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ACAUT questions re-tabling Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill

D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland has expressed strong objection against the move of the government for reintroduction of the Lokayukta (Amendment no 2) Bill at the ongoing Assembly Session on the ground that this will only defeat the very essence of the Nagaland Lokayukta Act. ACAUT also recalled that the then governor RN Ravi had “rightly” returned the Nagaland Lokayukta (Amendment No. 2) Bill, 2021 to NLA speaker Sharingain Longkumer for reconsideration since it was deemed as “antithesis for transparent governance” ACAUT media cell pointed out that the post of Lokayukta in Nagaland has been lying vacant beyond the 6-month time frame as per the Nagaland Lokayukta Act 2017 under section 3(9).

ACAUT said the time

limit expired on August 5, 2021, but till date the twomember search committee consisting of the chief secretary and advocate general, were still unable to submit their report.

Instead, the Lokayukta (Amendment no 2) Bill was being tabled at the ongoing monsoon session of the state Assembly 2021, ostensibly to change/extend the time period for appointment of Lokayukta from six months to one year.

ACAUT also informed that as per the provision of the Nagaland Lokayukta Act, the Lokayukta in the state comprises of a Chairman/Lokayukta and four other members designated as Upa Lokayukta.

However, the state government, without assigning any reason, appointed only two persons-Lok Ayukta and Upa Lokayukta.

However, the Lokayukta resigned under compelling situation and the sole member (Upa Ayukta) has been

manning the entire institution all alone, said ACAUT. ACAUT therefore questioned, whether a single person had the legality and propriety to hold a public legal institution which was legally mandated to be manned by five qualified persons?

It maintained that at least the minimum requisite quorum of three persons should be followed “to avoid being hit by Coram Non Judice.”

On the appointment to the tenure post of Upa Lokayuta, ACAUT said this should be drawn from the general age group and should be person(s) of impeccable integrity, valid qualification and without any party affiliation.

Therefore, ACAUT said that the appointing authority, being governed by law, appointment against such legal quasi-judicial posts should inarguably be within the parameter of the law.

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New Covid variant confirmed with multiple mutation LONDON/JOHANNESBURG, NOV 25 (PTI): A new variant of COVID-19, feared to have a high amount of spike mutations unseen before, has been detected in South Africa, with authorities there confirming 22 positive cases associated with it on Thursday.

Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, posted details of the new variant classed as B.1.1.529 on his Twitter account earlier this week, following which scientists have been weighing in on what is being considered a variant of concern – though it is yet to be formally categorised.

Scientists the world over will be watching the new variant for signs of gaining momentum or spreading more widely and rapidly. The high number of spike mutations are concerning from the point of view of both higher transmissibility and immune evasion. “Bottom line is B.1.1.529 may already be quite widespread in SA [South Africa],” Dr Peacock tweeted on Thursday.

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10,000 excess teachers in govt schools: Rio Urges Court to remove restriction on appointments Correspondent

KO H I M A , N OV 2 5 (NPN): State chief minister, Neiphiu Rio said Thursday said there was no shortage of teachers in the state, but rather an excess of about 10,000 teachers as indicated by the current teacher-student ratio of 1:10 as against the national average of 1:30.

He was responding to a starred question during the ninth session of 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly here on Thursday.

Rio described the state ratio as good but only problem being lack of adequate teachers for math and science subjects. The chief minister informed that an exercise was being carried out to identify schools having no enrolment but teachers posted and also schools where teachers outnumber students. Rio said such schools will have to be clubbed to-

Rio addressing the 9th session of thirteenth NLA on Thursday. (DIPR)

gether and teachers redeployed. He urged the members to identify any issue in their area and give support and suggestions “correctly and not politically”.

The chief minister also noted that the cabinet had banned appointments during Covid-19 pandemic but, since the pandemic has eased, the ban was lifted.

However, between the process of scrutinising vacancies in each department coupled with NSF’s demand for NSSB and ENPO’s demand for 45% reservation, a case was filed and the court banned all appointments.

He said that till today, the government was struggling with the issue of ap-

pointment and urged upon members to give the government some time to resolve the issue. Rio also said that the government has appealed to Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench to remove restrictions on fresh appointments in various government departments.

PWD (M&H) minister Tongpang Ozukum claimed that there were excess teachers in urban areas as nobody wanted to go to rural areas.

He said teachers would be redeployed in schools where there was shortage. Highlighting the challenges faced by the department, school education advisor KT Sukhalu said appointment could be made only after the ban

was lifted by the court. NPF legislator Yitachu expressed concern over shortage of teachers in primary schools and urged the government to look into the matter so that schools in the state would be able to run with full strength.

NPF legislature party leader, TR Zeliang also echoed the same concern and called upon the government to look into the matter of appointments in the School Education Department. He urged the cabinet to take this matter as most important agenda so that the ban is lifted, particularly for the School Education department.

NPF member Imkong L. Imchen also opined that appointments in and school education and medical departments needed to be exempted from the purview of the ban.

Tizu-Zungki Inland Waterways: Transport, civil aviation, railways and land resources adviser P Paiwang Konyak informed the members that the transport department had requested Union Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways to (Cont’d on p-7)

Govt resolution on SARFAESI Act tabled in NLA College students protest against offline exam Correspondent

KO H I M A , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio on Thursday introduced the resolution for implementation of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002 on the first day of the ongoing 9th session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

Moving the resolution, Rio said that the Nagaland Land and Revenue Regulations (Amendment) Act, 2002 amended the Assam Land and Revenue Regulations, 1886 by inserting a proviso after sub-section (2) 162 permitting transfer by way of mortgage in favour of the banks, registered cooperative societies and the financing institutions with

the condition that such entries shall not transfer any land to a person other than the indigenous inhabitant of Nagaland except with the previous sanction of the state government or an authority appointed in this behalf.

The resolution stated that opinions were expressed on the applicability of SARFAESI Act, on account of the specific constitutional protections under Article 371 A (I) (a) (iv), and the consequent nonimplementation of the Act has been detrimental to the overall economic growth of the state, restricting flow of credit to the people.

It further said that banks had been reluctant to provide loans in the absence of secured assets and an effective mechanism for the expeditious recovery of dues in case of default in loan

repayment.

The resolution asserted that “Article 371 A(I)(a)(iv) of the Constitution of India provides that no Act of Parliament in respect of ownership and transfer of land and its resources shall apply to the State of Nagaland unless the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland by a resolution so decides.”

It pointed out that the provisions of SARFAESI Act, 2002 cannot override any provision of the Constitution of India. “The tenor of Article 371A of the Constitution of India will apply at the stage when the banks/ financial institutions would make an attempt to transfer the ownership of the property through the process of auction,” it added.

Therefore, the resolution stated that “banks/ financial institutions are obligated to respect and follow

the mandatory constitutional protection (Article 371 A (I)(a)(iv)) to ensure that the ownership of Security Interest is transferred, following the procedures laid down in the SARFAESI Act 2002 read with the Nagaland Land & Revenue Regulations (Amendment) Act 2002 and other applicable Acts of Nagaland, only in favour of an indigenous person and none else.”

The resolution will be taken up for consideration and adoption on November 26.

Meanwhile, the chief minister also moved three bills-- The Nagaland Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Fourth Amendment) Bill, 2021, The Nagaland Goods and Services Tax (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 2021 and The Nagaland Lokayukta (Second Amendment) Bill, 2021.

Centre issues fresh advisory over new Covid variant NEW DELHI, NOV 25 (PTI): The Centre on Thursday asked all states and union territories to conduct rigorous screening and testing of all international travellers coming from or transiting through South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana, where a new COVID-19 variant of serious public health implications has been reported.

In a letter address to additional chief secretary/

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principal secretary/secretary (Health) of all states and union territories, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan asked them to ensure that samples of travellers turning positive are sent to designated genome sequencing laboratories promptly.

It has now been reported by National Centra for Disease Control (NCDC) that multiple cases of a COVID-19 variant B.1.1529

have been reported in Botswana (3 cases), South Africa (6 cases) and Honk Kong (1 case), Bhushan said in the letter.

“This variant is reported to have a significantly high number of mutations, and thus, has serious public health implications for the country, in view of recently relaxed visa restrictions and opening up of international travel. “It is therefore imperative that all interna-

tional travellers travelling from and transiting through these countries, (they are part of the “at risk” country category of international travellers coming to India) and also including all other at risk’ countries indicated in the revised Guidelines for International Arrivals issued by this Ministry dated November 11,2021, are subjected to rigorous screening and testing, as per MoHFW Guidelines,” Bhushan said.

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D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Raising the slogan “what started online should end online”, students from around 30 colleges in Dimapur protested outside the office of deputy commissioners (DC) Dimapur demanding that the proposed NU undergraduate odd semester exam be conducted in online mode. Around 500 students from across Dimapur took part in the protest.

At the protest site, a student said that the protest was being staged by college students in general and not

College students protest outside DC’s office Dimapur. (NP)

affiliated to any college or student body.

The protesting student questioned how could the university (NU) conduct

offline exams when more than 80% of semester classes were conducted virtually (online mode). He said the college students sought per-

State’s spending on health inadequate: CAG D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)’s performance audit report of select district hospitals in Nagaland for the year ended March 31, 2019, which was tabled on the floor of the house on November 25, 2021, has noted that the secondary healthcare facilities in the State suffered inadequate physical infrastructure, shortage of drugs, equipment, specialist services, and other diagnostic services due to inadequate spending under the state budget.

The report pointed out that the budget allotment and expenditure of the health and family welfare department against the

overall state budget during the five-year period 201419 ranged from Rs.521.09 crore (4 per cent) in 2014-15 to Rs.797.48 crore (3.90 per cent) in 2018-19 even as the National Health Policy, 2017 envisaged allocation of at least eight per cent of the total budget of the state for health sector.

CAG repor t found that expenditure on health ranged from Rs.418.09 crore (4.13 per cent) to Rs.631.42 crore (4.17 per cent) of the total state budget during the period. It stated that the department did not utilise the allocated funds in five years period 2014-19 with savings ranging from Rs.103 crore (19.77 per cent) in 2014-15 to Rs.166.07 crore (20.82 per

cent) in 2018-19.

Out of the total expenditure of Rs.2649.93 crore incurred on health during 2014-19, CAG report stated that revenue expenditure was Rs.2493.73 crore (94.10 per cent) and the capital expenditure was Rs.156.20 crore (5.90 per cent). It said the department spent a mere 0.58 per cent of the total revenue expenditure on drugs/ medicines.

Due to decline in revenue expenditure on drugs and medicines, CAG report said there was shortage of drugs in health units across the state. It said availability of drugs in the sub-centres varied from 5 per cent to 73 per cent with an average of 33 per cent. (Cont’d on p-8)

NGBF, ENNWA of NSCN (R) dismayed over split within NSCN (R) D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) and Eastern Naga National Workers Association (ENNWA) of the NSCN (R) have expressed dismay over the split within the NSCN (Reformation).

NGBF: Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) Thursday said it was disheartened by the “latest development that has taken place among NSCN (R).” In a press release, NGBF president Sahlem Konyak and general secretary Shikuto Zalipu said it was “very unfortu-

nate and juvenile on the part of NSCN (R) to opt for yet another split at this crucial juncture” when Nagas were appealing to the Naga political groups (NPGs) to “come together as one for decades old Naga solution.”

NGBF said “they must realise that their every step determines Naga’s future in respect of Indo-Naga political solution”, adding that “our slight mistake can derail our mission.” Further, NGBF said that individual or group’s interest should not be greater than that of

the whole Nagas. NGBF said the world was anticipating the outcome of Naga peace talks, adding that it was not necessary that all were in “our favor”. It, however, called upon all not to “make ourselves an epicentre for others’ amusement.”

N G B F, t h e r e f o r e, urged the NPGs to “hold on with prayers until we have acquired what we started for.” The federation hoped that the differences would be sorted out and the good news of “coming together in the name of our saviour

Lord” would be declared.

NSCN (R) ENNWA: While expressing shock over recent announcement of split by Akato Chophi, ENNWA affirmed to support its president Y Wangtin Naga and ato kilonser P Tikhak.

ENNWA through media cell termed the split as “unwarranted and uncalled for” and said it was not the time “to make gangs in the name of Naga National movement nor to hijack the Naga National Movement and promote one’s own family”, but to contribute in

whatever “little way we can for the good of all Nagas.”

At a time when all the Naga people were yearning for a permanent peace in the Naga homeland, the ENNWA said announcing the split was “nothing but undermining the wishes of the people.” It said that no person, who was a Naga by blood with a sound mind, would “choose to be an obstruction in any manner” at this crucial juncture.

ENNWA alleged that by going ahead with the announcement of a split,

Akato has “not only made a mockery of himself but ridicule and belittle the Naga national cause.”

ENNWA said that Naga people were already overburdened and the peace has been alluding from Naga homeland for long only “because of people of such mentality for whom their larger than life and extravagant lifestyle at the cost of Naga national movement carries more important than the sufferings of our Naga men and women.”

mission from the commissioner of police Dimapur to hold a peaceful rally, but was denied in view of Covid-19 situation. In this regard, one student questioned how could NU hold exams in offline mode when they were not even allowed to hold a peaceful protest in view of Covid-19.

Asked whether the students had approached All Nagaland College Students Union (ANSCU) over the issue, the students maintained that ANSCU had already written to NU authority, but was yet to receive proper information.

State logs 14 fresh Covid-19 cases D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Nagaland on Thursday recorded 14 fresh Covid-19 positive cases while no fatalities were reported during the day.

Of the fresh cases, eight were from Dimapur, four in Kiphire and one each in Mokokchung and Wokha, talking the total caseload to 32092.

Meanwhile, a total of 12,72,713 persons had been inoculated till November 25, they include-- 73,20,95 first dose and 54,0618 second dose.

PTI: India logged 9,119 new coronavirus infections taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,44,882, while the active cases declined to 1,09,940, the lowest in 539 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.

The death toll climbed to 4,66,980 with 396 fresh fatalities, including 308 from Kerala, according to the data updated at 8 am.

Corrigendum

D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Apropos news item “WSH nullifies WSKH support to Akato group”, published on November 25, 2021, Western Sumi Hoho (WSH) has clarified that it should read as: “The stand of WSH on the recent split” (Cont’d on p-8) and not as published.

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Meeting on SBM, 15th finance commission

of India, Arun Baroka and team leader PMU, Anand Shekhar and attended by the secretary and officials of PHED and commissioner and secretary and officials of rural development.

The release informed that a video conference was also held with all the district deputy commissioners and executive engineers of PHED regarding Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase – II and 15th finance

SVEEP campaign: Sensitisation programme held in Kiphire distt KIPHIRE: A sensitisation programme on the topic “Role of Women in cleaning of e-roll” as part of SVEEP campaign was organised at DEF, Church on Thursday. The programme was aimed at creating an awareness among the womenfolk to participate in cleaning of e-roll and in the voting process. Speaking at the programme, AEO Kiphire, Olivi Thurr highlighted the women folks on the provisions of various section of RPA, 1950 for enrolment (inclusion in the e-roll.

She also said that double entries or bogus enrol-

ment, underage enrolment in the e-roll should not be practiced.

Necessary inclusion deletions and necessary corrections should be carried out during the ongoing revision process in order to achieve 100% error free electoral roll she stated.

She also urged the gathering to check their details at the respective polling stations during the two special camp scheduled to be held on November 26 and 27. The programme was chaired by DEF Church Kiphire, women pastor Tiala Sangtam.

Capacity building workshop for handloom cluster DIMAPUR: A three-day capacity building workshop for handloom cluster commenced on November 23 at Tening Town Women Welfare Organization Hall with additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Tening Rhosietho Ngouri as the special guest.

In a press release, Pro Rural Society, Dimapur informed that workshop was sponsored by UNDP and facilitated by the North East Handicraft and Handloom Development Corporation (NEHHDC), Guwahati in association with Pro Rural Society, Dimapur.

In his address, the ADC exhorted the women to take the opportunity and Participants at the workshop. ADC Tening Rhosietho Ngouri speaking at the programme (Inset). make use of the association with NEHHDC for improv- ing. Ngouri said issues like keting of products could be NEHHDC, and emphasized ing livelihood through weav- quality assurance and mar- assisted by organisation like on clustering and working

commission convergence programme.

During the meeting, all activities of SBM(G) were briefed and the responsibilities to be carried out by the district administration.

The officials also emphasised and nudge the district administration to sensitize the villagers to propose plans for water and sanitation under 15th finance commission.

DIMAPUR: State chief minister Neiphiu Rio and Nagaland Shooting Sports Association (NSSA) have expressed deep sadness over the demise of Dr. Ningusalie Iralu who passed away on Thursday. In a condolence message, Rio described Dr Salie as a God-fearing man who was warm, approachable, sincere and reliable in his profession as a doctor.

“Even after his retirement from service, he continued his humanitarian service to help the sick and

NEWS IN BRIEF

NPSA golden jubilee: The golden jubilee celebration of the Nagaland Police Service Association would be held on November 27, 11 a.m., at Nagaland police officer’s central mess, Chumukedima with DGP Nagaland, T. John Longkumer as guest of honour and deputy chief minister, Y. Patton as special guest.

E-Shram registration in Kohima: Deputy commissioner Kohima, Gregory Thejawelie has informed that special e-SHRAM registration drive for shopkeepers, business establishments, vegetable vendors, taxi and bus drivers, artisans and craftsman would be held on November 27 at: High School Junction; Tinpati Junction (below census office); Keziekie Junction (Near Allahabad bank); Post Office Junction (near KCCI Office); Old NST; Union Baptist Church (near KMC Office); Viliethie Complex Taxi stand; TCP Gate; Naga Hospital (Taxi Stand); Red Cross Junction (P.R Hill); PHQ area (below SBI Bazaar Branch); Jail Colony (Taxi Stand); South Point market (BOC); Mohon Khola Junction and Lerie Junction (CRPF Camp).

DHS Mon begins ‘har ghar dastak’ campaign DIMAPUR: To accelerate the coverage of COVID vaccination and to identify the beneficiaries who have not yet taken the 1st dose and beneficiaries overdue for 2nd dose, the District Health Society (DHS) Mon in line with the government’s effort to defeat the pandemic commenced “Har Ghar Dastak” campaign by visiting house to house in all the blocks of the district.

A press release by the medical department Mon Minister PHED, Jacob Zhimomi and advisor CAWD & NSDMA, Kazheto Zhimomi at informed that the cam- the inauguration of GA rest house at Niuland on November 23. paign would be covered as per headcount population and unvaccinated list of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT eligible beneficiaries furnished by the ASHAs. The campaign would culminate

by November 30.

During the ongoing task, carried out by the medical officers, nurses, vaccinators, management staffs and Prodigal Home team, people with severe physical disabilities who were incapable of visiting vaccination centres for their COVID jabs received the service at their doorsteps.

M e a n w h i l e, D H S Mon has appealed the community to cooperate Late Er. T. CHUBAMANEN JAMIR with the team as the festive (13.03.1968 – 14.11.2021) season was just round the "The loss is immeasurable, But so is the love left behind." corner and mass-gatherings and celebration would be We, the bereaved family of Late Er. T. Chubamanen Jamir deeply inevitable. In order to pre- acknowledge and thank you all for your kindness and sympathy during our time of vent infection and spread great sadness and sorrow. Your kind gestures and prayers are sincerely appreciated of COVID, DHS said one should avail the vaccine as and will forever be fondly remembered and cherished in our hearts.

May the gracious Lord bless and keep you. it is the only way to protect Loving Wife, Daughter and the people from severe illFamily Members of ness, hospitalization and Lt. Er. T. Chubamanen Jamir dp-5691/21 even death.

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in a group. He highlighted the importance of handloom sector that had a lot of potential and also the role of NEHHDC in bringing the market to the women weaver’s cluster. Ngouri also encouraged the weavers and mothers to get the best out of the training.

Earlier NEHHDC officials shared on the objectives of the capacity building program which is targeting to enhance design development and product diversification, price setting and facilitation of market linkages for the weaver’s cluster.

Pro Rural team also highlighted on the need to identify units particularly from the rural areas, form them into clusters and linking them to resource institutions like the NEHHDC.

Chief Minister Rio, NSSA mourn demise of Dr. Ningusalie Iralu

(L-R) Anand Shekhar, Arun Baroka. J.Alam and Kesonyu Yhome.

DIMAPUR: A review meeting on Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) PhaseII and 15th Finance Commission convergence programme was held on November 24 at the state chief secretary’s conference hall.

A press release from the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) informed that the meeting was held with additional secretary DDWS, Ministry of Jal Shakti government

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the needy”, Rio said.

The CM said that Dr Salie served the society in various capacities. He was an active member of Indian Red Cross Society and participated in several medical camps, reaching out to people in need.

Maintaining that Dr Salie was someone who was well versed with the culture and tradition for which he was respected by people, Rio said that in his demise, the Angami community and Naga society had lost a

good Samaritan and a father figure. He urged the people to be thankful for his illustrious achievements in life and to value the legacy he had left behind. Further, Rio conveyed his deepest condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that the Almighty would give them peace and strength to bear the irreparable loss.

NSSA: Nagaland Shooting Sports Association (NSSA) has mourned the demise of Dr. Ningusalie Iralu who it said was a keen

sports enthusiast.

In a condolence message, NSSA said late Dr. Ningusalie had actively participated in the shooting competition in the state and had won awards and medals in various events. NSSA said Dr. Ningusalie immensely contributed to the promotion of the shooting sports

in Nagaland when it was at its nascent stage. In his demise, NSSA said it has lost one of its most active and towering personality.

Further, the association has prayed for peace, strength and comfort for his wife and bereaved family members and for the departed soul to rest in peace.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

7th DEAth ANNIVERSARY of our beloved Lt. Verapa Chuzho

Dearest Apa, It's been seven years since we lost you (on 26 Nov. 2014) and we know nothing can fill the gap of your loss in our heart.

Your memories are always fresh in our mind. We still yearn for your presence, but is comforted by the fact that someday we all shall meet again. We think of you often and always wishing you peace and do hope you are in a better place. You're missed more and more each day. You are forever alive in our hearts.

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Loving mom, dad, brothers, sisters, cousins and loved ones

Born on : 16/10/1958 – Died on : 20/11/2021 We, the family members of Lt. GHOHETO ASSUMI would like to convey our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood by us and supported us through prayers, physical presence, financial and material support at the time of our beloved father sudden demise on 20th November 2021.

We also like to thank the churches, groups, organizations, unions, relatives and well wishers from far and near for the noble deeds rendered towards our family.

Though we are unable to mention and thank each and every one of you individually, it is our humble prayer that God’s blessing be upon you all.

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Training on food processing DIMAPUR: A three-day skill development training on local food processing and preservation was organised by ANMA Integrated Development Association (AIDA) under SBI Foundation – gram seva programme from November 21-23 in all five adopted villages of SBI Foundation.

AIDA informed that the first stage training was delivered by convergence officer (AIDA- SBI GS staff) Imnayangla Jamir with support of program manager Pfokho John and livelihood officer Kt Khino Anal at Tsithrongse village for gram sevaks, remedial teachers and some SHG representatives.

The training was organised to provide skilling and trainings to rural community, to encourage selfemployment by promoting small, cottage and local industries and to empower rural women. The 15 representatives would train SHGs at their respective villages namely Urra, Bade, Tsithrongse, Diezephe and Khriezephe.

DGP Nagaland, T. John Longkumer flagging off the car campaign in commemoration Officials along with stakeholders and participants at the launching programme of of international day for the elimination of violence against women in Kohima. (DIPR) 16 days of activism against gender-based violence in Wokha on Thursday. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: DGP Nagaland, T. John Longkumer, Thursday disclosed that the Nagaland police since 2018-2020 had registered 249 cases of violence (crime) against women leading to the arrest of 19 persons, rescue of 26 women and girl from human trafficking and rescue of 18 sex workers.

He was speaking as the guest of honour at the flagging off programme of the “car campaign” ” in commemoration of “international day for the elimination of violence against women” (IDEVW) and “16 days of activism against gender-based violence” on the theme “end violence against women now!” at old MLA hostel junction, Kohima.

He said that said that it has been the concerted effort of the Nagaland po-

lice to address the issue of violence against women and to this effect, women police stations and anti-human trafficking units had been established in all the districts.

Additionally, DGP informed that women help desks had been established in every police station to increase the outreach and reassured the women of Nagaland that there were constitutional and legal provisions available to combat this threat and ensure justice to all who were wronged. He said that the Indian constitution through the fundamental rights and directive policies of state policies laid the foundation for a just and egalitarian society where the dignity and respect of women was ensured.

The legal provisions in the Indian Penal Code and CrPC (Amendment Act)

2013 enshrine preventive and punitive actions to safeguard the rights of women and girls.

These laws are further bolstered by other laws such as Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, (Prevention of) Immoral Traffic in Women’s and Girl Act, Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place 2013, POCSO Act 2012, The Prohibition of Child marriage Act, 2006, Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986 and the IT Act 2000, he informed. He said the campaign was aimed to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls by increasing awareness, promoting advocacy and creating opportunities for discussions on the challenge and solutions and assured that all grievances would

be taken up expeditiously for redressal as per the law of the land.

Need to identify forms of violence against women that present Naga society is faced with: NSCW chairperson NSCW chairperson, Khrienuo Tachü in her introductory message briefed that the 16 days of activism was observed worldwide to end all forms of violence against women. She said that mass awareness and sensitisation was required to stop sexual harassment, domestic violence, and the exploitation of women and girl child.

“As a community we need to identify and address the forms of violence against women that the present Naga society is faced with”, she stated.

She said that every female should be able to

walk freely and safely in the streets in any locality at any hour without fear, threat or harassment.

Tachü informed that NSCW was working together with several stakeholders to end all forms of violence against women and that change must come from the grassroots.

In this regard, she informed that NSCW was cooperating and working closely with tribal community leaders, colony and locality elders and church leaders to bring change and achieve concrete results.

Meanwhile director, social welfare, Michael Zaren and member secretary, Nagaland state legal services authority, Victo Sema shared their views on calls to increase awareness, galvanise advocacy efforts and sensitise the end of violence

against women.

The programme was jointly organised by department of social welfare, NSCW, NSSWB, SRCW, Angawadi, child line and women helpline, KCCI, AKMWP, NAC. Around 50 cars participating in the campaign dispersed to various colonies across Kohima town distributing IEC materials, flyers, posters, banners, etc., to create awareness on the elimination of violence against women.

Wokha: Commemorating IDEVW, 16 day activism against gender based violence under theme was launched in the conference hall of the deputy commissioner (DC), Wokha on Thursday.

According to a DIPR report, SDO (C), Wokha Selemla S. Sangtam who

chaired the meeting said this was an annual event and during this 16 day activism, team from Mahila Shakti Kendra, Saki-One Stop Centre (OSC) and volunteers would be conducting house to house campaign where pamphlets and leaflets would be distributed to spread awareness and sensitise the people on ending violence against women.

Central administrator, Sakhi-OSC, Renthunglo Kikon said that OSC office which was located at district hospital premises was fully functional and the staff were working tirelessly to assist girl child and women in distress and those facing domestic violence and other forms of violence such as sexual harassment and child abuse.

She urged the gathering to report such cases to the office of OSC so that timely action and help would be extended to the victims and that OSC was offering counselling and other basic needs free of cost.

Pe r e n : I n Pe r e n , launching programme of the 16-day activism against gender-based violence was organised by district administration, Sakhi-OSC, Mahila Shakti Kendra in collaboration with Pradhan Mantri Mantru Vandana Yojana at Peren town square on Thursday.

Orientation on COVID-19 Inter departmental meeting held at Pfutsero prevention & control in schools

DIMAPUR: A block-level orientation on COVID-19 prevention and control in schools under the programme of Nagaland Education Project-The Lighthouse (NECTAR) was held on November 23 at EBRC (Samagra Shiksha) Training Hall, Tseminyu with the school heads under the establishment of SDEO Tseminyu.

In a press release, EBRC (SS) Tseminyu informed that special guest Extra Assistant Commissioner (EAC) Tsogin Rosy Sangtam exhorted the teaching fraternity to work hand in hand.

She admitted that teaching was not an easy job and for which proper coordination and cooperation was prerequisite since teachers deal with a

wide range of people and backgrounds.

Sangtam emphasised that the teachers as moulders should not give up on their mission or calling to lay the foundations of students for posterity.

Stating that people would continue to live in a “new normal”, Sangtam said one should find ways to overcome the problems of COVID-19.

She then urged upon the gathering of school heads to follow SOPs, implement COVID-19 appropriate behaviours and coordinate with SDEO Tseminyu and the administration.

She also implored the school administrators to increase enrolment, evolve ways to reopen schools and over improvement of

schools under the subdivision.

The resource persons coordinator EBRC (SS) Tseminyu Rushulo Khing spoke on “ Introduction on Nagaland Education Project (NEP)- The Lighthouse (NECTAR)”; TOT EBRC(SS) Tseminyu Francis Magh spoke on “Key Messages & Actions for School Administrators, Teachers & Staff ” and TOT EBRC (SS) Tseminyu Hinilo Cheng spoke on the topic “ Key Messages & Actions for Parents/Caregivers and Community Members”.

The orientation programme was chaired by coordinator Rushulo Khing and the welcome address was delivered by area education officer Tseminyu Chegeseng Kath.

DIMAPUR: An inter departmental coordination meeting under Pfutsero sub division was held in the conference hall of the ADC Pfutsero on November 22.

According to a DIPR report, while chairing the meeting, additional deputy commissioner (ADC), Pfutsero welcomed the members and briefed the house on the various issues discussed in the previous inter-departmental meeting.

Stressing on the impor tance of attending the monthly coordination meetings, he urged the officers to be sincere and regular as various important agendas were discussed during such meetings.

He also welcomed the new officers in the sub-division and solicited their cooperation.

ADC said that two events would be held in line with the Hor nbill Festival: Hornbill extension to Pfutsero Town and People’s Festival at Chida Resort, Khezhakeno. Security arrangement was discussed in detail and it was decided that additional forces would be requisitioned for these programmes if necessary, for which SDPO Pfutsero was requested to ensure all arrangements were made.

Total ban on plastics in the sub-division was also discussed.

Heads of offices were encouraged to put up signage in their offices and to discourage the use of single use plastics and water bottles (less than 1 litre) during events/occasions.

It was decided that alternative means to single use plastics would be encouraged and seminars

involving NGOs and various stakeholders would be conducted ADC informed that three cleanest wards in Pfutsero town would be awarded in December to motivate the wards and requested HoOs to participate in the cleanliness drive scheduled on November 27.

SMO Pfutsero highlighted the pandemic scenario in the sub-division and said that although cases had been reduced, the rate of vaccination in the sub-division continued to remain low.

In this regard, door to door vaccination drives had begun in towns and similar exercises would be conducted in the villages SMO informed.

The house decided that members would accompany the medical team on the following

dates: November 23 at Po r b a v i l l a ge, Ve l u l e Tureng, company commandant, C’ Company NAP Pfutsero; November 27 at Khezhakeno Village, Neitelo Koza SDO PHED and Daniel Kevie SDO PWD and November 30 at Kikruma Village Alice Yepthomi, CDPO Kikruma and Medonuo, BDO Kikruma.

The house decided that the inter-departmental pre-christmas picnic would be held on December 18.

The venue and the time would be notified later.

Following members were selected for arrangement of food and logistics Toshikaba, E.E, PWD, R&B, Mhathung senior manager, cooperative bank Pfutsero, Vithwel Kweho, EAC Khezhakeno and Vekhrolo Koza, BDO Pfutsero.

Resolution on Transplantation of Villages achieve 100% NLA session: Presentation of Human Organ Act tabled in assembly first dose vaccination Assembly Committee reports DIMAPUR: The resolution on Transplantation of Human Organ Act 1994 and Transplantation of Human Organ Act (Amendment), 2011 was also introduced in the house by Health & Family Welfare minister Pangnyu Phom.

Highlights of the resolution include making provisions for regulating the transplantation of tissues, expansion of the definition of near relative in order to include the grandfather, grandmother and granddaughter as near relative.

It also sought to make the hospital to inform in

writing to the Human Organ Retrieval Centre for removal, storage or transplantation or transportation of human rights or tissues or both of the donor.

Appointment of a transplant coordination in all hospitals registered for organ retrieval and transplantation, regulation of the transplantation of organs for foreign nationals, to prevent the exploitation of minors and mentally challenged person and to provide for swap donations of organs, establishment of a National Human Organs and Tissues Removal and storage

network, development and maintenance of a national registry of the recipients of human organs and transplants and enhancements of the penalties provided under the Act. Meanwhile, NLA commissioner & Secretary, P.J. Antony reported the assent Nagaland Governor to the Nagaland Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Amendment) Bill 2021 while minister of soil & water conservation and geology & mining V. Kashiho Sangtam laid a copy of the Annual Report 20182019 of the NSMDC Ltd.

Peace Channel organises capacity building programme DIMAPUR: A capacity building programme to raise awareness on mental health among the students was organised by Peace Channel (PC) on November 20 at Trinity School, Thahekhu, Dimapur.

In a press release, PC stated that resource person, Veyito Nyekha stressed on how important it was for the students to be aware of and understand mental health and its implications in personal lives and career development process.

With the extended lockdown imposed due to pandemic, he said young people speK Y M C

cially students were facing mental related issues more than any of the other times.

Nyekha also stressed on the threatening statistics of mental-disorder as India tops with highest rate of mental at mental disorder, where more than half originates before 15 years of age. He also encouraged the students to avoid bad habits, schedule daily activities, meditate, engage in physical exercises on daily basis and spend quality time with the teachers and parents so that, they could facilitate and assist them during the times of trouble.

DIMAPUR: Heunambe village under Peren block has achieved 100% vaccination of all the eligible beneficiaries with first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

A press release by Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Peren office informed that the village GBs and elders came forward with a determination to vaccinate all its eligible citizens with the COVID-19 vaccine so as to make the village 100% vaccinated.

A team led by DVBO ( N V B D C P ) D r. H e d unkiebe, EAC Ihoilong and MO I/c Poilwa PHC Dr. Paokhotinlen Singson visited the village and after five sessions of Vaccina-

tion, vaccinated all the eligible beneficiaries.

Yongam village: A vaccination drive was conducted on November 25 at Yongam village and the village achieved 100% first dose of COVID-19 vaccination coverage.

A press release by Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Longleng office informed that one day s e m i n a r o n w o m e n’s health, nutrition and resource management was also conducted at Yongam village.

The seminar was organised by Women Ministr y, Yongam Baptist Church with Chief Medical Officer Longleng Dr. Obangjungla as resource person.

DIMAPUR: Chairmen of various committee tabled their reports on the first day of the 9th session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), Thursday.

Chairman of the committee on Government Assurances (2021-2022), Y. Vikheho Swu presented a copy each of the following: 100th Report of the Committee on Government Assurances (4th session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly) and 101st Report of the Committee on Government Assurances (3rd session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

Chairman of the committee on Subordinate Legislation (2021-2022) Dr.

Chotisuh Sazo, presented a copy the--- 71st Report on the Rules for Regulating the Procedure for Deputation and Absorption of the Central and State Officers, including officers from Autonomous bodies and their service conditions under the Government of Nagaland, 2016; 72nd Report on Action taken by the Government on the 63rd Report on the Nagaland State Biological Diversity Rules, 2012; 73rd Report on the Nagaland Pharmacist Service Rules, 2018, 74th Report on Action taken by the Government on the 68th Report on the Nagaland Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2019 and 75th Report on Action taken

by the Government on the 65th Report on the Nagaland Government Printing Press (Technical) Service Rules, 2015.

Chairman of the Committee on Estimates (2021-2022) Zhaleo Rio presented a copy each of the following-- 144th Report on the Examination of the Estimates of the Tourism Department (Hornbill Festival); 145th Report in the Examination of the Estimates of the Fisheries & Aquatic Resources Department (RKVY) and 146th Report on the Examination of the Estimates of the Labour Department,147th Report on the Examination of the Estimates of the Cooperation.

WDTF holds meeting with colony chairmen in Wokha DIMAPUR: Wokha District Task Force (WDTF) for COVID-19 held a meeting with colony chairmen under Wokha district on Thursday. The meeting was conducted under the chairmanship of SDO (C) Wokha, Selemla S Sangtam.

According to a DIPR report, she informed the chairmen that as per direc-

tive received from higher authority, all citizens were advised to be 100% vaccinated before December 25.

In this regard, the medical team, officers from different departments assisted by Asha and Anganwadi workers had started visiting house to house campaign for collection of data/census to know about the status of vaccinated

and unvaccinated individuals/persons she informed.

She requested all the wards and colony chairmen to assist and extend support to the teams while visiting their respective colonies to achieve the target and increase the percentage of vaccination.

M e a n w h i l e, c h i e f medical officer (CMO), Wokha while giving the

status report of Wokha district about COVID-19, said the district had so far reported 407 positive cases out of which 284 persons were non-vaccinated and 69 persons had taken the first dose and 54 availed the second dose.

He infor med that looking at the data, majority of the positive people were non-vaccinated and

urged the citizens to get the vaccine.

SDO (C) also informed that after collecting the census the district task force (DTF) would fix a specific date and special campaign for vaccination would be conducted.

The colony chairmen who attended the meeting assured their cooperation to achieve the target.

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TMC, CPI(M) allege rigging in Tripura civic polls

AGARTALA, NOV 25 (AGENCIES): Sporadic incidents marred Tripura’s municipal elections for 13 urban local bodies held on Thursday. The opposition CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) alleged widespread rigging, attacks and intimidations, and both parties lodged several complaints with the State Election Commission (SEC) and the police, reports The Hindu.

Sources in the SEC reported 80% turnout adding the figure may vary after final evaluation.

Two TMC candidates Shymal Paul and Tapan Kumar Biswas contesting in the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) sustained injuries in attacks by hooligans. In another attack, the son of a candidate was injured outside a polling station.

TMC leaders alleged large-scale rigging in numerous polling stations in AMC and other civic bodies.

CPI(M) state Secretary Jitendra Choudhury echoed the complaint and added that Left Front polling agents were forcibly expelled from 36 booths. The CPI(M) demanded re-polling in five municipal bodies and said it would move a petition in the Supreme Court to seek

CPI (Marxist) supporters protest in fornt of the West Agartala Police Station in Agartala, November 25. (PTI). its ‘intervention to restore Police said they had democracy’ in the State. made some arrests after reHundreds of CPI(M) ceiving specific complaints. supporters staged a protest IG (Law & Order) Arindam outside the West Agartala Nath informed that paraPolice Station to demand military forces including the arrest of miscreants BSF were deployed in 32 who were preventing poll- polling stations in compliing agents and voters from ance with the order of the reaching polling booths.

Supreme Court.

TMC leaders and supHe informed that two porters held similar protests more companies of CRPF at the East Agartala Police will arrive here on Friday Station, after which they morning for deployment were taken into custody and ahead of counting of votes later released. which would be taken up on BJP spokesperson Na- Sunday. The central forces bendu Bhattacharjee denied will stay deployed till Nothe party’s involvement in vember 30. ‘unethical and undemoElections on Thurscratic activities’ and said the day were held in AMC complaints of the CPI(M) and 12 urban bodies (total and TMC were designed 222 wards) of Tripura. BJP to cover-up their imminent earlier won seven municipal defeat in the election. bodies uncontested.

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Rejected TMC’s merger proposal: Akhil Gogoi GUWAHATI, NOV 25 (PTI): Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi said on Thursday that his party has not accepted the Trinamool Congress’s proposal of a merger as it does not want to compromise on its Assamese identity.

Addressing a press conference here, Gogoi, however, said that only West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can challenge and defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the present political situation.

“I have not met TMC leaders, but they have been in touch with us regularly.

They even contacted us just a while ago. They invited us to discuss all issues and take a final decision.

“The TMC is giving us a proposal that we should merge with them. Our point is that we represent the Assamese regional sentiment.

We are a regional political party, representing Assamese nationalism. We don’t want to compromise on our separate regional identity,” Gogoi, also an MLA, said.

If the opposition wants to defeat the BJP and RSS in 2024, then all the regional forces must unite and form a federal front, he added.

“We have been discussing these two points with the TMC. They gave us the proposal of merger, but we have not accepted it because we believe in our

separate regional identity,” Gogoi said.

He also asserted that if there is anyone who can challenge and defeat Modi in the current scenario, then there is no doubt that it will be Mamata Banerjee.

Raijor Dal, born out of the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act movement, has only one representative in the Assam assembly in Gogoi as an Independent MLA. The TMC has been trying to expand its presence across the country with an ambition to lead the antiBJP force in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and project Banerjee as the only reliable challenger to Modi.

Twelve of the 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, including former chief minister Mukul Sangma, joined the TMC, dealing a body blow to the grand old party in the Northeastern state.

The TMC earlier entered Tripura’s political arena, contesting a bitterlyfought municipal election in the neighbouring state.

It will also contest the assembly elections in Goa. Banerjee, on her recent trip to Delhi this week, cast her net wide and had a good catch in three-term Congress MP from Bihar Kirti Azad, former JD(U) general secretary Pawan Varma and Haryana politician Ashok Tanwar, a former state Congress chief.

AJP aims to revive anti-CAA stir in Assam GUWAHATI, NOV 25 (PTI): Opposition Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) on Thursday announced a 10day state-wide programme to revive the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protest, which had been marked by violence two years ago.

AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi appealed to the people to join the protest in large numbers to commemorate two-years of the protest, which had seen five civilians losing their lives in police firing.

“The relevance of the anti-CAA movement has increased after the successful farmers protests, which showed that a democratic agitation can bring positive results. We believe that the anti-CAA movement should restart in the state,” Gogoi told reporters here.

Democratic movements have an important role to play in a democracy and can reverse anti-people decisions, said Gogoi, who was at the forefront of the anti-CAA protest in December 2019 as the general secretary of All Assam Students Union (AASU).

When pointed out that BJP had won a decisive mandate in Assam in the Lok Sabha and the MarchApril state polls, the AJP leader said “The Congress had won the election in Assam after enacting the IMDT Act, which was antiAssamese and people had protested against it”.

The 10-day protest by AJP will begin with observing Martyrs Day on December 10 at Chhaygaon followed by ‘Black Day’ across Assam the next day.

The Centre’s decision to repeal three controversial farm laws following the over a year-long agitation by farmers has given a fresh impetus to several outfits in Assam to revive the antiCAA stir.

The AASU and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), outfits that were at the forefront of the anti-CAA protest in 2019, Raijor Dal and the AJP, the two political outfits formed by leaders of the protests, are now holding discussions within their organisations and with other groups to intensify the agitation.

The contentious CAA seeks to provide Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis entering India on or before December 31, 2014 from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after five years of residence here.

The anti-CAA stir began as a mass protest led by students and youth organisations in early 2019 before the Lok Sabha polls.

It subsided after the 2016 format of the bill lapsed in June 2019 when the term of the then Lok Sabha ended as it could not be tabled and passed in Rajya Sabha.

When the bill of the

present CAA was passed in Lok Sabha on December 9, 2019, Assam had witnessed one of the most violent protests in its history which saw three rail stations, post office, bank, bus terminus, shops, dozens of vehicles and many other public and private properties being set ablaze or totally damaged.

After the Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on December 11, the state had erupted in uncontrolled protests, in which agitators fought pitched battles with the police and administration in almost every major city and town of the state.

This led to a government crackdown, including arrest of leaders of the stir, snapping of internet connectivity and imposition of curfew.

The momentum of the stir slowed down after the AASU, which came into prominence after the arrest of KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi and some of his associates, decided not to block roads, organise demonstrations in fields and complete daily protests before sunset.

The stir had almost faded away after the students union had announced a temporary break from protests in view of class 10 and 12 board exams in January-February 2020.

The agitation literally died following the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdowns.

Shah asks industries to invest in Northeast Mnp student bodies agree to suspend eco blockade

NEW DELHI, NOV 25 (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asked industries to invest in the Northeast and said the Narendra Modi government has created a conducive environment for the industrial growth of the region.

Addressing the annual session of the Indian Chamber of Commerce virtually, Shah said peace has been restored in the Northeast in the last seven years, militancy has come to an end and there is political stability in all the eight states in the region.

He said massive development work has been going on in the Northeast, infrastructure has been improved a lot, road, rail and

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses a session on ‘Bharat at 75- Empowering North East India’, in Delhi. (PTI)

air connectivity has also been improved.

By 2024, the Modi government will connect capitals of all the eight states by air, seven of the eight state capitals will be connected through rail, and a network of roads is operational.

“Time has come to

invest in the Northeast, empower the Northeast, give a boost to the Northeast and bring the Northeast into the nation’s development trajectory,” Shah said.

The home minister said he understood that making investment is a big issue for any businessman but

the Modi government has created an environment for investment in the Northeast with proper infrastructure.

He assured the industries that all the state governments will cooperate if they come to invest in the region.

Shah said there are opportunities in sectors like tourism, Information Technology, agriculture and organic food, which the industries can explore in the Northeast.

He said the prime minister’s vision of making India a USD 5 trillion economy and global power house by 2024-25 will be successful only when the entire eastern region is developed at par with the rest of the country.

TMC to be an effective opposition: Mukul Sangma SHILLONG, NOV 25 (IANS): Opposition leader Mukul Sangma, who along with 11 Congress MLAs joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday night, on Thursday said that the Congress has failed as an effective opposition party in the country and the TMC would be a pan-India viable alternative opposition party. Reliable sources said that political strategist Prashant Kishor and his team members, who have been camping in Shillong for the past two months, apparently engineered the defections.

State Congress President and Lok Sabha Member Vincent H. Pala said in Shillong that the desertion of the 12 MLAs is not a setback for the party, it is a new challenge and the Congress leaders know how to face the challenge.

Sangma, a for mer Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2010-2018), said that their potential was not exploited fully by the Congress and they were unable to be an effective opposition party in Meghalaya. “To be an effective opposition party and to serve the people as per their wishes we have joined the Trinamool Congress.

Our commitment towards the people remained unfulfilled despite our meeting the central leadership on a number of occasions,” Sangma accompanied by the 11 MLAs told the media in Shillong.

The 56-year-old leader said that in the 2018 assembly polls, the Congress

Mukul Sangma by securing 21 seats (in the 60 member assembly) became the single largest party but unfortunately it could not form the government.

Sangma along with the other MLAs on Thursday met assembly speaker Metbah Lyngdoh and lay claim to being recognised as the main opposition party.

The Speaker later said that he would have to examine the procedures about Sangma and the other MLAs’ claims as per the provisions of the Tenth Schedule. The 12 MLAs who joined the TMC include four legislators from the Khasi-Jaintia Hills region and eight MLAs from Garo Hills.

The 12 MLAs are Mukul Sangma (Songsak), Charles Pyngrope (Nong t hy m m a i ) , H i m a l aya Shangpliang (Mawsynram), George B Lyngdoh (Umroi), Shitlang Pale (Sutnga-Saipung), Dikkanchi D Shira (Mahendraganj), Miani D Shira (Ampati), Zenith Sangma (Rangsakona), Marthon J Sangma (Mendipathar), Jimmy D Sangma (Tikrikilla), Winnerson D Sangma (Salmanpara) and Lazarus M Sangma (Chok-

pot). The strength of the Congress, which was the main opposition party in the assembly since the 2018 polls, has now been reduced to five as other MLAs have either died or left the party.

Sangma, a physician turned politician, was upset over the appointment of Shillong Lok Sabha Member Vincent H. Pala as the state Congress President in September. He reportedly met Trinamool’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata last month triggering speculation amid a reported rift within the Congress in the northeastern state. Sangma had termed it as a courtesy meeting.

With the latest political development a triangular contest is in the offing in the 2023 assembly elections between the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) in which the two-member Bharatiya Janata Party is an ally, the Congress and the TMC. The latest political development in the northeast state is a major boost for West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who after the March-April assembly election success in her state, has been trying to expand her party’s footprint beyond Bengal. Meghalaya is the newest state as Bengal’s ruling party in its expansion mission mainly at the expense of the Congress, has made inroads in Tripura, Goa, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Haryana.

Cong mulling legal action against defectors

Correspondent The Congress, which lost 12 of its 17 legislators in Meghalaya to the All India Trinamool Congress on Thursday, said it was mulling legal action in this regard. “Legally also we will fight. We are in touch with our lawyers. Soon we will also do something,” Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee president, Vincent H Pala said.

“I expected this to happen. So, honestly, we all were prepared. Definitely there will be damage done to certain areas in the Garo Hills, where Mukul, who was the chief minister and been in the party for so long, but there will also be resurgence of the Congress, especially in the East, and the North and the South of Garo Hills,” Pala said in reference to Mukul Sangma taking the major chunk out of the CLP to merge with the TMC. Former Speaker and veteran Congress legislator, Charles Pyngrope, who also defected to the TMC, said that the legislators have merged with the TMC by virtue of having two-third of the strength of the State legislature. However, legal experts and political observers maintain that the defection of the Mukul- Sangma led faction of the Congress to the TMC would not attract any action under the anti- defection law as they have the requisite numbers with them.

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IMPHAL, NOV 25: Manipur government on Thursday agreed to introduce the proposed new Manipur (Hill Areas) Autonomous District Council (ADC) Bill-2021 in the house of state Assembly. With this, the agitating tribal student bodies have agreed to suspend the ongoing economic blockade on national highways. The government also agreed to the release of all the executives of ATSUM, KSO and ANSAM arrested by the police earlier without any conditions.

The agreement was signed between the leaders of agitating student bodies and the state government after a talk in the presence of tribal ministers in the N Biren Singh government today, in the evening.

Presidents of ATSUM, ANSAM and KSO and additional chief secretary Letkhogin Haokip were the

signatories of the agreement.

The talk was held in the presence of state YAS minister Letpao Haokip, PHE minister L Dikho and hills and tribal affairs minister Vungzagin Valte and officials of the state tribal affairs and hills department.

During the talk, the state government agreed to hold a discussion with Hill Areas Committee (HAC) of the state assembly on the draft ADC bill within five days (on or before November 30) The state government further agreed to introduce the draft ADC bill 2021 in the upcoming winter session after completing the due process of law provided under the Constitution of India. At the same time, the student bodies agreed to suspend the three-day old economic blockade on the national highways for the time being,” the points of agreement which a copy is available with the Imphal Correspondent stated.

A total of 11 executives of the agitating student bodies including president and general secretary of ATSUM were arrested by a combined team of Nungba police of Noney district and state police commandos last (Wednesday) night from Nungba Bazar. Reports said that the combined team arrested the 11 executives while they were imposing the blockade by stopping Imphal-bound loaded trucks last night, around 11 pm.

Denouncing the arrest of its leaders, ATSUM had served an ultimatum to release its leaders by 2pm of today (November 25) while threatening to intensify its ongoing agitations.

Meanwhile, windshields of at least five Imphal-bound loaded trucks were smashed by suspected blockade supporters while crossing Nungba Bazar area along NH-37 around 1am on Thursday. There were no reports of injuries to the truckers in the attack.

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Whereas Sitala Sangtam, wife of Late Ab Hosto Sangtam of Kisetong village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act,1925 in order to draw/received the payment of moveable/ Immovable properties of her husband Late Ab Hosto Sangtam, he was a regular member of Kiphire District pensioners Association ppO/NO-11732 Kiphire, Nagaland, who expired on 01/11/2021. description of properties.

1. pension case 2. Any other dues., from the Treasury Office Kiphire, Nagaland. public are hereby asked to file objection/claim if any within 30 (Thirty) days from the date of issue of this order. If no objection/claim is received within the given time, Succession Certificate will be issued in favour of the applicant. sd/- district & sessions Judge Kiphire, nagaland Db-389/21b

Whereas Seyangla, wife of Late Lithike Sangtam of Thsingar village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act,1925 in order to draw/received the payment of moveable/Immovable properties of her husband Late Lithike Sangtam, he was a regular member of Kiphire District pensioners Association ppO/NO-11315 Kiphire, Nagaland, who expired on 30/09/2021. description of properties.

1. pension case 2. Any other dues., from the Treasury Office Kiphire, Nagaland. public are hereby asked to file objection/claim if any within 30 (Thirty) days from the date of issue of this order. If no objection/claim is received within the given time, Succession Certificate will be issued in favour of the applicant. sd/- district & sessions Judge Kiphire, nagaland Db-389/21A

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IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE KOhimA : nAGALAnD NOTICE

nOtice inVitinG Other cLAimAnts tO representAtiOn tO cOme fOrWArD (unDer pArt-X Of sectiOn 373 Of inDiAn successiOn Act 1925) succession case no. 474 of 2021 Where as application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Lt. Apranuo Kuosa @ Apranuo filed by: Miss Megolhoukhono Kuosa, D/o Lt. Neingutoulie Kuosa, represented by Shri. Neivisalie Kuosa (Guardian) R/o Sechü Zubza, District-Kohima: Nagaland. to draw/operate/close/Transfer: 1. Family Pensions and service benefits. Who expired on 03-10-2021.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of this said deceased may he/she so desire appear in this Court within 30 (thirty) days from the date of publication of notice.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this 24th day of November 2021. principal District & sessions Judge K-2269/21 Kohima, nagaland

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nOtice inVitinG cLAims/OBJectiOns Of Other cLAimAnt(s) fOr issue Of successiOn certificAte unDer pArt-1 Of inDiAn successiOn Act 1925 Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Hekhuto Sema has been applied by Smti Hetoli Sema, W/o Late Hekhuto Sema, R/o H/No. 502, Block-5, Chekiye Village, Dimapur, Nagaland for possession of: 1. PPO No. NL/4665 2. SBI A/C No. 11274129157 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the pension benefits/estates of the said deceased may if she/he so desire appear before this Court within a period of 30 days from the date of publication.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this the 23rd Nov. 2021.

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nOtice inVitinG cLAims/OBJectiOns Of Other cLAimAnt(s) fOr issue Of successiOn certificAte unDer pArt-1 Of inDiAn successiOn Act 1925 Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Supongsangba Ao has been applied by Shri Atongba Walling, nephew of Late Supongsangba Ao, R/o H/ No. 67, Ao Khel, Notun Bosti, Dimapur, Nagaland for possession of: SBI A/C No. 30014526274 GPF No. NL/MISC/4754 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the pension benefits/estates of the said deceased may if she/he so desire appear before this Court within a period of 30 days from the date of publication.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this the 23rd Nov. 2021. principal District & sessions Judge Dimapur : nagaland Dp-5696/21

Government of naGaland

Office Of the Deputy cOmmissiOner dimapur : naGaland

Civil misc. Case no. 21/2021

notiCe

Whereas the petitioner Smti. Lati Wanth M/o Late Nendimu Wanth resident of Middle Colony, Dimapur has filed a petition, praying for declaring the petitioner as "Legal Heir and Next of Kin" of Late Nendimu Wanth.

Notice is hereby issued inviting objection, if any to file before this Court on or before 24th day of Dec 2021 as to why the prayer of the petitioner shall not be granted.

Given under my hand and seal of this Court this 23rd day of Nov. 2021. additional deputy Commissioner dimapur, nagaland Dp-5685/21

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Infrastructure not ‘Rajniti’ but ‘Rashtra Niti’ for us: PM

NEW DELHI, NOV 25 (IANS): Laying the foundation Stone of Noida International Airport, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that for his government, infrastructure is not part of ‘Rajniti’ (politics) but part of ‘Rashtra Niti’ (national policy).

Prime Minister Modi laid the foundation stone of the airport in presence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, General V.K. Singh, Sanjiv Baliyan, S.P. Singh Baghel and B.L. Varma.

Addressing the public gathering after laying the foundation stone, the Prime Minister said, “Infrastructure is not part of politics for us but part of national policy (rashtra niti). We are making sure that the projects do not get stuck, do not hang in limbo or do not go astray.

We try to ensure that the infrastructure work is completed within the stipulated time”.

He mentioned that proposed International Airport

Narendra Modi will play a major role in the growing aviation sector of India and will be a key centre of maintenance, repair and operations of aircraft.

“A Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility is coming up in 40 acre, giving employment to hundreds of young people.

Today India spends thousands of crores of rupees for getting these services abroad. Now, all repairs and maintenance work will be carried out at proposed MRO centre and thousands of crores will be saved,” he said. The Prime Minister pointed out that the new India of the 21st century is building one of the best

Farmers head to Delhi borders as stir completes year today

(MSP). However, they welcomed the move and said this is only the first victory for the protesting farmers and they will continue their ongoing agitation.

The Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021, approved days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to repeal the three central farm laws, will now be introduced in the Lok Sabha for passage in the winter session of Parliament beginning November 29.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of various farm unions spearheading the ongoing stir, on Thursday said that the farmers’ movement, which began on November 26 last year, will complete one year of its “historic struggle tomorrow”.

“On the call of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, to mark one year of the historic farm movement with massive protests at Delhi morchas and the capitals and district headquarters of distant states, farmers and workers are responding in huge numbers. Thousands of farmers have started arriving at the various morchas in Delhi,” an SKM statement said.

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CHANDIGARH, NOV 25 (PTI): As the protest against the Centre’s farm laws at the Delhi borders completes one year on Friday, more farmers from Haryana and Punjab headed to the Singhu and Tikri borders of the national capital.

Thousands of farmers from parts of both states, including Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ferozepur, Patiala, Ludhiana, Sangrur, Ambala, Hisar, Sirsa, Rohtak, Kurukshetra, Bhiwani, are reaching the Delhi’s borders.

BKU (Rajewal) leader Pargat Singh told reporters at the Tikri border on Thursday that thousands of farmers have reached and many more are reaching.

“We will proceed as per what the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) decides,” he said when asked about be their future course of action.

Terming the Union Cabinet’s approval of a bill repealing the farm laws on Wednesday a mere “formality”, farmer leaders said now they want the government to resolve their other pending demands, most importantly the legal guarantee for the minimum support price

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‘Country has to decide if Jinnah’s followers will cause mischief’ NOIDA, NOV 25 (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said the country has to decide if the sweetness of sugarcane will grow or the followers of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah will cause mischief in the state, in a veiled attack on the Samajwadi Party (SP).

Adityanath trained his guns at the opposition as he joined the foundationlaying ceremony for the Noida International Airport in the Jewar area of Gautam Buddh Nagar in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said the state is moving on the path of development and highlighted various efforts of the government. The BJP leader also thanked the over 7,000 farmers who gave consent for the acquisition of their land for the airport without any controversy.

“Some people had tried to add bitterness in the sugarcane region (western parts) of Uttar Pradesh with a series of riots. Now the country has to decide if the sweetness of sugarcane will grow or Jinnah’s followers will cause mischief,” Aditya-

Yogi Adityanath nath said as he addressed the gathering of thousands.

SP leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had last month equated Jinnah with Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru, saying they all helped India achieve independence.

His remark had invited severe criticism from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), among others.

Uttar Pradesh is scaling new heights under Modi’s leadership, whether it is the public welfare schemes reaching everyone without any discrimination or creating new infrastructure for development or respecting people’s faith, Adityanath said.

BJP building airports only to sell them off, says Akhilesh Yadav

LU C K N OW, N OV 2 5 (PTI): Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said the BJP is laying the foundation stone of Noida International airport while selling other existing airports in the country.

Addressing a rally organised by Janwadi Party (Socialist), an SP ally, near Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow, Akhilesh said “How can the BJP be believed when on one hand it is making new airports, and on the other hand selling the existing ones?”

The Lucknow airport was given on lease to a private company earlier.

The SP chief ’s comments came on the day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Jewar International Airport in Greater Noida.

“One government airport was sold and the other is being made. I fail to understand the reason.

“BJP said the poor with slippers will travel in aircraft, the poor should let

Delhi HC junks plea against Salman Khurshid’s book NEW DELHI, NOV 25 (IANS): The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking direction to stop the publication, circulation and sale of former Union minister Salman Khurshid’s controversial book for its alleged remarks on Hindutva likening it to radical jihadist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram.

Adv Raj Kishor Chaudhary, appeared for petitioner Adv Vineet Jindal and pointed out the comment in a chapter called “The Saffron Sky” on Page 113 of the Congress leader’s

Salman Khurshid book “Sunrise over Ayodhya: Nationhood in our times” which reads -- “Sanatan dharma and classical Hinduism known to sages and saints was being pushed

aside by a robust version of Hindutva, by all standards, a political version similar to jihadist Islam of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years.” During the course of the hearing, the bench of Justice Yashwant Varma orally observed that it’s just an excerpt in the book. Further, the counsel argued that the book will create communal problems and then requested to remove the excerpt.

“Tell everyone that the book is badly written. Tell them to read something better. what can we do if people

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF EMPLOYMENT, SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP NAGALAND : KOHIMA

Govt. I.T.I 97th TRADE TEST RESULT Dated Kohima, the 25 Nov’2021 NO.DET-7/20/2001 (Vol-VI):/675 The result of the 97th Trade Test under SCVT held in the month of October, 2021 at Government Industrial Training Institutes, Kohima, Dimapur, Kiphire, Mokokchung, Mon, Phek, Tuensang, Wokha & Zunheboto is hereby declared and the Roll Numbers of successful Candidates are given below: Govt. ITI Pattern SCVT Roll Numbers 1. Kohima Annual (1 year) SCVT Km- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,108, Annual (1 year) Repeater SCVT Km- 93R1 SCVT Km- 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120.

Annual (2nd year) Annual (1 year) (Private) SCVT Km- 02P 2. Dimapur Annual (1year) SCVT Dm- 01, 02, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09.

3. Kiphire Annual (1year) SCVT Kp- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15,16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 4. Mokokchung Annual (1 year) SCVT Mk- 01 SCVT Mk- 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, Annual (1st year) SCVT Mk- 24R1,26R1, 29R1, 30R1, 32R1, 35R1, 36R1, Annual (1st year) Repeater 37R1, nd SCVT Mk- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, Annual (2 year) 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38.

Annual (Private) SCVT Mk- 01P (1st year), 01P (2nd year).

5. Mon Annual (1 year) SCVT Mn- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.

Annual (1st year) SCVT Mn- 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, SCVT Mn- 46, 47, 48, 49 Annual (2nd year) Annual (1 year) Repeater SCVT Mn- 35R1, 46R1, 47R1, 48R1, 49R1 Annual (Private) SCVT Mn- 01P 6. Phek Annual (1 year) SCVT Pk- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08.

7. Tuensang Annual (1 year) SCVT Ts- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. st SCVT Ts- 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

Annual (1 year) SCVT Ts- 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

Annual (2nd year) 8. Wokha Annual (1 year) SCVT Wk- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11.

SCVT Wk- 18, 19, 20, 21 Annual (2nd year) 9. Zunheboto Annual (1 year) SCVT Zn- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 Annual (1 year) Repeater SCVT Zn- 12R1, 13R1, 14R1, 15R1.

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modern infrastructure today. “Better roads, better rail network, better airports are not just infrastructure projects but they transform the entire region, transforming people’s lives completely,” he said.

The Prime Minister mentioned that the new International Airport will become the logistics gateway of northern India. “This airport will make the entire region a powerful symbol of the National Gati Shakti Masterplan,” he said.

Talking about benefits of infrastructure projects, Modi said, “Employment opportunities are created during airport construction.

The airport also requires thousands of people to run smoothly. Therefore, this airport will also give new employment to thousands of people of western Uttar Pradesh.”

The Prime Minister stated that after seven decades of independence, for the first time, Uttar Pradesh has started getting what it has always deserved.

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are so sensitive. Nobody has asked them to read it,” the judge said while dismissing the petition.

According to the plea, it was stated that the equivalence of Hinduism to ISIS and Boko Haram is perceived as a negative ideology Hindus have been following and Hinduism is violent, inhuman, and oppressive.

Freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1) of the Constitution goes hand-in-hand with reasonable restrictions that may be imposed under Article 19(2), so, in a country like India.

Akhilesh Yadav the BJP know how many of them have travelled in planes,” he said.

He said the BJP government is engaged in disposing off airports and asked who is profiting from these airports, when even the Delhi Airport is suffering losses. He asked what will happen to the “rights and honour” of the people in a country where public property is sold off.

“In a country where things are sold off, government institutions are sold off, what will happen to the rights and honour for which Ambedkar gave us the Constitution, what will happen to the future generations? Who will give them jobs, livelihood and reserva-

tion?” said the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister at the ‘Janvadi Jankranti Maharally’.

During his address, he asked the Chauhan community to extend its support to him, saying if it comes along the BJP will suffer a “historic defeat” in the upcoming elections.

JSP is considered to have an influence over voters of Nonia community, concentrated largely in 15 districts of Purvanchal, including Ghazipur, Chandauli, Azamgarh, Mau and Ballia region. There are around 1.26 per cent Nonia voters in the state. JSP president Sanjay Singh Chauhan had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on an SP ticket against BJP’s Mahendra Nath Pandey and had lost by a margin of around 14,000 votes.

Chauhan had bagged more than 4 lakh 96 thousand votes in the Lok Sabha Elections.

Akhilesh also criticized the BJP-ruled UP government for publishing “big advertisements” but failing to address people’s issues.

Param Bir Singh lands in Mumbai, appears before crime branch

M U M B A I , N OV 2 5 ( P T I ) : Fo r m e r M u m bai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, declared a proclaimed offender by a Mumbai court, arrived in Mumbai on Thursday to join the investigation as directed by the court, an official said.

Singh flew in from Chandigarh, the official said. “He has come to join the investigation with the orders of the court and will co-operate the investigation,” he added.

“I will join the inves-

tigation as directed by the court,” Singh told media on arrival.

After leaving the airport, Singh appeared before the Mumbai police crime branch unit-11, where his statement in connection with an extortion case registered at Goregaon police station here will be recorded, the official said.

The IPS officer, who is facing several extortion cases in Maharashtra, had told news channels on Wednesday that he was in Chandigarh.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

HOME DEPARTMENT: : POLICE ‘B’ BRANCH NO.POL-B/SWR/ESTT-1/2/20

Dated Kohima, the 25th Nov’, 2021

NOTICE FOR INTERVIEW It is hereby informed that the interviews of the candidates who have applied in response to the Advertisement NO.POL-B/SWR/ESTT/1/1/2018 dated 12th Feb 2020 by the Home Department, Government of Nagaland for reemployment of eligible Ex-Servicemen against certain posts in the Directorate of Sainik Welfare & Re-Settlement, Nagaland, and in the Zila Sainik Welfare Offices, Nagaland, will be conducted by the Selection Board, constituted by the Home Department, as per the following schedule: Date Posts Venue Time 13.12.21 Class I Gazetted Chief Secretary’s 11:00 AM 1) Director Conference Hall, 2) Dy Director 3) Office Supdt.

Nagaland Civil Sectt. Kohima 14.12.21 Non Gazetted Chief Secretary’s 11:00 AM 1) Steno Grade II Conference Hall 2) HA(Distt) 3) UDA(Dte/Distt) Nagaland Civil 4) Welfare Organizer (Distt) Sectt. Kohima 15.12.21 Non Gazetted Chief Secretary’s 11:00 AM 1) Accountant Conference Hall 2) LDA Cum Typist (Dist) 3) Office Peon(Dte/ Distt) Nagaland Civil 4) Sweeper Cum Chowkidar (Distt) Sectt. Kohima Note: 1. Only those candidates who have been found to be eligible by the Home Department after examination of the documents submitted, and other details provided by the applicant, may appear for the interviews for the post(s) applied by them.

2. The candidate may visit the site www.nagaland.gov.in and see the uploaded lists, or visit the Office of the Director of Sainik Welfare & Resettlement, Nagaland and Zila Sainik Welfare, Nagaland where the lists will be put upon the Notice Board or contact Police ‘B’ Branch Home Department during office hours, to find out if he/she is eligible for appearing for interview(s) for the post(s) applied by him.

3. In case a candidate is shown as being ineligible, and he is not satisfied with the reasons given for being considered ineligible, he may submit a representation giving the grounds on which he should be considered as eligible; to the Under Secretary, Police B Branch, Home Department (phone number 9436077127) either in person, or through email to sshnagaland@gmail.com/ temsumozur@gmail.com not later than 7th of December 2021. The Home Department will examine the representation, and taking into account the facts presented and other relevant aspects, take a decision regarding the eligibility, and convey to the candidate, which shall be final.

4. All the candidates must furnish their original personnel/service documents before the Selection Board at the time of interview.

5. It may be noted that attendance in the interview doesn’t mean automatic selection. The final selection and appointment subsequently of any eligible candidates a post will depend on the overall qualification of the candidate, his/her suitability, performance during interview; and other relevant factors as decided by the Selection Board, vis-à-vis other candidates, and as per the requirements of the Rajya Sainik Board/Directorate of SW&R, Nagaland.

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Raining projects in UP

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or political parties that matter, Uttar Pradesh does matter in every way for it holds the key to power at the centre. UP provides the highest number of Lok Sabha seats at 80. Any political party wanting to make a serious try for power has to first make its imprint in the 403- member state assembly.

For the BJP, the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh is most crucial as that itself will serve as an indicator of whether the party with prime minister Narendra Modi at the helm, can turn around the fortunes of the party. Incidentally, prime minister Modi migrated from Gujarat and adopted Uttar Pradesh as his home state and contested from Varanasi and won handsomely in 2014. UP was ripe for the picking and Modi led from the front in 2014 when he stood from Varanasi to win big from UP and other states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat etc. Earlier in 2012, the BJP had won 28 seats to the Samajwadi Party’s 224 and BSP’s 80 in the assembly elections. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won impressively bagging 71 out of 80 seats and no other party could cross the 5-mark. This was reflected in the 2017 assembly elections when BJP overtook all other parties by winning 312 of the 403 seats in the UP assembly.

The SP could manage only 47 seats. However in 2019, the BJP could not retain the 71 seats it won in 2014 when the party bagged 62, the BSP 10, SP 5 and Congress 1. With just a few months left for the crucial UP polls, the state will see the launch of several mega projects, some of which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The series of projects will be launched in the months of November and December ahead of the polls due next year. Among the mega project is the Noida International Airport at Jewar Uttar Pradesh. Jewar , when fully completed will be Asia’s biggest airport. It is the fifth international airport is to come up in NOIDA in the National Capital Region (NCR). The phase-1 of the airport will have a capacity to serve 12 million passengers a year and is scheduled to be completed in 36 months. Prior to Modi, UP had only two international airports - Lucknow and Varanasi - till 2012. The third international airport at Kushinagar became operational after it was inaugurated by Modi on October 20, while work on the airport in Ayodhya is on in full swing and air services are expected to start early next year. Besides the Noida international airport, Modi also inaugurated Film City and Ganga Expressway. He will also inaugurate Gorakhpur’s closed fertilizer factory and Gorakhpur AIIMS will also start by next month. Modi also inaugurated the 340.8 km Rs.22,500 crore Purvanchal Expressway which also has a 3.2 km air strip to be used during emergency. Modi is also to launch the National Cadet Corps Alumni Association of which he would be the first member. He would launch 100 new co- educational Sainik Schools as well. He had also earlier, inaugurated the Rs. 400 crore unit for propulsion system of anti-tank guided missiles under the UP defence corridor in Jhansi is part of the projects that would be launched besides Rs. 6300 crore worth of projects in the Bundelkhand region. Modi and the BJP are leaving nothing to chance in order to retain UP and also win huge in 2024. It remains to be seen if voters in UP will vote for Adityanath or Akhilesh in 2022 and Modi or others in 2024.?

DailyDevotion The Secret of Spiritual Consistency

God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ… —Galatians 6:14

When a person is newly born again, he seems inconsistent due to his unrelated emotions and the state of the external things or circumstances in his life. The apostle Paul had a strong and steady underlying consistency in his life. Consequently, he could let his external life change without internal distress because he was rooted and grounded in God. Most of us are not consistent spiritually because we are more concerned about being consistent externally. In the external expression of things, Paul lived in the basement, while his critics lived on the upper level. And these two levels do not begin to touch each other. But Paul’s consistency was down deep in the fundamentals. The great basis of his consistency was the agony of God in the redemption of the world, namely, the Cross of Christ.

State your beliefs to yourself again. Get back to the foundation of the Cross of Christ, doing away with any belief not based on it. In secular history the Cross is an infinitesimally small thing, but from the biblical perspective it is of more importance than all the empires of the world. If we get away from dwelling on the tragedy of God on the Cross in our preaching, our preaching produces nothing. It will not transmit the energy of God to man; it may be interesting, but it will have no power. However, when we preach the Cross, the energy of God is released. “…it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.…we preach Christ crucified…” (1 Corinthians 1:21, 23).

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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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Post-mortem

Happiness: An outcome of money acquisition or beyond H appiness as a term and a vocabulary is often used by all – the rich and the poor, irrespective of nationality, gender, creed, color, class or caste. There have been a number of definitions and notions on ‘happiness’ available in the literary world. Over the years, ethicists, philosophers, theologians and others have delved into the meaning and content of ‘happiness’ from diverse vantage points. And yet, the conception of ‘happiness’ keep changing as the templates radically and drastically shifts and thus warrants more clarity as the world we live progresses.

Notions on ‘happiness’ though available in plenty, however there are two perspectives seem to be clashing with each other – material and beyondmaterial. From an economic perspective, Ruchir Sharma comprehensively argues in his article appeared in the Times of India dated 11th of November, 2021, that how money as means to happiness leverages which the US Congress recently joined a growing list of world leaders pushing to supplement GDP with a broader measure of human progress. In line with it, Simon Kuznets, the Nobel Laureate who invented the precursor to GDP to quantify US losses during the Great Depression.

Substantiating further, he cites Kuznets who pushed for a higher standard moving beyond the crude tallying of goods bought and sold hardly reflected the well-being of people. In

`1968, US Senator Robert Kennedy said gross output measures everything “except that which makes life worthwhile”, including the health, education and welfare of children.

These aspects add more value, while quantifying and qualifying Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, researchers have been proposing alternatives from Gross National Happiness to the Well-Being Index.

Using examples such as Malaysian Fuzzy Quality of Life Index, and India’s Green GDP, more specifically, the US legislators keep promoting the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which contends alongside the Better Life Index (BLI) mooted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Nonetheless, GDP is the most commonly used measure for the size of an economy, growth and development. GDP can be compiled for a country, or region or for several countries combined together. As the contours of indicators to measure GDP keep changing, currently the contender is the Better Life Index (BLI) endorsed by OECD. For decades there have been attempt to replace or modify GDP in tune to the changing social and environmental factors or the combination of both or disagreeing on some aspects of it so that new ways of measuring it. There are a few who are opposed to measuring GDP because it takes the sum total of the gross domestic product that obscures the per capita income of

a person, which is why they want measuring GDP per person or aggregating the average income per person. Measuring GDP per person or average portrays and thus reflects on a few social welfare indicators by showing how a particular section (s) of population have progressed in socio-economic facets.

It is assumed generally that the wealthier nations with higher per capita GDP have higher life expectancy and relatively better equivalence of social support leading to lower infant mortality, poverty ratios, pollution and corruption. Based on these parameters many believe that richer countries that enjoy higher levels of per capita income countries tend to be happier.

For instance, the recent World Happiness Report ranks just one country with per capita GDP under $15,000 (Costa Rica) in the top 25. None with per capita GDP over $15,000 in the bottom 70. The rationale being happiness survey look into any country that enjoins per capita GDP. Those developing countries with higher per capita income are now following suit as prescribed by the UN’s multidimensional poverty index, which includes quality of life measures such as access to drinking water; a solid roof overhead and basic assets like a bicycle. So, the growth paradigm is now an accepted nomenclature of the world that underlines liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG). India is a classic example that seem to have reduced

poverty-stricken communities; infant mortality rates; brought down significantly the number of people living in severe multidimensional socio-economic aspects as per the UN reports.

Despite its progress in the multidimensional factors, India has been sliding down in its happiness rankings and presently stand in the 139th position out of 140 countries. In addition, India’s per capita GDP is around $2000 which adds to rising concern over inequality and corruption. Do all these factors lead to less happiness?

As we see the facts and figures and the data subscribing to these.

The data shows that higher the income higher is the happiness.

So, the higher income countries such as Swiss and Norwegians are happier than the less rich Germans and French. This is the schema that the current policy makers view.

However, there are some who go beyond money and materialistic yardsticks and considerations such GNP, GDP, per capita income and host of others. There are many more aspects to life and living, and so measuring humans should not be solely on materialistic means.

Nevertheless, in a world we live is now dictated by materialistic values that asks for more and more acquisition. Wants are unlimited and human nature is pushed towards meeting those wants. Materiality has taken over the ethos and now humans are driven by Mammon – materiality of the world.

The driving force of our world now is sheer mass production and mass consumption.

The desire to produce unlimited goods is being propelled by an ideology of materialism vis-à-vis ‘unlimited wants’. Humans have to fight against this greed of acquisition to satiate the ‘unlimited wants’, which is insatiable. An ideal example is Bhutan, though poor, in terms of happiness it stands apart. And so, happiness is not that determined by money alone. Money plays some part just a portion in augmenting happiness and certainly there are other things that adds to it.

What is happening now is in a world of materiality the higher levels of ethical codes and values seem to have been pushed to sidelines. When money becomes the centripetal, it is obvious that the aspects that constitutes ‘happiness’ such as contentment, sharing, need-based not want-based, moderation and thankfulness gradually ebbs out. Instead greed and dubious means of acquisitiveness takes the center-stage. Happiness is the end and the means to acquire it revolve around not acquisition of money, but goes beyond. As Lao Tzu rightly points out that “If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.”

Dr. John Mohan Razu

For women from marginalised groups, justice still remains a far-fetched dream in India

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he recently released Tamil film, Jai Bhim, addresses custodial torture and death and traces the twists and turns of the judicial process as it unfolds in the courts.

As its title indicates, the film’s protagonist, a left-leaning lawyer, insists on the rule of law and constitutional rights and spares no effort to work either to secure justice for the brutal violence inflicted on a man from an Adivasi community, and which resulted in his death.

Deeply traumatised by all that had transpired, his shocked yet resolute wife stays with the judicial system, till a modicum of justice appears a possibility.

The film has been inspired by a real-life incident in which justice was ultimately secured, but the incidents have been somewhat fictionalised. Ironically, it is for this reason that it has been criticised – for instance, it has been said that the filmmaker deliberately changed the name of the chief perpetrator of custodial violence.

While in the original case, the officer was from a minority community, he was shown to be a man from a locally dominant caste. This, critics insist, has been done with the intention of maligning the caste in question.

This is an intriguing charge, and while one is tempted to assign local, political motives for this, I wish to do something else here – address the questions such a charge raises.

Understanding police brutality Does torture have to do with the fact that the “torturers” are likely to be from dominant social groups, rather than otherwise? Is it the case that the police are brutal because they assume they are socially entitled to wield power over the poor and the socially marginal individuals they routinely view as “rowdy sheeters” and “habitual offenders”?

May we then assume that policemen from non-dominant social groups might be less inclined to inflict violent hurt?

Even if they do, could it be said that they were acting on orders, rather than otherwise?

How might we even know how dissent works in the force, given there are no mechanisms, such

as unions or associations, where one might bravely insist on one’s right to conscionable action?

K Balagopal in an important essay, Whom and Why do Police Kill? has noted that in any local instance, the police, no doubt, answer to the realities of social power and authority, and are almost always prevailed upon by locally powerful political persons or parties to act in ways that they do. But, equally, they act, in keeping with the power that is vested in their uniform and persons. Set “apart”, in that they are seldom held accountable for their acts, in an everyday sense, they remain “distant” from those they police.

Distrusted and feared, the system, Balagopal makes clear, is sustained by its ability to exercise calibrated violence and arbitrary terror simultaneously.

Whether by labelling people as deviant, or attending to their gender, caste and community identities, the police work to a social template, even as they exult in their authority to spread menace and fear. They do this as a matter of course, habituated, as they are, to ways of being and acting in impunity. In turn, this “habitude” defines their social presence and role.

In order to understand police brutality, and why it implicates all those that join the force, we need to understand how habitude works its effects. And for this, we need to attend to the workaday character of policing, and take note of the social power and menace symbolised by khaki and lathi, and note how routine police procedure and action naturalise brutality, as such.

And here I wish to draw upon the work undertaken by a state agency, the Tamil Nadu Women’s Commission, which, at one time, called attention to routine acts of police cruelty as it did to acts of monumental hurt.

Caste and gender In the years 2002-2005, the Tamil Nadu Women’s Commission, headed at that time by V Vasanthi Devi, identified and acted on a range of matters that afflicted women’s lives. From sexual harassment to custodial torture of women detenus, the plight of women undertrials to the problems faced by sex work-

ers, Dalit women’s struggle over land to female infanticide, the commission addressed a range of issues and through diverse means: the holding of public tribunals, locally organised sittings and hearings that brought the commission home to mofussil and rural citizens and by seeking out and working closely with a range of civil institutions including women’s groups, civil rights advocates, Dalit organisations. Given that it had as yet not been granted statutory powers, the commission sought to build ethical credibility for its acts through these means.

In and through this work, the commission realised the centrality of policing in the lives of ordinary citizens, rather the ways in which the police station had emerged as a given site for the arbitration and resolution of disputes and afflictions that were wide-ranging: marital discord, property-related issues, indebtedness, caste tensions, discrimination at work sites, petty cheating, embezzlement, thievery.

Women, who sought legal succour and justice in any of these instances, first approached the local police. Sometimes they were forced to do so because the other parties to the dispute at hand had gone to the police with their grievance.

In almost all instances, whether they were complainants, or had been called to the station for questioning, women were made to feel humiliated for having brought “family” and “personal” matters out into the open, and subjected to belittling misogynistic verbal taunting.

Further, working-class, lower caste and Dalit women were subject to casteist abuse should they dare protest police high-handedness, in however respectful a manner. Caste worked in other ways as well: a Dalit woman’s self-confidence was as likely to irk a policeman as anything that she actually said or did.

One of the complaints that the Women’s Commission received had precisely to do with a “casual” crime of this sort. A working Dalit woman had been taunted by a local policeman.

She took the matter to the station and protested his casteist slurs,

only to be further demeaned and physically assaulted.

If the complaints had to do with caste discrimination or with sexual violence, complainants were threatened and sometimes had cases filed against them.

Taking the part of the dominant castes and of male perpetrators, and actively aided by a culture of nepotism and corruption, local police, the commission found out, sought to break a female complainant’s resolve in any number of ways.

Custodial violence The commission’s meticulously maintained records (made available to this author by Vasanthi Devi) make it clear that for women, especially if they are poor or Dalit, or both, and if they have fallen out with their husbands or families, everyday policing is one sustained horror.

While in some instances it resulted in bone-chilling acts of torture and death, the more pervasive form of menace had to do with the routine and casual degradation of women’s persons and an instrumental and brutal approach to their justice concerns. Unsurprisingly, the commission listed “police atrocities” as an area of its core concern – and the term came to refer to acts that routinely compromised a disenfranchised woman’s struggle for justice and dignity as well as to specific acts of custodial violence against women.

In one instance where a Dalit woman, Karuppi, from the arundathiyar community was found hanging from a transmission tower close to a police station, the commission sought a public enquiry which revealed a horrific sequence of events set in motion by the local police: her arrest, an attempt to foist (false) theft charges on her, physical intimidation of her family members, deploying her kin to beat her and violate her dignity and finally her death.

Eventually, following the commission’s intervention, the matter went to court and the policemen concerned were convicted and sentenced, but since then, they have gone on appeal to the Supreme Court. It is 18 years since Karuppi died her tragic death and her memory

awaits an elusive justice.

The commission marked the violence done unto Karuppi and her family not only the atrocity that it was but as a violent expression of the everyday indignity inflicted on the poor and the marginal citizenry.

In the public hearing where the crime was addressed initially, it was pointed out that custodial brutality remained unnoticed and unaccounted for because, for the poor who were its victims, this was but an extension of their social defencelessness.

On the one hand, the criminal justice system actively sought to criminalise them – in Karuppi’s case, the police attempted to foist a false charge of thievery on her, and when she refused to “accept” she was “guilty” of the crime, they tortured her.

On the other hand, the system made it clear that the poor cannot claim innocence.

Karuppi’s family was threatened with dire consequences, should they seek to speak the truth, of what happened to her and them.

Only when the commission secured them safe and enabling conditions and active protection of their persons, could they stay with the case and prosecute for justice.

That our most marginal citizens are ready to fight the legal and constitutional fight, should they be assured of the minimal conditions to wage such a struggle, is grimly ironic. In effect, they wagered their good faith on a system, geared to retain them in their social and economic marginality.

The Tamil Nadu Women’s Commission was sensitive to both the specific as well as structural issues that women sought to battle.

This is why it marked police brutality, as such, as an issue for women and went on to mark their everyday experience of policing as an unlikely yet powerful object lesson – as if to say that it is not only the atrocity that tells us the truth about a brutal system but equally its everyday workings as experienced by its most marginal sections.

V Geetha is a writer, translator and publisher from Chennai.

(As published by Scroll.in) Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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Shakti Mills gangrape: Life term to 3 convicts

MUMBAI, NOV 25 (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to three convicts in the 2013 gangrape case of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai, saying that they “deserve imprisonment for life to repent the offence committed by them as death puts an end to the concept of repentance”.

A division bench of Justices Sadhana Jadhav and Prithviraj Chavan refused to confirm the death penalty awarded to Vijay Jadhav, Mohammad Qasim Shaikh and Mohammad Ansari, and commuted their sentence to life imprisonment for the remainder of their lives. It, however, said that the convicts shall not be entitled for release on fur-

The cordoned off spot where a female photojournalist was gang-raped on August 22, 2013 inside Shakti Mills.

lough or parole as they cannot be allowed to assimilate in the society and as there is no scope for reformation.

At the time of the incident in 2013, Jadhav was 19 years old, Qasim Shaikh was 21 and Ansari was 28.

The bench, while pronouncing its order said that it cannot ignore the fact that the offence has shocked the collective conscience of the society and rape is a

violation of human rights, but the sentence of death is irrevocable.

“A rape victim suffers not just physically but mentally as well. It is a violation of human rights. But only public outcry cannot be taken into account. Judgment should not be guided by public outcry or public opinion,” the court said.

It added that courts have a duty to consider cases

dispassionately and cannot ignore the procedure laid down by the law.

“Death puts an end to the concept of repentance.

It cannot be said that the accused deserved only death penalty. They deserve imprisonment for life to repent the offence committed by them,” the bench said.

“The convicts deserve life imprisonment for the remainder of their natural life. They cannot assimilate in society as they look upon women as an object,” the court said.

Quoting poet Khalil Gibran in the judgement, the high court said, “And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

Is not remorse the justice which is administered by that very law which you would fain serve? Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the

10,000 excess teachers in govt schools: Rio (From p-1) sanction funds for early implementation of the first phase of the TizuZungki Inland Waterways project.

Replying to a starred q u e s t i o n b y Yi t a c h u , Paiwang claimed that Union minister of ports, shipping and waterways Sarbananda Sonowal had asked him during a meeting to submit prioritised proposal to begin the project.

Paiwang said detailed project report (DPR) prepared by M/s WAPCOS in accordance with the guideline of Central Sector Scheme for Inland Waterway Transport had been finalised, adding the project would be implemented in three phases.

He said the Tizu-Zungki river was declared as a National Waterway-101 as

per the National Waterway Act on March 26, 2016.

However, he pointed out that the project could not be taken up due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Claiming that the waterway would serve as a corridor for South East Asia, Paiwang said the waterways would be beneficial for districts like Phek and Meluri whose high deposits of granite, marble and limestone could be shipped to international markets. He said ships too would be coming in with finished goods and essential materials for the North-eastern States.

Legislator TR Zeliang questioned why the project was not taken up before the pandemic, especially at least three years ago, since it was declared in 2016 and also called for submission of the DPR as soon as possible. To

this, Paiwang replied that Nagaland Inland Waterways Board was constituted only on August 6, 2021.

Avangkhu into trade centre: Chief minister Neiphiu Rio assured the House the State government would continue to pursue and develop Avangkhu (IBTC) into a trade centre.

Replying to a starred question by Yitachu, he acknowledged that progress of Avangkhu (IBTC) was slow due to the distance factor, for which activities were not going in full strength. He revealed that the work order amount was Rs 94,73,000 and Rs 75,73,000 was released, while Rs 19,00,000 was withheld.

Rio said the project was reviewed on February 7, 2013 and it was found that

only 70% of the work was complete. He said the project was again reviewed on March 26, 2021 and it was found that construction of internal main and approach road and plot development work were incomplete.

Mentioning that construction of guard house was incomplete, he said ASIDE funding was delinked from support of the Centre. He said due to fund constraint, the department could not pay the withheld amount.

27 RD blocks sans banks: Replying to a starred question by NPF legislator Yitachu on the number of RD blocks in the State without banks, Rio, who is also in-charge of finance department, said there were 27 RD blocks in the State without banks.

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7 Madrasas are Construction ban reimposed in hideouts of Delhi; aid to affected workers terrorists: UP Min

innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty.”

A dvo c a t e Yu g Chaudhry, appearing for the convicts, had argued that the death sentence had been handed out incorrectly and that the trial had not been conducted fairly.

The state government had argued that the death penalty was justified as it was a deterrent order.

In March 2104, the trial court had convicted four persons for gangraping a 22-year-old photo-journalist inside the abandoned Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai on August 22, 2013. The court had then imposed death penalty on three of the convicts - Jadhav , Bengali and Ansari - as they were also convicted for gang-raping a 19-year-old telephone operator at the same place months before raping the photojournalist.

LU C K N OW, N OV 2 5 (IANS): Uttar Pradesh Minister of State, Raghuraj Singh, has said that madrasas are hideouts of terrorists, where they are trained. He said that if given a chance, he will close the madrasas of the whole country because a person coming out of the madrasa becomes a terrorist.

Talking to reporters, Singh said that if the face of terrorism has to be trampled and the ‘snake’ has to be eliminated, then “we will crush terrorism just as the hood of the snake is crushed”. He said that earlier there were 250 madrasas in Uttar Pradesh and today, more than 22,000 madrasas have been established.

Referring to the terrorist Mannan Wani, who was a student of AMU, he said that he was a terrorist studying here.

query regarding government’s plan to open bank branches in each of the RD blocks, he said the issue was being monitored and reviewed through the State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) chaired by chief secretary with important State government departments and all banks operating in the State represented in the committee.

He said the proposal of opening bank branches in unbanked RD blocks have been given to the banks by SLBC. However, he remarked that opening of bank branches depended entirely on the assessment and decision of the respective banks.

Rio disclosed that through SLBC meetings, the State government was reviewing the matter and emphasising on the need to open branches by the banks expeditiously.

Informing the House

that allottee banks had positioned business correspondents in some unbanked blocks, including Aghunaqa, Chulikha and West Ralan, he added that the banks were also making efforts to position bank correspondents in all unbanked RD blocks.

He disclosed that the banks were also doing their best to place business correspondents at consumer points to provide basic banking services in all the unbanked areas.

Through this, Rio said some basic banking services like opening of savings bank account, withdrawal of money through micro ATMs placed at service points and making deposits would become easier.

Mentioning that the NLA would be passing a resolution on the SARFAESI Act, he hoped that after this, the banks would come forward to help local entre-

NEW DELHI, NOV 24 (PTI): Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday said the government has decided to reimpose the ban on construction and demolition activities following the Supreme Court order in this regard.

He said instructions have been issued to the Labour Department to prepare a plan for providing financial assistance to workers affected by the ban.

“We have decided to ban construction and demolition activities again from Thursday. The reimposition of the ban will cause inconvenience to workers. So, we will provide them financial assistance. We have directed the Labour Department to prepare a plan in this regard,” Rai told PTI. The Supreme Court had on Wednesday reim-

posed the ban on construction activities in Delhi-NCR until further orders.

Non-polluting construction activities such as plumbing work, interior decoration, electrical work and carpentry are allowed.

The apex court had also asked authorities to use funds collected as labour cess for the welfare of construction workers to provide them subsistence for the duration of the ban.

The ban on construction and demolition activities was lifted on Monday in view of an improvement in the air quality and inconvenience caused to workers.

On Wednesday, the Delhi government decided to resume physical classes in schools, colleges and other educational institutions and reopen government offices from November 29.

preneurs and rural populace.

He said the credit to deposit (CD) ratio of Nagaland was at 49.62 as on September 3, 2021, while the national average was 70.5. He said even out of the 49.62 CD ratio, loans were extended mostly to government employees in the form of housing or car loans, while there was no provision for business activities since banks did not accept mortgaging of houses or other property.

He informed the members that the government was aware of the issue and was therefore trying its best to ensure that financial institutions come forward to help in the growth of a

vibrant economy.

Yitachu pointed that since all the system of channelising government activities was done through banks, he stressed that it was important that the government comes up with steps to take up the issue.

Earlier, the ninth session of 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) began with the Speaker Sharingain Longkumer welcoming the new members to the house.

The speaker also made obituary references to former legislators Pongchailenba Konyak, Chüpfhüo Kense, Lhiweshielo Mero, Kihoto Hollohon and Khuosatho Nyusou.

For the first time, India has more women than men ence,” Singh said.

The data also showed India’s fertility rate had fallen to two children per woman, down from 2.2 in the last survey from 201516.

That figure is below the replacement level needed to maintain population levels, which PFI hailed as a “significant feat for the country’s family-planning programme”.

India is home to around 1.3 billion people and UN projections forecast the country’s population to overtake China later this decade.

The survey’s data was drawn from around 600,000 households across India.

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This is the first time any significant gover nment population survey has shown more women than men in India, dating back to the first national census in 1876.

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Parents in India have historically favoured sons over daughters, who are often considered burdensome and costly due to the tradition of wedding dowries.

Sex-selective abortions have been outlawed but the practice has persisted, and national population data has consistently recorded one of the world’s highest ratios of men to women.

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Jyotiraditya Scindia told the gathering.

He said earlier, there were only four airports in Uttar Pradesh but now, there are nine airports and this (Jewar) will be the 10th airport in the state, as he hit out at the previous non-BJP governments. “It was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s direction that Asia’s biggest airport has to be built in Uttar Pradesh,” Scindia said.

“Where there is a will, there is a way.... It was an ambitious resolution of the prime minister, which has come true today,” he added.

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cally motivated”.

Eyewitnesses said the doctors, during the question-answer session with Nadda, objected to the increase in the biomedical waste handling charges by the Goa government Talking to reporters after the protest, Dr Anil D’Silva, member of the IDA, said that dentists have been “illogically placed in the category of doctors who produce heavy biomedical waste”.

He pointed out that a new private contractor from Delhi has been hired to collect the biomedical waste, and the firm has placed dentists in the category of those producing higher quantity of such waste, due to which the charges have gone up.

Talking to reporters over the protest, CM Sawant said the dentists had met

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PANAJI, NOV 25 (PTI): A group of private dentists in Goa wore black arm bands during an interaction with BJP president J P Nadda here to register their protest against the recent hike in biomedical waste handling charges by the state government.

The dentists registered the protest during the interaction that Nadda held with medical professionals from different streams late Wednesday evening, which was organised by the BJP’s state medical cell.

The group of dentists, which protested, was affiliated to the Indian Dental Association (IDA).

Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who was also present there, later said the protesting dentists, who “created a scene” before the BJP president, were “politi-

pected cancer cases referred from CHCs/ PHCs and forwarded to DH Kohima.

The Tertiary Care Cancer Centre (TCCC) at DH Kohima approved (December 2016) by the Centre for Rs.43.50 crore, and for which funds received were Rs.13.23 crore, could not be made functional due to delay in completion of civil works. Equipment procured for Rs.7.04 crore for TCCC before completion of civil works were lying idle in DH Kohima. Despite availability of funds, the citizens were deprived of specialised cancer care facility in the State (October 2019), it stated.

HIV & AIDS care in the state: The report said that significant deficiencies were observed in implementation of programmes

by Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS).

It said specific surveillance plan was not formulated by the NSACS and hence identification of the pockets of infection of HIV&AIDS was limited to data received from District Aids Prevention and Control Unit (DAPCU).

Counselling offered in ICTC centres for pregnant women was inadequate as out of 376 pregnant women screened as positive for HIV&AIDS in test checked DHs, only 41.41 per cent were referred or attended in ARTs. Since all the positive cases were not given ART services, the report said possibility of transmission of HIV&AIDS to the new-borns cannot be ruled out.

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tent shortage of doctors in three test checked districts hospitals of Phek, Wokha and Tuensang in important cadres of services of medical officers, staff nurse and paramedical staff. Shortage of doctors in DH Phek was 50 per cent against norms, whereas in DH Wokha, the shortage of doctors was 54 per cent during 2014-19.

Number of doctors in DH Tuensang slightly improved from 12 (2014-15) to 14 (2018-19). In the case of DH Kohima, position of number of doctors had improved from 44 to 62 (40.91 per cent) during 2014-19.

Blood bank & blood storage units: Out of four test checked DHs, Blood Bank was available only in DH Kohima. Blood Storage Unit at DHs Wokha, Phek and Tuensang were non-functional.

Procurement of drugs with less shelf life: All the supplied drugs should have a minimum life of 18 months, but in drug procurements, it was observed that in 13 out of 20 supply orders placed by the Department in 201719, 123 drugs supplied were with less than stipulated shelf life of 18 months.

Cancer care: Audit observed that Mammography machine and Colposcope were not available in the test checked three DHs. Test checked hospitals did not maintain the records of sus-

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Also addressing the meeting, asst. general manager SBI Abhinash Hembrom stated that SBI was working closely with BAN for the past few months and was hopeful to see visible changes through the joint effort in the coming months.

Others who spoke on the occasion include-NIDC deputy general manager Temjenyanger Jamir, Jianthai Lung Kamei of NeDFI, GM NABARD Tiakala Ao and state director KVIC I. Athuba Lusang.

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has created about 11 crore employment in both manufacturing and service sector combined.

She urged all stakeholders in the state to play an impor tant role and contribute to each other’s growth, while also stressing that a corroborated 5 year roadmap for review at regular interval was vital.

Mercy also said that creating wealth from waste and flower trade was potential sector where Nagaland could initiate with proper planning.

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Nagaland for the benefit of all MSME entrepreneurs for implementation of various schemes available.

Addressing the gathering, Mercy Epao was optimistic that BAN, as the apex business body representing all sections of Naga Entrepreneurs, could act as an effective influencer and contribute towards creating a positive entrepreneurial ecosystem.

With Centre’s focus on MSMEs to help make India a 5 trillion-dollar economy, Mercy said MSME sector

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Members of BAN after the interactive session.

MUMBAI, NOV 25 (PTI): The rupee slumped 12 paise to end at 74.52 (provisional) against the US currency on Thursday amid month-end dollar demand and foreign fund outflows from equity and debt markets.

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at 74.55 and witnessed a high of 74.47 and a low of 74.58 against the US dollar.

The local unit finally settled at 74.52, down 12 paise over its previous close.

On Wednesday, the rupee had closed at 74.40.

“Rupee depreciated after two days of consolidation amid month-end dollar demand and foreign fund outflows from equities and debt markets,” said Dilip Parmar, Research Analyst, HDFC Securities. Lacklustre price actions have been seen in the global forex market following the US holiday, while the rupee traded on the backfoot.

(From p-1) In the case of PHCs, availability of drugs was 36 per cent and in the case of CHCs, availability of drugs was very poor, it said, adding that only 39 per cent drugs were available across the State as against 225 recommended drugs. CAG has, therefore, recommend that the department could further shore up its overall spending on healthcare and particularly increase its spending on drugs and medicines and make them available across all health facilities.

Unspent NHM funds: Against available funds of Rs.564 crore (GoI/ GoN/ OB/interest) during the period 2014-19, the report said NHM state society utilised Rs.473.26 crore of the funds, with unspent balances ranging from 43 to 68 per cent of the available funds during the period.

In three impor tant NHM programmes (National Oral Health Programme, National Programme for Health Care of Elderly and Non-Communicable Diseases), CAG report said the unspent balances ranged from 50 to 99 per cent, which indicated that the intended beneficiaries were deprived of the benefits of these programmes.

Shortage of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff: Audit scrutiny revealed that there was persis-

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DIMAPUR: Business Association of Nagas (BAN) held an interactive session cum dinner with joint secretary of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) Mercy Epao, as a special guest and other representatives from various government institutions including the bankers.

During the interactive session a special representation was submitted by BAN Mercy Epao and sought the intervention of the ministry in the functioning of MSME Nagaland under the post of director, with all the vacant posts (Ministerial & Technical) to be filled.

BAN also urged the ministry for setting up of state-of-the-art mineral and food testing lab for MSME, extension Centre of Nagaland Tool Room and Training Centre (NTTC) in every district for impartation of Skill Development based on One District One Product (ODOP model), and immediate establishment of NSIC office in

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France beefs up sea rescue work

Spars with United Kingdom over migrant deaths CALAIS (FRANCE)/ZAGREB, NOV 25 (AGENCIES): France said on Thursday it was mobilising reservists and beefing up sea rescue operations as London and Paris traded blame over the deaths of 27 migrants trying to reach Britain in an inflatable dinghy.

The migrants drowned when their dinghy deflated in the Channel on Wednesday, one of many such risky journeys attempted each year in rickety, overloaded boats as people flee poverty at home in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond.

The deaths have created more animosity between countries already at odds over Brexit, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying France was at fault and French Interior Minister Gerald accusing Britain of “bad immigration management”.

President Emmanuel Macron defended Paris’s actions but said France was merely a transit country for

French police patrol near the Slack dunes, the day after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated. (Reuters)

most migrants on its soil and that increased European cooperation was needed to tackle illegal immigration.

“I will ... say very clearly that our security forces are mobilised day and night,” Macron said during a visit to the Croatian capital Zagreb, promising “maximum mobilisation” of French forces, with reservists and drones watching the coast.

“But above all, we need to seriously strengthen cooperation ... with Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and the European Commission.”

One smuggler arrested overnight had bought d i n g h i e s i n G e r m a n y, and many often cross via Belgium before reaching France’s northern shores, on their way to Britain, French

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officials said. France will invite interior ministers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK, as well as the European Commission, to a joint meeting on Sunday in Calais, the prime minister’s office said.

Sensitive political issue

Wednesday’s incident was the worst of its kind on record in the waterway separating Britain and France, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, where currents are strong and the water is cold.

With relations fraught by years of tension over Brexit and immigration, much of the focus on Thursday was on who should bear responsibility, even if both sides vowed to work together to find joint solutions.

“We have had difficulty persuading some of our partners, particularly the French, to do things in a way that we think the situation deserves,” Johnson said.

Britain repeated an offer to have joint BritishFrench patrols off the French coast near Calais, from where many migrants take to the water.

Paris has previously resisted such calls and it is unclear whether it will change its mind five months before a presidential election in which migration and security are important topics.

They are also sensitive issues in Britain, where Brexit campaigners told voters that leaving the European Union would mean regaining control of the country’s borders.

London has in the past threatened to cut financial support for France’s border policing if Paris fails to stem the flow of migrants.

“We’re prepared to offer support on the ground, we’re prepared to offer resources,” Immigration Minister Kevin Foster told BBC TV. “We’re clear: we don’t just see this as an issue that France needs to deal with, but one that we want to

Ukraine warns Russia that any attack on Ukraine would be costly

work together with France and our wider European KYIV, NOV 25 (AGENpartners...”

CIES): Ukraine’s foreign ‘A tragedy that we minister warned Russia on Thursday that an attack on dreaded’ Re s c u e vo l u n t e e r s his country would incur and rights groups said such “political, economic and drowning incidents were to human losses” and would be expected as smugglers be too costly.

Russia has been buildand migrants take more risks to avoid a growing police ing up forces near its border with Ukraine, and Kyiv, the presence.

“To accuse only the United States and NATO smugglers is to hide the have voiced concerns about responsibility of the French a possible Russian attack -- a and British authorities,” the suggestion the Kremlin has Auberge de Migrants NGO dismissed as false. read more said.

“We are not trying to It and other NGOs guess what is in (Russian pointed to a lack of legal President Vladimir) Putin’s migration routes and height- head,” Ukrainian Foreign ened security at the Euro- Minister Dmytro Kuleba tunnel undersea rail link, told a televised briefing. which has pushed migrants “We are working to to try to make the perilous give him a clear undersea crossing. standing - a new attack on “This a tragedy that we dreaded, that was expected, Ukraine will be too costly, we had sounded the alarm,” so it is better not to do it.”

He said Kyiv’s the said Bernard Barron, head of the Calais region SNSM, main goal was to restrain a volunteer group which Russia from “further aggressive actions”. rescues people at sea.

“To do this, Moscow “The smugglers are more and more reckless, must clearly understand criminal, launching at sea what political, economic poor innocent people who and human losses it will want to reach England at incur in the event of a all costs without knowing new stage of aggression,” Kuleba said. the sea.”

Dmytro Kuleba

The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence told the Military Times outlet this weekend that Russia had more than 92,000 troops massed around Ukraine’s borders and was preparing for an attack by the end of January or beginning of February.

Ukraine, which wants to join the NATO military alliance, received a large consignment of U.S. ammunition and Javelin missiles earlier this year, prompting criticism from Moscow.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian navy received two refitted former U.S. Coast Guard patrol boats as a part of $2.5-billion package

of assistance to Ukraine, and Kuleba said Ukraine could receive one another of the vessels.

Ukraine’s ties with Russia collapsed in 2014 after Moscow backed separatists who rose up in eastern Ukraine and took control of territory that Kyiv wants back. Kyiv says some 14,000 people have been killed in fighting since then.

Russia has not turned its back on talks with France, Germany and Ukraine about how to implement a peace deal over eastern Ukraine, Maria Zakharova, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, said on Thursday.

Singapore runs short of nurses, UNGA resolved to graduate Nepal, B’desh to developing countries nursing in high demand globally

Interpol elects UAE official as president

MOSCOW, NOV 25 (AP): A fire at a coal mine in Russia’s Siberia killed 11 people and injured more than 40 others on Thursday, with dozens of others still trapped, authorities said.

The blaze took place in the Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia.

Russia’s state Tass news agency reported, citing an unnamed emergency of-

ficial, that coal dust caught fire, and that smoke quickly filled the Litsvyazhnaya mine through the ventilation system.

A total of 285 people were in the mine at the time of the incident — 239 of them have been evacuated and 46 other miners are still trapped underground, Kemerovo Governor Sergei Tsivilyov said on his page on the messaging app

Telegram. “Forty-three people have been hospitalized with injuries, four of them in serious condition,” Tsivilyov said.

Earlier Thursday, Russia’s acting minister for emergency situations, Alexander Chupriyan, said 44 miners have been hospitalized with injuries. The difference in injury tolls reported by different officials couldn’t be immediately

elected vice president for Africa.

Al-Raisi is accused of torture and has criminal complaints against him in five countries, including in France, where Interpol has its headquarters, and in Turkey, where the election is taking place.

Al-Raisi has run a slick campaign for the presidential post, traveling the world to meet lawmakers and government officials and boasting academic degrees from the U.K. and the U.S. and years of experience of policing.

FELIC ITATION The D I M A P U R N K O N JA N AREE YAN H EN EKH U NG with immense pride and happiness extends our congratulations to Mrs. AIENLA OZUKUM, W/o Mr. ZUBENTHUNG N G U L L I E for her promotion to the post of Geologist, Department of Geology & Mining Nagaland.

The Ekhung wishes her success in all her future endeavours.

Mr. NLUMO NGULLIE Chairman, DNAYE

Mr. NYIMBEMO NGULLIE Secretary, DNAYE

At least 8 killed in car bombing in Somali capital

M O G A D I S H U, N OV 25 (IANS): At least eight people were confirmed dead and 17 injured in a suicide car bombing here early Thursday, the police said.

A police officer at the scene told Xinhua that the death toll could rise after a suicide bomber targeted a convoy escorting foreign

security forces near a local school in the Hodan district in Mogadishu.

“At least eight were killed and 17 others injured in the blast. The blast occurred in front of Muasir school and children are among the casualties,” the police officer, who declined to be named, said on the phone.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The undersigned on behalf of Chessore denizens sincerely accolades Shri S Keoshu Yimchunger, MLA, 58 A/C Shamator Chessore for his magnanimous gesture by maintaining and widening the road between Huker to Chessore stress from his own capacity, which was the much needed intervention for the denizens as the very road was left unattended for a long time.

The CAPF & CAGBs Union extends its heartfelt gratitude and further wishes him a good health and prays to Almighty God to bless him abundantly in his forth endeavour.

(Kiumukam) (Yansomong) President Chairman Chessore Area Public Forum Chessore Area GBs Federation

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reconciled.

Efforts to rescue the rest are still ongoing, hampered by large amounts of smoke.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal probe into the fire on charges of violating safety regulations that led to deaths.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday extended his condolences to the families of the killed miners and ordered the government to offer all the necessary assistance to those who were injured, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

In 2016, 36 miners were killed in a series of methane explosions in a coal mine in Russia’s far north. In the wake of the incident, the authorities analysed the safety of the country’s 58 coal mines and declared 20 of them, or 34%, potentially unsafe.

The Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerovo region wasn’t on the list at the time, according to media reports.

The vote for president was being closely watched since the first-ever Chinese president of the body, Meng Hongwei, vanished midway through his fouryear term on a return trip to China in 2018. It subsequently emerged that he had been detained, accused of bribery and other alleged crimes.

The international law enforcement body also said Valdecy Urquiza of Brazil was elected to the post of vice president for the Americas, while Garba Baba Umar of Nigeria was

Permanent Representative to the UN Rabab Fatima tweeted on Wednesday.

Fathima thanked all the Member States, especially the development partners, for their support to reach a consensus for the adoption of the resolution.

“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina envisioned to transform Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 and a developed country by 2041.

She has led us from the front in this exciting journey despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic,” she was quoted as saying by the bdnews24. com.

Currently, there are 46 countries on the LDC list, according to the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP). According to the UN, per capita income of USD 1,230 is one of the requirements for transitioning into a developing nation.

OFFICE OF THE

KOHIMA MONGSENYIMTI SENSO TELONGJEM KOHIMA :: NAGALAND

FELICITATION

The Kohima Mongsenyimti Senso Telongjem (KMST) takes great pride and honour to extend our sincere appreciation and heartiest congratulations to: 1. Shri. I. MEYIONEN JAMIR, IGP & Director (Rtd), Nagaland Lokayukta Police on being appointed as Chief Information Commissioner, Nagaland Information Commission.

2. Shri. SENTIYANGER PONGEN (H/o Sashisongla) on being promoted to Addl. Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland.

3. Shri. IMLIAKUM on being promoted to Dy. Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland.

As we celebrate their achievement, we pray that they will continue to serve with greater humility, dignity, courage and excellence. May their perseverance and commitment be an inspiration to the upcoming generation.

Sd/Sd/(IMSUMANEN OZUKUM) (L. AKUM JAMIR) President, KMST General Secretary, KMST

OFFICE OF THE ORANGKONG CITIZENS UNION & ORANGKONG STUDENTS’ UNION LONGLENG : NAGALAND FELICITATION The Orangkong Citizens Union and the Orangkong Students’ Union, jointly felicitate with immense pride and joy, extends its heartiest congratulations to the following members of their achievements and bringing laurels to the village as well as Phom community as a whole.

1) Miss N. Lienda Angh (D/o Ngaipang Angh), for securing top ten,7th rank under B.Sc Medical Laboratory Technology Examinations at RIPANS Aizawl held in August–September, 2021.

2) Mr. Bongtang Phom (S/o Phamlong Phom), won 2 gold medals under 49 kg MAS Wrestling Men in the 9th National Wrestling and Pankration Championship held in Goa recently.

Furthermore, the Unions pray and wishes them success in their future endeavors.

(Namsing Shahjei) President Orangkong Citizens Union

(M. Longsen) President Orangkong Students’ Union

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ISTANBUL, NOV 25 (AP): Interpol on Thursday elected a contentious official from the United Arab Emirates as its new president during the international law enforcement body’s annual General Assembly held in Istanbul.

Maj. Gen. Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, inspector general at the United Arab Emirates’ interior ministry, was elected for one fouryear term. He has been accused by human rights groups of involvement in torture and arbitrary detentions in the UAE.

Coal mine fire in Russia kills 11, dozens trapped

Ambulances and fire trucks are parked near the Listvyazhnaya coal mine out of the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Russia, Thursday. (AP/PTI)

Bangladesh from the LDC category. What better way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our independence and the birth centenary of Bangabandhu! Fulfillment of national aspiration and Prime Minister’s vision 2021,” Bangladesh’s

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tries like Canada, since there is little chance of their getting permanent residency in Singapore. There’s no future for them here,” the administrator was quoted as saying.

Last year, for the first time in more than two decades, Singapore experienced a drop in the number of nurses working here. The situation is even worse this year.

Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthuchear y told Parliament earlier this month: “About 1,500 healthcare workers have resigned in the first half of 2021, compared to about 2,000 annually prepandemic.”

“Foreign healthcare workers have also resigned in bigger numbers, especially when they are unable to travel to see their families back home. “Close to 500 foreign doctors and nurses have resigned in the first half of 2021, as compared to around 500 in the whole

Graduation of Bangladesh, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Nepal from the least developed country category,” the UN said in a statement on Wednesday.

“The three countries will graduate from the LDC category after an exceptionally extended preparatory period of five years (the standard period is of three years) to enable them to prepare for graduation while planning for a post-COVID-19 recovery and implementing policies and strategies to reverse the economic and social damage incurred by the COVID-19 shock,” it said.

“UNGA adopts historic resolution to graduate

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SINGAPORE, NOV 25 (PTI): Singapore hospitals and clinics are so desperate for nurses that at least one private hospital group is offering a “finder’s fee” of 12,000 Singapore dollars (USD 8,760) for staff to help recruit an experienced nurse.

Even a fresh graduate nurse joining the hospital can bring the introducer a windfall of at least 3,600 Singapore dollars (USD 2,630) at the group, according to a media report on Thursday.

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the shortage of nurses, as the need for them grows even as more of them quit their jobs.

A private hospital administrator, who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Straits Times, said, “Nursing is in high demand everywhere.”

“Foreign nurses use Singapore as a jumping board for better jobs in coun-

of 2020,” Puthucheary was quoted as saying.

Some of the healthcare workers have left because of the high stress and long hours that come with dealing with the pandemic, when manpower needs are higher and further exacerbated by reduced staff numbers.

“When there are more patients than resources, the staff is stretched paper thin,” wrote one public-sector nurse recently, headlining her post Desperate and Distraught. “And it only gets worse as the day passes.”

Some foreign nurses, who can no longer travel home for short visits to their families, have also called it a day.

“Many of our foreign staff have emigrated to another country or returned to their home towns. Local staff who left said they were burned out from the long work hours and needed a break,” said Dr Noel Yeo, chief operating officer of IHH Healthcare Singapore, which has four private hospitals here.

The attrition rate this year has been exceptionally high, he added.

“At present, we are 500 nurses and 100 patient care associates (ancillary staff to augment nursing roles) short of full strength.”

DHAKA, NOV 25 (PTI): The UN General Assembly has adopted a historic resolution to graduate three nations, including Bangladesh and Nepal, from the least developed country (LDC) category to the developing country grouping, a major milestone demonstrating the countries’ significant development progress.

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the resolution at its 76th session. The three countries that got clearance for graduation are Bangladesh, Nepal and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

“The UN General Assembly has adopted resolution A/76/L.6/Rev.1,

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Taylor, Kanye West were last-minute additions for top Grammy awards

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he Recording Academy decided to expand the number of Grammy nominees just 24 hours before the list was announced on Tuesday — to the benefit of artistes including Kanye West, Taylor Swift, ABBA and Lil Nas X, according to a report in the New York Times.

The move, which saw the list of nominees in the top four general categories grow from eight nominees to 10, was positioned as a natural progression by CEO Harvey Mason jr. when asked about it by Variety on Monday.

“We saw it as an incredible opportunity for us to honour more artistes and shine a light on more great music, and potentially offer a greater opportunity for more genres of music to be honoured,” he said, reports variety.com.

As for the abruptness of the move, “It’s something that we’ve talked about for quite some time but it ended up happening fairly recently,” he said. “We looked at the voting and the amount of submissions (for the 2022 Grammys) and saw it as a great opportunity.”

Advance lists of the nominees, which are traditionally serviced to the media 24 hours before the announcement, arrived much later than usual on Monday.

Sources tell Variety that the expansion of the top lists was the cause of the delay.

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C did earn a nomination — and that it somehow got axed. Chorney has taken on the Grammys about changes in the voting process in the years since she landed a nod in the best Americana album category in 2012, which she believes were made to keep self-releasing artists like her from getting in again. Variety has reached out to Acedemy reps as well about Chorney’s questions.

The Times’ news about details of the last-minute expansion of top nominations sets an awkward tone for the next Grammy Awards, an institution that has been marred by an ongoing series of unsavory controversies over the past five years. (IANS)

hief minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio and vice president, Casio India, Kulbhushan Seth held a video conference before handing out Laser LED Hybrid Projectors donated by Casio India under their CSR Project “Gyan Ki Roshni” to TaFMA empanelled music schools, TaFMA district partners, selected educational institutes and community-based NGOs. During the brief interaction via zoom, the chief minister thanked vice president of Casio India, Kulbhushan Seth and his colleague Sachine Sharma for coming forward to support the works of TaFMA. Rio stated “for a music industry to grow to its potential, the partnership of corporate and business houses are very important and cannot be stressed enough, and I welcome this

very noble gesture of Casio to power Nagaland under your CSR Program – GYAN KI ROSHNI or LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE and donating 100 Laser LED Hybrid Projectors to Nagaland.”

The chief minister also mentioned that Casio has been involved with Nagaland for many years now, especially with the famous Hornbill Music Festival, and placed on record his deep appreciation for Casio and said that he looks forward to many more such collaboration and partnerships.

The chief minister ended his talk by inviting the heads of Casio India to visit the famous Hornbill Festival this year and said, “You (Casio) have a friend in Nagaland and can be assured of my support for your ideas and activities in the state.”

Kulbhushan Seth in

his brief talk said “our association with Nagaland goes back to 2010 where we collaborated with the then active government music body - Music Task Force.

From last 2 years we have been working with TaFMA to support music education in Nagaland. This year we further extended our support for Nagaland government by donating 100 laser LED hybrid projectors (mercury free) to support in their digitalization programme.

We expect via these projectors government can spread awareness messages with various social, economics, healthcare, agricultural, educational etc activities”.

He further said that the Casio India would like to collaborate with government in other fields like support in mathematics education via technology even in future.

Jared Leto was fired Common antacids may hinder lung cancer treatment from a job for ‘selling weed’

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ctor Jared Leto, who stars in ‘House of Gucci’ alongside Lady Gaga, shared that he was dismissed from his job as a teenager for selling drugs.

He said: “I think audiences will be very surprised. It’s in theatres, which is fun to have a film that’s exclusively in theatres, and I’m excited about that because I love going to the movies. I actually worked at a movie theatre when I was a kid. And I got fired for selling weed out the back door.

I was just an entrepreneur.”

The ‘Thirty Seconds to Mars’ frontman was speaking on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ when he made the admissions, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

TV host Ellen, 63, replied: “You were hustling. Trying to sell popcorn and weed at the same time.

What’s wrong with that?” to which Jared jokingly replied: “They go well together, some say.”

The Acade my Awa r d winning-star has previously elaborated on his cannabisselling past, as he explained to W Magazine

back in 2014.

He said: “My first professional job?

It’s a toss-up if it was selling weed or working at a barbecue restaurant as a dishwasher. At the barbecue restaurant I got paid $2.50 an hour and I had taxes taken out, which I’m fairly certain was illegal at the time. I was just happy to have a job. That meant freedom to me. The weed could have paid better than the dishwashing.

The problem is, you know, is getting high on your own supply and breaking that golden rule.”

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common medication used to treat reflux, heart burn and ulcers could lessen the effectiveness of lung cancer immunotherapy drugs, according to a new research.

Researchers at Flinders University in Australia investigated the impact of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) on patients undergoing treatment for non-small cell lung cancer, the most common type of lung cancer, accounting for 85 per cent of cases.

Patients received either chemotherapy or were treated with a combination of chemotherapy and atezolizumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor drug, designed to boost the immune system into killing cancer cells.

The results published in Nature’s British Journal of Cancer, showed that PPI use was associated with worse survival in patients with advanced cancer treated with atezolizumab plus chemotherapy, but not in those that received chemotherapy alone, with the study showing PPI use was linked to a significant decrease in the benefit of the immune therapy treatment.

“Stomach issues and reflux are common in can-

cer patients so the use of antacids and PPIs is common. Nearly 30 per cent of cancer patients use them, and usually for extended periods of time,” said lead author Ash Hopkins from the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute.

“Of concern is that the medication is often overused or used inappropriately, as it is seen to cause little harm, however our research could indicate a need to change this approach,” Hopkins added.

PPIs treat a number of stomach issues by reducing acid production in the wall of the stomach.

Recent studies have shown the medication can cause significant gut microbiota changes, which could lead to its impact on cancer immunotherapy.

“Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) drugs help the immune system by switching on T-cells, allow-

ing them to kill or control cancerous tumours but the gut microbiota also plays an important role in regulating our body and its immune function,” said Hopkins.

“When this gut microbiota is impacted it can stop the ability of ICIs to

activate the immune system, meaning the drugs simply won’t work as well to fight off the cancer.”

While further studies are needed, the researchers noted it could be time for oncologists to reconsider indiscriminate use of PPIs for their patients. (IANS)

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apper Kanye West has said that he “made mistakes” in his marriage to reality TV star Kim Kardashian and declared “I need to be back home”.

He made the confession during an emotional speech at Los Angeles Mission’s Annual Thanksgiving event in Los Angeles this week, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, shared how God wants him to reunite with Kim, who is now reportedly dating 28-year-old actor-andcomedian Pete Davidson, and their four kids at home.

He said: “The narrative God wants is to see that we can be redeemed in all these relationships. We’ve made mistakes. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve publically done things that were not acceptable as a husband, but right now today, for whatever reason e I didn’t know I was going to be in front of this mic e but I’m here to change the narrative.”

The rapper then pleaded: “I have to be next to my children as much as possible. So, when I’m out the house, I’ve got a house right next to the house. I’m doing everything to be right next to the situation e I’m trying to express this in the most sane way, the most calm way possible, but I need to be back home.”

The impassioned speech comes after West shared he is trying to “keep (his) family together” earlier this month. During an appearance on the ‘Drink Champs’ podcast, he said he was trying to “save” his family by speaking about his ongoing divorce proceedings.

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Other questions about the final nominations were being raised this week by recording artist Linda Chorney, who said she awoke this week to Google alerts linking to news stories showing she had been nominated for best American roots performance for her song ‘Bored’.

Rolling Stone was among the publications that included Choney’s song in a list of nominees, screenshots and cached search results show. Yet when the official list was disseminated, Chorney’s song was not among the nominees, and a song by Rhiannon Giddens took the spot that seemingly had been hers.

Chorney says she wrote to some of the reporters who published a story claiming a nomination for her and heard back apologetically from one that the information had been cut-and-pasted from an incorrect source, but she hasn’t gotten any feedback on what that source was.

With no explanations forthcoming about why erroneous news accounts might have credited her with a nod, Chorney believes she

CM Neiphiu Rio and VP Casio India Kulbhushan hold video conference

We, the Yakouzou Youth Organisation P. Khel Kohima Village would like to congratulate Mr. Lhouvisalie Mere, son of Vizovolie Mere for securing third position in the Nagaland Cross Country Championship under 20 Men’s category held on 19th November 2021 at I.G Stadium.

We wish him more success in the days to come.

KEVINGULIE KEVIN SOTE KENEISEDE MERE President Gen. Secy.

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Me by Your Name)’ and ABBA’s ‘I Still Have Faith in You’ were added to record of the year; Swift’s ‘Evermore’ and West’s ‘Donda’ were the additional candidates for album of the year; Doja Cat’s ‘Kiss Me More’ and Brandi Carlile’s ‘Right on Time’ were put it at the last minute for song of the year and Baby Keem and Arooj Aftab were added to the best new artist field, according to the report.

The Times was able to ascertain which artists benefitted from the shift from eight to 10 by comparing the final list with a list created prior to the Monday decision — a version that “had begun circulating outside the Recording Academy before the nominations were announced on Tuesday.” The Times said it had obtained a copy of the earlier list.

Mason told the publication that the artistes added to the list were simply the ninth and tenth most voted by the Academy’s members, and were determined by Deloitte, its partner in collecting and tabulating votes. As whether ratings for the multimillion dollar Grammy telecast were a consideration for the Swift-West addition, he responded, “A thousand percent no. That was not a consideration.”

Academy co-president Valeisha Butterfield Jones added: “While it may seem rushed, it really was a thoughtful, well intentioned process that was also data-driven.”

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2021

NFA meeting on November 28 agaland Film Association (NFA) has convened its consultative meet on November 28, 1 p.m. at planning office hall, behind Supper Market. Dimapur.

All the NFA office bearers, Nagamese film makers, tribal film directors, producers, actors, actress and other film technicians and film interested individuals based in Nagaland have been inform to attend the meeting.

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Champions League: City, PSG, Real, Inter and Sporting advance to last 16 PARIS, NOV 25 (IANS): English champions Manchester City, Paris SaintGermain of France, Real Madrid of Spain, Inter Milan of Italy, and Sporting Lisbon of Portugal qualified for the last-16 stage of the UEFA Champions League with a round to spare.

Last season’s finalists City came up with a dominant display to quell the attacking prowess of Lionel Messi, Neymar, and Kylian Mbappé to emerge 2-1 winners against Paris SaintGermain in a Group A clash on Wednesday night as both teams advanced to the next stage -- City topping the group with PSG finishing runners-up.

Real Madrid thrashed Sheriff Tiraspol 3-0 in an away match to seal their place from Group D; Inter defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 at the San Siro in Milan in the same group while Sporting got the better of Germany’s Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in Lisbon in a Group C encounter as all three joined City and PSG in the last-16 stage.

In other matches on Wednesday, Germany’s Leipzig routed Club Brugge 5-0, Liverpool defeated Porto 2-0 in a clash of former champions, La Liga win-

ners Atletico Madrid went down 1-0 to AC Milan while Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam overcame Besiktas 2-1 in Istanbul.

The clash of the night however was played in Manchester with City overcoming PSG in a star-studded encounter.

A cool 76th-minute finish from substitute Gabriel Jesus ensured Manchester City go through as Group A winners, with Paris qualifying as runners-up. After dominating the first half, City were caught out by a slick interchange involving the visitors’ attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Neymar, and Kylian Mbappé, culminating in the France striker firing his side ahead five minutes after the break on his 50th UEFA Champions League appearance.

Raheem Sterling prodded the hosts level, however, and Neymar missed a golden chance to restore Paris’s lead wide two minutes before Jesus’s eventual winner. This was PSG’s only loss in their last 22 Champions League group stage matches, of which they won 16.

In another match in Group A played in Burges, Belgium, Leipzig win despite the absence of sev-

(L-R) PSG’s Presnel Kimpembe in action with Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus. Real Madrid players celebrate after their goal against Sheriff Tiraspol.

eral players. the visitors were nevertheless on top from the first whistle and had already gone close twice by the time Christopher Nkunku tapped in for his sixth goal of the group phase.

Emil Forsberg swiftly doubled the advantage from the penalty spot before André Silva’s towering header made it three and Forsberg scored from distance with the final kick of the first period. Leipzig crowned their biggest European win, and one that takes them third in Group A when Nkunku turned in in the final sec-

Shuttlers United open memorial tourney begins

T N Manen, IAS (Retd) speaking at the inaugural programme at Sakus Mission College (SMC), Dimapur.

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D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Open memorial tournament by Shuttlers United (SU), under the aegis of Dimapur District Badminton Association (DDBA), commenced on November 25, here at Sakus Mission College (SMC), Dimapur.

Addressing the gathering as the special invitee, T N Manen, IAS (Retd), lauded the SU for organising the tournament in memory of three of its

members.

Speaking on the importance of sports, he added that even though one might not be able to play a sport as a profession, he urged everyone to be accustomed to a sport, so as to help them stay fit.

He further urged the younger generations to give some importance in sports, asserting that sports help in disciplining ourselves to achieve what one targets for.

Meanwhile, president DDBA, Dr. George Thira,

delivering the keynote address acknowledged SU for the tournament being organised for three of its members, and further shared condolences to the bereaved family.

Maintaining that badminton was a sport where speed, strength and agility was tested to its core, he later wished all participants the best of luck.

Delivering the welcome address, president SU, Dr. Benjong maintained that the tournament was conducted in memory of three of their members, who passed away.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme was chaired by Sangmong Longkumer, while special prayer for the deceased family was offered by pastor DABA, Imnatoshi Lkr. A special number was presented by Sanen Mayang, while invocation was offered by Imtikumzuk Jamir.

A total of 71 teams are participating in the tournament in six categories.

onds. In England, Two superb second-half goals helped Liverpool make it five victories out of five in Group B. Porto had the better of the first-half openings, not least when Otávio sliced a gilt-edged opportunity wide.

Liverpool were sparked into life by a brilliant Thiago Alcántara strike soon after the interval. Mohamed Salah then added a fine solo effort as the Reds coasted to another win, though Porto’s fate is still in their own hands thanks to Milan’s defeat of Atlético in Madrid.

In Group B, AC Milan remain in contention for a place in the last 16 after a goal three minutes from the end by Champions League debutant Messias Junior gave them their first win of this campaign.

The 30-year-old’s header from a delightful Franck Kessié cross took the Rossoneri off the bottom of the group - with Atlético replacing them - and they are within a point of Porto with one game to go.

Key stat: This was Milan’s first away victory in the competition for almost

exactly eight years, since a 3-1 win at Celtic in November 2013.

In Group C, Sporting sealed their last-16 spot with a Pedro Gonçalves-inspired 3-1 triumph over ten-man Dortmund in Lisbon. The visitors controlled possession but were made to pay for moments of lax defending, not least when Pedro Gonçalves was allowed to nip in to poke home the opener. The 23-year-old made it back-to-back Champions League doubles with a brilliant curler before halftime. Dortmund’s own qual-

ification hopes imploded with Emre Can’s late red card, before Pedro Porro nodded in the rebound from Gonçalves’s missed penalty.

Donyell Malen’s added-time reply was only a consolation.

In Istanbul, substitute Sébastien Haller’s brace ensured Ajax came from behind to clinch the top spot in Group C. The forward, introduced at half-time with the v’sitors trailing to Rachid Ghezzal’s 22nd-minute spot-kick, took just nine minutes to pull his side le’el, converting Nicolás

DDTA’s Dimapur Mokokchung and Kohima lift 18th All Championship concludes Nagaland Inter-District Volleyball titles

Champion of women’s category Kohima district with others.

Winners with their certificates.

DIMAPUR, NOV 25 (NPN): The Dimapur District Table Tennis Association (DDTA) conducted Dimapur Championship 2021 on November 23 and 24. In men’s single, Ricky Hinglak emerged as the champion while Hekito Sema was the runners-up.

In men’s doubles, Hekito

Sema and Ricky Hinglak were the winner; runnersup was bagged by David and Vicky and second runners-up by Visasier and Imsumongba.

In veteran category, Meihumlong was the winner, Vasasier was the runners-up and the second runners-up by L David.

D I M A P U R , N OV 2 5 (NPN): Mokokchung and Kohima emerged as the champions of men’s and women’s category respectively at the 18th All Nagaland Inter-District Volleyball tournament 2021 (Men & Women) which concluded on Thursday at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima.

The tournament was organised under the aegis of Nagaland Volleyball Association (NVA) and hosted by

Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA).

Mokokchung district bagged the runners-up title in women’s category while Kohima district stood runners-up in men’s category.

In men’s individual award, Moasune p was awarded best libero; best setter was bagged by Sorilepziing; and best spiker was awarded to Tongpang Sunep.

In women’s individual, Pursenla bagged the

Rockets beat Bulls, end 15-game drought No. 2 seed Harimoto falls at the

H O U S TO N, N OV 2 5 (AGENCIES): Danuel House Jr. scored 18 points off the bench and served as the spark plug as the Houston Rockets snapped a 15-game losing streak with a 118-113 win over the visiting Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.

House nailed a 3-pointer with 2:23 left to stall what was a 14-3 Bulls run to within a three-point deficit.

House added a pair of critical free throws after Garrison Mathews sank a corner 3 out of a Chicago defensive trap that lifted the Rockets to a 114-108 lead with 25.5 seconds remaining.

House and Mathews (12 points) both scored in double digits off the bench.

The Rockets received 59 bench points while four starters also scored in double figures, paced by Christian Wood, who paired 16 points with 10 rebounds. His sixth and final assist set up the Mathews 3.

Zach LaVine paced the Bulls with 28 points while Lonzo Ball scored 17 of his 19 points in the first half.

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Houston Rockets forward Danuel House Jr. (4) shoots the ball during the third quarter against the Chicago Bulls at Toyota Center.

of his 15 points in the fourth quarter, including two late 3s to fuel the rally.

Lakers 124, Pacers 116 LeBron James scored seven of his season-high 39 points in overtime, and Los Angeles closed its five-game road swing with a defeat of Indiana in Indianapolis.

Los Angeles controlled the extra period, holding the Pacers to just four points. James, who missed

the would-be game-winner at the end of regulation, connected on a step-back 3-pointer and fadeaway jumper in the waning moments to keep Indiana’s rally efforts at bay. Russell Westbrook scored 20 points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished five assists in the win, which came without Anthony Davis, who missed Wednesday’s game due to a non-COVID illness.

Tagliafico’s unselfish pass from close range.

T h e c o m p e t i t i o n’s joint-leading scorer this season bagged a second with 21 minutes left to keep Ajax’s perfect record intact.

In Group D, the Merengues weathered early pressure that must have raised fears of a repeat of September’s shock home loss to the Moldovan champions, as they claimed their place in the last 16 with a game to spare.

David Alaba’s deflected free-kick and a sweet strike from Toni Kroos opened up a 2-0 lead by the interval, and Karim Benzema added a third soon after the restart to cap an impressive performance by Carlo Ancelotti’s men.

In another match in the group, Inter Milan advanced to the knockout stage for the first time in a decade thanks to two second-half goals from Edin Džeko.

The Nerazzurri were left frustrated after failing to reap the reward from a dominant first half, but the pressure valve was released when Džeko finished expertly from the edge of the penalty area just after the hour. He headed in a second six minutes later to rubberstamp the win.

Malcolm Brogdon scored 28 points, leading the way among seven Pacers scoring in double-figures. Justin Holiday hit four 3-pointers en route to 16 points, T.J. McConnell and Caris LeVert each scored 10 points, Myles Turner added 12 points and Domantas Sabonis recorded his 14th double-double of the season with 14 points and 12 rebounds.

HOUSTON (USA), NOV 25 (IANS): Japanese teenage sensation Tomokazu Harimoto crashed out at the first hurdle of his third World Table Tennis Championships campaign, losing 4-3 to Poland’s Jakub Dyjas in the men’s singles second round.

The 18-year-old No. 2 seed, rated fifth in the world rankings, opened it well to fire down the first set 11-7 on Wednesday evening, but was tied on sets for three times and forced the decider, where his world No. 65 opponent rounded up the match 7-11, 11-5, 7-11, 11-6, 6-11, 11-8, 11-9.

“I took my chances well against Harimoto.

Mentally and tactically, it worked for me,” Dyjas commented after the match.

“I’m really happy to have beaten one of the top seeds at this tournament.

It’s a nice victory and I know I have to play even better in the next round to continue to do even better,” added the Pole.

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Chinese national team members, Harimoto became the youngest world junior champion in 2016 when he was just 13. reports Xinhua.

He went on to break more records by becoming the youngest ever men’s singles winner at an ITTF World Tour event (the Czech Open) at 14 and becoming the youngest player to win the ITTF

World Tour Grand Finals at 15.

His recent top-class competitions results, however, were not satisfying as he was stopped in the last 16 at last summer’s Tokyo Olympic Games and finished a quarter-finalist in his first world championships in 2017 before being ousted in the round of 16 in 2019 and round of 64 this time.

best libero; best setter was awarded to Chonreiphy Kashung; while best spiker was awarded to Rinrichon Shang.

Deputy director, youth resources & sports Nagaland, Jakedovo Chase, graced the closing ceremony as the guest of honour.

The closing function was chaired by president KDVA, Visasielie Suhu, while vote of thanks was proposed by secretary NVA, Yanbemo Humtsoe.

Arsenal boss Arteta wants Wenger back L O N D O N, N OV 2 5 (AGENCIES): Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said on Thursday that he hopes to have former manager Arsene Wenger back at the Premier League club in some capacity in the future, as the Frenchman remains a respected figure among the staff.

Wenger left Arsenal in 2018 after a 22-year reign as manager. The 72-yearold -- currently working with world soccer governing body FIFA -- has since kept his distance, saying he did not want to look like he was still influencing matters.

“He would have a great time seeing the environment he can create around him when he’s around this place, because of the respect, admiration and the love everybody at the club has for what he has done,” Arteta told reporters.

“I’d like him to be much closer personally to me because it would be a great help for the club.

Things take time and he has to dictate those timings.

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Ind v NZ 1st Test: Iyer, Jadeja take India to 258/4 Blasters, NE Utd play out goalless draw

K A N P U R , N OV 2 5 (IANS): Fighting halfcenturies by Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, and Shubman Gill helped India take the honours on the first day of the first Test against New Zealand at the Green Park Stadium here on Thursday.

At stumps, called early due to bad light, India are 258/4 in 84 overs with Iyer (75 not out off 136 balls) and Jadeja (50 not out off 100 balls) building an unbeaten 113-run stand after Kyle Jamieson and Tim Southee reduced India to 145/4 in 49.2 overs. the visitors had clawed back their way in the second session after Gill had helped India take honours in the first session by scoring his third Test half-century (52 off 93 balls).

After winning the toss and electing to bat first on a pitch that had some cracks and variable bounce, India had done all things right in the morning, propped up by a 61-run partnership between Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara (26). Gill, after surviving lbw calls early on, was at ease against Ajaz Patel, taking him for four fours and oozed confidence in smashing the left-arm spinner for a straight six while marching towards his fourth half-century in the format.

Everything was going serene for India till New Zealand fought back in the second session, taking

Indian batsmen Ravindra Jadeja and Shreyas Iyer run between the wickets during day one of the 1st test cricket match against New Zealand in Kanpur, Thursday. (PTI)

three wickets for 72 runs in 27 overs, with Jamieson being the chief destroyer on a day in which spinners went wicketless and bled runs in 52 overs. Jamieson, who constantly probed the off-stump channel and had Mayank Agarwal (13) nicking behind to keeper Tom Blundell in the eighth over, struck in the sixth ball post-lunch. Gill, trying to defend forward, insideedged a full nip-backer to his stumps.

Jamieson then caused trouble for Pujara and Rahane, even hitting the India vice-captain on the glove.

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson replaced Jamieson with Southee, a

decision that went well as Pujara pressed forward to defend outside the offstump, only for the ball to take an outer edge to Blundell for a clean low catch.

P’st Pujara’s dismissal, Rahane hit some crisp boundaries through the offside, with the one-through cover off Jamieson being the standout.

But in the 50th over, the tall pacer had the last laugh as Rahane chopped on to his stumps, undone by low bounce, leaving India in trouble.

Iyer, who was almost caught out while going for a big shot early in the innings off left-arm spin-

Sindhu, Praneeth enter quarters, Srikanth loses in Indonesia Open

PV Sindhu and B Sai Praneeth

BALI, NOV 25 (PTI): Top Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and B Sai Praneeth progressed to the quarterfinals but former champion Kidambi Srikanth made an early exit in the second round of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament here on Thursday.

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medallist Sindhu hardly broke a sweat to win the second round clash 21-12 21-18 against world No. 26 Germany’s Yvonne Li in 37 minutes at the USD 850,000 event. In the women’s singles quarterfinals, the reigning world champion, seeded third, will face South Korea’s Sim Yujin. Praneeth

World TT Championships: G Sathiyan enters round of 32

HOUSTON (USA), NOV 25 (IANS): Indian paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran advanced to the men’s singles round of 32 at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships Finals with a 4-0 win over Table Tennis Federation of Russia’s Vladimir Sidorenko, here.

The world number 37 from India beat Sidorenko 11-9, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 in the round of 64 on Wednesday to set up a third-round clash against Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna. With the win, Sathiyan kept India’s singles challenge alive at the tournament as Ayhika Mukherjee lost in women’s singles.

Up against Japan’s Hina Hayata, the current world No 18, Ayhika lost 0-4 (5-11, 4-11, 3-11, 4-11).

Notably, Sathiyan and Ayhika were the only Indian singles players who had managed to progress after the opening round of matches on Tuesday.

In men’s double’, India’s Anthony Amalraj and Harmeet Desai lost

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

2-3 (11-8, 9-11, 9-11, 11-5, 8-11) against the Nigerian duo Olajide Omotayo and Bode Abiodun in the round of 64.

The team of G Sathiyan and Sharath Ka’al, India’s top dr’ws in men’s doubles, have got a firstround bye and will start their campaign from the round of 32 on Thursday.

Tokyo Olympian Sutirtha Mukherjee a’d her women’s doubles partner Madhurika Patka’ too couldn’t get past the first round, after they lost 0-3 (3-11, 7-11, 4-11) ‘o Singapore’s Goi Rui Xuan and Wong Xin Ru.

staved off a spirited fight from France’s world No. 70 Christo Popov, claiming a 21-17 14-21 21-19 win in a gruelling match that lasted an hour and 23 minutes. The world No. 16 Indian will meet Olympic champion and former world no No. Viktor Axelsen of Denmark next.

The second seeded Axelsen, a world champion, ended the campaign of Srikanth, beating him 21-14 21-18 in 37 minutes. The sixth seeded men’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also survived a scare against Korea’s Kang Minhyuk and Seo Seungjae, prevailing 21-15 19-21 23-21 in a thrilling contest to also make it to the last eight. The Indian pair, ranked 11, will square off against Malaysian combination of Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin.

ner Ajaz Patel, got two boundaries and survived a close lbw shout off offspinner William Somerville as well, going into 17 off 31 balls at tea.

The 26-year-old began the final session by driving an overpitched Rachin Ravindra delivery through the cover. He would go on to take three boundaries ‘ff Ravindra’s left-arm spin, including back-toback ones in the 64th over.

Iyer then slowed down and dealt in singles, one of which led to reaching his maiden half-century in 94 balls, becoming the 63rd Indian batter to reach the landmark on de’ut.

Patel’s re-int’oduction

didn’t change things as Iyer cut him late through backward point.

On the other hand, Jadeja smashed the odd boundary while rotating the strike. The duo were largely untroubled through an odd ball from Somerville did trouble the latter.

While Jadeja got a thick outer edge from Southee for a boundary, Iyer continued to cut Patel twice through off-side followed by lofting sweetly over long-on.

Taking the second new ball didn’t change the situation for New Zealand as Jadeja hit successive boundaries off Jamieson, bringing a century of the fifth-wicket partnership with Iyer. In the next over, Jadeja brought up his 17th Test half-century with a quick single to mid-off.

The last scoring shot of the day was Iyer smashing Somerville for a six over deep mid-wicket, ending making 58 runs off 72 balls in the final session.

Overall, India will be the happier side as the Iyer-Jadeja partnership blossomed. They will be looking to continue their ascendancy on the second day, with some batting firepower still there.

Brief scores: India 258/4 in 84 overs (Shreyas Iyer batting 75, Shubman Gill 52, Ravindra Jadeja batting 50; Kyle Jamieson 3/47, Tim Southee 1/43) against New Zealand.

Kerala Blasters FC players defend a free kick of Hernan Daniel Santana Trujillo of NorthEast United FC during match 7 of season 8 of ISL at the Fatorda Stadium in Goa. (PTI)

M A RG AO, N OV 2 5 (AGENCIES): NorthEast United FC and Kerala Blasters FC drew goalless in an Indian Super League (ISL) match at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Fatorda on Thursday.

Both teams opened their account after having lost by identical 2-4 margins in their opening fixtures. Blasters would rue a great chance to earn full points, having to blame all but themselves for some shabby finishing.

Ivan Vukomanovic handed young Vincy Barretto an ISL debut on the right wing as Enes Sipovic made his debut in yellow at the heart of defence.

NorthEast United, also lined up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, dropped goalscorer from the last game, Mathias Coureur and opted for 24-year-old Australian centre-back Patrick Flottmann. While neither

side could carve out clearcut chances in the opening exchanges, NorthEast did look threatening a couple of times. V P Suhair was the architect of Deshorn Brown and Khassa Camara getting halfchances to convert. The latter did slice a couple over the net from distance.

However, the highlight remained a right-footed free-kick from Hernan Santana that went inches above after Enes Sipovic had brought down Deshorn on the run.

At the half-hour mark, Blasters captain Jessel Carneiro swung in a cross that ultimately found Adrian Luna.

His chip over the defensive line had Jorge Diaz almost head in the opener of the night. Both teams remained compact in the first period as both sets of strikers found it incredibly tough to get going in the

opposition half. Five minutes into the second half, Sahal Abdul Samad missed a golden opportunity.

Vincy blazed through the pitch after winning a second ball. He squared it into the box but with only the keeper to beat, Sahal grazed it wide.

In a change of formation, Sahal was taken off for wing-back Nishu Kumar, returning after being sidelined for up to 10 months through injury for the final quarter hour.

Blasters had another fince chance towards the final minutes courtesy a brilliant pass by Nishu but teammate Alvaro Vazquezs header was spectacularly saved by Subhasish Roy Chowdhury. Blasters face arch-rivals Bengaluru next on Sunday.

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Tennis Australia announces ‘Summer of Tennis’, AO from Jan 17

SYDNEY, NOV 25 (IANS): Tennis Australia announced its “Summer of Tennis” on Thursday, which would include a host of events across several states in the lead-up to the Australian Open 2022.

Ahead of the tournament, beginning officially on January 17, a total of 17 events will be held in the states of New South Wales (NSW), South Australia, and Victoria.

Among the warm-up tournaments announced was the ATP Cup, which was confirmed to be hosted by Sydney from January 1-9. “There is no better place to kick off the season than in Australia and we look forward to seeing the fans out in force in January,” said ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi. Other headline events include the Victorian Wheelchair open from January 8-12, and the Adelaide International women’s events beginning January 2. Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley said the line-up was designed to create numerous competi-

tion opportunities for some of the best players in the world.

“It’s incredibly important to have the world’s best players competing across the country, inspiring the next generation of players and growing interest and excitement in our sport,” he said.

The series of events is set to be one of Australia’s largest international events since it closed its borders due to the pandemic and would be a boon for crippled local economies. Tiley said the pandemic has created a “massive challenge” for the event: “It’s why we waited as long as possible to secure optimal conditions for the players and fans in as many locations as we could.”

The qualifying round for the Australian Open would run from January 10-14 and the main event would run from Jan 17-30.

Tennis Australia has previously announced that unvaccinated players would not be permitted to compete in the 2022 Australian Open.

Lakshya Sen set to become youngest Indian to qualify for World Tour Finals NEW DELHI, NOV 25 (PTI): India’s Lakshya Sen is set to become the youngest shuttler from the country to qualify for the season-ending HSBC BWF World Tour Finals which will be held in Bali, Indonesia from December 1.

The 20-year-old from Almora has enjoyed an impressive run on the BWF world tour and is currently ranked fifth in the World Tour rankings.

He will join Kidambi Srikanth (ranked 3rd) in the men’s singles competition, two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu (4th) in women’s singles and women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy (6th) at the event, which was shifted from Guangzhou to Bali due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Srikanth, Sameer Verma, Sindhu and London bronze- medallist Saina Nehwal have competed in the year-ending tournament in the past.

While Sindhu is the

Lakshya Sen

only Indian to win the BWF World Tour Finals in 2018, Saina had reached the summit clash of the BWF Superseries Finals in 2011.

Srikanth and Sameer have reached the knockout stage but couldn’t enter the finals.

Lakshya, who claimed five titles in 2019 before COVID-19 suspended the international circuit, has been on a roll with a final finish at Dubai Open and semifinal results at Denmark Masters and Hylo Open.

In the Indonesia leg, Lakshya couldn’t progress

deep in the draw after losing twice to top seed and twotime world champion Kento Momota of Japan.

The official list of players qualifying for the World Tour Final will be announced after the conclusion of the ongoing Indonesia open Super 1000 event.

The top eight players and pairs for each category in the Road to Bali Rankings will be invited to compete, where only a maximum of two players or pairs per Member Association are eligible to participate in the World Tour Finals.

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