May 5, 2018

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Sushma Swaraj interacts with NE CMs

Pushes for effective implementation of ‘Act East Policy’ Spl. Correspondent/Agencies

NEW DELHI, MAY 4 (NPN): Union External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj on Friday chaired an interactive session on ‘Act East Policy’ with the chief ministers of eight North Eastern states.

The meeting deliberated on the North Eastern region’s intra-regional and sub-regional surface and air linkages, focusing on seamless connectivity with its contiguous neighbourhood.

Continued development of relevant infrastructure both within the state and at international borders was also discussed with a view to enhancing trade, investment, tourism and peopleto-people ties.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that the state governments of the North Eastern region were active stake-holders in India’s ‘Act East Policy’.

The chief ministers of the North Eastern states

MHA issues fresh warning for thunderstorm NEW DELHI, MAY 4 (AGENCIES): Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued fresh warning about thunderstorm and squall hitting Eastern region particularly West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, and noted that 124 people were killed while more than 300 injured in five states due to thunderstorm and lightning in the last two days.

The home ministry spokesperson said thunderstorm accompanied with squall are very likely at isolated places over Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.

PAC meeting with legislators

DIMAPUR, MAY 4 (NPN): Political Affairs Committee (PAC) has decided to convene a meeting with all legislators of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) to discuss the way-forward towards early settlement of the Naga political issue. The meeting would be held on May 9, 2018 at 11am at the State Banquet Hall, chief minister’s residence.

All the ministers, advisors and MLAs have been requested to attend the meeting.

Sushma Swaraj with chief ministers and representatives of eight NE states in Delhi, Friday.

raised several issues pertaining to the growth and development of their respective states and the region as a whole through the effective implementation of the Act East Policy, which would boost trade and cultural relations with Asia – Pacific countries. The CMs made these suggestions known to the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal took to Twitter saying: “The #ActEastPolicy is giving new momentum to the growth story of #NorthEast. With focus on connectivity and infrastructure development, the region will become the hub of trade, tourism and cultural exchange with the countries of #ASEAN.” “Improved connectiv-

ity and infrastructure will lead to exponential growth in the tourism sector in the region in the days to come as North East India has a lot to offer on the tourism front.

The region can also expect increased flow of patients from Southeast Asian,” Sonowal said.

He also urged the ministry to simplify existing visa regime for facilitating free movement of people, including introduction of provisions like visa-on- arrival at North Eastern capitals and relaxing restricted area permit for ASEAN countries for visiting North East.

Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K. Sangma said that there were challenges in implementation of Act East Policy and continuous engagement with other

BJP justifies appointment of leaders as PDA members

D I M A P U R , M AY 4 (NPN): State BJP has justified appointment of its senior leaders as members of PDA by asserting that this will not be a burden to the State exchequer but rather accelerate the pace of development in the long run.

In a statement issued on Friday by its media cell, BJP, while understanding the public apprehension over these appointments, assured it would usher in development and open windows for funds to pour into the State with collective effort. It also urged the people not to jump the gun but give some time to the PDA government to revitalise the State’s economy.

The party also thanked chief minister, Neiphiu Rio for showing “magnanimity” by appointing its senior leaders as members of PDA. Stating that these appointments were not only in the spirit of

coalition, but a well-thought strategy to strengthen the alliance and ensure smooth functioning of the government, BJP pointed out that elections are simply not won by legislators alone but require active support and coordination of partymen.

And referring to senior political party members as “mere” party leaders exposes the shallow mindedness and ignorance of party politics and governance in a multi-party democracy, it added. BJP asserted that these appointments also will ensure that the commitments made by the alliance before polls are effectively fulfilled in coordination with the government at the Centre.

The party also congratulated leaders from other political parties under PDA on becoming a part of the government.

Y. Patton, S. Pangyu Phom and Ananta Mishra with Muralidhar Rao in Bengaluru on Friday.

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DDADU warns auto drivers D I M A P U R , M AY 4 (NPN): Dimapur District Autorickshaw Drivers’ Union (DDADU) has warned the autorickshaw drivers against plying the Nagarjan Bridge, saying the weak bridge posed great danger to autorickshaw passengers and drivers.

In a press release, Dimapur District Autorickshaw Drivers’ Union general secretary, Inito Shohe, has directed all the autorickshaw drivers to refrain from plying till the bridge was renovated or new one was built.

The union cautioned that stern action would be taken against any autorickshaw drivers not following its directive.

Further, DDADU has requested the responsible department and district administration to address the matter with utmost importance.

Gov bats for implementing Street Vendors Act 2014

D I M A P U R , M AY 4 (NPN): Terming it as ‘antistate’ and suicidal, Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has demanded that the proposal to implement Nagaland Special Development Zone (NSDZ) be revoked without further delay.

In a representation to the chief minister Neiphiu Rio, NTC president Toniho Yepthomi and general secretary Nribemo Ngullie pointed out that the intention of NSDZ was to curve out the plain sector of the state for outsiders for permanent settlement. It said nonindigenous people from outside Nagaland will virtually overwhelm the earmarked area, which will eventually be the base for intrusion of unauthorized citizens to take control of Nagaland.

The council also raised several issues pertaining to the state like the Nagaland Land and Revenue (Amendment) act, 1978, Intanki National Park, extension of BEFR Act to cover the entire administrative jurisdiction of Nagaland, revocation of ‘Disturb Area Act, objection to Uniform Civil Code etc.

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upon the vendors to be aware about the various provisions of the Street Vendors Act and remain vigilant and pro-active in getting the law implemented.

“This will not only benefit the vendors but will also be an ‘affordable’, ‘healthy’ as well as ‘convenient’ service to the majority of the population,” Governor Acharya stated.

Further, the governor stated that vegetable vendors sometimes were forced to sell their vegetables at distress price to avoid the trouble of carrying back perishable vegetable to their villages.

Acharya opined that the government providing them with individual kiosk in daily or monthly rent or provides refrigerated storage at a minimal cost would be of great help and relief to the vendors.

Governor had written to the chief minister on March 14, 2018 with regard to providing kiosks for women vegetable vendors for clean and secure business.

FNR outlines stance on Naga nationalism DIMAPUR, MAY 4 (NPN): Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) has outlined its position that ‘Naga nationalism does not lie in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides urgently”.

In an open public interaction held in New Delhi as part of its ‘Walking the Naga Day’ on May 4, the FNR convenor, Rev Dr Wati Aier, said, “We are not looking beyond our borders for precedents. Obsessed with borders we have not erected, we are self-victimizing of others making. Naga nationalism does not stop at our borders. Naga nationalism can proliferate and our minds need imagination and creative politics.” Pointing to the formation of the FNR on March 15 2008 by 39 Naga organizations from all across Naga areas, the convenor informed that given the ‘intricate’ situation and problem, the FNR was conceived ‘in this urgent context’. In his address, senior FNR member and renowned peace activist, NiketuIralu, said what the FNR was doing through its work was to get the Nagas to (Cont’d on p-7) re-examine themselves.

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D I M A P U R , M AY 4 (NPN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, Friday asserted that the Street Vendors Act, 2014, which aims at providing social security and livelihood rights to street vendors, should be implemented in Nagaland at the earliest.

According to a Raj Bhavan statement, the governor observed that street vending was source of livelihood for many people, especially women, who come in towns from rural areas to sell their vegetable and other products.

Acharya felt that they should be provided proper shed or kiosk along with drinking water and toilet facilities.

The governor called

Toshi urges Centre to set up special high frequency towers DIMAPUR, MAY 4 (NPN): Adviser IPR, SCERT & Village Guards, Toshi Wungtung has urged Centre to set up special high frequency towers in interior parts of Nagaland for better connectivity vis-à-vis communication, community radio programme and FM channels.

Calling on Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting and Youth Affairs and Sports, Col RS Rathore in, New Delhi on Friday, the adviser also appealed to Rathore to modernise IPR by constructing

Toshi Wungtung with RS Rathore

sub-centres in all districts and link them up with directorate in Kohima for live coverage of important events in different parts of the State.

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State BJP team in poll-bound K’taka

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North Eastern States and Centre is required to take the Act East Policy forward, which would boost trade and cultural relations with Asia – Pacific countries.

Sangma pushed the idea of state level planning and action to chart out road map for effective implementation of Act East Policy.

Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio also pushed for connectivity, improved, trade and commerce between the North Eastern region and Asean countries.

“I congratulate @SushmaSwaraj for convening the meeting of all Chief Ministers of North Eastern States to discuss ‘Act East’ policy and India’s relationship with ASEAN countries. #ActEast,” tweeted Rio after the meeting.

Greater connectivity and economic integration of India’s North East with its eastern neighbours was considered a key focus area for growth and development of the region, the External Affairs Ministry said after the meeting.

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar took to his Twitter account to inform about the meeting of Swaraj with the ministers prior to the interactive session.

“Involving all stakeholders in policy making! EAM @ SushmaSwaraj with chief ministers and representatives of eight North Eastern States before chairing an interactive session on ‘Act East Policy’.”, Kumar tweeted.

Chief Ministers and representatives of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura also took part in the session.Niti Aayog vice chairman, Dr Rajiv Kumar; MoS External Affairs, Gen (Dr) VK Singh (Retd), Foreign Secretary, Secretary (East) of the External Affairs ministry as well as secretaries of DoNER, Tourism and North Eastern Council also participated in the discussions.

NTC submits memo to CM Rio, wants NSDZ to be revoked

DIMAPUR, MAY 4 (NPN): Ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections scheduled to be held on May 12, BJP ministers from Nagaland led by deputy chief minister, Y. Patton including Health & Family Welfare minister S. Pangyu Phom, Higher & Technical Education minister Temjen Imna Along and party’s organising secretary

Ananta Mishra, reached Bengaluru and will remain there till May 8 to campaign for the party.

According to a press release issued by the party’s media cell, the delegation on Friday met BJP general secretary Muralidhar Rao at the party’s office in Bengaluru and deliberated on strategies to reach out to

the people of Northeast in general and Nagaland in particular. There are about seven lakh people from the region and more than 8,000 from Nagaland only in the Karnataka’s capital—Bengaluru, BJP stated.

A “Northeast Samavesha” will be held at the city’s Palace Ground, Gate No.1, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, where chief ministers from North Eastern States are expected to participate. BJP president Amit Shah will be the main speaker at the event.

Patton has appealed to all well wishers and citizens from Nagaland staying in Bengaluru to participate and witness the event.

Meanwhile, State BJP general secretary Jaangsillung and former state president Dr M. Chuba Ao were already in the city and meeting various student leaders from Nagaland and people from the North East residing there.

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Kisan Kalyan Karyashala organized across Nagaland

Tseminyu

DIMAPUR: In a countrywide farmer outreach exercise, the central government organized block level Kisan Kalyan Karyashala (Farmer’s Welfare Workshop or FWW) on May 2, where farmers from different blocks interacted with agriculture officers, scientists and progressive farmers to discuss ways to increase their income through adoption of new technology. The occasion also provided an opportunity to spread awareness of various central government programmes. The event laid special emphasis on the theme ‘Doubling of Farmers Income by 2022’.

In Nagaland, the exercise was marked in various districts and sub-divisions where farmers gathered to learn more about new methods they could incorporate into their current methods.

Tseminyu: The FWW was conducted by ATMA Chunlikha and Tseminyu block at Tseminyu town hall on May 2.

While inaugurating the workshop programme

MLA and advisor Animal Husbandry and Women Resource Development, R. Khing encouraged farmers to emphasize more on multiple farming sector in horticulture, bee keeping, aqua culture, animal husbandry, poultry and many more based on market and climatic suitability.

A total of 124 participants from 20 villages under Chunlikha and Tseminyu block were benefitted.

The programme was jointly graced by Plant Protection under Ministry of Agriculture Government of India, deputy director, Rahul Singh as central observer. A farmer scientist interaction was also held.

Medziphema: ATMA Dimapur, Medziphema block conducted a FWW at Medziphema Town Hall.

Vikhweno Chale, ADC Medziphema was the special invitee who inaugurated the exhibition stall and also spoke on the occasion. The special invitee also presented cash awards along with certificates for best progressive farmer from Seithekima C

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Village and best exhibition awards comprising of cash award were also presented during the workshop to farmers from Seithekima C, Ruzaphema and Molvom villages. A farmer-scientist interaction was also held.

Meluri: ATMA Meluri Block, Phek organized the FWW at Meluri village council hall. Farmers from different villages attended the programme. An animal clinic was also conducted where several animals were vaccinated. Demonstration on mushroom cultivation was also conducted.. The best farmer award for the block was given to Vesutolu. Vegetable seeds and mushroom spawns were also distributed to the participants.

N i u l a n d : AT M A , Dimapur Niuland Block conducted FWW at ADC Conference Hall, Niuland Town. The programme chaired by Demalu Hasnusa, BTM Niuland Block. It began with the inauguration of exhibition stalls by H. Berimong, EAC Niuland. A free anti-rabies vaccination

CDPO Bhandari coordination programme DIMAPUR: Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) Bhandari, Ekon Kikon held a Co-ordination & sensitization programme with Village Council chairmen as supportive functionary agents of the Social Welfare Department at the conference hall of ADC Bhandari on May 3.

According to DIPR, he thanked the chairmen for their cooperation and support in functioning of the Anganwadi Centres and also for their assistance in carrying out ICD Project schemes and programmes effectively under Bhandari sub division.

Highlighting “Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojan”, a scheme for women under Prime Minister’s programme, he stated that it would be launched in a few days where women An-

ganwadi functionaries of all the 67 Anganwadi Centres under Bhandari sub division will be able to open insurance accounts.

It will be extended to cover all women from 18 to 50 years of age in the rural areas to access the benefits under the programmes.

He advised them to constitute Anganwadi Boards at the village levels to coordinate in supervising, evaluating and monitoring for transparent and smooth functioning of the centers. He observed that every village council chairman, as a responsible head of a village, should maintain transparency first, and he added that queries regarding any grievances or detected loopholes in the process of functioning should be brought to the notice of the concerned officer without delay.

camp was set up and around 70 animals were vaccinated.

Special invitee ADC Nuiland Athrila. S emphasized on self-sustainability and cultivating crops for commercial purposes.

A farmers Scientist interaction was also conducted. The programme had 95 participants, both farmers and officials.

Chiephobozou: A F W W wa s c o n d u c t e d at Indoor stadium, Chiephobozou, for the farmers of Chiephobozou block, comprising of 28 villages. A total number of 220 farmers attended the programme.

The special guest was Butang Khiamniugam, additional director, Department of Agriculture. Neilhouvou and Saliezhu were awarded for their work in ericulture and multi farming respectively. An animal health camp was also set up where around 50 dogs were vaccinated.

Kami: ATMA, Phek, Pfutsero Block organised a FWW in collaboration with KVK Porba at Kami Village. The programme

NSSATA units support parent body

DIMAPUR: Nagaland SSA Teachers Association (NSSATA) Wokha unit has strongly supported the decision of the central NSSATA on the ongoing phase wise agitation for not including the regular SSA teachers in the 7th Revision of Pay 2017 and nonpayment of regular salary.

A press release from NSSATA Wokha unit, general secretary, Z Libenthung Murry said that the government should include 2010 & 2013 batch SSA teachers who were appointed through open state competitive exam, in the 7th ROP 2017.

It said that the 6th ROP was implemented in the year 2010 and SSA teachers appointed on regular basis in May 2010 were included in the 6th ROP though in the recruitment advertisement, pay and allowance was under the

5th ROP. Therefore exclusion of SSA teachers from the 7th ROP, midway in their service career, it said, was incomprehensible and unacceptable.

It also said that SSA teachers were being funded (90% share) by the Centre and state government funds 10 %. “As and when central government stops funding, the state government is bound to bear the pay and allowance of SSA teachers. Therefore the feasibility of constraint in inclusion of SSA in the 7th ROP 2017 does not arise” it said.

It also noted that although government schools would not run without SSA teachers, the government was meting out step motherly treatment to SSA teachers.

Citing these, it asked for the government to resolve the issue once and for all. It also said that

CWWS holds 42nd annual general assembly DIMAPUR: Chakhesang Women Welfare Society (CWWS) held its 42nd annual general assembly from April 20 – 22 at Lozaphuhu Baptist Church, Phek.

A press release by CWWS executive director, V. Kanuo stated that speakers and resource persons encouraged the women to strongly focus on sustainability in livelihood intervention, respect every

Chakhesang dialect and teach the younger generation to adapt its culture of honesty, and recognize God’s ownership in every sphere.

DC Phek, Shavanas C while gracing the session called upon the women to increase agriculture production for marketable level. The DC extended his support to CWWS in agriculture-allied activities. DDM, NABARD

Phek, Imsunaro in her short speech stressed on importance of collectivization as groups in order to access better production and marketing capacity and sustainability.

The resource persons were CPO president, Kekhwengulo Lea, additional director (HoD), Tourism department, government of Nagaland, Akhale Vizol Khamo, master franchise Aloha Mental Arithmetic

Nagaland, Neikule Doulo, and gospel speakers were director resource centre, Dr. Adela Mero, BTC Pfutsero lecturer, Dr. Vekutulu L. Veyie.

The assembly also congratulated and expressed appreciation to CWWS executive director, Vechulo-u Kanuo for receiving the Women Exemplar Award 2018 organized by Confederation of Indian Industries Foundation on April 8.

DRHS Ex-Students Forum felicitates Swapneel Paul DIMAPUR: A felicitation programme for Swapneel Paul, who secured the 64th rank in the UPSC 2017 Examination was held at the conference Hall of Hotel Jalmahal, Dimapur on May 2. The event was organized by Dimapur Railway High School (DRHS) Ex-Students Forum, Dimapur under the chairmanship of B. K Thadani, ex-student of DRHS. A press release said more than 40 members assembled for the felicitation programme. The programme was graced by Rashida, General Manager, National Institute of Civil Service Examination, as special guest.

All the members of DRHS ExStudents Forum, who were present in the programme, congratulated Swapneel Paul for his commendable achievement and wished him all the K

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His achievement at such a tender age is commendable and an inspiration for the younger generations, the release stated. Swapneel gave a message to all the students of the state, “What is needed is guidance and opportunity for the talented youth, especially those belonging to economically weaker families or residing in far-flung areas to display their talents and potential.”

According to the release, at the sidelines of his felicitation programme, Swapneel said that his first priority as an administrative officer would be to work with integrity and sincerity for his country. He said that his father, P.B. Paul, a High court advocate, was his role model and had always inspired and motivated him in achieving his goal. He also added that without the proper care and guidance

was chaired by Elias Ezung, AHO & BTT convener, ATMA, Pfutsero Block.

Farmer groups, Self Help Groups and progressive farmers from neighbouring villages participated in the programme. A Farmer scientist interaction was also held. The programme was attended by 123 farmers, KVK Porba and ATMA officials.

Surhoba: ATMA Phek block organised a FWW at Surhoba village on the day. DHO & PD ATMA Moa Walling; DSO Phek, Mengutuolie Pienyu and Dr. Keviu Shuya DPD ATMA interacted with the farmers. Farmer friend Khruvuhu Rhakho from Chosaba village also spoke at the programme. In the technical session, trainings were conducted on various agri and allied topics.

Farmers and women SHG from Surhoba and Chosaba villages participated in the workshop and exhibited their products.

Sing rijan: ATMA Dhansiripar block organized FWW at Singrijan

village along with all the developmental blocks and Mhalo Humtsoe, SDO (Civil) Dhansiripar, as the special guest.

A two-way communication between experts and farmers to evolve solutions to problems was also conducted. The programme was attended by 50 farmers under Dhansiripar block, Agri & Allied departments and ATMA functionaries.

Florence, ATM delivered the vote of thanks.

Aboi: FWW was organized by ATMA, Mon (Aboi block) in collaboration with KVK, Mon at KVK Conference Hall, Aboi. Guest of honor, Dr. Ruokuovilie Mezhatsu, Senior Scientist & Head spoke about the practice of crop rotation.

A presentation was given

by ACTO (Animal Science) and Farmer-Scientist Interaction was led by SS & Head. Dr. Manoj Singh Sachan, ACTO (GPB) also spoke on scientific cultivation. An interactive session was also held. Altogether, 73 participants attended the programme.

Kuhuboto: ATMA, Dimapur Kuhuboto Block organised FWW at Kuhuboto Town with special guest Kakugha Yepthomi, vice-chairman, Adhoc Town Committee, Kuhuboto.

The special guest, thanked the department for organising such activities and also requested the department to organise similar activities in the near future. Department of Sericulture also displayed different kinds of silkworm cocoons and finished products. A free animal health

of his mother, Alpana Mitra Paul, it would not have been possible for him to be successful. His parents, who were also present at the ceremony, shared moments of nostalgia experienced during their son’s journey to cracking UPSC. DRHS Ex-Students For um convenor, Anjali Roy and 65th Anniversay of DRHS & Alumni meet 2017, general secretary, Bishnu Bhattacharjee, congratulated Swapneel and wished him all the best for his future endeavours. Rashida, the special guest of the programme, while congratulating Swapneel Paul, urged him to be the torch bearer of the community of the state in the future and help shape many civil service aspirants. The programme was conducted by Kartic Mazumder.

The programme ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.

the Wokha unit had decided to firmly abide by the Central NSSATA decisions even in future. “...until and unless the problem is resolved once and for all, the desperate and frustrated teachers shall not back off the present agitation whatever it takes”, it concluded.

Meanwhile, NSSATA Phek district unit has reaffirmed its fullest support for NSSATA central office to go on with the pen down strike within Phek district’s jurisdiction as directed by the central office.

In a press statement jointly appended by NSSATA Phek district unit president, Kuku Soho and assistant general secretary, Vetsilü Hesuh, it informed all its members to comply with the directive and be prepared for any further action as and when called for.

Condolences

FGN mourns Tsonuyi: Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) has expressed deep anguish to learn the demise of veteran Naga leader CEC member NNC, Tsonuyi Venyo, on May 1.

FGN in a condolence message through ministry of Rali Wali described late Tsonuyi Venyo as a true Naga patriot and his commitment and zeal for the Naga cause, it said, was unquestionable. “He was a freedom fighter, a God fearing man, a social worker, a good orator, a good leader, who possessed God’s given wisdom to lead and solve problems” it added. The condolence message also said that Tsonuyi Venyo supported Venyiyi Rhakhu and was staunchly opposed to the Shillong Accord of 1975 throughout his life.

FGN said that that in his sacrificial service to the Naga Nation spanning almost 57 years, late Tsonuyi Venyo served in several capacities. He joined the Naga National service on July 3, 1961 as ‘Razu Peyu’ FGN. In 1970 he was elected as ‘leacy secretary’ Chakhesang region, secretary Chakhesang regional council NNC in 1973, ‘lieutenant’ Naga Army in 1974, ‘tatar’ FGN from 1985 to 2007 and a member of CEC NNC from

2008 till his death.

In his death, FGN and Nagas lost a true son of the soil, an unsung hero and a veteran leader who cannot be replaced, it stated. FGN offered its deepest condolences to the bereaved family especially to his wife and children. It prayed for God to give strength and solace to bear the irreparable loss.

FGN wished for his tribe to increase, to continue the unfinished task and further prayed for his soul to rest in eternal peace.

KVC mourns Wallimp: Kangtsung Village Council (KVC) has expressed sadness to hear of the recent demise of N. Anyei Wallimp.

A condolence note by KVC chairman, M. Mar Lemtur stated that the council was in shook and was woeful on learning of the loss of a young and capable officer who had many more years to serve the Naga people.

KVC offered its sincere condolences and deepest sympathy on his loss and prayed for God’s comfort over the family members during this difficult time.

It further wished all to find courage and strength to move forward in peace and confidence and in knowing that his was a life welllived.

camp was set up, where more than 40 dogs were vaccinated. Questions were raised in an interactive session and department officials answered them.

L o n g w a : AT M A Mon, Phomching Block conducted the FWW at Longwa village. Resource Person Imtinuksang SMS KVK, Mon led the farmer scientist interaction.

In the technical session various cultivation topics were discussed. Thereafter, sales day & exhibition stall was inaugurated by Tonyei Phawang chief angh, Longwa village. Vote of thanks was delivered by C. Noklem Konyak, chairman Longwa Village. All together 76 participants attended the programme.

K i g we m a : AT M A Jakhama block organized FWW at Village Council Hall, Kigwema with G. Ikuto Zhimomi, director of agriculture & state nodal officer (ATMA) as the special guest. The program was jointly graced by Rahul Singh, Deputy Director Plant Protection, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India as Central observer.

The special guest, during in his speech, stated the objectives and proposed strategies on ‘Doubling of Farmers Income’ by 2022 and he also inaugurated the ‘Kisan Ghosthi’. Representatives from 6 Agri and Allied departments highlighted various ongoing schemes.

Informative pamphlets in the local dialect were also distributed to the farmers.

The function was followed

by Animal Health Camp where 25 dogs and some animals were vaccinated.

The program was attended by 104 participants.

C h i z a m i : AT M A Phek, Chizami block organized FWW at Chizami village council hall.

Speaking at the programme BTM Zevosenuo explained the purpose of KKK and encouraged the farmers to take advantage of the various schemes and technologies. Self Help Groups and progressive farmers from different villages under Chizami block participated in the programme. An interactive session was also held during the programme.

Longmatra: ATMA Longmatra block, Kiphire organized the FWW at Longmatra village community hall on May 2.

Resource persons were VAS, Dr. Khumjungse; VFA, Lithrongtsi; EO, T. Hempao; and SCA, Ayoba. They highlighted the schemes and projects of their respective departments.

Success stories of farming on maize, soyabean and kholar was shared by the farmers. The programme concluded with an animal health check up camp and vaccination and distribution of brochures and leaflets.

Ghathashi: FWW was successfully conducted at Ghathashi Block under Zunheboto District.

DIPR re por ts that EAC Ghathashi, Nuhuta graced the occasion as the chief guest. He encouraged the rural youth to generate agricultural based business as it would help them boost their livelihood and also the state economy. Discussion and feedback sessions were also held.

news in Brief CLKK executive body meeting: Chishi Limi Kughuko Kuqhakulu (CLKK) has convened its executive body meeting today (May 5), 10 a.m at the residence of its banker Dr. Khehokhu Chishi, Lhomthi Village.

All the office bearers and executive member have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

Longleng DPDB meeting: District Planning Office, Longleng has informed all concerned that the Longleng District Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of May 2018 will be held on May 7 at DC’s conference hall, Longleng at 11 a.m. All members of the planning board have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

KUD general meeting: The 1st annual general meeting of Kudawhi Union Dimapur (KUD) for this year will be held on May 11 at 3 p.m at KUD, guest house, Bank Colony. All the concerned members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

DPDB Tuensang felicitation of MLAs: District planning officer & member secretary, Tuensang, Nribemo Lotha has issued a circular with the information that the felicitation programme of newly elected MLAs of Tuensang District & District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) meeting for the month of May is scheduled on May 10 at 11 a.m in the Conference Hall of the DC’s Office Tuensang.

All the board members under Tuensang district have been asked to take note of the scheduled date and attend the meeting without fail. (DIPR) Veterinary deptt Kohima report: Chief Veterinary & A.H. Office of Kohima District, Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services observed Farmers Welfare Day ( Kisan Kalyan Diwas) on May 2, along with the rest of the nation. A press note reported that to commemorate the occasion, Free Vaccination & Health camps were set up in different administrative blocks, covering Kohima, Jakhama, Chiephobozou and Tseminyu blocks. During the camps, a total of 230 dogs, 420 livestock and poultry birds were vaccinated and 325 animals were given free health care treatments. Mineral mixtures and deworming medicine was also distributed to farmers, free of cost.

SCD emergency meeting: Sumi Council Dimapur (SCD) has convened an emergency meeting on May 5, 5 p.m. at its office premises, Supply colony, Dimapur. All office bearers have been requested to attend the meeting Sr. accounts officer (GPF wing) informs subscribers: Senior account officer (GPF wing) has informed all GPF subscribers of the state government that the online GPF confirmation system is temporarily down due to maintenance work and temporarily inaccessible during this period. In this regard, all have been requested to bear with the inconvenience till the work is over.

ANCSU 1st presidential meeting: All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) has convened its first presidential meeting on May 19, 11 a.m. at NSF conference hall, Oking Naga Club building, Kohima. All the affiliated colleges and institutions unit presidents and general secretaries have been informed to attend the meeting. The units have also been informed to submit a symbol of the union or council official letter pad and details of the unit union /council office bearers.

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Tongpang Ozukum along with officers inspecting road works at Mon town on May 4.

DIMAPUR: As part of his ongoing tour to all the districts, PWD minister, Tongpang Ozukum visited Mon on May 4 and inspected the ongoing road works there.

According to a press release from PA to the minister, during his visit, officers of PWD (R&B) Mon informed the minister that pothole filling works had been completed in most of the roads and bituminous works remained to be done. The minister expressed satisfaction with the work progress.

Officials of Housing and Mechanical, Mon and other divisions shared their problems with the minister.

The minister also visited the PWD Store at Mon town where he was informed about land encroachment into the land where the

store is. The Mechanical Department also informed the minister about the need to have a Working Shed & Garage for the Mechanical Department at the store premises. In this regard, the Minister asked the SDO (Mechanical) Mon to submit a proposal.

Ozukum later visited office of the EE (R&B) Mon Division where he held a meeting with the officers and District administration.

“We want to see the efficiency of the engineers and for which we have allotted the works to the department. It is like an acid test for all engineers and so you must show what you are capable of,” he said.

In the meeting, the minister requested DC Mon, K. Thavaseelan,

who was also present, to extend its support to the department in road repair works and also protection of government land.

The DC assured of his full cooperation and also requested the minister to seriously look into various pending road projects in the district under NLCPR and PMGSY. SE (R&B) Mon Circle, Tiameren thanked the minister for showing his concern for the people by visiting Mon. During the road inspection, a host of other officers including EEs (R&B) of Mon, Aboi, Naginimora and SDOs R&B, Mechanical and Housing, Mon and Phomching division, EAC Mon, OSD to Chief Minister and NDPP ex-candidate, Awan Konyak also accompanied the Minister.

CITE Nagaland chapter to be launched on May 7

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KOHIMA, MAY 4 (NPN): Confederation of Indian Tribal Entrepreneurs (CITE) Nagaland state chapter, under StartUp India, will be launched by advisor Industries and commerce and Nagaland Industrial Development Corporation Limited (NIDC) Imnatiba on May 7 at Hotel Japfü Kohima. Director (non-official) National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation (NSTFDC) (Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India) Johny G. Rengma said this during a press conference held at Hub restaurant in Kohima on Friday.

Rengma said that under this start-up scheme, it will be a conduit connecting the financial institu-

Johny G. Rengma. (NP)

tions and banks to promote schedule tribe and schedule caste entrepreneurs’ businesses. He said members of the scheduled tribe and scheduled caste often face reluctance of financial institutions for loans to start their business. However, under this scheme, all entrepreneurs in the state can avail loans to start their businesses, provided they fulfil the criteria laid down

by the nodal department.

He stated that CITE Manipur state chapter was already launched on April 13 at Imphal.

Rengma explained that NIDC would be the state nodal department for this start-up programme and the CITE Nagaland state chapter would be given collateral security responsi-

bility for loans. He asserted that the state government should patronize NIDC in giving the loans to the state entrepreneurs which will be available at the rate of 6% from Rs 1 lakh to 25 lakhs depending on types of entrepreneurs. He suggested that the state should have a separate department for tribal affairs.

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Public Library inaugurated in Dimapur

Resource persons and participants at the library inauguration programme.

DIMAPUR: A public library was inaugurated in Dimapur at a programme on May 4, at Industrial Estate Firing Junction, Dimapur.

The library is a joint initiative of a group of likeminded people from different backgrounds. According to a press release, Susan Lotha and ILLANDLO founder/director, Imtisunep Longchar, who both nurtured the desire for a public library in Dimapur, made each other’s acquaintance through social media.

A survey was conducted among a 100 people from different professional backgrounds out of which 63 people responded positively to the initiative.

After planning for almost a year they decided to start this initiative with zero budget. They also enquired of the DC Dimapur if there was any governmental office space lying vacant which they could be allowed to use or leased. Although they received a positive response, the DC was unfortunately transferred at the time.

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According to the release, so far they have well wishers who have donated cash and books. The library runs on three types of cash donations: one time, 6 months and 1 year pledges while it accepts both used and unused books as donations.

Every member of the team of Dimapur Public Library comes from different walks of life inspite of their busy schedule but with the commitment and passion to contribute to the community The programme was chaired by Temsusenla, who is the proprietor and an entrepreneur. An introduction was given by Susan Lotha, a counselor, currently working as Juvenile Justice Board Member for Dimapur District. The prayer for blessings was pronounced by pastor Yabang Longkumer, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church Dimapur.

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N Biren seeks Centre’s help to develop Moreh

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IMPHAL, May 4: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh has reportedly urged the Centre to develop Manipur’s border town Moreh, which could emerge as the gateway to ASEAN countries under Act East Policy.

Singh said that Moreh town could be used as a support centre for trade promotion activities and for transportations while implementing the Act East Policy. The chief minister said this at the “Interactive Session with Chief Ministers of Northeastern States on Act East Policy” held at New Delhi on Friday.

Once Moreh town is developed with multi-speciality hospitals, diagnostic centres, educational institutions etc. it will cater the needs of Upper Myanmar, he said. The chief minister also stressed on the availability of banking facilities, easy payment modalities, quick food safety checks, single window clearances for transaction and bringing transactional costs to the minimum to facilitate trading activities. His suggestion was that Integrated Check Posts at Moreh should be made fully functional at the earliest and a single head for each border trade land

Executive editor of Bodo daily commits suicide Kokrajhar, May 4 (PTI): The executive editor of a Bodo daily allegedly committed suicide on Thursday at her office-cum residence in Assam’s Kokrajhar district, police said. Jeowari Basumatary, 32, executive editor of ‘Bodosa’ daily, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in a room in Kokrajhar town, the police said. She was also a lecturer at Fakirgram College. Basumatary had returned to Kokrajhar from Guwahati with her family members after a medical checkup on Wednesday night, they said.

Her last rites were performed at Bhaolaguri Kashikotra in Chirang. She was the daughter of Chino Basumatary, former president of the All Assam Small Newspaper Owners’ Association and the chief editor of ‘Bodosa’.

N Biren Singh Customs Stations (LCS) or Integrated Check Post (ICP) at appropriate level. Singh also pointed out that the 110 km Imphal-Moreh highway (NH39) should be upgraded to full double lane/four lane highway standards with paved shoulders so that trade connectivity between the two countries enhanced.

He also stressed on improving Imphal-Silchar stretch of NH-53 as Imphal-Dimapur stretch suffer constantly from landslides during rainy season.

The chief minister also elaborated on the India and Myanmar land connectivity on three fronts viz. Border trading point at Moreh in Manipur and Tamu in Sagaing Division of Myanmar, trading point at Zokhawthar in Mizoram and Rhi in Chin state of Myanmar and Kaladan Multi Model Transit Transport Project (KMTTP).

Completing these connectivity projects can bring about a sea of change towards enabling a greater trade and economic activity, he added. The session was chaired by Union minister of external affairs Sushma Swaraj and attended by Union minister of state for external affairs VK Singh, chief ministers of other Northeastern states. State works minister Th Biswajit Singh attended the session.

PTI Adds: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who also addressed the session, urged the Centre to take initiative for starting direct flights to Southeast Asian countries from Guwahati, saying Rs 100 crore should be provided from the ASEAN-India Fund to fill the viability gaps in this regard. He also urged the Centre to do the needful for reopening of the British-era Stilwell road connecting Ledo in Assam with Kunming in China.

The chief minister said launching of direct flights connecting the northeastern region with the capitals of Southeast Asian countries would play a vital role in making the region a lucrative destination for potential investors, a statement issued by the state government said.

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Teenage boy killed, another injured in Manipur IED blast Correspondent

IMPHAL, May 4: A teenage boy was killed and his friend sustained splinter injuries after a powerful bomb suspected to be IED exploded in a forest near Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Kamjong district on Friday morning.

The deceased has been identified as Seiminlen Haokip (17) son of Thongmang Haokip of Molnoi village and the injured identified as Seigoulen Haokip (17) of the same village.

According to police, the incident took place,

Mother, daughter and son-inlaw held for drug smuggling

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IMPHAL, May 4: Manipur police Friday arrested three kingpins - mother, daughter and son-in-law- allegedly involved in smuggling drugs from Myanmar to India.

Chalmawii Miro Duhlian (53) wife of Hashim of Dalpati Road of Moreh, her daughter Lalrozami Mizo Duhlian (27) and her husband Sougaijam Robindro Singh of Kakching Wairi were apprehended by a team of Narcotic and Affairs of Border (NAB) from Moreh town, at IndoMyanmar border. NAB also seized 5200 WY (World is Yours) tablets, 100 gram of heroin, 28,801 Kyat (Burmese currency), Rs 1,13,150 (Indian currency), 10 mobile handsets, three bank passbooks, two cheque books, two ATM cards and several incriminating documents were seized from their possession, DSP (NAB) Th Brinda said. “The family is one of the biggest suppliers of drugs spanning cross-border from Myanmar to India,” the DSP alleged.

NAB team arrested the trio in a follow up investigation into a case related with a recent drug seizure by troops of 23 Assam Rifles at Kaimai post (Noney district) along Imphal-Jiribam section of NH-37 on April 10 last.

Air Deccan commences regular operations from Umroi airport GUWAHATI, May 4 (Agencies): Full-fledged operations of Air Deccan aircraft to and from Umroi airport began on Tuesday even as passenger load, particularly on the ShillongDimapur route, is yet to pick up, TST reported.

“Today is the fourth day since full-fledged operations of 19-seater B1900D aircraft were launched on May 1. The services are being carried out in accordance with the schedule. The passenger load on the Agartala-Shillong and Shillong-Agartala routes is satisfactory but the same on the Shillong-Dimapur and Dimapur-Shillong routes is not up to mark as of today,” an Air Deccan official here told The Shillong Times on Friday. The airline will operate on the Kolkata-Agarta-

la-Shillong-Dimapur and Dimapur-Shillong-AgartalaKolkata sectors six days a week.

“May be people are still not aware about the service on the Dimapur route as it has been just four days now.

But we are hopeful that the passenger load on the route will increase in the coming days,” she said.

According to the daily flight schedule provided by the airline official, flight number, DN-701 departs Agartala at 9.20am and lands at Shillong airport at 10am while flight number DN-801 departs Shillong at 10.25am and reaches Dimapur airport at 11.20am.

Flight number DN-912 departs Dimapur at 11.35am and arrives in Shillong at 12.30pm while flight number DN-702 departs Shillong

when the two boys went to jungle to check the trap laid by them to catch wild animals. According to local reports, police said that the duo found an unknown packet hanging from a tree, and one of them took it down. When he tried to open it, it exploded, killing him on the spot and injuring his friend.

Police team from Chasad police station has rushed to the village where the incident occurred to investigate the incident. Police suspected that the IED was planted by militants to target security forces.

at 12.45pm and reaches Agartala at 1.25pm.

The airline had made a historic beginning with a route check on April 26.

The ser vices under the regional connectivity scheme, also known as UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik), were much awaited after various delays.

Under the scheme, air fares are capped at Rs 2,500 per person for an hour’s flight to Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities in which the government will provide subsidy for flying with such low fares. The Centre had asked Air Deccan to start operations from the region by making Shillong as a hub after the airline failed to meet the deadline for launching flights on the routes it had bagged under the scheme.

Biren urges Centre to provide security to NE people

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IMPHAL, May 4: Manipur chief minister has apprised the Union home minister, railways minister and also his counterpart Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to take up appropriate actions while strongly condemning recent violent attack on 12 youths from Manipur travelling by train from New Delhi to Guwahati. The chief minister, in a statement, strongly condemned the violent attack, racial abuse and ill treatment of the 12 youths. In this regard, he urged Rajnath Singh to take appropriate actions regarding the unfortunate incident and also to issue necessary directives to all states, railways authority and security forces for providing adequate security so as to prevent any assault or misbehaviour with North-east people.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2018

Mob attack pharmacy in Hamren town Correspondent

Diphu, May 4: One person sustained bullet injury and several others were injured after police resorted to baton charge and fired rubber bullets to disperse an irate mob which vandalized a medicine shop at Hamren town, West Karbi Anglong on May 2.

The injured person has been identified as Rangsiim Trisso and was rushed to Guwahati Medical College. Police also detained 12 protestors but were later released on personal bonds.

Tension prevailed after a pharmacy which was forcefully closed down by local people last month, alleging the proprietor, Prodip Roy was selling narcotic substances, reopened on May 2. The mob also vandalized and burned the available medicine inside a pharmacy.

E a r l i e r, R o y w a s caught red-handed by the locals a month ago for allegedly selling drugs that were commonly abused. While handing him to police, the residents demanded that they will not allow Roy to operate as he was involved in anti-social activities.

However, after being released from police custody, Roy opened the pharmacy due to which the residents protested and vandalized the store and burned all the medicines.

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Storm destroys houses in Bokajan

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Diphu, May 4: Several houses were destroyed in a storm in Bokajan while properties worth crores of rupees were also damaged on April 2 evening. The severely affected areas located within the general area of Bokajan are Bangnabil, Noakata and Ghoroidhobi villages. Maximum devastation and loss of properties is reported from Borjan locality. Local residents demanded relief camps to accommodate the affected people. Meanwhile, Disaster Management department’s field officer Lirsika Tissopi visited the affected areas and said that more relief camps have been set-up.

Drugs worth Rs 2 cr seized in Manipur Correspondent/IANS

Imphal, May 4: A team of Imphal customs division, anti-smuggling unit, on Friday apprehended an international drug smuggler with amphetamine tablets valued at Rs 2 crore in the local market.

The arrested person has been identified as Sujit Das(39) son of late Niranjan Das of Saiton Nganu Khun in Bishnupur district.

The item weighing 11.5 kg together is valued at Rs. 2 crore in the international market, said Customs officials in a statement.

An anti-narcotics team of the Customs Division acted on intelligence inputs that the drugs would be brought from Moreh, a town bordering Myanmar.

“We put multiple traps for the smuggler in all suspected areas in and around Imphal. Our people did not

Amphetamine tablets seized by customs division Imphal on Friday. (NP) sleep since the vigil was on for five days and nights,” he said. The smuggler walked into one trap with one lakh tablets.

Dorendrajit said: “We have done preliminary testing and there is a high percentage of narcotics in the

tablets.

The smuggler will be handed over to police along with the seized drugs. For some time, the Customs Division has been seizing drugs, gold bars and other items which are smuggled from Myanmar.

Ruling party factor helped NPP ISIS flag found tied to a tree in Nalbari district G U W A H A T I / SHILLONG/TURA, may 4 (agencies): The “thumping” win of NPP and the debacle of its “strongest” rival party, the Congress, in the Williamnagar election can be attributed directly to the tilt in scales in favour of the “party in power”, TST reported.

That is of course besides a number of other factors, including the trend of a division of votes when too many, in this case nine, are in the fray.

But predicting a clear winner before the Williamnagar polls was difficult given the circumstances leading to the adjournment of the poll by a month after the killing of NCP candidate Jonathone N Sangma, and his widow Krinilla R Marak taking his mantle.

The deferment did upset the tempo somewhat in regard to the campaigns of the respective parties.

But the fact that NPP, after winning 19 of the 59 seats, had stitched together the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance to eventually head the government, also breaking the shackles after dethroning the Congress, was arguably the biggest factor.

The party was already one up before the contest.

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Nihim D Shira agreed that “being in the government was an advantage for the party”.

“A n t i - i n c u m b e n c y against Congress rule under Mukul Sangma is certainly a factor while the division in the Congress with senior leaders campaigning for Independent candidate Sengbath R Marak (and not for Congress candidate Deborah C Marak) also contributed to NPP’s victory and Congress’s defeat,” Shira said. Some of the factors which the opposition has credited for their victory are the lack of development of Williamnagar constituency.

“People have seen for five long years the absence of good roads and missing bridges. Institutional infrastructure, including buildings for schools and hospitals, has not taken off. Water crisis is a daily problem for the citizens.

The electorate would seek a change” said Shira.

However, not many would have imagined the huge margin between winner Marcuise N Marak (who bagged 9,558 votes) and nearest rival Sengbath R Marak (Independent) who secured 4,698 votes.

The surprise was former minister and Congress’s

Deborah C Marak emerging third with 4,517 votes closely followed by NCP candidate Krinilla securing 4,009 votes.

Deborah had later accused senior leaders in the party for campaigning for Sengbath and even alleged that former chief minister Mukul Sangma had a “hand” in her defeat.

The supporters of Deborah Marak have a different take on the matter.

“One faction of Congress was campaigning for Deborah and another was fighting against her. It was an open secret,” claimed a youth Congress leaders of Williamnagar who are disappointed with the turn of events.

Many of her supporters believe victory was at hand until the sudden turn of political events a week before the polls.

“The Congress MLA has implemented each of her MLA schemes to the fullest each year. If you go to the rural areas you will find how successful the schemes have been,” claimed Deborah Marak’s supporters.

They pointed out to the distribution of community dustbins in and around Williamnagar which has led to reduction of garbage in the vicinity of the town.

“Madam, has implemented all her schemes in letter and spirit. See for yourself the roads connecting the villages across the Simsang river,”said her youth supporters.

The roads across Warime bridge, connecting important villages including once militancy affected Sampalgre have been blacktopped and well maintained for the past three years.

Speaking to The Shillong Times, Marcuise, who had earlier predicted a rift in the Congress working in his favour when this correspondent contacted him a few days ahead of the poll, said a number of things fell in place for the “thumping win”, including the fact that Chief Minister Conrad Sangma campaigned for him a couple of days before the poll.

“Apart from the partyin-power factor, the division in the Congress camp hit the party candidate hard. The chief minister coming to campaign for me also helped in boosting the party but I also feel that there was a genuine urge for change this time. Besides, the memories of PA Sangma were fresh in people’s minds which led them to vote for the party (led by his son Conrad),” Marcuise said.

Nalbari, May 4 (PTI): A flag with a written message ‘join ISIS’ was found tied to a tree in lower Assam’s Nalbari district, police sources said Friday.

The flag was noticed by local people at Koihati on a tree in an agricultural field yesterday and they immediately informed nearby Belsore

Police Station about it, the sources said.

Police removed the flag and launched an investigation into who may be responsible for it.

Stating none has been arrested so far, the sources said the flag was black in colour with ‘Join ISIS’ written in white along with some words

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NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMENTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF THE INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925)

In the Court of Smti. Sara S. Jamir Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late Janbemo Kikon Deceased, has been filed by Smti. Chandeno Kikon relation wife R/o. H.No. 50 Hill View Colony to draw his/her family Pension, Bank Acct etc, who expired on 24.4.18.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he/she so desire may appear in this Court within 30 days, on the said day of 2/6/18.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court this 1 day of 5/18.

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AFFIDAVIT

(Clarification of name/surname)

I, Khunizhe Sema, resident of Usutomi Village, PO & PS Satakha, Dist. Zunheboto, Nagaland solemnly declare hereby that Khunizhe Sumi @ Khunizhe Achumi @ Khunizhe both refer to one and same person, from today my name shall be known as Khunizhe Sema in all official documents vide Regd.

No. 2032/2018, Dated 04/05/2018.

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Earlier, on May two similar six IS NE flags were recovered in Goalpara district on a river bank near Goalpara town Police Outpost.

Police there probing into the issue stated that the flags may have been put up by miscreants to create tension among the people of the area.

IN THE COURT OF SHRI L. JAMITHUNG LOTHA DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TUENSANG.

NO.JUD-48/2017-18

Dt. Tuensang the 2nd May 2018

NOTICE

Whereas Smti. Mutsoi Khiamniungan, W/o Lt. Tangtsoi of 3rd NAP Bn. Tuensang of Panso 'A' village has applied for Succession Certificate L/S 372 of Indian Succession Act, 1925 in the matter of moveable property of her husband Late Tangtsoi Khiamniungan who expired on 9/2/2018.

I Shri. L. Jamithung Lotha Deputy Commissioner Tuensang do hereby given this Notice to all deceased kin of deceased to file objection if any for granting of the Succession Certificate and applied for this court within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice.

Given under my hand and the seal of this Court of this 14th day of March 2018.

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No S/o Village PO/PS District State

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241 NCE (Cook) Sonu Kumar Yadav Shri. Nageder Yadav Kandainath Janani/Dobahar Ballia Uttar Pradesh.

Whereas you have been found willfully absent from bonafide Government duty w.e.f. 31/03/2018 and in-spite of 3 (three) calling notices issued to you vide T/O Letter No (i) 7NAP/RO-5/2018-19/43 dated 04/04/2018 (ii) No. 118 dated 19/04/2018 and No. 192 dated 27/04/2018, but you failed to report back for duty.

You are therefore, directed to report to the office of the Commandant 7 NAP Battalion, Bhandari within 7 (seven) days from the date of publication of this notice, failing which you will be declared as deserter and action will be taken against you ex-parte.

This may be treated as last Notice.

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Kashmir police officer accuses security forces of vandalism

New Delhi, May 4 (AGENCIES): The Goods and Services Tax Council, in its 27th meeting on Friday, took a number of major decisions, including converting the GST Network into a 100% government enterprise, and implementing a single form for GST filing from the current three.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while briefing the media following the video-conference meeting, said that the GST Council had decided that the government would buy the remaining 51% stake in the GST Network, but would maintain the organisation’s flexibility to hire from the market at comparable rates. The gover nment cur rently owns 49% in the GST Network.

The GST Council also decided to create two separate Groups of Ministers to look into the possible imposition of a 2% incentive for digital transactions, and also the possible imposition of a cess on sugar to bring prices more in line with input prices, such as those of sugarcane.

Regarding the easing of the return filing procedure, Mr Jaitley said that the current system of filing GSTR-1 and the simplified GSTR-3B would continue for six months. Thereafter, GST filers would have to file a single monthly return. However, composition dealers and those filing nil returns will be allowed to file quarterly returns.

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“Not only mine but some 10-15 more houses and vehicles were damaged,” he said. “Most of the times my house has been damaged by security forces”.

Bakshi, who lives in Srinagar while his parents live in Anantnag, said that he has not filed an FIR. “It has happened many times whenever there is stone pelting on the road.

Today, I wrote it on social media so that it does not happen again”.

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not blame any specific agency for the vandalism.

However, a shopkeeper, Mohsin Sofi, said vandals were from the special operations group of the police department.

When contacted, Deputy inspector general (DIG), south Kashmir, Amit Kumar asked the reporter to talk to Anantnag senior superintendent of police, Altaf Ahmed Khan. “We are investigating into it,” Khan said.

“When the houses of police officers are damaged in such a way what

should be the fate of other people,” wrote a Facebook user.

Other residents of the town also narrated similar incidents. Altaf Hussain, a retired college principal who owns a diagnostic centre in Anantnag, said that a window, a door and two-three glass panes of his diagnostic centre were damaged by security forces.

“Youth throw stones at them and they get angry.

In anger, they retaliate and whosoever comes in their way they target,” Hussain said. “These things have happened three-four times before this as well,” he said.

Security forces were also accused of vandalism during mass protests in 2008, 2010 and 2016.

Sofi said young men pelted the police’s special operations group with stones near Khanbal on Wednesday. “And from Khanbal to KP Road which is some 600 – 700 metre distance, they thrashed people and broke things. The display board of my shop and those of my neighbouring shops were damaged. Somehow I shuttered the shop and ran away,” Sofi said.

D I M A P U R , M AY 4 (NPN): Expressing deep disappointment over the alleged “diversion of fund”, which was provided by the pervious DAN government, to some other village, the Samziuram Village Council (SVC) Peren has urge the governor of Nagaland to intervene on the matter.

In a press release, SVC chairman Ramhey Mpame, and secretary, L Johnson, stated that the fund amounting to Rs.3 crore under Special Road Development Programme (SRDP) was released by PWD (R&B) for improvement of Samziuram village interlink road. “If such style is the functioning of PDA government, what will be the fate of development in poor rural villages?” they asked.

They said the project was the commitment of the previous government made in 2014 on the memorandum submitted by SVC for improvement of interconnectivity of four-village block. Pointing out that Samziuram was considered as the biggest and largest village in Peren district, the signatories said those who have visited the village know the necessity for improvement of the road. “If such genuine project sanctioned is to be diverted to meet the interest of some leaders in the PDA hierarchy what kind of future are we heading to?” the signatories further asked.

SC reserves verdict on Delhi gang rape convicts’ plea New Delhi, May 4 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on the plea of two of the four death row convicts seeking a review of the top court 2017 judgment upholding their death sentence in the December 16 Delhi gang rape case which shook the nation.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice R. Banumathi and Justice Ashok Bhushan reserved the order after hearing arguments on behalf of the convicts Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta.

The counsel appear-

ing for the two told the bench that police had implicated “innocent” persons when they failed to arrest the real culprits.

The counsel said the death penalty is not the solution and goes against the principle of non-violence.

The counsel defended the convicts, saying they were not habitual offenders and have no criminal history. Even the habitual offenders had reformed earlier, he added.

The top court by its May 5, 2017 verdict upheld the death sentence of Mukesh Singh, Pawan

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It had earlier reserved its verdict on the review petition filed by Mukesh.

Akshay has not filed a review petition yet.

The four were convicted of raping and assaulting a 23-year-old paramedical student inside a moving bus on December 16, 2012 which led to her death due to internal injuries 13 days later in a Singapore hospital.

The rapists, six in all, pounced on the young woman who had boarded the bus with her male friend to go home after

watching a movie.

After committing the crime, they dumped both on a roadside.

Some passersby alerted the police.

The sheer brutality of the crime led to nationwide revulsion and street protests.

A fifth accused, Ram Singh, committed suicide in the Tihar Central Jail here.

The sixth, a minor, accused of ripping apart the woman’s intestines, was sent to a correction home and has been released after serving his probation period.

BJP manifesto ‘poorly crafted’: Rahul NEW DELHI, May 4 (AGENCIES): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday dubbed the BJP’s Karnataka manifesto as a “poorly crafted fantasy built around a weak plot” and asked the voters not to waste their time on it.

Taking to Twitter, Gandhi gave the BJP’s poll document a “1/5 rating”.

“New Book Review!

“The BJP Kar nataka Manifesto, inspired

by Narendra Modi, is a poorly crafted fantasy built around a weak plot, that has nothing unique to offer voters. If you’ve read the Congress Manifesto, don’t waste your time on this one.

“Rating: 1/5 ? “Recommendation: Avoid,” he tweeted.

The BJP, in its manifesto released for Karnataka elections, made a plethora of promises to reach out to various sections --from farm loan waiver and other sops to farmers, freebies like laptops for students and smartphones for BPL women to a commission for cow protection.

As it seeks to wrest the state from the Congress, the BJP said Rs 1.5 lakh crore will be spent on irrigation projects and farm loans of up to Rs 1 lakh borrowed from nationalised and cooperative banks will be waived if it is voted to power. The manifesto,

Rahul Gandhi unveiled by Karnataka BJP president and its chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa, said a ‘white paper’ will be brought out on the state’s financial health under the Congress rule after the BJP forms a government.

It said a Rs 5,000 crore ‘Raitha Bandhu Market Intervention Fund’ would be launched to cushion farmers against the effects of price fluctuations.

The party said farmers would be sent to countries like Israel and China every year to study best practices in agriculture.

The manifesto said Rs 25,000 and 3 gm of gold will be provided to brides of families living Below Poverty Line (BPL) at the time of marriage under its new scheme named the ‘Vivaha Mangala’.

The Congress manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly polls, released on April 27, promised to create one crore jobs and spend Rs 1.25 lakh crore

on irrigation over the next five years if re-elected to power.

Releasing the “People’s Manifesto” at a function in Mangaluru, the Congress president had described it as the “voice of the people of Karnataka” and not a document prepared by “three or four people in a closed room”.

He had taken potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying while the prime minister likes to tell people his “mann ki baat”, this manifesto contained the “mann ki baat” of the people of Karnataka.

The manifesto said the Congress, if voted to power, would create an “agricultural corridor” in the state with its 10 different agro-climatic zones and other natural advantages, offering immense opportunities for high growth in agriculture and allied sectors.

It promised 50 per cent increase in”employability and creation of 15-20 lakh jobs per year and”reduction in professional tax.

The Congress had also said it would endeavour to raise the employment level of women to 50 per cent in the government workforce and supply free sanitary napkins to girl students of government colleges and polytechnics, besides abolishing tax on sanitary pads.

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Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Nisar Ahmad Bakshi late on Thursday evening posted pictures of broken window panes and wrote a scathing Facebook update accusing security forces of damaging the windows of parents’ house, parked vehicles and shops.

“Vandalism by security forces at KP road Anantnag. Pr(o)perty worth lacs including windows and window pan(e)s of my residential house damaged.

Houses/vehicles and shops smashed and attacked by rods and rocks. This is for the 8th time since 2008 that my residential house has been damaged in such a way,” Bakshi, who is with the state human rights commission, wrote.

Bakshi said that his family’s house is right on the edge of highway and security forces had responded after “routine” stone pelting in the area on

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Through all means

here is a sense of extreme desperation in current electioneering Karnataka where both the Congress and BJP in Karnataka as the two main parties battle each other to win the May 12 election. For the Congress, it is a desperate situation to retain power and stop BJP from using the victory as a drawbridge to the south in 2019 and add more muscle to its political kitty. A defeat for the Congress can also close the lid on its existence as a national party as it will only have Mizoram and Punjab and the small union territory of Puducherry and reduced as a minor player at the national scene. On the other hand, a loss for the BJP will spell the end of its march and bring the Modi-Shah juggernaut to a grinding halt in the south besides greatly damaging its prowess and prospect. Before the voting, the voters in Karnataka are being bombarded with campaign ammunition in social media, newspapers and television etc. To retain Karnataka, the ruling Congress is using caste politics and hitting out at the BJP for fielding some of the illegal mining barons and the cash resources of the Reddy brothers and also communalizing politics. The BJP is not shy about the Reddy brothers, which is one of the most striking differences with the Congress.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address 21 rallies across Karnatka. To leave no stone unturned to win Karnataka by all means, Modi has sung paeans to woo former PM Deve Gowda and the latter has reciprocated by taking the bite. In addition, the Modi Cabinet has announced a slew of schemes to placate aggrieved voters that include financial assistance of over Rs 19,000 crore to sugar mills.

The amount is to clear dues of farmers and the continuance of “Green Revolution–Krishonnati Yojana” up to 2019-20 with a Rs 33,270 crore Central assistance. These are some overt actions but tacitly, the government has also frozen prices of petrol and diesel since April 24 to check price increase, which could be politically detrimental. This is not only an anti-reform move but also political misuse of statecontrolled oil companies. Instead of resorting to such political strategies, the government should cut taxes on fuels to reduce their rates. Petroleum products - particularly petrol, diesel and cooking gas - are political fuels and parties in power seldom miss any opportunity to leverage them for their own political end. Know critic of BJP and Kannada Actor Prakash Raj has also hit the campaign trail not for the Congress but against the BJP. He alleged that the Modi government was not concerned about good governance – protecting fundamental rights of its citizens but more concerned with polarizing the nation to fulfill its fascist agenda. He said unlike other political parties, the BJP today is totally controlled by another organization. The people of Karnataka especially Bangalore are most tolerant and friendly people in India. However the ugly head of communalism has arrived as people have unwittingly allowed the disease called hatred to spread and destroy harmony between communities. Today even political parties like Congress seem to have fallen from the benchmark of upholding the democratic and secular values by innocuously following the BJP in courting the spiritual and caste leaders.

Whether the voters will be swayed by these phony concerns for votes through misuse of power or will they use their own wisdom to judge?

DailyDevotion Vicarious Intercession …having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus… —Hebrews 10:19 Beware of thinking that intercession means bringing our own personal sympathies and concerns into the presence of God, and then demanding that He do whatever we ask. Our ability to approach God is due entirely to the vicarious, or substitutionary, identification of our Lord with sin. We have “boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus.”

Spiritual stubbornness is the most effective hindrance to intercession, because it is based on a sympathetic “understanding” of things we see in ourselves and others that we think needs no atonement. We have the idea that there are certain good and virtuous things in each of us that do not need to be based on the atonement by the Cross of Christ.

Just the sluggishness and lack of interest produced by this kind of thinking makes us unable to intercede.

We do not identify ourselves with God’s interests and concerns for others, and we get irritated with Him. Yet we are always ready with our own ideas, and our intercession becomes only the glorification of our own natural sympathies. We have to realize that the identification of Jesus with sin means a radical change of all of our sympathies and interests.

Vicarious intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Am I stubborn or substituted? Am I spoiled or complete in my relationship to God? Am I irritable or spiritual? Am I determined to have my own way or determined to be identified with Him?

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Mastering others is strength.

Mastering yourself is true power. ~ Laozi

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2018

Hon’ble Sir, The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) is obliged to draw your kind attention to the following issues for favour of positive response in the interest of the bonafide citizens of the state.

1. THE NAGALAND SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT ZONE (NSDZ): The DAN Govt. adopted NSDZ on 24.3.2014 under which the foothill areas within the state of Nagaland will be earmarked for the so called Special Development Zones. Within the cadastral areas, the special protective laws of Nagaland such as Article 371A, ILP and Nagaland Land and Revenue (amendment) Act, 1978 shall not be made applicable. The NSDZ will become free zone for anyone from any race, own any amount of land and pursue any business without restriction. The whole intention of NSDZ is to curve out the plain sector of Nagaland State for outsiders for permanent settlement.

Such decision is anti-state and suicidal for the present and posterity with the laid down theme, as and when NSDZ is implemented, non-indigenous people from outside Nagaland will virtually overwhelm the earmarked area which consequently will be the base for intrusion of unauthorized citizens to take control of Nagaland. This proposed zone will therefore do more harm than good to Nagaland.

NTC therefore demands that the proposal for NSDZ be revoke without further delay.

2. THE NAGALAND LAND AND REVENUE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978: The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) had urged the State Government to implement Government notification No. LAW-213/78 dated Kohima, the 30th of September, 1978 in letter and in spirit in order to protect the inherent right of indigenous people, its land and properties and safe guard the indigenous people of the State from external exploitations.

The “Nagaland Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act 1978” which received the assent of the Governor on the 29th of September, 1978 amended the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 and extended to the whole of Nagaland State to protect and preserve the land that belongs to the indigenous and vulnerable people of the state.

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verall, the objective of seeking the way forward by ‘’reasoning together towards forgiveness, healing and reconciliation” [The Morung Express: Sunday, April 29, 2018] is a positive initiative on the part of FNR. There is no denying that FNR has immensely contributed to the wellbeing of the Nagas across the board...by reducing the intensity of factional bloodshed at its worst possible period and ushering in the long needed breathing space to reason together, even if the fear factor in the minds of the people still remained. No matter what the outcome therefore, bringing all the warring factions on a common platform to ‘reason together’ was a great achievement in itself.

While appreciating and giving credit where it is due with all sincerity, the truth of the subsequent failure on the part of FNR had to do with the lack of courage needed to justly conclude their exercise.

When the majority of the factions were prepared to unite...barring one faction, FNR had an obligation to the Nagas to forge ahead and unite the willing majority at the least...rather than helplessly be distracted by one seemingly powerful faction unwilling to join the rest. The distorted principle of forgiveness as enunciated by NSCN (IM) when they said: “We forgive you...you forgive us... now come and join us” was universally unacceptable.

The NSCN (IM) ought to have taken cognizance of the simple logic that this principle would be applicable to them in the reverse order if the same was pronounced by the other factions. When we forgive one another we are expected to accept one another as ~Iequals~I and not as a subordinate of one to

The Sub-Section (2) of the Act stated “Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, usage, contract or agreement no person (other than the indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland) shall acquire or posses by transfer, exchange, lease, agreement of settlement of any land in any area or areas constituted into belts or blocks in contravention of the provisions of Sub-Section (1) Sub-Section (3) of the Act stated that “From and after the commencement of Nagaland Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1978, no document evidencing any transaction for acquisition or possession of any land by way of transfer, exchange, lease, agreement or settlement shall be registered under the Indian Registration Act, 1908 if it appears to the registering authority that the transaction has been effected in contravention of the provisions of Sub-Section (2).

The Nagaland Village and Tribal Councils Act, 1978 had categorically empowered the Village Council to be the custodian of landed properties vide Section 15, Sub-Section (1) (g) which read “no transfer of immovable properties shall be effected without the consent of the Village Council. Written record of this shall be maintained by the Village Council”.

The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) takes note of the new concept mooted by the present Government to conduct cadastral survey in the entire territory of the state to enable financial institution to mortgage our immovable assets to obtain loan for entrepreneurial purposes. While welcoming new initiative to strengthen and regulate land related laws to serve the interest of the citizens, the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) maintains that the state already had necessary laws to serve the contention as stated. The Nagaland Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2002 has covered the concerns raised by the present Government, where it stated that “Providing that nothing contained in this chapter or in the rules made thereafter shall affect any transfer by way of a mortgage in favour of any nationalized bank.” And further, the Act clearly stated that “Provided further that such nationalized banks, Cooperative Societies or other financing institutions shall not transfer any land to a person other than the

the other. The FNR needed to honestly point out this ethical flaw to the concerned faction...unless their definition of forgiveness was also in alignment with the NSCM (IM). The inconclusive effort of FNR was therefore rightly picked up by NTC when they managed to bring the 6 Factions together into a Working Group...who now officially sits at the negotiating table with the GoI. A semblance of legitimate relief was therefore restored in the minds of the Nagas of Nagaland in an otherwise lopsided picture of the GoI dealing with only one Faction whose credential was not so widely acceptable...other than being fearfully tolerated. How the GoI intend to synchronise the two negotiating parties to sign the same final settlement...one fails to fathom at this stage...because it will also imperatively have a serious ripple effect when the subject of “Transitional Government” formation is addressed.

The present deliberation is however not a focus on the success or failure of FNR along the long treacherous road of our struggle for self determination but more importantly to concentrate and move on to a more honourable and durable plane of discernment for betterment of our common future. Here too...the fundamental imperative is to recognise the elementary truth that “our individual future cannot be bartered away by any one faction, or groups of factions, without giving an honest opportunity to us...the stakeholders... to know what is in store for the Nagas”, before NSCN (IM) or the 6 Working Groups and the GoI pens the final settlement based on the so-called “Framework Agreement” that the Nagas still know

indigenous inhabitants of the State of Nagaland except with the previous sanction of the state Government or an authority appointed in this behalf ” The above Act come into force by a notification vide No/Law/Act/57/2000(pt) Dated Kohima, 16th of October, 2003.

By another notification, the State Government had appointed the Commissioner, Nagaland as an authority to sanction transfer of land to such Nationalized Banks/ Cooperative Societies or financial institutions.

The people of Nagaland do salute those elected leaders during whose time this law was enacted for protection on our ownership over the lands that belonged to, we, the indigenous people of Nagaland.

Much water had flowed during the last 39 years since the law came into effect. The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) is apprehensive that we have gone awry with the law all the while. The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) therefore urges upon the Government to implement the law in letter and in spirit. The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) once again urges the Government of the day to send necessary instructions to the concern Deputy Commissioners, Revenue Officers and Village authorities to strictly adhere to the law and protect our land and properties.

3. INTANKI NATIONAL PARK: In view of its great importance to ecological balance, preservation of forest and wild life, the Governor in council declared the formation of Ntangki Reserved Forest with an approximate area of 44,800 acres in a Notification No.1186R Dated 7 May 1923, to be effective from 15 June 1923. By another Notification No.2005R Dated 18 July 1927, the Governor in council further attached another 5,120 acres of forest land to be added to the Ntangki Reserved Forest w.e.f.

15 August 1927. Later, the Government of Nagaland through a Notification No.ROP-158/74 Dated Kohima, 22 April 1975 declared the Ntangki Reserved Forest comprising an area of 20,202 hectares as wild life sanctuary, and named it as Ntangki Wildlife Sanctuary with effect from 1 April 1975. The Government of Nagaland through another Notification No.FOR43/83 Dated 3 March 1993 again

re-christened Ntangki Wildlife Sanctuary as Ntangki National Park. It is a known fact that there have been rampant encroachments on the area of this invaluable asset of ours. Also there has been devastation of forest by private individuals in connivance with all type of elements. The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) reported the matter to the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment and sought its immediate intervention but there is no immediate responds.

The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) therefore urges upon the State Government not to remain helpless spectator to these destructive activities but rise to protect the National Park without delay.

4. EXTENSION OF BEFR ACT. TO COVER THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION OF NAGALAND: The Bengal Eastern-Frontier Regulation Act of 1873 under which the Inner Line Permit was provided for the State of Nagaland.

The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) submitted its representation to the State Government way back to August 2016 to bring Dimapur Areas under the purview of ILP as Dimapur is inalienable part of Nagaland and the entire State jurisdiction is a tribal belt and equally vulnerable. The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) therefore urges the Government of the day to take necessary steps to enforce Inner Line Regulation system all over the state.

5. REVOCATION OF DISTURB AREA ACT: The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) questioned the wisdom of government of India as to how ceasefires entered into and political dialogue continued when its legal weapons such as AFSPA and all anti-terror laws are forced on the people giving the armed forces special powers to search, raid and arrest without a warrant, causing untold hardship and putting law and order in peril as though it is a terrorist infested State. “In other words, olive branches were offered to peace loving Naga political groups on one hand whereas war has been waged against all those who are in ceasefire. Peace and War are never of the same, and the two cannot go together.

If peace is to be given a place, war has to pave the way. Similarly, if GOI is at all honest and sincere

Seeking way forward

NOTHING about. While the Nagas must sincerely acknowledge the sacrifices made by our true National Workers, our National Workers must also acknowledge the possible limitations in their intellectual capability while finalising an irrevocable agreement that would bind the future of the Nagas race in perpetuity. It is therefore crucially important that the future being crafted should transparently be shared with the stakeholder (which is also inclusive of the fate of the National Workers) before committing it to black and white. The NSCN (IM) has practically used every possible devious means to keep the water muddied while projecting an illusion that they have the support of the masses...who in fact has no inkling as to what NSCN (IM) is trying to achieve even if they mean well. Demanding blind faith is not an option in an issue such as this. Minus their life threatening capability with their assortment of weapons...the simple truth is that they do not command the honest respect of the masses any longer except for those self-seeking political VIPs playing dangerous games for their selfish gains. Any straight thinking Naga with God given brains between the ears ought to have perceived that no Prime Minister of India would want to be seen sitting in a nationally and internationally telecasted event giving legitimacy to the signing of the ‘Framework Agreement’ that concede unbridled Sovereignty to the Nagas in violation of the very Constitution that he is sworn to protect. Further, GoI has been straightforward in their affirmed pronouncement that the issue of ‘Sovereignty’ and ‘Integration’ was off the grid

of negotiation. The NSCN (IM) however continues to befool the Nagas by harping on a vague philosophical terminology called ‘Shared Sovereignty’ which, for all practical purposes, just boils down to a division of powers between the Centre and the State within the parameter of the Indian Constitution.

Looking at it from this perspective, the Nagas have already achieved a reasonable status to safeguard their identity duly affirmed under Article 371 A of the Indian Constitution. The problem lies only in the Nagas not being able to effectively and meaningfully use it for our own wellbeing. The only area that would perhaps need reinforcement is to ensure that the Indian Parliament is disempowered to temper with Article 371A without the expressed consent of the Naga Assembly. Further, NSCN (IM)’s philosophy of Pan Naga Hoho as a statuary body, overlapping the constitutionally established statuary State machinery, as a solution to the issue of integration without boundary, only compounds the confusion. One fails to understand how the Naga leaders and intellectuals are able to gullibly swallow all these irrational aberrations and still look forward to the much touted solution that is supposedly about to happen.

For the past 71+ years, Nagas have tamely assumed that the Naga National issue is a sole prerogative of the National workers to negotiate a settlement.

While thanking them for bringing us thus far, the circumstances of the present have drastically changed.

The obvious ground reality status is that the original objectives for ‘sovereignty’ and ‘integration’ appear to be off the shelf. Whatever

at ceasefire and dialogue, the Disturb Area Act, an action of suppression, cannot be imposed on Nagaland any longer. This double standard policy of GOI proves that Nagaland was brought to its Union to be suppressed indefinitely.” The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) urges the State Government to take immediate steps and impress upon the GOI to revoke extension of ‘terrorism tag’ of Disturb Area Act in the entire state of Nagaland.

6. OBJECTION TO UNIFORM CIVIL CODE: The Nagaland State came into being under the Constitution of India amendment (13th Amendment) of 1962. Nagaland is wholly a tribal State and under Art. 371 A of the Constitution of India religious, social, customs and practices of the Nagas is fully protected.

Under this protective Clauses and sub clauses of the Constitution of India, the personal and social life of the Nagas both men and women in the State remains well contented under the un-codified religious, social, customs and practices. That our way of life since time immemorial is quite distinct from the people in the mainland India, and Uniform Civil Code, if introduced, we shall be subjected to alien culture and social practices by compulsion under the law. The enacted law once enforce upon us, our liberty of religious, social, customs and practices guaranteed by the Constitution of India would also be vanished sooner than later.

In this connection the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) submitted representation to the concerned authorities way back to November 2016. The Nagaland Tribes Council also reminded the State government on the issue on 18th March 2018 for further necessary action of the government. In view of the predicament the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) once again request that the State of Nagaland promptly take up the matter with the Union Law Commission and to the appropriate authority to exclude Nagaland from the purview of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) so that the inalienable provision of Art. 371 A of the Constitution of India remain undisturbed.

Toniho Yepthomi, President, NTC & Nribemo Ngullie, General Secretary, NTC

be the solution therefore... it is apparently going to be within the Constitution of India. If this is the factual status being conceded to, the options drastically alter whereby the State Government can now become a direct legitimate participant and contribute experienced support to the efforts of the National Workers in the exercise of solution rather than remain in the sideline as a facilitator without facilitating anything. One sincerely believes it is time for the State Government to practically enter the ring and set up a High Powered Platform of some kind, represented by trustworthy seasoned Naga personalities from all walks of life to extensively study what the Nagas really want so as to supplement, compliment and reinforce the charter of demands that is perhaps being proffered by the National Workers. It would have served the Nagas well if our National Workers had the bigness of heart to understand their limitations and rope in all the help they can get on their own volitions

rather than consider the issue as their exclusive preserve.

If this proposed exercise is comprehensively and transparently attended to by the State Government in tandem with the National workers, it could reduce the trust deficit and greatly neutralise the possibility of factional civil war scenario in the aftermath of the final solution executed with only one faction in exclusion of others.

One must assume that there would be other positive alternative options available.

This is just one ‘mind tickler’ option being explored as a concerned stakeholder. For those who are honestly concerned, share your thoughts too. It could be the payload answer we seek. With the defining moment at our doorstep without definition, seeking our way forward is a responsibility that must be shouldered seriously by all concerned for our common future.

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Retd), Forest Colony, Kohima; (kksema@ gmail.com)

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Appeal to all leaders

You are the paradigm of the entire community; you are the most competent figure amongst the common people, you possessed the calibre more than others; Be grateful!

We know you have good intentions to pave way for your people prior to being elevated to whatever leadership or post you are holding now. We know temptations strikes you hard every now and then, with a storm like pressure testing your sincerity to deviate your real intention of a good leader. Be a true leader and stand firm, no matter how hard the pressure it may be. For this bold stand of yours, it would bear fruits which would impact the entire community to followsuit.

Widinliu Chawang, K. Sachu Colony, Dimapur Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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Govt issues fresh thunderstorm, squall warning for four states

Residents look out from their home next to a fallen electricity line following a severe thunderstorm in Agra.

Following the thunderstorms, power supply was cut off in many areas as squall uprooted trees and snapped electricity cables. At least 12,000 electric poles were uprooted and 2,500 transformers were damaged in the affected states in the last two days.

The home ministry spokesperson said a fresh warning has been issued about possible thunderstorms accompanied with

FNR outlines stance on Naga nationalism (From p-1) “Unless we do that our society has become impossible to function”, he said and pointing out that ‘reconciliation is the only thing we have to do if we are to have a future”.

He suggested that Nagas must sacrifice their ‘selfishness for our common future’. Meanwhile, FNR during the public interaction informed that a total of 267 meetings were held with the Naga National Groups between April 2008 and November 2014.

In an attempt to clarify on its scope and area of work, the FNR maintained that its first objective was to enter into where daily factional killings were rampant and senseless and termed the earlier years as ‘truly an exigent moment’.

FNR also reiterated its position on Naga reconciliation, saying that it was ‘a process and that it had

no intention of ‘side-lining the issue of Justice’.

The public interaction on May 4,which was held at Nagaland House, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road was witness to a lively discussion on pertinent issues related to Naga reconciliation, tribal identity, the important question of justice and dialogue.

The interaction was moderated by student leaders from Delhi, Akhum David Longkumer and Kapesa Pfokrelo. The programme was chaired

by FNR member Dr P. Ngully.

FNR members also interacted with other groups, including students from Jawaharlal Nehru and Delhi University, Naga Students Union Delhi and Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights Delhi.

The public interaction would continue on Saturday with other Delhibased Naga organization followed by Church visits on Sunday.

squall which may hit four states - West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh - today.

Thunderstorm accompanied with squall is very likely at isolated places over Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura.

Isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, Bihar,

ED summons BJD MLA over ‘links’ with criminals

Bhubaneswar, May 4 (IANS): The Enforcement Directorate has directed Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Pranab Balabantaray to appear for quesioning on May 7 on his alleged links with arrested gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhal Samant.

The Dharmasala MLA’s transport company, Pranab Minerals and Transport, is under the ED scanner over business and financial transactions with the two brothers, ED sources said.

Toshi urges Centre to set up special high frequency towers (From p-1) During the meeting, Toshi also apprised Rathore on the activities of the department in the State, besides the problems faced by it. MoS assured to take up the matters raised

by Toshi and also the latter to meet again regarding modernisation of the IPR department in Nagaland.

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Jharkhand, Sikkim, Odisha, northwest Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Rayalaseema, north coastal Andhra Pradesh and interior Tamil Nadu and Kerala are very likely to experience thunderstorm along with gusty winds.

The home ministry has also issued an advisory for tomorrow saying thunderstorm accompanied with squall are very likely at isolated places in Uttarakhand, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, SubHimalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

Thunderstor m accompanied with gusty winds is very likely to occur at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and gangetic West Bengal.

Heavy rains are very likely at isolated places in Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura.

Dust storms are very likely at isolated places in Rajasthan, an official said.

New Delhi, May 4 (IANS): The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Delhi government to file a response on a plea by Santosh Kumar Singh, serving a life term for rape and murder of a law student in 1996, seeking parole to write the LLM examination.

Justice Mukta Gupta issued notice to the CBI and the state government on Singh’s plea and listed the matter for further hearing on May 16.

Singh’s counsel told the court that his client had been pursuing Master of Laws and the examination is going to start from May 19.

Earlier also Singh was granted parole to write examinations.

Singh, the son of a senior police officer, and then a law student in Delhi University had raped and strangled a 26-year-old law student at her Delhi home in January 1996.

Ajit Doval head-DPC plans empowering of armed forces NEW DELHI, MAY 4 (AGENCIES): Created with the objective of bringing all three services under one umbrella to cut down delays, the three service chiefs are now practically under a ‘unified’ council headed by former police officer and NSA Ajit Doval, to whom they will be answerable.

T h e h i g h - p owe r e d Defence Planning Council (DPC), at its first meeting on Thursday, has asked for leaner, meaner and restructured armed forces ready for future wars enabled by proper use of budgetary allocations.

According to a report in the Tribune, the DPC headed by National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval has tasked the three Service Chiefs— of the Army, IAF and Navy — with assessing and suggesting threats to national security in the immediate and long term.

The forces have been asked to plan restructuring and reforms by learning lessons from the past and

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cutting out the flab. In the past two years, some of the redundant activities of the Army such as military farms started by the British for fodder for horses and milk for troops have been shut down.

More such activities have been suggested by a committee headed by Lt Gen DB Sheketkar.

The DPC, which actually has come about from a suggestion mooted by Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra, is looking to empower the forces by decentralising decision-making and increasing financial powers.

The committee will also relook at the budget for

maximising its use. “Evolve a plan which enables the budget to be balanced while planning for future wars, not yesterday’s war,” said a source. This is indicative of a new doctrine for the future.

At present, 33 per cent of the country’s capital expenses (new infrastructure and equipment) are mandated for the defence. Overall, the defence has some 12 per cent of the entire budget of the country.

Despite this, a report of the parliamentary standing committee in March quoted Lt Gen Sarath Chand, the Vice-Chief of the Indian Army, that the Budget 201819 has “dashed” all hopes of modernisation of the force, which is saddled with equipment, of which more than two-thirds is “vintage”.

He added that the marginal increase in the budgetary allocation barely accounts for inflation, and the Army won’t be able to pay instalments of past purchases with the money it has received.

AMU Jinnah portrait row: Internet services suspended A liga r h , M ay 4 (AGENCIES): Internet services were suspended in Aligarh district on Friday after amid a controversy over a portrait of Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah at Aligrah Muslim University (AMU).

Aligarh district magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh announced the suspension of Internet services from 2 pm to Friday midnight to curb inflammatory messages related

to the Jinnah controversy being widely shared on social media.

Tension prevailed in Aligarh and students continued with their sit-in at the university’s Baab-eSyed gate, where they had clashed with the police on Wednesday. They are boycotting classes for the next two days.

The students offered Friday prayers at the site of the dharna in which a large number of teachers

and other members of the AMU fraternity participated.

Jinnah’s portrait has been hanging at the AMU students union hall since 1938.

The controversy started earlier this week when Aligarh BJP MP Satish Gautam wrote to AMU vice chancellor Tariq Mansoor seeking justification for the portrait of a leader blamed by many for the partition of India.

On Thursday, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath also called for the removal of Jinnah’s portrait from AMU. A day earlier violence broke out after members of the right-wing Hindu Yuva Vahini and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) entered the AMU campus and burnt an effigy of Jinnah. AMU student union leaders said students from the univer-

sity marching to a local police station to register a complaint were caned by police.

AMU students are adamant the thr portrait would not be removed.

“The portrait came up as part of a protocol that the AMU students’ union accorded to all great leaders of the then undivided India who had visited the campus,” said Mashkoor Ahmad Usmani, chief of the union.

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NEW DELHI, MAY 4 (AGENCIES): A fresh warning about thunderstorm and squall hitting West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh today has been issued, the home ministry said, and noted that 124 people were killed while more than 300 injured in five states due to thunderstorm and lightning in the last two days.

The maximum casualties were reported in Uttar Pradesh where 73 people were killed, while 91 others were injured.

Most of the deaths and injuries in the state took place in Agra region, a home ministry spokesperson said.

In Rajasthan, altogether 35 people were killed and 206 injured, while eight people were killed in Telangana, six in Uttarakhand and two in Punjab. Nearly 100 people were injured in Telangana, Uttarakhand and Punjab.

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Asian currency this year, dropping 2.4 per cent against the dollar, after strengthening 6.4 per cent in 2017, according to Bloomberg data.

A drop in rupee can potentially impact the current account deficit as India relies on imports to meet over 80 per cent of its oil needs.

After dropping from over USD 100 per barrel to near USD 40 a barrel just after the BJP-led government came to power in 2014, oil prices are back to USD 75 a barrel, raising concerns about inflation and current account deficit.

India was categorised as one of the “fragile five” economies when crude oil prices were at their peak that led to a current account deficit (CAD) of 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2013-14. Oil

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of December 2017, registering a yearly growth rate of 3.38 per cent.

The overall teledensity in India increased from 89.90 at the end of December 2016 to 91.90 at the end of December 2017 at the growth rate of 2.22 per cent.

Telephone subscription in urban areas increased from 683.14 million at the end of December 2016 to 688.25 million at the end of December 2017 at the yearly growth rate of 0.75 per cent. However, urban teledensity declined from 170.15 at the end of December 2016 to 168.29 at the end of December 2017 with yearly decline rate of 1.10 per cent.

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price crash brought down the CAD to 0.7 per cent of GDP in 2016-17. At current rate, CAD during 2018-19 may be in the range of 2.5 to 2.9 per cent of GDP, brokerages said.

Asked at what level could the RBI intervene in the currency market, Garg said, “I don’t think there is any move to intervene... there is depreciation and therefore RBI should sell dollars to support. I don’t think there is any such need.

I don’t believe anything is likely to happen”.

Earlier this week, the Reserve Bank permitted FPIs to invest in treasury bills issued by the central government. However, they will have to ensure that their exposure in government securities, as well as corporate bonds of less than one-year maturity, remains below 20 per cent.

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Separately, Bloomberg reported that board of Flipkart Online Services has approved an agreement to sell about 75 per cent of the company to a Walmart-led group for about USD 15 billion.

Walmart is likely to buy stakes of multiple Flipkart investors, including that of Tiger Global Management and Softbank to end up with a significant majority holding, sources said.

Tiger Global and Masayoshi Son-led Softbank hold about 20 per cent stake each in the Singapore hold-

New Delhi, May 4 (IANS): The gross revenue of the telecom service sector declined from Rs 279,591 crore in 2016 to Rs 255,655 crore in 2017 with a yearly decline rate of 8.56 per cent, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said here on Friday.

Also the adjusted gross revenue declined from Rs 198,207 crore in the year 2016 to Rs 160,814 crore in the year 2017 with yearly decline rate of 18.87 per cent.

However, the number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,151.78 million at the end of December 2016 to 1,190.67 million at the end

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New Delhi, May 4 (PTI): US retail giant Walmart’s USD 12 billion acquisition of India’s biggest e-commerce firm Flipkart is in the final stages and a deal is likely to be announced in the next few days, according to sources.

The contours of the deal, which is expected to see Walmart taking nearly 72-73 per cent stake, are being finalised following which approval from the both the boards will be taken, sources privy to the development said. They declined to be identified as the matters are still under discussion and

ing company of Flipkart.

Walmart will buy the stake in the Singapore holding company, Flipkart Pvt Ltd, that, in turn, holds majority shares in the multiple companies that run various businesses of the e-commerce company Flipkart.com in India.

As a precursor to the deal, Flipkart’s holding company in Singapore has just turned private by buying back over 1.8 million shares worth more than USD 350 million from its minority investors. According to the information filed by Flipkart with Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, that was sourced by data platform Paper.vc, the move values the Bengaluru-based firm at a whopping USD 17.69 billion.

Telecom sector’s gross revenue dropped 8.5% in 2017

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commodity is much higher than its selling price, he said adding the committee would be announced over the next two days. Tax experts, however, believe that such a cess should be against the intention of doing away with cesses in GST regime.

On converting GST Network (GSTN), the IT backbone of the new indirect tax regime, into a 100 per cent government-owned company, Jaitley said it was agreed that the 51 per cent equity held by private entities should be taken over by the government and “eventually the central government will hold 50 per cent and state governments (together) will hold 50 per cent”.

He said the collective share of state governments will be pro rata, divided among states in accordance with their GST ratios.

“While doing so the council also recommended that the GSTN will continue to employ people contractually and have the flexibility to get the best talent from the market considering the wide range of activities and the responsibilities of GSTN itself,” Jaitley said.

Manila, May 4 (PTI): The Indian rupee at 65-66 per US dollar is its “fair” value and does not require any intervention, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said, allaying concerns of the impact of a dropping currency on the economy.

With oil stabilising around USD 75 per barrel and India allowing foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to invest in treasury bills, the rupee would be around 66-67 to a dollar for some time, Garg, who is here to attend a meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), said.

“My sense is that there is stability now and this level of (rupee at) about 66-67 (to a dollar) should be the level that should prevail for some time,” he told PTI here.

He said the rupee at 64 to a dollar “hurt exports” and was not justified by the real exchange rates.

“Rupee appreciated to 64 or something. That is where it hurt our exports. 64 was not at the level which was justified by the real exchange rates. So coming back to 65-66 is a fair valuation. I don’t think we have a concern there,” he said.

The rupee has been the second-worst performing

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around Rs 26-28 a kg, he said, adding cane growers are in deep distress and a proposal to levy a cess was made to help them.

“Now since this (suggestion has been made) after the GST has been implemented,” he said, referring to GST roll-out from July 1 last year where a cess on top of GST rate was imposed only on luxury and demerit goods like cigarettes and high-end cars to make up a kitty to compensate states for their losses due to implementation of the new tax regime.

Collections from a similar cess on sugar could be used for helping farmers, it was proposed. “How are such contingencies to be addressed in the GST regime, are they to be addressed by imposition of cess or are they to be addressed by temporarily increasing the tax or by some alternative method of revenue raising,” Jaitley said referring to discussion at the council meeting.

The group of ministers would make a recommendation to the council on the avenues for raising revenue to meet contingencies of this kind where the cost of

Mumbai, May 4 (PTI): The country’s foreign exchange reser ves fell by USD 3.216 billion to USD 420.366 billion in the week to April 27 due to a fall in foreign currency assets, RBI data showed Friday.

In the previous week, the reserves had declined by USD 2.499 billion to USD 423.582 billion.

T h e r e s e r ve s h a d touched a record high of USD 426.028 billion in the week to April 13. It had crossed the USD 400-billion mark for the first time in the week to September 8, 2017, but has since been fluctuating.

In the reporting week, the foreign currency assets, a major component of the overall reserves, declined by USD 3.208 billion to USD 395.276 billion.

Expressed in the US dollar terms, the foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of the non-US currencies such as the euro, the pound and the yen held in the reserves.

After remaining stable for past few weeks, gold reserves increased by USD 26.6 million to USD 21.510 billion in the reporting week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said.

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into force in six months and the present system of filing of return through GSTR 3B and GSTR 1 forms would continue for not more than six months. The council, at its 27th meeting, also referred the issue of incentivising digital payments to a group of state finance ministers after some states wanted a negative list.

Most member states on the panel were agreeable to the proposal of giving a concession of 2 per cent in GST rate (where the tax rate is 3 per cent or more) on business-to-consumer (B2C) supplies, for which payment is made through cheque or digital mode, subject to a ceiling of Rs 100 per transaction, so as to incentivise promotion of digital payments.

But since some states wanted a small negative list, the issue will be referred to a five-member group of state finance ministers, Jaitley said. A separate group of ministers would go into the issue of levy of cess on sugar and reduction of GST on ethanol.

While the cost of sugar production is over Rs 35 per kg, the market price is

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New Delhi, May 4 (PTI): The GST Council Friday veered around to giving up to Rs 100 incentive for digital payments for purchases by consumers, approved a new model for single monthly return and decided to turn the GSTN into a government-owned entity.

The panel, the highest decision-making body for Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, however, deferred a decision on levying a cess on sugar after opposition from some states.

Announcing the decision taken at the 27th meeting of the council, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said all taxpayers excluding a few exceptions like composition dealers shall file one monthly GST return in place of multiple filings currently required in a month.

Return filing dates shall be staggered based on the turnover of the registered person to manage load on the IT system. Composition dealers and dealers having nil transaction shall have facility to file quarterly return.

Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said the monthly return filing system will come

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 cancelled after sex scandal Stockholm, May 4 (IANS): The Swedish Academy that decides the Nobel Prize for Literature said on Friday that it won’t announce the award for 2018 in the wake of a sexual and financial scandal that has engulfed the organisation.

The Academy, one of Sweden’s most highly respected institutions, made the announcement on Friday morning following a meeting of its remaining 10 active members late on Thursday.

The decision came after a string of sexual assault allegations made against French photographer JeanClaude Arnault, a leading cultural figure in Sweden and husband of Academy member and poet Katarina Frostenson. Six Academy members, including her, stepped down following the crisis.

For the first time in 75 years, the jury will not unveil a winner this year. The Academy said it will now announce the 2018 winner along with the 2019 winner.

The academy will now announce the 2018 winner along with the 2019 winner next year.

“We find it necessary to commit time to recovering public confidence in the Academy before the next laureate can be announced,” Academy’s Permanent Secretary Anders Olsson said in a statement. He said the Academy was acting “out of respect for previous and future literature laureates, the Nobel Foundation and the general public”.

The Nobel Foundation said in a press release that “the crisis in the Swedish Academy has adversely affected the Nobel Prize.

Their decision (the Swedish Academy) underscores the

seriousness of the situation and will help safeguard the long-term reputation of the Nobel Prize”. “None of this impacts the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in other prize categories,” the foundation said.

Arnault, who ran a cultural project with funding from the Swedish Academy, has been accused by 18 women of sexual assault and harassment, first reported in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in late 2017. Several of the alleged incidents reportedly happened in properties belonging to the Academy.

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Arnault is also facing the accusation that he touched Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria inappropriately at a Swedish Academy event over a decade ago. Another accusation is that he leaked the names of seven former Nobel winners.

He has denied all the allegations.

The Academy later cut all ties with Arnault and the organisation voted against removing his wife Frostenson from its 18-person committee. There were additional claims that some Academy staff and members’ relatives had experienced “unwanted intimacy” at the Arnault’s hands.

Followed it, there was a wave of resignations including Frostenson and Academy head Sara Danius. The Academy is also under fire for contravening its own conflict of interest regulations by providing funding to the Kulturplats Forum, the cultural centre run by Arnault and Frostenson.

L o n d o n , M ay 4 (Agencies): Two shipwrecks found during a failed search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 were merchant vessels that sank in the 19th Century, researchers say.

The ships, discovered 2,300km (1,400 miles) off Western Australia, have been narrowed down by experts to a handful of coalcarrying British vessels.

Searchers stumbled on the wrecks during a trawl of the Indian Ocean in 2015.

Australian maritime researchers used sonar pictures and shipping records in their efforts to identify the vessels.

The location of MH370 remains unknown more than four years after it disappeared, carrying 239 people, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

One of the ships, spotted in December 2015, was identified as an iron barque.

Dr Ross Anderson, curator of maritime archaeology from the Western Australian Museum, said it was likely to be one of three vessels: the West Ridge (lost in 1883), Kooringa (1894) or Lake Ontario (1897).

A sonar image of one of the shipwrecks discovered in 2015.

T h e We s t R i d g e, which vanished along with its 28 crew on a trip from England to India, appeared to be the closest match, he said.

Dr Anderson said the vessel weighed between 1,000 and 1,500 tonnes and was found relatively intact and upright on the sea bed, about 4km below water level. The other vessel, found about 36km away in May 2015, had a wooden hull. Dr Anderson said two possibilities were the W. Gordon, which had been heading from Scotland to Australia in 1877, or the Magdala, which was lost in 1882 en route from Wales to Indonesia.

The ships most likely had crews of between 15

and 30 men, he said.

“The evidence points to the ship sinking as a result of a catastrophic event such as explosion, which was common in the transport of coal cargoes,” Dr Anderson said.

He said his team could not be certain of the ships’ identities due to incomplete historical records.

The shipwrecks were found during the official search for MH370 by Australia, Malaysia and China.

The unsuccessful mission ended in January 2016 after 1,046 days. A private US firm began another search for the plane earlier this year. Now in its final weeks, it has not turned up any clues.

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by Pak court in attack on police ISLAMABAD, APR 4 (PTI): Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran Khan was today acquitted by an anti-terrorism court in a case related to the attack on a senior police officer during protests in 2014. Activists of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairman Tahirul Qadri had in 2014 staged a major rally here against alleged rigging in the 2013 election. They were also protesting the Lahore incident in June 2014 in which as many as 14 people were killed and 100 injured in police firing.

Violent clashes had ensued during the protest when the police attacked Qadri’s residence during an ‘antiencroachment’ operation and the then Senior Superintendent Police, Islamabad, Asmatullah Junejo, was severely thrashed when he tried to intervene. Khan was accused of inciting violence.

Khan was present when ATC Judge Shahrukh Arjumand today read out the verdict in the case, declaring the cricketer-turned-politician as “innocent” and “discharged” him from the case.

US says Chinese lasers targeted its Emergency declared in 17 dead in Myanmar jade mine landslide planes near Djibouti, Beijing denies Hawaii after volcano erupts “I urge residents in Leilani Estates and the surrounding areas to follow instructions. ... Please be alert and prepare now to keep your family safe,” he tweeted.

About 1,700 people in the Leilani Estates area were under the evacuation order, CNN quoted the Governor’s spokeswoman, Cindy McMillan, as saying.

The eruption followed a series of strong earthquakes over the past few days. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude of the most severe quake was 5.

It hit Thursday morning and, within half-an-hour, two more quakes rattled the area, registering at 2.5 and 2.7. There had been a total of six smaller earthquakes since the biggest one, the agency said.

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The eruption on Wednesday affected Leilani Estates and the Hawaii County Civil Defence asked its residents as well as those residing in Lanipuna Gardens to evacuate to a local community centre, the US media reported.

One resident said lava had burst across a road like a curtain of fire and he could smell sulphur and burning trees. Hawaii’s Governor David Ige says he activated military reservists from the National Guard to help evacuate thousands of people.

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The NGO Global Witness said the industry was worth some USD 31 billion in 2014 alone, with much of the funds not reaching state coffers.

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FELICITATES The Chungtia Laishir Telongjem (CLT) with immense pride and honour extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Imtisangba Longchar, S/o Lt. Menokiba and Mrs. Mayangtemla on being conferred with 'Doctoral Degree' under the department of 'New Testament' from Kukje Theological College and Seminary, Seoul, South Korea.

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Ramallah, May 4 (IANS): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas apologized on Friday for his statements that were widely considered anti-Semitic, after being re-elected the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) executive committee.

He said that “if people were offended by my statements in front of the PNC, especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologize to them”, Xinhua news agency reported. Abbas, 82, was earlier elected the PLO chief following a four-day meeting by the top legislative body that was boycotted by the Islamist group Hamas.

Abbas has been holding the position for decades and was elected by the Palestinian National Council, which met for the first time in 22 years, Efe news reported.

The President has left three seats of the executive committee open for the factions that had boycotted the meeting, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Abbas suggested on Monday that the historical prosecution of the Jews in Europe was caused by their “social functions” in society, including money-lending.

His statements drew wide international condemnation and were decried by the European Union as antiSemitic. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday said Abbas cannot be a “peace partner” in light of this rhetoric.

security and stability.”

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the government had conducted “serious checks” and told the US side the accusations were groundless.

Djibouti is strategically located at the southern entrance to the Red Sea on the route to the Suez Canal.

Djibouti hosts a US military base that is home to about 4,000 personnel, including special operations forces, and is a launch pad for operations in Yemen and Somalia.

China last year opened a naval base in Djibouti, marking the first overseas base for Beijing’s rapidly growing military. It is just a few miles from the US base.

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“A wall of rock fell after people tried to dig for jade under it,” local administrative officer Nilar Myint told AFP. “We have now found 17 dead bodies and we have sent nine survivors to hospital,” she added.

A second source involved in the rescue and recovery process confirmed the death toll.

A number of deadly landslides has struck the area around Hpakant in recent years, with one major incident in November

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CHIZAMI VILLAGE COUNCIL FELICITATES Through this column, the Chizami Village Council with profound joy and gratitude would like to sincerely congratulate and felicitate the new team of The Chizami Gazetted Officer’s union led by Mr. Wezope Kenye as President.

1. V. President : Mr. Wekope Akami 2. Secretary : Mr. Kiezo Akami 3. Jt. Secy. : Er. Wezotsonyi Thopi 4. Fin. Secy. : Mr. Shekuto Rhakho 5. Treasurer : Mr. Neiwekha Wezah The Council while further wishg the new team a successful tenure and good health to lead the village to greater heights. It sincerely thanks the outgoing team led by Dr. Wethselo T. Mero for the many initiatives taken.

Welhite Naro Keduwe Tsuhah Chairman, Chizami Village Council Secretary, Chizami Village Council

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weeks, and the Pentagon sought the formal complaint because of the injuries and the growing number of instances the problem happened.

Marine Lt Col Chris Logan, a Pentagon spokesman, said that reports from pilots indicate that on three occasions the lasers were military grade and came from the Chinese base nearby.

In a brief statement, China’s defence ministry said the US accusations were false.

“We have already refuted the untrue criticisms via official channels. The Chinese side consistently strictly abides by international law and laws of the local country, and is committed to protecting regional

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WASHINGTON, May 4 (Agencies): The US has issued a formal complaint to the Chinese government over the use of high-grade lasers near the military base in Djibouti that were directed at aircraft and resulted in minor injuries to two American pilots, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said that the US is confident that Chinese nationals are responsible for the use of the lasers, which targeted aircraft on several occasions in the last few weeks. White said the incidents represent a serious threat to US airmen, and that the US has asked China to investigate the incidents.

She estimated there have been fewer than 10 laser incidents in recent

Ya ng o n , M ay 4 (Agencies): A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed 17 people, local authorities said Friday, the latest disaster to hit the murky multi-billion dollar industry.

Myanmar is the world’s top producer of the near-translucent green gem in trade fuelled by demand from neighbouring China.

But the poorly regulated industry is notorious for its links to cronies from Myanmar’s former junta and for the dangers it poses to those who scrabble across a moonscape of environmental destruction hoping to strike it rich.

The accident early today occurred in a mining compound near Wak Khar village in Kachin State’s Hpakant township, the epicentre of the perilous

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West banned from radio Metallica challenges radio Deadpool and Celine Kanye station over recent comments personality to lose weight Dion slay social media A A (quite impressive) interpretive dance moves.

Slow motion footage from the new film plays as Celine Dion belts out the lyrics to her power ballad, and the video comes complete with a string quartet.

Once Celine has reached her dramatic vocal climax, this glorious exchange then takes place between her and the antisuperhero: Deadpool: Celine, that was amazing. That was the most beautiful performance I’ve ever seen in my life.

McCartney’s first meeting with Lennon before the Beatles

Celine: Thank you so much, thank you.

Deadpool: No, no, thank you. We need to do it again Celine: OK. Why? Deadpool: Well it’s too good. This is Deadpool 2, not Titanic. You’re at like an 11, we need to get you down to a five, five-and-a-half tops, just phone it in.

Celine: Listen, this thing (*points to self*) only goes to 11, so beat it SpiderMan. Deadpool: God, I should’ve asked NSync.

It’s fair to say the video has gone down well on social media: “Celine Dion doing a song for Deadpool 2 is like the best April Fool come true ever,” said The Sun’s Daniel Sperling.

“Whatever the Deadpool marketing team makes, it isn’t enough,” said Alisha Grauso.

Joshua David Evans was also sold.

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all – of the words to ‘Long Tall Sally,’ which sealed his fortune,” recalled Baird.

“Obviously the songwriting came slightly later.

“I called them the Dream Team because John was the wordsmith and Paul is the melodist; he has beautiful melodies.

You put them both together and you’ve got almost perfection – as has been proven.”

Biographer Julius Fast, who studied the friendship between the two future Beatles, noted McCartney was eventually invited to join The Quarry Men. “The two boys hit it off very quickly,” explained Fast. “There was something both of them had that just locked together. Perhaps it was a crazy kind of attitude towards life, a contemptuous mockery that later became the trademark of the four Beatles, or perhaps it was just a teenage friendship that stuck.

“As far as John was concerned, Paul was not only a good guitarist – as good as John himself – but he also resembled their mutual idol, Elvis.”

McCartney’s arrival would ultimately lead to the end of Lennon’s band, but also launch one of the most iconic acts in music history.

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a crap ton of weight, so I thought I would ask Metallica for some incentive,” Big J told Blabbermouth.Net Two months after he contacted Metallica’s management company pitching the idea for this challenge, the band posted a video addressing his weight.

“Big J, we wish you

the very best of luck,” Ulrich said in the clip. “Become ... a smaller J.” Schlader, who was diagnosed with binge-eating disorder, told BodyBuilding.com that his relationship to food is like an alcoholic’s relationship to drinking.

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Why Christina Aguilera won’t return to ‘The Voice’

D he world of music would forever change on July 6, 1957, when John Lennon first met Paul McCartney.

Lennon at the time was a 16-year-old up-andcoming musician who dreamed of becoming the next Elvis Presley. He was hoping to make that goal a reality by being the front man of a rock ‘n’ roll group he formed in Liverpool named The Quarry Men (also written as “The Quarrymen”).

A 15-year-old McCartney had shown up at one of the band’s performances to see them play at a Liverpool church hall. “[It] was a rather unremarkable event,” Tony Bramwell, a friend of the band told Woman’s World Thursday. “You really didn’t say, ‘Wow! I was there!’ The Quarry Men were playing and not very well, and it was the day Paul said, ‘Hello.’

It actually wasn’t exciting at all.”

But Julia Baird, Lennon’s half-sister, quickly noticed a connection between the two aspiring artists.

“John was impressed with his looks, and probably slightly envious, as well as his ability to play the guitar and the fact that he knew a lot – note, not

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Detroit radio station said it will ban Kanye West’s music over controversial comments the rapper made earlier this week that slavery “was a choice.”

Hosts Shay Shay and BiGG of 105.1 the Morning Bounce made the announcement Thursday on Facebook with the hashtag “Mute Kanye.”

“Kanye has gone too far” with his latest comments, they said. They wrote that they are refusing to give him a platform,” according to New York Post.

“We don’t want to hear Kanye’s music, we don’t want to play Kanye on our show, we don’t want to talk about Kanye anymore,” the

ccording to the Idaho Statesman, Metallica has accepted a #MetallicaDiet Challenge from radio personality Big J of Boise station 100.3 FM The X. All four members of Metallica — James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo — will grant Big J an in-person interview if he loses at least 100 pounds by the time the band plays his hometown’s Taco Bell Arena on November 28.

Big J, whose real name is Jeremi Schlader, weighs around 424 pounds and has chronicled his battles with the scale on social media.

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on’t expect Christina Aguilera to ever sit in one of “The Voice’”s famous red chairs again.

In a candid new interview with Billboard, the 37-year-old singer has less than positive comments about the hit NBC singing competition. Aguilera was a coach alongside Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and CeeLo Green for season one of “The Voice,” and stayed on for five more seasons between 2011 and 2016.

“It became something that I didn’t feel was what I had signed up for in season one,” Aguilera tells the magazine about her experience. “You realize it’s not about music. It’s about making good TV moments and massaging a story.”

The GRAMMY-winning singer says she felt restricted during her time on the show.

“I didn’t get into this business to be a television show host and to be

-- and would blast hip-hop, or Nirvana, ‘Creep,’ Slayer.

Anything like that to get me out of that zone, that TV mode.”

Despite her unhappiness, the singer says she stayed on the show because she was comfortable, and for the sake of her kids -- 10-year-old son Max and 3-year-old daughter Summer.

(FoxNews) given all these [rules],” she says. “Especially as a female: You can’t wear this, can’t say that. I would find myself on that show desperately trying to express myself through clothing or makeup or hair. It was my only kind of outlet.”

Christina Aguilera Announces New Album ‘Liberation,’ Says She’s a ‘Huge Fan’ of Producer Kanye West Aguilera refers to the show as an “energy sucker.”

“I was longing for freedom,” she shares. “[Coming home from set] I would just take everything off -- the makeup, all of it

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new music video from the forthcoming Deadpool 2 has taken fans by surprise with an unlikely star - Celine Dion. The singer performs Ashes, taken from the sequel’s soundtrack - and she’s certainly not doing things by halves.

Dion said fans would be “laughing their ashes off ” (amazing) at the video.

And if the film is anything like this video, she’s not far wrong. Deadp o o l [ Ry a n Reynolds], is seen wearing high heels a n d busting some

post read. “So we are taking a stand and we aren’t playing his music anymore; we just are refusing to give him a platform.”

The ban will be for the entire hip-hop station and will include tracks that West produced or is featured in as well, the Detroit Free Press reported.

West faced swift backlash following an interview with TMZ on Tuesday, where he said “when you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice.”

The music mogul took to Twitter shortly after to try and walk back his comments and compared himself to both Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman.

“If this was 148 years ago I would have been more like Harriet or Nat,” West tweeted, before clarifying the reason he “brought up the 400 years point is because we can’t be mentally imprisoned for another 400 years. We need free thought now. Even the statement was an example of free thought…It was just an idea.”

(FoxNews)

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1. Miss Khriebeinuo Keretsü, D/o Medoselhou Keretsü for being qualified for Junior Research Fellowship and Assistant Professor.

2. Miss Thepfusazhünuo Keretsü, D/o Neisalie Keretsü for being qualified for Assistant Professor.

The Clan wishes and prays, that the Almighty God grant them good health in all their future endeavours.

Sd/(KHRIEVOZOLIE KERETSÜ) (KENEINGUTUO KERETSÜ) President, Keretsü Clan General Secretary, Keretsü Clan D- Khel Kohima Village D- Khel Kohima Village

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Russia ready for WC: Infantino

SOCHI, May 4 (Agencies): Russia is “absolutely ready” to host the 2018 World Cup in June and July, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Thursday as the country made final preparations to stage the soccer tournament.

Addressing Russian President Vladimir Putin and high-ranking officials in Sochi, one of 11 World Cup cities, Infantino said preparations for the month-long tournament were nearly complete.

“Russia is absolutely ready to host the world, to celebrate a summer of festivities here in this beautiful country,” Infantino said.

Infantino added that Russia was “99-percent (ready) because there is still some work to be done.”

“We know how important of course the last weeks are to finalise the little elements which are still missing,” he said.

Russia will host the World Cup from June 14 to July 15 in 12 stadiums spread across cities including Moscow, St Petersburg

Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA president Gianni Infantino show their accreditation cards as they visit the Fisht Stadium

and Sochi, having worked for years to build new stadiums and transportation infrastructure for the tournament.

“We understand our responsibility, we understand that much still needs to be done... all the events are still ahead,” Putin told Infantino in a separate meeting on Thursday, adding Russia will do “all in its power” to ensure that the tournament meets the highest standards.

Russia has faced in-

Injured Koscielny set to miss WC

M a d r id , M a y 4 (Agencies): Arsenal and France defender Laurent Koscielny is set to miss the World Cup after suffering a serious Achilles injury during the Europa League semi-final second leg.

Koscielny was stretchered off after just 12 minutes of Arsenal’s clash with Atletico Madrid.

The 32-year-old lost his footing while moving towards Atletico forward Diego Costa off the ball and was in obvious distress as he clutched his lower leg.

He went off to be replaced by Calum Chambers and it subsequently emerged that he had suffered a serious injury and could be out for six months.

France kick off their World Cup campaign against Australia on June 16 but Koscielny - who has 51 caps - is set to be missing from their defence.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said, “It doesn’t look very good.

You can always hope that the scan will say something different but the first signs aren’t very good.”

“It looks like it could be ruptured although I’m a bit cautious, no one can say that clinically at the moment.”

Asked about Koscielny’s chances of recovering in time for the World Cup, Wenger said, “That depends on the scan. If he has ruptured it, the chances are non-existent.”

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creasing scrutiny ahead of the tournament, having pledged to complete all venues on time and ensure the safety of teams and fans.

The country has lauded the benefits of the tournament on its economy, which returned to growth last year after a two-year downturn brought on by Western sanctions and a collapse in global oil prices.

Last month Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said there would not have been any

recent economic growth in Russia without investment generated by preparations for the tournament.

But Russian soccer has also made headlines for a string of racist incidents, including at Russia’s friendly against France in March while the country has pledged to combat discriminatory behaviour at sporting events.

Russia also has some concerns on the pitch. Its national team was the lowest-ranked team to enter the World Cup at the time of the draw in December.

In their three appearances since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1994, 2002 and 2014, Russia have failed to reach the knockout stages. On Thursday Putin weighed in on the state of the national team, calling on players to give it their all. “We are all hoping that our players will be fully in the game, will give themselves entirely,” he said.

“And most importantly, that they play the strongwilled, uncompromising soccer that the fans value and love.”

Two IPL play-off matches shifted to Kolkata from Pune

Kolkata, May 4 (PTI): The historic Eden Gardens will host two play-off matches that were originally scheduled in Pune, IPL governing council confirmed on Friday.

“The GC has confirmed that Kolkata will host the Eliminator and Qualifier 2 on May 23 and 25 respectively,” IPL GC chairman Rajeev Shukla said.

As per the original schedule, Pune was scheduled to host the Eliminator and Qualifier 2 but the venue became Chennai Super Kings’ adopted home for six matches owing to security concerns for the Cauvery protests in Tamil Nadu.

The 67,000 capacity Eden Gardens emerged as the frontrunner and was adequately compensated by the IPL GC. “We are happy to host the play-off matches and are looking forward to it,” Cricket Association of Bengal joint-secretary Avishek Dalmiya said.

Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium will play host to the Qualifier 1 and the Final on May 22 and 27.

Naga biker Onen Nenty (3rd from L) during her participation at TVS Women’s One Make Racing held recently at Mumbai. She was the lone rider from the North East in the event which was one of the biggest events for female riders in the country.

Ukraine ready to host Champions League finals Kiev, May 4 (IANS): Ukraine is fully prepared to host the UEFA Champions League finals here later this month, the Ukrainian presidential press service said in a statement.

“Ukraine has carried out careful preparations and has taken a number of steps to create favourable conditions for hosting these games,” Igor Rainin, the head of the Ukrainian organising committee, was

quoted as saying in the statement on Thursday, reports Xinhua news agency.

Apart from the technical preparations, the Ukrainian parliament has finalised the adoption of the needed legislation to exempt from taxes goods imported by the UEFA to Ukraine, Rainin said.

On May 26, the Olympic stadium in Kiev will host the 2018 UEFA Champions League final

between Real Madrid and Liverpool.

B e s i d e s, o n M ay 24, the UEFA Women’ s Champions League final between Germany’s Wolfsburg and France’s Lyon will take place at the Dynamo stadium in the Ukrainian capital.

The Ukrainian authorities said earlier that more than 60,000 foreign fans will visit Kiev for the events.

Mahrez uncertain on Leicester future Christian School Pungro Lo n do n , M ay 4 ( Ag e n ci e s ) : R i ya d Mahrez has refused to commit his future to Leicester but says he has withdrawn the transfer request he made in January.

The winger was the subject of four failed bids from Manchester City in the mid-season window and after a move to the Etihad did not materialise he missed training for over a week, with the Algeria international forced to deny going AWOL. Mahrez, under contract at the King Power until June 2020, says he is “relaxed” about his situation.

“It has gone. It was

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in January, it’s another transfer window. I am still here - I don’t want to put a lot of things in my head,” Mahrez told Sky Sports News, when asked whether his transfer request still stood. He added, “I am still in contract with Leicester so at the moment I am here

and we will see.”

Mahrez, who first joined the Foxes in 2014, has been frustrated in his efforts to seek a new challenge by the Leicester hierarchy and insists his immediate focus is on helping Claude Puel’s side enjoy a strong end to the campaign.

“At that time I handed a transfer [request] because I had offers from Manchester City so obviously I wanted to go. But now I am still at Leicester.”

“With me, especially, you never know what is happening. Every time I have to go but I am still

here. I don’t really want to talk about [whether] I am going, or staying. I just want to finish the last three games. We will see what will happen for me.”

Mahrez’s self-imposed exile earlier in the year saw the 27-year-old miss two fixtures before returning against Pep Guardiola’s City in a 5-1 defeat as a substitute on February 10.

He has not scored for Leicester since backto-back goals against Bournemouth and West Brom in March, while Puel’s side have failed to earn a victory from their last four games.

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER & ALWAYS

10TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY

OF OUR BELOVED DADDY LT. THEPFUVIZO (AKOU) ZATSU

annual sports meet held

D im a p u r , M ay 4 (NPN): The 36th annual games & sports meet of Christian School, Pungro was held on May 3 under the theme, “A step towards excellence in sports.” Director of Kripa Foundation, Abou Mere Angami graced the meet as the chief guest.

Speaking at the inaugural programme, Mere highlighted the role played

by parents in moulding the future of a child. He also encouraged the students to stay physically and mentally active, which he added is the key of success.

Earlier, God’s blessing was invoked by PVBC pastor Rekhum, welcome address was delivered by Surendra Singh and the vote of thanks was proposed by Ramji.

2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY

OF OUR DEAREST SON LT. ZUCHANTHUNG EZUNG Because someone we love is in heaven..

There’s a little bit of Heaven in our home.

You are deeply missed and fondly remembered.

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Loving dad, mom, brother & sisters

05-05-2016

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

of our beloved mother Lt. Zhurhüthsü

Lt. L.K. Thanlei Phom

5th March 1953 – 5th May 2017

And He said “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord”. Job 1:21.

We are shocked and saddened by the sudden demise of our beloved Late Tsonuyi Venyo. We are thankful to each one of you, who stood by us at this difficult time. It is our prayer that God’s abundant blessings be upon each of you.

We will meet you soon dearest Late Tsonuyio Venyo.

Loving family & relatives.

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5/5/2008 – 5/5/2018 Ten years have gone without you daddy!

Your absence always bring pain & tears, We know there can never be anyone like our sweet daddy Dad! Remembering you is easy, We do it everyday But missing you is a heartache that never goes away.

Miss you Daddy, till we meet again.

Loving wife & children.

K-1250

It's been a year since you passed away.

Though we are full of sadness that you are no longer here, Your influence still guides us.

We still feel you near even if we don't see you, You are with us even if you are far away You are in our hearts, in our thoughts & in our life always....

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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Loving wife, children & grandchildren

Born: 1937 – Died: 05.05.2017 The pain of losing you never fade away though a year has passed.

You are deeply missed each day with silent tears. No matter what we do to move on from the pain, your memories are our life's only solace. Missing you mum until we meet again.

Loving children, grandchildren & family members K-1236

15th DEATH ANNIVERSARY of our beloved

Lt. Zakierheicha (G.B Seitheke 'C') Date : 05-05-2003

Loving wife, daughters and son-in-law.

Loving wife, sons, daughter, in-laws and grandchildren

Late Elisha Kikon

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(18-04-1948 to 02-05-2018) We the family members of Late Elisha Kikon (Sulantang Lotha), would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude and sincere appreciation to each and every individuals, relatives, neighbours, friends, doctors, organizations, church members and well wishers who stood by us during the prolonged illness and supported us through prayers, morally, physically, financially, materially and sacrificing your precious time at the sad demise of my beloved husband and our father on 02/05/2018.

We would like to convey our sincere gratitude to : 1. Doctors & nurses of B. Borooah Cancer institute, Guwahati.

2. Dr. Aoakum Kichu (Eden Medical Centre, Dimapur) 3. Dr. Arba Pongen (District Hospital, Dimapur) 4. Lotha Baptist Church Diphupar.

5. Mekokla Ekhung Dimapur.

We are unable to mention each and every individual who helped us, but we sincerely pray that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

We the family members of Lt. Toviqhe Shohe (Lachehe) would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood by us through prayer, financially, physically and materially during the prolonged illness and at the sad demise of our beloved father on 22nd April 2018.

Our special thanks to : 1. Pukhavi Sumi, Nihoto Village 2. Inavi Swu, Kma 3. Zheito Assumi, Thahekhu 4. Nagashe Swu, Diphupar B. 5. Hekuto Zhimo, Zbto.

6. I. Thia Jamir, MKG 7. Khukiye Lukhai, B/Church 8. Akuhaito Town B/Church 9. Philimi B/Church 10. P.S.U 11. Philimi Welfare DMR., P.S.U DMR. We regret our inability to thank each and every individual but the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Y. MENLONG PHOM Born on: 15.04.1917 – Died on 25.04.2018 Through this column, we the bereaved family members would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all who have been with us during the saddest moment on the death of our beloved father Late Y. Menlong Phom, who left for his heavenly abode on 25/04/2018. We are deeply moved by the love and affection received from many individuals, families through fervent prayer, physical, moral and financial support rendered to us.

Our special thanks to:1. Shri. B.S.Nganlang , Hon’ble MLA 2. Rev & Mrs. D.Vangpong Executive Secretary NCRC –Phom Council 3. NCRC Yongnyah Village 4. Thamji Morung Yongnyah 5. Prayer Group Baptist Church Yongnyah 6. Prayer Group Town Baptist Church Yongnyah 6. Shamshangching Village Council 7. NCRC Nyang Village 8. NCRC Longleng Town 9. Nyam Clan Away From Home 10. NCRC Alichen & NCRC Women Fellowship Alichen We are unable to thank everyone personally but we pray that Almighty God shower His abundant blessing upon you all.

Loving wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren K-1257

15 years have gone, yet the good deeds and morals you've exemplified remind us of you every day. You always stood for what was right and good, and for this, we always cherish the years you've been with us.

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sports

Atletico reach Europa League final

Diego Costa is mobbed by Atletico Madrid team-mates after he scored the winning goal during the Europa League semi-final match against Arsenal.

M a d r i d, M a y 4 (Agencies): Diego Costa ended Arsene Wenger’s hopes of bowing out with silverware as Arsenal suffered an agonising 1-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid in the second leg of their Europa League semi-final to lose 2-1 on aggregate.

With the tie level after the first leg, former Chelsea striker Costa struck in first-half injury-time to secure victory at the Wanda Metropolitano for Atletico, who will face Marseille in the final.

Arsenal fashioned a

number of openings but the final pass was too often lacking as they were unable to breach Atletico’s defence.

The closest the visitors came to scoring was when Jan Oblak saved well from Granit Xhaka and substitute Henrikh Mkhitaryan fired narrowly over the bar.

But Arsenal ultimately paid the price for two significant defensive lapses over the course of the tie, the first resulting in Antoine Griezmann’s late goal at the Emirates and

the second giving Costa the chance to score at the end of a tight first half.

Having named the same team that started in the first leg, Arsenal showed some encouraging signs in the early stages in Madrid, despite a seriouslooking injury to Laurent Koscielny that saw him stretchered off after just 10 minutes.

However, the Gunners failed to make the most of some promising opportunities, with Nacho Monreal and Mesut Ozil both unable to find team-

mates with cut-backs into the box.

Costa and Griezmann spurned chances for Atletico when they missed the target from close range.

But just as the game appeared to be drifting towards half-time, the hosts struck as Arsenal switched off defensively. Jan Oblak’s clearance was played forward to Griezmann and he slid in Costa, who finished over David Ospina after getting goal-side of Hector Bellerin.

Arsenal threatened a response early in the second half and saw Aaron Ramsey go close when he shot wide under pressure from in front of goal.

Oblak saved well from Xhaka and Shkodran Mustafi headed over as the Gunners continued to create chances.

At the other end, Griezmann was denied by a brilliant block from Calum Chambers as he looked poised to finish from six yards out.

Arsenal continued to push and probe in a tense finish, but the equaliser evaded them as Mkhitaryan fizzed a shot just over the bar in the 72nd minute and Atletico held firm to book their place in the final on Wednesday, May 16 in Lyon.

Praneeth wins; Verma crashes out of NZ Open AUCKLAND, May 4 (PTI): B Sai Praneeth was the lone Indian left in fray at the New Zealand Open Badminton Championship after he entered the semifinals of the men’s singles event on Friday. Even as third seed Praneeth marched on, Sameer Verma, seeded fifth, was shown the door by top seed and two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan of China.

Praneeth hardly broke a sweat as he took just 28 minutes to quell the challenge of Sri Lanka’s Niluka Karunaratne 21-7, 21-9 in the quarterfinals.

Praneeth will next face second seed Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in the semifinals. However, it was curtains for Verma as he failed to counter Lin Dan’s attacking game and vast experience to lose 19-21, 9-21 in another semifinal duel.

Lin Dan will be up against qualifier Kwang Hee Heo of Korea in the other semifinal.

Besides, fifth seeded Indian men’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy also crashed out after losing in the quarterfinals.

They were defeated in straight games 10-21, 15-21 by fourth seeds Bodin Isara and Nipitphon Phuangphuapet of Thailand.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2018

Mkg AutoX, Maostu Sprint concludes

Winners of various categories along with AMAN officials after the prize distribution ceremony at The Woods, Yimchalu.

Mokokchung, May 4 (NPN): The 4th edition of the Mokokchung AutoX and Maostu Sprint 2018, organized by Adventure and Motorsports Association of Mokokchung (AMAM), culminated Friday at Yimchalu village.

In SUV categor y, Denis Assumi from Team DMSC, Dimapur emerged as the winner with a timing of 4:48.84 minutes. Sandeep Sharma from Team Maruti Motorsports, Delhi with a timing of 5:10.19 minutes came second while Imtisanen from Team SMI, Mokokchung stood third with a timing of 5:15.42 minutes.

Ewellson Lyngdoh from Team MSAM, Meghalaya emerged as the winner in Above 1300

CC category. He finished the races with a timing of 4:08.28 minutes. Bento Swu from team DMSC, Dimapur (4:39.84 minutes) came second while Sandeep Sharma from Team Maruti Motorsports, Delhi bagged the third place with a timing of 4:44.34 minutes.

In Below 1300 CC, V Yeshika Yepthomi from team DMSC, Dimapur came first with a timing of 4:41.97 minutes, Alem I Jamir from Team AMAM came second with a timing of 4:46.40 minutes while Obeth Shitio from Team AMAM came third with a timing of 4:54.78 minutes.

AutoX and Moatsu Sprint 2018 was participated by 65 professional motor racers from Delhi, Kolkata,

Assam, Meghalaya and Motorsports Association across Nagaland.

Results SUV Category 1st position- Denis Assumi (4:48.84 minutes) 2nd position- Sandeep Sharma (5:10.19 minutes) 3rd position- Imtisanen (5:15.42 minutes) Above 13000 CC 1st position- Ewellson Lyngdoh (4:08.28 minutes) 2nd position- Bento Swu (4:39.84 minutes) 3rd position- Sandeep Sharma (4:44.34 minutes) Below 1300 CC 1st position- V Yeshika Yepthomi (4:41.97 minutes) 2nd position- Alem I Jamir (4:46.40 minutes) 3rd position -Obeth Shitio (4:54.78 minutes)

ABCYM volleyball tourney underway

Participants being introduced to special invitee, Temjen Imna Along.

DI M A P UR , M AY 4 (NPN): The two-day open volleyball tournament, organised by Aoyimsen Baptist Church Youth Ministry (ABCYM), began Friday at Aoyimsen Panchayat cum multi-utility complex. Minister of higher and technical education, Temjen Imna Along graced the opening ceremony as special invitee.

Addressing the par-

ticipant teams, Along encouraged the players to inculcate sportsmanship quality and be focussed in their field of interest.

“Only dreaming will not make the community grow whether it is in the field of sports or music,” he said.

Along also called upon the gathering to be united and take up responsibility. Encouraging the participants to be positive,

the special invitee said, “greatness is achieved only when you come out of ordinary circumstances.”

Earlier, God’s blessing was invoked by Reverend I Niche, welcome address was delivered by Miranda Jamie and special number was presented by Sentikala Tsudir.

Later, benediction was pronounced by youth pastor T Mere.

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Open penalty shootout tourney at Zhadima

Kohima, May 4 (NPN): Chadanyi Krotho Zhadima will be organizing an open penalty shootout tournament on May 11 at Zhadima local ground. The champions of the tournament will receive a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 while the second, third and fourth place winners will pocket Rs. 10,000, Rs. 5000 and Rs. 3000 respectively.

Interested teams can collect the entry forms from Sports World (Taxi stand Kohima), Havells Galaxy (High School Kohima) and shops in Zhadima. The registration fee is Rs.1000 and the last date for submission of forms is May 9. For further details, contact 9612509095 or 9774418474.

10th Sumi Hoho Trophy concludes

winners with match officials and members of Sumi Hoho after the prize distribution ceremony on Friday.

Dimapur, May 4 (NPN): The 10th Sumi Hoho Trophy, organised by Sumi Games and Sports Association, concluded on May 4 at Zunheboto town with Chakhesang Public Organisation president, Kekhwengulo Lea as the guest of honour.

In men’s football, Niuland area emerged as the champions while Kuhuboto area bagged the runners-up trophy.

In women’s volleyball, Niuland area and Atoizu area bagged the

champions and runner-up title respectively.

Atoizu area emerged as the winners in badminton veteran category while Suruhuto area bagged the runners-up position. In senior men’s category, Kuhuboto area and Highway area bagged the champions and runners-up respectively while in senior women’s category, Zunheboto area emerged as the champions while Akuluto area secured the runners-up title.

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