January 17, 2017

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Vol XXVII No. 41

DIMAPUR, tuesday, january 17, 2017 Pages 12 ` 4.00

Sarita Devi to make professional debut in Imphal

Security beefed up in Mnp ahead of Republic Day

Afghan attackers are from Pakistan: Ghani

sports, Page 12

northeast, Page 4

international, Page 9

Issues in NM Act: Govt, Naga tribes face-off

Staff Reporter/Correspondents

D I M A P U R / KO H I M A / KIPHIRE, JAN 16 (NPN): A sense of foreboding prevails throughout Nagaland as an overwhelming majority of apex tribe organisations, several village councils etc. await the response from candidates of the ruling DAN government and some Independents to their call for withdrawing nominations to the February 1, 2017 civic polls

by January 17, which is the last date for withdrawal of nomination.

Against the backdrop of strident calls for withdrawing their nominations, there are reports that the ruling NPF has shepherded candidates from various parts of the state to the capital. Sources confirmed that the NPF candidates have been called to Kohima in order to prevent them from withdrawing their candidature on the last date on January 17.

When contacted NPF party sources, confirmed the report but did not divulge the location where the candidates were housed. The sources however said candidates were stationed in various places.

Naga Council summons

In Dimapur, which has 23 municipal wards, where NPF

State govt appoints election tribunal DIMAPUR, JAN 16 (NPN): State government has appointed L.K.Achumi, Retd. District and Session Judge, as the Election Tribunal to hear and dispose of petitions, pertaining to the Municipal/Town Council Elections 2017, if any, calling in question the election of a member of Municipal Council or Town Council subsequent to the publication of the result of election under Section 42 of the Nagaland Municipal Act of 2001 by the State Election Commission.

In a notification, Municipal Affairs Department stated that the Election Tribunal would hear and dispose off all election petitions placed before it in the manner prescribed under the Nagaland Municipal Act of 2001. The address of the Election Tribunal is Police Officers Mess, Chumukedima, Dimapur, Nagaland.

Withdrawal limits up

MUMBAI, JAN 16 (PTI): In a major relief, the Reserve Bank today more than doubled the daily ATM withdrawal limit to Rs 10,000 but retained the weekly ceiling at Rs 24,000.

RBI however doubled the weekly withdrawal limit from current accounts to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 50,000 - a move which will ease cash position of small traders.

This is it!

“See? Candidates are in a win-lose situation. No one wants to be first to withdraw nomination.”

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and BJP candidates are poised for straight contests and both party candidates not wanting to withdraw first lest the other gets walk-over.

In this regard, Naga Council Dimapur at an emergency meeting on January 16 at NCD office, has unanimously reaffirmed the resolution adopted by the Joint Co-ordination Committee (JCC) on January 15 at Lotha Hoho Ki(near DC Court Junction) with regard to the present ULB election crisis.

NCD vice president K. Ghokheto Chophy and general secretary Thsapongkyu Sangtam informed that the meeting was attended by NCD councillors, GBs and DUCCF .

In this regard, NCD renewed the call on all candidates to withdraw their nominations on January 17, the last date “in the greater interest of the Naga people”.

NCD further warned that failure to comply with the call for shall entail it to fully endorse and support whatever decisions the JCC (comprising of Ao, Lotha, Sumi, Angami and Chakhesang tribes)take in accordance with the Naga customary law. NCD also directed candidates of all political parties including Independent candidates along with tribal

union office bearers to report in person at Lotha Hoho Ki (DC Court Junction) on January 17 at 9 a.m. NCD has warned that stringent action would be taken against the absentee(s) collectively by NCD, GBs and DUCCF of Dimapur.

DMC BJP candidates: Eleven BJP candidates for the Dimapur Municipal Council elections have resolved to withdraw their nominations if NPF candidates also agreed to do the same. In a joint statement, 11 BJP candidates -- Hokivi Chishi (ward 19), Hokuto Zhimomi (ward 22), Vikheho Zhimo (ward 17), Simon Yeptho (ward 23), Yangertoshi (ward 11), Moa Jamir (ward 16), G. Kits (ward 20), Kavili (ward 21), Meweu Lasuh (ward 1), Ikato (ward 7) and P. Avi Awomi (ward 6) – said they have taken this decision firmly as they could not afford to be on the losing side if they withdrew nominations first and NPF candidates did not follow suit.

In this regard, 11 BJP candidates said a threadbare discussion was held on January 16, wherein they took note of the stand of the tribal organizations as well as the state government.

They said NPF government on one hand was firm on holding civic polls while on the

other hand Naga tribal hohos/ organizations were opposing and asking candidates to withdraw nominations or face certain consequences.

Taking note of all those, the 11 BJP candidates said they have decided to respect and consider the decision of “our apex bodies” as they were bona fide members and affiliated to their own respective tribal apex bodies. However, they said the final decision solely depended on NPF candidates withdrawing their nominations in the first place. BJP candidates said electing unopposed even when there were willing candidates to fight elections would “amount to treacherous politics of the lowest level”.

15 candidates withdraw nominations: Meanwhile, responding to the appeal made by apex tribal bodies urging candidates to withdraw their nominations, 15 candidates from various districts have withdrawn the nomination papers on Monday, as per official records. It was also claimed by the Lotha Hoho that one female Independent candidate and a BJP candidate withdrew thier nominations.

As per State Election Commission (SEC) reprot, the total number of candidates who have withdrawn nominations

so far was 68. The last date of withdrawal of nominations is January 17.

State Election Commission (SEC) stated that four Independent (Ind) candidates for ward 1, 7, 8 and 9 withdrew their nominations for the Meluri Town Council polls. For Dimapur Municipal Council, three Ind candidates of ward 5, 10 and 15 withdrew the nomination papers; Chumukedima Town Council-- Four NPF candidates of ward 3, 6, 7 and 9; Tening Town Council-- One Ind candidate of ward 9; Chozuba Town Council-- One Ind candidate of ward 4; East Dimapur Town Counicl-- One Ind candidate of ward 10 and Zunheboto Town Council-- One Ind candidate of ward 5.

Furthermore, eight Independent candidates of Kiphire Town Council assured to withdraw thier nominations and uphold the January 6 undertaking of United Sangtam Likhum Pumji (USLP), Eastern Sumi Hoho (ESSH), Tikhir Tribal Council (TTC) and Kiphire District GB Association KDGBA. The candidates also resolved to stick by the ENPO directive.

Lotha Hoho warns: In Wokha, two candidates including a female- Independent (ward no 6) and BJP (ward no 7)- have

withdrawn their nomination papers, stated Lotha Hoho chairman, Mhao Humtsoe and general secretary Mhondamo Ovung in a press note and expressed gratitude to the candidates.

However, it warned that January 8 resolution would be enforced on candidates who failed to withdraw, and for any eventuality, the hoho and frontal organizations would not be held responsible. Lotha Hoho further informed that it had framed an undertaking to bear responsibility for candidates withdrawing nomination and the same has been circulated to all candidates, for necessary action, record and reference.

Meanwhile, as a follow up on the Lotha public resolution of January 8, a joint meeting of Lotha Hoho and frontal organizations was held at LTC Hall Wokha on January 14, with the party leaders of NPF Wokha division. At the meeting, the NPF party leaders apologized for their inability to attend meeting. However, Lotha Hoho said NPF unit president, Mhonthung Patton and press secretary, Manthungo Kikon, have signed an undertaking to respect the decisions of the Lotha Hoho. Meanwhile, according to Lotha Hoho, the BJP candidates have assured to withdraw, if NPF do so.

NPCC rejects State EC’s clarification DIMAPUR, JAN 16 (NPN): Rejecting State Election Commission (SEC)’s clarification over deadline extension for filing of nominations, the NPCC has claimed that SEC has once again misguided the general public by misinterpreting the existing rule of the Nagaland Municipal Election Rule 2003.

NPCC vice president Khriedi Theünuo said that rule 20 sub-rule 7 did not provide provisions for extension of nomination date. He explained that rule 30 of Nagaland Municipal Election Rules was about “list of contesting candidates” and not about “superintendence, direction and control of the conduct of elections to the Municipals and Town Councils and when such instances come to its notice”.

NPCC also argued that Section 30 of the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001, provided provisions for “the superintendence, direction and control of the conduct of elections to the Municipals and Town Councils” but only for the purpose of office administration and functioning of SEC. In the light of the above, NPCC reminded SEC that January 7, 2017 notification for extension of nomination did not mention of Rule 30, except Sub-Rule 7 of Rule 20 under Nagaland Municipal election rules.

Therefore, NPCC reaffirmed its stand for extension of February 1 elections to Municipal and Town Council. Further, NPCC said it could seek opinion of the court to define the rules.

EC recognizes SP group led by Akhilesh Yadav World Bank to provide $48 mn

Akhilesh riding a bicycle-- the Samajwadi Party’s symbol. (File)

L U C K N OW, J A N 1 6 (AGENCIES): The Election Commission granted the disputed ‘cycle’ symbol of the Samajwadi Party to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav Monday.

The EC’s decision comes as a huge blow to Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav ahead of the impending state assembly poll.

The three-member EC, headed by Nasim Zaidi, had reserved its judgement

after hearing both sides on January 13. Today, it ruled in favour of Akhilesh after examining documents signed by party members advocating support to the young party leader. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, counsel to Akhilesh’s faction, attested to the same.

“EC dealt with the issue at various angles. By January 9, the Akhilesh group filed all documents at various levels. But the Mu-

layam group did not respond to the commission’s direction and that meant they really had no evidence of their support claim,” Sibal said after the verdict.

The EC said the group led by Akhilesh Yadav is the Samajwadi Party and is entitled to use the ‘bicycle’ symbol. It also acknowledged Akhilesh Yadav as the national president of the Samajwadi Party.

Hailing the EC’s decision, senior leader and Akhilesh loyalist Ram Gopal Yadav said, “This is a just decision. The Election Commission will get the blessings of crores of people in Uttar Pradesh.” The dispute over the party symbol arose following election of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav as the SP national president at a convention on January 1.

At the same convention, incumbent president Mulayam Singh Yadav was made the patron of the par-

ty. This was contested by Mulayam, who approached the EC and conveyed to it that he continues to be the party president and the election symbol should remain with his faction.This was challenged by the other side, which filed affidavits by various party office bearers, MPs, MLAs and district presidents to claim that the majority was with the chief minister’s faction, hence it was entitled to the symbol.

As a contingency, both factions had zeroed in on alternate symbols in case the ‘cycle’ was frozen. The Mulayam faction is believed to be considering Lok Dal’s symbol of ‘farmer with a plough’. The assembly poll process for Uttar Pradesh will commence on Tuesday with notification for the first phase of voting on February 11 covering 73 constituencies spread over 15 distracts in Muslim-dominated Western UP.

for Nagaland Health project

NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (AGENCIES): Multilateral lending agency World Bank and India Monday signed a financing agreement for IDA credit of USD 48 million (equivalent) for the ‘Nagaland Health Project’.

The agreement in this regard was signed by Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs on behalf of the Government of India and Mrs. Genevieve Connors, Acting Country Director, World Bank (India) on behalf of the World Bank.

A Project Agreement was also signed by Dr. L. Watikala, Principal Director, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland and Ms. Connors, an official press release said.

“The objectives of the project are to improve

health services and increase their utilization by communities in targeted locations in Nagaland,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

Communities in targeted locations will benefit from project activities at the community and health facility levels while the population of the state as a whole will benefit from improvements in higherlevel facilities as well as system-wide investments, it added.

According to the statement, the project will directly benefit about 600,000 people. “It will support and complement existing systems and mechanisms involving communities under the National Health Mission,” it said.

The closing date of Nagaland health Project is March 31, 2023.

Rio appeals PM Modi to undo border fencing Merangkong, Chuchuyimlang DIMAPUR, JAN 16 (NPN): Amidst growing opposition to the border fencing along the international boundary between India and Myanmar, the Lok Sabha MP and former chief minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio, has appealed to the Prime Minister of India to prevail upon the situation and intervene and undo the construction of the border fencing so the prevailing peace and harmony, which has existed for centuries, was not disturbed.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Rio said that the people living in both sides of the border in the Naga areas belonged to the similar tribes and had been living as one community since time immemorial. He said that the population on both sides of the border, not only belonged to the same tribe but most of the people were of the same family and clan and even have common

properties across the border.

Throughout history, the MP said people have lived in harmony across the entire region despite the imaginary boundary. Rio reminded that there were even properties and age-old houses that were located on the imaginary boundary itself. He pointed out that due to the close-knit community and traditional bonds between the people, those regions have never faced social problems of any nature and there is no question of immigration, illegal activities, etc.

In fact, Rio said rich social fabric of the people has always been a source of strength for both countries, and the presence of a common population on either side of the boundary has always been a genuine factor for unity and understanding between India and Myanmar. Lone Lok Sabha MP from Nagaland added

that in the future also it was bound to contribute towards bringing the two countries closer towards mutual cooperation and partnership.

Further, Rio pointed out that the construction of border fencing has disturbed the social harmony and warned that it has the potential to create a serious social and humanitarian crisis.

MP said the masses have already objected and public demonstrations against the construction have been carried out. “Civil society organisations, apex tribal bodies and civil society groups on both sides of the border have opposed the construction,” he said.

Rio said that during his time as chief minister, the matter was discussed on few occasions, but he had out rightly rejected the suggestion as he was aware of the ground realities and the mind of the people. MP asserted that fencing work

was being executed without taking into consideration the sentiments and confidence of the local population.

He further warned that if the fencing works was not stopped immediately a serious crisis was likely to erupt in the border regions.

“There is potential that the natural peace and harmony that has always existed could be disturbed with serious negative implications,” Rio underlined.

NNC: NNC president (Retd) Gen. Thinoselie M. Keyho has raised objection on the construction of border fencing and demanded that the work should be stop immediately. Keyho affirmed that the friendship between India and Myanmar should not be at the cost of Naga national rights.

NNC further said that Naga people will never recognized “international border” between India and Myanmar in Naga territory.

village councils refute rumours

DIMAPUR, JAN 16 (NPN): Merangkong village and Chuchuyimlang village councils have vehemently condemned the actions of some antisocial elements spreading rumours that both the councils had called for a 50-hour bandh along NH-2 from January 18.

In a statement, issued

by Merangkong Village Council (MVC) chairman Imdangjungba, secretary Imtitoshi including secretary of Medemsanger Putu, Kumsangchiba and six tatars and asst. secretary while refuting the rumours said, some unscrupulous persons were attempting to tarnish the image of the village council by dragging in the chairmen of Chuchuyimlang and Merangkong village councils.

Further, urging all to condemn such acts and not to be misled, MVC said the

putu menden would make all out effort “to unearth the conspiracy hatched against the village. The council also appealed to law enforcing agencies to nab the culprits at the earliest.

CVC: In another statement, the Chuchuyimlang Village Council (CVC) chairman, Ao Sanen Pongen condemned the act of some miscreants trying to malign the names of Chuchuyimlang and Merangkong villages by circulating forged documents without bearing any signatures, declaring NH-2 bandh.

While condemning the criminal act, CVC clarified that there was no social unrest or disturbances of any kind in both the villages to warrant calling for a bandh.

The council assured all that the perpetrators would be death with seriously.

LHJAC final notice DIMAPUR, JAN 16 (NPN): Lotha Hoho Joint Action (LHJAC) has issued a final notice to the candidates, asking them to withdraw their nomination papers for the ensuing election to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) slated on February 1, 2017, for the betterment and future of the general public. The committee further asked the general public/volunteers to gather at Deputy Commissioner office, Wokha on January 17 (last date of withdrawal of nomination papers) by 10 am.

Candidate clarifies: Reacting to the statement of the Lotha Hoho published on January 15 ‘Wokha distt candidates ready to withdraw nominations...,” N. Mhabemo Ezung NPF candidate of ward 11 Wokha town has clarified that he did not assure to collectively withdraw/withdraw his candidature from the ensuing ULB election. The press release was misinterpreted and should be treated as null and void, Mhabemo stated.

Bodies for civic polls DIMAPUR, JAN 16 (NPN): Khiamiungan Tribal Council (KTC) during an emergency meeting held on January 16 at KTC hall, Noklak town, resolved to allow the Town council elections in Noklak town.

Informing this through a press note, KTC president P. Mongchua said the decision was taken after thorough deliberation and based on ENPO’s January 4 resolution-- to leave it to the understanding and responsibility of the respective tribes.

ZPON endorses: Zeliang People’s Organization (ZPO) has fully endorsed the move of the state government to hold election to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) scheduled on February 1, 2017. The decision was taken at the brief public meeting held at Jalukie town on January 16, 2017, stated ZPO president Kezen Zeliang in a press statement.

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Khriehu addresses Kma DPDB meeting

DIMAPUR: The first Kohima District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) meeting for the year 2017 was held in the DPDB’s conference hall on January 16, held under the chairmanship of parliamentary secretary of Youth Resources & Sports, Lotteries and MTF and DPDB chairman, Khriehu Liezietsu.

According to DIPR report, Khriehu Liezietsu welcomed and facilitated the incoming deputy commissioner Kohima and the vice chairman of DPDB, Rajesh Soundararajan. He described the new DC as a sincere and bright young IAS officer with experience and would do justice in his new role as the DC of the state capital. Khriehu also thanked and complimented all the DPDB members for their efforts, time and innovations committed and invested to the DPDB for the welfare and development of the district which was really noble and impressive.

He called upon the forum to lead the rest of the state by setting examples to be more progressive in its activities and make Kohima the first district in true sense.

Deputy commissioner and vice chairman DPDB, Rajesh Soundararajan said

Parliamentary secretary of YRS, Lotteries & MTF and DPDB chairman, Khriehu Liezietsu speaking at Kohima DPDB meeting on January 16. (DPRO Kohima. that the forum was a plat- the Core Committee. The the Paralympics Committee form for discussions of awards were handed over of Nagaland, opposite to various innovative ideas by Khriehu Liezietsu. The Government Polytechnic, and that those ideas were best Adoptions Committee Kohima for new registraimplemented. He therefore Award was adjudged by the tion. Denis Angami, District urged the members to take High School ward Adoption Soil Conservation Offices, it seriously and requested Committee of 10th North- Kohima gave a brief report them to come up with new ern Angami where a sum on its Phesama Adoption innovative ideas so as to set of Rs. 30,000/- only was Committee. Kohima Muan example both in its func- awarded to the Committee. nicipal Council and Public tioning and deliverance to The second best Adoption Health Engineering were the other districts. DC also Committee Award was won entrusted to present its acinformed that the District by the Chiechama Village tivities in the next DPDB Disaster Management Au- Adoption Committee of meeting. thority would have its meet- 11th Northern Angami-II KIPHIRE: In Kiphire ing on January 27. where a sum of Rs, 20,000/- the monthly meeting of The two best Adop- only was awarded to the Kiphire District Planning tion Committees were an- Committee. & Development Board was nounced during the meetIn the meeting, other held on January 13 in the ing by ADC Headquarter agendas included registra- conference hall of deputy Lithrongla Tongpi who tion of societies where the commissioner under the is also the convener of board decided to approve chairmanship of DC & vice

chairman DPDP Kiphire, Sedevikho Khro.

After review of the last meeting minutes, the Board constituted verification team for Local Area Development Programme (LADP) 2016-17 for the 2(two) constituencies, 59 A/C Sitimi-Seyochung with additional deputy commissioner Seyochung as convenor, Executive Engineer R&B, member, Block Development Officer Sitimi, member. For 60 A/C Kiphire-Pungro the committee was constituted with additional deputy commissioner Pungro as Convenor, Executive Engineer PHED, member and Block Development Officer Pungro, member.

With regards to constitution of Sub-Divisional Planning Board at Pungro the board is to clarify to the Government that Kiusam Area of the District falls under 57 Thonoknyu A/C of Tuensang district, however administrative matter falls under Kiphire. Board therefore decided that the government may take its own decision on the matter. Board also discussed for forthcoming Republic day and distributed work assigned to the departments concerned.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur Tuesday, january 17, 2017

news in brief ACIF informs: Anti Corruption and Crime Investigation Front (ACIF), Nagaland Unit has informed to all the district/state members to report to the office at Padumpukhuri, Opp. Western Motors, Naharbari on or before January 26 during office hours without fail. ACIF state general secretary, Zakob Achumi informed that failure to comply would entail the office to take its own course of action. Office contact no. 7423817467.

DC Dmu informs: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome has informed all parade contingents under Dimapur district that the parade rehearsal would commence on January 18, at 7 a.m. at DDSC stadium for the ensuing Republic Day celebration 2017.

ADCP/PRO Dimapur Police also informed all parade contingents including school contingents to report to the DDSC stadium Dimapur at 7 a.m on January 18 without fail for the start of practice.

Mangkolemba SDPDB meet: SubDivisional Planning & Development meeting of Mangkolemba for the month of January 2017 would be held on January 23. All the members have been asked to attend the meeting where discussions on forth coming observation of Republic Day would be held.

RLK annual day: The 13th annual day of Rhiidezou Lhisemiapfii Krotho (RLK) would be held on January 19 at 1 p.m in the Razhiikhrie multipurpose hall. All the concern members have been requested to attend the programme.

ADC & RO Bhandari informs: Polling personnel for Bhandari Town Council Election 2017 has been informed that

training on conduct of election would be held from January 23 to 24 at ADC office Bhandari from 11 a.m onwards.

All the presiding officers, polling officers and staff have been directed to attend the training positively.

KPC to observe 16th Foundation Day: Kohima Press Club (KPC) would be observing its 16th Foundation Day on January 20 in the KPC conference hall, Kohima at 12 pm. All the members of the club have been requested to attend the programme. The KPC executive council has also informed that there would be an exchange of gifts, each worth Rs.500 and above, among the members following the formal programme. The KPC also extends invitation to all the well wishers of the club to join the foundation day observation.

Model code of conduct committee meeting: Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome has convened a meeting with the Model Code of Conduct Committee members Dimapur district on January 18 at 11 a.m in the conference hall of DC Dimapur, in connection with the ensuing Urban Local Bodies election. Committee members for ensuring Model Code of Conduct comprises of: DC as convenor; RO DMC member; SDO (C) Sadar member secretary; One representative of Commissioner of Police as member; DPRO Dimapur member; President DCC, Dimapur district member; President BJP, Dimapur district member; President NCP, Dimapur district member; President NPF Dimapur district member. All committee members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

ATMA Ghathashi block conducts activities Agri deptt inaugurates farm Drugs worth 1, 30,000 seized

DIMAPUR: ATMA Ghathashi Block under Zunheboto district conducted field day on chemical-free land preparation for high quality yield at Ghokimi village on January 13. Resource person Tiarenla, ATM Ghathashi elucidated the different techniques of land preparation and stressed on using of Farm Yard Manure (FYM) in preparing of the same. She also briefed the farmers on vermin composting technique and clarified on how SHG’s could generate income from the same. Field demonstration on raising of nursery bed for peas as well as cabbage were also illustrated. Altogether 21

farmers attended the programme. Seeds of peas and cabbage were distributed to members of different SHG’s. In another similar programme, field day on citrus orchard management was also held at Kitami village on January 14. Hutoka BTM Ghathashi stressed on the different management activities in raising of orange plantations such as spacing, timely thinning of plants as well as tackling of different diseases and pests.

Field demonstration on the preparation of Bordeaux paste and mixture were also illustrated by him along with Yatetla ATM Ghatashi.

GPRN/ NSCN welcome new members

DIMAPUR: Altogether 41 members of various Naga Political Groups have joined the GPRN/NSCN, GSO-I (Adm) General Headquarters, Naga Army, ‘brig’ Aheto Chophi informed through a press note.

According to the press note, the new members were: ‘major’ Wangkep (NSCN-R); ‘major’ T.Kossam (NSCNIM); ‘major’ Bokato (NSCN-K); ‘capt.’

Temsu Walling (NSCN-IM); ‘lieut.’ Hongpe (NSCN-IM); ‘lieut.’ Khampei (NSCN-R); ‘lieut.’ Aiwang (NSCN-R); ‘lieut.’ Angukavi (NSCN-K); ‘lieut.’ Kaiwang (NSCN-K); ‘lieut.’ Moba (NSCN-K); ‘lieut.’ Vikai Zhimo (NSCN-K); ‘2nd lieut.’ Panchin (NSCN-R); ‘2nd lieut.’ Abo (NSCN-R); ‘2nd lieut.’ Wangbat (NSCN-R); ‘2nd lieut.’

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DIMAPUR: Agriculture department’s farm machinery shed cum workshop of SDO store Dimapur was inaugurated on January 6, at its office premises by director of agriculture, Helie Rupreo.

At the inaugural programme, Rupreo dedicated the building to the farming community and laid out department’s vision of “Food for All by 2030” where he mentioned that durable machineries would be procured by the department, double cropping would be stressed upon and importance of farm mechanisation in agriculture sector would be emphasised.

Persuading the staff and mechanics to be “sincere” and “innovative” he also asserted that members of agriculture department would be sensitized on the service code of conduct while inviting for constructive ideas and criticism for development of the department. Joint director of

Agriculture, L. Hanghsing emphasised on farm mechanisation. He enlightened the members that farm machinery shed cum workshop was constructed under Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM).

Hangshing also updated the department that for availing farm machineries that included power tiller, pump sets etc. An individual availing the machineries on subsidised rate have to submit photo copies of Aadhar card, bank account passbook front page and current updated page.

Meanwhile, deputy director Agriculture Central Store Dimapur, Olem Jamir updated the department on construction report. Jamir also submitted a proposal to the department for renovation and repairing of departmental stores. The programme was chaired by joint director of agriculture L. Hangshing, and vote of thanks delivered by deputy director, S. K. Khemprai.

Late Tokheho Yepthomi laid to rest

Yepthomi Union, Nagaland, Huskha Yeptho, president, Yepthomi Union, Zunheboto, Kakihe Yeptho, president, Sumi Kukami Hoho, Ghovito Zhimo, Sumi Kiphire District, Zhetovi, secretary, Sumi Literature Board, H.S.Rotokha, former president and advisor, Sumi Hoho, Hovishe Arkha. Relatives who spoke at the funeral included Er. Atoho Achumi, Dr.Hokishe Yeptho, Hokugha Zhimo, Kitoli Yeptho. Born on No-

vember 24, 1932 at Sukhalu village, Late Tokheho was actively involved in the welfare of the Naga people.

He was elected to Naga People’s Convention (NPC) in 1959. He was elected to NLA in 1969, 1974 and was inducted as cabinet minister for Civil Supplies and PWD. He was again elected in 1989 and was cabinet minister for PHED. Late Tokheho was also an active social worker and was associated with many organizations in

various capacities such as founder of Zunheboto Arts College in 1975, executive member of Sema Baptist Church Association (19841986), founder and 1st president of Sumi GBs Association (1984-1997), secretary of Naga GBs Federation (1995-1997) and president Naga GBs Federation (19971999).

Meanwhile, Rev. M. S. Obedya of Halleluyah Ministry in a condolence message expressed deepest

condolences to the family of dear uncle late Tokheho Sema Ex.IBM, former minister and recipient of Padma Shri Award 2016. Rev. Obedya described late Tokheho as a great Naga leader with full of love and concern for his people and colleagues.

His unexpected death is a

DIMAPUR: Kohima police personnel manning the Phesama check gate while conducting routine checking and frisking of vehicles intercepted one Manipur bound Tata Winger MN06L-8071 and recovered 13,000 (thirteen thousand) capsules of banned Spasmo proxyvon worth Rs. 1,30,000/- from the possession of Mujibur Rahman (19 yrs) son of Md. Majabar Ali, Kairang Mamang Leikai village, Imphal East, Manipur.

In a press note, SDPO (South)/PRO, Atu Zumvü, the arrested person was taken into police custody for possession and transporta-

Accused in police custody

tion of the banned drug. In this connection, a regular case have been registered against the arrested accused and remanded into judicial custody, PRO added.

DIMAPUR: Departmental coordination meeting was held at ADC Tseminyu conference hall on January 13 for the forthcoming Republic Day celebration to be held at Tseminyu town. All head of offices, Principals, Headmaster of Government High School and Private High school, DBs, Ward GBs in Tseminyu town attended the meeting. ADC Tseminyu, Vikhweno M. Meratsu who chaired the meeting requested the members to cooperate in the preparation work for the successful celebration of the coming Republic Day on January 26.

EUPCC visits orphanage home

DIMAPUR: Evangelical Union Patkai Christian College (EUPCC) visited two orphanage Homes and one short stay Home. Altogether 74 students were divided into three groups which were led

by EU advisors Athong, Zulu and EU President Lungriading Ndang. The union

undertook the visit to share Gods love and blessings with people less privileged and to demonstrate that,” Giving is better than Receiving.” During their visit proprietress

of Rev. Longsa Memorial and Proprietor of Galilee Home expressed gratitude and inspired the students to continue to extend their good gesture.

16th DEATH ANNIVERSARY of our beloved father

Late Welhi Khutsoh

great loss not only to his immediate family but to all brethren Nagas in general, stated the message. It also prayed that Lord God grant spiritual and physical strength to the bereaved family members and that the departed soul rest in eternal peace.

On this day, the 17th January 2001, you left us for your Eternal Home. Though you are no longer with us, yet your memories are still a part of our lives.

Your good deeds, love and care are always remembered in our hearts.

Loving wife, children & relatives.

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5th DEATH ANNIVERSARY

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY of

Lt. Lezokieno Thaprü

Like time suspended- a wound unmended, in remembrance to the one who had filled our lives with Love….

Dearest Mother, Today as we celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the day you rested in the arms of our LORD. Our hearts still ache with sadness and many a tears still flows, though we are filled with sadness your love still guides us to be strong.

We hold you close within our hearts and there you will remain forever.

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DIMAPUR: In an emotional funeral service held at Sumi Martyrs Park, Sukhalu village, Zunheboto, veteran politician, former minister, Interim Body Member and a Padmashree awardee, late Tokheho was laid to rest on January 14. People from all walks of life gathered to pay their last tribute.

Parliamentary secretary of Jail, Science and Technology, Hukavi Zhimomi described Tokheho as a charismatic and an able leader who gave his all to the people. Hukavi also shared his fond memories with late Tokheho and said Nagas in general and Sumi in particular have lost a visionary leader.

Parliamentary secretary of Soil and Water Conservation, Pukhayi Assumi described late Tokheho as a leader with patience, tolerance and a good human being who did his best for the future generations. President, Sumi Hoho, Toniho Yepthomi described late Tokheho as a leader who contributed his best for the Sumi community and would be remembered by Sumis for the sacrifices and contribution towards the community.

Others who spoke included former parliamentary secretary, Dr. K.C.Nihoshe Yepthomi, working president, NPF and president,

(NSCN-IM); ‘2nd lieut.’ Taochi (NSCN-K); ‘S/major’ Kivito (NSCN-K); ‘S/major’ Daniel (NSCN-IM); ‘S/major’ Kughalu Chopi (NSCN-K); ‘S/major’ Vikheho (NSCN-IM); ‘sgt .’ C.Homang (FGN); ‘sgt.’ Ali (NSCN-R); ‘sgt.’ John (NSCN-K); ‘corpl’ Nikito (NSCN-K); ‘corpl’ Chington (NSCN-K); ‘corpl’ Atam (NSCN-R); ‘corpl’ Manlao (NSCN-K); ‘corpl’ Anthony (NSCN-K); ‘corpl’ Jacob (NSCN-K); ‘corpl’ Yangpang (NSCN-R); ‘corpl’ Moe (NSCN-R); ‘L/corpl’ Palgpoh (NSCNIM); ‘L/corpl’ Hosia (NSCN-K); ‘L/corpl’ Inoka (NSCN-IM); ‘L/corpl’ Lemlang (NSCN-R); ‘L/corpl’ Penngam (NSCN-R); ‘L/corpl’ Senwang (NSCN-R); ‘L/corpl’ Nokjao (NSCN-R); ‘pte’ Tovika (NSCN-R) and ‘capt.’ Sangte (NSCN-K )

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Deptt coordination meeting at Tseminyu

Till we meet again Loving husband and children

Mom

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Dad

Sangtsoi 17-1-11

Five years have passed since you left us for your eternal home.

Dad, Thank you for patience and smiles taught to everyone with your cheerful nature.

Mom, you taught us many precious lessons and gave your best to all of us.

Remembered fondly and cherished in our hearts.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur Tuesday, january 17, 2017

Ramongo Lotha addressing the gathering. (NP) Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, Jan 16 (NPN): Along with the rest of the nation, “Saksham 2017”, a month-long carnival for conservation of fuel, was launched by secretary Food and Civil Supplies, Ramongo Lotha at Unity College here on Monday.

The mass awareness campaign would run from January 16 to February 15, 2017. During the campaign, Oil Company in the State would be organizing various activities such as cycle rally,

seminars and workshops to drivers and workers in motor workshops, quiz among students to create awareness, motor rally etc.

Launching the conservation programme, the secretary called for effective and economic usage of fuel, saying that the country was importing 80 percent of the crude oil to meet the demand.

However, for effective usage of petroleum products, he said student community have a larger role to

perform. He also labelled student community as an “agency”, who could propagate and spread the awareness on fuel conservation.

He further urged the students present in the launching programme to make their participation meaningful by taking the lead. The secretary also informed that Nagaland has the highest number of vehicles in terms of population ratio, and the country remained third largest consumer of petroleum globally. In this regard, he

appealed to the citizens to minimize the usage of petroleum products as the demand for this product continued to remain high.

The secretar y also briefed the audience with the directives of Petroleum Conservation and Research Association (PCRA) under MOP&NG for the month long programme and the schedule of activities taken up this year for the state of Nagaland. The programme was attended by gathering comprised officials from State government, Oil sector, petroleum dealers community in Nagaland, business community and college students particularly girls.

Earlier, Principal of the college Chabbra appreciated the initiative taken by the oil industry represented by SLC / Nagaland cum Sr. Divisional Retail Sales Manager, Indian Oil, Tinsukia Division D. K. Pathak. Senior depot manager, Dimapur Huwuto Sema gave a brief fuel saving tips to the gathering.

Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari recieving his award.

DIMAPUR: Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari of Dental Touch & Facial Aesthetics Dimapur won the national award, the Indian Health Professional Awards 2016 at Pune on January 14.

He won awards on two categories, “Best Prac-

ticing Dentist of the year” and “Dental Leadership Award”. Indian doctors/ dentists from 3 countries, 24 states and 60 cities from India were nominated for the awards.

He is one of the first dental professional from Nagaland to win a pres-

tigious National health professional award.

Indian Health Professional Awards is an initiative to appreciate the efforts of health professionals doing extra ordinary excellent outstanding work in medical and dental field.

Revival and healing convention to be held in Kma 111 Bn BSF undertakes road maintenance project

The revival and healing convention organizers after the press conference at Kohima on Monday afternoon (NP).

Correspondent

KOHIMA, JAN 16 (NPN): A mega revival and healing convention would be held at Riizhiikhrie Government Higher Secondary School ground Kohima from January 19 to 22, for the first time jointly organized by 35 churches of Kohima city Nagaland Christian Revival Churches (NCRC).

This was announced by convenor organizing committee Rev. Dr. Neivotso Neikha during the press conference held at Christian Revival Church near RHSS Kohima on Monday afternoon, also attended by co-convenor pastor David Koza, secretary organizing

committee pastor Medohii Kezo and other church leaders.

Reverend Nikha said that the mega convention would be conducting as per the divine revelation through God’s servants and accordingly the organizers are working hard to fulfil His will. He said in the convention God’s anointed speakers include, president All Japan Revival Mission, Japan Rev. Dr. Paul K. Ariga and director Mission Out-Reach, Arunachal Pradesh CRCC Dr. Joram Dol. He further informed that Dr. Joram Dol has special healing gift from God and every evening there would be special prayer time for

Governor lauds Air India Limited

DIMAPUR: Governor of Nagaland, P. B. Acharya has appreciated and congratulated chairman and managing director, Air India Limited , Ashwani Lohani for reserving six front seats for women passengers travelling alone with no additional charges on its domestic flight.

the sick people. The organizers said this convention was for everyone irrespective of denominations and all were welcome to the programme to be blessed. On more query about the revival in the state, the organizing convenor said Naga needed revival spiritually, socially, politically, economically and in every area of life. He said our people needed God’s intervention in all our activities. Organizers said they were expecting thousands in the convention and informed that there would be bus services to the neighbouring villages and various colonies of Kohima. Public have been asked to contact the organizer in advance for the bus service through these numbers @ 8732090790 and 9005179080.

The other highlights of the programme include praise and worship to be led by Khriesakuo Keretsii and Mezhusevi Zutso, pianist and also praise and worship by Gocha Stankiewiez from Poland, choirs for the convention are namely CYE CRC Riisoma, Fathers’ choir NCRC Gariphema, CYE Chedema CRC, CYE NCRC P.R. Hill, CYE CRC Kohima village, CYE Peniel CRC, CYE CRC Chakhesang upper PWD, CYE CRC Pezielietsie, CYE CRC Tsiepfiitsiepfhe and CYE CRC Merhiilietsa.

DIMAPUR: The state highway in the unit AOR connecting Zunheboto District with Kohima District had been left to nature’s mercy after the abandonment of the two lane road expansion project and 111 Bn BSF in view of the pathetic road condition undertook maintenance project.

Since, Adm and Ops activities of the Unit as well as the movement of the civilians had been greatly hampered specially during the rainy seasons and moreover travelling in such a road has not only become risky and dangerous but a challenge for the people, as a yeoman service to the people, Commandant along with Coy identified the worst patches

Troops111 Bn BSF undertaking road repair between Bn HQ Satakha and Kilomi. prone to landslide and water road worthy to travel within project even in the future. logging requiring immediate unit level capacity.

According to BSF the repairs between Bn HQ SatThe unit would con- villagers also expressed gratakha and Kilomi, undertook tinue to carry forward such itude for the services. road maintenance project by repairing and filling up the patches there by making the

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Acharya stated that this move indicated respect to women and would ensure safety of women and enhance comfort level for female passengers travelling alone.

Further, Acharya hoped that this example would be followed by other airlines.

The Khiamniungan Tribal Council Noklak executive chairman, Khaiko Meyo & Dr. Benjung, Noklak impressing the Governor of Nagaland, P.B. Acharya with handicrafts made of cane during their meeting at Raj Bhavan, Kohima, on January 16, 2017.(PRO Raj Bhavan).

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Security beefed up in Mnp ahead of Republic Day

Manipur police conducting mopping operation in Imphal on Monday. (NP) Correspondent

IMPHAL, Jan 16: Security has been tightened in and around the capital city and district headquarters in Manipur ahead of the Republic Day celebration and March polls.

Besides conducting random frisking and checking operations at all route leading the Imphal city, combing operations to flush out underground elements have been conduct-

ing in sensitive areas across the state, particularly in the valley districts in the last few days.

As part of its intensified security measures, mopping operations were conducted at Paona and Thangal bazaars in the heart of the city as well as some other localities of the city and its outskirt by the police commandos Monday. No arrest was made during the operations.

However, some youths

were picked up and handed over to the respective police stations for further verification, reports said.

In one of the operations at Old Thumbuthong area in Imphal East, five persons who could not produce any document to proof their identities were picked up and handed over to Porompat police station for further verification.

A team of police commandos attached with Thoubal district police

also launched a combing operation in Maryland and Ringphum villages bordering Chandel district.

The police commandos further raided one house belonging to a cadre of the NSCN (IM) identified as Mashuring Tangkhul at Ringpham village.

However, no arrest was made, the report added.

An official source said that security has been tightened as insurgent groups are likely to carry out disruptive activities on or before the Republic Day. In Manipur, militant groups have been boycotting Republic Day celebration each year. The security measure has also been taken up for ensuing election to the state Assembly in the first part of March.

Tight security would be placed to ensure free and fair elections, a senior police officer said. Frisking of vehicles has also been made more rigorous in order to check and prevent any suspicious transportation of money and alcohol, he added.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur Tuesday, january 17, 2017

Non-Left tribal parties form forum in Tripura Agartala, Jan 16 (PTI) The non-Left tribal parties in Tripura have formed All Tripura Indigenous Regional Parties Forum (ATIRPF) to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 introduced by BJP led NDA Government.

“Three indigenous political parties have formed the forum to safeguard and protect the interests of the tribals in the state who form one third of the population.

We are of the clear opinion that the bill is detrimental to the interest of the indigenous people,” the Convener of the forum, N C Debbarma, who is the President of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) told reporters yesterday.

“After a prolonged discussion among tribal based anti-left parties, the leaders have decided to join hands for spearheading a united movement for the cause of indigenous people,” President of the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl said.

Stating that the forum would organize peaceful movement on the issues concerning tribals, Debbarma said, the central government has planned to provide citi-

zenship status to the foreign people, which is against the interest of the tribals.

“States like Assam and Tripura are facing trouble due to infiltration of foreign nationals. If the bill is passed in the Lok Sabha, lakhs of foreign people will get citizenship status which could be a serious threat to indigenous people,” he added.

Animesh Debbarma, the joint convener of the forum, said the forum would extend all out support to the 12-hour strike on February 8 called by INPT. Meanwhile, BJP today said it would demand more autonomy to the tribals of Tripura and authority for the present Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), which constitute two-third of the state territory. “We want to form a tribal Council within TTAADC area as the tribals of the state can enjoy more autonomy and safeguard and protect their political and economic rights,” Central observer and state in-charge of BJP Sunil Deodhar said today.

“We feel that the present district council cannot fulfill the aspirations of the tribals. It should be given more authority,” he added.

Dear, Iksau Leekee Happt Birthday Iksau... May all our dreams come true and may you be blessed today and forever..... We love u.

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On your special day,we wish you good luck. we hope this wonderful day will fill up your heart with joy and blessings, celebrate the happiness on every day of your life...Happy birthday...GOD BLESS YOU With love & care, Apo, Ayo,nzan,zaben,zuchan Dear Khrietono May this birthday be filled with lots of happy hours and also your life with many happy birthdays, that are yet to come. Happy birthday.

Always Ron Birthday girl viki, So your most awaited day is here at last sisso, all my warmest birthday blessings and wishes to you this day sweetheart. May our gracious Almighty always shower His abundant blessings your way and may you always find favor in His eyes. Happiest Birthday, I love you.

Much love, Afo. Our dearest sisso viki, Heartiest birthday wishes to you sisso. God bless you BIG and GOOD. WE LOVE YOU. Love, Bros, ani & Mimi.

Alomi viki, Happy Birthday alomi, May the good Lord always keep you and bless you this day and forever. We love you sweetheart.

Love, mom and dad.

Buffalo fights on Magh Bihu violate SC ban NGOs demand quake-safety audit ‘Bandh free, blockade free and a

GUWAHATI, Jan 16 (Agencies): Defying a Supreme Court ban, traditional buffalo fights went on unchecked at Ahatguri in Morigaon district of Assam on Sunday, the first day of Magh. Though committees that would officially organize these fights earlier stayed away, owners and keepers of buffaloes could not resist the temptation of making a quick buck.

Buffalo fights were also held across Morigaon and adjoining Nagaon district.

Many of the fights were low-profile events, little advertised lest they invited the ire of the administration.

However, the charged atmosphere at Ahatguri was proof of the enthusiasm of the spectators.

An organizer of the fight at Ahatguri pegged the audience over 10,000.

The organizer, who did not wish to be named, said at least 15 pairs of buffaloes

were played off against each other. “We cannot do away with the tradition overnight.

In fact, buffalo fights are an integral part of our life as agriculturists. Through these fights, we let the bulls release their pent-up energy.

If we do not let these bulls fight, we cannot use them for ploughing,” he said.

The Supreme Court, while hearing the case of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) vs A Nagaraja and others in 2014, had passed an order banning all animal races and fights in the country and had asked both the AWBI and the Centre to prevent the infliction of pain on animals and birds.

The AWBI in 2015 had written to the Assam government seeking an end to animal and bird fights that were part of Bihu celebrations across the state. Since then, the state government, through the district adminis-

Police rescues minor girl

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Diphu, Jan 16: Police rescued an underage girl from Nagaon district of Assam and arrested one Md. Ziaur Hussain.

The arrest was made after irate residents surrounded Bakaliaghat police station and protested against police inaction.

According to local residents, the accused Md. Ziaur Hussain ran away with the minor girl last Friday. The matter was reported to police by the parents and relatives of the victim but the officer in charge of Bakaliaghat police station Md. Abdul Kalam Azad allegedly did not initiate any action to rescue the girl.

Finding no other option, the victim’s family approached local organizations and political parties.

On Sunday, around 2,000 people led by members

of Bajrang Dal gathered outside the Bakaliaghat police station and protested against the willful negligence of the police in rescuing the girl.

The agitated crowd smashed the boundary wall of the accused house and also damaged few shops and a pick-up truck.

Police baton charged and also fired to disperse the mob.

Surprisingly after the public fury, Bakulia police swung into action and arrested the accused and rescued the minor girl within few hours from bordering Nagaon district.

Superintendent of Police Karbi Anglong Debajit Deori has informed that the court has given custody of the girl to her parent for the time being. He also said that the accused could not be framed as the girl has denied any forceful abduction.

trations, has clamped down on such fights during the festive season.

Pranabjyoti Das, secretary of the committee which would organize the biggest buffalo fight at Ahatguri before the ban, said all fights held on Sunday were unofficial. “We were not involved in any such event this year. These were held at the individual level, by owners or keepers of buffalo bulls,” he said.

A district administration official conceded that it had been difficult to implement the ban on traditional practices. “We did not allow any buffalo fights this year; we will check if any such fight was held without our permission,” he added.

The 16th-century Hayagriva Madhava temple at Hajo, about 55 km from here, abstained from organizing the traditional bulbul fights on Magh Bihu for the third consecutive year.

Dhansiri Valley HCWS meet held

Dimapur, Jan 16 (NPN): The second annual meet of Dhansiri Valley Hojaisa Clam Welfare Society (HCWS) was held on January 15 at Raijaudisa village, Daldali Karbi Anglong under the presidentship of Bojai Hojaisa.

Appointed speakers were Nonen Hojaisa, Binen Hojaisa, Bhobhesh Hojaisa, Purnima Hojaisa, Moromi Hojaisa and Mukuta Hojaisa. All the speakers stressed on the importance of education and urged upon the parents and guardians to encourage the younger generation to cope with the changing world and march towards development. Earlier, the God’s blessing was invoked by Jongkho Hojaisa and the welcome address was delivered by Roton Hojaisa. Around 400 members attended the annual meet, informed Bojai Hojaisa, president Welfare Sociaty of Hojaisa Clam Dhansiri Valley in a press release.

APPRECIATION

I on behalf of the 9 th Kohima Town Area Youth Congress Committee (AYCC) Er. Dr. Vikuotuolie Angami Engineer-In-Chief (Rtd) for being awarded “BHARAT RATNA” Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence award on 14th Jan, 2017.

Wishing you all the best in your future endeavour.

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fifth vulnerable zone in the world. As a result, nobody knows the exact tectonic activities under earth surface except the information that high intensity earth quake is long overdue in the region,” said Ashok Choudhury, one of the executives of the group.

He however, pointed out that the buildings of Tripura both public and private are not built as per earthquake resistance code because of lack of supervision in the construction work.

The organisations jointly submitted a memorandum to CM Manik Sarkar followed by interaction with Chief Secretary Y P Singh seeking immediate steps for micro zonation, bringing experts for research on impending threat of earthquake and to include seismology related issues in school, college and university level curriculum besides, auditing safety norms of all the buildings.

Sd/LIMA JAMIR, President, AYCC th 9 Tohima Town

Regd. No. 798/17 Dated : 13/1/17 DECLARATION I, Shri. Ayhunlo Tep, S/o. Late Hilo Tep, permanent resident of Tseminyu, Kohima, Nagaland and presently residing at Rengma Gaon, Boro-Lingri, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under : 1. That I am bonafide citizen of India hailing from Rengma Naga community.

2. That Smt. Yenpani @ Api Humtsoe, daughter of Late Thangchamo Humtsoe is the wife of Shri. Awanye Tep who is my full brother.

3. That my sister-in-law Yenpani Humtsoe does not possess any immovable property in Dimapur, Assam etc.

4. That it is learnt that Yenpani Humtsoe is mortgaging fake Patta/Jamabandi and availed loan from individuals/societies by forging the signature of the owner of the Land Patta.

5. That Yenpani Humtsoe is taking loan with her own risk and without the knowledge and consent of her family members/in-laws as such, we the family members/in-laws of Yenpani Humtsoe shall not be held responsible for her debts.

6. That any individuals/societies dealing with her by advancing loan shall be doing at their own risk and the in-laws and family members shall not be held responsible for any act done by her.

7. That this declaration is made that we the in-laws and family members of Yenpani Humtsoe are not responsible for the loan secured by Yenpani Humtsoe and any persons/societies dealing with her is/are doing at their own risk as she does not own or possess any immovable properties or has acquired any immovable property by herself.

VERIFICATION I, hereby verify that contents made in paras 1 to 7 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and beliefs and nothing materials is concealed therein.

Declarant Solemnly declare before me.

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developed Mnp: BJP poll agenda

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IMPHAL, Jan 16: BJP will fight the ensuing poll in Manipur with “bandh free, blockade free and a developed Manipur” as poll agenda, Union minister of human resources development Prakash Javadekar announced Monday.

While announcing the poll plank of the saffron, the BJP election incharge of Manipur continued to make scathing attacks on chief minister O Ibobi Singh. He alleged that Ibobi’s politics has some sort of compatibility with the ongoing indefinite economic blockade.

Addressing a news conference at Manipur BJP office on Monday before leaving Imphal, the national BJP leader said that state chief minister’s politics hinges on ‘divide and rule’.

Ibobi is applying ‘divide and rule’ among the people of the state, the Union Minister said and further added that Ibobi should be held responsible for polarising different communities and widening geographical divisions apart from doing harm to many other social aspects.

Chief minister O Ibobi had capitalized on his divisive politics twice but this time all the people are aware about his malicious politics, the Union HRD

APOLOGY

On 16 Jan. 2017 . I, Mr. Eha Lamtan L Angh, S/o Langpai Konyak apologize to Chi and Mon Land Owner Association (CMLA) for commenting on facebook in Mon Today "It's true but to speak all truth it become stupid and stubborn". On dated 31st Dec. 2016. I shall not commit the same. th

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Mr. Eha. Lamtan. L. Angh No. 8414041716

Regd .No. M-29/2017 AFFIDAVIT Date : 16/01/17 I, Shri. Yanger Ao, S/o. Limameren, and my wife, namely Mrs. Moalila, Date of Birth 08-10-1981 and presently residing at Tehsil & Vill-H/No. 192, Ward-23, Viola Colony, P.S-Sub-Urban Police Station, NRS-Dimapur JN, DistDimapur, State-Nagaland, Pin-797112 and previously residing at P.O & Vill.Klaromong, T.O. Alongkema, NRS-Moriani JN-170 KM, Tehsil-Mokokchung, Dist. - Mokokchung, Nagaland, Pin-798601 do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as follows :1. That I am bonafide citizen and law abiding citizen of India and residing at the above mentioned address.

2. That I have shifted my residence from P.O & Vill. - Klaromong, T.O. Alongkema, NRS-Moriani JN-170 Km, Tehsil-Mokokchung, Dist.Mokokchung, Nagaland, Pin-798601 to my new address at Tehsil & Vill.-H/No. 192, Ward-23, Viola Colony, P.S- Sub-Urban Police Station, NRS-Dimapur JN, Dist. - Dimapur, State-Nagaland, Pin-797112 forever.

3. That I have sworn this affidavit to declare change of my permanent Address for all official correspondence referring to me.

4. That the statements made above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief nothing materials is concealed.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent on this the16th of January 2017 at Dimapur.

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Prakash Javadekar. minister continued.

Javadekar also questioned the silence maintained by the chief minister even after a Union minister raised the blockade issue.

It is the responsibility of the state government to resolve the current impasse, reminded the Union minister.

The high court has ordered the Central government to help the state government to bring about a solution and accordingly, Centre has provided all the assistance needed for re-opening the highways and maintain the law and order, said Javadekar. However, the state government is yet to re-open NH-2 (Imphal-Dimapur section) or to initiate steps to lift the blockade, he continued.

“BJP condemns the political mileage the Congress is trying to take by making the public suffer at election time,” he added.

However, the saffron party is ready to fight and defeat Ibobi led Congress government with its “bandh free, blockade free and a developed Manipur,” said Javadekar.

Regarding the selection of candidates for the ensuing elections, he informed that recommendation made by the party’s core committee would be discussed with party’s central election committee and Parliamentary Board on January 17.

All BJP members may submit nomination forms but the party’s tickets would be given on the basis of merit, he asserted.

About the chief ministerial candidate, the Union HRD minister maintained that the matter would be clarified at the opportune time.

“BJP will fight the elections alone. The party would not form alliance with any other party. With the blessing of the people, BJP would create a new Manipur free from bandh, blockade and Congress party,” Javadekar added.

NEW RIPHYIM BAPTIST CHURCH PLATINUM JUBILEE ETSA KAKO New Riphyim Baptist Ekhumkho thungina ete Opvui Jisu Christa kia nzan ji khi oyamo kyon topvu nte monkhumala. Platinum Jubilee tsukona thyutasanta methak ephanina nzyua lo yenjoa ntokta lithoku to methaktao ji esua nchukum ha planning tona finance committee to tsungon 21 January 2017 lo etokchoroa finance committee convener Shombo. Benathung Odyuo; Zuvotong Yankho Wokha town kina 10 am lo khitala. Hoji tsukona khanhyae topvuna randana vantasi myanta oro ntoktale toh jonjia ntsijantala. Montssoka.

Moyithung N Murry, Pastor NRBC, Wokha

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FELICITATION

The Dimapur Mangmetong Students' Union is happy and proud to felicitate the following Dimapur Mangmetong Citizen who have excelled in their fields thereby bringing laurels to the village.

1. Prof. (B) Rosaline Jamir Bharat Vikas Award, 2016.

2. Ajongba Imchen Promoted to Chief Judicial Magistrate.

(Imlikokba Ao) President MKT, Dimapur Unit

(Toshimongla) General Secretary MKT, Dimapur Unit

NOTICE

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A pair of buffalos lock horns during a traditional buffalo fight held as part of Magh Bihu festivities at Boidyabori village in Guwahati. (PTI)

Agartala, Jan 16 (Agencies): Five leading civil society organisations of Tripura demanded safety audit of all the constructions and buildings of the state to ensure earthquake vulnerability assessment following recent tremor epic centre at Dhalai district.

Addressing media, the executives of public advocacy group ARPAN Society, Tripura Yuktibad Vikash Mancha, Agartala Cycle Club, Call for Need and Manab Seva Parisad stated that the recent earthquake ensured a fault line in Indian tectonic plate under earth surface of the state besides, close vicinity of Eurasian plate, Indian plate and Myanmar plate at Manipur-Mizoram border.

“Unfortunately, there is no research activity of seismology, geology and geo-physics to deal with earthquake related issues in Northeast despite the region has been identified as

It is to inform all the societies/groups/individuals etc.... that the land bearing patta No. 653, Dag No. 259, measuring an area of 5 Bighas and in the name of Shri. W. C. Humtsoe, has been sold to M/s. Tzuret Thraft Co-Operative Society of Nagaland. Vide Sale deed No. 1463/2014, Dated 6/6/2014, Mutuated and transferred into the name of Tzuret Thraft Co-operative Society, Vide : 534/2606-07, Dated 9/06/14, situated at Purana Bazaar Dimapur.

That, any parties/groups/individuals dealing in this land without the knowledge of the actual owner shall be doing so at their own risk.

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NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (PTI): “Is this the Supreme Court or a joke court,” an incensed apex court bench said today, annoyed over the lack of response of several state governments on crucial matters of public importance like pollution and cleanliness in mid-day meals.

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Chandrachud said. “This is important business,” it said after perusing the files of the first two PILs listed before it for hearing.

“Do we have some kind of a game going on here? If you (lawyers representing states) do not want to file your counter affidavits, then say that, we will record your statements,” the bench added.

The bench, after perusing the reports with regard to service of notices of the PILs to the states concerned, said if they want more time then they should stand and seek it.

The bench first took up the PIL, filed by Gujaratbased NGO ‘Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti” on industrial pollution in 2012, for hearing and got irked after perusing the records which reflected that many states have not filed their replies despite several opportunities given.

It then called out names of Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Andhra

“Is some kind of panchayat going on here that the states are not serious? Why are you joking with the Supreme Court like this? You will understand the importance only when we call your Chief Secretaries,” the bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y

Pradesh and asked their counsel as to why counter affidavits have not yet been filed.

It granted four weeks to the states which appeared before it for the first time in the matter and summoned the Environment Secretaries with relevant records of these states, which had been served notice but had failed to file replies.

It listed the matter for final disposal after four weeks.

The bench then took up the second PIL, filed

by NGO ‘Antarashtriya Manav Adhikaar Nigraani’ in 2013, regarding cleanliness in the mid-day meals and seeking directions to prevent incidents like the one that occurred in a government primary school in a Bihar village where 23 children died after eating contaminated food.

When the counsel for the petitioner sought an adjournment saying that the advocate-on-record was out of Delhi and will not be available till January 20, the bench got enraged.

PM-led panel meets to select CBI chief NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led threemember met here today to decide on the chief of the country’s premier probe agency CBI. The post of CBI director is lying vacant for over one month following Anil Sinha’s retirement on December 2.

There was no official word from the government as to what transpired during the meeting, official sources said. At present, Gujaratcadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana is the interim director of the investigating agency.

The selection committee has Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Chief Justice of India or his nominee as its other members.

A list of about 45 eligible IPS officers has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Office for consideration as the next CBI director, official sources said today.

The name of senior IPS officers Krishna Choudhary, Aruna Bahuguna and S C Mathur, among others are doing the rounds as strong contenders for the top post, they said.

I’m a born Congressman: Sidhu NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (PTI): Having joined Congress after hectic negotiations, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu today said he was a “born Congressman” who was coming back to his roots and would be ready to work under anybody appointed by the high command and contest from where the party wants him to.

Sidhu refused to comment on who would be projected as the Chief Ministerial candidate in poll-bound Punjab. “Gehun khet mein aur beta pet mein aur aap byah ki baat kar rahe ho,(it is premature to talk about the issue),” the former BJP man said when asked whether he would like to be the Chief Ministerial candidate of the party. Congress has not declared a chief ministerial candidate and was contesting the polls under the leadership of Amarinder Singh.

“In politics there are no ifs and buts. If my aunt has moustache I would have called her uncle,” the cricketer turned entertainer said in remarks at the press conference which were replete with one-liners and wit.

To another question, Sidhu said he was ready to work under anybody appointed by the Congress

Navjot Singh Sidhu high command and would contest from anywhere the party wants him to fight from. “I am not here for (personal agenda) but for redemption of Punjab,” he said while slamming the Badals, accusing the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of looting the state and making the prosperous state “a pauper”.

Without taking name of any BJP leader, he suggested that the machinations of “Manthra” (a maid in the epic Ramayana who convinces Queen Kaikeyi that the throne of Ayodhya was for her son Bharat) made him leave Amritsar which he represented in Lok Sabha for four terms.

However, he did not reveal who played the role of “Manthra” in the BJP. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had contested the Amritsar seat unsuccessfully in the last polls.

Kejriwal’s exaide blames Jung for his arrest NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (IANS): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s former Principal Secretary has blamed former Lt Governor Najeeb Jung for his arrest for alleged corruption.

Using polite language, Rajendra Kumar said in a blog post that it was Jung who was responsible for his arrest by the CBI on July 4, 2016 and his 23 days in custody.

“You spoke to a senior officer of CBI and sought his help to educate me,” Kumar wrote, repeatedly using words like ‘education’ and ‘reform’ as a synonym for interrogation and harassment.

“He (CBI officer) was not wise and he politely excused himself. After sometime he retired.

“But your desire to help and reform me continued. You later met a top officer of (Home Ministry) and a top officer of CBI and stressed upon them the urgent national interest issue of helping and educating me.

“You have extraordinary oratory skills and they got convinced. Then my education started.

Arrested serial rapist admits he targeted over 50 girls IMA for speeding up antibiotic research Rastogi - a father of five including two girls - said he randomly scouted for victims. He told police he would travel to Delhi at least twice a month to satisfy his lust. The man was arrested from Kalyanpuri, a thickly populated area in east Delhi, on Saturday, police said.

The officer added that Rastogi was making claims that could not be verified immediately.

“How many girls he victimised will be clear once we complete his questioning and verify his claims,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Omvir Singh Bishnoi told IANS. Rastogi came to

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verifying his statements by visiting the locations where he committed the crime.”

Investigators said if Rastogi came to Delhi twice a month in the past 13 years and molested even one girl during every visit, he may have assaulted over 300 girls.

However, he has confessed to victimising over 50 minors, the official said.

“We were told by Rastogi that he managed to rape only 20 per cent of the victims.”

Rastogi allegedly raped a minor girl and molested two others -- aged between nine and 10 years -- in New Ashok Nagar in east Delhi

last week. He confessed to sexually molesting a number of minor girls in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and Rudrapur in Uttarakhand besides New Ashok Nagar.

Several cases of molestation, theft and drug abuse were registered against him in Delhi. According to police, three cases of child rape and molestation under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) were registered at the New Ashok Nagar police station on January 10 and 13.

NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (PTI): The Indian Medical Association (IMA) today said there was a need to speed up antibiotic related research for developing new drugs as antibiotic resistance was emerging as a global threat.

“Spurious use of antibiotics has resulted in several important life-saving drugs becoming obsolete.

There is a need to speed up and support research on new drug molecules and drug targets. The idea of re-purposing old anti-

biotics also merits more attention,” Dr K K Aggarwal, National President of IMA said.

Antibiotic resistance has emerged as a global threat, and the problem is particularly stark in India, Aggarwal said.

The total mortality

burden of infectious diseases in India is about 416/1000 persons every year. In this scenario, simple infections have the potential to turn deadly, and the situation clearly warrants that research in antibiotic development must be accelerated.

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C H E N NA I , JA N 1 6 (IANS): Thousands of people on Monday took to the streets in Madurai’s Alanganallur town in Tamil Nadu protesting a ban against Jallikattu, the ancient and popular bulltaming sport that marks the Makar Sankranthi celebrations.

The protesters, including both men and women, have assembled in the town well known for conducting Jallikattu.

A large contingent of police personnel has been deployed in the town to prevent any violent incidents.

Meanwhile, Jallikattu was held defying then Supreme Court’s ban on it in Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu.

In some places, rekla or bullock-cart races were held. However, as Jallikattu was not allowed to be held, people hoisted black flags on their homes and shops remained closed at Alanganallur.

This time the sport was held in places traditionally not associated with Jallikattu so as to avoid the police preventing it.

Speaking to reporters here, Union Minister of State for Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan said the event should not be seen as defying the Supreme Court order but as an expression of people’s feelings.

He said organisations like PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) will submit the pictures taken on Monday to the Supreme Court and demand a ban on it. Radharkrishnan felt that the apex court should not take into consideration such pictures as it is just a protest and nothing more.

Delhi in 1990 with his family but left in 2004. He lives in Rampur. Police suspect the number of his victims could be more as Rastogi also had cases registered against him in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

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New man in town

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hen Donald Trump takes over on January 20,2017 he will be the most controversial president ever and also one who is also reputed to be totally unconventional in his approach. Donald Trump faces a hostile Democratic Party and also many within his own Republican Party who, though not opposed to Trump anymore, but yet not very accommodating. It is also perhaps the first time ever that a political party (Democratic Party) has not reconciled to the fact that their candidate Hillary Clinton lost the election even if she may have got more popular votes. Many well known American leaders of the Democratic Party have decided not to attend Trump’s swearing-in ceremony on January 20,2017. Perhaps they would attend a memorial service for the November 8,2016 fiasco. Trump is not loved (rather hated) by the liberal mainstream media which has been exposed for broadcasting and publishing fake news. Interestingly, the so-called explosive material of Trump’s romp in Moscow which the Russians are keeping to blackmail Trump has also been exposed. According to media reports, compilation of the fake material was done by a former British MI6 intelligence officer and funded by anti-Trump Republicans and later carried on

by Democrats. In his first press conference after being elected, Donald Trump made no pretence about being presidential and instead continued to be his unconventional best as he took on powerful American mainstream liberal media such as CNN. Trump was merciless against ‘news’ organisations who have slandered his reputation and treated him unfairly. Trump also mocked BBC by refusing to take questions since the channel had been airing unverified news to project him unfairly. CCN and BBC and other newspapers, who had declared Hillary Clinton as the winner even before the votes were cast; will have to contend with the unexpected winner. The liberal media, the Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are determined to pursue the angle that Russian hacking helped Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.

For the Democratic Party, such allegations even if unverified , does very little service to a party that had been in power for ten years consecutively.

Now it’s over two months after November 10,2016 when Trump, defying all national projections and international expectations, won the presidential race. For the Democrats and anti-Trump community, it is time to distinguish fact from fiction and separate out whining from winning. The same line that Vladimir Putin did help to elect Donald Trump is an insult to the American voters, most of who voted more against everything that Hillary represented . It’s past time for broken hearted Clinton voters to accept this reality and move forward.

The US election system is not about popular vote but about electors who cast votes in accordance with the principle of equal representation. This is a fact and it is time for the Democrats not to talk about changing the system now just because they lost. The issues that Trump has championed- anti abortion, ban on muslim and Mexican immigrants, cutting down on US involvement with NATO and new medi care etc. are difficult to achieve. The media and vested global military industrial corporations are interested to keep Russia and the US in a state of hostility and the accusations against Trump on the Russian connection will continue to be used against him .After Trump moves in, there will certainly be more news headlines and these are what has got him where he is.

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ome months ago I saw a film which showed a loving, law abiding, white community that was allowed, by law, to go mad on one day a year and shoot any black they could. The film was about a family that rescued a black and how they were hunted down by their friendly neighbours and killed.

We have two days like that in India. Bakr Id, in which the Muslim community gets a free pass to kill goats by law, and any other animal they want, while the government and the police look the other way. They kill lakhs of young goats by slitting their throats. But they also kill cows in West Bengal and Kerala, and camels and young buffaloes illegally in Hyderabad, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Meerut.

There are strict laws on where the goats can be killed, but no one bothers. The sewers, in every Muslim ghetto, run with blood which goes into the rivers. There are certain areas in each city where the smell of rotting blood and meat can actually make you sick.

Hindus consistently object to this brutal and unnecessary slaughter that has no real roots in Islam.

Every year there is a debate on this and the television anchors bring in the same people to argue the pros and cons of Bakr Id, and it always turns into a HinduMuslim issue.

But Hindus have their own day of massacre as well. The day that should be the happiest, the day of harvest, the day welcoming the spring, the day celebrated all over the world with dance and song, is a day for violence and killing all over India. Makara Sankranti, January 14th is the Bakr Id for Hindus.

In Karnataka, till the animal activists stopped it, there used to be a ritual in which foxes were hunted, imprisoned, beaten and burnt alive. Now it has been replaced by Kambala, in which cows are whipped and raced through flowing water. Many die from broken legs which are too weak to withstand the force of the water and from the intense beatings.

In Assam, thousands of bulbuls, which are small, fragile endangered species of birds, are caught by professional bird catchers weeks before and then sold to villagers, who keep the birds in cages and then make them fight with each other till one dies. Spaces

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Argue the pros and cons are allocated for these fights like Roman arenas.

This has been banned by court as well.

In Andhra Pradesh, lakhs of cocks are kept in dark cages and poked with long sticks till they become vicious. Then razors are tied to their legs and they are set on each other, slashing and cutting till one dies of blood loss immediately and the other wounded warrior a few hours later.

Then they are eaten by grinning villagers who have bought the alcohol being sold in the fight fields. This has just been banned by the A.P. High Court and upheld by the Supreme Court. Since many politicians are involved in these filthy fights, let us see what happens this year.

In Goa there used to be bullfights. Two bulls would be fed alcohol and then made to fight each other, by

hitting each other’s heads, while drunken spectators shouted and threw things at the animals to egg them on and get a better show of more blood. It was stopped by the Courts over twenty years ago. Every now and then some politician will encourage it secretly, and every political party puts it on their Goa manifesto during elections, but it is, more or less, over.

M a d hya P r a d e s h , however, continues this ghastly illegal fighting and the newspapers carry pictures of the illegal event, which is made even more exciting when a human is killed.

Maharashtra has village races, in which bullocks and buffaloes are made to run tied to each other. Sometimes a cow and a horse are tied. They are fed alcohol and they have iron thorns inserted

into their anuses. They are steered by their tails which break in the first few minutes. They are whipped mercilessly again and again. Many die or are maimed permanently. This also has been stopped by law, but some politicians defy the law and hold this vulgar, cruel sport because they think it makes them popular. This is mainly done in the districts around Pune.

In Gujarat, you have the kite flying festival which goes on for a week starting on this day. It kills over three lakh birds who become entangled in the nylon strings embedded with glass. I believe that the joy of flying a kite is far less for the people flying it than the joy of seeing dying birds fall from the sky. The court has banned the Chinese manja, as it is called.

It continues to be used.

Then you have Jallikattu. Bulls are confined for weeks in dark rooms, fed alcohol, beaten. Chunks of flesh are literally bitten off by crazed young boys. Then they are let free into an area and dozens of alcohol fuelled boys jump on each one and try to tear its horns off.

Bulls die. Some people die.

So many politicians from all the parties have jumped into

Post-mortem 33% women reservation: blowing in the wind Until we meet again

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y discourses in social media on women reservation might have attracted the attention of our women folks and who knows some might have reluctantly compromised the fact. To make myself clear, I neither support not oppose the WR but would rather share the following opinion: 1. Why not we try to understand the social and traditional position of our tribal Hohos and respect our biological identity?

2. Why did the Govt of Nagaland introduce and adopt the Nagaland Municipal Act to be rejected and again recently approved by the Govt ? This shows that the govt of the day is very incapable !! Why was there no mass based consultations from the very beginning? And why blindly follow the one-sided and controversial advices of a few to attain the selfish interest of the party in power ?

3. Why not the Govt balance the advantages and disadvantages of the Act (in the present format) and justify to the people that there are no contradictions with Art 371A and therefore appropriate for its implementation?

4. What are the merits of WR in Nagaland?

5. (If) there is gender inequalities and discrimination due to some rigid Naga customary practices, isn’t it proper to first review and rectify our customary wisdom before legislation to that effect be exercised if necessary?

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ditional practices had evolved through the ages with our great great grandparents who were pagans, animists and illiterate and therefore we cannot deny that there may exist some flaws including gender discrimination inappropriate to the contemporary context. However, the present generation survives on the blessings of the Gospel which is through Christ and as such, gender discrimination is a foreign wisdom unheard even in the Bible.

For better understanding, if we refer to the genesis of the universe Biblically, God blessed Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden to live together, rule and fill the world together.

Hence, in absence of any one of the genders, the definition of humanity is lost and God’s purpose of his beautiful creation remains elusive...even more so Naga women enjoy equal respect and prominence in Naga society ever since the advent of Christianity. Nevertheless, if our adorable womenfolk can frankly say “we are lower human being” or can justify that they have been deliberately deprived of their humanitarian privileges, we the brave men folks should regretfully retrospect our shortcomings and graciously extend the required reservation quota so that together we can make this planet more beautiful and live happily for the glory of the Almighty God of the vibrant Naga people.

As a goodwill gesture to our beloved women by the intellectual menfolk, we should not only

agree to 33% WR in ULBs but we must also cordially invite our women to jointly occupy berths in the Parliament as well as in the Legislative Assembly by providing special reservation quota and courteously slice out one-third of the seats for them. Under such circumstances, women would deserve the highest honour in all political and social spectrums.

The sitting male members should be happy enough to accept it as a privilege to honour our magnanimous womenfolk and graciously pave way for a sound democratic alliance.

The Naga community as a whole is rather proud to proclaim that we have world class female counterparts of our own blood who are ashamed to say “we survive on female gender concessions” but with dignity uphold “the able should lead for whom even Mt Everest isn’t a challenge but sky is the limit” and we praise God for that.

If my daughter is inferior or weaker than others, I as a father would never compromise to any concessions but I would rather encourage her to do better by putting more efforts because she is the jewel of my soul!!

Regretfully, I guess that trying to settle this issue on gender privilege quota and certain likely hiccups in the Nagaland Municipal Act will only shower unabated avalanche of enmity destroying the fabric of peace, unity and brotherhood in Nagaland.

Samuel Sumi, Diphuphar; Nagaland, samsumi99@ gmail.com.

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t has been many decades since I had associated and personally known late Padmashree Tokheho Yepthomi, former IBM and former minister. When I received the news of his demise on January 12 from my niece, Atula Kikon Yepthomi, I was totally shocked because we were supposed to meet for discussion on that very day.

I had travelled down to Dimapur on January 11 on the prior understanding that late Tokheho and I would meet at his house.

We had been pursuing some important matters for the last couple of years and needed to finalize many things before taking on the next step. It was with a heavy heart that I went to his house on 12th evening to pay my last respect to an old friend.

Tokheho and I had started off our political journey on the same note. We were young, idealistic and educated men of that era whose services were required for the nascent state of Nagaland.

We were selected as Interim Body Member (IBM) from our respective tribes to the de-facto legislative assembly prior to the creation of statehood.

Tokheho had replaced Jakhalu as IBM in 1962. The interim period was from 1961 to 1963.

The difficult times prior to statehood cannot be fathomed by the young people anymore.

We had to pass through sleepless nights, constantly avoiding assassination bids on our lives and travelling the length and breadth of Nagaland to educate the people on the coming statehood.

Our decisions at that period of time were taken in the best in-

DailyDevotion The Voice of the Nature of God Who is the Government: the people or the Ministers?

I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” —Isaiah 6:8

When we talk about the call of God, we often forget the most important thing, namely, the nature of Him who calls. There are many things calling each of us today. Some of these calls will be answered, and others will not even be heard. The call is the expression of the nature of the One who calls, and we can only recognize the call if that same nature is in us. The call of God is the expression of God’s nature, not ours. God providentially weaves the threads of His call through our lives, and only we can distinguish them. It is the threading of God’s voice directly to us over a certain concern, and it is useless to seek another person’s opinion of it. Our dealings over the call of God should be kept exclusively between ourselves and Him. The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God. But when God brings me into the right relationship with Himself, I will be in the same condition Isaiah was.

Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul.

The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves.

And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.

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The world is always in movement. ~ V. S. Naipaul

this cesspool of violence in the name of “Tamil Culture”, but actually mistakenly believing that they will make a political space for themselves by encouraging this viciousness. The Supreme Court banned it last year and the ban continues. Calls have been made by local politicians for the government to issue a notification overruling all laws.

Everyone in India looks down upon it – as civilized people should. But that has not deterred even fading Tamil actors, who want popularity, from insisting that Tamil Nadu’s entire culture will be destroyed if these bulls are not pounded to death.

The only difference between Bakr Id and Makara Sankranti is that the Muslims don’t bet while they maim and kill animals. The Hindus do. They drink and they gamble on how which animal dies faster. No Hindu pretends that it has a basis in religion. They simply call it Hindu culture, even though some of these massacres have only started a few decades ago. To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in, www.peopleforanimalsindia.org Maneka Gandhi

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eaving aside all the differences prevalent in the ULB elections for a second let us try to understand the primary essence of what form of government we have. We all know that our system of Government is Democracy. The definition of Democracy states that “It is a Government of the people, by the people and for the people.” In this form of Government, in whom does power lay; the elected members or the people?

Power is always with the people.

Elected members of such a Government, as we know, are known as “representatives” of the people.

Their prime duty is to listen to the voice and concerns of the people and deliver goods to the people and not to push in their personal interests and agendas.

They are also to enact good laws based on the aspirations of the people and,

in particular, in Nagaland since the people have a special provision in regard to customary practices and land holding system any enactment must be based on this system.

The ongoing standoff between the State Government and the tribal bodies is a result of the Elected Members turning into arbitrators of the people’s issues instead of implementing the wish of the people.

The use of the word “so-called” is unwise however, the contention of the elected members that the Tribal Hohos cannot take action against a Minister on the ground that they have taken an oath under the Constitution, even though they are at fault, is a faulty reasoning because in the strength of democratic principle, the constitution of the country, in itself, is to protect the interest of the people at all times and not the Ministers or MLAs. For elected members, respect

and concern will depend on their behaviors and actions.

Another contention that Political Party’s interest is greater than Hoho’s interest is also wrong because, when a Minister is not above the people; political parties can in no way be above the Tribal Bodies. Political Parties, Ministers and MLAs must always be subservient to the people they pledge to serve or be phased out.

Due to often occurrence of misbehaviors and arrogance exhibited by some MPs, Ministers and MLAs it is being mooted by the Election Commission of India to bring about a rule, in the interest of the people, by which an elected member can be recalled any time during the tenure on the demand of the Electorates.

Hope this will come into effect soon for the sanctity of Democracy.

In conclusion, in the best interest and desire of the people of Nagaland, it will

only be wise for the Government of the day to listen to the people, as they have all taken a tough stand, and postpone the scheduled ULB elections to avoid unnecessary conflict and untoward incidents.

Then call for a people’s threadbare deliberation on the Municipal Act and the Women issue within a time frame so that the much needed elections to the Municipal and Town Councils could be held at the earliest.

And let this exercise be the model for all future enactments and projects as well. After all there is no human society where there is no problem and there is no problem or issue that cannot be solved. The only requirement is wisdom, humility and selflessness. Arrogance, pride and greed will take us no where except destined losers and confirmed irrationals.

Jonas Yanthan, yanthanjonas@gmail.com.

terest for the people of Nagaland.

It was necessary for Nagaland to get statehood if it had to catch up with the rest of the country, in terms of infrastructure and development on all fronts.

Tokheho, even after all these years remained energetic, young at heart with the same vision he had carried as a young man. He was the one who initiated the enhancement of pension for the ex-legislators.

His indomitable character and enthusiasm for taking up the challenges even in his later years cannot be undermined. He also initiated the meeting of the remaining seven IBMs in Kohima during the year, 2013. With him gone, there are only six of us left from that pre-statehood era.

On his send off service from Dimapur to Sukhalu on January 13 morning, I spoke a few words and saluted my friend Tokheho for the last time. Tokheho lived a full life and he left behind a legacy of merit. Prior to his death, he was also awarded Padmashree in recognition of his selfless social services.

All of us came into this world already designated by God as to how we should live and serve Him. Late Tokheho did his best that God had entrusted him and now he has gone to rest in heavenly abode. May we all meet there one day.

Until then, I will ever miss Tokheho calling me up to enquire how I am doing and so forth. I pray for his bereaved wife and children. I also pray that Tokheho’s legacy would continue to live in the midst of the people.

T. Kikon, Former IBM and former minister, Atelhomes Wokha.

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Sir,

Despite the uncertainty hanging over the ULBs elections, ruffians and goons are much in demand as some candidates have started ‘campaigning’ in and around Dimapur.

When I see these loud and arrogant gang of goons in open Jeep and Gypsies driving rashly on Dimapur streets, I wonder how much they are paid per day/night to raise slogans and urge people to vote for some failed political parties. Few hundred bucks maybe?

Our governor, when he says, “Nagas have condemned themselves to poverty,” maybe he is referring to this young and healthy lot who have lot of potential to do something positive and productive yet they choose to be expendables for some candidate or political party.

Moreover, what good is a candidate or party if they win through goons instead of ideology or personality or efficiency?

This is also one area which ‘Clean Election’ campaigners should take into consideration to ensure that politics of brute force and intimidation does not prevail.

Mhathung Lotha, Oriental Colony Dimapur.

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

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Jawab Do’ (give answers to our questions) and ‘Dohri policy nai chalay gi (Double policy will not work),’ as they continued to disrupt the House proceedings.

With regard to demand for rehabilitation of families of those who lost their lives, last week Mehbooba had said in the Assembly, “They are our own children and we have to ensure their rehabilitation. We have kept an amount of Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia as compensation for the next of kin in case of deaths.”

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NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a Mumbai-based woman with 24week-old-foetus to undergo medical termination of pregnancy as its continuation could endanger her life.

Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao allowed the termination after a board of seven doctors said there was no chance of the foetus with an undeveloped skull surviving outside the uterus. The medical board which examined the 22-yearold woman at Mumbai’s KEM Hospital also said that allowing the pregnancy to complete its full course

must clear whether it will grant compensation of Rs five lakh each to the next of kin of those killed in the last year’s five month long unrest in the Valley. “Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had made this announcement of giving compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the people killed in the unrest but BJP which is part of the coalition is objecting to it,” Sagar said.

All the opposition members stormed into the Well of the House and raised slogans like ‘Hamaray Sawalon ka

(From p-1) According to ZPO president, granting reservation would not infringe the customary practices of the Nagas, instead he claimed that promoting women by giving them opportunity to serve the society would help Nagas to usher into a new era of peace, unity and progress. ZPO has also taken serious note on the intimidation issued by various tribal bodies with a threat to ex-communicate/outcast a person for filing nomination to the ULB election, and stated that such practices was barbaric and disgraceful in the contemporary era.

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JAMMU, JAN 16 (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly witnessed noisy scenes today as the opposition members stormed the Well of the House accusing the PDP-BJP government of adopting double standard on the issue of compensation to those killed during unrest in the Valley last summer. As soon as the House met today, the opposition members led by National Conference MLA Ali Mohammad Sagar demanded the government

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He said there was around two feet snowfall near Jawahar Tunnel and other areas along the highway– the only allweather road-link connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country – so the authorities decided to suspend the traffic.

The air traffic to and fro Srinagar International Airport was also affected due to the snowfall and five flights were cancelled.

The summer capital recorded about three inches of snowfall during the night and it registered the minimum temperature of minus 0.9 degree Celsius, against the previous night’s minus 2.3 degrees Celsius.

The MET Office has forecast widespread snowfall or rains over two days from today and fairly isolated to scattered rains or snowfall for two days after that.

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation, Rahul said the government has “murdered” the soul of an autonomous institution like the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

“The Congress party made and strengthened the RBI so that there is a body which is not under government pressure since it takes economic decisions. But in a minute, the soul of this institution was murdered

by Modi ji,” Rahul said.

On replacing Gandhi in khadi calendar On the controversial Khadi Gram Udyog calendars and diaries which for the first time carried Modi’s pictures, and not Mahatma Gandhi’s, the 46-year-old leader said, “Modi replaced the picture of the man who took three bullets for the nation.”

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Vehicular traffic to upper Shimla region was suspended in the morning and efforts are on to open the Hindustan-Tibet highway upto Theog while the Rohroo and Chopal roads are closed due to heavy snow at Kharapatthar and Nerwa.

The mercury in the state capital dropped below the freezing point as a white blanket of snow covered it and surrounding areas of Kufri and Narkanda.

Bharmaur and Manali recorded 55 cm and 54 cm of snowfall, followed by Rohtang and Churdhar 50 cm, Kothi 45 cm. Normal life was disrupted in Kashmir due to fresh snowfall which led to the closure of Srinagar-Jammu National Highway and cancellation of five planes.

A MeT Department official in the state said the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir received around two feet of fresh snowfall during the night. “ S r i n a g a r - Ja m mu National Highway has been closed for traffic due to bad weather,” an official told PTI.

RISHIKESH, JAN 16 (AGENCIES): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today attacked the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), saying the BJP’s ideological mentor had not hoisted the national flag at their headquarters for 52 years after India’s independence in 1947.

“For 52 years after the independence, the RSS did not have a tricolour at their headquarters in Nagpur. They used to salute the saffron flag, not the national flag,” Rahul said at an election rally in Uttarakhand’s Rishikesh.

In 2002, the rightwing organisation had hoisted the national flag at Smruti Bhawan, which houses the memorials of the first two RSS chiefs, founder Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and Guru Golwalkar.

The last time the national flag was hoisted there was on August 15, 1947 and on January 26, 1950 and stopped since then, RSS sources said.

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Labourers removing snow from the footpath during snowfall in Srinagar on Monday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, JAN 16 (PTI): Normal life was disrupted in several districts of Jammu-Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh today as parts of the two states received heavy snowfall though the countr y’s northern plain witnessed slight increase in minimum temperatures giving some respite to people.

In the national capital, though the minimum temperature settled at 8.9 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, cold breeze troubled the people.

The maximum temperature settled at 19.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below average. Due to shallow fog in the morning, rail traffic was affected and 28 trains were running late by hours, while 10 were rescheduled, said a Railways official.

In Himachal Pradesh, entire tribal belt of Lahaul and Spiti, Kinnaur, Pangi and Bharmaur and upper areas of Shimla, Kullu and Sirmaur were cut off from rest of the state as mid and higher hills received second heavy snowfall of the season and the lower hills widespread rains.

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Elsewhere, silver also recouped following renewed offtake from industrial users.

Standard gold (99.5 purity) climbed by Rs 140 to end at Rs 29,030 per 10 grams from last Friday’s closing level of Rs 28,890.

Pure gold (99.9 purity) also rose by a similar margin to close at Rs 29,180 per 10 grams as compared to Rs 29,040 previously.

Silver (.999 fineness) gained by Rs 120 per kg to finish at Rs 41,375 from Rs 41,255 last weekend.

Mumbai, Jan 16 (PTI): Amid a rise in cashless transactions since demonetisation, Future Group’s fashion and lifestyle departmental store Central and SBI Card today announced the launch of a co-branded credit card, to offer benefits to consumers in the premium lifestyle and fashion space. “Since demonetisation card transactions have gone up to 85 per cent from 61 per cent in Central. We are looking forward to much more,” Future Group CEO Kishore Biyani said here.

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The above said instructions will be applicable even in KYC compliant accounts, it said, asking customers to furnish PAN/Form 60 for “smooth transactions”.

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New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI): Days after government ordered seeking PAN details of all account holders, banks have started asking their customers, including KYC-compliant ones, to update their PAN details by February 28.

Public sector banks have started writing to their customers seeking furnishing of PAN details saying Income Tax department has frozen accounts that did not have those details in recent times.

“We request all our valuable customers to get the PAN No. registered by submitting the same to the branch or by sending the scanned copy of the documents duly signed to their respective branch, in case wherein PAN card is not available FORM 60 can be used,” the Bank of India said in a communication to

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December as against 1.54 per cent in November.

Inflation in fuel and power and manufactured items saw some uptick, which pushed up the overall WPI inflation in December.

The reading for manufactured articles was 3.67 per cent compared with 3.20 per cent in the previous month. Inflation in the fuel and power segment was 8.65 per cent in December, up from 7.07 per cent in November.

While the rate of price rise in sugar was 28.04 per cent, for petrol, it was 8.52 per cent, and 20.25 per cent for high speed diesel.

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lion, of which about $6.5 trillion was held by billionaires, led by Bill Gates ($75 billion), Amancio Ortega

cent’, Oxfam said it is time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few.

It said that since 2015, the richest 1 per cent has owned more wealth than the rest of the planet.

“Over the next 20 years, 500 people will hand over $2.1 trillion to their heirs -- a sum larger than the GDP of India, a country of 1.3 billion people,” Oxfam said.

The study findings showed that the poorest half of the world has less wealth than had been previously thought while over the last two decades, the richest 10 per cent of the population in China, Indonesia, Laos, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have seen their share of income increase by more than 15 per cent.

On the other hand, the poorest 10 per cent have seen their share of income fall by more than 15 per cent.

“Due to a combination of discrimination and ($67 billion) and Warren working in low-pay sectors, Buffett ($60.8 billion). women’s wages across Asia In the report titled ‘An are between 70-90 per cent economy for the 99 per of men’s,” it said.

New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI): Wholesale inflation broke the 3-month declining trend and rose to 3.39 per cent in December 2016, mainly due to rise in prices of manufactured items, even as food articles turned cheaper.

The wholesale price index-based inflation, reflecting the annual rate of price rise, in November stood at 3.15 per cent. In December 2015, the print was (-)1.06 per cent.

WPI inflation in vegetables, at (-)33.11 per cent in December, saw deflationary pressure for the fourth consecutive month.

This was helped by a substantial price fall in onions, which stood at (-)37.20 per cent.

Pulse inflation continued to rule high at 18.12 per cent in December, according to commerce ministry data.

Potato recorded maximum inflationary pressure at 26.42 per cent. Rate of price increase in egg, meat and fish was 2.73 per cent during the month.

Overall, the food inflation basket witnessed contraction, with inflation at (-)0.70 per cent in

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DAVOS, Jan 16 (PTI): In signs of rising income inequality, India’s richest one per cent now hold a huge 58 per cent of the country’s total wealth - higher than the global figure of about 50 per cent, a new study showed on Monday.

The study, released by rights group Oxfam ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting here attended by rich and powerful from across the world, showed that just 57 billionaires in India now have same wealth ($ 216 billion) as that of the bottom 70 per cent population of the country.

Globally, just 8 billionaires have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world population.

The study said there are 84 billionaires in India, with a collective wealth of $248 billion, led by Mukesh Ambani ($9.3 billion), Dilip Shanghvi ($16.7 billion) and Azim Premji ($15 billion).

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Kyrgyzstan plane crash: 37 dead as cargo plane hit homes Bishek, Jan 16 (Agencies): A Turkish cargo plane flying from Hong Kong has crashed in Kyrgyzstan, killing all four crew members and at least 33 people on the ground, officials say.

The Boeing 747 TCMCL aircraft operated by ACT Airlines crashed as it landed in fog at Manas airport, 25km (15 miles) north of the capital, Bishkek.

At least 15 buildings were destroyed in a village outside the airport, with a number of children among the dead.

Flight TK6491 was to have stopped at Manas en route to Istanbul in Turkey.

ACT is an Istanbulbased airline operating under the name MyCargo.

The plane is believed to have been about 14 years old.

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Debris of the plane that crashed into a neighbourhood in the north of Kyrgyzstan.

the plane crashed due to a pilot error.”

One witness, Baktygul Kurbatova, told local media: “I woke up because of a bright red light outside. I couldn’t understand what was happening.

“It turns out the ceiling and the walls were crashing in on us. I was so scared but I managed to cover my son’s face with my hands so that debris would not fall on him.”

At least 15 houses were destroyed as the plane appeared to overshoot its landing. The jet came down on the village of DachaSuu, an area popular for holiday homes.

There were initial reports that one crew member had survived but later reports said they had all died.

The plane came down shortly after 07:30 local time (01:30 GMT). There

was fog at the time but authorities said other planes had landed successfully before the crash.

There were at least four people on board the plane, officials said. A number of people have been taken to hospital with injuries, with fears the death toll could rise.

One witness told AFP news agency: “The plane crashed into the houses.

It killed entire families.

There’s nothing left of the houses. Many people were sleeping”.

Hundreds of rescuers are working at the scene.

They were joined by Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov. President Almazbek Atambayev cancelled a visit to China, Kyrgyz media said.

Manas airport, the country’s main international airport, has been closed.

Kyrgyzstan has declared a day of national mourning for Tuesday.

Afghan attackers are from Pakistan: Ghani

Blast in Nigerian varsity kills five MAIDUGURI, JAN 16 (Agencies): Two bombs exploded at dawn Monday at Nigeria’s northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing at least five people, witnesses and police said.

The first blast ripped through the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and at least one is among victims, according to a student. The second bomb went off at an entrance gate, said a university worker. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for their safety.

Police commissioner Damian Chukwu said 5 people died in the explosion at the mosque, including a university professor, and 15 wounded people have been evacuated to hospitals.

It was not clear if the explosions came from suicide bombers or were planted bombs, police said.

Maiduguri has been attacked many times but this is the first attack on the university blamed on Boko Haram and the Islamic extremist group whose name means “Western education is sinful.”

Kabul, Jan 16 (IANS): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa that those who recently launched attacks in Afghanistan “lived, were recruited and operated freely in Pakistan and no action was taken against them”, a Presidential Palace statement said on Monday.

Ghani’s allegations came during a phone call with Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Bajwa, who telephoned the Afghan President on Sunday to condemn recent attacks in the country.

General Bajwa offered intelligence cooperation and border management to stop illegal cross-border movement, the army said.

The offer came following attacks in Kabul, Kandahar and Helmand in which at least 60 people, including five UAE diplomats, were killed. Taliban claimed the attacks in Kabul and Helmand and denied involvement in the Kandahar attack, which they blamed on the internal power struggle between of-

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ficials in Kandahar.

“In his telephonic talk, President Ghani vowed to take revenge from the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks and said his country is ready to ensure security of his country,” a statement from Ghani’s office said.

“He again described terrorism and extremism as a serious threat for the region and the world and said that lack of determination to fight against the common threat could pose dangers to Pakistan itself and the region,” the statement added.

President Ghani said he wants “serious talks” to discuss Kabul’s future relationship with Pakistan.

EU’s move to give robots legal status L o n d o n, J a n 1 6 (IANS): As members of the European Union back a draft resolution to grant legal status to robots, in order to understand this proposal one needs to look at corporations which carry legal responsibility but aren’t recognised as having human rights or seen as individuals, say experts.

The proposal in question was put forward by a socialist MEP from Luxembourg Mady DelvauxStehres. Delvaux-Stehres’s resolution was passed by the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee and a vote on the resolution is likely to take place in February.

“A growing number of areas of our daily lives are increasingly affected by robotics. In order to address this reality and to ensure that robots are and will remain in the service of humans, we urgently need to create a robust European legal framework,” Delvaux-Stehres stated in a statement.

B’desh elite police gets death sentence Donald Trump worries Nato with ‘obsolete’ comment

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The 34 th Kuhuboto Ghakhu Students' Union Biennial General Conference was held from 27th to 30th Dec. 2016 at Luzheto Village under the Theme "Excel Beyond Boundary" for which the office of the KGSU would like to thank the following : 1. Shri. Angukato T. Awomi, CEO, TG Enterprise Dimapur Chief Guest.

2. Shri. K. Hukato Chishi, IFS Guest of Honour 3. Dr. Hesheto Y. Chishi, Guest Speaker 4. Shri. Jonah Achumi, Literary Guest 5. Shri. Moa Walling, Special Guest 6. Western Sumi Totimi Hoho 7. Western Sumi Students' Union 8. Western Sumi Hoho 9. Local Organising Committee, Luzheto Village 10. KGSU Advisors 11. Finance Committee Further the union expresses our profound gratitude and thanks to all the individual, frontal heads of Kuhuboto Area, KGSU Units, public leaders and well wishers for their invaluable contribution towards making our program a grand success.

Bokavi T. Awomi President, KGSU

Puloto A. Yepthomi Gen. Secy., KGSU

OFFICE OF THE

GREEN VILLAGE NEW RIPHYIM COUNCIL Wokha – 797111: Nagaland

GREEN VILLAGE NEW RIPHYIM GENERAL MEETING. Ovung tssoa Green Village New Riphyim council thungina Potsow nzan osi nzyu ethan salum khanhyie topvü thungi nte hanjanala. 2016 General Meeting methak yilan 4 ephanina Council Chairman ethan ethungche sanati nzontsü thyutasanta khitav to methaktao ji ephanina tsungon 25 th January 2017, yuta 9:00 am, Community Hall lona nzontsü thyutasanta ji khitav sala. Hoji tsükona oyamo kyon khanhyie topvu na randana zükata vantasi nchung thyutasanta shilojo khachoi nsina mmyanta oyi thetale to tanjünga jonjia nte tsala. Ehtelan eli opvü tsotso nzontsü na thyutai khichotao tvü lia, hojilo thephata ete yan tsükaranka mmhonka osi ochiovung vansan-yilan tsükona tssolia nchumta vantasi nte nchumri mmhom jiang hansi oro shumnhyatale toha ntsitala.

Montssoka.

NYIMTSEMO ODYUO Village Council Chairman

LIMHATHUNG ODYUO Council Secretary

New York, Jan 16 (Agencies): A statement

by US President-elect Donald Trump that Nato is “obsolete” has caused “worry” in the alliance, Germany’s foreign minister has said.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was a contradiction of comments made days ago by Trump’s incoming defence chief.

In an interview in New York, Trump also said Germany’s Angela Merkel made “a catastrophic mistake” by admitting more than one million migrants.

And he threatened German car makers with high import tariffs.

Companies including BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler have invested in

factories in Mexico, where costs are cheaper, with an eye to exporting into the US market.

But Trump said: “I would tell them to not waste their time and money unless they want to sell to other countries. That would be ok, if you want to build in Mexico. “I would tell BMW, if you want to build a factory in Mexico and sell cars to the US without paying a 35% tax, forget it.”

Trump was giving details of his foreign policy goals in an interview with British and German newspapers, the Times and Bild, at Trump Tower in New York.

Donald Trump’s comments have caused dismay, concern - but perhaps not surprise - in Berlin. Few expected the new transatlantic relationship to echo the warm and trusting alliance nurtured by Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, who was a vocal supporter of Merkel’s refugee policy.

There is anger, too.

Germany’s outspoken ViceChancellor Sigmar Gabriel retorted that the migrant crisis was the result of “faulty, interventionist American policies in the Mediterranean and Middle East”.

That Trump should take aim at Germany’s car manufacturers has also

raised eyebrows, though few here believe his congress would approve the 35% tax he appears to be threatening to impose on imported vehicles.

Germans were largely unimpressed by Trump during his election campaign and now, despite his own German heritage, the president-elect is doing little to endear himself.

On Nato, Trump reiterated his criticism that “a lot of ” the 28 member states were not paying their fair share. He said the alliance had been forged “many, many years ago”, adding: “It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror.

OFFICE OF THE

DIBUIA STUDENTS’ UNION

P.O. Mangkolemba, Dist. Mokokchung - 798601 On behalf of the Dibuia Students’ Union, we would like to express our deep felt gratitude to God for His blessings and grace. And to Jubilee planning committee, students’ executive members and to all societies, individuals and the citizens of Dibuia and all the well wishers who has helped in making the 75th Years of celebration solemn and very successful one starting from 28th to 29th of Dec. 2016. It is through your immense support, sacrifice, dedication and hard work that made it a grant success. We sincerely acknowledge your hard work, moral and financial support and your contribution and wish that you would keep up the good work in future too.

A very special thank you all for your immeasurable kindness and generosity.

God Bless us All! Sd/Sd/President Info & Publicity Secy.

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was found guilty of paying senior RAB members cash to carry out the abductions and killings.

Twelve of those found guilty were convicted in absentia. Nine others received prison sentences.

The killings caused nationwide shock and sparked a wave of protests.

The Bangladesh Daily Star has quoted the main prosecuting lawyer in the case as welcoming the death penalties and calling for them to be implemented as speedily as possible.

OFFICE OF THE AO STUDENTS’ UNION DIPHUPAR DIMAPUR: NAGALAND Motto: For the Nation

The AKTD would like to express our sincere gratitude to Shri Jacob Zhimomi, Parliamentary Secretary for IFC and DPDB Chairman, Dimapur Govt of Nagaland and Shri Kuzholuzo Neinu Hon’ble MLA Govt of Nagaland and theme speaker Wb.Prof.A.Lanunungsang Former Pro-VC, NU and all the individuals who rendered their valuable services and contributed towards the success of the AKTD Silver Jubilee held on 10th Jan 2017.

We would like to make special mention of the following groups and organisations for the immense contribution towards the Jubilee Celebration.

1. Ao Students’ Union Dimapur 2. Aoyimti Kaketshir Telongjem 3. Ao Kaketshir Telongjem Padumpukhri 4. Ao Kaketshir Telongjem Diphupar ‘B’ 5. Ao Kaketshir Telongjem 5th & 6th Mile 6. Sungratsu Students’ Union Dimapur 7. Dimapur Ao Lanur Telongjem 8. Ao Lanur Telongjem Diphupar ‘B’ 9. Ao Youth Forum Diphupar 10. Ao Senso Telongjem Diphupar 11. Aotsur Telongjem Diphupar 12. Ao Baptist Church Diphupar 13. Jangpetkong Senso Telongjem Diphupar 14. Japukong Senso Telongjem Diphupar 15. Ongpangkong Senso Telongjem Diphupar 16. Ao Senso Telongjem Naga United Village 17. Naga United Village Ao Kaketshir Telongjem 18. Diphupar Village Council 19. Diphupar Naga Students' Union 20. Diphupar Naga Women Organisation 21. Rengma Community Diphupar 22. ENPUDA 23. NEZCC. AKTD would like to thank and acknowledge all the Committee member for their tireless efforts for the past few years. May God Bless you all.

Sd/Sd/President Planning Committee AKTD Convenor

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Damascus, Jan 16 (IANS): Syrian rebel groups have agreed to attend peace talks in Kazakhstan, in what Russia says is a boost to its diplomatic attempts to end the nearly six-year-old civil war.

The talks are expected to build on a nationwide truce that began on December 30 and initially saw a drop in violence across many of Syria’s battle-fronts. “All the rebel groups are going. Everyone has agreed,” Mohammad Alloush, a leading figure in the Jaish al-Islam rebel group was quoted by the Telegraph as saying.

“Astana is a process to end the bloodletting by the regime and its allies. We want to end this series of crimes,” Alloush said.

However, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army, the main armed moderate opposition group, said they would only discuss the ceasefire and humanitarian issues, not political ones.

The opposition had previously threatened to withdraw from the January 23 talks in protest of what they said were violations of the ceasefire by the Syrian regime and pro-government forces. The summit in the Kazakh capital Astana, brokered by Russia and Turkey, could be the best chance of the Syrian government and opposition building on the fragile nationwide truce and reaching a settlement to end the war.

dered men, who included local government officials, being bundled into an unmarked van in Narayanganj in April 2014. A lawyer who filmed the abductions was himself seized, along with his driver. Their bodies were later found with the others in the river.

Among those killed was local councillor Nazrul Islam, a political rival of Nur Hossain.

Hossain, an Awami League politician, was last week repatriated to Bangladesh from India. He

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One of the unit commanders, Tarek Sayeed (centre) is Increased Nato military exercises in eastern Europe the son-in-law of a government minister. have alarmed Russia.

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Dhaka, Jan 16 (Agencies): A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 26 people, three of them officers of an elite police unit, to death for seven politically-motivated murders in 2014.

The victims were abducted outside a cricket stadium in Narayanganj during a power struggle in the city. Their bodies were found three days later floating in a river, their bellies sliced open.

Local politician Nur Hossain was among those sentenced to hang for paying the police unit to kill political rivals.

It’s thought to be the first time members of the notorious Rapid Action Battalion have received the death penalty. One of the three officers, Tarek Sayeed, is the son-in-law of a government minister.

Many other defendants in the case were regular policemen.

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EMLOMI LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We, the Emlomi Local Organising Committee would like to extend our profound gratitude to Er. Picto Shohe, Hon’ble P/Secretary, Justice & Law and (SIRD) for his presence in the programme as Chief Guest and Shri Asheto Aye, Divisional Accounts Officer, Former President (ARSU) as Guest of Honour during the 40th General Conference of Atoizu Range Students’ Union at Emlomi Village from 4th to 7th January 2017 under the “Indomitable Spirit”.

The Emlomi Local Organsing Committee would also like to thank the following personalities for rendering their invaluable services and financial support for the success of the 40th General Conference.

1.

Er. Picto Shohe, Hon’ble P/Secy, Justice & Law and (SIRD)

Rs. 50,000/-

2.

Er. Hetoyi Achumi, EE, PWD (R&B) Atoizu

Rs. 2,500/-

3.

Er. Khehoto Chophy, SDO PWD (R&B) Atoizu

Rs. 2,500/-

4.

Shri Hetoho Y. Swu, SDO, Soil & Water Conservation, Mangkolemba

Rs. 10,000/-

5.

Shri Hekishe Aye, UDA ADC Office Atoizu

Rs. 5000/-

6.

Shri Benjamin Yeptho, SO PWD (R&B) Atoizu

Rs. 5000/-

7.

Emlomi Union Dimapur

Rs. 5000/-

8.

Shri Khehokhu Kiba, GB Emlomi

Rs. 5000/-

9.

Shri Khezheto Chophy, LDA PWD (R&B) Atoizu

Rs. 3000/-

10.

Shri Lutoshe Shohe, Retd. SO

Rs. 2000/-

11.

Shri Khekiho Kiba, Emlomi

Rs. 500/-

12.

Shri Khehuto T. Sumi, Emlomi

Rs. 500/-

13.

Shri Hito Chophy, ADC Atoizu as Theme Speaker

14.

Shri Hutovi Y. Chisho, as Cultural Guest

15.

Khrimto Students’ Union for Praise and Worship

16.

Asukuto Town Students’ Union for Praise and Worship

The Committee, though unable to mention everyone by name shall remain indebted to each and everyone for the overwhelming support and cooperation towards the committee.

God bless.

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Ed Sheeran invests in fashion label from hometown

(L-R) Hindi movie ‘Run’ cast Kartic Kumar and M Yana along with Murti Films proprietor Munna Yadav.

a short programme at hotel Acacia, Sunday.

The movie, is scheduled to be released on March 19 and is the first

KCAS and CEC holds cultural exchange

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s part of the MoU signed between the Ko r e a C u l i n a r y Arts Science (KCAS) High School, Korea, and C-Edge College (CEC) Dimapur, the 2nd Culinary and Cultural Exchange was held on January 13 at the College Campus.

The KCAS team comprised of 10 students and 3 Professors. In the Culinary Exchange Session, students from both the Institutions shared and displayed their indigenous cuisines.

Through this, the students and the faculty in-charge learned the various food items and also its recipes.

This was followed by Cultural Exchange program in the afternoon.

Some of the items during the Cultural were – Nagas Unveiled, Ethnic Show, a Sumi folk song, Yimchunger folk song and special presentation from KCAS. The cultural program culminated with the Unity dance

by CEC members. At the end, members from the two institutions share the Naga Unity Dance and Korean dance as a significance of Unity. In addition, there was a dynamic lecture and interactive session by Rev. Chang-Sun Moon, visiting Professor Vision University,

Korea, on the topic “Business as a Mission”, with the faculty and students of C-Edge College.

T h e p r o g r a m wa s hugely beneficial for all participating students and faculty, as the very concept of “food”, “cooking”, “eat-

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he Indian Panorama Film Festival, which was inaugurated here on Monday evening, will pay special homage to late veteran actor Om Puri by screening five of his iconic films.

“Ardh Satya”, “Mirch Masala”, “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro”, “Sadgati” and “Dharavi” are among the titles which will be screened every day at 6 p.m. from January 17-21 as part of the festival. This is being done to commemorate the journey of his life as an actor. Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore inaugurated the festival, and paid a tribute to Om Puri who died in Mumbai on January 6.

Rathore narrated how when he spoke to a filmmaker about the actor, he was told that even when Om Puri had started out, he was very committed.

“This filmmaker told me that he didn’t eat food to play the role of a beggar for a small project -- he was so committed. It is a life lesson for everyone that commitment to one’s work is very important,” Rathore said. He also urged the public to watch the movies being shown at the gala, which is a public screening of all the films which were part of the 47th International Film Festival of India’s Indian Panorama category.

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he curtain is coming down on the most celebrated circus in the US, the “Greatest Show on Earth”, run by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey. After 146 years in the business, the owners said declining tickets sales and high operating costs were to blame. Activists who campaigned for decades against the travelling circus’s animal acts welcomed the news.

The circus was well known for its hyperbolic slogan, which inspired an Oscar-winning film.

“After much evaluation and deliberation, my family and I have made the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey will hold its final performances in May,” said a statement from Kenneth Feld, CEO of Feld Entertainment, the family business which has run the circus since the late 1960s.

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PRESS NOTE

The Sovima Village Sports Association (SVSA) extend our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Ketholelie Sogotsu, S/o Neikuolie Sogotsu for achieving Gold Medal at the 6 th Indian Association of Kick Boxing Organisation (IAKO) held at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha and also been awarded 1st Degree Black Belt.

The SVSA wishes success in his future endeavours.

Khrieketoulie Suohu General Secretary SVSA

Vikuosa Mepfhüo Vice President SVSA

We, the friends would like to express our profound appreciations and heartiest congratulations to Ms. AKALA LONGKUMER for receiving Doctorate in Education on the topic of “Statues and Effects of Pre-School Education on Children’s Development” under Nagaland University.

We wish God’s blessings and success in her Educational carrier.

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Mummy (Medono Pongen) We want to let you know that we are so blessed and fortunate to have a mother like ‘YOU’. Thank you for everything. Without your love and sacrifices, we would not be what we are all today.

You are the greatest ‘gift’ we ever had from God.

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Shri. A. Vitoho Zhimomi, member NPCC and intending candidate of 36 th A/C Satakha, attended the 33rd Satakha Range Students' Union (SRSU) bi-annual conference on 12th January 2017 as a guest of Honour under the Theme "Growing impact" at Hoishe Village accompanied by host of party workers, GB's and Elders where the SRSU bi-annual conference is incessantly under way from 12th to 15th January 2017.

Exhorting the students on the inauguration night as guest of honour, he reminded the students not to deceive themselves by neglecting their career by involving in jellification, thinking they are deceiving their parents, as the intimate loser will be the students' and not the parents in every students' future. He also enlightened the students' to be very sincere and dexterous in their academic careers, as simply qualifying is a matter of old chapter and now the present trend is competing among the best from the best.

He also cited an analogy of how planting two trees at the same soil may produce a different result will bearing fruits. The trees which do not inset by germs will bear fruits on time; whereas the tree which was infected by germs will never bear fruits in times moreover the infected tree also shortened its life spam. Likewise those students who never indulge in intoxicating and immoral activities will bear good result in time like a good un-infected tree, whereas student who demoralized themselves will not only fail in life but they will also short end their God gifted life spam.

He also advised the SRSU officials; never debase the SRSU platform by indulging in politics as the SRSU assignment is to work for unity and progress of intellectual students' body.

The guest of honour also graciously donated Rs. One Lakh to SRSU another Rs. One Lakh to the host Village and Rs. 5000 each to all 18 unit participant village.

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ing” etc. which are generally considered as simply basic functions, actually requires a higher level of both science in knowledge of its ingredients and preparations for a healthier living, and an Art in its presentation of even the same food item.

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by Mur ti Films Pvt. Ltd. launched the trailer for the movie during

Hindi movie made by Murti Films.

The movie was directed by Shiva Kumar BK and is the now in the editing phase.

Murti Films proprietor Munna Yadav, who also plays the negative role in the movie, said that Nagaland had enough talents and what it actually lacked was the proper platform. He hoped that people would enjoy the movie once it was out.

The movie has Kartic Kumar on the male lead and M Yana on the female lead roles.

Munna disclosed that his next venture will be a Hindi music video album, ‘Tum Mile’, which will feature Femina Miss India 2015 finalist Rewati Chetri.

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inger Ed Sheeran has invested in a fashion label from his hometown. The 25-year-old singer, who was raised in Suffolk in Virginia, is a huge fan of the Hoax clothing line, which was started locally, and has been promoting the range by wearing it at various public appearances, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“Ed is a huge fan of Hoax’s stuff and has been wearing their clothes since he was a little boy. He knows the guys at the company and wanted to help them out as much as he could so he has invested in their business,” a source told The Sun newspaper.

“Now he is wearing the brand during as many promo appearances and performances as he can to get their name out there. It’s an amazing gesture from Ed. Everyone always talks about how generous he is but this is really going the extra mile,” the source added.

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Sevilla end Real Madrid’s unbeaten run

NRSA enter quarters of 8th LFC Man City may be out of title race: Guardiola

D i m a p u r , Ja n 1 6 ( NPN ) : D e f e n d i n g champions NRSA beat Vungotchu FC 1-0entered to enter the quarter finals of the ongoing 8th Lotha Football Championship played at local ground Wokha. Fighting for the top spot in Group ‘A’ both teams equally displayed talent and strength.

However, both teams failed to find the net in the first half. After the breather, Iloungrai beat Vungotchu FC custodian from a 30 yard strike in the 60th minute and guaranteed the top position for their team.

Playing their second league match, Okotso Sporting Club beat GHS Youth League by 3-0.

Pintok Konyak scored all three goal for Okotso Sevilla celebrated the famous victory against Real madrid as they came from behind to SC making him the third snatch the win.

M a d r i d, J a n 1 6 (Agencies): An injurytime winner from Sevilla substitute Stevan Jovetic ended Real Madrid’s 40game unbeaten run and blows the La Liga title race wide open.

After a cagey first half, Real Madrid took a 66th minute lead through a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty after Dani Carvajal was brought down by Sevilla goalkeeper Sergio Rico.

But Jorge Sampaoli’s men emerged as the winners thanks to an own goal from Sergio Ramos and former Mancester City forward Jovetic’s late winner.

The result means Real Madrid top the La Liga table by just one point, with Sevilla up to second ahead of Barcelona, who beat Las Palmas 5-0 on Saturday afternoon. With Real Madrid in a 3-5-2 formation and Sevilla an uncharacteristic 4-2-3-1, the first half began in a cagey fashion in front of a hostile atmosphere

inside the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium. With Sevilla looking to dominate possession and Real happy to hit on the counter-attack, it took until the 18th minute for the game’s first real chance as a Samir Nasri corner was narrowly headed over the bar by Steven N’Zonzi.

After a couple of Real Madrid attacking efforts which included a curled effort from Marcelo that went narrowly wide and Ronaldo forcing Rico into two double saves, the second half really came to life 20 minutes in when Real Madrid won a penalty after Carvajal was hauled down in the penalty box by Rico.

Ronaldo, the newlyawarded FIFA World Player of the Year, was unnerved on the spot and converted his penalty to register his 12th league goal of the season, just one behind Barcelona’s Lionel Messi.

With Sevilla pushing for an equaliser, the game b e c a m e f a r s c r a p p i e r.

But Sampaoli made two attacking substitutions in Jovetic and Pablo Sarabia, which had a significant impact on the match.

Sarabia created Sevilla’s leveller as his curled cross from a free-kick was met by Ramos who nodded the ball into his own goal, much to the delight of Sevilla’s fans who were taunted by him in the Copa del Rey tie on Thursday night.

A n d i n t h e dy i n g minutes of the match, Jovetic, who only joined the club on loan from Inter Milan on January 10, would prove to be the hero after picking up a pass from the lively Sergio Escudero and powerfully curled his effort into the top corner. Navas got a hand to the shot but it wasn’t enough to change the flight of the ball.

The goal proved to be one of the final moments of the game as Sevilla secured a crucial victory to keep them well in the title race, while ending Real Madrid’s remarkable run.

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player to score a hat trick.

He found the net in the 27th, 28th and 63rd minute of the game.

The last match of the day 4G Likya defeated Highlanders by 4-2.

Orenvungo found the net in the 8th minute of the match to give Highlanders an early lead but their lead was short lived when Renbemo scored four goals in quick succession for 4G FC. Renbemo goals came in the the 43rd, 49th, 58th and 61st minute of the match.

Tuesday’s Matches 1st match: Forest United Vs Okotso SC 2nd match: Lower E Khel Vs GHS youth League.

3rd match: Friends Club Vs SOC 4th Match: Brothers Club Vs EYL

Lo n d o n, Ja n 1 6 (Agencies): Pep Guardiola has suggested the Premier League title will be beyond Manchester City this season after defeat at Everton left them 10 points behind leaders Chelsea.

City were beaten 4-0 at Goodison Park on Nissan Super Sunday - the heaviest league defeat in Guardiola’s managerial career - and left them fifth in the table.

The result was also City’s heaviest league loss since 2008 and while Guardiola felt his side were unfortunate and insisted they would continue to push hard, he admitted Chelsea’s lead over City was sizeable.

Asked if the gap to the top was now too great, Guardiola said, “By the first one? Yes. 10 points is a lot of points. The second one is

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT "One of the best way to have a little bit of heaven in your home is to have someone you love in heaven" Words are simply not enough to express our profound gratitude and appreciation to each and every individual who stood by us and comforted us in our grief physically, emotionally, materially, financially and through unceasing prayers during the prolonged illness till the sad demise of our beloved father Lt. Z. Vikheho Zhimomi.

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Our heartfelt gratitude to :1) Chekiye Village 2) Chekiye Village Baptist Church 3) Doctors & nurses NEIGRIHMS Shillong 4) Civil Hospital Shillong 5) Doctors & nurses Referral Hospital, Dimapur 6) Soil & Water Conservation SubDivision Pughoboto.

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The Kuloau Yeputhomi Kuposhukulu Dimapur is saddened by the unforeseen demise of Padmashree Tokheho Sema, former member of IB and Ex. Minister. In his demise, we have lost a great leader and the vacuum created shall be difficult to fill. The example of his leadership and his accomplishments will remain as a lasting legacy and we can be justly proud of his leadership and his life. May the good Lord comfort his family.

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three points. We have to see.

In so many games we create enough chances, but when they arrive they score and the second time they arrive they score.”

“That, for the mind of the players, is tough, mentally tough, and that is why we have to keep going,

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be strong and work harder.”

The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss denied he was now facing the toughest challenge of a managerial career.

He said, “I would say the exceptional situation was in the past. When you have eight years as a coach and you win seven titles and you’re always winning – that is the exceptional situation.”

“I have to look for the best solution to take the players to winning games a g a i n . I a m h a p py i n Manchester but, of course, it is the first time in my life I have conceded a lot of goals. It never happened before and I need to know the reason why.”

We the bereaved family members of Lt. T. Tsiseto Jingrü, who passed away on 7th Jan. 2017, expressed our deepest gratitude to each and everyone, who stood by us, spiritually, materially, physically and financially at the sudden demise of our beloved Lt. T. Tsiseto Jingrü.

We convey our special thanks to:1. Jingrü hong Akehda Kiphire district.

2. Kisetong Village Union Kiphire Town.

3. Yangzitong Village Union Kiphire town. Lt. T. Tsiseto Jingrü 4. Christian Education Department KTBL. Born on : 30/06/1974 Died on : 7/01/2017.

5. Kiphire Town Baptist Lithro.

6. Baptist Youth Endeavour KTBL. 7. GMS Station ‘B’ Kiphire Town.

8. United Sangtam Baptist Lithro Ashimükhong (USBLA).

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13. Kisetong Village Students’ Union.

14. ANSTA Kiphire Unit.

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Born : 26-11-1956 │ Died : 07-01-2017 We the bereaved family members would like to express our profound and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individuals, families, relatives, organizations and well wishers who stood by us during the illness and at the sad demise of our beloved Late Mrs Videsieno Virginia Tep. Your prayers, moral, physical, financial and material support will be cherished in our hearts.

We convey our special thanks to:1. Rev. Father Joseph Kath, Asst. Parish Priest, SFS Parish, Kohima Town.

2. Doctors and nurses, BLK Hospital, New Delhi.

3. Doctors and nurses, N.H.A.K 4. Missionary Committee, A.C.U, SFS Kohima 5. A.C.Y.A., & A.C.W.A, SFS, Kohima 6. Koinonia Baptist Church, Kohima 7. Koinonia Baptist Church Youth Fellowship 8. Chathe Prayer Centre, Medziphema.

9. God grace ministry, Kohima.

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Man Utd manage draw against Reds

Matteo Darmian grapples with Firmino who slides in and manages to get a toe on the ball in a strong challenge.

Lo n d o n, Ja n 1 6 (Agencies): Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored late-on to snatch 1-1 draw against a stubborn Liverpool side in the Premier League at Old Trafford.

Liver pool opened the scoring in the 26th minute after James Milner dispatched his spot-kick, following Paul Pogba’s hand-ball inside the area, in what was a poor showing from the Frenchman who struggled to impose himself on the game. United pressed throughout and were met by a stubborn Liverpool, but finally hit-back late

on when substitution Marouane Fellaini’s header came back off the post, before Antonio Valencia found Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the near-post.

This is the first time in 25 years that the two sides drew both league games, and despite conceding the late equaliser, Liverpool will be the happier of the two after holding out for long periods, and are now seven points off the leaders Chelsea. The draw all but kills United’s already slim title hopes, but Jose Mourinho and his side know there is plenty of

work left to do to finish in the Champion’s League positions, and now sit four points off fourth-placed Arsenal. Pogba’s first-half nightmare continued, and he had a chance to rectify his hand-ball when Henrikh Mkhitaryan picked the Frenchman out with a sublime through-ball, but the former Juventus player dragged his shot wide.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic - and the United front-six -were kept quiet by a sturdy Liverpool defence in the first-half, with the Swede’s only opportunity arriving in the 32nd minute after

Er. Picto graces Khulu memorial trophy

Parliamentary Secretary for Justice & Law and SIRD, Er. Picto Shohe addressing the gathering.

Dimapur, Jan 16 (NPN): The 25th (Silver J u b i l e e ) H . C. K h u l u Memorial Football Trophy organized by Atoizu Area Sports Association began on January 16 Atoizu local ground with Parliamentary Secretary for Justice & Law and SIRD, Er. Picto Shohe as the chief guest.

Speaking at the inaugural prog ramme, Er. Picto appreciated the initiative of Additional Chief Secretar y (retd) H.K. Khulu for starting the trophy in memory of his father Lt. H.C. Khulu.

He also recognized all those who took active part at various stages of the memorial trophy. While stating that the people of Atoizu area have positively come together through the memorial trophy, Er.Picto

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urged them to take advantage of such gathering to unite and march with true spirit of oneness and unity. “Such event is an opportunity for the area people to renew their friendship, know each other and live in peace and harmony with one another,” he added.

Emphasizing on the importance of sportsman spirit, he said that a true sportsman with games spirit and principles should keep his health fit by avoiding harmful products which can have adverse effects in their performance in the field.

He also enlightened the players on the dangers of selfish game-play which would lead to their team losing on the ground. “If you win, do not be proud but rather humble yourself

and strive to achieve greater heights and bring laurels to our area,” he appealed.

Citing examples of football legends like Pele, Maradona, Dr. T. Ao and others who were recognized by their respective countries and people globally, the chief said “Similarly, through your ability and true games spirit, let your people talk about you and recognize you.”

He also highlighted on the various developmental activities undertaken in Atoizu area during the last four years and appealed for support and cooperation from the public.

Earlier, The chief guest also unveiled the silver jubilee monolith while Rev Ahoto, Evangelist, SBAK, Nito Mount said the dedicatory prayer for the monolith. Sunday School children of SBAK, Nito Mount performed opening act of the Silver Jubilee H.C. Khulu Memorial Trophy.

The chief guest was accompanied by a host of officials including ADC Atoizu, Hito; Er. Vikishe JE (Electrical); Er. Toshika Swu JE (PHE); village elders and GBs of Atoizu area.

his free-kick was well-met by the returning Simon Mignolet. Mkhitaryan has been a revelation since his return to United’s starting eleven, and despite an under-whelming opening 45, the 27-year-old found himself in a one-on-one situation, but hit his lacklustre effort straight at Mignolet. Liverpool did well to withhold Jose Mourinho’s side, but their resolute defence was put to the test just after the break, when Mkhitaryan’s pacey ball towards the near-post went begging as the underpar Martial failed to get contact.

As the Red Devils star ted to pile on the pressure, Klopp turned to Phillipe Coutinho from the bench to exploit the gaping United defence, and it took the Brazilian maestro less than a minute to influence the game, when he found compatriot Roberto Firmino, whose shot was well dealt with by David De Gea. Liverpool, and Klopp will be bitterly disappointed to have conceded late-on, and will look to go one better when they host struggling Swansea City on the 21st of January. While, United will look to get back to winning ways when they travel to Mark Hughes’ Stoke City on the same date.

India women pugilists shine at Nations Cup NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (PTI): Reigning national champion Neeraj (51kg) struck gold, while three others settled for silver medals as India’s women boxers finished commendable 3rd at the 6th Nation’s Cup in the Serbian city of Vrbas on Sunday.

Har yana-girl Neeraj defeated Kazakhstan’s Jaina Shekerbekova to win the lone gold for the country.

H o w e ve r, f o r m e r World Championships silver-medallist Sarjubala Devi (48kg), Priyanka Chaudhary (60kg), Pooja (69kg) and Seema Poonia (+81kg) had to be content with silver medals after losing their respective summit clashes.

While Sarjubala went down 3-2 to Russia’s Yulia Chumgalakova in a closelyfought contest, Priyanka l o s t t o K a z a k h s t a n’s Rimma Volosenko. Pooja also fought hard in her clash against Valentina Khalzova but ended up on the losing side for a silver.

Seema, who made it to the final without fighting a single bout also went down to a Kazakh in Lyazzat Kungenbayeva. India thus finished the event with a gold, four silver and a bronze medal.

Sarita Devi to make professional debut in Imphal Imphal, Jan 16 (Agencies): L Sarita Devi, the pugilist from Manipur, will make her professional boxing debut against Z Sofia Bedo of Hungary at Khuman Lampak indoor stadium in Imphal on January 29.

Apart from the former world champion Sarita’s bout, the Indian Boxing Council (IBC) Fight Night will feature Som Bahadur Pun of India against Manop Siththiem of Thailand, Pinki Jangra of India against Claudia Ferenczi of Slovakia, Vipin Kumar of India against Mubarak Seguya of Uganda and Siddharth Varma of India against Jaganathan.

The Editors’ Guild of Manipur and a local channel are co-sponsoring the event.

It will be organised by the IBC and Sporty Solutions, a professional sports organiser.

The channel’s editor, Y Rupachandra Singh said Manipur has given MC Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, L Devendro and Ng Dingku Singh to the world of boxing and many other athletes to other sports disciplines, who have brought laurels to the country. “We decided to encourage Sarita Devi when

Sarita Devi

she took to pro boxing, to give impetus to growth of boxing in the state,” Rupachandra said.

He added that when the lightweight world champion Sarita was allegedly denied her rightful place at the Incheon Asian Games in South Korea and a fine was imposed on her by the International Boxing Association, the Editors’ Guild of Manipur stood by her. Manipur Amateur Boxing Association (MABA), Khoibi Salam said the Indian Boxing Council and Sporty Solutions have informed them that many more boxers have applied to turn pro. Though he declined to disclose the names, he said, “It is a great move and will have tremendous impact on the boxing scene of Manipur.”

Murray makes winning start in Melbourne Melbourne, Jan 16 (Agencies): World No 1 Andy Murray kicked off his Australian Open campaign with a hard-fought straightsets victory against Illya Marchenko on Monday.

The top seed had been expected to make short work of Ukraine’s Marchenko, having beaten him in straight sets in the second round in 2011, but was pushed hard before prevailing 7-5 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 in two hours and 47 minutes.

M u r r ay c o n c e d e d a 5-3 lead in the first set, but broke at a crucial time to eventually take it in 55 minutes. He then fought back from 4-2 down in a physical encounter to win the next in a tie-break, with temperatures touching 32 degrees Celsius.

And he capitalised on a fading Marchenko with two breaks of serve in the third as he finally found his range to complete victory on Rod Laver Arena.

Murray will be looking to improve on a scruffy performance that included 27 unforced errors when he faces world No 152 Andrey Rublev next after the 19-year-old Russian upset Yen-Hsun Lu, 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-0) 6-3.

Meanwhile, Japan’s big hope Kei Nishikori survived a gruelling fiveset examination in the first round to advance in

AR organises friendly volleyball match D i m a p u r , Ja n 1 6 (NPN): 9 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (N) in the pursuit of their role as ‘friends of the hill people’ organised an inter-village friendly volleyball match between t h e y o u t h s o f Ke z o Basa and Kezo Town at Chakabama on January 15.

The motive behind the friendly matches was to encourage the village youths to take active participation in sports activities and to reveal their hidden talents, said an AR in a press release.

After the match, interaction session was held in order to know the problems being faced by the villages in terms of development of local youths and the village as a whole.

Andy Murray of Great Britain plays a forehand in his first round match against Illya Marchenko.

scorching conditions at the Australian Open.

The fifth seeded Nishikori came through a dogfight with 48th-ranked Russian Andrey Kuznetsov to win 5-7, 6-1, 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 6-2 in 3hr 34min and maintain his unbeaten record in five-set matches in Melbourne.

It was Nishikori’s fourth five-set win at the Australian Open, and set him up for a second-round encounter with Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.

Halep ousted; Venus, Kerber progress

World No 4 Simona Halep was knocked out on the opening day of the Australian Open while veteran Venus Williams insisted she was not in town for the “kicks and giggles” as she progressed to the second round. Halep, who needed medical attention because of a problem with her left

knee, lost 6-3 6-1 to 24year-old American Shelby Rogers, ranked 48 places below her.

Williams, a finalist in Melbourne in 2003, battled past Ukraine’s Kateryna Kozlova 7-6 (7-5) 7-5.

“It’s never easy in the first round,” said the American 13th seed. Williams next faces either Swiss qualifier Stefanie Voegele or Japan’s Kurumi Nara.

Meanwhile, World No.1 Angelique Kerber made a shaky start to her Australian Open tennis title defence, edging past Lesia Tsurenko in a roller-coaster opening round match.

Ke r b e r l o o k e d i n danger of getting beaten in the final set. However, the German responded to the crisis magnificently, taking the final five games to close out a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory.

She will next face Carina Witthoeft.

MDCA T20 trophy: Rainbow, Sovran Kings enter quaters Dimapur, Jan 16 (NPN): Rainbow CC and Sovran Kings won their respective games to book their berths in the knock out stages of the ongoing MDCA Inter Club T20 tourney played at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, Mokokchung.

In the first match, Rainbow CC won the match against Zero Boys CC by 55 runs. The match also saw the first and only century of the tournament. Temjen of Rainbow CC made 106 (not out) off just 48 balls and became only the 6th player to score a century in the 25-year MDCA history.

Senior player Talikaba (49*) offered him the partnership and they help their team set an imposing total of 197 for the loss of 3 wickets.

Zero Boys in reply could manage to score only 132 runs. Zero Boys gave their best to chase down

the mammoth total led

by Moabulong (33) and Lanuyanger 31) but they were never in the game.

In the second match, Sovran Kings bundled out Gorkha Students’ Union batsmen for a paltry 55 runs in just 10.5 overs. Only Chambo (12) managed to reach the two-digit figure while Lisosungkum (4/17) and Sademmeren (3/8) wrecked havoc bowling for the Sovran Kings.

In reply, Sovran Kings won the match after losing 5 wickets in 14.4 overs to book their berth in the quarter finals.

The quarter finals of the tournament will begin on Tuesday.

Today’s matches 8:00 AM: Titans CC Vs Suzerain CC 1 1 : 0 0 A M : Züngamedem CC Vs Sovran Kings

Mokokchung DSO informs Dimapur, Jan 16 (NPN): Under the aegis of the National Programme for Development of Sports (Khelo India) Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, a district level tournament in two disciplines, namely badminton in the age the age category Under–14 and U-17 (Girls & Boys) in singles and doubles and volleyball Under-17 (Girls & Boys) will be conducted on January 19 and 20 at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, Mokokchung.

In this connection, the District Sports Office has informed all interested clubs, players to register for participation which is to be routed through the respective associations ( M D B A & M D VA ) .

Teams and players selected in the said tournament will participate in the forthcoming state level tournament to be held in the IG Stadium, Kohima from January 23 to 25.

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