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Power outage in parts of Dimapur DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): Power department has informed consumers under Dimapur electrical sub-division No.1 that there will be power shutdown on September 22 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. due to maintenance of 33 KV line from Nargajan S/ station to Metha S/station.

The areas to be affected include Lhomthi colony, Sechu colony, Zeliangrong, westyard,Army Supply, Old Daily market, Kalibari road, Sematilla, Hongkong market, MP Road, Naga Bazar, New Market, GS Road, Church road, Circular road (Chishi Mkt complex line), NST colony, Station road, Erose lane, MST Colony, Church colony, Notun Bosti Ao Khel, LRC Colony, Lake View, Naga Cemetery, Island colony, Khermahal, Golaghat road, Niesatuo colony, River belt, Notun Bosti, Supply colony, Nepali Bosti, Fellowship colony, Circular road (Holy cross line), Forest colony, PWD colony, Residency colony, Land mark and Midland.

All consumers have been requested to bear the inconveniences.

Night curfew along Indo-Myanmar border

DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): In continuation to the earlier order, the deputy commissioner (DC) and district magistrate (DM) Mon, Thavaseelan K, has extended promulgation of night curfew along the IndoMyanmar border for three months up to November 22, 2018. The prohibitory order under section 144 CrPC will be enforced from 10pm to 3am in the 3 km belt along the Indo-Myanmar Border under Mon district.

NSCN (I-M) welcomes submission of memo

DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): NSCN (I-M) has welcomed the submission of a memorandum by ‘Liberation’, an NGO, to United Nations (UN) General Assembly on September 3 urging both the UN and Government of India to expedite the ongoing Naga peace process. In a statement issued by its MIP, NSCN (I-M) said it acknowledged submission of the memorandum “Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights” by Liberation, but denied media reports that GPRN was involved in it.

NSCN (I-M) said that the NGO had submitted the memorandum on its own volition. GPRN welcomed such initiative taken by some well-wishers of the Nagas that raised “our” issue at the international level. NSCN (I-M) clarified that it never laid claim over

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Much ado about Kolkata NL House CAG detects huge anomalies in deptts Correspondent

Correspondent

KOHIMA, SEP 2 1 (NPN): Around 2/3rd of the most valuable and prime plot in Kolkata city belonging to the government of Nagaland at 11, Shakespeare Sarani (erstwhile Theatre Road), which was mortgaged to Civil Engineers Enterprise Pvt. Ltd (CEEPL) by the government of Nagaland in 1982, through a one-sided lease agreement and which today houses the massive office of the State Bank of India and M/s Nightingale nursing home found mention in the recent autumn session of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly on Thursday September 20, 2018.

Nagaland House complex was a turnkey project under Development Authority of Nagaland. As per the narrative description of the project, it was proposed to be a commercial-cum-guest House complex, comprising of an 11 storied office building of 12764 M2, a four storied Nursing Home of 832 M2, a six storied VIP guest house of Nagaland government, a three storied office building of Nagaland government and a four storied staff quarters

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The prime property (white building) in Kolkata that once belonged to Nagaland Government.

The green building in the foreground is the present Nagaland House.

of Nagaland government.

As per archtechconsultants, the project started in 1979 and completed in September 1984 (phase I) and May 1988 (Phase II).

The issue was raised on September 20 by opposition leader T.R. Zeliang who wanted to know the status of the lease agreement with CEEPL, North East Handloom and Handicraft and Hind Xerox.

State chief minister Neiphiu Rio replied that the lease that was signed on August 6, 1982 was renewed on December 24, 1997 after

hue and cry and in after years when Nagaland Post published a series on the scam and sell out of the century during 1990-91. As per the clauses of the deed agreement signed in 1982, the deed was to be renewed after 21 years while the rent to the state government was fixed at Rs.5.50 per sq.feet per month and enhancement by 10% after every five years.

Shyamalendu Ghosal was an engineer serving under Nagaland government and after quitting his job, floated CEEPL. He had close access to those at the

CS launches Govt e-Marketplace DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): State chief secretary, Benchilo Thong, on Friday formally launched the state mission on Government e-Marketplace (GeM) at Secretariat Conference Hall, Kohima. GeM is the national public procurement portal; an end-to-end online marketplace for central and state government ministries /departments, central & state public undertakings, autonomous institutions and local bodies, for procurement of common use goods and services in transparent and efficient manner.

Speaking at the launching programme, the chief secretary said that the workshop being carried out as part of the

nationwide drive commenced on September 6 last and continue till October 17, 2018.

He said GeM portal was rapidly increasing its business since its inception with transacted business totaling to Rs.11,875.80 crore. GeM portal shows that 1,42,194 sellers and service providers were registered on the portal till date.

Thong maintained that workshop intends to create awareness about GeM, its benefits, and to bring on board sellers as well as buyers in order to avail the benefits of buying from a portal.

For government departments, GeM provides a huge advantage of offering a wide range of products and services

along with the benefits of a transparent and easy procurement process.

The chief secretary requested all the administrative heads and heads of departments to actively consider maximum utilisation of the benefits offered by the portal so that the value of the funds placed at their disposal is multiplied.

Additional chief secretary & finance commissioner, Temjen Toy, said GeM was basically a procurement programme where the entire transaction is paperless.

He said the present system where the departments have to issue tenders take time, adding that the issue of transparency also comes in.

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Kohima, SEP 21 (NPN): Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, which was tabled in the recently concluded second session of the 13 Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), detected huge financial anomalies in various departments.

DUDA (Border Area Development ProgrammeBADP): According to the CAG re por t, payment amounting to Rs. 15.94 crore was made without execution of works, short execution, incomplete and abandonment of works while also it noticed that third party inspection agency for monitoring of works under BADP was not constituted.

It also pointed out that the baseline survey conducted by the department did not bring out quantifiable gaps in social and physical infrastructure and therefore did not provide decisive inputs in preparation of Annual Action Plan. The report said allocation of funds also

indicated disproportionate emphasis on infrastructure and other sectors like Education, Health, Agri and Social were given minimal share.

DCC Bills for an amount of Rs. 4.56 crore out of Rs. 7.62 crore were not submitted even after delays ranging between two to three years, the report stated. Further, CAD detected that payments amounting to Rs. 15.95 crore without execution of works, short execution, incomplete and abandonment of works were noticed.

During 2012-17, the reports stated that 457 works were taken up under BADP in the State in 116 villages at a cost of Rs. 123.69 crore.

Out of the 457 works, 97 works (estimated cost Rs. 50.07 crore) were taken up in the 16 villages covered under this performance audit during 2012-17. All the selected 97 works were then selected for joint inspection by departmental officials and Audit. Examination of records and joint inspection of the 97 works (construction of roads/ bridges/

highest echelons of power in Nagaland. Nagaland House at Shakespeare Sarani was the winter retreat of a Nepalese royal family which was allotted to the government of Nagaland.

The construction of the complex was awarded to the firm which negotiated a loan from SBI. As per the agreement, the government of Nagaland or those at the helm of power, agreed to give rights to firm to act on behalf of the government.

Accordingly loan was given DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): NPCC has to the firm as the sole au- termed as “ridiculous” and “smacked with thority. (Cont’d on p-12) arrogance” the purported move by BJP state to paint polling stations with party symbol (Lotus).

NPCC Friday took to twitter and asked what the chief electoral office (CEO) had to say about BJP’s purported move. Congress also queried whether chief minister, DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): YimcNeiphiu Rio, would keep tolerating “this hungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA) has appealed to the power department nonsense” for the sake of power. “BJPNato immediately restore power sup- galand wanting to paint polling stations ply in Pungro sub-division, saying with party symbol Lotus is ridiculous, Pungro public have been reeling smacked with arrogance. Have the pollunder the darkness since September ing stations become BJPs property? What does @ceonagaland has to say and will the 14, 2018.

In an open letter addressed to Hon’ble CM @Neiphiu_Rio keep toleratthe chief engineer (T&G), department of power, the YAA president, S Yansomong, and general secretary, Achung Jangleh, pointed out that 2.5 MVA transformer at Pungro, which supplies power to entire Pungro sub-division covering 54 villages, broke down on September 14 and was yet to be restored. Breaking down of transformer has caused immense hardships to people from all walks of life, YAA said.

Lamenting that even after a lapse of a week, the restoration work was yet to be done, the YAA has urged the responsible authority to intervene and act promptly.

community centers/ drainage/ school buildings, etc.) revealed instances of unexecuted works, short execution of works, incomplete or abandoned works, etc., the report said.

Fisheries department: CAG report stated that the Fisheries department had furnished Utilisation Certificates for an amount of Rs. 12.79 crore even before the funds were released by the State Government. It said that the department paid Rs. 3.98 crore for seven un-executed projects and Rs. 16.37 crore for six short executed projects.

An expenditure Rs. 2.78 crore was made on a single project twice which was ultimately abandoned, rendering the expenditure as infructuous, the report stated. There was a shortfall in production of fingerlings

by Rs.471.93 lakh (94.40 per cent) during the last five years which may have impacted introduction of economically improved fish species in the State, the report said.

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Cong slams state BJP move to paint polling stations

Pungro area reeling under darkness: YAA

ing this nonsense 4 the sake of power?”, stated a tweet posted by NPCC along with a purported office order issued by BJP state president, Temjen Imna Along. It further asked if Leader of Opposition, TR Zeliang, would break silence against the BJP. “Will LoP in NLA Shri @TRZeliang finally break his silence against BJP?” NPCC asked.

In the purported officer order, all 12 BPJ legislatures were advised to direct their respective Mandal presidents to paint party symbol (Lotus) in all the polling stations, five each in every polling station within their respective constituencies. It was stated that the office order would come into force with immediate effect and the same must be strictly complied with before October 5, 2018.

CAG points out flaws in Plg & Coordination deptt

DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, which was tabled in the recently concluded second session of the 13 Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), has picked holes in the execution of some projects by the state planning and coordination department (P&C) depart(Cont’d on p-12) ment.

According to CAG report, the joint inspection revealed instances of unverifiable projects/schemes, doubtful execution, short execution and diversion of projects with respect to 28 out of the 54 projects/ schemes jointly verified.

It said the department paid Rs.20.23 crore for 13 unverifiable works, six doubtful execution of projects and nine short executed projects. The report also said P&C department made payment of Rs. 1.50 crore to an individual for “State BJP ministers obtaining sanction of a are always off to Delhi project from Ministry of because they have to get Tribal Affairs (MoTA). funds and projects.”

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Sl Type of observation No. (i) Unverifiable projects/schemes (ii) Doubtful execution of projects (iii) Short execution of projects Total

ects/schemes: Out of 54 projects/schemes selected for joint inspection, the exact location of the works to be taken up in 13 projects/schemes was neither mentioned in the estimates nor in the work orders. It was also observed that payments were made on the basis of progress reports furnished by EE which did not contain the location/ address of the project/ work.

During joint inspection, the department officials could not locate the 13 projects/schemes on which Rs.7.11 crore had been spent.

The report said P&C department at the exit conference in November 2017 stated that contractors could not be contacted and location of the project could not be shown during

No. of Amount involved works (in crore) 13 7.11 6 6.68 9 6.44 28 20.23

joint inspection and requested the accountant general (AG) for a second visit of the sites. In response, CAG said the AG asked the department to furnish details of beneficiaries and exact locations of the projects/schemes. The department, however, had not furnished this information till the time of finalization of the report in May 2018, report added.

Doubtful execution of projects/schemes: As per CAG report, joint inspection during May-July 2017 revealed doubtful execution of six out of 54 projects/schemes involving Rs.6.68 crore, which included cultural centre at Touphema, skill development centre in Dimapur, tribal old age day care at Padampukhuri (Dimapur), tribal co-education centre

at Khermahal (Dimapur), community training institute at Burma Camp (Dimapur) and Rangkau Mission Hostel, Peren district HQ. Short execution of works: Out of the sample of 56 projects/schemes selected for joint inspection, nine works were executed during 2012-16 at a cost of Rs.9.78 crore.

During joint inspection, execution of items of work costing Rs.8.67 crore (out of Rs.9.78 crore) were examined and it was observed that items of works executed to the extent of only Rs.2.23 crore - there was short execution of items of work to the value of Rs.6.44 crore.

Meanwhile, CAG recommended that cases of payments made without execution of works/doubtful or short execution of works, etc. should be handed over to the State Vigilance Commission and disciplinary proceedings/FIRs be initiated/lodged against the concerned officials.

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Assembly discussion on Naga political issue

Correspondent

KOHIMA, SEP 21 (NPN): Altogether 18 legislators, both from ruling and opposition parties including chief minister Neiphiu Rio and opposition leader T.R. Zeliang, took part in a lengthy discussion before adopting the resolution on the Naga political issue during the 2nd session of 13th Nagaland legislative assembly on September 20.

Opposition member Imkong L. Imchen pointed out that the resolution adopted should be replaced with an assembly resolution and not “government resolution.” He said integration was a legitimate right of the Nagas to live under one administrative umbrella. He lamented that the Nagas lack unity and there are nine Naga factions at present. The longer the talks stretch out, the more divisions will be seen, he opined.

MLA, Kuzholuzo Neinu also agreed with Imchen for an assembly and not government resolution. On the Naga issue, he said the dream of the forefathers was yet to be fulfilled. He questioned how people could know

if the talks were going in the right direction without knowing the content of the Naga talks.

Advisor, Pohwang said that Article 371 (A) was a complete failure and Naga issue should not continue unresolved. He said that without bringing all the factions together to the negotiating table the problem would continue.

Opposition member C.L. John said that the Indian government had divided the Nagas forcefully, and now they should be asked to bring the Nagas back together forcefully.

Opposition member Yitachu lamented that despite Ram Madhav’s statement “election for solution”, the solution was still to be seen after many months. Opposition member Vikheho also echoed the sentiment that the longer the solution takes to arrive, the more divisions and misunderstandings would take place.

Along the same lines, advisor, K. Tukugha Sukhalu expressed his opinion that the Naga political issue needed to be resolved at the earliest.

Opposition member Chotisuh Sazo said the Naga political movement was a people based move-

ment, asserting the rights and identity of the Nagas to live as a people.

Minister Tongpang Ozukum said that after many years of the Naga struggle for their rights, dignity and identity, the historic framework agreement was signed between GoI and NSCN (I-M) on August 3, 2015, and this agreement was signed in recognition of Naga history and their unique identity by the government of India. Minister Kaito Aye said it was high time for the Nagas to come together for an amicable solution and not play the blame game.

Advisor, Imnatiba said the Naga talk should be conducted with transparency, and expressed support for the need for an honourable and acceptable solution.

Minister, V. Kashiho Sangtam said the role of the Joint Legislative Forum should be to bring Naga civil societies and organizations together.

Advisor, Toshi Wungtung; MLA, Yitachu, minister, Temjen Imna Along; advisor, Mmhunlumo Kikon; and MLA, Muthingnyuba Sangtam, also gave inputs to the discussion.

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news in Brief GSDM social work and meeting: The Gorkha Singha Devi Mandir, Chandmari Kohima will organize a social work in the premises of the Mandir on September 22, 9 am. Also, a general body meeting in connection with the ensuing Durga Puja (DASAI ), will be held at GPPK hall, Chandmari, Kohima on September 23, 2 pm. All concerned have requested to attend the two events.

TSUD 4th foundation Day & general meet: Tangha Students’ Union Dimapur (TSUD) will observe its 4th foundation day-&-general meeting on September 22, 10:30 a.m. at its treasurer’s residence, Supply Colony.

All the executives and members have been requested to attend the meeting. TSUD president B Kontok Phom in a press release stated that “No application will be entertain without any genuine reason and fine will be impose as per the constitution of the Union.”

Program on sustainable horticulture: Directorate of Horticulture will be organizing a program on “Bridging the gap towards sustainable Horticulture in Nagaland” under the patronage of Governor, P. B Acharya,on September 24, 11 am at the Capital Convention Centre, Kohima. Advisor, Horticulture, MhathungYanthan will be give the keynote address and special invitee, Atul R Patwardhan, Chindamani Consultancy & Services, Pune will be the resource person. (DIPR)

Zunheboto random sale of petroleum products

DIMAPUR: Deputy Commissioner, Zunheboto, Shanavas C, has taken notice of reports about random sale of petroleum products without valid or proper permits within Zunheboto town. Such sale of petroleum products without permit is not only illegal but also pose serious risks to public safety, the DC said through DIPR. The concerned individuals have been informed

that sale/storage of petroleum products like petrol, diesel, S.K Oil and LPG gas without valid permit or outside the designated point of sale/distribution is hereby banned with immediate effect.

Random surprise checkings will be initiated from September 24 and any wilful defaulters will be penalized as per the appropriate provisions of law.

Wokha Don Bosco student wins State-level science seminar

Participants with judges and officials from the district education department. (NP) Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): Lithunglo E Ezung of Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Wokha has won the State-level science seminar held at Government Higher Secondary School in Half Nagarjan on Friday. She will now represent Nagaland at the National Level Science Seminar scheduled at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bengaluru on October 5.

Held under the theme

“Industrial Revolution 4.0.

Are we prepared?”, Neingusa-u Zatsu of Mezhur Higher Secondary School, Kohima and Siddharta Sharma of Pranab Vidyapith Higher Secondary School, Dimapur secured the second and third positions respectively.

Altogether nine selected students from nine schools of eight districts of the State participated in the event, which was organised by the directorate of school education and hosted by Dimapur district education

office. The nine students made presentations on the topic “Industrial Revolution 4.0. Are we prepared?” and answered questions from the judges after their presentations.

The judges of the event were Dr Tarun Kumar Jana, assistant professor of Botany of St John’s College’s, Greenwood School’s Physics teacher Tiatemsu and Immanuel College principal Th Sharatchandra Singh.

Addressing the school students, staff of the par-

ticipating schools and education department officials on the occasion, additional director of school education Razouseyi Vese remarked that only 22% of graduates in India were employable due to changing dynamics in industrial world. Hence, he stressed on adapting and realigning to new-age career options like digital marketing, robotics, internet of things, data analytics, etc.

He asked the youth to “re-skill” themselves, if they wanted to meet the requirements of industries and make themselves employable for new-age career options.

Speaking on origin and objectives of the State level annual science seminars held across the country, Vese said it was an initiative of National Council of Science Museums under the Union ministry of culture, in collaboration with education departments of different States and Union Territories.

He added that the annual seminars had three primary objectives – to inculcate a spirit of scientific inquiry and analytical thinking in the minds of young students, to provide a common

platform to budding scientist for exchanging ideas and to nurture a feeling of national integration among young talents from every corner of the country.

The additional director explained that the main idea behind the Central government’s “Digital India” initiative was to reduce workforce in government set-up in a phased manner as the government’s expenditure on manpower was about 60% of its annual budget. The aim, he added, was to reduce investment and optimise production by employing scientific applications and techniques to meet the ever increasing demands caused by population explosion.

The programme was chaired by Half Nagarjan Government Higher Secondary School vice-principal Viliholi Achumi, while Dimapur district education officer Amongla Jamir delivered the welcome address.

A song was presented on the occasion by Reno of Government Higher Secondary School and vote of thanks was given by deputy director of school education Limadangit Jamir.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Mokokchung fire affected receive relief

Sachin Jaiswal, on September 21, in his office chambers with ward representatives and those affected by the fire incidents. (DIPR) DIMAPUR: Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Sachin Jaiswal, on September 21, disbursed relief to the victims of fire incidents that occurred on September 16 and 17 at Sangtemla, Arkong and Marepkong Wards in Mokokchung

Town, where several houses and personal belongings were lost.

According to DIPR, relief funds were disbursed among 12 beneficiaries amounting to Rs. 5,37,500, which included the Emergency Relief Fund dis-

bursed earlier. The relief funding is carried out by the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA). It was distributed at the Office Chamber of the DC, Mokokchung in the presence of victims and ward representatives.

PMC selection for Kma SC in final stage Correspondent

KOHIMA, SEP 21 (NPN): Minister of urban development and municipal affairs, Metsubo Jamir, said the Smart City mission will be implemented in Kohima after the appointment of Project Management Consultant (PMC), and the selection process was at its final stage.

He said this in response to an unstarred question raised by opposition MLA Keneizhakho Nakhro on the last day of the second session of the 13th NLA, on September 20. The question was regarding the status of the Kohima Smart City KSC (KSC) Mission. The minister informed the members that the DPRs for certain projects under the mission were under submission for technical approval.

To queries, Jamir also replied that a total amount of Rs. 113 Cr was sanctioned for KSC, out of which Rs. 2 Cr was paid as advance for preparation of the proposal.

He added that Rs. 107 Cr was paid as part payment of project funds for the 1st year for development of Kohima as a smart city while Rs. 2 Cr was paid as part payment for administrative and office expenses.

Further the minister stated that another Rs. 2 Cr was paid as the state’s matching share against A&OE for implementation of the KSC mission.

To another query on the date of the first instalment released by GoI, Jamir said that Rs. 107 Cr was released by the

ministry of housing and 4303 labourers and 1257 urban affairs on April 20, Sectional Assistants are 2017. engaged in looking after When asked about the PWD (R&B) roads in the Master Plan for the Nagaland. mission, Jamir said a draft In his reply to and master plan for the project unstarred question, raised has been prepared which by opposition MLA, Y.M will be finalized and ap- Yollow Konyak during the proved in consultation recently concluded 13th with the PMC. NLA session on SeptemNPWD has 4303 ber 20, the minister also labourers and 1257 Sec- said that the total length tional Assistants: Min- of road looked after by the ister Roads and Bridges PWD (R&B) Nagaland Tongpang Ozukum said was 11872.80 km.

As per the query the list of labourers and sectional assistants district wise are as in the table.

S l . Division No

S e c t i o n a l Labourers Assistant

1.

Phek

51

150

2.

Pfutsero

48

141

3.

Peren

58

319

4.

Dimapur

175

141

5.

Dimapur south

70

209

6.

Chiephobozou

53

82

7.

Tseminyu

28

161

8.

Wokha

52

198

9.

Baghty

55

218

10. Mokokchung

106

282

11. Changtongya

25

37

12. Tuli

21

130

13. Mangkolemba

43

240

14. Mon

42

132

15. Aboi

25

86

16. Naginimora

25

45

17. Zunheboto

50

253

18. Aghunato

41

183

19. Atoizu

63

204

20. Tuensang

75

372

21. Kiphiri

52

151

22. Longleng

37

160

23. Noklak

29

274

24. Pughoboto

33

135

Free hearing CM Chang unveils Tuensang RO foundation stone WCSU fetes diploma students check-up in Dmu

CM Chang with MLAs, officers and others after the unveiling of the foundation stone for Ranger Office Tuensang on September 21. (DIPR) DIMAPUR: Minister of Forest, Environment and Climate Change, CM Chang unveiled the foundation stone for construction of Ranger Office (RO) at Tuensang Town on SepK

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tember 21.

According to DIPR, speaking on the occasion, the minister thanked the DFO staff for their sincere and dedicated work for the people of Tuensang.

He said that Nagaland received 533 crore from JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) for the construction of Offices and implementing schemes in Nagaland. He mentioned

that the fund should be utilized efficiently for the welfare of the people, and for basic office infrastructure. He urged the DFO staff to work sincerely for the welfare of the people in the District.

MLA Kejong Chang, in his short speech, urged the Forest department to plant more trees in reserved forests to help purify water resources and stop soil erosion. Large scale deforestation should be checked by the department, he stated.

A welcome address was delivered by Y.M Jami, conservator of forest, Mokokchung; and vote of thanks was delivered by L. Tsingthrise Sangtam, FRO Tuensang. The program was chaired by Dr. C. Zupeni Tsanglai, DFO Tuensang. The minister was accompanied by advisor of IPR, SCERT and Village Guards, Toshi Wungtung; MLA Muthingnyuba Sangtam, MLA Kejong Chang, MLA Toyang Chang, DC Tuensang and SP Tuensang.

Students along with WCSU officials and Zagreus Computer institute faculty. (NP) Correspondent

WOKHA, SEP 21 (NPN): Wokha Circle Students Union (WCSU) today felicitated 12 students from various schools and colleges on their successful completion of diploma in computer application, offered by the WCSU in collaboration with Zagreus Computer Institute

Wokha.

C. L o n g s h i t h u n g Lotha, publicity and information secretary WCSU, addressed the students and wished them the best for their future endeavors and thanked the Zagreus Computer Institute for their assistance by giving them subsidized rates for deprived students.

Managing director Za-

greus Computer institute, Benithung Humtsoe also thanked the WCSU for their enthusiasm in finding students who need the computer education and he promised to continue with the assistance efforts.

Earlier, the program started with an evocation prayer by Jonjibemo Tsopoe, vice president WCSU.

DIMAPUR: Digambar Jain Charitable Clinic under the aegis of Shree Digambar Jain Samaj, Dimapur will be conducting a free hearing check up camp on September 28 and 29, 9 a.m. onwards at S D Jain Charitable Clinic.

S D Jain Charitable Clinic, Dimapur secretary Narendra Pandya in a press note said that hearing aids will be distributed free of cost to poor and needy patients only. All hearing testing, audiologist consultation, trial of hearing-aids & counselling will be given absolutely free of cost. All children & adults have been welcomed to avail the services of the check-up after making prior appointments.

Patients have been requested to register their name in S D Jain Charitable Clinic, Dimapur (03862232774) or they may contact Narendra Pandya, secretary at 9436002161; and joint secretaries Kishor Gangwal, 9436003877; and Sanjay Binaykia, 9436008290, before September 28.

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WEATHER FORECAST

September 22 (Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Rather cloudy, a thunderstorm 32 25 Aizawl

Some rain and a thunderstorm 27 19

Guwahati Clouds and sun, a t-storm

32 25

Mostly cloudy

29 20

Imphal

Itanagar An a.m. thunderstorm, clouds 27 22 Shillong

Couple of thunderstorms

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Kohima

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Dimapur Partly sunny a stray t-storm

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Tuensang A thunderstorm in spots Wokha

Police Ki Pathshala program held in Dimapur

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An a.m. thunderstorm in spots 24 20

Zunheboto A p.m. t-storm in spots

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DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): An outreach program on Police Ki Pathshala was conducted on Friday, at SD Jain Girls’ College (SDJC) and SD Jain Higher Secondary School (SDJHSS) respectively, with Inspector General of Police (Range), Nagaland Sonia Singh (IPS).

At the program, Sonia Singh mentioned that the outreach program was conducted with the objective of creating a relationship between the police and the student community in the state, and to change the perception of students about the police.

In this regard, she said that often people think that the police have a lot of power, and she admitted that they do have some powers, but it does not mean that they do whatever they wish. The police also abide by certain rules and regulations, she said.

Citizens have the right to confront them if they are found to be in the wrong and at the same time, she suggested that the police should also be appreciated for their hard-work and

IGP Sonia Singh speaking at the Police Ki Pathshala program at SD Jain Girls’ College on Friday. (NP)

their contribution towards the security and safety of the state.

She also discussed various topics related to cyber crime (stalking, voyeurism, defamation and revenge porn), crimes against women, self defence, road safety and criminal law amendments. Singh also encouraged the students to read and understand the functioning of law and order in the state, the rules and Acts implemented.

Highlighting some general information about Nagaland police, Singh said that within the 11 districts, there were 21 circles, with 74 thanas, 24 out-posts and 20 check-posts. The department has 15 battalions in Nagaland of eight NAP

Poshan Abhiyaan & Mission Antyodaya Day in Phaipijang

DIMAPUR: Poshan Abhiyaan Nutrition Day & Mission Antyodaya Day was observed at GMS Phaipijang on Friday. The program was organised by Village Level Organisation (VLO) Phaipijang and the Village Devel-

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opment Board (VDB).

A press release by VLO president Kimcha Hangsing stated that the program was attended by block program manager (BPM) and RD depar tment Staff Chumukedima Block, K Jamao

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BDO; GB, Phaipijang Village Council; Village Level Organisation(VLO); Kuki Nute Kiloikhom (KNK); Phaipijang Youth & Students’ Union (PYSU), WATSAN, VDB, and GMS teaching staff and students.

and seven IR battalions with another three deployed outside the state.

Singh also elaborated on certain crimes with stringent punishments, the procedure to file a report as per the law, punishment for dereliction of duty, POSCO Act 2012, and protection of children against sexual offences 2012.

She encouraged the students to be confident and bold so that they would be remembered for what they contribute to whichever society they find themselves in.

A similar session on the same topics was also held later with SDJHSS students, conducted by Sonia Singh again.

During the program, SDJHSS students Reji Abraham, principal, expressed his gratitude to Sonia Singh and her team of officers for taking the initiative to reach out to students in order to remove some of the fears and misconceptions that students may have about the police force.

The program was also attended by Om Prakash Sethi, president Jain Samaj and Ajay Sethi, secretary, School Managing Committee.

Workshop on financial inclusion held in Tseminyu

DIMAPUR: A workshop on ‘financial inclusion’, as a literacy campaign on “Enriching the lives of rural people of Nagaland” was held on September 13, at Town Hall Tseminyu.

T h e p r o g r a m wa s organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in association with the North Eastern Council, Govt of India, with District Administration of Kohima as part of the program.

According to DIPR, Tseminyu ICC regional di-

rector- North East and joint director of Indian Chamber of Commerce, Ishantor Sobhapandit, when delivering the key note address, said that the purpose would be to impart know-how about the advantages of maintaining a bank account which could be beneficial in other areas as well.

He also spoke about the credit deposit ratio of the North East Region, including Nagaland, which he said would have to be improved. He further encour-

aged the people to improve their banking habits.

The ICC director also said that since North East India was an agrarian economy, the public/farmers of the region will have to be taught about credit facilities and newly launched government schemes.

He called upon the farmers to cooperate with the policies and programs of the government being implemented.

Heads of banking institutions of Tseminyu,

branch manager SBI Bank, Vijiya Bank, NSCB Ltd, participated in the program.

SDO (C) Kohima, Shaying Sheu, and EAC Ts e m i n y u , Kev i n g o t o Kulnu, both spoke at the program as facilitators.

T h e p r o g r a m wa s chaired by ICC NE-Region executive officer Siddhartha Roy and was attended by leaders from various business groups, farmers, GBs and public of Tseminyu town.

ARSU meeting

Dimapur: Atoizu Range Students’ Union (ARSU) golden jubilee planning board has called a meeting on September 28, 2:30 pm at Tourist Lodge Dimapur.

All the committee convenors and members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

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IMPHAL, Sep 21: Tension gripped the campus of Manipur University in Imphal after 82 students and seven teachers were detained by the police in midnight raids.

Police accompanied

by CRPF personnel raided the campus following a complaint by Pro. VC Y Yugindro Singh, that he had been manhandled by the students and teachers.

In a bid to control the students and teachers, police fired several rounds of tear gas shells and rubber bullets injuring atleast four students. A large number of armed police have been deployed in the campus.

A Manipur police team raided the university campus including boys’ hostel and some quarters of the teachers at midnight.

In the raid, police detained 82 students and seven faculty members of the varsity. VC in-charge Prof W Vishwanath and registrar incharge Sh Darendrajit were among the faculty members arrested by the police.

This led to a massive protest by the students leading to scuffles following which police resorted to using tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.

Meanwhile, the arrested students and teachers were produced in the court of Imphal West chief judicial magistrate today where they were remanded

Womenfolk protesting the arrest of students and professors. (NP)

to police custody for five days.

“We did the raids with prior permission from the Pro VC and also in presence of executive magistrate. During the raids, we picked up some lecturers and professors as well as some MUSU leaders,” IGP (Zone-II) L Kailun said in a press conference at the conference hall of Imphal West district police on Friday.

IGP (Zone-I) Clay Khongsai who was also present at the press conference admitted to using force during the raids and arrest of the students and teachers.

“It was because of the resistances and stone pelting, we have to use minimal

force to disperse them so that we can take our legal course of action,” he said.

Asser ting that the university is a temple of learning, he said, police have been showing a lot of restraint for the last many months despite violent action of the students and teachers during their course of agitation.

On the other hand, amidst the prevailing chaotic situation in the campus, Pro VC Y Yugindro Singh took charge of VC after breaking the padlock of the office which was locked by the agitating students and teachers.

After formally assuming office, the Pro VC said that he has taken over the charge as per an order of the

Union ministry of human resource development.

Meanwhile, Manipur Congress strongly criticized the raid inside the varsity campus terming it a “new facet of fascism”.

Addressing a news conference at Imphal Congress Bhavan, former chief minister O Ibobi Singh demanded release of the arrested students and teachers without any conditions.

Alleging that a dictator type of rule has no place in democracy, the former chief minister alleged that dictator type of administration in the university by Prof AP Pandey with the backing of influential people at the government at the Centre was behind the prevailing crisis in the university.

Gauhati HC asks owner of ‘Super 30’ to reply to PIL

Photo gallery of Assam governors inaugurated

qualifying the IIT entrance exam.”

“But after reaching there, Anand Kumar made the students take admission in his coaching institute namely Ramanujam School of Mathematics by charging Rs 33,000 per student in the name of teaching them,” Saraf said.

Amit Goyal, who is the advocate-on-record for the petitioners, said it is mentioned in the PIL that “Most of the time, Anand Kumar travels to different places in the country and outside India. He does not devote sufficient time to the IIT aspirants who took admission in Ramanujam School of Mathematics.”

“On being inquired by the four IIT-G students it is revealed that after 2008, Anand Kumar is not running any so called ‘Super 30’ classes. Whenever, IIT entrance exam results are announced, Anand Kumar appears before media with some of the students of Ramanujam School of Mathematics and other students claiming that they are Super 30 students and have

Guwahati, Sep 21 (PTI): A photo gallery of all Assam governors, who have served the state since 1947, was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit at the conference hall of Raj Bhavan Friday.

Purohit, who was former Assam Governor, expressed his gratitude for having been invited to launch the photo gallery and hailed the efforts of his successor Jagadish Mukhi for having conceptualized the photo gallery.

The gallery would give the future generation an opportunity to know about the rich legacy of Raj Bhavan, Assam and all the governors who served the state, Purohit said.

The Assam Governor said that he had seen photo gallery of the governors in Raj Bhavans of the other states and therefore, he thought that Assam Raj Bhavan should also have one.

Since 1947, 26 governors have served Assam and their portraits are now placed in the conference hall of the Raj Bhawan.

Guwahati, Sep 21 (PTI): The Gauhati High Court Friday issued a notice to Anand Kumar, founder of the educational programme ‘Super 30’, to reply to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by four students of IIT-Guwahati.

The high court also issued a notice to former Bihar director general of police (DGP) Abhiyanand who had co-founded ‘Super 30’ in 2002.

A division bench of the high court, comprising Acting Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami and Justice Ajit Borthakur, issued the notice to Anand Kumar and directed him to reply to the allegations made in the PIL. Senior advocate Ashok Saraf, appearing for the four IIT students, submitted before the court that “Because of the wrong projection given by Anand Kumar each year a large number of students from the northeast and other parts of the country approach him with full faith and hope that Anand Kumar, who seems to be an IIT Baba, will help them in

qualified in the IIT entrance exam,” Goyal said.

Saraf submitted before the court that the false propaganda created by Anand Kumar is not only cheating the IIT aspirants and their guardians but also others.

“Wrong information has been uploaded by Wikipedia in its website in an unedited version and the same is also published by a national newspaper and it is easily available in the social media,” Goyal said.

According to the petition, this year too, Anand Kumar had claimed that 26 out of 30 students from his ‘Super 30’ group had cleared the IIT entrance exam.

“But till now, he has not disclosed the names of the 26 students who had qualified for the IIT entrance,” he said.

After hearing the petitioners, the high court issued the notice to Anand Kumar and former Bihar DGP Abhiyanand, the co-founder of ‘Super 30’.

The matter will be taken up by the high court after eight weeks for further orders.

Against the backdrop of the prevailing situation at Manipur University, the Manipur government has suspended mobile internet services for five days with effect from Friday.

No press release was issued by the government.

However, sources said that the move of the government was to curb rumourmongering through spread of hate videos and messages in the state.

Government has directed all mobile service providers to ensure cooperation with the order.

The ban will continue till September 26, it added.

SMS services of all mobile phone connections have also been stopped since Friday mor ning.

Broadband Internet services were not included in the ban.

As per the government instructions, the internet services have been temporarily stopped. The services will resume only after directions from the government, a mobile service provider in Imphal said.

This is the second time in recent memory the Manipur government has imposed a ban on internet services.

Earlier, in July, the government had banned internet services for five days, in the wake of agitations at Manipur University.

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rushed to the spot to find if there are any more bodies in the pond, official sources said.

Irate locals armed with sticks attacked the house of an APDCL worker in the area and damaged furniture and his vehicle, police said.

APDCL sub-divisional officer of the Pallab Das and three other employees of the company were suspended following the incident, officials said.

Additional security forces have been deployed in the area and senior district civil and police officials have rushed to the spot, official sources said.

Expressing his deep anguish over the incident, Assam Chief Minister Sonowal ordered an inquiry into it by Additional Chief Secretary and APDCL chairman Jishnu Barooah, an official release said.

The inquiry will primarily include in its am-

bit circumstances leading to the electrocution and submit the report to the government at the earliest, it said.

On his instruction, Power Minister Tapan Gogoi, Water Resources Minister Kesab Mahanta and the APDCL chairman rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation.

Mahanta announced an ex-gratia grant of Rs 2.5 lakh to the next of kin of each of the dead, besides an inquiry into the incident.

Locals alleged that negligence by APDCL had led to the mishap and demanded compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of each of the dead and a government job to one of their family members.

Former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta visited the bereaved families and demanded that they be given adequate compensation, besides an inquiry into the incident.

Correspondent

Shillong, Sep 21: Meghalaya’s Leader of Opposition and veteran Congress leader, Mukul Sangma on Friday said that the exit of his senior party leader DD Lapang will not affect the Congress in the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

“Party is above individuals so people will see and take a conscious decision and they will also be judging, analyse and draw their respective conclusions,” the former Chief Minister told reporters.

Sangma denied Lapang’s claims that the Congress party is embarking on a policy of “phasing out senior and elderly people”.

“That (policy of phasing out) is not true, that is completely wrong and false as there are so many senior leaders who are actively engaged in the party’s collective endeavour as we have different committees,” he said. “It’s a party and we do a little bit of auditing of our own people, leaders and based on this exercise we give certain responsibility for different leaders but it is not a one day exercise,” Sangma added.

The former chief minister claimed that the Congress is in fact still in the process of looking at senior leaders who are available and who can be of immense help in strengthening the party.

I ta nagar , S ep 2 1 (Agencies): Arunachal Pradesh becomes the first State in North East India to introduce Smart e-Public Distribution System (e-PDS), a solution developed by the Madras Security Printers, a company specializing in system integration and solutions for e-governance projects, Deccan Chronicle reported. The end-to-end e-PDS system, successfully deployed in Arunachal Pradesh, provides centralized Online Real-time Electronic PDS to improve efficiency in supplying commodities to the beneficiaries.

Deputy commissioner, Prince Dhawan introduced the Smart Ration Cards (SRCs), the first of its kind in the North East, at a programme organized by the Capital Complex district ad-

ministration in the State.

Wi t h D e p a r t m e n t of Food & Civil Supplies (DFCS) being proactive in using the latest technologies, this new system will facilitate the improved use of technology in delivering Government to Citizen services and prove to be an additional achievement for the State Department. The department will be able to use technology to monitor and control their complete supply chain, plan operations, get analytical information and MIS reports and ensure that the citizens are benefited, for which the department has also undertaken requisite training from the Systems Integrator to ensure seamless implementation of the project.

The Smart e-Public Distribution System has been well received by both

JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA

LEWOZA : PO.PFUTSERO. DIST. PHEK : NAGALAND

NOTICE INVITING TENDER

Date: 20/09/2018 Sealed tenders are invited from the authorized registered Dealer/Supplier for supply of Fire Wood for the session 2018-2019 to the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Lewoza: Dist. Phek. For further details contact the Office of the Principal JNV, Lewoza, Dist. Phek on or before 25/09/2018 Or visit http:// phek.jnv.academy/ (E.GOLMEI) Principal DC-1624 AFFIDAVIT Regd No. : 7546/18 Date : 18-09-2018 I, K. LUNTSU YIMCHUNGER S/o, Shri. L. KIUTSUMONG of SANGPHUR Village district Tuensang do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That I am my correct name is K. LUNTSU YIMCHUNGER and my father’s correct name is L. KIUTSUMONG however, in some of the documents including Service Appointment order recorded as K. LUMTSU YIMCHUNGER S/o, L. KIUTSEMONG (clerical error) hence, the stated name represents myself and my father.

3. That henceforth, I herewith rectified the same and declares that my name will be K. LUNTSU YIMCHUNGER son of Shri. L. KIUTSUMONG for all official references.

4. That there is no occurrence of pending publication.

5. That the above statements are true to the best of my knowledge and no material facts has been concealed herein and I sign this Affidavit before the competent authority on this 18th Sept. 2018 at Kohima, Nagaland.

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er Distribution Company Limited (APDCL), the police said.

Electricity department personnel had assured them that the wire was not a live one and so some people went into the pond for fishing, the villagers claimed.

But it was activated around 8 am without informing the locals which lead to the electrocution, they claimed.

The bodies when brought out from the water were either charred or had wisps of smoke emanating from them.

Police said the dead were identified as Rafiqul Islam, Jabar Ali, Habibur Rahman, Mainul Islam, Inamul Islam and Ashiful Islam (10).

The injured were taken to BP Civil Hospital in Nagaon where the condition of some of them was stated to be critical, police said.

State Disaster Response Force personnel

Lapang’s exit will not affect Cong in LS polls: Sangma

Dear Aaradhaya, "Happy birthday Aaradhaya...stay blessed and happy always."

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I hope your day is filled with lots of love and laughter! May all of your birthday wishescome true. To someone who touches each life you enter, spreading joy to everyone you meet: may the love and happiness you share with others return to you tenfold.

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Dear Bro(Kedi Sephe) Bro, you are not just my life’s support, but also my life’s pride. If you hadn’t been there for me all these years, I would have crumbled from inside. May God bless you with good health and a prosperous future. Long Live.

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Arunachal Pradesh govt introduces ‘Smart e-PDS’

Six die due to electrocution in Assam

Rupohi, Sep 21 (PTI): Six persons, including a 10-year-old boy, died of electrocution while eight others were seriously injured when a high tension wire fell into a pond in Assam’s Nagaon district on Friday, police said.

Alleging negligence by the Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (APDCL), angry locals attacked the house of a company worker after the tragedy occurred when people were fishing at Uttar Khatooal village under Rupohi revenue circle.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal ordered an inquiry while four APDCL employees were suspended including a sub-divisional officer.

Villagers noticed the high-voltage power distribution wire of 11000volt hanging lose over the pond belonging to Syeb Ali at around 5 am and informed the Assam Pow-

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

WOKHA NAGALAND Dated, Wokha the 12th Sept 2018

NOTICE

No. Judl-47/2017-18/ / Whereas Shri. Phyochamo Lotha, brother of Late Smti. F. Zanbeno Lotha a permanent resident of Longsa Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to enable him to draw all dues and benefits from the Govt. and to operate SBI AC No. 31507330910, CIF No. 85915955097 and NSCB AC No. 100610006003185 in favour of his deceased sister Late. F. Zanbeno Lotha who expired on 25/6/2018.

Now, therefore, public and relatives are hereby asked to file claims/ objections if any, within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice. No claims/objections will be entertained after the cut off date and succession certificate shall be issued.

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K. Mhathung Tsanglao Addl. Deputy Commissioner Wokha, Nagaland

the State and the Central government and has encouraged and enabled the Department of Food and Civil supplies, Arunachal Pradesh to initiate more number of new projects that will improve the efficiency and delivery of people friendly beneficial services. The department is in the process of increasing the number of camps to issue and distribute Smart Ration Cards.

Department of Food and Civil Supplies (DFCS) plays an essential and vital part in ensuring food security to the citizens of a State.

With operations across multiple districts, several godowns and thousands of vehicles to reach and serve more than a million beneficiaries, DFCS arranges for

the procurement of PDS items including rice, wheat/ atta, levy sugar, Kerosene oil for various Districts in Arunachal Pradesh under the Public Distribution System. Essential commodities are distributed through Fair Price Shops via Smart Ration Cards (SRC) to the identified beneficiaries.

Madras Security Printers Pvt. Ltd. (MSP) is a 42-year-old company specializing in System Integration and solutions for egovernance projects, Smart card and QR code-based solutions, Identity management, Biometric solutions, Data center O&M & IT solutions. MSP has operations in India, Kenya, Nepal and Several other countries across the Globe.

DECLARATION

I Smti.L HEKHEANGLA wife of M.YINKIUBA YIMCHUNGER old Ministers hill Kohima, Nagaland do hereby declared through Affidavit Regd No.7240/18 dated 8/9/18 that my correct name is L.HEKHEANGLA however, in some of the documents including Matriculation passed Admit Card and Mark Sheet my name has been recorded as HEKHANGLA hence the stated name represents same person i.e., myself. Henceforth, I herewith rectified the same and declares that my name will be L. HEKHEANHLA for all official references.

(L.Hekheangla) K-2753 Old Ministers Hill, Kohima, Nahgaland

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMENTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925) In the Court of Shri Albert Ezung Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur District, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late H. Hutoshe Chishi Deseased, has been filed by Smti Sukhali H. Chishi relation wife R/o H/No. 25 Model Colony Purana Bazaar to draw his family pension, Bank Acct, Landed Property etc, who expired on 18.7.18 covered by Patta No. 710 Dag No. 492/1145 Mouza No. 3 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he/she so desire may appear in this court within 30 days, on the said day of 19.10.18 Given under the hand and seal of the court this 18 day of 9/18 Addl. Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Nagaland DP-7080

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

S/C No. 147/18 NOTICE NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANTS(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-I OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Imkonglemba has been applied by Smti. Merentula, W/o Lt. Imkonglemba, R/o H/No. 60 Seiruzha Colony, Chumukedima, Dimapur, Nagaland for possession of : (1) Pension benefits. (2) Insurance.

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 22nd Oct' 18 Given under the hand and seal of the court on this the 21st Sept' 2018.

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Principal District & Sessions Judge Dimapur : Nagaland

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER MEDZIPHEMA DIST. DIMAPUR, NAGALAND

NO.JUD/SUC-3/2014/163

Date the 29th August 2016

NOTICE Whereas Smti. Emilo Kikon, D/o Late Nkhumo Kikon of Medziphema Town has applied for Succession Certificate, under the Indian Succession Act. 1925 to draw/operate his Allahabad Bank Ac Medziphema/ and his pension matters, who expired on 08 of March 2017.

Public are hereby asked to file objection/claim if any within 30 days from the issue of this notice.

Description of properties 1. A/C No. 22182171871 DP-7068

(Thsuvisie Phoji) Additional Deputy Commissioner Medziphema Dist. Dimapur, Nagaland

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M’laya cabinet approves State Education Policy

S h i l l o n g, S e p 2 1 (Agencies): What may be termed as one of the major decisions taken by the NPP-led MDA government in Meghalaya, the State cabinet on Friday approved the State Education Policy 2018, a decision taken after months of consultations and discussions with stakeholders, The Northeast Today reported.

“The policy took shape after a lot of deliberations and exhaustive work that include the suggestions of stakeholders,” said Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui after the cabinet meet here today.

Rymbui said that the Meghalaya State Education Policy, 2018 tries to address the main issues and concerns faced by the State today and attempts to provide policy options for the State Government based on the best practices and researchdriven interventions.

Stating that this is a ‘big decision’, the education minister said that the first draft Meghalaya State Education Policy, 2018 is based on a comprehensive analysis of the education sector in the State which evolved out of numerous consultations held with national and state level experts, practitioners, administrators and key stakeholders.

It may be mentioned that a 24-member Task Force on the Meghalaya State Education Policy was constituted in March 2018 by the Government to finalise the policy. The Task Force comprises of lead-

ing educationists. practitioners, current and retired educational administrators and key stakeholders in the State.

The First Task Force meeting was held on May 15 and further consultations took place on six other occasions. A total of 230 suggestions from various individuals, associations and organisations were received and scrutinized by the Task

Force. After incorporating all relevant suggestions, the Final Draft Education Policy was submitted to the Education Department on July 30.

The Final Policy covers the following broad areas: Vision, Overall Goal, Goals for the development of ECCE, Elementary, Secondary and Hr. Secondary, Higher and Teacher Education.

Bill to protect public from fraudulent intention of financial institutions introduced

Correspondent adds: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Friday introduced the Meghalaya Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Bill, 2018 to protect the public from any fraudulent intention of the financial institutions.

Sangma in a statement said it has become necessary to have a strong law in the state in order to protect the interest of the depositors in financial institutions operating in the state. “(This is) considering the fact that some of t hese financial institutions are unauthorized and mobilizing funds from the public/depositors with suspect or fraudulent intention,” Sangma said.

The chief minister also pointed out that the objective of introducing the new Bill was because the existing Act is not equipped to deal with such institutions.

“Since the present law, that is, the Meghalaya Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Institutions) Act, 2006 is not fully equipped in dealing with such institutions, therefore, there is a need to repeal the existing Act with a new Act. Hence this Bill,” he stated.

According to the Bill, the government may pass an ad-interim order attaching the properties purchased either in the name of the financial establishment or any other persons on default of return of deposits. It also stated that where any financial establishment defaults the return of the deposit or defaults the payment of interest on the deposit, every person including the promoter, manager, director or partner or an employee of the financial establishment will be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years and with fine which may extend to Rs 1 lakh or both. Such financial establishment shall also be liable for a fine which may extend to Rs 2 lakh, it added.

northeast Tripura CM briefs PM Modi on development Ag a rta l a , S e p 2 1 (Agencies): Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s residence in New Delhi and apprised him of the progress of various flagship programmes in the State, Northeast Now reported.

The Chief Minister briefed Prime Minister Modi of the recent initiatives and efforts of the State Government to put the State on the path of rapid economic development by focusing on those sectors of the economy of State which have high potential for growth and income generation for the people. Deb especially highlighted the need for development on priority basis of agriculture, horticulture and fisheries sectors which have the combined potential of preventing an outflow of about Rs 5000 crore annually from Tripura, according to official sources.

Sources further revealed that the Prime Minister appreciated the initiatives and efforts of the State Government and assured of his continued support to the State for its overall growth.

In course of the meeting, Deb also requested the Prime Minister to release an amount of Rs 358.70 crore to the State under Special Plan Assistance (SPA) for completion of 81 ongoing projects as recommended

by NITI Aayog. The Chief Minister also discussed the issue of release of special assistance of Rs 1500 crore to enable the State to fulfill the commitment made to the people of the State as per the Vision Document ahead of the Assembly elections last February.

3 PLA militants killed in ‘accidental’ blast in Manipur

Guwahati, Sep 21 (Agencie s): Three members of the banned militant outfit People’s Liberation Army (PLA) were killed in an ‘accidental blast’ at the outfit’s base camp in Aungjiya village along Indo-Myanmar border, News 18 reported.

Two other PLA militants suffered serious injuries in the incident that took place late on Tuesday.

According to sources, the outfit was planning a strike in the run-up to their Raising Day on September 25.

They wanted to ‘inflict death and destruction’ at vulnerable locations within Manipur, an Assam Rifles official said on Friday.

“Villagers in the bordering belt of Kamjong district heard a loud sound of explosion. Sources said

that three PLA men died in the blast. According to locals, some cadres of PLA had been preparing to plant a huge Improvised Explosive Device to cause maximum damage in Manipur in the run-up to their Raising Day,” said the official.

In a separate incident on Thursday, the Chassad Battalion of Assam Rifles in Kamjong district recov-

ered a Remote Controlled IED, weighing about 8 kg.

“It was reported by some locals of Khangpat Khullen village that a suspicious object was lying on the Kamtong-Skipe road.

Parties were immediately sent by 31 Assam Rifles Battalion. After a deliberate operation, the RCIED was recovered,” said AR officials.

Arunachal’s Naga tribes to get ST status NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (AGENCIES): Central government has decided to give Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the Naga tribes of Arunachal Pradesh which have been vaguely referred to in the ST list, The Economic Times report stated.

The tribal affairs ministry has cleared the decks for removing the reference “any Naga tribes” from the ST list of Arunachal Pradesh and replacing it with the names of Nocte, Tangsa, Tutsa and Wancho tribes.

According to the norms, a state government has to send a proposal for inclusion, exclusion or any other amendment to the existing names of tribes in the ST list. The ministry sends the proposal to the Registrar General of India (RGI) for further examination.

If approved by the RGI, the proposal is sent to the National Commission Scheduled Tribe (NCST). Then the ministry prepares a constitutional amendment bill to incorporate the changes in the ST list and takes it to Parliament following approval of the cabinet.

The tribal affairs ministry has wrapped up the entire process for this. The ministry had forwarded the

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Guwahati, Sep 21 (PTI): In an apparent incident of moral policing, a woman who allegedly sells illegal brew was attacked and stripped by villagers in Assam’s Karimganj district, police said on Friday.

The incident came to light after a video of the attack went viral in the social media and the police registered a case against it during the day. In the video her attackers were seen to include women. “The incident took place on September 10 in a very remote tribal area under Nagra outpost along the Assam-Mizoram border.

We came to know of it only after the video was circulated and registered a case today,” Karimganj superintendent of police Gaurav Upadhyay told PTI. The victim did not approach the police but filed a case in the court of the Karimganj chief judicial magistrate yesterday after seeing the video, he said.

After registering the case in the afternoon, a police party visited the village and initiated a probe into the incident.

PM Modi to inaugurate Sikkim Airport Gangtok, Sep 21 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Pakyong Airport in Sikkim on September 24, officials said Friday.

The greenfield airport, located 30 km from here, will put Sikkim on the aviation map of the country.

The Prime Minister will address a public meeting at St Xavier’s School ground in Pakyong after inaugurating the state’s first airport, the officials said.

The Prime Minister is scheduled to arrive at the Bagdogra airport at 4.10 pm on September 23 after which he will board a helicopter from there to fly to Gangtok, the officials said.

The Prime Minister will be received by the Governor of Sikkim Ganga Prasad and state Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling after his arrival in the state, the officials said.

He will stay at Raj Bhawan on September 23 and will inaugurate the Pakyong airport the next day.

The PM’s programme at the airport will begin at

Silk production in Assam to get a boost soon Guwahati, Sep 21 (Agencies): The Centre for Muga, Eri Research and Training Institute, Lahdoigarh here has invented a slew of machines which will help boost production of Assam’s golden silk, Northeast Now reported. Mridul Sarma, scientist D, planning and monitoring cell of the institute said that all three inventions had recently been given patents. One of the machines, a reeling machine named Bani, designed by scientist D, AK Paul, is for weft Muga yarn reeling.

“Bani is a motor cum pedal operated, single basin, 4-end capacity machine and works on cottage basin principle and produces zero twist flat muga yarn suitable for weft in weaving,” Sarma said. Bani can be operated by a single person in sitting posture and productivity is more than double than Bhir, the traditional machine.

Bani reels out 120-140 gram per day against 80-100 g by Bhir which engages two persons. The cost of the machine is Rs.14, 500 (excluding transportation).

The machine can also be used for mulberry cocoon reeling. The amount of reeling achieved is 70 per cent which is 10 per cent higher than Bhir. Sarma said that the silk recovery is 45-50 per cent which is 4 per cent higher as compared to Bhir’. The reeling efficiency achieved is 71 per cent, which is 10 per cent increase over conventional reeling.

proposal to NCST for approval on July 25.

The urgency with which the government has been pushing this proposal can be gauged by the fact that even without a full commission meeting, the NCST deliberated and sent its inprinciple approval to the ministry in August. The proposal was formally approved in the September meeting.

The home ministry has been following the progress of the proposal at each step, according to people aware of the matter. “The urgency attached to the proposal is evident as home ministry is following it up daily,” said an official, who did not wish to be identified. Apart from the reference, the government has made several changes in ST list. The tribe Abor has been removed. In the approved proposal, the tribe Khampti has been included as Tai Khamti. Three tribes (Mishmi, Idu, Taraon) have been expanded to include Mushmi-Kaman (Miju Mishmi), Idu (Mishmi) and Taraon (Digaru Mishmi).

Instead of just one tribe name of Momba, more have been included – Monpa, Memba, Sartang and Sajolong (miji).

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PM Modi will inaugurate the airport on September 24, however, the commercial operation of flights will commence from the airport in the first week of October. (Image: AAI) around 10 am on September 24, a state government official said Friday, adding, that the PM will then address the people at 10.30 am at the St Xavier’s School ground.

From there he will return to the Pakyong airport, board a chopper and fly to Bagdogra.

The Pakyong airport was approved by the Centre in 2008 and was constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 350 crore. The project is being billed as an engineering

marvel -- it has been built at an height of 4,500 feet in an inhospitable terrain.

Once commissioned, it will be the 100th functional airport in the country.

As on date, Sikkim is the only state in the country without a functional airport.

Low-cost airline SpiceJet has been granted permission to fly to Pakyong from Kolkata under the Civil Aviation Ministry’s regional connectivity scheme.

SpiceJet has already

conducted a dry run at the airport with one its Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 aircraft successfully landing there on March 5.

Also in March, A Dornier 228 of the Indian Air Force landed at the airport.

The tourism sector, in particular, is expected to benefit immensely with the opening of the airport other than the economic boon it will bring to the Himalayan state.

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Post-mortem

Vol. XXVIII NO. 287 Dimapur, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Message for society

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hen several thousand express solidarity to come together, it is certainly with a strong reason and to make a point against the kind of brutal and cold blooded murder of late Neiphretuo Metsie-o ABI of 5th NAP after he was virtually abducted by two hitch hikers on September 7, 2018. The mass outpouring of anger was also a pent up emotion of the senseless killings that have affected many families who continue to mourn and left without justice. That was also the message on September 19 in Kohima when thousands of people cutting across various sections of society in Nagaland, went to express solidarity with the grieving family including perhaps several hundred other families who suffered similar tragedy. Naga society has seen and witnessed enough of murder and violence since the past decades. How was this possible, that the two accused were able to move freely after committing the murder when the entire state apparatus including outcry from all tribes of Nagaland, should have resulted in plugging of all routes within Nagaland? The other aspect of the crime has also brought up the issue of public perception versus the Indian Penal Code (IPC) with regard to justice. Public emotions run high whenever some heinous crime is committed. The obvious and natural tendency is to demand death penalty to the perpetrators. However, the IPC awards death penalty only under extreme of circumstances when the crime is deemed to be the “rarest of rarest of case”. In practice courts award death sentence if it fell under “rarest of rare” category- such as whether a murder was committed “in an extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting or dastardly manner so as to arouse intense and extreme indignation of the community”. Every murderer does not get death penalty but generally, in all cases, it is mostly life imprisonment. The Naga family is made up of various tribes, each having their own customary laws as well allegiance etc. Unfortunately, in such matters, the anger often causes inter-tribe friction. Any incident involving one or few from a tribe with one or few from another tribe, should not escalate into a tribal conflict. In contemporary Naga society, intermarriage has solidified inter-tribal understanding and fraternity and accommodation. There are however a minority who espouse tribalism. The hohos and church are provided with a challenging opportunity to focus on the issue of tribalism and decide how they could each work on isolating it from the Naga body. Perhaps, as commented earlier in this column- tribe hohos need to seriously consider what they must do to ensure that harmony within the Naga family is maintained through fairness and enforced with boldness. Whenever a crime is committed by a member of a tribe against a member of another tribe having dangerous repercussions, then the hoho of the offender should act decisively by applying the traditional customary law. Any form of killings under whatever pleas should not be condoned as neither the Bible nor tribal laws accept such. It is from here on that respective tribe politicians and leaders of society need to address the realities and apply their wisdom to see the road ahead.

DailyDevotion The Missionary’s Predestined Purpose Now the Lord says, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant… —Isaiah 49:5 The first thing that happens after we recognize our election by God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our preconceived ideas, our narrow-minded thinking, and all of our other allegiances— we are turned solely into servants of God’s own purpose. The entire human race was created to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Sin has diverted the human race onto another course, but it has not altered God’s purpose to the slightest degree.

And when we are born again we are brought into the realization of God’s great purpose for the human race, namely, that He created us for Himself. This realization of our election by God is the most joyful on earth, and we must learn to rely on this tremendous creative purpose of God. The first thing God will do is force the interests of the whole world through the channel of our hearts. The love of God, and even His very nature, is introduced into us. And we see the nature of Almighty God purely focused in John 3:16— “For God so loved the world….”

We must continually keep our soul open to the fact of God’s creative purpose, and never confuse or cloud it with our own intentions. If we do, God will have to force our intentions aside no matter how much it may hurt.

A missionary is created for the purpose of being God’s servant, one in whom God is glorified. Once we realize that it is through the salvation of Jesus Christ that we are made perfectly fit for the purpose of God, we will understand why Jesus Christ is so strict and relentless in His demands. He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God. Beware lest you forget God’s purpose for your life.

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The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

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Time Nor’easters get digital

t least two Indian States were recently at the receiving end of Mother Nature’s fury, and around the same time.

While one made global headlines, the other barely managed to find any mention in “national” media.

Also, while help poured in from virtually all quarters for one, the other is still left coping with the challenge with its own meagre resources, having been virtually shunned by citizens of this country, the Centre and, of course, aid agencies.

“God’s own country” Kerala and Nagaland (unfortunately, still without a tagline) witnessed unprecedented rainfall this monsoon, leaving a trail of destruction in terms of human lives lost and damage to property and infrastructure.

Over 400 perished and millions were affected in the floods that ravaged Kerala. And no sooner had the word spread about the devastation in the southern Indian State, help poured in from virtually all quarters in terms of rescue, relief and financial aid. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh rushed to the State and announced Rs 100 crore, even as foreign countries, national and international aid agencies made a dash to offer generous help.

There were numerous stories in both “national” and international media about the havoc caused by the century’s worst deluge in Kerala. There were reports galore on the plight of people. Social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc, were flooded with posts highlighting the deluge, with many appealing for contribution.

Meanwhile, almost around the same time, a similar tale of death and destruction was reported

from another part of the country (if not to the north-eastern corner of national consciousness) – Nagaland. The tiny hilly State on the country’s eastern fringe was pounded by one of the heaviest rains in recent human memory.

At least 12 persons died, while several thousands were severely impacted and displaced across the State. Torrents of water gushing in from turbulent mountainous streams and rivers washed away houses, damaged roads and bridges, while landslides at many places led to disruption in transport and communication. Many areas in Eastern Nagaland are still cut off from rest of the country and reportedly facing severe shortage of essential commodities. Even the national highway that connects State Capital Kohima with rest of the country is yet to be fully restored.

But unfortunately, barely a soul moved in other parts of the country as public attention was mostly concentrated on Kerala floods. Forget humanitarian agencies, all that New Delhi has done so far is to send a junior Minister – Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju – to assess the damage in the State. But even he could not tour the affected areas as inclement weather prevented his chopper from making an aerial survey. He left the State within hours after holding a meeting with Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, his Cabinet colleagues and State government officials.

And all that Rijiju offered to Nagaland was an assurance to send a Central team to assess the damage.

Further, while in down south armed forces and disaster response forces chipped in with their men and materials for rescue and relief,

Nagaland was largely left to fend for itself. Only two Indian Air Force choppers were available to airdrop relief materials to the hill State’s far-flung areas even as National and State disaster response forces carried out rescue and relief.

It’s, therefore, not without reason that Rio had to sound an SOS to New Delhi even as lately as on 29th August seeking Central assistance immediately.

No doubt, compared to Nagaland, the scale of devastation in Kerala was overwhelming.

But, when the damage is taken into account in the context of the North-eastern State’s population of 2 million approximately, then it’s huge (Kerala has a population of 33 million approximately). The destruction has now pushed Nagaland behind by a century.

Actually, a calamity is a calamity (human-induced or otherwise) anywhere and yours truly ain’t comparing the two or trying to undermine human tragedies in either State. The idea behind holding up facts is to point out the obvious difference in reactions to both the catastrophes identical in nature.

Of course, this is not the first time that people of a North-eastern State felt “ignored” once again.

The North-eastern States, particularly Assam, are affected by floods every year. But they always feel let down by the kind of response they get from their compatriots elsewhere in the country. And, of course, the reason is not too difficult to decipher – the Northeast, due to its location and the size of its population, is not a priority politically, and hence nationally. So, even the so-called national media too bother to care less.

Nonetheless, with its unlimited scope, the digital space now of-

Protective Thinking: Manipur State is still winning

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he uncertainty on the possible outcome of Naga Peace Talk even after signing the 3rd August Framework Agreement and latest socialpolitical developments happening in Manipur as well as in Nagaland clearly shows that Manipur is still winning in countering the limited progress made by Naga Nationalists.

This article shall highlight how Manipur is still winning in all fronts.

Observers and followers of Naga Peace Talks can easily evaluate on the limited progress made by Naga Nationalist in achieving its political goals by observing the responses of Manipur State Government supported by its loyal state citizens in strongly opposing any possible deal made between GoI and Naga Representatives whenever they suspect the agreement to be surpassing Manipur state existence.

For easy understanding and to know latest updates on the status of Naga Peace Talks, one can begin by analyzing the outcome of June 2001 Imphal Uprising, Mao gate episode and finally the signing of 3rd August Framework Agreement 2015 and its aftermath rumors of extending Article 371 A to the Naga territories of Manipur and the constitutional manner in which Manipur Government deals with Central Government and the Naga Nationalist to keep Manipur integrity intact. Till today, counting from the beginning of Naga National Movement touching the period of 1949 Manipur merger with Union of India, Manipur State government has done quite well in safeguarding the interest of Manipur State where an inch of present Manipur state territory and its area is not decrease in size. What is remarkable is that Manipur state government supported by its loyal citizens by banking on the complex working mechanism of Indian Constitution along with peoples solid support has withstood the continuous attack of Naga Nationalist armed groups and Kuki Nationalist armed groups in breaking up Manipur.

The funnier side is that the Manipur State loyal citizens composed mainly of Meiteis brothers don’t even owned areas of lands except for cases like Jiribam, Moreh etc and few settlements in the hills of Manipur traditionally inhabited

by Nagas and Kukis yet the policies applied by them has till now keep Manipur winning in all front and observing the unchanged mindset of Naga and Kuki decision makers, one can conclude for time being that Manipur will keep winning for longtime from now as they are led by superb organizers and strategists.

While on other side Nagas and Kukis are still ferociously debating on their history by quoting colonial British administrative records and reports not realizing that they share common interest and are meant to be allies if they are serious at all in achieving their political goals in the near future. But loving Christian Nagas and Christian Kukis belonging to the same breed knows only the

language of violence and intimidation, treachery, double standard game and nothing else.

It is open secret that Manipur Government has always capitalized on the historic enmity between Nagas and Kukis of Manipur to protect Manipur state integrity. Naga-Kuki uncompromising attitude has always put Meiteis in advantage and the latest happenings show no sign of any compromise between the two major tribes of Manipur, this reality again confirm that Manipur is still winning.

Keen observers of Naga National Movement know that Manipur is the key battle field apart from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Indian Territory to decide the final outcome of Naga Peace Talks. They also know that Meiteis, Nagas and Kukis are major players in Manipur State politics where the stand of anyone of these ethnic communities determines the nature of its state politics even if the Meiteis love to put Manipuri identity tag to the Nagas and Kukis living in Manipur. In fact such policies implemented by Meitei’s population created more identity crisis for the tribal’s who own and love their own ethnic identity and detest the name ‘Manipuri’ given to them by the mighty Meiteis with aims and objectives to preserve the unity and integrity of the state. Having said this, I also don’t deny that many tribal’s politicians and common people exists who are now more Manipuri and Meitei than the people born into a Ethnic Meitei where these Meiteinized and Manipurinized (for better understanding) tribal populations are extremely loyal to the Manipur State and has contributed immensely in safeguarding the state integrity both in the past and present. Yet as a believer in democratic ideals and constitutional politics, every individual right to decide what he feel is right and good for him has to be respected and I don’t condemn Naga tribal populations who wants to protect Manipur state integrity. In the same line, even Naga decision makers has to give up full dependency on GoI to fulfill its demand and ought to change tactics by engaging in constitutional war after regaining the trust of mass populations to achieve its political goals before the verdict of final defeat hit them sooner or later.

In addition to the recent drama of strikes and public protest carried out in Imphal on Naga Framework Agreement as well on reports of extending Article 371 A in Naga territories of Manipur, the statement of Manipur Chief Minister Mr. N Biren Singh, stating that there was no hurry to summon special session of the state assembly to discuss the Framework Agreement signed between Centre and the NSCN IM since the Parliament had not tabled the matter during the last monsoon session, fully confirms that Manipur is still winning.

Pakinrichapbo (Advocate), Samziuram Village, Peren

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fers a world of infinite possibilities for people of the region to reach out to global audience, especially in times of distress. Among a host of others, one particular reason why Kerala deluge caught the world’s attention was the quantum of coverage in digital world, where the Northeast hardly has any footprint.

So while expatriates from Kerala utilised the digital space to amplify the human tragedy (social media platforms were splattered with posts), people of the region were clearly found lagging in this vital aspect. Forget the Nagas, even those from other North-eastern States barely bothered to effectively magnify the tragedy visited on their brethrens in Nagaland, forget carrying out any online campaign.

Though floodgates of the digital space have opened for quite some time now, the region sadly is yet to capitalise on it properly.

There’s barely a news website in the region that’s run professionally and with proper content, nor user-friendly. Many are just an extension of print or electronic medium and with no instant updates.

Even the State governments of the region are yet to realise its full potential and harness it with policy initiatives. No wonder, search engines like Google or Yahoo throw up endless links to Kerala flood, as opposed to only a handful on Assam or Nagaland deluge.

Digital space has made the world flat. Unlike traditional media, it’s truly democratic, knows no physical barriers and can connect people across the globe instantaneously. Lacking any credible or effective footprint on this medium is a serious drawback. Time Nor’easters realise and tap its full potential to their advantage.

Anirban Choudhury, Guwahati

Coccodiosis in chicken and its preventive measures

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occidiosis is the term applied to the diseased condition caused by infection with one or more of the many species of Coccidia. It is a very common disease in chicken.

There are two species of coccidiosis in chicken such as caecal coccidiosis and intestinal coccidiosis. The disease is more common in growing chicken upto 7 month of age, but older chicken may harbour the infection in chronic form.

Signs and Symptoms in Chicken 1. Huddling together and sometimes chicken stand aloof in corner as they suffer from abdominal pain 2. Ruffled feathers, drooping of wings 3. Pale and droopy plumage 4. Faeces streaked with blood or reddish brown in colour 5. Severe loss of body weight Steps for Prevention and Control 1. Proper cleaning and disinfectant of all feeder, water trough and other equipment and appliances of chicken shed 2. Proper disposal of death birds and used litter material 3. Keep the shed airy and well ventilated, regular turning of litter and weekly changing of litter material 4. Sufficient floor space for every chicken and overcrowding should be avoided 5. Immediate isolation of the diseased chicken from the healthy flock 6. Regular supplement of vitamin and mineral mixture in the diet 7. Once a month use anti-coccidostat drug 8. Periodical faecal examination for any endo- parasitic eggs Veterinary Hospital Kohima

Indian infrastructure: Learnings, challenges, opportunities

ssues around infrastructure creation in India bring to the fore some core themes that are worth analysing. The structure of infrastructure companies, cost over-runs, retail investor exposure to credit funds, and the need to recycle assets to real-money balance sheets are once again in focus given the problems that IL&FS is facing currently.

Firstly, one must assess whether it makes economic sense for infrastructure companies to be publicly listed. Being publicly listed has its advantages in terms of greater scrutiny of financial information and the liquidity available to the company through share sale. Additionally, listed companies have their own stocks which are a “currency” of sorts to attract and retain top talent.

But public listings also mean implicit pressure from the markets for quarterly performance, something an infrastructure business, which is long-dated by its very nature, is not particularly well suited to handle. For all the advantages of being publicly listed, it is worth pondering whether in an Indian context quarterly pressure of results can hinder infrastructure businesses from making the correct decisions keeping the long-term goals in mind. While scrutiny of financial results is crucial, so is the capacity of the infrastructure business to focus on the aim of creating long-dated assets.

A better level of corporate governance is essential for infrastructure businesses, given the scale of investments, the lack of alternative uses of assets once created, and the urgent need to develop such assets. Whether publicly listed or not, overall corporate governance standards need to improve to create a more robust ecosystem.

Secondly, there is the constant debate on the public versus private aspect regarding infra-

structure creation and asset management. The truth is that both are essential. The way forward for India to create the requisite infrastructure both in respect of quantity and quality will require the private sector to work together with the government.

There are issues that a public-sector project or a private sector company face, but this does not necessarily mean that there is a fundamental issue with all such projects and companies.

Transparency and effective policies will be crucial. Project-wise analysis is required to determine as to who is better placed to take care of the three essential components of each project, i.e., Build, Operate and Finance.

Given the complexity of infrastructure assets, a “one size fits all” solution will not work. While issues around land acquisition and the time required for approvals have seen improvement over the years, India needs to ensure that such problems continue to receive constant attention. The issues above are generic to the infrastructure sector regardless of the ownership of the asset.

Thirdly, to boost infrastructure creation and credit flow one needs to have a more efficient process with regards to credit risk pricing. Credit ratings must reflect the embedded credit risk to enable the higher flow of credit into the sector. For instance, a rating should ideally move through downgrades and upgrades in notches to reflect the gradual re-pricing of credit risk. Such credit systems provide the investor base with greater confidence in both the rating system and the credit quality of the underlying market.

A jump in credit rating indentation over multiple notches over a short span of time tends to imply that the credit risk in the system isn’t being priced at the right pace. To further enable

efficient and constant re-pricing of ratings to reflect credit risk a secondary market in credit products must develop. Only with a secondary market for credit products can credit genuinely be priced and assessed by the markets.

Fourthly, the investor base for the financing of infrastructure assets deserves attention. On the retail mutual fund side, the credit funds that have invested in infrastructure have provided the sector with much-needed capital and retail investors with an opportunity to earn attractive returns. But till a secondary market for credit products develops in India to aid credit risk pricing, retail investors will need greater education on what returns and risks infrastructure assets present. Short-term liquidity in a fundamentally illiquid investment may not always be easy to come by.

On the institutional investor side, the need for more “real money” (pension funds and insurance companies) investors cannot be over-emphasised. A greater share of infrastructure assets in India must be on balance sheets that hold the assets to generate returns to match liabilities, and not from a pure financial return perspective. The ability of a “real money” investor who has a longterm horizon of 20 years or so to manage short-term revenue fluctuations from an asset is far greater than it is for a financial investor with a much shorter time horizon.

Issues that infrastructure creation faces present us with opportunities to learn and implement solutions. An iterative process that continually imbibes new learning is essential for India to create the required infrastructure that a rapidly growing economy will need in the decades to come.

(IANS) Taponeel Mukherjee

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Electricity going bad to worse

Despite complaints from many denizens in local dailies expressing resentment over irregular electricity in Dimapur, it has been going bad to worse. In many parts of the city, there are scheduled power cuts; however, citizens were made to toil in the humidity and darkness with humidity taking its peak, even during unscheduled power cuts. I would once again like to appeal the concerned authorities to restore electricity at the earliest.

Tia Lkr, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur

Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

National/state

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

India calls off Swaraj-Qureshi meeting, says Imran Khan’s ‘true face’ exposed

NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (PTI): Barely 24 hours after agreeing to the engagement, the gover nment Friday called off a meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan in New York, citing the brutal killings of three policemen in Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad releasing postage stamps “glorifying” Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani.

Announcing the cancellation of the meeting, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the incidents “exposed” the “true face” of Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan to the world as well as Islamabad’s evil agenda behind the proposal for talks.

India yesterday accepted Khan’s request for a meeting between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month.

“The latest brutal killings of our security personnel by Pakistan-based entities and the recent release of a series of 20 postage stamps

by Pakistan glorifying a terrorist and terrorism confirm that Pakistan will not mend its ways,” Kumar said.

He said both the “deep-

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ly disturbing” developments took place after yesterday’s announcement by India to accept Pakistan’s proposal for the meeting.

However, according to media reports in Pakistan, 20 postage stamps on J-K, and “glorifying” Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani were released on July 24 this year. Three policemen were abducted from their homes in south Kashmir’s Shopian district and shot dead in cold blood by the Hizbul Mujahideen Friday.

Following the incident, opposition parties criticised the government and asked it to explain the rationale behind accepting such a meeting when Pakistan-based terror outfits are killing Indian security personnel along the border in J&K. Kumar said India’s decision to agree to Pakistan’s proposal for the meeting was in response to the spirit

reflected in separate letters from Khan and Qureshi.

“The letter from the Prime Minister of Pakistan had spoken of, inter alia, bringing a positive change and mutual desire for peace as also readiness to discuss terrorism.

“Now, it is obvious that behind Pakistan’s proposal for talks to make a fresh beginning, the evil agenda of Pakistan stands exposed and the true face of the new Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has been revealed to the world in his first few months in office,” he said.

The MEA spokesperson said any conversation with Pakistan in such an environment would be “meaningless”.

“In view of the changed situation, there will be no meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan in New York,” he said.

Reacting to India’s decision, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi alleged that there is a group in New Delhi that does not want talks to happen.

Qureshi was also quoted by the Express Tribune as saying that India has not responded positively to Pakistan’s invitation for dialogue.

“It seems that India is already preparing for its elections due in the country next year...Pakistan had asked for the talks in the larger interest of the region,” the report further quoted him as saying.

The Swaraj-Qureshi meeting would have been the first such high-level engagement between the two sides since suspension of dialogue between the two nations after the Pathankot air base terror attack in 2016. India-Pakistan ties have nose-dived since then in view of a number of terror strikes by Pakistan-based groups.

India retaliated by carrying out ‘surgical strikes’ in September 2016 across the Line of Control (LoC).

India has been maintaining that terror and talks cannot go together.

Accepting the proposal for the meeting, India had, however, made it clear that it was not resumption of dialogue and the decision doesn’t change the country’s position on cross-border terrorism.

India’s acceptance had also come a day after the killing and slitting of throat of a BSF jawan in Jammu, for which the security force lodged a protest with Pakistan Rangers, terming the act as “unsoldierly”.

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NSDMA warns against unauthorized mock drills

DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) has informed the public and educational institution to be wary of impersonators carrying out unauthorized mock drills/ training in the name of disaster management authority.

In a circular, the secretary NSDMA, Rovilatuo Mor, stated that recently an incident had occurred at Koval Kalaimagal college of Arts &Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, where an impersonator claiming to be a training officer of the disaster management authority Tamil Nadu led to a fatal head injury to one student.

Mor said the impersonator with fake letter head of NDMA, logo and address, conducted an ill prepared emergency response drill, where students were asked to jump from the second floor on a net which led to the death of one student.

Neither National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) nor NSDMA authorized any private person or organization to carry out mock drills/ training on its behalf, Mor said.

It has been cautioned that any person or institution claiming to be representing NDMA or NSDMA should be verified with state disaster management authority.

The public have been requested to avoid such similar scams/false representation in the future.

Parrikar govt on course to ‘die natural death’: Goa Cong was formed by those who sold the ideology and sentiments of the voters for their greed for power and money,” Chellakumar told PTI. “We will form the next government in Goa by taking into consideration the ideology of the party and also the interests of Goans,” he said.

“I cannot reveal the time frame by which the government will be in Chellakumar place. Within the frame- we will form the governwork of ideology and the ment,” Chellakumar said. interest of the people, He, however, refused to

PIL in SC challenging Article 370 granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (PTI): A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament’s power to make laws concerning the state.

The plea has said the special provision was “temporary” in nature at the time of framing of the Constitution and Article 370(3) lapsed with the dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly on January 26, 1957. The plea, filed by Delhi BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, also seeks a declaration from the apex court that the separate Constitution of

Jammu and Kashmir was “arbitrary” and “unconstitutional” on grounds, including that it was against the “supremacy of the Constitution of India and contrary to dictum of ‘One Nation, One Constitution, One National Anthem and One National Flag’”.

“The Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir is invalid mainly for the reason that the same has not yet got the assent of the President, which is mandatory as per provisions of the Constitution of India,” the plea, which may come up for hearing next week, said. The petition, filed Thursday through advocate R D Upadhyay, claims that the maximum life span of Article 370 was only till the existence of the

Governments had no say in Rafale offset decision: Defence Ministry

NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (IANS): Amid media reports of former French President Francois Hollande claiming that the Indian government suggested a particular private firm for Rafale offset contract, the Defence Ministry on Friday reiterated that neither government had any say in the “commercial decision”.

“The report referring to former French president Mr. Hollande’s statement that government of India insisted upon a particular firm as offset partner for the Dassault Aviation in Rafale is being verified,” the Defence Ministry said

in a tweet.

“It is reiterated that neither government of India nor French government had any say in the commercial decision,” it said.

Hollande has been quoted by an article in French website “Mediapart” as claiming that the Indian government had asked the French government to nominate Reliance Defence as its India partner in the Rafale jet offset deal.

“We did not have a say in this,” Hollande was quoted by the website as saying.

“The Indian government proposed this service group and Dassault negotiated with Ambani.”

Constituent Assembly, that was January 26, 1950 when the national document was adopted.

divulge his party’s strategy to garner support of other MLAs. The Congress has 16 MLAs in the 40-member Goa Assembly.

The Congress leader put to rest apprehensions that the party was not united, these having risen because two of its MLAs -- Jeniffer Monserratte and Philip Neri Rodrigues -- are currently travelling abroad while the party is staking claim to form a government. “The two are out of station but they have gone with the knowl-

edge of the Congress party.

When there will be need, when we will form the government in the interest of Goans, I don’t think any Congress MLA will abstain or leave the party,” he claimed. “Today the mood and sentiment of the people in Goa is such that they want the Parrikar government to go,” he claimed.

Ruling out any leadership crisis in the Congress, Chellakumar said that the party would name a leader at an opportune time.

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PANAJI, SEP 21 (PTI): The Manohar Parrikar government in Goa is on course to “die a natural death” and the Congress will form the next government in the state, the opposition party’s state in-charge A Chellakumar claimed Friday.

He, however, refused to say by when the Congress expected to wrest power in the coastal state.

“The Manohar Parrikar-led government is on course to die a natural death. The government

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Furthermore, UG/ PG students who have applied for Merit-cum-means based scholarship for Minority Communities under Ministry of Minority Affairs, GOI from National Scholarship portal are also advised to apply under this scheme as there are fixed quota under Minority Scholarship Scheme. However it may be noted that a student will be entitled to one scholarship only. Applicants of Minority (Renewal) whose applications have been defected from the State level for various reasons are also advised to apply afresh.

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Shah accuses Rahul Gandhi of supporting ‘urban Naxals’

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RAIPUR, SEP 21 (PTI): BJP president Amit Shah Friday accused Congress chief Rahul Gandhi of supporting “urban Naxals” plotting to assassinate the prime minister and asked him to clarify his stand on the issue to people in pollbound Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

S h a h ’s c o m m e n t s come in the wake of the Maharashtra police arresting five human rights activists late last month for their alleged links with Maoists.

Addressing party workers, Shah also mocked Gandhi, calling him “Rahul baba” and saying he is “day-dreaming” about the Congress’ victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, BJP-ruled states where elections are due by year-end.

He said “Rahul Gandhi and company” were supporting “urban Naxals” plotting to assassinate the prime minister. “Shouldn’t those who were plotting to assassinate the prime minister be arrested?” Shah asked. “Rahul baba should make his stand clear on the issue of urban Naxals to the people of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,” he said. He exhorted workers in Chhattisgarh to

ensure that the party wins more than 65 seats in the 90-member assembly in the state and the Congress is decimated. Anything below the target of 65 seats should not be considered a win, the BJP chief said.

The saffron outfit currently has 49 MLAs in the state, where it has been in power since 2003.

Mocking Gandhi for predicting a Congress win in the three poll-bound states, Shah said, “Rahul baba is dreaming in broad daylight with his eyes open.” The BJP chief also highlighted the achievements of the Narendra Modi government in the last four years.

“Since 2014 when Narendra Modi became PM, the Congress has lost each and every state election.

You (Rahul) ask us what the BJP has done in fourand-a-half years...

“Our government is working for the poor, youth and farmers who were neglected during your family rule. When Pakistan-based terrorists attacked us, (then PM) Manmohan Singh remained quiet. But, under Modi, our security forces conducted surgical strikes after Uri attack,” Shah said.

TPO appeals govt to assist calamity affected people DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): Tenyimi Peoples’ Organisation (TPO) has expressed concern over the hardship being faced by people following massive landslides and cutting-off of road connectivity in the state.

In an open letter to the government of Nagaland, TPO president, Timikha Koza and general secretary, Vipopal Kintso expressed solidarity with the people in many areas of Nagaland, who have been struggling to cope with insurmountable losses and difficult situations.

While appreciating the role of government and a large number of people doing their best to mitigate and take control of the situation, the TPO, however, said there could be pockets where people were suffering but were overlooked.

According to TPO, two areas in Meluri subdivision (Kamaleah and Phokungri) were also totally cut-off besides suffering massive destruction of fields.

However, it said only two villages had received relief materials so far. It said other affected villages include Kanjang, Akhen, Reguri, Mollen, Lutsam, Washelo, New Thewati, Old Thewati and Avankho.

In this regard, the TPO has appealed to the government to take stock of the situation in those areas and reach out with necessary assistance.

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CORRIGENDUM/ADDENDUM In continuation to Nagaland Public Service Commission’s Advt NO.NPSC-2/2018 dt 21st August 2018, applications are invited for filling up the following vacancies under the Government of Nagaland.

Research Associate (RA) under SCERT No. of post(s) No. of post(s) Educational Item No. with subject reserved for BT Qualifications 1(one) post of M.A (Linguistics), Item No. 45 Linguistics PGDTE, B.Ed. 1(one) post of 1(one) post reserved for M.Sc in Chemistry Item No. 46 Chemistry Physically Handicapped with B.Ed Scale of pay: Item No 45-46: 15,600-39,100/- +GP 5,400/1. Item No 32: The educational qualification for 1(one) post of RA Mathematics under SCERT may be read as M.Sc Mathematics with B.Ed as communicated through letter No.DSE/SCERT/Requisition/33/2011/757 dt 18th September 2018. Candidates fulfilling the educational qualification may apply for Item No.32 Only.

2. In pursuance of letter No. HTE/7-1/2003(Pt) dt. 20th September, 2018, the following clarifications are hereby notified: a) The standard criteria for determining competency in computer application with respect to the 5(five) posts of Sr. Technicians (Item No’s 18-22) will be Diploma course in Computer Science. Consequent upon the Department’s clarification, candidates having the requisite qualification may apply and for those who have already applied may submit their diploma certificates. b) The examination syllabus to be followed pertaining to 1(one) posts each of Physics (PG Programme) and Mathematics (For PG Programme) will be the same as followed under Common Educational Services Examination.

Note: 1. For Item No.45 Research Associate (Linguistics) under SCERT, selected candidate who does not possess B.Ed will be required to complete B.Ed course through IGNOU/ UGC Recognized correspondence course within a period of 3 years at their own expense beyond which they will not be eligible for further increment/promotion to higher grade. Preference will be given to candidates with B.Ed. 2. For Applications submitted by registered post for Item No’s 18-22, 32, 45 & 46, a relaxation of 7(seven) days is granted, provided it is posted on or before the last date of submission and addressed to the Secretary, NPSC. 3. Candidates who have already submitted their application form and wishing to apply for item No’s 18-22,32, 45 & 46 may write an application addressed to the Secretary, NPSC clearly indicating the order of preference and submit the same before the closing date.

4. Application Forms will not be issued from the office of the Commission.

5. Candidates are advised to go through the detailed advertisement from the Commission’s notice board or website at www.npsc.co.in. Incomplete application forms in any respect will be summarily rejected and no complaints/requests for rectification shall be entertained under any circumstances.

6. Other terms and conditions of the advertisement remain the same.

7. The last date for submission of application form for Item No’s 18-22, 32, 45 & 46 is 6th Oct, 2018 at 3:00 pm.

(THEPFURIENYU GEORGE KIRE) Controller of Examinations, Nagaland Public Service Commission Kohima.

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Mumbai, Sep 21 (PTI): India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 1.207 billion to USD 400.489 billion in the week to September 14 on account of increase in foreign currency assets, according to RBI data.

In the previous week, forex reserves had declined

by USD 819.5 million to USD 399.282 billion.

In the reporting week, foreign currency assets, a major component of the overall reserves, increased

by USD 1.055 billion to USD 376.154 billion, as per RBI data.

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Forex reser ves had touched a record high of USD 426.028 billion in the week to April 13, 2018, but have been declining since then. According to forex analysts, the dip in reserves is on account of RBI’s intervention in forex reserves to stem fall in the rupee.

Gold reserves rose by USD 144 million to USD 20.378 billion in the reporting week. The special drawing rights with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) rose by USD 2.8 million to USD 1.478 billion.

The country’s reserve position with the IMF also increased by USD 4.9 million to USD 2.478 billion, the apex bank said.

ity, safety and economy in our operation.”

“This award is also the recognition of capability, quality-consciousness and aspirations of industrial units of entire North-East.

Now, the rest of India has realised that industries of North East are no less competent than many others who have far better locational and cost advantages,” Goenka added.

Industries in Assam have so many impediments like high cost of power, high logistic cost and some other practical impediments but “if due support from government is made available, industries of North-East can fare much better and can compete with national players in quality & consistency,” Goenka concluded.

Market crash wipes out Rs 5.6 L crore from investor wealth

New Delhi, Sep 21 (PTI): As the equity market plunged for the fourth day in a row, where the BSE benchmark index plummeted over 1,100 points in afternoon trade on Friday, investor wealth witnessed an erosion of a whopping Rs 5.6 lakh crore in four days.

The 30-share index cracked 1,127.58 points, or three per cent, to hit an intra-day low of 35,993.64 on Friday. It, however recovered most of the losses within minutes of the fall.

There were wild swings in the market, with the BSE Sensex finally settling at 36,841.60, down 279.62 points or 0.75 per cent.

“Nifty and Sensex were down due to widespread

selling that was seen in the financial services sector as credit risk emerged postILFS firesale and concern over its interest repayment.

Yes Bank added fuel as RBI trimmed the CEO’s term,” said Mustafa Nadeem, CEO, Epic Research.

In four days, the index has lost 1,249.04 points. Following the weak sentiment, the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies slumped Rs 5,66,187.15 crore to Rs 1,50,70,832 crore on Friday.

From the 30-share pack, 17 stocks ended with losses led by YES Bank, which crashed 28.71 per cent, dragging the benchmark index. Shares of housing finance firms fell sharply

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on Friday, with Dewan Housing Finance tumbling 42.43 per cent.

“Housing finance companies nosedived on the basis of rumours of liquidity crunch which caused the stocks to fall up to 50 per cent. However, the stocks are fundamentally sound, but herd mentality had caused the sudden panic in these stocks, however, they have recovered from their day’s low,” said Jimeet Modi, founder and CEO of Samco Securities & StockNote.

On BSE, 2,106 stocks declined and 586 advanced, while 148 remained unchanged. More than 450 stocks hit their 52-week low levels on Friday.

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levy any retaliatory duties in response to the US sanctions on steel and aluminium importing countries. Instead, we had positive discussions with our US counterparts.”

Addressing the convention, minister of state for corporate affairs P P Chaudhary said that American cooperation in this field of science and technology will catalyse India’s startup ecosystem.

The minister also said that the collaboration in information technology, nanoand gene-editing technology will have positive impact on the country’s education sector.

Chaudhary said both India and the US are committed to clean energy, adding, “We are also looking forward to full implementation of the civil nuclear energy partnership and collaboration between Nuclear Power Cooperation of India Limited and Westinghouse Electric Company for the establishment of six nuclear power plants in India.”

Once operational, these power plants will go a long way in solving the country’s energy woes and will also help in the conservation of environment, he added.

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Dimapur, Sep 21 (NPN): KD Iron & Steel Co. Guwahati, manufacturers of XTECH TMT BARS was awarded “Certificate of Appreciation” by the Ministry of steel, Government of India at a function in New Delhi on September 13.

The award was conferred by Union Minister of Steel, Chaudhary Birender Singh at an award ceremony held at Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra for excellence and consistency in quality of their products and contribution in the steel production in North-East.

Dilip Goenka, Managing Partner, KD Iron & Steel Co, speaking after receiving the award said that “The award will further encourage to achieve greater standard of efficiency, qual-

Suresh Prabhu said a vital India-US strategic commercial dialogue will be held in New Delhi in December this year.

“We will have detailed discussion on how to strengthen the commerce tie-up and chart future agenda for both the nations,” said Prabhu.

The government has identified some key industries and sectors where it can work in tandem with the US and utilise their high-end technology, the minister said.

Stating that a new industrial policy will be unveiled soon, Prabhu said a key thrust in the proposed policy is to reduce regulatory hurdles and encourage adoption of technologies of the future such as artificial intelligence and robotics.

Once the new policy comes into effect, it will replace the Industrial Policy of 1991, he added.

Reiterating that India is aiming to become a USD 5-trillion economy in the next seven to eight years, he said that it is expected to be doubled to USD 10 trillion by 2035.

Noting that relationship with the US is extremely critical for India, the minister said, “India’s response was measured and it did not

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D IMAPUR , S EP 2 1 (NPN): A regional seminar on ‘Investor Education’ was organized by Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in collaboration with Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) at Hotel Acacia on Friday.

Regional director, ERO, SEBI, S Madhusudhanan spoke on the roles and responsibilities on SEBI. He advised investors to take into consideration the regulator of security markets before investing, pointing out that the four main financial regulators are Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA), Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRADA), Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Secu-

rity and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). If security markets are not regulated by these bodies, it will become difficult for an investor to take a legal recourse in case of any discrepancies or fraud, he added.

S Madhusudhanan also assured investors that SEBI as a globally reputed financial regulatory body has taken care of the protection of investor interests, promoted and regulated security markets. He also pointed out how saving should not be confused with investment, stating that while money piles up in saving, it is put to work in investment. Also, people who only save fail to see the math, but those who invest know the power of compounding and the difference between price and value, he added.

Mumbai, Sep 21 (PTI): Seeking greater access to Indian market for trade and investment, the United States Thursday said this would encourage the collaboration on many emerging technologies that will protect and drive the economies of the two nations.

Addressing the fourth edition of the annual convention of the Indo-America Chamber of Commerce (IACC), US Ambassador to India Kenneth I Juster said India can seize the strategic opportunity, through trade and investment, to become an alternative hub for US business in the Indo-Pacific region.

“Further opening India’s market to US trade and investment will spur our collaboration on many emerging technologies that will drive and protect our economies, including those related to advanced manufacturing, cyber security, and artificial intelligence,” he said.

The annual convention theme for IACC this year is ‘Indo-US economic relations-building a durable partnership’.

Stressing on the critical importance of the United States as a strategic trade partner for India, commerce and industries minister

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(L) Deputy chief executive, AMFI, Balkrishna Kini. (R) Regional director, ERO, SEBI, S Madhusudhanan. (NP)

Deputy chief executive, AMFI, Balkrishna Kini spoke on “Investor awareness and mutual funds” cleared the false notion that investment in Mutual Funds is not based on intuition alone but it is a highly scientific process that requires a lot of study. He added that Mutual Funds do not invest in properties and other assets but on stocks and debentures that are on the ‘white list’. He also stressed on how SEBI has helped protect investors’ interests, regulate and develop the market.

President and country head, retail and investor management, UTI Mutual Fund, Debashish Mohanty lamented of how in a country of 1.35 billion, 98.5 people have not made any investments in mutual funds and less than 1.5 have invested. Dwelling on the importance of mutual funds, he stated, investments in mutual funds give individuals a democratized access to the prosperity of the market in the most efficient way and under the regulation of SEBI. When it comes to the country, it ensures optimal utilization of scarce resources, he added. Also, urging people to invest, he said fortune lies in business.

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136 killed in Tanzania ferry disaster London, Sep 21 (Agencies): At least 136 people have died after a ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, officials say.

Many are missing and it is feared that more than 200 people in total may have drowned. Rescue efforts resumed on Friday after being halted overnight, BBC reported.

The MV Nyerere ferry overturned near Ukara island on its way from Bugorora.

It is thought the overloaded vessel tipped over when crowds on board moved to one side as it docked.

The BBC’s Aboubakar Famau in Tanzania says fear has gripped residents of the Mwanza region as they wait to hear the fate of relatives who travelled on the MV Nyerere on Thursday.

“I received a call telling me that I have lost my aunt, father and my younger brother,” says Editha Josephat Magesa, a local resident. “We are really saddened and urge the government to provide a new ferry because the old one was small and the population is big.”

Our reporter says the

Volunteers have been helping rescue efforts.

ferry’s engines were recently replaced after local MP Joseph Mkundi complained about the previous ones.

Local media say the ferry’s official capacity was 100 people, but officials say the vessel was carrying more than 400 passengers when it capsized.

It operates on a busy route, crossing eight times a day between the islands of Ukara and Ukwerewe, which are close to Tanzania’s second-largest city of Mwanza.

The ferry was said to have been particularly busy because it was market day in Bugorora, on Ukerewe

island.

The vessel was also carrying cargo, including bags of cement and maize, when it capsized around 50 metres from the shore.

It is thought that many of the passengers would not have been able to swim.

An official investigation will take place once rescue efforts to find survivors have ended.

Tanzania’s police chief Simon Sirro Mwanza, who has travelled to the area, confirmed the new death toll. So far, 40 people have been rescued and are in critical condition, according to Mwanza Regional Commis-

sioner John Mongella. Local officials initially reported on Thursday that 100 people had been rescued.

Exact figures, though, are yet to be confirmed - Reuters said the person who dispensed tickets for the journey also died, with the machine recording the data lost.

Tanzania has seen a number of nautical disasters, with overcrowding often playing a role.

In 2012, at least 145 people died when a packed ferry sank while transporting people to the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean.

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2 Sri Lanka’s oppn MPs suspended from Parliament

No ‘deal’ with Saudi for release of Sharifs from jail: Pak Minister

Colombo, Sep 21 (PTI): Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Friday voted to suspend two of its Opposition members for misbehaving and insulting Speaker Karu Jayasuriya in July.

The motions against Wimal Weerawansa and Prasanna Ranaweera were adopted by majority vote for their suspension for two weeks. They were part of a parliamentary fracas in the mid July when they raised the issue of alleged violation of the constitution by a Tamil state minister.

Both the members of the Joint Opposition were found to have led a rumpus in the Parliament on July 3 when the House discussed an allegedly inflammatory statement made by MP Vijayakala Maheswaran regarding the the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a banned terrorist organisation.

The two backers of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa were accused of the bad behaviour while disobeying the orders of the speaker. Weerawansa, Ranaweera and other Opposition members moved Jayasuriya to suspend her from parliament.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 21 (PTI): There was no “deal” between the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for the release of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members after a top court suspended their sentences in a corruption case, a senior Pakistani minister has asserted.

The Islamabad High Cour t Wednesday suspended the jail sentences of Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar in the Avenfield corruption case and they were released from the Adiala Prison in Rawalpindi.

“No country asked for his release. Nawaz Sharif is not so important for Saudi Arabia that they will talk about him,” Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry said, rejecting the impression that the three-time former premier and his family members were released from jail under a “deal” between the Imran Khan-led government and Riyadh.

The Islamabad High Court’s verdict, ordering the release of the trio coincided with Prime Minister Khan’s visit to Saudi Arabia, giv-

ing rise to speculation that the Sharif family members’ release was a result of the Saudis’ request, the Dawn newspaper reported.

But the report recalled that Saudi Arabia was a guarantor in a deal between the Sharif family and then military dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf in 2000 under which the Sharifs were released from jail and allowed to leave the country.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia enjoy close relations and whenever a leader wins an election in Pakistan, the first visit is always to the Gulf nation.

Nawaz Sharif never came under discussion during Prime Minister Khan’s visit to Saudi Arabia where he had meetings with the oil-rich kingdom’s rulers, Chaudhry said.

“He is not that important to be discussed during that visit,” he claimed.

“Those who say that Saudi Arabia would have talked [about Sharif during Prime Minister Khan’s visit] actually don’t know what kind of relationship the Saudis have with Nawaz Sharif,” the minister said Thursday without elaborating.

“There will be no deal and no dheel (concession) with them (the Sharifs),” Chaudhry declared, adding that soon “they will be back to the place where they had been a few days back”.

On July 6, an accountability court in Islamabad sentenced Sharif, Maryam and Safdar, to 10 years, seven years and one year in jail, respectively, in connection with the purchase of four luxury flats in London through corrupt practices.

“Nawaz Sharif will be in and out of jail. This thing will continue,” he said, adding that the Sharifs had only been granted bail and the case was still pending against them.

“Those who were questioning the government for putting the names of the Sharifs on the Exit Control List (ECL) would have got the answer now.

“Had we not done so, they could have flown to London soon after their release, and where would we have looked for these princes then?” the minister said, justifying the decision of the Cabinet to place the names of the Sharifs on the ECL during its first meeting last month.

2 more Chilean bishops resign over abuse Lift sanctions or face consequences: China warns US VATICAN CITY, Sep 21 (Agencies): Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignations of two more bishops in Chile, as fallout mounted from widespread sex abuse scandals there, Fox News reported.

Without citing reasons, the Vatican said the latest to leave their posts were the bishops of San Bartolome de Chillan, Monsignor Carlos Eduardo Pellegrin Barrera, and of San Felipe, Monsignor Cristian Enrique Contreras Molina.

E a r l i e r t h i s ye a r, Chile’s bishops submitted offers to resign en masse to Francis, in response to his belated crackdown on pedophile priests, other sex abuse by clergy there and Chilean church hierarchy’s cover-ups of the wrongdoing.

Friday’s announce-

ment raised to seven the number of bishops so far whose resignations Francis has accepted in recent months.

To guide the dioceses for now that Pellegrin Barrera and Contreras Molina had been leading, Francis appointed apostolic administrators.

The Chillan diocese was one of four raided by Chilean authorities last week in investigations of clergy’s sexual abuse of minors and the hierarchy’s alleged cover-ups.

Rank-and-file faithful in Chile have been pressing for the removal from the bishop’s post of Pellegrin Barrera, 60, who prosecutors recently have said is under investigation for alleged sexual abuse.

In one of his private audiences Friday, Francis met at the Vatican with the

Imran misleading everyone: Kashmiri activists at UN Geneva (Switzerland), Sep 21 (Agencies): Referring to the recently elected Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan as ‘Taliban Khan’, human right activists told the United Nations Thursday that Islamabad is misleading international community, Zeenews reported.

“Now, with the new government in Pakistan, the situation is going to be bad to worse because of Imran Khan. Although he went to Oxford, going to Oxford doesn`t make any difference.

He is called as `Taliban Khan` because a man who can give Rs. 30 crore from the official budget of the KPK (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) to madrasas, which is known as Taliban university, you can see how much he has given unofficially. And how much support he is giving it to these fundamentalist groups, whose duty is to kill or convert people,” human rights activist from Pakistanoccupied Kashmir (PoK) Dr Shabir Choudhry said during an event on the sidelines of the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Session in Geneva. Other PoK activists expressed concern over growing extremism and terrorist activities in the PoK. “PoK has remained a hub of terrorism for decades.

Pakistan`s agencies have created terrorists` infrastructure in the area to carry out terrorist activities in other parts of the Kashmir. It has become a launching pad,”

said Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, exiled chairman of United Kashmir People`s National Party. “We have complete information that Pakistan has not changed its policies, it is merely statements by them to mislead the international community, but terrorist camps are running under the patronage of state of Pakistan,” he added.

“They have got a license to intimidate and frighten people. If need to be, they kill them,” said Dr Choudhry while referring to ongoing protests in Muzaffarabad and other parts of PoK against Pakistan`s exploitation of water resources in the region. The construction of NeelumJhelum hydropower project on River Neelum has created environmental issues and severe water crisis in the capital Muzaffarabad.

“When the tunnels were opened to divert the flow of Neelum River, we raised the issue at the United Nations citing that it will impact the life of people in Muzaffarabad. But, Pakistanis have called it propaganda by India, but now the people of Muzaffarabad have realised the truth as their life is getting destroyed day by day,” Kashmiri said.

Kashmiri added, “Not only in Muzaffarabad, but protests are also happening in Rawalakot, Tararkhel, Kotli and other areas, which has taken a shape of a movement `Save Neelum River, Save Muzaffarabad`.

archbishop of Concepcion, another of the recently raided dioceses.

The pontiff has acknowledged that he had underestimated the pervasiveness of pedophile priests and other church abuse in Chile.

BishopAccountability. org, a U.S.-based organization that keeps track of allegations and investigations of clerical sex abuse investigations and coverups worldwide, says that in 2014, Chilean church leaders announced that the Vatican was investigating Contreras Molina for alleged sexual abuse.

It said the prelate denied the allegations, and later that year, the Vatican declared him innocent, according to the diocese, and civil prosecutor threw out the case for lack of evidence.

Beijing, Sep 21 (Agencies): Beijing on Friday told the US to be ready to “bear the consequences” if Washington didn’t remove the sanctions it has imposed on a key Chinese military agency, set up by President Xi Jinping recently, for buying Russian weapons, Hindustan Times reported.

The US action violated the basic principles of international relations, the ministry of foreign affairs (MFA), Geng Shuang said.

“We strongly urge the US to immediately correct their mistake and withdraw their so-called sanctions, otherwise the US will have to bear the consequences,” Geng warned.

The US State Department said Thursday it was placing financial sanctions on the Equipment Development Department (EDD)

The sanctions relate to China’s purchase of 10 Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets.

of the Chinese Ministry of Defence recently purchasing Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets and S-400 surface-to-air missiles.

The latest round of military sanctions by the US against China deepens

the diplomatic hostility between the world’s two largest economies already grappling with the escalating tit-for-tat trade tariff war.

In a Thursday statement, the US State Depart-

ment said that the sanctions had been invoked under Section 231 of Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 (CAATSA) “for engaging in significant transactions with persons on the

[List of Specified Persons].

“These transactions involved Russia’s transfer to China of [Russian Sukhoi] Su-35 combat aircraft and S-400 surface-to-air missile system-related equipment.”

China’s reaction was swift and sharp.

What made it more so was because the EDD was set up by Xi in 2016 under the Central Military Commission, the powerful Communist party body that controls the massive Chinese military apparatus.

The EDD’s primary aim is to improve China’s military tech and procurement.

“The Chinese side expresses strong indignation over the above-mentioned unreasonable practices of the US side,” Geng said at the regular MFA regular press briefing.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Forum for disabled formed in Mkg

Members of the newly formed Mokokchung District Disabled Forum, on September 21.

(L-R): Acharya during the interaction with villagers at the landslide area near Yai Bridge. The Governor interacting with students DIMAPUR: A Mokokchung District Disabled of Yangphi School, Kiphire. (NP) People’s Forum (MDDPF) Correspondent the trading community. tailoring community at Kip- the villagers. Then he visited Singrep villagers and Sumi was formed on September This was followed by an- hire town.

Phelungre Village (Sangtam community members, fol- 21, at Care & Support Acharya later visited village) and donated a high lowed by songs from local Society office, under the Kiphire, sep 21 (NPN): other meeting with heads artists of Kiphire.

On Friday, the second day of departments at the DC’s the landslide area near Yai voltage generator. initiative of Care & SupA grand dinner proHowever, his visit to port Society, Mokokchung of his two day visit to Kip- Confrence Hall to review Bridge which is more than hire district, Governor PB the overall development of 40 kms away from Kiphire gram was organized at GA the International Trade and Grace Society, ChangAcharya visited Daily Mar- Aspirational district Kip- Town and he interacted with guest house in the evening Center at Mimi was can- tongya. ket Kiphire in the morning hire. The Governor also nearby villagers on the spot with entertainment such celled. He is likely to visit A press release from and held a meeting with met representatives of the and donated some cash to as folk songs presented by Pungro town on Saturday. Care and Support Soci-

ety, managing director Imchawati Kichu said the program was attended by Disabled People’s Organization members.

The president of AKM, graced the Foundation Day program. He expressed his gratitude for including him as an advisory board member of the MDDPF. He prom-

ised his cooperation to the forum. The MDDPF will comprise of five office bearers and nine executive members. The members of the forum also expressed optimism that with its foundation, they could look forward to a bright future for the disabled people under Mokokchung district.

City College Arts & Commerce holds 11th freshers’ meet Tourism deptt condemned vehicles prematurely: PDR

conveyed its invitation to all present and former Chakhesang legislators, frontal organizations, former CPO officials, CPO affiliated unit presidents and colleagues to be part of the program.

It is compolsury for the VCCs and colleagues, VDB secretaries and its members, GBs, pastors of Chakhesang inhabited villages to attend the program with not less than five members from each village. A CPO executive council meeting will be held on September 28 at the CMHSS, Phek, 6 pm onwards and all the concerned members have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.

Kma district relief disbursement

DIMAPUR: In pursuance of the Release of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for Kohima District for the year 2017-2018, the Deputy Commissioner & chairman DDMA Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan has informed beneficiaries that the relief disbursement for Kohima district shall commence from September 27 up to October 10 from the District Disaster Management Authority Cell (DDMA CELL), Deputy Commissioner’s office, Kohima from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. According to DIPR, all the beneficiaries have been informed to come in person and produce a photocopy of Aadhaar card and two passport photos for identity authentication and collect the sanctioned amounts.

BLOs special campaign in Peren

DIMAPUR: Secretary, government of Nagaland and observer for Peren district, Ahola, is expected to visit polling stations on September 22. A DIPR report stated that all BLOs will carry out a special campaign on September 22 and October 13 at their respective polling stations.

Therefore, all the citizens and voters who need enrolment, correction, deletion and transfer/transposition have been informed to report to their respective polling stations on the dates mentioned. ADC & ERO Peren, Sarita Yadav, through a notification has directed all BLOs to be in station. If any complaint is received from the public or supervisory officers about failure to conduct the campaign, action will be initiated against the BLOs.

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE The Wokha Town Lakhuti Pongdenro Okho (WTLPO) would like to extend its heartfelt congratulations to Miss. Sharon Kikon D/o. Lt. R. Thungchumo Kikon and Esther Kikon for her remarkable achievement by securing Top 2nd Position in MA Education Dept. 2018 under NU. The Okho further wishes her the best in all future endeavours.

Sungjungo T Humtsoe Vice President, WTLPO

Zubemo Patton Gen. Secretary, WTLPO

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The Sangtemla Ward Authority through this column express our deepest Appreciation to everyone who had come forward to help and assist us in fighting the devastating fire on the night of 16th Sept (Sunday) 2018, which completely gutted four houses and in turn razed down the entire belongings of seven families. In the aftermath of the Fire incident, our Ward had received immense help-physically, financially and through various ways towards the fire victim families. We particularly would like to mention the names of few: 1. All Volunteers from 18 wards of Mokokchung Town and Ungma, Khensa and Mokokchung Villages.

2. Citizens of Sangtemla Ward.

3. District Administration.

4. Fire & Emergency Services Department.

5. Security force.

6. Shri Imtikumzuk Longkumer Honourable MLA, for donating Rs 20,000/-.

7. Watsu Mungdang for donating Rs 2000/-.

8. Ongpangkong Watsu Mungdang for donating Rs 2000/-.

9. Mr & Mrs Ayu Pongen (Longjang) for providing lunch to all the volunteers on 17/09/18 (Monday) 10. Mr & Mrs Nungsanglemba (Longkhum) for providing Tipper Truck free of cost.

11. Mr & Mrs Temsu Longkumer (Changki) for donating Rs 5000/-.

12. All the Fire Victims neighbours for providing immediate needs.

13. Disaster Management.

14. Power Department.

15. Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC).

The Sangtemla Ward Authority also would like to express our special gratitude to Shri Sachin Jaiswal IAS Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung for providing prompt monetary Relief to all the seven Fire victims and house owners.

Sd/Sd/Sangkong Jamir I Tali. Longkumer.

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I would like to express my special thanks and gratitude to Khekato Kinimi, Supervisor NSCN (R) UT-1 for recovering my Bike Bajaj Platina.

KUGHAHO CHOPHY Super Market, Dimapur.

DP-7074 FELICITATION With immense pride and honour, the Longsachung Union Dimapur would like to express our heartiest congratulations to Rev. Y. ZUBEMO EZUNG, Associate Pastor L.B.C. Purana Bazaar, Dimapur, S/0 Late Mr. Yanpvü Ezung and Mrs. Penthünglo Ezung of Longsachüng Village, Wokha for being elevated to the highest post of Reverend and ordained on 16th Sept 2018.

The union further wishes and prays that the Almighty God continue to bless him with wisdom and good health and also grant great success in all his future endeavours.

(ER. MYANRAO EZUNG) CHAIRMAN LUD

(CHUMTHUNGO EZUNG) SECRETARY LUD

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The Dimapur Nkonjan Ezung Ekhung with immense pride and honour express our heartiest congratulations to: 1. Mr. Motsuthung Lotha, (NCS) on being Promoted to the post of Commissioner Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland.

2. Mr. M. Daniel Ezung, on being Promoted to Cabinet Secretary NSCN(I-M) GPRN Govt.

3. Rev. Y. Zubemo Ezung, Associate Pastor L.B.C. Purana Bazaar, Dimapur for being elevated to the highest Post of Reverend and ordained on 16th Sept. 2018.

The Dimapur Nkonjan Ezung Ekhung wishes and prays that Almighty God continue to bless you all and wishing greater success in your future endeavour.

(KIMONGTHUNG EZUNG) CHAIRMAN DNEE

(CHUMTHUNGO EZUNG) SECRETARY DNEE

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manufacturers’ warranty and were two to eight years, all below the prescribed year fixed by the government.

Meanwhile, stating that when West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee could move around in a small car, PDR asked why the Nagaland government employees cannot.

Urging the PDA government to put its much publicised curbing of VIP culture into action, PDR further recommended that the government should immediately stop buying vehicles as part of its austerity measures, besides rationalising all government vehicles and ensure “one officer, one vehicle” as some of officers had multiple vehicles at their disposal.

PDR also asked the government to set development and public welfare works as a priority over buying high-end vehicles for its employees.

The Association of Mechanical Engineer, Nagaland extends heartiest congratulations to: 1. Er. K. Tsashikha Wotsa, promoted to Chief Engineer (Mechanical).

2. Er. M. Moasashi Amer, Promoted to Addl.

Chief Engineer (Mechanical).

3. E r . N e i n g u m e ü K i r e , P r o m o t e d t o Superintending Engineer (Mechanical).

The Association is proud of your welldeserved promotions and wishes all the Officers success in your new positions.

The Association also expresses immense gratitude to the Govt. of Nagaland for promptly facilitating the promotions of the Officers.

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We the Six Federating Units of Eastern Nagaland Students’ Union Kohima would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and sincere appreciation to every individual, families, churches, organizations, friends and well wishers who have contributed and helped us at the First ever Combined Freshers’ Social Cum Cultural Day Program, held in NBCC Convention Hall Kohima on 8th Sept 2018.

We convey our special thanks to: 1) Shri Tongpang Ozukum, Hon’ble Minister of PWD, Mechanical Housing and R&B, Govt. of Nagaland 2) Shri. Sepili L Sangtam, President ENSF 3) Rev. Phomlee Van, Pastor Phom Baptist Church Kohima 4) Rev. Yamyap Konyak, Finance Secretary NBCC 5) Eastern Nagaland Legislative Union (ENLU) 6) Eastern Nagaland People Organisation (ENPO) 7) Eastern Nagaland People Union Kohima (ENPUK) 8) Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC).

9) Nagaland Post (NP) 10) Eastern Mirror 11) Morung Express 12) Phom Baptist Church Kohima 13) Konyak Baptist Church Kohima 14) Konyak Union Kohima (KUK) 15) Konyak Nyupoh Shekho Khong (KNSK) 16) Dimapur Kohima Sangtam Students’ Union 17) Khiamniungan Menyiu Hoikam Kohima (KMHK) 18) Ao Students’ Union SJC Jakhama 19) Zeliang Students’ Union SJC Jakhama 20) Sumi Students’ Union SJC Jakhama 21) Shri. Toshi Aier, Former Chief Secretary 22) Shri. Lima Onen, OSD to Chief Minister 23) Shri. Lichan Humtsoe, Founder of ETE Coffee 24) Miss. Achung Chang, NBCC 25) Smti. Aneükhaiming 26) Smti. Angau Thou, IAS, Commissioner & Secretary, Sericulture 27) Smti. Chubala Sangtam, Addl. Director (HOD) Art & Culture 28) Mr & Mrs. Henok Buchem & Family 29) Mr & Mrs B. Thetong Buchem 30) Mr. B. Baloi Buchem 31) Shri. Jacob Thonger, Business Manager Symbios.

32) Superintendent of Police Kohima 33) Commandant, 4th NAP Thizama, Kohima 34) Angam Ükhong.

35) Er. Chillia 36) Mr. & Mrs. C Chotongchiba (Advisor, Phom Students’ Union Kohima) 37) Phomla Hoichem Kohima Unit 38) Mr. Longhba.

39) Shri. S. Chonta Khiam 40) Mr & Mrs C Khengo Khiam 41) Mr & Mrs Serichem Sangtam 42) Shri. Er. Bayem Phom We deeply regret and apologize for our inability to acknowledge each and every individual in person, but it’s our sincere prayer that our Almighty God blesses each and every one of you abundantly for the Love bestowed upon the student’s community.

Henmei Phom Aliba Sangtam Convenor Secretary Organizing Committee Organizing Committee

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DIMAPUR: A 2-day seminar on “Sustainable Development”, under the aegis of the Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO), is scheduled to be held at Christian Mission Higher Secondary School (CMHSS), Phek Town on September 28 and 29. According to a press statement issued by CPO general secretary Mutsivoyi Kotso, the CPO Phek Multipurpose Building, foundation stone will be laid by Neiba Kronu, minister of Planning & Coordination, Land Revenue, on the first day. Other elected representatives will also exhort the gathering in four different sessions. The CPO has

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manipulated with different dates along with signatures of board members. And as per two condemnation orders available with PDR, it said the board meeting was shown as April 11, 2015, while the order date was February 3, 2016. Similarly, the second order mentioned the board meeting date as October 25, 2017, however, the officer who recorded the meeting minutes had written the date along with his signature at the bottom of the page as October 25, 2016.

Likewise, dates of purchase of disposed vehicles also varied from those recorded in board meeting minutes and other official documents of the department.

PDR stated that the second Condemnation Board meeting held under the chairmanship of former Tourism commissioner & secretary had condemned 10 vehicles, out of which many vehicles were within

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of 12th arts, and the college anthem was presented by the college choir.

A speech on behalf of the students was delivered by Veineiting Haolai of BA 1st semester and a special song was presented by Kinokali, also of BA 1st semester. The program was chaired by Kuthozo Vero and Alovili Yeptho and later vote of thanks was delivered by Wibon of 5th semester.

Further, the program included a second session where various cultural shows were presented. Namkoi Khiamniungan and Abu Bakkar Siddik of BA 1st semester were declared Miss and Mister Freshers respectively, Rhonbeni of class 11 Arts bagged the Miss congeniality title, and Roti Kius of BA 1st semester was declared Mr. Perfect.

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DIMAPUR, SEP 21 (NPN): City College Arts & Commerce held its 11th freshers’ meet (under new management) on Friday at the college premises under the theme “Defining gravity.”

Speaking at the program as special guest, Nagaland University (NU) headquater Lumami, Dr. Abemo encouraged the students to inculcate in themselves discipline, self respect and the habit of working hard.

“Students are the leaders and builders of tomorrow” Abemo stated and urged them to set goals and targets, deciding from now what they want to achieve.

He also asked the students to

learn self-respect and find a sense of belonging so that they may have concrete personal identities in the latter part of their lives. “If you try to hide your identity, you are destroying your self-respect,” he asserted.

Furthermore, he encouraged the students to learn respect for their teachers together with the learning of self-respect. Talking about the importance of Naga customs and traditions, Abemo stated that this was the right time to relearn the old Naga values like honesty.

Earlier, a welcome address was delivered by the principal of the college, invocation was pronounced by Eastern Bible College (EBC) pastor reverend Thungdemo Lotha, “lyrical hip-hop” was presented by Mhathung

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Further, urging that chief minister Neiphiu Rio suspend all those erring officials of the vehicle condemnation board for fair and impartial probe and set an example, PDR reminded Rio that Nagaland, being economically dependent on the Centre, could not overlook such issues.

PDR explained that as per a government office memo issued by chief secretary on February 13, 2012, normal lifespan of government vehicles for the purpose of condemnation was fixed at 10 years. However, the tourism department had allegedly disposed a total of 13 vehicles in 2015-17.

The latest vehicle disposed was purchased in 2010 and which had clearly not exhausted its lifespan, PDR asserted.

Citing various documents pertaining to condemnation of vehicles, PDR alleged that it showed that the Condemnation Board meetings were all

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Students present traditional wear during the City College Arts & Commerce freshers’ day celebrations.

(Inset) Dr. Abemo speaking at the program. (NP)

DIMAPUR: People for Democratic Rights (PDR) has accused Tourism department of randomly condemning vehicles on “scrap basis and reserved price citing feeble reasons” even before expiry of their lifespan as set by the State government.

Alleging this in a press release by its media & publicity affairs cell, PDR urged State Vigilance Commission to inquire into the “arbitrary” disposing of vehicles by the tourism department without following government norms and indulging in backdated and manipulated board meetings. It said it would also make a submission to commission in this regard.

The group also demanded that State Vigilance Commission should confiscate all vehicles condemned before 10 years and start an inquiry into such arbitrary disposing of vehicles by the tourism department.

India proposed Reliance as Rafale offset partner: Hollande NEW DELHI, SEP 22 (AGENCIES): Francois Hollande, who was President of France when the deal for 36 Rafale fighter aircraft was announced and signed with India, has said Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence was chosen as the offset partner by Dassault because the Indian government had “proposed” its name.

“We didn’t have a say in that. It was the Indian government that proposed this service group (Reliance), and Dassault who negotiated with Ambani.

We didn’t have a choice, we took the interlocutor who was given to us,” Hollande was quoted by French news website Mediapart.fr about the offset contract to the private Indian defence manufacturing firm.

Hollande was responding to The Indian Express news report referred by Mediapart that Ambani’s Reliance entertainment had coproduced a French film Tout La-Haut with his partner Julie Gayet when India and France were negotiating the Rafale deal, “That’s why, on the other hand, this group (Reliance) did not have to give me any thanks for anything. I

couldn’t even imagine that there was any connection to a film by Julie Gayet.”

On being asked by The Indian Express, the French embassy in New Delhi refused to comment on Hollande’s statement.

Messages left on the answering machine of the media officer of Hollande did not elicit any response.

The spokesperson for Reliance Defence was not available for comment.

In a Twitter update, the Ministry of Defence said: “The report referring to fmr (former) French president Mr. Hollande’s statement that GOI insisted upon a particular

firm as offset partner for the Dassault Aviation in Rafale is being verified. It is reiterated that neither GoI nor French Govt had any say in the commercial decision.”

As reported by The Indian Express on August 31, Reliance Entertainment announced on January 24, 2016 that it had entered into an agreement with Gayet’s firm, Rouge International, to jointly produce a French film.

Two days later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Hollande signed an MoU in New Delhi for the purchase of 36 French jets in flyaway condition.

Modi betrayed India, dishonoured soldiers’ blood, says Rahul Gandhi

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi following former French President Francois Hollande’s reported remarks on the Rafale deal, saying he has “betrayed” India.

“The PM personally negotiated & changed the #Rafale deal behind closed doors. Thanks to François Hollande, we now know he personally delivered a deal

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worth billions of dollars to a bankrupt Anil Ambani,” Gandhi tweeted.

“The PM has betrayed India. He has dishonoured the blood of our soldiers,” he said.

The opposition has been accusing the government of choosing Reliance Defence over state-run Hindustan Aeronautics to benefit the private firm though it did not have any experience in the aerospace sector.

AAP to contest all 119 assembly seats in Telangana NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (IANS): The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday announced that it will be contesting all the 119 assembly seats in Telangana in the upcoming elections.

AAP leader Somnath Bharti told reporters that the people of Telangana also want services like Delhi’s doorstep delivery of public services, quality education and corruption-free governance.

“On the basis of a survey conducted by AAP and as per the wishes of people of Telangana, the party has decided to contest all the 119 seats in Telangana,” Bharti said. The AAP MLA from Malviya Nagar also slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) Chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) for doing “jumla” in the name of politics.

“Just like the Modi government, TRS has not been able to fulfil even a single thing it had promised while Telangana was being formed and the people know it,” Bharti said. The Telangana Assembly was dissolved on September 6 on the recommendation of the TRS government, more than six months before the expiry of its term, to pave the way for early elections.

India-US December dialogue to boost commerce: Prabhu MUMBAI, SEP 21 (IANS): Stressing the critical importance of the United States as a strategic trade partner for India, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Friday a vital India-US Strategic Commercial dialogue will be held in New Delhi in December which will help boost commercial ties between the two nations.

“The US Commerce Secretary and a high-level delegation from the US will come to have detailed discussions with their Indian counterparts to strengthen the commerce tie-up and chart the future agenda for both nations,” Prabhu said.

He was speaking at the inauguration of the annual convention of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC), here on the theme “Indo-US Economic Relations: Building a Durable Partnership”.

Prabhu said India has identified key industries and sector where it can work in tandem with the US and utilise their high-end technology. In this connection, he said the government will unveil the new industrial policy soon.

“A key thrust in the proposed policy, which will replace the Industrial Policy of 1991, is to reduce regula-

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tory hurdles and encourage adoption of technologies of future such as robotics and artificial intelligence,” Prabhu added.

Referring to the US sanctions on steel and aluminium importing countries, he said India responded in a measured way by not levying any retaliatory duties and instead had positive discussions with the US counterparts on the issue.

He stressed the role of organisations like IACC which play a vital role in boosting trade and commerce ties between the two countries.

Addressing the gathering, US Ambassador to India Kenneth I. Juster said India could seize the strategic opportunity, through trade and investment, to become an alternative hub for the US business in the

‘Surgical Strike Day’ stirs row, Kerala Catholic bishop West Bengal defies UGC circular arrested over nun’s rape NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (IANS): A controversy erupted on Friday after the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued a circular asking universities to celebrate September 29 as 'Surgical Strike Day', with the Congress calling the move politically motivated and West Bengal government refusing to follow the decision, terming it "BJP's agenda".

A decision to celebrate the day was announced on Thursday when the UGC in a letter to all Vice Chancellors had asked them to observe the day in their institutions through special parades by National Cadet Corps, and with a pledge of support by students to the armed forces by writing letters and cards.

"It is a part of BJP's agenda before the 2019 elections which they are trying to push through UGC. The BJP is trying to politicise the Indian Army. It is a matter of shame and we do not support it," West Bengal

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Education Minister Partha Chatterjee told the reporters here.

Congress leader Kapil Sibal called the decision a 'jumla' (gimmick) and in an oblique reference termed the demonetisation also a surgical strike on the country's poor. "UGC directs VCs of all universities to celebrate September 29 as Surgical Strike Day. Is this meant to educate or to serve BJP's political ends? Will UGC dare celebrate November 8 as Surgical Strike Day depriving the poor of their livelihood? This is another jumla!," Sibal tweeted on Friday. Delhi Chief Min-

Ranjan expresses reservations in taking up new chairman’s post

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Kolkata, Sep 21 (PTI): Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who was removed as the party’s West Bengal president, Friday expressed reservations in taking up the post of chairman of the party’s state campaign committee.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday appointed Somendra Nath Mitra as the president of the party’s West Bengal unit, replacing Chowdhury.

Chowdhur y said he was not aware of the changes made by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and came to know about it from the media.

“The AICC did what they felt right. I have noth-

ing to say. I had earlier told Rahul Gandhi that if he feels that I am unable to perform, he can appoint someone else,” he told PTI. “I would tell them (the AICC) to appoint someone else as chairman of that committee,” he said.

In a major shake-up in the West Bengal Congress unit, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Gandhi appointed Mitra as its president, replacing Chowdhury, who was made the chairman of the party’s campaign committee in the state, according to an AICC statement.

When asked whether he would continue in the Congress, Chowdhury declined to reply.

Pradip Bhattacharya has been named the chairman of the party’s coordination committee in the state.

Gandhi also named four working presidents of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee - Sankar Malakar, Nepal Mahato, Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury and Deepa Dasmunsi.

ister Arvind Kejriwal also suggested that instead of celebrating the surgical strikes, the government should be visiting family of Narender Singh, the BSF soldier who was killed after coming under unprovoked fire from Pakistan on Wednesday along Jammu border.

"The best way to celebrate surgical strike would be for the PM to visit the family of Narender Singh, who was tortured to death

by Pakistan this week.

"PM should assure the nation that Pakistan would be given such befitting reply that it won't dare do it again," Kejriwal tweeted.

Congeress's student wing NSUI criticised the decision as "government propaganda" and "militarisation of university space".

"This is not celebration of Army valour but government propaganda. At the same time, the increasing militarisation of the university space is specially worrisome," it said in a statement.

Franco Mulakkal

KOCHI, SEP 21 (IANS): After three days of questioning, the Kerala Police on Friday arrested Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who heads the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar and has been accused of repeatedly raping a nun, police said.

This is the first time in the country that a bishop has been arrested for rape.

“Given the stature of the accused, the police left nothing to chance before arresting him,” and a police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The arrest came after the bishop was questioned for three consecutive days at the Crime Branch office near Tripunithura here.

The police will now

take Mulakkal, who has maintained that he is innocent, for a medical examination and then produce him before a magistrate in Kottayam as the crime took place in that district.

Mulakkal has been accused of repeatedly sexually abusing the nun between 2014 and 2016. She raised her complaint against the Bishop in June.

The news of his arrest was received with shouting of slogans at a venue where five nuns have been on an indefinite protest along with the public for the past 14 days demanding his arrest.

“We still can’t believe that he has been arrested. We are overjoyed,” exclaimed a nun. “We are extremely happy. This happened only because we got the support of the public and also the media,” said another nun.

The arrest became a certainty on Friday morning when a police official came to the victim, who is staying at a convent near Kottayam, to take statements for the seventh time since June, when she first raised the issue.

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In continuation to this office advertisement of even number dated 18.09.18, for the posts of UBSI(GD)/SI(Opr)/SI(Tech) & ASI(GD), the following instructions are hereby notified to the candidates : General information : All eligible candidates should produce their Original Registration slips issued by PHQ in all the Tests. Candidates failing to produce the same shall not allowed to appear for any Test.

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2. Candidates should fill in the required details in the Attendance List.

3. Unfair means in the examination are absolutely not allowed and the Authority may take disciplinary action against candidates proven to have used unfair means.

4. Candidates are required to display good conduct during the examination. No candidates should misbehave in any manner or create disorderly scene during the examination. Any such misconduct will be severely penalized.

5. Candidates should product their Registration slip in Original. Photostat/Xerox copy shall not be permitted to appear for the examination whatsoever.

6. Entry in the Examination venue during the Examination will be closed 10 (Ten) minutes before the commencement of the examination, and no candidates will be allowed to enter the venue after the closure of entry in any case.

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ED to question jailed Dubai-based businessman

NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (IANS): The Enforcement Directorate is planning to question Dubai-based hawala operator, Naval Kishore Kapoor, who is currently lodged in Tihar Central jail here, to find details of funding which emerged out of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

A senior ED official, privy to the probe, told IANS requesting anonymity that the agency had obtained permission from the special NIA court in Delhi to question the hawala operator on November 11. Kapoor was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 16 this year.

According to probe officials, the NIA is looking into the funding aspects of the Mumbai attacks in which the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba chief, Hafiz Saeed, is involved. In all, 164 people had died in the terror attack carried out by militants who came from Pakistan.

According to the ED official, the grilling of Kapoor was required as the NIA probe had revealed a lease agreement signed in 2014 between him and Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Watali who was arrested by the counterterror probe agency on August 17, 2017.

US-Pacific region.

Juster stressed that further opening India’s market to US trade and investment would spur the collaboration between the two countries on many emerging technologies that will drive and protect our economies, including those related to advanced manufacturing, cyber security and artificial intelligence.

Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, Law & Justice P.P. Chaudhary said cooperation in the field of science and technology between the scientific communities of both countries is a pillar of vibrant India-US relationship.

“American cooperation in this field will catalyse India’s start-up ecosystem.

This area is also the key driver for innovation and job creation in both the countries and hence, it needs to take the centre stage”, he said.

The Minister added that collaboration in information technology, nanoand gene-editing technology will have positive impact on the education sector and the knowledge generated through mutual cooperation needs to be capitalised to fuel innovation and to create entrepreneurial class.

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Terrorists abduct and kill 3 J-K policemen

Police officers and relatives shoulder the coffin of the slain police constable Nissar Ahmad Dhobi after a wreath laying ceremony in Shopian, Friday. (PTI)

S r inag a r , S ep 2 1 (PTI): Three policemen were abducted from their homes in south Kashmir’s Shopian district and shot dead in cold blood by the militants of Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashker-e-Taiba Friday, police said as a new page opened up in the threedecade chapter of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.

Based on initial probe, the police said the dastardly action has been carried out against the special police officers (SPOs) by the banned terror groups -- Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashker-eTaiba.

The terror attack also shook the 1.2-lakh strong Jammu and Kashmir police

force with at least six SPOs announcing their resignations on social media, officials said.

Hours later, the Union Home Ministry said in New Delhi that no policeman has resigned in Jammu and Kashmir following the killing of three police personnel and described such reports as “false propaganda” by “mischievous” elements.

The bodies of the slain policemen -- identified as constable Nissar Ahmed and special police officers Firdous Ahmed and Kulwant Singh -- were found in an orchard across a river, officials said in Srinagar.

A video purported-

ly from the Hizbul Mujahideen had warned all Kashmiri residents working as SPOs to tender their resignations.

There are over 30,000 SPOs in Jammu and Kashmir.

Inspector General of Police (Kashmir range) Swayam Prakash Pani termed the incident cowardice and said “the militants are desperate as they are feeling the heat from security forces”.

“We have lost three of our brave colleagues in a barbaric terror strike. Our tribute to the three martyred jawans. We will soon bring all the culprits before law,” he added.

The three policemen were kidnapped early Friday morning from their homes at Batagund and Kapran villages, police said.

The residents of Batagund village chased the terrorists and pleaded with them to not abduct the men.

The abductors fired shots in the air and threatened the villagers, officials said.

The terrorists crossed a river in the area and shot them dead, the officials added.

A post on a Twitter handle purportedly belonging to the Hizbul Mujahideen group claimed responsibility for the incident.

Security agencies also believe that Hizb militants are behind the killings.

The abduction of the policemen from their homes and the killing is the first in the three decades of militancy in the state. Earlier, policemen have been targeted on the road or during their duties.

The killings are believed to have triggered panic in the lower ranks of the police department with at least six policemen resigning. Two of them issued video messages dissociating themselves from the force.

“My name is Irshad Ahmad Baba and I was working as a constable in the police. I have rendered

my resignation...,” said one of them in a video being widely circulated on social media here.

Tajalla Hussain Lone, an SPO, said he had resigned from the police department on September 17 and was issuing the video to put to rest any doubts that he had done so.

Police refused to comment on the resignations, saying they would verify the information.

Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo has several times warned local policemen, especially SPOs, to resign from the force, saying that the government is using them.

In its statement, the Union home ministry said reports have appeared in a section of the media that some special police officers (SPOs) in Jammu and Kashmir have resigned, but the state police has confirmed that these reports are “untrue and motivated”.

“These reports are based on false propaganda by mischievous elements,” it said.

The ministr y said Jammu and Kashmir has a professional and committed police force, which is fully geared up to meet the security challenges, including those related to the forthcoming panchayat and urban body elections.

SC agrees to use Much ado about Kolkata NL House p-1) AI to improve (FromSubsequent agreements signed by the government of pushed it deeper into a legal complication from medical education Nagaland which it could not extricate itself. That during 70s till 90s most

NEW DELHI, SEP 21 (IANS): The Supreme Court has agreed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in the process of verification of medical colleges by the Medical Council of India (MCI).

The apex court has asked Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys, to give concrete suggestions at the earliest. The court said he would be at liberty to take technical assistance from various IT companies to devise a suitable mechanism. A bench of Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao accepted the suggestions of senior advocate Kapil Sibal for AI-aided improvements in medical education in the country. Sibal, who was assisting the court, told the bench that Nilekani could assist the court to develop a computer network-based technological solution which can include AI. In its order on September 19, the bench said: “There are incessant disputes which reach this court about what actually transpires at inspections of various private medical colleges by the MCI. The parties contest virtually every fact that is recorded in an inspection.”

CAG detects huge anomalies in deptts RD department: CAG report pointed out that the Project Director, DRDA, Kiphire paid Rs. 2.03 crore for supply of 3,741 bundles of CGI sheets against fictitious transportation challans and non-existent vehicles.

CAG also detected short distribution of housing materials and cash component under Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) totalling Rs. 73 lakh in Chiephobozou Block.

Vety &AH: An amount of Rs.14.19 lakh was fraudulent drawn by two DDOs of the Veterinary and Animal Husbandry department by presenting false bills and double drawal.

District Jail, Zbto: CAG report stated that an amount of Rs. 6.53 lakh was drawn by inflating the monthly net total amount of pay and allowances on 20 bills drawn during the period from February 2014 to October 2015 which resulted in fraudulent drawal of pay and allowances amounting to Rs. 6.53 lakh ADC Pungro: An amount of Rs. 1.89 lakh76 was drawn as arrears of house rent allowance for 15 employees during March 2016 which resulted in fraudulent drawal of arrears of house rent allowance amounting to Rs. 1.89 lakh.

While accepting the facts, the ADC stated (March 2017) that entire amount had been recovered the said amount and deposited to government account, the report said.

N S T, Z b t o : A n amount of Rs.0.58 lakh77 was drawn as arrears of house rent allowance for the period from May 2015 to January 2016 in respect of seven employees who were regularly drawing HRA in their monthly pay and allowances. CAG said, this resulted in fraudulent drawal of arrears of house rent allowance amounting to Rs. 0.58 lakh. While accepting the facts, the Asst.

GM, NST stated that the amount had been recovered (April 2017) and deposited to government account.

7th NAP, Bhandari: CAG report stated that Commandant, 7th NAP Battalion, Bhandari, Wokha had drawn an amount of Rs. 34.53 crore being pay and allowances of Grade IV employees of the battalion during the period from October 2015 to February 2017. Detailed examina-

tion of the paid vouchers revealed that the basic pay of 114 employees was manipulated thereby inflating the gross pay and allowances of the employees.

Against the actual pay and allowances entitlement of Rs. 34.13 crore, during the aforementioned period, Rs. 34.53 crore was drawn resulting in excess drawal of Rs. 39.28 lakh.

CAG report stated that the Commandant while accepting (September 2017) the facts stated that excess amount had been recovered and deposited to government account through the treasury.

Taking not of all these cases of fraudulent/excess drawals by 12 DDOs of seven departments, CAG report said that it indicated failure on the part of the DDOs and TOs to exercise internal control/non-adherence to prescribed rules and procedures.

CAG also pointed out that over the years, misappropriations of similar nature by the DDOs in collusion with the TOs were highlighted in the Audit Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Government of Nagaland.

However, these malpractices continue to persist which indicates the seriousness of the problem, the report said. Therefore, the CAG has recommended that the government should take immediate steps to tackle this recurring wrongdoing.

In the instant cases pointed out by Audit, it recommended that FIRs be lodged, disciplinary action initiated against the concerned officers and the cases handed over to the State Vigilance Commission for prosecutorial action.

Rs. 56.12 lakh scholarship funds diverted CAG has detected diversion/suspected misappropriation of scholarship funds under Technical education department.

As per the report, Rs. 56.12 lakh from the funds for scholarship schemes were diverted for private use. It further said that Rs. 51.87 lakh was also suspected to be misappropriated, as there were no records for utilisation of this amount.

Upon examination (March 2017) of subsidiary cash book of the directorate of Technical Education and bank

statements solely operated for transaction of scholarship funds revealed that the an amount of Rs. 1.32 crore out of the balance of Rs. 1.49 crore was utilised for purposes other than scholarships-- Rs. 35 lakh utilised as admission fee of three candidates belonging to the backward tribes of Nagaland for MBBS course and consultancy fee, Rs. 40.01 lakh utilised for farewell function of retired director, Rs. 1.80 lakh utilised for purchase of computers/ laptops and Rs. 3.32 lakh diverted for salaries of fixed pay employees.

While accepting (July 2017) the diversion of scholarship funds, the department stated that advances were granted to some staff from the scholarship fund due to urgent needs while Rs. 6.01 lakh was recovered from the staff and another Rs. 18 lakh (out of Rs. 40.01 lakh) was recovered

from a retired director and the balance amount would be recovered from him on instalment basis.

It said Rs. 3.32 lakh utilised for payment of salaries of employees was also recovered (yet it said no documentary evidence in support of the recovery of this amount was furnished to Audit). Further, the reports stated that Rs. 51.87 lakh had not been utilised and the same was lying with the department.

Asserting that the reply of the department was not acceptable, CAG has asked the department to lodge FIRs against the concerned officials for diversion/suspected misappropriation of scholarship funds amounting to Rs. 1.08 crore, and refer the matter to the State Vigilance Commission for investigation.

Const of bridge under DUDA: CAG detected anomalies in construction

of bridge at Yetyong river Tobu, where the work was executed twice for the same project and full payments made to two contractors.

Joint inspection (June/ July 2017) revealed that the work order issued to a firm on December 2015 for the construction of bridge was the same bailey bridge for which work order was issued to another firm in May 2014. The construction of bailey bridge had not been completed despite making full payments to the two contractors for the same work, the report stated.

CAG stated that the department did not offer any reply (November 2017).

In this regard, the Audit has recommended that an FIR be filed against the concerned officials and contractors concerned and the matter handed over to the State Vigilance Commission for further investigation.

of those posted at Nagaland House Kolkata were alleged to have acted in favour of CEEPL and did not alarm those at the helm of power in Nagaland. It may also be described as the conspiracy of the century by vested interests to take over a huge portion of Nagaland House Kolkata through manipulative tactics in the form of one-sided lease agreement.

Nagaland Post had published a series during 199192 that led then Governor Lok Nath Misra to appoint a special attorney to fight for the state. However, the maze of legal intricacies which were facilitated by Naga politicians and bureaucrats had made the job to reclaim property rights impossible. In the assembly, the issue was only about the rent from CEEPL which according to chief minister Neiphiu Rio amounted to Rs.5 lakhs upto December 2017 and Rs.7 lakhs upto January 2018. Some tenants- North East Handloom Handicrafts and Hind Xerox had taken the matter to court.

The issue raised by opposition leader T.R. Zeliang and the reply by chief minister Neiphiu Rio pertained to cheque amount and court order issued in May 2018 which was not challenged by the state government. Zeliang criticised the PDA government for not challenging the court’s interim order by filing affidavit and instead directing the DRC Nagaland House Kolkata to receive the cheque from CEEPL. The fact of the matter is that the Nagaland government can never reclaim ownership of the prime plot due to the sell-out agreement signed in 1982 and subsequent years, except receive the pittance of a few lakh rupees instead of receiving not below Rs.10 crore per month.

NSCN (I-M) welcomes submission of memo

(From p-1) the achievements of Nagas so far in their struggle for self-determination, which was a mass movement, as these were the collective achievements of all the Nagas.

And all credits consequent to such a bold step taken by Liberation and others in pushing the endeavour of the Nagas forward would go down well in the annals of “our history”, it added.

The statement stated that NSCN (I-M) delegates also attended UNPO meeting and praised Almighty God for the overwhelming support received from well-wishers of the international community.

CS launches Govt e-Marketplace (From p-1) Stating that “GeM is here to stay”, Toy said that GeM would do away with bureaucracy of procurement and also simplify and speed up the process of procurement.

“It is also our endeavour to encourage our local suppliers, till purchase of Rs. 50,000 you can buy from any seller beyond that you’ll have to select from the lowest bidder,” he said.

Further, Toy said it was made mandatory that procurement for ‘PoshanMaa’ programme in the state has to be done through GeM. Envisaged by the Centre, GeM strives to keep pace with the ever-evolving technological challenges and

stakeholder aspirations.

The GeM portal is currently used by almost all departments/organisations of the Central Government.

Organisations from 23 States/UTs are already using GeM. Government has made procurement of products and services available on GeM mandatory to all the central government ministries, departments and central government organisations.

The General Financial Rules were amended in March 2017 and Rule 149 introduced in this regard.

At the launching prog ramme, De puty CEO GeM, Nirmal Kumar and Business Facilitator GeM, Raja were the resource persons.

NOTIFICATION

The Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim on an application made by K.Lotan Yimchunger (Enrolment No. 358/2002), have permitted to change his name from K.Lotan Yimchunger to K.Lotan on the Roll of Advocate.

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PUBLIC AWARENESS

Mrs. Aosenla (Asenla) of Mekuli Village, present residential address Ward 7 Chumukedima, Age 39 years has failed to mend her ways even after warning her on several occasions. Hence, it is hereby informed to all concerned not to make any financial transactions with her and the family members shall not take any responsibility in this regard.

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LHOTHAVI VILLAGE COUNCIL Dhansiripar Sub-Division Dimapur - 797112 : Nagaland

RESOLUTION/DECLARATION The Lhothavi Village Council, through a Resolution on the 17th of September, 2018, declares the entire village jurisdiction/land as Chemical-free/Organic Village, and henceforth bans use of any type/form of chemicals in agriculture & allied or other activities within the village jurisdiction, and further warns of strict action against defaulters of this Resolution, as the village is undergoing Organic Certificate Process implemented through the Programme of "Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North-East Region" (MOVCD-NER) by the District Agriculture Officer, Dimapur : Department of Agriculture, Nagaland.

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(From p-1) The report stated that the department targeted to develop 246.79 hectares of water spread area under six projects at a cost of Rs. 29.34 crore during the period 2012-15. As against this, as ascertained from departmental records, water spread area of 231.15 hectares was developed at accost of Rs. 21.77 crore. During joint inspection (June/ July/August 2017), it was observed that only 14.63 hectares of water spread area was developed. The short execution 216.52 hectares of water spread area resulted in excess expenditure of Rs. 16.37 crore.

In this regard, the Audit has recommended that the matter be referred to the State Vigilance Commission for further investigation.

Finance department (Taxation): The CAG report pointed out that sixteen dealers concealed inter-state purchase of Rs. 77.56 crore and evaded tax of Rs. 11.47 crore. It further said that three dealers concealed purchases and evaded tax of Rs. 3.61 crore The report also said that failure of the assessing authority to exercise prescribed checks resulted in concealment of purchases for Rs. 5.71 crore, irregular exemption of taxable purchases of Rs. 28.60 crore and evasion of tax Rs. 1.66 crore.

Finance (directorate of Treasuries & Accounts): CAG has pointed out that due to failure of the Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) and Treasury Officers (TO) to exercise prescribed checks resulted in fraudulent drawal of Rs. 1.72 crore.

PWD (Housing): The department incurred an avoidable expenditure of Rs. 10.73 crore due to delay in handing over the project site. CAG also detected that the department had also extended undue financial benefit of Rs. 7.37 crore to a contractor on enhancement of rate for newly incorporated items of works not approved by the Government.

School Education: CAG report stated that five DDOs of the School Education department fraudulently withdrew Rs. 106.45 lakh by presenting false bills, inflating the net total of the bill, double drawal, etc.

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EU must respect UK in Brexit talks, says May

London, Sep 21 (Agencies): UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said the EU must treat the UK with “respect” in Brexit negotiations, BBC reported.

In a statement at Downing Street she said for EU leaders to reject her plan with no alternative at this “late stage of negotiations” was “not acceptable”.

A defiant Mrs May added: “I will not overturn the result of the referendum nor will I break up my country.”

Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has said there was no “credible alternative” on the table from the EU at the talks.

And he expressed doubt over how serious EU leaders were about the negotiations.

He told the BBC’s Politics Live: “It did not feel like the reciprocation of the statesmanlike approach that she (Mrs May) has taken”.

He added: “We have been rebuffed on our plans without any coherent explanation as to why.” And he said the UK government was “going to hold our nerve, stay calm and keep negotiating in good faith”.

Theresa May The UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019.

Mrs May says her plan for the UK and EU to share a “common rulebook” for goods, but not services, is the only credible way to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

But it is opposed by some within her own party who argue it would compromise the UK’s sovereignty.

And it got a cool reception at this week’s EU summit in Austria. In a news conference, European Council President Donald Tusk said there were some “positive elements” in Mrs May’s proposals, known as the Chequers plan.

But he said EU leaders had agreed that the proposals needed to be redrawn: “The suggested framework for economic co-operation will not work, not least because it is undermining the single market.”

He followed it up by posting a photograph on Instagram of he and Mrs May looking at cakes with the caption: “A piece of cake, perhaps? Sorry, no cherries.”

The EU has argued that the UK cannot “cherry-pick” elements from its rulebook.

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told RTÉ on Friday: “I am working every day, as are people across Europe and the UK government to avoid a scenario where we have a no deal, hard Brexit next March.”

He said there would be a “rocky patch over the next couple of weeks” but he believed a deal could be reached. The UK and EU are trying to reach a deal by mid-November and want to avoid a hard border - physical infrastructure like cameras or guard posts - between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic but cannot agree on how.

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Malaysia cannot accept Philippines landslide victims ‘text for help’ same-sex marriage: Mahathir

Mahathir Mohamad KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 21 (Agencies): Malaysia cannot accept samesex marriage or lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday, amid growing instances of persecution of LGBT community in the Muslimmajority country, Reuters reported.

“In Malaysia there are some things we cannot accept, even though it is seen as human rights in Western countries,” Mahathir, 93, told reporters. “We cannot accept LGBT, marriage between men and men, women and women.”

His comments are likely to spark further debate in the country where activists have voiced con-

cern over the hostility towards LGBT groups both from within society and from the administration.

Two women were caned this month for “attempting lesbian sex” in Terengganu, a conservative state in the east.

Mahathir denounced the punishment, saying it “did not reflect the justice or compassion of Islam”.

Last month, a gay bar in Kuala Lumpur was raided by police and religious enforcement officials, while a transgender woman was beaten up by a group of assailants in Seremban, near the capital.

The minister in charge of Islamic affairs also came under fire, from activists and other ruling party lawmakers, after he ordered the removal of portraits of two LGBT activists from an art exhibition.

Malaysia describes oral and anal sex as against the order of nature.

Civil law stipulates jail for up to 20 years, caning and fines for offenders, although enforcement of the law is rare.

Muslims are also governed by state-level Islamic laws, most of which carry provisions outlawing same-sex acts.

Some of the houses were completely covered by rubble.

Lo n d o n, S e p 2 1 (Agencies): A landslide in the Philippines has killed at least 21 people and left dozens missing, with some texting for help from under the rubble, say police.

The slide on Thursday engulfed two villages in Naga in Cebu province, BBC reported.

It comes days after the north of the Philippines was hit by a typhoon, killing more than 80 people.

Typhoon Mangkhut did not directly hit Cebu province but led to stronger monsoon rains, increasing the risk of landslides across the country.

The Cebu landslide took out a whole section

of hillside on which people had built their makeshift homes.

“It was like an earthquake and there was this thundering, loud banging sound,” resident Cristita Villarba told news agency AP. “All of us ran out,” she said, adding that her husband and children all survived the disaster.

“Many of our neighbours were cr ying and screaming for help. Some wanted to help those who got hit but there was too much earth covering the houses, including my brother’s,” she said.

According to local media, more than 600 families

from Naga were staying in evacuation centres on Thursday night.

Local media are citing police chief inspector Roderick Gonzales as saying that several people had been successfully rescued from inside buried houses.

“There were signs of life. Some of them managed to send text messages,” he said, raising hopes that they are trapped in air pockets in the debris.

The more than 20 houses affected were on the outskirts of the town of Naga.

There were near a former limestone quarry which might have destabilised the hillside above the village.

Vietnam’s president Quang dies after viral illness 3 infants, 2 adults stabbed at private daycare ed in Japan six times since,” Trieu told Reuters.

“He suffered from a kind of highly virulent virus, for which there has not been any efficient treatment.”

Vietnam has no paramount ruler and is officially led by four “pillars”: its president, prime minister, the chief of its Communist Party and the national assembly chair.

Japan hopes for historic asteroid landing

India’s axing of talks unfortunate: Pakistan

Tran Dai Quang

party’s authority, signaled limits to Vietnam’s liberal agenda, despite a growing openness to social change and sweeping economic reform, experts say.

Quang, 61, died in a military hospital in Hanoi of a “serious illness despite efforts by domestic and international doctors and professors,” Vietnam Television said. He had hosted a recep-

Rovers 1A and 1B (left and centre), alongside Minerva II-2 (right) which will be released at a later date.

known as Ryugu.

Rover 1A and Rover 1B will hop around in Ryugu’s low gravity, capturing temperatures and images of the surface.

Hayabusa-2 reached the Ryugu asteroid in June this year after a three-anda-half-year journey.

Officials hope to confirm a successful landing in a day or two, when the spaceship sends data from the rovers to Earth.

While the European

Space Agency has previously managed to land on an icy comet, this would be the first spacecraft to successfully place robot rovers on the surface of an asteroid. Asteroids are essentially leftover building materials from the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.

Ryugu is a particularly primitive variety, and studying it could shed light on the origin and evolution of our own planet.

Islamabad, Sep 21 (IANS): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday termed as “unfortunate” India’s cancellation of talks with Islamabad in New York next week.

“We had already told India that if they take one step towards us, we will take two. However, it seems that they faltered after taking just one step,” Qureshi told Dawn online.

Blaming Pakistan for the killing of the security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir and accusing it of glorifying terrorism, India called off talks between Qureshi and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj. They were set to meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York marking the first thaw in bilateral ties.

Qureshi said the world should see that “Pakistan has held a positive outlook towards the situation while India’s attitude has not been so forthcoming”.

inside the house, three of whom had been stabbed, including a baby girl who is just three days old, police said.

“Three of the injured were infants ranging from the age of three days to 1-month-old,” Juanita Holmes, assistant chief of the New York City Police Department, said at a press conference later Friday morning. A man and a woman

were also found inside the house with stab wounds.

All five victims were rushed to local hospitals in critical but stable condition, police said.

The suspect, identified by police as a 52-year-old woman, was found unconscious in the basement of the home with what appeared to be a self-inflicted slash wound to her left wrist, authorities said.

SWACHHATA HI SEVA 2018 Launching of Swachhagrahis Special Guest: Shri. Sushil Kumar Patel, IAS Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur Date: 24th September 2018 Venue: Town Hall, Super Market.

Chairperson : Introduction to “Swachhata Hi Seva” : Speech to launch Swachhagrahis in the district Brief highlight of Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin

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Time: 10:00 A.M.

Er. Nirie-e Nisa, SDO Er. L. Tongpang Longkumer EE PHED, Dimapur Rural Division Shri. Sushil Kumar Patel (IAS), DC Dimapur.

: Slide presentation ~ Lunch Follows ~ TECHNICAL SESSION

Swachhagrahis – Overview of Objectives & Duties Water supply & Sanitation Health & Hygiene Solid & Liquid waste Management Water Quality & Monitoring

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Er. Ichirangbe Zeliang, SDO Er. Wati Thomson Ao, SDO Er. Hotolu Sumi, Junior Engineer Er. Imtisowa, SDO Shri. Roland Kikon, State Chemist.

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Lo n d o n, S e p 2 1 (Agencies): Japan’s space agency (JAXA) believes it has successfully landed two robotic explorers on the surface of an asteroid, making history, BBC reported.

“We don’t have confirmation yet, but we are very, very hopeful,” project manager Yuichi Tsuda said.

On Friday, the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft despatched a pair of “rovers” to the 1km-wide space rock

The diamond-shaped asteroid has a blackishcoloured surface, and rotates slowly on its axis - around once every 7.5 hours.

Early on Thursday morning (GMT), Hayabusa-2 began descending towards the surface of Ryugu, preparing to eject its rovers.

The little hoppers are stored in a drum-shaped container at the base of the “mothership”. Collectively, they form a 3.3kg science package known as Minerva II-1.

About 60m (196ft) from the asteroid, Hayabusa-2 initiated the release of the two robots.

Japanese space agency officials said that when the front of the drum is jettisoned into space, the two rovers are ejected from the container and fall independently to the asteroid’s surface. One of the principal concerns for deployment was Ryugu’s rougher-thanexpected surface, which is carpeted with boulders and has very few smooth patches.

Washington, Sep 21 (Agencies): Three babies were among five people stabbed at a private daycare facility in New York City early Friday, police said.

According to Washington Post, the victims were found just before 4 a.m. inside the home-operated daycare in the Flushing neighborhood of the city’s borough of Queens, police said. There were nine infants

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tion for China’s Supreme Court chief on Wednesday, state-owned newspaper Vietnam News said.

Quang had been ill for months, said former health minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu, who now oversees healthcare for high-ranking officials.

“He began showing symptoms of illness in June last year and has been treat-

HANOI, Sep 21 (Agencies): Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, a former chief of internal security who became one of the most high-profile leaders in the communist-ruled country, died on Friday after an illness, state media said.

According to Reuters, Quang’s rise, at a time of growing dissent on social media and challenges to the

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Jarem OffOn films screened in Dmu J A arem OffOn film under the aegis of hill theatre was officially screened Friday, at Europa inn Dimapur in the presence of MW enterprise chairman, MD Moa Walling as special guest.

The film was directed by Bendang Walling which is his first directorial venture as a filmmaker. As founder director of hills theatre, he has directed a total of 12 theatre plays which have been performed all over the country during various theatre festivals.

Speaking at the screening of the programme, special guest expressed his honour and privileged to be part of the programme.

Walling also expressed his feeling saying that movie is something that comes out from the soul of a person.

If singing can improve the looks of a person than he felt that acting really attract the soul of a person, that is how we can reach to other people, he said singing and acting as talent can differentiate and distinguish on how and what we are.

Walling also called upon the gathering saying it is the right time in making a move towards interacting

and reaching the advance World we are facing today. Though we cannot tell everyone what is happening in Nagaland and society, through this kind of initiative and creativity we can reach out to the other world to let them understand what we are capable of what we can really do, he added.

New Chris Cornell music to be released more than a year after death

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C o r n e l l ’s w i d o w Vicky is behind the new album “Chris Cornell,” as well as a four-disc box set. Both will be released November 16.

The first track from both projects is titled “When Bad Does Good.” Vicky Cornell says it came from her husband’s archives.

The box set will contain 11 unreleased tracks.

Both projects will include his solo work as well as music made with Audioslave, Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog. Vicky Cornell says the album is for his fans and she wanted to remind people of all different aspects of him — “he friend, husband and father, the risk taker and innovator, the poet and artist.”

Cornell died in May 2017 at 52 and his death was ruled a suicide.

(FoxNews)

Applauding the director and the team, he hoped that the movie will have a good impact and grand success. In this, he also encouraged them to have such kind of will so that it will not only uplift the social understanding but also encourage the upcoming youngsters.

Sentilong Ozukum is the author of the movie, Aakum Den is the editor, sound and assistant director, sound FX Nokrang, Limanungdang Ao art direction, production manager Sennagba Longchar, make up Atu Ao, lights Kikameren Longchar & Aakum Den. The movie is screen played

by Talilula with cinematographer Menang Jamir & Supong Al and Music by Alem Aier.

OffOn Productions Pvt Ltd presented Jarem adapted from the book “Sincerely yours” a film by Bendang Walling. The film is about life which has never been the same for 15 years old Jarem even since the haunting began days after his family moved to a new home. The film shows us the inside of knowing Jarmen and his journey towards whether he will ever be released from the bondage of the supernatural forces.

(Staff Reporter)

TV actress alleges rape on pretext of marriage

Mumbai-based TV actress has alleged rape by a 25-year-old man at a hotel in Rajasthan’s Neemrana, on the pretext of marriage, police said.

On Wednesday, the Neemrana police received a zero FIR from Oshiwara police station in Mumbai regarding the matter, said Sanjay Puniya, SHO, Neemrana police station.

He said summons have been sent to the accused and the victim has been asked to visit Neemrana for further investigation. However, both the victim and accused are yet to respond, he said.

According to Puniya, the television actress had befriended a Kanpur-based man through social media.

They exchanged numbers via Facebook chat, followed by a round of frequent video calls. The couple started chatting for hours and then decided to get married.

However, the man asked the girl to meet him once to take their discussions further.

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arrie Underwood received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday and was overcome with emotion as she thanked her family and fans for her incredible career.

The 35-year-old singer had difficulty getting through her speech as she cried happy tears. Underwood referenced her small town roots in her speech after receiving kind words from both her “American Idol” mentor, Simon Cowell, and singer Brad Paisley, and said she was able to achieve success through believing in herself as well as others’ support.

“How is this my life?”

Underwood mar veled.

“How does a girl from Muskogee, Oklahoma, end up with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? I’ll tell you how -- belief. I’ve been so blessed in my life to have ... so many people who believed in me.”

Later, she gave a sweet shout-out to her husband,

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ctor Saif Ali Khan will be back as police officer Sartaj Singh in the second season of crime drama series “Sacred Games”, streaming platform Netflix announced on Friday.

The announcement that “Sacred Games 2” is in the pipeline was made with a teaser video, read a statement.

“The worst is yet to come. ‘Sacred Games’ will be back for Season 2,” read a post from the official Netflix India Twitter account.

Based on author Vikram Chandra’s bestselling novel, the first season of the series -- produced by the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment’s Phantom Films joint venture -- received viewer appreciation and critical acclaim worldwide for its gritty plot and power-packed performances.

The series, available in local languages in different markets, tells the tale

on with it”.

“They’re still lying to us now! Theresa May, bless her, is lying about the [European Union] deal”, Gallagher claimed.

“A n d t h e r e moaners, or whatever they’re called, are lying about what’s going to happen.”

He also hit out at the widely refuted claim that Brexit will provide an additional £350 million a week for the NHS – a claim that was famously printed on a Vote Leave campaign bus.

“Then there’s the £350 million from Boris Johnson and all the rest of

Mike Fisher, and their 3-year-old son, Isaiah.

“I met an incredible man, Mike, who thinks I’m so much better than I actually am in every way,” she said.

“Thank you for believing in me as a human, as a wife, as a mom and supporting me through all of this. He believes in me, and we had another little man that believes in me too.

Isaiah Michael, I love you so much. You’re the best thing we ever did -- the best thing.

I love you, and I’m proud of you, and I believe in you too.”

“This is absolutely amazing and a dream come

of Sartaj, a seasoned and cynical Mumbai police officer who is summoned one morning by an anonymous tip which promises him an opportunity to capture the powerful Ganesh Gaitonde, criminal overlord of the G-Company.

Season 2 will be back with a new trail of betrayal, crime, passion, and a thrilling chase through Mumbai’s underbelly.

The second season picks up from Sartaj pursuing his relentless battle of saving the city and Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) facing bigger

challenges to retain his position as the legendary kingpin of Mumbai.

The intriguing Guruji (Pankaj Tripathi), introduced in season one as Gaitonde’s ‘third father’, plays a pivotal role in unfolding a chain of events that shape the next season, which is scheduled to film in India and locations overseas this fall.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap will continue directing Gaitonde’s track, while Neeraj Ghaywan will take over Sartaj’s plot.

Vikramaditya Motwane and Varun Grover will

them”, he explained.

“They should leave us out of it! Tell us what it is and we’ll get on with it. “ Gallagher was present at last night’s ceremony, after Noel and the High Flying Birds were nominated for 2017’s ‘Who Built The Moon’.

But it was Wolf Alice who would eventually emerge triumphant with their second album ‘Visions Of A Life’.

Accepting the award, singer Ellie Rowsell said: “This means so much to pick this up with my three best friends.”

(NME)

continue their roles of being the showrunner and the lead writer respectively.

Erik Barmack, Vice President, International Originals at Netflix, said: “We’ve been thrilled by the response to ‘Sacred Games’ from fans worldwide, and especially in India, to this high quality production.

It’s incredibly exciting for us to take the story of ‘Sacred Games’ forward and open a new chapter in the series with its second season.”

(IANS)

true,” she added. “ ... That’s how this happens -- belief.

So believe in people, believe in yourselves and just thank you.”

Underwood -- who’s currently pregnant with her second child -- looked gorgeous, showing off her baby bump in a dramatic red trench coat dress.

Last week, Underwood heartbreakingly revealed during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning that before getting pregnant, she suffered three miscarriages in two years.

“2017 just wasn’t how I imagined it,” she said. “I’d kind of planned that 2017 was, you know, going to be the year that I work on new music, and I have a baby. We got pregnant early 2017, and didn’t work out.”

“And that was the thing, in the beginning, it was like, ‘OK, God, we know this is, just wasn’t Your timing.

And that is all right. We will bounce back and figure our way through it,’” she continued.

(FoxNews)

‘Game of Thrones’ star Emilia Clarke gets tattoo linked to HBO show

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Speaking to Good Morning Britain, he hit out at political “lies” – and stressed the need to “get

Carrie Underwood breaks down in tears while receiving star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

‘Sacred Games’ gets the green light for second season

“They’re still lying!”: Gallagher hits out at Theresa and Johnson over Brexit

oel Gallagher has hit out at Theresa May and Boris Johnson, accusing the two leading politicians of spreading lies about Brexit.

With just over six months to go until Brit-

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

ame of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke paid tribute to her fictional persona with permanent ink this week.

The actress, who plays Daenerys Targaryen — nicknamed the “Mother of Dragons” — tattooed an image on her wrist that many fans may appreciate: three baby dragons.

“MOD 4 LYFE!!!!” she wrote captioned an Instagram image on Wednesday. “@_dr_woo_made sure this mamma ain’t NEVER forgetting her babies.... ” Clarke, 31, added, “#dontworryionlybrieflypassedout #withfyreandinkbaby #modgothookedup p#couldntbehappierifitrie d # ##”” Targaryen is gifted three dragon eggs, which eventually hatch, in the first season of the hit HBO show.

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ist Dr. Woo also posted a black-and-white photo of the actress’ new ink.

“I mean... Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Mhysa, Breaker of Chains, the Unburnt, and MOTHER OF DRAGONS thank you @ emilia_clarke for the honor of puttin your babies on ya forever #hideawayatsuitex #slimneedle,” he wrote.

Clarke’s “Game of Thrones” costars, Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner, made headlines this summer for their own tattoos. Williams and Turner play on-screen sisters Arya and Sansa Stark.

In July, tattoo artist Sanghyuk Ko, better known as “Mr. K,” from New York City’s famous Bang Bang tattoo shop, inked the phrase “No One” on Williams, 21.

(FoxNews)

KONYAK LAO-ONG MO Date : 28-09-2018

POST HARVEST FESTIVAL Venue : Local Ground Mon

Time : 10:30 am

Sweets ! That's what my world has become with you.

On this special day, sending you all my Love to wish You, Happiness today and Always.

Happy Birthday Yours Alee

100TH BIRTHDAY

LOTHA BAPTIST CHURCH

PURANA BAZAAR, EAST DIMAPUR – 797116 FELICITATION

The Lotha Baptist Church, Purana Bazaar, East Dimapur congratulates Mr. Y. Zubemo Ezung, Assoc. Pastor on being Ordained to Reverendship on 16th September 2018.

The Church prays that the Lord bless you with Grace, Peace and Wisdom as you continue to work for God's Greater Kingdom.

The Church also thanks Rev. Nyanchumo Lotha, Executive Secretary LBCA, Rev. Mhathung Lotha, Chairman Ordination Board LBCA and all the Ordained Ministers for their invaluable service, rendered during the Ordination.

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22/09/18 Here is wishing our Sweetest Grandma/Mother Imolangla (Chuchuyimlang Village) a very happy 100th Birthday. You are indeed very special to us and we love you.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Naomi Osaka into Tokyo semi finals TDFA Cup: Yangmai FC, KSC win

Tokyo, Sep 21 (Agencies): Japan’s Naomi Osaka exuded a major champion’s aura on Friday as she dispatched Barbora Strycova 6-3, 6-4 to reach the Pan Pacific Open semifinals, despite being nowhere near her best.

The third seed, who stunned Serena Williams to capture the US Open title earlier this month, failed to hit the same heights she did on that historic night in New York.

But she still had too much firepower for Strycova in Tokyo, advancing to face either Italy’s Camila Giorgi or former world number one Victoria Azarenka in the last four.

Eighth seed Strycova had little answer to her opponent’s venomous hitting and the world number seven bagged the first set with a sledgehammer forehand that almost tore the racquet from the Czech’s hand.

The 20-year-old Osaka, contesting her first tournament since becoming Japan’s first Grand Slam singles winner, never looked

Naomi Osaka signs autographs at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tachikawa.

back against a player 12 years her senior, another forehand rocket bringing up a first match point.

Strycova saved that one but moments later, Osaka fired a bruising serve into the body to extend her current winning streak to nine matches.

“I’ve played her three times and each time it’s been very hard,” said Osaka, who reached the Tokyo final in 2016.

“I don’t feel any extra pressure playing in Japan,” added Japan’s latest sporting celebrity, who has a Japanese mother, a Haitian

father and was raised in the United States.

“I’ve improved a lot of things in the last few years and I feel excited playing here.”

Earlier, fourth seed Karolina Pliskova saved two match points before the former women’s

top-ranked player ended American qualifier Alison Riske’s run with a 6-1, 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/4) victory.

The Czech, who smashed a racquet in disgust after squandering multiple chances at 5-5 in the deciding set, completed a “lucky win” with a sliced backhand that Riske wafted into the net after two hours, 40 minutes.

“It was an important win for me,” said Pliskova after reaching her first Tokyo semi-final.

“I saved a couple of match points - she was a little bit better than me but you need a bit of luck in tennis. I’m just happy to be able to fight back.”

Pliskova faces Croatia’s Donna Vekic in the last four after she upset second seed Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-4.

Garcia blew an early break to allow Vekic to take the opening set and the Frenchwoman suffered a carbon-copy let-down in the second, the Croatian ending her misery with a backhand winner.

Dimapur, Sep 21 (NPN): Donching Yangmai FC, Khiamniungan Sports Council (KSC), Pisgah United and Vitao Ayie FC registered wins at the ongoing Tuensang District Football Association Cup 2018 on Friday.

In the first match, Donching Yangmai FC defeated Junior Boys FC 5-1. The first goal for Donching Ya n g m a i F C wa s scored by Manya in the 1st minute. Mosha Yemjong doubled the score in the 16th minute and Kusang made it 3-0 in the 20th minute. Binjemjong and Kejong Somba scored a goal each for Donching Yangmai FC in the 47th and 56th minute respectively. The lone goal for Junior Boys FC was scored by N. Ayen in the 57th minute.

In the second match, Khiamniungan Spor ts Council blanked The Renaissance FC 4-0. Longkhoi scored hat trick with his goals coming in the 1st, 8th and 52nd minute. Muthu also scored a goal in the 25th minute.

Players of KSC and The Renaissance FC vie for the ball during their match at parade ground, Tuensang on Friday.

In the third match, Pisgah United beat Hugel Hifliers FC 3-0. Kelep scored all the goals for Pisgah United.

In the last match, Vitao Ayie FC beat United FC by 2-1 goals. Pushong and Langshe scored the goals in the 25th and 55th minute respectively. The solitary goal for United FC was scored by Sangtsoi S in the 43rd minute.

Today’s matches 1st match: Excel Naga FC Vs Adonis FC 2nd match: Keiyang XI FC Vs 40th AR 3rd match: Gabriel Ministry Vs Awom FC 4th match: Ancient knights FC Vs Oziepik FC

19th NSF Martyrs Memorial Trophy Football is the future of Indian sports: Jeje

by Angami students’ Union (ASU), will kick off on September 22 at 2:00 pm at Kohima local ground with PWD minister, Tongpang Ozukum as the special invitee.

The organizing committee has invited all the Kohima, Sep 21 (NPN): victims of March 20 1986, The 19th NSF Martyrs Me- ASU former leaders, well morial Trophy, organised wishers, schools and col-

leges in Kohima to attend the opening ceremony.

It has also informed all team managers and coaches to report at the ground for technical briefing at 10:30 am on September 22.

In the opening match, Rising Star (Mizoram) will take on Asufü CI (Manipur).

I’ll be back for derby: De Bruyne

from them during the season which will benefit the Chennayin FC to defend their title.

“We have a lot of good Indian players in our squad. Last year Anirudh Thapa, Jerry Lalrinzuala and Germanpreet Singh did quite well in ISL and

that football is going to be the future of sports in India. Indian football is on a high level and I would like to see more of it in the future,” he added..

The Mizoram-born forward also felt that younger players were flourishing, given the number of oppor-

REMEMBERING WAPANGINLA ON HER 10TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY of our beloved

Late Atu Changkiri

Ten years have passed since you left, you have left us precious memories.

Your love is still our guide and we all miss you so dearly.

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Lo n d o n, S e p 2 1 (Agencies): Injured Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne expects to be fit for the derby against United on November 11.

The 27-year-old enjoyed a superb campaign for title-winning City last season but has been out since August after suffering a knee injury in training.

However, speaking at the launch of FIFA 19 on Thursday, De Bruyne said he has the derby date in his sights - and could even be back sooner.

“I still need three, four, five weeks, but I’m getting there,” said De Bruyne.

“Hopefully I can be back soon, help the team, and perform well. I’m hoping to be back after the next international break. I think I will be back for the derby.”

The next international break follows Manchester City’s trip to Liverpool on October 7.

City then have games against Burnley, Tottenham, Southampton - plus two against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League - before they take on neighbours United.

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tunities they were being offered in the ISL. Moreover, the spotlight they enjoy in the ISL means that impressive performances could bring them under the national team’s radar.

He also hoped that such an incentive will bring out good performances

It has been a year since you left, yet it only seems like yesterday that you were with us. Today, although we grieve your absence, our hearts are comforted at the thought of you having fulfilled your purpose on earth and having fought the good fight. You now have a history of your own, and your generation will forever be blessed.

Your love and wisdom will remain an indelible imprint in our hearts.

Remembering you today and always.

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1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY Of our Beloved Abao

Through this column, the family members of Late Mrs. Yikhyav Patton, W/o Late Alow Patton would like to express our profound and heartfelt gratitude to each and everyone who stood by us and helped us out through prayers, physically, materially and financially till she breathed her last on the 14th September, 2018.

We deeply regret our inability Born : 1940 to thank each and everyone Died : 14.09.2018 individually, but it is our sincere prayer that the Almighty Lord bless you all abundantly.

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got a national call. This year we have Issac Vanmalsawma,” Jeje said.

“There is good mix of seniors and juniors in our squad. They will become an important part in the course of the league and will help us retain the title,” he added.

3rd Death Anniversary

Jeje Lalpekhlua

Dearest Daddy (Apo)

Sweet memories of you keep us going even when the pain of losing you is still so fresh in our hearts.

You are warmly remembered and fearfully missed.

Your loving wife, sons, daughters and in-laws Lt. Z. Mhonchan Mozhui

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New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS): Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Chennaiyin FC star striker Jeje Lalpekhlua believes India’s rise in stature and international rankings is no coincidence.

India has always been crazy about football but since the ISL kicked off in 2014, the game has seen a new dimension.

Since 2014, Indian football’s graph has also been on the rise and Jeje credits ISL for giving Indian football a new identity.

“The foundation of the game and the quality has improved now. There is a lot of difference between the first season and last season of the ISL (in terms of quality of football),” Jeje was said.

Jeje has been an undoubted star in the ISL and a regular with the naMatch commissioner and president of Dimapur District Football Referee Association tional team under different (DDFRA) Shiyito Achumi with the referees at the ongoing Dimapur Football League at coaches.

DDSC stadium on Friday. (NP) “People have realized

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We the bereaved family of Late THANIZHE of Nunumi Village would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, churches, friends and well wishers, who stood by us physically, spiritually and financially during his prolonged illness and at the ultimate demise of our beloved father on 31/8/2018.

We deeply regret our inability to mention your names individually but it's our sincere prayer that Almighty God bless you all abundantly. And your good deeds will always be treasured in our hearts.

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LATE CHUBATOSHI AKHORI LATE MERILABO RENTTA 05/09/1953 – 15/09/2018

“It is a faithful saying: for if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him: ’’ 2 Timothy 2:11 Like the falling of a leaf Like the binding of a sheaf Fleeting days are telling fast Fairest flowers soon decay Youth and beauty pass away Life at best is very brief.

We the family of Late Mr. Merilabo Rentta express our heartfelt gratitude to all the well wishers, prayer partners, churches, neighbours and friends for their continuous physical and spiritual support during the prolonged illness and at the demise of our beloved father. We also thank the doctors and nurses of CISHR Hospital, Dimapur for their services during the treatment of our father. We are unable to thank each and every individual personally but it is our sincere prayer that Almighty God will bless you abundantly.

Died on 22nd September, 2017

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Vanguard FC lift Kenguruse memorial trophy

Vanguard FC with Lt. Gen. Abhay Krishna and family members of Capt. Kenguruse after the prize distribution ceremony on Friday. (NP)

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Kohima, Sep 21 (NPN): Vanguard FC Tseminyu defeated Nerhema FC 2-0 to lift the 4th edition Capt.

N. Kenguruse MVC Memorial Football tournament on Friday. The tournament was organised by 9 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (N).

The champion team received a cash prize of Rs 1.7 lakh along with trophy and citation while runnersup pocketed Rs 80,000 and trophy. In individual awards, Yhunshalo Kemp

of Vanguard FC received the golden boot award (10 goals) while Medophrezo of Nerhema FC bagged the best custodian award. Both received Rs 10,500 each.

Rhitso Mero of Vanguard FC, who was named the most valuable player of the tournament, received Rs 8,500.

In the final match, Rhitsho Mero made an attempt in the very first minute of the match but his shot went wide by few inches. After a while, Sanyam Konyak attempt also missed the target by few inches Kekhrieletuo

Tsira and Shurhosul Zhotso of Nerhema FC also missed good chances to score. Vanguard FC finally found the first goal through Yhunshalo Kemp in the 34th minute.

After the breather, Nerhema FC fought for the equaliser, however Vanguard FC checked their advances.

Salu Kulim could have given Nerhema FC the break but his shot went wide. In the 78th minute, Sinelo Kath scored the second goal for Vanguard FC to seal the match.

Earlier, Lt Gen Abhay Krishna, GOC-in- C East-

ern Command graced the closing ceremony as the chief guest.

In his address, Krishna said that Captain Kenguruse football tournament is aimed providing an opportunity to the Naga youth to showcase their skills and also to commemorate the supreme sacrifice of the brave martyr. The Army Commander connected with the spectators by delivering most part of his speech in Nagamese, which was received positively by the august gathering.

The closing function was also attended by General Officer Commanding of Spear Corps, Inspector General Assam Rifles (North), state government dignitaries and the parents and family members of Capt N Kenguruse.

Other highlights of the closing ceremony were combined pipe band display

by Assam Rifles, an act on Kargil War by Little Tune Academy and enchanting songs by local artists.

Altogether, 24 teams participated in the tournament.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,2018

Asia Cup: India beat B’desh by 7 wickets Dubai, Sep 21 (Agencies): India made little work of Bangladesh’s meagre total of 173, as strong performances from skipper Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja helped India beat Bangladesh by 7 wickets in their Super Four match of the Asia Cup in Dubai on Friday.

Shikhar Dhawan gave India the perfect start as he raced away to a 47-ball 40, before his opening partner anchored the chase with his 36 ODI fifty.

Dhawan proved too hot to handle for the Bangladeshi pacers, but was trapped by the wily Shakib Al Hasan in front of the stumps.

Rohit though continued the good work, first partnering with Ambati Rayudu (13) and then MS Dhoni (33).

But the star of the Indian chase was undoubtedly the India skipper, as he blasted the Bangladeshi bowlers all around the park.

He finished his innings on an unbeaten 83, including 5 fours and 3 sixes.

E a r l i e r, l e f t - a r m spinner Ravindra Jadeja wreaked havoc among the Bangladesh’s top and middle-order to retur n figures of 4/29. He was complimented well by the

India’s captain Rohit Sharma raises his bat to celebrate scoring fifty runs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday. (AP/ PTI)

pace duo of Bhuvneshwar Kumar (3/32) and Jasprit Bumrah (3/37).

Put in to bat, the Bangladeshi innings could have folded much earlier, but lower-order batsman Mehidy Hasan’s courageous 42 took the team to 173.

Bhuvneshwar started the onslaught by getting opener Liton Das (7) in the fifth over, before Bumrah removed the other opener Nazmul Hossain Shanto (7) in the next over.

Veteran Shakib Al Hasan (17) and Mushfiqur Rahim (21) then arrived at the crease and got into damage control, playing the ball to its merit. But in

the 10th over, Jadeja picked up Shakib Jadeja jolted the Bangladeshis by trapping Mohammad Mithun (9) before packing back Rahim.

Mahmudullah (25) and Mehidy forged a 36run stand for the seventh wicket.

Skipper Mashrafe Mortaza (26) together with Mehidy raised a valuable 56-run stand for the eighth wicket. But Indian bowlers bounced back well to restrict them to 173 in 49.1 overs.

Brief scores: Bangladesh: 173 (Hasan 42, Mortaza 26; Jadeja 4/29) vs India 174/3 (Rohit Sharma 83, Dhawan 40)

LBCD sports evangelism underway Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth crash out of China Open

Sector presidents taking oath during the opening ceremony on Friday. (NP)

Staff Reporter

Dimapur, Sep 21 (NPN): Two-day Sports Evangelism 2018 organized

by Lotha Baptist Church Dimapur (LBCD) youth department got underway at Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Dimapur ground after it was declared open with a dedicatory prayer by pastor LBCD, Rev. Zanao Mozhui.

Six sectors-KLOK, Rilan, Duncan and Court, Town, Nagarjan, and Bur-

ma camp and Veterinary are taking part in various events held on theme, “Arise and Build”.

Rev. Zanao Mozhiu exhor ted the gathered youth and urged the participants to let good sportsmanship prevail during the event.

The events are volleyball (boys and girls), football (boys), tug of war (boys and girls) and race200 m for girls and 400 m for boys.

Earlier, the opening

ceremony chaired by youth evangelist LBCD, Longshithung Patton began with an invocation by associate pastor LBCD, John Ovung.

Welcome address was delivered by youth director LBCD, Benlanthung Yanthan, where he highlighted the objective of organizing the sports evangelism to the gathering.

The oath to the youth and participants was administered by sports secretary, LBCD youth department, Achum Ovung.

CHANGZHOU, Sep 21 (PTI): Top shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth lost their quarterfinal matches on Friday, drawing the curtains on India’s campaign at the $1 million China Open BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament in Changzhou.

After Srikanth was ousted 9-21 11-21 by reigning world champion Kento Momota of Japan, third seed Sindhu went down fighting 11-21 21-11 15-21 to World No. 6 Chen Yufei of China in a hard-fought contest, which lasted 52 minutes.

Sindhu had beaten the 20-year-old Chen four times in their last six meetings but on Friday she couldn’t curb her errors or find a way to break her opponent’s superior game plan. In the opening game, Chen opened up a 6-3 lead. The Chinese produced some stunning strokes to grab a 11-5 lead with a powerful return which the Indian had no answers.

After the break, Sindhu took two points but there was a weak return at the net and another stroke went out.

Sindhu’s errors, coupled

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with Chen’s superb placements, saw the Chinese move to 15-7.

Chen dictated the pace and punished any error from the Indian, who went out a few times. Eventually the Chinese sealed the game with a sharp smash.

After the change of ends, Sindhu tried to engage her opponent in rallies by varying the pace and it worked, as she led 6-1.

However, mental fatigue seemed to affect her judgements as Chen showed good reflexes and unleashed quick and precise strokes to narrow the lead to 5-6.

Chen shot a few shots wide, allowing Sindhu to

make it 10-6. But she twice hit the net before a thunderous smash earned her a 11-8 advantage at the break.

The Indian extended the lead to 15-10. She tried to boost herself by celebrating each point and eventually roared back to contest when her rival hit long again.

In the decider, Chen stepped up the pace after an initial burst of points from Sindhu to lead 7-4. Chen maintained the three-point advantage at the breather.

Chen returned with a barrage of strokes on Sindhu’s backhand and, aided by the Indian’s errors, moved to a 14-8 lead. Sindhu showed signs of recovery, pocketing

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four straight points, which included a crucial video referral, but she hit wide again as the score read 16-12 in Chen’s favour.

In the end, Sindhu hit a long shot followed by a return at the net, giving Chen five match points and she sealed it with another powerful smash.

Earlier, Srikanth, who had a 3-7 head-to-head record against Momota, couldn’t find a chink in Momota’s armour and went down without a fight against the world No.2 in a lopsided contest.

Srikanth had lost to Momota at the Malaysia Open and Indonesia Open

in June and July respectively.

The Indian was no match for Momota, who has been in sensational form since making a comeback after serving a one-year ban for visiting an illegal casino.

Srikanth lagged 1-5 initially. He recovered to 4-5 with three straight points, but couldn’t put up a fight as Momota surged to a huge 19-6 lead before pocketing the first game.

The second game was no different as Momota moved from 4-3 to 13-3 with nine straight points. He continued to dominate the proceedings to seal the contest without much effort.

Open penalty Chelsea begin Europa campaign with 1-0 win shootout tourney L o nd o n , S e p 2 1 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : C h e l sea started their Europa League campaign with a comfortable 1-0 win over PAOK Salonika on Thursday.

Willian scored the only goal of the game in the seventh minute when he finished from Ross Barkley’s pass.

Chelsea were dominant and should have won by a greater margin as Alvaro Morata, Pedro and Willian all spurned good chances.

However, the Greek side rarely looked like equalising as Chelsea made a winning start in Group L and continued their perfect start to the season.

Playing in the Europa League for the first time since winning the competition in 2012/13, Chelsea struck early as Barkley played through for Willian and he finished past Alexandros Paschalakis.

The visitors looked comfortable for the rest of the half, controlling possession but missing chances to extend their lead.

Morata’s fr ustrat-

Willian is congratulated by Chelsea team-mates after he scores a goal duirng their Europa League match against PAOK Salonika.

ing season continued as he missed a close-range header and then shot wide, while Pedro was denied by Paschalakis after a quick counter.

The Greek side might have won a penalty late

in the half when Barkley tugged at the shirt of a player from a free-kick.

But the incident was not spotted by the referee and PAOK did not come close to scoring after the break as Chelsea contin-

ued to control the game.

The only thing lacking was the second goal, with Willian shooting at the goalkeeper and then lashing over from the penalty spot.

Pedro also saw a cou-

ple of efforts saved before suffering an apparent shoulder injury late in the game when he was pushed into the goalkeeper’s knees as he was sliding out.

Pedro was helped off the pitch by two physios as Chelsea saw out victory.

Arsenal also cruised to a 4-2 win over Ukraine’s Vorskla Poltava in the Europa League football championship kick-off.

Arsenal led 1-0 at the break on a goal in 32nd minute by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Danny Welbeck doubled the advantage for the hosts just three minutes in the second half at the Emirates here on Thursday, reports Efe. The third goal came in the 56th minute, again courtesy of Aubameyang, while Mesut Özil made it 4-0 in the 74th.

Volodymyr Chesnakov clawed back a goal for Vorskla in the 76th minute and Vyacheslav Sharpar added a second for the visitors in stoppage time.

The victory leaves Arsenal sharing the lead in Group E with Sporting, who defeated Qarabag 2-0 in Lisbon.

Dimapur, Sep 21 (NPN): Open penalty shootout in aid of Mission Possible Children’s Home will be held on September 29 at New Showuba (Loyir) local ground. The registration fee is Rs.1000. The winner of the tournament will receive a cash prize of Rs.20, 000 while the runnersup will pocket Rs.10,000.

The best goal keeper will also be awarded Rs.2000.

For more information, contact 8119820853 or 6 players and a coach from Nagaland have been selected to represent the Indian Sepaktakraw team in the 33rd Kings 8014993091.

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Inter-dist catch them young tournament

Dimapur, Sep 21 (NPN): The department of Youth Resources and Sports will be organizing the 11th edition of U- 14 Inter District Catch Them Young Tournament in the disciplines of football (girls) and badminton (both boys and girls) at IG Stadium, Kohima from September 24-28. As follow up action of the tournament, outstanding players will be spotted for induction into the sports academy.

23-30 at Korat, Thailand. The team consists of 3 players from SSB, 2 players from Nagaland Police, 1 player from State Sports Academy, Dimapur. The team will be led by state Sepaktakraw coach Holshe Khrieo.

DFL: FC Alianza, P. Vizheto FC win

Dimapur, Sep 21 (NPN): FC Alianza and P. Vizheto FC registered wins at the ongoing Dimapur Football League (DFL) on Friday.

In the first match of round 2, FC Alianza defeated United V&S by 5-0. Aben scored two goals for FC Alianza in the 30th and 51st minute respectively. Laiwang Konyak scored in the 38th minute and Nungsang scored in the 39th minute. K. Pamei scored the fifth goal in the 60th minute.

In the second match, P. Vizheto FC defeated Dorian’s by 4-0.

Kakhevi scored the first hat-trick of the tournament by scoring in the 6th minute, 35th minute and converted a penalty in 69th minute. Apeto also found the net in the 59th minute.

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