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Vol XXXI No. 290

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2 killed in Assam police firing on ‘encroachers’ Govt appoints retired HC judge to probe incident GUWAHATI, SEP 23 (PTI/AGENCIES): Two civilians were killed and around 20 injured when an anti-encroachment drive in Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday blew up into a brutal clash between the police and people protesting eviction. A shocking video went viral, where an apparently dead man with a bullet wound on his chest lay motionless but was still hit by a man slinging a camera.

The Assam government, following the incident, ordered an inquiry under the chairmanship of a retired judge of Gauhati High Court. The public protest had erupted over the demand for rehabilitation of nearly 800 families evicted from the land they were living on for decades.

A person seen lying on the ground surrounded by police personnel (Screen grab)

Darrang Superintendent of Police Sushanta Biswa Sarma, a younger brother of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, claimed the protesters, armed with sharp weapons, pelted the police personnel and others present with stones.

Police initially fired in air to disperse the protesters but failed, forcing them to fire at people, killing two and injuring at least ten others. Around 10 more, including policemen, were also injured in clashes.

Meanwhile, a purport-

MV AMENDMENT ACT, 2019 Issued by: Dimapur Traffic Police “Cares for You” Initiative, 2021

ed video of the incident has gone viral on social media where a photographer is seen kicking a person, presumably dead. The video shows hundreds of policemen firing at unseen targets from behind the trees, and a man in vest and lungi running on a dusty street.

The photographer was seen being led out by a policeman, but soon returned, jumped over his body, and hit him with something he had picked up lying close by. The man’s left arm lifted momentarily, before he lay still, with a red circle of

blood from a bullet wound on his chest, and a ‘’Gomosa’’, the traditional stole associated with Assamese pride, lying crumpled beside him.

Bijay Shankar Baniya, a professional photographer, hired by the district administration to document the situation, has been arrested.

Eviction drive will continue, says Sarma: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the eviction drive will not be stopped. “The police have been entrusted with the responsibility of clearing the land from encroachers and they will continue to do it till the job is done...,” he added.

Sarma had visited the place on June 7 and inspected the riverine areas allegedly encroached by “illegal settlers” near Dholpur Shiva temple and directed the district administration to clear the area for the government to start a community farming project.

Rahul Gandhi says, Assam on state-sponsored fire: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the BJP government in Assam, alleging that the state government is sponsoring violence. “Assam is on state-sponsored fire. I stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the state- no children of India deserve this,” said Rahul Gandhi on Twitter.

Assam Pradesh Congress President Bhupen Kumar Borah has demanded a judicial inquiry into the “barbaric act” of police firing on protesters.

“The very act of eviction is in itself inhuman especially during the Covid situation,” he added. The Supreme Court had also given a directive against eviction during the pandemic situation yet the state government led by Sarma has been behaving in an autocratic manner to evict the residents of Dholpur who have been living in the area since the 1970s, he said.

Nagaland first State to implement health benefit package 2.1 under AB-PMJAY Correspondent

KOHIMA, SEP 23 (NPN): Nagaland is the first State in the country to implement Health Benefit Package 2.1 under Ayushman BharatPradhan Mantri Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) that includes organ transplant.

A B - P M J AY w a s launched in Nagaland on September 23, 2018, while the Health Benefit Package 2.1 is being implemented since April 2021.The scheme covers 1,664 treatment procedures across 26 disciplines. Till date, 2.6 lakh e-cards have been issued under the scheme and approximately 20,000 patients requiring hospitalisation have been covered at a total cost of over Rs 26 crore.

Informing this to media on the occasion of third anniversary of AB-PMJAY at Hotel Vivor here on Thursday, health & family welfare minister S Pangnyu Phom said the scheme had covered only 41% of the targeted families, who benefited immensely by availing its benefits either in Nagaland or in other States. Besides issuing 2.6 lakh e-cards, altogether pleas, that the order will be 2,33,328 households have pronounced next week.

“We wanted to pass an order this week,” the CJI said, adding that it had to be deferred as some members Correspondent of the technical committee, which the court had in KOHIMA, SEP 23 (NPN): mind, expressed “personal Nagaland has received andifficulties” in becoming other 11 PSA oxygen plants part of it. under PM’s Cares fund in "That is why it is tak- addition to the four plants ing time to constitute the received earlier. committee,” the CJI said, Sources from the adding, "We will be able health and family welfare to finalise the members of (H&FW) department told the technical expert team Nagaland Post that with the by next week and then pro- additional PSA plant, bignounce our orders.” ger PSA plants would be CJI told Singh that he installed in district hospitals was conveying this to him while smaller ones would be as senior advocate Kapil re-located to CHCs accordSibal, who had argued for ing to the population. senior journalists N Ram They said that even if and Shashi Kumar, has not PSA plants were installed, been seen in courts for the uninterrupted power supply last few days. was required. Therefore, “I will inform Sibal,” sources said the department Singh told the bench which has tasked the power departthen proceeded with the ment to conduct the survey hearing in other listed cases. to install transformers with

Manipur: Villagers refuse to accept Abonmai’s body Pegasus snooping: SC 13 COPS SUSPENDED; CONG , CPI DEMAND PROBE to set up expert panel Correspondent

IMPHAL, SEP 23 (NPN): Tension continued to prevail in Manipur’s Tamenglong district on Thursday even as shocked villagers decided to not accept the dead body of former president of Zeliangrong Baudi (Assam Manipur Nagaland) Athuan Abonmai who was reportedly abducted and killed on September 22.

Abonmai was killed shortly after he was whisked away from Tamenglong district headquarters where a government function, attended by Manipur chief minister Biren Singh, was held amid tightened security on Wednesday. The police said the body of Abonmai was kept at a morgue here for necessary official formalities.

Meanwhile, villagers of Lamlaba, the native village of the deceased, announced while handing over the body on Thursday morning that they would not accept the body for burial until and unless the State government booked the culprit(s). The villagers also

claimed that Abonmai was whisked away from near the function venue, openly in the presence of police and other security forces.

In another video that went viral on social media, Abonmai was seen being assaulted by some unknown people before being taken away in the presence of security forces.

13 cops suspended: Manipur government has suspended 13 police personnel-- eight personnel from the district police, four from 5 Manipur Rifles and the officer-in-charge of Tamenglong police station and a probe will be held against them in connection with the abduction and killing of Athuan Abonmai.

The government has set up an inquiry headed by an IGP rank officials.

Cong, left parties demand probe: The Congress, the Left parties and others have demanded judicial inquiry by a sitting high court judge into the case of kidnapping and killing of Abonmai. Congress also demanded sacking of Tamen-

glong district magistrate and superintendent of police within the next 24 hours.

Addressing a press conference, Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee working president K Meghachandra described Abonmai as the voice of unity and integrity of Manipur and said his assassination must be taken with utmost seriousness.

CPI Manipur State Council alleged negligence on the part of the State government behind the loss of life of Abonmai. The party said the abduction of Abonmai from the venue of a function that was attended by the chief minister showed total failure of the home department and security forces in the State.

Sharing its pain and sorrow at the demise of its former general secretary, NPF Manipur State stated that he had worked tirelessly for the party’s growth in the State. He had served as general secretary of the party and had also contested the State Assembly polls as NPF candidate from Tamei AC of Tamenglong district.

Organizations flay killing of ex-ZB (AMN) president

DIMAPUR, SEP 23 (NPN): Various organizations have expressed shocked and condemned the killing of former president of Zeliangrong Baudi (AMN)Athuan Abonmai.

NH: In a condemnation note, Naga Hoho (NH) said at a time when Naga civil society organisations were struggling all these years to bring unity and reconciliation among the Nagas, it was disturbing and

This is it!

"They are continuing factionalism even in transport agency business."

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unfortunate to hear the news of fratricidal killing taking place within the Naga family.

Whatever be the rhyme or reason, the hoho said the killing of Athuan Abonmai was a cowardice act that deserved condemnation by every right-thinking citizen.

“Whatsoever differences we may have, killing is not the answer nor solution to any disagreement. As the teaching of Christianity talks about (Cont’d on p-8)

NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (PTI): In a significant development, the Supreme Court Thursday observed orally that it will set up a technical expert committee to inquire into the Pegasus snooping matter and pass an interim order next week on a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the entire issue.

The apex court's observations on constituting the committee assume significance in view of the Centre's statement that it would set up an expert panel on its own to look into the grievances of the alleged surveillance of certain eminent Indians by hacking their phones using Israeli firm NSO's spyware, Pegasus.

A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, which was to hear some other matter, addressed senior lawyer CU Singh, one of the counsels in the

tre said that it is a “critical period” as there may be a tendency to ignore COVIDappropriate behaviour, resulting in large gatherings.

“It is critical to enforce adherence to guidelines to allow festivities in a cautious, safe and COVIDappropriate manner,” said a letter written by Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan to all chief secretaries. “Any laxity in implementation of COVID-appropriate behaviour could lead to serious consequences and can result in a surge in cases,”

S. Pangnyu Phom

State to cover over 1.63 lakh households

by March 2022 under ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’ Rs. 26 cr disbursed under AB-PMJAY scheme been covered in Nagaland under PMJAY. According to health department, there are a total of 9,33,312 eligible household in the state.

Further, Pangnyu said building and other construction workers registered with the labour department too would be covered under AB-PMJAY, adding that 8,584 new families would be added in the State’s list of beneficiaries.

Further, Phom mentioned that integration of National Food Security Act (NFSA) data was under process whereby Aadhaarseeded ration cards would

be linked to PMJAY portal, which would ease the enrolment process and improve coverage.

He said Nagaland State Rural Livelihood Mission would partner with State health agency (SHA) PMJAY to spread awareness about AB-PMJAY through self-help groups (SHGs) and e-card generation through block data operators.

Mentioning that Aapke Dwar Ayushman (Ayushman scheme at doorsteps) was another new initiative, the minister remarked that to carry out enrolment drives in villages and increase e-card generation, SHA-PMJAY along with various partner agencies would carry out outreach drives till March 2022 aiming to reach at least 70% of the total targeted families (1,63,329 households).

He also acknowledged SHA AB-PMJAY team led

by H&FW principal secretary AS Bhatia for successful implementation of the scheme in the State. He thanked insurance company partners and others including NGOs for participating in PMJAY e-card generation.

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State gets additional 11 PSA plants all the accessories and other requirements. Accordingly, it was informed that the power department conducted the survey and responded to execute the work once the project amount (over Rs. 4 crore) was sanctioned.

H&FW department has reportedly prepared and submitted the detailed project report (DPR) to the government for release of the said amount.

Official sources from the power department told Nagaland Post that once the department received the project amount, it would immediately execute the work in all the 13 sites, which would take about one month to complete. Altogether, the state has received 15 PSA plants from PM’s cares fund while 12 were received from

various agencies including foreign agencies.

The 13 sites where transfers are to be installed included NHAK Kohima 250 KVA, DH Mokokchung 200 KVA, DH Phek KVA, Yachem CHC (Longleng) 100 KVA, DH Peren 100 KVA, CHC Jalukie Peren 100 KVA, CHC Noklak 100 KVA, CHC Pungro (Kiphire) 63 KVA, CHC Meluri Phek 63 KVA, CHC Bhandari Wokha 63 KVA, CHC Aghunato Zunheboto 63 KVA and CHC Pfutsero Phek 63 KVA. Meanwhile, in view of the ensuing festivals, the Health department is likely to brief the war-room on the SOPs soon, after which HPC would take decisions based on War-room’s recommendation.

Reddy to inaugurate soil testing lab State Covid caseload breaches 31k-mark

DIMAPUR, SEP 23 (NPN): Union Minister for tourism, culture & DoNER, G. Kishan Reddy, would inaugurate the State Soil Testing Laboratory funded by NEC, Ministry of DoNER, at the Directorate of Soil & Water Conservation on September 24, 2021 at 3:40 p.m.

According to an official bulletin, the minister is also scheduled to hold a review meeting with the planning

& co-ordination department and other implementing departments of schemes under Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Ministry of DoNER at Hotel Japfü, Kohima on September 24, 2021 at 2:30pm.

All the administrative heads of departments and heads of departments of implementing departments have been requested to attend the meeting.

DIMAPUR, SEP 23 (NPN): Nagaland’s COVID-19 STATUS AS ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 ACTIVE CASES Covid-19 total caseload breached the Symptomatic Non Covid 31,000 mark on Thursday after 37 fresh Deaths MiSEVERE AsModRecovTotal District Death with gratymperate ICU ICU ered Cases cases were reported while two more paCovid 19 ed tom- Mild On On (without (On OxyPositivity atic Oxyventila- ventitients succumbed to the infection. gen gen tor) lator Of the fresh cases, 18 were from Dimapur 175 28 2 4 4 4 12972 398 10 643 14237 0 Kiphire 9 0 0 0 0 233 9 0 1 252 Dimapur, Kohima-10, three in Mokok- Kohima 55 45 4 1 0 0 8891 119 1 187 9299 chung, two in Tuensang and one each Longleng 0 5 0 0 0 0 272 0 2 18 297 40 6 0 1 0 0 2104 50 0 56 2256 in Kiphire, Longleng, Phek and Wokha, Mokokchung Mon 0 0 0 0 0 0 1123 11 2 17 1153 Peren 4 0 0 0 0 0 891 5 0 7 908 taking the total caseload to 31027.

Phek 24 0 0 1 0 0 521 17 0 571 Further, two more patients suc- Tuensang 32 6 0 0 0 0 1001 11 0 73 1052 cumbed to the infection in Dimapur, Wokha 13 0 0 0 0 0 338 11 0 15 381 4 0 0 0 0 0 589 14 0 11 621 pushing the death toll to 660 (including Zunheboto Total 356 90 6 7 4 4 28935 645 15 965 31027 15 non-Covid deaths but with positivity). *15 deaths not due to Covid-19 *0 deaths under investigation

Centre issues Covid guidelines ahead of festive season NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (AGENCES): Health ministry has issued specific guidelines to states ahead of the upcoming festive season, asking them to avoid large gatherings in districts with over 5% COVID-19 test positivity rate and allow them in other places only with prior permission and certain restrictions, TNIE report stated.

Noting that the upcoming festive season will last for over two months -- from Navratri in early October to New Year’s Eve -- the Cen-

Section 207 MV Act: Power to detain vehicles used without certificate of registration/ permit etc – Explanation: Section 207 empowers a police officer to impound a motor vehicle if he has reason to believe that the vehicle is being driven without registration, without a permit, driven by a person who has no driving licence or plying on unauthorised route For contravention of provisions relating to driving licence, or without the permit required by sub – section (1) of section 66, the authorised officer/person may instead of seizing the vehicle, seize the certificate of registration of the vehicle and shall issue an acknowledgement in respect thereof Any person whose vehicle has been seized and detained under this section may apply to the transport authority together with the relevant documents for the release of the vehicle and such authority/officer may after verification of such documents, by order, release the vehicle subject to such conditions as the authority/officer may deem fit to impose

 Gatherings only with prior permission  No mass gatherings in dists reporting over 5% positivity he added. The letter said that no mass gatherings should be allowed in areas identified as containment zones and in districts reporting more than 5% case positivity. Gatherings with advance permissions and limited people may be allowed only in districts

reporting a positivity rate of 5% or below, the instruction added.

“These gatherings shall also be monitored and in case of violations of physical distancing and mask usage norms, necessary enforcement and penal action should be taken,” the secretary has written.

He has further directed that relaxations and restrictions should be imposed and monitored based on weekly case positivity or a high bed occupancy rate while there should be strict adherence

to limits on gatherings linked with availability of space to ensure effective physical distancing.

“Use of volunteers to aid thermal screenings and to enforce use of masks and physical distancing should be considered,” the letter said adding that CCTV cameras may also be utilised to monitor compliance with physical distancing and use of masks.

State have been urged to accelerate vaccinations of eligible age group with coverage of eligible second dose beneficiaries to be prioritised.

NVCO appreciates Ravi for returning Lokayukta (Amendment No. 2) Bill DIMAPUR, SEP 23 (NPN): Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) has appreciated former governor RN Ravi for returning the Lokayukta (Amendment No. 2) Bill to Assembly (NLA)speaker Sharingain Longkumer for reconsideration.

Pointing out that the State gover nment had sought to amend words in Section 3(9) from six months to one year, the organisation in a statement recalled that

the governor had earlier sent three reminders for filing up the vacancy, which the government should have acted upon.

The governor stressed that it would not be in the interest of transparent governance to amend the period by one year, it added.

According to the release, the institution of Lokayukta was the hub driving anti-corruption wheel in the State and ensured transparency in (Cont’d on p-7) K Y M C

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NPCSD holds executive meeting Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, SEP 23 (NPN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Seva Dal (NPCSD) held its executive meeting on Thursday here at Congress Bhavan Dimapur.

Addressing the gathering, chief organizer, All India Congress Seva Dal (AICSD), Lalji Desai, stated that his purpose of visit was to understand the culture of Nagaland, asserting that people of mainland India were not much aware of the different culture of North East. “When we talk about the idea of India, we also need to understand the culture of the people living in the hill areas”, he added.

Desai shared on how he joined politics in February 2014, when Congress, during that time, was losing the election battle nationally. He added that many would join a party which was expected to win and come to power. He however maintained that his ideology was to join a political party that united India, and the party that fought for India’s independence, not caring whether they came to power or not.

Lalji Desai speaking at the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Seva Dal (NPCSD) executive meeting on Thursday. (NP)

Desai explained that he was noticed by Rahul Gandhi when he was organizing an agitation against the then chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, who did not hesitate to encounter, kill, arrest, or put to jail for those who went against him.

“We were in war against a cruel chief minister”, Desai stated.

Speaking on the birth of Seva Dal, Desai reminded that it was started in jail by the congress party in 1923, to organize and make discipline within the political party, adding that congress workers and volunteers during that time were

not agitating in an organized manner.

He further added that earlier, the Seva Dals were trained on how to fight against violence, in a non violent way.

Meanwhile, speaking of the RSS, he pointed out that the RSS was dividing and destroying the country on the basis of religion, caste, region, language, etc.

He appealed the gathering not to give chance to RSS to insert its poison to the minds of Nagas, claiming that they were very poisonous. He also termed the RSS and people of RSS as “traitors” of India’s independence

movement and also today’s united India.

He further maintained that BJP was financially strong, that they have started buying MPs and MLAs. He noted that the price of MLAs in Gujarat depended from how much margin they won the election, varying between 5 to 22 crores.

“Amit Shah and Narendra Modi have started auctioning of MLAs and MPs”, he alleged.

“You buy MLAs and MPs that means you are buying India’s democracy”, he further added. He also stated that they were destroying India’s democracy and culture.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by K Azo Rhakho, invocation offered by pastor, Sunday ministry, Ningmi, while welcome address was delivered by chief organizer, NPCSD, YS Yongyo Konyak.

Short speeches were also delivered by national secretary AICSD, N Neilo Koza, national secretary, North East in-charge, Chandan Baurah, and chairman, minority cell, Nagaland Congress Pradesh Committee, Rajesh Kumar Sethi.

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GPRN/NSCN condoles DIMAPUR: GPRN/NSCN has expressed deep anguish over the untimely demise of its deputy kilonser Hokato Achumi who passed away on September 22. In a condolence message, GPRN/ NSCN said late Achumi enrolled and joined the “Naga national service” in 1988 and served in in various capacities with full commitment. GPRN/NSCN said Achumi’s demise was a great loss for GPRN/ NSCN and that his admirable and persistent dedication throughout his service for the “Naga nation shall ever be cherished and treasured in the pages of Naga history”.

Further, GPRN/NSCN has conveyed deepest sympathy and condolence and prayed the Almighty to grant solace and comfort to the bereaved family members and for the departed soul to rest in eternal peace.

DDPWDFWA backs

DIMAPUR: Dimapur District PWD Field Workers Association (DDPWDFWA) has extended support to ANPWDFWA demand to rectify work charged employees details. The unit has also demanded release of salaried of category C and D genuine employees.

Ministry of textiles conduct seminar for artisans in Dimapur

Participants after the seminar on September 22, at Hotel Aquila, Dimapur.

DIMAPUR: Development commissioner (handicrafts), Government of India, Ministry of Textiles, Handicrafts Service Centre Kohima, organized a seminar on “Awareness on schemes of development commissioner (handicrafts) and GI registration e-commerce, GeM portal, GST etc” for artisans under research and development schemes for 2021-22, on September 22, at Hotel Aquila, Dimapur.

A press release by assistant director, development commissioner (handicrafts), T Rollee Vareishim stated that managing director, Nagaland Industrial Development Corporation Ltd. (NIDC), government of Nagaland, P Zuvito Waths, inaugurated the seminar.

Managing Director, Nagaland Women Vocational Training Institute, Dimapur, Temjenla Jamir, shared usage of e-commerce and benefits of artisans for marketing using help of latest technology, while director in charge, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Kohima Region, Dr. Mayonmi Shimray, shared facilities of artisans for admission and studies with free study materials while working at home and receiving degrees up to graduation level in any stream.

Assistant commissioner of state taxes, Dimapur, Tokatoli Sohe explained the system and application of Goods and Services Tax (GST) for importers and ex-

porters of artisans. Empaneled designer of DC handicrafts, NE region, Viqheli Tsuqu also explained the importance of design in handicrafts productions and encouraged participants to apply suitable and meaningful designs in handicrafts productions so that market value was enhanced.

Handicrafts promotion officer, HSC Kohima, Rajib Chandra Roy, further shared the importance and necessity of Government e-Marketing (GeM) portal and registration of Geographical Indication (GI) of handicrafts so that duplicate of item was avoided. The seminar concluded with vote of thanks delivered by UDC, HSC Kohima, KH Nipamacha Singh.

Oil palm fruit (FFB) procurement ceremony inaugurated

NEWS IN BRIEF D I C t o o r ga n i s e event: As part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to commemorate 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence, one day event under the theme “Showcasing India as a rising Economic Force” would be held on September 25, 10 a.m. at Conference Hall, Directorate of Industries and Commerce (DIC) Nagaland Kohima.

NSCN (Niki) Lotha region warns: NSCN (Niki) Lotha region has warned that any “unauthorised personnel collection donations/contributions” without prior knowledge of the region chairman/secretary would be doing so at their own risk.

The region has warned of strict action and asked public not to entertain any group or individual without the knowledge of region authority. For queries, one has been asked to contact at 7683036512, 8787370128.

Directorate of social welfare informs: Directorate of social welfare, Kohima has informed that the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) has opened the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) for AY 202122 for applying online Scholarship for 2021-22.

The online implementation of (A) pre-matric scholarships for Class IX & X (B) post matric scholarships for Class XII to post graduation on National Scholarships Portal under the umbrella scheme “Scholarships for Students with Disabilities”. It also informed that last date for applying scholarship for pre-matric is November 15, 2021 and post matric is November 30, 2021. The details of these schemes are available on the website (www.scholarships.gov.in).

ANGPTA Kohima unit emergency meeting: All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers Association (ANGPTA), Kohima unit has convened its emergency meeting on September 27, 10 a.m. at Khonoma Rüpfüno Nagaland (KRN) building, D Block Kohima. It informed that members those who are yet to submit their required documents for seniority list i.e. educational qualification (from matric onwards), birth certificate, appointment order, regularisation order, transfer order, (if any) have been asked to bring the same on the said day.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Principal of Baptist Theological College, Pfutsero, Dr. Eyingbeni Humtsoe-Nienu has released a book entitled “Economic and Climate Justice: Towards A Sustainable Livelihood” edited by Dr. Z. K. Pahrü and Dr. Wati Longchar on September 23. Christian ministers, theological students, activists and researchers may find this book as a handy resource in understanding and responding to the present reality.

DIMAPUR: The Oil Palm Fruit (Fresh Fruit Bunch) procurement ceremony was inaugurated by CEONagaland State Agriculture Marketing Board (NSAMB), Ikuto Zhimomi at NSAMB market yard, 4th mile, NE Expo site on September 23.

In a press release issued by district agriculture officer Dimapur, L. Mhao Lotha stated that Zhimomi appreciated the efforts given by the farmers till date and encouraged to go for

more intensive cultivation.

Further expansion of areas as the market has been assured to the growers by procuring the FFB according to the MOU signed between the department of agriculture and Shivasais Oil Palm Pvt. Ltd. He also stated that this was a dream come true that the department of agriculture has achieved so far with market led production started some years back.

CEO-Shivasais Oil

Palm Pvt. Ltd., Ranga Reddy encouraged the farmers not to be discouraged by all the negative remarks from different sources about the cultivation of oil palm.

He also advised the

farmers to continue the cultivation in a larger scale as the income of palm oil promises a better return.

The programme was attended by the department of agriculture officials and oil palm growers.

acKnoWLeDGeMent

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort”.

Late Rev. Dr. Kenny Tsela May He Rest In Peace

2 Corinthians 1:3

Late Renchio Y. KiKon 13/01/1994 - 11/09/2021 We, the bereaved family members, would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood for us through physically, financially, materially and spiritually in times of his illness and demise. We pray that God bless you all abundantly for all the love and support that you have shared with us during our difficult time.

We would like to convey our special gratitude to: 1. Kohima Lotha Baptist Church 2. KLBC Women Department 3. Kohima Mekokla Khumshum 4. Equip Church Ministry, Siliguri, West Bengal 5. Lower Agri Colony 6. Oking Hospital Kohima 7. St. Joseph College (Political Science Department (M.A) 8. Mhonlumo Kikon, Advisor IT & NRE, Science & Technology Loving Dad, Mom Brother, Sisters, In-laws, Relatives & Cousins k-1842/21

The family of Late Rev. Dr. Kenny Tsela offers their deepest gratitude for the compassion and love shown by every individual for their thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. He touched all our lives in so many ways – as a father, a brother, a friend, a guide, a teacher, & as a pastor. His unwavering concern for and gentleness with those who sought his help and his lifelong commitment to right-living and teaching will remain in our hearts forever. With love, the memory of his kind deeds and the strength of his example live on. We are grateful for the support of the community that has been expressed towards the family. Given the great outpouring of support, we are unable to write individually; but please know that our gratitude for you all is unending. Our family truly appreciates the visits, food, flowers, donations, cards, and kind words received. We want to take this moment and thank churches, groups and organizations for your incredible kindness and blessings rendered during this difficult time.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

10.11.1974 - 08.09.2021 Rengma Baptist Church Kohima RBCK Town Area Fellowship Tesophenyu Catholic Community, Kohima Tsogin Fellowship, Kohima Rengma Baptist Church, Pudumpukhri CEC Department, RBCK RBCK High School Fellowship, Kohima RBCK Prayer Group Lotha Baptist Church, Kohima Phezoucha Nagamese Baptist Church RBCK Chandmari Fellowship Rengma Bosti Baptist Church Khatkati Rengma Theological Association Daklane Women Organisation Kandi Women Fellowship, Kohima Rengma Baptist Church, Dimapur Kandi Baptist Church RPO Kohima Kohima Baptist Pastor's Fellowship Bethel Baptist Church Tseminyu Council of Rengma Baptist Churches, Zunpha (CRBC) RBCK Kenuozou Youth Caring Group Leprosy Baptist Church, Naga Bazar RBCK Kenuozou Fellowship Sumi Aphuyemi Baptist Church, Kohima Zion Prayer Fellowship Naga Bazar Rengma Baptist Church, Sovima Rengma Borolingri Baptist Church k-1845/21

RBCK Lierie Fellowship RBCK Women High School Daklane Panchayat Kohima RBCK Youth Caring Group High School RBCK Bayavü Fellowship Terogvunyu Baptist Church Ehunnu Baptist Church Sangtam Baptist Lithro Kohima Tesophenyu Group Fellowship, Kohima Sendenyu Baptist Church Chakhesang Baptist Church Minister's Hill Nagamese Church Naga Bazar Kohima New Terogvunyu Baptist Church Mission Center Church Zunpha Soul Harvest For Christ Ministries Phenshenyu Baptist Church Rengma Baptist Church, Medziphema Chakhesang Baptist Church, Kohima Nagaland Baptist Church of Council (NBCC) Living Word Church, Kohima Rengma Baptist Fellowship Diezephe, Dimapur Tesophenyu Sporting Club Zinsunyu Baptist Church Tseminyu Village Baptist Church Tesophenyu Group Union, Kohima Rengma Baptist Church, Chumukedima Sikkim Baptist Mission Board CRBC Ordained Fellowship Tesophenyu Group Students' Union Kohima

Upper Naga Bazar Baptist Church Youth Department RBCK Youth Department RBCK Women Department Tesophenyu Group Union Tseminyu Town Rengma Selo Zi RBCK Agri/Forest Khedi Baptist Church Rengma Baptist Church, Phek Mezhür Higher Secondary School Tesophenyu Group Women Union St.Peter's Church Tesophenyu Prayer Group K. Station Baptist Church Tesophenyu Group Women Fellowship Chumukedima Sishunu Baptist Church St. Peter's Catholic Church Tesophenyu Ziphenyu Baptist Church Henbenji Baptist Church Tsonsa Baptist Church Tesophenyu Upper Baptist Church Tesophenyu Group Theological Fellowship Kashanyu Baptist Church Tseminyu Old Town Baptist Church Nsunyu Baptist Church Tseminyu Town Baptist Church Tesophenyu Village Council Arpana Ministry Nehemiah Prayer Centre, Dimapur Lorinyu Baptist Church Lovingly, His wife, children and families

Born on : 14.11.1985 – Died on : 17.09.2021

We, the bereaved family of Lt. Yinavungo N Tsanglao convey our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to various churches, individuals, well wishers, friends and families for rendering your unconditional love through prayers, financial help and gesture of kindness shown to us during our bereavement.

A word of gratitude to : 1. Dimapur Lotha Baptist Church/ Rilan Sector Church.

2. Elumyo Baptist Church/Women Dept./Youth Dept.

3. Chishilimi Baptist Akukuho.

4. Elumyo Union Dimapur/Kohima/Wokha.

5. Different unions, councils and churches of Mon Bosti, Karbi Along.

6. Chishilimi Welfare Dimapur.

7. Chishilimi Inalimi Kuqhakulu Dimapur.

We regret our inability to mention all the names but our Heavenly Father has seen your good deeds. We pray that the Almighty God, Giver of everything bless you abundantly. dp-4643/21

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CS chairs SLSC meeting with agri & allied deptts Says 60% of the population depends on agriculture DIMAPUR: The State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) of the agri & alied departments for the year 2021-2022 was held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Nagaland, J. Alam.

The meeting was held at the secretariat conference hall on September 23 attended by all the AHODs, HODs and missions of agri & allied departments.

According to DIPR report, major convergence schemes of the agri & allied department- RKVY, PMKSY, MOVCD-NER and other CSS schemes namely NFSM, ATMA, NMSA, SMAM, NMEO etc were taken up by the SLSC for recommendation and approval.

The chairman of the SLSC stated that more than 60% of the total population depends on agriculture and allied sec-

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Chief secretary, Nagaland J. Alam addressing the SLSC meeting with Agri & Allied Departments. (DIPR)

tors and appreciated the agri & allied departments for performing a crucial role for Nagaland during the times of Covid-19 pandemic coupled with deficit rain fall amounting to drought and Fall Armyworm pest destroying the standing crops.

The chief secretary also congratulated the officials of the agri & allied department for their positive performances during these hard times and called for close coordination amongst the agri & allied family and urged the departments to utilize the funds for the benefit of the farming community.

During the meeting,

the agriculture production commissioner, Nagaland and the vice chairman of SLSC, Y. Kikheto Sema, encouraged the members to provide extraordinary service to the needy people and urged the district officers to deliver the goods to the people.

He stated that the state is going through a double pandemic of Covid-19 and drought in the farmer’s field and called upon the agri & allied department to come out of isolation and work together for the benefit of the farmers and progress of the State, as “I” stand for illness and “We” stands for wellness.

District level consultative meet in Noklak

DIMAPUR: District level consultative meeting on panel for review of Communitization of Public Institutions and Services (CPIS) Act 2002 was held Thursday at the Conference Hall of Deputy Commissioner (DC) Noklak. According to DIPR report, chairperson panel review of CPIS Act Banuo Z Jamir stated that government wants to find out what impact has the communitization had made in the developmental processes in the village level.

She urged upon the line departments to take views of the village level and with the objective to find out how communitization has impacted over the years.

Jamir handed over the questionnaire to all the line departments and urged them to re-examine and give their own views and opinions and submit the questionnaire on or before October 15, 2021.

The chairperson was accompanied by member secretary, panel for review of CPIS Act John Lohe and other officials. The meeting was chaired by DC Noklak Hiazu Meru and attended by department officials from school education, health and family welfare, PHE, power, social welfare, rural development and district administration.

Government college principals conference-cum-training begins

The two day government colleges principals conference cum training was held at the conference hall of Directorate of higher education, Kohima September 23. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Two-day Government Colleges Principals conference cum training organized by the department of Higher Education under the theme “envision, inspire, excel” commenced Thursday at the Conference Hall of Directorate of Higher Education, Kohima.

According to DIPR report, in a welcome address, commissioner & secretary, higher & technical education W. Honje Konyak appreciated the initiative taken by the department and hoped that the conference cum training would regenerate the commitment and responsibility in all.

Stating that principals are not just mere teachers but represents the department and the government, Konyak said their performance reflects the face of the department as well as the government. He then appealed to them to enforce the rules and regulations in the field under their own jurisdiction.

Konyak also called upon the principals to realize their responsibilities as they play an important role in molding the future of the society, are accountable for the smooth functioning of routine activities and recognizes the teaching and

learning priority of their institutions.

On the first day, resource person was Sr. accounts officer department of education and department of health & family welfare, Zubenthung Murry spoke on the topic, “training on accounts and role of DDO”.

Resource persons professor N. Das, department of English, Nagaland University and R. Andreas under Secretary to the government, Department of Economics & Statistics would speak on the second day on the topics “API Assessment” and “Office procedures” respectively.

Training on empowering farmers held Chief Medical Officer Wokha inaugurates Elumyo sub-centre

DIMAPUR: Empowered farmer - empowered society training was held on September 20 at Jungyam Fisheries near AYUSH hospital, Noklak with President of India awardee, Dharamveer Kamboj as the resource person.

According to DIPR report, speaking at the training, Dharamveer encouraged the farmers to be selfreliant and learn division of labour like farmers for farming and Self Help Group (SHG) for food processing and marketing.

He emphasized on good packaging, laboratory analysis and branching and

Dharamveer Kamboj speaking at the training programme.

urged upon the farmers to preserve their biodiversity and traditional knowledge of farming and agriculture.

Dharamveer also trained farmers on food processed

products.

Deputy Commissioner, Noklak Hiazu Meru and Superintendent of Police, Noklak Dr. Pritpal Kaur also spoke during the training.

DIMAPUR: Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Wokha Dr. C. W. Tungoe Thursday inaugurated Elumyo Sub-Centre under Wokha district in the presence of medical officers, medical staffs and Elumyo villagers.

A press release by CMO Wokha office stated that in his address, Dr Tungoe said the sub centre was inaugurated as per the directive received from the principal director, health and family welfare Nagaland.

Stating that village community were equally responsible for the smooth functioning of the health

CMO Wokha Dr. C. W. Tungoe and others after the inauguration of Elumyo Sub-Centre under Wokha district on Thursday.

unit, he asked the com- any health care activities. Dr. Zuben Kikon and zonal munity to cooperate with D u r i n g t h e p r o - leprosy officer Dr. Mhonthe health workers during gramme, deputy CMO chan Kithan briefed the

State BJP adopts 3-pt resolution; backs Naga peace process

State BJP unit president with office bearers after the meeting in Kohima, Thursday.

DIMAPUR: BJP Nagaland unit has supported and endorsed the positive direction and pace with which the Naga peace process was taking place under the leadership of Prime

Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah.

This was resolved at its State Office Bearers (SOB) meeting held with State morcha presidents

and general secretaries at the party’s State head office, Kohima, on Thursday in the presence of State president Temjen Imna Along and also adopted a three-point resolution.

The party resolved to the Naga peace process and subsequent formation of United Democratic Alliance (UDA) government.

The party also affirmed the resolution for Naga political settlement adopted on August 27, 2020, which was reaffirmed at the State Executive meeting held at Dimapur on April 17, 2021.

BJP Nagaland unit also resolved and pledged to extend its unconditional support to chief minister Neiphiu Rio and deputy chief minister Y Patton for their “far-sighted vision” for the greater cause of the Nagas, which ultimately resulted in the formation of

the historic opposition-less government UDA. The party expressed its sincere gratitude to chief minister of Assam and convenor of NEDA Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma for his magnanimity and positive role in the Naga peace process.

Further, extending a warm welcome to Centre’s new interlocutor AK Mishra and governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi, the party expressed the confidence that with their wisdom and political acumen, the pertinent Naga political issue would be brought to a peaceful settlement.

This was stated in a press release.

villagers on the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination and COVID-19 random testing.

Seeking cooperation of the villagers during Covid-19 activities, they urged them to remove stigma attached to the disease.

The inaugural programme was chaired by Elumyo village council chairman C Zumomo Tsanglao, invocation was pronounced by Elumyo Baptist Church Pastor, N.Lichumo Tsanglao, vote of thanks

by GB Tsenthungo Ovung and Elumyo Baptist Church women leader Biali Kikon said the benediction.

SCC conducts webinar

DIMAPUR: Teacher’s association and green audit committee of Sao Chang College (SCC) jointly organized a webinar on the topic, “Understanding Green Audit and Green Initiative” on September 21. A press release by SCC media cell stated that resource person was Policy Analyst and Consultant, Amba Jamir, who spoke on discussed policies, interventions and possibilities that could be adopted by the college while keeping in mind the requirements peculiar to one’s context.

The webinar was chaired by SCC teachers’ association president, DipakNath.

Two rented house gutted in Dimapur

One of the house that was completely reduced to ashes. (NP)

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, SEP 23 (NPN): At least two rented house, where around four families reside, were completely gutted damaging properties at least a few lakhs on Thursday at Churches colony K Y M C

Dimapur.

The incident, which took place at around 6.15 p.m., is suspected to have occurred due electric short circuit. A cooking gas cylinder also exploded in the incident.

Two fire tenders were

pressed into action and it took nearly an hour to bring the fire under control.

However, there was no report of any casualty in the incident.

No further details were known till the time of filing this report.

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‘Congress needs course correction’

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SHILLONG, SEP 23: Veteran Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Meghalaya Assembly, Dr. Mukul Sangma on Thursday said that the Congress party needs “course correction” and indicated that he would speak only to central party leaders.

The two-time former Chief Minister has been upset ever since the Congress High Command installed former Union Minister and three-time Lok Sabha member, Vincent Pala as the state president without consultation with him.

Sangma, who is considered as the undisputed leader after late former Lok Sabha Purno Agitok Sangma from Garo Hills region in western part of Meghalaya, said that he would continue to strive and ensure that the party is strengthened.

“As of now, my focus is to see how things have gone and issues that needed course correction within the four walls of the party,” he told reporters amid media speculation of his recent meeting with Trinamool

Dr. Mukul Sangma and Vincent Pala.

Congress General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata.

Asked about his trip to Kolkata and whether he has had any discussions with leaders from other political parties, Sangma said: “I have friends all across, both within and outside the state.

We have known each other for a very long time and I have had the privilege of knowing so many people,” the veteran Congress leader said.

H oweve r, S a n g m a said what is important is to strengthen the Congress party and to ensure that the

party is capable of providing the platform with a strong foundation to be able to do justice to the responsibility to serve the people.

When asked if he would speak to Pala to rectify the “mistakes,” he said that he would “talk to leaders in New Delhi… and the right people for course correction.”

Stating the course correction needs to be done within the four walls of the party, the veteran Congress Legislator said he is currently keeping his “cards close to his heart” and would be speaking out more at the

appropriate time.

Moreover, he said that politicians need to do more to create a bond of understanding between the people of Khasi and Garo Hills, adding that one of his priorities would be to “infuse oneness and unite the people.”

On media reports claiming that Pala wants to work with the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) post assembly polls in 2023 in the State, the Leader of Opposition said, “I will not comment on how he works and what is his (Pala) … so I think see every person has their own way of doing things now obviously people know how I handle things, how I deal with issues so also people know other politicians, people know and they will know more of him so that it will not be something which I will be willing to elaborate and then you have to ask him (Pala).”

Meanwhile, senior Congress legislator Charles Pyngrope felt that the interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi should meet both Pala and Sangma to sort out their differences.

Union Min lauds Arunachal’s conservation

ITANAGAR, SEP 23 (PTI): Union Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Thursday hailed the Arunachal Pradesh government for its “Airgun Surrender” campaign, a wildlife conservation initiative, and assured the state administration of all possible help to protect the hoolock gibbons.

Choubey, the minister of state for environment, forest and climate change, appealed to the authorities to continue the programme to protect animal species in the state.

In Arunachal Pradesh, where hunting has been a community practice steeped in history and culture, the “Airgun Surrender Abhiyan” is spinning a new hope for conservation with over 2,000 weapons given up voluntarily since its launch in March.

According to state environment and forest minister Mama Natung, who masterminded the initiative, had said the programme is completely voluntary, aimed at making people aware of wildlife conservation.

Choubey also said the Centre has been focusing on the development of the northeast and has sanctioned “sufficient” funds to Arunachal Pradesh under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) for various programmes.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Cong, Left conspired against Modi in Covid 2nd wave: Himanta

G U WA H AT I , S E P 2 3 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday attacked the opposition Congress and Left parties for allegedly conspiring to put Prime Minister Narendra Modi in difficulties during the second wave of Covid-19.

Addressing the Assam BJP’s executive committee meeting at Amingaon locality here, Sarma said other political parties supported the government in the twin calamities of flood and pandemic.

“For the first time, all political parties supported the government in the flood and pandemic. But a conspiracy was hatched under the leadership of the Congress as they thought there would be no better opportunity to put Narendra Modi in an embarrassing situation,” he alleged. The Congress leaders were not worried about Covid-19 and loss of human lives, and their only aim was to put Modi into problems, Sarma claimed on the concluding day of the two-day session.

“The so-called Leftists, who

Himanta Biswa Sarma

claim to be liberal-secular, also hatched a conspiracy against Narendra Modi rather than standing beside the people. But the motherland’s blessings were on Narendra Modi. Oxygen was arranged and gradually vaccines also reached us,” he added.

Without naming anyone, Sarma said all those questioning the government over lack of vaccines and oxygen supplies have gone completely silent.

“Because they were never concerned about vaccines and oxygen. They were only waiting to put Narendra Modi in a fix,” he said.

The last battle for the Assamese civilisation and culture will be fought in the next five years, he said appealing to all party members to work hard in this direction. “In the land of Sanatan

civilisation and culture, we worship cows on Goru Bihu (one of the three Bihu festivals). We bathe them with ‘maah’ (black gram pulses) and turmeric. Will cows be killed on that land? Will we feel proud by consuming beef ? We have to find the answer to that question.

“We have to move ahead in the battle of civilisation and culture. Indianness and rights of different tribes and communities have to be established in this Assam. I don’t have any doubt that we have come out for a fixed goal and till we reach that, relentless work will go on. We don’t have time to care for what others say,” he added.

Sarma said the BJP won the last Assembly polls on the issues of fight for civilisation, culture and development. “After forming the government, we are working against drug cartels and cow (smuggling) syndicates. Someone asked me why encounters are taking place? The reply will come later, but first answer me why drugs are found in Sankardeva’s land?” he said.

Congress issues show-cause Former Sikkim CM Pawan Manipur: Youth remanded to Chamling’s silence creates a buzz notice to 212 workers in Assam judicial custody for remarks on FB

GANGTOK, SEP 23 ( AGENCIES): September 22 marked the 71st birthday of former chief minister and leader of Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) Pawan Chamling. The SDF had organised a huge event to mark the day at the party headquarters in Gangtok. The five-time chief minister of Sikkim was accorded a warm welcome by his supporters, followed by a 2-hour garlanding ceremony, reports East Mojo.

However, the most conspicuous was the complete silence on part of the sitting legislator from Namchi-Singhithang constituency. With

his hand gesturing ‘fingers on lips’, all that Chamling offered was repeated ‘Namaskar’ to the media even on his birthday.

Much to the disappointment of the public, there was no public address. Repeated requests from the media also failed to elicit any response from the leader. Multiple queries were sent, even through his daughter Komal Chamling, but the former CM wouldn’t relent.

The leader’s silence soon started creating a loud buzz on social media, with many claiming it to be a form of protest by Chamling. Some said that it was disrespectful to the media

Kuki chiefs call 24-hour bandh on September 27

IMPHAL, SEP 23 (AGENCIES): Kuki Chiefs Association (KCA), Tengnoupal has called for 24-hour bandh starting from the midnight of September 27 in the entire Tengnoupal district including Imphal to Moreh national highway, Chronicle News Service report stated.

A release by KCA general secretary LS Seikhojang Baite contended that the bandh is in protest against the alleged lackadaisical attitude of the government towards the district.

The association said that though it is against the frequent transfers of deputy commissioners of the dis-

trict it has no objection on assigning additional charge to incumbent DC Praveen Singh as the additional chief electoral officer.

It is only raising concern for thefrequent transfers as it had serious implications in development and effective functioning of the district administration, the KCA said.

It also clarified that intention of the protest is not to inconvenience the public but to draw seriousness of the government towards the district. It further urged the government to rescind its order in the interest of the public.

NE COVID-19 UPDATE Arunachal Pradesh reports 51 new COVID-19 cases I TA NAG A R , S E P 2 3 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 54,241 as 51 more people tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said here on Thursday. The COVID-19 death toll in the frontier state remained at 273 as no fresh fatality was reported in the last 24 hours, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said. Arunachal Pradesh now has 442 active COVID-19 cases, while 53,526

people have recuperated from the disease thus far, including 22 in the last 24 hours, the official said. The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state now is 98.68 per cent while the percentage of active cases is 0.81 and the positivity ratio stood at 1.77 per cent, Jampa said.

Lower Subansiri district has the highest number of active cases at 65, followed by Tawang (59), West Kameng (47), Tirap (45) and Lower Dibang Valley (44).

and the public gathered at the event. Chamling was infamously heckled out of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly during the swearing in of current Chief Minister Prem Singh Golay as the leader of the House in 2019.

Since then, Chamling has been marked absent from all legislative proceedings of the House.

Party supporters have long argued that Chamling may never return to Assembly “as long as Golay is the leader”.

But many are also of the opinion that this silence from a leader with 25 years of history is taking away the voice of the opposition.

election. However, he did not elaborate further. “In the show-cause notice, the recipients have been asked to submit their replies explaining why disciplinary action will not be taken against them by the committee, within 15 days,” Narah said.

The highest number of 51 party workers were issued show-cause notices in Lakhimpur district, followed by 29 in Karimganj, 26 in Dhubri, 25 in Tinsukia, 19 in Kamrup Metropolitan, and 12 in Dibrugarh, the senior Congress leader said.

The other districts are Karbi Anglong (8), Charaideo (8), Sonitpur (8), Hojai (8), Nagaon (5), Hailakandi (5), Bongaigaon (4), Kamrup (2), and Biswanath (2), he added.

In the 126-member Assam Assembly, the BJP bagged 60 seats, while its allies AGP won nine and the UPPL six.

In the opposition camp, the Congress won 29, AIUDF 16, BPF four, and the CPI(M) got one seat.

The Raijor Dal won one seat as an Independent.

2 more paper mill employees die in Assam, toll rises to 95

GUWAHATI, SEPT 23 (PTI): Two more employees of the defunct Nagaon and Cachar mills of the Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) died in Assam’s Morigaon district, taking the total number of deaths since their closure to 95, a union leader said on Thursday.

Rajendra Kumar Nath, 60, of Nagaon Paper Mill who was suffering from diabetes died of a heart attack on Wednesday, while Shyama Kata Kurmi, 59, of Cachar Paper Mills died of kidney and liver disease on Thursday, said Manabendra

Chakraborty, the president of Joint Action Committee of Recognised Unions (JACRU) of the two mills.

The two deaths increased the toll to ten since the second BJP government, led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, assumed office in May, he said.

During the tenure of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, 85 employees had died either due to starvation or lack of medical treatment, Chakraborty claimed.

“Most of our employees have died due to lack of proper treatment as they

did not receive salaries or dues for the last 55 months.

These are not normal deaths but our people are dying due to the apathy of the authorities,” he alleged.

Chakraborty appealed to the state government and the Central to fulfil their commitments by releasing all dues and save the lives of the remaining employees.

Cachar Paper Mill at Panchgram in Hailakandi district is non-functional since October 2015, while the Nagaon Paper Mill at Jagiroad in Morigaon district is shut since March 2017.

Man, accused of snatching, shot at while trying to flee: Assam Police

NAGAON, SEP 23 (PTI): A man, accused in a case of snatching, was shot at after he allegedly tried to escape from police custody in Assam’s Hojai district, officials said on Thursday. The man was nabbed at Netaji Point on Wednesday evening while he was fleeing after snatching Rs 75,000 from an elderly person, officer-in-charge of Hojai police station Tapan Medhi said.

He was being taken to Nagaon for further investigation when he tried to flee from police custody at Jabroka area, the officer said. Police then opened fire and shot him in the leg, he added.

He was admitted to the Nagaon Civil Hospital for treatment, police said.

Rs 56,000 was seized from him, while a search is on for another person involved in the snatching incident, they said.

The duo is suspected members of the ‘Irani Gang’, involved in several criminal activities, police said. Since May 10, 26 people have been killed in police shootings in Assam and 43 injured. The police claim that they were shot after they “tried to flee” from custody.

The spate of police shootings come after BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma took over as chief minister of the state and gave “full operational liberty” to the forces to fight against the criminals “within the ambit of law”.

The photo on which the 22-year-old youth commented.

IMPHAL, SEP 23 (AGENECIES): The Chief Judicial Magistrate Imphal West has sent a 22-year old youth from Manipur to judicial custody for 15 days after he allegedly made a derogatory comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi

on Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh’s Facebook post. The accused youth was identified as Nongmaithem Boboy, reports The Sentinel Assam. The 22-yearold made a comment on CM Singh’s Facebook post where Singh was seen in

a cleanliness drive carried out as part of PM Modi’s birthday celebrations across the BJP ruled states.

“Modi gi thi sengo yenge (Clean the faeces of Modi and we’ll watch),” Boboy commented on CM Singh’s same very post. After he made this comment, on September 19, Lamphel Police arrested Boboy who is a resident of takyel Khongbal Maning Leikai.

The police registered a case against him under Sections 505(2-b) IPC to 505 (2) IPC or intent to create enmity, hatred or ill will between different religions, racial, language or regional groups or caste or communities as per reports.

Road scam accused surrenders before court

ITANAGAR, SEP 23 (PTI): An engineer of the public works department (PWD) allegedly involved in a multi-crore road scam in Arunachal Pradesh, surrendered before a court in West Kameng district on Wednesday, after evading arrest since August 31, a police officer said here. Executive engineer of the PWD’s Chayangtajo division, Nyakpu Yangfo, allegedly involved in

PM lauds Assam’s decision to burn rhino horns

NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded the Assam government’s decision to burn rhino horns, a coveted item among poachers, and said all steps will be taken for the animal’s well-being. Assam had on Wednesday consigned to flames 2,479 rhino horns, world’s largest stockpile destroyed in a single day, to bust a myth that the horns have miraculous medicinal properties.

The move by the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government is part of an effort to curb poaching of the endangered one-horned Indian rhinoceros.

the Seppa-Chayangtajo NEC road scam, surrendered before the Bomdila session court, Superintendent of Police, Special Investigating Cell (Vigilance), Hemant Tiwari said. The judge remanded him to seven days police custody, the SP said. Work on the 81-km long road, sanctioned under North East Council (NEC), which began in 2008 is yet to be completed.

in tHe coUrt of PrinciPal DiStrict & SeSSionS JUDGe

KiPHire, naGalanD No/PD&SJ.kPE/SUcc-12/2021-22/411 Dated 23th Sept. 2021 obJection notice whereas Sepitongla Sangtam, wife of Late chopongse Sangtam of kisetong village has applied for issue of Succession certificate under the Indian Succession Act,1925 in order to draw/received the payment of moveable/Immovable properties of her husband Late chopongse Sangtam, he was serving as carpenter Instructor at GHS kichang under the establishment of District Education Office, kiphire, Nagaland who expired on 30/08/2021.

Description of properties: 1.GPF 2.GIS 3.FBF 4.Pension case 5.Any other dues., from the office of the District Education Office, kiphire, Nagaland.

Public are hereby asked to file objection/claim if any within 30 (Thirty) days from the date of issue of this order. If no objection/claim is received within the given time, Succession certificate will be issued in favour of the applicant.

Sd/- Principal District & Sessions Judge Kiphire, nagaland DB-233/21

Declaration

Regd. No. 1809 Tsg. Dt. 22/9/2021 I, SMti. toSHinUnGla, D/o Shri. Purkumzuk, present resident of Noklak town, District-Noklak, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and state the following statements on oath: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my actual name is toSHinUnGla. 3. That in some of my official documents, inclusive of my Pension Payment Order Book my name has been inadvertently entered as Amenla.

4. That the name toSHinUnGla and aMenla refers to the one and the same person, that is, MYself.

5. That henceforth, I shall be called and known as toSHinUnGla in all my official documents, records, correspondences and intents.

6. That the statements above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and no material facts has been concealed therein, and I declare it in sound mind and body at Tuensang on this the 22nd day September 2021 Deponent k-1844/21

CHUKITONG RANGE PUBLIC ORGANIZATION H.Q. CHUKITONG, WOKHA: NAGALAND

*************************************** Ref No: CRPO/CIR-01/2021

Date: 17/09/2021

CIRCULAR The Chukitong Range Public Organization (CRPO), the apex body of the seven (7) villages under Chukitong Range, Wokha District, Nagaland hereby issues this Circular as a follow-up to the Resolutions adopted during the Chukitong Range Emergency General Meeting held at Chukitong Range Community Hall on 16/09/2021 for necessary information of all concerned: 1. Citizens of Chukitong range shall not tolerate any act of outsiders interfering in any manner in the affairs of Chukitong Range. Such individuals/groups/families, etc., as well as those soliciting such support from outsiders, shall be doing so at their own risk/s.

2. In the event of any Chukitong Range citizens getting threats, bodily harm or any other such cases in regard the current land dispute case within Chukitong town which has been settled amicably, citizens of Chukitong Range shall leave no stone unturned in pursuing and awarding befitting punishment as deemed fit to the perpetrator/s.

Ezanimo Kikon N. Abemo Ngullie Rhanthungo Kikon Chairman, CRPO Gen. Secy., CRPO Info. & Pub. Secy., CRPO

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Pawan Chamling refusing to speak to the media.

G U WA H AT I , S E P 2 3 (PTI): The Congress on Thursday issued show-cause notices to its 212 workers in Assam for alleged anti-party activities during the Assembly election held this year.

The opposition party had suffered heavy losses in the poll. Addressing a press conference here, chairman of the Disciplinary Action Committee of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) Bharat Chandra Narah said that 15 district units have submitted lists, containing names of the workers who were allegedly found indulging in anti-party activities during the state poll, along with documentary proofs.

The APCC has constituted a high-level inquiry committee to look into the matter and issue show-cause notices to those party workers, said Narah, who is a Congress MLA. When asked about the nature of anti-party activities, he said that the 212 workers had helped candidates of other parties, directly or indirectly, in the

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NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

PM CARES Fund not govt fund: Delhi HC told

NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (PTI): The PM CARES Fund is not a Gover nment of India fund and the amount collected by it does not go to the Consolidated Fund of India, the Delhi High Court has been informed.

An affidavit filed by an Under Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) who is discharging his functions in the PM Cares Trust on honorary basis, has said the trust functions with transparency and its funds are audited by an auditor -- a chartered accountant drawn from the panel prepared by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

The affidavit was filed in response to a petition seeking a direction to declare the PM CARES Fund a ‘State’ under the Constitution to ensure transparency in its functioning.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Amit Bansal has fixed the matter for further hearing on September 27.

“To ensure transparency, the audited report is put on the official website of

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Amit Bansal has fixed the matter for further hearing on September 27.

the trust along with the details of utilisation of funds received by the trust,” says the affidavit filed by Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, Under Secretary at the PMO. “I state that when the petitioner is claiming to be a public-spirited person and seeking to pray for various reliefs only for transparency, it does not matter whether PM Cares is a ‘State’ within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution of India,” the officer said in the affidavit.

Irrespective of whether the trust is a ‘State’ or other authority within the mean-

ing of Article 12 of the Constitution or whether it is a ‘public authority’ within the meaning of provisions of the Right to Information Act (RTI), it is not permissible to disclose third party information, .

It said that all donations received by the trust are received via online payments, cheques or Demand Drafts and the amount received is audited with the audited report and the expenditure of trust fund displayed on the website.

“The trust functions on the principles of transparency and public good

in larger public interest like any other charitable trust and, therefore, cannot have any objection in uploading all its resolutions on its website to ensure transparency,” it said, while reiterating that “the trust’s fund is not a fund of Government of India and the amount does not go in the Consolidated Fund of India.”

The officer said he is discharging his functions in the PM Cares Trust on honorary basis which is a charitable trust not created by or under the Constitution or by any law made by the Parliament or by any State legislature.

“Despite being an officer of the Central government, I am permitted to discharge my functions in PM Care Trust on an honorary basis,” he said.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Samyak Gangwal who has said that the PM CARES Fund is a ‘State’ as it was formed by the Prime Minister on March 27, 2020 to extend assistance to the citizens of India in the wake of the public health emergency -- the ongoing COVID-19

Pandemic.

His counsel had told the court that if it is found that the PM CARES Fund is not ‘State’ under the Constitution, usage of the domain name ‘gov’, the Prime Minister’s photograph, state emblem etc has to be stopped.

The petition said that the Trustees of the fund are the Prime Minister, Defence Minister, Home Minister and the Finance Minister and immediately after the formation of the fund, the Centre through its high government functionaries represented that the fund was set up and operated by the Government of India.

To ensure transparency and accountability, the plea has sought a direction for periodic auditing of PM CARES website and disclosure of the details of donations received by it.

I n h i s a l t e r a t ive prayers, Gangwal has sought to direct the Centre to publicise that the PM CARES Fund is not a fund of the Government of India and to restrain PM CARES from using

‘Prime Minister of India’ or ‘Prime Minister’, including its abbreviations its name, on its website, Trust Deed and other official or unofficial communications and advertisements.

On March 9, the court had said it was not inclined to issue notice on the plea as the Centre was already represented through counsel who may file their written submissions.

The petitioner has also filed another petition to declare PM CARES as a ‘public authority’ under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, which is being heard together with the first plea.

This petition challenges a June 2, 2020 order of the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), PMO, refusing to provide documents sought by him on the ground that PM Cares Fund is not a public authority under the RTI Act. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who represented PMO, had opposed the petition, stating that it was not maintainable and that he would file a response explaining why it should not be entertained.

5 Big leader from BJP will join TMC in a few days : Hakim

KOLKATA, SEP 23 (PTI): Senior Trinamool Congress leader Firhad Hakim Thursday said a “big leader from BJP” is set to join TMC in a few days and claimed that the saffron party will disintegrate in the state.

Hakim, who is on the campaign trail for TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the September 30 Bhabanipur by-poll, said the party is not inducting BJP leaders indiscriminately into its fold. Trinamool Congress is checking the antecedents, track record and image of each BJP leader who has made overtures to TMC leaders and is deciding on his/her appeal after due deliberation, Hakim, who is also a senior minister in Banerjee’s cabinet, said.

The state has witnessed several switch overs to TMC from BJP since the AprilMay state poll in which it stormed back to power under Banerjee. “The process of returning has only started,” was Hakim’s cryptic reply when he was asked by reporters whether there would be more cross overs to TMC after the recent one by

Firhad Hakim

former union minister Babul Supriyo and BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy earlier. “Wait for a few more days. A big time BJP leader is all set to join our party ... BJP will disintegrate in West Bengal,” he said but did not elaborate. Reacting to Hakim’s comments, BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya said “TMC should think about ethics and ideology before trying to poach BJP leaders.

“Those not interested in power and position, but love BJP will not leave,” he asserted. Newly appointed BJP state president Sukanta Majumder appealed to disgruntled party leaders to discuss their grievances with their seniors and assured that he will be ever attentive to address their issues.

Indian Army to procure 118 Arjun Mk- India, UK hold talks on vaccine Maha: 15-year-old girl raped multiple 1A Main Battle Tanks for Rs 7,523 cr certification process: Alex Ellis times over 8 months; 33 booked, 26 held

NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (IANS): The Defence Ministry placed an order to procure 118 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) Arjun Mk-1A with the Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) in Chennai for the Indian Army on Thursday.

The order, worth Rs 7,523 crore, will provide further boost to the ‘Make in India’ initiative in the defence sector and is a big step towards achieving the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ (selfreliant India) goal, the ministry said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had handed over an MBT Arjun Mk-1A to Army Chief General M.M. Naravane in Chennai on February 14, 2021.

The state-of-the-art MBT Mk-1A is a new variant of Arjun tank designed

to enhance fire power, mobility and survivability. Infused with 72 new features and more indigenous content from the Mk-1 variant, the tank would ensure effortless mobility in all terrains, besides precise target engagement during day and night.

It has been designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by incorporating numerous upgrades on Arjun MBT, the in-service main battle tank with the Indian Army.

The MK-1A is equipped with accurate and superior firepower, all-terrain mobility and an invincible multi-layered protection provided by an array

Alex Ellis

NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (PTI): British High Commissioner Alex Ellis on Thursday said India and the UK held “excellent” technical discussion on the issue of vaccine certification.

Referring to new British travel rules, Ellis had on Wednesday said there was no problem with Covishield vaccine and that the main issue is COVID-19 vaccine certification done through the CoWIN app.

“Excellent technical discussions with @rssharma3 @AyushmanNHA. Neither side raised technical concerns with each other’s certification process. An important step forward in our joint aim to facilitate travel and fully protect public health of UK and India,” he tweeted on Thursday.

Following India’s

strong criticism over the UK’s refusal to recognise Covishield, London on Wednesday amended its new guidelines to include the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine in its updated international travel advisory.

However, Indian travellers vaccinated with two doses of Covishield will still have to undergo 10 days of quarantine in the UK notwithstanding the amendment, UK officials clarified on Wednesday saying the inclusion of the vaccine will not make much of a difference.

“We’re clear Covishield is not a problem.

The UK is open to travel and we’re already seeing a lot of people going from India to the UK, be it tourists, business people or students,” Ellis said in a statement on Wednesday.

“We have been having detailed technical discussions regarding certification, with the builders of the CoWIN app and the NHS app, about both apps.

They’re happening at a rapid pace, to ensure that both countries mutually recognise the vaccine certificates issued by each other,” he said.

Delhi riots: Umar Khalid’s bail plea adjourned to October 9

THANE, SEP 23 (PTI): A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped multiple times over a period of eight months in Maharashtra’s Thane district and the police have arrested 24 persons and detained two minors in the case, an official said on Thursday.

Based on the girl’s complaint, the Manpada police in Dombivli registered a case on Wednesday night against 33 persons under IPC sections 376 (rape), 376 (n) (repeated rape), 376 (d) (gang-rape), 376 (3) (rape on a woman under sixteen years of age) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.

Additional Commissioner of Police (East region) Dattatray Karale told reporters that the alleged incidents took place between

January 29 and September 22 this year. The girl told a relative about the ordeal on Wednesday following which the complaint was registered, he added.

“It all started when the girl’s boyfriend allegedly raped her in January and made a video. He then started blackmailing her.

Subsequently his friends and acquaintances raped her on at least four or five occasions at different places in the district including Dombivli, Badlapur, Murbad and Rabale,” Karale said.

A special investigation team (SIT) has been formed under Assistant Commissioner of Police Sonali Dhole to probe the case, he added. “The victim has named 33 persons. Of them, 24 persons have been arrested and two minors detained. The girl’s condition

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NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (PTI): A Delhi court on Thursday adjourned to October 9 hearing on the bail plea of former JNU student leader Umar Khalid in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case.

The hearing was adjourned to next month as Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat is on leave.

This was informed to Khalid’s counsels by the court staff through video conference.

Khalid along with several others has been booked under the antiterror law in the case. They are accused of being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 violence, which had left 53 people dead and

over 700 injured.

On September 6, Khalid had withdrawn his bail plea and filed a fresh one after the prosecution’s objected to its maintainability.

In a hearing on September 3, Khalid, through his lawyer, told the court that the charge sheet in the case has made hyperbolic allegations without any factual basis and reads like a script from a web series and news channels.

The Delhi Police had earlier said that the bail plea has no merit and that it will demonstrate the prima facie case against him before the court by referring to the charge sheet filed in the case.

/ Kohima the 23rd Sept. 2021

PRESS RELEASE This is to inform that the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) has opened the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) for AY 2021-22 for applying online Scholarship for 2021-22. The online implementation of (A) Pre-Matric Scholarships for Class IX & X (B) Post Matric Scholarships for Class XII to Post graduation on National Scholarships Portal under the Umbrella Scheme “Scholarships for Students with Disabilities”.

Last date for applying Scholarship for Pre-Matric is 15.11.2021 and Post Matric 30.11.2021.

The details of these schemes are available on the website (www.scholarships.gov.in) Sd/(MICHAEL ZAREN) Director

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is said to be stable,” Karale said, adding that search is on for the remaining accused.

The arrested men were produced before a court on Thursday and were remanded in police custody till September 29, said another police official.

Speaking to reporters in Nagpur, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis demanded that the Maharashtra government make special efforts to prevent such crimes.

“An atmosphere of fear is prevailing in the state.

The increase in the number of such incidents is worrisome,” the former chief minister said.

“Such an incident taking place in Dombivli which is known as a peaceful city is very shocking. We demand that the government immediately intervene,” Fadnavis added.

EXPORTERS CONCLAVE Theme: Showcasing Exportable products and services in district Date: 25th September, 2021 Venue: Conference Hall, Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Nagaland, Kohima.

PROGRAMME

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

SPECIAL GUEST SMT: N BHAVANI SRI (IAS) Additional Deputy Commissioner, Kohima

NAGALAND :: KOHIMA

Chairman: Shri Intsangjusar Functional Manager, Tseminyu

DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION NOTIFICATION Dated, Kohima, the 22nd Sept.’ 2021 NO.ED/EL/C/2/MON/2017-18:: In continuation to this office Advertisement NO.ED/EL/2/MON/2017-18 Dated 24-08-2021, it is hereby notified for information to all the candidates who have appeared the written examination for 1(One) post of Primary Teacher at GPS Totok Chingnyu A under SDEO Mon held on 10-09-2021 at Dr. NEILHOUZHU GHSS Seikhazou, Kohima that the candidates with the following roll numbers have qualified for the Viva-Voce: 03, 14, 29, 36 & 47.

2. The Viva-Voce shall be held on 27-09-2021 at Directorate of School Education, Kohima from 10:00 am onwards.

3. All the concerned candidates shall report for Viva-Voce at 09:30 am along with all relevant educational documents in original.

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Inaugural Session

10:00 AM 10:10 AM 10:20 AM 10:30 AM 10:40 AM 11:00 AM 11:15 AM

Arrival of Special Guest followed by National Anthem Shri. Vitsutho Nyuthe Welcome Address Additional Director, Industries & Commerce Er. Y. Lipongse Thongtsar Keynote Address Joint Director, Industries & Commerce Introduction to Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav Address by the Special Guest Vote of thanks Shri. Sukhonlal Langthasa, General Manager, DIC Kohima Inauguration of Exhibition Stalls by Special Guest Lunch

Knowledge Sharing Session

Moderator: Er Keneirenuo Kire, Asst. Director of Industries 12:00 Noon 12:10 PM 12:25 PM 01:00 PM 01:25 PM 01:50 PM

Shri. Sukhonlal Langthasa General Manager, DIC Kohima Focus on Products/Service identified from Shri. S. Senka the District District Horticulture Officer, Kohima Dr. Archuna Nath How to become an Exporter Sr. Consultant APEDA, Guwahati Sourabh Trivedi Focus on local Industries and their potential Shri.

Marketing Director, Produce of Naga Hill Panel of discussion: Issues faced by exporters Closing Remark Moderator District as Export Hub initiative

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Arjun Mk-1A Main Battle Tanks.

of advanced technology systems. It can take on the enemy in both day and night conditions as well as in static and dynamic modes.

By virtue of these capabilities, this indigenous MBT proves to be at par with any contemporary in its class across the globe.

This tank is particularly configured and designed for Indian conditions and hence it is suitable for deployment to protect the frontiers in an effective manner.

This production order to HVF opens up a large avenue in defence manufacturing for over 200 Indian vendors, including MSMEs, with employment opportunities for around 8,000 people. This will be a flagship project showcasing the indigenous capability in cutting edge defence technologies. The MBT Arjun Mk-1A has been designed and developed by the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), along with other laboratories of DRDO within two years (2010-12).

The development activities commenced from June 2010 and the tank was fielded for user trial in June 2012.

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Nagaland Post VOL. XXXI NO. 290 DIMAPUR, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Consequential politics

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ow that Nagaland has a legislature is without an opposition for the second time, there are still many speculations on the probable factors that have caused the phenomenon. It may be recalled that the first such experiment was from 2015-18 when eight MLAs of the opposition Congress merged with the NPF. The second mukt-opposition Nagaland came after all political parties resolved to sit together in August last month. In both instances, the NPF was the major player and in both circumstances, the alibi was supposed to be “in the interest of Naga political issue”. The moot question is whether settlement of the Naga political issue will be achieved since different political parties from both ruling and opposition benches are together for the second time. The legislators have given democracy a miss and decided that there will be no opposition to put the government in the dock due to the strange phenomenon. Without the opposition, power has the potential to be misused.

On the other hand, the government must understand that eradicating the opposition would lay the foundation for autocracy or tyranny and eventually, the end of democracy. In a democratic rule, the opposition is as legitimate as the government. The opposition must be rational, meaningful, and wellintentioned to do the job. Stranger is the fact that prior his transfer from Nagaland, then Governor R.N.Ravi, willy nilly was exposed as the opposition voice at Raj Bhavan after his letter written to the chief minister on June 16, 2020 was leaked to the media.

Ravi had attacked his government over inability to crack down on illegal tax collection and corruption.

With the opposition legislators muted, the Congress attacked the government over various missteps and sins of omission and commission. As indicated in this column, there were two opposition voices against the government in Nagaland; one from Raj Bhavan and the other from Congress Bhavan. Coming to the formation of the opposition-less legislative assembly due to formation of the all-party government under the United Democratic Alliance (UDA); the reason for such hasn’t been honestly revealed other than citing the Naga political issue. As mentioned many times in the recent past, there was hardly any reason for the ‘coming together’ on the Naga political issue since all legislators are together under the Parliamentary Core Committee on Naga political issue. The state Congress president K. Therie speculated that both NDPP and NPF may have been forced into a union in order to stave off the likelihood of CBI or NIA probes into various alleged irregularities and scams in the state under the previous NPF-led DAN governments and the present PDA coalition. This may not be quite logical since the centre, presently ruled by the BJP cannot ignore the fact that its Nagaland unit was very much part of the DAN and present PDA coalition governments. Another plausible reason being heard is that the coming together is meant to prepare the eventuality for solution to encompass land as part of the crucial rehabilitation package. It is unthinkable that such concepts that defy democratic conventions are being justified under whatever name and pretext. These are not minor aberrations but like tectonic plates whose minute and unfelt shifts cause devastating tremors. Unfortunately, what matters for people and their leaders is all about now and not about tomorrow.

DailyDevotion The Missionary’s Goal

He…said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem…” —Luke 18:31 In our natural life our ambitions change as we grow, but in the Christian life the goal is given at the very beginning, and the beginning and the end are exactly the same, namely, our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with Him— “…till we all come…to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ…” (Ephesians 4:13), not simply to our own idea of what the Christian life should be. The goal of the missionary is to do God’s will, not to be useful or to win the lost. A missionary is useful and he does win the lost, but that is not his goal. His goal is to do the will of his Lord.

In our Lord’s life, Jerusalem was the place where He reached the culmination of His Father’s will upon the cross, and unless we go there with Jesus we will have no friendship or fellowship with Him. Nothing ever diverted our Lord on His way to Jerusalem. He never hurried through certain villages where He was persecuted, or lingered in others where He was blessed.

Neither gratitude nor ingratitude turned our Lord even the slightest degree away from His purpose to go “up to Jerusalem.”

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master” (Matthew 10:24). In other words, the same things that happened to our Lord will happen to us on our way to our “Jerusalem.” There will be works of God exhibited through us, people will get blessed, and one or two will show gratitude while the rest will show total ingratitude, but nothing must divert us from going “up to [our] Jerusalem.” “…there they crucified Him…” (Luke 23:33). That is what happened when our Lord reached Jerusalem, and that event is the doorway to our salvation. The saints, however, do not end in crucifixion; by the Lord’s grace they end in glory. In the meantime our watchword should be summed up by each of us saying, “I too go ‘up to Jerusalem.’ ”

Quotes

I often quote myself.

It adds spice to my conversation. ~ George Bernard Shaw

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Post-mortem

Biden, Modi or who? Wanted a world leader at UNGA this week

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ho could be the 2-3 personalities from among the 200 or so heads of governments, who could rise and shine, and give hope to humanity, freedom and peace, this week at New York?

As the United Nations convenes its annual General Assembly in New York City this week, a galaxy of world leaders is arriving to address the world’s most important podium, and audiences.

They will step up to the podium to share their 2 cents, in their 2 minutes of speech time (ok, may be 7-8 minutes), to give solutions t o t h e c h a l l e n ge s a n d opportunities in the present and future of humankind, and co-existence on, and with planet Earth.

M a k e n o m i s t a k e, this year the gathering is historic. In fact, the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly should rather have been named as ‘The 1st UN General Assembly Meeting in Year 1 of the

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Post-Covid Era’.

A once in a century pandemic, unprecedented and quantum leaps in technology, the shambolic end of America’s longest war of 20 years, and the dark shadow of a looming China - all have created perfect conditions for a once-in-acentury storm, as the postCovid era begins.

Other global recalibrations and tectonic shifts, too, are underway.

Including a reality that climate change is knocking at our door-steps, with wild-fires, floods, droughts destroying our homes and lives, among other dire scenarios. The UN may be much derided and has not delivered on what its founding principles were, but yet it remains and is the only world platform which can be nearest to a global problem-solverin-chief. That the global problem-solver-in-chief is itself in deep problems that cannot be resolved,

the 21st century, there are very few countries that have a combo-pack of above three vectors. One, of course is the United States, which is the world’s oldest democracy, the world’s largest economy, with the largest military today. The other, China, though a rightful claimant, rules itself out since it advocates an authoritarian gover nance, control on human lifestyles, and is contra-freedom of thought and choices. Another up and coming force for good in the world is India - which is the world’s largest democracy, with a rising economy and military might. More than that, India brings a voice of calm, co-existence and peace. The challenge for India is to bundle all its assets and offerings into a cohesive, demonstrable message, and to drive a buyin and mobilisation across the world.

Whoever it may be, will have to persuade, lead by example, and give the

world some simple mantras and do-able solutions. It is equally possible that none of the leaders soar and truly inspire in their speech, bring nothing new, remain parochial and nonfuturist, churn out same old arguments, and prescribe the same non-doable solutions that are routinely parroted out, year after year.

Thus, the world is looking eagerly, nay desperately, to US President Jo e B i d e n a n d P r i m e Minister Narendra Modi, to hear their vision of a new world order, and to know how they will execute on the mission that they define for themselves, their nation, and the world. Or maybe they will be insipid and disappoint.

At same time, this year a surprise, last-minute, wildcard entry to this club may be France - led by President Emmanuel Macron. France has all three of the above cited vectors in reasonable proportion, and for long it

has been aspiring to play a global role.

The geopolitics of 21st century is in a flux, including on how to deal with China’s rise, and the outcomes of Afghanistan.

And for France,additionally, it is now a downhill trust in a US-led world order as a consequence of the USUK-Australia submarine deal and formation of the AUKUS military alliance.

Thus, while the world has much to look forward this week from Biden and Modi, I will not be surprised if Macron, and France, may have reached a tipping point wherein Macron sketches a world vision that may well see the birth of a new worldpole in geopolitics. After all, it is the French who gave the world the French Revolution.

By Robinder Sachdev (The writer is the president of The Imagindia Institute.

The views expressed are personal)

To and fro of Dog meat in Nagaland

he Nagas, who lives in the Himalayan foothills of Nagaland, are unique when it is measured through history, traditions and rich heritage over delicacies. Significantly, in Naga lexicon ‘dog meat’ is term as having highly medicinal value and high nutrition which are considered as special delicacies notwithstanding the fact that the meat are reserved for festive banquets.

Through the Memorandum N O. C S O / C O R R E S - 1 9 / CAB/2017 issued on July 4, 2020.

We can analyse the government seriousness on the issue, banning of dog meat in the State of Nagaland is somewhere standing at disputable point for which they decided; 1: Commercial import and trading of dogs.

2: Dogs markets.

3: Sale of dog meat (both cooked and uncooked).

The argument to the fact, the law says any person violating this ban will be punished under Section 428 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code of 1860, and Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty of Animal Act 1960. In addition to these two Acts, the government has also invoked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) Regulations, 2011.

To give attention, the two penal provisions section 428 and 429 of the IPC respectively. Section 428 deals with Punishment for committing ‘Mischief ’ by killing or maiming animal of the value of ten rupees or upward, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may be extend to two years, or with fine or with both. Section 429 says- whoever commits mischief by killing,poisoning,

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is another matter, and the world will have to manage whatever best can be.

But still there is hope.

And there is scope. Some leader must, and has to, show leaderism.

After all, mere words will not do. Firstly, there has to be depth behind the words, and a will and a path to take the words ahead into measurable outcomes.

Secondly, the country that the leader represents, on which s/he builds the edifice of a powerful, persuasive world-vision, must have material strengths of population size, economic heft, and military power.

And thirdly, the leader must also bring a legacy, showcase some simple but big human, humane, and social principles, and inspirational energy for the good of humanity that has emanated in the last 100-200 years from the country that s/he represents.

As the sun rises on a post-Covid world order in

maiming or rendering useless, any elephant, camel, horse, mule, buffalo,bull,cow or ox, whatever may be the value of fifty rupees or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both. The definition of ‘mischief ’ is mentioned under Section 425 of IPC, as per the Section that “Whoever with intend to cause, or knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person, cause the destruction of any property, or any such change in any property or in the situation thereof as destroy or diminish its value or utility, or effects it injuriously, commits ‘mischief ’”. In simple language, we understand that when an individual intends to perform an act or has the knowledge that his/ her act will create hindrance in allowing another person to enjoy the benefit of their property by one means or other, it is called a mischief. However, this act can be even against the public or against a specific person as well. Consumption of meat cannot come under the word mischief under Section 428 and 429 of IPC 1860, as it does not fit the definition of mischief under the aforesaid section. The consumption alone doesn’t violate the law unless the dog is procured through illegal means. If cruelty or mischief fit for the ban on dog meat consumption, substitute dog meat for beef. The act of killing of animal does not amount to cruelty as it will stands void. Whereas, India being the most consumer of meat in the world need to cross check to the ban on dog meat consumption. Furthermore, taking everything into account, nowhere else it is written “killing

of dogs for human consumption” is prohibited under The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960.

Since the banning of dog meat in Nagaland, the dog meat vendors are now keeping underground, which appeared on a local daily. The meat weighing about 1kg was sold for Rs500 in the State capital Kohima. For the reason that livelihood of the vendor has been adversely affected and it is apparent that there is a clear violation of Fundamental Rights under Article 19 and 21.

Which the chief goal of Article 19 (1) (g) and (2) (g) says Freedom of any professional or carrying on any occupation, trade or business to engage with the very livelihood of the people and Article 21 which guarantees the protection of life and personal liberty, fundamental rights prescribe in the Indian Constitution. The vendors asserted that the lifting of the lockdown meant that dog meat could be sold in the market again, on the other hand making the consumer to spend more money than ever on black market as the proverb goes, “A wolf in sheep’s skin hanging a sheep’s head and selling dog meat”. Contemporary Illustrating 32 years of Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act (NLTP)1989, is on exercise but every day we see trade of illegal liquor in large number flourishing in the land, thus it question marks a significant, impact on Naga society today.

As there are different point of view that have arisen in pursuance of the ban of dog meat in Nagaland, many has welcomed the decision, however people are taken aback over the manner in which the decision was made without taking consultation from Naga tribes who consume dog meat as a part of their food

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habits. If such order is sustained, the state has deemed to encroach the personal territory and dictate what one should prepare in his dining table. The Naga Hoho, the apex traditional body of all Naga tribes gave a strong resentment over the banned and has asked the State Government to review the order- quote “as Naga people are not going to stop eating dog meat and thereby the law itself will become a mockery.”

BBC News reported in Kerala there are more than 600,000 stray dogs, where more than 700 cases of dog bites have been reported in 2016. In response, some people have been campaigning to kill stray dogs. When asked one of them replied he carries an airgun with him wherever he goes to protect himself from the street dogs, he ended up saying I need it for self defence because there have been so many dog attack recently. As Kerala reports over 8 lakhs stray dog attack in the last 5 years. Cruelty against dog or for the matter any animal should be condemn. But to be taken as meat; Dog or any other animal is a matter of choice. It may sound harsh but. Why Dog only?

In, 2003 authorities seized 150 Korean Jindo dogs, a breed commonly used In South Korea meat markets from a man in Pennsylvania, who claimed that they were being raised to sell as guard dogs and meat sources. He was licensed to do that but, the animal was taken due to their poor conditions not because they were going to be eaten. He was charged with cruelty, but again that had nothing to do with the dogs being raised for meat. While, most of the countries in West stopped eating dog meat centuries ago, but in America eating dog meat is legal in

most states, a person can request if for their own use in 44 states. The above narrative not only indicates that dogs are sold for meat, but there is a demand in the region.

Moral and ethical code of dietary may differ, according to place and region respectively Interestingly, the Hon’ble Guwahati High Court (Kohima Bench) stayed the Nagaland Government’s decision to ban the commercial import and trade of dog meat and commercial sale of dog meat in markets and dining restaurant, which the interim order passed on November 25,2020 after hearing a petition.

In my opinion, imposing a blanket ban without considering the mode of operation and consumption of dog meat is imprudent. Experts and legislators should discuss the ban ordinance in all aspects for the sake of convenience. In conclusion, India being a signatory to United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), should uphold the diversity, social practices, and safe guard the individual rights of indigenous people. While, Article 371(A) remains the foremost shield, we cannot deny the fact, the rich culture, traditions and customary practices, we enjoy and honour.

Nonetheless, consideration is being given to arriving at a judicial verdict as to the reasonableness of the banned, in order to protect indigenous people’s rights in accordance with our constitutional morality.

Keviyabei Angami (The writer is a student, SemesterVII -B.A.LL.B(Hons) under North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Views and opinions expressed here are personal.)

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n comparison to adults, what your child or how your You could encourage your v a l i d a t e y o u r c h i l d ’ s children are prone to child should feel and react to children to read, play games concerns. The disastrous getting traumatized by the event. together, or simply watch an events in life may give place to unrelated fright and concerns troubling events easily, and Encourage your child uplifting movie. this makes it important for to be transparent: Just make Cocoon your child with in your child. However, parents to help their children sure you let your child know warmth. In order to reassure understanding and accepting when the times are tough. It that whatever feelings they’re your child that they are safe your child’s present state is could be a brutal accident, experiencing is normal. The with you and feel secure, that a comfort for the child. If at an unprecedented pandemic, unpleasantness will pass if the worst is over your physical any point the child blames Sir, It is important to get a formal education a violent crime, or other your child opens up about affection is important in himself for the event make disasters but with the right it and that the phase is making them feel safe again. sure to make it clear and crisp and degree but there is no harm in learning as parental support, children temporary. While many teens Teens may try to be tough the event was not their fault, many as skill sets possible. Youths in Nagaland have a higher chance of may be reluctant to talk about through it and avoid being you love them, and it’s okay must revisit the past to find out why. Our coming out stronger from their feelings with a parent, held, but they still need the for them to feel upset, angry, forefathers not only earned a degree but they also knew how to mend houses, carpentry, or scared but not guilty. an awful situation. encourage them to confide proximity.

Irrespective of the age farming, and other useful skills. They did Anuja K a p u r , in another trusted adult such M a i n t a i n r o u t i n e s.

Psychologist shares few as a family friend, relative, or Establishing a predictable of your child, it is vital for not limit themselves in small boxes and that tips wherein you can assist a counselor and teacher. It’s structure and schedule for parents to offer that extra is how they raised a family.

Unfortunately, many youngsters today your child when tough times important to talkeeven if it’s your child’s life can help suppor t and assistance will scorn at the idea of doing manual or odd following an unsettling comes calling: not with you. to make the world seem jobs.

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We should be open to idea of equipping it can come and go in waves. stressful for children and this space for rest, play, and fun. their fear with your love Children can act moody and stress can even block their Keeping up with a schedule and direction, the ominous ourselves with as many as skillsets possible withdrawn at times, struck nervous system. However, c a n h e l p c o u n t e r c h e c k feelings will start to fade only then will we progress as a society. Take with sorrow and fear at other to negate such things from the obnoxious feeling of away. Eventually, the child for the instance the West where teenagers do times. There’s no absolute h a p p e n i n g e n c o u r a g e stress and worry in children will be able to return to a odd jobs to pay their college fees. I wonder how many of us will embrace the idea. It is high “right” or “wrong” way to activities that keep your child’s about the future being dark, normal and healthy life. time we know that all types of work has value.

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Mhonchumi Odyuo, Dimapur. so make sure not to dictate obsessive about the event.

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judge was deliberately 3 killed, 4 injured in Bengaluru explosion Dhanbad hit by auto rickshaw: CBI to HC

Police personnel inspect the blast site at New Tharagupet area in Benagaluru, Thursday. (PTI)

and auto-rickshaws were also damaged due to the explosion.

The sudden explosion had also caused tremors in the locality. The locals initially thought it was a bomb blast, speaking to News18, Ahmed Pasha, an

Delhi HC to hear Google’s plea against ‘leak’ of CCI probe

Anirudh Tewari is new Punjab Chief Secretary

The company said it has filed the petition in the court seeking redress in this matter, specifically protesting against the breach of confidence which impairs Google’s ability to defend itself and harms it and its partners.

A Google spokesperson said, “We are deeply concerned that the Director General’s report, which contains our confidential information in an ongoing case, was leaked to the media while in the CCI’s custody. Protecting confidential information is fundamental to any governmental investigation, and we are pursuing our legal right to seek redress and prevent any further unlawful disclosures.

“We cooperated fully and maintained confidentiality throughout the investigative process, and we hope and expect the same level of confidentiality from the institutions we engage with.”

CHANDIGARH, SEP 23 (PTI): The Charanjit Singh Channi-led government in Punjab on Thursday shunted Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan and appointed Anirudh Tewari in her place. Tewari is a 1990-batch IAS officer and is currently holding the position of the Additional Chief Secretary Development, ACS Food Processing, ACS Horticulture and ACS Governance Reforms and Public Grievances.

The posting orders of Mahajan will be issued later, according to a government order issued on Thursday. As per the order, Ravneet Kaur (1988 batch-IAS officer), Sanjay Kumar (1988-batch), V K Janjua (1989-batch) and Kripa Shankar Saroj (1989-batch) have been designated as special chief secretaries with immediate effect. After the change of guard, it was certain that the top bureaucrats of the state would be replaced.

doctors and health facilities of their choice.

The PMDHM aims to create a nationwide digital health infrastructure to provide universal health coverage with health IDs for all citizens, Unique Identifiers for doctors and health facilities, Personal Health Records, and telemedicine and e-pharmacy, among other components. The PM Digital Health Mission will provide Universal Health Coverage in an efficient, accessible, inclusive, affordable and safe manner,

as per the health ministry.

A national digital health ecosystem will be created through the provision of a wide-range of data, information and infrastructure services under the PMDHM. The six Union Territories of India -- Andaman & Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Ladakh, Lakshadweep and Puducherry has already the pilot scheme of PMDHM. The Union Health Minister said, “Under this,

NVCO appreciates Ravi for returning Lokayukta (Amendment No. 2) Bill (From p-1) governance, coupled with probity in public life, thereby ensuring justice for all as enshrined in Preamble to Indian constitution.

NVCO recalled that on the day the stipulated six-month period within which the State government had to appoint Lokayukta was to expire, the ruling NDPP-BJP regime amended the Nagaland Lokayukta Act, 2017 to allow itself one year to keep the post of anti-corruption ombudsman vacant. And on the first day of Monsoon Session of State Assembly on August 3, 2021, chief minister Neiphiu Rio moved the Nagaland Lokayukta(Amendment No.2) Bill, 2021.

Surprisingly, the organisation said the 60-member House passed the Bill on August 5 to make the anti-corruption watchdog in the State remain headless for a year, though Ravi had rejected the Bill and returnedit the NLA speaker for reconsideration.

A s a S t a t e c a n n o t r e m ove Lokayukta by law, the organisation said the State government was forced to knock on Supreme Court’s door and the sitting Lokayukta –retired

chief justice of Meghalaya high court, Justice Uma Nath Singh – had to tender his resignation, which was accepted on February 5.

Justice Singh had cited “unpleasant environment circumstances” and “hostile environment”as the reasons for him quittingthe post.

The organisation asked the twomember search committee consisting of chief secretary and advocate general to hurriedly identify candidates for appointment as Lokayukta as the stipulated time period of sixmonths had already expired on August 5, 2021 and the (Amendment No.2) Bill was rejected by the former governor.

NVCO president KezhokhotoSavi said it was sad to compel the former Lokayukta to quit from the post, even as the State government moved for amendment to keep the post vacant for a longer period – one year instead of six-months.

Pointing out that the job of a Lokayukta was to check corruption, he explained that the institution was meant to watch not just the bureaucrats and various departments, but the cabinet ministers too, including the chief minister of the State.

on Thursday.

While hearing the matter on September 16, the Jharkhand HC had expressed anguished over the CBI probe. The high court had directed the CBI Zonal Director to appear before the court on Thursday.

The CBI has been submitting its progress report to court every week.

On July 28, the ADJ was killed after hit by the auto rickshaw that was

caught on a CCTV camera.

Two people Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma were arrested by the police.

Jharkhand High Court did not trust the SIT formed by the state govt to probe the matter and handed over the case to CBI, even as the Supreme Court expressed its shock at the daylight incident targeting a judge.

According to CBI source more than 200 people have been interrogated so far.

Sena likens governors in non- SP workers ‘purify’ places BJP states to ‘rogue elephants’ visited by Yogi in Sambhal Says they are trampling democracy MUMBAI, SEP 23 (PTI): The Shiv Sena on Thursday accused the governors in non-BJP-ruled states, including Maharashtra, of acting like rogue elephants and trampling under their feet democratic constitution, laws and political culture.

Without taking the name of Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, the party, in an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ also alleged that the Centre was using governors to destabilise those states that are being ruled by non-BJP parties. The Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government shares an uneasy relationship with governor Koshyari. Among other issues, Koshyari has been

PM Modi to announce PMDHM on Sep 27

NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will announce the nationwide rollout of Pradhan Mantri Digital Health Mission (PMDHM) on September 27, Union Health Minister Manukh Mandaviya on Thursday said.

The flagship scheme aims to digitalize healthcare across the nation creating a country-wide digital health ecosystem that will enable patients to store, access and consent to share their health records with

File photo of moments before Dhanbad judge Uttam Ananad was struck by an auto.

a unique digital health ID will be provided to the people, which will contain all the health records of the person.” The digital health ID provided under the PMDHM will have all details of health records of the citizen.

Earlier in day, the Union Health Minister released the National Comprehensive Guidelines on post Covid management.

The guidelines will provide complete post Covid health care guidance for long term.

under fire from the state government over the delay in approving the appointment of 12 MLCs from his quota.

“The governors in nonBJP-ruled states are like rogue elephants and their mahouts (handlers) are sitting in New Delhi. Such elephants trample democratic processes, laws, political culture under their feet and set new precedence,” the Sena said.

How appropriate is it that the governors are using all their power to destabilise the state government because it is formed by nonBJP parties, the party asked.

Such efforts are affecting the unity of the country.

It is like playing with fire.

But one should remember that in doing so, one’s own hands may get burnt. The use of governor’s post for such work is demolishing the constitutional structure, it added.

“If some people think

that Indian democracy will sustain and flourish by constructing a new parliament complex in the national capital, then they should also pay attention to the screams of the federal governments that have been trampled.

The states are not allowed to function properly and the agents of the party in power are given free hand to create chaos in the states,” the Sena alleged.

“Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has expressed his concerns over the safety of women and the law and order situation in the state. But why such concern is not expressed by the governors of Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh. The BJP women MLAs in Maharashtra have raised the same issue. But how come the BJP women legislators from other states are not expressing similar concerns for MP and UP?” it asked.

Jharkhand to conduct animal census from Oct 1

MEDININAGAR, SEPT 23 (PTI): A three-monthlong animal census will begin from October 1 in Jharkhand, a senior forest official said on Thursday.

The exercise will be conducted with the help of a camera trapping technique, and an indirect count method involving pug mark technique and pellet count, Deputy Director of Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) Kumar Ashish said.

All 31 divisional forest

ranges and five wildlife sanctuaries of the state will be covered during the exercise, he said.

The preparation for conducting the animal census was in the final stage, the official said.

T i ge r s, e l e p h a n t s, bears, leopards, and deer will be counted during the exercise. Three-day training of forest department personnel has commenced at the PTR headquarter in Medininagar, he said.

‘Jungle raj’ prevailing in UP: Azad

ALIGARH (UP), SEP 23 (PTI): Azad Samaj Party leader Chandrashekhar Azad on Thursday said ‘jungle raj’ is prevailing in Uttar Pradesh and women are not safe, days after the body of an eight-year-old Dalit girl was found in a village here.

Azad was in Aligarh to meet the family members of the school girl whose body was recovered from a field near Kishangarh village on Monday, and said the incident is a “shocking pointer to the breakdown of law and order in the state”. “As far as security of women is concerned, jungle raj prevails in Uttar Pradesh,” he told reporters while claiming that similar incidents took place recently in a different part of Aligarh and Bijnor which was a cause of “serious concern”. According to police, the girl had left for school at around 8 am on Monday morning. Shortly before noon her school bag was spotted by some passers-by who raised an alarm.

When it was found that the girl had not reached school, her family started searching for her and found her body in the field.

The victim’s family alleged that she was sexually assaulted before being killed.

SAMBHAL (UP), SEP 23 (PTI): Samajwadi Party youth workers undertook a “purification” exercise of the places visited by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Sambhal district by sprinkling ‘Gangajal’.

A video of the purification exercise on Wednesday has gone viral.

A case was lodged against Samajwadi Party Yuvjan Sabha state president Bhavesh Yadav and 8-10 others, Superintendent of Police Chakresh Misra said on Thursday. Yadav has been arrested, he added.

The chief minister had inaugurated and laid foundations of projects worth Rs 275 crore and addressed a public meeting at Kaila Devi in Sambhal district on Tuesday.

A day later, Yadav and SP Yuvjan Sabha workers undertook the ‘shuddhikaran’ (purification) exercise of the venue of

the chief minister’s public meeting and helipad by sprinkling waters from the Ganga river.

Talking to the media during the exercise, Yadav claimed he conducted the purification drive as Adityanath has “insulted” Maa Kaila Devi by not visiting the temple when he was here.

A resident of Sambhal filed a complaint at the Bahjoi police state alleging that Yadav’s action has upset followers of Adityanth who is also a religious leader.

The case was registered under IPC sections 153A (promoting disharmony, enmity or feelings of hatred), 295A (deliberate and malicious intention of outraging religious feelings) and 505 (intent to incite, or which is likely to incite, any class or community of persons to commit any offence against any other class or community). Yadav was sent to 14-day judicial custody.

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NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (PTI): The Delhi High Court Thursday agreed to hear a plea by Internet giant Google protesting against alleged leak of information to media relating to an ongoing investigation by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into Google’s Android smartphone agreements.

The petition was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh for an urgent listing and the court allowed it for hearing on Friday.

Google in a statement said that on September 18, 2021, a confidential interim fact-finding report submitted by the Director General’s office to the CCI relating to an ongoing investigation into Google’s Android smartphone agreements, was leaked to the media.

It said Google has not yet received or reviewed this confidential report.

eyewitness said that he had never witnessed such a blast ever. “I have a two-wheeler motor-bike garage near the blast site. We all heard huge explosion sounds and tremors. We thought it must be a bomb blast. Only after fire and emergency services

RANCHI, SEP 23 (IANS): The CBI on Thursday informed the Jharkhand High Court that an auto rickshaw had deliberately hit Dhanbad Additional District Judge (ADJ) Uttam Ananad in July leading to his death.

“CBI is inquiring the death from every angle. The probe is going on. No angle will left while investigating the probe.

“Of the two accused arrested so far, one is professional mobile thief. He has beens trying to mislead the CBI probe by floating new stories.

“A team of 20 CBI officers are probing the case. It is now clear that the sitting judge of the district court was intentionally hit by the auto rickshaw when he was out for his morning walk.

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Babu, as stated by sources, is reportedly on the run.

According to eyewitnesses the intensity of the blast was huge and bodies of three deceased were flown at least 100 meters from the blast site. At least 20 motorbikes, a few cars,

visited, we learned that it’s not a bomb. We don’t know what was stored in the warehouse,” he added.

Senior police officials visited the spot and are investigating what really caused the explosion, while the forensic science laboratory team is also at the spot.

Police are trying to catch Babu to know what has been stored in the warehouse.

This comes a day after a woman and her daughter were killed in a fire at their apartment in Bengaluru’s BTM Layout on Tuesday evening.

Police officials investigating the matter stated that the flat seems to have caught fire after a domestic cylinder blast. Eyewitnesses said the women could not be rescued as the blaze spread rapidly. Fire officials said the deceased, Lakshmi Devi, 82, and her daughter Bhagya Rekha, 59, lived on the third floor.

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BENGALURU, SEP 23 (AGENCIES): An explosion at a firecracker storage facility in the New Tharagupet area of Bengaluru killed at least three people and seriously injured four others on Thursday afternoon.

The incident happened in Ryan Circle of Chamarajapete which falls under Vivipuram police limits, reports News18.com.

“Two people killed, three others injured in a blast at a firecracker storage facility in Bengaluru earlier today,” DCP (South) Harish Pandey told news agency ANI. Fire tenders went to the spot to put out the fire.

The deceased were identified as Manohar (29) a native of Tamil Nadu, Aslam (45), Fayaz (50). The police and fire department suspects that a huge amount of firecrackers were stored inside the warehouse, which caught fire. However, the owner of the warehouse- Mr

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At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened flat at 73.85 against the greenback. During the session, it witnessed an intra-day high of 73.61 and finally settled at 73.64.

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They said that September 22, 2021 will be remembered as a black-letter day by the Zeliangrong and will be written on the purple page of the Zeliangrong history.

They said that such anarchic action was jarring and called upon all to condemn such barbaric act of assassination.

ZWAD and ZSUD also urged the law enforcement agency to take swift action and punish the perpetrators as per the law of the land.

They also urged National Investigation Agency to look into the matter and punish the perpetrators at the earliest.

Z S U D a n d Z WA D denounced the senseless and merciless killing and voiced solidarity with the bereaved family members for justice to be brought at the earliest and hold the perpetrators accountable.

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death has created. NZPO said it strongly condemn the gruesome killing and demanded justice at the earliest.

NZPO also expressed condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that the love of God enfolds them during this difficult time.

Z S U D, Z WA D : Zeliang rong Students’ Union, Delhi (ZSUD) and Zeliangrong Welfare Association Delhi (ZWAD) expressed shock, pain and condemned the murder of Athuan Abonmai.

In a press note, ZAWD president Benjamin Pamei and ZSUD president I. Smilingbo Pamai also expressed “concern and abhorrence as a matter of urgency regarding the savagery and cold-blooded murder of our luminary and condemn the culprits of such inhumane act in the strongest term.”

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people,” it said.

NPMHR appealed to all sections of society to remain vigilant and said that anger and condemnation must not deprive the due course of justice for victims of such senseless killings.

No amount of justification will exonerate what was done to Abonmai, it said, expressing deep anguish and condolences.

NZPO: Nagaland Zeliang People Organisation (NZPO) president Kingudi Joshep expressed shock to learn about the “ghastly and merciless murder” of Athuan Abonmai by some unknown men.

NZPO said Abonmai was a loving man and a dedicated leader who displayed his patriotic spirit by rendering his service for his people, adding that no one can fill the void his

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killing of Athuan Abonmai on September 22, 2021 at Tamenglong.

NPMHR (South) convenor Joyson Mazamo and co-convenor Koruphun Tantanga said they were pained as to how torture and killing of civilians by both state and non-state actors have devastated the land and homes.

It said that no justific ation will help salvage the dampened wound caused by the action of the perpetrators. “Clearly, the gravity of the situation is beyond the reasoning capacity of the perpetrators, or simply, senseless actions does not matter to them.

Because what matters to them is serving their vested interest. We are concerned how vested groups will politicize this tragedy to communalize and divide the

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bravest leaders from our Zeliangrong community” , Athuan Abonmai, who was kidnapped and murdered.

Such act of kidnapping and assassinating an innocent live must be condemned by all sensible citizens and should be labelled as “a cowardice act”, ZSU(N) said.

The union fur ther appealed to the law enforcing a g e n c i e s t o p r o m p t ly investigate the case without further procrastination.

It also expressed condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that Almighty God grant them strength and solace to withstand the irreparable loss.

NPMHR: Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHRSouth) has condemned the kidnapping and brutal

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land”.

ZLSU: Zeliang Students’ Union, Nagaland (ZLSU) expressed shock and pain to learn about the alleged kidnapping and killing of Athuan Abonmai.

ZLSU condemn the gruesome and cold-blooded murder and urged Manipur gover nment to nab the culprits at the earliest and give befitting punishment.

It said that such barbaric act does not have a place in civilized societies and called upon all right thinking citizens condemn the act.

The union fur ther conveyed condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that almighty God grant them solace and peace at this hour of grief and pain.

ZSU(N): Zeliangrong Students’ Union (N) said it condemned the “notorious act meted out to one of our

insurance company.

Aier infor med the media that if beneficiaries have any grievance like denial of treatment by e m p a n e l l e d h o s p i t a l s, charging of money for treatment while availing benefits under the scheme, they can lodge complaints o n C e n t r a l G r i eva n c e Redressal Management System(CGRMS) portal (http://cgrms.pmjay.gov. in/) or can call 14555.

The officials said families identified as poor and vulnerable by SocioEconomic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 data were eligible to apply for AB-PMJAY. Also, beneficiaries of the erstwhile Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) who had renewed their cards till 2016/2017 were eligible.

On fraud cases, Dr Sao Tunyi consultant monitoring & evaluation claimed that there were few cases, which were i nve s t i g a t e d , p e n a l t y imposed and fraudulent w i t h d r awa l a m o u n t s recovered from the fraudsters by the State’s Anti-Fraud Unit.

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Dr. Kika said the scheme was portable and there were 821 cases of hospitalisations at hospitals located outside Nagaland, while there were 239 cases of hospitalisation within the State.

Further, a total of 9,950 claims amounting to Rs 12 crore were received and approved during the financial year 2019-20 and in 2020-21, the figures were 7,252 claims and Rs 10 crore.

Technical consultant (PwC) Alongla Aier said the health department has installed kiosks at all the empanelled hospitals to facilitate treatment of ABPMJAY card holders.

She said Dimapur district has the highest n u m b e r o f c o ve r a g e, followed by Kohima and other districts.

On the delay in release of money in previous years by the insurance company, Aier admitted that there were some hiccups in the past and the State government could not release the its share.

However, as on today, she claimed that no case was pending with either the State government or the

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forces. It has also leased a few drones from General Atomics.

Jakarta-born Lall, now based out of California, for over a decade has been instr umental in major bilateral defence deals wor th around USD18 billion, as India and the US take steps to forge a new relationship in which defence trade is a key pillar.

The meeting with chip giant Cristiano Amon assumes significance, given India’s push for the 5G technology to be safe and secure.

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(From p-1) In his keynote address, Bhatia claimed that the scheme had immensely benefited the people in the State, especially those from the poor socio-economic background, adding that the feedback received was praise-worthy.

He said 98 hospitals were empanelled under AB-PMJAY. Including 14 private hospitals, district hospitals, army hospital units, community health centres (CHCs) and some primar y health centres having good in-patient service.

Bhatia said that under AB-PMJAY services were cashless and money should n o t b e c h a r ge d w h i l e availing treatment. He admitted that there was a fraud case, which was investigated and the matter has since been resolved.

Later, addressing a press conference here, joint director &SNO AB-PMJAY Dr Kika Longkumer said that insurance company ‘Oriental Insurance Ltd’ offered health coverage of Rs 5 lakh per year per family for secondary and tertiary healthcare hospitalization.

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(From p-1) G o d ’s c r e a t i o n o f humankind in His image and God does give life, it is God alone that can take it away. We belief that all human livesare sacred and that the sanity of life is a very important elements of Christian faith,” the release stressed.

Naga Hoho reminded every political group not to forget to respecting people’s sentiments by avoiding killings, kidnappingsand unnecessary harassment to innocent public, stressing that the need of the hour was reconciliation among the divided society to resolve the common issue at the earliest for a better future.

The hoho appealed to all political groups to shun the path of violence and come forward to work for peace to prevail in “our

to highlight economic opportunities in India.

While Narayen reflects the IT and digital priority that the Indian government is pushing for, Modi’s meeting with Lall is significant as General Atomics is not only the pioneer in military drone technologies but also the world’s top manufacturer of state-of-the-art military drones, which the US shares only with its key allies and partners.

India is in the process of procuring a significant number of drones for the three branches of its armed

based company creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology.

A world leader in 3G, 4G, and next-generation wireless technology innovations for more than 30 years, Qualcomm is now pioneering its way to 5G with a new era of intelligent products that are revolutionising industries, including automotive, computing, and Internet of Things (IoT).

India is looking for a major investment from Qualcomm.

As India is taking gigantic steps in the use of solar power to meet its energy needs, the meeting with Mark Widmar is important as First Solar is a leading global provider of comprehensive photovoltaic (“PV”) solar solutions, which use its advanced module and system technology.

Early this summer, the Arizona-based company announced to add 3.3 GW of capacity in a new facility in India at an estimated cost of USD 684 million.

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PM Modi meets American CEOs

WASHINGTON, SEP 23 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his engagements in the US on Thursday by meeting with leading American CEOs from five different key sectors and highlighted the economic opportunities in India.

Modi, who arrived here on Wednesday on an official visit to the US during which he will hold the first face-to-face meeting with President Joe Biden and his deputy Kamala Harris, held one-on-one meetings with CEOs of Qualcomm, Adobe, First Solar, General Atomics and Blackstone here.

Two o f t h e m a r e Indian-Americans Shantanu Narayen from Adobe and Vivek Lall from General Atomics.

Three others are Cristiano E Amon from Qualcomm, Mark Widmar from First Solar, and Stephen A Schwarzman from Blackstone.

Ahead of his meeting with the business leaders, Modi had said he would interact with leading CEOs

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diaspora has distinguished Taliban unlikely to participate in UNGA Indian itself across the world: PM Modi leader to address the General Assembly would be interpreted as the United Nations recognising the new arrangement in Kabul and the UN is not yet ready to do that,” the report said.

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, the UN did not recognise their government and gave Afghanistan’s seat to the previous government of then president Burhanuddin Rabbani instead, it said.

According to the US media, this time the UN could be lenient to the Taliban but only if they form a more inclusive government, guarantee human rights, allow girls to return to schools and women to go to work.

Meanwhile, Acting Afghan Prime Minister Mullah Hassan Akhund, in a meeting with the special envoys from Pakistan, China and Russia in Kabul on Tuesday, has assured them to work towards meeting the international demands, including the formation of an inclusive government, protecting women and human rights, The Express Tribune newspaper reported.

WASHINGTON, SEP 23 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has commended the Indian Diaspora for distinguishing itself across the world, as he received an enthusiastic welcome from the community on his arrival here on a major visit to further enhance Indo-US relations.

Modi was warmly greeted by groups of Indian-Americans at the airport soon after his plane landed here on Wednesday and later at the hotel where he had an interaction with the members of the community.

“Grateful to the Indian community in Washington DC for the warm welcome. Our diaspora is our strength,” Modi said in a tweet along with a set of pictures of his interaction with Indian-American CEOs. “It is commendable how the Indian diaspora has distinguished itself across the world,” Modi said.

One of the signature events of Prime Minister Modi’s overseas visits has

US calls on UNSC P5 members 25 Indian boats damaged by to remain united on Afghanistan Sri Lankan Navy: Fishermen

16 mn Yemenis on verge of starvation: UN

Diplomats of ousted govt still in office

U N I T E D NAT I O N S / ISLAMABAD, SEP 23 (PTI): The Taliban, which now rule Afghanis­tan after overthrowing the electedgovernment of President Ashraf Ghani, are unlikely to represent their country at the high-level United Nations General Assembly session as representatives of the ousted dispensation still occupy the office at the UN, a Pakistani media report said on Thursday.

Afghanistan is scheduled to address the ongoing UN General Assembly session on September 27.

On September 20, the Taliban-controlled Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, requesting him to participate in the 76th UNGA session in New York. It was signed

by Taliban leader Ameer Khan Muttaqi as the new Afghan foreign minister.

A week ago on September 15, Guterres had received a letter from the currently accredited Afghan

UNITED NATIONS, SEP 23 (PTI): The US has called on fellow permanent members of the UN Security Council to remain “united” on Afghanistan, to hold the Taliban accountable to its commitments and to work together to ensure humanitarian access and availability of funds to meet humanitarian needs in the war-torn country.

T h e U S, t h e U K , France, China and Russia, known as P5, are the five permanent and veto-wielding members of the 15-nation powerful UN organ.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss chaired a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the P5 and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday on the margins of the high-level 76th session of the UN General Assembly.

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that in the meeting, Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasised the importance of a constructive P5 action to maintain international peace and security.

“On Afghanistan, the Secretary called for P5 co-

A meeting of the UN Security Council is held, Sept. 23 during the 76th Session of the UNGA in New York. (AP/PTI)

ambassador, Ghulam Isaczai, stating that he and other members of his team, still occupying the Afghan mission at the United Nations, will represent Afghanistan in UNGA. On Tuesday, they attended the UNGA session addressed by US President Joe Biden.

“They will continue to occupy the mission until the credentials committee takes a decision,” a diplomatic source was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has confirmed receiving both the letters. In his letter, Taliban

Ned Price

ordination to mitigate the emerging humanitarian crisis and prevent an economic collapse. He noted the shared expectations for an inclusive and representative government.

“The Secretary encouraged the P5 to remain united on Afghanistan, to hold the Taliban accountable to its commitments, and to work together to ensure humanitarian access, respect for humanitarian principles, and availability of funds to meet humanitarian needs,” Price said in a statement.

On Iran, Blinken reiterated the US’ intent to pursue a path of meaningful diplomacy to achieve a mutual return to compliance with the Iran nuclear deal and to address a full range of concerns with Iran.

leader Muttaqi said that Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani was “ousted” on August 15 and therefore his envoy no longer represents Afghanistan, according to Dujarric.

The UNGA’s ninemember credentials committee, which makes such decisions, is unlikely to meet before September 27, and even if it did, it cannot settle the dispute in the remaining two or three days, the newspaper said.

It said that Guterres’ office has sent both the letters to the committee after consultations with General Assembly President Abdulla

In the meeting, Truss called for greater cooperation among the P5 on maintaining international peace and security.

Ahead of the meeting, the UK Mission to the UN had said that the P5 will discuss the vital role the Security Council, including its permanent members, has to play in maintaining international peace and security, amid a backdrop of ongoing conflicts and crises, including in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Yemen and Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

Truss will call for Russia and China to agree a coordinated international approach to Afghanistan, the UK Mission had said.

Speaking ahead of the meetings, Truss had said “The P5 have clear shared interests in maintaining stability in volatile regions to prevent terrorism and keep our citizens safe.

“If we want to avoid Afghanistan becoming a haven for global terror then the international community – including Russia and China – needs to act as one in its engagement with the Taliban”.

Shahid of the Maldives.

The current members of the committee include the US, Russia, China, Bahamas, Bhutan, Chile, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Sweden.

The US was in no rush to endorse the Taliban’s request for joining the UN as the legitimate Afghan government, the report said.

According to senior US State Department officials, they were aware of the Taliban’s request but the deliberations “would take some time”, indicating that the Taliban representative would not address the UNGA on September 27.

One possibility, however, is not to allow Afghanistan’s current ambassador to address the gathering either because that would indicate support for the previous government, and would have wide-ranging repercussions, the report said.

“But the former Afghan government still has support within the UN and apparently India is leading the campaign to let its envoy address the General Assembly.

“Allowing a Taliban

CHENNAI, SEP 23 (IANS): At least 25 fishing boats of Indian fishermen were damaged after Sri Lankan navy personnel allegedly attacked them on Wednesday late night at Katchatheevu.

Tamil Nadu fisheries department officials said that the Sri Lankan Navy personnel hurled glass bottles and stones at the Indian fishermen. SL Navy personnel came in 10 patrol boats and they damaged the fishing boats, it was alleged. Officials said that fishing nets in 40 boats were also damaged in the alleged attack by the SL navy personnel.

Fishermen association leader N. Devadass told IANS, “This is highly deplorable and a situation has reached wherein the fishermen from the Tamil Nadu coast are not able to carry out their vocation.

We have already lodged a complaint with the fisheries department of Tamil Nadu and also the local police. We need protection, otherwise, we may not be able to go out in the deep sea for fishing.”

The Indian Coast Guard officials were apprised of the development by

the fishermen as also Tamil Nadu fisheries department officials on the alleged attack by a foreign Navy.

The Sri Lankan Navy has been indulging in attacks on Indian fishermen and fishing boats time and again. In an earlier attack off the coast at Dhanushkodi, several fishermen sustained injuries after the Sri Lankan Navy personnel hurled glass bottles and stones at the Indian fishermen.

Katchatheevu is a 163acre uninhabited island administered by SL and was a disputed territory between 2 countries. In 1974, then PM Indira Gandhi ceded the Island to Sri Lanka under the Indo-Sri Lankan Marine agreement. The island is located between Neduntheevu, Sri Lanka, and Rameswaram, India.

The agreement allows Indian fishermen to do fishing around the island as well as gives them right to dry their nets at the island. But during the Civil war in Lanka, several difficulties were faced due to the agreement as the SL Navy used to attack even the fishing boats as there were large scale smuggling of weapons those days.

UNITED NATIONS, SEP 23 (IANS): Over half of Yemen’s population or 16 million people, are “marching towards starvation”, and unless the international community steps up support, food assistance could soon run out, the UN has warned.

Speaking at a virtual gathering of aid and development ministers, David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, described a worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where a Houthi rebel offensive is making gains in the strategic region of Marib, reports Xinhua news agency.

“We’re literally looking at 16 mn people marching towards starvation,” Beasley said. “We need this war to end, No. 1. If donors are getting fatigued, well, end the war. World leaders need to put pressure on all parties involved in this conflict because the people in Yemen have suffered enough.” The protracted conflict in Yemen has claimed the lives of more than 230,000 people, displaced an estimated 4 mn, and left 80% of the country’s 29mn citizens in need of aid.

PM Narendra Modi being received by the dignitaries, on his arrival, in Washington DC, September 23. (PTI)

been his meetings with the diaspora community in large gatherings.

However, due to the current COVID-19 situation, the prime minister is unlikely to have a large gathering or meeting with the diaspora.

Modi has been popular among Indian-Americans, who constitute more than 1.2 per cent of the country’s population.

The community is increasingly playing an important role, including in American politics.

Modi, who is visiting

the US for the 7th time after assuming office in 2014, has said that his visit would be an occasion to strengthen the Indo-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and consolidate ties with Japan and Australia.

Apart from meeting US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Modi is also scheduled to have separate bilateral talks with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

China sends 19 fighter jets towards Taiwan in show of force

A Chinese PLA J-16 fighter jet flies in an undisclosed location. (AP/PTI)

TAIPEI, SEP 23 (AP): China sent 19 fighter jets toward Taiwan in a large display of force Thursday, after the self-governing island announced its intention to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group that China has also applied to join.

Taiwan deployed air patrol forces in response to the Chinese jets and tracked them on their air defense systems, the island’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Among the various jets, some of which flew in a long L-shaped path, were 12 J-16 and two J-11s, as well as bombers and an antisubmarine aircraft.

China has sent fighter jets toward Taiwan on an almost daily basis this past year. It stepped up its

military harassment of the self-ruled island and has sent large displays of fighter jets after political events in which it views as interfering with its sovereignty.

Taiwan and China split during a civil war in 1949, but China continues to claim Taiwan as part of its territory. Beijing opposes Taiwan’s involvement in international bodies. Taiwan announce Thursday that it applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, setting up another potential clash with Beijing.

China’s military sent 18 planes towards Taiwan last year when a top U.S. diplomat visited the island and met with top government officials.

Vax certification for travel must meet minimum criteria: UK Eruption of Spain’s La Palma volcano could last 24-84 days

LONDON, SEP 23 (PTI): The UK government has said that COVID-19 vaccine certification from all countries must meet a “minimum criterion” and that it is working with India on a “phased approach” to its international travel norms.

It follows Covishield, the Serum Institute of India manufactured Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine, being added as eligible to an expanded UK travel advisory on Wednesday.

But with India’s vaccine certification not on a list of 18 approved countries, Indian travellers to the UK will continue to be treated as non-vaccinated and therefore required to quarantine for 10 days on arrival.

Following much confusion over this process, UK government sources said on Wednesday night that additions or changes to the approved country listings are being kept under “regular consideration”, but there was no further clarity on the required criteria for approving a country’s vaccine certification.

“As part of our recently expanded inbound vaccination policy, we recognise the following vaccines Pfizer BioNTech, Oxford AstraZeneca, Moderna

and Janssen (J&J), for the purposes of international travel. This now includes the formulations AstraZeneca Covishield, AstraZeneca Vaxzevria and Moderna Takeda,” a UK government spokesperson said.

“Our top priority remains protecting public health, and reopening travel in a safe and sustainable way, which is why vaccine certification from all countries must meet the minimum criteria taking into account public health and wider considerations.

We continue to work with international partners, including India, to roll out our phased approach,” the spokesperson said.

Travellers who are not fully vaccinated, or vac-

cinated in a country such as India currently not on the UK government’s recognised list, must take a pre-departure test, pay for day two and day eight PCR tests after arrival in England and self-isolate for 10 days, with an option to “test to release” after five days following a negative PCR test.

With reference to an outcry over India’s vaccination certification not being recognised despite Covishield being one of two main COVID-19 vaccines administered in India, UK government sources would only say that the rollout of its inbound vaccination programme to other countries and territories was always intended as a “phased approach”, building on the

success of pilots with the US and Europe.

The 18 countries currently on the UK government’s approved inbound vaccinations list besides the US and Europe include: Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahrain, Brunei, Canada, Dominica, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Talks are being held in New Delhi between British officials and National Health Authority representatives, led by CEO R.S. Sharma, in an attempt to resolve India’s omission from this list.

“Excellent technical

discussions with @rssharma @AyushmanNHA. Neither side raised technical concerns with each other’s certification process.

An important step forward in our joint aim to facilitate travel and fully protect public health of UK and India,” British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis tweeted on Thursday.

From October 4, England’s traffic light system of red, amber and green countries based on levels of COVID-19 risk is to be officially scrapped. However, despite Covishield now being recognised within the UK’s eligible vaccine formulations, it would not offer any advantage to Covishield-vaccinated Indian travellers planning a UK visit.

The Indian government has expressed its strong condemnation of such a move and warned of “reciprocal measures” if vaccinated travellers from India continued to be treated in a “discriminatory” way.

At a Global COVID summit hosted by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated that international travel should be made easier through “mutual recognition of vaccine certificates”.

A view of volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma in Spain.

M A D R I D, S E P 2 3 (IANS): The eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in Spain is expected to last between 24 and 84 days, according to experts.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Volcanology Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) said the flare-up, which began on Sunday afternoon, is not projected to last longer than the volcano’s three previous recorded eruptions (24 days in 1971, 47 days in 1949 and 56 days in 1712), reports Xinhua news agency.

Around 6,000 people from La Palma’s popu-

lation of approximately 80,000 inhabitants have been evacuated from their homes as the lava flow from nine different vents on the mountain is slowly making its way towards the sea at an estimated speed of 200 metres an hour.

Images taken by the European Union’s Earth observation satellite Copernicus show that 154 hectares of terrain have already been consumed by the lava to a maximum depth of 10-12 metres, and 320 buildings have been destroyed.

The lava f low has caused extensive damage in

the small town of Todoque, which is located between the volcano and the sea.

Around 200 homes have been destroyed and a further 500 are in danger.

Evacuated residents have been allowed to briefly return to their homes to collect their belongings.

Around 750 civil defence personnel, including the Civil Guard, the Fire Brigade and members of the Spanish Military Emergencies Unit are ensuring the safety of the islanders.

Six roads on the island have been closed, but air traffic both in and out of La Palma remains unaffected.

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12 powerhouse vegetables you should be eating Cream of the Crop If you regularly load up your grocery cart with a variety of veggies, you could be well on your way to a healthier and longer life. But which ones should you reach for? Recent research has shown that dozens of vegetables pack a particularly big nutritional punch. Sneaking them into your daily diet couldn’t be simpler.

Spinach This green has healthy amounts of vitamins C, A, and K as well as manganese. Working 1.5 cups of green, leafy vegetables into your day may lower your odds of getting type 2 diabetes. Cooking tip: Sneak spinach into your daily routine by adding it to scrambled eggs and casseroles or blending it into smoothies.

Watercress Often overshadowed by arugula, this peppery green can knock any dish into nutritional shape. It’s particularly rich in vitamins A, C, and K, and other antioxidants that are good for you. Cooking tip: Watercress can instantly make sandwiches and salads more lively and fresh-tasting. Or blend the greens into pureed soups.

Beet Greens Beet roots’ edible leafy tops are brimming with vitamin K, which is linked to a lower chance of getting type 2 diabetes. One cup raw provides nearly twice your daily requirement. Cooking tip: Saute a bunch of tender beet greens with some olive oil and garlic for a healthy side dish. Or chop them and add to frittatas, soups, or pasta dishes.

Beets Not to be outdone by their tops, ruby red beets are a leading source of nitrates, which are good for your blood pressure. Plus, you get fiber and other nutrients from beets. Cooking tip: Roasting beets boosts their natural sweetness.

Wrap each beet individually in foil and bake at 350 F until tender. Or skip the oven. Grate raw beets and add to slaws or as a topping in sandwiches.

Swiss Chard Two main varieties of Swiss chard are found on store shelves: one with multicolored stems and veins, often called rainbow chard, and another with white stems and veins. Both are great sources of lutein and zeaxanthin, an antioxidant duo that’s good for your eyes. At only 7 calories a cup for raw chard, the green giant is waistline-friendly, too. Cooking tip: To preserve its nutritional might, lightly steam chard and toss with vinaigrette. You can also use the leaves instead of tortillas when making soft tacos.

Collard Greens This Southern favorite contains a wealth of nutritional goodness, including notable amounts of vitamins K and C, folate, and beta-carotene. To boost your daily nutrition, aim to eat about 2 cups of dark, leafy greens like collards every day.

Two cups of raw greens is equal to 1 cup of vegetables, and 2.5 cups is recommended daily for a 2000-calorie diet. Cooking tip: Quickly blanch the leaves in boiling water, then chop them and add them to whole-grain or lentil salads.

Asparagus With an earthy-sweet flavor, asparagus is a good way to load up on folate. Research suggests that this B vitamin is an ally in the battle against high blood pressure.

Cooking tip: Shave raw asparagus with a vegetable peeler. You’ll get ribbons that are wonderful in salads.

Microgreens Great things come in small packages. The baby versions of radishes, cabbages, kale, and broccoli can be higher in nutrients like vitamins C and E than the regular, mature plants. They range in flavors from peppery to tangy.

Cooking tip: Try adding a handful of microgreens to sandwiches and salads, or use as a garnish for soups.

Red Bell Pepper You think of it as a veggie, but it’s actually a fruit. One medium pepper delivers B vitamins, beta carotene, and more than twice your daily need for vitamin C. Cooking tip: For a fanciful main dish, cut the tops off peppers, remove the inner white membranes and seeds, and then roast until tender. Finish by filling with your favorite whole-grain salad.

Frozen Peas It’s always a good idea to stash a bag of green peas in your freezer. Each cup of frozen peas delivers an impressive 7.2 grams of fiber. Fiber helps you feel full, so you eat less later. It’s also good for your digestion and helps lower cholesterol levels. Cooking tip: Use frozen peas in soups, dips, potato salads, and pasta dishes.

Baby Kale Packed with nutrients like beta-carotene, vitamin C, and bone-building vitamin K, kale has been billed as an ultimate super food. Not everyone likes its strong flavor. Enter up-andcoming baby kale. The immature kale leaves are deliciously tender and don’t require any chopping. Cooking tip: Look for baby kale packed in plastic containers alongside baby spinach in supermarkets. Use in wraps, salads, and pasta dishes.

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Astronomers find why galaxies become dormant

that early, massive galaxies turn quiescent, but until now, no one knew why.

“The most massive galaxies in our universe formed incredibly early, just after the Big Bang happened, 14 billion years ago,” said Kate Whitaker, Assistant Professor of astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

“But for some reason, they have shut down. They’re no longer forming new stars,” she added.

Her team explored what happened to all the cold gas in these galaxies so early on.

Hubble pinpointed where in the galaxies the stars exist, showing where

eral possible explanations: “Did a supermassive black hole in the galaxy’s center turn on and heat up all the gas? If so, the gas could still be there, but now it’s hot. Or it could have been expelled and now it’s being prevented from accreting back onto the galaxy. Or did the galaxy just use it all up, and the supply is cut off ? These are some of the open questions that we’ll continue to explore with new observations down the road.”

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team of astronomers have found the reason why early, massive galaxies turn inactive is because they run out of the cold hydrogen gas needed to make stars.

Star formation is one of the key ways that galaxies grow, and they’re said to have gone quiescent when they cease forming stars.

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, the team from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst detected six such massive galaxies that were dead.

While astronomers have known

they formed in the past. By detecting the cold dust that serves as a proxy for the cold hydrogen gas, ALMA showed astronomers where stars could form in the future if enough fuel were present.

The findings are published in the journal Nature.

These six galaxies lived fast and furious lives, creating their stars in a remarkably short time. Why they shut down star formation so early is still a puzzle.

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researchers haven’t found any of the tools used to make the Iceman’s tattoos.

Excavations in 1985 revealed these turkey bones and other elements of a probable tattoo kit in a man’s burial pit at Tennessee’s Fernvale site, the researchers report in the June Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Damage on and near the tips of the two turkey leg bones resembles distinctive wear previously observed on experimental tattooing tools made from deer bones, Deter-Wolf ’s team says. In that research, tattooed lines in fresh slabs of pig skin were produced by a series of punctures with tools that had tips coated in a homemade ink. Experimental tattooing left ink remnants several millimeters from tools’ tips, a pattern also seen with red and black pigment residues on the Fernvale tools. (ScienceNews)

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ncient tattooing tools are tough to find or even recognize as implements for creating skin designs. But new microscopic studies of two turkey leg bones with sharpened ends indicate that Native Americans used these items to make tattoos between around 5,520 and 3,620 years ago.

These pigment-stained bones are the world’s oldest known tattooing tools, say archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf of the Tennessee Division of Archaeology in Nashville and his colleagues. The find suggests that Native American tattoo traditions in eastern North America extend back more than a millennium earlier than previously thought (SN: 3/4/19). Ötzi the Iceman, who lived around 5,250 years ago in Europe, displays the oldest known tattoos (SN: 1/13/16), but

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Two previously unearthed turkey leg bones with sharpened tips (top) are the oldest known tattooing tools. Two other turkey bones from the same site (bottom) may also have been used for tattooing but lack tips for analysis.

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Ligue 1: Hakimi earns PSG last-gasp win at Metz

METZ (EASTERN FRANCE), SEP 23 (AGENCIES): French league leader Paris SaintGermain made it seven straight wins but needed another injury-time winner to beat last-place Metz 2-1 in an unconvincing performance on Wednesday.

The referee was about to blow the final whistle when right back Achraf Hakimi netted his second goal in the fifth minute of injury time with a curling shot past goalkeeper Alexandre Oukidja.

Moments earlier, Metz captain Dylan Bronn and coach Frederic Antonetti were sent off — Bronn for a second yellow card after kicking the ball away and Antonetti for angrily protesting to the referee. As PSG players celebrated Hakimi’s goal, a furious Oukidja sprinted over to them and starting shoving as he sought out striker Kylian Mbappe.

It was unclear why, but it took several minutes for players — and PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino — to calm Oukidja down. Images appeared to show Mbappe saying something to Oukidja when the goalkeeper was facedown on the ground after conceding Hakimi’s

Neymar (L) runs to pass Metz’s Vincent Pajot during the French League One soccer match in Metz, eastern France, Wednesday. (AP/PTI)

second goal.

Oukidja then sprang to his feet and chased down Mbappe, leading to PSG players responding protectively and Neymar pushing Oukidja over. Neymar and Oukidja both were shown a yellow card. Lionel Messi sat out after taking a knock to the knee in Sunday’s last-gasp 2-1 home win over Lyon.

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from Neymar in the fourth minute. He expertly clipped the ball over the goalkeeper only for a defender to clear it off the line. But Hakimi finished neatly with a volley.

PSG missed chances and this allowed Metz to get into the game. Central defender Boubakar Kouyate equalized with a superb header from a corner in the 39th that goalkeeper Keylor Navas could not keep out.

Navas rescued PSG with a fine one-handed save moments before the break

when right winger Lamine Gueye broke through on goal and tried to chip him.

PSG is seven points ahead of second-place Marseille, which remains unbeaten after a 0-0 draw at third-place Angers.

Tensions were high at the final whistle as some Marseille fans left their enclosure and confronted Angers fans, before security officials intervened quickly.

There have been two high-profile incidents of fan disorder this season —

in matches between Nice and Marseille, and between northern rivals Lens and Lille. Fourth-place Lens lost its unbeaten home record as it slipped to a 1-0 defeat against Strasbourg.

M e a n w h i l e, Ly o n moved above Nice and into sixth place after a 3-1 win against lowly Troyes. Lyon fell behind just before the break when midfielder Xavier Chavalerin volleyed in from the edge of the penalty area.

Xherdan Shaqiri curled in an equalizer minutes into the second half for his first goal since joining from Liverpool. Another former Premier League player made it 2-1 as former Chelsea left-back Emerson pounced in the 71st.

Midfielder Lucas Paqueta, who scored last Sunday against PSG, wrapped it up late. Nice’s first defeat saw it lose 1-0 at fifth-place Lorient.

E a r l i e r, d e f e n d i n g champion Lille got back to winning ways by beating Reims 2-1, taking pressure off coach Jocelyn Gourvennec.

It was only Gourvennec’s second league win after replacing title-winning coach Christophe Galtier, who left in the offseason to join Nice.

‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Caleb Plant throw punches during face-off

Saul Canelo Alvarez (L) and Caleb Plant (R) traded punches as they went head to head.

LAS VEGAS, SEP 23 (AGENCIES): Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Caleb Plant threw punches when their first face-off descended into a wild brawl on Tuesday night.

The atmosphere was already tense when Canelo and Plant when eyeball to eyeball, both muttering insults to each other.

Canelo aggressively shoved Plant backwards.

Plant then threw the first punch and Canelo responded by throwing a shot of his own until they were separated by security. Plant was cut underneath his right eye by the melee.

Canelo and Plant will decide the undisputed supermiddleweight championship on November 6 in Las Vegas.

“You can say whatever to me, but not to my mom,” Canelo said afterwards.

“I’m going to fight anyone who says something about my mom. And he swung first. I just pushed him. He swung first, and I do what I do. He crossed the line.

“It will be over in eight rounds or less. I’m going to knock out this guy. Easy.”

Plant denied mentioning Canelo’s family and said: “We just had some normal back-and-forth banter

up there and then whatever happened, happened. It’s none of my concern though.

I’m focused and locked in on November 6.”

Mexico’s Canelo holds the WBA, WBC and WBO belts - since December, he has already ended the undefeated reigns of British duo Callum Smith and Billy Joe Saunders.

America’s Plant holds the IBF title, the only remaining belt outside of Canelo’s grasp, and is unbeaten in 21 fights.

Canelo is a four-weight world champion widely recognised as the No 1 fighter in the world.

Tennis great Martina Hingis talks about HC orders inquiry into Bhupathi-Leander Paes in ‘Break Point’ Manika Batra’s allegations

ICC launches T20 WC anthem

DUBAI, SEP 23 (IANS): The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday launched the official anthem of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 along with an official campaign film featuring ‘avatars’ of Virat Kohli and West Indies skipper Kieron Pollard. The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 will begin on October 17 in Oman and UAE, with the final to be played in Dubai on November 14.

The anthem, Live the Game, is composed by renowned Indian music director Amit Trivedi, Besides ‘avatars’ of Kohli and Pollard, the campaign film also features Afghani’tan’s ace spinner Rashid Khan and Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell.

The film showcased

young fans transported to the exciting world of T20I cricket, playing with their favourite players, all to a peppy soundtrack that had the players grooving through the week.

The avatar animation featured a brand-new broadcast technology that blends both 3D and 2D effects - it involved a production team of over 40 people, including designers, modellers, matte painters, animators, lighters, and compositors, the ICC said in a report on its official we”site.

“T20I cricket has proven time and time again that it can engage fans of all ages, and I’m excited to bring some fireworks to the stadiums in the UAE and for those watching all over the world,” Pollard was quoted as saying by ICC.

Ireland to play three T20Is against UAE in Dubai

D U B L I N, S E P 2 3 (IANS): Cricket Ireland announced on Thursday that the mens team will play a three-match T20I series against UAE at the ICC Academy in Dubai as part of a preparation camp ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in October.

Before the series, they will also play a warm-up match against Scotland.

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The Ireland men’s squad will leave for the UAE on Friday, and will undergo a mandatory sixday hotel quarantine before being able to start training.

iconic on-court partnership and off-court lives of Indian tennis stars Bupathi and Paes, which will premiere on ZEE5 on October 1.

The seven-part series will not only construct the tennis matches featuring the two but also deconstruct their relationship, both on and off the court and their public split.

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his personal trainees. The judge said the rule mandating compulsory attendance at the national camp has been enforced “at a point when there was a complaint pending against the national coach” and the same “does not inspire confidence”.

The cour t also expressed “anguish” at the manner in which a committee, constituted by the federation to look into the allegations, was reconstituted after it sought centre’s stand on the issue.

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up.” “What they whiffed through, what they shared... their stories and their success, that’s something that lasts forever,” added Hingis, who has played doubles with Paes and Bhupathi.

Co-directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari and Nitesh Tiwari, ‘Break Point’ is the untold ‘Bromance to Breakup’ story, based on the

NEW DELHI, SEP 23 (PTI): The Delhi High Court Thursday stayed the Table Tennis Federation of India’s mandate on compulsory attendance at the National Coaching Camp in order to be selected for any upcoming international event and asked the Centre to conduct an inquiry into Manika Batra’s complaint against the sports body.

Justice Rekha Palli further said that if warranted, the Union Sports Ministry may look into the affairs of the TTFI as well. Justice Palli was hearing a plea by Batra who was left out of the Indian contingent for the upcoming Asian Table Tennis Championships and has alleged that the national coach Soumyadeep Roy “pressurized” her to “throw away” an Olympic qualifier match in favour of one of

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT A NOTE OF GRATITUDE

Late a.ChuLok Phom Died on 29-08-2021 We, the family members of Late a.Chulok Phom, would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the friends, neighbours, relatives and well wishers who stood by us spiritually, emotionally, financially and physically till the time of his demise.

We regret our inability to thank each and every one individually but it is our prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

We, also convey our special gratitude towards:1. Kangching Baptist Church.

2. Kangching Village Council.

3. Kangching Baptist, Choir.

4. Tamlu Ching Baptist Church.

5. Tamlu Village Council.

6. Tamlu Town Baptist Church.

7. Tamlu Town Baptist, Choir.

8. Tamlu Town, CYE. 9. Tamlu Town Students’ Union.

10. Tamlu Town Hatnya Phopbu Khong.

11. Shukshuhu Phang Yongnyah Village.

12. Yanpaihu Phang Buranamsang Village.

13. Phom Students’ Conference.

14. Pensioners Chingsho Moidoi Union (Kangching) 15. Netnyu Village Council.

16. Prayer Community, Tamlu Town Baptist Church.

17. Alokyung Ward Tamlu Town.

18. Kangching Moitoi Union (Tamlu town).

19. Mukho Lakpan Phang Kangching.

20. Phom Area, Tamlu Area, Tamlu Town Unit, Kangching Unit, International Evangelistic Fellowship ( IEF) Loving Wife, Children, Grandchildren, In-laws and Relatives

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MUMBAI, SEP 23 (IANS): Former Swiss tennis ace Martina Hingis has shared her views on Mahesh Bhupathi-Leander Paes’ partnership in the upcoming documentary series ‘Break Point’.

The series also features other tennis players such as Hingis, Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna among others who share their views on Bhupathi and Paes, their relationship which made them win Grand Slams on the court even when they were at the verge of breaking up.

Talking about the time Bhupathi and Paes decided to part ways, Hingis said: “Either you can make it or you don’t, but there is no time to hesitate and once you start doubting your partner, it’s better to split

Kumghatoli Asumi 08.06.1989 – 10.09.2021

To all our friends, neighbours, well wishers and relatives

We are overwhelmed beyond words by the immeasurable support and countless deeds rendered to us during our agony and grief. We will remain indebted and grateful for the immense outpouring of your many expressions of love and support. It is our sincere prayer that God Almighty bestows His heavenly blessings for your compassionate acts and gestures, and also for surrounding us with your invaluable prayers. Thank you.

To various organizations, associations and unions

Thank you for shouldering different responsibilities and rendering us your service in different capacities. We are also particularly grateful to Sumi Aphuyemi Baptist Church, Kohima.

Beloved Kumgha

We are in tears for the irreplaceable void left in our hearts, but take great comfort in the knowledge that you left for your Heavenly abode having fulfilled ‘The King’s Business’.

We your loved ones are joyous that you lived a life true to your name |

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TFC Mokokchung wins first KKR steamroll Mumbai Indians to enter top 4 Nagaland Futsal Championship

ABU DHABI, SEP 23 (PTI): Rookie Venkatesh Iyer left many in awe of his talent as Kolkata Knight Riders produced a clinical performance for the second successive game since IPL’s resumption to tame the mighty Mumbai Indians by seven wickets and enter the top-four in the points table here on Thursday.

Iyer (53 off 30), playing his second IPL game, displayed the wide range of his strokes alongside Rahul Tripathi (74 not out off 42) to enable KKR to chase MI’s modest total of 155 for six with as many as 29 balls to spare. Quinton de Kock struck an entertaining 55 for MI before KKR bowlers bounced back in the last 10 overs, conceding 75 runs and taking five wickets.

Shubman Gill and Iyer gave KKR another flying start with the first two overs bowled by Trent Boult and Adam Milne going for 15 runs each.

Gill flicked Boult for a delightful six while Iyer pulled the New Zealand pace spearhead to set the tone for the rest of the innings. While Jasprit Bumrah found Gill’s stumps in the third over, Iyer went on

Eoin Morgan and Sunil Narine celebrate Rohit Sharma’s dismissal at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, Thursday (BCCI/PTI)

to play a memorable knock comprising four boundaries and three sixes. Iyer and Tripathi shared an 88-run stand for the second wicket which completely shut the door on MI, who suffered their second loss since IPL’s resumption.

Earlier, MI skipper Rohit Sharma (33 off 30) got off the innings in scintillating fashion, caressing a Nitish Rana delivery on to the mid-off boundary. The skipper, who was in sub-

lime touch in the Tests in England, had not played the opening game against CSK. Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya did not start once again, raising questions about his fitness.

Rohit took the attack to mystery spinner Varun Charkravarthy with two consecutive fours in opening two deliveries of the fourth over. De Kock was not to be left behind as he matched his skipper stroke for stroke, pulling a Lockie Ferguson

delivery over the fence for the first maximum of the match. Introduced into the attack in the sixth over, Prasidh Krishna was taken to task by de Kock, hitting the medium pacer twice over the fence to pick up 16 runs from his first over as MI cantered to 56 for no loss.

De Kock seemed unstoppable as he welcomed Andre Russell with consecutive fours. Morgan bowled out trump card Chakravarthy by the 11th over (4-0-

22-0) with MI not losing a wicket against him. Sunil Narine was also tidy giving away only 20 runs in four overs. With de Kock going hammer and tongs, Rohit played the second fiddle and scored 33 runs off 30 balls before Narine got his man for the ninth time in T20s, holing out to Shubman Gill at the boundary.

KKR pulled things back between 10-15 overs, conceding only 26 runs and picked up two wickets.

Pollard, as he often does, came up with much needed big hits in the last five overs, including a flat batted six over mid wicket in Krishna’s 18-run over.

Ferguson bowled a brilliant last over for KKR, removing the dangerous duo of Pollard and Krunal Pandya (12) at the cost of only six runs. MI collected 49 runs from the last five overs.

BRIEF SCORES Mumbai Indians: 155 for 6 in 20 overs (Quinton de Kock 55, Rohit Sharma 33; Lockie Ferguson 2/27, Prasidh Krishna 2/43).

Kolkata Knight Riders: 159 for three in 15.1 overs (Rahul Tripathi 74 not out, Venkatesh Iyer 53; Jasprit Bumrah 3/43).

Team members of Telongjem FC Mokokchung along with organisers. (NP) Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, SEP 23 (NPN): Telongjem FC Mokokchung won the first Nagaland Futsal Championship and walked away with a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh.

The tournament was organised by Nagaland Football Association in collaboration with Dimapur District Football Association (DDFA).

The tournament commenced on September 11, and culminated on September 23, at Kakit Futsal, Urra Villa Colony, Dimapur, which was graced by ADC Dimapur Temsuwati Longkumer as chief guest.

In the first semi-final, Sata United FC (SUFC) defeated Vanguard FC 6-5 while in the second semifinal match, Telongjem FC Mokokchung (TFC) beat Wokha Lazer’s FC (LFC) on penalties.

The final match between SUFC and TFC witnessed some superb goals with SUFC leading 3-1 in the first half.

However, TFC came back stronger in the second half, scoring a goal in the opening minutes, and further scoring more goals, leading them to victory, with a score line of 8-6.

It may be mentioned that the winning club would represent the state

at the first edition of All India Football Federation (AIFF) Futsal Club Championship, an annual international club Futsal tournament in India, organised

by AIFF. The tournament co-organised by Meghalaya Football Association is scheduled to be held in Shillong in October.

The runners up bagged a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 with certificates, while the four semi-finalists received an amount of Rs. 20,000 each.

An exhibition match was also played between Dimapur District Football Referee Association and Members of NFA and DDFA.

Hamilton expects ‘hard and fair’ Odisha to host men’s Junior Hockey WC in Nov-Dec racing with Verstappen at Sochi SOCHI, SEP 23 (IANS): Two weeks after they crashed into each other, defending F1 drivers’ champion Lewis Hamilton will renew his battle with title rival Max Verstappen at this weekend’s Russian Grand Prix with both coninuing to race each other “hard and fair”.

The two main title protagonists collided at the Italian GP in Monza, as they tried to go side-by-side through the first chicane.

With both drivers forced out of the race, Verstappen still leads Hamilton by five points in the drivers’ championships.

With Verstappen hoping to extend the lead, despite starting down the grid because of a place penalty, the two drivers are expected to have another go at each other in Russia.

“What is important

Lewis Hamilton (left) and Max Verstappen. (File)

is that we continue to race hard, but fair,” Hamilton told the official Formula1 website. The British driver said he has no lingering effects from the crash at Monza following a week of treatments and yoga to help ease stiffness in his neck. “I have no doubts that we will both be professional and

learn from the past.” He added: “I never expect a driver to back down. That’s not how I approach racing with any drivers. I think ultimately we all have to be smart and know there is a time you’re not going to make a corner but it’s all about making sure you live to fight at the next corner.

BHUBANESWAR, SEP 23 (PTI): Odisha was on Thursday named the host of this year’s FIH men’s hockey Junior World Cup in November-December, reaffirming the state’s growing stature as a hub for the sport.

The event will be staged at the city’s Kalinga Stadium here from November 24 to December 5.

Odisha and Uttar Pradesh had both expressed interest in hosting the marquee event but the former was picked for being the national team’s title sponsor as well. Lucknow had hosted the tournament’s last edition in which India claimed the top honours in 2016.

At the upcoming tourney, 16 hockey playing nations will be vie for the top honours. The state has earlier hosted the senior World Cup in 2018, the FIH World League in 2017 and the Champions Trophy in 2014.

“It is a short notice for making the arrangement for

Durand Cup: MSC knock out defending champions GK KO L K ATA , S E P 2 3 (IANS): Local favourites Mohammedan Sporting Club have reached the 130th Durand Cup semi-finals, knocking out defending champions Gokulam Kerala with a 1-0 victory in front of a limited capacity home crowd at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK).

Marcus Joseph, who once represented the club for Malabar, broke Gokulam hearts by scoring the match-winner for Mohammedan in the 44th minute.

Under head coach Vincenzo Alberto Annese, Gokulam have built a reputation for being a free-scoring team. They were the highest goal scorers in the group stage with 10 goals.

However, against Mohammedan on Thursday, their midfield and attack appeared to be toothless.

Chances were few and far in-between, and the deadlock was broken in the 44th minute as a result of a Mohammedan counterattack. At the other end, Bouba had a goal flagged offside only a minute earlier but as is often the nature of the game, Trinidadian Joseph capped off an excellent move to hand the home side the advantage.

Gokulam did ver y little to alter the outcome in the second half but with

Mohammedan Sporting beats defending champion Gokulam to advance to semifinal.

the margin just being one goal, the final few minutes were intense. Mohammedan did enough though, to hold on and reach the semi-finals.

They will now face FC Bengaluru United in their semi-final tie on September 27 at the VYBK. The I-League 2nd division side has received a bye to the last-four stage after their quarter-final opponents Army Red Football Team pulled out of the tournament owing to Covid cases.

Army Red v Bengaluru United quarter-final called off: The Durand Cup quarter-final match between Army Red and FC Bengaluru United (FCBU), scheduled for Friday at the Kalyani stadium, has been

called off after a Army Red player tested positive for Covid-19 virus on Thursday.

As the player had come into contact with other teammates during Thursday’s training session, the Army Red squad decided to withdraw from the tournament as a result and FCBU received a bye into the semi-finals.

All decisions have been taken, keeping in mind the health and safety of players and officials primarily and the continuity and success of the tournament, the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of 130th Durand Cup informed in a release on Thursday.

It is learned that one

player of Army Red tested positive in the mandatory Rapid Antigen Test conducted in the morning. He was asymptomatic while the other players have tested negative.

The organising committee has decided to go ahead with other matches as they are being held at other venues and there has not been any contact between the players since the last Covid test which had come negative for the said player.

Meanwhile, the LOC has also decided to shift the quarter-final match between FC Goa and Delhi FC from the Mohun Bagan ground to the Kalyani Stadium because of heavy rains in Kolkata.

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik with FIH President Narinder Batra after making announcement Thursday.

national Hockey Federatio (FIH) President Dr Narinder Batra and Hockey India Secretary General Rajinder Singh.

The teams which will participate in the event are hosts India, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa, Egypt, Belgium, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, USA, Canada, Chile and Argentina.

Australia has opted out due to travel restrictions because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Odisha is also set to host the 2023 FIH senior men’s World Cup in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.

“Odisha is the hub for hockey in the country and the Odisha state government will continue to do everything in our capacity to help the sport grow further and achieve further laurels on the world level,” Patnaik said. “We look forward to welcoming 16 top teams from across the world to

participate in the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup Bhubaneswar 2021. We are delighted to be hosts of this prestigious tournament. Our priority will be to ensure a safe environment to compete during these challenging COVID times,” he added.

FIH chief Batra said Bhubaneswar’s good infrastructure will ensure that the tournament will be held smoothly.

“The FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup Bhubaneswar 2021 is the pinnacle of tournaments for U-21 and is a very important fixture in the FIH calendar,” he said.

“We are delighted that Odisha with their worldclass infrastructure are set to host an event of this magnitude. As always, we have been extended full support by the Odisha state government and the event will be held following all required COVID-19 protocols.”

such an event, especially during the pandemic period.

However, since the country’s prestige is at stake, we have readily agreed to host it,” Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik said during a programme to announce the host city.

“I hope the reigning Indian team will take advantage of the home condition and emerge victorious again,” he added.

During the function,

the CM also unveiled the logo and trophy of the event.

Odisha is Indian hockey’s sponsor as well, a role that was widely appreciated after the men’s team won a bronze and the women’s team finished a creditable fourth in Tokyo Olympics earlier this year.

The official announcement was made in the presence Odisha Sports and Youth Services Minister Tusharkanti Behera, Inter-

Osaka withdraws from next month’s BNP Paribas Open

India gunning for two gold medals in World Archery Championships

INDIAN WELLS, SEP 23 (AGENCIES): Naomi Osaka pulled out of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday, a move that was expected after she indicated following her U.S. Open loss this month that she planned to take another extended break from tennis.

The withdrawal was announced by the official Twitter feed for the hardcourt tournament at Indian Wells, which is scheduled for Oct. 4-17 after twice being delayed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam champion who has been ranked No. 1 and is currently No. 8.

She last played at the U.S. Open, where her title defense ended with a thirdround loss to eventual runner-up Leylah Fernandez on Sept. 3.

After that defeat, Osaka said: “I honestly don’t know when I’m going to play my next tennis match.”

Osaka, a 23-year-old who was born in Japan and now is based in the U.S., took time off earlier this season, a mental health break that began when she withdrew from the French Open before her secondround match.

YANKTON (USA), SEP 23 (IANS): Despite figuring in six finals, India have never won a gold medal in the World Archery Championships. On Friday, India’s compound women and the Mixed team will be attempting to win the country’s first gold medal in the 2021 World Archery Championships at Yankton, South Dakota, USA. India will meet Colombo in the final in both the sections.

India have reached the medal rounds eight times, including six finals, but had to settle for a silver medal every time. India have figured in most podiums (eight) of any country to have never collected a gold medal at the World Championships.

Now they have at least two shots to break the deadlock on Friday. The Indian Women’s Compound Team defeated hosts United States in the semi-final on Wednesday 226-225. The Indian women’s team comprising Jyothi Vennam, Muskan Kirar, and Priya Gurjar came back strongly after losing the first set (end) of six arrows, 56-57 to the USA. The Indians shot four 9s and two 10s against four Xs, a 9 and 8 by the American team comprising Paige Pearce, Linda Ochoa-Anderson, and Makenna Proctor.

India won the second

Members of the Indian Archery team at the World Archery Championship at Yankton, South Dakota, USA.

set 58-57 with scores of 9,9,10,10,X,X as compared to X,X,10,9,9,9 shot by the American and both teams were tied 114-114. The Indians lost the third set 56-54 and thus trailed 168-170 going into the final six arrows.

India won the final set (End) 58-55 to clinch the semi-final 226-225 to complete a great comeback. India scored 9,9,10,10,X,X in the last six arrows while the USA managed 10,10,9,9,9,8 -- the last arrow virtually sealing their fate. In the Compound Mixed Team competition, the Indian team comprising Jyothi Vennam and Abhishek Verma defeated South Korea 159156 in the semi-final to set up a summit clash with Colombia, who defeated Denmark 157-155.

India faced setbacks

in Compound Men’s team competition as the team of Abhishek Verma, Sangampreet Singh Bisla and Rishabh Yadav won their second-round match against Italy 236-230 but went down 235-238 to Austria in the quarter-finals.

The Recurve Men’s Team of Sushant Salunkhe, Aditya Choudhary, and Atul Verma won the first round clash with Canada 5-4 but went down to Chinese Taipei 3-5 in the next round. The Recurve Women’s team of Ankita Bhakat, Ridhi, and Komalika Bari beat Japan 5-1 in the second round but went down 2-6 to Mexico in the quarter-finals.

India has put up a new-look team in all sections after deciding not to pick all those that figured in the Tokyo Olympics.

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