworn in as new Mizoram Gov today

Aizawl, May 28 (PTI): Kummanam Rajasekharan will be sworn in as the new Mizoram governor on Tuesday, an official said Monday.

Rajasekharan would reach here tomorrow and Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajit Singh would administer the oath of office to Rajasekharan tomorrow at the Raj Bhavan here, State Protocol Officer David Liansanglura Pachuau told PTI. President Ram Nath Kovind had appointed Rajasekharan, the Kerala BJP chief as the governor of Mizoram on Friday as the tenure of the present incumbent Lt Gen Nirbhay Sharma (retd) ended today.

Sharma was today given a farewell at the Raj Bhavan as well as at Thuampui helipad by Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, his cabinet colleagues, speaker Hiphei, deputy speaker R Lalrinawma, legislators and senior officials.

Mizoram has had eight governors since NDA came to power in 2014.

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KULNU YOUTH SOCIETY

With immense pride and h o n o u r, t h e K u l n u Yo u t h Society Jakhama Village would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss Visakhonu Kulnu, D/o Lt. Kehosül Kulnu for securing 4th Position in HSSLC (Arts) Examination.

The Society also congratulates all the students who are qualified in HSLC & HSSLC Examination and wishes them success in their future endeavour.

Secretary KEVITHÜTO KULNU K-1599 OFFICE OF THE

CHAKPA SENSO MONGDANG

P.O. : CHUCHUYIMLANG, B.P.O- CHAKPA VILLAGE MOKOKCHUNG, NAGALAND

FELICITATION The Chakpa Senso Mungdang express our heartiest congratulations Miss YARENBENLA, D/0 Mr & Mrs Imtisukeb for securing 17th position in the recently declared HSLC from St John’s School Diphupar “B’. The Chakpa Senso Mungdang is proud to have such a student from our village, we pray that our Almighty God will bless and guide her in bringing more laurels in her future endeavour.

We wish her the very best in life.

Sd/Sd/Lanutoshi Lkr. Imsutoshi President General Secretary

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Two Arunachalee mountaineers scale Mt Everest without sherpas

Date : 18/04/2017 Regd. No. 1538/2017 AFFIDAVIT I, Shri. Thiyamo Kath, S/o Late Ankato Kath Rengma, presently residing at H/No. 792, Padumpukhuri Block-5, Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under:1. That, I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That, my correct official name is "Thiyamo Kath" which is entered and recorded in my official documents and records.

3, That, my name inadvertently entered and recorded as "Theyamo" in my service appointment order.

4. That my name also inadvertently entered and recorded as "Thiyamo Kath Rengma" in my academic certificates/records.

5. That, "Thiyamo Kath" "Theyamo Kath" Theyamo, Thiyamo Rengma and "Thiyamo Kath Rengma" are the names of one and the same person, i.e., my name only.

6. That, I have sworn this affidavit to declare my correct name as "Thiyamo Kath" and shall use the same in all my future correspondences and records.

7. That, the statements made above form para 1 to 6 of this affidavit is made by me which is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, belief and nothing is concealed therein.

And I have signed this affidavit on this 18 day of April 2017 at Dimapur, Nagaland.

Sworn before me by the Deponent.

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of the public. On Sunday, Minister for Information Technology, Kadambur Raju faced the ire of those injured and relatives at the hospital. Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit is likely to visit Thoothukudi on Tuesday and review the situation.

Thoothukudi Deputy Tehsildar ordered police firing: FIR

Thoothukudi Tahsildar Sivagama Sundari sealed the main entrance of Sterlite Copper unit on Monday.

Chennai/Thoothukudi, May 28 (AGENCIES/IANS): Tamil Nadu government issued a G.O. on Monday to seal and “permanently close” the Sterlite Copper smelter plant in Thoothukudi. 13 people were killed in Thoothukudi last week when police opened fire on anti-Sterlite protesters, who were marching to the Collectorate to seek the closure of the “polluting” plant.

The G.O. was issued on the eve of the Assembly session that begins on Tuesday and it came against the backdrop of injured people confronting AIADMK Ministers about its commitment to close down the factory.

Following the G.O, officials in Thoothukudi sealed the unit. “We have sealed this plant as per the directions of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu”, Thoothukudi Collector Sandeep Nanduri said.

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the people of Thoothukudi to co-operate with the district administration to bring normalcy back in the district,” he added.

The G.O. issued by the Environment and Forests Department said, “Under sections 18(1)(b) of the Water Act 1974, in the larger public interest, the Government endorse the closure direction of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and also direct the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to seal the unit and close the plant permanently.”

A separate official release said the G.O. was issued after groups opposed to the functioning of the plant met the Chief Minister, deputy Chief Minister, senior Ministers, Chief Secretary and other officials at the State Secretariat on Monday, and sought a permanent closure of the plant.

In the order, the government said that the TNPCB did not renew the Consent to Operate to Vedanta Ltd’s Copper smelter plant in its

order dated April 9, 2018.

“Subsequently, on May 23, the TNPCB has also issued directions for closure and disconnection of power supply to the unit.

The power supply has been disconnected on May 24,” it said. Separately, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, said in a statement that the citizens of Thoothukudi had been opposing the operation of the plant and were seeking a permanent closure of the plant as it had violated the terms related to the environment set by the National Green Tribunal and the TNPCB. “Based on requests made by various groups opposed to the operation of the plant in a meeting today, the request to shut down the plant completely was considered in a rigorous manner,” Palaniswami said.

He said the Tamil Nadu government was following in the footsteps of the late Jayalalithaa and hence has taken the decision to close the plant in the interest

A Deputy Tehsildar has claimed that he had ordered police firing that had claimed the lives of 12 lives during the protests demanding the closure of the Copper Smelter plant run by the Vedanta Group on Tuesday last.

The FIIR filed by the police on May 22 says that Sekar, Deputy Tehsildar of Thoothukudi, admitted that it was he who had ordered the police firing at the protesters after all the other steps to preserve law and order failed. In the FIR he filed with the police, Sekar said he had at first warned the protesters that force would be used and when his request was defied, he ordered a baton charge. When this proved inadequate and the crowd kept surging forward menacingly and attacked the police personnel, he had ordered the firing of tear gas shells after due warning.

The official said when tear gas shells failed to disperse the violent mob, which was destroying public property and police personnel near the Collectorate, he had ordered firing as the last resort. Twelve persons were killed in police firing on May 22 and the following one more person died in a fresh firing.

No Nipah cases in TN: Health minister C HENNAI , M ay 2 8 (AGENCIES): Allaying fears over outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in Tamil Nadu,which has claimed 13 lives so far in Kerala, state health minister C Vijaya Baskar said the government had taken all precautionary steps to prevent it. “I categorically say there are no cases of Nipah virus in Tamil Nadu. In the two suspected cases reported in Kerala, I think they are still carrying out tests to ascertain if it is of the virus,”, he told reporters. On reports of two persons being admitted to the government hospital in Tiruchirapalli due to a ‘mystery fever’, he said diagnosis had confirmed it was just fever and nothing else.

To create awareness among the public on the possible spread of the virus in border districts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the Director of the Public Health department recently conducted a meeting in Coimbatore, he said.

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ED question three persons in journalist Upendra Rai’s case New Delhi, May 28 (IANS): The Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned three persons as part of its investigation into a money laundering case against senior journalist Upendra Rai. Rai was arrested by Central Bureau of Investigation on May 3 for dubious transactions of over Rs 100 crore in his bank accounts during 2017-18 and for using false information to obtain access to sensitive areas through Aerodrome Entry Pass (AEP) for all airports in the country.

ED had registered a case against Rai on the basis of CBI’s First Information Report.

“Three persons are being examined by the agency in connection with the case,” an ED official privy to the investigation told IANS. The agency had earlier examined two associates of Rai.

Upendra Rai Senior ED officials said they were waiting for the CBI to file the chargesheet in the case so that it can attach the properties of Rai under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

The officials also said that during joint raids carried out at eight places in Delhi, Noida, Lucknow and Mumbai on May 3 in connection with the case against Rai, they recovered call data

records of a senior ED official, an IAS officer earlier posted in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, besides confidential communication between Singapore-based Indian High Commission and a former ED chief.

According to officials, they also recovered income tax assessment orders of various companies and Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) generated by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

An ED official requesting anonymity said that the agency had seized a confidential communication between the Indian High Commission in Singapore and former ED Director Rajan Katoch in connection with a case related to industrialist Naveen Jindal.

The official said that a letter written by Jindal to Katoch in 2015 has also been recovered.

Sunanda had expressed desire to die, police tell court New Delhi, May 28 (IANS): In an email sent to Congress Lok Sabha member and her husband Shashi Tharoor, Sunanda Pushkar had expressed her desire to die, Delhi Police told a court here on Monday, justifying its charges of abetment to suicide and cruelty against the parliamentarian.

Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal that there was sufficient evidence to proceed against Tharoor and requested the court to accept the charge-sheet and issue summons to the Lok Sabha member as an accused in the case.

The prosecutor informed the court that Push-

kar was depressed and, in an email, written on January 8, 2014 to Tharoor, she had expressed her desire to die.

“I have no will to live.

All I pray for is death,” prosecutor Shrivastava read out the relevant line of the email written by Pushkar to Tharoor.

He told the court that Pushkar’s mail and messages in social media had been taken as dying declaration.

He told the court that the cause of her death was poisoning. Some 27 tablets of Alprax were found in her room but it is not clear how many she had consumed.

The prosecutor cited the post-mortem report which

stated that there were injury marks on her body.

Shrivastava also informed the court that Tharoor as a husband ignored Sunanda when she was taking pills to overcome depression.

Instead they had frequent fights, the prosecutor said citing witnesses’ statement to substantiate allegations levelled against the Congress leader.

The police also disclosed that Tharoor ignored her calls and disconnected them.

He told the court the Tharoors married in October 2010. Two days prior to Pushkar’s death, heated arguments were exchanged between them on a flight from Thiruvananthapuram

to Delhi. The fight continued at the Delhi airport, the police said.

After hearing the submission, the court set June 5 to deliver its order on accepting the charge-sheet against Tharoor.

On May 14, the Delhi Police charge-sheeted Tharoor under Sections 306 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code, pertaining to abetment to suicide and cruelty to wife, which entails a jail term that could extend up to 10 years.

Pushkar, 51, was found dead in her suite at Leela Hotel in south Delhi on January 17, 2014, days after she alleged that her husband was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist.

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n all the four years of Modi government at the Centre (the description ‘Modi government’ befits the centralisation of power) a change unlike any other under past governments is discernible. There has to be both positives and negatives in the report card of the analysts and observers. When Modi stormed into power with a massive mandate of 282 seats for the BJP and the tally of 336 for the NDA, there was tremendous expectations. Modi was clear about what he would do during his campaigns. He talked about curbing corruption (will not eat nor allow others to eat), bringing back black money within 100 days in office and deposit Rs.15 lakh in to the accounts of every citizen of the country, provide 1 crore jobs , ensure minimum government and maximum governance and proposed several innovative schemes to make the lives of the common citizens easy. He also promised to double the farmers’ income, ensuring a Rs 5 lakh medicare policy per family for more than 10 crore poor households under the Ayushmann Bharat scheme, electrifying four crore households, building 100 smart cities and so on — the list promising a great future is quite long. However, four years after being in power, Modi hasn’t achieved much. According to Times of India, a survey conducted by a city-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) has come up with a report saying the saffron party (BJP/RSS), having completed four years in the saddle, has fulfilled only 29% of its promises. That means Modi will need another five years to deliver on his promise of making a ‘New India’ and ‘Achhe Din’ for the common people.

This can theoretically happen if he wins in 2019 with the same majority otherwise, a coalition government would spell the end of his style of functioning. Even those which Modi fulfilled were the ones prepared by the previous UPA government over which he vehemently and strongly opposed such as –FDI in various sectors, nuclear deal, Aadhar, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan (now Swaach Bharat ), No-Frills Accounts(now Jan Dhaan Yojna) National Skill Development Mission- through NSDC( now Skill India/PMKVY), JNNURM(now AMRUT), National Manufacturing Policy(now Make In India), National e-Governance Plan(now Digital India), National Optical Fibre Network(now Bharat Net), National Girl Child Day Programme(now Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao). The Congress has accused the Modi government of usurping 23 schemes launched by UPA and rebranding them. It is in the economy which Modi has micromanaged that has done well. He has achieved the target of reducing the deficit initially due to huge revenue earnings through excise duty on oil which were not lowered despite crude prices having come down from $130 per barrel( 2013-14) to $ 40 per barrel(2015-16) and today to $70 per barrel. The government earned nearly 3 lakh crore as revenue. By centralising power. Economically, Modi has done a good job to contain inflation but deficit rising. Administratively, he has centralised his government where the bureaucracy runs the show under the watchful eyes of the PMO. Politically Modi is heads above all other political leaders and remains the only mega star campaigner of the BJP who is already campaigning for 2019.In the four years, Modi has been having a free run but with the entire opposition now ganging up, he will find the going very tough and will no longer be able to divert people’s attention through his oratorical skills anymore.

DailyDevotion Unquestioned Revelation In that day you will ask Me nothing. —John 16:23 When is “that day”? It is when the ascended Lord makes you one with the Father. “In that day” you will be one with the Father just as Jesus is, and He said, “In that day you will ask Me nothing.” Until the resurrection life of Jesus is fully exhibited in you, you have questions about many things. Then after a while you find that all your questions are gone— you don’t seem to have any left to ask. You have come to the point of total reliance on the resurrection life of Jesus, which brings you into complete oneness with the purpose of God. Are you living that life now? If not, why aren’t you?

“In that day” there may be any number of things still hidden to your understanding, but they will not come between your heart and God. “In that day you will ask Me nothing”— you will not need to ask, because you will be certain that God will reveal things in accordance with His will. The faith and peace of John 14:1 has become the real attitude of your heart, and there are no more questions to be asked.

If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your spirit, your true inner nature— that is where the problem is. Once your inner spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, your understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. “In that day you will ask Me nothing.”

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hen I bite into a bar of chocolate, I think of calories.

I don’t think of rat hair and faeces. But perhaps I should.

The American Food and Drug Authority, the regulatory body for food standards in the United States, publishes something called the Defect Levels Handbook. This sets permissible limits for “natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans”. The contents of these ‘natural and unavoidable’ defects is probably to protect manufacturers from being sued.

The FDA Handbook allows the average chocolate bar (about 100 grams) to have one rodent hair in it. This 100 grams is also allowed to contain up to 60 insect fragments. Legally.

Insects – either whole, body parts, larvae or mites – are the most common permissible defect, allowed in 71 foods. You will find them in peanut butter, paprika, oregano, cinnamon, bay leaves and many more foods. Oregano can have up to 300 insect fragments, with ground oregano allowed up to 1250 fragments. Tomato juice is allowed to have 10 fruit fly eggs or one maggot for every 100 grams. About 20 maggots or 75 mites are

permissible in 15 grams of dried mushrooms. 5% of a can of cherries can also contain maggots.

In figs, interestingly, the FDA specifically only allows insect heads – up to 13 heads for every 100 grams of fig paste. Why only heads?

God knows! (Because the FDA probably doesn’t).

However, what the FDA does know quite clearly, is the number of insects and rodent hairs that would make the perfect combination in food. It allows every 100 grams of peanut butter to have up to 30 insect fragments and one rodent hair.

50 grams of cinnamon is allowed 400 insect fragments and 10 rodent hairs. Paprika can contain 75 insect fragments and 11 rodents hairs for every 25 grams.

Cinnamon, paprika, oregano, thyme, sesame seeds (til), fennel seeds (saunf), ginger and other spices often contain another ingredient – animal or mammal excreta. FDA allows about 20 milligrams of this in 1 kilogram of cocoa beans. ‘mammalian excreta’ is another name for mouse faeces. Every kg of wheat is allowed to have an average of 9 faeces pellets. Even popcorn can have 1 pellet per subsample (the FDA handbook does not define the size of the

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Bits of insects, rodent hair in food items subsample).

Mould, a type of fungus is also a commonly permitted contaminant in most fruit, vegetables, butters and jams. Up to 20% of paprika is allowed to be mouldy. 5% of a packet of bay leaves (tej patta) and 3% of a can of frozen peaches is also allowed to have mould in it. Blackcurrant jam is high on the list, with 74% of it permissibly mouldy.

Low levels of mould are also allowed in tomato ketchup, tomato juice and canned tomatoes.

If all this weren’t enough, the FDA handbook also has a provision for the presence of ‘foreign matter’ in select foods. This includes objects such as stones, sticks, jute bags and even cigarette butts! This , strangely enough, fits into “natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans”.

If you are appalled by the low quality demanded of

American packaged food, let us shift the focus to our own country. The Indian version of the FDA is the FSSAI – Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. It follows similar standards but makes them so confusing that no one bothers to read them.

Instead of putting them out clearly in one handbook, it hides them in different rules for different foods.

When describing permissible food defects, FSSAI uses a term called ‘extraneous matter’. This is defined as “any matter contained in an article of food which may be carried from the raw materials, packaging materials or process systems used for its manufacture or which is added to it, but such matter does not render such article of food unsafe”.

FSSAI does not clearly define permitted contaminants in one handbook or document. It is, however, hidden in the fine print of their numerous rules and

regulations.

For instance, FSSAI requires de-shelled peanuts to only be ‘practically’ free from matter such as stones, dirt, clay etc. Further, 5% of the total packet is permitted to be damaged. 2% of most dry fruits and nuts can permissibly be ‘damaged or discoloured’ which includes damage by insects.

With dry apricots, FSSAI states that they should be free from living insects, but goes on to allow a ‘reasonable’ amount of insect debris, vegetable matter and other objectionable matter.

Up to 3% of supari can also be damaged by mould and insects.

A packet of wheat flour (atta) can contain up to 2% ash. Paushtik atta (which means healthy or nourishing) can have a little more ash – 2.75%. Whole grains of wheat, maize, jawar, bajra, rice and most lentils including chana, rajma, moong, masur, urad etc. are permitted 1% extraneous matter, which includes 0.1% impurities of animal origin. These essentials, which every household in our country consumes on a daily basis, is allowed to contain metallic pieces, sand, gravel, dirt, pebbles, stones, lumps of earth, clay, mud and animal faeces and hair.

Sugar, refined sugar, bura and misri are permitted to have 0.1% extraneous matter, while this is permitted up to 2% in the case of jaggery. If you were impressed by this accuracy, honey, on the other hand, only needs to be visually inspected to ensure that it is free from mould, dirt, scum, the fragments of bees and other insects etc.

Similarly, one of India’s favourites – tea – is required by FSSAI to only be free from living insects, moulds, dead insects, insect fragments and rodent contamination which are “visible to the naked eye.”

FSSAI also allows most types of salt and spices, such as jeera, elaichi, laung, dalchini, red chillies, haldi, black pepper, dhania, methi etc., to contain 1-2% extraneous matter. This includes dust, dirt, stones and lumps of earth. One official told me that some years ago, when India needed dals immediately, they imported them from Burma. The dal came full of stones. Instead of making a fuss, the FSAAI checked with their ministry and simply changed the rules to allow more stones.

So the quality of food is decided by corporations and regulatory bodies created to protect them. Who protects the consumer?

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Why a greater oral health problems in women Does law allow insinuation of defamation?

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he old wives’ tale that a woman loses one tooth for every child she delivers” I as a dental surgeon am always interested to know about our people’s opinion on oral & general health issues & values.

Today, I like to ask every woman, a mother or a child girl this question; do you believe that a woman loses one tooth for every child she delivers? I would say this tale may, in fact, contain a grain of truth.

And probably you don’t know …..

• Women have higher rates of decay teeth due to dental caries • Women on average have more missing teeth than men • Hormonal changes, especially during pregnancy, can lead to increased risk for various types of gum disease, and have been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as low birth weight and preterm birth • Women are more likely to experience teeth sensitivity, dental erosion due to eating disorders • One in three women report avoiding or delaying dental care due to cost, financial burden and workload at home.

Oral health is a neglected issue in our Naga society. This is a big problem. As a medical professional, I have been observing in Nagaland that the mouth and the head – Dental health and Mental health – somehow remain outside of what people think of as general health. This is so unfortunate, many still don’t understand the importance of oral health and the influence it plays on women’s general well-being Protecting your teeth might be more important than you think—and not just for aesthetic reasons like straight teeth and a white smile! When a woman takes proper care of her teeth it is an investment in her future - a way of maintaining the health of her body or perhaps even the health of an unborn child.

Women Oral Health In my clinical practice in Dimapur, the clinic data shows Naga women to be more proactive about their oral health than men. The female to male ratio of patients visiting our clinic is 60: 40. Wow… women are doing better! Congratulations, dear mothers & sisters, you have a better understanding about what good oral health entails. However, due mostly to hormonal fluctuations at different life stages, women generally have more oral health concerns to worry about.

Fluctuation in female hormones can increase the occurrence of: • Cold sores and canker

sores • Dry mouth • Changes in taste • Gum disease Puberty: Puberty occurs in girls between ages 8 to 14.

During this period, a lot of developmental changes take place with hormonal fluctuation.

This leads to microbial changes in the mouth result in increase of destructive bacteria that can lead to more plaque, cavities, gum disease and bad breath. If your daughter is going through puberty, it’s normal for her to experience light bleeding during brushing and flossing. Encourage her to keep a good brushing and flossing routine, in order to cut down on plaque.

Menstruation: Some women find that their gums swell and bleed prior to their periods, while others experience cold sores or canker sores. Many women experience dry mouth and bad breath due to a loss of saliva.

These symptoms usually go away once your period starts.

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, try rinsing at least once a day with a nonalcoholic mouthwash. The best time for women to schedule a dental cleaning is the week after your period.

Oral contraceptives (birth control pills) — swollen red gums with slight pain or discomfort are one of the most common side effects.

Pregnancy: Many pregnant women experience pregnancy gingivitis (Gum disease), when dental plaque builds up on the teeth and irritates the gums.

Symptoms include red, inflamed and bleeding gums.

Prenatal care is especially important, the best time to see the dentist is to schedule a checkup between four to six months. This is because the first three months of pregnancy are thought to be of greatest importance in your child’s development. During the last trimester (seven to nine months), stresses associated with dental visits can increase the incidence of before birth complications.

Pregnant women who already have gum problems need to be extra diligent about their oral hygiene as it can worsen and turn to periodontitis, a more serious form of gum disease involving the jaw bones.

Nutrition: If you get a sweet tooth while pregnant, we encourage you to reach for cheese, fresh fruits or vegetables, yogurt instead of cold drinks or ice cream.

Eating disorder & Vomiting: Eating disorder is a very serious health issues for women.

This may lead to nutritional deficiencies that affect the health and the appearance of the mouth – like pale tissue, a burning

mouth and cracks at the corners of the mouth.

Frequent vomiting can damage your teeth. Acid from the stomach softens teeth and can erode the enamel/teeth surface. This usually happens on the inside of the front teeth.

This can cause pain and breaking of the teeth. Women who vomit frequently often have a dry mouth and swollen glands around their face.

After vomiting it is best to rinse the mouth so acid cannot soften the teeth. You can use water, fluoride rinse or mix baking soda and water together which will neutralize the acid. Wait 30 minutes before brushing.

If you experience a lot of nausea, tip your head forward when tooth brushing, and use a toothbrush with a small head to reduce gagging Menopause: In menopause, estrogen levels decline rapidly, which can lead to bone loss and periodontitis (advanced gum disease). Postmenopausal women are at risk for osteoporosis, a disease that causes brittle bones and has a major impact on the jawbone supporting the teeth.

If you’ve lost teeth as a result of osteoporosis or menopause, then there are options of dental treatment for tooth replacement which improves quality of life.

In conclusion, let me share my thought and understanding as why women would have more tooth decay than men and why there is an old wives’ saying that a woman loses one tooth for every child she delivers.

1. Women are preparing food more than men - and snacking more, because they have access to more food. It’s when you increase carbohydrates you generally increase the incidence of dental caries/ tooth decay.

2. Women would experience three factors during pregnancy and this increases the number of tooth decay and tooth loss. Three factors are, a boost in female sex hormones (Hormonal changes lead to increased risk for various types of gum disease); a reduction in the flow rate of saliva (reduced antimicrobial properties); and an increase in cravings for high-energy, sweet foods (more sweets means more risk for tooth decay).

So despite taking better care of your teeth and gums than men do, your hormones are working against you and steering you toward gum disease and bone loss. My sincere advice is to schedule an appointment with your dentist, every 6 months, to discuss your gum health and how can you improve your overall health.

Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari, Dental Touch & Facial Aesthetics, Midland, Dimapur Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the

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n the accusation of legal offence perpetrated, the litigator has right to offer subpoena to the accused and to resolve the case on legal establishment: in the court or through an arbitrator (for personal reasons). This act of announcing legal offences has to be established on the grounds of truth and right.

If the litigator has enough credential materials to support his/her claim, the accused has the right to defend but the publicity of the case is insured on the grounds that, either the accused has been proved of his legal misconduct and convicted or the litigator has made a baseless accusation and dragged the status quo of the accused into questioning authority without proper undertaking.

But allegation and accusation are subjected to open interpretation and reception because if any unnatural legally wrong conduct has been enacted, it should be matter of direct communication until the issue has been resolved, and the parties involved and the people would retract the judgment based on the comprehensive conclusion derived from the verdict, and this way the parties involved could go back to their normal lives, either convicted or absolved, without having to endure stigma and stereotype.

How possibly can anyone justify or defend allegation when insinuation are perpetuated and the individual or party is but condemned to degradation and this writer thinks that this is counter intuitive to legal system, when without opportunity by instigating insinuation. But the question here for those who practice law is, can defamation be insinuated? If issues related to accusation and defamation are insinuated, unless the insinuation has been deciphered the perpetrator may give under the presumption that in legal platforms witty lingo and direct address are two different things. When in fact, ‘what and why’ if any insinuation has been perpetuated will reinforce

the motive that has legal merit or is a subject to narrow outlook and bias misconduct, if and when perused.

During instances of being accused of using lingo to intimidate the opponent during discourse, ‘was the lingo bias and socially intolerant?’, and if appeared to be, ‘can the speaker attest the unconscious and honest one sense of the interpretation by even confirming from the methods that deduces in order to unravel confirmation.’ However accidents and perpetuation are two distinct coins. The reason this writer felt the need to write about this is because no political public platforms have speakers that assails the opponent on bias and socially intolerant grounds to degrade him/her off due to personal difference/intolerance and earn public confidence. In fact in practicality, resorting to unprofessional and narrow-minded judgment and tools remain unbecoming of the credibility of the speakers, not to mention litigated.

The reason public platform are subjected to structural unbiased procedures is because, politics is about the right measure, expression, direction etc. and to contest for political mileage or political expression of views is a liability for every citizen, but to achieve status quo or credibility by resorting to unprofessional assailments is illegitimate and no democratic nation entertains such gimmicks. If any connoisseur of practical law and natural justice finds this write-up as ill-interpretation of legal system and disruption of the very fabric of legal justice system and justice itself, to something that is grossly unlawful, or that this is just an elucidation of how legal procedures are maintained and practiced by law abiding citizens especially in well structured nations, your feedbacks are anticipated for both personal and collective comprehension and grasping of legal system.

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To the DMC administration

With increase in the global population and the rising demand for food and other essentials, there has been a rise in the amount of waste being generated daily by each household. This waste is ultimately thrown into municipal waste collection centres from where it is collected by the area municipalities to be further thrown into the landfills and dumps which is a good initiative. However, seeing the conditions of the waste pickers, it looks so unhygienic for they handle the waste with their bare hands without any proper equipment which can cause serious impacts on health and problems.

In fact, direct exposure can lead to diseases through chemical exposure as the release of chemical waste into the environment leads to chemical poisoning. Waste workers deal with heavy and dangerous equipment daily and the work that waste pickers do is of utmost importance to our cities and the environment. Therefore, there health care should also be keeping into account by providing them proper equipments at the time of their duty.

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Former UP CMs move SC for time to vacate official homes

Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav.

New Delhi, May 28 (AGENCIES): Former UP chief ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking “appropriate time” for vacating their official residences allotted by the Uttar Pradesh government.

The top court had on May 7 held that former chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh cannot retain government accommodation after demitting office and said that a chief minister was at par with a common man once his or her term ends.

The two former Chief Ministers had earlier moved

the UP government’s estate department seeking two years’ time to vacate their official residences and shifting to their private accommodations in Lucknow. In their pleas filed through advocate Garima Bajaj, they have sought appropriate time to vacate their official bungalows on various grounds.

While the plea filed

by Mulayam Singh Yadav sought sufficient time from the apex court to make arrangements for alternate accommodation, the one by his son Akhilesh has urged the court to consider the security of his family. “We are requesting the Supreme

Court to grant us sufficient time to make arrangements for a suitable alternate accommodation, taking into consideration the security of the petitioner and his family members,” Akhilesh said in his plea. “Grant us sufficient time to make arrangements for a suitable alternate accommodation, taking into consideration the security of the petitioner, age and ill health,” plea by Mulayam Singh Yadav said.

The pleas by the fatherson duo has been filed in the backdrop of the May 7 apex court judgement that had struck down an amendment in a state legislation allowing former Chief Ministers to retain government accommodations even after demitting office.

Shortly after this verdict, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Rajasthan governor Kalyan Singh, who were Chief Ministers earlier, had informed the estate department that they will vacate the government bungalows.

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Committed to farm loan waiver, says Kumaraswamy

New Delhi, May 28 (AGENCIES): Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday said he is committed to waive farm loans or else he will retire from politics, and asked people not to fall prey to the “BJP’s conspiracy”.

The JD-S leader, who was sworn-in Karnataka Chief Minister last week after the Congress extended unconditional support to his party, said he is ready with the guidelines on farm loan waiver, details of which will be disclosed on Wednesday.

Kumaraswamy was talking to reporters on Monday after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“I have clearly said that I will waive farm loans. I had promised during election that I will do it in 24 hours.

That is true. At least you should give time to breathe.

Today, I have limitations.

“If I don’t do it, have clearly said that I will retire from politics and I will resign as chief minister. Why cannot you wait for some time?,” Kumaraswamy told reporters. He said he has heard statements by BJP leaders

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including BS Yeddyurappa on the issue of farm loan waiver. “I am not sitting quiet. I am not Yeddyurappa to sit quiet.” “The guidelines to waive farm loans have been kept ready. They will be shared before the public on Wednesday in Bengaluru,” he told reporters.

The Karnataka chief minister accused the BJP of conspiring against him and urged the people not to fall prey to it. The JD-S leader said his government is for the people and he will serve the people till the time he is the chief minister. “Don’t panic and get confused (by BJP statements). Not only on farm loan issue, I will work on other matters related to people. There will be a difference when I work as CM,” he claimed.

Bajrang Dal organises arms SC refuses to intervene in training camp to tackle ‘love jihad’ Kerala’s 100% nativity criterion (State) impose 100% nativity... I should be permitted to take students from all over India,” Bhushan argued for KMCT. Though the Bench agreed that the issue was a good one, it refused to intervene, instead giving the college liberty to approach the State High Court.

(From p-1) The EC trashed reports that polling had been cancelled in 35 booths in Bhandara-Gondiya.

The defective machines hit polling severely, with barely 25 per cent of the electorate casting their votes by 2 p.m. in both constituencies.

The bypoll to the Nagaland Parliamentary seat witnessed nearly 75 per cent polling. The seat fell vacant as sitting member Neiphiu Rio resigned after being elected to the state Assembly and becoming Chief Minister.

In Bihar, Jokihat Assembly seat saw nearly 55

per cent polling.

Bypolls to Silli and Gomia Assembly constituencies in Jharkhand saw 75 per cent and 62 per cent voting, respectively. In West Bengal, around 70 per cent of votes were cast till 5 p.m. for bypoll to the Maheshtala Assembly constituency.

In Punjab, Shahkot Assembly constituency recorded over 73 per cent voting. Chengannur Assembly constituency in Kerala saw voting percentage of 77 per cent while Meghalya’s Ampati Assembly seat saw a high voter turn out of 90.42 per cent. Polling was also held at Tharali in Uttarakhand.

Political parties cold to law panel consultation on simultaneous polls

(From p-1) The states which are recommended to be covered under phase I are where assembly polls are due in 2021.

States which will come under phase II are Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Delhi and Punjab. To hold elections in these states along with LS polls, the terms of the assemblies have to be extended.

Based on a suggestion made by the Election Commission, the working paper also says that a no confidence motion against the government should be followed by a confidence motion.

This would ensure that if the opposition does not have numbers to form an alternative government, the regime in office cannot be removed.

Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat had a word of caution on simultaneous polls when he recently said that the legal framework required for holding of the two elections together will take a lot of time to get ready.

“We cannot put the cart before the horse. Logistical issues are subservient to legal framework. Unless legal framework is in place, we don’t have to talk about anything else because legal framework will take a lot of time, making constitutional amendment to (changing) the law, all the process will take time,” he had said.

He had said once the legal framework is ready, the EC will deliver. “EC is a creation of the Constitution. We have to perform willy-nilly, deliver the election, whatever way prescribed in the law,” he had said.

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goudar refused to stay the nativity criterion introduced by the Kerala government for admission to medical courses. The hearing came on a petition filed

by K.M. Navas, executive trustee of Kozhikode-based KMCT Medical College, represented by senior advocate Jayant Bhushan.

Bhushan argued that the State cannot compel reservations in the name of SC/ST or nativity in private, unaided, minority professional institutions.

“I have an authority to say how I want to run my institution. How can they

(From p-1) DC and district election officer Mohammed Ali Shihab and SP Imnalensa, along with other officials, visited polling centres in and around Kiphire town.

Three polling stations and control rooms were handled by women personnel.

According to DIPR, some technical problems with the EVM/VVPAT occurred at Shishimi (Kyehe village) and New Longmatra, which were later replaced.

Wokha: The by-election in Wokha district passed off peacefully. RO and DC, Dr Manazir Jeelani Samoon, accompanied by SP Bharat Markad, inspected several polling stations in Wokha town.

Altogether 1,242 polling personnel were involved in 207 polling stations and 383 vehicles used across the district during the by-poll.

The highlight of the election process in the district was utilising the services of differently-abled persons at two polling stations as polling officials.

Zunheboto: By-poll in Zunheboto district was held peacefully across 199 polling booths with no untoward incident being reported from anywhere.

Mon: The by-election passed off peacefully as no untoward incident was reported from anywhere till the time of filing this report.

Overall voter turned out was reported to be about 76 % till 3 p.m. In other districts like Peren, Phek, Longleng and Tuensang, besides Tseminyu sub-division, the by-election passed off peacefully without any untoward incidents.

EC fights EVM allegations with ‘heat’ logic as 4 LS seats, 9 A/Cs go to polls

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New Delhi, May 28 (AGENCIES): Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in a petition alleging that the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government in Kerala, by insisting on 100% nativity as a pre-condition for medical admissions, is interfering in the fundamental rights of minority-run, private and unaided professional institutions to manage their own affairs and reach out to students from the central counselling list.

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NEW DELHI, May 28 (AGENCIES): Congress on Monday objected to an arm training camp organised by Bajrang Dal earlier this month in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh to “tackle” the anti-national elements, instances of cow slaughter and the so-called ‘love jihad’ cases.

Congress leader and MLA from Madhya Pradesh’s Raghogarh, Jaivardhan Singh, questioned the relevance of the training camp when a capable armed force is already present in the country. “It is surprising that in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district Bajrang Dal is training the youth to be murderers in the name of nationalism. When our armed forces have been protecting the nation since Independence then what it is the justification for organising a violent training camp like this?” he questioned.

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Across 1 Posers start leading in fashions (6) 4 A stubborn person takes time to display charm (6) 8 A garden shrub Cilla ordered (5) 9 One taking stock of another (7) 10 Idle act destroyed fortress (7) 11 A principal in front (5) 12 Old bus set out? Certainly!

(9) 17 Fish for old invader (5) 19 Perhaps I reveal a girl’s name (7) 21 Landlords delivered by postman? (7) 22 McCartney band is successful without guitar lead (5) 23 Desperate man has twisted his tongue (6) 24 Devil crossing river to see a pal (6) Down 1 Ill-will shown by mother to parasites (6) 2 Did grasp instrument with less concentration! (7) 3 Unfinished cryptic clue I’d make clear (5) 5 It makes error! (7) 6 French city badly walled by the French (5) 7 A long angry speech - read it out (6) 9 Awfully versatile members of the family (9) 13 Economise? It’s no good!

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India’s foreign exchange reser ves fell by USD 2.648 billion to USD 415.053 billion in the week to May 18, the Reserve Bank data showed.

The r upee opened with a wide gap-up at 67.52 against last weekend’s close of 67.78 at the inter-bank foreign exchange (forex) market on heavy dollar unwinding.

Building on strong momentum, the home currency shot up to hit an intra-day high of 67.29 in mid-morning trade before ending at 67.43, revealing a strong gain of 35 paise, or 0.52 per cent.

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India as gradual uptick in inflation made investors jittery and they fear the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may shift its stance from neutral to tightening which led to hardening of yield, a forex dealer said.

Brent crude futures, an international benchmark, is trading lower at USD 75.37 a barrel, down 1.14 per cent in early Asian trade.

In a further sign of confidence, currency traders and

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However, geopolitical uncertainties after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the planned talks with North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un along with importers demand for the dollar limited further gains in the local unit.

Similarly, selling pressures on government bonds eased significantly with the benchmark 10-year yield tumbled to 7.74 per cent from 7.79 per cent.

The Indian currency had breached the crucial 68 level and came within a whisker of a historic low against the dollar last week.

It has recouped a whopping 1.47 per cent in the last three days.

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Mumbai, May 28 (IANS): Ratings agency ICRA downgraded the Airline major Jet Airways’ credit rankings to junk status on the back of a net loss reported for 2017-18. The airline’s long term rating assigned to “Long term Loans” and “NonConvertible Debentures” was revised to lCRA BB+ (negative outlook) from ICRA BBB- (negative outlook). BB+ Rating is just below the investment grade rating of BBB-.

It is considered as highest junk rating.

According to a BSE filing made on Monday, the company said that ICRA has revised its short term rating to “ICRA A4+” from “ICRA A3”.

Rupee soars 35 paise to 2-week high Mumbai, May 28 (PTI): The rupee continued its unabated rise for the thirdstraight day, surging by 35 paise to end at a new twoweek high of 67.43 against the US dollar after a surprise crash in crude prices quickly faded near-term trade deficit and inflation worries.

The domestic currency market heaved a sigh of relief following a significant easing in crude prices that will lead to considerable improvement in India’s position on fiscal front, bolstering investor confidence towards the home currency.

Global crude oil collapsed after Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih endorsed prior comments from his Russian counterparts calling for self-imposed output curbs to be relaxed, perhaps as soon as June.

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D I M A P UR , M AY 2 8 (NPN): DaddysRoad, a mobile application devoted to vehicle safety, is planning to campaign among vehicle owners in Nagaland to create the awareness on vehicle safety and emergency assistance and how their app can contribute to a safer vehicle ownership experience.

DaddysRoad is an app that allows others to notify you, without sharing phone numbers, whenever your vehicle is in a situation requiring your attention.

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M U M B A I , M ay 2 8 (Agencies): The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has filed an objection to Walmart Inc’s $16 billion merger with e-commerce company Flipkart with the country’s competition watchdog, it said on Monday.

US retail giant Walmart said this month that it would pay $16 billion for a roughly 77 per cent stake in Flipkart, which CAIT’s filing said would create unfair competition and result in predatory pricing.

The deal is aimed at helping Walmart to compete with Amazon.com in a major growth market, prompting protests from trade and nationalist groups that say small traders will suffer.

Petrol in Delhi costs Rs 78.27 a litre and diesel is priced at Rs 69.17. Delhi has the lowest fuel price among all metros and most state capital due to lower incidence of local sales tax or VAT. “For a long-term solution, Government of India is planning for a holistic strategy... bringing petroleum products within the ambit of GST is one among them,” he said. “We are sensitive let’s see how things are unfolding”.

Pradhan was replying to questions on when consumers can expect relief from rising fuel prices.

He, however, did not elaborate on the solution or the holistic strategy. He also refused to say if the govern-

stated that the government is working on a long-term solution to address the volatility and frequent revisions in rates.

“The government is keen that instead of having an ad hoc measure, it may be desirable to have a longterm view which addresses not only the volatility but also takes care of the unnecessary ambiguity arising out of frequent ups and downs.

That process is underway,” he had said.

State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) were in April 2002 given freedom to revise rates of petrol and diesel on 1st and 16th of every month based on average rate of benchmark international petroleum product prices and rupee-US dollar rates in the preceding fortnight.

The revisions continued till just before the general elections in 2004 when oil companies went slow and after a Congress-led UPA came to power the entire process was reviewed as the international oil prices started moving up.

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ment is planning a cut in excise duty to provide relief to consumers.

The government had raised excise duty on petrol by Rs 11.77 a lire and that on diesel by 13.47 a litre in nine instalments between November 2014 and January 2016 to shore up finances as global oil prices fell, but then cut the tax just once in October last year by Rs 2 a litre.

The government had in June last year junked a 15-year old practice of revising rates every fortnight and introduced daily revisions which worked well except periods immediately preceding an election.

There was a 19-day freeze in revising rates before Karnataka went to polls, and since the time the hiatus ended on May 14, rates have gone up by on every single day - petrol price was today raised by 15 paisa a litre and diesel by 12 paisa, according to a price notification issued by oil marketing companies.

Last week, after a weekly meeting of the Union Cabinet Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had

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Bhubaneswar, May 28 (PTI): The government is planning a “holistic strategy” to find “long-term solution” to spike in petrol and diesel prices triggered by a spurt in international rates, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Monday.

He did not share any details of the strategy.

Petrol and diesel prices were today hiked for the 15th day in a row, taking the cumulative increase this month to the highest in at least five years.

Petrol price has been hiked by Rs 3.64 a litre and diesel by Rs 3.24 in Delhi since state-owned oil firms ended a 19-day preKarnataka poll hiatus to resume daily price revision on May 14.

The prices are at an all-time high.

“I have already categorically stated (on) this issue several times. The present oil price hike is due to three main factors. Hike in the international price of crude, fluctuation in the dollar and Indian currency ratio, and some of the tax issues are also there,” he told reporters here.

Mumbai, May 28 (PTI): Gold prices tumbled by Rs 275 to Rs 30,930 per ten grams at the bullion market here Monday, tracking a weak trend overseas and muted demand from local jewellers.

Silver also dropped by Rs 695 to Rs 39,610 per kg following persistent offtake from industrial units.

Standard gold (99.5 per cent purity) fell by Rs 275 to finish at Rs 30,930 per 10 grams from last Friday’s closing level of Rs 31,205.

Pure gold (99.9 per cent purity) also moved down by a similar margin to close at Rs 31,080 per 10 grams as against Rs 31,355.

Silver (.999 fineness) prices declined by Rs 695 to conclude at Rs 39,610 per kg compared to Rs 40,305 previously. Globally, gold prices fell for a second session after the US President Donald Trump revived hopes that he would meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month, lowering political tensions and demand for gold as a safe investment.

Spot g old slipped by 0.3 per cent to USD 1,297.85 an ounce in early trade. In other precious metals, spot silver was trading down 0.2 per cent at USD 16.44 an ounce.

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egations that negotiated the 2005 denuclearisation agreement through the sixparty framework.

The talks are expected to continue tomorrow at Tongilgak, or “Unification House,” the building in the northern part of the demilitarised zone where Kim met South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Saturday, The Post reported.

The presence of Sung Kim is a clear sign that the summit between the two leaders is back on track, CNN reported.

Trump last Thursday abruptly withdrew from the planned Singapore summit with Kim but quickly announced that it could get back on track.

The cancellation ap-

parently followed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo setting some strict groundrules ahead for the meeting, which in turn resulted in a North Korean minister saying that Pyongyang could make the US “taste an appalling tragedy” and that a stalemate could lead to a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown.”

Later, the North Korean leaders said they were ready to meet anytime and anywhere. Kim had an unscheduled meeting with South Korean President Moon where they discussed ways to revive the Singapore summit.

Yesterday, Trump said he saw “brilliant potential” in North Korea, continuing an upbeat tone about his planned summit with Kim. “I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial Nation one day. Kim Jong Un agrees with me on this. It will happen!” Trump tweeted.

If the Singapore summit takes place, it would be the first ever meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president.

L ON D ON, M ay 2 8 (Agencies): Britain must be “fully out” of the EU customs union after Brexit in order to be a global trading nation, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday, piling further pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May. “Now is our moment not to be less European -- we can do a great trade deal with the EU that will benefit both sides -- but to be truly global again,” Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph.

Speaking after a long tour of South America, Johnson said countries in the region had been “emphatic” and told him: “If this is to work, we must come fully out of the EU customs union”.

For Britain to be a “valid trading partner, then we must take back control -- as the PM has said -- of our tar-

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iff schedules, and do deals that are unhindered and uncomplicated,” he said.

With just one month to go until a critical European Union summit, the British government is deeply divided over its plans for future trade ties with the bloc after Britain’s withdrawal.

Johnson and some other ministers have advocated a clean cut with what is currently Britain’s biggest trading partner that would

Russian gas pipeline is a ‘new hybrid weapon’: Poland

WARSAW, May 28 (Agencies): Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called a planned Russian gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, a “new hybrid weapon’’ and says Moscow wants to use it to undermine NATO and the European Union.

Mateusz Morawiecki called Nord Stream 2 “a poisoned pill of European security’’ as he addressed a NATO Parliamenspeaker, for making this tary Assembly in Warsaw on Monday. decision with patience, setting aside emotion. The name of the person I would like to present is very respectable,” the veteran PPP leader said.

Ex-chief justice Nasir ul Mulk named Pak interim PM Shah said the NA speaker had played a major role in both parties reaching an agreement.

“We have made a democratic decision. I am thankful to the PM, to the

The Nord Stream 2 project would double the amount of natural gas Russia can funnel directly to energy-hungry Germany from newly tapped reserves in Siberia, intentionally skirting Eastern European nations like Poland and Ukraine.

The United States and some other EU members share Poland’s opposition to the project, warning that it could give Moscow greater leverage over Western Europe.

Rome, May 28 (IANS): Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday asked a former economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to form the government in a bid to end a political stalemate that has persisted in the Mediterranean country since elections two months ago produced a hung Parliament.

Mattarella’s formal request to Carlo Cottarelli came amid calls from populist and anti-establishment leaders for the President to be impeached for having rejected the candidacy of a eurosceptic as Finance Minister, the BBC reported.

Italy, the eurozone’s fourth biggest economy, has been without a government since elections in March because no political group could form a majority.

Two of the big winners from the vote -- populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League party -- attempted to join forces but abandoned efforts after their nomination for Finance Minister, 81-year-old Paolo Savona, was shot down by Mattarella. The SecretaryGeneral of the presidency, Ugo Zampetti, read out the brief announcement of Mattarella’s request, which mentioned that Cottarelli had accepted, albeit with reservations.

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ISLAMABAD, May 28 (PTI): Pakistan’s former chief justice Nasir ul Mulk was on Monday named as the country’s caretaker prime minister for a twomonth period, ending the political wrangling between ruling PML-N and the Opposition ahead of the general elections on July 25.

The announcement was made by Leader of the Opposition Khursheed Shah at a press conference here which was also attended by incumbent Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq.

Mulk, 67, is likely to be sworn in on Friday, June 1. The present government will complete the tenure on May 31 and the caretaker government will remain in office until a new government is set up through elections.

Shah expressed hope that Mulk will successfully conduct free, fair and impartial elections in Pakistan on July 25.

The announcement came after weeks of deadlock between the PML-N and the Opposition over the name of the caretaker prime minister. It took the government and the opposition six meetings to decide on a name for the position.

enable it to sign free trade deals with third countries.

But moderates have put forward a plan whereby Britain would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU for goods heading to the bloc and setting its own, separate tariffs for goods that do not.

The EU has instead proposed a “backstop” solution to avoid a border in Ireland under which Northern Ireland would remain aligned with and de facto still under the bloc’s rules, but Britain says that would effectively create a border between the province and the rest of the UK. A senior EU official last week said: “We have to do away with the fantasy that there is an all-UK solution”.

EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on Saturday urged Britain to stop playing “hide and seek” in Brexit negotiations.

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Washington, May 28 (PTI): President Donald Trump Sunday said a US team was in North Korea for preparatory talks ahead of a potential meeting between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, signalling that the muchtalked about summit in Singapore on June 12 was back on track.

“Our United States team has arrived in North Korea to make arrangements for the Summit between Kim Jong Un and myself,” Trump said in a tweet on Sunday.

While the US did not announce the delegation’s members, The Washington Post reported that Sung Kim, a former US ambassador to South Korea and former nuclear negotiator with the North, had been called in from his posting as envoy to the Philippines to lead the preparations.

Sung Kim met with North Korea’s Vice-Foreign minister Choe Son Hui, who said last week that Pyongyang was “reconsidering” the talks, the daily said. The two officials know each other well - both were part of their respective del-

Britain must ‘fully’ leave EU customs union, says Johnson

20 killed in suspected jihadist attack in Mali B A M A KO, M ay 2 8 (Agencies): Around 20 people including civilians were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in northeastern Mali near the border with Niger, sources said.

The deaths came after more than 100 people including many civilians, particularly from the Fulani and Tuareg communities, died in recent months as a result of attacks by rival armed groups in the region.

A local official in the town of Talataye -- where Saturday’s attack took place -- said late Sunday that the assailants arrived in three vehicles and on a motorcycle.

Khalil Toure, a teacher, added: “They opened fire on a group of people resting under a tree, killing five people on the spot and wounding two.”

Jihadists have also ramped up their activities in central Mali in recent months, targeting domestic and foreign forces in violence once confined to the country’s north.

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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ under performs; ‘Deadpool 2’ still No. 1 I n the largest disturbance yet in Disney’s otherwise lucrative reign over “Star Wars,” the Han Solo spinoff “Solo: A Star Wars Story” opened well below expectations with a franchise-low $83.3 million in ticket sales over the three-day weekend in North American theaters.

Disney estimated Sunday that “Solo” will gross $101 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, a figure below even the opening weekends of the much-derided “Star Wars” prequels. Last week, forecasts ran as high as $150 million for the four-day haul of “Solo.”

Overseas ticket sales were even worse. “Solo,” starring Alden Ehrenreich in the role made iconic by Harrison Ford, grossed $65 million internationally in its opening weekend, including a paltry $10.1 million in China. “Of course we would have hoped for this to be a bit bigger,” said Dave Hollis, Disney’s distribution chief. “We’re encouraged by the response that people have had to the film. It got a good CinemaScore (Aminus). The exits are very encouraging.”

“Solo” came in with a Millennium Falcon’s worth

of baggage following the mid-production firing of directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who were replaced by Ron Howard.

With the rejiggered production, the budget soared well past $250 million.

But the cause of the spinoff ’s disappointing performance may have had as much to do with “Star Wars” fatigue (“The Last Jedi” exited theaters just last month) and the stiffer competition of a summer holiday weekend. While no major releases dared to open against “Solo,” Fox’s “Deadpool 2” moved its release date up a week ahead of “Solo.”

The gambit may have hurt both releases. After debuting with $125 million last weekend, the R-rated Ryan Reynolds sequel dropped 66 percent to second place

with $42.7 million and an estimated $53.5 million four-day haul.

“Solo” notched the biggest Memorial Day weekend opening in several years, but it also came on the heels of a pair of a summer-sized blockbusters — “Deadpool 2” and Disney’s own “Avengers Infinity War” — making for an unusually crowded May. “Infinity War” added $16.5 million in its fifth weekend to bring its domestic total to $621.7 million and its global sales to $1.9 billion — both among the highest of all-time.

“The Last Jedi” also flopped in China (it was pulled from theaters after a week), and Rian Johnson’s movie — even though it grossed $1.3 billion worldwide — showed relatively weak legs at the box office, while proving divisive

BTS become first K-pop band to top US album charts

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outh Korean boy band BTS have become the first K-pop artists to reach number one on the US album charts. The K-pop superstars are part of the so-called Korean Wave, the global rise of Korean music, drama and film.

Known for their meticulously choreographed dance style and boyish good looks, the seven-member group is one of the country’s best selling musical exports. They have developed a fiercely devoted fan base, who call themselves the ARMY. The new BTS new album, Love Yourself: Tear, topped the Billboard 200 music charts on Sunday, which are based sales, downloads and streams of albums.

It had been released

earlier in May. Its first single, Fake Love, premiered at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.

Sung in Korean, the album is “the first primarily foreign-language No. 1 album in over 12 years,” according to Billboard.

For the week ending on 24 May it came in at 135,000 album units, pushing the previous weeks’ chart topper Post Malone to number 2.

BTS formed in 2013 and have won over global audiences with their blend of pop, R’n’B and hip hop.

The band - made up of members Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Rap Monster, Jimin, V and Jungkook - has released albums in Korean and Japanese and have as many as 10 million followers on social media.

Despite not singing in

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Their upcoming world tour will take them to the US and Canada before moving on to the UK, Netherlands Germany and France.

All 14 North America dates are already sold out, including the opening four consecutive concerts in the 21,000 capacity Staples Center in Los Angeles.

T h e d e vo t e d B T S ARMY have been celebrating their album success on social media.

The band has been performing since 2013. In 2017, their album Love Yourself: Her was the first K-Pop album to crack the top 10 US album charts, rising to number seven.

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among “Star Wars” diehards. The magic around a “Star Wars” film may be fading. To right the ship on Episode 9, Lucasfilm has turned to an old friend: “The Force Awakens” director J.J. Abrams. He, too, is replacing a fired director after Colin Trevorrow departed last fall.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Tuesday.

1. “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” $83.3 million ($65 million international).

2. “Deadpool 2,” $42.7 million.

3. “Avengers: Infinity War,” $16.5 million.

4. “Book Club,” $9.5 million.

5. “Life of the Party,” $5.1 million.

6. “Breaking In,” $4.1 million.

7. “Show Dogs,” $3.1 million.

8. “ Overboard,” $3 million.

9. “A Quiet Place,” $2.2 million.

10. “RBG,” $1.2 million.

(FoxNews)

Mariah Carey sells massive diamond ring from ex

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ariah Carey has sold the ­35-carat diamond engagement ring James Packer gave her two years ago.

The huge sparkler, widely reported to be worth $10 million, was part of the financial settlement the diva made in 2017 after her split from the Australian media baron.

“Mariah has been very vocal recently about her choice to move forward in her life surrounded by positivity,” her publicist told me. “That requires leaving emotional and material baggage behind, including an old engagement ring from an exboyfriend.”

A source said Carey had one of her business managers quietly sell the ring for $2.1 million to a Los Angeles jeweler.

“A confidentiality agreement was signed, but the jeweler is currently selling it, and there’s only one such ring,” my source said. “Mariah Carey’s public relations people are desperately trying to keep the story from the press, and have threatened the jeweler with litigation if he discloses her name.”

(FoxNews)

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ctor Akshay Kumar, who starred in films like “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha” and “Pad Man” that depicted issues like sanitation and menstruation hygiene respectively, says that making documentary films won’t change people’s mind the way commercial cinema impacts on changing the society in a positive way.

“Documentary films won’t help because people want to see hero-heroine falling in love, fighting with parents, fighting with villains. Commercial cinema will create such impact because audiences relate with actors,” Akshay said at the Niine Menstrual Awareness Conclave here on Monday.

The Niine movement, an ambitious five-year plan aimed at raising awareness about the importance of menstrual hygiene and tackling the taboos associated with menstruation, has been officially launched at the inaugural conclave to mark Menstrual Hygiene Day. (IANS)

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Netflix horror movie ‘Veronica’ ‘Sanju’ trailer is so scary people can’t watch makes Rishi Kapoor proud of Ranbir

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orror movie fans are being pushed to their limit by a new Netflix original, with many having to turn it off halfway through as it’s so scary.

“Veronica,” a Spanish original directed by Paco Plaza, tells the story of a teenage girl who tries to make contact with her dead dad using a Ouija board during a solar eclipse.

WARNING: Spoilers for “Veronica” below: She calls on her friends Diana and Rosa to help her out, and initially the girls try to reach out to Diana’s dead boyfriend.

But in typical horror film fashion, things don’t go to plan and Veronica passes out during the seance.

Over the next three days all sorts of freakish things start happening, with unnerving sound effects, sudden flying objects and a seriously creepy chain-smoking blind nun all ramping up the fear factor.

Many viewers have taken to Twitter in their droves to admit they can’t cope with watching it.

One tweeted, “Started watching Veronica on Netflix (huge REC fan so interested in anything Paco Plaza is involved in) but the demon walking down the hallway scene freaked me out so much I had to turn it off.”

“I nearly peed my pants watch Veronica on Netflix last night. Yet another reason to NOT do a Ouija board!,” another commented “Ok, I’m watching #Veronica on my own. I’ve nearly had to turn it off twice... I’m only halfway through,” admitted another.

Part of what makes “Veronica” so terrifying is that is is based on a true story.

In 1992, Madrid police investigated the mysterious death of a young girl, who passed away in hospital shortly after meddling with a Ouija board.

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eteran actor Rishi Kapoor felt overwhelmed after watching the trailer of “Sanju” as his son and actor Ranbir Kapoor’s work in the film left him feeling proud.

“Sanju” is a biopic on actor Sanjay Dutt (essayed

by Ranbir), directed by Rajkumar Hirani.

“The way Rajkumar Hirani has presented Ranbir is the biggest superb thing, the boy has really done well.

I am so proud of him. I swear on (wife) Neetu and Ranbir, I did not think it was Ranbir, I thought it was Sanjay Dutt,” said Rishi after watching the trailer, read a statement.

“You don’t know how emotionally triggered I am right now at the point where Vinod (Chopra) and Raju (Rajkumar Hirani) have shown me this trailer. The first appearance of Ranbir from the jail, I thought it was Sanjay Dutt,” he added.

“Sanju” showcases the highs and lows of Sanjay’s life.

The film also stars Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala, Vicky Kaushal, Sonam Kapoor and Dia Mirza. Co-produced by Vinod Chopra Films and Rajkumar Hirani Films in association with Fox Star Studios, the film is scheduled to release on June 29.

(IANS)

Anthrax’s Belladona sings national anthem at Wrigley Field

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nthrax frontman Joey Belladonna sang the U.S. national anthem before Chicago Cubs’ victory over the San Francisco Giants in the opener of a three-game series at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.

Belladonna, who has sung the U.S. national anthem at a number of sporting events over the past several years, spoke to “Panini Unwrapped” about the experience of performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in front of huge crowds of people, many of whom are unfamiliar with his name or the band’s music.

“I just love doing the anthem,” he said. “People get off on it. And I really respect the game and the anthem itself, so it’s a pleasure to be able to be asked to be a part of that.”

Asked how he would compare singing the anthem at a stadium to playing to large audiences composed of heavy metal fans, Joey said: “The anthem is even more tense, because you’re all by yourself, everything goes quiet, and

there’s really no key to sing in. I just kind of go out there and just wing it, but I like to keep it traditional.

But it is a very unnerving…

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fore they give you the okay [to go out there and sing], it’s, like, ‘Woah!’ I’ve gotten nervous, but once you get going, you just focus on doing it.”

Belladonna rejoined Anthrax for the 2010 “Big Four” shows, in the process helping inspire a new wave of creativity, beginning with 2011’s “Worship Music”.

Anthrax is supporting Slayer on the first two legs of the Tom Araya-fronted outfit’s last-ever North American run of dates.

Also appearing on the bill are Lamb of God, Testament and Behemoth (with Napalm Death replacing Behemoth for the second leg).

(Blabbermouth)

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usician Sting whose given name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, has received an honorary degree from Ivy League school Brown University on its 250th commencement, for his contribution to the environment.

The Rhode Island school presented the degree to the musician who formed the pioneering Brit-

ish rock band The Police with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers in 1977 and co-founded an environmental organisation, the Rainforest Fund, to protect the world’s rainforests, on Sunday, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

The ceremony took place at the First Baptist Church in America from the Brown campus, the oldest Baptist church congregation in the US. Sting, who has received 16 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, among other accolades till date, has churned out hit tracks like “Desert rose”, “Roxanne”, “Seven days”, “Fields of gold” and “Every Breath You Take”, among others.

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World Cup’s head organiser plays down hooliganism worries

Alexey Sorokin

Police investigating death threats to Loris Karius

everyone knows,” he said.

While Sorokin admitted there had been delays at Samara Arena in southeast Russia, he was confident the World Cup would go off without a hitch.

“All the stadiums are ready for the tournament and all test matches have been held there. According to FIFA regulations, three test matches must be organised,” he said.

The 2018 World Cup Russia will go down in

NEW DELHI, May 28 (PTI): The BCCI has requested the Union government to formally convey its position with regards to India-Pakistan bilateral cricket series, which is on hold since 2012 due to political tension between the two neighbours.

The BCCI has repeatedly clarified its stance that it won’t be able to engage in bilateral contests unless the government gives clearance.

It is understood that the richest cricket board wants a formal communication before they head to ICC Disputes Resolution Forum where they are set to counter PCB’s compensation claim of $70

million for not honouring the MoU, signed in 2014.

“The BCCI would be grateful if you could formally convey the policy/ position of the Government of India on the need or requirement of prior clearance from the Government of India for the Indian cricket team to play the Pakistan cricket in in-bound or outbound tours,” BCCI recently wrote to the ministry.

When asked about the latest e-mail, a senior BCCI official told PTI, “These are routine communications on part of BCCI. It is our duty to seek permission from the government with regards to bilateral series. Our job is to

are being looked into by Merseyside Police after the Champions League.

The newspaper said Karius and his family are the subject of disturbing hate messages after mistakes he made during the match against Real Madrid were credited with LFC’s defeat.

Some of the more extreme posts also threatened Karius’ girlfriend and some even said, “I hope you get cancer”.

Merseyside Police, headquartered in Liverpool, confirmed they are looking into the messages as a matter of urgency.

Back injury rules Hazlewood out of England tour

Nizams FC, Trinity SC reach CPL final

Josh Hazlewood

B r i s ba n e , M ay 2 8 (IANS): Australia were dealt a major blow ahead of their limited-overs tour to England after pace spearhead Josh Hazlewood was ruled out with a back injury.

Uncapped Queensland quick Michael Neser has been named as the 27-yearold Hazlewood’s replacement in the already-depleted squad, sans the injured duo of Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins.

“Josh has been managing some low level bone stress in his lumbar spine for a short period,” said CA physiotherapist David Beakley.

“He had a repeat scan today and although it has not progressed to a fracture he is starting to experience some lower back pain,” Beakley added.

The uncapped Neser will now be a part of a rookie Kangaroo attack led

by Kane Richardson (15 ODIs), Andrew Tye (four), Jhye Richardson (one) and Billy Stanlake (two).

The Aussies will play five ODIs and a lone T20 in their tour of England, starting with the first 50over game at The Oval on June 13.

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it 3-1. Pele added to his tally by scoring a screamer from 40 yards to make it 4-1. Teammate attacked without ceasing towards the end of the second half but some robust defending denied them from scoring.

Defending Champions Trinity Sporting edged past Case FC 4-3 in the other semi final match.

Trinity drew first blood as they opened the score through Atokito within 3 minutes. A sublime long ball from the midfield by Lipok landed at the foot of Atokito who tap into the back of the net. Akum levelled the score with a wonderful run beating the defence.

Case FC keeper fumbled a long range effort

from Lanusubu to make it 2-1 in favour of Trinity.

Both the teams played very open attacking football with the game see sawing from one side to the other.

After the break, Atokito completed his hat-trick, scoring two goals within 5 minutes to make it 4-1.

Edging towards full time, Chichang and Akum proved their mettle as they both scored in the last 5 minutes to make 4-3.

Case FC continued to pursue for the equalizer. In the end, the experience of the Trinity players in holding on to a strong position eventually helped them to a 4-3 win. However, it was a game which any of the two sides could have won.

Neymar rubbishes Real Madrid rumours

Neymar

Rio de Janeiro, May 28 (IANS): Brazil and Paris Saint Germain (PSG) star striker Neymar has rubbished rumours linking him to Spanish giants Real Madrid, also revealing that he is not fully fit after training for a week with Brazil in their World Cup preparations.

“My focus is Brazil, people are talking nonsense

Buenos Aires, May 28 (Agencies): Lionel Messi says he is “increasingly sure” Barcelona will be the only club he ever represents in Europe.

Messi is preparing for another World Cup bid with Argentina and says only a chance to play in his homeland for Newell’s Old Boys really appeals to him when his club career begins to wind down.

The 30-year-old spent time with the Rosariobased club before moving to Barcelona as a teenager and coming through the club’s ‘C’ and ‘B’ teams on his road to stardom.

“I’m increasingly sure that in Europe, Barcelona will be my only club,” Messi said in an interview with Argentine television station El Trece.

“I always said I wanted to play in Argentine football one day, I don’t know if it will happen but I have it in my mind. It would be at Newell’s, nowhere else.

I would like to do that for at least six months, but you never know what will happen.”

“My dream was to play for Newell’s as a kid, going to the matches with my dad, my brothers, my friends... after that; circumstances in life took me elsewhere but I still have that in mind.”

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Messi is also glad he decided to play for Argentina, rather than Spain, in his international career even though he would almost certainly be a World Cup and dual European Championship winner if he had chosen differently.

“The other day I was talking to a friend and he told me ‘if you had chosen Spain, you’d be a World

Cup winner already’, but it wouldn’t have been the same,” he added.

“Obviously in no moment did I think about doing that. To win it with Argentina would be something unique. We have players to be able to dream.

It’s important to start off with a win to build confidence. We don’t have an easy group.”

Formally convey policy regarding Indo-Pak series: BCCI to govt

L o n d o n, M ay 2 8 (IANS): Police in Liverpool said they are investigating as a matter of urgency several death threats against goalkeeper Loris Karius following Real Madrid’s stunning 3-1 win in the Champion’s League final in Kiev.

Liverpool’s German keeper was blamed by many fans for failing to block goals, including one which one sports commentator described as a “schoolboy save.”

The Liverpool Echo newspaper reported that hundreds of explicit messages, sent on social media,

Dimapur, May 28 (NPN): Nizam FC and Trinity Sporting Club have reached the final of Case Premier League Season 3.

The final will be played on June 2.

In the first match, Nizams FC cr uised to the finals after thrashing Teammate 4-1. Nizams’ Pele scored the first goal through a penalty in the 2nd minute. Teammate were resolute to put one back through Taliyanger in the 23rd minute. Nizams FC squandered a lot chances, however, Mhachen increased the lead through a fine one-two with Pito beating the keeper to put the ball into the net.

After the break, Mhachen scored again to make

L o n d o n, M ay 2 8 (IANS): In the aftermath of the humiliating nine-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the opening Test at Lord’s, England selectors on Monday recalled opener Keaton Jennings for the second Test at Headingley, while dropping an off-colour Mark Stoneman from the squad.

Jennings, 25, scored a century on his Test debut against India in Mumbai but lost his place midway through last season after struggling to build on that early milestone.

Stoneman failed twice at Lord’s -- bowled by Mohammad Abbas in the first innings and defeated by a ball that kept low from Shadab Khan in the second -- in a display bereft of confidence. “Keaton Jennings showed a strong temperament in scoring a hundred on his Test match debut against India in December 2016,” national selector Ed Smith said.

“Keaton has found good form in county cricket this season, including three centuries in his last seven innings.” “Mark Stoneman misses out at Headingley.

Mark has experienced a disappointing start to the 2018 season and had a difficult Test match at Lord’s,” Smith added.

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and that is not worth answering,” Neymar was quoted as saying by espnfc at Brazil’s football confederation headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.

Neymar has been consistently linked with a move to the Bernabeu this summer.

On his recovery from a foot injury suffered in February, the former Brazil

captain added: “Physically I am well, my foot is fine. I am adapting to a few things.

I still feel some discomfort, but it is not something that will trouble me,” the 26year-old said.

Asked how well he was feeling now, Neymar said, “Not 100 percent yet.

But that comes with time.

It is normal that I have this fear of making complete movements. Let’s take it easy, there are still many days until the (World Cup) opener and I will be 100 percent then.”

Brazil will take on Croatia in a friendly on June 3, and Neymar - who has not played a match since the injury - hopes to be on the pitch again for that game in Liverpool.

ask and it’s up to the government. We understand that bilateral series in prevailing circumstances is very difficult.

But if we get a reply from the government in ‘black and white’, it will help us.”

PCB had appealed to ICC’s Dispute Resolution Committee, accusing the BCCI of not honouring the

Future Tours & Programme (FTP) commitment, which also required them to play at least two away series against Pakistan on a neutral venue like the UAE. “The International Cricket Council on Monday confirmed that the Hon Michael Beloff QC will chair the Dispute Panel in the matter of proceedings between the Pakistan Cricket Board and the Board of Control for Cricket in India,” ICC had then said in a release. “The two other members of the panel, which has been established under the Terms of Reference of the ICC Disputes Resolution Committee, are Jan Paulsson and Dr Anabelle

Benett AO, SC,” it further said. The world governing body for the game also made it clear that decision of the Dispute Panel shall be non-appealable. “The hearing will take place as per article 10.4 of the Terms

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of Reference of the ICC Disputes Resolution Committee, the decision of the Dispute Panel shall be nonappealable and shall remain the full and final decision in relation to the matter and binding on all parties.”

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of Late Mr. Ketouzo Sachü Words can't express how much we miss you since you left us for your heavenly abode yet the memories you left behind are still fresh in our minds. Love never ends with death. You will be remembered in our hearts until we meet again.

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tion, we have exchanged data on people who are blacklisted and who are prohibited from accessing stadiums.”

The director general said fans can look forward to discovering just how much Russian culture, identity and cuisine varies among each of the World Cup host cities.

“We will try to show Russia as a very diverse country, with the venues including large cities that

history due to the implementation of the Video Assistant Referee technology, which has polarised the football world over whether it will change the game for better or worse.

Sorokin was unconcerned, saying “VAR was already tested during the FIFA Confederations Cup. Now, we have been able to improve and perfect it.”

“We have taken into consideration several aspects and it will be better for all the fans inside the stadium,” he predicted.

The director general remained tight-lipped on his expectations for the Russian national team in the tournament.

“As a member of the organising committee, we have to be absolutely impartial. We ensure that all teams will compete in the same conditions,” he explained.

“But as a Russian citizen, I can only wish our national team success. I think we have a good chance of advancing from the group stage to the round of 16,” he added.

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M ad r i d, M ay 2 8 (IANS): Alexey Sorokin, director general of the organising committee for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, played down what he called overblown concerns about football hooliganism, while discussing stadium surprises and the new Video Assistant Referee.

S o r o k i n , w h o r eplaced Vitaly Mutko at the end of December, said in an interview with Efe on Monday that he wanted to put to bed questions in the British press about a possible alliance between Russian and Argentine ultras to confront English hooligans.

“I really think that the British press exaggerates.

It’s bizarre to think people would go to the World Cup to commit acts of violence,” Sorokin explained to Efe, a little over two weeks before the global sporting event kicks off.

“People go to the World Cup to watch football and learn about the host country,” he said, but added: “In the framework of international coopera-

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(1/3/1962 – 26/5/2018) Through this column, we would like to express our deep and heartfelt gratitude to all our friends, neighbours and well wishers for their comforting help and support at the sudden demise of our Late Janak Rai (Johny), at D Block, Kohima.

While we have nothing to give in return for all your help at this very sad moment, we hope and pray that the Good God blesses you all abundantly.

Daughter and family members

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ‘’For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain’’.

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We the bereaved family members would like to convey our sincere gratitude to every individual, relatives, neighbours, friends from far and near, churches and well wishers who shared our grief with gesture of love and care and supported us spiritually, physically, emotionally, materially and financially during our sad loss and also throughout till her last breath .

Late Xuvule Kath We would like to extend Born on : 1931 our deepest gratitude to : Died on : 18.05.2018 1. RBC Padumpukhuri 2. RBC Women Department 3. Ehunnu Baptist Church 4. A G Church Yikhanu 5. Ehunnu & Yikhanu Women Fellowship 6. Commandant, staff & uniform personnels HG&CD,CTI 7. Regma Community Padumpukhuri 8. Ehunnu & Yikhanu Fellowship Dimapur 9. Ghokimi Kuposhukulo Dimapur 10. Bridge of Hope Staff, Ekranipathar 11. Kandi Ni Union Dimapur 12. Hatesi. Monti & Kehoshe Descendants 13. Atheghi gwe ghi kemehai zi We deeply regret our inability to mention everyone individually, but we pray that Almighty God bless you abundantly for your gracious deeds.

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“I Look up to the sky and talk to you.

What I wouldn’t give to hear you talk back.

I miss your voice, I miss your laughter, I miss everything about you.”

Love you always.

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FIFA World Cup: England’s Kvitova, Osaka advance at French Open Tarkowski withdraw from squad 6-0, 6-1 in just 42 minutes.

Suarez, 29, prevailed over the world No. 104 for the second time in two career encounters, winning 86 percent of her first serves, compared to Konjuh’s 32 percent.

Azarenka crashes out

Petra Kvitova celebrates after her win.

PARIS, May 28 (Agencies): Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova fought back from a set down to beat Paraguayan Veronica Cepede Royg and reach the French Open second round on Monday.

The eighth seed struggled early on Court Philippe Chatrier, but came through 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 to set up a meeting with Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena.

The 28-year-old Kvitova is one of the favourites to win a maiden Roland Garros title after winning four titles this season, including on clay in Prague and Madrid.

“I’ve won 12 matches straight on clay, but I’m still a long way from Rafa,” she said in reference to Ra-

fael Nadal’s upcoming bid for an 11th men’s singles crown.

Cepede Royg, who surprisingly reached the last 16 in Paris last year, claimed the first set courtesy of a single break of the Kvitova serve.

But the Czech roared back, racing through the second set in only half an hour, before holding her nerve in a tight decider as Cepede Royg dropped serve in the 11th game.

Meanwhile, Japan’s Naomi Osaka displayed the best and worst sides of her game in a 6-2 7-5 first-round win against American Sofia Kenin on Monday.

The 21st seed seemed en route to a nice morning

Kohima inter-high and higher secondary school football tourney

Kohima, May 28 (NPN): The 2nd Kohima District Inter-High and Higher Secondary School Football Tournament, organised by Royal Club Kohima in collaboration with the department of School Education and Youth Resource, Government of Nagaland, will commence on June 25 at Kohima local ground.

Entry forms will be made available from June 1 till June 15 between 9:30 am and 4:00 pm on all the working days. The last date of submission of forms is June 15.

Therefore, interested schools have been requested collect the entry forms from Havells Galaxy Store, Peracieze, , High School area, Kohima; United Traders, main town Kohima and URA Hotel, near Red Cross building, Kohima.

For more information, contact organising committee secretary at 9863120326 or 9436010273.

PDBA executive meeting on May 31

Dimapur, may 28 (NPN): Phek District Badminton Association (PDBA) has convened an executive members meeting on May 31 at 9:00 am at Pine Hotel, Kohima. Matters relating to hosting of Nagaland interdistrict badminton tournament and open championship 2018 will be discussed during the meeting. Therefore, all the executive members of PDBA and advisors have been requested attend the meeting without fail.

Naomi Osaka returns a shot to Sofia Kenin.

stroll on court 3 in Paris but lost her focus in the second set before regaining her composure to set up a second-round meeting with Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan.

She blazed through the opening set but let her guard down early in the second as Kenin broke in the first game to open a 2-0 lead.

The Japanese continued to spray the court with unforced errors, allowing her opponent to steal her serve a second time.

Then Kenin suffered a terrible meltdown as Osaka won 18 out of 20 points to go from 5-2 down to 6-5 up.

She wrapped it up on Kenin’s serve on her

first match point when the American sent a forehand long.

Also sailing into the second round is Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro who beat Croatia’s Ana Konjuh

Former world number one Victoria Azarenka’s return to Grand Slam tennis lasted just two sets as the Belarusian slumped to a 7-5, 7-5 loss to Katerina Siniakova in the first round on Monday.

Azarenka, who missed much of last season after being embroiled in a custody battle over her son, was broken to love in the 12th games of each set to be dumped out by world number 57 Siniakova.

The two-time Australian Open champion has now won just two matches at Roland Garros in the last five years. Czech Siniakova moves onto a second-round match with Ukraine’s Kateryna Kozlova, who stunned defending champion Jelena Ostapenko on Sunday, in a part of the draw in which the only remaining seed is number 26 Barbora Strycova.

Garcia-Lopez knocks Wawrinka out

Former French Open champion Stan Wawrinka continued to struggle with form and fitness as he was dumped out in the first round by Guillermo Garcia-Lopez on Monday, a defeat which will send his world ranking plummeting.

Wawrinka, who lost to Rafael Nadal in last year’s final and won the 2015 title, was beaten in a five-set thriller 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 by the Spanish world number 67 on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

The 33-year-old has been plagued by a knee injury and arrived at Roland Garros having won just one match on clay in Geneva last week, his first event in three months. The defeat means that the three-time Grand Slam champion will slip from 30th in the world to outside the top 250 after the tournament, having failed to defend the ranking points he gained in 2017.

ICC investigating match-fixing claims L o n d o n, M ay 2 8 (Agencies): The ICC has launched an investigation into claims of matchfixing in Test cricket made in a documentary by Al Jazeera. A report in the Telegraph on Friday said the documentary would show a groundsman telling undercover reporters that the outcome of England’s Test against Sri Lanka in Galle, starting in November, can be influenced.

It alleged the pitch can be doctored so that a draw is impossible, meaning anyone involved in such a scheme would back against that outcome. There is no suggestion that any players would be involved.

Alex Marshall from the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit, said in a statement: “The ICC has now had

the opportunity to view the documentary into corruption in cricket and as we have previously stated, we are taking the contents of the programme and the allegations it has made extremely seriously.

“A full investigation led by the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit, working with full cooperation from all Member countries identified in the programme, is now underway to examine each claim made.”

“We have been in ongoing dialogue with the broadcaster which has re-

fused our continual requests to cooperate and share information which has hampered our investigation to date.

The content of the programme, is of course useful to the investigation, but I would now urge the production team to provide us with all un-edited and unseen evidence they are in possession of, to enable us to expedite a thorough investigation.”

“Given this is a live investigation and one that is likely to be subject to the legal process, it is not possible to provide any further comment. Our Anti-Corruption Unit is committed to working to uphold integrity in cricket and would urge anyone with any information to contact us.”

London, May 28 (Agencies): Gareth Southgate is unlikely to call up any more defenders to train with the England squad following the withdrawal from the World Cup standby list of Burnley’s James Tarkowski.

Tarkowski left the Midlands training camp on Sunday afternoon as he needs surgery on a hernia problem, but Burnley are confident he will be fit in time to join them for pre-season training next month.

Southgate is yet to decide for certain but, with six other players in his squad of 23 who can operate at centre-back, he currently feels there is adequate cover.

His four recognised centre-backs can be added to with Kyle Walker and Eric Dier, both of whom have deputised in the position. Should any more defenders develop knocks, at least before the FIFA deadline for the final squad of 23 to be submitted on June 4, Southgate will still have the flexibility to change his plans.

But with Liverpool’s Joe Gomez and Swansea’s Alfie Mawson out injured, and Chris Smalling out of favour with the England manager, only Jamaal Lascelles is a credible standby

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James Tarkowski

option and Southgate is not currently inclined to invite the Newcastle captain.

Only the Liverpool duo of Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold are still absent from the England group.

They will have the rest of this week off, before meeting up with the team during Saturday’s friendly with Nigeria at Wembley.

Both will then train on their own on Sunday, before joining their first full England training session on June 4 - eight days before England depart for Russia.

Harry Kane

The striker, who will be England’s captain, will be central to their hopes in Russia and he has something to prove after looking exhausted throughout the 2016 European Championship finals. His 12 goals in 23 appearances for his country have shown he can translate his prolific form for Tottenham Hotspur (30 Premier League goals this past season) to the international stage and with his club mate Dele Alli likely to play behind him, the Spurs link could be crucial.

Raheem Sterling

The former Liverpool winger has improved his all-round game significantly under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and his pace, skill and ability to go past defenders could provide the moments of inspiration England will need in a squad otherwise short of stardust. The 23-year-old has not always delivered in England colors, though, and will be desperate to do so this time.

Coach: Gareth Southgate

The 47-year-old Southgate was an England international defender and midfielder who played for Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough during a career which saw him win 57 caps for his country. After his playing career, he managed Middlesbrough for three years before taking charge of England’s Under-21 team. Southgate was appointed England manager in November, 2016, having previously taken temporary charge of the side following the sacking of Sam Allardyce.

He is keen to see England play a similar style throughout the age groups with more emphasis on ball-playing defenders and attacking wing-backs and looks likely to go with five at the back in Russia.

Previous tournaments

England have appeared in 14 World Cups, including the last five. Their best performance was 1966, on home soil, when they won the tournament, beating West Germany 4-2.

Their best performance since that triumph was in 1990 when they lost on penalties in the semi-final to West Germany. They reached the quarter-finals in 2002 and 2006 but went out at the group stage in 2014.

England World Cup squad Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Jack Butland (Stoke), Nick Pope (Burnley) Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier, Danny Rose (both Tottenham), Harry Maguire (Leicester), Phil Jones (Man Utd), John Stones (Man City), Gary Cahill (Chelsea) Midfielder: Jordan Henderson, (Liverpool), Eric Dier, Dele Alli (both Tottenham), Jesse Lingard, Ashley Young (both Man Utd), Fabian Delph (Man City), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea), Forwards: Raheem Sterling (Man City), Jamie Vardy (Leicester), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Man Utd), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal).

Stand-by list: Tom Heaton (Burnley), Lewis Cook (Bournemouth), Jake Livermore (West Bromwich Albion), Adam Lallana (Liverpool)

Spain’s Carvajal fit for World Cup

Dani Carvajal

Madrid, May 28 (IANS): Spain defender Dani Carvajal is likely fit enough to appear in next month’s 2018 FIFA World Cup, despite suffering from a minor right hamstring injury, according to a statement from Spain’s national team on Monday.

The Real Madrid defender walked off the field in tears on Saturday during the first half of the Champions League final against Liverpool, but his participation in the World Cup, which kicks off June 14, still depends on the final decision of Spain coach Julen Lopetegui, reports Efe. “Carvajal (is) to join the squad in training camp as part of his recovery,” the statement said.

“Carvajal has undergone medical tests (MRI scan) this morning with his club and where the Spanish side medical staff were present. It has been determined he has injured muscle tissue on his right hamstring,” it added.

Spain began training on Monday in preparation for its pre-World Cup friendlies against Switzerland on June 3 and Tunisia on June 9.

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