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4,000 commandos to be deployed along the border: Sarma S I LC H A R / A I Z AW L / NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI/AGENCIES): A day after the bloody clash at the Assam-Mizoram border between police forces of both states that left five Assam Police personnel dead and 50 others injured; the government of India has summoned the chief secretaries and DGPs of Assam and Mizoram to New Delhi for a meeting on Wednesday.

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla will chair the meeting to discuss the sudden escalation of violence along the Assam-Mizoram border. The meeting of the chief secretaries and DGPs is expected to work on a peace formula so there is no repeat of such violence, a home ministry official said in New Delhi.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has reportedly promised to

APO lauds decision to form oppn-less govt DIMAPUR, JUL 27 (NPN): Angami Public Organisation (APO) has lauded the State’s political parties for having decided to come together to form an opposition-less government.

In a statement, Angami Public Organisation president Razouvotuo Chatsu in a statement expressed confidence that the move was being initiated in the greater interest of Naga people and that it would further strengthen and facilitate the ongoing peace talks, paving the way for a much-yearned settlement to the protracted Naga political struggle.

Acknowledging the difficult circumstances under which the Naga peace talks were progressing, the APO president stressed that all Naga tribes must come together to support any initiative that would pave the way for an early solution to the Naga political struggle.

APO recalled that the 2018 general elections witnessed a similar move by all the political parties, barring BJP party, which called for delaying the election process in favour of an early solution, even though BJP had stated that election was required to bring solution to the Naga political issue.

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would abide by any law enacted by Parliament that forces it to even cede its land to another state but till then it will not allow even an “inch to be encroached”.

BJP general secretary and Lok Sabha MP from the state Dilip Saikia demanded that Mizoram tender an apology to the people of Assam for the death of its police personnel.

Mizoram Information and Public Relations Minister Lalruatkima shot right

back and claimed CRPF personnel at the border did not restrain armed police personnel and civilians from Assam from intruding into Mizoram despite the tension.

“The bloody clashes could have been averted had CRPF personnel prevented Assam police from entering Mizoram territory,” Lalruatkima told PTI. The Assam chief minister also told reporters in Silchar that his government

will move the Supreme Court seeking protection of Innerline Forest Reserve from destruction and encroachment and deploy three commando battalions in Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts bordering Mizoram to strengthen security.

“It is the responsibility of the Centre to define the boundary and we will abide by it...if tomorrow the Parliament enacts a law by which our land can be given to another state, we will do so but till then we will protect our constitutional boundary,” he said after paying floral tributes to the slain personnel. Assam has declared a three-day state mourning after the incident.

(Read more on p-4) “The dispute is not regarding land but encroachment of reserved forests is the issue. We have no settlements in the forest areas and, if Mizoram can give evidence, we will immediately carry out eviction,” he said.

“People have sacrificed their lives but boundary has been (Cont’d on p-8)

Ground all set to welcome agreement: NGBF tells PM DIMAPUR, JUL 27 (NPN): Nagaland Gaon Bura Federation (NGBF) has reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conclude “an honourable and acceptable political agreement with the Nagas” claiming that “the ground is all set” to welcome the final agreement.

In a memorandum to Prime Minister, NGBF president Sahleem Konyak, vicepresident H Kashito Yepthomi and general secretary Shikuto Zalipu said: “Prime Minister, you entrusted us

Covid vaccine for children likely by Aug

NEW DELHI, JUL27 (AGENCIES): Covid vaccines for children are likely in a matter of days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told Tuesday morning at a meeting of BJP MPs at parliament. Union Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said at the meeting of the BJP’s parliamentary party that the government would likely start vaccinating children by August, according to sources.

According to experts, this will be a giant step in breaking the chain of transmission and also reopening schools across the country amid warnings of a possible (Cont’d on p-8) third wave of Covid.

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Centre summons CS, DGP of Assam, Mizoram deploy 4000 Assam Police commandos at the Cachar Karimganj and Hailakandi borders sharing the border with Mizoram where recent clashes have taken place.

According to a media Dr Sarma visited Silchar Tuesday to enquire about the health condition of Cachar SP Vaibhav Nimbalkar and other injured police persons who sustained grave injuries during the incident at the Mizoram border on Monday. Dr. Sarma informed that 4000 commandos would be deployed in three companies in the border areas with the view to protect the land of the State and also to ensure security of the civilians.

He further informed that the government will give ex-gratia of Rs 50,00,000 to the kin of the five jawans of Assam police who lost their lives at the interstate border on Monday. The State Government has also arranged for air lifting of injured Cachar SP to Mumbai for better treatment The Assam chief minister also blew hot and cold, over the issue saying he

with a task during our last meeting on 3 August 2017.

We have been working meticulously in our villages and towns to ensure Indo-Naga solution is wholeheartedly welcomed by our masses.

The ground is all set to welcome the Agreement and to begin a new enduring peaceful co-existence between Nagas and Indians.”

NGBF also said they were aware that Assembly elections in Manipur and some other States were scheduled in the first quarter of next year and hoped

that Modi would agree that it would be most ideal to provide finishing touches to Indo-Naga political solution.

They said the federation and Nagas tribal leaders were expecting a positive response from his office on concluding the Indo-Naga Peace talks through signing of the agreement at the earliest after communiqué to him in January 2021,.

NGBF mentioned that they presumed raging pandemic and elections to State Assemblies, especially in

Assam, led to the delay in taking up the matter, which they believed was awaiting the final nod of his office.

Although it was an inherent right of Nagas to live together under one administrative roof, NGBF said it understood that integration of Naga areas would be pursued through democratic political process post agreement. This was a practical step and upon which the next step, a logical conclusion, must be found, it insisted.

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State logs 110 fresh cases, 5 Covid deaths DIMAPUR, JUL 27 (NPN): Nagaland on Tuesday recorded 110 fresh Covid-19 positive cases while five more patients succumbed to the infection.

According to the health department, Dimapur reported 49 new cases, Kohima-28, Mokokchung-14, four each in Kiphire, Longleng and Mon, two each in Peren, Tuensang and Wokha and one each in Phek and Zunheboto, taking the total caseload to 27472.

Further, the death of five patients-- two in Dimapur and one each in Kiphire, Mokokchung and Tuensang, pushed the death toll to 550 (including 14 non-Covid deaths but with positivity).

Meanwhile, a total of 7,52,858 persons have

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COVID-19 STATUS AS ON JULY 27, 2021 District

Asymptom- Mild atic

Dimapur 310 Kiphire 23 Kohima 366 Longleng 9 Mokokchung 216 Mon 27 Peren 35 Phek 14 Tuensang 25 Wokha 27 Zunheboto 4 Total 1056

45 3 113 23 8 0 0 0 5 1 0 198

ACTIVE CASES Symptomatic SEVERE Moderate ICU On On (without OxyOxyventilagen gen tor) 11 2 9 0 0 0 10 9 0 1 0 0 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 35 14 9

been inoculated against Covid-19 (607970 first dose and 144888 second dose) as on July 27.

PTI: India recorded less than 30,000 fresh COVID-19 cases after 132 days,

RecovDeath ered

ICU (On ventilator 3 11685 335 0 180 8 1 7641 93 0 172 0 0 1428 41 0 1011 9 0 731 2 0 408 17 0 859 8 0 235 9 0 485 14 4 24835 536

Non Covid Deaths Miwith gratCovid 19 ed Positivity 10 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 14

Total Cases

543 12947 1 215 129 8360 11 218 46 1747 15 1065 5 775 2 446 3 901 8 284 8 514 771 27472

as 29,689 new coronavirus infections took the country’s tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,14,40,951 while 415 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 4,21,382, the data updated at 8 am showed.

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Vaccination order not a threat, but in public interest: Dr. Khimiao Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUL 27 (NPN): Justifying the State government’s “no vaccination, no salary” order for staff of civil secretariat and directorates amidst the growing public anger, Health & Family Welfare (H&FW) principal director Dr Neikhrielie Khimiao clarified the order should not be taken as a threat as it was in the interest of the people.

Interacting with a section of media persons at his office chamber here on Tuesday, Khimiao said when the government was determined to do something right, employees as government servants should not judge whether the decision was right or wrong.

He opined that due to circulation of fake information, many frontline workers were not cooperative, claiming that the government had to issue the order for the safety of citizens.

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order which states that it is up to the individuals to decide whether or not to get vaccinated, at the same time, we have received a suo moto order from the court asking the department why our frontline health workers were not vaccinated,” he said.

Citing this, he said that the department had issued a circular to health and frontline workers either to get vaccinated or to produce RT-PCR negative test report every 15 days. Khimiao regretted that even after repeated advisories, many people were yet to come forward to get vaccinated.

He feared that these people would spread the disease.

He also claimed that he did not come across death of any fully-vaccinated person, adding that there was no such record. Except for those being conducted on individuals entering or exiting the State, he said sufficient testing kits were made available to the districts to carry out tests free of cost.

Khimiao also expressed happiness that more citizens were turning up voluntarily for vaccination, adding that Covid vaccine had reached over 7 lakh individuals, including those who had received the first and second doses, out of the 13 lakh targeted as on July 26,.

He remarked that the impact of the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic, if any, would depend on how the State handled the second wave. He said if the spread of the virus could be contained successfully and vaccination target achieved, then the State might not have to face the third wave.

Centre busts myths on Covid vax drive Spl. Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (NPN): Centre on Tuesday rubbished as “ill-informed” and “clear misrepresentation the facts” some recent media reports alleging that India would miss end-July 2021 target of administering half a billion doses.

The ministry of health and family welfare stated that vaccination forms an integral component of the five-point strategy of the government to fight the pandemic including Test, Track, Treat and Covid-appropriate behaviour (CAB).

On the reports that the government had stated in May 2021 that it would make 516 million shots available by end of July 2021, the health ministry stated that the figures of 516 million vaccine doses might have been picked up from various sources, which informed

Covid test for auto drivers on July 28

about the likely availability of the vaccine doses from January 2021 to the end of July, 2021. According to the health ministry, the facts were that a total of more than 516 million vaccine doses would indeed be supplied from January 2021 to July 31, 2021.

It pointed out that vaccine doses were supplied to States as per advance allocation and advance information to them. The ministry also said that vaccines were supplied in various schedules throughout a month.

It has, therefore, stated that availability of 516 million doses till end of a particular month did not mean that every dose supplied till that month was going to be consumed/administered.

There would be supplies in pipeline, which should be available for next few days till the next supplies of vaccine doses mate-

rialize in a particular state/ district/sub district to keep vaccination going on, the health ministry stated.

Further, the health ministry informed that a cumulative total of 457 million doses have been supplied to States from January 2021 till date and an additional 60.3 million doses were expected to be supplied by July 31.

This, it said would amount to a total of 517 million doses supplied from January 2021 to July 31, 2021.

The ministry asserted that India crossing the landmark of 440 million (44.19 crore) doses administered— the largest numbers achieved in the world and done at quite a brisk pace—should be appreciated. The ministry stated that it was government’s endeavour to provide vaccination to eligible citizens in the shortest possible time as per availability of the COVID vaccines.

WSSU welcomes concept of voluntary fee concession

DIMAPUR, JUL 27 (NPN): The deputy commissioner and chairman District Task Force (DTF) Dimapur, R. Soundararajan, has informed that there would be a Covid testing drive for all autorickshaw drivers in Dimapur at Railway Station auto parking at 10 a.m. on July 28.

In an order, DC stated that the proposed exercise Dr. Ahoto with WSSU members after the meeting on Monday. (WSSU) was in pursuance to a letter discussed the WSSU’s ulreceived from chief medical Staff Reporter timatum at length. WSSU officer (CMO) Dimapur.

D I M A P U R , J U L 2 7 president informed that (NPN): After serving a 10- ANPSA unit accepted the day ultimatum on the All appeal made by the union Nagaland Private School’s on waiving off fees.

Association (ANPSA) DiHe said that both the nipur, Sikkim, Mizoram and mapur unit to ask the school parties decided to appeal all Nagaland, Paul said positiv- managements to consider the schools under ANPSA ity rate has gone beyond 10% granting “fee concession to consider fee waiver as in these areas. “If we go by for three months” on July per the convenience of the reproduction number then 18 last, the Western Sumi school. Considering the it goes beyond one in these Students Union (WSSU) plight of private schools, Tuesday expressed satisfac- WSSU president said that it areas,” he said.

Reproduction or repro- tion with the concept of was not possible to have uniduction number is a measure voluntary fee concession form appeal (three months that highlights the number and acknowledged ANPSA fee concession) because of people a Covid positive Dimapur unit for its inter- every school had different fee structures and protocols. person infects, thereby re- vention.

WSSU president, A He also stated that flecting the severity of the spread. A number of 1 or Kughato Achumi, told Na- the union would identify below 1 indicates a slowly galand Post that the student schools not falling under spreading virus while any body met ANPSA Dimapur ANPSA and would request number above 1 indicates a unit president, Dr. Andrew them to consider fee waiver.

(Cont’d on p-8) Ahoto, on Monday and rapid spread.

Centre flags concerns over distts with over 10% positivity rate NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Districts with more than 10 percent Covid-19 positivity rate have increased to 54 from 46 over the last week, while the rate of decline of average daily cases has also slowed down, the government said on Tuesday, noting that these are a “cause of concern”.

Officials said that though there is a consistent decline in the average daily new cases in India, the pandemic is far from over and the country has to remain alert. Addressing the media,

joint secy. Lav Agarwal said that in the week ending July 26, districts with more than 10% positivity rate increased to 54 from 46 in the previous week (July 14-20), which is a cause of concern.

These 54 districts are across 12 states and UTs including Kerala (10), Manipur (10), Nagaland (7), Mizoram (6), Meghalaya (6), Arunanchal Pradesh (5) and Rajasthan (4). 22 districts in seven states -Kerala (7), Manipur (5), Meghalaya (3), Arunachal (3), Maharashtra (2), As-

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than 10% positivity rate increased to 54  8 districts now seeing a rise in Covid-19 cases  Positivity rate has gone beyond 10% in 4 NE states sam (1), Tripura (1) have reported an increasing trend in daily cases for the last four weeks and this is also a cause of concern, Agarwal

said. “There are eight districts, which were witnessing a decline in positivity rate, but are now seeing a rise in Covid-19 cases, he said, adding that “we cannot take the situation for granted”.

NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul said in some districts, where a decline was being seen, there is an increase in cases now.

“It may be a chance, an aberration but it is also a cause of concern that we need to be careful…” he said. Talking about surge in cases in Kerala and NE states of Ma-

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Vax drive, sensitisation prog in Mkg, Wokha Longleng flags off 2 buses for students

DC Mokokchung Limawapang Jamir speaking at the Medical team from Bhandari CHC and beneficiaries at sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccination. the vaccination drive & health camp.

DIMAPUR: Mokokchung District Task Force (DTF) on COVID-19 organised a sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccination for all unvaccinated government employees at Mokokchung on July 27 at town hall, Mokokchung.

According to a DIPR report, while delivering the

keynote address, deputy commissioner, Mokokchung, Limawapang Jamir said that the objective in organising the programme was not to force anyone to get vaccinated but to have interactions to clear the minds of the people had there been any problems or doubts that held them

back.

Resource person of the programme, Dr. Yanger explained the importance and advantage of getting vaccinated.

Dr. Yanger also said the only solution to combat the incoming third wave was to get every eligible individual to get vaccinated.

He pointed out that vaccines were proving to be efficient against hospitalisation and death and disclosed that most COVID-19 deaths in the district were those unvaccinated.

After the programme, 26 people were vaccinated under the supervision of DIO Mokokchung, Dr.

Ayangla Saku and Dr. Yanger. The programme was chaired by SDO (C) Mokokchung, Sentilong Ozukum.

Meanwhile at Wokha, Bhandari, Community Health Center (CHC) Bhandari conducted a vaccination drive-cum-health camp at Akahaiqa village and Sumito village on July 24 for 18 years and above.

According to a DIPR report, during the event, 76 beneficiaries from Akahaiqa village and 36 beneficiaries from Sumito village were vaccinated. Meanwhile at the health camp, more than 90 patients were treated.

At Ruchan village, 185 beneficiaries were vaccinated and 21 patients were treated on July 25.

The CHC Bhandari medical team was led by SMO, Dr. Caroline, Dr .Chundemo Ngullie, Dr. Renathung and Dr. Lydia.

ICAR Nagaland centre conducts webinar

Tuensang district administration and police along with court staff, CTS (Chang women organisation) and DB destroyed sized IMFL at dumping ground in the presence of EAC Tuensang, Ketsintle Tep on July 27. The sized items contained 204 bottles of rum and 24 canned beers.

DIMAPUR: ICAR Nagaland centre conducted a webinar on “adaptation and mitigation strategies for agriculture under climate variability situation” on July 23.

Special guest of the programme, former director of ICAR RC for NEH Region, Umiam, Dr S. V. Ngachan stressed on the need for skill development of farmers through training and demonstration and emphasised on adoption of integrated farming systems.

In his keynote address, director, ICAR RC for NEH region, Umiam Meghalaya, Dr V.K Mishra reported 25-30% shortage of rainfall in Nagaland in the current year which had largely affected paddy cultivation and other horticultural crops.

He stressed on the importance of future plan of action such as developing strategies and resource conservation technologies to mitigate water stress.

A technical session

and farmer-scientist interaction was also organised.

A total of 110 stakeholders across the region participated in the webinar.

Earlier, joint director of ICAR Nagaland Centre, Dr D.J. Rajkhowa delivered the welcome address by where he highlighted the present climatic condition of Nagaland and scope of agricultural interventions to be undertaken.

First batch of students from Longleng district with DC Longleng, police officials and NGOs before leaving for Kohima and Dimapur. (NP)

Correspondent LONGLENG, JUL 27 (NPN): Two NST buses with students, who are looking forward to seek admission in various educational institutions, attend regular classes and appear for JEE examination, were flagged off here on Tuesday.

The Longleng district administration led by deputy commissioner Shayung Phom and Phom Students’ Conference (PSC)

arranged two NST buses in view of the difficulties faced by students who wished to pursue studies in different towns and cities.

The first batch of students left Longleng for Dimapur via Mokokchung, Wokha and Kohima.

Before departure, the DC Longleng, Shayung Phom exhorted the students to play a vital role in the development of the society. He reminded them that education gives people the skills they needed to

prosper in life.

DC also said that education teaches how one could live life better, develop good relationships and learn positive manner in building society better.

Phom also asked the students to follow Covidappropriate behaviour and SOPs while seeking admission at any educational institutions or during journey at all the times.

Special prayer for the students was said by public leader Bukshi Phom.

NEWS IN BRIEF Clarification: Apropos the news item “Vaccine hesitancy poses challenge in Covid fight”, Dr. Mecietuonuo, pulmonologist of Eden Medical Centre clarified that all individuals wanting to take the Covid-19 vaccine should make sure that they do not have symptoms suggestive of Covid before taking the Covid-19 Vaccine. She also added that it is not necessary to do a Covid test before taking the jab unless an individual is symptomatic.

Directorate of art and culture informs: Directorate of Art and Culture has informed that the date for submission of photographs and write-ups have been extended to August 3.

Silent prayer for Kargil martyrs: Members of Leo Club of Dimapur and Lions Club of Dimapur lit candles and said a silent prayer for the martyrs of the Kargil War on July 26 at the club premises.

In Loving Memory of

Mr. T. Dangchet Pongen (1932 – 2021)

And in time, our Father beckons home those that love Him. A man of gentle spirit, we have lost the compassionate refuge of a great man who was deeply loved by family, friends and those that met him. Mr. T. Dangchet Pongen left this home on the 24th of July, 2021 to rest in his eternal abode. He was a loving father, friend and a grandfather to six children, twelve grandchildren, and touched countless lives during his stay in this temporal world.

Though with hearts in mourning, God’s will carries him home.

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Born :11.06.1949 – Died : 21.07.2021 We, the bereaved family members of Late IMNaKILeP JaMIR (Ungma) would like to convey our deepest gratitude to each and every individuals, organizations, churches and all well-wishers who stood and supported us physically, materially, financially and spiritually during his short illness and sad demise on 21st July 2021.

We are truly humbled and grateful for your presence during our time of grief, in comforting us in honouring Him. We deeply regret for not being able to thank all individually, but it is our fervent prayer that the Good Lord bless one and all abundantly.

Born on 24th May 1975 – Died on 17th July 2021 Through this brief note, we, the bereaved family members of Late M. achumla would like to convey our heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to all those who stood by us and shared our pain through love, support and prayer at the sudden demise of our beloved mother on the 17th July 2021.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individual while we hope and pray that our Almighty God bless each and every one of you abundantly. And on our part, your act of kindness shall be forever in our hearts.

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Agartala An afternoon thunderstorm

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Aizawl

Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 25 21

Guwahati A stray afternoon t-storm

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Kuthur village

DIMAPUR: Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Tuensang division conducted Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin [SBM (G)] Open Defecation Free (ODF+) Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) exercise in various villages. The programme was sponsored by sanitation & WSSO, PHED, Kohima.

In a press release, PHED Tuensang division informed that the PRA exercise on SBM (G) ODF was conducted by District Water Sanitation Mission (DWSM), PHED Tuensang division at Chessore block (Kuthur village) on

Agri department launches district wise crop calendar

Director of agriculture M. Ben Yanthan, joint director Dr. I. Amenla and officials launching the calendar.

DIMAPUR: Director of agriculture, M. Ben Yanthan launched a district wise crop calendar at the conference hall of directorate agriculture Kohima on July 27.

In a press release, the department informed that during the book launching programme, M. Ben Yanthan said that the district wise crop calendar would serve as a field guidebook for all the stakeholders and to prepare for any eventualities and calamities including policy formulation. He shared that the department decided to come out with a district wise crop calendar to provide information and seasonal activities advocated during crop season by farmers in order to enhance production in agriculture.

The information consist of both traditional as well as the improved cultivation method in practice

along with promising local crop varieties and high yielding varieties (HYV) predominantly in use, he informed.

Further, the director said that in the days to come, the calendar would also be launched with new edition covering all the districts of Nagaland.

During the launching programme, crop calendar was distributed to all the districts and sub-division, institute, laboratories and farms.

The department also held a coordination meeting with all the DAOs and SDAOs on the assessment of crops affected by diseases situation, drought like situation and others.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme was chaired by joint director Dr. I Amenla and vote of thanks was delivered by deputy director Medovilie Ladu.

July 14, Sangsanyu block (Ngangpong village) on July 15, Chare block (Longkhipeh village) on July 16 and Noklak district (Nokyan) on July 27.

At Chessore block Kuthur village, DWSM, PHED Tuensang division, district chemist & district coordinator N Sangtam said that toilet for all ODF sustainability through all household in the village, schools, panchayats ghars, anangwati and church in the village have to access to a functional toilet facility, grey water management and solid, liquid and plastic waste management with minimum five ODF plus

Longkhipeh village

information, education and communication (IEC) messages through wall paintings in the village.

He also stressed on behavior change communication which was one among the key parameters to achieve ODF plus village.

He encouraged villagers to give more community participation in order to achieve ODF plus village as the centre targets to achieve ODF to ODF plus village by 2024.

A short note on sanitation and hygiene was also delivered by sanitation and hygiene consultant, Tsikingmong.

District fishery office inaugurated in Noklak DIMAPUR: Advisor, fisheries & aquatic resources, evaluation, economic & statistics, L. Khumo Khiamniungan inaugurated the district fishery office at Noklak on July 27.

According to a DIPR report, in his inaugural speech, Khumo Khiamniungan expressed his gratitude to director, fisheries & aquatic resources, departmental officials and everyone who took the initiative in establishing the district fishery office at Noklak.

He requested the public to cooperate with the department and for every developmental activity, he said that land was required and in this regard he requested the people to extend cooperation to the government for any developmental activity in the district.

The advisor encouraged the farmers to acquire the proper knowledge and learn new techniques and modern ways of fisheries and aquatic farming from the experts of the department.

Speeches were also delivered by superintendent of police, Noklak, Dr. Pritpal Kaur, Khiamniungan Tribal President, M. Thangou and extra assistant commissioner Noklak, P. Pukha Lam. Earlier, the programme was chaired by additional director of fisheries and aquatic resources, Rongsennungba, keynote address was delivered by director, fisheries & aquatic resources, Kevisa Kense, dedicatory prayer was said by Longdon Baptist Church, Noklak, pastor A. Penglang while vote of thanks was delivered by district fishery officer, Noklak, Dr. Rongsenkumzuk.

PRA exercise was conducted with attendees from village councils, Wastan committee and general public.

At Sangsanyu block, Ngangpong village, SDO PHED Tuensang division, Lipoksangla spoke on how to achieve ODF to ODF plus villages through SBM (G) ODF plus objectives emphasised on the SLWM, greywater management and plastic waste management.

Sanitation and hygiene consultant Tsikingmong delivered a talk on good sanitary practices.

The PRA exercise was conducted by N. Sangtam

Ngangpong village

with 25 attendees from the village council, WATSAN and general public.

During the PRA exercise at Chare block, Longkhipeh, N Sangtam spoke on ODF plus objectives to the villagers and encourage them to practice basic sanitary habits, sustainable water resource management, and solid and liquid waste management, these issues were discussed with the villagers to create mass awareness at the grassroot levels. 35 members attended the exercise.

PRA activity on ODF plus sustainability was conducted at Nokyan village under Noklak district. IEC

consultant, DWSM PHED Tuensang, Fairyson Sangtam spoke on key components constituting an ODF plus village.

He stressed on continued behavioural change to be communicated regularly and the importance of solid waste management was

also highlighted.

The need for liquid waste management system and measures to deal with greywater and black water was presented by SDO PHED Noklak Khaoshai Lam. The PRA exercise was attended by 25 participants.

IWCD holds 8th installation ceremony

IWCD along with Chandu Agarwal felicitating five women entrepreneurs during the ceremony. (NP)

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, JULY 27 (NPN): The 8th installation ceremony of Innerwheel Club Dimapur (IWCD) was held here, on Tuesday, at Rotary Centre, Midland.

During the ceremony, Mamta Bucha and Nidhi Modi was inducted as Innerwheel president and secretary respectively for the tenure 2021-2022.

At the programme, secretarial report of the year (2020-21) power point presentation was presented by outgoing secretary. The ceremony also highlighted release of club bulletin (2020-21) by club editor Vinita Sethi, felicitation of various awards such as district awards, presidents award, felicitation of outgoing teams and

felicitation of five women entrepreneurs were also held.

The programme was followed by a presentation of project on health care where a wheelchair was provided to an 89 year old women and presentation of project in educational help to provide school fee for girl child.

Outgoing president Sanjukta Bhattacharjee, installation officer PDG Chandu Agarwal also delivered speeches at the programme.

DCP traffic Dimapur, Jatila Jamir and Pinkie Agarwal attended the programme as chief guest and guest of honour respectively.

Later, vote of thanks was delivered

by IWCD vice president Rekha Jain.

NBSE informs on NSEE

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) has informed all concerned that the Nagaland State Entrance Examination (NSEE) 2021 for para medical/agri and allied degree courses would be held on August 4 at various centres.

NBSE has informed that candidates may visit www.nbsenl.edu.in from July 29 onwards to find out roll numbers, rules and instructions pertaining to the examination. They have also been asked to login to the portal using their roll number and date of birth, provide email id and contact number to make the examination fee payment of 600 and download their admit card after successful transaction of payment.

DPDB Tuensang discusses bifurcation of ICDS projects DIMAPUR: Tuensang District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) held its monthly meeting on July 27 at DC’s conference hall under the chairmanship of DC and vice chairman DPDB Tuensang, Kumar Ramnikant.

According to a DIPR report, the house discussed on the agenda for the approval of LADP for the current year of 2020-2021 under 51A/C Noksen, 52 A/C Longkhim Chare, 53 A/C Tuensang Sadar 1, 54 A/C Tuensang Sadar - 11 and 58 A/C Shamator - Chessore.

The chairman also thanked elected members for contribution of Rs. 10 lakh each to COVID schemes.

The board discussed bifurcation of ICDS Sangsangnyu into two projects which was tabled by president CKS, Nungsang Lemba Chang.

He said that Sangsangnyu ICDS was the biggest project, as it covers 92 angangwadi centers covering the villages of three constituency assembly of 51, 53 and 54 assemblies. The house approved for the induction of permanent member in DPDB Tuensang from confederation of Chang students Union, Tuensang.

The board welcomed new members, BDO Sangsangnyu, Y. Hongtan Chinkhong and DFO Tuensang Samom Khelen Singh.

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Assam declares 3-day mourning for death of 5 cops Assam-Mizoram border standoff:

Locals threaten economic blockade

The scence of the recent border clash between police personnel of Assam and Mizoram tweeted. Earlier in the day, the chief minister visited the Silchar Medical College and Hospital and met the police personnel injured in the attack.

Cachar Superintendent of Police VaibhabChandrakantNimbalkar, has been airlifted to a hospital in Mumbai by an air force air ambulance.

The chief minister, is also likely to visit the interstate border where the situation was stated to be “tense but under control”, officials said. “We would do all possible to help the families of our martyred colleagues.

The injured would be looked after fully”, the Special DGP G P Singh tweeted.

“All lawful and operational measures would be taken to bring culprits to book and protect the integrity of the constitutional boundary of Assam”, Singh added, in an indication that Mizo policemen who fired at their Assam counterparts would be prosecuted.

Meanwhile, people of Kabuganj and Dholai area have “launched an indefinite blockade of roads” leading to Mizoram from 9 a.m on Tuesday to prevent any vehicle from moving to the

After Ajanta Neog & R Kurmi, third Cong MLA Sushanta likely to join BJP

Assam-Mizoram clash: Centre calls Chief Secys, DGPs

GUWAHATI, JUL 27 (AGENCIES): Following in the footsteps of former Congress leaders Ajanta Neog, who is now finance minister and Rupjyoti Kurmi, Congress MLA from Thowra constituency in upper Assam, Sushanta Borgohain, has sealed his deal with BJP and is likely to join the saffron party on August 2 at the state BJP headquarters here, reports The Times of India.

I n f o r m i n g t h i s, a source from state BJP said, “His joining is almost confirmed. His joining after finance minister Ajanta Neog and former Congress MLA from Mariani, Rupjyoti Kurmi, will strengthen the BJP in upper Assam.”

Borgohain will come to Guwahati on July 30 and sit in a meeting with the party top brass here before joining the party on August 2. Sources said he has already finalised the deal with the BJP. Borgohain’s shifting to the saffron camp is being considered a major success

Zoramthanga respectively, and urged them to ensure peace along the disputed border and find an amicable settlement. Earlier in May this year, firing on Nagaland-Assam border had similarly raised tensions. However, no deaths or injuries had occurred then.

Sarma paid floral tributes to the five slain policemen at Silchar on Tuesday.

“We are deeply anguished by the loss of lives of our brave @assam police personnel. I visited Silchar SP office and paid floral tributes to the five martyrs and salute their sacrifice,” he

Sushanta Borgohain as the BJP was planning to have a strong leader to represent the Ahom community to give a tough fight to Congress parliamentarian and former three-time chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s son Gaurav Gogoi.

The BJP has been successful in roping in Kurmi, an influential tea tribe community leader, from the Congress. After his shifting to the BJP, Congress has no leader to represent the tea tribe community. The BJP, whose grip is not so strong in the minority-dominated lower Assam constituencies, has been relentlessly working to strengthen the party’s base in upper Assam since 2014 and has

been successful to a great extent.

Borgohain will be the second MLA from the Congress to join the BJP after the saffron party came to power in Assam for the second time.

In the recently concluded Assam Assembly polls, Borgohain had defeated BJP candidate Kushal Duwari in Thowra constituency and was elected to the 126-member Legislative Assembly.

Not letting other leaders to rise in the Congress has been the prime reason behind several big names quitting the party since the recently concluded Assembly elections in the state.

Neog and Kurmi also expressed dissatisfaction over the party leadership and the former state president of the Congress Ripun Bora. Kurmi had said that a few leaders in the Congress never let anybody rise and for which the party faced back-to-back defeats in Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019 and the Assembly elections in 2016 and 2021.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): The Centre has called a meeting of the chief secretaries and DGPs of Assam and Mizoram on Wednesday in the wake of violence along their shared border, where five Assam Police personnel were killed, officials said.

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla will chair the meeting to discuss the sudden escalation of violence along the Assam-Mizoram border. The meeting of the chief secretaries and Directors General of Police is expected to work on a peace formula so that there is no repeat of the violence along the border of the two states, a home ministry official said. The central government is in regular touch with the Assam and Mizoram governments and trying to calm down the situation, the officials said, adding CRPF has been deployed in the violence-hit area. Five Assam Police personnel, along with a civilian, were killed and more than 50 others, including a Superintendent of Police, were injured when Mizoram Police opened fire on a team of Assam officials on Monday.

Neutral force CRPF faces flak

AIZAWL, JUL 27 (PTI): A day after a violent clash and exchange of fire between police forces of Assam and Mizoram left at least six people dead and over 50 injured, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) deployed along the disputed interstate border on Tuesday received criticism from the Mizoram home minister and others for allegedly failing to carry out its “responsibility” as a neutral force.

Mizoram Home Minister Lalchamliana accused the CRPF of allowing Assam forces to enter Mizoram and forcibly take over a duty post manned by the state police on the outskirts of Vairengte in Kolasib district on Monday. Another Mizoram minister, the local MLA and the village council chief of Vairengte levelled similar allegations.

Central paramilitary forces have been deployed along the Mizoram-Assam border by the Central government as neutral forces to defuse tension and maintain peace following a border standoff in August last year.

While the CRPF are deployed on the Mizoram side, the SashastraSeemaBal

Sarma-led Assam govt should resign for failing to protect its people: Cong GUWAHATI, JUL 27 (PTI): A day after five Assam policemen and a civilian were killed in a bloody conflict along the state’s border with Mizoram, the Congress on Tuesday claimed that the HimantaBiswaSarma-led BJP government should resign, “having failed to protect its people”.

Addressing a press meet, newly appointed working presidents of the grand old party, KamalakhyaDeyPurakayastha and Zakir Hussain Sikdar, along with former minister Siddeque Ahmed, said that the border incident has proved that the BJP government is incapable of providing security to the people of the state.

Sarma, who is also the convenor of North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) “is having sweets and tea with his Nagaland counterpart on one hand, and on the other he is seen amicably talking with Mizoram CM Zoramthanga, even as encroachment of Assam land continues,” Purakayastha, who represents Karimganj North, said. Condoling the deaths of the policemen and the civilian, all three leaders asserted that “a government that cannot protect its people should resign”. Just two days after Home

Minister Amit Shah met chief ministers of northeast states, held talks with them in Shillong, the Assam police personnel were attacked, Purakayastha pointed out. Both the Centre and the state governments have completed failed to maintain law and order, he claimed. The festering border dispute between the two northeastern states erupted into a bloody conflict on Monday and resulted in the death of six persons and injury of at least 50 others.

Ahmed, who had in the past served as the border area development minister, said Assam’s boundary disputes with the neighbouring states are not something new but “during my tenure, our then chief minister TarunGogoi had made it clear that not one inch of our land will be lost. That is no longer the case now”. The incident at Lailapur in Cachar district was shocking to say the least, and despite claims that “we have a strong chief minister, who holds the home portfolio, too, such is the state of affairs,” the Karimganj south MLA said, in a dig at Sarma.

Sikdar, on his part, asserted that Sarma, as the NEDA convenor, should have been able to resolve the border row.

the vulnerability of the situation. “The bloody clash could have been averted had CRPF personnel prevented Assam police from entering Mizoram territory and put restrain on them,” Lalruatkima, who is currently camping at Vairengte, told PTI. He alleged that unarmed Mizoram police officers were denied protection by CRPF personnel when they rushed to the CRPF base when the firing took place between two state forces on Monday.

LalrinsangaRalte, the MLA of Serlui constituency under which Vairengte falls, accused the CRPF of backing the police personnel and civilians from Assam in entering Mizoram territory.

He also alleged that Assam police took over the CRPF camp and driven out around 15 personnel of Mizoram police from their duty post located a few meters away from the CRPF camp on the outskirt of Vairengte. The MLA claimed that the people of Mizoram have lost faith in the paramilitary force as far as maintaining neutrality and restoring peace on the border areas are concerned.

KMSS impose eco- blockade near Assam-Mizoram border SILCHAR, JUL 27 (AGENCIES):The Assam government will move the Supreme Court seeking protection of Innerline Forest Reserve from destruction and encroachment, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday, a day after border clashes with Mizoram left five state policemen and a civilian dead and 60 others injured.

He told a press conference in Silchar that satellite images have shown that roads are being constructed and forests cleared for jhum cultivation which cannot be allowed.

“We will move the Supreme Court to ensure that the forests are protected,” he said. Jhum cultivation is a farming activity where farmland is cleared of trees and other vegetation and then set on fire. The practice is followed in most states of the northeast. “The dispute is not regarding land but encroachment of reserved forests is the issue. We have no settlements in the forest areas and, if Mizoram can give evidence, we will immediately carry out eviction,” he said.

The chief minister asserted that not an inch of Assam’s land could be encroached by the neighbouring state. “People have sacrificed their lives but boundary has been protected which we will continue to do at any cost,” he asserted. After the vexed border dispute erupted into bloody clashes with security personnel and civilians from the two states going after each other on Monday, the Centre had directed them to move away their forces from the border post.

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(SSB) are camped on the Assam side in Lailapur.

“The central paramilitary force jawans were not honouring their responsibility as neutral forces to maintain peace and prevent violent clashes,” the home minister said.

Lalchamliana claimed that the CRPF jawans refused to provide protection to Kolasib superintendent of police and some police officers when they rushed to the camp of the paramilitary force at the time of exchange of firing between forces of Mizoram and Assam on Monday. Lalchamliana also spoke to CRPF IG Sarbjit Singh, urging him to look into the matter and take necessary action, an official statement said.

According to a statement, the CRPF will look into the allegation that some Mizoram police officers were denied security protection during the clash.

Mizoram Information and Public Relations Minister Lalruatkima alleged that the paramilitary forces did not restrain armed police personnel and civilians from Assam from intruding into Mizoram territory despite

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GUWAHATI, JUL 27 (PTI): The situation on the Assam-Mizoram border remained tense as Assam declared a three-day mourning from Tuesday to condole the death of five policemen and one civilian in a border clash last night, while locals in the state’s Cachar district threatened an economic blockade of the neighbouring state of Mizoram.

During the three-day mourning period, the national flag will fly at halfmast and there will be no public entertainment, a notification issued by the Assam government said.

At least six persons were killed and 60 others, including an SP, injured in a bloody clash between the police forces of the two states along the Assam-Mizoram border on Monday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who had last week held a conference with chief ministers of north-eastern states in a bid to resolve prickly border disputes between them, last night spoke to chief ministers of Assam and Mizoram, HimantaBiswaSarma and

neighbouring state.

Social activist Jabir Hussain Laskar told reporters that the people of border towns and village will also launch an indefinite ‘economic blockade’ from Wednesday and urged the Assam government to take steps to resolve the boundary dispute.

The Barak Democratic Front (BDF) too has called a 12-hour Barak Valley bandh on Wednesday in protest against the killing of six Assam police jawans and one civilian in Lailapur, BDF Chief Convenor Pradip Dutta Roy said.

The Assam government, in a statement on Monday, said that a team of officials, including an IG, DIG, DC Cachar, SP Cachar and DFO Cachar, went to sort out the dispute over construction of a road

by Mizoram towards RengtiBasti in Assam, violating the Inner Line Reserve Forest in Lailapur area.

“Simultaneously, the Mizoram side also set up a new armed camp on a hillock next to the CRPF camp,” it said, adding a mob from Mizoram started stone pelting and damaged three vehicles including the District Collector’s car.

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Prof. Shukla arrived at the campus in the afternoon and was received by the Registrar. Thereafter, he was felicitated by the outgoing Vice-Chancellor in the presence of staff of the VC office.

It may be mentioned that the President of India had on July 23 appointed Prof. Shukla as the new VC of NEHU for a term of five years, besides approving the appointment of 11 other VCs of various central universities in the country.

I, Miss Supongnungla, daughter of No. 4339467, Late Ex Sep Yarentoshi, of the NAGA Regiment residence village – Mongsenyimti, Post Office – Chuchuyimlang, Thana (PS)- Mokokchung, Teh – Mokokchung, District – Mokokchung, State – Nagaland, Pin – 798601, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under : 1. That, I am the deponent of this affidavit.

2. That, my name changed to “SUPONGNUNGLA” from “SUBONGNUNGLA”.

3. That, my former name Miss Subongnungla, published vide Records, the Kumaon Regiment NE series DO II No 1/0776/0001/2019.

4. That, the above named deceased soldier is my real father.

5. That, my date of birth is – 13 Jan 1998 and my birth place is – Mongsenyimti.

6. That, I have sworn this affidavit to declare my full and correct official name as “SUPONGNUNGLA” and I shall use the same in all my future correspondence and records.

7. That, the statements made above from para 1 to 6 of this affidavit is made by me which is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, belief and nothing is concealed therein. And I signed this affidavit on this the 23 day of July 2021.

SUPONGNUNGLA Deponent Solemnly affirmed and declare before me by the deponents, on 27th day of July 2021.

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SHILLONG, JUL 27 (AGENCIES): Prof. Prabha Shankar Shukla took charge of the office of the Vice-Chancellor (VC), North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) on Tuesday, reports The Northeast Today.

Prof. Shukla took over the office from the outgoing VC, Prof. S.K. Srivastava in accordance with the provision laid down under Statute 2(A) (1) of NEHU Act 1973 and as conveyed by the Ministry of Education, Govt of India vide letter F.No.12-4/2020-CU.

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AGARTALA, JUL 27 (PTI): Leader of the opposition and former chief minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar on Tuesday said criticised the detention of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) members in a hotel here, contending that it is “infringement” of the right to information.

A team of poll strategist Prashant Kishore’s I-

PAC has been camping in Agartala since last week to assess the political situation and potential support base for the Trinamool Congress.

Its members, under detention in hotel since Sunday night, are being questioned by the local police.

“Everybody, irrespective of political differences, can collect information.

And, nobody can be de-

NORTHEAST COVID-19 UPDATE Mnp reports 1,165 new Covid cases M’laya reports 710 IMPHAL, JUL 27: Manipur reported 1,165 new cases on Tuesday, pushing the overall infection caseload to 94,821. The fatality toll also climbed to 1,498 with 11 more patients succumbing to COVID-19 complication during the day.

The state health department also registered 11 deaths due to the virus in the past 24 hours, of which three of them were vaccinated with the first dose of COVID-19 vac-

cine. Eight of them had comorbidities, as claimed by the department. As many as 876 patients were discharged upon recuperation on the day, taking the recovery tally to 82,521.

The recovery rate of the state stood at 87.02%.

The state has currently 10,802 active cases, the health department said.

A total of 1,78,281 persons have got the second dose of the vaccine, the health department said.

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Arunachal reports 490 new COVID-19 cases, two more deaths ITANAGAR, JUL 27 (PTI): THE COVID-19 CASELOAD IN Arunachal Pradesh mounted to 46,357 as 490 more people tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said on Tuesday.

The death toll rose to 218 after two more persons from the Capital Complex Region and Tawang, succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said. The two COVID-19 patients died while undergoing treatment at health facilities, and they had comorbidities, he said. At least 435 people were cured of the disease on Monday, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 41,820, he said.

The recovery rate among coronavirus patients in the state stands at 90.21 per cent.

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S H I L LO N G, J U L 2 7 (PTI): Meghalaya on Tuesday reported 710 new COVID-19 cases, which took the tally in the state to 62,473, a health department official said. The death toll rose to 1,040 as nine more people succumbed to the infection during the day, Health Services Director Aman War said.

Five fresh fatalities were reported from East Khasi Hills district, two from Ri Bhoi, and one each from West Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills, he said.

Meghalaya now has 5,332 active cases, and 453 people were cured of the disease during the day, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 56,101, War said.

The state has so far conducted over 8.16 lakh sample tests for COVID-19.

Altogether, 10.16 lakh people were inoculated till Monday with 1,71,303 of them having received both doses of the vaccine, War said.

ITANAGAR, JUL 27 (PTI): Niti Aayog has asked the Arunachal Pradesh government to improve the state’s performance in achieving sustainable development goals and poverty eradication target to make progress in socio-economic parameters.

The think tank also advised the state administration to improve its composite score in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) India Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a government release said on Tuesday.

The composite score of Arunachal Pradesh has improved from 53 to 60 during the last fiscal but the state needs to work on its overall ranking, Niti Aayog adviser (SDGs) Sanyukta Samaddar said at a twoday workshop started on Monday. She presented a framework of the SDG India Index during the programme organised by the state’s Finance, Planning and Investment Department in collaboration with NITI Aayog.

The index for sustain-

able development goals evaluates the progress of states and union territories on social, economic and environmental parameters.

Of the 28 states in the country, Arunachal Pradesh is at 18th position with an MPI score of 0.108, a headcount ratio of 24.39 per cent and an intensity of poverty at 44.22 per cent, the statement said.

Samaddar said implementation of SDGs such as no poverty, zero hunger, quality education, gender equality, climate action and others is required as the country is committed to the world to meet these targets.

“Hence, every state government is committed to align their development agenda with these goals,” she was quoted as saying.

Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein, who chaired the workshop, highlighted problems faced by people living in remote and border areas.

He also emphasised on implementation of various schemes related to health, education, drinking water and rural connectivity, the statement said.

SHILLONG, JUL 27 (PTI): DRDO chairman Dr G Satheesh Reddy on Tuesday stressed on the need to build an indigenous defence system in the country as almost 50 per cent of such technologies are currently imported from other countries.

Reddy was addressing a programme through video conference on “Building Future Defence Capabilities - Strategic Strides” organised

by IIM Shillong to mark the sixth death anniversary of

SHILLONG, JUL 27: The Delta strain of the COVID-19 has been detected in all the positive cases of late, the authorities pointed out as Meghalaya registered one of its highest daily case counts on Tuesday with 710 cases of infection adding up to 5,332 active cases and nine deaths increasing the fatality figure to 1,040, even as 453 cases of recovery surged the number of recovered cases to 56,101 in

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IMPHAL, JUL 27: With no sign of decrease in the infection rate, Manipur government on Tuesday ordered extension of the COVID-19 curfew for another seven days (till August 3), with certain relaxations.

The additional activities permitted during the extended curfew included opening of insurance offices for three days from 10 am to 2.30 pm like in the case of banks. Banks are allowed to open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the earlier order of the state government.

The order also allowed inclusion of vegetables/fish/ meat and grocery items for home delivery in e-commerce allowed earlier and home delivery of cooked food by authorized delivery staff.

To break the chain of transmission of COVID-19 infection and in view of the wide prevalence of Delta variant COVID-19, the state government imposed a “strict curfew” effective from July 18.

Despite the 10 days of stricter curfew, the state has been witnessing a sharp rise in the daily infection as well as fatality due to the corona virus disease.

SHILLONG, JUL 27: Meghalaya Health and Family Welfare Minister, Alexander Laloo Hek of the BJP was sacked and replaced by his party colleague, Sanbor Shullai in a cabinet reshuffle

by Chief Minister minister Conrad K Sangma on Tuesday.

Shullai was administered the oath of office by Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan here this evening. The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, his deputy Prestone Tynsong, Home Minister Lahkmen Rymbui, Power Minister James K. Sangma and other ministers.

However, Hek was conspicuous by his absence at the oath taking ceremony.

“Though Delhi is quite far, but they (party central leadership) have eyes around Shillong and they are looking at what Bah Sanbor is doing and what the party is doing and based on that they must have considered,” an elated Shullai told reporters.

Shullai, who has been

former president APJ Abdul Kalam who died while delivering a lecture here.

The DRDO chairman emphasised the ‘Make in India’ initiative which greatly depends on knowing the ‘Know-how’ and ‘Knowwhy’ of technology development for creating selfsustainability in the country.

Dr Reddy was all praise Dr G Satheesh Reddy for the significant contribu- in enhancing the defence tion of Dr Kalam in the capabilities of the nation. development of science He recalled Dr Kalam was and technology and also

Swearing-in of BJP legislator Shanbor Shullai.

elected for three consecutive times to Meghalaya Assembly, had earlier held the post of Deputy Speaker.

Shullai is one of the two BJP legislators to have won the 2018 Assembly elections; the other is Hek. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Sangma said that when the Cabinet was formed in2018, the BJP had an agreement that both Hek and Shullai, the two BJP legislators in the State would share the ministerial berth for a period of two and half years each between them.

“There was an understanding and a discussion between Hek and Shullai that they will be sharing their minister’s berth,” Sangma said.

However, Hek had said he was not aware of such an understanding. He con-

tinued to be in the cabinet for more than two and half years. But things changed after the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently and Sangma said he received a letter from state BJP president Ernest Mawrie requesting replacement of Hek with Shullai.

“The MDA coalition government is only honouring the BJP’s decision,” the Chief Minister said.

The seven party MDA coalition government comprises the NPP (20), the UDP (9), the People’s Democratic Front (4), the BJP and the Hill State People’s Democratic Party (two each) ,the Nationalist Congress Party and Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (one each) besides an Independent.

described as the ‘Missile man of India’ under whose leadership five missiles Agni, Aakash, Naag, Prithvi and Trishul – had been developed. On the sidelines of his speech, Dr Reddy mentioned the various initiatives and achievements of the country in the defence sector.

He also stressed on increasing the export potential while reducing the import of such technologies to become

a self-reliant country.

Dr Reddy emphasised the ‘Quantum Communication between two DRDO laboratories’ which demonstrates safe and secure communications in times of need. He mentioned the ‘Development cum Production Partner’ (DCPP) programme provided by DRDO which allowed the private sector to co-develop missile systems and have the rights to manufacture as well.

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100 percent COVID cases RAM JANAKI HR. SEC. SCHOOL G.S. ROAD, DIMAPUR in M’laya of Delta variant the state, which has so far registered 62,473 confirmed cases so far.

“As per information from the Health and Family Welfare Department, the Delta strain constitutes 100 per cent of the cases in the state. It is a variant of concern and highly infectious, and the number of cases as well as hospitalisation cases may start increasing rapidly,” East Khasi Hills district Deputy Commissioner,Isawanda Laloo said.

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Police officials and jawans of Tripura State Rifles at the entrance of the hotel where the I-PAC team has been detained.

tained in a hotel (for that). It is infringement of the right to information. Anarchy and rule of jungle is prevailing in the state,” Sarkar told reporters. He alleged that the state government was trying to “block the source of information” as it is losing base in Tripura.

Police said the I-PAC team members will have to remain inside the hotel until their test report for COVID-19 is available.

“We have been inquiring about the reason for their visit and their itinerary. All of them have been tested and the reports are awaited.

If anybody is found to be positive for the virus, the person will have go in isolation.

“The state government is exercising cautioun to check the spread of COVID-19,” SP of West Tripura District, Manik Das, told PTI. He also said there is adequate deployment of police personnel in and around the hotel to prevent any untoward incident.

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post VOL. XXXI NO. 232 DIMAPUR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021

Border jingoism

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n July 26,2021 five personnel of the Assam Police were killed when police forces of Assam and Mizoram exchanged fire in the border area between the two states. This was a tragedy that should not have happened even if it was waiting to happen.

For all intents and purposes, the two police forces used their weapons against each other as if they were armed forces of two warring nations. The notable fact is that the July 26 incident bears resemblance to the other major incident that took place in 1985 between the police forces of Assam and Nagaland. Assam has border issues with Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya besides Mizoram and Nagaland. In all these disputes, Assam has been adopting a belligerent attitude against a small neighbor-be it Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya or Mizoram. Entry to all these states is through Assam where it has set up check posts. It may be coincidental, but after Himanta Biswa Sarma(a.k.a HBS) took over as chief minister of Assam, there has been a discernible mood of bellicose jingoism with regard to land disputes. Not long after taking over the reins of power in his state, HBS had made it clear that his government will not compromise on the state’s territorial integrity while directing his police to remain ever vigilant. Nagaland experienced the new ‘forward policy’ in May-end when a platoon of armed police personnel threatened villagers of Vikuto under Nagaland, destroyed areca trees and burned down huts. When there was no reaction, this led to another action when a hundred-member contingent of Home Guards and Assam Armed Police set up an outpost at Vikuto village area under Tzurangkong range in Mokokchung district. Unlike in 1985 there was no reaction from Nagaland Police and so Tzurangkong has been under an uneasy calm.The latest round of violence comes after union home minister Amit Shah asked all NE states( which are under NEDA, a BJP umbrella alliance) having border disputes, to resolve them through dialogue in a give and take manner.

The Modi government hopes that all border issues be resolved before August 15,2022 on India’s 75th independence day. This message was reiterated by union home minister Amit Shah to all north east CMs, CSs and DGPs at Shillong on July 24. Assam as in the past, hardly bothered when it sent around 200 Assam armed police led by IGP, accompanied by DC, Cachar, SP, Cachar and DFO, Cachar to Vairengte Auto-rickshaw stand at around 11.30 am. According to the home minister Mizoram, the Assam contingent “forcibly crossed the duty post manned by CRPF personnel stationed there and overran a duty post manned by one section of Mizoram police personnel.”

The show of strength was certainly not peaceful as it was a flag march. Such an aggressive action only sparked anger among the locals. Videos also expose those suspected immigrants with cover of Assam Police stone pelting at Mizoram police. Who fired first and why, will be known only if a level probe is ordered and monitored by the Supreme Court. Assam ’s actions on July 26, revealed the same modus operandi that led to the 1985 Merapani war. Such incidents have invariably led some people in Assam, to enforce economic blockades on other states. Hopefully, the two states will resolve the issue but Assam has to first de-escalate the situation.

DailyDevotion The Way to Knowledge

If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine… —John 7:17

The golden rule to follow to obtain spiritual understanding is not one of intellectual pursuit, but one of obedience. If a person wants scientific knowledge, then intellectual curiosity must be his guide. But if he desires knowledge and insight into the teachings of Jesus Christ, he can only obtain it through obedience. If spiritual things seem dark and hidden to me, then I can be sure that there is a point of disobedience somewhere in my life. Intellectual darkness is the result of ignorance, but spiritual darkness is the result of something that I do not intend to obey.

No one ever receives a word from God without instantly being put to the test regarding it. We disobey and then wonder why we are not growing spiritually. Jesus said, “If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift” (Matthew 5:23-24).

He is saying, in essence, “Don’t say another word to me; first be obedient by making things right.” The teachings of Jesus hit us where we live. We cannot stand as impostors before Him for even one second.

He instructs us down to the very last detail. The Spirit of God uncovers our spirit of self-vindication and makes us sensitive to things that we have never even thought of before.

When Jesus drives something home to you through His Word, don’t try to evade it. If you do, you will become a religious impostor. Examine the things you tend simply to shrug your shoulders about, and where you have refused to be obedient, and you will know why you are not growing spiritually. As Jesus said, “First…go….” Even at the risk of being thought of as fanatical, you must obey what God tells you.

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The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021

Post-mortem

NGBF memorandum to Prime Minister M

ost Hon’ble Prime Minister Sir, We, the Nagaland GaonBura Federation (NGBF), take this opportunity to thank you for your kind and compassionate consideration to the Northeast in general and Nagaland in particular, creating adequate infrastructure, providing medicines, medical equipments and vaccines to combat the deadly pandemic in our land. At this hour, the NGBF believes a new level of confidence and trust has been achieved under your astute Leadership. We also pray and hope that the worst national health crisis is behind us and that your good office will now be able to tackle pressing issues at hand.

That Sir, After the communiqué to you in January 2021, NGBF and Nagas tribal leaders were expecting a positive response from your esteemed office on concluding the IndoNaga Peace Talks through signing of the Agreement at the earliest.

The raging pandemic and the elections to various state Assemblies, especially that of Assam, we presume, led to the delay in taking up the matters further ahead.

We believe the matters are awaiting the final nod of your esteemed Office.

Mr. Prime Minister, we are aware that Elections to Manipur and few other states are coming up in the first quarter of next year, and we

hope that your excellency will agree that it would be most ideal to provide finishing touches to Indo-Naga political solution.

NGBF is also aware that; 1. Although it is an inherent right of Nagas to live together under one administrative roof, we are made to understand that integration of Naga areas would be pursued through democratic political process post agreement. This is a practical step and upon which the next step, a logical conclusion must be found.

2. There is no separation of Naga Territories from Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, the Sovereign Powers being shared between the Union and the respective

states being the Contemporary reality, in order to facilitate smooth transition of Powers to the newly envisaged Territorial Councils, the Agreement has to be Tripartite between the Leaders of the Naga Political Groups from the respective states, giving concrete shape to the negotiated matters.

3. NGBF is confident that all necessary groundworks, procedures and roadmap for smooth transition to absolute peace is steadily prepared. We at the grassroots level are committed to end gun culture in Nagaland through acceptable and honorable political solution. We assure your esteemed office that the NGBF will remain a pivotal stakeholder in en-

suring that customary laws and traditions will guide our citizens in matters of social, political and historical subjects and conducts thereof.

4. The ruling dispensation in Nagaland has recently formed a Core Committee on political affairs and had interactions with WC, NNPGs and NSCN IM. We are given to understand that the state BJP and the ruling coalition partners National Democratic People’s Party (NDPP) have been strengthened by Nagaland People’s Front (NPF), joining them to form an oppositionless Government in Nagaland. According to all party spokespersons, this decision was taken to press upon the GoI to announce and ink a political Agreement.

5. Mr. Prime Minister Sir, you entrusted us with a task during our last meeting on 03 August 2017. We have been working meticulously in our villages and towns to ensure Indo-Naga solution is wholeheartedly welcomed by our masses. The ground is all set to welcome the Agreement and to begin a new enduring peaceful co-existence between Nagas and Indians.

We besiege your benign office to conclude honorable and acceptable political agreementwith the Nagas.

[SahleemKonyak] President [H.KashitoYepthomi] V. President [ShikutoZalipu] Gen. Secretary

As Delta spreads, will we ever be able to travel with our young kids?

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s countries around the world attempt to reopen their borders, officials have come up with an ever-changing list of labyrinthine polices to allow travel. A range of entry restrictions have been deployed, from home quarantines for vaccinated adults to spending up to three weeks in governmentauthorized facilities, with multiple tests along the way. The best strategy isn’t yet clear, but one thing is common: Few are taking into consideration families as a unit.

Acknowledging the difficult balance between the realities of employment and family demands could become one of the most important steps to opening up economies. But until parents have more clarity about how to cross borders with their young children, or the hoops they have to jump through to be with them, there’s little hope of a full recovery.

Before the pandemic, travel had become an economic necessity for millions of people, who crossed borders every day to go to work and come back to their families. Globally, there are over 250 million international migrants.These aren’t just C-suite executives gallivanting between financial hubs. Foreign domestic workers, corporate employees and economic nomads move around the world when better shots at employment emerge.

Such migration rose manifold in the years

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before the pandemic. Knowing that loved ones were just a flight away was a critical piece of that equation.

All this has been thrown off by Covid-19. While rising vaccination rates are helping, many parts of the world remain shut to travel. This has created a huge emotional burden for families that have been separated.

There’s an economic toll, too. Those who had to leave jobs to be with their families are facing the monetary consequences. Substantial sums are at stake: Remittances, or money sent home, totaled over $550 billion in 2019.

Spending on business travel is worth at least $1.4 trillion a year — and that doesn’t even account for all the informal sectors that require mobility for employment, such as domestic workers, startups or freelancers.

These days, those intrepid — or desperate — enough to travel as a family have to consider some of the rules for young children.

Most governments impose the strict guidelines for unvaccinated individuals on this group, which comprises about a fifth of the global population, despite the fact that shots aren’t available for them yet. The burden is borne by the entire family.

Hong Kong, which normally generates one of the highest tallies of outbound travelers in the world, now has some of the

most stringent measures when it comes to children. Here, kids (or those that aren’t vaccinated) have to present a negative test, conducted within 72 hours of departure and upon arrival undergo a compulsory 21-day quarantine in a government-authorized hotel.

While there, they must take four additional tests. Young children who have stayed anywhere outside China are required to submit stool samples during their quarantine period.

Those measures vary depending on the point of departure. Even when the city shortened quarantine measures for people arriving from certain countries, it maintained the threeweek isolation for those under 16. Would minors be expected to stay on for an extra week by themselves? Again, families are on the hook.

Some nations have done better than others, but the rules are inconsistent. In the U.S., children are treated as unvaccinated.

They have to present Covid-19 tests taken no more than three days before they arrive, but can quarantine at home with tests three to five days after travel. In Australia, children under 4 are exempt from testing and those younger than 11 aren’t required to wear from masks on planes. Countries in Europe seem to be the most progressive: In France, for example, measures applicable to vaccinated

adults apply to minors accompanying them.

Quarantines and restrictions on travel have been a necessary evil to control virus transmission. Such considerations are even more critical as the delta variant spreads around the globe. To be clear, this isn’t a case for circumventing any of those precautions.

But the wide-ranging recommendations and rules show that, a year and a half into the pandemic, policy makers have given little thoughtful guidance to families when we have far more information at hand.

If countries are now brave enough to host massive sporting events and arts festivals, surely there are ways to ensure parents and children can cross borders safely to reunite and to relieve brimming social anxiety.

Governments may not have all the answers, but we need more frequent and better communication about how families will be accommodated and deeper consideration of the difficult decisions they are now contending with. Those choices will eventually impact how people seek employment, where they work and eventually, the flow of people across the globe.

Anjani Trivedi is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Asia.

(As published by Mint)

Pegasus snooping row: Need for a Privacy Act

he Pegasus snooping row continues to haunt BJP and India’s national security again after two years. It was in November 2019 when reports of a breach of data of few Indians via WhatsApp by Pegasus broke out in public.

A lawsuit was filed by WhatsApp on 31st October 2019 in a Court in California, USA alleging that the Israeli NSO Group had targeted some 1,400 WhatsApp users globally with this spyware and had violated US and California laws as well WhatsApp’s terms-of-service. WhatsApp alleged the NSO group by saying that the spyware Pegasus was sold to multiple government and private agencies due to which hundreds of Indians might also have been affected.

On 20th May 2019, this vulnerability was communicated by WhatsApp to CERTIn (the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team), which is a government-mandated information technology (IT) security organization.

The purpose of CERTIn is to respond to computer security incidents, report on vulnerabilities, and promote effective IT security practices throughout the country.

According to WhatsApp, during April-May 2019, NSO used WhatsApp servers, located in the United States and elsewhere, to send malware to approximately 1,400 mobile phone users globally.

After this, the debate on this issue took place in Rajya Sabha in November 2019 and further saw no attention for the next two years until now. It was the Justice BN Srikrishna Committee report that suggested a data protection bill which is still pending before a Joint Parliamentary Committee. Even though the Right to Privacy has been termed as the fundamental right under Article 21, the government under the Telegraph Act of 1885 and the Information Technology Act, 2000, can intercept the communication ‘legally’ for specific reasons. Thus, it will be a laborious task to get

justice for all those who have found their names recently in the Pegasus list.

What does the Law Say about Snooping and Surveillance? Do these laws protect the Right to Privacy?

The request for interception of communication can occur only through a senior police official, moving towards the Home Secretary and then final approval from a committee headed by the Chief Secretary of the State or the Cabinet Secretary at the Center. The reason behind the surveillance should only be ‘in the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India’. Only a detailed investigation of this issue can reveal whether the snooping was done by the government, or by any government officials who might have misused his/her power, or some private party hacked it which becomes a cause of concern for our nation! According to a report published by Software Law and Freedom Centre (SFLC), more than 1,00,000 telephones are intercepted by the government every year.

If we look at the U.S, Electronic surveillance is considered a search under the Fourth Amendment which protects the citizens from arbitrary search and seizure.

The US law prescribes for the route under which first a warrant has to be obtained from the court in each case and the search to be conducted has to be justified. Apart from this, a specific time period has to be mentioned during which the surveillance will be conducted and the portion of the conversation to be intercepted has to be mentioned too!

Can Any Government Buy the Pegasus Software?

The snooping row has taken a whole new turn. The owner of the software made a public statement saying that the ‘potential’ list being circulated is in no way associated with the NSO group.

The BDS Movement or Qatar could be behind this whole controversy, said the CEO. He also assured that an internal inquiry will be conducted in

his company and if it is found that some client used their system to track journalists or human rights workers, they will be cut off immediately.

There are four rules on the basis of which the NSO group runs. These are: Sell the software to only governments, and not companies/individuals.

Don’t sell the software to every government. Not every government in the world should have these tools.

Don’t activate the system, just install it, instruct the user how to use it, and leave.

Work under the Defence Ministry’s regulatory oversight.

Need for a Privacy Law in India: Privacy Delayed is Privacy Denied It’s been more than two years since the people of India have got the Right to Privacy as the fundamental right but still the government has failed to provide a law to exercise this effectively. The PDP Bill has still not become an Act. Since the private bodies do not constitute ‘state’ within the meaning of Article 12 and the Indian Constitution does not allow writ remedies against the purely private bodies, Indians have very limited recourse available under Section 43A of IT Act, 2000 read with Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 (Privacy Rules).

Indian individuals can claim compensation from the corporations only if there are issues with the data related to ‘sensitive personal data which only includes defined categories of information like instance, passwords, health data, financial data, or biometrics. The list of ‘sensitive personal data can also include phone numbers, home addresses, political opinions, religious beliefs, or any other personal information, but these are not covered under the Privacy Rules. Quite a few people have been able to claim compensation under Section 46 of the IT Act. It will also be difficult to file a

writ petition against the state if a private party breaches citizens’ privacy and can easily escape from it saying that the government failed to prevent the breach. Also, a major reason why the Right to Privacy is always neglected is that neither the government nor the businesses get any incentive to respect our privacy.

The Indian Courts can still intervene and impose such responsibility on the state.

Analyzing the Surveillance Law in India The whole debate of sharing the data and surveillance would stop if everything is carried out under a judicial warrant. The absence of privacy law or any independent body like the Privacy Commission deprives Indians of necessary safeguards. It was in 2012 when the Planning Commission published a report by Justice AP Shah on Privacy Issues. According to the report, the national privacy principles of India should be the following: • Principle of Choice and Consent • Principle of Collection Limitation • Principle of Purpose Limitation • Principle of Access and Correction • Principle of Disclosure of Information • Principle of Security • Principle of Openness • Principle of Accountability With the help of Privacy Commissioners and Self-regulating organizations (SROs) and co-regulation, it would be easy to implement and enforce the policies in a wide range of industries.

Just like the IT rules 2021, an Alternate Dispute resolution Mechanism should be developed that includes provisions for offenses, penalties, and remedies in the Privacy Act. Under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, draft rule 419B should be adopted with immediate effect. It will require the disclosure of Call Data Records (CDR) or Call Detail Records, to the law enforcement agencies. The

court must be provided with documentary evidence before the disclosure of such records which will prove that such disclosure is necessary to protect an individual from a possible threat. The draft rule should be amended according to the Justice AP Shah Committee report.

With respect to Section 67C of the IT Act, the data retention period must be specified. Not mentioning the time period to retain the data can easily create chances for potential abuse and deprive a citizen from their “right to be forgotten”. Different types of data should have different retention periods. After the retention period is over, the data should be destroyed and if the authorities want to store the data further, then conditions must be specified for that too! Similarly, section 80 of the IT Act that allows police officials to conduct searches and seizures in public places

without a warrant, should be amended by listing down the conditions under which the search can take place.

Everything should be done with the help of a judicial warrant.

While the government can take any action under the law, stating it to be of national interest. Phone tapping of ministers, journalists, and social activists can be easily justified by the government and in the end, citizens won’t have the time, money, and mechanism to seek any help.

It is high time that the Parliament passes the PDP Bill and the government further works to draft a privacy act too! Implementing the Right to Privacy on the ground will be a gift from the government to the citizens of the largest democratic country.

Ritwik Mehta As published by The Times of India

Reader’s Post

On Nagaland State Entrance Examination (NSEE)-2021

Sir,

HSSLC exam was completed on 28/04/2021.

NBSE declared the result on 20/07/2021. On checking the NSEE-2021 site for registration/application, the last date for application was mentioned as 04 May 2021 (as per the site); i.e. just after the HSSLC examination completion and quite ahead of even before the result declaration. Though it was for sure that who appeared HSSLC could had been eligible for application; it is not fair that registration is closed before the declaration of the HSSLC result. For even National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET)-2021 was still even open for registration/ application then (till 7th August 2021).

Though there might had been advertisements/ notices, people were not been able to access to informations like Newspapers, etc even in the towns, leave alone villages and remote areas during the Lockdown(s) and pandemic situations. Hence, it is more appropriate and justified to enable application/registration beyond result declaration date.

It is therefore requested that Technical Education Department/NBSE may extend the time of application/ registration for another more time for fair chance of competition by all eligible students/candidates.

Er. Neisievilie Lhousa Kohima.

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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Oppn disrupts RS again over Pegasus row, farm laws

Members protest in the well of the Rajya Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday. (PTI) sion of the listed business of the day to take up a discussion on the issues they were raising. As the sloganshouting disrupted the proceedings, Naidu said today is the sixth scheduled sitting of the monsoon session.

“We are yet to get into business mode,” he said.

Asking the members to introspect over such an attitude, he said this is what is being made out of parliamentary democracy.

“Parliament is meant for making laws, to discuss public issues (but) nothing is being allowed,” he said, adding that important bills are listed for discussion and passing. He referred to eight bills being passed in 17

minutes in the past. “Unfortunately, Parliament is being reduced to such a sorry state of affairs,” Naidu said, expressing unhappiness over the disruptions.

“Leaders of parties have voiced their concern over the ongoing state of affairs of this august House and being deprived of raising issues of public concern.”

He said members are being deprived of making zero-hour submissions of public importance, making special mentions and raising questions.

“You are harming the interest of the country, yourself and also the interest of Parliament,” he said. “I ap-

Harappan-era city Dholavira recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Govt seeks to extend framing CAA rules till Jan 9

Our team also worked to create tourism-friendly infrastructure there,” he said, sharing pictures of his visits to the site.

This 44th session of the World Heritage Committee is being chaired from Fuzhou in China and is being held online. It started on July 16 and will end on July 31.

It combines current work and issues left outstanding since last year, when the annual meeting was postponed due to COVID-19.

“It gives immense pride to share with my fellow Indians that #Dholavira is now the 40th treasure in India to be given @UNESCO’s World Heritage Inscription.

Another feather in India’s cap as we now enter the Super-40 club for World Heritage Site inscriptions,” Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy said in a tweet.

Today is a proud day for India, especially for the people of Gujarat, he said.

“Since 2014, India has added 10 new World Heritage sites - one fourth of our total sites. This shows PM @arendramodi’s steadfast commitment in promoting Indian culture, heritage and the Indian way of life,” Reddy tweeted.

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): The central government has sought an extension till January 9 for framing rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed by Parliament in 2019, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai informed Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

He was replying to a question from Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on whether the government had missed the deadline to frame and notify CAA rules and the steps taken in this context.

“The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) has been notified on 12.12.2019 and has come into force w.e.f. 10.01.2020,” the minister said.

“The Committees on Subordinate Legislation, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been requested to grant further extension of time upto 09.01.2022 to frame the rules under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019,” Rai said.

conduct, as his repeated appeals to them to maintain order went unheeded.

“I am concerned over media reports that some sections of the House have decided not to allow the functioning of the House for the remainder of the session,” he said.

No sooner had the House condoled the death of former member Wasim Ahmad, former prime minister of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth and Zambia’s first president Kenneth David Buchizhya Kaunda, the opposition MPs rushed into the Well shouting slogans.

Some members said they have given notices under Rule 267 seeking suspen-

The excavated ruins at Dholavira

Covishield gives 93% protection against COVID NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Covishield gives 93 per cent protection against COVID-19 and a 98 per cent mortality reduction, the government said on Tuesday referring to a study by the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) during the second COVID-19 wave that was driven by the Delta variant.

Addressing a press conference, NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul presented findings of the study which was conducted on 15 lakh doctors and frontline workers. “Protection to the extent of 93 per cent was seen (in people who were administered the Covishield vaccine) and this was during the second wave which was driven by the Delta variant... also 98 per cent mortality reduction was seen,” he said.

Reiterating the usefulness of vaccines in battling COVID-19, Paul said inoculation reduces infection but it is not a total guarantee.

world heritage sites — Dholavira, Champaner near Pavagadh, Rani ki Vav in Patan and the historic city of Ahmedabad.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “absolutely delighted” by this news, noting that Dholavira was an important urban centre and is one of the most important linkages with our past.

“It is a must visit, especially for those interested in history, culture and archaeology,” Modi tweeted.

“I first visited Dholavira during my student days and was mesmerised by the place. As CM of Gujarat, I had the opportunity to work on aspects relating to heritage conservation and restoration in Dholavira.

SAINIK SCHOOL PUNGLWA (NAGALAND) AUCTION NOTICE: SL NO. SSPN/QM/311/TDR - 4/2021-22 DATED 27 July 21

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House Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “The kind of words and language being used by the Opposition members for the prime minister is highly objectionable.”

He also said the protesting Opposition members are violating the coronavirus protocol as they are raising slogans in the Well without wearing masks.

As the Opposition members continued their sloganeering, the deputy chairman adjourned the House till 2 PM. When the House met again, Deputy Chairman Harivansh asked the House to proceed with a discussion on the Marine Aids to Navigation Bill, 2021.

As a BJP MP started speaking on the bill, the Opposition members, some of them carrying placards, trooped into the Well and started raising slogans against the government on the Pegasus snooping row.

The deputy chairman then adjourned the House till 3 PM but similar scenes were witnessed again as the proceedings resumed.

The deputy chairman asked the House to proceed with a discussion on the Marine Aids to Navigation Bill, 2021 and called the members whose names were

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): The Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Tuesday amid continuous protests by Opposition members over the Pegasus snooping row and farm laws.

After being adjourned nine times, the Lower House reassembled at 4.30 PM and Rajendra Agrawal, who was in the Chair, took up one matter of urgent public importance. However, the Opposition members again trooped into the Well shouting slogans and carrying banners.

The members of Congress, CPI, CPI(M) and TMC were protesting over the Pegasus snooping row, while the BSP, SP and Shiromani Akali Dal were raising slogans against the Centre’s three new farm laws.

Agrawal urged the protesting members to go back to their seats.

“We are requesting you to please cooperate and participate in the proceedings,” he said.

With opposition members not willing to relent, Agrawal adjour ned the House for the day.

Earlier, Speaker Om Birla led the members in paying tributes to Anerood

Jugnauth, former president of Mauritius, and Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda, the first president of Zambia. The opposition’s protests started soon after the proceedings began at 11 AM. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal said by disrupting the proceedings, the Opposition is not allowing the ministers to do their duty of replying to questions.

The Speaker repeatedly urged the protesting members to go back to their seats.

“Do not compete with each other in sloganeering.

Compete with each other to raise people’s issues,” he said. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar took a swipe at the protesting Opposition members and said if they are concerned about farmers, they should allow the proceedings of the House to continue.

He made the remarks while replying to a supplementary query related to an insurance scheme for farmers during the Question Hour as the Opposition members continued with their sloganeering on various issues, including the Pegasus spying controversy and the agriculture laws.

‘Pegasus snooping issue ‘most important’ for IT panel’ NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Parliamentary panel on Information Technology will question government officials on allegations relating to suspected phone tapping of politicians, journalists and others using Pegasus spyware, the committee chairman and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday asserting that it is the “most important issue” for many members.

The 32-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, for which the listed agenda is ‘’Citizens’ data security and privacy’’, according to a notification issued by Lok Sabha Secretariat.

The panel, which has the maximum members from the ruling BJP, has summoned officials from the Ministry of Electronics, Information and Technology and the Ministry of Home Affairs. An international media consortium has reported that over 300 verified Indian mobile phone numbers were on a list of

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“Parliament is not functioning because of this issue. People are anxious to find out about this and we are definitely likely to have questions for the government officials attending the meeting. We are going to see what the answers are,” he said. Meanwhile, the TMCled government in West Bengal has set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe allegations of snooping on politicians, officials and journalists. Leaders from all parties have been maintaining that the entire opposition is united on this matter and they want a discussion on the Pegasus snooping issue in Parliament.

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database of NSO. It is, however, not established that all the phones were hacked.

“The subject of Citizens Data Privacy and Security is an approved agenda item of the committee and it was under this item that we had earlier discussed the Pegasus issue in NovemberDecember last year. So it’s a continuing issue.

There would be other questions as well, as this is not necessarily the only issue. But, for many of us in the committee this is perhaps the most important issue,” Tharoor told PTI a day before the panel’s meeting.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Dholavira, a Harappan-era city in Gujarat, has been conferred the tag of UNESCO World Heritage Site, the organisation said on Tuesday.

This is the second site to be included in the world heritage list this month after the Ramappa temple at Palampet in Telangana’s Warangal.

“Dholavira: A Harappan City, in India, just inscribed on the @UNESCO #WorldHeritage List. Congratulations!” UNESCO tweeted.

Dholavira and the Ramappa Temple were included in the list during the 44th session of the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.

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peal to all of you to please rethink about this attitude.

See to it that the discussion takes place.”

As the slogan-shouting continued, he remarked that the chair does not accept dictation or dramatics.

“I will never accept such dictation by anybody.

Dictation or dramatics is not going to be accepted by the chair, whosoever is in the chair,” he said before adjourning the proceedings till 12.00 hours.

Soon after the members met at noon and Deputy Chairman Harivansh announced the Question Hour, the Opposition members again stormed the Well and started raising slogans against the government.

The deputy chairman’s repeated pleas to the protesting members to take their seats and allow the Question Hour to function did not yield any results.

The deputy chairman said they are depriving others of an opportunity to ask questions from the government and requested the protesting members to follow the rules as they are flouting COVID-19 norms.

“Members who are in the well are snatching the rights of others,” he said.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Protests by unrelenting opposition members over Pegasus snooping allegations and farm laws again disrupted proceedings in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, as they demanded that discussions be taken up on the issues in the House.

Congress, TMC and other opposition party MPs rushed into the Well of the House, shouting slogans against alleged surveillance and farm laws, forcing the Chair to adjourn the proceedings four times before winding up for the day.

Amid the din, the House passed the Marine Aids to Navigation Bill, 2021, which will replace an over nine-decade-old law governing lighthouses and provide a fresh framework to establish and manage vessel traffic services.

The Rajya Sabha has so far failed to transact any substantial business in the Monsoon Session that started on July 19. There has only been a discussion on COVID-10 management in the Upper House.

An exasperated Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said that the agitating members were harming the interest of the country, the MPs and also Parliament with their

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U N I T E D NAT I O N S, JUL 27 (IANS): The Delta variant-spurred Covid-19 second wave has shaved off 3 per cent from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) previous projection for India’s economic growth for fiscal year 202122, pegging it now at 9.5 per cent, but the country still remains the world’s fastestgrowing large economy.

The IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update (WEOU) on Tuesday made the cuts to the projection of 12.5 per cent made in April, and the January projection of 11 per cent.

“Growth prospects in India have been downgraded following the severe second Covid wave during March-May and expected slow recovery in confidence from that setback,” said the update released in Washington.

The IMF stressed the importance of vaccinations in the economic recovery from the pandemic and noted that countries like India that lagged in the rate of vaccinations would suffer

if more infectious variants developed.

Despite the cut, India is projected to remain the fastest-growing large economy, followed by China with a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 8.1 per cent - 0.3 per cent less than the projection made in April.

The US and the UK come next with growth projections of 7 per cent each - an increase of 0.6 per cent since April for the US and 1.7 per cent for the UK. India’s growth rate is expected by the IMF to moderate next year to 8.5 per cent, an increase of 1.6 per cent from the April projection, and continue to be

the fastest growing economy. The 9.5 per cent growth rate for India would be one of the highest recorded by the country, behind the 10.3 per cent in 2010, 9.8 per cent in 2007 and 9.6 per cent in 1988, according to IMF data.

But this fiscal year’s high growth rate reflects a bounce back from the economy shrinking by 7.3 per cent during the last fiscal year, which in that context would seem less impressive.

The IMF kept the growth forecasts for the global economy at 6 per cent this year and 4.9 per cent next year that were made in April.

Access to Covid-19 vaccines around the world and overcoming vaccine hesitancy where they are available could determine the trajectory for growth, according to the IMF. The WEOU said that amid the pandemic, there was a high degree of uncertainty for the global economy, “primarily related to the prospects of emerging market and developing economies”.

“Although g rowth could turn out to be stronger than projected, downside risks dominate in the near term,” it said.

But looking at the risks, the IMF said that “growth would be weaker than projected if logistical hurdles in procuring and distributing vaccines in emerging market and developing economies lead to an even slower pace of vaccination than assumed.

Such delays would allow new variants to spread, with possibly higher risks of breakthrough infections among vaccinated populations.”

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Indian aviation impacted by cap on fares NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): The Indian aviation market’s recovery has been significantly impacted by caps on fare and capacity that has been placed by the government since May last year, said Willie Walsh, the director general of global airlines body IATA, on Tuesday.

When India resumed the scheduled domestic flights on May 25 last year after a two-month break in view of COVID-19 lockdown, it had allowed the carriers to operate not more than 33 per cent of their pre-Covid domestic services. This capacity cap has been gradually increased and it now stands at 65 per cent.

At a press conference, Walsh said, “Without question, the demand in India is way in excess to the capacity that is in the market at the moment... If these capacity constraints were removed, without question, there would be significantly more demand for flights that are operating in India.”

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carriers are operating approximately 1,700 domestic flights daily, which is around 55 per cent of their pre-COVID services.

Along with capacity cap, India had imposed lower and upper caps on airfares based on flight duration when services were resumed on May 25 last year. The fare caps are still in place.

“Fare caps distor t competition. All airlines have different cost bases and are in a position to offer capacity in the market at different prices. That is very positive to stimulate competition,” Walsh mentioned.

“The recovery has been significantly impacted by the regulation (fare caps and capacity cap) that has been put in place,” he said.

The lower limits were imposed by India to protect financially weaker airlines. The upper limits were imposed to ensure that consumers are not overcharged.

“I can understand why the government introduced some of these measures

(fare caps and capacity cap) initially. If you go back to January and February of 2020, we were not really clear about what we were dealing with. We were dealing with an unknown virus,” Walsh mentioned.

“I think you can accept that the governments need to take measures in an environment like that.

But we are well beyond that now. We understand this virus a lot better. Vaccines are available. Healthcare -- in terms of how you treat the people who have the virus -- has moved significantly forward,” he said.

So, the measures that were put in place during the initial phase of the pandemic really do have to be challenged and questioned as to whether they are still relevant in an environment where the risk that we face is very different now from the risk that we faced 15-17 months ago, he said.

The Inter national Air Transport Association (IATA) has around 290 airlines as its members, comprising around 82 per cent of the global traffic.

Gold down Rs 123, silver falls Rs 206 NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Gold in the national capital on Tuesday dipped Rs 123 to Rs 46,505 per 10 grams amid weak international precious metal prices, according to HDFC Securities. Silver also went lower

by Rs 206 to Rs 65,710 per kg, from Rs 65,916 per kg in the previous trade.

In the international market, gold was trading lower at USD 1,795 per ounce and silver was flat at USD 25.16 per ounce.

HDFC Securities Senior Analyst (Commodities) Tapan Patel said, “Overall gold prices traded under pressure trading below USD 1,800, as traders and investors are being cautious ahead of the US FOMC meeting.” Motilal Oswal Financial Services VicePresident (Commodities Research) Navneet Damani said, “Gold prices were steady, pinned below the key USD 1,800 level, as investors turned cautious ahead of this week’s US Federal Reserve meeting outcome.”

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WSSU reiterated that it was not mandatory for schools to waive off fees, but an appeal on humanitarian grounds.

Meanwhile, WSSU has appealed to the state government to resume regular classes for Classes 10 and below. It also urged the state government to provide assistance to private schools in the state, saying private schools outside the state received many aids from their state government.

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“The Safari in its new avatar takes forward the brand’s rich legacy by combining ‘Tata Motors’ Impact 2.0’ design language with the proven capability of ‘OMEGARC’, the architecture derived from Land Rover’s renowned ‘D8’ platform - the gold standard among SUVs worldwide.”

rupee had settled at 74.42 against the US dollar.

Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, rose 0.12 per cent to 92.76.

“The Indian rupee stuck in a small range with thin volume ahead of month-end adjustment.

Risk-averse sentiments, stronger dollar, lower US real interest rate, and weaker Chinese yuan weighed on the Indian rupee,” said Dilip Parmar, Research Analyst, HDFC Securities.

On the domestic equity market front, the BSE Sensex ended 273.51 points or 0.52 per cent lower at 52,578.76, while the broader NSE Nifty declined 78 points or 0.49 per cent to 15,746.45.

The two sides have often sparred over it, sometimes violently. But this was the first time police in the states had fired at each other in a direct confrontation. Three districts in Assam- Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj - share a 164km-long border with three districts of Mizoram.

At the heart of the matter was an “eviction drive” carried out by Assam along a contested part of the border - authorities from the state reportedly burned a farmhouse and crops in the area. The Mizoram government responded by deploying troops in areas which Assam claims is part of its territory.

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“We are thrilled to have reached this significant milestone for the new Safari in a span of four months. Not to mention, we have achieved this landmark during one of the toughest periods our country has endured in its long history. The 10,000th feat validates the collective hard work put in by various teams responsible for the rebirth of this illustri-

MUMBAI, JUL 27 (PTI): The rupee slipped by 5 paise to close at 74.47 (provisional) against the US currency on Tuesday as the dollar strengthened in the overseas markets and the domestic equity indices closed wit losses.

Forex traders said the rupee is trading in a narrow range as investors are awaiting cues from the US Fed’s policy decision due on Wednesday and monthend rebalancing.

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local unit opened at 74.36 against the dollar and witnessed an intra-day high of 74.35 and a low of 74.54 during the session.

The local unit finally ended the day at 74.47, down 5 paise over its last close. On Monday, the

(From p-1) protected which we will continue to do at any cost. There is very strong deployment of police inside our border and not an inch of land will be allowed to be encroached,” he asserted.

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MUMBAI, JUL 27 (IANS): Automobile major Tata Motors on Tuesday rolled out the 10,000th unit of the all new Safari from its manufacturing facility in Pune.

According to the company, despite all restrictions, after the 100th rollout in February 2021, the last 9,900 units of the new Safari were rolled out in less than four months.

The automaker attributed strong customer response supporting the accelerated production trend.

At present, Safari is one of the top-selling 6 or 7-seater high SUV with a current market share of 25.2 per cent in its category, it said.

Tata Motors said that together with its stablemate Harrier, the new Safari currently commands a 41.2 per cent in the ‘High SUV’

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Seven oppn parties write to Prez URGE HIM TO INSTRUCT GOVT TO DISCUSS FARMERS’ ISSUES, PEGASUS IN PARLIAMENT

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Seven opposition parties have written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention to direct the government to discuss farmers’ issues and Pegasus spyware report in the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament as they apprised him of these “two disturbing developments”.

The BSP, RLP, SAD, National Conference, CPI and the CPI(M), besides the NCP, are the signatories to the letter. The main opposition party Congress is not among the signatories.

“We members of parliament (MPs) of various political parties are writing to you to seek an appointment to apprise you of two disturbing developments including the complete stonewalling of demands of the peasantry to repeal the three agricultural laws as well as use of Israeli spyware Pegasus to tape telephones of politicians,

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journalists and activists,” the letter read.

SAD leader Harsimrat Badal said it is “very unfortunate” that farmers have died while protesting against the three farm laws but the Centre is not even ready to discuss their issues.

“You would appreciate that a human tragedy is unfolding on the borders of Delhi with more than 550 farmers already having lost their lives during the course of the ongoing

‘Kisan Andolan’ (farmers’ agitation). The livelihoods of millions more are at stake due to the three agricultural laws which have been made with the express purpose of handing over the agriculture sector to corporations,” the letter to President Kovind said.

Similarly, the use of Pegasus software “to tape telephone numbers of politicians as well as journalists and activists besides known detractors of the NDA government has sent

shockwaves amongst civil society,” it said.

It is a known fact that the Israeli company NSO sells the software only to vetted governments and the company has admitted as such, the letter claimed.

“Despite these revelations the union government is refusing to disclose why it had used this software against its own citizens besides disclosing details of the payments made to access the same. The NDA government has also refused to hold a probe into the entire issue,” it said.

“We MPs urge you to intervene personally and direct the government to discuss both issues during the ongoing parliament session in the spirit of a healthy democracy,” the parties said.

Since the beginning of the Monsoon session, the opposition has been disrupting proceedings of both the Houses over these issues.

Porn case: Raj Kundra sent to judicial custody till Aug 10 MUMBAI, JUL 27 (IANS): Businessman Raj Kundra -- the prime accused in a sensational porn films racket case -- has been remanded to judicial custody for two weeks till August 10, his lawyer Abad Ponda said here on Tuesday.

Kundra -- husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, was produced before a Mumbai court which declined the prosecution plea for extending his police custody by another seven days.

Among other things, the prosecution informed that the court that it had come across an amount of Rs 1.13 crore belonging to Kundra’s company in a private bank account which they wanted to probe further. Opposing the remand plea, Ponda argued that Kundra’s custody is being sought in offences that are largely bailable barring two non-bailable charges.

He said that there was nothing new for which the prosecution was seeking to extend his custody and reiterated that if the police had summoned him (Kundra) he would have cooperated.

Ponda said that Kundra has applied for bail and his application will be taken up for hearing on Wednesday (July 28) before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court. Kundra has contended in his bail plea that he has been fully cooperating with the ongoing investigations and has already been in custody for long.

In a major swoop, the Mumbai Police arrested Kundra on July 19 in the sensa-

Raj Kundra being taken to Killa Court from Property Cell Unit office in a pornography-case.

tional case of producing and distributing pornographic content through mobile applications. Soon after arrest, he was remanded to police custody till July 23, which was extended till July 27, and now he has sent to judicial custody till August 10. The police have also raided Kundra’s home in Juhu last Friday and recorded the statement of his wife Shilpa Shetty, besides summoning others, in the pornography case that first erupted in February and later international angles came to the fore.

CBI arrests BSNL officer in graft case NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (IANS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday said that it has arrested Subodh Mehra, an Accounts Officer of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in Madhya Pradesh in a graft case.

A CBI official here said that the arrest was made after a case was registered against Mehra, who was posted in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh on a complaint. The official said that in the complaint it was alleged that Mehra had demanded a bribe of Rs 25,000 from the complainant for processing and forwarding his pending bills of Rs 5.50 lakh for payments in lieu of vehicles provided to the BSNL Office at Itarsi by the complainant.

The official further said that it was alleged that after negotiation, the accused settled for the bribe of Rs 20,000 and instructed the complainant to transfer the same in the bank account of a private person, who was earlier working as casual labour in BSNL Office with Canara Bank, Itarsi.

Democracy has capacity to reconcile HM has ‘failed’ country: Rahul Won’t take elitist view of banning differences: Prez Ram Nath Kovind on Assam-Mizoram border row beggars from streets, says SC

Ram Nath Kovind, Savita Kovind and J&K Lt. Gov Manoj Sinha during the 19th annual convocation of University of Kashmir.

S R I NAG A R , J U L 2 7 (PTI): President Ram Nath Kovind asserted on Tuesday that democracy has the capacity to reconcile all differences and bring out the best of the citizens’ potential, saying Kashmir is “happily” realising this vision.

“Democracy, I firmly believe, has within it the capacity to reconcile all differences and also the capacity

to bring out the best of the citizens’ potential. Kashmir, happily, is already realising this vision,” the president said in his convocation address at the Kashmir University here. Kovind, who is on a four-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, said violence was never part of “Kashmiriyat”, but became a daily reality. “It was most unfortunate that this outstanding

tradition of peaceful coexistence was broken. Violence, which was never part of Kashmiriyat, became a daily reality. “It (violence) is alien to Kashmiri culture and it can only be termed as an aberration, a temporary one, much like a virus that attacks the body and needs to be purged. Now there is a new beginning and determined efforts to regain this land’s lost glory,” he said.

The president said Kashmir is the meeting point of various cultures.

“In medieval times, it was, Lal Ded who showed the way to bring together various spiritual traditions. In the works of Lalleshwari, you can see how Kashmir provides the template of communal harmony and peaceful coexistence,” he said, referring to Kashmir’s revered poetess.

Inter-state border disputes can only be resolved with mutual cooperation: Govt

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the violence at the AssamMizoram border, alleging that he has “failed” the country by “sowing hatred and distrust” into the lives of people and India is now reaping its “dreadful consequences”.

According to officials, at least five Assam Police personnel were killed while defending the “constitutional boundary” of the state with Mizoram and more than 60 people injured, including an SP, as the festering border dispute between the two northeastern states erupted into a bloody conflict on Monday. “Heartfelt condolences to the families of those who’ve been killed.

I hope the injured recover soon,” Gandhi tweeted,

tagging a purported video of the violence.

“HM has failed the country yet again by sowing hatred and distrust into the lives of people. India is now reaping its dreadful consequences,” the former Congress chief said.

In a statement on Monday, the Assam government alleged that the Mizoram Police opened fire on its officials and civilians from two dominating high features with automatic weapons, including light machine guns (LMGs).

However, Mizoram Home Minister Lalchamliana claimed that the state police responded “spontaneously by firing back” at Assam Police after its 200 personnel forcibly crossed a duty post manned by CRPF personnel and indulged in arson and firing and assaulted unarmed people.

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Making clear it will not take an “elitist view” that no beggars be allowed on the streets, the Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre and Delhi government to respond to a plea seeking vaccination and rehabilitation of beggars and vagabonds in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The apex court said begging is a “socio-political problem” and people are compelled to beg on the streets to eke out some elementary livelihood in

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The Süngratsü Students’ Union would like to convey our heartiest congratulations and best wishes to the following students and institution for their achievements in the recently declared results of HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2021.

1. M r. T i a m o n g A i e r, S / o M r. L i p o k y a n g e r & Mrs. Akumtsungla Lemtur for securing Top-9 position in HSLC Examination with subject topper in English, Mathematics, Social Science and Environmental Education from Don Bosco Hr. Secondary School Dimapur.

2. Miss. Wangshirenla, D/o Dr. Imtiwapang Aier & Mrs. Kichungle for securing Top-19 position in HSLC Examination from Northfield Higher Secondary School Kohima.

3. Miss. Chubatola, D/o Lt. Rongsenwapang Aier & Mrs. Nungshikala Lemtur for securing Top-8 position (Arts) in HSSLC Examination from Christian Hr. Secondary School.

The Union further congratulates all the successful candidates of HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2021 and wishes them a bright future endeavors.

Sd/Sd/TIONGLUEN WALLING IMTISUNEP President, SSU General Secretary, SSU

Civilians and police during the Assam-Mizoram border clash on Monday.

and incidents of violence are reported from some of the disputed areas,” the minister said.

On Monday, at least five Assam Police personnel were killed while defending the “constitutional boundary” of the state with Mizoram as the festering border dispute between the two northeastern states erupted into a bloody conflict, officials said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had earlier claimed six police personnel were killed in action during the clashes.

An Assam government statement revised the figure just before midnight and said that five state police personnel died and more than 50 people of the force were injured.

Felicitation the Süngratsü Senso telongjem Kohima, Süngratsülar telongjem Kohima and Süngratsü Students’ Union Kohima would like to congratulate the following members on their promotion/appointment.

1. Mr. t. nungsang, Asstt. Mechanical Engineer Urban Development.

2. Mr. Mulonglepden aier, Deputy Director Education Department.

3. Mrs. a. toshila Jamir, Deputy Director Education Department.

4. Mr. nokensashi, Asstt. Commandant 4th NAP. 5. Mr. imkumnixung aier, S/o Mr. Imsutemjen Aier & Mrs. Tiamongla for securing the post of Station Suptd.

Nagaland State Transport through NPSC. We would further like to felicitate and extend our heartiest congratulations to:1. Shri. tiamaong aier, S/o Mr. Lipokyanger Aier & Mrs Atsungla, for securing top 9th position (HSLC).

2. Ms. Wangshirenla aier, D/o Dr. Imtiwapang Aier & Mrs. Kiehungle, for securing top 19th position (HSLC).

3. Ms. chubatola, D/o Late Rongsenwapang Aier & Mrs. Nüngshikala Lemtur, for securing top 8th (HSSLC) Arts. And all the successful HSLC and HSSLC candidates 2021. The Union wishes them success in all their future endeavors. tiarenla Walling Bendangyapang aier President President

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and that the central government acts only as a facilitator for amicable settlement of the dispute in the spirit of mutual understanding,” Rai said.

He cited at least seven such disputes in the country with Assam being involved in four.

According to available information, there are boundary disputes arising out of demarcation of boundaries and claims and counter-claims over territories between Haryana-Himachal Pradesh, Union Territory of Ladakh-Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra-Karnataka, Assam-Arunachal Pradesh, Assam-Nagaland, AssamMeghalaya and AssamMizoram, he said.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Inter-state border disputes can “only” be resolved with the cooperation of state governments involved in the matter and the Centre just acts as a facilitator in such cases, the Union government informed Parliament on Tuesday.

Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said this in a written statement to the Lok Sabha in response to a question on the role of the Union government in redressing border disputes between states in the country.

“The approach of the central government has consistently been that inter-state disputes can be resolved only with the cooperation of the state governments concerned

the absence of education and employment.

A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah told the counsel appearing for the petitioner that it would not consider one part of the prayer which sought direction to the authorities to restrain beggars, vagabonds and homeless persons from begging at public places or traffic junctions.

The bench said it would issue notices to the Centre and the Delhi government seeking their

responses on the prayer made in the petition for rehabilitation, vaccination and providing food and shelters to beggars and vagabonds amid the pandemic.

“A s t h e S u p r e m e Court, we would not want to take an elitist view that no beggars should be there on the streets,” the bench said. While referring to a part of the prayer made in the plea, the bench said it is seeking to restrain people from begging on the streets.

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journalists move SC for probe Basavaraj Bommai chosen as new K’taka CM Senior into Pegasus snooping scandal litical career with the Janata Parivar. He was elected a member of the Karnataka Legislative Council in 1998 and 2004 from Dharwad local authorities’ constituency.

After joining the BJP in February 2008, when Yediyurappa became the Chief Minister, he was elected to the Assembly from Shig-

gaon constituency in Haveri district.

Widely acclaimed for his knowledge of irrigation matters in the state and contributions to innumerable irrigation schemes, he is also credited with implementing India’s first 100 per cent piped irrigation project at Shiggaon in Haveri.

Will take everyone along, says K’taka CM-designate Bommai

Newly elected CM Basavaraj Bommai, Dharmendra Pradhan, and B S Yediyurappa during BJP Legislature Party meeting in Bengaluru, Tuesday. (PTI) BENGALURU, JUL 27 (IANS): Basavaraj Somappa Bommai was on Tuesday chosen as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, succeeding B.S. Yediyurappa.

A strong Lingayat leader from north Karnataka, he was elected to the post at the legislature party meeting held at a private hotel, and chaired by Central observers, Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and G. Kishan Reddy.

Yediyurappa proposed Bommai’s name and it was

agreed upon by the BJP legislators.

Bommai will be sworn in as the 30th Chief Minister at the Raj Bhavan at 3.20 pm on Wednesday.

Born on January 28, 1960, Bommai held the portfolio of Home, Law, and Parliamentary Affairs in the Yediyurapa government.

He has also served as Water Resources and Cooperation Minister. Bommai’s decision to stay with the party when Yediyurappa left and launched his KJP and his

ability to gain Yediyurappa’s confidence after his return to the BJP are said to have worked for him.

The son of former Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal leader S.R. Bommai, he had joined the BJP from the Janata Parivar in 2008, and though being a blue-eyed boy of Yediyurappa, his ability to defend the party is appreciated by all.

A graduate in Mechanical Engineering and agriculturist and industrialist by profession, he started his po-

Basavaraj Bommai, who was chosen as Karnataka’s new Chief Minister at the legislature party meeting here on Tuesday, stated that he will take everyone along with him.

“I will take everyone along with me in administration. It is going to be a pro-people government.

Addressing the challenges of Covid and natural calamity will be my priority,” he said.

“The situation of finances in the state is not good. Will take steps to improve the situation,” he said.

On the cabinet, he

said that he will meet Governor Thaawarchand Ghelot on Tuesday night and later, discuss the matter with party leaders.

Bommai, who is seen as close confidante of outgoing Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, said: “Yediyurappa is going to be our leader always.”

“I thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party chief J.P. Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah for the opportunity. Yediyurappa has blessed me,” he added.

“Party legislators have elected me unanimously and I will live up to their expectations,” he said.

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (IANS): Veteran journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar have moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction for an independent probe by its sitting or retired judge into the alleged Pegasus snooping scandal.

The plea said mass surveillance using a military-grade spyware abridges several fundamental rights and appears to represent an attempt to infiltrate, attack, and destabilise independent institutions, which are critical pillars of the country’s democratic set-up.

The petitioners sought direction should be issued to the Centre to disclose if any of its agencies have obtained license for Pegasus spyware or used it either directly or indirectly, to conduct surveillance as alleged.

The plea is likely to come up for hearing within next few days. It also sought directions to investigate if the illegal hacking into the phones, represented an attempt by agencies and organisations to muzzle and chill the exercise of free

Senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar. speech and expression of dissent in the country.

The plea argued that investigation involving several leading publications around the world has revealed that more than 142 Indians, including journalists, lawyers, government ministers, opposition politicians, constitutional functionaries and civil society activists, have been identified as potential targets for surveillance.

The plea said: “Such targeted surveillance using military-grade spyware is an unacceptable violation of the right to privacy which has been held to be a fundamental right under Articles 14, 19 and 21 by the

Supreme Court in KS Puttaswamy v. Union of India.”

It contended that the attack prima facie constitutes an act of cyberterrorism that has several grave political and security ramifications.

The plea claimed hacking constituted a criminal offence punishable under, inter alia, Section 66 (computer related offences), 66B (punishment for dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device), 66E (punishment for violation of privacy) and 66F (punishment for cyberterrorism) of the IT Act, punishable with imprisonment and/or fine.

Covid vaccination for children likely to Modi asks BJP MPs to expose oppn for not letting Parl function start soon: Mandaviya tells BJP MPs

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday told BJP MPs that Covid vaccination for children is likely to start soon, sources said.

During the BJP parliamentary party meeting, Mandaviya said that the Covid vaccination drive is going on in full swing in the country.

Currently, only those who are 18 or above are eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus.

Very soon a vaccine is expected for children and inoculation for them will start, the sources quoted the minister as telling the MPs. The government had earlier said that Covid vaccination of children in the

12-18 age group may start by the end of July or in August.

“Trial for the Zydus Cadila vaccine is almost complete. By July-end or in August, we might be able to start administering this vaccine to children of 12-18 age group,” Dr N K Arora, chairman of the COVID-19 working group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), had said recently.

The government had also informed the Supreme Court recently that the vaccine developed by Zydus Cadila will be available soon for children who are 12 and above subject to statutory permissions.

Zydus Cadila is likely to soon apply to the Drugs

Controller General of India for emergency use authorisation for its vaccine ZyCoV-D, which it claims can be given to both adults and children.

Earlier, AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria had told PTI that making vaccine available for children will be a milestone achievement and pave the way for reopening of schools and resumption of outdoor activities.

He had said the data of phase two and three trial of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin on two to 18 years age group is expected by September.

The vaccine can be available for children in India around that time following approval from the drug regulator, he had said.

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (AGENCIES): Addressing the party MPs at the BJP’s Parliamentary Party meeting here on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked them to “expose the opposition parties as they have been deliberately obstructing and not letting the Parliament conduct any business”, sources said.

The Prime Minister’s suggestion to the party MPs has come at a time when both Houses of Parliament have been facing multiple adjournments due to ruckus created by opposition parties repeatedly.

However, it is also learnt from sources that Modi suggested the ministers and MPs have a good relationship with Members of Parliament from the opposition benches.

Meanwhile, during

Narendra Modi with Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda and others at the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (PTI) the media briefing about the deliberations at the meeting Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said that the Prime Minister also spoke about “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”, and said that people have blessed us,

and it is an opportunity to inculcate the feeling of serving the country.

“Between August 15, 2022, and Aug 15, 2023, two workers will be handpicked to visit 75 villages per Assembly constituency.

They will spend 75 hours in each village to collect ideas and noteworthy initiatives, which will be collated further for the development of the country,” Meghwal said.

The Minister said the

Prime Minister also emphasised the digital literacy of people in rural India so that they can avail maximum benefits of the government welfare schemes.

Meghwal also said that MPs had been told that they too had to ensure everyone is connected. “In 2047 we will celebrate 100 years of independence, so we should collect ideas from people for the development of the country, the PM told the members,” he added.

PM Modi said ‘Azadi ka Mahotsav’ needed to be a ‘Jan Andolan’, the minister said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP chief JP Nadda, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and other BJP leaders were present at the meeting.

Maha rains: Death toll rises to 207; 11 people still missing If you’re concerned about farmers, allow LS to function: Tomar tells Oppn and floods since last week, the maximum 95 were from Raigad district followed by 45 in Satara, 35 in Ratnagiri, 12 in Thane, 7 in Kolhapur, 4 in Mumbai suburban, 3 in Pune, two each in Sindhudurg, Wardha and Akola districts, said a statement issued by the state disaster management department.

Eleven people are still missing, while 51 are injured and being treated at various government as well as private hospitals, it said.

Most of the deaths in

Raigad, Satara and Ratnagiri districts were caused due to landslides, while floods claimed lives in Kolhapur and Sangli.

Since June 1, as many as 294 people have died in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra, the statement said.

Local officials are struggling to expedite the rescue operations chiefly because of the difficult terrain and intermittent showers that are affecting their task, said an official from the disaster manage-

ment department.

Floods have also killed 29,100 domestic animals, mostly in Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara and Sindhudurg districts, the statement said.

Showers over the Sahyadri mountains, which are parts of the Western Ghats have increased water level of rivers flowing through Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur districts, forcing the administration to evacuate more people.

As many as 3,75,178 people have been evacuated so far, of which 2,06,619

are from Sangli alone, the statement said.

It may be noted that Sangli district did not receive heavy rainfall, but heavy discharge of water from the Koyna dam in Satara district resulted in Sangli city and several villages getting flooded. The dam is built on the Koyna river, a tributary of the Krishna river.

There are 259 relief camps for the evacuated people of which 253 are in Kolhapur and six in Ratnagiri districts.

INLD chief Chautala bats for third front

Om Prakash Chautala support the government will leave it, ultimately leading to a situation where mid-term polls may take place.

“It will be my endeavour to see that a strong third front is formed and later in the polls it achieves success so that this anti-people and corrupt government is routed,” the former Haryana chief minister told reporters.

On being asked if he will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, he said, “Although

this is not an issue of today’s topic, I want to tell that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had telephoned me.”

“He will have lunch with me at my residence on August 1. When two political leaders sit together, then political issues are naturally discussed,” he said replying to a query.

INLD sources said Nitish Kumar had recently spoken to Chautala over the phone to enquire about his well-being.

JDU leader K C Tyagi had also visited Chautala’s Gurgaon residence and it was during their meeting that Nitish had spoken to Chautala over the phone.

Nitish Kumar will be visiting Chautala’s Gurgaon residence next month, the source said.

On Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Chautala said he has “good family relations”

with her.

Banerjee is in New Delhi and had a meeting with opposition leaders. She is slated to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Chautala (86) alleged that the policies of the BJP-led government at the Centre are aimed at benefiting big corporates.

Referring to the agitation against the farm laws, he said the country is primarily an agrarian economy and if farmers are not happy, then the nation cannot progress.

Prices of fertilisers, diesel, pesticides and other essential commodities have registered a sharp increase, he told reporters.

“Such a big agitation by farmers has not moved this government. The government is still claiming that the farm laws are profarmer and their leaders are defending these legislations,” he said.

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE COURT MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND NOTICE S/C No.126/2021 Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Limawangshi has been applied by Smti Toshimongla, sister of Late Limawangshi R/o H.No. 12 Chungliyimsen Village, Mokokchung Nagaland for possession of: 1. GIS 2. Gratuity 3. Leave encashment 4. NPS 5. Closing of A/C Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire to appear in this Court on or before the said day of 27.08.2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this day the 27.07.2021 Sd/- Principal District & Sessions Judge MkC-242 Mokokchung: Nagaland

AFFIDAVIT DECLARATION OF CHANGE OF NAME I, Miss Imtienla, Orphan daughter of Ex Army No. 14826094 X Rank Late Ex TSLNk/MT Name Tiasunep Ao of ASC (MT) South of Chuchuyimpang Village, permanent resident of Chuchuyimpang, PO & Distt – Mokokchung, State – Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows: 1. That, I am the deponent of this affidavit.

2. That, my name changed to “IMTIENLA” from “IMTISENLA”.

3. That, my former name Miss IMTISENLA, reflected in my father (Deceased Soldier) Pension discharged Book Serial No. 14217.

4. That, the above named deceased soldier is my real father.

5. That, my date of birth is – 19 Oct 2003, whereas in Pension Discharged Book Serial No 14217 my date of birth is erroneously mentioned as 19 Nov 2003.

6. That, my birth place – Village Chuchuyimpang.

7. That, I have sworn this affidavit to declare my full and correct official name as “IMTIENLA” and correct date of Birth is “19 Oct 2003” . I shall use the same in all my future correspondence and records.

8. That, the statements made above from para 1 to 7 of this affidavit is made by me which is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, belief and nothing is concealed therein. And I signed this affidavit on this the 23 day of July 2021.

IMTIENLA Deponent Solemnly affirmed and declare before me by the deponents, on 27th day of July 2021.

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CHANDIGARH, JUL 27 (PTI): INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala on Tuesday said he will contact opposition leaders soon to forge a “third front” at the national level and also revealed plans of a lunch meeting with BJP ally and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.

Asserting that the biggest need today is to get rid of the “anti-people” and “anti-farmer” government at the Centre, Chautala said before September 25, the birth anniversary of former deputy PM Devi Lal, he will try to meet opposition leaders and urge them to come on one platform.

“It will be our endeavour to form a strong third front,” said the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader, who was recently released from jail after serving a 10-year sentence in a recruitment scam.

Chautala claimed that if a strong third front is formed, then many who

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday took a swipe at the protesting Opposition members in Lok Sabha, saying if they are concerned about farmers, then they should allow the House to function.

He made the remarks while replying to a supplementary query related to an insurance scheme for farmers during the Question Hour as the Opposition

members continued their sloganeering on various issues, including the Pegasus snooping allegations and the new farm laws.

There are around 15 questions related to farmers. If the Opposition members are really concerned about the farmers, then

they should listen to what the government has to say, Tomar said.

“Disruptions are lowering the decorum of the House,” he added.

The Opposition has also been demanding a discussion over Pegasus snooping allegations.

FELICITATION The Office of the PWD Youth Organization with immense pride and joy takes this opportunity to extend our heartiest congratulations to all the candidates who had successfully cleared the recent HSLC & HSSLC examinations 2021.

This achievement is the beginning of new chapter. As you embark on a new journey, with renewed aspirations and ambitions.

Praying for shower of God's divine blessings to all in future endeavours as well.

Athozo Sothu President PWDYO

Tepuchol Valeo General Secretary PWDYO

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MUMBAI, JUL 27 (PTI): The death toll in rainrelated incidents in Maharashtra rose to 207 on Tuesday with the worst-hit Raigad district alone accounting for nearly 100 fatalities, while 11 persons are still missing, the state government said.

Heavy rains last week caused massive floods and landslides in large parts of the state, especially in the coastal Konkan and Western Maharashtra regions.

Out of the 207 deaths caused due to heavy rains

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE COURT MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND NOTICE S/C No.125/2021 Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Medemkaba has been applied by Smti Sentilemla, D/o Late Medemkaba R/o H.No. 300, Mokokchung Village, Mokokchung Nagaland for possession of: 1. Closing of A/C Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire to appear in this Court on or before the said day of 27.08.2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this day the 27.07.2021 Sd/- Principal District & Sessions Judge Mokokchung: Nagaland MkC-239 IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE COURT MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND NOTICE S/C No.113/2021 Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Sentikaba has been applied by Shri Sangpanger Longchar, B/o Late Sentikaba R/O H.No. 154 Penli ward, Mokokchung, Nagaland for possession of: 1. GPF 2. GIS 3. Gratuity 4. Leave encashment 5. NPS 6. Closing of A/C Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire to appear in this Court on or before the said day of 27.08.2021.

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Mamata calls for all-party meet over Pegasus Sidhu seeks action on 18-point agenda

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (AGENCIES): On her first visit to Delhi after the TMC’s resounding victory in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence in Lok Kalyan Marg.

Following the meeting, CM Baner jee told reporters that the Prime Minister should convene an all-party meet to discuss the Pegasus issue and decide on a Supreme Courtled probe.

In Parliament, Opposition parties have been protesting the allegations of snooping by the Union Government through the Israeli spyware Pegasus, resulting in adjournment of both the Houses multiple times. While TMC MP Shantanu Sen was suspended for tearing up IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s denial statement, Opposition leaders have demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the allegations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during their meeting in New Delhi. (PTI)

During her meeting with PM Modi, CM Banerjee also requested him to give her state more Covid vaccines based on its population.

Responding to a question on opposition unity against the ruling NDA, she said it would take shape on its own. Her response came as she met Congress leaders Kamal Nath and

Anand Sharma, earlier in the day, amid several signals of increasing Opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

M e a n w h i l e, N C P chief Sharad Pawar said he is likely to meet Banerjee on Wednesday. She is also expected to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her residence in Janpath tomorrow, news agency

ANI reported.

The visit comes also at a time when Parliament is in session. Banerjee has said that she intends to spend some time in Parliament and meet Opposition leaders.

Last week, on the Trinamool’s annual Martyrs Day celebration, a bevy of Opposition leaders came to pay their respects in-

cluding P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh of the Congress, Sharad Pawar, who Banerjee mentioned repeatedly, and Supriya Sule of the NCP, Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Manoj Jha of the RJD, Tiruchi Siva of the DMK and Priyanka Chaturvedi from the Shiv Sena.

A senior Trinamool leader said that while the meetings with the President and PM were formalities, Banerjee’s visit this time was planned with a larger Opposition plan in mind ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha challenge. “I think it is clear to everyone in the opposition that 2024 is a very crucial election, and there is a big challenge. It is also a good sign that seriousness has set in now, when there is time to fight, and fall out, and come together; iron out the chinks as they say. With her decisive win of Narendra Modi, Banerjee will have a big role to play,” a leader had said.

AMARINDER SAYS ALL ISSUES IN ADVANCED STAGES OF RESOLUTION

CHANDIGARH, JUL 27 (AGENCIES): Even as Navjot Singh Sidhu handed over a letter demanding action on 18 point agenda, the chief minister told him that all the key issues of concern raised by them were already in advanced stages of resolution by his government.

The new PPCC leadership team led by Navjot Sidhu had called on the Chief Minister and submitted a letter listing out some issues as needing urgent settlement. PPCC working presidents Kuljit Singh Nagra, Sangat Singh Gilzian, Sukhwinder Singh Danny and Pawan Goel had accompanied Sidhu to their first meeting with the Chief Minister since taking over the state Congress reins.

Noting that his government had already implemented most of the promises made to the people in the 2016-17 party election manifesto, the Chief Min-

Navjot Singh Sidhu during a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh in Chandigarh, July 27. (PTI)

ister told the party’s state leadership that the other pending issues were also being resolved.

His government was committed to the implementation of all the poll promises, Captain Amarinder later said, describing the meeting as cordial.

Stressing the need to work closely together in the interest of the party, the Chief Minister told the Punjab Congress president and working presidents

that “your win is my win and our win is the party’s win, and we need to work together in the interest of the state and its people”.

Captain Amarinder said the party leaders and workers need to take the pro-people decisions and actions of the government to the ground so that the people of Punjab could be made aware of all the excellent work done in the past 4+ years of the Congress government in the state.

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With immense pride and honor, we the Kitami Union Dimapur (KUD) extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Vikiye Sema on being promoted to the post of Senior Billing Supervisor, under the establishment of Executive Engineer (Elect) Division Kohima.

The Union further conveys its heartiest congratulations to all its students who have successfully cleared the HSLC & HSSLC examinations 2021.

The KUD is immensely proud of your achievement, may you all shine more brighter in all future endeavours.

Mr. ISAK SWU Mr. JOHN SUMI PRESIDENT, KUD GEN. SECRETARY, KUD

OFFICE OF THE

The Shoixe Ghami Kuposhukulu Dimapur with immense pride and honour extend our heartiest congratulations to all the successful candidates of HSLC & HSSLC exam 2021.

We wish you all perpetual success in your future endeavors.

Sd/Sd/President (SGKD) Secretary (SGKD) Khekato V Zhimo Pukhalu H Zhimo

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FELICITATION We, the Khughutomi Tughalo Kuami Kuposhukulu (KTKK) would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to all the successful students of KTKK and Khughutomi in general for clearing their HSLC and HSSLC examinations 2021.

The Welfare further wishes them greater success in their future endeavours.

VITOKHU SWU Chairman, KTKK

HUTOI SUMI Secretary, KTKK

UNGMA SENSO TELONGJEM

The Achumi Kuposhukulu takes immense pride and extremely pleased to congratulate the following persons: 1. Tokugha Achumi on being promoted to the post of the Joint Director, Industries and Commerce Nagaland.

2. Er. Hozheto Achumi on being promoted to the post of Addl. Chief Engineer, PWD, Nagaland.

3. Er. Vihokhe Achumi on being promoted to the post of Superintending Engineer, PWD, Nagaland.

4. Er. Hotokhu Achumi on being promoted to the post of Superintending Engineer, PWD Nagaland.

It is a moment of great joy for all of us. We wish you all the best and pray that God grant you good health and lead you with His wisdom in all your endeavors.

The Ungma Senso Telongjem Dimapur takes immense pride in congratulating Mr. Aotushi Imsong, S/o Mr. Taliwabang Imsong and Mrs. Bangerlemla Jamir, for securing the top 12th rank in the recent HSLC exams, and Mr. Yimtiyong Longkumer S/o Lt. Lipokyanger Longkumer and Mrs. Moalemla, for securing the top 7th rank in the recent HSSLC (Arts) exams.

The Union wishes them the best and prays that our Almighty God always bless and guide them to reach greater heights in their future endeavors.

Jonah Achumi General Secretary

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The Yanthamo Village Students’ Union with immense pride and profound gratitude extends our heartiest congratulations to Miss. Lothungbeni Kikon, D/o. Mr. Khonthungo Kikon for securing Top 5 th Position (Science) in the HSSLC Examination 2021.

The Union also extends warmest congratulations to the successful candidates of HSSLC and HSLC 2021.

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The Mekokla Ekhung Wokha Town congratulates Mr. Benjamine Kikon for being promoted to Joint Director, Agriculture Department, Nagaland. The Ekhung invoke heavenly guide and good health while discharging his assigned responsibilities.

The Ekhung also congratulates all the successful candidates of HSSLC and HSLC from Mekokla village and counsel them to strive even more harder in their further studies.

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between him and Singh.

Singh and Wei had held bilateral talks in Moscow on September 4 last year on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the defence ministers of the SCO states.

It was the first highestlevel face-to-face meeting between the two sides after the border row in eastern Ladakh erupted in early May. Tajikistan is chairing the SCO this year and hosting a series of ministerial and official-level meetings.

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Takanungba Longkumer President, USTD

Lipokmeren Longkumer General Secretary, USTD

The office of the Changki Kaketsuri Longjem (CKL) takes immense pleasure and honor to congratulate Miss. Imlitula Pongen, D/o Mr. Lanusungkum Pongener and Mrs. Tialemla for securing 8th Rank in HSLC 2021 from St. Joseph Hr. Sec. School, Chümoukedima. We would also like to congratulate all the candidates from Changki Community for their success in HSLC & HSSLC examinations.

The CKL further wishes and prays that the Almighty God bless you and guide you in all your future endeavours.

President CKL

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that it was unfair to compare the current set of politicians to past political stalwarts, even invoking the reference to late Manohar Parrikar, a former BJP Chief Minister and a Union Defence Minister.

“Pramodbabu, by comparing present set of politicians to such political greats, you are insulting them. Current BJP neither has the greatness of Bhausaheb Bandodkar, integrity of Dr. Jack Sequeira or vision of Manohar Parrikar,” Kejriwal said.

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delve into regional security challenges, including terrorism, and the ways to deal with them.

The defence minister is also expected to meet his Tajik counterpart, Col Gen. Sherali Mirzo, to discuss bilateral as well as other issues of mutual interest.

Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe is also likely to attend the SCO meeting. However, it is not immediately known whether there is a possibility of a bilateral discussion

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PANAJI, JUL 27 (IANS): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal crossed swords on Twitter, a day after Power Ministers of the two states engaged in a public spat in pollbound Goa, over the benefits of power tariff models implemented by their respective governments.

The online slamming between the two chief ministers started with Sawant accusing the Aam Aadmi Party of indulging in cheap politics and denigrating Goan politicians. “AAP has always indulged in cheap politics through constant protests & theatrics. But to say Goans are third class politicians, is an insult to great sons-of-the-soil like Bhausaheb Bandodkar, Jack Sequeira, Manohar Bhai Parrikar, Rajendra Arlekar or Shripad Bhau Naik. AAP is free to create hype for their political benefits but to come to Goa and insult our leaders is unacceptable,” Sawant tweeted first. Kejriwal, who’s party is aiming to get a secure foothold in Goa politics after a dismal outing in the 2017 state assembly polls, responded by saying

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited Dushanbe to attend a conclave of foreign ministers of the SCO states on July 14.

He held an hour-long bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the conclave.

The SCO, seen as a counterweight to NATO, is an eight-member economic and security bloc and has emerged as one of the largest transregional international organisations.

India and Pakistan became its permanent members in 2017.

The SCO was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

India has shown keen interest in deepening its security-related cooperation with the SCO and its Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS), which specifically deals with issues relating to security and defence.

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PATNA, JUL 27 (IANS): The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally Janata Dal (United) in Bihar have had political differences on the contentious population control law. BJP MLC Sanjay Paswan on Tuesday said the population control law is the need of the hour and should be implemented in the state. Citing CM Nitish Kumar’s implementation of the liquor ban in Bihar, Paswan said the population control law should also be implemented in the same way. “Chief Minister Nitish Kumar imposed a liquor ban in Bihar and it has been highly successful. The growing population in Bihar and across the country is a major problem. We need to take some preventive measures now,” the BJP MLC added.

“Our CM has done good work that other states failed to do. Moreover, Nitish Kumar also believes that population should be curbed through awareness in the country,” Paswan said.

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a safety net of service delivery structures including institutional and non institutional care mechanisms, to safeguard the best interests of children.

As per the JJ Act, any non-state, self styled militant group or outfit declared as such by the Central government, if it recruits or uses any child for any purpose, shall be liable for criminal prosecution.

He pointed out that the Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing a centrally sponsored Child Protection Services (CPS) scheme, for supporting the States and Union territories in providing a framework for care and protection of children in distress conditions.

The scheme also provides for non-institutional care wherein support is extended for adoption, foster care and sponsorship.

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scheme or programme for the rehabilitation of such children, he said as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution, subjects of police and public order are with the state governments. “Therefore, state governments take legal action in such matters,” he said.

He said that as far as the Central government is concerned, it has enacted the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (JJ Act) for children in distress situations including children in conflict with law (CCL) and children in need of care and protection (CNCP).

As per provisions of the JJ Act, a child who is a victim of or affected by any armed conflict, civil unrest or natural calamity, is included as a “child in need of care and protection”, among others.

The Act mandated

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NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (IANS): The CPI (Maoist) are inducting children in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh and using them for cooking, carrying daily use materials apart from giving them military training, the government told Parliament on Tuesday.

In a written reply to parliamentarian Vishnu Dayal Ram, Minister of States (Home Affairs) Nityanand Rai said that there have been some reports of CPI (Maoist) inducting children into the organisation in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

He said that they are using them for cooking, carrying daily use materials and collecting information on the movement of security forces.

“They are also imparted military training,” the minister said.

Replying to a question whether the Government has implemented any

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is expected to pitch for concerted efforts to deal with terrorism and other security challenges facing the region at a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Dushanbe on Wednesday.

Singh begins a threeday visit to the capital city of Tajikistan on Tuesday to attend the meeting of the defence ministers of the member states of the SCO, an eight-nation influential grouping.

He is visiting Dushanbe from July 27 to July 29 to attend the annual meeting of the defence ministers of the SCO member states, Singh’s office said in a tweet.

“In the annual meeting, defence cooperation issues among SCO member states are discussed and a communique is expected to be issued after the deliberations,” it said.

In his address, officials said, Singh is expected to

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M O S C OW, J U L 2 7 (IANS): Despite Japan’s opposition, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited the disputed island of Iturup, known as Etorofu in Japanese, triggering a new round of tensions between Moscow and Tokyo.

On Monday, Mishustin inspected a hospital and talked with representatives from a fish processing plant on Iturup, one of the four Pacific islands claimed by both countries, called the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, reports Xinhua news ageny.

The Prime Minister said that he had discussed with President Vladimir Putin possible measures that can be taken on these islands, which are now under Russia’s control, to boost investment and economic activities.

Tunisia tightens security after sacking of PM TUNIS, JUL 27 (IANS): Tunisian security and military units were deployed to protect the government headquarters in the capital Tunis in the wake of the sacking of Prime Minister HichemMechichi and nationwide protests.

Monday’s deployment came a day after President Kais Saied announced on Sunday evening that he had removed Mechichi from the post of Prime Minister and suspended all activities of the Assembly of People’s Representatives or Parliament, reports Xinhua news agency.

Saied said he will temporarily head the government until he appoints a new prime minister.

The President also announced that he annulled the immunity of all parliament members.

At dawn on Monday, units of the Tunisian National Army prevented Tunisia’s Parliament Speaker RachedGhannouchi, accompanied by other deputies, from entering the Assembly’s headquarters in the district of Bardo.

Amid tight security measures, dozens of Tunisians gathered in front of Parliament.

Results of 2020 Myanmar general elections cancelled

The announcement of the cancellation was made by the Union Election Commission on Monday.

NAY PYI TAW, JUL 27 (IANS): The Myanmar junta has cancelled the results of the 2020 general elections won by ousted de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, a move that comes almost six months after the military coup on February 1.

The announcement of the cancellation was made by the Union Election Commission on Monday, reports

Xinhua news agency.

According to the announcement, the results were cancelled as the polls were not held in line with laws and were not fair.

The commission has inspected voter lists and the casting of votes, and found voting frauds, the announcement said. It did not however mention when will the next elections take place.

The NLD won a majority of seats in both houses

of the Union Parliament in the November 8, 2020, elections. The military alleged that there was voting fraud in elections, which was the reason behind the coup.

After Suu Kyi was removed from power, a state of emergency was declared in Myanmar and the state power was transferred to the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Sen-Gen Min Aung Hlaing.

The Union Election Commission was reformed to take steps to review the process of the elections in early February.

Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since the coup on February 1 - as she was for years under the previous military dictatorship.

The judiciary has charged her with half a dozen offences, including corruption, violating foreign trade laws, violating coronavirus measures and inciting sedition.

FELICITATION “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the HSLC and HSSLC students who have successfully cleared and come out with flying colors.

Today, we gather together to celebrate your determination and dedication, we would like to add that we believe we are the powerhouse of innovation and creativity and we should push boundaries to make this world a better place even in a smallest way. Also it is inevitable that in the pursuit of success we may encounter failure, but we must not lose hope for “the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing” failure is the stepping stone to success so we must not be discouraged but rather strive for success. Remember success allows us to celebrate but the lesson of growth comes from failure. Let’s also take this time to give appreciation and gratitude to all the parents, teachers and the whole support system for all the hard work and inspiration. Congratulations Graduates.

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KABUL, JUL 27 (IANS): Afghan security forces have foiled a Taliban attack on the city of Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province, and killed 28 militants, an official said on Tuesday.

The Taliban militants, according to the official, were planning to storm Taluqan city from different directions but the ground troops backed by fighter planes targeted the militants, forcing them to retreat, reports Xinhua news agency.

Besides the 28 victims, 17 Taliban militants were also injured.

The Taliban is reportedly controls all the 16 districts’ of Takhar province and have been fighting over the past one month to capture Taluqan city, 245 km north of Kabul.

A number of Takhar

of the press. “She also spoke about our concerns about Beijing’s conduct in cyberspace; across the Taiwan Strait; and in the East and South China Seas,” the readout said.

The Deputy Secretary also raised the cases of American and Canadian citizens detained in China or under exit bans and “reminded officials that people are not bargaining chips”. She “reiterated concerns about China’s unwillingness to cooperate with the World Health Organization and allow a second phase investigation into the Covid-19 origins”.

Meanwhile, Sherman also affirmed the importance of cooperation in areas of global interest, such as the climate crisis, counter-narcotics, non-

BERLIN, JUL 27 (AP):An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud rising into the air.

Germany’s Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance classified the explosion as “an extreme threat” and asked residents to stay inside and keep windows and doors closed, German news agency dpa reported.

Operators of the Chempark site in Leverkusen, about 20 km (13 miles) north of Cologne on the Rhine river, said the cause of the explosion was unclear.

They said on Twitter that firefighters and pollution detection vans had been deployed.

Police in nearby Cologne said they did not

Chinese people, rather than challenging or replacing the US. “We take no interest in betting winnings or losses of the US side.

China’s development is not based on the premise of US decline.”

He said issues regarding Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong have never been about “human rights” or “democracy”, but about fighting against “Xinjiang independence”, “Tibet independence” and “Hong Kong independence”.

“We have a clear view on where China-US relations are headed, that is, to find a way for two major countries with different systems, cultures and stages of development to coexist peacefully on this planet through dialogue,” he added.

The Akuluto Area Union Dimapur (AAUD) would like to convey our heartiest congratulations to : 1. Dr. Khatoi Kinimi, S/o Lt. Khuvishe Kinimi on being conferred DOCTOR of MINISTRY from Hindustan Bible Institute and College, Chennai.

2. Miss Livitoli K Kiho, D/o Mr. Khetovi Kiho for securing top 1 in B.Sc Geology from Patkai Christian College.

The Union further extends congratulations to all the successful candidates of HSLC, HSSLC and degree examinations 2021.

Nihoyi Kinny Gen. Secretary, AAUD

Emergency vehicles of the fire brigade, rescue services and police near Chempark in Leverkusen, Germany.

have any information on the cause or size of the explosion and were not aware of any injuries at this point.

They asked all residents to stay inside and warned people from outside of Leverkusen to avoid the region.

They also shut down several nearby major highways. Daily KoelnerStadtAnzeiger reported that the

explosion took place in the Buerrigneigbborhood at a garbage incineration plant of the chemical park.

The paper reported that the smoke cloud was moving in a northwestern direction toward the towns of Burscheid and Leichlingen. It said firefighters from all over the region had been called in to help extinguish the fire.

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Y. Khenito Chishi President, AAUD

proliferation, and regional concerns including North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, and Myanmar, said the readout. On his part, Wang, who is also the State Councillor, said it requires serious consideration for the US side to make correct choices as to whether the bilateral ties will head to confrontation or improvement, reports Xinhua news agency.

Calling Sherman’s visit a part of mutual contact and dialogue, he said the two sides should enhance mutual understanding, erase misunderstanding, avoid misjudgment and better manage differences via constant dialogues.

The Foreign Minister also said that China’s development is aimed at seeking happiness for all

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US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

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We wish her more success and a very bright future.

S.U.D.A also extends our heartiest congratulations to all the successful students of HSLC, HSSLC & NU Examinations and wishes them great success in their future endeavours.

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ly watched for indications as to how similar cases will be dealt with in future.

More than 100 people have been arrested under the security legislation.

Tong pleaded not guilty to charges of inciting secession, terrorism and an alternative charge of dangerous driving.

He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and his lawyers are expected to argue for a lighter punishment at his sentencing hearing Thursday. The trial, which ended July 20, was held in the High Court with no jury, under rules allowing this exception from Hong Kong’s common law system if state secrets need to be protected, foreign forces

BEIRUT, JUL 27 (IANS): NajibMikati was named as Lebanon’s new Prime Minister with 72 votes in parliament following months of political turmoil in the crises-hit country.

Mikati gave a speech following his appointment on Monday, calling upon all political parties to cooperate with him on finding the right solutions to the country’s crises, reports Xinhua news agency.

“The vote of confidence by MPs is necessary for my appointment but I am keen to gain the confidence of the Lebanese population, every man and woman, and the youths,” Mikati said at Baabda Palace after his meeting with President Michel Aoun.

Mikati said he has received inter national guarantees and he aims to implement the French initiative.

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HONG KONG, JUL 27 (AP): The first person to be tried under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law was found guilty of secessionism and terrorism on Tuesday.

The Hong Kong High Court handed down the verdict in the case of Tong Ying-kit, age 24. He’s accused of driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers while carrying a flag bearing the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” on July 1 last year, a day after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation on Hong Kong following months of anti-government protests in 2019.

The verdict was close-

Najib Mikati

BEIJING, JUL 27 (IANS): In a first faceto-face meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman discussed “ways to set terms for responsible management” of bilateral ties.

The meeting took place in Beijing on Monday.

According to a readout of the meeting issued by the US State Department, Sherman and Wang had a “frank and open discussion about a range of issues, demonstrating the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our two countries”.

Although Sherman underscored that the US “welcomes the stiff competition” between the two superpowers, Washington “does not seek conflict” with Beijing, it added.

According to the State Depar tment, Sherman raised a series of concerns in private, in particular, human rights, including Beijing’s anti-democratic crackdown in Hong Kong; the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang; abuses in Tibet; and the curtailing of media access and freedom

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are involved or if the personal safety of jurors needs to be protected.

Trials are presided over by judges handpicked

by Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam. Tong’s defense lawyer has said it’s impossible to prove that Tong was inciting secession merely by having used the slogan.

The defence also said there is no evidence that Tong committed the act deliberately, that he avoided crashing into officers and that his actions couldn’t be considered terrorism since there was no serious violence or harm to society.

While Hong Kong has its own Legislative Council, Beijing’s ceremonial legislature imposed the national security law on the semiautonomous city after it determined the body was unable to pass the legislation itself because of political opposition.

That followed the increasingly violent 2019 protests against China’s growing influence over the city’s affairs, despite commitments to allow the city to maintain its own system for 50 years after the 1997 handover from British rule.

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The office of the Changki Kaketsuri Longjem (CKL) takes immense pleasure and honor to congratulate Miss. Yapangla Changkiri, D/o Mr. Changtsupong Changkiri and Mrs. Asungla Longkumer, Gold Medalist from Department of Political Science, M.A. (Autonomous).

The CKL further wishes and prays that the Almighty God bless you and guide you in all your future endeavours.

The office of the Changki Kaketsuri Longjem (CKL) takes immense pleasure and honor to congratulate Mr. Emjungwabang Amer, S/o Er. M. Moasashi and Mrs. S. Sentila for securing 5th Rank in HSSLC 2021 (Arts Stream) from Mezhür Hr. Sec. School, Kohima.

The CKL further wishes and prays that the Almighty God bless you and guide you in all your future endeavours.

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US to end combat mission in Iraq

WASHINGTON, JUL 27 (IANS): US President Joe Biden said on Monday that American forces in Iraq will end the combat mission by the end of the year while continuing to train and assist Iraqi forces.

“Our role in Iraq will be... continue to train, to assist, to help and to deal with ISIS (Islamic State) as it rises, but we’re not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission,” Biden said at the beginning of a meeting in the Oval Office with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Xinhua reported.

“Our counter-terrorism cooperation will continue even as we shift to this new phase,” he said.

Al-Kadhimi told a leading media outlet ahead of the visit that there is no need for any foreign combat forces staying in Iraq.

“What we want from the US presence in Iraq is to support our forces in training and developing their

President Joe Biden, right, speaks as Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, left, at White House. (AP)

efficiency and capabilities, and in security cooperation,” he said.

There are now around 2,500 US troops in Iraq.

White House Press Secretary on Monday declined to provide the number of troops staying in Iraq at the end of the year.

US media said the move may not lead to a significant reduction of US military presence in Iraq, given most of the American

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troops in the country have already been taking training and advising roles for the Iraqi forces.

The two countries agreed to shift US troops’ mission back in April, but no timeline for the transition had been set at the time.

Analysts noted that the Iraqi leader faced mounting pressures at home from hardline Shia factions who demand all US troops to

leave the country. This shift in the mission of US troops could be seen as a political gain for al-Kadhimi ahead of parliamentary elections in October.

The US troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011, eight years after the USled invasion. US troops returned to the country in 2014 to support the Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State militants.

Immediately after the deaths of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport in Jan. 2020, the Iraqi parliament passed a resolution requiring the government to end the presence of foreign forces in Iraq.

Iraqi military bases housing US troops across the country and the US embassy in the Green Zone in central Baghdad have been frequently targeted by rocket and drone attacks from Iran-backed Shia militias.

Covid: Over 50k arrested in SL for violations C O L O M B O, J U L 2 7 (IANS): Over 50,000 people have been arrested in Sri Lanka since last October for violating the governmentimposed quarantine laws amid the Covid-19 pandemic which has infected 298,181 people to date in the island nation, police said.

In a statement on Monday, Police Spokesperson Ajith Rohana said that 52,154 people have been arrested so far since October, reports Xinhua news agency. Furthermore, 100 people who had broken the inter-district travel restriction were also turned and sent back to their respective provinces. Sri Lanka presently has a district-to-district travel restriction in place due to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Health Ministry has also made it compulsory to wear masks and maintain social distance and anyone caught defying these rules can face a jail term.

California Wildfire: 10,000 homes in danger

Dixie Fire, currently the biggest blaze raging in California, has continued growing after merging with the smaller Fly Fire.

SAN FRANCISCO, JUL 27 (IANS): A massive wildfire, which has so far scorched 197,487 acres of timber and brush across two counties in California, is still threatening over 10,000 homes even after 22 per cent containment. Dixie Fire, currently the biggest blaze raging in California, has continued growing after merging with the smaller Fly Fire, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

It tore through the re-

mote Northern California community of Indian Falls on Sunday, destroying at least 16 homes and other buildings there. The 15th largest wildfire in the history of California, the second blaze in the state this year, achieved “megafire” status on July 22 when it surpassed over 100,000 acres. Since then it almost doubled size in five days. The Beckwourth Complex fire in Plumas National Forest garnered the designation early this month

and remained at about 105,000 acres with 98 per cent contained on Monday.

More than 5,400 personnel from across California are putting out the fire around the clock, local media said, adding that more reinforces had come from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and even Florida to join the operation. More than 85 large wildfires are currently raging across the country, most of them in the western states.

State of emergency declared 6.5-magnitude quake strikes Indonesia, no casualties in Italy’s wildfire-hit Sardinia ROME, JUL 27 (IANS): The regional government in Italy’s Sardinia has declared a state of emergency after large swaths of land across the island were ravaged by wildfires in the last few days, according to the local civil protection department.

Besides the emergency, the regional emergency services in Sardinia also issued a new adverse weather warning on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported.

The alert entails a high

risk of new bushfires.

In an emergency meeting on Sunday night, after the national civil protection launched five operations with Canadair water-dropping planes on the island, the regional government declared the state of emergency.

The wildfire started on July 23 with a car that caught fire after a crash, and has forced the evacuation of at least 1,500 people from their homes. It has devas-

tated some 20,000 hectares of land so far.

Sardinia’s Governor Christian Solinas said several farms and homes were destroyed, along with thousands of hectares of vegetation. No casualties were reported yet.

Fanned by hot southwest winds, the largest bushfire in the Oristano area kept spreading along a front of almost 50 km as of Monday morning, according to the Nuova Sardegna newspaper.

JA K A RTA , J U L 2 7 (IANS): A 6.5-magnitude struck Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province, but there were no reports of damages or casualties, local agencies said. The on Monday evening did not also trigger a tsunami, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.

The quake struck at 7.09 p.m. with the epicentre at 59 km northeast of Tojo Una-Una district and the depth at 10 km under the seabed, Xinhua news

China’s Nanjing tightens restrictive measures services also suspended business, reports Xinhua news agency.

Nanjing, a mega-city with a population of more than 9.3 million, has added more than 100 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since a few airport workers tested positive for coronavirus last week. So far, the virus cluster in Nanjing has involved airport workers and their contacts, but new infections were also reported among flight passengers in other parts of China who have visited the city’s airport. The city of Nanjing has launched its second all-inclusive nucleic acid testing campaign and urged residents not to leave the city unless necessary.

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Miss Sedevi-i Nagi Miss Roviriano Chüsi The office of Chakhro Angami Kuda Students' Union (CAKSU) takes great pleasure and honour to extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss Sedevi-i Nagi (Top 12th HSLC), D/o Mr. Sielie Nagi and Miss Roviriano Chüsi (Top 19th HSLC), D/o Mr. Visaneilhou Chüsi for securing the merit positions in the recently declared HSLC examination 2021.

Further, the Union also congratulates all the students who have successfully cleared their HSLC and HSSLC examinations 2021.

We wish you the best and perpetual success in your future endeavours.

Visimetuo Nagi (Secretary, Education and Statistics)

Keviselhou Keyho (General Secretary)

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BEIJING, JUL 27 (IANS): Authorities in Nanjing, capital of China’s Jiangsu Province, on Tuesday ordered the tightening of restrictive measures in the wake of the recent spike in Covid-19 infections.

Among the measures, all retail pharmacies in the city suspended selling antipyretic, cough, antiviral and antibiotic medicine to citizens, according to the municipal epidemic prevention and control headquarters.

The city’s major hospitals, excluding emergency departments and fever clinics, were urged to implement appointment registration, while closed venues and offline training

rushed outside of their houses or buildings. However, no buildings were destroyed so far,” Pamusu added.

The jolts also caused blackout in the areas, Abdul Muhari, head of data and communications unit at the National Disaster Management Agency said in a text message. The tremors were also felt in nearby provinces of North Sulawesi and South Sulawesi, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.

teorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency added.

There were no reports of buildings damaged or people wounded in the hardest hit area of Ampana town in Tojo Una-Una district, Datu Pamusu, head of the provincial disaster management agency, told Xinhua.

“The strong shakes were felt by the people.

The quake struck at 7.09 p.m. with the epicentre at 59 Those living in the coastal areas panicked and immekm northeast of Tojo Una-Una district. diately headed to higher agency reported. Earlier at foreshock jolted Central grounds in fear of a tsu10.52 a.m., a 5.9-magnitude Sulawesi province, the Me- nami. In the city, residents

We, the undersigned villages of Gaspani 1 area would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Mr. Z Kasheto Yepthomi, former Gaspani 1 Independent candidate for his kind gesture and his personal involvement in completely recasting and repairing the steel bridge between Khaibung Village and Zhuikhu Village which serves as the main route for the entire villages mentioned below. We shall be forever grateful to Mr Z Kasheto Yepthomi for the repair of our bridge which is now safe to travel.

We would also like to thank E.E. PWD Dimapur for contributing Rupees One Lakh for this cause.

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of Benevolence in Belgium and the Netherlands. The World Heritage Committee of the Paris-based Unesco made the announcement during its 44th session held online and chaired from Fuzhou, China.

The four islands on a chain in the southwest of Japan, encompassing 42,698 hectares of sub-tropical rainforests, are entirely uninhabited by humans and have high bio-diversity value with a very high percentage of endemic species, many of them globally threatened and some having no living relatives anywhere in the world, the committee said.

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PARIS, JUL 27 (IANS): Four natural sites and three cultural sites were added to the Unesco World Heritage List. The natural sites added on Monday are the four islands with rich biodiversity in Japan; a coastal area of geo-diversity and bio-diversity in South Korea; part of the mountain ridge running down the Malay Peninsula in Thailand; and a corridor along the eastern coast of the Black Sea in Georgia, reports Xinhua news agency.

The three cultural sites are the Dutch Water Defence Lines; the Arslantepe Mound archaeological tell in Turkey; and the Colonies

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Billie Eilish breaks Apple Music record before album’s release

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illie Eilish hopes her new album “doesn’t disappoint” after it broke a record before its release.

The ‘my future’ hitmaker drops her second studio album ‘Happier Than Ever’ on July 30, and the follow-up to 2019’s record-breaking ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ has become the most pre-added album in Apple Music history with over 1,028,000 fans eager to get the LP in their ears first.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Billie commented: “That’s nuts. Wow, that’s nuts.

I hope it doesn’t disappoint.”

In support of the album, Billie has just announced a BBC special, ‘Billie Eilish: Up Close’.

The one-off progamme will air on Saturday (31.07.21) on BBC One at 10.30pm, with BBC Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo set to interview the 19-year-old pop sensation

about her meteoric rise to superstardom and being a role model.

The 45-minute special airs the day after the release of the Grammy-winner’s hotly-awaited LP. A press release read: “In this 45-minute enter-

tainment special filmed in Billie’s home town of Los Angeles, BBC Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo will talk to Billie about her latest album ‘Happier Than Ever’, her extraordinary rise to fame, looking back at her remarkable success, the effect it

has had on her life and her role as an inspiration for young people all over the world.” The likes of Adele, Ariana Grande and Harry Styles have previously landed their own ‘At The BBC’ TV specials in the past.

What’s more, Billie is set to make her BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge debut, with her session airing on Saturday from 11.15pm on BBC iPlayer, and fans can hear an “incredible cover” on BBC Radio 1 on August 5 at 12pm. Meanwhile, Billie has also just announced she is premiering her cinematic concert experience exclusively on Disney Plus.

‘Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles’ will hit the streaming service on September 3.

The concert experience will feature an intimate performance of every song on the album’s sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the legendary

Hollywood Bowl. In a statement, she said: “Disney is incredibly iconic, so to collaborate on something like this is a huge honour. To be able to present my album in this way and dedicate it to the city that I love and grew up in is so exciting to me. I hope you love it.”

‘Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles’ is directed by Robert Rodriguez and Patrick Osborne, and will also include animated elements, taking viewers on a dreamlike journey through Billie’s hometown of Los Angeles and its most iconic backdrops. The show will feature Billie’s brother Finneas, as well as the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted

by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, and world-renowned Brazilian guitarist, Romero Lubambo, with Orchestra Arrangements by David Campbell.

(Contactmusic)

Sofia Hayat says many B’wood aspirants tricked into doing porn

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n a day when businessman Raj Kundra, who stands accused in a pornography case, was sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Mumbai court, former “Bigg Boss” contestant Sofia Hayat said on Tuesday that it is not uncommon for Bollywood aspirants to be tricked into shooting for pornographic films by unscrupulous businessmen.

“A casting agent once said to me that there was an intimate scene and I have to show the director how well I can act for it,” recalled Hayat, who had entered “Bigg Boss 7” as a wild card entry.

“I knew this was a trick because professionals would never ask any artiste to perform such a scene. I have done two love scenes in my career, and although I am not inhibited about such scenes, it was a closed set and nobody had asked me to perform the scenes before the shoot,” she said.

Bollywood aspirants, Hayat said, should beware of such propositions. She added that pornography desensitised people from love and spoke in favour of it being treated by the courts on a par with rape.

“It switches people off love and only allows lust.

Anyone selling porn is an enemy to the energy of love,” Hayat said.

Some of her professional work, she added, was screen-recorded and upload-

ed to apps like the one that is being investigated for Kundra’s alleged links with it.

“Pornography is a violation of the rights of a woman and courts must treat it like rape,” Hayat said.

She also pointed out that a number of businessmen took advantage of young women in the film industry. Their only motivation is money -- and what they did to women was the equivalent of rape, she said.

(IANS)

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a boost to the industry by inducing movie-goers to return to the big screens.”

Simon McQuoid’s “Mortal Kombat”, incidentally, was first released on April 23 in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Its July 30 re-release is pegged on the re-opening of cinema theatre in Delhi at 50 per cent capacity.

All eyes, though, are on James Gunn’s superhero action movie “The Suicide Squad”, which is being released by Warner Bros on August 5. Also expected to draw crowds is the third installment of director Michael Chaves’s “The Conjuring” horror movie franchise. “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” has been slated for an August 13 release. The film franchise, which has a cult following, follows a story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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s states give the green signal to cinemas to reopen, multiplex operators say the three Hollywood blockbusters slated for release from July 30 will give the trade the much-needed oxygen that it had been denied in the last five quarters. Before the August 15 weekend, which is expected to see the release of Hindi films in the cans, these Hollywood releases are expected to get the audiences back.

The three movies are the martial arts fantasy film “Mortal Kombat” (rereleasing on July 30), “The Suicide Squad” (starring Margot Robbie, Idris Alba, John Cena, Sylvester Stallone and Viola Davis; August 5) and “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” (August 13). Kamal Gianchandani, CEO, PVR Pictures said: “The release of these movies in three consecutive weeks in multiple languages and formats certainly will give

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Starc takes 3 as Aus clinch ODI series over WI

BRIDGETOWN (BARBADOS), JUL 27 (IANS): Australia’s bowling attack proved too strong for West Indies in the decisive third and final One-day International, as the visitors won by six wickets to clinch the series 2-1 at the Kensington Oval on Tuesday (IST).

Australia bowled out the home side for 152 off 45.1 overs and then comfortably reached the target at 153/4 off 30.3 overs.

Australia had won the first match by 133 runs, while West Indies bounced back to win the second by four wickets.

The Australian newball attack was lethal with Mitchell Starc again the stand-out performer. The left-arm speedster took 3/43

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Mitchell Starc (R) celebrates the dismissal of Darren Bravo at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. (AFP)

off 9.1 overs, while his newball partner Josh Hazlewood took 2/18 off eight overs.

Left-arm spinner Ashton Agar, brought into the team for the first match, took

10-1-31-2 and controlled the middle overs of the West Indies innings. He later returned to make a quickfire 19 not out off 33 balls to earn the Player-of-theMatch award. Left-hander

Matthew Wade scored 51 not out off 52 balls, with five fours and two sixes and shared a fourth-wicket stand of 34 with captain Alex Carey (35).

Earlier, Evin Lewis

SSCB dominates in Jr Boys National Boxing C’ships

Hyderabad FC sign Spanish defender Gonzalez for upcoming season

S O N E PAT, J U L 2 7 (PTI): Service Sports Control Board (SSCB) began strongly in the 3rd Junior Boys National Boxing Championships with eight of its pugilists winning their opening bouts here.

Harsh started the proceedings for SSCB in a commanding manner as he out-punched Niraj Sah of Steel Plant Sports Board (SPSB) by a unanimous decision in the 46kg opening round match.

Later in the 54kg, Ashish also defeated Gujarat’s Atul Sahani as the referee stopped the contest (RSC) in the first round of the face-off.

Rajan (50kg), Henthoi (60kg), Ankush Panghal (66kg), Jackson Singh Laishram (70kg), Naksh Beniwal (75kg) and Rhythm Sangawan (+80kg) were the other boxers who registered victories on Monday in their respective opening round matches and ensured a perfect day for SSCB with an all-win record.

Earlier last week, SSCB emerged champions in the 4th Youth Men’s National Boxing Championships with 10 medals (7 gold and 3 silver).

The fourth edition of the Junior Girls National Championships was also kickstarted on Monday and 28 bouts were fought with 201 boxers participating from across the country, including Haryana, Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Mizoram.

The boys event witnessed the presence of 298 boxers while 65 bouts took place on opening day.

The on-going championships is being played with AIBA’s newly-introduced weight divisions -- 13 categories in men’s event and 12 for women.

The event will also be a selection trial for the youth and junior Asian championship, which is slated to take place in Dubai from August 17 to 31.

H Y D E R A B A D, J U L 27 (IANS): Indian Super League (ISL) side Hyderabad FC have signed 34-year-old Spanish defender Juan Antonio Gonzalez on a one-year deal, the club has announced.

The tall player, who was with Bengaluru FC for five years before joining Manuel Marquez’s side, began his senior career with Deportivo La Coruna in Spain, and spent time with the Real Madrid Castilla before moving to Germany in 2011.

He featured in the 2012/13 season of the Bundesliga with Fortuna Dusseldorf and has played

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in Hungary, USA and Spain before moving to India in 2016. During his five-year stint in India, Gonzalez has won the Federation Cup (2017), Hero Super Cup (2018) and the Indian Super League (2018/19), apart from a runner-up finish in the 2016 AFC Cup.

He also finished top of the ISL League Phase twice (2017/18 & 2018/19).

“Juanan’s (Gonzalez) experience is very important because we have very good young defenders in our team, and he can help them.

Not too many players have played in India consistently over five seasons,” said Hyderabad FC head coach Marquez.

With 71 ISL appearances and five goals, Gonzalez will add valuable experience to the young squad at Hyderabad FC. With Gonzalez, Hyderabad FC now have five overseas players who have played ISL in the past.

returned to the crease after being forced to retire hurt.

He was struck on the face in the early stages of the innings but came back to end 55 not out off 66 balls with five boundaries and three sixes. He was the only West Indian batsman to reach a half century.

The West Indies will remain in Barbados for the opening match of the Osaka T20 Cup against Pakistan at Kensington Oval on Wednesday.

BRIEF SCORES: West Indies 152 in 45.1 overs (E Lewis 55; M Starc 3/43, J Hazlewood 2/18, A Agar 2/31, A Zampa 2/29) lost to Australia 153/4 in in 30.3 overs (M Wade 51 not out, A Carey 35) by six wickets.

2nd T20I postponed as Krunal tests positive for Covid-19 C O L O M B O, J U L 2 7 (IANS): The second T20 International between India and Sri Lanka scheduled to be played on Tuesday night has been postponed by a day after Indian all-rounder Krunal Pandya tested positive for Covid-19.

A Sri Lanka Cricket official confirmed to IANS that Pandya had tested positive following a routine test on Tuesday morning.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) also confirmed it through a statement.

“The second T20I between Sri Lanka and India originally scheduled to be played on July 27 has been pushed forward by a day and will now take place on

Wednesday, July 28,” said a statement from the BCCI. “Following the Rapid Antigen Tests conducted ahead of the match on Tuesday morning, Team India all-rounder Krunal Pandya was found to be positive.

The Medical Teams have

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Remembering you

on your 2nd Death Anniversary

Lt. Nenyale Apon 28th July 2019 The Anniversary Day comes with tears and sorrow.

Pain of yet another year spent without You. The intensity of that Day comes unbidden.

What we shared will never die, it lives within our hearts.

Bringing strength and comfort while we are apart.

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10th DEATH ANNIVERSARY

The Gilgalites deeply mourned at the ultimately demise of Shri. LR Ezung, Proprietor, Gilgal High School, Wokha on 25th July 2021.

The school in particular has lost a visionary leader with a strong personality who had given his selfless humanity service towards the school and the Lothas in general.

The void greeted by him would be deeply felt and difficult to fill in the coming days.

We express our heartfelt condolences to his family members and pray that his soul may rest in eternal peace with our heavenly Father.

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Dearest Dad, It has been 10 years since you left for your Heavenly abode on this day. We miss you Dad, we miss you everyday and every moment.

The sunshine that was there in your smile and the eloquence in your silence still reverberate our lives.

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identified eight members as close contacts,” the BCCI added in the statement.

“The entire contingent is undergoing RT-PCR tests today to ascertain any further outbreak in the squad,” it said further.

The eight members identified as close contacts are said to include Suryakumar Yadav and Prithvi Shaw, who are due to travel to England for next month’s Test series. The second and third T20 Internationals will be played on Wednesday and Thursday.

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We convey our special thanks to : 1. Mrs. Imolemla, wife of Late I. Tinu Jamir, Padumpukhuri (Dimapur) 2. Mrs. & Er. I. Hutoshe Awomi & family Executive Engineer (PEP) Chumukedima 3. Dr. Atsung Aier & Dr. Bendangtula & family (Kohima) 4. Dr. Tongpang Lkr & family (Kohima) Loving Wife, Children & Grandchildren dp-3574

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"For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep" 1 Thes. 4:14

“No longer by our side, but forever in our hearts”

We, the family members of Late WOREMO LOTHA would like to express our gratitude and appreciations to each and every individuals and organizations who supported us through materials, financial and prayer support with constant visits during his prolonged illness and demise on 19th July 2021.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individuals but we pray that our Almighty God bless each and everyone of you abundantly.

We would like to specially thank the following : i. Lotha Baptist Church, Dimapur ii. Dimapur Phiro Khumshum iii. N.S.T Colony Lotha Fellowship iv. Officers & staff of NST Central Workshop, Dimapur v. Kohima Phiro Khumshum vi. The doctors & nurses, Zion Hospital & Research Centre, Dimapur vii. Phiro Village Baptist Church, Phiro

Born: 01/01/2005 – Died: 20/07/2021 Thank You We, the bereaved family express our profound gratitude to all who stood by us at the sudden and tragic demise of our beloved Late Alongba.

We remain forever grateful to neighbors, friends, churches, relatives and well-wishers for the help and support through prayer and all possible needs during this very difficult time. Your kindness and concern towards our family means a great deal to us. We appreciate and thank each and every one for all the love and support you have extended to us during this period of sadness. We got nothing to repay for your kindness but we pray that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Lovlina one win away from coveted medal

Sharath loses to world No. 1 Ma Long in TT

MEDAL TALLY AS ON JULY 27 Countries

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B

Total

1

Japan

10

3

5

18

2

United States

9

8

8

25

3

China

9

5

7

21

4

ROC

7

7

4

18

5

Great Britain

4

5

4

13

6

South Korea

3

2

4

9

7

Australia

3

1

5

9

8

Canada

2

3

3

8

9

France

2

2

3

7

10

Germany

2

0

3

5

11

Kosovo

2

0

0

2

12

Italy

1

5

6

12

13

Chinese Taipei

1

2

3

6

14

Brazil

1

2

2

5

14

Switzerland

1

2

2

5

16

Slovenia

1

1

1

3

16

Serbia

1

1

1

3

18

Hungary

1

1

0

2

18

Tunisia

1

1

0

2

20

Austria

1

0

1

2

20

Croatia

1

0

1

2

20

Estonia

1

0

1

2

23

Bermuda

1

0

0

1

23

Ecuador

1

0

0

1

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Hong Kong

1

0

0

1

23

Iran

1

0

0

1

23

Norway

1

0

0

1

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Sport Minister Haokip also handed over Rs 10 lakh to Mirabai for her world record performance in clean and jerk category. Additionally, the state education minister Rajen also handed over Rs 3 lakh for her achievements. Mirabai credited people her family, coach, and people of Manipur for her success.

Stating that her happiness knew bonds when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister N Biren Singh called her, the champion weightlifter said that it was like a dream talking to them after she won the medal.

CM Biren said, “Mirabai Chanu’s triumph bears witness to the value of hard work and sincerity.” He also announced that the state government would begin a scheme to provide annual financial grants to the associations of the Olympic sports disciplines.

23

Philippines

1

0

0

1

23

Thailand

1

0

0

1

23

Uzbekistan

1

0

0

1

31

Netherlands

0

3

0

3

32

Spain

0

2

1

3

33

Georgia

0

2

0

2

33

South Africa

0

2

0

2

35

Mongolia

0

1

2

3

36

Belgium

0

1

1

2

36

Czech Republic

0

1

1

2

36

Indonesia

0

1

1

2

39

Bulgaria

0

1

0

1

39

Colombia

0

1

0

1

39

Denmark

0

1

0

1

39

India

0

1

0

1

39

Jordan

0

1

0

1

39

North Macedonia

0

1

0

1

39

Romania

0

1

0

1

39

Turkmenistan

0

1

0

1

47

Kazakhstan

0

0

3

3

47

Ukraine

0

0

3

3

49

Egypt

0

0

2

2

49

Mexico

0

0

2

2

49

Turkey

0

0

2

2

52

Côte d’Ivoire

0

0

1

1

52

Cuba

0

0

1

1

52

Israel

0

0

1

1

52

Kuwait

0

0

1

1

52

New Zealand

0

0

1

1

NEW DELHI, JUL 27 (AGENCIES): Lovlina Borgohain became the first Indian boxer to enter the quarterfinals with a 3-2 win over German welterweight Nadine Apetz on Tuesday. Both boxers, twotime World championship bronze medallists, had received byes into the last 16, The Indian Express reported. Borgohain can now secure a bronze medal with a win over Chin-Chen Nien of Chinese Taipei on Friday.

The 69kg contest was the first Olympic bout for both the 23-year-old Borgohain and Apetz, 12 years her senior. The German took up boxing out of curiosity at 21; Borgohain had a bronze each at the Asian Championships and World Championships by that age.

For a welterweight, the 5’9 Borgohain moves quickly. And while she only had an inch on Apetz, the German’s slightly-morecrouched stance helped

Nadine Apetz (left) exchanges punches with Lovlina Borgohain during the women’s welter (64-69kg) at Kokugikan Arena, in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday. (Getty Images)

Borgohain maximise the height and reach advantage. Jab was the order of the day, often followed up with another. The doublejab is employed to distract, create distance and line up the second punch.

The straight left, thus, was the key tool on Tues-

day. The jabs stung and kept Apetz at bay, while the hook was there to catch and counter her when she rushed in.

“I am satisfied with Lovlina’s performance. She played an excellent match against the German, also world bronze,” women’s

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu with the chief minister N Biren Singh, her parents and others at the felicitation programme in Imphal on Tuesday. (NP) Correspondent

IMPHAL, JUL 27: Manipur on Tuesday accorded hero’s welcome to Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu.

Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh, his council of ministers, MLAs and top officials of the state were

among the hundreds of people who received Chanu on her arrival at BirTikendrajit International Airport, Imphal.

The silver medallist, joined by her parents and other family members at the airport were escorted upto City Convention Centre where she was given a grand

McKeown breaks Olympic record in 100m backstroke

TOKYO, JUL 27 (IANS): finish for Britain in the Australian swimmer men’s 200m freestyle.

Kaylee McKeown The 21-yearclaimed the women’s old Dean sprinted 100m backstroke gold for the gold in in an Olympic record one minute and time of 57.47 seconds 44.22 seconds, at the Tokyo with Worlds Olympic bronze medGames here allist Scott on Tuesday.

0.04 seconds The rebehind. sult was 0.02 Brazilseconds beian Fernanh i n d h e r ow n do Scheffer world record, but Kaylee McKeown took the bronze in enough for her to 1:44:66. beat second-placed Kylie Russian (ROC) swimMasse of Canada, who fin- mers dominated the men’s ished in 57.72 seconds.

100m backstroke as Evgeny The bronze went to Rylov and Kliment Kolesn19-year-old Regan Smith of ikov claimed the gold and the United States. silver, edging defending Tom Dean and Dun- champion Ryan Murphy can Scott led a one-two to third.

reception.

As announced earlier by the state government, the chief minister officially handed over Mirabai an appointment letter in Manipur Police for the post of Additional SP (Sport) and also a cheque of Rs 1 crore as reward for winning silver medal at the Tokyo

high performance director Raffaele Bergamasco says.

“Lovlina was rewarded for her greater pressure and speed of hits, especially with the left jab.”

It wasn’t all easy going. Apetz — an inspiration in European boxing circles who put a Ph.D in neuro-

TOKYO, JUL 27 (IANS): India recovered from their disastrous outing against world No. 1 Australia to defeat Spain 3-0 in a Group A league match at the Tokyo Olympics mens hockey tournament at the Oi Hockey Stadium here on Tuesday.

Veteran drag-flicker Rupinderpal Singh scored a brace of goals, his first off a penalty stroke, and Simranjeet Singh contribute one as Graham Reid’s India romped to a well-deserved victory against a Spanish team that lacked the firepower to trouble the world No. 4 team.

It was an inspired decision by coach Reid to leave Gurjant Singh out and bring Simranjeet Singh into the squad, and the young forward repaid the trust by opening India’s account when he deftly deflected in a long ball from the sideline by defender Amit Rohidas into the goal.

India forced a couple of penMandeep Singh celebrates after Simranjeet alty corners which resulted in a penSingh, center, scored against Spain. (AP/PTI) alty stroke after Rupinderpal’s flick

Flora Duffy celebrates claiming gold for Bermuda. (EPA)

the record for being the least populated country to win a summer Olympic medal thanks to a bronze for boxer Clarence Hill in 1976 but now they have

TOKYO, JUL 27 (IANS): India’s Achanta Sharath Kamal put up a superb fight against world No. 1, China’s Ma Long -- the reigning Olympic and world champion -- but went out with his head held high as he lost 1-4 in a men’s singles third-round match of the Tokyo Olympics table tennis competition.

Kamal took a game off Ma Long and fought a neck-and-neck battle in another as he went down 7-11, 11-8, 11-13, 4-11, 4-11 in the 49-minute encounter.

The 39-year-old Kamal, ranked 32nd in the world and playing his fourth Olympics, put up a great fight against the man considered one of the greatest table tennis players the world has seen.

Kamal, who was representing the country in his fourth Olympics, had reached the third round at the Games for the first time.

India outplay Spain 3-0 in men’s hockey

Duffy claims historic first gold for Bermuda TOKYO, JUL 27 (AGENCIES): With a population of just 63,000, Bermuda became the smallest nation or territory to win an Olympic gold medal at a summer Games when Flora Duffy won the triathlon in Tokyo.

The 33-year-old, making her fourth appearance at an Olympics, came out on top of the 56-woman field with a time of one hour 55 minutes 36 seconds - more than a minute ahead of Great Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown and USA’s Katie Zaferes.

Bermuda already held

science – focusing on Parkinson’s Disease and deep brain stimulation – on hold for her Games debut — was aggressive and launched flurries. She pushed the action, often closing the distance with step-in combos and overhand punches.

Borgohain won all three rounds 3-2. But with one judge awarding all three rounds to the German, the split decision could have gone either way.

Boro, coach at Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) Guwahati centre, discovered Borgohain during a talent hunt at the Sarupathar Girls School in 2012.

S t a n d i n g b e t we e n Borgohain and an Olympic medal is the imposing fourth seed Nien-Chin Chen. The 24-year-old from Chinese Taipei handily defeated Borgohain in the semifinals of the 2018 Worlds in New Delhi, going on to win the gold medal.

their first gold medal winner.

“It’s been a heck of a lot of pressure for five years,” said Duffy.

“I would never recom-

mend being an Olympic favourite for five years. Of course it’s made it all worth it now.

“I think the whole of Bermuda is going crazy.

That’s what makes it so special to me is that, yes, this was my dream, but I also knew it was bigger than me.”

Duffy, who rejected the chance to represent Britain as a teenager, is already familiar with writing her name into the history books having become Bermuda’s first female Commonwealth Games champion in 2018.

slammed into the Spanish defender on the goalline. The veteran himself stepped up and converted the stroke -- the two goals coming within 90 seconds of the final minutes of the first quarter. India were 2-0 up by the end of the first quarter and though they allowed the opponents to dominate possession in the second quarter, the Spaniards could not capitalise on the chances.

Rupinderpal scored India’s third goal midway through the fourth quarter and though Spain did manage to earn three penalty corners in succession, Pau Quemada could not reduce the margin and the Indians walked off the pitch a satisfied lot, having redeemed themselves after the humiliating 1-7 defeat they suffered against Australia.

Australia outplayed reigning Olympic champions Argentina 5-2 in another Group A match on Tuesday.

India face Argentina in their next match on Thursday.

Naomi Osaka bows out

TOKYO, JUL 27 (IANS): Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka’s bid for a gold medal in her home country ended quickly on Tuesday with the world No. 2 being ousted

by Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-4 in the third round of the Tokyo Olympic Games here.

Naomi was competing in her first event since pulling out of the French Open in May. The top three seeds, Australia’s Ashleigh Barty, Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi, have all fallen early at the Olympics. No.4

Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 winner over No.14 Maria Sakkari of Greece on Tuesday, is the highest seeded player in the tournament.

Also on Tuesday, Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic, the No.9 seed, defeated No.8 Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals. It was only the second loss for Barbora in her past 24 matches.

Belinda’s opponent in the quarterfinals will be No.13 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of ROC, who beat Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-1, 6-3.

Tokyo reports record virus cases days after games begin TOKYO, JUL 27 (AP): Japan’s capital, Tokyo, reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, days after the Olympics began. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga urged people to avoid nonessential outings, but said there was no need to consider a suspension of the Games.

Tokyo reported 2,848 new COVID-19 cases, exceeding its earlier record of 2,520 daily cases on January 7. That brings its total to more than 200,000 since the pandemic began last year.

Tokyo is under its fourth coronavirus state of emergency, which is to continue through the Olympics until just before the Paralympics start in late August.

Experts have warned that the more contagious delta variant could cause a surge during the Olympics, which started Friday.

Still, Japan has kept its cases and deaths lower than many other countries.

Nationwide, it reported 5,020 daily cases Monday for a total of 870,445 and 15,129 deaths. Its 7-day rolling average of cases is about 3.57 per 100,000 people,

compared to 2.76 in India, 17.3 in the United States and 53.1 in Britain, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Asked if he is considering an option of suspending the Games, Suga replied, “There is no worry about that,” adding that people have been moving about less since the Games started because of traffic controls and the government’s request that they work remotely.

Suga again urged that people avoid non-essential outings. “Please watch the Olympic Games on TV at home, (asterisk) he said.

Suga’s government has been criticized for what some say is prioritizing the Olympics over the nation’s health. His public support ratings have fallen to around 30% in recent media surveys, and there is little festivity surrounding the Games.

Health Minister Norihisa Tamura, asked about the jump in cases, said it was not a surprise. “Taking into consideration the global acceleration of infections because of the delta strain, which is taking over earlier variants, it was quite possible,” he said.

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