3 July 2022

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Vol XXXII No. 207

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DMC dumping site: NGT notice to State

COLONY ALSO QUESTIONS CLEANEST ULB AWARD TO DMC

DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): In a major development, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Eastern Zone bench, Kolkata has given four weeks’ time to the State government, Dimapur Municipal Council(DMC), Deputy Commissioner Dimapur and Nagaland Pollution Control Board(NPCB) to respond to a petition filed

by Sunrise Colony, Burma Camp Dimapur in connection with dumping of solid waste and other wastes at the dumping site near the colony.

After hearing the petition on July 1, through video conferencing, NGT bench justice B. Amit Sthalekar (Judicial Member) and expert member Saibal Dasgupta through an order, stated that the matter required consideration and therefore, directed the respondents to file para-wise reply within four weeks and listed the next date of hearing on August 2, 2022.

The applicant(Sunrise Colony), alleged that dumping solid waste and other wastes at the dumping site was in complete violation of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.

It alleged that the dumping site was ill-maintained and located in the low-lying area which percolates and contaminates the ground water resources through leaching, which has direct effect on the life and health of the residents of the area including flora and fauna.

The applicant also alleged that plastic, rubber and other toxic materialswere being burnt openly leading to toxic smell in the air.

CTCCTA warns against paying tax DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Taking note of many Naga political groups issuing “information slip for collection of tax” under Chümoukedima town, the Chümoukedima Town Chamber of Commerce and Trade Association (CTCCTA) has warned that any business establishments paying tax to any group would be doing so at their own risk.

In a press release, CTCCTA information and publicity Abung Pamei stated that collection of tax was “totally against” the resolution adopted by the general public of Chümoukedima town at weekly Saturday market on February 14, 2014.

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File photo of DMC dumping site .

Further, it also pointed out that the dumping site was less than 30 meters away from the Dhansiri River and located about 40-50 meters from the human habitation, thus violating the siting criteria for selection of dumping site in accordance with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.

The applicant also prayed that the DMC be directed to re-locate the dump site to a more appropriate place in conformity with the environmental norms.

In response, the Bench noted that the respondents shall also consider this plea of the applicant in their reply.

In this regard, the bench directed DC Dimapur, CEO, DMC and chairman NPCB to also file their personal affidavits by the next date of listing.

It may be mentioned that the Sunrise Colony had earlier filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Gauhati High Court, Kohima bench in 2017 after which the court had maintained that the matter

fell under the jurisdiction of the NGT as per Sec. 14 and Schedule 1 of the NGT Act, 2010.

Colony shocked over mishandling of waste management

In a press note, Sunrise colony council chairman John Zeliang and secretary Athemphu Kamei expressed shock at the manner in which the Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department(UD&MAD) was handling and overseeing the waste management system in Dimapur.

They said that despite knowing the bitter reality that DMC was running the dumping ground by violating the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2000 and the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, DMC was adjudged as one of the cleanest ULBs in the first category as announced on June 28, 2022.

They opined that waste management system meant any facility or equipment used in, and any operations

carried out for, the management of waste including the collection, handling, transportation, storage, processing or disposal of waste, and may include one or more waste disposal sites.

Further, the colony asked the department to take cue from the statement of the advisor Urban Development and Municipal Affairs, who reportedly stated in the award function that the common practice of disposal of waste in Nagaland was by collecting of waste and dumping at the dumping site without any treatment or segregation posing, a major environmental concern especially single use-plastic items.

The council wondered whether the award was given byexamining and inspecting the waste management from source to disposal and its management at dumpsite.

It questioned as to how municipal council, without even a garbage truck, was adjudged to have the best waste management system in place?

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Home Ministry amends FCRA rules NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (PTI): The Union Home Ministry has amended certain rules related to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) allowing Indians to receive up to Rs 10 lakh in a year from relatives staying abroad without informing the authorities.

The earlier limit was Rs 1 lakh. In a notification, the home ministry also said if the amount exceeds, the individuals will now have 90 days to inform the government instead of 30 days earlier. In a separate notification, the home ministry made five more offences under the FCRA “compoundable” instead of directly prosecuting the organisations or individuals.

Earlier, only seven offences under FCRA were compoundable. The new rules, Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2022, were notified

by MHA through a gazette notification on Friday night.

Alemtemshi (2nd-R) with other officials during the press conference at IDAN hall Kohima on Saturday. (NP)

ity of Nagaland (IDAN), Alemtemshi Jamir, said the conclaves were aimed at attracting more CSRs to Nagaland since it was not receiving its due share.

He said that CSR was enacted in 2013 by the Centre under which companies

with a net worth of Rs 500 crore or more and with a turnover of Rs 1000 crore or more were stipulated to reserve 2% of their profits to be utilized in social upliftment activities. Jamir informed that although Nagaland has over Rs 27,000 crore turn-

Manipur landslide: nine more bodies recovered; toll rises to 30 Correspondent

IMPHAL, JUL 2: Two days after devastating landslide hit the 107 Territorial Army (TA) camp located at Tupul railway construction camp at Makhuam area of Noney district, Manipur on June 30, the rescue teams have recovered nine more dead bodies pushing the death toll from the disaster to 30.

Officials said that till 3 pm, the rescuers retrieved eight more bodies, but sources from the ground zero said that one more body was recovered in the last hour of halting day’s operation late afternoon.

As per an official source, as many as 81 people, mostly TA personnel, were hit by the landslide, which completely buried their camp.

Among the victims, 43 were personnel of the

Excise official during the joint destruction programme of narcotics cell and mobile squad on Saturday.

markable haul of seizures.”

Expressing concern over the steady rise in the usage of drugs especially brown sugar (‘sunflower’)

among the younger generation over the recent years, the commissioner of excise & prohibition underscored the need to address the is-

TA, 23 staff and workers of Venkata Sai Construction (VSC), three each of railway and BIPL and five villagers. The identities of four victims were yet to be established, the official said.

After the tragic incident, a Joint Task Force comprising Army, Assam Rif les, NDRF, SDRF, CRPF, Ar my Medical Doctors, Manipur police and fire service personnel launched the rescue operations.

As many as 477 personnel of the said forces

including MMTA and local volunteers were involved in the rescue operation that also pressed to service 32 excavators.

Two sniffer dogs were also deployed to assist the rescuers besides the sophisticated machinery including Through-Wall Imaging Radars to trace the missing people.

Today’s operation, which commenced at 4am, was hampered due to rainfall and appearance of new cracks in landslide area, officials said.

Y Patton. A case has been registered and further investigation was on. It was reported that taxi, enroute to Kohima, was hit by the truck coming from the opposite direction.

over annually, the State had been receiving only .006% in the form of CSR out of the total turnover. He expressed optimism that the Union Minister’s visit would bring a huge change in the State as a host of industry frontrunners including more than 50 chief executive officers (CEOs) were expected to attend the conclaves.

Although Nagaland had also been pitching for investments at various investors meet held in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangkok etc., Jamir said none has materialized so far and therefore a change was expected during the upcoming meet.

NPCC demands compensation for victims

The taxi that was hit by truck in Kukidolong area on Saturday

ing PRO Dimapur police in a press note, informed that three occupants of the taxi died on the spot while two others succumbed to injuries on way to the hospital. All those who died were males, police said.

Three other injured persons, including the driver

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DIAMPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): The chief veterinary officer (CVO) Dimapur, Dr. Kelesekho Tsükrü, Saturday said that since there was no vaccine available for treating African Swine Fever (ASF), the only way to contain the disease was containment, sanitization and creating awareness.

CVO Dimapur Dr. Kelesekho Tsükrü told Nagaland Post that ASF was not a zoonotic disease, but the public should maintain strict bio-security measures, stop import of (Cont’d on p-8) animals during the period

sue with all urgency before it assumes alarming proportion.

He said that the enforcement agencies like the excise department needed to be supported at all levels “in the fight against this dreaded menace.”

Atokhe, at the same time, reminded that it was the bounden duty of every citizen and social organization to play their role as responsible pillars of the society.

For effective implementation of the drug laws, he said proper training courses designed for the purpose of achieving greater convictions in the court

of the taxi, were admitted to the Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research.

PRO said that the driver of the truck attempted to escape but was intercepted after a hot chase by a team of police escort personnel of deputy chief minister

Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has demanded that the state government provide adequate compensation to the next of kin of the deceased and also to injured.

NPCC blamed the state government for negligence in monitoring and completing the 4-lane road

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Excise department destroys drugs worth Rs.1.15 crore DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Narcotics and other drugs worth Rs.1.15 crore seized by narcotics cell and mobile squad were destroyed at excise office premises Dimapur on Saturday.

The destroyed seized items included 20kg Ganja, 1935gm heroin, 19397 bottles of Codeine-based Cough Syprup; 6,92,691 Capsules/Tablets of Spasmo proxyvon/Alprazolam and 2150kg of poppy straw.

Speaking at the joint destruction programme of narcotics cell and mobile squad, the commissioner of excise & prohibition, H Atokhe Aye, commended the two units for the “re-

Rescue operations underway at the site on Saturday.

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FM Sitharaman to arrive State on July 4

KOHIMA, JUL 2 (NPN): Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to arrive Nagaland on July 4 on a three-day visit.

She would be addressing a series of conclaves on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Bankers and Investors Meet at the State capital Kohima.

This is Sitharaman’s second visit to Nagaland.

Earlier, she had visited the state in May 2018 when she was Union Defence Minister. Addressing a press conference, CEO Investment and Development Author-

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Five killed, three injured in road accident

DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): In a horrific incident, five persons in total died while three others seriously injured, when the taxi they were travelling was hit by a truck in Kukidolong area, near Jharnapani on Saturday.

When contacted, Commissioner of Police (CP) Dimapur, Rothihu Tetseo informed Nagaland Post that the regional taxi (Maruti EECO van) NL07T 0757 on its way to Kohima was hit by a truck (No. MN01AA 0272) which was enroute Dimapur from Imphal, Ma(Cont’d on p-8) nipur. Meanwhile, officiat-

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of law were also being initiated under the training regime of the department.

The commissioner of excise & prohibition encouraged the personnel to keep up the good performance in the days ahead.

At the programme, brief reports on the seizures were read out by superintendent of excise, mobile squad and the narcotics cell.

Vote of thanks was proposed by assistant commissioner excise (ADM) Phyobemo Kikon.

The programme was chaired by deputy commissioner excise (Hqr & Enf) S Chanlei Angh.

of confirmation of ASF in the districts.

In this regard, the chief veterinary officer has sought cooperation and support from the public in order to contain the disease before it spreads.

CVO reiterated the department’s appeal to the public to inform about sudden death of pigs to the nearest veterinary institute so the department could collect tissue samples for any confirmation.

With regard positive cases of ASF confirmed in Dimapur district, CVO said that prior to the report, there had been cases, but the department could not

collect the samples on time as the information was received only after the burial.

He, however, said that an alert signal was passed so the department could collect the samples and detect whether it was ASF or swine fever.

After receiving call on death pigs from Unity colony at Purana Bazar and Bamunpukhuri, he said the department collected the sample and sent it to Kohima. CVO said that ASF outbreak was confirmed after receiving laboratory test reports through RT-PCR from NERDDL, Guwahati.

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State logs 3 new Covid cases

DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Nagaland on Saturday reported three fresh cases of COVID-19 taking the total caseload to 35,512.

The death toll in the state remained at 761.

Of the fresh cases, two were detected in Dimapur district and one in Mokokchung. Two more persons from Dimapur and Mokokchung recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 33,253. According to health department’ s daily bulletin, the current recovery rate was 93.64 per cent.

At present, the state has only five active patients with mild symptoms.

PTI adds: India logged 17,092 new coronavirus infections, raising the tally to 4,34,86,326, while the active cases have increased to 1,09,568, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

The death toll has climbed to 5,25,168 with 29 new fatalities, data updated by the ministry at 8 am stated.

The active cases comprise 0.25 per cent of the total infections.

The national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.54 per cent, the health ministry said.

An increase of 2,379 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 case count in a span of 24 hours.

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Promote peace and maintain unity: Dr. Chumben

D I M A P U R : A dv i s o r for Law & Justice and chairman, DPDB Wokha, D r. C h u m b e n M u r r y on Saturday asked the people of Wokha village to promote peace and maintain unity.

Speaking at the thanksgiving & picnic programme organised by Wokha village, the advisor urged upon the people to work together for the welfare and interest of the people.

He also advised his supporters not to have differences in politics but to maintain peace and to

D r. C h u m b e n M u r r y speaking at the programme.

advocate unity.

Dr. Chumben also called on his supporters

NEWS IN BRIEF PHED informs on water supply to Kohima: PHED Kohima Urban Division has informed that water supply to Kohima town from Jotsoma source (200mm CI) and Phesama source (80mm GI) has been damaged by ongoing construction works near Box Cutting, above Mezhur Higher Secondary School. The department assured to restore the water supply line in the shortest possible time and requested affected consumers and public to extend cooperation and bear the inconvenience till the line was restored.

DNCE convenes general meet: Dimapur Nkonjan Chudi Ekhung has convened a general meeting on July 11, 2 pm at Lotha Hoho Ki to discuss important agendas. In this regard, DNCE has asked all concerned members to attend the said meeting.

Lions Club elects office bearers: Lions Club of Dimapur Blue Venda and Lions Club of Dimapur and Japfu on July 1 inducted new board of directors for both the clubs. A new member was inducted in Blue Venda while three new members were inducted in Japfu. The Blue Venda team would be led by Sumita Sharma as president, Seema Bhowal as secretary and Mamoni Mazumdar as treasurer while Japfu team would be led by Bindia Rani Das as president, Meribeni A Shitiri as secretary and Merennungsang Ao as treasurer.

CDGBA informs: Chümoukedima District GB Association has informed all the units under CDGBA to elect their respective office bearers and submit the name list to CDGBA office on or before July 20. CDGBA informed that this was resolved at a meeting held on June 24 at CPO hall, Chümoukedima.

KLC celebrates 43rd parting social DIMAPUR: Kohima Law College (KLC) celebrated its parting social and launching of the college’s annual magazine on June 30, in the college auditorium.

In a press release, Ko h i m a L aw C o l l e g e Students’ Union (KLCSU) informed that in his speech, KLCSU president, Lelimthong P. Yimchunger wished success to the outgoing students and also expressed happiness to assistant professor, Kezhokhoto Savi, as the day also marked the completion of 25 years of his teaching in the college.

H e s a i d t h a t S av i was their role model and backbone of the college, who moulded students and was steadfast towards the progress of his students Speeches were delivered by seniors and juniors to mark the 43rd parting social.

While launching releasing annual college magazine, senior teacher, assistant professor Tompok Pongener described his colleagues, Kezhokhoto Savi as a sincere and dedicated

“not to be carried away by false propagandas”.

Speeches were also delivered by youth, women, party workers and supporters.

The programme was chaired by Mhonthung Erui, welcome note was delivered by Yiben Tungoe, associate pastor Wokha Village Baptist Church (WVBC) Nongothung Kikon offered invocation, pastor WVBC, Rev. O. Thungben Kikon said a prayer of blessings while benediction was offered

by CNY director, WVBC, Nzanbeni Murry.

Lecture series on entrepreneurship D I M A P U R : I n s t i t u t i o n’s Innovation Council (IIC) of St. Joseph University, Ikishe village organised the AICTE and MIC sponsored “Impact Lecture Series on Entrepreneurship” on June 30.

A t t h e p r o g r a m m e, assistant professor, Department o f C o m m e r c e, T h a n t h a i Periyar Government College, Tiruchirappalli, Dr. C. Pa r a m a s iva n s p o k e o n technopreneurship through startup.

He enlightened real time successful business concepts which were apt for the current scenario and encouraged the students to identify their entrepreneurial skills.

M e a n w h i l e, f o u n d e r & president, Udyogwardhini, Nashik Sunil Chandhak delivered a session on creating entrepreneurial mindset where he explained about entrepreneurial o p p o r t u n i t i e s ava i l a b l e t o students.

L a t e r, vo t e o f t h a n k s was proposed by Raju Thakur a n d Pa r va t i Pa r i ya r. T h e programme was organised by Dr. M.Selladurai, which was attended by more than 100 participants.

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Faculty members of the college and others during the launching of college magazine.

teacher who sacrificed for the betterment of the college and contributed to the reformation of society.

In his speech, Kezhokhoto Savi thanked God for His grace and said his compassion on “consumer welfare” led him to the college.

He narrated that in 1994, he joined the law practice at Tis Hazari courts, Delhi and Delhi High Court.

Savi said it was when he spent sometime in the Supreme Court that he realised a “great need of consumer rights awareness

in Nagaland”.

He said that by the time he returned to Kohima, he began publishing articles in the local dailies, radio talks, television interviews for the protection and promotion of consumer rights in the state.

He informed that the college invited him to present a talk on “consumer rights” under Consumer Protection Act, 1986 which he said was a study course for LL.B students.

In a few days’ time, he narrated that he was given the opportunity to teach in the college in 1997.

He expressed happiness to see many of his students excel in the practice of law as independent law practitioners, magistrates, APP, civil judge.

The programme was led by comperes, Holuto Sheqi and Megosenuo Kuotsu, invocation by EU president Rose Mary, special numbers by EU, Yongo and friend and farewell song from the juniors, vote of thanks by Students’ Council general secretary, Nocklei M while EU advisor Sentitula Ao offered the benediction.

Awareness prog on drug abuse at ECC

Members of the Red Ribbon Club and others after the programme on Saturday.

DIMAPUR: The Red Ribbon Club (RRC) of Eastern Christian College (ECC) Dimapur organised an awareness programme on “drug abuse and illicit trafficking” on Saturday.

In a press release, ECC media cell informed that during the programme, the resource person, senior

Capacity building session on peace building

program officer, I-Tech India, Temjen spoke on how drugs and alcohol negatively impacted society and students in particular.

He also made the students aware about the “golden tips” in order to prevent themselves from drug addiction.

Later, Meren, who is

a counselor, also shared his testimony. Earlier, at the programme, welcome address was delivered

by ECC vice principal, Eneingulo-U Lasuh and vote of thanks was proposed by assistant professor, department of Commerce and RRC member of ECC, Sholola.

1st Death anniversary

In Fond memory of

DIMAPUR: Pe a c e C h a n n e l o n Ju n e 2 7 conducted a capacity building session on “peace building” at River Belt School (RBS), Full Nagarjan, Dimapur.

In a press release, Peace Channel informed that the session was conducted by peace club animators, Toviholi Y Yepthomi and Manpang Nyiam on “An introduction about Peace C h a n n e l , p e a c e c l u b, peace celebration and its activities”. Animators also emphasised on importance of peace in school settings to promote peace building among children.

Meanwhile, Yepthomi em pha sised on pea c e channel as an emerging youth movement aimed at transforming members of society into promoters of peace while Nyiam spoke on the seven steps of peace celebration—ice-breaker, peace prayer, meditation, input session, evaluation & action plan, peace pledge, and peace anthem.

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Born on 23rd March 2008, died on 23rd June 2022

We, the bereaved family of Late Haiyamo Seb express our heartfelt gratitude to the individuals, families, churches, cillages, organizations, Doctors, Nurses and well wishers who stood by us physically, financially and in fervent prayers during his prolonged illness and at the demise of our beloved son.

We sincerely apologize our inability to address each and every individual personally, but it is our humble prayers that Almighty God bless everyone of you abundantly! dp-3175/22

Loving family members

First Death Anniversary Remembering our Beloved Caroline Zarhümi Binyegi Yanthan Mukholee

Late Makokinba Pongen

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4th June 1983 – 3rd July 2021

22.01.1974 – 15.06.2022 We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who stood by us during the illness and demise of our beloved Late Neitho-o Benedict Solo on the 15th of June 2022.

We deeply regret our inability to mention each and everyone individually but it is our humble prayers that Almighty God in all His goodness bless you all abundantly.

'No legacy is so rich as honesty' Today on your 2nd Death Anniversary we pray that you are in a better place now dad. Everyday without you has been hard, we still miss your guidance and wisdom.

'You will always be in our hearts because in there, you're still alive.'

Loving wife, children, grand children and family members

Aba, today on 3rd of July 2021, you left for heavenly abode, but your humbleness, kindness, caring and loving memories will never fade away from our hearts.

We cherish your virtues of honesty and hardwork.

Your Loving Wife, Children, Grandchildren & Relatives db-686/22

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Late Mr. Shokiye Kibami

Lt. Jepdakyangla (Mopungchuket)

Lt. I. Lima Longkumer

A year has passed since you left for heavenly abode Yet we still miss you everyday Now that you are gone, some will forget you But we will remember no matter how long They say time is a healer, but each day seems a struggle Only those who love you know what a great vacuum your absence has made You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure In silent tears, we cherish you The beautiful life you shared with us are but sweet memories In the sunset, we see you Someday we shall meet in heaven's shore Mum, Dad & Loved Ones

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March 1927 – June 29, 2022

Died : 3rd July 2021 Blessed are those who die in the Lord, for they will rest from their hard work; for their good deeds follow them!

(Revelation 14:13)

Dear Ipu, A year has passed without your presence yet there was never a day when we have not thought of you but we are reassured that we all will meet one day in eternity. k-1451/22

Loving Wife, Children, In-laws, Grand Children and Loved ones

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The family of Late Mrs. Khrütsolü (Nobolü) Ringa wishes to acknowledge the many expressions of sympathy and gestures of kindness shown to us following our sad loss. We offer our heartfelt thanks to the many friends, individuals, neighbours, relatives and all the well-wishers who visited our home, attended the wake, and funeral service of our beloved mother; provided emotional and financial support to us at this difficult time.

We would like to extend our special thanks to: 1. Chakhesang Baptist Church Kitsoubozou 2. Runguzumi Welfare Union 3. Runguzu Baptist Church 4. Runguzu Nasa Baptist Church 5. Officers and staff of Directorate of State Institute of Rural Development 6. Superintendent of Child Protection Services, Nagaland May the ever abundant God bless you richly and keep you.

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We, the bereaved family members of Late Mrs. Jepdakyangla would like to express our profound gratitude and appreciation to all friends, neighbours, relatives and well wishers who stood by us physically, financially, materially and spiritually during her illness and demise.

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

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Tongpang Ozüküm along with IBC representatives and NPWD officials on Saturday. (NP)

Correspondent KOHIMA, JUL 2 (NPN): Minister for PWD (Housing & Mechanical), Tongpang Ozüküm on Saturday said the state was in dire need for holistic approach and new technologies towards building an aesthetic and cost-efficient environment.

Speaking at the open session-cum-seminar on “New Technology in Built Environment”, hosted by Indian Buildings Congress (IBC)-Nagaland centre

here, at Hotel Vivor, Tongpang said the event was a big step towards building a sustainable, resilient future.

Stressing on the need to address challenges with regard to development in comparison to other states, he informed that the ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs sanctioned construction of one Demonstration Housing Project (DHP) to the Housing department, with the use of a pre-fabricated sandwich panel system and steel structural system.

The minister stated that such an initiative would be a “game changer” along with the training progammes which would be organised for state professionals, engineers, planners and construction workers.

With road connectivity and unavailability of resources across the state, he hoped that such modern methods of construction based on advanced technologies would consume less time, minimise environmental impact and

have positive influence in the state.

Further, Tongpang urged upon the IBC to guide the state with their knowledge and expertise in order to move under the direction of a developing and sustainable strategy.

In his address, Er. V. S. Verma spoke on the need to use the latest technologies for an environment friendly society Informing that the country required 2.5 crore housing-dwelling units by 2030, Verma said by 2025, the housing sector would comprise of 13% of GDP. Fur ther, he urged upon the gathering to avoid creating pollution while constructing buildings.

On behalf of M/s K P R Construction, Parag Bedmutha gave a presentation on the new emerging technologies for construction purposes and Swedi Kiso gave a presentation on Nagaland PWD. The programme was chaired by chief engineer, NPWD (H) I Tiameren while welcome address was delivered by engineer-inchief of Nagaland PWD, Er Kahuli Sema.

Organisations conduct felicitation programmes DIMAPUR: All Sümi Students’ Union (SKK) on July 1, organised a felicitation meet on in Dimapur to felicitate the toppers of HSLC and HSSLC examination, 2022.

In a press release, SKK media cell informed that during the programme, Rev. Dr. Z.K. Rochill congratulated the successful candidates on their achievement.

He encouraged them to continue working hard to fetch greater success in life and also advised them to be proud of their identity and culture.

Further, Rev. Dr. Rochill encouraged them to pay back their due share of appreciation and commitment to the Sümi community.

He also offered a dedicatory prayer to all the toppers.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by SKK secretary education & statistical, Ngukato L. Aye, invocation was offered by Thahekhu

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Baptist Church youth pastor Kivigho Chishi, SKK president Katho P. Awomi delivered the welcome note while special presentation was performed by Roviche Yepthomi.

Later, word of gratitude was proposed by SKK secretary public relation, Kawoka V. Awomi.

The toppers who were felicitated at the programme included—Tokabo Katty top 5th (Arts) HSSLC, Kikati Yeptho top 10th (Arts) HSSLC and Tomeka J. Sumi top 19th HSLC. The programme was attended by SKK constituent unit leaders.

ANTA: All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) Wokha unit on July 2 organised a felicitation programme for class X and XII students of Taxi Association family with secretary to the government of Nagaland (Rtd.) and vice president, central executive board of NDPP, Y.M. Humtsoe.

Speaking at the programme, Humtsoe congratulated the six successful students on bringing laurels to the taxi association family when their parents were working day and night to meet their needs.

Sharing his experiences as a student, he challenged the students to work hard, shoulder the responsibilities and to achieve the dreams of their parents.

He said the present generation was availing class facilities and that the earlier society and the life of students were remote.

In this regard, he asked them to avail the opportunity through such facilities by sticking to their works as students and to remain dedicated leaving aside the worldly lifestyle of the rich.

Advising them to respect their parents’ profession and stay humble, he also encouraged them to always put God first in their

works.

In his speech, Lotha Students’ Union (LSU) president, Ashanthung Humtsoe invited the students to visit the LSU office to share ideas or clear their doubts as assistance and help to student community would be assured.

He also exhorted the students that their parents had responsibilities by playing a vital role in the community through their services as taxi drivers.

In this regard, he urged upon them not to be ashamed as their parents were respected for their duties and reminded them to peruse their studies with zeal and dedication.

Meanwhile, he infor med that LSU will shortly conduct an annual felicitation programme of students’ excellence award.

All Commercial Vehicle Association (ACVA) Wokha district president, Renbi Ngullie also exhorted

the students to use mobile phones as a source of knowledge for their career.

He called on them to do manual work and help their family during their free time.

Further, he reminded not to be carried away as success came to those who sacrifices and helped themselves.

In his keynote address, ANTA Wokha unit president, Hayithung Odyuo informed that the programme was organised as per March 25, 2022 resolution of ANTA at Zunheboto.

He congratulated all the successful students of ANTA Wokha unit family and hoped that they would achieve greater heights.

Altogether, six HSLC and HSSLC students of the ANTA Wokha unit family were awarded for their meritorious achievements while one candidate was awarded for securing a job in all India bank service exams.

DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Advisor for Power, Tovihoto Ayemi on Saturday, urged upon the village and colony council members to creatr awareness and programmes to help the public know about the various government schemes.

Speaking at the inaugural programme of the road renovation work at Supply Colony and Fellowship Colony Dimapur as special guest, the advisor said such awareness programmes will ensure that no one was deprived of the schemes.

He also asked the gathering present at the programme, to benefit from the schemes as everyone had the right to avail them.

In the state, Tovihoto said that the state government has been working tirelessly for an all-round development in the state.

He informed that many projects have been successfully carried out and that more were ongoing.

Congratulating the workmanship of the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), he also appreciated the contribution and cooperation extended by the colony members in fulfilling the long-awaited road.

Further, he encouraged the residents to live in unity

Tovihoto Ayemi speaking at the inaugural programme on Saturday. (NP)

and continue living exemplary lives for other colonies and district to look up to.

Presenting the technical report, DMC executive engineer, Badal Chandra Bhatra informed that improvement road at Supply Colony approach road was carried out in two phases.

He said the first phase was 400m (2018-19) and second 550m (2022). Bhatra informed that the specification included WBM (Gr-II, Gr-III stone metal spreading and compacting, premix carpeting, premix seal coat and major repairing of 3ft dia hume pipe culvert.

The work commenced on March 15, 2022 and was completed on May 10, 2022.

Informing that the DMC was implementing agency, Bhatra said the work estimated at Rs. 41,56,155

incurred an expenditure amounting to Rs. 26,35000.

He mentioned that there was no special grand for road repairing and that it was financed by DMC. Further, he informed that the only revenue they received was from the revenue collected from toll tax which was closed down recently.

Short speeches were also delivered by Supply Colony and Fellowship Colony representatives.

The programme was chaired by DMC administrator Albert Ezung, invocation was offered by Baptist Revival Church pastor, Rev. Khriezovi Kiso and special song was by Rhombemo Humtsoe.

Later, vote of thanks was proposed by DMC assistant engineer, Avika Zhimomi.

MITE organises ‘blood donation camp’

Student-teachers of MITE along with faculty members and healthcare workers.

DIMAPUR: The Red Ribbon Club of Modern Institute of Teacher Education (MITE) Kohima organised a “blood donation camp” on June 30, in the college auditorium.

In a press release, MITE informed that pro-

gramme was chaired by Ruuvino and commenced with a briefing on blood donation, its benefits and process by medical officer, Blood Bank, Naga Hospital, Dr. Avila Sangtam.

After the briefing, Dr. Avila and team conducted

counselling session for student-teachers.

Altogether, 13 studentteachers and three faculty members from MITE donated blood.

The programme concluded with a vote of thanks from Ruuvino.

Medical camp conducted at Mekokla village

The department of Agriculture, District Agriculture Office (DAO), Dimapur has inaugurated a “Farmers Field School” during a “paddy-cum-training on awareness and management of Fall Army Worm (FAW) on maize” at S. Hotovi village on June 30. Altogether, 26 farmers attended the training programme along with field functionaries.

ABAM organises programme for PwDs at Impur

ABAM members along with PwDs and others after the programme at Impur.

DIMAPUR: In commemoration of Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang (ABAM) sesquicentennial celebration, ABAM Social Concer n organised a special programme for the “differentlyabled persons” for Zone 1-7 of Ao Baptist Churches on June 28 at Impur.

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In a press release, ABAM informed that in his keynote address, ABAM executive secretary, Rev. Dr. Mar Pongener said every individual created in the image of God was unique and were created wonderfully.

“God has different plans for every individual

that validate his wonderful disclosure”, he said.

Citing John 13:34 and to fully fulfil the wonderful plan of God, with no disparity, he said people should love and care for each other and show equal recognition.

At the programme, a special session was held

for full-time workers, the Social Concern Committee of the local churches and parents of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) on the topic, “addressing the issues of disability” with Maong Jamir, Aoyimküm as resource person.

The programme concluded with a talent presentation from 20 “differentlyabled persons”, which was the highlight of the programme.

Altogether 264 persons comprising of 119 “differently-abled persons”, 144 full-time workers and parents attended the programme.ABAM informed that the programme was organised under the supervision of ABAM Social Concern which was the first programme of such a kind under ABAM.

DIMAPUR: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wokha district conducted its third phase of free medical camps as part of the “Seva Sushasan Aur Gareep Kalyan Parv”, in collaboration with BJP 40 A/C Mandal and office of the chief medical officer (CMO) Wokha, at Mekokla village under Wokha district on June 25.

In his speech, BJP Wokha district president Yanthungo Kikon informed the beneficiaries that the free medical camp was sponsored by BJP national spokesperson and Nagaland adviser for IT&C, S&T, and N&RE Mmhonlumo Kikon.

Meanwhile, deputy CMO Wokha, Dr. Zuben Kikon urged upon the beneficiaries to avail HIV & AIDS, RCB, HCV and COVID-19 tests and vaccination, Ayushman registration, etc, during the camp.

E a r l i e r, S t . P a u l Church Mekokla catechist, M. James Yanthan offered invocation, BJP Mekokla village unit president, Ekonchan Kikon delivered welcome address and BJP Mekokla village unit general secretary Ramongo Ezung proposed vote of thanks. More than 300 patients availed free medicines and health services.

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of BJP’s Tripura ally IPFT join Manipur landslide: 8 from Assam killed Leaders Tipra Motha ahead of assembly polls

GUWAHATI/ MORIGAON, JUL 2 (PTI): At least eight people from Assam, including one army jawan, have been killed so far in the landslide at a railway construction site in Manipur’s Noney district, state Cabinet Minister Pijush Hazarika said.

Twelve others from the state, including a railway engineer, are still missing, he said.

The overall death toll in the landslide at Tupul yard railway construction camp in the neighbouring state on Wednesday night has increased to 25, while 38 others are still missing.

“It is an extremely tragic and unfortunate incident. Search and rescue operations are going on in full swing,” Hazarika, who reached Tupul on Saturday morning, told PTI over phone.

After visiting the landslide site, he will be meeting the injured persons from the state undergoing treatment at a local hospital, the minister added.

He said bodies of eight people from the state – seven construction company staff and one army jawan – have been recovered so far.

Assam Minister Pijush Hazarika visits the site of the massive landslide at the Tupul railway construction camp, in Noney district of Manipur, Saturday. (PTI)

“One railway engineer and 11 other construction company workers are still missing. Five persons had been rescued, out of which two are currently hospitalised,” he said. Hazarika said the bodies of the deceased civilians will be airlifted to Assam and the state government will make all necessary arrangements.

“We will also arrange for transportation of the injured workers back home,” he added.

Bangla premier’s gift of mangoes for Assam CM

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina GUWAHATI, JUL 2 (PTI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has gifted her country’s famed ‘Amrapali’ mangoes to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, officials said on Saturday.

The Bangladesh Assistant High Commissioner in Guwahati, Shah Md Tanvir Monsur handed over the gift to the Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary Samir Sinha on Friday night.

The Bangladesh premier has sent 200 kgs of mangoes to Assam as a gift for prominent personalities of the state.

Monsur said that the two countries at present enjoy the ‘’best of best relationship under the charismatic leadership of both Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi. The Assam Chief Minister has also played a special role in this endeavour’’.

He said that these are the finest quality mangoes and the Prime Minister has a desire to share these with the neighbouring countries. ‘’She has, therefore, sent the finest quality of mangoes for the dignitaries of Assam. This gift from Bangladesh will make the sweet relationship between the countries sweeter’’, Monsur added.

Sinha, accepting the gift’’, said that he extends his thanks and gratitude to Sheikh Hasina on behalf of the Chief Minister and people of Assam.

Earlier last month, Hasina had sent mango hampers to the Indian president and prime minister among others. Bangladesh has been engaging in what foreign policy experts have termed as `Mango-Hilsa diplomacy’ - a way to woo neighbours with gifts which also promote Bangladesh.

The body of the deceased army jawan, who hailed from Bajali district, was brought to his village by the security forces and last rites performed on Saturday.

Hazarika, who was deputed to Tupul by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, also thanked the Manipur government for their search and rescue operations.

“On behalf of Govt. of Assam, I sincerely express my gratitude towards

Man arrested for breached Barak embankment

HAILAKANDI, JUL 2 (PTI): A man was arrested in Assam’s Cachar district for the breach of an embankment of the Barak river, which led to the devastating floods in Silchar town, police said on Saturday.

Kabul Khan, a resident of the Bethkundi area, was nabbed from his house on Friday night, they said.

Khan had allegedly filmed a video of the breach, which Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had shown to the people when he had visited the embankment site on Friday.

Sarma had asked the people to identify the voices in the video, subsequently, Khan was identified. He was detained for interrogation and later arrested, a senior police officer said.

Efforts are on to identify the others involved in the incident, he said.

The district administration maintains that the embankment was breached by miscreants, while locals claim that it was already damaged since the floods in May and they have been urging the authorities to repair it.

As repeated appeals to repair it fell on deaf ears, some people of the area dug the embankment so that the water that entered their houses could recede into the river, locals said.

Assam: ULFA-I cadre killed in gunfight with security forces

Police and army personnel inspect the area where the six militants hid.

GUWAHATI, JULY 2 (IANS): A United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) cadre died in a gunfight between suspected cadres of the banned separatist outfit and security forces in Assam’s Tinsukia district, police said.

The deceased has been identified as Gyan Asom.

According to sources, the security forces earlier got information about a group of six ULFA-I cadres led by

Rupom Asom taking shelter at Dapather Majgaon area under Kakopathar police station. Some of the security personnel were then sent in civil uniform to confirm the presence of the banned terror outfit’s member.

A senior police officer said, “A joint team of 14 Assam Regiment and Police led this operation after getting affirmation from their source.”

According to reports,

the security team came under heavy gunfire as soon as they approached a house and were also attacked by the terror outfit cadres with grenades.

“In retaliatory fire, two cadres sustained bullet injuries as they tried to flee towards the path from the backyard of the house,” informed sources.

“The militants entered the house in the early morning hours of Friday and took shelter at gunpoint. A bag containing an IED has been recovered from the house where they were hiding,” the source added.

Tinsukia Superintendent of Police, Debojit Deuri said, “There were six militants hiding in a house. During the joint operation by the Police and Army, one militant was killed.”

The security forces are conducting search operations to nab the rest of the ULFA-I cadres who could flee from there.

Manipur Govt. & HCM Shri @NBirenSingh ji for their relentless efforts in the rescue & relief operations of the victims despite complex topographic hurdles,” Hazarika wrote on Twitter.

He also said the Central government is extending all possible logistical support to the state in the rescue operations.

“My prayers are with everyone affected by this calamity and I extend my sincere condolences to the

bereaved families of the deceased,” the minister added.

Meanwhile, Morigaon deputy commissioner PR Gharphalia said four bodies of persons from the district were recovered and identified on Friday, while another was identified the day before.

“So far, five persons from Morigaon have been confirmed to have been killed in the landslide. Several others who were also working at the same site from this district are still missing,” he said.

Gharphalia said the administration was in touch with the families of the deceased, injured or missing and rendering all possible assistance.

The chief minister had on Friday shared a list of 22 names from Morigaon district who were engaged at the railway construction site. Out of these, five were rescued in injured condition, five confirmed dead and 12 others are still to be traced.

Most of the people from the state engaged at the landslide site hailed from Morigaon and had gone to work as staff of the construction company about 20 days back.

Party leaders of IPFT on Saturday joined Pradyot Kishore Debbarman– led TIPRA Motha.

AGARTALA, JUL 2 (PTI): A section of leaders of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), an ally of the BJP in the North-eastern state, on Saturday defected to the Tripra Motha, a regional political party, at a function here ahead of the Assembly elections due next year. However, all seven MLAs, including two ministers, of the party did not jump ship. Leaders of the two factions of the party are among the legislators.

Another MLA has resigned from the Assembly last year.

IPFT vice-president Jibanjoy Reang, general secretary Dhanajoy Tripura, assistant general secretary Mintu Debbarma and women’s wing head Rekha

Koloi were among the leaders who, along with their supporters, switched sides to the Tipra Motha.

Headed by royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, the Tipra Motha seeks a separate state for the indigenous people of Tripura.

Welcoming the newcomers, Pradyot Kishore Debbarma said this joining programme is about sending a message to the people for unity.

“People are always bigger than the party. Let’s be together and speak in one voice in Delhi to push a constitutional solution to the Greater Tipraland demand,” he said. ‘Greater Tipraland’ is an extension of the IPFT’s earlier demand for ‘Tipraland’, a separate

state for tribals by carving out the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) area.

The proposed ‘Greater Tipraland’ state would include tribal majority areas of Tripura, Assam, Mizoram, and even Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.

The TTAADC comprises two-thirds of Tripura’s territory and is home to the tribals who constitute a third of the state’s estimated 40 lakh population.

The Tipra Motha, formed early last year, swept the TTAADC elections held in April 2021, winning 18 of the 28 seats over the ‘Greater Tipraland’ demand in a direct contest with the ruling BJP-IPFT alliance.

Mizoram ‘TET qualified candidates would Two policemen held for drug be appointed in phased manner’ launches online smuggling racket in Arunachal

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AG A RTA L A , J U L 2 (PTI): Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath on Saturday assured a delegation of Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) qualified candidates that they would be appointed in a phased manner before the Durga puja.

At present, the state has 3,621 people who have qualified the TET and are eligible for appointment as teachers for class 1 to 8.

Hundreds of TET qualified candidates on Saturday gheraoed the Education minister’s residence seeking appointment of all the TET qualified teachers in one-go.

A delegation of the TET qualified candidates was called to meet the Education minister to put forward their demand.

Nath, after meeting the delegation told reporters that the government is keen to appoint the TET qualified teacher in a phased before Durga puja because the government schools are having shortage of teach-

ing staff.

“We have already taken a process to issue offers of appointment for around 600 graduate and post-graduate teachers. Besides, the department is contemplating to recruit the TET qualified teachers in a phased manner before puja”, he said.

Noting that the government is not going to recruit all the TET qualified teachers in one go because this kind of recruitment is not done in the country, the Education minister said he would take up the issue (TET qualified candidates) with Chief Minister Manik Saha once he returns.

Currently, the chief minister is in Telangana to attend BJP’s national executive meeting.

“The Education department will find a solution to the present problem facing the TET qualified candidates after consultation with the chief minister and the Finance department”, he said.

Although the minister said the state is having shortage of teachers after sacking of 10,323 teachers around two years back following a Supreme Court order, he did not specify the number the schools that need teachers.

After meeting with the ministers, the TET qualified candidates withdrew their agitation.

processing of RTI

AIZAWL, JULY 2 (IANS): The Mizoram government launched online processing of the RTI making it the 8th state in the country to offer online facilities for the applicants who are seeking various information under the Right to Information Act, officials said on Saturday.

Launching the Mizoram RTI online scheme at a function held here, Chief Minister Zoramthanga highlighted the practicality of providing easy accessibility to RTI applications and being able to track the progress of the applications by the applicants from remote places and outside the state.

He also said that this RTI online facility will be a useful platform to showcase the achievement and performances of the state government. “Users can track their RTI application, thus fulfilling transparency while the online platform will ensure timely delivery of the queries as well,” he added.

Officials said that for those who want to file an online RTI application but do not have the necessary device, there are around 800 Common Service Centres and Rural Information Kiosks.

Expulsion & Release of Shri. Yanglongse Kachari from the foster Son (Tsuthsaru) of Shri Tsithrongse Head GB on 26.06.2022 Shri. Yanglongse originally belongs to Kachari Tribe, came to Tsithrongse village in the year 1987 along with his wife and children and he lived and worked in my field as Halua. In the year 1989, Shri. Yanglongse had requested me to take him as his foster son (Tsuthsaru), I accepted his request and ever since he has been living as my foster son (Tsuthsaru). Before that, all their names were in Kachari dialect and I changed all their names to Sangtam dialect including Shri. Yanglongse, his wife and all his 7 (seven) children and after that I gave them land to cultivate and residential plot to stay.

Shri. Yanglongse without the knowledge and consent of his foster father sold all the land that was permitted by me only for him and his family to stay and cultivate.

What Shri. Yanglongse has done is not allowed as per Naga/Sangtam customary Law. For this reason, the family members and clan had a meeting on 26.6.2022 and came to a decision that Shri. Yanglongse had committed a grave offence and for which Shri. Yanglongse is expelled from Shri. Tsithrongse Head GB as foster son (Tsuthsaru) and cannot use Rudythonger clan. Further, whatever I gave him including field and residential plot, I Shri.

Tsithrongse Head GB is taking back. From now onwards, Shri. Yanglongse is no more Shri. Tsithrongse Head GB foster son (Tsuthsaru).Those who have purchased land from Shri. Yanglongse without my knowledge and consent are on their own risk and Shri. Yanglongse alone will be held accountable for his actions.

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ITANAGAR, JUL 2 (PTI): Four persons, including two policemen, were arrested from Arunachal Pradesh’s capital Itanagar for allegedly being involved in a drug smuggling racket, a senior officer said on Saturday.

Over 90 gram of heroin was recovered from two of the accused, he said.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of policemen apprehended two persons from an area near Ramakrishna Mission Hospital here on Thursday and seized 91.69 gram heroin from their possession, Capital SP Jimmy Chiram said.

The two are residents of Papum Pare and Lower Subansiri districts.

“During interrogation, they named the two policemen who are part of the racket. Our team verified whether the security personnel were involved in it or not before taking any action” the SP said.

Two constables, one each from the state police and the 4th India Reserve Battalion, were arrested after a vehicle, used for delivery of the contraband, and Rs 32,000 in cash were seized from their possession, the officer said.

All the four accused have been booked under various provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and the case has been registered at Itanagar Police Station, he said.

Efforts are being made to identify other suppliers, the SP said. Chiram also urged people to support the police in its fight against drug supply by giving information of such illegal trade.

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Udaipur killing: accused presented before court

Umesh Prahladrao Kolhe

NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (PTI): The anti-terror probe agency NIA will investigate the killing of a chemist in Maharashtra’s Amravati, the government said on Saturday, after it emerged it might be linked to his social media posts supporting suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma. The chemist, Umesh Prahladrao Kolhe, was killed on June 21.

A Home Ministry spokesperson tweeted that the probe of the case relating to the “barbaric killing” of Kolhe has been handed over to the NIA. The federal probe agency would thoroughly investigate the conspiracy behind the killing and involvement of organisations and international linkages. Kolhe’s killing had

taken place a week before two men hacked to death a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur before posting videos online saying that they were avenging an insult to Islam.

Days before his killing, the Udaipur tailor had told the local police that he had received threats over a social media post shared from his account, apparently “supporting” BJP leader Sharma’s remarks on Prophet Mohammad.

The Maharashtra Police have arrested five people in connection with the Amravati killing and are looking for one Irfan Khan, who runs an NGO and is alleged to be the prime accused in the case. According to the police, Kolhe had allegedly shared a post on some WhatsApp groups in support of Nupur Sharma, following which Khan is alleged to have hatched a conspiracy to eliminate him.

Kolhe was killed between 10 pm and 10.30 pm on June 21 when he was returning home on a two-wheeler after closing his shop.

Rajasthan BJP minority wing denies Cong allegation, says accused not linked to party and got photos clicked with local leaders. Since it is a normal trend to upload photos with leaders or celebrities on Facebook and other social media platforms, he might have also uploaded the photo but it does not mean that he is a BJP member,” Sadiq said.

The BJP leader said the murder highlights the state government’s failure as it did not provide security to Kanhaiya Lal despite a clear threat. Sadiq said Akhtari’s vehicle number was “2611”, which he obtained by choice in 2013, and this indicated his radical ideology.

Earlier in the day, the Congress alleged that Akhtari is a “BJP member” and sought to know whether the Centre had moved quickly to transfer the case to the NIA due to this reason.

Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, was killed on Tuesday afternoon by two cleaverwielding men, who posted a grisly video of the crime online claiming responsibility for the murder.

Delhi court rejects Zubair’s bail plea, Kolkata Police issues sends him to 14-day judicial custody lookout notice against Nupur

Environmentalists call to save Aarey

a cleaver at his shop on June 28 for extending supporting to now suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, and posted videos online saying they are avenging an insult to Islam.

Additional police force has been deployed at the court as well as in city areas for security reasons.

NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (PTI): A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and sent him to 14-day judicial custody in a case related an “objectionable tweet” he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Sarvaria allowed the police plea, which said further investigation was on.

The police had produced Zubair before the court on expiry of his fiveday custodial interrogation and urged it to send him to judicial remand, saying they

Riyaz Attari with Gulabchand Kataria.

that you are peddling #FakeNews. The Udaipur murderers WERN’T members of the BJP. Their attempt to infiltrate was like the LTTE assassin’s attempt to enter the Congress to kill Rajiv Gandhi,” he tweeted.

“Congress should stop fooling around with terror and national security,” Malviya said.

Tailor Kanhaiya Lal was killed Tuesday afternoon by two cleaver-wielding men, who posted a grisly video of the crime online claiming responsibility for the murder.

The two accused, Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mo-

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, being produced in the Patiala House Courts, in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

might need his custodial cation, Zubair had moved interrogation later. a bail application before the After the police appli- court.

Delhi Police invokes additional charges against Zubair

NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (IANS): Delhi Police has invoked additional charges against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who is facing a trial in Patiala House Court on Saturday, in connection with a 2018 contentious tweet.

The new charges are under Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 201

(causing disappearance of evidence) of IPC and Section 35 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. Earlier, Zubair was charged under the IPC’s Sections 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence) and 295 A (deliberate and malicious

acts, intended to outrage religious feelings) for one of his objectionable tweets.

“Transmission and publication of such posts have been deliberately done by Mohammed Zubair through electronic media to insult the religious feelings of a particular community with the intent to provoke breach of peace,” read the FIR.

hammad, have been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. At the presser, Khera cited pictures and posts linking Attari with BJP leaders -- Irshad Chainwala and Mohammad Tahir.

“It has also come to the fore in the same disclosure that the main accused Riyaz Attari often participated in the programmes of Rajasthan BJP leader and former minister Gulabchand Kataria,” he alleged.

“Not only this, pictures of the main accused Riyaz Attari attending the meetings of the BJP’s Rajasthan minority unit are also in front of the world,” Khera claimed.

KO L K ATA , J U L 2 (IANS): Kolkata Police, on Saturday, issued lockout notice against suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma, whose controversial comments about Prophet Muhammad had created nationwide stir and tension last month.

A senior official of the city police informed that they were forced to issue the lookout notice as Sharma did not turn up after she was sent two notices for appearance for interrogation. Kolkata Police is the first to issue a lookout notice against Sharma on this issue.

First, Narkeldanga Police Station, under the eastern suburban division of Kolkata Police, had issued a similar summon to Sharma, asking her to be present for questioning at the said police station on June 20.

Then a fresh notice was issued by Amherst Street police station, under Kolkata Police’s north and north suburban division, asking Sharma to be pres-

Cong warns of legal action against BJP for sharing ‘misleading’ Rahul video

NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (PTI): Accusing BJP leaders, including former Union minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, of sharing “deliberately fabricated and distorted reportage” on Rahul Gandhi’s comments in Kerala, the Congress on Saturday threatened to take legal action against them if the saffron party fails to apologise. Rahul Gandhi also lashed out at the BJP and the RSS, alleging that “propaganda and lies” are

their foundation.

The opposition party attacked Rathore and called him “shameless” after Twitter labelled a post by him on a video of Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in Kerala as “media presented out of context”.

In a letter to BJP chief J P Nadda, Congress general secretary in-charge communication Jairam Ramesh said he was appalled to note that several BJP leaders have been deliberately and enthusiastically sharing

Jairam Ramesh

“mischievous” reportage that occurred on a news channel on Friday.

“The original video was Shri. Rahul Gandhi’s comment on the SFI violence on his Wayanad office

but it was deliberately and mischievously doctored to appear as if it was a comment on the heinous murder of Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur,” Ramesh said.

It was immediately brought to the attention of all concerned that the reportage was false and deliberately misleading, he said.

“What is of even greater concern, is that several of your party colleagues, including Rajyavardhan Rathore, MP, Subrat Pathak

MP, Kamlesh Saini, MLA and others, have enthusiastically and without verification published and shared the deliberately fabricated and distorted reportage,” Ramesh said in his letter.

“Despite being cautioned by my party colleagues that the clip was maliciously false and misleading, Rathore persisted with amplifying the same, first deleting and then re-uploading the same,” he said.

This leaves no doubt

Teesta Setalvad, Sreekumar sent in judicial remand AHMEDABAD, JUL 2 (PTI): A court here on Saturday sent activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director General of Police R B Sreekumar, arrested for alleged fabrication of evidence regarding the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, in 14day judicial custody.

The two were produced before metropolitan magistrate S P Patel after their police custody ended.

The police did not seek their further remand, said special public prosecutor Amit Patel.

Setalvad and Sreekumar were arrested over a First Information Report (FIR) registered last Saturday by the Ahmedabad police crime branch.

“The investigation officer did not ask for any

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Teesta Setalvad

further custody. They were hence sent in 14-day judicial custody,” prosecutor Patel said.

Sreekumar was arrested last Saturday and Setalvad the next day after being picked up by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad from her home in Mumbai.

Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who is serving life sentence in a custodial death case in a jail at Palanpur in Banaskantha district,

is also an accused in the case. He will be brought to Ahmedabad on transfer warrant, police sources said. The crime branch registered the FIR against them a day after the Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the clean chit given by a Special Investigation Team to then chief minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 post-Godhra riots cases.

Sreekumar, Setalvad and Bhatt have been accused of conspiring to fabricate evidence in an attempt to frame up innocent persons in Gujarat riots cases.

While dismissing the petition filed by Zakia Jafri whose husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was killed during the riots, the apex court had observed that “a coalesced effort of the disgruntled officials of the State of Gujarat along with others was to create sensation by making revelations which were false to their own knowledge.”

A g a i n s t S e t a l va d , Sreekumar and Bhatt, police have pressed Indian Penal Code sections 468, 471 (forgery), 194 (giving

or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence), 211 (institute criminal proceedings to cause injury), 218 (public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy).

Police took into consideration submissions made by the accused before the SIT formed by the Supreme Court to investigate riots cases as well as the Justice Nanavati-Shah Commission of Inquiry.

The Gujarat government has formed a three-member Special Investigation Team headed by the DIG, Gujarat ATS Deepan Bhadran to investigate the case.

that Rathore’s actions were deliberate and part of your party’s strategy to defame the former Congress president, the party and to further polarise an already sensitive, communal situation, Ramesh alleged. ‘’The fact that some of your colleagues may have deleted the false reportage later after uploading and sharing is no excuse whatsoever because the damage has already been inflicted,’’ he said.

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ent at the police station on June 25. However, in both the cases, she had sent a last moment email communique to the city police expressing her inability to appear seeking more time for the same. She also expressed apprehension about security threats if she comes to Kolkata.

The city police official informed that different individuals have filed 10 FIRs in different police stations against Sharma holding her controversial comments about Prophet Muhammad responsible for fuelling communal tension in different pockets in the state.

Already, a motion condemning Nupur Sharma’s controversial comments has been passed in the West Bengal assembly.

MUMBAI, JUL 2 (PTI): The Mumbai police have increased deployment at Aarey forest in light of the protest called by environmentalists against the state government’s decision to build a metro car shed at the site, an official said on Saturday. Environmental organisations have called for a peaceful protest at Aarey forest on Sunday morning and hundreds of Mumbaikars are likely to gather at the picnic point in the area, he said. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis overturned the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government’s decision to relocate the proposed Mumbai Metro Line-3 car shed from Aarey Colony.

The decision to set up the car shed in the wooded Aarey area was opposed by environmental groups, as it involved cutting down hundreds of trees. Considering this, the Thackeray government had shifted the car shed site to Kanjurmarg, but it entered a legal dispute.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (PTI): The Congress on Saturday alleged that one of the main accused in the brutal killing of a tailor in Udaipur is a “BJP member” and asked whether the Centre had moved quickly to transfer the case to the NIA due to this reason.

Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters here, party’s media department head Pawan Khera said a very sensational disclosure has been made by a media group in connection with the Udaipur incident which pointed to the BJP links with Riyaz Attari.

Some reports have also referred to the accused as Riaz Akhtari.

“The killer of Kanhaiya Lal, Riyaz Attari is a member of the BJP,” Khera said in a tweet after the press conference.

Earlier in the day, responding to a tweet by a Congress leader referring to one of the accused’s alleged BJP links, BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya dismissed the claim as “fake news”.

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Udaipur killing: Cong alleges one of main accused ‘BJP member’ JAIPUR, JUL 2 (PTI): The BJP Minority Morcha in Rajasthan on Saturday refuted the allegation levelled by the Congress that the main accused in the Kanhaiya Lal murder case in Udaipur was a BJP member.

After a photo showing Riaz Akhtari with some local BJP leaders of Udaipur emerged, Mohammad Sadiq Khan, state president of the BJP Minority Morcha, said the photo cannot be a held as a proof to show he is a party member.

Khan said the Congress wanted to shift the blame on the saffron party in order to divert public attention from the “failure of the Ashok Gehlot government”, which he alleged did nothing for minorities in three-and-a-half years.

“Anyone can have a photo with any leader. It does not mean that he is a member of the BJP,” Sadiq told reporters.

“He might have gone to some programme of the party to carry out a recce

(L) An accused in Kanhaiya Lal killing case being manhandled by the public. (R) The accused being taken back to custody after he was produced at an NIA court, in Jaipur, Saturday. (PTI)

JAIPUR, JUL 2 (PTI): Teams from the National Investigation Agency and the Anti-Terrorism Squad on Saturday presented the four men arrested in the Udaipur tailor’s murder case before a court here.

Prior to this, a police team from Jaipur took the accused -- Riaz Akhtari and

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Nagaland Post VOL. XXXII NO. 207 DIMAPUR, SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2022

Acting like a hostile neighbour

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ust when north east states having border disputes with Assam are trying to resolve them through dialogue before the 75th Indian independence day on August 15, 2022 as advised by union home minister Amit Shah, Assam a BJPruled state, has again re-activated its belligerence along the border with Nagaland after a lull of almost a year. On June 27, intruders from Assam side destroyed plantations belonging to villagers of Yajang C under Mokokchung district. The incident occurred on Sunday when the villagers were attending Sunday church service. On learning about the reports of Assam police and some Assam villagers “deliberately destroying” standing crops of cultivated land and plantations belonging to Yajang ‘C’ Village, a delegation of Central Nagaland Students Association (CNSA) and Ao Kaketshir Mundang (AKM) went to the spot on June 29, 2022. The student delegation verified the matter and confirmed that the land in question belonged to Yajang C Village (Ao Naga) and was well within the territory of Yajang C village. The traditional and historical boundary between the Aos and Ahoms, is in Sivasagar (erstwhile Sibsagar) but which has been redrawn by the British through the 1925 notification.

The British took special interest in Assam mainly for growing tea gardens and extraction of natural resources. The dispute did not arise merely when both states claimed the same area as that would make it a matter of claims and counter-claim. The dispute arose when the British colonial government arbitrarily transferred huge chunks of land belong to Naga tribes to Assam and placed it under Sibsagar for expanding tea gardens and extraction of natural resources. During their visit to the site of Sunday’s incident, both –CNSA and AKM- asserted that besides the particular plantation area destroyed by intruders from Assam side, the tea estates under cultivation beyond the land belong to Yajang ‘C’village as these estates have been paying land tax to the village. Coincidentally, another major incident occurred around the same time- on July 1, 2021- in the same area, when Assam dispatched a contingent of around one hundred uniformed personnel led by the Armed Police Battalion inside Tzurongkong area within the vicinity of Vikuto village to set up an outpost. These two instances of using force to intrude inside the territory of another state, do not augur well for peace and harmony among those living along the border areas and the people of both states in general. Besides police or other state agencies of Assam, it has also been the practice of some organisations in Assam, to enforce economic blockade at the entry points to Mokokchung over border issues. As per the border agreement between Assam and Nagaland, reaffirmed at almost every inter-state border meeting, they are to maintain a status quo and no activity undertaken by any of them in the disputed areas. States in the region such as Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have a long history of boundary dispute with Assam with frequent violent incidents.

This should make Assam realise that its border disputes with other north eastern states reinforces the belief that it is justifying its claims on to the wrong policies of the colonial rulers, at the expense of the rightful owners. Rejecting the traditional ownership is like rejecting history and in doing so, the distortion of the past is sought to be justified.

DailyDevotion The Conditions of Discipleship

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also….And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me….So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple. —Luke 14:26-27, 33

If the closest relationships of a disciple’s life conflict with the claims of Jesus Christ, then our Lord requires instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate devotion to a Person— our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause.

Our Lord never proclaimed a cause— He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus. Many of us who call ourselves Christians are not truly devoted to Jesus Christ. No one on earth has this passionate love for the Lord Jesus unless the Holy Spirit has given it to him. We may admire, respect, and revere Him, but we cannot love Him on our own. The only One who truly loves the Lord Jesus is the Holy Spirit, and it is He who has “poured out in our hearts” the very “love of God” (Romans 5:5). Whenever the Holy Spirit sees an opportunity to glorify Jesus through you, He will take your entire being and set you ablaze with glowing devotion to Jesus Christ.

The Christian life is a life characterized by true and spontaneous creativity. Consequently, a disciple is subject to the same charge that was leveled against Jesus Christ, namely, the charge of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent in His relationship to God, and a Christian must be consistent in his relationship to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to strict, unyielding doctrines. People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

Quotes

They do not love that do not show their love. ~ William Shakespeare

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2022

Why is rupee falling and how will it impact the Indian economy?

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he Indian rupee has been on a downward spiral for the last few days and on Wednesday, it hit a record low of 79.03 against the US dollar. This has sparked a debate among analysts about whether the domestic currency could see further decline amid weak fundamentals.

The rupee is down nearly 6 per cent since January this year. However, on Thursday, it managed to recover from its record low after gaining 13 paise to hit 78.90 against the dollar.

Now, this is a double whammy for the common man with the countr y reeling under high inflation and the prices of everyday items drastically going up.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, however, recently said that the Indian currency is relatively better placed than other global currencies against the greenback.

In the meantime, as the currency volatility continues, let’s decode what this means for you.

Why is rupee falling?

T h e va l u e o f t h e Indian rupee to the US Dollar works on a demand

and supply basis. If there is a higher demand for the US Dollar, the value of the Indian rupee depreciates and vice-versa.

If a country imports more than it exports, then the demand for the dollar will be higher than the supply and the domestic currency like Rupee in India will depreciate against the dollar.

The rupee’s fall these days is mainly due to high crude oil prices, a strong dollar overseas, and foreign capital outflows.

The rupee has been on the decline since early this year, especially after supply chain disruptions in view of the Russia-Ukraine war, global economic challenges, inflation, and high crude oil prices, among other issues.

Besides, there have been heavy foreign fund outflows from the domestic markets as the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have sold shares worth $28.4 billion so far this year, outstripping the $11.8-billion sell-off seen during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The rupee has depreciated 5.9 per cent versus the dollar so far this calendar year.

As money f lows out of India, the rupeedollar exchange rate gets impacted, depreciating the rupee. Such depreciation puts considerable pressure on the already high import prices of crude and raw m a t e r i a l s, p av i n g t h e path for higher imported inflation and production costs besides higher retail inflation.

Meanwhile, the US Federal Reserve recently increased the interest rates, and the return on dollar assets increased compared with those of emerging markets such as India.

Speculations are there could me more aggressive rate hikes by the US Fed and that may further dent the Indian currency.

How does a weak rupee impact you and the economy?

Since India mostly d e p e n d s o n i m p o r t s, including crude oil, metals, electronics, etc. the country makes payments in US dollars. Now if the rupee is weak, it has to pay more for the same quantity of items. In such cases, the cost of raw materials and production goes up which gets passed on to the

consumers.

On the other hand, a weakening domestic currency boosts exports as shipments get more competitive and foreign buyers gain more p u r c h a s i n g p o w e r.

However, in the current scenario of weak global demand and persistent volatility, exporters are not supportive of the currency fall.

The falling rupee’s biggest impact is on inf lation, given India imports over 80 per cent of its crude oil, which is the country’s biggest import.

The global crude prices have sustained at over $100 a barrel since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February this year. High oil prices and a weaker rupee will only add to inflationary pressures in the economy.

How crude oil prices affect rupee?

India depends heavily on crude oil imports to meet over 80 per cent of its energy requirements.

Whenever oil prices see an uptick, it tends to pressurise the rupee as India’s import bills soar over higher crude prices.

In May, the Brent

cr ude touched $110 a barrel, which has now jumped to $122 per barrel.

If oil prices are rising, it means imports are rising continuously. This pushes up the demand for the US dollar which strengthens the dollar against the rupee.

The Indian rupee has been on the decline since January this year, this erodes the purchasing power of the Indian currency in the international market.

Is rupee likely to see more decline?

Several analysts believe the Rupee could decline further against the dollar in the next few sessions as oil prices go up and the FII sell-off continues.

As per analysts, the fundamentals of the Indian economy have deteriorated.

But this is where RBI’s role comes into play and the central bank has been taking actions to stall the free fall. In May, it used India’s huge stockpile forex reserves to prevent the rupee from hitting the Rs 77.5 level against the US dollar.

Will RBI intervene further?

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is fighting on

several fronts to slow the rupee’s decline to fresh records.

The central bank is said to have sold dollars at 78.97-78.98 per US dollar on Wednesday and has heavily expanded its foreign exchange reserves to shield the rupee from a runaway depreciation.

Since February 25, the headline foreign exchange reserves have declined by $40.94 billion.

There are chances that the central bank may intervene further as the rupee sees a further decline.

Last week, RBI Deputy Governor, Michael D Patra said the central bank will not allow “jerky movements” of the rupee and stressed that the Indian currency has witnessed the least depreciation in recent times.

“We will stand for its stability and we are doing it. We are there in the market and we will not allow disorderly movement of the rupee. We have no level in mind, but we will not allow jerky movement.

That is for certain,” Patra had said.

(As published in Outlook India)

Post-mortem

Total disregard for on-duty ambulances on roads & highways

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hat is it with we Nagas and our complete disregard for blaring ambulances transporting fatal patients to emergency rooms!

We hardly prioritize the sick transported in ambulances above our needs in jams. I find this creed utterly morbid. There is a dying patient being transported in an ambulance with emergency signals on, and yet we are indecent to make way for it until emergency vehicles are next to you with deafening blares, or until we are accosted verbally or a medic riding shotgun bangs his hand on ambulance's door to amplify the seriousness, we do not classify their dire needs for emergency rooms.

Respecting ambulances and fire brigades on duty in roads doesn't have to be a knowledge that has to be drummed in an individual, because we all know what lies in the other end. Only problem is that we do not have the common courtesy to initiate other's need before us.

I am not directing this article to all drivers but few hard-headed ones. I know spewing common courtesy would be equivalent to preaching to the choir. Hence, I'd prefer to let you know that Karma do happen. So, the next time you hear emergency vehicles approaching far behind you, make a wide berth for them because in the near future, your position could be reversed and you or your acquittances could be the one needing an emergency care. No amount of curses can bring back the deceased because they failed to reach hospitals in time; or salvageable houses burned down to ashes, all due to the indifferent and passionless drivers appropriating to their needs more.

And so I add, if you want others to allocate your emergency needs before theirs daily chores, which hopefully would never happen, you ought to start respecting their, one day at a time.

In addition, I'd like to add an insight: reckless and lawless drivers are constantly giving birth to avoidable traffic jams.

Traffic jams has become a daily basis for us Dimapurians.

Despite our knowledgeable Traffic regulations that we're made aware through different medias, there is still numerous hurdles we have to overcome in order for everyone to develop an impulse to follow these regulations diligently. What's the purpose of ninety percent of the total population practicing traffic principles if the remaining ten percentile does not regard

these rules.

Everyday, you will notice serpentine of vehicles lined up to traffic points waiting for the police to direct vehicles coming from different sides to pass consecutively, one-sided at a time. While you are stuck in these jams, it is unastonishing to sight unruly drivers zooming past jam-packed vehicles on the open wrong lane. These drivers care less if their impatience lead to more jams. And naturally, when vehicles start approaching from the opposite side, traffic comes to a full standstill, since these wayward drivers have occupied the wrong lane from faulty direction, impeding overall movements. In a nutshell, the outcome is disparaging. The good traffic abiding drivers, ultimately, have to accommodate these heedless drivers by systematically moving their vehicles few inches until there's enough space to avail insubordinate drivers.

You'd be surprised to note that many of these vehicles belong to bureaucrats with official lights on their dreary way to everyday office works; it would be immoral and a sin to exclude junior police officers on their daily chores, nothing emergency. This shows complete abuse of their government given powers. Such degrading practices can only be stopped individually.

Nothing more for me to state here.

Anyways, these wilful acts often happen on the roads that lack road-dividers. But despite the facts, I urge the responsible authority to leave these roads as it is because we would be left with no instance for us to personally abide regulations by ourselves if all roads are divided. Then, we become mere condemned sheep, unconditionally, doing what we are directed to do and not being able to do what we are supposed to on our own without blowbacks. It can enable drivers to build restrain.

On the brighter side, City Police Patrol vehicles deserve appreciation. They are armed to the teeth and fully exposed reflecting intimidating picture. So there would be no dread for other drivers giving them a wide berth even in jams. But unless they are in emergencies, they reduce themselves to ordinary citizens and ardently follows traffic regulations. There is also everincreasing numbers of female drivers and it should be noted that they earnestly abide driving rules and so, has become a matter to encourage more female drivers.

Viketo Nihokhe Sumi Purana Bazar, Dimapur

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The war against plastic

nternational Plastic Bag Free Day is celebrated every year on July 3. The day aims to encourage nations to start banning single-use plastics (SUPs).

India has banned all singleuse plastic items from July 1 which includes plastic sticks, flags, polystyrene, plates, cups, glasses, cutlery, straw, trays, wrapping or packing films, plastic bags, plastic or PVC banners less than 100 microns, etc.

I am supportive of this move to ban plastic as the way I see it, plastic wastes are the plastic end products of what we consumed and used, due to be discarded.

Had the ideas about repurposing and recycling plastic wastes come side by side with their production, we will not have so much plastic pollution now.

If those plastic bottles and other plastic items which have reached the oceans were shredded and used in all the construction sites when real estate development boomed, we will not have this much of a problem.

Right now, we can no longer undo what had been done. But we can correct our attitude towards the plastic items that are

still in use at present by proper waste management, say what goes where? Knowing plastic by its kind, category, or chemical make-up will tell us what to do next.

Now that climate change and its environmental impact is high on many governments’ agendas, it has highlighted the importance of tackling the increasing plastic waste pollution problem we have.

Over the years, the use of plastic has been adopted in practically every industry due to its lower cost and durability, however the effect on the environment and our planet is a devastating one, as many forms of plastic take hundreds of years to break-down and then only into micro-plastics which are often mistake by land and sea creatures as food causing devastation.

Will banning plastics for good, wholly work, starting from the government offices to the grassroots? There is so much to do and consider while taking this step.

The centre says defaulters would be penalised, but is there enough awareness, especially for people who have no access to what is going on in the world?

Some Indian states, such as Maharashtra and Karnataka have tried to ban single-use plastic in the past, but those efforts have largely been failures.

If this national ban going into effect works, India will hopefully replace single-use plastic bags with thicker ones that are more durable, which in turn should help reduce overall plastic use.

I believe that developing economies are more likely to benefit more from the strategy of recycling and waste management over fines or bans. Plus, it comes with employment opportunities within the recycling chain.

Many consumer goods companies in India will suffer as a result of the ban and small companies will be hit disproportionately harder.

With this in mind, the centre should offer subsidies for new machines, and other incentives for the transition to alternatives.

There are limited resources of the country’s pollution board, lack of public awareness and a proper plan to transition into recyclables. While we speak of recyclables, the centre must do what it can, to assist companies in the recycling business and join hands with them, if eradicating plastics completely is the goal.

Amen Jamir, Dimapur

Reader’s Post Appeal to the State government Sir,

With humble request, I ask to the government of Nagaland to re-introduce the police check gate at Chümoukedima. On 2nd July, 2022 at Kukidolong an unfortunate incident occurred—a hit and run. Later, we got report from the news reporters that 5 were dead and 3 injured. Fortunately, the police escort chasing and arrested the culprits.

I salute those police personnel for your sacrifices. Without the police, the culprits had chances to escape because the four-lane from Patkai to Bokajan is plying and after entering Assam, it is difficult to arrest the culprits.

Coming days, we have chance to meet such unwanted situations.

Therefore, I earnestly request to the government of Nagaland re-introduce Chümoukedima check gate for the safety of our people and travellers.

Lhilo Kronu, Kami Village Pfütsero, Phek lknaga6@gmail.com

Application of forms online Sir,

I believe that application forms and documents should be filled up and submitted through online methods (either on the website or through email). This will bridge the gap between the aspiring candidates and the respective departments. All submission of forms should be done through online method. It not only saves valuable time and money, but it’s much more convenient and secure. The process of going to Kohima just to fill up a form should be done away by now. Such procedure was the only way before the internet. But with the advancement of technology, the concerned departments should utilise it to the fullest, instead of following the 80s method of job application.

M Longben Jamir Nagarjan, Dimapur Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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Shiv Sena ‘sacks’ CM Eknath KCR skips meeting PM Modi for third time Shinde for ‘anti-party’ activities Telangana CM KCR launches scathing attack on PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi being received by Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on his arrival in Hyderabad, Saturday. (PTI)

the PM on the COVID-19 situation Meanwhile, the twoday BJP executive meeting scheduled on July 2 and the address by PM Modi on July 3 are viewed as a springboard for the party to capture power in the state.

Modi is expected to stay at Novotel Hotel in Hyderabad.

On Sunday, he is ex-

pected to attend the national executive meeting from 10 am till 5 pm. The meet is expected to be attended by 360 national executive members including CMs of various states.

He is then expected to give an address in a grand meet organised by BJP’s Telangana unit along with other leaders at Parade Ground in Secunderabad.

SpiceJet’s Delhi-Jabalpur flight returns after crew notices smoke in cabin

Smoke seen in the Delhi-Jabalpur SpiceJet flight while passing 5000ft, Saturday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (PTI): SpiceJet said its flight heading to Jabalpur returned to Delhi on Saturday after crew members observed smoke in the cabin at around 5,000-feet altitude.

There was oil leakage in one of the engines of the Q400 aircraft and that is likely the reason for smoke in the plane, officials of aviation regulator DGCA said

after preliminary investigation. This is fifth such incident on SpiceJet aircraft in two weeks. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating all the five incidents.

On June 19, an engine on SpiceJet’s Delhi-bound aircraft carrying 185 passengers caught fire soon after taking off from the Patna airport and the plane

made an emergency landing minutes later. The engine malfunctioned because of a bird hit.

In another incident on June 19, a flight for Jabalpur had to return to Delhi due to cabin pressurisation issues.

Fuselage door warnings lit up on two separate planes while taking off on June 24 and June 25, forcing the them to abandon their journeys and return.

“On July 2, 2022, SpiceJet Q400 aircraft was operating SG-2962 (Delhi-Jabalpur),” the airline’s spokesperson said in a statement.

At 5,000 feet, the crew noticed smoke in the cabin, the spokesperson noted.

“The pilots decided to return back to Delhi. The aircraft landed safely at Delhi and passengers were safely disembarked,” the spokesperson said.

An alternate flight was immediately arranged for affected passengers and it has already reached Jabalpur, the spokesperson added.

It is not clear how many passengers were travelling on Delhi-Jabalpur flight in which the smoke incident took place.

HYDERABAD, JULY 2 (IANS): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday came down heavily on the BJP government at the Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing it of killing democracy and federal system in the country.

He also alleged that the Centre is letting loose repression on those raising their voice against him.

Hours before Modi’s arrival in Hyderabad to attend BJP’s national executive meeting, Rao launched a bitter attack on him and dared him to answer his questions at the BJP public meeting scheduled in the city on Sunday.

KCR, as Rao is popularly known, was addressing a meeting organised by his Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) after welcoming Yashwant Sinha, who is joint candidate of opposition parties for Presidential elections.

“Definitely a change will come. There were several Prime Ministers before you. People gave them the opportunity and they played their role,” KCR said.

KCR also alleged that the Modi is busy toppling state governments. “So far you have toppled nine governments,” he said. On a statement by a Union minister that BJP can topple the government in Telangana too as it did in Maharashtra, KCR said he is waiting for it.

“We are waiting for it, so that we could become free and topple you in Delhi,” he said.

KCR also slammed the Centre for its coal import policy. He questioned the need for importing coal when India has sufficient coal stocks for 100 years. He alleged that to benefit his corporate friends, the Prime Minister is importing coal and forcing states to use 10 per cent of the imported coal.

Amarinder likely to be named NDA candidate for Vice Prez

Amarinder Singh

NEW DELHI, JULY 2 (IANS): Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is in the race to become the next Vice President of India.

Sources said that the NDA is likely to name the fromer Punjab Chief Minister as its candidate for the Vice President’s post.

“Several names are doing the rounds of which the prominent ones are Amarinder Singh, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. The vice presidential candidate will be finalised by the top BJP leadership and the Parliamentary Board,” said a BJP insider.

Singh is currently in London for a back surgery.

However, a close aide of the former Punjab Chief

Minister said that no confirmation has been received yet proposing Singh’s name as NDA’s nominee for the Vice President’s post.

There is also a buzz in BJP circles that incumbent Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu could be given a second term, but as of now there have been no official deliberations on this.

Singh left the Congress and formed the Punjab Lok Congress after he was removed from the post of Punjab Chief Minister last year. He contested the recent Punjab Assembly polls in alliance with the BJP. The BJP-led NDA candidate is all set to become the next Vice President as the voters are the Members of Parliament and the BJP has a huge mandate in the Lok Sabha while in the Rajya Sabha, it is the singlelargest party having more than 90 seats.

In the last election in 2017, the Opposition had fielded Gopalkrishna Gandhi but he lost to Naidu.

Naidu polled 516 votes while Gandhi could manage only 244 votes.

The Vice Presidential election is scheduled to be held on August 6.

M U M B A I , J U LY 2 (IANS): On anticipated lines, the Shiv Sena ‘removed’ the new Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as a ‘Shiv Sena Leader’ for indulging in ‘anti-party’ activities, the party confirmed here on Saturday.

In a terse letter to Shinde on Thursday, Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray, who quit as Chief Minister on June 29, said: “You have been indulging in anti-party activities and have voluntarily given up your membership of Shiv Sena.”

Accordingly, in exercise of the powers vested in him as the ‘Shivsena Paksha Pramukha’, Thackeray said he has removed Shinde as a Shiv Sena leader in the party organisation.

The party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’ Group of publications have highlighted and confirmed the development in their editions on Saturday amid speculation it could trigger

Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray

a bigger struggle to control the 56-year-old party and its assets.

There are 11 Shiv Sena leaders in the top party hierarchy who plan out major policy decisions giving a direction to the party, and the move was taken as per certain precedents.

The possibility of a similar fate awaiting the other 39 MLAs who joined the Shinde-led rebellion on June 20, is not ruled out, after it created an unprecedented political crisis in the state and led to the collapse of the three-party Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government

on Thursday.

On Friday, Thackeray dismissively said that a person who ‘sidelined’ the Sena could not be called a ‘Shiv Sena Chief Minister’, as contended by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and the rebels group, though Shinde’s supporters are unfazed.

While Thackeray resigned as Chief Minister on June 29 after 31 months in power, the Sena ‘rebel’ Shinde was sworn-in as the new Chief Minister with the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis as the surprise Deputy Chief Minister on Thursday.

Presidential elections, a fight between two ideologies: Yashwant Sinha

HYDERABAD, JUL 2 (PTI): Stating that the presidential elections are being held under “extraordinary circumstances”, the opposition’s presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Saturday said the fight will continue even after the polls.

Speaking at a meeting organised by the TRS party in support of his candidature, Sinha said the election is not a fight between two individuals but a battle of ideologies.

Launching an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said the PM never believed in “consensus” but only “confrontation.”

He said he tried to reach out to Modi over phone after filing his nomination as presidential candi-

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date. However, Sinha said he was informed that the PM was not available and till now there was no response for the call.

He said when he was Finance Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet, he never imagined that the Enforcement Directorate could be used against rivals.

Thanking Telangana Chief Minister K Chan-

drashekar Rao for the support, Sinha said the country needs leaders like Rao. Rao who was present in the meeting appealed to all parliamentarians and other eligible voters for the presidential elections to vote “as per their conscience.”

Attacking Modi, Rao said everyday there is gross misuse of constitutional bodies in this country to harass the opponents of the NDA government.

The southern satrap alleged that not even a single poll promise of the BJP was fulfilled.

Rao alleged that some of the cabinet ministers sitting in Hyderabad say that they can bring down the TRS government the way they did in Maharashtra.

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CHENNAI, JUL 2 (AGENCIES): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao skipped meeting PM Modi who is expected to arrive in Hyderabad for attending the BJP executive meeting scheduled for two days from Saturday.

This is the third time the CM breached the protocol by avoiding to greet PM Modi in less than five months, reports abplive.com.

According to sources, Telangana government has appointed Minister T Srinivasa Yadav who will receive and send off PM during his Hyderabad visit.

Earlier this year twice KCR avoided meeting with the PM in Hyderabad. On May 23, KCR avoided greeting PM Modi during his visit and instead recommenced his tours to establish an “alternative front” for 2024 Presidential Polls by calling upon JD(S) leader and former PM HD Deve Gowda for a meeting in Bengaluru.

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be discussed at the national executive meeting.

She was replying to a question whether discussions will be held on the Udaipur killing in which a person was hacked to death by men and the row over suspended spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s derogatory comments about Prophet Mohammad.

The office-bearers meeting discussed outlines of the new organisational activities, including ‘har ghar tiranga’ (Tri-colour at every home) exercise to reach 20 crore people which, Raje added, will unify the country.

Describing booth workers as the foundation of BJP, Raje said the party has decided to have 200 active workers on every polling booth, have Whatsapp groups of booth level workers and make ‘Panna pramukhs’ more organised.

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HYDERABAD, JUL 2 (PTI): With an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP on Saturday announced a host of new activities, including ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ programme to unify people and a reachout to beneficiaries of government schemes.

The decision to step up its outreach activities and strengthen the organisation at the booth level was taken at the BJP’s office-bearers meeting here before the start of its national executive.

It was also informed that two resolutions -- one political and the other on economic and welfare of the poor -- will be passed in the national executive meeting.

Besides, the party will also issue a statement on the political situation in Telangana. Briefing reporters, party vice president Vasundhara Raje said all important issues and prevailing political environment will

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PM Narendra Modi with J.P. Nadda and Piyush Goyal during the BJP’s National Executive meeting. (PTI)

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Capex is the route to eco revival: FM

There’s no vaccine for African Swine Fever

(From p-1) Asked whether the department would initiate any measures for sale of pork in the market, he said that the initiative should be taken up from the government level.

CVO informed that for the last ten days, pig deaths have been reported, but the department could not collect the tissue samples due to late information.

He also informed that the department officials met on Saturday and decided to visit the area, conduct sanitization and disinfection exercise around the place where the positive cases of ASF was confirmed on July 4.

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Jamir maintained that they were coming up with products which can easily be sold in the international market with high value.

Meanwhile, founder and CEO, Expression Life, Tasang Imchen, while delivering a short speech, expressed gratitude to Lord for everything and further acknowledged all friends and families for the support, and thanked her team for the hard work, sincerity and patience.

She also stated that the website was dedicated to one of her late friend.

She later maintained that the website was developed by Milestone.

IRDAI sets premium target for FM Sitharaman to arrive State on July 4 non-life insurance industry CHENNAI, JUL 2 (IANS): Ever heard of a sectoral regulator giving targets for the industry as a whole and also for the individual players?

Well, it happened in the insurance sector with the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India’s (IRDAI) Chairman Debasish Panda, at his meeting with the heads of non-life and reinsurance companies at Hyderabad on Friday.

“The IRDAI is now looking at the market developmental role. All these years, the Authority was carrying out the regulatory role,” a senior industry official told IANS preferring anonymity.

Pointing out the low penetration of the non-life sector in the country - about 1 per cent- two decades after opening up the sector, Panda said the global average of insurance penetration is 4.16 per cent.

He said the target penetration rate is 2.52 per cent

by FY27 and it means the Indian non-life sector would grow from Rs 2.20 lakh crore premium from FY22 to a whopping Rs 11.73 lakh crore by FY27.

Panda also listed out the target for all the non-life insurance companies.

At the meeting Panda sounded like a consultant or a CEO of an insurance company but certainly not like a sectoral regulator.

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(From p-1) He also expressed hope that many investment opportunities would also come up following the conclaves.

Jamir said that the basic objective of the conclaves was to highlight the need of CSRs in the State and most importantly for NGOs and grassroots population to be able to interact with the companies.

He disclosed that IDAN had been collecting proposals and schemes for the past few months and pushing it into the corporate circles. He hoped that many of the proposals would be accepted. Jamir said that IDAN was hopeful of attracting over Rs 100 crore just under CSR alone while over Rs 200 crore in the form of loans to be disbursed under the Bankers’ credit outreach programme.

Jamir said another important factor in hosting the conclaves was to bridge the gap between the general population and the companies as that was one huge barrier, which largely remained out of reach for the people.

Stressing on the need to tap CSRs, Jamir said the political and economic paradigm was changing in the favour of the private sectors. He said that corporate world has overshot the political and administrative

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Apart from that there are over 13 Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) like Oil India, Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and Numaligarh Refinery etc. all of which had already committed to a lot of investment in Nagaland in the form of CSRs, Jamir said.

He further informed that the CSRs were meant for the NGOs and people who can implement it.

(From p-1) As per the resolution, CTCCTA said that trade licence of those who pay tax would be cancelled and excommunicated from Chümoukedima town.

Meanwhile, the chamber hasa directed the owners of RO drinking water (20 litre jar) to maintain proper hygiene. The courier service operators and courier service owners have also been reminded to dispense their services since warning has been issued several times.

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While questioning the unreasonable delay in completion of the project, NPCC further pointed out lack of signages alerting travellers of oncoming traffic, which was one of the main reasons for multiple mishaps.

L Mongkhum Jamir launching the website on Saturday. (NP)

CHENNAI, JUL 2 (IANS): The share of large borrowers for scheduled commercial banks (SCB) has declined in the recent times while their share in the gross non-performing assets (GNPA) also went down, said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

According to the RBI’s Financial Stability Report, June 22, the share of large borrowers, those having aggregate fund and nonfund based exposure of Rs 5 crore and above, has been declining in the recent years.

This indicates the reduction in credit concentration and diversification of borrowers.

Their share in total GNPA of SCBs moderated marginally to 62.3 per cent during second half of 2021-22 and remained well below its level in September 2020 (75.6 per cent). The GNPA ratio of large borrowers has been declining over the last two years to reach 7.7 per cent in March 2022, the RBI said.

As industrial activity revived during the second half of the year, the share of top 100 large borrowers in SCBs’ total loan books as well as in SCBs’ GNPA increased.

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The council was of the view thatthe department officials were not serious in discharging their obligation to take effective steps to address such serious issue and to take remedial steps to compel DMCto strictly follow the Rules of 2016.

DIMAPPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Official website for Expression Life, a home décor producing company, was officially launched by president, Business Association of Nagaland (BAN), L Mongkhum Jamir, on here on Saturday.

Addressing the gathering after launching the website, “www.expressionlife. in”, Jamir maintained that Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) were the backbone of the country, adding that 50% of total export was accounted from MSME sectors, whilst adding that 29% of GDP was from MSMEs. Jamir also maintained that MSMEs accounted for 40% of total industry output, further adding that with over 6.3 crore units of MSMEs in the country, it provided employment to more than 11.2 crore in the country.

He also spoke on the importance of quality, Jamir urged all entrepreneurs never to compromise in the quality of its product.

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The entire Rs 1 trillion could be given to states in the July-September quarter itself. “Many states are ready with their plans to spend the capex on greenfield or brownfield projects.

The rules for distributing the Rs 1 trillion loan were framed by late April and states brought their projects for evaluation in May.” Sitharaman said she was confident that the amount (Rs 1 trillion) would be picked up by states before the end of the second quarter.

Speaking on the biggest challenge for fiscal and monetary policymakers — inflation — Sitharaman said the 6 per cent upper limit of the Monetary Pol-

handling the pandemic and that was very much tailored to the uniqueness of the Indian economy. In that, you have a large number of medium and small-scale industries spread across so many sectors. You had to have one kind of solution for one area,” she said.

The government is going on with its plans of bank privatisation, the FM pointed out.

“We’ll keep going.

The plans are almost ready and we will bring amendments to the Banking Regulation Act soon.” Referring to banking as a “strategic sector”, she said the Centre would continue owning some banks. However, in the banks which the government decides to exit, it could do so completely. “I can exit some banks completely. But whether we do that or we keep some stake is all part of the decisionmaking process,” she said.

While there has been no official confirmation from the government, Central Bank of India and Indian Overseas Bank are said to be the candidates for privatisation.

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icy Committee’s (MPC’s) medium-term inflation target was a ‘sacred’ number.

“The challenges are all external. Our inflation is nowhere near what countries have experienced. But even this will be burdensome on our people, because we have people with very low income who can’t afford to have that kind of burden on themselves,” she said.

Headline retail inflation for May 2022 cooled down from the 8-year high of the previous month to settle at 7.04 per cent. It was still a fifth straight month of headline retail inflation staying above the MPC’s medium-term target of 4 (+/-2) per cent. The Reserve Bank of India expects inflation to average above the 6 per cent mark till the October-December quarter.

Sitharaman said the economy recovered strongly from the three waves of the Covid-19 pandemic because the Centre took a “variegated approach’’ for different sectors rather than opting for “one size fits all” measures.

“We had our way of

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NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (AGENCIES): The government would depend on its public capital expenditure programme to revive demand in the economy and might not go for sectorspecific fiscal measures, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Business Standard on Friday.

In a wide-ranging interview, Sitharaman said the Centre would finalise the privatisation of a public sector bank soon.

Also, the fiscal deficit and growth situation were very comfortable this year in spite of continuing external headwinds, she added.

“The route we have chosen and the one we are sticking with is capex. Even during the pandemic, we adopted this method of spend on capital assets to ensure economic revival.

And states really showed that they had the absorptive capacity,” Sitharaman said.

The Centre’s capex outlay is estimated at Rs 7.5 trillion in FY23. Of that, Rs 1 trillion will go to states as a long-term, interest-free loan for their capex needs, according to the FM.

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The Tobruk parliament (above) is the seat of one of Libya’s two rival administrations.

Libyan Political Dialogue Forum to regain stability in the country following years of political division and insecurity, were postponed indefinitely due to technical and legal issues.

Libya has witnessed escalating violence and instability ever since the fall of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011.

totally unacceptable,” said Stephanie Williams, the U.N. special adviser on Libya, on Twitter.

Friday’s protests came a day after the leaders of the parliament and another legislative chamber based in Tripoli failed to reach an agreement on elections during U.N.-mediated t a l k s i n G e n eva . T h e dispute now centers on the eligibility requirements for candidates, according to the U.N.

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of ‘terror’ as missiles rain down

Taliban warns foreigners not to interfere

A war crimes prosecutor (C) and a rescuer (R) and a civil, look at a destroyed building after being hit by a missile strike. (AFP)

said in his daily address to the nation, adding that some 40 people have been injured and that the death toll could rise.

“I emphasise: this is an act of deliberate, purposeful Russian terror -- and not some kind of mistake or an accidental missile strike,” Zelenskyy said.

“Three missiles hit a regular nine-storey apar tment building, in which nobody was hiding any weapons, any military equipment,” he added.

“Regular people, civilians, lived there.”

Germany swiftly condemned the violence.

“The cruel manner in which the Russian aggressor takes the deaths of civilians in its stride and is again speaking of collateral

Ship sinks in storm off Hong Kong, crew in danger HONG KONG, JUL 2 (AP): An industrial support ship operating in the South China Sea has sunk with the possible loss of more than two dozen crew members, rescue services in Hong Kong said on Saturday.

Authorities dispatched planes and helicopters to aid in the rescue, with at least three people from the crew of 30 brought to safety as of 5.30 pm (1030 GMT) on Saturday.

The accident occurred about 300 kilometres south of Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Flying Ser vice did not give the name or origin of the vessel. It said in a statement that crew members were negotiating difficulties brought on by Severe Tropical Storm Chaba, which was packing maximum winds of 110 kilometres per hour.

The storm is expected to make landfall in the western part of the coastal province of Guangdong later Saturday.

The Hong Kong service sent two fixed-wing aircraft and four helicopters for the rescue effort.

damages is inhuman and cynical,” said German gover nment spokesman Steffen Hebestreit.

The attacks follow global outrage earlier this week when a Russian strike destroyed a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, killing at least 18 civilians. President Vladimir Putin has denied his forces were responsible for that attack and Moscow made no immediate comment on the Odessa strikes.

On Friday, Zelensky hailed a new chapter in its relationship with the European Union, after Brussels recently granted Ukraine candidate status in Kyiv’s push to join the 27-member bloc, even if membership is likely years away.

KABUL, JUL 2 (AGENCIES): The Taliban’s supreme leader M aw l aw i H a i b a t u l l a h Akhundzada has once again warned foreigners not to interfere in Afghanistan during a rare speech at a gathering of Islamic clerics in Kabul on Friday, according to state media.

The reclusive leader told the conference that Afghanistan “cannot develop without being independent,” according to state-run Bakhtar News Agency. “Thank God, we are now an independent country. (Foreigners) should not give us their orders, it is our system, and we have our own decisions,” Akhundzada added.

In the speech, Akhundzada praised the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last August, almost two decades after they were driven from Kabul

by US troops, saying: “The success of the Afghan jihad is not only a source of pride for Afghans but also for Muslims all over the world.”

The speed of the takeover, just weeks after the starts of the withdrawal of US troops, took the world by surprise and led to the dissolution of the foreignbacked government.

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chiSOMi YOUth ORGANiSAtiON Khezhakeno, Phek Dist., Nagaland Regd. No. R/S 343

FELICITATION With immense pride and joy, we the Chisomi Youth Organisation congratulate Er. Daniel Kevie on being promoted to the post of Executive Engineer under CE PWD (R& B) Kohima, Nagaland.

The organisation wishes him success in his future endeavours and prays that Almighty God bless him with more wisdom and good health as he shoulders his new assignments.

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K AT H M A N D U, J U L 2 (IANS): Dipendra Bahadur Chhetri, the former Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), has said that the situation of Nepal’s economy is not like that of Sri Lanka.

H o w e v e r, i f t h e political rights are given to the wrong persons like in Sri Lanka, there is a possibility of Nepal becoming the next Sri Lanka, he said, Republica reported.

Speaking at an interaction programme on the current economic situation in Nepal held in Kathmandu, Chhetri said the present situation in Sri Lanka is due to arbitrary tax rates imposed by the same family as the president, prime minister and finance minister.

He also mentioned that Nepal should not be associated with Sri Lanka as it has just held local e l e c t i o n s a n d i s n ow preparing to hold federal and provincial elections, Republica reported.

Biden urged to act against India’s ‘lack of rule-following’ in Agri sector WASHINGTON, JUL 2 (PTI): A group of US lawmakers have urged President Joe Biden to file a formal request for consultations with India a t t h e Wo r l d Tr a d e Organisation or WTO over its alleged “dangerous trade-distorting practices”.

The 12 Congressmen, in a letter to Joe Biden, stated that current WTO rules allow governments to subsidise up to 10 per cent of the value of commodity production.

However, the Indian government continues to subsidise more than half of the value of production for several commodities, including rice and wheat, they said.

I n d i a ’s “ l a c k o f rule-following” and the Biden administration’s “lack of enforcement” have reshaped the global agricultural production and trade channels by d r iv i n g d ow n p r i c e s, depressing production of rice and wheat commodities, and putting

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American producers at a dispropor tionate d i s a dva n t a ge, t h e Congressmen alleged in the letter.

“India’s practices are dangerously tradedistorting on a global scale and impact US farmers and ranchers,” the letter read. The lead in the letter was taken by Congressmen Tracey Mann and Rick Crawford. “ We u r g e t h e administration to file a formal request for consultations with India at

the WTO and to continue monitoring other WTO members’ domestic support programmes that undermine fair trade practices,” they said.

The US must not yield for the sake of reaching a consensus. Instead, America must work to promote solutions that will alleviate the global supply chain and food shortages. It must take actions that will address those consumers most impacted by inflation and rising food prices, the lawmakers demanded.

5 killed, 49 injured as quakes rock Iran TEHRAN, JUL 2 (IANS): At least five people were killed and 49 others injured as three earthquakes measuring above 6 on the Richter scale jolted Iran’s s o u t h e r n H o r mu z g a n province on Saturday, an emergency official said.

According to the official, the first 6.1-magnitude quake occurred at a depth of 10 km at 2.02 a.m., followed by two strong tremors of up to 6.3 magnitude a few hours later, reports Xinhua news agency.

Many aftershocks with a magnitude of above four

A car is seen under the rubble after an earthquake in Sayeh Khosh village in Hormozgan, Iran, Saturday. (Reuters)

have also been registered. rural areas, destroyed a The earthquakes have number of bridges and damaged some houses in overpasses, and caused

landslides.

Mojtaba Khaledi, a spokesman for the country’s emergency services, said ambulances and helicopters have been sent to the quakehit areas. He noted that in some areas, power outages have occurred, which are being fixed.

The CEO of Hormuzgan Province’s Red Crescent Society, Mokhtar Salahshour, said the rescue work has ended and that people have been given refuge in emergency shelters, adding tents and aid items have been distributed.

Protests in US over fatal police shooting of black man WASHINGTON, JUL 2 (AFP): Angry activists on Friday rallied in the city of Akron in northern United States following yet another police shooting death of a Black man earlier this week.

Jayland Walker, 25, was shot and killed Monday, after officers tried to stop his car over a traffic violation, the police department in the city of Akron, Ohio said.

But Walker drove off and fired a shot as police engaged in a car chase, which lasted several minutes. He eventually got out of his car,

while it was still moving, and fled on foot.

Several officers finally chased Walker to a parking lot, where “actions by the suspect caused the officers to perceive he posed a deadly threat to them,” leading them to open fire, the police statement said.

Wa l k e r wa s pronounced dead at the scene.

Officials have provided few details of the shooting, promising to release bodycam video from the scene soon, but local media have

Protesters in dowtown Akron demanding initial police reports about the shooting death of Jayland Walker.

reported that dozens of never caused any trouble,” shots were fired. “Jayland his aunt Lajuana Walkerwas a sweet young man, he Dawkins told reporters.

AppreciAtion

AcKnowleDgement on the night of 29th June, 2022 we experienced the love of God through people who helped and saved our lives while our house was burnt. In addition to that, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all who helped us with their prayers, emotional support and financial aid towards our family.

We would specially like to thank: 1. Administration Chuchuyimlang 2. Police Department Chuchuyimlang 3. Chuchuyimlang Town Baptist Arogo 4. Chuchuyimlang Town Baptist Arogotsür 5. Salulamang village Council 6. Salulamang Baptist Arogo 7. Salulamang Senso Telongjem Mokokchung 8. Salulamang Senso Telongjem Chuchuyimlang Town From Mr. & Mrs. Takomangyang and family members

Through this column, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Community Health Centre, Medziphema Town for successfully conducting surgery for the citizens of the Town.

A special thanks to Dr. Bohoto Kiba and team.

May God bless them in the days to come.

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KYIV, Jul 2 (AFP): Missiles rained down on Ukraine killing many civilians and wounding dozens in built up areas as the weekend began, prompting President Vo l o dy my r Z e l e n s k y y to accuse Russia of state “terror”.

Strikes on a southern resort town left 21 dead and dozens wounded after missiles slammed into flats and a recreation centre in Sergiyvka, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Black Sea port Odessa.

Rockets struck residential properties in Solviansk in the heart of the embattled Donbas region, killing a woman in her garden and wounding her husband, a neighbour told AFP Saturday, describing debris showered across the neighbourhood.

The witness said the strike on Friday was thought to use cluster munitions which spread over a large area before exploding, striking buildings and people who were outdoors.

The attacks came after Moscow abandoned positions on a strategic island in a major setback to the Kremlin’s invasion.

Victims of the Sergiyvka attacks included a 12-year-old boy, Zelenskyy

condemned the storming o f t h e p a r l i a m e n t ’s headquarters by angr y demonstrators as part of protests in several cities against the political class and deteriorating economic conditions.

“The people’s right to peacefully protest should be respected and protected but riots and acts of vandalism such as the storming of the UN condemns House of Representatives A senior U.N. official h e a d q u a r t e r s l a t e for Libya on Saturday yesterday in Tobruk are

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TRIPOLI, JUL 2 (IANS/ AP): Anti-gover nment protesters have stormed the Libyan Parliament in the city of Tobruk as demonstrations took place across the country, including the capital Tripoli, against an ongoing political deadlock, continued power cuts, and rising price.

A BBC report said that the protesters on Friday also set fire to part of the building as images posted online showed thick columns of smoke.

M e a n w h i l e, t h e protesters in Tripoli called for fresh elections and their demand was backed by the head of the interim unity government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who said all the country’s institutions needed to be changed.

The unrest came a day after UN-brokered talks in Geneva aimed at paving the way for a ballot ended with little progress.

Libya was expected to hold presidential elections on December 24, 2021.

However, the elections, part of a roadmap adopted by the UN-sponsored

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FELICITATION The Management, Faculty, Staff and Students of Mount Mary College, Chumukedima would like to congratulate Mr. Supongnokdang Pongen for securing Gold Medal in Sociology (Honours) in the recently concluded Graduate Examination conducted by Nagaland University.

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FELICITATION The Chüziema Students’ Union with immense pride and honour extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Ruokuosenuo Zatsu of Chüziema village for successfully completion of her Doctorate degree in Chemistry with her research on “Synthesis of Lanthanide Complexes with Biologically Active Organic Ligands: Their Spectral And Chemical Kinetic Studies”. The union wishes and prays that Almighty God continues to grant her more wisdom and guide her in all her future endeavours. k-1472/22

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The following village council chairmen, Hd. GBs and the public of Ghotovi, Tsosinyu, Logwesunyu and Yankeli village would like to convey our gratitude and appreciation to Er. Inahoto Sema, Executive Engineer PWD (R&B), Dimapur Division for deputing manpower and machineries for clearing of landslides and repair of damaged roads from 10th to 23th June 2022.

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‘Stranger Things’ breaks Nielsen’s streaming record

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haracter actor Joe Turkel, whose indelible performances included roles as the sinister bartender Lloyd in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ and the maker of artificial humans in ‘Blade Runner’, recently passed away at the age of 94 at St. John’s Hospital, reports ‘Deadline’.

His death was announced by his family, who said he died peacefully with his sons Craig and Robert by his side. Turkel was born July 15, 1927 in Brooklyn, and at age 17 enlisted in the Merchant Marines and then joined the US Army and saw active wartime service in Europe.

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29, the series brought in 5.1 billion minutes viewed.

Netflix’s self-reported numbers for the premiere weekend, according to ‘Variety’, indicate that ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Volume 1, which consists of seven episodes clocking in at roughly nine hours, was viewed for 286.8 million hours - or roughly 17.2 billion minutes.

However, because Nielsen combines viewership of all available seasons, a more apt comparison would be Netflix’s reporting that between May 23 and May 29, Seasons 1, 2, 3 and 4 were viewed for a combined 371.3 million hours -- or 22.3 billion minutes -- versus Nielsen’s 5.1 billion.

Still, because Netflix measures viewing across all devices while Nielsen counts only TV viewing, a discrepancy remains.

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Musk and his four teenage sons with the Pope.

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“Where you been? It’s been boring lol,” tweeted another.

Musk then posted his photo along with His Ho-

liness Pope Francis in the Vatican, where his grownup kids are probably also seen.

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kraine has added the cooking of Ukrainian borscht, a soup made of beetroot and other vegetables, to its list of endangered cultural traditions.

The war in Ukraine has “threatened” the cooking of borscht, UNESCO said.

Moscow decried the new protected Ukrainian status of the dish, which is also popular in Russia, saying the Russian version of borscht “doesn’t need protection”.

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With immense pride and honour, the Education Trust Fund Committee of Chuchuyimlang Students’ Union, Dimapur would like to congratulate MISS IMCHAAIEN, D/o Mr. Temsu Jamir & Mrs. S. Amenla Longkumer for securing the top 6th Position in B.A English Honours, NEHU from St. Mary’s College, Shillong.

The Committee further wishes and prays that Almighty God continues to grant greater achievements in her future endeavours.

Sd/(MR. IMLIAkUM) President, CkTD Dimapur, Nagaland

Sd/(MR. L. OBANGTEMSU) Convenor, Edn. Trust Fund Committee CkTD, Dimapur, Nagaland

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LONGKONG WATSÜ TELONGJEM FELICITATION

The Longkong Watsü Telongjem extends our heartiest congratulations to the following students for their notable academic performance in the HSLC Examination results, 2022 conducted by NBSE.

Ms. Tsuwanaro Jamir

Ms. Purjungla Imsong

Ms. Imnajungla

D/o Mr. Alemkika and Mrs. Moainla Top 20 (HSLC) Subject Topper in Maths

D/o Lt. Mr. Sentiyanger Imsong and Mrs. Rita Angami Subject Topper in Social Science (HSLC)

D/o Mr. Sentongmeren and Mrs. Vihovono Subject Topper in Alternative English (HSLC)

The Longkong Watsü Telongjem congratulates all the successful candidates of HSLC and HSSLC exams and further wishes them the best for all their future endeavours.

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he hit OTT series ‘Stranger Things’ has become the most-viewed programme in a single week as per the market research and measurement company Nielsen’s newly released streaming Top 10 records, reports ‘Variety’.

The science fiction drama was viewed for 7.2 billion minutes between May 30 and June 5, which was Season 4 Volume 1’s first full week of availability, easily landing in the No. 1 position on the chart.

Previously, ‘Tiger King’ and ‘Ozark’ were the only titles to have crossed 5 billion minutes viewed in one week, both reaching that milestone in March 2020.

‘Variety’ notes that the premiere weekend of Season 4 Volume 1 also landed at No. 1. Between the May 27 debut and the end of the viewing window on May

layer, heating up the Earth.

The U.S. Clean Air Act began phasing these coolants out in the ‘90s, but there are still many in use across the globe.

Ramps Up Allergies If you keep your A/C clean, it can help tame allergies. But an HVAC system can quickly become a home for microbial allergens. Be sure you have your system inspected regularly and keep it well-maintained so you don’t add to your allergy issues.

Helps You Sleep Experts say sleeping in a room that’s between 60-67 degrees is ideal for the best rest. This is because your body cools down as part of a natural sleep cycle, so a cool room helps that happen.

Sometimes A/C is the tool you need to get your sleep space to the right temp.

Saves Lives During Heatwaves Air conditioning may come with some negative effects, but there’s no doubt it can be lifesaving when temperatures soar. Once your body temperature goes above 102 degrees, you’re at risk of heat exhaustion -- nausea, cramps, dizziness, feeling faint -- and if you continue to heat up, you could get heat stroke.

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22 on the battle between SpaceX and the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over broadband usage.

His absence came amid the controversial ruling in the US over abortion rights, and his followers had expected him to react strongly to that.

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S t u d i e s s h ow t h a t people who work in airconditioned buildings have more respiratory problems (irritated nasal passages, trouble breathing) than people who work in buildings with natural ventilation.

Can Make Your Head Ache If you spend time in indoor spaces with HVAC systems that are dirty or not well-maintained, you’re more likely to have headaches or even migraines.

In one study, 8% of people who work in unhealthy indoor air environments had headaches 1-3 days a month, and 8% had daily headaches.

Lowers Your Heat Tolerance Scientists have coined the term “adaptive comfort model” to describe why spending more time in air conditioning makes it harder to deal with hot temperatures. Your ideal temperature depends in part on whatever temperature you’ve recently been exposed to. The more you hang out in spaces pumped full of A/C, the less comfortable heat and humidity will feel.

Pollutes the Outside Air Older A/C units can release CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons). This is a refrigerant that can harm the ozone

said.

His 10-day long silence comes in the middle of the controversial $44 billion deal to buy Twitter that he has put on hold till CEO Parag Agrawal informs him the exact number of bots and spam accounts on the platform.

Musk, a serial Tweeter, last posted on June

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ffects Indoor Air If you work in an air-conditioned building with poor ventilation, it can raise your risk of “sick building syndrome”.

Symptoms include headaches, dry cough, dizziness and nausea, trouble concentrating, fatigue, and sensitivity to odours. Forced indoor air may also slightly raise your risk of COVID-19.

But the CDC says the risk is small. Lower it even more with regular filter changes, opening windows, and covering coughs and sneezes.

Dehydrates You Air conditioners suck moisture out of a room to bring down the humidity and cool it off. This can pull water from your skin, drying it -- and you -- out.

Dries Out Eyes The lack of humidity in air-conditioned spaces can dry your eyes. This can make them irritated and itchy and may even make your vision blurry.

Boosts Metabolism Studies show more time in cold weather may help you lose weight. Your body may develop a greater amount of healthy, energyburning “brown fat” as it deals with more frigid air.

Air conditioning in hot weather can help keep you in a cool state, but you’ll also have to lower your indoor temps in the winter to see a real benefit.

Helps You Think A 2018 Harvard study showed that students who lived in dorms without A/C during hot summer months did worse on cognitive tests than those who had cool central air.

Irritates Airways

esla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday broke his 10-day long Twitter silence, admitting that he was feeling a bit bored.

Musk took his longestever ‘digital detox’ from Twitter in nearly five years, leaving his more than 100 million followers and the media speculating.

He last tweeted on June 22, before switching off from the microblogging platform which he uses to break news and fix people.

“Feeling a perhaps a a little bored?” Tweeted Musk.

A follower immediately replied: ‘Daddy’s

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Kalaivani Srinivasan (C) with the team officials.

ed excellent skills against U z b e k i s t a n’s Fa r z o n a Fozilova in the women’s 48kg semi-final. The Chennai-born boxer’s powerful blows and persistent attack didn’t allow her opponent any opportunity to settle down as she comfortably won by unanimous decision

in the end.

Kuldeep provided India a winning start on the fourth day of the competition but had to work hard for the victory. Kuldeep faced a stiff challenge from local Kairat Yernur in a nail-biting men’s 48kg quarter-final contest. However, with cau-

tious approach and precise attack, he notched up a 3-2 win. Meanwhile, another boxer in the men’s section, Yashpal lost to Kazakhstan’s Aslanbek Shymbergenov by 0-5 margin in the 71kg quarter-final. Among women, Babita Bisht (81kg), Jyoti (52kg) and Neema (63kg) signed off with bronze medals after defeats in the semifinals.

While Babita suffered a defeat against China’s Zheng Lu by ‘Referee Stopping the Contest’ verdict, Jyoti and Neema conceded identical 0-5 losses against Uzbekistan’s Feruza Kazakova and Kazakhstan’s Anar Tursynbek respectively.

S av i t a ’s c h a l l e n ge also came to an end in the quarter-finals as she was handed a 0-5 loss by Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Japan’s Namiki Tsukimi in the 50kg category.

Later on Saturday night, 2021 Youth World champions Gitika (48kg), Alfiya Pathan (+81kg) and Lalita (70kg) will fight in the semi-finals while Rajni (50kg) will play her quarterfinal. The finals will be played on Monday.

Gopichand expects better performance in CWG 2022 NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (AGENCIES): Former All England champion P. Gopichand expects a better performance from the Indian players in men’s singles and doubles events at the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

According to Sportstar report, the Commonwe a l t h G a m e s - b o u n d Indian side includes top men’s singles players such as World championships bronze medallist and World No. 10 Lakshya Sen and Worlds silver medallist and 11-ranked K. Srikanth and World no. 7 doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty.

India had claimed silver medals in men’s singles and doubles in the Gold Coast Games four years ago.

Gopichand said even though Indian shuttlers did well in the 2018 Commonwealth Games by securing two gold medals, three silver and a bronze, the men could perform better this time. “Last time, it was a very good performance.

Proper 5 win NCRC penalty kick

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DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Proper 5 won the “Super Goal, Penalty Kick” by defeating CYE Diphupar in the final match played at DDSC Stadium, here on Saturday.

The tournament was organized by Nagaland Christian Revival Church (NCRC) Youth Fellowship and 70 teams participated.

Gracing the tournament as chief guest, class-1 contractor Vibeilietuo Kets, in his brief address reminded the youngsters to take the mission of NCRC to the unreached group of people.

Noting that Nagaland 99 percent of the population were Christian out of which NCRC is a minority, he called upon the church leaders and youngsters to strive to reach out and spread the love of Christ in many villages and towns.

Retired director, Social Welfare Department, Atoli Achumi, who was the guest of honour in her speech encouraged the youth to

Vibeilietuo Kets kicks the ball at DDSC Stadium, Saturday. (NP)

maintain a healthy lifestyle by keeping away from those substances that have ill effects on their body. She further hoped that through this initiative everyone will come closer and develop

oneness not only in sports but in spiritual life. Earlier, the programme began with an invocation prayer

by NCRC, Sumi, Purana Bazaar pastor, Dr. Nitoshe Nekha.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (PTI): Indian boxer Kalaivani Srinivasan stormed into the final with a dominating victory while Kuldeep Kumar progressed to the semi-finals of the Elorda Cup in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on Saturday.

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Ireland women’s football coach Vera Pauw says she was raped THE HAGUE, JUL 2 (AP): Ireland women’s football coach Vera Pauw has said that she was raped by a “prominent football official” in 1986 and sexually assaulted by two other men when she was a player in the Netherlands.

Pauw made the claims in a report that was published Saturday in respected Dutch newspaper NRC and in a statement she posted on Twitter. The official was not identified in Pauw’s statement or the NRC story.

“Even those closest to me have not known of the rape I endured at the hands of a prominent football official when I was a young player,” Pauw wrote. “Later, two sexual assaults by two other men were added to this record. All three men were employed within Dutch football at the time of these incidents.”

NRC wrote that the alleged rape happened at Pauw’s home in 1986.

In an interview with the NRC, the coach said he was “stunned by the allegation” and denied that a rape happened.

“Nothing inappropriate has happened in that regard,” he told the newspaper.

Pauw also said that, as a player and as coach with the Dutch national team, she was exposed to

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“systematic sexual abuse, abuse of power, bullying, intimidation, isolation and framing.”

In a written reaction posted on its website, Dutch football association KNVB said it was “extremely shocked”

by Pauw’s experiences, which she discussed with the association last year, discussions that led to an independent investigation.

The KNVB said that the investigation “shows that the KNVB should have approached a number of issues differently. For example, Vera has unfortunately been confronted in the past with a number of errors (of judgment) and harmful comments from (former) KNVB employees.”

The association said that the investigation found “that there was no plan or policy of the KNVB behind this,” but said it is “unacceptable that Vera did not experience the safe working environment to which

she was entitled at the time.

In personal contact with Vera we have experienced that this situation unfortunately has a deep impact on her and we are sorry.”

The Football Association of Ireland gave Pauw its backing.

“The FAI is absolutely aware of the impact these revelations will have on Vera’s well-being and have assured her of the ongoing full support of the FAI Board and all her colleagues at the Association,” it said.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (IANS): Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik on Saturday revealed that she has gone through a tough time in the last two years but the national trials helped in getting her ‘confidence’ and ‘mojo’ back and the wrestler is determined to win the medal at the Commonwealth Games, scheduled to begin from July 28 in Birmingham.

Sakshi had grabbed a place in the 62kg weight category in the national squad in May. It had taken the 29-year-old Sakshi five bouts to finally beat her nemesis -- 20-year-old Sonam Malik -- in the selection trials to earn that place. The 2014 Olympics wrestling bronze medallist recently won the gold medal at the UWW Ranking Series in Kazakhstan.

However, the grappler believes that it was the national trial that gave her more confidence than the Ranking Series triumph.

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India in command; restrict Eng to 63/3 on Day 2 Cricketers wonderstruck with Pant’s heroics

BIRMINGHAM, JUL 2 (PTI): Ravindra Jadeja reaffirmed his status as India’s most valuable player across formats with a superbly crafted hundred before skipper Jasprit Bumrah took centre-stage, first smashing a world record and then blowing away England top-order on a rain-hit second day of the rescheduled fifth Test.

At tea, England were struggling at 60 for 3 as a nicely warmed-up Bumrah first castled opener Alex Lees (6) with a delivery that came in with the angle.

Then, in the postlunch session, he got twice lucky as he removed Zak Crawley (9) and Ollie Pope (10) with the ‘seventh’ delivery of his third and sixth overs respectively.

Both were fuller deliveries which enticed the two right-handers to go for drives as Shubman Gill at third slip and Shreyas Iyer at second slip took regulation catches.

In-form batters Joe Root (19 batting) and Jonny Bairstow (6 batting) were at the crease when rain stopped play for the third time on the second day.

While he once again delivered with the ball but

JADEJA HITS TON; BUMRAH BREAKS WORLD RECORD

(L) Ravindra Jadeja celebrates after reaching a century.(R) Jasprit Bumrah, 2nd left, celebrates after dismissing England’s Zak Crawley, Saturday. (AP/PTI)

it was Bumrah (31 no, 16 balls) the batter whose fireworks will be remembered by the capacity Edgbaston crowd for the longest time as he smashed 29 runs off a Stuart Broad over.

In all, that over from Broad yielded 35 runs, including six extras.

In his first match at the helm as captain, Bumrah would have never thought that he would pip Brian Lara’s maximum runs (28 runs) in a single Test match over, which remained intact for 18 years. Bumrah used the bat like a sword

and even the edges seemed like “sweet spot” as he hit four boundaries and two sixes off Broad to give the hosts a dose of ‘Bazball’ (Brendon McCullum’s attacking philosophy), which had become a trending lingo in English cricket during the past few weeks.

While Rishabh Pant’s century for the ages and Jadeja’s third Test ton set up the platform, one can’t discount the 93 runs that India added with contributions from number 9, 10 and 11.

In the morning, Jade-

Nagaland Taekwondo coach to Kohima dist. TT undergo license course in S Korea Championship

(R) Deep Kumar and Vijay Kumar Soma

DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Founder, coach of Faith in Action Taekwondo Academy Nagaland, Deep Kumar including Vijay Kumar Soma of Somafit World Taekwondo A c a d e my, H yd e r a b a d Telangana will undergo Poom/Dan Examiner License Course at the 2022 International Taekwondo Masters organized by Kukkiwon, World Taekwondo Academy from July 7 to 15 at Taekwondowon (Muju) South Korea.

Under the Founder C oa c h, Dee p Kum a r, the Faith in Action Taekwondo Academy players has won World Champion title in 2014 at World Taekwondo Hanmadang Championship and in 2015 the Academy got the most Valuable Players Award by winning seven medals in the World Taekwondo Hanmadang Championship at Pyeongtaek City, South Korea. The duo will leave for South Korea on July 6 from Hyderabad.

DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): Kohima District Table Tennis Association (KDTTA) will be organizing the 10th edition of Kohima District Table Tennis Championship from July 7 -8 at Indoor TT Stadium, Kohima.

The event will be held under various categories: Sub-junior, under 16 boys/ Girls, junior under 19 boys/Girls, Seniors Men’s/ Women’s, Mixed Doubles and Veterans 40+.

The selected players will represent KDTTA in the forthcoming Nagaland Olympics and Inter District TT tournaments 2022.

Forms will be available at Indoor TT Stadium with Lima and Chanan Restaurant, opposite TT Stadium from July 4.

Junior categories have been asked to submit their birth certificate while submitting the forms. The last date for submission is July 6 at Indoor TT stadium and further details can be contacted at 8794881960 and 8259029783.

ja, was cautious as ever before deliberately guiding a Matthew Potts delivery with extra bounce over the slips for a boundary, and the second four was a lucky one that went over Joe Root in the slips. A punchy drive through cover-point region got him his third century four months after he got the second one in Mohali.

This hundred, though, was of a far better quality, especially if one factors in the conditions, match situation and quality of opposition bowling.

Jadeja hit 13 boundaries, and his four and half hours stay at the wicket gave Pant an opportunity to play his natural attacking game, even as he dourly defended as and when required.

H av i n g a l r e a dy scored 2500 runs in Test cricket alongside taking 242 wickets, Jadeja can safely be termed as the best all-rounder that the Indian team has had since the great Kapil Dev. A Test batting average of 37 plus is better than many specialists who have played for India over the years.

As far as England’s bowling is concer ned, James Anderson (5/60), who is a month shy of turning 40, is still peerless as he got his 32nd fivewicket haul while Broad completed a creditable feat of 550 Test victims.

But 40 extra runs, including 14 no balls, will certainly haunt England in the long run.

Brief scores: India 416 in 84.5 overs (Rishabh Pant 146, Ravindra Jadeja 104; James Anderson 5-60, Matthew Potts 2-105) lead England 60/3 in 15.1 overs (Joe Root 19 not out, Jasprit Bumrah 3-30) by 356 runs

EDGBASTON, JUL 2 (IANS): Cricketers across the world were wonderstruck by Rishabh Pant’s heroics with the bat on the opening day of the rescheduled fifth Test against England on Friday, with the likes of Michael Vaughan, West Indian legend Ian Bishop and Sachin Tendulkar taking to social media to congratulate the player on his century-making feat amid extremely trying circumstances.

Pant produced a phenomenal innings of 146 runs off just 111 balls rescuing India from a precarious position on the opening day in Edgbaston. His partnership with Ravindra Jadeja (83 not out) started with India struggling at 98/5, eventually helping the team past the 300-run mark with a magnificent 222-run stand for the sixth wicket.

Pant’s innings saw many current and former cricketers heap India’s Rishabh Pant plays a shot. (AP/PTI) praise on the 24-year-old for producing one of the most entertaining and DvsENG,” tweeted Prasad. West Indian crucial innings of his young career. Sachin great Ian Bishop wrote, “Phenomenal from Tendulkar posted images of Pant playing Rishabh Pant. Simply outstanding. Fabusome magnificent shots and wrote, “Simply lous partnership with Jadeja to given they awesome @RishabhPant17! Well done. were 98-5.” India spinner Amit Mishra Crucial innings by @imjadeja. Rotated the wrote that Pant had shown the right way strike well and played some amazing shots.” to counter quality English bowling attack.

Former India captain and the current BCCI “When in trouble, call the Spiderman! president Sourav Ganguly tweeted, “Special What a fierce knock by rockstar Rishabh exhibition of test match batting under pres- Pant against a quality english bowling unit sure. @RishabhPant17 @imjadeja ..can’t under such circumstances. Best way to fight a fire is to fight it with the fire. #EngVsInd.” get better then this ..get to 375 tmrw .”

Former India pace bowler Venkatesh Former England captain Michael Vaughan Prasad termed it one of the best counter- compared Pant’s innings with that of Jonny attacking innings one will ever witness. Bairstow in the recently concluded three“Box office stuff from Rishabh Pant. One Test series against New Zealand. “This is of the best counter-attacking innings that great viewing .. @RishabhPant17. doing a one will ever see. One special player. #IN- Jonny B... #ENGvIND.”

Wimbledon: Cornet stuns world no. 1 Swiatek; Halep advances

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LO N D O N, J U L 2 (AGENCIES): World number one Iga Swiatek saw her 37-match winning streak ended as France’s Alize Cornet caused one of the biggest upsets so far at Wimbledon.

The 21-year-old from Poland was beaten 6-4 6-2 following an inspired performance by 37th-ranked Cornet. Cornet, 32, kept her composure to streak towards a famous victory.

Coco Gauff was also knocked out as fellow American Amanda Anisimova fought back

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from a set down to reach the fourth round for the first time. The 20-yearold, making her Centre Court debut, took control in the final two sets as she wrapped up an impressive 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 6-1 win.

Anisimova has reached the last 16 of all three Grand Slams this year. While 2019 champion Simona Halep moved into the Round of 16. The No.16 seed from Romania eased past Poland’s Magdalena Frech 6-4, 6-1 on No.2 Court.

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Halep, who defeated Serena Williams in the 2019 Wimbledon final for her second Grand Slam title, needed just 66 minutes to oust World No.92 Frech.

“I’m happy about it,” Halep said afterward. “I’m trying just to play more offensive and I’m pushing myself to do that. So it was a good match. “This tournament back in 2019, it’s been the best tournament of my career. The matches that I played here were perfect. So I always have those memories and I have always have con-

fidence that my game is pretty good on grass.” It is the first time that French Open runner-up Gauff, 18, has not reached the fourth round at Wimbledon.

“This is the most special day of my career. It’s just a huge privilege to play on this court playing Coco,” said Anisimova, who fell backwards onto Centre Court in celebration afterwards.

“She’s an amazing player, got to the final of a Grand Slam so I wanted to soak up the moment. Winning is so special, especially in front of a full crowd.

“A l t h o u g h i t wa s extremely exhausting, I pushed through and was so happy to get the win.”

Anisimova will next play France’s Harmony Tan, ranked 115th. However, Tan has been in great form in these Championships. She defeated seventime Wimbledon singles champion Serena Williams in round one, eliminated Spain’s 32nd seed Sara Sorribes Tormo in the second round and thrashed Brit-

ain’s Katie Boulter 6-1 6-1 earlier on Saturday.

Anisimova made a nervous start on Centre Court, losing the opening three games, although she then won four in a row and was a break up before Gauff fought back to force the tie-break.

Despite holding a 4-1 lead in the tie-break, Anisimova, who made 26 unforced errors in the opening set, fell a set behind.

However, she showed great strength of character as she drastically reduced her mistakes and began to take control, dictating rallies with her power and precision and moving Gauff around. Anisimova clinched the second set by breaking Gauff ’s serve to love in the eighth game, and then dominated the decider.

Anisimova and Gauff had been two of the four Americans to reach the third round of the women’s singles, while eight players from the United States were in the last 32 in the men’s singles.

AIFF sets to put house in shape as SC removes old order Nagaland schools chess tournament NEW DELHI, JUL 2 (AGENCIES): The winds of change seem to be sweeping the All India Football Federation. The metamorphosis is wrought by the recent verdicts of the country’s Supreme Court, which has blown off the Federation’s executive order in preference for a new constitution and a new committee.

The intervention from the apex court came on the back of some appeals that questioned the validity of the incumbent executive body that was holding to power despite seeing its term ending almost 17 months ago, Sportstar report stated. Some frowned on this arrangement as the AIFF president Praful Patel was supposed to step down after having completed three consecutive terms and 12 years in office in December 2020.

The president’s office appeared to be driven into a monolithic state where it was resisting repeated demands from the affiliated state associations to initiate the election process for a new executive body.

The seeds of the problem lay in the lethargic

approach of the Federation to the formulation and adoption of a constitution in line with the sports code of the country. It was back in 2017 when the Supreme Court through an order constituted the first committee of administrators, comprising former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi and former India captain Bhaskar Ganguly, to formulate the new AIFF constitution.

The process dragged on for years till the AIFF executive committee approached the end of its term. With a raging pandemic throwing the world in disarray, the AIFF mandarins sought to extend its term of office indefinitely citing that the “constitution was sub judice,” in a

virtually held AGM in December 2020. Having seen the end of its legal term in office, the AIFF executive continued to function as an interim body with Patel announcing in the AGM that the “executive committee will not take any major financial or policy decisions during this extended period till the AIFF elections are held.” The interim arrangement rolled on to a state of indefiniteness as the executive committee continued in office well beyond a year.

The uncertainty about the new constitution came handy again as the AIFF filed yet another petition to the Apex Court to organize the second AGM in February 2022. But this time Patel faced voices of dissent from some state units, who

wanted to know why the Federation was delaying the elections. “The AIFF president said that the interim executive committee will not take any major financial or policy decisions but in reality, the interim committee overstepped its jurisdiction and kept taking all major financial and policy decisions. It was appointing and making huge payments to a lot of vendors and bidding for international events, which it was not supposed to do,” said a state association official not willing to be named.

“The AIFF executive committee kept extending its term citing delay on the Supreme Court’s part.

So, it was upon the Top Court to intervene, which it did by removing the president and the executive committee to initiate the much-needed process of change,” said another state association representative.

The Supreme Court added the name of its former Judge Anil Dave with the existing CoA members and asked it to take charge of AIFF to “facilitate holding of elections in consonance with the new constitution.”

The order came soon after

Bhaskar Ganguly wrote to the Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana that he and Quraishi had submitted the draft constitution to the court in January 2022.

Ganguli’s letter stirred up the legal process and brought to light multiple pleas urging the Top Court to look into the “illegal continuation of the AIFF executive committee.” The axe finally fell on the AIFF executive committee on May 18 when the CoA was asked to take charge of AIFF and bring order in the Federation. The unceremonious removal of the executive committee immediately gave birth to fears of a ban coming from the world governing body football – FIFA. It was said that the world body does not acknowledge “third party interference” in the functioning of its affiliates and a ban was soon to happen making India a pariah in world football.

The CoA made a smart move by asking the former president Praful Patel, who is a FIFA Council member since 2019, to explain the proper perspective behind the Supreme Court order.

Winners with the NCA officials at the end of the tournament.

DIMAPUR, JUL 2 (NPN): The 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad AICFNagaland Schools Chess selection tournament organized by Nagaland Chess Association supported

by Government of Tamil Nadu and All India Chess Federation under the aegis of All India Chess Federation and Nagaland came to an end at NCA office Kohima on July 2.

Following are the results in ranking wise: Pulonito Hesso (Coragio School

Kohima), Gihuca Chishi P (Carmel Higher Secondary School Dimapur), Jesse Chishi P (Carmel Higher Secondary School Dimapur), Setsuzo Phesao (Chandmari Higher Secondary School Kohima), Pezavilie Kuotsu (River Sainik School Pungwa), Valero Swuro (Christ King Higher Secondary School Kohima), Luku Khesoh (Chandmari Higher Secondary School Kohima), Ruguyi Phesao (St.Xaveir School Chozuba), Praty-

ush Jha (Hollotoli School Dimapur) and Asachu Assumi (Hollotoli School Dimapur). The top 3 players have been qualified to witness the 44th Chess Olympiad and also to interact with grandmaster and other elite participants from July 28 to August 10 at Mahabalipuram, Chennai. Nagaland Chess Association informed that All India Chess Federation will be providing lodging and boarding for three days from July 28 to July 31.

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