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COVID vax for 25 cr people by July 2021

NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (AGENCIES): The government plans to cover approximately 25 crore citizens by July 2021 under its Covid-19 vaccine programme, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday. “The Centre is working on plans for building capacities in human resources, training, supervision and others on a massive scale and roughly estimates to receive and utilise 400-500 million doses covering approximately 20-25 crore people by July 2021. All this is under various stages of finalisation,” Vardhan said. “Our government is working round the clock to ensure that there is a fair and equitable distribution of vaccines, once they are ready. Our utmost priority is how to ensure vaccine for each and everybody in the country,” the minister said. During an interaction with his social media followers on ‘Sunday Samvad’ platform, he said a high-level expert group is going into all the aspects of vaccines and the health ministry is preparing a format in which states will submit lists of priority population groups by October. Priority would be given to health workers engaged in Covid-19 management in getting the vaccine, the min-

Union minister Paswan undergoes heart surgery NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (PTI): Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party patron Ram Vilas Paswan has undergone a heart surgery, his son Chirag Paswan said on Sunday. Ram Vilas Paswan (74), has been hospitalised for the last few weeks. He was operated upon at a private hospital in the national capital. In a tweet, Chirag Paswan said his father underwent a heart surgery due to sudden developments on Saturday evening, which forced him to cancel a party meeting and rush to his father’s side. If needed, the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution will undergo another operation in a few weeks, he said.

NU: LLB exams postponed DIMAPUR, OCT 4 (NPN): Nagaland University has announced postponement of LLB first, third and fifth semester exams (online/ offline) that were scheduled from October 5. Controller of examinations Dr Maongsangba said in a notification on Sunday that the varsity authority was compelled to take the decision following difference of opinion among the stakeholders. He also advised principals of law colleges to convey their collective decision on the matter within two weeks to NU for further necessary action.

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ister said. The list of frontline health workers will include both government as well as private-sector doctors, nurses, paramedics, sanitary staff, ASHA workers, surveillance officers and many other occupational categories who are involved in tracing, testing and treatment of patients. This exercise is targeted to be completed by the end of this October and the states are being closely guided to also submit details about cold chain facilities and other related infrastructure which will be required down to the block level, the minister said. He further informed his audience that the government is also keeping an eye on immunity data concerning Covid-19 disease while finalising these plans.

“Our government is working round the clock to ensure that there is a fair and equitable distribution of vaccines, once they are ready. Our utmost priority is how to ensure a vaccine for each and everybody in the country,” Vardhan said. The minister stated that a high-level committee under the chairmanship of Niti Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul is drawing up the entire process. Vaccine procurement is being done centrally and each consignment will be tracked real-time until delivery to ensure it reaches those who need it most, he said. The Union health minister added the panel is working on understanding the timelines of availability of various vaccines in the country, obtaining commitments from vaccine manufacturers to make available maximum number of doses for India inventory and supply chain management and also on prioritisation of highrisk groups. “This is a work in progress which will be completed by the time the vaccines are ready to ensure the swift rollout of an immunisation programme.” Assuring a social media follower that there would be no

diversion or black-marketing of the vaccine, Vardhan said, “Vaccines will be distributed as per pre-decided priority and in a programmed manner. To ensure transparency and accountability, details of the entire process will be shared in the coming months.” He stressed on the need to prioritise healthcare workers and adults or those who have underlying health conditions. To a question regarding the phase-three clinical trial of Russia’s ‘Sputnik-V’ vaccine in India, Vardhan clarified that the matter was still under consideration, and no decision has been taken yet. To another question, he replied it is not possible to comment on the superiority of one vaccine over the other, but said, “Even if we have multiple vaccines available, they will all be safe and will elicit the requisite immune response against novel coronavirus.” He said that all vaccines that have proven to be safe, immunogenic and efficacious in clinical trials outside India need to undergo bridging studies to prove their safety and immunogenicity in the Indian population as well, although these studies can be conducted with much smaller sample size and end quickly.

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Centre planning to amend IPC, CrPC: MoS Home

Centre more focused on Naga pol solution than State politics

HYDERABAD, OCT 4 (PTI): Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy on Sunday said that the Centre is planning on bringing amendments in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Kishan Reddy said this at a programme in Hyderabad’s Amber pet Assembly constituency’s, where he inaugurated 280 CCTV cameras. “The Central government is planning to make changes to the IPC and CrPC. We are also seeking suggestions on this (to amend IPC, CrPC),” an official statement said. On National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), he said “it would enable students in the country to enrich themselves in law, criminology and other related disciplines, as well as excel in forensic science research”. He said under the Centre’s Safe City project (especially for surveillance, protection of women and rapid criminal investigation), eight cities including Hyderabad have been selected.

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KOHIMA, OCT 4 (NPN): Expectations of the much hyped agreement signed between the government of India with two Naga political groupsNSCN (I-M) and WC/NNPGs-- which was speculated to have been completed within September has lingered on. As per reports, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) under the Home ministry is trying to iron out the demand from NSCN (I-M) for Naga flag and Naga constitution to be part of the agreement. Meanwhile, Naga stakeholders are looking at a post-agreement scenario by fine tuning their blueprints. According to sources, the Centre is looking at an early settlement through one solution with all and has made the point clear. Political parties in the state are also anxious about an immediate fallout of an agreement since it would also open the possibility of having to “pave way” when solution arrives. There has also been much speculations about the state BJP and the schism between its top leaders-- deputy chief minister Y. Patton (also the BJP legislature party leader) and state unit president and minister H&T Education and Tribal Affairs Temjen Imna Along. What has heightened the speculations is about possibility of a recalibration of coalition between BJP and NPF. Sources while some within NPF are not disinclined, its party president

Dr. Shürhozelie and others would not be amiable to such a tie-up. Coincidentally or not, the Dy CM and some party colleagues are in Delhi waiting for an audience with top central leaders. The Political Affairs Mission (PAM) of the NPF is also currently in Delhi hoping to meet with senior central ministers over the Naga political issue. However, putting an end to all speculation about in the state, it was learnt that the central government is more serious and focused on solution to the protracted Naga political issue than with state politics. Sources within BJP informed Nagaland Post that solution to the Naga political issue remains the singular focus for central leaders and therefore state politics was not in the agenda or list for discussion at the moment. The sources stressed that for the Central leaders, a “change of guard” at this juncture was out of question since the main focus was on resolving the Naga political issue. Meanwhile, BJP legislator and advisor Prisons and Printing & Stationery department H. Haying informed Nagaland Post that the BJP legislators from Nagaland were currently in Delhi to consult with the central BJP leaders on the ensuing by-election scheduled on November 3. He disclosed that though NPF legislators are in Delhi, both the parties are on different missions and there was no basis to speculate on state politics.

Nagaland COVID tally 6552 Congress-ruled states mull convening ‘Students will need parents’ COVID-19 STATUS AS ON october 4, 2020 assembly to annul Central farm laws consent to attend classes’ District

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DIMAPUR, OCT 4 (NPN): With 123 fresh COVID-19 positive cases being reported in Nagaland on Sunday-- 74 in Dimapur, 48 in Kohima and 1 in Longleng, the tally rose to 6552 cases. Out of the 6429, there were 1221 active cases while 5258 had recovered. As per the severity of symptoms, 1176 active cases were asymptomatic, 41 mild, 3 moderate and 1 severe. Further, out of 6429 positive cases, the distribu-

tion across various categories of people include 3101 cases from the armed forces/police, 1523 returnees, 1574 traced contacts and 354 frontline workers.

COVID-19 cases in India breach 65-lakh mark

PTI: India’s COVID-19 caseload went past 65 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 55 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.

NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (PTI): Close on the heels of Congress president Sonia Gandhi proposing the negation of three Central farmrelated laws by bringing in state-specific legislations, the states ruled by her party are mulling convening special assembly sessions for the purpose. The AICC legal team last week drafted a model law for states to take reference from for passing the relevant legislations in their respective assemblies. “The Congress-ruled states will soon convene an assembly session to annul the central farm laws,” a party source said. The chief ministers of Congress-ruled Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Puducherry have already made it clear that they will not implement the central farm laws in their respective jurisdictions. They also said they will get a new bill

in their state assemblies to annul these laws. The Congress is strongly opposing the three legislations and it has launched a countrywide protests against them. Congress president Sonia Gandhi had recently advised the party-ruled states to pass laws in their respective assemblies under Article 254(2) of the Constitution. Congress claims that rules under Article 245(2) allow a state legislature to enforce laws “repugnant to the parliament law”, a provision used by the BJP earlier against the Land Acquisition Act enacted by the UPA. Sources said that while Congress-ruled states are set to pass the law, some of the non-NDA ruled states are also likely to pass it, as they are opposed to the central farm legislations. Parliament passed The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion

CPO holds consultative meet for 2 lane project

Minister Neiba speaking at the consultative meeting.

KOHIMA, Oct 4 (NPN): For better coordination between villages and landowners and the administration, Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) convened a consultative meeting on Kohima-Jessami two-lane road with the district administration, law enforcement and implementing agencies and concerned public leaders of villages in Phek district benefitting from the project at Pfutsero Multipurpose Hall on Saturday. Speaking at the meeting, Planning & Coordination, Land Revenue and

Parliamentary Affairs minister Neiba Kronu remarked that while education, water supply and health were important for development, road and power were major indices for development and progress. Mentioning that road connectivity and power are of paramount importance for Phek district for development and progress, Neiba said, as a legislator of the district and supported by the State government, he approached the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)

seeking two-laning of the Kohima-Jessami road as it was the lifeline for Phek. With National Highways & Infrastructure Development Cor poration (NHIDCL) Ltd as the implementing agency, he said the project had been subcontracted as the State’s local contractors were not qualified to take major contracts in the global tenders. Maintaining that the road passing or touching the villages should consider themselves as benefactors, Neiba said “We are all stakeholders and if we don’t cooperate, it will be our loss.” He said as village councils, which were recognised by the State government, were the sole authority of the respective villages, they should play a pivotal role of bringing together the landowners so that the development process was not hampered.

On the part of the government, he assured to ensure that the project was completed in a time-bound manner by the implementing agency without any disturbances. The minister further requested the district administration, CPO and the land survey committee to complete the verification process at the earliest. Neiba also informed the gathering that several other road projects, including Chozuba-Phek, Phek-Meluri, LozaphuhuAvankhu and PfutseroTadubi roads have also been approved and works were under progress. Stating that Nagaland’s portion of Pfutsero-Tadubi road had already been completed, he requested his counterpart in Manipur to give efforts to complete the other portion of the road.

and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020 during the Monsoon Session. The laws seek to liberalise the agriculture sector and allow farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country. The model law brought by the Congress shall declare “null, void and inoperative” anything that is inconsistent in the three central legislations with the state law. It will also include a provision to ensure that no farmer shall be paid below the minimum support price for the price of the produce. The draft model bill seeks to ensure safeguards for farmers including the MSP regime and the framework under the APMC Act to protect their interests.

NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (IANS): Students would need written consent from their parents before attending classes at school, while attendance would not be made mandatory, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday. “The guidelines by the Ministry of Home Affairs state students may attend school only with the written consent of parents and that attendance will not be enforced upon the students,” he said during his weekly online interaction “Sunday Samvaad”. He also said that it would be mandatory for schools that are allowed to open to follow the Standard Operating Procedures set by the government. The Education Ministry Saturday released guidelines for reopening of educational institutions, holding that schools, colleges and other institutions can open

outside containment zones after October 15. However, the decision on reopening educational institutions has been left in the hands of states concerned. The Ministry has also asked institutions to encourage online learning, if students decide not to attend schools, while also noting that a limit has been set for the screen time of online classes. The limit of screen time set for the nursery level is 30 minutes, 90 minutes for students of Classes 1 to 8 and 3 hours for students from Classes 9 to 12, he said. “For nursery level, parents will be guided to assist the kids and this class will be of 30 minutes; students from Class 1 to 8 will be allowed to take two sessions of not more than 45 minutes each, and four sessions not more than 45 minutes each for students from class 9 to 12,” he said.

AR jawan dead, 1 injured in ambush in Arunachal Pradesh

G U WA H AT I , O C T 4 (AGENCIES): After a brief spell of calm, suspected militants have once again targeted security forces in North East India. Troops of the Assam Rifles came under attack on Sunday morning in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh bordering Myanmar. One personnel was killed and another injured in the ambush by suspected militants around 9:40 am, the police said. The incident took place at Tengmo village under Jairampur police station of Changlang district, around 300 km from capital Itanagar. The area is close to Hetlong Village of Monmao. “The incident took place on Sunday morning. One security forces jawan was martyred. Another one (Cont’d on p-8) is injured. A massive comb-

Water tanker of the Assam Rifles at the ambush site.

ing operation is on in the area and we have also intensified counter insurgency operations as well,” said the police chief of Changlang district told NDTV. According to military intelligence sources, a group of 30 to 35 militants of the Paresh Barua-led independent faction of the ULFA along with cadres of NSCN

(K) faction. The militants laid an ambush and when they saw an approaching water tanker of the Assam rifles in their range, they fired grenades and sprayed it with bullets from automatic weapons. One Assam Rifles jawan died from his injuries while another was injured, intelligence sources added. K Y M C

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NPP Mkg district inducts new members

Newly inducted party officials of NPP Mokokchung district along with NPP state president, Dr. Andrew Ahoto Sema on October 3.

general secretary (organization) also spoke briefly. In his presidential address, Dr. Andrew Ahoto Sema, the state president of NPP Nagaland state briefed the assembly about the consistent growth and optimal health of the party especially after the new team of NPP state executive took over in 2019. He also spoke in general about the induction of all ranks and files across all the districts which he remarked was a challenging yet a

remarkable achievement for the party within a span of only a few months. New team of NPP Mokokchung district is now led by the district president, Aongsen Aier. Others include Takameren district vice president and Noklenmangyang as the district youth vice president of NPP. Meanwhile, NPP state executive officials have expressed optimism that all ranks and files of Mokokchung district would soon be

set up on a war-footing and NPP’s vision and mission of “One Voice, One North East” will be fulfilled in letter and spirit. Earlier, invocation was offered by Jonathan, president of the Mokokchung district youth wing, Welcome address by the new general secretary (administration), Matsungtula. Appointment letters were distributed to the newly inducted officials by the state president, Dr. Andrew Ahoto Sema.

DIMAPUR: Urging the government not to neglect the existing infrastructure at Ganeshnagar which can facilitate setting up of smallscale industries, the Dimasa Public Organization Nagaland (DPON) and Dhansiripar Sub-Division GBs Union (DSDGBU) have appealed the government to at least maintain the road. A press release by DPON president, K. Naben and DSDGBU president Dohoi extended support to the resentment expressed by Urra Area Villages Union (UAVU), on the road condition leading to Manglumukh from Dimapur. While mentioning that Dhansiripar was the oldest subdivision and deserving better in every sector, the two bodies stated that ongoing railway construction and heavy sand supply vehicles have completely damaged the road making it hardly jeepable. It also pointed out that Dhansiripar sub-division near to commercial town, Dimapur has been neglected in a “step motherly” way by the successive governments.

news in Brief

Security forces apprehend drug peddler

DC Kiphire informs arms license holders: DC Kiphire, Abhinav Shivam has directed all arms license holders under 60 PungroKiphire A/C to produce their arms license along with arms for verification at the nearest police station as per the address given in the license on or before October 15. Failure to produce the license for verification within the stipulated time would result in cancellations of license(s) as per appropriate section of law. Annual physical verification for pensioners: The annual pensioners’ physical verification for pensioners drawing pension from treasury office Peren will be conducted in three places due to the prevailing COVID19 pandemic. Treasury officer, Peren Limatemsu informed that the first phase will be held on October 15, at treasury office Peren for pensioners from Peren Circle; second phase on October 16, at Forest Rest House, Jalukie town for Jalukie Circle and third phase on October 20, at town council hall, Tening town for Tening Circle. Pensioners have been directed to come to the nearest verification centre on the specified dates with recent passport size photograph and duly filled life certificate attested by a gazetted officer. Strict SOPs will be followed during the verification drive. NSF to felicitate Naga toppers of HSLC/ HSSLC: Naga Students Federation (NSF) will be organising a special event to felicitate the Naga toppers of HSLC and HSSLC examinations on October 16, 11 a.m at RCEMPA Jotsoma, Kohima, with advisor of School Education, K T Sukhalu as special guest. All concerned have been requested to attend the event positively. For further details, one may contact NSF Education secretary, Kewayhun Tep at 7005305832.

DIMAPUR: Security forces apprehended one drug peddler in general area Tsumang A Colony, Wokha on October 3. According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), based on specific intelligence regarding illegal activities in general area Tsumang A Colony, Wokha, security forces, along with police representative launched an operation and apprehended one individual. Recoveries included four cases of assorted liquor and 13 packets of cocaine /heroin, amounting to Rs 57,280/- approximately. Apprehended individual along with recovered items was handed over Apprehended individual with security personnel on to Wokha Police Station, for further investigation. October 3.

Governor, deputy CM greet on Tsokum and Yemshe festivals DIMAPUR: Governor of Nagaland, R. N. Ravi has extended warm greetings to the Khiamniungan and Pochury communities on their Tsokum and Yemshe festivals respectively. Governor conveyed that apart from celebrating these festivals, sharing and giving were the wonderful practices observed. He further stated that it was important to pass on the culture and tradition to the children, during these festivals marked with traditional

ings to the Khiamniungan and Pochury communities on the occasion of Tsokum and Yemshe festivals respectively. Patton termed the festivals as reasons to keep each other in thoughts and prayers, and celebrate the rich cultural heritage and to preserve one’s identity. Patton also prayed that the Almighty may bless the communities with bountiful harvests, good health, renewed relationships, happiness, peace and prosperity upon all.

DAYO urges for resuming NST service DIMAPUR: Drawing attention of the state government to the plight of the students’ community and the common people who cannot afford travelling in private transports, the Dimapur Ao Youth Organisation has urged the concerned to resume plying of public transport/NST at reasonable rates without further delay. A press release by DAYO media cell, expressed regret that the state owned Nagaland State Transport (NST) buses were yet to hit the roads making it difficult for the common people to bear the costs of travelling for medical attention across the districts and state. While

students and competitive examination aspirants needed to rejoin their educational institutions and others for studies, the Dimapur Ao Youth Organisation stated that they needed cheaper transportation services for consultation and library facilities. Dimapur Ao Youth Organisation also pointed out that, with relaxation of interstate and intra district movement, the private transport operators were serving the public to its commitments, “notwithstanding the fact that fares have been increased exponentially due to the existing norms of seating arrangements resulting in lesser intake capacity.”

ATMA Mangkolemba block training on intercropping

DIMAPUR: Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Mangkolemba block, conducted training on management practices of tea and arecanut intercropping followed by demonstration programme on spraying of biofertilizer on tea at Khar village under Mokokchund district on October 3. A press release by ATMA Mangkolemba block, stated that resource Farmers along with ATMA functionaries at the training person, ATM, Alemnung- conducted on October 3 at Khar village. la, trained the farmers on management practices of arecanut and tea. Impor3RD DEATH ANNIVERSARY tance of shade tree in tea OF LATE THUNGLAMO K SHITIRI cultivation was explained to the farmers, while timely pruning of tea shrubs, planting method, management of nursery, timely application of biofertilizer, using arecanut shade, leaves as mulch for the tea shrub and also as comfort were trained to the farmers. Demonstration on application of biofertilizer on tea plantation was demonstrated. On field, farmers were taught how to mix correct ratio of biofertilizer and water and with the You were someone very special to us. The pain of losing help of knapsack sprayer. you is immeasurable we miss you each and every day. Apprehended NSCN (I-M) cadre with the seized items Altogether 17 farmers atBut we take comfort in knowing that God has you in His tended the programme. arms and we have you in our hearts… until we meet again. on October 2.

NSCN (I-M) cadre apprehended by Assam Rifles

DIMAPUR: As part of the ongoing crackdown by security forces to prevent illegal activities in Nagaland, security forces apprehended NSCN (I-M) cadre alongwith contrabands in general area ward 9, Chümoukedima, Dimapur on October 2. According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), based on specific intelligence regarding illegal activities, security forces along with police representative launched an operation and apprehended one individual at Chümoukedima. Recoveries included 1460 SP capsules, 14 cases of assorted liquor amounting to Rs 2. 7 lakhs approximately. Apprehended individual along with recovered items was handed over to Chümoukedima Police Station, Dimapur for further investigation.

NNC (PB) proposes GNF and FNR to work out consensus

DIMAPUR: Taking into consideration the present political scenario in Naga homeland, the NNC (Parent Body) said that unless all the Naga national political groups, “inclusive of all the groups come together as one on Colonies and wards under the jurisdiction of DMC conducted cleanliness drive in political consensus for solutheir respective colonies. Traders in Dimapur district also cleaned the premises of tion, there is no other way for near future political solutheir shops on October 2. (DIPR)

NSS Unit, JN Aier College (JNAC), Dimapur, observed closing event of “fit India run”. A short speech on “fit India freedom run” was delivered by programme officer (PO), JNAC NSS Unit, Khenili Kiho. Volunteers along with PO and coordinator also organised plogging in and around Chathe river on October 2. (JNAC) K Y M C

games, sports, dances and songs. While observing the festivals during this extraordinary situation, the Governor pray that Almighty bless everybody abundantly with good health, peace of mind and prosperity. Tsokum and Yemshe are both harvest festivals, where Tsokum invokes blessings for a bountiful harvest and Yemshe rejoices in the fruit of hard work. Meanwhile, the deputy CM and BLP leader, Y. Patton also extended greet-

tion with any government.” A press release by NNC (PB) vice president, Zhiongba Yimchungrü stated that, after thorough deliberations in the central executive council meeting, the NNC proposed that Global Naga Forum (GNF) and the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) to bring all the groups across the table to

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work out consensus political stand/competencies. Pointing out that the aforementioned two were the right bodies involved and concerned for Naga national unity, the NNC stated that they can bring all together for reconciliation and unity for long lasting political solution as desired.

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DIMAPUR: NPP Mokokchung district unit’s induction programme was held at Mokokchung on October 3, wherein many leaders of good public standing were inducted into the party fold, chaired by newly inducted general secretary (administration) NPP Mokokchung district youth wing, Neil Verma. A press release by NPP Nagaland state IPR and media cell stated that, speeches were made by outgoing district president I. Bendang Jamir as well as the newly appointed district president, Aongsen Aier. I. Bendang Jamir has recently been elevated to the post of state executive member. In his brief address, Aongsen expressed his gratitude at being appointed as the district president and assured the gathering that he would do his best to uphold the party’s ideology and principles and work for the people of Mokokchung. State general secretary (IPR & media), Tohovi Achumi, gave a brief outline about the history and significance of NPP as a national party with a difference. Limanuksung Longkumer, the state

DPON, DSDGBU demand road maintenance

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WEATHER FORECAST October 5

(Temperature in ºC) Max Min Agartala A thunderstorm in spots 32 25 Aizawl 27 20 A thunderstorm Guwahati Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 31 25 Imphal 28 21 A stray afternoon t-storm Itanagar Not as warm with a t-storm 27 22 Shillong A thunderstorm or two 24 17 Kohima Cloudy with thunderstorms 23 18 Dimapur Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 30 23 Mkg Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 25 19 Tuensang Couple of thunderstorms 19 15 Wokha A stray t-storm; not as warm 27 21 Zunheboto Couple of thunderstorms 22 17

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‘The Morning Years’ released in Kma

DIMAPUR: Marking the first death anniversary of late Nini Vinguriau Lungalang, a programme was held at Northfield Khikha, Kohima on October 4, where late Nini’s book, “The Mor ning Years” was also released by former chief minister of Nagaland, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu. A press release by the organisers informed that, during the release of the book, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu remarked that Nini was one of the first Naga to master English literature, of which she was so well versed. Dr. Shürhozelie expressed that poetry was a literature that “involves our mind through experiences and also through emotions, and it’s not easy for a person like me from a poor background to understand, and yet without poetry, literature would be incomplete.” He commended the family for organising the memorial programme service for Nini’s achievements and her life. Renowned social activist, Niketu Iralu delivered a moving eulogy for Nini while referring to the

Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu releasing the book written by Nini at Kohima on October 4.

service as an act to memorialize, remember and give thanks for her life. “She was such a person, whose mind, heart and soul were all at work; they were fully engaged all the time”, he said. Iralu also talked about how Nini responded to crisis, her honesty and her intellectual qualities. Comparing Nini’s character to the poem by William Wordsworth,

“To the Skylark” in the lines that read, “Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!,” Iralu also expressed gratitude to all those who were continuing that kind of legacy for the people. Vishü Rita Krocha in her publisher’s note recalled how the journey of the book started and described Nini as a brilliant,

towering poet, who was class apart and one of the finest writers that Nagaland has ever produced. She also expressed that the making of the book has been an emotional journey especially for her daughter, Tamara and appreciated her courage and the role she has played in the publication of the book. Highlights of the memorial ser vice included welcome, prayer and life sketch by pastor Dirang Lungalang, special song by Noune Kuotsu, homily and benediction by pastor Shan Kikon. Pheluopfelie Kesiezie was the leader for the book release and Mhasineinuo Sekhose and Nosano Kikhi were the pianists, wherein a musical tribute was also played in her memory. The Morning Years first came to print in the year 1994 and is being republished by PenThrill Publication House and will be available at CROSSWORD Kohima, The Common Room Kohima, Gutouch Kohima, Made in Nagaland, Kohima, The Green Caravan App, Fusion Store Dimapur, OM Books Dimapur and online on ilandlo and amazon.

ANSS to set up a unit in Dimapur

DIMAPUR: An interaction meeting between the Dimapur Gorkha Union (DGU), Gorkha Students Union Dimapur, intellectuals from Dimapur and Assam Nepali Sahitya Sabha (ANSS) was held on October 3 at Hotel Mayur conference hall, Dimapur. A press release by DGU chairman, Kumar Subba stated that, president of Assam Nepali Sahitya Sabha (ANSS), Durga Khatiwoda highlighted about the ANSS and also expressed his willingness to have a unit in Dimapur. He spoke about the benefits for the Gorkhas of Nagaland in the field of literature through the unit of ANSS. He mentioned the contributions in the development of Nepali literature in North Eastern part of the country by the Gorkha litterateur of Nagaland, Hari Prasad

Gorkha Rai. He said this would bridge the Gorkhas of two states who share decades old relationship. Durga Khatiwoda also encouraged the Gorkhas of Nagaland to gain back the old glory in the field of Nepali literature. Chairman of DGU, Kumar Subba stated that Nepali literature should be encouraged in Nagaland for coming generations as the Gorkhas of Nagaland were losing their identity in Nepali and in the field of literature as well. He further said that majority of Gorkhas in Nagaland at present do not know how to read and write Nepali language. He further said the Nepali language was officially included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India but in the context of Nagaland, the Gorkhas were

forgetting the language which was their identity. He highlighted briefly on late Hari Prasad Gorkha Rai who has been termed as the jewel of Gorkhas of Nagaland in Literature. He said the establishment of Nepali Sahitya Sabha, unit will inspire eminent and new litterateurs of the state in the field of Nepali literature. DGU and GSUD supported to form a unit of Nepali Sahitya Sabha in Dimapur, and a seven member convening committee has been formed to consult the Gorkhas of Dimapur. Kumar Subba is convenor of the committee, Anupama Kattel co-convenor and the members of the committee are Sukumar Pradhan, LB Gurung, Sekhar Chettri, Anand Gurung, Asha Gurung.

Online Christian entrepreneurship summit held DIMAPUR: A Christian entrepreneurship summit titled “transform Nagaland” was held online over Zoom on September 28 and 29, organized by PAF consulting, a joint effort of Dimapur based organisations Pinnacle Skills, Apex Manpower Services Pvt. Ltd and Friends of Poor. A press release by the organisers stated that, 18 speakers from the church ministry, Christian entrepreneurs from Nagaland and

from various states and abroad spoke at the summit which was registered by over 75 participants. Prominent speakers at the summit were NBCC general secretary, Rev. Zelhou Keyho, executive secretary CBLT & proprietor Eden enterprises Rev. Achu Chang, Addl. commissioner of taxes Wochamo Odyuo, director of Life Enterprises & Ministry Colo Mero, proprietor & principal Hope

Academy Sashila Ozukum, managing director Symbios Creations Pvt. Ltd. Mongkum Jamir, CBCNEI medical secretary Dr. Bamin Tada and chairman of Echahaba Tea Growers Coop. Society Dr. Aotoshi, chairman, Christian forum Dimapur Rev. Moses Murry and others. The summit stressed on the need for Nagas to rise up as efficient entrepreneurs and businessmen with Christian values and be

job creators. The speakers also emphasised the need for the Church in Nagaland to take lead, promote and encourage entrepreneurship for socio-economic development of the state as Church was the largest organization in the state. Meanwhile, the summit was a vision casting event and PAF consulting planned to groom Naga entrepreneurs and help develop sustainable businesses with support from various stakeholders.

Assam Rifles conduct various activities in state

Children along with Assam Rifles personnel and others at the programme.

A child being examined by Army doctor in Jalukie.

Assam Rifles personnel along with villagers restoring the landslide affected road.

Shamator bn personnel assisting villagers.

DIMAPUR: Various battalions of Assam Rifles have been conducting civic action programmes for welfare of public in Nagaland. Chieswema Battalion: Chieswema Battalion on October 2, commemorated 151st birth anniversar y of Mahatma Gandhi, by organising a lecture-cummotivation drive for children of Chobama and Pfutseromi villages of Pfutsero sub-division. A total 200 children participated. Jalukie Battalion: Jalukie Battalion of Assam Rifles rendered medical assistance and interacted with children of Christian Servanthood Ministry (CSM) Orphanage Home, Peren on September 28. According PRO HQ IGAR (N), AR distributed necessary medicines, essential commodities and locals were also encouraged to strictly abide by COVID-19 protocols. Earlier, the staff and participants acknowledged the efforts and expressed

landslides. According to PRO (defence), the road being the only lifeline for residents of the border villages of Lopfukhong, Mimi and areas further south was cleared for resumption of traffic. Kiphire Battalion also provided life saving medical support to a male civilian aged 25 years, of Kukegwo village, Phek, bitten by a snake while working in the paddy field on September 5. According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), the patient was immediately administered first aid and critical medical care, and later screened for COVID symptoms. He was later admitted in the unit hospital for medical care. Ghaspani Battalion: Ghaspani battalion, organized tree plantation drive at Medziphema, Zubza, Piphema, Kukidolong and Nihokhu on September 19, with an aim to reduce impact of global warming and to maintain ecological balance. A total of

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gratitude for the services rendered. Jalukie Battalion reached out to local populace by rendering medical assistance and providing essential commodities at Zeme Women Organisation (ZWO) Children’s Home, Peren on October 3. In a resolve to jointly fight the pandemic, locals were encouraged to strictly abide by the COVID-19 protocols for own safety and their loved ones. A total of 13 children and two staff members attended the event. Jalukie Battalion also reached out to local populace by rendering medical assistance and providing essential commodities at Christian Servanthood Ministry (CSM), Orphanage home Peren on September 6. According to PRO HQ IGAR (N), a total of 14 children and one staff member attended the event. Further, the battalion conducted a medical camp in collaboration with Veterinary College staff at

Mhainamatsi, Jalukie on September 19, providing health check- up, medical consultancy and medicines for individuals and animals of the village. AR tree plantation: Battalions of Assam Rifles organized tree plantation drive across Nagaland with an aim to reduce impact of global warming and to maintain ecological balance. According to PRO, approx 48,915 saplings, including locally available flora and fruit-bearing trees were planted by all ranks. Assam Rifles resolved to augment forests cover in the North East region and to create awareness amongst general populace about the importance and benefits of tree plantation. Kiphire Battalion: Kiphire Battalion assisted villagers in restoring Khongjiri-LopfukhongMimi border road on September 3 and 4, which was disrupted due to numerous

National Highway-29 passes through certain portion of Mesulumi village under Chizami sub-division, where the road needed immediate repairing to make it pliable for transporting medical supplies and paddy. Drivers Union Mesulumi (DUM) therefore conducted mass social work on October 3, covering a stretch of 8 kms circular roads. (Lonyi Puro)

Joint Secy APO passes away

DIMAPUR: Angami Public Organisation (APO) and Chakhroma Public Organisation (CPO) have expressed grief at the sudden demise of late P. Beituo Hama, former CPO president and currently joint secretary, publicity and information, APO. Late Beituo Hama formerly served as chairman, Chümoukedima village, and later on served as president Chakhroma Public Organisation before serving the APO. APO: Angami Public Organisation (APO) in a condolence by president, Dr. Kepelhusie Terhüja and secretary info & publicity, Neithono Sothü stated that, late Hama was currently serving as joint information and publicity secretary, APO. APO described him as a person who never failed to defend and speak the truth, an upright leader, a man of high integrity, and the vacuum caused

by his death will never be filled by another. He served the Angami people with zeal and courage which was manifested in all his dealings as a man of integrity, stated APO. APO conveyed heartfelt condolences and pray to Almighty God to grant solace to the bereaved family and for the departed soul to rest in peace. CPO: Chakhroma Public Organisation (CPO) in a condolence note by president, Vichütuolie Mere

and general secretary, Mheisisato Vüprü stated that, late Hama was a towering public leader and had dedicated his life not only for the Chakhroma people but also for the welfare of the general public. While conveying heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members, the CPO stated that in his death, the Chakhroma people as well as the Angamis in general have lost a leader that may take a long time to replace.

1413 saplings, to include locally available flora and fruit- bearing trees were planted. Ghaspani battalion also conducted and COVID19 pandemic awareness for the occupants and staff of Life Challenge Foundation Rehabilitation Centre in Dimapur on September 14. Locals were briefed on COVID-19 safety precautions, basic knowledge on the epidemic diseases and hygiene & sanitisation. The participants acknowledged the efforts of the Assam Rifles and expressed gratitude for the interaction in fighting the Corona crisis together. Shamator Battalion: Shamator battalion conducted joint initiative with local populace to restore the track from Choklangan village to Noklak on September 22. Villagers and troops worked hand in hand to repair one of the main log bridge and track disrupted by landslides. K Y M C

Assam police job scam: Retd DIG could be in Nepal

G U WA H ATI , O CT 4 (AGENCIES): The Assam Police has said that a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who is one of the prime accused in the police job recruitment scam in Assam, is believed to be hiding in neighbouring Nepal, will be caught in a few days, reports Hindustan Times. PK Dutta, who retired as a deputy inspector general (DIG), has been absconding since September 20, when the Assam government cancelled a written exam to recruit 597 sub-inspectors to the police force after the question paper was leaked and was circulated on social media. Dutta and his son Ishan are suspected to have fled to Nepal by road after the scam came to light. The former police officer’s daughter is married to a Nepali citizen based in Kathmandu. “We can assure you Dutta will be nabbed within few days. Our investigation is on and he will be arrested whether he is in Nepal or anywhere else,” GP Singh, additional director general of police (law and order), told journalists on Saturday. Dutta along with ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Diban Deka are suspected to have fleeced many candidates for posts of sub inspectors by assuring

PK Dutta (File) them jobs in lieu of cash. Deka is alleged to have procured the question paper ahead of the written test. Police investigation has revealed that a day ahead of the test on September 20, many candidates had taken a mock exam in a Guwahati hotel. Nearly 70 of these candidates were staying at one of the five hotels Dutta owns in Guwahati. Police had issued a look out notice for both Dutta and Deka and alerted income tax department, enforcement directorate and department of revenue intelligence after unearthing many properties belonging to the police officer. On Se ptember 30, Deka, who had unsuccessfully contested as a BJP candidate from Barkhetri assembly seat in 2011, was arrested by the police. The 43-year-old was expelled from the party after his ar-

Assam flood situation improves further; 1.35 lakh still hit

315 villages of three districts are still affected. G uwa h at i , O c t 4 (IANS): Assam has seen a significant improvement in its flood situation in the past one week, though 1.35 lakh people in 315 villages of three districts are still affected, officials said on Sunday. Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) officials said that 98,427 people in Nagaon, 29,422 in Morigaon and 7,225 people in Goalpara districts are still affected. The ASDMA said that in the ongoing third wave of floods, besides the lowlying areas, around 18,807 hectares of crop lands in 315 villages was inundated. Around 37,000 domesticated animals as well as wild animals, including rhinos

in sanctuaries and national parks, were also affected due to the flood, which also damaged many roads, bridges, embankments, government buildings and schools. The Jia Bharali River was flowing above the danger level in Sonitpur district and Kopili crossed the danger mark in Nagaon district. ASDMA officials said that Assam, until early August, witnessed devastating floods that killed 122 people in 22 districts, while 26 others were killed in landslides since May 22. With a respite in monsoon rains, the situation significantly improved in the first week of August even as 57 lakh people were affected in 5,378 villages in 30 of the state’s 33 districts.

rest. According to reports, an associate helped Dutta and his son reach Siliguri in West Bengal on September 23 where they spent a night in a hotel. It is speculated Dutta’s son-in-law helped the duo enter Nepal the next day. An Assam Police team is reported to be in Nepal at present and trying to bring back Dutta. Senior police officials in Assam, however, remained tightlipped about Dutta’s whereabouts as it could impact investigation and his arrest. Meanwhile, Deka, who was remanded to five days police custody after his arrest, has been kept at a high security lock up of the special branch in Guwahati following apprehension of threat to his life. Prior to his arrest, the BJP leader in a Facebook post had admitted his association with the agency conducting the written exam for sub inspectors and added that he was absconding as there were threats to his life. Till Saturday, crime branch and criminal investigation departments of Assam Police who are investigating the scam had arrested 32 people including those who lured candidates with promise of jobs as well as job applicants who were in touch with Dutta and Deka.

Rejig in Cong Manipur unit New Delhi, Oct 4 (PTI): The Congress on Sunday reconstituted the coordination, manifesto, campaign and publicity committees of the Manipur unit of the party. Senior party leader and in-charge of Manipur and Mizoram Bhakta Charan Das will be the chairman of the 14-member coordination committee. Senior party leaders, including former Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, will be its members. The Pradesh Election Committee will be chaired by Manipur Congress chief M Okendro Singh. The campaign committee will be headed by former chief minister O Ibobi Singh, while M Okendro will be its co-chairman. It will have 26 members. The publicity committee for Manipur Congress will be chaired by K Ranjit Singh and will have Joykisan Singh as its co-chairman. K Meghachandra Singh will be the chairman of the media coordination committee. The election management committee will be headed by M Okendra Singh.

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Pregnant woman among 4 new COVID casualties in Meghalaya Correspondent S H ILLO N G, O CT 4 : COVID-19 cases continues to climb in Meghalaya with 200 new COVID-19 cases reported on Sunday, taking the number of active cases to 2,209, even as the death toll rose to 58 after four more persons, including a pregnant woman, died due to the viral infection, informed Director Health Services (MI), Dr. Aman War. “Six doctors - four from Shillong, one from South Garo Hills district and one dentist from West Jaiñtia Hills district - tested positive for the viral infection,” the senior medical official added. War said the four deaths recorded are that of an octogenarian woman from Mawbah locality, Shillong; a 63-year-old woman from Lapalang locality, Shillong; a 58 years old man from DM Lines 95, MES, Shillong; and a 30 years old pregnant woman from Mawsaw village, South West Khasi Hills district, all of whom succumbed to the viral infection while under treatment at the at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong. “The reason for the spike of cases is mainly because people are not adhering to the health protocols.

NF Railway to run special trains to Howrah and Trivandrum G uwa h at i , O c t 4 (PTI): The Northeast Frontier Railway on Sunday said it will run two special trains from Guwahati and Silchar, which will travel till Howrah and Trivandrum, respectively, from next week. The train between Guwahati and Howrah will start from October 5, while the one between Silchar and Trivandrum will commence its journey from October 8, NF Railway Chief Public Relations Officer Subhanan Chanda said. “Two more special trains will be operated by Northeast Frontier Railway for the benefit of the people

Guwahati, Oct 4 (IANS): Indian Army’s Gajraj Corps, which was raised in the midst of the India-China War in 1962, on Sunday celebrated its 58th Raising Day at a function at its headquarters in Assam’s Tezpur, defence officials said. A t t h e c e r e m o n y,

Cor ps commander, Lt Gen Shantanu Dayal paid homage to those who have made supreme sacrifice. He also complimented all ranks for their dedication and devotion to duty while serving in counterinsurgency operations in Assam as well as being deployed along the Line

of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh. Defence spokesman Lt Col Harsh Wardhan Pande said that Gajraj Corps was raised by Lt Gen B.M. Kaul at Tezpur on Oct 4, 1962 and over the years, has played a commendable role in both conventional and counter-insurgency opera-

of northeast region from this week,” he said in a release. The Guwahati-Howrah train will run daily and the Silchar-Trivandrum one will ply weekly, and both the trains will not have any unreserved coaches, Chanda said. “Passengers must download Aarogya Setu App and strictly observe social distancing both at the station and on trains. Wearing of face covers at the entry and during travel is a must. Only asymptomatic passengers with confirmed tickets will be allowed to enter the railway station/ board the train,” the release said.

1 killed, 3 injured in Sikkim landslide Gangtok, Oct 4 (PTI): At least one person was killed and three others were injured after heavy rains triggered a landslide at Tafil village in West Sikkim district, an official said on Sunday. Personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and police conducted rescue operations to trace a person who is still missing after Friday’s landslide, Block Development Officer Ranjan Raj said. Initially two persons were missing but the rescuers could pull out the body of 62-year-old Narmith Lepcha from under the debris, the official said. The injured have been referred to Namchi district hospital in South Sikkim.

Gajraj Corps celebrates 58th Raising Day

Gajraj Corps was raised in the midst of the India-China War in 1962.

People must adhere to the three cardinal principles of maintaining distance between each other, wear masks and hand hygiene to prevent from contracting the virus,” War said. On Sunday, Meghalaya also registered 74 new recoveries, while East Khasi Hills registered 50, West Garo Hills - 10, East Jaintia Hills - 8, North Garo Hills 4 and Ri-Bhoi - 2. The total number of recovered cases now stands at 4,393. Meanwhile, in view of the prevailing COVID situation in the state, the District Magistrate, East Khasi Hills District promulgated night curfew in the entire district with effect from October 5 to 12 between 9 PM to 5 AM each day under Section 144 CrPC read together with Regulation 3 of the Meghalaya Epidemic Diseases, COVID-19 Regulations, 2020, to contain, reduce and eliminate the pandemic, Meanwhile, places of worship re-opened in Meghalaya from October 1 after remaining closed for over six months, even as the faithful took part in church services on Sunday while observing all safety norms. “Religious places, places of worship of all faiths are permitted to reopen subject to compliance to the SOP (standard operating procedure),” a government notification said.

tions in the eastern theatre, especially during the 1971 Bangladesh war “In the India-Pakistan war in 1971, the Gajraj Corps made the famous advance to Dhaka during the liberation of Bangladesh and also participated in the Meghna Heli Bridge Operations. In fact, that operation had stunned the world’s armies. The then Corps Commander, Lt Gen Sagat Singh, had innovatively employed Mi-4 helicopters to cross the Meghna River which was considered impassable and his Corps relentlessly attacked and defeated the Pakistani forces,” he said. Lt Col Pande said that the innovative use of helicopters has remained unparalleled. “The Corps had proved its mettle and very proficiently carried out its task in the most complex sector in terms of distances from the logistic bases. The Corps was first to enter Dhaka,” he added.

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‘Disturbed area’ tag for 3 districts in Arunachal N ew D e l h i , O c t 4(PTI): The Centre has declared three districts and four police stations in three other districts of Arunachal Pradesh as “disturbed areas” under the AFSPA for six more months after review of insurgent activities and the law and order situation in the areas. In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said that the order came into effect from 1 October. “...Tirap, Changlang and Longding districts in Arunachal Pradesh and the areas falling within the jurisdiction of the following four police stations in other districts of Arunachal Pradesh, bordering the State of Assam, are declared as ‘disturbed area’ under Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 up to 31.03.2021 w.e.f. 01.10.2020, unless withdrawn earlier,” the notification said. The four police stations are Namsai and Mahadevpur in Namsai district, Roing in Lower Dibang Valley and Sunpura in Lohit district. The AFSPA is imposed in areas where armed forces are required to operate in aid to civil authorities. For AFSPA to become valid, an area, however, needs to be declared disturbed either by the central or the state governments under section 3 of the 1958 Act.

Correspondent IMPHAL, OCT 4: Amid surge in COVID-19 cases, a government dedicated COVID care centre (CCC) in Manipur’s Thoubal district is on the verge of closing down due to severe fund crunch. Due to non-release of funds, the authority running the centre owed over Rs 10 lakh to material suppliers, an official source said. An official source in the office of the chief medical officer Thoubal, said the CCC at Lamding Higher Secondary School was run on fund released by the state government through the district administration. Over 200 COVID-19 patients have been treated since opening the centre and 70 patients are currently undergoing treatment. Foods and other materials required for the CCC were supplied by some individuals contracted by the district administration. However, the suppliers have now threatened to stop further supply if the due of over Rs 10 lakh is not cleared by the authority at the earliest. Subsequently, the CMO wrote to the concern authority for the immediate release of the fund. There was however no positive response so far, the source said. The fund crunch faced by the CCC was amid al-

legations of poor maintenance of CCCs at various places of the state to cope with the ever increasing COVID-19 positive cases in the state. Patients at a CCC in Imphal West district had recently complained of the unhygienic condition of the centre. Patients at the CCC at JNIMS hospital in Imphal East district had also alleged that no doctor entered the ward to monitor health conditions of patients for days and supplied medicines through the windows. M e a n w h i l e, t h e COVID-19 related fatality toll in the state rose to 74 as three patients including two women of age 74, 54 and 94 years died in the last 24 hours. A report of the state health department said that the two women patients died at RIMS hospital, Imphal, while the 94-yearold man from Tamenglong district breathed his last at his home. The infection tally also rose to 11,855 as 206 persons including six CAPF personnel tested positive during test of 2,348 samples in the last 24 hours (till 4 pm of October 4). All 200 new confirmed cases from among the general populace have no recent significant travel history, the health department report stated.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh releases book on Assam’s heritage

Dr Jitendra releasing the coffee table book. New Delhi, Oct 4 (PTI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday released a coffee table book ‘Discovering the Heritage of Assam’- with a foreword by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan. The voluminous book with pictures and photographs on glaze paper presents an absorbing compilation of heritage, faith, beliefs and traditions of different ethnic tribes and sub-tribes living in Assam, the largest state of the Northeastern region. While releasing the book, Singh, the Union

BJP leader’s supporters, locals clash in Assam; many injured Nalbari (Assam), Oct 4 (PTI): Several persons, including police personnel, were injured when locals who were staging a protest against the entry of controversial BJP leader Satya Ranjan Borah in Nalbari district on Sunday clashed with his supporters, and police wielded batons and fired in the air to disperse them, officials said. Problem began in the morning when people blocked Dhamdhama-Kadamtal road at Garbhitor village to prevent Borah, who allegedly makes provocative comments against a community, from attending a meeting at Kadamtal village, they said. As soon as the news of the leader’s arrival spread, hundreds of locals blocked the road, leading to a clash between them and Borah’s supporters. Police reached the spot immediately after getting information of the trouble

Amid surge in COVID-19 cases, CCC in Mnp faces fund crunch

Satya Ranjan Borah. and tried to pacify both sides, but was not successful, the officials said. “The protestors pelted stones at the police injuring several of our personnel,” a senior officer said. The police resorted to lathicharge and fired in the air to quell the unrest, the officer said. The protestors claimed that many of them were injured in the clash and police lathicharge, but they were not hospitalised. The leader and his followers left the spot with police escort without attending the meeting

minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), congratulated its author Padampani Bora, who is by profession an officer of the Indian Revenue Service (2009 batch). Bora has over the years established himself as an accomplished author, specialising in the subjects reflecting diverse nuances of the Northeastern region, he said. Singh said while mostly it is suggested that the Northeast should be brought closer to the rest of India, very few understand that

there is much more than that and in fact, the rest of the country can learn from the Northeast. The book by Bora, he said, will help to understand the grand splendour and glory of the undiscovered facets of Assam. The minister suggested wide circulation of the coffee table book and hoped that the writer’s creation will not only remain confined to the pages of the book but would also serve as cultural and heritage ambassador of the Northeast for the rest of the world.

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DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE WOKHA : NAGALAND

NOTICE

S/C NO. 81/20

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

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Y. Nchumbeni Lotha has been applied by Smti Mharoni Ngullie D/o Lt. Y. Nchumbeni Lotha R/o H.No. Wokha, Nagaland for possession of: 1. P.P.O No. NL/E/09322 2. S.B.I A/C No. 31138580325 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before the said day of 23.10.20. Given under the hand and seal of the court on this the 23.09.20. District & Sessions Judge Wokha : Nagaland

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

No. VLS-1/06-D/8487-88

NOTICE

Dated Dimapur the 3rd Oct' 2020

Shri. K. Paothing applied for patta passbook for a plot of land covered under Patta No. 434 Dag No.-223/567 located at DAROGAJAN. However on Spot Verification it has been ascertained that the land in question falls under part of Original Dag No.-225, 302, 238, 224, 223 and not only Original Dag No. 223/567 as recorded in the revenue record. Therefore, the undersigned hereby invited claims/objections if any for rectification of Dag No. as per the actual ground position and should there be any, may be submitted to this court in writing within 1(one) month from the date of publication of this notice. SCHEDULE OF LAND North : D. NARMAN East : D. NARMAN South : MAIN ROAD West : TOSHI AO

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Cong will revoke farm sector laws if voted to power: Rahul

MOGA, OCT 4 (PTI): Vowing to scrap the new farm laws once the Congress returns to power at the Centre, Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that the BJP-led government was acting at the behest of select corporates to “destroy” farmers. Leading a tractor rally in Punjab against the farm legislations, the Congress leader launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questioned the need for bringing in the new laws at the time of the coronavirus pandemic. “Their target is to end the MSP and food procurement system. They know the day that happens, farmers of Punjab and Haryana will be finished,” he said. “But the Congress will not allow this to happen, we stand firmly behind you. We will not back down an inch,” Gandhi said while addressing a public rally at Badni Kalan here before a tractor rally through the districts of Moga and Ludhiana. The Congress, which is in power in Punjab, is holding tractor rallies from October 4 to October 6 across the state in protest against the Centre’s new farm laws. Gandhi alleged that the Modi government was “a

Rahul Gandhi, Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh and other leaders during a tractor rally, ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’, in protest against the new farm bills, in Punjab Oct. 4. (PTI)

puppet whose strings were in the hands of the Adanis and the Ambanis”. “I guarantee the day Congress government is formed (at the Centre), these three black laws would be scrapped and consigned to wastepaper basket,” he said. The former Congress president said if the laws were meant for farmers, then why were they agitating against these new legislations, and referred to the Congress’ opposition to the Land Acquisition Bill. He said while the sys-

tem needed reforms and change, there was no way the Congress would allow it to be destroyed. “I am not saying that there is no deficiency in this system. There is a need to reform the system, but it does not need to be destroyed. “If you do so then there will not be anything for farmers’ safety and they will have to directly talk to Ambani and Adani and farmers will be destroyed,” he said. President Ram Nath Kovind has given assent to the Farmers’ Produce Trade

and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill; Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill; and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, which were passed by the Parliament last month. The government has maintained that the MSP system will remain and has accused the Congress and other opposition parties of misleading farmers. Prime Minister Modi has alleged that those opposing the bills only want

the “middlemen” to thrive, while his government is concerned about the interests of farmers who will now be able to get a better price for their produce. It was merely “opposition for the sake of opposition”, he had said on the protests against the new laws and claimed that these parties too had been in favour of such reforms but lacked the courage as their focus was only on elections. Gandhi targeted Prime Minister Modi, accusing him of lying to the people and misleading the nation for the past six years to “serve” the interests of two to three large corporate houses. “For six years, Narendra Modi has been speaking lies. When he brought demonetisation, he had then said black money will be curbed. When GST was implemented, it hit small shopkeepers, traders and the poor. “When COVID-19 came, the debt of biggest corporates of the country was waived, their tax was waived. But no relief was given to poor and farmers, not a single rupee was given,” he alleged. Referring to the Hathras case, where a dalit teenager died after being assaulted and allegedly gangraped,

Gandhi claimed that while no action is being taken against the culprits, the victims are being targeted. Later, Rahul Gandhi along with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh sat on a tractor which was driven by Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar. Gandhi and other party leaders including Priyanka Vadra had on Saturday night met the victim’s family in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. In his address, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh also pledged not to back out of the fight against the “black laws” till they are amended to give a written constitutional guarantee on MSP and continuation of FCI. The verbal assurances of the BJP-led government could not be trusted, he said. He also accused the Akalis of “selling off ” the interests of the farmers as part of the Union Government. Former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had been at loggerheads with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and had stayed away from all Congress activities ever since he resigned from the state cabinet last year, too addressed the gathering. AICC general secretary in-charge of Punjab affairs Harish Rawat and party MLAs also joined the rally.

5 Congress helping brokers and middlemen: Naqvi BARELI/RAMPUR (UP), OCT 4 (PTI): Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday hit out at the Congress over its opposition to farm laws, alleging that the “Congress syndicate” is conspiring to help “feudalism of brokers and middlemen”. Addressing farmers during “Kisan Chaupal”, Naqvi said that the Congress and its associates were trying to hide “mountain of truth” with “bushes of lies” but they will not succeed in their attempt, according to a statement from him. The Congress syndicate is creating fear and confusion over agriculture reform bills just to protect interests of feudal middlemen, he alleged. On one hand the agriculture reforms will ensure elimination of middlemen and on the other they will also give guarantee of better price for the produce of farmers, Naqvi said, adding that the Narendra Modi government is taking steps to empower farmers but the Congress is conspiring to “mislead” them. Now farmers will get new opportunities to sell their produce, which will increase their profits, he said. The new laws will give the agriculture sector the

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benefit of modern technology and farmers will be empowered. The minimum support price and government procurement will remain in place, he said. These new laws will give freedom to farmers for storage and sale of their crops and free them from the clutches of middlemen, he said. Farmers will not be compelled to sell their produce to the licensed traders in mandis anymore and also get freedom from the tax of government mandis, Naqvi said. The dream of ‘One Nation, One Market’ will now be fulfilled, he said. The minister said that PM Narendra Modi is committed to the welfare of villages and farmers of the country, and that their rights will be protected at any cost. Under the ‘PM Kisan Samman Nidhi’, more than Rs 92,000 crore has been given to farmers so far, he said.

Two Navy personnel dead as Bhim Army chief Aazad visits Hathras woman’s village glider crashes in Kerala’s Kochi Seeks ‘Y’ security for her family

Mangled remains of a naval power glider after a crash during a routine training sortie in Kochi, Oct. 4. (PTI)

Lt Jha, father of two children, hailed from Dehradun in Uttarakhand. Kumar, unmarried, belonged to Bhoj in Bihar.

Great Golden Circus only recognised circus in India: CZA

opposition,” he claimed. Aazad demanded that a retired justice of the Supreme Court be given the responsibility to look into the matter. “We only trust the top court,” he added. He said he will take the woman’s family members to his own home if ‘Y’ secu-

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incident. Aazad said that if his demands aren’t met, he will march to the UP Vidhan Sabha. The Bhim Army chief said that the CBI inquiry was only introduced to scare the family of the victim. “The key to the CBI is held by this government. It’s only a way to suppress the

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NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (PTI): The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has told the Delhi High Court that the Great Golden Circus in Gujarat is the only circus in the entire country which is recognised under the Wildlife Protection Act. However, a notice has been sent to the circus to show cause why its recognition should not be cancelled for alleged violation of the provisions of the Act with regard to maintenance and display of captive elephants, the CZA has told the high court. The submissions were made by the authority in its affidavit filed before a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rajnish Bhatnagar in response to PILs by the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Federation of Indian Animals Protection Organisation (FIAPO), PETA India, represented by advocates Aman Hingorani and Swati Sumby, has claimed in its plea that due to the COVID-19 outbreak and resultant lockdown, circuses are finding it difficult to feed the animals which at various stages of

Bhim Army Chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad with the family members of the Hathras ‘gang rape’ victim Sunday.

rity isn’t provided to them. The family members of the woman, speaking to the media with Aazad, agreed with his demands and said they feel threatened in their village. “Protests, chaos are created at every corner by them (members of the Thakur community). What if they come and attack the family tomorrow? I can’t let that happen,” he said. Some upper caste residents of the village took out a march against Aazad’s visit to Boolgrahi Sunday, raising slogans like ‘UP Police Zindabad’. The conduct of UP Police as well as district administration in the Hathras case has come under the scanner over allegations that the family’s complaint was initially ignored.

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ern Naval Command into the incident, he said. According to the spokesperson, Kumar was an experienced glider pilot.

H AT H R A S, O C T 4 (AGENCIES): Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad Sunday demanded ‘Y’ security for the family members of the 20-year-old Hathras woman who was allegedly gang-raped by four upper caste men on 14 September. The woman died earlier this week at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Aazad, along with six other members of the Bhim Army, an outfit that works to promote Dalit rights, reached the woman’s house in Boolgarhi village around 4.15 pm Sunday after the UP government issued permission around noon. “If Kangana Ranaut can get Y+ security why

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KOCHI, OCT 4 (PTI): A Navy glider on a routine training sortie crashed here on Sunday, killing two crew members, a Defence spokesperson said. The power glider took off from INS Garuda, a Naval air station here and crashed near Thoppumpady bridge close to the naval base at around 7 am. Both the crew members of the glider — officer Lt Rajeev Jha (39) and Petty Officer Sunil Kumar (29) — were pulled out from the wreckage and rushed to the Naval hospital INHS Sanjivani. However, they were declared brought dead, the spokesperson said. A board of inquiry had been ordered by the South-

can’t my family, people of my community, get it? Does the torture done to them not count?” Aazad said, speaking to the media. The Bhim Army chief added that he didn’t think a CBI investigation in the case will be fair. “We have no faith in (investigations by) government agencies like the CBI and SIT. They are part of the state machinery, which only follow the government’s orders. Everyone has seen how the DM (district magistrate) and other officials have tried to intimidate the family members,” Aazad said. The Yogi Adityanath government Saturday transferred the Hathras case to the CBI, with the chief minister tweeting that they are determined to inflict the harshest punishment on those responsible for the

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXx NO. 301 Dimapur, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020

Naga conundrum

eople of Nagaland have experienced the highs and lows of the political movement which since the late 40s saw the spread of Naga nationalism across the erstwhile Naga Hills District and Naga Hills Tuensang Area. The political awareness among several tribes of being one can be traced to their faith although developments forged this new found recognition into a political ideology. The spark of Naga nationalism perhaps began since the time when a round a thousand Nagas went to Europe as Naga Labour Corps(1917-18) force during WWI. The Naga tribes from erstwhile Naga Hills District and NHTA who went to France were from different tribes. The experience served to awaken their consciousness as one people. Thus, when the colonial rulers were leaving, the enlightened Nagas reasserted their desire to remain as they were and not under any other sovereign power. This was reflected in their famous memorandum to the Simon Commission in 1929. This nationalism led to eventual formation of the Naga National Council(NNC) and it was only after 1949 when Phizo became the chairman and president, was the movement militarised due to the situation then. If Nehru was blamed for militarisation of the conflict, it was also he who acceded to demand for statehood by NPC and also provided a special status to Nagaland under Article 371A. However the conflict continued when NNC rejected statehood and condemned the signatories traitors. The church under Nagaland Baptist Church Council(NBCC), acted as catalyst for peace and initiated a truce between the undivided NNC/FGN and the government of India which came into effect on September 6,1964. Several rounds of negotiations were held between FGN ato kilonser(prime minister) Kughato Sukhai and prime minister Indira Gandhi. It was a golden opportunity for Nagas to obtain a better deal which Indira was not adverse but insisted that it should be within the Indian constitution. In effect Indira was willing to give anything under the Indian constitution while the FGN persisted with nothing under the Indian constitution. Talks were called off in 1967 and so it was back to square one. However, NNC split in 1968 and this trend continued through to 1975, 1980, 1990, 1988,2007,2011, 2015,2018 and 2020. Today, the government of India is negotiating with two groups comprising of nine factions. Unlike in 1964 when there was only one NNC/FGN today there are as many as nine groups. It may be said that the first solution came in 1963 even if it was not acceptable to all sections of society. In 1964 the first cease fire came into effect and also offered the first golden opportunity to resolve the Naga political issue as the government of India was more than willing to concede a higher status. In 1997 the second cease fire was signed and subsequently 23 years of negotiations have been held and it could well be the second and final solution if it takes place eventually. Unlike in 1964, the ball today is not in the centre’s court but in the people’s court. While unity means one goal, it is unfortunate that this is not reflected by a discord between the governor and chief minister; within a rainbow coalition Naga political groups and also between legislators. This has only provided potential nutrient for anti-thesis to the tenuous unanimity among a heterogeneous society

DailyDevotion The Vision and The Reality

…to those who are…called to be saints… —1 Corinthians 1:2 Thank God for being able to see all that you have not yet been. You have had the vision, but you are not yet to the reality of it by any means. It is when we are in the valley, where we prove whether we will be the choice ones, that most of us turn back. We are not quite prepared for the bumps and bruises that must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the vision. We have seen what we are not, and what God wants us to be, but are we willing to be battered into the shape of the vision to be used by God? The beatings will always come in the most common, everyday ways and through common, everyday people. There are times when we do know what God’s purpose is; whether we will let the vision be turned into actual character depends on us, not on God. If we prefer to relax on the mountaintop and live in the memory of the vision, then we will be of no real use in the ordinary things of which human life is made. We have to learn to live in reliance upon what we saw in the vision, not simply live in ecstatic delight and conscious reflection upon God. This means living the realities of our lives in the light of the vision until the truth of the vision is actually realized in us. Every bit of our training is in that direction. Learn to thank God for making His demands known. Our little “I am” always sulks and pouts when God says do. Let your little “I am” be shriveled up in God’s wrath and indignation— “I AM WHO I AM…has sent me to you” (Exodus 3:14). He must dominate. Isn’t it piercing to realize that God not only knows where we live, but also knows the gutters into which we crawl! He will hunt us down as fast as a flash of lightning. No human being knows human beings as God does.

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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ~ William James

he new farm laws have pushed farmers in many states to hit roads. There is general perception that bills are not in the interest of farmers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that the opposition is misleading farmers and the opposition says the bills are “exploitative”. The farmers are apprehensive. They have stopped train services in Punjab, blocked highways in UP, protesting elsewhere and symbolically burnt a tractor in Delhi. They feel that they would be redundant as corporate takeover of their livelihood is imminent. The bills per se do not say that though these substantially may change the way farming is done in India. In the entire discussion both the government and opposition are silent on the aspect that the bills are virtually World Trade O r g a n i s a t i o n ( W TO ) Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), free trade on agriculture, compliant. The WTO views state support like subsidies in agriculture preventing integration of agriculture into the free market. The subsidies became a bone of contention between developing and

Farmers in WTO trap?

developed states. The developed countries accused the developing countries of severely subsidising through price supports (like India’s MSP) tariff regulations on exports and imports and protectionist policies. It does not suit western MNCs, who virtually monpolise the international farm trade. Since the issues were not discussed either in Parliament or outside on the and how these are going to help or not the global players, the apprehension has gone deep. The three bills - The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 – were introduced as ordinances on June 5. A month later Modi addressed the US-India Business Council meeting inviting the US companies to invest in India as agricultural reforms initiated would facilitate ease of business and the food processing industry is expected to worth a trillion dollars by 2025. The farmers need to see this connection. The bills do not speak

of continuance of the MSP though separately the government has said that it would continue. Any inclusion of price support mechanism could have been interpreted by WTO as subsidy and prevent the opening up of the farm sector to global players. The MSP as such has no legal backing. If gradually the APMC mandis are dismantled, a fear, farmers and other experts express, the MSP would virtually become ineffective. The AoA restricts limits of subsidies like support prices up to 5 percent for developed nations and 10 percent for developing nations. If a country like Shivaji India gives more, it is considered a violation. The countrymen may recall that a storm brewed at WTO over the Food Security Act in 2013.India was forced to negotiate to procure food grains for its own citizens and got a temporary truce at Bali. Nobody is discussing it. The Food Security Act entails an investment of Rs 30,000 crore to Rs 80,000 crore a year, sometime more as in post-covid19 situation it touched Rs 1.5 lakh crore. The WTO may consider such gen-

erousity as subsidy. In an era of sanctions, this can cause problems. The government is treading cautiously and opposition is helping by not diverting the attention from the issue like ‘threat to market’, market area, trade area in or outside mandis, “dispute resolution” and “market fee” of the first bill, now law. The gover nment’s contention that APMC mandis have not allowed equal treatment to all farmers is well taken. It is known that only 6 percent of the farmers could avail it. The last season as per data presented in Parliament, 1.24 crore paddy farmers and 44 lakh wheat farmSarkar ers got the M S P. T h e PM-Kisan scheme records 8.12 crore farmer families having up to 2 acre of land. Actual numbers are higher. But those not getting the highest MSP, 94 percent, also have the advantage of a floor to negotiate. The catch is elsewhere. The grey area is whether the centre can enact such laws. This is primarily a state subject. In a case between ITC Ltd and APMC 2002, the Supreme Court upheld the validity of several state

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laws relating to agricultural produce marketing, and struck down the central Tobacco Act 1975. The SC said raw materials or activity that does not involve manufacture or production cannot be covered under ‘industry’. It interpreted Entry 28 of the State list (markets and fairs) in favour of states and rejected the Entry 52 of the Union List with Entry 33 of Concurrent List for tobacco in this case. The Trade and Commerce (Promotion and facilitation) law deviates from APMC. Its clause 6 frees traders from paying any market fee for procuring fee outside the APMC mandis. This is a clever way to subvert the mandis through ‘incentive’ to procure outside. Agriculture suffers from poor and uneven infrastructure. The number of mandis, warehouses, cold chains need to increase. In 2016, eNam – electronic farm markets were created to address the deficiencies. Only 1000 out of 6900 APMCs joined the eNAM. Now the new bills virtually bypass the goals of unifying farm market across the country. There are fears that markets would be asymmetric. In such situations, the large segment, comprising 86

percent of the farmers facing bottlenecks connecting to markets would be the sufferer. They will be forced to turn to local or any trader approaching them. This will cause input cost-price mismatch and increase indebtedness. Making MSPs redundant through the new laws is an instance of how the country succumbs to the developed nations’ gallery dominated by MNCs. Contract farming policy will shift the power balance away from farmers to the large corporate turning him a tenant. Power of hoarding extended by the new EC Act gives unfettered powers to corporate. The WTO regime is more favourable to rich nations which are in AoA Green box. The US spends $ 61286 per farmer and the EU $ 8588. India spends $ 282. If the subsidy or in real terms MSP is done away with, it would be difficult for the entire farm sector. It has ramifications on all other aspects of economy and sovereign aspects. The three laws call for a review. The nation needs to understand that it is not going into the WTO trap and farmers that they would not be at the mercy of the corporate.

Post-mortem

Poshan Maah 2020 - The story

long with the rest carried out to sensitize of the country, Na- masses towards adoption galand obser ved of healthy Nutritional POSHAN Maah as a part Behaviour at the comof Jan Andolan under munity level. The converPOSHAN Abhiyaan from gent departments play a 1st -30th September2020. key role for implementing The main focus of this various activities during year POSHAN Maah is the Poshan maah. Major on.. 1) Identification of activities undertaken durSevere Acute Malnour- ing the month long celished children (SAM) and ebration includes Poshan 2) Development of kitchen Panchayat, Local leaders Garden in AWC. At the meetings, Demonstration backdrop of the COVID-19 of Handwashing in schools pandemic many activities and Anganwadi Centers, were conducted digitally Youth leaders meeting including, online easy writ- including the church leading competition, painting ers, Awareness camps for competition, webinars on adolescent girls, Moththe different themes of ers meeting, Cleanliness POSHAN Abhiyaan.. A drive in government offices separate tab in the Jan An- ,educational Institutions,& dolan Dashboard reflected Anganwadi Centers, Vilaggregated outcomes of lage and Health Nutrition the POSHAN Abhiyaan day (VHND), Home -visits with entries of all activities and Cooking Competimade on periodical basis at tion- preparation of nutridistrict/block& Anganwa- tious food from the locally di level. The Jan Andolan available foods, Poshan Guidelines which are Multi s e m i n a r s, C o m mu n i t y Sectorial and cover 12 basic based events(CBE),Local themes were utilised to food show. Innovative activate various platforms programmes such as the at ground level. To create POSHAN Clubs at Village momentum towards Nutri- level, POSHAN Youth tion at the State, District, Club, Nut. Special focus Block and Village levels, was made on breastfeeding the Social Welfare Depart- and covid-19. Social media was used ment, Nagaland played key role in implementing the extensively to propagate various activities during and generate awareness on the POSHAN Maah in nutrition. Animation vidco-ordination with the eos on -anemia, exclusive various convergence de- breastfeeding, complementary feeding, ANC, imporpartments. Marking the celebra- tance of hand washing, tion, launching of POSHAN breastfeeding & covid-19 Maah was organized in all were made and circulated Angawandi centres and 60 widely on social media. project headquarters and Radio documentaries, Radistricts of the state on dio jingles and Radio in7th Sept 2020. Under the terview on nutrition were shadow of the Coronavirus done and aired on AIR pandemic, although the Kohima. Mention must be Rashtriya Poshan Maah has been celebrated via made here that in the Mindigital means throughout istry of Women and Child the country, Nagaland State Development Instagram has been very active in Account, activities from terms of number of partici- Nagaland was highlighted pation with huge number more than 25 times durof activities throughout the ing the POSHAN Maah State. Anganwadi work- 2020—the most from a ers stood in the frontline single state all over the of celebration. Actively country. Altogether 4,21,367 converging departments mentionable were NSRLM, numbers of people particiKVKs, RD and Health and pated and 26,190 activities Family Welfare. Huge sup- were conduct in the month port and active participa- long celebration. State Project Managetion of the people has put ment Unit, Rashtriya the State in the spotlight in POSHAN Abhiyaan, the country. Kohima Several activities were Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in

GNF calls for an unprecedented leadership to emerge

ear and Respected Naga Leaders of Civil Societies, Tribe Hohos, Women Associations & Unions, Churches, Forums and Student Bodies in Naga Homeland: Nagas have indeed come a long way from the time our forebears fiercely guarded and defended their village territories and ancestral domains to the hilt, leaving behind the seeds of freedom sowed with sweat and tears and nurtured by blood. Our generation is the first beneficiary of the sacrifices they made. We are also the 21st century inheritors of one of the most efficient and cohesive systems of self-government in human history: the traditional communitarian Naga village. And now we find ourselves in a critical moment and place for survival as a people. We have an urgent self-defining choice to make. The choice is urgent but simple. Do we have the courage and the wisdom to carry forward our rich Naga cultural inheritance by addressing and resolving the divisions among us? We are on the cusp of a history-making decision. No exaggeration. We sense we have come this close to either slipping into the deep historical precipice of lost peoples or uniting ourselves to build a bridge to the other side of the precipice for a bright collective future. Our prolonged lack of unity has brought us to the brink. And it troubles us deeply that this generation of Nagas, especially the leaders, seem determined to blindfold themselves with antagonistic posturing of all kinds to take us all down. After all our people have been through, we refuse to believe our leaders will choose that path, because we know it will slowly but certainly “disappear” the Nagas as a people from the face of the earth. We are not a numerous people. It won’t take much more than a prolonged period of mutual mistrust and fear, self-inflicted wounds, anxieties, insecurities, and mutual misgivings and indifference, all the things rampant in our society, to do that. There are moments in life when skepticism and doubt can disable a necessary and resolute wise action. This is no time for indecision and weakness. So we fervently call upon the social and patriotic conscience of Naga leaders today. If our formally uneducated forebears could develop and administer an orderly and sophisticated system of self-government that stood united against foreign aggressors, why can’t Naga leaders in the 21st century, after a lifetime of sacrifice for the Naga cause, agree among themselves that Nagas are a people who have the right to self-determination and who

belong together in an undivided homeland? And why can’t they take that united non-negotiable demand to the talks with the Government of India? We the Naga people cannot understand how any responsible Naga group can oppose such a basic principle or object to signing on to so universally accepted a human right as that. We believe the time for selfimposed stalemate is over. The survival of the Nagas is at stake. We are on the brink of a precipice. The entrenched culture of Naga divisions is killing us, because it is fed by alignments along sectarian NPGs, political parties, and their respective CSOs, each claiming a greater legitimacy based on mutually exclusive reasoning or rewriting of the history of the freedom struggle its way. We wonder what kind of society we are creating for ourselves and our children and grandchildren with every national group and political party self-righteously marching under the banner that reads, “My way or no way,” and expects the people to march under its flag. We are convinced that in a deeply fragmented society like ours, the starting point for any meaningful dialogue and understanding begins with the recognition that we cannot antagonize and influence each other positively at the same time. As joint stakeholders, Nagas of all

groups must enter into relationships with honest intention for the common good of the society, making our political intent clear and campaigning for it, but not as enemies. The Naga cause is noble and should not be degraded to the level of inter-group rivalries for sectarian interests. We have serious nation-building to do beyond unending nationalism and partisan politics. We must unite behind the urgent work of Naga nation-building. It is time to move away from armed struggle and political rhetoric to the task of uplifting our people’s daily lives in a planned, systematic, and sustained manner. We believe in your leadership, collectively and as individuals. We know each of you has earned your position of leadership in our society in your own right, and you are exemplars of lives lived with conviction and commitment to causes greater than yourselves, for which you have our admiration and gratitude. We would like to end by humbly reminding you that unprecedented crises call for unprecedented leadership. And we are confident you will meet the unprecedented challenge facing the Naga people now. We can do this together with your leadership. Best wishes. Kuknalim! Aga Rengma, Global Naga Forum Media Coordination Committee Member

Reader’s Post

Dilemma of students and teachers

Sir,

Since the pandemic lockdown and unlock, the most affected have been the business sector, daily wage earners and students. While the economy of the nation and the state in particular hit a devastating low, it has somehow managed to revive at a slow growth rate. On the other hand, students are in a dilemma and everyday one reads about demand for postponing exams etc. Student bodies have also been requesting the concerned authorities for consideration towards the safety of students. Demand for postponement of exams has been necessitated due to the pandemic virus which is still spreading and many students also come from far flung places. Education has been kept on hold for several months and it is not something that is good for students as some want to resume their academic activities. However, the health safety of students and the general public is far more important if one must fight the pandemic together. Leaving aside the loss of classroom learning, the teachers and students have compensated by online classes. Unfortunately, many students from economically weaker sections and those leaving in remote areas have lost out even on this front. One can only imagine what must be going on in the minds of the students and teachers even as the pandemic sweeps through. Sentijungla Lkr, Dimapur

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LJP walks out of NDA in Bihar

Targets Nitish and bats for BJP-led govt in state NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (PTI): The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Sunday walked out of the ruling National Democratic Alliance in Bihar ahead of the state assembly polls, as it attacked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and announced that it would fight JD(U) candidates in the elections. While making its resentment with the JD(U) president Kumar clear, the LJP also went to great lengths to highlight its strong ties with the BJP, asserting in a statement that it wants the saffron party to head the future government in the state and its MLAs will work towards this goal. LJP president Chirag Paswan chaired the party’s parliamentary board meeting in which a decision was taken to not fight the assembly election, which begins from October 28 in three phases, under Kumar’s leadership of the NDA in the state. The BJP, which heads the NDA, has already announced that the alliance will fight the polls under Kumar’s leadership, and he will be chief minister again if people vote it back to

Chirag Paswan and Ram Vilas Paswan (File)

power. “Due to ideological differences with the JD(U), a member of the alliance at the national level and in the assembly polls, the Lok Janshakti Party has decided to fight the elections in Bihar separately from the alliance,” a party statement said. “We will triumph,” was the brief comment of Chirag Paswan as he sported a victory sign after the meeting. However, the LJP is likely to continue as the member of the NDA at the Centre as of now, more so as its patron and the only member in the Modi government, Ram Vilas Paswan, has undergone a heart surgery in the national capital and will remain hospitalised for a few weeks.

Schools in Delhi to remain closed till Oct 31

NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (IANS): In view of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, all schools in Delhi will remain closed till October 31, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Sunday. According to the new guidelines released by the Centre, the state governments could open schools from October 15. However, it was up to the state governments concerned to take the final call. The Delhi government had on September 18 ordered all schools in the city

to stay shut until October 5, and has now extended the closure to the end of October. “The decision to close the schools in Delhi will continue. I have instructed to shut all schools till October 31. The order for the same will be released soon,” Sisodia, who also holds the Education portfolio, said. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said: “As a parent, I understand the seriousness of the situation. At this time, it would not be appropriate to take any risk regarding the health of children.”

The BJP’s relations with the regional party have remained cordial, and the LJP has maintained that it will not contest against candidates of the saffron party. The LJP also said that it has no “bitterness” with the BJP and has often lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. However, the LJP’s decision has thrown open new possibilities in the Bihar polls as the party may end up damaging the JD(U)’s prospects at several seats. The opposition alliance of the RJD, Congress and the Left may receive a boost with the development. The LJP meeting also passed a resolution in favour of an alliance with the BJP,

and said its MLAs will work to strengthen the hand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The party said it was keen to execute the “Bihar first Bihari first” vision documents it had prepared following interactions with lakhs of people from the state but an agreement on this could not be reached in the alliance. “We have a strong alliance with the BJP in Lok Sabha,” it added. The LJP has said that it will contest on 143 seats in the election to the 243-seat assembly. The ties between the JD(U) and the LJP had long been worsening over a number of issues. The JD(U) was also not keen to part with as many seats as the LJP believed was its due in the assembly polls, and Chirag Paswan’s constant attack on the Nitish Kumar government in the state soured their ties. The JD(U) had refused to engage in any talks with the LJP, saying that Paswan’s party’s alliance was with the BJP and not with it.

Though the BJP was more accommodative of the LJP’s concerns, sources in the regional party said, but the JD(U) believed that it overestimated its strength. The LJP primarily draws its vote bank in the state from a section of Dalits and also has several ‘upper’ caste leaders in its ranks who command influence in certain pockets. Chirag Paswan had met BJP president J P Nadda a few times of late and also spoke to senior BJP leader and Home Minister Amit Shah over the alliance issues. The Bihar assembly polls will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, and the counting of votes will take place on November 10. The nomination process for the first phase, under which 71 of the total 243 seats will go to polls, began from October 1 and will end on October 8. In 2015, the LJP had contested 42 seats and won two. The JD(U) was then part of the opposition alliance which decisively defeated the NDA.

India to have world’s largest clean energy-driven railway network: Goyal KO L K AT A , O C T 4 (PTI): The Railways has embarked on a massive electrification drive and by 2023, the country will have the world’s largest 100 per cent clean energy-driven rail transport system, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday. The railway minister also said that work way underway to set up an infrastructure for generating 20,000 megawatt of renewable energy, which will provide power for running the entire network. “By 2023, the Indian Railways will be the world’s largest 100 per cent electrified rail transport system,” the Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said at the inauguration of an underground station of the citys East-West Metro corridor. He contended that “no other part of the world, not even the most-developed country”, has launched such an ambitious project. The entire world is watching India’s massive thrust towards environment-friendly modes of transport, he said, adding that the project is a crucial part of the Union govern-

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ment’s initiatives to build a green nation. Asser ting that the country is marching ahead in the direction of selfreliance, Piyush Goyal said that the railways has become almost 98 per cent indigenous equipment procurer, save certain technology products, which will also be indigenised gradually.

Goyal inaugurates Phoolbagan Station of East West Metro corridor

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday virtually inaugurated the Phoolbagan Station of Kolkata’s East West Metro corridor, describing the extension of the line from Salt Lake Stadium as a Durga Puja gift for the people of the metropolis. Goyal also flagged off the first train from the new station to Salt Lake Sector-V, and said the entire stretch of the corridor is likely to be completed by December 2021. “I am told that by the end of next year, the entire East West Corridor project of 16.55 km (between Sector-V and Howrah Maidan) is expected to be completed; hopefully with no further hiccups coming up due to the Covid pandemic,” he said while inaugurating the extension of the line till Phoolbagan Station through the virtual mode. Goyal said the project, which has suffered delays owing to several issues, has been fast-tracked since 2015 because of the personal intervention and monitoring by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The start of Metro services at Phoolbagan Station is a “Durga Puja gift by the Railways for Kolkatans”, the minister said. “The estimates are that this line (East West Metro corridor) will be used by nearly 10 lakh people by 2035. That itself will be a huge service to the people of Kolkata,” he said.

Terror module of banned Khalistan group busted, says Punjab Police; arrests 2

CHANDIGARH, OCT 4 (AGENCIES): The Punjab Police on Sunday said it has busted a terror module of banned outfit Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) by arresting its two cadres in Hoshiarpur district of the state. They were identified as Makhan Singh Gill alias Amli and Davinder Singh alias Happy, both residents of Noorpur Jattan village in Hoshiarpur, Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta said. Police have seized two sophisticated arms and ammunition, including one MP5 sub-machine gun (with

two magazines and 30 live rounds) and one 9mm pistol (with two magazines and 30 live rounds), besides a white colour car, four mobile phones and an internet dongle from their possession, Gupta said in a statement. The DGP said based on inputs about the disruptive designs of certain proKhalistan elements, who had plans to disturb peace and communal harmony in the state by launching terror attacks, security forces had launched a major drive in the state to conduct raids and check the movement and whereabouts of mem-

bers of various terrorist modules busted in the past. The current breakthrough is the result of these concerted efforts and the drive launched in the recent past, he added. Gupta said during preliminary investigations, Makhan disclosed that they were in touch with Canada-based Harpreet Singh who had instigated them to raise a terror mod-

ule in Punjab to carry out killings in the state. According to Makhan, who has earlier been a close associate of BKI (Babbar Khalsa International) chief Wadhawa Singh, Canadabased Harpreet, a KZF operative, is a frequent visitor to Pakistan and he’s a close aide of Pak-based KZF chief Ranjeet Singh alias Neeta, the DGP said.

The arrested accused further disclosed that the arms and ammunition had been arranged for them by Ranjeet Neeta through his associates, he added. A couple of other foreign-based terrorist handlers from Germany and the USA had also figured in the module, who were involved in transferring funds from abroad to Makhan

alias Amli through different money transfer services and other funding channels as well, Gupta said. The DGP further stated that Makhan was a hardcore pro-Khalistan militant who had been earlier arrested by the Punjab Police for his involvement in smuggling arms consignments into India and various terrorrelated offences.

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GURUGRAM, OCT 4 (IANS): In a shocking incident, a 25-year-old woman who hails from West Bengal, was allegedly gang-raped and brutally thrashed by four men when she resisted them in a property dealer’s office in the city’s DLF phase-2. The accused, who were in an inebriated state, had smashed the woman’s head in the incident late on Saturday night. A security guard informed a police patrolling vehicle which was just 100 meters from the incident spot. The police team rushed the victim to a hospital and later arrested all four culprits from different parts of Gurugram. The woman’s condition is said to be out of danger, the police said on Sunday. The arrested accused have been identified as Ranjan (23), Pawan (24), Pankaj (26) and Gobind (20). All of them live in Chakkarpur village. Ranjan is an office boy at the property dealer’s office and all the others are delivery boys with Swiggy and Zomato. The woman was allegedly picked up by Ranjan from the Sikanderpur metro station for paid sex with two men around 1:30 am. Ranjan accompanied the victim and walked her to the property dealer’s office in DLF phase-2 where he worked. The other three accused were already waiting there and they asked her to have sex with all of them. She resisted the offer and tried to leave the spot. The men then brutally thrashed and gang-raped her in turn. Her head was smashed against a wall leaving her bleeding profusely following which the accused fled the spot.

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the positive territory in the second half of the current financial year compared to last year. Regarding exports, 40 per cent of the CEOs expect better prospects on exports and 24 per cent of them expect no change in prospects during the second half of the current fiscal when compared to the same period last year. Apart from the agrisector that has been in the positive territory there are now clear indications of a smart recovery in some sectors like automobiles, FMCG, consumer durables and construction equipment, the CII statement said.

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New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS): Ravi Santhanam, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of HDFC Bank, has made it to the Forbes’ list of ‘World’s Most Influential CMOs’. Santhanam ranks 39 in the list of 50 most influential CMOs. “Santhanam is a marketing leader who prioritises personalised and relevant customer experience and believes that machine learning and data science are critical tools for marketers; he expressed so in a recent Netcore Solutions blog,” Forbes said. It also noted that he led the Indian bank’s

Ravi Santhanam response to the coronavirus outbreak, launching the “#HDFCBankSafetyGrid” campaign to help people keep safe distance in public. He is the only CMO

of an Indian company to feature in the list. T h e t o p s p o t wa s grabbed by Phil Schiller, Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing, Apple. Others in the top five, from the second to the fifth positions were Stephanie McMahon, Chief Brand Officer of WWE, Fernando Machado, Global CMO of Restaurant Brands International, Jens Thiemer, Senior Vice President of Customer and Brand of BMW and Olivier Francois, Global President of Fiat Brand and Chief Marketing Officer of FCA Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, respectively.

Share of renewable energy rises to 26pc in Apr-Aug this year: Official Kolkata, Oct 3 (PTI): The share of renewable energy in the country’s power mix has increased from 23 per cent to 26 per cent in April-August period this fiscal, a senior official said on Saturday. Green energy’s share increased at a time when the power sector witnessed sluggish demand due to the COVID-19

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time since the advent of the pandemic in the country in early 2020, India Inc is now estimating a capacity utilisation of more than 50 per cent in the second half of this financial year,” it said. CEOs of top 115 companies who met at CII’s National Council recently, indicated revival of positive business sentiment and gradual rise in expected corporate performance. The CEOs of top companies who took the poll included representatives across sectors from metals and mining to manufacturing, auto, pharmaceuticals, health, energy, infrastruc-

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New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS): The business fraternity expects a steady recovery in the Indian economy during the second half of the financial year 202021, shows a poll of CEOs done by CII. A statement by the industry body said that India Inc is estimating a capacity utilisation of over 50 per cent during October-March in FY21. “A steady recovery of the Indian economy is on the anvil as corporate India restarts business and economic activity with lockdowns being increasingly relaxed in many parts of the country. For the first

at Phek town that barred individuals or a group having any grievance with the ongoing project from approaching the administration, unless routed through its own village/town council. The meeting also endorsed another resolution that obstruction in any manner, by any village or town, to hamper the developmental activities would not be allowed. Phek superintendent of police Vesupra Kezo, former CPO president Sovenyi and Timikha Koza, Chakhesang Mothers’ Association president Zhonelü Tunyi, a representative from Chakhesang Youth Front, public leaders and representatives from landowner villages also spoke at the meeting. Later, interacting with media persons, an NHIDCL official said the Phek portion of 109.32 km KohimaJessami road up to Lanye had been subcontracted into five packages and work would start once the compensations were cleared. While the time for completion of packages 1, 2 and 3 from Kohima to Mesulumi village was two years, packages 4 and 5 from Mesulumi to Lanye was 18 months, he said.

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Supporting the CPO resolution calling for maintaining uniformity of rate of compensation for property damaged without any bias by the implementing agency, Neiba said though no land compensation would be given, the landowners would receive value of the property damaged, including the paddy fields damaged, in the process of road construction. CPO president Mikha Kenye said the two-lane road construction project from Kohima to Jessami was dear and important for the people of Phek district. “We cannot allow or tolerate any individual or group with selfish motive to disturb the construction of the road,” he remarked, while appealing to all sections of the people to extend their fullest support and cooperation to the authority concerned and the construction firms and ensure that the project was not disturbed by any person or group, be it over ground or underground. Kenye also urged the implementing agencies and contractors to ensure that the quality of work was not compromised while strictly

executing it as per the prescribed specification. CPO sub-committee on Kohima–Jessami 2 lane road co-convenor Welete Kapfo said the committee would also supervise for successful implementation of the project. Phek deputy commissioner Sachin Jaiswal said the district administration was only surveying land while the rates of proper damage compensation were being fixed by a technical team. He requested the respective village councils to support the survey team with proper data and identification of land owners. “We are trying to help the villages and land owners to the extent possible, but the village councils have major responsibility in ensuring success of the project,” he added. The meeting also endorsed the resolution adopted at the joint meeting with all the affected villages and towns on August 29 at Pfutsero that uniformity of rate on compensation for damage property should be maintained without any bias by the implementing agency. It also reaffirmed the CPO resolution of June 29

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ably, it is imperative that all stakeholders “get into the act as remaining restrictions on access and mobility are further eased”, the Ministry said, advocating a greater focus on “self-protection with more due precautions” than “social distancing” alone. Terming the partial recovery as proof of “positive results” from the AtmaNirbhar Bharat package, the review said the structural reforms undertaken by the government in various sectors could combat the “downside risk to shortterm and medium-term growth” posed by the sustained spread of the virus. I n d i a ’s “ p r o b a b l e growth path” is visible in the latest assessment of the

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economy by S&P Global Ratings, which expects the country’s economy and fiscal position to “stabilise and begin to recover from 2021 onwards,” the Finance Ministry said. Among signs of a recovery in industrial output and manufacturing, the Ministry listed the positive growth in exports, recorded in September for the first time since March and the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index hitting the highest point since January 2012 in September. Contraction in output of eight core sectors was lower in July and August than the 12.9% shrinkage reported in June, and output prices rose for the first time in six months, reflecting an uptick in input costs, the Ministry pointed out. GST collections hitting a six-month high in September, along with a spurt in highway traffic movement reflected in toll collections surpassing their pre-pandemic levels in the same month, suggests “bustling activity and pent-up demand” even as power consumption in September was higher than a year ago, the Ministry said.

to the extent possible”. According to CAIT National President BC Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal, the RBI’s reply indicates that the currency notes do carry viruses and bacteria and, therefore, the maximum use of digital payments to avoid handling of currency notes was advised by them. Furthermore, the CAIT urged Sithraman to introduce an ‘incentive’ scheme for acceptance and adoption of digital payments. “Bank charges levied for digital transactions should be waived and the government should give subsidy directly to the banks in lieu of bank charges,” the statement said. “In due course, such subsidy will not be a financial burden on the government; on the other hand, it will minimise the expenses incurred on printing of bank notes.” In addition, the CAIT pointed out that the RBI in its annual report released on August 29, 2019 had mentioned that “the value and volume of notes in circulation increased by 17 per cent and 6.2 per cent to Rs 21,109 billion and 108,759 million pieces respectively during 2018-19”.

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NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (AGENCIES): The report said data for the 14-day period from September 17 to 30 suggests that India may have crossed the peak of COVID-19 caseload, reports The Hindu. “With India unlocking by the day, consequent demand resurgence is palpable in many sectors. Economic indicators allude to a steady recovery in almost all sectors, with some sectors shooting above their previous-year levels as well. This is despite headwinds of increasing COVID cases in non-metro cities and rural areas and rising food prices,” the Ministry said in its economic review for September. “Data from September 17 to 30 suggests that India may have crossed the peak of COVID-19 caseload. During this period, the seven-day moving average of daily positive cases has steadily declined from about 93,000 to 83,000, while the seven-day moving average of daily tests have risen from about 1,15,000 to 1,24,000,” the review said. The pandemic, however, is far from over and to revive growth sustain-

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS): The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Sunday said that the RBI had affirmed the possibility of currency notes as potential carriers of novel coronavirus and demanded government incentives for digital payments. T h e d e ve l o p m e n t comes after CAIT wrote a letter to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman on March 9, 2020 seeking clarification whether or not currency notes are carriers of bacteria and viruses. However, the letter was forwarded to the Reserve Bank of India, which replied to CAIT and hinted that currency notes could be carriers of bacteria and viruses, including coronavirus, and therefore more and more usage of digital payments should be done to avoid handling of currency, the confederation said in a statement. The RBI further stated that “in order to limit the coronavirus pandemic, the public can make payments by sitting at homes through various online digital channels like mobile and Internet banking, credit and debit cards etc and avoid using or withdrawing cash

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Trump says he is ‘starting to feel good’ Xi pitches for closer ties with B’desh

WASHINGTON, OCT 4 (PTI): President Donald Trump, who was admitted to a military hospital for treatment of COVID-19, said he has started to “feel much better” and thanked the American people and global leaders for their support. “I came here. Wasn’t feeling so well. I feel much better now. We’re working hard to get me all the way back. I have to be back because we still have to Make America Great Again,” Trump said in a video message from the military hospital in a suburb of Washington on Saturday. However, White House physician Sean Conley has said the president is “not yet out of the woods”. “While not yet out of the woods, the team remains cautiously optimistic,” Dr Conley said, adding that the plan for Sunday is to continue observation in between doses of Remdesivir, closely monitoring his clinical status while fully supporting his conduct of presidential duties. Conley, in a memorandum issued late Saturday night, said the president had received Regeron’s antibody cocktail on October 2. “President Trump continues to do well, having made substantial progress since diagnosis,” Conley

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said, adding that the president completed his second dose of Remdesivir without complications. Conley said the president remains fever free and off supplemental oxygen with a saturation level between 96 and 98 per cent all day. The president, he said, spent most of the afternoon conducting business, and has been up and moving about the medical suit without difficulty. In the video message, that lasted for a little over four minutes and was posted by Trump on Twitter, the president asserted that he has to come back to win the election and complete the job. “We still have steps to go and we have to finish that job. And I’ll be back. I think I’ll be back soon. I look forward to finishing up the campaign the way it was

started and the way we’ve been doing,” he said. The president said he is fighting the virus and expressed hope to beat it. “We’ve been so proud of it. But this was something that happened and it’s happened to millions of people all over the world and I’m fighting for them. Not just in the US, I’m fighting for them all over the world. We’re going to beat this coronavirus or whatever you want to call it. And we’re going to beat it soundly,” Trump said. Trump said the therapeutics which he is taking are nothing less than miracles. “People criticize me when I say that, but we have things happening that look like they’re miracles coming down from God. So, I just want to tell you that I’m starting to feel good,” he said. However, he said the next few days are going to be the real test. “So, we’ll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days. I just want to be so thankful for all of the support I’ve seen, whether it’s on television or reading about it. I, most of all appreciate, what’s been said by the American people, by almost a bipartisan consensus of American people. It’s a beautiful thing to see. I very much appreci-

ate it. And I won’t forget it promise you that,” he said. The president also thanked the leaders of the world for their well-wishes. “They know what we’re going through. They know what as your leader, what I have to go through. But I had no choice because I just didn’t want to stay in the White House,” he said. Trump also said he was given the alternative to be under lockdown in the White House, staying in his bedroom and not to go even to the Oval Office. “I was given that alternative, stay in the White House, lock yourself in don’t ever leave. Don’t even go to the oval office. Just stay upstairs and enjoy it. Don’t see people, don’t talk to people and just be done with it,” he said. Asserting that he can’t do that, Trump said he had to be out front. “This is America. This is the United States. This is the greatest country in the world. This is the most powerful country in the world. I can’t be locked up in a room upstairs and totally safe and just say, Hey, whatever happens happens. I can’t do that. We have to confront problems as a leader, you have to confront problems,” the president said. Trump further said the First Lady, who had also tested positive for corona-

virus is doing well at the White House. “Melania is really handling it very nicely as you’ve probably read,” he said. “We are going to have a very good result again, over the next few days, we’re going to probably know for sure,” Trump said. The First Family in various messages thanked millions of people for their support. “Thanks to all those w h o s o l ov i n g ly h ave reached out about” Donald Trump “and the rest of the family. It truly means a lot to us,” said his son Donald J Trump Jr. He has tested negative for COVID-19, but as caution is staying home for the next few days. “Spoke to my father again and he is as optimistic, thankful and strong as he looks and sounds in this message to America !!,” daughter Ivanka Trump said. “Incredible to see the love and support for” Donald Trump “outside Walter Reed. I was just speaking to my father and know he loves and appreciates all of you!” son Eric Trump said as he posted a video of supporters outside Walter Reed National Military Center, where members of the Sikhs for Trump held prayers for the health of the president.

Calls for joint promotion of Belt Road Initiative

BEIJING, OCT 4 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping said he stands ready with Bangladesh leaders to better align the two countries’ strategies and jointly promote the construction of his multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to take the strategic partnership of the two countries to new heights. Xi made the remarks in an exchange of congratulatory messages with his Bangladesh counterpart, Mohammad Abdul Hamid, on the 45th anniversary of the establishment of the bilateral diplomatic relationship on Sunday. In his message, Xi hailed the steady and longterm friendship saying he is ready to work with Hamid to better align development strategies with Bangladesh, step up cooperation under the framework of the BRI and push forward the China-Bangladesh strategic, cooperative partnership to a new level, official media reported. With over USD 26 billion Chinese investments and USD 38 billion dollars funding commitments, Bangladesh is one of the largest recipients of China’s mas-

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sive infrastructure project. China has also offered zero-tariff treatment to 97 per cent of Bangladesh’s exports by adding 5,161 more items to the existing list of 3,095 duty-free products. The BRI seeks to build rail, maritime and road links from Asia to Europe and Africa in a revival of ancient Silk Road trading routes. The issues related to BRI, earlier known as One Belt One Road (OBOR), has been a major bone of contention between India and China as one portion of the corridor passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Besides Pakistan, where China initiated over USD 60 billion as part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), China has stepped up its huge infrastructure investments in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives rising concerns of its growing influence in India’s immediate neighbourhood. The BRI is President Xi’s top priority initiative,

which aims firm up China’s global influence. The initiative has, however, attracted allegations, especially from the US, of debt-diplomacy after Sri Lanka handed over its Hambantota Port to a state-run Chinese firm in 2017 for a 99 years’ lease in a debt swap amounting to USD 1.2 billion. Malaysia has also deferred several projects under the BRI, citing cost revaluation. Xi, in his message to Hamid, also said the two countries had worked jointly to fight against COVID-19. Earlier, China had sent medical team to Bangladesh to share its experience of handling coronavirus, which had emerged first in Wuhan in December last year. Bangladesh also is among over a dozen countries where the final phase of clinical trials of Chinese vaccine is being conducted. In his message, Hamid said the Bangladesh-China relationship is developing rapidly and has covered cooperation in key areas, to which Dhaka attached great importance, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. He expressed his deep appreciation for China’s continuous support for Bangladesh in its socio-economic development progress, adding that he believes the close and friendly relationship between the two countries will continue to deepen in the future.

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told the BBC. “This could be a very tough winter for all of us – we’ve got to face that fact,” he said. While insisting his government was working “flat out” to fight the pandemic, Johnson said he took “full responsibility for everything that has happened since the pandemic began”, admitting the National Health Service (NHS) led Test and Trace system was “not perfect”. But he said scientific advisers had told him that by spring in March/April 2021 “things will be radically different and we will be in a different world”. Johnson said he understood people’s “frustration” at differing rules and restric-

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WASHINGTON, OCT 4 (PTI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Tokyo to attend the second ministerial meeting of the four countries under the Quad -- India, Japan, Australia and US -- but will not go to Mongolia and South Korea as originally planned, the State Department has said. Pompeo was scheduled to visit Japan, Mongolia and South Korea between October 4 and October 8. In a statement on Saturday, the State Department said Pompeo was expecting to travel to Asia again in October and will work to reschedule the trips in his original itinerary. Pompeo will travel to Tokyo on October 4 to 6, State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said. “Planned meetings with the Quad Foreign Ministers in Tokyo will focus on pressing issues of

Fazl should be appointed as the president on a permanent basis, but the idea was opposed by Bhutto-Zardari and Awami National Party (ANP) leader Amir Haider Hoti, who suggested that the office should be given on a rotational basis to leaders of the constituent parties. The sources said there was an agreement among the leaders that the Mau lana should lead the PDM in the first phase as he had already led last year’s ‘Azadi March’ against the incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf (PTI) government. “Since the Maulana has already done a rehearsal and his party is more disciplined and has the ability to effectively mobilise the masses, therefore, in the first and decisive phase, he is the best choice,” Dawn news quoted a participant of Saturday’s meeting as saying.

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ISLAMABAD, OCT 4 (IANS): Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-Fazl) party, has been named the first President of the oppositions Pakistan Demo cratic Movement (PDM), after his unanimous nomination by the heads of all the constituent parties. He was named PDM President after the opposition alliance’s first formal meeting through video link on Saturday, reports Dawn news. According to PDM’s steering committee convener Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan Musl im League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo and deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif proposed Maulana’s nameand it was endorsed by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and others. Sources told Dawn news that Sharif had initially proposed that Maulana

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tions for different parts of the country but stressed that localised lockdowns was the right way to go and wait to see if the R number – of the rate at which the infection is transmitted – comes down as a result. “I’m a freedom-loving Tory. I don’t want to have to impose measures like this, are you crazy? This is the last thing we want to do. But I also have to save life. And that’s our priority,” he said. “And as Prime Minister I couldn’t take a course that could expose us to tens of thousands more deaths in very short order...we’ve got to continue to bear down on this virus, whilst protecting the economy. That’s the balance we’ve got to strike,” he added. The inter view this weekend coincides with his Conservative Party’s annual conference, being conducted virtually for the first time due to coronavirus restrictions on mass gatherings. The Tories have created a 3D virtual conference with a computer-generated auditorium, foyer and fringe meeting rooms.

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LONDON, OCT 4 (PTI): Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday warned of a “bumpy” ride at least through to Christmas in December, as the UK recorded more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases in a day for the first time since mass testing for the deadly virus was put in place. According to official figures, there were 12,872 new cases on Saturday, while a further 49 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for COVID19. However, the government said a technical issue meant some cases from earlier in the week were not recorded at the time so these were included in Saturday’s data. In his interview, the UK PM tried to strike a note of optimism over progress in beating the virus and said he believed over the “next few weeks and months” the “scientific equation will change, whether that is vaccines or testing”. “I’ve got to tell you in all candour it’s going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas, it may even be bumpy beyond,” Johnson

AMMAN, OCT 4 (IANS): Jordan’s King Abdullah has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Omar Razzazs Cabinet, but asked him to continue as a caretaker premier until a successor was named following the November 10 general elections, according to a Royal Court statement. Replying to Razzaz’s resignation, the monarch in a letter on Saturday thanked the outgoing premier and his ministerial team for “undertaking your duties and diligently assuming your responsibilities throughout your tenure, especially during the extraordinary circumstances imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic”, The Jordan Times reported. “Despite the Cabinet’s efforts in setting plans and programmes and implementing priorities, it is important to learn from the mistakes that marked aspects of the response to

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Egypt unveils 59 unearthed ancient coffins

gyptian authorities have unveiled a collection of 59 intact and sealed 26th Dynasty coffins, which were recently unearthed by an archaeological mission at the Saqqara Necropolis. On Saturday, the collection was unveiled in the presence of 60 ambassadors and international media representatives, the Al Ahram online newspa-

per said in a report. While 40 anthropoid painted coffins were placed in a large tent, the rest were on display inside tombs. Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled El-Enaby said an Egyptian mission started re-excavating the site two months ago and succeeded to uncover a burial shaft 11 metres deep where there were more than 13 anthropoid intact

and sealed coffins. More excavations revealed two more shafts, 10 and 12 metres deep, filled with a large number of intact and sealed coffins. The mission succeeded to unearth 59 coffins thus far. All the unearthed coffins are in a very good conservation condition and still bear their original colours.

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“My colleagues in the Supreme Council of Antiquities discovered burial shafts filled with wooden, sealed and intact coffins. I am really impressed that Covid-19 did not stop them from digging to unveil more mystery and secrets about our great civilisation,” Al Ahram quoted El-Enany as saying. He added the coffins will be transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum. Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said preliminary studies showed the coffins belong to 26th Dynasty priests, top officials, and elites. There are mummies in the majority of the coffins. A collection of 28 statuettes of ‘Ptah-Soker’, the main god of Saqqara Necropolis, were found along with a 35 cm tall bronze statuette of god Nefertum, inlaid with precious stones. On its base is written the name of its owner, Priest Badi-Amun. Collections of amulets and ‘ushabti’ figurine were also unearthed. (IANS)

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ofia Vergara of Modern Family fame has bagged the top spot of Forbes’ annual list of the highest paid actresses. While Vergara has topped the list with $43 million, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie secured the second position ($35 million) and Gal Gadot ($31 million) stood third, reports forbes.com. Most movie theatres have been shut since late March due to the pandemic. It is said that many movie stars earn large bonuses based on box office performance, and the lack of new theatrical releases has made room at the top of the pay scale for TV stars like Vergara, “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Ellen Pompeo (No. 8; $19 million) and “The Handmaid’s Tale” actress Elisabeth Moss (No. 9; $16 million). Another TV star, Viola Davis (No. 10; $15.5 million) made it to the list for the first time with lead roles in “How to Get Away with Murder” and the upcoming Netflix film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’. No Indian actress made it to the list. (IANS)

Ian Colman from University of Ottawa in Canada. Dr Colman’s study builds on previous research showing teens who are exposed to suicide among their peers are more than twice as likely to demonstrate suicidal behaviour or harbour suicidal thoughts than those who are not exposed. This sort of communication of ideation and behaviour is a form of contagion, and its spread can be tracked by epidemiologists just as physically communicable diseases are studied. Knowing that suicide is made more likely by knowledge about someone else’s

elf-injury--behaviours like cutting oneself without the intent to die--may be contagious among teenagers, who are more likely to harm themselves when they know someone who has, say researchers. The study, published in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, used 2014 data collected from over 1,400 Ontario teenagers between the ages of 14-17. The team focused on the answers to the question, “Has a friend of yours ever hurt themselves without the intention to die?” A positive response saw the respondent two to three times as likely to answer ‘Yes’ to the question of whether they have thought about, or done, the same.These results are of concern, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, because, apart from being a sign of acute distress, non-suicidal self-injury is a predictor of later suicidal behaviour and more widespread. “Non-suicidal self-injury is much more common than suicide attempts--twice as common in this study-and many, many times more common than death by suicide,” said study author Dr

‘Bigg Boss’ back with new season amid COVID-19

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egendary singer Elton John says his friend and the Beatles star John Lennon would have won a Nobel Peace Prize if he had not been killed in 1980. The singer discussed his “wonderful two or three year whirlwind bromance” with the Beatles band member on Radio 2’s “John Lennon at 80” special, reports dailymail. co.uk. Talking to the late “Imagine” singer’s son Sean, Elton said: “I think

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that if your dad had still been alive he would have maybe won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a uniter and was prepared to go to any lengths to make people see what his point was.” Elton went on to mention the difficulties John faced at the time, saying: “And a lot of peoplea like the FBI, they gave him a hard time, but it didn’t deter him. He was peaceloving, brilliant, funny, opinionated, a treasure - we need people like him today.”

John, who was also known for his activism, had held a Bed-In for Peace during his honeymoon to Amsterdam. He had also written and recorded “Give peace a chance” in 1969. Elton also discussed how he met John in 1973 with the two having a “whirlwind bromance” for a few years. They also made music together, with Elton performing on “Whatever gets you thru the night” in 1974. (IANS)

igg Boss”, one of Indian television’s most popular reality shows, had a grand premiere on Saturday night with its new season, minus the live audience, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Armed with a hammer, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who hosts the show, opened the 14th season, signifying that “Bigg Boss” is set to give a befitting response to 2020, which has been a difficult year so far. In a reference to COVID-19, Khan said, “This is that year where the most negative word is positive.” “This lockdown has made people learn many household chores be it washing the utensils, mopping the floor and most importantly it has taught us to appreciate the past,” he further said during the launch of the show. Keeping in mind the pandemic and safety precautions, the 54-year-old actor said this time there will be no live audience on the sets,

F9 delayed until May 2021

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9’ has been pushed back to May 2021. The upcoming ninth instalment of the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise was originally set to be released in May this year, but after the coronavirus pandemic closed down cinemas around the world, the movie was delayed until April 2, 2021. However, after this week saw the upcoming James Bond movie, ‘No Time To Die’, also get pushed back to April 2, K Y M C

Universal - who are distributing both movies - have decided to delay ‘F9’ for an extra month. Instead, the ‘Fast & Furious’ flick will now get a theatrical release on May 28, 2021. Meanwhile, Vin Diesel previously teased a “big surprise” for fans of the franchise back in March this year. ‘F9’ will see John Cena and Dame Helen Mirren join the cast, and Vin - who stars as Dom Toretto - suggested another

huge name could be coming into the action blockbuster franchise. He said at the time: “There’s a big surprise coming ... I can’t tell anyone. [But] it is so awesome! “It’s a testament to the franchise, it’s a testament to all the work that everyone has done and it’s a testament to the integrity. “As a thespian, as someone who started acting when I was seven years old, it’s wonderful to dance with other acclaimed thespians and try to make magic.”

suicide, societal measures have been put in place to protect vulnerable populations from exposure. Less obvious are the measures that can slow or protect against socially contagious behaviours among teens, who can be expected to communicate freely among themselves, without referring to guidelines.Communication is key, according to experts. Conversations with a trusted adult who lends a listening ear, with no threat of judgment, can be helpful throughout adolescence, including for someone who is having thoughts of self-harm. (IANS)

Former professional wrestler turned Hollywood star John Cena makes his first appearance in the movie series for the upcoming ninth instalment, and he previously opened up on how much “expectation” there is for him to “deliver” for the loyal fan base the popular films have acquired over the years. He explained: “The global connection the franchise has with its fans and the respect that the franchise has for its fans is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. “It allowed me to really look at the absolute analytics of the project through the people who have been working some 20 years on this. “It really is a family atmosphere, there’s a lot of respect for the franchise, there is that expectation to deliver for the fan base, and it’s been like no other experience I’ve been on. “You kind of have to earn your respect in so many ways, but once you do you are absolutely, unexpectedly welcomed into the family. It’s been really, really special, and I’m very fortunate.” (Contactmusic)

adding the show feels empty without their presence. The makers showed a clip wherein the “Bigg Boss” set, put up in suburban Mumbai’s Filmcity, is seen undergoing sanitisation, along with the crew

members taking all necessary precautions to create a safe environment for the housemates. With the theme - ‘Ab Scene Paltega, Kyunki Bigg Boss Dega 2020 Ko Jawab (Things will change as Bigg

Salman Khan resumes shooting for ‘Radhe’

uperstar Salman Khan is super happy to be back on the sets of his film Radhe. On Sunday, Salman took to Instagram and shared his happiness to resume shooting for “Radhe” after 6 months. “Back to shoot after 6 1/2 months ... feels good #Radhe,” he wrote. Along with it, Salman posted a picture in which his face is turned against the camera. He is seen walking towards a race track. Directed by Prabhudeva, “Radhe” also features Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda and Jackie Shroff. Apart from the film shoot, Salman is also back to host the latest season of the “Bigg Boss”. At the launch of “Bigg Boss” Salman even said that he has never taken such a long break from work in the last 30 years as he had to during lockdown. “My biggest frustration is this that last six months I have not worked. I have never taken such a long break in 30 years, which I was forced to take this year. Ever since I did ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ and began working, every year I try and take a break from 25th December to 3rd January,” he had said. (IANS)

Boss will confront 2020’) - the Bigg Boss house is equipped with a shopping mall, theatre, spa and dining area. Khan introduced this season’s contestants who entertained the viewers with

their performances before entering the house. They are TV couple Rubina Dilaik and Abhinav Shukla, actors Eijaz Khan, Jasmin Bhasin, Nishant Singh Malkhani, Pavitra Punia, singers Rahul Vaidya, Jaan Kumar, son of veteran singer Kumar Sanu, Shehzad Deol, a model, singer-model Sara Gurpal and south actor Nikki Tamboli. According to a source close to the production, the contestants completed their quarantine period before entering the house. Former “Bigg Boss” contestants Sidharth Shukla, Hina Khan and Gauahar Khan entered the show as ‘Toofani Seniors’, who will take over the reins of the house and will be instrumental in making important decisions for the first 15 days. Khan closed the premiere event in his signature “Bigg Boss” style saying, “Do whatever you guys want to do, just don’t give corona to your parents.” The show airs on Colors Channel. (PTI)

Free Rhea, a victim of political conspiracy, says Adhir Ranjan

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n the wake of an AIIMS forensic report that said Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput had died by suicide, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday demanded the release of actress Rhea Chakroborty and alleged that she was a “victim of political conspiracy”. “Rhea is innocent and should be released without further harassment to her. She has been a victim of political conspiracy,” the Lok Sabha member and Congress Bengal unit President said. Taking a dig at the BJP, he said that now the party’s propaganda machinery may accuse the All India Institute of Medical Sciences forensic team of some wrong-doing for refuting

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allegation that Rhea conspired to get Sushant killed. “But we are all pained by the demise of Sushantji. But he cannot be honoured by falsely implicating a woman as an accused,” Chowdhury said. Rhea is currently in judicial custody in an NDPS case registered by NCB. Besides the CBI probe into the death of Sushant, the Enforcement Directorate and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) are probing the money laundering and drugs angles to the case. The NCB had arrested Rhea, Showik, Miranda, Sawant in connection with the drug case. (IANS) K Y M C

World number 54 Swiatek outhit and outmanoeuvred the 2018 champion to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final for the first time.

Swiatek ousted 2019 finalist Marketa Vondrousova in the first round and had not dropped a set en route to the fourth round. She broke Halep at the first opportunity, hitting through her with her forehand, and outlasted her in the rallies, despite dogged defence from Halep. Halep did not play badly - she made just two unforced errors in the opening set - but Swiatek played with such confidence and power. The lengthiest game came in the second set at 3-1 on the Halep serve, with the world number two attempting to fight her way through an eight-minute game.

She saved five break points but two double faults hinted at her nerves, and she sent consecutive shots into the net post to hand Swiatek a double break. Halep saved the first of three match points but a composed Swiatek slapped a huge first serve down to wrap up an incredible win. Swiatek has dropped just 16 games in her four Roland Garros matches and is the first Polish woman to make the French Open quarter-finals since Agnieszka Radwanska in 2013. “It is my favourite. I always loved to play here, even when I was a junior,” Swiatek said of Roland Garros.

Lockdown helped us develop technical our knowledge base: Rupinder Singh Bengaluru, Oct 4 (IANS): Experienced defender Rupinder Pal Singh feels the Covid-19 induced lockdown period helped the Indian men’s hockey team develop their technical knowledge about the game and also up their skill. “I always like to see positive side to any scenario and I truly feel the series of lockdowns helped us develop our technical knowledge base. We would watch a lot of videos, analyse matches, discuss video referrals etc while we remained indoors with no hockey allowed,” Rupinder said. “We have also studied our opponents during

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this period and all these aspects will be beneficial for us in our preparations for the Olympic Games,” he added. He further stated that going back to basics when activities resumed in the national coaching camp

has helped perfect their skills. “We have paid a lot of attention to basics when we resumed activities in SAI, Bengaluru. I believe this has helped the entire group perfect our skills. We will be increasing intensity this month onwards and we have built a solid base to take greater work load in the coming months,” said Rupinder. One of the other factors that Rupinder believes has helped the men’s team in particular is having events in India. “I feel Hockey India hosting back-to-back events in India has also been a contributing factor to our performance.

“This week was like a dream come true for me and I hope it is going to be longer.”

Nadal races into last eight

Twelve-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal raced into the quarter-finals with a straightset victory over American qualifier Sebastian Korda. Korda said in the build-up that Nadal was his “idol” but the 20-year-old struggled to match the claycourt specialist on Court Philippe Chatrier. Spanish second seed Nadal, chasing a fourth successive title at Roland Garros, took the match 6-1 6-1 6-2.

He will face the winner of Alexander Zverev versus Jannik Sinner next. “Sebastian will have a really bright future, such a great player and only 20 years old,” said 34-yearold Nadal, of a player who calls him an inspiration. “It is a real honour. All of our generation try hard to be passionate, play every single day at our best, and if that is an inspiration for the younger generation, that is good.” Korda, whose dad Petr was the 1998 Australian Open champion and reached the final in Paris in 1992, was the youngest American man to reach this stage at Roland Garros since 19-year-old Michael Chang in 1991. He grew up watching video tapes of the Spaniard and even named his cat after the 19-time Grand Slam champion. It promised to be the perfect start for the French Open debutant, who twice had break points in a nineminute opening game. But the world number 213 failed to convert as a ruthless Nadal held and then won the following four games on his way to clinching the opening set in 40 minutes. He eased to the second set in blustery conditions in Paris, before Korda broke early in the third with a combination of fierce backhands. But Nadal, who is yet to drop a set this tournament, hit back by taking the next five games in a row to win in one hour and 55 minutes.

Federer, Serena confirmed for Australian Open, says Tiley MELBOURNE , OCT 4 (AGENCIES): Roger Federer and Serena Williams have confirmed they will take part in the 2021 Australian Open, with the year’s first Grand Slam in Melbourne expected to allow fans to fill up to 50% of seats, Tennis Australia (TA) boss Craig Tiley said on Sunday. The return of fans will mark a big change for Melbourne, which has been under a strict coronavirus lockdown for nearly three months. The state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, accounts for 90% of Australia’s 894 COVID-19-related deaths. Federer reached the semifinals of this year’s Australian Open but the 20-

times Grand Slam winner has missed the rest of the season after undergoing a second procedure on his right knee. “Roger this morning just confirmed publicly he’ll be here. Serena Williams will be here obviously trying to get Margaret Court’s record, so we’re excited about the players that will be here and what we’ll put on,” Tiley told Channel Nine. Federer, 39, said he can’t wait to return to the tour. “Thankfully, with COVID-19, I’ve been healthy, everybody around me as well,” the Swiss said in a recent podcast. “The Tour coming to a halt was tough to see but it’s back now so that’s nice,” he said.

Baby Leagues spurs football in Assam’s tea gardens

In its first season, the Golden Baby League in Numaligarh saw over 400 children take part across three age-groups -- U-8, U-10 and U-12.

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS): Across the world, Assam is renowned for its tea gardens as well as its passion for football. In state’s Golaghat district, the two come together to form a perfect blend through the Golden Baby Leagues to take Indian football forward together -- giving hope of a “brighter future” -- to the families living in the tea estates. “A large portion of our players come from the surrounding tea gardens. They possess so much talent. But the mindset of most parents isn’t much in tune with modern times. The lives of most of the kids begin and end in the tea gardens itself,” Chinmay Bora, the league operator for the NRL Football Academy Golden Baby League in Numaligarh, told www. the-aiff.com. “However, through football and the

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Michail Antonio has scored as many goals (10) in his last 11 Premier League appearances as in his previous 64.

and a sliding Jonny Evans intervention to stop the ball finding an unmarked and well-placed Antonio, the Foxes would have been further behind before halftime. In the second half, the brilliant Declan Rice struck the crossbar with a shot from inside the box following a driving run from deep before Bowen sealed the win with a neat finish after collecting a through-ball from Fornals. For all their possession and territory, Leicester failed to produce a single shot on

target, with their misery compounded when Jamie Vardy was flagged offside to rule out a Harvey Barnes finish in added time. City remain second in the table, but could lose that spot with Liverpool still to play this weekend, while West Ham are up to eighth.

Southampton beat West Brom 2-0

West Bromwich Albion boss Slaven Bilic said his players “have to learn” but that the Premier League “is not a school” after their disappointing start to the

season continued with defeat at Southampton. Moussa Djenepo opened the scoring with a clinical finish for the hosts before Oriol Romeu’s stunning strike sealed a deserved win. The loss means West Brom have managed to pick up just one point from their first four games on their return to the top flight. Asked whether it was a tough learning experience coming up from the Championship, Bilic said: “You have to learn, but

this is not a school. “You have to be competitive and do your best. We have to do more and show more determination, and show a better mentality than we have shown. “Southampton were better in everything. I know the guys want it but there has to be so much more determination and desire.” The Saints had lost their first two league fixtures of the season but have now recorded backto-back league wins with this result. Djenepo’s opener just before half-time, a clinical finish into the bottom corner, was just reward for an excellent firsthalf display in which only a string of fine saves by Sam Johnstone prevented Southampton from taking the lead earlier. Johnstone kept out Ryan Bertrand’s curling effort before reacting quickly to prevent Semi Ajayi from diverting the ball into his own net and then stopped Che Adams from pouncing with the follow-up. The Manchester United academy product dived at full stretch to deny Danny Ings’ header but

are being organised and the positive impact they are having on young kids, using examples from the neighbouring states of Meghalaya and Mizoram. As a result, the interest levels among parents started to grow gradually and has now blossomed into a “wholesome environment” according to Bora, who shared a heart-warming anecdote to illustrate the same. The organisers have plans to extend the duration of the Golden Baby League in Numaligarh to three months in the 202021 season, once normalcy returns. It also includes increasing the number of grounds and conducting matches in a home-andaway format among the feeder centres to popularise the game in specific pockets.

Dubai is hot: Stokes upon arrival in UAE Dubai, Oct 4 (IANS): England all-rounder Ben Stokes has reached the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) season. He will be joining the Rajasthan Royals after missing the initial couple of weeks of the tournament in order to be with his family in New Zealand. The 29-year-old will, however, first have to undergo six days of quarantine as per the Covid-19 protocols for IPL 2020. “Dubai is hot,” said Stokes in one of the Instagram stories he put after his arrival on Sunday. In August, Stokes had pulled out of the Pakistan Test series midway in order to be with his family in Christchurch after his

EPL: West Ham register emphatic 3-1 win over Leicester LEICESTER , OCT 4 (AGENCIES): West Ham picked up where they left off against Wolves last weekend with another impressive display to end Leicester’s 100% winning start to the season. Boss David Moyes was again absent from the touchline as he continues to recover from coronavirus, but as in last weekend’s 4-0 victory, it did not hamper the Hammers, who offered an excellent balance of graft and guile. Ruthless on the break, they did a similar job on Leicester to the one the Foxes did in their brilliant 5-2 win at Manchester City seven days prior. Michail Antonio scored the first, heading in at the back post from Aaron Cresswell’s pinpoint cross from deep after the striker had himself found his teammate with a quickly-taken free-kick. Cresswell also assisted the second, but the credit was due more to a wonderful first touch and calm finish from Pablo Fornals, than the defender’s long ball forward. But for a solid block from Caglar Soyuncu to repel a Jarrod Bowen shot,

Golden Baby Leagues, they gain exposure of life outside the gardens and gives the families hope that the sport can change their lives and give them a brighter future,” he added. The Golden Baby Leagues project was started by All India Football Federation (AIFF) in 2018 with the aim of nurturing a new generation of boys and girls who start playing football at a very young age. In its first season, the Golden Baby League in Numaligarh saw over 400 children take part across three age-groups -- U-8, U-10 and U-12 but interestingly, it was the response of the parents that stood out. Operating through a network of feeder centres across the Golaghat district, the organisers conducted interactions with parents and showed them how Golden Baby Leagues

could do nothing about Djenepo’s smart finish. We s t B r o m we r e marginally better after the break but still did not trouble Alex McCarthy enough in the Southampton goal. The hosts made sure of the points when Romeu superbly volleyed in Stuart Armstrong’s cross for his first goal in 20 months.

Stokes and his update on social media.

father was diagnosed with cancer. Stokes’ arrival in the UAE is a big boost for the Rajasthan Royals as it would add more strength to their batting unit, which is currently heavily dependent on Sanju Samson and Steve Smith. His presence in the team will also provide strength to their bowl-

ing unit. Rajasthan Royals have won two out of the four games they have played so far and are currently placed at the sixth spot in the points table. They will next be facing Mumbai Indians at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

OFFICE OF THE

RILAN VILLAGE COUNCIL DIMAPUR DISTRICT : NAGALAND

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The Rilan Village Council with immense pride and honour convey heartiest congratulations to Eno. R.M. Lotha, Co-Convener of NPAC, GPRN/NSCN, for being inducted as Adviser to Collective Leadership (ACL). This recognition by the GPRN/NSCN is not only a personal feat but also a honor for the village and the Community. May Almighty God guide you with His Divine wisdom as you anchor through a crucial period of Naga Political Movement with new responsibility. (Nzanbemo Kikon) Secreatry, Rilan Village Council

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French Open: Polish teen stuns Halep

PARIS, OCT 4 (AGENCIES): Top seed Simona Halep is out of the French Open after losing to Iga Swiatek in the fourth round in just 68 minutes. The Romanian, a heavy favourite to claim a second Roland Garros title, was stunned 6-1 6-2 by the Polish teenager. World number 54 Swiatek outhit and outmanoeuvred the 2018 champion to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final for the first time. She will play Italian qualifier Martina Trevisan who knocked out Dutch fifth seed Kiki Bertens 6-4 6-4. The defeats for Halep and Bertens mean there are only four seeds remaining in the women’s singles - Elina Svitolina, Sofia Kenin, Petra Kvitova and Ons Jabeur. Two-time Grand Slam champion Halep dominated Swiatek 6-1 6-0 when the two met at the same stage last year. However, Swiatek asserted herself from the start, taking the first set in 24 minutes and finishing the match with an astonishing 30 winners. She created 14 breakpoint opportunities - and did not face any on her own serve. Swiatek was in tears after her victory and admitted she had surprised herself with her level of play. “I felt like I was playing perfectly and I was so focused that even I am surprised that I can do that,” she said.

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(John Kikon) Chairman, Rilan Village Council

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UNGMA VILLAGE COUNCIL Ungma, Mokokchung - 798601 Nagaland INDIA FELICITATION

Date: October 4, 2020

The Ungma Village Council and all its citizens with outmost humility and honour convey our wholehearted congratulations to Dr. M. Chuba Ao on being appointed as the Bharatiya Janata Party National Vice President. May your attainment towards the respectable position serve as a blessing for the people. The Council further pray that our Almighty God will grant you good health and discerning heart as you take up the National administrative responsibility to guide its party and people. Through this press note, the Ungma Village Council sincerely thank Shri J.P. Nadda, the National President, Bharatiya Janata Party for appointing Dr. M. Chuba Ao to be a member of BJP National Ofﬁce Bearer and providing due recognition from North East India as well as from Nagaland in the BJP National Party administration. The Ungma Village Council wish both the leaders success in their given responsibilities. Sd/Sd/Alemtoshi Imsong Imtisungkum Longkumer Chairman Secretary Ungma Village Council Ungma Village Council MKC-217 K Y M C

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CSK beat KXIP by 10 wickets; MI beat SRH by 34 runs managed to win a match by 10 wickets and they are also the first team to successfully chase down a target in Dubai this season. Watson and du Plessis hardly gave any threads for the bowling side and got off to a swift start. du Plessis smashed 19 runs off the sixth over to take CSK to 60 within the powerplay and they crossed 100 in the 10th over. There were some murmurs between Watson and the umpire and later with KL Rahul over what seemed to Ravi Bishnoi’s run-up during the 16th over. du Plessis finished off the chase with a six and a four off the third and fourth balls of the 18th over bowled by Shami. Earlier, highly effective death over bowling from Shardul Thakur and Dwayne Bravo CSK restrict KXIP to 178/4 after the latter looked set for a total close to or beyond the 200-run mark. Brief scores: KXIP 178/4 in 20 overs (KL Rahul 63, Nicholas Poorak 33; Shardul Thakur 2/39) vs CSK 181/0 in 17.4 overs (Faf du Plessis 87 not out, Shane Watson 83 not out; Sheldon Cottrell 0/30)

for SRH. It came down to SRH needing 37 to win from the last over in which Pollard gave away just one run. Earlier, Quinton de Kock’s

67 and Krunal Pandya’s last over carnage helped MI. MI’s lower middle order of Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard and Krunal added a combined 61 runs for the fifth and sixth wickets in the last

five overs. Krunal ended the innings with a six, consecutive fours and another six off the last over which started with Siddharth Kaul taking the wicket of Hardik.

Brief scores: MI 208/5 in 20 overs (Quinton de Kock 67, Ishan Kishan 31; Sandeep Sharma 2/41) vs SRH 174/7 i n 20 overs (David Warner 60, Manish Pandey 30; Trent Boult 2/28)

MI cruise to 34-run win over SRH

Chennai Super Kings player Shane Watson reacts after scoring a half-century at Sharjah Cricket Stadium (PTI)

DUBAI, OCT 4 (IANS): Shane Watson (83 not out) and Faf du Plessis (87 not out) brought Chennai Super Kings (CSK) back to winning ways in emphatic fashion on Sunday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. The pair put an unbeaten 181-run opening partnership to take their

team to a 10-wicket victory over Kings XI Punjab (KXIP). The pair chased down the target of 179 with more than two overs to spare. This is the second highest target a team has managed to chased down without losing a wicket. It is also only the second time that CSK have

Mumbai Indians (MI) on Sunday coasted to a 34-run win over SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Chasing a target of 209, SRH were limited to 174/7 by MI’s bowling lineup. This is the first time this season that a team has not been able to score more than 200 runs in Sharjah. SRH kept losing wickets but captain David Warner kept them in the chase for much of the innings. Their pace fell off however after Trent Boult dismissed his New Zealand captain Kane Williamson in the 13th over. Warner soon fell on 60 off 44 balls in the 16th over by which time the required run rate had gone beyond 16 an over

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