B20 delegates look forward to explore Nagaland

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, APR 4 (NPN):

Around 100 delegates for B20, the official G20 dialogue forum for global business community, scheduled at Kohima from April 5 reached the airport here on Tuesday.

Interacting with Nagaland Post, most of the delegates expressed happiness to be invited to the State and exuded confidence in the State’s tourism and textile potential. Impressed with the culture, tradition and hospitality of the State, ambassador of Cuba to India said he was here to know Nagaland, its people and tradition, besides strengthening ties between Cuba and India, including Nagaland, and explore business op - portunities.

Another foreign delegate said he was definitely looking forward to investing in technology, food processing and agriculture sectors, noting that there was also much potential for Naga - land in the tourism sector. He opined that Nagaland should have the aim to bring more tourists. Another delegate said her aim was to collaborate with various stakeholders and do something for

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YORK, APR 4 (AGENCIES): Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal charges against him in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday afternoon, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The indictment against Trump has been unsealed, the source said. Trump arrived at the Manhattan district attorney’s office earlier Tuesday afternoon, where he was placed under arrest and in police custody before his upcoming arraignment. The arraignment in the Manhattan courtroom

Tuesday represents a surreal and historic moment in US history.

The indictment returned last week by a grand jury against Trump will provide the public – and Trump’s legal team – with the first details about the specific charges he will face. The investigation stemmed from a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. It remains to be seen whether Trump will speak in New York. Chris Kise, one of Trump’s lawyers, said he expects the former president to speak to the cameras in the hallway outside of the courtroom before and after his arraignment, and multiple people familiar with Trump’s thinking tell CNN that he has weighed saying something while still in Manhattan.

NH, NMA, NSF & NPMHR plea on Naga issue

DIMAPUR, APR 4 (NPN): Four organisations- Naga Hoho (NH), Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA), Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) and Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), have urged the international community to intervene in the alleged “violations of human rights in our Naga country, recognize our legitimate political, social, economic and religious rights as enshrined in the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.”

In a joint statement, the four organizations demanded that the Government of India must stop its militarisation and military operations.

They stressed that the Indo-Naga political conflict could not be solved militarily and insisted that it must be solved politically, as admitted by three Indian Army generals and others.

They demanded that the Central government must honour its words in the agreement and the IndoNaga political impasse be resolved accordingly. On their part, they claimed that Nagas had agreed and committed to an “enduring inclusive new relationship of peaceful co-existence of the two entities” – Nagas and Indians. According to them, the Naga people are an independent indigenous nation in assertion to which a peaceful and prior informed plebiscite was conducted in 1951 that resulted in 99.9% in support of independence as declared on August 14, 1947.

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