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Govt approves emergency fund to make foot hill road pliable DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): Under pressure from various quarters demanding completion of the foot hill road project or to face phase-wise agitation starting September 13, the PWD (Works & Housing) has been directed to make the Foothill road pliable even as the State government awaits Centre’s approval to its proposal for declaring the road a national highway or include it under the Bharatmala Pariyojna.

According to a statement issued by PWD (W&H) principal secretary Menukhol John, the direction came following a meeting convened by chief minister Neiphiu Rio with deputy CM, Y Patton and department officials Friday.

He said administrative approval for Rs 20 crore has been accorded for taking up emergency works, while Rs 10 crore has been earmarked for completion of the Doy-

 Rs 20 crore approved for emergency works and Rs 10 crore earmarked for completion of Doyang bridge  PWD says govt pursuing with the Centre for release of balance funds under SPA  Proposal sent to M o RT H t o d e c l a r e Foothill road as NH or to take up under Bharatmala Pariyojna ang bridge near Governor’s Camp during the current financial year. The department has been instructed to start the tendering process, etc.

Realising the importance of having a road along the foothills of Nagaland, he claimed that the State government had initiated construction of more than 300-km road along the foot hill areas in north-western part of the State encompassing large areas of Mon,

Longleng, Mokokchung, Wokha, Dimapur and Peren districts. As the State government does not have sufficient resources of its own, the proposal was actively taken up for funding at various forums. Though this longfelt need to construct a road along the foothill areas of the State was yet to be made operational, John said the government was committed to see that this was made into reality, adding this commitment also forms part of Nagaland Vision 2030.

The government had tied up funding of Rs 235 crore for the Foothill road measuring 342 km through Special Plan Assistance (SPA) during 2013-14. Accordingly, works were taken up from 2013-14 onwards as per the budget allocation of Rs 40 crore during 2013-14 and Rs 27 crore during 201415, totalling Rs 67 crore.

Regrettably, the SPA funding was discontinued by Govern-

Mixed reactions on RN Ravi’s transfer Correspondent

KOHIMA, SEP 10 (NPN): The shifting of Nagaland Governor and Government of India’s Interlocutor to the Naga political talks , R.N. Ravi to Tamil Nadu as Governor , has evinced mixed reactions from a cross section of society.

When asked for comment, NDPP working president and CEO of IDAN Alemtemshi Jamir said it was not right for one person to hold the post of both the Interlocutor and also as governor. Alemtemshi said this on the sidelines of the programme organized by IDAN here.

He told media persons that an incumbent holding post of governor and interlocutor reduced the negotiation to the governor level.

Now that the Interlocutor is no longer governor of Nagaland, Alemtemshi exuded confidence that the process

of negotiation would restart.

He was however quick to quip that this was his own personal view.

Meanwhile, according to The Hindu, NDPP president Chingwang Konyak said the Nagaland government was not happy with the way Ravi functioned. “He interfered in the affairs of a

popular government. Some people are happy (because of his transfer) while some are not,” he said, without specifying.

Naga Hoho general secretary Elu Ndang said Government of India must have felt it necessary to transfer Ravi as he “did nothing (Cont’d on p-8) good

Ravi appointed to create problems for CM, says Tamil Nadu Congress

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amil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president KS Alagiri Friday raised questions over the appointment of RN Ravi as the new governor of Tamil Nadu. “...I suspect Ravi has been appointed to create problems for chief minister MK Stalin,” KS Alagiri said. KS Alagiri (File) “Any such attempts would not be allowed in the state and Congress would rally democratic forces,” he warned.

Alagiri said former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, after being appointed as Lt Governor of neighbouring Puducherry, when the Congress was in power there, created “many roadblocks” following which a “number of welfare schemes could not be implemented” there.

Rectify WC employees’ details: ANPWDFWA

DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): All Nagaland PWD Field Workers’ Association (ANPWDFWA) has appealed for rectification of details of work-charged employees which had been “wrongly uploaded” in the Personal Information Management System (PIMS) database.

ANPWDFWA made this appeal in a representation to the engineer-in-chief NPWD through its president K Atovi Awomi and general secretary Zubemo Ngullie. They said that ANPWDFWA discussed about rectification of those genuine workcharged employees under NPWD since last year till date “who were not tallying to the PIMS with Aadhaar Number” at its general

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meeting held at LCS conference hall Kohima on September 9. ANPWDFWA said most of the genuine work-charged employees, both scale and fixed, had been placed into ‘B’ ‘C’ & ‘D’ categories and would again be verified by the verification committee.

In this regard, ANPWDFWA cautioned that the department would be solely responsible if the verification committee left out/terminated to those genuine employees after the physical verification.

Further, it appealed to the government and department to give equal treatment to work-charged employees like others regular employees holding similar post and performing similar duties.

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CoWIN launches API to check vaccination status

BAN casts doubts over CF agreements as armed groups continue to collect tax

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DIMAPUR, SEPT 10 (NPN): Business Association of Nagas (BAN) has expressed doubts over the motive behind various ceasefire agreements signed by various Naga political groups with the government of India (GoI), since the ceasefire ground rules permit carrying of arms, which can be easily misused to intimidate and coerce the public.

BAN said that it was instituted under the aegis of Naga Council Dimapur in 2013 to primarily look into the security and welfare of business community and promoting Naga entrepreneurs, while building robust economy and generating employment in the State.

BAN, in a statement, alleged that the cadres of various armed groups under ceasefire were interfering with trade and commerce activities and collecting taxes from various business houses, instead of remaining confined to their designated camps.

ment of India from 2015-16 and thus all items of work projected in the proposal could not be taken up.

He asserted that the State government was continuously pursuing with the Central government for release of the balance funds under SPA so that the incomplete works are completed. Further, during 2014-15, the government submitted a proposal to the ministry of road transport & highways (MoRTH) for declaring the Foothill road as national highway, though this was yet to materialise.

The proposal was again taken up with the Union minister for road transport & highways by chief minister on January 19 this year for taking up the project under Bharatmala Pariyojna on priority. Rio again took up the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 6 for consideration, John added.

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (NPN): Co-WIN—a government web portal for COVID-19 vaccination registration-- has developed a new API called KYC-VS: ‘Know Your Customer’s/Client’s Vaccination Status’, which enables entities to check an individual’s vaccination status.

According to Health ministry, KYC-VS is consent-based, privacy preserving and could be seamlessly integrated with any system.

An individual needs to enter the mobile number and name and enter the OTP. In return, Co-WIN will send a response to the verifying entity on the individual’s status of vaccination, which will be as follows: 0 - Person is not vaccinated; 1 - Person is partially vaccinated and 2 - Person is fully vaccinated.

This response will be digitally signed and can be shared instantly with the verifying entity.

BAN said that unabated taxation by Naga political groups and the multiple taxes on every consumer item had exceeded all tolerable limits.

It wondered whether the Centre had given the CF signatories the licence to collect rations and expenses in the name of taxation.

BAN reiterated that the Naga public mandate was for “One Government, One Tax” as declared on October 31, 2013.

Fur ther, BAN also pointed out that indirect taxation levied on every commodity multiple times had an adverse effect on the poorest of the poor living in both rural and urban areas of Nagaland. It wondered that when tax was paid to the government, why government machineries could not be deployed efficiently to curb this menace going around rampantly?.

BAN also asserted that it was the legitimate duty and responsibility of the

government to instil confidence among entrepreneurs and assure security for all businesses by ensuring rule of law,. It said therefore, appealed to the state machinery to deal with such elements befittingly as per the law of the land.

BAN said the lockdown had affected almost all businesses, especially trading, transport, essential commodities, restaurants and hotels, event management and rentals, constructions, etc.

According to BAN, many businesses had closed, while others were on the brink of closure and warned that if entrepreneurship was finished, thousands of employees in the unorganised private sector would be left jobless. BAN said Naga business owners for the first time, in their life are facing such a devastating pandemic while the whole supply chain, from production to marketing, has been

All-party govt issue sorted out with BJP, Alemtemshi Jamir

PM chairs high-level meeting on Covid situation

Nagaland logs 45 fresh Covid cases

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KOHIMA, SEP 10 (NPN): NDPP working president, who is also the CEO of Investment Development Authority Nagaland (IDAN), Alemtemshi Jamir has clarified that even though BJP was a bit apprehensive about the proposal for an all-party government, things have since been sorted out.

Speaking to media persons on the side-line of an event here, Jamir claimed that chief minister had recently returned from Delhi and briefed NDPP on the outcome of his meeting with BJP central leaders, which he termed as positive.

Jamir explained that the primary reason for the all-party government was for Naga political issue claimed and pressurize the negotiating group to come together.

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a high-level meeting on the Covid situation and vaccination as the government noted high caseloads in states like Kerala and Maharashtra to say that there can be no room for complacency.

Modi stressed on the need for constant genome sequencing to monitor emergence of mutants and also to ensure increased oxygen availability, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement.

He reviewed the status of augmentation of bed capacity for pediatric care and of facilities supported under “COVID Emergency Response Package II”, and it was noted that states have been advised to redesign and orient primary care and block level health infrastructure in these areas to manage the situation in rural areas,

States directed to keep buffer stock of medicines in all dists the statement said.

States are being asked to maintain a buffer stock for drugs used in management of COVID-19, mucormycosis, MIS-C at the district level, it added.

“It was discussed that across the world, there are countries where the number of active Covid cases continues to remain high. In India too, the figures from states like Maharashtra and Kerala indicate that there can be no room for complacency,” the statement said.

However, the weekly positivity was at less than three per cent for the 10th consecutive week, it added.

Prime Minister Modi underscored the need to rapidly augment the entire eco-

KOHIMA, SEP 10 (NPN): To create an enabling ecosystem for Nagaland women entrepreneurs to thrive, a tripartite memorandum of understanding was signed among Investment Development Authority Nagaland (IDAN), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Dhriiti at New Delhi office of IDAN on Friday through a webinar.

GIZ and Dhriiti are already collaborating through Project “Her & Now” to provide support to women entrepreneurs from the

system to ensure increased oxygen availability, including oxygen concentrators, cylinders and PSA plants.

Modi also reviewed the status of PSA oxygen plants coming up across the country and told that around one lakh oxygen concentrators and three lakh oxygen cylinders have been distributed to states. He was also briefed about the concentration of cases in a few geographies, districts with high test positivity as well as the week on week test positivity rate in the country.

The prime minister spoke about the need for constant genome sequencing to monitor emergence of mutants.

Modi highlighted the need to ensure adequate testing across the country and was told about the support being given to 433 districts to establish RT-PCR lab facility in public health facilities.

5 tribal hohos statement on NCD imbroglio DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): Presidents of five tribal hohos have issued a statement narrating, what they claimed, to be chronology of events vis-à-vis the ongoing constitutional crisis in Naga Council, Dimapur (NCD), According to the joint statement by Mao Hoho president M John Kape, Poumai Hoho Dimapur president KA Jotham Poumai, Tangkhul Hoho presi-

dentAyo Vashum, Rengma Public Organisation president Wanthang Rengma and Western Chakhesang Hoho presidentZ Kpfelhou Koza, NCD tenure was set to expire in March 2020.

And as mandated by the council’s constitution, all tribes duly deputed their representatives.

But, they alleged that without the knowledge of new councillors, old office bearers constituted Nomi-

nation Committee by picking outgoing councillors as members. They asserted that under no provisions could the outgoing councillors select the members, adding that it was motivated, highly unbecoming and unconstitutional.

Thereafter, a meeting was convened for installation of councillors on July 22, 2020. But, they alleged that such was the negative intent that even the order

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structured incubation and acceleration programme. With learning from project implementation, the two organisations have come together to partner with IDAN to expand the scope of women entrepreneurship promotion and establish a larger network constituting different stakeholders, agents and actors that can leverage the potential of Nagaland’s women entrepreneurs.

In her brief address, head of Project Her & Now GIZ Julia Alemtemshi Jamir signing the Karst said the one critical need that was felt during implementaMoU on Friday in Kohima. (NP) tion was to come together to adNorth-easternregion through a dress the unique needs of women

of the programme was not made known, and that it was furtively and hurriedly distributed only inside the meeting hall.

The five tribal hoho presidents said the motive became clear because it turned out to be a meeting for induction of new office bearers, though inducting new office bearers before taking oath was unconstitutional

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DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): Nagaland on Friday recorded 45 fresh Covid-19 positive cases while no deaths were reported for the second consecutive day.

Of the fresh cases, 27 were from Dimapur, Kohima-12, two in Mokokchung and one each in Kiphire, Tuensang, Wokha and Zunheboto, taking the total caseload to 30555. The death toll remain unchanged at 634.

Meanwhile, a total of 9,21,702 persons have been inoculated against Covid-19 till September 10, they include-- 669123 (first dose) and 252579 second dose).

PTI: India logged 34,973 new cases, taking the tally to 3,31,74,954, while the death toll climbed to 4,42,009 with 260 fresh fatalities, Health ministry stated.

NLA select panels to meet on Sep 14

DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): State chief minister and convenor/chairman of the NLA Select Committee to Examine the Nagaland-Assam Border Issue and Select Committee on SARFAESI Act, 2002, Neiphiu Rio, has convened a meeting of the respective committees on September 14, 2021 at 10am and 11:30am in the committee room of the NLA secretariat, Kohima. In a press release, the assembly secretariat has reminded all the members of the select committees to attend the meeting.

WSKH reacts to joint spot verification

DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): Western Sumi Kukami Hoho (WSKH) Friday said that it was “immensely irked” at the report of a joint spot verification headed

by IGP (Range) Limasunep Jamir along with Peren district administration on September 3, 2021 “at the so called ‘Lamhainamdi’ and some villages of Aqahuto area under Dhansiripar Sub Division, Dimapur district Nagaland.”

In a press release, WSKH president Vihuto Yeptho and general secretary Kawoto Aye described the spot verification as “completely lopsided and biased”. WSKH claimed that (Cont’d on p-8) though the areas reportedly veri-

entrepreneurs and facilitate their access to a network that helped them grow.

“We are confident that our partnership with IDAN and Dhriiti will bring us one step closer to achieving this in Nagaland”, said Karst. Dhriiti adviser and cofounder Anirban Gupta remarked that the initiative would build an active ecosystem for promoting and supporting women entrepreneurship in Nagaland.

IDAN CEO Alemtmshi Jamir expressed the hope to carry forward the programme even after the project comes to an end.

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fied fell within Dimapur district, the verification team “never intimated” the concerned Dimapur district administration or the concerned village/villages of Dimapur district.

WSKH stated that any such exercise without “due concern” of the district administration of both the districts “especially when the issue of boundary demarcation is in pending dispute is considered arbitrary and prejudicial”. It questioned the “real intentions of such one sided exercise” and also the “wisdom of the joint team” over its reported reminder to maintain ‘status (Cont’d on p-8) quo’.

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CS calls for monitoring attendance of officers DABA launches ‘Made in DABA VI’ Staff Reporter

State chief secretary J Alam speaking at the meeting on September 10. (DIPR)

department.

Such updates on websites with the right and timely information will drastically reduce the number of RTI cases, he added.

Meanwhile, principal

secretary IT & power, K. D. Vizo disclosed that out of 95 departments, only 72 departments had updated their websites and that the remaining 23 departments were yet to be updated.

He pointed out the cabinet decision in 2016 which clearly stated that all government departmental websites were to be hosted at state data centre.

Principal secretary

home, Abhijit Sinha asked all the departments to come up with activities and programmes and submit reports to the home department in commemoration of the 75 years of India’s Independence (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav).

During the meeting, department of law & justice notified on “engagement of legal consultants” with regard to discontinuation of appointment of legal consultants, advisers and assistants.

He said that the notification superseded all other notifications dealing with the engagement of legal assistant, legal advisers, legal consultants including the finance department’s notifications. During the meeting, a PowerPoint presentation on CAG audit report was presented by the finance department.

‘World suicide prevention day’ observed Perenlui council seek

release of compensation

Doctors and nurses with participants at school of nursing school Tuensang.

DIMAPUR: District hospital Tuensang, observed “world suicide prevention day” on the theme “creating hope through action” at multipurpose hall, school of nursing Tuensang on September 10.

In a press release, DMO (NHM) Tuensang, Apheang informed that during the programme, medical officer, psychiatrist DH Tuensang Dr. Senilo Magh spoke on prevention of suicides, common miscon-

ceptions and myths about suicide. Dr. Senilo talked on how one could identify and intervene someone with suicidal ideation and attempt.

He also stressed on having a sense of purpose and value in life which he said would protect one from taking drastic measures at stressful moments especially when all hope was lost.

Ability to cope with life’s situations needs to be taught from a young age, he exhorted. Staff of

NEWS IN BRIEF

PVSU seniors’ consultative meet: Pangti Village Students’ Union (PVSU) has convened seniors consultative meeting on September 15, 10 a.m. at Pangti Ekhumkho Ki (Wokha Town) with regard to the upcoming 75th years jubilee. All former presidents and general secretaries of PVSU have been requested to attend the meeting.

PDVDBA elects office bearers: Phek district VDB association held a meeting on September 7 at DRDA Phek and unanimously elected Thoo Shupao (Chizami block) as president, Rüsangoyi Medeo (Sekruzu block) and Kedoutsolhi Wetsah (Pfutsero block) as vice presidents, Sheto Venuh (Phek block) as general secretary along with 12 other members.

ADC & ERO Mkg informs: Additional deputy commissioner & electoral registration officer Mokokchung, Shashank Pratap Singh has informed draft list of polling stations for 21 Tuli, 22 Arkakong, 23 Impur, 24 Angetyongpang, 25 Mongoya, 26 Aonglenden, 27 Mokokchung town, 28 Koridang, 29 Jangpetkong and 30 Alongtaki assembly constituencies was published and a copy was available for public inspection at office hours in DC & DEO office, Mokokchung. Claims, objections have to be presented before DC & DEO on or before September 15.

district hospital Tuensang and around 100 students of school of nursing attended the programme.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by psychiatric social worker Beigu phom, world suicide prevention was presented RKSK counsellor Sentilemla, a role play was done by NCD counsellor Hongmo Lam and friends and a special prayer for suicide survivors was said by chaplain district hospital Tuiensang, Aveni.

DIMAPUR: Perenlui Council (N) through a representation has appealed to the state chief minister to release the compensation amount for construction of “structure damage of the public inhabited area of Peren Town”.

The resolution seeking the intervention of the chief minister was adopted in the emergency general meeting of entire Peren community on September 7.

In the representation, Perenlui Council, (N) president, Gumchu Hegui and joint secretary, Lungrahei Herie stated that the ministry of road transport and highways approved and sanctioned Rs. 18.94 crore only as provisioning cost (which includes cost for forest, and standing structures) on August 10, 2020.

The council stated that out of the Rs. 18.94 crore, an amount of Rs. 4.55 crore was already paid to the beneficiaries as forests damage compensation and remain-

ing Rs. 14.08 crore was “still in the joint account of G.M NHIDCL & DC Peren” They claimed that state government had approved and sanctioned Rs. 14.08 crores (12 meters ROW) for structure damage as per “NO.CNL-2 LANE/PRNDMP/2020 dated 14 January 2021”. The council also said that genuine affected structure owners and land donors accepted the government approved amount and appended their signatures of acceptance on January 13, 2021. However, they alleged that some individuals with vested interests have been continuously trying to sabotage the release of compensation amount which has been sanctioned by the government. Taking this into consideration, the council sought intervention of the chief minister to release the sanctioned amount for standing structures in the public inhabited area of Peren town in the interest of justice.

DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): Dimapur Ao Baptist Church (DABA) launched the sixth edition of “Made in DABA”, an initiative of DABA youth ministry at the Church premises here, on Friday.

Addressing media fraternity, DABA youth director, Jungshimanen informed that Made in DABA was aimed at holistic growth and was focused on economic upliftment and encouraged dignity of labour among the youth.

While stating that although Dimapur was the commercial hub with many opportunities, he lamented how 80-90% of the economy was controlled by outsiders.

In this regard, he added that DABA youth ministry has been attempting to bring youth entrepreneurs by organising sales day, providing logistics, etc.

He also informed that due to the pandemic, the assistance was diverted from offline to online with an Instagram page created by DABA under the handle, “made_in_daba” where locally made products were sold.

He reiterated that the main purpose of the initiative was to promote local entrepreneurs and locally made products, to solve unemployment problems, encourage dignity of labour,

Recipients of the awards along with SDEOs and others.

DIMAPUR: District edu- Directorate of School Education office (DEO), Ko- cation (DoSE) conducted a hima under the aegis of the felicitation programme of

act as facilitator by providing platform to young local entrepreneurs and to impart Christian Doctrine of giving tithes to Church.

When asked about future plans, he disclosed that they would incorporate services such as photography, makeup artistry, tutoring, etc.

He also informed that products ordered from September 10 to 15 would be delivered on 18 without any delivery charges.

Jungshimanen said that as of now, only members from DABA youth ministry were given preference.

He however added

SCERT conducts workshop

DIMAPUR: State council of educational research and training (SCERT) in collaboration with the officials of state centre of Nagaland languages under Directorate of school education conducted two-day workshop on Nagaland heritage studies, curriculum translation of Classes I-VIII on September 7 and 8 in the conference room of the SCERT.

DEO felicitates 18 teachers in Kohima “Kohima District Teachers Awardees 2020 & 2021” on September 10 at the district education office, Kohima.

A press release from the DEO informed that the programme was attended by a total of 18 teachers along with invitees.

The programme was led by senior SDEO Kohima, Theyievilie Suohumvü who delivered the welcome address AEO

(L-R) Wapang Imsong, Jungshimanen and Rongsenmongla Imsong addressing the media. (NP)

from SDEO Kohima, Neilhousienuo said the invocation while a short speech was delivered by SDEO Chiephobozou, Kevizeno Savino who shared words of encouragement to the teachers.

The award recipients were felicitated with certificates followed by a short speech by G/T Rüzhükhrie GHSS Kohima, Martina Sekhose.

that the Church might provide platforms for other Naga youth entrepreneurs in the future.

With regard to the achievement of entrepreneurs through Made in DABA, proprietor of Mix Pick enterprises, Rongsenmongla Jamir delivered a brief message on how the platform had helped her achieve success.

It was informed that one local product named “cold mountain” was now being sold at the international markets.

It may be mentioned that currently, Made in DABA VI has 83 local entrepreneurs registered.

In Loving Memory of

Late C. Toshi Aier (23.12.1948 – 11.09.2020) Today marks one year since we lost our father C. Toshi Aier and we know the loss of our father will always sting.

Without him our lives fell a little less brighter. But deeply, this we know, that love triumphs over death. He continues to be loved and “we say not in grief he is no more but in thankfulness that he was and celebrates his life”.

Fondly remembered by Family, relatives and loved ones mkc-333

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DIMAPUR: A meeting of administrative heads of departments (AHoDs) and heads of departments (HoDs) was held in the secretariat conference hall on September 10 under the chairmanship of the state chief secretary (CS), J. Alam.

During the meeting, CS asked the AHoDs and HoDs to continue monitoring the attendance of officers and staff and urged them to work in close association with one another.

He urged all the departments which had pending advertisement bills to pay their bills to the newspapers at the earliest.

Alam stressed on the importance of maintaining websites and asked all the departments to keep it updated as he said, it was the only source to keep citizens informed about the

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Born : 16-02-1981 Died 03-09-2021 The Lord Gave and the Lord has taken away Blessed be the name of the Lord (Job 1:21) We, the family members would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the far and near ones who stood by us in our time of bereavement at the sudden demise of our beloved Late Mrs. Angunuo Tepa on 3rd Sept. 2021.

We are profoundly grateful and humbled by the love you have shown through prayers and physical, financial and moral support to our family at this time of grief. We are unable to thank personally all of you, but it is our earnest prayer that God Almighty bless you abundantly.

We would like to convey our profound gratitude to : 1. Christian Revival Mission Church, H S Area.

2. Evangelical Mission Fellowship Porterlane colony.

3. Porterlane (Dzüvürü) Council.

4. Women Society Porterlane Colony.

5. Porterlane Youth (Dzüvürü) Council.

6. Porterlane Sanitation Committee.

7. Mima Kewhira Keba Thenuko Krotho.

8. Kohima Bible College (Students Union).

9. Prayer House CRMC, High School Area.

10. South Point Market (B O C).

11. Dr. Neikiesalie Kire, Advisor, Urban Development, Govt of Nagaland.

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1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

Lt. Mr. I. Asang Walling (11/09/20) “For those who follow Godly paths will rest in peace Isaiah 57:2 when they die.”

We still cannot fathom the thought that it has already been a year since you left us, but the memories are still fresh.

But if heaven is like in the Gospels then it only gives us the strength to carry on. You have touched countless lives in your lifetime, and even after your death, you live through your good deeds. We miss you always! dp-4402/21

Loving wife, sons and family members

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WEATHER FORECAST

SEPTEMBER 11 (Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Rather cloudy

33 25

An afternoon t-storm or two

30 21

Guwahati A t-storm around in the p.m.

35 26

Aizawl Imphal

A stray morning thunderstorm 31 20

Itanagar A t-storm around in the a.m.

33 23

Shillong

A stray afternoon t-storm

26 18

Kohima

A t-storm around in the a.m.

28 18

Dimapur A t-storm around in the a.m.

34 24

Mkg

A thunderstorm in spots

Tuensang Rather cloudy

29 19 22 15

A t-storm around in the a.m.

29 22

Zunheboto A t-storm around in the a.m.

26 17

Wokha

Resource person Dr. KN Zubemo Humtsoe speaking at the awareness seminar on the current scenario on piggery sector in Nagaland. (NP)

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, SEP 10 (NPN): Nagaland Pig Fa r m e r s A s s o c i a t i o n (NPFA) organised an “awareness seminar on the current scenario on piggery sector in Nagaland” at NPFA office, here, on Friday.

Speaking at the programme as resource person, Dimapur district veterinary hospital in-charge, Dr. KN Zubemo Humtsoe highlighted on the pros-

Orientation training on GPDP in Kohima

DIMAPUR: As per the calendar of activities of the people’s plan campaign, an orientation training for line department nodal officers on Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) 2021 was held on September 10 in the conference hall of rural development (RD) directorate.

A press release from the department informed that during the training, joint director RD and state nodal officer, K. Neibou Sekhose who chaired the training shared highlights on the previous year’s activities and stressed on the need to scale up in the current year.

In a PowerPoint presentation, he explained the significance of GPDP in every village and requested the line departments to disclose their projects and schemes wherever it was being implemented to village councils so that it

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could be included in the village development plan.

Stating that all activities have to be uploaded in the Gram Samvad App, he sought cooperation from the members present.

For the campaign to be successful, he also advised on nomination of district level nodal officers, facilitators and frontline workers where frontline workers would play a crucial role.

On various panchayat awards received by the state in the previous year, he asked them to give more effort so that the villages could achieve more.

The training was attended by nodal officers from environment, forests & CC, NRE, school education, water resources, fisheries & AR, E&C, PHED, A.H. & veterinary, agriculture, employment, art & culture and social welfare departments.

pects and challenges of poultry in Nagaland.

Dr. Zubemo said that as per animal husbandry and veterinar y ser vice department survey report of 2009 to 2010, Nagaland spent around Rs. 221.92 crore on import of meat.

Therefore, he said, meat business had a lot of potential in Nagaland as every part of the animal was consumed and nothing went to waste.

However, Dr. Zubemo said besides all the

NAYO seeks public support for NH-2 works DIMAPUR: Nor ther n Angami Youth Organisation (NAYO) has appealed to its affiliated village units and the general public to extend their support to the reposnible department for effective execution of the road improvement works along National Highway-2.

In a press release, NAYO president Roko Angami and press secretary Neilie Zumu stated that every citizen looked forward to good road conditions but acted indifferently.

The organisation requested land owners/ public to desist from dumping soil on Kohima-Botsa roadside as it invited water logging, obstructed free vehicular movement and posed accident risks.

Meanwhile, NAYO appreciated the responsible department, especially SDO NH-2 for clearing soil dumped on the road side.

opportunities and scope in meat business, there were many constraints.

He informed that Nagaland lacked in quality germplasm as most of pigs were nondescript.

In this regard, he advised the participants to breed indigenous pigs such as Suho pigs which had very strong disease resistance compared to exotic breed.

Highlighting the public health significant, Dr. Zubemo disclosed that the

department would be setting up quality control lab where meat samples would be tested to see if they were suitable for consumption.

He also focused on the importance of vaccination and encouraged the farmers to concentrate on feed production.

Meanwhile, resource person VAS Dr. Bocto Sumi carried out the technical session where he highlighted on awareness of African Swine Fever (ASF).

Pamphlets on ASF, vaccination, deworming schedule in domestic animals and birds, and care management of piglets were also distributed.

Earlier, NPFA president rev. N Subong Aier informed that the association was inducted in 2018 and existed in various districts in the state.

He informed that in Dimapur, there were about 44 registered piggery farmers.

The programme was attended by beneficiaries from Dimapur and was followed by an interactive session. Later, vote of thanks was delivered

by NPFA secretary Achum Ngu.

Meeting on tuberculosis held in Wokha

DIMAPUR: Tuberculosis Forum (TBF) and Tuberculosis Co-morbidity Committee (TBCC) meeting was held on September 8 at the Conference Hall of Deputy Commissioner (DC) Wokha.

A press release by Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Wokha office stated that chairperson of the meeting, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Wokha, Lankonsen Tsanglao said the meeting was convened to review the activities of TB Forum and TB co-morbidity committee.

District TB officer and member secretary Dr. Akum Jamir presented a brief report on the various activities carried out in the district under TB Mukh Bharat Abhiyan and the TB treatment monitoring tools under Nikshay platform.

Members of the TB forum discussed about the monitoring of treatment and information, education and

communication outreach activities among faith-based organizations, schools and community at large in the district.

CMO Wokha Dr. C.W. Tungoe advised the district administration to be informed and coordinate with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for smooth implementation of the Advocacy Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) among communities, stakeholders and civil societies.

Thera Welfare Society president, Therali Tungoe gave a brief account of the ACSM conducted by NGOs and the challenges faced by them to implement it.

The meeting also witnessed a testimony of a TB patient who shared his experiences on the timely regular treatment received under the national tuberculosis elimination programme and the financial benefits under Nikshay Poshan Yojana.

mobile application concludes

Participants, GIS experts, DFO and others at the training programme on WebGIS.

DIMAPUR: Three-day refresher training on use of WebGIS portal and mobile application on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) map exercise under the Nagaland Forest Management Project (NFMP) concluded Friday at Forest Office Complex, Kohima.

A press release by the department stated that addressing the participants on the first day of the training, DFO and DMU head, Kohima Rajkumar M said that every individual has to update themselves with the ever changing and progressing technology.

He also requested the trainers to make the training simple and elaborate as the main purpose of the training was to make the trainees understand and

grasp the concept.

Resource persons for the training, GIS experts, Anurag Verma and Dr. Limasanen Imsong described about the WebGIS application and the changes incorporated to the mobile application.

The second day of the training was conducted at Zhadima Village under Chiephobozou Range where all the participants under the supervision of the resource persons entered data in to the mobile application.

PRA map exercise was also conducted where Anurag Verma explained the importance of the exercise for selection of different treatment areas under NFMP project.

On the third day of

the training, the uploaded data gathered from the field on the second day using mobile application were reviewed and discussed.

The participants also gave feedbacks and suggestions on further improvement of the mobile application.

The department informed that WebGIS portal was used for evaluation and monitoring of activities under NFMP project while mobile application was used for field data collection along with PRA map exercise.

Participants from Kohima, Phek, Wokha and Kiphire divisions along with field management unit heads and staffs and FNGOs under NFMP took part during the three days training.

District Tobacco Control Cell, Mokokchung under National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) along with law enforcers from PS-1 Mokokchung on September 10 seized tobacco products from shops near educational institutions and penalized the defaulters under Section 6 (b) of COTPA Act, 2003.

DPDB, SDPDB meetings held in three districts

DIMAPUR: Monthly District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) and Sub Division Planning and Development Board (SDPDB) meetings were held in Noklak, Pughoboto and Tseminyu to discuss various agendas and developmental projects.

Noklak DPDB approves various proposals Noklak DPDB meeting was held in the conference hall of the deputy commissioner (DC) on September 9, under the chairmanship of chairman DPDB Noklak and advisor fisheries, evaluation & economics & statistics, L. Khumo.

According to a DIPR report, the house discussed and approved various proposals to be forwarded to the concerned higher up authority for necessary consideration.

During the meeting, the members approved: submission of existing site map and proposal site of DC complex at Noklak; proposals for construction of DC residence, flat type quarters for officers and GA rest house at Noklak headquarter; proposals for requirement of land for Police at Noklak headquarter; proposal development goals (SDGs) coordination cells in respect of Noklak district.

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SDPDB chairman Y. Vikheho Swu, MLA speaking at the meeting on September 10. (DIPR)

The house also discussed: to operate/run local taxi service in Noklak town and request for approval of local taxi fare by the DPDB; request for approval of DDMA JCB monitoring committee and guidelines for hiring; officers clubs Noklak matter; adoption of Noklak town by DPDB; establishment of treasury office at Noklak; accidentals insurance scheme and proposal for upgradation of government middle school at Chilliso village under SAMAGRA; construction of school building in Jejeiking and Pangking villages and renovation of school building in pang GPS and construction of EAC quarter at Panso.

During the meeting, AT department highlighted the activities of department.

Pughoboto SDPDB discuss developmental

projects Pughoboto SDPDB meeting was held under the chairmanship of SDPDB chairman, Y. Vikheho Swu, MLA in the DB court hall, Pughoboto on September 10.

During the meeting, ADC Thungchanbemo Tungoe reviewed the last meeting minutes and discussions on proper graveyard was held.

The MLA urged village council to maintain the graveyard in a proper place instead of the road side area and use the grant in-aid, NREGRS fund judiciously for village development.

The board resolved to direct all the village council not to bury the dead on the road side. In presence of the Sumi Aphuyemi Hoho president Inavi Swu, highlighted Pughoboto ADC upgradation to district and decided to reiterate the

same genuine demand to the government.

The board also resolved to stop blank cheques signed by any village council authority in case some were still practicing it.

To progress the development activities and for good workmanship in the division, the house suggested that NREGS would not sanction without the SDPDB approval. All officers were also asked to keep the village council updated about on various projects implemented by the government. The house decided to write a letter to PWD Tseminyu to maintain the road which is under their jurisdiction from Khashanyu Junction towards Pughoboto. CDPO, Ghatashi, Chiro highlighted month long Poshan Abhiyan activities in the division, Dr. Vikhashe briefed about Covid related issues and BDO Ghathashi highlighted the funding pattern changes which were being credited to the beneficiary accounts.

Special guest, SFS deputy director, Obed Bohovi who presented the prospects of Shitake (lentinula) mushroom cultivation stressed on its health benefits and marketing opportunity.

On “Green Pughoboto”, Pughoboto forest ranger, Kihoto gave a Pow-

erPoint presentation on various activities and programmes taken up by the department.

With regard to various development programmes, the MLA stressed on JAICA schemes, NRLM and NHP provided by the government.

In the meeting, ADC distributed medicines, wheelchairs and other materials to the health centres which were procured under LADF 20-21.

The house also welcomed new members SDPO Pughoboto, Akhelo Chiso, Dr. Vikashe Swu and others.

Tseminyu SDPDB discuss upgrading of Kandinu GHS SDPDB Tseminyu division was held a meeting at ADC conference hall Tseminyu with chairman SDPDB & advisor animal husbandry & women development, R. Khing.

The house reviewed the previous meeting minutes and recommended the upgradation of Kandinu Government High School (GHS) to Gover nment Higher Secondary School.

The meeting also discussed proposal for land requisition of side for Model College at Tseminyu.

The meeting was chaired by ADC Tseminyu, Manpai Phom.

Landslide due to heavy rainfall on September 8 destroyed paddy fields and plantations at Morakjo Village. Morakjo Village Council said more than 10 farmers were affected out of which three incurred heavy losses. The council has asked the concern authority to “look into the matter”.

Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) 21 Tuli Assembly Constituency on September 10 held a flag hoisting programme at the new treasurer’s residence at Tuli. The flag was hoisted by NDPP Mokokchung region president, N Bendang Jamir. Ex-NDPP candidate, J.I. Yaden also addressed the gathering.

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Knives dumped outside M’laya secretariat

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SHILLONG, SEP 10: The Autumn Session of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly, which was scheduled to continue till September 17, got underway here on Friday amid tight security with concern over the law and order situation.

Even as the first day of the session was on with chief minister Conrad K Sangma and other legislators in attendance at the assembly premises, members of eleven pressure groups under the banner of Ka Sur Ki Nong Mawlai (Voice of Mawlai People), dumped a heap of knives in front of the main gate of Meghalaya Secretariat, seeking “justice” for the death of a former rebel leader of the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) Cheristerfield Thangkhiew in an alleged “fake encounter”.

Several police officials were quickly rushed to the site and the knives were taken away. The protestors

Police personnel collect knives dumped outside the secretariat.

however stayed at the site and raised slogans against the police and also demanded justice for the killing of the former rebel leader by the police on August 13 at his residence.

The police have said it fired on Thangkhiew after he attacked one of the police constables during a raid at his residence with a knife. Therefore, the pressure group collected knives as a symbolic protest from the residents of Mawlai on September 6.

The “Voice of Mawlai People”, which is gaining support from various pressure groups and certain

politicians, are demanding that Director General of Police R Chandranathan, East Jaintia Hills SP Jagpal Singh Dhanoa and SP (Traffic) Shailendra Bamaniya should be immediately suspended for their alleged role in the “fake encounter”.

Conrad Sangma had said a judicial inquiry headed by Justice T. Vaiphei has been constituted and decisions would be taken based on its report.

“We have come to the secretariat to handover these knives and we were expecting to hand over the knives to the chief minis-

ter,” Donboklang Kharlyngdoh, who is leading the protest outside the gate of the secretariat, said.

He said the knives were surrendered to demonstrate to the people that the “police department considers knives are more lethal than other weapons.”

Kharlyngdoh said the demand for suspension of the three police officers was to ensure that the judicial inquiry was “transparent” and “impartial”.

Urging all legislators across party lines to speak up against the killing of the Thangkhiew, the members of the pressure groups said the move would ensure that peace prevails in the State.

“So far we have been holding only peaceful protests within Mawlai locality, but on Friday we have moved beyond Mawlai.

Therefore, if the government wants peace , they should immediately suspend the three police officials since our demands are genuine,” Kharlyngdoh asserted.

IEDs and detonators recovered in M’laya

Meghalaya police on Friday recovered 3.25 kg of Improvised Explosives Devices of Class-II explosives and three detonators from a village in West Garo Hills district, police said. Based on credible source information, a joint team of State police and CRPF troopers conducted a raid and recovered the IED bomb from Mengotchigre village under Tikrikilla police station.

A team from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad disposed both the IEDs in-situ. Police said a manhunt is on to nab the persons who are involved in the illegal act , even as a case has been registered at Tikrikilla police station. Meanwhile, chief minister Conrad Sangma said that the recovered of live IEDs from Garo Hills was part of the police’s operation to keep the people of the state safe.

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C-in-C of Kuki based armed group killed in shootout in Manipur

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IMPHAL, SEP 10: A top commander of a Kuki based militant group was killed and his personal bodyguard nabbed in a brief shootout in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on Friday.

The police identified the slain top leader as selfstyled commander-in-chief Letminthang Haokip alias Boithang of Socialist Democratic Front of Kukiland (SDFK). His nabbed personal body who sustained bullet injuries in the shootout was identified as Lunkhosei Chongloi. He has been admitted at a hospital in Imphal where he was referred from Churachandpur district hospital.

The security forces recovered three 9mm pistols with magazines, two hand-held radio sets, 282 rounds of 9mm ammunition and one Honda Activa brand scooter during further search in the house, the police claimed. The

top commander was killed in a counter insurgency operation launched by a combined team of Churachandpur district police and troops of 31 Assam Rifles at Khominthang village in New Lamka area of the district early today morning, the police said.

The operation was launched based on input regarding the movement and presence of the commanderin-chief of the armed militant group, the police added.

The combined team who rushed to the area cordoned off a specific house where they suspected the commander taking shelter with one of his cadres.

When the security forces surrounded the house, the militants fired some rounds of gunshots from inside the house. The security forces retaliated with maximum care to avoid collateral damage, the police said.

As soon as the firing stopped, the security forces entered the house and found

Violence will not be tolerated: Tripura CM to CPI-M Centre, Assam working towards building Jorhat-Majuli bridge in 4 years: Sonowal

AGARTALA, SEPT 10 (PTI): Amidst continuing clashes in Tripura between the ruling BJP and the main opposition CPI-M, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb Friday said that the Left party is trying to plunge the state into lawlessness and such “political behavior will not be tolerated by the people”.

The clashes between the two rival parties had broken out in different parts of the northeastern state on Monday.

Reports of fresh clashes between BJP and CPI-M are still coming in, officials said.

“For past 3 years, Tripura has seen all round peace & prosperity with radical improvements in law & order situation. Political opposition led by CPM have (sic) been rattled by this. In their desperation to regain lost political ground, they attempted to plunge Tripura into lawlessness”, Deb tweeted.

Biplab Kumar Deb “I wish to remind the CPM that in our new Tripura such violent political behaviour will not be tolerated by its people. It will be my utmost endeavour to identify and punish each miscreant as per law.

Peace is and will be a nonnegotiable tenet of BJP-led government,” he said.

Left Front convener and CPI-M central committee member Bijan Dhar said during the day that at least 26 party offices were attacked and vandalised since Thursday midnight.

The houses of at least 100 Left party activists and leaders were set on fire in the

state and at least 50 activists were injured.

“An unprecedented terror was let lose by goons sheltered by the BJP. Democracy has been slaughtered and people’s voices are choked. We have no other alternative way to resist this terror except democratic movement “, he told reporters.

The clashes started on Monday when former chief minister Manik Sarkar was allegedly prevented from proceeding to Dhanpur in Sepahijala district by BJP workers. Six activists of the saffron party and one from CPI-M were injured in the clashes.

Trouble had erupted again on Wednesday at Udaipur town in Gomati district of Tripura after Democratic Youth Federation of India, CPI-M’s youth wing, took out a procession and a few activists from it allegedly attacked a BJP activist who was passing by, injuring him

seriously.

Police said a group of BJP activists who were present nearby, retaliated by attacking the DYFI procession. Police said three persons were injured but their political affiliation is yet to be known.

A large contingent of police was deployed to disperse the mob and maintain peace after the Udaipur clash, officials said.

Police said the BJP activist injured in the Udaipur clash is in a critical condition and is still under treatrment. He was shifted to G.B Pant hospital here.

According to sources, CPI-M party offices in Agartala, Bishalgarh and Kathalia, were vandalized and set on fire after the Udaipur clash.

Officials said a group of unidentified miscreants vandalized CPI(M)’s Udaipur party office, while a vehicle belonging to former Left Front Minister Ratan Bhowmick was set ablaze.

MAJULI (ASSAM), SEP 10 (PTI): Both the Centre and the Assam government are committed to complete a bridge over the Brahmaputra river, connecting Majuli and Jorhat, within four years and are jointly working towards it, Union minister Sarbanand Sonowal said on Friday. The statement of Sonowal, who was a former chief minister of Assam, came two days after a boat headed to Majuli sank in the river after hitting a ferry steamer near Nimati Ghat in Jorhat district, in which one person died and two others went missing.

“We all want a bridge on the Brahmaputra and both the state and central government have taken necessary steps in this direction so that it is well constructed with the latest technology,” Sonowal told media persons here. The Union minister for shipping, ports and ayush said he respects the opinion of those who asserted that

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the boat mishap could have been avoided if the JorhatMajuli bridge was there.

The foundation stone of the bridge was laid in 2016 while Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the Bhumi Pujan earlier this year. At present, “technical aspects are being examined with both the state and the central governments aiming at completing the project within the next four years”, Sonowal said. Sonowal was elected from Majuli in 2016 and again in 2021 while he was elected twice as MP from Lakhimpur constituency under which the world’s

largest river island is an assembly segment. He became a Union minister in July and is yet to resign as a member of the Assam assembly.

Rejecting allegations from some quarters that he had done politics over the bridge issue, he said, “The people of Majuli have elected me twice as an MLA and also as an MP. I will never do politics with the people of the island as I both respect and revere them.”

The state cabinet on Thursday decided to entrust Finance Minister Ajanta Neog with the responsibility of monitoring the construction of the bridge. “This indicates the commitment both the Centre and state government has towards the people of Majuli. Steps will be also taken by both the governments to improve the infrastructural facilities at both the Nimatighat and Kamlabari ghat at the earliest,” he added.

one person lying dead and another with bullet injuries.

The dead person was later identified as Letminthang Haokip alias Boithang, the commanderin-chief of Socialist Democratic Front of Kukiland (SDFK), while the injured as Lunkhosei Chongloi, the personal bodyguard of the deceased C-in-C. He was immediately rushed to Churachandpur district hospital from where he was shifted to JNIMS hospital after being administered with first aid, the police said.

SDFK is one the few Kuki-based militant groups not included among the groups under suspension of operation truce with the government.

The police and security forces in the district have been keeping a close watch on the movement and presence of the C-in-C of the group not included among the Kuki armed groups under suspension of operation.

Activist warns against illegal wildlife trade

GUWAHATI, SEP 10 (PTI): Illegal wildlife trade, lack of water security and haphazard promotion of monoculture are posing ecological threats to Northeast, a research-based environmental conservation organisation has said.

It alleged that illegal wildlife trade also poses a threat to national security as recent investigations by law enforcement agencies have shown that there is a nexus between rhino horn trade and anti-national groups.

However, the rhino poaching rate has declined considerably due to concerted efforts of the Assam government, but strict vigil must continue, Aranyak secretary-general Bibha Talukdar said on Thursday.

Water security is also a priority area as some parts of Northeast face floods, while other areas witness droughts, he said.

M’laya legislator S.K.Sunn dies of COVID Bill introduced in M’laya to give Mnp government committed to

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SHILLONG, SEP 10: Sitting member of the Meghalaya Assembly, who had been representing the Mawphlang constituency, Syntar Klas Sunn died due to COVID-19 infection on Friday at his residence in Mawngap village. He was 62.

Sources close to the family said Sunn was unwell for some time now and had been at home.

Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong said that the engineerturned legislator died of COVID-19 after his swab samples, which they collected from his body tested positive for the virus.

Sunn who retired as chief engineer of the State PHE in 2016, joined politics and successfully contested as an Independent candidate from Mawph-

lang constituency in the 2018 Assembly elections.

He later joined the United Democratic Party (UDP) as an associate member of the constituent of the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance.

Sunn was Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Environment and had been vocal against the operation of illegal coke factories and saw mills in the state.

Sunn was the father of Eugeneson Lyngdoh, the Indian star footballer and was the president of the Shillong Sports Association.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma took to his micro-blogging site expressed sadness over the sudden demise of Sunn.

“I am saddened beyond words by the sudden demise of Sh. S K. Sunn, Hon’ble MLA of Maw-

phlang. Bah Sunn always went above & beyond his call of duty to serve the people and I admired his hands-on approach to public service. My deepest condolences to his family, loved ones & admirers”.

Opposition Congress legislator Dr. Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh also tweeted, “I am shocked to hear of the passing of Mr. Syntar Klas Sunn, the honourable member of Meghalaya’s Legislative Assembly representing Mawphlang constituency. His passing is a loss to our state. My condolences to his family and to his constituents.”

The United Democratic Party (UDP) has also expressed shock and disbelief at the sudden demise of Sunn. With Sunn’s death, the current Assembly has lost a total of five members in more than three years since 2018.

more power to forest officials

Correspondent SHILLONG, SEP 10: Meghalaya Forest and Environment Minister, James K. Sangma on Friday introduced the Meghalaya Forest Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2021 to enable forest officers of the state to effectively investigate and prosecute forest offences at par with other states.

The amendment Bill states that the provisions of the Meghalaya Forest Regulation, 1973 (which is an adaptation of Assam Forest Regulation, 1891) in the present form are not adequate to put an effective check on the activities of such offenders. “The amendments are necessary since in the recent past incidence of forest offences have increased considerably and

forest offences are now committed by organised groups with money and muscle power,” the Bill reads.

Moreover, the Bill, states that forest officers need to be conferred with wider powers for the purpose of inquiring into a forest offence.

“It is also necessary to provide for confiscation of tools, weapons, and conveyances of offence and lay down the procedure thereof along with forest produce especially since most of the states in the country have similar provisions in their forest laws,” the Bill reads.

“Similarly, legal provisions needs to be inserted to enable forest officers of the state to effectively investigate and prosecute forest offences at par with other states,” it further stated.

National Anthem with tribal touch in Meghalaya Correspodent SHILLONG, SEP 10: The strumming of the traditional Khasi string instrument ‘Ka Duitara’ created the perfect patriotic prelude to ‘Jana Gana Mana’, as the National Anthem was rendered with a distinct tribal touch, a historic first of its kind in the country, on the first day of the autumn session of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly session here Friday.

As the House stood in attention, the melodious

and haunting indigenous strains caught the attention of and ringed into everybody’s heart as a recorded version of the National Anthem was played with interludes of subtle beats of traditional percussion instruments.

The unique rendition of the National Anthem with the infusion of an indigenous musical overtone through playing of local instruments in the background was an introduction and idea of Meghalaya Assembly Speaker, Metbah

Lyngdoh and was recorded at a city studio and jointly produced by renowned singer and composer Lamphang Syiemlieh and his local ensemble of artists in collaboration with the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly Secretariat.

Speaking about the making of the iconic item, Syiemlieh said, “The request from the Speaker was to come up with a version which everyone can understand and feel like it’s their National Anthem”.

“So, we did it in such

a way that anyone can join together and sing the National Anthem.

The arrangement was a little bit difficult for me since it’s the National Anthem and we cannot just do whatever we want,” he pointed out, adding that the Speaker had assisted in the entire endeavour.

“I had help from Delhi, understanding the norms, laws and conditions that we have to abide by while working on the National Anthem. But then the most beautiful

thing is that there is a section in the Constitution that says we can improvise on the instruments, vocal arrangements,” he said, adding that his team of instrumentalists got together and “hope we did it perfectly”.

“It’s not like any ordinary project but an honour.

I am proud to say that it’s the first time ever to introduce the National Anthem with the pillars of our Khasi and Garo traditional instruments,” the young musician underscored.

protect tribal people: CM Biren

Correspondent IMPHAL, SEP 10: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Friday reiterated his government’s commitment to protect the interests of the tribal people of the state, in a speech in Chandel district.

“My government has always been working within the ambit of the Constitution of India,” Singh said, and appealed to the people not to believe in the false propaganda and rumours.

The chief minister further urged the public to give constructive criticism with regard to any activities of the government while asking them to refrain from negative views hindering the developmental works taken up for the welfare of the public.

On the controversial proposed Manipur (Hill Areas) Autonomous District Council Bill, 2021, the chief minister informed that the government was thoroughly discussing the bill.

He added that the government was considering devolving more autonomy to autonomous district councils, within the ambit of the Indian Constitution, for the welfare and development of the people of hill region.

On the issue of delimitation, he stated that delimitation was outside the purview of the state government but assured that the state government would put its best effort so that the Central government may not take any step which would hurt the interest of

Manipur CM N Biren Singh in Chandel district as a part of ‘Go to Hills 2.0’ mission on Friday. any section of people by the delimitation process.

Singh was delivering his speech after inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of various developmental projects to be implemented in Chandel and Tengnoupal districts as a part of “Go to Hills 2.0” mission today.

Apart from inaugurating various infrastructural and developmental projects for two districts, the chief minister also laid the foundation stones for five new projects worth together Rs 29.58 crore to be taken up in the two districts.

Among others, the projects inaugurated also included PSA Oxygen Plant of 500 LPM at Chandel and of 250 LPM at Tengnoupal, and 250 LPM PSA Oxygen Plant (PMCARES) of subdistrict hospital, Moreh.

Singh expressed gratitude to the people gathered at the Chakpikarong public ground where the function was held for the warm

welcome and hospitality extended to him and other officials on their visit to the district.

Recalling the very day when he announced the “Go to Hills” mission for the first time on March 15, 2017, he said that he had always thought of the necessity of different communities living together with mutual respect since his early days as a politician. He added that his government had been setting up various infrastructures such as Oxygen Plants, Trauma Centre etc, in hill districts considering the hardship faced by the people while accessing healthcare facilities earlier.

He continued that the Go to Hills 2.0 was being organized to deliver the benefits of certain welfare schemes to the beneficiaries directly to their doorsteps, easing the hardship faced by the beneficiaries in accessing the benefits, avoiding middlemen to take away the benefits wrongfully.

Rajnath holds talks with Australian counterpart

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI): Partnership between India and Australia is based on our shared vision of free, open, inclusive and rulebased Indo-Pacific region, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday after holding wide-ranging talks with his Australian counterpart Peter Dutton.

Describing the discussions as “fruitful”, Singh said bilateral defence cooperation as well as regional issues figured in the deliberations.

“I have had a very fruitful and wide-ranging discussion with Minister Dutton on our bilateral defence cooperation as well as regional issues,” Singh said in a media statement.

“Both of us are keen to work jointly to realise the full potential of the IndiaAustralia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership,” he said.

The talks took place a day ahead of the inaugural ‘two-plus-two’ dialogue between foreign and defence ministers of India and Australia. Dutton and

Rajnath Singh with his Australian counterpart Peter Dutton during a joint press statement in New Delhi. (PTI)

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne arrived here on Friday.

Singh said the partnership between the two countries is based on “our shared vision of free, open, inclusive and rule-based Indo-Pacific region”.

“Both, Australia and India have tremendous stakes in peace, development and free flow of trade, rules-based order and economic growth in the region,” he said.

“Our discussions today focused on our bilateral defence cooperation and expanding military engage-

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ments across services, enhancing defence information sharing, cooperation in emerging defence technologies and mutual logistics support,” he added.

Singh said both sides also noted with happiness that Australia joined the Malabar Exercise in 2020.

“In this context we also expressed satisfaction in the continued participation of Australia in Malabar Exercise this year,” he added.

The Australian Navy was part of the recent Malabar naval exercise that also featured navies of India,

the US and Japan.

Singh said both sides discussed opportunities to work together in defence science and technology areas.

“I invited Australian industry to take advantage of India’s liberalised foreign direct investment policies in the defence sector. We both agreed that there are opportunities of bilateral collaboration for co-development and co­ production,” he said.

According to diplomatic sources, at the twoplus-two dialogue, both sides are expected to deliberate on further solidifying bilateral defence and strategic ties besides exchanging views on the situation in Afghanistan.

The two sides are also expected to discuss ways to boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific in the face of China’s growing military assertiveness in the region, they said. Both Australia and India are part of Quad or Quadrilateral coalition that resolved to work towards ensuring a free, open

and inclusive Indo-Pacific.

The other two members of the Quad are the US and Japan.

The sources said expanding bilateral cooperation in areas of maritime security is expected to be another area of focus at the two-plus-two dialogue.

The dialogue between the foreign and defence ministers was instituted as part of an overall goal to expand strategic cooperation between the two countries.

India has such a framework for talks with a very few countries including the US and Japan.

Defence and military cooperation between India and Australia is on an upswing in the last few years.

In June last year, India and Australia elevated their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership and signed a landmark deal for reciprocal access to military bases for logistics support during an online summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.

RSS, BJP trying to break J&K’s composite culture: Rahul Gandhi JAMMU, SEP 10 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the RSS-BJP combine of trying to break the composite culture of Jammu and Kashmir.

“The feeling of love, brotherhood and composite culture exists among you all. I feel sad that the RSS and BJP are trying to break this culture,” Gandhi said in his address to Congress office-bearers and workers at a party function here on the second day of his two-day visit to Jammu. “They (RSS, BJP) attack love and brotherhood… You got weakened and as result, they took away your statehood,” he added.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the ideological fount of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre. The Congress leader exhorted the gathering to chant ‘Jai Mata Di’, a day after he paid obeisance at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra. “I went to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine yester-

Rahul Gandhi day. There are three symbols of mata (pindis) there - Mata Durga, Mata Lakshmi and Mata Saraswati,” Gandhi said. Goddess Durga protects us, Lakshmi is a symbol of power, and Saraswati symbolises education and knowledge, he said.

“When these three shaktis are in your home and country, your home and country will make progress,” he said. However, the BJP government’s policies like demonetisation and GST have weakened their powers, he said. Whereas, the Ma-

hatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA) and the GDP with a growth rate of 9 per cent under the Congress had increased their powers, he added.

Pointing towards his hand, Gandhi co-related the Congress election symbol with Lord Shiva and Guru Nanak Dev, and said it was the symbol of being fearless.

“This hand is the symbol that you should not be afraid of anything,” Gandhi said, adding that the “BJP is afraid of everything”.

Magistrate not competent authority Owaisi booked for ‘vitiating’ communal harmony in UP to extend UAPA probe: Supreme Court

only competent authority to consider such request would be ‘the Court’ as specified in the proviso in Section 43-D (2)(b) of the UAPA,” the bench also comprising Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi said.

The order, passed on September 7, came on an appeal filed by Sadique and others challenging the judgment passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh.

They were arrested in connection with crime lodged with STF/ATS Police Station, District Bhopal for offences punishable under Arms Act and various provisions of UAPA. While dealing with an application moved on behalf of the Investigating Machinery under Section 43-D(2) (b) of the UAPA, the extension was granted by the

Ex-Minister Atmaram Tomar found dead in Baghpat home B A G H PAT ( U T T A R PRADESH), SEP 10 (IANS): Former minister, Atmaram Tomar, who had contested the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on a BJP ticket from Chhaprauli in Baghpat district, was found dead in his house on Friday under suspicious circumstances. A towel was found wrapped around his neck and his car and phone were

missing. Tomar who originally hailed from Bijraul village had been living in the house on Bijraul road in the city. Senior police officials have reached the spot and have started investigations.

A forensic team and dog squad have also been called in. A senior police official said that prima facie, it appears that Tomar was strangulated.

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bly polls. Owaisi had Thursday alleged there have been efforts to turn the country into a “Hindu Rashtra” since he came to power seven years back.

He also referred to the law against instant triple talaq and mentioned the “plight” of Hindu women, while directing a personal barb at Modi.

“Ever since Narendra Modi became prime minister, efforts are on to demolish secularism

and make the country a Hindu Rashtra,” he had said.

Criticising the triple talaq law, Owaisi said, “BJP leaders talk about injustice against Muslim women subject to talaq but remain mum on the issue of the plight of Hindu women discarded by their men.”

“My bhabhi (PM Modi’s wife) stays alone in Gujarat but nobody has an answer for her,” he had said.

Asaduddin Owaisi of a Barabanki SDM court. Barabanki District Magistrate Adarsh Singh had said the structure was illegal, and the tehsil administration got its possession on March 18.

He had said the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had disposed of a petition filed in this connection on April 2, which proved the construction was illegal.

B a r a b a n k i S P Ya mu n a Prasad also said Friday, “By his statement, Owaisi tried to vitiate communal harmony and incite feelings of a particular community. He also made indecent and baseless remarks against the PM and the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.”

Owaisi was on a three-day trip to Uttar Pradesh, where his party plans to contest 100 seats in the upcoming assem-

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NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI): A magistrate would not be the competent authority for extension of time to complete investigation in cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Supreme Court has said.

A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit said the only competent authority to consider such request would be the Special Courts set up under National Investigation Agency Act. “So far as all offences under the UAPA are concerned, the Magistrate’s jurisdiction to extend time under the first proviso in Section 43-D (2)(b) is nonexistent. “Consequently, in so far as “Extension of time to complete investigation” is concerned, the Magistrate would not be competent to consider the request and the

Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal.

On completion of 90 days of their actual custody, applications on behalf of appellants were moved seeking bail on the ground that no charge-sheet was filed by the Investigating Agency within 90 days, which was rejected

by Court of CJM, Bhopal.

When the matter reached the high court, it said that since the CJM, Bhopal had passed an appropriate order, the period available for the Investigating Machinery to complete the investigation stood extended to 180 days and the accused were not entitled to bail.

The lawyer appearing for the accused referred to previous decisions of the apex court and said the extension granted in the instant case by CJM, Bhopal was beyond jurisdiction.

He referred to the decision which said “all offences under the UAPA, whether investigated by the National Investigation Agency or by the investigating agencies of the state government, are to be tried exclusively

by Special Courts set up under National Investigation Agency Act.

LUCKNOW, SEP 10 (PTI): The Uttar Pradesh Police has booked AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi for allegedly vitiating communal harmony, violating Covid norms and making “indecent” remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, police said Friday.

The FIR against the All India Majlis-e-Itthehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief was registered Thursday night at Barabanki city police station after his party’s rally.

IPC sections 153A (promoting enmity on ground of religion, race etc.), 188 (disregarding order of a public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread disease dangerous to life), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease) and the Epidemic Act have been slapped against him, Superintendent of Police, Barabanki, Yamuna Prasad said.

He said the Hyderabad MP violated Covid guidelines -- on mask and social distancing -- by arranging huge crowds at the party rally at Katra Chandana.

“In his speech, the AIMIM chief made statements for vitiating communal harmony and said the 100-year-old Ram Sanehi Ghat mosque was razed by the administration and its debris was also removed. This is contrary to the fact,” the SP said.

The old mosque Owaisi referred to was located adjacent to the tehsil premises and opposite the SDM’s residence. It was demolished on May 17 on the orders

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Nagaland Post VOL. XXXI NO. 277 DIMAPUR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Justice eludes 9/11 victims

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aturday, September 11,2021 marks two decades since the horrific terror hijack attacks that shook the world, when nearly 3,000 people were killed in what was the deadliest terrorist assault on United States soil. On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. the first of four American civilian passenger jet planes - an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel- crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767-United Airlines Flight 175-appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center(WTC) and sliced into the south tower near the 60th floor.

Another hijacked place struck the west side of the Pentagon building in Washington DC, while the fourth fell in a field in Pennsylvania. These ‘kamikaze’ -like suicide jet bombers were carried out by 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists who hijacked four California-bound commercial airplanes with the intention of striking some of the US’s most iconic buildings. Besides the nearly 3,000 people killed, over ten thousand others were also injured in the terror attack, that forever transformed the United States. Today Americans no longer take security for granted anymore after having learnt their bitterest lesson during 9/11. In the retaliation, the US carried out its ‘war on terror’ when US forces invaded Afghanistan to hunt Al Qaeda down but got bogged down in a 20-year war from where it had to withdraw disastrously and in a hurry to beat the deadline of the 20th year of 9/11. The master planner of the 9/11 terror attack was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed an American educated Kuwaiti national. Khalid was also involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to bring down the Twin Towers but the plot failed. However, six innocent people including a pregnant woman died. Khalid escaped US dragnet mostly because of laxity within the US intelligence agencies even though he was tracked. Bumbling by US officials in Qatar prevented Khalid from being captured. Eventually, it was only after some assistance from Pakistani ISI that he was captured in 2003 and charged with the deadly terror hijack. The failures of US military and intelligence are a legend and unfortunately, even with the 9/11 terror attacks. The US agencies were alerted about the terror plot by Al Qaeda to hijack American passenger planes. However, all 19 terrorists were easily able to pass through US airport security since those on duty were actually never properly briefed nor alerted. The trial of five main accused arrested for the 9/11 terror attacks has not even begun for nearly 18 years since the American system gives undue weightage to the rights of criminals. The American legal system only facilitates Khalid’s complaint that he was tortured to make confessions will delay the trial. Even the 9/11 Commission set up in 2004 to do deep into the entire terror attack, background of those involved etc could be completed only in 2016. The families of grieving victims are demanding that the report be made public but the US government has refused because its closest and most untrustworthy ally- Saudi Arabia- is implicated. According to reports, the Commission concluded that the 9/11 attackers had the tacit support of some of the Saudi rulers and directly implicated some Saudi officials. These clearly indict the US government of criminal neglect not only in security but also justice for its citizens.

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When you were under the fig tree, I saw you. —John 1:48

Worshiping in Everyday Occasions. We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us— it simply reveals what we are made of already. Do you find yourself saying, “If God calls me to battle, of course I will rise to the occasion”? Yet you won’t rise to the occasion unless you have done so on God’s training ground. If you are not doing the task that is closest to you now, which God has engineered into your life, when the crisis comes, instead of being fit for battle, you will be revealed as being unfit. Crises always reveal a person’s true character.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. The time will come, as Nathanael experienced in this passage, that a private “fig-tree” life will no longer be possible. Everything will be out in the open, and you will find yourself to be of no value there if you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions in your own home. If your worship is right in your private relationship with God, then when He sets you free, you will be ready. It is in the unseen life, which only God saw, that you have become perfectly fit.

And when the strain of the crisis comes, you can be relied upon by God. Are you saying, “But I can’t be expected to live a sanctified life in my present circumstances; I have no time for prayer or Bible study right now; besides, my opportunity for battle hasn’t come yet, but when it does, of course I will be ready”? No, you will not.

If you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions, when you get involved in God’s work, you will not only be useless yourself but also a hindrance to those around you.

God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

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The past cannot be cured. ~ Elizabeth I

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Post-mortem

Upper caste networks of political parties are resisting the caste census. But not for long T

Telangana’s project shows that caste census can benefit Dalits and OBCs. But parties like BJP and Congress are too busy with their Dwija networks.

he demand for caste census is catching up. Almost all regional parties have agreed to it. This is because some regional parties have already collected caste-wise data for internal usage. For example, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) collected caste data with individual enumeration the moment it came to power in 2014. Though it was named Samagra Kutumba Survey, it also collected caste details. It took up a massive exercise by asking the migrant Telanganites to be in the state even if they were in other countries on 19 August 2014. Many from the gulf countries, the United States and faraway places travelled back to their villages to enumerate themselves on given dates.

Telangana villages saw new faces on the streets. Parents of many children who were born and grew up in their migrated homes wanted them to be enumerated back in their villages.

The ‘Telangana All family Census 2014’ reminded me of Joseph and Mary (the parents of Jesus Christ) travelling to Bethlehem from Nazareth to get counted in their own place.

According to the Bible (Luke 2:1-7), “Joseph and Mary’s trip to Bethlehem is undertaken in order to satisfy an imperial command that all individuals return to their ancestral towns… Since Mary was pregnant with Jesus at the time the command had to be carried out”. So it was a census that led to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, in a shepherd shed.

Israel has a history of

counting individuals through the census from the days of Moses.

Caste census in India India despite having one of the greatest civilisations of Harappa, did not have that sort of an individual counting system. Fortunately, like the imperial command of Israel from Jesus’ time, the British colonial government conducted a census with its own tax collection interest, between 1865 and 1872. But the first synchronous census was held in 1881. From the census of 1872, they enumerated people on the basis of caste.

The Dwija pundits, mainly Brahmins, opposed the idea of the census, especially caste census, because they were the interlocutors between the British rulers and Indian masses.

They did not want the world to know that they were a small minority in the Indian population that represented India as a whole in every higher sphere of governance. They were not a part of the production fields and urban working-class population. The Dwijas — Brahmins, Banias, Ksatriyas, Kayasthas and Khatris — who constituted a small minority, were the only Sanskrit, Persian and English-educated people. The Kshatriyas were still holding their princely power and constituted a very small number of the Indian population but controlled huge amounts of landed property and had financial clout. They all opposed the census in general, and the caste census in particular.

Now, too, the intelligentsia from the same five Dwija communities are opposing the caste census. The same intelligentsia opposed the implementation of the Mandal reservation.

Actually, many liberal intellectuals like Pratap Bhanu Mehta and others argued strongly against the caste census. During the Mandal movement, many argued that caste is/was a British creation through caste census in the 1800s and after. They tried to infer that the collection of caste census was the beginning of the caste system in India.

What was strange for many of us who supported the Mandal movement was that all the Dwija intellectuals, irrespective of ideology — Left, liberal and conservative — argued as if the caste system was created by the British colonialists themselves.

They did not think about what came into existence as varna/ caste division of the society through the process of composing of Vedas — particularly, Rigveda — writing of Kautilya’s Arthashastra and Manu’s Dharmashastra. Many nationalist scholars praised Manusmriti as a great ancient legal text.

The Indian Communist Dwija thinkers and academics also did not dispute that argument, and went along with it.

The Shudra/Dalit/Adivasis hardly had any foreign or university-educated scholars or leaders like P.V. Kane, K. P. Jayaswal, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, to put forth

an opposing view on caste and Indian civilisation until B.R. Ambedkar emerged as a thinker and expert in many subjects of social sciences and challenged them on many fronts.

The 1931 caste census enumeration was dropped from the census because of the world war and famine situation in India till 1951. In that census, even Nehru and his team of intellectuals supposedly did not want to enumerate caste. One of the meaningless theories espoused was that caste census would open caste wounds in society. Nehru seems to have gone along with such views on both caste census and OBC reservation as he refused to implement the Kaka Kalelkar report too.

When Nehru himself opposed caste enumeration, even Ambedkar could not do anything, though he was in Nehru’s cabinet by 1951.

Lack of Shudra/OBC intellectuals The Communist Dwija intellectuals like P.C. Joshi, Sripad Dange, B.T. Ranadive and all Bengali bhadralok intellectuals of the Left-wing also seemed to have silently agreed with the Nehruvians. Of course, this view was very much acceptable to the top Hindutva intellectuals like K.B. Hedgewar and M.S. Golwalkar.

Once the British went away, the entire intellectual, administrative and political structures were in the hands of the Dwija intelligentsia. There was no Shudra/Dalit/Adivasi intellectual or conscious political

force in the high-end structures of the administration. People like Sardar Patel were at the top of the Nehruvian system but were cautiously working with the Nehruvian network because there was no top intellectual network of Shudras around to convince them that caste census would be useful for democratic welfarism.

Ambedkar did not fight much because both Dalits and Muslims got the right to be enumerated as separate categories.

Dalit reservations, in principle, came into existence in 1947 itself. The Nehru administration, because of Partition problems, satisfied the Muslims by continuing the minority census and including the top-class English-educated Muslims in the administration. But the Shudra/OBCs had no lobby to fight for the caste census or reservations.

Why are Dwijas still opposing it?

Why are the Dwijas opposing the caste census when the majority of Shudras support it even now? They know that despite reservations for OBCs, all structures of administration in top institutions like the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Management, and the central universities are under their control. The New Delhi administration, including the embassies located in foreign countries, are virtually run by them. Once the official data of the caste gets released, even the Shudra ‘upper’ castes like Jats, Gujjars, Patels, Mahisyas (West Bengal) and communities like

that in the North and in the South will realise that they do not exist in any of the major administrative structures that run the country from Delhi.

The caste census will radically change the idea of democracy in India. Cutting across party lines, Bihar regional leaders met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ask for a caste census — they have the example of K. Chandrashekar Rao’s caste-wise data collection. Both Rao and Siddaramaiah used that data to work out their own welfare agendas based on caste numbers. Rao, for example, identified the Gollas-Kurumas and Mudirajs as the first and second-largest communities in Telangana, and by the next election, started two independent welfare schemes — the sheep distribution programme for Gollas-Kurumas, who are traditionally shepherds, and fish economic growth for Mudirajas, which is their traditional occupation. In return, he reaped the votes from them in the 2018 Telangana election.

Regional parties have such plans and the masses have their own benefits with the caste census. National parties like the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress and Communist Party are sensitive to their Dwija networks that are opposed to counting them as castes.

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd is a political theorist, social activist and author. He is the author of ‘God as Political Philosopher’ and ‘Buffalo Nationalism’. Views are personal.

Engineers : The backbone of any nation

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n year 1968, Government of India has declared 15th September as “Engineers Day” as a tribute to the greatest Engineer Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Vishveshvaraiya. Born on 15th September 1860, Dr. Vishveshvaraiya went to become India’s most prolific civil engineer, dam & bridge builder, economist, statesman and can be counted among the last century’s foremost nation-builders. Nation as well as society recalls the priceless and irreplaceable contribution of their engineers in nation building.

The history of engineers is as old as civilisation. As civilisation developed people began reshaping their environment with villages, farms, watersheds, roads, ships and eventually towns. With each advancement came new challenges that required more complex and creative solutions, which were solved by experiments as well as experience. With the passage of time, there has been considerable overhauling in the system. The advent of computer & software has completely changed the scenario in infrastructure sector. Quality in construction, planning, scheduling, organising, co-ordinating, controlling, management etc has been im-

“A

lie can travel halfway around the world, while the truth is tying its shoelaces” This famous quote aptly summarizes themethodology of using lies, half-truths and misinformation to create anxiety and fear amongst the people. It is regularly used by our principal opposition party in their desperation to salvage their political relevance.

Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s “The Grand Closing Down Sale” (Indian Express, August 29, 2021) says “The big lie has been exposed.” Indeed, it has. His own. It has also laid bare his own party’s hypocrisy; what is good for the country when Congress was in Government is bad for the country if the government is led by Prime Minister Modi and the BJP. His article is littered with false assertions and half-truths. It is a pity that a senior MP and former Union Minister has to do this to score a political point. And he fails.

The claim that the Modi Government by the stroke of a pen has threatened to reduce India’s public assets to zero shows that he either does

proved and elapsed time minimised.

In religious scripture, Bhagwan Vishwakarma has been enshrined as an engineer & architect of the Devlok. In Treta Yug, during departure of Shri Ram to Sri Lanka, two warriors of the Vanar Sena - Nal and Neel have showed their engineering expertise by constructing stone bridge “Shri Ram Setu” across the ocean between present day Dhanushkodi in Rameshwaram (Bharat) & Mannar (Sri Lanka). The bridge, having approximately 30-35 Km length & 3 Km width, is the unique model of ancient engineering dexterity.

Engineers play a very important role in every walk of life. They are technically skilled professionals, who are responsible for solving problems through the use of machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. They convert knowledge of basic sciences into products. Their main focus is on making things work efficiently and effectively by applying the theories and principles of sciences and mathematics to research, and develop economic solutions to technical problems. The engineer differs from scientist by the nature of their training. While the scientists

try to explore the natural world and discover new knowledge about the universe and how it works, engineers apply that knowledge to solve real problems, often with an eye toward improving cost and efficiency.

Their works are the link between the perceived social needs and economic applications. They are the bridge between science and art. Engineers are the backbone of nation building and the purpose of engineering is to innovate, design, create and maintain products, system and equipment for the benefit and wellbeing of humans. They help improve living conditions for the common people. If a country fails to realise the role of engineers in her nation building and the engineers are leaving for better opportunities abroad, then the country will continue to experience collapsed buildings and bridges, substandard products, failed roads, communication failures, environmental hazards, epileptic power supply etc.

Engineers contribute to the nation’s technological & industrial progress. As nations in the world are undergoing reformation and the economy is getting more modernised, consumption patterns have

expanded and demand is constantly on the increase. There is therefore a growing consciousness of quality control at every level of production.

The engineers have to realise their responsibility and play an effective role in tackling today’s complex issues in the nation building. To build a nation is to make it habitable for the citizens by providing social amenities, infrastructural facilities, job creation and security and many more; the engineers therefore have a very important role to play. Thus, they are duty bound to design products, machineries and plants to manufacture these products, and systems to ensure quality and efficiency. They are to design, plan and supervise construction of buildings, and ensure their safety and stability against hazards; design highways, bridges, railways and transit systems, dams, irrigation canals, power systems, ports, harbours as well as off-shore structures.

Engineers should equally know that it is their duty to develop and implement improved ways to extract, process and use raw materials; develop new raw materials that can improve product performance and take advantage of advances in

technology to harness the power of the sun, the gas, the earth, atoms and electricity to supply the nation’s power needs; analyse the impact of the products they develop or systems they design on the environment and the people; design ways of managing the nation’s waste, converting or recycling them to useful products.

Parts of their functions also include determining the cause of component failures, estimating the time and cost of completing new projects as well as maintaining the existing ones.

Engineers are pivotal not only in infrastructure, but can act a catalyst in the field of trade and commerce too. In sales and management, an engineering background enables one to discuss the technical aspects of projects/products and assist in the planning, installation and product use. With such a vast and varied nature of their job, the engineers are really the foundation stone of a nation’s building and their role cannot be neglected in a nation’s all round progress. The engineers on their part should be proud of what they do and contribute effectively towards the growth of their country and the world at large.

Prabhat Kishore is a technocrat and academician

The truth about asset monetization

not understand what the National Monetization Pipeline (NMP) proposes to do or that he understands but wishes to twist logic. He obfuscates by deliberately mixing up strategic disinvestment with asset monetization. The fact is that none of the assets in NMPare up for sale. They are going to be leased out to private partners through an open and transparent bidding process, on terms which more than safeguard the public interest. The entire process must satisfy the law and courts of the land. The private partner will operate and maintain the assets and return them to Government on completion of the lease.

The former FM wishes to appear ignorant about the use of innovative new instruments that the Government has permitted in the monetization of assets. The use of Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvIT) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), which, like mutual funds, pool investments which then flow to infrastructure and real estate, will allow the people of India and prominent financial investors to invest in our

national assets. Some InvITs and REITs are already listed on stock markets.

What the former FM disparagingly calls a “rent” of Rs 1.5 lakh crore a year from asset monetisation will actually lead to morechurn and use of financial leverage to fuel higher Government investment in building new infrastructure. That is the real logic of asset monetization.

Unfortunately, through scams like 2G, Coalgate, CWG and Adarsh, UPA appeared focused on monetization of a different kind.

G o ve r n m e n t n e e d s financial resources to upgrade India’s infrastructure to world-class levels without over-burdening the honest taxpayer of this country. In the past 7 years, the total length of highways has gone up to 1.5 times of the length created over 70 years. The total investment in urban sector in the past 7 years has been over 7 times of the investment made in the 10 years between 2004-14.

Ironically, in his effort to falsify the narrative, Mr. Chidambaram has disowned even the few progressive baby

steps that the UPA Government had taken to monetize public assets. The privatization of Delhi and Mumbai airports happened under the UPA Government when Mr. Chidambaram was Finance Minister and Chairman of the Group of Ministers which was responsible for decision making on this matter. Mr. Chidambaram writes that the Railways is a strategic sector and should not be open to private participation. Why did he not put his foot down when, in 2008, the UPA Government invited Requests for Qualification for the redevelopment of New Delhi Railway Station?

Even after UPA, the Congress has been in state governments which have taken policy decisions to monetise public assets. In February 2020, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway was monetized for Rs 8,262 crore by the Government of Maharashtra. Mr. Chidambaram and his party could have stopped CM Uddhav Thackeray’s ‘stroke of pen.’

The former FM then raises the bogey of a possible creation of monopolies in certain sectors. Hecites the examples of the US crack-

ing down on tech companies, South Korea taking on Chaebols and China’s purge of some of its internet giants, all for anti-competitive practices. India also has institutions that deal with issues related to uncompetitive practices. There are sector specific regulators. There is the Competition Commission of India. There are Consumer Courts. All of these have the authority, quite independent of Government of India, to come down heavily on any anti-competitive practice. The Government is also committed to market competition and will design processes in a way that minimize the probability of any concentration of market power. In some areas, like Railway tracks, where there is a natural monopoly, there will be no asset monetization.

The former FM raises other bogeys like the matter of jobs. The case studies of the privatisations undertaken by the Vajpayee Government show that jobs actually grow when an operation is more efficiently managed. In addition to jobs increasing in the assets being monetized, an entire new set of jobs will be

created when the government reinvests its revenue proceeds.

There is a positive multiplier effect, which someone who has been Finance Minister ought to appreciate.

Finally, Mr. Chidambaram accuses the Government of secrecy in the way it has gone about the NMP. Nothing could be further from the truth. The asset monetization was announced several months ago in the Union Budget in February 2021.

Several rounds of webinars and national-level consultations were organised. What was announced last week was a roadmap. Earlier, the Government had announced a strategic disinvestment policy in 2016.

Our Gover nment is committed to forward looking, pro-people reform. We are acting out of conviction.

Stealth and secrecy are companions to Congress-style subterfuge. This Government makes no compromise with transparency and national interest.

Hardeep S Puri is union minister for petroleum & natural gas and housing & urban affairs.

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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BSP won’t field ‘bahubali’, mafia Mamata files nomination for Bhabanipur candidates: Mayawati; drops Mukhtar

TMC says will avenge Nandigram defeat

Mamata Banerjee filing her nomination papers for bypolls to the Bhabanipur Assembly seat, in Kolkata, Sep 10. (PTI)

Mamata Banerjee’s victory by a record margin. They are waiting to avenge the conspiracy that was hatched to defeat Mamata di at Nandigram,” Firhad Hakim told reporters.

TMC supporters lustily cheered their leader with slogans like “Bhabanipur Nijer Ghorer Meyekei chai” (Bhabanipur wants her own daughter) and “Bhabanipur eh Khela Hobe” (Game will happen in Bhabanipur).

Banerjee, a resident of Bhabanipur, had won the seat twice in 2011 and 2016 but shifted to Nandigram,

Delhi riots: I will stop saying ‘Salaam’ if illegal, Saifi tells court NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI): Alluding to Delhi Police’s remarks on “Assalamu alaykum” salutation, Delhi riots conspiracy case accused and activist Khalid Saifi on Friday said he would have to stop saying it in case it is illegal.

Saifi’s remarks came days after the police said JNU student Shar jeel Imam, who is also an accused in the case, began one of his alleged inflammatory speeches with “Assalamu alaykum”, which shows it was addressed to a particular community and not the public at large.

“I always greet my friends with salaam. I think I will have to stop it in case it is illegal. Is it a law or presumption of the prosecution team?” Saifi asked Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat.

His query impelled ASJ Rawat to clarify that it was the prosecution’s argument and not the word of the court. The exchange took place through videoconference.

On September 1, Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad read out a January

16, 2020 speech given by Sharjeel Imam in Aligarh and said: “He [Sharjeel Imam] begins this speech by saying As-salamu alaykum, which shows that it is only subjected to one community”.

Furthermore, Saifi said that whenever he gets a bail, he will file a case in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the police for wasting two million of precious papers on charge sheet in the conspiracy case.

He, along with several others, has been booked under the anti-terror law in the case. They are accused of being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 violence, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.

Besides him, former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, Jamia Coordination Committee members Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and several others have also been booked under the stringent law in the case.

where the anti-farmland acquisition movement against the Left Front government had transformed her into a major political force in the volatile state, to dare her former protege and now a BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on his home turf. Though Banerjee powered the TMC to a resounding win for a third straight term in office, she lost in Nandigram. She now must win Bhabanipur to ensure an unbroken stint as the chief minister.

Banerjee is required to win a seat in the state assembly by November 5 in

and lasts till September 30. The month of June recorded 10 percent more rainfall, but both July and August clocked deficiency of seven and 24 percent respectively, according to the IMD data.

The country received 24 percent less than normal rainfall in August. Of the four meteorological divisions of the IMD, the central India division received 39 percent less. The division consists of a large swathe of area from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. The deficiency in the northwest India division, which comprises northern Indian states, was 30 percent.

The deficiency was 10 percent in the south peninsula whereas the east

BJP leader Priyanka Tibrewal, whom the party has nominated to contest against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the September 30 by-poll to the Bhabanipur seat, said on Friday highlighting the “torture and violence” unleashed by the TMC after the assembly polls will be a key issue in the election.

Tibrewal, a lawyer, is one of the petitioners in the post-poll violence cases against the TMC government in the Calcutta High Court. The party also announced the names of Milan Ghosh and Sujit Das for Samserganj and Jangipur seats respectively.

The votes will be counted on October 3 and results declared the same day.

Tibrewal, currently the state vice president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the BJP’s youth wing, had joined the party in 2014.

Muslim youth lynched to death in UP’s Shamli, case filed against 8 LUCKNOW, SEP 10 (AGENCIES): Another lynching of a Muslim youth has come to light from Uttar Pradesh. In Banat town of the Shamli district, a 22-year-old man named Samir, who got off at the bus station was beaten to death with sticks and rods by several men on Thursday, 9 September.

An altercation between the men is being cited as the motive behind the murder.

The police have registered a case of murder based on a complaint filed

by Adil, uncle of the deceased.

While there has been a furore in the family due to the brutal nature of the public murder, the police have named eight people in the case and have started efforts to arrest the killers.

The incident of lynching has come to the fore in the town Banat of Adarsh Mandi police station area of Shamli district. Adil, a resident of Mohalla Premnagar Banat, filed a case in connection with the

Rainfall recorded in Aug lowest in 19 yrs

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI): Rainfall in August, which recorded 24 percent deficiency, was lowest in 19 years, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday.

Two major spells of weak monsoon prevailed over the country -- from August 9-16 and August 23-27 -- when northwest, central and adjoining peninsular and west coast of India had subdued rainfall activities.

“During August 2021, rainfall over the country as a whole was below Long Period Average (LPA) by minus 24 percent. It is also lowest August rainfall in last 19 years, since 2002,” the IMD said.

The Southwest Monsoon season officially commences from June 1

BJP fields ‘fearless’ Tibrewal to take on Mamata in her den

and northeast division received two percent more rainfall than the normal.

The IMD had predicted that the rainfall activity was expected to be normal during August.

It has now predicted above normal precipitation in September.

Samir

lynching. According to him, his nephew Samir was returning from work and had gotten down at the bus stand of the town on Thursday evening.

Adil alleged that during this time 10 to 12 men of the town started beating him due to some old enmity. Samir was attacked with sticks and iron rods.

He added that they kept picking him and throwing him on his head.

The accused f led from the spot after this, assuming Samir to be dead, he said.

The deceased’s uncle Adil has accused the attackers of carrying out

LU C K N OW, S E P 1 0 (PTI): The BSP will make efforts to not field ‘bahubali’ (strongmen) or mafia candidates in next year’s Uttar Pradesh polls, party chief Mayawati said Friday, announcing that jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari will not be renominated by the party from Mau. Soon after her statement, Asaduddin Owaisiled AIMIM, which has announced to contest 100 seats, offered Ansari a ticket, with its spokesperson Syed Asim Waqar telling PTI that “our doors are open for him”.

Mayawati said BSP state president Bhim Rajbhar will contest from Mau, currently represented

by Mukhtar Ansari, the five-term MLA who was brought back from Punjab’s Ropar jail in April and lodged in a Banda jail.

Her announcement comes days after Mukhtar Ansari’s brother Sigbatullah joined the Akhilesh Yadav-

the crime due to some old enmity. Adil told that Sameer used to work as a ‘mistri’ at an agency.

Adil told The Quint, that after dropping his things at home last evening, Samir had gone to the bus stand to get medicines, there he might have had an altercation with the accused, after which they carried out the murder.

Adil also informed that the accused men regularly commit hooliganism, while two of them had only recently come out of jail.

The FIR says that the relatives who reached the spot after the incident took Samir to CHC Shamli, but from there he was referred to Muzaffarnagar due to his serious condition.

However, Samir died on the way to Muzaffarnagar.

SP Shamli Sukirti Madhav said that on the basis of the complaint police teams have been deployed to ensure the arrest of the accused. The case has been filed under Sections 142, 147, and 302 of the Indian Penal Code.

MUMBAI, SEP 10 (IANS): One person has been arrested in connection with the shocking rape and brutalisation of a 30-year-old woman in Mumbai late on Thursday night, police said on Friday.

According to police, after raping the women in Khirani Road area of Sakinaka, the accused allegedly pushed a rod into her genitals before escaping.

Sakinaka Police Station’s Senior Police Inspector Balwant Deshmukh said that the accused, identified as local, Madhu Chavan, 45, has been arrested and is being interrogated in connection with the dastardly crime.

The victim, who was found bleeding profusely, was rushed in a critical condition to the BMC’s Rajawadi Hospital, but Deshmukh declined to comment on her health status, saying “she remains under treatment”.

Top police officials rushed to the spot for investigations, and to nab the others involved, in the crime that came on the eve of the state’s biggest festival Ganeshotsav which started on Friday.

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led Samajwadi Party.

“In upcoming assembly polls, the BSP’s effort will be to not field ‘bahubali’ and mafia elements. So, the name of Bhim Rajbhar, the BSP UP president, has been finalised from the Mau assembly seat in place of Mukhtar Ansari,” she said in a tweet in Hindi.

The statement also follows her remarks Tuesday during her party’s “Prabuddha Varga Sammelan” that she would no longer focus on building statues and memorials -- something her party was criticised for during her previous terms -- and rather concentrate on changing the face of Uttar

the leadership of its national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday decided to take out a 12,000 km-long yatra through villages and towns of Uttar Pradesh ahead of the assembly polls next year.

The decision to take out the “Congress Pratigya Yatra:Hum Vachan Nibhayenge” was taken at a meeting Gandhi held with the party advisory and strategy committee members here, the party said in a statement.

“The yatra will cover 12,000 km and will pass through villages and towns of the state. The details of the yatra are being finalised,” it said.

During the yatra, Congress leaders will assure people that they would fulfil promises made by the party in the run up to the polls.

Gandhi is taking feedback and suggestion of committee members on routes and issues that will be taken up during the yatra.

She will later in the day hold a meeting with members of the party’s election

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committee.

Congress Legislature party leader in the assembly Aradhna Mishra Mona, state unit president Ajay Kumar Lallu and senior party leader Promod Tiwari attended the meeting among others.

Gandhi, who is leading the Congress campaign in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, arrived here on Thursday to review the party’s poll preparedness.

Congress was reduced to seven seats in the 2017 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.

The BJP had clinched 312 seats in the 403-member legislative assembly to form the government for the second consecutive term.

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Pradesh by establishing rule of law.

Mayawati’s two announcements signal her efforts to build a new perception of her Bahujan Samaj Party among people.

Mukhtar’s another brother, Afzal Ansari, is a BSP MP who represents the Ghazipur seat. He had defeated the BJP’s Manoj Sinha, who is now the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Afzal Ansari could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.

Mayawati on Friday also said the decision to not field criminal and mafia elements has been taken to meet people’s expectation, and appealed to party leaders to keep this in mind while choosing candidates.

“So that there is no problem in taking strict action against such elements once the government is formed.”

She added, “Alongside ensuring ‘a rule of law, by law’, the BSP’s resolve is to also change Uttar Pradesh’s image now.”

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KOLKATA, SEP 10 (PTI): TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee Friday filed her nomination for the September 30 Bhabanipur assembly by-poll winning which is an absolute necessity for her to continue as the chief minister.

She will be pitted against BJP’s Priyanka Tibrewal and Left Front’s Srijib Biswas. The Congress has decided not to field a candidate against her.

The votes for Bhabanipur as also Jangipur and Samserganj will be counted on October 3 and results declared the same day.

Banerjee was accompanied by the wife of state cabinet minister Firhad Hakim at Survey Building in Alipore where she filed her nomination papers. She was later seen greeting people with folded hands before boarding her car.

“The people of Bhabanipur are eagerly waiting to rewrite history by ensuring

conformity with the constitutional provisions in order to continue as chief minister. The Constitution allows a non-member of a state legislature or Parliament to continue in a ministerial position without getting elected only for six months.

After her defeat in Nandigram, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, state cabinet minister and TMC MLA from Bhabanipur, vacated the seat to facilitate her return to the assembly from there.

Reacting to her nomination, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said she will face the same fate as in Nandigram.

“The BJP had defeated her in Nandigram. She will be defeated again in Bhabanipur. The people of the constituency will give her a befitting reply for the torture and violence her party unleashed after the assembly polls,” he said. Banerjee was first elected to the Assembly in a by-poll from Bhabanipur months after the TMC stormed to power ousting the 34-year-old Left Front dispensation in 2011.

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However, challenges pertaining to electronic components’ availability, coupled with high operating and ownership costs due to rising commodity prices capped the sales’ uptrend.

Accordingly, sales of passenger vehicles increased to 2,32,224 units in August as compared to 2,15,916 units sold during the corresponding period of 2020.

On a sequential basis, August PV sales were lower than July’s level of 2,64,442 units.

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to continue with corruption and loot and was afraid of losing power, the political group wanted to continue remote control of the elected government and continue with extortion.

According to Hindustan Times, state BJP chief and minister H&TE Temjen Imna Along said he was surprised by the “sudden development” adding “maybe Delhi’s wisdom is best for all of us.”

Meanwhile, there were rumours doing the rounds that there was also likelihood of Centre replacing Ravi as Interlocutor by a senior IB official. However, sources said that as per norms, a serving official may not be made the interlocutor as such assignments are usually given to retired officials, who can give more time.

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Ravi, the BJP government at the Centre appear to have acceded to the persistent demand of the NSCN (I-M).

Therie said people had expected the Centre to fulfill its promise to secure early solution after Ravi on behalf of the government of India, signed the Framework Agreement on August 3,2015 and the Agreed Position on November 17,2017 and went on to declare that all official negotiations concluded on October 31,2019.

The NPCC chief opined that perhaps Ravi may have “pushed little hard for early implementation of the political solution”.

However, Therie said what is clear today is that those who opposed Ravi wanted the status-quo to continue without end and without solution. He said while the elected government wanted

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(From p-1) for Naga political issue.” He said Naga Hoho will stand by its earlier decision that Ravi should be either be a governor or interlocutor.

Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) general secretary Neingulo Krome, welcomed the transfer of Ravi, who he accused of causing “so many difficulties in political scenarios.”

Krome, however, said that Ravi still holds the interlocutor position, which he asserted was the “most critical position”. He expressed hope that government of India would release Ravi from the interlocutor position and appoint “a sincere and committed man to bring in lasting peace in the state.”

NPCC president K Therie said by shifting out

on mutually understood principles, they said launching a door-to-door campaign was something unheard anywhere in the civilised world and stressed that it had no place in NCD. It was equally alarming that instead of correcting the constitutional infractions, the new NCD team started trying to discriminate and isolate some tribes who had raised these objections, which were necessary to uphold, protect and preserve NCD’s honour as well as its constitution, the statement noted. The five tribal hoho presidents said they had put forth these points because NCD ultimately belonged to the people, adding that it was their firm belief that nothing should be kept away from the truth.

“Instead of pleading for ourselves, we believe in our people’s wisdom and foresight to separate the facts from the fancy. Our steadfast refusal to yield to unconstitutional and unsavoury methods is only to strengthen NCD,” they clarified.

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executive who wanted to contest for re-election has to resign six months before the scheduled elections. But sadly, they alleged that this was not adhered to.

The matter was then taken to court lest the institution (NCD) sufferedan irreparable damage to its image and prestige as never in its history had anyone occupied a position through manipulation and other unfair means.

“The NCD is proud of this legacy and, if anything, our resolve is to further strengthen it,” they asserted.

Claiming that they had agreed for settling the case out of court in good faith, the five tribal hoho presidents regretted that it was again manipulated as memorandum of understanding (MoU) was surreptitiously obtained. They alleged that Ao Senso Telonjem Dimapur (ASTD) presidentMerenobtained signatures by going from house to house without having any mutual understanding. Pointing out that an MoU was a docu-

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the release of complete IIP data. In May 2021, IIP rose 28.6 per cent and in June, it grew 13.6 per cent.

The second wave of the pandemic started in the middle of April this year and many states imposed restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus infections.

“The growth rates over corresponding period of previous year are to be

In this regard, WSKH reminded the verification team that the state chief secretary vide order no.

GAV-1/333/2014(Vol-1), dated June 25, 2019 issued a status quo order and in a subsequent order No. CNG-1/45/COM/KHEHOI/2019/785 dated Kohima July 8, 2019 directed that, “if any people are still present in the disputed area, they are to be immediately vacated out of the disputed area…”

The hoho said that the joint team, upon witnessing the “illegal settlement”, ought to have “promptly evicted all illegal settlers at the so called ‘Lamhainamdi’ for illegal settlement”.

WSKH has, therefore, said that the failure to enforce standing government order coupled with “unauthorized directive” of the joint team for maintaining status quo was “prejudicial and bound to further complicate the already existing dispute.”

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tober. In November 2020, the factory output fell 1.6 per cent and then entered the positive territory with a 2.2 per cent growth in December 2020.

The IIP had recorded a contraction of 0.6 per cent in January and 3.2 per cent in February this year.

In March, it grew 24.2 per cent.

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The IIP had contracted by 10.5 per cent in July 2020.

Industrial production plunged 18.7 per cent in March last year following the COVID outbreak and remained in the negative zone till August 2020.b With the resumption of economic activities, factory output rose 1 per cent in September 2020 and grew 4.5 per cent in Oc-

interpreted considering the unusual circumstances on account of COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020,” NSO said in a statement.

The government had imposed a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus infections on March 25, 2020.

The manufacturing sector had recorded a contraction of 11.4 per cent in July 2020. Mining sector output fell 12.7 per cent in the same month last year.

The electricity generation had declined 2.5 per cent in July 2020.

The output of capital goods, which is a barometer of investment, grew 29.5 per cent in July 2021.

It had witnessed a contraction of 22.8 per cent in the year-ago period.

Consumer durables manufacturing increased 20.2 cent in the month under review whereas it was a decline of 23.7 cent in July 2020. Consumer non-durable goods production fell 1.8 per cent in July whereas it had grown 1.8 cent in the year-ago period.

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NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI): Industrial production surged 11.5 per cent in July mainly due to a low-base effect and good performance by manufacturing, mining and power sectors but the output remained slightly below the pre-pandemic level.

The manufacturing sector, which constitutes 77.63 per cent of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew 10.5 per cent in July, according to the data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday.

The mining sector output rose 19.5 per cent in July while power generation increased 11.1 per cent.

In July 2021, the IIP stood at 131.4 points compared to 117.9 points in the same month last year. The index was at 131.8 points in July 2019, as per the NSO data.

The data showed that industrial production recovered but was still slightly below the pre-pandemic level of July 2019.

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Rise in violence against journos under Taliban Xi, Biden hold ‘broad, strategic discussion’ treatment of reporters but said they will try to prevent such incidents in the future.

“We are regretful of the reporters becoming victims over the past few days.

We tried to address their challenges. If they were

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (IANS): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has warned of a sharp increase in violence against journalists and mediapersons in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.

It said that in the past two days dozens of violent cases against journalists have been recorded by the RSF, TOLO News reported. Reza Moini, head of the RSF’s Afghanistan desk, said that in the past 48 hours 24 journalists were detained by the Taliban and released after several hours.

“In the past 48 hours,

dozens of violent cases were registered against journalists in Afghanistan by the RSF,” he said.

On Wednesday, Etilaatroz newspaper in Kabul said five of its reporters were detained by the Taliban while covering a women’s protest.

Two of the reporters who were detained during the protest said the Taliban beat them badly and they were hospitalised, the report said. Meanwhile, some reporters in the provinces said the Taliban has imposed limitations on them. The Taliban, however, acknowledged the

Taliban executes ex-Afghan VP’s brother: Reports KABUL, SEP 10 ( AGENCIES): The Taliban have executed the brother of Amrullah Saleh, the former Afghan vice president who became one of the leaders of anti-Taliban opposition forces in the Panjshir valley, his nephew said on Friday.

The news that Saleh’s brother Rohullah Azizi was killed came days after Taliban forces took control of the provincial centre of Panjshir, the last province holding out against them, reports The Mint.

“They executed my uncle,” Ebadullah Saleh told Reuters in a text message. “They killed him yesterday and would not let us bury him. They kept saying his body should rot.”

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The organisations that support and defend journalists, both inside and outside the country, have voiced their concerns over the dangerous situation of journalists in Afghanistan and called for the end of violence against reporters.

‘We could hear their screams and cries through the walls’

US Prez Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

“We could hear their screams and cries through the walls,” the cellmates of the journalists tortured by the Taliban in Kabul said.

The cellmates had even heard the sounds of women crying from pain.

Taliban fighters have been accused of beating and detaining journalists for covering protests in the Afghan capital Kabul, Al Jazeera reported.

Two reporters for the Etilaatroz newspaper, Taqi Daryabi and Nematullah Naqdi, were detained by the Taliban while covering a women’s protest in the west of Kabul on Wednesday morning. Two other journalists from the newspaper, Aber Shaygan and Lutfali

WA S H I N G TO N / B E I JING, SEP 10 (IANS): US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday held a “broad, strategic discussion” during which the two leaders spoke of issues regarding mutual interest.

In a statement, the White House said that during the phone call, which was the second since Biden took office in January, they discussed “areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge”.

“They agreed to engage on both sets of issues openly and straightforwardly.” The White House said that the discussion, as per Biden, was part of Wash-

Sultani, rushed to the police station along with the newspaper editor, Kadhim Karimi, to inquire about the whereabouts of their colleagues.

But the moment they reached the police station, they say, Taliban fighters pushed and slapped them and confiscated all their belongings, including mobile phones, Al Jazeera reported. “Karimi barely finished his sentence, when one of the Taliban slapped him and told him to get lost,” Shaygan told Al Jazeera, adding that as soon as they introduced themselves as journalists, the Taliban treated them with disdain.

The three men were taken into a small holding

cell with 15 people in it, two of whom were reporters with Reuters and Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, Shaygan said, the report added.

It was while they were in holding that the three heard reports of the disturbing abuse suffered by Daryabi, 22, and Naqdi, 28, who were being held in separate rooms.

“We could hear their screams and cries through the walls,” the cellmates said of the piercing cries.

“The cellmates had even heard the sounds of women crying from pain.”

Pictures showed clear physical evidence of the floggings and beatings with cables both men were subject to.

Panjshir bastion of Afghan stares at hunger crisis Ghani committed treason,

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account of the Taliban information service Alemarah said that “according to reports” Rohullah Saleh was killed during fighting in Panjshir.

Saleh, a former head of the National Directorate of Security, the intelligence service of the Western-backed government that collapsed last month, is at large though his exact location remains unclear.

Members of National Resistance Front observe by a house near Panjshir Valley. (File photo)

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (AGENCIES): Even as the Taliban claim they have captured Panjshir, the last part of Afghanistan that was still putting up a fight, reports say the locals are facing a major crisis with

the resources drying up after being cut off from the rest of the country, reports India Today Web Desk.

According to Tolo News, some Panjshir families that managed to reach Kabul have warned that

the locals there are staring at a hunger crisis with all resources blocked.

The roads leading to Panjshir have been closed for weeks since the resistance forces gathered here to fight the Taliban after

they took control of Kabul.

Electricity and telecom services have also been blocked in the area although the Taliban have declared that they have gained control over the den of the resistance forces led

by Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh.

The report further said that a family who lost their son in the last battle in Panjshir, said that a humanitarian crisis is developing in the province.

Shayesta Mehraban said, “The attacks and conflicts increased, people even escaped to the mountains.”

After capturing Panjshir, the Taliban had assured the people of the valley - who are ethnically distinct from the mainly Pashtun Taliban - that there would be no “discriminatory act against them”.

Mass booster doses not needed, Palestinian factions call for ‘day of rage’ says UK COVID-19 vaccine creator as data suggests that an additional Pfizer/BioNTech dose months after a second vaccine dose significantly boosts the body’s immune response to coronavirus, according to ‘The Times’.

Data around the effectiveness of booster vaccines has now reportedly been delivered to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which will issue its decision on the efficacy of booster shots for the UK population.

It has already said a third dose should be offered to people with severely weakened immune systems.

But it has not decided if booster doses are needed to extend protection in larger numbers of people at high risk from COVID-19, including those normally eligible for a flu vaccine.

Hindu temple attack in Pak: Trial of 85 suspects begins LAHORE, SEP 10 (PTI): The trial of 85 suspects allegedly involved in an attack on a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s Punjab province began at an anti-terrorism court on Friday.

Hundreds of people, carrying sticks, stones and bricks attacked the Ganesh temple at Bhong city of Rahim Yar Khan district, some 590 km from Lahore on August 4, burning parts of it and damaging the idols in protest against the release by a court of an eight-yearold Hindu boy, who was arrested for allegedly urinating in a local seminary.

The attackers had damaged the idols, walls, doors

File photo of Ganesh temple at Bhong city being vandalized.

and electric fittings while desecrating the temple.

“The trial of 85 suspects arrested in the temple

attack case began today after police submitted a report to the anti-terrorism court,” a Punjab government official

told PTI. The suspects have been detained at the New Central Jail in Bahawalpur city, 450 km from Lahore, on judicial remand.

The official said the government has also recovered more than PKR 10 lakh compensation amount from the suspects. “As the restoration of the Ganesh mandir was carried out by the government soon after the attack, the Supreme Court had ordered that the attackers would pay the restoration amount from their own pocket,” he said, adding that the temple has been restored from inside, but the construction of the boundary wall is still underway.

they call on the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to join a day of rage on Friday.

The PIJ calls on all Palestinian people to continue the state of anger and confrontation in the Palestinian territory, said

Tariq Selmi, spokesman for the group in Gaza in a statement.

On Monday, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the Gilboa prison in northern Israel through a tunnel they dug underneath the jail.

Apology letter

I, Patric Lotha, son of Lt. Noksang Lotha of Yimbang Village deeply apologies to Miss N.Janthunglo Ezung for creating a fake account in facebook as Kalli Kalli and Kali Kali Kali using her pictures and tarnishing her image for which l deeply regret.

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FELICITATION The Dimapur Area Chuchuyimlang Senso Telongjem would like to felicitate Smt Aienla, W/o Shri W Senti Ao I.A.S. (retd) for getting promoted as Deputy Director under School Education Department. The union conveys her best wishes in all her future endeavors.

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told ‘The Daily Telegraph’.

“With these outbreaks, we want to stop that as quickly as possible. We will look at each situation; the immunocompromised and elderly will receive boosters. But I don’t think we need to boost everybody. Immunity is lasting well in the majority of people,” she said. She called on the UK to “do better” in supporting countries where a small percentage of the population have received even the first vaccine dose to protect against COVID-19.

“We need to get vaccines to countries where few of the population have been vaccinated so far. We have to do better in this regard. The first dose has the most impact,” she said.

It comes as booster vaccines are reportedly set to be given the go-ahead within days

RAMALLAH, SEP 10 (IANS): Leaders of Palestinian factions, including the Islamic Hamas Movement, have called for a day of rage on Friday to support Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

Wasel Abu Yousef, a member of the executive committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), told reporters in Ramallah that all the West Bank and Gaza factions agreed to designate Friday as a day of rage, reports Xinhua news agency.

“Friday will be a day of confrontation with the Israeli soldiers at roadblocks and checkpoints in solidarity with the prisoners and in rejection to the endless violations against their rights,” Abu Yousef said.

In Gaza, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said in two separate press statements that

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ex-officials accuse him of lying

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (IANS): A number of former Afghan government officials have accused exiled President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, of lying.

The former officials stated that Ghani, who allegedly fled Afghanistan with millions of US dollars in cash, has committed national treason and that his “corrupt leadership subdued the country to the Taliban (Islamic Emirate)”, Ariana News reported.

Ghani, however, rejected the claims stating that he had fought against corruption during his tenure as president.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Ghani called for a neutral organisation to

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probe the allegations against him.

He reiterated that he left the country to thwart security threats against him and to avoid “bloodshed” in the country.

“Leaving Kabul was the most difficult decision of my life, but I believed it was the only way to keep the guns silent and save Kabul and her 6 million citizens,” he said.

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The members of "Kohima Japanese Bone Collection Team" applaud our member Ms Ajanuo Belho for being awarded the "Japanese Foreign Ministers Commendation 2021" for promoting mutual understanding between Japan and India.

We are very pleased and proud of the award accorded to her and also recognition of our team.

We wish her all the success in the days to come.

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CHANGE OF NAME OF SON OF SERVING SOLDIER I, W. Daniel Ezung, (15 Assam) presently residing at Village - Longsa, Post - Wokha, PS - Wokha, District - Wokha, State - Nagaland, Pin - 797111, have changed my son's name from D. Limhathung Ezung to Limhathung D. Ezung (proposed new name) vide Affidavit Regd. No. 712/2021 dated 26/08/2021 before the Notary Public, Dimapur, Nagaland.

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LAND DECLARATION On this day, dated the 10th of September, 2021 I, Shri Kezhaleo Rulho, S/o Zasebeizolie Rulho, resident of Lower Bayavu, Kohima, has purchased a plot of land from Shri Hosea Kiba, S/o Late Yehovi Kiba, resident of Naharbari, Dimapur, Nagaland, measuring an area of 00B-2K-4L bearing Patta No. 59, Dag No. 150, Mouza No. 03, situated at Naharbari, Dimapur.

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FELICITATION The office of the Lotha Middle Range Students' Union (LMRSU) with immense pride and honour would like to congratulate Mr. Daniel Lotha on being promoted from Kilonser, (Member CFMC) NSCN (IM) to Kilo Kilonser, NSCN (IM).

The Union further wishes him good luck and pray that our Almighty God shower His blessings upon him and guide him to work towards the welfare of Naga people in general.

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LONDON, SEP 10 (PTI): A widespread booster shots campaign as planned by the UK government is not required for everyone as immunity against COVID-19 among fully vaccinated people is “lasting well”, the creator of the Oxford University vaccine said on Friday. Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, a leading scientist who led the development of the Oxford University/ AstraZeneca vaccine – being administered in India as Covidshield – said the elderly and people with weakened immune systems may well require the boosters but other doses should be prioritised for countries with low vaccination rates.

“As the virus spreads between people, it mutates and adapts and evolves, like the Delta variant,” she

ington’s ongoing effort to “responsibly manage the competition” between the US and China. “President Biden underscored the US’ enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” it added.

Meanwhile, Beijing’s state-run Xinhua news agency said that the two leaders “had candid, in-depth and extensive strategic communication and exchanges on China-US relations and relevant issues of mutual interest”. Xi pointed out that whether they can handle their relationship well bears

The Office of the Longkhumtsür Telongjem Mokokchung Town with immense pride and honour congratulate Miss akangkokla, D/o Mr & Mrs Chungjemmeren for receiving Academic excellence “LINNaEUS awaRd 2021” from the Department of Botany, Fazl Ali College, Mokokchung in recognition of Academic achievement during her undergraduate studies in Botany on 8th Sept 2021.

The Union wishes her success in her future endeavours.

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A member of the Taliban watches as Afghan women hold placards during a protest in Herat. (AFP Photo)

transferred to a safe place by the Mujahideen, which was interpreted as being detained, we will also work on this and try to see they are treated properly,” said Anaamullah Samangani, a member of Taliban’s cultural commission said.

on the future of the world, and it is a question of the century to which the two countries must provide a good answer, it said.

“With the international community facing many common challenges, China and the US need to show broad vision and shoulder great responsibilities, he said, adding that the two countries should look ahead and press forward, demonstrate strategic courage and political resolve, and bring relations back to the right track of stable development as soon as possible for the good of the people in both countries and around the world,” Xi was quoted as saying.

On the basis of respecting each other’s core concer ns and properly managing differences, the relevant departments of the two countries may continue their engagement and dialogue to advance coordination and cooperation on climate change, Covid-19 response and economic recovery as well as on major international and regional issues, the Chinese President added.

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4-in-1 Blood Pressure pill could improve outcomes

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four-in-one pill containing “ultralow doses” of different medications can provide better blood pressure control than standard drug treatment, a new clinical trial from Australia shows.

About 80% of people given the “quadpill” achieved a healthy blood pressure of 140/90 within three months and continuing out to a year, compared to 60% of people who started on a single medication and added others as needed, researchers reported.

“Starting on this very low-dose combination of blood pressure medicines was more effective than the common approach of starting one medicine at full dose and then adding medicines in a stepwise manner to improve blood pressure control,” said lead researcher Dr. Clara Chow,

a professor of medicine at the University of Sydney.

“A n d e ve n a t 1 2 months there was no catchup -- that is, the group initiating on the quadpill still had better blood pressure control at 12 months,” with most of them still taking just the single four-in-one pill, Chow continued.

Some blood pressure treatment guidelines already recommend using combinations of different pills to better reach healthy levels, said Dr. Eugene Yang, chair of the American College of Cardiology’s Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Section.

Combining these different medications into one pill could help people better stick with their treatment, said Yang, medical director of the University of Washington Medicine Eastside Specialty Center

in Bellevue.

“A lot of what drives this strategy is to improve adherence, because we know the more pills you take, the lower the adherence is,” Yang said.

Four different triedand-tested blood pressure medications were combined into one pill and randomly prescribed to half of a group of nearly 600 Australians, to test for safety and effectiveness.

Chow and her colleagues figured there would be less chance of side effects since each medication included in the pill would amount to a quarter of what would normally be prescribed.

“A quarter dose of each blood pressure medicine is not a quarter as effective, actually it is more like 60% as effective,” Chow explained, “And the four types of medicines

included here each worked in different ways to lower blood pressure; that is, they were synergistic. So when combined, four quarter doses gives you the maximum effect for minimum dose.”

Their suspicion was right, as there were few serious side effects in the group that took the quadpill.

“The side effects from any of these medications at

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ost doctors will tell you that cancer is all about damaged DNA. And that cancer malignancies are caused by gene mutations inside your cells, which lead to runaway cell growth and tumors.

New cancer research is focused almost entirely on genetics.

Sadly, they’ve got it wrong. The real cause of cancer – and its most effective treatment – was discovered by a Nobel Prize-winning physician and biochemist named Otto Warburg more than a century ago.

Today, new studies back his 100-year-old discovery, and reveal that Warburg was even on the right track for slowing deadly brain tumors.

Warburg understood cancer cells are starving for glucose. And that they fuel their growth by gobbling up enormous amounts of blood sugar.

Healthy cells, on the other hand, fuel their metabolism by breaking down fat. But, cancer cells need carbohydrates.

And the daily carb requirement for the human body is zero.

So, it’s easy to understand why the enormous increase in carb consumption over the past 60 years has been accompanied by huge increases in the number of new cancer cases – despite improvements in treatments and survival rates.

However, new studies reveal that cancer can be attacked with a low (or zero) carb ketogenic diet.

You see, keto is high in animal fat and moderate in protein. But it’s very low in the glucose-spiking grains and other carbs most Americans consume in a typical modern diet.

Keto is already well-known for helping people with weight loss and curbing type 2 diabetes.

Now a study published in the July issue of Neurology shows that keto also boosts recovery in people undergoing treatment for astrocytomas, an aggressive type of cancer that develops in the brain and spinal cord.1 Meanwhile, recent research by cancer biologist Thomas Seyfried found the keto diet slowed the progress of breast cancer and glioblastoma, a fast-growing and deadly form of brain cancer.2,3 The good news is that following a keto diet is simple and effective. It contains little to nothing for cancer cells to use for fuel.

the ultra-low dose would be exceedingly small. Side effects are almost always dose-related, and these are ultra-low doses,” said Dr. Robert Carey, dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and co-author of the American Heart Association’s blood pressure treatment guidelines.

By three weeks, the average blood pressure of the quadpill group was

120/71, compared with 127/79 in the group receiving standard care.

The findings were published Aug. 29 in The Lancet journal and was also presented virtually last week at the European Society of Cardiology meeting.

Carey said such a quadpill would be of most benefit to developing countries and remote parts of the United States where there is less access to health care.

In such places, “you have less ability to measure blood pressure at home or in the office, less ability to add on and titrate medication doses,” Carey explained.

The main obstacle at the moment is that “there are no large-scale manufacturers yet that make this low-dose quadruple combination, though we’re hoping they will consider it

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Debojyoti Mishra wins best music director award at Imagine India Film Festival in Spain

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4. Pour remainder of the sauce on top.

5. Shut and lock the lid and turn the steam valve to the closed position. Program the pressure cooker Start Your Cancer-Fighting Keto Meal Plan to cook under high pressure for 45 minutes.

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7. Transfer your ribs to a plate and pour your Here’s a great keto recipe I use at home. These Korean short ribs are one of my family’s favorites. favorite sauce over them.

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icro-blogging site Twitter has started testing new emoji reactions for users in Turkey for a limited time.

For now, it’s unclear if and when they will come to other regions. According to iMore, for a limited time users in Turkey will be able to use four new emojis alongside the like heart, “tears of joy”, “thinking face”, “clapping hands” and “crying face”. Twitter says it chose these icons after conducting surveys and researching the most common words and emojis used in tweets.

Twitter is also hopeful the feature will create more positive vibes over a platform infamous for harassment and toxic conversations. It also announced that it’s testing edge-to-edge media in tweets on iOS, creating a more full-screen, almost Instagram-like experience for the photos and videos in your timeline.

In an email to The Verge, the micro-blogging site wrote that it is testing the change because it wants to better support conversations that are both visual and textbased. This change, if it rolls out beyond a select group of iOS users, also helps Twitter address concerns over image cropping that it’s been dealing with over the last few years.

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now with this research evidence,” Chow said. “Early low doses of blood pressure medicines in combination are a far more effective way of achieving blood pressure control quickly, safely and effectively, and with the lowest minimum total dose of medications.”

While he found the results promising, Yang said he’d like to see a longer clinical trial that treats people with higher blood pressures. He noted that trial participants started out with an average blood pressure of 141/85, and the study aimed at helping people achieve a blood pressure lower than 140/90.

“They weren’t starting at a point where they needed to do really very much to achieve this target,” Yang said.

He’d also like future studies to include whether

the lower blood pressure provided by the quadpill helps people avoid lifethreatening illnesses.

“What you really want to know is do these inter ventions result in some meaningful benefit, like reducing heart attack, stroke or heart failure,” Yang said.

More information The American Heart Association has more about high blood pressure.

SOURCES: Clara Chow, MBBS, PhD, professor, medicine, University of Sydney, Australia; Eugene Yang, MD, medical director, University of Washington Medicine Eastside Specialty Center, Bellevue; Robert Carey, MD, dean emeritus, University of Virginia School of Medicine; The Lancet.

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usic composer Debojyoti Mishra has won the Best Music Director award at the 20th Imagine India Film Festival in Spain for his work in filmmaker Hari Viswananth’s “Bansuri: The Flute”.

While the festival will begin by the end of this month, winners for the awards of different categories were announced on September 7.

In the best music director segment, Mishra was nominated alongside Taras Dron for “Blindfold” and Esmaeel Monsef for “Charcoal”.

Talking to PTI, Mishra said winning the best music director trophy is a “big honour” for the film’s entire team.

“We don’t work for awards but if one gets one, that recognition stands for the entire team. I am thankful to the maker of the film Hari Viswanath. He wanted me to compose music in ‘Bansuri: The Flute’,” he said, also thanking his singers Papon and Amweshaa Dutta Gupta. Mishra has previously collaborated with directors like Govind Nihalni, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen, Hari Viswanath, Bhavna Talwar, Mehreen Jabbar, Atau Ghosh and Academy Award-winner Florian Gallenberger. His melodies in films like “Chokher Bali”, “Raincoat”, “Dharam”, “Hazar Chaurasi Ki Maa”, “Memories in March”, “Amar Bhubon”, “Ramchand Pakistani” and “Mayurakshi” have earned appreciation. “Bansuri: The Flute” is the second feature film by Viswanath, whose maiden directorial debut “Radiopetti” was the first Tamil film to win the Audience Award Best Film in the official competition in Busan International Film Festival in 2015.

(PTI)

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marking the first time fans were able to purchase an album on blockchain (through the band’s ‘NFT Yourself ’ collection of non-fungible tokens) on the same day it arrived on streaming platforms. ‘When You See Yourself ’, released on RCA, peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the Top Rock albums chart.

The band is making history yet again with its neverbefore-released performance of ‘Time in Disguise’, which will be played in orbit by Hayley Arceneaux, Inspiration4’s

medical officer, who, at 29, will be the youngest American, first pediatric cancer survivor and first person with a prosthesis to travel to space, according to Billboard.com.

The exclusive live recording from Kings of Leon recorded to become an NFT through YellowHeart’s blockchain technology as part of the Music Gives to St. Jude Kids program is one of several items up for auction on September 9 in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and its $200 million fundraising effort for

Inspiration4. The auction will run through November.

Kings of Leon is an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1999.

The band is composed of brothers Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill with their cousin Matthew Followill.

The band’s early music was a blend of Southern rock and garage rock with blues influences, but it has gradually evolved through the years to include a variety of genres and a more alternative, arena rock sound.

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ock band Kings of Leon’s new single ‘Time in Disguise’ is making history as the first music NFT to be played in space.

On September 15, ‘Inspiration4’ will make history as the first all-civilian mission to orbit the earth, as a crew member will include the first-ever minted NFT song to be played in space.

The band announced on its Instagram page on Thursday night, “A live recording of our new single ‘Time in Disguise’ is making history as the first music NFT to be played in space. Created using live show visuals designed by Daniel Davison for Night After Night plus a live recording from our hometown show in Nashville on August 13, this NFT will be played by a crew member of the Inspiration4 - the first all-civilian mission to orbit the Earth - before being auctioned off to benefit @StJude Children’s Research Hospital through their @MusicGives to St. Jude kids program.”

The song was created by Kings of Leon, which in March released its latest album, ‘When You See Yourself ’, as an NFT,

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Sporting beat CRPF Messi, Neymar set records in WC qualifiers Mohammedan to enter quarters of Durand Cup

Lionel Messi

RIO DE JANEIRO, SEP 10 (IANS): Paris SaintGermain teammates Lionel Messi and Neymar both broke scoring records on Friday (IST) as Argentina and Brazil continued their march toward next year’s World Cup in Qatar.

Argentina’s captain grabbed a brilliant hat-trick in his team’s 3-0 defeat of Bolivia while Neymar scored one goal and set up another as Brazil overcame Peru 2-0.

Messi was in sparkling form in front of 21,000 fans at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires as he equalled and then surpassed Brazil legend Pele as South America’s highest scorer in international football.

The former Barcelona forward gave the hosts the

lead in the 14th minute by nutmegging Luis Haquin and curling a sublime 25yard effort into the top left corner.

Messi doubled his tally just after the hour, twice exchanging passes with Lautaro Martinez before dribbling around Jairo Quinteros and drilling an unstoppable shot past goalkeeper Carlos Lampe, Xinhua reports.

The third goal came two minutes from time when the ball bounced fortuitously into his path after Lampe parried away Joaquin Correa’s long-range attempt. The Albiceleste No. 10 was on hand to duly send a first-time effort into an unguarded net.

Messi has now scored 79 times in 153 matches for Argentina, surpassing

Neymar

Pele’s mark of 77 goals in 92 games.

“I was very anxious and I really wanted to enjoy it,” Messi said of the partial reopening of Argentina’s stadiums after an 18-month coronavirus ban on fans.

When asked about the scoring record, the 34-yearold politely pointed out that individual awards were “secondary” to him.

Argentina remain second in the 10-team South American group with 18 points from eight qualifiers while Bolivia have six points from nine outings.

In the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife, Neymar was in fine form as Brazil kept their perfect qualifying record intact.

Everton Ribeiro was on target for the second straight

match, slotting home a firsttime effort after Neymar dispossessed Anderson Santamaria and provided an inch-perfect cross from the left side of the penalty area.

The hosts’ second goal came just before halftime, with Ribeiro and Neymar again the creators. The Flamengo midfielder’s longrange shot rebounded off the hapless Santamaria and fell at the feet of the PSG attacker, who tapped in at the far post.

Neymar’s strike saw him surpass Romario and Zico as Brazil’s highest scorer in World Cup qualifiers with 12 goals.

“I’m happy to have this record. It’s an honour, but the most important thing today was the win,” Neymar told television reporters after

the match.

The result at Pernambuco Arena means Brazil now have eight wins from as many qualifiers as they move to within touching distance of a place in football’s showpiece tournament.

“It’s another good result and our winning sequence continues but we haven’t mathematically qualified yet,” midfielder Casemiro said. “We have to continue to work hard but we know that we’re on the right track.”

While Brazil lead the South American zone standings, Peru are seventh, five points shy of the qualification places.

In other qualifiers on Thursday, Colombia beat Chile 3-1 in Barranquilla, Paraguay overcome Venezuela 2-1 in Asuncion and Uruguay clinched a 1-0 home win over Ecuador.

Meanwhile, Neymar has sent Pele his best wishes as the Brazil legend recovers from surgery to remove a tumour from his colon.

The 80-year-old underwent the procedure at Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital on September 4 and doctors have not publicly stated when he might be discharged.

MDSP players celebrate after scoring a goal. (Durand Cup)

KO L K ATA , S E P 1 0 (PTI): Two-time former champions Mohammedan Sporting overwhelmed Central Reserve Police Force 5-1 in a Group A match to qualify for the quarterfinals of the 130th Durand Cup at the Kalyani Stadium on Friday.

Azharuddin Mallick gave the Black and White’s an early lead in the firsthalf and then scored a second goal just minutes from close, while Trinidadian striker Marcus Joseph, last edition’s top scorer, got two in two minutes in the second, to ensure a smooth passage for their team into the last eight.

Dashpreet got one

back for the Central Reserve Policemen in added time, while substitute Brandon added a fifth for MDSP a minute later.

FC Bengaluru United (FCBU) were the first team from the group to qualify for the knockouts when they logged six points from two games after beating Indian Air Force 4-2 at the same venue on Thursday.

MDSP did the same, after having won 4-1 against the Airmen in the tournament opener.

The two teams will clash in their third and final game to determine group standings on Tuesday.

Azharuddin Mallick for his two goals and an

assist got the Man of the Match award.

In another match, Deepak Singh scored a brace as Army Green football team earned three valuable points and kept their hopes alive with a 3-1 win over Jamshedpur FC in a Group B game at the Mohun Bagan ground.

Deepak Singh (43rd, 48th) and Sochin Chhetri (57th) were the goalscorers for Army Green, while Jitendra Singh (61st) sounded the board for Jamshedpur FC. ISL side Kerala Blasters Football Club and the Indian Navy Football Team will meet on Saturday in a Group C match.

IPL 2021: Best batting performances from the tournament

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (IANS): With the 14th edition of IPL 2021 resuming in the UAE after suspension due to the second wave of COVID-19 in the country, we take a look at some of the stunning knocks by batsmen in the first half of the league:

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nown for his big-hitting prowess, Pollard had been disappointing with the bat in the first six games. He made only 81 runs, with his highest being an unbeaten 35 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. But

on May 1, Pollard wreaked havoc on the Chennai Super Kings bowling attack in New Delhi.

Chasing a mammoth 219 in 20 overs after a late blitz from CSK’s Ambati Rayudu, Mumbai was reeling at 81/3 at halfway mark. Pollard rose to the occasion to smack an unbeaten 87 off just 34 balls to guide his side to a four-wicket victory in Delhi.

He reached his fifty in just 17 balls, the fastest in the season. His blitzkrieg included six fours and eight sixes as Mumbai snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

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AB de Villiers (RCB) 76 off 34 balls

hen AB gets going, there is no stopping him. Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai got a taste of it. At 91/3, Bangalore were in trouble.

But de Villiers combined forces with Glenn Maxwell to produce a scintillating counter-attack. The South African completed his half-century off just 27 balls. He went on to score 76 runs off just 34 balls which included 9 fours and 3 sixes at an astounding strike rate of 223.53.

The impact of his blistering knock was so big that it overshadowed the 78 made by Maxwell.

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he stylish batsman broke onto the scene during his maiden IPL season in 2020, scoring 473 runs in 16 matches. Despite missing out on the opening game of IPL 2021 due to testing positive for COVID-19, Padikkal came in and took time to come into his groove until the match against Rajasthan Royals. Set a target of 178 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Padikkal brought up his maiden IPL century to take Bangalore to a comprehensive 10-wicket win. His unbeaten knock of 101 off 52 balls laced with 11 fours and six sixes was easy on the eye. He shone the brightest ahead of his captain and opening partner Virat Kohli, who scored a 42-ball 72.

‘Do not isolate us from international cricket’, ACB tells CA

com said quoting reports.

“BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, vice-president Rajiv Shukla, secretary Jay Shah, and the treasurer Arun Dhumal were all a part of the meeting. The decision to go ahead with two spinners in the WTC Final didn’t go too well with the BCCI officials and hence, it was discussed that the T20 World Cup can be the last opportunity for Virat Kohli, especially in the limitedovers format.”

In fact, there has been a lot of debate on split captaincy where Kohli remains the Test captain and Sharma takes over as the limitedovers skipper, especially since he has enjoyed unprecedented success leading Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

“A senior BCCI officebearer came up with the suggestion of implementing 3 different captains for all the 3 formats. Another senior BCCI official suggested giving Test captaincy to Virat Kohli itself and giving the limited-overs captaincy to Rohit Sharma,” the report added. In May this year, former India chief selector Kiran More had said that the team could look at spilt captaincy for the three formats between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

KABUL, SEP 10 (PTI): Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) CEO Hamid Shinwari on Friday asked Cricket Australia (CA) to reconsider its decision not to host its men’s team for a Test in November after the Taliban banned women from playing sport, saying such a move will only isolate the strifetorn country.

Soon after forming an interim government, the Taliban banned women from playing cricket or any others sports, casting doubts over Afghanistan men’s team Test status.

As per ICC rules, all Test playing nations must have a women’s team as well.

Cricket Australia (CA) on Thursday said that its men’s team’s season-opening Test against Afghanistan, slated to start on November 27 in Hobart, will be scrapped due if Taliban doesn’t allow women in sports.

In a statement, ACB CEO Hamid Shinwari expressed “shock and immense disappointment” at the potential cancellation of the Australia-Afghanistan Test, which it described as “sudden and unexpected”.

The ACB CEO said there is an alternative to cancelling this “significant, history making Test match”. But, instead of offering any such alternative, the ACB said it is “powerless to change the culture and religious environment of Afghanistan”.

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multiple times of late, particularly regarding his failure to win an ICC event despite having a strong squad.”

The website added that the BCCI top brass has been discussing the issue since India’s loss to New Zealand in the World Test Championship final in England, where they were reportedly unhappy with the Indian skipper’s team selection.

Kohli had played two spinners in seamer-friendly and overcast conditions during the WTC final.

“The BCCI is deeply concerned about Virat Kohli’s captaincy, especially in the ICC tournaments because of his failure as a captain in the ICC events. In a meeting held by the BCCI office-bearers in July after the WTC Final, it emerged that a lot of BCCI officials are unsatisfied with Virat’s captaincy,” cricketaddictor.

he Rajasthan Royals skipper did what he does the best; begin the league on a high.

In the fourth match of IPL 2021, Samson smashed 119 off 63 balls against Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium.

After Punjab Kings posted a massive 221/6 in 20 overs, Rajasthan struggled to get going. Samson continued to hold one end while he was running out of partners from the other end.

The Kerala batsman took the bowlers to the cleaners and kept his side in the reckoning till the very end.

Samson hit 12 fours and 7 sixes during his sensational knock but failed to take his team over the line, falling on the final ball of the chase as Rajasthan fell short by 4 runs.

Jos Buttler (RR) 124 off 64 balls

Devdutt Padikkal (RCB) 101 not out in 52 balls

Is Indian cricket looking at split captaincy post England series?

MUMBAI, SEP 10 (IANS): India skipper Virat Kohli might lose his white-ball captaincy and Rohit Sharma could be asked to lead the limited-overs side if the team fails to win the ICC T20 World Cup to be held in the UAE and Oman in October-November this year.

While Kohli has been very successful in Test cricket, the onus of leading the side in limited-overs cricket could fall on Sharma because of the former’s failure to guide the side to victory in ICC events despite having some of the best bowlers and batters in the game.

Quoting a report, cricketaddictor.com said on Thursday that, “Team India skipper Virat Kohli might have his captaincy on the line when he leads the Indian team in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Kohli has come under the scanner

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vital cog in the wheel for Rajasthan, Buttler’s early form was a concern. He hadn’t crossed the 50-run mark in the first six games. But the England vice-captain made amends for all the shortcomings against Sunrisers Hyderabad in New Delhi. He rode his luck to notch up a magnificent 124, his first in the T20s, laced with 11 fours and eight sixes. He moved from 50 to 100 in just 16 balls in an incredible shift of gears. Buttler hammered 89 runs off his last 31 balls, propelling RR to a daunting 220 and eventually securing a 55-run win over Hyderabad.

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Raducanu, Fernandez in US Open final SASU open futsal tournament begins

Emma Raducanu

NEW YORK, SEP 10 (IANS): Great Britain’s Emma Raducanu continued her dominant form at Flushing Meadows, defeating No.18 Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-1, 6-4 in the semifinals to advance to her first major final at the US Open on Friday (IST).

The 18-year-old became the first qualifier, male or female, to ever advance to a major final.

Raducanu will face

Leylah Fernandez

19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the final on Saturday, in the first allteenage major final since Serena Williams defeated Martina Hingis at the 1999 US Open.

Playing in just her second Slam and making her US Open debut, Raducanu has not come close to losing a single set through six matches. With wins over Olympic gold medallist Belinda Bencic in the

quarterfinals and Sakkari in the semifinals, the 150thranked Raducanu scored back-to-back top-20 wins for the first time in her career.

Sakkari earned a spot in her second major semifinal of the season with a stunning pair of top-10 wins over 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu of Canada and world No.4 Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic. The 26-year-old

from Greece came into the match full of confidence, particularly after her stunning straight-set win over Pliskova in the quarterfinals, a match in which she never faced a break point.

While Sakkari had made her first major semifinal just three months at the French Open, where she came within a point of the final, Raducanu was bidding to make her first tourlevel final. The teen played

Social justice minister fetes all 54 para-athletes

Virendra Kumar along with Ramdas Athawale felicitates the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic medal winners and participants, in New Delhi, Friday. (PIB/PTI )

NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI): Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar on Friday felicitated all 54 Indian para-athletes who participated in the Tokyo Paralympics and announced cash rewards of up to Rs 10 lakh for medal winners.

Paralympians, who won a gold medal in the Tokyo Games, will receive a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh each, while those who bagged silver will get

a cash reward of Rs 8 lakh each. Paraathletes, who won the bronze medal, will be given a cash reward of Rs 5 lakh each. The award money will be transferred directly to the bank accounts of the medal winners.

The minister also felicitated all the coaches of Indian Paralympians at a function organised by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. Union Minister of

State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale joined Kumar in felicitating the Indian contingent of para-athletes and their coaches.

“After watching your (Indian para-athletes) performance in the Tokyo Paralympics, we had a discussion in our department and decided to organise this event to felicitate you and give a cash award to the medal winners from this year. Award money will be transferred to your (bank) account,” Kumar said while addressing the event.

He said Indian para-athletes put up their best show at the Tokyo Paralympics and made the country proud by winning five gold, eight silver and six bronze with their outstanding performance. The minister said a Centre for Disability Sports is being set up in Gwalior at an estimated cost of Rs 175 crore for the para-athletes.

“Our target is to complete the construction of the stadium, hostels and other facilities by June 15 next year,” he said.

Thompson-Herah wins women’s 100 at Diamond League another victory, clocking a meet record 10.65 seconds to win the women’s 100 meters at the Diamond League finals.

The Jamaican earned her third Diamond League title on Thursday by pulling away from Dina AsherSmith of Britain, who was second in 10.83.

She was one of several Olympic champions who Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica celebrates after finished the season-long Diamond League circuit winning the women’s 100 meters race. (AP/PTI) with a win. Armand DuZURICH, SEP 10 (PTI/ Elaine Thompson-Herah plantis won the men’s pole AP): Olympic champion finished her season with vault with a leap of 6.06

meters but once again failed to improve his own world record, making three unsuccessful attempts at 6.19.

World record-holder Karsten Warholm of Norway defended his Diamond League title by winning the men’s 400 hurdles in 47.35 and Faith Kipyegon held off a surging Sifan Hassan on the final sprint to win the women’s 1,500 in 3:58.33.

Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy, who was a joint gold medalist in Tokyo, won the men’s high jump after clearing 2.34 meters.

her first WTA tournament on the grass of Nottingham in June, and in her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon, she progressed to the Round of 16.

Raducanu built on her strong summer with a run to the final of the WTA 125K in Chicago last month and hasn’t lost a set of tennis since. On Monday, she will end Johanna Konta’s 310-week reign as the No.1 British woman, with a chance to rise to No.24 if she captures the title.

The key moments came early in the match, as Sakkari earned a total of seven break points across Raducanu’s first two service games, but could not convert. Instead, it was Raducanu breaking Sakkari in her first service game before racing to a 5-0 lead.

Having wiped out Sakkari’s early chances and the Greek struggling to find her range off the ground, Raducanu never faced a break point for the remainder of the match.

Chief patron Meyiesul Chaya, SASU executives, players and others before the match at Jakhama local ground on Friday. (NP) Correspondent

KO H I M A , S E P 1 0 (NPN): Jakhama Town Youth Society beat Khami United 5-1 in the first match of the open Futsal tournament 2021 organised by Southern Angami Students’ Union (SASU) at Jakhama local ground, here on Friday. Kikovito Rolnu from Jakhama Tow n Yo u t h S o c i e t y scored the first goal of the tournament.

Held on the theme, “Rise as one”, the inaugural match was raced by PS to advisor, Youth Resources and Sports, Er Zale Neikha, Meyiesul Chaya BHUBANESWAR, SEP as chief patron.

In his address, he 10 (IANS): After winning a gold medal at the To- lauded the students’ body kyo Paralympics 2020, ace shuttler Pramod Bhagat returned to his home state, Odisha on Friday afternoon.

Amid the beats of ‘dhol’ and cheers, Pramod was given a hero’s welcome at the Biju Patnaik International airport by the state government. State Sports Minister Tusharkanti Behera and Secretary R. Vineel Krishna welcomed the Paralympics gold medallist at the airport.

Pramod thanked the state and people for the grand welcome and said this year’s Nuakhai (a festival of western Odisha) Viswanathan Anand (File) will be celebrated with the joy of the gold medal. The NEW DELHI, SEP 10 Slovenia was a wake-up call shuttler said his next target (AGENCIES): Defending for the host but did not alter is to win another gold med- champion India asserted its its position as the group-topal in the Paris Paralympics superiority against Hungary per. Earlier, India made sure and Moldova before signing of topping the group with a in 2024.

As per schedule, Chief off with a surprise draw round to spare following a Minister Naveen Patnaik against Slovenia for a place comprehensive 5-1 victory will felicitate Pramod this in the quarterfinals of the over Moldova in the eighth evening at the Kalinga FIDE Online Chess Olym- and penultimate round.

India saved its best perStadium. The Odisha gov- piad on Friday.

An unbeaten India formance of the day for a 4-2 ernment has already announced that it will provide topped the 10-team Group victory over a previously unRs 6 crore and a Group-A B with 16 match-points to beaten third seed Hungary post job to the ace shuttler. face either Ukraine or Ger- in the key seventh-round Beating Daniel Bethell many in the quarterfinals clash.

Viswanathan Anand, of Great Britain, Pramod on September 13. Hungary won gold medal in badmin- (15) was the other team to K. Humpy and Nihal Sarin ton men’s singles SL3 in the qualify from the group, re- won with white pieces, P. Harikrishna lost while D. recently concluded Tokyo ported Sportstar.

The 3-3 draw against Harika and R. Vaishali drew.

Paralympics, 2020.

Gold medallist Bhagat gets hero’s welcome in Odisha

FIDE Online Chess Olympiad: India enters quarterfinals

5th Test postponed, to be rescheduled; India lead series 2-1 as of now MANCHESTER/ NEW DELHI, SEP 10 (PTI/ IANS): A COVID-19 outbreak that triggered “anxiety” among Indian players forced the cancellation of their fifth and final Test against England in a chaotic and unprecedented turn of events on Friday, leaving the status of the series unclear after the host board claimed a forfeiture by the tourists only to withdraw the statement.

The England and Wales Cricket Board’s statement on the match went from India “unable to field a team and will instead forfeit the match” to India “regrettably unable to field a team” after skipper Virat Kohli led a steadfast refusal by the visiting players to take the field.

Friday’s development came after the tourists were left on tenterhooks following physio Yogesh Parmar’s positive COVID-19 test that led to concerns that the infection could spread during the match.

As for the series, its

rescheduled match would be a stand-alone game or the series-decider.

The only plausible window for such an arrangement seems to be July next year when the India team visits England for a six-match white-ball series.

Earlier, after hectic consultations, the match was cancelled a couple of hours before toss. The initial statement issued by the ECB categorically mentioned the word “forfeit” but that was later omitted from a revised media release.

BCCI asks England board to reschedule the final Test

A message is displayed on a screen at Old Trafford cricket ground after fifth and final cricket test match between England and India was canceled, Friday. (AP/PTI)

status was not clear.

India are 2-1 ahead and have not been officially declared winners.

The BCCI has claimed that both boards will work towards rescheduling the match but ECB CEO Tom Harrison said the game would be a one-off instead

of being a decider for the series.

“In lieu of the strong relationship between BCCI and ECB, the BCCI has offered to ECB a rescheduling of the cancelled Test match. Both the Boards will work towards finding a window to reschedule this

Test match,” BCCI secretary Jay Shah said.

“No, I think it’s a stand-alone situation. We have been offered a few other options, probably need to take a look (at those),” Harrison responded when specifically asked on Sky Sports whether the

for coming up with an innovative concept and hoped that the game would promote brotherhood at the same time keep the passion of football alive.

He obser ved that Naga society was currently at a crossroad and that youths should learn new skills and in turn give back to the society.

He remarked through sports a person could earn fame and fortune similar to education which skills a person and shapes their life. Earlier SASU president, Zhovito Rikha in a brief address disclosed that the tournament was organised to uplift togetherness while keeping team work and sports spirit alive.

During the pro-

The Indian cricket board has asked the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to reschedule the fifth and final Test of the ongoing series after it was cancelled due to the Indian players’ reluctance to play it following emergence of a fresh Covid-19 positive case.

“In lieu of the strong relationship between BCCI and ECB, the BCCI has offered to ECB a rescheduling of the cancelled Test match.

Both the Boards will work towards finding a window to reschedule this Test match,” said the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in a statement. The BCCI along with the England

and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had earlier jointly decided to call off the fifth Test scheduled at Old Trafford in Manchester.

“The BCCI and ECB held several rounds of discussion to find a way to play the Test Match, however, the outbreak of Covid-19 in the Indian team contingent forced the decision of calling off the Old Trafford Test Match,” the BCCI added further in the statement.

“The BCCI has always maintained that the safety and well-being of the players is of paramount importance and there will be no comprise on that aspect,” it said further.

gramme Viravoto Seleyi presented a special number while Catholic Church Jakha Town, catechist, Koleto Kirha invoked God’s blessing.

A total of 48 teams from Southern Angami areas and Kohima are participating in the two-day event which will culminate on Saturday.

Winner of the tourney would receive a cash prize of Rs 30,000 while the runner up will win Rs 15,000. The two semifinalists will receive Rs 3000 each.

Individual awards including top scorer and best goal keeper will receive Rs 1500 each, while player of the tournament will be awarded Rs 2000.

Nabi named Afghanistan captain NEW DELHI, SEP 10 ( AG E N C I E S ) : A f t e r Rashid Khan relinquished his position as the skipper of the Afghanistan cricket squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup, all-rounder Mohammad Nabi is set to lead the side into battle in the deserts of UAE. After the appointment Nabi tweeted, “At this critical stage, I admire the decision of ACB for the announcement of leading the National Cricket Team in T20 Format.

InshaAllah together we will present a great picture of the Nation in the upcoming T20 World Cup.” Rashid, who is the world’s top-ranked bowler in Twenty20s, decided to step down from captaincy after the spinner claimed that his “consent” was not obtained before announcing the squad which will start their campaign on October 25, The Indian Express reported.

Group allocation for 1st Nagaland Futsal Championship The group allocation for the 1st Nagaland Futsal Championship are as follows:

GROUP ‘A’ 1- BULL DOG CLUB DMP 2- LAZERS FC WKA 3- PHEK WARRIORS PHEK 4- NEWSITE FC MON

GROUP ‘B’ 1- SECHU ZUBZA FC KMA 2- DIMAPUR FC DMP 3- SPARTAN FC PEREN 4- MASCOT FC MON

GROUP ‘C’ 1- VANGUARD FC TSEMINYU KMA 2- BURMA CAMP FC DMP 3- LIYO LOTHA FUTSAL CLUB WKA 4- APHUYEMI FC ZBTO

GROUP ‘D’ 1- ALFA FC PEREN 2- TELONGJEM FC MKG 3- SATA UNITED FC ZBTO 4- KUKI FC DMP 5- THRIVING CLUB LONGLENG *All the clubs are advised to submit their players list along with 2 passport photo at DDFA Office, Room No.-8 at DDSC Stadium between 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM.

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