15 June 2022

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Vol XXXII No. 189

DIMAPUR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2022 Pages 12 ` 5.00

India rout Hong Kong 4-0; qualify for Asian Cup SPORTS, PAGE 12

Interest-free loan to microfarmers, entrepreneurs: CM

RIO INAUGURATES DUDA GUEST HOUSE AT SOVIMA Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JUN 14 (NPN): Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio on Tuesday informed that the State government would soon be providing interestfree loans to micro farmers and entrepreneurs in every district.

Informing this at the inaugural of Directorate of Under Developed Area (DUDA) guest house at Sovima on Tuesday, Rio said a State-wide campaign for the purpose will be launched during which interactions would be held with micro farmers and entrepreneurs.

He said that this would also encourage youth to take up entrepreneurship and attain self-sustainability.

Thought the government will bear the interest for the loans, Rio, however said that the beneficiaries should get the approval or guarantor from the village authorities to avail the scheme. Rio also remarked that the Eastern people were doing much better than even some advanced tribes and cited the example of six Eastern students who were among the top 20 in the recently-announced HSLC and HSSLC examination results.

With Eastern people advancing and achieving in various fields, Rio appealed to all Eastern people to do away with the mentality of reservation/backwardness as terms like “backward” and “underdeveloped area” were not good. He assured them that the state govern-

State govt appoints Addl.

AGs and Adv DIMAPUR, JUN 14 (NPN): Nagaland government has appointed four additional advocate generals (AAG) to represent at the Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench and one advocate, as standing counsel for the State of Nagaland in the Supreme Court of India based in Delhi.

According to the notifications issued by the department of Law & Justice, the AAGs—Tsibu Khro, Vihelieu Soukhrie, LT Sangtam and Imti Imsong and advocate (Supreme Court) Limayinla Jamir have been appointed for a period of one year, on retainer basis, with effect from the date of assumption of charge.

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“I’m very sorry but you can’t stop the car for any checking unless it is in presence of Inspection Team.”

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Neiphiu Rio along with his colleagues at the inaugural of DUDA guest house at Sovima. (NP)

ment would provide every possible assistance for the upliftment of ENPO areas and to bring the people of those districts at par with the rest of the States.

Speaking on the importance of entrepreneurship, Rio stressed that fishery farming, piggery, bakery, breeding farms, etc, had a huge scope in the State.

Rio appealed to the youth, especially the educated unemployed youth, to take up entrepreneurship as there was a huge scope for entrepreneurs in the State. Hence, he encouraged local youth to take up entrepreneurship in poultry, piggery, fish farming, etc, and achieve economic independence.

On bifurcation of Chümoukedima and Niuland from Dimapur, he clarified that the separation was done purely for administrative convenience.

Meanwhile, delivering a short speech, Eastern Nagaland Legislators’ Union (ENLU) convener Pangnyu Phom said the completion and inauguration of DUDA guest house would provide

a huge relief to the people of Eastern Nagaland, especially those who came there for medical treatments.

He mentioned that Eastern people should recognise and appreciate Rio for the things he had done for them, claiming that the chief minister had always shown concern for the region since his chief ministership in 2003.

Speaking on the occasion, Eastern Nagaland People’s Union Dimapur (ENPUD) president L Shahoto Yimkhiung suggested that the responsibility of DUDA guest should be given to Eastern Naga people or student body.

In his speech, Sovima Village Council chairman Sebastian Zumvü said Sovima was open to all Nagas from Nagaland, especially to Eastern Nagas, adding that it was not only for Angamis even though it was an Angami village.

Delivering the keynote address, DUDA secretary KS Anden Konyak said the construction work was awarded to SAAYLZ Construction (Cont’d on p-8)

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi possible ED questions Rahul for over 8 hrs prez candidate for Opposition on second day; Cong, BJP spar

NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): With the Opposition seeking to put up a united fight in the presidential poll, some leaders have reached out to former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi as a possible choice, sources said on Tuesday.

Gandhi was the consensus opposition candidate for the post of vice president of India in 2017, but had lost to M Venkaiah Naidu.

Sources said some opposition leaders talked to Gandhi over phone and urged him to consider their request for being the joint opposition candidate for the post of President.

Sources added that some other names are also being considered and the opposition leaders have reached out to them also to seek their consent.

Gandhi, who was governor of West Bengal from 2004-2009, has sought some time from these leaders and

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

will get back to them by Wednesday, sources said.

Leaders who talked to him said his initial response to their request was “positive”.

The sources said if he accepts the request, he could emerge as the consensus opposition candidate for the top post. The 77-year-old former bureaucrat has also served as High Commissioner to South Africa and Sri Lanka. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari.

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has convened a meeting of opposition parties to deliberate on the opposition choice of presidential nominee.

NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was questioned for over eight hours by the Enforcement Directorate for the second consecutive day in the National Herald money-laundering probe and was again summoned on Wednesday, even as the opposition party continued its protests and sparred with the BJP, accusing it of conspiring to defame the Gandhi family through the ‘’false’’ case.

Gandhi, 51, who was quizzed for over 10 hours a day earlier, arrived on Tuesday at the ED headquarters accompanied by his sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and his questioning began at 11:30 a.m.

After a session of about four hours, Gandhi took a break for about an hour. He rejoined the questioning and was still at the ED office at 9 p.m.

NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): India on Tuesday unveiled a “transformative” scheme called “Agnipath” for the recruitment of soldiers into the Army, the Navy and the Air Force largely on a short-term contractual basis with an aim to cut the ballooning salary and pension bills and enable a youthful profile of the armed forces.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh provided details of the new initiative at a media briefing shortly after the Prime Minister-led Cabinet Committee on Security approved the scheme which the government said would allow “patriotic and moti-

NASSA members at the main entrance of NLA Secretariat during the protest, Tuesday. (NP)

KOHIMA, JUN 14 (NPN): Even as its “pen-down strike” entered 10th day on Tuesday, the Nagaland Assembly Secretariat Staff Association (NASSA) has declared to intensify its protest against the reappointment of Dr. PJ Antony as the principal sec-

retary and arbitrary framing of certain provisions in the service rules.

Earlier, NASSA had warned that if the demands were not met by June 13, it would prevent Antony from entering the NLA Secretariat complex. It had also served an ultimatum on the NLA speaker and chief secretary

Earlier in the day, Gandhi joined senior party leaders at a “dharna” at the Congress headquarters, where the chief ministers of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party MPs were also present.

BJP hit out at the Congress, saying it is blocking roads to show its “leaders are above the law” and termed the protests “drama”.

“When lawful action is tak-

ing place in a case of corruption, Congress is doing this drama and blocking roads.... it shows the party considers its leaders above law,” BJP’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra said.

Union minister Anurag Thakur also took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi over his questioning by the ED after the Congress leader criticised prime minister’s decision to provide 10 lakh government jobs in the next 18 months.

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‘Agnipath’: Govt unveils radical armed forces recruitment plan Rajnath Singh with three services’ chiefs during a press conference in Delhi on Tuesday. (PTI)

vated” youth to serve in the armed forces for a period of four years.

“Under the ‘Agneepath’ scheme, Indian youth will be provided an opportunity to serve in the armed forces as ‘Agniveer’. This scheme has been brought to strengthen the security of the country. It is a transformative scheme,” Singh said in presence of the three

service chiefs.

He said the infusion of disciplined, motivated and skilled ‘Agniveers’ back into society after military service, would be a great asset for the nation as it will be a “win-win proposition”.

Describing it a major defence policy reform to usher in a “new era” in the human resource policy of the three services, the

NASSA to intensify protest; begins poster campaign

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Rahul Gandhi accompanied by Priyanka Gandhi arrive to meet party workers at AICC Hqs before leaving for ED office, Tuesday. (PTI)

to revoke the appointment of Dr Antony. However, since its demand went unheard, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) decided to intensify its stir by adding a poster campaign to ongoing protest.

Addressing media persons at the NLA secretariat main gate, JAC secretary, Sezoto Theyo alleged that

Antony had arbitrarily revised certain service rules basing on which his application for reappointment was recommended and approved.

He said even after repeated representations and ultimatums, none of their pleas were heard. Therefore, he said NASSA resolved to intensify the protest until Antony’s appointment was revoked.

NASSA vice president, Rocus Rino said they had gathered at the main gate in order to stop Antony from entering the office premises.

Responding to a query on how the amendments were made to the service rules, NASSA members

said although there were provisions to revise rules under provisions, it was also clearly mentioned that in order to frame or amend the guidelines, a committee had to set-up look into it.

NASSA, which had challenged the amendment in the court, is waiting for the court to pass a judgement.

NASSA members said that some of their senior members had fulfilled all the criteria for promotion and would be able to handle the office(s). Therefore, the members said they were demanding that the authority and the post be given to them and not be handled by a retired person.

defence ministry said the scheme comes into immediate effect and will govern the enrolment for the three services, implying that existing framework of employment for soldiers will cease to exist.

It said the armed forces will recruit 46,000 ‘Agniveers’ this year and the eligible age for selection will be in the range of 17.5 years to 21 years. The recruitment under the scheme is set to kick within 90 days.

The monthly salary of an ‘Agniveer’ in the first year of employment would be Rs 30,000 and the inhand amount would be Rs 21,000 as Rs 9,000 would

go to a corpus with an equal contribution of the government.

S u b s e q u e n t ly, t h e monthly salary in the second, third and fourth year will be Rs 33,000, Rs 36,500 and Rs 40,000. Each ‘Agniveer’ will get an amount of Rs 11.71 lakh as ‘Seva Nidhi Package’ and it will be exempted from income tax.

There will be no entitlement to gratuity and pensionary benefits and the new recruits will be provided non-contributory life insurance cover of Rs 48 lakh for the duration of their engagement period in the armed forces.

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Will not accept economic package based piecemeal solution: NSF DIMAPUR, JUN 14 (NPN): Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has reiterated its earlier stand that the Nagas would “never accept an economic package based piecemeal solution”.

In a representation to the Prime Minister, NSF president Kegwayhun Tep and general secretary Süpuni Ng Philo stated that earlier Agreements and Accords, which were “imposed and superimposed” to bring in “so-called ‘peaceful solutions’”, only created more problems and conflicts, rather than solving the problems.

The federation said that the Nagas were looking forward to inherit the “inclusive, honorable and acceptable solution” basing on the unique history and situation of the Naga people as assured by the government of India.

However, NSF said that the policy of the government of India to “undo everything achieved through hard earned political negotiations has created great distrust in each one of our minds as we strive to uphold our God given identity.”

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Sanitary pad production unit at Central Jail No question of rejoining NPF, says Imchen Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JUN 14 (NPN): In a unique initiative, the inmates of Dimapur central jail, who underwent sanitary pads manufacturing training on March 10 and 11, 2022, have started to make low-cost sanitary pads under NabFoundation’s “My Pads My right” project funded by NABFINS—both subsidiaries of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

A total of four staff of Dimapur central jail and 13 inmates underwent the training programme. The staff trainees would later act

Dr. GR Chintala and other officials at the launching programme. (NP)

as trainers for similar training programmes. At present there are 169 inmates in Dimapur central jail.

NABARD chairman Dr. GR Chintala, who paid a visit to the sanitary manufacturing unit at central jail here Tuesday, said that he

was satisfied with the product being manufactured by the inmates.

Dr. Chintala expressed hope that the launching of the manufacturing unit will not only help the inmates sustain their livelihood but also will reach out to the

provide sterilised pads in market for the women in a reasonable price.

Regarding marketing, Dr. GR Chintala said that the unit would be tying up with various NGOs in reaching out to the market.

The production unit has three machines—one each for manufacturing, sanitisation, and packaging.

The inmates went through a rigorous training and assessment process, NABARD chairman, adding that the training was conducted keeping in mind their field of interest, dedication to work and other things.

Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUN 14 (NPN): Imkong L. Imchen MLA, among the 21 NPF legislators led by T.R. Zeliang, who recently merged with the NDPP, has denied the report that some of them (21 MLAs) were planning to re-join NPF again. Imchen, issued a rejoinder as-- ‘former spokesperson of NPF Legislative Party (NPFLP)’- while reacting to a report which he termed as a rumour. Imchen said he also suspected that the report was the “handiwork of some individuals who never ceased to amaze with their (Cont’d on p-8) wild and fairy tale imagina-

tions”. He also declared that the chapter of merger in Nagaland was closed when 21 NPF MLAs merged with NDPP. It may be noted that the report in this newspaper had sourced the information to a senior NPF office bearer who had admitted that there were efforts in that direction as reported.

Another senior NPF legislator admitted to this Correspondent Tuesday, that some former party MLAs were “not comfortable being in the new party” and were exploring options of returning to NPF. The MLAs were reportedly even ensuring that their bridges were not cut after leaving

NPF. One of the MLAs said they were not going to make any negative comments against their former party since they were unsure of their future in the new party.

Another NPF legislator also mentioned some names among 21 who left and joined NDPP. In his rejoinder, Imchen concluded that the merger of 21 NPF with NDPP came after much deliberations on whether NDPP should merge with NPF or NPF with NDPP. Therefore, he said NDPP planning to merge with NPF again at this point of time was nothing more than a wild goose chase.

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Need to sensitise public on central schemes: Tovihoto

Tovihoto Ayemi speaking at the rally on Tuesday, in Dimapur. (NP)

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, JUN 14 (NPN): Accentuating several central schemes intended for the welfare of the public, advisor for Power, Tovihoto Ayemi said there was a need to carry out extensive awareness on the schemes provided by the Centre so that common public were properly sensitised to enjoy the benefits.

Addressing 14th day of “Seva Sushan Aur Gareeb Kalyan Par v” (SSAGKP) rally organised

by 1 Dimapur 1 Mandal Tuesday here at Dimapur, Tovihoto lamented that despite several schemes introduced by Modi government, many beneficiaries/ citizens were not availing the benefits due to their ignorance or lack of awareness.

In this regard, he suggested the BJP party karyakartas to constitute a cell to assist the people and help them avail the central schemes.

He said that such initiative would ensure that

no one was deprived of the schemes.

Tovihoto said the country was celebrating eight years of BJP rule, under the leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi, who he said, had focused “primarily on health care sector.”

Highlighting on Ayushman Bharat Yojana scheme, Tovihoto said out of 18 crore beneficiaries under the scheme, 33.2 crore beneficiaries across the country have been benefited.

The advisor asked karyakartas to acknowledge the welfare and schemes carried out by BJP government through Act East policy.

Asserting that only hardworking and committed people have enrolled in BJP, Tovihoto asked them to remain committed to the party and to always be ready to serve people in all manners.

In a brief message, BJP Dimapur district president, Tokuho Suhoi Niho claimed that prime minister, Modi has “done a lot for the welfare of women in the country”.

He also stressed on the need to bring BJP majority government in the state.

Short speeches were also delivered by president, BJP 1 Dimapur 1 Mandal, LR Anthony and BJP general secretary, state (admin), Kevishe Achumi.

The programme was chaired by BJP yuva morcha president, 1 Dimapur 1 Mandal, Titus Kath and invocation was offered by BJP mahila morcha, president, Atila Aier.

Tuensang police release crime report

Tuensang police personnel along with the arrested individual and recovered items.

DIMAPUR: Tuensang police on Tuesday, released a crime report of June 11 and 14 where three individuals were arrested and various items were seized.

On June 14, Tuensang police conducted a house search where 1.67 grams of suspected drugs (sunflower) were seized from the possession of Sekmou-

mensa.

Later, on the same day, the police conducted a house raid and seized four assorted pistol, three magazines, 73 live ammunition, 10673 capsules of SP/ alprazolam/paracetamol and dicyclomine hydrochloride, and a cash of Rs. 2.8 lakh from possession of a drug peddler.

On June 11, Tuensang police arrested one Mukom K. Khiam, son of Khonglai Khiam on charged of possessing illegal drugs According to police, the recovered items included 39 tablets of Cicyclomine, 554 tablets of Alprazolam (I.P 1.0 mg), two capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon, two syringes (2ml), one syringe (2.5ml) and a cash of Rs. 1,105.

Meanwhile, on the same day, the QRT conducted a house search and recovered drugs and items from one Chongshenmongba (37).

The seized items included sunflower (suspected heroin)-0.18milligram approx, 200 grams of Ganja, two bottles of Vodka (180ml each), 31 cigarette lighters, one zippo lighter, 12 empty tobacco containers, one metal necklace

with metal pipe attached and one roll of aluminium foil.

In connection to the arrests, police informed that cases were registered and investigations were on.

SF apprehend 3 with 500 kg of poppy seeds DIMAPUR: Security Forces (SF) in as joint operation with the state police apprehended three “drug dealers” in general area, Kukidolong on June 12.

According to PRO IGAR (N), based on a specific input, the joint team recovered around 500 kg of poppy seeds worth Rs. 20 lakh (approx.) from the possession of the apprehended individuals.

The apprehended “dealers” along with confiscated drugs were handed over to PS Medziphema for further investigation, PRO informed.

BJP Mokokchung holds ‘synchronisation meeting’

DIMAPUR: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mokokchung district held a “synchronisation meeting” with BJP Mokokchung district in-charge, Nuklutoshi Longkumer on Tuesday, at its party office.

In a press release, BJP Mokokchung district media cell informed that at the meeting, district in-charge, Nuklutoshi, former minister and BJP state executive member urged upon the

members not to be discouraged but to work with more vigour as every karyakarta would be expected to serve people even in the days and weeks to come.

Congratulating BJP Mokokchung district for their services to the people, Nuklutoshi appreciated the karyakartas for carrying out all party activities as directed by the state and national higher-ups, with full of commitment and

enthusiasm.

He further congratulated the district BJP along with all its frontals and mandals for successfully carrying out the different activities during the last fortnight commemorating the 8th glorious years of BJP under Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

During the meeting, pertinent important issues related with the party functioning, mobilization and

KMC enhances household sanitation fee

DIMAPUR: Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has informed that the council has enhanced household sanitation fee from Rs. 70 to Rs.100 per month with effect from July 1, 2022.

In a press release, KMC administrator, T Lanusenla Longkumer said that the decision was taken after much deliberation and taking into consideration the rising cost of employing manpower, vehicles as well as road maintenance and as per the meeting held on May 2, 2022. KMC had asked all ward sanitation committees to ensure and strictly enforce waste segregation practice at primary/household level.

The council has also requested that the 10% from the total collection of sanitation fee be regularly paid to KMC office to be deposited to the escrow account as per resolution passed in 2013.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2022

AH&VS department capacitates poultry satellite farms DIMAPUR: In view of occurrence of African Swine Fever (AFS) in the state and in an effort to mitigate shortage of meat produce due to spread of AFS, department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services (AH&VS) has begun to promote poultry farming.

According to a DIPR report, due to AFS the demand and supply gap of pork was likely to widen during the current year 2022 as it is affecting backyard piggery farmers of the State.

Thus, to mitigate the shortage of meat in the state, the department of AH&VS) was promoting poultry farming as it has shorter gestation period of marketing age and was also easily available and popular menu in Naga

cuisine.

Accordingly, the department on June 10 has capacitated ten poultry satellite farms under NEC project having a capacity of 300 grower birds per cycle in presence of additional secretary, Chisi Thou and additional director and HoD, Dr. Nsanthung Ezung.

The ten poultry satellite farms are spread across Dimapur, Chumukedima, Peren and Nuiland districts which can rear 3000 number of birds and was expected to produce 7.13 tonnes of chicken for table purpose in one cycle of production. (i.e., after two months of rearing).

During the formal capacitation programme, the officials present encouraged the entrepreneurs to take up the farm-

ing with sincerity and dedication and to present their problems especially in technical matter through the online platform which was already created.

Issues of bulk / retail marketing, farming economic, formation of tertiary SHGs’ and other forward and backward linkages were also discussed with the entrepreneurs.

F u r t h e r, P r o j e c t Director Dr. Simon Ao informed the farmers, that not only the satellite farms, but through the NEC project, even other entrepreneurs, Self Help Groups (SHGs), societies, woman groups etc. could avail such facilities especially fully vaccinated poultry birds for rearing on business mode.

Departmental coordination meeting held at Bhandari

DIMAPUR: The monthly departmental coordination meeting of Bhandari sub-division was held on Tuesday, in the conference hall of the ADC Bhandari.

According to a DIPR report, the meeting deliberated on the issue of conducting a survey of government lands for departments that have not obtained land patta after a proper survey.

In this regard, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Bhandari, Rohit Singh asked departments that have not surveyed office buildings, quarters or

government sites under the possession of their departments to do so and obtain land patta at the earliest.

Reviewing the COVID situation and related health care services under CHC Bhandari, Dr. Caroline highlighted that Covishield vaccination for 18 years and above has achieved 100% mark and that Covaxin for 15-17 years and Corbivax for 1214 years vaccination was at 50%.

She further informed that vaccination at schools and health care centres were still going on.

In the meeting, SDEO Bhandari, Nzanbemo Ngullie informed that government schools under Bhandari sub-division performed well and achieved good results during the recently declared HSLC and HSSLC exams in 2022 without any nil results.

He also stressed on the need for schools to have adequate teachers.

Highlighting present infrastructure of government schools at villages, he expressed concer n that some schools were functioning under pitiful conditions and required

immediate attention to improvise infrastructures.

Ngullie also observed that students studying in primary standard should be given proper guidance from an early stage to prepare and help them achieve good results when they reach high school.

Further, ADC also reminded the officers to maintain regular attendance and to sincerely execute their assigned works for the benefit of the public.

Earlier, the ADC welcomed the newly posted officers in the subdivision.

NU reschedules CET B.Ed-2022 DIMAPUR: Nagaland University, vice chancellor, Prof. Pardeshi Lal has informed that the common entrance test (CET) B.Ed-2022 for admission to B.Ed colleges affiliated to Nagaland University which was scheduled to be held on June 18, has been rescheduled to June 22 at the same venue and time for the convenience of students.

The jubilee planning board of Sümi Literature Board (SLB) held a meeting on Tuesday, in Dimapur to deliberate on its platinum jubilee, which will be celebrated in December on the theme “Sütsa no Sümi ju-aje”. In commemoration of the jubilee, SLB informed that it would be organising essay competition. Date and topic of the competition will be announced shortly.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

of Rev. LUHEZU YEPTHO (15.06.2017)

preparation for the next election were raised by the district BJP karyakartas.

The meeting was attended by the district officials, mandals, morchas and cells officials.

Meanwhile, the media cell has informed that a bike rally would be organised on June 15 by the BJP Mokokchung district to conclude the 15-day celebration of Seva, Susashan Aur Garib Kalyan programme.

“The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.”

Isaiah 57:1 & 2

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The WSBAK Church Leaders’ Fellowship organized a felicitation program on 10/06/2022 at Sumi Baptist Church Eralibill for the Children of the Pastors’ working under WSBAK, who successfully cleared the HSLC & HSSLC exams in the recently declared results by NBSE. Altogether 44 candidates cleared the exam. Rev. Dr. Khetoshe Aye, President, WSBAK CLF in his message addressed the successful candidates to excel in life and to live an exemplary life. Special honour was accorded to Ms. Vilika Assumi, D/o Mr. Samuel Assumi, Pastor Akito Baptist Church, Ms. Ilino Yeptho D/o Mrs. Khelito Yeptho, Pastor Shozukhu Baptist Church and Ms. Abigail I. Chophy, D/o Mr. Inato Chophy, Pastor Vihuto Baptist Church for securing dictinction in more than three subjects.

Further, the fellowship wished them more success in their future endeavours.

We, the bereaved family of Lt. Hingtung Chawang Head G.B of Samjiuram Village and Gen. Secretary of G.B Federation Peren District Nagaland, take this privilege to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all individuals, church bodies and different organizations who not only came to pay their last respect at the sudden demise of our beloved father on 31st May 2022 but also stood by us physically, financially and morally. We further express our deep appreciation and indebtedness particularly to the following: 1. T.R Zeliang, Chairman, United Democratic Alliance (U.D.A) Nagaland Former Chief Minister 2. Samziuram Village Council 3. Peren G.B Federation 4. KUKI INPI Association Kebai Area 5. Liangmai People Organization (L.P.O) Kabailam (N) 6. Village Development Board Samziuram 7. New Kejanglwa Village Council 8. Mhainamtsi G.B Union 9. Jalukie ‘B’ Council 10. Tepun Jalukie Valley Organization Nagaland 11. New Jalukie G.B Union 12. 23rd Assam Rifles 13. S.D.A.O Staff Jalukie 14. St. Joseph Eco Association Student Body 15. St. Joseph University Eco Dept. teaching faculty and students 16. St. Joseph University Staff and Economic 6th Semester 17. Women Department Samziuram Council We deeply regret our inability to mention each and every individual but we pray that our gracious God bless you all abundantly.

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Loving Wife, Children, Grand Children, Relatives and In-laws.

Lt. Zevoneile Zita Rhetso 1943 – 24.05.2022 We, the bereaved family members of Lt. Zevoneile Zita Rhetso would like to express our heartiest gratitude to all individuals, friends, churches, neighbours, organizations and well wishers who supported us physically, spiritually, financially and materially during her illness till her last moment.

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NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2022

Nagaland celebrates ‘World Blood Donor Day’

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Jawans from 78th battalion CRPF donating blood in Donors at DH Dimapur at WBDD & Hemophilia UCTE and Zoe Theatre School Ministry presenting a DC Zunheboto, Rahul Bhanudas Mali along with Kohima on Tuesday. (NP) street play in Dimapur. (NP) members of DAPCU and others. awareness programme. (NP)

Correspondent/Staff Reporter DIMAPUR: Nagaland joined the world Tuesday in celebrating “World Blood Donor Day (WBDD)” under World Health Organization (WHO) 2022 slogan, “Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Join the effort and save lives”.

WHO said 2022 slogan aims to draw attention to the roles that to the roles that voluntary blood donations play in saving lives and enhancing solidarity within communities.

WBDD is celebrated every year by countries with an objective to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood, said WHO. ‘Blood Donor App’ launched in Kohima Kohima based Voluntary Blood Donors Association Kohima (VBDAK) organised a blood donation drive at Red Cross Society Building, here on Tuesday.

During the drive, a mobile application was launched which would help in centralising information

on blood donors and create awareness on the importance of blood donation in the state.

The application, “Blood Donor App”, developed by NK Square, was launched by NSDMA joint CEO, Johnny Ruangmei during the drive.

In his speech, Johnny said the app would be useful in event of mass casualties or major accident(s).

He expressed hope that since all information would now be centralised through the app, anyone would access the directory and obtain blood immediately after an accident.

Ruangmei urged upon everyone to take it as their responsibility to save more lives with the help of latest technologies in whichever way possible.

VBDAK chairman, Bendang Imsong disclosed that more than 40 units of blood were received during the drive from donors mostly comprising of jawans from the 78th CRPF battalion, Zubza and other civilians.

Imsong observed that the specific objective of this year’s campaign was to thank blood donors across

the world and to create wider public awareness on the need for regular voluntary blood donors.

VDBAK celebrated its 10th year of existence in 2021 and in this regard, the association resolved to make a long-lasting impact on how blood donation was being carried out in the state and make efforts to reach out to more people.

Taking all these into account the app was developed, Imsong informed.

Imsong observed that people were “still reluctant to come forward while the demand for blood donation was high”.

H e, h oweve r, ex pressed hope that with the launch of the app, the awareness would increase.

In a brief remark, Indian Red Cross SocietyNagaland branch, general secretary, Dr Neiphi Kire said despite all the developments and modern scientific advancement in medical science, artificial blood could not be prepared in laboratories, factories or institutions.

It could only come from a human body and passed on through blood donations, he said.

Sharing some benefits of donating blood, Dr Kire said regular blood donation was linked to low blood pressure and lower the risk of heart attacks at the same time helps in reducing cardiovascular risks.

Kire also appealed to the state government to support the organisations such as blood donors’ organisations in strengthening and expanding their efforts to promote voluntary blood donations in the state.

VBDAK infor med that while they were yet to roll out the app for android platform, interested people would be able to access the blood donor directory at www.Nagalandblooddonors.com.

Challenges faced by PWH highlighted in Dimapur Celebrating WBDD & Hemophilia awareness, 50 blood donors from various organisations donated blood here, Tuesday at District Hospital (DH) Dimapur.

At the programme, Hemophilia Society Nagaland Chapter (HSNC) president, Rhonthungo Ezung highlighted the

Kohima team inspects check gates

the unauthorised check gates in and around the district to ensure that the laid down directive issued by the government was being strictly followed.

The team observed that no unauthorised check gates were found to be functional under the district and the instruction given on the removal of signboard at one particular location was also found to be removed during the inspection.

Meanwhile, at Khuzama interstate check gate, normal frisking Kohima inspection team at one of the check gates. (DIPR) and checking for any illegal form of DIMAPUR: Inspection team of additional SP, RTO, DPRO Kohima transportation is being carried out Kohima district conducted its second and police personnel. by the authorised police personnel round of inspection on June 13, led by According to a DIPR report, the keeping in line with the government’s ADC Kohima, Rhosietho including team carried out a spot verification of directives.

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WEATHER FORECAST JUNE 15

(Temperature in ºC)

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Agartala An afternoon thunderstorm

32 27

Aizawl

An afternoon thundershower

Guwahati A thunderstorm or two Imphal

Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

Itanagar Rain, heavy at times

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Shillong

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Showers and thunderstorms

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27 23

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Tuensang Mostly cloudy with t-storms

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gathering about the society and Hemophilia disorder.

Stating that there was less or no awareness on Hemophilia disorder in Nagaland, Ezung said hemophilia is a rare disorder in which the ability of the blood to clot is severely reduced, causing the sufferer to bleed severely from even a slight injury.

He said hemophilia are classified into two types: type A and type B and that it affects one out of every 20,000 males born worldwide, and both types A and B can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the number of clotting factors in the blood.

Highlighting the challenges faced by People with Hemophilia (PWH) in Nagaland, apart from other challenges, Ezung said it was difficult for PWH or families of PWH to obtain a hemophilia diagnosis report as it takes more than a week for the report to arrive as the test was sent out of the state.

He said so far, the society has identified ten PWH in Nagaland and added there might be many more people suffering, however, they were yet

to be identified registered with HSNC due to lack of awareness, medical support and care facilities.

Ezung said the society was making every effort to reach out, identify and register all PWH in Nagaland by creating awareness through print and social media campaigns, leaflet distribution, and other means.

He said the effort was to ensure that no PWH become disabled or die due to lack of “factor injection”, proper treatment and management.

Ezung stated that in India alone has over 70,000 registered patients with Hemophilia A and B (1 person in 10,000 males as per National data survey). He said Hemophilia Federation of India (HFI) was established in 1983 by families of PWH and other members of the medical fraternity.

During the blood donation drive e, significance of the day was delivered

by DHD blood bank incharge, Dr Temsu and the programme concluded with blood donation.

UCTE: Unity College of Teacher Education

(UCTE) and Zoe theatre school ministry, Dimapur presented street play at NRL petrol pump, near City Tower, New Market and Railway Station, Dimapur. Placards which read “Ek unit khoon pura teen jun laga life bachabo paribo”, “donating blood is an act of solidarity” and “of all the donor, blood donation is the highest” etc. were displayed during the act.

‘Spread more awareness to improve blood donation drives’ Deputy commissioner (DC) Zunheboto, Rahul Bhanudas Mali on Tuesday requested civil society organisations (CSOs) leaders and medical department to sensitise the public about the fear associated with blood donation and to spread more awareness towards improving blood donation drives.

A press release from the office of the chief medical officer (CMO) informed that the DC was speaking at WBDD programme organised by Green Club Zunheboto and District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit (DAPCU) Zunheboto in collaboration with

Public asked to report corruption

DIMAPUR: Nagaland police have appealed the general public to inform the CID, Nagaland on corruption practices, demand for bribe or disproportionate assets by public servants of state government, government of India, state and central public sector undertakings and banks.

In a public notice, the superintendent of police (crime) and PRO, PHQ and Manojkumar A informed that the complaint, if any, be addressed to officer-incharge, state crime police station, police headquarters,

Kohima, Nagaland.

Police also provided phone no. 6009308037 and email ID: statecrimeps-ngl@ gov.in for lodging complaints.

State police stated that tackling corruption was not just the responsibility of any single agency, but a collective responsibility.

In this regard, Nagaland police appealed to the public to report any corruption practices for necessary legal action under appropriate Section of Law. Police assured that the identity of the informant would be kept confidential.

A free Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) medical camp, headed by DIG (medical superintendent) ARCH Shokhuvi, Dr. Prasun Maiti was conducted at Shokhuvi village on June 7.

Farewell programmes for deputy commissioners, officers D I M A P U R : Va r i o u s districts across the state organised farewell programmes for outgoing deputy commissioners (DC) and other government officers at respective headquarters.

Kohima: Kohima district administration o r g a n i s e d a f a r ewe l l programme for its DC, Gregory Thejawelie and other administrative officers in the conference hall of the DC Kohima on Tuesday.

According to a DIPR report, Gregory in his farewell speech said whatever was implemented and achieved was because of the teamwork of each government officials, Angami Public Organisation (APO), KVC, AWO, AYO, ASU, KVYO and other stakeholders.

Gregory said the biggest challenge during his tenure was the pandemic and acknowledged senior SP Kohima, CMO Kohima and medical team, frontal organisations and district officers for extending towards tackling the COVID situation and containing the spread.

Gregory also thanked Angami Public Organisation and Kohima Village Council for taking the initiative

and intervention on road projects.

The DC also acknowledged KMC, KVYO, AYO, ASU in assisting with implementation of plastic free environment which he claimed witnessed “drastic change” in plastic waste management.

Meanwhile, outgoing revenue officer Kohima, Kelevituo Nisa, SDO (C) Kohima, R. Daniel Angami and EAC Kohima, Dziesengunuo Mere delivered farewell speeches.

On behalf of district head offices, CMO Ko h i m a , D r. Ve z o k holu Theyo expressed gratitude to the deputy commissioner. KMC administrator, Lanusenla and SDO (C) Kohima, Kevingutuo Kulnu also delivered speeches at the programme.

E a r l i e r, o u t g o ing ADC Kohima, N. Bhavani Sri read out a farewell message while district planning officer Kohima, Pudusul Luho on behalf of Kohima DPDB also spoke on the occasion.

Longleng: Longleng district bade farewell to its outgoing deputy commissioner Longleng, M. Shayung Phom by or-

ganising a farewell programme on June 10 at DC office complex.

According to a DIPR report, in his farewell speech, Shayung lauded the cooperation extended by churches, CSOs and NGOs to the district administration and the services rendered by government officers during the pandemic.

He further said the achievement of the district during his tenure was attributed to all the leaders and officers of the district as everyone worked as a team.

Mon: Hans Foundation team, Mon district organised a farewell programme for DC Mon, Thavaseelan K on June 11.

According to a DIPR report, deputy commissioner in his speech lauded the contribution of The Hans Foundation to the District.

He mentioned that a team of over 50, consisting of doctors, paramedic staff, social workers and drivers of the Mobile Medical Units launched in the district were taking basic health care to the people.

He highlighted that with construction of a new PHC in the border

Indian Red Cross SocietyZunheboto district branch at town hall Zunheboto as guest of honour.

Rahul also requested students to do blood grouping to know their particular blood group in case of emergency.

He further informed that district hospital blood bank was established and expressed hope that it would be a regular process once fully fledged.

Theme speaker, deputy CMO Zunheboto, Dr. K. Akaho Sema explained how blood donation was a simple and painless procedure and any healthy person between the ages 18-60 years could donate.

He said blood regenerates every time it was transfused and encouraged potential donors to come forward as there was no risk for a healthy person to donate blood and one could resume their day after donation.

At the programme, DA P C U d i s t r i c t p r o gramme officer, Hokishe Chophy highlighted the significant of the day. After the programme, the students took part in blood grouping test.

and remote village of Pessao and CHC Tizit by the Foundation, the health care delivery in the district will reach a new horizon.

Meanwhile, Hans Fo u n d a t i o n p r o g r a m manager, Kalyan Barua acknowledged the DC for his support in the endeavors of the Foundation and recalled the DC’s capabilities in managing administrative issues towards the development of the district and bringing constructive reforms to the healthcare sector.

Earlier, at Aboi, a farewell programme for outgoing ADC, Chumlamo Humtsoe was held on June 8, in the conference hall of the ADC, hosted by officers and staff of the office of ADC Aboi.

According to a DIPR report, the programme was attended by heads of offices, church leaders, NGOs, GBs, ward leaders, public leaders and well-wishers from various sections of the society.

The civil society organisations led by KNSK also felicitated the outgoing ADC for his contribution towards the development of Aboi town and sub-division.

Niuland: Niuland district bade farewell to

its outgoing DC, Ajit kumar Ver ma, ADC, Athrila S. Sangtam and SDO Civil, Anoka H Assumi on June 10 in the conference hall of DC, Niuland.

According to a DIPR report, in his speech, the DC acknowledged the role and support of the ADC and staffs in running the newly formed district and also encouraged the public leaders of the district to have a futuristic planning for the new district.

Peren: Peren district bade farewell to its outgoing DC Sentiwapang Aier on June 8 at a farewell programme held in the conference hall of DC Peren.

According to a DIPR report, various district level officers and leaders of civil societies organisations in their speeches expressed gratitude to the DC. They also described him as one of the most dedicated, efficient and humble administrative officers.

In his farewell speech, Sentiwapang termed his three-year stay in Peren as ver y challenging and exciting and acknowledged the administrative officers, HoDs and civil society

organisations for their cooperation.

Wo k h a : Wo k h a DPDB organised a farewell programme for outgoing administrative officers of Wokha district on June 9 in the conference hall of the DC Wokha.

According to a DIPR report, the farewell programme was organised for DC Wokha, Orenthung Lotha, ADC Lankonsen T Tsanglao, SDO (C) Chonpenthung Ezung and SDO (C) Wanmei Phom.

In his farewell speech, outgoing Wokha DC, Orenthung Lotha said it was a privilege to serve his own community and that he did his best to serve the people of the district.

The deputy commissioner also acknowledged the support and cooperation from departments, subordinate officers, NGOs and Hohos.

Meanwhile, District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) Wokha chairman and advisor for law and justice, Dr. Chumben Murry expressed gratitude to all the officers for their valuable services.

Other outgoing officers also spoke at the farewell programme.

CAKYO appeals for ILP office counters DIMAPUR: Chakhro Angami Kuda Youth Organisation (CAKYO) has appealed the state government to set up Inner Line Permit (ILP) office counters at all inter-state check gates or at any strategic location for issuance, renewal or checking of ILP instantly.

In a press release, CAKYO president, Ketoulelie Nagi and vice president, Sedevilie Angami highlighted the need for ILP office counters, manned by district administrative staff and police personnel stating that the very purpose of ILP was defeated if there was no “checking mechanism”.

While lauding the state government decision to close all check gates in the state except the inter-state check gates, CAKYO said the decision was a step towards a better Nagaland and a big relief to the common man.

CAKYO also urged the state government not to make any partial reconsideration of its May 19, 2022 notification as demanded by some major Dimapur-based frontal organisations.

Further, CAKYO has requested the competent authority to review the prices of all essential and non-essential commodities particularly in Dimapur and the state in general, though inflation in India was quite high.

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4 killed as heavy rains lash Guwahati

Flood in Guwahati railway station due to heavy downpour.

GUWAHATI, JUN 14 (PTI): Four people were killed in a massive landslide in Guwahati amid heavy rains that flooded the city, officials said on Tuesday.

A huge mass of land buried a house, in which there were four people, on a hillside in Nijarapar in Boragaon area, an official of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) told PTI. “The landslide happened around 1 am mainly due to incessant rains. No other person is trapped as of now,” ASDMA District Project Officer (Kamrup Metropolitan) Kaustav Talukdar said.

With this, the total number of persons losing their lives in this year’s flood and landslides has gone up to 42.

Talukdar said that landslides have been reported from another half a dozen places in the city, including Kamakhya, Kharghuli, Hengerabari, Silpukhuri and Chandmari Colony, but there were no casualties.

Incessant rains since Monday night led to kneedeep water on all major roads across the city, while at some places water levels have crossed the waist. The approach road of the Guwahati railway station was also submerged.

Scores of vehicles, including school buses, were stuck on the roads as their engines failed in the flood waters, which have also entered hundreds of houses in the ‘smart’ city.

Massive traffic jams were reported from many areas with vehicles stranded for several hours.

Flooding was reported from Zoo Road, RG Baruah Road, GS Road, Nabin Nagar, Anil Nagar, Hatigaon, Ganeshguri, Hedayetpur, MLA quarters in Dispur, Lachit Nagar, Tarun Nagar, Jyotikuchi, Ghoramara, VIP Road, Rajgarh Road, Jorabat and Chatribari, among others.

Residents of Nabin Nagar left their homes at night and came to the footpaths of Rajgarh in the heart of the city. They alleged that no one from the administration has reached out to them and all of them, including the kids, are without drinking water.

The Kamrup Metropolitan district administration has issued an advisory, asking people “not to venture out unless absolutely essential” in view of the incessant rains.

“If your residence is prone to water logging/ landslides, please consider shifting to a safer location or please contact District Administration at 1077/ 86381 12297,” it tweeted.

The Regional Meteorological Centre in Guwahati on Monday issued ‘Red Alert’ for Assam and Meghalaya and predicted up to “isolated extremely heavy rainfall” from Tuesday to Thursday. “...widespread/widespread rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm/ lightning/heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely to continue over Northeastern states during 13-17 June 2022,” the weather office said.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2022

MoS H&FW minister visits Manipur

Arunachal BJP slams Cong for protest against ED ITANAGAR, JUN 14 (PTI): The BJP in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday criticised the Congress for organising a ‘satyagraha march’ here to protest against the alleged misuse of the Enforcement Directorate by the NDA government at the Centre against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

The march was taken out on a day when Gandhi was questioned for over eight hours by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case probe linked to the National Herald newspaper.

The BJP slammed the Congress for accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP of misusing the agency to destroy an individual’s political career and the image of the grand old party.

“The case was filed

by Subramanian Swamy in 2013 and not by any of the BJP workers. The PM and the BJP have nothing to do with the case,” the saffron party’s state unit spokesperson Nabam Vivek told a press conference here.

He said that the party and the prime minister have nothing to do with the case as it was filed by an individual.

Union minister of state for Health & Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar inspecting healthcare infrastructure in aspirational Chandel district.

Correspondent IMPHAL, JUN 14: Union minister of state for health and family welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar on Tuesday paid a visit to aspirational Chandel district.

Being one of the 112 aspirational districts listed

by Niti Aayog, various developmental schemes in all sectors, including healthcare, were being taken up in the district by the Centre.

The Union minister who arrived at Imphal on Monday on her two-day visit in the state, was accompanied by state health and family welfare minister Dr S Ranjan Singh during the visit. The team reviewed the health schemes of the central government.

A ministerial team vis-

ited the Chandel district headquarters and held a meeting with district administration, DLO and health project partners at the conference hall at the DC office.

During the meeting, different primary and subsidiary health related issues were discussed.

Later, the ministerial team paid inspected different departments and wards of district hospital.

The Union minister also interacted with doctors, nurses, technicians and other staff members of the hospital. A tree plantation program was also organized in the hospital campus as a part of the visit.

Talking to the media, Dr Bharati said that the government, under the leadership of Prime Minister

Narendra Modi, has introduced many health care and welfare schemes for the people.

The government aimed to bring a high-quality health care system in the country.

Chandel district, being the only selected aspirational district in the state, will have the required infrastructures soon, she assured.

The Union minister said that she had instructed concerned officials and stakeholders to work sincerely for bringing a new change in the district.

State health and family welfare minister, Dr S Ranjan said that the vision of the present Prime Minister Narendra Modi for digitization of the health care system will be successfully achieved.

Govt schemes must reach all BJP scared of me, dare CBI, ED to touch me : Abhishek beneficiaries: Arunachal min Emphasising the necessity of undertaking field visits, Felix said that officials should not depend on beneficiaries to turn up.

Instead, they should make it a point to reach out to the beneficiaries.

He directed the Kurung Kumey DC to conduct review meetings every fortnight with the departmental heads and report its progress and achievements for the epragati meetings which are held every month by Chief Minister Pema Khandu.

The minister also urged departmental heads to involve panchayats in every beneficiary-oriented scheme.

Departmental heads and panchayats should open a communication line and cooperate in identifying and motivating eligible beneficiaries through field visits

and awareness initiatives, Felix said.

“Our effort should be towards making Kurung Kumey ‘Atma Nirbhar’ by meeting the aspirations and expectations of the people,” the minister said.

Participating in the meeting, National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) general manager Col. Prabhakar Kumar said that construction works under Package 3 to 6 of the Joram-Koloriang road, including bridges, would be completed by January 31, next year.

As for Package 7 and 8 which are facing unexpected hurdles in the form of sliding zones at various locations, Col Kumar said that they would be sorted out post-monsoon.

DeClArATIon

(rectification/Correction of name) Regd. No. 292/2022

Date: 27-05-2022

I, Smt. VEVOLU PURO, D/o KUVESU PURO resident of Old Ministers Hill Colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as follows:1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my actual and correct name is VEVOLU PURO however, in my Service Book my name has been recorded and entered as VEVOLU PUROH, Government Identity Card No. GONVEV 3880 as VEVOLÜ and GPF Account No. NL- MISC 4887 as VOVOLI. 3. That the above stated names VEVOLU PURO, VEVOLU PUROH, VEVOLÜ and VOVOLI represents to same and one person having single identity i.e. myself.

4. That henceforth I, herewith rectified the same and declares that my name is VEVOLU PURO and the same shall be use for all official and future references.

5. That the above paragraphs 1-4 are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing material has been stated or suppressed therein. And I signed this affidavit on this day the 27th May, 2022.

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ITANAGAR, JUN 14 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Home Minister Bamang Felix on Tuesday directed state government officials to ensure complete coverage of the flagship programmes of the Central and state governments.

Reviewing the implementation of the flagship programmes in his home constituency Nyapin in Kurung Kumey district, Felix expressed dissatisfaction over the low enrolment of eligible beneficiaries in a few schemes.

“Depriving eligible beneficiaries of their rights and benefits is a crime against humanity,” the minister said, directing all officers to undertake rectification measures and make progress, an official communiqué said here.

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AGARTALA, JUN 14(PTI): Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee Tuesday claimed that BJP is scared of him and dared the central investigative agencies ED and CBI to touch him “if they have the guts”.

Banerjee told a TMC election rally here that his wife was summoned

by CBI on Monday, a day before his visit here and he himself had been grilled by the central agencies twice spanning over 10 hours in Delhi. “What did they do? If you (the ED and CBI) have the guts, touch me,” he said.

Abhishek Banerjee “The BJP is scared of me. It will not be able to prevent TMC from entering Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya. Mamata Banerjee’s party will reinstall democracy in states where

democratic values have been scuttled,” he said.

The ED in investigating a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal against Abhishek Banerjee, while CBI questioned his wife Rujira in connection with a coal pilferage scam.

Lashing out at the BJPled government at the Centre, he said, “If it has the ED and CBI, we (TMC) have people’s support and in democracy people have the last say”. Continuing his tirade, he said “Trinamool Congress is like a DVD which can be heard and seen, while BJP

FELICITATION Through this column, the Chekiye Ghami Kiphimi Küqhakulu with immense pride and pleasure would like to convey our heartiest congratulations to all the successful candidates in the recently conducted HSLC & HSSLC examinations 2022, and wishes all the students a bright and an eventful career ahead.

The Union further urges the students who could not make it this year to not be discouraged but to have faith in oneself and strive harder to excel in the days to come.

Best wishes, Chekiye Ghami Kiphimi Küqhakulu

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is a audio system which can only be heard.” Banerjee said the saffron party had promised to provide two crore jobs each year and usher in ‘acche din’ in the country.

“It had assured that black money will be a thing of the past after demonetisation.

But has black money disappeared from the country?”

Banerjee, said.

reJoInDer

With reference to the news published in Nagaland Post dated 14th Nov. 2021 regarding the historic visitation of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Kikruma Village and the supportive assertion of some elders who are still sane and alive. I published that article on my own volition without the consent of the Village Council, Kikruma. I, therefore, deeply regret and apologize for my wrongs before the Village Council Kikruma. sd/(T. Puro) Kikruma village

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In The CourT of DIsTrICT AnD sessIons JuDge Mon : nAgAlAnD

suCCessIon CAse no. 17/2022

noTICe InvITIng ClAIMs/obJeCTIons Whereas an application under the Indian Succession Act 1925 has been filed by Smti Mola Easter P resident of Tobu Village for grant of Succession Certificate in respect of the family pension covered

by PPO. No................... and State Bank of India, Tobu bearing SBI Account No. 40938913371 of her Daughter Late H. Aching Konyak, Ex-Medical Attendant expired on 19/12/2021.

Notice is hereby issued that any person having an interest in the administration or operation of the family pension and the bank account of the deceased may file claims/objections or appear in the court of the undersigned in person within a period of 30 (Thirty) days from the date of publication of this notice. sd/DIsTrICT & sessIons JuDge Mon : nAgAlAnD DP-2890/22

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offICe of The DIreCTor generAl of PolICe nAgAlAnD ::: KohIMA

NO. PHQ/IGP/CID/299/2015-2022/445

Dated Kohima, the 14th June, 2022.

PublIC noTICe Nagaland Police appeals the general public to inform CID, Nagaland on corruption practices, demand for bribe or disproportionate assets by Public Servants of State Government, Govt. of India, State and Central Public Sector Undertakings, Banks.

The complaint if any be addressed to Officer-in-Charge, State Crime Police Station, Police Headquarters, Kohima, Nagaland.

The complaints may be reported on the following Mobile No. 6009308037 and email ID: statecrimeps-ngl@gov.in.

Stressing that tackling corruption is not just the responsibility of any single agency but a collective responsibility. Nagaland Police appeals the public to report any of the above forms of corruption practices for necessary legal action under appropriate Section of Law. The identity of the informant shall be kept confidential.

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(MAnoJKuMAr A) IPs superintendent of Police (Crime) & PRO, PHQ Nagaland, Kohima

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Cong leaders detained for protest as ED grills Rahul Bajrang Dal to hold nationwide protest

(From p-1) “I would only say to Rahul ji, you should first provide the right answers to the ED on the serious charges of corr uption made against you,” the BJP leader told reporters.

The Congress, however, accused the BJP of conspiring to defame the Gandhi family and the party by destroying their credibility through a “false” money laundering case being pursued by the Enforcement Directorate.

Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala claimed that the Centre is scared of Gandhi’s politics as he is raising issues concerning the public.

“This entire exercise is illegal, unconstitutional, malicious and an exercise by a prime minister burning in the fire of political vendetta,” Surjewala told a press conference here.

The Congress had alleged that its leaders were manhandled by police during Monday’s protest as they tried to walk to the ED office.

All approach roads leading to the agency office were made out of bounds on Tuesday for the public as prohibitory orders were imposed and barricades put up.

A large posse of police personnel including from the central anti-riot police force RAF and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed.

to different police stations.

Some leaders, including MPs, were not even allowed to enter the AICC headquarters and were taken away in police vans to different police stations. LS MP Manickam Tagore said he and some other leaders, including P L Punia, were not allowed to enter the Akbar Road party office and were detained at the

Mandir Marg police station. Among the other leaders detained were Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Gaurav Gogoi, Deepender Singh Hooda, Ranjeet Ranjan, Jeby Mather, Imran Pratapgarhi, Youth Congress chief B V Srinivas and NSUI chief Neeraj Kundan, with some of them even roughed up.

Gehlot questioned

the CBI, the IT department are used to suppress the voice of the opposition,” he said.

Venugopal said this is nothing but “political vendetta” by the Modi government, which is trying to defame the Congress leadership through “false cases”.

“They can imprison us but they cannot imprison the truth. The fight for truth shall go on,” he added.

This is the second day of the Congress’s protests against the questioning of Rahul Gandhi by the ED in a money-laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper.

The former Congress chief was questioned for over 10 hours on Monday.

The Congress has said it will not be cowed down by intimidatory tactics of arrests or “false” cases against its top leaders.

against violence over Prophet remarks

NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): Bajrang Dal activists will hold a nationwide protest this week against the recent incidents of violence in parts of the country over remarks against Prophet Mohammad, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) announced on Tuesday.

The RSS affiliate said its youth wing activists will hold a sit-in in district administration headquarters across the country on Thursday against the “growing extremist incidents by Islamic Jihadi fundamentalists”, and also submit a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind.

Protests erupted in several parts of the country, including outside Delhi’s Jama Masjid, on June 10 against the controversial remarks on Prophet Mo-

hammad by now-sacked BJP functionaries Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal.

In Jharkhand, some policemen were injured in a bid to control demonstrators, while authorities in Jammu imposed a curfew in a few areas. In parts of Uttar Pradesh, protesters pelted stones at the police, prompting the force to baton-charge them and use tear gas shells.

“Against the growing extremist incidents by Islamic Jihadi fundamentalists in the country, the VHP’s youth wing Bajrang Dal will now take to the streets,” the saffron outfit’s Secretary General Milind Parande said in a statement.

“Bajrang Dal activists will hold a sit-in across all district headquarters on Thursday against continuous attack on Hindus by the

Jihadi fundamentalists and submit a memorandum to the President,” he added.

Parande demanded that a strict vigil be kept at the mosques from where the mobs allegedly came out after Friday prayers and carried out violence in parts of the country on June 10.

“Those who instigated the mob should be arrested immediately and strict action be taken against them,” Parande demanded, adding, “Security of those being threatened be ensured.

Those threatening be arrested and criminal cases be filed against them.”

He demanded that authorities should also tighten the noose around Muslim outfits “like Jamiat Ulamai-Hind, mosques and people of jihadi mindset who are source of food and inspiration for such rioters”.

Former judges, lawyers want CJI to take suo motu cognizance of UP bulldozing C H EN NA I , J U N 1 4 (AGENCIES): A group of former judges of the Supreme Court, high courts and senior advocates have addressed the Chief Justice of India seeking to take suo motu cognizance of the recent acts in Uttar Pradesh of illegal detention of people protesting against objectionable comments made against Prophet Muhammad by former BJP spokespersons, bulldozing of their residences and police violence against them.

“The mettle of the judiciary is tested in such critical times. On many occasions, including in the recent past,

Justice N V Ramana

the judiciary has faced such challenges and emerged with distinction as the custodian of the rights of the people,” the representation said.

Some recent examples are the suo motu actions taken by the SC in the migrant workers matter and in the

Pegasus matter. “In the same spirit, and in its role as custodian of the Constitution, we therefore urge the SC to take immediate suo motu action to arrest the deteriorating law and order situation in UP, specifically involving the high-handedness of the police and state authorities, and the brutal clampdown on the fundamental rights of citizens,” it added.

The representation was signed by former SC judges Justice B Sudarshan Reddy, Justice V Gopala Gowda, Justice A K Ganguly, former Chief Justice of the Delhi HC Justice A P Shah, former judge of

the Madras HC Justice K Chandru, former judge of the Karnataka HC Justice Mohammed Anwar, senior advocates Shanti Bhushan, Indira Jaisingh, Chander Uday Singh, Sriram Panchu and Anand Grover and advocate Prashant Bhushan.

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Police detain Randeep Surjewala during a protest march outside the AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Tuesday. (PTI)

the ED summonses to Rahul Gandhi and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and their questioning in the case, which he claimed has nothing in it and is part of “vendetta”. The veteran Congress leader said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should instead focus on governance and not target opposition leaders.

Baghel described the ED action as a result of “political bias” and “malicious”. It is nothing but “political vendetta” and the case has no grounds for investigation, the Chhattisgarh chief minister said.

“The BJP government at the Centre should say whether any action has been taken against a leader of any pro-BJP party in the last eight years. The moment someone joins the BJP, all the cases against him get hushed up. The ED,

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NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): Several Congress leaders, including K C Venugopal and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, were detained for violating prohibitory orders outside the heavily barricaded party headquarters here on Tuesday, the second day of Rahul Gandhi being questioned by the ED. Ahead of his questioning by the ED on Tuesday, Gandhi joined senior party leaders at a “dharna” at the Congress headquarters, where the chief ministers of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh -Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel -- were also present.

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To weather the storms in life

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Pliable probe agencies

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case that has been hanging fire against the Gandhis- Sonia and Rahul- since 2012 when Subramaniam Swamy the maverick politician and close friend of late Rajiv Gandhi petitioned the court to order a probe on alleged fraud in acquisition of National Herald newspaper by Young India Ltd. The National Herald case involves loan given by the Congress to the party’s newspaper-National Herald- launched by Jawaharlal Nehru (in 1938). The newspaper ran aground due to debts totalling Rs.90 crore. In order to revive the NH newspaper, Young India Ltd (YIL) was set up in November 2010, in which Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi held a majority share of 76%. Motilal Vora held 24% and Oscar Fernandez held 12% of the shares in the company. The Congress who had originally lent money to AJL, assigned the debt to Young India Ltd which meant that AJL had to pay back Rs 90 crore to YIL. Since AJL was not in a position to repay the loans, the company transferred its shareholding to Gandhi-owned YIL for which they received Rs 50 lakh. Maverick politician Subramaniam Swami in his petition, accused the Gandhis with taking over a publicly-held company by merely paying Rs 50 lakh considering the company had real estate properties worth Rs 2000 crore. The timing of the summons on Sonia and Rahul is suspect as it comes at a time when the Modi government has taken a huge risk by drastically reducing recruitment of armed forces on the plea of saving on pensions. Sonia is undergoing treatment for her second Covid infection and issued with fresh summons. Rahul was grilled for nearly ten hours on Monday and again on Tuesday and will continue to be grilled on June 15. There are several ways with which the NH case can be viewed but what comes out is the conduct of central probe agencies notably the CBI, Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB), NIA, ECI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the recent years.

There is no second opinion, that if the Gandhis are found guilty they should face the consequences. Many political parties have slammed the abuse of central probe teams by the Modi government during the past several years. It is also undeniable that the central probe agencies only work when it involves non-BJP opposition and incapable to exercise probe powers against offenders if they belong to BJP. Current chief justice of the Supreme Court of India N.V.Ramana had expressed the need for India to have an independent umbrella institution with an oversight over agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), as the image of the institutions has been tarnished by allegations of corruption, excesses, lack of impartiality, and a close nexus with the political class. In a telling remark, Justice Ramana asserted that investigative agencies should not allow authoritarian tendencies to creep in the democratic Indian society and officers must remember that their allegiance “must be to the constitution and the rule of law, and not to any person.” The CJI’s remark is a brutal truth about how these agencies are being abused and used for witch hunt. However, it is also hoped the Supreme Court will intervene in the matter to save the sanctity of the law.

DailyDevotion Get Moving! (1)

Abide in Me… —John 15:4

In the matter of determination. The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by way of the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I then have to build my thinking patiently to bring it into perfect harmony with my Lord. God will not make me think like Jesus— I have to do it myself. I have to bring “every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). “Abide in Me”— in intellectual matters, in money matters, in every one of the matters that make human life what it is. Our lives are not made up of only one neatly confined area.

Am I preventing God from doing things in my circumstances by saying that it will only serve to hinder my fellowship with Him? How irrelevant and disrespectful that is! It does not matter what my circumstances are. I can be as much assured of abiding in Jesus in any one of them as I am in any prayer meeting. It is unnecessary to change and arrange my circumstances myself. Our Lord’s inner abiding was pure and unblemished. He was at home with God wherever His body was. He never chose His own circumstances, but was meek, submitting to His Father’s plans and directions for Him. Just think of how amazingly relaxed our Lord’s life was! But we tend to keep God at a fever pitch in our lives. We have none of the serenity of the life which is “hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).

Think of the things that take you out of the position of abiding in Christ. You say, “Yes, Lord, just a minute— I still have this to do. Yes, I will abide as soon as this is finished, or as soon as this week is over. It will be all right, Lord. I will abide then.” Get moving— begin to abide now.

In the initial stages it will be a continual effort to abide, but as you continue, it will become so much a part of your life that you will abide in Him without any conscious effort. Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. ~ J. Paul Getty

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The most important lesson in life is to have values

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ixty years ago, an American newspaper columnist wrote about how, as a child, he was terrified by thunder and lightning and would hide, trembling, in his bedroom wardrobe. But his mother would come for him and lead him by the hand down to the front porch, where the display of heavenly violence could be seen in full force. He wrote his masterpiece on the day his mother died. He captioned it “She Taught Me to Love the Storm.”

There she described the glory of a firmament that could produce these things, and spoke of what a privilege it was for puny man to have his life enriched by this power, even if there was danger in it.

Gradually the boy learned to love the storm. And all the things that make storms in life---controversy, reverses, criticism---no longer terrified him.

In this thermonuclear age when man-made lightning dwarfs the thunderbolts of nature, what greater gift can a parent leave to his child than the gift of courage? And to teach your child to live with lightning. A modern child today has no assurances of any safe places, bombs or no bombs, yet he/she has, compared to previous decades, a much better chance of a longer lifespan.

It is a time for vigorous and enthusiastic youth (not for sissies and whiners) for they will inherit and define the near future.

Role of Parents A parent these days needs to give the child a balanced diet of security and struggles. The child must have love but not the surfeiting love that smothers self-reliance. The child must feel the whip and goad of struggle, but not to the point where he/she is shattered by insecurity.

A good allowance, perhaps electronic gadgets like TV, PCs, Smartphone, motorbike/scooter even a Jeep or a car or SUV and the ever handy and simple mobile phone etc but more important is imbibing in the child a sense of values

like for example, the joy of earning, the great growingup lift of a reward for a job well done. This may include helping the family to resolve a problem, the understanding of work that would make him/her respect the fruits of the works of others. And of course, the inexpressible happiness that comes to a boy/girl who finds he/ she is being treated like a man/woman.

Too many parents are quick to back off when kids object or complain. They bail them out of tough spots and make excuses or give in when the going gets tough. Kids are long term investments, and parents have to stop making short terms decisions about them. Children must be encouraged in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding and creativity above examination results and material success.

A century ago, the first issue of Reader’s Digest, February 1922 featured in its lead article, American inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1920) and his belief that self-education is a lifelong affair: “The very first essential of any education is to observe. Observe!

Remember! Compare! It is the foundation of all education.”

For this, parents need to spend quality time with children at interesting places, use positive reinforcement to build self-esteem and foster love and togetherness. As novelist Phillip Pullman emphasized: “Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need food and fresh air and play.”

It is also a fact that youth in general whether school-going or not, are keen to learn more about their customs, traditions, even the laws of nature like day and night, sunlight, rain, lightning, thunderstorms, floods, time for planting and harvesting, what kind of birds fly where and why and when and how. The seedling stage is the most important phase of a plant’s lifespan.

Its process of growth takes

time and cannot be rushed.

Then gradually one can see the tip of the plant peeping out and then after a while it sprouts.

All the while, the gardener has to ensure it receives adequate water nourishment and plucking of weeds and pests that may hamper its growth and then weeks later it blooms. In similar way a child is nourished in its growth. So, “Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn.

If you don’t you are helping them to destroy themselves.” (Proverbs 19:18).

For character-building is the basis of every society.

When it comes to the essential basics, Guy Wright wrote in the San Francisco Examiner: “If you are a happy parent, you give your son or daughter an invaluable legacy. It doesn’t matter very much whether you’re rich or poor---although, let’s not delude ourselves, rich is better.

But if the choice is between happy-poor and unhappy rich, the children of a laughing pauper are the ones to envy. They will grow up with the expectation that life is good, that the world is a sunny and friendly place, that other people are as human and decent as they are, that it’s fun to be alive. And with that attitude, they can accomplish almost anything.”

As Dutch painter (1853-1890) Vincent van Gogh (pronounced Gok) used to motivate, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” And “Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.” --- Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031862), American poet, essayist and dramatist.

Meeting trouble when it comes In his anthology “Courage And Confidence,” Norman Vincent Peale writes: “It is inadvisable to go out, as they say, looking for trouble. For when you make it a point of looking for trouble, you

are pretty likely to find it. It will flow to you if it finds you hospitable to it.

“Trouble does come and sometimes it seems to come all at once and lots of it. So much and so true is that basic necessity of every human being is assuredly to know how to meet trouble if and when it comes.

“Since much trouble in life is self-manufactured, caused not by conditions or by other people but by ourselves, it is wise to condition the mind to the non-production of trouble.

Some people have more trouble than others simply because they do not shoot away from trouble. They think in terms of trouble, or they are careless, or their acts are not designed wisely, and they draw trouble to themselves.

“Others think positively and conduct themselves around with fortuitous circumstances in such a manner that they hedge themselves and literally beat back trouble. But there is no assurance that trouble will not enter into the life of every man. He must then have resources built into him over long days when things were fortuitous, when favorable winds and smooth seas were kind to the craft of his life.

“He who does not prepare for storms when no storms are indicated is lacking in the plain preparatory wisdom required by any rational person. The fact is that storms and troubles will come.

They may be delayed, even long delayed, but ultimately they will come. So, therefore one must buttress oneself inwardly, prepare oneself in the spirit, condition oneself in the mind, so that when trouble finally comes he or she will have the equipment and the resources with which to handle it constructively.”

Seven years ago in April 2015, Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal stated in YourStory.com, “Setbacks are part of life, you cannot wish them away. I think you have to deal with them so that you

The tyranny of the bulldozer

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riting in ‘The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child’, Robert Ingersoll, the 19th century American lawyer and satirist, identified two kinds of tyrants through the ages– the king and the priest. “All the altars and all the thrones have united to arrest the forward march of the human race.”

Two centuries later, in India, the altar and the throne have come together in one persona – that of Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, who, as Ingersoll said, has made sport and prey of human beings, his tyranny feeding upon the liberties of the people.

How else would one describe this use by ‘Maharaj-ji’ – his sobriquet -of bulldozers to raze the homes of so-called criminals in a democratic country where rule of law should prevail supreme? By elected leaders as well as the people in general. He has let loose a virtual reign of terror ungoverned by the diktats of democracy, the Constitution or the courts.

And while this might seem as an ideal solution to contain crime in the eyes of the king and the priest, in the hands of people like Yogi Adityanath it might be safe to presume the bulldozer will be used only to terrorise political rivals or destroy those the regime does not like, particularly the Muslim minorities.

For so far, even presuming the bulldozer is a deterrent, we have not seen its use against those criminals who aid and abet this tyrannical regime. This new tendency has the potential of giving birth to a whole new genre of criminals who will be closely connected with the ruling party and rogue policemen who will use the bulldozer indiscriminately to settle their own scores.

The common man will be a mere slave to their whims and subject to every injustice and brutality of those who wield such absolute power.

The bulldozer is not just razing homes of criminals, it is also crushing democracy and pulping the hopes of all law-abiding citizens in this country. The return of Adityanath to Uttar Pradesh despite his multiple violations of democratic norms and running one of the cruellest regimes in the country, has now encouraged others to resort to such tyrannical measures to cover up their own failures in governance.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently unleashed bulldozers on those who had hurled stones at a Ramnavmi procession and in the process brought down even homes built under Narendra Modi’s own Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.

Who is to say that other BJP chief ministers will not be encouraged by these examples and use their own bulldozers to crush political rivals in their states? Given that the BJP is ruling a majority of states in the country today the prospect is as monstrous and fearsome as it is alarming and disquieting for an India as we have always known it – we always had an honourable leadership, generous to a fault and respecting not just the masses but all the institutions and laws that made the nation, as Aristotle would say it, a generally happy place for all people.

But the very same Aristotle had warned that democracies had the potential to degenerate into despotism and that is what seems to be happening in India today.

The unwise choice of some people in one state has endangered the security of the whole nation and we must fight this tyranny of the despots with everything at our disposal, more particularly the creation of awareness among the people --that if the bulldozers have come for their neighbours today, they may well come for them tomorrow We cannot allow such tyranny of the democraticallyelected despots to destroy our basic freedoms and liberties.

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can come back stronger.”

The Holy Bible says God does not keep His child immune from trouble, no matter how real or intense the adversities may be….“I will be with him in trouble.” (Psalm 91:15).

Resilience of the human spirit In “Psychology Today” (Feb. 1972) by E.L. Quarantelli and Russell Dynes write: “Catastrophes has always been a basic ingredient of human dramas ranging from Old Testament epics to newspaper stories and secondrate films. Our strongest impressions of how people behave in the face of fire and flood come from such accounts……In the face of catastrophes, does man instinctively turn tail or stand his ground? Research reveals the reassuring truth……The reality of events suggests that human beings are amazingly controlled and resilient in the face of adversity. Perhaps heroism---not panic or shock---is the right word to describe their most common behaviour in time of disaster.”

An article headlined “A Feeling For Priorities” in Newsweek magazine of May 08, 1995, by American pilot Arnold Benson who flew a B-26 Martin Marauder before the final spring of the Second World War described how after his first bomb run over a target in Germany, he started to shake and gave the controls to his co-pilot.

He was 21 years old while his four other flight mates were even younger.

“A few minutes later,” he wrote, “I was all right and took back the controls.

Completing that mission taught me that, no matter how scared I am, I can handle anything while the crisis is right there, breathing on me. Afterwards I may blow sky-high---but that’s afterwards---and I learned one lesson: don’t panic.”

He adds, “A feeling for priorities, a sense of what not to choke about. It gave the rationale of all agony; if you can live through this minute---or hour or day

or week---maybe the next hour will be better. Sometimes, one develops an antenna to find funny aspects in the grim. That’s essential for survival----awareness of the ludicrous gives your boat buoyancy in any of life’s stormy crossings. I developed an undying appreciation for that everyday ongoing miracle, the resilience of the human spirit.”

Hope and courage “A community is not unlike an individual. Before it fully ripens and matures, it must drink deeply of the wine of life. It has to taste sorrow as well as joy, failure no less than success, and disappointment equally with rewards. It has to experience struggle and storm if it is fully to appreciate quiet and calm” --- Angus MacDonald, former Prime Minister of Nova Scotia.

Hope and courage banish fear. Almost from the beginning of recorded history, mankind has recognized that the surest antidote for fear is religious faith. Belief---and trust---in a personal God makes a man/woman bigger than himself/herself and stronger than himself/herself.

The life and times of many eminent men and women the world over are testimony to this. Whether our storms come as substantial obstacles in our lives, as emotional turmoil, or as mental stress, God will still our storms “to a whisper” and guide us to a place of worship (Psalm 107: 2930). But if you are weak in a crisis, you are weak indeed.

Therefore, in the hour of adversity be not without hope for crystal rains fall from black clouds. When the storm ends you might even see a rainbow which is a symbol, a sign of peace after the storm.

The mountain cedar is born in wind and sleet, and lives a long, long time, thanks to its tough core and clinging roots. Durable are the children who have been taught to love the storm.

Happy are the parents of the young mountain cedars.

Jack T. Chakhesang

Reader’s Post

Plight of an aggrieved pensioner

Sir,

Through this column I would like to bring to your notice about certain clarifications in regard to final payment of pension. That through an order dated 2nd June 2022 from the respected office of the Principal Accountant General (A&E), Indian Audit and Accounts Dept.

I have been informed of procuring an HBA (loan) of Rs 20,000. But as per my knowledge, I have not acquired any kind of loans, be it service/ personal for that matter. Upon enquiry, it has come to my knowledge that the same issue is also faced by individuals especially from the Police dept.

If I had acquired the same, it would reflect in the various accounts branch namely; accounts branch (7th NAP Bhandari), treasury department Dimapur, SBI Dimapur (main branch), personal bank account details and Housing department office, Kohima. For this matter, I personally request the concerned department to investigate for any of my signatures/initials for acquiring the HBA in my name.

If no valid documents or details can be established regarding this, then it is probable that there were clerical mistakes from certain sections in the housing department.

This is not a minor mistake since it concerns a whole lot numbering in hundreds. These kinds of clerical mistakes not only damage the credibility of the concerned department but also the individual’s faith in the department.

I would like to make myself clear that if any contradicting evidence surfaces, I am personally willing to deduct an amount of Rs 2 lakh instead of the mentioned amount of Rs 20k.

I would also like to mention that there are many families facing this same issue, and some of us have been waiting for our pensions since March 2020. It’s an endless struggle to meet our basic needs with no other source of income.

From pending education fees of children to putting a halt on medical bills, it is really a disheartening state. Therefore, on grounds that Nagaland being a Christian state, it is my fervent appeal to the concerned department and fellow Nagas for that matter to kindly not repeat these kinds of errors in future so that people don’t have to suffer the same issue we are going through at present.

Rtd. SI. OPL (NPTO) Rakhomo Lotha, (Rtd. from 7th NAP. Bn. Bhandari)

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.

PM Modi directs recruitment of 10 lakh people in next 1.5 years: PMO

Narendra Modi by the end of 18 months from now.

“PM Narendra Modi reviewed the status of Human Resources in all departments and ministries and instructed that recruitment of 10 lakh people be done by the Government in mission mode in next 1.5 years,” the PMO said in a tweet.

According to the latest annual report of the Department of Expenditure on Pay and Allowances, the total number of regular central government civilian employees in position (including in the Union territories) as on March 1, 2020 was 31.91 lakh as against the sanctioned strength of 40.78 lakh and approximately 21.75 per cent of the posts were vacant.

The report said almost

92 per cent of the total manpower is covered by five major ministries or departments -- railways, defence (civil), home affairs, posts and revenue. Of the total strength of 31.33 lakh (excluding the Union territories), the percentage share of the railways is 40.55, home affairs 30.5, defence (civil) 12.31, posts 5.66, revenue 3.26 and all other ministries and departments 7.72.

The total expenditure on pay and allowances (excluding productivity-linked bonus or ad-hoc bonus, honorarium, encashment of earned leave and travelling allowance) for the regular central government civilian employees, including the

employees of the Union territories and missions, was Rs 2,25,744.7 crore in 2019-20 as compared to Rs 2,08,960.17 crore in 2018-19.

According to the report, against the sanctioned strength of 10.16 lakh in central police forces, 9.05 lakh employees were in position as on March 1, 2020.

Government sources said various departments and ministries were asked to prepare the details of vacancies following Modi’s direction to this effect and the decision to recruit 10 lakh people was taken following an overall review.

During various Assembly polls, opposition parties have tried to corner the BJP over the issue of unemployment, but the saffron party has been successful in neutralising the criticism with its planks of welfarism, development and Hindutva.

It has also consistently refuted the opposition’s charge on unemployment, arguing that its various programmes have led to a rise in entrepreneurship and overall employment generation.

Process for appointment of CDS underway: Rajnath NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the appointment of the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) will be made soon and that the process for it is underway.

The post of CDS has been lying vacant since General Bipin Rawat’s death in a helicopter crash on December 8 last year.

“The appointment of the CDS will be made soon.

The process for it is underway,” the defence minister said during a media briefing here on the rollout of the “Agnipath” recruitment scheme for the armed forces.

Earlier this month, the government issued notifications, widening the selection pool for the top position.

According to the new rules, any serving or retired lieutenant general, air marshal and vice-admiral under the age of 62 years will be eligible for appointment to the post of CDS. The three-star officers are now eligible to become the CDS, along with the serving chiefs of the three services, according to the changes made to the Army, Air Force and Navy Acts.

Agnipath scheme for armed forces evokes mixed response from veterans

NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): Armed forces veterans have expressed mixed reaction to the Agnipath scheme under which soldiers will be recruited in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, largely on a short-term contractual basis, with an aim to cut the ballooning salary and pensions bill.

“The disastrous performance of the largely conscript Russian army in the Ukraine war reveals the pitfalls in having a partially or inadequately trained force fighting a determined enemy,” said Brig Rahul Bhonsle (retired) of the Security Risks consultancy in New Delhi. Besides Russia, he cautioned, can choose which wars it wants to fight and how it wants to fight them, but India cannot. It needs a ‘dedicated’ and well-trained army to deal with palpable threats from Pakistan and China in inhospitable terrain.

Lieutenant General (retired) Vinod Bhatia said the Agnipath scheme -also called the Tour of Duty scheme -- will sound the death knell for the armed forces.

“ToD (Tour of Duty)

not tested, no pilot project, straight implementation.

Will also lead to militarization of society, nearly 40,000 (75%) youth yearon-year back rejected and dejected without a job, semi trained in arms exAgniveers. Not a good idea. No one gains,” Bhatia wrote on Twitter.

The soldiers employed under the Agnipath scheme will be called Agniveers. The government said the Agniveers will serve in the armed forces for four years initially and 75 per cent of them will be retired at the end of the time period.

Group Captain (retired) Nitin Welde, who served in the Indian Air Force (IAF) for 22 years, said it is too early to criticise or appreciate the scheme.

Major General (retired) B S Dhanoa said while the scheme has been conceived and implemented with cost cutting in mind, it may turn out to be a catalyst to larger reforms needed in a 21st-century military.

“If our top brass and political leaders are capable of looking beyond

short term gains, we may still achieve a lot,” he wrote on Twitter.

Major General (retired) Yash Mor criticised the Agnipath scheme, stating that more than anything else, he feels for the lakhs of youngsters who had lost all hope of recruitment in the last two years.

“Service headquarters too appear to be reluctant to implement this,” Mor said in a tweet.

Major General (retired) Satbir Singh said the Agnipath scheme for the armed forces is not in keeping with the erstwhile military tradition, ethos, morals and values.

“It will adversely effect efficiency and effectiveness of military,” he added.

In his blog, Lieutenant General (retired) P R Shankar said, “Many senior veterans have written with the wisdom of their experience. A common voice has emerged. The tour of duty does not seem to be a good idea. Proceed with caution.”

Shankar said the Tour of Duty proposal expects a superman from a kindergarten student.

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NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked various government departments and ministries to undertake the recruitment of 10 lakh people on a “mission mode” in the next year and a half, his office said on Tuesday.

The direction from Modi came following a review of the status of human resources in all government departments and ministries, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.

The government’s decision comes amid the opposition’s frequent criticism of it on the issue of unemployment. A large number of vacant posts in different government sectors has often been flagged.

The decision to fill up 10 lakh posts in the next 18 months means that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will have something solid to counter the opposition’s criticism of its government on the issue of unemployment in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The country will be gearing up for the next general election, expected to be held in April-May in 2024,

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(From p-1) & Sons and Affluent Enterprises on February 24, 2014 and November 25, 2015 respectively.

He said the guest house had three dormitories, four VIP suites, nine single rooms, one conference hall, kitchen, waiting room and a mess hall.

Short speeches were also delivered by ENPO president Tsapikiu Sangtam and a representative of Eastern Nagaland Students’ Federation.

The programme was chaired by DUDA director Lithrongla Tongpi Rutsa and dedicatory prayer offered

by Rev Dr Anjo Keikung. Vote of thanks was delivered by DUDA additional director Dr. Anungla Imdong Phom and benediction was pronounced by Sangtam Baptist Church Dimapur pastor Rev. Thridong.

Other highlights of the programme included special song by Phangmei Yanlem Konyak and folk song by Tikhir Women Union Dimapur. Khiamniungan Cultural troupe Dimapur accorded a grand welcome to the dignitaries.

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institutes and national skills qualifications framework, among others.

The ministry said enrolment will be based on ‘All India All Class’.

It said the applications will be considered in a centralised manner based on objective criteria including performance during their four-year engagement period and up to 25 of each specific batch of ‘Agniveers’ will be enrolled in regular cadres of the armed forces.

It said the selection will be the exclusive jurisdiction of the armed forces.

Currently, the Army recruits young people under the short service commission for an initial tenure of 10 years which is extendable up to 14 years.

The scheme is aimed at slashing the salary and pension bills of the three services which have been increasing rapidly.

T h e d e f e n c e b u d ge t o f 5,25,166 crore for 2022-23 included Rs 1,19,696 crore for defence pensions. The allocation for revenue expenditure was Rs 2,33,000 crore.

The revenue expenditure includes expenses on payment of salaries and maintenance of establishments.

(From p-1) He said the merger of 21 NPF (out of 25) with NDPP on April 29, took place with foreknowledge of legal and political consequences after which the strength of NDPP has shot up to 42. Imchen claimed that the erstwhile NPF legislators in the true spirit of Naga regionalism were seriously pondering how the State’s regional forces could be brought together to facilitate the ongoing Naga peace process.

He claimed that after the merger, there was no further discussion of plans for merger of NDPP with NPF as reported. Alleging that certain individuals with vested interests were at play to bring about discord and confusion among the 42 NDPP MLAs, he said that this would not yield their desired result as the question of merging with did not arise.

NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): Gold prices in the national capital on Tuesday tumbled by Rs 547 to Rs 50,471 per 10 grams amid rupee appreciation, according to HDFC Securities.

In the previous trade, the precious metal settled at Rs 51,018 per 10 grams.

Silver also dipped by Rs 864 to Rs 59,874 per kg from Rs 60,738 per kg in the previous trade.

Staging a marginal recovery from its lifetime low, the rupee inched up 1 paisa to close at 78.03 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday.

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LOST NOTICE I, Limongthung t ezung, S/o Tsuphamo Ezung, am applying for duplicate copy of the following documents as I have lost them : 1. Class-VIII Pass Certificate 2. NBSE Registration Certificate 3. Class IX Pass Certificate 4. HSLC Admit Card 5. HSLC Marksheet 6. HSLC Pass Certificate bearing Roll No. 191601035 year 2019 Date of Brith : 18/05/2002 Contact : 6009147407 8132812809 DP-2897/22

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ever, added that the recruitment of women under the scheme will depend on the needs of the respective services.

Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said the IAF is looking to tap into the source of dynamic young people and it will train and expose them to the high-tech environment and hone their skills for future employment.

“The new scheme therefore gives the IAF an opportunity to draw from the vast pool of talent available in the country,” he said.

In a statement, the defence ministry said the scheme will enhance the youthful profile of the Armed Forces and provide a fresh lease of ‘Josh’ and ‘Jazba’ whilst at the same time bringing about a transformational shift towards a more tech savvy armed forces which it said is the need of the hour. It said the Agniveers would form a distinct rank in the armed forces, different from any other existing ranks.

The enrolment will be undertaken through an online centralised system for all three services with specialised rallies and campus interviews from recognised technical institutes such as industrial training

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(From p-1) Upon the completion of four years of service, based on organisational requirement and policies promulgated by the armed forces from time-to-time, ‘Agniveers’ will be offered an opportunity to apply for permanent enrolment in the armed forces.

“The new process will herald a paradigm shift in our recruitment process and will necessitate changes in the way we impart training to our recruits and soldiers, in enhancing their combat potential,” Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande said at the joint press briefing.

He said there will be “no compromise” on physical, medical and professional standards and parameters that were in place for recruitment of soldiers in the Army.

“I want to assure you that during the implementation and stabilisation of the Agnipath scheme, the Army’s operational capabilities and preparedness along the borders and the ability to deal with internal security challenges will be fully maintained,” he said.

Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar said women will also be inducted into armed forces under the new scheme. Officials, how-

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sertion of ours,” NSF said.

NSF stated that the younger generation of the Nagas trust in the Prime Minister’s statesmanship to ensure that lasting peace and justice was brought about in Naga homeland through his “strong political will of solving the protracted Indo-Naga political issue.”

NSF said Nagas also have the highest faith in him and hold on to his declaration to the international communities that the South-East Asia’s longest running conflict was brought to its logical conclusion.

The federation has, therefore, appealed to the Prime Minister to translate the declaration into reality. Claiming that various agencies of the government of India were playing “divisive role”, the NSF has appealed to the Prime Minister to “stop such elements from deepening the crisis which will only lead to a fall-out in the ongoing peace process”. NSF urged the Prime Minister to take direct control of the situation in letter and in spirit.

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rate will be 5.25 per cent as against 4.50 per cent.

“Premature penalty for bulk term deposits for all tenors will be 1 per cent. It will be applicable for all new deposits including renewals.

The revised rates of interest shall be made applicable to fresh deposits and renewals of maturing deposits,” SBI said.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had last week hiked the repo rate by 0.50 per cent to 4.90 per cent.

Repo is the short term lending rate RBI charges to the banks. SBI has also revised by up to 0.20 per cent the marginal cost of fund based lending rates (MCLR) with effect from June 15, 2022.

(From p-1) Further, the federation expressed apprehension that the “worst will happen” if the government of India failed to honour its commitment and exhibit its utmost sincerity by ensuring that the rights and dignity of the Naga People were upheld. NSF cautioned that the lack of commitment to “solve the problem in hand” would definitely prove counterproductive.

The federation has, therefore, reiterated its earlier stand that the Naga youth and students would “never accept an economic package based piecemeal solution”. NSF said Naga youth and students were “convinced that it is just another burnt cake with some fancy yet superficial icing on it.”

It stated that “such exercise will only eventually deepen the protracted Indo-Naga problem” rather than being the solution that the Naga people had long desired. “The failed agreements and accords of the past bear testimony to this as-

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interest rate will be higher by similar margin at 5.80 per cent.

On tenor of 2 years to less than 3 years, SBI has raised the interest rate to 5.35 per cent from 5.20 per cent, while senior citizens can earn 5.85 per cent as against 5.70 per cent earlier.

The lender has also revised the interest rates on domestic bulk term deposits of Rs 2 crore and above for select tenors by up to 0.75 per cent.

For tenors of 1 year to less than 2 years, customers having bulk deposits will earn interest at 4.75 per cent from 4 per cent earlier, with effect from June 14, 2022.

For senior citizens, the new

(From p-1) At present, he said that the inmates could not manufacture more products due the shortage of machineries as well as shortage of electricity at times.

However, NABARD chairman assured that they would try to provide more machineries to revamp the product. During his visit, the trained inmates demonstrated the entire process of manufacturing the pads including packaging, sealing after proper sterilization and readying for dispatch.

The trainees shared grievances related to power shortage and machineries The low-cost sanitary napkins made by the inmates will be sold at subsidised rates in the market which they tied up with an NGO. The profit earned would be put in the bank accounts of inmates to be used after their release, said jailor central jail Dimapur, Dr. Oben Yanthan.

He said that in a day the trainees manufacture seven to eight packets, which comes to around 200 packets a month. Dr. Yanthan also said that the one packet comprises of eight sanitary pads, which would be sold Rs. 30 per packet.

The jailor also highlighted about the various activities that were carried out to continue helping the prisons as well as supplementing the resources for reform and reintegration of inmates and their families in the society.

Amongst the many activities, he said that handicrafts were on high demand and that they have been manufacturing as per the demand of the customers. Earlier, AIG, prisons central jail Dimapur, Zuchamo Lotha received the NABARD chairman.

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NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): The country’s largest lender SBI has raised its deposit and lending rates following the Reserve Bank’s repo rate hike last week.

SBI said interest rates have been raised by 0.20 per cent on domestic term deposits of below Rs 2 crore for select tenors.

The revised interest rates on retail domestic term deposits (below Rs 2 crore) come into effect from June 14, 2022, State Bank of India (SBI) said on its website.

For deposits of 211 days to less than 1 year, the lender will offer interest rate at 4.60 per cent, as against 4.40 per cent earlier. Senior citizens will be offered an interest of 5.10 per cent as against 4.90 per cent earlier.

Likewise, for domestic term deposits of 1 year to less than 2 years, customers can earn interest of 5.30 per cent, up by 0.20 per cent. For senior citizens, the

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Critically-ill Musharraf may be brought back Bodies exhumed from mass grave in Ukraine from UAE in Pak Army air ambulance: Report

signs on the ground. The bodies, covered in cloth and dirt, attracted flies.

“Shots to the knees tell us that people were tortured,” Andriy Nebytov, head of the Kyiv regional police, said at the scene.

“The hands tied behind the back with tape say that people had been held

Congo military accuses Rwanda of invasion

File photo of M23 rebels

GOMA, JUN 14 (AP): Congo’s military accused Rwanda of “no less than an invasion” after M23 rebels captured a key town on Monday. The military vowed that Congolese forces would defend their homeland, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two Central African neighbors. The statement from Gen Sylvain Ekenge, spokesman for the military governor of North Kivu province, came hours after the town of Bunagana fell into the hands of the M23.

“The Rwandan defense forces have this time decided to violate ... our territorial integrity by occupying the border town of Bunagana,” the military said in a statement, adding that it constituted “no less than invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

There was no immediate reaction from the gov-

ernment of Rwanda, but the government there has strongly denied accusations over the years that is supports the Congolese rebel group. Many of the M23 fighters are Congolese ethnic Tutsis and Rwanda’s president is of Rwandan Tutsi descent.

In a statement Monday, a spokesman for the rebel group called on Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to open direct negotiations with them and said they seized the town only to make it safe enough for civilians to return after they fled recent violence.

“In the event of a new threat against our positions or the civilian population, our movement’s troops have received the order to follow and annihilate the threat no matter where it comes from,” M23 spokesman Willy Ngoma said in the statement.

(hostage) for a long time and (enemy forces) tried to get any information from them.” Since the withdrawal of Russian troops from the region at the end of March, the authorities say they have uncovered the bodies of 1,316 people, many in mass graves in the forest and elsewhere.

specify how many of the more than 12,000 were civilians and how many were military.

Complete information about the number of bodies in mass graves or elsewhere isn’t known, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the American Jewish Committee on Sunday. He cited the killings of two children who died with their parents in the basement of an apartment building in Mariupol in a Russian bombing. Zelenskyy, who is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust, asked: “Why is this happening in 2022? This is not the 1940s. How could mass killings, torture, burned cities, and filtration camps set up by the Russian military in the occupied territories resembling Nazi concentration camps come true?”

LAHORE, JUN 14 (PTI): Pakistan’s ex-military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, who is in a UAE hospital in a critical condition with no possibility of recovery, may be brought back to the country in an air ambulance as the Army stands by its former chief, a media report said on Tuesday.

Gen. Musharraf, 78, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, was charged with high treason and given a death sentence in 2019 for suspending the Constitution.

His death sentence was later suspended. The powerful military establishment has offered the family of the former president that it can facilitate the return of Gen. Musharraf if it wishes, Dunya TV reported. “The military contacted the family of Gen. Musharraf and offered

its help in his treatment and bringing him back home,” it said.

He may be brought back to the country in an air ambulance, the report said.

“A l l a r r a n ge m e n t s to bring Gen. Musharraf back to Pakistan (are) being made after family’s consent and doctors’ advice.

This includes the air ambulance… The institution (of the Army) stands by its ex-

Buddha’s relics from India installed at Mongolia

ULLANBATAAR, JUN 14 (PTI): Holy relics of Lord Buddha from India and Mongolia were on Tuesday ceremoniously installed at the Gandan Monastery here amidst prayers and Buddhist chants by monks on the auspicious occasion of the Mongolian Buddha Day. The four holy Kapilavastu relics, brought from India by a delegation led

by Union Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju, and other relics from Mongolia will remain on display at the Gandan for the Buddhist devotees to seek blessing until June 24.

Union Minister Rijiju, Mongolian Parliament Speaker Gombojav Zandanshatar, Khamba Nomun Khan of the Gandan monastery and a large number of monks among

other foreign dignitaries were present on the occasion.

“Day one of the Holy Buddha Relics exposition in Mongolia on the very auspicious occasion of Mongolian Buddha Day. On behalf of PM @narendramodi Ji and people of India I conveyed the Buddha Day greetings to the people of Mongolia,” Rijiju tweeted.

The four holy relics from India reached Mongolia on Monday. A 25-member delegation, led

by Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju, accompanied the sacred relics. The sacred relics were accorded highest Presidential status and received at Chinggis Khaan Airport

by Ch Nomin, Culture Minister of Mongolia, Saranchimeg, MP/Chair-

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WOKHA DISTRICT ENTREPRENEURS’ ASSOCIATION WOkha – 797111, NagalaNd

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The President and his colleagues cordially invites all entrepreneurs within Wokha district to attend its ‘8th foundation day’ on 15th June 2022, 1:00 PM at WDVCC & WDVDB Conference Hall on the theme “entrepreneurship, growth and avenues.”

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A 25-member delegation, led by Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju, accompanied the sacred relics.

person of India Mongolia Friendship Group, Khamba Nomun Khan and a large number of monks.

Rijiju said that he was carrying Buddha’s message of love and compassion.

“India is proud of its rich civilisation heritage and spiritual wisdom for world peace. I’m conveying

PM Narendra Modi’s best wishes to the loving people of Mongolia on the auspicious occasion of Buddha Purnima,” he said.

Rijiju said the historical relations between India and Mongolia will further strengthen with the arrival of Kapilvastu Relics in Mongolia.

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members wanting to go to China for resumption of work in all fields.

It is a big relief for hundreds of Indian professionals and their families who are stuck back home since 2020.

Last month, a number of Indian professionals based in China urged External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to press Beijing to allow their stranded families to return.

Besides the Indians, the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi said family members of Chinese citizens and foreigners with Chinese permanent residence permits going to China for family reunions or visiting relatives can apply for visas.

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The Nagaland Alumni of LDCE Ahmedabad, with immense pride and honour, extends heartiest congratulations to er. imtinusang longkumer on being promoted to Superintending Engineer, PWD (Mechanical), Government of Nagaland. The association further wishes him sound health and more success in his future endeavours. er. Pfutsulo thasou President

chief,” TV anchor Kamran Shahid said in a tweet. His family has confirmed that the ex-general is in hospital and his recovery is not possible. “Gen Musharraf has been hospitalised for the last three weeks due to a complication of his ailment (Amyloidosis). (He is) Going through a difficult stage where recovery is not possible and organs are malfunctioning.

China lifts two-year COVID visa ban on Indians

BEIJING, JUN 14 (PTI): China has announced plans to provide visas to Indian professionals and their families stranded in India for over two years following the strict visa restrictions imposed by Beijing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Separately, China is also processing requests of thousands of Indian students studying in Chinese universities who have conveyed their interest to re-join their colleges and universities.

On Monday, the Chinese Embassy in India updated its COVID-19 visa policy after over two years to accept visa applications of foreign nationals and their accompanying family

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The Office of the DME takes immense pride and joy, in congratulating the following:1. Dr. Chumben Murry (MLA) for being appointed as Advisor (Justice & Law) GoN. 2. Mr. Chumbenthung Murry on being promoted to SDO (Civil) 3. All the students who have successfully cleared HSLC & HSSLC Examinations 2022.

The Ekhung further prays that God Almighty grant them good health and wishes more success in their future endeavours.

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The Principal and staff of Rüzhükhrie Government Higher Secondary School, Kohima takes immense pleasure to congratulate all its students who have passed the HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2022 under NBSE. We convey our good wishes to all the successful candidates for their future endeavours.

We also extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss Medozenuo Kengurüsie for securing state highest mark in Philosophy subject.

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Pass Percentage HSlc – 66%, HSSlc (Arts)- 88 %, (Science) – 90%, (Commerce) – 100% Number of students scoring distinction in different subjects.

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The office of the Shokhuvi Village Council would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the medical staff of the Assam Rifles Composite Hospital (ARCH) headed by Dr. Prasun Maiti D.I.G (MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT) ARCH SHOKHUVI for conducting a one day free PMJAY medical camp on 07-06-2022 at Shokhuvi village.

The council takes cognizance of the ARCH medical staff for constantly bringing the spirit towards medical awareness and prioritizing the health of the people.

H. Vekuto Swu Shokhuvi Village Council Chairman

H. Ashito Yeptho Council Secretary

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The Wokha Town Mekokla Ekhung would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Zuchamo Yanthan, Associate Professor, Library Science & Information of School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi for his promotion to Professor. The Ekhung wishes him success in all his future endeavours.

The Ekhung further congratulates all the successful students of HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2022 and wishes them success in all their future endeavours.

(Rhonathung Kikon) (Eliyamo N Yanthan) Chairman, MEWT Info. Secretary, MEWT OfficE Of ThE

NihOTO VillagE STuDENTS’ uNiON Dimapur – 797112 : Nagaland Motto : “Wisdom Begets Light”

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With immense joy and pride, we the Nihoto Village Students’ Union whole heartedly congratulates all the successful students of HSLC and HSSLC. We would also like to acknowledge and congratulate the following subject distinction holders.

1. Miss Akivili Achumi (HSSLC) – English 2. Mr. Itsato Awomi (HSLC) – Alternative English 3. Mr. Sangmong (HSLC) – English 4. Mr. Renbonthung Ezung (HSLC) – Environmental Studies The Union would further like to congratulate Mr. Katoi Y. Yepthomi on his completion of B.Tech in Electrical Engineering.

We wish you all an enduring success and a bright future.

Sd/Kivika Achumi (President) NVSU

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A member of an extraction crew works during an exhumation at a mass grave near Bucha, Ukraine.

The horrors of Bucha shocked the world after Russian troops left. The mass grave that reporters saw Monday was just behind a trench dug out for a military vehicle. The bodies of seven civilians were retrieved.

Two of the bodies were found with their hands tied and gunshot wounds to the knees and the head, Nebytov said.

National police chief Igor Klimenko told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Monday that criminal investigations into the deaths of more than 12,000 Ukrainians included some found in mass graves. He said the mass killings of people also took place from snipers firing from tanks and armored personnel carriers. Bodies were found lying on streets and in their homes, as well as in mass graves. He didn’t

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BUCHA, JUN 14 (AP): The lush green beauty of a pine forest with singing birds contrasted with the violent deaths of newly discovered victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine, as workers exhumed bodies from another mass grave near the town of Bucha on Kyiv’s outskirts.

The hands of several victims were tied behind their backs. The gruesome work of digging up the remains coincided with the Ukrainian police chief ’s report that authorities have opened criminal investigations into the killings of more than 12,000 people since Russia’ invaded Ukraine on February 24.

Workers wearing white hazmat suits and masks used shovels to exhume bodies from the soil of the forest, marking each section with small yellow numbered

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n t h e o c c a s i o n Jungtijung, Musik-A School of “World Music & Hope Centre School of Day”, Indian Coun- Music & Arts. cil for Cultural Relations The event and the ar(ICCR), Guwahati Horizon series in association with Task Force for Music and Arts (TaFMA), Government of Nagaland will be organising a “World Music Day Concert” at Room03 Dimapur.

The concert will feature Imphal Talkies Band from Manipur, Alobo Naga & the band (ANTB) from Nagaland, Daniel Engty Band from Diphu & Lamphang Syiemlieh from Meghalaya.

The event will also feature young upcoming artistes like Gideon Kithan,

tistes for the evening is being curated and managed by Musik-A events of Nagaland.

Father’s Day Hamper curated by em2

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NOTIFICATION

In continuation to this Office Notification of even number dated 1st June, 2022, Corrigendum 2nd June, 2022, and in pursuance to Government approval NO. HTE/TE/812/2020 (PT)/412 dated 13th June, 2022 and as per the recommendation of the Committee for temporary engagement of the Lecturers & Demonstrators under Government Polytechnics, the result has been declared based on the merit of academic marks/ additional qualification, subject knowledge, interview marks shown as below: The selected candidates are informed to submit the acceptance letter to the office of the Directorate of Technical, Nagaland, Kohima on or before 30th June, 2022, 4: 30 PM. Failing to submit the same on time shall amount to cancellation of the selection and the same shall be replaced by the waiting list candidates.

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Kekhrieneizo Tetso

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Viriekhonuo Mere

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David Jamir

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Thejaseko R Kuotsu

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Alemchila Tsudir

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Sentilila Jamir

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Abigail Rengma

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Vimhavonu Thokhwe

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Ketusezo Rote

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Nourhetuonuo Christina Sote

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Vitseikuonuo Mere

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Rokongulu Lea

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olling Stones singer Mick Jagger is in quarantine in the Netherlands after testing positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday, adding the band will miss a second show on its “Stones Sixty” European tour.

Jagger experienced symptoms after arriving at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena and Monday’s performance was cancelled at the last minute.

A concert scheduled for Friday in Bern, Switzerland has been postponed to a later date, the band said in a statement.

A spokesperson said that Jagger, 78, was adhering to a 5-day quarantining period in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam was the fourth stop in the tour and followed an appearance in Liverpool on Thursday.

“The Stones Milan show on Tuesday, June 21 at San Siro Stadium goes ahead and will take place as scheduled,” a statement said.

(Reuters)

Joaquin Phoenix won best actor for his performance as Joker, aka Arthur Fleck; he’s also expected to reprise his performance, though his deal is not settled yet.

According to ‘Variety’, all other details about ‘Folie A Deux’ remain under wraps, so it’s unclear whether Gaga would also contribute any music to the project, but it’s a safe bet that it’s at least on the table.

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he Joaquin Phoenixstarrer ‘Joker 2’ - a sequel to the runaway 2019 hit film -- will be a musical for which singer Lady Gaga is in early talks.

She will be seen portraying Harley Quinn - Joker’s love interest and partner in madness, in the film, reports ‘Variety’.

Speculation that Harley Quinn would appear in the movie first bubbled to the surface after Phillips posted the cover of the screenplay to Instagram on June 7. ‘Variety’ states that the subtitle for the film, ‘Folie A Deux’, refers to a shared delusional disorder, and Joker’s only real companion -- other than Batman, anyway -- has been Quinn, a character first created for ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ in the early 1990s. Making ‘Joker 2’ a musical is another bold stroke by director Todd Phillips, who struck gold -- at the box office (with $1 billion in worldwide grosses) and the Oscars (with 12 nominations and two wins) -- when he reframed the Dark Knight’s number one villain as a loner anti-hero.

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ST. JOSEPH UNIVERSITY Virgin Town, Ikishe Model Village, Chomoukedima, Nagaland, India – 797115 Private University Established Under Nagaland Govt. Act No.6 of 2016: Recognized by UGC, Approved by AICTE

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A Candidate should possess Master’s Degree in the subject concerned from a recognized University, with a minimum of 55% (50% in the case of SC/ST Candidates) of marks for admission into Ph.D programmes.

Commencement of issue of Application Form at St. Joseph University Campus: 15th June 2022 to 06th July 2022 Submission of filled up application form at St. Joseph University Campus : 07th July 2022, 04.00 pm Entrance Examination (at SJU Campus only) : 13th July 2022, 09.30 am

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Website: http://stjosephuniv.edu.in

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Injured Murray withdraws from Queen’s C’ships

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Tovihoto Ayemi with organisers at the inaugural programme of MCPL. (NP) Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JUN 14 (NPN): The first Minority Cricket Premier League (MCPL) organised by Minority Samaj commenced here on Tuesday.

The league was organised in memory of late Partulaiji and late Bimla Devi Jain.Addressing the

gathering as special guest, advisor of Power, Tovihoto Ayemi acknowledged the organisers for organising the event, adding that such event would create unity and harmony, and also bring oneness among the minority community.

He further encouraged them to continue organising such events in

different forms of activities so that the Samaj can come together.

It can be noted that the league would continue for four days with the participation of 10 Samaj, namely, Brahman, Jain, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Muslim, Punjabi, Maheshwari, Agarwal, Bihari and Telegu samaj.

Chitravel sets new meet record in triple jump

C H E N NA I , J U N 1 4 (AGENCIES): Tamil Nadu triple jumper Praveen Chitravel set a new meet record of 17.18m at the ongoing National Inter-State Athletics Championships at the Praveen Chitravel Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium meet record was held by in Chennai on Tuesday.

Previous inter-state Punjab’s Arpinder Singh -

17.17m in Lucknow in 2014.

The effort, which came in his second attempt, means that Chitravel has qualified for upcoming World Championships in Oregon. The entry standard for worlds is 17.14m. Chitravel’s jump of 17.18m is third on the alltime India list.

LONDON, JUN 14 (REUTERS): Former world number one Andy Murray has been forced to withdraw from the Queen’s Club Championship in London after picking up an abdominal injury, the tournament’s organisers said on Monday.

Murray, a five-times champion at Queen’s who last won the title in 2016, suffered an abdominal injury during Sunday’s Stuttgart Open final loss to Italian Matteo Berrettini.

The 35-year-old Scot’s movements were restricted in the deciding set when he called for the physiotherapist twice and received treatment at court-side before finishing the match.

“The (Queen’s Club) tournament means a lot to me and it’s disappointing not to compete, especially after playing some good matches on grass already,” Murray said in a statement.

He last won a title on grass at Wimbledon in 2016 while his last ATP Tour triumph came in Antwerp in 2019. He has two weeks to recover before Wimbledon gets underway on June 27.

NBA Finals: Warriors beat Boston 104-94; go 3-2 up

SAN FRANCISCO, JUN 14 (AGENCIES): The Golden State Warriors are one win away from a seventh NBA title after Andrew Wiggins inspired his team to a 104-94 win over the Boston Celtics.

The Warriors lead the series 3-2 and can claim a fourth title in eight years with victory in game six of the best-of-seven contest in Boston on Thursday.

Wiggins led Golden State with 26 points while Klay Thompson added a further 21.

But Stephen Curry, who starred with 43 points in game four, missed all nine of his three-point attempts on Tuesday.

Curry had never before gone without a threepointer in 133 career playoff games, but Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said the player was “probably due a game like this”.

Wiggins’ performance comes 36 years after his father, Mitchell, came off the bench to lead the Houston Rockets to victory against the same opponents in game five of the 1986 NBA Finals.

“It’s an opportunity of a lifetime,” Wiggins

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DIMAPUR, JUN 14 (NPN): Department of Youth Resources & Sports has invited application from eligible candidates who won medals in recognized disciplines in the North East Level, National Level and International Level during April 2020March 2021.

Eligible candidates have been directed to submit their merit certificates through the concerned association for onward submission to the Directorate Office on or before July 10, 2022.

NEW DELHI, JUN 14 (PTI): The Indian Cricketers Association (ICA) on Tuesday expressed their “immense gratitude” towards BCCI for increasing the pension of former Test and first-class cricketers along with retired umpires.

BCCI has doubled the pension of former first-class and Test cricketers with those earning Rs 15,000 going up to Rs 30,000 and those with Rs 37,500 being upgraded to Rs 60,000 bracket. Those who received Rs 50,000 from now on will get Rs 70,000.

“The announcement by the BCCI yesterday has been very well received by our members, many of whom have benefitted with this move in these days of rising prices and falling interest income, all of which has become a world-wide phenomenon,” ICA stated in a media release.

Brdaric appointed Chennaiyin coach C H E N NA I , J U N 1 4 (IANS): Chennaiyin FC have appointed Thomas Brdaric as head coach ahead of the upcoming Indian Super League season.

In his most recent spell, the German coach led KF Vllaznia to the Albanian Cup for two successive seasons (2020-21 and 2021-22).

The team also finished runners-up in the Albanian Championship in the 202021 season. Brdaric was thereafter awarded Coach of the Year 2021.

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said. “It’s something I’ve But, as was the case Bucks, they now require worked hard for, some- in their Eastern semi-final back-to-back wins to trithing the team has worked against the Milwaukee umph. hard for, so I’m excited. I can’t wait.”

He added: “We’re OFFICE OF THE WOKHA TOWN MUNGYA UNION WOKHA : NAGALAND here and we’re hungry.

The team that wants it the FELICITATION most is going to get it, and we want it.”

Jayson Tatum scored a game-high 27 points for the Celtics, who had led the series 2-1.

OFFICE OF THE ZUKETSA STUDENTS’ UNION

YRS invites medal winners

ICA welcomes BCCI’s decision to double pension

Stephen Curry (30) celebrates after a three-point basket in game five of the 2022 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics at Chase Center. (USA TODAY Sports)

The Office of the Zuketsa Students’ Union takes immense pride in congratulating Ms. NEITELE THERIE, D/o Mr. Mhasizo & Mrs. Mary Therie, student of St. John’s School, Diphupar 'B' for securing Top 20th Position in the recently declared HSLC Examination 2022.

Further, the Union congratulates all the successful candidates of HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2022. The whole community and many beyond send their very best wishes for their future.

WEPRE W. WETSAH DIEKU WETSAH President, Zuketsa Students’ Union General Secretary, Zuketsa Students' Union

The Wokha Town Mungya Union, with immense joy and honour, convey our heartiest congratulations to one of our members, Mr. CHUNGCHOTHUNG M EZUNG, S/o Late Mhathung Ezung and Mrs. Rosemary Khuvung for securing the Top 9th position in Science Stream and Subject Topper in Mathematics with 100% marks at the HSSLC Examination 2022 and for securing the Second Award under Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics (PCM) category of the Governor’s Excellence Award in Science Study of HSSLC Examination 2022.

The Union further congratulates all its members who successfully cleared the HSLC & HSSLC Examinations 2022 and wishes them a bright future ahead.

BENATHUNG EZUNG Chairman, WTMU

MOSA NGULLIE Treasurer, WTMU

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KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA PEREN ICaR ReseaRCH COMPleX FOR NeH RegION Jalukie, Peren district, Pin- 797110, Nagaland kvkperen@gmail.com

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Nine Farmers producer Organizations (FpOs) have been formed under the centrally sponsored scheme “Central sector for formation and promotion of 10,000 Farmers Producers Organization (FPOs)” in peren district, Nagaland. The Board of directors (Bod’s) of these FpOs are looking for committed professionals to work on a contractual basis (3 years) to fill the following posts.

Chief executive Officers (CeO) (9 Positions) 1. Job profile: Responsible for overall operation and management of the FpO (legal and statutory compliances. FpO administration, human resource & financial and business management etc.). The CEO will be responsible for developing organizational and business goals, strategies, policies and set annual business targets of the FpO in consultation with the BOd. key deliverable of the CEO will be to establish a profitable business enterprise for the respective FpOs. 2. qualification: Graduate in Rural development/BBA/MSW or equivalent or diploma in agriculture/ agriculture marketing/ agri-business management or in such other reliable areas.

3. desirable: Minimum 3-years experience in the domain of rural livelihoods/marketing and business development, knowledge of computer. accountants (9 Positions) 1. Job Profile: Maintain and record daily business transactions, account bookkeeping, asset management, dealing with banks and prepare financial reports.

2. qualification: B.com or Higher Secondary with Mathematics as a compulsory subject or alternatively with commerce or accountancy background.

3. desirable: Minimum 1 year experience in accounting, knowledge of computer.

Job Posting: 1. Athibung Block, peren district.

2. Ngwalwa peren Block, peren district.

3. Nsong Tening Block, peren district.

4. Jalukie Block, peren district. salary: 1. CEO: Rs. 25,000 per month 2. Accountant: Rs. 10,000 per month application Procedures: Application addressed to the undersign should reach CBBO (FPO), kvk-Peren, ICaR RC for NeH Region, Nagaland Centre, Jalukie – 797110, Peren, Nagaland on or before 30th of June 2022 consisting of : a) Covering Note mentioning position applied for and Name of block. b) detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) with contact details, including Email address. c) All the Supporting documents.

“Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for next stage of the selection process”

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T20: India beat South Africa India rout Hong Kong 4-0; qualify for Asian Cup 3rd by 48 runs; stay alive in series KO L K ATA , J U N 1 4 (PTI): Told to hang up his boots after a medical condition, Anwar Ali’s persistence and optimism in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds paid rich dividends here on Tuesday.

Thanks to goals from Anwar, Sunil Chhetri -- he does that almost every other day -- Manvir Singh and Ishan Pandita, India capped off their historic AFC Asian Cup qualification campaign in style, sweeping aside a strong Hong Kong side 4-0 under heavy rains at the Salt Lake Stadium.

Igor Stimac’s side brought out its A game on a stormy night and started off with a blitz as Anwar (2nd) and Chhetri (45’) gave India a 2-0 lead.

It was then a tale of super subs as Manvir (85th) and Pandita (90+3rd) came off the bench to complete the rout and help India (nine points) top group D with three wins on the trot, ahead of Hong Kong (six).

The Blue Tigers raced to a 1-0 lead with the 21-year-old centreback Anwar scoring his maiden international goal four years after his career nearly ended on health grounds.

The 2017 Under-17 World Cup star, whose ca-

Indian forward Sunil Chhetri (11) and Fung Hing Wa (15) of Hong Kong vie for the ball, during the AFC Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers final round in Kolkata, Tuesday. (PTI)

reer had been put on hold after being diagnosed with a rare heart disease (Hypertrophic Myocardiopathy), scored from a short Ashique Kuruniyan corner with his right-footed strike into the top corner.

The versatile defender,

playing alongside Sandesh Jhingan, not only made his presence felt in the backline but also made some fluid moves up front.

The talismanic Chhetri doubled the lead just before the break from a 30-yard freekick to bring

Naga wrestlers to represent India Sindhu, Praneeth crash out of Indonesia Open

Nlumrai (L) and Keduovilie Zumu (NP) Correspondent

KO H I M A , J U N 1 4 (NPN): Naga wrestlers, Keduovilie Zumu and Nlumrai has been selected to represent India at the VI International Festival “Pearl of Kyrgyzstan” 2022 from June 15 to July 3, 2022, to be held at Issyk-Kul region, Issyk-Kul district, Chon-Sary-Oy village in Kyrgyzstan 2022.

The duo would be participating in the Belt Wrestling Alysh sport which would be conducted by the judiciary board approved by the Alysh Federation of the Kyrgyz Republic. Both

have been selected by All India Traditional Wrestling and Pankration Federation (AITWPF) to be part of the Indian Belt Wrestling Alysh team.

Nlumrai would be participating in the -80 Kg men while Keduovilie would be in the +80 Kg men. After receiving the invitation from AITWPF, Naga Wrestling Association president, Dr. Hiabe Zeliang, had earlier through a letter, given the consent to let the two players participate in the upcoming event and also wished them the best in their endeavours.

J A K A RTA , J U N 1 4 (PTI): Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu made a shock first round exit from the Indonesia Open Super 1000 event after suffering a straight-game defeat against China’s He Bing Jiao, here on Tuesday.

Seventh seed Sindhu lost 14-21 18-21 to Bing Jiao in the women’s singles.

Sindhu, a former world champion, has won two Super 300 titles -- the Syed Modi International and the Swiss Open -- this season. By virtue of this win, world No. 9 Bing Jiao, whom Sindhu had defeated at the Badminton Asia Championship, lead the Indian 10-8 on head-tohead record.

The defeat at the Istora Gelora Bung Karno has affected Sindhu’s preparations for the next month’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Also bowing out was B Sai Praneeth, who lost 16-21 19-21 to Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus of Denmark in the men’s singles.

up his fourth goal of the tournament.

Jeakson Singh floated in a brilliant freekick as the skipper controlled it brilliantly with a deft first touch before calmly slotting it home to notch his 84th international strike

e-auction resulting in INR 48,390 cr value. IPL is now the 2nd most valued sporting league in the world in terms of per match value!,” said Shah in his tweet.

“I am thrilled to announce that STAR INDIA wins India TV rights with their bid of Rs 23,575 crore. The bid is a direct testimony to the BCCI’s organizational capabilities despite two pandemic years.

“Viacom18 bags digital rights with its winning bid of Rs 23,758 cr. India has seen a digital revolution & the sector has endless potential. The digital

landscape has changed the way cricket is watched. It has been a big factor in the growth of the game & the Digital India vision,” he added.

The 33-year old Shah also thanked all the bidders for showing interest in securing the IPL media rights, adding that the board will utilise the revenue generated from the cash-rich league to strengthen our domestic cricket structure “I thank all the bidders for their active interest in securing the IPL Media Rights. As a key stakeholder, the BCCI will do

Indian players after defeating South Africa in the 3rd T20I on Tuesday.

V I S A K H A PAT NA M , JUN 14 (IANS): Harshal Patel’s impressive bowling (4/25) helped India (179/5) thrash South Africa by 48 runs in the third T20I and stay alive in the five-match series at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy stadium, here on Tuesday.

Quickfire fifties by Ruturaj Gaikwad (57 off 35) and Ishan Kishan (54 off 35) propelled India to 179/5 in 20 overs. Apart from Gaikwad and Kishan, Hardik Pandya (31 not out off 21) gave final flourish to Indian innings, after be-

ing invited to bat first. On the other hand, Dwaine Pretorius (2/29) was most successful bowler for Proteas while Keshav Maharaj (1/24), Kagiso Rabada (1/31) and Tabraiz Shamsi (1/36) also chipped in with one wicket each.

In reply, four Proteas batters -- Reeza Hendricks (23), Dwaine Pretorius (20), Heinrich Klaasen (29), Wayne Parnell (22 not out) got starts but couldn’t convert them to big innings. Indian bowlers kept picking wickets at regular intervals and eventually

bowled out South Africa for 131/10 in 19.1 overs, winning by 48 runs.

After Harshal, Yuzvendra Chahal (3/20) was India’s most successful bowler while Axar Patel (1/28) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/21) also contributed well with the ball.

Brief scores: India 179/5 in 20 Overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 57, Ishan Kishan 54; Dwaine Pretorius 2/29) won to South Africa 131/10 in 19.1 Overs (Heinrich Klaasen 29, Reeza Hendricks 23; Harshal Patel 4/25) by 48 runs.

Australia edge Peru on penalties to qualify for World Cup QATAR, JUN 14 (AP): Australia qualified for a fifth straight World Cup after a 5-4 penalty shootout win over Peru in their intercontinental playoff on Monday.

The teams failed to score in regulation and extra time at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, and goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne, sent on as a substitute for captain Mat Ryan in the dying seconds of extra time, proved to be the star for Australia by saving the last penalty from Alex Valera.

“I’m not a hero,” Redmayne said. “I just played my role like everyone else did tonight. I’m not going to take credit for this.”

Taking off established No. 1 Ryan for Redmayne, who had made just two previous international appearances, was a major gamble from Socceroos coach Graham Arnold.

Redmayne’s unconventional dancing and jumping along the goal-line with his aims and legs flailing as the Peru players stepped up, however, worked. “Andrew Redmayne is a very good penalty saver,” an emotional Arnold said in a post-match

IPL Media Rights: BCCI gets richer by Rs 48,390 cr MUMBAI, JUN 14 (IANS): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) earned Rs 48,390 crore after selling the Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights for the 20232027 cycle at the conclusion of three-day e-auction on Tuesday, during which Disney Star retained TV rights while Viacom18 bagged the digital property for the Indian subcontinent.

After the end of eauction, BCCI secretary Jay Shah informed about the winners of different packages and the respective amount for bagging the rights.

Disney Star retained TV rights (Package A) for 23,575 crore while Viacom18 bagged the digital property for 23,758 cr (Package B & C). Viacom 18 also got the rights for Aus, SA, UK regions in Package D while Times got the MENA and US. “Since its inception, the IPL has been synonymous with growth & today is a red-letter day for India Cricket, with Brand IPL touching a new high with

that saw him go level with Hungarian great Ferenc Puska in the chart for the all-time leading international scorers.

He also entered the top-five international goalscorers’ list.

The Indian icon is just two goals behind Argentine superstar Lionel Messi among active players list led by Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (117).

Late into the secondhalf it was Brandon Fernandes who initiated the move from the right and played a quick 1-2 with Roshan Singh before Manvir found the target.

On song, India attacked on the counter and a cross from the right from Manvir was converted by Pandita.

More than eight hours before their face-off, both the teams confirmed the Asian Cup Finals berth, courtesy Palestine’s 4-0 win over Philippines who were eliminated after finishing as the worst runners-up from the six groups.

Playing without any pressure, Stimac’s side made two bold changes by bringing in Sahal Abdul Samad and Udanta Singh in the starting XI in place of Liston Colaco and Manvir.

everything possible to help you realise the full value of your investments,” he said.

“The BCCI will utilize the revenue generated from IPL to strengthen our domestic cricket structure starting from grassroots, to boost infrastructure and spruce up facilities across India and enrich the overall cricket-watching experience.

“Now, it’s time for our state associations, IPL Franchises to work together with the IPL to enhance the fan experience and ensure that our biggest stakeholder ‘the cricket fan’ is well looked after and enjoys high quality cricket in world-class facilities,” he added.

Notably, Star IndiaDisney had earlier bought the IPL media rights for 2018-22 cycle, with a winning bid of Rs 16,347.50 crore for both TV and digital in September 2017.

Prior to that, Sony Pictures Network had the TV media rights for a period of 10 years since the inception of the tournament with a bid of Rs 8200 crore.

Australian players celebrate after winning in a penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2022 qualifying play-off in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Monday. (AP/PTI)

TV interview, explaining that he made the change to put a “bit of uncertainty into their brains, get into the mental aspect of Peru.”

Australia qualified the hard way in a campaign played mostly away because of travel restrictions in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, finishing third behind Saudi Arabia and Japan in their group in the last round

of qualifying and then beating United Arab Emirates in the Asian playoff last week.

“I’m just so proud of the players,” Arnold said.

“Really, no one knows what these boys have been through to get here. It was so hard, the whole campaign.

The way they’ve stuck at it.

The way they’ve committed themselves to it … incredible. Twenty World Cup

Serena gets wildcard entry for Wimbledon singles

Croatia end France’s Nations League hopes

LONDON, JUN 14 (AP): Serena Williams is going to play at Wimbledon this year, after all. The All England Club announced on Tuesday that Williams was awarded a wild-card entry for singles.

Williams has not competed anywhere since getting injured during the first set of her first-round match at the All England Club a year ago. And her name did not appear on the women’s singles entry list released by the grass-court Grand Slam tournament earlier this month.

But Williams was among six women given a spot in the singles draw on Tuesday, along with five British players: Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage, Sonay Kartal, Yuriko Miyazaki and Katie Swan.

Two other women will get invitations “in due course,” the All England Club said. Seven of the eight men’s wildcard berths were also announced, including one for three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka.

qualifiers, 16 away from home. It’s been tough, but we did it.”

The dramatic end followed two hours of little action. Australia finished regulation as the only team creating chances. Ajdin Hrustic, who scored the winning goal against the United Arab Emirates in the Asian playoff, had the first shot on target after 82 min-

utes, and went close again shortly after.

Peru substitute Edison Flores headed against the foot of Australia’s post early in the second period of extra time, but that was as close as 12,000 Peruvian fans in the stadium came to celebrating a goal and as close as either team went to breaking the deadlock.

“This is a very hard moment,” Peru goalkeeper Pedro Gallese said. “I had the dream of seeing our flag once again in the World Cup. “I am still proud of this team. Now we have to give them support, some teammates are really struggling now.

“Australia did its part and deserved it.”

The game drifted towards a shootout, where G a l l e s e s ave d M a r t i n Boyle’s opening spot kick.

Australia drew level when Luis Advincula hit the post.

Redmayne, with his distracting dance routine along the goal-line, saved from Valera, and the Socceroos clinched a spot in Qatar in November for their sixth overall World Cup appearance.

France’s Adrien Rabiot, left, duels for the ball with Croatia’s Lovro Majer during the UEFA Nations League soccer match, Monday. (AP/PTI)

L O N D O N, J U N 1 4 (AGENCIES): France’s hopes of retaining the Nations League title are over after a home defeat by Croatia which means they cannot reach next year’s finals. Luka Modric’s fifthminute penalty after Ibrahima Konate fouled Ante Budimir was the game’s only goal.

In Karim Benzema, Kylian Mbappe and Christopher Nkunku, France had three of the top four

scorers in Europe’s major leagues - but failed to find the net. Didier Deschamps’ side are bottom of Group A1 on two points from four games.

“It was a difficult month of June in terms of results. We did not have the energy and the strength against teams who had more than us,” said Deschamps. “We lost a bit of self-confidence along the way but it’s mostly freshness that we lacked. When

you play so many games it is very very hard.”

Denmark top the group on nine points - two points above Croatia - after a 2-0 win over Austria.

Jonas Wind scored from Joakim Maehle’s cutback and then set up Andreas Skov Olsen to slot home their second.

The final two rounds of games will be played in September with France hoping to avoid relegation to League B.

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