26 MAY 2022

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Vol XXXII No. 169

DIMAPUR, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022 Pages 12 ` 5.00

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21 killed in Texas school massacre H O U S T O N, M AY 2 5 (PTI): In one of the worst school shootings in the US, an 18-year-old gunman, later identified as Salvador Ramos, in body armour massacred at least 21 people, including 19 children and two adults inside one classroom at a Texas elementary school, prompting President Joe Biden to issue an emotional appeal to lawmakers to “turn this pain into action” to enact tougher gun laws to curb such recurring tragedies.

Ramos opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde town, Texas, 134 km from San Antonio, on Tuesday morning before he was killed by law enforcement officers.

All fatalities and injuries took place inside one classroom Uvalde, according to Lt. Chris Olivarez, spokesperson for the Texas Department for Public Safety. The shooter barricaded himself in one room, killing two teachers and 19 children,

HSLC, HSSLC exam results on May 31 D I M A P U R , M AY 2 5 (NPN): Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) on Wednesday announced that provisional results of the HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2022 including HSLC Compartmental Examination 2022 would be declared in the afternoon of May 31, 2022.

In a notification, NBSE chairman Asano Sekhose informed that results would be made available in the printed form, internet and mobile app. For printed form, the provisional result gazettes would be issued to all the registered institutions of the Board along with the Marksheets/Pass Certificates.

Soft copy would be made available in the Board’s Portal (www.nbsenl.edu.in).

To check the results online, one could visit the following websites: www. nbsenl.edu.in, www.results. shiksha, www.indiaresults. com, www.exametc.com, www.schools9.com, www. examresults.net and www. jagranjosh.com (Cont’d on p-8)

Traffic restriction along NH-29 lifted

D I M A P U R , M AY 2 5 (NPN): Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kohima, Gregory Thejawelie, has informed that traffic restriction imposed on vehicular movement at Peducha/ Zubza (Steel Bridge Area) on NH-29 from midnight to 2am has been lifted with immediate effect.

This is it!

“This road is like the peace process. Taking so much time and resource but still incomplete.”

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Ire over gun-lobby

Social media images purporting to be of the gunman circulated after the shooting (R) images form the crime scene. (NYP)

he told CNN. “Just goes to show you the complete evil from this shooter,” Olivarez said. All the victims have been removed, identified and their families have been notified, the lieutenant said. Multiple children were wounded inside the classroom, according to Olivarez.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott identified the killer as Salvador Ramos, a resident of the area where the

school was located. He said the gunman had warned on social media minutes before the attack that he was going to shoot up a school. About 30 minutes beforehand, Ramos made three social media posts. According to the governor, Ramos posted that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman, and finally that he was going to shoot up an elementary school.

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President Biden again tried to comfort a nation grieving after a mass shooting, urging action to counter powerful gunmakers and repeatedly questioning why the country he leads lacks “the backbone” to stem the bloodshed.

In a prime-time address on Tuesday, a visibly emotional Biden asked what it would take to convince fellow lawmakers that “it’s time to act.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said teachers should be armed to stop such incidents in the future.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz described the Uvalde shooting as “truly horrific”, but said gun reforms were not the way to prevent such crimes. Speaking to reporters, he said that restricting the rights of “law-abiding citizens... doesn’t work.

It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.”

Poll panel to take ‘graded action’ NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): In an unprecedented clean-up drive, the Election Commission Wednesday said it will initiate “graded action” against more than 2,100 registered unrecognised political parties for flouting rules, including failure to furnish a contribution report and communicate any change in its name, head office, etc. to the poll panel.

Sixty-six such parties claimed IT exemption in FY20 without complying with statutory requirements under the Representation of the People Act and 2,174 have not submitted contribution reports, EC said.

“Action to be initiated against those receiving donations without due statutory compliances. Action initiated against three registered unrecognised parties reported to be involved in serious financial impropriety. 87 non-existent RUPPs shall be deleted from the list and benefits...,” EC said.

Core committee to hold meetings; push for solution Correspondent

K O H I M A , M AY 2 5 (NPN): Parliamentary Core Committee on Naga Political Issue headed by chief minister Neiphiu Rio as convenor and co-convenors such as deputy chief minister Y. Patton (BJP), T.R. Zeliang (NDPP) and Kuzholuzo (Azo) Neinu (NPF) and other members– is to meet with representative of the NSCN (I-M) either on May 28 or 29 at Dimapur.

The committee could also likely meet with WC, NNPGs before meeting with Centre’s representative for Naga political talks, A.K. Mishra in Delhi. The meeting with NSCN (I-M) comes in the wake of strong

speculations that the government of India may have already made up its mind about securing a broad-based agreement to solve the Naga political issue.

It may be recalled that veteran Naga leader and former governor Dr. S.C. Jamir, during a press conference at Mokokchung predicted that an earthquake will shake Nagaland, with epicentre at New Delhi. This had added more fuel to speculations since Jamir had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi twice and then union home minster once at New Delhi at the invitation of the two leaders.

The NSCN (I-M) has also convened a crucial emergency meeting of its national

assembly (hoho) on May 31 along with high-ranking functionaries to deliberate on the recent developments.

The government of India has made it clear, earlier through its then Interlocutor R.N. Ravi and presently the Centre’s representative A.K. Mishra that the demand for flag and constitution was unacceptable.

Minister of H&TE and Tribal Affairs, Temjen Imna Along, had disclosed on the floor of the house during the February session, that union home minister Amit Shah had told the chief minister, deputy CM, UDA chairman and him, that there was no question of flag and constitution in the agreement.

Along had stated this

on two occasions and therefore asked the members to tell the people the truth about the stand of the government of India.

That the stand of the government of India stated before the official conclusion of all negotiations with all Naga Political Groups on or before October 31, 2019 was made clear then.

However, by persistently remaining silent, the state government was only causing confusion and consternation among Nagas.

It may also be recalled that the same was stated by deputy CM Y. Patton on May 14 where he opined that political groups involved with negotiations (Cont’d on p-8)

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Ao organizations perturbed by NSCN (I-M) attacks on Dr. Jamir D I M A P U R , M AY 2 5 (NPN): Several Ao organisations have expressed concern over NSCN (I-M)’s constant attack on former governor and chief minister Dr SC Jamir.

USM: Ungma Senso Mungdang (USM) said it was disturbed by the recent accusations levelled against Jamir by NSCN (I-M) for his statements on the Naga political situation. As the last living Naga political icon, who has observed the course of Naga political struggle, USM president I Tiajungba Tatar and general secretary Senmoaba Imsong said it was only fitting that Dr. Jamir also spoke the truth and that whatever he said represented his personal opinion and views as a true bona fide citizen of Nagaland.

USM said the accusation made by NSCN (I-M) that Jamir was “scheming with the Centre to destroy the very foundation of the Naga political identity that the Naga people have shed blood, sweat and tears over the decades” was a highly cruel statement that could not be dismissed lightly.

USM also took serious note of the NSCN (I-M) describing Dr. S.C. Jamir as a “destructive person” and having fondness “for creating bloodshed”. The Mungdang countered that as a “true Naga citizen, who has given his life for the greater good” and also have served the highest levels of government, Dr. Jamir cannot be “described as destructive.”

Further, USM has said that despite levelling of accusations by NSCN (IM) against Dr. Jamir for a long time, he (Jamir) “has handled them with dignity”.

USM vowed that it will not remain a silent spectator “if

our leader is subjected to any form of harm or threat.”

(See Advt on p-9) OKM: Ongpangkong Students’ Conference (OKM) also expressed concern over the recent charges

by NSCN (I-M) against Jamir. Declaring that every individual had the right to free speech and expression as a genuine Naga and Indian citizen, OKM president Limatongzuk Jamir and assistant general secretary Supongmeren Jamir said they were deeply disturbed against the attacks on the experienced Naga political leader over his statements on the Naga political situation.

They mentioned that Jamir’s utterances on Naga political matters were his own opinions and beliefs, adding that they believed that his statements were not intended to do any damage.

According OKM, NSCN (I-M)’s defamation of Jamir by branding him a traitor and a destructive person was an extremely cruel statement that should not be discarded lightly. OKM asserted that it would be irresponsible to label someone like him as destructive and harmful. They felt that the war of words, accusations, and counter-allegations would not result in a beneficial outcome, rather it would only weaken and create more division among the Nagas. They thus urged all stakeholders working for a peaceful Naga settlement to strive diligently for a timely political solution for the Nagas.

MTLT: Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (MTLT) said it was upset over NSCN (I-M)’s constant attack on the former chief minister and only surviving signatory of 16-Point Agreement, which was getting

much unhealthy publicity in Naga society.

MTLT president Imnaonen Pongen and general secretary Imkongchuba Pongen in a press communiqué said the animosity between a Naga political organisation and the former governor was not a healthy development in Naga people’s quest for an honourable and acceptable solution. They called for a broad-based consensus based on mutual respect and vision for the Naga people.

Terming the present acrimony between NSCN (I-M) and Jamir as a sad and unwelcome episode, especially at this crucial juncture of Naga political history, MTLT warned that this could destroy decades of peace parleys between the Central government and Naga political groups.

MTLT endorsed the stance of Ao Senden, calling for an end to this blame game on May 22, 2022. They said they stood by the statement of Ao Senden. They declared that every Naga was a stakeholder in the Naga political issue and had every right to speak out and share opinions on the Naga issue, especially by a leader like Jamir.

Stifling a person’s political opinion at this juncture, especially when all the issues were hopefully on the verge of being finalised, was something which MTLT found very disconcerting and unwarranted in a democratic society like the Nagas, they added. MTLT hoped that all the stakeholders, especially those at the negotiating table and also those whose lives would be determined because of this much-awaited solution, to show maturity and foresight as the Naga people endeavoured for a better future.

CS reiterates ‘no work no pay’ policy Occurrence of ASF continues unabated, says AH&VS deptt; issues protocol to contain spread of disease

D I M A P U R , M AY 2 5 (NPN): State chief secretary, J Alam, on Wednesday reiterated strict implementation of ‘no work no pay’ policy and said that attendance should be monitored in all government offices.

According to a DIPR report, the chief secretary, while addressing AHoDs and HoDs meeting at the Secretariat Conference Hall, stated that with regular functioning of government offices in the state, the biometric system of attendance would resume in the Nagaland Civil Secretariat and directed the directorate to follow suit.

The chief secretary also informed that the Prime Minister of India will be interacting with beneficiaries

of government schemes nationwide as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav on May 31, 2022. In this regard, the chief secretary has directed all concerned departments to prepare for the occasion.

He also said that the state level programme will be held in Kohima while all districts will participate in their respective headquarters.

Further, Alam directed all departments to submit the names of nodal officer for advertisement related matters to the department of Information & Public Relations. He has instructed all departments, which have pending advertisement bills, to clear them at the earliest.

Alam has reminded AHoDs and HoDs to personally take care of court cases so as to avoid contempt of court.

The meeting reviewed the agenda of the last meeting minute.

Giving a power point presentation on “Ease of doing Business”, the department of industries & commerce stated that the Nagaland single window system was being developed for conducting business with government offices.

NSSB advt to be out soon: Meanwhile, the chief secretary disclosed that the first advertisement of NSSB will be out soon and instructed all concerned departments to submit their requisition post at the earliest.

D I M A P U R , M AY 2 5 (NPN): Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services (AH&VS) has informed that occurrence of African Swine Fever (ASF) continues unabated in the State with positive cases reported from Tuli block under Mokokchung district and Tizit block under Mon district through RT-PCR from NERDDL, Guwahati.

The department stated that the current trend of occurrence indicated that the disease was penetrating and spreading to various parts of the State suggesting advisory issued was not fully complied with by all stakeholders.

At this stage, the department said “Acute Form” of the disease was seen.

Expressing concern over the spread of ASF cases in the state, the department said that abolishing of all veterinary check posts and the porous borders have made the situation harder for carrying out containment measures.

Therefore, to contain the spread of the disease, the department has appealed to the public, especially those farmers whose pigs have been affected inform sudden death of pigs to the nearest veterinary institute and not to consume dead pigs.

DNSU objects to proposed 4-lane road through DGC playground DIMAPUR, MAY 25 (NPN): Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) has expressed great displeasure and shock over the State government’s proposal to construct a four-lane stadium road through Dimapur Government College (DGC) football ground to link the almost-abandoned State stadium here from National Highway (NH) 36.

The union in a statement termed the proposal was a thoughtless act and technically not feasible as

File photo of Dimapur Government College ground.

it would create traffic chaos on NH-36, adding that this showed inefficiency and lack of imagination in our engineering minds.

According to DNSU,

the most disappointing and shameful thing with the proposal was that there was no State stadium at all except some rotten gallery structures at the site where

the proposed road was supposed to be linked.

The union wondered what made the Youth Resources & Sports Department to construct the fourlane stadium road without stadium.

Dimapur Naga Students’ Union also reminded the State government that the New Education Policy (NEP) envisaged a combination of all streams, viz, Science, Arts and Commerce with skill development programmes in one college campus that de-

The department has requested all responsible to list out the number of pigs that died along with photos, and approximate body weight and submitted to the chief veterinary officer for authentication after dully certified by the village / colony authority.

The department has also issued the following protocols: follow the deep burial method, at least 6 ft. deep, followed by spreading of lime; do not throw the carcass in the river/ canal stream/water bodies; sanitize the areas/sheds/ troughs completely using the recommended solution;

wash hands, feet, clothing, etc properly with soap; seek the assistance of a veterinarian for disinfecting the area; do not re-populate the pigs, without the department’s consultation; and demarcate the areas into infected zone, surveillance zone & free zone with the help of the department for control and containment measures.

Further, for any queries on ASF, one could contact Dr. Khriekuolie Linyü, joint director, ASF core committee convenor (Mobile No. 6009753226), Directorate of AH & Veterinary Services, Kohima, Nagaland.

Kapil Sibal quits Congress

NEW DELHI, Yadav and MP MAY 25 (PTI/ Ram Gopal YaAGENCIES): In dav. His tenure as a major blow to a Congress Rajya the Congress, forSabha member mer union minends in July. ister and senior “I had reCongress leader Kapil Sibal (File) signed from the Kapil Sibal reCongress party vealed that he has quit the on May 16. I am no longer party last week as he filed a senior Congress leader,” his nomination papers for Sibal told the media. the Rajya Sabha as an in“It is important to be dependent candidate on an independent voice in ParWednesday with backing liament. If an independent from the Samajwadi Party. voice speaks up then people Sibal filed the nomi- will believe it is not linked nation papers in the pres- to any political party,” he (Cont’d on p-8) ence of SP chief Akhilesh added.

manded a spacious area to accommodate all the necessary physical infrastructure.

However, the student body regretted that even the existing area at Dimapur Government College was found to be insufficient to meet these much-desired needs envisaged under New Education Policy as 30 per cent of the original college land had been encroached , allegedly due to tacit understanding with the Dimapur district administration in the past.

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‘LaunchPad’ launched in Dimapur, Niuland

Akumla Chuba along with Pipi Gloria Chishi, with the members of LaunchPad. DIMAPUR: The department of Youth Resources and Sports (DoYR&S) in partnership with YouthNet supported by the Department of School Educa-

tion (DoSE) on May 23 launched “LaunchPad”, a career guidance and employment skills development program, in Dimapur and Niuland districts.

In a press release, Yo u t h N e t i n f o r m e d that “LaunchPad” was launched for the academic year of 2022-23 in the districts with 73 students

from Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) Purana Bazar and 32 students from Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) Niuland.

NCD, NWHD hold informal & introductory meet

At the opening event held at GHSS Purana Bazar, director of youth resources and sports, Akumla Chuba highlighted the importance of “LaunchPad” in tackling the high unemployment rate in the state.

In Niuland, YRO of DoYR&S, Khriekethoii Kense mentioned the impact “LaunchPad” had the previous year with a total number of 3394 registering under “LaunchPad”, with 2646 students successfully starting the course.’

YouthNet informed that “LaunchPad” with its inception on 2020 has been “torchbearers” in offering career guidance explicitly to students pursuing their 12th standard, impacting all 44 Government Higher Secondary Schools across Nagaland. It informed that the program has 3394 students registered till date.

ANIEF holds general meeting; dissolves AC

DIMAPUR: Naga CounDIMAPUR: All Nagaland Induscil Dimapur (NCD) oftrial Entrepreneurs’ Federation fice bearers and the newly (ANIEF) held its general meeting on installed Naga Woman May 25 and decided to dissolve the Hoho Dimapur (NWHD) Action Committee (AC) constituted held an informal and inon November 21, 2014 for pursual troductory meeting, on of Central Transport Subsidy (CTS) Wednesday at the NCD and Central Capital Investment Suboffice Dimapur. sidy (CCIS) under pending cases.

In a press release, In a press release, ANIEF inNCD informed that its formed that at the meeting the house president, Etsungmomom unanimously selected new office Kikon congratulated the bearers for the tenure 2022-2027 led new office bearers of

by Khezheto Chishi as president and NWHD and assured them Nchum Jamio as general secretary the NCD’s support and asalong with four other members. sistance within its limited The house resolved to fill the resources. remaining posts of office bearers in During the meeting, the next general meeting and also the two apex civil society authorised the new office bearers to organisations of Dima- Members of NCD and NWHD after the meeting on Wednesday. reconstitute the action committee pur district discussed the oneinuo Kire thanked meeting to get familiar- in strength and with bet- of ANIEF to pursue CTS and CCIS importance of mutual un- NCD for organising the ize with each other, work ter cooperation. under pending cases. derstanding and decided to work hand-in-hand for the well-being and to safeAcknowLedGement ACKNOWLEDGEMENT guard the interest of the We the bereaved family members public at large of the dis- of Late Gholumo Sema would like trict. to express our heartfelt gratitude to Sharing various activi- every individual, friends, neighbors, ties of the council, NCD churches and well wishers for m e m b e r s e n c o u r a ge d showing us your kind gestures NWHD saying that “the during the time of illness and his participation of woman/ ultimate demise. mothers in all round activiWe deeply regret our inability ties have become imperative to thank each and every one who in building the confidence, came and comforted us but we pray shaping and guiding the that our good Lord bless you all Born : 17ththAugust, 1954 Died : 7 April 2022 abundantly. present societies”.

NWHD president, DuLoving wife, Daughter, Sons, In-laws & Grand Children

Er. Picto Shohe, MLA called on union minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Jairam Gadkari on May 24 at New Delhi and apprised the union minister on some developmental proposals for the state to be taken up by the centre. The union minister assured to take up the proposal for union cabinet approval at the earliest.

NEWS IN BRIEF PDVCCU informs: Peren District Village Council Chairman Union has convened its 4th general conventioncum-election at Jalukie Town Women Welfare Hall on May 31, 10:30 am. All village council chairmen of recognised and unrecognised villages have been asked to attend with their official seals.

PDVCCU also informed that an election for the post of president and secretary would be conducted. All the village

council chairman both govt recognised & unrecognised villages will have voting rights, however, no representation would be entertained for voting. For more information, one could contact at 8974532690.

DVC general meeting: Darogajan Village Council (DVC) has convened its annual general meeting on May 28, 10 a.m. at the Council Hall.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away - Job 1:21

LATE ZHITHOPA KAJIRI (1932 -2022) We the family members extend and acknowledge our heartfelt gratitude to all who stood by us at the sudden demise of our beloved father and grandfather Late ZHITHOPA KAJIRI on 12th May 2022.

We are blessed and honoured by the presence, prayer, financial and material support of friends, churches, associations, organizations and individuals during our time of grief and sorrow. We pray that Almighty God bless you abundantly. k-1074/22

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Loving Children, In-laws, Grand Children and Great Grand Children

Acknowledgement

Late kuovisieo Rio

5th June 1967 – 20th may 2022 The family of Late kuovisieo Rio wishes to acknowledge your kind expression of sympathy and kindness during our time of great sorrow. We offer our heartfelt gratitude to all well-wishers, friends and neighbors who visited us at the hospital and home offering us emotional and practical support. We are truly grateful to those who travelled long distances, sent messages of condolence, floral tributes and aided us financially.

Here are some people and organizations that our family wishes to extend our special gratitude to:

Lanumar Longchar

The family members of Lt. Mrs Shenili Sumi (Rtd. Joint Director Nursing) express our profoundest gratitude to each and everyone who stood by us during her short illness and subsequent demise.

Words will ever remain inadequate to thank you all, yet it is our fervent prayer that God Almighty will bless and answer all your life’s wishes.

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Most loving Children, In-laws and Grand Children

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19-12-1939 to 18-05-2022

(January 1922- 20 May 2022) The family of late Lanumar Longchar, Khensa Village, would like to acknowledge the many expressions of sympathy and gestures of kindness shown to us following our sad loss.

We offer our heartfelt thanks to the many friends, neighbours and well-wishers who visited our home, attended the funeral and provided emotional, financial and practical support during this difficult time. For those who travelled long distances, who helped us in any way, your contributions made our loss more bearable.

As it would be impossible to thank everyone individually, please accept this acknowledgement as an expression of our deepest gratitude.

“Blessed are those who mourn , for they will be comforted” -Mathew 5:4 Loving wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Oking Hospital Doctors and Nurses.

Baptist Church Tuophema.

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Honorable Chief Minister, Govt. of Nagaland.

Honorable Speaker, Govt. of Nagaland.

Officers and Staff, CMO Nagaland.

Party Workers, NDPP. 11 Northern Angami-II A/C, NDPP. Managing Board, Hebron Higher Secondary School, Sovima.

Bayavü Area Panchayat, Kohima.

Blood Donors.

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Inspection teams visit check gates in Phek, Tuli

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Tuli inspection team at Watiyongpang check gate on May 24. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Following the state government order to close check gates, the inspection teams of Phek district and Tuli subdivision visited check gates at respective jurisdiction.

According to a DIPR report, the Phek team constituted by Deputy Commissioner, Phek inspected all the check gates on May 23, wherein the Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Phek and Additional Superintendent of Police briefed the police personnel manning the inter-state check Gate at

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Guwahati A morning t-storm in spots

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Itanagar A stray morning thunderstorm 30 22 Shillong

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Lanezho and Khezhakeno.

The only tollgate under Phek district was closed and dismantled, besides that, there are no other gates set up by any department in the district, stated the report.

Tuli: Inspection team under Tuli Sub-Division headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Tuli held a meeting on May 24 at ADC office, Tuli and later inspected Watiyongpang check gate.

According to DIPR report, during the visit, only authorized inter-

state police gate and forest department gate were found functioning and other departments collecting booths like veterinary, geology & mining, motor vehicle, and TTC toll gate were all closed.

The inspection team also visited the Tsungra bridge where one illegal tax collecting counter was dismantled by the team.

Further, for complaints and information one could contact ASI Nungsang at WhatsApp number 6009166545 or mail at jnao582@gmail.com.

DNSU demands closure of illegal optical shops

DIMAPUR: Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) has demanded immediate closure of illegal optical shops run by unprofessional persons and cancel their trade licences.

DNSU through its media cell expressed “fullest support” to the issue raised by Nagaland Optometric Association (NOA) and said it was “shocked” to learn that for the past many years the general public had been availing such unprofessional eye care services.

Following complaint against running optical clinics without proper certificates in Dimapur, the union said it intervened and inquired upon the defaulters. However, the union said that a “self-styled union” so-called “Optical Association of Dimapur” interfered as a care taker of the optical clinics and attempted to defend the defaulters.

On questioning about the membership of the association, DNSU said no executive members of Optical Association of Dimapur were professional in the field of eye care.

In this regard, DNSU gas affirmed that such unprofessional and self-style association would not be allowed to function under its jurisdiction.

Acknowledging NOA for bringing up the issue in public domain, DNSU has urged the responsible authorities to verify and authenticate proper documents before giving registration to any associations.

TUD lauds government’s order for check gate removal DIMAPUR: Lauding the state government for ordering the removal of all check gates within the state, the Tenyimi Union Dimapur (TUD) has urged the state government to fully implement its order and rescue the common public from price rise.

In a press release, Tenyimi Union Dimapur president Vekhosayi Nyekha stated that the menace of rampant taxation by various government departments and “underground factions” in all the check gates has led to price rise of all the essential commodities affecting the life of common people.

One student critically injured in hit-and-run case Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, MAY 25 (NPN): A student of St Joseph University was critically injured after a vehicle hit her near the college campus at Ikshe model village here around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old student identified as one Mapuienla Longkumer, a second semester student and hailing from Mokokchung, was battling for her life at the ICU of Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research (CIHSR), 4th Mile.

Arep, cousin of the victim, told Nagaland Post that a Scorpio was involved in the incident. She informed this reporter that Mapuienla’s condition was critical and that her parents had been informed of the incident and were on their way to Dimapur.

Limasenla, another cousin of the victim and her senior in the same college, said an eyewitness saw the vehicle run over Mapuienla at a junction near her college.

When contacted, PRO Dimapur police said the incident took place between 2:25 and 2:30 pm. An investigation was on to identify the culprit(s) as police were able to get the CCTV footages from nearby locations.

PHED organises SBM programmes in various districts

DIMAPUR: Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) organised programmes under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Grameen II at various blocks under Mokokchung, Kiphire and Tuensang districts.

Mokokchung: PHED Mokokchung division organised a two-day capacity building training on ODF Plus components for Swachhagrahis and WATSAN committee members from May 24-25 at community hall, Sangtemla ward Mokokchung town.

In a press release, PHED Mokokchung division informed that the main objective of training, sponsored by Sanitation & WSSO, PHED Nagaland, was to ensure effective implementation of Swachh Bharat MissionGramin (SBM-G) Phase II and to achieve ODF Plus.

Resource persons of the training were district coordinator PHED, Alemjungla Longchar, IEC consultant PHED, Rongentola and sanitation & hygiene consultant PHED, Tsungrusungla Jamir.

The training was attended by participants from 50 villages from Chuchuyimlang, Kubolong, Ongpangkong-

North and OngpangkongSouth blocks.

Kiphire: PHED Kiphire division in collaboration with North East Initiative Development Agency (NEIDA) organised a capacity building for WATSAN committee and village functionaries under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) and Swachh Bharat Mission (G) on May 24 at Hopongkyu Memorial Hall, Kiphire.

PHED Kiphire division informed that executive engineer PHED and member secretary, DWSM, Er. Akokba Sair highlighted the District Water and Sanitation Mission (DWSM) functions.

He said DWSM headed

by DC and executive engineer as member-secretary and various departments as members were responsible for overall implementation of JJM at district level.

Er. Sair gave an overview of JJM, roles of government, Implementing Support Agency (ISA) and various convergence opportunities on water and sanitation with various departments. EAC Kiphire, Ane Khieya urged the participants to fully support and cooperate in planning, implementing and monitoring successful execu-

tion of JJM. Pointing out that Kiphire was an aspirational district, Khieya stressed on the importance of collaboration and significant role of WATSAN committee and village functionaries at village level to achieve FHTC in all rural households.

NEIDA project associate, Khrolhiwe-u Tsuhah gave a presentation while junior engineer PHED, Er. Metmei Phom stressed on the importance of 5% community contribution to implement JJM project.

Earlier, on May 23, Kiphire held its second District Level Coordination Committee (DLCC) meeting where the members discussed various activities and action plans for JJM. According to a DIPR report, chairman of the meeting, executive engineer PHED and member secretary, DWSM, Er. Akokba Sair highlighted DWSM functions and informed that VAPs & DPRs for Kiphire district have been approved. NEIDA project associate, Khrolhiwe-u Tsuhah presented a background of partnership between NEIDA and PHED and the members also discussed MoU terms and conditions. Tsuhah also presented the overall activity

ASHAs trained on detection and surveillance for leprosy

Joint director, Dr. Ahu Sekhose along with resource persons and ASHAs after the training.

DIMAPUR: A two-day training for Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) of Wokha district on “active case detection and regular surveillance for leprosy” was organized by National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) under Department of Health a n d Fa m i l y We l f a r e (DoH&FW) on May 2425 at Likya Community Hall, Wokha.

A press release by Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Wokha office stated that joint director (NLEP) DoH&FW, Dr. Ahu Sekhose commented on the positive response of K Y M C

the ASHAs in conducting leprosy activities across the district.

“We are concentrating on Wokha district due to its proximity with neighbouring state Assam where leprosy cases are high and migratory cases among laborers have been detected in the district,” said Dr. Sekhose.

During the training, an introduction to leprosy disease, signs and symptoms was given by zonal leprosy officer Wokha, Dr. Mhonchan Kithan.

Dr. Kithan advised the ASHAs to look out for some of the signs and symptoms of le prosy

such as skin lesions, skin patch, loss of sensation and numbness.

Sessions on “guide for suspect leprosy case and identification MDT treatment, deformity and physiotherapy” was taken

by NLEP staffs, Michael Murry and Nchemo while Bhandari ASHA coordinator, Supenro Ngullie and NLEP non-medical supervisor, Hoketo explained the steps of filling format for regular house hold screening register to the ASHAs. The two-day training was attended by more than 130 ASHAs from all the five blocks of the district.

status of JJM implementation in 62 villages and briefed on planned activities for FY 2022-2023. PHED junior engineer, Er. Metmei Phom presented FHTC status of JJM implementation in Longmatra, Pungro and Khonsa blocks till FY 2020-2021.

Later, chemist Horili Sangtam updated Field-Testing Kits training status for water quality team for Longmatra, Pungro and Khonsa.

In his remark, SDO civil, James Khulu highlighted the significance of partnership with different stakeholders and communities to successfully implement FHTC in every household by 2023.

Tuensang: PHED Tuensang division conducted Information, Education and Communication (IEC) awareness and capacity building programme on SBM Grameen II on May 13 at Shamator district, Tuensang district and on May 19 at Noklak district.

T h e awa r e n e s s p r o gramme was sponsored by WSSO and sanitation, PHED Nagaland.

In Shamator district, 12 villages from Shamator block WATSAN chairmen and swachhagrahis attended

Kaito mourns demise of retired BSF officer

DIMAPUR: Minister agriculture & co-operation G Kaito Aye has expressed deep shock over the demise of Tokhuvi Tuccu, retired second-in-command (2IC), 111 Bn BSF Satakha, in Dimapur on May 25, 2022.

In a condolence message, minister described late Tuccu as “a remarkable gentleman and a tall leader”, who dedicated his life to serving the Naga people.

In his demise, Kaito said the Nagas and the Sumi community in particular have lost “a great mind and a brilliant guide”, adding that the void created would be impossible to fill.

Kaito said late Tuccu was a father figure, his “political guru”, the backbone of his career and “a man who stood by him through thick and thin. “I am very grateful to him for what I am today.

His life well lived will be celebrated and the memories he has left behind will be forever cherished,” the minister said and conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that God will grant them solace at this hour of grief and pain.

the programme at EBRC Hall Shamator Town.

At the programme, SDO PHED Shamator, Er. Imna Longchar highlighted the importance of Swachh Bharat Mission ODF Plus and its components.

District coordinator, N. Sangtam talked about the main objective of SBM(G) II ODF plus components and its criteria as per SBM(G) II issued by the ministry of Jal Shakti.

Topics including SBM(G) II target 2020-21-2024-25, importance of swachhagrahis on SBM(G)II, solid waste management (compost pit and plastic waste managements) liquid waste management (greywater management through community soakage pit and individual soak pit), etc were also highlighted.

Sangtam said the village council should utilise a minimum of 60% or more of the 15FC and MGNREGA fund received in the yearly grant from RD/DRDA as the tied fund at village levels to achieve total sanitation in the village.

Sangsangnyu block: SDO PHED, Er. Lipoksangla spoke on the 15FC tied fund to be used in the sanitation related activities. and grey water

TUD said that doing away with all the illegal collection in check gates was the long pending demand of the general public.

It said that the recent order “brought back the public trust” towards the implementing agency, adding that “this act will surely have a flow outcome.”

Meanwhile, TUD has appreciated governor Jagdish Mukhi for initiating to issue the order to curb the illegal collection. It also lauded the deputy chief minister Y. Patton for his “seriousness to do away with illegal taxation.”

management. IEC Consultant PHED Tuensang, Fairyson Jings spoke on the following topic, ODF to ODF Plus Criteria in SBM(G) II, importance of Swachhagrahis on SBM (G) II, Solid waste management (plastic waste management).

Around 23 villages participated in the training.

Longkhim block: During the training at Longkhim town, sanitation and hygiene consultant, Tsikingmong talked about solid and liquid waste management with the main focus on grey water management and plastic waste management. Around 23 participants from 12 villages attended the training.

Noklak block: At the training at Khiamniungam Baptist Church Association, Komking mission compound Noklak Town, district coordinator N. Sangtam spoke on SBM (G) II ODF plus, solid waste management and IEC –behaviour change communication to achieve ODF Plus villages, utilization of 15FC tied fund to be used in the sanitation and water related activities in the village gram panchayat. Around 56 participants from Noklak block attended the programme.

SVC, teaching & nonteaching staff hold meeting DIMAPUR: A joint meeting between school management and development committee headmaster, teaching and non-teaching faculties of the Government High School (GHS) and Singrep Yangdong Suhdi Pumji (Singrep Village General Council) was held on May 20 in the conference hall of the Singrep Village Council (SVC).

In a letter addressed to the principal director, department of School Education, SVC stated that the joint meeting was convened to discuss about the recent imbroglio involving the functioning of GHS Singrep.

SVC said the joint meeting adopted the following resolutions– not to allow any “proxy” teacher except the government appointed substitute teachers; all teaching and non-teaching staff of the school to stay at the respective posting place i.e., at the village; SVC to provide staff quarters and water supply facilities to those teachers facing accommodation problem and the council to sanction Rs. 10,000 annually for school maintenance.

The meeting also discussed the unavailability of Science, Mathematics, English and Hindi subject teachers in the school and has asked District Education Officer (DEO) Kiphire to detach the “multi-tasking staff ” of the school, who is attached to DEO Kiphire.

The joint meeting also discussed retention of a science teachers who was who was earlier transferred to GHS Singrep from GHS Old Risethsi and was again transferred to GHS Pokhpur “without even attending the school for a day”.

Monsoon preparedness: Agri deptt issues advisory DIMAPUR: The department of Agriculture has directed all district agriculture officers and sub-divisional agriculture officers along with their officers & field staff and ATMA personnel to remain in their respective place of posting during this cropping season.

In a press release, the department while looking at last year’s experience where most crops failed due to erratic weather conditions along with insect-pests and diseases, • • • •

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it informed all concerned to be vigil for real time assessment and monitoring of crop situation, pests situation or any natural calamity.

It also asked all concerned to submit timely reports and documentation through the groups’ WhatsApp to the directorate for further intervention.

The department has also instructed to conduct farmer’s training and awareness campaign on management of agricul-

ture activities along with natural calamity.

In order to perform scouting on Fall Army Worm (FAW) in maize crop, sur veillance and monitoring of other insect-pests and disease incidence on all crops above economic threshold level (ETL) by involving

KVK & ATMA personnel on a regular basis has also been advised.

F u r t h e r, t h e d e partment informed all concerned have been directed to convey farmer’s advisory through field staff and ATMA farmer’s friends to the farming communities.

Hill agriculture-Jhum/shifting cultivation: Do Staggered Log Bunding across the slope to check run-off water in case of heavy rainfall Survey and identify areas for gully plucking with locally available materials to check nallah formation Crop lodged should be stacked or bind together in bundle Short durat ion crops distributed by the department such as maize, pulses & oilseeds can be sown up to third week of June Terrace Rice Cultivation/WRC (Pani Kheti) Staggered sowing (2 weeks apart) in nursery bed to cope with climate unpredictability Prepare side drain around nursery beds against flash flood & wash-off As far as possible use young seedlings for better yield.

To do early field preparation for TRC/W R Direct-seeding may be adopted K Y M C

Tripura Chief Minister calls on Modi, Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, in New Delhi. (PTI) NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha called on President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several Union ministers here on Wednesday. It was Saha’s first visit to the national capital since taking charge as the chief minister of the northeastern state on May 15.

He also met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

“Extremely honoured to have the opportunity of meeting the Hon’ble President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji at Rashtrapati Bhawan today. I sought his blessings for my

onward journey as the Chief Minister of Tripura,” Saha tweeted.

The Rashtrapati Bhavan also tweeted: “Dr Manik Saha, Chief Minister of Tripura, along with his wife Smt Swapna Saha, called on President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.”

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted a picture of Saha meeting Modi and wrote: “The Chief Minister of Tripura, @DrManikSaha2 called on PM @narendramodi.”

Defence Minister Singh wished Saha a successful tenure during their meeting. “Met with the Chief Minister of Tripura, @DrManikSaha2 ji in New Delhi today. I am confident that he will take his state

forward on road to progress and prosperity. I also wished him a successful tenure ahead,” the defence minister tweeted.

Saha also said he met the home minister and sought his continuous guidance for all-round development of Tripura.

“Delighted to meet the Union Home Minister Hon’ble Shri @AmitShah ji. Requested him for his continuous guidance so that I can devote myself to the all round development of Tripura as Chief Minister of the state,” Saha tweeted.

Saha took oath as the chief minister on May 15, a day after Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from the post.

After his meeting with Finance Minister Sitharaman, the chief minister said he had fruitful discussion on matters related to the state.

He raised with the finance minister matters related to the Rs 1,200-crore funding for infrastructure development, the World Bank’s projects for economic growth and service upgrade in tribal-dominated blocks, and preliminary approval of the Tripura “ELEMENT” project.

He also sought the finance ministry’s assistance for expeditious implementation of projects with cooperation of the Asian Development Bank.

NORTHEAST Int’l river conclave in Guwahati from May 28-29 GUWAHATI, MAY 25 (PTI): An international river conference to articulate collective vision of cooperation in the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asian region will take place in Assam’s Guwahati from May 28-29, officials said on Wednesday.

The third edition of the conclave, ‘NADI’ (Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence), will be organised by Shillong-based think tank Asian Confluence in collaboration with the Union External Affairs Ministry, Act East Policy Affairs Department of the Assam government, North Eastern Council and other partners.

The Bangladesh Foundation for Regional Studies is the country partner for the event and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IIT Guwahati and Guwahati University are knowledge partners. “A well planned collaboration with the states of Northeast and neighbouring countries on management of shared waters can alleviate disasters to a large extent and catapult the region to being a hub of connectivity and green commerce,” Asian Conclave Executive Director Sabyasachi Dutta told reporters here. The conference will focus on the region south of Himalayas from Ganga, Brahmaputra to Mekong as a contiguity of river basins with common challenges that require close cooperation beyond political borders.

Arrest of human right activist sparks agitation in Mnp

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IMPHAL, MAY 25: The arrest of human right activist Dr Mark Thangmang Haokip sparked widespread protests in Manipur’s Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts on Wednesday.

Tension ran high in Churachandpur district headquarters where protesters attacked civilian vehicles, compelling the police to resort to firing tear gas shells and mock bombs.

Manipur police had arrested Dr Mark Thangmang Haokip, the president of Manipur chapter of International Human Rights Association (IHRA) from New Delhi on Tuesday in connection with a FIR case registered against him at Churachandpur police station under section 153A/505(2) of IPC. The IPC sections are related with promotion of enmity between different groups or communities on grounds of race, place of birth, language or regional

Dr Mark Thangmang Haokip

groups etc. and statements creating or promoting enmity hatred or ill-will between classes.

In Churachandpur district, a large number of people came out on the street at the district headquarters and staged a protest by blocking roads including Tidim road (Imphal-Churachandpur road) at various places simultaneously at around 11.30 am.

The sudden road blockade caused many Imphalbound vehicles, including passenger service and school service vehicles to be stranded. Even as the police were trying to control the situation, some protesters

smashed windshields of stranded vehicles.

As the situation ran out of control, additional police force was rushed to the area. They resorted to firing tear gas shells and mock bombs as the protesters pelted stones towards the police personnel.

While the police were having a hard time , another group of protesters came out on the street on the same Tidim Road and blocked the traffic at the Peace Ground area. There too, the situation turned violence as the protesters retaliated against police with stones and other deadly weapons who responded by tear gas shelling The protesters demanded immediate and unconditional release of the human right activist.

The situation remained tense as the protesters continued to protest at more places amid police efforts to subside the protest.

Many vehicles including those carrying students remained stranded at vari-

ous places till the time of filing this report.

Meanwhile, hundreds took part in a protest rally carried out on the street at Chingdai Khullen village at Kangpokpi district headquarters against the arrest of the human right activist.

During the rally, placards read as “Release Dr. Mark Haokip”, “Where is the Law”, “We want Justice for Kukis”, “Where is Equality”, “Save Kukis from Biren”, “Is Manipur the toy of Biren?” etc. were displayed. They warned that the act of the government may affect peace and harmony of the region.

The protesters further warned of intense forms of agitations if the government failed to heed to the people’s voices and release Dr Haokip without any condition.

On the other hand, the Protection Committee on Tribal Rights, Manipur also submitted a memorandum to the government demanding unconditional release of the human right activist.

bans Shirui Festival kicks off in Ukhrul saleSikkim of pigs after

The 4th edition of Shirui Lily festival kicks off at Shirui village in Manipur’s Ukhrul district on Wednesday.

Correspondent IMPHAL, MAY 25: The five-day 4th edition of the Shirui Lily Festival in honour of the state flower kicked off at Shirui village of Manipur’s Ukhrul district on Wednesday.

The festival that was celebrated after two years gap due to Covid was inaugurated by Manipur Governor La Ganesan in the presence of the chief minister N Biren Singh. In his speech after inauguration, the Governor said the festival will help increase the awareness about this rare flower across the globe. It will also

help develop sustainable and responsible tourism in Manipur, he added. The Lily, which blooms in late May to early June, was a well-known flower to the world because of its rarity.

The flower grows nowhere in the globe except on top of the Shirui hill of Ukhrul district in Manipur.

The Governor stated that this flower needed proper scientific study so that this renowned flower can continue to thrive in its original habitat. He appreciated the ICAR officials for its initiative for tissue culture of this plant while expressing hope to perpetu-

ate this plant not only in the original habitat but also in laboratory conditions.

“The focus on the global warming and climate change and its impact on the Lily including remedial measures are laudable and felt it’s now most timely,” Ganesan said.

Shirui Lily Festival, if marketed properly, can become a tourist attraction.

It will not only create awareness about the need for protection of the environment but also attract tourists.

Once it attracts tourists, it will not only improve the wellbeing of the local population but can also bring in advanced knowledge and expertise to improve the environment, he said.

Chief minister N Biren Singh, in his speech, highlighted various initiatives being taken up by the state government for preservation and protection of the state flower. He informed that Rs 46 crore have been sanctioned under the Minority Affairs, PMJVK scheme, for the construction of Shirui Heritage Village and upgradation of Bakshi ground.

ASF cases

GANGTOK, MAY 25 (PTI): The Sikkim government has temporarily banned the sale of pigs in the state after cases of African Swine Fever (ASF) were reported in North Sikkim district, an official said on Wednesday.

A total of 117 pigs have died in various parts of the state in the past two months.

Animal Husbandr y Department Secretary Dr P Senthil Kumar has cautioned the general public to refrain from eating pork and has also stated that the first tests of the samples which were taken from the pigs in North Sikkim district had come out positive for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) on February 23 this year. On February 29 the first case of African Swine Fever was detected.

He also informed that there was a 20 per cent chance of pigs dying from the virus but in Sikkim the death rate of pigs that have died from the virus presently stands at 1 per cent.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022

‘Consultant and owner’ would be held responsible for structural failure of MLC building: MUDA Correspondent SHILLONG, MAY 25: The Meghalaya Urban Development Authority (MUDA) granted building permission for the new Assembly building with the clause that “consultant and owner” would be held responsible for structural failure of the building under the Meghalaya Building Bye laws, 2021.

Under the bye laws which were framed in 2021, an owner is defined as “a person who receives the rent for use of land or building, or would be entitled to do so if they were let.” However, consultant is not defined under the bye law.

On Sunday, the steel dome of the under-construction building had apparently collapsed due to its “faulty design”. The construction of the new assembly building on 80 acres land at Mawdiangdiang in the New Shillong Township began in June, 2019 much before the State government notified the building bye laws. The new assembly building was to be completed by August 2022. Incidentally, the State Public Works Department (PWD) received a building permission sanction under the 2021 bye laws on December 6, 2021, when much of the work was completed.

Prior to the notification, sources said, MUDA voiced concerns over the height of the building which was proposed at 62.98me-

tre from the ground to the dome. The PWD department has been supervising the project and two construction companies – Uttar Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman Nigam Limited (UPRNN) and Badri Rai Limited were engaged to build it.

As per the tender agreement, 60 percent of the work, including construction of the dome was being done by UPRNN. Badri Rai Limited was entrusted with the rest of the work and constructed the left and right wing of the building.

“Initially, MUDA was reluctant to grant permission to such a height as the state falls in the highly seismic zone 5. MUDA granted building permission for the new Assembly building after IIT-Roorkee vetted the design,” sources said.

The 63 meter height meant that the structure would be a 21 storied building from the ground (height of one floor from ground to slab is generally about 3 meters.) “MUDA proposed that the height of the building should not exceed 34 meters or an 11 storied building,” sources said.

Still a building of that height (11storied) would be the tallest in the state and an engineering feat owing to the topography, geographical factors and other technical aspects taken into consideration. As per documents made available, MUDA Secretary issued the

AffidAvit i, Shri. Tsalimong Yimchungru, S/o lt. Meramong of D. Khel, Seikhazou Kohima Village, do hereby declare that my correct and actual name is Tsalimong Yimchungru, however in my service book my name is inadvertently recorded as Tsalimong. The name's Tsalimong and Tsalimong Yimchungru are my name which represent one and the same person i.e me. henceforth, my name as Tsalimong Yimchungru shall be used in all my official and future correspondence and records through affidavit Regd. No. 199, Dated: 22-02-2022.

Deponent k-1084/22

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION NO.NPSC/EXAM-5/2022

KOHIMA Dated Kohima, the 25th May, 2022

Announcement of Results The result of the Common Educational Services Examination 2019 is hereby declared. Viva-Voce is scheduled to be held from 14th June 2022 onwards. Details can be accessed from the Commission's website at www.npsc.nagaland.gov.in and also from the notice board of the Commission.

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78-foot tall steel dome that collapsed on May 22. building permission to the Chief Engineer of PWD on December 6, 2021 and mentioned that the “total height of the building should not exceed 62.98 metre, including roof and dome the as per the approval of the government in May 25, 2018.”

“The construction will be undertaken as per sanctioned plans only and no deviation from the bye-laws will be permitted without prior sanction. Any deviation against the bye-laws or sanctioned plans is liable to be demolished and the supervising consultant engaged in the job will run the risk of being black listed,” the building permission

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letter reads. Moreover, “the consultant along with the owner will be held responsible for any kind of structural failure of the building.”

Sources said that the concern raised by MUDA Secretary was overlooked.

PWD executive engineer (Buildings), Ransom Sutnga, who has been overseeing the construction, had said that the dome of the underconstruction collapsed due to “faulty design”.

The Assembly building design was done by Design Associates Limited from Noida. This firm and also UPRNN were already under the CBI scanner for alleged violation of Central Vigilance Commission norms.

SUMMON FOR SETTLEMENT OF ISSUE (Order –V Rule-1,5,20) IN THE COURT OF CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE CIVIL JUDGE (Sr) DIVISION KOHIMA: NAGALAND. SUIT NO. Money Suit 35/2021 Shri. Vetsutsoyi Swuro : Plaintiff -VersusShri Pele Khezhie : Defendant To, Shri. Pele Khezhie (Class-1 Contractor) R/o house No. K16, Ruziezou, D Khel Kohima Village.

NOTICE Whereas Dr. Vetsutsoyi Swuro has instituted Suit against you for recovery of Rs. 97,17,414/- (Rupees Ninety seven lakhs seventeen thousand four hundred fourteen) only.

You are hereby summoned to appear before the Court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material question relating to the suit on 21/06/2022 at 11:00 AM without fail.

Take notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned, the suit will be heard and determined in your absence. given under my hand and seal of the court on this the 23rd day of May, 2022.

CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE CIVIL JUDGE (Sr) DIVISION KOHIMA: NAGALAND

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aFFiDaVit i, Shri Nukuvoyi Vero, S/o Tazuhu Vero, permanent resident of Phusachodou Village, Pfutsero, Phek and presently residing at industrial Village, Razuphe, Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm.

1. That i am a bonafide citizen of india and a resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That in all my official documents my surname is recorded as Khamo and my father's name is recorded as Ruyove Khamo, whereas my correct surname is Vero and the correct name of my father is Tazuhu Vero.

3. That this affidavit is sworn in to state that my correct surname is Vero and also to state that the correct name of my fahter is Tazuhu Vero.

4. That this affidavit shall stand as a piece of evidence for any rectification/correction if any complication that my arise with regard to my surname and my father's name and that it shall be used for all my future official purposes and correspondences.

5. i verify that the statements made in para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Deponent Solemnly signed before me by the deponent on this the 20th day of May, 2022 at Dimapur.

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I, Mrs. A. dozo, d/o c. dozo, R/o. 7th Mile, Model Village, have applied for mutation of land in respect of Unity Village patta permit Sl. No. 580, land patta No. 146 & Regd. No. 158, H/No. 62, Block-07, measuring an area of 18844.633 sq. ft. which is given below: Schedule of Land and Boundaries: East : 116 sq. ft. Bendang Ao West : 122 sq. ft. Approach Road South : 163 sq. ft. Approach Road North : 154 sq. ft. katovi Therefore, the undersigned do hereby invite claims/objections concerning to the said land and if any, should submit to this intended patta holder within one week from the date of publication in local newspaper.

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You have been found absent from bonafide Government duty with effect from 11-02-2022 without any prior permission from the competent authority and remain absent till date.

And whereas inspite of notice served to you to report before the undersigned vide this order you have failed to report.

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You are asked to report for duty within 7 (seven) days from the issuance of this calling letter. Failing which you will be declared as deserter as per the law and legal action will be taken by the authority against you.

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Date Tizit the 28th April' 2022

You have been found absent from bonafide Government duty with effect from 12-02-2022 without any prior permission from the competent authority and remain absent till date.

And whereas in spite of notice served to you to report before the undersigned vide this order you have failed to report.

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visa case: ED registers money Yasin Malik sentenced to life in terror funding Chinese laundering case against Karti, others NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (AGENCIES): A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case.

Special Judge Praveen Singh also awarded varying jail terms for various offences under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The court also imposed a fine of over Rs ten lakh on Malik.

The life ter m was awarded for two offences -- Section 121 (waging war against the government of India) of IPC and section 17 (raising funds for the terrorist act) of the UAPA. All the sentences will run concurrently.

Meanwhile, clashes erupted between supporters of JKLF chairman and security forces in Maisuma locality in Srinagar on Wednesday, even as parts of the city observed a spontaneous shutdown, officials said.

Scores of people, including women, assembled at Malik’s residence at Maisuma, a short distance from Lal Chowk city centre, and raised slogans in support of the separatist leader, the officials said, adding that the protesters took out a protest march around the area.

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik being brought to Patiala House court, in New Delhi, Wednesday. (PTI)

The protesters tried to move towards Maisuma Chowk and clashed with security forces, they said.

Some of the protesters pelted stones on the security forces, who fired teargas shells to disperse the crowd, the officials said.

However, there were no reports of any injury, they said.

Most of the shops and business establishments in Maisuma and adjoining

areas, including some shops at Lal Chowk, were shut, they added.

According to the officials, shops in some areas of the old city have also been shut, but the public transport is plying normally.

Security forces have been deployed in strength in the city to avoid any law and order problems, they said.

The Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) also termed “un-

fortunate” the life imprisonment awarded to Malik and said it is a “setback” to the efforts for peace.

The court verdict will only fuel more alienation and separatist feelings, PAGD spokesperson M Y Tarigami said in a statement in Srinagar.

All the sentences will run concurrently.

The court also imposed a fine of over Rs 10 lakh on Malik.

“Life imprisonment given to Yasin Malik is unfortunate and a setback to the efforts for peace. We are afraid that this will further compound the uncertainties in the region and will only fuel more alienation and separatist feelings,” Tarigami said.

He said the NIA court has delivered its verdict “but not justice”.

The PAGD also suggested Malik to avail all legal opportunities to contest the verdict.

Hitting out at the ruling BJP and a section of the media, Tarigami said, “The triumphalism being displayed by the BJP and the corporate media is bound to prove counterproductive.”

The PAGD is an alliance of six mainstream political parties, including the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party, in Jammu and Kashmir demanding restoration of the special status of the erstwhile state which was revoked by the Centre on August 5, 2019.

The alliance is headed

by NC president Farooq Abdullah.

Malik was convicted on May 19 in the case related to funding terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir after he pleaded guilty to all the charges framed against him.

Capt Abhilasha Barak becomes Indian 3 Pakistani JeM terrorists Army’s first woman combat aviator killed in Baramulla encounter

NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): Captain Abhilasha Barak on Wednesday became the first woman combat aviator in the Indian Army.

Officials said she has been awarded the coveted ‘wings’ along with 36 Army pilots by the director-general of the Army Aviation during a ceremony held at Combat Army Aviation Training School in Nashik.

“Captain Barak became the first woman officer to join the Army Aviation Corps as combat aviator after successful completion of the combat Army aviation course,” an official said.

She hails from Haryana and was commissioned into the Army Air Defence Corps in September 2018.

The combat aviator is the daughter of Col S Om Singh (Retd).

Captain Abhilasha has done a number of professional military courses before joining the Army Aviation Corps, said the official.

The Army Aviation Corps is a component of the Army that was formed in

Captain Abhilasha Barak awarded with coveted wings.

November 1986. The Corps is headed by a Lt Gen rank officer known as Director General of Army Aviation.

Over the years, the corps has expanded exponentially with the addition of new units and state of the alt equipment like Cheetah Dhruv, Rudra light combat helicopter and remotely piloted aircraft.

With the motto ‘Swift and Sure’, the youngest corps of the Indian Army is set to further grow in its tactical importance in the battlefield to take further its role of force multiplier.

The three services have gradually opened up key postings for women in the

Allahabad High Court quashes FIR against The Wire editor

Siddharth Varadarajan

P R AYA G R A J , M AY 25 (PTI): The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed the FIR lodged against The Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan and another journalist over a news report on a man who died during the farmers’ protest in Delhi last year.

Justices Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Rajnish Kumar passed the order on a petition filed by the senior journalist.

The FIR was lodged over a report in the news portal -- and Varadarajan’s tweets –- giving the version of the family of Rampur farmer Navreet Singh Dibdiba, who died when protesters took out an unauthorised

tractor rally on January 26, 2021.

The farmer’s family had alleged that he died due to a bullet injury. But the police made it clear that the death was due to injuries suffered when the tractor the man was riding overturned.

‘The Wire’ report was headlined “Autopsy Doctor Told Me He’d Seen the Bullet Injury but Can Do Nothing as His Hands are Tied”. Later, The Wire also reported the denial of this version by police.

The FIR was lodged

by Rampur Police on January 31, 2021 under Sections 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (2) (statements creating or promoting enmity between classes) of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of a complaint by one Sanju Turaiha.

The Republic Day tractor rally, during which farmers clashed with police, was part of a year-long protest against three agri-laws that were later repealed. The protesters had been camping at Delhi’s borders.

last few years.

In 2018, flying officer Avani Chaturvedi of the Indian Air Force scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo. She flew a MiG-21 bison in her first solo flight.

Chaturvedi was part of a three-member women team commissioned as flying officers in July 2016, less than a year after the government decided to open the fighter stream for women on an experimental basis.

In 2020, the Navy announced deploying its first batch of women pilots on the Dornier maritime aircraft.

SRINAGAR, MAY 25 (PTI): Three Pakistani militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit were on Wednesday killed in a “chance” encounter with security forces in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

A cop also lost his life in the encounter which took place at Najibhat crossing in Kreeri area in the north Kashmir district.

Inspector General of Police, Vijay Kumar, said the encounter took place at one of the ‘nakas’ (checkpoints) laid by the security forces across the valley.

“There were nakas a c r o s s K a s h m i r t o d ay (Wednesday). At one such naka at Najibhat crossing in Kreeri area, there was a chance encounter (with militants). Three Pakistani JeM terrorists were killed,” the IGP told reporters here.

He said a policeman was also killed in the encounter.

Kumar said while the police force was pained at the loss of one of its men, the killing of the three terrorists was a huge success.

“The three terrorists could have come to Srinagar and carried out some big attack,” he said.

The IGP said the terrorists were active in the hilly areas of Gulmarg for the last three to four months.

“We were regularly tracking them,” he said, adding, so far this year, 22 Pakistani terrorists have been killed in various encounters with security forces.

There will be increased attempts to neutralise Pakistani terrorists, Kumar added.

Asked about the Tuesday’s attack in Soura area of the city in which a cop was killed, while his daughter injured, the IGP said two local terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) behind the attack have been identified.

“Adil from Ganderbal, a local commander of TRF/ LeT, and another newly-recruited terrorist, are behind the killing. We will neutralise them soon,” he said.

He said the slain cop’s daughter was undergoing treatment at a hospital, but her condition is stable.

Appealing to the soci-

MPs don’t need political clearance from govt: Congress on Rahul UK trip NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): The Congress on Wednesday dismissed media reports that former party chief Rahul Gandhi needed “political clearance” to visit London, saying MPs do not need any such clearance from the government, unless they are part of an official delegation.

“MPs don’t need political clearance from PM or Govt, unless they are part of Official Delegation.

Please don’t blindly follow the PMO WhatsApp suggestions sent to TV channels,” Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Sur jewala said in a tweet. Surjewala also tagged a media report which quoted the government sources to say Gandhi did not take political clearance from the government to visit the UK. Another media report also quoted the government sources and said all MPs need to inform the Ministry of External Affairs three weeks before any foreign trip and seek political clearance, adding that they need

Rahul Gandhi

to post details on the foreign ministry website.

Reacting to reports, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera also tweeted that “he (Rahul Gandhi) is not a journalist who needs clearance from PMO to do his journalism”.

The Congress’ reactions to the media reports came after Gandhi’s meeting with British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in London triggered a row back home with the BJP asking him whether he endorsed the UK opposition leader’s “anti-India” views.

The Congress defended Gandhi’s meeting and

shared pictures of Corbyn with Narendra Modi to ask whether the Prime Minister too endorsed the “antiIndia” views of the UK Labour leader and MP. Also during the London visit, Gandhi, while addressing an event on ‘India at 75’ at Cambridge University on Monday evening, alleged that there is a “systematic attack” on the institutions that allow India to speak and as the conversation is being stamped out, the “deep state” is entering those spaces and redefining the way that conversation is happening in the country.

At another ‘Ideas for India’ event in London, Gandhi on Saturday had said the “deep state” in India is “chewing” the Indian state much like in Pakistan, as he launched a frontal attack on the Modi government. The ruling BJP had hit back at Gandhi and branded him a “part-time, immature, unsuccessful leader” who betrayed the country with his remarks made on foreign soil.

NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): The ED has registered a money laundering case against Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and others in connection with the alleged irregularities in the issuance of visas to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the home minister, officials said on Wednesday.

The federal agency has filed its case under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) taking cognisance of a recent first information report (FIR) registered by the CBI in the same case, they said.

The case pertains to allegations of Rs 50 lakh being paid as kickbacks to Karti and his close associate S Bhaskararaman by a top executive of Vedanta group company Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd. (TSPL), which was setting up a power plant in Punjab, the CBI FIR had said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had raided the premises of the Chidambaram family and arrested Bhaskararaman last week, even as Karti Chidambaram is expected to depose before it for questioning.

This is the third money laundering case against Karti Chidambaram with

central government is once again using its agencies to accuse me of a malicious and completely fabricated charge,” he said.

“Previously, the agencies have gone after me based on the statement of an undertrial murder suspect.

Now, they are basing their bogus charges on the alleged actions of a deceased person, whom I have never met.

I intend to continue to fight every one of their motivated attempts to target my father through me,” the Congress MP said.

He said he was “certain that he never facilitated even a single Chinese national in their visa process, let alone 250.”

According to the CBI, the work for setting up the power project was being executed by a Chinese company and was running behind schedule.

A TSPL executive had sought re-issuance of project visas for 263 Chinese workers for which Rs 50 lakh allegedly exchanged hands, according to the CBI FIR. The agency has alleged that Bhaskararaman was approached by Vikas Makharia, the then associate vice president of TSPL, for the reissue of project visas for the Chinese workers working at the Mansa-based power plant.

Karti Chidambaram

the INX Media and AircelMaxis cases being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for some years now.

The ED will probe the possible “proceeds of crime” that could have been generated due to the alleged illegal activity in the visa case, they said.

The accused involved in the case will be questioned as part of the investigation, officials said.

Fifty-year-old Karti Chidambaram, the Congress MP from the Sivaganga constituency in Tamil Nadu, has denied all allegations.

In a statement posted on his Twitter handle on Tuesday, he said “if this is not harassment, not a witch hunt, then what is.”

“I have full faith in the judiciary of our great country and trust the institution to stand by the truth. It does not intimidate me that the

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS NAGALAND : KOHIMA NOTICE

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Date : 4th June, 2022 Time : 10:30 a.m.

Venue : Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Nagaland, Kohima.

Note : 1. Candidates are requested to reach the venue 30 minutes ahead of the schedule time.

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post

Post-mortem The core nature of the Naga Foodflation: Making life tougher

VOL. XXXII NO. 169 DIMAPUR, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022

Anti-Quad grouping

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t a time when the world faces possible outbreak of a major war and even likelihood of a nuclear l war due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Europe; the scenario is no better in the Asia-Pacific region. The region has been literally like an ember that is being fanned due to Chinese intransigence over its claims on dozens of islands and reefs. China has been expanding its military presence across the Pacific and Indian oceans as it continually flexes its muscles on Japan, South Korea and Australia as it looks to lay claim to energy-rich waters around the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan. To meet the Chinese threat, in early 2007, the Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō proposed the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or “Quadrilateral Initiative”, under which India would join a formal multilateral dialogue with Japan, the United States and Australia. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD), colloquially the Quad was not a military alliance, but an arrangement to spearhead regional cooperation and security while maintaining international rules and values. However, in the face of Chinese belligerence, especially its blatant muscle flexing on Asian nations, it is evolving into a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. The US spearheads the Quad and therefore, the strategic arrangement is sometimes being described as an Asian NATO. In response, both Russia and China have also formed an anti-Quad grouping comprising of Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. Unlike quad nations that are ideologically close and members having good relations, the anti-Quad nations do not share similar values and among themselves, are not cohesive since they harbour some mistrust among themselves. Turkey is a NATO member and its involvement with the anti-Quad group is due to dissatisfaction with the US for slapping sanctions due to the import of Russian missiles in 2021.

Strangely as NATO member Turkey has opposed admission of Finland and Sweden to NATO due to activities of Turk immigrants opposed to prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s autocratic rule.

Pakistan can be expected to line up with any group that is against India. China and Turkey are two countries opposed to India while Russia appears to be quite unhappy with India’s neutrality in the Ukraine war. In the face of Russia’s disapproval, India has been working closely with the US within and outside the QUAD to shape the future of the Indo-Pacific. More than any other anti-Quad nation, China will seek to exploit the grouping. In fact China under Xi Xing Ping, has been aggressive in trying to position itself as the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific region as it lays claim to several islands in the region. The Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan all lay claim to parts of the energy-rich waters, which Beijing claims also.

China has been building military bases on reefs and rocky outcrops. China has a long pending border dispute with India along the Himalayan frontier that had resulted in the 1962 border war. China also has territorial disputes with Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. With Russia bogged down in Ukraine, China has energised its focus on Taiwan and the anti-Quad grouping is serving the purpose for its belligerence.

DailyDevotion The Good or The Best?

If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.

—Genesis 13:9 As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God, fascinating and physically gratifying possibilities will open up before you. These things are yours by right, but if you are living the life of faith you will exercise your right to waive your rights, and let God make your choice for you. God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own welfare would be the appropriate thing to consider, if you were not living the life of faith. But if you are, you will joyfully waive your right and allow God to make your choice for you. This is the discipline God uses to transform the natural into the spiritual through obedience to His voice.

Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. In this passage, it would seem that the wisest thing in the world for Abram to do would be to choose. It was his right, and the people around him would consider him to be a fool for not choosing.

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eyes focused on God. And God says to us, as He did to Abram, “…walk before Me…” (Genesis 17:1).

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022

L issue: Is it political or cultural?

A fter all these years of peace negotiations between the Government of India (GoI) and the Naga Political Groups (NPGs), it was hoped that both sides had arrived at a consensus on the core nature of the Naga issue.

In whichever way it is defined, the Naga issue is political in nature and it remains unresolved to this day. The proof of this is the protracted political dialogue that has been necessitated as earlier agreements or accords could not resolve the Naga issue.

Now, it has been reported that the GoI offered a “cultural flag” to the Nagas. It is imperative to have clarity on whether the Naga issue is political or cultural as the right solution can only come about based on the understanding of this question.

Lest we forget, the IndoNaga peace process has survived the pulls and pressures of Indian politics. It has seen continuity of several Prime Ministers and governments in Delhi. The Naga Rising has consistently taken the position that this broad and sustained support towards the Naga peace process should not be undermined at this crucial juncture.

The BJP-led Modi govt should not treat the Naga issue as ‘cultural’ or the NPGs as some cultural bodies. The Naga position or status is ‘political’ in nature and should not be compared to an NGO or registered society.

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If the Government of India accepts this fundamental truth, it will help to better appreciate a solution based on honouring the historical, territorial and political rights of the Nagas.

On the other hand, the Nagas too should respect the constitutional constraints, political intricacy and strategic concerns of Delhi.

Taking into account ‘contemporary realities’, a rational approach should be adopted to arrive at a conclusion. It is not impossible to find a solution, but for this, both sides should deeply reflect on the benefits each gets in return from the peace deal.

We firmly believe that the objective of the present IndoNaga peace process should be an AGREEMENT, not victory.

If Nagas have got some of the things they wanted from India, what can Nagas offer India in return? Similarly, what can India offer to the Nagas, if the latter has agreed to forgo some of its core demands including complete sovereignty and physical integration?

In any negotiation, a give and take is a must. In a successful negotiation, both sides should emerge with a sense of content, otherwise the outcome would not be acceptable to one side or the other, leading to more conflict and uncertainty.

Naga aspiration can coexist within the larger Indian union Apparently, the delay in

arriving at a solution is over symbolic issues that are sensitive to the Nagas. A flag and constitution for the Nagas need not necessarily be seen as out of sync with the concept and practice of Indian Federalism.

Naga aspiration can co-exist within the larger Indian union.

For all these years since the peace process began, the Indian political leadership has been well aware that ‘a unique’, ‘outof-the-box’ solution and ‘some special arrangement’ would have to be made for the Nagas.

Furthermore, the Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs 2019 has certified the case of the Nagas. It has strongly recommended that the Government of India “should tread carefully on the issues sensitive to the Nagas and not let vested interests hijack the peace narrative”.

The Naga Rising believes that with the political will of the Prime Minister and based on the political formulation advanced by the Indian Parliament, a solution to the Naga issue can be concluded.

We are confident that the resilience and strength of Indian Federalism and the Constitution will be able to demonstrate both ingenuity and innovation in addressing the special unique case of the Nagas.

(This is the first of a 2-part series) The Naga Rising, (www. thenagarising.com)

ife is being made tougher by rising prices and inflation for the common man Now-a-days, a new economic phenomenon, after inflation and afflation is taking place i.e. foodflation: prices of food items increasing sharply across major product groups. An interesting aspect of foodflation today is that it is not captured by the conventional WPI, and CPI numbers only touch the periphery of the issue. Wholesale price index (WPI) of India rose to 15.8 per cent in April this year, up from 10.74 per cent in April 2021, according to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Food inflation rose to 8.35 per cent in April 2022 from 4.60 per cent in April 2021. This list included items like cereals, paddy, pulses, wheat, vegetables, potato, onion, fruits, milk, eggs, fish and meat. Cereals inflation went up to 7.80 per cent in April 2022 from -3.07 per cent in April 2021 whereas paddy inflation went up from -3.16 in April last year to 10.70 per cent in April this year. Oil seeds inflation went down drastically from 29.95 per cent in April 2021 to 16.10 per cent in April this year while inflation in manufactured products went up from 9.44 per cent in April last year to 10.85 per cent in April this year.

Above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) expectations, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has clocked for the 30th successive month. Since the pandemic, India has struggled to keep prices in check. The last time that inflation was below 4 per cent was way back in 2019.

Now with the Russia-Ukraine crisis, we are definitely feeling

the pinch now. As per statement of Ministry of Labour & Employment, Point to point rate of inflation based on the CPI-AL and CPI-RL stood at 6.44% & 6.67% in April, 2022 compared to 6.09% & 6.33% respectively in March, 2022 and 2.66% and 2.94% respectively during the corresponding month of the previous year For households that reel under even the slightest price rise, such staggering highs bring only further misery. Have you noticed the increasing prices of edible oil, vegetables, fruits, and proteins lately? The humble lemon is being sold at Rs 400 a kilogram. A rise in fuel prices also means upping freight and energy costs, which in turn affects various industries and pushes up the price of commodities, products, and even restaurant food.

The major contribution towards the rise in consumer price index (CPI) based inflation for agricultural and rural labourers came from food group to the extent of 7.32 and 7.13 points respectively.

This was due to an increase in prices of rice, wheat-atta, jowar, bajra, ragi, vegetables & fruits, etc. It’s the high prices that are hampering the lives of millions of Indians.

Inf lation management would need to go beyond just the aggregate numbers. A greater attention to managing both inflation and inflationary expectations, both at an aggregate and granular level, is the need of the hour.

Prof Mithilesh Kumar Sinha, Department of Economics, Nagaland University, Lumami

Samagra Shiksha : The Vehicle for NEP

amagra Shiksha, a n ove r r e a c h i n g programme for the schooling sector extending from pre-school to class 12, was launched on 1st April 2018 in order to treat school education holistically without segmentation from pre-nursery to class 12. It subsumed the three Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE). The scheme has been extended upto the FY 2025-26 and fully aligned with the provisions of National Education Policy, 2020.

Several transformational recommendations of NEP have been made part of the Samagra Shiksha scheme, which includes holistic progress card, child tracking, bagless days, focus on SEDGs and out of school children etc. To ensure time bound implementation of NEP, a comprehensive and task oriented implementation plan called SARTHAQ has been released. Also to ensure universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy, the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat) has been launched, so that every child achieves the desired learning competencies in Reading, Writing and Numeracy at the end of grade-3, by 2026-27.

Decentralized Planning exercise based on measurable outcomes is being carried out with the involvement of all stakeholders so that the scheme be fr uitful in achieving the ultimate goal. In order to achieve the desirable objectives and outcomes of the schemes, a comprehensive action plan upto FY 2025-26 covering all the interventions of Samagra Shiksha is being prepared by all the states.

NIPUN Bharat por-

tal is to be launched, which will have all the documents for the mission at one place. The focus will be on various interventions related to child-centric teaching learning materials, play based activities and supplementar y graded materials, resource materials for teachers to align their innovative pedagogies with learning outcomes and grade level competency at foundational level. The Lakshya (Targets) of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy is to be displayed on the walls of schools/classrooms for mass mobilization. Also the Codified Learning outcomes for Foundational stage will be intimated to the parents & teachers. In the next academic session, a 3-month play based preparation module for Grade-I (Vidya Pravesh) will be adopted by all the schools.

In order to ensure 100% GER at all levels as envisaged in the NEP, adequate facilities for infrastructure and quality education at secondary level will be targeted for universal access and quality education for the age group of 14-18 years.

New secondary/Senior secondary schools will be opened in unserved localities on the basis on GIS mapping. All secondary schools will be equipped with integrated science lab and ICT/ Smart classroom with internet facility. Vocational education is to be planned in 50% of the composite secondar y/ Sr secondar y schools.

The drop-out rate at Secondary level is quite high, primarily due to students’ inability to cope up with the curriculum and high stakes associated with these classes.

To tackle this situation, 2-3 month School Readiness Module for children entering Grade-IX will be adopted.

To ensure universal

access and afford opportunity for quality education to all children from pre-school to Grade-12, opening of new/upgraded school from pre-primary to class-12, addition of new subjects in existing secondary schools, provision of adequate number of classrooms & labs, rain-water har vesting, solar panel/electrification, barrier free access, toilets, drinking water, hand washing facilities, incinerators & sanitary pad vending machines in all girl’s hostels, Classroom-com-workshop for vocational education, extension of transport/ escort facility upto seco n d a r y l eve l , s p e c i a l training for out of school children of age-group 16 to 19 years belonging to SEDGs through open school system at secondary/Sr secondary stage will be made.

Covid-19 pandemic has hampered the education sector drastically due to year long closure of the schools and large scale migration. Although various initiatives have been taken during the school closure to support the children; but they require a bridge course to bridge the learning gap. Based on the findings of NAS, appropriate interventions are to be ensured in the schools. Further usage of DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge SHAring), which enables education at home through innovative state programmes, will be ensured. A 100-days reading campaign for children from Bal Vatika to classVIII has already been initiated in January 2022.

As per NEP emphasis, age appropriate enjoyable and inspirational books are to be ensured in the school library. The success stories and best practices, especially those adopted during pandemic, are to be uploaded on national repository for nationwide sharing among teach-

ers/students. NISHTHA training will be extended for teachers upto secondar y level and also to Anganwadi workers as well as educational administrators.

As NEP mandates 50 Hrs of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) every year to teachers, training need analysis for teachers will be conducted by SCERTs to customized training programmes. The excess teachers presently available will be re-deployed in needy schools before filling up the vacant posts.

In most states, the PTR is better than the prescribed national norms; but there is a shortage of subject teachers, which will be taken into account at the time of recruitment. Suitable mechanism for online and transparent system of recruitment as well as transfer will be developed.

BRCs and CRCs will be developed as vibrant academic resource centres for training and onsite support to teachers and schools. All KGBVs will be upgraded upto class 12 in next 3 years. Safety and security guidelines will be strictly enforced and its social audit will be done. Also KGBVs will be equipped with ICT & SMART classes and will

be enriched with library books through Library Grant. Activities will be planned to improve access, enrolment, retention and learning outcomes o f a l l d i s a dva n t a ge d groups and vulnerable children including girls, transgender, SC, ST, minorities, migratory and urban deprived children.

States will adopt & notify guidelines for fixing accountability of school management with regard to the safety of children in schools. A comprehensive action plan is to be chalk out for identification of children with special needs (CWSN), t r a i n i n g o f t e a c h e r s, availability of special educators, infrastructure creation and ICT inclusive programmes.

To expedite the vocational education, construction of workshop/ laborator y-cum-classroom, training module for courses of entrepreneurship soft skill etc. is to be done in upper primary schools. All upper primary, secondary and senior secondary school will be covered with ICT and digital initiatives in a time bound manner.

Social Audit to cover 20% of schools per year is mandatory to monitor the implementation of

schemes and ensuring transparency & accountability. Special emphasis is to be given to Aspirational Districts, Special Focus Districts (SFD), Left Wing Extremism (LWE) districts, Educationally Backward Blocks (EBB), SC/ST/Minority concentration districts.

Fo r a l l C e n t r a l ly Sponsored Schemes (CSS), the financial management system has been changed and a Single Nodal Agency (SNA) has been designated for each CSS for each state.

The bank account of each SNA is to be opened and mapped in PFMS. Samagra Shiksha will act as vehicle for carrying out the recommendations of National Education Policy 2020. Proper planning and implementation of interventions of Samagra Shiksha would help in achieving the objectives of providing quality education for all, in a time bound manner and remove the bottlenecks currently available in the education sector. It will prove to be an efficacious weapon in transforming the nation as “Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat”.

Er. Prabhat Kishore is a technocrat & academician, (prabhatkishore65@gmail.com)

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Erection of traffic island; appeal to Commissioner of Police Dimapur

The undersigned hereby appeal to the competent authority that at Supermarket four junctions near Essar Petrol Pump, wherein, it is urgently required to erect a Traffic Island for public safety and to avoid any unwanted situations. It is one of the busiest junctions in the commercial hub as one side daily bazaar supermarket is located and on the other side it is linked up with National Highway No.29 from three points. Besides, it is also connected with Kachari ruins (Historical site) wherein tourists are flooding from different parts of the world. Therefore, in the interest of the public safety and for the convenience of the public the authority concerned may kindly erect the traffic Island at the four junctions at the earliest in the interest of the public. And for which act of kindness the undersigned will ever remain grateful to you.

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Top leaders in race as Cong may get 11 RS seats Eye on 2024 Lok Sabha polls, BJP kick-

and Kar nataka on the strength of its MLAs in these states.

Sources said while Chidambaram and Ramesh are hopeful that the party leadership would give a nod to them for another term, there are a host of other leaders who are waiting for a Rajya Sabha berth for some time now.

Chidambaram is eyeing the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Tamil Nadu. He has already met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M K Stalin. However, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s team is

Hate speech: Court cancels George’s bail

P C George being taken into police custody in an alleged hate speech case against Muslim community, in Kochi. (PTI)

T H I RU VA NA N T H A PURAM, MAY 25 (PTI): A Magisterial court in Kerala on Wednesday cancelled the bail granted to senior politician P C George in a case accusing him of making a hate speech against Muslims in the State on April 29.

The court allowed the plea moved by the police to cancel the relief granted to George on May 1.

Police, in its plea, had contended that the veteran politician violated the bail conditions and, therefore, the bail was liable to be cancelled.

The court allowed the plea of the police, George’s lawyer -- advocate Ajith

Kumar -- be confirmed.

The lawyer said the senior politician has been asked to appear before the Palarivattom police station in Ernakulam district of the State in connection with another case of hate speech and he was on his way there.

George has been granted anticipatory bail by the Kerala High Court in the case lodged at Palarivattom police station.

On being asked whether he would appeal against the cancellation of his bail, advocate Ajith Kumar said his client would first obey the law and then would decide what to do next.

The police had sought

cancellation of his bail alleging that soon after he was granted the relief, George addressed the visual media in front of the Judicial Officer’s Quarters, Vanchiyoor, and said he is still sticking to what he had stated in the speech and was justifying the same which amounts to repetition of the same crime and spread of communal hatred further.

The police had pointed out that the Magisterial court, while granting bail, had directed the accused not to make and propagate controversial statements which may hurt the religious sentiments of others while on bail.

The police had arrested George on May 1 after registering a case against him under Indian Penal Code Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion) and 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) at Fort Police station for allegedly making a communal speech against Muslims while addressing ‘Ananthapuri Hindu Maha Sammelanam’on April 29.

MHA to brief working of Assam Rifles before House panel NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (IANS): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will on Wednesday explain to a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs the functioning of the para-military force Assam Rifle.

According to the official communication of the Rajya Sabha secretariat: “The Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs to hear the views of the Ministry of Home Affairs on the functioning of the Assam Rifle.”

The House panel will be briefed by the Union Home Secretary and other high officials of the Ministry and the representatives from Assam Rifle.

After the retirement of the Congress Rajya Sabha Member Anand Sharma, the 30-member committee is now headed by another Congress MP from West Bengal Abhishek Manu Singhvi. The Rajya Sabha is yet to appoint an MP in place of Anand Sharma.

The House panel consists of 31 Members -- 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha.

Known as the sentinels of the North East, the Assam Rifle is deployed in the north eastern states to conduct counter insurgency operations in the north-

east and other areas where deemed necessary, under control of the Army, during peace and ‘proxy war’, ensure security of the IndoChina and indo-Myanmar borders.

The Force is commanded by an officer of the rank of Lieutenant General of the Army and the Directorate General of Assam Rifles is located at Shillong in Assam.

With the sanctioned

strength of about 63,000 security personnel and 46 battalions, the Assam Rifle is one among the six Central Armed Police Forces under the dual control of MHA and Ministry of Defence.

It is the only paramilitary force which has a dual control structure -- the administrative control lies with the MHA, while its operational control is with the Indian Army under the Ministry of Defence.

2 hardcore Naxals carrying Rs 12 lakh reward surrender

6 WB tourists killed, 40 injured in road mishap in Odisha

NAGPUR, MAY 25 (PTI): Two Naxals carrying a collective reward of Rs 12 lakh on their heads and allegedly involved in various killings, arson and encounters have surrendered before the Gadchiroli police in Maharashtra, officials said on Wednesday. The rebels were fed up of the violence, Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police Ankit Goyal said in a release, adding that many Naxals are getting attracted towards the surrender policy of the state government.

From 2019 till date, 49 hardcore Naxalites have surrendered before Goyal, who has assured that all necessary assistance will be provided to those willing to lay down their arms and join the mainstream society, it said. In the latest instance, the ultras who surrendered - Ramsingh alias Sitaram Bakka Atram (63) and Madhuri alias Bhuri alias Suman Raju Mattami (34)- were from Gadchiroli and carried rewards of Rs 6 lakh each on their heads, the police said.

Mattami was recruited as a member with the Kasansur Local Organisation Squad (LOS) in 2002 and from 2013 to April 2022, she worked as a area committee member in Permili LOS. She was involved in four murders, 21 encounters and seven incidents of arson and five other cases, and 37 offences were registered against her, the police said.

According to police, Mattami surrendered as women in the outlawed movement were facing discrimination by senior Maoists. Besides, Atram was recruited as a member of the Aheri LOC in 2005. From 2007 to 2012, he operated as the deputy commander of the movement and was involved in a murder and two encounters, the release said, adding that three offences were registered against him.

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the country that are to be strengthened under the campaign. All party MPs have been asked to strengthen 100 weak booths in their respective constituencies and a 30-member team will be formed for the purpose, party sources said.

Similarly, party MLAs have been given the task of strengthening 10 weaker booths in their constituencies, sources said.

The BJP’s Rajya Sabha MPs have been given the responsibility of strengthening polling booths in those Lok Sabha constituencies where the party lost, sources said.

The weaker booths

have been identified on the basis of the results of the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections and state assembly polls, they said. These booths have been divided into various categories on the basis of demography, organisational strength and other aspects, they said.

As part of this campaign, BJP leaders will have to form a team, train them and then carry out outreach activities in the area that comes under these weaker polling booths, sources said, adding that special focus will be on beneficiaries of various government schemes.

The broader idea behind this exercise is to expand the BJP’s footprint and increase its tally in the next Lok Sabha elections, they said. A similar exercise was initiated by the BJP in 2016 and the party had identified around 115 constituencies in six states -- Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala -- and the Northeast.

Deeply pained by loss of lives due to tragic accident: PM Modi

Mangled remains of a tourist bus overturned and rolled down off the road at Kalinga Ghat, in Ganjam district, Wednesday. (PTI)

BERHAMPUR/NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): At least six tourists from West Bengal, four of them women, were killed and 40 were injured late on Tuesday night when the bus they were travelling in rolled down the road at Kalinga Ghat in the borders of Kandhamal and Ganjam districts of Odisha, police said.

The incident took place past midnight near Durgaprasad village in Ganjam and 15 people among the injured are in serious condition, the police said on Wednesday.

The bus carrying 77 people, about 65 of them tourists from West Bengal’s Howrah and Hooghly districts, was moving towards Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh from Daringibandi in Kandhamal district when the mishap took place, Ganjam superintendent of police Brijesh Rai said. Police and firefighters from nearby Bhanjangar rushed to the spot and rescued the bus

passengers, 40 of who were injured. The others received minor wounds.

Police suspect that the bus rolled down the road while negotiating a curve in the hilly terrain after the driver lost control over the vehicle.

The bodies of the six tourists who died in the mishap were retrieved after breaking the window panes of the bus, Bhanjanagar sub divisional police officer S S Mishra said.

The dead are Supiya Denre (33), Sanjeet Patra (33), Rima Denre (22), her mother Mausumi Denre and Barnali Manna(34) from Sultanpur in Howrah district and Swapan Gushait (44), the cook from Gopalpur in Hooghly, police said.

The seriously injured were admitted to MKCG Medical College and Hospital here and Bhanjanagar sub divisional hospital.

The condition of at least ten persons who are being treated at the medical college hospital was stated by

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Sources said the tourists had reached Daringbadi on Tuesday. After spending the entire day in the hill town they left for Visakhapatnam at about 11.30 pm after dinner. The accident happened about an hour’s journey from Daringbadi.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has expressed grief over the accident and wished speedy recovery of the injured.

Meanwhile, Odisha Transport Minister Padmanabha Behera has ordered a probe into the circumstances leading to the accident.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he was deeply pained by the loss of lives due to a tragic accident in Odisha’s Ganjam district and wished a speedy recovery for those injured.

At least six tourists from West Bengal, four of them women, were killed and 40 were injured late on Tuesday night when the bus they were travelling in rolled down the road at Kalinga Ghat on the borders of Kandhamal and Ganjam districts of Odisha, police said.

The incident took place past midnight near Durgaprasad village in Ganjam and 15 people among the injured are in serious condition, the police said on Wednesday.

“I am deeply pained by the loss of lives due to a tragic accident in Odisha’s Ganjam district. In this tragic hour, my thoughts are with the bereaved families.

I pray that those injured recover at the very earliest,” PM Modi was quoted as saying in a tweet from his office.

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NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): With an eye on the 2024 parliamentary elections, the BJP kick-started a week-long campaign on Wednesday to strengthen the organisation and boost outreach activities in around 74,000 electoral booths across the country where it is relatively weak.

BJP president J P Nadda on Wednesday addressed a ‘Booth Empowerment Campaign’ event at the party headquarters here, the party said in a tweet. The meeting was attended by several Union ministers and leaders from across the country.

The campaign will continue till May 31. To steer the campaign, the BJP has formed a committee chaired by party vice president Baijayant Panda. Party vice president Dilip Ghosh, general secretary CT Ravi, and the party’s Scheduled Caste (SC) Morcha head Lal Singh Arya are its members.

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Pradesh) and Chhaya Verma (Chhattisgarh) -- will be completing their terms.

The Congress will be gaining three to four seats in the Upper House if it manages to get all the three seats that are falling vacant in Rajasthan.

While the party will get two seats in Chhattisgarh, where it is in power, it will get one seat each in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Maharashtra, where it shares power with other likeminded parties.

The Congress is also likely to get one seat each in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh

dent with the support of the Samajwadi Party (SP).

In Chhattisgarh, the Congress has two seats and Shukla is vying for another term from the state.

The Cong ress will surely get two seats from Rajasthan and may also get another seat with the support of some MLAs. Maken and Azad are said to be strong contenders for the seats.

In Maharashtra, where the party shares power in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, it may get one Rajya Sabha seat, and Wasnik and Avinash Pande are in the race for it.

The race is also between the old guard in the Congress and the young leaders, who are keen to get a Rajya Sabha nomination, keeping in view the party’s push for the youth.

However, this may not happen immediately as the “50 below 50” formula will not be applicable in the current Rajya Sabha nominations, the sources said.

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pushing for a young face in Praveen Chakravarty, the head of the party’s Data Analytics department, for the seat.

Three-time Rajya Sabha member Ramesh will get a fourth term if his name is cleared for the lone seat in Karnataka, from where Surjewala is also a contender.

In Haryana, Surjewala, Kumari Selja and Kuldeep Bishnoi are vying for the lone seat, but former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is pushing for the nomination of Anand Sharma. The former Union minister is a prominent member of the “Group of 23” and is considered close to Hooda, who is also a member of the grouping.

Sources said Kapil Sibal was offered a Rajya Sabha berth by ally Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), but the Congress leadership was not ready.

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NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): The Congress is likely to get 11 Rajya Sabha seats in the upcoming election cycle with some of its top leaders, including P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, eyeing another term.

This will also help the Congress strengthen its party position in the Upper House of Parliament from the current 29 to 33 members.

Some other top Congress leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Mukul Wasnik, Randeep Surjewala, Ajay Maken and Rajeev Shukla, are waiting in the wings to get a Rajya Sabha nomination.

Of the 55 vacancies arising in the Rajya Sabha in the next two months, seven Congress members -- Chidambaram (Maharashtra), Ramesh (Karnataka), Ambika Soni (Punjab), Vivek Tankha (Madhya Pradesh), Pradeep Tamta (Uttarakhand), Kapil Sibal (Uttar

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India becomes largest producer, second largest exporter of sugar

NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (IANS): The government on Wednesday claimed that India has become the largest producer of sugar in the world in the year 2022-23, more than Brazil, while it would be the second largest exporter of sugar.

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2018-19 was 332 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) after discounting diversion of 3 LMT for ethanol; in 2019-20, it was 274 LMT (after discounting diversion of 9 LMT for ethanol); in 2020-21, the production increased to 310 LMT (after discounting diversion of 22 LMT for ethanol) and

for 2021-22, it is 335 LMT (after discounting diversion of 35 LMT for ethanol).

The production of sugar has increased and so has sugar exports. In sugar seasons 2017-18, 2018-19 & 2019-20, only about 6.2 LMT, 38 LMT & 59.60 LMT of sugar was exported.

“In sugar season 2020-21 against target of 60 LMT, about 70 LMT have been exported. In the current sugar season 2021-22, against the projected 100 LMT exports, contracts for export of about 90 LMT have been signed, about 82 LMT sugar has been dispatched from sugar mills for export and approximately 78 LMT have been exported. Export of sugar in current sugar season 2021-22 is the historically highest,” Subodh Singh, Joint Secretary, Food, told media persons.

About 80 per cent of sugar is produced in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka and because the two states south of Narmada are nearer to the ports, export takes place more from these states. Earlier, late last night, the government has restricted sugar export up to 100 LMT from June 1 till October 31, 2022 with a view to maintain the domestic availability and price stability during the sugar season 2021-22 (OctoberSeptember).

Cabinet approves disinvestment of 29.54% stake in HZL NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (AGENCIES): With the government finances coming under stress due to the latest excise duty cut on petrol and diesel, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved the sale of the Centre’s residual 29.54% stake in Hindustan Zinc (HZL) worth about Rs 38,000 crore at the current market prices, to boost non-tax receipts, sources said.

With the privatisation of BPCL now on the back burner, the sale of the HZL stake offers the government a large revenue potential in terms of value.

As per the Supreme Court order dated November 18, 2021, the Centre can sell its residual stake in HZL in the open market in accordance with the Sebi rules.

BPCL, Indian Hotels Company, Future Retail, Coal India, Grasim stocks in focus Recently, the Centre and Vedanta (current promoter of HZL) had decided to mutually end an arbitration concerning the second call option demanded by Vedanta in the residual stake sale.

In 2002, Vedanta (earlier known as Sesa Sterlite) had bought a 26% stake in HZL, India’s largest zinc/ lead miner. It exercised the first call option in 2003 and acquired an 18.9% additional stake in HZL. Vedanta later acquired another 20% stake in the company through an open offer, increasing its shareholding to 64.92%.

To acquire the government’s remaining 29.5% share in HZL, it had exercised the second call option in 2009, but this was rejected by the government. Following this, Vedanta initiated arbitration proceedings against the government in the same year.

Vedanta could bid for a 5% stake when the government sells its residual stake in HZL, the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal had said earlier.

The government is scouting for additional revenues as extra expenditure over the budget estimate is seen about Rs 2 trillion on account of higher subsidies on fertiliser, free grains scheme and LPG subsidy for Ujjwala beneficiaries in FY23. The excise duty cuts on auto fuels on last Saturday would also result in a revenue loss of about Rs 85,000-90,000 crore during the little over 10 months left in the current fiscal.

Besides some extra borrowing, finance ministry officials are banking on additional tax revenues to cover bulk of the extra expenditure and also partly by raising more resources via government disinvestment programme in FY23. There is an expectation that the disinvestment target of Rs 65,000 crore will be exceeded by around Rs 20,500 crore, given the receipts from LIC IPO, which was not budgeted. Besides HZL, topping the government’s disinvestment agenda will be privatisation of IDBI Bank and Container Corporation in

this fiscal, department of investment public asset management secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey had told FE last week. It may also look at offloading a part of the indirectly-held stake in private-sector firm ITC. The government may also sell its stake held via the Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India in Axis Bank at opportune times this year, besides trying to complete sale of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI).

SUUTI’s 7.92% stake in ITC is worth about Rs 27,300 crore at present and 1.55% stake in Axis Bank is worth Rs 3,200 crore at the current market prices.

The Centre’s proposed 30.8% stake sale in the multi-modal logistics company ConCor was worth about Rs 11,700 crore at the current market prices.

Expression of interest (EoI) for IDBI Bank and financial bids for SCI are likely to be invited soon. Currently, LIC (49.24%) and the government (45.48%) together hold 94.78% stake in IDBI Bank. The Centre’s stake in IDBI Bank is worth about Rs 16,400 crore. The proceeds from IDBI Bank will depend on how much it sells in the bank as LIC will also dilute stake in the lender.

BPCL’s privatisation, which has been held up for over a year, has hit a dead-end, as potential investors have turned more sceptical of “the lack of pricing freedom” with state-owned fuel retailers, besides the global shift for greener energy.

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DNSU suggested the State government to first complete the stadium and then think of having multiple entry and exit points in east, west, north and southern sides without further taking land from the college, which was already suffering

from illegal encroachment.

DNSU further advised the State government to hand over the stadium site to Dimapur Government College in the interest of the students and youth, if the government found it difficult to execute the works and complete it within the first quarter of 21st century.

parameters for ease of doing business of MSMEs include adoption of digitisation, availability of information on business procedures and compliances, processes and procedures for starting a business, adequate power supply availability, and process of tax registration and tax compliance.

On the other hand, the least scoring parameters were government support for marketing, reduction in time taken to obtain credit and reduction in the overall costs of doing business.

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NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (IANS): The overall Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises’ Ease of Doing Business (MSME EODB) stands at 64 points out of 100, of which EODB for manufacturing sector MSMEs was higher compared to the service sector, a study released on Tuesday said.

The ‘Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs in India: Percolating EODB Reforms at Factory Level’ study, was carried out by the Research Bureau of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) in collaboration with Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. It was released by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.

The study is based on pan India stratified random sample survey of MSMEs from manufacturing and services sectors, through a structured questionnaire on 25 parameters of EODB. The survey was conducted for the period 2021 and responses of 5,254 MSMEs were received. “The survey results revealed that the overall MSME EODB stands at 64, of which EODB for manufacturing sector MSMEs stands at 67 and EODB for service sector MSMEs stands at 61,” the report said.

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has stated that it would issue the documents to the Centre Superintendents only from June 02, 2022.

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(From p-1) NBSE informed that provisions to download the marks/marksheet would be made available in www. nbsenl.edu.in, www.indiaresults.com and www. results.shiksha Further, one can also download android mobile app from play store.

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NPF leader T.R. Zeliang and other MLAs fled to NDPP, also echoed the same while speaking to section of the media on May 25. Azo in his inimitable style said that time has come to “take it or leave it”. Talking to media persons after the Core Committee meeting held at the State Banquet hall, committee’s member secretary and minister Neiba Kronu said the members decided to meet the NSCN (I-M) leaders and if necessary, was likely to meet the Working Committee of the NNPGs and also the Central leaders in Delhi.

He said things were drawing closer for the final outcome as the “government of India understood Naga issues and at the same time we also understand their difficulties”.

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(From p-1) ought to understand the reality and what is giveable and what is not. He had also claimed that solution could be expected on or before August 15, 2022 since government of India had decided it was not going to wait forever.

Patton maintained that though legislators had resolved to pave way for an alternative arrangement for solution in the past, it should be before 2023 elections when only a few months are remaining for tenure of the present house to end.

However, he said if solution came after 2023 election then the newly elected members will not be willing to resign.

NPF Legislature Party leader Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, who was recently ap-

No need for patronising lectures, Xi tells UNHRC chief as she heads to Xinjiang to probe HR violations

UNHRC chief Michelle Bachelet meets Chinese State Councillor and FM Wang Yi in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.

BEIJING, MAY 25 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday told visiting UNHRC chief Michelle Bachelet that no one can claim perfection in human rights protection and there is no need for patronising lectures, as he downplayed the allegations of massive human rights violations against Uygur Muslims and their mass incarcerations in the volatile Xinjiang province.

Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for

Human Rights, arrived in Guangzhou on Monday after a long drawn out negotiation process with Beijing to probe the allegations of internment of over a million Uygur Muslims of different ages as part of its crackdown on Islamic militants.

China alleges that the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which is allegedly linked to radical outfits like al-Qaeda and Islamic State, actively fomented a separatist in-

surgency in Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, bordering Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Afghanistan and several Central Asian countries.

Beijing terms the mass camps as re-education centres to impart skill education. China has also been accused of carrying out a campaign of “sinicization” of Islam which broadly meant bringing it in tune with the policies of the ruling Communist Party.

In his meeting with Bachelet through a video link on Wednesday, President Xi elaborated on major issues related to the development of China’s human rights cause and made it clear that the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government are committed to the comprehensive protection and safeguarding of human rights.

Xi pointed out that in terms of human rights

OFFICE OF THE

UNGMA SENSO MUNGDANG NAGALAND.

UNGMA SENSO MUNGDANG PRESS RELEASE Date.. 25/05/2022

I. Tiajungba Tatar President

Senmoaba Imsong General Secretary

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The Ungma Senso Mungdang is profoundly disturbed by the recent accusation and claims leveled against Dr. S.C.Jamir, former Governor and veteran Naga political leader by the NSCN (I-M) about statements made on the Naga political situation. As the last living Naga political icon who has observed the course of the Naga political struggle, it is only fitting that he speaks the truth, and whatever he says represents his personal opinion and views as a true bona fide citizen of Nagaland.

The accusation made by the NSCN (I-M) on Dr. S.C Jamir, of “scheming with the Centre to destroy the very foundation of the Naga political identity that the Naga people have shed blood, sweat and tears over the decades”, is a highly cruel statement and cannot be dismissed lightly.

The Ungma Senso Mungdang is particularly irked by the statement made by the NSCN (I-M) that Dr. S.C.Jamir is a destructive person and that he has a fondness for creating bloodshed. A true Naga citizen who has given his life for the greater good and served at the highest levels of government, cannot be described as destructive.

Statement made by Dr.S.C Jamir on the Naga political issue has been openly voiced out by many other Naga politicians and political figures on various occasions. The Ungma Senso Mungdang is perplexed as to why the NSCN (I-M) wants to single out Dr. S.C. Jamir ? Will the personal accusation and counter- allegations, as well as the verbal battle, lead to a solution?

Since the conception of the Naga Political aspiration, the Ungma Senso has been contributing in every possible means even in the darkest of times.

Ungma Senso long for early Naga political solution. Therefore, we have the legitimate right to know the reason kept in dark. It is high time the NSCN (I-M) disclose the content of the Framework Agreement signed on 3rd August 2015.

Further, we fully support Ao Senden’s stand (22/05/2022) that the ‘competencies’ that are being negotiated with the Government of India based on the Framework Agreement be made known to every one without further delay.

The NSCN (I-M) has been leveling accusation against Dr. S.C Jamir for a long time and he has handled them with dignity. If our leader is subjected to any form of harm or threat, The Ungma Senso Mungdang will not remain a silent spectator.

protection, no one can claim perfection and there is always room for improvement, an official press release here said.

“When it comes to human rights issues, there is no such thing as a flawless utopia; countries do not need patronising lecturers; still less should human rights issues be politicised and used as a tool to apply double standards, or as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries,” he said in an apparent reference to the US and EU countries terming China’s crackdown in Xinjiang as “genocide”.

Earlier, Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Bachelet in the southern city of Guangzhou and briefed her on China’s stance.

A local resident pushes a wheelbarrow past a heavily damaged apartment in Mariupol, Ukraine (Reuters).

difficult time” in the eight years since separatist fighting erupted there.

“The Russians are advancing in all directions at the same time. They brought over an insane number of fighters and equipment,” the governor, Serhii Haidai, wrote on Telegram. “The invaders are killing our cities, destroying everything around.” He added that Luhansk is becoming “like Mariupol.”

Mariupol was relent-

lessly pounded during a nearly three-month siege that ended last week after some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters abandoned a steel plant where they had made their stand.

Russian forces already held the rest of the city, where an estimated 100,000 people remain out a prewar population of 450,000, many of them trapped during the encirclement with little food, water, heat or electricity.

OFFICE OF THE

BENREU STUDENTS’ UNION NAGALAND (BSUN) FELICITATION

The BSUN with immense pleasure extends our heartiest congratulations to Miss. Lungleudaule Thou, D/o Mr. Kwerangchung Thou for achieving gold medal in M.Sc (Anthropology) from North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) on 21st May 2022.

The BSUN further wishes her all the very best in her future endeavours.

(Heichi Irangbe) President (BSUN)

(Isileung Thou) General Secretary (BSUN)

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ANKARA, MAY 25 (AP): Senior officials from Sweden and Finland met with Turkish counterparts in Ankara on Wednesday in an effort to overcome Turkey’s strong objections to the Nordic nations’ bids to join NATO. Sweden and Finland submitted their written applications to join NATO last week.

The move represents one of the biggest geopolitical ramifications of Russia’s war in Ukraine and could rewrite Europe’s security map.

Turkey has said it opposes the countries’ membership in the Western military alliance, citing grievances with Sweden’s — and a to a lesser extent Finland’s — perceived support of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and other entities that Turkey views as secu-

OFFICE OF THE

OFFICE OF THE

ELUMYO STUDENTS’ UNION

SHENA OLD UNION DIMAPUR AREA

With immense pride and pleasure, we the Elumyo Students’ Union, would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss. Renbeni Tsanglao, daughter of Mr & Mrs. Thungyamo Tsanglao for achieving ‘Gold Medal’ in Master of Political Science under NEHU. The union wishes her success in all her future endeavours.

with immense pride and joy the SHEna Old UnIOn dImapUr arEa (SOUda) conveys our heartiest congratulations to Shri Boshikato achumi on being promoted to the post of asst. General manager IdBI, dimapur Branch.

The Union wishes him the best in all his future endeavours.

(S. Hosheto achumi) (Vito Swu) Chairman, SOUda Secretary, SOUda

Wokha : Nagaland FELICITATION

M. Orentsani Tsanglao President

Yantsomo Tsanglao Gen. Secretary

FELICITATION

TICHIPAMI COMMUNITY DIMAPUR FELICITATION

The TCD is pleased and honoured to felicitate with immense pride and congratulate, Er. Hekavi N. Ayemi, Assistant Engineer (Tariff) S/o. Nixeshe Ayemi on being promoted to Deputy Director (NERC) Nagaland Kohima.

The Community further prays and wishes him a successful career ahead.

Secretary Kuhoyi Achumi

Chairman Kakiho Aye

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

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helm he had reestablished the island’s foreign relations, taken steps for constitutional reform with the draft of the 21 amendments to the constitution, ensured fuel supplies and has been making preparations for an interim budget.

Last week, Wickremesinghe warned that said the next couple of months will be the most difficult ones in the lives of all citizens and the country must prepare to make some sacrifices and face the challenges of this period.

“Every time the international community supported Wickremesinghe and he improved the economy, the Opposition toppled his government and derailed economic policy gains. So, this time, the

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

KYIV, MAY 25 (AP): Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities, as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the 3-month-old war. The bodies were decomposing and the stench hung over the neighbourhood, said Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor. He did not say when they were discovered, but the sheer number of victims makes it one of the deadliest known attacks of the war.

Heavy fighting, meanwhile, was repor ted in the Donbas, the eastern industrial heartland that Moscow’s forces are intent on seizing. Russian troops took over an industrial town that hosts a thermal power station, and intensified efforts to encircle and capture Sievierodonetsk and other cities.

Twelve people were killed by Russian shelling in the Donetsk region of the Donbas, according to the regional governor. And the governor of the Luhansk region of the Donbas said the area is facing its “most

KOHIMA ELUMYO UNION KOHIMA: NAGALAND.

FELICITATION With immense pride and honour we, the Kohima Elumyo Union extend our heartiest congratulations to the following bonafide members :1. Er. Albert Yanthan on being promoted to General Manager, Nagaland State Mineral Development Corporation Limited (NSMDC), Nagaland, Kohima on 1st January, 2019.

2. Shri R. M. Yanbemo Lotha on being promoted to Head Assistant, Employment & Skill Development Department on 1st March, 2022.

3. Miss. Renbeni Tsanglao, D/o Shri Thungyamo Tsanglao on being conferred SHRIMATI SARADA KRISHINA IYER Memorial Gold Medal Award in M.A Political Science (2020) from North – Eastern Hill University, Shillong.

The union is very much thrilled and elated at your noteworthy achievements and for bringing laurels to the community in general and wishes them success in their future endeavours.

Sd/M. Albert Tsanglao General Secretary, KEU

Sd/James W Humtsoe Chairman, KEU

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international community is not ready for such a derailment,” EconomyNext website quoted a political analyst who was close to the last government as saying.

“They want a policy commitment that’s sustainable over a long period of time whether Wickremesinghe is there or not.

If Sri Lanka needs to come out of this economic crisis and prevent another crisis, the country needs a sound economic policy, and that is what the international community expects from Sri Lanka this time,” the analyst said.

But the task for Wickremesinghe is huge.

With just his seat in the 225-member assembly, the prime minister has to depend on all political parties to support him in his immediate task of reviving the ailing economy.

Already the World Bank has ruled out bridge financing or new loan commitments to the crisis-hit country until the government sets up an adequate macroeconomic policy framework.

rity threats.

The PKK, which is listed as a terror organisation by several of Turkey’s allies, has waged a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, a conflict that has cost the lives of tens of thousands people.

The Turkish government also accuses Finland and Sweden of imposing arms exports restrictions on Turkey and refusing to extradite suspected “terrorists”.

Turkey’s objections have dampened Stockholm’s and Helsinki’s hopes for joining NATO quickly amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and put the transAtlantic alliance’s credibility at stake. All 30 NATO members must agree on admitting new members.

The Swedish and Finnish delegations met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, and Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal.

The Swedish delegation was led by state secretary Oscar Stenstrom, while Jukka Salovaara, the foreign ministry undersecretary, headed up the Finnish delegation, Turkish officials have said.

Ukraine: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol’s ruins

PRESS INFORMATION with reference to the Land patta notice issued by Seitheke Basa Village council on 24th and 25th of may 2022 with regard to Land patta Registration/Renewal, the pattadars in an Emergency meeting convened on 25th may 2022, resolved not to renew till the Land patta booklet is wholly reviewed by the Village council.

This is for kind information of all concerned.

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COLOMBO, MAY 25 (PTI): Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was given additional responsibility on Wednesday as the finance minister to steer the debtridden country out of the woods and secure international confidence in his government’s ability to address the worst economic crisis since independence.

Wickremesinghe, 73, was sworn-in as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stability and National Policies by embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is facing popular anger for the unprecedented economic crisis.

The five-time prime minister was re-appointed to the job on May 12 following the political circus precipitated by the unprecedented economic crisis in the island’s history.

He replaced Mahinda Rajapaksa who resigned to make way for his brother’s plan to appoint an all-party interim government to handle the economic crisis.

Wickremesinghe’s office said during the two weeks he had been at the

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Facts About Gray Hair

mane look thin over time.

Do Grays Feel Different?

Gray hair is thinner than hair with natural color because its cuticle is thinner.

Your hair needs that natural protection from water, ultraviolet rays from the sun, humidity, chemicals, and heat styling. Without that barrier, your hair loses water. So your gray will feel dry, fragile, and coarse.

African American hair tends to be more prone to damage, compared to that of Asians and whites.

Tame Those Tresses Moisture treatment and hair oils can fight dull, dry grays. Anti-frizz products can help, too. Heat and light from lamps or the sun can “bleach” gray hair and make it look yellow. Ask your stylist how to prevent this. A purple-toned shampoo can help keep your tresses a vibrant silver.

Special Care for African American Hair Black people’s hair usually is thinner , drier, and breaks more easily, compared to hair of people of

the dye, you can go gray gracefully while it grows out. Ask your stylist how much gray you actually have. If it’s a lot, you can go lighter through highlights to minimize grow-out. Or,

you can switch from a permanent color to less opaque demi color, which can make your gray strands mimic highlights and blend in better with the rest of your hair.

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FELICITATION Wi t h i m m e n s e pride and honor, we the Tsiemekhuma Students' Union would like to congratulate Dr. Kevizakie Rio, S/o Lt. Neitsolie Rio and Mrs. Maria Rio for being promoted to Deputy Director, School Education.

The Union further wishes him the best in his future endeavours.

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your hair regrows, it could be gray, white, or your normal color.

Does Stress Make You Go Gray?

Not directly. But it can cause a condition that causes your hair to shed about 3 times faster than normal. It’s possible that when your hair grows back, it’s gray instead of your original color.

The Smoking Link Lighting up affects your body from head to toe. That includes the hair on your head. One study showed that smokers are 2 1/2 times more likely to gray before age 30 than nonsmokers. It also can make silver gray look yellow.

To Pluck or Not to Pluck …

There’s an old wives’ tale that says if you pluck a gray, three will grow back.

That doesn’t happen. Still, don’t pluck. You’re just delaying the inevitable -another gray strand will replace it. Besides, pulling hair out can damage follicles so much, they no longer grow hair. This can make your

other races. So comb and otherwise treat it gently, especially if you use chemicals to relax your hair. Add moisture with a light conditioner that penetrates your hair shafts, instead of lanolin or other oily treatments that simply coat the strands.

No-Dye Camouflage If you’re sporting just a few gray hairs, you can hide them if you get creative.

Wear a pretty headband.

Or switch up your hairstyle -- part it where there is less gray. If you have long hair, wear an up-do to hide gray roots.

Or, Just Dye It! You can do it yourself with a box from the drugstore. Look for products designed for gray hair.

Permanent dye will better cover stubborn roots than semipermanent color. If you can afford it, opt for a color treatment at your local salon. If some of your grays won’t take in the color, try using a lighter shade that will blend in with the grays.

Herbal Cover-Up If you worry about the damage from chemical dyes, consider using natural henna. It can add red, brown, or black sheen to any textures of hair. Powdered pigments from the leaves of the henna plant can work well to camouflage your gray roots.

Go Au Naturel If you’re ready to ditch

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t’s said a woman’s hair is their crowning glory.

Sooner or later, that crown will start to gray. You now face a decision. Banish gray hair with dye, or rock a silver mane? Whichever you pick, know the facts about your gray strands to keep your hair looking and feeling its best.

Science of Grays Your hair follicles have pigment cells that make melanin, a chemical that gives your hair its color. As you age, these cells start to die.

Without pigment, new hair strands grow in lighter and take on various shades of gray, silver, and eventually white. Once a follicle stops making melanin, it won’t make colored strands again.

When and Why It Happens You might blame your stressful job or your unruly teens for your grays. But it’s mostly your genes that dictate how early and how quickly it happens. So if either of your parents had a full head of gray hair in their 30s, there’s a good chance you will, too.

How Race Plays a Role On average, white people start to gray in their mid-30s. Asians start in their late 30s. And African Americans usually don’t see color changes until their mid-40s.

What’s Premature Gray?

Some people go gray 10 or more years earlier than the average person does.

It’s premature if you’re gray before: 20 if you’re white 25 if you’re Asian 30 if you’re African American Do Health Problems Turn Hair Gray?

They could. These conditions include: Lack of vitamin B12 Certain rare, inherited tumor conditions Thyroid disease Vitiligo, a condition that destroys pigment-making cells in the scalp Alopecia areata causes patches of hair (usually ones with color) to fall out. This can look like sudden graying because the hair that’s left is gray or white. When

out of his way to come up with unique strategies to promote the upcoming release.

‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, produced by Aamir Khan Productions, Kiran Rao, and Viacom18 Studios, also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan, Mona Singh, and Chaitanya Akkineni.

The film, which is the Indian remake of the 1994 Tom Hanks classic ‘Forrest Gump’, has been directed

by Advait Chandan, who earlier directed aSecret Superstar’.

The film is set to arrive in cinemas on August 11.

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ollywood superstar Aamir Khan will be hosting the IPL finale and will unveil the trailer of his upcoming film ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ in the first inning and second strategic timeout of 2.30 minutes on television on May 29.

Confirming the same, the makers of the film took to their social media to share a video, in which Aamir can be seen announcing the release of ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ trailer.

The actor will host the finale from 6.00 p.m. ney+ Hotstar. singers, lyricists, compos(IST) onwards on the Star From releasing songs ers, and technicians in the Sports network and Dis- without visuals to putting spotlight, Aamir has gone

anadian pop star Justin Bieber will make a pit stop in India as part of his ongoing ‘Justice World Tour’. He will perform at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on October 18, 2022.

This will be his second concert in India after his performance in Mumbai back in 2017.

The 2017 performance was a part of Bieber’s ‘Purpose World Tour’ and it saw more than 40,000 fans in attendance. According to ‘Billboard’, the singing star’s upcoming show in India is being co-promoted by AEG Presents, the LA-based live entertainment company, and the ticketing platform, BookMyShow.

Registration for the concert is at present live and will remain so till June 1, 6 p.m. (IST). The exclusive presale for registered users will start at June 2, 12 noon, and continue till June 4, 11:59 a.m. (IST).

The public sale of ticket will be live from June 4, 12 noon (IST) onwards. In line with the Covid protocols that are in place, proof of vaccination is mandatory for entry at the venue.

The ‘Justice World Tour’, which opened in San Diego, California, on February 18, 2022, will take Bieber to more than 30 countries, where he will perform in more than 125 shows by the end of it in March 2023. (IANS)

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tmaking to reach the third round for the first time.

The 19-year-old Briton Raducanu, who suffered a back injury in the run-up to Roland Garros, finishes her first ever claycourt swing with an overall 6-5 record. The 19-year-old has successfully reached at least the second round on her debut at each of the four majors.

Despite battling for 3 hours and 16 minutes to win the Strasbourg final over Kaja Juvan four days ago, and then for 2 hours and 28 minutes to hold off Magdalena Frech in the first round here, Kerber is still going.

The former World No.1 extended her winning streak to seven matches, though will be relieved to have come through in 2 hours and 4 minutes after withstanding a valiant comeback attempt from

Emami Group is East Bengal Club’s new investor KOLKATA, MAY 25 (IANS): Kolkata’s soccer giant, East Bengal Club will now have Kolkatabased Emami Group, which has a massive presence in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, as its new investor.

The announcement was made by West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat, Nabanna on Wednesday evening in presence of the senior officials of both Emami Group and East Bengal Club.

It is learnt that the personal intervention by the Chief Minister made this marriage happen, after the authorities of Kolkata’s iconic football club was desperately looking for a deep-pocket investor since its earlier investor,

Shree Cements returned the club’s sporting rights early this year.

“I personally requested Emami Group, who had been operating from Kolkata for a long time and never shifted its base out of West Bengal. I requested them to invest in East Bengal and today both the parties have agreed for a partnership.

Now East Bengal is all set to participate in the Indian Super League,” Banerjee said.

Emami Group Director, Aditya V. Agarwal thanked the Chief Minister for considering the group as the investor of East Bengal Club. “Emami Group has been associated with this iconic football club from Kolkata for a long time and this is our second chance.

19-year-old Jacquemot in the second set.

Kerber had successully smothered the Frenchwoman’s game to take a 6-1, 2-0 lead, keeping a lid on Jacquemot’s intermittently impressive shotmaking with greater focus in tight moments. At this point, five games had gone to at least two deuces, and Kerber had won them all.

But Jacquemot, the 2020 Roland Garros girls’ champion, kept her head up and was finally rewarded when she broke back for 2-1 after a seven-deuce tussle. She had been demonstrating classic reflexes at net and punishing the Kerber second serve with panache, and the teenager took this energy through the rest of the set.

Elsewhere, a battle of former Roland Garros semifinalists saw No.15 seed Victoria Azarenka

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NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (AGENCIES): Narinder Batra announced that he will not seek another term as the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).

Batra, who is also the president of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), was elected in the post in 2017.

“At a time when world hockey is going through an essential development phase, with the promotion of Hockey5s, the creation of a new competition this year – the FIH Hockey Nations Cup – and the launch of fan-engaging platforms and activities, my role as President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) requires more time for all these activities,” Batra said in a statement. “Consequently, I’ve decided to not run for a further term as President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA),” he added. “I feel that the time has come for me to leave this role to someone coming with a fresh mind and new ideas to take Indian sports to much much greater heights and also go all out to work to get 2036 Summer Olympics in India,”said Batra. “It’s been a privilege and a tremendous honour to serve in my capacity as President of IOA throughout my term, I’ve been guided by one goal only: the good and the betterment of Indian sport.”

NBA play-offs: Doncic helps Dallas Mavericks beat Golden State Warriors

Doncic (left) put up 30 points while Golden State superstar Stephen Curry (right) scored 20.

L O N D O N , M AY 2 5 (AGENCIES): Luka Doncic scored 30 points as the Dallas Mavericks kept their hopes alive in the Western Conference play-offs by beating the Golden State Warriors.

The Mavs had trailed 3-0 but this 119-109 win means the best-of-seven series goes to a fifth game on Thursday, BBC reported.

No team in the NBA’s 75-year history has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven play-off series.

“We’re going to stick together. It’s going to be tough, we know that, but we have to stay together,”

Klopp named Premier League manager of the season the Premier League. But it could not ensure the Premier League title for Klopp’s men, who finished just one point behind Pep Guardiola’s Man City.

Klopp wins the award for a second time, having also claimed it in 2019/20 after steering Liverpool to

Doncic said. “Our defence was amazing today. That’s how we’ve got to play, when we play like this we’re a dangerous team,” added the 23-year-old Slovenian, who finished with 14 rebounds and nine assists.

The fourth game in the series was delayed by 20 minutes at half-time because of a leaking roof that led to puddles gathering at one end of the Mavs’ court. The team were more efficient than their home court, their success built on a 19-2 scoring run during the second quarter.

Six Dallas players finished in double figures, with Dorian Finney-Smith add-

ing 23 points, Reggie Bullock 18, Jalen Brunson 15, Maxi Kleber 13 and Spencer Dinwiddie 10.

“We believe it’s just one game at a time, we did our part tonight and found a way to win,” Dallas coach Jason Kidd said.

“The next part is to find a way to win on the road. We can’t get ahead of ourselves. “It’s still 3-1 and Golden State is a tough place to play. But we’ve won there before. We just have to take care of the ball and make shots.”

Golden State are seeking a seventh NBA Finals win while Dallas have had just once success, in 2011.

1st Death anniversary of our Beloved Lt. Kiholi Shohe

their first Premier League title.

The 54-year-old won after votes from the public were combined with those of a panel of football experts to decide who would top a five-man shortlist, according to a statement on premierleague.com.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Jurgen Klopp L O N D O N, M AY 2 5 (IANS): Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been named the Premier League manager of the season for 2021/22.

The 54-year-old German helped ensure one of the best title races in history went down to the final minutes of the campaign as his Liverpool team pushed Manchester City all the way.

Liver pool were 14 points behind Man City in January but won 16 and drew two of their remaining matches to finish on 92 points, losing fewer matches, two, than any other team across the campaign.

In beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 on May 22, Liverpool went the entire season unbeaten at home, doing so for a joint-record fifth time in

Words are inadequate to thank each and every person who stood by us physically, financially and morally at the sudden demise of our loving mother Lt. Rita Chinnal, W/o Tek Bahadur Chinnal of Khatkhati, Karbi Anglong, Assam, who left us for her heavenly abode on 22-05-2022.

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Para-athletes from Gujarat win Gold internationally on their own

AHMEDABAD, MAY 25 (IANS): Tickets for the IPL cricket matches are sold out in a matter of hours but players who regularly win medals at the international level in sports other than cricket have to train and travel for various tournaments on their own.

The Al Watani Para Championship 2022 was recently held in Amman, Jordan. Eighteen paraathletes participated from India, and won 12 medals in the Table Tennis championship. Seven medals were bagged by para-athletes from Gujarat. Yet in a sad state of affairs, Gujarat, which has the world’s largest cricket stadium, does not offer the same level of support to these players, despite winning medals all over the world.

Sonal Patel and Bhavina Patel bagged Gold medals for singles in Class 3 and Class 4 categories, respectively. Bhavina and Sonal also won Gold in doubles. The pairs of Sonal Patel and Ramesh Chaudhary, and Bhavina Patel and Jashvant Chaudhari won Silver medals in mixed doubles. Ramesh Chowdhury and Jashwant Chowdhury won Silver medal in doubles and athlete Bhavika Kukadia won a

overcome Andrea Petkovic 6-1, 7-6(3) in 1 hour and 48 minutes, twice coming from a break down in the second set. She will next meet the surging No.23 seed Jil Teichmann, who continued her stellar clay swing by defeating qualifier Olga Danilovic 6-4, 6-1 in 78 minutes.

Swiss left-hander Teichmann is coming off a Madrid semifinal and Rome quarterfinal that have bumped her to a career high of No.24, but this marked the first time in 11 attempts that she has reached the third round of a major.

A player who is no stranger to that stage is Elise Mertens. The No.31 seed advanced to her 17th consecutive Grand Slam third round via walkover after Marie Bouzkova withdrew due to a positive Covid-19 test.

Batra not to seek another term as IOA president

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PARIS, MAY 25 (IANS): Aliaksandra Sasnovich scored her second win over the US Open champion Emma Raducanu in the past eight months, taking out the No.12 seed 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in 2 hours and 4 minutes in the second round of Roland Garros here on Wednesday.

The 28-year-old will next face Angelique Kerber of Germany for the second time in as many weeks after the No.21 seed held off wildcard Elsa Jacquemot 6-1, 7-6(2).

Sasnovich had previously defeated Raducanu 6-2, 6-4 in the second round of Indian Wells last October - Raducanu’s first match after winning the US Open as a qualifier.

The 28-year-old had fallen at this stage of Roland Garros on four previous occasions, but put on a dazzling display of sho-

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Bhavina Patel Silver medal in the doubles category along with a Turkish player.

In an interview, Ramesh Chaudhary and Sonal Patel who are a couple, mentioned that even after Bhavina Patel’s victory in Paralympics, the situation has not improved at all.

Sarita Gaekwad, who represented the country in the Asian Games, was given a government job but Sonal, who represented the country in the Olympics and won medals in many such international tournaments, is yet to receive a job or assistance despite multiple assurances.

This year, when 6 women athletes from Gujarat went to the Olympics for the first time, a prize money of Rs 10 lakh was given by the Chief Minis-

ter, but “Apart from that we have not received any assistance. As we are alumni of the Blind People’s Association, and due to their cooperation, we can practice over there,” said the couple.

Sonal Patel gets a lot of help from the Olympic Gold Quest organisation for coaching and expenses, but the other athletes are pretty much helpless and bear the expenses of their training.

Bhavina Patel said, “I am very happy to have won 2 Gold medals and 1 Silver at the Al Watani Para TT Championships. Happy that I’m performing well not only in singles but also in the doubles events. It has given me a good indication about how my training is helping and the areas that need to be worked on.”

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RCB eliminate LSG; to play RR in qualifier 2 Super Cup: A-Yhome, Magdaline win

KOLKATA, MAY 25 (PTI): Little-known domestic bulwark Rajat Patidar literally owned the biggest stage of his nascent career with a magnificent hundred that got Royal Challengers Bangalore within a sniffing distance of title clash after outbatting Lucknow Super Giants by 14 runs in the IPL Eliminator on Wednesday.

RCB will meet Rajasthan Royals in the second Qualifier on Friday, which will decide Gujarat Titans’ opposition for Sunday’s final Courtesy Patidar’s 54ball-112 not out which had 12 fours and seven huge sixes, RCB literally knocked the stuffing out of LSG attack, piling an imposing 207 for 4 in 20 overs.

For LSG, the only saving grace was Mohsin Khan’s superb figures of 1 for 25.

In reply, KL Rahul’s 78 off 59 balls didn’t make much of an impact save beefing his individual runtally as LSG finished on 193 for 6 after 20 overs.

If Patidar’s hundred set it up nicely for RCB, no words of praise will

Rajat Patidar of Royal Challengers Bangalore raises his bat after scoring a century. (PTI) be enough for the brilliant Harshal Patel (4-0-25-1), whose 18th over full of wide yorkers and off-cutter variations decisively tilted the match in his team’s favour.

Once Josh Hazlewood removed Rahul in the 19th over, RCB team in spirit had already boarded the flight to Ahmedabad.

While Rahul helped himself to three fours and

five sixes but his 96-run stand with Deepak Hooda (45) did keep LSG in the fight a total of six boundaries compared to 14 sixes told a different story.

On a day their famed batting duo trio of Faf du Plessis (0), Glenn Maxwell (9) and Virat Kohli (25) failed to enthrall a capacity Eden crowd, RCB’s No, 3 played out of his skin as 90 runs came in fours and

sixes off just 19 balls.

While most of the star-studded RCB batters struggled for timing, the 28-year-old looked effortless with his slices, punches, counter-punches and drives to tower over the rest.

And to make Patidar’s story more interesting, he went unsold at the auction this season and joined the team as replacement after start when a player called

Luvnith Sisodia was injured.

Had Sisodia been alright, RCB wouldn’t have required services of Patidar, who made 65,000 at Eden Gardens stand on their feet.

He along with Dinesh Karthik (37 not out from 23 balls) put on a matchturning unbroken partnership of 92 runs from 41 balls as RCB scored 84 runs in the last five overs to prop up the total.

First, he showed the glimpses of his stroke-making skills to slam Krunal Pandya for three boundaries and one six inside the power-play to overshadow Kohli in a 66-run partnership from 46 balls.

He got to the landmark pulling Mohsin Khan over square leg with a sweet-timing of the bat that summed up his effortless stay at the crease.

BRIEF SCORES: Royal Challengers Bangalore: 207 for 4 in 20 overs (Rajat Patidar 111 not out; Mohsin Khan 1/25).

Lucknow Super Giants: 193 for 6 in 20 overs (KL Rahul 79; Josh Hazlewood 3/43)

Action in the match between Magdaline (black) and Barak FC. (NP) Correspondent

K O H I M A , M AY 2 5 (NPN): A-Yhome FC and Magdaline Coaching FC emerged victorious in poolB matches of the ongoing Kohima Super Cup here on Wednesday.

In the first match, AYhome FC beat Aphuyemi FC by a single goal and emerged as a strong contender for the two semifinalist slots from pool-B. The lone goal was scored by Vilhoubeituo in the 37th second of the match, the fasted goal of the tournament so far.

Both the teams had some close calls throughout the game with numerous at-

tempts but were unsuccessful and eventually Aphuyemi had to concede defeat.

In fourth quarter final match, Magdaline Coaching FC overpowered Barak FC 2-1.

Magdaline took an early lead after Dupisa Pucho scored in the 15th minute.

The first half ended 1-0 Magdaline FC in the front seat. After the break, Barak in search of equalizer came back strongly but could not find a way to score. It was in the 80th minute, Barak’s star player Bodo Jr. netted the much needed goal which brought back the smiles on the faces of his teammates and its fans.

However, their happi-

ness was short-lived as Kelengol scored the second and seal the deal for Magdaline in the first minute of the additional four minutes’ time.

With their wins on Wednesday, A-Yhome and Magdaline are also now at par with the two losing teams Barak and Aphuyemi who had earlier won a match each.

Now all the teams in Pool-B have a win and a loss each and therefore the next two league matches for the group will be crucial.

THURSDAY’S MATCHES

New Market FC Vs G Sports FC @11:30 am Sechü FC Academy Vs Hurricane Boys Phesama @1:30 pm

UK Govt approves proposed Asia Cup Hockey: Sloppy India lose to Japan 2-5 takeover of Chelsea by Boehly L O N D O N , M AY 2 5 (AGENCIES): The UK government has given its nod for the proposed takeover of Premier League giants Chelsea by the Todd Boehly consortium for 4.25 billion pounds.

C h e l s e a ’s Ru s s i a n owner Roman Abramovich, under whom the club won five Premier League and two UEFA Champions League titles, had in February given the “stewardship and care” of the club to a charitable foundation in the wake of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

In March, Abramovich said he planned to sell the club. The Russian owner was left with little choice as a week later, he was sanctioned by the UK government for his links with President Vladimir Putin.

On Tuesday, the government approved the 4.25 billion pound takeover of Chelsea by a consortium led

by LA Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly, according to BBC. Earlier, the proposed takeover by the Todd

Todd Boehly/Chelsea badge.

Boehly/Clearlake consortium was approved by the Premier League Board, which sent the proposal for approval of the UK government.

“Late last night the UK government reached a position where we could issue a licence that permits the sale of Chelsea,” a government spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday, BBC reported. “Following the sanctioning of Roman Abramovich (in March), the government has worked hard to ensure Chelsea has been able to continue to play football. But we have always been clear that the long-term

future of the club could only be secured under a new owner,” the statement said, The UK government will ensure that Abramovich does not receive any of the proceeds from the sale and that the money is donated to charity.

“Following extensive work, we are now satisfied that the full proceeds of the sale will not benefit Roman Abramovich or any other sanctioned individual. We will now begin the process of ensuring the proceeds of the sale are used for humanitarian causes in Ukraine, supporting victims of the war,” the statement added.

JA K A RTA , M AY 2 5 (AGENCIES): Profligacy in front of the goal, disciplinary issues right through the 60 minutes and defensive blunders cost India dear as the experimental side lost 5-2 to Japan in their second game of the Asia Cup in Jakarta on Tuesday.

The defeat severely dents India’s hopes of qualifying for the second round as their fate is no longer in their hands, Indian Express reported. Even if they beat Indonesia in their final group game on Thursday, India – currently placed third in the four-team pool with one point – will have to hope that Japan (6 points) beat Pakistan (4) in the other match to finish second.

The two group winners and runner-ups will advance to the second round, where each team will play one another in a roundrobin format, with the top two teams advancing to the finals while the third and fourth place teams competing for the bronze medal.

More impor tantly, however, the four teams that advance to the next

Action in the contest between India and Japan round will qualify for next January’s World Cup. For India, that does not matter. As hosts – the World Cup will be held in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela – the team has earned a direct spot. So, Hockey India used this tournament to test the bench strength.

However, coached by BJ Kariappa and Sardar Singh, the inexperienced side – which saw 10 players making their debuts in the 1-1 draw against Pakistan on Monday – has lacked

coordination and discipline.

T h i s wa s e v i d e n t against Japan on Tuesday.

While India played within their structure in the opening quarter, barely giving Japan any space, the wheels started to come off in the second period onwards.

Ken Nagayoshi (24’), Kosei Kawabe (40’, 56’), Ryomi Ooka (49’) and Koji Yamasaki (54’) scored for Japan while Pawan Rajbhar (45’) and Uttam Singh (50’) were on the target for India. The young Indian side

showed character by trying to stage a comeback twice – once after going 2-0 down to make it 2-1 and then after Japan restored their twogoal lead again by going 3-1 up, Uttam scored a fine goal to reduce the deficit.

However, their wastefulness in the final third and constant cards being shown to the players meant India never really could pose any threat. This was especially the case after India made it 3-2. When the team should ideally have put Japan un-

der pressure by going all out in search of the equaliser, two players, Rajbhar and Karthi Selvam were given temporary suspensions for committing silly fouls. This meant India were reduced to just 8 outfield players against Japan’s full quota of 10. And the Asian Games gold medalists, who had triumphed at this venue four years ago, made the most of the numerical advantage.

Japan repeatedly used the right flank to launch their attacks and were rewarded with two goals, which put the result beyond any doubt.

Captain Birendra Lakra, who hasn’t really impressed upon his comeback, said losing the two men ‘had an effect’ on the outcome of the match.

“First two quarters were very tough because we didn’t get into any rhythm.

We got better in the last two quarters but didn’t create many chances,” said Lakra. “In the final quarter, we lost our defensive structure and conceded a couple of goals. Also, we lost two men and that had an effect.”

Nikhat Zareen — Breaking barriers and braving the odds Hockey India to be run by Committee of Administrators - Delhi High Court

NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (AGENCIES): The jubilation across the country over Nikhat Zareen’s maiden World boxing title in Istanbul, Turkey, matched that of Mary Kom’s record sixth crown at home in 2018.

India, which looked up to a global icon in Mary for two decades and rejoiced at Lovlina Borgohain’s Tokyo Olympics medal, found another star who produced a series of resounding victories in a competitive field to rightfully claim a world champion’s status.

After all, Nikhat, who achieved her feat in a country where she had tasted her biggest successes, was only the fifth Indian woman and the first other than Mary to win a World crown outside the 2006 edition, which witnessed four Indian gold medallists on home turf in Delhi. Nikhat’s scream on being named the 52kg World champion was perhaps a means to let out her suppressed emotions.

It was dramatic justice for Nikhat, who always relied on her boxing skills and believed in her right to compete by breaking the barriers — including the conservative social hurdle of being a Muslim girl, switching from athletics to boxing

Nikhat Zareen kisses her gold medal winning the women’s World Championship. (PTI) to dismantle the stereotype of girls’ non-participation in a male-dominated sport, a career-threatening shoulder injury which robbed her of a year and an unwanted controversy involving her ‘idol’

Mary — from an early age.

Unfortunately, many viewed her appeal for a fair trial against Mary in 2019 as an act of audacity. Even the most decorated Indian boxer vented her ire against a

KEY MOMENTS 2022: World women’s boxing championship in Istanbul: Gold 2022: Strandja Open in Bulgaria: Gold 2021: Istanbul Bosphorus tournament in Turkey: Bronze 2019: Demanded trials to make it to the Olympics qualifier. Lost to Mary Kom 2019: India Open, Guwahati: Bronze 2019: Thailand Open: Silver 2019: Asian Boxing Championships Bangkok: Bronze 2019: 70th Strandja Boxing Tournament, Sofia, Bulgaria: Gold 2018: 56th Belgrade International Champi\u0002onship, Serbia: Gold 2018: Women Senior Nationals; Rohtak; Haryana: Bronze 2017: Major shoulder injury 2011: Junior and Youth World Championship, Turkey: Gold

younger rival on public platforms. It was disappointing to witness the genesis of the controversy, purely out of a misunderstanding, at the India Open tournament in Guwahati earlier that year.

Nikhat never meant to offend her role model.

However, she did not shy away when she believed it was her right to compete in the trials for the Olympics qualifier. Being mentally strong is a virtue which has helped her win inside the boxing ring and outside it.

All through her journey, her parents’ support has been unflinching.

“I always believed in myself. The struggle I have faced in the past has made me stronger,” says Nikhat.

E. Chiranjevi, who coached Nikhat after she shifted to Hyderabad in 2014 and is still one of the people she turns to for advice, vouches for his student’s fighting spirit. “From the very start, she was stubborn. During a bout, if she gets one punch, then she gives back two,” says Chiranjevi. Former World champion Sarita Devi admires Nikhat’s ability to overcome the odds.“It is not easy for a Muslim girl to pursue a sport like boxing.

Nikhat will be a huge source

of inspiration for such girls,” says Sarita. Nikhat’s game became stronger when she trained with American coach Ronald Simms, who worked with her for four years at the Inspire Institute of Sports (IIS) when the boxer was sponsored

by JSW. Simms instilled the attitude of a champion in Nikhat when she got a bronze medal at the 2019 Asian championships.

“She wanted to win, but was satisfied that at least she got the bronze. I said I’m not satisfied because I know you can do better… There were a lot of tears but I think some of what I said got to her,”says Simms.

Nikhat has been in touch with Simms and seeks his advice on a regularbasis.“Ron has made a big contribution in my growth. When I was injured in 2017 and started from the basics after my rehab, I trained under Ron. He is a dedicated coach and I enjoyed training under him. I was in touch with him during the World championships,” says Nikhat, who was so keen on improving her game after COVID-19 cases came down that she spent from her own pocket to train at the IIS for about three months as her sponsorship was over.

NEW DELHI, MAY 25 (PTI): The Delhi High C o u r t o n We d n e s d ay placed Hockey India under a three-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) to run its day-to-day affairs after observing that the sports body has violated the National Sports Code.

The HC ruling came on a petition filed by former India player Aslam Sher Khan, who had challenged Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Narinder Batra’s appointment as life member of Hockey India.

The HC held that HI’s appointment of Batra as ‘Life Member’ and Elena Norman as CEO were illegal under the Sports Code.

Making a reference to the Supreme Court case relating to All India Football Federation (AIFF), the HC constituted a committee, which will be headed by former Supreme Court judge AR Dave and will have former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi and former Indian hockey team captain Zafar Iqbal as members. “....it would be in the public interest that its affairs be

put in the hands of a Committee of Administrators (CoA) as has been directed by the Supreme Court on 18th May 2022, in the case of another NSF in All India Football Federation...,” the HC said. “...the administrative setup of R-2 (Hockey India) is, erroneously or illegally constituted because of the Life President and Life Members,” the HC bench of Justices Najmi Wajiri and Swarana Kanta Sharma said in its order.

“The Government of India cannot grant recognition to a NSF whose constitution is not in consonance with the Sports Code. The posts of Life President, Life Member in the NSF

are illegal so is the post of CEO in the Managing Committee. These posts are struck-down.” The HC said all such references in Constitution/Memorandum of Association of Hockey India will have to be removed.

“As noted hereinabove, the mere presence of some persons in a Society as a such Member or in a meeting, albeit without voting rights can influence independent decision-making and election process.

“Till such time it is brought in consonance with the Sports Code and as interpreted by this court, its affairs cannot be left in the hands of persons who have no legitimacy.

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