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NSCN (I-M), AR stand-off in Ukhrul dist ment when peace talks have reached the closing stages.

Meanwhile, NSCN (I-M) claimed that two choppers of Indian Army dropped 32 para commandos “for action” at Sihai village. The group also alleged that the Assam Rifles were preparing for a “showdown anytime” and ready to flush out NSCN (I-M) cadres.

AR personnel near the NSCN (I-M) camp at Sihai village area. (Social Media)

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, Apr 29 (NPN): Amidst apprehensions that the stand-off between security forces and NSCN (I-M) cadres at Sihai village in Manipur’s Ukhrul district could lead to an unwanted situation, NSCN (I-M) said it has alerted all its cadres in designated camps.

This was stated by NSCN (I-M) member of CFMC Kraibo Chawang to media persons after attending a meeting of the Ceasefire Review Committee meeting at Cease-Fire Monitoring Cell (CFMC) office at Diphupar on Monday. Chawang said “we have alerted all our designated camps should anything happen in Sihai” and that the NSCN (I-M) was ready to face any eventuality.

Kraibo also warned that if anything went wrong, then the government of India would be held solely responsible.

He also disclosed that the CFMC had requested the Ceasefire

Monitoring Group chairman to allow NSCN(I-M) cadres to return to Khangkui Shiroy camp (which was allotted as a designated camp in 2007 before being evacuated in 2009), if the cadres have to abandon the Sihai camp. “Otherwise where will our boys go?” he asked.

Chawang claimed that NSCN (I-M) cadres have been displaced as camps like the Khangkhui Shiroy forest designated camp and camps at Chatric and Grihang that were established with mutual understating in 2010, were vacated recently.

He said NSCN (I-M) had vacated these camps as it did not want any confrontation and bloodshed.

Chawang said NSCN (I-M) was earnest in its search for peace but instead, the Centre was creating problems taking advantage of AFSPA. He said: “The problem is from their side and Nagas are the victims.”

Chawang also accused the Centre of not keeping its commit-

Since any confrontation and blood bath would derail the ongoing peace process, NSCN (I-M) said Tangkhul organisations were going to proceed to Sihai village on Tuesday to negotiate with Assam Rifles to prevent bloodshed.

NSCN (I-M) claimed that Assam Rifles troops moved into the village on April 25.

AR accuses NSCN (I-M) of violating CFGR DIMAPUR, APR 29 (NPN): Assam Rifles (AR) has accused NSCN (I-M) of violating ceasefire ground rules (CFGR) by erecting camps in Sihai Khunou/Khamasom area of Ukhrul in Manipur.

In a statement, defence PRO Col. C. Konwer claimed that during a routine aerial reconnaissance on April 25, some suspected temporary hutment-type structures were observed in the forest in the area.

Troops deployed to verify thereafter confirmed the existence of an “unauthorised camp of NSCN (I-M)” in the area, he added.

AR sector commander then requested villagers and pastor to inform NSCN (I-M) cadres to vacate the camp immediately, saying it was an unauthorised camp and in violation of existing CFGR. The same day, PRO said United Naga Council (UNC) general secretary called up the AR sector commander and confirmed the presence of NSCN (I-M) camp in the area.

PRO said that the Ceasefire Monitoring Group (CFMG) chairman was also briefed about the prevailing situation in the area by IGAR on April 26 evening.

It was confirmed by CFMG chairman around 2.15 p.m. the following day that instructions were given to NSCN (I-M) to vacate the camp.

Accordingly, AR troops contacted the villagers to confirm the development, while the area was reinforced by additional troops and the unauthorised camp under constant surveillance by air and other means, he added.

Mentioning that aerial reconnaissance in the morning on April 27 revealed that the camp has not been vacated, PRO said the onus for causing inconvenience to villagers is now entirely due to the “irresponsible action” by NSCN (I-M) cadres.

He claimed that security forces have shown great restraint.

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Cong moves SC as EC ‘fails to act’ against PM, Shah NEW DELHI, APR 29 (IANS): Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Tuesday a Congress petition that claimed that the Election Commission had refused to act on a complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for making “hate speeches” and “using” armed forces for “political propaganda” during the Lok Sabha polls.

The Congress alleged that EC’s “silence” was an indirect endorsement of the violation of the Model Code of Conduct. A bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, agreed to hear the petition on Tuesday after it was mentioned as “urgent” by senior advocate A.M. Singhvi and advocate Sunil Fernandes.

Singhvi, while making oral mentioning of the petition before the bench, did not take names of the PM and Amit Shah. The bench said: “Why don’t you clearly take the names? We will hear you last. You should stop this game of hide and seek.” The bench took note of the petition by Singhvi and asked him why he is hesitating to take names of the BJP leaders. The bench

then asked the counsel to say “whatever he wanted to”.

The 146-page petition was filed by Sushmita Dev, Congress candidate from Assam’s Silchar Lok Sabha constituency. In the petition, the Congress alleged that the rules and regulations inscribed in the Model Code of Conduct were not meant for the Prime Minister and his party President but applicable only on other candidates. “It is in public domain that they have indulged in hate speeches, repeatedly used the armed forces for political propaganda, despite a clear prohibition on the same by the EC,” said the petition. The petition said the delay of more than 3 weeks in decision-making or the absence of a decision were, in fact, decisions in themselves.

Congress said 40 representations on violation of the Model Code of Conduct were brought to the notice of the EC so far, but it did not lead to any action. The petition alleged that since March 10, after the notification for the elections was issued, Modi and Shah had “violated” the provisions of the Representation of the People Act and election rules.

Trial of 5 arrested NSCN (K) leaders begin in Myanmar GUWAHATI, APR 29 (AGENCIES): The trial process of five top leaders of NSCN (K) will start from May 6 in Myanmar. On Monday, Myanmar police produced the leaders in court and the next hearing was fixed on May 6.

Yun Aung led NSCN (K) leaders were arrested by Tatmadaw (Myanmar army) during a raid on March 9 on the outfit’s liaison office at Khamti in Sagaing region of Myanmar. Later, they were handed over to the police on March 26. They were identified as NSCN (K)’s ‘peace committee’ leader U An Kam, ‘spokesperson’ U Kyaw Wan Sein and officers U Saw Htein, Aung Mai and Aung Sai. A top commander of Myanmar-based rebel group said, “NSCN (K) leadership is trying to release the arrested leaders from the jail and have requested the government to release them as peace process is underway.”

The Tatmadaw accused NSCN (K) of helping rebel outfits like ULFA (I), NDFB (S), KLO, PDCK, UNLF, KYKL, PLA and PREPAK in Myanmar’s soil to fight against India.

NNC/GDRN (NA) 64% turnout in phase-IV; One dies after reacts to NSCN violence in WB, Odisha brawl in Kohima (I-M)’s claim NEW DELHI, APR 29 in the eight seats though Correspondent DIMAPUR, APR 29 (NPN): Reacting to the statement by NSCN (I-M) MIP which claimed that NNC (Non Accordist) was no longer in existence since it had officially dissolved and merged with NSCN (I-M), the NNC/GDRN (NA) Monday refuted the statement published in sections of the local dailies.

Information & publicity wing of NNC/GDRN (NA) said its leadership was shocked by the news since it respected the sanctity of patriotic spirit of every Naga national worker, irrespective of different national political groups. It clarified the that three-year-old issue of Kumcho Chilimong, Hangping Zeliang and their team was never an “amalgamation between NNC/GDRN (N-A) and NSCN (I-M)” as claimed but “purely a defection issue” to NSCN(I-M) by some of members of NNC/GDRN (NA).

NNC/GDRN (NA) therefore, termed the claim as misleading and unbecoming and also condemned it.

NNC/GDRN (NA) said it was least expected of NSCN (I-M) to create such unprecedented claim when its position in the Naga

(PTI): Incidents of violence in West Bengal and Odisha that left a Congress worker dead and EVM glitches were reported in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls on Monday which saw 64 % turnout in 72 seats across nine states.

In the heartland states, where the BJP had won 30 out of 32 seats in 2014, 67.73% turnout was recorded in Rajasthan (13 seats), 58.56% in Uttar Pradesh (13 seats) and 67.09% in Madhya Pradesh (6 seats), according to Election Commission.

Nearly 55.86 % voting was recorded in Maharashtra (17 seats), 59.02 % Bihar (five seats) and 64.38 % Jharkhand (3 seats). In Kulgam district of Anantnag constituency in Jammu and Kashmir, 10.5 % polling was recorded, amid isolated incidents of stone pelting. West Bengal recorded a high turnout at 76.66

clashes broke out between supporters of TMC and BJP, leaving several people injured. According to a senior police officer, violence was reported from several places in six parliamentary seats in Odisha, where the turnout was 64.05 %. A Congress worker was stabbed to death in Balikuda-Erasama area of Jagatsinghpur seat.

Technical glitches in EVMs delayed polling in 60 booths, but it resumed after the snags were rectified.

During a mock-poll in Madhya Pradesh, EVMs were replaced at 207 polling booths as some glitches were found.

EVMs were also replaced at 106 polling booths after the voting began, according to officials. About 12.79 crore people were eligible for voting in the fourth phase.

With this round, polling has been completed in 374 seats out of 543.

KOHIMA, APR 29 (NPN): A person succumbed to injuries after he was allegedly beaten up by some persons following a brawl at upper D Block here at around 4.30 p.m. Monday. According to police, the victim has been identified as Nusato Swuro (37), son of K Swuro, hailing from Chesezu village, Phek district and presently residing at Kitsubozou Kohima.

Police said they arrested two persons in connection with the incident- Neilalie Loucuii (21), BA 2nd year student and Kikhrukhrietuo Venyo (21), an unemployed youth. A case has been registered with North PS and further investigation is underway, police said. The case was filed by Chesezu welfare association Kohima. The situation around the police station remained tense as hundreds of people continued to gather till late night.

CSU protest against teachers’ shortage

(Cont’d on p-7)

This is it!

Chakhesang Students’ Union members and others during the protest rally, Monday. (CSU)

“Powerful thieves who loot over Rs.5000 crore are enjoying while we are jailed for stealing Rs.100.”

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DIMAPUR, APR 29 (NPN): Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) Monday took out a procession against the shortage of teachers at the government higher secondary school (GHSS) Phek.

Around 600 students participated in the procession and submitted a representation to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Phek, who is also the GHSS Phek

managing board chairman.

The procession, which was carried out along with the students of GHSS Phek, was supported by Phek Town Chakhesang Students’ Union (PTCSU), Phek Area Public Organisation (24 villages), all 11 colonies chairman, GBs and concerned public leaders.

In a press release, CSU president Lavoto Chizo

stated that different organizations have been submitting a number of memorandums to the department of school education concerning acute shortage of teachers at GHSS from 2004 till date, but the school department remained silent.

CSU pointed out that 11 teacher posts were lying vacant following transfer, promotion and retirement of teachers. (Cont’d on p-7) K Y M C

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Mock earthquake exercise conducted in Kohima

DIMAPUR: A mock earthquake exercise was conducted by the Kohima District Disaster Management Authority in collaboration with National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh and State Disaster Management Force (SDRF), at Seikhazou, Kohima on April 29.

According to DIPR, the exercise involved evacuation and administration of first aid exercises. The NDRF-Itanagar personnel were equipped with equipment for Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR), Flood Rescue Operation, Medical First Responder (MFR) and Chemical Biological Radiological & Nuclear (CBRN).

The earthquake exercise was conducted under the following assumed circumstances: Collapse of Seikhazou Government Higher Secondary School and Urban Primary Health Centre, Seikhazou at 10:40

A rescue personnel ziplines down into one of the mock disaster areas as students look on during the mock exercise conducted on April 29 in Kohima. (DIPR)

am, with 21 casualties.

One was assumed to be dead, thirteen sustained minor injuries, and seven seriously injured who had to be shifted to Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK).

At the incident site, a Common Post for Incident and Team Commander was stationed where all stake-

holders were assigned to take part in the evacuation exercise. A Medical Post was set up with NDRF and Medical Officers administering first aid assistance to the injured.

After the incident, a de-briefing was held where observers of the mock exercise, deputy commandant, Pranab Daimari and

Chief Medical Officer, Abir Chowdhury from NDRF Itanagar pointed out that overall, the exercise was successful.

However, they suggested for more efficiency in the communication system, designating local stakeholders as first responders, including more rescue equipment, more military/

Police personnel involvement and also the set up of an information centre near the staging area for such emergency operations in future. They appreciated the Kohima DDMA and SDRF Team for their good response time and thanked all stakeholders for their participation.

DC Kohima, Anoop Khinchi (who is also the responsible officer DDMA) thanked the 12 BN NDRF I t a n a g a r, A r u n a c h a l Pradesh for travelling to the State to help conduct the exercise.

ADC Kohima Lithrongla Tongpi Rutsa (who is also the incident commander) reported that all concerned stakeholders reported promptly to the incident site. Stakeholders like NDRF, SDRF, Home Guards, KVYO, Fire & Emergency Services, Chief Medical Officer, Power, KMC reported to the site along with personnel, equipment and machineries for the rescue operation.

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news in Brief DPDB Kiphire meeting: District planning officer, Kiphire Pudusul Luho has convened the District Planning Development Board (DPDB) Kiphire meeting for May 8, 10 a.m. at the DC’S conference hall. All the DPDB members have been requested to attend the meeting.

Kuzhalhu Zawe assembly: The Kuzhalhu Zawe (KZ) has convened its assembly for May 4 to be held at Mini Tourist Lodge, Pfutsero, 10:30 am. All village representatives of Kuzhalhu Zawe from Nagaland and Manipur states have been requested to attend the said meeting.

Meeting regarding NH 129A in Peren: DC Peren, Sarita Yadav, in a circular has informed all concerned that a meeting will be held on April 29, 12 noon in the DC’s Conference Hall, New DC Complex Peren to discuss the status of NH 129 A. (DIPR) ADC Noklak on social work: ADC Noklak, Neilezo Tep has informed all citizens and government staff of Noklak that a mass social work will be conducted on May 4 at Noklak Town starting from 7 am onwards along with the rest of the State. The mass social work shall be conducted to strengthen awareness and preparedness against any possible disasters during the forthcoming monsoon. (DIPR)

Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya and his wife Kavita at Gyan Kendra School near Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, Mumbai prepare to cast their votes on April 29 for the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections. (Raj Bhavan PRO)

Teachers training underway in Kohima 12 year old releases her second book ‘Suki’s Spacecraft’ Correspondent

Visato Koso addressing the Learning Outcome training for government teachers at Ura Academy Hall on April 29. (NP) Correspondent

KOHIMA, APR 29 (NPN): Nearly 200 Primary and Upper Primary government school teachers are undergoing a four-day in service teachers training on Learning Outcomes, being conducted by the Educational Block Research Centre (EBRC) L Khel Kohima village, at Ura Academy Hall, which began on Monday.

Addressing the gathering during the inaugural session, EBRC L Khel coordinator, Visato Koso pointed out that the basic focus of learning centred education seems to be missing in government schools because of which students have not been able to perform well. About this, he said the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and the department of

School Education Nagaland is focusing on learning centred education for children so that the basic interest of teachers towards imparting quality education, and of students to catch up with the education system, can be developed from the primary level.

He said the four-day training has been divided into two parts of two days each for Primary and Upper Primary teachers. Topics such as early childhood career, teachers in relation to society and nation, parents, professionalism and their role as management and administration will be covered in the sessions.

Developing positive relationships between students and teachers is a must to enhance the learning capacity of students, he said, and called upon primary and upper primary teachers

to play their roles of bringing about change in class room teaching.

DMA SSA Kohima additional district coordinator, Thongsenlo said studies have revealed that government high school students find it difficult to deal with subjects and topics from lower classes of other schools. He therefore said that the main focus of learning outcome should be to improve the overall education system in the State.

During the training, resources persons Ketouneinuo Mepfhü-o, Kikruneinuo Liezietsu and Mimi Yhoshü will deal with general introduction to Learning Outcomes, psychology, learning outcome in - early childhood, English, diksha, Science and Social Science besides professional ethics.

The training will conclude on May 2 evening.

KOHIMA, APR 29 (NPN): Twelve year old Sochumlo Suki Ezung released her second children’s book titled ‘Suki’s Spacecraft’, published by Kohimabased PenThrill Publication House, in Kohima on Monday.

Chief secretary Temjen Toy, officially released the book and a dedicatory prayer was offered

by Kedo Peseyie, pastor of City Church Kohima.

The young author from Nagaland had earlier published her first book titled, ‘Suki’s Magic Box’ two years ago.

Toy, in his short address said he was excited to be a part of the launching as such events celebrate the talents the State has. He further added that it was encouraging that someone young like Suki, and others, have been breaking barriers in different fields and giv-

ing hope for the future of Nagaland.

The young author speaking about the book said her inspiration for the book was her classroom and the characters were inspired by real people. In acknowledgement of her school (G. Rio Higher Secondary School) for being the inspiration, she dedicated her second book to the school where she is studying in class 7. She hoped the book will inspire and ignite the imagination of young people in Nagaland.

Lanu Vihienuo, headmistress of Dayspring PreSchool, Kohima in her review of the book said the book was simple but had a relevant message. She added that the imagination of the author was clearly visible in the story book and that the story can be easily related with.

Vishü Rita Krocha, publisher, PenThrill Publication House, in her address

(L-R) Temjen Toy, Sochumlo Suki Ezung and Vishü Rita Krocha, during the launching program in Kohima on April 29. (NP)

said Suki has raised the standard of writing for all aspiring writers and her age and also given rise to a new generation of writers.

Speaking about the book, Rita said it talks about the courage of six

young girls who fight their way through hurdles and do not mind sacrificing what they value the most in order to save their school from being completely destroyed.

“Many of us may just brush aside children’s

books or books written by child authors, but there is so much we can take away from them. I know for sure that this book will serve as an inspiration for many readers out there” said Rita.

ENWOTU changes nomenclature to MWST

DIMAPUR: The Eastern Nagaland Women Organization Tuensang Unit (ENWOTU) has changed its nomenclature to “Mothers Welfare Society Tuensang” (MWST), as per instructions from the Easter Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) in a declaration program held on April 27 at the residence of its executive

chairman.

A press release issued by president MWST, M. Bahla stated that the society is a voluntary society and a charitable institution which will undertake social activities to benefit underprivileged and destitute women, child development, youth, children, Couples for Christ (CFC) Nagaland, successfully conducted its Echo NatCon “Light in orphans and the handi- the Lord” on April 28 at St. Xavier Catholic Church, Zhavame village under St. Ignatius Parish Razeba. Rev. Fr. James Sangtam was the main celebrant for the Mass. (CFC) capped etc.

Workshop on Information Technology organized at PVHSS UCTM convocation held in Dimapur

N Bhavani Sri, Nidhi Poddar, R Amongla Jamir and PVHSS teachers after the workshop conducted on April 29. (NP) Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, APR 29 (NPN): A Nagaland and Maharashtra school linkage program Information Technology (IT) workshop was organized at Pranab Vidaypith Higher Secondary School (PVHSS) Dimapur, on April 29.

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by Saraswat co-operative bank and enabled by the Indian Fellowship Centre, an initiative of the Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya.

Assistant commissioner, administration Dimapur, N Bhavani Sri, in her speech said that IT has become an integral part of life with the amount of changes that has come about. She was of the opinion that there was a need to

adopt IT learning in order to bridge the gap. Bhavani also requested teachers to enable their students to learn IT basics.

Discussing the workshop, course coordinator for post graduate studies in advanced computing, Nidhi Poddar said that computers have become an integral part of our lives, and there are so many free videos that beautifully explain concepts of physics,

geometry, history, etc.

“Today it does not matter you are sitting in New York, Mumbai or Dimapur, students across the world, even the ones sitting in the remotest area, can tap into these resources” she added.

Poddar pointed out that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is among the renowned private research Universities in Cambridge and it has put

together a programming language called Scratch to help students across the world understand how programming is done.

For students to understand the digital world they live in, MIT has come up with the Scratch program, she said.

She also expressed gratitude to the Governor of Nagaland for giving them the opportunity to create a people to people connect.

Furthermore, Poddar mentioned the workshop was also conducted at Dr Kire Government Higher Secondary School, Kohima where they trained students as well as teachers from schools across Kohima.

The workshop was attended by DEO, R Amongla Jamir, teachers and students.

The workshop is a 20-day program. The team has already covered five days in Kohima, four days each will be spent in Dimapur and Doyang respectively and on May 8 a final presentation will be shown at Raj Bhavan, Kohima.

Mego Haralu, Dr. Phuveyi Dozo, Zhabu Nagi, Rev. I. Wati, Zierangbe and others with graduating students after the UCTM convocation program on April 25.

DIMAPUR: United College of Theology and Missions (UCTM) held its 20th convocation at UCTM campus, Dimapur to celebrate the accomplishment of 29 graduating students on April 25.

A press release from UCTM media cell stated that, convocation speaker, Mego Haralu, executive director, Global Education Nexus, Las Vegas Nevada, challenged the graduates to enlarge their tents and

move ahead. 17 students received their Masters in Divinity, five Bachelors in Theology, one Post Graduate Diploma in Mission Studies, two Diplomas in Mission Studies and five graduated the short term missionary orientation course.

Pani Raikho, lecturer, chaired the program, where a welcome address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Phuveyi Dozo, president, UCTM. A prayer was offered by

Zhabu Nagi, pastor Sovima Baptist Church, who also read from Scripture.

Vesuto (M. Div) delivered a speech on behalf of the graduating students.

Conferring of degrees and special awards were done by principal, academic dean, and the board chairman. Rev. I. Wati, pastor DABA offered the commissioning prayer and benediction was offered by Zierangbe, pastor Zeme Baptist Church, Dimapur.

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WEATHER FORECAST April 30

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Partly sunny; very warm

37 26

Mostly sunny

31 19

Aizawl

Guwahati Hazy, a heavy t-storm; humid 31 22 Imphal

Sunshine and patchy clouds

32 19

Itanagar Showers and a heavier t-storm 26 19 Shillong

Partly sunny; a heavy t-storm 24 16

Kohima

Some sun, a t-storm in spots

25 15

Dimapur Partly sunny; a heavy t-storm 33 21 Mkg

Clouds and sun, a t-storm

25 16

Tuensang A thunderstorm in the area

18 13

A shower or heavy t-storm

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Zunheboto Partly sunny, a thunderstorm

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Surumi villagers wielding traditional spears sing a traditional song at the joint meet and feasting program held on April 25. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Surumi village of Zunheboto district and Longsa Village of Mokokchung district held a joint meeting and feast exchange program at Surumi village on April 25.

DIPR, in a report stated that the meeting was held to mark the friendship between the two villages and for their peaceful coexistence to be sustained.

According to the report, this coming together has

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been practiced in turns in the two neighbouring villages since the time of their forefathers. The meetings seek to further strengthen the bond between the two villages.

At the program on April 25, Longsa villagers were accorded a warm welcome by the Surumi villagers. The speakers on behalf of Surumi village were Kheniho Aye, HD GB Surumi village and Er.

Shikato Jakhalu, additional chief engineer, Power.

Alemtemshi Jamir, retired chief secretary government of Nagaland and L. Imti, were the speakers on behalf of Longsa village.

Short speeches were also delivered by Shetoyi Sumi, former MLA, and Hekushe Shikhu, president of Sumi Hoho. Folk songs were also presented by both Surumi and Longsa villagers.

Ban on riverside activities in Kiphire DIMAPUR: ADC Kiphire HQ., Reny Wilfred, in a notification has informed the public of Kiphire District that in view of the recent tragic drowning incidents in the rivers in Kiphire and Pungro, going for picnics, fishing etc to the riverside is completely banned for students and youth till the end of the monsoon season. The ADC has notified civil societies, student bodies and all responsible citizens to assist Kiphire district Administration enforce this ban by bringTraffic Control, Mokokchung led by OC, P. Tali Jamir and his colleagues visited ing to notice any violation Care and Support Children Home (CSCH) and donated essential items for the home of this order. on April 29. They also conducted a prayer fellowship with the children. (Care and Kiphire administraSupport Society managing director, Imchawati Kichu) tion has directed all respective Village Councils of Kiphire district to put stringent checks on students and youth visiting the rivers and has asked local bodies to put up sign boards at spots considered dangerous along the rivers as warnings.

RFS Phek observes 20th foundation day

KOHIMA: Royal Foundation School (RFS) Phek, observed it’s 20th Foundation Day at the school premises on April 27.

The school, in a press release said that DP Yadav, senior most teacher of the school, in his speech, encouraged the students to live up to the spirit of the name of the school and stressed on the need to build a royal foundation in schooling. He expressed gratitude to Dr K. Hoshi, proprietor & managing director of the school for establishing the school which, Yadav said, had been the need of the hour then.

Yadav also also acknowledged both past and present school authorities, teachers and pupils for their immense contributions towards the success of the school. Dr K. Hoshi, in his address, said the school was started on April 27, 1999 with a mission to impart quality education and to fulfil educational needs of the people within the vicinity.

Preparations are underway to upgrade the school to a Higher Secondary school for the 2020-21 session.

The function was chaired

by Hushe Vero of class 10; Zhozo of class 9 read from Scripture; and students of class 10 presented a special number. Zave-u Lasuh of class 9 delivered a tribute speech.

Shalom Bible Seminary Kohima conducted its 20th commencement exercise on April 26 at its campus in Sechü-Zubza, Kohima. Altogether, 57 students graduated in three programs: 24 Bachelor of Theology; 23 Master of Divinity - General; and 10 Master of Divinity - Youth Ministry & Family. Dr. Shirley Worland gave the charge.

(Principal SBS, Dr. Sanyu Iralu)

A priest kneels before the candle lit altar at Mary Help of Christians Cathedral Kohima in memory of the Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bomb blast victims, on April 28.

DIMAPUR: Mary Help of Christians Cathedral Kohima held a candle light service on April 28 for victims of the Sri Lanka Easter bomb blasts.

According to a press release by Mary Help of Christians Cathedral’s, Tosovi Philip, in his opening remark, Rev. Fr. Carolus commented that they pray for the souls of the dead, the injured and espe-

cially for misguided people.

“Though terrorist activities are condemned, we do not condemn nor judge the terrorists because God is the ultimate judge, we pray for peace and mercy”, he stated.

This time it was Sri Lanka, but tomorrow it could be anywhere else, because terror knows no boundaries, he said. Rev. Fr. Carolus pointed out that

April 28 is also observed as the “Divine Mercy Sunday” in the Catholic Church, and it is very proper to pray for God’s mercy upon the world.

The prayer service was led by the Novitiate sisters, keeping in mind the over 250 dead and over 500 injured. All the faithful present lit a candle each for the Sri Lanka bomb blast victims.

KVK Longleng lays building foundation stone DIMAPUR: A foundation stone for a KVK administrative building was laid by ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region director, Dr. Narendra Prakash, in the presence of Nagaland Centre joint director, Dr. DJ Rajkhowa, and KVK Longleng senior scientist & head, Dr. KL Meena, at Naga Junction, Longleng on April 26.

A press release from KL Meena stated that, a o n e - d ay awa r e n e s s program on ‘Doubling farmers income’ was also conducted at Convention Hall, PBCA, Lempong, Longleng, graced by Dr. Narendra Prakash; DC, John Tsulise Sangtam; Dr. DJ Rajkhowa; Dr. KL Meena; and N. Tialemba Phom, executive secretary, PBCA, Longleng, Nagaland.

N. Tialemba Phom appealed to the farming community to grab every opportunity to learn new technologies provided by the KVK, while John Tsu-

GPK offers free computer course

DIMAPUR: Government Polytechnic Kohima (GPK) principal, Er. Keyiekhru Rhutso has informed interested students that a three month free basic computer course under Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology will be offered at GPK.

Candle Light Service held for Sri Lanka bomb blast victims

Interested candidates, with 10 pass qualification have been invited to collect admission forms during office hours. The forms will be available from the time of this report’s publication till May 4, 2019. The session will commence from the second week of May.

Dr. Narendra Prakash, Dr. DJ Rajkhowa, Dr. KL Meena, and others at the foundation stone laying site in Longleng on April 26.

lise Sangtam, also asserted that farmers should derive maximum benefit from the KVK in terms of new technology, so that people of Longleng district could become self-sufficient.

Dr. Narendra Prakash encouraged the farmers to work in collaboration with the KVK office to improve

their farming practices and come forward to address their problems so that KVK could intervene at the right time.

Earlier, a welcome address was delivered by Dr. DJ Rajkhowa. Dr. KL Meena gave the vote of thanks. 253 farmers attended the program.

Resource persons from different disciplines were Dr. RK Roshan ACTO (Horticulture), KVK Longleng; Dr. Lily Ngullei, SMS (Animal Science), KVK Longleng; Thungchanou ES, program assistant (Home Science), KVK Longleng; and A Namei, SRF.

Emergency safety measures training in Kiphire

Indian Medical Association workshop & CME in Zunheboto

The IMA Nagaland team and medical officials of Zunheboto district after the workshop & CME.

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& Continuing Medical Education (CME) program from April 25 to 27, at Hezukhu Memorial District Hospital & Rochill Hospital, Zunheboto.

A press release from District Media Officer, CMO, Zunheboto, Shekho Sophie, stated that Dr. Victo A Wotsa gave a presentation on TLH and techniques, and Dr. Tsielhoutuo Angami shared tips & tricks of Laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Dr. Tovika Yepthomi highlighted Regional anaesthesia in Laparoscopic procedures and Dr. Aoakum Kichu shared on the topic “Cervical Cancer: An update on screening, early detection and its management”.

IMA, Nagaland president, Dr. Kezevituo Keditsu

and CMO, Zunheboto, Dr. C. W Tungoe, delivered the welcome address, and Dr. Keditsu also took sessions on Lap myomectomy do’s & dont’s.

Surgical specialist, DH, Dr. Shikato, on behalf of medical superintendent and staff of District Hospital extended heartfelt gratitude to the IMA team for rendering their invaluable service and for organizing Live Laparoscopic Surgical and Gynaecological & CME at Hezukhu Memorial District Hospital, Zunheboto and Rochill Hospital.

The release stated that moderator for the CME were Dr. K. Akaho Sema and Dr. Tokugha Rochill.

During the camp 37 Laparoscopic Surgeries were performed.

Officials from the F&ES department, Kiphire, demonstrating fire extinguisher use for attendees of the sensitization program held in Kiphire on April 29. (NP)

Correspondent KIPHIRE, APR 29 (NPN): The Fire and Emergency Service (F&ES) department of Kiphire, on April 29, organized a one day ‘Safety and precautionary measures in times of emergency’ sensitization program at Public Ground Kiphire. It was attended by students of Govern-

ment High School Kiphire and some government servants.

Officials from the F&ES depar tment explained Do’s and Don’ts for emergencies.

The officials explained safety procedures to be followed during major fires causes by Electricity, Gas or Fireworks. During the program, life saving tech-

niques such as CPR, handling unconscious and injured persons and the use of different type of fire extinguishers were also taught to the gathering.

The Fire and Emergency Service Department Kiphire also appealed to the various department offices to install fire extinguishers in their offices and workplaces.

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Manipur boat tragedy toll rises to 4

NDRF personnel at the rescue camp set up by the river-side. (NP)

drowned after his boat sank.

Search operation to trace the missing body is underway, police said.

The boat was capsized by the impact of Sunday’s strong wind that left a trend of destruction in most part of Manipur.

On the other hand, a team from National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)

has joined the search operation to trace the missing three persons since Sunday after their boat capsized during a storm in the reservoir of Mapithel dam in Kamjong district of Manipur.

The trio - two siblings and a girl relative– who were among a 12 member picnic party at the dam site

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IMPHAL, Apr 29: The death toll in the boat tragedy in Manipur climbed to four after one person was reported to be missing when his boat capsized in Imphal river in Bishnupur district on Monday.

According to reports, a 62-year-old man was

when their boat capsized.

Today, team of divers from NDRF from Guwahati joined state police and personnel of the state fire service to trace the missing persons.

Meanwhile, state chief minister N Biren Singh who visited the tragedy site at Chadong and Ramrei village today morning banned unauthorised local made boats at tourist spots across the state with immediate effect.

Talking to media persons, the chief minister said that government has decided to ban unauthorised local made boats by the tourists visiting lakes and other water bodies at state recognised tourist sites including the Loktak Lake. ‘‘The ban has been imposed with immediate effect. I have directed the concern department to issue an order in this regard today itself,” Singh told reporters.

He further announced opening of a police outpost each at every tourist spots which will be manned by unarmed personnel with immediate effect.

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LF takes out rallies demanding fresh poll in West Tripura

Assam govt to increase number of Foreigners’ Tribunals to 1,000

Agartala, Apr 29 (PTI): The opposition Left Front (LF) in Tripura Monday took out protest rallies in different parts of the West Tripura constituency demanding that the EC orders fresh election in the Lok Sabha seat. LF alleged that large scale rigging and violence took place during the April 11 election in the West Tripura constituency.

“We are organising protest rallies, in different parts of West Tripura constituency areas ... But this is not our protest and struggle alone. It is a struggle of all peace loving, democratic citizens whose democratic rights were snatched by large scale rigging”, Left Front convener Bijan Dhar told a gathering here. Dhar alleged that the BJP-IPFT government in Tripura was “responsible” for overall breakdown of law and order which led to massive rigging on the poll day on April 11.

He said that when a CPI(M) delegation met EC in Delhi before the elections, the EC had assured to take all measures for free and fair elections, but they “failed to fulfil their promises.”

GUWAHATI, Apr 29 (Agencies): The Assam Government has decided to increase the number of Foreigners’ Tribunals under the provisions of the Foreigners Act to 1,000 in phased manner to expedite the cases relating to suspected foreign nationals, Assam Tribune reported.

Meanwhile, the Government will file a fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court on its plan to deal with the suspected foreigners lodged in the detention centres.

Highly placed official sources told The Assam Tribune that at present, one hundred Foreigners Tribunals are functioning in the State, but that is not adequate to deal with the cases and around two lakh cases are pending before the Tribunals.

Moreover, after the publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the persons, whose names will not appear in it will have the right to appeal before the Tribunals, which will add extra burden. If the number of Tribunals is not increased, it will take years to dispose of

Gangtok, Apr 29 (PTI): Five tourists were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Sikkim’s East district, police said on Monday.

The tourists, hailing from Hooghly in West Bengal were returning to the state capital from Tsomgo Lake-Baba Mandir when a private vehicle carrying them lost control and felldown 400 metre down the Jawaharlal Nehru Road near 7th Mile on Sunday evening, police said.

While four tourists died on the spot, another succumbed to injuries at a hospital, they said, adding two injured persons, including the driver of the vehicle were undergoing treatment at STNM hospital.

monsoon rainfall, followed

by Assam and Meghalaya sub-division with 33 mm and Nagaland-ManipurMizoram-Tripura sub-division 28 mm.

Sikkim and adjoining areas have recorded 152 mm pre-monsoon rainfall since March 1.

IMD Director Dilip Saha said in view of deep depressions over the Indian Ocean and adjoining Bay of Bengal, and subsequent cyclone ‘Fani’, the heat wave had continued in the mountainous northeastern region.

“After the end of the cyclone’s affect, the wind pattern is likely to change and the heat wave is expected to subside. We expect the situation to normalise within two-three days,” Saha told IANS. According to the IMD official, cyclone ‘Fani’ has been gaining strength in the

Bogibeel Bridge turns into dumping ground of plastic wastes by tourists

Nagaon Paper Mill employee commits suicide over no pay

Sonowal sets June 20 deadline for old Saraighat bridge repair

Minister Conrad K Sangma to Varanasi to accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he filed his nomination recently, Dr Kharlukhi said “Well, we are still part of NDA, so all the chief ministers in the NDA were invited; It was a display of oneness and solidarity.”

Coming down hard on the Congress for criticizing the recent visit of Conrad to Varanasi, Dr Kharlukhi questioned “We went there as partners of the NDA and our stand was clear from the beginning; so why is the Congress making remarks like — we are disguising ourselves?” To a query on the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, the NPP state chief reiterated that the party will fight and stand up against any law or act that goes against the Northeast indigenous people.

Tourists turn Bogibeel Bridge into plastic waste dumping ground. (Northeast Now)

D I B RU G A R H , A p r 29 (Agencies): Four months after the inauguration of Bogibeel Bridge by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the place is littered by plastic bottles and plastic packets.

Bogibeel Bridge has become a tourist destination after it’s inauguration on December 25 last year

by Prime Minister Modi.

Visitors from different areas come to see the longest rail cum road bridge of India and dump plastic bottles and plastic packets on the bridge.

“The visitors dump plastic bottles and chips packets on the bridge. They should know the basic civic sense but it is seen that people are not aware of the civic sense. We are very much hurt when we see plastic bottles and chips packets littered around Bogibeel Bridge. Lots of sentiK Y M C

ments are attached with the Bogibeel Bridge because it is the lifeline for the people of north and south bank,” Ranjit Baruah, a resident of Dibrugarh said.

After the inauguration of Bogibeel Bridge, the rush of tourist has increased and often tourists are seen taking selfies on the Bogibeel Bridge.

Bogibeel Bridge is the fifth bridge over the Brahmaputra, linking Dhemaji and Dibrugarh district of Upper Assam.

“I’ve seen that children come with chips packet with their parents to see the bridge after that they throw the packets on the bridge. The parents don’t say anything to them. The parents should teach them not to throw chips packets and plastic bottles on the bridge but most of the times they didn’t say anything,” Nobinita Sharma a school

teacher said.

“Due to lack of awareness, people are throwing plastic bottles on the bridge but this should be stopped.

The district administration should take necessary action against such people.

Bogibeel Bridge is a national project and our sentiment is attached with the bridge.

Our main concern is to keep the bridge clean,” said Lankeswar Deori, a resident of Dibrugarh.

Recently, some organisations took a cleanliness drive at Bogibeel Bridge and collected many plastic bottles. A Dibrugarh based entrepreneur took out the cleanliness drive. He was seen cleaning the paan stains and picking up the trashes which were dumped on the bridge. Dr Sashikanta Saikia, principal of DHSK College and Assam brand ambassador of Swacch Bharat Mission said.

major issue. If required, the Government is also planning to bring in qualified persons from other parts of the country to be appointed as members of Tribunals, sources revealed.

Sources admitted that in a large number of cases, persons who were declared as foreigners by the Tribunals are reported missing and to deal with the issue, a process of taking biometrics and photographs of the persons against whom cases have been referred to the Tribunals, has started.

This will not permanently solve the problem, but it will definitely help in finding such persons, sources added. At present, around 90,000 persons declared as foreigners by the Tribunals, are reported missing.

It may be mentioned here that the Supreme Court recently strongly criticized the State Government for its affidavit, in which it proposed to release the foreigners who spent more than five years in the detention centres after obtaining their biometrics and a bond.

Heat wave, deficit rain in Northeast

Agartala/Guwahati, Apr 29 (IANS): The normal life in the northeastern region has been affected due to heat wave in several areas and deficit pre-monsoon rains, officials said on Monday.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature in several N-E states, especially Assam, Mizoram and Tripura, since the past one week is hovering between 35 degrees Celsius and 38 degrees Celsius -- two-five degrees above the normal for this time of the season.

The IMD, since March 1, also recorded 36 mm deficit pre-monsoon (March to May) rainfall in the seven N-E states, excluding Sikkim.

The Arunachal Pradesh meteorological sub-division recorded highest 47 mm deficient pre-

SHILLONG, April 29, (AGENCIES): Meghalaya NPP chief, Dr WR Kharlukhi on Monday exuded confidence that the NDA led by the BJP at the Centre will storm back to power even as he proclaimed that if a non-NDA government comes to power, then the NPP would prefer sitting in the Opposition bench.

“If a non-BJP government comes to power then we will have to play the role of opposition members…

We will see because we don’t know what type of government will be formed,” Dr Kharlukhi said. Talking to newsmen during a press meet at the NPP office in Shillong today, the NPP state president confidently stated the BJP-led NDA government will come back to power this year. Reacting to the recent visit of Chief

the cases.

Sources said that keeping these aspects in mind, the Government decided to increase the number of Tribunals to 1,000 so that the cases can be disposed of as quickly as possible. The State Government sought approval of the Centre for increasing the number of Tribunals and recently, the required approval has been received, sources added.

Sources admitted that it would not be possible to create 900 more Tribunals at one go and that is why, the plan is to increase the number in phased manner.

In the first phase, 200 new tribunals are planned to be established.

However, creation of infrastructure will take some time and finding adequate number of qualified persons to be appointed as members may also turn out to be a problem. Sources said that a person having a law degree and seven years of experience of law practice can be appointed as members of Foreigners Tribunals and official sources claimed that finding qualified persons should not be a

Guwahati, Apr 29 (Agencies): An employee of the Nagaon Paper Mill – who did not get his salary for past 27 months – allegedly committed suicide in the mill campus at Jagiroad in Morigaon district.

According to Northeast Now, police said the body of Biswajit Mazumdar, a 55year-old official of the distribution branch of the mill, was found inside a room by one of his colleagues in a half-decomposed state on Monday.

Police said he has been missing since Saturday and did not respond to the phone calls made by his family members and colleagues on his mobile.

His colleagues said he was keeping tense for the past few days as he did not get salary for the past 27 months. The body has been sent for post-mortem examination to Morigaon Civil Hospital after completion of legal formalities.

All the employees of Nagaon and Cachar Paper Mills, two units of state-owned Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) have not received their salaries for more than two years. The production of the mills has been suspended since 20016 because of bankruptcy. In December last year another employee of the mill, identified as Kathsingh Bordoloi, attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a mobile tower at Jagiroad.

Guwahati, Apr 29 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Monday directed the railway authorities to complete the repairing work of the old Saraighat bridge over river Brahmaputra in Guwahati within June 20.

Sonowal visited the work site and told the railway authorities to engage manpower in three shifts and complete casting work of the bridge within May 15.

“The Saraighat bridge is a lifeline in terms of connectivity for the people of north and south bank of river Brahmaputra”.

“It is very important to complete the repairing work at the earliest to ensure hassle free traffic movement for the people on both banks of the river,” Sonowal told to the railway officials at the site.

Sonowal fur ther directed that the repair works of the bridge be completed within June 20 instead of June 30 as fixed earlier by the railways and also to finish casting of the bridge within May 15 so that it could be reopened for vehicular movement on June 20.

Further, considering the amount of repair work to be executed, Sonowal advised the railways to engage manpower in three shifts ensuring round the clock work instead of the

southeast Bay of Bengal and is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday.

Agricultural officials in Assam, Mizoram and Tripura said various summer crops would be affected due to the deficit pre-monsoon rainfall. “If the rain does not occur in the next few days, the damage to the summer crops would be much larger,” agricultural expert Samar Mitra told IANS. The deficit in rainfall also resulted in water scarcity, including supply of drinking water.

Tr i p u r a D r i n k i n g Water and Sanitation Department Chief Engineer Baishapayan Chakraborty said the department had been providing drinking water through tankers in the scarcity-prone areas as well as remote, isolated hamlets and tribal areas.

present two shifts.

N-F Railway general manager Sanjive Roy informed the chief minister that it is for the first time a major repair of this scale has been taken up since the time of dedication of the bridge to the service of the people in 1963.

The railway officials assured the chief minister that the repair work would be completed within June 20 as directed by him.

Saraighat bridge is the first rail-cum-road bridge constructed over Brahmaputra river in Assam and it was built by NFR. A parallel new three-lane Saraighat bridge was inaugurated in 2017.

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May God bless you with all the most wonderful things that you deserve in life.

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FELICITATION THE ASUKHOMI UNION DIMAPUR WITH IMMENSE PRIDE AND HONOUR CONGRATULATES DR. HOKHETO KIBA, S/O LATE ZUHESHE KIBA ON HIS RECENT PROMOTION AS ADDL. DIRECTOR, (VETY. & A.H.) GOVT. OF NAGALAND. THE UNION CONVEYS WARM WISHES AND SUCCESS IN ALL HIS FUTURE ENDEAVOURS. DP-3188

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The Village Council held a meeting on 5th April 2019 at Community Hall and resolved the following. It further resolved to conduct surprise checking of all vehicles passing through Village area and if any one is caught carrying illegal liquor and drugs during checking will be confiscated and seizure of their possession and will be destroyed by the Village authority.

Mhabemo Enieo Chairman, TVC

Tachow Odyuo Head GB, TVC

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SC wants NRC final list to be out by July 31

Northeast M’laya launches milk mission

Arunachal pays homage to victims of Sri Lanka attack

Shillong, Apr 29 (PTI): The Meghalaya Cabinet Monday approved the proposal for creation of a new Directorate of Dairy Development in the state to increase milk production.

Home Minister James K Sangma said the state government had launched the Meghalaya Milk Mission and Rs 215 crore has been sanctioned.

“In view to really increase the milk production in the state, we have decided to approve the creation of a directorate of dairy development,” he said.

The state Cabinet has also approved a proposal for enhancing the grant-inaid to night and morning ad-hoc secondary schools in the state.

The Home Minister said the proposal to increase the grant-in-aid to 15 such schools has been approved. The minister also said the government has decided to have uniform rate in the grant-in-aid extended to such schools unlike earlier where different amount was given to different categories.

Itanagar, Apr 29 (Agencies): Expressing solidarity with the victims of the terrorist bomb attacks in Sri Lank on Easter Sunday, the Catholic community in Arunachal Pradesh conducted special prayer service across the State with candle light rally on April 28.

According to The Northeast Today, the Indian Catholic Church had dedicated the April 28, the second Sunday following Easter this year, which is also celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday, as a day of prayer and solidarity with the Church and the people of island nation.

The catholic people in Arunachal Pradesh made special prayer service during the Sunday Mass in the morning and Eucharistic Adoration and candle light rally in the evening.

Bishop George Pallipparambil sdb, the Bishop of Miao Diocese, expressed grief over the Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka.

“The sad news of the serial blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter morning is too painful and condemnable. Sri Lanka as a nation has suffered enough violence in the past. We of-

Slum dwellers sensitized on tobacco hazards

FCI trucks set on fire in Shillong

Guwahati, Apr 29 (Agencies): The Supreme Court (SC) has issued a directive that National Register of Citizens (NRC) staff in Assam assigned for election duties be redeployed back immediately for working specifically on the citizens’ register which should be published – by hook or by crook – by July 31, 2019.

According to Northeast Now, the top court warned that exemplary disciplinary action will be initiated against any officer of any rank found to be violating or ignoring or not giving adequate attention to any

NRC duty or any instruction issued regarding NRC works from the office of the registrar general or state coordinator.

In its order dated April 10, 2019, the apex court directed that once the elections are over in Assam, the NRC staff be immediately engaged back for the extensive citizen engaging exercise.

The top court also stated that the NRC staff shall be subjected to the administrative control of the registrar general of India and the state coordinator of NRC, Prateek Hajela.

The top court also stat-

ed that it needs to be ensured that officials deployed for NRC perform NRC works exclusively and not be burdened with other duties.

“Now that the Parliamentary elections are over in Assam, the focus of the entire field machinery should be brought back to NRC works to ensure publication of the final citizens’ register by July 31, 2019,” the Supreme Court directive stated.

The additional draft list should be published on June 15, 2019. The person concerned should be informed through an additional notice to be delivered at his/her residence.

The receipt of claims should be within June 30, 2019 and the disposal of such claims and the NRC final list should be out by July 31, 2019.

The apex court made it clear that the timeline stipulated by the court be strictly adhered to and as such, disposal of 4 (3) cases need to be started forthwith.

Children of the GMC slum area at Bhangagarh participating in an awareness programme on harmful effects of tobacco.

Guwahati, Apr 29 (Agencies): At least 70 children, their parents and friends from the GMC slum area at Bhangagarh in Guwahati were sensitized on Sunday about the harmful effects of tobacco.

The Consumers’ Legal Protection Forum (CLPF) and Consumer Voice, New Delhi organized an awareness programme at the GMC slum area at Bhangagarh.

The ‘awareness programme on the sensitization of harmful effects on tobacco and tobacco products’ was organized in association with CHAKSHU, stated a press communiqué.

Addressing the gathering, advocate Ajoy Hazarika, secretary of the Consumers’ Legal Protection Forum said, “An intensive

survey carried out in Guwahati shows that nearly half of the vendors around schools in the city sell tobacco products.”

Vendors make loose cigarettes and bidis available for their customers which help children to access the same at cheap price.

Multinational tobacco companies sell tobacco products around schools.

“Vendors display tobacco products in ways that are appealing to children and youth. Vendors advertise tobacco products around schools,” said Julie Kakati, founder of CHAKSHU. Kakati said: “Tobacco consumption rate in this dens slum is higher than the other areas of the Guwahati city. Consumption

of tobacco and tobacco products by the children is higher because these children are the most vulnerable to such threat mostly due to the environment they are dwelling with.”

Stating that all parents should aware about the harmful effects of tobacco and tobacco products on

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their children, Kakati said that lack of education and uplift of children in the slums is one of the root causes of this problem.

Snehanshu Singh from Consumer VOICE, Delhi told the gathering that the density of tobacco vendors in Guwahati is too high in both commercial and residential areas and there is no record available of tobacco vendors with the government agencies.

There was an interaction session where the parents of the tobacco used children raised various sensitive questions and urge to take tobacco control measures, especially to protect their young children from tobacco menace, the press communiqué further said.

Video clips about the bad effects of tobacco and tobacco products consumption were also demonstrated at the awareness programme, it added.

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S h i l lo n g, A p r 2 9 (PTI): Two Food Corporation of India (FCI) riceladen trucks were damaged when unidentified miscreants lobbed petrol bombs on Monday at the parking area of the depot at Mawroh, police said.

No one was injured in the early morning attack but the police have already launched an investigation into the incident, a senior district police officer told PTI. The trucks were parked outside the FCI depot along side other lorries when unidentified miscreants hurled suspected petrol bombs, they said.

The police officer said that the attack was carried out by a group of miscreants and all leads are being examined. Mondays incident took place a week after a security guard was allegedly murdered at the FCI depot at Byrnihat, along the AssamMeghalaya border.

People taking part in the candle light rally. (TNT) fer our condolences to the people of Sri Lanka. We assure our prayerful support to the church in Sri Lanka.

May the Lord of peace who defeated death itself help the people of Sri Lanka with hope and peace”, read a statement from the Bishop.

The youth around Miao held a rally at the local market place in Namphai in Changlang district.

“The news coming from Sri Lanka is very painful.

What should have been a joyful day turned into a day of mourning and pain for

our brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka”, said Nangtim Mossang, a youth leader from Miao.

“We have come together today to tell our suffering brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka that they are not alone in this time of great pain. Their agony is ours and we share their grief ”, said Mr. Tumen Wangrai, a local Catechist from Changlang district.

Around 200 people participated in the rally that began from the Grotto of Sacred Heart in the town

and concluded at the town’s Government Higher Secondary School.

The rally, which was preceded by Eucharistic Adoration, saw the participation of people from all faith background. The small community of Muslims living in the area and a large number of Hindus too were present.

Similar rallies were held at Tezu in Lohit district and Pongchao in Longding district of east Arunachal Pradesh.

A string of suicide bomb attacks hit three churches during Easter Sunday morning service in Sri Lanka. Three luxury hotels packed with tourists were also attacked.

Two of the places of worship were Catholic churches: St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo and St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo. Another blast at the Evangelical Zion Church in the eastern coastal city of Batticaloa also claimed numerous lives.

On Wednesday, three days after the attacks in Sri Lanka, the death toll climbed to 359 with more than 500 injured.

Court sends journalist to 3-day police custody over alleged defamatory post Agartala, Apr 29 (PTI): A local court on Monday remanded a journalist, arrested on defamation and other charges for sharing and commenting on a Facebook post related to Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb and his wife, to three days police custody.

West Tripura Chief Judicial Magistrate Sarmistha Mukherjee remanded freelance journalist Saikat Talapatra to police custody for three days. The investigating official had sought his custody for five days.

A group of people threw eggs and shoes at Talapatra while he was being produced in the court.

“He was charged with

criminal conspiracy and defamation. He was also booked under provisions of the Information Technology Act,” Public Prosecutor in-charge Bidyut Sutradhar told reporters.

Talapatra, who had earlier worked with several TV channels, will be produced before the court again on May 1.

His counsel Purusuttom Roy Barman said, “I am surprised that he was sent to police custody.

There is actually no case against him,” he said.

Tripura Human Rights Organisation executive member Kaushik Nath told reporters that the security personnel have “failed” to protect an accused inside a court, after the crowd threw eggs and shoes at the jour-

nalist . “We condemn the attack on Saikat Talapatra inside the court. He is still an accused and the court is yet to pronounce him guilty. The attack on him inside the court complex is illegal,” Nath said.

Talapatra was arrested on Sunday from the Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Airport here.

A police constable was also arrested for sharing the same Facebook post, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Puneet Rastogi had said on Sunday. The constable has secured bail from a North Tripura district. The two were arrested for sharing the Facebook post by one Anupam Paul, against whom a case has already been registered.

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nother bird bites the dust when Jet Airways, the country’s second largest airlines flew its last flight on April 17. The halt in operations of the airlines that had a meteoric rise also brings its founder and billionaire Naresh Goyal to join the company of Kingfisher founder Vijay Mallya. Both entrepreneurs are today known as Kings of Bad Times because their airlines have gone bankrupt and in deep debts. The future of Jet Airways remains unclear as of now as it is debt-laden with thousands of crores of owed and lenders expressing reluctance in offering short-term bailout measures despite PM Modi calling for the same. The crash became a reality when founder Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal stepped down from the board of directors.

Jet owes lessors Rs 8414 crores and currently has a negative net worth of Rs 7242 crores. The airlines hasn’t been paying salaries of its employees for months. Due to the severe cash crunch, Jet has been defaulting on salaries for senior management, pilots and engineers since August 2018. This has led to some 150 senior commanders and 110 commanders and co-pilots opting to move out to join other airlines and spelling the doom of the debt-laden airlines. But Jet wasn’t always in such bad shape.

Jet Airways saw its fortunes rise steadily during the UPA regime when it became known as the market leader and was also touted to be the undisputed king of aviation. According to media reports then, this had to do to do with former civil aviation minister Praful Patel’s backing. In fact, allegations against Patel was also captured in the infamous Radia tapes where former JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP called Patel ‘a Minister For Naresh Goyal’. Published by the Outlook magazine, the purported conversation between lobbyist Niira Radia and Singh was scathing on Patel. It was also reported that during Patel’s tenure as Civil Aviation Minister, the national domestic carrier –then Indian Airlines- which was the market leader with 42% share went down to be No.5 behind Jet Airways, Kingfishers, IndiGo and SpiceJet. According to India Today, Air India also saw its fate sealed when in 2004, a board meeting chaired

by Patel suddenly inflated the order of new aircraft from 28 to 68 without revenue plan or even routemap for deploying such a huge number of aircraft.

The favoured private airlines- Jet Airways lived up to the saying “the higher you go the harder you fall.”

With around 20,000 employees now left in the lurch and financial lenders quite unwilling to infuse capital for an airlines company which has crash landed, the future seems bleak at this stage for Jet Airways, which enjoyed patronage during the UPA regime.

The government has to set its mind in probing the issue of how Air India was sacrificed to benefit private players so that remedial measures are taken.

Also, the government has to probe the causes and factors on why private airlines- Kingfisher and Jet Airways- have crash landed and leaving thousands of employees who have not been paid salaries for months without any hope. India’s civil aviation laws need to be revisited to curb the unchecked powers of mantris and their babus from destroying India’s aviation industry.

DailyDevotion Gracious Uncertainty …it has not yet been revealed what we shall be…

—1 John 3:2 Our natural inclination is to be so precise– trying always to forecast accurately what will happen next– that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We think that we must reach some predetermined goal, but that is not the nature of the spiritual life. The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

Consequently, we do not put down roots. Our common sense says, “Well, what if I were in that circumstance?”

We cannot presume to see ourselves in any circumstance in which we have never been.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life– gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. This is generally expressed with a sigh of sadness, but it should be an expression of breathless expectation. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises. When we become simply a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies.

That is not believing God– it is only believing our belief about Him. Jesus said, “…unless you…become as little children…” (Matthew 18:3). The spiritual life is the life of a child. We are not uncertain of God, just uncertain of what He is going to do next. If our certainty is only in our beliefs, we develop a sense of self-righteousness, become overly critical, and are limited by the view that our beliefs are complete and settled. But when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy. Jesus said, “…believe also in Me” (John 14:1), not, “Believe certain things about Me”.

Leave everything to Him and it will be gloriously and graciously uncertain how He will come in– but you can be certain that He will come. Remain faithful to Him.

Quotes

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Confucius

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hat is the difference between you and an ant?

From war making to making slaves, from inventing medicines to farming, they do it much like humans, only better. * In every dense community, human, mammal or insect, sanitation is a problem. Of all the creatures that inhabit the earth, man is probably the dirtiest, spreading his poisonous faeces everywhere and caring little about its pollutive effects. Lasius niger ants live in nests and they use the corner of their nests as common toilets, according to the journal PLOS ONE by the University of Regensburg, Germany. Ants normally keep a very clean nest, and usually throw out dangerous rubbish, like food remains and dead bodies.

This piled-up dry waste is kept for defence, as building materials, and as manure for their crops. * Lasius neglectus workers tear apart and spray acid on pupae in order to disinfect the nest.

If pupae are found to carry an ant killing fungus in their bodies they are killed and eviscerated .

How do they know which juveniles to kill, while the fungal infection was still in its incubation period before it had become visible or contagious? Believe it or not, according to researchers from the

Institute of Science and Technology, Austria, the pupa itself communicates a find me/eat me signal, the ultimate altruistic act to save the colony. * Diseases can spread quickly among dense populations of organisms, whether they’re people living in crowded cities or groups of social insects such as ant colonies. When humans are infected with a pathogen, the immune system churns out proteins, called antibodies, that rally to the body’s defence. Some ant species use antimicrobials — chemical compounds that kill pathogens — to stop disease, according to a study at North Carolina State University published in RSOS. These antimicrobial compounds are applied by the ants to their own bodies, to those of their nest mates, and to their nests.

These compounds may be acquired from antimicrobial bacteria; for example, leafcutter ants cultivate bacteria on their bodies that protect them against infection from parasites that feed on the fungus they grow as food.

Other ant species harvest the ingredients from tree resin. These microbials are shared among the colony. * Ants have all kinds of different weapons. Often, ants will cooperate to pin down members of

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Much like humans the other colonies, or cut them to pieces while the enemy is being held down.

Ants are really quite nasty.

Other ants have glands in the head, or abdomen, that exude toxic chemicals to confuse their enemies.

Their tactics range from physical fighting to chemical warfare, just like it does in humans.

Their wars are large scale, intense, tactical.

Mark Moffett’s book, Adventures Among Ants, documents barbaric and bizarre combat strategies – the same as human ones.

130 army ant species operate like Roman armies. Moving as a massive, united front, they depend entirely on the element of surprise to overwhelm the enemy.

Once the food in the new territory has been eaten the army moves on.

As in human armies, which place the young and inexperienced as foot soldiers or infantry in front, ants also assign the smallest, weakest, older ants and the cripples on the

front lines. In effect, the expendables. The actual fighters are behind the lines waiting for the enemy to get tired and reduce in ranks while fighting the cheap labour. Then the large sized, mega-jawed killers move in and bite the enemy to death.

And, while ants will readily die for their community, they’re also pragmatic.

“An ant would never go out of its way to save another ant,” Moffett says.

“They go in to get the job done, not take care of one another.” * Slave-maker ants attack other ant colonies, captures their eggs and larvae, bring them back to their own nests and raise them as slaves to increase the worker force of their colony. After emerging in the slave-maker nest, slave workers work as if they were in their own colony, while the slavemakers only concentrate on replenishing the labour force from neighbouring nests. A colony may capture 14,000 pupae in

Post-mortem

Serpents are farmers’ companion

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he bridge goes across the river Brahmaputra.

Yes, it’s at Saraighat, one could stop awhile and it’s possible to have a bird’seye view over the island. It is Majali (middle size), another remote and remarkable inhabited River Island. Stopovers at chapari (island) during winter were exquisitely beautiful childhood memories as we grew up.

Plucking seeds of Pea from uncle’s farm were ecstatic reminiscence. It’s as unknown and yet well known for vegetables and this tiny chapari has always been a lifeline for localities. However the written name is Rani Chapari (high land form by river sand for temporary cultivation), that encompass an area of about 5,000 hectares extending 6 km. About 3,000 people from nearby villages are dependent on agricultural activities in a land mass in the midst of the river.

This fertile land does not have a permanent bank line but the impact of it on the socio economic life of those graziers is enormous.

The farmers go across the river during a day. Drinking water is a scarcity. Also it is often a risk by rowing half a kilometre on unsafe country boat. Some have makeshift agricultural dwelling in high land areas.

Agriculturalists live with snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles and tortoises. There were instance of threats to snakes at farming. Myths and tales are retracted and retold over the origin of a festival.

Farmers started offering Puja to Maa Manasa (Serpent God) since 1959. The island gets submerged and faced mayhem in rainy season. Farmers desert the island during flood and erosion. Late 60s the Puja was finally moved out to the current location of Rani Chapari Shree Shree Manasa Mandir at Bhattapara-Garal (Dharapur-Palasbari Road).

Rani Chapari has also its own historical evidence.

Rani was an independent territory during pre-British time stretching Jalukbari to Palashbari and from Rani Chapari to Khasi/Garo hills.

These people originally from Yunnan province (ChinaMyanmar) might have crossed the Patkai Hills and reached the Brahmaputra valley. The Mong Mao prince Chao-lung Sukaphaa settled his journey

with about 9000 followers at Sibasagar. Another group might have settled in undivided Assam-Meghalaya.

Since our forefathers names were like Chathura-Mathura (thura means brave, gallant in Burma), Naomon (mong mao prince Chao-lung Sukaphaa), Sansing (Aung San – Burmese leader). Ahom King Gadadhar Singha made a Garo queen of the state Rani.

The queen helped him during political disputes among Ahom royal families. Patgaon was the capital then.

During British rule, Rani was divided into three mouzas viz Dakhin Rani, Chayani and Ramsarani for collection of tax. Dhopartal haat at near the bank of the river Dharapur was the marketing hub for its produces (mostly vegetables).

The frequent flood have significantly caused the cultivate land unusable with loss of human and animal life to this chapari.

Thousands of families are living in poverty despite being surplus production. Produces are sold at throw away price.

MSP and facilities of cold storage are a mirage for those sons of the soil. The island has no access to electricity and water.

The advent of mechanised agriculture, agricultural machinery is an indispensable part and people desire power tools to tractor to carry out agricultural production with better connectivity from the mainland. However migrant labours from Dhuburi are put to work in the field.

Rani Chapari Manasa Puja completed 60 years and is celebrating Diamond Jubilee. It’s being observed on Naag Panchami (fifth day of bright half of lunar month of Shravan) day. Owing to flood season, people celebrate puja in April-May with great enthuses. It’s being worshiped for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and prosperity. Oja-pali, a musical folk theatre consisting of one Oja, one daina (right side) pali and three/ four palies playing cymbal is believed to be one of the oldest performance art forms of Assam.

The stories of Padma Purana, the serpent goddess of Manasa are recited during puja. It believed that Shankardeva took the inspiration from Ojapali to create his

Ankiya Bhaona. Also beating on big drum by a short and flabby person rhythm with big cymbals is indeed a joy to watch.

The temple has attracted the wrath of people for patronizing animal sacrifice. But it’s a debate to live up to that expectation as there is Section 428 (killing or maiming animal) in the IPC. But prevention of cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 does not prohibit animal sacrifice at religious places.

The God-fearing people are deeply religious and moralistic and still have faith to supernatural beings of Snake God in this age. There’re narratives of shocking snake bite survival tales that happened in the past. The myth is widely believed by the entire community. The recital of Chando Sadagar and Beola-Lakhinder (historical Mer Ghar at Chandika near Chaygoan) were traditional concerning the early history of social phenomenon. This year, Puja is being celebrated on 24-28 April. The Mandir has remained an important role in keeping the people united.

However, snakes are still feared by most and they are not always appreciated. But snakes form a key link in the food chain. They help maintain a healthy ecosystem and environment. Amphibians (frog) eat pest insects, benefiting successful agriculture around the world and minimizing the spread of diseases, including malaria. Frogs are also an important food source for birds and snake species.

Thus it helps the ecological balance in nature. Interestingly, snakes don’t just act as predators.

Lizards, dogs, cats, bird species (herons and raptors) feed on snakes. We need a healthy ecosystem and environment for our world to be functional. And by religious preaching, people unknowingly support this really amazing and simply awesome species for conserving incredible wildlife. When river water recedes, young entrepreneurs got inspired to discover those stranded/uninhabited islands into a River land Tourism.

Despite all a harmonious coexistence is doable between farmer and serpent at RaniChapari.

Kamal Baruah, (kamal.baruah@yahoo.com)

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a single season. Most slave-raiders capture only the young, but Strongylognathus ants also enslave adult workers.

Workers that emerge from eggs in the slavemakers’ nest will rear the brood, feed and groom the workers, defend the nest against aliens, and even participate in raids, including those against their original colony.

In some cases, the enslaved ants rebel against their slave-maker ants, killing a large number of the slave-maker ant offspring. Thus, the slave ants protect their native colonies from further raids by slave-maker ants. * Unlike in other ant colonies, all dinosaur ants are able to reproduce.

However, there’s still a single queen, surrounded by beta females. If any of the queen’s servants becomes greedy for power and decides to lay eggs and be the new queen, it’s subdued by the rest of the courtiers and pinned to the ground for up to four days until the urge subsides. * Dracula ants are the fastest animals on earth. One species, Mystrium camillae, has a pair of mandibles that snap at 90 metres a second or 320 kilometres an hour, according to a study in Royal Society of Open Science. That’s 5,000 times faster than you can blink

your eye and 1,000 times faster than you can snap your fingers. Their name derives from their cannibalistic feeding habits, As adult ants are unable to process solid food, they feed prey like paralysed termites or centipedes to their larvae and then chew holes in their larvae and drink their blood. * We av e r a n t s , Oecophylla smaragdina, build homes out of tree leaves. Their larvae produce a thin silk which acts as the glue that sticks the leaves together. * Allomer us decemarticulatus ants of South America make tiny holes in a plant stem, hide and cover themselves with a fungus they produce themselves. When an unsuspecting insect lands on a stem full of those trap holes, the ants jump up and catch it with their mandibles. Then, they slowly drag the captive to a leaf pouch and tear it apart. * Leafcutter ants are fulltime farmers. They cut out fresh leaves with their sharp mandibles and bring them to their nests to feed a particular type of bacteria that lives with the ants. That bacteria develops into fungi to become the food source for the ants. To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in, www.peopleforanimalsindia.org

The Smoker

t was a hot summer season in the year of 2012. I was in my office, busy disposing of some files. Then, I felt the need for eating something to quell the hunger which had been at work for some time in the inner bowels of my abdomen. Obviously, there was reason for feeling hungry. I had not taken my breakfast as I had to leave home a bit early. I felt summoning the peon to buy something but I myself preferred to go down to have snacks from the ground floor where different kinds of stalls were working 24 hours a day. Ours is a major bus station in the state, and so, foods would be available at all time. As it was well past 11.am, I decided to have brunch.

As soon as I reached downstairs, I was accosted by a foreigner. Instantly, I could remember him. His name was Collin Frey from Dover in England. He came to my office the previous day for claiming his digital camera which he had lost during his journey in a KSRTC bus. Fortunately, the conductor had found the camera inside the bus itself, and so he had entrusted it with the office of the KSRTC. Next morning, Collin came to the office inquiring about the camera, and as it had been entrusted with the office, there were some formalities to be completed by him to retrieve his lost property. As he was in a helpless situation, I helped him as much as possible. So Collin recalled me the moment he saw me.

The young chap was on the last leg of his itinerary in Kerala.

He had been waiting for the Munnar bound bus at the station. Still, some 30 minutes left for the bus to arrive. In fact, it was at this time I was passing by him. Then, we exchanged pleasantries and talked

about his journey.

In the meanwhile, he took out a pouch from his rucksack and a rectangular white paper as much as the size of rolling paper of tobacco of a cigarette from his pocket. Out of curiosity, I was watching all this without blinking my eyes. He was preparing a cigarette for himself. The tobacco he used was a finer one from Switzerland. Breaking the silence that prevailed for some time I said, “So you’re a smoker.” “You want to smoke one?” he asked extending the tobacco pouch and the paper to me. “Thanks. But I don’t smoke.” I replied.

Now I wanted to tell the bad effects of tobacco use though I might not wean Collin away from it. Still, in a polite way I said, “Will you be offended if I ask you not to smoke.” I showed him the warning on the pouch of tobacco corroborating my view.

Paying scant attention to what I said, he smoked deeply pumping the whole burnt tobacco smoke in to every cell of his chest. A sense of complacency could be seen on his face. “Do you booze?” Collin asked looking at me intently.

“No. I’m absolutely a teetotaler.”

“Then, what else do you do for enjoyment?” he quipped. Not being baffled at the witty question, I sincerely told him that my enjoyment and passion was Jesus Christ. The mission of every Christian is to make known and preach the Kingdom of God. So, I wanted to preach about Jesus Christ who died for every one of us on the cross for our sins.

But at this very moment, the Munnar bound bus arrived, and Collin rushed to the bus saying goodbye.

T K Nandanan, Thevara, Kochi, (nanduthejus@gmail.com)

Reader’s Post

Note on ‘The Naga Saga’ Sir,

I have read your book “The Naga Saga” and at the completion of the book, I have mixed feelings.

Your philosophical presentation is great and your narrations have great sense of bringing back the glory and agony days of the past. But what I noticed is, in such a high profile book, you lack inclusiveness or may be proper research. Your way of mentioning names, incidents and instances are too limited to your own clan, village and region!

I believe absence of atrocity reports or intentional limitation shouldn’t project one suffer less but pray that you will be more inclusive in the new editions. KUKNALIM. Khumong Lam, Pathso Nokeng Village, (khumong.t.khiam@gmail.com)

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Modi’s remark on TMC MLAs spark row

Sreerampur (WB)/ Ko l k ata , A p r 2 9 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday sparked off a major row in West Bengal with his warning to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that her MLAs will abandon her after the results of the Lok Sabha polls come out and 40 of them were already in touch with him.

Re a c t i n g a n g r i ly, the Trinamool Congress charged him with horsetrading, but BJP leaders backed Modi’s statement, saying the state’s ruling party would collapse once the results of the sevenphase polls are declared.

“When the lotus will bloom all over Bengal after May 23, Didi (Banerjee), you will see that your MLAs will also abandon you and run away. Forty of your MLAs are in touch with me even today,” Modi

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told an election rally in Hooghly district.

“It will be tough for you to save yourself. You have cheated the people of Bengal,” he said. Trinamool spokesman and Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien said his party would move the Election Commission charging Modi with horse trading.

However, he also rubbished Modi’s statement, claiming nobody will go with him.

CSU protest against teachers’ shortage (From p-1) The union expressed concern that the school could stop functioning by next year if all the vacant posts were not occupied immediately.

CSU has urged the responsible authority to take appropriate measures at the earliest for the welfare of the students and the school as a whole.

Failing to comply with its appeal within two months, the CSU has warned that it would take own course of action.

Meanwhile, CSU has also urged the district school education department to release the text books to the schools at the earliest as quarterly examination was approaching.

NNC/GDRN (NA) reacts to NSCN (I-M)’s claim

(From p-1) struggle for self determination is well regarded by every Naga, whether living at home or abroad.

NNC/GDRN (NA) maintained that it would neither subjugate any Naga national political group nor destroy the Naga national fabric but that as a genuine people-based movement for the Naga cause, it would stand for the people until the legitimate right of Nagas was fully accepted by the Indian government. This was because it is the question of “Indo-Naga” conflict and not of national political groups of Nagas.

NNC/GDRN(NA) said its sincere foundation will not be allowed to be sabotaged by any of its members who had defected to NSCN (I-M) nor permitted to change by arrogance of external power. However, being people’s government, the organisation will evolve in line with the rest of the Naga political groups for the Naga political cause, the statement added.

“Expiry Babu PM, let’s get this straight. Nobody will go with you. Not even one councillor. Are you election campaigning or horse trading! Your expiry date is near. Today, we are complaining to the Election Commission.

Charging you with horse trading,” he tweeted.

But BJP National Secretary Rahul Sinha endorsed Modi’s comments and said many of the Trinamool leaders as well as senior state and police officers are in touch with his party.

“Also a number of senior state officers and police officers who are now forced to work for the state’s ruling regime are also calling us and saying that they are forced to do so to protect their jobs.

Things will change after the poll result,” he added. BJP state Secretary Ritesh Ti-

wari seconded Sinha. “The BJP will win a majority of the 42 seats. And once the elections are announced, the Trinamool government will go, as the party will collapse like a packet of cards. There are some good people in Trinamool. They will join us. The good persons among their MLAs will also cross over to our side,” Tiwari told IANS. Trinamool legislator Arjun Singh, who joined the BJP and is now the saffron party’s candidate from Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency, said a month back that 100 legislators from the ruling party would join the BJP “soon”.

The four-time legislator from Bhatpara told media persons on March 27 that some of the lawmakers would come to the saffron party’s fold before the coming general elections, while theothers

would cross over after the polls. He said the legislators were keeping regular contact with the BJP leaders. Left Front legislature party leader and CPI-M state secretariat member Sujan Chakraborty accused the Prime Minister of resorting to horse-trading, but also said Banerjee is being given a dose of her own medicine.

“It is clear-cut horse trading. It shows the Prime Minister does not have faith in democracy and people’s opinion. He is talking about stealing away leaders from the opposition party. “Mamata Banerjee resorted to the same tactics earlier. She wooed away leaders from other parties. Now she is being paid back in her own coin. Modi and Mamata are complementing each other,” Chakraborty told IANS.

France to now recognise four Indian academic qualifications New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): Four Indian academic qualifications— Senior School Certificate (SSC), Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and PhDs— from government-approved institutions will now be recognised by the French government with effect from May 1.

Similarly, the French equivalents of these qualifications will be recognised by the Indian government.

This has been made possible by an agreement between France and India for the Mutual Recognition of Academic Qualifications signed during President Emmanuel Macron’s maiden State visit to India last year.

The agreement, which will come into force from May 1, was inked on March 10 last year during the India-France Knowledge Summit, the first highlevel summit for university, scientific and technological cooperation held by the two countries, a statement by the French Embassy here said on Monday.

It is the first such intergovernmental agreement that India has entered into.

As per the agreement, the educational qualifications from India (from government-approved institutions) which are now recognised by the French government are All India Senior School Certificate

Examination (AISSCE) (CBSE, state boards, preuniversity (PU) or any equivalent qualification recognised by the Government of India), Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and Ph.D, the statement said.

The educational qualifications, recognised by the French Ministry of Higher Education and which will now be recognised by the Indian government, are Baccalaureat (equivalent to AISSCE), License(equivalent to Bachelor’s in India), Master’s and Master’s level qualifications (equivalent to Master’s in India) and Doctorat (equivalent to Ph.D. in India).

New Delhi, Apr 29 (AGENCIES): The Union government on Monday made a mention before Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi seeking time to file its response to the Rafale review petitions.

Senior advocate R. Balasubramanium, for the government, sought permission to circulate a letter for additional time to file a reply. He sought a deferment of the hearing scheduled for April 30. A contempt petition filed by BJP lawmaker Meenakshi Lekhi is listed for hearing along with the review petitions.

The court allowed the government to circulate the letter but did not comment on an adjournment.

On April 10, a Bench led by the CJI refused the government’s preliminary plea to keep the Rafale

were found to be germane to the Rafale case, and dismiss the review pleas at the preliminary stage.

The court, however, rubbished the government’s claim of privilege. It said neither the OSA nor any other law empowered the government to stop the media from publishing the documents nor the court from examining them.

Besides, Chief Justice Gogoi, in the main opinion, said that claiming privilege over the documents was an “exercise in utter futility”.

They were already within the reach and knowledge of the entire citizenry. This being the scenario, there was no reason for the Supreme Court to stop itself from “reading and considering the documents or from shutting out its evidentiary worth and value”.

AR accuses UPA’s silence on 26/11 attack still hurts: Gambhir NSCN (I-M) of New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): Cricketer-turnedpolitician Gautam Gambhir, who is contesting as the BJP candidate from East Delhi, on Monday took a swipe at the previous Congressled UPA government over its silence after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack saying it still hurts him.

Addressing a Yuva Sansad in the Ghazipur area of his constituency, Gambhir said: “After the Pulwama terror attack, we did not hesitate in taking a strong and bold decision while the silence of the Congress-led government after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack still hurts.” He referred to the air strike carried out by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on

February 26 across the border in Pakistan targeting the terror camps.

The Narendra Modiled government is working to ensure India becomes a strong nation, he added.

Gambhir held ‘padyatras’ in Khizrabad and addressed meetings in Bhogal, Siddharth Nagar and Daryaganj as part of his voter outreach programme.

He also said his family has been living in Delhi for the last four decades and he has love and affection for the city.

He said that his priorities will be to get a Delhi University campus for east Delhi and re-development of the Yamuna Sports Complex among other things.

violating CFGR

(From p-1) PRO said villagers who were again sent towards the camp on Monday met David Rambo of NSCN (I-M), who is awaiting instructions from Hebron.

Alleging that despite extreme restraint shown by troops, no action has been taken by NSCN (I-M) to vacate the “unauthorised camp”, the defence PRO said this is a serious violation of ceasefire ground rules by the organisation.

The onus for further escalation rests with NSCN (I-M) hierarchy, if the unauthorised camp is not vacated immediately, he cautioned.

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jets’ purchase documents a secret. The court said the documents published first

by The Hindu in a series of articles since February last would be considered while examining the merits of the five separate review petitions against its December 14 judegment upholding the 36 jets’ deal.

The government had claimed that the review applications were based on secret Rafale documents unauthorisedly removed from the Ministry of Defence and leaked to the media. Attorney General K.K. Venugopal argued that “stolen” documents came under the protection of the Official Secrets Act (OSA).

They were not admissible in evidence in a court of law.

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lection accounts (which are used for holding sale proceeds and other receipts) with other banks so that the consortium leader cannot impound the fund or push the borrower to fork out interest on loans. This is particularly true for stressed accounts...,” a senior banker told ET. However, once the proposed regulation is executed, many midsized and smaller banks, which do not lead consortia, fear a dip in CASA (current and saving accounts) numbers that enable banks to lower cost of fund.

“On one hand RBI wants discipline in opening current accounts. On the other hand, a low CASA often does not go well with the regulator which occasionally points this out in the course of inspection,” said another banker.

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According to Economic Times, current accounts, according to a draft circular shared by the regulator with the banking industry, can “only be opened” with the lead bank in a lending consortium while other banks having collection accounts will have to transfer funds at the end of the day to the current account with the consortium leader.

RBI has suggested that the rule would apply to accounts of corporates which have borrowed and availed credit facilities of Rs 50 crore or more from the banking system.

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questioned.

His latest Twitter statements echo some of his previous social media interventions on the issue, claiming that his offer to pay back the debt owed by his nowdefunct airline had been rebuffed by the banks and the Indian government.

“Watched TV debate on the sad collapse of Jet which included unpaid employees and Industry veterans. Important issues on unemployment and suffering, security available to banks, prospects of revival etc. Here I am offering 100% payback of KFA loans which banks won’t take.

Why?” he said.

Mallya, who remains on bail on an extradition

sive discussion with various employee groups across the company and also with colleagues who have in the past successfully held senior management positions. “We recognize that legacy issues of high operating costs, overstaffing, unfavourable vendor/lease agreements and adverse debt/equity ratio are involved,” the proposal letter said. The associations have also urged the lenders to ensure the process of deregistration of aircraft and re-allocation of airport slots be immediately reversed. “... if not reversed quickly, (it) would spell doom for any future prospects of reviving the company,” the associations warned.

Lenders of Jet Airways led by SBI are currently in the process of selling the airline to recover their dues of over Rs 8,400 crore. SBI Caps, the merchant banking arm of SBI, is short-listing the investors for submitting the financial proposal by April-end. Private equity firm TPG Capital, Indigo Partners, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and Etihad Airways are in the race to buy a stake in the grounded airline.

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warrant executed by Scotland Yard in April 2017, is undergoing a UK high court appeals process against his extradition order signed off by UK home secretary Sajid Javid in February. He has been allocated July 2 as the date for a brief hearing to convince a high court judge that he should be given permission to proceed to a full-blown appeal against Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruling last December in favour of his extradition to India.

The judge had concluded there was “clear evidence of dispersal and misapplication of the loan funds” and accepted a prima facie case of fraud and a conspiracy to launder money against Mallya, as presented by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on behalf of the Indian authorities.

Meanwhile, the businessman also faces a flurry of other legal cases in UK courts related to a worldwide freezing order and a threat of foreclosure of one of his homes in central London.

New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): Sensing that the options to revive the grounded Jet Airways are fast running out, a group of airline employees has written to SBI seeking permission to allow a consortium of employees and external investors to bid for the company’s management control.

The employee representatives have said they will secure an investment of up to Rs 3,000 crore from “outside investors”.

The associations that have sent the proposal are the Society for Welfare of Indian Pilots (SWIP) and the Jet Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Welfare Association (JAMEWA).

The associations have promised that employees would contribute towards revival of the airline from their future earnings and increased productivity.

“As per our initial estimate, the contribution of employee group over a hypothetical 5-year Employee Stock Ownership Programme (ESOP) is likely to be upward of Rs 4,000 crore,” a joint letter to the SBI Chairman stated. They said that the decision had been taken through exten-

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LONDON, Apr 29 (PTI): Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya took to social media on Monday to lament the collapse of Jet Airways and repeated his offer of a “100 per cent payback” for state-owned Indian banks to cover his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines’ debt.

The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) boss is currently appealing against his extradition order from the UK to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an alleged Rs 9,000 crores.

Mallya drew parallels between the plight of his collapsed airline and that of Jet Airways, India’s leading private airline which grounded to a halt earlier this month amid a mounting cash crunch. “Several Indian airlines collapsed sadly including KFA. Now, the previously unthinkable has happened with the collapse of Jet,” Mallya said on Twitter on Monday.

“Genuine business failures. But I am criminally charged by CBI/ED despite offering 100% payback.

Wonder why only me,” he

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Face veil banned in Sri Lanka

C O LO M B O, A P R 2 9 (PTI): Muslim women in Sri Lanka will not be allowed to wear any form of face veils in public from Monday under new regulations announced by President Maithripala Sirisena who used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings.

The new regulation banning any form of face covering was announced by the President on Sunday, a week after the coordinated blasts hit three churches and three luxury hotels, killing over 250 people and injuring more than 500 others.

It specifically mentions “any face garment which hinders identification”.

“The ban is to ensure national security... No one should obscure their faces to make identification difficult,” Sirisena’s office said in a statement.

He took steps under the emergency regulation to prohibit the use of face coverings of all sorts which is an obstacle to ensure the identity of the people and a threat to national and public

Sri Lanka bans face veils after attacks by Islamist militants.

security.

The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face.

The President has taken this decision to establish a peaceful and cohesive society which does not inconvenience any community people as well as ensure national security.

The presidential communiqué, however, makes no mention of niqab and burqa. The government was contemplating the move to ban both niqab and burka.

They sought cooperation from the Muslim clerics some of whom issued statements that both must be refrained from wearing in view of the current volatile security situation.

“We have permitted people to leave their homes with faces uncovered as means to cooperate with the security forces,” Fazil Farook, a spokesman for Jamiyyathul Ulema, or the Muslim theologists body, said. There has been a public demand to ban the niqab and burka following the bomb attacks.

Hijab, niqab, burka are different kinds of coverings worn by Muslim women all over the world.

Hijab covers the head and neck but leaves the face clear. Niqab is a veil for the face that leaves the area around the eyes clear and burka is one-piece veil that covers the entire face, leaving just a net screen to see through.

Muslims account for 10 per cent of the population and are the second-largest minority after Hindus.

Around seven per cent of Sri Lankans are Christians.

Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and three luxury hotels on the Easter Sunday, killing 253 people. It was reported that at least three women suicide bombers had been involved.

The Islamic State claimed the attacks, but the government has blamed local Islamist extremist group National Thowheeth Jamaath (NTJ) for the attacks.

Pak to bring madrassas under govt control ISLAMABAD, APR 29 (AGENCIES): Pakistan’s military spokesman says authorities plan to bring over 30,000 religious schools under government control as part of their campaign against extremism, reports AP. Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor says millions of students in the seminaries currently only get religious education but once the schools are mainstreamed, they’ll also be able to receive a contemporary education.

Ghafoor spoke at a press conference in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday.

He also said once the madrassas — some of which are considered hotbeds of radicalism — are brought under government control, 25 million Pakistani children now out of school could be enrolled in the seminaries.

There was no immediate reaction from the seminaries, which are linked to various Pakistani religious groups and which have resisted any form of government control in the past.

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Jihadists attack Burkina church; kill pastor, four others

OUAGADOUGOU, APR 29 (AFP): Gunmen killed four worshippers and a pastor in the first jihadist attack on a church in Burkina Faso, security and local sources said Monday.

Sunday’s attack took place in the small northern town of Silgadji near Djibo, the capital of Soum prov-

ince, and two others were reported missing.

“Unidentified armed individuals have attacked the Protestant church in Silgadji, killing four members of the congregation and the main pastor,” a security source told AFP. “At least two other people are missing,” the

source added.

It was the first attack on a church since jihadist violence erupted in the west African nation. Muslim clerics and imams have been targeted as well.

“The attack happened around 1:00 pm, just as the faithful were leaving the church at the end of the service,” a member of the church who did not want to be identified told AFP. “The attackers were on motorbikes. They fired in the air before aiming at the members of the congregation,” the witness added.

Burkina Faso has suffered from increasingly frequent and deadly attacks attributed to a number of jihadist groups, including the Ansarul Islam group, the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.

The attacks started in the north of the country before targetting the capital Ouagadougou and other regions, notably the east of the country.

3,000 kg garbage collected from Mt Everest Prez suspends defiant Lankan police chief over blasts

KATHMANDU, APR 29 (IANS): A total of 3,000 kg of solid waste has been collected from the Mt Everest region since the beginning of the Nepal governmentbacked Sagarmatha Cleaning Campaign on April 14, the media reported on Monday.

Dandu Raj Ghimire, Director General of Department of Tourism, informed that of the total garbage collected so far, 2,000 kg has been sent to Okhaldhunga while 1,000 kg has been brought to Kathmandu using Nepali Army helicopters for dis-

posal, reports The Himalayan Times.

“Our team has now reached the Everest Base Camp for the cleaning campaign. All the necessary things including food, water and shelter have already been arranged there,” Ghimire said.

The Department estimates that around 23 million Nepalese rupees will be spent for the campaign.

“Under this campaign we will be collecting around 5,000 kg of garbage from the Base Camp area, while 2,000 kg of garbage will be collected from the South

Col region and around 3,000 kg from Camp II and Camp III areas,” Ghimire added.

The team also located four bodies while cleaning the Base Camp.

This is the first time that the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Environment, Nepali Army, Nepal Mountaineering Association, Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality and Nepal Tourism Board are working jointly to clean up the world’s highest peak.

C O LO M B O, A P R 2 9 (PTI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday suspended defiant police chief Pujith Jayasundara and named his successor as well as a new defence secretary as part of the revamping of the security establishment following the country’s worst terror attack.

Sirisena on Friday said that Jayasundara had resigned but he never sent the letter and remained in his official residence, according to officials.

Senior Deputy Inspec-

tor General C D Wickremaratne has been appointed as the acting police chief while former Inspector General N K Illangakoon named as an advisor to the Defence Ministry, according to the President’s office.

Police chief Jayasundara was asked to quit along with defence ministry secretary Hemasiri Fernando, taking responsibility for the intelligence failure that led to the bombings.

Jayasundara, however, refused to heed Sirisena’s call to resign following April 21 coordinated blasts on

three churches and three luxury hotels.

The police chief in Sri Lanka can only be removed through a parliamentary procedure and Sirisena’s action suspending him is the first step towards that, the officials said.

The attacks carried out by suicide bombers came in spite of early warnings and the security establishment’s failure to take preventive action has come under severe criticism.

Sirisena, who also keeps the defence portfolio with him, said he wanted to

revamp the security system and his defence ministry secretary Fernando resigned promptly on his request on Thursday.

Deputy Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Nalin Bandara said a motion to remove the police chief will be tabled in Parliament within this week, Sri Lanka Mirror reported.

Noting that the motion will be tabled on the agreement of all government MPs, he hoped to get the backing of opposition MPs as well, it said.

President Sirisena last week said that intelligence failures led to the blasts, the country’s worst terror attack.

Meanwhile, the police chief has said that he has done nothing wrong and that he would resign if the defence minister resigns as well.

Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and three luxury hotels on the Easter Sunday, killing 253 people and injuring over 500 people.

Populists expected to gain seats in EU elections BRUSSELS, APR 29 (AGENCIES): The European Parliament is predicting that nationalist, populist and anti-migrant groups will make significant gains in the May 23-26 EU elections but says it thinks mainstream parties will keep control over the assembly, reports AP. Projections released Thursday suggest the center-right European People’s Party will remain the biggest group, with 180 seats in the 751-seat parliament, down 37 seats.

The center-left Socialists and Democrats would drop from 186 to 149 seats.

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Earlier, Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesman had said that the Monday meeting would be a part of “regular consultation on bilateral relationship and Afghan peace process”.

According to media reports, Khalilzad is expected to meet the Taliban in Doha in the coming days, but peace talks have been criticized for failing, so far, over including members of the Afghan government, which the militant group views as a “puppet regime”.

Last week, the special envoy said that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s stance on Afghanistan had the potential to positively transform the region and give Islamabad “a leading role”.

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ISLAMABAD, APR 29 (IANS): US and Pakistani officials held delegationlevel talks on the Afghan peace process here on Monday, the media reported.

US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells arrived in Islamabad for a meeting with the government’s interagency delegation led by Additional Secretary Americas Aftab Khokhar, Dawn online reported.

Radio Pakistan called meetings between Pakistani and US officials to be “quite significant” in the backdrop of recent rounds of peace talks between the Taliban and the US in Qatar.

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Campaign on plastic waste management NUSU(L) cultural & literary meet

Pichano Kikon, Y. Nuklu Phom and RBC members with participants of the plastic waste management program held in Longleng on April 29.

DIMAPUR: Ray Beacons Club (RBC), in collaboration with Longleng Town Council (LTC), conducted a campaign on plastic waste management at Longleng town on April 29, under the

theme “Thread of the 21st century global family.”

A press release from RBC president Haushing stated that Pichano Kikon, EAC headquarter Longleng, in her speech,

encouraged participation of all community members in safeguarding the environment. She requested leaders to think about what we are preserving for our children. Pichano pointed

out that all plastic waste flow into the rivers leading to massive destruction of water species. She invited the members to reduce, reuse and recycle all waste materials instead

of creating an unsafe environment through careless exercises.

The resource person of the campaign Y. Nuklu Phom, speaking on the theme, stressed on the diminishing and depleting resources of the environment due to human irresponsibility and carelessness toward safeguarding nature. He said plastic had caused much damage to entire eco-systems, and diluted streams and rivers flow into oceans and seas endangering various species.

RBC members presented a drama about environmental degradation and also demonstrated how to use banana stems instead of polythene bags to raise saplings etc. The club members also distributed their own designed carry bags to all those who participated.

The prog ram was chaired by Baüom Shukha and Nyemla associate pastor, LTBC, said the invocation.

Executives of NUSU (L) along with Thepfuzakie Angami after the XXth Varsity Cultural and Literary Meet first session on April 29.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland University Students’ Union, NUSU (L) commenced its XXth Varsity Cultural and Literary Meet under the theme “Sculpting cultural ethos”, with Thepfuzakie Angami, project officer, DUDA, as the special guest on April 29.

A press release from NUSU (L) information and publicity secretary, Suraj Kumar stated that Thepfuzakie, in his speech addressed the students calling them young and quali-

fied leaders of tomorrow.

He also spoke on different topics like religion, culture, tradition, election and the environment. Thepfuzakie urged students to live under the Christian ethos and said forgiveness was the true colour of Christianity. He asserted that the younger generation should preserve the rich Naga culture and also to render their services towards a sustainable environment. He further said that clean and fair elections were only possible if bribes

for votes are not accepted during elections.

T h e p r o g r a m wa s chaired by Nito H Khulu; a welcome address was delivered by president of NUSU (L) K. Buche Khiamniungan who wished for the success for the threeday program (April 29 to May 1).

A special song was presented by the Botany department and a vote of thanks by organizing secretary NUSU (L), Jenato Achumi.

DBC and SBC Health mela conducted in Shamator alumni get-together Free health camp conducted at Pongo village

Medical staff and participants of the health mela conducted at PHC Shamator town on April 26.

DIMAPUR: District Health Society (DHS), Health & Family Welfare Tuensang organized a one-day health mela at Shamator block, Tuensang on April 26. Villagers from Waphur, Sangphur, Chassier, Leangkiur Shamator villages and citizens of Shamator town availed of the medical services in the camp.

A press release from CMO office, media officer, Apheang stated that the medical team was led

by CMO, Dr. T. Pangjung

Sangtam and deputy CMO, Dr. I. Temsu Longchar accompanied by five MOs, seven nurses, different vertical programmers, two FWAs, district coordinator PM-JAY and DPMU staff.

A total number of 301 OPD were registered, 24 dental extractions done and 31 Malaria blood tests were carried out during the camp. IEC materials like pregnancy test-kits, and family planning, JSY/ JSSK, non-communicable disease pamphlets in the

local dialect were also distributed during the camp.

CMO, IEC team and DCM conducted three sessions of FGD/IPC at PHC Shamator, Leangkonger and Shamator villages on the importance of family planning, child health and maternal health materials.

A school health team, led by an SHP coordinator with two health assistants, also visited three schools and gave health talks on cleanliness and the 4Ds to around 2500 students.

DIMAPUR: Alumni of Discipleship Bible College (DBC) & Servanthood Bible College (SBC) Dimapur held a get-together program at Green Park 4th Mile Dimapur on April 27, organized under the presidentship of Rutmakbo Zeliang and secretary Akokla. A press release from alumni president, K. Zeliang stated that they agreed to work responsibly towards the needs of the alumni by engaging actively in God’s work with the ultimate purpose of glorifying God. Members of the discipleship outreach ministry also strengthened their commitment to serve God in ministries to fulfil their call as servants and disciples of God. Alumni of DBC & SBC from Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nepal vowed to connect with people to give them the privilege to participate in Christian unions and social platforms. Members also voluntarily contributed money towards their alumni fund for an outreach ministry to Darjeeling in the near future.

Beneficiaries wait in queues to avail the free medical services at the free health camp organized on April 26 in Pongo village.

DIMAPUR: A free health camp was organized and sponsored by Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company Ltd at Mt. Hermon School premises Pongo village on April 26 along with a Beneficiary Identification System (BIS) drive by the State Health Agency (ABPMJAY) Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima.

A press release from medical superintendent in-charge CMO Longleng, Dr. Toshirenla stated that in a short program organized outside the school premises, State Programme Officer (ABPMJAY) Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Kohima, Dr. Kika Longkumer highlighted the importance of the BIS drive and its requirements

and features. The BIS drive also offered a hands-on training for officials of the Phom Baptist Christian Association.

At the free health camp, NCD screening was provided, free medicines and counselling were offered as well.

Team leader of the Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company’s Dr. Amalendu Ghosh was as-

sisted by the MMU and RBSK team from CMO office Longleng. Altogether 426 patients registered to avail the free medical services.

Besides technical staff, the chairman and members of the village council, Church leaders, officials of Pongo Students’ Union, and staff from Pongo subcentre also attended the health camp.

KVK Kohima conducts training for farmers DIMAPUR: A one-day training program on skill upgrade for farmers was conducted at Community Hall Phenwhenyu village on April 26.

A press release from KVK Kohima, senior scientist and head, Dr. Akashe Zhimomi stated that Zhiete ACTO (soil conservation) spoke on the importance of soil health, where he emphasized on the urgency for every

farmer to have their soil tested and maintain proper soil health records.

He also mentioned the benefits of soil health cards. Avenues for income generating activities were discussed by Longma Yanger, ACTO (agri. extension), where he encouraged farmers to allot one hour a day to activities which could help bring additional revenue to help in home expenses.

Dr. Temjennungsang, ACTO (animal science), also spoke on the topic “Alternative to conventional feeding in pigs” where he stressed on silage feeding in pig and hydrophonic fodder production. He also demonstrated the preparation of silage with locally available fodder generally fed to pigs. Altogether 26 participants attended the training program.

PDLSA organizes Lok Adalat awareness program

PDLSA members with villagers after the awareness program held in Thenyizumi Village, Phek, on April 26.

DIMAPUR: The Phek District Legal Service Authority (PDLSA) organized “ADR/Lok Adalat” awareness programs on April 25 at Council Hall, Phek and at Thenyizumi Village, Phek on April 26.

A press release from PDLSA stated that PDLSA panel lawyer, Rukuvolu Vero, spoke on the Legal Services Authority

Act saying it was enacted to provide equal justice to all, to provide free legal aid to the poor and to spread legal awareness.

Panel lawyer, Vethothi Vero, spoke on ADR/Lok Adalat, where he stressed on disputes or pending and pre litigation cases like bank recovery case. He said these can be referred to the free of cost Lok Adalats for a final settle-

ment through conciliation or compromise.

At Thenyizumi Village, chairman, PDLSA, Longshi Ezung, spoke on the Victim Compensation Act and Motor Vehicle Act and also highlighted the Nagaland Village Council Act. He also dwelt on proper discharge of duties and responsibilities as per provisions of the Village Council Act.

Panel Lawyer, PDLSA, Sekhotso Rokha, spoke on Human Trafficking and briefly dwelt on rights, features and objectives of the Consumer Protection Act. Kenei Swuro spoke on the RTI Act, protection of women from domestic violence and functions and activities of Legal Service Authorities. Altogether 50 beneficiaries attended the seminar.

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UPA-III could become a reality: Chidambaram New Delhi, Apr 29 (PTI): Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has described the five year rule of the Narendra Modi government as a “complete disaster”, saying the BJP will not be able to form the next government and UPAIII could be a reality.

The former Union minister also said the BJP’s “campaign of polarisation” is a complete failure in southern and western states and the impact it will have in northern and eastern India remains to be seen.

“We are absolutely confident that the BJP will not be able to form the government again. The government will be a non-BJP government. Obviously, the UPA that is Congress plus pre-election allies will play a big part. If there are more post election allies, I think UPA-III has a very good chance,” he told PTI in an interview.

Giving an analysis of the performance of the Modi government, Chidambaram said on economic front, it has absolutely and conclusively established that economic growth has slowed down and “unemployment is highest in 45 years”. “In fact, I have the data put out

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by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy which shows unemployment has reached 8.4 per cent in the third week of April 2019. It is the highest unemployment rate in over 45 years,” he said. On the social harmony, the former finance minister said there has been a complete breakdown of social harmony, particularly in northern states where community is pitted against community, caste is pitted against caste and and all these have happened under Modi.

On the security front, Chidambaram said the country was today less secured than what it was under former prime minister Manmohan Singh.

“During the 10 years of the UPA rule, there was no war with Pakistan or China. Although there was infiltration and casualties, they had come down to the lowest level in 2013-14,”

he said.

In the ‘Modi years’, the Congress leader said, infiltration has increased year after year and there is always a danger or fear that a war may break out anytime between India and Pakistan. “It is a complete disaster,” he said.

Chidambaram added that the BJP’s “campaign of polarisation” has been a complete failure in Southern India along with Gujarat, Goa and Maharashtra.

“What impact it will have in central Indian states where Hindi is spoken-- Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand-- remains to be seen. They again tried in (West) Bengal, they have not succeeded so far.

They tried in Odisha, they have not succeeded. They are trying in Assam.

“Let us see what the results will be. BJP’s polarisation campaign is a failure in the majority of states in India,” he said.

Asked about the possibility of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi becoming the prime minister, Chidambaram said the Gandhi scion has made it clear that the party is not going to talk about the post of PM at this stage.

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Rijiju hits out at Cong for ‘criminal injustice’ to Ladakh

Leh, April 29 (PTI): Union Minister Kiren Rijiju lashed out at the Congress on Monday for “decades of criminal injustice” to the people of Ladakh.

Addressing rallies at Nyoma in Changthang region near the Line of Actual Control here, the minister of state for home said in the 72 years of independence, Congress enjoyed power for 60 years but the party did not manage to do anything for the common man.

“The Congress has unleashed a demonic culture of looting the nation’s resources for filling their own pockets, which has done enough harm to the nation and it should be stopped at once”, he said, campaigning for the BJP’s candidate Jamyang Tsering Namgyal in Ladakh Parliamentary Seat, which is primarily Buddhist-dominated.

Flanked by BJP state president Ravinder Raina, MLC Tsering Dorjey, MP candidate Namgyal, Rijiju told gatherings at Khalsti and Neoma of Ladakh to vote for the favour BJP. He appealed to the people to teach Congress a lesson as the grand old party had “abandoned the Ladakh region for filling its own kitty”. Rijiju said while the Congress party only serves a single family, the BJP is a party which cares for the whole country. He said the Modi-led government had undertaken record number

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of development works in the country in only five years.

He said mass voting in favour of the BJP would strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hands to undertake development work in the region. He said Namgyal will fulfil the expectations of the people with full support of the central leadership.

Ravinder Raina, in his address, said the BJP has put an end to the discrimination that the people of Ladakh were facing for decades.

He said the same spirit will be carried forward by Namgyal as MP. Namgyal resolved to develop the Ladakh region on the most modern lines.

Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency is the largest in India in terms of area. Out of the six parliamentary constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh has the least number of polling stations at 559 and the fewest voters at 1,71,819.

Leh and Kargil districts have 294 and 265 polling stations respectively.

Kerala IS suspects under NIA lens after calls to SL New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): Suspected IS sympathisers in various parts of Kerala are on the NIA’s radar in wake of the horrendous Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka following intercepts of calls between people in the state and the island nation as well as some Facebook accounts on which “provocative” materials were uploaded, sources said.

The telephonic intercepts, an National Investigation Agency (NIA) official said, include chats that occurred on multiple occasions among people in Malappuram, Kasargod

and Palakkad in Kerala and those in Sri Lanka.

Besides, Facebook accounts of some suspects in Kerala and Tamil Nadu that had been active till 10 days before the Sri Lanka blasts are part of investigation of the anti-terror agency which unearthed a suspected Islamic State module in Kasargod and Palakkad during its raid on Sunday at the houses of three people.

T h e Fa c e b o o k a c counts, the details of which were not shared by the official on grounds that it can affect the investigation, were being used to upload “jihadi preachings and provoca-

tive” materials to radicalize people and persuade them to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State.

The IP addresses of some computers and laptops used to upload some incriminating videos and sermons of different Islamic preachers on Youtube are also under scrutiny of the NIA, the official, requesting anonymity, told IANS. The NIA suspects that the operators in Kerala are Islamic State sympathizers and might have been in touch with the groups headed by Zahran Hashim, a radical Tamil-speaking cleric who is believed to

have master-minded the Sri Lanka blasts. Hashim was found to be in touch with the Islamic State sympathizers during his visit to Malappuram in Kerala, and Coimbatore, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Vellore and Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu some time in 20172018, another official said.

Questioning of Ahamed Arafat, Aboobacker Siddique and Riyas Abu Bakar whose houses were raided, according to an NIA source, could not lead the agency to fruitful results in the Sri Lanka blasts investigation but confirmed that they had links with

the accused in a 2016 case in which 14 people from Kasaragod left India or their workplaces in the Middle East for Afghanistan and Syria to join the Islamic State.

The April 21 attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo and elsewehre killed 253 people, including 11 Indian nationals and some foreigners, and injured 500. Fifteen people, including three suicide bombers, died during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces on Friday night and nearly 100 people have been detained in the island nation.

I will quit politics if Rahul MEZHÜR HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL MIDLAND: KOHIMA loses in Amethi: Sidhu ADMISSION NOTICE

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New Delhi, Apr 29 (AGENCIES): Hundreds of passengers had a harrowing time at the Delhi airport early Monday as the immigration system server faced technical issues for around one and a half hours, affecting six international flights and resulting in long queues at the counters.

An airport official said technical glitches with the server lasted between 12.15 am and 1.45 am.

At around 1 am, an Air India official told PTI that the immigration system server was down at the airport and that crew for three Air India flights was also affected.

The system was restored at around 1.45 am,

he said. According to the official, six international flights were affected due to the server issue.

Out of the six flights, one was delayed for 50 minutes and another one for 25 minutes. Two flights were delayed by 17 minutes and another two by 18 minutes, he added.

A passenger, who was waiting for immigration check, said there has been a long delay due to server issues. A public announcement was also made at the airport about the server problem and personnel started doing manual checking process, according to the passenger, who later took an Air India flight to San Francisco.

Many passengers took

to Twitter to complain about the delay in immigration process and some of them also tweeted pictures of long queues at the airport.

The incident comes a day after Air India’s Passenger Ser vice System faced technical glitches and was not functional for more than five hours.

The incident on Saturday early morning has also resulted in delay of scores of Air India flights.

The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) is the busiest airport in the country.

(The story has been published from a wire feed without any modifications to the text, only the headline has been changed)

EC notice to Giriraj over ‘communal’ remarks New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): The Election Commission on Monday issued a showcause notice to Union Minister and BJP candidate from Bihar’s Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency, Giriraj Singh, for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by making controversial remarks against Muslims.

The Commission cited Singh’s comment at G.D. Collage in Begusarai on April 24 where he said: “The nation will never forgive them who can’t say ‘Vande Mataram’ or cannot respect the motherland. My ancestors died at Simaria Ghat and did not need a grave but you need three arms’ length of land.”

Simaria Ghat is a cremation ground in the district located on the banks of river Ganga. An FIR has already been lodged against Singh at Begusarai Town Police Station by the district administration.

In the notice, the Commission said Singh prima facie has violated the provisions of the MCC and the Representation of People Act, besides “wilfully” disobeying Supreme Court’s order barring the use of caste and religion during electioneering.

It has asked Singh to respond within 24 hours of the receipt of the notice, failing which it would take a decision without further reference to him.

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Rae Bareli, Apr 29 (AGENCIES): Cricketerturned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday said people should learn nationalism from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who is the sitting MP from Rae Bareli.

He also said he would quit politics if Congress chief Rahul Gandhi lost the Lok Sabha election from Amethi.

Sidhu was with the BJP earlier but is now a minister in the Congress government in Punjab.

He rejected the BJP’s oft-repeated charge that there had been no economic development in 70 years, most of it under Congress rule.

Rather, the country made everything from a needle to an aircraft during this period, he said.

He lauded Sonia Gandhi for leading the Congress ably after her husband Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination.

It was due to her leadership that the Congress could retain power at the Centre for 10 years (20042014), he said.

Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party, he said anyone who remained loyal to it was considered a nationalist and those who left it were dubbed antinational.

The former cricketer also said that the controversy over the Rafale deal will lead to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s defeat in the general election.

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Cyclone Fani: Odisha on high alert

‘Fani’ is likely to turn severe on Monday and intensify further into a ‘very severe’ cyclonic storm on Tuesday. (File)

Bhubaneswar, Apr 29 (PTI): With the Centre issuing advisory on Cyclone Fani progressing towards the eastern coast, the Odisha government Monday said it has put the coastal districts on high alert and is prepared to face any eventuality.

The entire administration is on high alert following the IMD report on the cyclone and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has reviewed the situation arising out of it, officials said.

The IMD report said the cyclone is very likely to move nortwestward till May 1 and thereafter recurve north-northeastward towards Odisha coast.

Cabinet secretary P K Sinha held a video conference with coastal states’ chief secretaries and the

ministry of home affairs issued two back to back advisories on the impending natural calamity during the day.

As soon as the polling for the fourth and final phase of elections came to an end this evening, Patnaik reviewed the situation and issued direction to the chief secretary to ensure “zero casualty” in case the cyclone strikes the state.

Patnaik asked the administration to be prepared to evacuate people in case it makes its landfall in the state or there is heavy rainfall in low lying and flood prone areas.

The chief minister also issued direction to stock adequate food materials in the panchayat level considering the time that the unusual timing of the cyclone.

EC gets notice on plea questioning EVMs

SpiceJet plane veers off runway on landing; pilots suspended

New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Election Commission on a plea challenging the legal provision mandating six months jail for questioning Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

On a petition filed by Sunil Ahya, an SC bench headed

by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi heard the arguments and issued the notice to the Election Commission.

According to Section 49 MA of the Code of Election Rules, if a person files a complaint regarding discrepancy in the EVM, and if after investigation it is found to be false or incorrect, then the complainant can be prosecuted under Section 177 of the Indian Penal Code for “furnishing false information”. This section invites “six months in jail or a fine of Rs 1,000 or both”.

Ahya contended that such a provision in election rules will act as a deterrent for voters experiencing faults in the EVMs from lodging a formal complaint.

Claiming that the provision was not fair and that it will discourage voters with genuine complaints from coming forward, the petitioner said.

Mumbai, Apr 29 (PTI): A Boeing 737 aircraft operated by low-cost carrier SpiceJet Monday overshot the runway while landing at the Shirdi airport, bringing the regional facility to a complete halt, airport director Dhiren Bhosale said.

The incident took place at 1630 hours, the airline said, adding all the passengers and the crew are safe.

The airline also grounded both the pilots pending an internal enquiry, while the regulator DGCA has dispatched off an official to the airport to carry out the initial probe into the mishap.

H o w e ve r, a f u l l fledged investigation will be conducted by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, which has the mandate to probe all serious incidents and accidents involving all commercial and private planes.

According to sources, passengers and the crew were trapped inside the plane for over two-and-ahalf hours, but are however, safe, and efforts are on to tow away the aircraft from the runway and resume operations at the earliest.

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The costal district collectors of Ganjam, Khurda, Puri and Kendrapara have meanwhile cancelled the holidays and leaves of government employees as part of the preparedness to face the possible calamity.

“We are preparing a contingency plan to face the situation. We will go for evacuation if required,” Puri district collector J P Das said.

In a high level meeting attended by the top official of Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard, NDRF, Odisha Police and all department secretaries, Chief Secretary A P Padhi sought the cooperation of all agencies.

Stating that the IMD has so far not given any definite information regarding possible landfall of the cyclone in the state, Padhi

shot off the runway by about 50 meters and skidded off. There is no injury to any passenger and the crew, though. Our first priority is to evacuate passengers without compromising their safety,” Bhosale told PTI over phone from Shirdi airport that primarily serves the pilgrims to the popular Hindu shrine, and is around 180 km northeast off the megapolis.

The number of passengers and crew on board the B737- 800 aircraft is not known immediately, Bhosale added. The airline also refused to share the passenger and crew details.

He said the aircraft is stuck on the runway due to which all arrivals and departures are halted.

“We are making all efforts to tow away the aircraft and clear the runway to resume operations as soon as possible,” Bhosale said.

SpiceJet in a statement said its B737-800 aircraft (SG 946) from New Delhi to Shirdi was involved in the incident.

“While landing at Shirdi, the aircraft overshot the runway. The passengers and the crew who are safe are being deplaned normally,” the airline said.

said its forecast shows that the cyclone is likely to pass near the Odisha coast.

“We are leaving no stone unturned and are preparing to face the situation”, he said adding the fishermen have been warned not to venture into the sea during the period.

Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) B P Sethi said “Though the IMD has not issued any information on the possible landfall of Cyclone Fani in the state, we are keeping a watch on the information being issued by international agencies such as the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre.”

Sethi said all the 880 cyclone centres besides 20 units of Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force, 12 units of National Disaster Response Force and 335 fire units have been put on alert.

Boats are also kept in readiness for rescue operation if required, he said.

Even if the cyclone did not make a landfall in the state, its impact may be felt in Odisha as heavy rainfall might occur and wind speed reach upto 60 kmph,” Sethi said.

M e a n w h i l e, I M D sources said that the cyclone lay centred about 840 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and 990 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh).

Afghan official held in Goa prostitution case Panaji, Apr 29 (IANS): Two Afghan nationals, including a Director serving in the Afghanistan government’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, were arrested following a raid on a prostitution racket in the beach village of Calangute in Goa, an official said on Monday.

According to Police Inspector Nolasco Raposo in-charge of the Calangute police station, the accused Mohammad Omar Arian, works as a Director of Internal Audit, at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Mohammad Azmal Hodman, an Afghanistan based-lawyer, were arrested in the raid conducted by officials of the Calangute police station, in which two women from Uzbekistan were rescued.

“The two accused from Afghanistan have been arrested under sections 370 (prostitution), 370(iii) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 4, 5 and 7 of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1956,” Inspector Raposo said, adding that police are on the look out for a pimp who had solicited the services of the two Uzbek women for the Afghan duo.

Modi talking like a ‘dictator’: Ashok Gehlot J o d h p u r / C h u ru, Apr 29 (PTI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Monday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on course to becoming a “dictator” who talks of nationalism to captivate the people.

After casting his vote with his family in the morning, the Congress leader told reporters that Modi had been “dividing the nation and the society in the name of nationalism”, which posed a “threat” to democracy.

Later in day, the chief minister spoke at a rally in Sardarshahar town under Churu Lok Sabha constituency which was also addressed by Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

“History says every dictator first talks of nationalism and captivate the people. Modi has been doing the same thing, but the people, especially the

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young generation, need to understand this,” Gehlot told reporters in Jodhpur in the morning.

Modi is “on course to becoming a dictator, which is a huge threat to the democracy of the country”, he said.

“He (Modi) has a perverted version of patriotism and has got down to exploit this term to win the election only by emotionally misleading the people, especially the youth,” the chief minister said.

Gehlot accused Modi of turning the electoral debate from the issues of development to nationalism and patriotism.

“Aren’t others patriots?” he asked.

After casting his vote, the chief minister left for Saipau village in Dholpur district to join Congress president Rahul Gandhi in a public meeting.

At the election meeting in Sardarshahar town he claimed the prime minister wants to win the elections by engaging people in “issueless politics”.

“There should issues in elections. Rahul Gandhi has been repeatedly asking the prime minister to talk on issues,” Gehlot said.

“The prime minister never talks about his vision, policies, programmes for farmers, labourers, women, youths of the country. They (BJP leadership) want to win the election by

engaging people in issues like Ram temple and patriotism. They want to win election in the name of the defence forces,” the chief minister said.

He alleged that an atmosphere of fear, hatred and violence has been created in the country, which is very dangerous for democracy.

Claiming that the Congress always keeps its promises, the Rajasthan chief minister said, “Rahul Gandhi had promised farm loan waiver before the assembly elections and our government waived loans given by the cooperative bank and the Bhumi Vikas Bank as soon as the Congress came to power.” “ We p r o m i s e d t o waive loans up to Rs 2 lakh taken from nationalized banks. We will do it after the Lok Sabha elections,” he added.

EC to decide on complaints against Modi, Rahul today New Delhi, Apr 29 (AGENCIES): Election Commission will meet tomorrow to decide on poll code violation complaints against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, a senior poll panel official said on Monday.

The commission spelt out the timeline at its briefing for the fourth phase of polling on Monday evening. Hours earlier, the Congress had moved the Supreme Court complaining that the Election Commission had been sitting on numerous complaints alleging model code of conduct violations against PM Modi and Amit Shah.

In her petition, Congress leader Sushmita Dev alleged that both indulged in hate speeches and used armed forces for “political propaganda.

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned Devi’s petition before a bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to seek an urgent hearing but did not clearly name PM Modi and Amit Shah.

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi asked the senior lawyer in a lighter vein: “Why don’t you mention the names clearly.”

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Congress will fill 22 lakh government vacancies: Maken

New Delhi, April 29 (IANS): Former Union Minister and Congress’ New Delhi seat candidate Ajay Maken on Monday promised that if his party comes to power after the general elections, then it will fill the 22 lakh vacant government posts in an year.

Maken held several interactive meetings during his padyatras in Ayur Vigyan Nagar, Gurudwara Singh Sabha, Jungpura Extension, Sat Nagar, Tikona Park, Karol Bagh, Tel Mandi and Pahar Ganj to reach out to the voters. “The Congress party has promised of filling the 22 lakh government vacancies within a year of coming to power,” he said, Recalling the party’s work in 2006-07 when the sealing process started first in the national capital, he said: “The UPA government would protect the small and medium traders or entrepreneurs from vagaries of sealing as it had done before in 2006.”

“As the Union Urban Development Minister, I had made 170 amendments in Delhi Master Plan to protect commercial establishments and small and medium traders.” Maken also said that if Congress returns to power, a simplified probusiness GST would replace the existing GST that the

Ajay Maken (File)

Narendra Modi government brought into place.

The Congress leader faces a triangular contest, with sitting BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi and the Aam Aadmi Party’s Brijesh Goyal in the contest.

Besides Maken, Congress candidate for the North West Delhi parliamentary constituency Rajesh Lilothia also addressed several public meetings, undertook padayatras and held corner meetings in the Narela assembly segment of the seat.

Addressing a public meeting near the Aggarwal Tower in Narela, he appealed to people to bring back Congress to power as both the BJP and the AAP had “betrayed the people of Delhi”.

“It was imperative for the Congress to win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi as the party is sure to

form a government at the Centre, under the leadership of Congress President Rahul Gandhi,” he said.

Lilothia, who is pitted against BJP’s Hans Raj Hans and AAP’s Gugan Singh, said the last five years of Modi rule, there were attacks on secular and democratic forces, and even the common people were not spared and became victims of the BJP government’s high-handednessA He accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of working as the agent of a few rich industrialists by totally ignoring the poor and common people.

The elections on all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital is scheduled on May 12 in the sixth phase. The BJP had won all the seats from the national capital in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

SP fields sacked BSF jawan against Modi in Varanasi

New Delhi, Apr 29 (AGENCIES): “I am the real chowkidar,” said Tej Bahadur Yadav, former BSF jawan who was sacked in 2017 for his video complaining about the food served to the soldiers, soon after being declared the SP’s Varanasi candidate against PM Modi.

Getting quickly into poll mode, the SP candidate said: “I am the real chowkidar, who protected the boundaries of the nation for 21 years and raised voice against corruption.

Chowkidar term doesn’t suit PM Modi.”

The Samajwadi Party made the surprise announcement on Monday to replace Shalini Yadav opposite PM Modi from this high-profile constituency. Shalini Yadav had unsuccessfully contested the Varanasi mayoral

election in 2017 and is the daughter-in-law of Shyam Lal Yadav, a former Congress Rajya Sabha member.

The former jawan, who created a flutter with his 2017 video, said, “I am in the poll fray to show the mirror to PM Modi, not for victory and defeat. I will tell public that PM Modi who claims to be a well-wisher of the soldiers hasn’t fulfilled any of the promises he made to the soldiers. After knowing about the reality, public will support me.”

The for m e r jawa n added that around 10,000 ex-servicemen will fan out in the constituency and seek support for him in a door-todoor campaign.

Praising Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav for promising a Yadav regiment in the Army, Tej Bahadur said, “If I win from

AFFIDAVIT DECLARATION OF ACTUAL NAME I, Miss KUPUTOLI SEMA, D/O S ATO SEMA, Permanent resident of YEHEMI Village under Surhuto Sub-Division and presently residing at Suruhuto Town under Zunheboto District, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as follow : 1. That I am a bona-fide citizen of India belonging to Sumi/Naga Tribe and resident of above mentioned address.

2. That my actual name is KUPUTOLI SEMA which is recorded in all legal documents but due to ignorance and mistake my name is inadvertantly entered and recorded as KUPUTOLI KINNY in my Class Ten (10) Admit Card.

3. That my father's name is officially recorded as S ATO SEMA in all legal document and proceedings but due to clerical error/mistake my father's name is inadvertantly entered and recorded as SHIKUTO KINNY in my Said above Document.

4. That the above mention names KUPUTOLI SEMA and KUPUTOLI KINNY refers to one and the same person that is me.

5. That through this declaration I shall rectify the use of my name as KUPUTOLI SEMA and my Father's name as S ATO SEMA for all official and legal process and in all proceedings.

6. That the statement made above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing has been concealed therein.

Deponent Solemnly affirm and declare an oath before me on this day ..... the ..... of ..... at Zunheboto, Nagaland.

1st Magistrate/ Notary Public Regd. No. 20 Zunheboto, Nagaland DP-3199 Date : 24/04/19

Form No. INC-25A Advertisement to be published in the newspaper for conversion of public company into a private company Before the Regional Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs North Eastern Region In the matter of the Companies Act, 2013, section 14 of Companies Act, 2013 and rule 41 of the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014 AND ln the matter of M/s ASPORA NAGALAND LIMITED having its registered office at Entrepreneurs Associates, PWD Junction, NH 29, Kohima, Nagaland – 797001.

Notice is hereby given to the general public that the company intending to make an application to the Central Government under section 14 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with aforesaid rules and is desirous of converting into a private limited company in terms of the special resolution passed at the Extra Ordinary General Meeting held on 22/04/2019 to enable the company to give effect for such conversion.

Any person whose interest is likely to be affected by the proposed change/status of the company may deliver or cause to be delivered or send by registered post of his objections supported by an affidavit stating the nature of his interest and grounds of opposition to the concerned Regional Director (Morello Building, Ground Floor, Near Meghalaya High Court & Shillong Gp, Kachahari Road, Shillong –793001) within fourteen days from the date of publication of this notice with a copy to the applicant company at its registered office at the address mentioned below: Entrepreneurs Associates, PWD Junction, NH 29, Kohima, Nagaland - 797001 For and on behalf of the Applicant Sd/(Shiroi Lily Shaiza) Director DIN : 07666113 Address of registered office Entrepreneurs Associates, PWD Junction, NH 29, K-1040 Kohima, Nagaland - 797001

Tej Bahadur Yadav (File)

Varanasi, I will raise a voice for it in Parliament.”

In 2017, Tej Bahadur Yadav, then with BSF’s 29th battalion, posted four videos complaining about conditions soldiers work under

and also the quality of food that was allegedly being served.

“We only get a ‘parantha’ and tea as breakfast and this is without any pickle or vegetables... we slog for 11 hours and at times we have to stand throughout the duty hours. For lunch, we get ‘dal’ (pulses) which only has ‘haldi’ (turmeric) and salt... with roti. This is the quality of the food we get... how can a jawan do his duty?

“I request the Prime Minister to get this probed... no one shows our plight,” Yadav had alleged.

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMANTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925).

In the Court of Smti Sharon Longchari Additional Deputy Commissioner Dimapur District, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late Nanki, Deceased, has been filed by Shri. Sanjay Doom, relation Son R/o Medical Colony Dimapur to draw his/her Family Pension, Bank Acct, etc, who expired on 09-08-2019.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased may if he/she so desire may appear in this court within 30 days, on the said day of 30/05/2019.

Given under hand and seal of the court this 29 day of 04/2019.

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Addl. Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Nagaland.

FORM No. 4

PROCLAMATION REQUIRING THE APPEARANCE OF AN ACCUSED PERSON (See section 82 of Cr.P.C)

Whereas complaint has been made before me that accused Ranjit Thapa @ Karan S/o Jit Bahadur Thapa, village of Borondi P.O/P.S. Uriamghat Dhansiri, Dist. Golaghat, Assam, has committed (or is suspected to have committed) the offence punishable U/S 120B R/W 302/307/326 of IPC Sec. 18, 20 of UAP Act, 1967 as amended and it has been returned to a warrant of arrest thereupon issued that the said accused cannot be found, and whereas it has been shown to my satisfaction that the accused Ranjit Thapa @ Karan has absconded (or is concealing himself to avoid the service of the said warrant); Proclamation is hereby made that the accused Ranjit Thapa @ Karan S/o Jit Bahadur Thapa P/A Borondi P.O/P.S Uriamghat Dhansiri State Assam, is required to appear before the court of Special Judge NIA, Principal District & Sessions Judge Dimapur in connection with case No. R.C. 4/2015/ NIA-DLI to answer the said complaint on the 29/5/19.

Dated this the 18th day of April, 2019.

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(Smti. Y. Longkumer) Special Judge NIA & Principal District & Sessions Judge Dimapur : Nagaland

FORM No. 4

PROCLAMATION REQUIRING THE APPEARANCE OF AN ACCUSED PERSON

(See section 82 of Cr.P.C) Whereas complaint has been made before me that accused Khekaho Rochill S/o Yehokhu, village of Aichisaghemi P.O/P.S. Suruhuto Dist. Zunheboto has committed (or is suspected to have committed) the offence punishable U/S 120B R/W 302/307/326 of IPC Sec. 18, 20 of UAP Act, 1967 as amended and it has been returned to a warrant of arrest thereupon issued that the said accused cannot be found, and whereas it has been shown to my satisfaction that the accused Khekaho Rochill has absconded (or is concealing himself to avoid the service of the said warrant); Proclamation is hereby made that the accused Khekaho Rochill S/o Yehokhu P/A Aichisaghemi P.O/P.S Suruhuto Dist. Zunheboto is required to appear before the court of Special Judge NIA, Principal District & Sessions Judge Dimapur in connection with case No. R.C. 4/2015/ NIA-DLI to answer the said complaint on the 29/5/19.

Dated this the 18th day of April, 2019.

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(Smti. Y. Longkumer) Special Judge NIA & Principal District & Sessions Judge Dimapur : Nagaland

40 killed in Indonesia floods, many displaced B E N G K U LU ( I N D O NESIA), APR 29 (AFP): Floods sparked by torrential rains have killed nearly 40 in Indonesia with a dozen more still missing, officials said Monday, marking the latest calamity for a disasterprone nation.

Landslides and floods are common during the monsoon season between October and April, when rains lash the vast Southeast Asian archipelago.

On Monday, Indonesia’s disaster agency confirmed 29 deaths and said at least 13 more people were missing in Sumatra island’s Bengkulu province.

A landslide triggered by heavy rain in neighbouring Lampung province on Saturday also killed a family of six.

Meanwhile, flooding in and around parts of the capital Jakarta last week killed at least two people, forced more than 2,000 to evacuate their homes and set 14 pet pythons on the loose. In Bogor, a satellite city of Jakarta, residents had to contend with the prospect of coming face to face with the giant serpents, after they were set loose from a private property due to the high waters.

Six of the snakes -which were as long as four metres (13 feet) -- have been found, but eight were still missing, officials said at the weekend.

“If you find them

Residents salvage belongings as floodwaters submerged their homes after heavy rains in Bengkulu on the Indonesian island of Sumatra Saturday.

please report it to authorities or volunteers,” said Indonesian disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. That was not much comfort for some Bogor residents.

“We’re terrified to hear this,” said Samsudin, who goes by one name.

“Apparently they’re very big so we want authorities to help us find them or take action.”

In Sumatra, some 12,000 residents have been evacuated from water-logged Bengkulu with hundreds of buildings, bridges and roads damaged.

Authorities have set up temporary shelters and public kitchens for those displaced by the rains.

Hardest hit was Bengkulu Tengah district, just outside of the provincial capital, where 22 people were killed along with hun-

dreds of livestock.

Illegal coal mining was partly to blame for deadly landslides, authorities said.

“Apart from natural factors like the heavy rain, (the flooding) was also caused by human activity that destroys the environment,” disaster agency head Doni Monardo told reporters in Bengkulu on Monday.

Activists have long warned deforestation from rampant mining in the province could trigger a catastrophe.

At least four major rivers in Bengkulu overflow every time it rains due to environmental damage near their banks, activists said.

“The flooding in Bengkulu was made worse by the severe damage... caused by coal mining,” Ali Akbar from local environmental group Kanopi Bengkulu said in a statement.

Airstrikes trap civilians in Libya’s Tripoli CAIRO, APR 29 (AGENCIES): Libyan forces loyal to a former military commander have intensified their airstrikes on Tripoli, where heavy fighting and blocked roads have left civilians trapped in their homes, officials said Monday.

Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter’s self-styled Libyan National Army launched an operation to retake the capital on April 4 and has been locked in heavy fighting in and around the city with militias loosely allied with a U.N.-supported government. The clashes have killed more than 270 people, including 21 civilians, according to the latest U.N. figures released last week.

Libyan officials said LNA airstrikes have targeted the Nawasi Brigade in the Abu Salim district, about 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tripoli’s center. At least four civilians were killed, they said.

They said airstrikes hit al-Qaqaa military camp in the town of al-Falah, south of Tripoli. The camp is controlled by powerful militias from the western town of Misrata that are also allied with the Tripoli

FILE - Protesters march against military operations in Martyrs’ Square on in Tripoli, Libya April 26, 2019.

government. Airstrikes and shelling also hit the towns of Khallet al-Forjan, Ain Zara and al-Twaisha, south of the capital, and heavy fighting was underway in Salah al-Deen, an area that saw earlier clashes between rival militias in September.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

Residents said fighting has been ongoing overnight in residential areas a few kilometers (miles) south of Tripoli. Both sides have used heavy artillery and airstrikes, they said.

“We cannot move because of the shelling from

both sides. Our homes have been damaged. We are trying to leave the area to a safer place,” said Mohammed al-Trapoulsi, a 41-year-old father of three from Abu Salim.

O n S u n d ay, L NA spokesman Ahmed alMosmari told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that their warplanes targeted the Yarmuk military camp in Ain Zara.

The two sides have traded control the strategic camp since the offensive began.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Sunday the clashes have displaced more than 41,000 people.

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International Slovak court rejects to ban far right party BRATISLAVA (SLOVAKIA), APR 29 (AGENCIES): Slovakia’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a request by the country’s prosecutor general to ban a far-right party that has 14 seats in the country’s parliament, reports AP. In his request filed two years ago, Jaromir Ciznar said the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia is an extremist group whose activities violate the country’s constitution and its goal is to destroy the country’s democratic system.

But the court ruled the prosecutor general failed to provide enough evidence for the ban.

The verdict is final.

“The ruling has clearly showed that our party is legitimate and democratic,” party chairman Marian Kotleba said on Monday.

He said it was “a political trial.”

The prosecutor’s office didn’t immediately comment.

Kotleba’s supporters applauded in the court room while the opponents unveiled a banner in front of the court that read “Stop Fascism.”

The party openly admires the Nazi puppet state that the country was during World War II. Party members use Nazi salutes, blame Roma for crime in deprived areas, consider NATO a terror group and want the country out of the alliance and the European Union.

Ghani calls for ‘durable peace’ at grand assembly KABUL, APR 29 (IANS): Afghanistan’s President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani stressed achieving viable peace in his militancy-battered country through dialogue in the much-awaited consultative Loya Jirga or traditional grand assembly of elders and chieftains inaugurated here on Monday.

“I want to have lasting peace in Afghanistan and not the loose and shaky one.

I am calling upon you people to define the peace talks and guide on how to talks with the Taliban and achieve viable peace,” Ghani said at the gathering.

About 3,200 delegates across the country gathered at the four-day traditional assembly to discuss the measures on how to initiate dialogue with the Taliban to find a negotiated settlement to Afghanistan’s prolonged conflict, Xinhua news agency reported.

Taliban militants have repeatedly refused to talk with Afghan government, saying there will be no

Ashraf Ghani speaks during a consultative grand assembly, known as Loya Jirga, in Kabul on April 29, 2019

dialogue with the Kabul administration in the presence of foreign forces in the country.

However, US special envoy for peace in Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has held series of talks with the Taliban representatives in Qatar’s capital Doha since November 2018.

But the last round of talks slated for April 19 had been cancelled on the ground of introducing a 250-member negotiating

team by the Afghan government. Ghani in his address categorically stated that all Afghans earnestly want to end the war and restore lasting peace in their country, calling upon the participants of the Jirga to debate freely and prepare a comprehensive guideline for the government to initiate negotiation with the Taliban that could yield the desired results.

The consultative Loya Jirga was opened amid tight security as the government

put all security measures in place and declared one-week public holiday for the capital city in efforts to check any untoward incident.

However, the critics including opposition politicians -- above all the government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and former President Hamid Karzai -- have boycotted the Jirga, arguing the consultative jirga has not been held in unity environment.

Slamming the ongoing insurgency and conflict in Afghanistan as against Islamic teaching and illegitimate, Ghani noted that both sides had been paying a huge price in the war and “it is the time to give up fighting” and join hands for achieving peace in the country.

Earlier in his opening remarks, head of the Jirga Mohammad Omar Daudzai, called upon all the opposition sides including the Taliban group to attend the Jirga and play their due role in ending the war and finding the way to achieve peace in Afghanistan.

Shared citizenship will benefit Russia, Ukraine: Putin M O S C OW, A P R 2 9 (AGENCIES): Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russians and Ukrainians would only benefit from sharing common citizenship, the Interfax news agency reported.

Putin said on Saturday Moscow was considering offering all Ukrainian citizens fast-tracked Russian passports, a move that angered some politicians in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin

not expect many Ukrainians to take up his offer of a Russian passport, while offering Ukrainian citizenship to Russians. Russia’s offer of citizenship is not only to the people who live in the rebel-held areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Putin told reporters in Beijing last Saturday, where he attended China’s second Belt and Road Initiative summit.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the bereaved family of Late Toili Yeptho express our profound gratitude and appreciation to each and everyone who stood by us during the prolonged illness and sad demise of our beloved mother.

We offer our heartfelt thanks to those who supported us spiritually, physically and financially.

We would like to convey our special gratitude to : 1. Sumi Baptist Akukuhou, Bamunphukhuri 2. Sumi Community, Bamunphukhuri 3. Sumi Baptist Akukuhou, Kushiabill 4. Sumi Community, Kushiabill 5. Aghunato Village Union, Dimapur 6. Doctors and Staff CIHSR We deeply regret our inability to thank each of you individually; may the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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which has been at war with pro-Russian separatists since 2014.

P u t i n h a s a l r e a dy signed an order to simplify the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, prompting calls from Kiev for more international sanctions. Ukrainian Presidentelect Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Putin should

BORN : 17-12-1987 – DIED on 21-04-2019 Words are not enough to express our thanks to every individual, neighbours, relatives, friends and well wishers who supported us physically, spiritually and financially during the sudden demise of our beloved B. IMTINUNGSANG OBED OZUKUM on 21st April 2019.

Our special thanks to : 1. DABA Arogo, DABA Youth & DABA Women Dept.

2. Dimapur Waromung Senso Telongjem 3. Waromungtsur Telongjem, Dimapur.

4. Dimapur Waromung Ozukum Telongjem It is our prayer that Almighty God bless you and your families abundantly.

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Loving Parents, brothers, sister, in-laws and all loved ones.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Born on 16-05-1952 Died on 26-04-2019

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Stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs: China tells US BEIJING, APR 29 (IANS): China on Monday urged the US to respect China’s sovereignty and stop interfering in Hong Kong’s affairs.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang made the remarks in response to a statement by a US State Department spokesperson reportedly expressing “disappointment” over the decision by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government to indict and imprison several organizers of the 2014 illegal “Occupy Central” movement.

The US spokesperson earlier said that Washington “will follow closely the proposed amendments to the HKSAR’s Fugitive Offenders Ordinance”.

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“China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes relevant remarks of the US Department of State spokesperson, which disregard the facts and laws,” Geng told a press briefing.

He said the illegal “Occupy Central” movement inflicted severe damage on Hong Kong’s rule of law, social order, economy and people’s livelihood, according to Efe news.

“Bringing criminal behaviour to justice according to law, as a due component of maintaining the rule of law, is widely supported by Hong Kong society.

“The amendments to laws including the Ordinance are necessary measures taken by Hong Kong to cooperate with other

regions and countries in fugitives handover,” Geng said, adding that the moves were also aimed at jointly cracking down on crimes and maintaining the rule of law, to prevent Hong Kong from becoming a “crime haven”.

The Chinese official said that the US arbitrary comments and blame on Hong Kong’s affairs were a “brutal interference” in the internal affairs of China and the HKSAR. “We urge the US to respect China’s sovereignty and the rule of law in Hong Kong, as well as the ‘judicial independence’ repeatedly professed by the US side and stop meddling in Hong Kong’s affairs in any form,” the spokesperson added.

Born on: 12-03-1922 – Died on: 25-04-2019 We the bereaved family of Rev. Lt. Tsunthruba would like to express our deep and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood by us physically, financially, materially and prayer support at the sudden demise of our Father on 25-04-2019.

We deeply regret our inability to thank everyone individually, but your act of kindness will always be remembered and it is our humble prayer, that the Lord will bless you all abundantly.

We convey our special thanks to:1. YBBA. 11. Shiponger Village Council.

2. Ordained Ministers 12. Huker Village Council.

3. Shamator Town Baptist Church.

13. Shawuh I Union Shamator.

4. Shiponger Baptist Church 14. Yimchunger Region FGN 5. Lasokiur Baptist Church.

15. P.W.D, Tsundang and GHS Colony Shamator 16. Challenger Sporting Club Shamator 6. Huker Baptist Church.

17. Mr & Mrs. Toshi Wongtong Advisor, 7. Kiuso Wongto Baptist Church.

IPR, SCERT and VG. 8. YBC Tuensang Town.

18. Mr & Mrs. R. Tohanba, Ex M.L.A 9. Kuthur Baptist Church.

19. Mr & Mrs. Lakiumong B 10. Kihoto Theological College.

Children, Relatives, In-Laws, Grand Children and Great Grand Children.

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Born : 18.09.2001 – Died: 26.03.2019 We the bereaved family of our beloved Lt. Kaboli Aye, daughter of Mrs & Mr. Hokheyi Aye would like to express our deepest heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, relatives, colonies, different churches, organizations and well wishers who stood by us physically, materially, financially and spiritually during her prolonged illness and demise.

We deeply appreciate and acknowledge the gestures of kindness and sympathy shown towards our family; we also deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individual personally but your good deeds of kindness will be appreciated and we sincerely pray that our Almighty God bless all abundantly.

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Film stars vote with pride; show off inked finger De Niro and Scorsese talk reuniting for ‘The Irishman’ T A he Bachchans, the Roshans, the Khans, the Devgns and a stream of other Bollywood celebrities voted in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections here in Mumbai on Monday and urged others to step out and make their vote count.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan stepped out with wife Jaya, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya to cast their votes, looking cool and calm in white.

Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan also turned up with his wife Pinky, daughter Sunaina and son Hrithik in tow. Hrithik’s former father-in-law Sanjay Khan came out to vote with his son Zayed and daughter Farah Khan Ali. Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan brought along h e r t wo - ye a r - o l d s o n Taimur Ali Khan to cast her vote.

Adding some colour and drama to a polling booth here was Ranveer Singh, who sported eclectic sunglasses and bright clothes.

Kangana Ranaut wore a sari, and even Urmila Matondkar, the Congress

Bollywood celebrities show off their inked finger after casting their votes. candidate from the Mumbai North seat, chose a desi avatar to cast a vote.

Actors Salman Khan and Aamir Khan also cast their vote, as did Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Karan Johar, Ranbir Kapoor, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Varun Dhawan, Rekha, Kiran Rao, Shankar Mahadevan, Paresh Rawal, Ravi Kishan, Ajay Devgn, Kajol, Kailash Kher, Mahesh Bhatt, Aahana Kum-

ra, Dia Mirza, Sonu Sood, Pooja Bhatt, Divya Dutta, Sonali Bendre Behl, Goldie Behl, Anupam Kher, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Athiya Shetty, Esha Deol, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Arjun Kapoor, Malaika Arora and Twinkle Khanna.

“This is the moment that matters... Every vote is a voice that counts,” tweeted Priyanka along with a selfie showing off her inked finger.

Aamir, dressed casu-

ally, cracked a joke as the media approached him for a byte, but made a point about the importance of voting.

Filmmaker Prakash Jha, who has had a tryst with politics, went to vote with his daughter.

Madhuri wrote: “Voting is our right, let’s use it wisely! The future of our country is in our hands.

Let’s do our duty and vote for India.”

R. Madhavan, who

went to a polling booth with his wife, urged the youth to give “no excuses” for not voting.

Actress Gul Panag wrote: “Go out and vote.

Because the future depends on it. And not just our future, but the future of the next generation too. Every vote counts.”

This election season, the film fraternity has been visibly divided over support for the competing political parties.

While star candidates like Urmila and Sunny Deol are fighting elections, the BJP used Bollywood’s soft power and engaged celebrities like Aamir, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, A.R. Rahman, Ayushmann Khurrana and Alia Bhatt to appeal to citizens to come out and vote.

On its part, the Congress mobilised Twitter to send out a Bollywood celeb-led message to citizens: “Vote karo, magar soch samajh ke” via a video featuring Kalki Koechlin, Varun Grover, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nandita Das, Swara Bhasker, Vishal Dadlani, Renuka Shahane and many more.

(IANS)

head of their muchanticipated and most recent collaboration, “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro convened at the Tribeca Film Festival to look back on their long partnership together.

The talk, staged Sunday at New York’s Beacon Theatre, gave De Niro, co-founder of the festival, one of his most unlikely roles to date: interviewer.

With interstitial clips chosen by Scorsese from the director’s filmography, the famously terse actor didn’t so much pepper or prod the filmmaker as occasionally announce it was time to discuss “the next one.”

But if the conversation relied largely on Scorsese, it still offered a window into their long-running collaboration. Begun with 1973’s “Mean Streets” and stretching over nine feature films, it’s one of the most famous director-actor pairs in cinema. One of Scorsese’s other regulars, Leonardo DiCaprio, was among the full crowd, eager to see the legendary New York duo together.

Actor Robert De Niro (L) and director Martin Scorsese. “ T h e I r i s h m a n ,” which Netflix will release this fall, is their latest gangster film together, following “Mean Streets,” ‘’Goodfellas” and “Casino.” It’s based on the 2003 book “I Heard You Paint Houses”

by Charles Brandt, which recounts the life of mob hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (played by De Niro). Al Pacino plays Jimmy Hoffa, whose disappearance some have traced to Sheeran.

“It’s in the milieu of the pictures we’ve done together and are known for, in a sense, but I hope from

a different vantage point,” said Scorsese. “Years have gone by and we see things in a special way, I hope.”

Though its release is months away, “The Irishman” — one of Netflix’s biggest-budgeted films yet — has already become the new flashpoint of the ongoing battle between Netflix and movie theaters. The major chains have refused to play releases that don’t abide to the traditional exclusive 90-day theatrical window. Netflix has said that doesn’t serve the interests of its millions of members.

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Avengers: Endgame beats box office records Judging ‘American Idol’ inspires Katy Perry

and also enjoyed the UK and Ireland’s biggest opening ever with takings of £43.7m.

Forbes notes that 45% of the global ticket sales came from 3-D showings around the world while $91.5m (£70.7m) came from IMAX screens, double Marvel Studio’s previous opening weekend record.

Also 4DX - the cinema experience with stimulating effects like water, wind, scent and strobe lighting - earned $15m (£11.6m) globally on the movie.

Empire jour nalist, Helen O’Hara, believes familiarity and investment

in the Avengers characters is the key to the worldwide phenomenon and that the above figures should have a positive impact on the industry as a whole.

“There’s been 21 previous films and people have got to know these characters and they really care about them,” she told BBC News, “so we’re desperately invested in everything that happens to them now.

“There was clapping in my screen, as well as cheering at certain points.

It’s really interactive at this point because we’re just so invested”.

She added: “There were stories this weekend

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inger-songwriter Katy Perry says judging “American Idol” reminds her of her own process and that really inspires her.

“I mean, it’s so beautiful. Like it just really reminds me of my own process. It re-inspires me.

And it’s that great American dream come true,” Perry said in a statement.

“Like we get to watch it from the infancy. And, you know, there are a few people I can’t stop thinking about based on their presence, their personality, their talent...the whole package,” she added.

Opening up about guiding the contestants, she said: “To be able to pay it forward by caring. I care so much about these kids. And being a real mentor. And giving them advice that they can hopefully take and really apply so that they can win.

“I mean, I’m just so encouraged by these kids and it makes me feel like a good person while doing it so I love it.”

What does she look for in the contestant?

“You know, they’re just looking for someone to stand out, to check all those boxes. I think it’s talent, personality and story, you know. Talent, personality and story. And in that personality is presentation. And the growth.

“You know, some

people can turn a little bit sour or like change when they come to Hollywood and they lose that vulnerability.

They lose that relatability. They lose that connection. I think it’s just people that they feel really connected to,” she said.

Perry judges “American Idol”, which airs in India on Zee Cafe, along with Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. She says the

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‘Social media fuelling eating disorders in teens’ y instilling in children dangerous ideas of perfection, social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat are fuelling eating disorders among teenagers, a British Cabinet Minister has warned.

Education Secretary Damian Hinds demanded that technology giants must “get serious” about their responsibility and protect their young users, The Sun reported on Monday.

His warning comes as several Cabinet ministers are scheduled to hold a meeting with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat bosses, the report added.

“It’s time for social media companies to get serious about their responsibility to young people,” Hinds was quoted as saying

by The Sun. (IANS)

team of the show is like family to her.

“Lionel, Luke and I have all grown really as a family. I mean, they feel like my brother and my uncle. We are so relaxed with each other and maybe that’s a bad thing sometimes. But we have such a great chemistry all three of us. We play on each other’s strengths,” said Perry.

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vengers: Endgame has made box office history by taking a record-breaking $1.2bn (£929m) in global ticket sales in its opening run.

The Disney blockbuster has become the fastest film ever to break the $1bn barrier, doing so in just five days.

Endgame is the 22nd offering in the Marvel Studios superhero franchise.

Its opening takings smashed the previous global debut record of $640m set by last year’s Avengers: Infinity War. In the US alone, Endgame - which stars Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man brought in a record $350m,

of sold-out cinemas, people were going to see all the other films because they were already at the cinema.

“So I think it is good overall. There is a risk that it could suck up all the oxygen in the room from other films but the secret has always been make a good film and people will see it one day.

“I think if people get into the habit of going to the cinema to see these movies then they’re likely to keep going to see the other ones as well”.

The movie drew huge audiences in China, where it made a record $330.5m after opening there on Wednesday, ahead of North America.

Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn said in a statement: “Though Endgame is far from an end for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, these first 22 films constitute a sprawling achievement, and this weekend’s monumental success is a testament to the world they’ve envisioned, the talent involved, and their collective passion, matched by the irrepressible enthusiasm of fans around the world”.

The popular Avengers franchise began back in 2008 with Iron Man. Endgame has received positive reviews from critics, with a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The family of LAHSS congratulates Alumna Pushpa Kumari (4th from left) State 6th Rank holder in HSLC board exam 2010 for getting into a placement as Robotics Engineer in New Zealand with 35 Lakhs package per Annum.

We are grateful to her for coming to school to encourage and motivate the Limarians. She exhorted them by saying that : “If you work hard, it’s you who will decide the position you want.

You are your own career maker.”

She exhibited that hard work and empathy is the path to one’s dream.

Woman, daughter, Limarian, sister and friend are the tags she proudly wears today as she continually shatters the ceilings set before her.

Thank you Pushpa for believing in yourself and never giving up your dreams and thank you for being a Limarian!

May God continually bless and guide you in all your future endeavours.

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FIH Men’s Series Finals: Italy shock Malaysia NUNTSA inter-campus sports meet

Kuala Lumpur, Apr 29 (Agencies): When Italians came to Kuala Lumpur early this month, no one gave them an outside chance of making it to the finals of the FIH Men’s Series Hockey Finals here.

Ranked the lowest among participating teams, Italy not only defeated China (ranked 14th) but also shocked the hosts Malaysia (ranked 13th) to emerge the only unbeaten team in the pool matches so far.

At present Italy is ranked 32nd by the FIH. Disappointment was writ large on the faces of Malaysians as they were expected to win the last game hands down after an absorbing 4-4 draw with China yesterday. But today, Italy, turned tables on the Malaysians, thanks to a brace by Augustin Nunez besides goals from Thomas Keenan and Sior Francois.

Team Italy gather to celebrate teammate Nunez Agustin’s goa against Malaysia, at the FIH Series Final in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday. (AP/PTI)

Augustin not only scored a brilliant field goal but also converted a penalty corner to expose Malaysia’s

vulnerability to penalty corners. Yesterday, China got all its four goals through penalty corners.Though

Malaysia got both its goals against Italy from penalty corners – Faizal Sara 26th minute and Rahim Razia

35th minute, but its inability to contain the Italians may have raised question marks over the coach Roeland Oltmans’ training of the home team.

Malaysia finished behind Italy with just four points. It got better of China in final standings on goal average. Earlier China overcame stiff resistance from Brazil before winning 3-2.It was China’s first win the tournament.

Now China and Malaysia from their pool along with Canada and Wales will take on each other in the playoffs to decide which of the two teams go to semis t play Italy and Austria. L. Su Yuan Lin and Dang Yeng scored for China against Brazil.

Heijden van Der Yori and Joaquin Lopes were the scorers for South Americans.

Dimapur, Apr 29 (NPN): Nagaland University Non-Teaching Staff Association (NUNTSA) conducted its first InterCampus sports meet at SASRD, Medziphema Campus on April 25 and 26.

The event witnessed active participation from campuses viz., Lumami Campus, SET Dimapur Campus, SASRD Medziphema Campus and Meriema Campus Kohima.

The inter campus sports meet was organized in commemoration of the year-long celebration of the Nagaland University Silver Jubilee (1994-2019) under the theme “For a Vibrant Future” The opening ceremony was graced by registrar of Nagaland University, Dr. Abemo as the special guest, who encouraged the non-teaching staff of all the campuses to participate

NUNTSA sports meet opening ceremony in progress.

with full spirit and to foster and strengthen the bonds between members of the four campuses.

The programme chaired by vice president NUNTSA-M, M. Salhübegan with an invocation by N. Mor. Pro vice chancellor SASRD Medziphema campus, Prof. T. Lanusosang also exhorted the gathering.

Various events such as tug of war, volleyball, penalty shootout, chess, carrom, badminton and table tennis were conducted

during the meet.

An exhibition football match was also played between Pro Vice Chancellor XI and Registrar XI where the former beat the latter 4-1. The closing ceremony was graced by Pro Vice Chancellor of Meriema Campus, Prof.

R.C Nayak.

The overall champion of the Inter-Campus Sports Meet 2019 was bagged

by NU: SASRD, Medziphema Campus. The best disciplined contingent was bagged by NU, SET, Dimapur Campus.

Had joined CAC to serve Indian No Real, no Ronaldo: Fresh feel for Champions League semis cricket: Laxman to Ombudsman fresh for the semifinal. The Liverpool, where they were Amsterdam club will go stars before joining Barceinto the first leg on Tuesday lona. Suarez played four on the back of a seven-day seasons in England before rest. making the move to Spain As for Tottenham, in 2014, while Coutinho manager Mauricio Pochet- spent six seasons with Livtino played a close-to-full- erpool before a high-profile strength team in a 1-0 de- and drawn-out transfer to feat against West Ham in the Spanish powerhouse the Premier League on last year.

Saturday, with injuries limWhile Suarez has iting his ability to rotate thrived with Barcelona amid a grueling schedule of after leaving Liverpool, games every three or four becoming the perfect foil days. Ajax and Tottenham for Lionel Messi in attack, last met in European com- Coutinho is yet to show the petition in 1981, in the first same form that made him round of the European Cup a key player for the English Winners’ Cup, with Totten- club. ham winning.

Liverpool is locked in BARA-LIVERPOOL a title race in the Premier This vibrant and creative Ajax side will meet Tottenham in the Champions League semi-final.

The matches will see League, one point behind Luis Suarez and Philippe Man City with two games needed a last-gasp draw at stun some of the top teams it won the title for the fifth Coutinho come up against to go.

Barcelona’s Camp Nou to on the continent, its youth- time. Liverpool is also a get out of its group, and has filled team beating Madrid five-time European chambeaten Borussia Dortmund and Juventus Ronaldo’s pion and a power again in 1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY and Manchester City to past and present teams in the English Premier League 1st Death Anniversary of our reach its first European the knockout stage. under Juergen Klopp. beloved father Cup semifinal in 57 years.

The other semifinal is TOTTENHAM-AJAX LATE NLONGTSU KIKON Hailing from the large- just as intriguing and feaDied on 30-04-2018 There has been a sharp ly ignored Dutch league, tures teams expected to get contrast in the build-up to Ajax is back in the semis for this far. However, it remains “A year has passed yet you are deeply the first time since 1997 and something of a mystery the game for the two teams. missed in every single day of our seeking a fifth European as to why Barcelona led Ajax’s players had their feet lives for you are so special; who Cup title _ and first since by Lionel Messi has only up at the weekend after all meant a lot to us that nothing can 1995. Much like Monaco made it to the last four once fixtures in the Dutch top express” two seasons ago, Ajax has in the previous five years. flight were canceled in an Loving wife, children emerged from nowhere to That was in 2015, the year effort to help the team stay & relatives WC-140

Tirop to defend her crown at World 10K

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third and fourth in 2018.

Meanwhile, Kenya’s Geoffrey Koech and Vincent Kiprotich Kibet finished 2018 as the third and fifth fastest men over 10km in the world last year with 27:18 and 27:21 respectively, both times considerably faster than the TCS World 10K course record of 27:44 set by their compatriot Geoffrey

Kamworor in 2014.

Koech, the fastest man in the field, hasn’t been in quite the same sparkling form in his two outings so far this year, both half marathons, but is hoping that dropping down distance will pay dividends but Kiprotich Kibet has already won one major 10km race this year, winning the famous Würzburger Residenzlauf in Germany in 27:35 on 14 August.

Ethiopian duo Birhanu Legese and Andamlak Belihu both know what it’s like to win on Indian roads having respectively won the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K and Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in December and October last year.

KBHSS annual sports meet D. Khel Kohima Village from april 15 to 17.

Deputy Commandant of 93 Battalion BSF, Amit Sharma graced the opening ceremony as special guest.

In his speech, the special guest encouraged the students to give importance to sports saying that education is all round development which goes beyond the four walls of the classroom.

He also advised the students to play the games with true sportsmanship and gives their best. Principal of the school, Kedoroko CasaAmit Sharma addressing the KBHSS sports meet. vi delivered the welcome D IMAPUR , APR 2 9 (KBHSS), Kohima Village address and invocation by (NPN): Khedi Baptist conducted its annual sports chaplain, Viphretuonuo Higher Secondary School meet at Seikhazou Ground, Sorhie.

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New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): After being asked to explain his position in the alleged case of conflict for his role as Sunrisers Hyderabad mentor as well as a member of the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), former India middle-order batsman V.V.S Laxman has ripped into the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) and said that he had joined the CAC to serve Indian cricket and not to get engulfed in a conflict of interest mess.

Laxman in the letter drafted by his lawyer has made it clear that the idea of serving Indian cricket even after retirement was the reason behind him joining the CAC and not to

stand in a position wherein his motive would be questioned.

“It will be worthwhile to note that the reason I agreed to be a member was because of the various inputs we were originally tasked with contributing towards the sustained growth of Indian cricket. The opportunity to be involved meaningfully in India’s climb towards becoming a cricketing superpower post retirement was privilege enough for me to turn down the offer of remuneration of being a part of CAC. “The allegation of the complainant are baseless as we are in no manner selectors of either players or coaches and CAC is not a permanent body,” his mail read.

2nd DEATH ANNIVERSARY

IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR BELOVED LATE TIAYONGMENBA LKR CHUCHUYIMLANG DIED ON 30TH APRIL 2017.

Nothing can fill the void left in our lives. Each and every moment reminds us of your presence in our midst. To think of you every second is our solace and strength to face the day. Two years passed after you left us but our tears are still fresh. You are gone but can never be forgotten.

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Bengaluru, Apr 29 (IANS): Kenyas Agnes Tirop will defend her title –a feat never achieved before in the womens race since the TCS World 10K was inaugurated in 2008 –- in the 12th edition of the TCS World 10K slated to be held on May 19. In 2018, Tirop set a course record of 31:19 after managing to shake off Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi with just 250 metres to go.

Teferi, who won the RAK Half Marathon earlier this year in a national record 1:05:45, is also back while other familiar faces on the start line include Kenya’s Caroline Kipkirui and Ethiopia’s 2018 world half marathon champion Netsanet Gudeta, who were

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LT. L. SERICHEM SANGTAM (10.02.61 – 09.04.19) “Sometimes we wish for you to come back, but we don’t want you to suffer again. We know you are with us and we will always love and miss you with all our Hearts. Until we meet again”.

We the bereaved family members would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude and sincere appreciation to all our well wishers who stood by us Physically, Spiritually, Morally & Financially during his prolonged illness and Sad demise of our father.

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Born : 18.11.1995 – Died: 24.04.2019 We the family of Lt. Kelhoukiezo Ambrose Sere of Nerhe Model Village extend our heartfelt gratitude to all friends, relatives, churches, organizations and well wishers who stood by us with your Physical Presence, Financial Support and Prayers during his illness and sudden demise.

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L o n d o n, A p r 2 9 (Agencies): There’s a fresh feel to the lineup for the Champions League semifinals this season, even if it contains some of the most storied teams and recognized players in Europe. This time there’s no Real Madrid, the three-time defending champion and Europe’s dominant team of this generation.

Ac cording to AP, there’s no Cristiano Ronaldo, the superstar forward who has virtually made this competition his own in recent years. And there’s no Juventus, Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid _ frequent last-four representatives of late.

Instead, the survivors this year in the biggest club competition in world soccer are a surprise package from England, a blast from the past from the Netherlands, and two more aristocrats of the European game looking to end lean spells in the Champions League by their lofty standards, anyway.

Few could have foreseen one of the semifinal matchups being Tottenham vs. Ajax. Tottenham hasn’t bought a player in the last two transfer windows,

Though we couldn’t go and thank each and every individual may our Almighty God bless each and everyone.

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Warner leads SRH 45-run win over Kings XI

David Warner plays a shot during the IPL cricket match at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad, Monday. (PTI)

Hy d e r aba d, A p r 29 (PTI): David Warner signed off his IPL 2019 campaign in style, notching up his eight fifty of the season to help Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) take a step closer towards qualifying for the play-offs with a comfortable 45-run win over Kings XI Punjab here Monday.

Playing his last match of season before heading home for World Cup preparations, Warner struck a belligerent 81 off 56 balls with seven fours and two sixes to complete his IPL

2019 campaign with 692 runs, the highest so far in the tournament.

Chasing the imposing total, K L Rahul (79 off 56, 4x4s, 5x6s) made a valiant effort with the bat but lacked support from the other end as Kings XI were restricted to 167 for eight.

By virtue of this win, Sunrisers have consolidated their fourth position in the table with 12 points from 12 games, while Kings XI are at 10 points from as many matches. Both the teams have two more matches to go with Kings XI still in

the hunt. Kings XI needed a brisk start but they didn’t get one, losing explosive Chris Gayle early.

Gayle departed in the first ball of the third over, brilliantly caught by Manish Pandey off Khaleel Ahmed (3/40) with Kings XI scoreboard reading 11.

Thereafter, Rahul and Mayank Agarwal (27 off 18) added 60 off 39 balls to take Kings XI forward.

But just when the partnership was looking threatening, Agarwal was holed by Vijay Shankar off Rashid Khan (3/21) in the

Sterling, Parris win FWA award

Raheem Sterling and Nikita Parris have starred for Manchester City this season.

L o n d o n, A p r 2 9 (Agencies): Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling and Nikita Parris have won the Football Writers’ Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year awards.

Sterling, 24, took the writers’ men’s award with 62% of the vote after he was named Professional Footballers’ Association Young Player of the Year.

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk - PFA Player of the Year - was second.

Parris, 25, edged Arsenal’s Vivianne Miedema by 11 to 10 in the second stage of voting for the women’s award.

Netherlands striker

Miedema was named PFA Player of the Year alongside Van Dijk on Sunday.

Parris has helped City to the Women’s FA Cup final and featured in England’s successful She Believes Cup campaign.

More than 400 FWA members voted in their award, with Sterling finishing more than 100 votes clear of Van Dijk, Tottenham’s Harry Kane, Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, Arsenal’s Alexandre Lacazette, and Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva and David Silva all earned votes.

Sterling becomes the first City player to win the

award since 1969, when Tony Book shared the honour with Derby’s Dave Mackay.

As well as his 29 goals for club and country, the England forward was also praised for his public stance against racism, which has already won him other awards.

The women’s vote saw Parris and Miedema clear after stage one of voting before the City striker narrowly took stage two, with England and Manchester City captain Steph Houghton finishing third.

Parris, who joined City from Everton in 2015, was named in the PFA Women’s Super League Team of the Year on Sunday. Her 19 league goals and seven assists this season helped City to second in the Women’s Super League, behind champions Arsenal.

The FWA praised the Liverpool-born forward for her role in helping City to victory in the Continental Tyres Cup and in reaching Saturday’s FA Cup final against West Ham. Parris was also praised for helping to set up qualifications in conjunction with Liverpool College.

ninth over.

Kings XI. Earlier, Warner New man in Nicholas and Wriddhiman Saha (28 Pooran (21 off 10) played a off 13) got SRH off to a short breezy knock before brisk start after being sent Bhuvneshwar Kumar took into bat. The duo took the a beautiful catch at long-leg Kings XI bowlers to the boundary off Ahmed to cleaners to pile up 77 runs sent packing the batsman. of the first six overs of Rashid then came to powerplay. the party and picked up Saha’s innings came two wickets -- David Miller to an end when he under(11 off 11) and skipper edged a Murugan AshRavichandran Ashwin -- win delivery to debutant in consecutive balls in the Prabhsimran Singh behind 13th over. the stumps. Warner continFrom there on, the ued in the same vein and asking was tall for Rahul notched up his eight fifty of and debutant Prabhsimran the season with a boundary Singh (16) and the for- off Shami in the 12th over. mer finally perished in the Manish Pandey (36 off 25) 19th over after a beautiful too played a quick knock in knock to shut the doors for Warner’s company.

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Cannavaro steps down as China football coach Shanghai, Apr 29 (IANS): Italian coach Fabio Cannavaro has announced he is resigning from steering the Chinese national soccer team after just two consecutive defeats and said he would continue to focus on his role as the Guangzhou Evergrande Club’s manager.

“Due to the respect I owe China, I feel it is necessary to announce that I decided to quit the coaching spot of Team China,” state news agency Xinhua reported the former Real Madrid defender as saying on Sunday.

The 45-year-old explayer expressed his gratitude to the Chinese Football Association and the Guangzhou Evergrande Club, both of which “expected him to steer the national team and club simultaneously, but he still refused the proposal for family reasons,” Xinhua reported.

Cannavaro said that a month ago, he had told his club that he wanted to focus his whole attention on the team’s performance in all competitions, reported Efe news agency.

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Zidane apologises after Real Madrid lose

Rayo striker Adrian Embarba sends Real keeper Thibaut Courtois the wrong way from the spot.

L o n d o n, A p r 2 9 (Agencies): Real Madrid were stunned by La Liga’s bottom club Rayo Vallecano, who kept their slim hopes of survival alive.

It is the first time Real have lost to a team bottom of the league since 2004.

Boss Zinedine Zidane made eight changes to his team as he continues to experiment with his third-

placed squad, who have little to play for.

Adrian Embarba scored the only goal for Rayo from a video assistant referee-awarded penalty following a Jesus Vallejo foul on Javi Guerra.

The referee did not initially award a penalty.

Real broke and Gareth Bale had a shot saved before the referee viewed the

incident on a screen and gave a spot-kick.

Had Bale scored, it would have been disallowed.

Embarba sent Thibaut Courtois, playing for the first time under Zidane, the wrong way in what proved to be the winner.

He is now Rayo’s joint second top scorer this season with four goals. Their

Zinedine Zidane apologised and said he wished Real Madrid’s miserable season would end now after they were beaten by 19th-placed Rayo Vallecano on Sunday.

Real Madrid’s response to Barcelona winning the title on Saturday night was to slip to a 0-1 defeat at Vallecas and fall 18 points behind La Liga’s newly-crowned champions. Zidane took over knowing Real Madrid’s title challenge was all-but extinguished but the difference to Barca then was 12 points while catching Atletico Madrid, now nine ahead, seemed achievable.

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Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat recommended for Khel Ratna

Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat (File)

New Delhi, Apr 29 (IANS): The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has recommended the names of Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

Current number one wrestler Punia recently stamped his authority on Asia after he won the Asian Wrestling Championships in Xi’an, China. Punia had last year won the gold medal in the 65-kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games held in Jakarta. He defeated Japanese wrestler Takatani Daichi 11-8. Before that, he had also won the gold medal in the same category at the

Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. He overcame Kane Charig of Wales by Technical Superiority to clinch the gold.

On the other hand, Vinesh became the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in both Commonwealth and Asian games.

At the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Vinesh won gold in women’s freestyle 50-kg event by defeating Canada’s Jessica MacDonald. In the 2018 Asian Games, she created history as she became the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in the games by beating Japan’s Yuki Irie

in women’s 50-kg freestyle wrestling gold medal match.

She also became the first Indian athlete to be nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards held in February 2019.

Apart from Vinesh and Bajrang, the WFI has recommended Rahul Aware, Har preet Singh, Divya Kakran and Pooja Dhanda for the Arjuna Award while Virender Kumar, Sujeet Maan, Narendra Kumar and Vikram Kumar have been recommended for Dronacharya Award. Bheem Singh and Jai Prakash have been recommended for the Dhyan Chand Award.

Gomathi sets sights on Worlds, Olympics New Delhi, Apr 29 (Agencies): Gomathi Marimuthu might have become an overnight star with her gold-winning effort at the recently-concluded Asian Athletics Championship in Doha but she is now focussed on qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

According to Scroll. in. the athlete from a village near Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu finished on top in 800 metres. She now has aims to do well at the World Athletics Championships later this year.

“My next aim is to perform well in the World Athletics Championships,” Marimuthu, an employee of the Income Tax Department told PTI. “I also want to run in the Olympics and am preparing for it. Now more and more people and the government is supporting me. I want to do everything possible to qualify for the Games in Tokyo. The aim is to qualify for the Olympics.”

Marimuthu clocked a personal best time of 2:02:70s at the Asian championship, bettering her previous best of 2:03:21 that she had achieved at the Federation Cup in Patiala earlier

Real Madrid stunned by Vallecano in La Liga main goalscorer Raul de Tomas was ineligible because he is on loan from Real. Madrid minnows Vallecano - who had only won one of their previous 13 games - are six points adrift of safety with three games to go.

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ing,” Zidane said. “From minute one until the end, at all levels. Sometimes you cannot score but today we did not even create chances, did not play at all.

“We must be very angry. I am angry, because the image we gave off today was bad. I am responsible for this as well, not just the players. But we have to apologise for our performance today, all of us.”

The gap widens between them and Barcelona, whose players had been dancing on the pitch at Camp Nou the night before and posing for photos with their children after wrapping up a fourth La Liga title in five years.

Asked if he would like the season to end now, Zidane said: “Yes, but we have to play these three games and do something different. We cannot end like this.

“It is about me as well, today what I did in the shape of the team, it didn’t work at all. We must respect football and what this club represents.”

Gomathi Marimuthu won India’s first gold medal at Doha2019. (AFI / Twitter)

this year.

Marimuthu, daughter of a farm labourer, said the she would have recorded a better timing if it weren’t for those years that she lost due to injury and lack of support.

“No one knew me before this. Now that everyone knows me I am getting support from various quarters including the Tamil Nadu government. I could have recorded a better time if I had not lost those years due to injury and lack of support,” she said.

Recalling the tough days she had to endure when her father and coach passed away, the 30-year-old said that she kept going only because of her friend’s support. “The year 2016 was a tough one for me as I lost

my father and coach but my friend Francis Mary encouraged me and told me to continue the sport. Also, a groin injury meant I missed nearly two years,” she said.

Her immediate goal is to do well in the inter-state athletic championship, to be held in Kolkata in July before the World Championships in Doha in September.

“Now, I am feeling more confident after the win in Doha and next is the inter-state meet and then the big one [World Championships].”

About ‘lucky shoes’ and making her father proud Marimuthu said her coach would devise her training schedules ahead of the World Championships.

As for the controversy that

cropped up after reports emerged of her running with torn shoes, Gomathi said it was not the case, and the ones she had worn were “lucky shoes.”

“I have heard this so many times,” Marimuthu said.” It is not like that. The pair I wore during the race were lucky ones. I am very sentimental about that pair so I used it for the final,” she clarified. Her mother, 52year old Rasathi, who works in a field, was overjoyed and said her village celebrated her daughter’s triumph.

“Gomathi told me that she was going abroad to take part in an athletics meet and that she would call me after April 25. Till she won, I had no idea about her achievement. I am very proud that my girl from this small village has reached such heights with determination and hard work,” said Gomathi’s mother.

Rasathi said her late husband had supported Gomathi a lot after she displayed interest in athletics from a young age. “My husband would have been very happy if he had been alive to see Gomathi win such a big prize. I am happy that she had realised his dreams,” she added.

Saina Nehwal eyes second title of season at New Zealand Open

Auckland, Apr 29 (PTI): Saina Nehwal will be keen to put behind the disappointment of losing in the quarterfinals of justconcluded Asia Badminton Championship and train her eyes on winning the New Zealand Open beginning here Tuesday.

The 29-year-old from Hyderabad, seeded second, will begin her quest for the second title this year when she will take on China’s Wang Zhiyi in the first round of the women’s singles.

World no. 9 is the only Indian to have won a title at the Indonesia Masters this year and Saina would be looking to add another one to her kitty.

Meanwhile, PV Sindhu, who also lost in the quarterfinals of Asia Badminton Championship, is not competing in this tournament.

Another lesser known Indian Anura Prabhudesai will be up against sixth seed Li Xuerui in an open-

Saina Nehwal (File)

ing round match of the women’s singles.

In men’s singles, B Sai Praneeth (currently ranked 20th) and HS Prannoy (ranked 21st) have qualified automatically for the main draw along with Subhanker Dey. While Ajay Jayaram, Parupalli Kashyap and Lakshya Sen will be fighting it out at the qualifiers to make it to the main draw.

Sai Praneeth, who lost in the final of Swiss Open this year after going down to world No 2 Shi Yuqi of China, will start his campaign against compatriot

Subhankar.

Prannoy, on the other hand, will clash with Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in his first round men’s singles match.

In men’s doubles, India will be represented by the pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy. The duo will face a qualifier in the first round.

Wo m e n’s d o u b l e s combination of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will be the lone Indian pair in the field. India do not have any representation in the mixed doubles event.

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