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Patton, Along in Delhi; awaits Centre’s take on proposed NUG Correspondent

KO H I M A , AU G 2 9 (NPN): Nagaland BJP faces an agonising wait over whether or not to finally go ahead with the decision for formation of the controversial all-party government titled ‘Nagaland United Government’ (NUG) comprising of PDA constituents (NDPP, BJP & Independent) and opposition NPF legislators.

After the August 13 joint resolution signed by the PDA coalition- NDPP and BJP with opposition NPF to form the proposed NUG, union home minister Amit Shah on August 19 summoned chief minister Neiphiu Rio, BJP legislature party leader and deputy chief minister Y. Patton and state BJP president and minister higher education & tribal affairs Temjen Imna Along to Delhi for discussion over the issue.

It may be recalled that the NUG was mooted for all legislators to be under one government for the Naga political issue and also to act as facilitators to bring all stakeholders together for early solution to the Naga political issue.

New BH number series for vehicles

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (AGENCIES): Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has introduced a new registration mark for new vehicles– Bharat series (BHseries). A vehicle with BH mark will not require a new registration mark when the owner shifts from one State to another.

This facility will be available on voluntary basis to Defence personnel, employees of Central & State Govt; Central and State PSUs; and private sector companies having their offices in 4 or more States/ UTs. (Read more on p-7)

Y. Patton and Imna Along during the meeting with union home minister Amit Shah and national BJP president JP Nadda in Delhi on August 21. (Twitter)

However, the BJP central leaders maintained that since all legislators are together under the Core Committee for the Naga political issue, there was no need to bring all legislators to form an all-party government for the same issue.

After the meeting with home minister Amit Shah on August 21, chief minister Neiphiu Rio returned to Nagaland while both Patton and Imna Along stayed back in Delhi for further consultations.

Sources said Rio was also informed to get back over the proposed NUG in the light of the views of the Centre being made known.

When contacted over

phone, Imna Along, who is currently in Delhi along with Y. Patton, informed Nagaland Post that since BJP high command will decide on the proposed NUG, the state BJP legislature will act as per the directives of its leaders.

The state BJP organisation is also faced with differences of opinions when senior party workers on August 26 expressed total opposition against the proposed NUG. The press statement by the BJP party workers was followed by both NDPP and NPF holding their respective consultative meetings among legislators and party functionaries on

August 28 in which the two parties reaffirmed the resolution for NUG. While the NDPP and NPF reaffirmed the decision for NUG, the state BJP is yet to take the call since the final decision over the issue is to be decided by the BJP high command.

There are speculations over what would happen if BJP high command decides not to go ahead with the proposed NUG. BJP may decline on the ground that an opposition-less assembly and government does not serve the people and is also undemocratic and cannot guarantee securing of an early political settlement.

JOHANNESBURG, AUG 29 (IANS): South Africa has identified a potential variant of interest (VOI) of Covid-19 that is assigned to the PANGO lineage C.1.2.

C.1.2 was first identified in May 2021 during the third wave of Covid in the country, said researchers from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the KwaZuluNatal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.

It has since been detected across the majority of the provinces in South Africa and in seven other countries spanning Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania,

GUWAHATI, AUG 29 (PTI): Over 1.8 kilogram of heroin worth Rs 14 crore in the international market have been seized from two different places by the Guwahati Police and at least eight alleged drug peddlers have been arrested, a senior police officer said.

The heroin was seized during operations on Saturday late night after the police received specific information from their sources, Guwahati Police Commissioner Harmeet Singh told PTI. “During last night, we had two drug hauls in different parts

"If you install a pre-paid meter, we won't be able to help you."

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NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (IANS): The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has extended the ban on scheduled international commercial passenger flights to and from India till September 30.

The ban was previously extended till the end of August.

In a circular on Sunday, the civil aviation regulator said: “The competent authority has further extended the validity of circular issued on the subject cited above regarding Scheduled International commercial passenger services to/from India till 2359 hrs IST of September 30, 2021.”

It added that this restriction shall not apply to international all-cargo operations and flights approved by the DGCA. However, international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the regulator on a caseto-case basis.

Scheduled international passenger flights were suspended in India in March last year due to the Covid pandemic. While domestic flights resumed in May 2020 and were gradually increased, international travel remained suspended with consecutive extension of the ban.

South Africa detects new Covid variant C.1.2 the researchers reported in the study that is yet to be peer-reviewed and is posted on pre-print server medRxiv.

The variant has evolved from C.1, one of the lineages that dominated the first wave of infections in South Africa and was last detected in January 2021.

C.1.2 is “associated with increased transmissibility and reduced neutralisation sensitivity,” wrote the team, including Cathrine Scheepers, from NICD, in the abstract. Compared to C.1, the new variant has “mutated substantially” and is more mutations away from the original virus detected

in Wuhan than any other Variant of Concern (VOC) or VOI detected so far worldwide. According to the study, C.1.2 has 41.8 mutations per

of the city. In the first case, we seized around 1.324 kg of heroin.

In the second operation, around 500 grams of heroin were seized,” he added.

In the first operation, acting on specific information about the shipment of a consignment from Manipur, a Guwahati Police special squad, led by Joint Commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta, intercepted a sports utility vehicle on Saturday night and seized the heroin packed in 100 soap cases, he added. “ T h i s c o n s i g n m e n t wa s

year. It is approximately 1.7fold faster than the current global rate and 1.8-fold faster than the initial estimate of SARS-CoV-2 evolution.

Delta sublineage AY.12 found in India

A new sublineage of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant known as AY.12 has been detected in a number of states in India, and is most likely the cause of the latest surge of Covid cases in Israel.

According to the weekly bulletin by the Indian SARSCoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), the Delta variant continues to infect people around the world with Israel seeing new cases rising to near previous highs despite about 60 per cent of the population being fully vaccinated.

INSACOG said that many cases in India, which were earlier classified as Delta, are now reclassified as AY.12.

“However, since the AY.12 definition is inconsistent, final numbers will take some time,” the statement said.

Heroin worth `14 crore seized in Assam; 8 arrested

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Ban on Intl flights extended till Sep 30

tracked by the special squad right from Moreh to Churachandpur in Manipur, till Sonapur near Guwahati where it was seized. The packets were concealed under the dashboard and inside the rear tail lights of the car. “The vehicle had to be opened up by specialist mechanics to get to the drugs,” the senior police officer said.

Four persons from Manipur were arrested in this connection, Singh said. Two mechanics, travelling in the vehicle, were among those arrested, the police officer (Cont’d on p-8) said.

Varsities set to introduce curriculum based on NEP NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (IANS): Central universities, IITs and the private sector higher education institutions are set to introduce the curriculum as per the New Education Policy (NEP) from the current academic session itself.

Central universities are working on new non-technical postgraduate (PG) courses, where students can directly take admission in PG courses after passing 12th. The initiative is based on the multiple entry and exit system outlined in the NEP. (Read more on p-5)

2 silvers won, a bronze on hold: India’s remarkable day at Paralympics SPORTS, PAGE 12

Tobacco use among kids in State alarming Current use of 'any tobacco' among students age Use of ‘any tobacco’ among students age between 13-15 by States/UTs (%): GYTS-4, 2019 13-15 years by States/UTs (%): GYTS-4, 2019

57.9 57.9

42.6 33.6 24.8

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Survey finds 42.6% children consume tobacco in Nagaland Staff Reporter

D I M A P U R , AU G 2 6 (NPN): An alarming trend of high tobacco consumption among students has been found in Nagaland as per a survey conducted by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) under the Union ministry of health & family welfare (MoHFW).

According to the study, 42.6% children in 13-15 years category have been found to be consuming tobacco as against the national average of just a mere 8.5 percent. Conducted as part of national survey by IIPS in 36 States and Union Territories, the Global Youth Tobacco Survey-4 (GYTS-4) 2019 found tobacco consumption among children at 57.9% in Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram, while Nagaland registered the second highest at 42.6%. (See table) In Nagaland, GYTS-4 had an overall response rate of 83.4% wherein a total of 1,919 students from 23 schools (eight public and 15

private) participated. And out of the 1,919 students, 1,438 aged 13-15 years were considered for reporting.

On tobacco use, the report stated that 43% of students (62% boys and 24% girls) currently used tobacco products, 27% (46% boys and 7.7% girls) currently smoked tobacco, 20% (37% boys and 4.4% girls) currently smoked cigarette, 21% (38% boys and 4.5% girls) currently smoked bidi and 35% (52% boys and 19% girls) currently used smokeless tobacco.

Access and availability: The study found 85% of current cigarette smokers and 78% of current bidi smokers bought cigarettes/bidis from a store, paan shop or street vendor.

Shockingly, 82% of the cigarette smokers and 83% bidi smokers were not refused because of their age.

Purchase of cigarette at a paan shop has been found as the major source for tobacco products with 62.5% boys and 33% girls making the purchase, out of which 65.1% are from rural, while 49.3% are from urban areas.

A s p e r t h e s t u dy, 32.5% of students said the usual smoking place was at social events, while 28.9% and 21.5% cited home and

Control

the spike that forms the crown, attacks the receptor ACE2, damaging the mitocondrias that generate the energy of the cells, thus damaging the endothelium,

Spike Protein

which lines the blood vessel.

This is something that has already been observed, but what wasn’t previously known is the exact mechanism and role of

(Cont’d on p-8)

State logs 52 fresh Covid cases, 3 deaths DIMAPUR, AUG 29 (NPN): Nagaland on August 29 recorded 52 fresh Covid-19 positive cases and three deaths.

Of the fresh cases, 16 were from Dimapur, Kohima-15, seven in Mon, five in Phek, four in Zunheboto, three in Mokokchung and two in Wokha, taking the total caseload to 29972.

Further, three more patients succumbed to the virus in Kohima, pushing the death toll to 617 (including 14 non-Covid deaths but with positivity).

PTI: I n d i a a d d e d 45,083 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,26,95,030, while ac-

COVID-19 STATUS AS ON AUGUST 29, 2021 District

Dimapur Kiphire Kohima Longleng Mokokchung Mon Peren Phek Tuensang Wokha Zunheboto Total

Asymptom- Mild atic 235 11 91 2 159 25 6 27 7 26 25 614

31 1 91 8 5 3 0 0 0 0 3 142

ACTIVE CASES Symptomatic SEVERE Moderate ICU On On (without OxyOxyventilagen gen tor) 5 5 10 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 7 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 17 15 10

the S protein. This protein is replicated by all of the currently available vaccines, the team said.

For the study, the team created a pseudovirus for the study, which only had the S protein but not the rest of the virus, to show in the lab that this protein is enough by itself to cause disease.

The effects on the respiratory system are a consequence of the inflammation of the vascular tissue in the lungs.

“A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it’s really a vascular disease,”

RecovDeath ered

ICU (On ventilator 4 12469 365 0 219 8 4 8609 113 0 258 0 0 1877 49 0 1062 11 0 875 4 0 457 17 0 984 11 0 297 11 0 558 14 8 27665 603

Non Covid Deaths MiTotal with gratCases Covid 19 ed Positivity 10 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 14

607 13739 1 240 154 9065 15 285 53 2153 17 1122 7 894 3 506 3 1004 13 351 11 613 884 29972

*14 deaths not due to Covid-19 *0 deaths under investigation

tive cases registered an increase for the fifth consecutive day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.

Covid-19 vascular disease, not respiratory, says study NEW YORK, AUG 29 (IANS): Covid-19 is not a respiratory illness, as widely accepted, but a vascular one, claims a study.

The study, led by the University of California-San Diego, could explain blood clots in some Covid patients and other issues like “Covid feet”, which are not typical symptoms of a respiratory illness, Euronews reported.

The findings, published in the journal Circulation Research, showed how the virus attacks the vascular or circulatory system.

The S protein of the virus,

school respectively and 11.8% cited other places.

When contacted by Nagaland Post, H&FW joint director and National Tobacco Control Programme’s (NTCP) State nodal officer Dr Chiekroshuyi Tetseo expressed grave concern over high tobacco consumption at an early age.

The joint director warned that early exposure to tobacco led to stronger addiction, which could lead to life-long use thereby causing tobacco-related ailments.

Tetseo pointed out that students were mostly influenced by people around them like their parents, teachers, health workers, peers, etc, and hence stressed creating a conducive environment for them.

To discourage tobacco consumption, Tetseo suggested measures like ban on sale of tobacco near educational institutions, claiming that aggressive anti-tobacco awareness campaignswere also being carried out.

Tetseo acknowledged that without better coordination and support from school education department and churches, creating awareness on the issue would never succeed.

On the findings of

Uri Manor, assistant research professor, at the varsity was quoted as saying.

“That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings,” Manor added.

According to Professor Rafael Manez Mendiluce, head of intensive care at Bellvitge University Hospital in Spain, the vascular problem could be related to the inflammatory response of the patient’s immune system.

The death toll has climbed to 4,37,830 with 460 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

Gov greets on Janmashtami DIMAPUR, AUG 29 (NPN): Nagaland governor, R.N. Ravi extend greetings to the people of Nagaland on the occasion of Janmashtami, to celebrate the birth, life and teachings of Lord Krishna.

Ravi hoped that “his noble message of righteous conduct and action inspire each and every one of us to strengthen the moral foundations of our society.” He called upon the people to imbibe the festival’s message of love, compassion and selfless service and work together to take the great nation forward. “On this auspicious occasion, I wish you all good health, happiness and prosperity,” Ravi said and urged all to observe Covid-19 protocols during the celebrations.

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KCJA Day celebrated at Kidima village

KCJA members and children at the celebration.

DIMAPUR: The 31st Kidima Catholic Juniors Association (KCJA) Day was celebrated Sunday under the theme, “Son are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward” (Psalm 127:3) with Reverend Father Siby John, Parish Priest as main celebrant at the church premises.

A press release by

KCJA stated that in his message, Rev. Fr Siby John said children are the backbone and the future of the society and urged the children to know, to love and with God and be blessed.

The words of God were read by Vizonole Antonia, Noketole Justina and Krovito George (Catechist) along with Holy Mass celebration the feast

of body and blood of Jesus Christ.

The activities report of the KCYA was presented

by Vizokhonu Flora while competitions like group hymn and solo were highlights of the celebration.

The Franciscan Sisters of Saint Mary of the Angels (FSMA), parents and wellwishers took part in the joyful sacred feast day.

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SJU conducts webinar on animal cell culture DIMAPUR: A webinar on “Animal Cell Culture: Basics, applications and m o d e r n i n n ova t i o n s ” was conducted by the department of Botany, St Joseph University on August 28.

A press release by SJU stated that guest speaker biochemist and Animal Cell Culture Specialist, Athmic Biotech Solutions, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, Dr. Abhilash S explained the importance of cell culture in medical and biological sciences.

He explained the use of primary and secondary cell lines, processes to obtain cell lines, the importance of subculturing, various media and media compositions needed for of cell cultures

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AR organise skill development prog DIMAPUR: Assam Rifles Ghaspani battalion conducted skill development and demonstrations on rain harvesting programme, under the theme, “skill development” on August 28 at Zhuikhu Bawe village, Dimapur In a press release, Assam Rifles stated that the objective was to skill youth to get employment.

It said demonstration of rain water harvesting was displayed to villagers to educate technique of collection and storage of rainwater into natural reservoir or tanks.

Skill development programme in progress.

and different types of assays used (such as MTT assay and apoptosis assay).

Dr. Abhilash also gave an explanation on the significance of cell culture and its recent innovations in drug discovery, vaccine development, cancer research, hormonal studies, mechanism of drug action, stem cell culture, cosmetic assays, testing the efficiency of Ayurveda and other drugs, production of lab meat, organ development and the importance of medicinal plants in drug discovery.

T h e we b i n a r wa s attended by faculties, research scholars and students from the DIMAPUR: A team of Zeliangrong department of Botany of Baudi Nagaland (ZBN) carried out an St Joseph University. inspection of National Highway 129A Dimapur – Maram Road package I (17.2 km) which starts from Tepuiki Bridge to Peletkie junction.

In a press release, ZBN said during an DIMAPUR:NNC/FGN inducted Zhuphio Ngullie, Renpen Lotha, Roland N. Tsopoe and Lichio Lotha interaction with the contractors, the team as deputy kilonsers and appointed Elias Kithan, N. pointed out the slow pace of construction Chonbemo Kithan and R. Abemo Jami as deputy and asked them to strictly adhere to the time schedule and quality. secretaries from the Lotha Region.

ZBN inspects NH 129A construction

NNC/FGN inducts & appoints

Taking into account the ongoing monsoon, ZBN said the team “realised the difficulties”, however, stressed on “full concentration” as soon as the dry season begins.

Further, ZBN said it would be monitoring the construction by deploying volunteers in collaboration with site engineers of National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL).

CYF cautions against illegal taxation ATMA blocks organise various programmes for farmers DIMAPUR: Chakhesang Youth Front (CYF) has vehemently cautioned against illegal taxation and anti-social elements hampering progress of developmental activities under its jurisdiction.

In a press release, CYF president, Lhuvesayi Lohe and general secretary, Nyito Therie while reiterating Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO) resolution against illegal taxation and anti-social elements said the front strongly support the decision made by the people of Chakhesang community.

CYF has also directed its village/ town/area units to report any illegal

taxation or anti-social activities.

Meanwhile, stressing on importance of two-lane mega projects in the district, CYF said the project would benefit every section of society and added that that it was bounden duty of all concern to support and cooperate with authorities.

CYF has asked National Highways a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e D eve l o p m e n t Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) and its contractors working in different packages to complete the project on time and deliver quality work. CYF has also extended support and cooperation for early completion of the project.

DIMAPUR: Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) blocks a c r o s s t h e s t a t e h ave been organising training, inaugurating farm schools, conducting demonstration and carrying out field trips for farmers.

Akuluto block: ATMA Akuluto block inaugurated integrated Farm School on August 11 at Sumi Settsu village with Nikuto Sema as farm school teacher.

A press release by the block stated that demonstration on integrated pest management in vegetables, fishery pond management and verminc o m p o s t i n g we r e a l s o conducted at the farm school.

Training on natural

the block stated that the resource person highlighted the importance of beekeeping and made necessary suggestions based on their present system of practice.

Yo n k o n g l i m b a advised the farmers on how beekeeping could bring about changes in their social and economic status and further urged the farmers ATMA Tuensang, Shamator block. to put more effort in their resource management was and field day on IPM in works. conducted at Sumi Settsu maize crop on August 10, at FIRST village with assistant chief Alaphumi village. technical officer, KVK, Shamator block: DEATH ANNIVERSARY Visakho, ATM, Tiarenla A T M A T u e n s a n g , of and BTM, Tsuktilemlam as Shamator block conducted H. Amenla Phom resource persons. field day on “beekeeping” (Died on 30th August 2020) T h e b l o c k a l s o on August 11 at Yakor c o n d u c t e d o n e d a y Village with horticulture You are near, capacity building and skill inspector, Yonkonglimba as even if we don’t see you, development programme on the resource person.

You are with us, oyster mushroom cultivation A press release by even if you are far away,

Various block activities were also carried out at Wa p h u r V i l l a g e w i t h Yimobendang, BTM Shamator block as the resource person. Training and demonstration program include neem sheild, usage of neem oil and packages of practice on banana cultivation. A new Food Security Group (FSG) was also formed at Shamator (NAP) sector.

You are in our hearts, in our thoughts, And In our lives always. db-176

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Loving family members

Acknowledgement

Job.1:21. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.

Rest House Ward Kiphire conducted a mass social work from Tuensang Road to Yangphi Government High School on August 28.

First Death anniversary

LT. KHoNTSENo YANTHAN 14-04-1946 to 24-08-2021 We the bereaved family members of Lt. Khontseno Yanthan, W/o Lt. Nyamo Yanthan (Pangti) extends our sincere gratitude to every individual, families, friends, churches and organisations who has supported us physically, morally, financially, materially and through prayers at the sad demise of our beloved.

Regretting our inability to personally thank and acknowledge each and every individual, we earnestly pray that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving children, in-laws and family members. db-177

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30-08-2021

“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was.”

– Hebrew Proverb

A life well-lived is a legacy, of joy and pride and pleasure, a living, lasting memory our grateful hearts will treasure.

Deeply, we know that love triumphs over death.

Our father continues to be loved, and therefore he remains by our side. dp-4197

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Loving Family

(31st Oct 1967 – 21st Aug 2021) “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”

– Job 1:21 We, the bereaved family of Late G. Ghoito Yeptho. HD. GB Ghoshito Village, would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the Churches, Organizations, Societies, Individuals and well -wishers who supported and stood with us physically, financially and through prayer support during his illness till the time of his demise. We are eternally indebted to you all.

We also convey our special gratitude towards: 1. Western Sümi Baptist Akukuhou 16. Ghoshito Baptist Church (GBC).

Küqhakulu (WSBAK).

17. Youth Ministry, GBC. 2. Dimapur Sümi Baptist Church (DSBC).

18. Ghoshito Village Council.

3. Youth Ministry, DSBC. 19. Ghoshito Local Students’ Union 4. Town Area Fellowship, DSBC. 20. Aghunaqa Tokukujo Kükami Hoho 5. Town Area Youth Ministry, DSBC. 21. Dimapur Arms Dealer Association.

6. Chishilimi Baptist Church.

22. Women Welfare Society Eros Lane, Dimapur.

7. Women Dept. Chishilimi Baptist Church.

23. Jacob Zhimomi, Minister, PHED. 8. Youth Dept. Chishilimi Baptist Church.

24. Tovihoto Aye, MLA & Advisor Power.

9. Chishilimi Village Council.

25. Akato Chophi, Vice President, NSCN-R. 10. Chishilimi Welfare Dimapur.

26. Mr. & Mrs. Neibu Nagi.

11. Youth Dept. Lazami Baptist Church.

27. Kethoseto Sekhose, RD Project Director.

12. Youth Dept. Kikheyi Baptist Church.

28. Dr. Anguto Kiho.

13. Youth Dept. Homeland Baptist Church.

29. Dr. Manong Chohwanglim.

14. Husto Baptist Church.

30. Dr. Mitul Baruah, Apollo Hospital, Guwahati 15. L. Vihoto Baptist Church.

31. Zion Hospital Dimapur.

Loving Wife, Children, Grand Children and Family Members. dp-4214

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WEATHER FORECAST AUGUST 30

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala An afternoon thunderstorm

31 25

A couple fo thunderstorms

26 21

Aizawl

Guwahati A thunderstorm in spots

31 25

Imphal

Cloud, a thunderstorm

Itanagar

Some rain and a thunderstorm 26 23

Shillong

Cloudy, a shower and t-storm

21 18

Kohima

Cloudy with a thunderstorm

22 18

Dimapur

A t-storm around in the a.m.

27 23

Mkg

Cloudy with a thunderstorm

23 19

Tuensang Cloudy with a thunderstorm

19 15

Cooler, a stray a.m. t-storm

23 21

Zunheboto Cloudy with a thunderstorm

21 17

Wokha

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NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021

NSRLM officials and the newly recruited area coordinators.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRLM) organised orientation and induction of newly recruited area coordinators- farm and non-farm livelihoods, Training of Trainers (ToT) on Financial Management of model Cluster Level Federation (FM MCLF) on August 24-28 at Kohima.

A press release by NSRLM stated that in a keynote address, joint

secretary, RD and mission director, NSRLM, Imtimenla welcomed the new recruits and briefly highlighted the commendable work and achievement of NSRLM in its 9th year of implementation.

She encouraged the new recruits to thrive for positive contribution to the people and the community and take it as an honour to be working for upliftment of the rural poor of

Nagaland.

In his address, additional mission director, NSRLM, T Setsathong Sangtam while welcoming the new team emphasised on the need of empowering women and promoting gender equality to improve the lives of the poor household both economically and socially.

He shared how the lives of the poor masses in rural areas were positively

impacted through NSRLM women Self Help Groups (SHGs) and Village Level Organisations (VLOs).

Chief Operating Officer (Programs)M. Rollan Lotha also encouraged the new team and added that they are the first generation of non-farm livelihoods professionals being inducted into the state mission.

Speaking at the induction of the farm-livelihoods team from agri& allied background, Lotha stressed on the need to promote integrated farming systems to facilitate farm based habitations and aggregation of farmers produce through producer groups and producer enterprises.

Speaking to the managers from 11 districts and 74 blocks at the model cluster level federation financial management training, Lotha stressed on the need to have 74 cluster level federations in all the 74 blocks by 2023.

He said these community institutions would remain as a self-managed sustainable grassroot institutions of poor, who will act as an effective financial intermediary.

RBCAN holds programme for Church leaders UC organises workshop on writing research papers

Church leaders at the programme organised by RBCAN.

kumar spoke on basics of research and various steps towards writing good quality papers.

He broke down the stages on process of writing and publishing research articles, discussing intricacies of each of these stages and their criticality.

Meanwhile, head of the department of political science, Dr.Rimmei Longmei shared the importance of research in education, and the need to introduce it at college level, to instruct and train our students.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme was chaired by Siamthianngai of BA 5th semester, Leipa Konyak of MA 3rd semester proposed the vote of thanks while an interaction was held with the resource person.

Rongmei Youth Club Dimapur along with Rongmei frontal organization based in Dimapur observed martyr’s day of Haipou Jadonang at Rongmei Customary Court Chungaizaeng on August 29.

Darogajan Chumu orgns back ‘one govt, one tax’ Chümouke- to not tolerate multiple village names road DIMAPUR: dima Town Women’s’ Or- taxations and would only (CTWO), Chü- pay one tax to one entity. after P.K. Thaosen ganisation moukedima Town Youth Stating that the resolu-

DIMAPUR: Darogajan Village has named a road after late P.K. Thaosen for which an “unveiling programme of P.K. Thaosen road” was held on August 28 at Darogajan village.

A press release by Darogajan Village Council (DVC) stated that the unveiling was done by joint director, department of agriculture, S.K. Khemprai after a dedicatory prayer

by Rev. Jihoto Z. Yeptho.

A brief history of P.K Thaosen was highlighted by Darogajan Village Council chairman P.M. Thaosen. The programme ended with a benediction by village council member of Darogajan village Remila, Longmailai.

DIMAPUR: Rongmei Baptist Church Association Nagaland (RBCAN) organised programme under the topic, “The gifts and works of the Holy Spirit in the Church Today” for church leaders on August

27 at RBCBC Dimapur.

In a press release, RBCAN said facilitator of the programme, associate professor, Dr.Alem Sangtam from Discipleship Bible College emphasised on importance of work

KSUD membership drive from Sep 1

GPPK observes Webinar on ‘sustainable Chemistry and its impact’ ‘Balidan Diwas’

DIMAPUR: Khiamniungan Students Union Dimapur (KSUD) will be carrying out a membership drive from September 1 to 31, 2021.

According to KSUD media cell, the exercise will be carried out to ensure proper census of the students as per the resolution.

Students residing in hostels and paying guests have been asked to contact – 7005499583.

Meanwhile, the union has appealed to those students residing as domestic helpers to enroll themselves without fail.

Further details for enquiry/ domestic helpers, details can be contacted at 9366107385, 7005731660 and 7085354758.

DIMAPUR: Two-day national webinar on the theme “Sustainable Chemistry and its impact on Society” organised by department of Chemistry, St. Joseph’s College (A), Jakhama came to an end on August 28. The webinar was held through Zoom online platform and offline modes.

Resource person of the first technical session, PDF, IIT Guwahati, Dr. Geetmani Singh Nongthombam presented a topic “Insights into the Chemistry of Steroids,” where he cleared the misconceptions of its consumptions and how they function. He also spoke on its productions and side effects. The resource person of the second technical session, Asst.

Professor, department of Environmental sciences, Nagaland University, Dr. Latonglila Jamir spoke on

of Holy Spirit for growth of church. RBCAN said identifying nine different gifts, purpose of these gifts and works of Holy Spirit in church today were focused during the two sessions of the programme.

DIMAPUR: Unity College (UC) Dimapur department of political science on August 21 organised an online workshop on “basics of research and the art of writing good research papers”.

In a press release, the college informed that the objective of the programme was to introduce undergraduates to basics and fundamentals of research and to provide them with introductory lessons in making the jump from classroom to academic research.

Speaking at the workshop as resource person, associate professor, centre for political studies, school of social sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr. V Biju-

Mangkolemba Ao Lanur Telongjem (MALT) organised a sanitisation drive in different parts of Mangkolemba. Shops, CHC Mangkolemba, school, church and town hall were disinfected during the drive. Placards and pamphlets were also placed at different locations in the town.

Participants of the webinar.

“Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmaceuticals: Impact on society and Environment”. She also spoke on the drug industries and its synthesis and presented the scope on its research.

On the second day, resource person, Asst.

Professor, department of Chemistry, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, Dr. Ramen Jamatia spoke on “Nanomaterials in Organic Synthesis”.

He dwelt on how nano materials was impacting the society and how it was reshaping various fields like agriculture, medicines etc. He also presented on its extractions synthetically and by separation.

Later, head of department of chemistry, St Joseph’s University, Dimapur, Dr. M Arockia Doss as a resource person spoke on “Design for Degradation”, and highlighted on its pre-

vention and degradation.

After the technical sessions, vote of thanks was delivered by dean of Science, SJC(A), Jakhama, Fev. Fr. Peter Solo, wherein he thanked all the participants of online and offline modes, and expressed his gratefulness and satisfaction on how the resource persons presented the papers.

Earlier, on the first day, the first session chaired

by Asst. Professor, department of Chemistry SJC(A) Jakhama, Senchumbeni Yanthan began with a welcome address by principal, St. Joseph’s college (A) Jakhama, Rev. Fr. Dr. George Keduolhou Angami. On the second day, the first session was chaired

by Asst. Professor, SJC(A), Jakhama, Madovi David and the second session was chaired by Asst. Professor, SJC(A), Jakhama, Gaijuliu.

Organisation (CTYO) and Chümoukedima Students Union (CTSU) have reiterated support for “one government, one taxation”.

In a press release, CTWO president, Dievilhoutuonuo Thakro, CTYO president, Hovise Naleo and CTSU president, Kezawelie Richa reminded that on February 13, 2014, the citizens of Chümoukedima had unanimously resolved

tion still stands, the unions regretted that recently “random elements” have started to emerge again to collect tax causing hardships to business community and public of Chümoukedima town.

Further, the unions have asked the Naga political groups to do away with multiple taxations and work together as one for one common cause.

A charity screening camp for ears was held on August 27 at CHC Yachem village. (DIPR)

in Kohima

DIMAPUR: Gorkha Public Panchayat, Kohima (GPPK) observed “Balidan Diwas” (Martyrs’ Day) in memory of major Durga Malla and captain Neikezhakuo Kenguruse and other martyrs on August 25 at GPPK Hall, Kohima.

A press release by GPPK stated that leaders of various Gorkha organisations in the state capital paid rich floral tribute for the supreme sacrifice made by the gallant heroes.

Sharing the significance of the day, GPPK president Santu Thapa spoke about the sacrifice made by major Malla to achieve India’s Independence and the brave act of captain Kenguruse during the Kargil War to protect the border of the country.

SJC holds webinars, talks for students

DIMAPUR: St. John College (SJC) Dimapur organised programmes on “gendering security” and “bamboo and its ecosystem functions”, “Women Equality Day 2021” and “Indian Political Thinker: Kautilya” on different occasions.

In a press release, SJC stated that a talk on “Gendering Security: Understanding Gender differentiated imagines in foreign Policy” was conducted by Jube Boruah Mondal of political science department.

Resource person, assistant professor, Urbi Das from department of International Relation Javadpur K Y M C

University Kolkata spoke on gender discrimination or differences that women face from independence till date.

A webinar on “bamboo and its ecosystem functions” was organised by department of Botany in collaboration with horticulture club with district environment coordinator, Goalpara, Assam, Dr. Mukta Chandra Das as the resource person.

On the occasion of Women Equality Day 2021, political science department and anti-ragging and sexual harassment committee, conducted programme on women empowerment, participation in politics and

their security.

Resource person, assistant professor, Mayashree Gharphalia from JB Law College Guwahati, Assam spoke in regards to women’s role in house, society towards nation and also how their participation in local bodies or at national level would help to bring out women related issues.

A talk on “Indian Political Thinker: Kautilya” was organised by political science department on August 27 with assistant professor, Sujit Kumar Sonowal from department, Women’s College, Tinsukia, Assam as resource person.

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Hobe’ in Assam, Tripura and Over 500 Congress workers join TMC in Assam ‘Khela Delhi in 2024: TMC chief Mamata

S I LC H A R , AU G 2 9 (AGENCIES): Over 500 Congress workers from Cachar district of Assam officially joined Trinamool Congress Party on Sunday following the footsteps of former president of All India Mahila Congress Sushmita Dev, re por ts Hindustan Times.

Sushmita Dev asked her newly joined colleagues to form a strong IT setup to counter the BJP. Recently, she claimed that Congress completely lost the digital war to BJP and the TMC is going to fight the BJP digitally.

On Sunday afternoon, Dev distributed TMC flags to all the newly joined members and asked them to display them in front of their houses.

“BJP spreads lies in a cleverly presentable manner that attracts common people which Congress did not realise. We are going to make our own IT setup so strong that we will highlight the lies of the BJP before common people using digital media. This is the

Sushmita Dev need of the hour and we are not forget the ideology. going to train each and every I have already said that member of the Trinamool my father’s principles are Congress on how to stay always with me and I haven’t relevant on social media. compromised those. He is We’ll constantly discuss my political guru also and I BJP’s lies and our party will always carry his legacy members will counter the wherever I am.”

Regarding her future BJP in their own language,” plans, Sushmita Dev said that She said.

Her father and former the central committee of the Union minister Santosh Trinamool Congress Party Mohan Dev died in 2017, is targeting the upcoming he was a Congress leader. assembly election in Tripura On Sunday, during the TMC and she is going to play a event, Dev displayed her vital role in strengthening father’s portrait and also TMC in that state. But their paid floral tribute to him ultimate goal is to dethrone before her speech. the BJP in the centre.

“A t o n e p o i n t , “Congress party lost Mamata Banerjee left the elections to BJP in almost all Congress party but she did the states but BJP failed to

cross the Trinamool hurdle in West Bengal. Whoever likes to take a stand against BJP is welcome to our party now. Hundreds of people from various parts of the nor theast have already called us and expressed their desire to join the Trinamool Congress Party.

We are going to fight hard in Tripura but our ultimate goal is to dethrone the BJP from the centre,” she said.

Along with the young b r i g a d e, s o m e s e n i o r Congress leaders who were part of Sushmita Dev’s father’s team in the Congress party, also joined Trinamool Congress on Sunday.

Buru Sen, a 64-yearold Congress worker said, “Our lives and political careers have always been about Congress party. In the toughest moments, we did not leave the party but today, I have finally decided to join Trinamool Congress.

The present Congress party is biased on issues like Barak Valley and Brahmaputra Valley. They joined hands with a communal party like the AIUDF and deprived

many genuine Congress workers.”

Sushmita Dev criticised the Congress for joining hands with the AIUDF to win the election in Assam. “Assam Pradesh Congress Committee, at one point, made a written resolution that at any circumstances, Congress will not join hands with communal forces like the BJP and the AIUDF. Now, after the election is over, they are talking about dissolving the alliance. But no Congress worker can say that their party will never join hands with the AIUDF again during any election.”

Sushmita also informed that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Baner jee and National general secretary of the All India Trinamool Congress Party, Abhishek Banerjee, along with some other leaders of the party are going to visit Barak Valley soon. She left for Kolkata to meet Abhishek Banerjee and other party leaders after the joining event on Sunday afternoon.

KO L K ATA , AU G 2 9 ( A G E N C I E S ) : We s t Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee has said that her party is all set to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, reports NDTV. Mamata Banerjee said: “Khela happened in West Bengal, it will happen in Assam, Tripura and Delhi in 2024.”

The West Bengal chief minister said this while addressing the youths on the occasion of the TMC’s students’ wing – Trinamool Chatra Parishad (TMCP) foundation day on Saturday.

Banerjee, while calling the youths as “the future of our country” asked them to “take initiative and visit different states to save the country’s freedom.”

Slamming the BJP over its alleged misrule in the state of Tripura, where the TMC has been able make its presence felt, Mamata Banerjee alleged that human rights in the state have been

Mamata Banerjee taken for a ride. of the BJP and its tactics,” “Why are there no Abhishek Banerjee said. human rights for Tripura The TMC national where women are being secretary also challenged beaten. You have turned union home minister and human rights into politics,” top BJP leader Amit Shah Mamata Banerjee said. to stop TMC’s entry into M e a n w h i l e, T M C Tripura’s politics. national general secretary “We will win Tripura.

Abhishek Banerjee, who Mamata Banerjee hasn’t had been recently visiting visited Tripura yet. And Tripura to expand party ‘s when she does, there will support base in the state be an earthquake. We will ahead of the Assembly continue to fight, till the time elections in the state in BJP is thrown out of power,” 2023, said that the BJP Abhishek Banerjee said. In regime in Tripura is on Assam, the TMC has been shaky grounds. able to make an inroad after “BJP in Tripura is on it inducted senior politician shaky grounds. TMC will and former Congress MP go to every state where from the Bengali-dominated d e m o c r a c y h a s b e e n Barak Valley – Sushmita murdered. We are not scared Dev earlier this month.

Meghalaya MP writes to Modi, flags Centre’s intervention sought Floods claim lives of feral horses, concerns over oil palm plantations in NE for peace talks with HNLC hog deer in Assam national parks

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (IANS): Agatha Sangma, an MP from Meghalaya has flagged concerns through a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding his ambitious expansion of oil palm plantations in the “biodiversity hotspot and ecologically fragile” Northeast (NE) region.

“Palm tree is not an endemic species of plant of the NE region and largescale adoption of a foreign species of plant, which is water intensive, harvest w i l l d e f i n i t e ly c r e a t e irreparable ecological imbalance and distort the ground water table,” the Tura MP said in a letter to Prime Minister Modi on Saturday.

The Union Cabinet had last week approved the National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) as a new centrally sponsored scheme with a financial outlay of Rs 11,040 crore.

The scheme proposes to cover an additional area of 6.5 lakh hectare (ha) for oil palm till the year 2025-26, thereby reaching the target of 10 lakh ha ultimately.

Agatha Sangma The NE region and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands were chosen in the renewed scheme for expansion in oil palm plantations.

Environmentalists h ave a l r e a d y t e r m e d the gover nment’s announcement as not just an ecological disaster for the fragile biodiversity in those areas but also a social disorder.

While oil palm plantations are not new for NE India, yet the environmentalists are concerned as there has been no assessment on the environmental impact due to the proposal for increased plantation area.

“The concern is generated when one peeks

into the finer details of the programme, the plantation areas so selected are the NE region and the Andaman Islands, both of which are biodiversity hotspots and ecologically fragile.

Palm plantations in all certainty will denude vast swathes of land of its forest cover. Loss of habitat for the endangered wildlife will have a devastating impact,” she said in the letter, a copy of which is with IANS. Sangma also flagged the other concern vis-a-is the socio-cultural issue.

Stating that the Northeast India, though sparsely populated than the rest of India, is dotted with many ethnic tribes with their own cultural heritage and practices.

“Ownership of land is a centrality of any tribal society, which is also connected to the identity, in many cases, it is the community ownership.

Widespread plantations for commercial gain in all possibilities will detach the tribesman of this prized possession of land and wreak havoc on the social fabric,” the letter said.

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SHILLONG, AUG 29: BJP leader and Meghalaya cabinet minister Sanbor Shullai on Sunday sought the Centre’s intervention for facilitating peace talks with banned Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC). Shullai also submitted a letter addressed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his meeting with the Union Joint Secretary of Home Affairs Piyush Goyal in N ew D e l h i o n Fr i d ay last. The South Shillong legislator also briefed about the present-day situation in Meghalaya.

In the letter, Shullai informed that in connection with the strategic appeal made to the HNLC group banned by the Government of India to give up arms and come mainstream to initiate the peace process, the group in the past too had expressed their desire for a meaningful dialogue with the government of India. He added that the same has been initiated by the MDA government under the able leadership of Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma.

However, due to some pre-

Sanbor Shullai conditions laid down by the HNLC, the talks have not materialized.

Asserting the importance of the Central g o ve r n m e n t ’s r o l e i n bringing several banned organisations for peace dialogues, the BJP leader said, “Thus, the BJP in Meghalaya and the MDA government request the Central gover nment to expedite the peace process with HNLC and help to restore complete peace and tranquillity in Shillong.”

“The NDA government at the Centre has repeatedly assured the people of the Northeast for a better future so the Ministry of Home Affairs can play a decisive role in engaging the HNLC in a meaningful dialogue under the constitution”.

D I B R U G A R H / GOLAGHAT (ASSAM), AUG 29 (PTI): At least three feral horses have died in the deluge-hit DibruSaikhowa National Park while a hog deer was killed by a speeding vehicle when it was trying to escape floodwaters in Kaziranga National Park as vast tracts of the parks in Assam have been inundated, Forest officials said on Sunday.

Almost 70 per cent of the Dibr u-Saikhowa National Park has been flooded, forcing animals to flee to highlands, a Forest department official told PTI. “Bodies of three feral horses have been recovered so far. They have been swept away. Two more have been rescued but their condition is critical,” the official said.

The Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, spread over Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts at the eastern tip of the state, is famous for its small population of about 70 feral horses which are the fourth and fifth generation of wild horses presumed to have escaped from army camps during the World War II. T h e ove r a l l f l o o d

File photo of animals affected by floods in Assam. situation in Kaziranga the stretch at the permitted National Park (KNP) is speed limit. The cards are also turning critical with collected at the other end around 50 per cent of the by the forest and district area already under water, administration officials to its Director P Sivakumar ensure compliance with the told PTI. speed limit and a penalty is Animals have started imposed for any violation. crossing the National The general speed limit Highway 37 that r uns is 40-kilometre per hour through the Park in search through the Park, with the of dry land and one hog limit as low as 20-km per deer was killed in the act on hour in certain patches Saturday evening, he said. that animals use frequently.

To ensure safety of Approximately 37 kms of the animals that have come NH run through the Park.

Besides the time card, up to the national highway (NH), time cards are issued devices to detect the speed to passing vehicles from this of a vehicle are being used morning, the director said. in seven locations of animal The time cards are corridors along the NH, and handed to the drivers when information about vehicles their vehicles enter the NH crossing the speed limit is stretch passing through the passed on to the transport KNP and time is marked for department for taking penal how long it will take to cross action, Sivakumar said.

Passenger train service between Manipur & Assam flagged off ‘Don’t Love Post’: Meghalaya Governor targets BJP over farmers’ protest

MALIGAON, AUG 29: A passenger train service between Jiribam of Manipur and Silchar of Assam was flagged off on Sunday by chief minister of Manipur Nongthombam Biren Singh and Raosaheb Patil Danve, minister of state of railways, coal & mine.

The Passenger train service re-introduced on sunday between Jiribam of Manipur and Silchar o f A s s a m h av i n g n o.

05659/05660 will fulfill long standing requirement of the people of Manipur.

The flagging off p r o g r a m m e wa s h e l d remotely through video link from Imphal. State Ministers, MPs, MLAs and senior officials from Railways and State Govt. of Manipur were also present. Chief minister of Manipur conveyed through h i s a d d r e s s, h i s k e e n interest in development of railway infrastructure for the benefit of people of Manipur.

Minister of State of Railways, Coal & Mine, in his speech, said that this train will fulfil the cherished goal of enabling the people of Manipur to travel through railways to the rest of country.

Raosaheb Patil Danve and chief minister of Manipur, Nongthombam

Passenger train service between Jiribam of Manipur and Silchar flagged off on Sunday.

Biren Singh also discussed future plans of railways in the development of the state of Manipur.

Train no 05659 will start from Silchar on every Monday and Thursday at 07 am to reach Jiribam at 08: 55 am. During return journey, train no 05660 will start from Jiribam at 1:30 pm to reach Silchar at 3:30 pm . The train timings and days of run have been planned to facilitate the passengers of Imphal to board long distance trains from Silchar.

The train will have 8(eight) General class

compartments and 2(two) luggage cum guard vans.

The train will stop at seven stations during its journey.

This service is expected to boost the socio-economic condition of the people of Manipur. It may be mentioned here that the train service on this route was suspended w.e.f. from July 7, 2019 due low patronage and Covid 19 pandemic.

Raosaheb Patil Danve, Minister of State of Railways also reviewed the progress of various ongoing railway projects of Northeast Frontier Railway.

Anshul Gupta, General Manager/ Nor theast Frontier Railway gave a presentation to Minister on overall performance of Northeast Frontier Railway (Open line) and day to day functioning pertaining to operation of trains and development of passenger amenities in various states.

Sunil Sharma General Manager/ Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction) along with senior railway officials from the construction organization also gave a presentation of the ongoing projects

of Railway Construction in North east. It may be mentioned here that, a 100 feet tall Monumental Flag was installed recently at the Jiribam Railway station which is the District Headquarter of the Jiribam district of Manipur. This has not only improved the aesthetics of the station but has also imparted a sense of nationalism & patriotism among the passengers of Indian Railways.

I t m a y b e mentioned here that the Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction) organization is executing the Jiribam – Imphal New BG railway line projects (110.625 kms) at an anticipated cost of Rs. 12,264.15 crs. Eight new station buildings, 11 major bridges, 134 minor bridges, 4 Road Over Bridges, 12 Road Under Bridges and more than 71066 meter of tunneling are being constructed. The target date for completion of the project is December 2023.

Various issues related to timely completion of the project was discussed by all stake holders. Timely completion of this project is very crucial for further extending rail connectivity to Myanmar in future, keeping with the “Act East” policy of the Govt. of India.

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (AGENCIES): Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has once again backed farmers protesting the three farm laws and criticised the ruling BJP, demanding that Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar apologise for the “brutal” lathi charge in Karnal yesterday, in which 10 people were reported injured, reports NDTV. Mr Malik also demanded the sacking of a top district official after a video of him ordering cops to “crack the heads” of farmers emerged online, leading to furious protests from the opposition.

“Manohar Lal Khattar should apologise to the farmers... the Haryana Chief Minister is using sticks (lathis) on farmers. The central government did not use force... I told the top leadership not to use force,” Mr Malik told NDTV today, calling himself “a farmer’s son”.

“SDM (sub-divisional magistrate Ayush Sinha) should be fired immediately.

He is not fit for the SDM post... the government is supporting him,” he said, referring to the controversial video.

No action has been taken against the officer as yet.

Malik also told NDTV that he was disappointed by the fact the government had offered no consolation to the families of farmers who have died during these protests.

“600 farmers have died (during nationwide protests that began over a year ago)... but no one from the government spoke even a word of consolation,” he said.

Mr Malik, who has also served as the Governor of J&K, Goa, Bihar and Odisha, indicated he was not afraid of the government’s reaction to his statements, saying: “I am not in love with this post (of Governor)... whatever I say, I speak

from my heart. I feel I have to return to the farmers.”

In March, Mr Malik told NDTV he expected a loss of support for the BJP in Haryana, UP and Rajasthan because of thousands of farmers who were (and still are) camped outside Delhi borders.

“If this movement continues like this then in the long term, BJP will lose out in western UP, Rajasthan and Haryana,” he had said; his statement then might ring some alarm bells in the BJP today, given that UP votes for a new government in a few months’ time. Furious farmers blocked multiple roads across Haryana yesterday to protest “brutal” police action against fellow farmers protesting a state-level meet that was being led by Mr Khattar.

Haryana Police lathi charged the farmers after they attempted to stop a convoy carrying state BJP chief OP Dhankar from reaching the meeting.

The police responded with what they called “mild force”, but farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni slammed the authorities for having “brutally lathi charged” peacefully protesting farmers.

News agency PTI reported that at least 10 people had been injured, and disturbing images of people with bloody clothes soon began circulating, provoking scathing criticism from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who called it a “governmentsponsored attack”.

The three farm laws have triggered widespread and furious protests from farmers; they say the laws will rob them of guaranteed prices for their crops and leave them at the mercy of corporate interests.

The government, however, has insisted the laws will benefit farmers.

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Nothing to worry about fallout of ‘Changes in Afghanistan a challenge for India’ Taliban’s takeover in Kashmir: Army

UDHAGAMANDALAM (TN), AUG 29 (PTI): The changing power equation in Afghanistan is a challenge for India, prompting a rethink of strategy and the Quad initiative underscored it, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday.

The Defence Ministry is seriously considering the formation of Integrated Battle Groups (IBGs) as quick decision-making is a key aspect during war time, he said addressing the Defence Servicee and Staff College at nearby Wellington.

“The changing equation in Afghanistan is a challenge for us...

These situations have forced our countr y to rethink its strategy. We are changing our strategy and the formation of Quad underlines this strategy,” he said.

Quad (Quadrilateral security dialogue)

Defence Minister Rajnath SIngh addresses at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu, Sunday. (PTI)

comprises India, the US, Japan and Australia.

The Taliban insurgents stormed Afghanistan days ago capturing all major cities in a matter of days, two weeks before the US was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a vexatious two-decade war and the Kabul airport attack has left dozens dead and many injured.

On IBGs, the Minister

said these groups would not only facilitate faster decision-making but also increase the number of integrated fighting units.

A reform initiative, ‘ To u r o f D u t y ’ w a s being considered by the government and it would be a game changing reform as it would help reduce the average age of military and make it more agile.

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Start-up culture now vibrant in India, says PM Modi

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the start-up culture has become very vibrant in India with youngsters in even smaller cities embracing it, and asserted that it is a sign of India’s bright future.

In his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio broadcast, Modi also noted that space sector reforms in the country have caught the people’s imagination and expressed confidence that a large number of satellites in the coming days will be developed by youngsters from universities, labs and other sectors.

The prime minister touched upon a host of topics, including India’s rich spiritual tradition and the boost the sporting culture has received after the performance in the Tokyo Olympics, in the address and also paid glowing tributes to hockey legend Dhyan Chand, saying he conquered the world of hockey for the country.

The National Sports

Minor receives COVID shot, falls sick; probe ordered MORENA (MP), AUG 29 (PTI): A 16-year-old boy fell ill after he was allegedly administered a COVID-19 vaccine in Bagh Ka Pura locality in Ambah tehsil of Morena district in Madhya Pradesh, prompting authorities to order a probe on Sunday.

A senior health official said the probe will find out how the teenager was given the shot even though the government is yet to roll out any anti-COVID 19 vaccination programme for minors.

Pillu, son of Kamlesh Kushwaha, was administered the jab at a vaccination centre, nearly 35 km away from the Morena district headquarters, on Saturday following which his head spun and he started frothing from the mouth, sources said.

Doctors in Ambah referred him to Gwalior for treatment, they said.

After Pillu fell ill, his family created a scene at the vaccination centre. “ We a r e c h e c k i n g whether Pillu reached Gwalior or not. According to unconfirmed reports he returned to his house instead of going to Gwalior,” Morena District Chief Medical and Health Officer (CM&HO) Dr AD Sharma told PTI. He said a team was sent to Pillu’s house this morning. “We are checking whether Pillu was suffering from epilepsy,” he added.

Narendra Modi

Day is celebrated every year on August 29 to mark Dhyan Chand’s birthday.

Noting that India won an Olympic medal in men’s hockey after over four decades, he said youths are now drawn towards sports and their parents are happy to back them. This itself is a great tribute to Dhyan Chand, Modi said.

Asser ting that the young population’s mindset has undergone a sweeping change, he said it is now keen on “new destinations and new goals by taking new paths and having new aspirations”.

The momentum the sporting culture has received must be further advanced, he said, calling for sports

competitions at the village level.

“Let us all countrymen s t r i ve t o f u r t h e r t h i s momentum as much as we can, contributing whatever we can. Let us transform the mantra of ‘Sabka Prayas’ (everyone’s effort) into reality,” he said.

Modi said the Tokyo Olympics have created a major impact, and India’s achievements may not be a lot compared to some countries but are enough to bolster the people’s belief.

“Today, it is not that the youth is just watching sports.

The youth is also looking at possibilities associated with sports...They now want to surpass conventional ways and adopt new disciplines,” he said.

S i m i l a r l y, y o u n g persons are moving away from family traditions, expressing the wish to launch or join a start-up and are willing to take risks.

He said, “Today, the startup culture is expanding even to smaller cities and I am seeing it as an indication of a bright future.

Pakistan, Singh said “After losing two wars, one of our neighbouring countries has started resorting to proxy war, and terrorism has become an integral part of its state policy.”

“If the ceasefire (between India and Pakistan) succeeds today, it is because of our strength.

The cross-border attacks i n 2 0 1 6 c h a n ge d o u r reactionary mindset to a proactive mindset, which was declared in 2019. It was further strengthened by the Balakot air strike,” he added.

On the India-China border standoff, the Defence Minister lauded the Army for behaving intelligently and the security forces once again proved that the nation is committed to face any enemy at any time and in any situation, to ensure national security regardless of the cost.

An unilateral attempt was made last year to

change the status quo on the border. “There too, we faced our adversary with a new dynamism,” Singh said.

Changes in spheres like the military power, trade, communication, economy and political equation could be clearly seen. In this era of globalisation, no nation could be left untouched by these changes happening around the world, he said.

In such a situation, k e e p i n g t h e n a t i o n’s security preparedness in proportion to these changes or a step ahead of them is the need.

“Ever since our country became independent it has been the endeavour of enemy forces to create an atmosphere of instability within the country through one or the other means.

Taking the history of the last 75 years, it seems that we have inherited the challenges,” he added.

SRINAGAR, AUG 29 (PTI): The Army on Sunday said the security situation in the Kashmir valley is under control and there is nothing to worry about the fallout of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.

The General Officer Commanding of the Army’s 15 Corps, also known as the Chinar Corps, Lieutenant General D P Pandey, said this to reporters on the sidelines of an event here.

“This is a playground and I do not want to comment about the outsiders. But remember, the security situation here is in our control and there is nothing to worry about it,” he said, replying to a question on the challenges for the security establishment in Kashmir in the wake of Afghanistan’s takeover by the Taliban.

The GOC was the chief guest at the final match of the Kashmir Premier League cricket tournament, which was played at the Sher-e-Kashmir stadium.

Lt Gen. Pandey appealed to the youngsters in the valley to focus on the area. When he left the spor ts and hoped that village, two men intercepted Kashmir will produce an him at Pipliya Dhuma, manhandled him and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. The man somehow got out from there after giving in to their NEW DELHI, AUG 29 demand, he said.

(IANS): Central universiJharda police station ties, IITs and the private secin-charge Vikram Singh tor higher education instituIvne said that an offence was tions are set to introduce the registered against the two curriculum as per the New accused, identified as Kamal Singh (22) and Ishwar Singh Education Policy (NEP) (27), for disturbing commu- from the current academic nal harmony, and they were session itself.

Central universities arrested.

The duo was booked are working on new nonunder IPC sections 153-A technical postgraduate (PG) (promoting enmity between courses, where students can different groups on grounds directly take admission in of religion), 505 (2) (public PG courses after passing mischief), 323 (voluntarily 12th. The initiative is based causing hurt), among others. on the multiple entry and Meanwhile, two videos exit system outlined in the of this incident went viral on NEP. According to Professor social media, which drew V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, the ire of several netizens.

In one purported vid- IIT Delhi, some of the latest eo, the two men were seen initiatives taken by the IITs throwing scrap from the include the establishment victim’s four-wheeler and of the School of Artificial asking him not to enter the Intelligence.

Similarly, the IIT Delhi village again, while another video shows them threaten- has established a Center for ing and forcing him to chant Transport Research and Injury Prevention, Depart‘Jai Shri Ram’.

MP: Muslim man forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, manhandled Cops arrest two men; Cong says govt ‘mute spectator’ BHOPAL/UJJAIN, AUG 29 (PTI): A Muslim scrap dealer was allegedly threatened and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by two men at a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain district, following which the police have arrested the accused duo, an official said on Sunday.

The incident occurred on Saturday and two purported videos of it have gone viral on social media.

Talking to reporters, R K Rai, Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP), Mahidpur, said, “The incident happened on Saturday when scrap dealer Abdul Rasheed, a resident of Mahidpur town who has been doing this business here for a long time, went to Sikli village under Jharda police station area to collect some scrap in his mini truck.”

However, Rasheed was forced to leave the village and also threatened against doing his scrap business in

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Anna Hazare

Saturday, Hazare said a delegation of some people demanding reopening of temples had met him.

“Why the state

government is not opening temples? What danger the state government sees in opening temples for people?

If COVID-19 is the reason, then there are big queues outside liquor shops,” he said.

Hazare, 84, said he had assured the delegation of his support and told them that he will be with them if they stage an agitation demanding reopening of temples. The Uddhav Thackeray-led government reopened many

Olympic gold medallist like Neeraj Chopra in the future. “ To d ay, N a t i o n a l Spor ts Day is being celebrated and there could not have been a great day for this final than today. I take this opportunity to appeal to the youth to focus on every sport and not cricket so that god willing, a Neeraj Chopra comes to the fore from here,” he said.

The Army officer said sports teaches discipline and the youngsters of Jammu and Kashmir, who have a lot of talent, should use it to earn a name for themselves.

He asked them to learn from the success story of former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan, who was also present on the occasion.

“Like you and me, he (Pathan) rose from a small village and reached here with his hard work. I am sure all of you will learn from him and move forward to become good citizens, good sportsmen with full discipline and earn a name for the country,” he said.

Speaking to reporters, Pathan said there is a lot of talent in Jammu and Kashmir.

Varsities set to introduce curriculum based on NEP

Why temples not reopened in Maha? asks Hazare PUNE, AUG 29 (PTI): Social activist Anna Hazare has questioned the Maharashtra government’s stand to not reopen temples in the state and said he would extend his support if agitation is held for lifting curbs on temples.

Hazare pointed out “big queues” outside liquor shops to question the MVA government’s refusal to reopen temples.

Speaking in Ralegan Siddhi village in the Ahmednagar district on

GOC of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lt General DP Pandey with Ex-cricketer Yusuf Pathan. (PTI)

sectors and also allowed common people, who are fully vaccinated, to travel in local trains in Mumbai as the coronavirus scenario improved over weeks.

However, the state government is still wary about reopening religious places fearing the spread of coronavirus especially when a third wave of the pandemic is being projected.

Notably, the opposition BJP has been demanding that temples be reopened for people.

ment of Energy Science and Engineering.

Further, keeping the NEP in mind, PG programmes in Electric Mobility, and Public Policy have been started here, he added.

Based on the NEP, three new integrated courses are going to be started in the Central University of Haryana. These courses will be available in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from the session 2021-22. The new courses include B.Sc.M.Sc Physics, B.Sc.-M.Sc. Chemistry and B.Sc.-M.Sc. Mathematics.

Admission to the courses will be done through the Central University Common Entrance Test (CUCET).

The university Vice Chancellor Professor Tankeshwar Kumar told IANS that all these three courses are being started keeping in mind the new National Education Policy.

Through these, students will be able to study directly after 12th till post graduation.

He said that these courses have been specially designed, in which along with academic excellence, efforts have also been made to make them employment oriented and self-reliant.

Dr Phool Singh, the nodal officer of the CUCET-2021, appointed by the university, said that the university will start these three courses under the Basic Science Chair.

The application process for the admission to all the three courses will begin with other undergraduate and postgraduate courses available in the university and will be conducted through the CUCET-2021.

Keeping in mind the NEP-2020, there is also a plan to give exit options to the students under the new courses.

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post VOL. XXXI NO. 265 DIMAPUR, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021

Unwieldy progress

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o much time and money has been spent or invested in Nagaland during the past fifty years, to promote economic progress through hundreds of central schemes and good number of local incentives. The amount of money invested has definitely achieved some progress at limited levels where a few areas and a privileged sections have benefitted. The population during the past fifty years has been growing at a phenomenal rate.In 1971 the population was 5,16,449 and in 1981 it rose to 7,74,930. The phenomenal growth continued for the next ten years in 1991 when the population was recorded at 12,09,546. The highest growth was recorded in the next census in 2001 when the state’s population rose to 19,90,036. In an abnormal reversal, the population showed a decrease when in the next census in 2011, the state’s population recorded 19,78,502. According to official sources, the state’s population in 2021 was estimated at 23,00,000. The literacy rate of Nagaland has also shown consistent improvements in the decades. According to records, the literacy rate of Nagaland rose from 33.78% in 1971 to 50.28 % in 1981, 61.65% in 1991, 66.59% in 2001 and 80.11 % in 2011. Even as the population and literacy grew the state’s real economy in terms of livelihood, small and medium enterprises in the private sector and employment avenues have not kept pace with demands and appear to be dwindling. The biggest employer is still the state government and this can be gauged from the figures below. For some decades, employment in the state government has reached a saturation point. It may be noted that when backdoor employment became an issue,the number of employees recorded in 2008-10 was 1,10,000.

The number of government employees continued to rise to 1,25,000 by 2010-11, then to 1,30,000 by 2012-13. According to estimates, there are around 1,40,000 government employees presently. This is a little over 7.1 % of the state’s 19,80,602 population.

According to criteria of the erstwhile 13th Finance Commission, Nagaland has an excess of over 70,000 government employees. The figure of ‘excess’ employment is based on the recommendation of the 13th Finance Commission that the salary component ought to be well within 35% of the budget.

However, the state spends nearly 65% of the budget as salaries for government employees who make up hardly 7% of the population. An unwieldy government that is heavily laden with excess employees will have to contend with managing itself rather than that of the people. However, the budget deficits, repayment and interests on loans also add more problems in the pursuit for all round growth. The other factor is budget deficits, repayment and interests on loans which also add more problems in the pursuit for all round growth. Those states like Nagaland, which are totally dependent upon central funds for every aspect must create the desired environment for promotion of private enterprises so as to spur economic progress. There is huge potential for meat industry worth nearly Rs.300 crore annually. Tourism, horticulture and organic farming are also recognised as having huge potential for entrepreneurs. The plea of promoting economic development should however, not lead to creating of a privileged section that only widens economic disparity. Most importantly, the first and foremost responsibility of the government is to provide efficient power supply, transport networks and a safe environment.

DailyDevotion The Unsurpassed Intimacy of Tested Faith

Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” — John 11:40

Every time you venture out in your life of faith, you will find something in your circumstances that, from a commonsense standpoint, will flatly contradict your faith. But common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense.

In fact, they are as different as the natural life and the spiritual. Can you trust Jesus Christ where your common sense cannot trust Him? Can you venture out with courage on the words of Jesus Christ, while the realities of your commonsense life continue to shout, “It’s all a lie”? When you are on the mountaintop, it’s easy to say, “Oh yes, I believe God can do it,” but you have to come down from the mountain to the demon-possessed valley and face the realities that scoff at your Mount-of-Transfiguration belief (see Luke 9:28-42).

Every time my theology becomes clear to my own mind, I encounter something that contradicts it. As soon as I say, “I believe ‘God shall supply all [my] need,’ ” the testing of my faith begins (Philippians 4:19). When my strength runs dry and my vision is blinded, will I endure this trial of my faith victoriously or will I turn back in defeat?

Faith must be tested, because it can only become your intimate possession through conflict. What is challenging your faith right now? The test will either prove your faith right, or it will kill it. Jesus said, “Blessed is he who is not offended because of Me” Matthew 11:6). The ultimate thing is confidence in Jesus. “We have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end…” (Hebrews 3:14). Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God— trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us (see Hebrews 13:5-6).

Lack of political vision or bankruptcy of ideas?

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Monetisation - temp privatisation, inapt choice for poor finances

inance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on August 23 has enriched the financial vocabulary with a new word ‘monetisation’ – National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) – with the “unveiling” of Rs 6 lakh crore ambitious programmes to hand over to the private parties “management” by 2025 of its assets in 13 sectors already identified in different ways to put on the sale block by Manmohanomics.

It is unimaginative way to solve revenue problems.

The sectors included are virtually the same as was decided long back like the airports, railways, roads, shipping, gas pipeline and many others to monetise its brownfield infrastructure assets. Of course this is another jargon. Greenfield and brownfield investments are two types of foreign direct investment but can include domestic too.

With greenfield investing, a company builds its own brand new facilities from the ground up. Brownfield investment happens when a company purchases or leases an existing facility.

As per official terms monetisation means transfer of management and privatisation means transfer of ownership. We may define

monetisation as ‘temporary privatisation’ but how it would finally roll out depends.

In brief the programmes include road assets, including 22 percent of national highways, worth Rs 1.6 lakh crore; over 400 railways station, 90 passenger trains and other assets - Rs 1.52 lakh crore; 25 airports for Rs 20782 crore; Power Grid and others transmission – Rs 45000 crore; coal mining - Rs 28747 crore; telecom - Rs 35100 crore; shipping - 2828 crore; CWC, FCI warehousing - 28900 core; realty, hotel assets Rs 15000 crore; prime JL Nehru and other national stadia of Sports Authority of India and other facilities worth Rs 11450 crore.

Conceptually most of these were on the block for long as public-privatepartnership. In three years, the government expects to have revenues for meeting expenditures, not building assets.

Indeed there is political consensus across the spectrum or should it be called lack of political vision or bankruptcy of ideas! The Nehruvian economy till today is credited by all as the system that developed assets with great effort and costs to gradually

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. ~ Plato

create a world class image.

The IITs and other national institutions-created talent now command heights in the global system. The dams, public sector industries, banks, railways, mines and other assets added to the national glory, created jobs and standardised the processes.

Many were not in very happy shape in private hands. Even some prime banks were often ‘rumoured’ to be going for liquidation. The Shivaji nation with great efforts saved and built many others sometimes through takeover of private assets. The 1960s were used by many private corporate to send their sick units for ‘temporary management’ to government sector for nursing the health back as if the public sector were ‘industrial hospitals’.

The wheel has taken a circle. It is now being sent back to private – with “ownership” in government because of supposed poor finances. The PSUs those days had delivered but would the private sector do it or as is the practice might likely extort the facilities for their own benefits and finally with possible poor maintenance it could dump heavy financial bur-

den on the government and many properties may even get encroached upon.

It is also not easy to comprehend why the fad of Manmohanomics for selling or leasing to private should continue. There can be national assets in either of the sectors. It appears that the confusion induced by liberalization and globalization of parting with built-in infrastructure to the private is still being considered the panacea. It must change.

The politiSarkar cal parties, including the Left and regional like TMC or TDP, instead giving new concept are merely debating on the process to get rid or may be greed to oblige their cronies.

The so-called free economy enunciated by the Narasimha Rao government meant creation of assets in all sectors.

But Manmohan Singh, P. Chidambaram, Montek Singh Ahluwalia changed it to handing over public assets to the large private companies. The policy with minor changes was adopted by all subsequent governments. It is now 30 years of “poverty management” of the nation’s assets. Even in the present context, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

says he is not against NMP but why the sale should be confined to the selected few.

Most other parties share the view.

The roads to be handed over are in good shape and the private would only start exploiting these for maximizing their profits at public cost by increasing toll, fees and seeking remission of lease fees showing managed losses.

The railways started with much fanfare in the 1990s called commercialising its assets. Little has been achieved. Even of its 90 trains only two were leased out. Again nothing new, some private parties in yore also used to run pilgrim or tourist specials for a fee. Metro in Delhi is running into losses of Rs 1785 crore against measly surplus of Rs 1084 crore in 2019. All other metros have huge losses in Bengaluru, Kochi, Jaipur, Lucknow, and Noida. The unimaginative leasing out of stadia would affect the poor, who bring medals. Coal mines or power transmission would again go back to mafia and governance would be powerless.

There is myth that Air India and BSNL were devastated by officials.

The officials are part of the process under politi-

cal masters. But can the nation forget how, under UPA civil aviation minister Praful Patel, profitable sectors were banned for the national carrier to help private airlines profit? Similarly, the BSNL was forced to lend national phone and internet backbones to create private sector giants turning it into a sick unit. No one answers why VSNL was sold to its rival. Of late, the failed experiment is being thrust on the railways and National Airports Authority causing severe rise in fares and airport charges.

Why was the sick Ruchi Soya taken over? Does it have links with sudden spurt in cost of edible oils because of large international purchases for the new mission of importing edible oil? Its study may reveal how monetisation will unfold to help consumers or otherwise.

The political parties do not discuss the welfare of the consumer or the people. Inflation is shooting up, policies on taxing savings is sending the nation haywire. Mindless privatization by various names is killing both the private and public. The right course for the economy has to be sought through a national open debate.

Post-mortem

Career options in Sports

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etting a gold medal in the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics has brought new hopes amongst many young people when it comes to a career in sports.

Until recently less people thought sports as a career as we don’t see many avenues in this area. The fact is there are opportunities but we could harness them properly.

Getting gold or silver in the Olympics is not an easy task but this time Indians have shown that things are possible.

We have seen sports people from north east India getting silver and bronze medals in the Tokyo Olympics.

We are also aware that National Sports Day is celebrated on August 29 to commemorate the birth anniversary of hockey legend Dhyan Chand Singh. National Sports Day is also observed to spread awareness on the importance of sports. Let us also discuss the day and sports as a career in India. There is no doubt that sports can be a career option in India if we plan and prepare for the same.

Career in sports is not only limited to playing any game. Sports people are there at the same time sports is also an industry where we can think of our career. Sports persons have more advantage to be in the sports industry if they know about it well. There are academies and institutes that promote sports and physical education.

Sports universities and institutes like Laxmi Bai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE), National Institute of Sports have contributed positively when it comes to career in sports in India.

When we talk about career options in sports management then few terms that come to us include MBA in Sports Management with more focus in areas like Sports Marketing and Sponsorship Manager; Sports Development Manager ; Sports Event Manager; Sports Analyst ; Sports Communication Manager ; Sports Consultant ; Sports Operations Manager, etc . Many of us are unaware of these courses or avenues when it comes to the north east. One of the promising careers related to sports can be sports psychology which can be opted by aspirants having masters’ degree in psychology.

Some courses related to sports are - Diploma in Sports Medicine, Diploma in Sports Coaching, Diploma in Sports Management, Diploma in Sports Science & Nutrition, B.Sc in Physical Education, Health Education and Sports Sciences, Bachelor of Physical education, Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sports Management, B.Sc in Sports Science, B.Sc in Sports and Recreation Management, Bachelor of Sports Management (BSM), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Sports Management, Master of Physical education, M.Sc in Sports Coaching, Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine, Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Management, Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Business, MBA in Sports Management, Master of Sports Management , M.Sc in Sports Science, etc .

It is not necessary to be an expert in any games to be successful in the field of sports as a career. This year’s performance of India in the Olympics is encouraging and more young people may enter the field of sports and build their careers. There is no doubt that sports opened up many career opportunities for young talents in India.

To become a sports person, having a talent in the chosen sport is very important. Along with endowment, strong willpower and perseverance is needed.

Ranjan K Baruah (The writter is a career mentor and skill trainer and can be reached at 8473943734 or bkranjan@gmail.com for any career related queries)

Corrigendum

Quotes

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021

Apropos to the press release of statement on 28/08/2021 with regard to the death of six month old pregnant lady at CIHSR, the data in point.1(3rd line) should be corrected as 23rd July 2021 and not as stated.

AsenleKez (Elder sister of Lt SisenyaKez)

The proposed Manipur (hill areas) ADC bill, 2021 vis-à-vis The Original Act INTRODUCTION Unlike the then premier of Assam, Gopinath Bordoloi, who “was known to be very kind and sympathetic to the hill people, had been respected by the hill tribe”, Shri N. Biren Singh reminds of Shri Kuladhar Chaliha of Assam who once gained his notoriety amongst the hill tribals for insulting that “giving of too much autonomy to the tribals, would result in creation of tribalstan”.

Rejecting his argument, however, Shri Nichols Roy observed, “the measure of self-Government will make the tribals feel that the whole of India is sympathetic with them and nothing is going to be forced on them to destroy their feeling and culture. He asked why should the tribals not be allowed to develop themselves in their own way.

He reminded that to keep the frontier area safe, these people must be kept in a satisfied condition. If force were to be used on them, more harm would be done as no advancement can come through force” (Framing of the Sixth Schedule). As though humanity hasn’t learnt any lesson from the countries plagued by ethnic conflicts such as Rwanda, Burundi, East Timor and Fiji, for they all have but one thing in common, they all “lack the foundation for protecting minority rights”.

Manipur might either become another Somalia to be the world’s most dangerous country for minority communities as per the new global survey conducted by the Minority Rights Group International (MRG), or it might follow the Sámi parliament of Finland which is internationally referred to as model “for indigenous self-governance and participation in decision-making that could inspire the development of similar institutions elsewhere in the world”.

As the High Commissioner on National Minorities for OSCE rightly opined, “Accommodating minority interests should not be interpreted as

political correctness or pandering to special interests groups. Nor should it be diminished through tokenism or short-term concessions. Instead there should be a genuine commitment to protect the identity of national minorities and create conditions for the promotion of that identity (Emphasis added)” (Multi-ethnic States and the Protection of Minority Rights).

The preposed bill vis-à-vis the original act: The existing power of HAC/ADC The hyper-kneejerk response of the valley-based civil organizations that the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) has no power to recommend the proposed Manipur (Hill Areas) Autonomous District Council Bill, 2021 is absolutely misplaced. Making such initiatives and proposals is rather the essential legislative function of the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) as provided under Paragraph 4(3) of the Manipur Legislative Assembly (Hill Areas Committee) Order, 1972.

Again, the proposed Bill only attempts to make explicit what is already there in the original Act and in no manner, it makes any attempt to take away anything from the plain revenue districts.

Excepting the provision for second appeal to the Hon’ble Supreme Court in election matters as proposed under Section 20B, there is nothing new in it as substantially different from the existing scheduled matters.

Even the proposed Hill Secretariat under Section 4A is not a new concept as it only attempts to elucidate the existing functions played by the Department of Tribal Affairs & Hills. The proper power limits of the Hill Secretariat being left unclear, the proposed Bill may on the contrary unintentionally strengthen the grip of the State Government and more so as Section 3 of the Bill robs in the role of the State Government as contrary to the original Act and the existing scheduled matter “Public Health”

being further proposed to be omitted.

As per the Second Schedule to the Manipur Legislative Assembly (Hill Areas Committee) Order, 1972, the following scheduled matters, namely, inter alia, “allotment, occupation, or use, or the setting apart of land for the purposes of agriculture or grazing or for residential or other non-agricultural purposes or for any other purpose”; “constitution, power and functioning of ADCs”; “management of any forest not being a reserved forest”; “establishment of Village Committees or Councils and their powers and other matter relating to village administration”; “appointment or succession of Chief or Headman”; “regulation of the practice of Jhum or other forms of shifting cultivation”; “use of any canal or water course for purposes of agriculture” and “inheritance of property”, are within the legislative purview of the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) and the corresponding administrative/executive function thereto being conferred upon the Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) under Section 29 of the Manipur (Hill Areas) District Councils Act, 1971.

In terms of Paragraph 4(3) of the said Order, the primary function of the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) is to consider and pass such resolutions recommending any legislation or any executive action in respect of the “Hill Areas” even in matters of pure general policy and as per Paragraph 4(2) thereto, every Bill other than Money Bill affecting the “Hill Areas” is mandatorily required to be referred to the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) for consideration and report to the Assembly. Thus, no legislation in respect of the scheduled matters can take effect unless the same is routed through the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) as provided.

(To be Concluded...)

Sira Kharay is an advocate based at Ukhrul, Manipur.

Reader’s Post Sir,

Underage Driving

With the increase number of vehicles in the city, there are equally increased number of underage drivers.

Underage driving has become a common sight in Dimapur. Many lives are shattered by underage drivers going for a joyride in the vehicles of their parents or older relatives. We are aware of many unlicensed drivers going for the short drive– but often overlook the nature of the risks and the consequences to these youngsters.

In other countries parents do not allow children to drive a vehicle without a licence due to a strict system of enforcement. However, here I’ve seen kids barely teens riding two and four wheelers. Such driving is punishable under Motor Vehicle Act. The traffic personnel should conduct regular checks on the road and book juveniles riding motor vehicle. The State should implement the law by the book and have a strict enforcement process in place. Strict action should be taken against the owner of the vehicle as well.

Temsu Pongen, Duncan

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.

Khattar defends police action in Karnal SAYS STONES HURLED AT COPS

MUZAFFARNAGAR, AUG 29 (PTI): Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) workers Sunday gheraoed the car of BJP MLA Vikram Singh to protest against the saffron party’s “anti-farmer policy”.

Raising slogans like “Vikram Singh Vapas Jao”, the BKU workers showed black flags to Singh when he went to attend a meeting in Meerapur Dalpat village.

Led by farmer leader Joginder Singh, the workers took out a demonstration against the three new farms laws.

Later, the Bhartiya Janata Party’s Khatauli MLA was taken to Jansath police station for protection.

On August 14, BKU supporters damaged the car of BJP MLA from Budhana, Umesh Malik, in Sisauli.

CHANDIGARH, AUG 29 (AGENCIES): Senior BKU leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni said Sunday that a farmer who had been injured in the police lathi charge in Karnal on Saturday has died of a heart attack, reports The Indian Express.

“Sushil Kajal, who owned one and a half acres of land, had been participating in the farmers’ agitation for the past nine months. He had suffered serious injuries in the police lathi charge at Karnal Toll Plaza yesterday and at night he succumbed to a heart attack… The farming community will always remember his sacrifice,” Chaduni said in a tweet on Sunday.

The Haryana Police had Saturday cracked down on farmers protesting in Karnal, leaving several injured in a lathi charge at the Bastara Toll Plaza on the national highway.

Sushil Kajal suffered serious injuries in the police lathi charge.

The farmers had been protesting against a BJP meeting chaired by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on the upcoming panchayat polls. Police detained several people using force to disperse a crowd that was blocking the highway in Karnal in the afternoon.

Condemning the police action, farm union leaders urged farmers across Haryana to protest on the

roads. By evening, farmers blocked several stretches on the highway and toll plazas across the state, resulting in traffic snarls.

With farmers threatening to create more blockades in neighbouring states as well, vehicles were diverted via alternative routes. Later, however, the highways were reopened after police released the activists detained in Karnal.

Ayodhya is nothing without Lord Ram: Govt introduces new BH number series for vehicles President Kovind during visit to city

President Ram Nath Kovind in Ayodhya.

ing of Ayodhya is the one with whom it is impossible to wage a war. Owing to the courage and power of Raghuvanshi kings Raghu, Dileep, Aj, Dashrath and Ram, their capital was considered unconquerable.

Therefore, the name of this city as ‘Ayodhya’ will always remain relevant.”

Highlighting the love of Lord Ram towards tribals, he said, “During his days of exile, Lord Ram did not call armies of Ayodhya and Mithila to fight the war. He gathered the Kols, Bheels, Vaanars and formed

his army. In his campaign, he included ‘Jatayu (vulture)’. He strengthened love and friendship with the tribals.”

A postal cover of the Ramayan conclave was also unveiled by the President on the occasion.

Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, and Union Minister of State for Railways and Textiles Darshana Vikram Jardosh were also present.

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (AGENCIES): Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has introduced a new registration mark for new vehicles– Bharat series (BHseries). A vehicle with BH mark will not require a new registration mark when the owner shifts from one State to another.

It also said, “This facility will be available on voluntary basis to Defence personnel, employees of Central & State Govt; Central and State PSUs; and private sector companies having their offices in 4 or more States/UTs.” In this regard, the government has notified a new vehicle registration regime that will free vehicle owners from re-registration process when they shift from one state/union territory to another. The Ministry said that an IT based solution for vehicle registration is one such effort. However, one of the pain points in the vehicle registration process that needed attention was re-registration of a vehicle while moving to another state.

“Station relocation occurs with both Government and private sector employ-

ees. Such movements create a sense of unease in the minds of much employees with regard to transfer of registration from the parent state to another state as, under section 47 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, a person is allowed to keep the vehicle for not more than 12 months in any state other than the state where the vehicle is registered, but a new registration with the new state-registering authority has to be made within the stipulated time of 12 months,” the ministry said.

A passenger vehicle user takes the following steps to no-register a vehicle: -No Objection Certificate from the Parent State for assignment of a new registration mark in another state -Assignment of new registration mark after the road tax on pro-rata basis is paid in the new state.

-Application for refund of the road tax in the parent state.

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LU C K N OW, AU G 2 9 (PTI): Ayodhya is nothing without Lord Ram, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Sunday as he visited the city, where a Ram temple is under construction.

“Without Ram, Ayodhya is not Ayodhya. Ayodhya exists where there is Ram. Lord Ram resides permanently in this city, and hence in the true sense, this place is Ayodhya,” the president said while inaugurating a Ramayan conclave there.

He was also scheduled to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi construction site where the temple is coming up, after a historic verdict by the Supreme Court in 2019.

Apparently referring to his name, Kovind said, “I feel that when my family members named me, they were possibly having the feeling of respect and affection towards Ram Katha and Lord Ram, which is seen in the common public.”

Elaborating further on Ayodhya, the President said, “The literal mean-

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NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (PTI): The Supreme Court has issued fresh standard operating procedures to accord final hearing of cases in physical mode from September 1, and will employ a hybrid option from Tuesday to Thursday amid strict observance of Covid appropriate norms.

The top court has been hearing cases through videoconferencing since March last year due to the pandemic and several bar bodies and lawyers have been demanding that physical hearings should resume immediately.

The SOP, issued by the Secretary General on August 28, made it clear that the courts would keep hearing miscellaneous cases through virtual mode on Mondays and Fridays.

“Wearing of mask, frequent use of hand sanitiser and maintaining physical distancing norms are mandatory for all entrants into the Supreme Court premises, including into the Courtrooms,” the SOP said.

The procedures mandated that once litigants and the lawyers opt for the hearing through physical mode then “hearing through video/tele-conferencing mode to the party concerned will not be facilitated”.

The SOP has been issued on the directions of Chief Justice N V Ramana who took note of the recommendations of the Judges’ Committee set up earlier to consider representations and requests of bar bodies that the hearing through physical mode be started keeping in mind the financial and technical difficulties being faced by many lawyers.

the heads of farmers and lash them with sticks”.

“The government is using lathis to suppress voice of farmers, but it is mistaken,” Tikait said.

Haryana BKU (Chaduni) chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni said a meeting of farmers’ outfits will be held in Karnal on Monday to discuss futue course of action in the wake of alleged lathicharge.

To protest the lathicharge incident, he said the call for road blockade was until Saturday evening and added further course will be decided on Monday.

Farmers protesting against the central farm laws have been opposing public functions of the BJP-JJP combine in Haryana. Several farmers had gathered at the Bastara toll plaza near Karnal, responding to a call given by the BKU. The use of force by police had invited severe criticism from opposition parties.

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so in a peaceful manner, no one would have any objection to that. They had earlier assured that they will hold peaceful protests.

But if they hurl stones at police, block highway, then police will take steps to maintain law and order,” said Khattar.

Referring to the BJP meeting in Karnal, Khattar said it was a state-level meeting of the party and “I condemn the call which they (farmers’ outfits) had given to oppose it.”

“Obstructing the function of any organisation, on account of any reason, in itself is anti-democrat-

ic,” he added. Haryana’s Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Navdeep Singh Virk had earlier said only four protesters were injured, while ten cops sustained injuries in the incident.

He said some protesters pelted stones at the cops and tried to attack them.

Kar nal Police IG Mamta Singh had said, “We used mild force because they were blocking the highway. Some stones were also pelted towards the police. Mild force was used to disperse the protesters”.

Meanwhile, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday met some of the injured protesters in a hospital in Karnal and condemned the “brutal lathicharge” by police. Tikait said the conspiracy to attack the farmers in Karnal is clear from “the orders of the Duty Magistrate, who is ordering the police to break

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CHANDIGARH, AUG 29 (PTI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has defended the police action against protesting farmers in Karnal, saying assurances of a peaceful protest were given, but stones were hurled at cops and a highway was blocked.

Around 10 people were injured on Saturday as police allegedly lathicharged a group of farmers disrupting traffic movement on a national highway while heading towards Karnal to protest against a BJP meeting. Talking to reporters in Karnal on Saturday evening after the meeting, Khattar said the protesting farmers had earlier assured the government that their protests will be peaceful.

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India’s macroeconomy more healthy, GST amnesty: Govt extends last date ready for faster growth: Ashima Goyal

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (PTI): The government on Sunday extended the deadline for various compliances under the income tax law and availing relief under the GST law to help taxpayers tide over difficulties in filing such forms.

While the income tax compliances, including filing of statement for equalisation levy and remittances, reporting by multinational enterprises etc, have been extended mainly due to difficulties in electronic filing on the new I-T portal, the deadline for GST amnesty scheme and also filing of GST return electronic verification code (EVC) have been extended until November 30 and October 31 respectively to assist taxpayers in the time of Covid-19 pandemic.

The deadline for filing the Equalisation Levy statement in Form-1 for the Financial Year 2020-21 has been extended till December 31, against the original due date of June 30, the income

tax department said in a statement.

The quarterly statement in Form 15CC to be furnished by dealers in respect of remittances made for June and September quarter, can now be filed by November 30 and December 31, respectively. The original due date for filing this statement was July 15 and October 15, respectively.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said on consideration of difficulties reported by the taxpayers and other stakeholders in electronic filing of certain

forms it has been decided to further extend the due dates for e-filing of these forms.

In a separate statement, the CBDT announced extending the deadline for making payments under the direct tax dispute resolution scheme Vivad Se Vishwas (VsV) by a month till September 30. However, taxpayers have the option to make payments till October 31, with an additional amount of interest.

Also, the due dates for electronic filing of forms related to intimation by pension funds and sovereign

wealth funds too have been extended.

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by Pension Fund and sovereign wealth fund in respect of investment made in India for the June and September quarter, which is required to be furnished by July 31 and October 31, would now have to be furnished by November 30 and December 31 respectively.

The CBDT also extended the due date for uploading of declarations received in Form 15G/15Hfor the June and September quarter till November 30 and December 31 respectively.

The original due dates were July 15 and October 15 respectively.

Nangia & Co LLP Partner Shailesh Kumar said considering the technical glitches in the new Income tax portal, taxpayers have been facing a lot of problems in meeting compliance timelines under various provisions, be it filing of Equalization Levy return, making application

for registration of charitable trusts and other institutions for income tax exemption, quarterly statements by Authorized dealers in respect of foreign remittances, filing of necessary intimation

by Sovereign wealth funds, CbCR reporting by multinational enterprises etc.

“Thus, the due dates for all such compliances have been extended by the Government. The extension has been made not only to address immediate filing requirements due within August/ September 2021, but also a medium term relief has been given to taxpayers for some compliances, which were due in the month of November/ December 2021,” Kumar said.

The extension will provide much-needed relief to taxpayers and will also save them from penal consequences for not being able to comply with the earlier timelines due to technical glitches in the IT portal, he added.

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (PTI): Notwithstanding the pandemic severe shock, India’s macroeconomy is more healthy and ready for faster growth, eminent economist Ashima Goyal said on Sunday, observing that recovery from both the first and second waves was faster than expected points towards inherent strengths of the economy.

Goyal in an interview to PTI said there are already signs of a rise in private investment in sectors where capacity constraints have appeared. “Despite the Covid-19 severe shock, India’s macroeconomy is more healthy and ready for faster growth than it has been for a long time. That recovery from both the first and second waves was faster than expected points towards inherent strengths of the economy,” she said.

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to 9.5 per cent from 10.5 per cent estimated earlier, while the World Bank has projected India’s economy to grow at 8.3 per cent in 2021.

Goyal, who is also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank, said that although many Indian start-ups are doing well but “we should not, however, expect the private infrastructure investment boom of the 2000s.”

“Portfolio inflows into India are not only due to the quantitative easing of rich countries’ central banks, they are also attracted by India’s growth prospects. All

emerging markets do not get such inflows,” the eminent economist opined.

She pointed out that the government is leading infrastructure investment and more durable foreign direct investment has a larger share in recent capital inflows.

“India, moreover, has enough reserves to ride out any volatility while ensuring interest rates are aligned to the domestic policy cycle,” she said.

On the stock market boom at a time when economic growth has slowed down, Goyal said stock markets are forward looking, so normally they do move ahead of the real economy.

“Low interest rates also increase the present discounted value of future earnings and reduce the attractiveness of fixed deposits. A wider Indian public has started participating in stock markets giving them a more diversified portfolio of assets,” she said.

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He said that even for telecom operators enterprise will be a big segment for 5G services to whom most of the operators would like to approach with high data bandwidth capacity and low latency data services.

When asked about his insights on 5G launch plan of telecom operators in India, he said that telecom operators may go for staggered launch from metros to smaller circles based on economics after they get spectrum for services but their strategy is still in works.

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Special Squad and Chandmari police station conducted the second operation, which continued from Saturday night to Sunday morning, to unearth the “next level” of drug traffickers and apprehend them.

The operation led to the arrest of two persons from the city and the recovery of 35 packets of heroin from their possession, Singh said. The police also recovered Rs 7.19 lakh cash and a car, the Police Commissioner said. The law enforcers had arrested four drug peddlers on Saturday from Guwahati city and seized heroin from their possession.

ment, and the financial and business strategy of the company and approved the company’s plan to raise further capital.

The terms of payment of issue price will be that 25 per cent on application and balance in two more additional calls as may be decided by the board or the committee of the board from time to time based on the company’s requirements within an overall time-horizon of 36 months.

The rights entitlement ratio will be 1 equity share for every 14 equity shares held by eligible shareholders as on the record date.

Further the board has also constituted a ‘Special Committee of Directors’ to decide the other terms and conditions of the issue including issue period and the record date.

Malik said the spectrum auction conducted by the government in March was the key driver from India perspective which fuelled company’s business in the country.

“Basically it is the 4G capacity and coverage which started and because of the spectrum auction that got a boost but operators have started building their transport and their backhaul for 5G readiness. Because of Covid, working from home environment, the fixed broadband also has been seeing a good growth in the market,” Malik said.

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(From p-1) After questioning the arrested drug traffickers, the special squad immediately launched operations in Guwahati and apprehended two persons hailing from Manipur and Nagaland, who allegedly were receivers of the consignment, he added.

“In this case, the traffickers used a different modus operandi of using a light motor vehicle instead of larger ones like trucks for transporting drugs. An investigation is on to unearth further linkages,” Singh said.

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NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (IANS): Telecom major Bharti Airtel’s Board of Directors have approved the raising of up to Rs 21,000 crore through a rights issue.

The issue price has been fixed at Rs 535 per fully paid-up equity share, including a premium of Rs 530 per share.

“The board approved the issuance of equity shares of face value of Rs 5 each of the company on rights basis to eligible equity shareholders of the company as on the record date (to be notified later), of an Issue size of up to Rs 21,000 crore,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

It noted that at the meeting held on Sunday, the board comprehensively reviewed the industry scenario, business environ-

NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (PTI): Telecom operators are developing pan-India 5G capacity which will continue to drive business for Nokia in the country, the head of the Finnish firm’s India unit has said.

Nokia Senior Vice President & Head of India Market Sanjay Malik told PTI that telecom companies are focusing on building capacity for 5G so that they are ready for launch once they get spectrum in the proposed auction, while their strategy on roll out of services circle or city-wise is still in works.

“We still see positive momentum in the market from both the capacity and the coverage build which is going to happen, the 5G readiness in terms of transport, the broadband. All these segments would still continue over the rest of the year and we see good potential and good momentum in all the areas,” Malik said.

Nokia’s sales in India grew 75 per cent on yearon-year basis to 230 million euros in the second quarter ended June 30, 2021 from 179 million euros.

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US airstrike hits suicide bombers targeting Kabul airport KABUL, AUG 29 (AP): A US airstrike Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, officials said.

There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child.

The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.

The strike came as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul’s international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago. After an Islamic State affiliate’s suicide attack that killed over 180 people, the Taliban increased its security around the airfield as Britain ended its evacuation flights Saturday.

US militar y cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday,

Smoke rises after an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 29.

ahead of a Tuesday deadline earlier set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all troops from America’s longest war.

However, Afghans remaining behind in the country worry about the Taliban reverting to their earlier oppressive rule — something fueled by the recent shooting death of a folk singer in the country by the insurgents.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid earlier said in a message to journalists that the US strike targeted a suicide bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with

explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.

Two American military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, called the airstrike successful. They said the strike caused “significant secondary explosions” indicating the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material in the vehicle.

The strike was the second by America since the airport suicide bombing.

On Saturday, a strike in Nangarhar province killed

an Islamic State member believed to be involved in planning attacks against the United States in Kabul.

The strike killed one person, spokesman Navy Capt William Urban said.

The rocket attack meanwhile struck Kabul’s Khuwja Bughra neighborhood, said Rashid, the Kabul police chief who goes by one name. Video obtained

by The Associated Press in the aftermath of the attack showed smoke rising from building at the site around a kilometer (half a mile) from

the airport. No group immediately claimed the attack, however militants have fired rockets in the past.

Meanwhile, the family of a folk singer north of Kabul say the Taliban killed him. The shooting of Fawad Andarabi came in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named, an area of Baghlan province some 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Kabul.

The valley had seen upheaval since the Taliban takeover, with some districts in the area coming under the control of militia fighters opposed to the Taliban rule.

The Taliban say they have since retaken those areas, though neighboring Panjshir in the Hindu Kush mountains remains the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under its control.

The Taliban previously came out to Andarabi’s home and searched it, even drinking tea with the musician, his son Jawad Andarabi told the AP. But something changed Friday.

“He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,” his son said.

“They shot him in the head on the farm.”

His son said he wanted justice and that a local Taliban council promised to punish his father’s killer.

Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, told the AP that the insurgents would investigate the incident, but had no other details on the killing.

Andarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people and Afghanistan as a whole.

A video online showed him at one performance, sitting on a rug with the mountains of home surrounding him as he sang.

“There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation,” he sang.

“Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland.”

Karima Bennoune, the United Nations special rapporteur on cultural rights, wrote on Twitter that she had “grave concern” over Andarabi’s killing.

“We call on governments to demand the Taliban respect the #humanrights of #artists,” she wrote.

Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, similarly decried the killing.

9 Biden pays respects to US troops killed in Afghanistan DOVER AIR FORCE BASE (US), AUG 29 (AP): President Joe Biden met in solemn privacy Sunday with the families of the 13 US troops killed in the suicide attack near the Kabul airport as the remains of their loved ones returned to U.S. soil from Afghanistan.

Biden and first lady Jill Biden were also to attend the “dignified transfer” of the fallen troops while at Dover Air Force Base, a military ritual of receiving the remains of those killed in foreign combat.

The dead ranged in age from 20 to 31, and came from California and Massachusetts and states in between.

They include a 20-yearold Marine from Wyoming who had been expecting his first child in three weeks and a 22-year-old Navy corpsman who in his last FaceTime conversation with his mother assured her that he would stay safe because “my guys got me.” Five were just 20, born not long before the attacks of Sept.

11, 2001, that spurred the United States to invade Afghanistan in order to topple

al-Qaida and dismantle their Taliban hosts who ruled the country.

At their deaths, the 13 young service members were on the ground for the U.S. coda to its longest war, assisting a chaotic evacuation of Americans and of Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort and are now fleeing the Taliban after their return to power.

“The 13 service members that we lost were heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of our highest American ideals and while saving the lives of others,” Biden said in a statement Saturday. “Their bravery and selflessness has enabled more than 117,000 people at risk to reach safety thus far.”

Family members of the fallen often travel to Dover to be present as flag-draped transfer cases are taken off the transport plane that returns them to American soil. Aside from the quiet commands of honour guards who carry the transfer cases, the short prayers of the chaplain typically are the only words spoken during the ritual.

wildfire Missile, drone attack on Yemeni air base kills 30 Iran, Syria vow to confront US sanctions Largest in US nearly half contained

Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, center receives Iran’s new Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in Damascus, Aug. 29. (AP/PTI)

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SANAA, AUG 29 (AP): A missile and drone attack on a key military base in Yemen’s south on Sunday killed at least 30 troops, a Yemeni military spokesman said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s civil war in recent years.

Mohammed al-Naqib, spokesman for Yemen’s southern forces, told The Associated Press the attack on Al-Anad Air Base in the province of Lahj wounded at least 65. He said the casualty toll could rise since rescue teams were still clearing the site.

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the scene showed several charred bodies on the ground with ambulance sirens blaring in the background.

Yemeni officials said at least three explosions took place at the air base, which is held by the internationally recognized government. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Yemen has been embroiled in a civil war since 2014, when Houthi rebels swept across much of the north and seized the capital, Sanaa, forcing the internationally recognized government into exile. The

Saudi-led coalition entered the war the following year on the side of the government. A ballistic missile landed in the base’s training area, where dozens of troops were doing morning exercises, the officials said.

Medics described a chaotic scene following the explosions, with soldiers carrying their wounded colleagues to safety, fearing another attack.

Solider Nasser Saeed survived that attack. He was taken along with other wounded to the Naqib hospital in Aden. He said a barracks that housed over

DAMASCUS, AUG 29 (AP): Iran and Syria vowed on Sunday to take “mighty steps” to confront U.S. sanctions imposed on the two regional allies, saying their relations will strengthen under Iran’s new leadership.

The announcement was made by Iran’s new Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who was received at the airport here by his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad.

Iran has been one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s strongest backers,

sending thousands of fighters from around the region to help his troops in Syria’s 10-year conflict that has killed half a million and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.

With the help of Russia and Iran, Syrian government forces now control much of Syria. But the country has been suffering for years under American and European Union sanctions.

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22 killed as passenger boat accident in B’desh

Nepal’s ruling coalition partners decide to Britain ends 20-yr military campaign in Afghanistan finalise Cabinet expansion today: Report

DHAKA, AUG 29 (PTI): At least 22 people, including nine children, have died in a passenger boat accident in Bangladesh’s Laiska Beel rivulet, according to a media report on Saturday.

On Friday evening, a boat carrying over 100 people collided with two sand-carrying vessels in the river near Brahmanbaria city, resulting in the passenger boat sinking.

Twenty-two bodies were recovered on Saturday, while 15 others were rescued and sent to hospital. Nearly 50 people swam to safety after accident, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

The deceased include 11 women, two men and nine children, The Daily Star reported.

The police have arrested five people in connection with the mishap.

The arrested are the owners and staffers of the sand-laden trawler.

The government has setup a three-member probe panel to investigate the incident and submit a report in 10 days, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported.

KATHMANDU, AUG 29 (PTI): Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Sunday met CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN (Unified Socialist) chief Madhav Kumar Nepal and reached an agreement with them to finalise the expansion of the Cabinet on Monday, according to a media report.

Deuba could not expand his Cabinet for more than a month as the Madhav Nepal faction of the CPNUML, which played a key role in the formation of the government, was in the process of getting recognition from the election commission. The election commission granted official recognition to the newly-formed party CPN (Unified Socialist), which was created after splitting the CPN-UML led by former prime minister K P Sharma Oli. According to Dahal’s Secretariat, the three senior leaders discussed the issue of expanding the Deubaled Cabinet. An agreement was reached to finalise the expansion of the cabinet

and Russia, and which is responsible for shipping oil to the Syrian government.

American sanctions were imposed on Tehran after former President Donald Trump pulled America out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in 2018.

The sanctions have caused severe fuel shortages in Syria, which has been relying mostly on Iranian oil shipments that have been subjected to mysterious attacks over the past two years. Syria has blamed Israel for the attacks.

LOS ANGELES, AUG 29 (IANS): Dixie Fire, the largest wildfire in the US this year and the second biggest in California’s history, has so far scorched more than 756,000 acres with 48 per cent containment, according to authorities.

The fire, which started on July 14 about 10 miles nor theast of Paradise, covered 756,768 acres on Saturday morning in five counties, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE).

Humidity recovery was poor through the mid to higher elevations, allowing the blaze to continue to burn actively throughout the night, Xinhua news agency quoted CAL FIRE as saying on Saturday.

Certain evacuation orders have been reduced to warnings and certain warnings have been lifted, allowing some residents to return to their homes and businesses, it added.

Active for 44 days, the Dixie Fire had destroyed 1,275 structures and was still threatening 11,833 structures across Butte, Plumas, Tehama, Lassen and Shasta counties.

50 troops had been hit by missiles, then explosivesladen drones.

“We were able to shoot down one (drone),” he said.

“Many were killed and wounded.”

Most of the wounded were taken to the nearby Ibn Khaldun hospital, where health officials said many of the wounded were in critical condition and suffer third degree burns.

The officials blamed the Houthis for the attack on the base, once the site of U.S. intelligence operations against al-Qaida’s powerful Yemeni affiliate. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.

The military spokesman for the Houthis did not confirm or deny the attack, which carried the hallmarks of the Iranianbacked rebels. The Houthis have previously launched similar attacks, including one by a bomb-laden drone on Al-Anad in January 2019 that killed six troops.

The Iranian-backed rebels also launched a missile attack on the airport in the southern city of Aden in December as government officials arrived. That attack killed at least 25 people and wounded 110 others.

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on Monday, myrepulica. com reported. Deuba and Dahal had held a separate discussion on the matter on Saturday.

Nepal, a former prime minister, had gone against the party and supported the then Opposition alliance in its bid to topple the government led by Oli. Nepal could from a new party after President Bidya Devi Bhandari issued an ordinance to amend the Political Parties Act 2071, aimed at easing the procedure for political parties to split. The ordinance recently amended by the Deuba-led government has a provision to register a new party if the splinter faction secures the signature of 20 per cent of

either central committee members or Parliamentary Party members.

Before the amendment, provisions of the Political Party Act required dissidents to have the support of 40 per cent of members in the parliamentary party and the central committee to split their mother party.

Prime Minister Deuba had earlier announced to allot six ministerial berths and “two more ministries if necessary” to the newlyformed CPN (Unified Socialist) party.

But the party has found it quite difficult to choose leaders from his party for ministerial berths in the Deuba-led government as there are too many aspirants. A meeting of the CPN-(Unified Socialist) party later decided to form an interim high command and join the government until the office-bearers are selected from the national council. According to Mukunda Neupane, the names of the party’s leaders who will be joining the government will be selected by the high command.

LONDON, AUG 29 (PTI): The last remaining UK troops began landing back from Kabul in Britain on Sunday, ending the country’s 20-year military campaign in Afghanistan where the Taliban have seized power.

The Taliban insurgents stormed across the country on August 15, capturing all major cities in a matter of days, two weeks before the US was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war.

A Royal Air Force (RAF) plane left Kabul airport on Saturday night and arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, including with British ambassador to Afghanistan Sir Laurie Bristow who had been assisting the evacuation process. Vice-Admiral Sir Ben Key, who ran the UK’s evacuation dubbed Operation Pitting, said there was a “sense of sadness that we haven’t done all we would have wished”.

In a video posted on Twitter on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the end of Operation Pitting was the “culmination of a mission unlike anything we’ve seen in our

UK military personnel onboard a A400M aircraft departing Kabul, Afghanistan. Britain ended its evacuation flights Saturday. (AP/PTI)

lifetimes”, and that British troops and officials had “worked around the clock to a remorseless deadline in harrowing conditions”.

“They have expended all the patience and care and thought they possess to help people in fear for their lives,” said Johnson. “They’ve seen at first hand barbaric terrorist attacks on the queues of people they were trying to comfort, as well as on our American friends. They

didn’t flinch. They kept calm. They got on with the job,” he said.

In a letter to the armed forces community, Johnson acknowledged the fall of Kabul to the Taliban would have been hard for them to watch and “an especially difficult time for the friends and loved ones of the 457 service personnel who laid down their lives” during the war.

He noted that the UK’s

involvement in Afghanistan “kept Al Qaeda from our door for two decades and we are all safer as a result”.

Paying tribute to the efforts of UK forces since 2001, he added: “Though we would not have wished to leave in this way, we have to recognise that we came in with the United States, in defence and support of the US and the US military did the overwhelming bulk of the fighting.”

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Popular dieting myths and facts Dolly Parton’s drummer Kenny Nighttime Eating Makes You Fat Put this diet myth to bed. There’s no conclusive proof that late-night meals cause you to put on weight.

What we do know is that too many calories cause weight gain, and many night eaters do tend to overeat and choose high-calorie foods. Still, eating right before bedtime can lead to heartburn and indigestion.

So try to stick to regular -- and earlier -- mealtimes.

S o m e S u ga r s A r e Worse Table sugar, agave, honey, and high-fructose corn syrup contribute calories (between 48 and 64 a tablespoon). So far, research shows that our bodies absorb added sugars like high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar in a similar way. Instead of avoiding one particular kind of sugar, try to limit added sugars of any kind, like those in soda, candy, and other sweets.

Coffee Isn’t Good for You This is a recently d e b u n k e d d i e t my t h .

Coffee, when consumed in moderation (2 to 3 cups daily), is a safe part of a healthy diet and contributes antioxidant

phytochemicals. In fact, research suggests coffee may help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, gallstones, Parkinson’s disease, even some cancers. Keep coffee calories in check, though.

Steer clear of trimmings like cream, sugar, and flavored syrups.

The Less Fat You Eat, the Better Your body needs three nutrients to thrive: protein, carbohydrates, and fats.

Yes, fats! Good-for-you fats found in foods like nuts, seeds, fish, avocado, olives, and low-fat dairy give you energy, help rebuild cells, and produce needed hormones. The fats to limit or avoid are saturated and trans fats, found in

foods like butter, high-fat dairy, red meat, and many processed foods.

Switch to Sea Salt to Reduce Sodium Think switching to sea salt will save sodium?

Sorry, that’s a diet myth, too. By weight, gourmet salts have about the same sodium as plain old table salt. Add flavor with pepper, herbs, and spices instead.

Besides, we get about 75% of our total salt intake from processed and prepared foods (not the salt shaker) like soups, condiments, mixes, cheeses, and canned goods.

Drink More Water to Peel off Pounds There’s no doubt water is vital for your body -- but a

weight loss aid? Not really.

If drinking water keeps you away from high-calorie drinks, it can certainly help you lose weight. But adding more water to your diet, without changing anything else, makes no difference in lowering the numbers on your scale.

Av o i d P r o c e s s e d Grains We know whole grains are good for us because they’re packed with fiber, vitamins, minerals, and p hy t o c h e m i c a l s. T h a t doesn’t mean you need to ditch all processed grains.

At times, like when your body is recovering from an intestinal bug, refined grains may be necessary.

And some processed grains are fortified with folic acid.

While whole grains are the healthier choice, you can make room for some fortified processed grains, too.

Sugar Makes Kids Hyperactive This myth is so common it seems impossible that it isn’t true. Yet most research shows sugar doesn’t make all kids hyperactive. So why do kids bounce off the walls at birthday parties? It’s not the cake; it’s probably the exciting environment. Still,

pay attention to how much sugar your kids eat. Eating too many sweets leaves little room for healthier food.

Athletes Need a Ton of Protein Ever yone knows an athlete needs tons of protein to build strength and muscle, right? Well, not exactly. Most American diets provide plenty of protein even for athletes.

The real secret to boosting athletic strength and muscle is to get enough calories, focus on intense training, and get a carb- and proteincontaining snack (such as nonfat chocolate milk) soon after an intense muscle workout. Special powders, bars, and supplements need not apply!

To o M u c h S u g a r Causes Diabetes Worried that your love of cake or candy will lead to diabetes? Stop fretting about this diet myth. If you don’t have diabetes, eating sugar won’t cause you to get the disease. What does raise your diabetes risk, however, is being overweight and inactive. So do your body a favor: Cut back on the empty, sugary calories, and get moving!

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NCB nabs Bollywood actor Common pesticide may contribute Armaan Kohli in drugs case to global obesity epidemic

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commonly-used pesticide could be partially responsible for the global obesity epidemic, finds a study.

Researchers from McMaster U n ive r s i t y i n C a n a d a discovered that chlorpyrifos -widely sprayed on fruits and vegetables in many parts of the world -- slows down the burning of calories in the brown adipose tissue of mice.

Reducing the burning of calories, a process known as diet-induced thermogenesis, causes the body to store these extra calories and promotes obesity.

Scientists made the discovery after studying 34 commonly used pesticides and herbicides in brown fat cells and testing the effects of chlorpyrifos in mice fed high calorie diets.

The findings published in the journal, ‘Nature Communications’, can have important implications for public health.

“Brown fat is the metabolic furnace in our body, burning calories, unlike normal fat that is used to store them.

This generates heat and prevents calories from being deposited on our bodies as normal white fat. We know brown fat is activated during cold and when we eat,” said Gregory Steinberg, Professor of medicine at McMaster.

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and exercise rarely lead to sustained weight loss.

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intrinsic dialling b a c k of the metabolic furnace by chlorpyrifos,” he added.

Steinberg said chlorpyrifos would only need to inhibit energy use in brown fat by 40 calories every day to trigger obesity in adults, which would translate to an extra five lbs (pounds) of weight gain per year.

He further said that while several e nv i r o n m e n t a l t ox i n s i n c l u d i n g chlorpyrifos have been linked to rising obesity rates in both humans and animals, most of these studies have attributed weight gain to increases in food intake and not the burning of calories.

Obesity is responsible for 4.7 million premature deaths each year.

It is a risk factor for several of the world’s leading causes of death, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and various types of cancer. (IANS)

Actor Armaan Kohli produced before a court after arrested in a drug case, in Mumbai, Aug. 29. (PTI)

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he Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said on Sunday that it has arrested Bollywood actor Armaan Kohli hours after the recovery of a small quantity of cocaine during searches at his Andheri residence.

The searches were carried out on Saturday.

The NCB had raided Kohli’s home late last evening and then took him to its office after recovering the banned narcotics, said NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede.

He added that what has emerged from the probe till now, the case could have international ramifications as the cocaine seized had originated from South America.

“The NCB is probing the route and linkages used to bring the seized cocaine to Mumbai and

the involvement of other traffickers,” Wankhede said.

Kohli’s name emerged during the interrogation of a peddler Ajay Raju Singh who was arrested in Worli on Saturday morning, as part of the NCB’s all-out war against the dr ugs mafia.

A history-sheeter with a previous case lodged against him by the Anti Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Police, the NCB nabbed Ajay Singh Saturday near the Haji Ali Mausoleum and recovered 25 gms of Mephedrone from him.

Fo l l ow i n g t h i s, Wankhede said that a first information report has been lodged against both Singh and Kolhi, under various sections of the NDPS Act, and further investigations are underway.

(IANS)

Malone dies of Covid at 83

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r u m m e r Ke n n y Malone, a prolific session player who played on songs for Dolly Parton and Waylon Jennings, passed away due to Covid at the age of 83.

The American drummer and percussionist from Denver, Colorado was known for inventing his own style of hand drumming.

S i n c e t h e 1 9 7 0 s, Malone was a prominent session musician in folk, country, and many other acoustic-based genres.

His friend and former bandmate Dave Pomeroy said he died Thursday after being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to Billboard.com Malone is credited on hundreds of records made in Nashville, including a l b u m s l i k e Pa r t o n’s ‘Jolene’, and Jennings’ ‘Dreaming My Dreams’.

Among the other artists Malone played with were D o b i e G r ay, Ro n n i e Milsap, and Crystal Gayle.

“He expanded the vocabulary of Nashville dr umming, and was always an innovator who invented his own unique

style of hand drumming, often combining sticks and brushes with hand percussion to create a unique sound and feel that left lots of space for other instruments and the vocals,” Pomeroy said in a statement.

Malone enlisted in the Navy and served for 14 years, playing as a musician in the U.S. Navy Band. He came to Nashville in 1970 and started working with famed Nashville producer

“Cowboy” Jack Clement and soon became one of the most utilised drummers and percussionists in town.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum said he worked on records

by Bobby Bare, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, George Jones, Barbara Mandrell, Charley Pride, Kenny Rogers, Dottie West, and Don Williams, according to Billboard.com.

(IANS)

The Rolling Stones honour Charlie Watts with video tribute

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he Rolling Stones

honoured their late drummer Charlie Watts with a twominute video tribute on their social media.

The tribute video, shared on the band’s official Twitter and Instagram, is a slideshow of photos and videos of Watts playing in the band, appearing in music videos, addressing the press, and more, edited to the beat of ‘If You Can’t Rock Me’, the opening track of the Rolling Stones’ 1974 album ‘It’s Only Rock n Roll’.

In an inter view included in the video, Watts says, “So when the Stones asked me to join, they talked in terms of a

band, a commitment in other words. ‘Oh, this will go on for a year, and next year fold up.’”

The video continues to show that the opposite was the case, showcasing highlights of the band’s time together from their youth to their old age.

Watts died in London at age 80 on Tuesday.

On August 4, Watts abruptly withdrew from the Stones’ upcoming pandemic-postponed U.S. tour, citing the need to recover from an unspecified but “successful” recent medical procedure.

(IANS)

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he 78th Venice Film Festival has announced an official panel on the need for refugee status for Afghan filmmakers under Taliban rule. The panel meet will be on September 4. The topic will become a focal point for discussion on the crisis underway in Afghanistan and how it is impacting filmmakers and Afghan artistes in general as the Taliban take power.

As previously reported by Variety, Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi, who is the first woman president of the country’s national film entity Afghan Film –– and who made a recent appeal as she escaped from Kabul about the return of Taliban rule and the potential death knell for the country’s fledgling but vibrant film community –– is headed to the Lido, Venice.

The official panel will focus on “the need to create humanitarian corridors and guarantee that [Afghan] filmmakers and other artists will be granted the status of political refugees, allowing [them] to leave the country in addition to concerns about their future and the need to help them get settled once they reach Europe,” the fest said in a statement, according to Vareity.com.

The 78th Venice International Film Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia and directed by Alberto Barbera.

The fest is officially recognised by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association). It will take place this year in Venice from September 1-11.

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Narrow wins for Real, Bilbao, Sociedad M A D R I D, AU G 2 9 (IANS): Dani Carvajal’s 61st minute goal gave Real Madrid a narrow 1-0 win on their difficult trip to Betis on Saturday night.

The full back’s diagonal volley from the corner of the penalty area was a reward for Madrid’s better finishing in a game where Betis played a better first half.

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti made changes to his starting 11 with young left back Miguel in for the injured Nacho Fernandez with David Alaba moving into central defense and Vinicius Jr getting the reward for three goals in two games with a start ahead of Eden Hazard.

Real Madrid’s goal came after Aitor Ruibal and Juanmi had wasted a chance on the break for Betis. Athletic Club Bilbao remain unbeaten and claimed their first win of the season after Inaki Williams’ first-half strike gave them a 1-0 win away to Celta Vigo. Williams finished well after Oihan Sancet’s assist and was unlucky to see a second half goal ruled out by referee Mateu

Real Madrid players celebrate after their side goal against Betis during the La-Liga match on Saturday.

Lahoz, Xinhua reports.

Ander Barrenetxea’s deflected shot was enough to see Real Sociedad beat Levante 1-0 win to give them their second narrow home win in a week.

Elche gave another well-organised performance to take a 1-1 draw at home to Sevilla and end the visitors’ 100 per cent

start to the campaign.

Enzo Roco opened the scoring for Elche in the 11th minute and last season’s top scorer Youssef En-Neysri levelled for Sevilla five minutes before the break. New signing Rafa Mir had a great chance in injury time, but his header went over the bar.

The round of matches

Chelsea boss Tuchel confirms Kante injury L O N D O N, AU G 2 9 (AGENCIES): Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante aggravated an existing ankle injury in Saturday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Liverpool, manager Thomas Tuchel said, leading to the France international being substituted at half-time.

Kante initially picked up the injury in the warmup ahead of the UEFA Super Cup earlier this month and was not involved in Chelsea’s Premier League season opener against Crystal Palace as a precaution.

He made a substitute appearance in last weekend’s London derby win against Arsenal, but Tuchel said the injury flared up again following a challenge from Liverpool’s Sadio Mane.

He did not provide a timeline for the 30-year-old’s

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N’Golo Kante injures during the EPL match.

return to action. “He is injured. He missed the Arsenal game because of pain in his ankle and some inflammation, but it was nothing serious obviously because he was back in training and he started (against Liverpool),” Tuchel said.

“In winning the ball in this situation, the opponent fell on his ankle and twisted it again. He immediately had the same pain he had before

the Arsenal game and he was lacking the force to accelerate and we had to take him off.

“Can there be any harder challenges than going one man down and taking N’Golo Kante off at the same time at half-time at Anfield and having Liverpool playing towards the Kop? But we did excellently and we are super happy... we deserved the point.”

kicked off on Friday night with Mallorca winning 1-0 at home to Espanyol, who have not scored in any of their first three games back in the top flight, while Valencia continue their positive start to the campaign with a 3-0 win at home to Alaves, who have started the campaign with three defeats.

NBA to require referees to have coronavirus vaccine

NEW YORK, AUG 29 (AGENCIES): The National Basketball Association (NBA) will require referees working games during the coming season to be vaccinated against coronavirus, the league said on Saturday.

The announcement comes after the league and the National Basketball Referees Association reached an agreement, which will not enforce the requirement for referees with religious or medical exemptions. The referees have also agreed to take any recommended booster shots. “Any referee who does not get vaccinated and is not exempt will be ineligible to work games,” the league said in a statement.

The NBA will require all coaches and staff who interact with players to take the vaccine, The Athletic reported on Friday.

The move comes as a growing number of arenas have said they will require fans to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend games when the 2021-2022 regular season starts on Oct. 19.

Sports Minister launches Fit India Mobile App on National Sports Day NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (IANS): Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday launched the Fit India Mobile Application at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, here on National Sports Day. Minister of State, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Nisith Pramanik was also present on the occasion. The two ministers also virtually interacted with Indian hockey team captain Manpreet Singh.

Congratulating everyone on the second anniversary of Fit India Movement as well as on National Sports Day, Thakur said, “The Fit India Mobile App brings ease of checking one’s fitness levels right into the palm of every Indian. It has some unique features like ‘fitness score’, animated videos, activity trackers and ‘my plan’ catering to (an) individual’s specific needs.”

He added that, “Last year Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched age-appropriate fitness protocols. These protocols are certified by WHO (World Health Organisation) and have been made keeping in mind international standards. Mr Narendra Modi

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has also given a fitness mantra for the people of the country - Fitness Ki Dose, Aadha Ghanta Roz.” Thakur also said that it is essential to ensure fitness of our youth if we want them to contribute meaningfully to nation building. He urged everyone to popularise the app through social media. Pramanik said that the contribution of countrymen in making the Fit India Movement a Jan Andolan is incredible. Meanwhile, Manpreet Singh, the Indian hockey team captain, appreciated the easy-to-use features of the app and its utility to monitor health

parameters. The Fit India Movement was launched on August 29, 2019 by Prime Minister Modi with the vision of making India a fit and healthy nation.

The unique feature of the app is to empower each individual to check his/her fitness score based on a set of age-specific fitness tests and get specific recommendations on how to improve their fitness levels through physical activities including yoga protocols. Animated videos have been provided to make individuals understand about the procedure for conducting the fitness tests themselves.

Murray urges fellow players to get vaccinated

L O N D O N, AU G 2 9 ( AG E N C I E S ) : A n d y Murray said receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is about looking out for the health of the “wider public” and he hopes tennis players who are reluctant to get the jab will come around to seeing its many upsides.

Murray’s comments come ahead of the start of the U.S. Open in New York next week, where organizers on Friday said fans must show proof of vaccination to enter the grounds. The athletes themselves are not required to be vaccinated.

“The reason why all of us are getting vaccinated is to look out for the wider public,” Murray told reporters on Saturday.

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traveling across the world, to look out for everyone else as well,” he said.

“I’m happy that I’m vaccinated. I’m hoping that more players choose

to have it in the coming months.”

The COVID-19 vaccine has divided opinion within tennis. World number one Novak Djokovic

this week reiterated his position that he hoped the vaccine would not become mandatory for players to compete. He has declined to answer questions about his own vaccination status.

World number three Stefanos Tsitsipas, who will face the unseeded Murray in the first round on Monday, has said he is wary of getting vaccinated and will only do so if it becomes mandatory to compete on the ATP Tour.

But 20-time Grand Slam winners Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal feel athletes need to play their part and get vaccinated.

Murray said players may be persuaded when they see the freedom that vaccinated players have compared to unvaccinated competitors at tourna-

ments such as January’s Australian Open.

“I know the conversations with regards to the Australian Open and stuff are already happening,” Murray said.

“The players that have been vaccinated are going to potentially be able to ... have very different conditions to players who are not vaccinated.”

Murray said he believes “a lot” of the tour is not vaccinated and said that if tournaments begin to require it in order to compete, it will spark controversy.

“There’s going to have to be a lot of pretty long, hard conversations with the tour and all of the players involved to try and come to a solution,” he said.

Paralympics: Britain’s Cockroft WNBA-leading Sun beat Sparks 76-61 for 8th straight victory wins third successive 100m gold TOKYO, AUG 29 (AGENCIES): Hannah Cockroft set a new world record to win her third consecutive T34 100m crown and claim a stunning sixth Paralympic title, as Great Britain moved to seven golds on day five in Tokyo. Cockroft, 29, bettered her own record with a time of 16.39 seconds to overhaul team-mate Kare Adenegan, who took silver ahead of Australia’s Robyn Lambird.

The wheelchair rugby team claimed an historic victory in their final, beating the United States 54-49 for GB’s first Paralympic medal of any colour in the sport.

Lee Pearson increased his personal haul to 13 Paralympic golds as he combined with Natasha Baker and Sophie Wells to retain the Para-equestrian team title for Great Britain, which they have won at every Games since 1996. There were two rowing golds as GB’s PR2 mixed double

sculls pair Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley, and the PR3 mixed coxed four team, successfully defended their respective Paralympic titles.

Rowles and Whiteley, who are also the reigning world and European champions, won by 4.86 seconds from the Netherlands, while China took bronze.

The mixed four of 2016 gold medallist James Fox, plus Ellen Buttrick, Ollie Stanhope, Giedre Rakauskaite and cox Erin Kennedy finished 11.05 seconds clear of closest challengers USA. In the triathlon, GB’s Lauren Steadman was victorious in a women’s PTS5 event which also saw Claire Cashmore win bronze, while George Peasgood earned silver behind Rio champion Martin Schulz in the men’s race. Judoka Chris Skelley triumphed in the -100kg final with Elliot Stewart taking silver in the -90kg category.

UNCASVILLE/WASHINGTON/INDIANAPOLIS, AUG 29 (AP): Brionna Jones had 16 points and a career-high 15 rebounds and the WNBA-leading Connecticut Sun won their eight straight game and 20th of the season, beating the Los Angeles Sparks 7661 on Saturday night.

The Sun have won 13 of 14 games at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Jonquel Jones added 14 points and seven rebounds for Connecticut (20-6). Kaila Charles had 12 points and DeWanna Bonner and Briann January each added 10.

Erica Wheeler had Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones, left, pokes the 15 points and seven as- ball away from LA Sparks forward Lauren Cox during a sists for the Sparks (10-16), WNBA basketball game in Uncasville, Conn. (AP)

who were without Chiney Ogwumike and Kristi Toliver. Te’a Cooper added 13 points and Mia Coffey had 12.

Mystics 76, Wings 75 Natasha Cloud scored 21 points and Shavonte Zellous hit a pair of free throws with 4.7 seconds left to cap Washington’s second-half comeback against Dallas.

Washington was without Elena Delle Donne, who returned a week ago after missing 22 months following a pair or back surgeries. Delle Donne came out of Thursday’s game after 12 minutes as a precaution and is considered day-to-day. The Mystics also were without

Tina Charles because of a left glute strain.

The Mystics (10-15) scored 57 second-half points. Cloud, who scored all 21 points in the second half, hit three 3s and scored 15 points in the third quarter to help spark the rally.

Arike Ogunbowale scored 25 points for Dallas (11-15).

Aces 87, Fever 71 R i q u n a Wi l l i a m s scored 15 points, Kelsey Plum added 14 and Las Vegas beat Indiana.

Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young each scored 13 points for the Aces (197). Kelsey Mitchell and Tiffany Mitchell each scored 15 points for Indiana (519).

Mirabai’s Olympic silver is like oxygen for weightlifting: Malleswari NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (PTI): Sydney Olympics bronze medallist Karnam Malleswari believes Mirabai Chanu’s silver in the recent Tokyo Games is “like oxygen” for Indian weightlifting and it will inspire youngsters to take up the sport.

Malleswari, who had won a weightlifting bronze in the 2000 Olympics, also said that sports culture will grow in the country after India’s best-ever show in the Tokyo Games.

“After 20 years, Mirabai (Chanu’s) medal has come, so it is doing work like oxygen for us. I think in the future, because of this medal, many children have got motivation and in future more medals will come,” Malleswari told reporters after inaugurating K Y M C

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‘The Knee Clinic’ here.

Talking about India’s performance in Tokyo Olympics, Malleswari said, “We have won seven medals. We have performed well and happiest thing is Neeraj Chopra, won the gold in athletics, where we even cannot think of a medal. “Support is given by Indian government, SAI, Sports Ministry are playing

their roles. Government supported Olympians to a large extent and they were given the best facilities and training and we saw its results,” said the former weightlifter, who is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She said because of the government support and good performance of the athletes, the parents are al-

lowing their children to take up to sport as a career.

“There is awareness among the public. Earlier, there was a dilemma whether to make a career or not, but today the players can make a 100 per cent career (in sports). “If you win an Olympic medal, you become a celebrity and get financially settled. Now the parents are also supporting. In the future, I see a good sports culture growing in India and there will be many medallists,” added the 46-year-old.

“20 years back there was talk of cricket everywhere, but now Olympic sports are getting promoted, so as a result of which we are seeing seven medals in Olympics.”

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ongoing Tokyo Paralympics, she said, “We won a silver today. First Deepa Malik won the medal (in Paralympics) and now this (Bhavinaben’s medal) is the second one. “I watched her (Bhavina’s) match, she played well, she lost the first round, but did well in the second. She won a silver, I am very happy,” she said.

She also recollected an anecdote from the 2000 Sydney Olympics when current national badminton coach P Gopichand came running to her room to see the bronze medal she had won. “ W h e n my m e d a l came, Gopi (Gopichand) knocked on my door, he asked whether I could take my medal in hand. I said wear it, it is our country’s medal.

On the occasion of ‘National Sports Day’ (August 29), Lion Club of Dimapur Japfu in collaboration with Tennis Volleyball Association of Nagaland organized the game of Tennis Volleyball among the students of St. Mary’s Hr. Sec. School Dimapur in the presence of chairperson of the association, Neena Dutta. The game is the combination of tennis and volleyball.

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2 silvers won, a bronze on hold: India’s remarkable day at Paralympics

TOKYO, AUG 29 (PTI): Bhavinaben Patel clinched a historic silver in table tennis to give India its first medal in Paralympics before high jumper Nishad Kumar also came second but the celebrations of a Super Sunday were somewhat muted after discus thrower Vinod Kumar’s bronze-winning result was put on hold due to a protest over his disability classification.

Patel, who was diagnosed with polio when she was 12 months old, became only the second Indian woman to win a medal at the Paralympics after she signed off with a silver following a 0-3 loss to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou in the women’s singles table tennis class 4 final.

Nishad then clinched a silver with an Asian record before discus thrower Vinod fetched a bronze which was put on hold after a protest over his disability classification as India began collecting what is expected to be an unprecedented haul of athletics medals in the Games.

It somewhat marred the upbeat mood in the Indian camp on the Na-

Deepa Malik (L) with Paddler Bhavina Patel

tional Sports Day, which is the birth anniversary of hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand.

Vinod’s classification in F52, which is for athletes with impaired muscle power, restricted range of movement, limb deficiency or leg length difference, was done on August 22 by the organisers.

It was not clear on what grounds the classification has been challenged.

“Results of this event are currently under review due to classification observation in competition.

The Victory Ceremony has been postponed to the evening session of 30th August,” read a statement from the Games organis-

ers.

India’s Chef de Mission Gursharan Singh told PTI that Vinod’s medal stands for now till a decision on the matter by the technical officials likely to come on Monday.

But the day began brightly, with the 34-yearold Patel clinching a silver.

She lost 7-11 5-11 6-11 loss to Zhou, a two-time gold medallist, in the women’s singles summit clash which lasted 19 minutes.

Deepa Malik, who is the current president of Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), was the first Indian woman to win a medal in the Paralympic Games when she had claimed a silver in shotput at Rio five years back.

Nishad Kumar

Patel, a wheelchairbound player with an indomitable spirit, had suffered a loss to Zhou, one of the most decorated para-paddlers of China, in her first group stage match earlier in the week.

Patel started playing the sport 13 years ago at the Blind People’s Association at Vastrapur area of Ahmedabad where she was a student of ITI for people with disabilities.

There, she saw visually impaired children playing table tennis and decided to take up the sport.

Patel hoped her success will help change the perception of people towards disability and create more opportunities.

“What I went through

growing up, I don’t want the next generation of people with disability to suffer,” she said.

“Accessibility is a major issue and so is jobs and other opportunities. If my medal can somehow make the right noise and get people at the helm of affairs to be heard, I will be more than happy.

The 21-year-old Nishad, who is a farmer’s son in Himachal Pradesh’s Amb town, cleared 2.06m to win the silver in T47 class before 41-year-old BSF man Vinod, whose father fought in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, produced a best throw of 19.91m to clinch a bronze.

The 24-member Indian athletics team is hoping

Vinod Kumar

for a rich haul of medals -at least 10 -- and the double success on Sunday gave the country enough reasons to smile on the National Sports Day. Nishad, whose right hand got cut by a grasscutting machine at his family’s farm when he was an eight-year-old boy, cleared the same height of 2.06m with American Dallas Wise who was also awarded a silver.

Another American, Roderick Townsend, won the gold with a world record jump of 2.15m.

The second Indian in the fray, Ram Pal, finished fifth with a best jump of 1.94m.

T47 class is meant for athletes with a unilateral

upper limb impairment resulting in some loss of function at the shoulder, elbow and wrist.

Nishad had also contracted COVID-19 earlier this year while training at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru.

Nishad had won a gold medal in the men’s high jump T46/47 event at the Fazza World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai earlier this year. He began competing in para athletics in 2009.

In Vinod’s event, Piotr Kosewicz (20.02m) of Poland and Velimir Sandor (19.98m) of Croatia won the gold and silver respectively.

Vinod injured his legs while training after joining

the BSF, falling off a cliff in Leh that left him bedridden for close to a decade during which he lost both his parents.

In archery, the Indian challenge ended in the compound mixed pair open section after the duo of Rakesh Kumar and Jyoti Baliyan made a quarterfinal exit.

The sixth seeded duo suffered a poor start misfiring in the 6-ring in the first end that proved to be decisive as they lost to their Turkish opponents Oznur Cure and Bulent Korkmaz by 151-153 in an intriguing contest.

Earlier in the morning, the Indian duo stormed past Thailand’s Anon Aungaphinan and Praphaporn Homjanthuek 147-141.

Indian challenge also ended in the women’s compound open section where the lone challenger Jyoti lost to Kerrie-Louise Leonard of Ireland 141-137 in the first round.

The medal rush is expected to continue on Monday with star javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia, gunning for his third gold, leading the charge.

4 gold medals for India at Asian junior boxing Juventus begin post-Ronaldo era with defeat NEW DELHI, AUG 29 (PTI): It was gold rush for India at the Asian Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai with four pugilists from the country finishing on top in the finals held on Sunday.

Rohit Chamoli (48kg), Bharat Joon (+81kg), Vishu Rathee (girls 48kg), and Tanu (girls 52kg) notched up contrasting victories in their summit clashes to bag the top prize.

While Chamoli defeated Mongolia’s Otgonbayar Tuvshinzaya in an intense final, Joon got the better of Kazakhstan’s Yerdos Sharipbek 5-0 to finish on top.

Chamoli rallied after losing the opening round to prevail 3-2 in the hardfought contest. Joon, on the other hand, easily out-maneuvered his rival, who fizzled out after a decent start.

In another final, Gaurav Saini (70kg) signed off with a silver medal after losing

India’s Rohit Chamoli (in red) celebrates his win against Mongolia’s Otgonbayar Tuvshinzaya in their final bout. (PTI)

0-5 Boltaev Shavkatjon of Uzbekistan.

In the girls’ competition, Rathee picked up the gold medal defeating Uzbekistan’s Bakhtiyorova Robiyakhon.

After her, Tanu edged past Tomiris Myrzakul of Kazakhstan in a split 3-2 verdict. However, Muskan (46kg) had to be content with a silver medal after being bested by another

Uzbek Ganieva Gulsevar in a closely-fought bout.

Later tonight, Tanu (52kg), Aanchal Saini (57kg), Nikita (60kg), Mahi Raghav (63kg), Rudrika (70kg), Pranjal Yadav (75kg), Sanjana (81kg) and Kirti (+81kg) will be competing in the other girls’ finals. India have already won six bronze medals in the junior event after Devika Ghorpade (50kg), Aarzoo

(54kg) and Supriya Rawat (66kg) lost in the girls semifinals while Ashish (54kg), Anshul (57kg) and Ankush (66kg) also claimed bronze in the boys’ event.

In the last Asian Junior Championships held in 2019 in Fujairah, UAE, India had finished third with 21 medals (six gold, nine silver and six bronze). At the ongoing edition, the gold medallists in the junior category will be awarded with USD 4,000 while USD 2,000 and 1,000 will be given to the silver and bronze medal winners respectively.

On Monday, 15 Indian boxers will fight for gold in the youth event.

Nivedita (48kg), Tamanna (50kg), Simran (52kg), Neha (54kg), Preeti (57kg), Preeti Dahiya (60kg), Khushi (63kg), Sneha (66kg), Khushi (75kg), Tanishbir (81kg) will be in action in the women’s category.

ROME, AUG 29 (IANS): Juventus are still waiting for their first win of the new Serie A season as they suffered a 1-0 home defeat to Empoli on Saturday in its first game since Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure to Manchester United.

It was Juve’s first match after Cristiano Ronaldo completed his return to Manchester United.

The Bianconeri fielded up a 4-3-3 formation, as Paulo Dybala spearheaded the forward line flanked by Juan Cuadrado and Federico Chiesa.

The home side dominated the game and Chiesa was active to create a couple of chances, but Leonardo Mancuso’s goal from a close range silenced the Allianz Stadium.

Juve just collected one point from the opening two rounds, and they will visit Napoli after the interna-

Juventus and Empoli players in action fighting for the ball during the Serie A football match on Saturday in Rome.

tional break.

“We have one point from two games and obviously we’re not happy because good results help you grow but we’ll learn from these two slip-ups,”

said coach Massimiliano Allegri in the post press conference on Saturday night.

Lazio registered a comfortable victory by humiliating Spezia 6-1,

as hitman Ciro Immobile completed a hat-trick within 45 minutes.

Also on Sunday, Fiorentina beat Torino 2-1, Atalanta shared the spoils with Bologna 0-0.

smashes Paralympics: India lose to Turkey, out Spurs beat Watford 1-0 to go top of table Yehualaw women’s half

L O N D O N, AU G 2 9 (AGENCIES): Son Heung-min marked his 200th Premier League appearance with the winning goal as Tottenham maintained their 100% start to the season 1-0 against Watford.

The result means Spurs will top the table heading into September’s international break, while Watford are 12th.

It also sees Nuno Espirito Santo become just the second Tottenham boss to win his first three league games in charge of the club, with the last man to accomplish that feat being Arthur Rowe in 1949.

But they were made to work hard for their victory by an accomplished Watford side who were unfortunate to concede when Son’s inswinging free-kick deceived goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann and found the bottomright corner.

While Harry Kane was unusually quiet on his first top-flight start this term for Tottenham, Steven Bergwijn, Eric Dier and Dele Alli all had chances for the hosts.

However, Xisco Munoz’s side offered plenty of attacking threat of their own. Juraj Kucka twice failed to capitalise on good opportunities to score and Emmanuel Dennis also

marathon record

Tottenham’s Son Heung-min (left) celebrates after his side goal against Watford during the Premier League match.

gave Spurs some uncom- call-up this week just days fortable moments. after signing a new longcontract, stabbed in Leeds hold Burnley 1-1 term Jamie Shackleton’s effort Patrick Bamford with time running out. capped a dream week with Burnley, who have not a late equaliser as Leeds won at home since Januextended Burnley’s winless ary’s victory over Aston home run to 12 games by Villa, were then left clingpinching a point in a feisty ing on for a draw amid Premier League affair at late Leeds pressure. New Turf Moor. Chris Wood Zealand striker Wood, a had looked set to earn £15m signing from Leeds Burnley all three points in 2017, appeared to have with a predatory finish broken that run shortly against his old club, turn- after James Tarkowski’s ing home Matthew Low- header was tipped on to the ton’s shot from close range. bar by Leeds keeper Illan But Bamford, who Meslier. earned his first England The Clarets kept the

ball in the box and Wood got the slightest of touches to Lowton’s shot to divert it into the net.

However, Bamford - who almost scored an own goal in the first half when he glanced a Burnley corner on to the near post - rescued a point with four minutes remaining.

The draw leaves both sides still seeking their first league win of the season, the Clarets collecting their first point, with Leeds one point better off, having also drawn with Everton.

RESULT Man United 1-0 Wolves

A N T R I M , AU G 2 9 (AGENCIES): Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the women’s half marathon world record at the Antrim Coast event in Northern Ireland.

Yehualaw, 22, clocked 63 minutes and 43 seconds which cut 19 seconds off the previous mark set by Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich earlier this year.

The Ethiopian was under world record pace all the way.

Her compatriot Jemal Yimer won the men’s event in 60:29 as he edged out another Ethiopian Tesfahun Akalnew.

Yimer had one second to spare from Akalnew with Kenyan Shadrack Kimining a further second back as he completed an all-African top three.

The men’s winning time in the World Athletics Label race was two seconds outside the 60:27 course record set by Sir Mo Farah when he won last year’s inaugural event.

However, all the headlines from the Northern Ireland event will go to the new women’s world record holder Yehualaw, who benefited from excellent work from her male pacemakers on the coastal course around Larne.

of Mixed Team compound archery

TOKYO, AUG 29 (IANS): India’s Mixed Team of Jyoti Baliyan and Rakesh Kumar lost to Turkey’s Cure Oznur and Bulent Korkmaz in the quarterfinals of the compound open section at the Tokyo Paralympic Games here on Sunday.

Jyoti and Rakesh, who had reached the lasteight stage after beating Thailand’s Mixed Team, went down 151-153 at the Yumenoshima Final Field.

The Indians went behind by three points in the first round itself (34-37) when Jyoti shot a six on the first arrow. They won the second end 39-38, hitting two 10s, one inner 10, and a nine, while Turkey managed 9, 10, 10, 9 and reduced the margin by one point.

The two teams scored identical 39s in the third end and though India shot another 39 in the final four arrows, the Turkish pair too came up with 39 and thus the Indian pair fell short by two points.

Earlier, Jyoti and Rakesh beat Thailand’s Praphaporn Homjanthuek and Anon Aungaphinan 147-141 and advanced to the quarterfinals on Sunday.

T h e I n d i a n p a i r,

Rakesh Kumar and Jyoti Baliyan

which had qualified as the sixth-best with a score of 1370, shot 35 in the first round of four arrows, the same as their Thai opponents. They went behind in the next round as they managed 36 points because of an eight on the first arrow followed by two 9s and a 10. Thailand got 37 with an inner 10 and three 9s as they led 72-71. However, the Indians came back strongly to win the match.

Meanwhile, Jyoti’s challenge in the women’s individual compound open competitions came to an end with a defeat to Ireland’s Kerrie-Lousie Leonard in a 1/16 Elimination round.

Jyoti, who had qualified 15th with a score of 671, lost to Kerrie-Lousie -who could manage a score of 657 in the ranking round -- 137-141 in the 15-arrow elimination round.

Jyoti started with an eight but followed that up

with a 10 and nine as she tallied 27 points in the first end. She got a one-point lead as her Irish opponent ended with 26 after two nines and an eight.

She lost the initiative in the second set of three arrows, a seven after 10 and eight undid her efforts as she earned 25 points while Kerrie-Lousie shot a 29 with two arrows in the inner 10 (X) and one nine to take the lead at 55-52.

Jyoti responded with a perfect 30 in the next three arrows, hitting three 10s, while Kerrie-Louise shot 29 thanks to a 10, an X, and nine.

The 27-year-old Jyoti managed 29 in the penultimate round while her 30-year-old Irish rival shot a perfect 30 to maintain her upper hand. The Indian could manage only 26 in the fifth and final round of three arrows as KerrieLouise shot 27 to seal the victory.

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