29 June 2022

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Vol XXXII No. 203

DIMAPUR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2022 Pages 12 ` 5.00

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Nagas are educated but not a refined society: CM DIMAPUR MUNICIPAL COUNCIL & CHÜMOU TOWN COUNCIL BAG ‘CLEANEST’ ULBS

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KOHIMA, JUN 28 (NPN): State chief minister Neiphiu Rio said though Nagas claim that theirs is an educated society, yet it was not a refined society as there was still a long way to catch up with others. Rio said this while addressing a programme at the first-ever state “Cleanest Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and Wards Award-2022” as special guest at state capital convention centre here on Tuesday.

The chief minister, therefore urged upon all sections of society for a joint effort to make Nagaland a better place to live in.

On the occasion, he congratulated the winning urban bodies under different categories and also acknowledged the efforts of the urban development

Maha political crisis:

Fadnavis meets Gov, demands floor test MUMBAI, JUN 28 (PTI): After waiting in the wings in the over week-long political drama sparked off by Shiv Sena minister Eknath Shinde’s rebellion, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday night met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, and requested him to ask the Uddhav Thackeray government to prove its majority in the Assembly.

Fadnavis claimed that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government seemed to be in minority as 39 Sena MLAs who belong to the Shinde faction have said they do not support the government.

“Therefore, we handed over a letter to the Governor, requesting him to ask the government to prove its majority through a floor test in the House,” he told reporters.

Prez polls: NLA informs members

DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): In view of the election for the office of the President of India, scheduled on July 18, the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) secretariat has informed that any member who opts to cast his vote in Delhi or other state due to unavoidable circumstances to obtain the request form A/B from the ARO from June 29 onwards. NLA secretariat informed that the form must be submitted on or before July 4, 2022.

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio releasing the Assessment Report at the programme on Tuesday. (NP)

department and the ULBs for coming up with different ideas and innovations to keep the cities clean.

Rio said competition was a challenge for everyone and that such competitions would carry a positive message. He also stressed on the need for awareness and cleanliness to make Nagaland a garbage-free state, which should not be

“I’m taking that drum when we leave Guwahati.

If we check into a hotel in Mumbai, I can entertain us.”

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there was a need to address the demands as when urbanization takes place, the economy also grows. In order to promote awareness on civic cleanliness, the chief minister said he would take up the matter with school education for imparting cleanliness education and civic duties to the students.

Rio said such cleanliness competitions could be taken up at the village level and for which he would take up with the rural development department.

Further, the chief minister also underlined the need for creating a congenial social environment in the state so that investors will be attracted to come and invest.

In his keynote address, advisor urban development and municipal affairs, Dr. Neikiesalie Kire, said the state was faced with a major

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Jacob Zhimomi inaugurates Niuland district; terms it ‘Land of diversity’ Staff Reporter

environmental issue associated with waste generation, inadequate collection, segregation, disposal and treatment of waste.

Kire said presently the urban areas of Nagaland generate about 4985.94 tonnes of solid waste per day.

He said that the common practice of disposal of waste in Nagaland was by collecting of waste and dumping at the dumping site without any treatment or segregation posing a major environmental concern especially single-use plastic items.

He said the effort to keep the towns and cities clean becomes a huge task.

He said the ULBs, which have been entrusted the mammoth task, continue to provide adequate sanitation services to the citizens despite obstacles.

DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): PHED minister Jacob Zhimomi on Tuesday officially inaugurated Niuland district, which was notified as district by the state government on December 20, 2021.

Speaking at the inauguration programme at Niuland public ground, Jacob Zhimomi said that Niuland would be ‘Land of diversity’—for everyone to come together irrespective of caste, creed and religion, and coexist peacefully.

Jacob said that Niuland district has huge potential for socio-economic development.

He said the creation of Niuland district would not have been possible without the support and coordination of Dimapur district MLAs. He said that it was (Cont’d on p-8) because of them, the state

Call for oil exploration to boost State’s economy Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): Soil and Water Conservation & Geology and Mining minister V Kashiho Sangtam stressed that it was high time that the economy of Nagaland received a boost through exploration and production (E&P) of petroleum.

In his keynote address at a panel discussion on “Oil and natural gas exploration and production in Nagaland: It’s relevance today” at Dimapur Government College (DGC) here on Tuesday, Kashiho described oil and natural gas as economically viable resource

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and a clear roadmap should be prepared for an early resumption of oil exploration in the State.

He also recalled the oil exploration in the 1970s and referred to the public interest litigation (PIL) filed

by Lotha Hoho at Gauhati High Court in 2012.

Information Technology & Communication (ITC&C), Science & Technology and New & Renewable Energy (NRE) adviser Mmhonlumo Kikon said the Central government had proposed a tripartite agreement among the Centre, Assam and Nagaland gov-

ernments for oil exploration in the State and discussions were on in this regard.

He also insisted that whatever oil exploration was being undertaken in the disputed border areas, the royalty should be shared equally between the Assam and Nagaland. He mentioned that chief minister Neiphiu Rio was categorical that Nagaland should be paid oil royalty in Assam-Nagaland belt where Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) was carrying out exploration work. This, he said, would also be a part of the proposed tripartite agreement.

Mmhonlumo said the agreement drafted by

the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG), to which the State government had given its written submissions for certain addition and omission was in the process of finalisation.

He said the State government was very clear that the Centre could not “challenge” the special provision of Article 371 (A) of the Constitution of India.

Mmhonlumo clarified that if the State had to start oil exploration, then it had to be with collaboration with MoPNG and involve revenue sharing and royalty for landowners.

Jacob Zhimomi with colleagues and others at the Niuland district inaugural programme on Tuesday. (NP)

government could take the decision to create Niuland and Chumoukedima districts.

The minister credited the state chief minister, all the four MLAs of Dimapur district and state machineries for taking the important decision.

Jacob asserted that the all the five legislators would be working very closely and would be monitoring the

socio-economic and political impacts that may grow in three districts of Dimapur, Chumoukedima and Niuland. “…and for that we need the cooperation of the people of three districts,” Jacob said. Minister also said that everyone should participate and divide the responsibilities between the people and government for development to take place.

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Sitharaman to attend CSR conclave in Nagaland

DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be attending the Nagaland CSR and Investment Conclave 2022 scheduled to be held on July 4 and 5, 2022.

Announcing this during AHoDs & HoDs meeting held at the Nagaland Civil Secretariat Conference Hall on June 28, chief secretary, J Alam, stated that the CSR conclave was the first of its kind in Nagaland.

He said the conclave was being organized by Investment and Development Authority (IDAN) and (Cont’d on p-7) reminded all government

departments to give full attention towards the success of the programme, stated a DIPR report.

Informing that the state government was planning to implement e-pension at the earliest, the chief secretary said that areas of reforms needed to be addressed for proper functioning of the government.

The chief secretary expressed confidence that the new technologies could be implemented successfully for ease of doing business since the State has able officers.

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Tension in Rajasthan after murder of tailor over As Covid cases rise, Centre asks states step up vigil ‘insult to Islam’; prohibitory orders clamped

The two accused- Riaz and Ghouse. (PTI)

UDAIPUR, JUN 28 (PTI): Two men with a cleaver murdered a tailor here and posted videos online that said they are avenging an insult to Islam, triggering stray cases of violence in the Rajasthan city, a part of which was placed under curfew.

Prohibitory orders ban-

ning people from assembling were clamped across the state for a month and mobile internet services suspended for the next 24 hours. Two motorcycles were set ablaze in Hathipole area and a mob pelted stones at a mosque in Dhan Mandi, before it was dispersed by police.

The Home Ministry dispatched a team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to Udaipur, officials said. Police arrested the two accused identified as Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad.

The assailants entered

his shop in Dhan Mandi posing as customers. As the tailor took the measurements Akhtari attacked him with a cleaver, nearly severing his neck. The other man shot the brutal murder with his mobile phone.

In another video, the alleged assailant declared that they had “beheaded” the man and went on to threaten Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying their knife will get him as well. Kanhaiya Lal, the tailor, was recently arrested by the local police over some remarks made on social media by him.

NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (PTI): With the steep rise in coronavirus cases again, the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday wrote a fresh letter to various states and urged them to take preventive measures ahead of festival season.

India recorded 11,793 new coronavirus infections, pushing the country’s tally to 4,34,18,839, while the active cases rose to 96,700, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

The death toll climbed to 5,25,047 with 27 new fatalities, data updated at 8 am by the ministry stated.

In a letter to most of

the states reporting higher number of COVID cases, the Union health sec-retary said to minimise fresh Covid infections, there’s need to focus on five-fold strategy of testing, tracking, treating, vaccinating and adhering to Covid appropriate behaviour in view of upcoming festive season when states are likely to witness mass gatherings.

The Centre asked states and Union territories to ensure that people taking part in mass gatherings and undertaking pilgrimage are asymptomatic and preferably fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

State NPP functionaries resign ‘en mass’; party clarifies Staff Reporter

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just a one-time exercise, but should be a continuous process so as to achieve a clean and healthy society.

He also believed that such a participatory movement should become a way of life.

The chief minister pointed out the trend of mad rush of urbanization, wherein people migrate to the urban areas for various opportunities. He said

5 Pologrounds to come up in Manipur

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DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): Nagaland unit National People’s Party (NPP) functionaries comprising of 16 state and five district-level office bearers and workers resigned “en masse” on Tuesday. However, on the other hand, NPP unit issued a clarification claiming that the party was to suspend the “dissident members” for their anti-party activities.

Addressing the media NPP state general secretary (political affairs) Ricky Ozukum said that they were compelled to resign with immediate effect as they had lost faith in the party’s State

leadership led by president Dr Andrew Ahoto Sema.

He claimed that around 80% more party office-bearers and workers would be resigning from across the State.

Ozukum clarified that they had not resigned to join another political party but admitted of having received invitations from regional and national parties in the State that were planning to expand their reach further.

He assured that the decision to join any political party would be decided keeping in mind the political ideology of that party. Signatories in the resignation letter included NPP national secretary Lima Longkumer

and 15 other State level office bearers and five district level office bearers, including presidents of Mokokchung, Tuensang, Mon, Longleng, and Kiphire district units.

NPP unit clarifies

In a clarification, State NPP unit said it was totally flabbergasted over the unconstitutional manner in which some “handful and dissident members” of the party announced through a press conference about the mass resignation. NPP claimed that the handful of members, who had resigned, did not even comprise 2% of the total party strength contrary to their claims that 80% of them had quit the party.

Rather, NPP said they (dissidents) were to be suspended from the party for carrying out anti-party activities. Having understood their ulterior motive, NPP said the national leaders took cognizance and advised the State president for complete overhaul and to reorganize the party rank and file by weeding out the negative elements.

With regard to resignation of district presidents of Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire, Longleng and Mokokchung, NPP said besides failing to carry out their duties and activities, they also failed to conduct membership drives and rather chose to hold the

post of president to “enjoy undue benefits.”

It was for this reason, NPP said that the state president, under the directive of the national president, reorganized and appointed new convenors and district presidents of these districts.

Similarly, NPP said some leaders of the frontal bodies including NPYF and women wing were also relieved of their responsibilities due to “non-performance”.

NPP said that the resignation was a welcome sign for the party to strengthen and grow at all levels under the leadership of the State president, Dr. Andrew Ahoto Sema.

Health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said mass gatherings in context of various festivities as well as yatras are likely to be held in different parts of the country in the coming months, and that such congregations may potentially facilitate transmission of infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

While the trajectory of COVID-19 cases has declined significantly from levels that were ob-served in earlier part of this year, a few states and UTs across the country are witnessing a sus-tained upswing in the cases currently.

Bhushan said it was

essential that the gains made so far by collaborative efforts of central and state governments are not lost and timely necessary public health steps are taken to minimise the risk of increased COVID-19 transmission.

Further adequate publicity and arrangement for testing should be done across multiple locations.

He underlined that public meetings, prayers, seating and lodging arrangements on the route and halting points should be made in outdoor or well-ventilated areas with provision of thermal screening and hand washing.

Ban on single-use plastic items from Jul 1: Environment Minister

NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (PTI): Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday said the government has given enough time to the industry and the general public to prepare for the ban on single-use plastic (SUP) items and it hopes for everyone’s cooperation in implementing it from July 1.

Environment ministry officials said the notification to phase out 19 SUP items was issued under the Environment Protection Act (EPA) and any violation will invite punitive action, including a fine or a jail term, detailed under Section 15 of the Act. “The notification to

phase out the 19 identified SUP items by July 1, 2022 was issued in August 2021.

We have given enough time (to prepare for the phasing out of SUP items). We gave them (those dealing in SUP items) certainty for the future, made them understand and the majority of them support it,” he said in response to a question on some industry representatives saying they are not ready for the ban.

“I have met the industry representatives and the government hopes for their cooperation in phasing out single-use plastic items,” he said.

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IDCF launched in Longleng and Zunheboto

DIMAPUR: With an objective to sensitise people on diarrhea caused child deaths and preventive measures, Intensified Diarrhea Control Fortnight (IDCF) programs were launched in Longleng and Zunheboto districts on June 27.

Zunheboto: District Health Society (DHS) Zunheboto launched Intensified Diarrhea Control Fortnight (IDCF) at New Colony Prayer Fellowship, Zunheboto and across all health units within district on June 27.

In a press release is-

sued by CMO Zunheboto office, it stated that IDCF was organised with an objective to attain zero number of child deaths caused by diarrhea and aimed to create mass awareness on the most effective and low-cost diarrhea treatment — a combination of Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS) solution and Zinc tablets.

DVBO & DSO Zunheboto, Dr. J. Hokugha Sema spoke on key actions and prevention on diarrhea. He stressed on importance and use of ORS and Zinc during diarrheal

ORS sachets and Zinc tablets being distributed.

episodes in children and assured that it was a safe treatment which helped the child recover faster from diarrhea.

DPM (NHM) Zunheboto, Rosemary Vitoli in her keynote address gave an overview on IDCF which would continue till July 11 across all health units in the district.

Later, short speech was delivered by GB, New Colony, AkutoYeptho.

Longleng: Meanwhile, Training of Trainers (ToT) on Anemia Mukt Bharat cum launch-

ing of IDCF (Intensified Diarrhea Control Fortnight) was conducted on June 27 at CMO office conference hall, district headquarter, Longleng.

In a press release issued by CMO office, it stated that Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Longleng, Dr. Obangjungla, while delivering the welcome note, encouraged everyone present to ask and learn from each other without hesitating while emphasising on the importance of teamwork.

Further, district program officer (DPO), Dr.

Meren Phom, launched the IDCF and gave a brief orientation on Anemia Mukt Bharat.

Programme was attended by CMO, DPO, medical officers (MO), CHOs, ANMs, GNMs of all health units, block program managers (BPM), block asha coordinator (BAC), DPM, and District Community Mobilizer (DCM).

Va r i o u s P H C s , CHCs, and sub-centers under Longleng district held IDCF programs and distributed ORS and Zinc tablet supplies.

SCBA member interacts with Kohima Bar Association

Senior executive member and senior advocate, Supreme Court, Ranji Thomas with KBA members.

DIMAPUR: Senior Executive Member in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and senior advocate, Ranji Thomas, who is on an unofficial visit to Nagaland, held an interaction programme with members of Kohima Bar Association (KBA) at the courtroom, on Tuesday.

In a press release, KBA informed that while speaking at the programme, Thomas called on the lawyers not only to practice law for personal gain but also do community service.

He said it was the responsibility of the bar to propagate among the

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lawyers not only to take up cases to earn money but also to indulge in community service to contribute to the society.

Thomas, who is also the former advocate general of Arunachal Pradesh, said “we as lawyers are not there to earn money only but also contribute to the

society”.

He suggested that KBA open a separate cell within their office and keep collection of the latest judgements of the Supreme Court for lawyers to hold discussions at least once a week for better understanding of the judgements.

Po i n t i n g o u t t h a t India was a democratic country but democracy was at its lowest level, he on the lawyers to stand together to protect the true secularism of country.

The senior advocate also assured KBA of his support with regard to any case in the apex court and also to approach judges of the SC for workshops and seminars.

Thomas further appealed the KBA to spread legal awareness among the general public.

Earlier, KBA president Khriedi Theünuo welcomed the senior advocate and sought his support in the future endeavours.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

BHST convenes meeting: The alumni of Baptist High School Tening under Liangmai Baptist Association Nagaland has informed that the second alumni committee meeting will be held on June 29, 12 noon, at Baptist High School new campus. The alumni all the alumni members have been requested all concerned to be present in the meeting with constructive ideas to discuss.

Excise Dimapur clarifies: Excise Dimapur has clarified that the vehicle number published on June 27 under the headline “Excise Dmu nab one with 2520 cans of beer” should be read as “NL07A-6335” and not as mentioned. It has expressed regret for the inadvertent error.

CMHSS celebrates: Christina Memorial Higher Secondary School (CMHSS) celebrated its 24th foundation day and 11th higher secondary commencement in a programme held on June 28 at school auditorium. Patron, CMHSS, Mrs Aren thanked and presented awards to faculty members for their untiring work and their service.

Khezhakeno village council hall inaugurated DIMAPUR: Khezhakeno village council hall was inaugurated on June 25, by secretary to the government of Nagaland, Kevekha Kevin Zehol.

According to a DIPR report, Zehol in his speech appreciated the department of Rural Development for funding and completing the much-needed community hall in the village. In his exhortation, PD DRDA, Razukhru D. Vasa acknowledged the timely completion of the work and highlighted various schemes undertaken by the RD department en-

visaging taking up more income-generating activities.

Meanwhile, BDO Pfütsero, Vekhrolo Koza spoke about various developmental activities taken up in the village.

Later, community footstep was inaugurated by chairman village council, Lhouchinyi and registration counter at Chida Resort was inaugurated by Razukhru D. Vasa. The programme was attended by VCCs, head GBs, GBs, VCMs, VDB secretaries of neighbouring villages under Pfütsero, and a host of dignitaries.

acknowledgement

Members of Aghünaqa Area Students’ Union.

DIMAPUR: Aghünaqa Area Students’ Union (AASU) conducted educational tour from June 22 to 27.

In a press release issued by president, AASU, Ikato Khulu, and general secretary, Angukato Awomi, it stated that the team visited all 37 villages under Aghünaqa block with an objective to ascertain the overall development and infrastructure of government schools in each village, to curb out ‘proxy culture’ and to ensure quality education.

In addition, it is also aimed to inspect availability of teaching faculties in every school.

During the tour, AASU

found that many schools had been functioning without adequate faculties and facilities, most infrastructures were either damaged or worn-out and hence expressed dismay and urged state government to look into the matter at the earliest.

President, AASU opined that matters would soon become considerably worse if the state government delayed its response and would subsequently “jeopardize the students’ future”.

Further, the president also stated that a letter of memorandum to concerned department would be written for necessary actions.

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY LT. TAKOZÜNG LONGKUMER

Died : 29.06.2021

A year has passed since you left for eternity, we thank the Lord Almighty for the life you have lived.

You may not be with us anymore, but our love for you will never die, we shall forever cherish your memories in our hearts until we meet again. dp-3113/22

Loving wife, children, grandchildren, great grandson, in-laws & relatives

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY

In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 4:8

mrs. Yanchilo Humtsoe

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IDCF at New Colony Prayer Fellowship, Zunheboto.

AASU expresses dismay over inadequate facilities

NEWS IN BRIEF

(03/01/1950 – 25/06/2022)

We the family members express profound gratitude and appreciation to all individuals, families, friends, neighbours, churches and all well wishers for their many expressions of kindness and sympathy shown to our family at the demise of our beloved on the 25th of June 2022. We pray God Almighty bless you all.

Special thanks to: 1. Wokha Town Baptist Church, Wokha 2. Dr. Zubon Humtsoe, Panacea Nursing Home, Wokha 3. CMC, Vankosung, Wokha.

4. Dr. Aben Murry, MO, PHC Chukitong Loving family members

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Late I. Alemla Ao Lonjang Died on 29th June 2021

A year has passed since you left us, but your love & care is within us. You're always in our hearts and we will treasure your selfless love forever. dp-3112/22

Loving husband, children, daughter-in-law & relatives

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Arrested person along with the seized contraband.

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KITOLI Z. ACHUMI

D.o.B : 7th Dec., 1959 – D.o.D : 21st June, 2022

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord Job 1:21 A very precious gift was taken away from us and we were heart broken. But the love of God and the care and support of our near and dear ones made this experience bearable. Though we are unable to personally mention every individual, through this column we would like to thank our relatives, friends, neighbours, Rev., pastors and members of Thilixu Village Baptist Church, doctors and nurses of Zion Hospital, Principal and staff of CHSS who helped us in the best of their potential and capabilities. May Almighty God bless you all for your good deeds. dp-3114/22

Loving Husband, Zuyishe Achumi Daughters, Son, In-laws and Grandchildren

Born :19/2/1991 Died :13/6/2022 We, the family members would like to express our sincere gratitude for the kindness and support offered to us during the bereavement. We express our gratitude to every individual who stood by us physically, financially, materially and spiritually during the brief illness and sudden demise of Lt. Kedokhrielie Daniel Kuotsu on 13th June, 2022 at Kohima.

We would also like to express our sincere thanks to:1. NCRC P.R. Hill, Kohima 2. Christian Youth Endeavour (CYE)NCRC, P.R. Hill 3. NCRC Faith Home, P.R. Hill, Kohima 4. Naga Mother's Prayer Fellowship Chandmari, Kohima 5. Upper Chandmari Panchayat 6. Upper Chandmari Youth Organization 7. Poterlane Youths 8. Viyiema Youths, Phesama 9. Circle of friends 10. Neighbours and well wishers.

We regret our inability to thank each and every individual, but it is our prayer to our Almighty God that He blesses you in munificence.

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DIMAPUR: Excise Dimapur Narcotic Cell (NC) enforcement duty party on June 27 arrested one Sanjay, s/o Deep, resident of Lahorijan, Assam on charges of possessing 720 cans of contraband beer.

According to deputy commissioner of excise (NC), Katoho Sumi, the duty party led by AIE on routine checking (MVCP) on the highway around Burma Camp area intercepted a three-wheeler goods vehicle bearing registration number NL-07-AA-1559, where 720 cans of contraband beer were found.

Katoho informed that the arrested individual was brought to excise narcotic cell office for further investigation along with the seized contraband and the vehicle.

The seized items were deposited in the office Malkhana and the case is presently under investigation as per relevant provisions of the NLTP Act, 1989, Katoho informed.

Loving Mother, Brother, Sisters and Family Members

24th Sept. 1964 – 24th June 2022

We, the family of LT. LIMASASHI AIER (Longjang), would like to express our deepest appreciation and gratitude for your words of condolence, kindness, prayers, sympathy and financial support shown to us during his brief illness and passing of our beloved husband/father.

Though we cannot thank each and everyone individually we pray that Almighty God bless all of you abundantly. dp-3110/22

Loving Wife, Daughters and Relatives K Y M C

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WEATHER FORECAST JUNE 29

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

32 26

A shower and thunderstorm

27 21

Guwahati Thunderstorms, mainly early

29 26

Aizawl Imphal

A stray thunderstorm

Itanagar A couple of thunderstorms

28 22 26 23

Shillong

Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

22 19

Kohima

A shower and thunderstorm

22 19

Dimapur A couple of thunderstorms

28 24

Couple of thunderstorms

23 20

Tuensang Couple of thunderstorms

18 16

Mkg Wokha

A couple of thunderstorms

Zunheboto Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

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(Extreme left) NEPED chairman, Kevechutso Doulo (Third from left), HPO, HSC Kohima, Rajib Chandra Roy and other officials at the inaugural programme.

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): Chairman, National Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED), Kevechutso Doulo, on June 28 inaugurated Thematic Exhibition at Super Market, Dimapur. Handicraft Promotion Officer (HPO), HSC Kohima, Rajib Chandra Roy, was the guest of honour for the inaugural programme.

Speaking with Nagaland Post after the inau-

gural programme, Doulo informed that altogether 20 stalls were present in the exhibition, of which three from Assam, two from Manipur and 15 from the state, took part in the exhibition.

He maintained that same type of exhibition was held at Kohima recently, adding that there was participation in Dimapur.

He later added that the exhibition was sponsored by office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Ministry

of Textiles, Govt. of India, and implemented by NEPED. Also speaking with member, POU, NEPED, Takum Chang, he stated that the exhibition was organised to provide a platform for artisans to sell their products, which would in turn help sellers to generate income, promote local products, and also allow for creation of buyer-seller network.

He further informed that the exhibition would conclude on July 4.

Alpine Open Scouts & Guides camping concludes

Nino Iralu along with participants and others. (NP)

Correspondent KOHIMA, JUN 28 (NPN): A seven-day long annual summer camp of Alpine Open Scouts & Guides unit which began on June 22, concluded at St. Edmund’s School Kigwema under Kohima district concluded Tuesday.

The closing summer camp was graced by secretary (Judicial), Jus-

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tice and Law, Nino Iralu as special guest and grand camp fire chief.

Narrating that she was also in the scouts & guides, Iralu said the movement taught her many lessons and pushed her to further her career as a lawyer. She said the discipline and lesson they learn should also be reflected in their living and further asked the gathering to have sense of responsibility as scouts, so that

people learnt good lessons from them.

The master of ceremony of the closing ceremony was ranger leader, Sashikala Jamir while vote of thanks was proposed by administrator of Alpine Open Scout and guide unit, Imlisunep Imchen.

Later, special songs and dances were presented by different patrols of the camp.

‘Akezisuo Mu Puopuotsa’ book released Correspondent KOHIMA, JUN 28 (NPN): A book titled “Akezisuo Mu Puopuotsa” authored by ThejangunuoTheünuo, published

by Penthrill publication house was released at Asian Evangelical Bible Seminary, BSF Camp, Kohima on June 28.

The book consists of stories inspired by the author’s father and grandfather and their daily ordinary lives which were an eye opener for her. Through this book, the author wants share their stories and give a glimpse of the old village days and bring it to the world.

In the authors’ note, she acknowledges Penthrill publication house and the people for encouraging and supporting in bringing the nostalgic stories into reality.

The preface of the book is written by Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio while Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu had also given a note on the book.

The author’s father, Neisielie Mepfhü-o also spoke on ‘Living to tell the tale’ wherein, he mentioned the fond memories shared with his father, who told him stories and filled his childhood with colours. He also shared that his father had named himAkezisuo, out of love.

General Secretary, Ura academy, Prof D. Kuolie acknowledged and lauded the

Author, ThejangunuoTheünuo (fourth from the right) at the book release (NP).

author for taking such a step in writing a book in Tenyidie describing that the language was “beautiful and deeply written”.

Professor Kuolie mentioned that we ought to preserve our language, and only through these stories we could preserve our culture and past.

Though Tenyidie was complex, he said that we are yet to fully understand all the intricacies and reminded the gathering that God’s greatest gift to us was our language.

He further remarked that we were taught and studied in English, a foreign language; and how it

had ‘led us away’ from our native roots and therefore advocated on the need to speak Tenyidie– that there was a need to preserve it.

In the publisher’s note, Vishü Rita Krocha, lauded the author for the book and the challenges she encountered and overcame while writing the book.

This was the first book published in Tenyidie under Penthrill Publication, a major milestone.

Krocha mentioned that every language had its unique expression which when translated could not be expressed fully and high-

lighted on the importance to preserve the living languages before they disappeared.

Earlier, programme was chaired by Thepfulhouzo Tsürho, invocation pronounced by CRC Rüsoma pastor, Rev. Khrieo Mezhü. Book dedication was carried out by senior pastor, Cross Wonder Church Kohima, Rev. Ketouzo Theünuo, while vote of thanks was proposed by pastor, CRC Chiephobozou, Pavi Pao. Special numbers were presented

by Vilakhonuo Keditsu and Kikruneinuo Kechü.

NMYO condemns alleged assault on 5 youth in Kohima DIMAPUR: New Market Youth Organisation (NMYO) has expressed “anguish at the barbaric and inhuman act perpetrated on five innocent youth of the colony by a group of ruffians”, at box cutting, near World War II Cemetery Kohima on June 24.

In a press release, NMYO president, Andrew Tepa informed that the incident occurred when six youth from Dairy Farm, Lirie and New Reserve Colony were “sniffing contraband marijuana (Ganja) at the Box cutting and were found to be provoking passers-by.”

NMYO claimed the five New Market youth who were on a regular stroll to the Raj Bhavan area were confronted by the youth who under a substance abuse “trip” began “thrashing them without any rhyme and reason, causing grievous injuries.”

It said some of the public arrived at the scene and rescued the youth and apprehended the perpetrators, who were handed over to the police.

Claiming that three of the accused happened to be juvenile, NMYO questioned the “parenting of the children” and pointed out that of late, Box cutting has become a notorious den where drinks, drug abuse and immoral activities took place.

Pointing out that although the location fell within the parameters of a high security zone, it said in September 2015, “a promising young footballer” was also “beaten to death by nine youth at the same location.”

Further, NMYO urged upon the district administration to install proper lighting in the area and initiate regular police patrolling.

Student bodies hold felicitation programmes

DIMAPUR: Nor ther n Angami Students’ Union (NASU) on June 25 held a felicitation programme for HSLC and HSSLC students at Ura Academy, Kohima.

In a press release, NASU informed that the union acknowledged a total of 16 students—five toppers, seven subject toppers and two award recipients under HSLC category, and five toppers, three subject toppers and one award recipient under HSSLC category.

Guest speaker, director of Economics and Statistics, Neidilhou Angami emphasised on the importance of being “one step ahead of others” by living a God fearing and respectful life.

He urged upon the young students to practice genuine humility in spite of their successes and stay grounded despite all circum-

stances.

Short speeches were also delivered by Northern Angami Women Organisation (NAWO) president, Thinuoheü Loucü, who encouraged students to value and practice speaking their mother tongue – Tenyidie; Northern Angami Public Organisation (NAPO) president, Zeneituo Yano implied that in order to acquire wealth, one must first seek knowledge and that bookish knowledge and wisdom should go hand in hand while Northern Angami Gazetted Officers’ Krotho (NAGOK) challenged students to become job creators and not job seekers.

Earlier, NASU vice president, Atouzo Kerhüo delivered welcome address while pastor Khriezosietuo Kire offered invocation.

Later, NASU assistant general secretary, Pelesielie

Khro proposed vote of thanks.

NKK & NSU: Nerhema Krotho Kohima (NKK) and Nerhema Students’ Union (NSU) on June 24, felicitated three toppers of HSSLC and all 113 successful candidates of HSLC from Nerhezou community at Ura Academy Hall, Kohima.

In a press release, NSU informed that guest speaker, executive engineer (EE), department of Water Resources, Er. Sobou Kerhüo advised students to put God first in everything.

He also challenged the students to come out of their comfort zones, maintain social media hygiene and to focus on their ambitions.

M e a n w h i l e, N S U president, Letuozo Patrick Kiewhuo felicitated the students, Ruokuohenuo Virie (rank 9, arts stream) deliv-

ered a speech on behalf of students while former NPSC chairman, T.S. Angami emphasised on importance of setting goals and being prompt at making sacrifices for achieving our ambitions.

Earlier, welcome address was delivered by NKK president, Rükhievituo Kerhüo, Central CRC Kohima youth director, Thepfulhouzo Tsürho and senior pastor Koinonia Baptist Church, Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo offered invocation and thanksgivings prayer for the successful candidates respectively.

RSUC: The newly formed Rongmei Student’s Union, Chümoukedima (RSUC) held its first felicitation programme for successful candidates of the HSLC & HSSLC. In a press release, RSUC informed that during the programme, Alin Kamei urged the students to have a

3 Corps remember Lt. Capt. N Kenguruse

Major General Vikas Lakhera laying wreath at War Memorial.

DIMAPUR: Commemo- ceremony at War Memorial rating the Memorial Day of late Capt. N Kenguruse at of late Capt. N Kenguruse, Phezha village on June 28. the Spear Corps organised a At the programme, K Y M C

wreaths were laid by Neiselie Kenguruse, father of the late captain, Major General Vikas Lakhera, Sena Medal, Inspector General Assam Rifles (North) and other senior officers. A eulogy was also read out by an officer of the Assam Rifles, followed by prayer and hymns by the community.

To mark the event, a tree plantation drive was also organised where saplings were planted by the family members and army officers. School children were also invited to the programme, which culminated with felicitation of Kenguruse family.

dream on what to do in life and to be determined in the midst of difficulties.

Meanwhile, guest of honour, Rongmei Council Chümoukedima, Meilungrei Emmanuel Panmei said at times, life will offer lucrative jobs in between, however, he advised the students to complete their education first and then venture out with an aim.

The successful students were presented with certificates and memento.

Earlier, invocation was offered by former Catechist, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Diphupar, K Kalan, welcome note by general secretary Elizabeth Dangmei while students from Diphupar presented a traditional Rongmei song.

Later, vote of thanks was proposed by education & statistics secretary, Gaidinlung Dangmei.

SJC conducts orientation prog for 1st sem students DIMAPUR: St. John College (SJC) conducted a twoday orientation programme for students of first semester on June 23 and 24.

In a press release, SJC informed that during the two-day orientation programme, students were familiarised on core courses and were introduced to the newly implemented CBCS course.

In a PowerPoint presentation, students were oriented on syllabus design, the shift from school learn-

ing to college learning, and were also acquainted on various committees, clubs, and departmental activities.

Meanwhile, the second day, a brief lecture on importance of discipline, expected roles as a student, and the mentor/ mentee programme was conducted.

Later, students were taken on a campus visitation after which, each batch sat through a brief library orientation at the college library.

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flood situation improves, Cremation a problem in flooded Silchar Three more dead, two missing Assam most rivers show receding trend in flood-hit Arunachal Pradesh

Banderdewa areas -- causing extensive damage to homes, roads and office buildings, the DDMO noted.

The approach road to under-construction Donyi Polo Greenfield Airport at Hollongi lay submerged in flood waters, he said.

Most of rivers, rivulets and streams in the state capital are in spate, with threats looming over human settlements and thoroughfares.

The administration has asked people living in flood-prone areas to move to safety. All schools in the state capital have been asked to suspend classes for three days from June 29 until further orders, the DDMO added.

CT Ravi hits out at Cong’s opposition to Agneepath

Correspondent

IMPHAL, JUN 28: BJP national general secretary CT Ravi on Tuesday accused the Congress of making an issue out of a non-issue over the Agneepath scheme.

Addressing a press conference at BJP Manipur Pradesh office in Imphal today, Ravi alleged that it was the second nature of the Congress to oppose whatever BJP does.

The general secretary said that the opposition was doing politics on national security sidelining the national interest.

He asserted that the BJP government at the Centre under leadership of Narendra Modi was walking on the path of reform, performance and transformation.

The Union government unveiled the Agneepath scheme under which youth aged 17 and a half and 23 will be recruited in the Army, Navy and Air Force on contractual basis for four years. Ravi said “The

BJP national general secretary CT Ravi addressing media in Imphal on Tuesday.

Agneepath scheme will lead the country on the path of progress. The scheme will transform the country.”

“It is very unfortunate that the Congress is trying to politicize the Agneepath scheme keeping behind the interest of the nation,” he said. He claimed that youths across the country welcomed the new initiative of the Central government while terming it as a promising scheme. However, some people with vested interest, including the Congress, were trying to destabilize the country by spreading

Tripura CM likely to take oath as MLA after prez poll, says Speaker

Tripura CM Manik Saha celebrating his by-poll victory.

AGARTALA, JUN 28 (PTI): Three newly-elected MLAs of Tripura took oath on Tuesday, but Chief Minister Manik Saha who also won the June 23 byelection to become a legislator was not sworn in by the speaker.

Congress’s Sudip Roy Barman, who won the Agartala seat, and BJP’s M a i l n a D a s ( Ju b a r a jnagar) and Swapna Das (Surma) were swron in as MLAs by Speaker Ratan Chakraborty at the assembly’s lobby.

Though the chief minister, who won the bypoll from Town Bardowali, was present at the programme, he did not take the oath.

“Since Chief Minister Manik Saha is also a Rajya Sabha member, he has to leave one post. Once he decides, he will take the oath.

I don’t think Saha will quit

as an MLA because he has been made the chief minister,” the speaker told reporters.

He said the presidential election is slated to be held on July 18.

“It appears that the chief minister is likely to take oath after the presidential elections. The decision will be taken by the BJP high command,” the speaker said.

Saha, a Rajya Sabha member, was sworn as the chief minister of Tripura after Biplab Kumar Deb abruptly resigned on May 14. After being appointed chief minister, Saha has six months’ time to become a member of the assembly, as per the rules.

M e a n w h i l e, t h e CPI(M)-led Left Front boycotted the programme, alleging widespread post-poll violence.

false propaganda against the scheme. They raised objections without digesting the details of the scheme, he alleged. He claimed that Congress is a party which was not popular among the people across the country.

The results of the recently concluded elections to the Manipur Legislative Assembly in which people gave their mandate to the BJP was a clear example.

The results showed that the people of Manipur were fed up with the Congress and its ideology,he claimed .

He accused the Con-

gress of trying to build its lost image by giving obstacles to the developmental activities of the BJP-led government both in the state and the Centre.

The national general secretary claimed that the people of the state have faith with the BJP’s “double engines” government as it gave a new ray of hope and progress. They knew that BJP showed what it promised with works, unlike the lip service that Congress has been indulging for decades.

BJP always committed to leading the nation to a new era of progress and people knew it as the country witnessed a remarkable change in all sectors since the BJP came to power in the country eight years ago.

The government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was committed to the ideals of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayaas” to build a new India, the general secretary claimed.

IN THE COURT OF

PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

NOTICE

S/C No. 352/2022

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Dhan Bahadur Chetri has been applied by Smti Dil Maya Chetri, W/o Late Dhan Bahadur Chetri, R/o H/No 7 (A) Ward-9, New Colony, Chumukedima, Dimapur, Nagaland for possession of : 1. PPO No. Pen/Com-12941/NL/V/15261 2. Nagaland State Co-operative Bank A/C. No. 101610006000390 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the pension benefits/estates of the said deceased may if she/he so desire to appear in this court on or before within a period of 30 days from the date of publication.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this the 21st June, 2022. dp-3119/22

PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE DIMAPUR :: NAGALAND

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL JUDGE FAMILY COURT DIMAPUR : NAGALAND SUMMON FOR SETTLEMENT OF ISSUE (ORDER - V, RULE- 1, 5, 20)

CASE NO. : Divorce 26/2022 PETITIONER : Smti. Simpi Mazumdar RESPONDENT : Shri. Bappa Nath To, Shri. Bappa Nath R/o. Rangapahar Crossing Dimapur, Nagaland Whereas the above named petitioner has instituted a case against you for U/S 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955.

You are hereby summoned to appear before the Court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the case on 12/07/2022 at 10:30 AM without fail.

Take notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned the case will be heard and determined in your absence.

Given under my hand and the seal of this Court, this 28th Day of June 2022. dp-3124/22

PRINCIPAL JUDGE

Heroin worth over Rs 1 crore seized on Assam train DIPHU, JUN 28 (PTI): Heroin worth over Rs 1 crore was seized from a woman travelling on a train in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday, police said.

During routine checking on the Lumding-Tinsukia passenger train near Bokajan area, the railway police found 232 grams of heroin, hidden in 20 soap boxes, in the possession of the woman, they said. The woman, who was travelling in the compartment for disabled persons, was arrested. She is a resident of a tea garden area in Tinsukia, they added. A case has been registered and an investigation is underway, police said.

Silchar town. A photograph of a bier held high by a few men wading in neck deep in the flood water in Silchar town went viral on social media recently. A woman’s body was found floating in the town late last week by local volunteers with a letter attached to it purportedly by her son appealing to anyone who finds it to perform the last rites.

The letter said the son, who is a resident of Rangirkhari area, was unable to take his mother’s body to the crematorium due to the flood and that he did not have the required manpower for it. The task of incremating the body was completed by the volunteers.

The caretaker of the town’s main crematorium, Dilip Chakraborty said that the entire area was flooded and he himself had to move to a safer place. ‘’It is not possible to cremate a body as the en-

Arunachal inks pact with Ruchi Soya for oil palm processing unit

ITANAGAR, JUN 28 (PTI): The Ar unachal Pradesh government on Tuesday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ruchi Soya Industries, for setting up of oil palm manufacturing and processing unit at Niglok Industrial Growth Centre in East Siang district.

The MoU was signed between Ar unachal Pradesh Industrial Development Finance Corporations Limited (APIDFCL), MD Hage Tari and Subhas Bhattacharjee (Head North East region) of Ruchi Soya Industries, official sources said. With the signing of the MoU, farmers and

Khandu had a series of meetings through the day with various stakeholders. other entrepreneurs would be benefitted as large number of unused land in the state could be utilized for plantations of oil palm in large scale which would a ready raw material feeder for oil palm manufacturing units.

KOhIMA LIRMEN SENSO TELONGJEM KOhIMA : NAGALAND

REGD.NO.RS.1500 DT.01/03/1992

INFORMATION It is to notify to all the bonafide citizens of Lirmen village (A, B & C) residing in Kohima who have not registered their membership till date, to register in the union office on or before 30th July, 2022. Further, it is informed that any citizen of Lirmen village (A, B & C) visiting and staying at Kohima for more than 1(one) month to report to the union office about his/her reason of stay in Kohima.

Failure to adhere to this order by any citizen, the union shall not take any responsibility to any untoward incident that may occur to him/her in near future as the union shall not acknowledge the identity of such person as a bonafide member of the Union under any circumstances.

Sd/- (President)

Sd/- (General Secretary)

I, Shri. N. Thungdemo Kikon, S/o Lt. Nphyo Kikon of Bhandari Village, President NPF Farmers Wing under 40 Assembly Constituency, in exercise of the Constitution and my Legal Rights to belong to a political party of my choice and guided by Law hereby resign from primary and active membership of the NPF Political Party.

Now, I have decided to join the BJP Party under the able and dynamic leadership of Shri. Mhonlumo Kikon, MLA of 40 Assembly Constituency, Wokha, Nagaland.

Dated : 28/06/2022 Place : Bhandari Village.

Felicitation

DIMAPUR :: NAGALAND Guardianship Petition No. 10/2022

NOTICE (Sec 10 of Guardianship & Ward Act.)

Whereas an application under the Guardianship & Ward Act has been filed by Smti. Kikwetle for appointment of Guardian in respect of minor(s) Master Kuriabe Meru before this Court and whereas the 28th day of July 2022 has been fixed for the hearing on the matter.

NOTICE is hereby given inviting objection if any from the person having interest in the above named minor(s) to be furnished on or before the fixed date/or appear in person.

Given under my hand and seal of the Court on this 28th days of June 2022.

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Felicitation

toika Yeptho Gen. Secy

(N. Thungdemo Kikon) Bhandari Village

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PEDEKRO-U CHIECHAMA

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL JUDGE FAMILY COURT

The thokihimi kiphimi kuqhakulu (tkk) with immense pride and honour extend our heartiest congratulations to er. l. Vihoto Yeptho on his promotion to the post of SDO (E), Power Dept., Govt. of Nagaland.

The Union further wishes and prays that Almighty God continues to grant him more wisdom and guide him in all his future endeavours.

APIDFCL, a state government undertaking was established in August 9, 1978 under the Companies Act 1956. A total of 51.07 per cent equity share is held by the APIDFCL and 48.93 per cent by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

RESIGNATION FROM NPF PARTY

OFFIcE OF ThE

Vikugha Yeptho President

tire ground is flooded. It is impossible to set up a pyre’’, he said. The locals have alleged that the administration and elected representatives have failed to address the problems being faced by the marooned people.

Members of several non governmental organisations and individuals have come forward to help the ailing, the senior citizens and also in carrying the dead for cremation in view of the deluge. Silchar’s well known surgeon Kumar Kanti Das has provided a dry space for cremation adjacent to his hospital, Sundary Mohan Seva Bhawan at Banglaghat, which is around six km from here. The space provided for the purpose has a pond adjacent to it in which people can bathe and wash after the rituals, said Rupak Chakraborty, the general secretary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Seva Sangstha, an NGO.

Through this column, we the Pedkro-u Chiechama with immense pride, extend our congratulations to three of our group members on their promotion.

1. Shri khrieSeZolie kire, S/o Kravi Kire to Joint Director Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Nagaland.

2. er. Zhapulhoulie rÜpreo, S/o Zhadiu Rüpreo to Principal Directorate of Technical Education, Govt. of Nagaland.

3. er. theruoVilie rÜpreo, S/o Kevisilie Rüpreo to SDE Telecom Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL)NE-II Nagaland.

May Almighty God bestow wisdom and good health upon them to shoulder their new responsibilities effectively for the people and Nagas in general.

We wish them the very best in their future endeavours.

(KENEINGUSA RÜPREO) Pedekro-u Chiechama

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OFFIcE OF ThE

ALL NchANGRAM STUDENTS’ UNION cONGRATULATORY NOTE With immense pride and honour, the office of All Nchangram Students’ Union extends our heartiest congratulations to Miss Kungkam Newmai & Mr. Pauchunlungbo Nchang for bringing laurels to the community.

1. Miss Kungkam Newmai, D/o Shri. Hukangni Newmai for securing Top 18th Rank with 95.67% in HSLC Examinations 2022.

2. Mr. Pauchunlungbo Nchang, S/o Shri. Dikheng Nchang who won a Gold Medal in AMATEUR FIGHT and Championship title in professional fight (Muay Thai Championship).

Further, the Union jubilantly celebrates their outstanding success and wishes the best of luck for their future endeavours.

Sd/Kibouwi Zeliang President, ANSU

Sd/Dithu Newmai Gen. Secy, ANSU

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One of the four was rescued while two others were still missing, an official said. The body of the fourth person was retrieved by a disaster response team.

NDRF and SDRF are carrying out search operations for the missing duo, the official explained.

At Kokila village in the Papum Pare, 10 people came under a landslide, of which one died and nine “miraculously escaped”, he said.

The toll due to landslides and flood since April has risen to 15, Sonam stated.

Fresh Landslides have been reported from various parts of the Capital Complex – comprising Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and

Picture of an area surrounded by flood. Families of deceased said that it was difficult to find dry places.

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ITANAGAR, JUN 28 (PTI): Three more persons died in flood-hit Arunachal Pradesh, parts of which are still bearing the brunt of last week’s heavy rainfall that triggered landslides and submerged low-lying areas.

A 36-year-old woman, Sangio Yapa, died and three others suffered injuries in a landslide that buried their home at Takar Colony in Naharlagun, District Disaster Management Officer (DDMO) Moromi Sonam said.

In Papum Pare, one of the worst-affected districts, four persons were swept away by the swelling Hollongi River at Huto Village on Tuesday.

with the affected people and assured all possible assistance to them.

Silchar remained under water for more than a week, with efforts underway to airdrop essential Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli said the ASDMA has initiated drone survey in Silchar for damage assessment of areas such as Dudh Patil, Chamra Gudam, Silchar Railway station and other places.

She said the district administration along with Silchar Municipal Board and others are working to clean up the city’s garbage, but people are dumping filth on the streets after cleaning their houses and shops.

Jalli requested people to refrain from throwing garbage on streets that have been cleaned to avoid spread of diseases. Medical personnel have been deployed in 28 wards of the town.

Water packets and water purifying tablets have been distributed among the affected people and temporary toilets set up in two relief camps.

Meanwhile, work is underway to repair damaged portions of the dyke at Bethukandi that led to the flooding in the town.

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Photos of recent landslides in Arunachal. Photo courtesy: Arunachal24.

GUWAHATI, JUN 28 (PTI): The overall flood situation in Assam showed signs of improvement on Tuesday with most of the rivers showing a receding trend even though 21 lakh people remained affected by the deluge and most localities of Silchar town in Cachar district still under water for more than a week, officials said.

The death toll due to this year’s floods have increased to 134 with five more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, while one person was missing, as per a bulletin issued by Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).

Most of the rivers were showing a receding trend, except for Kopili and Barak, which were flowing above the danger level in Nagaon and Barak Valley respectively.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited an embankment breach spot at Kuwara in Bajali district to take stock of the flood situation.

“Visited Kuwara at Patacharkuchi, Bajali to understand the current flood situation and damage caused by overflowing of Kaldia river along with my Cabinet colleague Shri @RanjeetkrDass,” Sarma tweeted. He also interacted

SILCHAR/HAILAKANDI (ASSAM), JUNE 28 (PTI): The bustling Silchar town in Assam is reeling under the worst floods in its memory for over a week and its citizens are faced with the problem of cremating the dead as the grounds meant for it are inundated.

Families who have lost their members during the flood are also unable to take the bodies to the crematoria because of the high flood waters and the Cachar district administration is also unable to reach them.

The unprecedented waterlogging in the Barak valley town is due to a breach in a dyke at Betkundi on June 19 allegedly by miscreants.

Nearly three lakh people in the town are are affected, an official said. Instances of families unable to cremate the dead in the town are aplenty.

Niren Das, a resident of Chutrasangan village near Silchar, had died on June 24 but the floods prevented his cremation for nearly two days. It was only when a samaritan Ramendra Das, a college teacher, came to the aid and set out in a boat with the body accompanied by a few members of the bereaved family that the last rites could be performed. Das had to row about 15 km through flood waters till he found a dry place at Baburbazar outside

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Fadnavis meets Shah, Nadda on next Return and talk to me: Uddhav to rebel MLAs course of action over Shiv Sena rebels

MUMBAI/GUWAHATI, JUN 28 (PTI/IANS): Striking a re-conciliatory note a day after divesting the portfolios of all nine rebel Shiv Sena ministers and against the backdrop of the Supreme Court granting relief to breakaway MLAs, party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday appealed to the dissidents camping in Guwahati to return to Mumbai and talk to him, saying it’s not “too late”.

Thackeray’s offer to mend fences comes against the backdrop of controversial statements made by some Shiv Sena leaders, especially Sanjay Raut whose “40 bodies without soul” statement had caused a flutter.

“It is not too late. I appeal to you to return and sit with me and remove the confusion (created by your actions) among Shiv Sainiks and the public,” a statement

by Thackeray’s aide quoted him as saying.

“If you return and face

Uddhav Thackeray

me, some way could be found. As the party president and family head, I still care for you,” he said.

Interestingly, rebel group leader Eknath Shinde daring the party to disclose the names of some of the MLAs camping in Guwahati reportedly in touch with the party leadership.

In a setback to the MVA government, the Supreme Court on Monday kept in abeyance the disqualification proceedings of 16 of the dissident MLAs before the Maharashtra Assembly Deputy Speaker till

July 11. Also, it refused to pass any interim order on the state government’s plea that there should not be any floor test in the Assembly.

Over the last eight days since Shinde raised the banner of revolt, the ranks of the dissidents swelled gradually with more Sena MLAs and even ministers crossing over to the rebel camp.

The rebellion has rocked the Shiv Sena and threatened the survival of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government comprising Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress.

Thackeray said family members of some rebel MLAs in Guwahati are in touch with him and the party and have conveyed the legislators’ feelings to him.

“You have been stuck in Guwahati for the last few days. New information is coming out about you every day, and many of you are also in touch. In your heart, you are still with the Shiv Sena,” he said.

Amid the growing rancour between the Uddhav Thackeray faction and the Shinde camp, Shivsainiks loyal to the Thackerays staged protests and even damaged the office of a dissident MLA. The dissident camp had disapproved the remarks such as “40 bodies without a soul” made by Raut.

The Shiv Sena has claimed that at least 20 MLAs from the rebel camp are in touch with the party.

The Sena chief also said the honour bestowed to the rebel legislators by Shiv Sena cannot be accorded by anyone else and urged them to come forward and speak to him.

As the rebellion saga unfolded, Thackeray had last week made an emotional appeal saying he was ready to step down if Shinde and MLAs who are supporting him declared that they don’t want him to continue as CM.

I’ll be in Mumbai soon; 50 MLAs are with us: Shinde

Rebel Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde said on Tuesday that he will be in Mumbai soon, adding that he is accompanied by 50 MLAs who have come on their own. Speaking to mediapersons outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Guwahati, Shinde said, “We are with the Sena and I’ll be in Mumbai soon.”

He added, “50 MLAs are here on their own. No MLA is suppressed here, and everyone is happy. The MLAs are with us at the Guwahati hotel.” He also said that if Sena in Mumbai claims that it is in touch with MLAs in Guwahati, it should reveal their names too. “We are in Sena and will take the party ahead. We are taking forward Balasaheb Thackeray’s Hindutva and there should be no doubt about this,” he said.

Devendra Fadnavis leaves after meeting JP Nadda amid the political crisis in Maharashtra, Tuesday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (PTI): Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis met Union minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda here on Tuesday to discuss the party’s next course of action amid the spiralling political crisis in the state threatening the 3-party MVA government’s existence.

Fadnavis was joined

by BJP MP and senior lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani in the meeting with the home

minister, sources said. They are believed to have explored various options available for the party and deliberated on their legal feasibility as the BJP works to recapture power in Maharashtra with the help of rebel Sena MLAs and several independent lawmakers. After meeting Shah, Fadnavis drove to Nadda’s residence and briefed him about the unfolding political developments in the western state.

Earlier in the day, he ar-

rived in the national capital to discuss the issue with the party’s top brass. Around 39 rebel Sena MLAs and at least 10 independent legislators from the state have lodged themselves at a five star hotel in Assam in their bid to bring down the CM Uddhav Thackeray-led government.

The BJP has denied any role in the rebellion but Fadnavis is being seen to be playing a key role in working out a post-MVA dispensation which he may head with support from the Sena rebels.

BJP sources have maintained that any concrete outline of the next government has not been worked out but added that Eknath Shinde and other key members of the group will be suitably accommodated in case their party comes to power.

Shinde may be made deputy chief minister in such an eventuality.

Opposition, media bodies condemn Zubair’s arrest; BJP points to ‘chequered past’ NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (PTI): The Opposition and media bodies on Tuesday condemned the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and demanded his immediate release, even as the BJP said he had a “chequered past” and posted tweets which hurt religious feelings of a large section of the Hindu society.

A group of activists also said it was “absolute hypocrisy” of the government that his arrest came on a day India committed at the G7 Summit to defend democratic principles and protect the freedom of expression.

The fact-checking website’s co-founder was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Monday on charges of promoting enmity between dif-

ferent groups on grounds of religion and deliberate acts to outrage religious feeling of the Indian Penal Code.

A Delhi cour t on Tuesday extended by four days the custodial interrogation of Zubair in a case related to an “objectionable tweet” he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity.

The Editors Guild of India and the Press Club of India described the arrest of Zubair on charges of hurting religious sentiments as “extremely disturbing” and demanded his immediate release. Both the media bodies pointed out that the action against Zubair came on a day when India joined G7 and four other countries to protect free speech, “online and offline”. The Mumbai Press Club also condemned the arrest of Zubair.

Sachin Pilot ignores Gehlot taunt

TONK (RAJASTHAN), JUNE 28 (ANI): Rajasthan Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Monday hit out at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over his remarks on his rebellion of 2020 that had brought the state government on the verge of collapse.

This came after CM Gehlot on Saturday alleged that Sachin Pilot was in connivance with BJP in 2020 to topple the Congress government in Rajasthan.

The Chief Minister said that Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat was “hand-in-glove” with Sachin Pilot during the revolt by Congress MLAs against his government two years ago.

However, Sachin Pilot took no offence to his statement and said that he was called ‘Nakara’, and ‘Nikamma’ earlier too.

“Earlier also, CM Ashok Gehlot had said many things about me like ‘Nakara’, ‘Nikamma’. I don’t take his statements otherwise as he is experienced, senior and a father figure… Right now, my focus is to bring back our govt in the state,” the Congress leader told media persons.

He further added, “A few days back, at an event in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi had praised my patience level. If a leader like Rahul Gandhi is appreciating my patience level then I think no one should unnecessarily get disturbed by his statement and take it in the right spirit.”

Sachin Pilot was a contender for the Chief Minister’s post after Congress’ victory in the 2018 assembly polls. But he was persuaded

by Rahul Gandhi to become Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan. His political differences with Gehlot started since, which Pilot played down in the state.

Muhammad Zubair being taken to the Patiala House Courts, following his arrest by special cell of Delhi Police. (PTI)

Criticising the arrests, All India Progressive Women’s Association member Kavita Krishnan alleged it was “absolute hypocrisy” of the prime minister to “use the Constitution of India as window dressing” while he is acting in revenge against activists and journalists who is holding his

party accountable.

Aakar Patel, chair of board for Amnesty International India, said the Indian authorities are targeting Zubair for his crucial work to combat the rise in fake news and disinformation and call out the discrimination against minorities.

To questions about

Zubair’s arrest and opposition leaders’ protest against it, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said one cannot become a factchecker only by proclaiming himself to be one. He has a chequered past and has posted tweets which have hurt religious feelings of a large section of Hindu society, Bhatia said.

Criticising Zubair, Bhatia said if somebody is doing fact-check, then he cannot be selective. If he posts content which suits some political party or a community, then he is not objective, Bhatia claimed.

The Opposition condemned Zubair’s arrest and hit out at the ruling BJP for it.

The Congress said the “coward” government is sending out a message to those who expose its “fake

news”.

Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said without getting into the legalities, the big message by the BJP-led Centre is that the perpetrators of hate speeches would get political patronage and will be out either on bail or otherwise, and people who report that will be behind bars.

She said those spreading hate are becoming leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while those speaking out against their hate are being put behind bars.

Left parties also hit out at the government over Zubair’s arrest, asking it how those who spread hate are free, and someone who exposes them is behind bars. The parties demanded his immediate release.

West Bengal Chief

Minister Mamata Banerjee also lashed out at the Centre over the arrests of Zubair and social activist Teesta Setalvad for “trying to expose the truth” and wondered how those who spread hatred among communities are roaming free.

Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulemae-Hind on Tuesday termed as “discriminatory” the arrest of the Alt News co-founder and demanded that the government take “fair action” in the matter respecting the country’s reputation at the international level.

Jamiat president Maulana Mahmood Madani also wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, saying “the discriminatory nature” of the functioning of law enforcement agencies is condemnable.

Zubair was produced before court on the expiry of his one-day custodial interrogation. The police told the court that the accused did not cooperate with the investigating agency and that custodial interrogation was required to gather information regarding the device from which the tweet was made by the accused.

Corrigendum

Reference to the ‘Nagaland State co-operative Bank Ltd. Balance Sheet’ published on 28th June 2022 in Nagaland Post, in the heading row on page 5, the date of previous year should be read as 31-03-2021 and current year should be read as 31-03-2022 and not as published. The inconvenience caused is highly regretted.

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directorate of ScHool edUcation KoHima : naGaland

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Kohima, the, 27th June 2022

notification In partial modification of this Department’s advertisement of even number dated 16/03/2022 read with corrigendum of even number dated 04/04/2022 & 30/05/2022 and advertisement of even number dated 30/05/2022 in regards to the recruitment of Graduate Teacher (Maths/Science/Hindi), it is hereby notified for the information of all concerned that those candidates who have appeared for the final Semester B.Ed examination may also apply for the posts on production of B.ed final Semester examination admit card on or before 06/07/2022. However, they should submit copies of B.ed final Pass mark Sheets indicating cGPa/class/division on or before 19/07/2022 (4:00 Pm) at the Directorate of School Education, Kohima, Nagaland failing which they will not be allowed to appear for the Written Examination.

Eligible candidates may submit applications in the prescribed format at Room No. 411 at the Directorate of School Education, Kohima, Nagaland along with copies of all necessary documents on or before 06/07/2022.

The aforesaid provisions are also applicable to those candidates whose names have been included in the list of rejected candidates as they are currently pursuing the B.Ed course.

The Written Examination will be conducted on 22/07/2022 from 9 am to 12 noon at ruzhukhrie Government Higher Secondary School, Kohima, nagaland.

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Dated Kohima the 20th June 2022

cold chain equipment condemnation verification report

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(A Central University Established by an Act No. 35 of Parliament 1989) School of Agricultural Science & Rural Development Medziphema Campus – 797106 (Nagaland)

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Interested qualified candidates are invited for a walk-interview for the under mentioned post funded by IcAR-All India coordinated Research Project on Pig, to be conducted on 08.07.2022 at 11:00 am, in the department of Livestock Management and Production, NU, SASRd, Medziphema, campus. candidates are required to bring with them the documents supporting their educational qualification and experiences in original with one set photocopies of the same to be retained by the institution. sl.

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The department of Health & Family Welfare (Cold Chain wing) is hereby disposing of the following Cold Chain Equipment as scrap item Sl. no name of equipment Quantity 1 Iced Lined Refrigerator (Large) 4 Nos 2 Iced Lined Refrigerator (Small) 3 Nos 3 Deep Freezer (Large) 2 Nos 4 Godrej Iced Lined Refrigerator (Large) 1 No 5 Godrej Iced Lined Refrigerator (small) 1 No 6 Solar Combo Iced Lined Refrigerator 8 Nos 7 Gel Ice Pack 4500 Nos (not to be used as per GoI) 8 Vaccine carrier 1759 ( Body damage/ over 5yrs old) 9 Stabilizer 20 Nos (repairable) 10 Cold box 1 No ( body damage) Any interested parties/group/person willing to purchase the said item may visit the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare (Cold Chain Wing) during office hour on 6th July 2022 at 12:00 noon to bid for the same. The highest bidder will be finalized by the department. For any query contact State Immunization Officer @ mobile no: 9436009512. dr. ritu thurr State Immunization Officer Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Kohima : Nagaland dc-579/22

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VOL. XXXII NO. 203 DIMAPUR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2022

Drugs destroying NE youth

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hat the Kohima-Dimapur stretch of the NH 29 is among the major route used for trafficking drugs and other psychotropic substances from Moreh and Manipur to other parts of India is not a new discovery. Most of the drugs in northeast excluding Sikkim, come from Bangladesh and Myanmar. Drugs including opium, heroin, methamphetamine and many more are smuggled from Myanmar into the northeast. Moreh (Manipur), Champai (Mizoram), Dimapur (Nagaland), and Guwahati (Assam) have become the nucleus of drug trafficking industry in India’s northeast. Chemicals called precursors or essential chemicals are smuggled out of India from India and drugs such as heroin , amphetamine and other combinations etc. Chemicals from India help make heroin in Myanmar, which in turn has devastated India’s northeast with the help of venal druglords, politicians, insurgent outfits and even some elements of the armed forces. Drugs produced in the notorious ‘Golden Triangle’ enter India through Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland from Bhamo, Lashio, and Mandalay in Myanmar.

Also, drugs illicitly manufactured in India and used for refining heroin travel through the same route for trade. The trafficking route bifurcates; one channel moves northwards through Moreh in Manipur while other moves southwards to enter Champai in Mizoram. The other route through which illicit drugs and opiates are smuggled into India is through Mizoram originating at Champhai is very well connected to cities in Myanmar that include Tiddim and Mandalay. Almost 80 per cent of the world’s production of opiates originate from the “Golden Crescent” and the “Golden Triangle” area, now called “Golden Pentagon” with the induction of Vietnam-Cambodia and Nagaland-Manipur in Northeast India. Several countries of South Asia are strategically located on the heroin trafficking routes - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka. Nearly seven per cent of the population in Mizoram, consume opioids, followed

by Nagaland (6.5 per cent), Arunachal Pradesh (5.7 per cent) and Sikkim (5.1 per cent), according to the AIIMS report. Opioids are a broad group of painrelieving drugs supposed to be used under strict medical supervision. Unchecked use of opiods has serious health implications. Drug seizures by police at Dimapur and mostly at nearby Karbi Anglong indicate that trafficking is going on at a huge scale unimaginable till a few years back. Most shocking is the revelation and as published in this newspaper, that teen aged school children and minors as young as 10 are using drugs. This only exposes how dangerous the situation has become. The magnitude of the quantity of drugs especially heroin, prove that the north east region is a major transit zone of trafficking of various illicit drugs and heroin. According to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) during January 2019 the total quantity of heroin seized along the Moreh, Dimapur and Khatkhati route was around 700 grams or worth around Rs.3.5 crore. During January 2022 the total quantity of heroin seized on the same route was nearly 3 kgs and worth around Rs.15 crore. The seizures in 2021 were notable as quantities were huge. From July to October 2021, a total of approximately 20 kgs of heroin was seized by police mostly in Karbi Anglong and a few from Dimapur. The drug trade in proliferating which has devastated states in the north east. The situation calls for declaration of total war on illicit drugs and psychotropic substances if the future generation is to be saved.

DailyDevotion Held by the Grip of God

I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

—Philippians 3:12

Never choose to be a worker for God, but once God has placed His call on you, woe be to you if you “turn aside to the right hand or to the left” (Deuteronomy 5:32). We are not here to work for God because we have chosen to do so, but because God has “laid hold of” us. And once He has done so, we never have this thought, “Well, I’m really not suited for this.” What you are to preach is also determined by God, not by your own natural leanings or desires. Keep your soul steadfastly related to God, and remember that you are called not simply to convey your testimony but also to preach the gospel. Every Christian must testify to the truth of God, but when it comes to the call to preach, there must be the agonizing grip of God’s hand on you— your life is in the grip of God for that very purpose. How many of us are held like that?

Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are— you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do…I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13-14).

Quotes

The home is the chief school of human virtues. ~ William Ellery Channing

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2022

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oe v Wade, the most gruesome SCOTUS ruling in modern-day America which had guaranteed constitutional protection to terminate an unborn lives from the mother’s womb as a result of which an estimated 60 million unborn lives had already been denied the right to life since the ruling in 1973, is now finally overruled. With some of America’s most powerful political institutions including the Washington establishment, Mainstream Media and Liberal forces in full throttle to secure Roe v Wade, nobody in our generation would ever dream of seeing the overruling of Roe v Wade in our lifetime.

But thanks to President Donald Trump who had completely overhauled the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) by appointing three Conservative Pro-Life Justices during his eventful four years presidency, the three Trump’s appointees brave conservative Justices joined by three more legendary Conservative Justices overcome all odds and delivered a 6-3 verdict on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case on June 24, 2022,

Goodbye Roe, life has won! to throw Roe v Wade into a dustbin of history, and thus ensuring that Conservative and evangelical Christians, belonging to both Catholics and Protestants, are finally rewarded for championing the cause for Right to Life for the last five decades and for overwhelmingly voting for President Donald Trump in 2016. In effect, President Donald Trump remains the most consequential US President in modern history and the 2016 US Presidential Election became the most consequential election in the modern history of America.

It was on January 22, 1973, the then Liberal majority SCOTUS delivered a 7-2 ruling in favour of Roe, a pseudonym of the plaintiff Norma McCorvey, to “provides a fundamental right to privacy that protects a pregnant woman’s liberty...” with the then two Conservative Justices William Rehnquist and Byron White on the historic side of dissent.

Dissenting the Roe v Wade ruling Rehnquist, who went on to become Chief Justice of the SCOTUS, had stated: “While a party may vindicate his own constitutional rights, he may

not seek vindication for the rights of others.” While the majority of the bench in the SCOTUS in 1973 may have favoured the constitutional protection for the right to abortion, the conscience of the nation remains with the dissenting words/voice of Rehnquist reminding the world that the right to abortion denies the right to life of the unborn. Roe v Wade did not end the movement for the Right to Life and the issue remain within the political and public discourse in America and the world.

Roe v Wade was founded on two fundamental constitutional flaws. One, the imposing of federal restrictions on the question of what is legal had undermined the autonomy and power of the states and the spirit of the federation.

The debate as of now is not whether abortion should or not be made legal (Hope the SCOTUS will debate on this in near future) but whether Constitution confers the right to abortion. Second, the ruling deprived the Right to Life as enshrined in the fourteenth amendment of the Bill of Rights which guarantees to person the right to life and

liberty. This person’s right to life is extended to the life of the unborn in the mother’s womb. Roe v Wade was not a controversial ruling that polarized the minds of the American people and the world; rather it was a catastrophic ruling that had cost more than 60 million unborn lives in the last 49 years.

And if overturning of Roe is a cause of celebration as the millions of yet-to-beborn will now get a chance to have the right to life, it is also a cause of mourning as Roe will forever remind humanity of the dark chapter of history where millions of unborn lives were sacrificed at the altar of “choice” during the Roe’s era. This should strengthen the resolve of humanity and the Pro-Life movement to ensure that the ghost of Roe should never resurrect to haunt the world again.

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling had corrected the Roe’s historical and constitutional flaws. In a historic ruling, the SCOTUS held: “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the author-

ity to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.” The ruling affirmed that the Constitution, in its original form, does not guarantee constitutional and federal protections and funding to women seeking the right to abortion nor did the Constitution legalize or sanction abortion.

The r uling did not make abortion illegal countrywide but abolished the constitutional right to abortion that was guaranteed by Roe. Instead, the issue is now returned to the American people, the 50 states and elected representatives to determine and regulate their own course of action.

Delivering the historic opinion of the SCOTUS, Justice Samuel Alito, appointed by George W. Bush in 2005 and the author of the opinion, wrote: “The weaknesses in Roe’s reasoning are well-known. Without any grounding in the constitutional text, history, or precedent, it imposed on the entire country a detailed set of rules much like those that one might expect to find in a statute or regulation.”

The Dobbs v. Jackson ruling not only reaffirmed

the Right to Life as the central theme of the Constitution but also shielded Life from any form of regulation from the government authority and establishment.

It is interesting to note here that back in 1982 as a then-Senator of the state of Delaware Joe Biden supported a constitutional amendment for overturning Roe v Wade by stating: “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”

Only he alone can explain how a Pro-Life Senator of 1982 can turn into a bigot advocating for the denial of the Right to Life to the millions of unborn.

In any case, the right to do whatever we wish to our body, be a male or female, which is the central premise of the Pro-Choice movement, is an insane idea. Our body/life does not belong to us; it belongs to the Maker and it is His gift to us. And we only need to exercise good stewardship over the gift of Life that is bestowed on us by our Maker by defending and promoting Life in the world.

Dr. Nsungbemo Ezung, Wokha Town

One President to retire, new President set to come

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he stage is again set for the election of India’s 15th President, the biggest democracy in the world. The President of India epitomizes India’s strength, democratic values and secular character. The BJP and the ruling NDA have decided to field Ms Draupudi Murmu - a tribal and a distinguished woman - for the coveted office.

It could be a cliche to say that our country is at a crossroad.

Perhaps such a situation arises with every new President and the timing around his or her election.

As the confidence for the new President Madam Murmu to be the next President of India unfolds, we are all hopeful that the new President will certainly shape India’s future and also guide and advise the government to make India become a stronger and more vibrant nation.

The Modi government is firmly committed towards an inclusive India and determined to cherish and uphold the values of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”.

The country is making immense progress in multiple sectors. This is truly a ‘New India’ as envisioned by our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modiji.

In the northeast region of India, we feel that a lot of positive impacts have happened in the last eight years. Some of them

are path breaking. The country is able to enjoy a more cohesive perspective, more united and is stronger today than it was about two decades back. The government led by Modiji has rightly focused on India’s Act East Policy.

India’s friendship with ASEAN neighbours has only strengthened opening new avenues for north east India.

As we wish good luck to Madam Murmu for the responsibility she will take over next month; it is also good to take a closer view on the last five years and the stewardship of President Ram Nath Kovindji. The year 2017 offered many challenges. There were talks of polarisation and a section of citizens tried to push a line that they no longer felt safe in this India. However, the NDA government led by the Prime Minister Modiji handled things very well and proved such fears wrong.

The towering calm presence of Mr Kovind’s stature and his cool approach to making India a secular country gave a soothing touch to the world around us. His tenure would be always remembered for peace and India’s increased circle of influence in the world. The unprecedented Covid19 pandemic crisis was one of the challenging times that President Kovind had to shoulder and guide the country

to cope well. The health systems of the country remarkably became more prepared for further eventualities and the management of the entire pandemic under the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry and the decisive steps taken with regards to vaccine manufacturing and distribution by the Prime Minister Modiji stirred the country from a spiralling down of the economy to resurgence.

Thus, it is a privilege to congratulate Shri Ram Nath Kovindji as he is set to bid farewell to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, it is equally a momentous occasion as Madam Murmu would be taking the charge next month. If we are to celebrate the dignified change of India’s President office before the watchful eye of the world, the historic occasion demonstrates the triumph of Indian democracy. It has to be appreciated that both the incumbent President Kovindji and incoming President Madam Murmu are both self made people - those who have come up the ladder hard way.

This is also reflective of the true spirit of ‘New India’ where an ordinary political karyakarta - born and brought up in challenging situations and circumstances would rise to become the First Citizen of world’s largest democracy. I cannot agree more with the words of Prime Minister Narendra

Modiji, “Not only is Democracy a system, but also a ‘sanskar’- a part of our ethos. Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty”.

Coincidentally, as I began to pen down my first draft for this article on June 25, 2022, I recalled the contemporary Indian history, which many of the scholars are also well aware of the fact that in 1975 - that is 47 years back Indian democracy was curtailed and Emergency was imposed by Smt Indira Gandhi. The country became like a prison. Prominent leaders including Jai Prakash Narayan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani were jailed amongst many others. The press freedom was curtailed and the judiciary too could not escape the sinister shadows of dictatorship. It is ironic that the same Congress party makes all sorts of allegations against the government of the day. While Indian democracy allows democratic views from all, a soul searching exercise of the Congress may do good for the country. In democracy, people are supreme. Time and again, the people’s spirit and yearnings for liberty, inclusion, and pluralism have triumphed. Elections of two Presidents in 2017 and 2022 also reflect this cherished spirit.

As we yet again stand up to bid goodbye to the incumbent President and set the ball rolling

to welcome a new President, let us hail the great Indian democracy.

The incoming President is a tribal and a woman, making us all feel more proud of the momentous occasion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the national leadership today see the nation poised to take on the age of possibilities.

The ‘New India’ also means a triumphant democracy whose achievements would be unrivalled.

India will march ahead again with her head held high.

The nation is proud to have a visionary and dynamic tribal leader in the person of Madam Murmu to lead the nation into “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action – Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake” (Rabindranath Tagore). May India so shine.

Kevechutso Doulo, State Executive Member, BJP Nagaland

The influence of black carbon aerosols on rainfall in Northeast India

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hat tastes better – his mother’s recipe for a chicken gravy dish cooked on a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder or on an open wood fire? “Of course, the slow-cooked chicken on an open wood fire,” Shahjahan is quick to put any doubts to rest.

Shahjahan, a farmer who doubles up as a computer technician in Tezpur on the banks of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, a river basin state, observes that most households in his village have an LPG cylinder but burning wood (biomass) is the preferred cooking method.

Shahjahan and his neighbours’ experiences with the clean fuel transition – stacking up LPG against biomass (khori) use – are also reflected in the fifth National Family Health Survey data that shows that despite having LPG connections, many don’t use it for cooking.

“LPG is used when we need to quickly serve tea, heat water for bath or warm

milk. It takes more time to start the biomass fire, but the food is tastier,” notes Shahjahan.

The hike in LPG costs is another deterrent.

“Three to four years ago we bought the LPG cylinder at Rs. 550, now the cost is around Rs. 1000.

In contrast, the khori (discarded bamboo poles used to support crop growth) we use is easily available on our farms,” the 25-year-old adds, pointing to the shed to stockpile khori abutting fields of gourd and paddy.

He says they have started cooking outdoors in recent years to eliminate the fumes that choke up their indoor environment and harm health.

Biomass burning also spews tiny particles called black carbon. Black carbon aerosol is formed by the incomplete burning of fossil fuels, biofuels, biomass (caused by human actions) and by natural sources such as wildfires. The air pollutant is the dominant form of light-absorbing particulate matter in the

atmosphere. It warms the atmosphere because it absorbs light (solar energy).

Although it remains in the atmosphere for just a few days or weeks, compared to a century or more for carbon dioxide, it is a major short-term contributor to global warming. The warming effects of black carbon aerosols are second only to carbon dioxide; it has a heat-trapping power a million times more than carbon dioxide and can travel long distances on air currents.

Shahjahan’s family’s kitchen is one of the survey spots for budding scientists at Tezpur University’s Department of Environmental Science who regularly troop in with an aethalometer — an instrument to collect and analyse black carbon, commonly known as soot.

They are trying to unpack more information about black carbon and aerosol sources. Shahjahan’s home is one of the several households the team surveyed for their aerosol research as the family transitioned

from biomass to padding up their cooking fuel use with LPG. “Before we started using LPG three years ago, we installed a biogas cookstove, but there were challenges to address the waste disposal; we volunteered to move onto LPG when we saw others in the neighbourhood also using LPG,” Shahjahan says, referring to the transition from biogas to LPG. Understanding the ground realities in the energy transition is key to teasing apart the role of aerosols (mainly black carbon) in tinkering with atmospheric processes including those that drive rain in northeast India, where extreme rainfall and floods in this year’s premonsoon months have upended life and livelihoods.

Apart from stringent implementation of clean cooking schemes and transport policies in northeast India, reducing emissions in the Indo-Gangetic Plains is an equally important link in the chain to integrate cli-

mate action with pollution control in the Brahmaputra river basin region.

Assam Climate Change Management Society (ACCMS), the government body coordinating the implementation of the Assam State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) and other climate change-related activities, has drafted the revised SAPCC (2021-2030) with a focus on adaptation and climate change mitigation.

To curb harmful emissions, on the anvil are the introduction of electric vehicles in urban transport and cleaner brick production technologies, the ACCMS told Mongabay-India.

Tezpur University’s Hoque maintains that policies that target climate mitigation and cleaner air must factor in local realities, practices and the gender dimension.

“Because biomass burning has a substantial impact on the regional air quality and rainfall characteristics in northeast India, it makes sense to first

supply LPG to households that do not have landholdings because, in the absence of landholdings, they can’t produce biomass and can rely on clean fuels (LPG) instead. For households with landholdings, one way is to provide clean cookstoves that burn biomass more efficiently and cleanly than existing stoves.

The important thing is to improve the burning conditions,” added Hoque in the context of Tezpur.

“In recent years, the younger generation of women in our household, with more education and awareness of health implications of indoor biomass burning, have taken to newer applications, so they prefer LPG over woodburning stoves. They also are not keen to do the labour to collect biomass for firing up the cookstove – using LPG saves them time to take up other pursuits,” explained Shahjahan.

Sahana Ghosh (As published in Mongabay India)

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.

Rescue operation underway after an ONGC helicopter fell into the Arabian Sea off the Mumbai coast. (PTI)

(ONGC), the state-owned firm which had hired helicopter service from Pawan Hans to support its oil and gas exploration and production operations in the western offshore. The fourth person belongs to a contractor working for ONGC. The circumstances that led to the incident were not immediately known but western offshore had in-

clement weather and there was a swell in the sea.

Officials said ONGC has already instituted an inquiry into the incident.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is also likely to order a separate inquiry.

Detailing sequence, officials said the chopper took off from Juhu helibase this morning just like any other

day but 1 or 1.5 km from the landing zone on the rig, it went down into the sea.

It, however, managed to stay afloat with floaters fitted on such helicopters going offshore.

“What we don’t know is if the helicopter toppled during the float,” an official said. On first information, ONGC and Navy scrambled vessels for the rescue.

A high-speed boat from Sagar Kiran rig was first to reach the spot. In a matter of 90-100 minutes, all personnel were pulled out.

While vessel Malviya-16 rescued four persons, one person was pulled out by rescue boat from Sagar Kiran rig. Navy choppers airlifted four unconscious persons to hospitals in Mumbai, the official said.

The helicopter sank soon after. A multi-support vessel (MSV) is already at the spot, trying to salvage the helicopter wreckage, he said, adding divers too are at the spot.

ONGC has key oil and gas fields off the Mumbai coast and Pawan Hans helicopters routinely ferry company employees and officers to the oil installations that are situated as far as 160 kilometres from the coastline.

The fields in the offshore include Mumbai

High, the nation’s largest oil field, and Bassein fields, the largest gas field.

The helicopter crash is not the first accident in ONGC’s history. In August 2003, a Mi-172 helicopter crashed off the Mumbai coast, killing 27 people and the pilot on board.

On January 13, 2018, a Pawan Hans helicopter with seven people on board, including five ONGC officers and two pilots, crashed off the Mumbai coast minutes after it took off for the stateowned company’s oil installation in the Arabian Sea. All seven died.

In 2002, a Dauphin helicopter hired by ONGC crashed into the sea but the 10 passengers were rescued.

In April 2003, a Bell 412 helicopter ferr ying ONGC personnel crashed while landing at the Juhu aerodrome. Later ONGC in a statement said the helicopter carrying nine persons on board “made an emergency landing around 11.45 am today on the Arabian Sea”.

The regional contingency plan was immediately activated. “With prompt action, one person was rescued by lifeboat launched from ONGC rig Sagar Kiran and four persons were rescued

by ONGC stand-by vessel Malviya-16,” it said.

Call for oil exploration to boost State’s economy

(From p-1) Speaking on the occasion Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench senior advocate and High Court Bar Association, Kohima president CT Jamir claimed that all E&P matters had become subjudice to date.

He mentioned that the Nagaland Petroleum & Natural Gas (NPNG) Regulations and Rules, 2012 was passed by the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) in 2012, though it was challenged through a PIL and thereafter all E&P activities became subjudice.

He also spoke on the conflict between Article 371 (A) and the Union List (a list of 97 items given in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India on which Parliament had exclusive power to legislate).

Meanwhile, in a PowerPoint presentation, deputy general manager (Admin-

istration – Frontier Basin) of Oil India Ltd Meyabi Arho Niphi said Nagaland’s neighbour Assam was ahead as far as oil E&P was concerned.

On the “misperception” about oil exploration among Nagas, he noted that many Nagas thought oil exploration meant companies bringing the delivery, placing it in a plot of land, start drilling, produce oil and discuss royalties.

He explained to the gathering that a seismic survey was done first to locate where oil and fossil fuels were located and thereafter a timeframe of about eight years was required for a company to start exploration.

Further, he said if Nagaland was serious about oil exploration, then it should not be looking at a time span of 5-10 years but understand that this was a time-taking

process.

On prospects of petroleum and natural gas in the Nagaland, Kekhriezavi Lea, team leader of Operational Wing of Nagaland Petroleum and Natural Gas under Department of Geology & Mining and officer on special duty (OSD) to the State government, said Nagaland was a part of the Assam Arakan Basin that had established hydrocarbon occurrences and, hence, had potential for extensive and intensive exploration.

He claimed that Nagaland attracted the attention of petroleum explorers since the pre-Partition days and disclosed that the prospects of hydrocarbons being available in the entire Naga hills were high.

On E&P efforts, Lea admitted that companies like OIL, Vedanta, etc, were seeking permits from the State government.

In his opening remarks, Business Association of Nagas president L Mongkum Jamir, who was a moderator for the discussion, urged the people to ponder over the benefits if fossil fuels deposits were found in Nagaland and on the impact this would have in the local economy.

Mentioning that there were many technology improvements that would eventually replace non-renewable energy, he wondered if Nagaland was willing to be left behind.

Earlier, in his welcome address, DGC principal Dr M Libanthung Ngullie, while referring to Article 371A, asserted that the State has the exclusive rights over its land and resources. He maintained that the issue of who owned the land and resources still remained contested.

Assistant professor

of Economics of DGC Imtikokla Ozukum, who chaired the programme, gave a brief thematic exposition on the topic highlighting the present status and challenges.

Later, a discussion was also held among the panellists and moderator in which all had agreed that oil exploration and production needed to start as early as possible in a professional manner.

The vote of thanks was proposed by assistant professor (Economics) Pudezono Tase. Rapporteurs of the discussion were assistant professor of Philosophy Dr Asangba Tzüdir and assistant professor of History Neisenuo Apon.

Altogether, 73 participants, including faculty members, representatives of the civil society, members of BAN and students, attended the programme.

AP: 60 Maoists surrender after top leader’s arrest VISAKHAPATNAM, JUN 28 (IANS): In a major blow to the Maoist movement in Andhra Pradesh, the state police arrested a top Maoist leader, which resulted in the surrender of 60 cadres.

Communist Party of India-Maoist leader Vanthala Ramakrishna was arrested in Alluri Sitharamaraju district, dealing a big blow to the banned outfit in Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) region. Ramakrishna alias Prabhakar alias Goddali Rayudu was the Area Committee Secretary (ACS) of PaddeabayaluKorukonda area. Following their leader’s arrest, 33 party members of the Korukonda Area Committee and 27 militia members surrendered before the police. According to police, the Maoist leader carried a reward of Rs 5 Lakh. Police seized Rs 39 lakh cash, a mine weighing 5 kg, five detonators, a 9 mm pistol with 9 rounds and Maoist party literature from him. Director General of Police K.V. Rajendranath Reddy said that the surrenders displays the weakening base of Maoists due to the developmental activities taken up by the government and people are vexed with the outdated ideology of the rebels.

Justice Satish Sharma sworn in as CJ of Delhi HC

NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (PTI): Justice Satish Chandra Sharma on Tuesday took oath as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.

Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena administered the oath to the 60-year-old Justice Sharma at a ceremony in the Raj Niwas, the LG’s secretariat.

The ceremony was attended by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Somnath Bharti, and Madan Lal. Senior judges and advocates were also present at the ceremony. Justice Sharma was previously serving as the Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court and his transfer was notified by the Central government on June 19. After the retirement of Delhi High Court Chief Justice D N Patel in March, Justice Vipin Sanghi served as acting chief justice from March 13 till June 27.

Justice Sanghi has been elevated as the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. Justice Sharma, who was born on November 30, 1961, in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur, completed his schooling and graduation there itself and thereafter obtained an LLB degree in 1984 with three university gold medals. He was en-

Satish Chandra Sharma rolled as an advocate in September 1984 and practiced in service, constitutional, civil, and criminal matters before the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur.

He was appointed as Additional Central Government Counsel in 1993 and thereafter, senior panel counsel by the Government of India in 2004.

In 2003, he was designated as a senior advocate by the Madhya Pradesh High Court at the young age of 42. Justice Sharma was elevated as an additional judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on January 18, 2008, and appointed as a permanent judge on January 15, 2010.

Thereafter, he was transferred to Karnataka High Court in January 2021 and then elevated as the Chief Justice of Telangana High Court in October 2021.

Nitish Kumar will remain CM till 2025: Pradhan

PATNA, JUN 28 (PTI): All is well in the NDA in Bihar and, differences of opinion between BJP and JD(U) notwithstanding, Nitish Kumar will complete his current term as chief minister, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan asserted on Tuesday.

The senior BJP leader was talking to reporters

here after a meeting Nitish as part of canvassing for NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu.

“We have fielded a tribal lady who has a distinguished track record as a former minister in Odisha and Jharkhand Governor.

We are glad that the entire NDA stood united when

she filed her nomination papers,” he said. Pradhan, who has formerly been the party’s in-charge for Bihar from where he has also been elected to Rajya Sabha in the past, “Nitish ji is NDA’s leader in Bihar with the mandate to run the government till 2025. There should be no doubts about that”, he said.

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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, JUN 28 (PTI): A brand new Pawan Hans’ Sikorsky chopper with 9 people on board crashed into the Arabian Sea, about 50 nautical miles from the Mumbai coast on Tuesday, killing four people -- including three ONGC employees.

The helicopter, which was part of the six Sikorsky S-76D helicopters that Pawan Hans had recently leased from Milestone Aviation Group, was about 4-5 minutes away from its destination - ONGC’s Sagar Kiran rig - when the incident took place, company officials with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The chopper went down around 1145 hrs, just 1 nautical mile away from Sagar Kiran, but managed to stay afloat with the help of the attached floaters, helping rescuers pull out all the nine, including two pilots, after ONGC and Navy/ Coast Guard scrambled in one of the fastest rescue missions in the western offshore. Four of the nine pulled out were unconscious and airlifted in a Navy chopper to a hospital in Mumbai, where they were declared dead, an official said.

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Quotations in Lotha written by Akum Ezung was released by M. Zachamo Ezung, General Secretary, Dimapur Longsa Ekhung (DLE) on 25/6/2022 in presence of the congregation of Longsa Prayer Fellowship at the residence of the author Akum Ezung. Burma Camp, Dimapur.”

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Western Yimkhiung Hoho (WYH), Western Sumi Hoho (WSH) president Shikaho Zhimomi, District GB Association (NDGBA) president Jepitoshe L Jakha. Leaders of five areas under Niuland district namely KGKK, Kuhuboto chairman Ngukato Chishi, KTKK, Khaghaboto, area GB, AAGBA, Ato president, Sheipu Zhimo, AKK, Aghunaqa chairman Heshito Awomi and NAKK, Niuland chairman Tokishe Zhimomi also spoke at the programme.

Earlier, the welcome address was delivered by deputy commissioner (DC) Niuland, Sara S Jamir.

Advisor of skill development, labour, employment and civil administrative works department (CAWD), Kazheto Kinimi; Azheto Zhimomi, MLA; Er. Picto Shohe, MLA; commissioner of police Dimapur Rothihu Tetseo; commissioner of excise and prohibition H Atokhe Aye; administration of Niuland town council; apex tribal organizations, citizens of Niuland district attended the programme.

Highlights of the programme included cultural extravaganza, unveiling of the monolith by the special guest, dedicatory prayer

by WSBAK executive secretary Rev Dr Phughoto Sema.

The programme was chaired by EAC Aghunaqa, Imlijungla Lemtur; invocation was given by Niuland town Baptist church, pastor Kughavi Zhimomi and special song was presented by Vivi Yepthomi and Sulika B Chishi.

Later, vote of thanks was proposed by ADC and NTC administration T Lemlila Sangtam and benediction by Viyito Baptist Church, pastor K Ilhoshe Pucho.

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(From p-1) On the appeal made by the Yimkhiung community residing in the district to include them in the various developmental activities and consider them as one, the minister assured all the communities that they were welcome to grow and work together for the progress of the district.

Advisor sericulture, excise & minority affairs, Zhaleo Rio, in his speech, said today was a red-letter day for the people of the district and extended his greetings. He said that upgradation of the district was not only for the welfare of one community alone, but for the whole of the state.

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Additional secretary urban development, Elizabeth Ngully, presented “way forward”.

LiFE-NGO presented a visual presentation on how the selection of the cleanest ULBs and Wards were done across the state.

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(From p-1) Kire said it was important that the waste was managed effectively so that it did not pose a threat to the environment in the future.

For effective management of waste, Kire said it was important that all citizens, various stakeholders and government work collectively. He said that ‘Swachhata’ can be achieved only if works were done together.

In is introductory note, principal secretary Urban Development & Municipal Affairs, I Himato Zhimomi said that the objective of such awards was to encourage community participation and healthy competition amongst ULBs. He said this way, ULBs would also advocate the principle of “my waste, my responsibility”.

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The car features a new 9-inch floating touchscreen infotainment system and multi-function steering wheel as seen on the 2022 Maruti Suzuki Baleno.

Corrigendum: Apropos the news item published on June 21, 2022 – “Maruti new Brezza bookings open’, the image for representation of product was inadvertently inserted. The error is regretted. (NPN)

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C H E N NA I , J U N 2 8 (IANS): Mukesh Ambani has resigned as a Director in Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited with the company’s Board on Tuesday approving his elder son Akash Ambani’s appointment as the Chairman.

In regulatory filing, Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of the Reliance group, said the Board of Directors at its meeting held on Monday “approved the appointment

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The silhouette of the car is still almost similar to the previous-gen models however, the 2022 model gets new 16-inch diamond-cut alloy wheels along with thick plastic cladding that offer a dominating stance to the car. At the rear, the 2022 Brezza comes with sleeker split tail lamps.

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of Akash Ambani, Nonexecutive Director, as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company”.

The company also said the Board “noted the resignation of Mukesh Ambani as Director of the company effective from close of working hours on June 27”.

The Board also approved the appointment of Pankaj Mohan Pawar as the Managing Director for a period of five years commencing from June 27, subject to shareholders’ approval.

The company also said the Board approved the appointment of Raminder Singh Gujral and K.V. Chowdary as Additional Directors, designated as Independent Directors, for a period of five years commencing from June 27, subject to shareholders’ approval.

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NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (AGENCIES): The 2022 Maruti Suzuki Brezza is all set to go on sale in the Indian market by June 30.

Ahead of the launch, the company has also started to accept booking for the new Maruti Suzuki Brezza.

Most of the details about the upcoming compact SUV are already out and the automaker has also revealed the key specs of the 2022 Brezza. Although Maruti Suzuki has not yet officially revealed the engine, transmission and variant options in which the new Brezza will be offered, a document uploaded from the transport department has revealed what can be expected.

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operative sector will enter these government schemes, which will increase our direct contact with the common man. The cooperative sector has been kept away from JAM DBT schemes.

But the Centre has now decided to allow the cooperative banks to implement these government schemes,” the Union minister of cooperation said.

Shah praised Kheti Bank’s management, especially its chairman Dollarrai Kotecha, for recovering Rs 190 crore from loan default-

NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (PTI): Gold price in the national capital rose by Rs 52 to Rs 50,770 per 10 grams on Tuesday, according to HDFC Securities.

In the previous trade, the yellow metal settled at Rs 50,718 per 10 grams.

Silver, however, slipped

by Rs 60 to Rs 60,128 per kg from Rs 60,188 per kg in the previous trade.

The rupee plunged by 46 paise to close at record low of 78.83 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, weighed down by persistent foreign capital outflows and a surge in crude oil prices.

In the international market, gold was trading higher at USD 1,827 per ounce while silver was flat at USD 21.27 per ounce.

“Gold prices have held bound range trading on mixed global cues on slowdown worries and larger rate hike expectations from US Federal Reserve,” said Tapan Patel, Senior Analyst (Commodities) at HDFC Securities.

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ers last year.

“Kheti Bank contributed immensely in developing Gujarat’s agricultural sector. It provides long and medium-term agri loans to farmers. The bank also provides loans for dairies, cottage industry and for self-employment. Till now, it has disbursed loans of Rs 4,543 crore to nearly 8.42 lakh farmers,” he said.

The bank came into existence in 1951 under the leadership of the then ruler of Porbandar princely state, Udaybhansinhji.

The main purpose of the bank was to provide loans to farmers to buy agricultural land from the erstwhile rulers following the integration of princely states into the Union of India after Independence, Shah said, adding that nearly 56,000 farmers became land owners with the help of loans given by the bank at the time.

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NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (PTI): Union Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday announced that cooperative sector banks will soon be given permission to implement government welfare schemes, which use the trinity of Jan Dhan-AadhaarMobile (JAM) for direct benefit transfer (DBT).

JAM is the Centre’s initiative to link Jan Dhan accounts, mobile numbers and Aadhaar cards to plug leakages of government subsidies.

At present, 52 ministries use DBT with the help of JAM to provide assistance to beneficiaries under 300 government schemes, Shah said while virtually addressing the 70th annual general meeting of Ahmedabad-headquartered Gujarat State Co-operative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank Ltd, popularly known as Kheti Bank.

“Very soon, the co-

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Missile strikes crowded mall in Ukraine

KREMENCHUK, JUN 28 (AP): Rescuers searched through charred rubble of a shopping mall on Tuesday looking for more victims of a Russian missile strike that killed at least 18 and wounded scores in what Ukraine’s president called “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky said many of the more than 1,000 afternoon shoppers and workers inside the mall in the city of Kremenchuk managed to escape.

Giant plumes of black smoke, dust and orange flames billowed from the wreckage as emergency crews combed through broken metal and concrete for victims. Drones whirred above, clouds of dark smoke still emanating from the ruins several hours after the fire was extinguished.

Casualty figures rose as rescuers sifted through the smoldering rubble. The regional governor, Dmytro Lunin, said at least 18 people were killed and 59 others sought medical assistance, of whom 25 were hospitalised. The region declared a day of mourning Tuesday for the victims of the attack.

“We are working to dismantle the construction

A shopping mall in Kremenchuk reduced to rubbles by a Russian missile.

so that it is possible to get machinery in there since the metal elements are very heavy and big, and disassembling them by hand is impossible,” said Volodymyr Hychkan, an emergency services official.

At Ukraine’s request, the UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting in New York on Tuesday to discuss the attack.

In the first Russian government comment on the missile strike, the country’s first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, alleged multiple inconsisten-

cies that he didn’t specify, claiming on Twitter that the incident was a provocation by Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied it targets civilian infrastructure, even though Russian attacks have hit other shopping malls, theaters, hospitals, kindergartens and apartment buildings in the fourmonth war.

On Tuesday, Russian forces struck the Black Sea city of Ochakiv in the Mykolaiv region, damaging apartment buildings and killing two, including a 6-year-old child. A further six people, four of them children, were wounded.

Gunmen attack anti-polio team in Pakistan; kill three: Police

PESHAWAR, JUN 28 (PTI): Three people, including two policemen, escorting an anti-polio vaccination team, were killed when unidentified assailants attacked them in Pakistan’s restive north Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday, police said.

The gunmen attacked the team, killing one of its members and two policemen escorting them, while it was on a door-to door antipolio vaccination drive after nine new cases were reported this year in the district that borders Afghanistan.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The incident was condemned by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mehmood Khan.

The chief minister has asked the police chief for the early arrest of those behind the attack.

“The attackers on polio teams are enemies of our children,” a statement issued by the Deputy Commissioner of North Waziristan Shahid Ali Khan said. “The accused will be brought to book soon. The KPK

File photo of a health worker administering polio drop with a policeman guards her.

government is determined to eliminate polio from the province come what may,” the statement said.

Attacks on workers of the anti-polio vaccination drives in Pakistan have increased in recent times.

In March this year, gunmen in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed a female polio worker as she was returning home after taking part in the country’s latest anti-polio campaign.

In January last year, armed gunmen shot dead a police officer guarding a team of polio vaccine handlers in northwestern Paki-

stan. Pakistan, along with Afghanistan, remains the last polio-endemic countries in the world, according to the World Health Organisation.

Recently, Pakistan’s vaccination programme has come under scrutiny after the detection of poliovirus in sewage samples in London for the first time in four decades.

Health authorities in Islamabad claim the “vaccine-derived virus” found in the UK exists in 22 countries and the type found locally was the wild poliovirus (WPV).

One of them, a 3-month-old baby, is in a coma, according to local officials.

The missile strike on Kremenchuk occurred as Western leaders pledged continued suppor t for Ukraine and the world’s major economies prepared new sanctions against Russia, including a price cap on oil and higher tariffs on goods.

Meanwhile, the US appeared ready to respond to Zelenskyy’s call for more air defense systems, and NATO planned to increase the size of its rapid-reaction forces nearly eightfold — to 300,000 troops.

G-7 pledges $4.5BN to tackle food insecurity ELMAU (GERMANY), JUN 28 (AP): Group of Seven leaders have agreed to spend $4.5 billion on addressing food security issues around the globe exacerbated by rising grain and food costs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The White House said Tuesday that the United States is pitching in $2.76 billion toward the effort.

The funding will be used to assist 47 countries and regional organizations dealing with food insecurity and malnutrition.

The White House says the most immediate needs are in the Horn of Africa, where the Russian blockade of grain from Ukraine has worsened an already desperate situation. The Horn of Africa is experiencing a fourth straight season of drought, with as many as 20 million facing the threat of starvation by year’s end, the White House says.

The Biden administration said in a statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions “have strangled food and agriculture production and have used food as a weapon of war.”

Zelenskyy said the mall presented “no tphreat to the Russian army” and had “no strategic value.” He accused Russia of sabotaging “people’s attempts to live a normal life, which make the occupiers so angry.”

In his nightly address, he said it appeared Russian forces had intentionally targeted the shopping center and added, “Today’s Russian strike at a shopping mall in Kremenchuk is one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.” He said Russia “has become the largest terrorist organisation in the world.”

Russia has increasingly used long-range bombers in the war. Ukrainian officials said Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers flying over Russia’s western Kursk region fired the missiles, one of which hit the shopping center and another that struck a sports arena in Kremenchuk.

The Russian strike echoed earlier attacks that caused large numbers of civilian casualties — such as one in March on a Mariupol theater where many civilians had holed up, killing an estimated 600, and another in April on a train station in eastern Kramatorsk that killed at least 59 people.

NATO to put 300,000 troops on alert to counter Russia threat Tuesday to Thursday this week. The rapid-reaction Nato Response Force currently numbers up to 40,000, and the proposed change amounts to a broad revision in response to Russian militarisation.

Under the plans, Nato will also move stocks of munitions and other supplies farther east, a transition due to be completed in 2023, the Guardian reported.

The Secretary General conceded he could not make any promises about the progress of applications

by Sweden and Finland to join Nato, because objections raised by Turkey to their membership remained unresolved.

Stoltenberg said Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had agreed to meet Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, and Finland’s president Sauli Niinisto on Tuesday in Madrid to try to resolve the issue.

But he played down hopes of a breakthrough at the meeting on the margins of the NATO event.

“It’s too early to say what kind of progress you can make by the summit,” he told a press conference.

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M A D R I D, J U N E 2 8 (IANS): NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this weeks Madrid summit will agree the alliances most significant transformation for a generation, putting 300,000 troops at high readiness in response to Russias invasion of Ukraine.

Stoltenberg said the military alliance’s forces in the Baltic states and five other frontline countries would be increased “up to brigade levels”, doubled or trebled to between 3,000 and 5,000 troops, the Guardian reported.

That would amount to “the biggest overhaul of our collective defence and deterrence since the cold war”, he said before the meeting of the 30-country alliance, which runs from

DUBAI, JUN 28 (AP): Iran and the United States appeared poised Tuesday to start indirect talks in Qatar aimed at finding a way to save Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

The state-owned Tehran Times posted a photograph of Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, in a hotel lobby with Iranian Ambassador to Qatar Hamidreza Dehghani. The newspaper said Bagheri Kani was in Doha, the Qatari capital, for the resumption of the talks.

Rob Malley, the US special representative for Iran, arrived in Qatar on Monday night ahead of the talks. The US Embassy in Qatar said Malley met with Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to discuss “joint diplomatic efforts to address issues with Iran,” but declined to immediately offer any other details about his trip.

Iran and world powers agreed in 2015 to the nuclear deal, which saw Tehran drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

ABU DHABI, JUN 28 long illness. Modi had ex(PTI): Prime Minister Napressed grief over Sheikh rendra Modi on Tuesday Khalifa’s death, calling met UAE President and him a great statesman and Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh visionary leader under Mohamed bin Zayed Al whom India-UAE relaNahyan here and conveyed tions prospered. India had his personal condolences announced one day of state on the demise of former mourning following the president of the Gulf nademise of Sheikh Khalifa. tion Sheikh Khalifa bin Sheikh Khalifa was the elZayed Al Nahyan. dest son of UAE’s founder President Sheikh Zayed In a special gesture, bin Sultan Al Nahyan. He Sheikh Mohamed, accomserved as the President of panied by senior memthe UAE and ruler of Abu bers of the Royal family, Dhabi from November 3, received Prime Minister 2004.

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On the flip side, if he loses this appeal hearing, Modi can approach the Supreme Court on a point of law of public importance, to be applied for to the Supreme Court against the High Court’s decision within 14 days of a High Court verdict. However, this involves a high threshold as appeals to the Supreme Court can only be made if the High Court has certified that the case involves a point of law of general public importance.

Finally, after all avenues in the UK courts are exhausted, he could still seek a so-called Rule 39 injunction from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

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LONDON, JUN 28 (PTI): A British court on Tuesday opened the continuation appeal hearing in the extradition case of Nirav Modi, who is wanted in India on the charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an estimated USD 2 billion in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan scam case.

The 51-year-old diamond merchant had lodged an appeal last year against his extradition order on mental health grounds.

Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay presided over an initial hearing at the High Court in December last year to determine whether District Judge Sam Goozee’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruling from February 2021 in favour of extradition was incorrect to overlook the diamond merchant’s “high risk of suicide”.

The hearing this week is for the continuation of that appeal, with a judgment likely soon. If Modi wins this appeal hearing in the High Court, he cannot be extradited unless the Indian government is successful in getting permission to ap-

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Bedi conferred Aamir Khan lends financial aid to floodSelena Gomez says men ‘need to stand up’ Kabir lifetime achievement hit Assam, CM expresses gratitude award at Filming Italy against Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion A V S

on how to actively challenge the ruling.

The thread began: “Watching a Constitutional right be stripped away is horrific. A woman should have the right to CHOOSE what she wants to do with her own body. End of story.

“Please support Planned Parenthood Action – I am fearful of what will happen to those with-

out the necessary means to have access to a safe, legal abortion.”

Gomez appeared on the red carpet alongside her Only Murders co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short. The comedy drama series follows three true crime fanatics – Charles, Oliver and Mabel – who take murder investigations into their own hands.

The second season picks up after the trio are implicated in the death of Arconia Board President Bunny Folger, with the team now now trying to clear their name through their true crime podcast.

The new season will see Cara Delevingne join the cast as Alice, a new character described as Mabel’s love interest who puts her “in touch with a side of herself she’s been somewhat neglecting since the show began” [via Vanity Fair].

Only Murders In The Building season two will premiere on Hulu in the US on June 28. The show will be released in the UK on Disney+.

Last month Gomez hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time, appearing alongside Steve Martin for a comedy sketch while also offering up an impersonation of her friend and fellow pop star Miley Cyrus.

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Where Stones Can Form in Your Body

sound waves and lasers.

Gallbladder This small organ in your upper right belly stores a digestive juice called bile. Cholesterol and a compound called bilirubin in the bile may lead to gallstones. They’re usually too small to cause pain or to need treatment.

You might need surgery to take the gallbladder out if the stones are causing pain.

Prostate In men, it’s a small gland near your bladder that makes fluid to protect sperm. Stones that form here are about the size of poppy seeds, and they’re more common at middle age and older. Typically you won’t need treatment because they don’t usually cause symptoms. But sometimes they get infected, which can inflame your prostate, and cause urinary tract problems. This may require antibiotics or other treatment.

Mouth We don’t know ex-

actly why, but stones can appear inside your mouth.

They can be painful and swell up. They may block tubes that channel saliva when you eat. You might see the whitish stone under your tongue. It’s usually not serious. You might make them go away if you drink more water, massage the stone loose, or suck on something sour. If not, your doctor can remove it.

Pancreas This organ in the middle of your belly area makes hormones that help digest food and keep your blood sugar steady. Stones can pass from the gallbladder through bile ducts to the pancreas and inflame it. You could have a fever, fast pulse, nausea, and belly pain that’s worse after meals and radiates to your back. If the stone doesn’t pass on its own, your doctor may take it out. Sometimes they might also remove your gallbladder, the source of the problem.

Nose This rare stone starts when a piece of button, eraser, seed, wood, or something similar gets stuck up your nose, often in childhood. Over years, it can attract minerals like calcium, magnesium, and iron and get bigger. Eventually, you may notice pain or smelly mucus that drains from only one nostril. Your doctor finds it by looking up your nose with a special tool, and likely takes out the mass with surgery.

Veins When your veins don’t grow normally, they can cause weak spots, bumps, and other problems. You might have pain and discolored skin, especially around the mouth, lips, cheek, head, and neck. Vein stones may happen because blood moves more slowly in those areas and eventually clots and hardens into a stone.

Your doctor can help treat your symptoms and may look for underlying issues with your veins.

Belly Stones are rare here and in your digestive system. Illness like diverticulitis or inflammatory bowel disease could cause them.

So can changes in your stomach and intestines due to disease, genetics, or previous surgeries. Your doctor likely will get rid of them with an operation.

They’ll try to figure out the root cause to keep them from coming back.

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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan extended a helping hand to the flood-affected people of our State by making a generous contribution of Rs 25 lakh towards CM Relief Fund. My sincere gratitude for his concern and act of generosity”.

In the wake of ravaging surges, several Indian philanthropists are coming ahead to lend help. With their homes and fields submerged, several families in Assam have no option but to inadvertently risk conflict with wildlife in an elephant corridor in Nellie’s Khulahat Forest.

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Kidneys These hard nuggets grow when minerals, usually calcium, build up in your urinary tract. They can really hurt, especially in your back near your hips and ribs, if they get big enough to block all or some of your pee. You might see blood or even a piece of a stone in your urine. Smaller ones sometimes exit on their own in your pee. But you might need surgery to get rid of larger ones.

Throat Your tonsils are two lumps of tissue at the back of your throat that help filter out germs. Food, dead skin, or other debris can get caught there and harden into stones, called “tonsilloliths.” You might have a sore throat, stinky breath, and swollen tonsils with white spots. You can usually brush the stones gently away with your toothbrush or a cotton swab, or gargle them away with saltwater.

If that doesn’t do it, talk to your doctor.

Bladder You might get them because you don’t pee fully.

Or because your urine is too high in some minerals and too low in others.

These stones form on their own or after a small kidney stone slips down to the bladder and gets bigger.

You might have cloudy or bloody urine, or pain in your lower belly when you pee. Your doctor could treat it with surgery or drugs, or break it up with

s Assam witnesses one of the deadliest floods in its history, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, who is awaiting the release of his upcoming film ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, recently extended help towards the CM Relief Fund for Assam.

Currently, over 21 lakh people continue to remain in distress under the impact of the deluge.

Taking to his social media, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswas Sarma shared a gratitude note dedicated to Aamir.

He wrote, “Eminent

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elena Gomez has addressed the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, calling on men to speak out against the ruling.

On Tuesday (June 27), while appearing on the red carpet for the season two premiere of Only Murders in the Building, Gomez used her platform to criticise the decision, while addressing what Hollywood can do to protect American women’s constitutional right to have an abortion.

Speaking to Variety, Gomez said: “It’s about getting men – men needing to stand up and also speak against this issue. It’s also the amount of women that are hurting. I’m just not happy and I hope that we can do everything in our power to do something to change that.”

The 28-year-old actress also drew attention to a recent Twitter thread of hers which included information

eteran actor Kabir Bedi was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 5th edition of ‘Filming Italy Sardegna Festival that took place recently in the spectacular location of Sardinia, Italy.

Apar t from Bollywood, Kabir Bedi is a famous personality in Europe, especially Italy where he has acted in popular productions.

Tiziana Rocca, director of the festival said: “Kabir is receiving this award for his career and achievements in the movie industry. His incredible career made him an icon of international cinema, which made the world fall in love with him.”Tiziana also organises Cannes and Venice festivals. Kabir thanked Italy for all the glory it had given him over the years.

Other recipients of the award this year include Danny Glover, Winston Duke, Regina King, James Franco and Edgar Ramirez.

Later, Kabir was in Rome for a masterclass with Steven Gaydos, Vice President and Executive Editor of VARIETY at the historic location, the Museum of Ara Pacis, which was closed down while the masterclass was conducted.

Kabir said, “The Ara Pacis Museum was a stunning setting for a masterclass! This has been a wonderful culmination of my tour in Italy which started with the promotion of the Italian edition of my autobiography and a fund-raising tour for the Italian charity Care & Share Italia, which educates slum children in India. I feel blessed by the recognition and love that I continue to get from Italy.”

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West Indies beat B’desh by 10 wickets; win Test series

Members of the West Indies team with the trophy after winning on the fourth day of the 2nd Test between Bangladesh and West Indies on June 27. (AFP)

SAINT LUCIA, JUN 28 (AP): West Indies beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets in the second Test and took a one-sided series 2-0 at Daren Sammy Stadium on Monday. Both Tests were won well inside four days.

A wet field washed out the first two sessions on Monday, but when Bangladesh resumed on 1326, needing 42 more runs to make West Indies bat again, play lasted less than 12 overs.

Bangladesh’s second innings extended nine more overs and 54 more runs before it was all over

on 186. Nurul Hasan was stranded on 60 not out from 50 balls.

Needing 13 runs to win, West Indies openers John Campbell and captain Kraigg Brathwaite took 17 balls.

Bangladesh’s 100th Test loss came after it scored 234 and 186 and West Indies 408 and 13 not out. When the day’s play got underway, Mehidy Hasan Miraz got off with a mark with a boundary then was out next ball trying to block an Alzarri Joseph bouncer and edging behind. Jayden Seales bagged

in the one over Ebadot Hossain and Shoriful Islam for ducks. Seales, Joseph and Kemar Roach each took three wickets.

Khaled Ahmed was run out for a duck from the non-striker’s end when Nurul wasn’t looking for a run.

Nurul resumed from 16 overnight and blasted two sixes and five boundaries for his third test fifty — all against West Indies — and four runs short of his career best. They start three Twenty20s and three one-day internationals from Saturday.

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All India snooker: Kumar, Nichani record victories

MUMBAI, JUN 28 (IANS): Tamil Nadu’s Dilip Kumar produced a late sparkle and came from 1-3 behind to stun Indian number 7 Laxman Rawat (PSPB) 4-3 (95-6, 66-76, 4257, 37-70, 100-37, 76-1, and 97-0) in a Group-H match of the National Sports Club of India (NSCI) All India Snooker Open ‘Baulkline’ 2022 here on Tuesday.

Showing tremendous fighting spirit, Kumar in splendid fashion turned things around by pocketing the last three frames with fine efforts of 65 in the sixth and signing off with a classy 91 to wrap up the match in his favour, in the Rs 6.4 lakh at the NSCI billiards hall on Tuesday. He had constructed a break of 90 in the first frame, while Rawat had a solitary run of 34 in the third.

Vijay Nichani also from Tamil Nadu quelled the challenge from young Digvijay Kadian of Haryana posting a 4-2 (83-1, 77(77)-33, 8-72, 1-86, 60-7, and 82-15) victory and record his second straight win in Group-E and book his place in the knockout round.

Meanwhile, lanky left-handed cueist Dhvaj Haria of PSPB was at his potting best and charged to a quick 4-0 (61-32, 78-1, 146-6, and 116-0) victory against Sumit Talwar of Chandigarh in a Group-C match.

Schools must encourage team sports for girls:Mithali C H E N NA I , J U N 2 8 (AGENCIES): Mithali Raj, former captain of India women’s ODI and Test teams, said on Tuesday that schools need to promote team sports if they want to encourage more girls to take up cricket as a hobby.

“Over a period of time, the schools probably stopped encouraging girls or maybe they felt having a team sport is very difficult when it comes to girls and that is why I have been hearing the panelists talking about tennis or badminton or individuals sports,” Raj, who joined virtually, said during a panel discussion titled Encouraging Girls To Play in Sports & Communities at Sportstar’s South Sports Conclave in

Chennai. “They feel it is better to invest in individual sport...and that is why a lot of girls move to individual sports. But to have a school team, you will need a specific number of players. So it comes down to schools to encourage to form the team and encourage the girls so that if any girl represents India in the U19 World Cup, the school will have the honour of having an international player.

“That said, in the last few years, we have seen increase in the ratio of girls taking up the sport. Not only in the school level, but a lot of them come up (taking it up as a profession). It’s no more a hobby. And with the central contracts and the Women’s IPL sched-

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uled next year, clearly a lot of things are happening at a bigger level in women’s cricket.”

Anju Bobby George, the only Indian to have won

a medal in the World Championships with a long jump bronze in the 2003 edition, spoke about the hurdles she had to overcome as a young female athlete.

Indian MMA fighter alleges assault by Afghan fighter & fans NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (AGENCIES): Delhi Police has registered an FIR under section 325/34 of the IPC (‘Punishment For Voluntarily Causing Grievous Hurt) on the complaint of Indian mixed martial arts fighter Srikant Sekhar, who alleged he was assaulted by Afghanistan fighter Abdul Azim Badakshi and Afghan fans in a post-fight fracas in New Delhi on Friday.

According to Sportstar report, Sekhar was left with a broken jaw in the alleged incident which took place following the conclusion

of the Matrix Fight Night (MFN) promotion. The promotion is owned by Ayesha Shroff, wife of Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff. According to a statement on their official Facebook account, the promotion is also backed by Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff and his sister Krishna Shroff. In his statement to the police, Srikant (7 wins - 6 losses) stated that he had had competed in the MFN in New Delhi’s Siri Fort Stadium where he had fought and beaten Sumit Khare, following which he had had a medical check-up

and was given the all clear by a doctor.

Sekhar then states that he returned to the side of the cage where a teammate, Seth Rosario, was competing against Zahoor Shah, a mixed martial arts fighter from Afghanistan. Sekhar states that as he was cheering for his teammate, he was hit by a rolled-up paper by supporters of Shah. Sensing the matter was escalating, Sekhar says officials of the MFN promotion advised him to leave the premises.

As Sekhar was walking past the cage, he says he

noticed Badakshi (13-3) to his right. In a video of the incident seen by Sportstar, Badakshi, 27, can be seen standing next to Ayesha and Krishna Shroff. In pictures posted on his Instagram account, the Afghan fighter can be seen sitting next to Krishna. After passing the Afghan fighter, Sekhar says in his statement that he was punched twice on the jaw

by Badakshi and thought his jaw was broken. Sekhar then states that after he fell to the ground, several members of the crowd punched and kicked him.

WC spot is no issue, says Goetze on Bundesliga return

DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): Nagaland Chess Association (NCA) has informed that the 44th FIDE C h e s s O ly m p i a d 2 0 2 2 AICF-Nagaland Chess Association, schools Chess selection tournament (under-15) will be held from July 1 and 2 at NCA office Kohima. In this regard, all the participants have been informed to reach the tournament venue before 9 am on July 1. Further details can be contacted at 8837098422 and 7005580145.

DDTA inducts

DIMAPUR, JUN 28 (NPN): Dimapur District Taekwondo Association (DDTA) has inducted N Phutolu Achumi (Domel) as president of DDTA with effect from June 26. DDTA also welcomed Sanjay Chetri and his team to work together for promotion and development of taekwondo.

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Acknowledgement

Xelhozhe Village Youth ministry would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all the individuals who have generously extended help towards the Futsal tournament organised by XVYM on 13th and 14th June 2022 We extend our heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to: 1) Shri kuputo Shohe, Chief Spokesperson, BJP Nagaland, Jt. Secretary Nagaland Olympic Association.

2) Smt. Blessing A. Jimo, Executive Director Oriflame, Proprietor of MCA 3) Shri opeka Zhimomi 4) Shri Bendang Yimchunger, Accounts Officer NBHM, Dimapur, Nagaland.

5) Shri Hukavi Zhimo, Advocate 6) Smt. Aboli metha, NPS, Principal Police Training School, Chumoukedima 7. Shri Shikaho I, chophy 8) Shri metsivizo Phire, Inspector of Excise, Govt. of Nagaland 9) Shri Hukaito Zhimo (Nihokhu Village) 10) Shri kihoshe Sema, Pt, GMS Xelhozhe 11) kiho enterprise 12) kiran Sports 13) k. P Printing Press 14) ddFRA and well wishers Sports Secy Ivuto Wotsa

Youth Director Liho Aye (XVYM)

Youth Secy Gele Zhimo

OFFICE OF THE

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

H.Q. WOKHA TOWN, NAGALAND 20th June, 2022

With an aim to deliver God`s Love and compassion through Medicine, Kohima Khar Fellowship in collaboration with Khar Baptist Church organised Free Health Mela on 24th and 25th June 2022 at Khar Village. An initiative of the Chief Medical Officer, Mokokchung, free health services such as General Medicine, Dental, Eye, ENT, Ayush, Orthopedic, Audiometry, Bloodsugar, Haemoglobin, malaria test etc. were done along with free medicine in the two days programme. First- Aid Management and various health talks were also done by the participant doctors. The programme concluded with grand success with more than 315 people availing the free health services.

Through this column, Kohima Khar Fellowship would like to express gratitude and appreciation to all contributors and well wishers who supported us with constant prayers and in various means for the success of the programme.

We sincerely convey our special thanks to :1. Dr. Temjentsungla, Director, Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Nagaland and Team.

2. Dr. R. Chubala Aier, CMO, Mokokchung, Doctors and Team.

3. Dr. Akumnaro Jamir, Faith Hospital, Dimapur and Team.

4. Dr. Nungsangzulu Walling , MO, Alongkima PHC and Team.

5. Dr. Jentilo Ayush ,MO, Mangkolemba and Team.

6. Staff of Khar HWC. 7. Khar Village Council.

8. Khar Baptist Church.

9. Rosep Team, Khar.

10. Khar Coffee Board.

11. All KKF members and Anuk-apang.

We sincerely regret our inability to thank each and every individual but it is our prayers that Almighty God bless you abundantly.

37 TYUI A/C OFFICIAL EZONMONTSURUI CANDIDATE DECLARATION The Ekhung takes the privilege to declare the 37 Tyui A/C Official Ezonmontsurui *'Common Consensus Candidate' in the forthcoming Nagaland General Elections 2023.

The Ekhung on this day, the 20th June, 2022 at Hq. Wokha Town, hereby officially announces the name of Shri. HAYITHUNG BILL LOTHA - and 'DECLARE HIM' the 37 Tyui A/C OFFICIAL EZONMONTSURUI *'COMMON CONSENSUS CANDIDATE, by the congregation of all the Ezonmontsurui Village Units under 37 Tyui A/C. May God bless him and wish him success.

Signatories: Sd/(Er. Sanchio Kithan) Chief Advisor (Yanarao Mozhui) Action Committee Chairman) Sd/(Yibemo Tungoe) M.A Secretary General Sd/(Mhademo Kithan) Working Chairman Sd/(M. Renchamo Shitiri) M.A General Secretary (Attache to Official Candidate) Sd/(Yanrenthung Ngullie) M.A General Secretary i/c. {Finance, Media, Transport, Cells & H.Q. Office Affairs}

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NCA informs

Varinder Singh

Chand Award, Varinder was an integral part of India’s various memorable victories in the 1970s. Some of his major achievements include a gold medal at the 1975 Men’s Hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This remains India’s only

gold medal at the prestigious World Cup where India had beaten arch-rivals Pakistan 2-1.

Varinder was also part of the bronze medal-winning team at the 1972 Munich Olympics and silver medal-winning team at 1973 World Cup in Amsterdam.

He also had to his credit silver medals at the 1974 and 1978 Asian Games, respectively. The Indian hockey stalwart also featured in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

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NEW DELHI, JUN 28 (IANS): Hockey Olympian Varinder Singh passed away at Jalandhar in the early hours on Tuesday morning.

Born on May 16, 1947, he won a bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He also competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Hockey India mourned the demise of the 75-year-old Varinder, saying the two-time Olympian was a part of Indian hockey’s glorious past. Recipient of the prestigious Dhayan

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Hockey Olympian Varinder passes away

Mario Goetze

his transfer to Eintracht but said the World Cup was too far away to be an issue for him.

“The most important thing is that I improve and am successful with the team. The rest will come,” Goetze told a news conference on Tuesday.

“My last international match was a few years ago (2017). At the time I had a specific role and it was all very near to me. Currently, that is not an issue for me.”

Eintracht will be competing in the Champions League group stage next season as Europa League winners.

The World Cup will be held in November and December in Qatar.

“My focus is on matches and the club and to get the most out of my performances. All the rest is not in my head because it is too far into the future,” Goetze said.

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FRANKFURT (GERMANY), JUN 28 (REUTERS): World Cup winner Mario Goetze is not thinking about reclaiming a spot in the Germany team ahead of the Qatar World Cup in November, now that he is back in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt.

The 30-year-old attacking midfielder, who scored the winning goal in the 2014 World Cup final against Argentina, signed a contract with Europa League winners Eintracht last week after two years at PSV Eindhoven.

He rediscovered his form at the Dutch club following his 2020 move from Borussia Dortmund, prompting speculation about a possible return to the national team in time for the Sri Lanka’s cricket captain Dimuth Karunaratne, left, and World Cup later in the year. Goetze his Australian counterpart Pat Cummins hold the Warne- received a congratulatory message Muralitharan Trophy ahead of their first test. (AP/PTI) from Germany coach Hansi Flick for

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SPORTS

5 Pologrounds to come up in Manipur

Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh rides a pony during his visit to Lamphelpat. (NP) Correspondent

IMPHAL, JUN 28: Manipur chief minister, N.Biren Singh on Tuesday announced that Pologrounds will be developed in all the five valley districts of the state.

He made the announcement during an inspection to a newly set up pony breeding ground in Imphal’s Lamphelpat.

Singh inspected the 30 acre pony breeding

ground which was allocated to Manipur Horse Riding and Polo Association (MHRPA).

He also inspected the pony breeding site at Pangei, Imphal East.

Talking to media at Lamphelpat, Singh informed that a Polo ground each would be developed at five valley districts where Sagol Kangjei (polo) ground at Wangjing Tentha in Thoubal district will be developed first.

He said that pony has been associated with Manipur since time immemorial and had taken an important role in driving out the Awa (Burmese) from the erstwhile kingdom during the infamous seven years devastation period.

“However, due to lack of breeding ground, we could see lots of pony gathered at many roads leading to certain accidents and endangering the survival of the species.

Malaysia Open: HS Prannoy advances, Praneeth, Verma exit

KUALA LUMPUR, JUN 28 (PTI): India’s HS Prannoy faced stiff resistance before prevailing against local hero Daren Liew as the Indian shuttler progressed to the men’s singles second round of the Malaysia Open on Tuesday.

A former top-10 player, Prannoy, who had reached the semifinals of Indonesia Open Super 1000 earlier this month, emerged a 2114 17-21 21-18 winner in 62 minutes. The 29-year-old from Kerala, ranked 21st currently, will face fourth seeded Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei next at the Super 750 badminton tournament. Prannoy’s win brought some cheers to the Indian camp after B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma made early exits. While Praneeth went down to world number six Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indo-

HS Prannoy

nesia, Sameer lost to world number 8 Jonatan Christie, also from Indonesia.

The 30-year-old Praneeth, currently ranked world number 19, lost 15-21 21-19 9-21 to Ginting in a 50-minute men’s single match. This was the eighth meeting between the two players with the Indonesian now leading the head-tohead record 5-3. They last played at the 2020 Asian Team championships where

Ginting won the contest after Praneeth retired due to an injury. Sameer, who is making a comeback from injury, fought for 49 minutes before losing 14-21 21-13 7-21 in another match.

In doubles, the women’s pairing of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy also bowed out of the tournament after losing 15-21 11-21 to Japanese duo of Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida, seeded sixth.

As such, the state government along with MHRPA had started bringing the ponies to breeding ground,” Singh said.

The chief minister said that he was surprised to learn from experts that Manipur pony is the only horse breed which has adaptability for feeding at swampy land while expressing his proud feeling for the uniqueness of the pony.

He maintained that the state government had been taking up all possible measures to safeguard the Manipur pony and urged the pony breeders not to let their ponies gather at roadside and to bring them to the breeding ground at Lamphelpat if the breeders don’t have such facilities at their places.

Later, the chief minister also took stock of the progress of construction of a polo ground at Ibudhou Marjing Eco-Tourism Park in Imphal East district.

Singh was accompanied by tribal affairs and hills minister Letpao Haokip, social welfare minister Heikham Dingo and MLA Lourembam Rameshwor Meetei among others during the inspection.

Anand bats for more women chess players

C H E N NA I , J U N 2 8 (AGENCIES): Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday hoped for more women’s chess players to break through the ranks in the country.

Anand was in conversation with RB Ramesh at Sportstar’s first-ever South Sports Conclave in Chennai. “It is very easy to feel very optimistic about India’s youngsters on the boys side but not on the girls side,” Anand said during a panel discussion titled - Chess and Chennai.

“Women like Harika Dronavalli, Koneru Humpy, Bhakti Kulkarni, Tanya Sachdeva are still doing well even though they have been around for a while.

The new ones aren’t really breaking through. I hope this Olympiad will spark something off.

1st late L Viluo 7-a side tournament underway Correspondent

KO H I M A , J U N 2 8 (NPN): The first late Lhouchalie Viluo 7 a-side tournament got underway at L Viluo FIFA turf, Meriema, here on Tuesday.

Speaking as the guest, Nagaland Football Coaches Association (NFCA) president and former international footballer, Roko Angami said Nagaland is witnessing a gradual growth of the sport over the years and the footballers have improved and becoming more disciplined.

Recalling how he grew up with his mother who was widowed when he was at a tender age, he said making it to international football was through hardwork, determination, and with the blessings of the Almighty.

The football coach advised the young players to respect the talent, have the drive to learn and believe in one’s own capabilities. He said times have now changed and younger players have the privilege of being guided by coaches, senior players, and wellwishers to support and promote the sport.

He also encouraged the players to maintain consistency, make sacrifice in the pursuit of achieving their goals, and be enthusi-

Roko Angami with the organizers, guests and officials of the tourney at Kohima on Tuesday. (NP)

astic and passionate about the sport. He added that football has helped him build a vast network and has given him an identity.

More than just a game that requires kicking the ball and running around, he said that the football game involves the whole body and so players should have self control and make the best use of themselves by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

As the L Viluo FIFA turf is the first futsal astro turf pitch in the Northern Angami-II region, he praised the contribution of the family in promoting the sport. He encouraged the players to build team spirit and build good relationship with fellow players through

the sport.

With futsal being recognized by International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and All India Football Federation (AIFF), he hoped to soon witness Naga players at national and international level.

Further, he urged the players to win the hearts of people through the sport and protect sports facilities, both private and public, as their own. The top coach also advised football referees to be honest and fair with their judgment while officiating matches.

Proprietor Viluo Angami, informed that the tournament will witness some of the best footballers in the state as a total of 31

teams from across the state are vying for the championship trophy. The three-day 7-a-side tournament will conclude on June 30.

The winner of the tournament will walk away with a cash prize of Rs 70,000 while the runner up team will receive an amount of Rs 30,000 and the semi finalist teams will receive Rs 10,000 each. An amount of Rs 5,000 will also be awarded to the best goal keeper and the highest scorer.

The inaugural programme was chaired by Thejasetuo Dzüvichü while invocation was pronounced by CRMC, youth pastor, Zhaviu Pienyü and Viluo Angami delivered the welcome address.

Morgan bids adieu to Intl cricket

Eoin Morgan

LONDON, JUN 28 (AP): Eoin Morgan confirmed his retirement from international cricket and stepped down as England’s white-ball captain after more than seven years on Tuesday.

After England’s dismal failure at the 2015 Cricket World Cup, Morgan spearheaded the team’s white-ball transformation to a bold, attacking approach and unprecedented heights. He led England’s to its first global 50-over title at the 2019 World Cup, and the No. 1 ranking in one-day internationals and Twenty20s. They enjoyed series victories against every major team and 60% success on his watch.

“As with all great players and leaders, he has changed the way the game has been played, and he has changed the way an entire generation and generations to come will play this form of the game,” Rob Key, the managing director of England men’s cricket, said.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2022

Hooda’s ton, Samson’s 50 take India to 225/7 against Ireland MALAHIDE (IRELAND), JUN 28 (PTI): Deepak Hooda produced a master-class knock, becoming only the fourth Indian to hit a T20 International century, as the visiting side posted a mammoth 225 for 7 against Ireland in the second and final match here on Tuesday. During his maiden T20I ton (104 off 57 balls), Hooda showed he belonged to the big stage with his scintillating stroke play, both off the front and backfoot.

While Hooda was elegant and at ease on the frontfoot, he was equally good on the backfoot, dispatching the ball over the midwicket boundary for a few sixes. Hooda decorated his knock with nine fours and six hits over the fence.

He was ably supported

by Sanju Samson, who, opening the batting in place of injured Ruturaj Gaikwad, played second fiddle but grabbed his opportunity with both hands.

Samson made 77 off 42 balls with the help of nine boundaries and four sixes.

Both Hooda and Samson’s strokeplay down the ground were a treat for the eyes. But India did not have the best of starts as they lost Ishan Kishan (3) early. The

Deepak Hooda and Sanju Samson. (Twitter/BCCI)

left-handed opener once again wasted an opportunity, nicking a Mark Adair delivery to Lorcan Tucker behind the stumps in the third over.

Hooda and Samson joined hands and the duo batted effortlessly, albeit handing two difficult chances, to share 176 runs off just 85 balls to lay the foundation for India’s huge total.

It was a one-way traffic after Kishan’s dimissal as Hooda and Samson toyed with the Irish bowlers and did not let them settle down.

Except for a difficult chance which Paul Stirling dropped at extra off in the eight over, Hooda played a perfect knock. Samson too was handed a life in the ninth over when leg-spinner

Gareth Delany dropped a difficult caught-and-bowled chance. Samson too played some delightful strokes, particularly off the backfoot during his hallf-century knock. He, however, was cleaned up by Adair in the 17th over.

Hooda brought up his maiden T20I century off 55 balls with a single to join the likes of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Suresh Raina in the elite club of only four Indian centurions in the format. Once Hooda departed at the team score of 212, Surya Kumar Yadav (15) and skipper Hardik Pandya (13 not out) tried to accelerate the scoring but failed as India lost three wickets for the addition of just 14 runs in the last two overs.

TN govt set aside Rs. 92.13 cr for Chess Olympiad: CM C H E N NA I , J U N 2 8 (AGENCIES): Speaking at Sportstar’s South Sports Conclave in Chennai on Tuesday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said that hosting the Chess Olympiad, the world’s biggest chess event, was a proud moment for the state.

“Hosting the 44th Chess Olympiad is a matter of pride for the State of Tamil Nadu. More than 200 countries and 1000 players will participate for the first time in Chennai. Because of the war in Ukraine, FIDE decided to drop Russia, which was going to host it.

A lot of countries worked hard to host the tournament. With AICF, we decided to bring it to India. Our government was able to take quick decisions and did all the necessary work expeditiously and we got it [hosting rights].

“To host this event,

Barca consider legal action against AS Roma

BARCELONA, JUN 28 (IANS): FC Barcelona are considering taking legal action against the Italian club AS Roma after they withdrew from the Joan Gamper Trophy, scheduled to be played on August 6 at Camp Nou. The Spanish club said that they are working on finding a new opponent for this year’s edition.

“The club’s legal department is studying possible action against the Italian club for damages caused to FC Barcelona and its fans due to this unexpected and unjustified decision,” Barcelona said in a statement.

FC Barcelona said that AS Roma have decided to unilaterally, without reason, withdraw from the agreed contract for both parties for the Joan Gamper Trophy game that was to be played on August 6 at Camp Nou. “In the next 24 hours the return of money already spent on tickets will begin and the Club wants to make it clear that the suspension of the games has been due to circumstances outside the control of FC Barcelona, the express wish of AS Roma,” it added.

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the state government has set aside Rs. 92.13 crores.

This conclave comes at the right time. The Hindu Group has chosen the right time to host this,” Stalin said during his keynote address.

According to Sportstar report, former Indian footballer Isaiah Arumainayagam and athlete Barath Sridhar won the HeroMotoCorp Unsung Champion and Emerging Hero honours respectively at

the Sportstar South Sports Conclave. The duo was honoured by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and The Hindu Group Chairperson Malini Parthasarathy.

“As Sportstar seeks to entertain and enthrall our audiences with sharp and live narrating of major games and sports as they unfold, we also see it as our mission to raise consciousness in our country of the need to become a major sporting nation.

We want to reach out to youth, to participate in the national endeavour to build skills in grass-root sports and to identify new talent that will be an asset to our country.

“Our Chief Minister has shown a lot of zeal and commitment to this important cause, and he has made clear that he will do his bit to make Tamil Nadu a state that will be a reservoir of sporting talent

and raise the bar for sports here. Right from the beginning of his tenure, Thiru Stalin has underlined the importance of honouring the role of sports as a teambuilding and morale-boosting aspect of our society,” Malini Parthasarathy said.

Meanwhile, the TN CM also expressed his love for cricket. “I am a big fan of cricket and played while I was mayor. I never miss out on watching a game.

Dr. Kalaignar (M. Karunanidhi) would always watch cricket amidst his busy schedule,” he said.

The conclave was held in association with Hero We Care, a Hero Motocorp CSR Initiative, K J Somaiya Institute of Management, JK Tyre, FIITJEE Global School, Indian Oil, Nippon Paint and Casagrand and Radio City.

The first edition of the Sportstar Sports Conclave was held in July 2021 in Kerala.

Wimbledon: Nadal survives scare; Iga Swiatek enters second round

LO N D O N, J U N 2 8 (AGENCIES/IANS): Rafael Nadal got his Wimbledon campaign off to a winning start, though he needed four sets to do it. While World No.1 Iga Swiatek safely navigated the first round at Wimbledon, beating Croatian qualifier Jana Fett in straight sets, stretching her winning streak to 36 matches, the most consecutive wins since 2000.

The second-seeded Nadal defeated Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on Centre Court. The Spaniard is attempting to win his third consecutive Grand Slam tournament to add to his men’s record 22 major titles.

It was Nadal’s first match since winning the French Open earlier this month. The three weeks off showed at times, as Nadal amassed 41 unforced errors to go with 23 winners.

At Roland Garros, Nadal needed injections to numb the pain in his bothersome left foot. But he entered Wimbledon optimistic about the foot after receiving new treatment.

Iga Swiatek extends winning streak to 36 Playing her first match since bagging the French Open title earlier this month,

Rafael Nadal

the 21-year-old Polish won her Centre Court contest 6-0, 6-3 in 75 minutes to be safely through to the second round.

Swiatek has now matched Monica Seles’s 36-match winning streak from 1990.

A second-round win would tie Martina Hingis’s season-opening 37-match winning streak in 1997. The top seed has fallen at the opening stage only three times in SW19. And Swiatek did not give any indications that she would disrupt the tradition.

Opening Centre Court play on Tuesday and against a player who was playing just her third Grand Slam main draw. Swiatek was dominant in the first set but was heavily tested by Fett in

the second set.

Fett increasingly drew errors from the top seed as the match progressed, and held five break points to take a commanding 4-1 lead in the second set.

But Swiatek’s powerful groundstrokes held her in good stead and she squeaked her way out of trouble before grabbing the last five games of the match.

Swiatek converted six of her 10 break points on the day, according to a report on the WTA tour website.

Former Top 100 player Fett is now 0-3 against Top 10 players in her career. Fett famously held two match points against Caroline Wozniacki in the second round of the 2018 Australian Open -- an event Wozniacki would go on to win.

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