6 Aug 2022

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Dimapur rally demands ‘Solution Not Election’ PUBLIC SAY ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’; ENDORSES NPAC MEMORANDUM TO MODI

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DIMAPUR, AUG 5 (NPN): Several thousand people turned up at Super Marker area here Friday to send a strong message to all stakeholders involved in 25 years of Naga political talks, that Nagas will no longer accept any excuse to justify delay since negotiations officially concluded on October 31, 2019 and therefore demand “Solution Not Election.”

Shops across Dimapur and other districts such as-Kohima, Wokha, Mokokchung, Phek, Zunheboto and Shamator- remained shut from 10 am to 12 noon as mark of solidarity with NPAC in support of demand for early political solution.

Thousands of people, many in traditional attires, filled up the long stretch of the road from Circuit HouseWalford Junction to Super

Participants extend support by raising hands to the clarion call for solution. (NP)

Market-Kuda village road junction. Some held placards that read-- “GoI should deliver what is promised”; “We want solution, not election”; “25 years of negotiations is a generation”; “Indo Naga political issue is people’s issue”; “Stop politicking solution”; “Do it or stop it”; “Civil societies real stake-

holders”; “No peace, No progress”; “No political will, No solution”, etc.

Naga public of late have been resentful at the uncertainty of solution despite elected members having promised early solution since 2003 and holding unending consultative meetings with CSOs and trips to Delhi

to meet with central leaders to press for early solution.

Some Naga elders also derided formations of allparty and opposition-less governments in 2015 and 2021, which they said were merely for headlines. After various organisations have held the legislators responsible for causing obstruction to

solution, despite the Centre expressing readiness for solution; the UDA government had to finally admit that talks have officially concluded and so appealed to the Centre to secure early solution.

H o w e v e r , N PA C formed at a recent meeting of all Naga apex organisations has expressed deep suspicion that even after having admitted that talks have ended and that it was time for Centre to secure solution, the ruling NDPP and BJP have gone around to announce seat sharing arrangement for 2023.

At the rally, a representation drafted by NPAC was read out and approved by the public. (See on p-6) The representation, addressed to Prime Minister of India was submitted through the office of Nagaland Governor at Raj Bhavan Ko(Cont’d on p-8) hima.

NPCC alleges misuse of MGNREGA funds 6 EV charging stations in state D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): Alleging misuse of MGNREGA funds in the state, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) Friday claimed that not only was material component misused, but also the wages component.

In a press release, president, K Therie, stated that after induction MGNREGA beneficiaries have never received full 100 days wages nor the material components. Asserting there was also wrong interpretation of convergence fund in the state, NPCC president explained that other depart-

Nagaland logs 5 fresh Covid cases, 1 death D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): Nagaland on Friday reported five fresh Covid-19 cases while one more patient succumbed to the infection.

Three cases were reported from Dimapur and one each in Kohima and Longleng, taking the total caseload to 35,827. Mokokchung reported one more Covid fatality, pushing the death toll to 772 (including 5 non-Covid deaths but with positivity).

The State currently has 68 active cases-- one admitted to Covid hospital and 67 under home isolation.

Meanwhile, India on Friday reported a total of 20,551 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally to 4,41,07,588, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll has climbed to 5,26,600 with 70 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

This is it!

“Closure for rallies is good business. Leaves me without competition and sales pick up.”

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ment’s development funds can be converted into MGNREGA fund and number of days’ wages can be increased to more than 100 days.

However, Therie said that in Nagaland wage funds were converted into special development activities and MLAs distributing those funds. He claimed that during 2020-2021, Rs. 483.82 lakh MGNREGA funds were released to Nagaland and were drawn. NPCC president claimed that some villages received just seven days’ wages during 20212022, which hardly accounted for Rs.60 crore, adding

the remaining was siphoned off. Stating that only those with unknown sources of income were thriving in the state, Therie said “they are all money laundering cases.

Corruption is rampant for the last 20 years.”

Meanwhile, Therie said he had “no difficulty in tendering apology to NPF turncoats, those that are clean before God.” Therie said he did not have evidence because of blank cheque system. However, he claimed that some were complaining that only Rs. 3 crore was given while Rs. 5 crore was given to others.

D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): Centre on Friday informed that six Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations have been operatonalised in Nagaland by oil marketing companies at their retail outlets as on July 1, 2022. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today, Minister of State for Heavy Industries Krishan Pal Gurjar informed that the Ministry has sanctioned 2,877 EV charging stations in 68 cities across 25 States/UTs and 1576 charging stations across nine Expressways and 16 Highways under Phase II of FAME India Scheme. The Ministry had

Vice presidential election today

(L-R) Jagdeep Dhankhar and Margaret Alva.

NEW DELHI, AUG 5 (PTI): Members of Parliament will vote on Saturday to elect the next Vice President of India in an election where NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar is pitted against Opposition pick Margaret Alva.

With numbers stacked in favour of the NDA, Dhankhar, former governor

of West Bengal, is set for an easy win. Cracks were visible in opposition unity as Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress decided to abstain from voting alleging lack of consultations while deciding on the name of Alva. The 80-year-old Alva is a Congress veteran and has served as governor of Rajasthan, while the

71-year-old Dhankhar is a Jat leader from Rajasthan with socialist background.

While polling will be held from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, the ballots will be counted immediately after that. By late Saturday evening, the returning officer will announce the name of the next vice president.

Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, including nominated members, are eligible to vote in the vice presidential poll.

The term of incumbent M Venkaiah Naidu ends on August 10. The vice president is also the chairperson of Rajya Sabha.

The electoral college in the vice presidential election comprises a total of 788 members of both Houses.

sanctioned 520 Charging Stations/ Infrastructure under the Phase-I of FAME India scheme. Under PhaseII, her said Rs. 1000 crore has been allocated for the development of charging infrastructure.

Further, the minister informed that presently 13,92,265 EVs were running on roads of India as on August 3, 2022. Out of the total, over 5.44 lakh include two wheelers, over 7.93 lakh three wheelers and over 54,000 four wheelers and above. He said the government has taken several steps for adoption of EVs in the country.

If negotiators cannot deliver, wind it up and let people decide: NPAC Staff Reporter

D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): In a hard-hitting statement, Nagaland People’s Action Committee (NPAC) convener Theja Therieh demanded that if Government of India (GoI) and Naga political groups (NPGs) were not able to bring any solution, then they should just wind it up and let people decide their future.

In an exclusive interview with Nagaland Post, Therie said, “If this negotiation cannot bring about any solution, then just wind it up and let the people decide what they want. I think we are capable of deciding what we want for our future. Don’t undermine the people.”

Commenting on delay in solution due to differing positions over demand for separate Naga national flag and constitution despite 25 years of peace talks, he said the negotiating parties should know their parameters and hammer out a solution within those parameters. He mentioned that the negotiating parties knew what was possible and what was not, while government of India being the one engaging with the two Naga negotiating parties should not hang on to what was not permissible.

The NPAC convener mentioned that without sovereignty as an agenda on the table and integration not practically workable at the moment, there was no requirement for constitution and even if it was required, then people should take the decision. “Even if the constitution is required,

constitution have to be of the people, by the people and for the people. The people will decide. We should not put the cart before the horse.

Constitution should be derived from the people,” he stressed.

Excerpts of the interview

NP: Comment on the response and outcome of the rally?

Therieh: Today’s rally was beyond expectation.

NPAC was formed only in the month of July. We were not immediately active but we sought opinions for here and there. There is a desire from every nook and corner that people must be allowed to express what they have in their mind. There are so many people especially the business community who are in the frying pan.

Every day they are suffering. People seems to be very anxious; people want to know whether there will be any outcome to our Naga political negotiations. So NPAC decided to organise a rally and see whether people would respond to it. The response was overwhelming, which means they have come for a very decisive expression and exertion of their mind and that exertion is very clear, people want solution.

NPAC will work and voice out on behalf of the people, we will represent the voice of the people and we will represent the grassroot people. We have no intention to take up any other issue. 25 years is a very long period of time, it is a generation wasted. Government of India on October 31, 2019 made it very loud and clear that formal talk is over. If

formal talk is over then what is stopping government of India from implementing it? They are negotiating with two groups so they should know how to conclude it.

They should bring these two negotiating points together and bring out one comprehensive, common draft and before signing it bring it to the people. What they have decided on behalf of the people must be made known to the people by either of our negotiators if not the government of India.

Since it is the people’s movement, people must accept it then that will be lasting solution. If people don’t accept then you know things cannot go well, landing cannot be smooth and we want it to be smooth and acceptable by the people.

NP: Naga society has maintained the position for last 25 years since peace talk began that GoI must expedite solution without delay. Today, solution remains elusive in view of the demand for separate Naga flag and constitution. Apart from urging GoI to expedite solution, what is new that NPAC wants to say?

Therieh: The negotiating parties should know their own parameter. They say that this negotiation is without sovereignty as an agenda on the table. They say that integration is not practically workable at the moment. From their own expression, they say that sovereignty at the moment is not negotiable. From their own words, they say that integration at the moment is not workable.

(Cont’d on p-6)

NSCN (I-M) CR affirms on flag, constitution DIMAPUR, AUG 5 (NPN): NSCN (I-M) Chakhesang Region (CR) Friday affirmed that it has taken “an absolute stand” as per earlier resolution not to accept Naga solution without a flag and constitution.

NSCN (I-M) CR through MIP stated that it had “a critical introspection” of the “calamitous history” of the Naga political movement and noted how the Nagas were “cheated repeatedly” in the name of the Naga political solution. Stating that at present “another such Naga accord” was being planned in the same manner as how the 16 points agreement cheated the Nagas, the Chakhesang region affirmed its determination “not to allow Nagas’ honour and pride to be prostituted again.”

H&FW deptt holds workshop on monkeypox DIMAPUR, AUG 5 (NPN): In view of the detection of confirmed monkeypox cases in the country, the health and family welfare (H&FW) department organised a oneday orientation workshop for the district trainers on monkeypox at the IDSP Conference Hall, directorate of health & family welfare, Kohima August 5, 2022.

In his address, National Health Mission (NHM) mission director Dr.Thorhusie Katiry spoke on the need for preparedness and response to monkeypox.

He challenged the district functionaries to take the learnings of the ongoing

Workshop on monkeypox for district trainers in progress at H&FW directorate.

Covid-19 pandemic in the response towards monkeypox.

He also stressed the need for early detection, isolation, testing and treatment, surveillance besides the need to

create awareness amongst the general public.

At the workshop, the resource persons including Dr.Nyan Kikon, Dr. John Kemp, Dr.Imti Jamir and

Dr.Bernice spoke on the overview & epidemiology, sample collection & testing, clinical management and targeted interventions & linkages respectively.

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STATE

State ex-servicemen form body

Staff Reporter

Members of ESLN addressing the media on Friday. (NP)

or families and widows of ex-servicemen in the state.

He said not much has been done to safeguard the rights and privileges of exservicemen’s in the state.

Asserting that ex-servicemen fraternity could do so much for the welfare of its people in terms of training, he cited examples on the background and spe-

NEWS IN BRIEF

YUK to celebrate Metümnyo festival: Yumkhiung Union Kohima has informed that the celebration of Metümnyo festival will be held on August 8 with advisor for Prisons, Printing & Stationery, H. Haiying as special guest, at the residence of advisor for IPR & VGs, S. Keoshu at 10 am. YUK has invited its people in Kohima to partake in the festival with traditional attires.

Postal deptt informs on ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’: Postal department has informed that under the aegis of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM)” and as part of the “Har Ghar Tiranga” campaign, the department is making the Indian National Flag available for sale at Rs.25 per flag at all major post offices in the state. For bulk orders, one could contact O/o the superintendent of Post offices, Nagaland at 03702290597 or 7629998984 and email at sponagaland@gmail.com.

Zunheboto DPDB meeting postponed: The monthly Zunheboto District Planning and Development Board meeting which was scheduled to be held on August 10 has been postponed to August 11. The time and venue remain the same. In this regard, deputy commissioner Zunheboto has informed members to take note of the same and attend the meeting.

Uniforms distributed under EBRC Mkg: School uniforms were distributed under Educational Block Resource Centre (EBRC) Mokokchung Village on August 4. The distribution was done in presence of EAC, Vitulo EAC, DEO, Sentinenla and Sr. SDEO Mokokchung, Nungshisongla Aier.

KCK, NIELIT sign MoU: KROS College, Kohima represented by its principal and administrator on August 2 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT), Kohima under ministry of Electronics & IT, represented by its director i/c Er. L. Lanuwabang.

VC of Kohima diocese visits Khuzama: Vicar general of Kohima diocese-cum-rector of St. Xavier Seminary, Jalukie, Reverend Father Neisalhou Carolus Kuotsu visited Sacred Heart Church during the sesquicentennial celebration of Franciscan Sisters of St Mary of the Angels (FSMA) on August 2 and offered Holy Mass at Khuzama.

ABAM organises calligraphy prog: Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang (ABAM) literature and education children ministry organised a calligraphy programme on August 2 at Town Hall, Mokokchung. Altogether 74 children, nine years and above from 32 churches participated in the programme.

DC Zunheboto informs: In view of the “Har Ghar Tiranga” campaign, deputy commissioner Zunheboto has requested public in the district to hoist the tricolour flag in their houses/office buildings from August 13-15, to mark the 75th year of India’s Independence. The rate of the flag is fixed at Rs. 20 as per direction of the central ministry. ULB/town council administrators, BDOs and COs have been informed to organise morning procession/walks by youths/students on August 10, 7 am onwards in all the towns and villages in the district.

Akato-led NSCN greets: Akato-led NSCN has conveyed “Metemneo and Biam” greetings to the Yimkhiung and Khiamniungan Nagas. The group through its MIP hoped that the Yimkhiung and Khiamniungan people through the celebration of these happy and meaningful festivals to thrive and excel in various fields and to be forerunners in promoting peace among the Nagas.

cialities of ex-servicemen, such as fire fighting, disaster management, trainers or guides for state police services, weapon handling etc.

Citing “issues pertain

Dimapur Lotha Students Union to celebrate golden jubilee in October

the work was done, which they said, showed that the concerned authority instead of monitoring progress of the construction works was “too fishy”. ANSTA Peren unit said the authority was aware that teachers had to go for teachers’ training to other districts for some years and had to face untold hardships. Further, it warned that it would take up steps of any agitation or legal approach if their voice was not heeded to.

Convener of the organising committee, K. Machio and other committee members on Friday. (NP)

Staff Reporter D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): Dimapur Lotha Students Union (DLSU) will celebrate a two-day golden jubilee in the first week of October.

This was announced by convener of the organising committee, K. Machio Odyuo at a press conference held here, on Friday.

The celebration will be held on the theme, “Envisioning, Radiant, Posterity”.

He said the union was formed in 1972 by a few group of likeminded people while picnicking at Patkai felt the need to set up a platform for the student’s community. Rainbow Lotha served as the first president and Areni Lotha as general secretary.

The union also celebrated its silver jubilee in 1997 under the leadership of Nyamo Z Yanthan.

Meanwhile, the union has invited articles in Lotha and English from students studying schools and colleges to be published in the jubilee souvenir.

The last date of submission of articles will be August 31 and details can be contacted at the following number: 8131917422.

The organizing committee has sought cooperation and requested all the Lotha community to uphold them in their prayers.

The press conference was also attended by the present DLSU president, Benthungo Lotha his colleagues, former presidents and various committee members.

The Indian National Flag is a symbol of our national pride and occupies a unique and special place in the emotions and psyche of the people of India.

Let us hoist the National Flag atop our homes from 13th - 15th August, 2022 to celebrate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and to mark our Nation’s 75 years of Independence.

you on this day, 1 year after this world lost a precious soul Lt. Shitoli G Swu Jemu THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT OUR NATIONAL FLAG: # Whenever the National Flag is on display, it shall occupy the position of honour and should be distinctly placed. # The National Flag shall not be displayed in an inverted manner; i. e.; the saffron band should not be the bottom band. # A damaged or dishevelled Flag shall not be displayed. # Where the National Flag is displayed on the house of a public, it may be flown day and night.

“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day unseen unheard but always near, still loved still missed and very dear” K-1743/22

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Loving Husband & Family Members

DIMAPUR: Mon District Legal Services Authority (MDLSA) in collaboration with office of the chief medical officer (CMO) and district hospital (DH) Mon organised a medical-cumlegal aid camp at district prison, Mon. In a press release, MDLSA informed that the camp was inaugurated by deputy commissioner (DC) Mon, Ajit Kumar Verma who also emphasised on importance of reformation of inmates and their duties

as responsible persons in a society. He said MDLSA and other institutions were all working in consonance for the betterment of prisoners.

M e a n w h i l e, D P O (UIP&RCH), Dr. Shasinle Tep and ISRN district coordinator Aphak sensitised prisoners on COVID-19 vaccination, while an awareness talk on tuberculosis was given by DTO (NTEP), Dr. Teninlo James. Mosquito nets were also distributed to district

jail inmates by DSO/ DVBO, Mon. During the camp, the inmates availed COVID-19 vaccination and tests for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV & AIDS, hepatitis and other infectious diseases were carried out after sensitisation.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme was chaired by secretary, MDLSA, B. Peter Resu who acknowledged the medical team for their service towards the welfare of prisoners.

DIMAPUR: With an aim to motivate the public to help victims of road accidents, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has announced “Good Samaritan Scheme”.

According to a DIPR report, under the scheme, any individual who saves life of a fatal road accident victim by administering immediate assistance and rushing them to the hospital within the “golden hour” will be awarded.

The scheme came into

effect on October 15, 2021, and would remain operational till the completion of the 15th Financial Cycle i.e., March 31, 2026.

The amount of award for each good samaritan would be Rs. 5000 per incident. There will also be a 10 National Level Awards for the most-worthy good samaritans who will be selected from all those who have been awarded during the year with a cash award of Rs. 1, 00,000 each.

A standard and uniform format of acknowl-

edgement is to be used by the police/hospitals and furnish to the appraisal committee at district level comprising the deputy commissioner, superintendent of police, chief medical officer and the regional/district transport officer. The Appraisal Committee will scrutinise details of the good samaritan and the incident, under the chairmanship of the deputy commissioner before submitting to the transport department for release of the cash award.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Through this column, w e t h e f a m i ly m e m b e r s o f Lt. Kedingol Neikha would like to express our immense gratitude to one and all who stood by us during our time of sorrow. We are indebted beyond words for your immeasurable support extended towards us through your prayers, rendering your time physically and financially towards our family.

Our special thanks to: 1. Viswema Baptist Church 2. Baptist Church Virazouma 3. Naga Hospital, Kohima 4. Referral Hospital, Dimapur 5. Dzüvürü Poterlane Panchayat, Kohima 6. Er. Zale Neikha, Hon'ble MLA Advisor Youth Resource and Sports.

7. Rachümi Union Kohima.

And all the well wishers.

Loving wife, daughters and relatives

Late Kedingol Neikha 31/03/1959 – 27/07/2022

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Remembering & Honoring

Born : 17/11/1990 – Died : 06/08/2021

DC Mon, Ajit Kumar Verma, MDLSA officials, medical team and others at the camp.

MoRTH announces ‘Good Samaritan Scheme’

Resume DIET building: ANSTA Peren

DIMAPUR: Expressing dismay over the “incomplete, neglected” DIET building in Peren district, All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA) Peren unit has demanded that the responsible authority start work from August 2022 and complete the work by December 2022.

In a press release, unit president Kaibakam Pamai and GS Haidun stated that during their visit to the site, only a quarter of

MDLSA organises medical, legal aid camp for inmates

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D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): With an objective to look into the welfare of ex-servicemen in the state, a body under the nomenclature “Ex-Servicemen League Nagaland (ESLN)” was officially formed with retired Major K Kuotsu as president and Sergeant Imtiakum Ao as general secretary, at Assam Rifle Training Centre (ARTC) camp, 3rd Mile, here, on Friday.

Addressing the media after the launching programme, former president, Ex-Servicemen League (Dimapur, Chümoukedima and Niuland), Colonel Toshi Jamir informed that the league was formed mainly to look into the affairs of ex-servicemen

to employment of ex servicemen”, as one major reason why ESLN was formed, Toshi said the league would lay emphasis on employability of exservicemen in the state.

He informed that the league was apolitical with no intention of dwelling into politics, however, he said it would act as a “pressure group” for the welfare of the ex-servicemen.

Meanwhile, elected president, retired Major K Kuotsu said the league would also like to look into guiding those aspirants who wish to join the Indian army by providing them necessary guidance.

She infor med any army aspirant to contact ESLN office at 8859476468, for necessary guidance.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022

# No other flag or bunting shall be placed higher than or above or side by side with the National Flag. # The National Flag shall not be flown at half-mast except on occasions instructed by the Government of India. # The National Flag shall not be allowed to touch the ground or the floor or trail in the water.

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

We , t h e b e r e a v e d f a m i l y m e m b e r s o f Late Tasi Pfithu, deeply express our profound gratitude to all individuals, churches and organizations who extended valuable support physically, materially and financially at the sudden demise of our beloved mother, who expired on 25/07/2022.

We convey our special thanks to: 1. Shri. Yitachu (MLA 20 A/C) Meluri 2. Joy Thusi Fithu SP(MOD) PHQ Kohima.

3. Tarachu Fithu (Joint Director Urban Development) 4. Eastern Students’ Union Guwahati.

5. Phoyisha Union Dimapur.

6. Phoyisha Union Kohima.

7. Phoyisha Union Meluri Town.

8. Weziho Baptist Church.

We deeply regret our inability to mention each and every individual, but it is our humble prayer that Almighty God bless each and every one of you abundantly.

Loving Husband, Daughter, Sons, In-laws & Grand Children

Late Tasi Pfithu

Born on: 05/05/1957 Died on: 25/07/2022

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WEATHER FORECAST AUGUST 6

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Very warm; a p.m. t-storm

32 26

A stray afternoon t-storm

27 21

Guwahati A morning t-storm in spots

33 27

Imphal

A morning t-storm in spots

28 22

Itanagar

A t-storm around in the a.a.

33 26

Shillong

A thunderstorm in spots

24 20

Kohima

A thunderstorm in spots

26 20

Dimapur

Hot with a stray thunderstorm 33 25

Mkg

Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

Aizawl

Tuensang A stray morning thunderstorm

28 22 23 18

Occasional rain and a t-storm

28 23

Zunheboto Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

25 19

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One of the speakers addressing the gathering at the inaugural programme on Friday. (NP)

Staff Reporter D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): North East Institute of Social Sciences and Research (NEISSR) and Peace Channel inaugurated a “Peace Centre”, at St Joseph campus, 7th mile, here on Friday.

In his speech, Nagaland Baptist Council of Churches (NBCC) general secretary, Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho pointed out that Catholics have made tremendous impact in the

lives of Naga people and the society in general.

Speaking on peace, he lamented that it was no longer understood as the absence of war.

He said Nagas took pride in being hospitable, simple, honest and peace loving, but they have not become “good hosts to peace” and that they have become complicated, sticky and slippery with peace.

In the context of war and conflict, peace-making, peace keeping and

conflict resolutions are systematically followed which rarely deals with the inner conflict to promote peaceful coexistence, the reverend stated.

He asserted that it was important to identity negative energy in the society trying to tear down the fabric of peaceful living.

Rev. Dr. Zelhou said the younger generation who were “main actors in the society” must create “a new album of love and peace”.

in his address as guest of honour, Nagaland University (NU), vice chancellor, professor Pardeshi Lal said that the Peace Centre will be significant in the context of bringing peace and harmony.

He expressed hope that the centre would build personalities that will mind the society to move forward.

Catholic Association of Nagaland (CAN) president, NSDMA joint CEO, home department, Nagaland Johnny Ruangmei said in order to make the future, people talk about peace, however, he said, peace cannot be something that awaits to happen.

He said the need of the hour for Naga society was leaders who would be able to articulate the inner happenings of the society into reality.

“If we look at Nagas, we want to live into pieces and not in peace, there are so many social organisations, churches and civil societies not in peace but into pieces”, he lamented.

He further stated that it was time to articulate the real meaning of peace into the society.

E a r l i e r, D e a n o f

school of public health and human development OP Jindal university, Haryana professor Stephen P Marks declared that the university will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Peace Centre.

Short speeches were delivered by Diocesan fraternity president, reverend Fr Benny Varghase, St Joseph university, Dimapur professor VC professor D Gnanadurai.

A civil service training, Delhi based by Vedic academy, Bangalore was also launched at the programme.

Earlier, blessing for Peace Centre was offered

by Most reverend Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima Nagaland, invocation by Shalom Rehabilitation Centre, director reverend Fr Chacko Karithayal, welcome address by principal NEISSR and director Peace Centre Dr Fr CP Anto.

Later, vote of thanks was proposed by NEISSR VP and administrator Rev. Fr. Kokto Kurain and benediction by Diocese of Kohima, financial administrator, Dr Fr George Punnolil.

DC Longleng, Dharam Raj addressing the meeting. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Longleng District Task Force (DTF) for COVID-19 held a meeting on August 3 at the Conference Hall of deputy commissioner (DC) Longleng office.

According to a DIPR report, chairperson of the meeting, DC Longleng, Dharam Raj highlighted the current status and scenario of COVID-19 in India and shared the importance of vaccination in the district. He then urged all government employees and organisations to get vaccinated.

A presentation on age wise vaccination data in Longleng, Availability of

covid vaccine in the district headquarters, immunization coverage analysis was presented by WHO (RRT), Dr. Mero.

The house deliberated to create more awareness campaign in all villages and towns through various platforms; to sanitise and re-motivate the villagers, student body, village authority and churches on vaccination and to continue focus on vaccination; organise special vaccination drive; collect data from the vaccination portal and call or text the beneficiaries who are yet to get their second and booster dost.

Rosy Sangma died due to negligence by hospital: CBI JSA central team arrives state; meets officials

NEW DELHI, AUG 5 (PTI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case of negligence against the managing director and dentist of a private hospital in Gurugram in connection with the death of Rosy Sangma, a GoAir air-hostess from Nagaland, in June last year, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

The CBI, on the directions of the Union Home Ministry, registered a case against doctors -- Managing Director of Alfa Health Care Dr Anuj Bisnoi and dentist Anjali Ashk.

According to the CBI FIR, the two have been booked under Section 304 (death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code.

Samuel Sangma, a relative of deceased Rosy Sangma, had an altercation with doctors and other hospital staff suspecting medical negligence, a Home Ministry statement had said.

The next day, on June 25, the Delhi Police received information regarding the death of Samuel in the national capital.

“The gross negligence of the

hospital and its doctors is also clear from the fact that the critical patient of vaginal bleeding is being treated by a Dentist who is not at all qualified for the same,” the CBI said in its preliminary inquiry findings.

This preliminary inquiry showed that Rosy was admitted in the hospital for severe bleeding and pain on June 24, and Ashk was deputed to attend her, while main doctor Bisnoi came four-and-a-half hours later.

The inquiry showed that even though Bisnoi was informed about Rosy’s serious condition, he gave instructions to Ashk, a dentist with no experience to handle gynaecological issues, to handle the case.

At 10.45 AM, Bisnoi had asked Rosy’s relatives to bring blood from blood bank as it was an emergency.

Bisnoi sent a letter to Bijwasan police station SHO informing that the patient, who was in a serious condition, had died.

In another piece of information later, he told the police about suspected poisoning and foul play as the cause for her death and also claimed that she

was not responding to the treatment.

He said she was being referred to civil hospital for further treatment.

“The said information is carbon copy but the time 1.30 PM is mentioned in original blue ink,” the CBI said.

Bisnoi prepared a discharge card of Rosy mentioning the time of admission at 6 AM and that of referral as 12 PM and also mentioned about blood transfusion, serious condition, gasping of patient and her referral to higher centre but actually “did not refer” her to any for further treatment, the CBI alleged.

The Home Ministry had last year directed the CBI to probe the mysterious deaths of Rosy and her nephew Samuel, both from Nagaland’s Dimapur, on a complaint from MP Agatha Sangma to Home Minister Amit Shah.

The family of the deceased has alleged that Rosy had died due to the hospital’s negligence.

It had also alleged that Samuel died due to foul play by the hospital personnel, the home ministry statement had said.

DIMAPUR: A two-member central team on Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain with Central nodal officer Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA: CTR) & deputy secretary to the government of India, New Delhi, Sukh Lal Meena and technical officer JSA: CTR & scientist-D (Hydrogeology) CGWB NER Guwahati reached Dimapur district on August 3.

According to a DIPR report, the central team held a debriefing of the schemes and activities with District Level Committee on Jal Shakti Abiyan “Catch The Rain” consisting of Water Resources department and 13 other allied departments in the conference hall of the deputy commissioner (DC) Dimapur on Friday, where views and suggestions were exchanged to make the nationwide campaign on rainwater a success.

The debriefing session

The central team with District Level Committee in the conference hall of the DC. (DIPR)

was chaired by DC Dimapur, Sachin Jaiswal, who is also the chairman of the District Level Committee on JSA and the district nodal officer. The central team during its visit, inspected projects and activities undertaken by various departments under Jal Shakti Abiyan “Catch the

Rain” in Dimapur district.

It may be mentioned that Jal Shakti Abiyan “Catch The Rain” (JSA: CTR) is a nationwide campaign on saving and conserving rainwater on the theme “Catch The Rain where it falls, when it falls” from March 29-November 39, 2022 covering both ur-

ban and rural areas.

An information centre called Jal Shakti Kendra has also been opened at the office of the EE, Water Resources department, 4th mile, Chümoukedima district, with helpline number +918798060866 and email—jsadimapur@gmail. com.

PTYS warns DoSE of intensifying protest DIMAPUR: On the second day of the indefinite closure of Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) Phek, Phek Town Youth Society PTYS warned the department of school education (DoSE) that the protest will further intensify and resort to other means if the responsible department did not respond.

In a press release, PTYS president, Neizote Venuh while questioning the department’s lack of concern and sympathy for the school stated that the public was yet to receive a response. It may be mentioned that PTYS on August 4 informed that it had closed down GHSS Phek “indefinitely” following the expiry of ultimatum served on DoSE on July 27.

GBUD (S) informs GBs on revision e-roll

Rohan Agrawal (20 yrs) form Nagpur, who is on a tour on foot carrying the message of “unity in diversity” and with a mission to create awareness on the hazardous use of plastic has covered 12 districts of Nagaland in 25 days. He is also on a mission to walk from India to Siberia. Rohan Agrawal met advisor for Youth Resources & Sports Er Zale Neikha on Friday, in Kohima.

DIMAPUR: GB Union Dimapur (Sadar) has directed all its GB members under Dimapur Municipal areas to extend full cooperation to the ERO/BLO in the Intensive Revision of the Electoral Roll of the Municipal Council Dimapur which had begun from August 3 in all the colonies under the 23 municipal wards.

In a press release, GBUD (S) president, M Y Ngullie and general secretary, T. Onen Jamir have asked members to strictly adhere the norms and criteria as per the prescribed manuals for inclusion in the electoral roll. The union has also asked citizens to provide accurate information while filling for enrolment.

In case of any confusion, one has been asked to contact the Municipal Council Dimapur office or GB Union Dimapur officials.

(L-R) Members of Zunheboto Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ZCCI) extended its support to the Confederation of Nagaland Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (CNCCI) call to down the shutters of business establishment on Friday. Roads wear deserted look in Dimapur on Friday as shops downed their shutters in solidarity with NPAC public rally. (NP) K Y M C

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Bandh imposed by ATSUM intensifies in Manipur

IMPHAL, AUG 5 (PTI): Intensifying its protest demanding more autonomy for the hill districts, the All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur (ATSUM) began “economic blockades” on two important national highways on Friday, hitting supplies coming from Assam.

Several trucks coming from Assam were stranded on the Imphal-Dimapur highway (NH-2) and ImphalJiribam highway (NH-39) as protesters blocked the roads with boulders, besides burning tyres, officials said.

The ATSUM was demanding the tabling of the Manipur (Hill Areas) Autonomous District Council (Amendment) Bill 2021 in the Monsoon session of the assembly for greater financial and administrative autonomy of the hill region to ensure development at par with the valley areas of the state. Instead, the N Biren Singh-led BJP government of the state introduced the Manipur

A deserted road during the bandh called by ATSUM.

(hill areas) district council 6th and 7th amendment bills on Tuesday, which the protesters claimed was not in line with their demands.

ATSUM was observing a total shutdown in the tribal-dominated hill of Kangpokpi and Senapati since Tuesday after the new amendments were introduced unannounced.

Schools, colleges, shops and business establishments were closed because of the shutdown, while passenger buses stayed off the roads.

The shutdown ended on Friday morning, follow-

4 NLFT militants surrender with weapons in Tripura AG A RTA L A , AU G 5 (PTI): Four insurgents of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan Debbarma) and two collaborators surrendered before the police on Friday, a senior police official said.

They surrendered one AK-47 rifle and two magazines, two pistols with three magazines and a note book containing extortion notices, he said.

This was the biggest surrender of militants in the state in the past one year.

The north eastern state has not witnessed any major extremist-related incident since the past one year.

The militants led by Umesh Koloi(42) had entered Tripura from Bangladesh through Ganganagar in Dhalai district on July 21, the official said. “The intention of these militants was to kidnap villagers and they

had sent extortion notices.

They moved in the jungle areas of Ganganagar in Dhalai district, Mungiakami in Khowai district and Ompi in Gomati district”, he said.

The intelligence department sensing their movement inside the state, carried out special operations by Tripura State Rifles and the police. “The pressure exerted by the security forces made the militants surrender before the police”, the official said.

Preliminary investigation has revealed that NLFT has been facing hardships and their survival in their hideouts in the state has become difficult due to the continuous pressure of the security forces.

“All the surrendered militants and their collaborators were handed over to the special branch of state police for joint interrogation”, he added.

ing which the “economic blockades” began, affecting supplies to the Meitei-dominated Imphal valley region.

Police have arrested five student leaders of ATSUM for ‘conspiracy’ to organise the protests.

The monsoon session of the assembly was also adjourned sine die on Friday amid the fiasco.

Meanwhile, civic society body Meitei Leepun shut down the Chingmeirong office of the students’ body in Imphal, alleging it was targeting the people of the valley through its protests.

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Eastern army commander stresses on preparedness TEZPUR (ASSAM), AUG 5 (PTI): Indian Army’s Eastern Command chief Lieutenant General R P Kalita on Friday emphasised the need to be operationally prepared round the clock for any contingency developing along the northern borders.

Addressing the concluding session of the twoday seminar-cum-panel discussion on the theme ‘Demystifying the Dragon’, he also pointed out the importance of the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign.

The seminar also highlighted several critical issues at the operational and tactical levels including security concerns, capability development measures and military modernisation in order to derive actionable strategies towards further augmenting security along the northern borders, according to a defence release.

The seminar, a closeddoor event, was organised by the Gajraj Corps under the aegis of Eastern Command and attended by over 200 officers of the Indian Armed Forces at the venue and many more on virtual platforms.

Lt. General R P Kalita On the first day of the seminar on Thursday, discussions were held by eminent experts that included senior diplomats, academicians and army officers in three different sessions focusing on India-China geo-strategic complexities, border dispute and management and Chinese military reforms as a driver for China’s global aspirations.

The discussions were steered by eminent panelists such as former ambassador to China Ashok Kantha along with security and China experts Lt Gen (Retd) Ranbir Singh and Lt Gen S L Narasimhan.

The panelists provided a kaleidoscopic view of the contours of India’s engagement with China, ongoing military modernisation and Chinese global aspirations.

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Assam delegation to visit Mizoram on Aug 9-10 for border talks: Official AIZAWL/GUWAHATI, AUG 5 (PTI): A five-member delegation headed by Assam Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora will be on a twoday visit to Mizoram from August 9 to discuss issues related to the inter-state boundary dispute, an official said on Friday.

A special officer and private secretary to the Assam border protection and development minister had on Wednesday informed the Mizoram government that the Assam delegation would arrive in Aizawl the next Tuesday to have twoday talks over the boundary issues, he said.

Bora will be accompanied by Assam Housing and Urban Minister Ashok Singhal and three officials, including Assam border protection and development commissioner and secretary G D Tripathy, Mizoram home department official said.

He stated that the Assam delegation will discuss with representatives of the Mizoram government on the inter-state border issues.

Arunachal logs 60 COVID cases

NORTHEAST, AUG 5 (PTI): Single-day recoveries outnumbered fresh COVID-19 cases in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, as 71 more people recuperated from the disease while 60 new infections were reported, a senior health official said.

The caseload in the northeastern state stood at 66,106, and 65,421 people have recovered from the disease, he said.

The state had on Thursday reported 78 new COVID-19 cases and 79 recoveries, the official said.

The toll remained unchanged at 296 with no new fatality recorded in the past 24 hours, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

Among the new cases, nine were reported from

The CM filed the case on June 30 taking exception to the “baseless” corruption charges levelled against him

by Sisodia in connection with the supply of PPE kits at “higher than market rates” to National Health Mission (NHM) authorities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic by JCB Industries, which is co-owned by Sarma’s wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma.

Saikia said, “The chief minister gave his statement, which is part of the initial deposition. The next hear-

Police personnel in a scuffle with Congress leaders and workers in Guwahati, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. (PTI) G U WA H AT I , AU G 5 (PTI): The Opposition Congress on Friday staged demonstrations across Assam protesting various issues, including price rise and unemployment, and attempted to gherao the Raj Bhavan at Guwahati.

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhupen Borah, several MLAs and leaders participated in the main protest programme here.

A demonstration was organised near the Raj Bhavan, from where the

Congress leaders and workers marched towards the governor’s official residence.

Police personnel, however, tried to prevent the protestors in their attempt, even as the agitators managed to break through a couple of barricades and advance

Himanta Biswa Sarma, Manish Sisodia. ing in the case is likely to “After the statements be scheduled for later this are recorded and inquiry month.” completed, the court will He said four witnesses decide about issuance of a are slated to record their process against the deputy statements in the case.

CM of Delhi for the allega-

tions he had raised against Sarma,” the senior advocate added. Bhuyan Sarma had also filed a Rs 100-crore defamation case against Sisodia at the court of Civil Judge number one of Kamrup Metropolitan district on June 21, over the same allegations.

Sarma’s advocate has maintained that the JCB Industries did not participate in any bid to supply PPE kits to NHM, Assam, nor did it raise any bill. It had supplied about 1500 PPE kits to NHM, Assam, as part of

Mizoram logs 209 new COVID cases

Mizoram reported 209 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, 46 less than the previous day, with the tally increasing to 2,33,751, a

boundary. The Assam government, however, said the demarcation made under the 1933 notification was its constitution boundary.

At least six policemen and a civilian from Assam died last year and around 60 people were injured in a clash that took place at a disputed area near the border between the two states.

In August last year, the representatives of both states had held talks in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl.

They agreed to maintain peace and amicably resolve the inter-state boundary dispute through dialogue.

towards the Raj Bhavan.

As the procession neared the Raj Bhavan, police detained the protestors, including Bora, and took them away from the spot.

“Some of our members sustained minor injuries in the police action. They were detained for some hours and later released,” a Congress leader said.

He said a memorandum was later submitted to Governor Jagdish Mukhi by a team of five senior leaders of the party.

Similar protests were also staged at the district and block levels, the leader said. “ O u r p r o t e s t wa s against price rise, increasing unemployment rates, flood issue of Assam and levy of GST on essential food items. We have submitted memorandums to the local authorities with our demands and want immediate action from the government to address those,” he added.

health official said.

The death toll rose to 711 as a 27-year-old man succumbed to the infection on Thursday, he said.

Aizawl district logged the highest number of fresh cases at 50, followed by Lunglei at 46 and Kolasib at 27.

The single-day positivity rate dipped to 26.79 from 28.11 per cent on the previous day as the new infections were detected from 780 sample tests, he said.

Mizoram now has 1,325 active cases, while 175 people recuperated from the disease on Thursday, taking the total number of recoveries to 2,31,715, the official said.

The discharge rate stood at 99.12 per cent.

more person succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, a National Health Mission bulletin said.

At least 437 new cases raised the tally to 7,40,884, it said.

The fresh fatality was reported from Jorhat.

As many as 1,347 COVID patients in the state have died due to other reasons since April, 2020, the bulletin said.

The positivity rate increased to 5.90 per cent from the previous day’s 5.50 per cent as the new cases were detected from 7,402 sample tests.

Fifty-five fresh infections were found in Dibrugarh, 40 in Kamrup Metro, 28 each in Cachar and Goalpara and 23 in Sivasagar. now has 4,745 Assam logs 437 activeAssam cases, down from the new COVID cases previous day’s 4,917 At least 607 people The COVID-19 toll in Assam rose to 6,673 as one recuperated from the dis-

corporate social responsibility activities. Earlier, on June 1, two digital media organisations -- in a joint investigative report -- claimed that the Assam government had placed four COVID-related emergency medical supply orders, most likely without following proper process.

Subsequently, the opposition Congress, Raijor Dal and Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) had separately demanded a high-level probe by the CBI, the ED or any other central agencies into the alleged irregularities.

PM Modi today

AG A RTA L A , AU G 5 (PTI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday said he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 6 to apprise him of the status of several development projects in the state, where assembly election is due early next year.

Saha is scheduled to leave for New Delhi later in the day. “Today, I am leaving for Delhi for a two-day visit and will meet the prime minister to submit a status report on various development projects, including schemes sponsored by the Centre,” he told reporters here. Tripura’s position in executing development projects is “good” as compared to other states, he claimed.

“There are several projects which have been completed before the scheduled time, while some ongoing projects will be done within the stipulated time,” he said.

Manik Saha

The state will go to the assembly poll in March next year, while the election to village committees under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) is scheduled to be completed by the first week of November.

Saha revealed that he would try to meet other union ministers to expedite projects which are in the pipeline. The CM is also expected to attend the NITI Aayog’s Governing Council meeting, which will be chaired by PM Modi, on August 7.

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Ar unachal Pradesh currently has 389 active cases, the SSO said.

Namsai district has the highest number of active cases at 65, followed by Dibang Valley at 61, Upper Siang at 25 and East Siang at 24 and the Capital Complex Region and Lower Subansiri district at 21 each.

The Capital Complex Region comprises Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa areas.

Home Minister Lalchamliana will lead the Mizoram team.

Mizoram shares a 164.6-km long boundary with Assam, which has seen several flare-ups in the last few years.

The decades-old boundary dispute between the two northeastern states mainly stemmed from two colonial demarcations in 1875 and 1933.

Mizoram acce pted the demarcation under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BERF) notified in 1875, which covers vast stretches of area, now falling under Assam, as its actual

Assam Congress protests price rise, unemployment Tripura CM to meet

Himanta records statement in defamation case against Sisodia RANGIA/GUWAHATI, AUG 5 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday recorded his statement before a court in a criminal defamation case filed by him against Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.

Sarma gave his statement in the court of chief judicial magistrate, Kamrup Rural, and seeveral other witnesses in the case are likely to record theirs later this month, the chief minister’s advocate, Devajit Saikia, told PTI.

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ease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 7,28,119, the bulletin said.

T h e r e c ove r y r a t e among COVID-19 patients is currently at 98.28 per cent.

Sikkim logs100 fresh Covid cases

Sikkim reported 100 more COVID-19 cases, raising the tally to 42,594, a health department bulletin said on Friday.

The death toll mounted to 474 with one fresh fatality, it said. The northeastern state had logged 111 new infections on Thursday.

Sikkim now has 598 active cases, while 40,744 people have recovered from the disease so far, and 778 others migrated out.

It tested 1,248 samples in the past 24 hours at a positivity rate of 8.01 per cent, the bulletin added.

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Cong MPs stage protest against price rise RAHUL GANDHI AND PRIYANKA AMONG SEVERAL LEADERS DETAINED

N E W D E L H I , AU G 5 (PTI): Wearing black clothes, Congress leaders hit the streets on Friday to protest against price rise and unemployment with a host of them, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, being detained by police amid dramatic standoffs outside Parliament and the AICC headquarters here.

Congress MPs, including former party chief Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest in the Parliament House complex and then proceeded to take out a march towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan as part of the party’s nationwide stir against price rise, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike on essential items and unemployment.

The protesting MPs of the opposition party raised slogans against the government demanding that the GST hike on essential items be withdrawn, with party chief Sonia Gandhi standing with the women MPs holding a banner outside gate number 1 of Parlia-

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Women police personnel forcefully pull Priyanka Gandhi into police van in Delhi on Friday.

ment. The protesters were, however, stopped by the Delhi Police and not allowed to proceed towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Sonia Gandhi did not take part in the march. The other MPs were detained by police at Vijay Chowk.

Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leaders K C Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Gaurav Gogoi were among the 64 MPs detained and taken away from Vijay Chowk in a police bus, party sources said.

Talking to reporters at Vijay Chowk, Rahul Gandhi said, “We are here to raise the issue of price rise.”

He also said “democracy is being murdered”.

Asked if the MPs were manhandled, he answered in the affirmative.

“Our job is to resist these forces, our job is to ensure that democracy in India is protected, our job is to raise the issues of people.

We are doing that,” the former Congress chief said.

He alleged that some of the party MPs were even “beaten up” by police.

Posting pictures from the protest at Vijay Chowk, Rahul Gandhi tweeted: “Democracy is a memory.”

Earlier, in a tweet in Hindi, he said, “This dicta-

torial government is scared.

From the condition of India, from the back-breaking inflation and historic unemployment, from the ruin brought by his policies, the one who is afraid of the truth threatens those who raise their voice!”

Several Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, wore black shirts, black kurtas or black bands on their arms. Also dressed in black, Priyanka Gandhi staged a sit-in protest outside the AICC headquarters here. She jumped across the police barricades put up on the road outside the party headquarters and squatted on the road, with the police personnel asking her to move from there as section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) is in force in the entire area of New Delhi district except Jantar Mantar. Amid dramatic scenes outside the AICC headquarters, the Congress general secretary was forcibly put in a vehicle by police and taken away.

In a video shot inside a

police vehicle and shared by the Congress with reporters, Priyanka Gandhi said, They think that by putting up a show of power, they can silence us and force us into a compromise. Why will we do that?”

“Their ministers cannot see the price rise, so we wanted to walk to the prime minister’s house and show him the high inflation, show him the gas cylinder the price of which is sky high,” she said.

“There is no inflation for (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi-ji. He has given away the country’s wealth to a few people....

Only those few people have become very rich, but the common man is suffering.

They have a lot of money, they cannot see the price rise. Flour, rice, cooking gas -- everything has become expensive,” Priyanka Gandhi said.

At Vijay Chowk, the Congress protesters were seen resisting police personnel who were trying to take them away.

Cong protest aim to save Gandhi family, Rahul shouldn’t blame democracy: BJP NEW DELHI, AUG 5 (PTI): The Congress’ protest against price rise and unemployment is essentially aimed at “saving” the Gandhi family from corruption charges, the BJP said on Friday and asked Rahul Gandhi to not blame Indian democracy for his party’s repeated poll defeats under him.

Hitting back at Gandhi after he alleged that India is witnessing the “death of democracy” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the Congress leader of making “shameful and irresponsible” comments.

Prasad noted that it was Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother and then prime minister Indira Gandhi who had suspended people’s democratic rights by imposing Emergency.

“Why do you blame democracy when the people of India reject you with repeated regularity,” he said and asked Gandhi if there is democracy within his party which has some “good leaders” but it is all about the

Ravi Shankar Prasad Gandhi family.

In a press conference ahead of his party’s protests over the issues such as price rise and unemployment, Gandhi alleged that no institution in the country is independent and claimed that his family is attacked because it fights for democracy and communal harmony. Those who raise people’s issues and stand against the onset of dictatorship are “viciously attacked” and put in jail, he said.

In his party’s counterattack, Prasad said, “Stop demeaning the institutions of India to safeguard your corruption and misdeeds...

If people don’t listen to you why are you blaming us.”

If people saw dictatorship, it was during the Emergency when people, including opposition leaders and editors, were jailed, judges superseded and censorship imposed. Indira Gandhi had then spoken about having “committed judiciary,” the former law minister said.

He highlighted the Enforcement Directorate’s probe against Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case and said the former Congress president must answer as to how Young Indian, a firm in which the two Gandhis have 76 per cent stake, allegedly acquired the National Herald’s assets worth over Rs 5,000 crore with the investment of only Rs 5 lakh.

The judiciary refused to quash charges against them and he was now blaming institutions, the BJP leader said. Rahul Gandhi will have to face consequences for what he has done, Prasad said.

“You will have to face trial and answer the ED’s questions,” he added.

US, Aus among 6 countries interested in Tejas: Govt FIR against magazine over offending photo of Shiva, Kali NEW DELHI, AUG 5 (PTI): The US, Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines are among six countries, which have shown interest in India’s Tejas aircraft while Malaysia has already shortlisted the jet under its acquisition programme, the government said on Friday.

The other two countries that have evinced interest in the aircraft are Argentina and Egypt, according to Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt.

Tejas, manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is a single-engine multi-role fighter aircraft capable of operating in high-threat air environments.

In February last year, the defence ministry sealed a Rs 48,000 crore deal with

HAL for the procurement of 83 Tejas light combat aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Replying to a question in Lok Sabha on Tejas, Bhatt said the HAL responded to a Request for Information (RFI) or initial tender received from Royal Malaysian Air Force in February 2019.

Subsequently, the HAL responded in October 2021 to a Request For Proposal (RFP) issued by Malaysia

for 18 aircraft, adding the twin-seater variant of the Tejas was offered.

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Nagaland Post VOL. XXXII NO. 241 DIMAPUR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022

Threat of global war

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fter US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a whirlwind 24-hour ‘unscheduled’ visit to Taiwan, the rising tension between the US and China has even gotten worse as there are fears that Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ego could push the region to the brink of a serious crisis.

China claims scores of islands formerly called as Republic of China (RoC) and presently as Taiwan, as its own. From 1949 the erstwhile Republic of China (presently Taiwan) used to be recognized as China but it changed in 1971 when the communist giant China was rightly accorded the status as main China. In all cases, communist China far exceeds Taiwan by multiple times, on anything. China is 267 times bigger than Taiwan and its economy is also more by multiple times. However, tiny Taiwan is not overawed nor fearful of its mainland sister and despite being recognized by hardly a dozen of the around 195 countries in the world; the tiny nation is an economic giant. In fact, Taiwan is the world biggest manufacturer of very high-quality microchips. Taiwan dominates the foundry market, or the outsourcing of semiconductor manufacturing.

Taiwan has the world’s largest foundry that counts major technology firms such as Apple, Qualcomm and Nvidia as its clients. The sad part is that even the UN does not recognize Taiwan but considers it as a province of China and so also the UK, USA and all nations. This has only fuelled China’s aim of ‘reuniting the two as ‘one China’. In fact, the UN and all western nations who rant and wail against Chinese belligerence, rights abuse and various unethical trade practices, share the same concept of ‘One China’. Nations across the globe have strong economic ties with Taiwan as the US does but are disinclined to accord the tiny nation recognition.

China had warned the US of dire consequence if Nancy Pelosi dared visit Taiwan. According to US media sources, even US president Joe Biden tried to persuade Pelosi to not go to Taiwan lest it fuelled anger and retaliation by China. The contradiction over Taiwan’s official status is the main source of tension. It provides China with an excuse to be belligerent about Taiwan. The US foreign policy vis-àvis China hardened especially after Donald Trump was elected as president of the USA in 2016. Trump followed a policy of tit-for-tat with China especially over trade and later strategic cooperation with Asian nations whose territories disputed by China. Nancy Pelosi visit to Taiwan may have added fuel to fire and the US will also have to respond. Often, under the threat of nuclear war nations ruled by dictators like China and Russia, have managed to thumb their nose on other countries. If the US shirks its obligation, then it will mean a huge loss of reputation and also a signal that the free world is willing to succumb to threats. Even in the Ukraine war, the US and its NATO allies have taken a back seat while Putin grinds Ukraine to dust through bombs, rockets and missiles. China and Russia are encouraging and inspiring other rogue nations for an axis against free nations.

DailyDevotion The Bewildering Call of God

“…and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished.”…But they understood none of these things… —Luke 18:31, 34

God called Jesus Christ to what seemed absolute disaster. And Jesus Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death, leading every one of them to the place where their hearts were broken. His life was an absolute failure from every standpoint except God’s.

But what seemed to be failure from man’s standpoint was a triumph from God’s standpoint, because God’s purpose is never the same as man’s purpose.

This bewildering call of God comes into our lives as well. The call of God can never be understood absolutely or explained externally; it is a call that can only be perceived and understood internally by our true inner-nature. The call of God is like the call of the sea— no one hears it except the person who has the nature of the sea in him. What God calls us to cannot be definitely stated, because His call is simply to be His friend to accomplish His own purposes. Our real test is in truly believing that God knows what He desires. The things that happen do not happen by chance— they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.

If we are in fellowship and oneness with God and recognize that He is taking us into His purposes, then we will no longer strive to find out what His purposes are. As we grow in the Christian life, it becomes simpler to us, because we are less inclined to say, “I wonder why God allowed this or that?” And we begin to see that the compelling purpose of God lies behind everything in life, and that God is divinely shaping us into oneness with that purpose. A Christian is someone who trusts in the knowledge and the wisdom of God, not in his own abilities. If we have a purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the calm, relaxed pace which should be characteristic of the children of God.

Quotes

The journey is a learning process, which starts with the will to know God within.

~ Yaovi M. Dagba

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022

Post-mortem

GNF on Naga Solidarity Walk F riends, we want to make a public statement to mark this occasion. The declaration starts with what we oppose and follows it up with what we want.

Please join me with vocal affirmation in the second section. Whereas the Naga People have repeatedly declared and defended our right to freedom and self-determination in our ancestral lands in battle and in writing against the British colonial occupation going back to the 1870s and the Simon Commission in 1929.

Whereas ignoring the expressed Naga declaration of freedom from colonial rule in 1947, postcolonial India and Burma continued to impose colonial rule over our lands and our ancestors, so that till today, in 2022, in gross violation of our human and indigenous peoples’ rights, the Naga Homeland lies separated in four states in India and a province in Myanmar.

And whereas thousands of Naga patriots have sacrificed their lives in the seven-decade long struggle for political selfdetermination against the continuing colonial control of our lands and lives, especially

by Indian military forces going back to the 1950s and still operating in our homeland under protection of extra-judicial laws like the Disturbed Areas Act and Armed Forces Special Powers Act, and under which innocent civilians have been and continue to be regularly harassed, imprisoned, and mass murdered, and generations of their families have suffered and experienced irreparable loss, harm, and disadvantage.

Therefore, we believe time has come, yet again, to insist on an immediate peaceful resolution of the Indo-Naga political problem, which must include a constitutional structure and timetable for recognition and implementation of the Peoplehood of the Nagas in a self-determined governance system in an undivided ancestral homeland comprising all the Naga territories. Therefore, we declare the Naga Solidarity Walk of 2022 a necessary peaceful intervention in support of the Naga people’s right to live together in our ancestral homeland. The Walk from Kohima to Tahamzan (Senapati) we just

completed is a hopeful physical enactment of a journey toward Naga Unity across the artificial barriers and boundaries put in our way by the powers that be. So we want to make public what we mean by this Walk and what we stand for, going forward. Please repeat “Kuknalim” after me if you agree: Long live the Peoplehood of the Nagas: One People, One Destiny, in an undivided Ancestral Homeland. May the Naga Solidarity Walk lead to transformative change in our leaders, in all of us, and of the whole society. May it inspire us to reclaim and sustain the better aspects of our collective Naga heritage: • May the Walk lead us to lasting peace and shared prosperity, without exceptions, throughout the Naga Homeland.

• May the Walk be a Community Celebration of our beautiful and bountiful homeland which belongs to the Naga Family as a whole.

• May we use the Naga Solidarity Walk for justice and noble pro-Naga causes, not against the legitimate rights of other people in India, Myanmar or elsewhere.

• May this positive communitybased action inspire every Naga to proudly exercise our right to walk in our God-given homeland, no matter what anyone may say to the contrary.

• May we as members of the Naga Family learn to heal ourselves from the wounds and offenses we have inflicted on one another for the sake of a brighter Future together which beckons us to forgive one another and to bestow the gift of grace even if it may not be deserved.

• May the Naga Solidarity Walk we have set in motion grow in strength and contribute richly to a successful journey of the Peoplehood of the Nagas in a thriving, undivided ancestral Homeland.

• Here’s to the Nagas: One People, One Destiny.

Kuknalim!

On behalf of Global Naga Forum: Vichutuolie Mere Convenor Naga Solidarity Walk Core Committee.

Nagaland People’s Action Committee representation to Prime Minister

W

e bring greetings to you from the Naga populace at the grass root level.

Today, the 5th of August, 2022, the Naga general public convened a massive public rally in Dimapur town specifically to demand for Naga political solution without further delay. In the mammoth rally, the common Naga public unanimously resolved to submit this representation to your benign authority for early positive action.

Most hon’ble Sir, the Naga people are in the 25th year of the political negotiations between the GOI and the Naga negotiators which began in 1997. The unending political process has adversely affected the lives of each individual and family in the state of Nagaland. It has taken a huge toll on the entire system of governance.

The unresolved political issue has heralded in unimaginable cycle of corruption at all levels, crippling public health care, education and overall infrastructure developments which are in shambles for obvious reasons to say the least. Unresolved Naga issue has produced countless scoundrels and thieves and in the name of political issue, threats and intimidations have stifled the growth of a perceived Naga society, which you assured, would be a vibrant one.

Prime Minister Sir, as

the economic wellbeing of everyday Naga family has completely collapsed in the absence of equitable welfare formula and governance saves on paper, the consequences is frightening to say the least. The ultimate victim being the brilliantly educated unemployed, school dropouts and all whose futures are now ruined. Entrepreneurship and asset creation are critical components in a society like ours. Government projects are siphoned off brazenly through percentage cuts and shares.

Private businesses are grossly extorted by armed groups. Without a political settlement, we foresee thousands of futureless fresh, youthful, highly qualified angry men and women taking up guns to challenge those stifling their growth and progress. Your promise to the Nagas has not been fulfilled as yet. Prime minister Sir, is it not a betrayal to our people, considering that negotiations with Naga groups have officially concluded?

The above facts are just the few instances of how the citizens of Nagaland have been subjected to unbearable consequences due to the inordinate delay in resolving the Naga political issue.

Prime minister Sir, you are aware that the ceasefire and the political negotiations under its peaceful atmosphere are all but a

means to an end. Therefore, if the means are to be nurtured as the end, it becomes more of a betrayal to the public of Nagaland. We expect GOI to appreciate the patience of the citizens of Nagaland all these 25 years because the people yearn for genuine peace in the region which can be brought in by political solution alone. Allow us also to bring to your notice that in the year, 2018 when the Civil Societies and all political parties including the BJP unequivocally demanded for solution before election, the BJP breached the trust of the people and had filed their nominations with a slogan “Election for Solution”, against the will and wishes of the people which is still fresh in our memory. Prime Minister Sir, the public rally therefore, urges upon the GOI to implement the concluded political negotiations into solution without any further delay. The rally is a firm signal to the Government of India (GOI) that the people of Nagaland will welcome the political solution and uphold it under any circumstances.

NPAC convenor Theja Therieh NPAC co-convenors Imsumongba Pongen, Shikuto Zalipu, Kekongchim Yimkhiung NPAC secretary Khondao Ngullie NPAC joint secretary Akhu Naga

If negotiators cannot deliver, wind it up and let people decide: NPAC (From p-1) If that is the case then within that parameter, they should bring out what solution they can hammer out. I think, they know what is possible and what is not possible. Yes, Naga negotiators will demand because these are very complex issues and we have a long way to go even beyond this solution. Government of India is the one who is engaging these negotiators, they know what can be given and what cannot be given. So, if something is not permissible, something which they cannot give, they should not hang on that. If this negotiation cannot bring about any solution, then just wind it up, close it, no negotiation, let the people decide what they want. I think we are capable of deciding what we want for our future. Don’t undermine the people, we are all capable.

NP: Are you suggesting that if a definite decision cannot be taken on the issue of Naga flag and constitution, then should GoI engage with the people?

Therieh: The public as such cannot enter into the negotiation because we have given the mandate very clearly till such time they cannot proceed any longer. It is for them to come to the people and tell what is their difficulty.

They cannot just keep stalling the process.

NP: GoI has reached out to civil and tribal bodies and made clear the reasons for the delay in solving the Naga political issue. Should public continue to blame GoI for the delay?

Therieh: Yes, GoI has

come to the people. It shared even the Framework Agreement and Agreed Position to the public. And as far as I know, people have not given any negative reaction to that, which means they are ready to accept or are prepared. So, what is not possible is not possible and what is possible is possible. It is for GoI to say what is not possible. And our negotiators cannot just go on with what is not possible.

NP: GoI has made its stand clear on the demand for separate Naga flag and constitution. NSCN (I-M) has also maintained that there can be no solution without flag and constitution. What is the stand of NPAC? Therieh: Personally speaking, constitution or flag will only symbolise and represent what is agreed upon.

So, it is not necessary to ask for flag or constitution. At the moment, if there is no integration and if there is no sovereignty, I don’t know what is the requirement of constitution. Even if the constitution is required, constitution have to be of the people, by the people, for the people. The people will decide. We should not put the cart before the horse. Once something is agreed upon and if a new dispensation require constitution, then the people will vote for that constitution.

Constitution should be derived from the people. I think there is no sense in asking for constitution.

NP: Are you implying that the demand for separate flag and constitution is just a way to prolong the Naga political issue without reaching

any solution?

Therieh: They have not shown us the competencies.

The flag will only symbolise and represent that agreed status. If we have a separate status, if we have a sovereign status or whatever status they have brought out of this negotiation, flag will simply represent that. Do we need to have a constitution or not is also an issue. At the moment, we are not privy to the negotiating points so just simply demanding the flag, I think, people are at loss. I think, it is because those negotiators want to continue to live in comfort zone, they don’t want to end up the negotiations. If that is the case, it is not fair.

NP: Should the negotiating groups inform the people what has been agreed upon?

Therieh: See, we have given mandate to somebody.

If they are engaging with somebody on our behalf with our mandate, is it not proper for them to come to us and tell us this is what we have agreed upon? It is not appropriate to ask somebody else of what our representatives have agreed upon. Since they are negotiating on behalf of the people, they should take people into their confidence.

Otherwise, where do we begin and where do we end?

NP: Naga peace process has been going on for last 25 years without any solution.

Do you feel that the negotiators have lost the confidence of Nagas?

Therieh: It is a very complex issue; we do not blame anyone but there has to be a political will. Govern-

ment of India being a very powerful democratic nation should conclude what they started. Both NSCN (I-M) and NNPGs have submitted whatever they want. All the points that they want are with government of India but ultimately it is what government of India can give, whether we like it or not. Government of India must consider what it can give and come up with a comprehensive common draft. They say talk is formally closed, we believe that and we know that the present negotiations are not discussing on major agendas. If that is the case then why should solution be prolonged? Interlocutor R. N. Ravi resigned but government of India has not appointed any interlocutor. So, I think somewhere people are being taken for a ride.

NP: Does NPAC feel that Naga political issue has been shelved by GoI? Therieh: No, we believe the word of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. He said that a great democratic nation like India is embarrassed when they cannot solve 70, 80 years conflict with the Nagas.

We believe he is sincerely wanting to bring a solution.

But he must demonstrate that and he must take the final call because the ball is in the court of Prime Minister and Home Minister to take a political call. Despite all these engagements, if the leadership don’t take political call, then it will not be closed.

NP: There is no consensus among the Nagas. In such a backdrop, how do you expect GoI to give a solution?

Therieh: In politics there can never be a consensus. In a democracy there has to be a majority and the voice of the majority should not be ignored.

NP: Before every election this kind of rallies happen. Political parties, NGOs make strong statements and some even call for boycott.

With all these, elections still happen with high turnout and participation. So, what is new about NPAC’s rally?

Therieh: In the past, it happened because people have no option. When BJP came up with the slogan, “election for solution”, BJP was willing in the centre, they had absolute majority in the people’s house and people tend to believe their slogan but they have miserably failed. Now, again people talk about solution before election or whatever. I think as elected government they should be responsible enough to get clear signal of what people want and they should not press the people against their will and wishes again and again. If a democratic nation like India for that matter a state like Nagaland, if they want to prioritise five years assembly election to Naga political solution then it is very unfortunate.

Election will come and go but this solution is already ripe, we must harvest. Why should we go for another election and let the people continue to suffer under the status quo? People should not continue to live and suffer under the status quo. This is like fishing in troubled waters. They confuse the people; they misled the people and when the water is

dirty and people are not clear of what is going to happen, they take full advantage of it. If they really want to manipulate and if they really want to drag the people, people become helpless but in democracy this is not fair, they should respect people’s aspiration.

NP: What will be the stand of NPAC in case solution does not materialise before election?

Therieh: God forbid.

We want to bring out a solution for that we are giving a final call to government of India. Please take a call, please demonstrate your political will, this is the right time, people are prepared to accept whatever maybe the circumstances because we want solution.

NP: Does NPAC consider itself a legitimate stakeholder?

Therieh: People are the legitimate stakeholders and we are simply a committee reflecting their opinions. Tomorrow if people say that they will express their opinions through another channel so be it. We will go by what the people want because NPAC itself is not an entity, it is not an organisation also.

NP: Is NPAC ready to engage with GoI? Therieh: Yes, the representation we have approved in the rally is very clear. We will submit it to the government of India. If government of India so desire to ask the people’s opinion definitely we will consult the people’s opinion and come out with people’s ultimate opinion on this Naga political issue.

India needs a good education to match the potential of Industry 4.0

T

he world has witnessed four Industrial Revolutions; the most recent one is Industrial Revolution 4.0. The signals are such that transformation is foreseeable in all sectors including the education setting, making Education 4.0 the famous catchphrase among the experts of education today.

What exactly is Education 4.0?

If we look at our past experience at how education has altered since the first industrial revolution, we might well understand the daunting task for students and teachers today. In 1780, there was little or no hope that children would have any education

at all. People learned a skill, usually with on the job beginner training. Where it was present, education was for the rich. When the second revolution started industry needed trained workers, suddenly, an education was needed Students came in with no knowledge, the teacher supplied them information in particular subjects and at the end of the session, the student assessment was done to evaluate if they remembered what they were taught. This encouraged a strict framework of study disciplines, education standards and ultimately consistent evaluation. The introduction of the computer did not

change the original thinking behind our education system.

Instead, education experts plainly took advantage of the technology and swapped educators with computers, facilitating training, learning and evaluation to be handled by machine. It can be deemed comparable to the substitution of labor-intensive jobs by machine-intensive jobs that arose as a revolution in the 21st Century. This means that Industry 4.0 will not only have an effect on industries but accordingly will change the way employment and education will be seen.

There are few trends related to this learning, it can be taken place anytime any-

where. E-Learning devices facilitate great prospects for far-flung, self-rate learning.

Learning will be customized for each student. They will be introduced to next level only after a certain expertise is achieved. Students have a preference to decide how they want to learn. Students have the freedom to select the learning tools or techniques that they prefer. Students learning will be more project-based. By linking in the projects, they are working on their managerial, networking and time management skills which are handy in their future academic profession.

Students will be open to elements like data interpreta-

tion in which it is essential to apply their theoretical knowledge to numbers and use their reasoning skills to make presumption based on reason and trends from given data. In addition to this, students will be appraised differently and the conservative policy to evaluate students may become inappropriate. Students’ views will be considered in designing and updating the curriculum.

Education 4.0 shifts major learning accountability from teachers to students. An average classroom will witness a major change in the next 5 to 7 years in terms of arrangement; flexible assignments will house multiple

learning styles. India needs a high-class education to be able to match the potential of Industry 4.0. Educational institutions were by and large established by business groups and politicians than real academic experts keen to play a part in the growth of education in India. Education has to be reasonably priced and responsible; however, qualitative aspect is vital.

Educational Institutes and industry personnel meet during the placement time, but they need to sit together time and again and decide on the demands of the industry.

Mamta Shukla is an academician in the field of management education.

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.

MPs can be arrested during Parliament session: Naidu

days thereafter, Naidu said, adding that this privilege is already incorporated under Section 135A of the Civil Procedure Court.

“However, in criminal matters members of Parliament are not on a different footing than a common citizen. That means members of Parliament do not enjoy any immunity from being arrested in a criminal case during the session or otherwise,” Naidu clarified.

He cited his past observations in this regard and Supreme Court rulings.

Naidu reiterated that no member of the House should avoid appearing before any investigating agency is he is called upon to do so, by citing reasons of the House duty.

“It applies to all...because you can only perform when the House is in session seeking further date but you cannot avoid the enforcement agencies or the law enforcement agencies’ summons or notices. This has to be taken note of by one and all,” the Rajya Sabha Chairman said.

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Mamata meets PM Modi, seeks timely release of funds

Uproot inferiority complex to achieve Independence in truest sense: Shah NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said India is set to take a giant leap in the 75th year of its Independence and nobody will be able to stop it from becoming a great nation.

Shah said foreign powers could keep India under their rule as they succeeded in creating an inferiority complex amongst Indians which should be uprooted to achieve independence in its truest sense.

The Home Minister was speaking after the launch of a mega serial ‘Swaraj – Bharat Ke Swatantrata Sangram Ki Samagra Gatha’, produced

by Doordarshan to mark the 75th anniversary of Independence.

The 75-episode mega show chronicles lesserknown tales about Indian history and would be telecast from August 14 on Doordarshan in Hindi and regional languages.

Shah wondered if India could claim to have achieved the true ideals of Swaraj if it failed to protect its languages, culture,

vilisation had progressed for several thousand years and there was no need for any NGO to educate the country about its culture.

“Those who ruled us, destroyed our best systems.

They knew that they could rule us only if they succeeded in creating an inferiority complex within us, because we were ahead of them in every aspect,” Shah said.

“These people created a myth that we were illiterate. The country that gave Geeta and the Vedas to the world, the country that gave the world ‘zero’, the country that gave the world astronomy, how can it be illiterate,” he asked.

Shah expressed the hope that the television serial ‘Swaraj’ will help the country get rid of its inferiority complex and make the youth take pride in the country’s history.

In his brief address, Thakur lauded Shah as a master strategist and a modern day ‘Chanakya’ who fulfilled the long standing demand of getting rid of Article 370 and 35A, and taking steps to strengthen national security.

NEW DELHI, AUG 5 (PTI): Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday clarified that members of Parliament do not enjoy any immunity from arrest in criminal cases when the House is in session and they cannot avoid summons issued by law enforcement agencies.

Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for almost half an hour till 11.30 am on Friday as Congress members created an uproar alleging misuse of probe agencies by the government.

When the Upper House assembled for the morning session, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu proceeded with the scheduled business of laying of the listed papers on the table, but had to adjourn the House within a few minutes.

More than 10 Congress members trooped into the Well of the House, protesting against the alleged misuse of central probe agencies. The Congress members said the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, has been “insulted”

as he was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday during the working hours of Parliament.

When the Upper House reassembled after the adjournment at 11:30, Naidu said there is a wrong notion among the members that they have a privilege from action by agencies while Parliament is in session. He said that under Article 105 of the Constitution members of Parliament enjoy certain privileges so they can perform their duties without any hindrances.

One of the privileges is that a member of Parliament cannot be arrested in a civil case 40 days before the commencement of the session or committee meeting and 40

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Mehbooba Mufti participates in a protest demanding to restore the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar. (PTI)

S R I NAG A R , AU G 5 (PTI): The People’s Democratic Party and the Congress staged protests on Friday to mark the third anniversary of the repeal of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and reiterated their resolve to fight for its restoration.

The National Conference held a meeting on the occasion and pinned all its hopes on the Supreme Court reversing the decisions taken by the Centre on this day three years ago.

Life was normal across Kashmir on Friday with markets, schools and other establishments remaining open. “Paying no heed to Bandh Call, all shops are open and it is absolutely

normal in Srinagar District. These visuals are from Lal Chowk area,” Srinagar Police tweeted alongside a 13-second video of Lal Chowk showing scenes of normalcy. Mehbooba and her party workers assembled at the party office near the Sher-e-Kashmir Municipal Park here to protest against the bifurcation of J&K into Union territories and abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution which accorded special status to the erstwhile state.

They tried to march towards Lal Chowk but were prevented by the police personnel deployed on law and order duty. Carrying placards and banners demanding the restoration of J&K’s

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NEW DELHI, AUG 5 (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and raised a host of issues concerning her state, including GST dues and timely release of funds by the Centre under various schemes. The Prime Minister’s Office shared a picture of the meeting, which lasted about an hour.

In a memorandum to the PM, Banerjee said she had repeatedly sought his intervention for urgent release of funds due to the state on account of the implementation of the rural job scheme MGNREGA, PM Awas Yojana and the PM Gramin Sadak Yojana.

The amount due to the state under these schemes now stood at about Rs

special status, the protesters were allowed to briefly camp outside the PDP office. They later dispersed peacefully.

Talking to reporters, Mehbooba said her party was determined not only to fight for the restoration of the special status of J&K but also work for lasting solution to the issue of Kashmir.

“In the coming time, they will destroy the Constitution and foundations on which this country stands.

They will make this a theological state and replace the tricolour with saffron flag.

They will change the national flag as they did with our Constitution and flag.

But we are determined to fight for restoration of what has been snatched from us,” she said. The PDP president later took to Twitter saying that the the BJP’s designs for Jammu and Kashmir have unravelled.

“As BJP’s malicious designs for J&K have unravelled, the pattern of suppression & fear is now knocking at the door in rest of the country too.

Weaponising their pet agencies & using terror laws to stifle dissent has become the norm,” she said.

MUMBAI, AUG 5 (PTI): Police on Friday detained several Maharashtra Congress leaders outside the Vidhan Bhavan here before their planned protest against the Centre over price rise and other issues, with the party claiming that thousands of its workers were taken into preventive custody across the city.

Following the action, the party leaders slammed the central and the state governments for trying to “suppress” the opposition’s voice.

The Congress on Friday held nationwide stir against price rise, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike on essential items and unemployment.

State Congress president Nana Patole and former ministers Balasaheb Thorat, Varsha Gaikwad, Naseem Khan, Chandrakant Handore were among some of the senior leaders who were detained outside the Vidhan Bhavan, the state legislature complex in south Mumbai, before they could proceed to the Raj Bhavan for the protest.

These leaders said they had planned to carry out

Maharashtra congress workers being held prior to the protest in Mumbai.

a protest march to the Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the governor in south Mumbai, to protest against the Centre’s policies.

As per the plan announced on Thursday, the march was to begin from Hanging Garden and culminate at the Raj Bhavan around 11 am.

A heavy deployment of police was put in place outside the Vidhan Bhavan, where the Congress leaders held a meeting. As they came out of the building, the police personnel prevented them from proceeding to-

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In her memorandum, Banerjee has tabulated the total amount due to the state under different schemes and benefits. The amount that is due to the state from the central government as on 31st July, 2022 has been estimated to be around Rs 1,00,968.44 crore.

Banerjee has often accused the BJP-led central government of delaying the payment of GST dues to states, especially the ones ruled by opposition parties.

After the meeting, Banerjee directly went to meet President Droupadi Murmu. Banerjee, who arrived here on a four-day visit on Thursday, is likely to attend a Niti Aayog governing council meeting on August 7 to be chaired by PM Modi.

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wards the Raj Bhavan, located a few kilometres away.

Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat told the police that it was their right to stage an agitation over the issues concerning people, including rising inflation.

“Even in the British rule, peaceful protests were allowed. But under the ‘ED’ government, even this is not possible,” Thorat told them in an apparent reference to Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government in the state.

Former chief minister Ashok Chavan said the

Congress planned to hold a peaceful protest.

A police official told the Congress leaders that they can hold a protest at Azad Maidan. But the party leaders refused to budge, following which the police detained them and taken to the Azad Maidan police station before being released later.

Police said that notices had been sent to several Congress leaders in Mumbai, reminding them that prohibitory orders were in place, which prevents gathering of five or more people at one place.

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“The real meaning of Swaraj means to run India the way Indians want it to be run. It includes our own languages, our religion, our culture and also our arts,” Shah said at the function attended by Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur, Minister of State L Murugan, members of parliament among others.

Shah said India has been administered well since Independence and has had several achievements to its credit. “Whoever came (to power) has taken the country forward. We respect everyone. But, if we cannot protect our languages in the centenary year, then would we have achieved the real aim of Swaraj,” Shah asked.

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CHHAPRA (BIHAR), AUG 5 (PTI): At least seven people died and 15 others fell ill with some of them even losing their eyesight in a suspected hooch tragedy in Saran district of dry Bihar, officials said on Friday.

It is, however, not known when the spurious liquor was consumed as the family members of victims are not ready to share information.

Saran district magistrate Rajesh Meena said all the cases were reported from villages falling under Maker police station area and more than 10 people among the seriously ill have suffered loss of vision.”

“Prima facie it appears that the villagers had consumed spurious liquor. Five people died here while two deaths occurred at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) where those who have fallen seriously ill were referred on Thursday,” he said.

Saran Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar said “We are conducting raids in Maker, Marhaura and Bheldi police station areas to nab the suspected bootleggers. We will be able to state the number of arrests after the operation is over.”

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EMIs to rise as RBI hikes interest rate again 7.2 per cent in FY23.

The RBI’s six-member rate-setting panel voted unanimously on the rate hike decision while sticking to its resolve to withdraw the accommodative stance.

Suman Chowdhury, Chief Analytical Officer, Acuité Ratings & Research, said the deposit and lending rate hikes are expected by banks, given the improved credit demand in the economy.

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said the current policy rate hike cycle is expected to continue till RBI reaches what is known as ‘neutral policy rate’.

This is the short-term policy rate which is expected to stabilize the economy down the road in the long run, it said adding if the RBI’s FY23 inflation projection holds, then it may look for another 25-50 bps in the remaining months of FY23.

The central bank surprised markets with a 40 bps hike at an unscheduled meeting in May, followed by

pee.

The Indian economy has been impacted by the global economic situation and is grappling with the problem of high inflation.

“Nevertheless, with strong and resilient fundamentals, India is expected to be amongst the fastest growing economies during 2022-23 according to the IMF, with signs of inflation moderating over the course of the year,” he said.

The financial sector is well capitalised and sound while the foreign exchange reserves - supplemented by net forward assets - provide insurance against global spillovers. “Our umbrella remains strong,” he said.

Ranen Banerjee, Leader, Economic Advisor y Services, PwC India, said there will be less aggressive future rate increases from the US Fed going forward given some impacts on the economy being already felt.

“The increase in the repo rates will take some time to transmit in actual lending rates and therefore impact on growth momentum in the current financial year is going to be limited and hence a real GDP growth of around 7 per cent should be achievable,” Banerjee said.

Participants and officials at the end of the training.

D I M A P U R , AU G 5 (NPN): U.S. Consulate General Kolkata, in partnership with Regional English Language Office (RELO) of the U.S. Embassy in India, hosted English Language Specialist Dieter Bruhn from the U.S. conducted a five-day trainthe-trainer workshop for U.S. Consulate’s entrepreneurship program Academy for Women Entrepreneurs

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public domain since Nagas have every right to know what type of solution was being proposed. He also reminded that solution does not belong to a specific tribe but to all Nagas.

The rally was chaired

by Dimapur Urban Council Chairmen Federation (DUCCF) president Tesnthungo Nyamo and invocation offered by Lotha Baptist Church Diphupar (LBCD) senior pastorYanbemo Ovung. Others who also spoke included Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) president Er. Etsungmomo Kikon while Naga Women Hoho Dimapur information & publicity secretary Elizabeth, read out a speech of its president. Those who also spoke included NPAC co-convener and general secretary Nagaland GB Federation general secretary Shikuto Zalipu. Vote of thanks was proposed by Dimapur District Citizens’ Forum (DDCF) president Yibemo Kikon, while public

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by NPAC convener Theja Therieh. Later interacting with the media after the programme, NPAC convenor Theja Therieh asked the negotiating parties as to whether 25 years of unending negotiations were not enough to reach any solution? He said if solution cannot be secured then to let Naga people decided what to do. Therieh reiterated that unending negotiations cannot continue at the cost of people’s suffering and reminded all that “enough was enough”.

He also demanded that nothing should be hidden regarding solution and that anything being negotiated must be shared with the people. Asked whether any representation would be submitted to the NPGs, Therieh said the Centre had initiated the peace process by inviting NSCN (I-M) and WC, NNPGs and on its part, NPAC will press the Centre to finish what it had started.

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reality. While clarifying that CNCCI was a neutral body with no political affiliation or links with NPGS, Muru however asserted that the business community stood steadfast with the demand for an early solution and so decided to be part of the rally despite having to suffer the most when such rallies were called.

Muru likened the negotiators and Naga public as two stakeholders in Naga issue and acknowledged the negotiators for their sacrifice and dedication to bring about an honourable solution for the Nagas.

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talks were headed in the right direction with Government of India (GoI) and that talks were officially over on October 31, 2019.

Kekongchim served notice on the government of India that if it cannot secure solution to the Naga political issue even after 25 years of negotiations, it should leave Nagas alone to decide their fate. Also addressing the rally, Confederation of Nagaland Chamber of Commerce and Industries (CNCCI) president Dr Khekugha Muru remarked that Naga issue was bigger than personal issues and appealed to all Nagas to rise above family matter and make Naga solution a

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Representatives of various CSOs and elders addressed the rally. Former president of Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) Kekongchim Yimkhiung pointed out that Naga issue was not specific to a tribe or region, but encompassed all Nagas and so whatever be the solution, it would be impact entire Nagas. Kekongchim also lamented that Nagas were divided and fighting among themselves.

On why solution was required, Kekongchim referred to the high unemployment rate in Nagaland and cautioned that the State

would become a land of mafias if the problem continued longer.

He also said Naga society was also divided into two groups – the “haves” and “have nots”. He warned that if the economic disparity persisted, there would soon be a revolution by the “have nots” and therefore, solution was the only answer.

Kekongchim remarked that by shying away from the truth has made Nagas confused on the Naga issue and also made it complex.

He also questioned why solution could not be secured even after 25years of negotiations? He also noted that even negotiators had been claiming that the

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expectations and triggering second-round effects,” Das said.

RBI said the volatility in the global market is leading to imported inflation.

The spillover from geopolitical shocks has resulted in uncertainty in the inflation trajectory. Global commodity, metal and food prices have eased from recent peaks, however, they still remain elevated.

On the domestic front, higher sowing of kharif crops bodes well for the food price outlook. The shortfall in paddy sowing is being monitored closely, even though rice stock remains above buffer norms.

Since May, the central bank has cumulatively raised interest rate by 140 bps in its effort to contain inflation. Despite this sharp hike, RBI expects inflation to remain above its comfort zone and has retained CPI inflation forecast at 6.7 per cent for current fiscal year.

RBI expects India’s GDP growth to remain strong at

a 50 bps increase in June, but prices have shown little sign of cooling off yet.

The latest increase mirrors the US Federal Reserve-led global tightening of interest rates to rein in spiralling prices, caused by supply snarls and energy price shocks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The monetary policy committee (MPC) believes “calibrated withdrawal of monetary policy accommodation is warranted to keep inflation expectations anchored and contain the second-round effects,” Das said.

On the rupee depreciating against the US dollar, he said at a 4.7 per cent decline, the rupee fared much better than several reserve currencies as well as many of its EME and Asian peers.

“The depreciation of the Indian rupee is more on account of the appreciation of the US dollar rather than weakness in macroeconomic fundamentals of the Indian economy. Market interventions by the RBI have helped in containing volatility and ensuring the orderly movement of the rupee,” he said.

Das said the RBI will remain watchful and maintain the stability of the ru-

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The increase in lending rate or the repurchase rate (repo) by 50 bps to 5.40 per cent is 25 bps higher than the pre-pandemic repo level.

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China cannot stop US from visiting Taiwan: Pelosi Chinese-fired ballistic missiles fall into Japan’s EEZ TOKYO, AUG 5 (AP): China will not isolate Taiwan by preventing US officials from travelling there, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday in Tokyo, wrapping up her Asia tour highlighted by a visit to Taipei that infuriated China.

The Chinese have tried to isolate Taiwan, Pelosi said, including most recently by preventing the self-governing island from joining the World Health Organisation.

“They may try to keep Taiwan from visiting or participating in other places, but they will not isolate Taiwan by preventing us to travel there,” she said, defending her trip that some say has escalated tension in the region.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Pelosi called the contention “ridiculous” and said that her trip to Taiwan was not intended to change the status quo for the island but to maintain peace in the Taiwan Strait. She praised Taiwan’s hard-fought democracy, including its progress in diversity including LGBTQ rights, and success in technology and business, while criticizing China’s vio-

lations of trade agreements, proliferation of weapons and human rights problems.

“If we do not speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interests, we lose all moral authority to speak out about human rights any place in the world,” Pelosi said. “China has some contradictions — some progress in terms of lifting people

up, some horrible things happening in terms of the Uyghurs. In fact, it’s been labelled a genocide.”

Pelosi said “the two big countries” — the United States and China — must communicate in areas such as climate and other global issues. “It isn’t about our visit determining what the US-China relationship is.

It’s a much bigger and longer-term challenge and once again, we have to recognise that we have to work together on certain areas.”

“Our friendship with Taiwan is a strong one. It is bipartisan in the House and in the Senate, overwhelming support for peace and the status quo in Taiwan,” she said.

Pelosi, the first House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, said Wednesday in Taipei that American commitment to democracy on the island and elsewhere “remains ironclad”.

Pelosi and five other

members of Congress arrived in Tokyo late Thursday after visiting Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and South Korea.

China, which claims Taiwan and has threatened to annex it by force if necessary, called her visit to the island a provocation and on Thursday began military drills, including missile strike training, in six zones surrounding Taiwan, in what could be its biggest since the mid-1990s.

Pelosi said that China had launched the “strikes probably using our visit as an excuse”.

Earlier Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that China’s military exercises aimed at Taiwan represent a “grave problem” that threatens regional peace and security after five ballistic missiles launched as part of the drills landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone near a southwestern remote island.

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BEIJING, AUG 5 (AP): China says it is cancelling or suspending dialogue with the US on issues from climate change to military relations and anti-drug efforts in retaliation for a visit this week to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The measures announced Friday are the latest in a promised series of steps intended to punish Washington for allowing the visit to the island it claims as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary. China is holding threatening military exercises in six zones off Taiwan’s coasts.

Missiles were also fired over Taiwan, defence officials told state media.

China opposes the selfgoverning island having its own engagements with foreign governments.

BEIJING, AUG 5 (AP): China says it summoned European diplomats in the country to protest statements issued by the Group of Seven nations and the European Union criticising threatening Chinese military exercises surrounding Taiwan.

The Foreign Ministry on Friday said Vice Minister Deng Li made “solemn representations” over what he called “wanton interference in China’s internal affairs”.

China has dispatched navy ships and warplanes and launched missiles into the Taiwan Strait in response to a visit this week by US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, which China regards as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary.

On the Chinese coast across from Taiwan, tourists gathered Friday to try to catch a glimpse of any mili-

tary aircraft heading toward the exercise area. Fighter jets could be heard flying overhead and tourists taking photos chanted, “Let’s take Taiwan back,” looking out into the blue waters of the Taiwan Strait from Pingtan island, a popular scenic spot.

On Friday morning, China sent military ships and war planes across the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait, the Taiwanese Defence Ministry said, crossing what had been an unofficial buffer zone between China and Taiwan for decades.

Five of the missiles fired by China landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan’s main islands, Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said Japan protested the missile landings to China as “serious threats to Japan’s national security and the safety of the Japanese people.”

China sends warships, jets close SL to hold crucial talks on formation of all-party govt to Taiwan as tensions escalate TAIPEI, AUG 5 (IANS): Taiwan’s Defence Ministry on Friday said that Chinese warships and aircraft conducted military drills in waters near the island, as tensions escalated in the region following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit earlier this week.

In a statement, the Ministry said that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces crossed the median line -- the halfway point between the island and mainland China -- in a move it called a “highly provocative act”, reports CNN. The line has previously been an informal but largely respected border of control between Beijing and Taipei.

Taiwan’s military responded with radio warnings and put air patrol forces, naval ships and shore-based missile systems on alert, the Ministry added. On Friday, Taiwan’s

A fighter jet flies in the direction of Taiwan seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot.

Premier Su Tseng-chang said the island represented “freedom and democracy”, and that “the evil neighbour next door flexed its muscles on our doorstep and arbitrarily sabotaged (one of) the busiest waterways in the world with military exercises”.

The skies and waters around Taiwan have become a focal point as Beijing ramps up tensions not only with Taiwan, but with

neighbouring Japan, which lodged a formal protest with China after five projectiles landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

The missiles were among a number launched

by Beijing Thursday, some of which flew over Taiwan, as Pelosi made her way to Tokyo where she met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday, CNN reported.

C O L O M B O, AU G 5 (PTI): The crucial talks on the possibility of forming an all-party government to tackle Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown will take place on Friday evening, officials and political leaders here said.

Ranil Wickremesinghe Sri Lanka’s newly-elected President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday ty breakaway group, said invited the political parties they would be looking at to form an all-party govern- Wickremesinghe’s approach ment to overcome the current economic crisis as the Parliament reconvened after a seven-day adjournment.

The talks will take place on Friday evening, officials and political leaders said.

“We expect the president to take a new approach, the country will get destroyed if there is no collective action,” former president Maithripala Sirisena told reporters here.

Vasudeva Nanayakkara, a veteran leader from the ruling coalition’s 10-par-

closely. “Wickremesinghe has said that he was formulating a plan to find solutions to the economic and political impasse. He is going to seek our views, let’s hope the talks will be successful,” Nanayakkara said.

However, the main opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) said their approach is to form a common all-party pro-

gramme rather than an allparty government. “We are willing to strengthen the oversight committee system and make our contribution,” SJB national organiser Tissa Attanayake said. Wickremesinghe, the leader of the United National Party (UNP), was elected president by lawmakers on July 20 - the first such occasion since 1978. The 73-year-old

President was appointed for the rest of the term of Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled the country and resigned on July 13 in the face of a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the island nation’s economy.

The majority of his support in the 225-member Parliament came from Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party.

Spain leads Europe in monkeypox spread

Daniel Rofin, 41, receives a vaccine against Monkeypox in medical center in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, July 26, 2022.

symptoms: pustules, fever, conjunctivitis and tiredness.

Roc was hospitalized for treatment before getting well enough to be released.

Spanish health authorities and community groups are struggling to check an outbreak that has already claimed the lives of two young men.

They reportedly died

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The Akuluto Area Union Dimapur (AAUD) extends heartiest congratulations to Shri. Aheto Chophy on being promoted to Asst. a sharp rise of food prices Director/ SDEO/ ADEO under School Education and raising fears of a global Department, Government of Nagaland. hunger crisis.

The union further wishes him the best in all The ships that depart- his future endeavours.

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Nihoyi Kinny General Secretary

F E L I C I TAT I O N The Litsami Students' Union would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Khatoli L. Khala on being promoted to Assistant Director/SDEO/ADEO under the Department of School Education, Government of Nagaland.

The Union further wishes her success in all her future endeavours.

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While tens of thousands of tons of grains are now making their way out with these latest shipments, it’s still a fraction of the 20 million tonnes of grains which Ukraine says are trapped in the country’s silos and ports, and which must be shipped out in order to make space for the new harvest.

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I S TA N B U L , AU G 5 (AP): Three more ships with grain have departed Ukrainian ports and are headed to Turkey for inspection, Turkey’s defence ministry said on Friday.

The three ships are loaded with a total of 58,000 tonnes of corn.

The departure of the ships comes after the first grain ship since the start of the war left Ukraine earlier this week.

It crossed the Black Sea under a wartime deal and passed inspection Wednesday in Istanbul and then headed on to Lebanon. Ukraine is one of the world’s main breadbaskets and the stocks of grain trapped were exacerbating

of encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, that can be caused by some viruses.

Most monkeypox cases cause only mild symptoms.

Spain has had 4,577 confirmed cases in the three months since the start of the outbreak, which has been linked to two raves in Europe, where experts say the virus was likely spread

through sex. The only country with more infections than Spain is the much larger United States, which has reported 7,100 cases.

In all, the global monkeypox outbreak has seen more than 26,000 cases in nearly 90 countries since May. There have been 103 suspected deaths in Africa, mostly in Nigeria and Congo, where a more lethal form of monkeypox is spreading than in the West.

Health experts stress that this is not technically a sexually transmitted disease, even though it has been mainly spreading via sex among gay and bisexual men, who account for 98% of cases beyond Africa.

The virus can be spread to anyone who has close, physical contact with an infected person, their clothing or bedsheets.

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BARCELONA, AUG 5 (AP): As a sex worker and adult film actor, Roc was relieved when he was among the first Spaniards to get a monkeypox vaccine.

He knew of several cases among men who have sex with men, which is the leading demographic for the disease, and feared he could be next.

“I went home and thought, Phew, my God, I’m saved,’” the 29-year-old told The Associated Press.

But it was already too late. Roc, the name he uses for work, had been infected by a client a few days before.

H e j o i n e d S p a i n’s steadily increasing count of monkeypox infections that has become the highest in Europe since the disease spread beyond Africa where it has been endemic for years. He began showing

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Kumar Fans Club holds ‘Nagaland for Peace & Harmony’ free concert today Kishore ‘Musical Feast’ in Jalukie A free concert “Nagaland for Peace and Harmony” organized by Dimapur Ao Youth Organization (DAYO) is all set to stage on Saturday at DDSC Stadium, Dimapur from 6:30 p.m. onwards which will showcase a total of eight artists from within and outside the State.

The headlining act featuring the fusion rock band from Kolkata, “MSonic”, arrived Dimapur on Friday at Happy Nest, Duncan Lane-5, and had a press conference with the medias.

They were also felicitated by the organizing members with an Ao traditional scarf. The band comprises of Mainak Nandy (vocalist), Rana Ghosh (drummer), Prasun Bhattacharya (lead guitarist) and Pradyumna Laskar-bass guitarist.

The vocalist informed that as a band, it was their first time to be performing in Nagaland. Commenting on the hospitality, one of the members mentioned

Fusion rock band from Kolkata, M-Sonic arrived Dimapur, Friday. (NP)

that they have been honoured and was hopeful that the concert will be a successful one and was looking forward for the performance. The band will be performing mostly Hindi songs and their originals.

The show will also be an addition to the shows that they have performed across

the country and therefore they have collaborated with DAYO’s concert, so that they will upload it on their social media, added the band member.

Mainak Nandy, mentioned that the band have released three albums in Hindi and Assamese and more than four- five singles.

The band also mentioned that in a year, the band performed in 60 to 70 shows, touring. M–Sonic which basically means “MusicSonic” is a mixed genre of Sufi or hard rock. The band also shared their experience wherein they were featured as finalists for India’s Got Talent in the

year 2009. The band has already marked more than 700 shows.

Giving a shout out to DAYO, the band mentioned that it was a break-through for the band to perform for the people of Nagaland.

The band also requested and invited all the communities to be part and enjoy the concert.

Various artists like Colored Keys, Samuel Konyak, Vinika Yepthomi, Projection Crew, DGP Band and the Mahila Band are some of the local artists for be performing at the concert.

Food and beverage stalls will also be set up at the venue by members of the 16 federating units under DAYO. The event will also announce the award for painting and online poetry slam competition which was organized by DAYO in collaboration with Ao Kaketshir Telongjem Dimapur (Ao Students Union Dimapur). (Staff Reporter)

Guests and artistes of the Musical Fest at St. Xavier College Auditorium, Jalukie Town on Thursday.

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he Kishore Kumar Fans Club in collaboration with M Dosti Channel and UDG Creations organized a “Musical Feast” at St. Xavier College Auditorium Jalukie Town on August 4.

The event was held in aid of musical facility creation for local artistes featuring various artistes and special appearances.

Special guests of the event were, Director General, Homeguard and Civil Defence, Nagaland, Rupin Sharma; Home Commissioner, Nagaland, Amit Sinha; vice president BJP Nagaland, Hurui Zeliang; advisor TaFMA Nagaland, Theja Meru; actor and senior journalist, Bollywood, Parag Chhapekar.

The host of the pro-

gramme was chairman UDA, T.R. Zeliang. Various artistes like Dr. Uday Umrikar, Sunep Lemtur, Voice of the Hills, Kenlumyile, Widinkamlak, Rachel, Deihimrai Newme, Geeta Rani and Matubo Zeliang enthralled the crowd with their mesmerizing performances. Peidoding and Ngaugia were the comperes of the event.

New book by Naga writer Avinuo released Duo releases music album ‘A Phisie Meho’

Dr Neiphrezo with the two artistes on his left, right and other well-wishers in Kohima on Friday. (NP)

the language by making it appealing as was done by their predecessors such as the renowned local celebrity Methaneilie Jütakhrie, who is loved and adored even by people who do not speak the language.

While appreciating the two young bachelors for finding means to be selfreliant and not depend on the government, Keditsu

said many young people were now taking interest in non-governmental jobs and practical-oriented profession which was an encouraging sight.

He also encouraged everyone gathered at the programme to promote such talents as no one else would promote “our” artistes except by those around them.

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He disclosed that it was a compilation of their originals which includes gospels and some love songs.

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The Merangkong Senso Telongjem Dimapur extends our heartiest congratulations with immense joy and honour to Miss Akumtila, D/o Mr. Imtinungit and Mrs. Yashipokla for winning Bronze Medal representing Indian Women's Team in the 35th Kings Cup World Sepaktakraw Championship at Bangkok Thailand.

The union is grateful for bringing laurels and shimmering the reputations of the union, the native people and the nation as a whole.

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s the makers of ‘Jokers’ announced its sequel set for 2024 release, speculations were rife that actress-singer Lady Gaga would essay the role of the clown prince’s partner in crime Harley Quinn.

But now, the ‘Hold My Hand’ hitmaker has confirmed her casting in the film by posting a musical teaser to social media.

The sequel, officially titled ‘Joker: Folie A Deux,’ will star Gaga opposite Joaquin Phoenix, returning to the role of Joker after winning the Oscar for best actor thanks to his performance in the 2019 first instalment, reports ‘Variety’.

The teaser is set to “Cheek to Cheek,” which Gaga has famously covered in her music career alongside Tony Bennett. Director Todd Phillips posted the screenplay’s cover on Instagram back on June 7, revealing the ‘Folie A Deux’ subtitle.

According to ‘Variety,’ the phrase refers to a shared delusional disorder, and Joker’s only real companion - other than Batman, anyway - has been Harley, a character first created for ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ in the early 1990s.

The teaser, however, does not outright confirm Gaga is playing Harley.

‘Joker: Folie A Deux’ will drop in theatres on October 4, 2024. (IANS)

tistes, Zekuosa, while sharing a brief introduction about the album, said it was the love for music that brought them together.

He also acknowledged various individuals who came forward to support them in various ways.

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book titled, “Where The Cobbled Path Leads” written by Avinuo Kire was released by Kohima College Kohima (KCK), vice-principal, Keneilesa Neikha, during a programme at KCK conference hall on Friday.

Sharing the publisher’s note, Penguin Random House, commissioning editor, Rea Mukherjee, wrote that she first encountered Avinuo’s writing when she read one of her earlier books. After that, Rea said she was on a mission to find a way to reach out to the writer to get to know her and to discuss more storytelling with her.

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mu s i c a l b u m i n Tenyidie titled “A Phisie Meho” by Zekuosa Zhale and Vilavor Loucü was released during a programme at Red Cross Building, Kohima on Friday.

Speaking as the guest after launching the album, chairman NKVIB, Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu lauded the two musicians for investing their time and resources and bringing out the music album.

He said the album would serve as a learning tool for people especially those from the suburban and urban areas as many from those places were losing touch of the language.

Keditsu said such albums were vital in preserving indigenous treasures and the language as well since many could learn uncommon words by listening to the songs and expand their vocabulary which, he said, was essential for native speakers especially the younger folks.

He encouraged the duo that it was their time to carry the mantle of spreading

We, the Children, Grandchildren & Great-Grandchildren of Late Akükau Khutovi Achumi of Shena Old Village would like to express our happiness and congratulate Er. VIKU L. ACHUMI, son of Mr. Lhosheto Achumi and Mrs. Kashili Achumi for clearing UPSC CSE 2021 with AIR 567 and being allocated the prestigious Indian Police Service (IPS).

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Avinuo Kire (R) with Keneilesa Neikha during her book launch on Friday in Kohima. (NP)

destiny would have designed it.

She expressed her immense joy to publish Avinuo’s new book, Where the Cobbled Path Leads. “The life she has breathed into her book, the characters she has formed, the story she has created, the themes she has discussed and most importantly, the rich history and culture of Nagaland that is she has so beautifully weaved into her narrative is nothing short of masterful storytelling,” Rea said. She hoped that the book would reach far and wide and receives the love, admiration and respect it deserves.

She further hoped to publish many more of her books and to further deepen the relationship as author and editor.

She expressed regret for not being able to be there today to celebrate with the writer.

However, she expressed her deepest gratitude to the writer for trusting the publisher with her creation. “May we all learn to love, grow and embrace what life might throw way. We’re more resilient than we think we are,” Rea said in her note.

Earlier, the launch was chaired by KCK assistant professor, Dr. Theyiesinuo Keditsu, while associate professor and HoD (English) Megovono Üsou delivered the welcome note. A prayer was offered by assistantt professor, C Vezholu Kotso while publisher’s note was read by assistant professor, Dr. Emisenla Jamir. An observation on the book was given by literary critic and former HoD (English), Dr. Kevileno Sakhrie while KCK students presented a special number. (Correspondent)

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U-20 Athletics: Rupal wins bronze in women’s 400m, makes history

Rupal Chaudhary

CALI (COLOMBIA), AUG 5 (PTI): Rupal Chaudhary made history by becoming the first Indian athlete to win two medals at the World U-20 Athletics Championship here.

After winning a 4x400m relay silver, she won bronze in the women’s 400m.

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ther is a small-time farmer in Shahpur Jainpur village in UP’s Meerut district the 17-year-old has been in incredible form, having run as many as four 400m races in just three days.

Rupal clocked 51.85 seconds to finish third behind Yemi Mary John (51.50) of Great Britain and Damaris Mutunga (51.71) of Kenya

Raducanu and Evans in Washington quarters

Emma Raducanu

LO N D O N, AU G 5 (AGENCIES): Britain’s Emma Raducanu said she needed a “monumental effort” to beat Colombia’s Camila Osorio and reach the Washington Open quarter-finals.

Raducanu, who will start the defence of her US Open title this month, won 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) in two hours 50 minutes, BBC reported.

“It just gives you a lot of confidence coming through a match like that,” said the British number one.

Compatriot Dan Evans progressed as American Taylor Fritz retired.

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Osorio required medical timeouts.

“For me it was a pretty monumental effort to really get through that,” said Raducanu.

“There were many moments in both sets where you want to go for the easy option of trying to finish the point early, but I’m just really pleased and proud of how I dug in when it really mattered.”

Raducanu will play Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova in the last eight.

E va n s, w h o s ave d match point but was leading 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 4-1 when Fritz withdrew, faces Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan in the quarter-finals.

on Thursday night.

On Tuesday, she had won a silver as part of the 4x400m relay quartet that finished second behind USA with an Asian junior record time of 3:17.76s. On the same day, she ran her individual 400m first round heat before featuring in the semifinals on Wednesday and final on Thursday.

She ran her personal best time twice in the championships, first a 52.27s in semifinals before bettering it in the final.

Earlier this year, Rupal stunned pre-race favourite Priya Mohan of Karnataka to clinch the gold medal in the women’s 400m at the National U-20 Federation Cup Athletics Championships here on Friday.

Rupal is the second Indian to have won a medal in the women’s 400m after Hima Das clinched a historic gold in the 2018 edition of the championships in Finland with a time of 51.46s. Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was the first Indian to win a gold in the championships in 2016 in Poland.

Rupal’s bronze is India’s ninth medal overall from the championships, which was earlier known as World Junior Championships. In the last edition in Nairobi in 2021, India had won three medals -- 2 silver, 1 bronze.

Nadal withdraws from Montreal because of abdominal injury

MADRID, AUG 5 (AP): Rafael Nadal withdrew from the upcoming hard-court tournament in Montreal on Friday because of the abdominal injury that caused him to pull out of Wimbledon ahead of the semifinals.

The Spaniard had been 19-0 in Grand Slam matches this year when he decided the injury was too much at Wimbledon. He won the Australian Open and the French Open to increase his major total to a men’s record 22 — one more than Novak Djokovic and two more than Roger Federer.

Nadal is a five-time champion in Montreal.

“I have been practicing for a while now without serving and started with serves four days ago.

Everything has been going well.

However, yesterday, after my normal practice, I felt a slight bother on my abdominal and today it was still there,” Nadal said in a statement.

“After speaking with my doctor, we prefer to take things in a conservative way and give a few more days before starting to compete.” American player Mackenzie McDonald will replace Nadal in the draw.

Djokovic withdrew from the Montreal tournament on Thursday because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and is therefore not allowed to enter Canada.

Gukesh, the ‘Rajinikanth’ of Indian chess, wins 7th game in a row

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CHENNAI, AUG 5 (IANS): A 7/7 in the Chess Olympiad for any Grandmaster (GM) is not a small feat and if that was achieved by a 16-year-old GM, then it is even more commendable.

The 16-year-old boy is GM D. Gukesh, one of the world’s youngest to get the coveted GM title. And yes! There is certainly a Rajinikanth, the Tamil movie hero known for many stupendous feats on the silver screen, in him.

Gukesh’s father is D. Rajinikanth is an ear, nose and throat surgeon.

Moreover, Gukesh’s favourite chess players are America’s first World Chess Champion late Bobby Fischer and India’s first World Chess Champion V. Anand.

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team, Gukesh has won all his seven games at the ongoing chess Olympiad and has scalped even GM Alexei Shirov.

“Gukesh is a calm boy. He is more of a positional player who calculates a lot and has a very high strategic sense,” GM Vishnu Prasanna, the coach of India’s latest chess sensation, had told IANS. According to Rajinikanth, his son Gukesh breathes and eats chess and spends several hours before a computer reading and analysing games and also listens to spiritual music.

Well, the actor Rajinikanth had also said his political philosophy will be spiritual politics. It is a different matter that the actor backtracked from getting into Tamil Nadu politics.

India beat Bangladesh 5-2 to clinch U20 SAFF Championship

BHUBANESWAR, AUG 5 (AGENCIES): India trounced Bangladesh 5-2 in front of a roaring Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha to clinch the SAFF U20 Championship title.

Gurkirat Singh spearheaded the Indian attack with four goals in the match and finished as the tournament’s top scorer with eight goals. Apart from Gurkirat’s goalfest, Himangshu Jangra also found the net. MD. Rajon Howladar and Shahin Mia were the two scorers for Bangladesh. India took an early lead in the first minute after the Bangladesh keeper MD Asif brought down Gurkirat inside the box.

Gurkirat converted from the spot. Right before half-time, Bangladesh created a brilliant attacking move. MD Rafiqul Islam squared the ball from the right flank and found MD. Rajon Howladar, who took a first-time shot and buried the ball in the bottom-left corner to equalise for Bangladesh. It was a fast start for Bangladesh in the second half, which paid off. The Indians, still looking to find their feet in the second half,

the ball. Gurkirat, who was stationed just outside the box, took a first-time shot and cannoned the ball in the bottom-right corner. Jangra came close on a couple of occasions to find the net but came short both times in front of Bangladesh’s sharp defending.

Brijesh Giri had a chance to snatch it right at the end. Vibin Mohanan sent a well-measured low Indian football players celebrate a goal against Bangladesh cross to Giri, who guided during SAFF U-20 final match. (PTI) the ball towards goal with

a well-improvised shot, but Asif kept the visitor in the match with a stunning save at full-stretch in the last minute. With the match going into extra time after the scores were level at 2-2 after 90 minutes, India made an immediate impact courtesy of Jangra’s strike in the 91st minute. Jangra was missing his finishing boots in the first 90 minutes, but the youngster showed calm and composure to stroke the ball past

the keeper to put India ahead. While Bangladesh was looking to recuperate, India stuck it with another blow. This time, Gurkirat, a familiar face in front of the goal, went past Asif and found the bottom corner of the open net from a tight angle to make it 4-2 for the host.

Right after scoring India’s fourth, Gurkirat, this time on the turn, took a shot from distance and the ball flew over Asif ’s head into the net to score his fourth.

conceded their second in the 48th minute. They failed to clear a Bangladesh free-kick, and Shahin Mia latched on to the ball and dispatched a venomous shot at goal, that hit the inner side of the right post and rattled the net to make it 2-1 for the visitor.

The Indians, like the Bangladeshis in the first half, did not lose their composure after going behind.

They kept hounding the Bangladesh defence, and the efforts bore fruit in the 60th minute after Gurkirat scored his second and equalised for India. This time, the Bangladesh defence failed to clear

IOC to consider 4th T20I: Iyer, Hooda to fight for Asia cricket’s inclusion Cup berth as India look for series win in 2028 Olympics

Shreyas Iyer

FORT LAUDERHILL ( F LO R I DA ) , AU G 5 (PTI): Shreyas Iyer’s performance will be under intense scrutiny as India gear up for the back-toback T20I games against West Indies, starting here on Saturday, with the twin objective of winning the series and also firming up squad for T20 World Cup. India are currently leading the five-match series 2-1 and nothing would be more satisfying than a couple of thumping wins in front of the USA’s Indian diaspora, which is anticipating an enjoyable weekend cricket carnival.

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Deepak Hooda, who has used most of the opportunities handed to him, looks good to outwit Iyer at the moment as far as the big ticket T20 World Cup berth is concerned.

With KL Rahul and Virat Kohli all set to be back in the playing eleven for the Asia Cup, time is certainly running out for the 27-yearold Mumbaikar, who has had scores of 0, 10 (11 balls) and 24 (27 balls) in the three games so far in the ongoing series.

He looked distinctly uncomfortable against the fast and rising deliveries.

While the short ball is

his main problem, watching Iyer gives a feeling that he is unable to decide at what pace and which gear would he bat in a T20 game, something that’s not the case when he is taking strike in 50-over format.

In head coach Rahul Dravid’s regime so far, no player has got a raw deal in terms of chances and are given long enough rope to succeed.

However in case of Iyer, his T20I game hasn’t exactly yielded the results that one has seen him deliver in the ODI cricket.

Even then, Dravid has given Iyer nine T20I games in last two and half months, out of which, one in Bengaluru was a wash-out and there hasn’t been a single fifty-plus score even when he got chance to come out within first 10 overs.

If Iyer gets a go in the last two games, he has no option but to put his best foot forward as the Asia Cup team, in all probability, will also be the likely team for the T20 World Cup. Even if Iyer makes the cut for Asia Cup or T20 World Cup, there is a miniscule chance of him getting a first XI look-in in a jam-packed top-order.

NEW DELHI, AUG 5 (AGENCIES): After women’s cricket made its debut in T20I format at the Birmingham Commonwealth games 2022, there are growing clamours towards wanting to see the game make its way to the Olympics. Well, there is good news for fans as International Olympic Committee (IOC) will review the possibility of cricket’s inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, HT reported.

IOC has shortlisted cricket for a review along with eight other sporting disciplines namely baseball/softball, flag football, lacrosse, break dancing, karate, kick-boxing, squash, and motorsport. As per a report in ESPNcricinfo, IOC has requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to submit a presentation to support cricket’s inclusion.

The presentation will likely be made during the IOC meeting in Mumbai in 2023.

Earlier in February this year, IOC had announced that 28 sports would be a part of Los Angeles Olympics with a focus on youth, and in May, it came up with means to evaluate ‘potential new sports’ and figure if they were a good fit for the Olympics.

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CWG: Bajrang, Deepak, Sakshi win gold

Bajrang Punia

BIRMINGHAM, AUG 5 (IANS/AGENCIES): Former Asian and Commonwealth Games winner Bajrang Punia established his superiority in the men’s freestyle 65kg division, winning the gold medal at Birmingham 2022 by beating Lachlan McNeil of Canada 9-2 in the final on Friday.

Later, Sakshi Malik pinner her opponent to win the women’s 62kg title and secure India’s second wrestling gold. Deepak Punia then made it three for India by beating Pakistan’s reigning gold medallist Muhammad Inam in the men’s 86kg final. Meanwhile, Anshu

Sakshi Malik

Malik lost the women’s 57kg final and settled for silver.

Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Punia, who won gold medal four years ago in Gold Coast, came out with aggressive intentions and did not allow his young Canadian opponent much chances, forcing two takedowns in the first period itself to go 4-0 up.

The Canadian was a bit too defensive in the first period but launched a good attack at the start of the second period to reduce the margin to 2-4. But Punia, a World No 1 in his division, was up to the task and effected two one-leg takedowns to widen

the margin again. He got another point when he pushed his opponent out of the bout area with another one-leg hold. With a few seconds remaining, the 27-year-old Indian wrapped up the bout with another take down to seal a 9-2 victory and claimed the gold medal in authoritative manner.

Sakshi, who seemed to have gone off the boil after her success in the Rio Olympics, missing some events and got upstages by younger opponents, made a brilliant comeback both in her bout on Friday and her career as she stomped her authority.

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Anshu, who had dominated her way to the final with easy wins, found the Nigerian wrestler’s defense too strong to breach as she lost 3-7 on points.

The Nigerian wrestler, a three-time CWG winner, dominated the first period as she won four points, pulling Anshu down twice and getting technical points. Anshu launched some desperate attacks in Deepak Punia the second period as she had come to Canada from ham in his opening bout. bagged one point followed Mexico at a very young It was a one-sided fight by a two-point takedown. age with her family seeking where Deepak clinched a Divya takes bronze political asylum, is strong 10-0 victory to reach the Divya Kakran clinched grappler having won medals quarterfinals. There was no a bronze in 68kg, winning in World Championships stopping for him after that the medal play-off in just She started aggressively as he replicated the same 26 seconds against Tonga’s and effected two takedowns show in the quarterfinals Tiger Lily. Divya had got in the first period to take 4-0 against Sheku Kassegbama a tough 68kg draw as she lead. But Sakshi fought back of Sierra Leone. found Tokyo Olympic silstrongly in the second pe- Anshu settles for silver ver medallist and 11-time riod, going on an attack and African champion Blessing India’s Anshu Malik Oborududu from Nigeria taking two points. She then counterattacked brilliantly had to be satisfied with a in her campaign-opener. and effected a fall by pinning silver medal in the women’s The first round was worth a her opponent’s shoulder to freestyle 57kg wrestling final though but Divya was after losing to Odunayo outplayed by the formidable the mat to win the match.

The young wrestler Folasade Adekuoroye of Nigerian. The Asian Games started his campaign on a Nigeria in the final at the bronze medallist won her high as he outclassed New Victoria Park Arena in repechage round against Blandine Nyeh Ngiri by fall.

Zealand’s Matthew Oxen- Coventry on Friday.

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Para-powerlifter Sudhir sets Games record on way to gold

Sudhir Singh

BIRMINGHAM, AUG 5 (IANS): Indian para-powerlifter Sudhir Singh came up with a brilliant effort to claim the gold medal in the men’s heavyweight division at the Commonwealth Games here, claiming the country’s first medal in powerlifting in Birmingham 2022. Sudhir, who is ranked third in the world in World Para Powerlifting’s Official World Rankings for 2022 with the best lift of 214kg, came up with a top lift of 212kg to win the gold medal with a Commonwealth Games record.

This was India’s first medal in the para-sports in Birmingham 2022 and the country’s eighth gold medal and 22nd overall. India has a tally of 8 gold, seven silver,

and seven bronze.

Sudhir started with a lift of 208kg and then improved it to 212kg for a Games Record. The 27-yearold attempted to improve his season’s best of 214kg by attempting to lift 217 on Thursday evening but could not successfully complete the lift.

Thus, Sudhir Singh had to settle for the best lift of 212, which fetched him 134.5 points and the gold medal. He improved on the record for points with his tally of 134.5 points. Nigeria’s Christian Kechukwu Obichukwu took the silver medal with a best lift of 197kg which fetched him 130.8 points considering his lower body weight than his Indian opponent in the up to 88kg weight division. Scotland’s Micky Yule took the bronze medal with a best lift of 192kg and 130.9 points.

It was a weak competition as only Sudhir managed to cross the 200kg mark in an event in which Abdelkareem Mohmmad Ahmad Khattab of Jordan holds the world record of 250kg.

Lawn Bowl: India beat England to enter final Manika, Sreeja storm into women singles quarters at CWG

BIRMINGHAM, AUG 5 (PTI): India are assured of a second medal from lawn bowl competition after the men’s fours team made its way into the final of the Commonwealth Games here on Friday.

After the quartet of Lovely Choubey (lead), Pinki (second), Nayanmoni Saikia (third) and Rupa Rani Tirkey (slip) beat South Africa 17-10 in the women’s fours final to hand India a historic gold on Tuesday, it was the turn of men’s team to follow

their women counterparts.

The men’s quartet of Sunil Bahadur (lead), Navneet Singh (second), Chandan Kumar Singh (third) and Dinesh Kumar (skip) defeated hosts England by a close 13-12 margin in the semifinal to assure India of at least a silver medal.

Earlier in the day, the women’s pair of Lovely Choubey and Nayanmoni Saikai were knocked out of the Games after they went down in the quarterfinals.

The Indian duo lost to England’s Sophie Tolchard and Amy Pharoah 18-14. Choubey and Saikai led on two occasions, first 5-2 after four rounds and 8-6 after end nine.

However, they squandered an early advantage and allowed the English pair of Tolchard (lead) and Pharoah (skip) to make a strong comeback.

After the 10th round, England surged ahead and kept increasing their lead and eventually emerged victorious.

BIRMINGHAM, AUG wracking encounter against 5 (PTI): Indian paddlers Charlotte Carey from Wales Manika Batra and Sreeja to secure herself a last eight Akula entered the women’s berth. The 24-year-old toiled singles quarterfinals in the hard but held her nerves to table tennis event of the beat Carey 8-11, 11-7, 12-14, Commonwealth Games 9-11, 11-4, 15-13, 12-10. here on Friday.

Sreeja will lock horns Batra steamrolled Auswith Canada’s Mo Zhang tralian Jee Minhyung 11-4 in the quarterfinal which is 11-8 11-6 12-10 to book her also slated to be held later place in the quarterfinal. tonight. Earlier in the day, The 27-year-old star both Manika and Sreeja also paddler will now take on reached the mixed doubles Singapore’s Jian Zeng in the quarterfinal events. last eight-clash later tonight.

Batra and mixed Sreeja, on the other Manika Batra plays against Minhyung Jee in the doubles partner Sathiyan hand, played out a nerve- Women’s Singles Round of 16. (PTI) Gnanasekaran humbled

Nigerians Olajide Omotayo and Ajoke Ojomu 11-7 11-6 11-7.

The two will face Malaysia’s Javen Choong and Karen Lyne in the first quarter-final event on Friday.

Sreeja and her partner Achanta Sharath Kamal, on the other hand, came from behind to beat Malaysia’s Leond Chee Fang and Ho Ying 5-11 11-2 11-6 11-5.

They will square up against home favourites Liam Pitchford and Tin-Tin Ho in the second quarterfinal clash on the same day.

Sreeshankar wins silver in men’s long jump BIRMINGHAM, AUG 5 (IANS): India’s Murali Sreeshankar won silver medal in the men’s long jump competition at the Commonwealth Games at the Alexander Stadium here on Thursday.

This is India’s second medal in athletics at Birmingham 2022 after Tejaswin Shankar won bronze in the high jump on Wednesday. This medal takes to 19 India’s total medal count at this Commonwealth Games -- 5 gold, 7 silver and 7 silver.

Sreeshankar came up with a superb jump on his fifth attempt as he kept to 8.08 metres to leapfrog from seventh to second.

The athlete from Palakkad, Kerala tied for the top spot at 8.08 metres but

metres by Sreeshankar, who had endured a very disappointing outing at Tokyo Olympics. South Africa’s Jovan van Vuuren got the bronze medal with a best effort of 8.06 metres.

This is India’s first silver medal in men’s long jump at the Commonwealth Games and second medal in this discipline after Suresh Babu won bronze in Edmonton, Canada in 1978.

The last Indian to win a long jump medal at the Commonwealth Games was Anju Bobby George who won the women’s long jump bronze medal in 2002.

Murali Sreeshankar holds the tricolor after the Men’s Long Muhammad Anees YaJump final. (PTI) hiya, the other Indian in the men’s long jump final finLaquan Nairn of Bahama had a better second jump ished fifth with a best effort took the gold medal as he of 7.94 as compared to 7.84 of 7.97 metres.

MEDALS TALLY Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 = = 23 = 25 26 = = = = = 32 33 =

Country Gold Silver Australia 50 43 England 45 44 Canada 18 22 New Zealand 16 10 India 9 8 Scotland 8 8 Nigeria 6 3 Wales 4 5 Malaysia 4 3 Cyprus 2 2 Jamaica 2 2 Uganda 2 0 Northern Ireland 1 4 Kenya 1 3 Singapore 1 3 Samoa 1 3 Trinidad & Tobago 1 1 Pakistan 1 0 Bermuda 1 0 Cameroon 1 0 Bahamas 1 0 Fiji 0 2 Mauritius 0 2 Sri Lanka 0 1 Barbados 0 1 Guernsey 0 1 Papua New Guinea 0 1 St Lucia 0 1 The Gambia 0 1 Tanzania 0 1 Namibia 0 0 Malta 0 0 Nauru 0 0

Bronze 43 35 24 12 8 19 6 10 3 4 1 0 3 4 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1

Total 136 124 64 38 25 35 15 19 10 8 5 2 8 8 5 4 3 3 1 1 1 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1

Sindhu, Srikanth in quarterfinals BIRMINGHAM, AUG 5 (PTI): Star Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth had another easy outing as they stormed into the quarterfinals of the women’s and men’s singles events respectively with comfortable wins at the Commonwealth Games here on Friday.

Sindhu, a silver medallist at the 2018 edition, expectedly faced no resistance from Uganda’s Husina Kobugabe, winning 21-10 21-9 in her pre-quarterfinal match.

Srikanth, who had also finished second best at Gold Coast, too didn’t break any sweat on his way to a 21-9 21-12 win over Sri Lanka’s Dumindu Abeywickrama in the men’s singles.

Earlier, Indian women’s pairing of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly had entered the last eight with a 21-2 21-4 win over Mauritius’ Jemimah Leung For Sang and Ganesha Mungrah.

Double Olympic medallist Sindhu will face Malaysia’s Goh Jin Wei in the next round for a place in the semifinals.

P V Sindhu

Sindhu had defeated Goh in two tight games in the final of the mixed team final and can ill-afford to lower her guard against the 22-year-old Malaysian, a winner of the World Junior Championships gold in 2015 and 2018.

Former world number one Srikanth will be up against England’s Toby Penty, who is ranked 54th in the world.

Gayatri and Treesa will meet Jamaica’s Tahlia Richardson and Katherine Wynter next.

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