April 24, 2021

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India logs over 3.32L fresh Covid cases NEW DELHI, APRIL 23 (PTI): India added a record over 3.32 lakh new coronavirus cases in a single day taking the country’s tally to 1,62,63,695, while active cases crossed the 24lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

India is struggling with a second wave of the coronavirus infection and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds in view of a rising number of cases.

According to the Union Health Ministry data updated this morning, India recorded a single day rise of 3,32,730 new cases, taking the tally to 1,62,63,695, while active cases crossed the 24-lakh mark. The death toll increased to 1,86,920 with a record 2,263 new fatalities.

Registering a steady increase, the active cases increased to 24,28,616 comprising 14.93 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further dropped to 83.92 per cent.

DTF Mokokchung puts curbs on Moatsu festival DIMAPUR, APR 23 (NPN): District Task Force (DTF) COVID-19 Mokokchung has directed all the villages/unions in Mokokchung district to refrain from celebrating the upcoming Moatsu festival.

In an order, the deputy commissioner (DC) Mokokchung Limawabang Jamir stated that the DTF took this decision at meeting held on April 23, 2021 in view of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and in the interest of public health and safety.

DTF Mokokchung, which also adopted other resolutions to be strictly implemented in the entire district, directed all interstate weekly markets in all towns/subdivisions/villages to remain suspended till further notice.

Further, all interstate travellers have been directed to strictly follow the laid down COVID-I 9 protocols/ SOPs and cooperate with the authorities.

DTF has urged all citizens to cooperate with the authorities during contact tracing/testing.

DC cautioned that any person/group acting in violation of the order would be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under relevant section of the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 and the Disaster Management Act, 2005.

This is it!

“If I’m to sell at fixed rate then who’s going to pay for the various gate taxes?”

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Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims in New Delhi, Friday. (PTI)

India to airlift 23 Oxygen generation plants from Germany Defence Ministry has decided to airlift 23 mobile oxygen generating plants from Germany as several states reeled under an acute shortage of medical oxygen due to a massive surge in coronavirus cases, officials said today.

They said each plant will have a capacity to produce 40 litres of oxygen

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per minute and 2,400 litres every hour.

Principal Spokesperson in the Defence Ministry AB Bhushan Babu said the plants will be deployed in the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) hospitals treating Covid-19 patients.

“23 mobile oxygen generation plants are being airlifted from Germany,” Babu said.

He said the oxygen generating plants are expected to be airlifted within a week.

Another official said the Air Force has been told to keep its transport aircraft ready to bring the plants from Germany once required paper works are completed.

The official said more oxygen generation plants may be procured from abroad.

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Free food grains to 80 crore poor people: Centre NEW DELHI, APR 23 (PTI): Centre on Friday decided to resume providing free food grains to 80 crore poor beneficiaries in May and June to help them tide over the economic hardship in the second wave of the Covid pandemic, a move that would cost the exchequer around Rs 26,000 crore.

“We will provide 5-kg additional food grains for free to PDS beneficiaries under the PMGKAY for two months -- May and June. This time, we are not providing pulses under this scheme,” Food and Public Distribution secretary Sudhanshu Pandey told PTI. PMGKAY was announced in 2020 for three months till July and later extended till November to combat the economic impact of the pandemic on the poor. Under the scheme, additional 5 kg wheat and rice along with 1 kg pulses to each family per month was provided to beneficiaries under the NFSA. But this year, only grains will be given.

First in NE, double mutant Covid strain detected in Assam G U WA H A T I / N E W DELHI, APR 23 (IANS/ AGENCIES): Amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Assam, samples of the double mutant variant of novel coronavirus have been found at the Dibrugarh Airport, the first such detection in the North Eastern region, officials said on Friday.

Health officials said that before Assam, the double mutant strain was found in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal.

Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted: “Recent samples from Dibrugarh Airport are positive for B.1.617 strain or the Indian double mutant (L452R and E484Q) strain of SARS-Cov-2. We need to be very very careful.”

The double mutant (B.1.617) strain is said to be responsible for the current surge in Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra and few other states in India.

Bengal had 40 cases of the UK strain, nine

Data shows ‘double mutant’ most common Covid strain in India cases of the South African strain and 124 cases of the Indian double mutant.

Punjab recorded the highest proportion of variants -- 73.5 per cent -- followed

by UP (60%) and Telangana (41%).

According to a report the “double mutation” variant accounted for 80 percent of all analysed genome sequences of mutant variants sent by India to the global repository GISAID, while the second most-commonly found variant in the last 60 days was the UK variant, or B.1.1.7, at 13 percent of the samples, as per assessment conducted by scientists from Scripps Research.

UK strain driving Covid surge in Delhi The UK strain is driving the Covid surge in Delhi, an analysis of samples has revealed. Data released by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says over 400 cases of UK strain and 76 of the Indian double mutant were found in Delhi.

Some 11 per cent samples from across India show “variants of concern”.

Cases of the UK strain almost doubled to 50 per cent in samples from Delhi in March, according to the NCDC.

Nagaland registers 89 fresh Covid cases Traders warned against price hike, hoarding DIMAPUR, APR 23 (NPN): Nagaland COVID-19 STATUS AS ON april 23, 2021 on Friday reported 83 fresh Covid-19 As- ACTIVE CASES Death cases-- 85 in Dimapur and 4 in Kohima, District ymp- Symptomatic Recov- Death under Mi- Total tomered Investigrated Cases Mod- Setaking the total caseload to 12889. atic Mild erate vere gation With this the active cases also rose Dimapur 287 20 3 4 6351 64 0 136 6865 to 456 while one more death, reported on Kiphire 0 0 0 0 40 1 0 0 41 Friday, was under investigation.

Kohima 116 2 3 0 3959 21 0 51 4151 Meanwhile, 29 passengers who had arrived by air on April 20 tested positive Longleng 4 0 0 0 10 0 0 9 23 for Covid. The samples were taken from Mokokc1 6 4 0 184 4 0 9 208 hung 81 passengers out 373 that arrived on April 20. The test results of the following Mon 0 0 0 0 594 2 0 9 605 were awaited-- 74 persons who arrived Peren 0 1 0 0 506 0 0 1 508 on April 21 (out of the 258 passengers) Phek 3 0 0 0 51 0 0 0 54 139 samples taken on April 22 (out of Tuensang 0 1 1 0 248 1 1 1 252 383 passengers) and 49 samples taken on Wokha 0 1 0 0 35 1 0 2 40 April 23 (out of 231 passengers).

Altogether 1,79,349 beneficiaries Zunhe- 0 0 0 0 139 0 0 3 142 boto have been inoculated till April 23. AcTotal 411 31 10 4 12117 94 1 221 12889 cording to data, 142715 received the first dose and 36634 second dose. *10 deaths not due to Covid-19 *1 deaths under investigation

Governor, CM, Dy.CM greet Chakhesangs DIMAPUR, APR 23 (NPN): Nagaland governor RN Ravi, chief minister Neiphiu Rio and deputy chief minister Y Patton have extended greetings to the members of Chakhesang community and to the people of Nagaland on the occasion of Tsükhenye festival.

In his message, Ravi said that during Tsukhenye festival, which marks the end of a successful harvest year and welcoming the spring season, people invoke God to replenish them with good health and more strength.

Urging all to continue observing COVID-19 protocols throughout the celebrations, the governor wished all with good health, peace and happy (Cont’d on p-6) celebrations.

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, APR 23 (NPN): Following reports of some traders hiking prices of some essential commodities and other items, Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) has warned all shops and business establishments under its jurisdiction not to indulge in any unfair, illegal and unethical practices like hoarding or unauthorised increase in prices of commodities.

Reports of shortage of certain items and price hike were reported barely a day after Dimapur District Task Force (DTF) announced

Assuring sufficient stock, DCCI says wholesalers selling items at normal rates night curfew in Dimapur district effective between 7 pm and 5 am from April till further notice.

Taking note of the situation, DMC administrator Albert said the council held a meeting with Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI). They warned traders of action if anyone was found indulging in such unethical practices.

In case of any complaint, DMC has requested public to contact helpline numbers

Act tough against hoarders of medicines: PM to states Night curfew begins in Dmu NEW DELHI, APR 23 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked states to take stringent measures against hoarding and black marketing of essential medicines and injections.

Chairing a high-level meeting with chief ministers of 11 states and union territories with maximum COVID-19 cases, Modi also called for making people continuously aware so that they do not indulge in panic buying. He said that with united efforts, they will together be able to stop this second wave of the pandemic across the country. Modi urged states to work as one and coordinate with one another to fulfil medical require-

ments, asserting that “if we work as one nation, there will not be any scarcity of resources”.

He said Railways and Air Force are being deployed to reduce the transportation time for oxygen tankers and all state governments need to work together to meet requirements of life-saving gas and medicines.

Modi said every state should ensure that no oxygen tanker, irrespective of its destination, is stopped or gets stranded, a statement said.

The prime minister’s call for coordination and working together to meet the spiralling health crisis comes amid multiple reports

of medical oxygen supply being stopped at borders of one state or the other during transit.

It was the prime minister’s third meeting with chief ministers in the last five weeks, while he also held his fourth review meeting in one week to review the oxygen availability situation, officials said.

Taking note of the points raised by chief ministers on the issue of oxygen supply, Modi said there is a continuous effort to boost it and all related departments and ministries are also working together. Industrial oxygen has also been diverted to meet immediate requirements, he noted.

‘India may see 5 lakh Covid cases, 3000 deaths a day by May 1’ NEW DELHI, APR 23 (AGENCIES): America’s highly regarded epidemiologists and biostatisticians Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor at the University of Michigan, said that according to her mathematical projections, India could have 500,000 daily COVID-19 cases and 3,000 daily COVID-19 deaths by May 1.

In a 37-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Bhramar said that in terms of infections, the peak will come in mid-May when India could see 8-10 lakh daily infections and in terms of deaths, the peak will be two weeks later in May-end when India could

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DCCI general secretary Sanjay Sethi admitted that some shopkeepers were unnecessarily hoarding goods in order to sell them at higher prices in case a lockdown was declared.

He, however, claimed that wholesalers were selling goods at actual prices.

In a press release, DCCI president Akashe Zhimomi strictly warned all shops and business establishments not

to indulge in hoarding, adding that anyone found indulging in hoardings would be sealed and goods handed over to administration for free distribution.

The trade body said it would monitor the market round the clock with the help of administration, including DMC, and take direct complaints from the public. It assured public that there was sufficient stock of goods and that they need not worry about shortages.

DCCI further requested all traders to comply with SOP given by DTF, adding that all shops must ensure maintenance of (Cont’d on p-6)

expect 4,500 daily deaths.

She opined that the present count of the daily increase in COVID-19 cases is perhaps under reporting the true picture by a factor of 10 or 20, although it’s more likely to be 10. She also said daily deaths are perhaps being under reported by a factor of 2 to 5.

This means that whilst cases are increasing by 1 lakh (reported) a day, the unreported daily increase could be a further million.

Similarly daily deaths could be five times greater than the officially reported figure.

Mukherjee called the present situation in India “very worrying”.

‘Covid peak likely between May 11-15 with 33-35 lakh active cases’: Meanwhile, another study by scientists working on a mathematical model to work out the course of the pandemic say there is a possibility of a peak between May 11-15 with 33-35 lakh total ‘active’ infections, the Times of India report stated.

This means the number of ‘active’ cases in India will keep increasing roughly for another three weeks before a decline. If the current model shows the trend correctly, the mid-May peak would be three time higher than the first peak of over 10 lakh ‘active’ cases witnessed on

September 17 last year. The exercise is, however, important to prepare the policymakers for a proper response mechanism in terms of medical supplies and facilities.

The current model shows that Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Telangana may see a peak of ‘new’ cases during April 25-30; Odisha, Karnataka and West Bengal during May 1-5 while Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh during May 6-10. It shows Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh might already have reached its peak phase now while Bihar will see it around April 25.

“Our model shows a peak of cases of ‘new’ in-

fections, which are being observed on a day-to-day basis, may be noticed during May 1-5 at about 3.3 to 3.5 lakh infections per day.

It’ll turn the peak of ‘active’ cases to around 33-35 lakhs 10 days later between May 11-15,” Manindra Agrawal of IIT Kanpur, involved with the national ‘super model’ initiative, told TOI. Referring to the current model, Agrawal said one should not confuse the two different peaks -- one of daily ‘new’ cases which are more commonly observed and another of total number of ‘active’ infections which will come 10 days after the crest ‘new’ (Cont’d on p-6) cases.

DIMAPUR, APR 23 (NPN): The nine-hour night curfew (8 p.m. to 5 a.m.) in Dimapur district came into effect from Friday till further orders. By evening, many parts of the city witnessed unusual heavy traffic from 6 p.m. as people rushed home before the night curfew began.

The night curfew was among other restrictions announced by Dimapur District Task Force on Wednesday. As per the order issued

by DC Dimapur, all shops, business establishments, restaurants, etc, have been asked to close by 7 p.m. However, medical, emergency and essential services, including pharmacies, shall be fully functional but commercial activities and any assembly of four or more persons are prohibited.

In a tweet on Friday, Dimapur Police, while seeking cooperation of all, said “all movement of non-essential nature will be restricted during the curfew hours from 8PM-5AM.” NE states tighten measures: North Eastern states have further tightened measures to check the spread of the coronavirus disease.

Assam government, partially modifying its earlier Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), has made 7-day home quarantine mandatory for people coming to

Assam by flights and trains even if the result of their Covid test is negative.

In neighbouring Karbi Anglong, authorities have imposed closure of all shops from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further orders. However, there was no restriction of vehicular movements.

Tripura has imposed night curfew in Agartala Municipal Corporation area from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. from April 22 onwards.

In Meghalaya, night curfew in East Khasi Hills District, in which capital Shillong falls, has been extended for another week until April 25. Besides restriction entry of tourists, the government has enforced several restrictions including closure of all bars, clubs, cinema halls, salons/beauty parlours and several other places that may attract public gatherings from April 26 to April 30.

Tripura government has ordered closures of educational institutions. Night curfew and various other restrictions continue to be in effect in Mizoram capital Aizawl and other parts of the mountainous state.

In Manipur, the state government has imposed night curfew in the entire state from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Meanwhile, Ar unachal Pradesh has made testing compulsory for all people entering the state.

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WEATHER FORECAST April 24

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Hot with hazy sun

39 23

Aizawl

Hazy sun and hot

33 16

Guwahati Hazy sun and very hot

37 19

Imphal

Turning sunny and hot

34 11

Itanagar

Hazy sun

33 18

Shillong

Hazy sun and very warm

27 13

Kohima

Sunny to partly cloudy

28 14

Dimapur

Hazy sun and very hot

37 20

Mkg

Mostly sunny

30 15

Tuensang Mostly sunny and pleasant

23 10

Wokha

Hazy sun

Zunheboto Mostly sunny

30 19 27 13

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021

Political leaders mourn District level training for SMC/SMDC in Dimapur demise of Mukibur Rahman Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR: Political leaders across party lines have mourned the demise of NPF secretary, central office bearer Mukibur Rahman, former president of BJP minority Morcha, who passed away at Referral hospital on Friday morning.

Dy. CM: State deputy chief minister Y Patton has described late Mukibur Rahman as a leader of the downtrodden and a compassionate human being who worked to uplift the weaker and minority sections.

In a condolence note, Patton said that his good deeds would be remembered by the people, especially by those whom he worked with. On behalf of the state BJP legislators, Patton conveyed condolences to the bereaved family and prayed for the departed to rest in peace.

State BJP president: State BJP president, Temjen Imna Along described late Rahman as an enthusiastic social activist and a known figure among the minority community.

In a condolence message, Along said that late Rahman was a “passionate social worker” whose im-

Late Mukibur Rahman

mense contributions to the society were well noted.

Along on behalf of the party rank and file conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members.

NPF president: Naga People’s Front (NPF) president Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu described late Rahman as an honest and selfless party leader who worked to uplift the party. In a condolence note, the NPF president said that his demise was a great loss to the party.

On behalf of the party rank and file, Dr. Shürhozelie extended condolence to the bereaved family members and prayed to the Almighty to grant them solace.

NPF minority wing, central: NPF minority wing, central president, Bishnu Bhattacharjee said that it would miss the “vibrant,

energetic, visionary gentleman”. In a condolence note, the party said that late Rahman was above party politics and that he was “a leader for the people and community”. Further, NPF minority wing central extended its condolences to the bereaved family.

DNTB: Dimapur Namghar Tr ust Board (DNTB) in a condolence note through its chairman expressed grief over the demise of late Rahman.

DNTB said that his demise was an irreparable loss and that he was the heart of the Assamese society holding various responsibilities in the capacity of the convenor of the Assamese Samaj at various fronts.

EDBA asks shops to shutdown

East Dimapur Business Association (EDBA) vice president, Azolo Nuh has asked business establishments in East Dimapur jurisdiction to down their shutters on April 24 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., as a mark of respect during the funeral service of late Mukibur Rahman who was the vice president of EDBA.

D IMA P U R , A P R 2 3 (NPN): District level training for School Management Committee (SMC) and School Management Development Committee (SMDC) was held here, on Friday at town hall.

The training programme was organised by district mission authoritysamagra shiksha Dimapur for UBRC Kuda and EBRC Dhansiripar.

Speaking at the inaugural programme, SDO (C) Dimapur, Hotolu Sema stated that the main objective of government in setting up a management committee was to ensure the effective outlook of school through greater community participation.

He stated that the government wanted to ensure that involving the community in school management would show transparency and accountability. Management committee has a great responsibility in identifying the basic need and requirements of school

SDO (C) Dimapur Hotolu Sema along with DEO Dimapur V Bendanglila, awardees and DMA-SSA members. (NP)

while ensuring proper planning, implementation for smooth functioning of the school, he added.

Quoting “Knowledge is learned, practiced and shared”, Hotolu shared that the training programme was organised for participants to learn about the technicality of their role and responsibility and to readdress the issue in achieving the objective.

He impressed upon the organisers to be zealous in imparting training be-

Crescent International CEO (L), chairman (R), advisor Nicky Kire and others at the opening. (NP)

Correspondent Ko h i m a , A P R 2 3 (NPN): Crescent International, a hotel and restaurant in the heart of Kohima city was inaugurated by Khriehu Liezietsu MLA,

during a short programme held at the premises of the hotel, here, on Friday.

In a short speech, Liezietsu congratulated the CEO Keneikhrielie Mepfhüo and chairman Keluongutuo Solo for com-

ing up with the hotel in the middle of the town.

He said that the newly opened hotel would help meet the hospitality needs of the city as there was a growing need for such hotels. He wished the

Unidentified body recovered in Dmu CRIME BEAT DIMAPUR: Dimapur po- district hospital for PM recovered one uniden- examination and identifiDimapur Police crime reports lice tified dead body of a non- cation. PRO informed that

Four arrested for extortion: Dimapur police on April 22 arrested two persons: ‘lt’ Meyong Konyak (36) NSCN (YA) and ‘sgt. maj.’ Imkong Akum (30) NSCN (YA) on charges of extortion from Walford area.

According to Dimapur police PRO, Rs. 25,000, one point 32 pistol with four live rounds, one extortion slip and two mobile handsets were seized from their possession. A case was registered with east PS Dimapur. Meanwhile, one Abdul Ali was arrested on charges of extorting money from vegetable transporters in Burma camp junction.

PRO informed that Rs.5000 and three extortion slips were seized from his possession and a case was registered with east PS Dimapur.

One Kiheto Zhimo (41) was also arrested on charges of extorting money from drivers at Khermahal Tata parking as NNC vehicle yearly tax. Twenty extortion slips was seized from his possession and a case was registered with West PS Dimapur.

Theft: One Shorubul Islam (29) was apprehended by the public on April 22, while attempting to break into a hardware shop at Kevija-u colony, Dimapur. In this connection, a case was registered with sub-urban PS Dimapur.

Vehicles recovered: Dimapur Police on April 15 recovered one Royal Enfield Classic 350 (NL07R-9739) and one Maruti Suzuki Ciaz (AS01DY-5868) from different locations within Dimapur town. The recovered vehicles were handed over to the rightful owners.

IMFL and tobacco products destroyed in Phek

As per directives from the court, destruction of seized IMFL and tobacco items was carried out under the supervision of public prosecutor, Phek in the presence of EAC judicial district administration, SDPO Phek, DB, office of deputy commissioner, UBSI, PI court Phek and ASI, Phek police station.

According to government pleader & public prosecutor, Samuel Ritse, 138 case of MC rum, 10 case of canned beer, four cases of OC blue, four cases of whiskey, four dozen of Shankar Biri, 33 packets of pan masala and various tobacco products were seized and destroyed.

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Naga male (approx 45-50 yrs) from Dimapur railway track towards DimapurKhatkhati end on April 23. According to Dimapur police PRO, on completion of all legal formalities, the dead body was shifted to

sistant district coordinator Freda Angami and vote of thanks by DMA-SS project assistant Dehilo Dukha.

Highlights of the programme included felicitation of best performing SMC and SMDC as well as a mock drill on school safety programme by home guards.

It may be mentioned that the programme was also held at Chümoukedima town hall, Kuda youth hall and GHS Chümoukedima.

1 hurt as excavator turns turtle NVA to celebrate ‘World Veterinary Day’

Crescent International opened in Kohima

Crescent family success and expressed hope that the hotel would help cater to the needs of the city as with each year the city was growing bigger.

CEO, Keneikhrielie Mepfhüo in his speech shared that as a service to the society, 90 percent of hotel employees would comprise of local youths at all times who would be put through proper training.

He assured that the hotel would maintain high standards of hygiene and ably serve its guests.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by Joshua Tep, dedicatory prayer was offered by Rokopra Mekro while Lapla Oungh presented a special number.

Advisor, urban development & municipal affairs, Dr. Nicky Kire and Keneizhakho Nakhro MLA also attended the programme.

cause at the end it depended on how they guided the concerned stakeholders to achieve the said target and goal. Further, he urged all to strictly adhere to the SOP laid down by the authority for one’s own safety and safety of others, and to sensitise people to do the same.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme was chaired by EBRC Dhansaripar coordinator Angukali Sharon, welcome address by DMA-SS, Dimapur as-

People rescue excavator driver from the accident site

Correspondent MON, APR 23 (NPN): One person was injured after an excavator met with an accident near Longkei village, between Mon town and Wakching village, at around 2 p.m. Friday.

It was reported that the excavator, which has

been pressed for ongoing two-lane road works, turned turtle due to mud slide and falling rock.

The driver was dragged out by fellow workmates and villagers.

He escaped with some injuries and was taken to District Hospital Mon for further treatment.

Advisor, Technical Education And Election, Medo Yhokha speaking as introductory guest at the 29th biennial general conference of Angami Students’ Union (ASU) at The Heritage Village, Kisama on Friday. (NP)

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Veterinarian’s Association (NVA) has informed that it would be celebrating and the “World Veterinary Day 2021” on April 24 across 12 districts in collaboration with the state department of A.H & Veterinary Services (AH&VS).

A press release by information and publicity secretary, NVA, Dr. Auto V informed that the day would be celebrated through awareness programmes, livestock, poultry and pet vaccination and other veterinary and animal husbandry related activities.

Executive Office Bearers (CVOs) of respective districts have been requested to record the event and submit pictures from all the districts to be published in local dailies through the email of IPR. NVA informed that the records should be submitted to information & publicity secretary NVA or shared to the NVA forum

WhatsApp group.

NVA president Dr. K.N. Zubemo Humtsoe has advised all members to maintain strict adherence of COVID-19 SOP and preventive measures.

Further, the association has invited Naga veterinarians serving in different institutions, departments, agencies and private practitioners to join the celebration at their respective districts.

Anti-rabies vaccination camp to be held in Kiphire

In commemoration of “World Veterinary day” on April 24, the Department of AH & Veterinary Services will be organising a free anti-rabies vaccination camp at district veterinary hospital, Kiphire from 7 a.m. onwards.

All the dog owners have been informed to avail the opportunity while maintaining social distancing and other COVID-19 SOPs.

2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY Of Our Beloved

MRS. Y. HOKALI

IN REMEMBRANCE

Died on 24th April, 2019

the deceased was wearing beige colour long pant, light green t-shirt and blue slippers. Claimant/relatives/friends of the dead body have been requested to contact officer-in-charge, GRPS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

15/07/1921 – 24/04/2020 Late PONGENCHANG (LONGKHUM) Though it's been a year since you left us, the memories you left behind still lingers in our hearts and we miss you dearly every moment.

Through this column, we would like to thank each and every individual who stood by us during our tough times and tragic loss in the dark days of Covid-19 lockdown. May the Almighty God bless you all abundantly! Amen.

Loving Children, Grand-Children, Great Grand-Children and Great Great Grand-Children DP-2107

Years pass since you left us, your graceful being we miss but the memories of your love, prayers and the humble legacy you left with us will forever cherished.

You are truly missed.

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Loving Husband, Son & Family Members

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

5TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY

Born on 22.04.1995 – Died on 21.04.2021 Dearest SULU LEA, it deeply saddened our hearts that you are no longer with us. However, we take solace in the knowledge knowing that you are with our heavenly Father. We love you but God loves you more.

We thank everyone who stood by her side during her struggles and battle for life. Your kind expression of sympathy, friendship, love, financial and prayer support will always remain in our hearts. God bless you all.

From loving PARENTS, SIBLING AND RELATIVES K-830

24.4.2016 You had touched countless lives in your lifetime, and even after your eternal rest from this world, you live through your good deeds. We love you and miss you always.

“I am the resurrection and the life.

He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.”

John 11:25 Loving Mom, Wife, Brother, Children and Family Members K-827

OF LATE I. NATHAN

Died on 15th April 2021

We , t h e b e re ave d fa m i l y m e m b e rs o f Late Zanbemo Ezung, would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to all individuals, relatives, friends, unions, churches, neighbours, colonies and well wishers who showed great kindness and stood by us physically, spiritually, financially and morally during his prolonged illness and at his sad demise on 15-04-2021.

Regretfully we are unable to thank each and every individual but may the good Lord who is our source of comforter shower His abundant blessings upon you all.

From:- Loving family members WC-83

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021

Entry of tourists to M’laya halted for 14 days

146 new COVID-19 cases in Meghalaya

The popular Golf Links in Shillong.

Shillong, Apr 23: The surge in Covid-19 cases in Meghalaya continued with 146 fresh cases of infection reported on Friday with the active caseload mounting up to 1238, while 38 more recoveries from the viral disease took the number of recovered cases up to 14, 236, even as entry of tourists to the State from outside have been halted for 14 days from today.

Director Health Services (MI), Dr. Aman War said the new COVID-19 cases detected on Friday included 115 in East Khasi Hills district , 20 in Ri-Bhoi district, four each in West Garo Hills district and West Jaintia Hills district and three in East Jaintia Hills district.

With 894 active COVID-19 cases and 131 deaths due to the viral infection, the East Khasi Hills, that includes state capital Shillong is the most affected, followed by West Jaintia Hills district with

132 active cases, and RiBhoi district with 117 active cases as on date.

Meghalaya has so far registered 15, 631 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 157 fatalities.

Meanwhile, till Friday evening, 2, 02, 952 doses of Covishield were administered across the State, with 1, 51, 741 having received the first dose and 51, 211 having fully inoculated with the second dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, Dr. War said.

On the other hand, in order to safeguard the public at large from an “uncontrollable surge of the COVID-19 pandemic”, the District Magistrate of East Khasi Hills District, Isawanda Laloo, in an order issued on Friday under section 144 Cr. P.C. read together with Regulation 3 of the Meghalaya Epidemic Diseases, COVID–19 Regulations, 2020 has prohibited any gathering of people and entry of visitors within the

premises of the Golflink in Shillong on every Sunday, till further orders.

“The order was issued in view of the rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in East Khasi Hills District, wherein a large number of cases have been detected amongst the returnees, high risk contacts and others within Shillong Agglomeration area,” Laloo stated.

The order was also issued because Golflink is a popular spot for tourists and visitors in Shillong City, and the District Magistrate informed that reports have been received about overcrowding and non-maintaining of social distancing and mask-wearing at the place, especially on weekends and since the COVID-19 virus is known to spread especially in places where large number of people congregate.

“Non-compliance to SOPs at all times will be met with penalties as per law,” Laloo cautioned.

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Manipur remembers heroes KA: Peace No case of new COVID-19 of last war of independent committee variants in Mizoram: Official Correspondent IMPHAL, Apr 23: Manipur on Friday paid rich homage to heroes of the last war of independence fought between warriors of the then kingdom of Manipur and the mighty British Army at Kheba Hill in Thoubal district on this day in 1891.

The day was observed at a low scale in the backdrop of COVID-19 scare.

Chief minister N Biren Singh led the limited number of delegates in laying floral wreaths at Khongjom War Memorial atop Khebaching, Paona Brajabashi statue, located at the foothill later.

The dignitaries also offered Tarpan at Khongjom river as done in preceding years.

Deputy chief minister Y Joykumar, cabinet ministers, MP, MLAs, top civil and police officials were among others who paid floral tribute.

In the absence of the public, the chief minister told media persons after the events that the state

government decided to only observe paying floral tribute and offering Tarpan at the complex in view of the recent surge of COVID cases.

Singh then called upon the people of the state to follow the footsteps of “our forefathers with a sense of nationalism and work hard together by maintaining unity among different communities for bringing overall development in the state.”

The Khongjom battle was a day-long battle between the mighty British and patriotic Manipuri warriors led by major general Paona Brajabashi.

A l o n g s i d e Pa o n a , Khumbong Major, Heirang Khongja and Chinglensana, many patriotic Manipuris laid down their lives in the battle which also marked the beginning of British rule in Manipur. The day was observed at many other places organized by different social organizations, following strict social distancing norms to check the spread of COVID-19.

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DIPHU APR 23: A group of unidentified miscreants on Friday reportedly torched the Border Peace Committee’s office located along the Daldali reserve forest in Karbi Anglong district.

Following the report, deputy commissioner and superintendent of police Karbi Anglong visited the area and police have started investigation.

It was also learnt that the office bearers of the peace committee have registered a case at Diphu police station.

Police said that some people from across the border had attempted to establish a new village inside Daldali reserve forest, which was objected by the committee.

A similar attempt was made by some group, however, Lahorijan police foiled the attempt, police said.

Aizawl, Apr 23 (PTI): Mizoram has not reported any case of new COVID-19 variants till date, an official said on Friday.

The Mizoram government has sent 326 samples of COVID- 19 infected positive patients to National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) in West Bengal for genome sequencing, state spokesperson for COVID-19 Dr Pachuau Lalmalsawma.

The samples were sent between December, 2020 and April this year, he said.

“Of the 326 samples, results of 69 samples have been received and all of them tested negative for new variants of COVID19,” Pachuau told PTI. He said that the results of the remaining samples are awaited.

Mizoram has so far reported 5,220 COVID-19 cases of which 4,600 patients have recovered from the disease.

The state now has 608 active COVID-19 cases

while the death toll so far is 12.

The state capital Aizawl and 10 other district headquarters are now under virtual lockdown to break the chain of COVID19 transmission.

The virtual lockdown will end on April 26 at 4 am.

According to Pachuau, who is also the state nodal officer of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), 4,216 people, including 1,001 security personnel were diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2020.

While 2,220 patients have travel history, the rest 1,996 were locally infected, he said.

He said that at least 1,004 COVID-19 cases were reported from first January till April 23 this year and 552 cases were locally transmitted while the rest 452 patients have travel history.

Mizoram reported its first COVID-19 case on March 24 last year.

Mizoram Nestle tenders Manipur registers 105 fresh COVID cases registers 62 new were CAPF personnel. apology for error Correspondent The 104 fresh cases included 16 CAPF COVID cases APR 23: Manipur’s daily spike personnel detected from,799 samples reon wrapper ofIMPHAL, COVID-19 crossed the 100-mark on ceived on Friday, taking the total number

Dimapur: Nestle India that printed a factual error on its wrapper showing Keibul Lamjao National Park in Meghalaya instead of Manipur has tendered an apology and announced the launch of two new packs as soon as possible to bring to light the beauty of Keibul Lamjao National Park, Manipur and Balpakram National Park, Meghalaya.

Nestle stated that it sincerely admitted the unintentional error.

Friday marking an upward trend in the last three weeks even as no death was reported in the last 24 hours.

As per the latest bulletin of the state health department, the state reported 104 new positive cases in the past 24 hours, the biggest single-day spike since middle week of March this year.

With the new cases on Friday, the overall COVID-19 infection tally of the state rose to 30,151 on Friday. The number of active case also increased to 590 while the recovery rate declined further to 96.77%.

With 27 patients discharged upon recovery today, the recovery tally of the state also rose to 29,180 including 3,443

of samples tested so far in the state to 6,01,600.

As per the bulletin, 64 out of 88 new infections from the general population were from the twin capital districts with 36 in Imphal West and 28 in Imphal East.

Churachandpur district reported 10 cases, three each in Kakching and Bishnupur districts, two each in Ukhrul, Senapati and Chandel districts and one each in Thoubal and Kangpokpi districts.

In the last 24 hours, there is no report of death. The cumulative number of deaths is 381, the health department said.

Meanwhile, the total number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in the state reached 1,18,215 on Friday.

Aizawl, Apr 23 (PTI): At least 62 people, including a 32-year-old man who has received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine, tested positive for coronavirus in Mizoram, pushing the tally to 5,220, an official said on Friday. The man, who is a personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF), has received the second dose of COVID vaccine on March 27 tested positive for coronavirus on arrival at Lengpui airport from Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, he said.

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COVID-19 preparedness: Appeals, orders, preventive measures ‘English Language Day’ observed at CAT

DEBTS RECOVERY TRIBUNAL, GUWAHATI

KOHIMA, APR 23 (NPN): English Department at College of Arts and Technology (CAT), Nerhe Pheza, Kohima observed “English Language Day” with a workshop on the topic “English as a living language” at the college campus on Friday.

During the workshop, an English honors student of the college Roukuomenuo Mere shared about the life and works of William Shakespeare and that English language day coincided with his birthday.

While talking about the significance of the English Language, English department, assistant professor Sungjemmenla Longkumer said that it not only added a touch of

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Government of India, Ministry of Finance Department of Financial Services (Banking Division) Suwarna Bhawan, House No. 12, New Town Path, Near Hanuman Mandir, G.S. Road, Ulubari, Guwahati- 781007.

NOTICE FOR DISCLOSURE OF PROPERTIES

(See section 28 (4a) of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993) To 1. Mr. Kughato N. Yeptho, S/O Nikheshe, R/O Sukhalu Village, P.O Zunheboto, District:- Zunheboto, Nagaland, Pin:- 798620.

OR Mr Kughato N. Yeptho @ N. Chophy, Prop. M/s Kughato N. Yeptho Unit, Sukhalu Village, Rajadhap Sonari Town, Zunheboto, P.O Zunheboto, Nagaland.

Whereas you are the above mentioned Certificate Debtor has failed to pay the sum of Rs. 18,77,150.40 (Rupees Eighteen Lacs Seventy seven Thousand One Hundred Fifty & Paise Forty) Only plus interest and cost in terms of Recovery Certificate bearing No. DRPC 2229/2017 issued by the Ld. Presiding Officer of Debts Recovery Tribunal, Guwahati in the Case No. O.A.299/2015 in the matter of State Bank of India, Zunheboto Branch Vs – Mr. Kughato N. Yeptho 2. You are hereby directed to appear in person before the undersigned of 6th July, 2021 and furnish to the undersigned the particulars of your properties both movable and immovable, including existing bank account details on affidavit duly sworn in before a First Class Magistrate on or before 6th July 2021. On your failure to comply with the direction issued by the undersigned herein above, coercive action as provided under the Act will be taken against you.

Given under my hand and seal of the Tribunal on the 24th day of February, 2021.

(S. Kumar) Recovery Officer Debt Recovery Tribunal Guwahati

convenience for communication but had been a gateway to art.

Further expounding that the English language was a blend of numerous languages and of so many cultures with shared histories, Sungjemmenla said that behind every English word, intonation or a sentence lay an intriguing story of exchange and migration making it a “living language”, which was constantly evolving.

During the workshop, English honors students enacted Shakespeare’s monologue from pastoral comedy “all the world’s a stage”.

Students and teachers of the college participated in reciting Shakespeare’s sonnets and also exchanged their favourite English words.

DEBTS RECOVERY TRIBUNAL, GUWAHATI

DEBTS RECOVERY TRIBUNAL, GUWAHATI

Government of India, Ministry of Finance Department of Financial Services (Banking Division) Suwarna Bhawan, House No. 12, New Town Path, Near Hanuman Mandir, G.S. Road, Ulubari, Guwahati- 781007.

NOTICE FOR DISCLOSURE OF PROPERTIES

(See section 28 (4a) of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993) To 1 Mrs. Moghatoli Sumi, D/O Akkato Yeptho, R/O D.C Hills Colony, P.O Zunheboto, Zunheboto Town, District:Zunheboto, Nagaland, Pin:798620.

Whereas you the above mentioned Certificate Debtor has failed to pay the sum of Rs. 17,35,501.75 (Rupees Seventeen Lakhs Thirty Five Thousand Five Hundred One & Paise Seventy Five) Only plus interest and cost in terms of Recovery Certificate bearing No. DRPC 1962/2016 issued by the Ld. Presiding Officer of Debts Recovery Tribunal, Guwahati in the Case No. O.A.305/2015 in the matter of State Bank of India, Zunheboto Branch Vs – Mrs Moghatoli Sumi, 2. You are hereby directed to appear in person before the undersigned on 6th July, 2021 and furnish to the undersigned the particulars of your properties both movable and immovable, including existing bank account details on affidavit duly sworn in before a First Class Magistrate on or before 6th July 2021. On your failure to comply with the direction issued by the undersigned herein above, coercive action as provided under the Act will be taken against you.

Given under my hand and seal of the Tribunal on the 24th day of February, 2021.

(S. Kumar) Recovery Officer Debt Recovery Tribunal Guwahati

Government of India, Ministry of Finance Department of Financial Services (Banking Division) Suwarna Bhawan, House No. 12, New Town Path, Near Hanuman Mandir, G.S. Road, Ulubari, Guwahati- 781007.

Government of India, Ministry of Finance Department of Financial Services (Banking Division) Suwarna Bhawan, House No. 12, New Town Path, Near Hanuman Mandir, G.S. Road, Ulubari, Guwahati- 781007.

NOTICE FOR DISCLOSURE OF PROPERTIES

(Sections 25 to Section 29 of the Recovery of Debts Due to the Banks and financial Institutions Act, 1993 and under Rule 2 of second Schedule of the Income Tax Act, 1961) D.R.P.C. No. 2252 dated 25.02.2017

(See section 28 (4a) of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993) To 1 Sri. Hovito N. alias Hovit Sumi, S/O Nivikhe Sumi, Neeky Electronic Shop, Project Colony, Zunheboto, P.O Zunheboto, Zunheboto Town D istr ict:Zunheboto, Nagaland, Pin:798620.

Whereas you the above mentioned Certificate Debtor has failed to pay the sum of Rs. 19,00,557.31 (Rupees Nineteen Lacs Five Hundred Fifty Seven & Paise Thirty One) Only plus interest and cost in terms of Recovery Certificate bearing No. DRPC 2228/2017 issued by the Ld. Presiding Officer of Debts Recovery Tribunal, Guwahati in the Case No. O.A.304/2015 in the matter of State Bank of India, Zunheboto Branch Vs – Sri Hovito N. alias Hovit Sumi, 2. You are hereby directed to appear in person before the undersigned on 6th July, 2021 and furnish to the undersigned the particulars of your properties both movable and immovable, including existing bank account details on affidavit duly sworn in before a First Class Magistrate on or before 6th July 2021. On your failure to comply with the direction issued by the undersigned herein above, coercive action as provided under the Act will be taken against you.

Given under my hand and seal of the Tribunal on the 24th day of February, 2021.

(S. Kumar) Recovery Officer Debt Recovery Tribunal Guwahati

NOTICE OF DEMAND TO THE CERTIFICATE DEBTOR (S)

State Bank of India Vs Ms. Vivi Sumi To (Certificate Debtor) Ms. Vivi Sumi Daughter of Khetovi Sumi, DC Hill Colony, P.O. Zunheboto Zunheboto Town, District- Zunheboto, Nagaland- 798620.

This is to certify that a sum Rs.15,39,152.90p ( Rupees fifteen lakhs thirty nine thousand one hundred fifty two and paisa ninety only ) as per details given below has become due from you consequent to a Recovery Certificate issued by the Ld. Presiding Officer by an order dated 05.01.2017 in Case No. OA. No.303 of 2015.

1. Amount due as per the Certificate Amount.

Rs.15,39,152.90 2. Interest from 01.09.2015 to 10.02.2017 Rs. 4,04,023.45 @14.00% 3. Costs Rs. 18,000.00 TOTAL Rs. 19,61,176.35 2. Your are hereby directed to pay the above some within 15 days of the receipt of this notice failing which the recovery shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Sections 25 to Section 29 of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 and under Rule 2 of Second Schedule of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

In additions to the sums aforesaid, you will be also liable for a. Such interest as is payable in accordance with the recovery certificate (DRPC No. 2252 dated 25.02.2017) for the period commencing immediately after issue of recovery certificate to the date of realization, and b. All costs, charges and expenses incurred in respect of the services of notices and of warrants and other processes and proceedings taken for realization of the dues.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL ON 25TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2021.

(S. Kumar) Recovery Officer Debt Recovery Tribunal Guwahati

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In case of cough/fever/difficulty in breathing/ loss of sense of smell and taste/ conjunctivitis/ diarrhoea or any other Covid19 related symptoms he/ she should immediately report to the authority so that necessary action can be initiated at Longleng district COVID-19 helpline no: 7005939851/ 9612927005/6009964294/ 8787614315.

VTF at Sechü Zubza Sub-divisional officer (C) Sechü Zubza, Tiayanger Jamir has notified all village councils under Sechü Zubza sub-division which are also the Village Disaster Management Authority (VDMA) to be constituted as “village task force (VTF) COVID-19” to plan the strategies at the local level; to contain the spread of the virus and also assist the villagers; medical officers & staff posted in the concerned Village and the front line workers involved in the management of COVID-19 cases in their respective villages. The notification stated that VTF would impose SOPs and standing instructions of the government in the village.

It would also create wide publicity in their villages on regular basis to contain the spread of the virus and work within laid down guidelines of the government from time to time.

VTF would extend assistance to the medical department in their respective villages and coordinate with medical officers/front line workers even in the vac-

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protocols, to disseminate information on the new Covid SOPs and enforce Covid appropriate behaviors.

The members also deliberated on screening at entry and exit points of the border areas. Since thermal screening became a futile exercise, the recommendation to increase temporary unit to test the commuter was also discussed.

DC also requested Rengma Hohos to take up measures to assist DTF Kohima in creating awareness on vaccination progress.

Advisory under Longleng district All village and ward authorities under Longleng district have been requested to circulate and implement the following guidelines under their respective jurisdiction for surveillance of returnees travelling to Longleng district from outside the state.

The returnees upon arrival to Longleng district shall self-isolation/home quarantine for a period of 10 days. During the home quarantine period, the returnee will not be allowed to venture outside the house.

Visitors have been restricted and directed to practice COVID-19 appropriate behaviour; family of the returnee should not be discriminated in any way including procurement of essential commodities; returnee shall be released from home quarantine after 10 days if, he/she does not develop any COVID-19 related symptoms.

Orgs cancel meetings NTUCT: In view of the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases, Naga Tribal Union Chümoukedima Town (NTUCT) has informed that the co-ordination meeting on shifting DC office to its new complex Chümoukedima Town Hq. scheduled to be held on April 24 has been postponed until further notice.

NTUCT urged general public of Chümoukedima town to follow and maintain necessary SOP guidelines in order to remain safe. Meanwhile, ENPO has informed that in view of the increasing rise of COVID-19 positive cases in the state, ENPO – CEC meeting which was scheduled to be held on April 27 at Tuensang has been postponed indefinitely.

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DC Kohima and others at the DTF meeting. (DIPR)

cination awareness drive in the villages.

In extreme cases, basing on the gravity of the situation, where the VTF would want to impose certain measures in their village to contain the spread of the virus, prior consultation with concerned medical officers and approval of DTF Kohima through the subdivisional Task Force Sechü Zubza would be taken.

New market Dimapur follows odd-even number New Market Business Owners’ Association (NMBOA) led by its president, Kughali Chishi along with new market GB, Khekishe Aye pasted odd-even numbers outside shops at New Market on April 22.

In a press release, NMBOA mentioned that the guidelines were followed as per direction of Dimapur district administration to open market on alternate days following odd-even system. The opening of shops at New Market following odd even system commenced on April 23.

Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Dimapur H. Atokhe Aye with GB Khekishe Aye also visited the market to see whether the system was followed by the shopkeepers. Aye also visited New market Masjid.

Holotoli School sealed Deputy Commissioner & District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) chairman, Rajesh Soundaranjan has informed that Holotoli School, Padumpukhuri has been sealed from the date of issuing of this order during which, necessary sanitisation of the premises would be done by the management. Any person violating these containment measures would be penalised as per the provisions of Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 besides legal action under Section 188 of the IPC.

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DIMAPUR: With the surge of COVID-19 positive cases across the country and in the state, the state government, its agencies and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have been issuing directives, appeals and taking preventive measures to contain the spread of the virus.

DTF meeting in Kohima DTF, Kohima convened an emergency meeting on April 23 headed by DC Kohima Gregory Thejawelie along with legislators in-charge for Kohima, minister, PWD housing & mechanical, Tongpang Ozukum and advisor, urban development and municipal affairs, Dr. Neikiesalie Kire.

According to DIPR report, the meeting deliberated on level of preparedness for the second wave of COVID -19 surge and discussed that the ICU facility at Meriema to be activated as soon as possible. Paid quarantine for people to be isolated was also noted to be proposed as it had become a necessity with people coming from other states.

On the status of vaccination in Kohima, the concerned department pointed out that a total of 27,775 front line workers, health workers and in the age and above of 45 were vaccinated. However with limited vaccine available in the state, H&FW department anticipated the government to provide more vaccine for the whole state to be vaccinated. With shortage of oxygen in the whole country, DTF requested to inquire the status and activities of oxygen plant in Dimapur and to envisage an actual plant in Kohima as well.

DTF also decided to appeal to the area administrators, village authorities, blocks, wards, church to regulate and streamline outsiders to follow necessary

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXxI NO. 137 Dimapur, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021

A national health crisis

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ith fresh coronavirus cases rising in India on a regular basis the country is certainly headed for a troubled period in the months ahead. India breached the 1,00,000 barrier on April 5 to become the world’s biggest Covid-19 hotspot. On April 16 India again created another record in daily cases of fresh coronavirus when the two-lakh barrier was breached.

It seems that the spikes were uncontrollable when the 3 lakh COVID-19 cases was registered in a single day in India on April 21 and this was surpassed on April 22.

From all accounts, it is undeniable that India is in now in the grips of a public health emergency as Coronavirus cases continue to break records on a regular basis. A public health emergency is reached in a situation which is “serious, sudden, unusual, or unexpected” and which may necessitate immediate international action. Since a peak of more than 93,000 cases per day on average in mid-September 2020, infections had steadily declined. By mid-February 2021, India was counting an average of 11,000 cases a day. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths from the disease had slid to below 100. The steady decline in coronavirus cases had led to a feeling of triumphalism, according to K Srinath Reddy, the president of the Public Health Foundation of India. While the centre tom-tommed the “achievement” and attributing it to Modi’s leadership, people in general became complacent also. At the end of February, the Election Commission of India announced key elections in five states where 186 million people were eligible to vote for 824 seats. When health scientists had warned against complacency nobody and least of all the government wanted to pay any heed. By the end of February when foreign media reported that India was facing a new Covid wave, India’s darbari media had little inclination for the doomsdays sayers. This was probably because the media was focussed on prime minister Modi and ruling party big-guns holding massive rallies across poll-bound states. In less than a month, by March end, things began to unravel as India was in the grips of a devastating second wave of the virus and cities were facing fresh lockdowns.

However, election rallies went on including the massive gathering of lakhs of devotees for the annual Kumbh Mela in Hardiwar. Unfortunately, the ideology of one nation, one law and one culture also practically meant one man-show. While the pandemic has not been revoked, it was important that India’s central leaders paid attention to genomic surveillance in January 2020 to detect variants. It appears, that coronavirus variants are believed to be driving the surge especially by February end in Maharashtra. Unfortunately, the country’s central health authorities initially denied any such possibility. This sense of complacency has become the turning point leading to uncontrollable spikes. Worse, social media feeds are full with videos of hospitals overflowing the covid patients, some having so share a bed or sleeping on corridors, hospitals facing acute shortage of oxygen, mortuaries overflowing with the dead. Drugs are being sold on the black market, and test results are taking days. Most epidemiologists predict more waves, given that India is evidently still far away from reaching herd immunity and its vaccination rate remains slow. However, instead of admitting it had prematurely declared victory over COVID, the centre has now literally washed its hands off by asking states to decide on what they need to do.

DailyDevotion Do You Worship The Work?

We are God’s fellow workers… —1 Corinthians 3:9 Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God. This will mean that all the other boundaries of life, whether they are mental, moral, or spiritual limits, are completely free with the freedom God gives His child; that is, a worshiping child, not a wayward one. A worker who lacks this serious controlling emphasis of concentration on God is apt to become overly burdened by his work.

He is a slave to his own limits, having no freedom of his body, mind, or spirit. Consequently, he becomes burned out and defeated. There is no freedom and no delight in life at all. His nerves, mind, and heart are so overwhelmed that God’s blessing cannot rest on him.

But the opposite case is equally true– once our concentration is on God, all the limits of our life are free and under the control and mastery of God alone.

There is no longer any responsibility on you for the work. The only responsibility you have is to stay in living constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your cooperation with Him. The freedom that comes after sanctification is the freedom of a child, and the things that used to hold your life down are gone. But be careful to remember that you have been freed for only one thing– to be absolutely devoted to your co-Worker.

We have no right to decide where we should be placed, or to have preconceived ideas as to what God is preparing us to do. God engineers everything; and wherever He places us, our one supreme goal should be to pour out our lives in wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…” (Ecclesiastes 9:10).

Quotes

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality” ~ Abraham Lincoln

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021

Post-mortem

Vaccines enable T us to live healthy

Lives, livelihoods still far from safe

April 24th -30th is World Immunization Week

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he common buzzing around at present is vaccine. People are taking vaccines to protect from the pandemic. Initially vaccination started with the frontline workers and now people above the age of 45 are taking it. Soon individuals above the age of 18 will be able to take a vaccine against COVID for which they can register digitally at CoWIN platforms or Aarogya Setu App. For over 200 years, vaccines have protected us against diseases that threaten lives and prohibit our development. With their help, we can progress without the burden of diseases like smallpox and polio, which cost humanity hundreds of millions of lives.

Immunization is a global health and development success story, saving millions of lives every year. Vaccines reduce risks of getting a disease by working with your body’s natural defences to build protection. When you get a vaccine, your immune system responds. We are aware that vaccination is a simple, safe, and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases, before they come into contact with them. It uses the body’s natural defenses to build resistance to specific infections and makes your immune system stronger. Vaccines train our immune system to create antibodies, just as it does when it’s exposed to a disease. However, because vaccines contain only killed or weakened forms of germs like viruses or bacteria, they do not cause the disease or put us at risk of its complications. Our immune systems are designed to remember.

Once exposed to one or more doses of a vaccine, we typically remain protected against a disease for years, decades or even a lifetime. This is what makes vaccines so effective. Rather than treating a disease after it occurs, vaccines prevent us in the first instance from getting sick.

Most vaccines are given by an injection, but some are given orally (by mouth) or sprayed into the nose. Today there are vaccines available to protect against at least 20 diseases, such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, influenza and measles. Together, these vaccines save the lives of up to 3 million people every year. With the theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’, World Immunization Week

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2021 (April 24th -30th) shall show how vaccination is important and best thing is that now it’s time for COVID 19 vaccine. .World Immunization Week 2021 offers an unprecedented opportunity to build public trust in the value of all vaccines and help build long-term support for immunization. World Immunization Week 2021 shall aim to reframe the global vaccine conversation to focus on the importance of vaccines, highlight the many ways in which vaccines enable us to live healthy, productive lives by preventing the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases and demonstrate social proof that the broader public already values and trust vaccines.

The World Health Organization (WHO) works with countries across the globe to raise awareness of the value of vaccines and immunization and ensures that governments obtain the necessary guidance and technical support to implement high quality immunization programmes. The irony is that though we are more concerned about vaccination against corona we should not forget that immunization is a key component of primary health care and an indisputable human right. It’s also one of the best health investments money can buy.

In spite of tremendous progress, far too many people around the world – including nearly 20 million infants each year – have insufficient access to vaccines.

Vaccines are a critical new tool in the battle against COVID-19. Safe and effective vaccines will be a game changer but for the foreseeable future we must continue wearing masks, physically distancing and avoiding crowds. Together, we can end the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve a healthier world for all. India has manufactured two vaccines and this is the time that the country can lead in vaccination around the world. This year’s immunization week is an opportunity for all of us to raise more awareness when it comes to vaccination and more precisely vaccine against Covid.

Ranjan K Baruah (With direct input from WHO publication and feedback may be send to bkranjan@ gmail.com)

he ‘Great Indian Lockdown’ that began on March 25, 2020, spanned 68 days. Initially announced for a period of 14 days, it was repeatedly extended to finally reveal the ‘Great Unlock’ on June 1, 2020. It was heralded as a preemptive masterstroke. Was it one? And is there a case for Lockdown 2.0?

At the first instance, the ‘Great Indian Lockdown’ was brandished as the ultimate tool that would eradicate COVID-19 from our shores.

The citizens were asked for a few weeks, then a few weeks more and then some more to win the war against the virus.

So while the obedient citizens believed what was being fed to them, they utilised their time making Dalgona coffee at home. They banged plates, lit candles and sacrificed their daily wages in the belief that they were being protected from the tentacles of a deadly virus. Time spent without social contact would vanquish the virus was the war cry, for some time.

As time passed, reality slowly dawned that the ‘Great Indian Lockdown’ in no way could extinguish the virus.

The Government’s narrative conveniently changed to the lockdown being an instrument to prepare the health system to cope. Now, this made sense — a lot of sense.

The obedient citizens never questioned this narrative, since it genuinely had a lot of merit to it. For the common man, the changing narrative explaining the reasons for the lockdown was immaterial as long as the end justified the means.

A short crisp lockdown was probably the need of the hour in late March 2020 to better prepare the health infrastructure. There can hardly be a debate on this. But what explains the suddenness of it all when hospitals were empty and deaths a fraction of where we are today? What explains

the painful and prolonged 68 days of being shut down? The only number the Government seemed to be bothered about then was the infection graph.

Victory was declared by showing how our country fared so much better than the rest.

If the ‘Great Indian Lockdown’ was about preparing the health system, then shouldn’t the nation have been served a graph of additional hospital beds, ventilators, oxygen capacity and the like to keep the citizens informed of the work being done to prepare for the worst? It is hard for normal folk to accept a mistake, and even harder for the Governments to do so.

Rather than admitting to an error in judgement, a changed narrative from “let’s kill the virus” to “we are preparing the health system” worked as a convenient explanation.

I, for one, hoped that the changed stance truly reflected the Government’s intent.

Sadly, I was wrong.

Cut to the present. If the Government presumably acted prudently and helped prepare the health system in those 68 days and the ensuing period of another 200+ days since ‘Unlock 1’, then what explains the current mess? Even for the uninitiated, it simply means that the preparation was grossly inadequate and the forecasting even worse.

The time spent in lockdown and the time post-lockdown did little to prepare our health infrastructure for the tsunami facing us today. In such a case, what did the lockdown achieve? Very little. It did not vanquish the virus, it did not adequately prepare our health system but it definitely destroyed the livelihoods of millions. Personally, I have never been an advocate of lockdowns. Each one must evaluate one’s own risks and act accordingly by imposing a self-lockdown when required.

However, if there is ever a greater reason and logic for a stringent lockdown, it is now.

I have constantly maintained that lockdowns simply reduce the pace of spread of the virus.

They never completely eradicate it or stop its spread. Thus, a lockdown is unfortunately necessary only and only when the health system is running at capacity. And it is running to more than capacity now.

The time to save lives is now, not when our hospital capacity was chugging along at 30 per cent or so, in April 2020.

With the hospitals bursting at seams, the Union Government in its wisdom thinks that lockdowns don’t help.

Really? Wasn’t the ‘Great Indian Lockdown’ presented as the smartest move last year?

Confusing to me.

If the March 2020 lockdown was not a mistake, it definitely cannot be a mistake in April 2021. However, since it does not seem to be a tool for the Government in the current crisis just yet, isn’t that an admission that it erred in March last year? The sad part is that they are erring again.

However, this time, by not enforcing one.

The happenings over the last year remind me of a game we played as children, called “musical chairs”. The Government seems to be caught on the wrong side of the chair each time the music stops playing. As most of us juggle multiple calls for help from family and friends, television grabs of religious ceremonies and election rallies seem to mock us. Do we deserve this? Who is to blame for our predicament?

The virus, the Government’s response or us who cast our ballots — the 1.4 billion?

Think hard about it.

Let’s hope and pray that lives as well as livelihoods are saved. Sadly, as it is playing out, it seems neither lives nor livelihoods are safe.

Ashish Ahuja (The writer is ‘an ordinary concerned citizen’. The views expressed are personal.)

NVA message on World Veterinary Day

he Nagaland Veterinarians’ Association (NVA) president and his colleagues wishes all the veterinarians of Nagaland and veterinarians around the world a Happy World Veterinary Day! As we celebrate with the rest of the world I am very pleased and applaud World Veterinary Day 2021, Saturday, 24th April, with the theme “Veterinarian response to COVID-19 Crisis” World Veterinary Day (WVD) was founded by World Veterinary Association (WVA) to highlight the Wonderful lifesaving work carried out by the veterinarians around the world uniting air Veterinarians around the globe under one umbrella frame. World Veterinary Day was established in the year 2000 as an annual celebration of the veterinary professionals. The World Veterinary Day is celebrated on the last Saturday of April every year. It is observed to recognize the contribution of Veterinarians in the field of healthcare and medical science. The welfare of animals is intrinsically related to the well being of human beings and the ecosystem. Veterinarians help prevent and treat illness in animals everywhere. The response to help in natural and manmade disasters, educate the next generation, and develop new vaccines, medicines and treatment for animals and people by monitoring, reporting and control of animal and human disease outbreaks across the globe thus providing quality healthcare to food producing animals. Through their work, dedication and commitment, Veterinarians make the world a better and safer place for both animals and humans.

The aim of WVD is to promote the veterinary profession and work on

improvement of the animal and human welfare, the environment, food safety, and practices of animal transport and quarantine. we celebrate the importance of the one health concept and approach focused on tree realisation that animals and men live interconnected lives, so their existence depends on each other — for companionship, protection, safe and nutritious food products, work related and recreational activities, the biodiversity of our wild life, research and new knowledge to better our lives.

In the face of current pandemic, solidarity is the key, On the occasion of World Veterinary Day, the CIE pay tribute to the great effort made by the Veterinary professionals to support the human health sector, from research to human sample testing as well as provision of human and material resources. The CONIID-19 pandemic has put considerable pressure on public health services across the globe over the past one and half year. The pandemic impacts population in numerous ways and reminds us that multi-sectoral collaboration in line with the One Health approach and the sharing of expertise are more important than ever. Beyond collaborative research, the animal health sector and, in particular Veterinary Services’ contributed in various ways towards building a common response to the pandemic.

In many countries, veterinarians have shown their commitment to support the work of human health authorities.

When the world suffered sudden halt disrupting the normal walks of life and the countries worldwide shutting down to complete lockdown, Veterinary laboratories have used their experience and expertise in

high throughput testing capacity of infectious diseases to engage in activities such as surveillance screening, by testing human samples, thereby supporting the diagnostic capacity of human health services. Veterinary professionals have also been volunteering in hospitals and laboratories when human resources were not sufficient.

Veterinary epidemiologists have been supporting their counterparts in the public health response to track the disease in humans and to support the development of effective public health interventions.

India also went under lockdown in the month of March 2020 and Nagaland too was put into total lockdown due to the devastating menace of COVID-19 pandemic. During this period of chaos and confusion, the veterinarians were also faced with tremendous challenges of maintenance and managemental welfare of its farm livestock and poultry population. Animals were still getting hurt, always getting sick and even requiring wellness examinations besides requirement of feeds regardless of the outside world bunkering down. In conjunction with crisis management effort, it should not be forgotten, that on a daily basis, the activities of Veterinary Services contribute to addressing critical needs, which are heavily challenged in the current circumstances: food security and safety, as well as livelihoods are intrinsically linked to sound animal production systems. It is crucial that the Veterinary Services continue to implement their multiple activities, which contribute to ensure a continuum in safe food provision for populations and to sustain their subsistence.

The downstream effects of COVID-19 on economies, animal health, and food

security remain as important as ever.

Realising the role of livestock and poultry farming as an integral part of Nagas, the Government of Nagaland has enlisted the Department Of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services, under essential service and the livestock and poultry feeds as essential commodity to oversee the managemental welfare of the animals in general and necessity of feeds in the process. In addition to the vital role played by the department in ensuring health and welfare of the livestock and poultry population in consonance with holding the ethics of Veterinary profession, many Veterinarians and paravets were pushed into active service as Task force committee members and frontline workers to fight the menace of COVID 19. Veterinarians responded and played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic in the service of the public and taking care of animal health welfare by having free access to their movements as essential service professionals.

1. Set up Department Task Force to coordinate and assist State Emergency Task Force. Formulate action plans in off-setting probable source of infection through Livestock & Poultry.

2. As member of State empowered group-II in strategic planning for exigency situations, Veterinarians have taken major role such as quarantine in-charge, convenor of “transport committee” and in identifying of quarantine centres and lodging of returnees in the hostels and ensuring transport of food and water to the quarantine centres.

3. Veterinary Hospital remained open on all working days during the restricted lockdown for the health coverage, welfare of

the livestock, poultry and pets.

4. Efficient veterinary service was rendered to the Zoo animals in Rangapahar whenever called for.

5. Regular press releases of guidelines, advisory and precautionary measures in line with OIE directives.

6. Creating linkages and facilitate farmers for livestock and poultry feeds & feed additives having accessibility problems.

7. Issue of pressurised disinfectant sprayers to all inter-state QCPs for disinfection of vehicles transporting animals and feeds.

8. During the pandemic lockdown, an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the neighboring states viz. Assam and Arunachal Pradesh leading to blanket ban of pig import in the state was imposed. To safeguard public health, the officials performed duties round the clock in all the intersection and quarantine check post. In many occasions officials intercepted and confiscated diseased animals entering the state.

Seized pigs and pork were

disposed off in presence of officials as per SOPs. 9. Re-activate district Rapid Response Teams as preparedness initiative for eventual COVID-19 outbreak.

10. Educating public on general awareness and precautionary measures of COVID through mass and social media in context of Animal-Human interface.

11. Supply of piglets, rabbit bunnies, chicks and calves to progressive farmers to sustain breeding stock and also as a means for their income generation.

12. Facilitate supply of milk and dairy products from the farm/manufacturing plant to the consumers.

13. Contribute and play a major role in strategic planning for rebuilding State Economy in the aftermath of COVID-19 first phase.

The Nagaland-Veterinarians Association applauds the Veterinary medicine professionals today and everyday for their selfless service to animal welfare and humanity.

Dr. K.N. Zubemo Humtsoe, NVA President

Reader’s Post

upgrade the poorest network Sir,

First thing first, the network at Keziekie colony, Kohima is as slow as 2G network for many years.

I have tried using Jio, Airtel and Vodafone networks, but none is stable.

Life is back dating to 20th century with inaccessible zero speed networks.

No doubt, we all rely on good network for almost all the works. In fact, living in the smart city- Kohima is like a nightmare. This poor network is a burden as all tasks keeps pending.

Therefore, I request the kind dept to look at this issue in order to normalize the network connectivity system as soon as possible.

Tsuyali, Keziekie, Kohima Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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SC intervention in Covid uncalled for: Cong 14 die in Maha’s Virar ICU blaze

NEW DELHI, APR 23 (PTI): The Congress on Friday said the Supreme Court’s suo motu intervention in the management of COVID-19 in the country was “wrong” and “uncalled for”, and alleged that it amounts to over-centralisation of judicial powers.

The Congress also hit out at the government over its handling of the pandemic in the country where there is “shortage” of everything.

It said venerable institutions have to realise that their primary job is to protect the lives of citizens of India, not the reputation of the central government and demanded vaccine neutrality just like net neutrality.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said high courts were efficiently upholding the citizens’ right to life and holding the government accountable in a more nuanced way on a case-to-case basis and they should have been allowed to carry on their work.

“The Supreme Court’s intervention on April 22, 2021 is totally uncalled for.

Unfortunately, it is wrong, wrong and wrong. It is wrong because it is not suo motu ameliorative but a

Abhishek Singhvi reaction to palliative high court orders,” he said.

“It is wrong because decentralisation, and not over centralisation -- judicial, administrative and societal -- is the need of the hour,” he told reporters at a virtual press conference.

Singhvi said it is wrong because the SC has not done and could not have done what diverse HCs have done, especially what the Delhi High Court did at 9 pm to give some relief to the oxygen starved common man of Delhi.

He asked why the high courts are being allegedly prevented from discharging their duties.

However, the Supreme Court on Friday observed that it did not stop high

courts from hearing cases related to COVID-19 management in the country.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, who is demitting office as the CJI Friday itself, rapped some senior advocates for making statements without reading its order passed on Thursday.

The Supreme Court also allowed senior advocate Harish Salve to withdraw as amicus curiae for the suo motu case related to distribution of essential supplies and services, including oxygen and drugs, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Attacking the government over its inept handling, Singhvi said, “There is a shortage everywhere at the peak of the crisis. This

China and Pakistan among others, reach out to India with offers of help NEW DELHI, APR 23 (AGENCIES): As India grapples with a ferocious second wave of covid-19 infections, China on Friday said it firmly supports the Indian government and the people in their fight against the pandemic and was in communication with New Delhi on an offer to provide assistance.

Separately, a defence ministry statement said the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) has decided to import oxygen generation plants and containers from Germany, amid shortage of oxygen in the hospitals.

“Twenty-three mobile oxygen generation plants are being airlifted from Germany that will be deployed in Armed Forces Medical Services hospitals catering to the covid patients,” it said.

Offers of help have also come in from countries such as Russia and

France and also blocs like the European Union.

A news report said a charity group based in Pakistan, the Edhi Foundation, has also extended an offer of assistance in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the head of the group, Faisal Edhi.

In Beijing on Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here that “for the recently deteriorating epidemic situation in India we send our sincere sympathies.”

“The Chinese government and the people firmly support the Indian government and their people in their fight,” he said responding to a question from the official Chinese media, PTI news agency reported.

“Based on the need of the Indian side, we stand ready to offer support and assistance. We are now

holding communications with the Indian side,” he said.

“We believe the Indian people will surely conquer the epidemic at an early date,” he added. .

The first case of covid19 was reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and since then turned into a pandemic, infecting almost 145 million people and claiming over 3,072,614 lives worldwide.

India is currently facing a massive surge in coronavirus infections.

The country on Friday added over 3.32 lakh new cases, a record singeday surge, overwhelming the country’s fragile health care system.

Hospitals ran low on oxygen, critically ill patients failed to find hospital beds. The tally now stands at 1,62,63,695, while active cases have crossed the 24-lakh mark.

Rs. 50,000 would be given to those seriously injured,” the PMO tweeted.

Maharashtra Home Minister DilipWalse Patil has asked the state Director General of Police to conduct an in-depth probe into the fire, an official said.

A hospital employee said the AC system was not working since Thursday afternoon and some repair work was going on.

Relatives of some victims alleged that the hospital staffers were asleep when the blaze broke out and there was nobody to help the patients come out of the ICU. They also claimed that the hospital did not fulfill fire safety norms.

The tragedy comes two days after 22 COVID-19 patients who were either on ventilator or oxygen support, suffocated to death when their oxygen supply stopped suddenly due to a malfunction in the main storage at a civic hospital in Nashik. A fire broke out in Mumbai’s Dreams Mall, which housed a Coviddesignated hospital, in the intervening night of March 25-26. The fire, which raged for over 40 hours, claimed nine lives, including those of patients on ventilator support.

government defines shortages, shortcomings, and short-sightedness.”

He alleged that the priorities of the Prime Minister and the Home Minister reflect that they have become “inefficient, incompetent and indifferent towards the COVID crisis”.

“Why did the top two office bearers of the BJP government - the Prime Minister and the Home Minister -- relocate themselves to West Bengal despite the Home Ministry being the nodal agency for managing Covid?

“Why is there a shortage of everything? What are the plans of the government to tackle the issue of the shortage of beds in the state Government hospitals, private hospitals, shortage of vaccine dosage, shortage of oxygen,” he asked.

He also asked why the government is allegedly under-reporting cases of infections and deaths and why has the number of tests gone down in places like Delhi, which is hardly conducting 1 lakh tests per day.

Singhvi said, “It (SC intervention) is wrong because the SC is ill-equipped to deal with such local issues, local logistics and

should not supplant that local touch on erroneous and fallacious touchstone of uniformity.

“It is wrong because such orders have a demoralising, chilling, paralysing and negative effect on the excellent work being done by other non governmental institutions of governance, including high courts.”

The Congress leader said the SC intervention is wrong because it may have the unintended effect of legitimation of the “utter failure” of the central government on all fronts in its anti-COVID policies and actions.

“It is unfortunate and concerning to see the crucial office of the Attorney General being undermined.

Why was he, as the number one constitutionally designated officer of the court, not even called upon,” he said.

Taking note of the grim situation created by the massive surge in COVID19 cases and deaths, the Supreme Court had on Thursday said it expects the Centre to come out with a national plan to deal with proper distribution of oxygen and essential drugs for the patients.

India situation a reminder of what Covid can do: WHO

IAF airlifts empty oxygen containers to filling stations

New Delhi, Apr 23 (IANS): With the raging second wave of the Covid19 pandemic wreaking havoc in India, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Friday that he is very concerned about the fast-growing caseloads in the country.

“The situation in India is a devastating reminder of what the virus can do,” Ghebreyesus said during a virtual briefing in Geneva.

The situation in the country seems to be slipping out of hands with each passing day, amid acute shortage of oxygen beds and key emergency drugs like Remdesivir.

India reported yet another grim milestone of highest number of daily new Covid-19 cases on Friday. A total of 3,32,730 Covid cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.

NEW DELHI, APR 23 (PTI): The Indian Air Force on Friday airlifted empty oxygen containers to various filling stations across the country and deployed its aircraft for transportation of medical personnel and medicines in helping civil authorities deal with surging COVID-19 cases.

The IAF deployed its C-17 and IL-76 heavy-lift aircraft for transportation of oxygen containers to filling stations, officials said.

The oxygen containers will be transported by road or rail to various hospitals once they are refilled, they said Containers filled with oxygen are generally not transported on board military aircraft as they are considered combustible and may pose risk to the planes.

“C-17 and IL-76 aircraft airlifted cryogenic oxygen containers from Air Force Station Hindan to Panagarh for recharging, in support of the fight against COVID-19. Similar

Fire at Vijay Vallabha hospital, Mumbai, Friday. (PTI)

VIRAR (MAHA), APR 23 (PTI): Fourteen COVID19 patients died after a fire broke out at the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Friday, police said.

While 13 were charred to death in the ICU, one patient died while being taken to another hospital, an official said. There were 83 patients in the hospital, 17 of them in the ICU when the fire broke out after a blast in the AC unit, an official said. TV visuals showed the smoke-filled ICU in a disarray after the blaze, with the ceiling falling off in some places, beds and other furniture strewn around and kin of the deceased wailing outside the hospital.

The fire broke out in the

ICU located on the second floor of the four-storeyed Vijay Vallabh Hospital at Virar shortly after 3 am, an official said. It was extinguished at 5.20 am, he added. The other patients in the hospital were not affected as the damage was confined to the ICU, the official said.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray expressed grief over the tragedy and directed the local administration to probe the cause of the blaze. Thackeray also announced an assistance of Rs five lakh to the families of each deceased. “PM@narendramodi has approved an ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh each from PMNRF for the next of kin of those who have lost their lives due to the hospital fire in Virar, Maharashtra.

C-17 and IL-76 aircraft airlifted cryogenic oxygen containers from Air Force Station Hindan to Panagarh for recharging, in support of the fight against Covid-19. (PTI)

airlift tasks are underway across the country,” the IAF tweeted.

Officials said the IAF has also deployed its aircraft for transportation of medical personnel and medicines to various places across

the country as part of its COVID-19 response.

India is struggling with a second wave of the coronavirus infection and hospitals in several states are reeling under shortage of medical oxygen and beds in

view of the rising COVID19 cases.

The country recorded a one-day tally of 3.32 lakh new coronavirus cases and 2,263 new fatalities, according to official data released on Friday.

States, UTs asked to provide adequate security to oxygen carrying vehicles: MHA

NEW DELHI, APR 23 corridors for such transporta- like ambulances,” the official (AGENCIES): The Union tion, treating these vehicles statement read.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday said it has written to all the states and Union Territories (UTs) to Dimapur : Nagaland ensure adequate security to oxygen transporting vehicles EXAM NOTICE and to make provisions for exclusive corridors for the Students with backlog/failed in B. A. & transportation of life saving nd th th gas. The communication to B. Sc. 2 , 4 , 5 (those eligible for Supplementary the states and the UTs from exam only) & 6th Semesters are directed to fill up the MHA went after a highlevel review meeting chaired their application forms for NU Examination,

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It said the MHA had issued an order on April 22, 2021, under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, directing the state/UTS to take various measures to ensure uninterrupted supply of medical oxygen across the country.

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25 patients die waiting for oxygen in Delhi

NEW DELHI, APR 23 (PTI): Twenty-five of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital’s “sickest” COVID-19 patients died in 24 hours and the lives of 60 more hung in precarious balance, officials said on Friday as the scramble for oxygen got more increasingly more frantic in hospitals across the national capital.

Sources said “low pressure oxygen” could be the likely cause of the deaths in Ganga Ram, one of the city’s biggest and most high-profile hospitals, where healthcare staff was reduced to manually ventilating patients in its ICU and emergency department.

The hospital announced the deaths shortly after 8 am. After the unprecedented crisis of the morning, an oxygen tanker did reach Ganga Ram in central Delhi at 9.20 am but it was enough to last up to about five hours depending on consumption, an official at Ganga Ram said.

“It is wrong to say the deaths occurred due to oxygen shortage. We provided oxygen to patients manually when the pressure dipped in the ICU,” SGRH Chairman Dr D S Rana said, As hospitals big and small counted in hours and

Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims at Old Seemapuri Crematorium as coronavirus cases surge, in New Delhi. (PTI)

sometimes minutes how much oxygen supply they had left, changing the timeframe depending on the erratic supply, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made an impassioned appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure the supply of oxygen to the city.

“People are in major pain due to oxygen shortage. We fear a big tragedy may happen due to oxygen shortage and we will never be able to forgive ourselves.

I request you with folded hands to direct all CMs to ensure the smooth movement of oxygen tankers coming to Delhi,” he said at a Covid meet chaired by Modi.

The Centre should

take over all oxygen plants through the Army and every truck should be accompanied by an Army escort vehicle, he suggested, pressing for a national plan to deal with the crisis.

“The oxygen supply scheduled to come to Delhi from Odisha and West Bengal should either be airlifted or brought through the Oxygen express started by the Centre,” Kejriwal added.

Ganga Ram Chairman Rana verbalised the demand of all hospitals, struggling to replenish their oxygen stocks for the last four days in the face of the explosion in the number of COVID19 cases.

“All we need is uninterrupted and timely supply of

oxygen,” he said.

More than 500 coronavirus patients, including around 150 on high flow oxygen support, are admitted in his hospital.

“Ventilators and BiPAP machines are not working effectively. Lives of another 60 ‘sickest’ patients at risk.

Major crisis likely,” a senior official at the hospital said.

The oxygen emergency was mirrored at the Max Hospitals as well.

Though no deaths were reported, Max Healthcare sent out an SOS on Twitter at 7.43 am, saying that Max Smart and Max Hospital Saket had less than an hour of oxygen left for the about 700 patients admitted.

“Awaiting promised fresh supplies from INOX since 1 am… over 700 patients admitted, need immediate assistance,” it said, tagging the Prime Minister’s Office, the Union Health Minister and Kejriwal among others.

About two hours later, at 9.35 am, it put out an update that it had received emergency supplies that would last another two hours and was waiting for more. Outside the hospitals, too, despair escalated.

Ambulances could be seen lined up, patients waited

on stretchers, some visibly gasping for breath, and family members and friends desperately tried to get their loved ones a bed. But that was a tough task.

On Thursday, Delhi recorded 306 COVID-19 deaths and 26,169 cases with a positivity rate of 36.24 per cent, the highest since the pandemic began a year ago. City hospitals grappled with depleting oxygen supply and, stretched to their limits, some requested the Delhi government to transfer patients to other healthcare facilities.

While some hospitals have managed to make short-term arrangements, there is no immediate end to the crisis in sight, a government official had said on Thursday. On Thursday night, Ganga Ram officials had also sent an SOS to the government saying they had only five hours of oxygen left.

“At 8 pm, oxygen in store is for five hours for peripheral use till 1 am and less for high flow use. Need urgent oxygen supplies,” an official had said.

The hospital had received some oxygen around 12.30 am, but the stock had to be supplemented later, the sources said.

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Leaving with ‘India may see 5 lakh Covid cases... satisfaction, I did (From p-1) that the parameters of our Earlier on April 1, the model for the current phase my best: Bobde model had predicted the are continuously drifting.

NEW DELHI, APR 23 (PTI): Outgoing Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde Friday said he was leaving the Supreme Court with “happiness, goodwill and very fond memories” and the satisfaction of having done his best.

Justice Bobde, who decided several key cases during his tenure including the historic Ayodhya verdict, was administered oath as the 47th CJI in November 2019 and is retiring today.

“I must say that last day has evoked mixed feelings which is difficult to describe. I have been a part of the ceremonial bench before but did not feel such mixed feelings which could enable me to say things clearly.

“I leave this court with happiness, goodwill with very fond memories of wonderful arguments, excellent presentation, good behaviour, commitment to the cause of justice from not only Bar but all connected with it,” Bobde, who was speaking on his last in the apex court, said. He said he was demitting office after 21 years as judge and it has been his richest experience and the camaraderie with brother judges has been wonderful.

peak of ‘active’ cases somewhere between April 15-20 at around 10 lakh – the same level as what the country had seen in September last year. These figures, however, later kept on changing.

Asked about the reasons of such huge variation in the prediction which keeps on changing, Agrawal said, “The severity (of the Covid-19 spread) has made computations go haywire.

We were seeing significant drift in parameter values for India in our model and so the (previous) modelling was not accurate.”

He noted that the parameter value keeps on changing due to new data from states and that’s why the peak value keeps on shifting. “The problem is

So, it is hard to get their value right,” said Agrawal.

Though the scientists know limitations of such predictions due to variation in data from a vast country like India, they cannot stop working on the model as such predictions, at least, provide some basic information to policymakers to finetune their response mechanism.

“Prediction gives you a fair estimate of what all you need (such as arrangement of hospital beds, ICUs, medical grade oxygen etc.) to do in the next one month or so. Though there is a risk of going wrong, we cannot stop doing it as such modeling is very important for preparing ourselves for the crisis,” said Agrawal.

Governor, CM, Dy.CM greet Chakhesangs

(From p-1) Taking to twitter, chief minister Neiphiu Rio said Tsükhenye festival marks the end of a successful harvest year and expressed hope that it brings blessings of renewed hope, new energy and a fruitful year ahead.

Also, extending greetings on the occasion of Tsukhenyie, state deputy chief minister Y Patton said that the Chakhesang community was known for their hard work and wished them a fruitful year.

Patton also urged the people to celebrate the festival by observing SOPs and guidelines. Patton, on behalf of the state BJP legislators, wished everyone a very blessed and meaningful Tsukhenyie.

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chief minister. On Wednesday, the Bihar government had announced to provide free Covid vaccination to all above 18 years of age, thereby extending the facility provided to other categories of state residents so far.

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With two more phases of voting remaining in Bengal, TMC made a similar promise on Thursday. “Free universal vaccination for everyone above the age of 18 post May 5,” the TMC had tweeted. Just a day after, the BJP tweeted: “As soon as BJP government comes to power in West Bengal, COVID-19 vaccine will be provided free of cost to everyone.” In October last year, when the nation was battling the first wave of the pandemic, the BJP, while campaigning for Bihar assembly polls, had promised to vaccinate people in the state for free if voted to power. The BJP-JD(U) alliance won the polls and formed the government in the state with Nitish Kumar as its

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KO L K AT A , A P R 2 3 (AGENCIES): As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised to make Covid-19 vaccines free for everyone if voted to power in West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress retorted by pointing out that the BJP “forgot” to fulfill a similar promise they made to Bihar residents just before the state polls last year.

Taking to Twitter, TMC wrote: “Here comes the free vaccine JUMLA announcement from BharatiyaJumlebaaz Party @BJP4Bengal! Similar promise was made by them to fool people in Bihar before elections, which they have conveniently forgotten. Bengal won’t be fooled.” TMC MP Derek O’Brien warned people against the “free vaccine jumla” by the BJP. In a video tweet, he said, “BJP’s free vaccine jumla… It’s elections… two phases to go in Bengal. And Remember what BJP did in Bihar? They announced during the election free vaccines. Nothing happened. Elections finished, they forgot. Free vaccine jumla, vaccines for all in Bengal, don’t believe the BJP, don’t trust the BJP.”

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Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain.

President of the European Council Charles Michel said India and the EU will discuss possible cooperation in fighting the pandemic at a virtual summit between the two sides on May 8. “The #EU stands in solidarity with Indian people amidst resurgent #COVID19 pandemic. The fight against the virus is a common fight. We will discuss our support and cooperation at EU-India Leaders’ meeting on 8 May with @narendramodi and @ antoniocostapm,” he said in a tweet.

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NEW DELHI, APR 23 (PTI): As India battles a massive spike in coronavirus cases amid an oxygen shortage, the European Union (EU) and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed solidarity with the country on Friday and offered their support to it in dealing with the situation.

“I want to send a message of solidarity to the Indian people, facing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. France is with you in this struggle, which spares no-one. We stand ready to provide our support,” Macron said. His message was posted on Twitter by French

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there had been a massive increase in sale of tobacco products in the last two days as people started buying them in larger quantities than before. He explained that bulk and panic buying was leading to selling off of all stocks, but added that more consignments were their way and that there would be no shortage. When asked why the shopkeepers were selling them at higher prices, he said he had apprised DMC and DCCI of the matter. The dealer assured that there was no need for shopkeepers or any individual to hoard tobacco products as these would be easily available in the market in the next few days. “People are fearing of another lockdown and hence are hoarding the products. Let them hoard. It would be of no use as more consignments are on their way,” the dealer, who did not wish to be named, added. It may be recalled that during the 2020 pandemic, tobacco consumers had to buy products at double or triple the actual prices due to complete lockdown.

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Shortage of tobacco products? Meanwhile, besides shortage of essential items, Dimapur is also witnessing an unusual scene these days – sudden shortage of tobacco products. Following this, shopkeepers are selling tobacco products at higher prices. Some shopkeepers told Nagaland Post that they were being compelled to sell certain tobacco products at higher prices as wholesalers had spiked the prices. They attributed this to low stocks. However, a tobacco wholesaler clarified that there was no shortage of tobacco products, claiming that all the dealers were selling them at the earlier prices. He, however, admitted that

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ASEAN to address Myanmar’s post-coup crisis

Anti-coup protesters march on a street with banner read “ What we are? We are Yangon! People!”, during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP/PTI)

gathering to address a crisis he created,” said Brad Adams, Asia director for New York-based Human Rights Watch.

“ASEAN members should instead take this opportunity to impose targeted, economic sanctions on junta leaders and on businesses that fund the junta, and press the junta to release political detainees, end abuses, and restore the country’s democratically elected government.”

The junta’s foes have promoted the idea that the opposition’s parallel Na-

Frantic search for missing Indonesian sub as air dwindles

An American reconnaissance plane and a second Australian ship was due soon.

Jakarta (Indonesia), Apr 23 (AP): Indonesia’s navy scoured the waters off Bali on Friday, bolstered by the arrival of a sonar-equipped Australian warship with a helicopter, in an increasingly frantic search for a missing submarine with only hours left in its oxygen supply for its 53 crewmembers.

The KRI Nanggala 402 went missing after its last reported dive Wednesday off the resort island, and concern is mounting it may have sunk too deep to reach or recover in time.

The navy chief said the submarine was expected to run out of oxygen early Saturday morning.

“We will maximize the effort today, until the time limit tomorrow at 3 a.m.,” military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Achmad Riad told reporters.

There have been no

signs of life from the submarine, but family members held out hope that the massive search effort would find the vessel in time.

“The family is in a good condition and keeps praying,” said Ratih Wardhani, the sister of 49-yearold crewman Wisnu Subiyantoro. “We are optimistic that the Nanggala can be rescued with all the crew.”

Twenty-four Indonesian ships and a patrol plane were mobilized for the search Friday, focusing on the area where an oil slick was found after the submarine disappeared during an exercise. Rescuers made similar massive searches in the previous two days.

An American reconnaissance plane was expected to join the search Saturday and a second Australian ship was due soon.

tional Unity Government, recently established by the elected lawmakers the army barred from being seated, should represent Myanmar, or at least have some role in the Jakarta meeting. It has not been invited.

“It’s unacceptable that they invite this murdererin-chief, Min Aung Hlaing, who has just killed more than 730 people in Myanmar, and I think it is very unfortunate that they, again and again, talk to the military generals and not to the civilian government of Myanmar, which is the

NUG,” says the parallel government’s Minister of International Cooperation, Dr Sasa, who uses one name.

Evan Laksmana, a researcher for Indonesia’s Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank with close government ties, told The Associated Press there is a very practical reason for engaging Min Aung Hlaing face to face.

ASEAN recognises “the reality is that one party is doing the violence, which is the military, and therefore that’s why the military

Washington, Apr 23 (PTI): The US has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and the Maldives due to the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases in the region.

In a series of travel advisories on Thursday, the authorities also urged Americans to reconsider travel to China and Nepal; exercise increased caution while travelling to Sri Lanka and exercise normal travel precaution to Bhutan, which has been given Level 1, the safest level for travelling overseas.

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives have been put in Level 4, which means asking Americans not to travel to these countries.

“Do not travel to India due to COVID-19, crime, and terrorism,” the State Department said in its latest travel advisory on India, days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a similar warning for India.

The CDC issued a Level 4 Travel Health Notice for India due to COVID19, indicating a very high level of COVID-19 in the country.

“Do not travel to the Maldives due to COVID19. Exercise increased caution in the Maldives due to terrorism,” the State Department said in its travel advisory for the country.

“Do not travel to Pakistan due to COVID-19. Reconsider travel to Pakistan due to terrorism and sectar-

4 types of Covid-19 strains circulate in Kyrgyzstan Bishkek, April 23 (IANS): Four types of Covid-19 strains are circulating in Kyrgyzstan, the country’s Ministry of Health said.

Kyrgyzstan sent samples to the World Health Organization reference laboratory in Russia on March 26, the report said. The lab found four types of Covid-19 strains circulating among patients in Kyrgyzstan.

The country’s Ministry of Health called on the public to strictly observe preventive precautions and consult a doctor if symptoms appear, but not to self-medicate, the Xinhua news agency reported. The total number of Covid-19 cases in Kyrgyzstan reached 93,278 after 272 new cases were registered on Friday, according to the Republican Headquarters for Combating Covid-19.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon space capsule at the Kennedy Space Center. (AP/PTI)

complete reusability, then that is the gateway to the heavens. That’s what we’re trying to get done, and the support of NASA makes a huge difference,” Musk said after the launch.

Just a week ago, NASA awarded SpaceX a nearly USD 3 billion contract to provide the lunar lander that will deliver astronauts to the surface of the moon

New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI): As India battles a massive spike in coronavirus cases amid an oxygen shortage, the European Union (EU) and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed solidarity with the country on Friday and offered their support to it in dealing with the situation.

“I want to send a message of solidarity to the Indian people, facing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. France is with you in this struggle, which spares no-one. We stand ready to provide our support,” Macron said. His message was posted on Twitter by French Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain.

President of the European Council Charles Michel said India and the EU will discuss possible cooperation in fighting the pandemic at a virtual summit between the two sides on May 8.“The #EU stands in solidarity with Indian people amidst resurgent #COVID19 pandemic,” he said.

Americans advised to avoid all travels to India

— Musk’s Starship, intended to be fully reusable to attain his ultimate prize of carrying astronauts to Mars and building a city there.

Flying in a recycled capsule Friday provided a bit of deja vu for NASA astronaut Megan McArthur.

She launched in the same seat in the same capsule as her husband, Bob Behnken, did during SpaceX’s first

ian violence. Some areas have increased risk,” the State Department said.

Terrorist groups continue plotting attacks in Pakistan, it said.

“A local history of terrorism and the ongoing ideological aspirations of violence by extremist elements have led to indiscriminate attacks on civilians as well as local military and police targets,” the State Department said.

“Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting transportation hubs, markets, shopping malls, military installations, airports, universities, tourist locations, schools, hospitals, places of worship, and government facilities. Terrorists have targeted US diplomats and diplomatic facilities in

the past,” it said.

Terrorist attacks continue to happen across Pakistan, with most occurring in Balochistan and KPK (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), including the former FATA (The Federally Administered Tribal Areas).

Large-scale terrorist attacks have resulted in numerous casualties, the State Department said.

In its advisory on Afghanistan, the State Department asked its citizens not to travel to Afghanistan due to COVID-19, crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict.

“Do not travel to Bangladesh due to COVID-19.

Exercise increased caution in Bangladesh due to crime, terrorism, and kidnapping,” it said.

‘Developed nations should contribute more to tackle climate change’ United Nations, April 23 (IANS): United Nations Secretar y-General Antonio Guterres called on developed countries to contribute more to defeating climate change during a US-hosted virtual event.

“Let us mobilize political leadership to move ahead together -- to overcome climate change, end our war on nature and build lives of dignity and prosperity for all,” the UN chief told world leaders attending the Leaders Summit on Climate on Thursday, Xinhua news agency

SpaceX launches 3rd crew with recycled rocket CAPE CANAVERAL, APR 23 (AP): SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk’s rapidly expanding company.

The astronauts from the US, Japan and France should reach the International Space Station early Saturday morning, following a 23-hour ride in the same Dragon capsule used

by SpaceX’s debut crew last May. They’ll spend six months at the orbiting lab.

It was the first time SpaceX reused a capsule and rocket to launch astronauts for NASA, after years of proving the capability on station supply runs. The rocket was used last November on the company’s second astronaut flight.

Embracing the trend, spacecraft commander Shane Kimbrough and his crew weeks ago wrote their initials in the rocket’s soot, hoping to start a tradition.

“If you have rapid and

is being called to the meeting. So this is not in any way conferring legitimacy to the military regime,” he said.

By talking to the general, ASEAN hopes to initiate a longer term framework process, starting with ending the violence, that will “hopefully help facilitate dialogue among all the stakeholders in Myanmar, not just (with) the military regime.”

Skeptics feel ASEAN faces more basic problems in seeking to resolve Myanmar’s crisis. They point to the divergent interests of the group’s members, its longstanding conventions of seeking consensus and avoiding interference in each other’s affairs, and the historic obstinacy of Myanmar’s generals.

One faction in the group, comprising Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, believes the instability engendered by the coup threatens the entire region as well as ASEAN’s credibility as a group powerful enough to act independently of big power influence.

crew flight. This time, it was Behnken and their 7-yearold son waving goodbye.

McArthur blew kisses and offered virtual hugs.

Also flying SpaceX on Friday: Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide and France’s Thomas Pesquet, the first European to launch in a commercial crew capsule.

It was a stunning scene: The launch plume glowed against the dark sky, reflecting the sunlight at high altitude.

Despite the early hour, spectators lined surrounding roads to watch the Falcon take flight an hour before sunrise. Liftoff was delayed a day to take advantage of better weather along the East Coast in case of a launch abort and emergency splashdown.

“You’re seeing a piece of history happening here,” said Lance Bryan, visiting from Burnsville, Minnesota. “It’s, in this case, good history versus some other things that can happen that have been in our backyard practically.”

reported.

The top UN official underscored that the past decade was the hottest on record. “Dangerous greenhouse gases are at levels not seen in 3 million years. Global temperature has risen 1.2 degrees Celsius -- racing toward the threshold of catastrophe.”

“We need a green planet -- but the world is on red alert,” said the secretary-general. “We are at the verge of the abyss. We must make sure the next step is in the right direction.”

FELICITATION With utmost gratitude to our Almighty God, we the Khuzama Kera Clan take this honour and privilege to congratulate Er. Pukroneizo Kera, on being promoted to the post of Chief Engineer, National Highways, NPWD. The Khuzama Kera Clan wishes him good health and prays that God continue to guide and bless him in all his future endeavors.

KETHOLEHO KERA President Khuzama Kera Clan

KEVISELE KERA Secretary Khuzama Kera Clan

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Ba n g ko k , A p r 2 3 (AP): When the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations holds a special summit Saturday to discuss Myanmar, the regional body will be under as much scrutiny as the general who led the February coup ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Opponents of the junta are furious that ASEAN is welcoming its chief, Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing, to its meeting in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, arguing that because he seized power by force, he is not Myanmar’s legitimate leader. Also weighing heavily against him is the lethal violence perpetrated by the security forces he commands, responsible for killing hundreds of largely peaceful protesters and bystanders.

“Min Aung Hlaing, who faces international sanctions for his role in militar y atrocities and the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, should not be welcomed at an intergovernmental

7 COVID-19: EU, East Jerusalem clashes French prez offer leave over 100 injured support to India

MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND NOTICE S/C NO. 62/2021 NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-I OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Moatemsu has been applied by Shri/Smti Limasangla, W/o Lt. Moatemsu, R/o H.No 366, Mangkoterong Sector, Ungma Mokokchung, Nagaland for possession of : (1) GPF (2) GIS (3) Gratuity (4) Leave Encashment (5) Pension etc (6) Closing of A/c Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may if she/he so desire appear in this Court on or before the said date of 20/05/21.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this the 20/04/2021.

Principal District & Sessions Judge Mokokchung : Nagaland MKC-119

East Jerusalem has long been a flashpoint, with an uneasy coexistence there between Jews and Arabs.

Jerusalem, April 23 (IANS): Scores of people have been injured in clashes in East Jerusalem between far-right Jewish activists, Palestinians and Israeli police. The violence erupted as police tried to keep Palestinians and ultra-nationalist Jewish protesters apart.

It follows nights of confrontations in the Israeli-occupied sector amid rising nationalist and religious tensions.

East Jerusalem has long been a flashpoint, with an uneasy coexistence there between Jews and Arabs, the BBC reported.

Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of the international community. Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of a hopedfor independent state.

The worst fighting in days broke out on Thursday night after hundreds of Jewish extremists from the ultra-nationalist Lehava group marched towards the Damascus Gate entrance of Jerusalem’s Old City - where large numbers of Palestinians had gathered - chanting “Death to Arabs”.

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stun grenades, tear gas and water cannon to try to disperse the crowds.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said at least 100 Palestinians were injured, while police said that 20 officers were hurt. More than 50 people were arrested.

Tensions in East Jerusalem have escalated since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on 13 April. Palestinians have clashed with police, accusing them of erecting barriers to stop them from congregating on steps outside Damascus Gate to break the daytime fast.

Police say the measures are intended to help pedestrian flow into the Old City.

Jews have also been angered by a spate of TikTok videos showing Palestinians assaulting members of the ultra-Orthodox community, including an attack on two ultra-Orthodox boys on Jerusalem’s light rail. The videos were given as a reason by Lehava for its march to Damascus Gate, in what it said would be a show of “national honour”.

There have also been a number of attacks by Jews on Arabs in Jerusalem this week, including an incident where Jewish youth chanting anti-Arab slogans assaulted an Arab driver who stopped to remonstrate with them.

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This last and final notice is served upon MRS HOVILI SANGTAM @ AHO THONGTSAR, D/o Lt. Honito Thongtsar for defaulting to pay 15 (Fifteen) months house rent, and currently your whereabouts is still not known.

Therefore, on receiving this notification your are advised to clear the house rent within the stipulated period of 7 (Seven) days, failing which your household belongings will be forfeited in lieu of the rent.

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NOTICE S/C No. 36/21 NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Rabeni Lotha has been applied by Shri. R. Thungbemo Tsanglao, W/o. Lt. Rabeni Lotha, R/O, H/No. Tsumang ‘B’ Colony, Wokha, Nagaland for possession of; 1. PPO No. PEN/COM-23602/NL/V/22641.

2. SBI A/C No. 11766573718 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/ he so desire appear in this Court on or before the said day of 21-05-2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this day the 21-04-2021.

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IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE COURT MOKOKCHUNG: NAGALAND NOTICE

S/C No.69/2021

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Rfn/GD Hosheto Thapa has been applied by Smti Kamala Thapa, W/o Late Rfn/ GD Hosheto Thapa, R/o H.No. 156, Mongsenbai Ward, Mokokchung, Nagaland for possession of.

1. Family Pension: PPO No. 234982000431 2. Closing of A/C Notice is hereby given that any person interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire to appear in this Court on or before the said day of 20.05.2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this day the 20.04.2021.

Sd/- Principal District & Sessions Judge MKC-120 Mokokchung: Nagaland

IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE

WOKHA : NAGALAND NOTICE S/C No. 37/21 NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late N. Yanbemo Lotha has been applied by Smti. Nyanbeni Kikon, W/o. Lt N. Yanbemo Lotha, R/o, H/No. Likya Colony, Wokha, Nagaland for possession of: 1. SBI Saving Bank A/C No. 20140160941.

2. GIS, GPF, Leave Encashment, Family Pension and other benefits.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire appear in this Court on or before the said day of 21-05-2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this day the 21-04-2021.

Sd/- District & Sessions Judge Wokha : Nagaland WC-81

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IPL: Punjab thrash Mumbai by 9 wickets

KL Rahul captain of Punjab Kings plays a shot during match 17 of the Vivo Indian Premier League 2021 at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Friday. (PTI)

C h e n na i , A p r 2 3 (PTI): Skipper K L Rahul’s solid half-century and a disciplined bowling effort helped Punjab Kings tame Mumbai Indians by nine wickets and snap their three-match losing streak in the IPL here on Friday.

The bowlers, led by Ravi Bishnoi (2/21 in 4)

and Mohammad Shami (2/21 in 4), limited Mumbai Indians to 131 for six despite a fine half-century

by Rohit Sharma (63 off 52) on a sticky surface.

Though Mumbai are known to defend low totals, Punjab were clinical in the run chase and got the job done in 17.4 overs.

Openers Rahul (60 not out off 52) and Mayank Agarwal (25 off 20) shared a 53-run stand before the skipper got support from Chris Gayle (43 not out off 35).

The win was Punjab’s second in five games while Mumbai suffered their third loss in five matches.

Halep starts clay season with dominant win over Vondrousova Stuttgart, Apr 23 (AP): Simona Halep returned from injury to start her clay-court season with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Marketa Vondrousova to reach the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix.

The third-ranked Romanian was back on court for the first time since a shoulder injury forced her out of the Miami Open last month, and in only her second match since her straight-sets loss to Serena Williams in the Australian Open quarterfinals in February. There was no sign of rust as Halep wrapped up her win over Vondrousova in less than an hour without facing a single break point. Halep plays either Ekaterina Alexandrova in the quarterfinals after the Russian upset eighth-seeded Belinda Bencic 6-1, 7-5.

Elina Svitolina came through a tougher test as she beat three-time Grand Slam

champion Angelique Kerber 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Svitolina was 3-1 down in the tiebreaker before winning six of the next s eve n p o i n t s, and didn’t face a break point in the second set.

The fourthseeded Ukrainian will face

Petra Kvitova in the quarters.

E a r l i e r, M u m b a i struggled to 21 for one in the first six overs, the lowest powerplay score this season after being put in to bat.

A 79-run stand between Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav (33 off 27) steadied the ship for the five-time champions but they could not find the final flourish.

Quinton de Kock perished as early as the second over after he mistimed one off spinner Deepak Hooda to be caught at mid-on.

Ishan Kishan (6 off 17) came ahead of Suryakumar at number three but the southpaw struggled once again before being caught behind in Bishnoi’s first ove.

Rohit, at the other end, managed to keep the scoreboard ticking. Leftarm spinner Fabian Allen bowled a high full toss to Rohit in the 10th over and he duly dispatched it over

the cow corner for a six to release some pressure.

After Suryakumar joined Rohit in the middle, batting suddenly started looking much easier.

Suryakumar, at the other end, got into the groove with a four and six off left-arm pacer Arshdeep. Their partnership ended after Suryakumar failed to execute a reverse sweep to be caught at short third man off Bishnoi’s bowling. Some muchneeded lusty blows were expected from the likes of Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard in the death overs but Punjab were able to keep them quiet.

Brief Scores: MI 131 for 6 (Rohit Sharma 63 off 5 balls, Suryakumar Yadav33 off 27 balls, Mohd Shami 2/21, Ravi Bishnoi 2/21) lost to Punjab Kings: 132 for 1 in 17.4 overs (KL Rahul 60 not out, Chris Gayle 43 not out) by 9 wickets.

SATURDAY’S MATCH Rajasthan Royals Vs Kolkata Knight Riders: 7:30 pm

Jofra Archer ruled out for 2021 IPL New Delhi, Apr 23 (IANS): Rajasthan Royals (RR) and England fast bowler Jofra Archer will not travel to India for the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL) season, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed on Friday.

Archer, 26, had earlier been ruled out of the early matches of the IPL due to an elbow injury.

The ECB said in a statement on Friday that he has returned to bowling “with higher intensity” this week and it will assess his medical progress along with his county side Sussex.

“Archer will now step up his training regime starting next week and will be

in full training with Sussex.

It is expected that he will return to cricket in the next fortnight if he can continue to bowl and prepare pain-free. The ECB will confirm which matches he is expected to play in due course,” it said.

Archer thus becomes the second England player with RR to be ruled out for the season after all-rounder Ben Stokes returned to the country with a finger injury he sustained while fielding in RR’s first match of the season. In their absence, RR have struggled to get going and find themselves bottom of the table with three losses and one win in four matches.

South African cricket plunged into crisis Cape Town, Apr 23 (Agencies): Spor ts minister Nathi Mthethwa has turned up the heat on Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) embattled Members Council after stripping them of the right to run the game, putting the country’s participation in future international tournaments in doubt.

The all-powerful Members Council, which is made up of the presidents of the 14 provincial unions, has been holding out against agreeing a new Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) for the organisation that would allow for a greater number

of independent directors on its board.

Mthethwa, as well as the CSA’s interim board, see this as a necessary step to ensure good governance after years of graft allegations, which have bedev-

illed the organisation.

T h e m ove, w h i c h Mthethwa said would come into effect “at the earliest opportunity”, could fall foul of the International Cricket Council, who disapprove of government

intervention.

“I have decided to invoke my powers ... by defunding and de-recognising CSA,” Mthethwa said in a letter to CSA on Friday.

“I will, as soon as possible, also inform the ICC of my decision and provide them with my reasons for doing so.”

CSA’s interim board released a statement in response, calling it a “sad day” for cricket in the country.

“Only the Members Council can retrieve the situation now by resolving to support an expedited procedure (for the new MOI),” interim board chairman

Stavros Nicolaou said.

A Special General Meeting was held last Saturday where it was expected that the Members Council would achieve the 75 per cent majority vote in favour of a change to the MOI, but instead only six unions were in favour, while three abstained.

T h o s e t h a t vo t e d against said they did not have enough time review the changes, something the interim board have denied.

South Africa’s next international series is not until June when they are due to tour the West Indies for test and limited overs matches.

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World Youth Boxing: Sachin clinches gold Kielce (Poland) Apr 23 (IANS): Indian boxer Sachin produced a remarkable performance to clinch gold as the Indian contingent concluded its campaign with an unprecedented 11 medals, including eight gold, at the 2021 AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships on Friday.

With Sachin’s gold, the 20-member contingent finished the 2021 edition with a historic eight gold and three bronze medals to emerge as one of the top boxing countries in the event. The previous best outing for India was in 2018 when they won 10 medals.

Sachin, who hails from Bhiwani, Haryana, made a cautious start against the highly-skilled Yerbolat Sabyr in the men’s 56kg final.

The Indian made good use of his feet and landed fierce punches to put pressure on his Kazakhstan opponent.

Sachin took charge of the game with relentless attacks in the final round before completing a 4-1 win and securing India’s eighth gold.

Barcelona and Real Madrid would have both received an extra £52m paid in two instalments.

after plans of 12 elite European clubs to form their own competition were announced on Sunday night.

But the scheme was in tatters by Tuesday night and its founder, Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, announced it could not go ahead after the ‘Big Six’

Premier League clubs had all withdrawn by Wednesday morning.

On Friday morning, American investment bank JP Morgan seemed to put the final nail in the coffin after they pulled their £3.5billion backing of the Super League.

It was later announced that, after a meeting of UEFA’s executive committee, the 12 clubs involved would not face any sporting punishment for the role in the scheme.

However, leaked details of the 23-year contracts signed by the 12 clubs have

given an insight into some aspects of the competition and the financial rewards that those involved were set to receive.

It now seems clear why Real Madrid and Barcelona have still not officially withdrawn from the Super League because they were due to earn significant amount more than their rivals.

One area of the contract is titled ‘Additional compensation for the first 2 seasons of the Super League competition’.

It goes on to say: ‘Barcelona and Real Madrid will be paid the additional fixed amount of €60m (£52m) each, payable in two equal instalments. ‘For this purpose, at the end of the first Super League season and at the end of the second Super League season, they will be paid €30m (£26m) each.’

Barcelona are facing huge financial debts and need to bring in every pen-

Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das

G uat e m ala C i t y, Apr 23 (IANS): Olympian Atanu Das and wife Deepika Kumari will compete in the individual men and women’s recurve finals on Sunday in the Archery World Cup Stage 1.

India will face USA in the mixed team recurve bronze medal match. Mexico will take on Germany for the gold medal.

Das has hit good form in qualification rounds and if he continues to perform on Sunday, it will give him a chance to win an individual gold medal. Das, ranked two in the field, will take on Angel Alvarado of Mexico who is ranked 11 in the first semi-

final. In the other semi-final, Steve Wijler of the Netherlands who is ranked 17 will face Daniel Castro of Spain whose ranking is 13.

The top seeds in both men and women’s competition went out early.

Mexico’s Ana Vazquez, who was leading in the qualification on Tuesday, was felled by Spain’s Ines de Velasco in a third-round shoot-off. Reigning World Cup champion Brady Ellison lost to the Netherlands’ Steve Wijler.

In the women’s recurve semi-final, Deepika, ranked third will face Alejandra Valencia of Mexico who is ranked 7.

Tokyo under ‘emergency orders’ with Olympics three months away Tokyo, Apr 23 (AP): Only three months before the postponed Olympics is set to open, Tokyo and Japan’s second largest metropolitan area of Osaka was placed under emergency orders aimed at stemming the surge of coronavirus cases.

The measures, which occur during Japan’s “golden week” holiday period, was meant to limit travel and keep people out of public places.

It is to end on May 11, just ahead of a widely reported visit to Hiroshima

by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.

Bach said this week that the visit, reported for May 17-18, was still in the “planning phase.” But his presence was immediately criticized by opposition lawmakers who said the Olympics is being prioritized ahead of public safety.

“Japan should decide its own public health policies. There is no reason we should be told by Mr. Bach what to do,” said Yuichiro Tamaki, the head of the Democratic Party for the People.

Bach said the duration of the state of emergency had nothing to do with his planned visit to the city, where he would greet the Olympic torch relay.

Super League contracts LEAKED; clubs pulling out face a £130m ‘break-up fee’ L o n d o n, A p r 2 3 (Agencies): Details of the European Super League contracts signed by all 12 rebel clubs have been leaked online with some startling detail about the riches on offer. German outlet Der Spiegel has released a few pages of the document, which was agreed to by the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’, as well as three clubs from Italy and three from Spain before the controversial announcement last week, Daily Mail reported.

They include Barcelona and Real Madrid both receiving an extra €60million (£52m) each more than their rivals, the right for each club to exclusively broadcast a number of matches and a £130m fee for those wishing to withdraw from the competition.

There was a furious backlash from fans, players, managers, politicians and even royalty this week

Atanu Das, Deepika enter Archery World Cup final

ny possible to cover it with newly-elected president Joan Laporta saying the breakaway competition is ‘absolutely necessary’ on Thursday night.

Another part of the contract says that Super League clubs ‘will have the right to show four of their regular season games live per season “exclusively” on “core club platforms”’, such as their website, club mobile application and TV channel. This would ensure additional income for clubs because it would allow them to earn extra revenue from subscriptions to those packages.

One page shows that of the 15 founder clubs which is the original 12 plus Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, who were all due to be invited - AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Dortmund and Inter Milan would receive a smaller share of the initial ‘infrastructure grant amount’.

Olympic logo in Odaiba, Tokyo on April 22. (Hirofumi Yamamoto)

“This (state of emergency) is absolutely in line with the overall policy of the government,” Bach said. “But it is not related to the Olympic Games.

It is related to the golden week.”

Japan’s third state of emergency is to include shutdown orders for bars, department stores, malls, theme parks, as well as theatres and museums.

No cancellation plans yet

E ve n r e s t a u r a n t s which do not serve alcohol are being asked to close early, as well as public transportation. Schools will stay open, but universities are asked to return to online classes.

“I hope that the situation is going be better as

soon as possible,” Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the organizing committee, said Friday in a online briefing.

Hashimoto said several test events would continue during the emergency period, but without fans.

The Olympics open on July 23.

When asked if there were any plans to cancel the Olympics, Hashimoto said, “As the organizing committee, we are not thinking about cancellation,” The IOC gets almost 75% of its income from selling television rights and has seen that cash flow stalled by the postponement. It needs the games to happen, which will be followed in six months by the boycott-threatened Beijing Winter Olympics.

UEFA renews expulsion threat against Super League clubs Berlin, Apr 23 (IANS): UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has reiterated his threat to kick the remaining Super League clubs out of the continental events in the future. Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan and Juventus are the four clubs from an original 12 who have not said that they want to get out of the planned breakaway event in the wake of a major public backlash, DPA reported.

Ceferin said on Friday said, “Those who are involved in a Super League company in the future won’t be able to compete in UEFA events. Our events will be fantastic even without the four teams.” However, no sanctions were spoken about on Friday against Super League teams which means that Real Madrid will play Chelsea as planned in the Champions League semifinals next week. Paris SaintGermain will take on Manchester City in the other tie.

Aleksander Ceferin

PSG are the only nonSuper League club from the four. The Super League aimed to compete directly with UEFA’s showcase Champions League but the project appears all but dead after the six English clubs, Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan decided to ditch it.

But Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, who heads the Super League company, has said several times that the case is not closed because clubs cannot leave.

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