August 15, 2016

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DIMAPUR monday, august 15, 2016

President attacks divisive forces NEW DELHI, AUG 14 (IANS): President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday denounced “forces of divisiveness and intolerance” as well as attacks on weaker sections, saying they must be dealt with firmly.

In his Independence Day eve address to the nation, the President also came out strongly against groups and individuals who pursue a divisive political agenda that leads to Constitutional subversion.

In his fifth August 14 address, Mukherjee said that in the last four years he saw “with some disquiet, forces of divisiveness and intolerance trying to raise their ugly head.

“Attacks on weaker sections that militate against our national ethos are aberrations that need to be dealt with firmly.

“The collective wisdom of our society and our polity gives me the confidence that such forces will remain marginalized,” he added.

India will celebrate its 70th Independence Day on Monday.

Democracy, the President underlined, was not just about elections.

“Disruptions, obstructionism and unmindful pursuit of a divisive political agenda by groups and individuals lead to nothing but institutional travesty and Constitutional subversion,” he said.

President Pranab Mukherjee addresses the Nation on the eve of 70th Independence Day on Sunday. (PTI) “Polarizing debates only deepen the fault lines in public discourse.”

The President, however, made no specific reference to the attacks on Dalits, communal tensions or the Kashmir unrest in his speech.

A unique feature of India, he pointed out, was “our respect for each other’s cultures, values and beliefs.

“The very essence of plurality lies in cherishing our heterogeneity and valuing our diversity.

“In the network environment of today, a caring society can only be developed by harmonizing religion with modern science,” Mukherjee added.

Calling for the promotion of scientific temper, he said: “We often celebrate the achievements of our ancient

past but it would be wrong to rest on our laurels.

“It is much more important to look to the future,” he said.

Indians, the President said, “must learn to challenge the status quo and refuse to accept inefficiency and slipshod work.

“In a competitive environment, a sense of immediacy and some impatience is a necessary virtue.”

Mukher jee said that backed by a strong political will, the country must create a future which would economically empower 600 million youth, build a digital India, a start up India and a skilled India.

“India will grow, only when all of India grows. The excluded ones will have to be included in the development

process. The hurt and alienated have to be brought back into the mainstream.”

He said India has had remarkable growth in recent times, often growing above 8 per cent per annum over the last decade.

“We must build on our strengths so that, this lead can be sustained and furthered.”

He said a normal monsoon this year gave reason to cheer unlike the past two years when below normal rains led to agrarian distress.

The President emphasized the importance of India’s “neighbourbood first policy”. South Asia must carve out a common destiny to march together.

Mukherjee denounced a rise in terrorism across the globe, with its roots in radicalization of people on the basis of religion.

“These forces apart from killing innocent people in the name of religion also threaten to disrupt geopolitical divides, which could prove disastrous for world peace.

“The inhuman, mindless and barbaric modus operandi of such groups have been visible in France, Belgium, United States, Nigeria, Kenya and closer home in Afghanistan and Bangladesh recently.

“These forces now pose a danger to the entire comity of nations. The world will have to fight them unconditionally and in one voice.”

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PIL in SC against cow vigilantes for violent acts

Central govt has upheld vision of a transformed India: Acharya

New Delhi, Aug 14 (AGENCIES): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre and some states to take action against so-called cow vigilantes, who are allegedly spreading violence and committing atrocities against Dalits and minorities. The PIL, filed by Congress activist Tehseen S Poonawalla, said the violence committed by these ‘Gau Raksha’ groups have reached to such proportions that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently declared them as people who are “destroying the society”.

It alleged these groups were committing atrocities against Dalits and minorities in the name of protection of cows and other bovines and they needed to be “regulated and banned in the interest of social harmony, public morality and law and order in the country”. It also sought a direction to remove the alleged “violent content” uploaded on social media and hosted by the cow protection groups.

The plea sought to declare as “unconstitutional” section 12 of the Gujarat Animal Prevention Act, 1954, Section 13 of Maharashtra Animal Prevention Act, 1976, and Section 15 of Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964, which provide for protection of persons acting in good faith under the Act or rules.

DIMAPUR, AUG 14 (NPN): Nagaland Gover nor, P.B. Acharya on Sunday highlighted the achievements of the government and said that Central government has upheld the vision of a transformed India.

“Our standing in the world has risen. Since the time of Modiji taking office as Prime Minister, he has focused on reforming and modernizing India’s infrastructure and improving national standards of health and sanitation, social security, financial inclusion by National Programmes like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Prime Minister’s Jeevan Bhima Yojana, Jeevan Sureksha Yojana and also Jan DhanYojana,” Acharya said in his speech, greeting the people on the eve of the country’s 70th Independence Day. “Let us salute the great nation, Bharat on her 70th Independence. This is a day of dedication and hallowed remembrance for us, we celebrate our freedom”, he said.

While paying homage and tribute to those self-sacrificing and devoted leaders and patriots, Acharya said “many generations of our countrymen waged a powerful struggle for Independence and gave their lives for the country and became martyrs”.

Highlighting the achievements of the government, Acharya said schemes such as Kisan Credit Cards, Kisan Insurance, Soil Health Card, etc.

were introduced to empower farmers.

He said union minister for Roads and Transport, Nitin Gadkari had also earmarked Rs. 5,000 crore for improving roads and bridges for the North East, the life line of the country.

He said for the first time in the history of Nagaland, the new broad gauge railway line between Dimapur–Kohima (Zubza), the foundation stone laid by union minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu, would be completed by 2019. “This is a great and significant initiative under our Prime Minister,” he added.

He further said that the Indian National Fellowship Centre (INFC), an Mumbai based NGO, School Education department, in collaboration with Rotary Club Bombay (North), have worked out a project to start E-learning in 28 selected Government Higher Secondary Schools in Nagaland. Stating that it was the first of its kind in the North East Region, Acharya said this would enhance the quality of learning at government schools.

He said several initiatives to strengthen emotional integration had been worked out like organizing medical camps, teachers exchange programme, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and health services rendered to Nagas living in the border areas of Myanmar.

With the population having 65% youths, he said if the universities and educational institutions add skill in the academic contents, the youth would be employable and develop human resource for the world. “Our youths coming out of Universities should be job givers and not job seekers”, he asserted.

Citing the example of Nagaland, Acharya said it was a pride for a small state to have four Universities-- Nagaland University, ICFAI University, Global Open University of Nagaland and St. Joseph Catholic University of Nagaland.

“Empowerment of prospective young men and women by education is important. The first and foremost factor of development of society is education,” he said.

He said that the scouts & guides have also been strengthening the society by bringing discipline in life and rendering service to the needy.

Acharya further noted that the ex-servicemen of Nagaland have also equally contributed to the freedom of India. “We are proud of our ex-servicemen. We should also respect and take care of the Veer Naris of the State,” he said.

He also mentioned that the Nagaland Red Cross Society had been rendering humanitarian services to the society at the hour of need or disaster.

(Cont’d on p-7)

PWD (NH) issues 10 freedom fighters from NE to be honoured Black money: I-T unearth NPCC sceptical of govt’s decision Tirot Sing, one of the DELHI, AUG 14 the British colonialism in 1930s travel advisory NEW `3,300 cr in four months to implement 33% women quota (PTI): Ten freedom fighters and the struggle soon turned chiefs of the Khasi people in

D I M A P U R , AU G 1 4 (NPN): Executive Engineer PWD (NH) Division-III, Tuensang has informed all commutes on NH- 202 (155 old) that the bridge at location 32.750km between Chare and Mokokchung has been washed away on August 14, 2016.

In this regard, Er. K. Imnajungba Jamir has advised the commuters to travel via the following route till the road is restored: Longsa– Suruhoto– angli, Mokochung–Longmesa–Alisophur– Throngar (only light vehicles) and Mokokchung–Chuchuyimpang–Chare.

Two Naga officers get SC award D I M A P U R , AU G 1 4 (NPN): On the occasion of Independence Day, the President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces has approved 82 gallantry awards to Armed Forces Personnel and members of Paramilitary Forces which include one Ashok Chakra, 14 Shaurya Chakras, 63 Sena Medals (Gallantry), two Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry) and two Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry).

Of the 14 Shaur ya Chakras (SC) awardees, two officers are from Capt. Elisen Y Jami of the 12 Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) and Atu Zumvu (SDPO) of the Nagaland Police.

This is it!

“The minister is taking his friends, family and PS to RIo. Says it’s to learn how to improve sports in India.”

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from the Northeast that include three women, who are largely unfamiliar to the rest of the country, will be honoured by the central government as part of the 70th Independence Day celebrations.

It is part of NDA government’s plans for visits by Union ministers to the birth places of ‘forgotten heroes’ and sites of freedom struggle to honour the bravehearts.

Kanaklata Baruah, 17, was shot dead by the Britishers at Gohpur in Assam’s presentday Biswanath district while going to hoist the national flag at a local police station. On the same day, about 150 km away at Barhampur in state’s Nagaon district, Bhogeswari Phukanani, a 57-year-old mother of eight, was killed for the same reason by the British Police.

Naga spiritual and political leader from Manipur Rani Gaidinliu will also be honoured as part of the “forgotten heroes” programme.

Ranima, as she was popularly and affectionately called, led a movement against

into a battle to uproot British from Manipur and Nagaland.

She was in jail for 14 years and was released from jail only when India got independence in 1947.

Another freedom struggle hero of Assam, Kushal Konwar, will also be honoured. He was hanged by the Britishers for derailment of a military train at Sarupathar in Golghat district in 1942.

Ar unachal Pradesh’s freedom fighter Moje Riba will be honoured. He was the first person to hoist the tricolour at Dipa village in Arunachal Pradesh on August 15, 1947.

Riba was arrested by British Police for participating in the Independence struggle and distributing pamphlets during the Quit India Movement.

Assam’s first CM Gopinath Bordoloi will be honoured as it was due to his continuous fight that Assam remained with India after he foiled the design of Muslim League to include the Hindu-dominated state into East Pakistan during “grouping” scheme.

the early 18th century will also be honoured. Sing fought against British attempts to take over control of the Khasi hills. Shoorvir Pasaltha Khuangchera, the first Mizo leader to fight Britishers in 1890, will also be honoured.

As the British invaded Lushai hills (Mizoram), Shoorvir died fighting them.

Matmur Jamoh was a freedom fighter from Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh who will be honoured.

Jamoh killed a British assistant political officer Noel Williamson in 1911 as he did not like the British interference of people’s day-to-day life while his followers killed another British officer Gregeorson.

Jamoh was arrested and sent to Cellular jail in Andaman where he died in obscurity.

Freedom fighter from Assam’s Dimasa tribals Sambhudan Phonglo will also be honoured for his contribution during country’s freedom struggle.

NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (Agencies): The government’s income disclosure scheme, the window for black money declaration may not have started yielding desired results yet, but the government has started building pressure on the suspect tax evaders by increasing the number of Income Tax raids across the country, which went up nearly three times in the first four months of this year—from 55 last year to 145 this year.

During the first four months of this fiscal (AprilJuly), at least 145 Income Tax (I-T) raids have been conducted with more than Rs 245 crore unaccounted cash (black money) seized. The total undisclosed income admitted during these raids has been an unprecedented Rs 3,375 crore, excluding the cash and jewellery seizures.

According to top I-T officials, the I-T department’s strategy to increase search and seizure operations against suspect evaders has been successful and the cash seizures have been an all-time high, most of it has been netted from leading educational institutions and builders in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi among other cities.

During the first four months of 2016, at least 145 I-T raids unearthed unaccounted income and cash worth Rs 3,375 crore as against Rs 2,252 crore in the first four months of 2015.

As against Rs 76 crore of cash seized last year during the four months, the department managed to lay their hands on over Rs 245 crore this year during April-July. Seizure of jewellery accounted for Rs 85 crore as against Rs 21 crore last year.

DIMAPUR, AUG 14 (NPN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), while welcoming the state government’s decision to conduct elections to Urban Local bodies (ULBs)/Town Councils and to implement 33% reservation for women in civic polls, raised doubts on whether chief minister T.R. Zeliang and the government could assert their authority in implementing 33% women reservation or succumb to the pressures of some civil societies “who have no accountability towards the people they claim to represent”.

In a press note, NPCC media cell said that 33% reservation for women was made through The Nagaland Municipal (First Amendment) Act, 2006 but “NPF govt dithered and backtracked in its implementation”. According to media cell, after elections to ULBs were postponed on pretext or the other including the issue of women reservation since 2010, the NPF government illegally appointed their party workers in the guise of advisors and “these people without any accountability or even an iota of moral conscience looted and destroyed the

institution of local bodies”.

Media cell also claimed that majority of the council members in the past barring some few honest souls have failed to perform their duty.

“While busy taxing every item for themselves, they could not even fill potholes, provide garbage disposal or clear clogged drains,” it said.

Instead of executing their duties, they council member “sat together with illegal tax collectors in the gates and people were subjected to multiple taxes on all items from multiple points”, media cell alleged.

In such circumstances, media cell said that the people needed council(s) that could provide safety and security to life and property of people. “We need Council that may facilitate entrepreneurs and traders”, it said.

Therefore, media cell said it expected that the election be conducted in free and fair manner.

Media cell also appealed the voters to elect upright leaders to serve the welfare of common people and “not rascals, rogues and freebooters with low calibre to avoid squabbles amongst themselves for power”.

Naga Political Groups celebrate ‘70th Naga Independence Day’ Integration of Nagas a legitimate right, says Raising Nagas have asserted their right without fear: Adinno Sovereignty reduced to a game of spl economic privileges: GPRN/NSCN Staff Reporter Correspondent Stating that the era of Nagas had each other positions.

DIMAPUR, AUG 14 (NPN): NSCN (I-M) kilo kilonser, Rh. Raising on Sunday asserted that “integration of all Naga territories, under one politiRh. Raising (NP) cal umbrella is the legitimate right of the Nagas, which no power can stop.”

Speaking as the chief guest on the occasion of ‘70th Naga Independence Day’ at CHQ, Hebron, Raising said “integration of all Naga territories is a natural necessity and not a choice.”

Maintaining that all the nation-states today were built on the concept of “pluralism of sovereignty”, Raising said “shared sovereignty is a matter of mutual agreement founded on the objective reality of national necessity of the two people.”

“Like it or not, India and Nagas are unavoidably interrelated and interdependent,” he added.

He also informed the gathering that solution was at its final phase of negotiation, “ready to enter the last stage of nation building.”

begun, Raising urged upon every Nagas, “without exception, to be politically, mentally, and spiritually prepared for the era “the good lord has given to them.”

Addressing various issues that have cropped up in the ongoing talks with the Government of India (GoI) such as sovereignty and integration of Naga territories, Raising said “Nagas were not asking for sovereignty from India as sovereignty of Nagas belonged to the people”.

He noted that Naga Independence Day was the stamp of Naga nationhood and the legacy of free Nagas which needed to be recognised by the “aggressor” states and the world community as well.

While asserting the ‘oneness’ of Nagas bereft of ‘isms’ and that “no force could kill the living spirit of Nagalim for Christ”, Raising lamented that there were still some people infected by the virus of tribalism and divisionism.

In his concluding remark, Raising asserted that “Nagalim should be built and developed by the Naga politics and run by it, for which, NSCN (I-M) was the standard bearer which nobody should doubt.”

Earlier, Raising unfurled the Naga national flag and took the salute as the Naga army carried out the parade on the occasion.

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KOHIMA, AUG 14 (NPN): Naga National council (NNC) observed the ‘70th Nagaland Independence Day’ at Transit peace camp Kohima, Sunday.

Adinno Phizo (NP) Addressing all rank and files of NNC Naga army, public and others, NNC president Adinno Phizo said that the occasion was a great day for the Naga people in celebrating the 69th anniversary of Nagaland independence declaration to the world on this day, August 14, 1947.

She said it was a blessing that Naga people were always with the course of time in asserting their right without fear.

She maintained that throughout the ages, Nagas protected their country and continued till today.

Recalling the history, Adinno said before 1947, Nagas and Indians hardly knew each other, however, with the change in times; the Nagas under the visionary leader of A. Z. Phizo led the Naga representatives and met all the Indian prominent leaders so as to understand

Therefore, she said Nagas sought for peace and harmony between Nagaland and India, but India responded with war and brought divide and rule in Nagaland, and continued till today.

Recalling the past suffering, she said Nagas have gone through a horrific time during the war with India (1954- 1964), when the whole nation was “shaken, many suffered, maimed and died and we remember our people who sacrificed for the nation especially on this momentous day”. During those days, Adinno said, the state was self sufficient, “no beggar, people were happy, trusting and honest” and tribalism did not exist unlike the present day.

However, she said all those unwanted elements were started by educated people, who fight for jobs/salary with false pride. She therefore, challenged the Nagas to keep the country safe from evil by returning to our normality.

On the occasion, Gen. (Rtd) Viyalie Metha Kedahge FGN also paid respect and honour to the great leaders, who had pioneered to bring the Nagas together as family and saluted those patriots, who suffered and sacrificed their lives in defence of Naga country.

(Cont’d on p-7)

GPRN/NSCN celebrated the ‘70th Naga Independence Day’ at its headquarters, Khehoi with GPRN/NSCN convenor NPAC Kughalu Mulatonu as the chief guest. In a press note issued by the GPRN/NSCN MIP, it expressed dismay that “Naga people’s aspiration for Kughalu Mulatonu sovereignty has been reduced to a game of autonomy and special economic privileges.” “The focal view of the much hyped framework agreement” was more of “economic arrangement for a particular section rather that a political solution for all Nagas,” MIP stated.

MIP went on to state that “sane voices of intellectuals, pioneers and actual stakeholders are being drowned by the preposterous and adulatory statements of few sponsored NGOs, civil societies and the Nagaland government.” Stating that “these remote controlled leaders are fomenting future conflict within the Naga family”, MIP said that it was important “that they become servants of Nagaland rather that servants of one faction.” Pointing out that the people of Nagaland had rejected political agreements in the past, which did not have their consent and approval, GPRN/NCN said “let it be reminded that the people wield greater power and authority that the signatories of agreements.” (Full text on p-6) K Y M C

DBHSS alumni meet and dedication of new building

Choir at the alumni meet 2016 at DBHSS.

DIMAPUR: As part of the DBHSS alumni meet 2016, a newly constructed building and auditorium were blessed by provincial of Dimapur province, Fr. Nestor Guria SDB on August 13.

Speaking on behalf of the past pupils, Dr. Apong Longchar, a paediatrician in Nikos Hospital, emphasized that school become dearest

to a person after one’s own family. He exhorted his fellow colleagues to have the attitude of gratitude towards their alma mater. The programme was graced by four hundred past pupils.

The following persons were elected as the office bearers for tenure of three years president L. Imtikumzuk, vice president P. Phutoli Zhimomi,

Stolen boleros recovered by police

Stolen boleros.

DIMAPUR: Based on reliable information, police force of Peren intercepted 2 (two) stolen Boleros at Mhainamtsi inter-district check gate, 1(one) Red Bolero B/R No.NL-07-6372 which was reportedly stolen at Khatkhati on August 11, 2016 was seized at the gate.

According to SP Peren, the second Bolero B/R No.NL-07-8670 (Green) tried

to escape and the vehicle was intercepted and seized after a high speed chase towards Heningkunglwa.

In this connection, one suspect has been arrested and both the vehicles have been handed over to the rightful owner on production of documents after observing all necessary legal formalities.

Further investigation is under progress.

general secretary Yongkongnuksung, asst. general secretary Ruth, treasurer, Anand Sethi, advisor Dr.Apong Longchar.

Some of the features of the programme included Ao cultural dance, Lotha modern folk song, Shaolin Kungfu demonstration, choir piece, special performances by Paper Sky and George Wangyat Wangsu.

DIMAPUR: Naga Business Association Kohima (NBAK) held its first general meeting on August 13, at APO hall Kohima. NBAK president Katsükhrie Kesiezie in his keynote address to the hundreds of genuine local businessmen and entrepreneurs highlighted that NBAK was formed by some likeminded genuine Naga businessmen with a view to safeguard and uplift the local businessmen and entrepreneurs.

He said that “we” local people must venture out in the business field as it is one of the only fields where Nagas could attain self sufficiency and be self reliant.

The president said that the association was a purely non profit organisation and formed not to oppose against any individual, group or community but to support each other for the welfare of the Naga businessmen and entre-

JSS organizes educational workshop rector Lipokmar Tzudir, in his speech encouraged to be obedient and inculcate compassion for the distressed which would lead them to greater success in life. He also mentioned about the composite culture of the country. Special guest, Pranabananda Women’s College, Dimapur, principal, Uma Bhowmick stressed upon the idea of “Unity in diversity” in Indian culture, JSS, Nagaland organizing secretary Pankaj

Naga independence day celebrated across the state

DIMAPUR: GPRN/NSCN (Reformation) Yimchungru Region observed Naga Independence Day on August 14.

Yimchungru Region authorities along with its Naga Army conducted a short programme at Shamator in commemoration of the 70th Naga Independence Day. Yi m c h u n g r u r e g i o n secretary, Ahoba stated that short speech was delivered by Kheantsu deputy kilonser cum Yimchungru Region chairman. In his speech, Kheantsu encouraged all rank and files to be dedicated and devoted towards the cause of Naga national movement and contribute the best for its upliftment.

Program was chaired by Ahoba secretary Yimchungru Region NSCN-Reformation who also gave the welcome note. Rank and files of NSCNReformation Yimchungru Region who were present at the program were Kheantsu deputy kilonser cum chairman; Ahoba secretary; Keorun central council member; C Akam Razapeyu; Y Akam Razapeyu; Shahying Razapeyu; Mukhe captain/guard commander; Luntsuba seargent major and S. Wongtokiu sergeant.

Lotha Regional Council (NNC): Lotha Regional

Council (NNC) parent body under the leadership of acting president Z. Royim Yimchungrü and general secretary, V. Nagi observed the Naga Independence Day on August 14 at Wokha town. A press note

by Lotha Regional Council (NNC) publicity & information secretary, E. Patton stated that the programme started with mass prayer and president of Lotha Regional Council (NNC) Yilow Hümtsoe addressed the gathering and extended heartfelt gratitude and thanks to the members present. Further all the sub regions in Lotha Region also observed the Naga independence day peacefully, and ended the programme with benediction by Nzüo Tsopoe, Rana Peyu Lotha Regional Council (NNC).

4th Battalion NNC-NNA Lotha Region: The 4th Battalion NNC-NNA Lotha region celebrated the day at the residence of brigadier M. Kithan Wokha town, where Chichamo Humtsoe 4th Bn commandant unfurled the Naga national flag. During the programme M. Kithan spoke on Naga unity. He further urged all patriots to dedicate their service for the nation. Finally, he thanked his subordinates for making the occasion a grand success.

Sinha, discussed elaborately regarding the various traits of Indian culture and tradition.

Later, vote of thanks was delivered by JSS working president and PVHSS principal, Monoj Bhattacharjee where mentioned about the unique culture of Nagaland as well as India.

The inaugural programme followed workshop on various subjects. Altogether 500 students participated.

Rashtra Bhasha Hindi students at the social work.

DIMAPUR: Various agencies and departments in Mon headquarter had conducted social work at their respective junctions, roads and areas under the mission, “I Love My Mon Town” (ILMMT) on August 13.

The Rashtra Bhasha Hindi Training Institution, Mon too participated in the

cleanliness drive by cleaning and picking up waste along the road side from DC’s residence to the local ground.

Ever since the mission ILMMT was launched respective committees under ILMMT have been playing a vital role to educate the citizens about the importance of sanitation and to develop a sense of owner-

ship, responsibility and pride of the town by conducting awareness programs in the wards, colonies and educational institutions, through street play, posters, banners, newsletter, organizing weekly cleanliness drive by the wards and discussions in the monthly review meeting about the areas of concern.

ANATG Pughoboto news in brief unit holds meeting Ex-PAN meeting: Ex-parliamentarian meeting has

revenue and said that such trend must be discouraged and abolished.

The meeting also strongly voiced against the motive of the Kohima Municipal Council on the illegal tender permits to some individual and for which the market price of essential commodities are being monopolised and urged the KMC to sincerely look upon all the illegal permits.

The meeting also welcomed any genuine Naga businessmen for the membership in the association, however on condition that it should be owned only by the genuine Naga people.

The meeting was chaired

by NBAK secretary, Atou Kapfo, the moderator of the discussion was led by NBAK vice president, Nitoshe Sheqi while vote of thanks was pronounced by the NBAK joint secretary Jean Metha.

Farmers trg on capacity building on MOVCDNER

Freshers day programme held at NEISSR

DIMAPUR: One day farmer’s training on capacity building on FIGs on Mission Organic Chain Development for North East Region (MOVCDNER) was conducted on July 19, at Tamlu village.

At the programme, keynote address was delivered by DAO, Longleng Kiyevi Sumi where he encouraged farmers to go for organic farming in large scale as sustainable agriculture.

Guidelines of the scheme was delivered by AI Bongkam Phom.

Altogether 100 farmers attended the training programme.

Earlier the programme was chaired by VCC Bhuhnem Phom.

Villagers expressed their gratitude to the department of agriculture for implementing the new scheme which was first of its kind in Tamlu village.

DIMAPUR: North East Institute of Social Science and Research (NEISSR) the first Master of Social Work Institute under Nagaland University celebrated its 3rd freshers’ day on August 12, organized under the theme ‘together towards tomorrow’ with former pro-vice chancellor, Nagaland University, Prof. Lanunungsang Ao as chief guest. Rev. Dr. Shiwoto Assumi, Rev Fr. Chacko, and Rev. Dr. Mathew John were also present for the occasion as special guests. Speaking on the occasion prof. Lanunungsang stressed on the importance of believing in oneself and preparing for better tomorrow.

He encouraged the students to look beyond the horizon of social work discipline and broaden the perspective to alter the scenario of the society.

He also exhorted the students to become efficient in their approach towards the society which could be obtained only through cramming books.

Dr.Fr. C.P. Anto the

Uneinuo Solo. Principal K. Pandyarajah Ballal College of Nursing and the advisor to Naga Student Forum Mangalore and North East People Association of Mangalore, Kaini Cecilia gave the exhortation.

Around 60 students, freshers and old timers gathered for the occasion. Vizhoto Tetso and Judith Kuotsu was adjusted as Mr and Miss Freshers of NSFM, 2016.

Varieties of activities were held and cash prize were given to the winners, The first place for pork eating competition was bagged by Savio Kikhi, second place by Y. R Kapangsing. In biscuit eating competition Rebecca and Koulnu bagged the first place and Margaret and Judith bagged the second place. Naga wrestling was also held and Savio Kikhi and Naga students at the fresher’s meet.

Kevin Thol won the first and secDIMAPUR: Naga Students’ Fo- at Summer Sands Resort, Ullal, followed by presidential address ond place respectively.

Programme was chaired by rum Mangalore (NSFM) organised Mangalore. Welcome address by Chiheuding Khate and speech its 9th fresher’s meet on August 14 was given by Mayikho Kadete, on behalf of freshers was given by Miss Ngukatoli Yeppo.

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Social work conducted at Mon

preneurs.

Among others senior and prominent businessmen Kesao Kesiezie and Ketu Angami while speaking on the occasion have appreciated the NBAK platform to encourage and support the local businessmen.

During the discussion hour, the members deliberated at length on taxation.

The members urged the Naga Political Groups to sincerely support the genuine Naga businessmen stating that the present Naga businessmen are first generation in the business field. Therefore, they should encourage the upcoming Naga businessmen for the prosperity of the Naga society.

The members raised that many business establishment though owned and run by the non locals were registered in the local name, whereby state government was losing the

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Naga Business Association Kohima held meeting

P.B Acharya honourable governor and T.R Zeliang, chief minister discussing various issues relating to state at Raj Bhavan, Kohima on August 14th, 2016 in the usual monthly meeting.

DIMAPUR: Janajati Shiksha Samiti (JSS) in collaboration with Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India organised two days educational workshop on awareness, preservation and development of Bharatiya Culture and Heritage on August 13 and 14, at Pranab Vidyapith Higher Secondary School Jubilee auditorium, Dimapur.

Gracing the inaugural programme, North East Zone Cultural Centre, Dimapur, di-

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DIMAPUR: All Nagaland A d h o c Te a c h e r G r o u p (ANATG) Pughoboto unit held a meeting on August 5, at SATWA rest house, Pughoboto consented by ANATG for the formation of ANATG Pughoboto unit.

At the meeting, house elected its officer bearers which would be led by Lhovito Sheqi as president, Huqheto Swu as vice president along with general secretary and treasurer.

All Nagaland Adhoc Teacher Group has also informed all adhoc teachers under SDEO Pughoboto who have completed three years in service as on March 31, to submit their names along with the appointment order to the unit.

For more information one could contact (9856899590) (9615849317).

been convened on August 20, 11 a.m at zonal council hall Kohima, near old assembly hall to discuss important issues pertaining to the welfare of the members. Ex-PAN president T. Khongo and general secretary, Medokul Sophie has requested all ex-parliamentarians of Nagaland to bring suggestions and make it convenient to attend the meeting.

LCD Janmashtami: Leo Club of Dimapur would be organising Janmashtami on August 25, 5: 30 p.m onwards at the Lions Club premises in Midland, Dimapur. The events would include fancy dress competition for the age group (1 to 6) & (7 to 12) / dance competition under the theme ‘Radha and Krishna’ and the ‘matki phod’ contest. Registration form would be available at Lions Club Midland, P.D Electrical Church Road, Front Door Dry Cleaning Near Durga Mindal Kalibari road Dimapur.

For more information contact 9862765244 - 9774975054 - 9774037003.

Awareness camp conducted by CVO Wokha: CVO Wokha conducted awareness camp on fertility management on bovine under (NLDB) NPBB 2015-16 at Bhandari and Merapani on August 9. The same camp was also conducted at Meshanpen and Sanis villages on August 10 led by resource person, Dr. N. Wopenthung Odyuo. In addition to the fertility camp, free distribution of mineral mix, vitamin, de-worming etc and vaccination against SF and anti –rabies was also conducted.

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principal, welcomed the forty freshers tribal aspiring MSW students from different states of North East and asked them to be more humane in their approach to transform the society.

He said that NEISSERIANS believe in being change maker in the days to come for people in the region. He also asked the students to become action oriented in their approach than

ANHTU Kma unit held meeting DIMAPUR: The yearly executive of All Nagaland Hindi Teachers ‘Union (ANHTU) Kohima Unit including Chiephobozou Hindi Teachers’ meeting was held on August 6 for deliberation of the coming Hindi Diwas (Hindi day) and for the welfare of the Hindi Teachers’ Union.

The meeting was chaired by Kekhrieneilie Tsikhano, president All Nagaland Hindi Teachers’ Union (Kohima Unit).In the meeting the members held a minute’s silence silent in remembrance one of its member Vilavolie Rossi who had served as Hindi Teacher at GMS Phekertiikrema and who died on July 14, 2016. In the meeting the key note address and vote of thanks were delivered by Vizothal Zhotso, general secretary and Kiyakhrielie Miario, joint secretary respectively. The union has informed to all the Hindi Teachers Kohima district that the “Hindi Diwas” would be held on September 14 at Chiephobozou, Kohima and also informed that as usual there would be competitions like essay writings, debate, extempore speech, singing (solo) and recitation would be held on September 13 at venue of the programme. All the concerned teachers have been requested to attend the programme.

just talkers. He also stressed on the specialization that is provided by the institute, namely peace and conflict transformation studies which is the first institute in India, youth development as the second and the third specialization is the community development, respectively.

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lui of 3rd Semester, second batch. Rev Dr. Shiwoto Assumi, senior pastor, NCRC invoked God’s blessing. Rev. Fr. Chacko, Rector, Good Shepherd Seminary and Dr. Mathew John, Director, Shalom Rehabilitaion Centre also motivated the students to start dreaming and start acting for better society and to make the dreams into reality.

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PET DOGS THIEVIES CAUGHT : DNYO, DNWO APPRECIATED

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He also mentioned that at present, there are 3+3 PRS counters and additional one UTS counter that have been added, out of which four counters have been running.

DCM also informed that suggestions and constant interactions are being valued by railway for which zonal and divisional railway users consultative committees were available.

The Zonal Railway Users Consultative Committee (ZRUCC) comprises of four members, ST Sangtam (ex IPS), R Sopu Angami, HK Khulu and Talituba Ao. It also has a Divisional Users Consultative Committee (DUCC). The members are Thetfuneituo Rio and Lachit Khersa. Public can connect them for genuine points and demands to the railway.

He also informed for any security concern one can contact to RPP, GRP or any railway employee.

Delivering the keynote address, DAO Longleng, Kiyevi Sumi, encouraged the farmers to take up organic farming in a large scale as sustainable agriculture.

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DIMAPUR, AUG 14 (NPN): There has been a steep 10.45 per cent rise in earnings from Passenger’s Reservation System (PRS) and Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) in Dimapur railway station, Lumding Railway Division’s deputy commercial manager RN Ranmung informed on Sunday, at IRCTC, Dimapur.

Addressing a press conference in Dimapur, Ranmung said the latest PRS and UTS from Dimapur railway station, falling under Lumding railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), has increased since 2015-16 to Rs 38. 69 crores during the current financial year, of these, the earning from parcel is Rs 23.

33 crores, and from freight is Rs 2.83 crores, he said.

Ranmung said the performance of PRS and UTS was neck to neck. Parcel has shown improvement, he also said.

Stating that based on earnings from PRS and UTS, categorization has been done for amenities to the railway stations, Ranmung said currently, Dimapur railway station was categorised as A+ railway

station since 2003, with the last categorization review in 2013. He also informed that it required Rs 60 crores earning to become A+ railway station.

Elaborating various facilities in Dimapur railway station, Ranmung said for public convenience, various amenities were being set up.

New uniform dustbins have been installed by the railway and also by vendors for regular clearance. As far as cleanliness and hygiene were concerned within railway jurisdiction, he said that attempt has been made to improve the facility of the station, with regular drinking water and electricity supply, he added.

Currently, Dimapur railway consists of three platforms with platform-1 bearing most of the rush hour pressures owing to lack of space for the passengers to manoeuvre in the other two platforms, therefore to broaden the platforms necessary construction work would be taken up soon, he said.

He also pointed out the availability of M/E trains to and from Dimapur with 21 M/E pairs stoppage at the station and one passenger train

DIMAPUR: One day training on capacity building for FIGs on Mission Organic Value Chain Development for DIMAPUR: Training on North East Region (MOVCDtobacco control for District NER) was conducted at TamAnti Tobacco Squad was lu village on July 19. held on July 28 in West city DC court.

In the first session 1st Class Magistrate Dimapur, Seyieleno Mezhu gave presentation on the provision and implementation of COTPA Sec 4,5,6,7 and also on Juvenile Justice Amendment Act 2015.

In the second session Dr C Tetseo gave presentation on inspection module for COPTA for DATS. It was also resolved during the training that District Anti Tobacco Squad would carry out regular checking in govt offices, schools shops, hotel & restaurants for compliance of COTPA 2003.

All the stake holders have been asked to immediately comply with the provisions of the law by displaying appropriate signboards and signage.

Defaulters by any of the entities mentioned above would be penalized as per the provision of the law.

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Manipur’s I-Day celebrated

IMPHAL, Aug 14: Coalition of Indigenous’ Rights Campaign (CIRCA), Manipur Sunday celebrated Manipur Independence Day at Sana Konung (Royal Palace) in Imphal with the titular king of Manipur, Leishemba Sanajaoba as chief guest. It was on August 14, 1947 that the British left the region after years of its domination The main highlight of the function was unfurling of the then Manipur’s national flag “Malem Puba Paphal Tongba Phiral” by the titular king in the presence of volunteers of CIRCA and representatives of various civil society organizations.

Academician K Sanajaoba, who attended the function as resource person, said that celebration of the day as Manipur Independence Day will not be against the country’s constitutional framework.

“It is a wakeup call to study and understand the history of Manipur. Manipur was not a colony of British India at any stage of history, the then Kangleipak has an organized government and continued to exist as suzerain state even after the 1891 Anglo- Manipuri

DSP killed in gun battle in Arunachal

Itanagar, Aug 14 (PTI): A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and a civilian were killed in an exchange of fire between police and anti-socials near Chayangtajo in East Kameng district in Arunachal Pradesh, a police officer said today. The incident occurred when DSP Bomto Kamdak was leading a police team to the area to arrest an alleged rapist Togyung Yangfo, who escaped from jail a year ago, at around 7 PM last night. On seeing the approaching police team, Yangfo and his accomplices fired prompting the police to retaliate and in the gun battle the DSP and a civilian Sai Bagang were killed while a woman identified as Achang Cheda Yangfo sustained bullet injuries, the police officer said. The body of the DSP was brought to district hospital at Seppa, while the woman with three bullet injuries in her chest was airlifted to Guwahati, he said.

war,” he asserted.

According to the academician, Manipur kingdom continued to enjoy its sovereign political status under the rules for the management of Manipur while the power to govern the people was vested upon internal self government or native rule administration.

“However, after India got independence, the suzerainty status of Kangleipak (now Manipur) had been revoked with the implementation of the Indian Independence Act1947,” he added. After Manipur was annexed into the Indian union, various external hegemonic forces have come into play to obliterate the rights of the people and erase ‘unique’ cultural identity of the Manipuris, said Sanajaoba.

Ningthoucha Lancha of CIRCA asserted that the history of independent Manipur cannot be mixed with the history of India or British India. “There is no connection between the two. As an imperialist, Indian is utilizing the land and resources of Manipur and it is becoming increasingly clear with each passing day,” he added. If carefully looked into the points of agreements under the “Merger Agree-

ment” and the Instrument of Accession, Manipur should be returned to its pre-merger status, he stated. Indian government should be responsible for the external affairs, defence, communication and transport, he demanded. It is pertinent to mention here that CIRCA has been campaigning for the pre-merger status of Manipur since its very inception two years ago.

“The 14th of August is the day on which the cultural identity, sovereignty and independence of the kingdom of Kangleipak had been restored.

From this important day, CIRCA with other like-minded groups will be celebrating the Manipur Independence Day till September 20 across Manipur,” he announced.

Custom and Traditional Observation Committee (CTOC) also celebrated the day as “Custom & Traditional Day” at the auditorium of Manipur Dramatic Union (MDU), Imphal.

As mark of celebration of the day, Manipur national flags were hoisted at various localities and villages under the aegis of the Coalition of Indigenous’ Rights Campaign.

110 cadres surrender in Meghalaya’s Garo hills Tura, Aug 14 (Agencies): A total of 110 cadres of different outfits who surrendered in Meghalaya’s Garo hills in the past three months were welcomed in a rousing home-coming ceremony at Tura’s district auditorium Saturday.

A total of 60 cadres of United A’chik Liberation Army (UALA), which was disbanded in July last were, were also present at the ceremony.

Meghalaya’s Garo hills has witnessed bloodbath in the past three years with over 120 people, including security forces, killed in different ambush, operations and terror strikes.

Since December last year, the situation has changed for good with most cadres of the dreaded rebel outfit Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) and UALA coming forward for peace.

Though GNLA is yet to come for talks, but the outfit’s strength has been reduced.

The Meghalaya Police is optimistic about its operation ‘Hillstorm 3’, which has yielded outcome.

The cops are hopeful

that they would be able to contain insurgency in Garo hills. The homecoming ceremony sends a positive signal that the region is ready to forgive the insurgents, who had unleashed terror in the past.

Speaking at the homecoming ceremony, noted educationist Dr Milton M. Sangma recollected the violent era of insurgency activities in Garo hills, which has posed several challenges for the society and have jeopardized developed for the last 30 years.

He urged the rebels to abjure violence and come forward to lead a peaceful life for the welfare and development of Garo hills.

“Staying in jungle will not bring about change for Garo hills. I urge the rebels to come forward and aid the government to restore peace and normalcy in the region.

Garo hills can’t afford to see bloodbath anymore,” he said at the homecoming ceremony, which was spearheaded by Garo Hills Peace Forum, a conglomeration of church leaders, NGOs and civil society members.

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Nigerian held at Agartala airport for illegal entry Agartala , Au g 1 4 (Agencies): Security agencies on Sunday detained a Nigerian youth at Agartala airport a day after he illegally entered Tripura from Bangladesh. The detention occurred within three days of arrest of a man from Congo on Bangladesh side of Tripura border.

Police identified the Nigerian as Thaiok Nowabo.

He was trying to travel to Kolkata with fake documents.

Nowabo is currently held at the Airport police station. He would be produced before court on Monday.

Border Guards, Bangladesh (BGB) recently captured Badila Sidmin Sanselvig from a location along border with Tripura.

The man from Congo entered Bangladesh from Sonamura in west Tripura.

Several nationals from African countries were arrested in Tripura, mainly for illegal cross border movement, over past two years.

A few of them are still languishing in jail while the rest returned to home countries following diplomatic intervention.

Security beefed up in M’pur ahead of I-Day Elite NSG commandos Correspondent IMPHAL, Aug 14: In the wake of IED blasts in different parts of the state in past few days coupled with total shutdown call given by rebels, security grid has been intensified across Manipur on the eve of the Independence Day celebration. While additional personnel are deployed for patrolling at various places in the city and its outskirt, bomb disposal and dog squads have conducted inspections at important installations, including government offices in the city area.

A sensitization operation to detect if any IED planted

was conducted in and around the 1st Manipur Rifles parade ground in Imphal where the main state level celebration would be held.

“We have made adequate security arrangements, particularly in the city and its outskirt.

Armed policemen have been deployed at every nook and corner of the city. Sensitive areas are being given additional security,” a senior police officer said. Random frisking and checking on the roads leading to the city has also been intensified, the officer added.

Security has been tightened up considering the recent series of IED blasts that target-

ed security forces coupled with the boycott call given by the rebels, according to the officer.

Several North East insurgent groups including Coordination Committee (CorCom), Manipur have already called for a total shutdown in the region from 1 am till 6 pm on Monday (August 15) while announcing their decision to boycott the Independence Day celebration.

While giving the shutdown call, a joint statement of the rebel groups asked all public and private transportation to stop their services, shops and markets to down their shutters and educational institutions to remain closed.

Security beefed up in Mizoram for Independance Day Aizawl, AuG 14 (PTI): Security has been beefed up and police patrolling intensified in Mizoram in view of the 70th Security personnel check the vehicles to stop any untoward incidents, supposed to be Independence Day celebrations targetted by the militant groups on Independence Day, in Nagaon on Saturday night. (PTI) tomorrow, with bomb disposal squad checking the venues of the main function here today.

Though no specific threats were reported, Superintendent of Police (Aizawl) Lalhuliana Fanai told PTI police patrolling To Dad was intensified in Aizawl and 15th Aug' 2016 elaborate security arrangements were made for vital government Some people might say that half installations. Police personof your life is over now but we're nel visited hotels to ascertain that no suspected terrorists or telling you that a new half of your militants were lodged there, he said. Entry into the terminal life has just begun.........! building of the lone Lengpui Congratulation on your 50 th Airport near Aizawl was restricted and only bona fide Birthday we're so lucky to have passengers were allowed inside you in our life and hope you to live since last week, Fanai said.

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S hillong , A u g 1 4 (Agencies): As the presence of insurgents, separatist groups and growing rift between tribal people in Meghalaya are posing a serious security challenge, the police and paramilitary forces are facing a tough challenge to deal with the incidents of kidnappings, killings and land mining.

Therefore, the country’s elite force, the National Security Guard (NSG), has come forward to train the police and paramilitary forces to deal with the insurgent outfits.

Some 40 security personnel of Meghalaya police and Border Security Force (BSF) from Garo hills were given special training by the NSG team.

They were taught technique of defusing bombs and disposing them.

“Let’s take the Kokrajhar attack for example. If you have the manpower and the expertise then security forces could retaliate and neutralize militants. In a bomb attack, militants always have the advantage more than the bomb squad, but it is the responsibility of the security forces to try their level best,” S.S. Kynjing, DIG Western Range, Meghalaya told ANI. “You have been taught

how to deal with a threat - by cordoning off the area and then estimate and identify what kind of IED is there. This is very important to begin with. Not the actual detonation. Whether it is NSG or any other force in the world, detonation is a very difficult task,” Kynjing added.

Detailed information about different types of IEDs and the way these are planted by insurgents was also given out during the training.

The personnel were also trained on standard operational procedures (SOPs) for bomb disposal and IEDs. In February and March alone, Meghalaya police had detected about 60 IEDs from East Garo Hills, including five IEDs from a school premises.

“If we inculcate this training in our daily lives and career then we can save our lives and everyone else’s life. You will have a lot of responsibilities when you go out in the field and you need to remember that it is not only the bomb sqaud’s duty to handle an IED. As police officers, we should also know how to handle such situations in case the bomb squad is unable to reach there,” said Mukesh Singh, Superintendent of Police, West Garo Hills.

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May your birthday and everyday be filled with the warmth of sunshine, the happiness of smiles, the sounds of laughter, the feelings of locve and the sharing of good cheer. Happy birthday !

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

REV. BEILIEU SHÜYA 15th August 2016 Our dear Mentor, spiritual mother, you are always the perfect age to be used by God. The Lord has known you since before you were born. You were wonderfully and beautifully made for his purpose. As the body awkwardly ages, the spirit grows with grace.

We appreciate your faithfulness and wish you the very best of birthday. May you have many more as you continue to serve the Lord in the ministry He has given you.

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Wishing you a happy BORN DAY!

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on this August 15, 2016 we thank our Almighty God. While celebrating this grandest day, we also honour and salute him for his glorious achievements during his golden days such as taking part in the II World war as a Jawan in 1st Assam regiment and being awarded the 1939-45 star, Burma star, War medal and 1939-43 star medal. Almighty God has been so gracious for blessing his life and keeping him safe and healthy throughout these 97 years. We pray that he will be continuously blessed with long life and as source of inspiration to all and especially for the children and grandchildren.

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President approves 82 gallantry Tight security measures in Delhi, Kashmir Valley awards on eve of Independence Day

audience to hear the Prime Minister.

A multi-layer security has also been thrown around Rajpath where a seven-daylong cultural festival ‘Bharat Parv’ is underway. The step has been taken as people have been flocking to the area to witness the illumination of North Block, South Block and other government buildings after sunset in the run up to August 15.

Strict security measures were in force in curfew-bound Srinagar ahead of the Inde-

pendence Day celebrations with large contingents of paramilitary and police personnel being deployed across the city.

Bakhshi Stadium -- the main venue of the Independence Day function in Jammu and Kashmir -- has been turned into a virtual fortress.

“All the roads leading to Bakhshi Stadium have been sealed and heavy deployment of security forces carried out en route to ensure peaceful celebrations tomorrow,” a police official said.

Students from J-K should focus on studies, not politics: Azad

No plastic flag, no disrespect to tricolour : HM

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI): A hawk-eve vigil is being kept across Delhi as Prime Minister addresses the nation from 17th century Red Fort on the 70th Independence Day while tight security measures today remained in force in violence-hit Kashmir Valley as a precautionary measure.

Thousands of security personnel have been deployed in and around the historic Mughal fort which will see the presence of senior ministers, top bureaucrats and foreign dignitaries, besides a large

Ghulam Nabi Azad Bengaluru, Aug 14 (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad today asked students from Jammu and Kashmir to concentrate on studies and not get involved in politics, a day after a panel discussion here over the Kashmir issue witnessed heated exchanges.

“All these boys, whether they are Kashmiri Pandits or Muslim boys or they are boys from Jammu, they have come here to study. So my appeal to them is that when they are outside their state they should be very friendly,” Azad said.

“First complete your studies - that should be their priority,” he told reporters when asked about the incident.

Claiming that the atmosphere in Jammu and Kashmir is not congenial for education, Azad said: “I would request

our children who are studying here, whichever religion they may belong to, I would appeal to both the sections that first of all they should complete their studies.”

“Kashmir has been spoiled by too much politics, let the students not spoil their career, if they have to make their career,” he added.

A panel discussion yesterday had turned chaotic as some “pro-freedom” Kashmiris, most of them youngsters and students, entered into heated arguments with a Kashmiri Pandit leader for hailing the Indian Army. Pro-Kashmir Independence slogans were raised at the event organised

by Amnesty International India at United Theological College here.

Azad said “violence in Kashmir is a matter of great concern” not only for people of Jammu Kashmir but for the entire country which is why we have had discussion on the issue during the recent Parliament session.”

M e a n w h i l e, A k h i l Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists today staged a protest in front of the United Theological College calling yesterday’s event “anti-national”. They demanded action against organisers and those involved in raising of slogans.

N EW D ELHI , Au g 1 4 (IANS): It’s the eve of the Independence Day, and much national and patriotic fervour is in evidence. But while displaying your commitment to the nation, ensure that you do not dishonour or insult the National Flag or other symbols of national honour. In an advisory to the central and state governments on Sunday, the Home Ministry has reminded them to ensure only flags made of paper are used by the public, and that such paper flags are not discarded or thrown on the ground after the national, cultural and sports events.

Such flags for public display and for the day’s events should not be made of plastic, the advisory has said and asked state administrations to reiterate this in advertisements in electronic and print media.

The Home Ministry also sought strict compliance of the provisions of the Flag Code of India, 2002, and the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. “Since plastic flags are not biodegradable like paper flags, these do not get decomposed for a long time and ensuring appropriate disposal of national flags made of plastic commensurate with dignity of the flag, is a practical problem,” it said.

Siachen, Aug 14 (PTI): Climate change is making the life of the soldiers posted in the world’s highest and arduous battlefield - Siachen Glacier - not just tough but also dangerous, as temperature rises and the snow melts faster.

Siachen, which has the dubious distinction of having seen more soldiers dying due to extreme weather (temperatures at times drop below -50 degree celcius) than the enemy bullet, is feeling the heat of global warming.

The death of 10 soldiers earlier this year in an avalanche in the critical Sonam post, located close to the Line of Control with Pakistan, was due to global warming.

“The entire incident (at

Sonam) was because of climate change only. Because, we generally don’t have ice avalanches.

Avalanches are generally snow avalanches.

“What happened in Sonam was that a hanging glacier, which was stuck to the ice wall had fallen off.

That was just because in the last 15 or 20 days (prior to the accident), the temperature had been rising,” Lt Col S Sengupta, Commandant of the Siachen Battle School told PTI. Lance Naik Hanumanthappa, who was rescued after being buried 30 feet below snow for six days at the Sonam Post, located at about 19,600 feet, could not be saved.

Sengupta said that climate change actually makes

the glacier break, due to which a lot of crevasses, one of the deadliest enemies of the soldier in Siachen, keep coming up.

“It (rising temperature) is making life tough,” he said.

The Army has now taken some precautionary measures and even moved some of the posts a little.

Keeping ice avalanches in mind, the Army is buying special radars that can detect humans buried under ice, unlike the earlier ones which could detect only through the snow. The Army is also equipping its men with Avalanche Buoyance Systems - air bags that can be triggered remotely - which prevent burial in an avalanche by providing extra buoyancy. The effect of the

Ashok Chakra for havildar Hangpan dada who died fighting terrorists at LoC

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI): Havildar Hangpan Dada, who sacrificed his life while valiantly fighting and killing three terrorists after they infiltrated from PoK, and Pathankot bravehearts Lt Col Niranjan and Corporal Gurusevak Singh are among the 82 defence and Havildar Hangpan Dada was enrolled in the Assam paramilitary personnel for Regiment of the Army in 1997. whom President Pranab Mukher- a former commando and fondly fire, he was grievously injured. jee today approved gallantry called Dada (big brother) by Undeterred, the NCO went awards. Navy sailor Veer Singh, his colleagues and friends, was after the remaining terrorists. who retrieved under difficult awarded Ashoka Chakra, the In the process, he came face circumstances two bodies from highest award to an Army man to face with the third terrorist the Dornier aircraft of the force during peace-time operations. whom he killed in hand-toOn May 26 this year, hand combat before making that had crashed last year off Goa, has also been chosen Havildar Hangpan Dada, hav- the supreme sacrifice.

Born in Village Borduria, for the gallantry award Nao ing shot three terrorists, took Sena Medal along with Lt a burst from the fourth. When District Tirap, Arunanchal Commander Vikash Kumar terrorists managed to break Pradesh on October 2, 1979, contact with Army stops at Dada was recruited to the 3rd Narwal.

Squadron Leader Ab- Naugam Sector in Kupwara Battalion of the Parachute Reghishek Singh Tanwar and district of Jammu and Kashmir, iment on October 28 1997.

On January 24, 2008 he Squadron Leader Bhavesh Ku- he along with his section was mar Dubey have been selected tasked to chase and trap fleeing was side stepped to the 4th Batterrorists, his citation read. talion of the Assam Regiment for Vayu Sena Medal.

Displaying ingenuity and where he served till the last.

Indian Coast Guard’s The gallant soldier is surCommandant Radhakrishna understanding of ground, the Rajesh Nambiraj and Kuldeep ex-commando moved with vived by his wife Chasen LowPradhan Yantrik will receive incredible speed in the inhospi- ang Dada, an employee of the table snow-bound high altitude Ministry of Health and Family Tatrakshak Medal.

The gallantry awards ap- terrain. This move blocked the Welfare, and their two children proved by the President, who is escape route of the terrorists aged 7 and 11 years.

From leading a patrol to also the Supreme Commander and in the ensuing firefight, of the Armed Forces, include when his section was pinned leading a church service at the one Ashok Chakra, 14 Shaurya down by heavy and accurate post, Dada always led from Chakras, 63 Sena Medals (Gal- fire, he moved to a flank and the front. During testing times, lantry), two Nao Sena Medals closed in with the terrorists when threat of militants would sheltered in rocks and boulders, loom large on his patrol, negoand two Vayu Sena Medals.

The Army got one Ashok resulting in saving lives of his tiating steep slopes in sub-zero Chakra (Posthumous), 11 Shau- comrades, his citation read. temperatures with 20-feet-deep rya Chakras (including 6 post- Dada displayed exemplary snow, Dada would silently slip humous) and 63 Sena Medal, courage and presence of mind into the role of scout and lead and killed two terrorists at close the entire patrol safely back to including 12 posthumous. protection groups. The plea Havildar Hangpan Dada, quarters. In the exchange of the base, the Army said. sought to declare as “unconstitutional” section 12 of the Gujarat Animal Prevention Act, 1954, Section 13 of Maharashtra Animal Prevention Act, 1976, and Section 15 of New Aug 14 (IANS): Seven police personnel Gallantry, one President’s Police Medal for Karnataka Prevention of Cow have been awarded the President’s Police Medal Distinguished Service, and 16 Police Medal for Slaughter and Cattle Preserva- for Gallantry -- of them two posthumously -- on Meritorious Service.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) tion Act, 1964, which provide the occasion of India’s 70th Independence Day, was awarded 107 police medals, including 43 for protection of persons act- it was announced on Sunday.

Sub-Inspector Dudekula Siddaiah and Police Medals for Gallantry, five President Police ing in good faith under the Constable Chougoni Nagaraju of Telangana Medals for Distinguished Service, and 58 Police Act or rules.

“These laws and the Police have been posthumously awarded the Medals for Meritorious Service.

The Border Security Force (BSF) received protection granted therewith President’s Police Medal for Gallantry among act as a catalyst to violence a total of 948 police personnel honoured on 62 awards, including 10 Police Medals for Gallantry, six President Police Medals for Distinperpetrated by these vigilante the occasion.

Of those awarded, 170 have been named guished Services, and 46 Police Medals for Merigroups,” it said. The PIL has for the Police Medal for Gallantry, 88 for the torious Service. The Central Industrial Security arrayed as parties Ministry President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Force (CISF) was conferred 25 awards, including of Home Affairs, Ministry of Service, and 683 for the Police Medal for two President’s Police Medals for Distinguished Agriculture and Farmers WelMeritorious Service. Nineteen personnel were Service and 23 President’s Police Medals for fare, governments of Gujarat, awarded correctional service medals, including Meritorious Service. The Indo-Tibetan Border Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, two who got President’s Correctional Service Police (ITBP) was conferred 25 police medals, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Medal for Distinguished Service and 17 who Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) 13, and the Special Jharkhand. were conferred Correctional Service Medal for Protection Group (SPG) eight.

Seeking action against Meritorious Service. The Central Bureau of InThe Intelligence Bureau of the ministry the vigilantes, the petition vestigation (CBI) received 31 medals, including of home affairs was conferred 35 police medsaid the atrocities commit- six President’s Police Medals for Distinguished als, including one President Police Medal for ted by them were punishable Service and 25 Police Medals for Meritorious Gallantry, eight President Police Medals for under various provisions of Service. Of the 20 Delhi Police officers conferred Distinguished Service, and 26 Police Medals IPC and under the Scheduled police medals, four received Police Medal for for Meritorious Service.

Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of atrocities) Act, 1989.

It alleged that in many cases, the police and other probe agencies were either “complicit in such illegal actions or have merely been mute spectators against such evil”.

PIL in SC for action against cow vigilantes for violent acts

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre and some states to take action against so-called cow vigilantes, who are allegedly spreading violence and committing atrocities against Dalits and minorities.

The PIL, filed by Cong ress activist Tehseen S Poonawalla, said the violence committed by these ‘Gau Raksha’ groups have reached to such proportions that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently declared them as people who are “destroying the society”.

It alleged these groups were committing atrocities against Dalits and minorities in the name of protection of cows and other bovines and they needed to be “regulated and banned in the interest of social harmony, public morality and law and order in the country”. “The menace caused by the so-called cow protection groups is spreading fast to every nook and corner of the country and is creating disharmony among various communities and castes,” the petition said.

It also sought a direction to remove the alleged “violent content” uploaded on social media and hosted by the cow

Global warming making Siachen riskier for soldiers

Siachen is the coldest and highest battlefield in the world.

56 people, including two policemen, have been killed and several thousand others have been injured in the clashes in the Valley that began on July 9.

In Delhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the security situation in the country, particularly in J-K, on the eve of Independence Day. The top brass of the security establishment briefed him on the prevailing situation in the country and the steps taken to foil any attempt by terrorists and other elements to disturb peace, official sources said.

Army and NSG officials have set up a special communication and command centre to keep a close watch on the proceedings at Red Fort.

Special measures are being taken to meet “on-the-spot situations” such as the Prime Minister choosing to meet people at the venue as he has done earlier, officials said.

CCTV cameras have been installed along the route to be taken by the PM’s cavalcade from 7 RCR to Red Fort, besides 200 CCTVs and two high-mast, high-resolution cameras at the fort premises.

Security has also been beefed up and police patrolling intensified in North East, Punjab, especially the border districts, Haryana and other parts of the country in the view of the celebrations with bomb disposal squads being deployed at the main function venues.

climate change is such that the snout of the Siachen Glacier has actually receded back by about 800 metres in the last one decade or so.

Over 41 soldiers have lost their lives on the Siachen Glacier since 2013, even though not a single shot has been fired since the ceasefire between India and Pakistan in 2003.

At least 1,013 Indian soldiers have lost their lives in Siachen since 1984.

The studies carried out by ISRO, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIGH) Dehradun and other institutions have revealed that majority of the glaciers in India are retreating (melting) at varying rates from 5-20 metre per year.

The situation is such that at this time of the year, more than the pristine white snow, what you find more is black snow (often called moraine).

The river Nubra, which flows through the Base Camp, is actually black in colour rather than blue it was once.

“Global warming is definitely having its side effects on the glacier but things are different during summers. During the winters, the pristine white snow will be back and the waters will again become blue,” a senior officer said.

Explaining the impact of climate change in Siachen, officers said that over a decade ago, rains were never seen here.

However, the area now witnesses light drizzle in between over the past few years.

948 police personnel honoured on I- Day

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A security person stands guard as foreign visitors click pictures near the historic Red Fort on the eve of Independence Day in New Delhi on Sunday. (PTI)

He said there were no inputs about the possibility of militant attacks to disrupt the celebrations but the security grid is not taking any chances.

“The usual security drill is being followed but some extra measures have been put in place to ensure no mob violence takes place around the venues in Srinagar or elsewhere in the Valley,” the official said.

Due to the ongoing unrest -- that began on July 9 following killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, mobile telephony and internet services have already been snapped in the Valley.

In the past, the mobile phone and mobile internet services used to be disabled for few hours during Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations as a precautionary measure to prevent militants from using these devices to trigger explosions.

Curfew was extended to several places in Kashmir in view of the separatists’ call for a march to the heart of Srinagar even as restrictions on the movement of people remained in rest of the Valley.

Despite curfew, separatists elements managed to hoist Pakistan flags in many localities across Kashmir to mark the Independence Day of the neighbouring country, the official said, adding security forces pulled down the flags as soon as they were noticed.

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opinion/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post Vol. XXVI NO. 248 Dimapur, monday, August 15, 2016

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A nation of two

n 1947, the British rulers accorded recognition to partition of British India when two nationsIndia and Pakistan-were officially granted independence with Pakistan celebrating it on August 14 and India on August 15. India celebrates its independence day on August 15, 2016 with a countrywide, fortnight-long celebration that has been planned by the Narendra Modi government to mark 70 years of India’s Independence, between August 15 and 22. The celebration will also mark the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, to “rekindle the spirit of patriotism” among citizens. True, India will celebrate the day it won independence from the British colonial power and on the occasion, praise the pioneers of the freedom movement. Since August 15, 1947 the country has been celebrating the occasion with pomp and gaiety. The Modi government’s weeklong celebration has raised speculations that it seeks to kill two birds with one stone- use the gala event to innocuously add a positive feel about the government and to upstage decades of honour to known freedom fighters by instead highlight those freedom fighters who have remained unsung.

The mega shows would be held in more than 150 locations. The celebrative mood is welcome and should inspire the spirit of unity. The celebration will come amidst the backdrop of a weakening rupee, inflationary trends that are pushing up cost of food items, slow down in the economic growth rate and failure of the popularly mandated government to ensure that the “fringe” within itself do not call the shots. Atrocities against Dalits has been continuing as well as the murderous acts of the “fringe elements” such as VHP all of which reveal that prejudice still lingers in modern India.

All these are still happening in a country which celebrates 70 years of independence. It is also an irony that the highly controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act – which gives the Indian security forces indemnity from prosecution – was first implemented in Assam’s Naga Hills way back in 1958. It only came to Kashmir only in 1990. A state’s army is meant to counter external aggression. When used internally, the consequences can be brutal. How is independent any better or worse than the British colonial rule when AFSPA has been in active use in Nagaland for over fifty years?

What status report of Indian democracy does it produce, that north east states like Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh are still policed by a military? India is the home of all the world’s major religions and the mosaic of cultures and races which are embroidered together from the north to the south to the east and to the west. In principle, India is federal in structure where each state is like an autonomous entity but in practice, the power structure is centripetal. The aspirations of the different peoples of various regions has changed.

The domination of north Indians especially of the Brahmin class in almost every sphere-be it politics or civil or defence service or even business, influences and impacts the power centre at New Delhi is not representative of the entire Indian landscape. The new India of the haves and the old India of the haves not cannot march together.

The fruits of freedom can only be enjoyed if aspirations are met and people allowed to develop themselves in the best way that they can.

DailyDevotion The Discipline of the Lord My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him. —Hebrews 12:5 It is very easy to grieve the Spirit of God; we do it by despising the discipline of the Lord, or by becoming discouraged when He rebukes us. If our experience of being set apart from sin and being made holy through the process of sanctification is still very shallow, we tend to mistake the reality of God for something else. And when the Spirit of God gives us a sense of warning or restraint, we are apt to say mistakenly, “Oh, that must be from the devil.”

“Do not quench the Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19), and do not despise Him when He says to you, in effect, “Don’t be blind on this point anymore— you are not as far along spiritually as you thought you were. Until now I have not been able to reveal this to you, but I’m revealing it to you right now.” When the Lord disciplines you like that, let Him have His way with you. Allow Him to put you into a right-standing relationship before God. “…nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him.” We begin to pout, become irritated with God, and then say, “Oh well, I can’t help it. I prayed and things didn’t turn out right anyway. So I’m simply going to give up on everything.” Just think what would happen if we acted like this in any other area of our lives!

Am I fully prepared to allow God to grip me by His power and do a work in me that is truly worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me— sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me. But He has to get me into the state of mind and spirit where I will allow Him to sanctify me completely, whatever the cost (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).

Quotes It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Nagaland Post, Dimapur monday, August 15, 2016

Post-mortem

Speeches on Naga Independence Day

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e give all glory and honor to God, the creator of our nation, for His peace and grace over our land. The GPRN/NSCN under the leadership of chairman gen.

(Retd) M. B Neokpao Konyak, general secretary N. Kitovi Zhimomi convey warm regards to our people far and near, on the occasion of the 70th Naga independence day.

It is a solemn day to remember and salute our patriots, the leaders and the followers, who undertook the great task of proclaiming and declaring the freedom of the British administered Naga areas on 14th August 1947. By this historic declaration, on the eve of the withdrawal of British powers from the Indian subcontinent, a small part of Naga homeland controlled and administered by the British, namely the present union territory (Dimapur), Angami region (Kohima), Ao Region (Mokokchung), Lotha Region (Wokha), a part of Sumi Region (Zunheboto), Chakhesang and Pochury Regions (Phek), Zeliangrong Region (Peren) ourtightly rejected foreign domination and occupation to merge with those of the unadministered, uncontrolled, independent free Nagas. Thus a great political step was accomplished by the occupied Nagas towards a greater unified political identity. Thousands of lives have since then, been sacrificed to uphold the right to self determination of the Naga people.

In the 19th century, India was not more than a vague idea of a nation, comprising of more than five hundred independent princely states all fighting against each other through treachery and deceit mostly orchestrated by the British. Even then, the Naga vil-

lages had evolved and established their own political, economic and social order administered by warrior chieftains and their deputies.

Though inter-village rivalry and headhunting existed, the familiar customs and traditions of different Naga tribes all points to the existence of the basic national identity long before British administration touched Nagaland in 1826.

Today, the Naga people’s aspiration for sovereignty has been reduced to a game of autonomy and special economic privileges.

The focal view of the much hyped framework agreement of 3rd August 2015 between GoI and NSCN (IM) is more of economic arrangement for a particular section rather than a political solution for all Nagas. The sane voices of intellectuals, pioneers and actual stakeholders are being drowned by the preposterous and adulatory statements of few sponsored NGOs, civil societies and the Nagaland state government.

These remote controlled leaders are fomenting future conflict with the Naga family and it is very important that they become servants of Nagaland rather than servants of one faction. The people of Nagaland have rejected political agreements in the past which did not have their consent and approval. Let it be reminded that the people wield greater power and authority than the signatories of agreements. There is no political crime greater than insulting a people’s history.

On how a peaceful and acceptable political solution could be achieved, the GPRN/NSCN led by Gen (Retd.) M.B Neokpao and N Kitovi zhimomi has conveyed its stand and position clear to the GOI. Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi’s gesture is ap-

My dear Naga citizens, The genesis of Naga history remain the same till its end. As we celebrate the 70th Naga independence day, I extend my greetings to all the citizens of our nation with the message of love and gaiety. We thank our Almighty God for his boundless love.

Nagas were sovereign nation and enjoying their true democracy and republic system of government but this was threatened by the territorial annexation policy of British rule in India in pursuance of this British annexation policy the British send a number of punitive expeditions to Naga territory during the middle and last part of 19th century AD. For the first time the Nagas constituted a union known as Naga Club, with T. Aliba Imti as its president in October 1918. The desire of the Nagas to live a separate nation is deserved and to proclaim this truth to the whole world found its passage through this club on 10/01/1929.

This club submitted a memorandum to the statutory commission led by Sir. John Simon as its chairman with Mr. Clement Atlee, MP and Mr. E. Codegan as a member visited Kohima. In pursuance of this memorandum the whole Naga areas were left as Naga Hills excluded area. Having presented the inspiration and given support to the sovereignty of the Nagas in formal function hoisted the Naga flag on 14-08-1947 at mission compound Kohima.

The name of the Naga club was changed into Naga National Council (NNC) Shri A. Z. Phizo occupied this august office on December 1950 as its fourth president.

Prior to Indian independence in 1947 A. Z. Phizo headed a Naga delegation to meet Mahatma Gandhi the father of the Indian national in his Bangi colony house in Delhi to reiterate the stand that the Nagas were sovereign people under British occupation and that when British left, they wished to revert to this position without joining the Indian union. Mhahatma Gandhi assured them that the Nagas were free to choose their political destiny and that under no circumstance would they be forced to join Indian union. The government of India refused to recognise the Naga independent alleging that the whole of the Nag territory under British occupation would be under Indian dominion. In 1950 the Indian constituent assembly invited the Nagas to join the Indian

preciated but a talk with a single faction will not end the Indo-Naga political issue. Naga tribe occupies a compact and specific area since time immemorial. Many dwell under Myanmar and Manipu, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, all divided without their consent.

The present Nagaland state and the tribes inhabiting it have been the fortress and the inexhaustible reservoir of freedom fighters.

An agreement between GOI and a single faction, shrouded in mystery for more than a year do not auger well for the people of Nagaland. Pre-emptive publicity blitz, deputing officials to every nuke and corner of Nagaland ti preach solution will not bring solution. The tribes of Nagaland are being treated like fools as though they do not understand English language spoken by Indian leaders with regard to Naga sovereignty and integration of Nagas areas. GPRN/NSCN will, together with our people, pursue a comprehensive political discourse that is transparent and charted by the people.

GPRN/NSCN believes that the future of the people of Nagaland is no less important than that of the future of Burma Nagas, Manipur Nagas, Assam Nagas or Arunachal Nagas. The secret nature of talks demands all stakeholders in Nagaland to be aware of the political theatrics being employed at different levels to harass our conscience and judgement. The mountains and hills of Nagaland, where the bones of thousands of freedom fighters lay buried, will curse us should we fail to provide a secure and honourable future for our children. Kuknalim MIP, GPRN/NSCN

union but it was rejected out-rightly by the Nagas and conducted a plebiscite on May 16, 1951 throughout Naga territories and voted to 99.9 % in favour of Naga sovereign independent. This plebiscite result was sent to both the then president and prime minister of India and the then secretary general of United Nation Organization (UNO). May 16 every year commemorated as a red letter day of all the Nagas. A day for remembering the historic plebiscite day and paying respect to our great leaders who had courageously led and participated in this sacted event.

It was on this day that we reaffirmed our pledge through historic Naga plebiscite.

Declaring to the world that voluntarily we have resolved to be a nation, to be governed by our own selves. It was under the fourth president Shri A. Z. Phizo that this great plebiscite was conducted. At the same time one cannot ignore the decisive declaration of the Naga independent on 14/08/1947 from British occupied Nagas territories under the pioneering leadership of NNC through eminent former president such as Aliba Imti. This declaration of Naga independent on 14th August 1947 followed by the 16 May 1951 plebiscite and the Republic day 22nd March 1956 laid the foundation of our nation and this uniqueness is known to the world. The government of India taking the advantage of the non-violent attitude of the Nagas, they forcibly conducted the first and second general election in 1952 and 1957 whereas the Nagas boycotted both the general elections. This led to invade Nagas territories beginning from 1954 and send large contingent of army to fight against the unarmed Nagas. The government of India on the pursuit of political strategy convinced some Naga opportunist to sign the sixteen points agreement by which agreement carved out some portion of Naga territory, the present so called Nagaland state in 1963. However, this was rejected between the Indian Government and the Federal Government of Nagaland in the initiatives of NBCC to pave the way for talks yet ended in deadlock in 1966. The present political trend in our Nagas of Nagaland have many criticism where as we pray to Almighty God to bring an end, in favouring the goodness of our Naga people. Kuknalim.

Speech of Temjenyanger Aier, President NPGN/NNC (N/A)

My Dearest country men and women, comrades in Naga National Movement, I, on behalf of Government of the People’s Republic of Nagaland(NSCNReformation) thank our Almighty God who chosed Naga People as His Special People and guide us thus far to witness 70th Naga Independence Day on this day, the 14th August 2016. On this day of14th August 1947, the Naga People under the great and ablest leadership of Late. A.Z. Phizo, the then President NNC declared Naga Independence which clearly drawn vertical line between India and Nagaland as two neighbouring countries. The First Naga Political Struggle was against British administration long before India became a country which could be traced back to 1918, the Naga Club formation and submission of Memorandum to Simon Commission in January 1929. The Hydari Agreement (9 points Agreement) was first agreement signed between the representatives of British-India government and the Naga People on June 1947 for a period of ten years. The provision of the agreement delegated total powers on Naga National Council which also stated that, after ten years, the Naga People should decide their future. The terms of agreement could not be materialised due to: a.India feared that, the Nagaland would become a country after ten years. b.Development of controversy between India and Nagas. c. Un-expected changes in British-India government’s policy for grant of Independence to India on August 1947. Thus, the un-rest developed in Naga Country particularly, among the NNC rank and files which the NNC leaders led by Late A. Z. Phizo and Late Sakhrie to meet Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian Nation and accordingly the Naga delegates met Gandhiji on 19th July 1947 at Bhangi Colony, New Delhi and expressed the desire of the Naga People to declare Naga Independence to mark that, Nagas have not joined the Union of India.

The Naga delegates also told Mahatma Gandhi that, Akbar Hydari, the Governor of Assam might use Indian Armed Forces

My dear brethren, On this auspicious occasion of the 69th Anniversary of our Naga Independence. I greet each and everyone of you in the name of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ in whom we trust for deliverance.

First of all I salute and pay homage to the pioneers and martyrs who sacrificed everything they have for the liberation of Nagaland from foreign heavy yoke. The far sighted Naga leaders since the formation of Naga Club in 1918 and Naga National Council in 1946 and throughout the times of struggle imbibed the aspiration for the unification of all the Naga people across the frontier.

They are the tallest of leaders because, had it not been for the great vision and tremendous sacrifices made by our past leaders. We won’t be where and what we are today.

Brethren, in the course of struggle for sovereignty and on pursuit of Independence, several memorandums has been submitted and several pacts and agreements signed or doctored, but could not bear fruit. Because our people and Naga National Council stood and stick to total sovereignty.

Let us retrospect the past trails and hardship endured and faced by past Naga National Workers and imposed upon by the colonial Indian power over the Nagas from 1950s to till 1980s .the Indian army equipped with many colonial and draconian laws directed its aggression to annihilate the entire Nagas which can be compared with Hitler’s NAZI German, uprooting the Nagas by grouping the villagers, tortures, rapes and massacres and destroying crops and burning down of villages besides killings of thousands of people

both men and women even the children, an undisputable case of genocides, all for the cause of Naga sovereignty. Even after enduring all these inhuman atrocities some past leaders entered into traps set by the Indian leaders and signed the infamous Shillong Accord of 11th November 1975,without the consent of the Naga people and the Naga National Council (NNC) and this created the rift among the fellow National Workers and leaders. Thus the darkest boomerang of the fractions and factions in as much as the accord was not acceptable to the Naga people.

Brethren, I along with fellow comrades condemned the accord and formed our true legacy of Naga National Council (Non-Accord) and thereafter Government of the Democratic Republic of Nagaland.

Dear Comrades, as stated above, can we now compromise those sacrifices for the shared sovereignty? Or an autonomous status? Are we fighting for total sovereignty or a semi sovereignty? So then Can the Nagas proclaims the 14th August 1947 declaration of Independence be now to a null and void? Or disclaim the 16th May 1951, Naga plebiscite in which 99.9% Nagas gave their thumb impression for total sovereignty?

Naga nation was there even before Indian was born on 15th August 1947, and Democratic Republic system of Governance was practicing from time immemorial. But Indians adopted their Republic only in the year 1950.

Brethren, we the God’s chosen Nagas should not belittle ourselves that we have not enough land, population or unworthy, we have our uniqueness in every way. We have enough land, our traditions,

Towards a new dawn in Nagaland

(From previous issue) 2) A fixed recurring sum (annual subvention) for meeting the costs of administration of Nagaland.

Fifty six years after the signing of the Agreement, the situation has not changed much and Nagaland continues to be a woefully revenue-deficient State of the Indian Union. No doubt, with liberal assistance from the Centre, the State has made appreciable progress in the sphere of infrastructure and social sector development. Yet, Nagaland lags behind its sister States in many spheres.

An important reason for this has been its rugged and mountainous terrain spread over 16,579 sq. km and its relative inaccessibility from the mainland.

Nagaland has 11 districts.

Of these, four, namely, Tuensang, Mon, Kiphire and Longleng are quite far-flung (with the first three sharing long international borders

with Myanmar) and economically backward. Three other districts, namely, Phek, Zunheboto and Peren have also pockets which can be called underdeveloped i.e Meluri in Phek; Aghunato and Satoi in Zunheboto and Tenning in Peren.

Agriculture which is the mainstay of people’s livelihood is primitive relying mostly on ‘jhum’ cultivation and is, therefore, not productive. Although, some areas in Kohima and Phek districts have beautifully developed terraced fields, slash-and-burn cultivation is the norm in most parts of the State.

It is no surprise, therefore, that Nagaland depends on imports from other parts of the country to meet its food grains requirements.

With no industries and a weak services sector, the State’s revenue base is understandably very low. To compound matters, Nagaland has nearly 100,000 government employees whose salaries

and wages account for 44.54% of its revenue expenditure and 30.66% of the total expenditure on the Consolidated Fund as per 2015-16 BE. The total outstanding liabilities of the State stood at a whopping Rs 8285.00 crores in 2014-15 (RE). (Source: Economic Census-2016, Directorate of Economics and Statistics).

In the field of education, the State can be said to have done well in terms of spread, although quality needs a lot to be desired.

This is due to a lack of adherence to qualifications at the time of initial recruitment and absence of orientation and training thereafter.

The percentage of literacy at 79.5 compares very well with the rest of the country. However, what is worrisome is the large number of educated unemployed youth numbering about 80,000. For a small State like Nagaland, this is a sizeable number and the problem, if not tackled early, might be

against the Nagas if they declared Naga Independence, to which Mahatma Gandhi assured that, he would ask Hydari and his forces to shoot him first before any Naga was shot at. The Naga delegates were fully satisfied with Gandhiji’s assurance and declared Naga Independence on 14th August 1947 not against India but to safeguard the identity and rights of the Nagas but Late Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India used all forces available against the Nagas, mainly to crush Naga National Movement. Thus, merciless Indian Army without any hesitation committed heinous crimes against the Nagas by raping Naga women, rampant arrest, beating and merciless killing, burning of Naga houses, churches and granaries in Naga Country. The India government also started anti-Naga Campaign to convince the international communities that, the Naga people chosed to stay with India and only handful youths declared Naga Independence against the wishes of the Nagas. Against such negative campaign the Naga people were compelled to call the voluntary Plebiscite and accordingly conducted Naga National Plebiscite on 16th May 1951 where its result displayed 99% voted for Naga Independence. This was how, the zeal and un-dying desire of the Naga people displayed to India and entire world that, they would never become Indian. Today, the Naga People are most fortunate people who have bright future and visionary leaders who led us thus far. The NSCN-Reformation will never forsake the Naga People and part away from Naga history but to uphold the Naga National Plebiscite of 1951 till the Naga becomes a Nation. The NSCNReformation being the youngest Revolutionary organisation should lead the Naga National struggle and ready to face any given situation and eventualities to defend our nationhood.

Speech of Y. Wangtin Naga, his excellency the president, NSCN/GPRN-Reformation MIP, NSCN/GPRN-Reformation

explosive. In fact, the problem of unemployment for the State as a whole is quite endemic with the non-working population accounting for 50.77% of the total. (Source: Economic Indicators 2013, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Govt. of Nagaland) The State’s public health coverage in terms of spread is good with 11 hospitals and 543 CHCs, PHCs, Sub-Centres. However, making qualified manpower and life-saving drugs available in remote areas remains a huge challenge.

The situation relating to rural water supply can be considered to be satisfactory since almost all villages have their own catchment areas and source of supply. The problem, however, is quite acute in urban areas, particularly during the winter months.

(To be concluded) S.C.Jamir.

our customs, and civilisation since India was created. Many talented and brave leaders have sacrificed their life, taken time and wealth for the liberation of Nagaland and with this the Govt. of the Democratic Republic of Nagaland. So the NNC/GDRN(Non-Accord) shall continuously pursue what our pioneer had dreamed for the Nagas. For the powers and chairs are temporary but the nationhood is not, and the size or the stature of the leadership is measured by the people only.

Last not the least, Nagas have produced multiple intellectuals, scholars, think tanks, orator, writers and multiple rich people and above all many statesman. Now we have these question to ponder that what will be the best for the people whether to continue to march bearing legacy of the sovereignty that sowed deeply by the bygone leaders or to live under the bondage of other.

My dear Naga national workers irrespective of particular groups or factions, I appeal to work together and raise up our heads and stand firm for our common goals, as a saying goes, “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours either to win or lose.”May Almighty bless you all. Kuknalim.

Speech by Kiumukam Yimchunger, President, Government of the Democratic Republic of Nagaland, Naga National Council (Non-Accord).

Speech delivered by Kiumukam Yimchunger, President, Government of the Democractic Republic of Nagaland, Naga National Council (Non-Accord).

Through MIP NNC/GDRN (N-A)

Reader’s Post

To executive director, TBI NE Zonal office Appeal to appoint separate development officers for the state of Nagaland at the office of Tea Board India (TBI), Jorhat, Assam.

Sir,

Reference to the subject cited above, the undersigned on behalf of All Nagaland Small Tea Growers Association (ANSTGA) would like to draw your kind attention that, at present there are more than 1000 (one thousand) small tea growers/farmers in the state of Nagaland and in order to supervise these tea growers, we request your competent authority to kindly appoint separate development officers for the state of Nagaland at the office of the Tea Board of India, Jorhat, Assam. Thanking you.

N. Lanu Lemtor, executive chairman and advisor, Shami Angh ANSTGA

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

Nagaland Post, Dimapur monday, august 15, 2016

Pak pledges support to J&K’s ‘freedom’ struggle

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI): Pakistan today said it was dedicating its Independence Day to Kashmir’s “freedom” and vowed to extend diplomatic, political and moral support to its people, provoking strong remonstrance from India, which contended the “only outstanding issue” was to liberate parts of the state under “illegal occupation of Islamabad”.

Rebuffing Pakistan’s proposal of sending supplies to the restive state, India also said it along with other countries in the region have already received enough of “trademark exports” from that country, including terrorism and infiltrators.

As several cities and towns in the Valley remained under curfew, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit sought to fish in the troubled waters when he told a gathering that,”As far as Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, we are dedicating this year’s Independence Day to the freedom of Kashmir.

And we firmly believe that the sacrifices made by the people of Jammu and Kashmir will not go in vain.

“The ongoing unrest should be ended. Pakistan will continue to extend its full diplomatic, political and moral support to the valiant people of Jammu and Kashmir till they get their right to self determination,” Basit told a function at the Pakistan High

Commission organised to celebrate his country’s Independence day.

Basit said no matter “how much” force is used, the political aspirations of people of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be suppressed, and that the “freedom movement” will reach its logical conclusion.

Basit’s comments came on a day when Pakistani forces violated the ceasefire along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.

With ties between the two countries under severe strain, both the government and BJP reacted strongly to Basit’s remarks, with Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s office Jitendra Singh contending that the “only outstanding issue is how to liberate parts of J&K which is under illegal occupation of Islamabad.”

Singh said, “Our stand is very clear in the context of J&K issue. If at all there is any outstanding issue with Pakistan it is how to liberate the part of J&K which remains under illegal occupation of Islamabad after 60-65 years of Indpendence and make it a part of J&K and part of the Indian Union.

“Whatever goes on in Islamabad and on behalf of Pakistani authorities is a reflection of confusion and frustration they suffer from,” he said.

BJP attributed the Pakistani envoy’s “provocative” remarks on Kashmir to its “frustration”

after Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted it over atrocities against people in PoK and Balochistan.

“Pakistan is speaking out of frustration after Modi showed it the mirror over the atrocities being carried out by its army against people in Pak-occupied-Kashmir and Balochistan.

“India is exposing Pakistan at international level and has made it clear that talks will be now about the repression of people in PoK and how they can get rid of this,” BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.

India also reacted sharply to a note verbale from Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Friday proposing to send supplies to Jammu and Kashmir.

External Affairs Ministry “completely and categorically” rejected the communication from Pakistan.

“A communication was apparently delivered to our High Commission in Islamabad on August 12. I can only characterise its contents that propose sending supplies to the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir as absurd,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.

“India and others in the region have already received enough of Pakistan’s trademark exports – international terrorism, cross-border infiltrators, weapons, narcotics and fake currency,” he said.

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National/state India rejects Pak’s note verbale on Kashmir New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS): India on Sunday rejected a note verbale issued by Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad regarding sending essential supplies from Pakistan to Jammu and Kashmir.

“I can only characterize its (note verbale) contents as absurd,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.

Swarup said India and others in the region have already received enough of Pakistan’s trademark exports of “international terrorism, cross-border infiltrators, weapons, narcotics and fake currency”.

“We completely and categorically reject this purported communication from the Pakistan Foreign Ministry,” he added.

Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan’s foreign policy chief, said on Friday that Islamabad wanted to have an exclusive dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir with New Delhi and that the Pakistani Foreign Secretary would write to his Indian counterpart about this.

India responded that it would welcome a dialogue on contemporary and relevant issues only.

India-Pakistan ties have become frosty after largescale violence broke out in Jammu and Kashmir following the killing of Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani on July 8.

Organizations condemn Aug 11 rape DIMAPUR: Various organizations have condemned the alleged rape on a minor girl of 15 years, on August 11 at Kohima. The organizations condemned the act committed by 22 year old Meyikumzuk Jamir, son of Washi Temjen of Chuchuyimlang village and a resident of Merhulietsa colony Kohima.

A condemnation note

by Khiamniungan Union Kohima (KUK) president M. Thangou, Khiamniungan Students Union Kohima (KSUK) president Pongchiu and Khiamniungan Menyiu Hoikam Kohima (KMHK) president Choin has termed the inhuman act as barbaric, bestial, not just unlawful but also unnatural and the highest degree of crime.

The unions have further appealed the law enforcing authority to award befitting punishment as per the law and to make the case a nonbail able offence. Failure to deliver justice the unions stated that they would not remain silent and also asserted that they would not be held responsible for any unwarranted incident occurring out of it.

CSUTT: Chang Students Union Tuensang Town (CSUTT) in a condemnation note by CSUTT press and information secretary, Hanso Chang has condemned, terming that such act cannot be tolerated at any cost. CSUTT has urged the law forcing agency to take stern action against the culprit. And further more the union prays for the victim for her speedy recovery.

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chuyimlang Senso Union president, Imti Onen in a condemnation stated that such heinous offence has no place in society and must not be tolerated. KCST join hands with the Khiamniungan Union Kohima in condemning the monstrous act in the highest order. It also appeal and have strong faith in the law enforcement agency and the judiciary to award befitting punishment to the person who has committed such a crime.

KCST also stated that the accused shall be liable for further appropriate action from the union. It also deeply share the pain and anguish with the victim, her family and the Khiamniungan community. KCST sincerely appealed that this heinous act committed by one unscrupulous person shall in no way hamper our good immemorial relationship with the Khiamniungan community.

ENWO: Easter n Naga Women Organization (ENWO) has condemned the rape of a minor girl at Kohima. In a press release, ENWO general secretary Sojila Chang and info and press secretary Miapo Wallim termed the incident as “horrific” and “ungodly” which raised question on the safety and security of women folk.

Organization also urged upon the law enforcing agencies to take stringent action against the perpetrator as per the law and award befitting punishment and no bail should be granted at any cost.ENWO further extended support to

the representation served to the principal district and session judges by its federating unit.

NCD condemns: Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) has condemned the assault on Lotha Hoho Dimapur (LHD) general secretary and Lotha Colony Council (LCC) chairman Renathung Ezung on August 8, at circular road, Dimapur.NCD appealed the law enforcing agencies to book the culprit and award befitting punishment as per law of the land. In a press release, NCD general secretary Thsapongkyu Sangtam termed that vehicles without any number plate or with fake number plates has become one of the leading cause of crimes in Dimapur. Council while lauding Dimapur police Anti Vehicle Theft Squad (AVTS) for seizing number of vehicles stole, fake registration, tempered vehicles engines etc. Council also urged the enforcing agency to start cracking down against unregistered vehicles and take strict measures against such anti- social activities.

DUCCF: Dimapur Urban Council Chairmen Federation (DUCCF) vehemently condemns the assault on Renathung Ezung. DUCCF media cell stated that assaulting an elderly responsible public leader without any rhyme or reason in a civilised society was shocking and such a deplorable act must be condemned by all. DUCCF urged the law enforcing agency to thoroughly investigate the matter and book the culprits at the earliest.

Condolence messages DIMAPUR: Dimapur Bar Association (DBA) has expressed deep pain at the demise of late Chubayanger who passed away on August 6 at his residence, Dimapur. In a condolence message, DBA president, Imti Imsong and secretary, Hukavi Zhimomi stated that late Chubayanger had been a member of the Dimapur Bar since October 5, and in his demise the DBA has lost a proficient member who had contributed immensely towards the Bar as the assistant general secretary of DBA from the year 2013 till date. It stated that he was enrolled in the roll of advocates of the Bar Council of India in the year April 9, 2002. DBA has extended its sincere sympathy towards the aggrieved family and further pray that the almighty God give solace and strength during this time of grief.

DGU: Dimapur Gorkha Union (DGU) in a condolence message has expressed sadness by the sudden demise of late Harish K. Adyanthaya, general secretary of DCCI and brother in law of Nobin Pradhan, president, Nagaland Gorkha Association (NGA) at Bangalore.

DGU described late Harish as a very kind hearted and soft spoken person who always discharged his responsibilities with dedication and sincerity for which he was loved and adored by all.

DGU expressed its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and pray to Lord Almighty that the departed soul rest in peace.

Central govt has upheld vision President’s daughter Integration of Nagas a legitimate right, says Raising casion during which he stated Movement for Human Rights –p1) of a transformed India: Acharya Sharmistha exposes (FromAlso speaking on the that government of India and (NPMHR) also spoke on the Facebook harasser

occasion, Naga Hoho representative stated that Nagas were truly independent since time immemorial and the celebration was an assertion of the belief that “we will achieve independence”.

Stating that differences were mushrooming within the Naga society, which could sabotage the ongoing talks, he called upon the Naga national workers to work together and bring a lasting solution at the earliest.

He also appealed the NPGs not to interfere in the state affairs.

A representative of Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) also spoke on the oc-

NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (Agencies): President Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha, a Congress member, has exposed a man’s bid to sexually harass her on Facebook by posting screenshots of the explicit messages he sent her. The alleged harasser, whose profile S identifies him as Partha Mandal, used the social networking site’s messaging service to send the messages, all in Bengali.

Sharmistha has registered a complaint with Face book, and also filed a complaint with the Delhi Police cyber cell.

Police officers said they would register an FIR under the IT Act. In her FB post, shared on Saturday, Sharmistha wrote: “This pervert Partha Mandal is sending me dirty sexual messages. My 1st reaction was to ignore & block him. But then New Delhi, Aug 14 I thought the silence wud en (PTI): Congress president courage him to find other Sonia Gandhi was on Sunvictims... I strongly feel such day discharged after 11 days ppl shd be publicly exposed & of hospitalisation after being humiliated.” treated for her illness and She later told TOI, “It shoulder injury. is not just me -thousands of The Sir Ganga Ram women face similar harass- Hospital, where she was adments every day . I don’t want the cops to do it (punish the mitted on August 3, said her accused) specially for me just medical condition was stable because I am the President’s and has been advised rest.

“Sonia Gandhi’s medidaughter. I want to fight against this harassment like any other cal condition at the time of ments of factional groups woman in the country, who discharge from the hospital who made peace agreement cannot approach the police is stable.

She has been advised with India but peace is not fearing stigma.” found amongst themselves and with the people”. He therefore wished for “one government for a nation; that is universal truth and biblical truth known to all and every one; perpetrators and propagators of such multiple governments in the land are fooling themselves by trying to fool others”.

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The celebration saw various colourful cultural presentations by Konyak dance troupe, Phom dance troupe, patriotic cultural song by Liyai Baptist Church.

Thousands of people including representatives of various civil societies, communities, dignitaries and people from nearby villages attended the celebrations.

Invocation prayer was pronounced by Rev. D. Heutui, central pastor CNC, vote of thanks by cabinet secretary DG Robert while benediction was delivered by ‘col’ Shem Jajo, head chaplain Naga army.

Sonia discharged from Hospital rest and continuation of medicines.

Gandhi is likely to visit the hospital for further evaluation of her condition in the coming week,” said D S Rana, Chairman of Board of Management of the hospital. 69-year-old Gandhi was admitted to the hospital after being taken ill during a roadshow in Varanasi. She had undergone a surgery on her left shoulder on August 3 and doctors said she has recovered from the injury.

Gandhi was admitted

under the care of Arup Basu, senior consultant, Department of Pulmonology and Chest Medicine and his team. She was operated for her shoulder injury at the hospital by Prateek Gupta, senior consultant and his team from Department of Orthopaedics and Sanjay Desai from Mumbai. Gandhi was shifted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital from the Army Research and Referral Hospital, where she was rushed soon after her arrival from Varanasi.

Illegal construction activities going on in the middle of a drain at Nyamo Lotha Road, Dimapur on Sunday.

Dimapur frequently faces flood situation and such illegal constructions in the middle of drain obstructs smooth flow of sewage leading to artificial flood.

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(From –p1) Metha on behalf of the FGN has also extended gratefulness to all national workers of NNC and the FGN for their dedication and sacrifices, and for steadfastly upholding the Naga national right.

He said for seventy years, Nagas have “endlessly” suffered in the hands of Indian occupational Armed Forces and people who lack integrity were bribed to go against the Government to weaken it.

According to Metha, one of the recent “Indian acts of notoriety” was to force the innocent Naga public to obtain Indian citizenship card called “Adhaar card”, without which our people were denied to avail facilities even on payment for their daily utilities, “whereas, it is voluntary for genuine Indians”.

Unfortunately this cannot make a Naga an Indian or a Mongolian an Aryan, Metha added. He further claimed that “over the past few years our land has been plagued by extortionist so-called govern-

Myanmar had deprived Nagas of their legitimate rights for seven decades and it was time for the occupational forces to leave the Nagas alone.

He conveyed that the young generation of Nagas aspire to live as one people and one nation.

United Naga Council (UNC), president called upon the gathering to stand united and also extend support to the collective leadership of the NSCN (I-M) and government of India in the ongoing negotiations.

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He said it was “high time to make the world know that Nagaland and whole of North East have freedom fighters, scholars, well known doctors, literary people, social workers, etc.”

“We are all equal. We all have participated and contributed equally in the freedom fight,” he said.

On Naga issue, he said the ongoing talks for permanent peace are yielding positive results. “The talks have become more purposeful, less ritualistic, more forthright and far more frequent. This will bring a new prospect and happy era for all the Nagas,” the governor said.

In his concluding remarks, Acharya appealed to all “…to rededicate ourselves for the prosperous, strong and peaceful India. Remember that we are a democratic state and secular country. We respect diversity.”

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(From –p1) The governor further welcomed the 33% women reservation, announced by the state government, for women in the Urban Local Bodies.

This he said would empower the women.

Pointing out that the peculiarity of India was ‘unity in diversity’, Acharya said: “We Nagas have a well knit social organisation which is an excellent example of unity in diversity.” “Alog bhasha, alog vesh, phir bhi apna ek desh,” he added.

“A grand synthesis of cultures, religions and language of the people belonging to different castes and communities has upheld its unity and cohesiveness,” he said.

Nagaland with its own unique culture society and traditions was one of the most diverse regions in the North East, which he said, boasts of unparalleled cultural practices, respect for different faiths, tribal life, gender equality, art forms, family values and fierce independence.

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The new infrastructure being developed includes a Rs 190 crore facility coming up at Burdwan Panagarh in the state, which will be the country’s biggest bottling plant.

The minister said he regreted the absence of state government representatives at the event, despite invitations to them, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

“I am sad nobody from the Bengal government is present. These schemes are for the poor and one should not look and find political colours in them. Despite extending personal invitations to them, including Didi, they did not turn up,” he said.

Taking a jibe at the Banerjee government, Pradhan warned people against middlemen.

“The biggest threat to schemes for the poor are the middlemen and Bengal is famous for that. The Left used to claim they only know who are the poor and took the benefits for the party; they were driven out. But the ‘Didi’ (Banerjee) government is no different,” he said.

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window ending on September 30. The window provides an opportunity to persons who have not paid full tax in the past to come forward and declare the undisclosed income by paying tax, surcharge and penalty, totalling to 45 per cent of the income declared. In order to meet the demand of traders, the government last month had extended the deadline for payment of tax and penalty under IDS and allowed declarants to pay the tax and penalty amount in three installments

by September 30, 2017.

The first installment of 25 per cent under the IDS 2016 will have to be paid by November 2016 to be followed by another one of 25 per cent by March 31, 2017. The remaining 50 per cent will have to be paid

by September 30, 2017.

Earlier the tax, surcharge and penalty under the black money disclosure window were required to be paid by November 30 this year.

“Time schedule for payment of tax, surcharge and penalty payable under the IDS has been extended... Accordingly, necessary amendments to Form-2 as prescribed in the Rules are in the process of being made,” said the CBDT order.

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New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI): Black money holders who have disclosed their ill-gotten assets during July under the ongoing compliance window will receive acknowledgement from the tax department by August 30. Since the government has extended the deadline for payment of tax and penalty under the Income Disclosure Scheme (IDS), necessary amendments have to be carried out in Form-2, which is the acknowledgement issued by the CBDT to people disclosing their wealth.

The IDS Rules prescribe that the acknowledgement in Form-2 is to be issued by the Principal Commissioner/ Commissioner to the declarant within 15 days from the end of the month in which the declaration has been furnished.

An order issued by the Income Tax department said that in view of the changes in the IDS, it has extended the time for issuance of acknowledgement in Form-2 “from 15 days to 30 days in respect of the declarations filed under the Scheme in the month of July 2016”. The government has come out with IDS, beginning June 1. Under the scheme, people having undeclared domestic assets can disclose it within the four-month compliance

Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS): Over Rs 3,000 crore would be spent to extend the LPG supply to 85 per cent of West Bengal’s 2.15 crore households by adding at least 60 lakh new connections by 2019, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said here on Sunday.

“We aim to extend the LPG cover to 85 per cent of the 2.15 crore households in Bengal, including both BPL (Below Poverty Line) and APL (Above Poverty Line) consumers,” Pradhan said while launching the ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’ (PMUY) for West Bengal at the city’s Nazrul Mancha.

“In just two years, we have added 28 lakh new consumers to take the total LPG (liquified petroleum gas) connections to 1.10 crore in West Bengal. Our target is to add at least 60 lakh more consumers in the next three years.”

Pointing to “poor” LPG coverage in Bengal where at least 14 districts are below the national average, six of them with coverage under 30 per cent, Pradhan said the PMUY, which provides cooking gas connections to women from BPL households, will act as a boon. “To augment the LPG cover in Bengal, over Rs 3,000 crore will be invested. As much as Rs 700 crore will be spent for laying gas pipelines, import terminals and new bottling plants

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Kolkata, Aug 14 (PTI): With the launch of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in West Bengal, targetted to benefit 1.96 crore BPL households in next three years, the state is going to witness an approximate investment of Rs 3,000 crore creating 10,000 new jobs, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today. He said more than 60 lakh LPG connections would be given under the programme in the state over the next two years. “For which, there is a need for additional bottling capacity, new distributors and pipelines”, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister said.

He said that HPCL would be coming up with the largest bottling plant at Panagarh in the state, while other oil marketing companies IOC and BPCL were also doing the same. “Plans are there to have an LPG import terminal at Haldia and trunk pipelines for transportation”, he said.

“All these would entail an investment of roughly Rs 3000 crore”, he said. Under the PMUY scheme, women of 1.06 crore BPL households in the state would get LPG connection at Rs 1600 each and also avail of EMI scheme for purchase of ovens.

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If the merger happens, Indian Railway will get rid of the annual dividend it has to pay for gross budgetary support from the government every year.

According to a senior Railway official, the move to discard the age-old practice of a separate Rail Budget is part of the Modi government’s reform agenda.

With the merger, the issue of raising passenger fares, an unpopular decision, will be the Finance Minister’s call.

Prabhu had also told Rajya Sabha on August 9 that he has asked the Finance Minister to merge the Railway Budget with General Budget in the long-term interest of national transporter as well as the country’s economy.

All-India Railwaymen’s Federation General Secretary Gopal Mishra said Railway Ministry’s autonomy will be lost in the merger. “But we have to see in what form the merger will happen,” he said.

The merger move is significant as it is expected to have political implications.

It has been seen that almost every Railway Minister, particularly in coalition governments, has addressed his constituencies by doling out favours by way of new trains and projects.

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New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI): The 92-year-old practice of presenting a separate Rail Budget is set to come to an end from the next fiscal, with the Finance Ministry accepting Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu’s proposal to merge it with the General Budget.

According to railways, The Finance Ministry has now constituted a five-member committee comprising senior officials of the Ministry and the national transporter to work out the modalities for the merger. The committee has been asked to submit its report

by August 31.

“I had written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for merger of the Rail Budget with General Budget. This will be in the Railway’s interest and also in the nation’s interest. We are working out the modalities,” Prabhu told PTI. The public sector behemoth has to bear an additional burden of about Rs 40,000 crore on account of implementation of the 7th Pay Commission awards, besides an annual outgo of Rs 32,000 crore on subsidies.

Besides, the delay in completion of projects resulted in cost overrun of Rs 1.07 lakh crore and huge throw-forward of Rs 1.86 lakh crore in respect of 442 ongoing rail projects.

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NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (PTI): Continuing the bullish momentum, foreign investors poured in over Rs 5,400 crore into Indian equity markets in the first two weeks of this month on positive global cues and the passage of long-pending GST Constitutional Amendment bill in Parliament.

It follows a 4-month high inflow of Rs 12,612 crore in the preceding month. That was the highest net inflow since March, when FPIs had pumped in Rs 21,143 crore in the stock markets. Indian equities have been witnessing positive inflow from foreign investors since March.

Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) turned net buyers of equities in March after pulling out a massive Rs 41,661 crore from the market in previous four months (November-February). Experts have attributed the latest inflow to rate cut by Bank of England (BoE) and the passage of long-pending bill to facilitate the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.

BoE had cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.25 per cent, its first reduction since 2009, and also begun a fresh round of quantitative easing that had been on pause since 2012. Sentiment got a boost after the long-stalled indirect tax reform GST Constitution Amendment Bill passed the Rajya Sabha on August 4 and in the Lok Sabha on August 8. Moody’s Investors Service has said that GST implementation will be positive for the country’s economic growth without any significant impact on inflation.

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flation target, making the target more difficult (and costly) to achieve,” said the IMF working paper - ‘Monetary Transmission in Developing Countries: Evidence from India’.

It said that careful studies of the effectiveness of monetary transmission in lowincome countries have often found monetary policy effects that are counterintuitive, weak, and/or unreliable.

“On the other hand, the small size of the formal financial sector in India would tend to undermine the effects on bank lending rates on aggregate demand,” said the paper authored by Prachi Mishra, Peter Montiel and Rajeswari Sengupta. According to the paper, in case of India, the response of the exchange rate to monetary policy shocks is in the right direction but the magnitude is very small.

“The implication is that any effects of monetary policy on aggregate demand in India are more likely to operate through the trade balance than through interest-sensitive components of aggregate of aggregate demand, but any such effects are likely to be weak,” it said.

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the peak production period because producers have to sell immediately.

“Therefore, there is a need of building cold storage facilities in production centres. Government should improve infrastructure facility by encouraging PPP (publicprivate partnership) initiative for the development of cold storage.

“Also there is need to develop infrastructure that could be directly accessible to the farmers and bridge the gap between fields and markets,” the report said.

Meanwhile, India’s annual retail inflation for July shot up beyond the 6 per cent level mainly on higher prices for food articles like pulses and vegetables official data showed on Friday.

The retail inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the Central Statistics Office (CSO), rose to its highest level in 23-months from 5.77 per cent in June and 3.69 per cent in the like period of last year.

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI): An IMF paper has raised question marks over the ability of RBI to target inflation through monetary measures, saying the size of formal financial sector is small in India and may undermine the effectiveness of interest rate changes on aggregate demand. The IMF working paper assumes significance as the Reserve Bank of India has recently implemented an inflation-targeting regime that requires it to hit publicly announced targets for retail inflation, based on Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Under the new dispensation, RBI will be required to meet retail inflation target of 4 per cent, plus or minus 2 per cent over the next 5 years.

The interest rate from next policy, due on October 4, will be decided by a six-member monetary policy committee (MPC) instead of the central bank governor.

“In the absence of effective and reliable links between the policy instruments controlled by the RBI and aggregate demand in the Indian economy the public may lack confidence that the RBI is able to deliver on its announced in-

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period, over the corresponding period of 2015, followed by cabbage (49.3 per cent), chillies (47.8 per cent), garlic (37 per cent), cauliflower (33.9 per cent), tomato local (26 per cent), tomato hybrid (25.6 per cent), potato fresh (25 per cent), okra (22.3 per cent), and brinjal (20.8 per cent).

“It indicates a worrying situation where market arrivals of vegetables have recorded contraction despite being a peak season for production,” the report said.

The gap between wholesale and retail prices is as much as over 75 per cent in some cases like brinjal, or eggplant, and over 62 per cent for tomatoes, it added.

In terms of locational gaps, it is extremely high by as much as over 80 per cent in places like Mumbai, Delhi and Patna, while in several other cities it is well over 50 per cent, the report said.

Lack of basic infrastructure puts further strain in the arrival of vegetables which results in more wastage during

Ne w D e l hi, Au g 14 (IANS): Prices of vegetables in India’s retail markets are likely to go up further in the coming months with the peak production season coming to an end, industry chamber Assocham said on Sunday on the basis of a study it has conducted.

The report said there would be “more pressure on the market arrivals of vegetables as production season eases”, on the basis of a “most worrying” trend that saw vegetable prices rising up to 100 per cent in the April-July period due to low arrivals of the harvest in the markets.

“There is a huge gap between retail and wholesale price of vegetables. On an allIndia average basis, retailers are selling at more than 52.7 per cent of wholesale prices,” Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Secretary General D.S. Rawat said in a statement here.

At the retail level, potato prices increased by about 100 per cent during the April-July

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17 missing after Indian trawler sinks off B’desh Dhaka, Aug 14 (AFP): Seventeen fishermen were missing today after an Indian trawler sank off the coast of Bangladesh, officials said, sparking a major search effort in the Bay of Bengal.

Two Bangladesh Navy ships and a patrol aircraft were deployed after a distress signal was sent from a ship travelling with the sunken fishing boat, called Maha Gouri, a Navy official told AFP speaking on condition of anonymity.

“The fishing trawler sank in the Bay of Bengal just 70 kilometres north of Hiron Point in the Sundarbans,” the official said. He said waters were choppy this afternoon when the distress call was sent.

Another official confirmed the number of missing after the boast sank in the Bay of Bengal, the world’s largest bay.

“Seventeen fishermen were missing after the trawler sank today,” Tapushi Rabeya, a Defence Ministry spokesman, told AFP.

New York, Aug 14 (PTI): A 55-year old BangladeshiAmerican Imam at a mosque here and his assistant have been shot dead from point blank range by a lone gunman in broad daylight amid growing concerns across America over rising Islamophobic rhetoric.

Police said Imam Maulama Akonjee and Thara Uddin, 64, were walking home after midday prayers at AlFurqan Jame Masjid Mosque yesterday when they were approached from behind by a male with medium complexion who was dressed in a dark polo shirt and shorts.

According to witnesses and video surveillance, immediately after the victims were shot, the same male was seen fleeing from the scene with a gun in his hand.

Both victims were dressed in Islamic attire at the time of the shooting. The lone gunman still remains at large.

Responding to multiple emergency calls, police found Akonjee and Uddin with gunshot wounds to the head. They were both taken to a local hospital, where Akonjee died as a result of his injuries.

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Havana, Aug 14 (AP): Fidel Castro thanked Cubans for their well-wishes on his 90th birthday and criticised US President Barack Obama in a lengthy letter published in state media. He appeared but did not speak at a gala in his honour broadcast on state television.

“I want to express my deepest gratitude for the shows of respect, greetings and praise that I’ve received in recent days, which give me strength to reciprocate with ideas that I will send to party militants and relevant organizations,” he wrote about his birthday yesterday. “Modern medical techniques have allowed me to scrutinize the universe,” wrote Castro, who stepped down as Cuba’s president 10 years ago after suffering a severe gastrointestinal illness.

He could be seen in footage on state television slowly approaching his seat at Havana’s Karl Marx theater, clad in a white Puma tracksuit top and green shirt.

He sat in what appeared to be a specially equipped wheelchair and watched a musical tribute by a children’s theater company, accompanied by footage of highlights from his decades in power. He sat alongside his younger brother, President Raul Castro, and President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, along with Cuba’s

highest-ranking military and civilian officials. In his letter, Castro accompanied his thanks with reminiscences about his childhood and youth in eastern Cuba, describing the geology and plant life of the region where he grew up. He touched on his father’s death shortly before his own victory in overthrowing US-backed strongman Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Castro returns at the end to criticise Obama, who appeared to anger the revolutionary leader with a March trip to Cuba in which he called for Cubans to look toward the future. A week after the trip, Castro wrote a sternly worded letter admonishing Obama to read up on Cuban history, and declaring that “we don’t need the empire to give us anything.”

In Saturday’s letter, he criticises Obama for not apologising to the Japanese people during a May trip to Hiroshima, describing Obama’s speech there as “lacking stature.”

The Cuban government has taken a relatively low-key approach to Castro’s birthday, in comparison with the largescale gatherings that had been planned for his 80th. Along with the Saturday evening gala, government ministries have held small musical performances and photo exhibitions that pay tribute to the former head of state.

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Sutemi Union Dimapur (SUD) would like to congratulate Mrs. Esther Phucho Chishi, W/o. Dr. Hesheto Y. Chishi on her successful completion of Doctor of Ministry (D. Min) from Hindustan Bible Institute & College, Chennai on 6th August 2016 on the thesis entitled "A Study on Christian Education its relationship between foundational values and prevailing practices in Sumi Churches under WSBAK Nagaland" under the mentorship of Rev. Dr. P. Dozo.

SUD further pray to God to grant her wisdom and success in her future endeavours.

Zhekuto Aye President, S.U.D

Ghunato Chophy General Secretary, S.U.D

lives in a canton neighbouring Saint Gallen.

“The results are part of a criminal proceeding and are therefore not public,” the police statement said.

Some 90 rescue workers had taken part in yesterday’s operation, including police, firefighters, ambulances and three rescue helicopters, police said. Saint Gallen prosecutors, who have opened a criminal investigation into the attack, have secured the affected carriage, which is being scrutinised by forensics teams.

Funeral Service of Late T. Kahoi Swu (Tsutoho village) Notun Basti, Angami Khel, Dimapur, will take place at 11 A.M. on 15th August 2016.

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KIYELHO VILLAGE COUNCIL

KHAGHABOTO AREA,NIULAND SUB DIVISION,WESTERN SUMI, Dist. DIMAPUR,NAGALAND

FELICITATES With immense pride and joy, the Kiyelho Village Council extends our heartfelt congratulations to Mrs. Esther Phucho, W/o Dr. Hesheto Chishi and D/o Shri. Kiyelho Phucho Ex. MLA for successfully completing her Doctor of Ministry( D.Min) from Hindustan Bible Institute & College Chennai, on the Thesis entitled: “A STUDY ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOUNDATIONAL VALUES AND PREVAILING PRACTICES IN SUMI CHURCHES UNDER WESTERN SUMI BAPTIST AKUKUHOU KUQHAKULU IN NAGALAND”.

Under the mentorship of Rev. Dr. P. Dozo.

May God continue to guide you in all your future endeavours.

FELICITATION

The Lokobomi Union Dimapur (LUD) & its members with immense pride & honor extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Hotoli Sema, W/o. Er. Ahoto Chishi for successfully completing her Doctorate of Ministry from Hindustan Bible Institute, Chennai on 'Caring & Empowering the Aged in Church Ministry'.

May God continues to use you for his ministry & for the extension of his kingdom.

Huskha Aye Chairman, LUD

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Ghokimi Kuposhukulu Dimapur (GKD) extend our heartiest congratulations to its member Shri. P. Zuvito Wotsa Dy.GM on being promoted to the post of General Manager Nagaland Industrial Development Corporation.

GKD further pray and wish him long life and may the Lord continue to grant him good health and greater success in his future endeavours.

Venika Chishi General Secretary HVSU

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SUNGRATSU OFFICERS FORUM Head Quarter: Sungratsu Mokokchung : Nagaland

Felicitates

The Sungratsu Officers Forum extends heartiest congratulations to Ms. Imnasenla Walling, daughter of Late Imkongtemsu Walling on being recommended for the post of JDA in the recently declared NPSC results.

The Forum wishes her success in her future endeavour.

Dr. Benjongkumba President Sungratsu Officers Forum

Sashitsungba Aier Secretary Sungratsu Officers Forum

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FELICITATES

With immense pride and honour, the Tsarü (Chare) Service Union extends our heartiest congratulations to Mrs. Thsidilong Sangtam (W/o. Shri. T. Nungsang Sangtam ADC Longkhim) on being appointed to the post of Inspector of Taxes through the State most prestigious NPSC Exam.

We convey our best wishes in your future endeavours.

T. Bendang Dhongrü Press & Info. Secretary

T. Kikatemsü President

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We the Hoshepu Village Students' Union (HVSU) with immense pride and honour extend our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Ninoto I. Zhimomi (S/o. Shri.

Ikuto Zhimomi, Joint Director, Dept. of Agriculture) on his outstanding achievement who secured 1st Rank of DSP in the recently declared NPSC exam result 2016.

May God continue to be your strength in your future endeavours for the service of humanity.

Iloto Aye President HVSU

Akaho Chisho Secretary, LUD

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TONIHO ACHUMI Secretary, GKD

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FELICITATION

The Japukong Kaketshir Mungdang (JKM) Treasure, Handing and Taking cum Vehicle dedication ceremony was held on 8th August 2016, at headquarter Longchem.

The outgoing treasure Mr. K. Alangba Longkumer (Aonokpu) (2007-2016) handed over the office to new incumbent treaure Mr. K. Chuba Langu (Lakhuni) and the vehicle was dedicated by Mr. Nungsang Jamir, Pastor Longchem Baptist Church.

The Japukong Students' Conference would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Dr. N. Benjongliba Aier, Hon'ble Parliamentary Secretary Agriculture, for his concern generous donation of the new vehicle to the JKM, which will benefit the Students' body in particular and the Japukong range in general.

It is our wish and prayer that God will bless your leadership and continue to use your good office for the benefit of the masses.

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tion was also hurt after rushing in to pull out the attacker -- who was on fire -- out of the train, police said.

“His intervention probably prevented worst,” police spokesman Hanspeter Kruesi told the Blick daily, suggesting that more passengers might have been injured.

Metzger said police for the time being would not provide more details on the identities or nationalities of the victims.

Late yesterday, police had searched the home of the suspected attacker, who

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K. KIKHETO WOTSA Chairman, GKD

The Nitoi Ghami Kuqhakulu Dimapur, would like to extend our heartiest congratulations and appreciation to Mr. Nikiye Z. Yeputhomi, S/o. Shri. N. Zhetovi Yeputhomi and Mr. Boska K. Yeputhomi, S/o. Shri. Kughazhe K. Yeputhomi for achieving the post of Secretariat Assistant and Inspector of Taxes respectively through NPSC Examination.

We convey our profound gratitude for bringing laurels to our community and extend best wishes for their bright future.

Ihoshe Achumi Kasheto Yeputhomi Chairman Secretary Y M C

Imam, assistant fatally shot near New York mosque

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candidates’ views on foreign policy issues, particularly ties with India, the report said.

The succession would take place upon the retirement of Gen Sharif at the end of November.

This will be the fifth time that Sharif — who already holds a record of sorts for being the prime minister who has appointed the most army chiefs — will pick the top commander of the country’s nearly 550,000 ground troops. If his botched attempt to replace Gen Pervez Musharraf with Ziauddin Butt in 1999 is also counted, this will be the sixth time Sharif gets to choose a chief of army staff, the report said.

Sharif ’s earlier picks were Gen Asif Nawaz Janjua (1991), Gen Waheed Kakar (1993), Gen Pervez Musharraf (1998) and Gen Raheel Sharif (2013). Of the seven army chiefs after Gen Zia, five were handpicked

by Sharif.

This time round, the government is yet to officially start considering candidates, but those privy to developments in the corridors of power say consultations within the government started at the beginning of this year.

Insiders recall that Gen Raheel’s unprecedented announcement from January this year — saying he would retire on time — was also prompted by some of the same behind-the- scenes political manoeuvres.

and 43 and a six-year-old girl.

Dozens of people were on the train at the time of the attack, police said.

Regional police in Switzerland’s eastern canton of Saint Gallen said a 34-yearold woman who had been in critical condition since the attack had died of her injuries today morning.

Metzger said the attacker, who is not of immigrant origin and does not have a criminal record, remained in critical condition.

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Islamabad, Aug 14 (PTI): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is poised to pick a “safe” successor to Pakistan’s powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif from among four generals and key considerations will include the candidate’s views on foreign policy issues, especially ties with India, a leading newspaper reported today.

The four Generals in line to succeed General Raheel are Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Zubair Hayat is the senior most followed

by Multan Corps Commander Lt Gen Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmed, Bahawalpur Corps Commander Lt Gen Javed Iqbal Ramday and Inspector General Training and Evaluation Lt Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Dawn reported.

In the build-up to the appointment of the next army chief, all candidates appear to be evenly poised and there are no clear frontrunners, it said.

When Prime Minister Sharif sits down to choose 60-year- old Gen Raheel’s successor, his decision will be guided by personal choices, political considerations, and, in a couple of cases, his own experience of working with the candidates — with a great temptation to go for “someone safe”, retired and serving bureaucrats and military officials told the newspaper.

Another consideration likely to be taken into account would be the prospective

A 27-year-old Swiss national used flammable liquid to start fire on moving train on a train at Salez station running between Buchs and Sennwald in eastern Switzerland.

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Islamabad, Aug 14 (PTI): Pakistan today once again raised the Kashmir issue while celebrating its 70th Independence Day with President Mamnoon Hussain saying the country will continue to support Kashmiris in their bid for the right to self-determination.

Hussain addressed the people during the special flag hoisting ceremony here and mostly talked about internal challenges and importance of eliminating militancy. He, however, also touched upon the Kashmir issue and asked the people that they should not forget the people of Kashmir on the Independence Day. “Pakistan cannot forget Kashmiris and would continue to support them to get right of self-determination in light of the UN resolution,” he said. The President urged the people to shun differences and work hard for the prosperity of the country.

Sharif to decide on successor to Pakistan army chief Raheel

Geneva, Aug 14 (AFP): Swiss police said today there was so far no indication that an attacker’s knife rampage on a train, which killed one woman and injured five passengers, was an act of terror.

“The question of motive remains,” police from Switzerland’s eastern Saint Gallen region said in a statement, stressing: “To date there is no indication this was a terrorist or politically motivated act.”

Police spokesman Bruno Metzger told AFP “terrorism is not our main theory” for yesterday afternoon’s attack and that “other motives” figured far higher on the list, although he would not say what they were.

A 27-year-old Swiss national used flammable liquid to start a fire on a moving train in eastern Switzerland before stabbing passengers, according to police.

The attack took place at around 2:20 pm (1220 GMT) near Salez station on a train running between Buchs and Sennwald near Switzerland’s eastern border with Liechtenstein and Austria.

Police said the attack had been caught on video, allowing them to determine that the man had acted alone.

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ments by the government at the last stage before bringing it in parliament and there was nothing to fear about it.

The function of the office is to establish whether a missing person is dead or alive and, if they are dead, discover when, how and where they died.

While the Tamil rights groups have welcomed the

Kano (Nigeria), Aug 14 (AFP): Boko Haram today released a video of the girls allegedly kidnapped from Chibok in April 2014, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes.

The video is the latest release from embattled Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who earlier this month denied claims that he had been replaced as the leader of the jihadist group.

“They should know that their children are still in our hands,” said a man whose face was covered by a turban in the video posted on YouTube.

“There is a number of the girls, about 40 of them, that have been married by the decision of Allah,” said the man in the 11-minute video, which shows girls with veils sitting on the ground and standing in the background.

“Some of them have died as a result of aerial bombardment.”

The mass kidnapping of 276 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014 provoked global outrage and brought unprecedented attention on the Boko Haram conflict, in which at least 20,000 people have been killed since 2009.

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move, the Sinhala nationalist majority groups stay opposed.

They said the move will extract revenge from security forces for needing the LTTE’s militancy which killed thousands of civilians and soldiers.

The Joint Opposition backing the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa created a rumpus in parliament when the bill was introduced last Thursday. They said the bill had not been legally adopted.

Amidst opposition protests Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said the bill had been approved without a vote. He said the opposition did not take his offer to debate and go for a vote if needed.

The draft bill to establish an OMP was passed with amendments in Parliament without a vote on August 11.

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Colombo, Aug 14 (PTI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has made it clear that his government’s move to set up an office to find about 65,000 people reported missing during the civil war was not aimed at targeting the security forces but for the redressal of those affected by the strife.

“Those who claim that this Office on Missing Persons (OMP) would betray the security forces, I would like to tell them that I am ready to meet them and argue our case,” Sirisena told a television channel yesterday.

He denied that the move was aimed at targeting government troops.

“We only want to give redress to those who have been affected not to punish anyone,” he said.

Sirisena said the original form of the OMP bill was changed with many amend-

Boko Haram releases new video of Chibok girls

KHAR STUDENTS' UNION DIMAPUR FELICITATES

The Khar Kaketshir Telongjem Dimapur extends our heartiest congratulations the following on their success in NPSC exam.

1. Miss. Yapangmenla Jamir, EAC, D/o. Lt. Rongsenkaba Jamir 2. Mr. Sangpangchang Longkumer, EAC, S/o. Lt. Aokilep Longkumer 3. Mr. Lolennokcha Jamir, JDA, S/o. Mr. Tekachuba Jamir Further, we also congratulate the following on being conferred PhD in different fields :1. Dr. Sentikumla Jamir, D/o. Lt. Tongpangchiba on the thesis "Customary and Formal Law Interface in Nagaland: Land, Gender and Dispute Resolution Mechanism" from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

2. Dr. Moasunep Jamir, S/o. Lt. Tongpangchiba Jamir on the thesis "Gas Foil Bearing: Effects of Foil Materials and Stability Analysis using different models for Foils Structure" from IIT, Guwahati.

It is our fervent prayer that the Almighty God bless you in all your future endeavours.

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M Jorhat Deputy Commissioner, Virendra Mitral (in traditional Ao attire) receiving the relief fund for flood victims, at the official residence of Jorhat DC on Sunday.

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he ‘Touch Jorhat’ project initiated by the I L ove M o k o k c h u n g Facebook Group in aid of the flood victims of Jorhat District culminated today with the formal handing of the relief money to Jorhat Deputy Commissioner at his official residence.

The handing over of the money was witnessed by the Border Peace Coordination committee member, Er. Temsu Wathy and ward commissioner (Jorhat) Jayanta Baruah and Media Persons from Assam.

The Touch Jorhat Project, was a free charity concert at held MMC Shopping cum Parking Complex on July 16.

The concert garnered a total sum of Rs. 1,12,000 in cash. The concert was held under the theme ‘Know Thy’ where more than thirty singers, musicians and artistes performed for free.

Almost all the citizens, local unions and establishments contributed physically, financially and logistically making the ‘Touch Jorhat’ a great success.

While formally accepting the relief fund the Jorhat DC Virendra Mitral expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the ILM Facebook Group and also to the whole citizens of Mokokchung for their solidarity, empathy and concern towards the flood victims of Assam, especially in Jorhat.

The ILM group asked the Jorhat DC to utilize the relief money at his own discretion; to which the DC responded that he would make use of the IML group’s money judiciously for the welfare of the flood victims in Jorhat.

egastar Amitabh Bachchan says this Independence Day, citizens of the country should pledge India be freed from rape. The 73-year old ‘Te3n’ star shared his views on Twitter and posted a still from his upcoming thriller ‘Pink’, which is about three women, who possibly get sexually assaulted.

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“Independence Day 15th August pledge... May India be Independent from rape...

Bharat aazad ho rape se...,” Bachchan wrote. The actor also re-tweeted his own post about women and asked his followers to always remember it by captioning the message‘say it again...’”

“A woman’s body is not a democracy, it’s a dictatorship, and its about time the dictator took charge,” read the message.

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Why Green Day are the greatest living punk band

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t’s been 30 years since Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt formed Sweet Children, the scuzzy teenage punk group that went on to become Green Day. An integral part of the DIY Gilman Street scene in Berkeley, California, they would forge the sound of poppunk, which was to influence everyone from Blink-182 and Paramore to My Chemical Romance and those guys you used to watch at the local youth centre every second Tuesday with the tight black denim trousers and badly applied mascara.

More importantly they would continue to be totally excellent in the process, melding riffs to catchy tunes and politics and making it all seem effortless.

Most excellent punk bands – The Clash, Black Flag, the Sex Pistols, Minor Threat, The Ramones, Fugazi, Operation Ivy – burned briefly but brightly. Green Day showed the world there was another way of going about things. Green Day proved that you didn’t have to go out in a blaze of fag-ends and empty beer cans to be legit and gain respect. They keep

a venue bigger than the Camden Underworld and not get the phrase ‘sell out’ lobbed in your direction, but Green Day have weathered the storm, and instead channeled their energy into doing genuinely interesting things: concept albums, musicals, secret shows, album trilogies, generally having a laugh and not taking this whole rock and roll thing too seriously. U2 they are not.

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would probably have gobbed in your face back in the late ‘80s if you’d told them that they were going to be one of the biggest bands ever, playing arenas, stadiums and headlining festivals the world over. But the fact that they look like they still might phlegm in your face right is part of what makes them so damn great. Green Day don’t just still act like teenage boys, but frankly, they still look like them too.

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things fun, but importantly, keep things going – and, even more importantly - keep on making properly decent tunes – something they’ve been doing for well over quarter of a century now: see this week’s new single, ‘Bang Bang’, for proof.

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She revealed she has received abuse after “massive things happen” in the news, from 11 September 2001 onwards.

“I’ve had things thrown at me and [been] pushed and shoved,” she said.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, she said: “I feel like that’s just become a part of my life now. I expect it. Absolutely I expect it.”

ne of Asia’s biggest pop groups, SMAP, is to break up at the end of the year after a 25-year career.

The Japanese boy band, which sold 35m records up to last year, will disband on 31 December, its management agency said on Sunday.

Rumours of a split had been rife since the turn of the year, but had all previously been denied. Its five members, who are aged between 39 and 43, are now expected to pursue solo careers.

The band, formed in 1988, has built up a huge fanbase in Japan and throughout Asia with members appearing frequently in films, soap operas, and commercials.

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Incidentally, this is the first time in over six decades that India has won more than one Test match in the Caribbean islands.

The previous three series victories -- 1971, 2006 and 2011 have been by an identical 1-0 margin.

If Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the hero in the first innings, Mohammed Shami (3/15 in 11 overs) and Ishant Sharma (2/30 in 7 overs) did the maximum damage in the

second innings.

Bhuvneshwar (1/13), Ravichandran Ashwin (1/28) and Ravindra Jadeja (2/20) also complemented the two pacers as none of the batsmen save Darren Bravo (59) showed any stomach for fight.

The historic moment came when Shanon Gabriel (11)’s slog was easily pouched

by Bhuvneshwar at deep midwicket off Jadeja’s bowling.

Skipper Virat Kohli was visibly ecstatic but there wasn’t any

Mumbai, Aug 14 (IANS): Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Mumbai City FC on Sunday announced the signing of Uruguay football legend Diego Forlan as club’s marquee player for the forthcoming third edition of the tournament.

Forlan began his career in Argentina and soon earned a move to Manchester United.

Having tasted success with the Red Devils, the forward then moved to La Liga and emerged as a top scorer with Spain’s Villareal CF and Club Atletico de Madrid.

Forlan won the Golden Ball Award as the top player at the 2010 FIFA World Cup and set his country’s record for most international appearances a year later. He also plied his trade in Japan before most recently returning to his boyhood club Penarol in Uruguay and leading them to the Apertura title in the Uruguay first division.

He is a two-time winner of both the Pichichi Trophy and the European Golden Shoe.

He is regarded as one of the greatest Uruguayan players of all time. “It’s really exciting to have a player of Diego’s quality play for us in the upcoming season. He is one of the best in the business and I can’t wait to see him on the field fighting it out for Mumbai,” Ranbir Kapoor, owner of Mumbai City FC, said.

Brazil beat Colombia 2-0 to reach semis Russian Klishina banned from Rio MOSCOW, Aug 14 (IANS): All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) President Dmitry Shlyakhtin has said long jumper Darya Klishina was banned from competing in the ongoing Rio Olympics.

“There are contradictory r e p o r t s b u t we h ave confirmation from sources in Rio de Janeiro that Dasha was banned at the last moment,” Shlyakhtin said on Saturday, reports Tass. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne has received the

Man Utd start PL campaign with win Lo n d o n, Au g 1 4 (Agencies): Jose Mourinho’s first Premier League encounter in charge of Manchester United resulted in a 3-1 victor y over Bournemouth at Dean Court.

Poor defending from Simon Francis provided Juan Mata with a tap-in to give United a half-time advantage.

T h e S p a n i a r d g l e e f u l ly celebrated his goal, having been the subject of speculation ever since Mourinho, who sold the attacking midfielder from Chelsea, arrived to take over the Old Trafford reins.

Wi t h B o u r n e m o u t h pushing for a leveller and leaving space at the back, Wayne Rooney cleverly headed in the away side’s second goal, before Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s long-range strike further extended United’s lead.

Although Jordon Ibe had a couple of half-chances when his side were 1-0 down, the Cherries rarely threatened, but Adam Smith’s excellent finish gave the home side hope.

United, though, were able to see out the game in relative comfort to secure an opening-weekend triumph.

The visitors controlled matters from the opening whistle but failed to create a decent chance or test home goalkeeper Artur Boruc until the 27th minute, when Rooney had a strike from 15 yards comfortably saved.

Bournemouth enjoyed a good spell before gifting United the lead with five minutes of the half remaining.

Ander Herrera’s ball over the top was seemingly unthreatening but a short backpass from Francis allowed Mata to poke an effort at goal, which Boruc saved, only for Francis to conveniently bundle

appeal filed by Klishina who was banned from competing in the Rio Games by the International Association of Athletics Federations ( I A A F ) , C A S Se c r e ta r y General Matthieu Reeb said on Saturday.

“We confirm the appeal but can provide no other comments at this moment,” Reeb said. Klishina’s fate will be resolved by Monday, said the International Association of Athletics Federations Rio de Janeiro, Aug (IAAF) .

14 (Agencies): Mo Farah became the first British track and field athlete to win three Olympic gold medals as he retained his 10,000m title with a thrilling victory in Rio. The 33-year-old overcame which he did and signed the a mid-race fall and powered clear of the field in the final doping control form.

The global Olympics body 100m to win in 27 minutes five said the misunderstanding seconds. Kenya’s Paul Tanui was sorted out after Anzrah took silver, with Ethiopia’s explained he needed the Tamirat Tola in third.

Farah returns to the track accreditation to go to the on Wednesday as he begins the athletes' dining hall to get breakfast, after which the defence of the 5,000m title he right athlete was notified and also won at London 2012.

He has already achieved arrived immediately at the doping control station and the world double-double, having successfully defended was tested. his 10,000m and 5,000m titles IOC also clarified that in Beijing last year.

Anzrah did not take a doping Farah looked comfortable test as was earlier reported. at the back of the field in Rio, Anzrah has put up a choosing his moment to pick spirited defence about his his way through the pack. innocence since he arrived His hopes briefly back in Kenya Friday night, looked in danger when he blaming the National Olympic was accidentally tripped by Committee of Kenya (NOCK) training partner Galen Rupp officials for the fiasco after with 16 laps to go, but he they dumped him and other recovered to surge past Tanui members of the technical on the home straight. Farah’s bench in a Rio apartment compatriots Andy Vernon and without food and other basic Ross Millington finished 25th amenities. and 31st respectively.

Brazil’s Neymar jumps over Colombia goalkeeper Cristian Bonilla during a quarter-final match of the men’s Olympic football tournament between Brazil and Colombia in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Saturday. (AP/PTI)

S a lva d o r , Au g 1 4 (IANS): Neymar da Silva Santos scored his first goal at the Olympics as Brazil beat Colombia 2-0 in the quarterfinals of men’s football at the Rio Olympics.

The 24-year-old Brazilian star broke the deadlock through a longdistance free kick on Saturday.

Inspired by Neymar, the Brazilian team took control of the proceedings and Luan grabbed the second goal when he lifted a chip over the goalkeeper from about 20 metres out.

Brazil, who are seeking

their first Olympic gold medal in the sport, will face Honduras in the semi-finals in Maracana on Wednesday.

Honduras made history when they beat South Korea 1-0 for a spot in the last four. Son Heungmin had an opportunity to break the deadlock in the opening few minutes, finding space on the South Korean right and cutting inside before finding his shot blocked by Johnny Palacios.

Alberth Elis scored a breakaway goal in the second half for Honduras.

Nigeria beat Denmark 2-0 at the Fonte Nova Arena

Murray to face del Potro in Olympic final Rio de Janeiro, Aug 14 (Agencies): Britain’s Andy Murray remains on course to win back-to-back Olympic tennis gold medals after beating Japanese fourth seed Kei Nishikori in the semifinals.

The Scot won 6-1 6-4 and will play Juan Martin del Potro in Sunday’s gold-medal match (19:00 BST) after the Argentine beat Spain’s Rafael Nadal.

Del Potro, ranked 141st in the world, won 5-7 6-4 7-6 (7-5).

Wo r l d n u m b e r t w o Murray, 29, is attempting to become the first player to win two Olympic singles titles.

H e wo n h i s s e c o n d Wimbledon - and third Grand Slam - last month.

“It’s obviously not an easy thing to do, that’s why it’s never been done before,” said Murray about the prospect of another gold medal. “I’m going to give my best effort and I’m happy I’m guaranteed the medal, but the goal is obviously the gold.” After coming through two gruelling matches, Murray dominated against Nishikori, breaking his opponent twice to win the first set in 30 minutes.

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The Briton was unhappy to get a code violation in the second set as he argued with umpire Carlos Ramos, but he remained in control of the action on court.

Nishikori appeared to wilt in the Rio heat as he dropped serve midway through the second set with a dreadful game.

Murray served his way to an unexpectedly simple victory, winning arguably the point of the tournament, a 23-shot rally, to set up a third match point.

While the first semi-final was a pretty straightforward affair, the second was anything but in front of a packed and raucous stadium.

Nadal, who won gold in the men’s doubles with Marc Lopez on Friday, took the first set before Del Potro levelled.

B o t h p l aye r s p l aye d superbly in the decider, with Nadal breaking back at 5-4 down with some wonderful shots - but it was eventually in vain as the Argentine won the decider 7-5 in the tie-break.

D e l Po t r o, 2 7 , w h o collapsed to the ground in celebration and kissed the Olympic emblem, won bronze at London 2012.

on Saturday. Mikel John Obi broke the ice in the 15th minute after receiving a pass from Ezekiel Imoh in the penalty box.

Gomes Ediegerson, who played in Chinese Super League, tried to equalize through his powerful header and long-distance shots, but Nigeria goalkeeper Daniel Emmanuel made world-class saves to keep a clean sheet.

Aminu Umar’s strong header terminated the suspense in the 58th minute.

In Brasilia, Germany routed Portugal 4-0 to set up a semi-final showdown against Nigeria.

Phelps gets 23rd Olympic gold with relay win

(L-R) United States’ Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, Michael Phelps and Nathan Adrian stand for the medal ceremony for the men’s 4 x 100-meter medley relay final. (AP/PTI)

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 14 (Agencies): Michael Phelps closed out the Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable. Golden.

Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg of the 4x100meter medley relay and Nathan Adrian finished it off, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal Saturday night.

If that was the end, and

Phelps insists it is, what a way to go out.

He has 28 medals overall, having won five golds and a silver at these games.

As Nathan Adrian touched the wall to finish off the victory, Phelps gathered the other relay swimmers, Ryan Murphy and Cody Miller, in his arms. One night after his only setback in Rio, an upset loss to Joseph Schooling in the 100 fly, Phelps was back on top.

the rebound to the attacker, who netted with ease.

Rooney looked set to double United’s lead early in the second half, latching onto Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s superb flick, but Boruc excellently blocked the visiting captain’s attempt.

Rooney, though, got his goal a minute prior to the hour, backpedalling and using the ball’s natural spin to nod home after Anthony Martial had volleyed Antonio Valencia’s fine cross into the ground.

F ive m i nu t e s l a t e r, Ibrahimovic drove towards the Bournemouth penalty area and struck a 25-yard shot low into the far corner of the deceived Boruc’s net.

Smith quickly tempered United’s delight, collecting Lewis Grabban’s incisive pass, cutting inside and driving a left-footed effort high into the goal. Despite the hosts applying heavy pressure at the death, however, Smith’s strike would be as good as it got for the hosts, as the tactically astute away side secured the three points.

United’s performance was professional, competent and decisive, and with the wide-open nature of the championship fight, those qualities may be precisely what is required for the Red Devils to launch their first truly threatening title assault since the departure of Alex Ferguson.

Mo Farah makes Rohit Sharma, Bravo fined for history by winning breaching ICC Code of Conduct Lucia, Aug 14 (IANS): the match, Bravo and Sharma 10,000m gold St. India’s batsman Rohit Sharma ignored numerous requests and

IOC absolves Kenyan sprint coach of wrongdoing Nairobi, Aug 14 (IANS): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has absolved John Anzrah, the Kenyan Olympic sprint coach who was expelled from the Rio Olympics for allegedly posing as 800 metres runner Ferguson Rotich. The IOC said in a statement received in Nairobi on Sunday that there was no preliminary evidence to suggest any attempt to compromise the drug test, but "horrible mix-up."

"Chaperones were sent in search for athletes at the athletes' dining hall. On the list was the name of a Kenyan athlete, Ferguson Rotich. At the entrance to the dining hall, they noticed the name of the Kenyan athlete on the accreditation of a man wearing a Kenyan tracksuit," IOC said. The statement said the chaperones informed the man he had to go to a doping control

Summer signing Ibrahimovic controls the ball in one his first touches of the ball in the English top flight.

In the stands, his fiancee, Nicole Johnson, bounced along to the music with their son, 3-month-old Boomer, cradled in her arms.

Phelps is eager to spend a lot more time with them.

He plans to marry Johnson after the Olympics and said he’s eager to watch his son grow, maybe even dole out a swimming lesson or two.

Most of the U.S. swim team was in the stands to watch Phelps’ finale, including

the biggest female star of the games, Katie Ledecky, decked out in a matching USA white jacket and cap.

The 19-year-old Ledecky joked that she was proud to be part of Phelps’ final Olympics -- twice. He initially retired after the 2012 London Olympics, only to decide about a year later to return to the pool. This time, the 31year-old sounds much more adamant when he says there will be no more comebacks.

Two-time gold medalist Murphy put the Americans out front with a world-record split on the backstroke -- it counts since he was leading off -- but Britain surged ahead on the breaststroke with its own world-record holder, Adam Peaty. Phelps dove into the pool in second place. He wouldn’t be for long.

On the return lap, Phelps powered through the water with his whirling butterfly stroke, surging ahead of James Guy to pass off a lead to the anchor Adrian.

It wasn’t in doubt after that. Adrian pulled away on the freestyle to win in an Olympic-record time of 3 minutes, 27.95 seconds.

Britain held on for silver, with Australia nabbing bronze.

and West Indies’ Darren Bravo have both been fined 15 per cent of their respective match fees on Sunday for breaching the International Cricket Council (ICC) Code of Conduct during the final day’s play in the third Test here.

The players were found to be in violation of Level 1 Article 2.1.1 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to “conduct that is contrary to the spirit of the game”.

On the final morning of

instructions from the umpires to stop verbally engaging with each other in a manner that was not in keeping with the spirit of the game. After the conclusion of the Test, both the players admitted the offences and accepted the sanctions proposed by match referee Ranjan Madugalle. As such, there was no need for formal hearings. The charges had been laid by the on-field umpires Nigel Llong and Rod Tucker, as well as third umpire Gregory Brathwaite and fourth umpire Nigel Duguid.

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India’s captain Virat Kohli (L) shows the wicket as he leaves the field with wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha (R) and Shikhar Dhawan after defeating West Indies. (AP/PTI)

over-the-top celebrations.

Earlier, India batted for seven overs in the morning declaring their second innings at 217 for seven with Ajinkya Rahane remaining unbeaten on 78 off 116 balls.

India bowled 20 overs before lunch in which they reduced West Indies to 53 for 3. In the post lunch session, the home team lost 7 more wickets for 55 runs.

Bravo and Roston Chase (10) looked to bat for time and resurrect the innings from a precarious 53/3 in the post lunch session.

They faced a testing spell from Ishant and Bhuvneshwar who were using the 20-overold ball well enough. The former was pitching the ball up a lot more than he has done in this series and found instant result, as one swung in sharply in the 26th over, and knocked back Chase’s stumps, bowling him through the gate.

When spinners came into the attack, Jermaine Blackwood (1) was stumped off Jadeja as kee per Wriddhiman Saha did some excellent work.

Shane Dowrich (5) then played out 8 overs with Bravo, though only adding 16 runs for the 6th wicket. It allowed Bravo enough breathing space to complete his 15th Test fifty off 73 balls, but it was never going to be enough.

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St Lucia, Aug 14 (PTI): The Indian cricket team produced a splendid bowling performance to decimate West Indies by 237 runs in the third Test and grab an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series here.

Having lost an entire day to rain, it was a superb effort by the bowling unit that saw them bundle out West Indies for 108 in 47.3 overs while chasing a stiff victory target of 346 in 87 overs yesterday.

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Saina Nehwal crashes out Narang, Chain fail to qualify in 50m rifle event

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 14 (IANS): India’s premier shuttler Saina Nehwal on Sunday suffered a huge upset against World No.61 Marija Ulitina of Ukraine in her second match of Group G as she was eliminated of the Olympic Games here.

Ulitina, 24, caused a huge upset registering a 21-18, 21-19 win against Saina.

The 26-year-old Indian failed to find her rhythm and looked slow as she was not moving well within the court.

Saina started the first game in a dominating way building a 7-1 lead but the 24-year-old Ukrainian soon pulled up her socks levelling the game at 8-8.

Saina just edged past the midgame interval with a two-point lead. After the interval there was a neck-to-neck fight for every point, levelling the score at 17-17 before the World No.61 took three point of trot. Saina tried to fight back but Ulitina sealed the game 21-18 in 19 minutes at Pavillion Four of Riocentro.

In the second game, the Indian star shuttler barely managed a slender one-point lead at the mid-game interval.

After the interval, things were equal at 15-15, 18-18 and 19-19 before the Ukrainian clinched two points and the match, ending the Indian’s hopes.

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 14 (IANS): Indian shooters Gagan Narang and Chain Singh failed to qualify for the final round of the men's 50 metre Rifle event at the Rio Olympics here on Sunday.

Chain Singh secured the 23rd position among 44 competitors, with a combined score of 1169 including 52 in-

ner 10s at the Olympic Shooting Centre - 50 metre range.

Gagan Narang fared more poorly, managing only the 33rd spot, with an overall score of 1162, including 50 inner 10s.

Only the first eight shooters qualified for the final round.

Russian Sergey Kamen-

skiy set a new Olympic record to secure the top qualifying spot, with a score of 1184, including 67 inner 10s.

German Daniel Brodmeier secured the second place with 1177, including 57 inner 10s.

Norway's Ole Kristian Bryhn was third with a score of 1177 with 56 inner 10s.

Sania Mirza, Bopanna were beaten 1-6 6-7 in mixed doubles bronze medal match.

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 14 (PTI): India’s tennis campaign at the Rio Olympic Games ended in dejection as Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna were blown away by the Czech team of Radek Stepanek and Lucie Hradceka in the bronze medal Play-off, here Sunday.

The Indian pair, who raised hopes of a medal with two consecutive wins to make the semis, suffered a 1-6 6-7 humiliation in the mixed doubles contest that lasted one hour and 13 minutes.

Mixed doubles was India’s best bet for a medal as it featured only 16 teams and winning three matches would have ensured a medal.

Sania and Prarthana Thombare had lost first round in the women’s doubles while Bopanna and Leander Paes had also made a first round exit from the men’s doubles.

43-year-old Paes, who

has now appeared in seven Olympics, now remains the only Indian tennis player to have won a medal in the biggest sporting extravaganza. He had won a singles bronze at 1996 Atlanta Games.

Stepanek was all class in the bronze medal contest as the Czech unleashed his powerful strokes, constructed the rallies and finished points with his superlative display.

The Czechs sprayed the winners all over, catching the Indians by surprise, giving them no breathing space in the opening set. Both Sania and Bopanna lost serve to trail 0-5.

Bopanna saved two set points in the sixth game to save ignominy of being bageled.

Lucie came out to serve out the opening set.

It was a disastrous start in the second set too for the Indians with Bopanna dropping serve in the very first game but they broke back Stepanek.

The Indians fought a bit and broke Lucie in the fourth game to take a 3-1 lead but Bopanna again lost his serve to allow Czechs to make a comeback in the set.

At 5-5, Sania came to serve a must-win game but committed two double faults to be down by three break points.

The Czechs converted the third when Bopanna’s half volley soared over the baseline.

A nervous Lucie served a double fault but Stepanek supported her with his tremendous presence of mind. Lucie smashed a backhand winner in open court to earn two match points and the Czechs sealed the match when Sania netted the forehand. This was Stepanek’s first Olympic medal while Lucie won her second medal having won one in women’s doubles meet in London.

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