April 16, 2017

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Vol XXVII No. 129

DIMAPUR, sunday, april 16, 2017 Pages 12 ` 4.00

BJP cheated people to come to power, Akhilesh alleges

Bengaluru beat Lajong FC

Sonakshi: People try to suppress opinionated people

National, Page 5

sports, Page 11

infotainment, Page 10

NL Cong to counter BJP’s agenda

DIMAPUR, APR 15 (NPN): Recently formed Nagaland Congress (NC) party, a break-away of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), has raised its pitch against communalism and vowing to defend Christian faith and practices as a matter of conviction as well as Constitutional rights.

A press note by NC media cell however made its stand clear that it was not against BJP as a political party but was determined to “fight tooth and nail against BJP’s politics of anti-Christianity” since the party (BJP) was all out to promote Hindu.

“Whether NPF should continue the marriage with BJP till swamis and yogis are sufficiently born to saffronize Nagaland is best left to supporting people to decide when they can. And in this grave situation million dollar question is whether the Church should remain silent because consequence of silence may fall upon the Church,” NC stated.

Taking note of BJP leaders’ public statements that their party was optimistic to form the next gov-

Petrol, diesel prices hiked

NEW DELHI, APR 15 (PTI): Price of petrol was on Saturday night hiked by Rs 1.39 per litre and diesel

by Rs 1.04 a litre in sync with firming international rates. The hike comes the on back of a Rs 4.85 per litre reduction in rates of petrol and Rs 3.41 a litre in diesel effected from April 1. Indian Oil Corp (IOC), said price of petrol is being increased

by Rs 1.39 per litre, excluding state levies, and that of diesel by Rs 1.04 (excluding state levies) with effect from midnight tonight. IOC also said it intends to shortly start daily changes in price of petrol and diesel on pilot basis, in several states.

Shortage of IAS, IPS and IFS officers

NEW DELHI, APR 15 (NPN): As per information tabled in the parliament recently, there is an overall shortage of almost 22% in the sanctioned strength of IAS, IPS and IFS officers. To fill this shortage, the government has increased the annual intake of IAS officers to 180 in the last four years and of IFS officers to 110 and IPS officers 150. The situation is not the same in some states, where upto 32% vacancies exists. For Nagaland the percentage was 73.8% (206/152) while J&K stood at 67.2% (390/262).

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““In addition to cow protection, love jihad, antiRomeo patrol, slaughter house, you are to check wearing of short skirts.”

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ernment in Nagaland, NC however questioned-- “how can BJP have hope of this possibility in the state of Nagaland for Christ, when anti Christianity movement has reached our doorstep, unless they have rightly observed the accommodative spirit of NPF on one side and tepid attitude of church bodies on other side?”

Maintaining that a small state like Nagaland may be seen as an insignificant state, yet, NC said Nagaland was now seemingly considered a thorn in the body politics of future Hindu Rashtra. In this regard, NC asked as to who could disprove that Nagaland was under threat?

NC said BJP, intoxicated with overwhelming electoral support and without formidable opposition from any corner, was hell bound to make India a Hindu Rashtra- one nation, one culture, one diet, one religion.

NC alleged that for BJP there cannot be a Christian state, for that matter no Christian in Hindu Rashtra. “Either we are Indian and not Christian or

Christian and not Indian.

This, they are determined to fulfil by 2021,” Nagaland Congress added.

Further hitting out at BJP, NC said imposition of Good Governance Day on Christmas Day, Judges Day and now Digital India Day on Good Friday and Yoga Day on Father’s Day, was clear demonstration of BJP’s total contempt towards Christianity and Christian community of India.

It said the state government’s belated decisions not to observe these occasions on given date clashing with Christian calendar after firm protest made by Mizoram, Meghalaya and even Arunachal Pradesh clearly indicated deep-rooted marriage between NPF & BJP. Non-observance of these occasions on given date was non issue, however, NC said the core issue was BJP’s declared position to phase out Christianity in a new India and NPF’s unconcealed position not to antagonize BJP. I n c i d e n t a l l y, N C pointed out that NPF was “illogically even more na-

NE to witness heavy rains; cyclone likely in Bay of Bengal NEW DELHI, APR 15 (AGENCIES): Not even 24 hours have been passed that the low-pressure area has intensified further into a depression which is much likely to give rains over the North Eastern states of the country. A tropical depression formed on Saturday evening, local time, across the central Bay of Bengal.

In general, also Northeast India gets bestowed with good pre-Monsoon showers during this time of the season and with the system approaching towards the state, the rain intensity is further likely to scale up.

The depression which is at present seen in the west-southwest of Mayabander in Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India will also fuel in some hefty showers.

Heavy squalls with thunderstorms are also likely to lash the region. This depression is seen moving towards the Myanmar coast. Moreover, as per Skymet Weather report, a cyclonic circulation is seen over East Assam and adjoining area. Another trough is also seen extending from the foothills of Uttar Pradesh up to Nagaland across the North Eastern states.

In the wake of this, scattered rains are expected to show up in the northeast regions particularly over Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and Assam.

Skymet Weather further details that these rains are expected to show up during the late afternoon or evening hours as per the nature of pre-Monsoon showers. Moreover, these rains are expected to continue for the next 24 hours. Thereafter, the intensity is predicted to reduce.

tional minded than national parties.”

“We are seeing not a convergence but submerged of regionalism into a new brand of Hindu nationalism,” NC stated.

Nagaland C accused NPF that it diligently nurtured a tiny lotus in tiny pond all the while although knowing fully that the plant could one day become a thorn in Christian society.

“If BJP has grown larger and bolder, it is not by people’s choice, it is NPF’s love marriage with BJP,” NC asserted.

NC was apprehensive that whatever trials the state had gone through and broke through in the past, Naga identity, social & religious practices, were now most dangerously put to trial during this dangerous NPF-BJP marriage.

“And at no point of time in the past was Article 371A questioned and challenged as daringly done during these three consecutive terms of NPF-led DAN Govt. In so far as religion is concerned NPF might have created a Frankenstein out of BJP,” the Nagaland Congress stated.

Crack visible in BJP- Media slammed for led govt in Manipur reportage on SLP in SC

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IMPHAL, APR 15: In what could be described as the first sign of a crack in the one-month old BJPled government in Manipur, the health minister, L Jayentakumar, has submitted his resignation as cabinet minister. Jayentakumar, who has resigned citing interference to his authority, said his position regarding resignation as minister would be known after April 18. The NPP leader submitted his resignation letter to chief minister N Biren Singh on Friday.

In his resignation letter, Jayentakumar protested against not consulting him before the suspension of the health director, Dr. O Ibomcha, who was recently placed under suspension from his service by an order of the state department of personnel, the department under chief minister.

Jayentakumar alleged that the manner in which the health director was suspended was interference in his work as a minister in-charge of the department. “I may not be able to get visions materialised as expected since there have been so many interference to my authority,” the resignation letter dated April 13 stated.

Responding to a volley of questions from media persons on the sideline of a function here today, Jayentakumar said whether he would quit as cabinet minister or not would be confirmed after chief minister, who is currently outside the state, return on April 18. “I would come to you after April 18,” he said.

State chief minister, N Biren Singh, is currently in Odisha to attend BJP’s national executive meeting at Bhubaneshwar. “I will meet the chief minister soon after he comes back to Imphal. Before leaving Imphal yesterday (Friday), he (chief minister) called me over phone and asked the reason,” Jayentakumar said.

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, APR 15 (NPN): NMA president, Mrs. Abeiu Meru on April 14, when contacted over mobile by this newspaper, launched a tirade against the media for baseless reporting on various events which she alleged, were done “without consulting NMA”.

Further, she said while things had quieted down, the report on the application in the Supreme Court published on April 13, 2017 in this newspaper had stirred up things. Mrs. Meru warned that “if anything happens to the NMA (leaders) then the media will be held responsible”.

Again on April 14, a press note was issued by Abeiu Meru (president) and Rosemary Dzüvichü (advisor) along the same charges but with a threat/ intimidation that the Editor of this newspaper would be held responsible, if anything happened to them. What riled the women leaders was the report on April 13, on the application purportedly submitted by the two women leaders, through their counsel(s) for deletion of their names as petitioners from the SLP in the Supreme Court and which was accepted. In the same order, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties

RMSA teachers to launch phase-wise stir DIMAPUR, APR 15 (NPN): With no positive response from state government to its ultimatum, the Nagaland RMSA Teachers Association (NRMSATA) 2016 said they were compelled to boycott three days class from April 17-19 as first phase agitation and continue with poster campaign (phase II) and sit in protest (phase III) until their demands were met.

Anguished for misleading with excuses, NRMSATA2016 president Renbemo L Patton and general secretary Kezhothito Keyho said the department had informed them at least four times over a period of five months about their salary being nearly ready to be disbursed, creating a spurious hope for the member to wait only to find in the end, their silence.

It said all hopes have run dry and the department’s verbal assurances reduced to good words having no meaning or consequences.

The association has warned the department “not to take the ethical conduct and misinterpret it as a weakness of the association”. It said hardworking teachers had been rewarded with untold hardship, physical exhaustion coupled with financial stress.

“Should this trend continue, it would not be long before we take to the streets for bagging for being a sincere teacher,” NRMSATA said.

On Service Regularization: NRMSATA reminded the department that as per the guideline/framework of RMSA, all teachers should have to be appointed under State Education department by their respective states on regular basis with same service condition as of the state teachers. NRMSATA said it was a matter of great concern that those appointment made through backdoor and political aid were regularized.

However, RMSATA claimed that teachers appointed in

2016 free and fair open competition, fulfilling all prerequisite qualification were deprived of their rights justice by inducting them as purely contractual employees.

In this regard, NRMSATA urged the state government to re-examine the matter seriously for Service Regularization of RMSA teachers 2016 at the earliest possible with all fair means.

Meanwhile, the association has informed all its members to refrain from joining their duties until further notification. The teachers said that they were ready to face any consequences for what was right and just. The body has also requested all concerned citizens to extend support and co-operation, saying “all these related issues are the root cause of corruption in the society”. It further war ned that NRMSATA would not be held responsible for any unwarranted situation during the course agitations.

India vulnerable to Zika, Ebola; level of preparedness inadequate ‘Level of preparedness is inadequate to protect public health’ NEW DELHI, APR 15(AGENCIES): South Asian nations, including India, are vulnerable to emerging infectious diseases such as Zika and Ebola, and their level of preparedness is inadequate to protect public health, a new health analysis has revealed.

An analysis as part of a collection of 12 analyses on health in South Asia published in British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that inadequate surveillance and uneven health system capacity may accelerate the spread of the emerging infectious diseases in the region. The region is already burdened by diseases like tuberculosis, HIV and malaria.

“Examining the vulnerability to emerging and growing infectious disease

threats and the capacity to respond to outbreaks, the analysis finds the level of preparedness is inadequate to protect public health,” it said.

T h e a n a ly s i s a l s o pointed out that although sporadic cases of dengue infection were seen in many South Asian countries in the 1960s, regular epidemics only occurred in the early 1990s in India and Sri Lanka.

“In India and Sri Lanka, by around 40 years of age 90-95% of adults have been infected with the dengue virus, while 41% have been infected with chikungunya,” the analysis found.

It said while noting that anthrax is endemic in large parts of South Asia, that in the border areas of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, poor vaccination and surveillance have been accompanied by increas-

ing anthrax cases, which prompted Bangladesh to announce a red alert in 2010.

Noting that rabies remains endemic in eight countries in South East Asia, with 1.4 billion people at risk, the authors in the analysis said that the region contributes about 45% of global rabies deaths, while the rhetoric on elimination continues to grow.

“Brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis, and a range

of food-borne diseases contribute to the morbidity and mortality attributable to zoonotic infections but are struggling to gain the attention of policymakers in the subcontinent, despite it resulting in 150 million illnesses, 175,000 deaths, and 12 million disabilityadjusted life years,” the analysis said.

The analysis found that the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus A/ H5N1, which was introduced to the subcontinent in 2005 through wild birds, has since become endemic across large parts of northeast India and Bangladesh, across porous international borders.

South Asia is defined by the World Bank as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and is home to a quarter of the world’s population.

(PUCL) through its national secretary, filed for impleadment as petitioners in place of the NMA office bearers. The apex court allowed PUCL petition but subject to the objections and reservation and reply by the respondents.

It is to reiterate that this newspaper including other newspapers have been covering the issue both in the assembly and outside since 2005-06 , purely in the interest of providing information to public on the crucial issue of 33% women reservation and the vacillating stand of the government. The issue of 33% women reservation in ULBs in Nagaland in particular, also comes into play with various objections raised by the apex Naga tribe organisations.

The issue between the office bearers of NMA and the apex Naga tribes is known to all. Therefore, this newspaper is not accountable for the events that unfolded. It is regretted, that instead of making whatever clarification as the case may be, instead the women leaders chose to shoot the messenger by intimidating the editor and media.

If by any report(s) certain people may have been hurt, it was never with any intention but only for the purpose of disseminating news.

President, VP Easter greetings NEW DELHI, APR 15 (NPN): On the eve of Easter, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, has extended best wishes and felicitations to “all my countrymen in India and abroad, especially to my Christian brothers and sisters.” In his message, Pranab said, “May this Easter be a time of renewal and rejuvenation. The teachings of Lord Jesus Christ inspire us to lead a life filled with truth, forgiveness, love and selfless service. Let us unite together to eradicate violence and hatred from society. Let us dedicate ourselves to the service of the weak and downtrodden”. The Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari, also greeted the people on the auspicious occasion of Easter. In a message, he said called for celebrating Easter by being compassionate towards all human beings irrespective of caste, creed or religion.” “I convey my warm greetings and good wishes to the people of our country on the auspicious occasion of Easter, marking the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ.”

Gov fetes Shaurya Chakra awardees

DIMAPUR, APR 15 (NPN): Nagaland governor, PB Acharya, has congratulated Aut Zumvu, SDPO Kohima, and Captain EY Jami, on being conferred the prestigious ‘Shaurya Chakra’ by the President of India in the presence of the Prime minister of India at a glittering function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi on April 6, 2017.

According to PRO Raj Bhavan, the governor said that the two officers have brought pride and laurels to the people of Nagaland and the nation. Acharya said the awards appropriately reflected the act of bravery, courage, dedication and promptness of the two officers. Further, the governor encouraged them to continue upholding the values and ideals of the Nagaland Police and the Indian Army and continue being an inspiration and encouragement to the younger generation to emulate the exemplary work.

RD deptt reminds beneficiaries

DIMAPUR, APR 15 (NPN): Rural Development department has informed all job card holders under MGNREGA to open their bank accounts to avail the benefits through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). Informing this in a press note, RD commissioner (MGNREGA) and secretary Kelei Zeliang, IAS said DBT has been implemented from April 1, 2017 along with rest of the country for direct cash transfer of wages to the respective job card holder’s bank accounts.

In this regard, BDOs have been directed to coordinate and assist the job card holders in their respective Blocks to open MGNREGA job card holders bank accounts. It further requested all the branch managers of various banks to extend their cooperation in opening of “0” balance bank accoun ts of the job card holders.

NPCC extends Easter greetings

DIMAPUR, APR 15 (NPN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has extended warm Easter greetings to the people of Nagaland. NPCC through its Media Cell stated that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation of Christian faith. “It symbolizes the complete verification of all that Jesus preached and taught during his ministry, giving final and irrefutable proof that he was really the son of God who conquered death once for all,” said NPCC. As Christians in Nagaland celebrate Easter with the rest of the world, NPCC said it was time for believers to reflect on their faith and focus on how Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and his resurrection means to them. On the occasion of Easter, NPCC has also urged the believers to rededicate their lives and remain strong in faith to overcome evil ways of life that has become deep rooted in “our land.”

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news in brief Oking Hospital Kohima becomes centre of Smile Train

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KOHIMA, APR 15 (NPN): Oking Hospital and Research Clinic Pvt. Ltd. Kohima, has been recognised by Smile Train as its centre for cleft lip and palate surgery in Nagaland on March 2017.

Informing this in a press briefing, Smile Train plastic surgeon, Shija Hospital HealthCity, Langol Manipur, Dr. Kh. Palin, said the Smile Train, after examining the surgery procedures, recognised Oking Hospital.

He expressed the hope that more people from Nagaland could avail cleft lips and palate free surgery in the hospital.

Highlighting the activities of Smile Train, Dr. Palin said cleft lip and palate could be corrected and that people with such infirmity were inferior to none.

He informed that since 1999, Smile Train has done more than a million surgeries across the world and added that in Nagaland, it has

collaborated with the state government through SSA, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) and BSF to enhance the surgery.

However, Dr. Palin lamented that Nagaland government, so far, has only extended assistance only once.

Dr. Palin said SSA allotted Rs. 2 lakh, a onetime payment, to Smile Train to reimburse patients who had come to avail the surgery from interiors parts of Nagaland. He added that until state government start extending assistance, Smile Train would continue to provide travelling allowance to patients from interior areas.

As per 2011 census, he said Nagaland has a population of almost 20 lakh and that the ratio of lip and palate was 1:600. Dr. Palin said there are about 3300 persons living with clip and palate but was not availing the treatment due to lack of awareness, support, poor economic background etc. He appealed all the

legislators, teachers, social activists and others to spread the message that such infirmity could be corrected through a surgery at Oking Hospital, Kohima.

Dr. Palin informed that for cleft lips, surgery could be performed from 6 months and above age while cleft palate surgery could be performed from 14 months and above.

Shija Hospital team led by Dr. Palin and the host of surgeons from Oking Hospital would be conducting surgical camp on April 29 and 30. In this regard, Dr. Palin said the number of days could be extended if there are more patients.

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Vikethonyü Kesiezie, said it desires to help the children with cleft lips and palate and appealed people to come forward and get the infirmity corrected. He informed that Oking Hospital has done more than 600 surgeries since 2013.

HASSU prayer meeting: Highway Area Sumi Students Union (HASSU) would be holding a prayer meeting for the forth-coming silver jubilee on April 18 at 3 p.m. at the residence of advisor Er. Ghukhui Zhimo, Diphupar-B, Dimapur. All the respective jubilee committee members and office bearers have been requested to attend the prayer meeting.

KODH 44th foundation day: Kohima Orphanage and Destitute Home (KODH) would be observing its 44th foundation day on April 16 at 2 p.m. at KODH Kohima. KODH has appealed to all wellwishers and all to attend the foundation day.

NNC GDRN (N-A) informs: NNC GDRN (N-A) has informed that it had authorised chairman Angami Region Aletou Mehta to collect funds from all business establishment and district office within Kohima jurisdiction.

All concerned have been requested to cooperate with the same. For further details one has been asked to contact at 9612759807.

CBCC men conference: Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) would be holding ‘Men conference’ from April 21 – 23 at CBCC mission centre Chikri Pfütsero under the theme “Righteous Living”. All the churches and areas have been requested to arrange and send delegates.

Corrigendum: Apropos news report “Judicial officers asked to change their attitude” published on April 14, the speech of secretary, department of Justice and Law, Khanrinla T. Koza was interchanged with that of Gauhati High Court judge, Justice LS Jamir and vice versa. The inadvertent error is regretted. (Correspondent)

Nagaland Post, Dimapur Sunday, april 16, 2017

CL John inaugurates ‘thamji bang’ at Yongnyah DIMAPUR: Minister for Ru r a l D eve l o p m e n t & REPA, C. L. John, inaugurated the newly constructed “thamji bang” (morung) at Yongnyah village under Longleng district on April 13. Parliamentary secretary for Land Resource Development & Excise, B. S. Nganlang was the guest of honour.

Addressing the gathering, C.L. John termed morung as one the most important institutions for practical traditional/customary lessons. He compared it with

the modern kindergarten in schools. The minister said Naga ancestors particularly the men folk of the village, gathered in the morung and learned many important subjects like moral values, discipline, punctuality, politeness, etc.

He said in a Christian era, the activity and practices in the morung should be influenced by Christian principles.

Despite the fact that there were more than one morung in Yongyah village, John said there should not be

Living Word Centre members and Eastern Bible College students donated groceries and other gift items to the orphanage home of Nagaland Evangel Mission and Welfare Association established by Rev. and Mrs. Vangpong on Saturday as part of the mission work and to mark the Holy Saturday on the eve of Resurrection Sunday.

Assam Rifles conduct various activities across Nagaland

(L-R): 5 AR medical camp at GHS Zunheboto. 32 AR interacts with ex-serviceman. 36 AR medical camp at Tening.

(L-R): 40 AR constructs RCC water tank at Tobu. 3 AR construct borewell at Sepfuzou Colony. 36 AR afforestation drive at Athibung

(L-R): 5 AR sponsors two girl child, constructs water storage tank and donates sports items to GHSS Zunheboto.

DIMAPUR: Assam Rifles under the aegis of Inspector General Assam Rifles (IGAR) North have been organising various programmes across the state for different sections of the society.

Zunheboto: 5 Assam Rifles conducted a free medical camp at Government Middle School, Zunheboto with an aim to spread awareness and educate the school children about good health and well being. Medical team led by Captain Abhishek Sharma, Regimental Medical Officer, examined 186 school

children and provided free medicines.

Kashiram Basti: 32 Assam Rifles conducted an interaction session with AR ex-servicemen of Dimapur District at Kashiram Basti on April 7. The aim of the interaction was to resolve problems and grievances of the ex-servicemen. During the interaction, the veterans were informed about the newly established ExServicemen Helpline at 6 Sector AR and were also updated with respect to various grievances raised by them during previous interactions.

Te n i n g : O n t h e occasion of “World Health Day” medical camp was organized at Tening village, Peren by 36 Assam Rifles on April 7 with an aim to provide medical relief to remote villages in the interior areas of the region. Team of medical staff of 36 Assam Rifles consisting of unit doctor, nursing assistant, and two BFNA treated a total of 198 patients.

Tobu: 40 AR handed over the newly constructed RCC water tank to Tobu village authorities on April 8. AR said it will alleviate the problem of availability

of potable drinking water and also provide for adequate storage facility in the village.

Sepfuzou Colony: 3 Assam Rifles constructed a borewell as a part of water supply scheme at Sepfuzou Colony, Kohima district on April 11. The inauguration followed by interaction was attended by chairman, GB youth president and other of members of Sepfuzou colony.

Athibung: 36 Assam Rifles conducted an afforestation drive along with students of Christian High School, Athibung,

any misunderstanding, division, dividing competition in the village.

He urged the village to be united and work cohesively together in the name of Almighty God and let thamji bang (morung) be a blessed institution for the betterment of Youngish village in particular.

The minister also appealed Yongyah villagers and its neighbours to make use of the resources available within their jurisdiction for the benefit of the village as well as the located areas.

in collaboration with Kuki Student Organisation Nagaland on April 13. The aim was to spread awareness among the students about importance of a-forestation and to motivate them to achieve mission ‘Green Athibung.’ A motivational lecture on topic ‘Impact of deforestation on environment’ was also held which was followed by tree plantation drive. Hundreds of varied saplings to include Mangoes, Oranges, Manipur Sim and Nohar were planted.

Around 80 students, youths and school staff participated in the programme.

5 AR: 5 Assam Rifles on the call of Sumi Hoho has sponsored the education of two siblings Nikili of class 1 and Nipulo of class A. In a brief program held in the school premises on April 10, commandant col.

Sachit Suri exhorted the students and the teachers and handed the cash to the two orphans in the presence of the Sumi Hoho officials.

The programme was chaired

by School principal Vihuto Asumi, note of gratitude a n d a c k n ow l e d ge m e n t was delivered by the vice president, Sumi Hoho K h e h o s h e Ye p t h o m i and a special music was presented by music teachers Aron Asumi and Akavi Yepthomi. Col. Sachit Suri, accompanied by lieut. col.

Gopa Kumar also presented the school with the games and sports items and sweets to the students.

Longkhi, Meyiolong : 5 Assam Rifles (AR) under the aegis of Headquarters IGAR (North) installed solar street lights and constructed water storage tank (5000 ltrs) at Longkhim village and constructed borewell at Meyiolong village, Tuensang. AR report stated that all the facilities were formally inaugurated and dedicated to the villagers by col. Sachit Suri, commandant 5 AR on April 9.

GHS Zbto: As part of Assam Rifles Civic Action Project, 5 AR under the aegis of Headquarters 7 Sector AR donated sports i t e m s t o G ove r n m e n t Higher Secondary School of Zunheboto District on April 7. While handing over the sports items, commandant 5 AR emphasized upon utilising sports quota vacancies in the upcoming recruitment rally in Army/ CAPF. He also assured of all possible help in this regard

by Recruitment Cell of 5 AR, AR informed.

crime beat

36 Assam Rifles seize liquor

DIMAPUR: Troops of 36 Assam Rifles along with police representatives based on specific information launched a search operation in general area of Model village, 7th Mile, Dimapur.

According to PRO IGAR (N), during the search operation 256 cases of IMFL worth Rs 7.68 lakh was recovered from the godown of Asu Nephu.

PRO said two individuals identified as Abdul Wahid (20) and Mainuddin (25) both residents of 7th Mile, Model village, Dimapur and employee of Asu Nephu, who is absconding, was apprehended.

It claimed that the arrested persons were involved

The arrested persons. in supply of illegal liquor from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to Kohima. The individuals along with the recovered items were handed over to Diphupar Police Station for further investigation, PRO informed.

Workshop-cum-seminar at Intanki National Park

DIMAPUR: A workshopcum-awareness programme was conducted at Intanki National Park (INP) ‘A’ Range HQ on April 7 and at Ahthibung Forest Colony on April 12 covering all the fringe villages of Intanki National Park, organized under Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats (IDoWH) and Project Elephant.

In the programme, field director, Intanki National Park, Heuneilung elaborated about the important role of the fringe villages towards protection of the park along with direct and indirect benefit they would receive out of the National Park.

He also encouraged the villagers to co-operate with the department in the protection of the Intanki National Park.

EAC Ahthibung, Lithrila, emphasized on the roles played by the fringe villages towards

guarding and protecting the National Park and also extended support towards controlling fishing and hunting.

She also suggested that more schemes should be given to villages that had extended more cooperation to the de par tment in controlling the illegal activities.

The beneficiary villages received different schemes viz, poultr y, p i g g e r y, h o r t i c u l t u r e and drinking water f a c i l i t y. B e n e f i c i a r i e s from fringe villages included Manglumukh, Beisumpuikam, Jalukiekam, Jalukiezangdi, Lilen, Pellhang of Intanki National Park ‘A’ Range a n d N ew B e i s u m p u i , Bongkolong, New Soget, Beisumpuilao, Ikiesingram, Khelma, New Nkio, Nkio ‘B’, New Ngoulong of Intanki National Park ‘B’ Range attended the workshop.

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The Assamese community of Dimapur Namghar celebrated its Rongali Bihu on April 15 at Namghar Complex. On this occasion of Bohag Bihu and New Year R. Barman and professor M. Chetia wished peace and prosperity in the lives of all.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur Sunday, April 16, 2017

Christians in Nagaland observe Good Friday

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(L-R): Good Friday observed at Mary Help of Christian Cathedral Kohima, St. Francis-de-Sales Parish, Kohima town and St Xavier’s Catholic Church, Kidima.

DIMAPUR: Along with the rest of the world, Christians in Nagaland obser ved Good Friday as the most sorrowful and sacred day in memory of Christ’s passion, crucifixion and death.

In Kohima, the parishioners of Mary Help of Christian, Cathedral obser ved the day with Bishop of Kohima, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil as the main celebrant.

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diocese of Kohima, Rev. Fr. Carolus Neisalhou spoke of the historical development of the way of the Cross and said that the fourteen station of Jesus’ way of the Cross in Jerusalem was today illustrated into the way of cross in our lives.

The way of the cross was conducted outside the church going through the fourteen Stations of the Cross after which the c o m mu n i t y we n t i n t o

the Church to have day’s liturgy.

The bishop in his short homily, referred to the film “The Passion” which depicted the passion of Jesus in a very dramatic way.

He said some people who saw the film were touched and even cried seeing the excruciating suffering of Jesus, while some others were not touched at all.

Those who were moved by the film were people who

understood the identity and mission of Jesus and what he had done for human, bishop added. The bishop exhorted the community to make the cross the real saving power of God, by accepting our little crosses with faith and joy.

The homily was f o l l owe d b y u n ive r s a l prayers with ten different intentions after which there was the veneration of the cross.

St. Francis-de-Sales: Pa r i s h i o n e r s f r o m S t .

Francis-de-Sales (SFS) Parish, Kohima town on Friday travelled through t h e t ow n’s c e n t r e b y participating in the Way of the Cross procession and commemorated the Crucifixion of Jesus.

The Way of the Cross, a 14-part ceremony that depicted the passion and death of the Christ was held starting from Old MLA

Hostel junction proceeding to Kohima local ground.

The believers stopped every few feet listening to the Scripture, singing hymns and praying. The ceremony culminated at Kohima local ground with the Eucharistic celebration.

S t X av i e r ’s C a t h o l i c C h u r c h : S t X av i e r ’s Catholic Church (SXCC), Kidima under Diocese of Kohima observed “Last Supper” of the Lord with

his 12 Apostles and “Good Friday” crucifixion of Christ with Parish Priest Reverend Father Thomas Muttathil on April 13 and 14 at the Church premises.

Reverend Father Thomas Muttathil addressing the congregation during the Holy Thursday, said that the day was both sadness and happiness that Jesus himself had the Last Supper with his Apostles and set the bread and wine

into his own body and blood and made the faithful worthy to celebrate with priest.

O n G o o d Fr i d ay, “Way of the Cross” was performed. Veneration of the cross by the faithful was paying homage for t h e L o r d ’s s a c r i f i c e.

C o m m u n i o n s e r v i c e, adoration and mediation were the highlights of the holy week for the Last Supper and Good Friday.

ACAUT interacts with NUSU, Lumami Community mobilisation & sensitization trg at Tseminyu

ACAUT Nagaland team along with NUSUL members after the programme.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland U n i ve r s i t y S t u d e n t s ’ Union Lumami (NUSUL) organised organised a programme with Against Corruption and Unabated Ta x a t i o n ( AC AU T ) Nagaland team led by its chairman Joel Naga as special guests.

During the programme, K. K Sema delivered a powerful speech on the

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impact of education and to fight against the selling of votes and corruption.

Interactive session was also held after which the students raised questions t o t h e AC AU T t e a m from social and political perspectives.

NUSU (L) president, Chubalemba B Chang delivered the welcome address and appreciated the

ACAUT team’s interaction with the master students of Lumami.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by NUSU (L) cultural secretar y Chiuchang Lam, invocation was pronounced by EUNU (L) secretary Pusho P and benediction by Kinitoli.

A special song was also presented by Vikenoto and Repakaba.

GMS Phir Ahir inaugurated

DIMAPUR: Government Primary School (GPS) Phir Ahir under Education Block Resource Centre (EBRC) Longkhim was inaugurated on April 13 by deputy district education officer Tuensang, I. Sashi Ao.Speaking at the programme, Sashi Ao stressed upon roles and responsibilities of the village education committee and parents to work hand in hand so that the concept of the communitisation was realized in the greater interest of the student community.

Marking the occasion he also planted a cherry tree sapling as a symbol of “growth”. He was also accompanied by the officials from DMA SSA Tuensang.

DIMAPUR: Community mobilization and sensitization training was held at Education Block Resource Centre (EBRC) Tseminyu town on April 12 with the SMCs leaders and government teachers.

In the programme, assistant district coordinator DMA SSA Kohima, Thongsenlo, urged the community leaders to be the agents of change for quality education of children.

He also told the teaching community to be truthful in their duty as they were dealing with human resources.

Thongsenlo also appealed the SMCs members to discuss the issue of schools, the various gapes and short comings and set a target for better performance of students.

SIS Hqs SDEO Tseminyu, Chen Kath, said SMCs leaders responsible for the success and failure of students and that they

should not take advantage of ignorant parents and children.

Additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Tseminyu, Vikhweno urged the SMC and teachers to do away with blame games which destroyed all the system but instead to perform their own duties with responsibility.

She challenged the teachers to avoid proxy teachers would kill the generation.

She also encouraged the community that the best asset in the village was the school and it should be taken care and requested them to invest in the school.

Deputy mission director SSA Nagaland, Theyievilie Suohumvu also stressed on Communitization Act which empowered its people to ownership and belonging.

Resource persons for the training on various topics were additional

ADC Tseminyu, Vikhweno delivering speech to the community members at EBRC Tseminyu also seen are education department & SCERT officials. director of Treasuries & Accounts and Finance Controller SSA Nagaland, Mhonchumo Kithan, joint director SCERT, Shilu Ao, deputy mission director SSA Nagland, Khukiye Awomi, deputy mission director SSA Nagaland, Thekielie Keditsu,

DIMAPUR: BJP Nagaland minority morcha has extended Easter greetings to the Christian community of Nagaland.

I n i t s g r e e t i n g s, BJP Nagaland minority morcha stated that as Christians, one must be

an example to others and expressed hope that Easter would bring out the real Christian spirit to serve and not to be served as Christ Himself had done 2000 years ago.

DBS: Dimapur Bengali Samaj (DBS) has extended Easter and Poila Baisakh,

B e n g a l i N e w Ye a r, greetings to citizens of Nagaland.

Dimapur Bengali Samaj wished that Poila B a i s a k h wo u l d b r i n g happiness, prosperity and good fortune in everyone’s lives and wished “Subho Naboborsho” and

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(L-R): Graduates and faculties of Nito Theological College and Withee Bible College after the graduation ceremony.

DIMAPUR: Nito Theological College (NTC) Zunheboto and Withee Bible College, Darogajan, Dimapur organised graduation ceremony for their students at its respective colleges.

NTC Zunheboto held its 9th graduation ceremony under the theme “Leap of Faith” with DSBC pastor, Juliet Shikhu as the graduation speaker.

Speaking at t h e c e r e m o n y, J u l i e t exhorted the graduates to be persistent of the

temptations and struggles as they join their ministry.

She also encouraged the graduates to step out of their boat and walk on the stormy water like Peter and commissioned them to be efficient, patient and to be Spirit filled leaders as required by the society and Churches today.

The 9th Annual College Magazine “Transcend” was also released by, governing board chairman, Vihuto Asümi. At the ceremony, college awards were also presented.

teachers (TOTs) Frances Magh and vote of thanks was delivered by trainer of teachers (TOTs) EBRC Tseminyu, Angela Semy.

172 SMCs/head teachers/teacher–incharge and village/ward leaders along with officials attended the programme.

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assistant coordinator SSA Nagaland, Meren Ao, IE coordinator SSA Nagaland, Nukshila Angh and trainer of teachers (TOTs) Soti Tep. The programme was chaired by coordinator EBRC Tseminyu Rushulo Khing and trainer of

The programme was chaired by lecturer, Tony K. Awomi and benediction was pronounced by lecturer Dr. Lanuchuba Walling.

WTC: Withee Bible College, Darogajan, Dimapur 13th graduation programme was held on April 12 with Rev. Rumatho Nyusou, executive secretary, Pochury Baptist Church Council as guest speaker.

Speaking at the programme, Rev. Rumatho encouraged the graduates to value the Word of God and bring changes in the hearts

of the people like Apostle Paul. Further, he called for urgency in exposing God’s Word in this present scenario especially by the theologians.

The degrees and awards were administered by principal and academic dean followed by commissioned prayer by the principal.

The programme was chaired by WBC lecturer, Akaholi, WBC lecturer Onen Jamir Lecturer said the invocation prayer, welcome address by founder and

principal Rev. Dr. Vikheshe Chishi, Scripture reading from the Old Testament and New Testament by WBC lecturer Temjen Longkumar and WBC lecturer Ramaiphou Klerkson respectively, valedictory speech was delivered by Kheholi Chishi, M.Div, special song by the College choir, felicitation speech by WBC lecturer Joikap Phom and benediction by founder and president BBCM & ACPL Bangalore Rev. Dr. Jayakumar. Altogether 31 students graduated.

“Subhechcha” to all the Bengalis of Nagaland and Dimapur in particular.

The Samaj also hoped that the resurrection of Lord Jesus would help imbibe the spirit of sacrifice and the brotherhood amongst all the communities in the

State would continue.

HYS: Hindu Yuva Sanga ( H YS ) h a s e x t e n d e d B e n g a l i N e w Ye a r greetings and hoped that this New Year, God would usher a sign of freshness to every citizen, exploring the new and start afresh wiping off the woes.

EOH on unauthorised collection of donations

DIMAPUR: Ebenezer Orphanage Home (EOH) has informed the general public, shopkeepers and well-wishers that some unauthorised people were collecting donations in the name of Ebenezer Orphanage Home (Anath Ashram), Dimapur.

A press note by founder director, Akum Ao stated that EOH does go around asking for

donations without proper authorisation letter from the concerned authority.

EOH has requested eve r yo n e n o t t o d e a l with such unauthorised person without the proper authorisation letter from the management.

P u b l i c h ave b e e n informed to contact the following numbers; 8131900413, 8794473238 to report any such cases.

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JAC, govt talks face uncertain future

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IMPHAL, Apr 15: The talks between Joint Action Committee Against AntiTribal Bills (JACATB) and Manipur government face an uncertain future as JACATB Saturday came out with certain points which led to the prevailing uncertainty.

Certain ground rules laid down by the state government in the second round of talks negated its earlier positive indications towards demands made by JACATB and the government’s inability to declare August 31 (Tribal Unity Day) as a general holiday were the main reason for the existing deadlock, JACATB stated in a statement.

The statement reminded that JAC, after a series of consultations with various sections of the tribal society, participated in the talks after the new government showed its desire to bring an amicable solution to the current impasse. A charter of demand was also submitted to the chief minister on April 2 last and the same was deliberated on April 7.

The demands include constitutional safeguard for ancestral tribal territories and development of tribal people, sending an imme-

diate response to repeated queries raised by Union ministry of home affairs regarding the “local adjustments and amendments” rider for extension of Sixth Schedule provisions among others.

JAC further demanded a written assurance that no bills affecting the interest as well as the ancestral territories of the indigenous hill tribes shall ever be passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly unconstitutionally and without prior due consultation of the tribal stakeholders.

It also asked for the creation of Lamka district for administrative convenience, restoration of the Manipur Land Revenue & Land Reforms (MLR&LR) Act, 1960 to its original principal Act status and justice for the “Tribal Martyrs” and the injured by declaring August 31 as an annual state holiday on the occasion of Tribal Unity Day. At the first round of preliminary discussion, the chief minister mentioned that with the tripartite talks involving various groups under Suspension of Operations in progress, the state cannot make any commitment or declaration regarding Sixth Schedule.

He (chief minister) further pointed out the im-

practicality of restoring the MLR&LR Act, 1960 to its original status. However, he gave a positive indication regarding the feasibility of the other points in the charter of demands and expressed his desire to meet again on April 10, 2017 to finalize on the Memorandum of Understanding, which will then be signed in the presence of a witness from the Ministry of Home Affairs at Lamka on April 12, 2017, the statement said.

However, at the second round of discussion (on April 10), to the utter surprise of the JAC-led delegation, “the state government laid down certain ground rules which negated its earlier positive indications towards the JAC’s demands other than those involving compensation and ex-gratia to the Martyrs’ families and the injured.”

The government further mentioned its inability to declare August 31 (Tribal Unity Day) as a general holiday in the state.

Contrary to various Imphal-based media reports, the demand for a new district was never a priority for the JAC, the statement clarified.

With the new BJP-led Government in Manipur showing no intention of rolling back the seven new

districts hastily-created by the previous Congress government, the JAC was in favour of reviewing the district boundaries, and realigning and creating new ones where needed, stated the JAC statement.

However, this was never a priority of the JAC. In fact, the demand for creation of Lamka district became a part of the JAC’s charter of demands only after an indication of its possibility by the Manipur government before the preparation of the draft document itself.

“It is a customary practice among the Christian tribals to give an honourable burial to the dead, however until and unless the extreme sense of insecurity among the tribal people fuelled by the passing of the three antitribal bills can be mitigated through an amicable and sustainable solution, the burial of the remaining eight tribal martyrs is not our priority,” read the statement.

“The three anti-tribal bills are the symptoms while the palpable sense of insecurity among the tribal people is the disease, and the JAC is focusing on finding a cure for the disease while treating the symptoms at the same time,” the statement observed.

JNV teacher terminated for sexual abuse

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Nongstoin, Apr 15: A government school teacher has been terminated from his service after he was accused of sexual harassing students, an official said on Saturday.

Vishwajit Jha, who teaches PGT Physics at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School in Nongstoin, the district headquarters of West Khasi Hills, was found to be guilty of sexual harassment, Deputy Commissioner Arunkumar Kembhavi said.

“The girl students were courageous enough to come forward to report the matter to one of our Executive Magistrates during routine inspection on March 23,” he said.

D imap u r , A pr 1 5 (NPN): Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Vikram Misri visited Headquarters Directorate General Assam Rifles at Laitkor, Shillong on April 14 and 15. Vikram Misri was on a two day tour to Shillong, where the Headquarters of Assam Rifles, the force guarding the Indo Myanmar border is located. He had earlier visited the four NorthEastern states - Arunachal

Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram - sharing international border with Myanmar.

The visiting dignitary was briefed on the operational and administrative aspects of the force with regard to the Indo – Myanmar border and also had a long interaction with Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Yudh Seva Medal, Sena Medal, Vishisht Seva

DRI seizes gold worth Rs 3.5 cr

Rs 1.10 cr demonetised notes seized in Assam

New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): Myanmar-smuggled gold worth about Rs 3.5 crore has been seized by the DRI officials.

Acting on specific tip off, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) effected seizure of 70 pieces of gold of foreign origin yesterday, collectively weighing 11.65 kgs, smuggled into India from Myanmar from the possession of two persons in Kolkata, a senior DRI official said here today.

The value of seized gold is Rs 3.47 crore.

The duo, who hails from Mizoram, were intercepted while they were waiting in a hotel room for delivery of these gold biscuits, he said.

The accused had came from Champhai, Mizoram, where the gold was delivered to them by a person from Myanmar with direction to deliver those at Kolkata, the official said.

The DRI has been making regular seizures of gold in and around Kolkata.

The agency’s officials have seized gold bars/biscuits smuggled from Myanmar weighing 93.35 kgs valued at Rs 26.89 crores this year and arrested 29 persons.

Medal, Director General of Assam Rifles.

Vikram Misri complimented Assam Rifles for its exceptional performance in guarding the Indo-Myanmar border and for rendering yeoman service in the most challenging and inhospitable terrain of the North East . He exhorted them to continue the good work of maintaining peace and tranquility in the North East region.

Guwahati, Apr 15 (Agencies): The GRPF and state police have seized demonetised bank notes with the face value of Rs 1.10 crore and 1.5 kg brown sugar in separate incidents in Guwahati.

The demonetised notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denominations were seized from a vehicle in Paltan Bazar on Thursday. However, the driver managed to escape, police said. In another incident, nine gold bars were seized from three persons at Guwahati railway station , a GRPF official said. The gold bars were seized during a routine checking in Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express. Another man, travelling by Awadh NE express, was arrested after 1.5 kg brown sugar was seized from his possession, police said.

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est areas which led to soil erosion, the government is determined to provide alternative livelihood to poppy cultivators,” he said He also extended invitation to the chiefs and leaders of the area to attend an awareness and sensitization programme in this regard to be held shortly in Imphal.

The minister said a mini-stadium would be constructed at Aihang village soon at a cost of Rs 50 crore under NLCPR. Prior to the programme, the minister inspected the site for the mini-stadium and announced slews of development schemes to be implemented in the area, particularly for the welfare of widows and women.

Urging the people to be sincere in all their endeavours, Haokip exhorted all concerned to extend maximum cooperation to the development initiatives of the government.

NOTICE

/Dated Kiphire the 12th April’ 2017

Whereas Shri Tsipise husband of Late T. Tsasela of Kiphire Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act, 1925 in order to draw/receive the payments of movable/immovable properties of his wife Late. T. Tsasela Knitting helper GMS Kiphire serving under the establishment of Sub-Divisional Education Officer, Kiphire District, and who was expired on 23/01/2017.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY 1. G.P.F 2. G.I.S 3. F.B.F 4. Pension case 5. Any other dues etc.

From the Office of the Sub-Divisional Education Officer, Kiphire District Public are hereby asked to file objection/claims if any within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this order. if no objection/claims is received within the given time, Succession Certificate will be issued in favour of the applicant.

(DR. TINOJONGSHI CHANG) Additional Deputy Commissioner, Kiphire:: Nagaland DP-3470

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Date : 11/04/2017

I, Shri. Tovika H Aye, S/o Honito permanent resident of Tichipami Village and presently residing at DC Hill under Zunheboto district Nagaland do hereby affirm and declare as follows :1. I am a bonafide citizen of India belonging to Sumi Naga tribe resident of true above mentioned address.

2. That due to mistake and clerical error my name has been entered a Tovika Sumi in my PAN Card bearing No.HMRPS8830N and as Tovika in my Adhaar card bearing No. 329655977243.

3. That due to clerical error my date of birth has been entered as 16-04-1987 in both my PAN Card and Adhaar Card.

4. That the name Tovika Sumi, Tovika and Tovika H Aye are one and the same person.

5. That my real date birth is 16-04-1989 which has been entered in my service book.

6. That this Affidavit is made for the purpose of correcting my name and my date of birth. My name should be read correct and understand as Tovika H Aye and my date of birth as 16-04-1989 for all official purposes.

That the statements made in para 1-6 of the affidavit is true to the best of my knowledge. That I sign this affiavit on this day 11-04-2017.

Deponent 1. Kughaho, 2. Kuhoyi Notary Public DP-3472

AFFIDAVIT OF DECLARATION

I, Shri. K. Akheto Zhimomi, S/o Shri. Khekhuvi Zhimomi, permanent resident of Toluvi Village, Dimapur : Nagaland do hereby solemnly declare on oath as under : 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and resident in the aforesaid address.

2. That in my Service Book and Appointment Order, my name has been inadvertently entered as 'Akheto Sema' and 'Akheto', respectively.

Whereas, in all my other relevant documents my name has been correctly entered as 'K. Akheto Zhimomi.

3. That my the aforesaid names refers to the name of one and same person a such, wherever my name appears as ' Akheto' or Akheto Sema', it should be correctly read and write as 'K. Akheto Zhimomi' by all competent concerned.

4. That this affidavit is sworn for the purpose of declaring and correcting my name and address recorded therein in my relevant documents.

I further verify that the statement made in foregoing paragraphs of this affidavit are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and no part of it is false thereof.

Deponent Sworn before me this 12th day of April 2017.

Regd. No. 589/2017, Date : 12/04/217 Notary Public

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Shokin Chauhan with Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Vikram Misri on April 14.

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With lots of love.

From Mom, Dad, Grand Pa’s & near ones. ________________________

Gangtok, Apr 15 (PTI): Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) candidate Dilli Ram Thapa today won the upper Burtuk Assembly seat, garnering 8,406 votes in the bypolls. Out of the total vote count, SDF candidate secured 8,406 votes, Suresh Khanal Sharma of BJP got 374 votes while Congress candidate Sumitra Rai bagged 98 votes.

Five Independent candidates contesting from the seat got 449 votes. Nota votes share stood at 100 of the total votes polled.

The BJP had fielded Suresh Khanal Sharma, while Sumitra Rai contested on a Congress ticket and Dilli Ram Thapa of the SDF was in the fray in the bypolls.

end to poppy cultivation

IMPHAL, Apr 15: Manipur IFCD & YAS Minister Letpao Haokip said that the state government was putting in efforts to provide viable alternate livelihood source to people involved in poppy.

Towards this end, the state government has agreed in principle to replace poppy with lemongrass cultivation, Haokip said while motivating people involved in poppy cultivation to switch over to lemongrass cultivation for sustainable livelihood.

He was addressing a gathering of villagers, Church and village leaders and chiefs at Aihang village, Chandel district on Saturday during a felicitation programme held in his honour.

“Considering the adverse environmental impact caused by poppy cultivation - like clearance of large for-

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May the happiness and blessings be yours....GOOD BLESS YOU With love and care Wife,sons and daughters . ________________________

Based on his initial inquiry report, Kembhavi said a committee was constituted comprising of Extra Assistant Commissioner, District Social Welfare Officer and Deputy Labour commissioner.

After the committee confirmed the harassment, he said Jha was immediately terminated from the service. Kembhavi said he has recommended the JNV Samiti Shillong to lodge an FIR against the teacher under relevant provisions of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO), 2012.

“It should serve as a warning to all who think that they can get away with any kind of abuse and exploitation of children,” he said.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur sunday, april 16, 2017

My Dearest Friend Baveni I hope today you will be blessed with the presence of the people you love the most and many magicalmoments... I wish to spend more time with friends like you who I simply adore.

Happy Returns of the day.

From Kon.... Phom Your neighbor. __________________

Acharya lauds Neingupe Marhu D imap u r , A pr 1 5 (NPN): Governor of Nagaland and Ar unachal Pradesh, PB Acharya, who is also a National Ambassador of Swachh Bharat Mission lauded Neingupe Marhu for his exemplary initiative towards making a clean India by voluntarily cleaning the streets of Pfutsero town with his Maruti van which he has converted into a dumpster. The Governor stated that the initiative not only displays Marhu’s selfless concern but also a sense of responsibility towards the society. Acharya encouraged Marhu to continue working for the welfare of the society and also motivate younger generation to follow his footsteps towards his mission to keep Pfutsero town clean.

Dear Imli There is nothing else I can giv u wen u alrdy hv most beautiful present in d world “me”. Hapi bday n God blss u wit gud health ....

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Tripura HC to hear cases during summer vacation

Agartala, Apr 15 (IANS): The Tripura High Court will hear cases during the 11-day summer vacation beginning May 15 to clear the backlog of pending cases, an official said on Friday.

“The High Court will hear old motor accident and criminal cases from May 15 to May 18, along with other urgent matter,” a top high court official said. He said that during the remaining period till May 25, the court Registry will function daily for three hours from 10.30 a.m.

Tripura High Court Chief Justice T. Vaiphei has taken this special step in view of the public interest involved, the official said requesting anonymity.

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BJP cheated people to come to power, Akhilesh alleges

Lu c k n ow, A p r 1 5 (IANS): For mer Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of cheating the people to win power in the state.

Addressing a press conference, the 44-year-old leader also alleged that the electronic voting machines (EVMs) were manipulated and tampered to favour the BJP in the state assembly elections.

“I met lots of party workers and supporters, who told me that they were bewildered over the victory of BJP, as many of them had pressed the button against SP symbol,” he said, adding that people had lost faith in EVMs. He also demanded that all future polls in the state be held through the traditional ballot papers method.

The SP also started a membership drive from Saturday. Akhilesh Yadav said the party had decided to involve all sections of the society in party work.

He also accused the state’s Yogi Adityanath government of taking credit for the work done by his government in the past.

“We worked a lot to change the power scenario in state, got many sub-stations made and installed new transformers,” he said

CBSE files FIR against publisher for ‘sexist’ text CHANDIGARH: Taking strong exception of the depiction of women in a physical education book for Class XII, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has filed an FIR against the publisher under Section 6 (indecent representation of women (Prohibition) Act 1986).

Soon after facing flak over the text which claimed 36-24-36 is the best figure for females, the Board issued a statement clarifying that the Board had not prescribed the book. The book is published by New Saraswati House (India) Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, and written by Dr VK Sharma, professor, department of physical education, DAV College, Cheeka (Kaithal) Haryana.

The Board also set up a committee, which reviewed the content and said that the book is not in consonance with the spirit of the syllabus and the text in question has no context.

“I had only said that if Prime Minister’s picture will be there, then the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s should also be there,” he said.

Stop crying foul over EVMs: BJP to SP Akhilesh Yadav while pointing out that the present BJP government was now taking credit for all this.

He also alleged that there was law and order failure in the state under the watch of the Chief Minister and said that only recently the BJP workers had bashed up police officials in Kannauj.

“People are being set afire alive, rapes have increased and the state government is doing nothing,” Yadav said pointing out how during the SP government even a small crime was blown out of proportions to defame it.

Akhilesh Yadav also rebutted the charges levelled

by Union Power Minister Piyush Goel on Friday that Uttar Pradesh was deprived of the benefits of many central government-aided schemes, including “Power for All”, as he wanted his picture to be displayed over everything relating to the schemes.

Instead of crying foul over the electronic voting machines (EVMs), the Samajwadi Party should realise that people of Uttar Pradesh have rejected it, the BJP said on Saturday, retorting to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s demand for going back to ballot papers+ for holding elections.

The BJP, which decimated opposition to secure a thumping majority in UP assembly polls+ recently, said it seemed that the former chief minister does not have any faith either in the EVMs or the mandate of the state’s voters.

“It seems that Akhilesh Yadav does not have any faith in the EVMs (electronic voting machines), the mandate of the people of UP, his father (SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav) or his uncle (former Shivpal Singh Yadav),” BJP’s UP unit spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi told PTI. He said that instead of crying foul over the EVMs, the SP should try to come to terms with the reality that the people of the state have rejected it.

Kashmir sees sharp decline in tourists

SRINAGAR: Kashmir has seen a sharp decline in tourists this year owing to the turbulent political situation, with just about 20 per cent occupancy in hotels and very few advance bookings even as the peak season has started.

Hoteliers and travel agents said that if the situation does not improve, many of them may be forced to look for another business.

“The situation is going from bad to worse. We have just 15-20 per cent occupancy, down from 7080 per cent a year ago. The political uncertainty and continued violence leaves no scope for this sector,” Javed Burza, president of Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant Owners Federation, told ET. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in his recent speech at Udhampur in Jammu asked the youth of Kashmir to choose between tourism and terrorism. J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti also said that militancy and terrorism can be tackled with tourism.

However, the fresh bout of violence in the recent by-election appear to have dimmed the prospects for this season.

This comes amid the shadow of five months of protests in the wake of the killing of militant Burhan Wani last year, during which more than 95 civilians were killed, 15,000 injured and

8,000 arrested. “Why were elections in south Kashmir postponed till May, which is again peak season?” asked Burza. “The violence on election day has hampered all the chances of bookings even in May or June. If the government is serious about tourism, any sort of elections should take place after autumn.”

One of the busiest tourist destinations during summer is Pahalgam in southern Kashmir, which is also one of the routes to reach Amarnath cave.

Although tourists from nearby Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand have started coming, people familiar with the matter said that a diplomat from one of these countries along with his relatives and friends was caught in the protests in Srinagar on Thursday, further dampening the chances of more arrivals from these countries.

“Tourism is not picking up. Nobody is promoting Kashmir in India from where a huge rush could have been expected during summer holidays,” said Muhammad Ibrahim Siah, president of the Travel Agents Society of Kashmir.

“The political statements from the governments further create fear and confusion among potential tourists.” In 2016, Kashmir had suffered a 55 per cent decline over the previous year to 403, 442 tourists.

Parrikar denies quitting Centre over Kashmir

Panaji, Apr 15 (IANS): Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday denied media reports that he quit as Defence Minister due to “pressure” over the Kashmir issue, but Opposition parties lashed out at the BJP leader, accusing him of being “anti-national” and a “bhagoda” (deserter).

All India Congress Committee Secretary Girish Chodankar said the only thing Parrikar had learnt from Pakistan, during his stint as Defence Minister, was staging coups, referring to the ‘coup’ staged by the BJP, which upstaged the Congress to come to power in Goa last month.

“The Congress believes that securing the borders of the country are more important that becoming Chief Minister of Goa. Parrikar’s return to Goa is an ‘anti-national’ act. He has clearly run away from the Defence Ministry. In fact, Parrikar was the worst Defence Minister India has ever had,” Chodankar told reporters at a press conference in Panaji at the party’s

Manohar Parrikar state headquarters.

“The only thing Parrikar has learnt from Pakistan as Defence Minister is how to stage coups, which are popular in Pakistan, where the army dethrones popularly elected governments. No wonder Parrikar staged a coup in Goa, where he led the BJP to power using unfair means,” Chodankar said.

Reports in a section of the media on Friday quoted Parrikar as saying that he had quit his sensitive central ministry brief because of pressures generated by the Kashmir crisis, among other issues.

Parrikar on Saturday

took to Twitter to post a clarification, saying the news report was “factually incorrect”.

The BJP media cell in Goa said the Chief Minister had been misquoted.

“This is to clarify that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has never given any such statement that he had pressure of any sort working as Defence Minister,” a statement issued by the Goa BJP media cell stated, adding that the senior BJP leader was “willing to take on any challenge in Goa and also at the national level”.

The Aam Aadmi Party in a statement issued here called Parrikar a “self-admitted bhagoda”.

“Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s claim in public that it was the pressure of running the Defence Ministry, in particular the vexed Kashmir issue, that got to him and facilitated his grabbing the opportunity to return to Goa politics is a self-admission that he is a bhagoda,” the AAP said in a statement.

Cong flays Parrikar

The Congress on Saturday condemned Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s comments wherein he said that discussions, especially in media, end up derailing objectives.

“Parrikar is behaving like a dictator when he says that discussions are not important, in fact detrimental to achieving objectives. In a democracy, all voices need to be heard. You cannot just push things without any discussion,” Congress Secretary Girish Chodankar told the media here.

Speaking at the 126th birth anniversary celebrations of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar here on Friday, Parrikar said: “There are some things where discussions should be minimum... Discussions can be a spoiler.

Today, the media was asking me about some issues. I told them -- do you want this thing to happen, or do you want it to become news.”

Contrary to PM Modi’s claims, Indian economy stagnant: Cong

New Delhi, Apr 15 (IANS): The Congress on Saturday said contrary to claims by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian economy was stagnant and investments were not coming.

Citing Reserve Bank of India data, party leader and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said that in 2016-17, bank credit grew by 5 per cent - the lowest in 60 years, while the plant load factor - a measure of capacity utilisation - stood at 60 per cent, the lowest in 15 years.

“Lowest increase in bank credit for the last 60 years, lowest plant load factor in the last 15 years and lowest addition to employment in the organised sector in recent years, this is the reality.

Hyderabad, Apr 15 (IANS): The Telangana government on Saturday decided to hike the reservations for the socially and economically backward among Muslims to 12 per cent from the existing four per cent.

The decision was taken by the state cabinet at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. The cabinet also decided to increase the quota for the Scheduled Tribes (STs) from the current seven per cent to 10 per cent, official sources said.

Both the Houses of the state legislature will be meeting on Sunday for a special session to pass a bill for increasing the quantum of reservation Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi being received by for Muslims and STs in Odisha Governor Dr. S.C. Jamir and his wife Alemla education and jobs.

Jamir at Raj Bhavan on April 15, 2017.

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Kids holding banners asking release of Jadhav.

Following the appeal, Diep, who is Executive Director, Centre for Peace and Secular Studies, Lahore, has agreed to initiate a campaign in her country to ensure a proper trial for Jadhav, who hails from Mumbai, according to him.

Mathai pointed out how Jadhav was not arrested on Pakistani territory but kidnapped by some militant outfits working in tandem with the current (Pakistan) regime, and that all the military courts were allegedly a sham which did not adhere to principles of natural justice.

“In the first two years of Modi government, only 4.4 lakh jobs were created in the organised sector as opposed to 21 lakh jobs created during the first two years of the UPA-II government,” said Ramesh.

“These indicators, which are all government figures, belie the Prime Minister’s repeated claims

Telangana to hike Muslim quota to 12%

Mumbai NGO appeals to Pak activists to save Jadhav

M u m b ai , A p r 1 5 (IANS): A leading Mumbai NGO Harmony Foundation on Saturday appealed to Pakistani peace activists to launch a campaign to save former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan S. Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death by that country’s military court.

Abraham Mathai, President of Harmony Foundation -- which awards the St. Mother Teresa Awards annually to prominent global citizens -- has written to Pakistani peace campaigner Saeeda Diep of Lahore for help in the Jadhav case.

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of the economy taking off. Modi may claim that GDP is growing at seven per cent, but other indicators show a stagnant economy,” he said.

Ramesh said lack of investments was a big threat faced by the economy and said both Modi and his Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had no answers for the problems of the economy.

“There is no point in the Prime Minister or the Finance Minister taking refuge in GDP growth.

They are meaningless. The world no longer believes India’s GDP numbers,” he said.

“The condition of the economy is matter of serious concern and the government must look into the challenges faced by the economy,” he added.

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Triumphant over death

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fter Christ was crucified and died at the cross on Calvary on Good Friday, His body was entombed. He rose from the death on the third day (Resurrection Day) on Sunday. Christ’s death and resurrection fulfilled God’ promise and a prophesy foretold in the bible thousands of years before His birth. It also is the foundation upon which the Christian faith is based. Had Christ not been resurrected, the basis of Christianity would have been as meaningless and like any other religion. The importance of the resurrection is not only about the triumph of Jesus against the powers of darkness but it is the way for those who choose to follow Christ.

When Christ resurrected, it was not about Easter.

According to writers, Easter was never used in the original Scriptures, nor is it ever associated biblically with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, one English translation of the Bible does use the word in the old King James Version which translated Acts 12:4 by describing the Jewish Passover as Easter. The name “Easter” originated with the names of an ancient goddess and god. Christ rose from the dead on the third day after his burial in a tomb and so what should have been called Resurrection Sunday was subsequently accepted as Easter Sunday. Some have suggested that these postresurrection appearances of Christ were only visions or hallucinations, or perhaps a case of mistaken identity. But visions and hallucinations don’t occur repeatedly like this, to individuals and to groups, indoors and outdoors. And certainly the disciples could recognize the One who had been with them every day for more than three years. God’s unconditional love was so great, He sent Jesus to pay the ransom for salvation. Jesus loved the Father and was obedient to death and which is also the essence of what Agape means. Having fulfilled the mission through His death and resurrection, Christ received the all powers of God. The resurrection of Jesus Christ guarantees the resurrection of every saint, no matter what happens to the body. It is free but to receive it, repentance is a pre-requisite. That is the promise of Scripture. And this then is unarguably the single greatest event in the history of the world. For many claiming to be Christians the daily tests and trials should be welcomed as they strengthen faith. The Bible also says that in the last days, people will be lukewarm and many ensnared by knowledge which will abound. In the last days people will run to and fro about the face of the Earth and will also be proud of their vast knowledge. The last days till the second coming will also witness hedonism and disinclination to hear God’s truth and instead lured towards human truth. Indeed Christians live in perilous times where the very basis of their faith is being tested and tried. This had happened even during Christ’s time “and we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Rom.8:28-32)

DailyDevotion The Failure To Pay Close Attention

The high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.

—2 Chronicles 15:17 Asa was not completely obedient in the outward, visible areas of his life. He was obedient in what he considered the most important areas, but he was not entirely right. Beware of ever thinking, “Oh, that thing in my life doesn’t matter much.” The fact that it doesn’t matter much to you may mean that it matters a great deal to God. Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a child of God. How much longer are we going to prevent God from teaching us even one thing? But He keeps trying to teach us and He never loses patience. You say, “I know I am right with God”— yet the “high places” still remain in your life. There is still an area of disobedience. Do you protest that your heart is right with God, and yet there is something in your life He causes you to doubt? Whenever God causes a doubt about something, stop it immediately, no matter what it may be. Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God. Are there some things regarding your physical or intellectual life to which you have been paying no attention at all? If so, you may think you are all correct in the important areas, but you are careless— you are failing to concentrate or to focus properly. You no more need a day off from spiritual concentration on matters in your life than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot take a day off morally and remain moral, neither can you take a day off spiritually and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and it requires paying close attention to keep yourself fit. It also takes a tremendous amount of time. Yet some of us expect to rise above all of our problems, going from one mountaintop experience to another, with only a few minutes’ effort.

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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Post-mortem

Looking behind the cross and Easter: The triumph of truth and life the post calvary commission C F or over 2000 thousand years, mankind has been only looking at the frontal part of the cross at Calvary. An indeed man cannot be blamed for looking so because grace forgiveness and everlasting life radiates from that front part of the cross into a world of darkness, evil and eternal death. Man cannot be blamed because from that broken body of Christ, radiant light shoots forth peace into a war torn world and hope for a universe that is covered with the dust of death. And I too join the heavenly host and all the saved of earth in shouting Hallelujah for all that Christ has done for me on Calvary.

But has any one ever bothered to look behind that cross at Golgotha to look at the other side where the body of Jesus is not hanging? If we are to look carefully and think very deeply, perhaps that is where we should be hanging. Hanging there not in order to save ourselves from death; but hanging there, to die to ourselves and our egos.

After all, did Jesus not tell us that all those who would follow him must take up their own cross and follow him? And is the cross not the symbol of death?

Come Easter season, everyone of us talks about “LIFE after DEATH” in connection with Calvary and the resurrection. But is Calvary just a message about life after death? Does Calvary have nothing to say about DEATH while still ALIVE? Indeed, Jesus himself had again and again taught us about the necessity of death to self while still alive, so that we can have an abundant life both here on earth as well as in the next life (Lk.10:2930). He had even said:”For whosoever will save his own life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt.16:25). Indeed, as W. Tozer had aptly put it: “When Jesus calls us; he bids us, Come and die.”

As for Jesus’death, we all know that he died so that we might have eternal life (Jn. 3:16). But having received the guarantee of that eternal life, are we not next called to die to ourselves so that others may also have benefits from his death? And what are those benefits?

The post calvary commission After his death on Calvary and resurrection, Jesus did not command us to keep looking up at the cross for our future salvation and do nothing else in our entire lifetime. No, he instead directed us to the world and gave us a commission to go and “teach all the nations, to observe all the things that he had taught us and the Disciples (Matt.

28: 19, 20). And we must here take note of the three words that Jesus taught us to teach the nations.

The three words are: “All the Things.” Now “all the things” means not just one thing but “all the things” that he had taught us. The next question naturally would be, what are “all the things” that he has taught us? The obvious answer is- THE ENTIRE BIBLE! This is because Jesus did not teach us only from Isaiah chapter 53 where the scriptures foretells us about the crucifixion of Christ for our physical and spiritual salvation. In fact, though we cannot go into details here, in his 30 or so years of ministry on earth, he taught us from the entire Bible with the exception of the Epistles (which were

written after his ascension to heaven).

He himself also told his disciples that all the scriptures had foretold about him, and that he had come to fulfill all those foretold prophesies about him (Lk.24:44;Jn.5:39). As for his teachings, he did all these teachings, in the villages, synagogues, in the Temple and even on the mountains and seashores all his life (Matt. 4:23; 9:35; Mk. 14:49 etc). In his teachings, he taught the people many things like the fact that he had not come to abolish the Law of Moses but that he had come to fulfill it. He also told them that not even one jot or title from the law would be removed until the end of the earth (Matt. 5:18).

He also condemned the Scribes and Pharisees for keeping the outward forms of religion but ignoring the weightier matters of the law which were Justice, mercy and faith (Matt.23:23). Yes, in thirty years of ministry, he taught the people and also all of us many many things about God’s nature and his ways.

But on the theme of this Post Calvary Commission, I want to end by highlighting one particular point which is today very relevant for Nagas who have been suffering under foreign occupation for the past 70 long years. But here, in case someone would object to my mixing politics with Calvary, yes, I know that during his trial, Jesus had replied Pilate that His kingdom was not of this world. But what then was his kingdom and where is it? Here, if we want to know what and where his kingdom is, we can go to Ephesians 1:20- 23 and see.

In these verses, Paul after describing the believer’s position in Christ, gives us a glimpse of Jesus’ kingdom in the heavens in the following words: “Which he (God) wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.”

Jesus’ kingdom then is a kingdom in heaven which is far above all the kingdoms of this world.

From the scriptures we also discover that besides Paul, Stephan and John were also shown glimpses of this heavenly kingdom of Christ in heaven (Act.7:55, Rev. 4:1-3 etc). Also in contrast to this heavenly kingdom, during Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, the Devil took him up to the top of a high mountain and after showing him all the glory of the earthly kingdoms, tempted him to bow down and worship him in exchange for authority and rulership over all those earthly kingdoms. Jesus of course refused the offer because he did not come to earth in order to establish a political kingdom in this world.

But the important thing to be remembered here is the fact that Jesus wants his kingdom principles to rule in the kingdoms of the world. That is why he taught us to pray: “They will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”(Matt.6:10). To put it in Munroe’s beautiful words: “The ultimate goal of God the creator was to colonize earth with heaven and establish it as a visible territory of an invisible world.” In this context, Calvary was the gateway for the re- establishment of this invisible kingdom of

God on this visible earth.

This earthly kingdom of man which was originally planned by God for man to have dominion over it was usurped by the devil when man fell in the Garden of Eden. This original plan of God was clearly stated in Genes 1:26 where God had said: “Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness and let THEM have dominion… over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” But after the fall, the rulership of this earthly kingdom of man was transferred to Satan so that in the temptation, he could show Jesus the glory of all the kingdoms of earth and boast: “All these things will I give thee, if thou will fall down and worship me (Matt. 4:9).

In the context of this original plan of God and its restoration, we must clearly understand that Calvary was NOT the restoration of something that had gone wrong in heaven. On the contrary, Calvary is the restoration of something that had gone very wrong on earth. One aspect of the victory of Calvary is the restoration back to man, the ruler ship of this world through Jesus’ victory on the cross.

In this restoration work, Jesus had clearly declared that the Prince of this earth had been overthrown. For example, in Jn. 12:31 he had said: “Now is the judgment of this world (not heaven); now shall the Prince of this earth be cast out.” Again in Jn. 16:33, he said: “…be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” He also assured us in 1 Jn. 4:4:”Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” Then lastly, in Mathew 28:18-19 he commissioned us with the following words:” All authority is given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations…teaching them to observe whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.”

In the Post Calvary Commission, besides the preaching of the gospel, we are also therefore, commissioned to re-conquer the world for God’s glory and rule of his righteousness. We are empowered to do this by the power in us which is greater than the power that is in the world. (See for example Lk. 4:16-21) Christian saints all down through the ages have turned their worlds upside down with the power of the gospel. They are man like Wilberforce who abolished slavery in England and even America. He did this because slavery was contrary to what Jesus had taught us.

Another example was General William Booth who brought security and equality to the exploited mass laborers during England’s finest as well as darkest hour of the industrial revolution.

Then coming closer to our own times, Martin Luther King abolished segregation and racism in America because it was contrary to the kingdom of God principles.

The list of Christian heroes who were fired by the Post Calvary Commission and brought great religious, economic, racial and political salvations to the world is countless. What about you? What have you done in response to Calvary’s victorious cry of Jesus where he had declared: IT IS FINISHED. Today, there are many evil things going on in Nagaland. And in this -perhaps-her darkest hour; what will you do for your Nagaland?

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hristianity was born in the grave. A plant that sprouts in the fire does not fade in the sunlight; and that which is born in the tomb does not disintegrate at death.

Easter powerfully proclaims: “you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.’ The day of the resurrection is the birthday of our Christian faith.

It is the celebration of the death of death, the beginning of life eternal.

Easter is the good news, which has forever changed the course of history and provided inspiration for countless millions throughout the world. It is the conquest of the ultimate enemy of life – death. Victory over ultimate annihilation, the resurrection is a mystery of faith, which speaks of another far more wonderful mystery - that of the love of God incarnated in the mystery of Jesus.

If Christmas is the gift of love, Easter is the gift of life. The feast of Christmas did not even exist for the first two centuries of the Church’s life! But Christianity is inconceivable without Easter. Easter is a divine act that has happened in human history, in space and time. The birth of Christ inaugurated a new history while his rising from the dead installed a new hope.

Resurrection is beyond the calculation of all reason and knowledge, beyond the boundary of reality. It belongs at once to the realm of the spirit and matter, superseding all human reason and imagination.

Neither a Da Vinci Code nor a dozen of Dan Browns can ever fade the fact of this truth - the truth of this faith. Churches may be destroyed, crucifixes may be removed, and Christians may be tortured or even be martyred; but the true faith of Christians can never be erased or shaken by anything that is earthly, neither by a mother of all bombs nor by the father of all destructions…for it is a faith born of having been shaken – like the faith of Moses, Abraham, Job, Peter, Paul, and the like…

The resurrection is supposed to renew the whole world. However, this doesn’t ‘seem’ to be the case often. Ours is a wounded history and we live in difficult times. We have only to watch the news on any given evening or read it at any morning. If there is an all-knowing, all powerful, all loving God who is the Lord of this universe, his renewing presence isn’t very evident on the evening news and the morning newspapers. There is violence all over, fuelled on every side by self-righteous ideologies that sanction hatred and bloodshed – death and destruction – along cultural, racial, ethnic and religious lines. Life seems to be threatened from every side. It is fair and reflective to wonder: Are we becoming more afraid of life than death? Where is the resurrection in all these? Why is God seemingly so inactive, so silent? Where is the vindication of Easter Sunday?

These are important questions, even if they aren’t particularly deep or new. They are the echoes of the very questions used on first Good Friday to taunt Jesus on the cross: “If you are the Son of God, come down off that cross! If you are God, prove it at once!

Act now!” Then and now, it seems, we have never figured out why salvation can’t work like a normal movie where at the end, a morally superior violence kills off or avenges all that is evil.

Except God doesn’t work like a Hollywood or Bollywood movie and never has. The God of our faith is truly a God of surprises! God, as revealed in the death and resurrection of Jesus, doesn’t meet our expectations even as he infinitely exceeds them. What the resurrection teaches

is that God doesn’t forcibly intervene to stop tragedy and death. Instead he redeems tragedy and vindicates the death. God rids the world of evil not by using force to blot it out, but by vindicating what’s good in the eyes of evil so that eventually the good is all that’s left. Evil has to forever “look upon the one whom it has pierced!” until it understands what it has done and lets itself be transformed. How does this come about?

What the resurrection of Jesus reveals is that there is a deep moral structure to the universe, that the contours of the universe are love, goodness and truth and that this structure, anchored at its centre by Ultimate Love and Supremacy, is non-negotiable: You live life its way or it simply won’t come out right. More importantly, the reverse is also true: If you respect the structure and live life its way, what is good and true and loving will eventually triumph, always, despite everything. If this is true, and it is, then we don’t have to escape suffering and death to achieve victory, we have only to remain faithful, good, and true inside of them.

However, part of what is revealed here is that we need a great patience, an endurance called hope. God’s day will come, but God, it seems, is not in any hurry!

Good and truth will always triumph, but this triumph must be waited-for, not because God wants us to endure pain as some kind of test, but because God, unlike ourselves, doesn’t use coercion or violence to achieve an aim. God uses only love, truth and goodness, and God uses these by, structurally and non-negotiably, embedding them into the universe itself, like a giant moral immune-system that eventually, always, brings the body back to health. God doesn’t need to intervene like a super-hero at the end of a Hollywood movie and use a morally superior violence to wipe out the bad ones so that the good are spared pain and death and the evil ones are avenged. God lets the universe replenish itself the way a body does when it is attacked by a virus. The immune system eventually does its work, even if, in the short term, there is pain and even death. But always in the end, the universe rights itself.

Simply put: whenever we do anything wrong, anything at all, it won’t turn out right. It can’t. The structure of the universe won’t receive it and it comes back to us, one way or the other. Conversely, whenever we do something right, anything that’s true, good, loving, and beautiful, the universe vindicates that. It judges our every act and its judgment allows no exceptions.

Perhaps that judgment doesn’t seem to be immediate; it can seem a long time in coming and thus, for a time, we can be confused and ask the question: “Why doesn’t God, truth and goodness, come down off the cross?” Gandhi’s own words might be encouraging at such trying times: “When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.”

It was Gandhi’s adamantine faith that without a single exception, always, evil is shamed and good triumphs.

The resurrection works – gently, but definitely, in its own way, and in its own time! Let the Easter festival give us the courage to carry on, in goodness and truth.

Fr. T. C. Joseph Sdb, Bosco B.Ed. College, Dimapur

Reader’s Post Today is our victory day!

Sir,

Today many will be celebrating one of the greatest day on earth. It’s the day when Christ defeated death. For us it’s a victory day. This proves that Christ did not die forever. The empty tomb is an open fact.

What we need more than this? On Good Friday, Christ had entered the Jerusalem which meant He had entered our hearth. But today He has entered heaven’s hearth! Intersetingly, He has brought to knee all those “chant by Pharaises or ......”. Death is broken and been roped by itself. God of glory has risen and has tumbled everything forever. His duty is done. Prophesy has been completed. The cross that had send Jesus to tomb has became a victory symbol of power and glory now.

For us we have great eternal hope. The empty tomb means God is alive!

He is not fake. The God who can walk on water has drowned the law of gravitation. The God who came faster than speed of sound to save the three men in fire is real and powerful.

Your God is powerful. Why do you lament? Look above. If you have the real God that shut the mouth of devils and doubters than why are you worried?

R.K.Krishta Luke, Jesus Miracles Ministry, (lukerkkrishta@gmail.com)

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.

Eight coaches of Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express derailed near Rampur in UP. 1

Rampur, Apr 15 (IANS): At least 14 passengers were injured when eight coaches of an express train derailed over a broken piece of the railway track, police said. A probe has been ordered into the incident - the sixth railway accident in the country so far this year.

Railway and police officials said the Rajya Rani Express train was heading for Lucknow from Meerut when the accident took place, two kilometres from Rampur junction and about 150 meters from the Kosi river bridge at around 8.15 a.m. Rampur Superintendent of Police Keshav Kumar Chaudhary said 14 passengers were injured. “Two or three of them were hospitalized and the rest were discharged after giving first aid. All the injured are out of danger.” He said one of the coaches had “completely overturned”. A preliminary

probe revealed that at least three feet of track was found broken and parts of it were embedded in the ground, he said.

A team of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-terrorism Squad visited the site.

However, the police official ruled out sabotage.

“There seems to be no sabotage. The track may have broken because of some pressure,” Chaudhary said, adding the railways have taken over the probe and they should be in a “better position to explain”.

However, Northern Railway spokesperson Neeraj Sharma said “only two passengers have received injuries”.

The accident affected at least 25 trains on the Meerut-Bareilly section.

Sharma said the railway authorities arranged buses for stranded passengers for their onward jour-

ney to their destinations.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu in the morning said he was “personally monitoring (the) situation”.

“Enquiry ordered to look into the cause. Strict action will be taken against any lapse,” the Minister tweeted, and announced financial assistance of Rs 50,000 for the injured.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also announced financial assistance of Rs 50,000 each to those seriously injured and Rs 25,000 each to those suffering minor injuries.

This is the sixth accident this year to hit the Indian Railways, the world’s fourth largest rail network that ferries 2.3 crore people across every day.

The government in February 2015 announced ambitious plans to pump in Rs one lakh crore to revamp safety infrastructure of the ageing network till 2020.

On January 22, more than 40 passengers died and over 50 were injured when the Hirakhand Express derailed near Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh.

A month later three coaches and the engine of Kalindi Express derailed after colliding with a goods train at the Tundla Junction in Uttar Pradesh. The two trains were running on the same track. Nobody was injured.

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Latur, Apr 15 (IANS): On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a Rs 1 crore prize to a 20-year-old Latur woman for a digital transaction, another young woman from the district ended her life by jumping into a well as her father could not afford her marriage expenses, officials said. The 21-year-old victim was Shital Vyankat Vayal, a resident of Bhise-Wagholi village, who had completed her Secondary School Certificate three years ago. Her death has added a whole new dimension to the ongoing socio-agrarian crisis gripping Maharashtra.

On Friday morning, Shital jumped into a well in her own farmland. But the real story emerged after a suicide note was recovered by her family. In the note, she has recounted how her parents are very poor and did not have money to organise her marriage.

“I am ending my life to ease my father’s financial burden and eliminate the practice of dowry in my Maratha-Kunbi community,” said Vayal in simple but touching words, sending shockwaves in state political circles.

“Since the past five consecutive years, due to

crop failure, our family’s financial condition has become extremely delicate. Yet my two sisters were married off in a very modest manner,” she wrote. “For my marriage, my father has been making continuous efforts... but since no loans are available from moneylenders or banks, my marriage has been postponed for over two years,” her note of anguish said.

“Hence, in order to ease the burden on my father, and to end the practice of ‘devanghevan’ (dowry) in the Maratha community, I am ending my life. My family and myself should not be accused in any manner,” she said. Villagers said that Shital had been getting many proposals for marriage, but the family declined them as they could not afford to raise money for the dowry and marriage expenses.

Barely hours after her death, in Nagpur, Modi felicitated electrical engineering student Shraddha Mengshete of Latur. She bagged the Rs 1 crore Mega Draw for Lucky Grahak Yojana for a Rs 1,590 transaction through her RuPay card to pay an EMI for her new mobile phone.

Farooq Abdullah wins Srinagar by-poll; demands PR in J&K SRINAGAR, APR 15 (AGENCIES): National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Saturday won the Srinagar Lok Sabha by-poll, defeating the ruling PDP candidate, Nazir Khan, by a margin of over 10,700 votes.

Abdullah polled around 48,554 votes against Khan, who got 37,779 votes, officials said.

The polling for the seat was held on April 9 amid large- scale violence that left eight persons dead and several dozen others injured.

The constituency had recorded an abysmal 7.13 per cent voter turnout, the lowest ever in its history.

The Election Commission had ordered repolling in 38 polling stations in violence-hit areas on April 13.

This will be the third term as Lok Sabha member for Abdullah, whose victory is being seen as a major setback for the ruling PDP. He was earlier elected to the House of People in 1980 and 2009.

Although there were seven other candidates in the fray, it was NOTA that bagged the second runnerup spot with over 930 voters choosing this option.

“As president of NC, I demand and I request the government of India and the President of India that this government should be dismissed right away so that the Governor’s Rule comes into play and people can have some peace,” he said.

The bypoll to the seat was necessitated after the then PDP leader Tariq Hamid Karra resigned from the Lower House of Parliament in protest against the “atrocities” inflicted upon the people during the unrest triggered by killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani last year.

Talking to reporters at National Conference (NC) headquarters here, he said that while the election had been held, let us not forget that a number of young people have died.

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people laid their lives and many were injured, he said.

He alleged that people who are not involved in any stone throwing or anything are being arrested or taken out from their homes and that process continues even today.

It shows that this government has completely failed in giving peace and tranquillity to the state, he said. The NC president demanded that the bypolls in Anantnag Parliamentary constituency in south Kashmir, which were deferred till May 25, should be held under the Governor’s rule.

Over two dozen students were injured in clashes with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama town on Saturday, police said.

Students of a local college objected to the setting up of a ‘Naka’ (checkpost) outside the college and engaged in stone-pelting at the security forces, police said.

Security forces used tear smoke shells to disperse the protesting students who kept on re-grouping to engage the security forces in pitched clashes.

Reports from the town said around two dozens students including some girls were injured in these clashes.

One of the protesting students was hit on the head by a tear smoke canister and has been shifted to Srinagar city for treatment.

Seven students, teacher drown off Maha coast Sindhudurg, Apr 15 (IANS): Seven engineering students, three of them female, and their teacher from Belgaum in Karnataka drowned in the sea off Malvan, Sindhudurg, here on Saturday afternoon, police said.

Another three students were rescued by local fisherfolk. One of the students is in serious condition and undergoing treatment at Malvan hospital, said Sindhudurg Police Control official Ravindra Zarkar.

The victims were part of a 50-strong group of picknickers from Maratha Mandal Engineering College, Belgaum. They arrived here early on Saturday in a private bus and went to the picturesque Wayri Beach.

Shortly after reaching here, the students, allegedly ignoring warnings by locals of strong currents, ventured into the sea and were soon washed away into deep waters, said Zarkar.

Porn clip played out Delhi’s Himachal CM launches busiest metro station unemployment allowance scheme New Delhi, Apr 15 (IANS): In a bizarre incident that left the Delhi Metro red-faced and its commuters shocked, a hardcore pornographic clip played out on a giant screen at its busiest Rajiv Chowk metro station in the heart of the national capital.

With a video of the giant screen playing the explicit clip going viral on Saturday, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) claimed being “unaware” about the clip and put the onus on a private contractor entrusted with installing the screen meant for displaying advertisements.

The 25 second video widely shared on social networks, shows the clip being played on the screen with commuters passing by the screen in usual hurry but some of then stopped to record it on their mobile phones.

“The DMRC is not aware about this clip. However, this LED screen was under commissioning and testing by a private contractor and the same is still under commissioning.

The work is still not completed,” Delhi Metro spokesperson Anuj Dayal said in a statement.

“We will check all the details of the testing and commissioning process of the contractor to establish whether any such clip was played and take adequate safeguards and action,” he said.

Chamba, Apr 15 (IANS): Fulfilling his election campaign promise to give doles to jobless youth ahead of the assembly elections, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Saturday distributed cheques for Rs 1,000 each to 10 unemployed youth.

He officially launched the scheme at the state-level function to mark the 70th Himachal Day. It was on this day in 1948 that the state came into existence with the merger of 30-odd princely hill states. The Chief Minister said his government

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He announced that the monthly honorarium of Special Police Officers deployed in Chamba district bordering militancy-infested Jammu and Kashmir would be increased to Rs 6,000 from Rs 4,000.

There are around 500 Special Police Officers assisting the paramilitary forces after the massacre of 35 people in Churah area by terrorists in 1998.

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Likewise, an allowance of Rs 1,500 per month would be given to the youths with physical disabilities.

Both allowances will benefit 150,000 youths.

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“We are looking at doubling the AUM of both these schemes through the launch of UTI Family facility over the next one year,” R Raja, products head of UTI MF, told PTI.

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Mumbai, Apr 15 (PTI): Country’s sixth largest fund house UTI Mutual Fund is aiming to double its assets under management (AUM) for each of its two existing schemes through a new facility called UTI Family.

The fund house has introduced the facility UTI Family (Father and Mother I Love You) under the growth option of its existing schemes, MIS Advantage Plan and Wealth Builder Fund, to provide regular pay-out to the parents.

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NSCB HQ Dimapur, Bendangnungsang, who delivered welcome address, said that due to the arrival of core banking system, banking has become easier. He also guaranteed that it will be an error free bank. There are 21 NSCB operating in the state, said the general manager.

Others who spoke at the programme were DOB, NSCB Ltd Thsapongkyu Sangtam and branch manager Kiphire, Vizol Kera.

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banker, of the total credit growth during the current fiscal, half has come from home loans and a large part of the rest has been due to loans to the service sector.

Most of the lenders are private banks and a few large private banks. Other than them, most public sector banks are likely to report flat credit growth for FY17.

One fallout of the slowdown in credit is that banks will report a higher percentage of bad loans. Growth in credit helps to mask the level of bad loans. With bad loans at close to 10% of their total assets, many banks face a catch-22 situation. The RBI’s prompt corrective action may make it difficult for banks to expand their balance sheet. The absence of fresh lending would, however, make it difficult for banks to generate revenues to clean up their books.

Terming NSCB as the best bank, he appreciated the staff of the bank for their sincerity while discharging their duty in the bank.

While reminding the people that bank is run by loan, the deputy commissioner urged the clients to repay loan in proper time so that the bank shall prosper.

NSCB is the lone bank owned by the state therefore, people should make use it for financial generation in the state, added the chief guest.

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coming to a standstill, bank credit growth was also constrained by demonetisation. Between October and December 2016, bank credit contracted by 2.3% as against a 2.7% growth during the same period last year. Besides bad loans, one of the biggest concerns for the RBI is managing the surplus liquidity with banks. While on the one hand banks are seeing lower credit growth, on the other their deposits continue to remain high, again thanks to demonetisation.

Banks have ended the year with an 11.8% growth in deposits, which now stand at more than Rs 108 lakh crore. Some bankers feel that the RBI is reluctant to intervene in the forex market as this would add to the surplus liquidity in the system.

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Kiphire, Apr 15 (NPN): Deputy Commissioner Kiphire, Sedevikho Khro inaugurated the newly installed ATM booth of Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Limited at its office premises on April 13.

Speaking at the inauguration programme, Khro said that Nagaland State Cooperative Bank (NStCB) Ltd main focus was the rural people and its agricultural related activities. Therefore, he asked people to make the best use of cooperative bank.

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MUMBAI, Apr 15 (Agencies): Growth in bank credit in FY17, at 5.1%, has turned out to be the slowest in over 60 years as state-owned banks burdened with bad loans struggled to find safe avenues to lend. The last time loans grew slower than this was in 1953-54 when bank credit growth had slowed down to 1.7%.

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The CBDT said the taxman also undertook “extensive enforcement action” of search, survey and seizure post demonetisation and has detected undisclosed income to the tune of Rs 9,334 crore between November 9 and February 28.

The demonetisation of two high value currencies of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 last year.

Under the first phase of the operation, it said, 17.92 lakh people, who entered into cash transactions that did not appear to be in line with their tax profile, were contacted via the online medium.

“Online queries were raised in 35,000 cases and online verification was completed in more than 7,800 cases,” it said, adding the department has decided to close the verification in cases where explanation of source of cash was found to be justified.

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New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): Gold prices held steady at Rs 29,950 per 10 grams at the bullion market today in scattered demand from local jewellers. Silver followed suit and ruled flat at Rs 43,000 per kg.

Traders said mild demand from local jewellers in view of ongoing wedding season at domestic spot market kept gold as well as silver prices steady.

In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity ruled steady at Rs 29,950 and Rs 29,800 per 10 grams, respectively. It had gained Rs 660 in last four days.

Sovereign remained unaltered at Rs 24,500 per piece of eight grams.

Silver ready and weekly-based delivery also finished at previous level of Rs 43,000 and Rs 42,570 per kg, respectively.

identified for investigation into claims of excessive cash sales during the demonetisation period.

“More than 6,000 transactions of high value property purchase and 6,600 cases of outward remittances shall be subjected to detailed investigations,” the CBDT, policy-making body of the department, said in a statement.

“All the cases where no response is received shall also be subjected to detailed enquiries,” it added.

The CBDT said the complete exercise of examining “all the doubtful and non-tax compliant accounts” may take more than an year to complete but with the help of technology and continuous enforcement action all the liable accounts will be brought to task.

The latest operation has been initiated based on “identification” of huge cash deposits through use of advanced data analytics “including integration of data sources, relationship

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spond to taxman’s queries under the first phase of the said operation.

A senior officer said there is no threshold of deposits that has been identified under the latest operation and all suspicious and similar interrelated transactions have been chosen and brought under it.

“The deposits under scrutiny of the latest operation are no doubt high value ones,” he said.

The officer added that while the initial communication to these 60,000 people will go via the online medium, the taxman will also undertake search and survey action and also seek physical documents from the assessee as part of the operation.

The threshold under the first phase of the operation, that began on January 31 and ended on February 15, was kept at deposits made to the tune of Rs 5 lakh and above.

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New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): The Income Tax department has identified over 60,000 “high risk” persons for probe under the second phase of the ‘Operation Clean Money’ which was launched on Friday to detect black money generation post demonetisation.

The CBDT said the category of people who will undergo “detailed investigations” as part of the next phase of the operation include businesses claiming cash sales as the source of cash deposits, like petrol pumps and other essential services like hospitals, which is found to be excessive compared to their past profile or industry norms during the notes ban period.

It will also probe those government or Public Sector Undertaking employees who made “large cash deposits”, people who have undertaken high value purchases, those who “layered” or laundered funds by using shell companies and those who did not re-

MUMBAI, Apr 15 (Agencies): Low-cost domestic carrier IndiGo said it will operate 18 new additional flights, starting June, as part of its summer schedule.

The Gurgaon-based airline, which currently operates over 900 flights, will add these flights to the existing routes, including Bengaluru-Delhi and Bengaluru-Hyderabad, a release said today.

IndiGo will operate its 15th flight between Bengaluru and Delhi (to and fro), and 10th additional flight between Bengaluru and Hyderabad and Kolkata and Bengaluru (to and fro), the airline said.

Besides, the carrier will also operate new additional flights from Ranchi, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram, it said. “It gives me immense pleasure to announce these new frequencies, which will provide even more flexibility of choice to our customers, and connect these destinations across India,” IndiGo Whole Time Director and President Aditya Ghish said in the release.

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North Korea parades longrange missiles; warns of war

PYONGYANG, APR 15 (AP): North Korea paraded its intercontinental ballistic missiles in a massive military display in central Pyongyang today, with ruler Kim Jong Un looking on with delight as his nation flaunted its increasingly sophisticated military hardware amid rising regional tensions.

Kim did not speak during the annual parade, which celebrates the 1912 birthday of his late grandfather Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founding ruler, but a top official warned that the North would stand up to any threat posed by the United States. Choe Ryong Hae said President Donald Trump was guilty of “creating a war situation” on the Korean Peninsula by dispatching US forces to the region.

“We will respond to an all-out war with an allout war and a nuclear war with our style of a nuclear attack,” said Choe, widely seen by analysts as North Korea’s No 2 official.

The parade, the annual highlight of North Korea’s most important holiday, came amid growing international worries that North Korea may be preparing for its sixth nuclear test or a major missile

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A North Korean KN-08 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICMB) is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade on Saturday. (AP/PTI) launch, such as its first flight test of an ICBM capable of reaching US shores.

But if the parade signalled a readiness for war, North Korea has long insisted that its goal is peace and survival with the growing arsenal a way to ensure that the government in Pyongyang is not easily overthrown.

North Korea saw the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya neither of whom had nuclear weapons as proof of the weapons’ power.

“It will be the largest of miscalculations if the United States treats us like Iraq and Libya, which are living out miserable fates as victims of aggression, and

Syria, which didn’t respond immediately even after it was attacked,” said a statement yesterday by the general staff of the North Korean army, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

Also yesterday, North Korea’s vice foreign minister told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that Trump’s tweets he recently tweeted, for example, that the North is “looking for trouble” have inflamed tensions.

“Tr ump is always making provocations with his aggressive words,” Han Song Ryol said.

US retaliatory strikes earlier this month against Syria over a chemical weapons attack on civilians, coupled with Trump’s dis-

patching of what he called an “armada” of ships to the region, touched off fears in South Korea that the United States was preparing for military action against the North.

Pyongyang has also expressed anger over the ongoing annual spring military exercises the US holds with South Korea, which it considers a rehearsal for invasion.

But US officials told The Associated Press yesterday that the Trump administration had settled on a policy that will emphasise increasing pressure on Pyongyang with the help of China, North Korea’s only major ally, instead of military options or trying to overthrow Kim’s regime.

A US military official, who requested anonymity to discuss planning, said the United States doesn’t intend to use military force against North Korea in response to either a nuclear test or a missile launch.

Kim, wearing a suit and tie, was greeted today with thunderous and extensively practised applause as he stepped into view on a large podium, clapping to acknowledge the thousands of soldiers and civilians taking part in the parade at Kim Il Sung Square.

China asks Russia to help ‘cool’ N Korea situation BEIJING, APR 15 (AFP): China is seeking Russia’s help to cool surging tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions, the country’s foreign minister has told his Moscow counterpart, after Beijing warned of possible conflict over North Korea.

Fears over the North’s rogue weapons programme have soared in recent days, with a US naval strike force deployed near the Korean peninsula, while President Donald Trump has warned the threat “will be taken care of ” and Pyongyang has vowed a “merciless” response to any provocation.

China - the North’s sole major ally and economic lifeline - yesterday warned that war over North Korea could break out “at any moment”.

In a call with Sergei Lavrov later yesterday, Wang Yi said the common goal of the two nations was to “bring all the parties back to the negotiating table”, according to a statement on China’s Foreign Ministry website.

“China is ready to coordinate closely with Russia to help cool down as quickly as possible the situation on the peninsula and encourage the parties concerned to resume dialogue,” Wang told Lavrov, referring to the stalled six-party talks on the North’s nuclear programme that includes Russia, China and the United States.

Massive US bomb death toll rises to 94: Afghan official

U.S. forces and Afghan commandos are seen in Asad Khil near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday.

KABUL, APR 15 (AP): The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military has risen to 94, an Afghan official said today.

Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said the number of Islamic State group dead was up from the 36 reported a day earlier.

A Ministry of Defence official had said yesterday the number of dead could rise as officials assessed the bomb site in Achin district.

“Fortunately there is no report of civilians being killed in the attack,” Khogyani said. The US attack on a tunnel complex in remote

eastern Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed at least four IS group leaders, Khogyani said. He said a clearance operation to assess the site of the attack was continuing.

The strike using the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, was carried out Thursday against an Islamic State group tunnel complex carved into the mountains that Afghan forces had tried to assault repeatedly in recent weeks in fierce fighting in Nangarhar province.

The office of President Ashraf Ghani said Friday there was “close coordination” between the U.S. military and the Afghan government on the operation, and they were careful to prevent

any civilian casualties.

The US estimates 600800 IS fighters are in Afghanistan, mostly in Nangarhar. The US has concentrated on fighting them while also supporting Afghan forces against the Taliban.

The US has more than 8,000 US troops in Afghanistan, training local forces and conducting counterterrorism operations.

Also on Saturday, Khogyani said a district leader and three others were wounded when their vehicle was targeted by a bomb. One of the wounded was Ghalib Mujahid, Bati Kot district chief, he said.

“The district chief and others are out of danger and are not in life-threatening condition,” he said.

Security tight as Egypt Copts prepare for Easter mass Antarctica was once green: Scientists S A N T I AG O, A P R 1 5 (IANS): Nearly 300 million years ago, the frozen, inhospitable Antarctica was covered by lush subtropical forests, according to scientists.

“That Antarctica was once green is a matter of consensus among scientists, but still unknown to many people,” Marcelo Leppe, a paleontologist who works with the Chilean Antarctic National Institute, told Efe news on Friday.

Leppe, Chile’s representative to the international Scientific Committee on

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NAGA PEOPLE’S FRONT

26 AONGLENDEN ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY MOKOKCHUNG: NAGALAND

FELICITATION

The 26 Aonglenden Assembly Constituency extends our heartiest congratulations to our leader Shri Imtikumzük Lkr on assuming the office of Parliamentary Secretary Information & Public Relation.

We also like to express our deep gratitude to our Hon’ble Chief Minister Nagaland & President NPF Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsü for inducting such an esteemed status upon our representative.

Meanwhile, we will continue to pledge our unyielding support to your leadership.

Sd/Nungsangmeren President 26 Aonglenden A/C NPF DC-740

The Dimapur Nkonjan Patton Ekhung extend our heartiest congratulations to the following officers on their promotion.

1. Mr. Apenthung Patton, promoted to Deputy Director (Agri).

2. Mr. Wojamo Patton, promoted to SDAO (Agri) 3. Er. Khumbemo Patton, promoted to Superintendent Engineer (BSNL) 4. Mr. Thungbemo Patton, promoted to SDO (Civil) 5. Dr. Diana Patton, promoted to SDO (Civil) The Ekhung pray and wish them success in all their future endeavours.

(Peter Patton) Jt. Secretary DNPE

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JAMITSU EKHUNG H.Q.-WOKHA : NAGALAND

FELICITATES

The Jamitsu Ekhung with immense pride extends heartiest congratulations to : 1. Captain Elisen Y Jami, S/o Shri. Y. L. Jami Rtd. (IAS), for being honoured Shaurya Chakra Gallantry Award, conferred by the Hon'ble President of India.

2. Dr. Phyobemo Jami, S/o Shri. Yanao Jami for successfully clearing the prestigious UPSC exams and his appointment to the post of DMO (ENT) Specialist in NEFR. The Ekhung prays that the Almighty God grant them wisdom, good health and success in all their future endeavours.

(Ramongo Lotha) Chairman

(Chenirao Jami) Secretary

Fossils from the subsequent Jurassic period reveal the existence of fern and conifer forests where the Cryolophosaurus species of dinosaur thrived.

But the golden age of vegetation in Antarctica was the Cretaceous period, which began 145 million years ago and lasted until around 66 million years ago.

OFFICE OF THE

TETRÜBE VILLAGE COUNCIL DIMAPUR : NAGALAND INFORMATION

Tetrübe Village Baptist Church shall be dedicated by Rev. Dr. V.K. Nuh on 25th April, 2017 at 12:00 noon. All the Stake Holders, Invitees and Village Council Chairmen of all the concerned 15 Kuzhami Villages are requested to pray and attend the Programme along with freewill contribution towards Church construction.

(S.K. Kenye) Chairman

(Welhipe Khape) Secretary

OFFICE OF THE

UNEMPLOYED TRAINED NURSES ASSOCIATION KOHIMA, NAGALAND

INFORMATION

DIMAPUR NKONJAN PATTON EKHUNG FELICITATES

Antarctic Research, has spent his professional life searching for fossils that offer clues to the origins of the flora and fauna of the White Continent. Forests began to appear in Antarctica some 298 million years ago during the Permian geologic period, as glaciers retreated and the global climate entered a warming phase, Leppe said.

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TEHRAN, APR 15 (IANS): Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Friday registered to run for a second four-year term in the upcoming presidential election in the country.

At the Interior Ministry’s headquarters in Tehran, Rouhani said he had fulfilled the promises he made to the Iranian people during the election campaign four years ago, EFE news cited statements published by official media outlets.

In a new attempt to convince undecided voters and citizens disappointed with his policies, the Iranian President stressed that his government’s economic performance was better than his predecessors’ in recent years.

He also alluded to the nuclear agreement signed in July 2015 between Iran and six major powers, whose protection, in his view, is one of “the most important economic and political issues” facing the nation.

“Those who made incessant efforts on the nuclear pact should tread the path up to the end,” he said in remarks to the press after registering as a candidate.

Rouhani said maintaining national security was one of his government’s most important goals and stressed that “the ominous shadow of the war (over the country) has disappeared”.

Rouhani, who won the 2013 presidential elections in the first round with 50.8 per cent of the vote, is the candidate of the reformist bloc, although he defines himself as moderate.

said Coptic Church spokesman Boulos Halim. Coptic Pope Tawadros II will lead Easter mass in Cairo’s Saint Mark’s Cathedral, while the church said celebrations this year would be scaled back.

“Tanta and Alexandria created a big shock, for all of Egypt,” Halim said.

Easter, which along with Christmas is one of Christianity’s most important events, marks what followers believe was the resurrection of Christ on the third day after his crucifixion.

District Level Awareness Training 2015-16 was held on 10th April at Chief Veterinary Office Conference Hall, Burma Camp, Dimapur.

The programme was chaired by Dr. Imlidangit, F/M and keynote address was delivered by Dr. Temsu Ozukum, CVO Dimapur. Dr. Michael Imchen, VAS was the resource person who spoke on the topic management, breeding and control of economically important diseases in livestock and poultry. The farmers were distributed with feeds supplement etc.

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OFFICE OF THE

YIMJENKIMONG OZUKUM UNION

This is to inform all the unemployed Trained Nurses in Nagaland to register/enroll themselves to the unemployed Trained Nurses Association (UTNA) on or before 30th May 2017 without fail. Thereafter failing which a sum of Rs. 10,000/- shall be imposed at the time of job appointment.

The same information has been notified earlier but many failed to register themselves. So this will be the final call to all the concerned individuals after which the person will be liable to penalty. Therefore, UTNA office bearers are requested to adhere to this notice without fail.

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Amoni Tsopoe President, UTNA

P.O : Tuli, Dist : Mokokchung, Nagaland

DECLARATION

The Ozukumer Clan of Yimjenkimong Village strongly condemn the decision of the Ao Senden by excommunicating Shri. P. Chuba Ozukum as published in local dailies on 11/04/2017. The Ozukumer clan also expresses its resentment for ex-communicating Shri. P. Chuba Ozukum without the knowledge of the Yimjenkimong Village Council and such act does not prevail in Ao customary law of the Nagas. The Ozukumer clan states that the decision passed by the Ao Senden is not accepted in such manner and strongly affirm to stand by the decision of Yimjenkimong Village Council as published in local dailies on 13/04/2017.

Meyionen Ozukum Secretary Yimjenkimong Ozukum Union

I. Akaba Ozukum President Yimjenkimong Ozukum Union

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group. Police have deployed in force since Friday creating a cordon outside churches for initial inspection, and worshippers will be searched again with metal detectors at church gates, interior ministry officials said.

The heightened security procedures include preventing cars from parking in streets adjacent to churches, according to the officials.

“Security has indeed Egyptians pray during Good Friday procession at the improved so much as it St. George church in northern Egypt on April 14. seems the situation needed gency and called in the army bombings in Tanta and Al- to be tightened up a lot,” to protect “vital” installa- ex a n d r i a , w h i c h we r e tions following the suicide claimed by the Islamic State

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CAIRO, APR 15 (AGENCIES): Egypt tightened security outside churches as Coptic Christians prepared for a subdued Easter mass on Saturday days after suicide bombers killed scores of people in two churches north of the capital.

Worshippers will pass through arduous checks outside churches after police, backed by the military, beefed up security following the Palm Sunday church bombings that killed 45 people in two cities north of Cairo.

The government had declared a state of emer-

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Saturday Art School to launch in Kma Harry Styles single finally topples Ed Sheeran’s chart reign H U

Artists to participate in the Saturday Art School. (NP)

and advance course of art would be provided to the students by the professional artists in the state.

Odyuo informed that Saturday School of Art was unique and would open new space in minds, learning basic skills of the visual arts to discover one’s own artistic language.

He said the art school would give class for general and beginners who were interested in art and design and wish to progress for further study. He said the course content included introduction to drawing and painting, use of variety materials and range of techniques, study of line, tone, colour and texture, using pencil, charcoal ink, paint and collage.

The Thousand Project Group also informed that their group would organize a “pro-shot” photography workshop on April 18 and 19 at confer-

ence hall department of Art and Culture with the resource person, Ranna M.V. national awardees photographer from Bangalore. Interested persons have been invited to participate at the event.

(Correspondent)

arry Styles’s debut single Sign of the Times has broken Ed Sheeran’s 13-week spell at the top of the charts.

The One Direction star has achieved his first number one as a solo artist with this release - the first from his self-titled debut album.

His song sold 3,000 copies more than Sheeran’s, with just under 40,000 downloads and 3.5 million streams, the Official Charts Company said.

Sheeran’s Shape of You fell to number two, while his Galway Girl is at three.

The Official Charts Company added that Shape Of You is still the most streamed song of the

week, with nearly seven ber of One Direction to million plays. top the singles chart, after Styles, whose debut Zayn Malik managed the album is released next same feat in 2016 with Pilmonth, is the second mem- lowtalk.

Top five singles Artist Title 1) Harry Styles Sign of the Times 2) Ed Sheeran Shape of You 3) Ed Sheeran Galway Girl 4) Clean Bandit ft Zara Larsson Symphony 5) Drake Passionfruit Sheeran has also re- the top 500 combined and tained his domination became the fastest-selling of the album chart, with album ever by a male artDivide still on the top ist. spot, followed by Rag Last month Sheeran ‘N’ Bone Man’s Human also held 16 places out of and then Chainsmokers the top 20 in the singles with Memories - Do Not chart, including numbers Open. one, two, three, four, five In its first week, Di- and six - not surprisingly, vide outsold the rest of this was a chart first.

Top five albums Artist Title 1) Ed Sheeran Divide 2) Rag ‘N’ Bone Man Human 3) Chainsmokers Memories - Do Not Open 4) Drake More Life 5) Take That Wonderland The album chart also new release Let Me Fly is saw the return of Mike at number nine in their first The Mechanics, whose offering since 1996.

OFFICE OF THE

YEHEMI VILLAGE COUNCIL

FELICITATION

With immense pride and honor, we the Yehemi Village Council would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Hekhushe Shikhu on being elected as President Sumi Hoho.

We felicitate him for bringing laurels to our village and all our Sumi community. We wish him good health and success in future endeavour.

(Kaito HD. GB) Chairman

(Nikheto GB) Secretary

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nder the initiative and support of department of Art & Culture an event management group (artists group) “A thousand Art Project” would launch the Saturday Art School on April 18 at the conference hall of Art & Culture directorate

by Vilalhou Naudi senior executive at Art & Culture department.

This was announced

by Mhao Odyuo convenor A Thousand Art Project during press briefing also attended by other artists at FIFA café Kohima on Thursday.

Odyuo said the art school would be a joint venture with Nagaland Art Society, Nagaland Street Art and Music Planet.

He said Saturday Art School would be an avenue for the young art enthusiasts in the state, which would give an opportunity to higher aspects of professionalism.

He lamented that though Nagaland had many art professionals, it was lacking opportunity to venture forward, for which Saturday Art School was started in joint- venture along with the department of Art and Culture to create employment opportunities as well.

He informed that the classes would be held every Saturday starting from May at Art and Culture department where basic

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ctor Ali Fazal says Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris has a keen interest in India.

Ali, who came to cast his vote for the IIFA voting weekend here on Saturday, told the media: “We did meet and it was quite iconic as Paris is really interested in India and it was funny because she had no idea about Michael Jackson’s fan base in India.

“So, I said that the two names which echo together and even people in villages know are Gandhiji and Michael Jackson.”

Ali is reportedly teaming up with Paris for a project.On being prodded, he said: “It’s too early to speak anything about the film. But you will know very soon.”

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When asked if Bollywood is receptive to strong women, who are not afraid to share their views, Sonakshi said, “I am sure that it does exist. There are always people who are trying to show their importance and suppress people who are opinionated. It is there in every field, not just our field. I think it is up to the strong opinionated, independent women to deal with them.”

The actress, who is gearing up for the release of ‘Noor’, said luckily for her all the people she has interacted with in the film industry in past seven years have been respectful to strong women.

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Bengaluru beat Lajong FC to climb to fourth spot

Players of Shillong Lajong FC and Bengaluru FC during their I-League match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Shillong on Saturday.

by Kaith.

The home side’s best chance of the half came from a free-kick taken

by Issac Vanmalsawma that found the head of I-league’s top-scorer Aser Pierrick Dipanda, but the Cameroonian’s header was wide of Blues’ ’keeper Arindam Bhattacharya’s frame.

The Blues started the second half where they left off and it took just four minutes to double their lead as a deep cross from Nishu Kumar, after some good build-up play from the back, was headed home

by Harmanjot Khabra for his first goal in a Blues’ shirt. Lajong brought on Brazilian striker Fabio Pena but John Johnson, Juanan Gonzalez and Salam Ranjan kept things clean at the back through the game.

Chhetri could have had a second in the 65th

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Expressing our heartfelt and profound gratitude to all those who stood by us through prayers, physically and financially during the time of our pain and sorrow at the sudden demise of our beloved Late S. Tinumeren Longkumer (Chungtia) on 26th March 2017.

Words are inadequate to express our indebtedness to you and we deeply regret our inability to acknowledge each and every individual and groups, but it is our sincere prayer that God bless you all in abundance.

Rio de Janeiro, Apr 15 (IANS): Half of the 12 stadiums built or renovated with taxpayers’ money to host the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil saw funds being pocketed by government officials and construction company executives, local media reported.

In the case of at least four of those stadiums, there is testimony from some involved in the scheme that reveals construction firms and officials conspired to inflate the price of the project in order to split the profits, news network Globo said on its website on Friday.

The stadium projects under review include the landmark Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Mane Garrincha in Brasilia, Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Arena da Amazonia in Manaus and Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, reports Xinhua news agency.

According to government figures, Rio’s Maracana ended up costing some 75 per cent more to renovate than originally planned, requiring $383 million, despite having been remodelled in 2007 for the Pan American Games.

The costliest stadium was Brasilia’s, which was projected to entail $238 million, but consumed $447 million of taxpayers’ money -- 87.8 per cent more.

The revelations were made by some 77 former executives of Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which is under investigation as part of Operation Car Wash, a wide-ranging probe into graft in government.

MP Verma Cup: Team Nagaland bags runner-up

Team Nagaland with ex-India cricketers, Dilip Vengsarkar and Surinder Khanna and CAB general secretary, Aditya.

Dimapur, Apr 15 (NPN): Nagaland bagged the runner-up at the MP Verma All India Invitation Unity Cup after losing to Jharkhand in the final match at Patna on April 12. In an exciting game of cricket, the Nagaland team gave a tough contest to the strong opponent, before losing the match by 6 wickets.

E a r l i e r, N a g a l a n d captain Imliwati Lemtur won the toss and elected to bat and put up a reasonable score of 198 in 40 overs.

The day and night match which was graced by former Indian cricketer, Dilip Vensarkar and Surinder Khanna were surprised at the way the Nagaland boys put up a tough fight against

the superior opponent.

At last, the experienced Jharkhand team prevailed over Nagaland in the 38th over and ultimately won the match by 6 wickets.

This is the first time a team from Nagaland has reached the finals of All India tournament. In the way

to the final team Nagaland played against Mizoram, Bihar and Manipur.

The tournament was organized by the Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) under the leadership of its secretary, Aditya Verma and twelve teams participated in the tournament held from April 4 to 12 at two different venues in Patna.

The Nagaland team consisted of Imliwati Lemtur (C), Hokaito Zhimomi, Tahmeed Rahman, Ja l a l u d d i n , S e d e z a l i e Rupreo, Shampri, Richu Dev, Mughato Chishi, Teni Chishi, Inakato Zhimomi, Nadeem, Imlikaba, Allem and Liremo Patton.

Team Nagaland added another achievement to its honour as its young spinner Tahmeed Rahman, who took 11 wickets in the tournament was declared the highest wicket taker of the tournament.

10th DEATH ANNIVERSARY Lt. Talikokba

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(1929 – 2007)

It’s been a decade since you left us.

Loving memories of you are afresh in our hearts, a source of inspiration for all who knew you.

Though you are out of sight, You’ll forever be in our hearts, loved and remembered.

Remembering you Late Temsu Pongen

Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.

Loving family members.

Loving Parents, brothers & sisters

Died on 16-04-07

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5TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

of our beloved mother Late Tatongkala Jamir Longjang (D.C Hill Mkg) (15th April 2016)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the bereaved family of Late Phyokhamo Shitiri of Pangti Village C. Khel would like to extend our gratitude to each and every individual and groups who stood by us in prayer, physically, materially and financially during his sad demise on 29.03.2017 (Born in 1931).

May the good Lord shower His blessings upon you all, even though we profoundly regret our inability to thank each and everyone of you by name.

Lt. Ikuto Sema

It has been five long and painful years since that Monday morning, how we wish you were still here, may be things would be better than they are right now. We miss you Dad. Loving wife and children

Mum though you are gone, we still have those sweet memories you left behind. We miss you so deeply, your words and thoughts on 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 will remain with us forever.

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1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY Lt. N. Khenivi Kiba

(14.05.1943 – 16.04.2016)

Loving children and in-laws.

Loving Family members, relatives & grandchildren

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He had a nature you could not help loving and a heart purer than gold, and to those who knew him and loved him, his memory will never grow cold.

"To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die.

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Forever in our hearts Loving wife, children & relatives.

minute when he thumped his header from a Cameron Watson corner, just wide.

In the second half, Lajong came closest to goal in the 90th minute when Issac looked to sneak in a strike into the top corner but Bhattacharya was equal to the task as Bengaluru went on to make it three clean sheets in as many games across competitions.

With this win, Bengaluru and Shillong both have 24 points from 16 games, but the former are ahead on the basis of their head-to-head record.

L a j o n g n ow h ave a week to get over this setback to their campaign.

They will play Mumbai FC on April 23 in what will be their penultimate I-League 2016-17 fixture.

Brazil WC stadiums price soar due to corruption

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Shillong, Apr 15 (Agencies): The defending champions Bengaluru FC continued their late-season resurgence as they defeated high-flying Shillong Lajong 2-0 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Shillong.

In a first half bereft of much action, the visitors took the lead in the 26th minute with a move that involved three attacking players. Marjan Jugovic’s pass back to Alwyn George was threaded through for Sunil Chhetri, who after a confident first touch, slotted home past the dive of a hapless Vishal Kaith in the Lajong goal.

Albert Roca’s men had a chance to double their lead when Juanan Gonzalez’s rare foray into the opposition half saw him steal the ball from Lajong midfielder Yuta Kinowaki but the Spaniard’s shot from distance was saved

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Loving wife, children and grandchildren.

REMEMBERING YOU ON YOUR 2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF

LATE KEVIZAYIE TOSO (MALO)

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If feelings could be in concrete form everybody would have seen our immense gratitude to those who stood by us at the sudden demise of Late Miss. Mankhah a business lady in Chennai on the 13th of March 2017. We specially thank to: 1. Mr.Wapangtoshi Pastor Naga Christian Fellowship, Chennai.

2. Chingmik (NSUC) Chennai.

3. Mr. Giresh Pastor Shiloh Church, Chennai.

4. Mr, Kaso Shaiza Pastor, Deliverance House of Prayer, Chennai.

5. My United Naga Brothers Club, Chennai.

6. Hongphoi youth in Chennai led by Mr. Moiying Konyak.

7. Mr & Mrs.M. Noke Hon’ble MLA Nagaland.

8. Konyak Baptise Church, Dimapur.

9. Monyin Union, Tizit.

10. Hongphoi Union Mon Town & Hongphoi Sheko Union Mon Town.

Because of your mental, physical, financial and material efforts mortal remain of Late Mankhah could reached to Hongphoi village Mon Nagaland from the southern end of India. Your sacrificial deeds are kept as our credit which will be abundantly blessed by Almighty God. Loving family members, Clan & Hongphoi People DC-739

Born- May 21st 1991 Died- 16th April 2015

“The melody changed when you died, But memories of you will never Fade away”. “ God has you in his arms, we have you in our hearts”.

We Miss you.

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Loving dad, mom, sisters, brothers and family members.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur sunday, april 16, 2017

sports

Stylish Spurs close gap to four

Son greets returning hero Harry Kane who put on the assist for him to convert past the Cherries

L o n d o n, A p r 1 5 (Agencies): Tottenham maintained their relentless pursuit of Chelsea in the title race with a 4-0 win over Bournemouth, cutting the deficit to just four points.

Goals from Mousa Dembele, Heung-Min Son, Harry Kane - who was making his first start since returning from ankle ligament trouble - and substitute Vincent Janssen saw off a timid Bournemouth side and stretched Spurs’ winning run in the Premier League to seven games, which is their longest league run of victories for 50 years.

The victory extended their unbeaten r un at home this season, which now stands at 17 games, including winning the last 11.

Chelsea have a chance

Mata to miss rest of season

Juan Mata

Manchester, Apr 15 (IANS): Manchester United’ chief coach Jose Mourinho has confirmed that midfielder Juan Mata will not play for the rest of the football season following a groin surgery. Mata, 28, underwent surger y last month but the club hoped he could retur n to the field before the end of the English Premier League on May 21, reports Efe. However, Mourinho on Friday revealed in the press conference prior to Sunday’s duel with Chelsea that the Spanish international will not be available “until the end of May”.

to respond in their game in hand on Spurs when they visit Manchester United on Super Sunday.

Kane, who replaced Janssen up front in one o f two c ha nge s fr o m Tottenham’s victory over Watford, was seemingly in the mood to make up for lost time in his bid for goals and threatened early on.

His close-range effort was beaten away by Artur Boruc on five minutes, although the offside flag had been raised.

Bournemouth needed to defend with perfect concentration in order to keep the rampant hosts at bay, but their resistance only lasted 16 minutes as Dembele grabbed his first goal of the season.

A delivery from a left wing corner from Christian Eriksen landed at the feet

of an unmarked Dembele at the back post, who made no mistake in rifling home.

Spurs only needed to wait three minutes to double their lead as the Cherries displayed more haphazard defending.

Jack Wilshere, whose every touch was roundly booed by the home fans, played a sloppy ball in midfield which was seized upon by Eriksen. The Denmark international fed Kane, who flicked a wonderful ball into Son’s path and the South Korea inter national motored through on goal before slipping the ball into the far corner for his fifth goal from his last six shots on target in the Premier League.

There was no response from the visitors as Boruc was by far the busier of the

two goalkeepers, making smar t low saves from Eriksen and Kane before the break.

Kane had scored five goals in his previous three appearances against Eddie Howe’s side and there was an inevitability when he made it 3-0 on 48 minutes.

Simon Francis’ tame challenge allowed Kane to venture into acres of space in the area, and the England striker hammered the ball home from 15 yards out.

The game maintained its one-way feel as Spurs took aim at Boruc’s goal.

The goalkeeper had to deal with eight shots on target in the second-half as Kane, Eriksen and Dele Alli were handed presentable opportunities but were thwar ted by the Bournemouth shotstopper.

Bournemouth rarely emerged from their own half and their efforts were summed up by Charlie Daniels’ speculative effort on 72 minutes, which was their only shot on target.

Tottenham even had time to give Kane and Alli a breather in the closing stages as they strolled in the sunshine. One of those replacements, Janssen, put the cherry on top of a perfect day at White Hart Lane by notching his first goal from open play for Spurs in stoppage time.

Match results Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester City Sunderland 2-2 West Ham Everton 3-1 Burnley FC Stoke City 3-1 Hull City Watford 1-0 Swansea City

U-17 World Cup: AIFF requests Fifa to allot India’s matches to Delhi NEW DELHI, Apr 15 (Agencies): Almost a fortnight after the schedule of the U-17 World Cup was announced, the sports ministry has finally realised t h a t n o n e o f I n d i a ’s matches will be held in the Capital and has therefore asked the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to request Fifa to reallocate India’s group matches to Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

India is most likely to be the A1team of Group A considering they are the hosts of the tour nament. However, when the schedule of U-17 World Cup was announced in Kolkata last month, Mumbai’s DY Patil stadium was allotted Group A matches. As per the current schedule, Delhi will be hosting one match of Group A comprising A2

and A3 teams, five Group B matches and two Round of 16 games.

The U-17 Fifa World Cup will be held in India from October 628 across six venues - Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Mumbai, Goa and Kochi. New Delhi can only hold matches upto October 16.Marquee matches have not been allotted in Delhi due to concer ns over high pollution level after Diwali.

“Delhi won’t be able to host any matches after the 16th of October because of the high pollution level after Diwali. Since they can’t host any of the semifinal or quarterfinal matches, the sports ministry says it would be nice to request Fifa to at least mo ve India’s group matches to Delhi. So we have requested Fifa. We will wait and see what they have to say,” AIFF general

secretar y Kushal Das informed TOI on Friday.

The AIFF put forward the request to Fifa two days back on Wednesday and are expecting a reply by next week, added Das.”We h av e m e n t i o n e d t h e reasons. The government is a big supporter of the event. They ha ve made a request that Delhi should get some importance in this context. We can expect a reply by next week since it’s the holiday season right now. They (Fifa) will have to review it and discuss it with the competitions department. It might take a little bit of time.”

T h e U n i o n gover nment has spent a lot of money on the tournament which will be the first Fifa event to be held in India. The official draw of the tournament will be held on July 7.

AR, MYHU football exhibition match held

Srikanth, Praneeth in Singapore Open final Singapore, Apr 15 (Agencies): B Sai Praneeth and Kidambi Srikanth set up an allIndian men’s singles final showdown at the Singapore Open Superseries badminton tournament on Saturday after brilliant victories in the last four stages.

Srikanth, winner of the 2014 China Open Superseries event, defeated 2 0 - ye a r - o l d A n t h o n y Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia 21-13 21-14 in 42 minutes in the second semifinals.

The 24-year-old will be aiming for his second Superseries title and his opponent will be B Sai Praneeth, who had an easy outing in the first semifinal when he swept aside Lee Dong Keun of Korea 21-6 21-8.

Srikanth, the world No 29, became the first Indian to claim a Superseries title since the graded events became part of the world badminton calendar when he stunned Chinese great, Lin Dan in straight games in the final on his home turf.

Lower Bayavii Giants win T-20 Bash

Lower Bayavii Giants with the trophy and cheque after the prize distribution. (NP)

Correspondent

Ko h i ma , A p r 1 5 (NPN): Lower Bayavii Gaints emerged as the champion of the 4th 10th Northern Angami -1 T-20 Bash on Saturday.

In the final, they defeated Zienuobadze High Flyers by 46 runs.

The champion team received a cash prize of Rs.one lakh, trophy and certificate while the runner-up team pocketed Rs. 50,000 along with trophy and certificate.

T h e t o u r n e y wa s organized by Brotherhood Club and sponsored by parliamentary secretary Khriehu Liezietsu.

Winning the toss, Lower Bayavii Giants elected to bat first and scored 128 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. Tapitu scored 34 runs off 24 balls while Imomemba contributed 22 runs.

Chasing the target, Zienuobadze High Flyers batsmen were bowled out for 82 runs in 18.2 overs.

Aduo and Aso scored 25 and 14 runs respectively.

In individual category, Tapitu of Lower Bayavii Giants received three awards. He was named the man of the final match, man of the tournament and man of the series.

He received a motorcycle (Hero Honda Scooty).

Saroj of Peraciezie Royals was named the best bowler while Imomemba of Lower Bayavii Giantswas adjudged the best batsman.

Kenuozou Wolves was named the best discipline team. Altogether 16 team from the 10th Northern Angami assembly constituency participated in the tourney.

E a r l i e r, E AC Thejavizo Nakhro graced the closing programme as the guest of honour.

C o nve n o r o r g a n i z i n g committee Kethosituo Elvis Mepfhuo led the programme while a special song was presented by Kevingunuo Suokhrie.

KKR see off Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL Ko lkata , A p r 1 5 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : C h r i s Woakes took two wickets as Kolkata Knight Riders earned a 17-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL. Woakes’ second was the key wicket of Yuvraj Singh (26 off 16 balls) who had smacked him for six earlier in the 15th over as Sunrisers were beginning to close in on their 173-run target.

Put into bat by Sunrisers, Kolkata’s pinchhitting experiment with Sunil Narine at the top of the order didn’t pay off this time, as he was bowled for six by the impressive B h u v n e s h wa r Ku m a r (3-20) in the third over.

Kumar should have had two in two when Uthappa came to the crease and seemingly edged the next ball behind, only for the decision not to be given by the umpire.

Uthappa made the most of the reprieve, as well as a missed run-out chance on 15, by cracking

Yusuf Pathan celebrates with team mates after taking the wicket of Shikhar Dhawan.

five fours and four sixes in his 39-ball knock.

There was fur ther controversy when Uthappa was given out caught down leg on 52, only for the third umpire - checking to see if the ball had carried to the wicketkeeper - to overturn the decision when he noticed there had been no bat involved.

Uthappa did finally fall in the 15th over to Ben Cutting, but impressive middle-order cameos from Manish Pandey (46 off 35)

and Yusuf Pathan (21no off 15) further lifted the Kolkata score.

In reply, Sunrisers started well enough, taking 32 from the first four overs, but openers Shikhar Dhawan (23 off 22) and David Warner (26 off 30) were guilty of not kicking on.

Sunil Narine bowled superbly - taking 1-18 from his four overs - and while Woakes was much more expensive, conceding 49, he did take two important

wickets.

With 75 runs needed from the final six overs, Yu v r a j s i g n a l l e d t h e Sunrisers charge by hitting Woakes’ first ball for six, while Cutting cracked four off the third.

But Woakes responded well, doing for Yuvraj with a well-disguised off-cutter fifth ball that Yuvraj mistimed down to the fielder at long-on. Sunrisers never recovered and ultimately came up short, finishing their innings on 155-6.

AR donates sports items D i ma p u r , A p r 1 5 (NPN): As part of Assam Rifles Civic Action Project, 5 Assam Rifles donated sports items to Government Higher Secondary School, Zunheboto on April 7. The aim of the grant was to foster a spirit to sportsmanship and encourage the youth to actively participate in sports activities. Commandant 5 Assam Rifles also emphasized upon utilising sports quota vacancies in the upcoming recruitment rally in Army/CAPF.

Summer cricket tourney begins Players of 44 Assam Rifles (blue) and Mokokchung Young at Heart United (yellow jersey) during the friendly football match at Assam Rifles ground on Saturday. (NP)

Correspondent

MOKOKCHUNG, APR 15 (NPN): An exhibition football match was played between 44 Assam Rifles and Mokokchung Young at Hearts United (MYHU) at the Assam Rifles ground on Saturday.

The match, played under the theme ‘I am selfless’ ended in a 1-1 draw.

The match which was

played under the initiative of Assam Rifles ‘Civic Action Programme’ (CAP) started with the MYHU XI making a mark in the score board through the boots of Osen (jersey no. 8) in the first half.

MYHU XI pressured their opponents for a second goal but they failed to break through the resilient defence of 44 AR XI. The second half began

with MYHU XI pressing f o r wa r d a n d c r e a t i n g chances. However, their push for a second goal remained fr uitless. 44 ARXI found the equalizer in the dying minutes of regulation time through SM Abhas (jersey no.11).

Earlier at the kick off function, short speeches were delivered by retired chief secretary and captain of MYHU XI, 44 AR XI captain and CO. Col. K S

Kataria and Dr. Watizulu (MYHU Player). God’s blessing was invoked by MTBA Pastor Rev. Ponen Longchar (MYHU player) and the function was led by Arenla Lemtur.

Nise Meronu enchanted the audience with the song ‘Echoes of Nagaland’ and Hopong N a g a l e f t t h e c r owd bending to their knees with his comedy act during the lemon break.

D i ma p u r , A p r 1 5 (NPN): Summer Cricket Tournament, organized

by Classic Brothers, got underway on Saturday at Chumukedima local ground under the theme “look up get up but never give up.”

Senti Longkumer, director of Supreme Task Force International and Bendang Chuba, Headmaster Nagaland Police Central School, Chumukedima g raced the opening ceremony as special guest s.

In the first match of the tournament, Lancer 11 beat Nit Nagaland.

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