20 June 2022

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Too many cooks for solution

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NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (NPN): With Government of India renewing its efforts to resolve the vexed Naga political issue, highly placed sources confided to this Correspondent that there were impediments which have placed “hurdles” against arriving at an early solution.

These sources disclosed that the government of India has belatedly realised that years of going through the motion of consultations and negotiations without any tangible prospect for solution, was a lose-lose situation for both the Centre and the Naga people.

Having realised this, the union home ministry has refused to be made as the eventual scapegoat and blamed for delay in solution by allowing the Nagaland government to have an extended free run as facilitator.

Sources disclosed that the home ministry held the

view, that the series of consultative meetings convened by the state government over the years, with various Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) had little relevance for “early political solution.”

The sources said the Centre has noted that the Nagaland government especially all legislators’ fora and the latest being Core Committee on Naga Political Issue (CCoNPI) have not achieved any breakthrough in having the NSCN(I-M) on board.

The sources said, other than repeating and resolving on the same resolutions the government committees have consistently used the self-acclaimed role of “facilitator” as a red herring.

Nagaland BJP leaders - minister H&TE Temjen Imna Along and deputy chief minister Y. Patton-have dared to call a spade a spade in revealing the stand of the Centre over demands for flag and constitution.

The BJP leaders have asked the state government both within the assembly and outside, to tell the truth to Nagas about what has been stalling solution as the UDA government’s core committee continues to parrot the appeal on all Naga groups to “resume peace talks” and not to set preconditions.

The buzz around the corridors of North Block is that the Ministry of Home Affairs is no longer interested to listen to the same tune over and over again.

This was evident in the recent meetings held between union home minister Amit Shah and official delegation from Nagaland led by chief minister Neiphiu Rio, UDA chairman T.R. Zeliang; deputy chief minister Y. Patton and UDA co-chairman Kuzholuzo (Azo) Neinu.

In the meetings, sources said union home minister Amit Shah made no mention of the Naga political

issue but raised developmental issues with the Nagaland delegation.

Adding to the state government’s discomfiture, the union home ministry has roped in Assam BJP chief minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma and convenor of BJPled North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), to act as liaison between the Centre and the state.

Some legislators from Nagaland told this Correspondent, that involvement of Himanta with the Naga issue appeared to be another signal that the Centre is sending to Rio and Co that its (BJP) North East trouble shooter will be around.

Meanwhile, Centre’s representative for Naga political talks, AK Mishra recently held separate meetings with various Manipur and Arunachal Pradeshbased civil society organizations in Imphal and Guwahati.

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India logs 12,899 fresh Covid-19 cases

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (PTI): India on Sunday recorded 12,899 fresh C OV I D - 1 9 c a s e s t h a t pushed its infection tally to 4,32,96,692, while the number of active cases increased to 72,474, according to Union health ministry data.

The death toll climbed to 5,24,855 with 15 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

The active cases comprise 0.17 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.62 per cent, the health ministry said.

An increase of 4,366 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.89 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 2.50 per (Cont’d on p-8) cent, the ministry said.

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Good steps taken by govt get caught in colour of politics: PM NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (PTI): It is the country’s “misfortune” that many good things brought with good intentions get trapped in politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, as he cited development work undertaken by his government.

M o d i ’s c o m m e n t s about “good things brought with good intentions” getting trapped in politics also come at a time when his government’s Agnipath scheme, a radical overhaul of the process of soldiers’ recruitment in the armed forces, has triggered protests in different parts of the country.

Without mentioning the stir, Modi, during his speech after the inauguration of the Pragati Maidan main tunnel, said “it is the misfortune of our country that many good things, things done with good purpose, get caught in the color of

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politics”. Modi cited a number of initiatives, including Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways, more than doubling of metro tracks in Delhi-NCR and the DelhiMeerut highway among other projects, as steps taken by his government to solve the region’s problems.

“It is our country’s misfortune that many good things brought with good intentions get trapped in political colours. Media also gets dragged into it due to its TRP compulsions,” Modi said, adding that the construction of the Central

Vista project and the new Parliament building is going on at a fast pace now.

“India’s capital will be talked about in the coming days and every Indian will be proud,” he said.

Modi was referring to last year’s inauguration of the defence complex, which he noted earlier operated out of dilapidated hutments spread across a vast stretch of land near Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The central vista project, a massive revamp exercise in the heart of India’s seat of power, had drawn protests from a section of activists and opposition parties that went to court. The Pragati Maidan Integrated Transit Corridor had also faced some protests.

Even as the Opposition parties are demanding the roll back of Agnipath scheme, the ruling BJP has been strongly defending it.

No rollback of Agnipath recruitment scheme: Lt Gen Anil Puri DIET relocation: CWS announces 3rd phase

Lt. Gen Anil Puri and others at the press conference on Sunday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (AGENCIES): Amid protests and agitations against the newly-launched Agnipath recruitment scheme for the military, Lt Gen Anil Puri, Additional Secretary, Dept of Military Affairs, on Sunday clarified the scheme will be implemented and there is no question of a rollback. He also clarified

Heavy rain likely to continue in NE

DIMAPUR, JUN 19 (NPN): As the southwest monsoon continues to advance, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday issued a heavy rain warning for several states.

According to the weather department, the current spell of intense rain will continue over North East India and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim for the next 24 hours.

Thunderstorm activity accompanied by isolated heavy showers are also likely to continue throughout north, central and east India during next two to three days. According to IMD, widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to heavy rainfall is likely over the North East India and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

This is it!

“The arrest warrant against that fellow is no use; now that he’s joined the ruling party.”

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 Registration for first batch of to begin on June 24  Those involved in vandalism will be barred from joining

that all recruitment will be through the Agnipath scheme only.

Lt Gen Puri was addressing a joint military briefing on the Agnipath recruitment scheme with Air Marshal SK Jha, Vice Admiral Dinesh Tripathi, and LG C Bansi Ponnappa.

He also stated that the Agniveers would get the

same allowance in areas like Siachen and other areas which are applicable to the regular soldiers serving at present. “No discrimination against them in service conditions,” he added.

“Coming to the rollback of the scheme. Why should it be rolled back? It is the only progressive step to making the country young.

Why is it being made young?

We are tinkering with Desh ki Raksha (national security). There is no space. I will give you an example.

Do you know how many casualties are reported just for health purposes from high-altitude areas? Do read about it, then you would

come to know why being (sic) young is important,” the officer said.

Calling this reform ‘long-pending’, Lt Gen Puri said, “We want a mix of josh and hosh and that is why we wanted to reduce the age profile. The average age is 32 years at present and we want to reduce it as per the recommendations of the Kargil review committee and Arun Singh committee report,” Lt Gen Puri said.

Referring to the provisions of reservations in different ministries, Lt Gen Puri said that announcements were pre-planned and not in reaction to the arson and agitation which took

place after the Agnipath scheme announcement. He also clarified that all recruitment will be through the Agnipath scheme only.

He said around 17,600 people from the three services are taking premature retirement from the three services every year. “No one ever tried to ask them what they will do after retirement,” he stated.

No space for arson, vandalism in military: On the protests and acts of violence happening across the country, Lt General Puri said, “Indian Army’s foundation is discipline. No space for arson, vandalism.

stir from today; Tuensang bandh on June 21

DIMAPUR, JUN 19 (NPN): Chang Wedoshi Setshang (CWS) or Chang Students’ Conference has announced that it would continue with the indefinite agitation over relocation of District Institute for Education and Training (DIET) in Tuensang district.

Informing this in a press release, Chang Wedoshi Setshang president C Pongsu and general secretary Ebou Naset said that the apex student body of the Chang community would begin its third phase (Cont’d on p-8) of agitation from June 20

whereby a programme would be held at Tower Clock, Tuensang town at 9 a.m., followed by staging of protest outside the residences of the elected members from 10 to 12 noon. Thereafter, entire business establishments would be forced to shut down completely from 1 p.m.

On June 21, the student body said it would impose total bandh in Tuensang town from 8 a.m. till the government fulfilled its demand.

CWS said that the first

phase of agitation began on June 13 and the second phase from June 15.

Chang Wedoshi Setshang expressed regret that the State government had turned deaf ears towards the issue.

Further, claiming that this was not the first time that Tuensang district had suffered or was suffering to obtain due rights since the creation of Nagaland, the CWS said that it would not remain silent over the matter of deprivation regarding developmental opportunities of the district.

NLSF calls for speedy redressal of NASSA issue Groups call for Bharat Bandh today against DIMAPUR, JUN 19 (NPN): As the Nagaland Assembly Secretariat Staff Association (NASSA) has been protesting against the reappointment of Dr. PJ Antony as the principal secretary and arbitrary framing of certain provisions in the service rules, Nagaland Law Students’ Federation (NLSF) expressed dismay for conferring benefits on the retired officer at the cost of several regular employees.

NLSF demanded that justice should not only be done but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done as, in a vibrant, vigilant and vigorous de-

mocracy, there was no place for such miscarriage of justice.

The federation therefore appealed to the authorities concerned for speedy redressal of the issue in hand in the larger interest of NLA secretarial staff in particular and the State in general.

In a press note, NLSF said that creation/upgradation of the post in the State Assembly (NLA) Secretariat was devoid of reasonableness and a mere representation of undue anomalies, which had adversely misplaced regular serving employees of the department.

NLSF said the unwarranted accommodation of incumbent principal secretary was setting a bad precedent, adding that reasonable promotional opportunities should be available in every wing of public service.

While stating that the right to be considered for promotion was a fundamental right, it alleged that this very right of the serving employees under the concerned establishment was being strangled at the cost of accommodating the incumbent principal secretary.

In the backdrop of facts, NLSF noted that the

principal secretary was first brought on deputation for a period of five months to the post of secretary because of the indispensable situation which was “sine qua non” at that point of time.

But the federation said it was unable to comprehend the unreasonable approach of upgrading the post of secretary to the post of commissioner & secretary, which was made personnel, when the regular serving cadre had already fulfilled the eligibility criteria to head the administration and there was no further need to accommodate extraneous arrangement.

‘Agnipath’ scheme; several states on high alert

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (AGENCIES): As protests rage throughout the country, with rather lesser reported incidents on Sunday against the newly rolled out Agnipath recruitment scheme, several protestant groups have called for a Bharat Bandh on 20 June. Several states on Sunday tightened security in view of the reported call.

Haryana: Authorities will be deploying over 2,000 policemen across several pockets around Faridabad to ensure law and order in the city. As many as 12 police (Cont’d on p-8) blocks have been put up, and

videography will be done to keep an eye on anti-social elements.

Kerala: State police chief has said the entire force will be on duty to arrest anyone engaging in violence or destruction of public property. District police chiefs have been directed to prevent forced closure of businesses, and to provide security to institutions.

UP: Reiterating that Section 144 is already in place in the district, the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police warned FIR would be registered against anyone found engaged in activities

NSU announces ‘blanket ban’ on illegal timber operation, hunting

Sets June 30 deadline for village authority, loggers to end illegal activities

DIMAPUR, JUN 19 (NPN): Nkio Students’ Union (NSU) has announced a “blanket ban” on illegal timber operations and hunting of wildlife, especially for commercial purpose, within its territorial jurisdiction and set a deadline of June 30, 2022 for village authority and loggers to end all illegal activities in this regard.

Pursuance to its memo-

randum to Peren divisional forest officer (DFO) on May 19 this year and the DFO’s subsequent reply on May 28, the union in a recent meeting resolved to strictly prohibit the illegal extraction of timber, which had been practised for long within its territory.

According to NSU, the DFO in his reply had explicitly stated that there was no record of any person seeking permission for installation of sawmill nor at no point of time did it issue permit to anyone and that there was A saw-mill set up in the area. (Pics by NSU) no provision in Nagaland Tree Felling Regulation, Further, he had replied Nkio village, while the one 2017 for setting up a sawmill that there was no valid work- old working scheme in the in the name of a tree farm. ing scheme in operation at name Old Nkio Working

Scheme that was operational till 2018 had expired and no further extension had been issued from this office.

Also, there was no valid tree farm in Nkio jurisdiction at present and the only tree farm that was registered in 2019 in the name of Cheulak had expired and no further extension of tree farm nor permission for felling was given after that.

“The present status of the tree farm under Nkio village jurisdiction is nil and an update of the tree farm for verification and mapping is done. There is no question of tree harvesting to be done in Nkio village as there is no tree farm in existence since

2019-20,” the DFO had explicitly clarified.

Therefore, in light of the aforementioned facts provided by the Forest Department, NSU said it was clear that every timber operation carried out under Nkio jurisdiction was undisputedly illegal. It appealed to all illegal timber operators to abstain from playing underhand activities by establishing or sending man force (labourers), animal draughts, heavy types of machinery like heavy-duty lorry, excavators, saw machines, etc, to Nkio to continue interdict activities and robe the invaluable natural resources.

that violate the law. UP, too, has seen violence during the agitation.

Punjab: The ADGP (law and order) has directed the force to monitor activities of social media groups that were allegedly spreading misinformation about the initiative.

Jharkhand: Police have also been put on high alert in Jharkhand while schools will remain shut on Monday in view of the bandh called over the Agnipath recruitment scheme, officials said. The ongoing exams of classes 9 and 11 have also been postponed.

Assam flood death toll rises to 71, IMD issues orange alert

GUWAHATI, JUN 19 (AGENCIES): he flood situation in Assam deteriorated on Sunday with nine more persons, including three children, losing their lives and over 42 lakh people suffering across 31 districts, an official bulletin said.

According to ASDMA, six persons drowned and three were killed in landslides in different parts of the state, taking the death toll in this year’s flood and landslides to 71. At least 42,28,100 people are affected due to the floods, the bulletin (Cont’d on p-8) said. (Read more on p-4) K Y M C

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DC Chümou pitches for developing reading habit

remembrance of Lt. Kuosalhou Shuya, Head GB, Chümoukedima, a cash prize is to be given every year to the highest scorer in HSLC.He also thanked DC, Chümoukedima, and his wife for sponsoring a meritorious girl of class 11th from North Town Hr. Sec. School.

During the programme, cash prizes and certificates handed out to the HSLC and HSSLC toppers by CTSU and DC, Chümoukedima, Abhinav Shivam speaking at the felicitation cum career ANPSA. guidance seminar (DIPR).

bring change in the society and urged them to be responsible citizens.

Stressing on the importance of hard work and strong determination to excel and achieve dreams, Shivam encouraged the students to dream, follow their goals and march ahead with strong conviction and pursue what they firmly believe in as the future awaits those who endure hardships and challenges.

He also advised the students to have a routine

KBBB, ABAM hold CEM exchange programme

in life and also to include sports and hobbies in their daily routine.

Asserting that teachers play a pivotal role in the holistic development of the students, the DC urged the teachers to enable students to see dreams and motivate them to achieve their dreams.

Speaking on the topic,“Higher Education & Career Choices”,Manager, Training & Talent Management, YouthNet, Tsepila Zhimomi urged the stu-

dents to keep their vision big and develop skills as per their interests.

She said selecting purposeful goals and priorities has the power to put a person on track and on time in the journey to success and advised the students to select their goals with careful thought and planning.

CTSU president encouraged the students to continue their consistency and hard work as it was the only way to success.

He further informed that in

DIMAPUR: With an objective to capacitate and empower youths, a oneday workshop on Right to Information Act, 2005 was organised by Chid Friendly Dimapur (CFD) ANMA Integrated Development Association (AIDA) on June 18.

In a press release, AIDA informed that advocate, Elizabeth Thungchanbeni E Ezung, stated that RTI was based on the Preamble of India, the fundamental rights, fundamental duties and the directive

Youth participants at the workshop.

principle of state policy.

Pa r t i c i p a n t s we r e taught on formal procedures of filing RTI and were briefed on the four cardinal rights of the children as enshrined by United Nation’s Convention for the Rights

of the Child – “No Discrimination (Article 2), Best interest of the child (Article 3.1), Inherent Right to life, survival and development (Article 6), Respect for the view of the child (Article 12)”.

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY LT. KELENGUZO KUOTSU (Head G.B. Chümoukedima Town)

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KBBB and ABAM representatives after the programme on June 17.

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DIMAPUR: Underlying the importance of developing a lifetime reading habit, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Chümoukedima, Abhinav Shivam encouraged students to cultivate reading habit and prioritise reading.

According to DIPR report, the DC was speaking as a resource person at a felicitation cum career guidance seminar for HSLC and HSSLC successful candidates organised by Chümoukedima Town Students Union in collaboration with All Nagaland Private Schools Association (ANPSA)under the theme, “Building the Base”on June 18 at Chümoukedima Town Hall.

“Make reading a habit or priority, as reading helps to let you know more about life, and assess the problems and shortcomings.

It can improve one’s reactions, decision-making, and creative imagination,” said Shivam.

Stating that students are the future of tomorrow, the DC said students could

Workshop on RTI Act 2005 held

DIMAPUR: Konyak Bap- of ABAM CEM, staff, We loved you a lot but God loves you more that tist Bumeinok Bangjum KBBA CEM and Konyak He took you away from us for Eternal peace.

(KBBB) and Ao Bap- civil bodies.

Loving Wife, Daughter & Relatives tist Arogo Mungdang (ABAM) held a Clean Elecst tion Movement (CEM) exchange programme on June 17 at Impur, Mission Centre, ABAM. In a press release, ABAM infor med that during the introduction, ABAM executive secretary, Rev. Dr. Mar Pongener said “the dishonesty of our electioneering system” could only be obliterated by the practice of truth from the general public.

In this regard, he said the movement was a direction towards a public movement and that they all should work without any attrition.

Lt. Thepfuyietuoü Phewhuo In the keynote ad1949 – 20th June, 2021 dress, KBBA executive secretary, Rev. M. Che- “If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. myuh Konyak said that Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to God” Romans 14:8 election in Nagaland had -Loving Family Members dp-2908/22 d-1346/22 been “deteriorating Nagas in all corners.”

Stating that the livelihood was “under threat A year has passed but due to the lack of good governance”, Rev. Konyak the pain of losing you is stressed on the need for immeasurable, you had Nagas to elect God-fearing, touched countless lives visionary leaders with a in your lifetime, and even character, who loves nothafter your death you live March 14, 1961 -June 2, 2022 ing but to do justice.

He further said the through your good deeds, only way to elect good we hope you are living Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, leaders was to say no to well in the world of the I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. money, power and employ- creator.

Isaiah 41:10 ment promises.

Loving husband, children, Meanwhile, KBBC As we grieve the loss of our beloved wife and mother, we wish to sincerely acknowledge and thank everyone who Moanaro Longkumstür in-laws and grandchildren.

CEM convenor, C. Nyamreached out to us during her stay in hospitals and also when we mourned her loss. to and ABAM CEM conIn Remembrance venor Rev. Dr. Noklen Lkr We offer heartfelt gratitude to our supportive Families, Relatives and Friends for your constant prayers, visits and said that both the associations were determined on words of compassion throughout our difficult times. Thank you all for being there by our side to help support us working for a fair and clean and give us hope and strength. election at any cost.

“We will challenge the We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to Kukidolong Lotha Baptist Church, Kohima Lotha Baptist present political scenario by making this movement Church, Okotso Baptist Church, Shaki Baptist Church, Faith Harvest Church, Kohima and NCF, Guwahati a public movement”, they for all your kindness and prayers. added.

KBBB and ABAM Special thanks to Family, Friends, Youth and Panchayat of Lower Forest colony Kohima for all the help rendered pledged that adherence to NBCC calls on clean during her funeral. election would be strictly maintained and expressed Thank you all so much. Your kind gestures will always be held in grateful remembrance and we pray God’s richest determination to work toblessing on each one of you and your family. wards doing away with all the malpractices by sensitising member of the Loving Husband, Children and in-laws churches.

Nizokhono Nakhro The associations also 10th Death Anniversary pledged to disseminate the “Sadly missed along life’s way, quietly message of clean election , remembered every day. No longer in our life to share, in all corners of Nagaland. but in our hearts, you’re always there” The programme was .

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1 Remembrance Day

Died : 20.06.2021

We thought of you today, but that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday and days before that too.

We think of you in silence, we often speak your name.

All we have are memories and your picture in a frame.

Your memory is a keepsake from which we’ll never part.

God has you in His arms, we have you in our hearts.

Loving Wife, Children, Grandchildren, In-laws and Loved Ones.

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WEATHER FORECAST JUNE 20

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Tuensang A shower and t-storm; warmer 20 16 Wokha

Father’s Day celebrated across Nagaland

A shower and t-storm; warmer 25 21

Zunheboto A shower and t-storm; warmer 23 18

Kuki Baptist Church (KBC) Ahthibung celebrated Father’s Day with Tinghoilhing Lotha Baptist Church Diphupar Women group honouring the Fathers by presenting Grace Vaiphei wife o f KBAN executive secretary, Rev. David Vaiphei as the speaker. a special number. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Churches, families and organisations across Nagaland celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday honouring fatherhood and the roles fathers play in the lives of their children.

SFXCC: St Francis Xavier Catholic Church celebrated Father’s Day cum Body and Blood of Jesus Christ at Church premises with director of Eden Gardens and Children’s Home (pioneer of Jesuits Mission in North East India), Reverend Father Raymond D’Souza SJ as main celebrant.

In the introductory, Fr Raymond D’Douza SJ said fathers are the torchbearer and an integral member of a family. He said God

entrusted fathers to take care of their children and lead them in right path and in spiritual life.

The priest encouraged the gathered faithful to call out to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the time of necessity, difficulties and for the problems which could not able to share to men.

Fr Raymond D’Douza said the Eucharist offertory remembers the body and blood of Jesus Christ in his passion, death and resurrection. He said the body and blood turn in form of bread and wine to man and that those who eat and drink Jesus’ body and blood would live for ever. At the service, special number was presented by Kidima

LCD celebrate 50yrs in Dimapur

Chief guest Raju V Manwani and LCD members during lighting of Lamp. (NP) Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, JUN (NPN): Lions Club of Dimapur (LCD) observed 50 years of its charter here Sunday, at its centre in Dimapur with former international director, Lion Raju V Manwani as chief guest invitee.

Addressing the gathering, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dimapur Sachin Jaiswal lauded the club for their contribution towards the society through various activities and remarked

how an organisation could take the society and the state forward towards nation building. He also remembered the pioneers who contributed towards the formation of the club and later assured future collaborations on behalf of the district administration.

Speaking at the occasion, chief guest in his speech lauded and saluted the club for their immense contribution. He also highlighted about Lions club inter national covering

over 210 countries. He encouraged the gathering to be ready to learn and also focussed on proper management and utilisation of time. Manwani also talked about utilising social media as a platform to spread knowledge and create awareness.

Addressing the gathering, LCD president, lion Vikash Maheswari stated that the journey has been an amazing and immense given the pioneers have built a strong foundation.

Maheswari stated that LCD has done justice to its motto by conducting various activities in the state which would not have been made possible without the support of the citizens of Dimapur.

He informed that the motto this year for the club is “Rejuvenated and revitalize” for which he said that the club will continue to work for the progress of the people and thereby seek for everyone cooperation and support.

The programme was attended by all the Lion members, District governor Lion Rima Sharma Barwa and past district lion Lalita R Khandaria.

Catholic Youth Association, greetings from children and mothers were accorded.

Prayer of the faithful was offered, Eucharist and enchanting gloria, felicitations followed by community meal were the highlights of a daylong celebration.

KCCJ: First Father’s Day was celebrated at Kuki Christian Church Jalukie Town under the aegis of Kuki Christian Khangthah (KCK) honouring and appreciating the roles played by fathers and father figures.

KCC said during the service, the role of a father in their children’s lives was emphasised and the contribution of fathers to the society and their respective family was acknowledged.

A free medical camp was held after Father’s Day service at United Nagamese Baptist Church Neisatuo Colony, Dimapur. At the camp, Dr. Along C.Y, Dr. Anand Dilip Vakade, Dr. Beto Y. Yeptho from Eden medical Centre gave free consultation and medicines to all patients. More than 50 households from Neisatuo Colony attended the camp.

NEWS IN BRIEF DRSU inducts: Dimapur Rengma Students’ Union in its 20th general session-cum-induction programme on June 18 has inducted the new executive council for the tenure 2022-24 led by Thankeya Seb aspresident.

Dimapur police retrieve body: Dimapur police has informed that an unidentified dead body of a male (50-60 years approx.), wearing black long pants and rubber shoe, found lying near entry gate of railway station, Dimapur was retrieved on June 18. Police said inquest was conducted and on completion of all legal formalities, the body was shifted to District Hospital Dimapur morgue for postmortem examination. Claimant(s) of the deceased have been requested to contact officer-in-charge, GRPS Dimapur at 7085055021.

GBUD informs GBs: GB Union Dimapur (S) president, M Y Ngullie has informed all GBs to attend the fire safety training program for ward/colony/village leaders to be held on June 21, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. organised by Dimapur district administration at Dimapur District Sport Council stadium (DDSC), Ward No.2.

HA holds graduation ceremony: Hope Academy Dimapur celebrated graduation ceremony on June 18 for its first outgoing batch of grade 12 students at the school campus with Dr. Alongla P. Aier from Oriental Theological Seminary as the guest of honour.

RD blocks Kohima hold meeting: Officials of seven Rural Development (RD) block VDB unions under the aegis of Kohima District VDB Union (KDVDBU) comprising of Jakhama, Zubza, Kohima, Chiephobozou, Botsa, Tseminyu and Chunlikha held a meeting on June 14 at Zubza block and adopted various resolutions. A new team with bearers for the year 2022-2025 led by Roko Angami from Chiephobozou block as the president and Ruchuseng Kent from Tseminyu Block as general secretary were unanimously elected during the meeting.

3 NU KVK Zbto conducts input distribution prog DIMAPUR: An input distribution programme under the project Tribal Community Development was conducted by Nagaland University (NU) Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Zunheboto on June 17 at Lotsu Village under Sanis Block and Renthan Village under Bhandari block in Wokha district.

A press release by NU KVK Zunheboto stated that at Lotsu Village, principal scientist and head/ PI of the project, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaurasia gave an insight of the project and importance of the project with respect to improving productivity of crops and animals.

He also spoke on selection of right crops, its importance in its present context, cluster approach, storage methodology and selection of right farm implements to reduce drudgery among farming community. Chief guest, NU registrar, Dr. Abemo spoke on the importance of such programs and asked farmers to adopt new technologies which would help them to increase productivity of crops leading to increase in their income. At Renthan village, PI of the project gave an insight of the programme and importance of farm implements in improving productivity and reducing labour cost.

Trg on implementation of TOFEI in Peren

Dr. Chiekroshuyi Tetseo along with participants after the training programme on Saturday. (DIPR) DIMAPUR: One day training on implementation of Tobacco Free Educational Institutions (ToFEI) was organised by Peren District Tobacco Control Cell (DTCC) for teachers, police officers, district administration and district education officers on June 18 at District Hospital, Peren.

According to DIPR report, in aPowerPoint presentation, additional director and state nodal officer, NTCP, Dr. Chiekro-

shuyi Tetseo said it was the responsibility of the teachers and officers to keep their respective schools tobaccofree by engaging in the ToFEI activities initiated

by DTCC Peren.

He also demonstrated the use of the ToFEI application and urged the teachers’ representatives to take enrolment seriously as it was a very important means of striving toward tobacco-free institutions for the benefit of the students.

D TC C c o n s u l t a n t NTCP, Linoka Awomi briefed the participants on Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Product Act (COTPA) 2003, its objectives and its enforcement mechanism.

She also spoke on the mandator y display of signage in and around the premises of the educational institution. The programme was chaired

by DNO, NTCP Peren, Dr. Sabino Kuotsu.

‘Anaemia Mukt Bharat’ training for ASHA, teachers in Wokha H&FW Kiphire organises cleanliness drives

Resource persons Dr. Zuben Kikonand Dr. Chibenthung Kithan with the participants after the training on June 17.

DIMAPUR: One day “Anaemia Mukt Bharat” orientation training for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and government teachers of Wokha district was organK Y M C

ised by the department of Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Wokha on June 17 at Likya Community Hall, Wokha.

A press release by Chief Medical Officer

(CMO) Wokha office stated that resource person, deputy CMO Wokha, Dr. Zuben Kikon highlighted the trainees on the major health implications of anaemia.

He said lack of iron deficiency leads to anaemia which affects cognition power in children, result in still births and maternal deaths during pregnancy.

Dr. Kikon encouraged the government teachers to watch for signs and symptoms of anaemia among school students and emphasised on the importance of taking iron folic acid tablets in order to prevent the disease.

At the second session,senior medical officer, Humtso Primary Health Centre, Dr. Chibenthung Kithan said the training aims to reduce prevalence of anaemia in the district by imparting proper knowledge on anaemia to the ASHAs and teachers.

Dr. Kithan briefed the trainees on strategy to combat anaemia, prevalence rate of anaemia in the state, causes, diagnosis and risks of anaemia, advantages of taking iron folic supplementation for adolescent girls and pregnant women during the second session.

The training was attended by medical staffs and more than 230 participants from all the five blocks of the district.

Cleanliness drive being carried out at Kiphire.

DIMAPUR: As a preventive measure to contain various sicknesses that may arise during monsoon season, department of Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Kiphire in collaboration with the village councils and village health committees carried out village cleanliness & sanitation drive in various health units and villages on June 18.

A press release by Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Kiphire office stated that the health units took the lead towards the drive by mobilising the villages under their centres and along with the villagers the social work was carried out successfully.

The Accredited Social

Health Activists(ASHAs) also took active part during the cleanliness drive.

CMO Kiphire said almost all the health units

carried out the sanitation drive on the day with active participation from the healthcare workers and villagers.

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Several Northeast states reel under torrential rains

Villagers at a partially submerged flood relief camp in a flood-affected Commuters wade through a waterlogged street after heavy rains in Heavy rain has triggered landslides in several parts of Mizoram, area after heavy rains, in Nalbari district. (PTI) Agartala. (PTI) including the state capital Aizawl.

The flood situation in Assam deteriorated on Sunday with nine more persons, including three children, losing their lives and over 42 lakh people suffering across 31 districts, an official bulletin said.

According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), six persons drowned and three were killed in landslides in different parts of the state. Among those killed are three persons, including a child, in Cachar, two persons, including a child, in Barpeta, and one person each in Bajali, Kamrup, Karimganj and Udalguri districts, it added.

Besides, eight more people are missing across five districts, the bulletin said. With this, the total number of persons losing their lives in this year’s flood and landslides has gone up to 71. At least 42,28,100 people are affected due to the floods, the bulletin said.

Barpeta is the worst-hit district with over 12.76 lakh people suffering,

7th district in Assam under prohibitory orders within a week KOKRAJHAR (ASSAM), JUN 19 (PTI): Prohibitory orders were imposed on Kokrajhar on Sunday apprehending breach of law and order, making it the seventh district in Assam to be placed under such restrictions within a week, amid protests and agitations over various issues by political parties and other outfits.

The additional district magistrate has clamped the prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC on Kokrajhar in “view of the urgency in maintaining peace and tranquility in the district”, a government order said.

“It has been noticed that there is a possibility of occurrence of law and order situation due to activities of anti-social elements and agitational programmes of political

parties, students’ unions and other organisations,” the order maintained.

Assembly of five or more persons in any public places, processions, shouting of slogans, taking out rallies and organising melas without permission have been barred in the district for now, along with pillion riding and carrying and brandishing of weapons.

Earlier, prohibitors orders were brought into force in Charaideo, Sonitpur, Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi and Kamrup districts to check any law and order situation.

Re s t r i c t i o n s we r e imposed on Cachar and Karimganj on June 12 following violent protests in different parts of the country over controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammad by two former BJP leaders.

flood-hit areas.

Massive erosions were witnessed in Baksa, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhubri, Kamrup, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Majuli and Morigaon, among others.

Embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by flood waters in several districts. A total of 29,28,030 domestic animals and poultry have been affected in the deluge across 25 districts, the ASDMA said.

Quoting a Central Water Commission bulletin, the ASDMA said that the Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger marks at Neamatighat in Jorhat, Tezpur, Goalpara town and Dhubri town. Its tributaries Beki, Manas, Pagladiya, Puthimari, Kopili, and Subansiri are also flowing above danger levels.

Slight improvement in Tripura flood situation

The flood situation in Tripura improved marginally on Sunday with no fresh spell of heavy rainfall, even as one person was feared washed away in the gushing waters of river Katakhal, an official said.

The water level of river Haora, which had crossed the danger mark of 10.80 metres, inundating low-

lying areas of Agartala Municipal Corporation and its neighbourhood on Saturday, is now flowing below the warning limit (9.02 metres), he said.

Meanwhile, a person identified as Siraj Miah of Maylakhola under Sadar sub-division was reportedly washed away in the overflowing Katakhal river, a tributary of Haora, said the official of the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA).

“His body is yet to be recovered,” the official said.

Around 12,000 people have been rendered homeless due to the flash floods caused by Friday’s torrential rain in three districts, West Tripura, Unakoti and North Tripura, he said, adding, 45 relief camps have been set up.

In Sadar sub-division alone, over 11,000 people have been forced to take shelter in 42 camps, the SDMA official said.

He, however, said there has been no fresh spell of heavy rainfall since morning, and there is no forecast of downpour by the Met Department during the next 24 hours.

“Two NDRF teams are engaged in rescue operations in Sadar sub-division while personnel of the Army, Assam Rifles and CRPF have

Correspondent IMPHAL, JUN 19: Opposition Congress on Sunday accused the BJP government in Manipur for abusing power while evicting encroachers at a reserved forest areas in Thoubal district that rendered homeless to 69 families.

On last Sunday, as many as 69 ‘illegal’ houses constructed within Waithou Protected Reserved Forest of Thoubal district were demolished.

“The government gave only 24 hours to the encroachers. Can a family be shifted within such a short period? It is an abuse of power in hand,” MPCC president K Meghachandra said. A team of MPCC led

by Meghachandra paid a visit to the victims of the eviction who were rendered homeless and taking shelter at relief camps opened by lo-

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Manipur CM N Biren Singh flagging off a E-rickshaw roadshow in Imphal on Sunday. country and accused vested interest persons of misleading the people to protest against such a promising scheme of the Central government. The chief minister further mocked the opposition parties for protesting against the new scheme stating that it was the habit

Classes suspended in Mizoram schools for two days

The Mizoram government on Sunday asked all schools to suspend classes for the next two days in the wake of the heavy rain that had been battering the state over the past few days, triggering landslides and flooding thoroughfares and residential areas.

A notification issued by the school education department said that all schools -- from primary ones to those of the higher-secondary level – will remain shut on Monday and Tuesday to ensure that students are safe amid the inclement weather.

The decision was taken based on the suggestion of the state disaster department, it said.

The Met department has predicted torrential rain in the state in the next two days Meanwhile, officials said landslides have been reported from several parts of Mizoram, including state capital Aizawl.

Low-lying areas in Thenzawl

BJP govt abused power while eviction: Manipur Cong

MPCC team providing relief materials to victims of government recent eviction drive in Thoubal district. cal youth clubs and NGOs. Even as some of the homeless families were taking shelters in the houses of their close relatives, most of the families are currently staying at relief camps.

The MPCC team provided relief materials –foodgrains, daily needed items, water storage tanks, etc. to the families at the relief camps as a part of celebration of 52nd birthday of AICC leader Rahul Gandhi.

Talking to reporters, the MPCC president sought

befitting action against officials of the state government behind the issue of pattas to the reserved forest areas.

“Suspension from their services is not enough. Exemplary legal action should be taken up against them,” he demanded, alleging that the people were becoming victims of their corrupt practices. The MPCC president further demanded adequate compensation to the affected families to rehabilitate.

Even if they were illegal occupants, enough

Manipur CM lauds Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme IMPHAL, JUN 19: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh lauded the Central government’s ‘Agneepath’ scheme on Sunday and said that the state government will give priority to Agniveers in recruitment in the state forces.

Singh slammed the opposition for the massive protests across the country against the new scheme of the Centre, saying that the protests were being backed by them (opposition).

He said that the introduction of the Agneepath scheme by the Centre aimed to strengthen the Indian Army and also to instill patriotism in the youths of the nation.

He said thenew scheme will also impart employment to lakhs of youths of the

been put on alert in case of any urgent need,” he said.

Chief Minister Manik Saha had held a meeting with senior officials on Saturday to take stock of the flood situation.

of the opposition to make issue out of no issue and instigate people to protest.

He said, “It is the duty of the opposition to oppose any move of the government.”

“No one will be forced to join the scheme. There is no reason for agitating

against the scheme. Those who want, they can join and those who don’t want, they can skip,” he added.

Singh then alleged that those who were taking part in the protests and agitations did not know what the scheme was all about.

The chief minister was responding to queries from reporters on the sideline of a roadshow of E-rickshaw flagging off function in Imphal.

Singh flagged off the roadshow organized by ERickshaw Workers’ Union Manipur from Imphal’s Western gate of Kangla fort.

The objective of the roadshow was to make Imphal City free from hazardous emission, particulate matter, and all forms of pollutants and mitigate climate change and global warming, according to the organizers.

Speaking after flagging off the roadshow, the chief minister highlighted the importance of the programme and emphasized that mitigating climate change and global warming was the need of the hour.

He stressed on the need for voluntary involvement of everyone in conserving the environment by planting trees and using e-vehicles, among others.

He said that many people in the state had started using e-vehicles to control air and noise pollution and assured that the government would provide every possible support to e-rickshaw workers. He further requested banks to provide loans to those who want to start e-rickshaw service and appealed to the public to responsibly do their parts in conserving the environment.

time to vacate the place should be given. The government’s inhuman act has rendered them homeless.

They should be provided adequate compensation from the government side, he demanded.

During the visit to the relief camp at Lilong Haoreibi College at Lilong, the MPCC team provided food and other daily essentials besides water storage tanks.

The MPCC team also visited other relief camps set up at Waithou and heard their grievances.

Later, the MPCC president expressed strong dissatisfaction when he was told that no relief material was provided from the government side to them till date.

Stop pouring sympathy only on media and social media. Show physical sympathy by providing relief materials to the victims, the MPCC president said.

One OGW of NSCN-K (YA) held in Arunachal DIMAPUR, JUN 19 (NPN): Security forces in a joint operation with police apprehended one OGW of NSCN-K (YA) in general area Lower Chinghan Village, Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh on Jun 15 A press release by PRO, HQ IGAR (N) stated that based on a specific input, security forces in a joint operation with State Police apprehended one OGW of NSCN-K (YA) at Lower Chinghan Village, Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh.

The apprehended individual has been handed over to Laju Police Station, Tirap District for further investigation.

town of Serchhip district, around 90 km from Aizawl, and plantations on the banks of Khawthlangtuipui river in Lunglei district lay inundated as rainfall continues to pummel the state, along with other parts of the northeastern region.

Water from the swollen Tlawng river has also submerged crop fields in Sairang village, about 21 km from Aizawl, the officials said, adding that no casualty has been reported thus far.

16-year-old boy killed by landslide in Arunachal

A 16-year-old boy was killed in a massive landslide in Arunachal Pradesh’s Papum Pare district on Sunday, police said.

The landslide hit Yupia, the district headquarters, around 8 am.

The boy, identified as Rage Hilli, was riding a motorcycle and got buried in the debris, Papu Hills police station inspector O Ronang told PTI. His body was later retrieved from under the debris.

A couple, who was travelling in a car, had a narrow escape as the landslide struck the area, police said.

Hilli, a resident of MG village in Keyak circle of West Siang district, was known to be a promising boxer.

OFFICE OF THE

LONGJANG MEDEMSANGER PUTU MENDEN (Longjang Village Council) P.O Impur, BPO Longjang, Mokokchung Nagaland

Felicitation

The Longjang Medemsanger Putu Menden with immense ride and honor felicitates the successful candidates 1. The following students from Govt. High School Longjang who have cleared the HSLC exam 1. Maryangba Aier (ii) Lanutemsü (iii) Limasenla (iv) Niksuchila (v) Tsupongmenla (vi) Temjenmongla. The Longjang Putu Menden records its deepest appreciation for your achievement and also acknowledges the efforts of the Headmaster and the teachers for their efforts.

Further the Govt. High School Longjang has achieved 100% pass percentage for the 5 consecutive years for which the council feels elated and jubilant.

2. Ms. Meyasenla Longkumer, D/o Nungshitemjen Longkumer and Limasangla Aier for securing Top 13 position in the recently declared HSLC exam.

The Village Council also congratulates all those students who have successfully cleared the HSLC and HSSLC examinations 2022. It is our prayer that the Lord Almighty guides you in your future.

Sd/Sd/Chuba Jamir Alemtemjen Jamir Chairman Secretary Longjang Village Council Longjang Village Council

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Assam: Death toll rises to 71, IMD issues orange alert

followed by Darrang with nearly 3.94 lakh people affected and Nagaon with more than 3.64 lakh people hit by the deluge.

Massive landslides were reported from Cachar, Dima Hasao, Goalpara, Hailakandi, Kamrup Metropolitan and Karimganj.

Till Saturday, almost 31 lakh people were affected by the deluge across 27 districts of the state.

The weather office has issued an ‘Orange Alert’ for Monday, while a ‘Yellow Alert’ has been issued for Tuesday to Thursday.

“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 the next 48 hours and a decrease in rainfall intensity thereafter,” it said.

At present, 5,137 villages are under water and 1,07,370.43 hectares of crop areas have been damaged, the ASDMA said.

Authorities are running 1,147 relief camps and distribution centres in 27 districts, where 1,86,424 people, including 29,722 children, are taking shelter.

In the last 24 hours, 8,760 persons were rescued from various

OFFICE OF THE

MoaYiMti StaFF Union BPO : Longtho-798604, Nagaland

Motto: "For the advancement of people" Date: 18/06/2022

FELICITATION

With immense pride and honor we Moayimti Staff Aser Bedanglen Alir Telongjem (MSABAT) heartily congratulates on your incredible success and brings laurels for our union and village.

1. Dr. Imnuksungla, D/o Late Shijungtemjen Ph. D Social work (Project Associate Nagaland Education Project The Light House (NECTAR) 2. Dr. Senwatila, D/o Repamongba Medical Officer (AYUSH) AYUSH Health And Wellness Center Tzudikong Mokokchung 3. Dr. Putuinla, D/o Lanutemjen Medical officer (AYUSH) AYUSH Health And Wellness Center Asangma Mokokchung 4. Dr. Noksangrenla Jamir, D/o Lanukaba Jamir Medical Officer (AYUSH) AYUSH Health And Wellness Center Bayavu Kohima 5. Mr. Nungsangjungshi, S/o Rongsenmaktet Laboratory Technologist Under Health and Family Welfare. NSACS Chizami 6. Miss. Moasenla, D/o Tsuknungtemsu Community Health Officer. Community Health and Wellness Center Yangpi 7. Miss. Yarmongla, D/o Purkumzuk Staff Nurse (NHM) PHC Tzurangkong Mokokchung 8. Miss. Moluna, D/o Chubangangshi Graduate Teacher (Science) GHS Lirmen Mokokchung 9. Mr. Longjakrep S Jamir, S/o Satemkaba Asst. Teacher (Maths) Eklavya Model Residential School Diphupar. Dept: NEMRS,a registered Society under the aegis of Tribal Affairs 10. Mr. Ato Tzudir, S/o Tiaakum Clerk State Bank of India Main Branch Tuensang Further the union also congratulates all the successful candidates of the HSLC and HSSLC examinations. We wish them good life and pray for success in all their endeavours.

Sd/Sd/(K. ZULU TZUDIR) (TATONGTSUBA) President Secretary MSABAT MSABAT

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NORTHEAST, JUN 19 (PTI): While flood situaton remains grim in Assam, there has been some respite for Tripura and Meghalaya.

Agniveers as security guards, drivers: BJP leaders

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (AGENCIES/PTI): Amid, nationwide protests against the ‘Agnipath’ scheme for the armed forces, senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday said he would prefer recruiting ‘Agniveers’ as security guards at the party office, reports Times Now. Talking to reporters, the BJP leader said discipline and following orders are important parts of the armed forces.

“Suppose ‘Agniveer’ joins the armed forces at the age of 21 then he will still be 25 by the time he leaves the forces. He will have Rs. 11 lakh cash in his hand and will proudly flaunt the ‘Agniveer’ medal on his chest.

If I have to hire someone for the security for the BJP office here, I will give a preference to him,” the senior BJP leader said.

After his statement went viral, the BJP leader in a tweet blamed the “toolkit gang” for twisting and dis-

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Now we know what BJP’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidaar’ campaign meant: Cong’

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torting his remarks.

People associated with the toolkit are trying to insult the ‘Agniveer’ by distorting my statement and the nation is well aware of the conspiracies hatched by them, he added.

Reacting to his statement, Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said “our armed forces will also train for Agniveers to become security guards. This is trivialising the importance of our men in uniform.”

Earlier, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy had reportedly said that those who

will be recruited under the scheme will be trained with the skills of drivers, electricians, barbers and other professionals.

H i s r e m a r k i nv i t ed sharp reactions with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi saying that serving in the army is a prestigious profession with no parallel.

“These men are willing to kill or get killed for India.

If they wanted to be drivers, etc why would they spend 4 years in the army? It’s clear that BJP sees ‘Agniveers’ as nothing but chowkidaars on hire,” Owaisi tweeted.

The Congress on Sunday took a dig at the BJP over its leader Kailash Vijayvargiya’s remarks suggesting that he will give priority to ‘agniveers’ for security jobs at his party’s office, saying now “we know” what the BJP really meant when it launched the ‘Main Bhi Chowkidaar’ campaign in 2019.

Amid protests over the Agnipath scheme for recruitment into the armed forces, BJP general secretary Vijayvargiya said if he has to hire the services of professionals to arrange security at the party office, he would give priority to those who have served as Agniveer soldiers.

Tagging the screenshot of a media report on Vijayvargiya’s remarks, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “Now we know what the BJP really meant when they launched the

campaign in 2019, ‘Main Bhi Chowkidaar’...”

On its officical Twitter handle, the Madhya Congress said, “BJP general secretary insulting soldiers.

Agniveer will become a watchman outside the BJP office. Mr. Modi, this was the mentality we were afraid of - shameless government.”

Earlier, in another tweet, Ramesh took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Agnipath scheme, posting five mantras of ‘Modi path’.

He said the angr y farmers and angry soldiers had become India’s new identity.

Ramesh also said the government first announces a measure and then gets into a huddle to resolve issues arising out of it.

He also accused the government of selling the country’s prized possessions.

Understand our frustration: Army job aspirants in Bihar

PATNA, JUN 19 (PTI): Angry job aspirants, who have hit the streets in Bihar to protest against the Centre’s newly introduced ‘Agnipath’ scheme, said their dreams of joining the armed forces have been shattered with the announcement of the short-term contractual recruitment programme and urged the government to realise why job seekers are frustrated with it.

The Centre must understand the pain that the unemployed youths of the country are going through, said Vikas Ranjan, one of the hundreds of job aspirants who have been demonstrating against the scheme.

Ranjan, a graduate of Patna College, also alleged that the short-term contractual employment programme is “nothing but a design to destroy permanent jobs in the armed forces”.

“When Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks about ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ (self

reliant India), will this Agnipath help army job aspirants to become self-reliant?

Protests are taking place not only in Bihar but almost in all states of the country,” Ranjan, who has been preparing for the competitive exams for the last seven months, told PTI. The government had on June 14 unveiled the “transformative” scheme --’Agnipath’-- for the recruitment of soldiers in the Army, Navy and the Air Force largely on a four-year contractual basis, in a major overhaul of the decades-old selection process to bring in fitter and younger troops to deal with future security challenges facing the nation.

It also said the programme would allow “patriotic and motivated” youths to serve in the armed forces for four years.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had on Tuesday said this scheme has been brought to strengthen the security of the country.

Don’t celebrate my birthday: Rahul to party workers NEW DELHI, JUNE 19 (IANS): Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who turned 52 on Sunday, has asked his supporters to refrain from celebrating his birthday as the youth are “sad”. The appeal comes in backdrop of wide protest against the Centre’s “Agnipath” scheme for the recruitment in the Armed Forces. In an appeal, he said, “I appeal to all Congress workers and my well wishers across the country not to hold any kind of celebrations on the occasion of my birthday.”

Rahul Gandhi, born on June 19, 1970, is in his fourth term as Lok Sabha MP -- thrice from Amethi (2004 ,2009 and 2014) and currently from Wayanad.

He lost from Amethi in 2019. The Congress on Sunday will hold a “Satyagrah” against the Agnipath scheme at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

If you don’t like ‘Agnipath’ scheme Congress holds Satyagraha against Agnipath in New Delhi don’t join armed forces: V K Singh

V K Singh

Replying to a question over Priyanka Gandhi’s statement made earlier in the day in Delhi that the Agnipath scheme will destroy the youth as well as the army, Singh said, “Congress is upset because Rahul Gandhi is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Hence, the party finds fault with even the best of the best work of the government.”

“The Opposition, particularly the Congress, is trying to mislead the youngsters. The only work that the Opposition is left with is to criticise and stop any government schemes. They want to create unrest in the country to defame the government,” he said.

The Agnipath scheme, announced on June 14, provides for the recruitment of youths in the age bracket of 17-and-half to 21 years for only four years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years.

Later, the government extended the upper age limit to 23 years for recruitment in 2022. However, massive protests have erupted in many states, including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, with youths taking to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the scheme.

Anyone involved in protests, arson and vandalism against the Agnipath scheme would not be allowed to join the three services under the new recruitment model, a senior military official had said on Sunday.

Singh said the concept of the ‘Agnipath’ scheme was conceived when the Kargil Committee was formed after the 1999 war.

“The primary idea was that a soldier can join the armed forces for a short period....which will solve two things,” he said in an apparent reference to the demand for compulsory military training in India and maintaining the young age profile of the armed forces. Singh said the demand for compulsory military training for the youth and other citizens of India had been made for the last 30 to 40 years.

“In the past, it was said that the training can be imparted through the NCC but the demand for military training was always there,” he added.

After ‘destroying’ economy, Modi govt ‘playing’ with national security: Owaisi RANCHI, JUN 19 (PTI): The Narendra Modi government at the Centre is “playing” national security after “destroying” the country’s economy, which led to largescale unemployment, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged on Sunday.

Addressing a rally in support of Independent candidate Dev Kumar Dhan for the Mandar by-election in Jharkhand, Owaisi said the day Congress is “finished”, Modi would lose elections.

“The Modi government destroyed the country’s economy in the last eight years. At present, unemployment is a big issue in the country, which as per my calculation is around 16-17 per cent. Now, he is playing with the national security by introducing the Agnipath scheme,” he alleged.

“I urge the prime minister to call a special session of Parliament, in which I will expose the government -- how it compromised national security. I assure the youths who are against the Modi government’s policies that I am with them,” he added.

Asaduddin Owaisi

Dhan, for whom Owaisi was campaigning at Charo ground in Chanho block, was recently been expelled from the BJP. He had contested from the Mandar seat on a BJP ticket in 2019 assembly polls, but lost to JVM-P’s Bandhu Tirkey.

Dhan decided to contest the bypoll as an Independent after the BJP denied him a ticket.

The by-election was necessitated as Tirkey, who later joined Congress, was disqualified following his conviction in a corruption case. Targetting the Congress, Owaisi said, “It is a spent force and behind Modi’s electoral victories.

The day Congress is fin-

ished, Modi would also lose elections.”

Congress, which is a part of the ruling coalition in Jharkhand, has no power to ensure action against the policemen who are responsible for the killing of two youths during the Ranchi violence, he claimed.

Attacking Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the Hyderabad MP said, “I would like to ask why he turned so greedy that he had to acquire 11 acres of land in his name.”

Congress has fielded Bandhu Tirkey’s daughter Shilpa Neha Tirkey as the candidate for the JMM-led alliance. The BJP has nominated former legislator Gangotri Kujur from the seat.

The by-election was earlier seen as a direct fight between the BJP and the Congress, but the fates of their candidates hang in balance with the entry of Dhan as an Independent.

AIMIM candidate Shishir Lakra, who withdrew his name from the by-election, was in the third position during the 2019 assembly polls.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stands barefoot with party leaders K. C. Venugopal, Sachin Pilot and others. (PTI)

at the youths protesting the Agnipath scheme.

In her address, the Congress general secretary also recited a few lines from Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Hindi poem ‘Agnipath’ to urge the youths to persevere and keep struggling peacefully. “The name of the poem has been given to such a scheme that will destroy the youth. This scheme will destroy the Army. Recognise this government’s intentions.”

“In a democratic way and by walking on the path

of truth and non-violence, bring down this government. Your objective should be (to ensure) that such a government is formed in the country which shows real patriotism and takes forward the poor and the youth of the country,” Priyanka Gandhi said.

She also appealed to those protesting to not resort to violence.

“I want the youth to know that we understand your pain. This is your country and this country’s property is yours. So, it is your

responsibility to protect it. I appeal to you to hold peaceful protests but not stop. It is your duty to protect the country’s democracy. Every leader of the Congress will support you in fulfilling this duty,” she said.

The Congress leader alleged that the government is working for big industrialists. “I appeal to you to understand the situations around you (and) what the government is doing. This government is not working for the poor and its people but for big industrialists,” Priyanka Gandhi said.

Addressing the gathering, Pilot said if the government wanted to save money then it should not have gone ahead with the Central Vista project and bought two planes, that would have saved thousands of crores.

“But they played with the dreams of the youth by bringing Agnipath scheme.

It should be taken back.

Youths should also not resort to violence but protest peacefully. Our party is with them,” he said.

In his remarks, Hooda said that an ‘Agniveer’ in the fourth year will become insecure about his future.

What will happen to the security of a country whose soldier is insecure about his future, he asked.

Slamming the BJP over its defence of the Agnipath, he said foreign models of the US and Israel won’t work in India.

Former Uttarakhan

Chief Minister Harish Rawat said joining Army was a tradition in his state and was not seen just as a means to earn a living.

“Every rejiment has a history of valour and you want to destroy that history.

We condemn this decision which has been taken without consideration,” he said.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is being treated at a hospital here for a lower respiratory tract infection and post-Covid symptoms, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi was not present at the Satyagraha.

Youths in several parts of the country have been protesting against the contentious defence recruitment scheme. Over the past few days, incidents of protesters vandalising railway stations, setting trains on fire and blocking roads and railway tracks have been reported from different cities and towns.

Heavy de ployment of police and paramilitary forces was seen at the protest site. The entry and exit points to Jantar Mantar were blocked.

The Agnipath scheme, announced on June 14, provides for the recruitment of youths in the age bracket of 17-and-half to 21 years for only four years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years. Later, the government extended the upper age limit to 23 years for recruitment in 2022.

Rajnath meets chiefs of Army, Navy and IAF roles by June next year, senior military officials said.

In an attempt to pacify the protesters, the government on Thursday night increased the upper age limit for recruitment under the ‘Agnipath’ scheme to 23 years from 21 for the year 2022.

Unveiling the scheme on Tuesday, the government

said youths between the ages of 17 and-a-half and 21 years would be inducted for a four-year tenure while 25 per cent of them will be subsequently inducted for regular service.

T h e yo u t h s t o b e recruited under the new scheme would be called ‘Agniveer’. A major objective of the scheme is to bring down

the average age of military personnel and cut ballooning salary and pension bills.

The announcement of the new scheme came in the backdrop of recruitments into the military remaining stalled over the coronavirus pandemic for over two years.

The Army recr uits 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers annually.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during a meeting with the chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force. PTI file

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday met the three service chiefs amid escalating protests against the ‘Agnipath’ military recruitment scheme in several parts of the country.

It was Singh’s second meeting with the chiefs of the Army, Navy and the Air Force for the second straight day on the issue.

There was no official comment on the meeting.

It is learnt that the focus of the deliberations was on pacifying the protesters.

As the protests intensified in various parts of the country, the defence minister on Saturday approved a proposal to reserve 10 per cent of the jobs in various

organisations under the ministry for recruits under the ‘Agnipath’ scheme if they meet the requisite eligibility criteria.

The Home Ministry also announced 10 per cent reservations for ‘Agniveers’ in Central Armed Police Forces and Assam Rifles following completion of their four-year tenure under the new recruitment scheme.

The Indian Air Force on Sunday came out with details of the new scheme.

The Indian Navy and the Army are expected to issue similar details soon.

The three services are planning to deploy the first batches of recruits under the new scheme both in operational and non-operational

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NAGPUR, JUN 19 (PTI): Amid violence over the ‘Agnipath’ scheme, Union minister and former Army chief General V K Singh (retd) on Sunday slammed the protesters saying if they don’t like the new policy for recruitment into the armed forces they shouldn’t opt for it.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city, Singh said the Indian Army doesn’t conscript soldiers and that aspirants can join of their own volition.

“Joining the Army is voluntary and not a compulsion. If any aspirant wants to join, he can join as per his will, we don’t conscript soldiers. But if you don’t like this recruitment scheme (‘Agnipath’) then don’t come to (join).

Who is asking you to come?

You are burning buses and trains. Who told you that you will be recruited into the armed forces. You will be selected only if you fulfil the eligibility criteria,” he said.

He also hit out at the Congress over party leader Priyanka Gandhi’s statement against the Agnipath scheme and alleged that the grand old party is finding fault with even the best work of the Modi government as it is upset with Rahul Gandhi’s questioning by the ED.

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (PTI): Stepping up its attack on the Centre, the Congress on Sunday held a ‘Satyagraha’ here in support of those protesting the government’s Agnipath scheme with party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra urging the youth to recognise “fake nationalists” and ensure that a new government is formed in the country which shows “real patriotism”.

She alleged the new military recruitment scheme would be destructive for the youth and the Army.

Several top Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi, AICC general secretary organisation K C Venugopal, party’s leader in Lok Sabha Adir Ranjan Chowdhury, Harish Rawat, Communications department head Jairam Ramesh, Salman Khurshid, Sachin Pilot, Deepender Hooda and Ajay Maken, participated in the ‘Satyagraha’ held at Jantar Mantar here.

Congress leaders and supporters criticised the BJP-led Central government and said the Agnipath scheme is not beneficial for the country’s youth and will also jeopardises national security.

“There is no bigger patriot than you. I want to tell you, open your eyes and recognise the fake nationalists and fake patriots. The entire country and the Congress are with you in your struggle,” Priyanka Gandhi said in her remarks aimed

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Wood and stone politics

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olitical developments in India throw up sharp contradictions between a hugely potent, effective and motivated ruling and a disarrayed, divided opposition parties who have attacked the government as much as they attack each other. A democracy is not worth the name if the opposition has no vision for the nation but more interested to belittle or denigrate each other in order to accord self-acclaimed national alternative. While India is reeling under the weight of communalism and policies that are only serving the national interests of capitalists; the disparate opposition parties are more interested in trying to trip each other like crabs. The big test for the non-NDA parties is not about setting up a consensus candidate for the president of India but in getting their act together as constitutional watchdog. The NDA will get its man again to the Rashtrapati Bhavan since the little percentage of votes it requires can be obtained from friendly regional parties such as Nabeen Patnaik’s BJD in Odisha, Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh and even TRS in Telangana. The Aam Admi Party (AAP) the Johnny come lately of Indian politics, after winning Punjab and now ruling in two states(Delhi, Punjab)has like the TRS, said it won’t sit on the same room where Congress is also sitting; or it won’t be part of any opposition forum where Congress is also part of.

All these have only made the BJP the obvious choice for many undecided. Due to kind of petty politics among the opposition, people in India are confused and resentful. Instead of mainstreaming their narrative against the wrong and controversial policies of the Modi government, the opportunistic opposition parties are acting as if each of them on their own, represent the entire opposition. All these have only made odds appear to favour the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. BJP can steam roll over the opposition parties anytime and so it is rightfully gung ho about its rosy prospects, as barring a few losses, BJP’s winning streak doesn’t appear to be reversing. In the recent assembly elections, BJP has retained four of the five states that went to the polls recently. It considers its poll victories as an endorsement of the policies and schemes of the Modi Government. On the other hand, the Congress cannot mount a credible challenge in 2024 or even lead the opposition coalition. The Gandhi family has gotten away with so many defeats since 2014 mainly because family drum beaters and sycophants in the Congress make it impossible for any other person outside the family to lead the party.

Under the present Gandhi-led Congress many party stalwarts including potential young leaders were compelled to leave the party since they see no future in a family-run and dynastic party. As the only opposition party with pan-India reach, the Congress is still a potent force which can defeat the BJP. However, the Congress appears to be damned since sycophants don’t want any change and have made the Gandhis dance to their tune.

Sadly, a party of 137 years history which started the independence movement from British colonial yoke that had political giants and stalwarts at its helm, is today a playground for the Gandhi siblings. All these only ensure that BJP has the advantage of deciding the political narrative.

DailyDevotion The Service of Passionate Devotion

…do you love Me?…Tend My sheep.

—John 21:16

Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate…, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). In this verse, there is no argument and no pressure from Jesus to follow Him; He is simply saying, in effect, “If you want to be My disciple, you must be devoted solely to Me.” A person touched by the Spirit of God suddenly says, “Now I see who Jesus is!”— that is the source of devotion.

Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started. Jesus Christ is deeply offensive to the educated minds of today, to those who only want Him to be their Friend, and who are unwilling to accept Him in any other way. Our Lord’s primary obedience was to the will of His Father, not to the needs of people— the saving of people was the natural outcome of His obedience to the Father. If I am devoted solely to the cause of humanity, I will soon be exhausted and come to the point where my love will waver and stumble. But if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity, even though people may treat me like a “doormat.” The secret of a disciple’s life is devotion to Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of that life is its seeming insignificance and its meekness. Yet it is like a grain of wheat that “falls into the ground and dies”— it will spring up and change the entire landscape (John 12:24).

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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with ~ Billy Graham

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Markets tumble with Himalayas ravaging NE, U’Khand

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igantic Himalayan tragedies rock and destabilise the Indian economy as development becomes fad. The 15.9 percent wholesale inflation, stock sensex crash by 2931points in a week, rupee below 78, prolonged heat wave, low wheat yield, millions of tree felling and blasts for roads are connected saga.

The latest least discussed washout of Assam’s New Haflong railway station is a testimony of the magnitude and a tell-tale of India’s future.

Affecting of the fragile Himalayas is stated to be the reason for most calamities and severe heating up of the Indian subcontinent and economic woes.

An Indo-US Monsoon study linked the Himalayas to formation of cyclones up to South Africa.

About 10,000 Himalayan glaciers are receding at a rate of 30 to 60 metres (100 to 200 feet) per decade as temperatures rise with road and dam constructions. Around 10.76 million trees were felled between 2015 and 2018 for development, as per a Rajya Sabha answer.

Supreme Court for now stays chopping of 11000 trees in Dehradun.

The nation has learnt little from the June 2013 Kedarnath tragedy that wiped out a large chunk of

the Himalayas considered the soul of god – Devtatma killing 6000. The cost of damages is difficult to assess but a sample can be taken from the compensation given to flood hit people in Bihar. For Rs 5-lakh houses Rs 6000 is doled out. Uttarakhand allocates one-third of its annual budget to disaster relief and in 2021 spent additional Rs 7000 crore.

Aruanachal’s largest Dibang dam will chop 2.7 lakh more trees. The Haflong washout would not have happened but for the false desire for creating a single-gauge all over. The British time metre gauge track, created for a purpose on the fragile patches, now being preserved for heritage purposes has its old Lower Haflong station intact. The mudslide from nearby hills loosened by blasts engulfed the station, marooning a number of trains, putting about 2500 people at great risk, at least five deaths, blocks a tunnel, and links to TripuraMizoram-Manipur.

It is fashionable to discuss about Uttarakhand, but the NorthEast is becoming worse with losing about 1.45 million hectares (Mha) of tree cover between 2001 and 2020, amounting to roughly 76 percent of the country’s total tree cover loss, according to a

global study by the University of Mar yland’s Global Land Analysis & Discovery (GLAD) laboratory released by Global Forest Watch (GFW). It says India as a whole lost 1.93 Mha of tree cover in 2001-20, including Uttarakhand’s 50,000 hectares.

Assam has the highest share of the national tree cover loss, 14 percent.

From 2001 to 2020, the state lost 269 kilohectare (kha) of tree cover - 9.8 percent decrease. Among other Northeast states, Mizoram lost 247 Shivaji kha, Nagaland 225 kha, Arunachal Pradesh 222 kha, Manipur 196kha, Meghalaya 195 kha and Tripura lost 102 kha tree cover in 20 years, the report said. The top five states in the list with the maximum tree cover loss are in the N-E. The seven sister states are also among the 10 worst performers in terms of tree cover loss.

Arunachal with proposed 169 hydropower projects is in throes of protests against construction of mega dams over Brahmaputra and its tributaries. All Assam Students Union that once pleaded for dam on Subansiri in 1985 now opposes it. The protests intensified after June 2008, when excess water was released from

the Ranganadi dam, the first in Arunachal without prior warning to downstream communities. Massive flood submerged large swathes of land, killing at least 10 people and affecting around three lakh.

“No-more-dam” movement is popular in Arunachal but resistance weak. So now comes the world’s largest concrete gravity Dibang dam with 2880 MW capacity in a fragile region. It would lead to clearing 1,165 hectares of rare traditionally protected b i o d ive r Sarkar sity forest home to the Idu Mishmi tribe. Hundreds of families in 39 villages of Dibang Valley will be displaced.

Sudden glacier meltdowns are probable at dam site.

The pattern is almost a repeat at Kedarnath restoration at the insistence of former Uttarkahand chief minister Harish Rawat.

Dr D.P. Dobhal, a senior glaciologist of National Institute of Mountaineering, says that the suggestions in their report, in accordance with higher Himalayan geology, were ignored in the new construction.

The ministry of environment and forest (MoEF}on December, 2014 filed an affidavit driven by “pain, anguish

and outrage” demanding stoppage of work at 3292 MW seven Uttarakhand hydropower projects, including Tapovan Vishnugad. Seven years later in 2021 it files another saying consensus reached with the power, Jal Shakti ministry and the Uttarakhand government to continue work on these projects.

And in Febr uar y, 2021 Tapovan saw flash flood killing 200 in Chamoli. After a study 53 scientists from JNU, and IIT Indore, in June 2021, found that the flood was caused by falling debris, rocks 20 metre in diameter and blocking Nanda Devi glacier leading to 27 million cubic metres of water and debris barreling down the Ronti Gad, Risigana and Dhauliganga river valleys rising 220 metres above the valley flow. This trapped workers and engineers at Tapovan.

The rivers are attractive for hydropower projects but little learnt from the Vishnuprayag debacle of 2013 where for kilometres Alkananda has vanished.

The floods, landslides and forest fires are becoming frequent in the Himalayas as reckless road, rail and dam constructions, tree felling, blasting and tunneling in the fragile hills cause continuous landslides or loose rock-

falls a regular affair. A Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) study has found that 51 percent of Uttarakhand is ‘high’ and ‘very high’ landslide-prone. The local aspirations and large moneys often lead to undesirable ends.

The recent spate of activities on the higher Himalayas for creating roadrailways to Karnaprayag, and comfort zones for tourism are adding to the problems. Today, most dams have only one-third the capacity of the power generation these were ostensibly built for but during rains the overflows dip the people in woes.

None explains the rationale of such projects and why now being repeated in N-E. Another side effect of the projects is 100s of kilometers of embankment constructions following the Tehri dam apprehending calamities. If the cost of these is added to the Tehri, it would be stupendous and exposes the human folly.

Policy paradigm has to recognize, National Disaster Management Authority warns, check on construction for protecting the Himalayas. It is key to boosting the sagging Indian economy be it the stocks, commodities or manufacturing.

Post-mortem World Refugee Day 2022

Together we heal, learn, and shine

“Refugees are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the same hopes and ambitions as usexcept that a twist of fate has bound their lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.”

- Khaled Hosseini Introduction: Each June 20, the globe comes together to honour World Refugee Day. The United Nations General Assembly launched the holiday in 2000, and since then, the worldwide community has spent the day focused on ways to improve the lives of refugees. Most of us know that refugees are forced to leave their homes due to war, terror, or other crises-but fleeing their home country is often just the beginning of a difficult journey.

Many refugees find themselves living in camps until they are resettled-some of which are dangerous or not well-equipped for long term living. Refugees don’t always have a say in which country they are ultimately relocated to, and the bureaucratic process involved in finding their new home can take years.

Worldwide refugee crises have taken centre stage in the news in recent years, so it’s more important than ever to share support and to celebrate World Refugee Day. Traumatic Experience of the Refugees: Refugees have experienced many extremely stressful events because of political or religious oppression, war, migration, and resettlement. It is difficult to even define all of the types of events they have suffered, because refugee trauma often precedes the primary war-related event that causes them to flee.

Before being forced to flee, refugees may experience imprisonment, torture, loss of property, malnutrition, physical assault, extreme fear, rape and loss of livelihood. The flight process can last days or years.

During flight, refugees are frequently separated from family members, robbed, forced to inflict pain or kill, witness torture or killing, and/or lose close family members or friends and endure extremely harsh environmental conditions.

Perhaps the most significant effect from all of the experiences refugees endure is having been betrayed, either by their own people, by enemy forces, or by

the politics of their world in general.

Having misanthropic actions of others become a major factor controlling the lives of refugees has significant implications for health and for their ability to develop trusting interpersonal relationships, which are critical to resettlement and healing.

When refugees resettle to a host country, which is most often in a place that is not of the refugee’s choosing, the refugee must adapt to a new place and language under uncertain circumstances and with uncertain futures. Re-establishing a home and identity, while trying to juggle the tasks of daily living, is yet another significant challenge that the refugee must undertake.

Early studies showed that post-migration stress contributed to the poor mental health of refugees. Recent work has verified that post-migration stress significantly influences the emotional well-being of refugees, and often provides a risk similar to or greater than war-related trauma.

Pre-and post-migration stress may differentially predict specific kinds of symptoms and distress in both children and adults. This information is important; it is during the period of resettlement where stress is high and the refugee may be reminded of other traumatic events of their lives, when resettlement agencies and health care workers might start to reverse the effects of trauma across the lifespan of the refugee by providing culturally sensitive care that gives the refugee support.

World Refugee Day Significance: World Refugee Day is observed to preserve and enhance the lives of refugees across the world, ensuring that they not only survive but also live in dignity. This day is dedicated to highlighting the rights, aspirations, and needs of refugees in order to generate political will so that refugees can not only survive, but also thrive.

However, it is more difficult to reinforce and safeguard the lives of refugees on a regular basis, thus World Refugee Day was established to raise awareness about the conditions and difficulties that refugees face in their daily lives. The enormity of the global refugee issue might

be difficult to comprehend, but increasing awareness can help people comprehend the scope of what refugees throughout the world are facing. It also fosters empathy and compassion, which brings individuals from all walks of life together, which is always a good thing.

Understanding Refugees Traumatic stress: Traumatic stress is a normal reaction to an abnormal event.

Usually, symptoms get better with time, but people with more intense symptoms may need professional help.

Over the course of a lifetime, it’s common to be exposed to a traumatic event, whether it is a violent act, a serious injury, a sexual violation, or other shocking event like leaving their homes due to war, terror, or other crises. In response, many will experience traumatic stress-a normal reaction to an abnormal event. People may even experience traumatic stress by just witnessing a highly distressing event or having a close family member or friend experience such an event.

In the days and weeks following such a trauma, it’s common for people to have a flurry of unpredictable emotions and physical symptoms.

They include: Sadness, Feeling nervous, jumpy, or on high alert, Irritability or anger, Difficulty sleeping, Relationship problems, Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, or nightmares, Trouble feeling positive emotions, Avoiding people, places, memories, or thoughts associated with the traumatic event.

Usually, these symptoms get better with time. But for some people, more intense symptoms linger or interfere with their daily lives and do not go away on their own. Some people may develop acute stress disorder in which they have extreme symptoms of stress that significantly interfere with daily life, school, work or social functioning in the month after a traumatic event.

Others can develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with symptoms that interfere with daily life and last for more than a month after the trauma.

Coping with traumatic stress: The good news is that there are very effective ways to cope with and treat the stressful effects of trauma. Psychologists and other researchers have found

that these actions can help: 1.

Lean on your loved ones. Identify friends or family members for support.

If you feel ready to discuss the traumatic event, you might talk to them about your experience and your feelings. You can also ask loved ones to help you with household tasks or other obligations to relieve some of your daily stress. 2. Face your feelings. It’s normal to want to avoid thinking about a traumatic event. But not leaving the house, sleeping all the time, isolating yourself from loved ones, and using substances to escape reminders are not healthy ways to cope over time.

Though avoidance is normal, too much of it can prolong your stress and keep you from healing. Gradually, try to ease back into a normal routine. Support from loved ones or a mental health professional can help a lot as you get back in the groove. 3.

Prioritize self-care.

Do your best to eat nutritious meals, get regular physical activity, and get a good night’s sleep. And seek out other healthy coping strategies such as art, music, meditation, relaxation, and spending time in nature. 4. Be patient. Remember that it’s normal to have a strong reaction to a distressing event.

Take things one day at a time as you recover. As the days pass, your symptoms should start to gradually improve.

Not everyone requires treatment for traumatic stress. Most people recover on their own with time. However, mental health professionals such as psychologists can help you find healthy ways to cope in the aftermath of a traumatic event. If your distress is interfering with your relationships, work, or daily functioning, you may have acute stress disorder or PTSD. Psychologists can provide evidencebased interventions to help you cope with traumatic stress or acute stress disorder.

One is Psychological First Aid (PFA), originally designed to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the aftermath of a disaster or terrorism.

It’s now used to help people who have experienced any type of trauma. PFA is based on the idea that distress is normal after a traumatic event.

Rather than treat that stress like a disorder, the focus of this

approach is to provide support and assistance and share information about stress reactions and coping strategies. Mental health providers and disaster response workers provide PFA in the days and weeks after a trauma, in diverse settings including hospitals, housing shelters, community settings, and even over telephone crisis hotlines.

The goal of PFA is to reduce distress and improve coping and functioning, both shortterm and long-term.

Another evidence-based treatment is cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, which is successfully used to treat many psychological disorders, including traumatic stress. CBT is a psychological treatment that helps people learn to change unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns.

The World Health Organization recommends traumafocused CBT to treat symptoms of acute traumatic stress in adults. Some research also suggests that people who receive trauma-focused CBT may be less likely to develop chronic PTSD. In addition, a variety of treatments have been developed to help children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma or adverse childhood events such as neglect or abuse.

Many of these therapies are family-based and include the child’s parents or caregivers in the treatment process. If you or a loved one is struggling to recover from a traumatic event, a psychologist can help.

Conclusion: World Refugee Day shines a light on the rights, needs and dreams of refugees, helping to mobilize political will and resources so refugees can not only survive but also thrive. While it is important to protect and improve the lives of refugees every single day, international days like World Refugee Day help to focus global attention on the plight of those fleeing conflict or persecution. Many activities held on World Refugee Day create opportunities to support refugees.

“Refugees are not terrorists. They are often the first victims of terrorism.”

Rev. Fr. C. Joseph, Counsellor, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Jakhama, Kohima - Nagaland

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.

Mysuru gears up for Yoga Day with PM 75 MINISTERS TO ATTEND YOGA DAY EVENTS AT 75 LOCATIONS IN INDIA

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Karnataka from Monday during which he will launch several development projects and also take part in the International Yoga Day on Tuesday.

Integrating the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ with the the yoga day, the PMO said mass yoga demonstrations will be organised at 75 iconic locations across the country under the leadership of 75 Union ministers, with Modi attending the exercise at Mysore.

The yoga demonstrations will also be held by various educational, social, political, cultural, religious, corporate and other civil society organisations and will be attended by crores of people across the country, it said.

M o d i ’s yo g a p r o gramme is also part of the novel programme ‘Guardian Yoga Ring’, which is a collaborative exercise between 79 countries and United Nations organisations along with Indian missions abroad to illustrate yoga’s unifying power surpassing boundaries.

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File photo of Modi performing Yoga

As the sun moves from the east to the west across the world, the mass yoga demonstrations in the participating countries, if seen from any one point on the earth, will seem to be happening one after the other, almost in tandem, thus underlining the concept of ‘One sun, one earth’, the PMO said Since 2015, the International Day of Yoga (IDY) is celebrated worldwide on June 21 every year. The theme for this year’s Yoga day is “Yoga for Humanity”.

The theme portrays how yoga served humanity in alleviating suffering during the Covid pandemic, it noted.

The PMO said Modi

will inaugurate the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) and will lay the foundation stone of Bagchi-Parthasarathy Multi-speciality Hospital at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru on Monday.

He will also visit Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics (BASE) in Bengaluru and inaugurate the new campus of BASE University and unveil a statue of the architect of Indian Constitution. Modi wil dedicate to the Nation 150 ‘Technology Hubs’ that have been developed by transforming Industrial and later inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple rail and road infrastructure projects

worth over Rs 27,000 crore.

The prime minister will attend a public function at Maharaja’s College Ground in Mysuru where he will lay the foundation stone of coaching terminal at Naganahalli railway station and dedicate to the nation the ‘Centre of Excellence for persons with communication disorders’ at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH).

The PMO said he will also visit Sri Suttur Math and Sri Chamundeshwari Temple. On Tuesday morning, Modi will participate in a mass yoga demonstration at Mysore Palace ground on the occasion of the eighth International Day of Yoga.

Citing the development projects he will launch, the PMO said Modi will lay the foundation stone of Bengaluru Suburban rail project (BSRP) which will connect Bengaluru city with its suburbs and satellite townships.

The project, which is to be built at a cost of over Rs 15,700 crore, envisages four corridors with a total route length of over 148 kms. He will also lay the foundation stone of redevelopment of Bengaluru Cantt and Yes-

vantpur Junction railway station to be developed at a cost of around Rs 500 crore and Rs 375 crore respectively, it said. India’s first airconditioned railway stationSir M Visvesvaraya Railway Station at Baiyappanahalli, which is developed on the lines of a modern airport at a total cost of around Rs 315 crore, will also be launched by him among several other railway and road projects.

The PMO said 150 ‘Technology Hubs’ have been developed at a cost of over Rs 4,600 crore and are supported by many Industry partners. It aims to create a skilled workforce to address Industry 4.0 manpower needs. These hubs, through various innovative courses, will provide high skill training in cutting edge technology and improve opportunities for ITI graduates in employment and entrepreneurship.

The Centre for Brain Research (CBR), the PMO noted, is developed as a one of its kind research facility and is focuses on conducting vital research to provide evidence based public health interventions to manage age-related brain disorders.

Delhi-bound flight catches fire soon after taking off from Patna

Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight after making an emergency landing at Patna airport, June 19, 2022

PATNA, JUN 19 (PTI): Passengers on board a Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight from here had a narrow escape when their aircraft caught fire soon after taking off from the city airport on Sunday, and made an emergency landing before hovering for several minutes in the air, an official said.

The aircraft made a turnback due to a suspected bird hit, which forced the pilot to shut one of the engines and decide to return to the city airport, the airline said in a statement.

The aircraft took off

at around 12.10 pm, and according to residents of localities adjacent to the airport, who claimed to have witnessed the incident, it caught fire immediately.

However, none of the passengers were hurt, an official said.

Some passengers said they felt tremors inside the plane soon after the take off and the lights started turning off.

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senger said.

Fire engines were deployed at the runway where the emergency landing was made though the flames had, by then, come under control.

“On June 19, SpiceJet B737-800 aircraft was operating SG-723 (Patna-Delhi).

On take-off, during rotation, the cockpit crew suspected a bird hit on Engine #. As a precautionary measure and as per SOP, Captain shutdown the affected engine and decided to return to Patna,” SpiceJet said in the statement.

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V I S A K H A PAT N A M , JUNE 19 (IANS): Municipal authorities in Andhra Pradesh’s Narsipatnam town demolished an alleged unauthorised boundary wall at the residence of former state minister and senior TDP leader Ayyanna Patrudu.

Tension prevailed as police force was deployed around the former minister’s residence amid protest by his family members. A police official said the policemen were deployed as a precautionary measure at the request of municipal employees who were carrying out the demolition.

Security was tightened in Narsipatnam to prevent any untoward incident. Police erected barricades at various places in the town and were checking vehicles.

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The miscreants who vandalised the house of Shylaja, smashed the window panes and sprayed black ink

on the walls on Saturday.

The lawyer has lodged a complaint with the police in this connection.

Police reached Shylaja’s house and conducted an inspection. Investigation is on, the sources said.

Meanwhile, right wing outfits Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal (BD) strongly condemned the leader’s alleged insulting remarks on Sri Rama, Lord Hanuman and Goddess Sita through the Clubhouse platform in a programme at 9 pm on June 16.

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While inspecting the newly inaugurated tunnel, Modi picked up an empty plastic water bottle and a few other items that had been thrown away. He was seeing the paintings made of the inner wall of the tunnel.

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As many as 17 parties attended the meeting.

Leaders of the Congress, Samajwadi Party, NCP, DMK, RJD and the Left parties attended the over two-hour-long meeting called by the Trinamool Congress supremo, while the AAP, SAD, AIMIM, Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Odisha’s ruling BJD skipped it.

Leaders of Shiv Sena, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML), National Conference, PDP, JD(S), RSP, IUML, RLD and the JMM were among those present.

MANGALURU, JUN 19 (PTI): Unidentified miscreants attacked the house of Congress IT cell secretary V Shylaja Amarnath at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district in protest against the ‘derogatory’ remarks on Hindu Gods allegedly made by her through social media, police said.

Based on a complaint from Hindu organisations, the police have registered a case against the leader for making the comments with the intention of creating enmity between religions and

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NEW DELHI, JUNE 19 (IANS): Displaying his commitment to ‘Swachh Bharat’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday picked up litter during an inspection of the newly inaugurated tunnel built under Pragati Maidan Integrated Transit Corridor

KOLKATA, JUN 19 (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to participate in the opposition meeting convened by NCP chief Sharad Pawar on June 21 on the upcoming Presidential poll due to prior engagements, a TMC functionary said on Sunday.

A senior TMC leader will be present at the proposed meeting, he said.

“Mamata Banerjee will not be able to attend the meeting as she has some prior engagements. She has also conveyed it to Sharad Pawar ji. But a leader from our party will be present there,” a senior TMC functionary said.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi picks up litter while inspecting the newly opened ITPO tunnel. (PTI)

Tweeting a video of this, Amit Malviya, the West Bengal BJP co-incharge said, “Commitment to cleanliness is an article of faith for the Prime Minister. Even at the inauguration of the ITPO tunnel, he made it a point to pick up garbage and lead by example.”

The project has been built at a cost of more than Rs 920 crore, entirely funded by the Central government. This long-awaited tunnel will serve as an alternative route to Bhairon Marg, which is running much beyond its carriage capacity and is expected to take more than half of the traffic load of Bhairon Marg.

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This has left private fuel retailers like Jio-bp, Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy and Shell to either raise prices and lose customers, or to curtail sales to cut losses.

Retail selling prices for petrol and diesel were held for a record 137 days (From p-1) Every individual will between early November 2021 and March 21, 2022 have to take a pledge that they were not part of prodespite soaring prices. tests or vandalism”. He said that the individual against whom an FIR is lodged would not be allowed to join be arbitrary and also not contrary to the the forces. All candidates will have to give a written very purpose of regulation.

Hence, it averred that it was inescap- pledge that they did not able that the re-appointment followed by indulge in any arson/viopost creation effectuated by the amend- lence, he added.

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NSU warned that if any individual or group continued to ignore its caution despite knowing the legal facts, then this would tantamount to promoting illegal activities and the person/group concerned would be held equally responsible for any mishap that might occur. It also asked the village authority and loggers to initiate a complete eviction drive against all prevailing illegally established structures – man force (labourers), animal draughts, heavy types of machinery such as heavy-duty lorries, excavators, chainsaw machines and sawmill from Nkio on or before the “last day” of June 2022. Failing which, it warned of takings its own course of action for which it would not be held responsible for any loss of life or property.

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Industry (FIPI), which besides private fuel retailers also counts state-owned firms such as IOC, BPCL and HPCL as its members, wrote to the Petroleum Ministry saying losses on petrol and diesel will limit further investments in retailing business.

International crude oil and product prices have risen sharply to a decade high but state-owned fuel retailers, who control 90 per cent of the market, have

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NEW DELHI, JUN 19 ( AGENCIES): Amid reports of the US electric car major, Tesla putting its plan to sell its products in India on hold, Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said the government was never in favour of any firm manufacturing its cars in China and selling here. He said

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 ( PTI) : Selling diesel at Rs 20-25 a litre below cost and petrol at Rs 14-18 per litre below cost, as a result of a price freeze despite soaring crude rates is unsustainable, an industry body representing private fuel retailers like Jio-bp and Nayara Energy has told the Oil Ministry and has sought its intervention to create a viable investment environment.

On June 10, the Federation of Indian Petroleum

(From p-1) As the authority concerned had provided the clarification, the union declared that it would stand unwaveringly to ensure that no illegal activities were carried out at Nkio.

For many years, because of the ignorance of village authority and laxity of the department concerned in discharging their responsibilities and duties, NSU alleged that the invaluable forest cover and natural vegetation had been disfigured and destroyed enormously, which could not be compensated in any way.

The union thus declared that it would not allow even a single naturally-grown tree to be felled illegally any further. Further, in the interest of rejuvenating the forest, it said it would not allow implementation of any form of approval by the department, village council or even the State government to fell trees at Nkio at any cost.

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the Indian car makers have the capability to produce world’s best electric cars, reports Times of India.

Speaking at an event after witnessing a vehicle crash test in Pune, Gadkari said, “We have all automobile brands here.

It doesn’t matter if one or two of them are not here. We told a company that manufacturing in China and selling cars here won’t work (China mein banakar yahan bechoge, aisa nehin jamega). If you want to come here, you manufacture in India. I am confident that our vehicle manufacturers can make better vehicles than others.

We have young talented designers and they are doing better.”

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NEW DELHI, JUNE 19 (IANS): While FIIs are on a selling spree in the Indian markets, domestic institutions, including mutual funds and insurance companies, have been acting as a buffer, driven by the large inflow of retail money into the stock markets.

FIIs recorded the eighth consecutive month of outflows in May at $4.9 billion. However, the outflows were more than offset by material DII inflows. In May 2022, DIIs posted the highest inflows since March 2020 at $6.1 billion, as per a report by Motilal Oswal Financial Services.

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the Naga issue is not resolved before the 2023 Assembly polls, the elected representatives-- who have time and again promised to resign to pave way for any settlement, will refuse to resign once elected and which could prove to be another hurdle.

On the other hand, by end of 2023, the Central leadership would be more focused on the 2024 General elections (Lok Sabha).

As reported, Centre has said on numerous occasions that the ball is in the court of the NPGs to agree on one solution acceptable to all, since there cannot be two solutions for one issue.

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to excess liquidity in the economy.

In recent months, the stock market has been witnessing significant volatility with foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) going on a selling spree amid tightening monetary policy actions to address rising inflation and geopolitical tensions.

Rising interest rate is typically a deterrent to economic growth as it raises lending costs for the industries and corporates.

Foreign investors have pulled out over $42 billion or Rs 3.26 lakh crore from the Indian markets in the

more than seven times as against FY20.

The cumulative demat accounts which stood at 3.6 crore as on March 2019 were 7.7 crore at the end of last year, which essentially means what was achieved in two decades has been achieved in the last twoand-a-half years.

One has to accept that internet technology and mobile-based investing platforms are key enablers in the democratisation of the equity market culture among the masses in India.

Not just retail investors, footfalls of domestic institutional investors with deep pockets too are high in the markets and they have the capabilities to purchase equities of match amount to that of the foreign institutional investors.

Because of the large participation by domestic investors, the decline in indices in recent months in India has been relatively lower as compared to the US and various other major global exchanges.

meeting were not made known, it was learnt that Mishra had reportedly highlighted the status of the Naga political talks.

Mishra also conveyed to the Naga CSOs that all demands/grievances raised by them would be addressed.

Efforts for solution to the Naga political issue will depend on the final call made by the Centre in response to the voice of the Naga people. On likely period, sources said it could be after election of the next president of India after July 2022 or after a regular and full-time governor of Nagaland is appointed.

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last eight months.

However, the silver lining came as domestic investors pooled in over $32 billion or Rs 2.5 lakh crore during the same period.

In fact, these changes in the trend of investment patterns are not new.

Global investment bank Morgan Stanley had said in late April the combined holdings of the domestic mutual funds and direct households in stocks have risen over 600 basis points since 2015, whereas those of FPIs have declined about 150 basis points. It can be gauged by looking at the figures of opening of the dematerialised (demat) accounts in the country.

Opening of new demat accounts, monthly, on an average increased seven-fold since financial year FY20.

In FY20, average new demat accounts was at 4 lakh per month, whereas it increased to 12 lakh in FY21. In FY22, it rose to around 29 lakh, which is

(From p-1) During his visit to Imphal last month, Mishra visited the Hill areas and also met various civil society organizations besides meeting Manipur governor and chief minister.

These hold significance as Mishra believes that holding direct consultations with the stakeholders would give the Centre a clear picture of the ground realities.

In Guwahati, Mishra held separate meetings with leaders of Tirap Changlang Longding People’s Forum (TCLPF) and Naga Council of Upper Assam (NCUA).

Though details of the

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NEW DELHI, JUNE 19 (IANS): On June 7, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while speaking at an event of the Corporate Affairs Ministry as part of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, had said that retail investors seemed to act as “shock absorbers” even when foreign portfolio investors kept their bets away from the Indian equity segment.

“Retail investors seem to act like shock absorbers... Even if FPIs went away, our markets did not really have to show their ups and downs in a very distinct way because small investors in the country have come in a big way,” Sitharaman, who is also in-charge of the Corporate Affairs Ministry, had said.

Her comments hold sense as a lot of retail investors have made a beeline for the Indian markets in the past few quarters, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, which many financial experts believe was due

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Ukraine war could last ‘years’: NATO chief

KYIV (UKRAINE), JUN 19 (AP): Four months of brutal fighting in Ukraine appear to be straining the morale of troops on both sides, prompting desertions and rebellion against officers’ orders, British defense officials said Sunday. NATO’s chief warned the war could drag on for “years.”

“Combat units from both sides are committed to intense combat in the Donbas and are likely experiencing variable morale,” Britain’s defense ministry said in its daily assessment of the war.

“Ukrainian forces have likely suffered desertions in recent weeks,” the assessment said, but added that “Russian morale highly likely remains especially troubled.”

It said “cases of whole Russian units refusing orders and armed stand-offs between officers and their troops continue to occur.”

Separately, the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate released what it said were intercepted phone calls in which Russian soldiers complained about frontline conditions, poor equipment, and overall lack of personnel, according to a report by the Institute for the

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Study of War. In an interview published on Sunday in the German weekly Bild am Sonntag, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that “nobody knows” how long the war could last.

“We need to be prepared for it to last for years,” he said.

He also urged allies ”not to weaken support for Ukraine, even if the costs are high, not only in terms of military aid, but also because of the increase in energy and food goods prices.”

In recent days, Gazprom, the Russian gas company, has reduced supplies to two major European clients — Germany and Italy. In Italy’s case, energy officials are expected to huddle this week about the situation. The head of Ital-

ian energy giant ENI said on Saturday that with additional gas purchased from other sources, Italy should make it through the coming winter, but he warned Italians that “restrictions” affecting gas use might be necessary.

Germany will limit the use of gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible shortages caused by a reduction in supplies from Russia, the country’s economy minister said on Sunday. Germany has been trying to fill its gas storage facilities to capacity ahead of the cold winter months.

Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Germany will try to compensate for the move by increasing the burning of coal, a more polluting fossil fuel.

“That’s bitter, but it’s simply necessary in this situation to lower gas usage,” he said.

Stoltenberg stressed, though, that “the costs of food and fuel are nothing compared with those paid daily by the Ukrainians on the front line.”

Stoltenberg added: What’s more, if Russian President Vladimir Putin should reach his objectives in Ukraine, like when he annexed Crimea in 2014, “we would have to pay an even greater price.”

Britain’s defense ministry said that both Russia and Ukraine have continued to conduct heavy artillery bombardments on axes to the north, east and south of the Sieverodonetsk pocket, but with little change in the front line.

Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said via Telegram on Sunday: “It is a very difficult situation in Sievierodonetsk, where the enemy in the middle of the city is conducting round-the-clock aerial reconnaissance with drones, adjusting fire, quickly adjusting to our changes.”

Russia’s defense ministry claimed on Sunday that Russian and separatist forces have taken control of Metolkine, a settlement

just to the east of Sievierodonetsk.

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a trip south from Kyiv to visit troops and hospital workers in the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions along the Black Sea. He handed out awards to dozens of people at every stop, shaking their hands and thanking them again and again for their service.

Some time after Zelenskyy left Mykolaiv, “the enemy carried out fire damage against units of the Defense Forces with cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Pravdyne, Posad-Pokrovskoe and Blahodatne,” according to the Ukrainian army briefing on Sunday.

In other attacks in the south, Ukraine’s southern military operational command said on Sunday that two people were killed in shelling of the Galitsyn community in the Mykolaiv region and that shelling of the Bashtansky district is continuing.

Russia’s defense ministry said seaborne missiles destroyed a plant in Mykolaiv city where Western-supplied howitzers and armored vehicles were stored.

Duterte’s daughter takes oath as Philippines vice president MANILA, JUN 19 (AP): Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing populist president of the Philippines, took her oath on Sunday as vice president following a landslide electoral victory she clinched despite her father’s human rights record that saw thousands of drug suspects gunned down.

The inauguration in their southern hometown of Davao, where she’s the outgoing mayor, comes two weeks before she assumes office on June 30 as specified in the Philippine Constitution. Presidentelect Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Duterte’s running mate, will take his oath in Manila on June 30.

“I’m not the best or the most intelligent person in the Philippines and the world but nobody can beat the toughness of my heart as a Filipino,” Duterte, who wore a green traditional gown, said in a speech after she took her oath before a Supreme Court associate justice, her hand resting on a Bible held by her mother.

“The voice of 32.2 million Filipinos was loud and clear - with the message to serve our motherland,”

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Duterte said, referring to the votes she got, to an applause from thousands of supporters.

Fondly called by supporters as “Inday Sara,” the mother of three called for national unity and devotion to God and asked Filipinos to emulate the patriotism of the country’s national hero Jose Rizal. She cited longstanding social ills facing Filipino children, including poverty, broken families, illegal drugs, bullying and online misinformation and asked parents to ingrain in them the values of integrity, discipline, respect for others and compassion.

President Rodrigo Duterte, 77, led the VIPs in the heavily guarded ceremony at a public square

near city hall in the port city of Davao, where he had also served as a longtime mayor starting in the late 1980s.

His family, hailing from modest middle-class background, built a formidable political dynasty in the restive southern region long troubled by communist and Muslim insurgencies and violent political rivalries.

Duterte’s presidency has been marked by a brutal anti-drugs campaign that has left thousands of mostly petty suspects shot dead by police or vigilantes.

The drug killings are being investigated by the International Criminal Court as a possible crime against humanity.

SL to resume flights from Jaffna Islamic State terror group claims attack on Sikh gurdwara in Kabul to India in July: Aviation Minister C O LO M B O, J U N 1 9 (PTI): Sri Lanka will resume flights from the northern Jaffna peninsula to India next month, Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has said, asserting that the move would support the country’s tourism industry and help in easing the economic crisis.

The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority plans to attract 800,000 tourists during the rest of the year.

“The northern Jaffna peninsula’s Palaly airport is to resume flights to India from next month,” Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said on Saturday.

However, he did not specify a date.

“Resuming the flights would improve tourism and

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help the country in the current dollar crisis,” de Silva said after inspecting the airport. The present runway can only accommodate 75-seater flights and therefore needs to be extended, he said.

He hoped for Indian assistance for runway improvements.

The airport was named the Jaffna international airport in October 2019. The first international flight to land there was from Chen-

nai. The 2019 redevelopment of the airport was funded by both Sri Lanka and India.

Earlier, India’s Alliance Air conducted three weekly flights from Chennai to Palaly. However, after a government change in Sri Lanka in November 2019, the flight operations were halted.

Sri Lanka is currently facing its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948.

The economic crisis has prompted an acute shortage of essential items like food, medicine, cooking gas and other fuel, toilet paper, and even matches, with Sri Lankans being forced to wait in lines lasting hours outside stores to buy fuel and cooking gas.

KABUL, JUN 19 (PTI): The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the deadly terror attack on a gurdwara in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul that killed two persons, including one Sikh community member, calling it “an act of support” for the Prophet.

Several blasts tore through Gurdwara Karte Parwan in Kabul’s Bagh-e Bala neighbourhood on Saturday while Afghan security personnel thwarted a bigger tragedy by stopping an explosive-laden vehicle from reaching the place of worship of the minority community.

In a statement posted on its Amaq propaganda site late Saturday, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), an affiliate of the Islamic State militant group, said the attack

Taliban fighters stand guard at the site of an explosion in front of a Sikh temple in Kabul.

targeted Hindus and Sikhs and the “apostates” who protected them in “an act of support for the Messenger of Allah”.

The dreaded terror group said one of its fighters “penetrated a temple for Hindu and Sikh polytheists” in Kabul, after killing the guard, and opened fire on

the worshippers inside with his machine gun and hand grenades.

It was the latest targeted assault on a place of worship of the Sikh community in Afghanistan.

The three attackers were killed by the Taliban forces.

The terror attack on

the gurdwara came days after the ISKP in a video message warned of an attack against Hindus to avenge the remarks against Prophet Mohammad by two former BJP functionaries.

In the past too, the ISKP had claimed responsibility for attacks on places of worship of Hindus, Sikhs and Shia Muslims in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the attack on the gurdwara in Kabul drew severe criticism from Afghan leaders and the UN. Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai condemned the attack and called it a “terrorist incident.”

Abdullah Abdullah, former chairman of the Afghan High Council National Reconciliation, also condemned the attack.

“I strongly condemn... heinous and cowardly ter-

rorist attack on our Sikh community Gurdwara in Karta-e Parwan,” Abdullah Abdullah was quoted as saying by Tolo news.

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Twitter said it “strongly condemns today’s attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul.”

“Attacks on civilians must cease immediately,” the UNAMA said and called for the protection of all minorities in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was once home to tens of thousands of Sikhs and Hindus, but decades of conflict have seen the number dwindle to a tiny handful.

In recent years, those who have remained have been repeatedly targeted by the local branch of the Islamic State (IS) militant group.

SL reaches out to Russian Imran conspired to disqualify oppn leadership: Pak min 20 Indian fishermen jailed companies for crude oil in Pak for five years released ISLAMABAD, JUN 19 (PTI): Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan had “fascist plans” to extend his rule for 15 years and wanted to get the entire opposition leadership disqualified by the end of this year, a senior PML-N minister has claimed, according to a media report on Sunday.

Speaking at a TV show on Saturday, Minister for Power Khurram Dastagir said he had prior information that Khan wanted to clean sweep the entire opposition leadership, including Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz (PML-N) president and incumbent premier Shehbaz Sharif, Ahsan Iqbal and former Pakistan prime

question of what prompted his party to accept the country’s rule for just one and a half years, he said: “The coalition was formed only because Mr Khan had fascist plans to attack this country.”

Responding to the claim made by Dastagir during the show, a clip of which he uploaded on his Twitter account, PTI leader and ex-minister Ali Haider Zaidi said: “Khurram Dastagir admitted openly that the constitutionally elected government of Imran Khan was removed through a conspiracy to save the opposition from corruption cases.

It is unfortunate that these thugs are now killing [destroying] the economy.”

Khan, 69, was ousted from power in April after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy targeting him because of his independent foreign policy decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan.

Ever since his ouster, the cricketer-turned-politician has been protesting and calling for fresh elections because, in his words, the incumbent coalition government led by Prime Minister Sharif was “imported” and is not a true representative of the Pakistani people.

Khan has led his thousands of PTI supporters to several cities of Pakistan in anti-government protests.

COLOMBO, JUN 19 (IANS): Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said on Sunday that they have reached out to several Russian crude oil suppliers in an effort to solve the island nation’s energy crisis.

Wijesekera said that they are trying to obtain Russian crude oil on credit to keep the country’s only oil refinery running, reports Xinhua news agency.

The Minister said that Sri Lanka’s oil bill has risen to $550 million a month by June 2022.

He added that Sri Lanka now owes oil firms $730 million for oil im-

ported on credit, and these companies will now only supply fuel after upfront payments or deposits.

Sri Lanka has suffered crippling fuel shortages since February as a foreign exchange crisis worsened in the South Asian country.

The country’s stateowned fuel distributor Ceylon Petroleum Corporation said it only has 5,000 metric tonnes of petrol and thus only 500 metric tonnes will be released to gas stations each day. The country currently needs at least $5 billion over the next six months to pay for basic essential items such as food, fuel and fertiliser.

Iranian fighter jet crashes, no one killed: Army

Hundreds attend yoga session in Washington ahead of Intl Yoga Day

T E H R A N, J U N 1 9 (IANS): An F-14 fighter jet has crashed in Iran’s central Isfahan province with the pilots safely ejected, the official news agency IRNA reported.

According to spokesman for Iran’s Army in Isfahan province, The fighter was on mission when a technical failure occurred in its engine that led to the crash, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the IRNA. The pilot and copilot managed to eject, and were transferred to hospital due to injuries, it said. No one was killed in the crash, said the spokesman.

WASHINGTON, JUN 19 (PTI): Hundreds of people participated in a yoga session organised by the Indian Embassy at the iconic Washington Monument here ahead of the International Yoga Day (June 21).

The participants of the event held on Saturday were from different walks of life, including the US administration, Congress, industry, diplomatic corps, media and the Indian diaspora.

Yoga is India’s greatest gift to the world, US National Science Foundation (NSF) director Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan said.

Dr Panchanathan was the guest of honour at the event organised by the em-

bassy in association with several diaspora and US organisations.

Asserting that yoga is a strong uniting force across geographies and boundaries, the NSF director said science and yoga are in synergy towards the

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minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

Lending strength to his claim, the minister recalled the former prime minister had also announced that the services of 100 judges would be hired to expedite cases against his political opponents, the Dawn newspaper reported.

While replying to the

prosperity of the mind and body.

As part of the celebrations, a common yoga protocol session was conducted which saw enthusiastic participation from those present.

India’s Ambassador to

the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu said yoga is an enhancer of physical, mental, spiritual and intellectual well-being.

In the emerging postCovid scenario, yoga is helping build resilience, health, togetherness, compassion and happiness, he said.

Wi t h t h e U n i t e d States, yoga is deepening the vital people-to-people link and connect, which is at the core of the India-US bilateral partnership guided

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden, Sandhu added.

All the five Consulates of India in the US – New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, and San Francisco

– are also holding various programmes to mark the International Day of Yoga 2022.

These include events at the iconic Times Square in New York, Niagara Falls, Golden Gate National Park in San Francisco, California Museum, Sacramento, Crown Point Park in San Diego, Newtown Park in Atlanta, Grant Park in Chicago, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North Texas in Dallas, Discovery Green in Houston and the River Walk in San Antonio.

In the run up to the International Yoga Day 2022, several curtain-raiser events were organised by the embassy and the consulates across the United States.

KARACHI, JUN 19 (PTI): Pakistan in a goodwill gesture on Sunday released 20 Indian fishermen who have been languishing in a jail here for the last five years for allegedly fishing illegally in the country’s waters.

The twenty fishermen were lodged at Malir district jail in the Landhi area of Karachi. They were sent to Lahore on their way to the Wagah border where they will be handed over to the Indian authorities.

Jail superintendent Muhammad Irshad said the fishermen were released on the order of the federal government.

“They were in jail for the last five years. Today, they were handed over to the Edhi trust which will be responsible for taking them to Lahore under police escort,” he said.

Irshad said the fishermen were arrested by the Maritime Security Force in June 2018 and then jailed for fishing illegally in Pakistan’s territorial waters.

Fa i s a l E d h i , w h o heads the welfare foundation, said all expenses and travelling of the Indian fishermen were being taken care of by them.

Edhi trust is a nonprofit social welfare organisation.

9th PhUVKIU DAY OBSERVED

Every year 18 th of June is observed as Phuvkiu Day in commemoration of Change in Nomenclature of village name from “CHOMI” to “PHUVKIU” with the approval of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India Vide letter NO. 11/11/2012- M&G, dated 3rd May 2013 and the Notification from the Governor of Nagaland vide NO. GAB-11/KPE/22/2012 dated Kohima the 3rd June 2013. Our ancestral had coined the village name as Phuvkiu which they name after “PHUVSITIU” a heavily fruit bearing tree under which they incidentally happened to be taking rest on that fateful day during hunting. Thus Phuvkiu signifies prosperity and abundance resembling Phuvsitiu. The program was attended by Village Council, Citizen Executive members, Phuvkiu Village Students’ Union officials and Church elders, and the day was marked with a prayer from Rev. K. Kumkiu, Pastor, Phuvkiu Baptist Church.

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Renowned artistes, music producers, recording artistes and fans from all over the State converged to celebrate some of the most happening musicians during the Musicians Guild Award 2022.

Summing up a typical Saturday night, the ceremony witnessed some memorable performances from a myriad of local talents.

The earlier edition was held online due to Covid-19 pandemic last year and with this edition being the first live performance

the organisers ensured that it was celebrated in the best way possible.

The ceremony was opened by Asu J and Imsongdi Imsong and after the host Ruopfü Whiso welcomed the guests, Akhriezee took the stage to keep the guests entertained.

Other performances included the duo Achumla & Albert, a dance group called HIME, Mezhanuo, Nourhe Khate, Bozio Nienu, ZT Slingshot and the closing performance

by Imliakum Aier & The Electric Cool Kid. The presenters during the ceremony included Alobo Naga, Divine Connection, Harmonic Voices, Miss Nagaland

Winners, Mr & Mrs Tali and Jungtina, Zonimong & Vitz Zhimo, Mr & Mrs Fung and Bethel, Asalie Peseyie, Team MG, TAFMA and Tetseo Sisters.

This year’s panel of judges were indian songwriter and composer Shalmali, Mumbai-based Naga musician Among Jamir and award winning artiste, producer and composer Karan.

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B e s t Po p D u o / Group Artiste – The Gluttones Best Sound Engineer - Ode, Tk Lemtur Best Music Video – L i ly S aw i a n f e a t B4NSHAN & Lucy for Suri Best Electronic Artiste – Valentina, GFRY, Jintu Most Promising Artiste(s) – Joshua Shohe & O Daapun (shared) Best Pop Solo Artiste – KL Pamei Best Rap/HipHop Artiste – Big Dane Best Song of the Year – Klanjan for “Knight in Shining Armour”

MGA to host World Music Day on Jun 21

Musicians Guild is set to host the 7th “World Music Day” on June 21 at the Heritage, Kohima from 4 p.m. onwards.

Artistes performing during the event includes: Abdon Mech, Temsu Clover, Imliakum Aier & The Electric Cool Kid, Powerfaith, KL Pamei, Moko Koza, Dieze Sothu, ProDGs, Senti Kichu, Zayie, After 20s, HIME, Wishess (Manipur), Lapla Oungh, Fifth Note, Imnaienla, Worngam and Elysian.

Entry ticket to the event is set at Rs 200 for one person where spectators would be treated to a variety eateries at the venue.

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n a major shift in paradigm for Bhutan, a traditional and conservative country is all set to send Tashi Choden Chombal, who is a proud lesbian, to the Miss Universe 2022 pageant.

The 23-year-old was crowned Miss Bhutan 2022 and is now preparing to represent her country on a worldwide stage.

Chombal was bor n in Nagaland to a Tibetan Khampa father and a Bhutanese mother, Kinley Wangma, from the Shaa district of Bhutan.

She was born and lived in Nagaland till she was three years old.

Tashi has always been proud of her sexuality, and she was one of the first individuals in Bhutan to talk openly about it.

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Hurkacz clinches Halle Open singles title immediate inroads in the championship match as he broke twice to race to a 5-0 lead early.

He wrapped up the first set with ease having fired eight winners, including five aces.

Medvedev’s frustration began to show as Hurkacz broke again in the first game of the second set, and although the World No. 1 did raise his level on serve, he was unable to make an impact on the powerful

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Hurkacz delivery.

The early break proved enough for the Pole to seal a comprehensive win having won 84 percent (32/38) of points behind his first serve in the match and without facing a breakpoint.

Granollers-Zeballos win men’s doubles title

Hubert Hurkacz (left)celebrates with the trophy.

HALLE (GERMANY), JUN 19 (IANS): Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz won the Halle Open title after defeating World No. 1 Daniil Medvedev in straight sets here on Sunday.

The fifth-seed Pole broke Medvedev three times on his way to a quick-fire 6-1, 6-4 win and secured his maiden tour-level title on grass in just 63 minutes on OWL Arena.

Claiming his fifth tourlevel trophy in Halle sees Hurkacz projected to return to the Top 10 in the ATP Rankings for the first time since January.

The 2021 Wimbledon semifinalist Hurkacz had come through his quarterfinal against Felix AugerAliassime and his semifinal against Nick Kyrgios without breaking serve once, but the 25-year-old made

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Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos held off a stirring late comeback from Tim Puetz and Michael Venus to clinch the 2022 Halle Open men’s doubles title,

Berrettini retains Queen’s Club title

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to down Andy Murray in the Stuttgart Open final last week and was equally as impressive against the Serbian Krajinovic to triumph at the ATP 500 event in one hour and 34 minutes.

Berrettini now leads the 30-year-old 3-0 in their ATP Head to Head series, while he has improved his record on grass to 32-6, having won 20 of his past 21 matches on the surface.

In a lively clash, breaks were exchanged in the middle of the first set as both players looked to find their rhythm on serve. Berrettini struck first when he planted a perfectly executed volley away to move ahead, but Krajinovic responded immediately as he broke back to level for 3-3.

However, the Italian stepped up the intensity and power in his groundstrokes at the end of the set to clinch the opener after 54 minutes.

Fuelled by confidence, the second seed continued to go on the attack in the second set. He won 86 per cent (12/14) of his firstserve points as he pushed Krajinovic deep behind the baseline and gained the decisive break in the fifth game, before he held his nerve on serve to secure the title.

World Rowing Cup 2: India win bronze in para-rowing Men’s Pair MUMBAI, JUN 19 (IANS): India won a bronze medal in the pararowing competitions at the 2022 World Rowing Cup 2 at Poznan, Poland, finishing third in Final A of the PR3 Men’s Coxless Pair event.

The Indian duo of Narayana Konganapalle and Kuldeep Singh won the bronze medal with a timing of 7 minutes 33.35 seconds in the event held in Poznan’s Lake Malta on Saturday.

They finished third behind the pairs from France, who finished in 6:52.08 and set a World Best time, and Ukraine 7:29.20, according to information provided by the Rowing Federation of India.

After setting a new world best time (7:07.6) in Friday’s test race, Jerome Hamelin and Laurent Cadot of France improved the record again. The time of 6:52.08 is the first sub-7 minutes performance in this event over 2000 metres.

Back in the pack, Ukraine’s Andrii Syvykh and Dmytro edged their bow out to silver position ahead of third place India’s Narayana Konganapalle and Kuldeep Singh with Italy in close pursuit.

Abu Metha handing over the trophy at the felicitation programme. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR, JUN 19 (NPN): Nagaland Cricket Association (NCA) held a program to felicitate the Nagaland Cricket team members who have qualified for the Elite group-senior men’s team, senior women’s team, and under 19 boys team at Niathu Resort, Chumoukedima on June 18.

Addressing the gathering, special guest and advisor to Chief Minister, Abu Metha congratulated the teams for qualifying for the Elite group and reminded the players that there were hundreds of people from different professions who worked tirelessly behind the scenes. Describing Cricket as an education, Metha said cricket teaches respect and teamwork, and tests character where one would have to make decisions according to the situation. He also remidned

that the most-watched human activity in the world is sports and sports unify people, adding that it understands no language, tribe, or race.

Abu while encouraging the players, also reminded them that once they wear the Nagaland jersey they become the ambassadors representing two million Nagas. He said there is no shortcut in sports, and one has to perform on the ground with sheer hardwork.

NCA president Kechangulie Rio, in his address, said that the main purpose of organizing such an event was to recognize and encourage the players for their achievements both at the national and state level. He said Nagaland Cricket has witnessed perpetual growth over the years and acknowledged the three teams that have

qualified for the Elite group. While all the 11 district cricket associations participated in the recently concluded Inter-district tournament that was held at Sovima Cricket Ground from June 4-18, the Dimapur District Cricket team won the tournament and Wokha team was runner’s up. Group and individual prizes were also presented for the event. Short speeches were also delivered by DC Dimapur Sachin Jaiswal, DC Chumoukedima Abhinav Shivam, All Indian Badminton Association vice president Dr. Watizulu Suzumeren, former Indian football team captain Rennedy Singh, and players and supporting staff.

NCA vice president Herato Sukhalu delivered the vote of thanks while NCA joint secretary Ahidur Rahman chaired the program.

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LO N D O N, J U N 1 9 (IANS): Italy’s Matteo Berrettini on Sunday retained his Queen’s Club title by beating Filip Krajinovic 7-5, 6-4 in the final here, capturing his seventh tour-level trophy and fourth on grass.

In front of a packed crowd, the Italian produced an aggressive performance.

He fired 14 aces and demonstrated great footwork to dictate on his forehand and become the first player in the Open Era to win titles in his first two appearances in London.

The second seed Berrettini has now won his past nine matches and lifted two trophies since he returned to Tour last week following three months out due to a hand injury.

The 26-year-old produced a strong performance

here on Sunday.

A crashing forehand return winner from Granollers proved the moment of magic necessary to break the deadlock late at OWL

Arena, where the top seeds prevailed 6-4, 6-7(5), 14-12 in a dramatic championship match to seal their first grass-court crown as a team.

Granollers and Zeballos had appeared on course for a more comfortable climax to a tight encounter when leading 5/0 in the Match Tie-break. However, home favourite Puetz and New Zealander Venus rallied to force two match points of their own at 10/9 and 12/11, before Granollers’ intervention secured a seventh tour-level title for the Spanish-Argentine pairing.

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Open: Viktor Axelsen, 5th T20I called off due to rain, series shared Indonesia Tai Tzu Ying clinch singles titles

BENGALURU, JUN 19 (IANS): It was supposed to be a cracking decider for a terrific five-match series between India and South Africa despite the threat of rain playing a spoilsport looming around. Eventually, on Sunday, the rain had the final say in causing the winner-takes-it-all-affair to end in a washout, with the series shared between India and South Africa at 2-2, with just 16 minutes of play possible.

Stand-in skipper Keshav Maharaj, coming in for an injured Temba Bavuma, won the toss, maintaining South Africa’s clean slate in winning the tosses in the series.

The visitors brought Reeza Hendricks, Tristan Stubbs and Kagiso Rabada into the playing eleven in place of Bavuma, Marco Jansen and Tabraiz Sham- Indian captain Rishabh Pant and S. Africa captain Keshav si. India, meanwhile, were Maharaj share trophy after the 5th and final T20 match. (PTI) unchanged, sticking to the been bowled after South same eleven right from Delhi, ten days ago.

Even before a ball had Africa pushed India into the series opener in New

batting first for the fifth straight time, the rain came down pouring. Covers were brought on immediately and players from both teams rushed into the dugout.

After a delay of 50 minutes, the match began, now reduced to a 19-overa-side affair. Ishan Kishan teed off with back-to-back sixes, slog-sweeping Keshav Maharaj with elegance and power at the same time over mid-wicket and long-on.

But, in the next over, Kishan was deceived by a slower ball which dipped on him off Lungi Ngidi and lost his off-stump. The off-cutter again did the trick for Ngidi in the fourth over as Ruturaj Gaikwad mistimed the loft to mid-on in the fourth over.

Rishabh Pant was off the mark straightaway with a glance through the short fine leg before the rain came again, this time

heavier.

In between, umpires Anil Choudhary and K.N. Anantha Padmanabhan told the broadcasters that the cut-off time for a 5-over game is 10:02 pm with 25-30 minutes needed for mop-up operations.

But the rain didn’t relent as the confirmation for the match’s abandonment arrived. It meant that a closely-fought series, where South Africa won the first two matches before India made a comeback with back-to-back victories, ended without the decider it deserved due to rain playing a spoilsport.

It also signified that South Africa keep the record intact of not having lost a white-ball series in India since 2011.

Brief scores: India 28/2 in 3.3 overs (Ishan Kishan 15; Ruturaj Gaikwad 10; Lungi Ngidi 2/6) against South Africa match abandoned due to rain

JA K A RTA , J U N 1 9 (IANS): Viktor Axelsen from Denmark and Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei won the respective men’s and women’s singles titles at the Indonesia Open tournament, here on Sunday.

Axelsen, who also won the Indonesia Open in the last edition, successfully defended his title after beating China’s Zhao Jun Peng 21-9, 21-10 in the men’s singles final. The Olympic champion, who reached his eighth consecutive Super 1000 final, dispatched his unseeded opponent in just 38 minutes to claim his second straight tournament in Jakarta following his success at the Indonesian Masters one week ago.

Axelsen, who overcame Malaysia’s star Lee Zii Jia in a thrilling semifinal on Saturday, will overtake India’s Lakshya Sen to top the men’s singles World Tour rankings from Monday.

Viktor Axelsen and Tai Tzu Ying after their title win.

On the other hand, Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei saw off Asian champion Wang Zhi Yi of China to win her third women’s singles crown at the tournament (after titles in 2016 and 2018).

The Tokyo 2020 silver medallist narrowly lost the first game (21-23) but immediately reacted by taking the second period 21-6. Tai took control of the decider and saw off Wang 21-15 to clinch her second consecutive title in the BWF World

Tour after the Thailand Open. Earlier in the day, China’s Zheng Si Wei and Huang Ya Qiong got the mixed doubles title after seeing off Watanabe Yuta and Higashino Arisa of Japan in two games (21-14, 21-16).

M e a n w h i l e, M a t suyama Nami and Shida Chiharu of Japan retained their Indonesia Open women’s double crown after coming back from one game down against compatriots Fukushima Yuki and Hirota Sayaka.

MotoGP: Quartararo wins; extends lead in German GP PM flags off first-ever torch relay for Chess Olympiad

SAXONY (GERMANY), JUN 19 (IANS): Fabio Quartararo won the Grand Prix Deutschland, a crucial win in the 2022 MotoGP World Championship title fight that extended his lead at the top.

The Yamaha MotoGP rider not only scored consecutive victories for the first time this year but is now 34 points clear at the top of the standings. Aprilia Racing’s Aleix Espargaro remains second in the title race after finishing fourth at the Sachsenring but the Ducati Team’s Francesco Bagnaia has a mountain to climb after he crashed out while chasing Quartararo on Lap 4.

From that point on, Quartararo asserted himself in a dominant display to win by almost five seconds after

Fabio Quartararo kisses the trophy after winning MotoGP.

30 laps, with Pramac Racing’s Johann Zarco finishing a lonely second. There was some solace for the Ducati Team in the form of Jack Miller, who fought back from a Long Lap penalty to earn the final place on the podium, while the VR46 Racing Team’s Luca Marini grabbed fifth on another Desmosedici.

As MotoGP riders now head to the Netherlands for the final race before the summer break later this month.

Bagnaia had sensationally qualified on pole on Saturday but, as is so often the case, Quartararo was not going to allow a key rival to catch an early break.

‘El Diablo’ was late on the

stoppers when they arrived at the first corner of the race and nabbed the early lead, as Espargaro took up third, ahead of Zarco, Fabio Di Giannantonio (Gresini Racing MotoGP), and Miller.

Bagnaia then overtook Quartararo at the start of the second lap but the Frenchman was not having it, forcing his way back down the inside of the Ducati as they exited Turn 1.

The maneuver left Pecco having to chase, but his pursuit ended just two laps later when he lost the rear of his Desmosedici as he tried to round Turn 1 again.

The crash gave Quartararo a free kick in the context of the World Championship, and a clear, one-second lead over second place in the Grand Prix, which had been inherited by Zarco after he had squeezed past Aleix Espargaro on Lap 2.

NEW DELHI, JUN 1 9 ( AG E N C I E S ) : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched the first-ever torch relay at the Indira Gandhi stadium here for the 44th Chess Olympiad that will be held in July-August.

The ceremony was also attended by Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Anurag Thakur, International Chess Federation President Arkady Dvorkovich and All Indian Chess Federation President Sanjay Kapoor.

Speaking at the

PM Narendra Modi launches the torch relay for 44th Chess Olympiad, at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi. (PTI)

event PM Modi said: “Our ancestors invented the games like Chaturanga & Chess for the analytical development of the brain.

Children who play Chess are becoming good problem-solvers. In the last 8 yrs, India has improved

its performance in Chess.”

PM Modi wished the best to all the players of the Chess Olympiad.

Talking about policies in field of sports Modi said, “schemes like Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) and Khelo India

are working towards long term success. We are witnessing results of it as well.

Youths are excelling in every sports. We saw global sporting events like Olympics and Paralympics where Indian athletes performed well, breaking old records and setting new records.”

“We are working with a target towards 2024 Paris Olympics and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Under TOPS scheme several athletes are being supported,” he added.

“In this 44th Chess Olympiad, over 2000 players from 188 countries will participate.

Jabeur clinches German Open title

Ons Jabeur

BERLIN, JUN 19 (AGENCIES): Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur won the second grasscourt title of her career after reign-

ing Olympic champion Belinda Bencic was forced to retire injured in the final of the Berlin Open on Sunday.

Top seed Jabeur took the opening set 6-3, while Bencic injured her ankle in the final game.

The Swiss attempted to soldier on but was eventually forced to retire with Jabeur leading 2-1 in the second.

Even as the crowd gave both finalists a round of applause, the Tunisian was busy helping treat Bencic as she took her seat, bringing her an ice bucket for her ankle.

She also won the WTA 1000 claycourt Madrid Open last month. Jabeur is projected to move up to third in the world rankings on Monday.

India’s Anahat wins Asian Jr Squash title in U-15 category

Anahat Singh

NEW DELHI, JUN 19 (IANS): Indian player Anahat Singh won the gold medal in the girls Under-15 category at the Asian Juniors Squash Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. According to information received here, the 14-year-old Anahat defeated Kwong Ena of Hong Kong 3-0 in the final to claim the top prize. She reached the finals without dropping a single game in the tournament.

Anahat had defeated Malaysian top seed Whitney Isabelle Wilson 3-0 in the semifinals. So far, Anahat has won 46 national circuit titles, two national championships and eight international titles. She is the only Indian girl to win the US Junior Open in any category and the British Junior Open. She will be the youngest player to represent India at the World juniors squash championships in Nancy, France later this year.

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